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Smithey! (“3D, (“3D,” Great C over Story, Storyy, Feb. Feb. 2).

2). The The “3D” “3D” that that is is Cover b eing pr esentted to us today todaay is sad. I being presented w aant old-school old-scho ool 3D. 3D. Doesn’t Doesn’t anybody an nyybody want rremember emember when when we we used used to to reach reacch out out aand nd try try to to grab grab fairies fairies and an nd dragons? dragons?

When we used to flinch and dodge W dodgee n othing aatt aall ll be cause o ur eeyes yes ttold old nothing because our uss debris w aas flying right at our fac ces? was faces?

Sm mithey said it p erfeectly by by calling calling this Smithey perfectly la atest gimmick only a hair above above HD H latest te elevision. T odaayy’s 3D isn’t isn’t 3D at al ll; television.

Today’s all; it ’s just 2D-plus.

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I thi tthink nk Steve Steve Palopoli Palopoli does does a lot lot of of great great m usic w riting, b ut h is p romotion o he music writing, but his promotion off tthe Su uzanne V eega Trio (Metr oactivve, JJan. an n n.

Suzanne Vega (Metroactive, 26 6) said that her 19 87 album Solitudee 26) 1987 St tanding ta a brok ke the song “Tom’s “T To om m’s Diner.

Dineer.”

Standing broke A ctually, tthe he b ig h it vversion ersion o hat Actually, big hit off tthat so ong w aas not the a ccappella appella vversion eersion on o song was So olitude St tanding a g.. It It was was the the 1990 1990 dance dance Solitude Standing. rremix emix ccredited redited tto o ““D.N.A. D.N.A. ffeaturing eaturing S uzanne V ega.” It It eended nded u po n tthe he Suzanne Vega. up on

rremixes emixes ccollection ollection album m Tom’s Toom’’s Album Album..

On page 64 of the sa ame issues same issues,, P alopoli’s p romotion o arreau u ssaid aid Palopoli’s promotion off A All JJarreau he w aas pr obably b est kn nown ffor o or the was probably best known Mo onlighting theme. theme. I think think that’s that’s true true Moonlighting only if TV show familiarity familiaaritty trumps other factors Jarreau’s songs s “W We’re factors.. Jarreau’s “We’re in This Love Love T ogether” and “Mornin’” “Mornin n’” Together” wer oarrd pop pop o chart chart hits, hits, weree bigger Billb Billboard an nd I’ve I’ve heard hearrd b oth o hem m uch and both off tthem much m ore o n ccommercial ommerciall rradio, adio, iincluding ncluding more on fr om m aylists y . from myy old KTID pla playlists.

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Butcher B utcher B Boy oy I wou ld like like to to ask ask Mr. Mr. von von Busack Busacck would a question question regarding regarding aan n aarticle rrticle h hee wr ote on Dust gfield (“Dust ty wrote Dustyy Spring Springfield (“Dusty in Memor y,” Music, Music, March Maarch 4, 1999).

1999).

Memory, H mentions a line line ffrom rom aan no ld b lues Hee mentions old blues

song tthat song hat I h have ave be been en llooking ooking for for yyears. ears. It go oes like like this: “I’m not the goes butcher/ I’m m the butcher’s butcher’s son/ son n/ But I ccan an n cchop hop yyour our m meat eat u until ntil tthe he b butcher utcher ccomes. omes.” N Now, ow, iiff h hee ccould ould ttell ell m mee tthe he the possibly name of th he song and p ossibly the performer, p erformer o , I’d II’d be be most grateful. grateful MARK U SCHERER US MARKUS R ichard v on B usack rreplies: eplies: T hanks ffor or Richard von Busack Thanks kkeeping eeping thee memor ry of an old st toorry aliv e. memory story alive.

I be lieve tthat hat tthe he ssong ong iiss ‘‘All All A round believe Around Man’ bbyy Boo C art a teerr.

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FFull ull Court Couurt Press Press DAVI DAVID V D SSATTERFIELD AT TTERFIELD doesn’t doesn’t claim to be DON DRAPER, DRAPER E , but you’d be a mad Mercury cury News man to think the the former former Mer managing editor editor didn’t didn’t help soften the paper’s paper ’s stance staance toward toward Team Team San Jose. Just a week weeek after Team Teeam San Jose signed with Satterfield’s Saatterfield’s public relations relations firm, Sitrick and and Company, Companyy, Satterfield put together a meeting between the financially delinquent delinquent venue operators operators Mercc’ss editorial board—which board—which and the Mer RACHEL included editorial editorrial writer R ACHEL WILNER, WILNER columnist SSCOTT COTT T H HERHOLD ERHOLD and reporter reporter T RACY SEI PEL. A ent rresult esult TRACY SEIPEL. Ass an appar apparent of that meeting meeting ther theree was a recent recent marked shift on o the paper’s paper ’s part: two glowing articles arrticles about Team Team San Jose Jose’s ’s commitm commitment ment to openness and tr ansparency after a months of scathing transparency criticism. City Attorney Attorney RICK RICK DOYLE DO OY YLE was quoted in a subsequent subsequent Seipel article as saying “it ’s a new day” for for Team Teeam “it’s San Jose, whilee Councilmember PETE CCONSTANT ONSTAN NT was quoted loftily asserting his hope h for “a “a renewed renewed for spirit of openness opennness and cooper ation.” Several S Sever al cooperation.”

Don’t days later the forget newspaper lauded lau uded to tip!

TTeam eam San Josee in an editorial for for making making FLY@ ““giant giant strides strides”” to METRONEWS. change oper ations. operations.

COM T included replacing This replacing TTeam eam San Josee CEO DAN FENTON, D AN FENT ON, who w rresigned esigned g in January, CHUCK January y,, with ski s resort resort owner CHU CK TOENISKOETTER, T OENISKOETTEER, as well as a cosmetic rreorganization eorganization of the nonpr ofit’s board. board. nonprofit’s But newshound ds want ffacts, acts, not ffaces, aces, newshounds and the disclosure disclossure of Fenton’s Fenton’s $180,000 eexit xit package package is is what what truly truly sated sated the the Mercc. This is a somewhat ironic Mer ironic detail, cconsidering onsidering that that the the much-maligned much-maligned Fenton was thee only person who could sign off on making making the disclosure disclosure public. public IInn an an effort effort to to continue continue striking striking while while the the iiron ron is is hot, hot, Satterfield Satterfield and and Team Team San San Jose Jose Valley a also recently recently met m with the Silicon Valley Could another another change change Business Journal Journnal. Could of editorial heart heaart be forthcoming? forthcoming? Fly’s aavailable vailable for for lunch lunch next week.

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Laird d went w on that h yyear ear to b become ecome o one of thee first op openly gay enly ga ay mayors maayorss in the country unttry and to launch a p political olitiical career thee particulars particulars of which ar aree well known now wn in these par parts: ts: as C Cabrillo abrillo Collegee Trustee; T as assemblymem assemblymember mber with an n app aappointment ointment as chairman n of the budget dgeet ccommittee; ommittee; as a ccandidate andid date

ffor o or the state state Senate se seat at rrepresenting epresenting the C Central entral C Coast oast and d par parts ts of Silic Silicon on Valley; now,, in a lleap from V aalley; and now eap fr om the legislative legislativ g e to the eexecutive xecu utive branch,, secretary Resources as secr etary of the Natural Nattural R eesources A gencyy. ““And A And now I’m m sit ting her Agency. sitting heree with industrial solar pr p ojects on m projects myy plate 28 yyears ears later later,” ,” hee says. saayys.

The journey journey from from obscure o obscur e solar member California’s ccommission ommission memb er to C aliffo ornia’’s administrattor has gr great eat chief solar administrator dramatic fullfull-circle circle ap appeal, ppeal, but there’s ther e’s not much timee to sa savor avor it.

L aird, who as a legislat tor had a st aff Laird, legislator staff a dozen, now off perhaps perhaps h d no ow heads h d an 17,800 employees. agency with 17 ,800 em mployees.

U nder the agency’s agency’s ae gis ar Under aegis aree eight depar tments (includin ng Water departments (including R eesources and F ish an nd Game), 16 Resources Fish and b oards and ccommissions ommissio ons (among boards them the Energy Energy Commission Com mmission oastal C omm mission), 10 and the C Coastal Commission),

cconservancies onservancies and ttwo wo councils. councils. L Laird aird has a seat on o each of them, so he has t know to k th the h issues he iissues..

Hee aalso H lso h has as tto ok know now tthe he ggovernor’s overnor’s position on p osition o n tthose hose iissues. ssues. ““One One tthing hing iiss I n now ow sspeak peak o on nb behalf ehalf o off tthe he hee ssays. no aadministration,” dministration,” h ays. ““I’m I’m n o longer sp speaking eaking just ffor o or m myself, yselff, so I ha ave to b have bee sur suree what I’m doing is tthe he o official fficial aadministration dministrattion p position osition aand nd iiff I sspeak peak o out ut iit’s t’s n not ot b being eing misinterpreted.” misinterpr reted.””

Anotherr challenge is making ssure ure n nothing othing ggoes oes h horribly orribly w wrong rong while he he’s ’s get getting ting up to sp speed. eed. On the da day ay wee sp spoke, oke, 29 da days ayys into his appointment, ointmeent, L Laird app aird had ttaken aken home 10 folders folders o t study the previous to previous night. ““I’m I’m rreading eading aabout bout eextending xtending ccontracts ontracts tto op eople o n aalternative lternattive people on eenergy, nergy, potential potential lawsuits lawsuits on on eenergy nergy big deals off ssites, ites, aand nd tthey’re hey’re b ig d eals aand nd aany ny o tthem hem ccould ould b low u p iiff yyou ou ttake ake a sstep tep blow up in the not right direction,” direction,”” he says. saayys. ““There’s There’s tthe he p otential ssomething omething potential w ill blow blow up up o n you you because because you’re you’re will on don’t have iin n ttransition ransition aand nd d on’t h ave yyour our ssea ea legs ou u’re tr ying to k eep that legs.. So yyou’re trying keep ffrom rom h appening aand nd att tthe he ssame ame happening ttime ime sstart tart m aking ssome ome p rogress o n making progress on long-term issues.” issues.”

The T he issues issues are are extraordinarily extraordinarily

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complex. As complex.

Asked ked to to name name tthree hree of of tthe he aadministration’s dministrattion’s priorities, priorities, Laird Laird mentions m entions the the process process of of taking taking d own tthe he d ams o n tthe he Klamath Klamatth down dams on River habitat Riv er and rrestoring estoring the th he habit at tthere; here; d designating esignatting the the last last M Marine arine Protected Area, P rotected A rea, off off the the North North Coast, C oast, which which means means negotiating negotiatting with trib tribes es in the area areaa who want want access ccontinued ontinued ac cess to traditional traaditional grounds; fishing gr ounds; and coming coming up with plan w ith a p lan to to restore restore the the damaged damaged off tthe Bay while eecology colog y o he B ay Delta Delta w hile aalso lso preserving pr eserving its use as a water water source. source.

This T his llast ast issue issue alone, alone, which which could could affect Santaa Clara County’s aff ffeect Sant Cou unty’s most water iimportant mp or tant w ater resource, resource, is is one one of of tthe he tthorniest horniest problems problems facing facing the the state, st ate, as it pits environmentalists environ nmentalists against farmers and mayors mayors in ma direct, high-profile way.

Laird ad irect, h igh-profile w ay. Lai ird insists the administration’s administrattion’s sciencescienceapproach based appr oach doesn’t doesn’t favor faavor one cconstituency onstituency over over another, another, and and that timing and management manaagement can can achieve achie ve dual goals. goals. fish habitat ““The The rreal eal tthing hing ffor or fi sh h abitat water rrestoration estorattion iiss ccold old w atter ffor or ccertain ertain times of the yyear,” says.

Wet ear,” he sa ays y .W eet yyears ears pose problem off w water p ose llittle ittle p roblem iin n tterms erms o ater supply, adds.. ““And it’s supply y, he adds And if A i it ’s a drier need water yyear ear att tthe he ttime ime yyou ou n eed ccold old w ater habitat, probably don’t ffor or fish habit o at, yyou ou pr o obably don ’t pull much off off.” ff.”

Here on Central Coast, Laird H ere o n tthe he C entral C oast, L aiird ssays ays tthe he aadministration’s dministrattion’s p plans lans w will ill b felt m ost n oticeably iin n llikely ikely p arks bee felt most noticeably parks closur es, which will b ed closures, bee announc announced iin n tthe he n ext ttwo wo w eeks aass p art o next weeks part off Br own’s budget -balanccing pr ogram.

Brown’s budget-balancing program.

In or der to sa ave some $22 $ billion o ver order save over ttwo wo yyears, ears, parks that do on’t pr oduce don’t produce enough rrevenue, evenue, dra aw enough draw visitors or meet ccertain qualifications ertain n qualific ations as historic plac places time-es will ttake a e a time ak o ut. ““In In tthe he C entral C oast, w ith tthe he out.

Central Coast, with o n umber o arks tthey hey h ave, tthere’s here’s n number off p parks have, no w ay the y’re going to ge et out of that,”” way they’re get L aird says. saayys.

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sv 411.com fr from om buying, that that’s ’s not Zynga’s Zyynga’s ffault. aault. If parents par ents are are so terrible terrible at a raising raising their kids that they have no idea iddea what their kids are are spending money ey on, that is also not Zynga’s Zyynga’s ffault. aault.

Facebones I usedd to play Farmville, Farmville but it just gott too boring. boring Click to plant crops. crops. Click to harvest h vest crops. har crops.

Click to plow fields. Same Sam me with Mafia Wars.

Waars. Click to beat someone someeone up. At At least games like SimCity had natural natural disasters you had to deal with. This Thhis is just mouse clicks. clickks.

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TThat’s hat’s right, right, the the company company behind behind Farmville Farmville is is worth—according worth—according to always-r ational investors—$7 billion n. TTime ime to short the hum ma always-rational billion. human —MAX AX READ, GA GAWKER.COM WKER.COM rrace. ace. —MA jjohne A 7 billion dollar market value simply p y byy irritating irritatingg the shit out of people on FB. I’m going public tomor tomorrow! row!

hippopotamusprime hippopo otamusprime The people who are are truly sketchy here here are are thosee that are are valuing valuinng these companies at massively inflated innflated prices and, what I can only on intentionally, creating assume is inte entionallyy, cr eating a bubble so theyy can get their idiot investorss to toss money att them and pocket their ludicr ludicrous ous ffees. e ees.

ShaunTKennedy ShaunT TKennedy If people lack the impulse impulsse control control to stop themselves

QueenAnne I hadd to delete my Facebook account because beecause I was addicted to the games. In I my def defense, ense, injured and unemployed, unempployed, so I had I was injured endless amounts of timee I could waste crops, clearing cleariing out the tending my crops, frontier, frontierr, dressing dressing up my pet, visiting my friends’ friends’ pets, hiring celebrities celeebrities to visit my nightclub, hunt for for treasure—you t easure—you tr get the picture. picture. rraincoaster aaincoaster YYou oou know kknow, w, last century’s “sketchy” “ssketchy” is this thhis century’s “mainstream.” “m mainstream.” We We may just j as well admit we live in an unabashedd kleptocracy. kleptocracyy.

Why T Why There here W Won’t on’t Be a ‘Twitter ‘T Twitt w err Phone’ When T Twitter witter CEO Dick Dicck Costolo World gave his keynote at Mobile M W orld Congress Barcelona Monday, C Congr ess in i Bar B celona l a Monday M d y, he didn’t intend to launch lau unch a new product. pr oduct. He didn’t come com me to rreveal eveal his money,” finances (Twitter (Twitter is “making “making m moneyy,,” he said, declining to specify s whether it was profit profit or revenue), revenu ue), and he rumors casually denied rumor rs that Google was going to buy the company ffor or $10 billion.

Instead, Costolo camee to explain Twitter brand how he thinks the T witter br and works best: when it’s it’s invisible, and everywhere. everywher e.

In rresponse esponse to a questioner questioner who so-called rreferenced eferenced the so-cal led “Facebook INQ,, and phone” and the INQ a asked if he could ever see a Twitter-branded Tw wittter-branded smartphone, Costolo’ss answer was

short and sweet: No. “Twitter “T Twitter w aalready lready works on every you’re device you u’re going to hear about week,”” Costolo told the this week, audience of o mobile industry elites.

“Tweets “T Tweets w fl seamlessly across flow across platforms; that’s we’re platf orms; that ’ss what we we’r re trying accomplish.” to accomp plish.”

Throughout Thr oughou ut his hour-long address, address, compared Twitter Costolo co ompared T witter to water—a utility so useful and ubiquitous, ubiquitous s, we almost forget forget it’s it’s there. ther e. We We don’t need to relearn relearn how to use it in n different different contexts.

And in thee case of Egypt, where where the countrywide countrywid de protest protest lost access to Twitter T w witter as part of a wider Internet “People blackout, Costolo C said, “P eople in the desertt will always find a way to water.”

(Indeed, water .” (In ndeed, Google and Twitter Twitter provided pr ovided a voice-to-tweet service service that kept protesters p otesters in touch.) pr That’s theree will never, That ’s whyy ther neverr, under Costolo’s leadership, l be such a “Twitter Water thing as a “T witter phone.” W ater need branding. water.. doesn’t ne eed br anding. It’s It’s water Everyone needs n it every day. dayy. It isn’t mobilee ((just Twitter just mobil just 40 percent percent T witter w users use it on a phone, Costelo rrevealed). evealed). It may be bigger than measures. mobile, in some measur es.

So perhaps Costolo, his S op erhaps C ostolo, despite despite h is protestations, new p rotestations, did did llaunch aunch a n ew product today—the pr oduct to oday—the invisible, indispensable company, indispensa able tech company y, one that about birds is less abo out the tweeting of bir ds moree about water.. and mor a the flowing of water —CHRIS T TAYLOR, AYLOR, MA MASHABLE.COM SHABLE.COM

Adi Fur Furca Fu ca Nevertheless, there there are are br branded anded wa waters aters :) ajun519 ajun5 519 If he doesn’t doesn’t jump on a TTwitter witter w mob mobile bile phone the company is going to mi iss the next big thing. Soon miss somebody’ss going to try it, and Twitter Twitter w will be left playing catchup. It It’s ’s the phone that can bring Twitter, Tw witterr, Facebook, Blogger, Bloggerr, Linkedin Linnkedin and other social sittes all on one screen—sort screen—sort of network sites like a Tweetdeck Tweeetdeck but more more seemless. crate cr ate Twitter Tw witter doesn’t doesn’t have the attribute off megalomania that Google and Facebook Faceboook have. Google wants to be the new Microsoft Miicrosoft and Facebook wants to be—som be—some me sort of cul cult. t.

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partnership p and got TechForward TechFor e ward to proprietary give them highly h proprietary data under a confidentiality con nfidentiality agreement. agreement. the And then th he best part. Just six weeks after after the disclosure disclosure of information, inf ormation n, Best Buy ended discussionss and: to the world “Best Buy announced a that it was implementing its own buyback program—called prrogram—called the Buy Back Plan (“BBP”)—which is P virtually identical ideentical to TechForward’s TeechForward’s M@I8C M<E8C@KP M@I8 C M<E8C@KP 8] 8]k\i ]k\i XggXi\ekcp i`gg`e^ f]]] X ]fid\i XggXi\ekcp i`gg`e^ f]] X ]fid\i Ylj`e\jj gXike\ii# 9\j # jk 9lp g`kZ_\[ Ylj`e\jj gXike\i# 9\jk 9lp g`kZ_\[ `kj jkfc\e `[\X n`k_ X X m\ip Zffc `kj jkfc\e `[\X n`k_ X m\ip Zffc Jlg\i 9fnc Zfdd\iZ`Xc jkXii`e^ Jlg\i 9fnc Zfdd\iZ`Xc jkXii`e^ Fqqp FjYfie\ Xe[ Aljjk`e 9`\Y\ii% Fqqp FjYfie\ Xe[ Aljk`e 9`\Y\i%

Best Buy Hoses Hooses TechForward, T eechForwarrd, d Says Sa ys Lawsuit Lawsuit You don’t see total bet You betrayals trayals like this every day. dayy. But if the th he ffacts acts that TechForward T echFor e ward ar aree alleg alleging ing in their lawsuit against Best Buy B are are true, this is some truly sleazy sleazzy stuff. stuff.

Last year, yearr, says the lawsuit, lawsuit, Best Buy and T TechForward echFor e ward engaged e in a trial trial program program of of TechForward’s TechForward’s Guaranteed Plan Guar anteed Buyback P lan in Stores. a number of Best Buy S tores.

Customers C ustomers choose to purchase p chase the pur plan at the time they’re they’re buying a gadget, g adget, like like those those eextended xtended service service warranties. war ranties. If they get the plan, they selling have the option of selli ing the gadget credit back to Best Buy for for store sttore cr edit on a sliding scale. The longer long ger they keep the gadget, the less they theey get back.

For people p p who upgrade upgr pg ad de often,, it mayy be an excellent choice and certainly selling saves the hassle of sel ling something Craigslist eBay. on Cr aigslist or eBay y.

TechForward T eechForward says that the way it important— does the buybacks is im mportant— price, p rice, exercise exercise rates, rates, etc. etc. BestBuy BestBuy allegedly held out the promise p omise of a pr

Guaranteed Guar anteed d Buyback Plan in its program pr ogram structure, sttructure, marketing materials and a terms and conditions.

To matters T o make m atters worse, the Best Buy executives executtives who supposedly ““developed” developed d” this buyback program program aree the exact ar exaact same executives who worked worked with TechForward TechFor e ward pilott Guar Guaranteed on the pilo anteed Buyback Plan program program a for for Best Buy and who rreceived eceived TechForward’s TechFor e ward’s highly confidential confidentia al information. information. did Not only di d Best Buy launch program a buyback pr ogram using TechForward’s T eechForward’s propriety propriety data, it way. did so in a big way y. For the first time in its history, historyy, Best Buy bought advertising g during the Super Bowl, aired which air ed d on Feb. 6, 2011. The Super Bowl Bowl advertisement, which ffeatured eatured Ozzy Ozzzy Osbourne and Justin Bieber,r, wass devoted entirely Bieber entirely to the BBP. BBP P. almost exactly The plans have h the same terms. terms. The lawsuit contract claims breach breaach of contr act and misappropriation misappr oprriation of trade trade secrets. secr ets. — —MICHAEL MICHAEL ARRINGT ARRINGTON. ON. T TECHCRUNCH.COM ECHCRUN CH.COM

Sir Noflatusatall No oflatusatall TThis hhis alleged behavior on the part of Best Best Buy Buy is completely ly consistent with my impression impression of o them as a company. companyy. steveray stever ray W Wow, oow w, I hope the lawsuit costs Best Best Buy Buy at least 2X as much as an acquisition acquissition would have. That Thhat is sleazy. unbelievablyy sleazy y.

Anon Will they buy back JJooJoos? ooJoos?

QuoraBoy Quor raBoy I hear heardd Quor Quoraa has hired hired Justin Justin Bieber Biebeer for for its superbowl 2012 commercial. commercial.

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men’s basketball Ben UCLA m en’s b asketball coach coach B en Howland knows how w to, to, well, Hee p put ccoach. oach. H ut ttogether ogether ggreat reatt tteams eams at at Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, and and he’s he’s been been doing doing forr eeight years now UCLA. The iitt fo ight ye ars n ow aatt U CLA. T he Bruins Maples B ruins ((18-7) 18-7) aare re ccoming oming tto oM aples Pavilion forr a 77:30pm P avilion fo :30pm showdown showdown Thursday with Stanford T hursday w ith S tanfo ord ((13-11), 13-11), aand nd doesn’t bode well forr C Cardinal tthis his d o esn’t b o de w ell fo ardinal Dawkins who,, well, ccoach oach JJohnny ohnny Da aw wkin ns who But might not bee ccan’t an’t ccoach. oach. B ut tthat hat m ight n ot b an issue much longerr if Stanford Stanffo ord doesn’t d o esn’t eend nd tthe he sseason eason sstrong; trong; Dawkins likely bee out of a job job..

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Or maybe maayyb e not. But for fo or hoops ho ops aficionados aficionado os interested interested in seeing nation’s scorers one of thee nation ’s top sc orers named not name d Jimmer, Jimmer, Fridayy night’s night’s between 7pm gamee b etween the Spartans Spartans Weber worth aand nd visiting visiting W eber State State iiss w or th cchecking hecking out. out. SJSU SJSU iiss led led by by senior senior Adrian gguard uard Ad rian Oliver, Oliver, who who has has quietly become nation’s q uietly b ecome tthe he n attion’s fourth fourth scorer points per highest sc o er at 24 p or oints p er game.. Wh While Spartans game hile the Spar tans have haave sstruggled truggled tto o cconsistently onsistently sstring tring together wins to getther this season—mainly because b ecause they they h have avve no no legitimate legitimate big big men m en tto o sspeak peak of—they of—they aare re hovering hovering aaround round a .500 .50 0 record. record. With With five five games remaining—four rem maining—ffo our at home aand nd an an aaway way ccontest ontest aatt B Boise oise S State tate out tto o cclose lose o ut tthe he sschedule—this chedule —this might be be the t first winning season forr tthe Spartans fo he S partans since since 1994.

19 94. To To put put year perspective, tthat hat ye ar iin np erspective, none none of of the the had tteam’s eam’s ccurrent urrent players playyers h ad finished finished kindergarten kinder garten t yet. yet.

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City Releases Releaases Employee Emplo yee Salary List The T he ttop op ssalaries alaries for for ccity ity eemployees mployees in 2010 were were released released last week, and rrecently ecently rretired etired p police olice chief R Rob o ob Davis $534,576 D avis topped topped the the llist ist at at $ 534,576 iin n ttotal otal ccash assh ccompensation—more ompensattion—more than than n $300,000 $ 300,000 of of which which was was comprised comprised of of sick and unpaid leave leaave payouts. paayouts. on off 9 9,354 Of tthe he ttop op 1155 o n tthe he llist ist o ,354 full- and part-time part-time city city of San JJose ose work ers, nine ar mbers of the workers, aree mem members p olice depar tment and d five five ar police department aree p arrt o he fi re d epartment. O nly part off tthe fire department.

Only ttwo wo of the top 15— SJF FD Bat ttalion 15—SJFD Battalion C hief JJuan uan Diaz Diazz ($289,263) ($289,263) and and City City Chief Manager Debra Figone Figon ne ($269,662)— ($269,662)— ar re aactive ctive eemployees; mployees; tthe he rrest est aare re are now rretired. etired.

F ormer fir arryl V on o Former firee chief Da Darryl Von Raesf feeld is sec ond on the t list at Raesfeld second $430,10 8. $430,108.

H arry M avrogenes, the the Harry Mavrogenes, eexecutive xecutive d irector o he S an JJose ose director off tthe San R edevelopment A gency, iiss llisted isted aatt Redevelopment Agency, 19th with a compensation compensattion totaling totaling $2 59,6774 4, while Mayor Maayorr Chuck Reed Reeed $259,674, ccomes omes in on the lowerr half of the sc ale at $111,845. scale N icole B lade, a part-time part-time office office Nicole Blade, sp ecialist in the human human resources resources specialist department, d epartment, received received tthe he lleast east amount of compensation compensattion in 2010, earning $1. $1 — J oosh K oehn e Josh Koehn

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But now things are heating up.

Just a few weeks ago, the band released a Greatest Hits album of tunes it rerecorded at KVP Studio in Santa Clara last year. The goal was to re-create the sound and energy they had on the first three Watchband albums in 1966, ’67 and ’68.

The group reproduced the reverb of the old “echo chamber.” They used the exotic instrumentation—sitar, bouzouki, temple bells and a Theremin—that gave the original recordings their distinctive sound.

The album is available on iTunes now.

“We really focused on listening to the original material and figuring out what the spirit, the heart and the magic was, and how to recreate that,” said Tim Abbott, the

Watchband’s guitarist. “We used tape-emulation programs, we used a lot of tube stuff, tube amps, tube preamps, a lot of old-style vintage compressors, as much vintage gear as we could.”

The Chocolate Watchband originally formed in San Jose in 1965. The band’s music was a blend of garage and psychedelic rock, taking influences from blues and British R&B but with an experimental, multi-instrumental edge. The band incorporated elements of surf, jazz and ’60s exotica, all under the umbrella of the drug-addled antiwar era.

The Watchband appeared in two films: 1967’s Riot on Sunset Strip and The Love-Ins. Locally, the band gigged at a variety of places: Napredak Hall, the Continental Roller Rink, the San Jose Civic, the Spectrum in Redwood City, Homer’s Warehouse in Palo Alto. Circa 1967, the group played every night at Winchester Cathedral in Redwood City with Sly and the Family Stone. At the Coconut Grove in Santa Cruz, the

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Watchband played at least once a month.

“There were free concerts everywhere,” Abbott said. “San Francisco, up and down the peninsula, block parties, the park across from Stanford Shopping Center. There were venues everywhere. We were just playing our brains out. There was never a ‘Hello, we gotta get a gig.’ There were opportunities everywhere.”

In those days, the legendary Stevens Music in Willow Glen supplied all of the band’s equipment. The Watchband originally went for a Rolling Stones–style, British-influenced sound, and the store provided all the Vox amplifiers.

Today, Abbott actually runs KVP Studio in Santa Clara, where the sessions went down. Rerecording the old material was just a prelude for the band’s next step. Last month, the Watchband cut more than a dozen brand-new songs.

Abbott won’t blow the whistle on everything yet, but he says the new work is essentially a biography of the Chocolate Watchband, including songs about the band itself. Aguilar wrote most of the lyrics, and the band collaborated on the songwriting.

“This is the next album that would have come out in the ’60s, stylistically and soundwise,” Abbott said, adding that a good amount of slide guitar and even sitar parts appear throughout the entire project. “It’s going to have the full Watchband thing going on, with the different instruments and sounds.

There’s quite a range of moods.”

Currently, the band will also be included on a multiple-CD tribute to Sky Saxon of the Seeds, who passed away last year. For that project, folks like Iggy Pop and Billy Corgan are also on board.

“We’re still going,” Abbott said.

“We were ‘back in the day,’ but we’re still doing it. The last 10 years, we’ve done some of the biggest shows we’ve ever done, bigger than the shows we did in the ’60s. It’s been good, but we’re looking forward to being even better.”

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Enoteca Enoteca La Storia Storia 416 4116 N. Santaa Cruz Ave., Ave., Los Los Gatos 408.625.7272 408.625.72772

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

408.947.4444.

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

ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$.

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

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

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

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

food. Most dishes are designed for sharing—appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat, Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St, San Jose. 408.292.4300.

DALAT Vietnamese. $$.

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

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

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

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

EULIPIA New American. $$$. The revamped menu emphasizes robust flavors and beautiful presentations. Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails.

Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:30-9:30pm Sat. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161.

FLAMES EATERY AND BAR American. $$. In Silicon Valley, the home-grown Flames restaurant chain is the area’s definitive coffee shop. And now they’ve opened in downtown San Jose to great acclaim.

7am-midnight daily. 88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

4TH STREET PIZZA CO. Pizza. $. 4th Street Pizza Co. occupies a prime corner spot on East Santa Clara and Fourth with big

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windows to watch the comings and goings at City Hall across the street. The thin-crust margherita fell short but the thicker-crust pies are better.

11am-9pm Sun-Thu and 11am10pm Fri-Sat. 150 E. Santa Clara St. 408.286.7500.

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

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

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

Beer, wine. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm daily. 151 S. Second St. 408.295.3397.

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

7am-10pm, 10:30am-11:30pm Mon-Thu, 8am-11pm Fri-Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. Full bar. 302 S. Market St. 408.271.3366.

KOJI SAKE LOUNGE. $$.

Japanese. In spite of Koji’s well-tuned atmosphere, it’s the sakes that really set the tone. Koji’s sake list includes tasting notes that help you find one that suits you. Happy hour 6-9pm Wed-Fri with $3 beers and $5 small plates. 6pm-late Wed-Fri, 8pm-late Sat. 48 S. First St. 408.287.7199.

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all over the restaurant. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, dinner 511pm Mon-Sat and Sun 5-9pm.

86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.

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

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

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

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

LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$.

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

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

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

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

MEZCAL Regional Mexican. $$. Mezcal specializes in delicious regional cuisine from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. People who need nachos and sourcream-topped burritos on the menu will probably be miffed, but for those willing to venture beyond the same old Mexican-American standards, Mezcal offers an excellent point of departure. 11:30am11pm Sun-Fri and 5-11pm Sat. 25 W. San Fernando St. 408.283.9595.

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

Morocco’s personal touch is

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PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$.

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

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO New Orleans. $$. The Poor House Bistro offers a lowpriced menu of Crescent City classics like po’ boys, barbecued shrimp, gumbo and muffaletta. Live music on Fridays and Saturdays.

Open 11am-9pm Mon-Sat. Open Sundays for major HP Pavilion events. 91 S. Autumn St. 408.292.5837.

New American. $$. Lots of restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood joints but few deliver. The Garage does. Small but satisfying menu of well executed comfort food classics.

5-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm Sat, 9am1pm Sun. 505 E. San Carlos St. 408.286.1100.

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

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

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

PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor. Pagoda offers the gamut of regional all-stars. Dressy. Full bar. 610pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St. 408.998.3937.

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

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

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

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

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

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The trouble with chicken soup is that it often doesn’t taste very good. The canned stuff is loaded with salt and tastes flat. Making your own is the way to go, but many people are daunted by chicken stock.

Chicken broth in boxes doesn’t cut it. It tastes like it’s been seasoned with cardboard. There are countless recipes for homemade chicken stock, and I’ve tried half of them. I’ve settled on a recipe that has several compelling virtues. It’s easy. It’s quick. It’s cheap. And it tastes great.

This recipe is really two-in-one. It requires a bit of planning but not much. First, buy a roast chicken. (You can roast your own, but when someone in my family is sick I’m going for fast and convenient.) Costco makes a good one, and most grocery stores sell them. Take it home and eat it. If you can, leave a bit of meat on the carcass. It will go into the soup and help flavor the broth.

The important thing is to save all the bones. Roasting bones is the key to a rich broth, and buying a roast chicken means it’s already been done for you. I keep a plastic bag in the freezer where I store all my old chicken bones. You can make a good broth with the bones from one bird, but more bones are better. Anyway, here’s what you do to make four bowls of soup: Put all the bones in a big pot with enough water to cover by three inches or so. Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer. It’s important not to boil your broth, which can make for a cloudy, less-than-delicate broth. Simmer for about 90 minutes.

Add a little more water if need be and then add a cup each of diced carrots, onions and celery. Drop in about 10 peppercorns, a few bay leaves and a wad of fresh parsley. Simmer for about 30 minutes. Adding the vegetables earlier will only serve to leech out their flavor.

Strain the stock through a fine wire mesh and return to the pot.

Reserve the chicken bones and let cool. The broth will be a little bland.

Add two teaspoons of salt, the juice from half a lemon and two or three dashes of Vietnamese fish sauce. Yes, fish sauce is my secret ingredient.

No one will ever know it’s there, but the fish sauce boosts the umami quotient of the broth. Taste the broth. You don’t want it too salty, but add a little more salt if need be. Meanwhile, once the chicken bones have cooled, pick off any meat and reserve.

That’s it for the broth. So easy and so economical. Now sauté some carrots, celery and onion and season with salt and pepper. Make sure to retain some of the vegetables’ snap. Cook some rice, pasta shells or barley and add it to the broth along with the vegetables and reserved chicken and serve.

That’s it. I hope you feel better.—Stett Holbrook

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Braun Music Center, Stanford Wed – 8pm; $28 World-renowned bass/baritone Nicholas Isherwood has performed in at least a dozen operas but is visiting the area to touch the extremes of avant-garde music, a musical realm of apprehension, terror and unexpected beauty. Isherwood is famed as an interpreter of the fiendishly difficult music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. As Stockhausen’s 2007 obituary phrased it, the composer faced the “increasingly equivocal” sympathies of the cultural establishment, after using helicopters and shortwave radios as musical instruments. What one can expect is

unique profundity, since the low end of the musical spectrum seems best at expressing mortality. (RvB)

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FREEWAY AND JAKE ONE VooDoo Lounge, San Jose Thu – 9pm; $15

Rappers Freeway and Jake One find themselves caught in-between mainstream and indie hip-hop.

Philly’s Freeway is probably best known for his guest appearances on Jay-Z and Kanye records, but he also sold half a million copies of his major-label solo debut. Likewise, hip-hop fans may think of Jake One primarily for his producing chops, having worked with De La Soul and

50 Cent. In 2008, though, he finally stepped out from behind the board to record his debut album, White Van. Last year, Freeway moved to indie label Rhymesayers for his album Stimulus Package, bringing on Jake One to produce. Mutual respect made the album work, with Freeway declaring at the beginning of the record that he’s going to make lots of room for Jake One’s beat. The producer, meanwhile, gave Freeway the space to let loose with some of his best rhymes yet. (AC)

be unfounded, so we’re still waiting for Straight Outta Campbell. Their long-awaited debut promises to clear up once and for all the mistaken notion that they’re a metal band (blame the name). Instead, they draw from a range of influences, most noticeably Smashing Pumpkins.

Not to belabor the point, but the forthcoming record, when it finally comes forth, will also prove that, with its trio of talented songwriters and players, Mary Axe is one of the local music scene’s overlooked gems. (BD)

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Homestead Lanes, Cupertino Sat – 8pm; $8

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What San Jose’s quirkiest funk outfit didn’t do at their first practice

session four years ago was write a bunch of songs and practice them to death. Instead, they got together and jammed. That’s what Good Hustle continues to do; their songs are skeletal in structure, giving the band the flexibility to alter the length of entire sections. It allows them to do pretty much whatever they feel like doing, as long as they stick to their number one rule: Keep the music fresh. The music is energetic and offbeat, built on a foundation of intense dance beats and slick keyboards, and they nimbly walk a fine line between paying homage to classic ’70s soul and skewering it. (AC)

KRS-ONE & MURS Avalon Nightclub, Santa Clara Sat – 8pm; $20 Old school meets new school in

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PALO ALTO PHILHARMONIC P PA With ssoprano Nanette McGuiness, Feb 19 at 8pm, Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto

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SF CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Feb 19 at 8pm, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto

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

SECOND CITY Feb 23 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

DISNEY ON ICE Feb 23–27, HP Pavilion

BALLET SAN JOSE Swan LLake, Feb 25–27 at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts Ce

DEFENDING THE CAVEMAN D Feb 25–26, Campbell Heritage Fe Theatre

AFIARA STRING QUARTET A Feb 27 at a 3pm, Montalvo Arts Center

ERIC CLAPTON Mar 2 at 8:30pm, HP Pavilion M

TRIO VOCE Mar 4 at 8pm, Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford

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SIX WEEKS SOBER Johnny V’s, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $5 Hailing from San Francisco, Six Weeks Sober’s main goal is put the city back on the map when it comes to hard rock. They take most of their musical cues from Papa Roach, with a touch of good old Bay Area thrash; it’s radio-friendly riffs mixed with hard-hitting breakdowns. This is the kind of music an MMA fighter would make an entrance with— and has. (BD)

*sun TRIO NOBILIS Le Petit Trianon, San Jose Sun — 7pm; $30-$42 Pianist Stephen Prustman, violinist Ruggero Allifranchini and cellist Suren Bagratuni constitute a leading classical trio with lots of individual accomplishments behind them: Allifranchini performed with the Borromeo String Quartet, Bagratuni was a Tchaikovsky Competition winner and Prustman is director of the Cartagena Music Festival in Colombia. For this San Jose Chamber Music Society Concert, they will perform piano trios by Haydn, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. (MSG)

SCOTT H. BIRAM Blank Club, San Jose Sun – 8pm; $8 Austin-based “dirty old oneman-band” Scott H. Biram once recorded an album once called Lo-Fi Mojo. That sums up his sound in a few words. As he snaps the strings of his ’59 Gibson, there’s a ghost of Johnny Cash in production, and of Waylon Jennings in the vocals. Ultimately, though, Biram is one of the last Texas bluesmen. A former punk rocker who headed deeper into roots music, Biram is famous for his successful attempt to knock some sense into an 18 wheeler.

While recuperating, he recorded the “Rehabilitation Blues” EP showing his car-crash-ravaged self on the cover. (RvB)

FOUNTAIN BLUES FEST ALLSTARS FOUNTA Mar 5 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Ma

JOHN HOLLENBECK Mar 6 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel, M Stanford

THE ADLERS Mar 13 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford

SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY Concert version of Man of La Mancha, Mar 19–20, California Theatre, San Jose

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL Mar 24–27, HP Pavilion, San Jose

SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY Brahms’ German Requiem, Mar 24–27, California Theatre

SAN JOSE JAZZ WINTER FEST Mar 12 at 7pm, Pagoda, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose

HARLEM GOSPEL CHOIR Mar 31 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

MINGUS BIG BAND Apr 13 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford

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Games are really designed to give you that sense of agency, of heroic purpose, that you can really rise to the occasion.

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It feels overwhelming, it’s too vague and amorphous. Like you know, “I need help”—you don’t want to say that. And people who want to support you don’t know what they’re supposed to do. That’s something everybody experiences, where you see somebody who’s having a hard time, and you would help if you just knew what you could do.

The science says that if you have three people that you can ask for help, during any injury or illness, that you increase your chances for recovery by more than 100 percent, and it speeds up recovery as well. That’s one of the most important things about the game, just trying make sure everybody feels like they can get two, three people, even if it’s not the three people they might have thought of immediately. @e k_\ Yffb pfl kXcb XYflk k_\ gfk\ek`Xc f] dXb`e^ nfib dfi\ ^Xd\c`b\% ?Xm\ pfl j\\e Xep ZfdgXe`\j k_Xk _Xm\ ^`m\e k_Xk X j\i`flj kip6 Zappos, I think, has one of the most interesting examples. Zappos has a game that you play whenever you log into your computer at the office, where it shows you a picture of somebody else at the company, and they ask you if you know who that person is and what they do in the company. And it keeps track of how many people you were able to recognize, and from what I’ve hard from Tony Hsieh, their CEO, that this has really transformed the social atmosphere, that people are more likely to stop and introduce themselves to somebody else they don’t know that they’re passing by in the hall.

And it’s become this kind of addictive game that people like to play when they check in. You can see your streaks, like how many days in a row did you get the right person, you can see who knows the most people. . . .

It’s not like they’ve transformed the whole company to work like a game, but they’ve found a really meaningful game to play in the first one minute of everybody’s day at work.

Jane McGonigal Reads Wednesday (Feb. 16), 7pm Barnes & Noble Stevens Creek, San Jose

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Jimmy Pardo Feb. 18–20; Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale; $12–$18 Jimmy Pardo is the comedian Conan O’Brien handpicked to warm up the audience before The Tonight Show and Conan. This was not just because Pardo is hilarious, which he is, but because his comedy consists almost entirely of audience interaction. He has very little prepared material, but he is so quick he doesn’t really need it. He is always there, in the moment, with his audience. As a result, his shows feel fresh, uncontrived and electric. Pardo also hosts a podcast called Never Not Funny, which GQ recently named their “No. 1 Relatively Obscure Thing You Need to Be Paying Attention To.” (Alan Soldofsky)

Smucker’s Stars on Ice Friday, 7:30pm; HP Pavilion, San Jose; $25 and up Some of the world’s best skaters take a break from competition to perform a touring exhibition. The show stops in San Jose this weekend with 2010 Olympic gold medal winner Evan Lysacek and silver medalist Sash Cohen in the lead. Some of the other notables taking a spin will be Jamie Salé and David Pelletier, Kurt Browning, Todd Eldredge and Ekaterina Gordeeva.

Andrew Altschul Wednesday (Feb. 16), 7pm; Kepler’s, Menlo Park; also Thursday, 7pm; King Main Library, San Jose; both free Reality television deserves more than our mockery. It deserves our most serious reflection. Although it deals primarily with reality TV, the ambitious new novel Deus Ex Machina (Counterpoint; $14.95 paperback) by local author Andrew Foster Altschul, offers a much greater critique—and reality TV is merely the lens we need to use in order to see it. (Read a full-length review online at SanJose.com.) Altschul speaks twice this week about his novel. (Alan Soldofsky)

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NUTCRACKER IN CHINA A benefit performance of an original Chinese dance drama by Rainbow Phoenix Performing Arts Company. Sun, 1:30pm. $30. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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Opera San Jose presents Rossini’s comic opera. Feb 18, 24 and 26, 8pm, Feb 20 and 27, 3pm. $51-$101. California Theatre, San Jose.

TURANDOT A Puccini favorite presented

by West Bay Opera. Feb 18 and 26, 8pm, Feb 20 and 27, 2pm. $25-$60. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

City Lights puts on the South Bay premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher’s drama about a 17th-century English actor who specialized in female roles.

Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Feb 20. $15-$28. City Lights, San Jose.

DEATHTRAP A suspense play by Ira Levin,

presented by Northside Theatre Company. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. Runs thru Mar 6. $15/ $20.

Northside Theatre, San Jose.

A look behind the curtain in a drama by Robert Harwood about a famed Shakespearean actor and his dresser, presented

by San Jose Repertory Theatre.

Wed-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Feb 20. $35-$74. The Rep, San Jose.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM A Sondheim musical romp presented by South Bay Musical Theatre. Thu-Sat, 8pm. Runs thru Feb 19. $23-$33. Saratoga Civic Theatre.

CLUB FOX Mon, 8pm: Comedy Monday with Dan St. Paul. $10. Redwood City.

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: Bill Santiago and Brian Watts. $12.

Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Jimmy Pardo, with Bill Santiago and Brian Watts. $12$18. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV ON THE WATERFRONT The West Coast premiere, by Santa Jose Stage Company, of a stage adaption of Budd Schulberg’s famous screenplay about a conflicted dock worker.

Runs Feb 16-Mar 13. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$35. The Stage, San Jose.

RUN FOR YOUR WIFE A farce about a bigamist racing back and forth between wives.

Presented by Santa Clara Players. Runs Feb 18-Mar 6. Thu (Mar 3 and 10), 8pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $16 ($18 champagne opening). Triton Museum, Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara.

SEE HOW THEY RUN British playwright Philip King’s comedy with mystery overtones.

A Tabard Theatre production.

Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Feb 20. $15-$24.

Theatre on San Pedro Square.

SYLVIA A comic romance by A.R. Gurney about a man, a woman and a dog. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm.

Runs thru Feb 19. $24-$32. Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos.

THE 39 STEPS A stage adaptation by TheatreWorks of the famous British spy caper. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Feb 20. $27-$42. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

WORKING Foothill Music Theatre offers a musical based on Studs Terkel’s interviews with American workers.

Runs Feb 18-Mar 6. Thu (Feb 24 and Mar 3), 8pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 8pm (plus Feb 26 and Mar 5 at 2pm), Sun (Feb 27 and Mar 6), 2pm. $13-$26. Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

Wed, 8pm: Unfiltered. $12. Thu, 8pm: Kris Tinkle and Friends. $12. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm: Jennifer Coolidge. $22.

Mon, 7pm: Big Al Gonzales. $12.

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Museums ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “Configurations: Bodies in Motion.” Figurative works by Michael Azgour, Nancy Bowman and Christofer Charles. Thru Mar 18. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “In a New York Minute: Photographs by Helen Levitt.”

Thru May 1. “Paths Through the Global City: Photographs

by Leo Rubinfien.” Thru May 1.

“Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates.” Portraits of Vodoun followers and their shrines in Benin by Jean-Dominque 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.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM “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. “The Saints of Mission Santa Clara: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Art.” Thru Mar 11. Santa Clara University.

show about games and recreation is expanded in a second part. Thru Feb 24. TueThu, 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.

Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. San Jose.

Fair & Unbalanced the best of Second City

Wed, Feb 23, 7:30pm

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.

LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM “Touching Lives.” An exhibit about the lives and contributions of Josephine and Frank Dubeneck, who first lived in Hidden Villa. Thru Jun 27. Los Altos.

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

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

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits.” Photographs of New York celebrities and artists of the 1970s and ’80s. Thru Jun 5. “The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention.” Thru Jul 3. “Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography From the Permanent Collection.”

Thru Mar 14. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES “Earthly Paradise: Memory, Myth, Metaphor.” Large quilted tapestries by A Bee collection. “Eden Re-Imagined.”

Embroidery art by Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone. “Boy Code.” Embroideries by Wendy Osher. “Modern Maya.” Mayan clothing and photographers of the weavers. Thru May 1. TueSun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION “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.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM “Learn to Play Too.” The group

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The Fountain Blues A Night of Flamenco Festival Allstars Music and Dance Band with Chris Cain Fanny Ara Presents: Garlochi

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 including Bill Murray, John & Jim Belushi, Mike Myers, Tina Fey, John Candy, Bonnie Hunt and many more, this touring company is always daring, original and hilarious.

The troupe will perform social and political satire in scripted scenes, music and improvisation.

Not-to-be-missed!

Fri, Mar 4, 8pm

Sat, Mar 5, 7:30pm

Bay Area choreographer Fanny Ara’s flamenco and Spanish classical dance pushes the boundaries of tradition. Her re-imagining of flamenco and the paso doble adds a cheeky, whimsical twist that contradicts the inherently serious tone of these dance forms. Garlochi means “heart” in Calo, the language of the gypsies. This performance features live music and is part of the New Directions Series at Montalvo.

Special guest Chris Cain and other award-winning local and national talent who have all performed at the prestigious Metro Fountain Blues Festival (JC Smith, Endre Tarczy, Ron E. Beck, Stan Erhart, Lara Price, Mark Fenichel, Maxx Cabello Jr., Kaye Bohler, Andy Just, Gary Smith, and Richard Palmer) come together to jam the blues — bringing back the spirit of the legendary greats!

$20 General | $15 Members

$32/$27 | Members: $29/$24

$45/$40 | Members: $40/$36

Co-presented by Montalvo Arts Center and The Bay Area Flamenco Partnership.

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

15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA 95070

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The event will go down like last year, but with a little something different: food trucks. In addition to a great lineup of local breweries, Meat the Brewers will feature hot meals from local and Bay Area food trucks. The vendors will include KALBI BBQ, makers of KoreanMexican fusion food; the LOUISIANA TERRITORY, purveyors of Cajun food on wheels; SOUTHERN SANDWICH, a food truck specializing in Southern-fried delicacies; and MOBOWL, a rolling restaurant that serves Asian-style rice bowls.

Complementing all that food will be nearly a dozen breweries, including FIREHOUSE BREWERY AND GRILL, TIED HOUSE/HERMITAGE BREWING CO., DEVIL’S CANYON BREWING CO., GORDON BIERSCH, SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAIN BREWERY, ROCK BOTTOM BREWERY, CAMPBELL BREWING CO., RABBIT’S FOOT MEADERY, UNCOMMON BREWERS and SEABRIGHT BREWERY. Twenty-five dollars in advance or $30 at the door gets you unlimited beer tastings. Kids 16 and under are free. Food is sold separately.

Purchase tickets online at foodtruckthebrewers.eventbrite.com or in person at the Tied House, 954 Villa St., Mountain View; 650.965.2739. Go to www.betterbeerblog.com for more information.

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KAYGETSU Japanese. $$$.

Kaiseki is a rarefied Japanese cuisine born in Kyoto with impeccably seasonal ingredients and poetic presentations. Kaygetsu bills itself as “classic Japanese cuisine” but its kaiseki menu is like discovering a new galaxy of food. Closed Mon. 325 Sharon Park Dr. 650.234.1084.

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HOW FAR would you go to achieve success? Would you lie? Steal?

Commit murder? Probably not, but we can’t be so confidant when it comes to Sidney Bruhl, the hero of Ira Levin’s 1978 comedy-thriller Deathtrap, which opened Friday night at Northside Theatre Company.

YOU MAY HAVE heard the singular crack of a slapstick at the start of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G. But once begun, the slapstick in The Barber of Seville at Opera San Jose goes—like—totally viral. Argentine-born stage director José Maria Condemi left no sight gag or comedic epiphany unflipped. The mind boggles at how the cast members in Sunday’s matinee could have memorized Rossini’s riotous score and Condemi’s hilarious stagecraft and delivered them with such razor sharp timing. The full house rocked with laughter.

Matt Singer plays Sidney, a famed author of Broadway thrillers who is experiencing a creative dry spell. Enter Clifford Anderson (Jason Arias), a young admirer who submits a manuscript to the elder playwright for critique. Upon reading it, Sidney begins to half-seriously consider killing Clifford and claiming the play as his own, to the horror of his wife, Myra (Melinda Marks).

He believes that Clifford’s play has the makings of a Broadway smash, and even a movie starring Michael Caine. Eerily, this is exactly what became of Ira Levin’s Deathtrap in real life. Levin, who wrote bestselling novels like Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives and The Boys From Brazil, had his biggest stage hit with Deathtrap, which is still the longest-running comedythriller Broadway has ever seen.

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The play’s tone (foreboding, with humorous touch of absurdity) is immediately established by the décor in Sidney’s old colonial home, where all of the action takes place. Along with the ephemera of his past plays, Sidney has a number of weapons on display: handcuffs, swords, daggers, a variety of firearms, an ax, a crossbow and a medieval mace. It looks like the kind of place where a murder could happen; in truth, it would be surprising if a murder did not occur.

James Lucas appears as Sidney and Myra’s attorney, while Shareen Merriam plays their neighbor, a Dutch psychic named Helga ten Dorp, who fulfills what would traditionally be the role of a detective.

It may seem contrived to replace the usual logic and deduction with supernatural readings, but Merriam’s gleefully loopy character is one of the best parts of the play, along with the hilarious dialogue between Singer, Marks and Arias and a few genuinely, hair-raisingly scary moments.

Unlike a lot of things from the ’70s, Deathtrap has aged very well, and Northside’s production seems as fresh and entertaining as the original must have been. It could easily take place today, and if the cast are decked out in their best 1978 costumes, that’s just an extra bit of fun.

—Sean Conwell

The first performance by this cast probably explains the tentative start of Act 1, with animated but sober podium leadership by conductor Bryan Nies. The same was true onstage until Adam Meza as Figaro sparked the audience with the celebrated “Largo al Factotum.” Just before that, Chester Pidduck as Count Almaviva delivered a tense nasally tone in his opening aria. Here making his company debut, Pidduck’s tenor soon revealed itself as an ideal fit for Rossini, light, bright and agile. Moreover, he successfully disguised his voice (as well as his identity) in winning the eagerly K_\ 9XiY\i willing Rosina’s hand and thwarting her suspicious, manipulative warder, Doctor Bartolo. In that role, F] J\m`cc\ Torlef Borsting held the stage with swaggering authority, booming baritone and explosive rages over his failures.

Through Feb. 27 California Theatre, As Seville’s all-around factotum, Figaro offers his clients San Jose every manner of fix that his kit and his imagination can come up with—for payment in gold. Of course, Almaviva has more gold to spend than anybody else, and the wily barber happily schemes with him to keep Bartolo from contracting marriage to his comely ward. This involves manipulating Bartolo’s servants, Berta and Ambrogio, and Rosina’s music teacher, Don Basilio. In yet another laugh-out-loud performance, Paul Murray’s Basilio outlines for Bartolo a highly inflated plan to slander Almaviva.

Add to all this an exposed love letter that threatens the anticipated happy outcome, a wild thunderstorm that advances the plotters’ plot, a ladder to abduct Rosina from her second story balcony, and . . . well, you get the point.

To Rosina, Cathleen Candia gave a rich-toned mezzo-soprano and a smoothly flexible character that variously pouts and purrs. In Scene 2, Almaviva (as Lindoro), makes a drunken scene in Bartolo’s. A squad of soldiers investigating the ruckus surrounds the hapless Bartolo, freezing him into a “cold and unmoving” pose that gives everybody something to make fun of in the run up to the big Act 1 finale. Act 2 concentrates comedy, music and stage action even further, as Almaviva, now disguised as a substitute music teacher, makes more moves on Rosina while Figaro distracts Bartolo with a shave. Kindra Scharich as Berta won cheers for her one big solo declaiming that master and ward deserve each other. Matthew Antaky’s clever set and Kent Dorsey’s lighting worked in great complement to Condemi’s stage action. The orchestra and choristers maintained the company’s high standards.—Scott MacClelland

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lives of college students. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.)

UNKNOWN (PG-13; 113 min.) Liam Neeson comes out of a coma only to learn that bad things have been happening while he was unconscious, and that his life is in danger. Also stars Diane Kruger and January Jones. (Opens Fri.)

(R; 86 min.) See review on page 42.

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(PG-13; 110 min.) Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant and Teresa Palmer star in a tale of an unusual young man who is trying to escape a deadly enemy. (Opens Fri.)

JUST GO WITH IT (PG-13; 115 min.) See review on page 44.

JUSTICE ON TRIAL (Unrated) The South Bay Committee Against Political Repression, Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal and Justice for Palestinians present a screening of a documentary about Mumia AbuJamal. After the ďŹ lm, there will be a session with a member of the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia.

(Plays Sat, 2-4pm, San Jose Peace and Justice Center.)

KABOOM (Unrated; 86 min.) Gregg Arakiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new ďŹ lm takes a look into the future sex

(1946/1945) Bowing, scraping and bewigged: the irreplaceable Boris Karloff as the manager of the most infamous of all insane asylums. In London in 1761, a courageous Quaker (the dull Richard Fraser) investigates conditions in the madhouse, while an English lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fancy woman (Anna Lee) gets sucked into the hellhole. Not a hit, and why? Despite the lowness of its budget, it was one of the most well-researched looks at Georgian times ever seen in a Hollywood movie, and it was an inďŹ&#x201A;uence on ďŹ lms as varied as Shock Corridor, GoldďŹ nger and The Draughtsmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Contract. BILLED WITH The Body Snatcher. A renowned, savagely proud Scottish doctor of the 1830s (Henry Daniell) needs medical cadavers. He illegally requisitions them from a partner from the old days. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gray, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;resurrectionist,â&#x20AC;? a grave-robbing coachman, played by Karloff as basically the nicest strangler youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever hope to meet. Memorable for an elegant murder scene staged deep in the black background under a city tunnel arch. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a quick act of annihilation, an instant of thrilling pure horror, epitomizing the elegance and comfortlessness of producer Val Lewtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cinema. (Plays Feb 17-18 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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THE COLOR PURPLE (1982) Loads of tears (and loads of Disney) in Steven Spielbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s popular adaptation of Alice Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel about the systematic abuse of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg, debuting); it was the launching pad for Oprah Winfreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own rise. Proclaimed faithful to the book by Walker, who, she said, recognized E.T. as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a being of color.â&#x20AC;?

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Turturro records artists who counterpoint the notorious troubles of Naples with songs. Turturro will be on hand to collect the Maverick Spirit award for his work. In addition to his indie ďŹ lmmaking, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a Brooklyn Peter Lorre in the ďŹ lms of the Coen brothers and Spike Lee, and a commedia del arte comedy relief among the robots in the Transformers series.

This huge fan of Eric Mendelsohnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Stay tuned 1999 Judy Berlin is excited to see for complete the directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst ďŹ lm in a decade, 3 Cinequest Backyards (March 6). Mendelsohn won coverage in the best director award at Sundance in upcoming issues 1999 and still couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a distributor until months later. His star in Judy Berlin, longtime friend Edie Falco, went on to worldwide fame as Carmela in The Sopranos.

Working in color this time, Mendelsohn weaves in three sets of encounters involving Falco (a housewife), Elias Koteas (a husband on the brink of divorce) and Embeth Davitz (a celebrated actress turning up in a suburban neighborhood); the exquisiteness of 3 Backyardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mood, color and performances is evident even in the trailers.

One ďŹ lm I did see in advance: this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Goya award winner for Best Latin American feature, MatĂ­as Bizeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s La Vida de los Peces. Back in Chile after 10 years of rootless hackdom as a travel writer, Andres (Santiago Cabrera of Heroes) runs into Beatriz (Blanca Lewin) who is clearly the love of his lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;just as clearly as sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now married with children. Told in close-ups, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a televisionistic ďŹ lm.

Its complaints about cyberculture and its essentially conservative story will let you guess where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headed.

Yet the classicism of the ending sold me: well-staged, tender, silent, worthy of Bizeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempt to re-create a love story in the Chekhov style. For schedule details, see cinequest.org.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY/ THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1945/1952) Oscar Wilde’s famous story got its best screen adaptation in this prestigious 1945 MGM production.

George Sanders, imperious and

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clipped, stands in for the author as Lord Henry Wotton. His delivery of Wildean quips catches exactly the right note of civilized cynicism.

It is even possible to believe that handsome young Dorian (Hurt Hatfield) might take Wooton’s advice to put innocent pub singer Sibyl Vane (Angela Lansbury) to a test of purity

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The Spouse Trap LIKE ALL Adam Sandler movies, Just Go With It has an unignorably creepy aspect.

Sandler is as truculent as Jerry Lewis in his “scary Jerry” mode—the dead eyes getting deader over the years. The quieter he gets, the more menacing he is.

In courtship with Jennifer Aniston, he’s like Harvey Keitel trying to soothe Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver.

Sandler plays Danny, an L.A. plastic surgeon, who keeps romance casual by pretending to be married. One night, he meets the perfect girl, the stackedup Palmer (the hard-faced swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker), and hides the ring. After a night of sex, she finds it and is outraged. Danny is forced to create an imaginary wife, to be played by his divorced-with-children secretary, Katherine (Jennifer Aniston). Matters worsen when Palmer and Danny go to Maui, accompanied by his “ex-wife,” his two “kids” and the ex-wife’s “lover,” Danny’s dopey cohort Eddie (Nick Swardson). The film is a remake of Cactus Flower (1969), in turn sourced from a French farce by Pierre Barrilet and JeanPierre Grédy (Potiche, a film version of their play, is screening at Cinequest 21).

The flowering cactus (Ingrid Bergman in the original) would be Aniston, whose TV personality underplaying is as delicate as this movie gets.

Hitting 45, Sandler is looking to the future. Two separate references to Cary Grant (as well as a dirty version of the “pass the orange” sequence from Charade) indicate that Sandler wants to get classy. The poop jokes seem to have been jammed in during the rewrite, in the same way Aljk >f that DJ Lobsterdust rammed N`k_ @k in rhythm tracks onto the soundtrack’s series of hits by PG-13, the Police.

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The farce structure is less of a one-line situation than most Sandler comedies. The film complicates matters by throwing in an extra character: Nicole Kidman, who clearly wanted to do something popular, broad and mean. Ultimately, Kidman—like any woman isolated onscreen in a Sandler movie—is there to be humiliated.

Of the two kids, Bailee Madison might amount to something. Her joke is that she has acting ambitions. Like Bart Simpson, she likes to do a terrible Artful Dodger accent to show off her chops. Kazuhiro Tsuji’s makeup for the disfigured overly plastic surgery cases at a Malibu party is fascinatingly alarming: the prosthetics are essential to this comedy’s more interestingly ugly side.—Richard von Busack

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that she must fail, thus setting Dorian on the path to ageless perdition while his oil portrait grows more and more grotesque. Hatfield gives an impassive performance that verges on hypnotism. The effect must have been deliberate on the part of eccentric director/writer Albert Lewin, who made the similarly oneiric Pandora and the Flying Dutchman with James

Full-Tilt Fuller IN Godard’s Pierrot le Fou, director Sam Fuller made a memorable cameo, chomping on a cigar and describing for Jean-Paul Belmondo’s character the essence of moviemaking: “A film is like a battleground. There’s love, hate, action, violence, death . . . in one word: emotion.”

There is plenty of fraught emotion in two of Fuller’s most flamboyant black-andwhite films of the early 1960s, The Naked Kiss (1964) and Shock Corridor (1963), now reissued by Criterion in handsome packages full of extras and with essays illustrated by Daniel Clowes.

The Naked Kiss opens with the frenetic immediacy scored to raucous sax-filled jazz. In agitated, hand-held-camera closeup, a prostitute named Kelly (hard blonde Constance Towers) attacks her pimp with her spike-heel shoe. He desperately reaches for her head, only to pull off her wig; she finishes the job bald and then faces the screen as if it were a mirror and puts herself back together. All this before the title appears.

Hoping to start a new life, Kelly moves to a small town, drawing the attention of a moralistic police captain (Anthony Eisley) and a rich man (Michael Dante) harboring twisted secrets. Her past, however, keeps reasserting herself, and Kelly has to use that deadly shoe on several people who need straightening out. The disc includes a recent interview with a very elegant Towers plus three early TV pieces on Fuller, in which he discusses the significant influence his days as a reporter had on his movies: “The average newspaper reporter could make a very good filmmaker.”

Shock Corridor features one of those promising reporters, Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck), who fakes a mental illness in order to get committed to an insane asylum,

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Mason and Ava Gardner. BILLED WITH The Importance of Being Earnest.

Michael Redgrave and Michael Denison star as the friendly opponents in a proudly stagebound version of Wilde’s play; the attractive cast, clad in peppermint-striped, summer-weight flannels, make the epigrams ring like chimes. (Plays Feb 19-21 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (MSG/RvB)

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where he hopes to solve a murder case.

His girlfriend (Towers) reluctantly agrees to help out with a plan sure to go wrong.

Inside, as Johnny draws closer to the truth, he becomes dangerously affected by the varied mental furies of the inmates around him (including a very funny room full of nymphomaniacs, one J_fZb of whom resembles Liz :fii`[fi Taylor in Suddenly Last Summer). His growing K_\ EXb\[ mania includes visions B`jj of Towers, who earns Criterion her keep as a stripper. In Collection, a memorable scene, she $29.95 each appears onstage with her head swathed completely in a feather boa, looking like a strange bird creature that stepped out a Max Ernst collage. As she starts to sing, we see only the wafting of the feathers blown by her breath.

Although Shock Corridor is pitched at fever level, it is surprisingly interesting in the social issues that Fuller crams into the characters (an African American patient imagines he is a KKK member and so on), and the production values are high—the cinematographer was Stanley Cortez, who worked with Orson Welles and Fritz Lang. Fuller also throws in a line that must have greatly pleased his ink-stained soul: “An insane mute will win the Pulitzer Prize!” The extras include the excellent documentary about Fuller The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera.

—Michael S. Gant

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But it wasn’t until the nu-metal wave of Y2K that the angry white boy label really stuck. Hits with lyrics like “open up your hate and let it flow into me” brought seething and

alienation to mainstream radio in a way previously unimagined by anyone not named Trent Reznor.

That was the culture in which Linkin Park thrived. Though more skilled at incorporating other genres, especially hip-hop (they partnered with Jay-Z for the remix album Collision Course), alt-metal was always the core of their sound. Beginning at the turn of the century, they turned songs like “Numb” and “Somewhere I Belong” into chart-toppers, selling some 50 million albums along the way. Like the hits of their nu-metal peers, they were insular songs about internalized rage, desensitization, addiction and mental breakdown.

So imagine the shock of the world at large when their latest album, A Thousand Suns, turned out to be a concept record about nuclear war.

For a band that had made their career

facing inward, this was an ambitious attempt at a bigger perspective.

Though there are still personal fears underlying A Thousand Suns, this is an outward-looking record that steps out of “angry white boy” territory to examine societal ills. It’s about connecting, rather than disconnecting; one for all, instead of all for one.

Perhaps no one was as surprised as the band itself, which used the Surrealist technique of automatic writing—a stream-of-consciousness style that attempts to avoid the filter of self-analysis or critique—to tap into some feelings they’d never explored.

“Ideas would just kind of pop out, and I wouldn’t even know that I was thinking about some of this stuff,” said Linkin Park’s guitarist and rapper Mike Shinoda, in a phone interview.

“It would come out of my mouth, and the song would develop.”

Eventually, he and lead singer Chester Bennington realized there was a central theme linking the songs.

“When we listened back to all that, there were ideas of destruction and self-annihilation and fear that were popping out and surprising us,” said Shinoda. “We’re very analytical when

it comes to rating our songs and putting them all together, so we’re looking at songs from every angle and we’re thinking about things, and we started asking ourselves, ‘What do we all feel about these ideas being on the record all over the place and maybe taking the record in that direction?’”

A concept record about nuclear Armageddon isn’t necessarily the most commercially viable idea, however, and it’s not always easy for a popular band to suddenly change direction with more challenging material. But in this case, Linkin Park held together.

“It turned out that all six of the guys felt like there was definitely a universal fear that I think a lot of people these days do have, whether it be in the front of their mind or in the back of their mind, that humanity as a whole is and has been for a long time on the brink of destroying itself,” says Shinoda. “Whether that be slowly or quickly, a possibility exists in the world and I think we’re all scared of it to some degree. . . .We decided that, for the six of us, it was an honest fear and an honest emotion, and that it was proper for it to be a part of the record in the way that it ended up being.”

The resulting album is far more downbeat than their previous efforts, sometimes downright ambient, with a couple of short tracks that feature samples of Robert Oppenheimer and Martin Luther King Jr. rather than lyrics. Though the sound and lyrical style is completely different, at times it recalls a Roger Waters–era Pink Floyd album in its structure and scope.

Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that the band considered presenting the album as one piece live, playing it from start to finish—but they won’t be doing that when they play HP Pavilion this week.

“Definitely there was a temptation.

I think that we’re not going to do it at this point, but we’re still open to the idea of doing special shows where we play A Thousand Suns front to back,” says Shinoda. “But I want to let [fans] know that we are going to be playing songs from our entire catalog. This isn’t just a Thousand Suns show; you’ll be hearing stuff from every album.”

Linkin Park Tuesday, Feb. 22, 7:30pm HP Pavilion, San Jose $41–$72.50

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Le Verita Wednesday, 9pm; Blank Club, San Jose; free Coming on like an ambient electronic band, but liable to break into a propulsive, abrasive rush at any time, Le Verita is a sonic dream of what New Wave could have been. The duo’s Iron Ghosts EP starts out sparsely, with a few well-chosen words in the haunting “Zelda,” and spirals all the way through the lush, sweeping “Winter’s View.” (SP)

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Fri, 8:30pm: Sound Moves. $15.

Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Fri, 6:30pm: Edrip and Edrip, 15mm, Brandon Walker, Battle School. All ages. San Jose.

AVALON Sat, 8pm: KRS One, Murs. $20.

Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 8pm: Le Verita, Please Do Not Fight, Cova. No cover.

Fri, 9pm: Dave Biasa, Shawn Packer, Derick See, Dave Miller, Bry Caughey, Mike Belardes. $5. Sun, 8pm: Scott H. Biram, Ralph White. $8. San Jose.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

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

Campbell.

Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Jackie’s Drama Camp. Rock and blues.

Free. Santa Clara.

CARAVAN

BOSWELL’S Thu: Bitchin’ Camaros. Fri:The Peelers. Sat: Savoir Faire. Sun: Jack Rip Off. Mon: Drive! Campbell.

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

Thu: The Quirks. Fri: Mary Axe. CD-release show. Sat: Luca Brazi. San Jose.

CLUB FOX Sat, 8pm: Love Fool. $10/$15.

Redwood City.

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Wed, 8pm: The Falling Rocks.

Rolling Stones tribute. San Jose.

FOX THEATRE BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Sat, noon: 30th anniversary

Fri, 8pm: Foreverland. Michael Jackson tribute. $18/$20.

Redwood City.

THE GRAPEVINE Fri, 7pm: Daemon City Lights, Peter Chung. Sat, 7pm: Given to Fly. Willow Glen.

Sat, 9pm: Six Weeks Sober. Sun, 7pm: Montra, Abaddon, 5150.

Metal. All ages. San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S Fri, 9:30pm: Aftershock Band.

Sat, 9:30pm: Dirty White Boys.

Sunnyvale.

Jazz/Blues

WILLOW DEN

Wed, 7-11pm: Blues jam. $5.

Redwood City.

Fri, 6:30-9:30pm: Friday Night Live with Blue Dogs Band. Sat, 9:30pm: Whiskey Avengers.

Willow Glen.

X BAR MURPHY’S LAW Thu: Maneck. Fri: Dave Abbott Band. Sat: Amy Lou’s Blues.

Sunnyvale.

Sat, 8pm: Good Hustle, Shinobu, Cadet, Casey Chisholm. All ages. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

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ART BOUTIKI Thu, 7pm: Jazz jam. San Jose.

CLUB FOX

D’VINE JAZZ AND WINE Fri-Sat, 8pm: BR Jazz Band.

Morgan Hill.

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: Sid Morris. Campbell.

HEDLEY CLUB

NICKEL CITY

AGENDA LOUNGE

Sat, 6:30pm: The Red Phantom, Thunderhorse, Ipswich, Abaddon, Darkest Shade of Red, Gravel, Frost. All ages. San Jose.

Wed: Salsa night. San Jose.

Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: John Worley and WorlView 4.0. Sat, 8:30pm: Brian Ho Quartet. Hotel de Anza, San Jose.

ALBERTO’S

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Rock en español. Sun-Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea.

Mountain View.

Wed, 9pm: Blues Angel.

Thu, 9pm: Madylan Rose.

Fri, 7pm: Dog House Riley, Vicious Groove. $10. Sat, 9pm: Humdaddyz. $10. Sun, 9pm: Gene Washington. Mon, 9pm: Dennis Dove. Tue, 7pm: Liar’s Club, Blue J. San Jose.

NETO’S GRILL Wed: Junction. Fri, 6:30pm: Vegas Nights. Santa Clara.

9 LIVES Sat, 8pm: Buffalo Canyon. 21+. $5/$8. Gilroy.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed, 9pm: JC Smith Jam Band.

Free. Thu, 9:30pm: Second Story Band. Free. Fri, 9:30pm: Touch of Class. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Marvin Banks. $10. Los Gatos.

PAGODA LOUNGE

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AZÚCAR LATIN BISTRO MOJITO BAR & LOUNGE Wed: Rock. Thu: Latin fusion.

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

NETO’S GRILL Sat, 7pm: Tip of the Top. Tue, 7pm: Blues jam with Dennis Dove. Santa Clara.

CLUB FOX

A PERFECT FINISH Fri: Dirty Downtown Jazz Duo. Sat: Quasimodal. San Jose.

Fri: Johnny Super Rock. Sat: Cancer benefit show. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 7pm: Javier Pacheco & Orquesta Pacheco. $12/$14.

Fri, 7pm: Tempest, Molly’s Revenge. $16/$18. Redwood City.

THE REFUGE

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT

Sat, 6:30pm: Communist Kayte, Cassanova, the Dialed, Four O Clock Heroes, the Druids. All ages. Cupertino.

Wed, 6pm: Happy Together Live. Thu, 6pm: Jason Bellenkes Duo. Fri, 6pm: World music and belly dancer Adriana. Sat, 6pm: World music. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music and belly dancing. Tue, 6pm: AZA. San Jose.

Fri, 8pm: Andy Allo, Mara Hruby. $10-$20. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

THE QUARTER NOTE

RED ROCK COFFEE ROASTING CO. Fri, 8pm: Doug Young. Sat, 8pm: Slow Skate. Mountain View.

SONOMA CHICKEN Thu, 8:30pm: Maxx Cabello Jr. Fri, 8:30pm: Liquid Courage. Sat, 8:30pm: Beach Cowboys Band.

Campbell.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music.

Sunnyvale.

THE VENUE Fri, 6:30pm: The American Dream, Goodnight MIchelle, Aviadora, For a Better Kind, We Are the Archers, As He Wept, Domination. All ages. Los Gatos.

VOODOO LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: Freeway, Jake 1, Those

Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson.

Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price & Yesterdays Band. Fri, 6-10pm: Bob Welsh. Sat, 6-10pm: Annie Sampson Band. Sun, noon-3pm: Johnny Fabulous. San Jose.

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

TESSORA’S Fri, 8pm: Tip of the Top. Sat, 8pm: Nancy Wright Trio. Campbell.

THREE FLAMES

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

Sun, 6-9pm: Dynamic Refried Band. Tue, 6pm: Modesto Briseno Septet. Willow Glen.

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Wed: Dave and Denny Duo. Thu, 7:30pm: Daddios Big Band. $5. Fri: Bossa nova at noon, and Capoeira at 7:30pm.

Sunnyvale.

Thu, 7pm: Felix Amirian. Sat, 7pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

RISTORANTE FRATELLO

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Fri: SFR. Sat: BiPolar Bears. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

ST. BEDE’S EPISCOPAL Sun, 4pm: Kitka, Trio Kavkasia.

Menlo Park.

WINE AFFAIRS Wed, 7:30-10pm: Michael Medina. Thu, 8-11pm: Russell Barber & Billy Davis Blues Band.

San Jose.

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Fools. Live hip-hop. $15. Sun, 9pm: Artifacts, Project Seer, Topr, Joe Cutter. $8/$10.

Tue, 9pm: Armed for the Apocalypse, Lyncium, Morning Ablaze, Crypt Keeper. Metal. $7.

San Jose.

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C&W/Folk BOSWELL’S Sun: Mike Leatherman.

Campbell.

CAFFE TRIESTE Fri, 8pm: Lyric Theatre. All ages.

Free. Sat, 8pm: Rebelskamp. All ages. Free. San Jose.

MISSION CITY COFFEE Sun, 7pm: Nora Jane Struthers and the Bootleggers. $20/$22.

Santa Clara.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE Fri: Blue Serra. Sat: Corduroy Jim. Campbell.

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

Open Mic

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Fri, 9pm: Danielle. Santa Clara.

Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE

THREE FLAMES Mon, 8pm-midnight: DJ Curtis. Willow Glen.

WILLOW DEN Wed, 9:30pm: DJ JR. Thu, 9:30pm: DJ Uncle Hank.

San Jose

Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

Wed-Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.

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

Dance Clubs

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

AGENDA

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

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

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS

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

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

CAFFE TRIESTE

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Thu-Fri: DJs. San Jose.

AVALON Sat, 9pm: Fever Dance Party. $20. Santa Clara.

AZÚCAR LATIN BISTRO Wed: Rock music. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata and rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, urban and Latin fusions. Tue: Salsa. San Jose.

Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

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Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. Palo Alto.

Mon: Rebels Camp open jam night. San Jose.

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO. Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.

Karaoke

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

GOOSE LOONEY’S Wed, 9pm: Thomas. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

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

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

Cupertino.

MARIANI’S Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

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

Sat, 9pm: Club Satori. With DJs Vitus & Kevin. $5. San Jose.

OASIS Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug.

Sunnyvale.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

PEACOCK LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.

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

Sunnyvale.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

BOGART’S LOUNGE

QUARTER NOTE

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

Tue, 9pm: Sherrie and Sue. No cover. Sunnyvale.

Thu: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Diego Guevara. Sat, 10pm: DJ David Q. San Jose.

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Night of the Troubadours IN THE South Bay music scene, some of the best singer/songwriters go completely under the radar, even if they’re in the area’s most popular bands. Perhaps they’re better known for their guitar mastery, like Shaun Packer of the Shitkickers and Suicidal Barfly, or Derek See of Careless Hearts and The Bang. Maybe it’s the sound of their band that gets the most attention, like Dave Miller of Talky Tina and the Odd Numbers, or Dave Baisa of the Odd Numbers and the Pimpsticks. All of the aforementioned, who’ll play solo Friday at the Blank Club with Bry Caughey and Pimp Sticks Friday, Feb. 18, 9pm saxophonist Mike Belardes for “Night of the Troubadours,” share one thing in common: they Blank Club, San Jose put their bands first. What Baisa, who organized this event and wants to turn it into an annual $5 concert, wanted to do was showcase his friends’ songwriting skills in an acoustic setting. “They don’t really get to do that,” he says. “I sit around and play acoustic guitar a lot, and I know these guys do, too. I know all these guys have their own songs.” All he had to do, it turns out, was ask—everyone jumped at the opportunity. Only Lars Fredericksen of Rancid was unable to play, as he’s on tour in Japan. Baisa wanted this to be a night when fans could hear all the words, for once, and for himself it’s an opportunity to get back into playing live after spending the last four years as a newly minted family man. He knows , too, that it’s not necessarily easy for the artists on the bill to leave their bands behind: “It’s kind of hard to get up there with just a guitar sometimes.” —Steve Palopoli

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB Wed: Raygay. Thu: Latin. Fri: ’70s and ’80s. Sat: House. Sun & Tue: Lounge. Menlo Park.

9pm:The HeitThursdays Fri 9pm: 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 2011. Sat, 9pm: DJs and dancing.

Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke.

Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

CLUB ILLUSIONS

GOOSE LOONEY’S

Fri, 10pm-2am: Fuz. With DJ Barney. 18+. Sun, 7:30pm: Teen night. Wth DJ Nate. Palo Alto.

Thu: Ladies’ Night. Fri-Sat: Old School. Milpitas.

DIVE BAR Thu: DJ Otrebor. San Jose.

Wed: The Cypher. Thu: Hip hop.

Fri: Dub Massive. San Jose.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

MOTIF

Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesday. Thu,

Thu: Fresh Thursday, hip-hop, guest DJs. San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S

STUDIO8 Fri, 9pm: Grand opening.

Featuring Ronnie of “Jersey Shore.” Sat, 9pm: All About Aubrey. San Jose.

WILLOW DEN Fri, 9:30pm: DJ Truth. Sat, 11:30pm-2am: DJ. Willow Glen.

ZEN LOUNGE Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ DRoc. Mountain View.

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Hmm, tough one. I came up with ďŹ ve scenarios, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure any of them would work. The thing to realize is the magnitude of what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to accomplish. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are 33 million cubic kilometers of ice in the polar regions. This is grounded ice, sitting on land or the sea ďŹ&#x201A;oor in or near Antarctica and Greenland.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also ďŹ&#x201A;oating ice, such as that covering the North Pole for part of the year. But the USGS rightly ignores this, since (a) the ocean level wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rise when it melts (ďŹ&#x201A;oating ice displaces a volume of water equal to its weightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; think about it), and (b) relatively speaking, ďŹ&#x201A;oating ice is a drop in the planetary bucket.

Just as wellâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have our mittens full with the grounded stuff. Assuming an average polar ice temperature of minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit, melting it all will take 11.3 yottajoules of energy. How much is that? Well, yottais the biggest metric preďŹ x weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve gotâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; it means â&#x20AC;&#x153;add 24 zeros.â&#x20AC;? Annual world energy consumption is something like 500 quintillion joules. Multiply that by about 22,000 and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got 11.3 yottajoules, which isâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I have to say thisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a lotta joules.

How to deliver it? At the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distance from the sun we receive about 1.4 kilowatts of solar energy per square meter, half of which makes it through the atmosphere to the surface. So theoretically we could position giant mirrors in space to reďŹ&#x201A;ect sunlight onto the poles and melt the ice. Problem: to get the job done in a mere 20 years, our bank of mirrors will need to be roughly the size of North America. Then, too, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be nearly impossible to keep the mirrors aimed properly, and the melting ice will create sun-blocking cloud cover, slowing the process.

What about the nuclear option?

Estimates of the total world nuclear arsenal vary, but a reasonable guess is a combined yield from all nuclear weapons of 5,000 megatons. Even

assuming we could pump all the blast energy into the ice and not have any of it leak away, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d still be less than a hundredth of what we need.

Fossil fuels, then? Those 11.3 yottajoules are more than 1,000 times the energy contained in the entire worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proved oil reserves. Throw in all the globeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coal and natural gas and, once again, we still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get to even 1 percent of whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s required.

Maybe we can do better. See how this grabs you. We come up with a process that traps energy in the atmosphere rather than letting it radiate away, perhaps involving an accumulation of gases such as carbon dioxide or methane that would be transparent to incoming solar radiation but a barrier to surface heat.

Sort of a, you know, greenhouse effect.

The beauty of this scheme, as evil plans go, is that once the heat built up to a certain point, cascading events would likely take you the rest of the way. As the temperature rose, melting ice would release additional carbon dioxide and methane trapped within it, accelerating the warming trend.

Thawing permafrost would release still more CO2, and if the oceans got toasty enough you could end up with a major release of frozen methane lying on the seabed, a process thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thought to have been a cause of the Great Permian Extinction. Evil plans donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get much more grandiose than that.

The problem from a cinematic standpoint is that no one genius, however evil, could pull this stunt off. The only way to generate enough CO2 would be combustion on a staggering scaleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d need to enlist the bulk of the earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population in a decades-long campaign to burn through a signiďŹ cant fraction of the planetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organic materials. Even if the plan were technically feasibleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure many in the evil genius guild would scoffâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;nobody would buy it as a movie premise. Everybody pitches in to melt the ice caps? Come on, you think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all fools?

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