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Days V iiolence breaks breaaks out at sporting sporting Violence eevents vents but nobody no obody proposes proposes closing a stadium stadium or arena. arena. A triple shooting shooting

Police P olice EEyes yes I’m map erson who lives lives locally locally and d person ha as a family y. I won ’t go downtow wn, has family. won’t downtown, no ot because because of the clubs ecause a not clubs,, but b because off how I’m treated treated b olice and byy the p police pa arking tick et mor ons. parking ticket morons.

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Cops Fight City Hall —and Each Other After receiving an invitation from acting Police Chief CHRIS MOORE to address the troops at a series of shift briefings, Mayor CHUCK REED might have taken it as an opportunity to mend some fences. But according to several cops in attendance, the mayor did little to try and dispel the acrimony from the election season battles over Measures V and W. Instead, in the first meeting, Reed reiterated his judgment that San Jose’s finest were riding a “gravy train.”

Describing the scene when his boss met with the men-and-women-in-blue, JOSE SALCIDO, Reed’s law-enforcement goat roper, understates: “They werent’ happy.

“At a subsequent meeting, Reed offered what JIM UNLAND, the police union veep, describes as a begrudging apology. That didn’t stop Sgt. PAUL FRANCOIS from penning a blistering screed about Reed in the POA’s monthly newsletter, which goes to print Jan. 25. “If there was any doubt before, there isn’t any now: he hates us,” Don’t Francois writes. “He forget hates us and thinks to tip! we’re over compensated good-for-nothings.”

FLY@ Members of the POA METRONEWS. called the mayor COM “defiant,” “arrogant” and “a hypocrite.” City Manager DEBRA FIGONE will have her work cut out for her as referee of the continuing contract negotiations, which will likely end with the police conceding 10 percent in pay and pension reform, or suffering more layoffs. And like any good rumble, the fight isn’t just confined to two parties. January’s POA newsletter also included a nasty message from president GEORGE BEATTIE to former POA leader BOBBY LOPEZ, who is recruiting members to form a new union known as the Fraternal Order of Police.

Under the headline “Notification of Condemnation,” Beattie uses a rather unfortunate analogy: “Do I get into the mud and get dirty with the pigs? Or do

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Suzuki, a longtime local political activist, says the man tried to question

him, but he refused. He says the man told him he would have to instead question his neighbors and coworkers.

“I just said, ‘I don’t want to talk to you,” Suzuki recalls.

Although he never heard from him again, there’s no doubt in Suzuki’s mind that the young dark-suited man was an FBI agent. Suzuki believes the visit was part of an FBI investigation seeking to convict him and other anti-war activists of terrorist activities under the PATRIOT Act. He believes this because on that same day—Sept.

24, 2010—the FBI raided the Chicago and Minneapolis homes of several of his colleagues—activists who’d organized protests at the 2008 Republican National Convention. In those raids, the FBI seized computers, cell phones and documents, and served federal grand jury subpoenas to 14 people.

In other parts of the country that day, at least 20 others were questioned. Last month new subpoenas were served on another group of activists. A total of 23 people have been ordered to appear at a Chicago Grand Jury on Jan. 25.

The search warrants issued by the U.S. District Court on Sept. 23 indicate that the FBI was looking for evidence related to a law prohibiting “material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations.”

Suzuki is named on the search warrants issued to the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee along with others who were subpoenaed.

Suzuki is a 20-year member of San Jose’s Nihonmachi Outreach Committee (NOC), whose mission is “educating the public about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.” In 2008, representing NOC, Suzuki joined a coalition of peace organizations who demonstrated at the September 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn.

A flier promoting the protest, which proclaims “U.S. Out of Iraq Now!,” names Suzuki as the contact and includes his cell phone number.

Big Sweep Following the alleged encounter in his driveway last September, Suzuki says, he was shaken. He soon got wind of the FBI’s activities in Chicago and St. Paul. He says he warned his neighbors, his students and the vice president of his union—the American Federation of Teachers—that the FBI might be calling on them. He also contacted an attorney, Dan Mayfield of San Jose.

C@EB D@JJ@E> Afj\ JXcZ`[f I stand aside and watch them sully themselves?” To think we’re only three weeks into the new year.

Rosen Rocks The Boat Having handily knocked off DOLORES CARR in November’s election, District Attorney JEFF ROSEN has so far delivered on his promise to make changes big and small in his department. In addition to reinstating the Cold Case Unit, Team Rosen is reinvigorating the Government Integrity Unit, a donothing department under Carr, which has been renamed the Public Integrity Unit and put in the

Mayfield is a member of the National Lawyers Guild, a civil rights advocacy group that, along with the ACLU, is closely following this grand jury and the FBI’s activities. He says Patrick Fitzgerald, a high-profile U.S. attorney for northern Illinois, is taking the PATRIOT Act’s definition of “terrorist act” and a change in the definition of “material aid” from a recent Supreme Court case and putting them together to intimidate people and organizations.

“It’s unclear whether Fitzgerald wants to use this to run for higher office but we’ve seen this type of thing before—Rudy Giuliani started out as a U.S. attorney,” Mayfield says, adding: “Isn’t it interesting that Fitzgerald, a politically savvy holdover from the Bush administration, is interested in people who organized demonstrations against the RNC that was held in his backyard?”

On Dec. 2, Suzuki and representatives from the South Bay

hands of JOHN CHASE. Rosen also circulated a memo that bars blanket challenges on judges—a pointed (and entirely symbolic) gesture referencing one of his predecessor’s most controversial ploys. Rosen’s office is also softening its stance on medical marijuana dispensaries. Two weeks ago, DEAN ACKEMANN, one of the lead investigators on the Santa Clara County Special Enforcement Team, said the task force was taking a systematic approach to shutting down every pot club in the county.

The admission was a virtual middle finger to San Jose voters, who decided in November to tax the pot clubs, and to PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO and his colleagues on the City Council, who confirmed the vote in December.

When asked at the time to share his views on such tough talk from one of his investigators, Rosen cryptically stated that there would be soon be some “personnel changes.” And sure enough, last week, Rosen reassigned Ackemann to the DA’s major fraud unit. Proprietors of medical marijuana dispensaries might be able to exhale

Labor Council, American Federation of Teachers, Council on AmericanIslamic Relations and the San Jose Peace Center met with Rep. Mike Honda’s aides. They had Honda send a letter of inquiry to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Honda’s office says it’s still waiting to hear back from Holder.

Mayfield says that since Sept. 24 there’s been a lot of push-back to the FBI’s moves. The National Lawyers Guild, the ACLU and hundreds of labor unions, state and federal legislators, and human rights groups have asked Holder to stop this grand jury. A new national organization, the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, is organizing demonstrations in 20 U.S. cities on Jan. 25.

Suzuki and Mayfield have organized an affiliate, the South Bay Committee Against Political Repression, which is holding teach-ins and a rally on Jan. 25 from 4 to 6 pm at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library at Fourth and San Fernando streets in San Jose.

for the time being, but the clock is still ticking as Rosen consults local law enforcement and federal authorities who continue to view the dispensaries as operating outside the law. BOB COOK, a supervisor for the U.S. Department of Justice’s local drug-enforcement squad, said his office needs no clarification. “I think it’s ridiculous to tax something that’s federally illegal,” Cook said.

“I don’t think they’re going to solve the city’s budget or the state’s budget by taxing marijuana.”

Cook also responded to questions about where the task force gets its funding, insisting that federal grant money that was intended to combat methamphetamine use is not being used. Cook added that the officers working for the multi-agency task force, headed by DANIELLE AYERS, are paid by their respective offices.

As for another investigator offering his or her opinion on the pot-club raids—don’t count on it anytime soon. When asked who would be the best person to contact in the future, Rosen responded quickly: “Me.”

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This flier lists the Twin Cities AntiWar Committee and dozens of other participating organizations including CODEPINK, Veterans for Peace, the War Resisters League and dozens of Midwestern student groups, labor unions and peace centers.

FBI spokeswoman Julie Sohn says that according to Department of Justice policy, the agency cannot confirm or deny any aspect of the investigation, including whether or not Suzuki was tagged for questioning.

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you’re ar you’re arrested rested while car carrying rying a phone mobile pho one on your person, police ar ee to rifle thr ough your text aree fr free through messages, images, and any other files stor stored ed d locally on your phone. police While polic ce cannot fforce orce you to disclose your mobile phone password, passwor d, once o they’ve lawfully taken the phone p off your person, aree fr free crack they ar e to try to cr ee ack the password passwor d by b guessing it or by every entering ev very possible combination brute-force (a brute-f o ce attack). If police or succeed in gaining access your phone, mobile pho one, they may make a information copy of all inf ormation contained device on the dev ice ffor or subsequent examination examinatio on and analysis. analysis Exhaustive cell phone searches searches aren’t exactly today, ar en’t exac ctly commonplace today y, they’ree gr growing moree and more but they’r owing mor more frequent fr equent ass law enforcement enforcement begins to rrealize ealize how h much incriminating information inf ormation n modern smartphones contain. growing tend to con ntain. The rrapidly apidly gr owing already digital fforensics orensics e industry alr eady offers off ers a rrange an nge of tools to law enforcement enf orcement designed ffor or pulling d t off data ff off mobile bil phones, h and d entiree book books entir ks have been written on such topicss as the fforensic orensic analysis iPhone operating of the iPho one oper ating system.

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There are T here ar re ttwo wo different diff ffeerent versions versions off how o how iitt all alll started. started. Feely Feely says says that that back was city manager,, b ack when he w as cit ty manager him ssomeone omeone ssent ent h im a letter letter suggesting suggesting tthe he cconcept, oncept, and an nd then then he he got got the the ball ball

rolling. rolling. Former Former San San n Jose Jose Mayor Mayor Tom Tom McEnery McEnery claims that he h had a pint with Bertie Bertie Ahern,, then theen mayor maayo or of Dublin, Dublin, and an nd together together they they got got the the ball ball rolling. happened, rolling. Regardless Regar e dless of what w happened, many celebrated celebrated local local characters charracters have have many been involved in nvolved ever ever since, sin nce, including been pub owners owners Ray Ray O’Flaherty O’Flaherty and and pub Johnny Hannegan.

Johnny “Looking back bacck on on it, it, it’s it’s been been a huge huge “Looking success,” Feely Feely told told me me that that day day last lasst success, June, adding adding that that it it was was as only only natural naturall June, for a conversation conversation to to emerge emerge between between for Silicon Valley Vaallley and and Ireland.

Irelan and. “We “We had had Silicon the workforce, workforce, and and there there seemed seemed to to the be a rapport rap pport between between Americans Americans and and be the Irish.

Irish. Americans Americans feel feel at at home home in in the Ireland. We We speak speak the same language. language.

Ireland.

And in in Ireland, Irelan nd, you you can can an talk talk to to people people And power real real easy. e y.” eas in seats of power trip, Peter Peter Finnegan Finnegan On that same trip, and H ugh F itzpatrick, ffrom rom tthe he and Hugh Fitzpatrick, Dublin City City Council Council Office Office of of Dublin Reelation ns and R eesearch, International Relations Research, were gracious gracious enough enough to to meet meet me me were in the the Westbury Westbury Hotel Hotel and an nd listen listen to to in my stream-of-consciousness stream-off-consciou usness probes probes my for information information on on the the sister-city sister-city for relationship. Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick showed showed up up relationship. city of San Jose Jose notebook notebook with a city

an nd F innegan n eexpressed xpressed ssupport upport ffor or and Finnegan reinstating a direct direct Aer Aer Lingus Lingus flight flight reinstating to the the San San n Francisco Fran ncisco Bay Bay Area, Area, quite quite a to t daays y. hot topic these days.

Since Aer Aer Lingus Lingus pulled pulled its its direct direct Since SF FO a while ago now, now w, flight to SFO executives in in Silicon Silicon Valley Val alley and and Ireland Irelan nd executives have gone gone out out of of their their way way in in lobbying lobbying have the airline airline to to bring bring a flight flight back. back. The The the eff ffo ort has now n turned into a serious effort grassroots endeavor. endeaavo or. At At the fforefront orefront o grassroots eff ffo o t,, we find John or John Hartnett, Hartnetttt, of that effort, founder and and president president of of the the Irish Irish founder Technology g Leadership Lead dership Group, Group, an an Technology Irish-American assemblagee of senior Irish-American technologyy executives executives committed committed to to technology further cementing cem menting the ties between bettw ween further Silicon V alley and an nd Ireland.

Ireland. He He also also Silicon Valley founded o th he Irish Innovation Innovation C enter founded the Center downto own San Jose.

Jose. in downtown Now, one one doesn’t doesn’t usually usually apply ap pply Now, the term term “grassroots” “grasssroots” to to a faction faacction of of the senior-level corporate corporate eexecutives, xecutives, b ut senior-level but these guys guys aare re rallying rallying the the troops troops to to these get A er L ingus’ aattention. ttention. A ll o ne h as get Aer Lingus’ All one has reaad the group’s group’s Facebook Facebook to do is read page (“Direct (“Direct flight—Ireland flight—Ireland to to page Silicon Valley Val alley NON Stop!!”) to see Silicon acctual CEOs CEOs complaining complaining about ab bout actual delaayys, missed misssed connections connections and screwscrewdelays, veery time t theey need to travel traavel ups eevery they bettw ween California Califfo ornia and Dublin via between Heathrow, Chicago Chicaggo o ewarrk. T hese Heathrow, orr N Newark.

These guys h ave h ad iit. t. T hey w ant a d irect guys have had They want direct flight n ow. Hartnett Hartnett says says they they are are flight now. determineed to get a positive positivve result result determined in 2011.

“We have have received received very very strong strong “We support from from the the Dublin Dublin Airport Airport support Authority, who we met last month,” Authority, Hartnett told told me. me. “They “They showed showed us us Hartnett travel data data that that indicates indicates that that this this travel would be be a successful successful ttravel ravel route route if if would properly managed. m properly ” This yyear ear marks marrks the the 25th 25th This annivveersarry of the San Jose/Dublin Jose/Dublin anniversary sister-city program. program m. Each Eacch year, yearr, the the sister-city lord mayor mayor of of Dublin Dublin brings brings an an lord entire entourage ento ourage to San Jose Jose for fo or entire week during during March.

Marrch. The The week’s week’s a week events include incllude the Spirit of Ireland Ireland events Awarrd, presented presented tto o ssomeone omeone w hose Award, whose acccomplishments have have eexemplified xemplified accomplishments relatio onship between bettw ween San Jose/ Jose/ the relationship Silicon Valley Val alley and Ireland.

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Filipinos stopped him on the street, in the malls and in restaurants, even though the language barrier made some initially hesitant, not wanting to insult a stranger by invoking his stage name.

“They’re like, ‘Can I call you a dirt bag?’” Dirtbag Dan remembers. “I said,

‘Yeah. It’s OK. I am the dirt bag you speak of.’”

Long a part of the South Bay rap scene both as a solo artist and as a member of the Counter Productive collective, the 27-year-old Dirtbag Dan has just released a solo mixtape and will perform at its release party this Thursday at VooDoo Lounge in San Jose.

Perhaps this performance will boost his local profile to go with the international fame he has earned thanks to his dominance in Grind Time, the largest American battle-rap league.

Although battle rap has yet to penetrate the American musical mainstream, the a cappella rhyming competitions have gone viral around the rest of the world, spawning leagues in several countries.

Dirtbag Dan has battled in more of them than any other rapper.

“Without being a bragadocious, I

would say that I am easily top 10 in the world,” Dan says. “I’ve always made it about where I’m from. If you noticed, I scream ‘The ’Zae, baby!’ every time they introduce me—as a tribute to San Jose.”

Anyone who has seen him perform knows that Dirtbag Dan is, in fact, bragadocious. He’s impossible to ignore, having one of the weirdest rap personas.

As his name suggests, he sports a thick scraggily hobo beard—and a loud, overthe-top swagger.

Artfully exaggerating his personal style, Dirtbag Dan comes off in competition as a foul-mouthed, arrogant carnival barker.

He mixes clever jokes with lowbrow insults, and he wins most of the battles in which he competes. His act is purposefully polarizing—people either love him, or they love to hate him.

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ďŹ ve countries countries in which leagues in ďŹ ve heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now ccompeted. ompeted.

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The format format o is simplee enough— ttwo wo MCs take take turns hurling hu urling insults other.. But unli unlike at each other ike traditional battle bat tle rapping, rapping, which is i freestyled, freestyled,

or impr improvised, ovised,, and done o over ver a b beat, eat, Grind T Time imee is a ccappella, appella, and the o know in advanc advancee who MCs get to opponents be.

They’re their opp on nents will b e. The y’re encouraged enc ouraged d to write out their vverses, erses, battle which has allowed a their bat tle rapping to eevolve volve into something moree theat theatrical. mor trical.

“You make “Y Yo ou ma ake a character ffor o or Dirtbag yyourself,” ourselff,” Dir D tbag Dan eexplains. xplains. ““And And A play character. yyou’ve ou’v ’ e gott to t pla lay that th t character h t . The Th successful battle rappers aree the rreal eal suc cesssful bat tle rapp ers ar aree not far off ones whosee characters ar theyy ar are.

You aree rreal, of who the e. Y ou o ar eal, but at time the same ti ime yyou’re ou’re a ccartoon.” artoon.” created that’s Dan has cr eated a character that ’s sparked battle spark ed ccontroversy on ntroversy in the bat tle rap He’s partt st standup world. He ’s par andup ccomedian, omedian, partt gr gregarious par egarrious MC and vvery ery ccocky. ocky. jokes “He tellss dick jok es and ccompares ompares he’s himself to JJesus. esus. If yyou ou ask him, he ’s best thing since sliced bread,” says the h b est thi hiing i sinc i e slic li ed db br ead,” d ” sa ays y Luck Loosh.

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Internet already cluttered The Inte rnet is alr eady clut tered message boards arguing over age b oards ar guing o ver with messa Dan whether D an has earned his celebrity celebrity status not, partt of a long-running st atus or no ot, par hip-hop authenticityy hip -hop cconcern on ncern with authenticit credibility. and cr edibiility. Dan often chimes boards in on thesee b oards and rresponds esponds directly haters.. dir ectly to his fans and his haters With Grind Time W ith aan n iimpressive mpressive G rind T ime eight rrecord ecord off eig ight h wins i to only l ttwo wo losses llosses,, drivee his detractors his victoriess only driv Some off D Dan’s have ccrazier. razzier. S ome o an n’s ttactics acctics h ave been debated heavily, likee the one he b een debate ed hea avily v y, lik battle used in a ba attle in Oakland against Canadian rapper, Shitt. anadian ra C apper, JJack ack Shit tt. t was playing tongue-and“I w as pl laayying this tongue -andüber-American likee I cheek üb err-American thing lik was O’Reilly,” w as Bill O’R Reeillyy,” said Dan. “I ended myy sec second byy sa saying, bee m ond rround ound b aying y , ‘I’ll b hitting screaming hit ting the parking lot scr eaming America!

Fuck Yeah!’”

Americ a! F uck Y eah!’ e ” whole audiencee shouted, The who ole audienc “Fuck “F uck yyeah” eah h” along with him,, which was hoped happen. w as what he h hop ed would happ en. after,, the theyy st started Right after arted up a loud, energetic “USA” ener getic “U USA” chant that lasted over minutes,, something he o ver ttwo wo minutes m didn’t anticipate. didn ’t antic cipate. The chant went long,, it w was on so long as cut out of the YouTube took Y ouTube video o vvideo.. He to ok a lot of flak from people Bay Area fr om p eoplle outside the Ba ay Ar ea thought was favor who thoug ght he w as gaining fa avor from judges byy pla playing fr om the ju udges b ayying on their American pride.. Rapp Rapper Immortal Americ an pride p er Immor tal Technique blog, T echnique e criticized him on his blo g, saying was move sa ayying it w a a cheap mo as ve and he didn’t deserve didn ’t deser rve to win.

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In other words, words, the fans f appreciate appreciate the fact that ther theree ar aree no big ccompanies ompanies b between etween th them hem and the battle rappers.

There’s bat tle rapp ers. Ther e’s nothing to water w ater down the competitions. competitions e . element “The corporate corporate elem ment is Dirtbag rremoved,” emoved,”” Dir tbag Dan n explains. explains.

“The companies companies that run r these battles aree run by bat tles ar by battle battlle rappers. rappers.

Theyy let the people know The people kn now they they are are It’s th people. the people l . It ’s a vvery ery grassroots g grassr oots t situation. That’s That’s important.” imporrtant.”

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“They didn’t get it,” Dan says.

“They didn’t understand. We were from California. Maybe that would be serious in middle America. Here we are so fucking joking. But the fact that I was playing it against him [Shitt] was hilarious. I got the audience to say the punch line with me. I don’t think anyone at that point had ever had 500 people scream the punch line with them.”

The controversy shows why Dirtbag Dan is such a big name in Grind Time. At that point, most of the other battle rappers hadn’t yet figured out how different this new format really is compared to traditional battle rap. But even from his early battles, Dan understood that battle rap is as much a form of melodrama as music. He is skilled at stirring up crowds, letting their oohs and ahhs resonate, and using them to his advantage.

Ground Zero Dirtbag Dan was born in San Jose as Daniel Martinez. He first got onstage when he was 14 years old and saw LSP (Kung Fu Vampire’s old group) perform at Java Stop in San

Jose. At the end of the performance, they invited the audience onstage to freestyle. His friends, knowing he liked to rap, coaxed Dan to try it.

“It was the coolest thing ever. I was like, ‘I am definitely doing this.

This is my thing,’” he recalls.

He got his name years later at 19 when his buddy Mario saw him lying down on the couch in his apartment looking scraggily and unshaven. He said, “You’re a fucking dirtbag, Dan.” The nickname stuck. “You never pick the cool names. People remember Dirtbag Dan because nicknames are designed to stick to people,” he says.

He continued to freestyle or battle rap whenever he could. “When I was a kid, there was no option to record an album. Nobody had studios or shit like that.”

Though he could hold his own, freestyle battle rapping was never a format that he excelled at, but he was never one to turn down the opportunity to rap onstage. He recorded his first solo album, Dirt 4 $ale, in 2003, joining Thunderhut around that time, then Counter Productive a little later.

Eventually, he left Thunderhut

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We’re W e’re not freestyling freestyling off o the top of our heads anymore.” anymore.”

Dirtbag Dir tbag Dan’s Dan’s first battle b tle for bat fo or Grind Time Time was was on Aug. Aug u . 30, 2008, 2008, in Oakland against thee Coroner.

Coroner. This was w as also the first official officiaal Grind Time Time West Coast was W eest C oast battle. battle. Thee event event w as a spontaneous sp ontaneous thing for for o Dan, and he didn’t didn ’t come come with anything an nyyth hing written written ahead of time. time. was battle.

But ““It It w as a tterrible errible b attle. B ut people people liked rreally eally lik ed it. For For somee reason, reason,, it got views, a lot of vie ws,” Dan says. saays ys. second Dan accepted accepted a sec on nd battle battle and seriously, decided to take take it more more seriously y, going in with prepared prepared d material.

“Theree was “Ther was a moment during that battle thing.. th bat tle I realized realized that this his is my my thing I’m good this,” good at this ,” Dan recalls. recalls.

Dan quickly became becamee a major name in Grind Time Time circuit ciircuit and started traveling st arted tra aveling all over over the United United States.

St ates. He went up to Canada Canada on

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C anada. Both of these leagues were were inspired inspir ed by by an earlier Canadian Canadian battle-rap bat tle-rap league called called d Elements, Elements, which began began in 2006.

2006.

Dirtbag Da Dirtbag Dan’s an’s most ccontroversial ontroversial moment came came a when h h he b battled bat tled l d Illusion-Z IllusionZ and a sha shaved aved his b beard eard off right before beffor o e the bat battle. tttle. Sinc Sincee Dir Dirtbag tbag Dan is kno known wn for fo or his facial hair hair,, his opp opponent oneent completely completely chok choked, ed, presumably pr esumablyy pr prepared epared with nothing but beard-related beard-rrelated insults insults..

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Madness,, Dan unleash Madness unleashed hed a fat jok joke: e: Tony likee a got gothic bitch, T oony here’s here’s lik thic bit ch, not hate, hate, because bbecause ecause he breeds brreeds e because when he get sad he cuts himself him mself . . . another slicee of cheesecake. slic cheesecake.

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Then ssmiling miling aand nd sshaking haking h ands. T hen iitt ggoes oes to the judges to ccall all a a winner. wiinner.

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the bat tless seriously y, howe ver. One battles seriously, however. of Dan ’s scariest sccariest moments was was in Dan’s Ha awaii wh here he went up against Hawaii where Ha awaiian native native Osna.

Hawaiian “The y’re a par nited “They’re partt of the U United St ates, butt they’re they’re vvery ery different. diff ffeerent. You You o States, go ther e, and a it feels feels e lik ffeerent there, likee a diff different ccountry. ountry. The T y’re showing me respect respect They’re and listeni ing to what I ha ave to say, saay, listening have but the d don ’t want want me theyy definitely don’t to win. They’re Th hey’re rrooting ooting for fo or their b oy boy hard,” h har d ” Dan d,” D n says. saays y.

He w as taken taken aback when, ffor o or the was last ffew ew lines lin nes during his first round, round, Osna said, “I’m from from Aliamanu, and after this bat b tle, no mat ttter if I win or battle, matter lose ou.” lose,, we alll gonna mob yyou.”

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Dan got the message. messagee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was was Respect the a reminder. reminder. R eespect th he soil. Know wheree youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re wher youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at. You Yo ou ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t at home. home.

So,, I spoke So spoke a little little pigeon. pigeon. I called called myself haole.. They loved m yself a haole They lo ved me over over there. there. But they they let me know in that moment there something there was was som mething to fear. feear. If I was was disrespectful, disrespectful, it would have ass.â&#x20AC;? haave been been my my ass .â&#x20AC;?

In preparing preparing for for o his trip to the Philippines, Philippines, he wanted wanted d to make make sure sure that the people people knew knew he h was was coming coming with respect, though respect, even even thou ugh he was was also coming coming with insults. insullts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do a lot of research, research, c not just on my my opponent opponent but on the t region. region. I try try to let everybody know, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Look, everybody know w, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;L ook, I know about heree to about yyou. ou. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m her o show you you that I know about about yyou,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? ou u,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Dan says. saayys.

To To the people people at Fliptop Flipttop Battles, Batttles t , Dirtbag â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyy ffeel Dirtbag Dan was was a a celebrity. celeb britty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The eel e like byy ccoming out like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m honoring honoring tthem hem b oming o ut and showing respect respect to their league. league.

They Theey in turn show me a lot of respect respect and was and they they ccheer heer for for aall ll my my bars. bars. IItt w as one one of of the the best best audiences audiences Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever ever performed perfo ormed for, for o ,â&#x20AC;? he says. saays y.

Battlee Rap Ever Ev er sinc since ce Dan started started get getting ting rrecognition ecognition n with a ccappella appella battle rapping, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bat tle rapp ping, he â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s used it as an opportunity promote music.. opp ortunitty to pr omote his music To battle T o ccorrespond orrespond o with his bat tle in Philippines, free the Philipp pines, Dan rreleased eleased a fr ee solo mixtape mixtap pe on JJan. an. 1,, the same day battle da ay the bat ttle was was uploaded to YouTube.

Dirtbag Y ouTub o be. Even E en though Ev h h it iitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Dir i tbag b mixtape, Dan mixt ap pe, eeveryone veryone in the Counter crew C ounter Productive Prroductive cr ew is ffeatured eatur e ed prominently. pr ominenttlyy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully, create â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hop efu ullyy, I ccan an use it to cr eate moree inter interest next Counter mor est in the ne xt C ounter Productive project,â&#x20AC;?

Pr oductive pr oject,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? Dan said. mixtape likes The mixt tape includes the lik es of Dirtt Nast Nasty, Andy Milonakis, Milonakis, Dir ty, Madness plentyy more battleand plent more of his new new bat tlefriends. devotes ends. He eeven ven de votes an rapping frie entiree songg to describing his bat battle entir tle rapping eexperiences. xp periences.

Already, 40,000 people have Alr eadyy, 40,0 00 p eople ha ave downloaded presumably manyy of downloade ed it, pr esumably man the same fans faans who have haave made the battle bat tle rap leagues l a viral hit. The leagues can can n organize organize hundreds hundreds of battles channels,, making bat tles into o single channels people it possible possible for for o p eople to easily access access locate aree and lo cate them. The results results ar staggering.

Time st aggering. A Grind T ime video with 20,000â&#x20AC;&#x201C;40,000 views 20,0 00â&#x20AC;&#x201C;40 0,000 vie ws is cconsidered onsidered to be be unpopular. unpopular o . â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;II had had a music music video video that that was was bad b ad ass, ass, and and it it got got 3,000 3,000 views views hustled 3,000 and I hustl led to get those 3,0 00 views. vie ws. I did d one freestyle freestyle battle battle in a ballroom, b allroom, super super spur spur of of the the moment moment with w ith a shitty shitty opponent opponent and and it it gets gets 10,000 views 10,0 00 vie w right off the bat,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? ws says.

Dan sa ayys. viewership This loyalty loyaalty in vie wership is due interactivee in no smalll part part to the interactiv quality.

Dan qualit y. Da n knows that whether theyy lik likee hi him itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the im or not, it â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the rhymes cconnection onnection n they they feel feel e to his rh hymes y style and his st ylle that have haave led fans to makee him a breakout star. mak breakout st ar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s audiencee â&#x20AC;&#x153;It â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the power power that the audienc has,â&#x20AC;? has ,â&#x20AC;? he says. saays y . â&#x20AC;&#x153;They â&#x20AC;&#x153;They get to eexpress xpress battle their ffeelings eelin e ngs about about the bat ttle t right theree on th the ther he YouTube Yo ouTube comments. comments. people stalk I ggot p ple that straight g st eopl alk and battles saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You a out bat ab tles sa aying y , â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Y Yo ou harass me about shouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;vee lost.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; shouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;v lost.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That shit lets yyou ou is.. These know how powerful powerful it is people p eople rreally eallly feel feel e that passionate about and ab out it an nd they they have haave the access access and power us.. p ower to aactually ctually cconverse onverse with us Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re W eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not beyond beyond rreach.â&#x20AC;? each.â&#x20AC;?

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Gargantuan menu features nearly 200 Vietnamese menu options, including smoked duck, sautéed frogs and clay pot catfish. Casual. 10am10pm Mon-Fri, 9am-10pm Sat-Sun. 2549 S. King Rd #A-16.

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CASA VICKY Family-style Mexican. $. Nothing fancy, but a hearty brand of Mexican food wrought from popular family recipes. Breakfast plates and warm sweet pastries in abundant supply. 7am7pm daily. 792 E. Julian St. 408.995.5488.

CASABLANCA’S CAFÉ Middle Eastern. $$. Casablanca’s Cafe is not going to win any awards for atmosphere or restaurant design. But it should win awards for its falafel. In addition to wonderfully creamy hummus, tangy tahini sauce and pickled red cabbage, the falafel deluxe is gilded with strips of baked eggplant, fried cauliflower and fried potatoes.

If you like it spicy, the ribbon of shatta (hot sauce) delivers a blast of chile pepper heat.

10am-9:30pm daily. 1185 Lincoln Ave. 408.993.8636.

CITRUS New American. $$$.

In Santana Row’s chic Hotel Valencia, Citrus peels back the hotel dining myth. Here, diners match their own main dishes with their choice of rub, sauce and side dish. Fun continues in skilled desserts. 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 355 Santana Row. 408.423.5400.

COCOLA French bakery. $.

Cocola is a fine place to while away an afternoon sipping tea and sampling a pear tart with vanilla custard and slivered almonds. For heartier fare, try the gourmet sandwiches. 8am11pm Sun-Tue, 8am-noon WedSat. 333 Santana Row #1045.

408.551.0018.

CONSUELO Mexican. $$.

Good regional Mexican food made with lesser-known ingredients in an attractive, upscale atmosphere. The food is served tapas style and meant to be shared. Fantastic tequila list. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Fri, 11am-11pm Sat, Sun 11am-

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THE COUNTER Hamburgers. $. The Counter takes the quintessential American burger and turns up the Americanness by letting diners choose from dozens of options to build a custom burger. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat and noon-9pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave #1035 (Santana Row), San Jose, 408.423.9200. And 369 California Ave, Palo Alto, 650.321.3900.

CRAWDADDY Cajun. $$.

Crawdaddy specializes in boiled live crawfish flown in from Louisiana. The mud bugs are served steaming in a plastic bag swimming in a buttery, garlic-laced sauce that ranges from mild to ridiculously hot.

3-10pm Mon-Fri and noon10pm Sat-Sun. 779 Story Rd. 408.286.2729.

DEEZI’S CAFÉ Persian. $$.

Deezi is a hearty lamb shank stew and it’s quite good here.

But the soul of menu is the kebabs, and the koobideh kebabs are outstanding. Made from ground beef blended with puréed onions, garlic and various spices, the skewered and grilled meat stick is beautifully grilled and so tender and juice-filled it squirts when you bite down on it. The joojeh (chicken) kebab scores as well.

Try the fresh made dogh (a yogurt drink). 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 11:30am-10pm Sat-Sun. 1312 Saratoga Ave. 408.244.0300.

DIA DE PESCA Mexican. $.

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SVDINING the restaurant specializes in seafood—fish tacos, ceviche, shrimp cocktails and soups.

It’s all good. 10:30am-8:30pm daily. 55 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.3722.

DI DA Vietnamese vegetarian. $. Quick, friendly service and a comprehensive menu, with food that’s simple, low-key and homey. The jackfruit salad is surprisingly fresh, sided with a chile-tamarind sauce. 9am9pm daily. 2597 Senter Rd. 408.998.8826.

DI LAC Vegetarian Asian. $$.

A bite of veggie heaven. The spacious Di Lac serves up an appetizing array of foods all of which are made fresh daily, including the soy milk and tofu.

9am-9pm daily. 1644 E. Capitol Expwy. 408.238.8686.

DYNASTY CHINESE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Chinese $$.

The setting is fit for royalty, and there’s a menu to match: lobster with special sauces, Peking duck, emerald-colored mustard greens, even suckling pig. Or try the more delicate fare: dim sum every lunch.

11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-3pm. 5-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1001 Story Rd, second floor. 408.286.6668

EDNA RAY Chinese. $$. Now in a new location, Edna Ray continues to serves classics of Chinese-American food with the same quantity, familiarity and reasonable prices. You’ll find all three here, and then some. 11:30am-9:30pm daily.

1181 Lincoln Ave. 408.280.7738.

EL HABANERO Cuban and Mexican. $$. The Cuban food is the star here. The food is made from family recipes and has a hearty, homespun appeal.

Ropa vieja is a classic of Cuban cooking and the stewed beef dish is a solid choice here as is the oily but delicious vaca frita is another winner.

Appetizers are strong, too, but skip the disappointing Cuban sandwich. 11am-9pm daily.

Closed Monday. 3132 Williams Rd. 408.557.8914.

EL TULE Mexican. $$. Most of the menu is devoted to Mexican-American standards, but the separate menu of Oaxacan specialties is where

El Tule really shines. The black mole is uncommonly delicious while lesser-known dishes like tlayudas and molotes are also good. 10am-9pm daily. 5440 Thornwood Dr. 408.227.1752.

5-SPOT CHIVAS GRILL $.

Mexican-American diner. The brick-walled 5-Spot is a perfect mix of American food, past and present. The diner still serves classic American diner food as well as Mexican standards.

7am-9pm daily. 869 S. First St. 408.294.4979.

FLOWER FLOUR French bakery. $. Mimi Brown’s flower shop/bakery charms visitors with freshly made to-droolfor pastries, ready-to-go sandwiches and service with a smile. 8am-6pm Mon-Sat, 8am-4pm Sun. 896 Willow St. 408.279.0843.

FOOD TOPIA Chinese and Taiwanese. $. Food Topia serves a great, low priced menu of Taiwanese and Chinese food in atmosphere welcoming to nonChinese. Go for the beef noodle soup, pickle and fish fillet soup and the fried chicken roll. No alcohol served. 1600 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.873.7628.

FRANKIE, JOHNNIE & LUIGI TOO! Family Style Italian. $$.

Traditional Italian-American favorites—spaghetti and pizza—served with plenty of elbow room. Big portions and wholesome family-style service. 11am-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11am-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 5245 Prospect Rd, San Jose. Full Bar. 408.446.9644.

FRATELLO Italian. $$. Bursting with simple flavors, Fratello boasts native Italian dining without affectation. 5-9:30pm Tue-Sun, Fri-Sat 5-10pm, 59pm Sun. 1712 Meridian Ave. 408.269.3801.

FUEL RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Contemporary Vietnamese. $$. Fuel’s menu is more traditional than other modern Vietnamese restaurants but still mixes things up with nonregulation ingredients. Lunch 11am2:30pm Mon-Fri and Sat-Sun. Dinner 5-10pm Mon-Wed, 5-11pm Thu-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 385 S. Winchester Blvd.

408.248.0018.

GIORGIO’S Family-style Italian. $. Simple Italian cooking—the

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rugged kind with Southern Italian leanings, full of robust flavors and tangy tomato sauces. 11:30am-9:30pm MonThu, 11:30am-10:30pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am-10pm Sun. 1445 Foxworthy Ave. 408.264.5781.

GOJO ETHIOPIAN Restaurant Ethiopian. $. Simplicity reigns here; just Ethiopian food—chicken, beef, lamb, vegetarian—and Ethiopian coffee. The flavors taste even better with honey wine. Beer, wine. Noon-9pm Sun-Thu, noon-10pm Fri-Sat, 1261 W. San Carlos St. 408.295.9546.

GOVEA’S Mexican. $. A community hub that serves up wonderfully fresh, oldfashioned Mexican food with no trendy gimmicks. Both the restaurant and the food are wholesome and filling. 10am9pm Mon-Thu, 10am-10pm Sat-Fri, 9am-9pm Sun. 1996 Tully Rd. 408.270.0973.

GREAT WALL Chinese. $$. This strip mall hideaway serves skillfully prepared Chinese dishes in an atmosphere where sandals and T-shirts are the perfect fashion. Beef and black mushrooms, salt and pepper spareribs and cashew chicken earn high marks. 11am-2:30pm, 4:30-9pm Mon-Fri, noon-9pm Sat. 1409 Bird Ave. Take out available. 408.287.1688 or 287.1689.

HABANA CUBA Cuban and Brazilian. $$. A culinary oasis full of good flavors, Habana Cuba exudes cultural delights.

Sensuous foods of the Caribbean and Cuba, long on tomato and peppers, slowroasted meats and earthy black beans. Beer and wine. 11am2pm, 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 4-10pm Fri-Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 238 Race St. 408.998.2822.

THE HAPPY BAMBOO Vegetarian. $. The menu at the Happy Bamboo is almost all vegan and most of it Vietnamese or Asian-inspired.

There’s also a vegetarian tuna salad and, out of nowhere, Hungarian goulash and spaghetti. 11:30am-9pm TueSun. Closed Mon. 1711 Branham Lane. 408.694.0740.

HOSHI Japanese. $$. Hoshi is one Silicon Valley’s standouts for sushi and small plates.

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HUKILAU Hawaiian. $$. Simple, slightly salty, stomach-filling foods with an Asian Pacific attitude. All daily specials come with a scoop of macaroni salad and steamed rice. Skip the quesadilla and nachos and head straight for the ahi poke.

With tropical drinks to match.

11am-1:45pm Tue-Fri, 5-9:30pm Tue-Wed, 5-10:30pm Thu-Sat, 11am-2:30pm Sat-Sun, 5-9pm.

230 Jackson St. 408.279.4888.

HUNAN TASTE. $$. Chinese.

The restaurant continues to pack them in because the food is so good. As the name implies, the restaurant specializes in the fiery, hearty food of China’s Hunan province, making it one of the few restaurants in the Bay Area to do so. 11am2:30pm, 4:30-8:30pm Mon-Sat. 998 N. Fourth St. 408.295.1186.

ISABELLA’S Peruvian. $$.

One of the South Bay’s few outposts of Peruvian food, Isabella’s has much to recommend. Tacu-tacu, a starchy, beany blob enlivened with onions, garlic, oregano and other spices served with a thin steak, is great. Seafood dishes like the ceviche and cau-cau mariscos are also good. Don’t miss the delicious chicha morada, a Peruvian punch made with purple corn, pineapple and apple juice that’s boldly seasoned with cinnamon. 11am-10pm MonThu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat and 2-8pm Sun. 700 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.248.PERU. KAHOO Japanese. $ The people queuing up are ramen aficionados who know a good bowl of ramen when they find one. And they’ve definitely found one here. 11:30am-2pm and 5-10pm Tue-Thu; 11:30am3pm and 4:30-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 4330 Moorpark Ave. 408.255.8244.

KRUNGTHAI. Thai. $$.

Perennial Metro “Best Of” winner, Krungthai has been around since 1988, but still tastes fresh and new. 11am3pm and 5-10pm Mon-Fri and noon-10pm Sat-Sun. 640 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.260.8224.

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KUBOTA Japanese. $$. A beautiful dining room that serves exquisite rice, luscious ribs and decent sushi. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat, 59:30pm Sun. 593 N. Fifth St. 408.279.8440.

KUMAKO Ramen. $.

Japantown now has its missing ingredient—good ramen.

Kumako’s menu is simple, ramen, curry rice and a few appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm and 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 211 E. Jackson St. 408.286.2111.

LAYANG LAYANG Malaysian. $$. Layang Layang shines with clean, fresh flavors and ingredients and offers a great entry into Malaysian food.

Service is fast and friendly, a feat given how harried the waitstaff can be. Wine and beer. Closed Mon. 1480 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.777.8897.

LE PAPILLON Contemporary French. $$$$. From start to finish, a meal at Le Papillon casts a spell on everyone who enters. The feeling is only broken when you walk out the door and abruptly step back into the real world outside. Full bar. Lunch Thu and Fri, dinner nightly. 410 Saratoga Ave. 408.296.3730.

MAGGIANO’S LITTLE Italy Italian. $$. Like a warm Italian embrace, this Santana Row superstar proves a welcome haven for company lunches and congenial dinner parties.

The food is a cut above standard, with roast chicken and veal marsala standing out. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat, noon-10pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave. #1000.

408.423.8973.

MENARA Moroccan. $$$. Since 1977, Menara’s been throwing back the pillows and bellying up to mint tea rituals, b’stilla (pigeon pie) and rabbit tagine.

Full dinners menus include vegetarian option; solid wine list. 6-10pm daily. 41 E. Gish Rd. 408.453.1983.

MT. HAMILTON GRANDVIEW Cowboy Continental. $$$. The Grandview is an old-school roadhouse with a warm atmosphere. Add dishes like surf and turf, rack of lamb chasseur and chicken Cordon Bleu and you’ve got yourself a destination. 5-10:30pm

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Wed-Sun. 94 Mt. Hamilton Rd. 408.251.8909.

MY KHE QUAN HUE $.

Vietnamese. Food from central Vietnam is underrepresented in San Jose and that’s part of what makes this small restaurant such a find. The things to get here are the excellent noodle soups.

9am-9pm every day except Wed. Cash only. 960 Story Rd. 408.920.9603.

THE MYNT Indian. $. The Mynt’s lunch buffet is a Silicon Valley standout, while the sit-down dinner menu has plenty to offer as well. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun, dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 5:30-10pm Fri-Sat. 5210 Prospect Rd. 408.973.9673.

OMOGARI Korean. $. Omogari makes getting to know Korean food easy. The menu includes pictures of many dishes, the service is friendly and the food is consistently good. Try the dae gee bul go gi, spicy marinated pork. Open 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 154 E. Jackson St. 408.280.6588.

ORLO’S New American. $$$.

On the lush grounds of the historic Hayes Mansion, this is one beautiful, luxurious dining room, with menu and excellent service to match. 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. Hayes Conference Center, 200 Edenvale Ave. 408.226.3200.

PASTA POMODORO Italian. $. Exuberant, inexpensive and fast cuisine made to order and served with sparkle. High concept and low costs make Pasta Pomodoro a dream trattoria for lovers of robust Italian flavors. 11am-10pm Mon-Sun. 1205 The Alameda.

408.292.9929.

PIZZA ANTICA UPTOWN Pizza. $$. The stony ovens of Pizza Antica turn out thincrusted designer pies with gourmet toppings in casual environs. Fine pasta and meat dishes also available.

Open daily for lunch and dinner. 11:30am-10pm SunThu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat. 334 Santana Row #1065.

408.557.8373.

PRESIDENT RESTAURANT Mongolian barbecue. $. This

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SVDINING 30 mom-and-pop eatery gears itself toward the common man with the uncommonly large appetite. Thrown into the bargain is a Chinese steamtable buffet. 11am-3pm, 4:309pm daily. 1190 Hillsdale Ave. 408.978.7188.

RAMEN HALU Japanese noodles. $$. Surfer-themed, casual-but-comfy, chef Kumao Arai’s noodle house imports traditional techniques to produce hearty, aromatic bowls stocked with pork-, sea-saltor soy-sauce-flavored broth.

Cash only. Call ahead; hours are irregular. 375-M S. Saratoga Ave. 408.246.3933.

RANGOLI Indian. $. Rangoli spices up the Cambrian area with excellent Indian food. The restaurant is beautiful and its food and service largely match its décor. Lunch buffet 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, dinner 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, brunch noon3pm Sun. 3695 Union Ave. 408.377.2222.

RASA MALAYSIAN Malaysian. $$. Rasa Malaysian is a homey restaurant that offers a number of solid examples of Malaysian food including satay chicken, char tway keow and sambal kangkung. 11am-3pm and 5-9pm Mon-Fri and 11am9pm Sat. 1290 Coleman Ave. 408.980.0668.

REHOBOTH. Ethiopian. $$.

Japantown isn’t all Japanese food. Rehoboth adds spice to the neighborhood with its diverse menu of Ethiopian standards. Carnivores, vegetarians and vegans are all well taken care of. Good coffee, too. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu and 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 665 N. Sixth St. 408.947.1717.

REYHAN. $. Persian. Reyhan restaurant is located in the most unlikely of areas—an industrial strip of Almaden Road in south San Jose. As such, the place is kind of an oasis—an oasis of kebabs.

11am-8pm daily. 1625 Almaden Rd. 408.293.3600.

SELAM. $. Ethiopian and Eritrean. Often it’s the places you have to work to find that turn out to be the good ones.

Selam is tucked away in a mall off Winchester Boulevard,

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10am-10pm daily. 3120 Williams St. 408.984.9600.

SIAM Thai. $$. Siam is a sweet little Thai restaurant between Valley Fair and Santana Row. The menu offers a lineup of Thai standards and crowdpleasing combinations with Americanized names like “cashew lover,” “Thai angry” and “pleasing garlic.”There’s plenty to recommend. 11:30am2:30pm, 5-9pm Tue-Sat. 10pm Fri. 2910 Stevens Creek Blvd.

408.246.0304.

SIENA MEDITERRANEAN BISTRO Mediterranean. $$$.

Tucked into picturesque Willow Glen, this tiny bistro offers big tastes. Entrees such as Moroccan Cornish game hen, venison medallions and seasonal risotto battle for your appetite with a bread pudding dessert. Patio dining available.

1359 Lincoln Ave. 408.271.0837.

SINO RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Modern Chinese. $$$.

Sino is owned by Christopher Yeo, the restaurateur behind Straits. The restaurant offers both traditional Chinese cooking and a few modern riffs. Good dim sum, too. 11am-10pm SunTue, 11am-midnight Wed-Sat. 377 Santana Row. 408.247.8880.

STRAITS RESTAURANT Asian Fusion. $$$. By night it’s a jampacked hipster clubhouse; by day it’s Singaporean chef Chris Yeo’s latest chic fusion venue.

Small plates share the menu with entrees such as the lobster and shrimp pad thai. Outdoor seating is available. 11am-10pm Sun-Wed, 11am-midnight ThuSat. 333 Santana Row #1100.

408.246.6320.

SUSHI BOAT Sushi bar/ Japanese specialties. $. With a décor that is upbeat and sophisticated and sushi that is as dazzling as handmade jewelry, Sushi Boat walks on water! 11am-9:30pm daily. 1600 Saratoga Ave. #119, Westgate Mall. 408.378.4000.

SUSHI FACTORY Sushi bar/ Japanese. $$. It’s all here: sushi, bento box meals and teriyaki and at great prices. 11:30am9:15pm daily. 4632 Meridian Ave. 408.723.2598.

TAIWAN RESTAURANT Chinese. $. For nearly 25 years

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this Willow Glen landmark has served a nonstop stream of Szechuan, Cantonese and Taiwanese specialties. Casual.

Beer, wine. 1306 Lincoln Ave. 11am-3pm, 5-9pm Mon-Sun. 408.289.8800.

THEA Greek and Turkish. $$. While some dishes have a tenuous connection to Turkey and Greece, the pretty restaurant serves a number of standouts like the roasted prawns, octopus salad and excellent moussaka. Full bar.

Open daily for lunch and dinner. 11:30am-3pm, 58:30pm daily. 3090 Olsen Dr. 408.260.1444.

TLAQUEPAQUE NO. 3 Mexican. $. Willow Glen’s Tlaquepaque No. 3 occupies that sweet spot between a taqueria and a more formal sit-down restaurant. And then there are those highly gulpable chavelas. 7am-9pm Mon-Sat. 699 Curtner Ave. 408.448.1230.

THREE FLAMES Continental. $$. A Willow Glen favorite with an enormous menu. Among the best choices are scampi, rack of lamb and pepper steak.

Casual. Full bar. 11am-3:45pm, 4-10pm Mon-Thu. Closed at 11pm Fri-Sat. 1547 Meridian Ave. 408.269.3133.

VIN SANTO Italian $$.

A beautifully simple and low-lit dining room sets the stage for offerings of earthy aromas, bold sauces and well-seasoned market-fresh meats and produce. Extensive wine list plays host nearly as well as the informative servers. 5-10pm Tue-Sat, 58pm Sun. 1346 Lincoln Ave. 408.920.2508.

WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$. Silicon Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the definitive upwardly mobile California pizza. Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian woodfired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas— delicate, light and satisfying.

Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am-9pm Sun-Wed, 11:30am-9:30pm Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 1072 Willow St. 408.971.7080.

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I actually didn’t do the cooking. My friend Jane did. She grew up in a mountain village in Oaxaca where her parents were missionaries.

For our supper, she cooked mole negro from a recipe she got from her mom. Mole is a complex sauce made from dozens of ingredients that’s generally served at weddings and other special occasions. I love it and Jane’s version was superb, thick and rich like melted chocolate, spicy and complex. Served over boiled chicken legs with warm tortillas, it was fantastic.

I think Jane got the idea to make the mole after I showed her my new copy of Diane Kennedy’s Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy (University of Texas; $50). The book is a wonder and clearly the product of a life’s work; it is as much a cookbook as it is a document of history and culinary anthropology.

Kennedy is the Julia Child of Mexican cuisine, and the book is likely to be her last one given she’s over 80 and the amount of time and research she puts into her work. While some of the recipes call for obscure mountain herbs and impossible-to-procure ingredients like flying ants, iguana and wasp nests, there’s are enough recipes that can be reasonably made north of the border. And the photographs are superb.

Anyway, still buzzing from the delicious mole, I ate I set out to see if I could find the ingredients to make it myself. Part of the challenge to making mole is finding the right ingredients. I remembered there’s a little shop on East William Street in downtown San Jose called EL OAXAQUENO that specializes in food from Oaxaca—chiles, herbs and chocolate. Trouble is it was closed the day I went by. And it was closed the next day, too. I Googled the place to see if I could learn any more about, and I read a few posts on Yelp about it. People seemed to love it, but I couldn’t find out if was closed for good or when it planned to reopen. The sign seems to indicate that it is open only on Mondays, but that can’t be right. (Anybody know?).

What caught my eye, though, was the lists of Oaxacan restaurants Yelpers had compiled. I don’t put much stock in Yelp reviews, but the restaurant lists are useful because they sometimes bring new restaurants to my attention. And so that’s how I heard about Tu Mero Mole.

I’m still hoping El Oaxaqueno will open, so I can stock on hardto-find ingredients to make my own mole, but in the meantime I’ve got the excellent version at Tu Mero Mole and dwindling supply of leftovers from the batch Jane made.—Stett Holbrook

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BLACKWOOD ROYALTY Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free

What the Stooges did to the Stones, the Streewalkin’ Cheetahs did to the Stooges. It’s an seminatural history that perhaps proves Devo’s theories of reverse evolution—each band strips the sound of its predecessor down to its most iconic parts, and then blows those up into mythic, amp-rupturing decibels. Blackwood Royalty takes its place somewhere near the end of the line—giant, swinging riffs uncluttered by the psychedelic fuzz of the early ’70s or the faux-punk amateurism of the ’90s. Like the Black Keys, they’re at their best stomping through

a remarkably pure and heavy revisionist history of blues-rock.

Vocalist SteveO (formerly of the Fourfits) can yell through the noise or sound remarkably like Bowie on a ballad. (SP)

JOSHUA REDMAN Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Wed – 7:30pm; $40-$45 When Joshua Redman’s career began in the early ’90s, he generated excitement right off the bat with his energetic yet restrained bop-based saxophone playing. Pat Metheny, Christian McBride, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Yo Yo Ma are just a handful of the musical luminaries he has performed with as a sideman. As a bandleader, his work shows the influence of great tenor saxophone players of the past like Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, but

with an experimental element. For his quintet, James Farm, he throws in splashes of electronic, rock, folk and classical music. He’ll play solo at his show, a chance to step back from the edge—but not too far.

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STAND FIGHT RESIST Caravan Lounge, San Jose Thu – 10pm; free

Stand Fight Resist conveys a message of defiance with a mixture of progressive rock and a heavy, old-school punk sound. Think Descendents’ offshoot All and Black Flag meshed with the Police’s Andy Summers. (BD)

COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY City Lights, San Jose Jan. 20-Feb. 20, Thu – Sat - 8pm, Sun – 2 and or 7pm; $25-$35 The first word in the title of the latest show from City Lights Theater Company is not a typo; it reflects the setting of Jeffrey Hatcher’s drama in 17th-century London. Thomas Gorrebeeck stars as Ned Kynaston, an actor whose success cross-dressing to play female roles is threatened when the king decrees that women can appear onstage. His travails are matched by the ascension of his dresser, Maria (Kate McGrath), who realizes her own performing dreams. (MSG)

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THEM JEANS VooDoo Lounge, San Jose Fri – 9:30pm; $5 Dim Mak is the Chinese “touch of death,” and many martial arts experts don’t believe it really exists.

Fools! The kung fu they seek can be found deep in the heart of Hollywood, where Jason Stewart has made his name as a DJ with “Dim Mak Tuesdays,” warping the dance floor with a genre-splitting wall of sound that twists house into electro into Dirty South rap, and so on. As DJ Them Jeans, Stewart tours the United States and Europe, in between remixing Diddy, Soulja Boy and We Have Band. But knowing that the guy actually has a line of jeans makes the stage name way less cool. (SP)

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PENINSULA SYMPHONY Vienna, “City of My Dreams“concert, Jan 21 at 8pm, San Mateo Performing Perfo Arts Center, Jan 22 at 8pm, Flint Center, Cupertino

BLUEGRASS DUETS Jan 22 at a 8pm, Presbyterian Church of Mountain View

LANG LANG Jan 23 at a 7:30pm, California Theatre, San Jose

VERTAVO STRING QUARTET VE Jan 25 at 6pm, Tateuchi Hall, Community Commun School of Music and Arts, Mountain View

AL JARREAU Jan 29 at 8pm, Campbell Heritage Theatre

BERRY SAKHAROF Jan 29 at 8pm, Memorial Auditorium, Stanford

WILD CHILD Jan 29 at 8pm, Fox Theatre, Redwood City

LUIS MIGUEL Jan 30 at a 8pm, HP Pavilion, San Jose

DAT PHAN, COMIC Feb 1 at 7pm, San Jose Improv Fe

MALO The Avalon, Santa Clara Fri – 8pm; $25/$30 In the pantheon of Latin rock greats, sandwiched somewhere between Carlos Santana and Los Lobos, is Malo. They take up kind of a lot of room, since there have been like three dozen people in the band, but Carlos probably doesn’t mind making space since his brother, guitarist Jorge Santana, is a founding member who still plays with the band today. Their big hit was “Suavecito,” which has been called the Chicano National Anthem. Now celebrating 40 years in the business, Malo will headline this benefit for autism research, along with another trailblazing Latin band, Tierra (the first Latino group to have four songs on the pop charts), as well as El Chicano and Lava. (SP)

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RENNIE HARRIS Memorial Auditorium, Stanford Sat – 3pm, $10-$30; 8pm, $20-$60 If 10 years of crappy hip-hop dance movies like Stomp the Yard, You Got Served and the Step Up trilogy can’t shake Lorenzo “Rennie” Harris’ faith in his art form, nothing can. On the other hand, back when Harris was coming up in Philadelphia in the 1980s, the best mainstream culture could do was Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, so maybe that’s progress. Certainly Harris was instrumental in bringing hip-hop dance from the streets to the stage.

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LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZO Campbell Heritage Theater Sun – 7:30pm; $28.70-$33.70 Fifty years ago, South Africa’s euphoniously named Joseph Shabalala started performing as a choral singer and guitarist; a prophetic dream in 1964 caused

him to start a new group named after his home city of Ladysmith.

“Mambazo” means “ax,” which refers to how this new chorale group performed in what blues musicians call “cutting session” (they were so good in local contests that they were barred from weekly competition). In 1975, the previously secular Shabalala was born again as a Christian.

Thus he turned the whisper-toa-roar force of his choral group to Zulu versions of hymns. Paul Simon was sniffing around looking for a new sound, and that was that. Simon’s Graceland brought LBM to world fame. The prolific group has released 50 albums since 1973 and has been sent to outer space via Saturday Night Live. (RvB)

JEFF DUNHAM Feb 2 at 77:30pm, HP Pavilion, San Jose

MINGUS DYNASTY Feb 2 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford

OZZY OSBOURNE, SLASH Feb 3 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

SOUTH BAY GUITAR SOCIETY Anniversary gala, Feb 4 at 6:30pm, Le Petit Trianon, San Jose

ACROBATS OF CHINA Feb 11 at 7:30pm, Flint Center, Cupertino

LAVAY SMITH Feb 12 at 8pm, Sunnyvale Theatre

THE BARBER OF SEVILLE Opera San Jose, Feb. 12–27, California Theatre, San Jose

SPENCER DAY Feb 13 at 7pm, Montalvo Arts Center

SUPER LOVE JAM Feb 14 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

LINKIN PARK Feb 22 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

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obsessive-compulsive off her meds.

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Because of the way the play is structured, it can be performed in reverse order, which drastically alters the tone. Depending on which evening you see the play, you will get either The Nunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Story, a comedy in the classical sense, in which Margaret and Tor travel forward while Philip and Catherine travel backward in time, or The Ministerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Story, a tragedy, in which Margaret and Tor travel backward.

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Shadowlands Jan. 22–Feb. 6, through Feb. 6; Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto; $30/$32

Mark Kitaoka

Palo Alto Players, sensing a strong new tide of interest in author C.S. Lewis in the wake of the Narnia movies, presents Shadowlands, playwright William Nicholson’s drama about Lewis’ short intense relationship with Joy Davidman Gresham, an American poet many years younger, who fled a bad marriage to pulp author William Lindsay Gresham (Nightmare Alley).

The Saturday opening is preceded by a paid preview show on Friday at 8pm. Regular shows are Thursday– Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2:30pm.

Spencer Day and Special Fair & Unbalanced Valentine Celebration Dinner the best of Second City Sun, Feb 13, 7pm Starting at $30

Hailed by the New York Times as “A Comedy Empire,” Chicago’s Second City has garnered an impressive reputation as the premier training ground for the comedy world’s best and brightest. With a stellar alumni list that includes Bill Murray, John & Jim Belushi, Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Joan Rivers, Chris Farley, Rick In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Montalvo Moranis, John Candy, Bonnie Hunt and many more, this touring company is always is offering an elegant candlelit 3-course daring, original and hilarious. The gourmet dinner prepared by Le Papillon troupe will perform social and political and served in the historic Villa at 5pm! satire in scripted scenes, music and $120 per person for dinner and concert. improvisation. Not-to-be-missed!

Call Le Papillion (408) 296-3730 for the menu and to make your reservations today!

The 39 Steps Jan. 19–Feb. 13; Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts; $24–$79 Patrick Barlow’s remake of John Buchan’s classic 1915 spy novel—and Alfred Hitchcock’s even more classic 1935 spy movie based on the novel—takes a decidedly comic look at the espionage genre, with an unlikely hero being chased hither and yon by mysterious bad guys, his only helpmeet a beautiful dame he meets on a train. This TheatreWorks production previews this Wednesday–Friday at 8pm, and opens Saturday at 8pm.

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

M Production Company Saturday, 7pm; Campbell Heritage Theatre; $20/$22 A wide variety of Bay Area dance troupes will assembly for a benefit Winter Showcase presented

by M Production Company. Performers in all kinds of movement styles are scheduled, including members of Zohar Dance, South Bay Ballets Arts, Dance Connection Palo Alto, Tap Explosion and more. The proceeds go to cancer research.

Joan Marcus

Wed, Feb 23, 7:30pm Starting at $36

Vocalist-songwriter-pianist, Day is an artistic vagabond. He borrows from numerous sources including jazz, musical theater, cabaret, soul, folk, traditional and contemporary pop. His big single TILL YOU COME TO ME hit number one on the Smooth Adult Contemporary radio chart!

Grease Wednesday–Thursday, 7:30pm, Friday, 8pm, Saturday, 2 and 8pm, Sunday, 1 and 6pm; San Jose Center for the Performing Arts; $20–$79 Experience one of the most successful movie musicals live in a Broadway San Jose presentation.

Love birds Danny Zuko and Sandy will take the audience back to Rydell High with all the hits: “You’re the One That I Want,” “We Go Together,” “Hopelessly Devoted to You” and “Summer Nights.”

Danny and Sandy will be played by Matt Nolan and Alyssa Herrera. Staring in the role of DJ “Vince Fountaine” is Eddie Mekka, whose résumé includes Laverne & Shirley and Catch Me If You Can.

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M PRODUCTION CO. WINTER SHOWCASE An annual evening of performances by members of dance studios and dance companies of the Bay Area, including Dance Connection Palo Alto, South Bay Ballet Arts and Zohar Dance. The event raises money for cancer research. Sat, 7pm. $20/$22.

Campbell Heritage Theatre.

WINTER PERFORMANCE With Dancing Sun and Ariel Dance Productions, featuring jazz, tap, ballet and more. Sun, 3:30pm. $18/$20. West Valley College Theater, Saratoga.

Theater COMPLETE FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY City Lights puts on the South Bay premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s drama about a 17th-century English actor who specialized in female roles. ThuSat, 8pm, Sun, 7pm (Jan 30) and 2pm (Feb 6, 13 and 20). Runs Jan 20-Feb 20. $15-$28. City Lights, San Jose.

GREASE The current touring version of the popular musical hits town, presented by Broadway San Jose. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. $20 and up. Runs thru Jan 23. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

ending diverges depending on the night of the performance.

Regular shows: Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sunday, 7pm. Runs thru Feb 5. $12-$28.50. Historic Hoover Theater, San Jose.

PRIVATE EYES A comedy with dramatic overtones by Steven Dietz about love, desire and betrayal.

A Dragon production. Paywhat-you-can preview Thu, 8pm. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm.

Runs thru Feb 13. $16-$25.

Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

SHADOWLANDS A Palo Alto Players production of a drama about author C.S. Lewis. Preview Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Also Sun, 2:30pm.

Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs Jan 21-Feb 6. $21-$30. Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.

SOUTH BAY MUSICAL THEATRE FUNDRAISER An evening of crab and pasta in abundance plus a silent auction and live music with BluesBox Bayou Band, all to benefit the theater. Sat, 6-9pm. $50.

Saratoga Community Center.

THE 39 STEPS A stage adaptation by TheatreWorks of the famous British spy caper. Previews Wed-Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm.

Also this week: Sun, 2 and 7pm and Tue, 7:30pm. Runs thru Feb 13. $27-$42. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

THE ZAHSMAN MURDERS Local author Jim Colgan’s mystery is mounted by Arclight Rep. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm.

Thru Jan 29. $15/$25. WORKS/ San Jose.

Comedy

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Frankie Payne, female private detective, looks for redemption in the middle of an Irish gang clash in Boston. Presented by Pear Avenue Theatre Company.

Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $25/$30. Runs thru Jan 30.

Pear Ave, Mountain View.

Mon, 8pm: Comedy Monday hosted by Dan St. Paul. $10.

Redwood City.

OUROBOROS Renegade Theatre Experiment tells the interlocking stories of two American couples on a nightmarish journey of fate and coincidence in Italy; the play’s

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. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Danny Bevins with Gayla

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SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Unfiltered, with host Butch Escobar. $12. Thu, 8pm: CockyAsians Tour, Bradley Lum and Mark Zhang. $15. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Jay Mohr. $30. San Jose.

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Museums OPENING LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM “Touching Lives.” An exhibit about the lives and contributions of Josephine and Frank Dubeneck, who first lived in Hidden Villa. Jan 20Jun 27. Reception Sun, 2-5pm.

Los Altos.

CONTINUING CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates.” Portraits of Vodoun followers and their shrines in Benin by JeanDominque Burton. Thru Mar 20. “Go Figure!” Figurative paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists.

Ongoing. “Chiaroscuro Woodcuts From 16th-Century Italy.” Thru Feb 27. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm.

Stanford.

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

Thru Apr 30. Also exhibits about the history of Japantown and the lives and contributions of Japanese immigrants in the valley. Thu-Sun, noon-4pm.

San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION

LOS GATOS HISTORY MUSEUM

“Heidi Brueckner.”Thru Feb 20.

“2010 Statewide Watercolor Competition/Exhibition.”Thru Feb 27. “Sweet Obsession.”

Works by Lynn Powers. Thru Feb 27. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm. Thu, 11am-9pm.

Santa Clara.

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

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

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

“The Veil: Visible and Invisible.” A traveling group show of works focusing on the various societal uses of the veil through history. Thru Mar 11. Santa Clara University.

“Scaffolding + Sky.” A new installation by Denicia Gantner in skybridge. Ongoing. “The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention.”

A show of works from the first half of the 20th century drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. Thru Jul 3. “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. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM “Learn to Play Too.” The group show about games and recreation is expanded in a second part. Thru Feb 24.

Tue-Thu, 11am-3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Celebrating Local Artists: The Fifth Anniversary of the McKay Gallery.” A look at the McKay’s collection, including paintings and sketches by ADM Cooper. Thru Mar. In the Pasetta House. “Explore San Jose Parks: Open to the Public

quilts and fiber art. “Yvonne Porcella: Bold Strokes.” A 25year survey. Both shows run thru Jan 30. Tue-Sun, 10am5pm. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES “Cream of the Cloth: Quilts From the Marbaum Collection.” A rich sampling of contemporary

“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.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART

11am-4pm, Wed-Sat, 11am8pm, Sun 11am-3pm. Enter through Printer’s Ink, Palo Alto.

GALLERY SARATOGA “Street Scenes.” Oil paintings by Karina Svalya. Reception Jan 28, 6-8pm. Show runs thru Feb 6.

Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Big Basin Way, Saratoga.

GOOD KARMA VEGAN CAFE “SJSU Color 112: Exploring the Hyperreal.” An exhibit by photography students. Thru Jan 28. San Jose.

KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS A display of 19 works, including the “Galactic Mysteries” series,

by Leah Lubin. SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Stanford.

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“Edge of Nowhere.” A show by First St. Photo Collective. Thru Jan 28. San Jose.

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“Robot Girl.” Works by Christine Benjamin. Thru Jan 28. San Jose.

“From Within, So Without” by Ali Maschke-Messing. Thru Jun 1. “Sculpture on the Grounds: David Middlebrook.”Thru Jun 1.

Saratoga.

DIRIDON STATION “The Way to San Jose.” An overview of transportation history in the valley, sponsored

by Rotary Club of San Jose and History San Jose. Ongoing. San Jose.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA Works in clay by Paul Rubio.

Thru Jan 28. San Jose.

PALO ALTO ART CENTER “The Nature of Entanglement.”

Patrick Dougherty will work on a large environmental site-specific project. There will also be an exhibit of photos of Dougherty’s other works. Thru Jan 28. Palo Alto.

GALLERY HOUSE “Small Works.”Thru Feb 5. Tue,

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Theater Noir THE INGREDIENTS of a noir detective story include betrayal, redemption and a treacherous dame. Paul Braverman’s No Good Deed, now at the Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View, has all of these elements, along with plenty of snappy dialogue and a moody soundtrack that’s as gin-soaked as the play’s heroine. That would be Frankie Payne (Diane Tasca), who was a rising star of the Boston police department. By the time we meet her in 1962, though, she’s sneaking around an alley in the wee hours of the morning, snapping gotcha-shots of an adulterous husband she’s be paid to track. Unbeknownst to her, a skirmish in the Irish gang wars is about to provide her with more-legitimate employment, as well as a chance for us to see why she was such a force on the force.

Caught in the middle is Milt Stafford (Brian O’Connor), the owner of a local trucking Ef >ff[ ;\\[ company that’s being shaken down by one of the gangs. Or so Milt wishes—oddly, his trucks Thursday–Saturday, keep getting hijacked, but no demands for 8pm, Sunday, 2pm, protection money follow. Detective Lynch (Bill C. through Jan. 30 Jones) suspects a mole inside Milt’s company and $15–$20 suggests he hire Frankie, who uncovers the traitor in about 10 seconds. Frankie has the luxury of not Pear Avenue Theatre, being sentimental about anything or anyone, from Mountain View; Milt’s right-hand man, Tom Decker (Lance Fuller), 650.254.1148 to Milt’s sexy secretary, Janine Levesque (Alika Spencer), who takes a whole lot more from Milt than dictation. Frankie suspects everyone. Despite her nonstop drinking, or perhaps because of it, Frankie is also fearless, unimpressed by killers like Joey Baldatello (Bora Koknar), his boss, Sean Kineen (Troy Johnson), or even his boss, Buddy McLean (Paul Braverman). The bad guys in the Michael Champlin–directed play are great fun, especially Johnson, whose Kineen captures that classic mobster oxymoron: killer morality.

Of course, exposing the mole is the easy part, and like any good noir melodrama, this one features numerous plot twists. Naturally, I won’t give any of those away, but I can say that most of the audience I saw the play with was surprised by what unfolded before us. I liked it, particularly Tasca’s boozy slouch, and the way she would interrupt it at times with flashes of smoldering will. At times, though, I wished the turns in the road had come at us a bit more quickly. The voice-over narration that begins both acts caused the play to start slow, twice, and the transitions between scenes sometimes dragged, as did the occasionally stilted interactions between the actors. That said, most movies we would nostalgically describe today as film noir had their snoozy moments, too, so perhaps the sometimes-leisurely pace of the production was a bid for historical accuracy.—Ben Marks

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SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Old Technology.” A retrospective of painting, sculpture and installations by SJSU artist Tony May. Thru Feb 26. Tue-Fri, 10am5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

STANFORD ART SPACES Textile work by Alice Beasley, paintings by James Su and John Sundstrom. Thru Jan 20. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm.

Stanford.

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A reading by the author of “The Lo-Down.”Thu, 7pm. Free.

Borders, Santana Row.

MARY BUFFETT Learn what Warren Buffett knows that you don’t from the author of “Warren Buffett’s Management Secrets.” Fri, 7:30pm. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.

WILLIAM DAVIDOW A discussion about the perils of too much interconnectivity with the author of “Overconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet.” Wed, 7pm. Free.

Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

KIM EDWARDS The author of “The Lake of Dreams” talks about and signs copies of her new novel. Fri, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

CATRIONA MACGREGOR An event to introduce MacGregor’s “Partnering With Nature,” a book about reconnecting with the natural world. Thu, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.

LINDA GRAY SEXTON Sexton introduces her memoir “Half in Love: Surviving the Legacy of Suicide.”Tue, 7pm.

Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

TERRY THEISE A booksigning event with the wine expert and author of “Reading Between the Wines.”

Sat, 2pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

WRITER’S WORKSHOP Helpful advice from Martha Engber, author of “The Wind Thief.” Sat, 2-4pm. $25.

BookSmart, Morgan Hill.

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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER A family show by California Theatre Center. Sat, 11am and 7pm. Thru Jan 29. $11/$12.

Sunnyvale Theater.

TU B’SHEVAT CELEBRATION A family affair with snacks, projects and music by Banana Slug String Band. Thu, 4-6pm.

Free. Addison-Penzak Jewish Community Center, Los Gatos.

*events AWAKENING TO AGING

A signing event for book about growing old. Fri, 6pm. Free.

Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto.

FACES PLUS SKIN SPA Grand-opening event with catering and drinks. Sun, 11am3pm. 351 Saratoga Ave, Santa Clara.

FILOLI CENTER OPEN HOUSE A day for potential volunteers to learn about opportunities at the gardens. Sat, 9:30-11:30am.

Filoli, Woodside. (RSVP at 650.364.8300, ext 300.)

GLOBAL INNOVATION DIALOGUE Maddy Dychtwalk talks about the increasing economic power of women in the global economy. Mon, 5pm. $20.

Benson Center, Santa Clara University.

HOW VIDEO GAMES CAN CHANGE THE WORLD A talk by Jane McGonigal, director of Game Research and Development at the Institute for the Future and author of “Reality Is Broken.”

JEWISH SONGWRITERS OF BROADWAY A sing-along concert to the

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Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Palo Alto.

JOY OF THE NEW YEAR A concert with Vivace Youth Chorus, with selections by Schubert, Mozart, Vivaldi and more. Sun, 4pm. $8/$15.

Campbell United Methodist Church.

RECYCLING Local hockey fans can recycle electronics at event sponsored

by Sims Recycling Solutions and the San Jose Sharks. Sat, 9am1pm. Bring materials to Parking Lot ABC, HP Pavilion, San Jose.

REVERSING THE U.S. INNOVATION DECLINE A Commonwealth Club panel with Sen. Mark Warner and Rob Atkinson of the Info Tech and Innovation Foundation.

Wed, 7pm. $25-$40. Quadrus Conference Center, Menlo Park.

RHODODENDRONS A meeting to discuss cultivation of the favorite flower, featuring Kathy Van Veen. Tue, 7:30pm.

Free. Room 12, Hillview Community Center, Los Altos.

THE STARTUP GAME William Draper talks about the world of venture capital for Commonwealth Club event. Thu, 7pm. $20. Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara.

TALL SHIPS A visit by the topsail ketch “Hawaiian Chieftain” and the brig “Lady Washington” with tours and sailings available.

Starts Jan 21, for two weeks.

(For info, call 800.200.5239.)

Port of Redwood City.

WIKILEAKS TALK A panel discussion sponsored

by ThoughtWorks about WikiLeaks and Internet freedom. Panel includes Daniel Ellsberg and telecom professor Clay Shirky. Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, with buffet dinner. Small charge (register at www.churchillclub .org). Santa Clara Marriott.

WILD CAT ADVENTURE A chance to meet with big cats and learn about the Wild Cat Education and Conservation Fund. Sun, 2pm. $5/$10. Foothill College Appreciation Hall, Los Altos Hills (call 707.874.3176 to reserve tickets).

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Mystery Man THERE HAS been a murder at the Arclight Repertory Theatre. Don’t worry—it isn’t a real killing but a part of the company’s new worldpremiere play, The Zahsman Murders. Written by Jim Colgan and directed by Jenny Hollingworth, this is a theatrical mystery unfolding inside a police station in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., where officers are trying to make sense out of a young woman’s death, as gruesome as anything in The Silence of the Lambs or Se7en but, mercifully, not occurring onstage.

In writing The Zahsman Murders, Jim Colgan says that he “had no lofty goals, no cautionary tale to tell, no moral lesson to teach, no deep meaning purposely buried for critics and commentators to ponder.” His play is simply a whodunit in the classic tradition.

However, it is definitely not a cheesy, mysteryK_\ QX_jdXe dinner-style evening. This is a serious play, Dli[\ij with wonderfully engaging characters, a wellcrafted plot and generally fine acting, even if the An Arclight Repertory Theatre production performers sometimes fumble their lines.

Through Jan. 29, On the case are Sgt. Rick Nixon (Mark Gelineau), $15–$25 Lt. Jerry Deming (Stuart Hall), Dr. Diane Fleming WORKS/San José, 451 (Jenna Gavin) and medical examiner Laura S. First St., San Jose Murphy (Lessa Bouchard). Marc Tabor plays an apparently homeless and mentally ill man who is incarcerated at the station, thrashing about violently in his cell and shouting gibberish. He often repeats the words “Zahsman” and “Well, sport”; the latter expression leads Nixon to mistakenly christen him “Popeye.”

This mysterious character was found at the scene of the crime and is thus the prime suspect. However, the more the investigators mull over the case, the less likely it seems that Popeye is the real culprit. The plot further thickens when another police detective (Andy Shapiro) arrives from out of town, linking the recent murder in Poughkeepsie with a string of similar killings elsewhere. It appears that the murderer is a devious and highly methodical serial killer who will certainly strike again. And what’s worse, anyone could be the killer—even one of the investigators.

Who is Popeye, and how does he fit into all of this? Who, or what, is “Zahsman”? And, most importantly, who is the killer? The audience is challenged to answer these questions, and more than a few are likely to remain unanswered until the very end.—Sean Conwell

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A central idea of Davidow’s is that the Internet played a bigger role in the financial crisis than we realize, and it will continue to create similar situations, because funny things happen when you introduce massive levels of interconnection into a system.

The book deals heavily with recent economic troubles, but surprisingly Davidow began working on it in 2000. “I knew the Internet was doing something,” Davidow tells me in his office in Menlo Park. “And the question was: Why N`cc`Xd was it doing it?” The Internet has enabled the world to ;Xm`[fn become massively interconnected. Any bit of data on a computer with an Internet connection can go about Booksigning just about anywhere else in the world, nearly instantly.

Wednesday, This fact has led not just to more communication but Jan. 19, 7pm more interdependence. And this interdependence has Kepler’s, made everyone in the network vulnerable to everyone Menlo Park else’s problems.

That’s a big issue, but according to Davidow, the real kicker is what happens when data flows through the network: you get positive feedback. Positive feedback is when the response to a signal is to produce more of that signal. In a system that consists of a microphone and an amplifier placed too close together, the initial signal of background noise is amplified, picked up and amplified over and over again, until what was initially inaudible rises to an earsplitting screech. In the global financial system, there are significantly more players to pick up and amplify signals, and there are more connections between them. The flow of positive feedback is monumentally more complex and powerful, and the results can, and do, shake up the world—sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.

What you get is a system that is prone to wild success and wild failure.

This book is a warning, but it’s a warning coming from an optimist. “All technology has its negative aspects,” Davidow says. “The key is to figure out how you apply a technology so you get the benefit of it and not . . .”

—then Davidow related to me a story about the dangers of skiing with a Walkman on.

Davidow’s proposed solution to the problems that face our network is fairly simple: thoughtful regulation to prevent crashes. “Is that a radical idea?” Davidow asks me. “We do it with airplanes.”—Neal Soldofsky

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BARNEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S VERSION (R; 132 min.) Paul Giamatti stars as a cranky but strangely appealing curmudgeon in Richard J. Lewisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; adaptation of the Mordecai Richler novel. (Opens Fri at the Guild in Menlo Park.)

THE COMPANY MEN (R; 109 min.) Ben AfďŹ&#x201A;eck, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones cope with downsizing.

NO STRINGS ATTACHED (R; 108 min.) A romcom about a guy and a girl who start in lust and end in love. With Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. (Opens Fri.)

NUREMBERG (Unrated; 80 min.) A reconstruction of Stuart Schulbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1948 ďŹ lm about the Nuremberg trials. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.)

EX-LADY/FRONT PAGE WOMAN (1933/1935) Two early Bette Davis ďŹ lms, neither on DVD. Davisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ďŹ rst name-above-the-title ďŹ lm, ExLady, was a remake of the 1931 Illicit with Barbara Stanwyck. Davis plays a woman whose views on open relationships change once her husband (Gene Raymond) starts putting theory into practice. BILLED WITH Michael Curtizâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Front Page Woman, which has the template for the Lois Lane/Clark Kent dynamic: Davis stars a reporter who has a competitor in the news business (George Brent) who also happens to be her lover. (Plays Jan 20-21 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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river rat Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) has his boatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and his heartâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;requisitioned in service of the king or, more speciďŹ cally, in the service of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;psalm-singing, skitty old maidâ&#x20AC;?: Katharine Hepburn.

The unlikely adventure/romance has aged beautifullyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both leads showing off their specialties (careless man, learning to care; unbending lady, learning to soften).

BILLED WITH The Maltese Falcon, John Hustonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tidy, smart adaptation of Dashiell Hammettâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel about avarice, with Humphrey Bogart as the perfect version of slightly amoral detective Sam Spade. Also stars Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet and Elisha Cook Jr. (Plays Jan 21-23 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

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THE WAY BACK (PG-13; 133 min.) See review on page 46.

Revivals CAT PEOPLE/I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (1942/1943) The Stanford Theatre commences a minifest of ďŹ lms

by Val Lewton, the sophisticated master of 1940s horror. In Cat People, in modern Manhattan, a woman (Simon Simone) dreads that love will make her liable to the curse of her Balkan ancestors. The ďŹ lm uses menacing shadows instead of monster masks and a pioneering audio pop-up, still nicknamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;the busâ&#x20AC;? in this ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honor. What terriďŹ c counterprogramming for Black Swan. BILLED WITH I Walked With a Zombie. In the same vein as Jane Eyre and Jean Rhysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Wide Sargasso Sea, and a credit to both books.

A Canadian nurse (Frances Dee) comes to the Caribbean island of San Sebastian as the caretaker for a woman rendered mindlessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;likely by a zombie curse. Director Jacques Tourneur establishes a mood of retribution, of colonialism poisoning the colonizers. It has nothing to do with â&#x20AC;&#x153;the nativesâ&#x20AC;? infecting the whites; rather, here are chickens come home to roost, as we see in the repeated shots of the Europeansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; totem: the ďŹ gurehead of the ďŹ rst slave ship brought to the island. It is an arrow-riddled San Sebastian,

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now used as a garden fountain and referred to by the islanders as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ti [uncle] Misery.â&#x20AC;? Stars Tom Conway in the Rochester role, calypso singer Sir Lancelot, and the imposing Darby Jones as the mute Carrefour.

(Plays Jan 22-24 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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as Aramis and the talented yet illfated Barbara La Marr as the evil Milady. Also: Felix the Cat warning us all against wretched excess through his example in Felix Woos Whoopee, plus The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), and Harold Lloyd in All Aboard (1917). Judy Rosenberg at the piano. Jan 23, 4pm: A minute to learn, a lifetime to master, the amazing ukulele is red hot once again. In modern cinema the refs are rife: Ryan Gosling plucking out an Ink Spots tune in Blue Valentine, Chris Pontiusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; uke T-shirt in Somewhere.

How did a teeny Portuguese guitarroid become the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s noisemaker? The documentary Mighty Uke discusses this comeback story. (Plays Jan 23-24 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

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Noir Notions THE ANNUAL Noir City Festival in San Francisco reminds us how many gems of the Hollywood system remain, frustratingly, unavailable on DVD. The dedicated members of the Film Noir Foundation keep ďŹ nding, restoring and returning to the big screen features that otherwise might slide into undeserved obscurity. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10-day (Jan. 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;30) festival encompasses two dozen ďŹ lms at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco.

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THEY WONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T BELIEVE ME (1947; Jan. 22, 7:30pm): An unlikely Robert Young (Father Knows Best) stars as a weak-willed, greedy bounder who marries for money, cheats for sex and ďŹ nally faces murder charges for both. The intricate plot has Young dumping one girlfriend, moving across country, embezzling from his clinging wife, running oďŹ&#x20AC; to Tahoe with another ďŹ&#x201A;oozy (his saucy, party-girl secretary, played by a live-wire Susan Hayward), escaping a ďŹ&#x201A;aming car crash and then partying through the Caribbean trying to forget.

The ending comes with a cool twist, but the real fun is seeing Young bantering with the equally amoral Hayward over a giant snifter full of martinis.

THE DARK MIRROR (1946; Jan. 25, 7:30pm): Olivia de Havilland plays identical twinsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one meek, one malevolent. When a prominent doctor is murdered, one of them must be

guilty but no jury will convict because who can tell them apart? Not somewhat hapless psychiatrist Lew Ayres, who is pretty sure heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s falling in love with the good twin, nor dogged police detective Thomas Mitchell.

De Havilland does a superb job both diďŹ&#x20AC;erentiating and melding her two characters.

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Double billed with another Ryan feature, the very moody WOMAN ON THE BEACH (1947; 7:30pm), in which he plays a troubled Navy lieutenant who encounters a strange woman (Joan Bennett) and her older, domineering husband, a blind artist (Charles Bickford). Not exactly a noir proper, but a signiďŹ cant (if disastrously recut by the studio) example of French director Jean Renoirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brief period of exile in Hollywood. Ă&#x2020;Michael S. Gant

(PG-13; 118 min.) A comedy about adultery among friends stars Vince Vaughn, Kevin James and Jennifer Connelly.

BLACK SWAN (R; 107 min.) Natalie Portman plays Nina, a dancer in New York with an overbearing stage mom, Erica (Barbara Hershey). The director of the ballet company, Thomas (Vincent Cassel), is exasperated by Ninaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s virginal approach to the dance. With the challenge comes worse news.

First, the arrival of a new young dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis). Second, the jettisoning of the former diva, Beth (Winona Ryder). Trapped among rival, director and smothering mother, Nina starts to crack. Mirrors go bad, and she hears voices. Self-mutilation has been a part of director Darren Aronofskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work ever since Pi. Aronofsky prepares us for the torture from the beginning, when Nina cracks her toes in the morning, and they sound off like gunshots. In the rehearsal scenes, the camera spins around with the dancers, and we

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hear the scufďŹ ng of feet and the harsh panting of the dancers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all hard, anguish-ridden work. When the music commences, Black Swan ďŹ nally feels like a great movie, simply because the Tchaikovsky would make us believe anything. (RvB)

BLUE VALENTINE (R; 120 min.) Cindy (Michelle Williams) is a nurse married to Dean (Ryan Gosling), a housepainter; the two are seen on their ďŹ rst dates and years later at what may be the end of their marriage. Director Derek Cianfranceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intimate and frighteningly close study of the bad side of love has problems: confusing time frames and some bits of info that seem to have been left in the directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head during the harrowingly long pre-production.

What we start to see, thanks to Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; acting, is something bigger than this coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feud. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more like the war of the body and the soul.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too much challenge to the average insipid romcom for this ďŹ lm to be ignored. More than anything, Blue Valentine makes it clear what a terrible thing â&#x20AC;&#x153;romantic destinyâ&#x20AC;? would be if it really existed. As for Williams: she simply gives the single best female performance of the year.

(RvB)

FAIR GAME (PG-13; 108 min.) Doug Limanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s account of the felonious Valerie Plame business is a model of exciting, intelligent espionage lore. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shot with braced but ďŹ&#x201A;uid camerawork.

Naomi Wattsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; performance as Plame is one of the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best. In the short period between the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq invasion, members of the CIA ask the independent consultant Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn) to go to Niger to conďŹ rm conďŹ dential reports of uranium being sent to Saddam Hussein. Wilson quickly discovers there was no such shipment. In a Nixonian attempt to silence a whistleblower, high Bush administration ďŹ gures leak the name

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THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13, 108 min.) Slouchy, mean and oddly unfunny like its star when he’s off his game. Based on a longrunning radio serial (1936–52) and a short-lived 1966 TV show, this film version—a mildewed property more

than a viable idea for a film— is tailored for star Seth Rogen. Rogen’s Britt Reid is a trust-fund case, Paris Hilton with a penis, purposeless until he meets the ingenious Kato (Asian musical phenom Jay Chou). With green screen and stunt doubles, Chou can be made to look as if he could fight. The English language gives Chou a bigger battle, and, worse, there’s the matter of the role as it is framed: Rogen bullies both Chou and the film. As the beard, Cameron Diaz is treated with what could only be described as contempt.

This Green Hornet is heavily into origin story—a kiss of death, during

our superhero glut. From there, the film goes into wanton Blues Brothers–style car wreckage to make up for its lack of purpose. It’s a nonmovie, put together with scenes that explain why there’s a scene where there’s a scene. (RvB)

I LOVE YOU, PHILLIP MORRIS (R; 112 min.) Jim Carrey in the story of Steven Russell, a cop turned con-man whose downfall (or whose stairway to heaven) was his love affair with a fellow prisoner, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). Even when the movie takes swipes at Texas justice and evangelicals, director/writers Glenn

Ficarra and John Requa pussyfoot around the truth: their subject is a kind of sociopath. Despite Steven’s narration (untrustworthy, naturally) the film never gets bigger than a sum of its sometimes amusing incidents.

Call it a het-up, sweet, essentially unsophisticated date movie. Carrey shticks like crazy; McGregor is blond

and lamblike; the love scenes have no heat, no musk, no offhanded tenderness. Obviously, the directors were scared straight. And the two leads dive into the trysts like swimmers leaping into a chilly water, shouting to mask the discomfort.

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of Wilson’s wife, Victoria Plame, to columnist Robert Novak, a move that destroys her career and puts her operations in jeopardy. It’s hard for a film to be all things to all people. Fair Game’s script is less surefooted with the domestic drama than it is with the paranoid/political tale-telling.

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Epic Notions DIRECTOR Peter Weirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last ďŹ lm, 2003â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Master and Commander, was to sea epics what The Lord of the Rings was to sword and sorcery. High adventure tinged with metaphysical overtones is still Weirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a style that holds sway over Australian ďŹ lmmakers; even The Animal Kingdom is inďŹ&#x201A;uenced by this directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early attempts to tell stories with tantalizing passages missing and his methods for ďŹ lming a sun-stricken landscape. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if Weirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Picnic at Hanging Rock had been made last year instead of in 1975.

Weirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest, The Way Back, is an adventure about an escape from one of Stalinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gulags during the 1940s; the prisoners ďŹ&#x201A;ed on foot from Siberia to the Himalayas (and beyond). Weir has been the best director some actors have ever hadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Jim Carrey and Robin Williams among themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Colin Farrell joins the ranks in The Way Back. Getting to play a Russian is a gift to actors, and Farrell is a salty delight as a tattooed criminal who forces his way into the escape attempt.

He revs up the ďŹ lm with an ingratiating accent and hard-bitten mottos: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grateful is for dogs!â&#x20AC;?

The Way Back excels in passages. Just right is the scene in which an imprisoned actor recites Treasure Island to a group

of shaven-headed gangsters. The frost of white whiskers on Ed Harrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chin makes him look like an old but still dangerous lion. When the prisoners are mining coal, amid mechanical roars and belching steam hoses, Weir shows us how to ďŹ lm confusion without making it look confused.

K_\ NXp 9XZb The problem is that The Way Back sometimes PG-13; 133 min. looks like itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s missing Opens Friday, reels, even though the Camera 12, desert part of the ordeal San Jose goes overlong. And the script has lines that come up in high-adventure ďŹ lms so regularly that the audience could prompt the actors. Weir approaches this purportedly true-life memoir as if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all true. (A tipoďŹ&#x20AC; might have been the way the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s author, Slawomir Rawicz, described his encounter with a pair of yetis along the journey.)

(R; 118 min.) Colin Firth gives a deeply affecting portrayal of a shame-wracked man born and bred to be a spokesman, yet who is handicapped with a crippling stammer. In the 1930s, Firth is the Duke of York, a family man with a wife named Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter).

The stammering duke, known to his family as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bertie,â&#x20AC;? is the ofďŹ cial spare to the heir, next in line to the Prince of Wales (a superlatively cast Guy Pearce embodies this Edwardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upper-class shadiness and monstrous entitlement).

The prince is the love slave of a twicemarried American named Simpson; his affair and his indifference to world troubles are pushing events to a constitutional crisis. The man tapped to solve it is Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), an Australian speech therapist tasked with helping the duke ďŹ nd his voice on the eve of Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entry into World War II. Most of the ďŹ lm is an inspired actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s duel about the conďŹ&#x201A;ict between pride and need. Rushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wit and nimbleness counterpoint this story of majesty, which is almost exactly as tragic as it is comic. (RvB)

MADE IN DAGENHAM (R; 113 min.) Sometimes boneless but basically rousing and evocative story of the spring 1968 strike that helped inaugurate the movement for equal pay for women; Sally Hawkins (Happy Go Lucky) soulfully underplays the role of the ringleader of a small group of seamstresses working at the massive Ford plant at Dagenham in England;

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their greivance leads to the stoppage of the entire factory, and brings in intervention from the prime minister.

Bob Hoskins is unexpectedly gentle as a bespectacled union leader. If you like passing on the received idea that Daniel Mays is the next Michael Caine, observe how uncommonly well he handles scenes youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll groan to see (the neglected husband of the female crusader, burning dinner and going without ironed shirts). (RvB)

SEASON OF THE WITCH (PG-13, 95 min.) Nicolas Cage plays a knight named Behmen who with his best pal (living Picasso minotaur Ron Perelman) spent the early 1300s putting his sword through Saracens, before cutting and running from the Crusades. In a citadel town, a dying cardinal (Christopher Lee) asks the knights to haul an imprisoned witch (Claire Foy) to an abbey a weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ride away. She seems like such a nice girl, though, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an element of doubt: what if sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually an innocent victim of superstition? This question (soon solved, unfortunately) isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the point; a few extraneous characters whose fate is quite foreseeable follow the two leads on a trip from the Wormwood Forest to the Abbey of the Zombies. Cage, looking quite well fed, takes the knightly high road; the script is littered with lines like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honor is not to be discarded or forgotten.â&#x20AC;? This ďŹ lm, however ... (RvB)

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architect architect of of the the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sound, sound, Cadent Cadent started sttaarted out as a cover coveer band. baand. They Theey were were covering coveering everything eveerything from from m Pink to Sublime to AC/DC AC C/DC to Incubus, In ncubus, and making making money money doing doing it. it. But But unlike unlike most cover coveer bands, bands, this one o had a longterm plan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was was very very structured, structured,â&#x20AC;? says says Cheri.

Cheri. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was was like, like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going going to to do do cover cover songs songs for this this long, long, then then weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going going to to w rite for write songs.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I was was a always alw wayys writing our own songs. things, and Jonathan Jonathan o alw wayys lyrics and things, always waanted to write songs. songs.â&#x20AC;? wanted year and and a half half ago, ago, the the next next p hase A year phase kicked in, in, with with the the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sound sound not not so so kicked away from from that of Cheriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s C Cheriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s favorite faavorite o far away group, Paramore.

Paramore. Cadent Cadent is is slightly slightly group, heaavvierr, less faux-punk and a more more heavier, straight-up rawk rawk & roll, roll, with with a dark dark straight-up and stormy stormy edge. edge. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sound sound that that suits suits and Cheriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vocals, vocals, which which have have far far more more Cheriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s range and and nuance nuance than than Hayley Hayley Williams Williams range ever e imagined being being able ab ble to sing with. ever For the the record, record, though though there there are are some some For eerily similarities similarities to to Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and and eerily Cheriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories stories (performing (performing when when tthey hey Cheriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s were barely barely into into their their teens teens and and ďŹ nding ďŹ nding were young o their bandmates at a young age), Cheri is not not a fan fan of of how how things things went went down down iin n is that band. wanted a limeelight to herself â&#x20AC;&#x153;She wanted the limelight

from the beginning, beginningg,â&#x20AC;? says saays y Cheri. from th hat certainly certainlyy must be be a relief relief While that to h er bandmates, bandmates, the the early early days days were were to her withou ut their moments of turmoil, not without like a lineup lineup shuffle shuffle that that left left the the band band like scrambling for for enough enough musicians musicians to to scrambling plaay their sets ssets.. play â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were were d esperate, like like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Anyone? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Anyone? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We desperate, We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t don nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x2122; care care if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re you ouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on drugs!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? drugs!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

We rememberss Cheri. remembers Once the the dust dust settled, settled, however, however, the the Once current lineup lineeup was waas in place, place, including current Beachler on on llead, ead, S pencer Roberts Roberts Beachler Spencer on guitar, guitar, bassist bassist Nate Nate Skelton Skelton and and on Keern Sigala. drummer Kern â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all all pretty pretty eeasy asy to to get get along along â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re with,â&#x20AC;? sshe he says. says. Which Which isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t to to say say they they with, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have have some some good good arguments arguments donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t over the the music: music: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do, do, but but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still still over friends.â&#x20AC;? friends. comes to writing the songs, songs, When itt comes Beachler will will usually usually come come up up with with Beachler musical ideas ideeas and bring them to Cheri, musical doesn nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;tt waste waaste any an ny time writing who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fo or them. th hem. lyrics for â&#x20AC;&#x153;As soon soon as as I hear hear his his ideas, ideas, I pretty pretty â&#x20AC;&#x153;As much go go to to town, town,â&#x20AC;? she she says. says. Then Then it it much goes to to the the rest rest of of the the band. band. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We â&#x20AC;&#x153;We start start goes n it, and something happens. happens.â&#x20AC;? working on Cheriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lyrics lyyrics are arre not cheery cheerry stuff, stuff ff,, Cheriâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from tthe he angry angry rebuke rebuke of of an an alcoholic alcoholic from â&#x20AC;&#x153;N Not Nowâ&#x20AC;?

Nowâ&#x20AC;? to the romantic romantic leech in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not tangles of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like â&#x20AC;&#x153; ke Tonight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lik Tonight. o sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s openopentangles â&#x20AC;? But sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ab bout it. minded about â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Anythin y ng can can inspir me,â&#x20AC;? she says. saays y. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything inspiree me, e eople off ff.â&#x20AC;? ffâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mostly p people who piss me off.

While there there was was a little little hesitation hesitation While from aatt least least one one member member of of the the band band from about giving givin ng up lucrative lucrativve cover-band cover er-band about fo or more mo ore difficult to book book original gigs for sets, Cheri Cheri says says the the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pop pop sensibility sensibility sets, appeall to young yo oung audiences audiences have haave and appeal t smooth. made the transition fairly smooth. â&#x20AC;&#x153;W We took took o ourselves ourselvvees out of the scene scene â&#x20AC;&#x153;We and started started writing writing for for a while. while. Once Once we we and started playing playing aagain, gain, it it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hard hard for for started us,â&#x20AC;? she says. saayyss. us, perfo orming for fo or more morre than Despite performing half her her life life already, already, Cheri Cheri says says that that half most of of the the time time sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not not the the extrovert extrovert most people expect. exxpect. people reallly shy, sh hy, even eveen to this day, daayy, yâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? she â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it it just just takes takes the the intro intro to to a song song says. to get me going. g going .â&#x20AC;?

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This Charming Band Friday at Blank Club in San Jose, 9pm; $10 They have the flowers, they have the creepy singerfan caressing, they have a lead singer who sounds so much like Morrissey that I suspect black magic was involved at some point. In any case, this Smiths tribute band is fully trained in Le Moz. (SP)

5606 Friday at the Refuge in Cupertino, 6pm; $10 Hipsters claim to hate Blink 182, but you know they don’t change the station when “What’s My Age Again” comes on the radio. With a gift for sounding sarcastic about partying while at the same time delivering genuine party music, San Jose’s 5606 nails the same funny, goofy punk-pop vibe on top of guitars genetically engineered to deliver 35 percent bigger riffs than ordinary guitars. (SP)

Mark Supial Saturday at Caravan Lounge in San Jose; 10pm; free Maybe the most entertaining thing I’ve seen all month is a whiter-than-white-bread guy in a button-down shirt cover Prince’s “I Wanna Be Your Lover” on YouTube. That would be Mark Supial. And it is awesome. From the dead-on falsetto to the strum of his acoustic guitar, the guy is an unexpected burst of soul. (SP)

Rock/Pop R k/P

Sun: John Rip Off. Drive!

Sun:John Off Mon: Mon:Drive!

Campbell.

ARTBOUTIKI Fri, 6pm: Pantheon, Fights Without Fears Within, Poor Bailey and Bell Thieves. All ages.

San Jose.

AVALON Thu, 8pm: Pat Travers, Lonero, Madman’s Lullaby and Vent. All ages. $15-$20. Fri, 8pm: Autism awareness benefit show with Malo, Tierra, El Chicano and Lava. $25/$30. Santa Clara.

THEBLANKCLUB Wed, 9pm: Blackwood Royalty, Birdhand and Tape Deck Mountain. Free. Fri, 9pm: This Charming Band. Smiths/ Morrissey tribute. $10. Sat, 9pm: Wayne Hancock and Slackjawed Sons of Bitches. $10. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S Thu: Bitchin’ Camaros. Fri: After Party. Sat: Bitchin’ Camaros.

CAPERS Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music.

Campbell.

CARAVAN

BLINKY’SCAN’TSAY Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: 415, rock and blues. Free. Santa Clara.

BRITANNIAARMS ALMADEN Thu, 10pm: After Party. Fri, 10pm: Love Stoned. Sat, 10pm: Groovenugget. San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 6pm: Afton Presents live rock show. All ages. Fri, 9pm: The Retro Rockets. Sat, 6pm: Afton Presents live rock show.

All ages. Cupertino.

CAFFETRIESTE Sat, 8pm: Rock Merritt and August Bullock. Free. San Jose.

Thu: Stand Fight Resist and Some Kind of Nightmare.

Fri: Badenoz and Sporatic Spontaneous. Sat: Mark Supial.

San Jose.

CLUBFOX Thu, 7pm: John Cruz. $16/$18.

Fri, 8pm: Heartbreaker. Led Zeppelin tribute. $18/$20.

Redwood City.

FIREHOUSEBREWERY Sat: Saints and Sinners.

Sunnyvale.

THEGRAPEVINE Thu, 7pm: Hootenanny with Mike Murdock and Sean McGuire. Sat, 7pm: Daemon City Lights and Peter Chung.

San Jose.

HOMESTEADLANES,XBAR Sat, 8pm: Cadent, the Emerald Hill, Please Do Not Fight and

Westwood & Willow. All ages. $5.

Cupertino.

LILLYMAC’S

MURPHY’SLAW Thu: Maneck. Fri: Den Dove Band.

Sat: The Dan Goughs. Sunnyvale.

Wed: Rock. Thu: Latin fusion.

Fri, 9pm: Bachata and rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban and Latin fusions. Tue: Salsa. San Jose.

CASCAL

NETO’SGRILL

Sat, 9pm: James Robinson flamenco guitar. Mountain View.

Fri: Magic Makers. Sat: Cold Storage. Santa Clara.

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NICKELCITY Fri, 6pm: Of the Willows, One New Message, How High the Moon, Clarissa Explains it All, Mental Disorder and Last One Standing. All ages. Sat, 6pm: Otonamous, the Black Tie Prophets, Next Stop Mars, Eyes Like Mine, My Parade, Ipswich and Hysteria. All ages. San Jose.

Sun, 6pm: Traditional Irish music.

Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

MOROCCO’SRESTAURANT Wed, 6pm: Flamenco. Thu, 6pm: Jason Bellenkes Duo. Fri, 6pm: World music and belly dancer Adriana. Sat, 6pm: Fontain’s Muse. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music and belly dancing. Mon: French Music Night. San Jose.

HEDLEYCLUB

J.J.’SBLUESCAFE Wed, 9pm: Blues Angel. Thu, 9pm: Madalyn Rose. Fri, 7pm: Dog House Riley and Vicious Groove. $10. Sun, 9pm: Alvin Draper. Mon, 9pm: Dennis Dove.

Tue. 7pm: Blue J and Liar’s Club.

San Jose.

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

MONTALVOARTSCENTER Wed, 7:30pm: Joshua Redman. $30-$60. Saratoga.

MURPHY’SLAW Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

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PARRANDANIGHTCLUB

Fri, 8pm: Den of Antiquity with Gospel of Fire. $8/$10. Gilroy.

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

Sat, 8pm: Blue Dog. $8/$10.

Gilroy.

RISTORANTEFRATELLO

APERFECTFINISH

NUMBERONEBROADWAY

Fri, 7pm: Claudio. Italian classic guitar and vocals. San Jose.

Fri, 9pm: Dirty Downtown Jazz Duo. Sat, 9pm: Kirk Tamura Jazz Trio. San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: JC Smith Jam Band.

Free. Thu, 9:30pm: Bone Drivers.

Free. Fri, 9:30pm: The Groove Kings. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Touch of Class. $10. Los Gatos.

THEREFUGE Fri, 6pm: 5606, the Relay Company, Assemble the Skyline, Undergone, Pounders and Communist Kayte. All ages.

Cupertino.

SENZALA Fri: Bossa nova at noon, and Capoeira show at 7:30pm.

Sat, 7:30pm: Sambosseros.

Sunnyvale.

STEPHENSGREEN Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

POORHOUSEBISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays Band. Fri, 6-9pm: Steve Willis Band. Sat, 6-9pm: Andy Santana and West Coast Playboys. Sun, 2-6pm: Zydeco Flames. San Jose.

Jazz/Blues

THEQUARTERNOTE

RASPUTINRECORDS Thu, 6pm: Fontain’s M.U.S.E. CDrelease show. Free. Campbell.

ANGELICA’SBISTRO

REDROCKCOFFEECO.

STATION55

Thu, 7pm: Blues jam. Redwood City.

Fri-Sat, 9pm-1am: Live music.

Gilroy.

VOODOOLOUNGE Thu, 9pm: Dirtbag Dan DBD mix tape release. $10 adv. Fri, 9pm: Dim Mak’s Them Jeans. San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO Sun, 5:30pm: Jazz Jam. Cupertino.

CAFFETRIESTE Fri, 8pm: Lyric Theatre. Free.

WILLOWDEN

CLUBFOX

Fri, 6:30-9:30pm: Friday Night Live. Willow Glen.

Wed, 7-11pm: Blues jam. $5. Sat, 8pm: Chris Cain, CD-release show. With Lara Price. $14/$16.

Redwood City.

World

D’VINEJAZZANDWINE AGENDALOUNGE Wed: Salsa night. San Jose.

ALBERTO’S Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Sabados Latinoamericanos. Sun-Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.

Fri, 8pm: Jessica Johnson. Sat, 8pm: Black Olive Jazz. Sun, 1:30pm: Mark Richard Trio.

Morgan Hill.

FAIRMONTHOTEL Wed, 8:30pm: The Girlz Band.

Thu, 8:30pm: Contemporary or Latin jazz. San Jose.

ARYAGLOBALCUISINE

GRANDDELLSALOON

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

Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: Willy Roland. Campbell.

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

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AZÚCARLATINBISTRO MOJITOBAR&LOUNGE

Sat, 9pm: Kenny Neal. Sunnyvale.

Sun, 2-4pm: Hot Club of Palo Alto. Free. Mountain View.

TESSORA’S Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music.

Campbell.

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Sun, 6-9pm: Touch ‘N’ Go. Tue, 6pm: Modesto Briseno Septet.

Willow Glen.

UNWINED Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

WINEAFFAIRS Wed: Michael Medina. Thu: The Blues Barrachos. Sat: Audio Dru. San Jose.

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

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

METROACTIVE.COM BRITANNIAARMS DOWNTOWNSANJOSE Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

POORHOUSEBISTRO

BRITISHBANKERSCLUB

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

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

REDROCKCOFFEECO.

BRIX

Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT

Sun: Mike Leatherman.

Campbell.

Wed, 8pm: Open Mic. Willow Glen.

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

ANGELICA’SBISTRO Fri, 8:30pm: Songwriters evening with Raffy Espiritu, Christina Li and Shawn Evans. $7/$10.

Redwood City.

DANASTREETROASTING COMPANY Sun, 7pm. Houston Jones. $10.

Mountain View.

FIRSTPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

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

Sat, 7pm: Jody Stecher and Kate Brislin, Cliff Perry and Laurel Bliss. Bluegrass. $20. Mountain View.

C&J’SSPORTSBAR

CREEKSIDELOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

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

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

MISSIONCITYCOFFEE ROASTING

ALEX’S49ERINN

DIVEBAR

Sat, 7pm: Richard Gilewitz. Santa Clara.

Nightly except Sun, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed and Tue, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

REDROCKCOFFEEROASTING CO.

THEBEARS

EFFIE’SRESTAURANT

Fri, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

Fri, 8pm: Jenne Sluder. All ages.

Free. Sat, 7pm: Teen open mic night. All ages. Free. Mountain View.

THESADDLERACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Fremont.

SAM’SBBQ Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, 6pm: Windy Hill. San Jose.

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

BENNIGAN’SGRILL Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

ELRANCHOSPORTSBAR BLINKY’SCAN’TSAY

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Santa Clara.

FAHRENHEITULTRALOUNGE

BLUEBONNETBAR

Tue, 9pm: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

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

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

Sunnyvale.

BLUEPHEASANT Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

OpenMic

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BOSWELL’S

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

BRANHAMLOUNGE

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

Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.

GILROYBOWL BOGART’SLOUNGE

MISSIONCITYROASTINGCO.

FLAMESCOFFEESHOP

Thu, 9pm-2am: August. Milpitas.

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

Wed, 9:30pm: Open Mic Night.

Cupertino.

Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.

GALAXY

ANGELICA’SBISTRO

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO

FIREHOUSEGRILL& BREWERY

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.

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

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN

THEGOOSETOWNLOUNGE

Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

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

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO

GOOSELOONEY’S

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

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SISTA MONICA

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HOMESTEAD LANES

LILLY MAC’S

OFFICE BAR

Fri, 9:30pm: Vinnie. Mon, 9pm: Vinnie. Tue, 9pm: August. Cupertino.

Thu: Live DJ and karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.

HUDDLE

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

PEACOCKLOUNGE

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

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL

KATIE BLOOM’S

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

Thu, 9pm: Brian. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Ryan.

Sunnyvale.

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

MARIANI’S

PIONEERSALOON Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall. Woodside.

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

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GEMINI (May 21–June 20): It will w be good week to let your mind go utterly blankk while slouching in front of a TTV V and sipping warm milk, m or to spend hours front covers on your bed as curled up in a ball under the covers ate yourself with guil ty in nsults for for the mistakes you ber berate guilty insults life. NOT! NOT! I’m m kidding! Please you’ve made in your life. don’t you dar t It would be a don’t daree do anything like that. terrible waste of the rrowdy owdy astr o ological terrible astrological omens that are aree some better ideas: are coming to bear on you. Here Here ar Go seek the fir firee on the mountain! mountainn! Create Create a secret secret in the sanctuary! Learn a trick in th the he dark! Find a new emotion in the wilderness! Study Studyy the wisest, wildest people you know so that you, too, tooo, can be wildly wise!

CANCER (June 21-July 21-July 22): This This would be an

a deeply about the excellent week to grieve madly and old love affairs affairs that shattered shattered your yoour heart. I’ve rarely rarely configuration than there astrological configuration there is seen a better astrological now for for purging purging the residual residual anguish angguish from from those old romantic romantic collapses. So I suggest you conduct a formal formal ritual that will provide provide total exorcism exorcism and bring you maximum catharsis. Maybe you could build a shrine containing the photos and objects objeccts that keep a part of you stuck in the past, past and maybe mayybe you could find the bold words words and innovative gestures geestures that will bid goodbye to them forever. forever. Do youu have any intuitions about how to create create a rousing rousing healing healing ceremony? ceremony?

LEO LE O (July 23–Aug. 22): The History Histtory cable TTV V channel

has a rreality eality TTV V show called Ice Road R Truckers Truckers r . It documents the exploits of drivers driverrs who haul heavy lonng distances across loads in their 18-wheelers for for long across frozen frozen rivers and lakes and swamps swam mps in Alaska and northwest Canada.

Canada. They bring supplies suupplies to remote remote outposts where where humans work exotic exxotic jobs like mining diamonds and drilling for for natural natural a gas. If you have any truck-driving skills, Leo, you’d bee a good candidate to apply for for a gig on the show. show. According Accoording to my analysis of the astrological astrological omens, your levels levels of courage courage and adventurousness adventurousness will be at an all-time all-time high in 2011.

May I suggest, though, that you try to make your romps romps in the frontier frontier more more purely purely pleasurable pleasurable than what the ice road road truckers have to endure? endure?

VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Pop Popp chanteuse Katy Katy Perry Perry

singing is rrenowned enowned not only ffor or her sing ging ability but also ffor or appearance. preternatural her physical appear ance. Her pr e eternatur al ability to products sell her musical pr oducts can be attributed in part to lookss and cha charisma.

That’s her sparkling good look arisma. That ’s why it husband, trickster was amusing when her husband d, the trick ster Russell Brand, Br and, TTwittered wittered a rraw aw photo of her that he took as she pillow,, aw awakening from lifted her head off the pillow wakening fr om a night tinyurl.com/RealKaty.) of sleep. (See it at tinyurl.com/R RealKaty.) Without her spectacularly ordinary. make-up, KKaty’s aty’s visage was spec ctacularly or dinary. ugly, accordance astrological Not ugly y, just plain. In accor dance with the astr ological Virgo, urge what Brand omens, Vir go, I ur ge you to do wh hat Russell Br and did: beneath expose the rreality eality that lies bene ath and behind the glamorous yourself anywheree else glamor ous illusion, either in you rself or anywher you find a need.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Whi While le I was gr growing owing up, I regard my analytical analytical mind as a supreme supreme was taught to regard tool for for understanding reality. reality. I’ve I’vve never stopped believing that. However, eventuually realized Howeverr, I eventually realized I had to add the following following corollaries corollaries if I wanted to thrive: 1.

My imagination and intuition are are as essential to my success as my analytical mind; 2.

2 I need to regularly regularly express express my playful, creative creative urges, urgees, and that requires requires

me to sometimess transcend transcend my analytical mind; 3. to maintain my emotional well-being, I have to work e with my dreams, dreams, which occur in a realm realm where where the analytical mind iss not lord lord and king. Does any of this ring true for for you, Libra?

Libra? Now is an excellent time to cultivate of intelligence besides your cultivate other modes m analytical mind.

SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oct (Oct. t. 23–Nov 23–Nov.. 21): If you’re you’re planning on

time spending any tim me hibernating during the next ffew ew would months, this wou uld be an excellent time to do it. YYour our o healthy thy rreaction eaction time is slowing s down, which is a very heal Meanwhile, allergy thing. Meanwhile e, your aller gy to civilization is acting up, p, yyour head is too t full of thoughts g you y don’t don’t need, craves break from sorrows and your heart cr raves a br eak fr om the subtle sor rows life. and trivial tussless of daily lif e. So go find some sweet inside, silence to hide in nside, Scorpio. TTreat reat yourself to a glide through view.. slow-motion glid de thr ough the eternal point of view

SSAGITTARIUS AGITT TARIU A US (Nov (Nov.. 22–Dec. 21): “Dear Rob: All my life life I’ve been passionate about the big picture— picture— learning how thee universe works, works, meditating on why things are are the way waay they are, are, and probing probing the invisible forces forces working behind beehind the scenes. Too Too o often, though, I’m so enamored enamored of these expansive concepts that I neglect to pay en enough myself.. It It’s nough humble attention to myself ’s embarrassing. the infinite, I scrimp on taking embarrassing. Loving Loving o care care of the finite. finite. Any advice?” —Larger —Larger Than Life Life Sagittarian Dear Members Dear Larger: Larger: You’re You’re in in lluck! uck! M embers ooff tthe he SSagittarian agittarian tribe have entered entered a phase when they can make up ffor or their their previous previous neglect neglect ooff llife-nourishing ife-nourishing ddetails. etails. IIn n tthe he coming weeks, interesting weeks, I bet b you’ll find it as fun and inter esting to attend to your own little needs as you normally do to understanding the th he mysteries of the cosmos.

CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): All the most

credible cr edible studies say s that the crime rrate ate is steadily decreasing, three decr easing, and yet y thr ee out of every ffour our people it’s believe it ’s rising. rising. What conclusions can we draw draw from from this curious discrepancy? discrrepancy? Here’s Here’s one: The majority of predisposed towards the population iss pr edisposed towar ds pessimism. In Capricorn, afford my astrological astrological opinion, o Capricorn, you can’t can’t aff ord to be victimized by b this mass psychosis. If you are, are, it probably will interfere interfere withh and pr obably even stunt the good way.. I’m not asking you to be ffortune ortune headed your y way absurdly optimistic. absur dly optimis tic. Just try to rroot oot out any tendencies gloomy.. you might have to t be absurdly absurdly gloomy

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (J(Jan. an. 20–Feb. 18): In the early 20th century, century, many women woomen at the beach covered covered most of their bodies with with swimsuits made of wool. If they went in the water, wateerr, they’d emerge emerge about 20 pounds heavier. heavier. Swimming Swimmin ng was a challenge. Your Yoour current current psychic state hass resemblances resemblances to what you’d feel feel like if you were drenched were wearing w drenched woolen underwear underwear and a drenched clown suit and a drenched drenched woolen w drenched woolen robe. robe. My advice? Take Taake it off; take it all off. off. The astrological astrological omens omens are are clear: Whatever your reasons reasons were were for for being inn this get-up in the first place are are no longer valid.

PISCESS (Feb. 19–March PISCE 19 9–March 20): In comedian Sarah Sarah

Silverman’s memoir, Silverman ’s mem moirr, The Bedwetter: SStories tories of Redemption Pee CCourage, Cour age, Redemp R d ption ti andd P ee e , she h conf confesses fesses that th t she was still wetting wettting her bed at age 19. Depression Depression was a constant companion companion throughout throughout adolescence, and she took a lot loot of Xanax. Yet Yet somehow she grew grew into such a fformidable adultt that she was able to ormiidable adul corral afterword corral God himself himself to write the after word for for her book. How did she sh he manage that? “This is so trite,” she told Publishers Weekly Weeeklyy, “but . . . sex.” I pr predict edict that a comparable comparable reversal revversal of fortune fortune is ahead for for you, Pisces. Some part part of your past will be redeemed, redeemed, quite possibly with thee sexy help of a divine ally. ally.

Homework: LLook o in the mir ook mirror ror and tell yourself an edgy ed dgy but fun truth you’ve never spoken. If you care care to share, share, write T rruthrooster@ @gmail com Truthrooster@gmail.com.

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ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21–April 19): The The age-old question comes up for for review review once again: Which should predominate, predominate, independence or interdependence? in nterdependence? The answer is always different, different, of course, course, depending on the tenor of the time and the phase phase of your evolution.

But in the coming weeks, weeks, at least, leasst, my view is that you should put more more emphasis on o interdependence. interdependence.

I think you’ll reap reap huge benefits from from wholeheartedly blending your energies energies with allies alliees whose power and intelligence match yours.

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Nokia Inc. has the following open position in Sunnyvale, CA: Senior Web UI Software Engineer: Exp. in software design & development, object oriented programming, JavaScript development, & CSS & DHTML & work with LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) on large scale web application development with front-end UI & back-end servers; & other duties/skills required.

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HP Enterprise Services, LLC is accepting resumes for Business Consultant in Mountain View, CA. (Ref. #ESMVBC11).

Provide business domain solution, process, strategy, business case and change consulting at functional and senior management level, on a chargeable basis, which includes industry specific business process and function specific business process.

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Hewlett-Packard Company is accepting resumes for the following positions in Cupertino, CA: Business Operations Manager (Ref. #CUPBOM21).

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This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/3/2011. /s/Manjit Singh This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/03/2011. (pub Metro 1/12, 1/19, 1/26, 2/2/2011)

Publication of Notice of Real Estate Acquisition The Santa Clara County Library Joint Powers Authority will consider the purchase of the following real property at its January 27, 2011 meeting at 1:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard: (1) Approximately 65,340 square feet of property at 1370 Dell Avenue in Campbell from HK Associates, a California L.P. for a price not to exceed $4,500,000; and (2) Approximately 50,965 square feet of property at 1344 Dell Avenue in Campbell from the West Valley Memory Post 99 American Legion, a non-profit corporation for a price not to exceed $1,025,000. (pub Metro 1/5, 1/12, 1/19/11/2011

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su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra guitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales .

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AVIOS: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclaimar las cuofurther warning from the tas y los court.

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I’m glad to hear you’ve never needed to try this, Mario. You know your camping trip really isn’t going well when you find yourself hoping to stave off sepsis with a six-pack of Icehouse.

Let me clarify: when they tell you in med school that something is an urban legend, the takeaway is supposed to be Don’t Do It Schmuck. But not to worry.

When the SD team gets a chance for a little experimentation with alcohol, no way we’re passing it up.

Ethyl alcohol, or ethanol, kills germs by penetrating cell walls, destroying the cellular proteins and enzymes and dehydrating the cells. Getting the right concentration is important, making it potentially tricky to use commercially available beverages for disinfection— their ethanol content ranges from 3 or 4 percent for light beer to 95 percent for grain alcohol. Ethanol’s effectiveness as a disinfectant also fluctuates widely depending on the target microbe, method of administration, and so on.

For example, a 50 percent ethanol solution needs 15 minutes to kill E. coli bacteria and 45 minutes to kill strep in a “cooked-meat broth,” but just 20 seconds to wipe out pneumonia and strep bacteria on a glass thermometer.

Several common bacteria can be killed off in less than two minutes with 70 percent ethanol, and 35 percent will slay some fungi in a minute flat. The stuff also kills many viruses, including HIV. You might suppose the higher the concentration of ethanol, the deadlier the result. Not necessarily. It can take longer to kill strep with 95 percent ethanol than with lower concentrations, possibly because high levels can coagulate the proteins on the outside of the cell, sealing the interior off from greater damage. Some bacteria are resistant to ethanol, notably the genus Clostridium, responsible for botulism, gas gangrene and tetanus. Soaking bacteria that cause gas gangrene in 90 percent ethanol for an hour has almost no effect, and tetanus can survive ethanol exposure for up to 18 hours. It’s been estimated that 100,000 German troops died of gas gangrene during WWI.

Time to head to the lab. To build up a healthy glow of natural bacteria, my assistant Una volunteered to go for two days without bathing or changing clothes. Her fellow assistant Fierra then swabbed four sweaty areas of Una’s body for bacteria. These samples were transferred to agar gel in order to establish Una’s baseline grottiness.

Separate small areas of each region were then washed with distilled water, red wine (12 percent ethanol), blended Scotch whiskey (40 percent) and Everclear (95 percent). A swab was scraped across each washed area and applied to more agar gel, for a total of 20 petri dishes of goodness. All the bacteria were cultured for three days at 76 degrees Fahrenheit. Results: © M@ R JMDDR VDQD BKD@M VHSG NMKX @ single bacterial colony growing from the raw sample and no other colonies showing up after any washing. © DQ RSNL@BG R@LOKDR FQDV ÅÅ BNKNMHDR raw, three when washed with water and none when alcohol was applied. © GD ENNS R@LOKDR RGNVDC Q@MCNL results, with wine washing resulting in the most colonies (18) and the raw sample having the fewest (2). © GD R@LOKDR EQNL SGD FQNHM SGD Q@V sample had more than 200 colonies.

Washing with water resulted in the same number of colonies, but they were smaller. Wine washing resulted in the biggest colonies, even more than in the raw sample. Whiskey, in contrast, cut the number of colonies roughly in half; Everclear cut it down by three-quarters, plus the colonies were small and slow-growing.

Conclusions: 1. Whiskey, the favored antiseptic for wounded cowboys out on the lone prairie, really is reasonably effective.

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