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Fast Train Robbery Longtime local pol-turned-masstransit-fanboy ROD DIRIDON suddenly has a fight on his hands. His pet project, the California High Speed Rail Authority, has come under attack from U.S. Rep. JERRY LEWIS, soon-tobe head of the House Appropriations Committee. It’s not that Lewis doesn’t like trains—this is purely political gamesmanship. The fast-train project, which is slated to turn San Jose’s Diridon Station into a futuristic mass-transit depot by )')' M@J@FE ;`i`[fe JkXk`fe the end of the decade, would connect San Francisco and Los Angeles at a cost of some $43 billion, and result in upward of 100,000 jobs. It’s the biggest public works project in the nation, and a centerpiece of Don’t President BARACK forget OBAMA’s back-to-work to tip! stimulus program.

Lewis has threatened FLY@ to pull $2 billion in METRONEWS. already-dedicated COM money from High Speed Rail with his ballyhooed American Recovery and Reinvestment Rescission Act—a mirror image of the health-care repeal planned in other corners of the House.

Diridon, who sits on the High Speed Rail board, also helped finagle $2 billion in matching state funds for the project— money that would vanish if the federal money dries up. Coincidentally, Lewis came under attack this week from the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch for his “unapologetic advocacy and abuse of earmarks.” The group says he steered hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of federal projects to family and friends in exchange for campaign contributions.

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On the surface, food safety is an issue almost everyone can get behind. But 510’s regulatory details offer plenty of points for contention.

Small farmers and their supporters, as could be expected, are pitted

against the large food factories. And the big corporate farmers have an unlikely ally: the food safety crowd, many of whom are motivated by the firsthand experience of losing a loved one to food poisoning.

“For many food-safety organizations, food is a nutritional breakdown of calories and vitamins and minerals,” says small-farm advocate Paul Hubbard. “Whether those nutrients come from a factory farm via Walmart or the farmers market is inconsequential to these groups, as long as the food isn’t infected with pathogens.”

But by aligning themselves with a mechanized, sterilized and seemingly more scientific ideal for achieving food safety, organizations like Safe Tables Our Priority are throwing in with industrial feedlots and slaughterhouses, as they help

throw family farms under the bus.

All of the well publicized outbreaks—including the deadly E. coli and salmonella poisonings that have recently struck our nation’s food supply—have been created by the grinding gears of economies of scale. Compounding the safety issue is the difficulty of tracing food that’s processed along with other foods from different farms in different places. Such conditions have been creating perfect storms of food-borne illness that have become disturbingly frequent, and the Senate bill directs the FDA to ride herd on the food factories and rein in the many atrocities resulting from big food gone wild.

But since the earliest drafts of S.B. 510 began circulating more than a year ago, small-farm advocates have worried that the bill, and the agencies that enforce it—primarily the FDA—might hold small farms to the same standard as factory farms.

This would mean more paperwork, more fees and more infrastructure requirements for the small farmers who are arguably producing the safest, healthiest food of all.

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complaints that are supposedly fixed by the Tester amendment,” writes food safety advocate Kathleen Chrismer. “However, let me point to approximately 5,000 deaths that occur every year as a result of foodborne illness.”

But not all food safety advocates are as blind to the potential health benefits of small farms, or so willing to brush away the concerns of farmers.

Sandra Eskin, director of the Food Safety Campaign for the Pew Charitable Trusts, told Food Safety News that she has concerns about the Tester amendment. Her group wants to further narrow the radius of what qualifies as local under the Tester exemptions. She also believes any food that’s exempt from the law should be disclosed as such. “People should know what they are buying,” she says.

Whatever numbers are chosen to define “local” and “small,” what’s most important, from the perspective of small farms, is that some form of distinction, however imperfect, between big and small, local and nonlocal, be factored in.

Given the appeal of food safety on both sides of the aisle, this bill may be pushed through quickly.

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It’s often pointed out that selling produce locally and directly to the consumer adds measures of quality control and accountability. And while small farms would continue to be subject to regulation by local government under S.B. 510, large food factories have been able to skirt local regulations because they aren’t marketing within local jurisdictions.

A recent amendment to S.B. 510, proposed by Sen. Jon Tester (DMont.), aims to decouple the push for food safety from the possibility that food safety regulations might trample small farms. The amendment would exempt from regulation farms that market within 250 miles and earn less than $500,000 per year.

Most small-farm advocates approve of the principle if not the numbers.

The amendment would spare many small farms financial hardship. But at the same time, many small-farm advocates feel that using 250 miles and $500,000 as the cutoffs could allow operations that amount to small-scale food factories to escape regulation.

Some food-safety cheerleaders, meanwhile, think any exemption is too much. “Too much paperwork, too many rules, not enough time, and slim profit margins are common

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I can’t think of a platform that Netflix isn’t on. The Kindle? (jokes, all jokes) Netflix understands that launching on different platforms and operating systems is the best way to increase subscribers. A person is a lot more likely to sign up if they know that they’ll have access to content no matter what device they have. You can watch Netflix on a cell phone, HDTV and computer, each through multiple means. That’s success.

Sure, the DVD plans went up slightly, but perhaps that’s Netflix’s way of pushing people towards streaming.

Because, you know, each time the price of a U.S. postal stamp goes up, Netflix’s profits shrink a bit and that makes Reed Hastings sad. —MATT BURNS, TECHCRUNCH.COM

Netflix Intros Streaming-Only Plan Watch out, Hulu Plus. Netflix has your number. Actually, the same number—$7.99. That’s the price of the just-introduced streaming-only Netflix plans and the price that Hulu Plus just dropped to last week.

It’s not all double rainbows though. Netflix also bumped up the price of the unlimited DVD plan across the board. Where it only cost $8.99 for one DVD at a time but an unlimited amount per month, it now costs $9.99. The spread gets a little more wild as the amount of DVDs rented increases proportionally with the three DVD plan costing $3 more, the five DVD plan costing $5 more and the eight DVD plan costing $8 more.

But let me join the ranks of Netfix subs only interested in streaming content in one joyous “huzzah!” The day is finally here when Netflix has a streaming-only plan.

Netflix sets the bar for streaming programming. It’s by far the de facto standard in its niche space partly because of the content, but mostly due to Netflix’s love for multiplatform support.

Chris I LOVE Netflix, but . . . It drives me crazy, as a longtime subscriber, that Netflix still hasn’t released an Android app. The situation is only exacerbated by releasing apps for iPhone, iPad and even Win Phone 7. Seriously Netflix, get on it already.

Hector Ramos You’re really whining about not having an Android version of an app? Really? It’s one of the choices you made when you bought an Android phone. jojo It’s natural for Netflix to offer and all streaming only plan. One day they are going to close the vault on their CD operation. My only wish now is better choices for the streaming-only plan cause right now as you Netflixters know the choices aren’t that great compared to what’s being offered through DVD. mcbeese iTunes and PS3 both have richer streaming libraries, but rentals are $0.99–$4.99+ each. If you go to an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant, you’ll pay less per pound of food but you won’t find lobster on the menu. Same principle. I find that the best solution is Apple TV. I use it to access Netflix for anything that’s available, and I use iTunes to rent the newer releases that I don’t want to wait for on Netflix. suburban_war Hooray! Down with physical media! I’ve never been inclined to get a DVD from Netflix. I’m not about to wait for a DVD to get put in an envelope to be trucked to my apartment.

Google Will Rat You Out to the Feds for $25 Google receives “tens of thousands” of requests each year from the government to turn over user data, and it complies with any it deems legitimate. But the information comes at a cost: 25 bucks per head.

According to documents obtained by privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian under the Freedom of Information Act, Google charges the feds $25 per account for surveillance services. (No word on if Google displays targeted ads alongside the data it turns over.)

Yahoo charges $29, while Microsoft lets government spooks spy on their users for free. Most domestic wiretapping requests come from the DEA, so it’s best not to do your drug-dealing via Gmail.

This is a bargain compared to other types of communications spying.

According to Wired, cable provider Comcast charges $1,000 for a month of wiretapping. Still, it’s all a lot cheaper than parking a van outside your house. —ADRIEN CHEN, VALLEYWAG.COM

iheartalex Don’t be evil* *unless there’s possible profit involved

Shoe throwing liberal Does it sell this service to the Government only or to other corporations or private citizens also? nolabar10der From what I understand, this only applies to valid subpoenas from the government.

While I’m an advocate of privacy, this is really no different than getting any other information related to a criminal investigation. Seems like a lot of outrage over something that’s essentially like cops obtaining phone records via sworn subpoena. caranguejinho I have plenty

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of problems with Google’s behavior, but this isn’t one of them: they’ve never promised perfect privacy, and it’s common knowledge that they don’t fight subpoena.

YG2012 That’s if you don’t want to upgrade to the monthly or annual fees, which allow unlimited surveillance.

Steve Jobs Action Figure Is Insanely Coveted Who would pay $80 for an action figure of Steve Jobs?

Many geeks, apparently; MIC Gadget already sold its whole production run of 300 dolls. We say wait for the model that can scream “not fucking blue enough!” at you. —RYAN TATE, VALLEYWAG.GAWKER.COM

raincoaster No way does the real Steve Jobs weigh as much as this figurine. Also, no reality distortion field!

Arken I don’t think this is any weirder than people who pay $200 for official Boba Fett sneakers (yes, they’re real). And by saying I don’t think it’s any weirder, I mean both are really friggin’ weird.

TheGhostOfLayneStale Is his head really that big in relation to his body? Who am I kidding, it’s Steve Jobs.

His head is actually bigger than that. tomqvaxy That’s not an action figure. It’s a cast figure. No action. <---Dork.

Anrkist Apple fans had it confused with a sex toy.

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The preparation, energy and passion that should be poured into our governance work for students and teachers was wasted on a meeting topic that did not have to be on the agenda on that day.

I have a cathartic need to tell the story. If Study Action Item 9A dealing with the extension of the Superintendent’s contract was not on the agenda, Trustee Howard’s and Trustee Ho’s last meeting would have been uneventful. Their recognition for service not tainted by discord. But that was not to be. The Superintendent’s contract was in full force until June 30, 2012. Therefore many of us saw no urgency to call for a vote during this last meeting of this constituted Board. After all, we just concluded an election on Nov. 2, two new members were being sworn into office in a few weeks, and they both had respectfully submitted letters to us requesting our delay of any action to a date when they would have an informed voice.

Michael Chang, the former mayor of Cupertino and newly elected trustee in Member Ho’s area, wrote to all members of the governing board: “Given our shared responsibility and in the public’s best interest, it will be a mistake of the board if it does not provide the two new duly elected board colleagues with the information about the evaluation process for the Superintendent, as well as an opportunity to share in the responsibility of his contract extension.”

Board Member–Elect Julia HoverSmoot wrote, “I am concerned with the timing of this matter. Dr. Chang and I are due to join the board on December 8. In the materials presented to me, there appears to be no cause for rushing

a decision on extending Dr. Weis’ employment contract before we join.”

Immediately after the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance the packed chamber listened to a hornet’s nest of legal wranglings, necessitated by the belief that Beauchman, Ho, Howard and Ma were going to vote to extend the contract—not allowing our new members to have a voice in one of the most important functions of a Board of Education.

First with County Counsel present we dealt with whether Member Beauchman could participate legally by teleconference from a hotel in Waikiki. Next we dealt with a report by the Merc earlier in the week that Member Ho was no longer residing legally in his trustee area.

Shortly thereafter Ho elected to leave the meeting and not participate in the remainder of the meeting or any subsequent votes. He left to a standing ovation for the recognition of his 16 years of service to the county.

Then around 6:30, Member Ma left to attend a meeting in Palo Alto. The drama continues—that left four of us eligible to vote on matters still before us. When it came to the public comment item on the beginning of the agenda we heard impassioned pleas from SCCOE managers, retired Superintendent Manny Barbera, nonprofit leaders and others exhorting us extend Weis’ employment contract.

I think the four remaining board members, President Song, Member Howard, Member Mann and I did the right thing by voting unanimously in favor of my motion to postpone the vote until the first board meeting in April 2011. —Joseph DiSalvo

Joseph DiSalvo represents Trustee Area 4 on the Santa Clara County Board of Education.

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Connecting with friends and loved ones (even if on social media) and gift-giving are contemporary interpretations of the ancient, soul-warming rituals that have withstood the passage of ages. With forethought and care, shopping for just the right token of appreciation becomes not a chore but an affirmation of mutual altruism.

It is also good for the economy. Since the government won’t supply a much-needed second round of stimulus dollars, it is up to us to target our spending—and there is no better way to stimulate our local economy (and by extension all of us) than by spending our dollars locally: on locally made goods and at locally owned stores.

Luckily, our valley possesses a wealth of choices. Our staff writers have visited the independent stores and galleries of the South Bay and found a wide array of places and presents made and marketed right here to recommend. Our annual gift guide also includes Richard von Busack’s picks for the best holiday movies and a guide to seasonal concerts, plays and Nutcrackers.

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Wrapped in Style 2 If there’s something akin to Andy Warhol’s Factory in San Jose right now, it would be the scene developing at Cannery Park in Japantown. The tightknit community comprises everything that’s fresh and new in San Jose style right now. Make sure to keep it real this holiday season and pick out an item of fashion-forward clothing from these local ambassadors of San Jose street style.—Jessica Fromm

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Breezy Excursion The rapid ascendance of Breezy Excursion is perhaps the best example of how San Jose style is blowing up right now. Breezy co-founders Ryan Mante and Christian “Flip” Lilleland were operating their urbanwear company out of their parents’ garage in south San Jose just a year ago. Backpacking it to local style shows, the duo had a dream of creating a line of irreverent screenprinted streetwear catering to their fellow ’80s babies. After hooking up with CLOUT and ShortyFatz, and getting featured spots on online urbanwear hubs like KarmaLoop.com, Breezy’s sales are booming. Gift possibilities abound in their cleverly nostalgic, humorous collections of hoodies ($56–$58), tees ($8–$32) and headwear ($40–$45) at www.breezyexcursion.com.

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For those unfamiliar with the intricacies of secondhand shopping, “deadstock” is unworn vintage clothing that was manufactured decades ago before being put into storage. There is a booming web-based market right now for ’80s and early-’90s deadstock sports accessories, from untouched aviators to pristine Space Jam sweatshirts, in a wide array of prices depending on rarity.

Pay homage to the Shark’s Cow Palace years by donning a classic deadstock snapback team cap (tags still intact!) on one’s next voyage to the HP Pavilion. www.karmaloop.com.

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1 Cukui In an era when most mom-and-pop clothing companies are shaking in their boots trying to stay in business, Cukui Clothing Company in Japantown is barely keeping up with demand. This is undoubtedly thanks to the genius of Orly Locquiao, the brand’s head designer and CEO. One of the most celebrated Polynesian tribal-style tattoo artists in the South Bay, Locquiao officially transferred his talent for body art into garment graphic design last August.

His limited-edition tees ($30–$32) and hats ($35) take inspiration from a mix of Asian, Island, Chicano and NorCal culture. www.cukui.com.

and women’s line of hoodies ($48–$60), shirts ($24–$26), wristbands (at just $3, a perfect stocking stuffer) and stickers ($6 for a package of three) feature the store’s signature super kawaii “Azuki Ninja” logo cartoon (created by local artist Christopher Lee). www.azukiboutique.com.

streetwear fashion labels, it’s great to see what East Side San Jose fashion designer Joyous Ladi is endeavoring to do with Girls Night Out Society (GNOS).

Ladi’s ironic, irreverent screen-print girl-fit tees ($18–$20) have only been on the market for a few months but are already generating some serious Internet buzz. www.girlsnightoutsociety.com.

Halloway While some local streetwear lines like to play up their party-hardy appeal, Halloway aims to create urbanwear with serious substance. “Everything has a meaning behind it,” says Bryan Tang, one of Halloway’s designers. Founded by a group of East Siders, Halloway’s latest collection of screen-print men’s tees ($28) and

crewneck sweatshirts ($45) aims to make statements on everything from religion to capitalism. www.wearehalloway.com.

3 Circle A Skateboarding really will never go out of style. Located on Paseo de San Antonio, Circle A believes skateboarding is more then just a pastime: it’s a sport, an art, a music and a lifestyle. See their custom wood designs at www.circlea.com.

Azuki Boutique Though it has been selling high-end street apparel in the heart of downtown San Jose since 2007, Azuki recently launched its own in-house accessories and apparel collection. Azuki’s men’s

CLOUT is the W of graffiti-lifestyle publications. Though creating jawdropping full-color photo spreads of the best in street-influenced art, fashion and music is the magazine’s main focus, it also does a side project selling logo streetwear. Make sure to check out the “Benny DAIR, Death Cheater” line. The charity collection of distinctive caps and screen-print tees was created to help pay for the medical bills of Benny D., a well-known local graffiti artist who was paralyzed from the neck down in a 2008 car accident. www.cloutonline.com.

5 The BoomCase by Mr. SiMo Mr. SiMo (a.k.a. Bay Area artists Dominic and J.P. Odbert) transforms vintage carry-ons into one-of-a-kind portable stereo systems (around $400-$500).

Talk about conversation pieces: they gather retro suit and makeup cases from local estate sales, outfit them with brand new, top-of-the-line stereo equipment, add an in-unit long-lasting battery and presto—the coolest, classiest ghetto blaster we’ve ever seen. See the everchanging BoomCase selection at http:// theboomcase.wordpress.com.

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39 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos.

408.354.3574. Few presents will be more quickly enjoyed than a custompacked box from Fleur de Cocoa in Los Gatos. Master chocolatier Pascal Janvier knows his medium well and is passionate about using only the best ingredients. Fill a gift box with unusual varieties, which change frequently, or cram it with a few delectable favorites such as the signature “Fleur de Cocoa” with extra-dark 70 percent chocolate ganache, Earl Grey tea–infused milk chocolate ganache, coffee praline, passion fruit white chocolate ganache, or Tahitian vanilla bean caramel. Boxes come in half-pound ($27.50) 1-pound ($52), 1.5-pounds ($72) or 2-pound sizes ($88) Sweet!

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The best part of the holidays is the food. Presents are nice, but half the time you have to go to back to the mall to exchange a talking-bass alarm clock for something you like. So this year we humbly suggest giving the gift of food and drink. Luckily, we have lots of choices from local businesses. Choose your gift well and you might get invited to stay and partake.—Stett Holbrook and Liza Mock

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Coffee and Chocolate Barefoot Coffee Roasters, 5237 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara, 408.248.4500, and 37 S. First St., San Jose, 408.294.2694.

Snake and Butterfly Chocolate, www.snakeandbutterfly.com.

Coffee and chocolate were meant for each other. Both have caffeine and are made from similar-looking beans. A pound of coffee and a bar of chocolate make perfect stocking stuffers. Silicon Valley has two exemplary sources for coffee and chocolate: Barefoot Coffee Roasters and Snake and Butterfly Chocolate. Barefoot is the gold standard for fresh-roasted, sustainably sourced coffee grown. It’s also a certified green business. Campbell’s Snake and Butterfly produces all its own product. The fairtrade-sourced chocolate is made in small batches, some from raw cacao beans, and some of is even vegan, so there’s a chocolate bar for every taste.

And how’s this for convenient: Snake and Butterfly chocolate is available at Barefoot Coffee Roasters.

1 Satori Tea Co. 37 N. San Pedro St., San Jose.

408.292.1502. Tea is the world’s most popular caffeinated beverage, but not in America, where coffee rules. Slowly, however, we are getting hip to tea. Tea is not only high in antioxidants, it’s lower in caffeine and gentler on the system.

And tea comes in a far greater range of flavors and varieties than you get with coffee. Satori Tea Co. is downtown San Jose’s sole dedicated tea shop.

For a newbie or a longtime tea drinker, Satori’s has the perfect gift: the “tea traveler’s gift box.” Just $45 buys a tea tumbler and a choice of two 3-ounce

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2 The Butter Paddle 33 N. Santa Cruz Blvd., Los Gatos.

408.395.1698. The store is run by volunteer women and all proceeds benefit Eastfield Ming Quong Families First. Among the bestselling items are serving platters by Annie Glass, an artisan glassmaker from Santa Cruz County. I recommend one of the beautiful opaque platters rimmed in gold or silver. They sell for $50 to $100 or so and help make whatever you serve on them look that much better.

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Cooking Classes Professional Culinary Institute 700 W. Hamilton Ave., Suite 300, Campbell; 866.318.2433. There is a saying that goes “Give a man a fish, and you will feed him for one day. Teach a man how to fish, and you will feed him for a lifetime.” And while there may be no fish involved in your gift (unless you give a sushi class), you will be giving the person you love a new skill to last a lifetime. There are many classes at the Professional Culinary Institute worth taking. Give the gift of professional knife mastery with the “Essential Knife Skills” class ($60 per person).

4 A Fine Vintage From Vin, Vino, Wine 437 California Ave., Palo Alto.

650.354.4903. The experts at Vin, Vino, Wine in Palo Alto, who are particularly well versed in French, Italian and California varietals, can help shoppers find an unusual find, a gem for the cellar or a stellar bargain find. Stock up on the 2008 Petit Chablis from Roland Lavantureux, a bargain at $19 per bottle or $16.17 for six or more. Add something beautiful to someone’s cellar by giving them a spectacular bottle of the 2007 Châteuneuf-du-Pape reservée from Pegau to be enjoyed now or saved for 10 years or more. ($105 or $89.25 for six or more).

5 Cookbooks From Kepler’s Books 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, 650.324.4321. Send someone on a culinary journey with a great new cookbook from the popular independent bookseller. A few of Kepler’s favorites include Harvest to Heat: Cooking With America’s Best Chefs, Farmers and Artisans by Darryl Estrine, Kelly Kochendorfer and Alice Waters (Taunton Press, $40) and At Home with Madhur Jaffrey; Simple, Delectable Dishes From India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka by Madhur Jaffrey (Knopf, $35).

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Morning Becomes Eclectic Our valley specializes in innovative and eclectic entrepreneurship—and that’s as true for the arts as it is for computers.

The area’s museum gift shops, art galleries and local businesses contain a wealth of diverse artistic treasures for all tastes. —Richard von Busack

3 Graphic Novels Hijinks Comics, 2050 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, 408.266.1103; Lee’s Comics, 1020 N. Rengstorff Ave., Mountain View, 650.965.1800; Slave Labor Graphics, 577 S. Market St., San Jose, 408.971.8929. Among the holiday books and graphic novels, some real winners stand out: Simpsons World: The Ultimate Episode Guide (It Books, $99.99) includes 400 character profiles, behind-the-scenes info and descriptions of jokes they couldn’t get away with.

For those needing a Jack Kirby splash page to get through a month, there is the Vintage Marvel Comics 2011 calendar ($16.95). Gerry Alanguilan’s comic Elmer (SLG Publishing, $12.95) explores the rise of intelligent chickens. Somehow unable to get over years of being plucked, these yardbirds have chips on their shoulders and family problems. Alanguilan’s humor, and startling charm make this birdworld real is nothing short of amazing.

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1 Cantor Arts Center and Bookshop Stanford University. 650.725/2775.

Famous for its Rodin collection, the Cantor Art Center celebrates these treasures with irreverent souvenirs at its gift shop: chocolate copies of The Thinker or The Lovers ($14 each) or T-shirts with the harrowing caption “I Have Seen the Gates of Hell” ($20). Gifts for all ages and interest are on display, including a large selection of elevated children’s books, games and puzzles.

Right now, there are also sequin and map-pin-ornamented pieces of Haitian folk art connected to the center’s current show, the knock-out “Mami Wata.” Books celebrate the museum’s century-old history and the works of Stanford literary alumni Wallace Stegner and John Steinbeck. Here, too, is jewelry, ranging from delicate goldsmithing to Tuareg bangles ($30).

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Allied Arts Guild 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park.

650.325.2450.

There aren’t many shopping trips more aesthetically pleasing than a visit to the Allied Arts Guild, and it’s guilt-free too, since the place is run as a benefit for the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.

Located at a creekside spot at the end of a street of rich yet unostentatious Menlo Park bungalows is the 3.5-acre site: shops and ateliers around a fine Mediterranean garden, a Spanish Colonial compound begun in 1929.

The Artisan’s Shop features holiday ornaments of all varieties, including a hammered and chiseled wall plaques from Haiti made traditionally from oil drums, $20–$40. The Portola Art Gallery includes regular shows of local painters, many specializing in the flora and landscapes of the area. The gallery’s winter “Small Treasures” show offers smaller paintings for gift giving.

Staprans Designs including everything from Uzbekistan pillows to Parisian boxer shorts.

2 Gryphon Stringed Instruments 211 Lambert Ave., Palo Alto.

650.492.2131.

This valley institution has lasted 41 years and shelters one of the most gorgeous and eclectic selection of stringed instruments in Northern California. As Gryphon’s Frank Ford says, the business there is threefold: they can sell you an instrument, teach you how to play it and repair it if it’s broken. The renowned music teacher Carol McComb leads group classes ($160) in folk music. New

ukuleles (“They’re huge now,” says Ford) include American-made Fleas ($209) with a tough composite shell and a rich, mellow tone. Used banjo-ukes available for the would-be George Formby in your household included one heart-render, a LaVenetia with a hand-painted canalboat scene ($475). Nearby are gleaming rows of “tin cans” (metal-clad National guitars). And, of course, acoustic guitars from beginner’s models in the near $200 range into the stuff-dreams-aremade-of category. Instruction books and DVDs are on sale currently for those who want to start small. When visiting, note the free pick-making machine, for those who’d rather punch a hole in their credit card the manual way.

Kaleid Gallery, 88 S. Fourth St., San Jose. 408.947.1785; bugatha1 .deviantart.com. Jenifer J. Renzel’s assemblages take off from the Joseph Cornell tradition of cabinets of curiosity.

And she admits that Cornell is a favorite artist, but the crypts of misfit toys, and cryptozoology created by this Silicon Valley artist are all part of her own world. Her pieces blend organic found objects—teeth, skulls and bones—with the manufactured bits and Victorian debris. Perfect for those who would eschew the Nordstrom gift certificate in favor of the uncanny and the one of a kind. Her pieces run up to about $300.

4 TechShop 120 Independence Dr., Menlo Park.

650.521.9027. Naturally, what most people really want in the way of a present is too large, too expensive, too dangerous to even contemplate: an industrial-grade laser cutter or a metal lathe. Luckily, the TechShop offers the chance to learn how to use state-of-the-art heavy-duty equipment. A gift sampler certificate for $49 includes a month’s membership and two free classes for first-timers. Early in 2011, TechShop plans to open a new facility in downtown San Jose.

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While streaming video, portable music players and music-enabled tablets and laptops seem to be getting all the love these days, the humble successors to table radios and alarm clocks have quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) taken up residence in homes. With prices for good entry-level units selling for $100 and change at Fry’s and other local retailers, plug-and-play Wi-Fi radio provides value and simplicity that deserves a close look.

An Internet radio works off a home’s Wi-Fi internet network and provides instant access to services like PANDORA as well as traditional radio stations that have been liberated from the bounds of geography. In seconds, a listener can hear a live traffic report from London’s M-5, get up to speed on the latest electronic club music from Berlin or kick back to Portugese fados, Punjabi bhangra or you name it. And the music’s free.

There’s also a 99 cent app that turns an iPhone into a full featured digital radio that can pipe sound to ear buds or a home audio system.

Developed in Southern California, it can be downloaded at the App Store.

Go to radioforiphone.com for more information.

At the other end of the spectrum, the TIVOLI NETWORKS ™ SYSTEM ($749) offered an amazing audio experience in a beautiful box, with a social network to tap the collective brain when selecting musical programming preferences. We also looked at the SONORO ELEMENT W, a design award-winning German black box with cool yellow typography that sells for $499. It looked and sounded great but was hard to set up and incorporated some dumb design mistakes, like a nonintuitive power switch (press the logo, dumkopf). If used as an alarm clock, which the digital clock readout on the front clearly suggests was its intended purpose, finding the off-switch without opening one’s eyes becomes pretty much impossible.

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Bose docking station, and it sounded great but that configuration didn’t offer stereo.

Our hands-down favorite was the LOGITECH SQUEEZEBOX TOUCH ($299), purchased from the Fremont company’s web store. Compact and no slouch in the eye candy department, it offered a rich feature set (digital picture frame for family photos, album cover art, ambient nature sound effects, Facebook hooks and a big type alarm clock readout).

Besides, a second box on a cramped nightstand just didn’t make sense. We came across a compact amplifier that sells for under $100 at Hometech in Cupertino that fits into the same kind of wall boxes that electrical light switches are wired into. It even came with plate covers in four colors, to match different decors.

This version of the Squeezebox has no speaker or amp, so it’s like an iPod in that respect. First we plugged it into a

This option requires snaking some wires through the wall, but when we plugged the Squeezebox into the Nuvo, wired up to two KLIPSCH R-1650-C

ceiling speakers ($139 each and which destroyed more expensive Speakercraft speakers in a head-to-head test), the result sounded like a built-in custom home theater system that would cost many thousands. This Internet-enabled system was assembled for less than $800 in hardware and the only external component, the Squeezebox Touch, is about the size of a small paperback book.

Miniaturization and Internet sourcing has made old component systems obsolete. The landscape of music is limitless, the technology’s market-ready and the prices are now irresistible.

—Leonard Niles

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High Notes Does it really matter if we get our music from somewhere independent and local?

Is there music in local stores I can’t get on the Internet? Why won’t this giant black vinyl disc fit into any of the holes in my computer? Those are just three of the questions music lovers may be asking themselves this time of year, and the answers are: “yes,” “yes” and “seek assistance immediately.” First off, indie record stores have always been, and continue to be, a cornerstone of the local music scene. Just take a look at the gigs South Bay shops—especially Streetlight—have been booking. And since the biggest cultural debate around here is the ongoing state of the music scene, it’s clear that whether it’s buying an album of someone else’s music, or an instrument to play one’s own, shopping local is as important as ever.—Steve Palopoli

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800.350.8700. The constant reorganizing at Rasputin was disorienting for a while, but the sections seemed to have settled, and new CDs have finally been united with used ones here.

Rasputin is presenting more than 40 limited and exclusive releases for “Black Friday at a Record Store,” plus they have a cool little Black-Flag-derived logo for it.

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408.292.1404. Making a strong showing this year not only with Record Store Day but also with their best lineup of live shows yet (with the Tegan & Sara concert only one stand-out in a consistently impressive showcase of local and touring talent). Streetlight plans to stock heavily on many of the Black Friday at a Record Store special releases, and they’re always a great place to find great new and used CDs, with a remarkable emphasis on supporting the local scene, including CDs from South Bay bands.

1 A Different Spin on Black Friday The success of Record Store Day this year in getting music lovers to log off and rediscover their local independent record shops appears to have been the start of a minirevolution at the grassroots level. Hoping to keep that momentum, the folks behind RSD have teamed with indies everywhere for “Black Friday at a Record Store” on Nov. 26, featuring a slew of releases available only at participating shops (ironically, the full list is available on the Internet, at www.recordstoreday. com). There’s a lot to tempt music lovers of all stripes here, and it’s the perfect opportunity for gift shopping, since even some diehard fans of the artists featured may not hear about the event. For instance, a Metallica nut will be thrilled to receive the Live at Grimey’s recording of a famous 2008 secret show in the basement of a Nashville record shop. This is the only way to get the CD or 10-inch double vinyl. Soundgarden has a 7-inch with a previously unreleased track called “Telephantasm.” Grinderman is releasing an ultralimited 12-inch single of “Heathen Child” with a nonalbum remix featuring Robert Fripp on the B-side. The Black Keys are offering a 12-inch version of Brothers Double with a bonus live 10inch. For the U2 fan, the band’s 12-inch

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2 On the Corner Music 530 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell.

408.871.0305. Co-owner Jeff Evans saw a huge boost from the April 17 event—“This was the best Record Store

Day yet,” he says—and plans to entice shoppeers with no tax on purchases and some discounts for Black Friday at a Record Store. On the Corner is all-vinyl, so if your gift list requires a mint copy of RamonesMania or Prince’s Purple Rain LP with the original poster or one of huge number of jazz records added recently, this is the place. Bonus note to samplers: the dollar records will be 50 cents on Black Friday, unexpectedly turning it into Fair Use Friday.

1202 Lincoln Ave., Suite 200.

408.275.0717. If you’re looking for a present that comes with a different kind of bow, this Willow Glen shop is the place to do it. Around this time of year, Stevens gets a lot of students looking for entry-level violins, as well as shoppers seeking professional-level instruments. To help out all the way around, SVS has reinstated its Annual Holiday Sale, during which everything up to $5,000 is 25 percent off until the end of the year, with an additional 5 percent off for cash and check purchases. Parents looking for their child’s first violin can have instruments made for kids as young as 2 (and then keep it until he or she is a teenager for maximum effect on the old “It’s the world’s smallest violin, and it’s playing just for you” comeback). Of course, the child has to come in to be sized for the instrument, which does take some explaining in the Santa-locity department. “It’s a little hard to surprise someone with a violin,” admits Stevens Violin’s Leta Guadagni.

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A lot of excitement is being generated this gift-giving season by the new Kinect gaming console, but really, why exercise in a cramped living room, when the great outdoors beckons. Our local sports stores carry all the equipment— boards (skate and snow), stylish cycles, efficient shoes—and accessories necessary for some real, as opposed to virtual, engagement with the physical world.—Joey Akeley

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From Turkey Day to New Year’s Eve, the holidays aren’t the best time weatherwise for physical fitness but all those excess calories from family feasts still need to be burned off. So a great pair of shoes can be a perfect gift for that runner on your list. Bonus: Weighing just 6.9 ounces, Brooks Green Silence running shoes, sold at Zombie Runner in Palo Alto, are made of recycled materials and soy-based inks. They run $99.95.

1 Fixed-Gear Bikes IminusD 112 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose. 408.287.2310. “Ride simply.

Simply ride.” That’s iMinusD’s slogan, and it fits. The San Jose bicycle shop, which just celebrated its 1-year anniversary, offers an array of beautiful, sleek, fixed-gear bikes, starting at $400 and nearly infinitely customizable.

Available in an assortment of striking colors, these fixed-gear bikes allow users to cruise through the city in style.

The fixed-gear bicycle also gives a great feel of the road even in the worst conditions, which will help keep the cyclist on your gift list stay upright in the upcoming winter rains.

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408.748.0880. It’s inevitable that beginning snowboarders will eat it several times. But with the Junior Generation, they will have a better chance of attacking the slopes with precision. Made for beginners and selling for $135, its tip-to-tail Hyper Core gives the board a forgiving flex. Its 360-degree structural cap and edge protection also helps keep boarders upright.

Yang-Yang Professional Tournament Feather Shuttlecock Badminton Alley 1237 S. Mary Ave., Sunnyvale. 888.586.7762. Nothing ruins a game of badminton like a dead or dying shuttlecock. Badminton enthusiasts won’t have to worry about a fluttering shuttlecock if they buy a YangYang tournament-grade item. Known for its superior flight and durability, the Yang-Yang shuttlecock, which sells for $24.95, is the one the pros use, and is Badminton Alley’s bestselling birdie. For the badminton enthusiast on your list, Badminton Alley is the perfect example of how a local store can take a niche and work it in ways that chain outlets can only dream about.

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2 Benton Springs Sweater $32 Mel Cotton’s 1266 W. San Carlos St., San Jose. 408.287.5994. This sweater will be a welcome addition to any lucky recipient’s winter wardrobe, whether or not there’s a white Christmas or

trips to the ski-hill in their future. But the Benton Springs sweater ($32) is especially ideal for any snow-related activity because the fleece provides warmth without the bulk of a jacket.

Athletes will appreciate how its radial sleeves provide comfort and won’t weigh them down.

Boarder Nation 14448 Union Ave., San Jose. 408.377.3577. Dragon Sunglasses Dragon sunglasses are designed to protect users form UV rays. Made of low-molecular-weight carbon-based materials, Dragon lenses block harmful rays but also act as a stylish accessory.

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Think Globally, Read Locally Many literary plateaus emerged in Silicon Valley this year. Some were famous, while others remain little known outside this geographical area. Some bubbled to the surface immediately, while others will continue to operate in relative obscurity. Nevertheless, this is only a smidgen of what’s out there in the way of books by local authors and about local topics. Of course, the real fun of giving a book is the time one gets to spend in a browsing in a well-stocked independent bookstore likes Kepler’s in Menlo Park, Recycled Bookstore in San Jose and Campbell, Bell’s Books in Palo Alto and Hicklebee’s in Willow Glen.

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by Lynn Rogers Inkling Press, $19.98. Lynn Rogers publishes novels riddled with a beautifully incongruous post-Beat hodgepodge of suburban societal fragments. Even better, her books occasionally take place in San Jose. Released exclusively by Inkling Press, an independent outfit in Menlo Park, Side Roads is Rogers’ latest and highlights the wonders of San Jose underbelly. Set in a back house behind a decrepit Victorian in Japantown, the story unfolds around James, a beleaguered single dad who dates a string of immigrant Asian women. Caroline Ryder, a character from a previous Rogers book, is now renamed “Lara” by a drunk at the Empire Laundry on 13th Street. She’s caught in a love triangle with a Silicon Valley executive who still lives with his estranged wife in Willow Glen.

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by Bob Johnson Arcadia Publishing, $21.99. Arcadia Publishing cranks out dozens of books a year, each one filled with historical photographs. Classics now include photographic documentation on Alviso, Milpitas, Cupertino, the cemeteries of Santa Clara and San Jose’s historic downtown. That last ditty was put together by Bob Johnson, that legendary dude who held down the fort at the

book filled with oddball architecture. The tome documents historical attractions throughout the Bay Area, many of which no longer exist. We see roadside motels, tiki bars, space-age architecture from the ’50s and more. The famed San Jose amusement park, Frontier Village, graces the back cover. Inside are pictorials of the San Jose Water Company Building at Bascom and San Carlos, the Babe’s Muffler statue and classic neon signage from Stephen’s Meat Products.

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1650 Senter Road, San Jose. Way out in the badlands near the minor-league farm team of the World Series Champs, one finds the stomping ground of History San José. The gift shop is jampacked with books on local history. Here are a few that visitors will immediately want to snap up for gifts: Signposts Revisited, a new release of Pat Loomis’ writings on the history of San Jose streets. Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers, a wonderful hardback from the wonderful folks at Chronicle Books; John Alderman and Mark Richards put this one together, a stunning visual interpretation of history straight outta the Computer History Museum. Legendary architect Goodie Steinberg brought us From the Ground Up: Building Silicon Valley, and a few copies remain. At the park, one can see Steinberg’s own buildings and hear the story first hand of how this valley went from fruit cocktail to fiber-optics.

Inside Out California Room for what seemed like decades. Now they have talked him into another one. The postcard history series is just that—pages and pages of postcards, in this case, everything from Alum Rock Park to the Rosicrucian Museum, from communities to manufacturing. Bob knows all and is the perfect historian for the job.

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by JoAnne Northrup San Jose Museum of Art/Hatje Cantz, $55. The current Leo Villareal exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art is quite hypnotic, and the catalog is a true local find. Museum curator JoAnne Northrup came up with a 200-page

coffee-table compendium on all things Villareal, who is now at the forefront of LED-based installations. In the catalog, Northrup contributes a piece titled “Animating Light,” while other authors and critics offer their takes on Villareal’s art. Villareal is just one of the latest generation of artists who grew up in an era where computers and technology are a part of everyday existence. Look for it at the museum’s gift store, which carries a large selection of art titles. 110 S. Market St., San Jose. 408.271.6878.

4 Mid-Century by the Bay by Heather Davis CalMod Books, $40. This year, Heather David released a gorgeous large-format

by Barry Eisler Ballantine Books, $25. Local author and former spook Eisler’s new novel deals with all the issues no one wants to talk about: the privatization of the military, botched CIA torture operations and high-level government cover-ups.

You can decide whether it’s fiction or not. Sales of Inside Out support independent journalism. On his website, Eisler says the book is “dedicated to the bloggers—the independent sleuths who are after the truth, not a pat on the head from the White House; who have a passion for change, not ‘a vested interest in keeping things pretty much the way they are;’ who serve the people, not the powerful.”

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EXPECT BOTH rich purple fantasy and dire tragedy this winter at the movies—blame the ever-darkening days before the solstice or just blame the Oscars. Maybe it’s the inevitable approach of the new Fockers film, LITTLE FOCKERS (Dec. 22) that makes one think of gathering darkness. But there are alternatives to watching De Niro, Danner, Hoffman and Streisand sitting around the house volleying low-level double-entendres.

The most seemingly foolproof holiday movie is the Coen brothers’ TRUE GRIT (Dec. 22). Jeff Bridges stars as one-eyed U.S. Marshall Reuben “Rooster” Cogburn, late of Quantrill’s bushwhackers, bribed by an adolescent orphan to find a fugitive hiding in Indian Territory. It’s not a straightforward job. The killer (Josh Brolin) is very bad news, Cogburn is not a young man, and the arrest is complicated by a typically fancy Texas Ranger called LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) who has a competing claim on the corpus.

Previews indicate this is not at all a remake of Henry Hathaway’s magnificent 1969 Western, featuring John Wayne’s most affecting acting.

That movie, for all its beauty and sadness, lacks the Twain-worthy comic understatement, the evil humor and the dark places of Charles Portis’ novel.

And the Coens are the perfect savage humorists to adapt the book more faithfully, as seen in the best parts of No Country for Old Men. Moreover, they’ve retrieved the book’s actual settings, the older True Grit being filmed amid the golden aspens in the Colorado Rockies.

The new version takes place in the sticks, briars and swamps of Arkansas and the ever-mysterious Sooner State.

Can anyone who loves the “rare, fragrant Dude,” in David Thomson’s words, wait to see Bridges in the role?

Geeks of a certain age are all over TRON: LEGACY (Dec. 17), a retro-future sequel to the pioneering computergraphics movie, exploring the revived sentient video game, with its cold neon and hot cycles—and starring the aforementioned Bridges as the game’s inventor, imprisoned in his creation since the 1980s. After seeing Tangled, one is more convinced that Disney is the last refuge of truly rich color and worked-out

Given a sex change, the sea-change play THE TEMPEST (Dec. 10 limited release) sounds suitably rich and strange in Julie Taymor’s adaptation, with Helen Mirren as “Prospera.” Some memory of Taymor’s interpretation of Titus Andronicus makes one recall the Onion headline “Unconventional Director Sets Play in Time, Place Shakespeare Intended.” We haven’t had a version of The Tempest since Peter Greenaway gave the play a golden shower in Prospero’s Books.

The all-star cast includes Russell Brand as drunken Trinculo, Djimon Hounsou bringing out the political subtext and Ben Whishaw (Bright Star), a natural for Ariel.

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THE ILLUSIONIST (Dec. 25 in the big cities) proposes a bold use for (flat) animation: bring back the shade of M. Hulot! Sylvain Chomet (of The Triplets of Belleville) directs this neverproduced script by the elegant and strange Jacques Tati in which an elderly magician on the skids befriends a young girl naive enough to believe his magic

is real. Advance word recommends this work of happy retroism. Chomet crustily defends a medium that some (well, when I say “some,” I mean “some idiots”) have said is dead. As Chomet told the London Guardian, “Saying 2-D is dead is like saying a car race is the future of the Tour de France.”

In a contrast between old, male and bitterly experienced and young, female and hopeful comes SOMEWHERE (Dec. 22 limited release). Sophie Coppola directs Elle Fanning as a daughter reviving

One special event is definitely worth noting for film lovers. On Dec. 2, Carl Dreyer’s The new Mike Leigh feature, ANOTHER YEAR (Dec. 31), charts wintery dissatisfaction and autumnal humor with Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen as a contented couple. Welcome back to a big part for Sheen, whose performance in Leigh’s High Hopes remains the exact moral center of 1980s cinema, the embodiment of gentleness and loving kindness.

THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (1928) plays at the art-deco Paramount Theater in Oakland, accompanied by a live version of the oratorio Voices of Light by Richard Einhorn. Revivals of elder movies at the beloved and always-affordable STANFORD THEATRE are essential to the holidays: the Glenn Miller Orchestra and Sonja Henie’s frosty heinie battle for attention in Sun Valley Serenade, billed with Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (Dec. 18–20). Then there is the faithful holiday double bill of The Wizard of Oz and the ever-complex, ever-touching The Shop Around the Corner (Dec. 21– 23). The ultimate seasonal treat, It’s a Wonderful Life, plays on Christmas Eve.

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her jaded film star father (Stephen Dorff), cooling his heels at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard. Coppola is sure-footed in such stories, as we saw in Lost in Translation. Incidentally, Fanning also plays the little girl Mary in the catastrophic 3-D CGI orgy known as THE NUTCRACKER IN 3-D (Nov. 24). Even sight unseen, one prefers the treatment of Tchaikovsky in BLACK SWAN (Dec. 10), Darren Aronofsky’s mad salute to Michael Powell’s The Red Shoes. It’s a psychotropic story of a prima ballerina (Natalie Portman), cracking under the strain of competition and the terrifying implications of Swan Lake.

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by Northside Theatre Co. Dec 8-24; Wed-Fri at 8pm, Sat at 5 and 8pm, Sun at 3pm. $15/$20.

Northside Theatre, San Jose. 408.288.7820.

CHRISTMAS THEN AND NOW A cappella songs in the holiday spirit by Bay Choral Guild.

Fri, Dec 10, at 8pm, Campbell United Methodist Church. Sun, Dec 12, at 4:30pm. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto. $6-$25.

CIARAMELLA, A PIPER’S NOEL The San Francisco Early Music Society performs carols. Fri, Dec 10, at 8pm. $10-$28. First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto. 510.528.1725.

CLASSICAL CHRISTMAS AT THE MISSION

A CHRISTMAS MEMORY A musical about family at the holidays by TheatreWorks.

Previews Dec 1-3. Opens Dec 4, runs through Dec 26. Tue-Wed at 7:30pm, Thu-Fri at 8pm, Sat at 2 and 8pm, Sun at 2 and 7pm. $19-$67.

Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto. 650.463.1960.

A concert of holiday selections, including Bruckner’s Ave Maria and Durante’s Magnificat, performed by the SJSU Concert Choir and Chamber Singers with organist James Welch and a string orchestra. Sat, Dec 11, at 7:30pm. $10 and up. Santa Clara Mission.

EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD

EL CAMINO YOUTH SYMPHONY HOLIDAY CONCERT The orchestra performs selections

A romp through the holiday classics at high speed in a comedy presented by San Jose Stage Company. Wed-Thu at 7:30pm, Fri-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm. Runs thru Dec 19. $20-$45.

The Stage, San Jose. 408.283.7142.

THE GIFTS OF THE MAGI Tabard Theatre’s musical adaptation of two O. Henry stories.

Dec 3-19. Fri at 8pm, Sat at 3 and 8pm, Sun at 2pm. $10-$24. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose. 800.838.3006.

AN O. HENRY CHRISTMAS A stranger tells heartwarming tales for a group of homeless in a Broadway West Theatre Co. production. Runs thru Dec 18. Thu-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 1pm. $17$22. Broadway West, Fremont. 510.683.9218.

SANTASTIC! A holiday musical review with dancing elves and audience participation.

Dec 3-18. Fri at 7:30pm, Sat at 1:30pm, WedThu, Dec 15-16, at 7:30pm. $24-$36. The Retro Dome, San Jose. 408.404.7711.

STRIKING 12 GrooveLily and TheatreWorks collaborate on a holiday musical based on “The Little Match Girl.” Tue-Wed, Dec 28-29, at 7:30pm, Thu, Dec 30, at 8pm, Fri, Dec 31, at 6 and 10pm. $56-$75. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto. 650.463.1960.

A TUNA CHRISTMAS An eccentric take on the holidays, small-town Texas style. Nov 18Dec 18. Wed at 7:30pm, Thu-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3pm. No shows Nov 24-25. $26-$32. Bus Barn Stage Co., Los Altos. www.busbarn.org.

LA VIRGEN DEL TEPEYAC A Teatro Campesino Christmas pageant. Nov 26-Dec 19. $14-$20. Mission San Juan Bautista.

WHITE CHRISTMAS West Valley Light Opera presents the Irving Berlin classic for the holidays. This week: Fri (Nov 26) no show. SatSun, 2:30pm. Regular shows Fri at 8pm, Sat at 2:30 or 8pm, Sun at 2:30pm. Runs thru Dec 11. $18-$30. Saratoga Civic Theater. 408.268.3777.

Nutcrackers and More

choreographed by Dennis Nahat. Dec 11-26.

Dec 11 at 1:30 and 7:30pm, Dec 12 at 1:30pm, Dec 17 at 7:30pm, Dec 18 at 1:30 and 7:30pm, Dec 19 at 1:30pm, Dec 21 at 1:30pm, Dec 21 at 7:30pm, Dec 22 at 1:30 and 7:30pm, Dec 23 at 1:30 and 7:30pm, Dec 24 at 1:30pm and Dec 26 at 1:30pm. $30-$100. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. 408.288.2800.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

650.903.6000.

WESTERN BALLET NUTCRACKER Clara, Fritz and friends thrill to the dancing toys of Drosselmeyer for the 35th year. Fri, Dec 3, at 7pm, Sat, Dec 4, at 1 and 7pm, Sun, Dec 5, at 1 and 6:30pm. $24-$29. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. 650.903.6000.

THE MESHUGANUTCRACKER! A different angle on the holiday ballet. Dec 1-19. Wed-Thu at 7:30pm, Sat at 7:30pm, Sun at 1:30pm. $24$36. The Retro Dome, San Jose. 408.404.7711.

MOSCOW BALLET The Russian version of

A WINTER FAIRY TALE A magical holiday show by Bayer Ballet Company of Mountain View. Sat, Dec 18, at 5pm, Sun, Dec 19 at 2pm. $25-$30. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. 650.903.6000.

Tchaikovsky’s tale. Fri, Dec 17, at 8pm. $27.50$87.50. Flint Center, Cupertino. Ticketmaster.

PACIFIC BALLET This is the 20th year the group has presented its Nutcracker. Fri-Sat, Nov 26-27, at 1 and 6pm, Sun, Nov 28, at 12:30 and 4pm. $22/$27. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. 650.903.6000.

PALO ALTO CHILDREN’S THEATRE A Nutcracker with two-score young performers.

Dec 11-20. Fri at 7pm, Sat at 2 and 7pm, Thu (Dec 17) at 4:30pm. $5/$10. Children’s Theatre, Palo Alto. 650.463.4930.

PENINSULA YOUTH NUTCRACKER A staging of the beloved ballet by young dancers. Nov 27-Dec 5. Sat-Sun at 2pm. $15-$35. San Mateo Performing Arts Center.

800.595.4849.

SAN JOSE DANCE THEATRE A Nutcracker in association with Los Gatos Ballet and Silicon Valley Symphony. Fri, Dec 3, at 10:30am and 7:30pm, Sat, Dec 4, at 2 and 7:30pm, Sun, Dec 5, at 1pm. $20-$50. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. 408.286.9905.

SANTA CLARA BALLET A local troupe’s

Concerts ANDRÉ RIEU The violinist’s tour stop in San Jose is called “Musical Holidays.” Vivace Youth Chorus will also be featured. Sat, Dec 4, at 8pm. $42 and up. HP Pavilion, San Jose.

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GOSPEL HOLIDAY CONCERT With the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir. Fri, Dec 17, at 7:30pm. $28-$36. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. 650.903.6000.

HOLIDAY WITH THE POPS! The California Pops Orchestra presents tunes of the season with a special sing-along portion. The show features baritone Pierce Peter Brandt. Sun, Dec 12, at 3pm. $1-$35. Calvary Church of Los Gatos, 16330 Los Gatos Blvd. 650.856.8432.

HOLLYWOOD IN CONCERT: CHRISTMAS EDITION Beloved holiday tunes from the movies,. Sun, Dec 5, at 3 and 7pm. $13/$16.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Redwood City. www.HollywoodinConcert.com.

MAGNIFICAT The baroque ensemble performs Charpentier Midnight Mass and noel settings. Fri, Dec 17, at 8pm. $. St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park. $12-$35. 800.595.4849 PENINSULA WOMEN’S CHORUS

devotes his concert to seasonal music.” Sat, Dec 11, at 8pm. $22-$28. Sunnyvale Theatre.

408.733.6611.

Magnificats by Busto, Chihara and Vaughan Williams. Sat, Dec 4, at 4pm, St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park. Also Sun, Dec 5, 4pm, and Sat, Dec 11, at 2:30pm, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto. $10/$20. 650.327.3095.

CAROLS IN THE CALIFORNIA Symphony

PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE MESSIAH

Silicon Valley Chorale takes on holiday favorites in a radio-program format with host Leigh Weimers. Sat, Dec 11, at 7pm. California Theatre, San Jose. $26/$36. 408.286.2600.

Handel for the Holidays. Tue, Dec 7, at 7:30pm. $35-$95. Center for Performing Arts, Atherton.

415.252.1288.

PATRICK BALL The Celtic harp player

RADIO CITY CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR A CELTIC TENORS CELEBRATION A tenor trio from Ireland performs seasonal songs. Thu, Dec 9, at 7:30pm. $35/$40. Carriage House Theatre, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.

CHANTICLEER The annual holiday concert by the all-male chorus is presented by Stanford Lively Arts. Thu, Dec 9, at 8pm. $52. Memorial Church, Stanford. 650.725.ARTS.

BALLET AMERICA A full-length version of

Nutcracker. Sat, Dec 11, at 2 and 7pm, Sun, Dec 12, at 1 and 5pm. Santa Clara Convention Center Theatre. $20.50-$30. 408.247.9178.

the Nutcracker. Fri, Dec 3, at 7pm. $18-$39. Fox Theater, Redwood City.

SMUIN BALLET Classical and edgy works

CHRISTMAS PIPE ORGAN CONCERT & SING-ALONG Traditional songs in concert.

with a holiday twist. Dec 8-12. Wed-Fri at 8pm, Sat at 2 and 8pm, Sun at 2pm. $20-$62.

Sun, Dec 5, at 3pm. Free. Grace Baptist Church, San Jose. 408.295.2035

BALLET SAN JOSE Tchaikovsky

by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Schumann and Grieg, in addition to an operatic duet with Emily and Alex Frank on Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride.” Sun, Dec 12, 2:30pm. $6/$12. California Theatre, San Jose, 650.213.7111

The Rockettes on tour. Sat, Dec 18, at 4 and 7pm, Sun, Dec 19, at noon, 3:30 and 6:30pm. $37-$102. HP Pavilion, San Jose. Ticketmaster.

RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS The chorus and Sonos Handbell Ensemble join forces for a concert of holiday carols. Sat, Dec 4, 5pm. First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. Also Sun, Dec 12, 5pm, St. Matthew’s Episcopal, San Mateo. $10-$25. 650.342.8785.

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7:30pm, Sun, Dec 19, 2:30pm. $15-$50. Mission City Center for Performing Arts, Santa Clara, 408.749.7607.

VIVA LA MUSICA The choral-orchestral program ranges widely over classical pieces, carols and even klezmer. Sat, Dec 11, at 7:30pm, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto. Also Sun, Dec 12, at 4pm, Carrington Hall, Redwood City. $22/$25. 650.281.9663.

VIVACE YOUTH CHORUS Songs of the season by the teen ensembles of the choir. Sat, Dec 18, at 5pm. $8/$15. Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church, San Jose. 408.885.1746.

WINCHESTER ORCHESTRA HOLIDAY CONCERT Henry Mollicone conducts the

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SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY MESSIAH Handel performed by the symphony and chorus with Ragnar Bohlin conducting.

Wed, Dec 15, at 8pm. $17-$55. Flint Center, Cupertino. Ticketmaster.

SAN JOSE SYMPHONIC CHOIR A performance of Shaw’s “Many Moods of Christmas,” done with Nova Vista Symphony, plus selections by Tchaikovsky and Anderson.

Sat, Dec 4, at 7:30pm. $10-$20. Church of the Ascension, Saratoga. www.novavista.org.

SCHOLA CANTORUM The program features Ferko’s “Festival of Carols,” Britten’s “A Ceremony of Carols” and an audience singalong. Sat, Dec 11, at 8pm, Campbell United Methodist Church; also Sun, Dec 12, at 4pm, First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. $20$24. Other concerts: Messiah Sing. Mon, Dec 13, at 7:30pm. $12-$18. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Also: Christmas Carol Sing for everyone to join in. Sat, Dec 5, at 2pm. First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. $10/$15.

650.254.1700.

SEASON OF HOPE CATHEDRAL PERFORMANCE SERIES Nightly musical events for the holidays with San Jose Youth Symphony, South Bay Guitar Society, Bella Sorella, Harpers Hall Celtic Harpists, San Jose Symphonic Choir and more. Dec 12-23, at 7:30pm. Free. St. Joseph Cathedral, San Jose. www.stjosephcathedral.org.

STARRY, STARRY NIGHT Uplifting music for

orchestra in Beethoven’s Mass in C, Handel’s Choruses from the Messiah and Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride.” Sat, Dec 18, at 7:30pm; West Valley College Theatre, Saratoga; Sun, Dec 19, at 7pm, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, San Jose. $10-$20. 408.866.5302.

WINTER’S GIFTS: BELLS The Choral Project, Sonos Handbell Ensemble and San Jose Chamber Orchestra celebrate the holiday season. Sun, Dec 19, at 7pm. $30. Mission Santa Clara, Santa Clara University campus, Santa Clara, 408.295.4416.

YOU-SING-IT MESSIAH A community

Dec 7-19. Evenings at 6pm, weekends at 2 and 7pm plus Dec 18 at 4:30pm. $8/$12. Children’s Theatre, Lucie Stern Community Center, Palo Alto. 650.463.4970.

HOLIDAY WINE STROLL A chance to sample

THE MATCH GIRL’S GIFT A children’s show

by Peninsula Youth Theatre. Fri, Dec 10, at 9:30am and 11am, Sat, Dec 11, at 11:30am and 1:30pm. $8/$10. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. 650.903.6000.

wines from various merchants in the village. Fri, Nov 26, 4-7pm. Downtown Saratoga.

ONE WARM COAT Friday, Nov. 26–Friday, Dec. 31. Bring new or gently used coats to drop-off locations: Crate & Barrel, Borders, Sur La Table and CineArts. Nov 26-Dec. 31. Santana Row.

ST. JOHN VIANNEY’S HOLIDAY FAIRE An annual event with arts and crafts for sale, plus entertainment and food. Fri-Sun, Dec 3-5, 8am-9pm. St. John Vianney Catholic School, San Jose. 408.258.7677.

TOYS FOR TOTS A toy drive. Runs thru Dec 24.

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Family Fun CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK/WINTER WONDERLAND A San Jose tradition gets under way on Fri, Dec 26, at 5:30pm with tree lighting.

Displays run thru Jan 1. Cesar Chavez Park. Plus rides at Paseo de San Antonio and the San Jose Rep Plaza.

sing-along from San José Symphonic Choir with help from Mission Chamber Orchestra.

The Vivace Youth Chorus will perform seasonal songs in the lobby before the concert. Mon, Dec 6, at 7:30pm. $26.50. California Theatre, 345 S. First St, San Jose, 408.286.2600, ext. 23.

THE CHRISTMAS MOUSE A new play about a sly rodent and a gingerbread house by Santa Clara Players. Dec 3-12. Fri at 7pm, Sat at 11am and 3pm, Sun at 3pm. $7/$10. Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara. 408.248.7993.

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holiday shows presented by California Theatre Center. “Elves” shows Fri, Dec 3, at 7pm, and Sat, Dec 4, at 11am at Sunnyvale Theatre. Also Fri, Dec 17, at 7pm, and Sat, Dec 18, at 11am at McAfee Center, Saratoga High School.

“Madeline” show Sat, Dec 11 and 18, at 11am, and Fri-Sat, Dec 4, 10, 17-18, at 7pm, and Sun, Dec 10, at 2pm, all at Sunnyvale Theatre. $11/$12. 408.425.2978.

AAUW TEEN HOLIDAY GIFT DRIVE Volunteers are needed to put together gift totes to distribute to impoverished and homeless San Jose teenagers. Bag assembly Dec 8-10, and Dec 13-16, 9am and 1pm shifts.

Volunteers contact cherylmarkman@hotmail. com or 408.578.8315. www.gifts4teens.org.

CAMPBELL COMMUNITY TOY PROGRAM Toys are distributed to kids via fire trucks.

Donations of new, unwrapped toys are takes at local fire stations. The program finishes with an evening of music, food and raffles.

Thu, Dec 2, 6-9pm. Sonoma Chicken Coop.

408.278.6262.

DOWNTOWN ICE The holiday season gets into full swing with ice-skating rink downtown. Runs thru Jan 17. Downtown San Jose on Market at San Fernando.

FRESH PRODUCE The SoFA District gallery showcases affordable works of art, with contributions from more than 30 artists.

Opens Fri, Dec 3, at 8pm. Runs thru Jan 8.

Anno Domini, San Jose. 408.271.5155.

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Sat, Dec 4, at 7:30pm. Freewill offering. First Presbyterian Church of San Jose, 49 N. Fourth St, San Jose. 408.297.7712.

GALLERY HOUSE An art exhibit and holiday

TRUCE OF CAROLS Mission City Opera

show. Runs thru Dec 24. Gallery House, 320 California Ave, Palo Alto. 650.326.1688.

presents Michael Taylor’s one-act opera and “Amahl and the Night Visitors.” Sat, Dec 18,

and crafts and entertainment. Fri, Nov 26, 9am-6pm, Sat, Nov 27, 10am-6pm, Sun, Nov 28, 10am-5pm. $4-$9. San Jose Convention Center. www.harvestfestival.con.

HARVEST FESTIVAL A large show of arts

THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER/ MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS Two family

FANTASY OF LIGHTS Vasona Park is transformed into an illuminated wonderland.

Nov 26-Dec 31, 6-10pm. $10/$15 per vehicle. Vasona Lake County Park, Los Gatos, 408.355.2201.

INFLATION CELEBRATION Featuring the blowing up of balloons for the Hot San Jose Nights Christmas float in preparation for the parade. Sat, Dec 4, 3-7pm. Market Street and Park Avenue, San Jose.

LIGHT UP THE VILLAGE Performances, arts and crafts, raffles and a tree-lighting ceremony. Sat, Dec 11, 1-5:30pm. Alum Rock Village, San Jose.

THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD, THE MUSICAL A show about perseverance.

Sat, Dec 11, at 11am and 1pm. $10/$20.

Carriage House Theatre, Montalvo, Saratoga.

408.961.5858.

MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS A holiday family presentation by Palo Alto Children’s Theatre.

ME & MOMMY ON THE ROW Special holiday activities and performances. Tue, Dec 19, 10am-noon. Santana Row, San Jose.

SAN JOSE HOLIDAY PARADE A holiday extravaganza with floats, balloons and Santa.

This year’s grand marshal is Minnie Mouse.

Sun, Dec 5, 8:30am. Free. San Jose, Between S. Market and S. First streets, San Jose.

SANTA AND WAGON RIDES A chance to ride in a wagon and meet Santa. Fri-Sat, Nov 26-27, plus Sat, Dec 4, 11 and 18. $8-$15. Bergmann Building, Willow Glen, San Jose, 408.298.2100.

SANTA GO-ROUND HWear a Santa suit and help hand out toys. Sun, Dec 12. Downtown San Jose. www.santagoround.com.

SANTA PAWS Have you pet’s picture taken with Santa; proceeds go to Humane Society Silicon Valley. Sun, Dec 12, 11am-2pm. $20.

Santana Row, San Jose.

WILLOW GLEN HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE The event kicks off the season with refreshments.

Fri-Sat, Nov 26-Nov 27. Free. Downtown Willow Glen, San Jose, 408.298.2100.

WINTERFEST 2010 Craft show hosted by the Girl Scouts. Sat, Dec 4, 10am-3pm. $10.

Expo Hall, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.

Chanukah CHANUKAH PALOOZA Silicon Valley JCC presents a community festival. Sun, Dec 5, noon-4pm. Free. Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center, Los Gatos, 408.357.7402.

HANUKKAH HULLABALOO A event for preschool kids and their families. Wed, Dec 8, at 6:56pm. $10-$17. Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto. 650.223.8788.

LATKEPALOOZA! The Peninsula JCC sponsors a celebration with music, adult learning, latkes and a sing-along. Please bring a winter coast for One Warm Coat charity. Sun, Dec 5, 1-4pm. Peninsula Jewish Community Center, Foster City, 650.212.7522.

LIGHT IT UP A Chanukah celebration for ages 21 and up. Features music, raffle prizes and an open bar. Sat, Dec 4, 9pm. $10/$15. Congregation Beth David, Saratoga, 650.223.8602.

SANTANA ROW CELEBRATES CHANNUKAH Eight nights of arts and crafts, storytelling and lighting of the Menorah. Dec 2-9, 5:30pm, plus 3:30pm Fri. Santana Row, San Jose.

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shouldered food in handsome surroundings is the rule. The steaks are big and juicy, the pot pies better than Grandma used to make. Full bar. 300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444.

AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza. $. Amici’s specializes in thin-crust, New York-style pizza. With its upscale atmosphere and friendly service you’ve got one of downtown San Jose’s best pizza shops. 11am-10pm MonThu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am11pm Sat and 11:30am-10pm Sun. 225 W. Santa Clara St. 408.289.9000.

ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$.

Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be.

Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri and dinner 5:30-10pm SunThu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555.

BELLA MIA Italian-American. $$$. One of downtown San Jose’s most attractive eateries, Bella Mia serves regional dishes with flair. Full bar. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 4:30-10pm Sat, 4:30-8pm Sun. 58 S. First St. 408.280.1993.

BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$.

Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and taste likes the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American, Mexican and Asian food.

Most dishes are designed for sharing—appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat, Bar open till

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CITY BAR AND GRILL CLASSIC American. $$$. Big-

DALAT Vietnamese. $$.

San Jose’s second-oldest Vietnamese restaurant continues to draw those in search of delicious traditional fare. Surroundings are clean and friendly. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 408 E. William St. 408.294.6989.

E&O TRADING COMPANY Southeast Asian. $$$. Entrees come on playful serving dishes and are beautifully spiced with multiculti flavors, from Bali to Ceylon and back through Malaysia. Full bar.

Open 11:30am to 10:30pm, until midnight on weekends.

11:30am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10:30pm Fri, 510:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 96 S. First St. 408.938.4100.

EMILE’S Contemporary French. $$$. White-tablecloth amenities without the stuffiness. An old favorite comes back strong with a new bistro. Full bar. Closed Sun-Mon. Reservations suggested. 11am-2pm ThuFri, 5-10pm Tue-Sat. 545 S. Second St. 408.289.1960.

EULIPIA New American. $$$. The revamped menu emphasizes robust flavors and beautiful presentations.

Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails. Full bar.

5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:309:30pm Sat. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161.

FLAMES EAT EATERY A ERY AND BAR American. $$. In Silicon Valley, the home-grown Flames restaurant chain is the area’s definitive coffee shop.

And now they’ve opened in downtown San Jose to great acclaim. 7am-midnight daily.

88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

4TH STREET PIZZA CO. Pizza. $. 4th Street Pizza Co. occupies a prime corner spot on East Santa Clara and Fourth with big windows to watch the comings and goings at City Hall across the street.

The thin-crust margherita fell short but the thicker-crust pies are better. 11am-9pm Sun-Thu and 11am-10pm Fri-Sat. 150 E. Santa Clara St. 408.286.7500.

GUMBO JUMBO Cajun fusion. $$. Gumbo Jumbo charts new territory with dishes such as Cajun lemon-grass chicken, garlic shrimp noodles and crawfish egg rolls. And don’t miss the boiled crawfish.

11:30am-2:30pm and 5:3010pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am2:30pm and 5:30pm-midnight Thu-Fri, 3pm-midnight Sat and 3-10pm Sun. 80 N. Market St. 408.294.8626.

HOUSE OF SIAM Thai. $. This popular establishment runs the gamut of Thai treasures.

Casual. Beer, wine. 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm daily.

151 S. Second St. 408.295.3397.

IL FORNAIO Regional Italian. $$. Embraced by the graceful Sainte Claire Hotel, this location (there are several up and down the coast) transports the diner. The menu showcases a different region of Italy monthly. 7am-10pm,

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As someone who spends a great deal of time thinking, reading and talking about food, limiting my reviews to just a chef’s skills and a restaurant’s décor and service isn’t enough anymore. Isn’t the fact a restaurant serves low-grade, factory-farmed ground beef made of a composite of ammoniatreated meat scraps from different processing plants as relevant as whether the kitchen overcooked my burger or the waiter refilled my water?

Consider: A new report written collectively by some 3,000 scientists found that 20 percent of the world’s vertebrates are threatened with extinction, and one of the biggest culprits is industrial agriculture.

Because industrially produced food is the norm in America, restaurants are complicit in a system that’s based on: animal cruelty, petroleum dependency in the form of pesticides and fertilizers, loss of top soil and biodiversity, public-health threats (E. coli, salmonella, water pollution, heart disease, cancer, etc.), exploitation of immigrant labor and the destruction of rural agricultural communities. Would you like soup or salad with that?

Of course, restaurants are only feeding the public what they want. Until diners demand something other than commodity beef and industrially farmed vegetables flown in from around the world and are willing to pay for it upfront rather than at the doctor’s office or in environmental remediation down the road, the menu won’t change. But that’s where the restaurant critic can come in. We hope that they can tell a good story and educate readers about food along the way. But restaurants don’t exist in a vacuum. Ignoring the reality of the food system and pretending all is well is like admiring a python’s stripes as it coils around your neck.

What I’m proposing is clearly outside the bounds of restaurant criticism today. Some may say it’s no longer restaurant criticism but simply a polemic against factory-farmed food. I say that restaurant criticism and restaurant critics are stuck in time and need to evolve. A critic not only discusses aesthetics and value but can also spur debate, raise questions and challenge convention.

I’ve written about this before, but I’ve been inconsistent. Since the vast majority of Silicon Valley restaurants support the industrial-food complex with their purchases, I’d have to shoot down 99 percent of the restaurants I review—that would get boring quickly. Most readers just want to know whether a new restaurant is worth the money and what should they order, hold the environmentalism. But I’m committed to finding a way to do this. I welcome your feedback.—Stett Holbrook

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in customer happiness.

Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, dinner 511pm Mon-Sat and Sun 5-9pm.

86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.

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PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$.

Filled with artistic spins on California-meets-Italy, the kitchen turns out elegant entrees spearheaded by seasonal vegetables.

The impeccable service compensates for the modest portions. Full bar. 11:30-2:30 Mon-Fri, 5:30-10pm MonSat. 323 W. San Carlos St. 408.294.2558.

Pastaia remains a stalwart of downtown San Jose’s dining scene. Set inside the Hotel De Anza, the rustic Italian restaurant has big city style to spare. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri and noon-2pm SatSun; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 233 W. Santa Clara St. 408.286.8686.

Steakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, a Chicago-based chain of restaurants with more than 80 locations across the United States and abroad, offers delicious, premium-priced steaks. The rest of the menu is a mixed bag. 5:30-11pm MonSat, 5-10pm Sun. 177 Park Ave. 408.947.7000.

LA VICTORIA TAQUERIA

MUCHOS Mexican. $. A small

Mexican. $. La Vic’s famously addictive orange hot sauce merely tops off its tasty taqueria fare: big burritos of the breakfast and lunchtime varieties, overflowing nachos, delectable chile rellenos. 7am3am daily. 140 E. San Carlos St. 408.298.5335.

player with a big rotisserie, this taqueria cultivates a devout lunch following. All standards get billing, but the mesquiteroasted chicken is the star.

Beer. 11am-10pm daily. 72 E. Santa Clara St. 408.277.0333.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO New Orleans. $$. The Poor House Bistro offers a low-priced menu of Crescent City classics like po’ boys, barbecued shrimp, gumbo and muffaletta.

Live music on Fridays and Saturdays. Open 11am-9pm Mon-Sat. Open Sundays for major HP Pavilion events. 91 S. Autumn St. 408.292.5837.

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SCOTT’S SEAFOOD Seafood.

New American. $$. Lots of restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood joints but few deliver. The Garage does.

Small but satisfying menu of well executed comfort food classics. 5-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm Sat, 9am-1pm Sun. 505 E. San Carlos St. 408.286.1100.

$$$. Culture lovers and power brokers alike find impeccable sourdough, a sea of marine treats and other entrees and a panoramic view (there’s a sister eatery in Palo Alto). For maximum pleasure, get there at sunset. Full bar. 11:30am5pm Mon-Fri, 5pm-close Sat, 4:30pm-close Sun. 185 Park Ave. 408.971.1700.

NHA TOI Vietnamese. $$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am10pm daily. 460 E. William St. 408.294.2733.

71 SAINT PETER New American. $$$. This romantic eatery offers upscale Mediterranean food in an intimate setting Beer, wine.

Closed Sun. 71 N. San Pedro St. 11:30am-1pm, 5-9pm Mon-Sat. 408.971.8523.

LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$.

Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades.

Lunch 11am-2:30pm; dinner 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 3-10pm Sat and 3-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.

MCCORMICK AND SCHMICK’S Seafood. $$$. Harks back to big-city fish houses with stately, masculine interiors.

Menu follows the freshest fruits of the sea, grilled, panseared, steamed. Desserts will hook you. 11:30am-10pm daily, 11pm happy hour Fri-Sat. 170 S. Market St. 408.283.7200.

MEZCAL Regional Mexican. $$. Mezcal specializes in delicious regional cuisine from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. People who need nachos and sour-creamtopped burritos on the menu will probably be miffed, but for those willing to venture beyond the same old MexicanAmerican standards, Mezcal offers an excellent point of departure. 11:30am-11pm SunFri and 5-11pm Sat. 25 W. San Fernando St. 408.283.9595.

MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food cooked and served by people with a personal investment

ORIGINAL JOE’S ItalianAmerican. $$. For five decades OJ’s has been serving classics of American and ItalianAmerican food with heaping portions of big city attitude and glamour. The restaurant underwent an extensive remodel, but the menu is the same as it ever was. 11am1am daily. 301 S. First St. 408.292.7030.

PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor.

Pagoda offers the gamut of regional all-stars. Dressy. Full bar. 6-10pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont

VEGETARIAN HOUSE Vegetarian. $. This meat-free stalwart offers vegetarian dishes from around the world with a side serving of religious reading material from spiritual leader Ching Hai. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 520 E. Santa Clara St. 408.292.3798.

VUNG TAU VIETNAMESE $$. Traditionalists might gripe that they can get authentic Vietnamese food for less elsewhere, but it’s hard to top Vung Tau for its fresh, quality ingredients and sleek yet comfortable décor. Encyclopedic menu.

Open daily 10am-3pm and 5-9pm. 535 E. Santa Clara St. 408.288.9055.

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DJs, samples and live instruments seamlessly. The band hang back and accent the grooves just enough to give it a stronger, more intense energy. So it doesn’t feel like just another hip-hop show, but at the same time, it’s not a live band who happen to have rappers. (AC)

VooDoo Lounge, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free

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I was driving up to Oakland with my buddy, who was complaining about the state of hip-hop today. “I just want to hear some good, simple beats with a couple of dudes rapping about chillin’ out and scamming on women,” he said. A light went off in my head. I pulled out the latest Language Art Crew album, Love Stories From Gondor, and played it for him. He immediately started bobbing his head and said, “Damn, I could definitely get into this.” I also told him that their live show was not to be missed. They blend

Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free Two members of the now defunct nihilistic punk band the Cliftons have done an about-face with Sleeptalks.

Mellow, synth-infused psychedelic pop music with duo female vocals sets the mood with a dreamy, abstract undertone. Sleeptalks follows the tradition of lysergictinged music from 1960s S.F., with a modern twist. Andy Barnes, of local indie group Worker Bee, opens up with an acoustic solo set. (BD)

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BET’S MUSIC MATTERS TOUR 2010 VooDoo Lounge, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $20-$35 The BET Music Matters Campaign gives exposure to up-and-coming artists by highlighting them in videos, photos, profiles and interviews. This month they are putting live performance into the mix with their first Music Matters Tour; featuring J. Cole, who just dropped his Friday Night Lights mixtape; an appetizer to the much-anticipated debut album, Cole’s World. Joined by musically versatile K. Michelle, and the “soulful but young” CJ Hilton—

along with San Jose’s own MC poet Tyson Amir—Music Matters showcases the fresh voices of the ever-evolving hip-hop sound. (AC)

KAYE BOHLER JJ’s Blues, San Jose Fri – 10pm; $10 Having unleashed Like a Flower, her first collection of new music in six years, Bay Area performer Kaye Bohler is good and ready to perform a hard-won set of songs about grit and triumph. On the album, Bohler is flanked by some of the best blues players the West Coast has to offer, including Tommy Castro, Danny Caron, Garth Webber and Robben Ford, but the real attraction remains the singer/ songwriter herself. Bohler’s brassy spin on soul, blues and R&B is a seemingly endless resource, and allows her to take on both originals

and standards with equal portions of confidence and ease. (PMD)

HARVEST FESTIVAL San Jose Convention Center Fri – 9am-6pm, Sat – 10am-6pm, Sun – 11am-5pm; $4-$9 There’s no time like the present to start buying holiday presents. The Harvest Festival features a wide and intriguing variety of unusual craft creations in ceramic, glass, jewelry and more. And unlike the big-box black fridays offerings, this gifts are one of a kind. The event also includes demonstrations and music with Cash Tribute, the Sweet Adelines and Washboard Willy, plus kids’ entertainment with the Scott Land Marionettes. Donations to West Valley Community Food Bank are encouraged at the door. (MSG)

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WHITE TRASH DEBUTANTES

Nov 26 at 9pm, VooDoo Lounge, San Jose

VINCENTE FERNANDEZ Nov 27 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

LOVENOTES QUARTET Nov 27 at 8pm, Sunnyvale Theater

RAELIN, UNDERGONE, WE STAND UNITED Nov 27 at 6pm, Refuge, San Jose

TRIPLE HO SHOW Dec 1 at 6:30pm, SJSU Event Center

CALIFORNIA BACH SOCIETY, CA STORY OF THE NATIVITY Dec 4 at a 8pm, All Saints’ Episcopal, Palo Alto

NOVA VISTA SYMPHONY AND NOV S.J. SYMPHONIC CHOIR, HOLIDAY MAGIC Dec 4 at 7:30pm, Church of the D Ascension, Saratoga

SAN JOSE SYMPHONY, MOZART AND SCHUBERT Dec 4 at 8pm, Dec 5 at 2:30pm, D California Theatre, San Jose

ANDRE RIEU Dec 4 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

SAN JOSE WIND SYMPHONY, SA PIRATES AND PINAFORES

*sat FALL INTO THE RIVER Nickel City, San Jose Sat – 6pm; $12 What was it that brought together Fall Into the River? Their commitment to metal? Their love of As I Lay Dying? Their shared fondness for low-cut socks?

Whatever it was, these lads bust out death metal with plenty of hardcore breakdowns. They’re a young band, and it shows in their music. However, give them time and the future looks bright.

And you have to be happy about the fact they’re not following all-too-familiar emo sound that’s been so prevalent the past few years. Keep it up, boys. Vicarious

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WHITE TRASH DEBUTANTES Blank Club, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $8 Thanks a lot, Ginger Coyote, for crushing my last shred of idealistic naiveté once and for all by outing Alice Cooper to me as a right-wing asshat. Although recently I’ve seen some moronic quotes from him (like calling Sarah Palin “totally a break of fresh air”), this was back when I blissfully ignorant, until the song “Rock N Rock Republikkkan”

by Coyote’s band White Trash Debutantes came out. The song also references Ted Nugent, Gene Simmons and Johnny

Ramone (it was written before he died, of course) and calls their kind a “disgrace to the human race.” If it sounds extreme and uncompromising, well, that’s why a little punk band that started in San Francisco in 1989 was still winning “best underground band”–type awards 15 years into its existence. While their songs are generally more about sexuality and debauchery more than politics, they’re as raunchy, goofy and technically piss-poor as they were two decades ago.

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Johnny V’s, San Jose Sun – 9pm; $5 Wauntid harkens back to a time when music had balls. The mixture of hard rock, grunge and metal is nothing new, but these guys keep it fresh with a certain edge. Never watered down, Wauntid is one of the heaviest rock bands to come around this year. And they’re from Canada, for cryin’ out loud! Take off! Contagious, Machine City start things off. (BD)

Dec 5 at 3pm, McAfee Performing Arts Center, Saratoga

ROGER WATERS, THE WALL IN CONCERT Dec 7-8 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

LIVE-105 NOT SO SILENT NIGHT Dec 10 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

GARY HOEY, HO HO HOEY’S ROCKIN’ HOLIDAY TOUR Dec 11 at 8pm, Club Fox, Redwood City

EL CAMINO YOUTH SYMPHONY Dec 12 at 2:30pm, California Theatre, San Jose

BALLET SAN JOSE NUTCRACKER Dec 11–26, San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

MISSION CITY OPERA, TRUCE OF CAROLS Dec 18 at 7:30pm, Dec 19 at 2:30pm, Mission City Center for Performing Arts, Santa Clara

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South FIRST FRIDAYS an eclectic evening of arts and culture in downtown San Jose’s SoFA District (and beyond) on the First Friday of every month

DECEMBER 3rd ART WALK – 8pm ’til late!

Amy Diaz-Infante, Installation View of Wallpaper, mixed media, 2010, Photo by Robertino Raggaza

Anno Domini

Art Glass Center

Caffé Trieste

MACLA

366 So. First Street

465 So. First Street

315 So. First Street

510 So. First Street

Opening Reception: 10th Annual FRESH PRODUCE Invitational Over 30 artists from around the world have created hundreds of works of art (under $250) for this highly anticipated annual exhibition and sale.

The artists were invited based on their unique artistic vision and contribution to urban/contemporary arts and culture.

The 4th Annual Glass Ornament show opens at the Art Glass Center of San Jose. Enjoy a chocolate and port tasting while perusing hundreds of one of a kind glass ornaments.

Artist’s Reception: Robot Girl! by Christine Benjamin, a local artist who creates her own cast of characters: monsters, robots, aliens, skeletons & more, culled from her childhood memories and emotions.

First Fridays are Opera Night! at Caffé Trieste, with some of the Bay Area's best opera singers performing your favorite arias and duets.

On view: Hybrid Spaces: Family Origins & Collaborations Recent work by Las Hermanas Iglesias and Amy Diaz-Infante.

Join Amy Diaz-Infante for a gallery walk through and an engaging conversation about her work at 7:00pm.

MACLA Spoken Word All-Stars hosted by Elijah Lozano - featuring a drumming mash-up from JALIYA & Jimmy Biala.

Image: SCOUNT (Holland)

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles 520 So. First Street Two exciting exhibitions! Cream of the Cloth: Quilts from the Marbaum Collection of Hilary & Marvin Fletcher Cream of the Cloth is the personal collection of long-time contemporary art quilt advocates Hilary & Marvin Fletcher.

Bold Strokes is a 25-year retrospective of Yvonne Porcella’s art quilts, known for their bold originality.

Image: Yvonne Porcella, Come Again Kabuki

SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery 577 So. Market Street SLG celebrates two years of First Friday Fun with a special Festivus themed celebration. Aluminum Pole, Feats of Strength and the Airing of Grievances LIVE ON THE INTERNET. Special themed art as well...be our gang of usual suspects. Live Music too!

So. First Billiards

KALEID Gallery

420 So. First Street

88 So. Fourth Street

Bring It Back Tour: the sampler platter! Live art, live body painting hosted by one soul and flossofee.

Opio, Kung Fu, Zman, My G, Bru Lei, Aivar, Matre, Project Seer, Sub Ren.

7pm-10pm The Rockin’ Stockings Holiday Show & Sale

Esik Video Premiere.

KALEID Gallery artists have created unique works of art generously priced for the gift giving season.

Plus festive music & refreshments!

5-9pm ALL AGES. 9pm-close 21+

Above image by René Lorraine

More Exhibitions: Higher Fire Clayspace 499 So. Market Street Phantom Galleries 386 So. First Street WORKS San José 451 So. First Street Downtown Yoga Shala 450 So. First Street Good Karma Vegan Café 37 So. First Street Metro Photo Exhibit 550 So. First Street Psycho Donuts 288 So. Second Street Art Ark 1035 So. Sixth Street

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City Tree Lighting Friday, 5:30pm; Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose The holiday season gets started in earnest with the arrival of Christmas in the Park and the traditional city tree-lighting ceremony. The plaza will be filled with animated displays showing busy elves preparing for the big day. The big holiday parade with Santa comes a week later, on Dec. 5.

Opera TOSCA Opera San José presents Puccini opera about a woman who struggles against the dictates of powerful men.

Nov 26 at 8pm, and Nov 28 at 3pm. $51-$101. California Theatre, San Jose.

Theater Backwards in High Heels Nov. 24–Dec. 19; San Jose Repertory Theatre; $25 and up Fred Astaire partnered with a lot of talented women, but none was more beloved than Ginger Rogers, who managed to be both earthy and ethereal. San Jose Rep’s new musical charts the rise of Rogers from small-town girl to Tinsel Town icon, with a career that stretched beyond her ’30s musicals with Astaire into a full-blown career as comedian and dramatic actress in the ’40s.

The show previews this week and opens Dec. 1.

Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party Nov. 24–Dec. 19; City Lights Theater Company, San Jose; $25–$35

Aaron Loeb’s farce is given its South Bay premiere by City Lights Theater Company. Paywhat-you can preview Wed (Nov 24), 8pm. No show Nov 25. Regular shows: Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2 or 7pm (Nov 28).

Runs through Dec 19. $25$35. City Lights, San Jose.

ALL THIS INTIMACY One man impregnates three women in the Renegade Theatre Experiment West Coast premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s comedy. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Runs thru Nov 27. $12-$28.50. Historic Hoover Theater, San Jose.

BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS

Let’s see: A Christmas Carol for the 100th time or Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party? That’s a nobrainer for theatergoers exhausted by too much Dickens and Tchaikovsky. City Lights presents the local premiere of Aaron Loeb’s sure-to-outrage comedy about a schoolteacher who puts on a most unusual Christmas pageant and is hauled into court by the citizenry.

A musical about the life and career of Ginger Rogers. Paywhat-you-will preview Wed, 8pm. Regular previews FriSat, 8pm, Sun, 2 and 7pm, Tue, 7:30pm. Opens Dec 1. Runs thru Dec 19. $35-$74. San Jose Repertory Theatre.

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THE COLOR PURPLE

Nov. 26–27, 8pm; Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose; $35 Brain Copeland can be heard regularly on the radio; he’s a breath of fresh, skeptical air in the world of paranoid talk-radio hosts. Copeland is also the author of a very popular one-man, 30-character play about how weird it was to grow up African American in San Leandro, just about the whitest suburb imaginable. This limited run is presented by Tabard Theatre Company.

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Dance

$22/$27. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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PENINSULA YOUTH NUTCRACKER

This is the 20th year the group has presented the ballet. Fri-Sat, 1 and 6pm, Sun, 12:30 and 4pm.

A staging of the beloved ballet by young dancers. Nov 27-Dec

The stage musical based on the movie adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel, presented

by Broadway San Jose. Wed, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. Runs thru Nov 28. $20 and up. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

DRIVING MISS DAISY Tabard Theatre Company presents the story of an elderly Southern white woman and her friendship with her African American chauffeur.

Fri-Sat, 3pm. Runs thru Nov 27. $10-$24. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD A romp through the holiday

classics at high speed from San Jose Stage Company.

Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Dec 19. $20-$45. The Stage, San Jose.

NOT A GENUINE BLACK MAN A one-man show by Brian Copeland about growing up as an African American in the white suburbs of the Bay Area. Fri-Sat, 8pm. $35 ($75 for special reception and copy of Copeland’s book on Sat).

Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

AN O. HENRY CHRISTMAS Broadway West Theatre Company presented Howard Burman’s play about a stranger who starts telling stories to some homeless people. Thu (except Nov 25)-Sat, 8pm, Sun (except Nov 28), 1pm. Runs thru Dec 18. $17/$22. Broadway West Theatre, Fremont.

A TUNA CHRISTMAS The holidays Texas style. Wed (except Nov 24), 7:30pm, Thu (except Nov 25)-Sat, 8pm, Sun 3pm. Runs thru Dec 18. $34$30. Bus Barn Stage, Los Altos.

THE TURN OF THE SCREW A stage adaptation by Jeffrey Hatcher of the Henry James ghost story, presented by Dragon Productions. Thu (except Nov 25)-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Nov 28. $16/$20. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

WHITE CHRISTMAS West Valley Light Opera does the Irving Berlin classic for the holidays. This week: Fri (Nov 26) no show. Sat-Sun, 2:30pm.

Runs thru Dec 11. $18-$30.

Saratoga Civic Theater.

Comedy COMEDYSPORTZ An interactive improvised comedy show. Fri, 9 and 11pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm. $12/$15.

ComedySportz, San Jose.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Fri-Sat, 9pm, Sun, 8pm: Clinton Jackson. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Black and Blue Comedy. $12. Fri-Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Felipe Esparza.

Tue, 8pm: Brian Scolaro. $12.

San Jose.

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Museums CANTORARTSCENTER “Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates.”Thru Mar 20. “Go Figure!” Figurative paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists. Ongoing. “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.”Thru Jan 2. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home: Art and Poetry From Native California.” Thru Dec 5. “LandsCApes: Glimpses of Everyday California.” Thru Jan 28. “The Saints of Mission Santa Clara: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Art.” Thru Dec 5. Tue-Sun, 11am-4pm.

Santa Clara University.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Celebrating Local Artists: The Fifth Anniversary of the McKay Gallery. A look at the McKay’s collection, including paintings and rare sketches by ADM Cooper. Thru Mar 2011. Inside the Pasetta House. At Pacific Hotel Gallery. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm. San Jose.

JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM “Camp Days: 1942-1945.” Works about the internment camps by Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz.

Thru Apr 30. Thu-Sun, noon4pm. San Jose.

LOSGATOSHISTORYMUSEUM “Bear in Mind: The Story of the California Grizzly.”Thru Feb 27.

Wed-Sun, noon-4pm. Los Gatos.

SANJOSEMUSEUMOFART “The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention.”

Thru Jul 3. “Leo Villareal.”Thru Jan 9. “Retro-Tech.”Thru Feb 6.

“Vital Signs: New Media From the Permanent Collection.”Thru Feb 6. “Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography From the Permanent Collection.”

Thru Mar 14. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES “Cream of the Cloth: Quilts From the Marbaum Collection.” A rich sampling of contemporary quilts and fiber art. “Yvonne Porcella: Bold Strokes.” A 25-year survey.

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A Celtic Tenors Christmas Celebration Thu, Dec 9, 7:30 pm Starting at $32 A special Christmas performance, by this internationally acclaimed trio, will feature classics such as “O Holy Night” and “Silent Night.”

Rockapella Holiday Show Sun, Dec 12, 4 pm & 7 pm Starting at $36 Often imitated, never duplicated, Rockapella remains an innovative burst of talent. Hear them spread the joy of the holiday season in this special performance.

The Little Engine That Could, The Musical Sat, Dec 11, 11 am & 1 pm $20 adult/$10 child Members: $16 adult/$8 child “I think I can! I think I can!” Bay Area Children’s Theatre brings this delightful classic tale to Montalvo for the holidays!

PIANO MASTERS SERIES

Taylor Eigsti Trio Sun, Dec 5, 7 pm

Starting at $36 Legendary Dave Brubeck says of two-time Grammy nominee and Bay Area native Eigsti, “He’s the most amazing talent I’ve ever come across. Remember him.”

Both shows run thru Jan 30. TueSun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

New paintings by Joe Barajas.

“Insomnia: Lost San Jose Nights.”

Photographs by Josh Marcotte.

Thru Nov 26. San Jose.

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“Body Worlds Vital.” A detailed anatomical look at bodies in health and disease, based on the work of Gunther von Hagens.

Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.

“Hybrid Spaces: Family Origins & Collaborations.” Works by Las Hermanas Iglesias and Amy Diaz-Infante. Thru Jan 8. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm.

San Jose.

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MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

“The Nature of Things.” Sculptor David Middlebrook. Thru Dec 5.

“Stan Welsh: On Land—On Water.” Thru Dec 5. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm. Thu, 11am9pm. Santa Clara.

“From Within, So Without” by Ali Maschke-Messing. Thru Jun 1.

“Sculpture on the Grounds: David Middlebrook.”Thru Jun 1. “The Oldest Living Things in the World.”

Photographs by Rachel Sussman.

Thru Jan 16. Saratoga.

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Visit montalvoarts.org for more information on the Piano Masters Series.

MAIN GALLERY Carriage House Theatre Box Office, 408.961.5858, M-F, 10am-4pm ticketmaster.com or montalvoarts.org Free on-site parking!

15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA 95070

Holiday show features gifts by local artists. Nov 24-Dec 23.

Reception Dec 5, 4-7pm. Wed-Sun, 10am-3pm. Redwood City.

CONTINUING ART ARK GALLERY “The More the Merrier.” A group show. Thru Dec 3. San Jose.

CAFFE TRIESTE “Celebrating Cafe Moments.”

Paintings by Jeanette Turkus. Thru Nov 27. San Jose.

DIRIDON STATION “The Way to San Jose.”

Transportation history in the valley.

Ongoing. San Jose.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “Before It Flew Away.” Works by Rachel Jones. Thru Nov 27. San Jose.

GALLERY HOUSE

PALO ALTO ART CENTER “In Focus” Collecting Photography.” “Light From the Underground,” a photographic essay about mining in South Wales by Colette Campbell-Jones.

“Paintings From Haiti.”Thru Dec 12. Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, 1-5pm, and Tue-Thu, 7-10pm.

Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Old Technology.” Painting, sculpture and installations by the SJSU artist Tony May. Thru Feb 26.

Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon5pm. San Jose.

SJSU ART BUILDING “Soft Art.” Works by a dozen artists from university art programs. Thru Dec 2. Gallery 3, Art Building, SJSU. Also, student class show by SJSU artists. Nov 29-Dec 3. Reception Tue, 6pm. Art industrial studies buildings.

SLG ART BOUTIKI “Modern Primitive Cultural Research and Cocktail Society.”

Thru Nov. San Jose.

Holiday Show.Thru Dec 24.Tue, 11am-4pm, Wed-Sat, 11am-8pm, Sun, 11am-3pm. Extended hours Nov 29-Dec 24: Sat, 11am-8pm, Sun, 11am-3pm. Enter through Printer’s Ink Palo Alto.

STANFORD ART SPACES

GALLERY SARATOGA

THOMPSON GALLERY

“Duets.” Color photos by David Blanchard. Thru Nov 30. Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm. Saratoga.

“Chicago Imagism(s).” Chicago painters from late 1960s. Thru Dec 17. Tue, 11am-4pm, 6-7:30pm, Mon, Wed-Fri, 11am-4pm. SJSU Art Building.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE “Earth, Spin, Fire.” Works by Lee Middleman and Jon Dunlavy. Thru Dec 2. San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY “The Process of Creation.”

Textile work by Alice Beasley, paintings by James Su and John Sundstrom. Thru Jan 20.

Reception Fri, 5-7pm. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. Stanford.

VIEWPOINTS GALLERY “Drawing From the Abstract.”

Works by Jane Ferguson. Thru Dec 4. Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm, Sun, 11am3pm. Los Altos.

Books APOLO OHNO The speed skater talks about his book “Zero Regrets: Be Greater Than Yesterday.” Mon, 8pm. Free.

Books Inc, Mountain View.

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Vintage displays create a North Pole atmosphere in the South Bay. Nov 26-Dec 1. City Treelighting ceremony Fri, 5:30pm.

Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose.

DOWNTOWN ICE Ice-skating rink downtown. Runs thru Jan 17. Downtown San Jose on Market at San Fernando.

GREAT TRAIN EXPO Dealers show toy trains, plus demonstration layouts. Sat-Sun, 10am-4pm. $7. Expo Hall, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.

HARVEST FESTIVAL Homemade craft gifts, plus entertainment and stories for kids. Fri, 9am-6pm, Sat, 10am6pm, Sun, 10am-5pm. $4-$9. San Jose Convention Center.

HOLIDAY WINE STROLL Sample wines from various merchants in the village. Fri, 47pm. Downtown Saratoga.

MATCH YOUR KEY A dance party for singles. Sat, 8pm-midnight. $15/$20. David’s Restaurant at Santa Clara Golf and Tennis Club.

SAN JOSE BIRTHDAY A celebration of the city’s 233rd anniversary. Sun, 1-4pm. Peralta Adobe, San Pedro Square, San Jose.

SILICON VALLEY TURKEY TROT A 5K run/walk or 10K run to prepare for the big meal. Thu, 6:30am. Arena Green, Guadalupe River Park, San Jose.

TOYS FOR TOTS A toy drive sponsored by Regional Skate Park. Runs thru Dec 24. Lake Cunningham.

WINTER WONDERLAND Amusement rides and other holiday events in connection with Christmas in the Park. Nov 24-Jan 2. Paseo de San Antonio and Park Ave, San Jose.

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Dickens and Beyond IF YOU can imagine Charles Dickens, Rankin/Bass, fruitcake and Santa Claus all stuffed into a blender and puréed, you’ll have some idea of what Every Christmas Story Ever Told is about. In a short span of time, this zany holiday mashup comes extremely close to being literally what its title says it is. Having appeared at San Jose Stage two years ago, Every Christmas Story Ever Told is now back by popular demand.

Returning audience members may notice a few changes, as the play is often revised to include the most up-to-date pop culture allusions.

This time around, for instance, there are some affectionate references to the 2010 World <m\ip Series champs. However, the main target of the :_i`jkdXj play’s gentle ribbing is still holiday tradition, Jkfip <m\i Kfc[ especially BHCs (Beloved Holiday Classics), those well-worn film and television chestnuts Through Dec. 19 that are invariably rolled out every December.

San Jose Stage Company, As the play begins, we see three actors (Robert 490 S. First St., San Jose Parsons, Martin Rojas-Dietrich and Will $20–$45 Springhorn Jr.) beginning to perform a rather stale rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This is the biggest and most time-honored BHC of all, but the trio decide that there are other Christmas stories worth telling. They then proceed to rollick through a series of hysterically skewed versions of BHCs like How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (renamed “Gustav the Green-Nosed Reingoat” to avoid copyright issues) and The Gift of the Magi, sometimes with audience participation.

Interspersed throughout are tidbits of yuletide tradition from around the world. We are told of the Scandinavian penchant for burying fish in the ground until they ferment—and then eating them for Christmas. We also learn that when Santa Claus visits Holland he kidnaps children who have been naughty and puts them in his sack.

The cast is absolutely hilarious. Rojas-Dietrich plays a character with a childlike enthusiasm for all things Christmas, and Parsons shares the spirit. Springhorn’s character is more serious, always wanting to get back to A Christmas Carol. He gets his wish in the second act, but Carol doesn’t survive in one piece—it is merged with It’s a Wonderful Life. If, in the weeks leading up to Christmas, you don’t feel like watching the now heavily edited Rankin/Bass specials on the ABC Family channel, remember that a fine alternative awaits you at the Stage, one that provides more BHCs for your buck.—Sean Conwell

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metroactive FILM FASTER (R; 98 min.) Not half bad, but that other half is real bad. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scripted by po-mo trashistas the Gayton brothers (The Salton Sea) and directed with robust obviousness by George Tillman Jr. Duane â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Rockâ&#x20AC;?

Johnson stars as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Driver,â&#x20AC;? a man just out of the joint after 10 years. He is loose in BakersďŹ eld hunting the people who killed his bro while being hunted in turn by a fey and yacky killer for hire (the whimsically cast Oliver Jackson-Cohen of Lark Rise to Candleford). Meanwhile, two cops, one of whom is smack-addicted (Billy Bob Thornton; excellent, actually) try to solve the case.

Warden Tom Berengerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s farewell speech to the sizable convict (â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you met trouble you did not run away from it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if you were born to the darkness of this place.â&#x20AC;?) exempliďŹ es the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aspirations to reach high C over E, and is the ďŹ rst of several â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh, no, they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t!â&#x20AC;? incidents in the script. The important spiritual statement of it all is mitigated by a roaring Chevelle and

a rousing, all-backward getaway in the beginning: the best car chase Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen in months. Fine Thelma Rittering by Annie Corley as Driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mom. Most of the ďŹ lm is dominated by the ever-perplexed, physically inconceivable Rock himself: dwelling in some harmonious space beyond seriousness and humor, beyond irony or moral importance. (Opens Wed.) (RvB)

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART I (PG-13; 146 min.) See review on page 57.

incestuous hound is played by Leo Gordon: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The scariest man I have ever met,â&#x20AC;? said Don Siegel, who directed this real-life San Quentin alumnus in Riot in Cell Block 11.

Heading to San Jose for refuge, she and her sister make a wrong turn in Texas, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where things get hairy as the two tangle with an integrated pair of hit men (Tim Brown and Alex Rocco). Did QT rip these two off for Pulp Fiction? You decide. Arthur Marks (The Monkey Hu$tle, Linda Lovelace for President) directs. (Plays Nov 26 at midnight in Campbell at Camera 7.) (RvB)

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metroactive FILM (“Lord knows, I loathe the little brutes”). Bernard Herrmann’s moody soundtrack makes the world of the spirits tangible (a trick he repeated for Vertigo). BILLED WITH Topper.

Meek little banker Cosmo Topper (Roland Young) is haunted by the

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Viagra Falls SOME ASPECTS of Love and Other Drugs— obviously, one of those aspects is not the title—suggest an interesting study of two people favoring the no-strings life. Take one interaction: He, Jamie (Jake Gyllenhaal), tells She, Maggie (Anne Hathaway), “I’m going to fuck my girlfriend.” Maggie, the lady just alluded to, says, “Don’t use that word.” And it isn’t the f-word that bothers, her, it’s the g-word: “girlfriend.”

That kind of conversation is about as mature as an American movie is going to get in 2010. Too bad the rest of it is such a hodgepodge. Director Edward Zwick sourced this from an indifferent book, Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy, who enjoyed a sweet 1990s as a traveling salesman for Pfizer, precisely at the time that Viagra came out. He handed out samples like Halloween candy, amid parties down with horny doctors and flirty nurses.

In this unfaithful version of the memoir, the breezy Pittsburgh-based salesman and the free-spirited lady meet in a doctor’s office. A hot yet hostile relationship breaks out. Knowing a little about illness, Jamie quickly diagnoses what’s eating Maggie: she has stage-1 Parkinson’s and is determined to have a reckless good time while her body holds out. Maybe there’s the germ of a hard-edged, marshmallowhearted Billy Wilder–style comedy here.

To make Jamie less sleazy, he is bracketed by a pair of worse sinners: Oliver Platt as

his doughy, corrupt boss, and Josh Gad as Jamie’s brother, a slobby horndog. Josh gets to deliver the movie’s capitalized, italicized take-away line to Jamie: “You hate women. Why else would you screw so many of them?” (Ah, that’s more like the 2010 cinema we know and love.)

The duo of Gyllenhaal and Hathaway provided the most sexually heated moment in Cfm\ Xe[ Brokeback Mountain. All Fk_\i ;il^j the much-vaunted sex in Love and Other Drugs would R have more punch if it Opens Nov. 24 weren’t deployed in favor of such old-timey screen tropes.

Hathaway could have carried this as light comedy, but she comes on furious and knocks this unsteady movie flat. She’s not a sweeping force meeting an equal, opposite reaction in Gyllenhaal: he’s a more matured Jason Biggs from the American Pie movies.

Love and Other Drugs is the proverbial dog that went after two rabbits at once.

A romance turning bittersweet is one idea that got away. The other idea is the corruption of the medical establishment.

The authorized use of the Pfizer name here tells us the filmmakers are not going to be all that harsh on Big Pharma. Under the direction of the nice guy who created Thirtysomething, it carries the kind of happy ending you’d need a happiness drug to accept.—Richard von Busack

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THE NEW Harry Potter ďŹ lm begins radically for a holiday crowd pleaser, with a tight close-up of Bill Nighyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rufus Scrimgeour, the perfect embodiment of a government about to fall. DigniďŹ ed but terriďŹ ed, he holds his numb lower lip against trembling as he assures the populace that everything is under control. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 chronicles a second Battle of Britain, with the trio of young wizards ďŹ&#x201A;eeing through a blitzed-out land.

Unfortunately for the movie, the single most ďŹ&#x201A;abbergasting part comes early on.

An armada on broomstick, dragon-back and other aircraft breaks through the cloud ceiling, straight into a dogďŹ ght of death-eaters, the aerial battle bracketed by a row of high-tension power lines. How far the Harry Potter series has come from its Christmas-card origins, under the sugarfrosted direction of Chris Columbus. Now the noose is tightening, with racist wizards scheming to trample humanity under foot. How do you keep the story going after an opening like that? Without as much high excitement, unfortunately.

Rupert Grint, the clumsy/suave best pal Ron Weasley, is ever more absorbing. In happiest moments, he recalls the young Malcolm McDowell, especially when he gives a glancing touch to Hermioneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s injured cheek.

(Her best moments: conjuring a funeral wreath with a rotation of her wand.) Yet it was maybe a little soon since Lord of the Rings to have Weasley made ill by a horcrux, in the

same way that Frodo was sickened by the dread and similarly indestructible Ring.

No one can accuse Deathly Hollows of too little open spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as opposed to the ďŹ rst ďŹ lms in the series, where we ended up walled in by Hogwarts with the students.

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Is this meant to remind us Plays valleywide of the northwestern forests of loneliness in the Twilight movies? We watch movies, but ďŹ lm directors watch them harder, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inevitable that cross-pollination occurs.

I am all for it, anyway. I adore the startling Balinese-style puppet animation used by directed David Yates to tell the legend of the Deathly Hallows. And every ďŹ ve minutes comes the sighting of familiar faces. Our Snape (Alan Rickman, a devil sick of sin) doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get up to much this episode, and yet he still towers over his evil cohort. Helena Bonham Carter hides her face with her hair and ďŹ&#x201A;ashes witchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teeth, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost as nasty as Margaret Hamilton. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the noble death scene here that pricks the tear ducts; rather, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the eerily nerveless voice of Evanna â&#x20AC;&#x153;Luna Lovegoodâ&#x20AC;? Lynch, as she advises Harry to close the â&#x20AC;&#x153;dead oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sâ&#x20AC;? eyes.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent ďŹ lms. Nov 27: Feel My Pulse (1928). Hypochondriac heiress Bebe Daniels ďŹ nds that the sanitarium she

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just got willed to her is full of rum runners (including William Powell).

Gregory La Cava directs. With shorts: Kokoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Thanksgiving (1925) by Dave Fleischer, Never Touched Me (1919) with Daniels and Harold Lloyd, and Only Me (1929) with Lupino Lane.

Judy Rosenberg at the piano. (Plays Nov 27 at 7:30 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

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BILLED WITH The Man I Love. Raoul Walsh directs Ida Lupino in a tale of a nightclub canary who becomes entangled with an unsavory nightclub owner (Robert Alda, Alanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father). (Plays Nov 25-26 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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AS RECORDED by the Grimm Brothers, the fairy tale of Rapunzel is pregnant with meaning and rich with clues. In the 3D animated feature Tangled, directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard stress the most resonant interpretation: Rapunzel as a story for all parts of the world where girls arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowed to run free. This version keeps the basics: the imprisoning witch Gothel is a curvy villainess, a parasite feeding on the youth and hopes of the girl whom she KXe^c\[ imprisons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the bad guy,â&#x20AC;? Gothel PG sighs, like so many groaning mothers of Opens Nov. 24 adolescents before and since.

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Remodeled as a Disney princess, this Rapunzel (voiced by Mandy Moore) has learned all sorts of crafts while kept inside; she can use her hair as both lasso and web. A rakish young thief (heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voiced by Zachary Levi and named Flynn; older viewers who remember Errol can tell you why) frees her. Third act developments take the plot into a diďŹ&#x20AC;erent resolution than the Brothers Grimm charted, adding to the surprise of the cartoon.

Tangled gives us not just the Disney but, better, the Pixar touch, in fully developed storytelling and a lush but balanced color palette. You can see the inďŹ&#x201A;uences: the antique charm of 3D Viewmaster fairy-tale slides from the 1960s, for instance. Judging by its Balkan architecture, the castle seems to be built a 1,000 miles east of the King Ludwig castles trademarked by Disney.

A yearly ritual in which the bereaved king and queen seek their stolen daughter resembles the ďŹ&#x201A;oating lanterns of the Japanese Obon festival crossed with the Albuquerque Balloon Glow. Best of all, there is such a ďŹ ne horse in this movie! Maximus the war horseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quick thinking, fast reďŹ&#x201A;exes and expert pantomime make him the brains of the of the ďŹ lm. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a steed ďŹ t for Chaplin or Tati to ride.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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Fingerbangerz House Party Friday, 9pm, Johnny V’s, San Jose; $5 Undisputed top South Bay DJ/producer crew the Fingerbangerz (or Bangerz, for short) have been revolutionizing turntablism for years, but incredibly they’re doing their best work right now. What better way to kill some time waiting for their album Sound than with a Fingerbangerz house party? Kid ‘n’ Play sold separately. (SP)

F/X The Club: Black Friday #3 Friday, 9pm, Blank Club, San Jose; $10 People may complain about the ups and downs of the South Bay music scene, but one thing we’re never short of is nostalgia. Long after it closed, few clubs around here generate the same loyalty as F/ X, and for the third year, Black Friday will be a day to toast it, with music from DJs Spun (pictured), Rick Preston, King Raffi and Harry Who. (SP)

The Bingtones Saturday, 8pm, Club Fox, Redwood City; $16 Richard Collora is the bandleader who puts the “Bing” in the Bingtones, by way of his nickname.

His 11-piece San Jose band follows in the tradition of the Bay Area’s own Tower of Power, brass knuckling a powerful, danceable blend of funk, R&B and pop. Tribal Blues Band open. They jumped out in a big way this year, winning the MTV/Uplaya Talent Search. (SP)

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Fri: Bitchn’ Camaros. Sat: Whiskey Avengers. Sun: Mike Leatherman. Mon: Drive!

Campbell.

CAPERS

Fri, 9:30pm: Mehrshad. $30.

Santa Clara.

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Thu-Fri: Closed for Thanksgiving. Sunnyvale.

THE BLANK CLUB

Wed, 10pm: Superbad. Fri, 10pm: Love Stoned. Sat, 10pm: Sugadady. San Jose.

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Wed, 9pm: Sleeptalks, Andy Barnes, Bam! Bam! Free. Sat, 9pm: White Trash Debutantes, Prima Donna, Mystic Knights of the Cobra. $8. San Jose.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri: See karaoke. Sat: No live music because of holiday.

Santa Clara.

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BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Wed, 9pm: Jeff Hinkin Band.

Fri, 9pm: The NOV8RZ, Ozomatli II Twice. Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Wed: Kids WIth Beards. Fri: Fullcup. San Jose.

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Campbell.

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JOHNNY V’S Thu: Open for Thanksgiving, music TBA. Fri: FingerBangerz house party. Sun: Wauntid, Contagious, Machine City.

San Jose.

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Sunnyvale.

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LOFTBARANDBISTRO Thu, 7-10pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

Sat, 6pm: Fall Into the River, Vicarious Order, Shovelhead, Flint Ironstag. San Jose.

Wed, 6pm-midnight: Blue Grass with Victor and Margaret. Free.

Fri, 6pm-12am: Mucho Ax. Free.

Sun, 6pm-midnight: Moroccan Music Night. San Jose.

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Wed, 9:30pm: The Blind Pilots.

Free. Fri, 8:30pm: After Party.

Sat, 9:30: Spang-A-Lang with Tony Lindsay. Los Gatos.

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

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Fri, 7:30pm: Capoeira show. Fri, 9pm: Leo Brasil and Wallace. $10. Sunnyvale.

Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson and Friends. Thu: CLosed for Thanksgiving. Fri, 6pm: Mighty Mike Schermer Band. Sat, 6pm: PHB Guitar Get Down and more.

Sun, 2-6pm: Ty Curtis Blues Band.

San Jose.

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QUARTER NOTE Thu, 8:30pm: Vicious Groove, Vicious Nation. Fri, 8:30pm: Dan Goghs. Sat, 8:30pm: Four Blind Mice. Sun, 3:30pm: Diva Ladee Chico Holiday Show. Sunnyvale.

THE REFUGE Sat, 6pm: Raelin, Undergone, A Four Star Affair, Evolution. $12.

Cupertino.

VOODOO LOUNGE Thu: Closed for Thanksgiving.

Fri, 9pm: Bet’s Music Matter Tour with J. Cole and CJ Hilton. $28.$35. San Jose.

World AGENDA Sat: Bachata with Rodney RodchatA Aquino. San JOse.

ALBERTO’S Wed: Bachata. Thu: Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Sabados Latinomeri.

Sun-Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Pantea. Mountain View.

ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music and belly dancing. Cupertino.

AZUCAR Fri-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Live music with Son de Kali and Orquesta Saboricua. Sun: Bachata Sensation (last Sun of month).

San Jose.

CAFFE TRIESTE Sat: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. San Jose

CASCAL Fri: LaTiDo. Sat, 8:30pm: James Robinson. Mountain View.

FOX THEATRE Sat, 7:30pm: Hawaiian Hula Holiday with Hula Halau Na Wai Ola and Ukulele Jams and Patrick Landeza. $20/$25.

Redwood City.

LILLY MAC’S Fri, 9pm-1am: Goodz. Sat, 9pm1am: Bay Area Heat. Sun, 58pm: Irish music. Sunnyvale.

Jazz/Blues ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 8pm: Shotgun Wedding Quintet. $10 plus dinner or 2 drink/appetizer minimum. Mon, 7pm: Marty Atkinson. Redwood City.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Sun, 5:30pm: Jazz Jam. Cupertino.

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MOROCCO’SRESTAURANT Sat, 6pm-12am: Jason Bellenkes Duo. San Jose.

QUARTERNOTE Sat, 4pm: Cool Fire Jazz. Mon, 8:30pm: Chaz Alley Jazz.

Sunnyvale.

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Sun, 6pm: Touch ‘N Go. Willow Glen.

UNWINED Sat, 7-9:30pm: Jazz Night. San Jose.

Fri, 8pm:: Comedy with Dan St. Paul, Mark Pitta and Johnny Steele. $15/$18. Sat, 8pm: Blingtones and Tribal Blues Band. $14/$16. Sun, 8pm: Lucky Peterson. $18/$20. Redwood City.

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Fri-Sat, 8pm: Noel Catura.

Morgan Hill.

FAIRMONT HOTEL LOBBY LOUNGE Wed, 8:30pm: The Girlz Band.

Thu, 8:30pm: Contemporary or Latin Jazz. Fri-Sat, 9pm: Jazz and Pop Dance Bands. Mon-Tue: Piano Music. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam, Aki Kumar.

Fri, 8pm: Blue Dog. Sat, 8pm: Andy Santana. Campbell.

HEDLEY CLUB Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Kristen Strom Quartet.

Sat, 8:30pm: Harold Fethe. Hotel de Anza, San Jose.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Wed: Suska and the Sugar Sweet Blues Band. Thu: Jimmy Dewrance. Fri: Nuthin’ But Trouble, Kaye Bohler. $10. Sat: Ty Curtis, The City featuring Paula Sorce.$10. Sun: Alvin Draper.

Mon: Dennis Dove. Tue: Blue J, Dennis and Stuart. San Jose.

Sat: Gus. San Jose.

WOODHAM’SLOUNGE Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with rock and blues local musicians. Santa Clara.

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Friday, November, 26 AGES 16+

BOSWELL’S

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Sun: Mike Leatherman.

Campbell.

THEGRAPEVINE Wed, 7pm: Hootenanny Anniversary Show. Willow Glen.

REDROCKCOFFEEROASTING Sun, noon: Margaret and Victor.

Mountain View.

Friday, November 26 In the Atrium AGES 21+ FRIDAY NIGHT FUNCTION: DJ Aspect DJ Tone Sol, Nima Fadavi NO COVER • 9 p.m./ 9 p.m. :H[\YKH` 5V]LTILY AGES 16+

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THE ROOMSHAKERS

$5 at the door • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m.

THESADDLERACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

Thu: Closed for Thanksgiving. Fri, 9pm and Sat, 10:15pm: California Cowboyws. Fremont.

STEPHENSGREEN Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

SAM’SBBQ Wed, 6pm: Country Classics. Tue, 6pm: Leftover Crow. San Jose.

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Live country music with Cowboy Larry. Willow Glen.

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Dec 2 Population 5 Atrium (All Ages) Dec 3 Vital SC Zeds Dead (Ages 16+) Dec 4 Elvin Bishop (Ages 21+) Dec 4 Candye Kane Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 5 The Vandals Atrium (Ages 16+) Dec 7 Rasta Cruz Reggae Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 10 & 11 The Expendables (Ages 16+) Dec 17 Los Lobos (Ages 21+) Dec 31 SambaDá (Ages 21+) Jan 7 Willie Nelson (Ages 21+) Jan 8 Vital SC: Diesel Boy (Ages 16+) Jan 28 Railroad Earth (Ages 16+) Feb 8 Badfish a Tribute to Sublime (Ages 16+) Feb 10 Trombone Shorty/Los Amigos Invisibles (Ages 21+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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GALAXY

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

Thu, 9pm-2am: August.

Milpitas.

BLUE BONNET BAR Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.

Wed, 6:30pm: Open Mic. Tue, 7-11pm: Pro Jazz Jam. Redwood City.

BLUE MAX

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BLUE PHEASANT

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

Fri-Sat, 9pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Wed, 9:30pm: Open Mic Night.

Cupertino.

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Wed, 9pm: Thomas. Thu-Fri and Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

Tue, 7pm: Open Mic. San Jose.

Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

BOSWELL’S

Thu, 7pm, and Sat, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Fri, 9pm: Vinnie. Mon, 9pm: Vinnie. Tue, 9pm: August.

Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

HUDDLE

MOUNTAIN CHARLIE’S

Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.

Wed, 8-11pm: Live music, comedy and poetry. Los Gatos.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

KATIE BLOOM’S

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

Tue, 6pm: Open Mic Night. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS SAN JOSE

CAFFE TRIESTE

RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

HOMESTEAD LANES

Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Campbell.

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

KHARTOUM

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. No cover.

Campbell.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

KING OF CLUBS

Wed, 8pm: Open Mic. Willow Glen.

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

Karaoke

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

Thu and Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. No cover. Mountain View.

7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

ALEX’S 49ER INN Nightly except Sun, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.

THE BEARS Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S

DAN BROWN’S

MARIANI’S

Thu and Tue, 9pm-1am: Brian James. Palo Alto.

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.

Wed: Guitar Hero Tournament plus karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

DIVE BAR Wed and Tue, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 27pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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THESADDLERACK Wed, 9pm: DJ Mark. Thu, 9pm: Closed for Thanksgiving. Fri, 9pm: DJ Tony Rangel. Sat, 7pm: DJ Tony Rangel. Fremont.

SANJOSEBAR&GRILL Thu: Thursday Night Live. Fri-Sat: Video Killed the DJ with VJ Vinyl.

Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. San Jose.

STEPHENSGREEN Wed, 10pm: DJ Cesar. Thu: Open on Thanksgiving. Fri, 10pm: DJ Cesar. Sat, 10pm: Peruvian party with DJ MGD. Mountain View.

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MOUNTAINCHARLEY’S Wed, 7pm: House Party. Thu, 7pm: Throwback Thursdays.

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A cherished male belief since antiquity is that the best way to improve an unhappy womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attitude is getting her in the sack. Writings attributed to the legendary medical pioneer Hippocrates circa 400 B.C.E. proposed that hysteria in women was caused by a lack of semen.

Credit for resurrecting this notion in modern times goes to Canadian psychiatrist Philip G. Ney. In a 1986 article Ney noted the following: (1) hormonelike compounds known as prostaglandins have been shown to improve depressed mood; (2) evening primrose oil, a botanical product, facilitates production of prostaglandins; (3) prostaglandins can also be found in semen; and (4) evening primrose oil seemingly caused one depressed, child-abusing woman to cheer up. A down-in-the-dumps woman whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s read this far may reasonably think: I need to get some evening primrose oil. The authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more adventurous interpretation: Regular amounts of seminal plasma may be important in maintaining a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affective health.

Is that a great pickup line or what?

In 2002 Gordon Gallup and colleagues published a study of 293 college women suggesting semen might indeed be a mood brightener. Their basis for this claim: heterosexually active women who never used condoms scored lower on depression (thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a test for thisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a test for everything) than either (a) women who did use condoms or (b) women who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have intercourse at all.

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Compared to staunch condom users, they were twice as likely to suffer from mood disorders (including depression) and eight times likelier to have attempted suicide.

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The question is whether any mood change due to semen is enough to make a difference in humans, considering the wide range of things that contribute to happiness. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suppose youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a straight woman.

Which type of sex partner do you think is going to have a more positive impact on your state of mind: a guy whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thoughtful, takes his time, and uses a condom, or one who climbs aboard bareback, drops his sperm packet, then goes to sleep?

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Stanford Stadium’s capacity is 50,000, and the attendance was more than 6,000 short against Arizona and more than 13,000 short against Washington State for homecoming.

If being ranked No. 6 in the country with a high-octane offense isn’t enough to fill the seats, then what is?

My message to the Bay Area: you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.

Those who have gotten off their couches and cruised up to the Farm have likely been satisfied. The Cardinal have been unbelievable in five home games this year, scoring an average of 47 points and winning four of those games in blowout fashion. Stanford’s one close encounter came against

USC, but Luck led a game-winning scoring drive in the final minutes to send the Stanford faithful home happy. Sunday’s depressing sports performances included the Warriors being spanked by the Lakers, and both the 49ers and the Raiders losing by a combined scored of 56-3.

My suggestion to those who paid big money to watch the 49ers lose 21-0 on Sunday: go to Stanford’s final home game this Saturday and imagine Harbaugh as San Francisco’s coach and Luck as its quarterback. Trust me, it will make you feel better.

Luck, who threw for 235 yards and two touchdowns against Cal, showed why he will be the first quarterback taken in next year’s NFL draft, and Jim Harbaugh showed why he will almost certainly be romanced by several NFL teams. Saturday’s drubbing of the Golden Bears was the culmination of months of Harbaugh nurturing Luck and the Stanford offense, which set a Big Game record with its 48-point explosion.

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Single-family homes on the market in San Jose range in price from $178,000 to $3,950,000, with the average at $660,000. Foreclosures account for 148 homes on the market, and many of these have been listed for some time, so there could be room for negotiating. About one-third of the listings had signiďŹ cant price reductions since Nov. 1.

At the top end of the price range is a striking home at 5752 Country Club Pkwy. in Evergreen, built in 2006.

At 13,100 square feet, this three-story Mediterranean-style home offers seven bedrooms, six baths, a private guest apartment with a kitchen and an entertainment center. The interior is totally old-world, right down to the marble ďŹ&#x201A;ooring. Other noteworthy features are its amazing kitchen, many bay windows, some overlooking Silver Creekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf course and others with nice big valley views, a seven-plus-car garage and a full basement.

At the other end of the price range is a two-bedroom, one-bath, 749-squarefoot home built in 1935 and located on the outskirts of downtown near 24th

Street, at 1064 E. San Antonio St. This property is a short sale thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been on the market for 179 days. The exterior paint is a funky aquamarineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s priced at less than 200 grand, so the buyer will be able to afford a few buckets of paint.

The median-priced home in October was $438,000â&#x20AC;&#x201D;so letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s take a look at what a property at that price point looks like. There are two right now priced at $438,888.

In south/central San Jose, in a 6-yearold development near the fairgrounds, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a 1,620-square-foot home. At 359 Bella Ridge Terrace, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a three-bedroom, three-bath trilevel with a two-car attached garage and a gas-log ďŹ replace. It is a short sale on the market for 212 days.

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In addition to the single-family homes, there are 585 condos and 282 townhouses on the market in San Jose. The bulk of the condos are in downtown/central San Jose and Willow Glen. The townhouses are spread throughout the city. The condos range in price from $89,000 to $1.8 million, with the average at $293,000. The townhouses are priced from $134,900 to $899,900, with the average at $357,150.

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