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Last La st week, week, with with family, family, business business leaders, community leaders, community activists activists and mayors maayors from f om neighboring fr neighb oring cities standing standin ng behind behind him at a podium p odium set up u on the second second floor floor of a Campbell Campbelll shopping center, center,

Low Lo ow made made tthe he llong-expected ong- expected announcement tthat hat h unning announcement hee iiss rrunning to to fill fill tthe he 2 24th 4th sstate tatte aassembly ssembly seat, seeat, which will b bee left vac vacant ant b byy a termed-out termed- out JJim im Beall.

Beall. IIff h hee w were ere r to o win this rac race, e, L Low ow will b bee the youngest yo oungest person person iin n tthe he C California alifornia Assembly—by Assemblyy— —by six yyears. ears.

Low’s Low’s stor storyy b began egan in Almaden Almaden:: the the land land of of sport spor t wagons, wagons, ssoccer occer balls, baalls, tr trophy ophy wiv wives es and upp upperermiddlem middle - class pr pressures essures and malai malaise. ise.

That’s That’s n not ot h his is d description, escription, iit’s t’s mine, m , and ccomes mine omes fr from om p personal ersonal experience—Low experience—Low ggraduated raduatted a ye year ar behind b ehind e me at Leland Leland High Scho School, o ol, and and while while I d didn’t idn’t k know now h him, im, I k know now everything everything ab about out where where he ccame amee from. fro r m. A tteacher eacher o off m mine ine lliked iked tto o ccall all it the “Golden Ghet Ghetto.” to.”

Located Located at the ffoot oot of Mt. Umunhum Umunhum in south San JJose, ose, Almaden A is a safe saffe ccommunity ommunity wh where ere

children children still w walk alk to scho sschool ol b byy themselves and neighb bors w ave to themselves neighbors wave each other. other. Leland Leland is considered considered to be its b est public scho ol, wher be best school, wheree man manyy of the students ha have ave aambitions mbitions of attending pr olleges. attending prestigious estigious ccolleges.

But like like many many schools, schools, a combination of of ccliques liques aand nd ccrushing rushing combination academic academic and so social cial eexpectations xpectations can weigh weigh heavier heavier o n ssome ome tthan han can on others. others. T To ob bee op openly enly ga ggay ay just a decade decade aago go aatt Le Leland L land w would ould h have ave v created created a se severe vere stigm stigma. ma.

“It w was as completely completely strange strange,” ,” L Low ow recalls recalls o off h his is d days ays aatt Le L Leland. land. “In “In this this day dayy and and age, age, there there aare ree p people eople w who ho are are ccomfortable omffo ortable and public p ab about out their back background. ground. It w wasn’t asn’t all that long ago that it wasn’t wasn’t like like that.” that.”

Low Low describes describ es his upbringing u as pleasant pleasant yet yet ssheltered. heltered. W While hile m many any of his classmates were were graduating and and going going on on to to UC UC aand nd IIvy vy League L ague Le schools, scho ols, Lo Low w cchose hose tto o aattend ttend D Dee Anza College.

College. Perhaps Perhaps showing maturity maturity beyond beyond h his is ye yyears, ars, d despite espite an excellent excellent ac academic ademicc rresume, esume, he he d decided ecided tthe he ttransition ransition ffrom rrom high high sschool cho ol w would ould b bee eeasier asier aatt the the community community ccollege, ollege, aand nd aalso lso lliked iked

the idea the idea o off ssaving aving money. money. It It was was just just another eexample x p of how Low xample Low was was a lit tle bit di iff ffeerent from from many many of his little different ccontemporaries. ontemp oraries o .

His deci ision surprised some folks folks o decision iin n the the neighborhood. neighborho o d. In In describing describing ttheir heir reaction, reaction, Low Low makes makes reference reference tto oap place lace ffamiliar amiliar to to aanyone nyone who who knows Leland—a Lelland—a locale locale popular popular slackers among sla ackers and stoners. stoners. He says: sayys: off some ““The The parents parents o some of of my my friends friends would ask, ask k, ‘What’s ‘What’s wrong wrong with Evan? Is he h down at the creek?’” creek? eek?’”

Low Lo w ttransferred ransferred from frrom De De Anza Anza San University tto oS an Jose Jose State Staate U niversity and and ccontinued ontinued d to define his own path.

That T hatt is, is, until until he he was was unexpectedly unexpectedly forced off h his fo rced tto o cconfront onfrront tthe he iissue ssue o is ssexuality exuality in in a public public forum forum when when he he Cityy Council ran for fo or a Campbell Campbell Cit Council seat aass a 21-year-old 21-year- old ccollege ollege sstudent. tudent. The The transition to being b eing openly op enly gay— gaay— with voters voterrs as well as his family— family— was graceful. w as anything anything but grac eful eful. run-up In the ru un-up to a 2004 20 04 election hee ended h ended up up losing losing by by two two percentage points, Low p ercentagee p oints, L ow was was outed byy a reporter b rep orr ter ffor o or the P Palo alo Alto Daily News Neew ws. T The he reporter reporter had had interviewed interviewed ssomeone omeone w who ho ssaid aid tthey hey liked liked tthe he idea of ha having avving an openly openly gay gaay elected o official. fficial. T The he re reporter p orter ran ran with with tthe he sstory, tory, aand nd Low’s Low’s sexuality sexuality became became the headli ne. This wouldn’t wouldn’t have haave headline. u upset pset h him, im, h hee ssays, ays, except except he he had had ye yett to tell his parents p ents and his brother. par brother. ““You You ccan an iimagine,” magine,” h ays, “that’s “thatt’s hee ssays, a vvery ery sacred sacrred and private issue, issue, and one th that hat generally needs to b bee re reconciled conciled with with family family first. first. My My par parents ents we were ere very very loving loving and said, ‘You’re family.’”

‘Y Yo ou’re fam milyy.’”

Motivated Motivat ted to run ffor or o the C Campbell ampb ell City City C Council ouncil aass a student student project designed p ro oject d esigned by

by SJSU SJSU political political scienc science i e pr professor ofessor of e Terry Terr e y Christensen, Ch i Lo Low wh had ad the the energy energy but but not not the the nec necessary essary eexperience. xperience. T Two w wo years years llater, atter, h hee went went back back to to the the well well and and w won on a seat. seat. Each Each year year the the council council fivee members selects onee of its fiv memb ers to become mayor, b ecome ma m ayor, and Low Low received received honor tthe he h onor iin n 2009 200 9 aatt just just 26 26 years years off aage.

The o ge. T he result result was was a wave wave v of of sstories tories aacross cro r ss tthe he nation nation noting noting that that C Campbell ampb ell had the youngest youngest openly openly gay mayor ga ay ma ayorr in the ccountry. ountry. politicians need off ““He’s He’s ggot ot tthe he ggift ift p oliticians n eed o b being eing lik likeable eaable and b being eing ccomfortable omffor o table with p people, eoplle,” Christensen sa says. ayys. “He rran an ffor or C City ity C Council ouncil an and nd llost. ost. T That hat would b bee enough e ffor or o most p people, eople, but he wen nt right back.” went Christen nsen’s assessment of L ow Christensen’s Low

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sv 411.com of the ongoing debatee ar around ound net neutrality, it’s neutr alityy, and why it ’ important ’s becomes that the public becom mes involved in also the campaign. We We als o touched on Franken’s Fr anken’s rrecent ecent letter letteer to Facebook over the social network’s netwo ork’s plans to grant third access gr ant thir d parties ac cess to user phone h numbers b and d addresses. add esses. addr Franken his Fr anken closed out hi is talk at SXSW message: “Let’s with the ffollowing ollowing me essage: “Let ’s not sell out. And let’s let’s not let the out. government sell us ou ut. Let’s Let’s fight neutrality. ffor or net neutr alityy. Let’s Let’s keep Austin weird.

Let’s weir d. Let ’s keep the Internet weird. weird.

Let’s Internet free.”

Let ’s keep the Interne et fr ee.” — JASON JA SON KINCAID, TECHCRUNCH.COM TECHC CRUNCH.COM

Doug Kirby Sen. Al Franken Franken is one of the few few people who w are are speaking out against the plannedd takeover of the Internet by the lying gutless guutless cowards cowards C Corpor ate and criminals who run Corporate Amerika.

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Al Franken Franken Onn Net Neutrality Neutrraalityy IF YOU YOU care care about the well-being of the t Internet, you care care about net neutrality. neutrality. You You just might not n realize realize it yet.

Monday M onday morning, morning, Sen. Sen. Al Al Franken Franken took took to to the the stage stage at at SXSW SXSW Interactive Inter active to talk about the issue in front front o of a crowd crowd of tech-ssavvy avvy entrepreneurs entrepreneurs aand nd ccreatives, reatives, w where here hhee uurged rged tthem hem ttoo rreach ea oout ut ttoo their their representatives representatives in in Congress Congress and and let let them them know know just just how import important tant net neutrality neutrality is to keeping keepping the web healthy. healthy.

Franken has Franken haas previously previously described it as a the most importantt free fr ee speechh issue of our time, time and he’s hee’ss wor worried ried that the equality we’ve wee’ve come to expect on thee web may soon be undermined undermine ed by major corporations. corporations.

Just before before he gave his speech, TechCrunch TeechCCrunch had the chance chance to sit down with w Senator Franken Franken to discuss disscuss the current current status statuus

Eric Ogden All of o the net startconcerneed because ups should be concerned neutrality they th would be without net neutrality booys. . . Chile squelched by the big boys. support for for net has affirmed their support neutralityy. . . So should the USA! USSA A! neutrality.

Nabil Anwer W Wee will tell our gr grand and kids stories of wh what hat the net used to be like.

Michael Hensha Henshaw aw I still can’t can’t believe Minnesota elected electted this guy to be their Senator.

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Cannibal C annibal a Corn on o the Cob So you want corporations corporations to t be able to decide what you can doo on the Internet?

More CConfusion More onfusion About Internet Interrnet ‘Freedom” ‘F Freedom” Nate Anderson of Arss T Technica echnica e has interview posted an inter view with w Sen. Al Franken “Defining Fr anken about “Defin ning Internet ‘Freedom.’”

‘Fr eedom.’” Neither Sen. Sen. Franken Franken Mr.. Anderson eve everr get ar around nor Mr ound to defining that term in their exchange, implication from but the clear implicat tion fr om the

piece is that that “freedom” “freedom” means freedom freedom for for o the government to plan more more and for for policymakers to more more closely monitor mo onitor and control control the Internet economy. ecconomyy.

The clearest clearest indication of this comes when Sen. Franken Franken repeats repeats the old saw that net n neutrality neutrality regulation regulation is “the First Amendment issue of our A time.”

As liberty, As a lover of liberty y, I find this corruption corruption of language and continued debasement of the term “freedom” “freedom” to be extremely extremely troubling. troubling.

The thinking thinkin ng we see at work here here reflects reflects the the ongoing effort effort by many cyber-progressives cyber-prog gressives (or “cyber“cybercollectivists,” collectivistts, ts ” as I prefer prefer to call them) to redefine Internet freedom redefine e freedom as liberation liberatio on from from the supposed tyranny tyranny of the marketplace and the corresponding corresp ponding empowerment of technocratic technoccratic philosopher kings to gu guide toward moree uide us towar d a mor enlightened enlighteneed and noble state of affairs. affairs. We We are are asked to ignore ignore our historyy lessons, which teach us that cen centralized ntralized planning and bureaucracy bureaucraccy all too often lead to massively i l inefficient i ffi i t outcomes, t myriad unf unforeseen foreseen unintended consequences, bureaucratic consequen nces, bur eaucratic waste, and regulatory regulaatory capture. capture. Instead, we are are asked to believe that high-tech entrepreneurs aree the true thr threat entrepreneeurs ar eat to human pr progress liberty.

Wee ogress and liberty y. W even hear silly comparisons likening innovatorss like Apple to something out of George Geo orge Orwell’s Orwell’s “1984.”

To To be clear, clearr, I am not saying everything g will be sunshine and roses roses in a free free information information marketplace. marketplacce. Mistakes will be made by those innovators in nnovators and there there will even be short-term sh hort-term spells of what many wou would ld rregard egard as excessive corporate power.. The corporate market power question iss how much ffaith aith we should place central place in centr al planners, as opposed d to evolutionary market forces, problem. forces, to solve s that pr oblem.

More insulting More insul ting to me is the continued repetition repetition of this balderdash balderdash h about how net neutrality neutrality is “the First Firsst Amendment issue of our time.” timee.” The Internet’s Internet’s First Amendment Amendmen nt is the First Amendment, not some new, n w, top-down, heavynew

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Catherine C aatherine Ann Fit FFitzpatrick zpatrick I agr ee and II’ve ee, ’ve ve been say ying this as agree, saying long as the Google-fuele ed ffake aake ““net nnet Google-fueled neutr ality” gambit has be een running. neutrality” been subsstantially more Andy We We saw substantially more before price competition in the 1990s before the Bush administr ation curtailed open administration access rrequirements. equirements. I’m I’m not arguing arguing for for a ridiculous mul titude off providers providers as multitude you set up as a str straw aw ma man. an.

Tommy T o ommy Lawr Lawrence encce TTyranny yyranny is governmentt regulation. regulation. l ti Tyranny Tyyranny is i fine fi when it it’s ’s registered registered as an a LLC. LLC.

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Ther e’s no question that the There’s process pr ocess of obtaining government rrecords ecords through thrrough the Freedom Freedom of Information Act Inf ormation nA ct (FOIA) or state or local open government laws is slow While WikiLeaks and frustrating. frustrating. a may get hu undreds of thousands hundreds of pages of of documents covering sever all federal fed d all agencies der i in i an emailil several or on a CD,, it may take us months or even years yeaars to get a few few hundred hundred heavily redacted red dacted pages from from one agency. agency y. FOIA FOIA departments of agencies ffederal ederal age encies are are underfunded, understaffed, understaff e overworked ed, overworked and sometimess don’t try as hard hard as they should d or could to find and rrelease elease all records records responsive responsive to a FOIA rrequest. equ uest. This means we often havee to rresort esort to litigation. g And unfortunately, unforttunatelyy, the Obama Administration, for Administr a ation, for all its early calls transparency ffor or tr anspaarency and accountability, accountabilityy, been has also be een a disappointment in to ar arguments this area, area, clinging c guments the Administration Bush Admi nistration used to prevent prevent the release releasee of crucial information. information.

This all suggests sug ggests that maybe “open “open government” governmen nt” shouldn’t be controlled controlled by the government. government.

Although Al though there’s theree’ss a chance that moree WikiLeaks will lead to even mor and secrecy excessive classification c secrecy increased penalties as well as incr eased penal ties for for disclosure, there’s disclosur e, ther e’s also reason reason to hope that the t courts will actually moree accountability to bring mor government. governmen nt. —JENNIFER LYNCH, LYNCH, EFF.ORG E F F. O R G

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Home Ice for Sharks Playoff Push We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, every game counts from now until the playoffs. The Sharks will be at home for the next three games, starting Thursday at 7:30pm against

the Minnesota Wild. On Saturday at the same start time, the St. Louis Blues will do their best to slow down Los Tiburones (© Mark Purdy). With San Jose currently sitting in third place in the Western Conference standings, the Sharks seem to be in excellent position to take a home-ice advantage into the first round of the postseason. Once the club gets back on the road, only eight regular season games will remain on the schedule, half of which will be at home. After that, anything can happen.

Earthquakes Ready To Get Shaking It’s Wondo’s world and we’re all just living in it. Who’s Wondo? Only one Chris Wondolowski, a 28-year-old Danville native and Major League Soccer’s Golden Boot winner last season—the award is given to the league’s top player. A striker with superb touch, Wondo scored 19 goals in 32 appearances last season while leading the Earthquakes to their first playoff appearance since coming back to San Jose in 2008. Facing Real Salt Lake at 7:30pm Saturday at Buck Shaw Stadium, tickets are reasonably priced as the team waits for its new stadium to be completed two years from now. If fans need an additional push to get out to the pitch, the Earthquakes, aware of their namesake, will be donating $1 to the Red Cross in Japan and the Pacific Rim for every fan who attends the match. Tickets can be purchased by calling 800.225.2277 or going to SJEarthquakes.com.

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countries outside countries outside America, America, premiered premiered aatt Cinequest Cinequest last last week. week. National National Geographic begins U.S. distribution G Geo graphic b egins U .S. distributio on of the beginning th he film b eginning March March 18. book The b ook and film tell Waris’ Born rremarkable emarrkab ble ttrue rue sstory. tory. B orn into into Somali a nomad nomad d ffamily amily iin n tthe he S omalli desert, underwent d esert, sshe he u nderwent tthe he iinhuman nhuman procedure mutilation—a p rocedure of of genital genital m utilation—a ssickening ickening tradition tradition still still practiced practiced places Later, iin n many man ny p laces ttoday. oday. L ater, ass a fled her tteenager, eenagger, sshe he fl ed ffrom rom h er ffamily aam mily tto o London, where photographer Terence L ondon, w here p hotograp pher T erence Donovan her made D onovan discovered discovered h er aand nd m ad de her She h er a ssupermodel. upermodel. S he vvaulted au ulted tto o on iinternational nternationall stardom stardom o n tthe he ccatwalks atwalks off the world,, but now de devotes o votes herr time genital ti ime to fighting against female female e gen nital m mutilation. difference.

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Kofi Kofi Annan Annan n appointed appointed her her ass U.N. U.N. special special ambassador ambassador for for o the elimination elimination of of female femalle genital genital mutilation.

President mutilation. In In 2007, 2007, French French P resident Nicolas Nicolas Sarkozy Sarrkozy appointed appointed her her ass a Chevalier Chevalier de la Legion Legion n d’Honneur. d’Honneur.

Her Desert Desert Flower Foundation Fou undation raises millions for fo or the United United d Nations.

Nations. As As a result, result, dozens dozens of of African African n countries countries have have finally finallly outlawed outlawed the the practice pracctice of of female genital female e genital mutilation, mutilattion,, although 8,000 8,000 girls girls are are still still forced forced into into the the process process each year. year e .

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To T o distinguish distinguish themselves themselves from from tthe he competition, competition, these these rrestaurants estaurants have specialize. ha ave had to sp ecialize. Indian Chaat Chaaat Cuisine C uisine sstands tan nds out out for for its its chaat chaat (small (smalll plates p lates of of crunchy, crunchy, spicy spicy and an nd sweet sweet snacks) sn nacks) and its Maharashtrian dishes. dish hes.

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is that it ’s flat - out delic cious. Chaat it’s flat-out delicious. is a blend of some kind d of cr rispy crispy sstarch tarrch ((wheat wheat fl our, ggarbanzo-bean arbanzo-bean ar flour, flour) or soft dumplin gs made fr om dumplings from llentil entil o arbanzo b atter ccombined ombined orr ggarbanzo batter potatoes, garbanzo beans with p otatoes, garbanz zo b eans and, sometimes,, spr sprouted beans. sometimes outed b eans. Spicy and mint ssweet weet ssauces—typically au uces—typically a ggreen reen m int cilantro saucee and and/or cilantr o sauc a a ttamarind amarind date well aand/or nd/or d ate ssauce—as au uce—as w ell ass yyogurt ogurt aree the classic ac accompaniments. ar compaaniments.

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givee it a spicy spicy-sweet to giv -sweet punch and pop package then p op p the t whole p pack age g in mouth.

Cuisine’s yyour our mout th. Indian Chaat Cuisine ’s little different vversion ersion is a lit tle diff ffeerent in that it’s unassembled.

It’s it ’s unassem mbled. It ’s up to yyou ou to delicately ricee delic ately punch p a hole in the ric liking.. puff and fill fi it to yyour our liking puri ($4.25) Bhel pu ri ($4.2 5) is another winner.. It It’s likee a salad of all the b best winner ’s lik est pieces, ricee crispies crispies,, chaat bits and piec es, ric potatoes, strands of toasted wheat,, p otatoes, chutneys, goodies. chutne ys, onions o and other go odies.

It’s crunchy, flavorful mess..

It ’s a crunc ch hy, fla avorful mess Misal pa pav ($4.99) av ($4.9 9) is a less ccommon ommon dish. It ccombines om mbines black lentils with crispyy no noodles diced crisp odles and dic ed vvegetables egetables It’s likee a vveggie on a soft bun. b It ’s lik eggie burger—sort of. bur ger—so ort of f. was good, All the chaat c I tried w as go od, but was byy the seldomIw as also intrigued b Maharashtrian seen Maha arashtrian ffood. ood. The dishes aree listed on special ar o a sp ecial menu,, so makee sur suree yyou mak ou ask ffor o or it. Most of the aree ser served leaves dishes ar ved on banana lea aves into and fall in to the snack or small-plate interesting was ccategory. ategory. The T most inter esting w as sabudana ($4.25), little the sabuda ana vada ($4.2 5),, lit tle fried peanuts, balls madee with p eanuts, ttapioca apioca potatoes.

Theyy wer weree light and and p otato oes. The crunchy, moist inside and ser served crunch hy, m ved spicy with a spic cy yyet et ccooling ooling ccoconut oconut saucee and p peanut sauce. sauc eanut sauc e. loved deep-green I lo ved the t deep -green and brown-colored thalipeeth ($6.25), br own- collored thalip eeth ($6.2 5), too.

It’s hearty, pancake to o. It ’s a hear h ty, multigrain panc ake from flour,, ric rice, made fr om m rroasted oasted lentil flour e, spices onions and d a big handful of spic es likee ccoriander seeds.. The lik orian nder and cumin seeds chutneyy an and spicy-salty chutne nd intensely spicy -salty served makee ffor pickles ser ved with it mak or a o intriguing rreally eally intri iguing dish. If yyou’ve ou’ve got tooth, a ssweet weet to o check out the puran oth, poli ($5.99), pieces flatbread p oli ($5.9 9 ttwo 9), wo piec es of flatbr ead filled with h a ccardamom-scented ardamom-scented paste from ssweet weet past te made fr om lentil and wheat flou flour. ur.

Chaat Cuisine IIndian ndian C haat C uisine aalso lso sserves erves standard a list of st a andar d Indian vvegetarian egetarian dishes masala d ishes llike ike cchana hana ((garbanzo) garban nzo) m assala malai kofta (vegetarian ($5.49), ma alai k ofta (v egetarian nut-based dumplingss with a thick,, nut -based $6.79) and best off aall, ssauce, auce, $ 6.79) an nd b est o ll, tthe he baigan bhartha mashed b aiigan b hartha ((slow-cooked, slow- cooked, m ashed with eeggplant ggplant eenlivened nlivened w ith a ffull ull cupboard spices, cupb oard of o Indian spic es, $6.49).

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BISTRO ELAN California French. $$$. The only problem with the menu is that it’s all tempting. Using seasonal produce, the chef allows flavors to speak for themselves. 11:30am-1:30pm Tue-Fri; 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 448 California Ave. 650.327.0284.

BISTRO MAXINE Cafe. $$.

Bistro Maxine is a bright, friendly little spot, a coffee shop and creperie rolled into one. If you’re lucky, you’ll snag one of the five indoor or two outdoor tables while perusing the long but straightforward menu. 8am-2pm 6-10pm Tue-Fri, 9am-4pm Sun. 548 Ramona St. 650.323.1815.

BUCA DI BEPPO Nondesigner Italian-American. $$. Like a Sicilian Christmas carnival in the ’50s, this party spot blends clutter, joy, high spirits and, oh yes, huge portions. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 643 Emerson St. 650.329.0665.

CAFE BRIOCHE Southern French. $$. Mediterranean magic: exceptional cuisine on oversize plates is whisked to tables as soon as it’s created.

Breakfast 9-11am, Lunch 11am3pm, Dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri, Brunch 9am-3pm Dinner 5:30-10pm Sat-Sun. 445 California Ave. 650.326.8640.

CAFE RIACE Trattoria. $$. An absolute joy. Every dish is made with honest expertise—no tricky trendiness here.

The homey offerings are based on wholesome Italian staples. Beer, wine. 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sun. 200 Sheridan Ave. 650.328.0407.

CALAFIA CAFE AND MARKET A GO-GO Eclectic. $$. Calafia Cafe and Market A Go-Go combines elements of the fast-food world and the laborintensive slow cooking of more-high-end restaurants.

Chef and owner Charlie Ayers (who was Google’s first chef) calls his concept “slow food fast”—good-to-eat and goodfor-you food that he hopes will appeal to Silicon Valley’s frenetic, too-busy-to-eat pace of life. Look for good burgers, pizza, salads and fresh fish.

11am-9pm weekdays; 9am9pm Sat-Sun. 858 El Camino Real. 650.322.9200.

COUPA CAFE Venezuelan. $$. Venezuela is best known for its oil production and resilient populist president; Coupa shines attention on the country’s premium coffee and chocolate. The beautiful storefront also serves excellent arepas, white corn griddle cakes stuffed with various fillings. 7am-11pm daily. 538 Ramona St. 650.322.6872.

EMPIRE GRILL & TAP ROOM California grill. $$. Waiters with charm to spare, an energetic clientele and a menu packed with grilled, roasted and smoked intensity make Empire Grill much more than simply a smart place to sip a cosmopolitan. Full bar. Tue-Sun 11:30am-10pm. 651 Emerson St. 650.321.3030.

EVVIA Contemporary Aegean. $$$. Forward flavors and plenty of laughter—that’s

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420 Emerson St. 650.326.0983.

FUKI SUSHI Japanese. $$$.

For over two decades this superb Japanese restaurant has served sushi to Nobel laureates and other grateful foodies. Open daily. 4119 El Camino Real. 11:30am-10pm Tue-Sun. 650.494.9383. www.fukisushi.com.

GREEN ELEPHANT GOURMET Burmese. $$. Burmese food draws influences from its three largest neighbors: China, India and Thailand. Standouts here include the coconut chicken soup, tangy tea leaf salad and refreshing glass noodle salad. Lunch 11am2:30pm, dinner 4:30-9pm daily. 3950 Middlefield Rd (Charleston Shopping Center).

650.494.7391.

GYROS GYROS Mediterranean. $. The lunch crowd turns out in force to grapple with the oversize, and messy, lamb and beef gyros, chicken gyros and other treats. That’s especially true on sunny afternoons, when the sidewalk tables fill with folks downing the juicy sandwiches. 11am-11pm daily. 498 University Ave. 650.327.0107.

JUNNOON Contemporary Indian. $$$. This attractive Palo Alto restaurant serves eclectic modern Indian food, the kind you might get at an upscale restaurant in Bangalore or Mumbai. You could easily make a meal from the great selection of appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm and 5:30-10pm Mon-Fri, 5:30-

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A new report released by the United Nations blows another hole in the myth that only large-scale agriculture can meet the world’s food demands. The news is being greeted by advocates of sustainable agriculture as a call to arms (or rakes and shovels) in a new agricultural revolution. The study finds that small-scale farmers can double food production in 10 years by using simple farming methods. Stick it up your GMO, Monsanto.

“To feed 9 billion people in 2050, we urgently need to adopt the most efficient farming techniques available,” says Olivier De Schutter, U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food and author of the report. “Today’s scientific evidence demonstrates that agroecological methods outperform the use of chemical fertilizers in boosting food production in regions where the hungry live.”

De Schutter told the Wall Street Journal that natural farming techniques are the only sustainable way to stave off future food crisis.

“We set up our farming techniques in the 1920s when we thought there would be a never-ending supply of cheap oil,” he said. “Developing farming in a way which makes it less addicted to fossil energy is much more promising.”

What’s all this have to do with you? Well, you eat, right? You can’t change what’s happening in Washington, D.C., and corporate boardrooms, but you can change what you eat. Better yet, you can grow your own. Your Farm in the City: An Urban Dweller’s Guide to Growing Organic Food and Raising Animals (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers), a new book by Seattle farmer Lisa Taylor, is a handbook to help wouldbe urban and suburban farmers get started. The book is an excellent reference for everything from vegetable growing and canning to raising chickens, rabbits, ducks and even goats. “The recent surge of interest in eating locally has inspired city dwellers to see food-growing potential all around them,” writes Taylor. “A grassy lawn with a southern exposure is a wasted opportunity for self-reliance and independence.”

Urban farms like Veggielution in San Jose and Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale are leading the way, and they’re always looking for volunteers.

You become part of the solution by turning away from the problem wrought by industrial agriculture.

For more information check out “Your Farm in the City” by Lisa Taylor.

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KAN ZEMAN Middle Eastern/ Mediterranean. $$. A lively blend of Lebanese, Greek and Turkish cuisine fuels this

festive f ti social i l spot.t A sampler l plate offers garlicky hummus, earthy falafel, dolmas drenched in lemon, a minty tabouli salad and splendid marinated tomatoes. 11am-9pm MonThu, 11am-close Fri-Sat. 274 University Ave. 650.328.5245.

LA LABODE A BODEGUITA GUITA TA DEL DELMEDIO MEDIO Cuban/California. $$$. Themed after a vintage Havana haunt of Ernest Hemingway’s, this zesty restaurant serves lively Cubaninfluenced cuisine along with liquid staples like rum and

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LAVANDA Mediterranean grill. $$$. This urban grill at the top of University Avenue offers eclectic small tasting plates, along with heartier fare such as roasted sea bass with chanterelle mushrooms and guinea fowl with sautéed chard. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun, 5-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 185 University (at Emerson).

650.321.3514.

MANTRA French, American and Indian. $$$. Mantra serves inventive French and American food that speaks with an Indian accent. It isn’t fusion, but a more subtle blend of surprisingly compatible flavors and techniques. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Tue-Fri, dinner 5-10pm Sun-Thu and 5:30-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 632-636 Emerson St. 650.322.3500.

MAYFIELD BAKERY AND CAFE American. $$$. With its simple but handsome decor, open kitchen fronted by a long counter and tidy stacks of split almond logs tucked against the wall for the great smelling wood-burning oven, Mayfield Bakery and Cafe presents updated versions of seasonally driven Mediterranean and American classics—big, bold, rustic flavors and simple preparations that aim to let locally grown ingredients speak for themselves without any undue manipulation or pretence. You know the stuff: Niman Ranch burgers, spitroasted meats, frisée salads with crumbled bacon and a poached egg on top, pizzas, grilled fish, crusty, fresh bread and hearty, satisfying desserts.

8am-4pm and 5-9pm MonFri; 9am-4pm and 5-9pm Sat-Sun. 855 El Camino Real.

650.853.9200.

OSTERIA Italian. $$. Authentic Italian cooking done by skilled chefs from Italy. Be sure to make a reservation, or you’ll be lucky to put a single foot through the door. Beer, wine.

11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sat. 247 Hamilton St. 650.328.5700.

PAMPAS Brazilian steakhouse. $$$. Pampas is a meat lover’s haven. The $44 rodizio service gets you unlimited spitroasted meat. The sprawling side bar offers one of the most extensive selections of vegetarian options you’ll find in a nonvegetarian restaurant.

Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 529 Alma St. 650.327.1323.

QUATTRO RESTAURANT AND BAR Italian. $$$$. Quattro Restaurant and Bar brings high-style, impeccably sourced Italian cuisine to the South Bay, an area that has about as many great Italian restaurants as it does snow days. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Sun, lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sat and dinner 5:30-10pm MonSun. 2050 University Ave. 650.470.2889.

REPOSADO Mexican. $$$.

Reposado offers modern, refined Mexican food served in a lively setting. The restaurant is easily one of Palo Alto’s most striking. The soaring, exposedbeam ceilings make the dining room feel at once industrial and inviting because of the warm colors, wood accents and dramatic light fixtures.

There’s a beautiful bar and cozy booth seating on one side and spacious table and banquette seating on the other. Great selection of tequila. 11:30am10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat and 11:30am-9pm Sun. 236 Hamilton Ave. 650.833.3151.

RESTAURANT SOLEIL New American. $$$$. A mouthwatering menu and an elegant, golden-hued room shine together at Soleil, upstairs in the Westin Palo Alto. Local ingredients and provocative sauces create dishes worthy of the wine list.

Breakfast 6am-11am, dinner 5-10:30pm. 675 El Camino Real.

650.321.4422.

ST. MICHAEL’S ALLEY New California. $$$. Reservations are a must at this smart bistro, whose menu includes inventive potato, meat and seafood dishes that tilt toward New American cookery. Beer, wine.

11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, 5:309:30pm Tue-Sat; brunch 10am2pm Sat-Sun. 806 Emerson St. 650.326.2530.

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SHOKOLAAT. Modern European. $$. Shokolaat’s open kitchen and pastry display counter are as gleaming and clean as a laboratory, a fitting setting for the restaurant’s technically precise, modern European cooking. Counter open 8am-9pm (to-go only 4-9pm), lunch 11:30am2pm Tue-Sun and dinner 5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun. 516 University Ave. 650.289.0719.

STRAITS CAFE Singapore exotica. $$. Blending culinary motifs from India, China and Thailand, the food of Singapore is anything but timid. The menu at Straits is lavish and diverse. Full bar. 11:30-2pm Mon-Fri, 5:30-9:30pm SunThu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 3295 El Camino Real. 650.494.7168.

VERO Italian. $$. Vero aims to offer truly authentic Italian food. The Palo Alto restaurant has had to make a few nods to American tastes but it mainly succeeds with its simple but satisfying food that’s a refreshing break from the same old pasta and pizza.

11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, 5:3010pm Mon-Sat. 530 Bryant St. 650.325.8376.

VINO LOCALE Italian bistro. $$. This restaurant focuses on locally produced Santa Cruz Mountain wines and small plates of food sourced from local purveyors and growers.

On Thursdays, if you can guess all the varietals in your flight of wine, it’s free. 11am-9pm daily.

431 Kipling St. 650.328.0450.

ZAO NOODLES Asian. $.

Putting a hip spin on an ancient culinary art form, this contempo noodle palace purveys many forms of the deliciously messy primal food.

Casual. Beer, wine, sake. 11am10pm Sun-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 261 University Ave. 650.328.1988.

ZIBIBBO Mediterranean. $$$.

This eye-popping remodel by the chef-partners of Restaurant LuLu in S.F. offers wood-fired favorites, pastas, risotto and more. Full bar.

11:30am-10pm Mon-Fri, noon-10pm Sat; daily happy hour 4-6pm. 430 Kipling St. 650.328.6722.

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ANDY’S BAR-B-QUE Barbecue. $$. Andy’s Bar-B-Que is the reincarnation of one of the South Bay’s best barbecue joints. Originally located in Campbell, Andy’s is still serving great oak-smoked meats to a dedicated following. 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, 3-9pm Sun-Thu and 3-10pm Fri-Sat. 2367 El Camino Real. 408.249.8158.

ATHENA GRILL Greek. $$. The Santa Clara restaurant serves the standards you’d expect, but the menu goes deeper and offers authentic Greek dishes you’re not likely to find elsewhere at bargain prices.

10:30am-9pm Mon-Fri. 1505 Space Park Dr. 408.567.9144.

BEQUE Korean. $$. Beque stands out on El Camino Real’s Korean restaurant row for its high style and modern design, but it’s the Korean barbecue, soups and noodles dishes that are the main attraction. 11am10pm daily. 3060 El Camino Real. 408.260.2727.

BIRK’S American grill. $$$.

What makes Birk’s stand out from the rest is a commitment to quality, freshness and hygiene. Concentrate on the specials, or enjoy creative selections from the appetizer menu. Full bar. 11:15am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Sat-Sun. 3955 Freedom Circle.

408.980.6400.

BY-TH-BUCKET American. $$. All walks of humanity rub shoulders here, enjoying just about everything that can be baked, fried, broiled or steamed. Full bar. 11:30am9pm Sun-Thu, 10pm Fri-Sat. 4565 Stevens Creek Blvd.

408.248.6244.

CHALATECO Mexican and Salvadoran. $. Chalateco, a San Jose-based six-restaurant chain, serves Mexico City–style Mexican food and a few Salvadoran dishes. That makes the food unlike the Mexican food typically served in Silicon Valley, but it’s definitely typical Mexican food. 10am-11pm daily. 2323 The Alameda.

408.243.1357.

DONG TOFU CABIN Korean. $.

This is the real deal, priced to keep patrons coming back for bowls of spicy beef, seafood, pickled vegetables, chili soup and, yes, bean curd in its many permutations. 1484 Halford Ave. 408.246.1484.

HATCHO Japanese. $$. Santa Clara’s Hatcho restaurant offers a little bit of everything.

Restaurants that strive to be jacks-of-all-trades often end up being masters of none, but Hatcho displays a wide range of talent. 11:30am-2pm and 5:3010pm Mon-Fri and 5-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1271 Franklin Mall.

408.248.8500.

KABAB AND CURRY’S IndianPakistani. $. Because it’s tucked into a quiet, semiresidential side street, Kabab and Curry’s feels like a neighborhood secret. The Indian and Pakistani restaurant serves a good lunch buffet, and at dinner try the butter chicken, choley and tandoori chicken.

10:30am-2:30pm and 5:3010:30pm Tue-Sun. 1498 Isabella St. 408.247.0745.

KABAB HOUSE HALAL Middle Eastern. $. Santa Clara’s Kabab House Halal, a spare, eight-table restaurant, serves a pan–Middle Eastern menu that leans toward Iran. As the name implies, Kabab House is basically a kebab house. 11am-9pm Mon-Sat. 2521 Newhall St. 408.984.2204.

99 CHICKEN Korean-style fried chicken. $. The simple restaurant specializes in Korean-style fried chicken.

Korean chicken is rendered of its fat and produces smooth pieces of meat with a taut, shatteringly crisp epidermis.

Noon-midnight daily. 2781 El Camino Real. 408.244.5599.

PARCEL 104 New American. $$$$. Parcel 104 casts a spell with its stridently seasonal, ingredient-driven menu of new American food. The restaurant is one of the South Bay’s musteats. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri and 7-10am Sat-Sun, lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri and dinner 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri. 2700 Mission College Blvd.

408.970.6104.

PHO #1 NOODLE HOUSE Asian noodle house. $. A good and friendly destination when one’s stomach screams for a three-course meal but

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PHO THANH LONG Vietnamese noodle house. $. This diner’s pho rates among the Top 3 in the South Bay. Casual. Beer.

9am-9pm daily. 2450 El Camino Real. 408.983.0888.

SABOR SALVADOREÑO Salvadoran. $. One of the few outposts for Salvadoran food in the South Bay, Sabor Salvadoreño serves excellent pupusas, soups, tamales and other standards from the tiny Central American nation. 9am9pm daily. 2045 White Oak Lane. 408.985.6464.

SHAN Pakistani and Indian. $. Shan serves a mix of northern Indian and Pakistani food. Unlike India, most of which is Hindu, Pakistan is Muslim, and that means that meat—chicken, beef, lamb, and goat—plays a starring role.

Kebabs, tandoori and curries all shine here. 11:30am-3pm and 5:30-10pm daily. 5251 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.260.9200.

TOFU HOUSE Korean. $.

Soup stars at this casual, popular stop. To tofu soups, add mushrooms, beef, pork or seafood—plus scores of condiments like daikon, cucumber, radish. Hot stuff!

11am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri, 11am-9pm Sat. Closed Sun. 3450 E. El Camino Real #105. 408.261.3030.

YAN CAN FRESH ASIAN COOKING Chinese and panAsian. $$. At Yan Can you can have chicken satay, wonton soup, chicken teriyaki and Korean barbecue beef all in one sitting. This outpost of celebrity TV chef Martin Yan’s growing empire does a reasonably good job with all those cuisines. 11am-9pm daily. 3927 Rivermark Plaza. 408.748.3355.

ZAFRAN Northern Indian and Pakistani. $. Zafran serves northern Indian and Pakistani food, a muscular, hearty cuisine that revolves around meat: chicken and beef but also lamb and goat, lamb brains and other organ meats. 11am-11pm daily. 1855 El Camino Real.

408.247.9998.

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DARKEST HOUR The Avalon, Santa Clara Thu – $15/$18 Darkest Hour is still one of melodic death metal’s bestkept secrets, despite the fact it was the first breakout band to bring the Gothenburg sound stateside in 1995. Original vocalist John Henry and guitarist Mike Schleibaum have stuck to their roots, bringing forth the heavy, technical brutality deserving of a group that has strangely passed under the radar of mainstream.

Darkest Hour’s latest album, The Human Romance, deserves a listen. Born of Osiris, Sleeping Giant, As Blood Runs Black, the Human Abstract and the Art of War open. (BD)

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PANTHEON Art Boutiki, San Jose Fri – 6pm; free There are a number of bands currently going by “Pantheon,” and for the most part, they’re a grim bunch. There’s a death metal band in England, and a black metal band in Arizona. But San Jose’s Pantheon chose an entirely different route.

Rather than take their cues from Dimmu Borgir, they prefer heavy doses of Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie and the Killers. It’s guitardriven alt-rock with lush harmonies and a broad range of dynamics. What holds it all together is the singer’s confident, bold vocals—he shoots out clever pop hooks and doesn’t sing one song about Satan. (AC)

CHOP TOPS The Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $5 One of Santa Cruz’s most venerable live acts, the Chop Tops are both rip-roaringly contemporary and thoroughly traditional. The band’s high-octane rockabilly eschews the punk-infused approach so popular today in favor of an energetic and het-up take on that most identifiably American of forms.

Drumming frontman Sinner is a beast onstage, commanding the crowd with such assurance that he completely dispels any memories of Phil Collins anemically fronting Genesis from behind a laughably grandiose drum kit. Deadly Love is the Chop Tops’ most realized album to date, with ace production from Kim Nekroman and a healthy serving of hard-living, bad-loving rockabilly. (PMD)

THOSE CHARMING CROOKS Johnny V’s, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $5 What to say of this seven-piece outfit whose downloadable single “This Girl, This Grail” suggests a combo of yearning for the physical and the spiritual? It is not an offense to the ears: a compaction of late-20th-century Motown bassline and crime-jazz horn section, with a bit of the grunge tantrum in the vocals and surfmusic arabesques in the guitar solo. The flavors work together, but I wish they’d let the poor girl they tied up in their promo picture sing a few numbers. (RvB)

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Events include a performance on Saturday (9pm at Le Petit Trianon) by the Pacific Guitar Ensemble with David Tanenbaum, Michael Bautista and others, plus a weekend full of workshops, demonstrations and exhibits at Evergreen Valley High School (Saturday, 9am–4:30pm, Sunday, 10am–4:30pm). (MSG)

LYDIAN STRING QUARTET St. Luke’s Church, Los Gatos Fri – 8pm; $10-$25 The members of the Lydian String Quartet play together and pass on their musical knowledge together—they are all on the faculty at Brandeis University.

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California Theatre, San Jose Sat – 8pm, Sun – 2:30pm; $39-$75 Symphony Silicon Valley goes tilting at windmills in a concert version of the famous hit show Man of La Mancha. This production features the full orchestra and guest singers; the memorable numbers include “Dulcinea,” “I Really Like Him,” “Little Bird” and, of course, “Dream the Impossible Dream.” William Liberatore conducts. (MSG)

SJ Jazz Winter Fest concert, Mar 19 at 8pm, Club Regent, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose

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RUSTY ZINN Poor House Bistro, San Jose Sat – 6pm; free Reggae was the last thing the blues world expected from Rusty Zinn. A disciple of Chicago blues prophet Jimmy Rogers, Zinn exploded out of the NorCal scene in his teens, and within just a couple years of picking up his first guitar he was backing Rogers himself, as well as other Chicago icons like Snooky Pryor. But something was missing for him, not just musically, but spiritually, and he finally found it when he released Reggae Blue in 2007.

Some wrote it off as a novelty, but no less than the daughter of the late reggae legend Joe Higgs was so impressed she flew Zinn to Jamaica, where he recorded his next album, Manifestation, backed by some of the genre’s greats. (SP)

Mar 19 at 8pm, Smith Center, M Ohlone College, Fremont

CALIFORNIA YOUTH SYMPHONY Mar 20 at 2:30pm, Flint Center, Cupertino

ACOUSTIC AFRICA Part of SJ Jazz Winter Fest, Mar 20 at 6pm, Club Regent, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose

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

MATT MCBANE AND BUILD Mar 24 at 7pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

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

CALDER QUARTET Mar 30 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

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

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Fiddler on the Roof Wednesday–Thursday, 7:30pm, Friday, 8pm, Saturday, 2 and 8pm, Sunday, 1 and 6pm, runs thru March 20; San Jose Center for the Performing Arts; $20–$79 The Tony Award–winning musical about a small Russian village and the travails and triumphs of its humble citizens has been a resounding success on Broadway and on the road for almost 50 years. Tevye and his family and friends come to town as part of the Broadway San Jose series with star John Preece.

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Equus Thursday–Saturday, 8pm, Sunday 7pm (March 27) or 2pm (April 3, 10 and 17), runs thru Apr 17; City Lights Theatre Company, San Jose; $25–$35 Peter Shaffer’s 1973 drama about a psychiatrist and a young patient with a serious Trigger complex has been shocking audiences and providing actors with a chance to prove their range (like Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe). City Lights’ version stars Sean Gilvary as troubled Alan and Steve Lambert as Dr. Dysart. Kit Wilder directs.

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COMPANY C CONTEMPORARY BALLET A program of dances in a neo-classical vein. Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $40-$43.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

Theater ANYTHING GOES South Valley Civic Theatre presents the famous Cole Porter musical. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm (Mar 20).

Runs thru Mar 26. $14/$18.

Morgan Hill Playhouse.

BLESS ME, ULTIMA The West Coast premiere of a stage version of Rudolfo Anaya’s novel in a production

by Teatro Visíon. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Apr 3. $8-$20. Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater. San Jose.

EQUUS Peter Shaffer’s intense drama about a troubled boy and his psychiatrist is presented by City Lights Theater Company. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun 7pm (Mar 27) or 2pm (Apr 3, 10 and 17). Runs thru Apr 17. $25-$35. City Lights, San Jose.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN Pear Avenue’s version of Arthur Miller’s famous play.

Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm.

Runs through Mar 20. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Broadway San Jose brings the perennial classic to town.

Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. Runs thru Mar 20. $20$79. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

FOLLIES CONCERT VERSION A musical salute to great Broadway songs done revue style by Tabard Theatre. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm (plus Mar 24, 8pm).

Runs thru Mar 27. $27-$35.

Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

INTIMATE APPAREL Buddy Butler directs a new version of Lynn Nottage’s play. Wed-Sat, 7pm. Runs thru Mar 19. $10/$20. SJSU University Theater.

THE NORTH POOL TheatreWorks mounts the world premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s thriller. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 2 and 7pm (no matinees Apr 2-3). Runs thru Apr 3. $27-$42. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

SISTER SPIT—NEXT GENERATION A multimedia event with novelists, performance artists, models and more, presented by RADAR, a queer lit arts group. Thu, 7pm. $10.

MACLA, San Jose.

TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE A musical production from West Valley Light Opera. This week: Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm.

A local production of the musical about the highstakes world of roller disco.

Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $24$44. Retro Dome, San Jose.

Comedy CLUB FOX Mon, 7pm: Comedy Mondays. $10. Redwood City.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition. $10.

Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Michael Loftus with Racey MacDonald and Kabir “Kabessy” Singh. $12-$18. Tue, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition. $10.

Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Dirtbag Comedy Kings. $12. Thu, 8pm. Fri-Sun, 7 and 10pm: Jo Koy. $25.

Sun, 7pm: Scientist Turned Comedian Tim Lee. $20.

San Jose.

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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 “Twelve Drawings From Domenico Tiepolo’s New Testament.” Thru May 29.

“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.” Thru Mar 20. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art From India.” Thru Sep 4. “Robert Mapplethorpe: Portraits.”

Thru Jun 5. “The Modern Photographer: Observation

and Intention.” Thru Jul 3.

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

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES “Earthly Paradise: Memory, Myth, Metaphor.” Large allegorical textiles by Carrie Houseman and Darbury Novoselic. “Eden Reimagined.” Embroideries

by Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone.” “Boy Code.” A group embroidery show.

“Modern Maya.” Clothing and weavers display their pieces.

Thru May 1. Tue-Sun, 10am5pm. 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, 10am8pm. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “All Thought and Pleasure.”

Works by Squeak Carnwath.

Thru May 8. “The Everyday.”

Works by Stanley Goldstein.

Thru May 15. “Selections from the Permanent Collection, Perceiving the Real.” Thru May 1. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm.

Santa Clara.

GALLERY HOUSE “Shades of Red.” A Valentine’s art show. Thru Mar 26. Wed-Sat, 11am8pm, Sun 11am-3pm. Enter through Printer’s Ink, Palo Alto.

GALLERY SARATOGA “Giraffes and Jackals.”

Modern expressionist paintings by Tim McKay. Thru Apr 3. Tue-Sat, 11am-5pm.

Saratoga.

GOOD KARMA VEGAN CAFE “Phosphene Series.” Handpainted Polaroid emulsion lifts by Shannon Amidon.

Thru Mar 26. San Jose.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE Sculpture by Fred Yokel. Thru Mar 31. San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY “The Grandeur of the Commonplace: Impressions of Europe.” Photos by Dotti Cichon. “Almost Edible.” Food painting by Kathleen Wolf.

Thru Mar 25. San Jose.

MACLA “Novelas, Love and Other Adventures.” A group show about graphic novels and comic books with a Latino slant. Thru Mar 26. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon5pm. San Jose.

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“Immutable.” Photos by Michelle Budziak. Thru Mar 31. San Jose.

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“Funerals.” New Works by Mike Egan. Thru Apr 16. “Aural Dreaming.” Sculptures by Derek Weisbert. Thru Mar 19.

San Jose.

ART ARK “Remarkable Marks.” Mixed media by Shaun Benak. Thru Mar 21. San Jose.

CAFFE TRIESTE “Folie a Deux: A Delusion Shared by Two.” Monotypes

by Curt Schauer. Thru Mar 26.

San Jose.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ART Color-field and abstract paintings and mixed-media

by Brian Caraway. Thru Mar 27. Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, Sat, 9am-3pm. Mohr Gallery, Finn Center, Mountain View.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA Works by photographer Natalie Courtney. Thru Mar 26. San Jose.

“Cease & Desist.” A sitespecific installation by Carrie Ungerman and matador costumes made from commercial packaging by Charlotte Kruk. Thru Apr 17. “David Middlebrook: Sculpture on the Grounds” and “Ali Naschke-Messing: From Within, So Without.”

Thru Jun 1. Thu-Sun, 11am3pm. Saratoga.

MOUNTAIN VIEW CITY HALL “An Observer’s Notebook.”

A show of art by CSMA teachers and students. Thru Mar 21. Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm.

Mountain View.

PHANTOM GALLERIES Works in vacant storefronts

by Yumiko and Reiko Miyagama and Mike Park.

Runs thru Apr 16 along South First Street, San Jose.

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Pacific Guitar Ensemble Sat, Mar 19, 8PM

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Pool Depths PLAYWRIGHT Rajiv Joseph has had a brief but colorful career. He has taken audiences to war-torn Iraq with his Pulitzer Prize–nominated Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (now showing in New York with Robin Williams as the tiger) and into the world of origami with Animals Out of Paper, which ran at the SF Playhouse last year. All This Intimacy, a tale of male promiscuity, appeared at San Jose’s Renegade Theatre Experiment a few months ago.

On Saturday night, after years in the making, Rajiv Joseph’s The North Pool had its world premiere at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto. This latest work takes place at Sheffield High School, where 18-year-old K_\ Efik_ Gffc Khadim Asmaan, played by Adam Poss, has been summoned to the office of vice -principal Runs thru April 3 Danielson (TheatreWorks regular Remi Sandri).

Lucie Stern Theatre, It is the last day of class before spring break, and Palo Alto Dr. Danielson holds Khadim in detention after $24–$67 school lets out, ostensibly as punishment for skipping class but really so he can interrogate the Syrian-born student about other things going on at Sheffield.

At the outset, this two-person drama seems like a fairly straightforward parable about racial profiling and post-9/11 paranoia. Danielson is authoritarian and heavy-handed, and regards Khadim’s Middle Eastern origins with suspicion. Khadim, on the other hand, seems like a wellbehaved, needlessly harassed young man. However, things aren’t quite so simple, and once the surface is breached, The North Pool becomes a rather more complex look at 21st-century anxieties.

With its cinderblock walls and hanging florescent lights, Sheffield High looks like a typical American school. However, this school has its secrets, just as Khadim and Danielson have theirs. As these are gradually revealed, our sympathies shift. Then, just as we’re ready to forgive one character, we find another reason to question his motives.

In the past, Rajiv Joseph has not shied away from using violence, but here, in the best tradition of psychological thrillers, the action takes place within the characters’ minds. They are never in any physical danger, and the play is no less exciting for this. It unfolds in real time, with no scene breaks and no intermission, allowing unmitigated tension to build between the two fine actors. Discomfort hangs thick in the air with no secondary characters to relieve the pressure, making this a suspenseful as well as thought-provoking event.—Sean Conwell

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“Just in Time.” Abstract by Jane Peterman. Thru Mar 21.

San Jose.

A regular event on third Thursdays of the month. For this edition, Tim Myers of Santa Clara reads. Thu, 7pm.

Free. Willow Glen Library.

PSYCHO DONUTS

CATHLEEN SCHINE

Art by Michael Foley, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin and others. San Jose.

Girls Night Out with the author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport.

Thu, 7-9pm. $15/$20. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Palo Alto.

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SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Size Matters.” A group show about concepts of scale.

Thru Jun 18.“Powers of Ten.” A 1968 documentary short

by Ray and Charles Ames.

Thru Jun 11. “Urgency.” Large wooden installation by Mike Rathbun. Thru Jun 4. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm.

San Jose.

SLG BOUTIKI “Captain Blood and Other Rouges.” Comic book art about pirates and scoundrels.

Thru Mar 31. San Jose.

STANFORD ART SPACES Paintings by Angelica Di Chiara, photos by Gil Mares, paintings by Alan Sonneman and photographs by Vaibhav Tripathy. Thru Mar 17. MonFri, 8:30am-5pm. Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford.

THOMPSON GALLERY “Dubberly Design Office: Imagining Software.” A look at the firm’s designs. Thru Apr 8. Tue, 11am-4pm, 67:30pm, Mon, Wed-Fri, 11am4pm. Art Building, SJSU.

WORKS/SAN JOSE Benefit Auction Exhibit for the gallery with pieces by about 100 local artists. Thru Mar 19. San Jose.

*books DAVID BROOKS

Conservative New York Times columnist speaks at Commonwealth Club event.

Tue, 8pm. $12/$20. Schultz Cultural Hall, Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto.

ALYSON NOËL A youth even with author of Shimmer. Thu, 7pm. Free.

Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

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O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

Specials all day, 6am-2am. $2 bottled beers, $2 well drinks. 2214 Business Circle, San Jose, 408.279.9737.

Annual celebration with a menu of corned beef and cabbage and live entertainment featuring Irish dancers at 7:30pm. 10801 N Wolfe Rd, Cupertino, 408.446.3853.

Live entertainment and Irish grub. 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose, 408.947.8007.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Doris Williams and Peter Daldry present Celtic folk music contemporary style with lute and guitar. Dinner show at 8pm, seating beginning at 7pm. $10/$14.

863 Main St, Redwood City, 650.365.3226.

DIVE BAR

The author of 50 Jobs in 50 States: One Man’s Journey of Discovery Across America talks about how he managed the feat. Sun, 2pm. Free.

Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

THE BANK

Drink specials. 99 E San Fernando St, San Jose, 408.998.9998.

KEITH THOMSON

Corned beef and cabbage, lunch and dinner service. 1031 Monroe St, Santa Clara, 408.985.7201.

DANIEL SEDDIQUI

A booksigning with the author of the thriller novel Twice a Spy. Fri, 7pm. Free.

Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

*kids SEUSSICAL JR.

A musical by Los Altos Youth Theatre. Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2 and 7:30pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Mar 26. $10/$15. Bus Barn Theatre, Los Altos.

*events JUST DESSERTS

A visual sampling of foodrelated art at fine arts museums, with lecturer Marsha Holm. Tue, 10am. $10.

Saratoga Foothill Club.

OUTRAGEOUS OUTGROWNS A chance to save on the cost of children’s clothes. Fri-Sun, 9am-5pm. Free. Pavilion Hall, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose.

PURIM MASQUERADE BALL With music and food for young adults. Sat, 9pm. $10/$15, Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Palo Alto.

TASTE OF COMPASSION West Valley Community Services helps raise money for homeless. A portion of proceeds from meals goes to benefit services. MonTue. $24/$26. Steamer’s Grillhouse, Los Gatos.

Annual celebration of corned beef and cabbage starting at 5pm until it runs out.

Guinness drafts on tap. 14421 Big Basin Way, Saratoga, 408.867.5155.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Irish pipe band at 7:30pm. Drive the Band at 10pm. 5027 Almaden Expwy, San Jose, 408.266.0550.

Drink specials and Black & Tans. Plus dancing and giveaways starting at 9:30pm.

78 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, 408.288.5252.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

FAULTLINE BREWING COMPANY Mon-Fri (Mar 14-18): Lucky Pot o’ Gold week-long celebration of green beer, daily specials and prizes. 1235 Oakmead Pkwy, Sunnyvale, 408.749.BREW.

FIBBAR MAGEE’S Irish dancing, VJ video mashups, and the kitchen will be serving up Irish specialties.

156 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale, 408.749.8373.

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BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

Irish menu, drinking and debauchery. 69 N San Pedro Square, San Jose, 408.287.6969.

Irish menu and fun. 1087 De Anza Blvd, San Jose, 408.252.7262.

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BRITANNIA ARMS SAN JOSE Bagpipers and Scottish dancers at 7:30pm followed by DJ at night. A traditional spread of corned beef, cabbage and Irish stew will be served until 11pm. 173 W Santa Clara St, San Jose, 408.278.1400.

BOSWELL’S St. Patrick’s Day drink specials. Bitchin’ Camaros perform at 9:30pm. 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell, 408.371.4404.

BRITISH BANKER’S CLUB Celebration starts at 8am with Irish breakfast.

Bangers & mash, Shepherd’s pie, corned beef & cabbage and other favorites served later in the day. DJ and dancing at 10pm. 1090 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, 650.317.8769.

Annual celebration with $12 all-you-can-eat buffet; 11am until it’s gone. Viewing of the 1952 classic The Quiet Man during lunch.

Full of Blarney performing, 6:30-10:30pm.

1040 Dell Ave, Campbell, 408.378.3970

KATIE BLOOM’S IRISH PUB

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Traditional Irish band Celtic Soul, 5-7pm.

Jay His Band & Street Choir’s tribute to Van Morrison follows, 7-9pm. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose, 408.292.5837.

REDI ROOM Irish menu featuring corned beef & cabbage.

4340 Moorpark Ave, San Jose, 408.257.7770.

ROSIE MCCANN’S IRISH PUB All-day Saint Patrick’s Day celebration with various food and drink specials. 355 Santana Row, San Jose, 408.294.7800.

THE SADDLE RACK St. Patrick’s Day blowout; $3 cover charge, well drinks and bottled beer. Free corned beef and cabbage while it lasts. Live music with Copper Hollow and Danny Lee Dun. 42011 Boscell Rd, Fremont, 510.979.0477.

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SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

Drink specials and dancing with DJ Davey K. 300 Orchard City Dr, Campbell, 408.379.6340.

A big party to honor the day. 420 S. First St, San Jose, 408.294.7800.

THE LOUNGE

STEPHEN’S GREEN

St. Patrick’s day party with food and drink specials, 4pm-close. 2368 Pruneridge Ave, Santa Clara, 408.244.4600.

Irish food, green beer and cocktails followed

by Irish music at 5pm and a DJ competition at 10pm. Happy hour round two, 11pm-1am.

223 Castro St, Mountain View. 650.964.9151.

Irish menu. Dueling pianos in San Jose. 130-G N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos, 408.395.9929; and 163 W Santa Clara St, San Jose, 408.292.9928.

Irish breakfast and corned beef and cabbage. Irish dancers at 8pm.

2240 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell, 408.379.2654.

Corned beef dinner, the Coors Girls and music by Hit Man Dave (noon), Hip Shake (5pm) and Jerry Sauceda (6pm on). 102 S Montgomery St, San Jose, 408.998.4566.

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A day of Irish food and music. VJ Vinyl will mash up music videos when the sun goes down. $6.50 Jameson and Smirnoff you-callits. 85 S Second St, San Jose, 408.286.2397.

Irish dancers, live music and the Hannegan Homeboy’s Pipe Band. Admission includes all-you-can-eat ribs, chicken, corned beef, salads, desserts and “Big Bill Callahan’s Oyster Bar.”Tickets $50. 208 Bachman Ave, Los Gatos, 408.395.1233.

A St. Patrick’s Day celebration with Windy Hill Bluegrass beginning at 8:30pm. $10. 2209 Broadway, Redwood City, 650.369.7770.

Food and drink specials from 4pm-close.

5152 Moorpark Ave, San Jose, 408.257.6738.

Live Irish music all day, set menu featuring corned beef & cabbage. 369 E Campbell Ave, Campbell, 408.379.9687.

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TEMPLE Holiday menu by Bella Mia, DJ at 6pm and So Timeless at 8pm, plus guest DJs Inkfat and Illefect. 52 S First St, San Jose, 408.288.8518.

Corned beef & cabbage starting at 2pm.

1628 El Camino Real, Redwood City, 650.368.9979.

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Raised in Orange County, Gauger (The Owl and the Dragon) worked with Sunnyvale’s local heroes the Bui brothers on Green Dragon and Three Seasons. The Buis are fairly elliptical

as indie filmmakers go. Bi, Don’t Be Afraid! is sometimes puzzling, just like Tran Ahn Hung’s films (The Scent of Green Papayas and Cyclo); making it a smaller world, Tran co-produced Bi. The unsaid and the elliptical have no place in Saigon Electric, clearly built with commercial potential in mind. Perhaps future episodes of the Step Up franchise will take the saga to international cities? Saigon might be a start.

On one inner city block, Gauger shows us a community of street kids; their Adidas logos, breakdancing, Major League Baseball hats, Krylon murals and kanji tattoos mark them as rebels who must have freezeframed MTV to get every detail of their rebellion perfect.

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traditional country girl, Mai (Van Trang), who is attending the dance academy. She fails. Uncertain of what to do next, she keeps the room she’s rented from a hard-drinking oldster (Phan Tan Thi). At a restaurant job, Mai meets the tough and spiky Kim (Quynh Hoa); Mai is part of a troupe of street hiphoppers called Saigon Fresh.

Samsung, which gets a generous share of product placement here, is hosting a dance off against the team’s mortal rivals, the North Killaz. The only spontaneous moves in Saigon Electric are the ones the dancers perform.

Bi, Don’t Be Afraid!, set in the outskirts of Hanoi, offers a different worldview and rhythm. It’s all lyricism and little plot: director Phan Dang Di, who scripted the adult drama Choi Voi (Adrift), takes advantage of the lifting of censorship in Vietnam to present mature material, with nude scenes, an instance of masturbation and sexual assaults.

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household is young Bi (Phan Thanh Minh). His own carefreeness is disturbed by the arrival of a grandfather (Tien Tran) who has spent most of his life overseas on national business. The old man is mortally ill and not quite aware of the general dysfunction going on around him.

Father Quang (Nguyen Ha Phong) is drinking himself into oblivion every night and hanging around a massage parlor. The unmarried aunt, a substitute schoolteacher who lives with them, has an interesting sex life. She’s involved with a roughneck construction worker, but she has her eye on a student she met on the bus.

Bi’s heaven and hell—and his playground—is the local ice factory, a steaming, muddy place that produces a precious cargo. Ice is something wondrous in a place as tropical as Vietnam. It’s something that connects everyone on their solitary wanderings: it unites the grandfa grandfather’s diseased body, the b aunt’s burning sex organ, the swamp cooler at the beer cafe where Quang drink is drinking away his nights.

The margins of Bi’s world are a w river wasteland, where he goes to search for flowers amid the weeds.

There, young men have their own muddy world of pleasure, playing soccer in the rain.

Bi, Don’t Be Afraid! has its own performance of hiphop–inflected music. But when you hear it, you’re hearing something that’s specifically Vietnamese in the scales and harmonies, as opposed to the more bland international style of Saigon Electric.

Bi, Don’t Be Afraid! is a bewildering film, and I can’t pretend to have gotten every inflection or every reference to Vietnamese life and lore. Moreover, it seems to have been cut in a way to make the narrative more ambiguous. Yet, compared to the commercial slickness of Saigon Electric, Bi’s refusal to explain itself thoroughly is risky and admirable.

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Mighty Ochs THE LONG-AWAITED documentary Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune leaves nothing to be desired. Director Kenneth Bowser has the cooperation and collaboration of the Ochs family. In addition, Bowser talks to people outside the circle of friendsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; not that I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t moved by seeing the greats of the folk world; with typical intelligence, Judy Henske sums up one of Ochsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; main problems: the desire to be both exceedingly famous and exceedingly honest, even when it means going after the spineless liberals in your audience. It is equally a choke-up to hear the noble Pete Seeger describe the fate of Victor Jara. But Bowser also interviews Jello Biafra (a ďŹ gure with a lot in common with Ochs), Billy Bragg and Christopher Hitchens.

Forty songs by Ochs adorn the soundtrack. The music reďŹ&#x201A;ects the hopes and terror in the air of America in the 1960s. And in turn, this Zeitgeist harmonized with the manic depression that Ochs self-medicated with booze.

Just as Bowser doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overpraise or underpraise Ochs, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also not rolling in the squalid side of the singerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. A ďŹ gure this nakedly open wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have given much dirt to a Behind the Music documentary anyway. As the music promoter Sam Hood says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Phil was

never cool. ... He exposed himself in a way that was ultimately lethal.â&#x20AC;?

Still, the ďŹ rst half-hour has something of the preaching to the choir key to the folk era. The ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s connecting theme is Ochsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scrapbooks; he considered himself a journalist, using songs as broadsides. The everG_`c FZ_j1 shrewd Dave Van Ronk K_\i\ 9lk ]fi describes Greenwich =fikle\ Village songsmithing Unrated; 96 min. as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the topical song Opens Friday, movement.â&#x20AC;?

Camera 3, San Jose Some of that topicality is gone. Ochsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; late-1960s material was far more musically impressive. His â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pleasures of the Harborâ&#x20AC;? ought to be as well-known as a song it rivals, Leonard Cohenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Suzanne.â&#x20AC;? The ragtime â&#x20AC;&#x153;Small Circle of Friendsâ&#x20AC;? may have been stimulated by something topical, the Kitty Genovese outrage. But the generous and angry spirit that sings here makes the song relevantâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and shamingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;today. That spirit of course is needed now. Our 2011 crises of injustice and endless colonial wars could have been addressed in Ochsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lyrics: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even treason might be worth a try/ this country is too young to die.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

Mar 18: Upaj (7pm). Tap-dancer Jason Samuels Smith meets Kathak master Pandit Chitresh Das in a documentary, with live performance following. After the show: the opening-night festivities are at the San Jose Museum of Art at 9pm. Mar 19: Amin (12:15pm): From Iran, a story of Qashqai singing. The Piano in a Factory (1pm): In China, a steelworker recruits friends to build a piano. Saigon Electric (3:15pm): See ďŹ lm lead on page 45. Life, Interrupted (3:30pm): A program of three shorts.

Almost Perfect (6pm): An NYC romcom, Asian style. Made in India (6pm): A documentary regarding a Texas couple hiring a surrogate mother in Mumbai.

Emir (8:30pm): Old-school Filipino musical about a nannyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adventures among the sheiks; corny, but sung like Rodgers and Hammerstein instead of American Idol. When Love Comes (9pm): Sophisticated Taiwan drama about an unusual family. Mar 20: Shorts (noon). The Fourth Portrait (1pm): In Taiwan, a boy turns to painting to escape familial pressures.

One Voice (2:15pm): Documentary following the Kamehameha School song competition in Hawaii. Surrogate Valentine (3:30pm): Local hero Goh Nakamura as an indie rocker in love. Abraxas (4:45pm): How a rock musician became a Buddhist monk.

Bi, Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Be Afraid! (6pm): See ďŹ lm lead on page 45. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Wonderful Afterlife (7:30pm): Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) directs this murder comedy about an avenging mom. Break Up Club (8pm): In China, a website exists that can reunite broken couples. (Plays Mar 18-20 in San Jose at Camera 12; Caamedia.org) (RvB)

CERTIFIED COPY (Unrated; 106 min.) Iranian master ďŹ lmmaker Abbas Kiarostamiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sedate but intriguing study of an afternoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s encounter. The two who meet for conversation: a French lady (Juliette Binoche) who works in an expensive Tuscany antique shop and an art historian, little read in his native England but visiting Italy to give a lecture. The topic is his book, also titled CertiďŹ ed Copy: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an attempt (countering Walter Benjamin) to argue for the preciousness of

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Cinequest Wraps LAST SUNDAY, after wrapping up with a day of repeat performances of some of the most talked-about films, Cinequest 21 did the numbers and found out it had had a record year— 91,000 attendees had come to watch the 75 premieres and dozens of special events. Rosa Morena won the best First Feature Film award for director Carlos Augusto de Oliveira. It was a deserved honor for a morally complex drama of a gay Danish architect looking for a baby to adopt in Brazil.

Best Feature Film went to Rene Feret’s Mozart’s Sister, about the great musician’s sister Nannerl, also a prodigy. Conrad Jackson’s Falling Overnight got the special jury award for its intimate story of love on the brink of major brain surgery. It’s little surprise Dying to Do Letterman won both best documentary from the jury and the audience for directors Biagio Messina and Joke Fincioen. This story of the comedic ambitions of Steve Mazan proved to be a true crowd pleaser. The World According to Ion B., about the troubled Romanian artist Ion Barladeanu, scored a special jury award as well.

STARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 18TH AT THEATRES EVERYWHERE NO PASSES ACCEPTED

The kids’ movie The Liverpool Goalie from Norway was selected as the

audience choice for Best Feature. The New Visions Award went to Jamil Walker Smith’s mockumentary Make a Movie Like Spike about a Los Angeles recruit on his way to Afghanistan.

The Kaiser Permanente Thrive Award went to Tom Shadyac’s I Am, a choice that fits the ever-growing New Age side of Cinequest. For example, one was nonplussed to see a live Vikram yoga demonstration introducing the Indian film Raavanan. Appropriate to a movie about the subcontinent, maybe, but a real only-at-Cinequest experience. Togetherness Supreme, set in the infamous Kibera slum outside of Nairobi, concerned a love triangle involving three young people of different tribes, won the Global Vision Award.

The Maverick Screenplay award went to Robert Holbrook for the biopic Mr. Tesla. Second place went to Pixar senior technical artist Stephan V. Bugaj’s Welcome to Akron, about a friendship between a death rocker and a dying cancer patient. Saint Patrick’s Tear by Neil Cumbria took third place.

Start working on your own script, if you’ve got one: Cinequest 22 is slated to begin Feb 28, 2012.

—Richard von Busack

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about two Brits meeting an alien near Area 51. (Opens Fri.)

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(Unrated; 101 min.) A story about a female mercenary in Vietnam. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.)

LIMITLESS (PG-13; 105 min.) See review at left.

THE LINCOLN LAWYER (R; 119 min.) Matthew McConaughey stars as a defense attorney who drives, wait for it, a Lincoln Town Car. The legal thriller also stars Marisa Tomei and Ryan Phillippe. (Opens Fri.)

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Addictive INVIGORATING and ingenious, Limitless takes what could have been a Twilight Zoneâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style one-act story and keeps it bouncing through three acts. Neil Burgerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s satire of American self-improvement is something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re glad Darren Arnofsky or David Fincher didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t attempt: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an unangsty, unselfserious sory of mad addiction in the city.

Moreover Burgerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view of New York City is absolutely novel. This city is made to be tunneled through: the Google Earth street scenes are linked in long races uptown or downtown. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New York as a series of corridors, all clearly one vast organism.

Based on the Irish writer Alan Glynnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel, Limitless is about a dejected New York scribbler with the nice-guy name Eddie (Bradley Cooper). He has what seems to be a turn of good luck when he runs into his former brotherin-law, Vernon (Johnny Whitworth), who is seemingly now a prosperous pharmaceutical rep. Vernon has in his possession some experimental pills, and he bestows one on Eddie. It blows open the doors of perception by awakening the dormant parts of the brain. Under the inďŹ&#x201A;uence, Eddie ďŹ nishes his book with ease, but when he goes to Vernonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apartment for seconds, he ďŹ nds him dead.

Eddie unearths the stash, but his bigger ambitions get him into trouble.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not what Eddie plans to do with the money but how heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forced to get it that attracts the parasites. One is a master-of-the-universe Manhattan financier (Robert De Niro); the other is a bloodthirsty Russian gangster (Andrew C`d`kc\jj Howard).

PG-13; 105 min.

Limitless identifies what Opens Friday. it calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;the classic smart personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mistake, of thinking no one is as smart as you are.â&#x20AC;? The film doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t outsmart itself, and the action sequences are brisk and delightfully kinetic. Instances include a De Palmaâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style moment with Abbie Cornish (as the girlfriend who ditched Eddie) figuring out how to counter a killer in Central Park or an actor vomiting straight up like Old Faithful as a result of one of those swiveling shots that leaves the world upside down. The breezy Cooperâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the man you cast when Ryan Reynolds seems too heavyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is perfect as the kind of person who tries to slouch his way into success and ends up with a hardbought education. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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(PG) A drama about a father hoping to connect with his brain-damaged son. Stars Julia Ormond, Lou Taylor Pucci and J.K. Simmons. (Opens Fri at the Aquarius in Menlo Park and CinĂŠArts Santana Row.)

PAUL (R; 104 min.) A Simon Pegg comedy

PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE (Unrated; 96 min.) See story on page 46.

(Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.)

EVANGELION 2.0 (2009) Sequel to the ďŹ endishly elaborate anime regarding (essentially) the war between mutant angels and men of the future. (Plays Mar 19 at 9:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOVE Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M AFTER/THAT CERTAIN WOMAN (Both 1937) A farce with Bette Davis and Leslie Howard as a pair of actors who never can seem to get marriedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when a young, wealthy and pretty Olivia de Havilland turns up to complicate matters. BILLED WITH That Certain Woman. Davis stars as the widow of a gangster; her bad luck in love continues when sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s romanced by a playboy (Henry Fonda). (Plays Mar 17-18 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;KEEPS YOU GUESSING AT EVERY TURN!â&#x20AC;?

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49 Regularly scheduled programs of silent ďŹ lms. Mar 19: short subjects, with Lupino Lane in Time Flies, Chaplin and Purviance in A Woman (1915), Fatty Arbuckle in Coney Island (1917) and Laurel and Hardy in Should Married Men Go Home (1928). Greg Pane at the piano. (Plays Mar 19 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

THE MERRY WIDOW/ONE HOUR WITH YOU (1934/1932) The spicy much-ďŹ lmed operetta is retold in post-Code times.

Prince Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) is required by his father the king to marry the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s richest widow (Jeanette MacDonald), but Danilo hexes the job by mistaking one of the ďŹ&#x201A;oozies at Maximâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for said heiress.

BILLED WITH One Hour With You.

Archrogue Chevalier, happily married to MacDonald, tries to defend his chastity against the blandishments of Genevieve Tobin. (Plays Mar 19-21 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE/ ON THE WATERFRONT (1951/1954) Marlon Brando

revolutionized screen acting, and the revolution isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t over yet. In Streetcar, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a New Orleans working stiff whose life is disrupted by the arrival of his wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fanciful but frail sister (Vivian Leigh). On the Waterfront has this human beast as the victim of a corrupt labor union. (Plays March 18-20 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.)

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Since moving to the Bay Area in 1994, the groovaholic drummer has forged a series of creatively combustible partnerships with iconoclastic guitarists, players

who have radically expanded the instrument’s sonic frontiers, including Wilco’s Nels Cline, Tortoise’s Jeff Parker and seven-string guitar wizard Charlie Hunter.

Amendola first gained widespread attention through his work with Hunter’s trio, the group that turned a national spotlight on the Bay Area acid-jazz scene. But his passion for the instrument started much earlier at the feet of his grandfather Tony Gottuso, a highly respected guitarist who split his time between New York City studio sessions and gigs with jazz

legends such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and Nat “King” Cole.

“I always loved the guitar,” says Amendola, 41, who reunites with Hunter for a rare South Bay gig Sunday at Mountain View’s Dana Street Coffee Roasting Company.

“I heard my grandfather playing from when I was really young. The instrument is really important to me, but it’s really about the player.

Look down the line, and the guys I’ve worked with are all really interesting voices.”

The Dana Street date came about because Amendola and Hunter are performing Friday with visionary clarinetist/composer Ben Goldberg’s Go Home at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Forum as part of SFJAZZ’s Spring Season.

The drummer and guitarist played together briefly back in 2003 for a reunion of Grammy-nominated avant funk and jazz combo T.J. Kirk (the guitar-centric quartet that

also featured John Schott and Will Bernard). But Go Home reignited their musical relationship, leading to a series of duo gigs in Europe next week.

“It’s always been amazing whenever we play, but it keeps growing, getting more intuitive,” Amendola says. “What Charlie does is so uncanny. He didn’t set out to create something out of some kind of marketing tool. Ultimately, it’s what he heard. When you watch him play, it’s like a brain tease. It’s hard to understand what he’s doing, but when you close your eyes, it’s so beautiful and deep and compelling.”

While Amendola doesn’t share quite as much history with Nels Cline, the renegade L.A. guitarist has been his most significant musical partner over the past decade. Before Wilco recruited him in 2004, Cline was a member of the Scott Amendola Band, a hair-raising quintet that featured a roster of rising stars, including bassist/composer Todd Sickafoose and violinist Jenny Scheinman, now a double threat on the New York jazz scene and the alt-country range. The band’s 2003 album, Cry (Cryptogramophone), earned critical raves, but Cline’s rock & roll commitments meant he was increasingly unavailable for gigs.

The guitarist did have time to maintain his own band, the Nels Cline Singers, featuring Amendola and bassist Devin Hoff (recently replaced by Trevor Dunn), an instrumental trio that has recorded a series of dense, invigorating albums for Cryptogramophone. Cline encouraged Amendola’s investigation of electronics, and the drummer began incorporating buzzy textures into his own music.

“The first time I heard Scott I was really blown away,” Cline says. “There aren’t too many drummers on the West Coast who had his wide ranging ability. Scott’s got some funk in him, a looser, sexy thing going on, and the flexibility to play free and different styles. He plays behind singer/ songwriters, and he rocks too.”

These days, Amendola is also getting symphonic. In 2009, he received a prestigious commission from Oakland East Bay Symphony’s Irvine Foundation–funded New Visions/New Vistas project. The

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From 1:00-7:30…$6.95 gets you Bonnie’s famous corned beef dinner with cabbage, new potatoes, carrots and French bread. ($8.00 to go.)

Outside bar. The Coors Girls and music all afternoon and evening.

12:00-5:00 Hit Man Dave…5:00-8:00 Santa Cruz’ Hip Shake 6:15-Closing San Jose’s own Jerry Sauceda & Friends Irish Whiskey Shots $3.00 all day.

Prizes all day. Simulcast by KNBR. Take light rail, show ticket & get $1.00 off 1st drink.

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“It’s about 20 minutes long, and there are four sections but no real divisions or movements,” Amendola says. “The three of us get featured in different ways, and there are parts where we’re barely playing. With Nels and Trevor, there’s going to be a significant amount of improvising.

Nels has the least written for him, but he’s going to be featured a lot. I’ll do some electronics, too.”

Electronics feature prominently in Amendola’s main working band, a trio with ace San Jose bassist John Shifflett and guitarist Jeff Parker, an essential player on Chicago’s vital scene, touring and recording widely with the post-rock combo Tortoise and drummer Brian Blade’s gospel-steeped Fellowship. He documented the trio on last year’s Lift, an album featuring Amendola’s seductive melodies, transparent textures and hazy, almost subliminal effects.

What makes the trio such a fascinating combo is the way that Shifflett maintains the center of gravity. Amendola and Parker have sojourned far from the straight-ahead jazz path, and they draw upon all their disparate rock, new music and avantgarde experience, while Shifflett finds his own way to navigate through what he calls “the Amendola continent.”

“My instinct is to go that traditional route, but that would be wrong for this music, and that’s the fun challenge,” says Shifflett, who teaches jazz at San Jose State University. “I can essentially play any note in any rhythm and time and Scott’s going to make it sound right.”

THE SCOTT AMENDOLA TRIO WITH CHARLIE HUNTER Sunday, 7pm; $20 Dana Street Roasting Company, 744 W. Dana St., Mountain View 650.390.9638

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by Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino only after he promised he wouldn’t use it to make another attempt at a comedy career. His first one, on the Donald Trump roast this week, nearly got Jersey Shore’s highest-paid hard-body booed of the stage. “Maybe comedy ain’t my game right now,” he admitted. (SP)

Lara Price Birthday Show Friday at Poor House Bistro, San Jose, 6pm; free The Bay Area blues queen and Bistro house chanteuse celebrates her birthday with the backing of her ninepiece Blues Revue Band. Though Price is solid on the classic sound, you never know where her muse will take her, from the Beatles to Leonard Cohen to John Prine. (SP)

FeedBach Saturday at Streetlight Records, San Jose, 7pm; free The San Jose retro garage band kicks off its mini-tour of area record stores with this gig, reclaiming all the sonic bleed and gritty jams that made the Velvet Underground’s first two albums unlike anything else of the era. (SP)

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Fri, 10pm: Blood Sugar Sex Machine. Sat, 10pm: Love Stoned. San Jose.

Sat, 2pm: San Jose Public Library Battle of the Bands.

All ages. San Jose.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

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Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Rippen.

Rock & blues. Free. Santa Clara.

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

Campbell.

Fri, 7pm: Pantheon, A Yawn Worth Yelling, the Trims, Sensory Figure. All ages. San Jose.

BLUE ROCK SHOOT

CARAVAN

Fri, 8pm: Karrgo Bossajova. No cover. Saratoga.

Thu-Sat: Live music. San Jose.

AVALON

BOGART’S LOUNGE & TECH PUB Sat, 9pm: Live music. Sunnyvale.

Fri, 8pm: Mr. Meanor, Big Daddy Sunshine. $10/$12.

Redwood City.

BOSWELL’S

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu & Sat: Bitchin’ Camaros. Fri: Suga Daddy. Mon: Drive! Campbell.

Wed, 8pm: The Falling Rocks.

Rolling Stones tribute. San Jose.

BOULEVARD TAVERN

Thu: Mike Medina. Sat: Mark Rodriguez. Willow Glen.

ART BOUTIKI

Thu, 6pm: Atticus Metal Tour II: As Blood Runs Black, Born of Osiris, Darkest Hour, Sleeping Giant. $15$18. All ages. Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: The Golden Hour, 5606, Epoch. No cover. Fri, 9pm: Chop Tops, the Revtones, the Ghost Town Hangmen. $10.

San Jose.

Fri: Live music. No cover.

Los Gatos.

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LILLY MAC’S Thu: St. Patrick’s Day. Live music, bag pipers and dancers.

Fri, 9pm: Max Cruise Band. Sat: Naked in Vegas. Sunnyvale.

NICKEL CITY Fri, 6:30pm: Rat Trap, Reid Saw a Ghost. All ages. Sat, 6:30pm: Thunderhorse, the Red Phantom, Abaddon, Ipswich, the Darkest Shade of Red, Gravel, Frost Hammer. All ages. San Jose.

NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: Careless Hearts, Northern Son, Amee Chapman and the Velvet Tumble. 21+. $10/$12. Sat, 8pm: Just Chill, Dino Planet. 21+. $10/$12. Gilroy.

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

Free. Thu, 9:30pm: Blind Pilots.

Free. Fri, 9:30pm: Touch of Class. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Touch N Go. $10. Los Gatos.

THE QUARTER NOTE Fri: Retro Rockets. $8. Sat: Tip of the Top. $5. Sunnyvale.

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Mar 23 Roach Gigz/ Equipto Atrium (Ages 16+) Mar 26 Victims Family Atrium (Ages 21+) Mar 27 Quadron/ Panthelion Atrium (Ages 21+) Apr 1 J-Stalin/ Mistah Fab (Ages 16+) Apr 6 Dark Star Orchestra (Ages 21+) Apr 15 G. Love & Special Sauce (Ages 21+) Apr 16 Yonder Mtn. String Band (Ages 21+) Apr 22 Husalah/ Bobby Brackins (Ages 16+) Apr 29 The Devil Makes Three (Ages 21+) Apr 30 The Holdup/ Wallpaper (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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Fri, 6:30pm: 5606, the Parade, Picture Me Broken, the Holy Ghost Circuit (reunion show), April Chase, Otonamous. All ages. Sat, 6:30pm: Troubadour, Fights Without Fears Within, Analyzer Generator, Sensory Figure, Playing in the Streets. All ages. Cupertino.

Sky Highway, We Stand United, Varsity Life. All ages. Los Gatos.

Fri, 7:30pm: Shotgun Suitor.

Sat, 9pm: Billy James Blue.

Willow Glen.

X BAR Sat, 9pm: Left of Christ, Kinetik, Sympathy Ends Repaid in Blood, Heart of the Void. All ages. $5.

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

THREE FLAMES Sun, 5pm: Shower of Stars.

Tribute to various pop, rock, jazz and blues acts. San Jose.

THE VENUE Fri, 6pm: Maya Over Eyes, Seven Tongues, We Are Promise, the Vague Blur, the Light Iris, Casket of Cassandra. Sat, 6pm: Heart of a Warrior, the Golden Hour,

ART BOUTIKI Every second Thu, 7pm: Jazz jam. All ages. Free. San Jose.

AGENDA LOUNGE

CAFFE TRIESTE

Wed: Salsa night. San Jose.

ALBERTO’S Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night. Mon: Argentine Tango.

Tue: Salsa. Mountain View.

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

AZÚCAR LATIN BISTRO MOJITO BAR & LOUNGE Wed: Rock. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata & rock en espanol.

Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions.

Tue: Salsa. San Jose.

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

CLUB FOX Sat, 7pm: Puro Bandido, Third Sol. $10/$12. Sun, 8pm: The Peatot Purim Party 2011. Israeli hits. $20. Redwood City.

LILLY MAC’S

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT

Sat, 7pm: feedBach. All ages.

Free. San Jose.

Sat, 5:30pm: Susan Rancourt. $10-$15. Sat, 8:30pm: Kellye Gray’s Jazz Party. $18-$25. Tue, 7pm: Pro jazz jam. Redwood City.

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO

Sat, 8pm: Stories in Braille. All ages. Free. Mountain View.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

World

Sun, 6pm: Traditional Irish music. Sunnyvale.

Thu: St. Pat’s party. Fri: SJS Chicano Fundraiser. Sat: Stateside Radio. San Jose.

Jazz/Blues

WILLOW DEN

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Wed, 5pm: Mucho Axe. Thu, 5pm: Jason Bellenkes Duo. Jazz. Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancer Adriana. Sat, 5pm: Fontain’s M.U.S.E. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music and belly dancing. Mon, 5pm: Magic Mondays with Natural Classic Live. Tue, 5pm: Strolling violinist Pamela J. Page. San Jose.

SENZALA Thu: St. Patrick’s Day with DJ Tigran. $5. Fri: Bossa nova at noon, Capoeira at 7:30pm. Sat: Sambosseros. $10. Sunnyvale.

STEPHENS GREEN Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

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

Sat, 8pm: The Ericksons.

San Jose.

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

Redwood City.

DE ANZA COLLEGE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Thu, 7:30pm: Six O’Clock and Eight O’Clock “Daddios” groups perform. $5-$7. Cupertino.

D’VINE JAZZ AND WINE Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live jazz.

Morgan Hill.

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

Thu, 8:30pm: Contemporary or Latin jazz. Sat, 4pm: Alfredo Rodriguez Trio. $30. Sat, 8pm: Charlie Musselwhite. $40. Sun, 2pm: Taylor Eigsti. $35. Sun, 6pm: Acoustic Africa. $35. San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Thu: Full of Blarney. Fri: Guilded Splinter. Sat: Gil and the Jump Kings. Campbell.

HEDLEY CLUB Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Bassment. Sat, 8:30pm: Rick Vandivier. Hotel de Anza, San Jose.

HERITAGE THEATRE Sat, 8pm: Taylor Eigsti. Benefit for Child Advocates of SV. $44$75. Campbell.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Wed, 9pm: Blues Angel. Thu, 9pm: Madylan Rose. Fri, 7pm: Dog House Riley, Vicious Groove. $10. Sat, 7pm: The City. $10. Sun, 9pm: Gene Washington and the Special Purpose Band. Mon, 9pm: Dennis Dove. Tue, 7pm: Blue J, Liar’s Club. San Jose.

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WINE AFFAIRS

CAFFE TRIESTE Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

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

Wed, 7:30pm: Jorge Faustmann.

Thu, 8-11pm: A Dog Named Buckley. San Jose.

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Mon, 7:30pm: Saratoga Community Band. Celebrating its 21st anniversary. Free.

Saratoga High School, Saratoga.

MURPHY’S LAW Thu, 8pm: After Shock. Fri: Westside Shakers. Sat: Charles Wheal Band. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

NETO’S GRILL Wed: Live music. Thu, 7pm: California Beach Boys. Fri, 6:30pm: Vegas Nights. Sat, 7pm: Cold Storage. Tue: Blues jam with Dennis Dove. Santa Clara.

PAGODA LOUNGE

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

C&W/Folk

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Thu, 8pm: Doris Williams. $10-$14. Fri, 8pm: Randapalooza II. $10-$15.

Mon, 7:30pm: Marty Atkinson.

No cover. Redwood City.

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro Jam. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

Thu, 7pm: Woody and Friends.

San Jose.

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

Thu, 7:30pm: St. Patrick’s Day with Windy Hill Bluegrass. $10.

Redwood City.

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DANA STREET ROASTING CO.

Fri, 7pm: Sunset Jazz Duo. San Jose.

Sun, 7pm: Scott Amendola Trio. $20. Mountain View.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING

Sat, 6pm: Over the Hill Blues Band. Free. San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE

Sun: Mike Leatherman.

Campbell.

CLUB FOX

SONOMA CHICKEN ALMADEN

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

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

A PERFECT FINISH

Fri, 8pm: Be a Dear, Donate a Brassiere fundraiser. Jazz celebrating International Women’s Month. Sun, 1pm: Bill Murphy. Solo jazz guitar. All ages. Free. Mountain View.

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

BOSWELL’S

CAFFE TRIESTE

RED ROCK COFFEE ROASTING

Mon: Rebels Camp open jam night. San Jose.

Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with rock and blues local musicians.

Santa Clara.

Fri, 7pm: Louie Romero y su Mazacote. Salsa. $20. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays Band. Fri, 6-10pm: Bob Welsh Blues Band.

Sat, 6-10pm: Annie Sampson Band. Sun, noon-3pm: Johnny Fabulous. San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S

Fri, 7:30pm: MaCaJo. Sat, 7:30pm: Kamm and McDonald.

Santa Clara.

First and third Thursday of every month, 7pm: The Canvas. Open to all performers. Sunnyvale.

THREE FLAMES Wed, 8pm: Open mic night with Anita.

Willow Glen.

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

ACAPULCO RESTAURANT & CANTINA Sat, 7pm-midnight: KJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke. Santa Clara.

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

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

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Live country music with Cowboy Larry. Willow Glen.

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

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

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

WILLOW GLEN COFFEE ROASTING

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

Fri, 8pm: Isis and Cold Truth.

Campbell.

Sat, 7:30pm: Celtic Rose.

San Jose.

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Open Mic

TESSORA’S

Sun, 8-11pm: Jerry Sauceda & Friends. Tue, 7:30-10:30pm: Modesto Briseno Septet.

Willow Glen.

UNWINED Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz.

San Jose.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY BLUE BONNET BAR Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 7pm: Open Mic. Tue, 7-11pm: Pro Jazz Jam. Redwood City.

BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: KJ Dennis. Sunnyvale.

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With a gift for sounding sarcastic about partying while at the same time delivering genuine party music, San Jose’s 5606 nails the same funny, goofy vibe on top of guitars Friday at the genetically engineered to deliver 35 percent bigger Refuge in riffs than ordinary guitars. Their EP The World’s Most Cupertino Dangerous piles track upon track of crisply produced pop-punk, loaded with bro-bonding anthems and 6pm; $10. ego-bruising attitude like “She’s never felt so famous/ As when we’re acting like we know what her name is.”

After getting Billie Joe’s personal stamp of approval (“I really love what you guys do,” he told them), they’ve sailed through the tour circuit (Warped, BFD, Music in the Park) and made it onto Bay Area alt-radio.—Steve Palopoli

BLUE MAX

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

GILROY BOWL

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

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

BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BOULEVARD TAVERN

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

DIVE BAR Tue, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

GOOSE LOONEY’S

Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

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

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

FIREHOUSE GRILL

HOMESTEAD LANES

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

GALAXY

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Menlo Park.

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

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

Cupertino.

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

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

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Campbell.

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond.

San Jose.

TOUCHDOWN TOMMY’S

CLUB ILLUSIONS

Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJs. Palo Alto.

WILLOW DEN

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs. San Jose.

Wed, 9:30pm: DJ JR. Thu, 9:30pm: DJ Uncle Hank. San Jose

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. Mountain View.

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

DIVE BAR

Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesday.

Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays.

Fri, 9pm: 2011. Sat, 9pm: Menage a Trois. Mon, 9pm: Industry.

Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

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WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Wed-Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.

Dance Clubs

MARIANI’S

FIBBAR MAGEES Wed: SIN. Fri-Sat: Club FM. Sunnyvale.

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

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

AGENDA

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL

Thu-Fri: DJs. San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S

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

AZÚCAR LATIN BISTRO MOJITO BAR & LOUNGE

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

Wed: Rock. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata & rock en espanol.

Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions.

Tue: Salsa. San Jose.

Wed: The Cypher. Thu: Hip hop with live MCs. Fri: Dub Massive.

Tue: Punk night with local DJs. San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

KING OF CLUBS Fri, 9:30pm: Club Brinca. Tue, 9pm: Nox. Mountain View.

THE BLANK CLUB

LILLY MAC’S

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

Sunnyvale.

Thu, 9pm: Atomic. New Wave, electro & indie with DJ Basura. $5. Sat, 9pm: Club Satori with DJs Vitus and Kevin. $5. San Jose.

Thu: Live DJ and karaoke. Fri: DJ party. Sunnyvale.

PIONEER SALOON

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

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

Thu: College night. Santa Clara.

PEACOCK LOUNGE

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY A-Gonna 1962 song “A “A Hard Hard Rain’s Rain’s A -Gonnna Fall,” you’ve done a llot ot ooff rrough ough aand nd ttumble umble lliving iving llately. ately. YYou’ve ou’ve ““stumbled stumbled misty mountains.” oon n tthe he sside ide ooff 1122 m isty m ountains.” You’ve You’ve “stepped “stepped middle iin n tthe he m iddle ooff sseven even ssad ad fforests.” orests.” YYou’ve ou’ve ““been been front oceans.” out in fr ont of a dozen dead oce eans.” Maybe most wrenching w renching ooff aall, ll, yyou’ve ou’ve “seen “seen a hhighway ighway ooff ddiamonds iamonds with w ith nnobody obody oon n iit.” t.” TThe he ggood ood nnews ews iiss tthat hat tthe he hhard ard downpour,r, rrain ain will end soon. In these last days of the downpour I ssuggest uggest yyou ou ttrigger rigger a ccatharsis atharsis ffor or yyourself. ourself. CConsider onsider what Dylan ddoing oing ssomething omething llike ike w hat D ylan ddid: id: ““I’ll I’ll tthink hink iitt And aand nd sspeak peak iitt aand nd bbreathe reathe iitt / A nd rreflect eflect iitt ffrom rom tthe he it.” mountain so all souls can see it .”

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Meade M eade ssays ays tthat hat tthe he eessential ssential nnature ature of of eevery very hhuman uman wounded. agree. soul is gifted, noble and wounde ed. I agr ee. CCynics ynics who exaggerate are, exagger ate how messed up we all ar e, ignoring our But bbeauty, eauty, aare re jjust ust aass uunrealistic nrealistic aass nnaive aive ooptimists. ptimists. B ut bbecause ecause tthe he ccynics ynics hhave ave a ddisproportionately ispro r portionately ppotent otent harder influence on the zeitgeist, they make it har der ffor or us problems to evaluate our pr oblems with a wise and balanced Many feel pperspective. erspective. M any ooff uuss fe el ccursed ursed bbyy tthe he aapparent pparent wounds, while rebelling iincurability ncurability ooff oour ur w ounds, w hile oothers, thers, re belling wounded aagainst gainst tthe he ccurse, urse, uunderestimate nderestimate hhow ow w ounded are. who aree not they ar e. Meade says: “Those wh ho think they ar wounded ways w ounded iin nw ays tthat hat nneed eed cconscious onscious aattention ttention aand nd careful aree usually the most car eful healing ar m wounded of all.” weeks, YYour our o task in the next ffew ew week s TTaurus, s, aaurus, is to make a appraisal wounds. rrealistic ealistic appr aisal of your woun ds.

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James Hetfield brashly brashly bragged braggedd to Revolver magazine that he was proud proud his his music was used to torture torture prisoners at the U.S. military’s detention camp in Guantanamo Bay. urge moree Bay. I ur ge you to make a mor careful careful and and measured measured assessment assessment ooff tthe he iinfluences nfluences that you personally put out intoo the world. It It’s ’s time to find out how closely your int intentions tentions match your actual actual impact—and impact—and to to correct correct any any ddiscrepancies. i s c re p a n c i e s .

How are are people affected affected by thee vibes you exude and the products words products you offer offer and the wor ds you utter and the actions you undertake?

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writer Robert cclearly learly ddefined efined ggoals,” oals,” said said CCancerian ancerian w riter R obert Heinlein, H einlein, ““we we bbecome ecome sstrangely trangely lloyal oyal ttoo pperforming e r fo r m i n g ddaily aily ttrivia rivia uuntil ntil uultimately ltimately we we become become enslaved enslaved by by iit.” t.” IIff tthis his ddescription escription iiss eeven ven a ppartial artial match match ffor or tthe he llife ife yyou’re ou’re lliving, iving, nnow ow iiss aann eexcellent xcellent ttime ime ttoo address problem. moree power than addr ess the pr oblem. YYou ou have ffar ar mor usual to identify and define worthy worthy goals—both the short-term and long-term variety. v variety . If you take opportunity,, you advantage of this opportunity y will find a better uuse se ffor or tthe he eenergy nergy tthat’s hat’s currently currently locked locked up up in in your your enslavement to daily trivia.

LLEO EO (July 23–Aug. 22): As As I wa wass mulling over your astrological astrological omens, omens, I came came across across a short short poem poem that that aptly embodies the meaning of this moment ffor or you.

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by Richard Richard Wright, Wright, and and goes goes like like this: this: “Coming “Coming from woods Dangling from the the w oods / A bbull ull hhas as a llilac ilac ssprig prig / D angling from way from a horn.” horn.” Here’s Here’s oone ne w ay ttoo interpret interpret this this symbolic symbolic scene: scene: Primal Primal power power is is emerging emerging into into a clearing clearing from from out out of of the the deep deep darkness. darkness. It It is is bringing bringing with with it it a touch touch of lithe and blithe beauty—a ha happy appy accident.

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one potential enemy in the coming coming weeks: weeks: a manic longing for for perfection. perfection. It’s It’s OK to feel feel that longing as mild am ild aache. che. But But if if you you allow allow it it to to grow grow into into a burning burning obsession, you will probably probably undo unddo yourself at every tturn. urn. YYou ou may may even even sabotage sabotage some some of of the the good good work work you’ve done. My recommendation, recommendatioon, then, is to give yourself the luxury of welcomingg partial success, limited rresults esults and useful mistakes. mistakes. Paradoxically, Paradoxicallyy, cultivating cul tivating that approach approach will give give you the best cchance hance at at getting getting lots lots of of things things done. done. Here’s Here’s your your Theodoree Roosevel Roosevelt: motto ffor or the week, courtesy of Theodor t: wheree you ar are.”

“Do what you can, with what youu have, wher e.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Wh When hen I was 9 years old, one one of of my my favorite favorite jokes jokes went went like like this: this: “What’s “What’s worse worse than biting into an apple and finding finnding a worm? Give up? Biting into an apple and finding finnding half a worm.”

According According to my reading reading of the astrological astrological omens, Libra, for Libra, that’s that’s a good piece of information information o for you to keep in mind right now. a serpent offers now. If and when w offers you an apple, I hope you will sink sin nk your teeth into it with cautious nibbles. I’m not sa saying shouldn’t ’t aying you shouldn bite, just that you should pr proceed warily.. oceeed warily SCORPIO SC ORPIO ((Oct. Oct. 23–Nov. 23–Nov. 21): 21): Normally Normally we we think think of of garbage dump dump as as a spot spot where where we we go go to to get get rid rid of of a garbage

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trash trash and outworn outworn stuff we no longer need. It emits a stench stench that that wafts wafts a great great distance, distance, and and it’s it’s a not not a place place where where you you wear wear your your finery. finery. But But there there is is a dump in northernn Idaho that diverges diverges slightly from from that description. It has the usual acres acres of rubbish, but also also features features a bonus bonus area area that that the the locals locals call call “The “The Mall.” This is where wheere people dispose of junk that might not actually be junk. juunk. It has no use for for them any more, more, but but they they recognize recognize that that others others might might find find value value in in it. It was at the Mall M where where my friend Peter Peter found found a perfectly perfectly good good chainsaw chainsaw that that had had a minor minor glitch glitch he he easily easily fixed. fixed. I suspect suspect that that life life may may be be like like that that dump dump for for you in the coming com ming week: a wasteland with perks. perks.

SSAGITTARIUS AGITTARIU US (Nov (N (Nov.. 22–Dec. 22 D 21): 21) A According ccording di to t Argentinian Borges, Argentinian writer writer JJorge orge LLuis uis B orges, ttime ime ““is is a ttiger iger that fire that devours devours me, me, bbut ut I aam m tthe he ttiger; iger; iitt iiss a fi re tthat hat consumes fire.” meant consumes me, me, but but I aam m tthe he fi re.” I bbelieve elieve hhee m eant for statement for that stateme ent to be true ffor or all of us. LLuckily uckily for for you, you, though, though, yyou’ll ou’ll ssoon oon bbee ggetting etting a ttemporary emporary exemption. while, more exemption. For For a w hile, yyou’ll ou’ll bbee m ore llike ike tthe he tiger than the on one ne the tiger devours; you will have more firee than with the one more in common n with the fir consumed by thee fir fire. words, e. In other wor ds, Sagittarius, you will have mo more ore power than usual to outwit the tyrannies Are tyrannies of of ttime. ime. A re yyou ou rready eady ttoo ttake ake aadvantage? dvantage?

You’re moree slack, mor moree wiggle You’re primed too claim mor room, permission. room, more more perm mission.

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approaches band Smash-Up Derby appr oaches their musicmaking with might m aking w ith a sspirit pirit tthat hat m ight bbee uuseful seful ffor or yyou ou ttoo week, eemulate mulate iin n tthe he ccoming oming w eek, CCapricorn. apricorn. EEach ach ooff ttheir heir ssongs ongs iiss a bblend lend ooff ttwo wo ffamous amous ttunes. unes. TTypically, ypically, tthe he instrumentalists play a rrock ock song while the singers with ddoo a ppop op hhit it w ith a ssimilar imilar cchord hord pprogression. rogression. IImagine magine hearing the guitars, guitaars, bass and drums play Nirvana’s Nirvana’s Spirit”” while the lead vocalist “Smells Like TTeen eeen n Spirit Romance.” ccroons roons Lady Lady Gaga’s Gaga’s ““Bad Bad R omance.” The The crucial crucial ongoing part of their ong oing experiment is that it works. works.

TThe he sound sound coming coming from from the the stage stage isn’t isn’t a confusing confusing assault. assaul t. You Yoou could could pull off a challenge like that: disparate grace. combining dispa rate elements with rraucous aucous gr ace.

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS ((Jan. Jan. 220–Feb. 0–Feb. 118): 8): LLast ast A August ugust I w wrote rote you you a horoscope horoscope that that sspoke poke ooff oopportunities pportunities yyou’d ou’d have to upgrade upgrade your close rrelationships. elationships. I said you’d would you’d be be tested tested in in ways ways tthat hat w ould ppush ush yyou ou ttoo gget et more more ingenious ingenious and and tenacious tenacious aabout bout ccollaborating ollaborating with people you cared inspiree you, cared about. Hoping to inspir I cited two people peoplle I know who have successfully re-imagined marriage forr m many re-imagined and and reinvented reinvented their their m arriage fo any years. In response, “Yuck!” responsse, one rreader eader complained. “Y uck!” his his email email began. began. “I “I thought thought I was was getting getting a horoscope horoscope but but instead instead I got got a ssentimental entimental sself-help elf-help bblurb lurb iin n the style of Read Reader’s der ’s Digest.” I took his wor words ds to heart.

Aquarians when heart. As As yyou ou A quarians eenter nter a nnew ew pphase hase w hen you could do a lo lot ot to build your intimacy skills, I’ll try more try ssomething omething m ore ppoetic: oetic: SSucculent ucculent ddiscipline iscipline aand nd luminous persist persistence tence equals incandescent kismet.

PISCESS (Feb. 19–March PISCE 1 19–Mar ch 20): If I had to come up with a title for for the th he next phase of your astrological astrological cycle, it might bee “Gathering Up.” The way I see it, you should focus focuss on collecting any resources resources that are are missing from from m your reserves. reserves. You You should hone skills skills that that are are still still too too weak weak to to get get you you where where you you want want to to go, go, and and you you should should attract attract the the committed committed support support of of allies allies who who can can help help you you carry carry out out your dreams dreams andd schemes. Don’t Don’t be shy about assembling the necessities, Pisces. Experiment with n being slightly voracious. voracious.

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The result of Wiser’s patient determination is that she quickly became an accomplished jewelry maker with solid technique and a detailed, delicate style. She has a natural eye for color, textures and patterns, and a focus that serves artists well; she works a piece until it is just right.

Among the many materials that Wiser has experimented with, her favorites are the ones closest to their natural state.

“I try to work with everything that’s real and natural,” she says, and name-drops numerous stones and more types of gold than I had any idea existed.

Along with bracelets, earrings and necklaces, Wiser combines her love of creative writing and jewelry making with one-of-a-kind, patinaaged lockets that are engraved with her poems and stories. She also makes stacking rings that have become quite popular on Etsy, though she didn’t initially give the website for handmade and vintage goods much attention. “I heard about Etsy, so I set up a shop,” she says. “but I never went back and nothing happened.”

In 2008, however, she decided that she was going to make Etsy work for her. She started putting energy into networking, setting up her shop and marketing her pieces. Now, Wiser sells her jewelry to people all over the world. She particularly enjoys making custom pieces, such as mothers’ birthstone rings, that she knows will be cherished, and she delights in the fact that people trust her with family treasures. “I like making pretty things,” she says. “And that my jewelry makes people happy is very important to me.”

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The earliest recognizable version of what we know as Monopoly was patented by Lizzie Magie in 1904. The Landlord’s Game featured a board with the familiar circuit of increasingly pricey neighborhoods interspersed with railroads and utilities. At three of the corners were Go to Jail, Public Park (the ancestral version of Free Parking) and the Jail itself. The fourth corner wasn’t labeled “Go” but instead bore the lofty words “Labor Upon Mother Earth Produces Wages.” Translation: you got a hundred bucks. Nonetheless you realize: someone here has an agenda.

The story goes that Magie intended her game to be a teaching tool about the injustices of capitalism. She was a fan of the theories of political economist Henry George, who thought landlords were parasites and advocated a “single tax” on them to replace all other taxes.

You’re thinking: what an exciting premise for a board game. Depends on how it’s handled. If the idea was that the players, beaten down by exorbitant rents, were supposed to rise up and feed their evil landlord’s intestines to him with a fork, this might indeed make for a diverting family game night. But that’s not what happened. Instead, the player who accumulated the most money won. How does this teach us about the dark side of capitalism? Search me. All we can suppose is that in 1903 Magie’s political thinking, or her approach to agitprop, wasn’t fully formed.

Magie eventually tumbled to the pedagogical shortcomings of her invention. Her 1924 patent for a second version of the Landlord’s Game explicitly said one objective was showing “how the single tax would discourage land speculation.” The rules now showed more attitude. For example, when throwing the Chance cube, a five meant you’d been “caught robbing a hen-roost—go to jail,” whereas a 10 meant you’d been “caught robbing the public—take $200 from the board. The

players will now call you Senator.” Ha! Two new concepts were introduced in the 1924 edition. Idle Land could be bought for $100 and sold for $200, showing the easy money in land speculation. The other novelty was Monopoly, which at this point applied only to railroads: if you owned all of them, you could charge twice as much.

Magie thought this would teach the proletariat that monopolies and land speculation were wicked. However, since the goal was still to wind up with the most money, a more obvious lesson might have been: monopolies and land speculation were great.

As the capitalist frenzy of the ’20s continued unabated, Magie gave it one more try. In 1932 she unveiled a combo game called the Landlord’s Game plus Prosperity. Prosperity was played on the same board but with modified rules: taxes, jail and monopoly pricing were now eliminated; land rent was paid to the public treasury; once enough treasury cash accumulated, private utilities were condemned and placed in public ownership. Most importantly, players could vote to switch from Landlord to Prosperity rules in midgame. Now those chafing under the capitalist yoke (i.e., losing) could wise up, go socialist, and take over.

You can guess how well that worked.

In our clinical trials, my assistant Fierra quickly figured out how to game the system and make money off railroad nationalization. Her fellow staffer Una discovered using the railroads to take you to real estate offices and treat them as “free parking” was a safe way to get around the board. Mainly, though, the players were frustrated and bored. After 10 minutes, Fierra exclaimed, “Dear God, this bloody game sucks!”

People evidently felt the same in 1932—Magie’s latest brainstorm went nowhere. A few years later, in the best capitalist tradition, Charles Darrow ripped off Magie’s ideas, sold Monopoly to Parker Brothers, and became a millionaire. Meanwhile, the Stalins of the earth turned out not to be playing Prosperity, as some naifs thought, but rather Totalitarian World Domination, which endured quite a while. All of which invites the conclusion: next time you’re tempted by some utopian ideology, play the board game first.

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