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The Best Besst Defense Defense TThe civil case against a former former DeAnza baseball players playerrs for for a 2007 group group sex incident appears appeaars to be unraveling. unraveling. Of the nine original originnal defendants, defendants, only two defendants def endants are are left and one intends to fight back in court coourt regardless regardless of whether whethe or nott he h is i exonerated exxonerated t d in i the th case. San S Jose attorney BRUCE FUNK, who represents represents defendant defendant KENNETH KENNETH CHADWICK, CHADWICK, would not confirm or deny if the M@E;@:8K<;6 M M@E; @:8K<; K ;6 plaintiff ’s plaintiff’s :Xii attorneys attempteed to settle out of court, have attempted heaar that an offer offer was made though we hear rejected. But B Funk did say “we will and rejected. t plaintiff ’s attorneys go back after that plaintiff’s for financial compensation.” coompensation.” Not only for sources close c that, sources to the case say threaatened to Funk has threatened rape sue the allegedd rape Don’t for malicious malicious victim for forget prosecution. The Thhe civil prosecution. to tip! case was filed against Chadwick, evenn though FLY@ there there were were no charges charges METRONEWS. COM didn’t filed and he didn’t participatte in sex even participate g who acts with the girl, o at the time. Chadwick was 17 years old says he spent only 45 seconds in the room before before hee walked out. The woman room could be liable now for for not who sued could fees in only costs, but also attorney’s fees prosecution addition to thee malicious prosecution threat. The other othher defendant defendant remaining remaining threat.

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Last California State L ast week, the C aliffornia o State University trustees U niversity ssystem’s ystem’s tru ustees met to rreview eview sstrategies trattegies ffor or aaddressing ddressing w hat what w ill be be the the largest larrgest funding funding gap gap p in in its its will history, histor y, assuming that the 2011–2012 budget b udget will will include include $500 $500 million million in in proposed ccuts uts tthat hatt the the ggovernor overnor p roposed iin n JJanuary. anuary.

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percent less lesss money money to work with than percent they had in n 2010–2011. they Across the the system, system, campuses campuses will will be be Across asked to to reduce reduce ttheir heir budgets budgets by by $281 $281 asked million and and to to turn turn away away 10,000 10,000 new new million students in in order order tto o save save another another $60 $60 students million. t’s not the worst-case worst-case But that that’s scenarrio. If If tax tax extensions extensions backed baccked b scenario. byy govern nor don’t don’t reach reach the June June the governor aren’t approved approved by by voters, voters, ballot and aren’t CSU could could face faacce a $1 $1 billion billion reduction reduction CSU ate funding. fun nding. in st state wo ould have haave an enormous That would oung impact on a generation of yyoung Californians: Callifornian ns: CSU CSU is is the the largest larrgest system system e educ ation in the ccountry, ountry, of higher education with more more than 410,000 410,000 students at 23 campuses, camp puses, and awards awar a ds ab about out 90,000 90,000 degrees deegrees annually. annuallyy.

San San Jose Jose State State University University is is one one of of the CSU’s CSU’s largest l gest campuses, lar campuses, and with about about 30,000 30,000 students students it’s it’s the the largest larrgest supplier off engineering, engineering, education, education, computer sciencee and business computer scienc degrees Silicon degr ees in Silic on Valley.

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SJSU spokesperson spokesp erson Pat Pat Lopes Lopes says says tthe he university university has has successfully successfully weathered weatthered severe severe budget budget cuts cuts since since the the state’s state’s revenues revenues started started

Bye-Bye Bye-Bye FFour-Year our-Year e Pl Plan lan Huerta, who maint Huerta, maintains aiins a 3.7 gradegradep oint aaverage, verage, says says sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ffelt elt b udget point budget pinches sinc eshm man yyear. ear. sincee her fr freshman F ewer sections sections o enerall education education Fewer off ggeneral cclasses lasses sent sent her her tto o community community ccollege ollege to get the classes she needed neeeded to stay stay on track for for o graduation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ou that you you o can can â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyy tell yyou ggraduate raduate iin n ffour our yyears, earrs,â&#x20AC;? she she ssays, ays, â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;but but b ecause iitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sso o eexpensive xpensive and and n ot all all because not cclasses lasses are are o ffeered eeach ff ach semester semester iitt offered ttakes akes most students mu uch longer. longer.â&#x20AC;? much â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;II h ave friends friends right right n ow w ho h ave have now who have b een aatt S tate ffor or eeight ight years years trying trying tto o been State ggraduate raduate b ecause they they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t can nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get get the the because need, cclasses lasses they they n eed,â&#x20AC;? she she says. says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;And And they they h ave to to work work m ore tto o pay pay ffor or b ooks have more books eases. and tuition incr increases. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the classes I need ar enâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offered off ffeered arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to ha when I need them Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have postpone myy graduation. p ostpone m graduatio on.â&#x20AC;?

L indsey L eong, 26, 26, transferred transferred Lindsey Leong, fr om San JJose ose Cit ty C two years years from City College olllege two from ago and will graduate fr om SJSU this June.

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Wondo Wins Again The theme song to the San Jose Earthquakes’ season should go as such: “There’s only one, Wondolowski; one Wondolowski; walking along, singing his song, walking in a Wondo’ Wonderland.” Chris Wondolowski got off to a sluggish start in the San Jose Earthquakes’ season opener, a 1-0 loss to Real Salt Lake, but the 2010 Major League Soccer Golden Boot winner found his form against FC Dallas last week by capitalizing on two opportunities in a 2-0 win. The 28-year-old late bloomer, who emerged to become one the league’s best in just the last couple of seasons, has now scored the club’s last 12 regular season goals dating back to last year. Propelling the Earthquakes (1-1) past the visiting Seattle Sounders— owned in part by Drew Carey—on Saturday night would be just another chance to showcase Wondo’s talents.

Spring Time for Hockey It’s remarkable just how far the San Jose Sharks have come from where they were three months into the season. A six-game losing streak to kick off the New Year had many fans wondering what the hell it would be like without playoff hockey in the spring. Oh, ye of little faith. The Sharks buckled down and are now tied with the Detroit Red Wings for second place in the Western Conference. In addition to being able to gain a homeice advantage up until the conference finals, now San Jose also has the delightful opportunity of ending some seasons here in the final two weeks. All

of the Sharks’ next three opponents are playing for their playoff lives, beginning with the hated Dallas Stars at 7:30pm Thursday. The Anaheim Ducks enter the Shark Tank on Saturday, followed by the L.A. Kings on Monday. It’s officially OK to start letting those fragile hopes rise again.

SaberCats Licking Chops In Return Home For the thousands of people who went to Vegas and bet on the San Jose SaberCats going undefeated this season, last week’s loss at Chicago was a bitter pill to swallow. (You know who you are, you degenerate gamblers.) But the boys in green should be greeted with aplomb by the hometown fans Friday night at HP Pavilion when they take on the Iowa Barnstormers (1-1). The SaberCats (2-1) had trouble executing their offense last week, which was evident by quarterback Mark Grieb only throwing for a modest 279 yards. (Despite having half the length of a normal field to work with, those numbers are decidedly low.) Getting former Fresno State Bulldog Rodney Wright, a flanker and defensive back, involved early will be critical to San Jose’s hopes of sending the country bumpkins back home with an L. Wright was named the league’s Ironman of the Week after totaling 298 yards receiving and returning in a nail-biting victory over the Kansas City Command in Week 2. The SaberCats currently sit a half-game back of Arizona in the Western Division.

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“George “Geor ge Best is one of the best bestt soccer players play, so occer pla ayers to eever ver pla ay, and we w weree luck luckyy to ha have w wer ave him in San JJose,” o ,” ose said Earthquakes president David sa aid Ear thquakes pr esident Da avid vd Kaval.

“We have proud historyy K Ka avval. “W We ha ave a pr oud histor 1974, George d dating back to 197 74, 4 and Geor ge partt of that. W Wee w wanted B is a big par Best an nted to o honor George George at our stadium stadium and maintain an nd also maint ain the cconnection onnection n between Earthquakes b etween the Ear thquakes teams of o the current squad.”” th he past and our curr ent squad. rainy The ccold, old rain old, ny and miserable circumstances weree pr probably ci ircumstances wer obably the Quakes w worst home cconditions onditions the Quak kes played h eever had ver pla ayed in. Some eeven ven quipped given way q uipped that San JJose ose had giv en w ay George’s honor. to o Belfast weather in Geor ge’s ho onor.

Rising to fame with Manchester Manchesteer United ’60s U nited during the swinging swinging ’6 0s in

England, Best w was as onee of the most naturally gifted geniuses geniu uses to ever ever pitch.

Unlike today, step ffoot oot on the pitch h. U nlike to daay, superstars when most sup erstarss tend to eexcel xcel specific aspects game—set ects of the at sp ecific asp t game —set pieces, dribbling,, finis finishing, piec es, dribbling shing, precision precision passing,, abilit abilityy in the air air,, vision or passing puree sp speed—Best was maestro pur eed—Best w ass a maestr o at all of those ccomponents.

Theree rreally omponen nts. Ther eally wasn’t anything do.. w asn’t an nyything he ccouldn’t o ouldn ’t do What’s more, those dislikee What ’s mor e, ffor or th o hose who dislik soccer sissylike so ccer due to the siss y e diving so ylik prevalent today, embodied pr evalent to daay, well,, Best emb odied opposite. never esorted to the opp osite. He ne ver e rresorted nonsense.. Opp Opposing players ossing pla such nonsense ayers trip cconstantly onstantly tried to tri ip and kick the always hell out of him,, but he h would alw ays y maintain balance.

When maint ain balanc e. Wh hen he did go back up down, he would get right r miraculously and somehow miracu ulously keep keep the anyway, leaving defenders ball an yway, often lea avving def fenders e wondering,, 10 sec seconds later,, what on wondering ond ds later earth just th had actually jus ear st happened. happened. arrived By the time he arriv ved in San JJose ose was past prime,, at age 34,, Best w as pa ast his prime displayed but he still displa ayed flashes fl of incomparable genius.. In the summer inc omparable genius

1981, scored manyy b believe of 19 81, hee sc ored what man elieve bee the b best to b est goal of his ccareer. areer.

Those of us u who attended attended that game love brag about lo ve to bra ag ab out it.

Off ccourse, always O oursse, genius alw ayys seems to have dark side.. In his he heyday, ha ave a dar rk side ydaay, Best was pop-star w as the vvery e y first p er op -star ffootballer. ootballer.

With looks, impeccable W ith i his go ggood od lo oks, imp eccable style st yle and women w falling all over over him, his par party lifestyle ty li iffest e yle quickly surpassed his ffootball ootballl ccareer areer and he wound up battling alcoholism bat tling al lcoholism ffor or the rrest o est of his life.

Reflecting life manyy yyears lif fe. R eeflecting on his lif fe man ears later,, Geor George was born later rge said: “I w as b orn with a great gr eat gift,, and sometimes with that destructive streak. ccomes omes a de estructive str eak. JJust ust as wanted Iw anted to t outdo everyone everyone when played, I pla ayed,, I had to outdo eeveryone veryone weree out on the town. town.”” when we wer w Even liver Ev en a ccontroversial ontroversial liv er 2002 transplantt in 20 02 ccould ould not drinking,, and he stop Best fr ffrom om drinking battle 2005, eeventually ventuallyy lost the bat tle in 20 05, at the age of 59.

59 The ffollowing ollowing o weekend, silencee week end, a moment of silenc preceded pr eceded eevery very single match in the Premier League For Pr emier L eague of England. F or Best’s funeral, Best ’s fune eral,, his ccoffin offin ccame ame off airplane draped the airplan ne drap ed in a Manchester United flag. cityy of Belfast U nited flag g. The cit gave State ga ave him the t equivalent of a St ate the streets funeral, th he str eets closed, and an 100,000 people stood estimated 10 0,000 p eople sto od in miserable, pouring watch the misera able, p ouring rain to w atch motorcade. the motor rcade.

Following George’s F ollowin ng Geor ge’s death, unprecedented support unpr ecedeented public supp ort led creation George to the cr eaation of the Geor ge Best Foundation, charityy whose aims F oundatio on,, a charit aree “chose “chosen specifically ar en sp ecifically to rrecognize ecognize aspects Best’s asp ects of Best ’s ccareer, areer, as well as socceralcohol-related issues.” so ccer- and d alc ohol-related issues .”

George’s Calum, was Geor ge’s son,, C alum, who w as born San played b orn in Sa an JJose ose when Best pla ayed here, modeling her e, wentt on to a mo deling ccareer. areer.

Milan, after His middlee name is Milan Mandaric, Milan Man ndaric, one of the original Earthquakes. owners off the San JJose ose Ear thquakes.

Today, Calum patron allum is a patr T odaay, C on ffor or the o Association Children National A ssociation ffor o or Childr en of Alcoholics, U.K. charity.

Alc oholicss, a U .K. charit y.

Ass the ttempestuous poured A empestuous rain p oured from ago,, Geor George fr om the sk sskyy ttwo wo weeks ago ge opened Best Gate officially op ened ffor or the o public in San S Jose.

Jose. I ccan’t an’t think of a moree appr appropriate new situation mor m opriate ffor or o a ne w beginning. b eginning i i g.

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DAIMONDS D AIMONDS A I M O N DS D S AN A AND N D GO GGOL GOLD O L D 17 entitty and transferred entity transfferr e ed several several large large chunks of real real est estate ate to o its control. control.

The ne new w San Jose Jose Diridon D Development Authority now D evelopment A uthority n ow ccontrols ontrols parcels nine par cels that the city c y purchased cit purchased over period more o ver a 15-year 15-yearr p eriod ffor or m ore than than $25 directly $ 25 million. million. Seven Seven of of them them lie lie d irectly adjacent adjac ent to Diridon Station Sttation and ssouth outh of of HP HP Pavilion.

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Gov. threat shutter Go v. Jerry Jerry Brown’s Brown’s thr reat to shut ter state’s 400-plus the st ate’s 40 0-plus rredevelopment e velopment ede shoree up C California’s agencies to shor aliffo ornia’’s broke state government prompted br oke st ate go vernmeent pr ompted hardball play.

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Viewed V iiewed in a more more ccautious autious light, MLB’ss ffoot-dragging MLB’ oot- dragging and a the state’s state’s funds ambitions on local local fun nds might have given cityy leader leaders ha ave giv en cit rs pause to outside slow down. The outsid de pressure, pressure, however, howe ver, only seems to t have haave steeled city’s the cit y’s rresolve esolve and incr iincreased eased its urgency weeks.. sense of ur gency in rrecent e ent weeks ec Technically, new development T eechnicallyy, the ne w de velopment authorityy has a nonnon-specific authorit sp pecific charter decisionchar ter and rretains etains de ecisiondiscretion making discr etion on the land’s land’s ultimate uses. uses. And eeven ven though the declares that aree rresolution esolution declar es th hat ““there there ar projects proposed no specific specific pr ojects pr roposed ffor o or the Authority,” believe A uthority,” San JJose ose officials o believe that baseball and San Jose Jose would be be

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good together, chance. good to gether, if given given a chanc e. planning The plan nning process process ccould ould begin begin as early as an n April 28 City Citty Council Council study session. baseball session. The The b aseball ccommissioner’s ommissioner’s unreleased unreleased report report is is presumed presumed to to be believes be complete, complet l te t ,b elie li ves Mayor M Maayor Chuck Ch k Reed, heard Reed, e , who has not hear d from from MLB in nearly nearly ttwo wo months months and an nd is is rrunning unning out out of patienc patience. e.

“The pa pace ace the ccommissioner ommissioner is working at a makes makes government’s government’s processes “We processes look l ok good,” lo good,”” Reed Reed e says. saays y . “W We were were slow, slow, but we’re we’re nowhere nowhere near as slow as the pace pace the commissioner commissioner was was working.” workiing.” (The (The commissioner commissioner previously asked previouslyy ask ed the city city to delay delaay a November on the Novemb berr 2010 referendum reffeerendum d h ballpark until spring, u spring, but then blew blew past that deadline.) d deadline .)

Contingency underway Continggency plans are are under way as well for property. fo orr the ballpark pr operty.

Corporate offices, Corporatee offic es, upmarket upmarket retail retail spaces spaces and d residential residential buildings are are amongg the fall-back options. options. A 32,000-seat 32,000-seaat ballpark as a downtown anchor,, ho however, city’s anchor owever, would be be the cit y’s crown cityy with crown jewel, jewel, w , imbuing the cit sex sex appeal appeall and d helping h l i it i outgrow outgrow its i self-esteem issues.. selff- esteem m issues “We’ve “W We’ve been been in contact contact with MLB on a fairly regular regular basis up until a month mo onth ago,” ago,” Redevelopment Rede e velopment Agency Agency Executive Exxecutive Director Director Harry Harry Mavrogenes says.

Maavvrogen nes sa ayys. “They’ve “They’ve asked asked

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DAIMONDS D AIMONDS A I M O N DS D S AN A AND N D GO GGOL GOLD O L D 18 Mont gomery Str eet, the fault line of Montgomery Street, the A utho ority’s land. And while lo cal Authority’s local opp n is sc attered and weak, the osition opposition scattered ballpark p roposal faces faces a towering, towering, proposal p owerful opp o onent: the World Wo orld powerful opponent: Series cham mpions themselv es. champions themselves.

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F or now, now, San JJose ose has h p ositioned ii d For positioned itself to sp eedily er ect a ballpark b speedily erect byy aggr egating the dir nd est ablishing aggregating dirtt an and establishing the authorit y, which also a shelters the authority, strategic assets from from a Sacramento grab All we A ’ve done is i set up the grab.. ““All we’ve shell, and ther e’s not b een an there’s been anyy further fur ther discussion on how to fill that shell,”” Ma avvrogenees sa ayys. “If we Mavrogenes says. hear something something,, I wou would uld imagine we would mobilize fairly quickly.” quicklyy.”

Negotiating N egotiating princip principles ples mapped mapped out b byy the Cit Cityy C Council ounccil rrequire equire the A’s A ’s and their ccorporate orporatte sp sponsors onsors to shell out the entir entiree $4 $489 489 million it will ttake ake to build the stadium. s adium. N st No o public mone moneyy would b bee sp spent—nor ent—nor would ttaxes axes b bee raised— raised—to —to fund the pr project oject and its sur surrounding rrounding infrastructur e. infrastructure.

The cit cityy would leas leasee the land to the team o ver se veral dec ades, as over several decades, it is leasing pr operty ffor or a so o onproperty soonto -be-built so ccer st ad dium ffor or o the to-be-built soccer stadium San JJose ose Ear thquakes, which shar es Earthquakes, shares ownership with the A’s.

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Ballpark opp onentss ar gue that opponents argue public mone ent and moneyy will b bee sp spent ffew ew jobs will b eateed. A debate bee cr created. is emer ging on the fut ture of emerging future

Liffe is go Life good od these da days ayys for fo or the San Francisco F Francisc i o Giants Gi G Giants.. Fresh F esh Fr h off ff their h i first fi title sinc sincee fleeing N New ew Y York ork o in 1958, the team practic p practices es its craft in what manyy fanss consider man consider Americ America’s a’s most beautiful b eautiful ballpark. b The club ffeatures eatur e es a clutch off celebrity celebrity ballpla ballplayers ayers beloved b eloved for for o their eccentricities. eccentricities. A sea of b beards, earrds, stringy stringy wigs and red red thongs lea leavened avened the torturous torturous road road to a champ championship. pionship. A parade and million-fan n ccelebration elebration in front front of S Franci San Francisco’s F i o’s City isc Ci y Hall Cit ll gr greeted eeted d their rreturn eturrn fr from om the T Texas exas victor victory. y.

Not N ot to too o long ago the A’s A’s were were those guys guys. s. The team ffeatured eeatured a similar lin lineup eup of characters characters,, from from killer close closer er Dennis Eck Eckersley ersley and the Bash Br Brothers—Mark B others—Mark McGuir McGuiree and JJose ose Canseco—to Canseco —to the sswift wift and eloquent elo quent Rick Rickey R ey Henderson. The A A’s ’s won thr three eee straight p pennants, ennants, and a World W orld Ser o Series ries in 19 1989.

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Times T imes ha have h ave changed, however, however, and fate h has as dealt Oakland a cold cold deck. Now Now w it’s it’s Oakland that hopes hopes that Gener General ral Manager Billy Beane’s Beane’s “Moneyball” “Mone ybaall” approach—more approach—more maligned with w each passing season— ccan an persuade persuaade a moribund fan base to support supp ort a franchise that is signaling ffor or the che o check. eck.

The mo model del that the A A’s ’s ha have ave in mind ffor o or the t futur futuree is similar to that of the their eir cr cross-bay oss-baay counterparts: counterparts: create cr eate buzz buzzz with a pristine, pristine, privatelyprivatelyfinanced financ ed stadium sttadium and hope hope that a roster roster rooted rooted in pitching and pr productive oductive role role players plaayers will pa pay ay off. off ff.. Unfortunately Unffor o tunately t ffor o or the A’s, A’s, San Francisco’s Francisc o’s cruel strategy strategy extends extends south to S Sharks harks T Territory. erritor e y.

Att a tim A time me when South Bay Baay fans should be be rewarded rewarded for fo or their decades decades loyalty Francisco of lo yalty to t the San Francisc o theyy seem to b bee getting team, the getting an oversized from o versized ffoam oam o middle finger fr om Los Gigantes, L os Gigant tes, who now seemingly afford ccould ould aff ffo orrd to be be magnanimous. magnanimous.

“It’s “It ’s a classic classsic example example of greed, greed, and wheree yyou fforgetting orgetttting who got yyou o ou wher ou are,” one lifelong ar e,” says saays y o liffeelong San Josean Josean

21 veto veto remained remain ned with the franchise like like a conquered conqu uered and annexed annexed nation. Thee Giants abandoned their South h Bay Baay ambitions to build a ballpark in i San Francisco Francisco and constructed constructed d Pac Pac Bell (now AT&T) AT T&T) Park 5 percent Park with just j percent public funding. funding. Peter Peter e Magowan Magowan oversaw oversaaw the club until handing over h over managing general partner parrtner duties in 2008 2008 to Microsoft Mi osoft Micr ft lawyer lawy la w er Bill Neukom, Neuk kom, who h along with current current A’s A’s ownership and MLB, to be MLB, declined d be interviewed interviewed for for o this article. artiicle.

Two Two w years yearrs after Lurie’s Lurie’s exit, exit, A’s A’s ownership ownersh hip changed hands as well. In 1995, 1995, 9 Haas sold control control to Silicon Silicon Valley Valle a y developer developer Steve Steve Schott, Schott, a graduate grraduate of Bellarmine College College Preparatory Preparator e y and Santa Santa Clara University, University, and East Bay Baay builder Ken Ken Hofmann.

H f The two two men tried to renovate renovate the Coliseum Coliseu um but were were thwarted th hwarted by by Raiders owner ow wner Al Davis.

Daavis v . His football football team’s team’s return retu urn to Oakland from from Los Los Angeles brought lawsuits and the brought o laawsuits w Coliseum’s Coliseum’s uglification, uglification,, obliterating any any hopes hopes for for o a suitable suitable A’s A’s ballpark in the future. future. The fan base soured soured and nostalgia nostalggia for for o Haas built to such a level levell that one would think the h munificent munific ificent former fo ormer owner had h d bought bought rounds rou unds in the bleachers on day daay games. games.

With With i no progress progress being being made towards towards an n Oakland stadium, stadium, and little litttle t affection aff ffeectiion for fo or the way way Schott Schott and Hofmann conducted conducted their business, business, Commissioner Commissio oner Bud Selig turned to a former fo ormer fraternity frraternity brother brother to help revive revive the Athletics.

Athletics.

The Ca Cash ash Br Brothers others Fifty yyears Fifty ears ago aago,, L Lew ew W Wolff olff o and Bud Selig were were rroommates oommates in a University University off W o Wisconsin isconsin fraternity. fraternity. S Selig elig stayed stayed out o ut o off ttrouble rouble aand nd took took his his rrole ole as as president pr esident of o the Pi Lambda Lambda Phis sseriously; eriously; Wolff Wolff lleaned eaned more more ttowards owards the JJohn ohn Be Belushi elushi side of the house. house.

After A fter ggraduation, raduation, tthe he ttwo wo m men en went ways.

Wolff w ent ttheir heir sseparate eparrate w ays. W olff home Louis, MBA headed hom me to St. L ouis, got his MB A become estate and went on o to b ecome a rreal eal est ate developer.

His first project was Park d eveloper. H is fi rst p roject w as P arrk Center Plaza, C enter Plaz za,, downtown San JJose’s ose’s first rrevitalization evitaliization effort eff ffo ort in the late Wolff San 11960s.

960s. W olff rremained emained aactive ctive iin nS an n

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whose didn’t didn’t want want to be be identified eeven ven though his name appears appears on local lo cal buildings. buildings. ballpark Back in 1989, 1989,, with a drafty d rattled byy the L Loma Prieta rat ttled t b oma Prie eta earthquake earthquak ke owner aand nd a cooling cooling ffan an base, basse, Giants Gian nts o wner about Bob Lurie Lurie approached approached the t A’s A’s ab out moving San m oving the the Giants Gian nts south south to to S an n JJose. ose. A’s A’s owner and Levi Levii Strauss heir Walter Santa County W allter Haas Haaass cceded eded S an nta Clara Clarra C ounty without tterritorial erritoriall rrights ights tto o Lurie Lurie w ithout aass much as a second second thought. thougght.

Richard San Jose Jose City City Attorney Atttorn ney Richar d Doyle Do yle was was at the table table as a staff staff attorney at torney when the Giants Giaants were were trying tr ying to make make the move. mo ove. Giants officials needed help putting putttting a rreferendum effer e endum on the ballot. balllot. Looking Looking back, Doyle Doyle says saays y he was was a astounded rights to hear how easily righ hts to the San JJose ose fandom had been been discarded discarded like like unwanted un wanted d hand-me-downs. h hand-me d - do downs. Haas H wasn’t w asn’t interested interested in going go oing through through the normal MLB channels channels to facilitate facilit ate a team’s team’s rrelocation. elocation.

“Haas “H aas gave gave away away territorial territorial rights, rights, never and the Giants ne ver gave gaave them back,” Doyle D oyle says. says. “So, “So, this this whole whole idea idea of of territorial the Giants having haavving territ torial rights— had h ad yyou ou been been at at the the table, tab ble, iit’s t’s not not was something that w as a bargained barrgained ffor or o or bought.

A’s them b ought. The A ’s gave gaave th hem to them.” bears It b ears mentioning i i g that h the h benevolent have b enevolent late Haas could could ha ave viewed vie wed the Giants’’ exodus exo odus from from San Francisco eye.

Francisc o with a keen keen business b eye. have Fans would then ha ave to drive drive either an hour to San Jose Jose orr simply motor across acr oss the Bay Baay Bridge to t see the Bash Brothers.

Br others.

Lurie L urie twice twice tried to get g ballot measures help measur es passed to hel lp taxtaxstadium Santa fund a st adium in Sant ta Clara County—once C ounty— once in November Novemb e er 1990 1990 and again in JJune une 1992.

1992 2. But Lurie, Lurie, underestimating under estimating local local voters’ voters’ thriftiness in the throes throes e of the prepreDotcom Dotc om Boom Boom recession, recessio on, headed home without a stadium stadiu um deal.

What no one notice W hat n oo ne sseemed eemed tto on otice or or was ccare arre about ab bout w as tthat hat tthe he Giants Gian nts had had d bargaining ccaptured ap ptured a b arrgaiining cchip hip tthat hatt no no other MLB had o ther M LB cclub lub h ad at at tthe he time time or or has today. todaay. More More than two two w decades decades after trying trying to abandon n San Francisco Francisco ffor or San San Jose, Jose, gifted gifted territorial territorial rights rights gave ga ave the Giants blocking blockin ng power power to keep what became k eep w hat b ecame 110th-largest 0th-larrgest ccity ity in in America having baseball A merica from from h aving a b asseball team team of its own.

Lurie L urie sold the Giants Giantts in 1993, 1993, and byy that time the team’s b team’s territorial

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2011/2012 Groundwater Production Charges

You are invited Topic:

2011/2012 Groundwater Production Charges

Who:

The Santa Clara Valley Water District Board of Directors

What:

Public hearings on proposed groundwater production charges 2011/2012 and receive comments

When:

April 12, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. – open hearing April 19, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. – continue hearing – South County April 26, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. – close hearing

Place:

April 12, and April 26, 2011 Santa Clara Valley Water District Board Chambers 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA April 19, 2011 Morgan Hill Council Chambers 17555 Peak Avenue, Morgan Hill, CA

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The Santa Clara Valley Water District has prepared an annual report on the Protection and Augmentation of Water Supplies documenting financial and water supply information which provides the basis for recommended groundwater production charges for fiscal year 2011/2012.

The report includes financial analyses of the water district’s water utility system; supply and demand forecasts; future capital improvement, maintenance and operating requirements; and the method to finance such requirements.

The water district will hold a public hearing to obtain comments on the report which will be available at the hearing.

Based upon findings and determinations from the public hearing, the water district Board of Directors will decide whether or not a groundwater production charge should be levied, and if so, at what level, in which zone or zones for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011.

All operators of water-producing facilities within the water district or any person interested in the water district’s activities with regard to protection and augmentation of the water supply may appear, in person or by representative, and submit comments regarding the subject.

For more information on the public hearing, please visit our website at www.valleywater.org, or contact Darin Taylor, (408) 265-2607, ext. 3068.

Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate persons with disabilities wishing to attend this public hearing. To request accommodations for disabilities, arrange for an interpreter, or obtain more information on attending this hearing, please contact the Office of the Clerk of the Board at (408) 265-2600, ext. 2277, at least three days prior to the hearing.

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wants outspokenness w ants and his outsp ok kenness have haave been b een valuable valuable business business qualities qualities that that have ha ave rrecently ecently made him m a bit of a thorn in Selig’ Selig’ss side. side.

Selig S elig sspent pent a ccouple ouple yyears ears iin n tthe he army ar rmy be before fore rreturning eturning h home ome tto o Milwaukee M ilwaukee tto ow work ork aass a ssalesman allesman n aatt his h is ffather’s ather’s ccar arr d dealership. eallership. H His is p passion assion outside o utside o off w work ork w was as b baseball, aseball, tthanks han nks to his mother, mother, who to took o him and his ok brother br other to minor leagu league ue games as kids. kids.

Selig was S elig w as such such a devoted devoted fan fan of of tthe he game that he ended up p taking taking the money hee m made m oney h ad de selling selling and an nd leasing leassing and ccars ars an nd investing investing it it in in the the Milwaukee Milwaukee Braves, who Boston B raves, w ho relocated relocatted ffrom rom B oston in 1953. It wasn’t wasn’t long before beffo ore Selig became Braves’ b ecame the Bra aves’’ biggest bigggest public But sshareholder. harreholder. B ut then, then, in in 1965, 1965, tthe he tteam eam abandoned ab ban ndoned Wisconsin Wisconsin aand nd Atlanta. eexited xited to A ttlanta.

The T he sting sting of of losing losing his his tteam eam m to to another m another market arket without without aan n ounce ounce of of ccontrol ontrol sstayed tayed with with Selig.

Selig. H Hee m made ad de it his missio mission on to restore restore baseball in Milwaukee, Milw auk keeee, and in 1970 he brought brought tthe he struggling struggling Seattle Seattle P Pilots ilots to to Wisconsin W isc i onsin and rrenamed enamed the franchise the Br Brewers. ewerrs. T Twenty-two w wenty-t - wo yyears ears later later,, he became b ecame thee commissioner commissioner of baseball.

More M ore tthan han fi five ve d decades ecades aafter fter lleaving eaving tthe he ccomfy omfy f cconfines onfines o off Madison, M adison, b baseball aseballl b brought rought tthe he ttwo wo fraternityy br fraternit b brothers others back to together. gether.

In 20 2002, 02,, Selig invited in nvvited W Wolff o olff to fly ffrom rom P Paris aris tto oS San an nF Francisco rancisco tto o aattend ttend a game during durring the Bay Baay Bridge W World orld o Series.

S eries. According According tto oaS San an n Francisco Francisco magazine piece p eb piec byy Ste Steve eve Kettmann, Keettttmann, tthat’s hat’s w where here Selig Selig gauged gaau uged Wolff’s Wolff ’s interest stake inter est in buying b a st ak ke in the Oakland Athletics.

O ak kland A thletics. A year year later, later, Wolff Wolff owners.. j i d Schott joined S hottt and Scho d Hofmann H f as owners Wolff was stadium.

W olff ’s o ’s job j w as to find a st adium.

Hee eexhausted different options H xhau usted ffour our d iff ffeerent o ptions Oakland before off iin nO aklan nd b efore sspending pending ttens ens o millions on multiuse project m illions o n a ffailed ailed m ultiuse p roject Fremont.

Wolff in Fr emon nt. But W olff o ’’ss eeyes yees had been on San aalways lways b een sset et o nS an JJose, ose, tthe he place where hee sstarted his p lace w here h tarted h is ccareer, areer, aand nd near where his daughter n earr w here h is d aughter aand nd yyoung oung live. grandsons liv e.

Twelve ago,, W Wolff T welv w e yyears ears ago o olff told Kettmann, San Francisco K ettmann, tthen hen a S an F rancisco Chronicle was Chronicle writer: “If I w as a going to pursue a ballpark, b , I would ccertainly ertainly do San not depend on d o iitt iin nS an JJose, ose, n ot d epend o na outside off S San and would vvote ote o utside o an JJose, ose, an nd I w ould work mayor w ork tthrough hrough the the m ayor aand nd tthe he Redevelopment Agency.

R edevelopment A gency. IIt’s t’s tthe he difference between big-league d iff ffeerence b etween a b ig-league ccity ity non-big-league wouldn’t aand nd a n on-big-league ccity. ity. I w ouldn’t five minutes on any other sspend pend fi ve m inutes o n an ny o ther ccity ity besides b esides San n JJose. ose.”

Six yyears earss after that inter interview, view, W Wolff olff o aand nd G Gap ap pb billionaire illionaire JJim im F Fisher isher ttook ook ccontrol ontrol o off the the cclub. lub. F From rom tthere, here, iitt seems,, it w seems was aas only a mat matter ter of wher wheree to and how w so soon. on.

But sinc since ce that w warm aarm rreunion, eunion, the rrelationship elationship has become become mor moree ccomplex. omplex. Wolff Wolff and and F Fisher isher ar are re sstill till making m money, oney, thanks to Major League L eague Baseball’s Baseball’s communist-style communist-style rrevenue-sharing evenue-sh haring system. system. But the A’s—and the A ’s—and th he rrest est of baseball—lose due millions du ue to weak attendance atttendanc t e poor Oakland aand nd p oor aamenities menities aatt tthe he O aklan nd Coliseum.

C oliseum.

Selig IIn n tthe he ttwo wo yyears ears ssince ince S elig fformed ormed blue panel tthe he b lue rribbon ibbon p anel tto o sstudy tudy tthe he A’s options, Wolff has his A ’s o ptions, W olff h as eexpressed xpressed h is weariness with w the process. process.

23 Baseballl’s m Baseball’s monetary onetary vvalue alue tto oS San an JJose ose is still debatable. d debat able. Jobs Jobs are are one but tthing, hing, b ut ac aactual ctual eeconomic conomic iimpact mpact another.. The state is another T st ate will likely likely have decide legality ha ave to dec cide the legalit ty of shell organizations o rgan nizations like like tthe he Diridon Diridon Development D evelopment Authority, Authority, as as well well as as schemes, Santaa Clara similar sche emes, such as Sant County’s off $ $4 million C ounty’s rrecent ecent ttransfer ransfer o 4m illion San Francisco 49ers pave tto o tthe he S an nF ran ncisco 4 9ers tto op ave the the way new stadium. w ay ffor or a ne o n w st adium. actions bee challenged Those ac ctions ccould ould b byy Br Brown moneyy needed b own to t recoup recoup mone in C California’s to make make a dent d aliffornia’ o ’s $26 deficit. billion defi ficit. proposal allows ““The The ggovernor’s overnor’s p roposall al llows for for off tthe actions a tthorough horough rreview eview o he ac ctions ccities ities have aand nd rredevelopment edevelopment agencies aggencies h ave been fast-b een ttaking akingg to sequester q and fast Evan ttrack rack ffunds, unds,” E van Westrup, Westrup, Brown’s Brown’s was sspokesman, pokesman, w as quoted quoted aass saying saying in in San a rrecent ecent article article in in tthe he S an Francisco Francisco Chronicle. law Chr onicle. “If “ violations of the la aw aare re ffound, ound, ssubsequent ubsequent action action can can be be cconsidered onsidered and/or pursued.” happens, Doyle h ens,” Do yle says saays y “If this happ laughing,, “i “it’s lawyers laughing it’s a la awy wyeers dream, dream, because b ecau use litigation litigattion iiss going going to to happen hap ppen fivee years. ffor or fiv o yearrs.”

Redevelopment’s R edevelopment’s ggoal oall is is to to increase increase property Reed p roperty ttaxes, axes, aand nd Mayor Mayor R eed says says objective important that objecti ive is the most imp ortant a sports rreason eason to build b sports facility. facility. An byy C Convention, impact analysis anaalysis rreport eport b on nvention, Sports Leisure S ports & L eisure IInternational nternational ssays ays an annual average average of $3.5 million would bee ggenerated byy w ould b enerated for for tthe he city city b building a st sstadium. adium. addition jobs,, b both oth “In addit tion to the jobs cconstruction onstructio on and permanent, permanent,” Reed says, about R eed e sa ays y , “it ““it’s ’s rreally eally ab out the tax tax rrevenues. evenues. That’s T ’s a big plus in these That economic ec onomic times. t times .”

Marcc Mo Morris, software Mar orris, a softw are developer developer stadium opposition who runs a st adium opp osition website called callled Better Better Sense San JJose, ose, says saayys the th he numbers numbers from from a citycittyballpark ccommissioned ommissioned b allparrk economic economic analysis aree misleading misleading.. impact ana alysis ar baseball ““A A baseb all team is really really just a business small busin ness with big publicity, publicity,” says.

Morris sa ays ys. more difficult Am ore d ifficult iissue ssue tto o tackle tackle psychic and iiss tthe he p sychic an nd emotional emotional importance sports American imp ortance of sp orts to Americ an cculture, ulture, and an nd the the ccivic ivic pride pride that thatt can can surround surr ound a winning team. say “I guess I can can sa ay there there is a false pride, ccivic ivic p ride, because becau use iitt sets sets you you up up for for

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Over Ov ver e time time,, though, San Jose Jose has h become A’s option. b ecome the A ’s only true option n.

Oakland O aklan nd has hass just just begun begun developing developing aan n environmental environmental impact impact report, report, a prerequisite p rerequisite ccompleted ompleted years yearrs ago ago in in San Jose, Jose, and,, as Redevelopment’s Rede e velopmentt’s Mavrogenes Wolff M avrogenes points points out, out, W olff “made “made iitt clear clearr to to everyone everyone tthat hat h hee d does oes n not ot want w ant to build a facility facility in Oakla Oakland. and.”

Local business are L ocall b i lleaders d here h here ar re cclearly learly o on n board. board. S Silicon ilicon V Valley aallley Leadership L eadership Group Group ssent ent a letter letter ssigned igned byy 75 local b local CEOs to Selig late last lasst yyear, ear, eendorsing ndorsing tthe he team’s team m’s relocation relocation San tto oS an n JJose. ose. Included Included in in that that group group were: wer e: Carol Carol Bartz Bartz of Yahoo; Yaho a o; Shantanu Shaantanu Narayen Adobe; N arayen of of A dobe; and an nd JJohn ohn Chambers Cisco, C ham mbers of of C isco, which which has has a $120 $120 million with A’s m illion deal deal w ith the the A ’s ffor or 330 0 years yearrs of naming rights if a stadium stadium is built.

None off tthis has N one o his h as softened softened the the Giants’ G iants’ stance. stance. They’ve They’ve rruled uled out out a deal d eall for for giving giving up up the the tterritory. erritory. The The allow rreason eason is is cclear: lear: Why Why al llow the the A’s A’s Silicon to suck Silic on Valley Valle a y corporate corporate and when ffan an revenue revenue w hen a waiting waiting ggame am me ccould ould rresult esult in in a one-team one-team Bay Bay Area Area baseball market? market?

““II u nderstand tthe he G iants aare re ttrying rying understand Giants to either get the A ’s to lea ave the ar ea, A’s leave area, which would b t inter est,, or bee in their interest, moneyy outt of the A A’s, Reed get some mone ’s,” R eeed don’t ssays. ays. ““But But I d on’t tthink hink iit’s t’s rright ight tthe he way they’re hostage. w ay the y’re holdingg San JJose ose host age.”

Making more pressing M ak king tthe he ssituation ituation m ore p ressing bargaining iiss an n iimpending mpending ccollective ollective b argaining agreement agr eement at the end en nd of this season.

Growing G rowing cchatter hatter sspeculates peculates tthat hat tthe he will 28 byy lleague eague w ill ccontract ontracct tto o2 8 tteams eam ms b Tampa Bay Rays eeliminating liminating tthe he T ampa B ay R ays aand nd A’s.

Ass o one tthe he A ’s. A ne tteam eam eexecutive xecutive ttold old New York News, the N ew Y o ork Dailyy N ews, “How much m uch llonger onger ccan an n yyou ou eexpect xpect aall ll tthe he subsidize teams,, other teams to subsi idize two two teams with iin n ffutile utile ssituations, ituattions, w ith rrevenue evenue keep afloat?” sharing to k eep them m afloat ?”

Contraction, however, C ontraction, how wever, seems unlikely facee of wave unlik ely in the fac o aw ave of lawsuits—from Players la awsuits—fr w om the MLB Pla ayeers Association A ssociation i i to host h cities ci i themselves. themselv h l es.

Even San E ven S an JJose ose ccould ould ssue ue ffor or tthe he rright ight bring A’s tto ob ring tthe he A ’s tto o ttown, own, aalthough lthough officials have not ccity ity o fficials ssay ay tthey hey h ave n ot option. discussed that optio n.

A’s won’t One thing is certain: certaiin: The A ’s won ’t Giants, due ssue ue tthe he G ian nts, nor nor vvice ice vversa, ersa, d ue tto o tthe he iimmunity mmunity from from federal federal anti-trust anti-trust laws la aws w baseball rreceived eceived e a century century ago as partt of an arcane dispute players’ par arcane dis pute over over pla ayeers’ prevent rrights. ights. MLB MLB rrules ules p revent clubs clubs ffrom rom because fraternity li i i b litigating ecause off the h fraternit f ity they the h y sharee as memb members league.. shar ers off the league block might bee tthe A sstumbling tumbling b lock m ight b he unpaid portion off tthe $170 million u npaid p ortion o he $ 170 m illion took from loan the Giants to ok k fr om Chase Manhattan AT&T Park.

Manhat tan Bank to build A T&T T P ark. only way ““II tthink hink tthe he o nly w ay tthis his iiss ggoing oing tto o work politically w ork p oliticallly iiss iiff an n aagreement greement Baseball booster Larry iiss rreached, eached,” B aseball b ooster L arrry Stone believes.

Lew Wolff S tone b elieves. ““Although Although L ew W olff doesn’t give do esn’t eexpect xpect to giv ve the Giants myy ttheory A’s pay aanything, nything, m heory iiss tthe he A ’s p ay down the loan.” meantime,, the m mysterious In the meantime yysterious Development Authority Diridon De velopmeent A uthority with no known eexists xists iin n a vvacuum, acuum, w ith n ok nown definitive plans.. While leadership or definit tive plans unlikely, possible u nlikely, iit’s t’s p ossible tthe he ccity ity ccould ould moree pr properties toss in a ffew ew mor p operties ffor o or protection One parcel p rotection from from the the sstate. tate. O ne p arrcel on San Fernando aalready lread dy iincluded ncluded iiss o nS an nF ernando Street, blocks S treet, ssix ix b locks aaway way ffrom rom tthe he proposed site pr oposed ballpark si ite but seen as a gateway ballpark. gate way to the ballp park.

Meanwhile, Bay Mean nw while, South h Ba ay baseball wait, fans w ait, a and San JJose o rremains ose emains perched becoming p erched on the cusp p of b ecoming always wanted something it has alw wayys w anted to be—a city. b e—a major league cit y.

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pretzel and chile powder. 6am5pm Mon-Thu, 6am-11pm Fri, 7am-11pm Sat, 7am-5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester Blvd #C. 408.378.4540.

CAPERS Well-heeled sports bar

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Campbell and restaurant. $$$. Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Welldevised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious finger foods. 11am-10:30pm MonThu, 11am-midnight Fri-Sat, 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777.

LA PIZZERIA Italian. $$. La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand on the strength of a few high-quality ingredients, expertly prepared.

Open for lunch and dinner daily.

11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am11pm Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Ave. 408.370.0826.

MICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi standards are transformed into palate-awakening presentations; culinary boundaries are stretched.

11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.378.8000 or 378.0838.

NEGEEN Persian. $$. Mira ghasemi, grilled and puréed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, puréed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs. Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice cream. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-midnight Fri-Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400.

PSYCHO DONUTS Donuts. $.

Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory with flavors like apricot, the Cookie Monster (topped with Oreos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits of vanilla wafers) and the intimidating Psycho Donut, a maelstrom of marshmallow,

Russian. $$. This is a small Russian grocery store with a good little restaurant tucked in the corner. Borscht soup, pelmeni and solyankya sbornaya, a thick soup studded with chunks of mild pork sausage, black olives, pickles and barley all satisfy. 11am-8pm daily. 1712 S. Winchester Blvd.

408.379.6680.

SUSHI ZONE Japanese. $$. Fun sushi meets fun surroundings in this zone. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd #1.

408.866.1323.

TIGELLERIA. Italian. $$.

Tigelleria’s menu centers on fine cheeses and Italian salumi paired with tigelle, free-flowing, piping-hot flat-breads the size of mini pitas. The bread forms the addictive heart of the meal.

11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm daily. 76 E. Campbell Ave. 408.884.3808.

TWIST CAFE AND BISTRO French and American. $$$.

Twist describes itself as “American food with a French twist,” but the menu includes Middle Eastern, Asian and Italian influences, too. Cafe 9am-3pm Tue-Sat, 9am2:30pm Sun; Bistro 5-9pm Wed-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 247 E. Campbell Ave. 408.374.8982.

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AFFINITY Classic American. $$$. Big-shouldered food in handsome surroundings is the

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rule. The steaks are big and rule juicy, the pot pies better than Grandma used to make. Full bar.

300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444.

ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$.

Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu, 5:3011pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555.

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

BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$.

Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and taste likes the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American, Mexican and Asian food. Most dishes are designed for sharing—appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am-10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat. Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St. 408.292.4300.

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

Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat,

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=K<I J@KK@E> mXZXek ]fi (/ dfek_j# Cfj >XkfjÊ :f^^\j_Xcc dXej`fe `j XYflk kf ^\k X e\n i\jkXliXek k\eXek1 PALACIO MEXICAN i\jkXliXek% FeZ\ k_\ _fd\ f] k_\ CHART HOUSE Xe[ TREVESE i\jkXliXekj# k_\ M`Zkfi`Xe dXej`fe$klie\[$i\jkXliXek `j fe\ f] k_\ Z`kpÊj dfjk n\cc$befne cXe[dXibj% DEAN DEVINCENZI, who owns DOUBLE D’S and FORBES MILL with his brother, DARIN DEVINCENZI, is opening the business with RON GARALD, who is also an owner of FORBES MILL. The building is currently undergoing a extensive remodel that includes turning the back bar into the kitchen, moving the old bar to the front and playing up the building’s appealing patio. The restaurant’s green carpet has been removed as well.

Dean Devincenzi says the menu will offer “upscale Mexican and South American food.” He looked to Casa de Cobre in Saratoga, Reposado in Palo Alto and Mamacita’s in San Francisco for inspiration. While the Chart House and Trevese fizzled out, Devincenzi thinks fine, traditional Mexican food is just what Los Gatos needs. “The bottom line is people love Mexican food,” he says.

“Nothing against Pedro’s, but we’re doing it a little nicer.” (Nearby Pedro’s is a longtime Mexican restaurant.)

Entrees will cost from $15 to $25. Divencenzi and Garald are actively looking for a chef. While he wouldn’t disclose what rent is on the space, Divencenzi says he hopes to do about $2 million a year in sales. “I’ve got a fairly good track record,” he says. “I’ve done a lot of homework.”

The name “palacio,” which means mansion or palace in Spanish, is an ode to the beautiful old building. The Victorian Queen Anne building was constructed in 1891 and has housed a restaurant for more than 30 years. Before Trevese opened in March 2007, the Chart House restaurant occupied the building for decades. Years before that, the building was once a funeral home.—Stett Holbrook

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

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

88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

4TH STREET PIZZA CO. Pizza. $. 4th Street Pizza Co. occupies a prime corner spot on East Santa Clara and Fourth with big windows to watch the comings and goings at City Hall across the street. The thin-crust margherita fell short but the thicker-crust pies are better.

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

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

11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30pm-midnight Thu-Fri, 3pm-midnight Sat, 310pm Sun. 80 N. Market St. 408.294.8626.

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

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

IL FORNAIO Regional Italian. $$. Embraced by the graceful Sainte Claire Hotel, this location (there are several up and down the coast) transports the diner. The menu showcases a different region of Italy monthly. 7am-10pm Mon-Thu, 7am-11pm Fri, 8am-11pm Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. Full bar. 302 S. Market St. 408.271.3366.

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

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

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

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LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$.

Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades. Lunch 11am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 1-10pm Sat and 4-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.

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

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

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NHA TOI Vietnamese. $-

Seafood. $$$. Harks back to big-city fish houses with stately, masculine interiors. Menu follows the freshest fruits of the sea, grilled, pan-seared, steamed. Desserts will hook you. 11:30am-10pm daily; 11pm happy hour Fri-Sat. 170 S. Market St. 408.283.7200.

$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern-style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am-10pm daily.

460 E. William St. 408.294.2733.

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

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MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food cooked and served by people with a personal investment in customer happiness. Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-11pm MonSat, Sun 5-9pm. 86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.

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

American. $$. For five decades OJ’s has been serving classics of American and Italian-American food with heaping portions of big-city attitude and glamour.

The restaurant underwent an extensive remodel, but the menu is the same as it ever was. 11am-1am daily. 301 S. First St. 408.292.7030.

PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor. Pagoda offers the gamut of regional allstars. Full bar. 6-10pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St. 408.998.3937.

PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$.

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

The impeccable service compensates for the modest portions. Full bar. 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat. 323 W. San Carlos St. 408.294.2558.

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

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11am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri-Sat, 10am-8pm Sun; brunch 10am-2pm Sun. 91 S. Autumn St. 408.292.5837.

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

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

Closed Sun. 11:30am-1pm, 59pm Mon-Sat. 71 N. San Pedro St. 408.971.8523.

SONOMA CHICKEN Mixed. $. If you don’t mind carrying your own tray and fighting for a table you’ll be rewarded with hearty spit-roasted chicken that requires at least six napkins. 11am-9pm SunThu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat. 31 N. Market St. at San Pedro Square. 408.287.4098.

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

VUNG TAU Vietnamese. $$.

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

Encyclopedic menu. 10am3pm, 5-9pm daily. 535 E. Santa Clara St. 408.288.9055.

WING’S Chinese. $. The food is complemented by an exotic dining room with sequestered seating equipped with hanging beads and doorbells, and other miscellaneous peculiarities of a bygone era.

Always a fun place to visit.

11:30am-9:30pm daily. 131 E. Jackson St. 408.294.3303 or 998.9427.

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Streetlight Records, San Jose Thu – 5pm; free Every night Brooklyn’s Nakatomi Plaza played, they seemed to turn out a new bunch of converts convinced this band was the future of pop-punk.

But it just never happened for them, and after 10 years and four records, they broke up. Singer-guitarist Oscar Rodriguez has moved on, and if a name like Ghost Robot Ninja Bear isn’t a play for more attention, I don’t know what is. The music on the new self-titled debut is likely to grab some new ears, too. The post-hardcore hits hard—“Pilots” is like a lost gem from Zen Arcade–era Hüsker Dü—but Rodriguez has been doing a lot of

solo acoustic lately, too, and he shows off that quieter side on “Obviously Midnight” and “I Can’t Decide.” His lyrics are a bit out there for my taste (“Justice dreams in my sleep don’t translate to readers”. . . uh, okay), but the guy is a whiz on guitar, and when he connects, he really connects. (SP)

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ATOM AGE Texas Toast House, San Jose Fri – 5pm; free Just when I think rock music is dead, or at least on crutches, a band like Atom Age comes around to convince me otherwise. Rock is not dead, ladies and gentlemen. These guys are on a mission to bring it back to its purest form; they’re

horn-tinged, punk-influenced, hard-hitting and all-around fun.

In a time when image too often trumps actual talent, Atom Age shines though as a new breed. They play this April Fool’s Day show with Blackbird Raum, Disabled Intent and For the Win. (BD)

STATESIDE RADIO Johnny V’s, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $5 Stateside Radio is new on the local scene, arriving, it would seem, at exactly the right time in the evershifting pop-culture continuum.

Judging from what I’ve heard so far, fans of the current soul revival will appreciate their funkier side, and the vocals of Brett Zingler. Fans of the slow-boiling retro-psych movement will appreciate how they can rock heavy. And everyone is likely to agree that guitarist Dave Kempken has serious chops. (SP)

DAVID HILLYARD & THE ROCKSTEADY 7 Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $10 A player with jazz chops who is doing his damnedest to revitalize ska, David Hillyard is reminding folks that the genre can do more than score comedy montages in Will Farrell movies. For the past two decades, Hillyard has been a veritable scholar of the genre, doing stints in the Donkey Show and Hepcat. With his latest outfit, the Rocksteady 7, Hillyard brings jazz improvisation to a roots reggae sound reminiscent of the Skatalites and Burning Spear. It’s vital, virtuosic stuff that’s meant for skanking, not yuks. Whiskey Avengers open. (PMD)

CARMEN San Jose Center for the Performing Arts Fri – 8pm, Sat –1:30pm, Sun – 1:30pm; $30-$100 The steamy story of the hot and fickle Spanish cigarette-rolling girl and the hapless corporal who falls in love with her began life as a novel but has proven sturdy enough to thrive in multiple versions as an opera, multiple movies (starring just about every screen beauty from Theta Bara to Rita Hayworth to Dorothy Dandridge) and a ballet by French choreographer Roland Petit. His 1949 version is revived by Ballet San Jose, which is one of a handful of companies that have the rights to the piece. The program also features George Balanchine’s Who Cares? set to a medley of Gerswhin tunes. (MSG)

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Mar 31 at 7:30pm, Mo Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

NAOMI DEFENSOR Apr 1 at Studio 8, San Jose

THE SUN KINGS Apr 2 at 8pm, 8 Club Fox, Redwood City

VOICES IN HARMONY Apr 2 at 2 and 7:30pm, Santa Sa Clara Convention Center

CALIFORNIA POPS Tribu to the big bands. Apr 3 at Tribute 3p 3pm, Calvary Church, Los Gatos

CARDUCCI QUARTET Apr 3 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford

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SEPTETO NACIONAL IGNACIO PINEIRO DE CUBA Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Fri– 8pm; $30-$35 Before its six-city tour in 2009, Septeto Nacional Ignacio Pineiro de Cuba hadn’t been stateside in 76 years. They got as close as S.F. on that tour, but this time they’ll make it to the South Bay. We’ve got a lot of catching up to do. Their reputation as masters of the Cuban son stretches all the way back to the group’s founding by Ignacio Pineiro Martinez in 1927, though back then it was just a sexteto. At the time, son, with its blending of Latin guitar and African percussion, was the original AfroCuban sensation. Havana was at the height of gangster chic and son was

the soundtrack. Pineiro was dubbed the “poet of son,” a foreshadowing of epic titles that would be bestowed on the group over the years, including “Patrimonio Nacional de la Cultura Cubana” (Cuban national treasure) and Ambassador of Cuban Folklore in Europe. Martinez quit the group in the mid-‘30s, and they were on and off until experiencing a renaissance after the Revolution. (SP)

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power-chord sensibility of Queen, mixed comfortably with ’80s goth.

Rather than let their music fall into the abyss of despair that defined that era, Insex Music add an element of cheeky theatrics. This is a release show for their new CD, with Menemonic, the Resurrection Men and the Trims opening. (AC)

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Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Sun – 3pm; $30

Insex Music describe themselves as dark alternative rock with elements of Brit-pop. True enough, but it fails to capture their campy, melodramatic side. They have the flamboyance and

Following in the tradition of classically trained musical adventurers the Kronos Quartet, the Cypress String Quartet has been changing the definition of “classical

music,” commissioning more than 30 new works. The group will perform one of those, “Impressions”

by Jennifer Higson, which pays tribute to the great Impressionists of both orchestras and oils. The program also includes one of those Impressionists, Debussy. (SP)

May 4 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

GLEE May 24–25 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

USHER May 29 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK With Backstreet Boys. Jul 2, HP Pavilion

SJ CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY Le Petit Trianon, San Jose Sun – 7pm; $30-$42 The San Jose Chamber Music Society welcomes a fine troupe of Musicians From Marlboro (not Marlboro country, but the Marlboro Music Festival). Scott St. John leads a string ensemble in a variety of numerical combinations, with a quartet by Janacek, a quintet by Mozart and an octet by Mendelssohn. (MSG)

KATY PERRY Aug 12 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

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In a new group show, artists scale up and scale down to examine some of the perceptual and conceptual variations of dimensionality as the mind and eye try to distinguish large from small in unusual context.

For instance, Klari Reisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mixed-media Petri Dish re-creates a microscopic view of cellular life at enormous size to fashion a biological abstraction.

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This 7-piece band, founded in 1927 by Ignacio PiĂąeiro MartĂ­nez (1888-1969), the proliďŹ c Cuban bassist and composer known affectionately as â&#x20AC;&#x153;El Poeta del Sonâ&#x20AC;?, has seen an array of Cuban musical superstars pass through its ranks, including Abelardo Barroso, Miguelito ValdĂŠs, Bienvenido Granda and Carlos Embale.

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Opera MISSION CITY OPERA Favorite arias and duets for South First Friday. Fri, 8pm.

Free. Caffe Trieste, San Jose

Theater BAD DATES Dragon Productions presents a one-woman show about the perils of dating, with Laura Jane Bailey. Opens Fri, 8pm.

Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Apr 17. $16-$25 (gala opening $30).

Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

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.

CAROUSEL Lyric Theatre presents the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Apr 3. $26-$36.

Montgomery 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, 2pm. Runs thru Apr 17. $25-$35. City Lights, San Jose.

FOREVER PLAID Broadway by the Bay’s take on the popular musical about a ’50s vocal group. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Plus Apr 9, 2pm.

Runs thru Apr 17. $24-$50. Fox Theatre, Redwood City.

LEGACY OF LIGHT San Jose Rep presents a new comedy about two women and their ideas about the importance of childbirth.

Opens Wed, Mar 30. Wed-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm.

Plus Apr 6, 11am. Runs thru Apr 17. $25 and up. San Jose Repertory Theatre.

THE NORTH POOL TheatreWorks mounts the world premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s thriller. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2 and 7pm.

Runs thru Apr 3. $27-$42. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS A stage version by TheatreWorks of David Guterson’s novel. Previews Wed-Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 2 and 7pm. Runs thru Apr 24. $24-$67. Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts.

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

Runs thru Apr 9. $18-$30.

Saratoga Civic Theater.

XANADU A local production of the musical about the high-stakes world of roller disco. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru May 8. 3. $24-$44. Retro Dome, San Jose.

Comedy CLUB FOX Mon, 7pm: Comedy Mondays.

Dan St. Paul hosts Bay Area comedians. 21+. $10. Redwood City.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Amy Schumer with Tim Babb and Jackie Monahan. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Tinkle Time. $12.

Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Anjelah Johnson. $25-$28. San Jose.

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LOST IN YONKERS A Neil Simon play. This week: Thu, 3pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2 and 7pm. Runs thru Apr 9. $25-$35. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Palo Alto.

CONTINUING ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “Classical Portraiture.” Works

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CANTOR ARTS CENTER “True Colors: Rediscovering Pigments of Greco-Roman Marble Sculpture.” Thru Aug 7. “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. WedSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am8pm. Stanford.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Celebrating Local Artists.”

Thru Sep 18. Pasetta House, History Park, San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Laboratory.” The museum’s new Beta Space hosts experimental shows. First exhibit features installations

by Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa. Runs thru Aug. 14.

“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 Re-imagined.”

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, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION “Body Worlds Vital.” A detailed anatomical look at bodies in health and disease, based on the work of Gunther von Hagens. Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.

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, 11am5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries OPENING SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS The monthly art extravaganza

features openings and happenings at various galleries along South First Street. Fri, 7-11pm. Downtown San Jose.

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“Glimmer.” Works by Christian Breitkreutz, Megan Diddle, Luciano Scherer and Collin van der Sluijs. Reception Fri with music by Lady Lazarus.

San Jose.

“Visionary Reflections.”

Paintings by Janice Kirkpatrick.

Reception Fri with live music.

San Jose.

“Tough Love.” Photos by Honda Lotus Dumitriu. Reception Fri. Thru Apr 30. San Jose.

PSYCHO DONUTS

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A rotating group show.

Reception Fri. San Jose.

“Bane.” Drawings and prints

by Fanny Retsek. Reception Fri. San Jose.

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CAFFE TRIESTE “Paintings by Centa Schumacher.” Reception Fri. Runs Apr 1-29. San Jose.

“Amity Blamity.” A showcase of work from new graphic novel

by Mike White. Reception Fri with live music by Quasimodal.

Runs Apr 1-29. San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA New works by Melissa Kreisa.

Reception Fri. San Jose.

GOOD KARMA VEGAN CAFE “Trained Wild Animal.” New paintings by Tyson Johnston.

Reception Fri features entertainment by DJ HiGrade.

San Jose.

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“A Night of Foolishness and Whimsy.” Art by Lara Sophia, Eugenia Chien, Shirine Asimianaraki and more.

Reception Fri with music by Farewell Typewriter. San Jose.

WORKS SAN JOSE The gallery celebrates its new space this Friday at 365 S. Market St, San Jose.

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Group show of Bay Area clay artists. Reception Fri. Runs Apr 1-May 5. San Jose.

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“Funerals.” New Works by Mike Egan. Thru Apr 16. San Jose.

“Succor.” A show in honor of recently deceased artist Jessica Beerli. Reception Fri. Runs Apr 1-May 5. San Jose.

GALLERY HOUSE “Of Light and Land.” Art

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Artist Johnston’s bestiary includes a baboon in a top hat and monocle, a five-eyed spider atop a woman bound by alarmingly large web filaments, a talented raccoon with a hurdy-gurdy and a very annoyed performing bear in a fez. The reception includes sounds by DJ Hi-Grade.

A group show at Anno Domini dubbed “Glimmer” features fantasy worlds by Christian Breitkreutz (a calavera in Easter garb seems to be mourning Jflk_ =`ijk for a dead swan that sprouts shoots of new =i`[Xp life); Megan Diddie (whose American primitive landscapes are inhabited by enormous fish/ Friday, 7–11pm; free dinosaur hybrids); and Lucian Sherer of Brazil Downtown San Jose and Collin van der Sluijs of the Netherlands, who galleries both push the limits of symbolism. The evening comes with music by Lady Lazarus (a.k.a. San Jose–born Melissa Ann Sweat, back from her adopted home of Savannah, Ga.), who envelops herself and listeners in keyboard reverb.

Other notable shows and events for the evening range from a show at Kaleid Gallery (on Fourth Street) in memory of artist Jessica Beerli, who passed away earlier this year much too soon; samples from Mike White’s graphic novel Amity Blamity at SLG Boutiki, along with jazz by Quasimodal; a performance by Panthelion at Eulipia; a chance to peek inside WORKS/San Jose’s new home in the making at 365 S. Market St.; photographs by Honda Lotus Dumitriu in the Metro lobby; opera arias at Caffe Trieste; a “A Night of Foolishness and Whimsy” with artists and music by Farewell Typewriter; and the proverbial more.—Michael S. Gant

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MAIN GALLERY “Clayful Shapes and Bodies of Art.” Works by Michael Ruiz and Catherine Merrill. Thru Apr 24. Wed-Sun, 10am-3pm.

Redwood City.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “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, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.

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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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“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.

story. Runs thru Apr 9. (Call Children’s Theatre of Palo alto at 650.463.4970 for details.)

STANFORD ART SPACES

DOCTOR NOIZE

Paintings by Rajiv Khilnani, quilts by Yvonne Porcella, mixed media by Stell Zhang.

Thru May 19. Mon-Fri, 8:30am5pm. Paul G. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford campus.

Children’s interactive concerts.

Wed (Mar 30), 10am and 2pm, plus Apr 3, 3pm. Presented by Children’s Theatre of Palo Alto.

(Call 650.463.4970 for details.)

SUNNYVALE LIBRARY

Presented by California Theatre Center. Sat, 11am and 7pm. $11/$12. Sunnyvale Theatre.

Works by typographer and graphics designer Ralph E. Munoz. Thru May 31.

Sunnyvale.

THOMPSON GALLERY “Dubberly Design Office: Imagining Software.” A look at the firm’s designs. Thru Apr 8. Tue, 11am-4pm, 6-7:30pm, Mon, Wed-Fri, 11am-4pm. Art Building, SJSU.

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A chance to meet the author of detective novelist and author of “Started Early, Took My Dog.” Fri, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

MALINDA LO A book event with author of “Huntress.” Tue, 7pm. Free.

Books Inc., Palo Alto.

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A winetasting. Sat-Sun, noon-5pm. Milpitas.

PENINSULA FRENCH FAIR With artists, food and fashions.

Sat, 10am-6pm. Free. Lucie Stern Community Center, Palo Alto.

RICHARD PRESTON A talk about the world’s tallest trees as part of Peninsula Open Space Trust Wallace Stegner Lecture Series. Mon, 8pm. $22.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

SILICON VALLEY ROLLER GIRLS A showdown with the Battle Born Derby Demons of Reno.

Prelim at 6pm, main event at 8pm. Sat. $8-$30. San Jose Skate.

SPRING FLING A special family day at historic site. Sat, 10am-3:30pm. $20$25. Filoli Gardens, Woodside.

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

APRIL 1st ART WALK 7pm-11pm

Anno Domini

Caffé Trieste

Higher Fire Clay

San Jose Jazz

366 So. First Street

315 So. First Street

499 So. Market Street

Opening Reception: GLIMMER featuring Christian Breitkreutz, Megan Diddie, Luciano Scherer and Collin van der Sluijs.

Artists don't typically run from the darkness, they walk right in and shine their light brightly so that we all may share in what they see.

This illumination can have profound effects upon the viewer. Glimmer is a faint glimpse into the minds of four emerging artists.

Preconscious by Centa Schumacher.

Freud described the preconscious as what lies between the conscious and subconscious mind; that which is recognizable but not known. Centa explores what is beneath awareness by using her body as an intermediary between these two realms.

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

Group showing of Bay Area clay superstars: Barbara Brown, Doris Fischer-Colbrie, Bill Geisinger, Joy Imai, Hsin-Chuen Lin, Lee Middleman, Fred Yokel and many more! Take in our eclectic display of earthy creations. Play at the clay table and watch the potters juggling clay, water, and fire!

at Eulipia Restaurant 374 So. First Street

Pictured artwork by Lee Middleman

Panthelion is the leading archetype of a dynamic new musical genre known as "nu class" a term that has been coined from audience descriptions of the Panthelion experience.

Nu class stands for New Urban Classical music an art form dedicated to exploring the spiritual and artistic depths of sound and structure forged into live performances in primarily contemporary popular music venues.

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles 520 So. First Street Earthly Paradise: Memory, Myth, Metaphor highlights the imaginative quilted works of A Bee: Carrie Houseman & Darbury Novoselic.

Eden Re-imagined presents the embroidered work of Argentinean artists Leo Chiachio & Daniel Giannone. Also on exhibit: Boy Code, works by Wendy Osher, and Modern Maya, huipils from the collection of Paul and Kathleen Vitale.

Pictured: Purloin (detail) by A. Bee

More Exhibitions:

SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery

So. First Billiards

KALEID Gallery

420 So. First Street

88 So. Fourth Street

577 So. Market Street

A Night of Foolishness and Whimsy Art by Lara Sophia, Eugenia Chien, Shirine Azimianaraki and more!

Music by Farewell Typewriter

SUCCOR In Honor of the Life and Art of Jessica Beerli.

Jessica Beerli was a talented young artist who died in a tragic accident shortly before her scheduled Feb. 2011 feature exhibtion at KALEID. To honor her life, this comprehensive show has been organized by her family, friends and the gallery.

Book release and art display of art from the new graphic novel Amity Blamity by Mike White. Live jazz by Quasimodal.

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

MACLA 510 So. First Street Phantom Galleries 386 So. First Street San Jose Art Glass Center 465 So. First Street WORKS San José 365 So. Market Street Downtown Yoga Shala 450 So. First Street Good Karma Vegan Café 37 So. First Street Metro Photo Exhibit 550 So. First Street Psycho Donuts 288 So. Second Street Art Ark 1035 So. Sixth Street

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Are-they-or-aren’t-they identity games are usually more fun for the directors and actors than they are for audiences. It’s a surprise, then,

how much we feel for two people visiting the medieval hill town of Lucignano in Tuscany. Their exact relationship is not completely clear; to avoid potential spoilers, it could be said that we don’t know exactly how old their quarrel is.

One is Juliette Binoche, billed as “Elle” (she), an untidy but luscious woman of a certain age. She works in an antique store with all the light and charm of a catacomb.

She comes up for air to attend the lecture of a visiting author. Being a local, she wants to show the writer some local sights. To paraphrase the ghost in the Christmas story: it’s not the long past she wants to show him—it’s his past.

Playing the author, James, is Kiarostami’s real find: William Shimell, a British opera singer who

hasn’t been in films before. Shimell has a profile he’s clearly proud of, yet he’s approachable and selfdeprecating.

While Elle is slightly schoolgirlish at first, her temper increases. James’ breeziness about the wisdom of children irritates Elle, who has been matching wits that day with her shrewd young son (Adrian Moore).

The scene between mother and son is as incisive a piece of shortstorytelling as I have ever seen. The kid is as good at button pushing as the strolling accordionists who keep turning up, making it a happy summer Sunday for everyone except the two leads.

Certified Copy reflects Rossellini’s 1954 Voyage in Italy, which also concerns a complex feuding couple.

Played by Ingrid Bergman and a never-better George Sanders, Rossellini’s voyagers were mocked by the simple emotions captured forever in the ancient artifacts they saw.

Elle and James are headed to a small town where newlyweds go.

In a museum, they see a jeweled golden tree, “in front of which

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The old man’s advice is intelligent. The fountain itself looks, from the glances Kiarostami gives it, like the corny Mussolini-ish statuary they used to erect outside Home Savings buildings.

But you’re on slippery terrain if you sneer at the art in this movie.

Certified Copy is pointed at critics, just as it is aimed at the longmarried types who mistake their spouses for pieces of furniture.

As an author, James’ argument is something like a post-Marxist adaptation of Walter Benjamin’s essay on the mechanically reproduced image. In his book, James suggests that a copy deserves as much honor as the original—and that it is futile to seek a true original, lost in the depths of copy upon copy.

James tells a story of a woman moved by the replica of Michelangelo’s David in the Florentine piazza: a woman who didn’t realize the real statue is actually indoors and elsewhere.

As a critic, James tries to convince himself to honor the emotion and forgive the mistake.

There is no shame in weeping at a movie, a copy, a mere counterfeit of emotion. It’s our own faults we weep for, anyway, our failures to love and forgive. And it is Binoche who makes Certified Copy so heartbreaking: her seeking of tenderness and approval from a man who won’t bend. In her search for signs of hope, Binoche builds on what could have been just an interesting game of acting, and she, above anyone, makes Certified Copy a genuine masterpiece.

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CERTIFIED COPY (Unrated; 106 min.) See review on page 39.

HOP (PG) An animated family ďŹ lm about the Easter bunnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son and his trip to Hollywood. (Opens Fri.)

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Time Traveler WIELDING A GIMMICK only looks easy sometimes, and Duncan Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; frightfully good Source Code takes a Philip K. Dickâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;worthy speculative fiction situation and makes it compelling. A commuter train bound for Chicago has a bomb on it. Because of one of those new time/space-warping devices the U.S. military keeps around, they can beam an officer named Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) back to try to find the bomber.

Stevensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; control is Coleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga). Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our first indicator that nothing is going to be straightforward. Farmiga has one of the most expressive faces around for shock and tragedy. With those peculiarly enormous and brimming eyes, she pantomimes disaster by never really meeting Colterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gaze. She has an excuse, though; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mere presence on a video screen. The timetraveling officer takes his orders from her, bunkered in some very cold and remote undisclosed location, wired up like a test monkey. We get a wider view and can see that Goodwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own boss is worse, a real Mabuse; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s played by Jeffrey Wright with half-glasses, a polio crutch and a beard.

(PG-13; 102 min.) The dark side beckons a small child, and his family ďŹ ghts back. Stars Patrick Wilson and Rose Byrne. (Opens Fri.)

POTICHE The stage is set handsomely, then, and the twisting begins: Groundhog Day meets La JetĂŠe, with a nice little garnish of The Manchurian Candidate.

During his cycles into the past, Colter becomes fixated on a girl on the train (Michelle Monaghan, adorably girlnext-dooring it). She becomes a human stake JfliZ\ in what will happen if :f[\ the train evaporates into a fireballâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as it does more PG-13; 93 min. than once. Source Code is Opens Friday nicely spun off that favorite idyll of wondering which of the fellow passengers on a streetcar is the terrorist.

(R; 103 min.) As the â&#x20AC;&#x153;trophy wifeâ&#x20AC;? of the title, Catherine Deneuve is at once regal and sensible in director

Francois (8 Women) Ozonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift to Deneuve and to French politicsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sexual and otherwise.

Set in a late-1970s French umbrella factory, this delightful bedroom and boardroom farce makes light work of heavy topics such as womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s liberation and corporate capitalism. Deneuve takes over the factory when her husband, the CEO (Fabrice Luchini, aping the womanizing French president, Nicolas Sarkozy), suffers a heart attack. She quickly wins over the workers, and allies with her former lover, the communist mayor (Gerard Depardieu, looking like an avuncular Brando). â&#x20AC;&#x153;She may be a trophy,â&#x20AC;? says her husband. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not on the shelf.â&#x20AC;? The breezy pace, stellar cast and homage to Deneuveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Umbrellas of Cherbourg make for a splendidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if stageboundâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;farce. (Opens Fri at Camera 7 in Campbell.) (DH)

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When finding an escape route out of a seemingly inescapable situation, director Jones doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cheat, and the movie goes surprisingly romantic.

While a few films (the dire Dear John comes to mind first) tried to extract some bittersweet tear-jerking moments out of our endless war against terror, Source Code seems closest to achieving the desired mood of wartime sadness.

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Taylor starts as a phenomenally poised and pretty child actress. The April 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;5 double-bill of Lassie Come Home (1943) and National Velvet (1944) is more than an introduction to Taylor: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also an excellent introduction to the Stanford Theatre for children. The series continues with Taylor as Amy in Little Women (April 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8), double-billed with Ivanhoe, starring Taylor as the gorgeous Rebecca, princess without portfolio. The public was invited to her bridal shower in Father of the Bride (1950) and its sequel, Fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Little Dividend (1951), showing April 9â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11.

After a double-bill of the teen Taylor in A Date With Judy and The Last Time I Saw Paris (April 12â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13), the Stanford presents the big three of Giant (April 14â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15), A Place in the Sun (April 16â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (April 16â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18). In the hands of directors George Stevens and Richard Brooks, Taylor broke away from the MGM standards of obedient daughters and wives.

SOURCE CODE (PG-13; 93 min.) See review on page 40.

SUCKER PUNCH (PG-13, 120 min.) In the dreams of one pitiful, soon-to-belobotomized orphan, she and four other girls at her Eastern European-style loony bin are a Fox Force Five of unstoppable warriors. In fantasy, Babydoll (popeyed, poofy-mouthed Australian import Emily Browning) wears the pervo Japanese sailorgirl outfit and wields a samurai sword. She and Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Abbie Cornish and Jena Malone retrieve dinguses from different levels of fantasy: each one so awesomely realized, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d need a 1,000 â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s party vans lined up side by side to get the â&#x20AC;&#x153;muraliciousâ&#x20AC;? action in one place. Orcs besiege a dragonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s castle; steam-powered zombies

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Remembering Liz THE STANFORD THEATRE in Palo Alto honors the late Elizabeth Taylor this month. The retrospective covers a 15-year stretch of her career, from 1943 to 1958, a period during which she began as the companion of a dog and ended as Maggie the Cat.

Whistle, I Whistle (2010), a drama of a boy facing the pitfalls of freedom after four years in juvenile hall. Director Florian Serban is on hand after the screening. Apr 2: Shorts by Intre Prieteni, Ozana Nicolau, Victor Dragomir, Paul Negoescu and Alexandru Solomon.

Also: The Zurich Chronicle, a documentary about the Swiss city during its days as a capital of Dada art, directed by Radu Igazsag and Alexandru Solomon. The Other Irene by Andrei Gruzsniczki regards the secret life of a newly dead girl. Apr 4, 7pm: A screening and discussion of Lucian Pintilieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ lm â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tertium Non Daturâ&#x20AC;? (a legal term meaning â&#x20AC;&#x153;an either/or situationâ&#x20AC;?), a short ďŹ lm about a WWII incident involving the Nazis and the theft of a rare stamp. (Plays Apr 1-4 in Palo Alto at Stanford University, various locations, and Apr 5 at UC-Berkeley; free; http://www. roďŹ lmfestival.com) (RvB)

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When I was a kid, I believed that Elizabeth Taylor was the most important actress alive. She was a ďŹ gure of splendor, a female pasha whose heavily mascaracovered and eye-lined look from Cleopatra was imitated deep until things got earthy again in the 1970s. But she was ready for that change <c`qXY\k_ of times, also. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the earth KXpcfi mother, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all ďŹ&#x201A;ops!â&#x20AC;? she brayed at her spineless April 1â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 husband in Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Afraid of Stanford Virginia Woolf?. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre, stretching a point to call it Palo Alto feminism: that insistence a woman must have everything, as Scarlett Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara said. But Taylor was reputedly the ďŹ rst actress to get $1 million for her services (in Cleopatra); that price tag stayed intact as the years went by.

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Incidentally, the Charlie to these angels is Scott Glenn, laying down such koans as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever write a check your ass canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cash.â&#x20AC;?

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Sucker Punch is the new low of gauche, making Baz L. look like Max Ophuls. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a smelly mulch of fanboy and gamer wankocity, steeped with some stolen Gilliam and blended to a gummy finale by director Zack â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spartaaaaaaa!â&#x20AC;?

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Decent work from Melanie Lynskey and Amy Ryan as the bad and good women, respectively. Bobby Cannavale is a relief as Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profane pal. (Opens Fri at the Guild in Menlo Park and CinĂŠArts Santana Row.) (RvB)

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BILLED WITH Young Oldfield (1924) with Charley Chase emulating the auto racer, and Our Congressman (1924) with Will Rogers. Bruce Loeb at the piano. (Plays Apr 2 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) Newly assigned FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) enlists the devil, or at least his surrogate, the engaging Dr. Hannibal â&#x20AC;&#x153;the Cannibalâ&#x20AC;? Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). Lecter is both psychopath and psychiatrist, clever enough to be published in medical journals but kept in maximumsecurity prison for his crimes.

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“If I could wave a wand, it would sound like Gram Parsons,” Jewett says. “It’s for the best, ’cause I’m sure we sound more unique this way.”

Jewett, an avid country fan, instead writes songs that are much darker, more hopeless and far stranger than country music.

Though the songs are rooted in country, they are obscured by spacey

keyboards and guitar noises, soft airy drums (if there are even drums) and his own peculiar, bassy, wailing vocals, reminiscent of eccentric singer/songwriter Scott Walker.

What Jewett’s songs do have in common with country is simplicity.

They are skeletal in nature, giving his backup band lots of room to give whatever treatment they want to each time they play the songs.

“It’s folksy and country-based,” Jewett says. “Most instrumentation changes a lot. Because the songs are simple, there’s a lot of space to change the sonic qualities.”

Initially, the songs varied so much because the people who played with Jewett changed from show to show.

Jewett played some shows alone,

other shows he would play with whatever friends were willing to back him up. “It depends on who is playing with me, ’cause certain people are good at certain things,” Jewett says.

Even as his backup musicians became more consistent, that freedom and fluidity would become a defining element of Family Room.

It’s the exact opposite of his other band, Worker Bee. Loved in the South Bay, Worker Bee are a loud, noisy, energetic and precise musical outfit. “It takes hours and hours to get the drum parts appropriate. We spend hours repeating parts. An entire song can hinge on one guitar part. Once we have everything, we don’t really want to change it.”

Since 2005, Worker Bee have brought their melancholy yet melodic, guitar-looping indie rock sound to San Jose and beyond, receiving much acclaim. Worker Bee started out instrumental, but as Jewett became more comfortable singing, he took the reins as lead

singer. That opened the door to something he long wanted to do: record a solo album.

He got the opportunity a few years later after moving to Oakland, where he was free from distraction.

“In Oakland I had no friends. I’d go to my job and that was it. I didn’t hang out with anyone,” Jewett says.

The dark, dreary and intimate quality of the Family Room record took Jewett a year of recording in his “closet-sized studio apartment” in Oakland. A few friends contributed parts, but most of it is all him. At the same time, he started playing shows as Family Room.

When Jewett writes songs with Worker Bee, he generally brings guitar parts and ideas to the group so that they can collaborate together. Their sound is defined by the communication and interplay between instruments. Family Room, on the other hand, is Jewett going deep inside of himself.

“Worker Bee is much more of a band. Family Room is much more of me sitting around being weird,” Jewett says.

Generally, Jewett prefers to play with collaborators, rather than solo.

But he technically has no set band.

People are free to come and go as they please. What doesn’t change is the haunting, moody feeling of his songs. Family Room sounds almost doomed, but it’s not unpleasant.

It’s more like someone numbed on pain killers. The songs drift and wander slowly in despair. While the structures are simple, the layering is complex.

Now living in San Jose again, Jewett likes the way both of his bands fulfill parts of his creative needs. “I try to do both constantly. I don’t really favor one more than the other,” Jewett says.

He’s also started playing second guitar for Sacramento experimental rock band Tera Melos, but only when they tour. With all these different musical outlets, it seems there is a home for all of Jewett’s different ideas. It’s a good thing he didn’t settle for writing Gram Parsons songs.

Family Room Wednesday, April 6, 9pm, free The Blank Club, San Jose

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D1ME: A DJ Series Friday at Pagoda Lounge in San Jose, 9pm; free until 11pm ($5 after) The Pagoda continues to cement its place as San Jose’s coolest new venue with a DJ night that combines the warm, intimate vibe of its small room with its new rep for edgy electronic raveups. Featuring resident DJs Sig-O, the C.M.E. and Smoovgroovs, it’s more or less guaranteed to be off the hook turntablism every first and third Friday. (SP)

Lisa Taylor Saturday at Streetlight Records in San Jose, 4pm; free Now living in Santa Cruz after growing up on Hawaii’s Big Island, Lisa Taylor is a musical chameleon. She lends her exquisite vocal talents to projects ranging from the hip-hop group Blyndsite to Steve Ezzo’s Monterey All Stars to the Joe Sharino Band, but her solo music is straight-up neo-soul. (SP)

Longliner Saturday at Johnny V’s in San Jose, 9pm; $5 Longliner play California country-rock with an extra dose of honky-tonk. They can blast through a guitar rocker or go all dusty and quiet (witness the two versions of the song “Las Vegas” on their first album). Rick Santos has just the right whiskey-soaked voice, and despite the brisk, upbeat rhythms of their songs, there’s a darkerthan-usual underbelly to Longliner’s songs about sinnin’ and truckin’. They’ve just finished their second album, The Winnemucca Runner. (SP)

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Fri, 10pm: Superbad. Sat, 10pm: Sugadady. San Jose.

Sat, 5pm: BomChul. $7/$10.

Redwood City.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

AVALON

Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Volume Control. Free. Santa Clara.

Fri: Eric van Pelt & Bungee Brent’s birthday. Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: The Biters, the Booze, Dirty Pillows. No cover.

Fri, 9pm: David Hillyard and the Rocksteady 7, Whiskey Avengers. $10. Sat, 9pm: Usurper Vong, Statt. $8. Tue, 8pm: Seasick Steve. $10/$12.

San Jose.

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

BOSWELL’S Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Bitchin’ Camaros. Fri-Sat: Live music.

Mon: Drive! Campbell.

BOULEVARD TAVERN Fri: Live music. Los Gatos.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Fri, 9pm: Paul Mason. Sat, 9pm: Insex Music, Mnemonic, the Resurrection Men, the Trims. $5. 21+. Cupertino.

CAFFE TRIESTE Sat, 8pm: Rebelskamp. Free.

San Jose.

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

Campbell.

AVALON

Thu-Sat: Live music. San Jose.

Sat: Mumbai Salsa. Santa Clara.

Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live jazz. Hotel de Anza, San Jose.

CLUB FOX

AZÚCAR

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

Sat, 7pm: The Sun Kings. Beatles tribute. $18/$20. Redwood City.

Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: GoodLife. Thu, 9pm: Mike Osborn. Fri, 7pm: Zakia Hooker, Dog House Riley. $15. Sat, 7pm: John Lee Hooker Jr., Last Minute Blues Band. $20. Sun, 9pm: Gene Washington and the Special Purpose Band. Mon, 9pm: Dennis Dove. Tue, 7pm: Blue J, Dennis and Stuart. San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S Fri-Sun, 9pm: Live music. San Jose.

NETO’S GRILL Wed: Live music. Thu: Kane and Company. Santa Clara.

NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: Naked in Vegas. 21+. $5/$8. Sat, 7:30pm: Festival of Fools with Tawee Kiva, In(flu)enza, Five Minutes to Freedom & more. 18+. $5/$8.

Gilroy.

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

Free. Thu, 9:30pm: Generation Wrecks. Free. Fri, 9:30pm: The Cocktail Monkeys. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Live music. $10.

Los Gatos.

RASPUTIN RECORDS Thu, 6pm: Sea Dragons.

Campbell.

THE REFUGE Sat, 6:30pm: Eyes Like Mine, We Stand United, Never Be Silenced, Kylle Reece, When Eyes Speak Treason, Raised Threshold. All ages. Cupertino.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sat: Hometown Hero. San Jose.

CLUB FOX Thu, 6:30pm: Celtic Crossroads. $25/$30. Tue, 6pm: Kona Coffee Kiho’alu Tour. $16/$18.

Redwood City.

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Thu, 7-10pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

HUKILAU Fri-Sat: Live music. San Jose.

MURPHY’S LAW

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT

Thu, 8pm: Honey Wilders. Fri-Sat: Live blues and rock. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

Wed, 5pm: Moroccan music with Moh Alileche and belly dancer Rasa Vitalia. Thu, 5pm: Blues night. Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancer Adriana. Sat, 5pm: Fontain’s M.U.S.E. World music. Sun, 5pm: Belly dancing showcase. Mon, 5pm: Hot Kugel.

Tue, 5pm: Purple Hat. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

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

Sunnyvale.

NETO’S GRILL Tue: Blues jam with Dennis Dove.

Santa Clara.

A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Jorge Faustmann. Sat, 9pm: Original Jones. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays Band. Fri, 7-10pm: Chris Cain Band. Sat, 610pmHarper. Sun, noon-4pm: Gail Dobson Jazz Band and student performance. San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

Jazz/Blues

SENZALA Thu, 7pm: Top Shelf Big Band.

Sun, 7pm: Cartoonjazz Orchestra. $10. Sunnyvale.

TESSORA’S STREETLIGHT RECORDS Thu, 5pm: Ghost Robot Ninja Bear, Attica! Attica!. All ages.

Free. Sat, 4pm: Lisa Taylor. All ages. Free. San Jose.

THE VENUE Fri, 6pm: 5606, Stickup Kid, the Druids, Communist Kayte, Casanova, tThe Antioxidants.

All ages. Sat, 6pm: Aviadora, the Light Iris, As He Wept, We Are the Archers, Through the Walls, Safe At Last. All ages. Los Gatos.

WILLOW DEN Fri, 7:30-10:30pm: Beach Cowboys. Willow Glen.

World AGENDA LOUNGE

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live jazz. Campbell.

Thu, 7pm: Blues jam. Sat, 8pm: Russo Alberts Jazz Trio. $10/$15.

Tue, 7pm: Jazz jam. Redwood City.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

WINE AFFAIRS

Sun, 6pm: Dixieland jazz.

Cupertino.

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

Redwood City.

DANA STREET ROASTING CO.

Tue, 7:30-10:30pm: Modesto Briseno Septet. Willow Glen.

Wed, 7:30pm: ADNB. Thu, 8-11pm: DS5 Jazz. Sat, 9pm: Live music or DJ. San Jose.

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with rock and blues musicians. Santa Clara.

Sun, 7pm: “A Tribute to Stanley Turrentine” with John Worley and the Mo-Chi Quartet.

Mountain View.

C&W/Folk

D’VINE JAZZ AND WINE

Sun: Mike Leatherman. Campbell.

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live jazz. Morgan Hill.

BOSWELL’S MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING

Wed: Louie Romero Y Su Grupo Mazacote. Salsa night. $5 and up.

San Jose.

FAIRMONT HOTEL Wed, 7:30pm: San Jose Jazz Wednesdays. San Jose.

Fri, 7:30pm: The Bobo. Sat, 7:30pm: Phil Johnson. Sun, 7pm: Doug Young & Friends. Santa Clara.

ALBERTO’S

GRAND DELL SALOON

RED ROCK COFFEE ROASTING

Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night.

Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.

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

Fri, 8pm: Red Rock in the Round.

Brandon Walker and other songwriters. Sat, 8pm: Colin Carthen. Mountain View.

HEDLEY CLUB Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio.

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

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

SAM’S BBQ

ALEX’S 49ER INN

Wed, 6pm: Matt & George and Their Pleasant Valley Boys. Tue, 6pm: Bean Creek. San Jose.

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Wed, 9pm: English and Spanish karaoke. San Jose.

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

THE BEARS

Open Mic

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

Wed, 7pm: Open mic. Tue, 7-11pm: Jazz Jam. Redwood City.

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

BAREFOOT COFFEE

BLUE BONNET BAR

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

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

Cupertino.

AZÚCAR

Fri, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

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

BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

J-STALIN / MISTAH FAB

plus Kreayshawn $15 Adv./$20 Drs. • Drs. 8 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

Friday, April 1 In the Atrium AGES 21+ FRIDAY NIGHT FUNCTION: DJ Aspect DJ Tone Sol, Nima Fadavi NO COVER • 9 p.m./ 9 p.m.

Saturday, April 2 In the Atrium AGES 21+

$18 Advance/ $23 at the Door • Drs. 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

Sunday, April 3 In the Atrium AGES 16+ JOHN BROWN’S BODY plus My Peoples $12 Advance/ $15 at the Door • Drs. 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.

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Mon: Rebels Camp open jam night. San Jose.

BOGART’S LOUNGE

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

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

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

BOSWELL’S

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

VERNIAN PROCESS / LUMEN OBSCURA

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

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

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

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

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

JOHNNY V’S

Thursday, March 31 In the Atrium AGES 16+ THE B FOUNDATION plus Katastro also Arden Park Roots $10 Adv./ $12 Dr. • 8:30/ 9 p.m.

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DIVE BAR

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

Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

Apr 6 Dark Star Orchestra (Ages 21+) Apr 15 G. Love & Special Sauce Belle Brigade (Ages 21+) Apr 16 Yonder Mtn. String Band (Ages 21+) Apr 22 Husalah/ Bobby Brackins Balance/ DJ Quest (Ages 16+) Apr 27 Afroman Atrium (Ages 16+) Apr 29 The Devil Makes Three (Ages 21+) Apr 30 The Holdup/ Wallpaper Young Science (Ages 16+) May 7 Soja/ J Boog/ Chris Boomer (Ages 21+) May 13 Sin Sister Burlesque vs Santa Cruz Roller Derby Girls (Ages 21+) May 21 Andre Nickatina (Ages 16+) Jun 18 Tech N9ne/ Mayday (Ages 16+)

Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

GALAXY

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CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed & Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu & Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda.

San Jose.

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Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

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

BOULEVARD TAVERN

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Tue, 6pm: Open mic. San Jose.

Thu & Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro Jam. Sunnyvale.

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

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

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

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

HOMESTEAD LANES Fri, 9:30pm& Mon, 9pm: Vinnie.

Tue, 9pm: August. Cupertino.

KATIE BLOOM’S Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Campbell.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT

Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed, 8pm: Desmond. San Jose.

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

KHARTOUM

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Menlo Park.

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

BRIX Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

ACAPULCO RESTAURANT & CANTINA

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

LILLY MAC’S

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Wed, 8pm: Open mic night with Anita. Willow Glen.

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Seasick Steve OAKLAND’S own blues legend in the making, “Seasick” Steve Gene Wold left his East Bay hometown at a young age, living a hobo life until he was sucked into the ’60s music scene by friends like Janis Joplin. But even after making a name for himself as a musician and engineer within the Seattle grunge scene (and later producing Modest Mouse), he was virtually unknown until a fateful U.K. TV appearance in 2007 launched Tuesday at the Blank Club his extremely unlikely run-in with fame. Within a in San Jose, year, he was releasing his major-label debut, I Started 8:30pm; $10.

Out With Nothin and I Still Got Most of It Left, and selling out venues like the Royal Albert Hall and Belfast’s Grand Opera House across Europe. He continues to make most of his own instruments, and has no explanation for his rise from obscurity. For outsiders, too, it might all seem hard to understand, until you see Seasick Steve whip through “Save Me” on the “one-string diddley bo” he designed himself. To watch a solitary man whip up a sound that vicious and powerful on a single string is to remember why Robert Johnson scared people, why the devil is always hanging around blues legends, and why rock & roll has been ripping off Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf for more than half a century. Like the late R.L. Burnside, another blues legend who came out of nowhere well into his career, Seasick Steve has inspired a following because, more than any other genre, blues needs heroes, and he has the right stuff. —Steve Palopoli

OFFICE BAR

ROSIE MCCANN’S Tue, 8:30-11:30pm: Karaoke.

No cover. Santana Row.

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

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

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

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

Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

POINCIANA LOUNGE

SHERWOOD INN

Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside Ent. No cover. Santa Clara.

Wed and Sat-Sun, 8:30pm: Chris. Thu-Fri, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

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NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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

Sunnyvale.

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

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

Thu, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke. Sun, 5-9pm: Family karaoke. Gilroy.

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live DJ. San Jose.

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Mon, 8pm-midnight: DJ Curtis.

Willow Glen.

TOUCHDOWNTOMMY’S Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

MOTIF BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Thu-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

Thu: VJ D-Roc. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. Tue: Pub-stumpers Trivia.

San Jose.

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PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Breathless.

Sun: First Street Cabaret. Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Wed & Sat, 10pm: DJ. Santa Clara.

Wed, 7pm: House Party. Thu, 7pm: Throwback Thursdays. Los Gatos.

Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo. Sat, 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik. Sun, 7pm: Latin Beat.

Sun, 9pm: Sonidero night. Salsa, cumbia and more. Sunnyvale.

PEACOCK LOUNGE Fri, 8pm, Sat-Sun & Tue, 9pm: DJ dancing. Sunnyvale.

WOODHAM’SLOUNGE

CLUB ILLUSIONS

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

Fri, 10pm-2am: Fuz. Sat, 9pm: Guerra Bandas. Palo Alto.

DanceClubs

DASILVA’S BRONCOS Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ. Santa Clara.

Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing. Sun: Reggae. San Jose.

DIVE BAR

THE SADDLE RACK

AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Thu-Fri: DJs. San Jose.

AZÚCAR Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en español. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.

B4TWELVE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs. Palo Alto.

THEBLANKCLUB Thu, 9pm: Atomic. New Wave, electro & indie with DJ Basura. $5. San Jose.

BLINKY’SCAN’TSAY Thu: College night. Santa Clara.

BLOWFISHSUSHI Wed-Thu and Sat: DJs and dancing. Santana Row.

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

Wed, 9pm: DJ Henry. Thu, 9pm: DJ Mark. Fremont.

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dance Party. San Jose.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Wheels of Steel DJ battle. Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Seductive Fridays. Sat, 9pm: Fame. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke.

Beer pong & karaoke. San Jose.

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

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

THE GRAND DELL SALOON

BLUEPHEASANT

Tue, 9pm: Live DJ. Campbell

Wed-Sun & Tue, 7pm: DJ and dancing. Cupertino.

JOHNNY V’S

BRANHAMLOUNGE Wed: Humpday Wednesdays.

Thu: DJ. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Chaos. Sun: Beer pong. Tue: $2 Tuesdays. San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.

BRITANNIAARMSDOWNTOWN Thu: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Benofficial. Sat, 10pm: DJ Aspect. San Jose.

SABOR TAPAS BAR

Wed: The Cypher. Thu: Live MCs. Fri: Dub Massive. Tue: Punk night with local DJs. San Jose.

KATIE BLOOM’S Thu-Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: DJs and dancing. Campbell.

KHARTOUM Wed: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

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

Thu: Thursday Night Live. Fri: Video Killed the DJ. Sat: Sultry Saturdays. Sun: Sinful Sundays.

Mon: Manic Mondaze. San Jose.

STEPHENS GREEN Thu, 10pm: DJ competition.

Fri, 10pm: DJ Cesar. Sat, 10pm: Peruvian night. Mountain View.

STUDIO8 Thu, 10pm-2am: Supreme Thursdays. Fri, 9pm-2am: Naomi Defensor of ‘The Real World: Las Vegas.’ Sat, 9pm-2am: DJ Eric Cubeechee. San Jose.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE Wed: Red Run Wednesday. Thu: Dig. Fri: DJ Ready Rock. Sat: Temple All-Star DJs. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Sir Dancealot.

Willow Glen.

WILLOW DEN Fri, 10:30pm-2am & Sat, 9:30pm-2am: DJ Truth. Willow Glen.

WINE AFFAIRS Sat, 9pm: DJ music. San Jose.

ZEN LOUNGE Thu: 2 4 Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ D-Roc. Mountain View.

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It’s true. Nuclear power basically has a bad PR problem stemming from the unfortunate multiple uses of fission technology. No nation has searing memories of the devastation caused by a coal bomb. Nukes, on the other hand . . . ’nuff said. But even in the worst-case scenario, you’re never going to get warscale casualties from a reactor accident.

Let’s talk about that worst case— Chernobyl. People today remember the 1986 meltdown as an unmitigated calamity. Bah. Had the thing been spun properly, the nuclear power industry would have come out smelling like a rose.

Chernobyl’s planners and operators did almost every possible thing wrong.

The plant had no containment building to prevent radiation release in the event of an accident. The reactor design was inherently unstable—in most reactors, when the cooling water overheats and turns to steam, power output drops; at Chernobyl, overheating water meant power rose. Not good, but not yet disastrous. Then, one fateful April day, technicians purposely disabled the backup cooling system, removed most of the control rods and switched off the power to the main cooling pumps to see what would happen.

What happened was that (duh) the reactor overheated, power output shot up to a hundred times normal and the lid blew off the core, which then exploded again and caught fire. The exposed core burned for 10 days, spewing radioactive dust and smoke. Fallout spread around the northern hemisphere, settling most heavily on parts of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, inhabited by 5 million people.

Thirty-one people died soon after the accident, with perhaps a few more in the years since. More than 100 others suffered radiation injuries. Some 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer have been diagnosed in Ukrainians, Belarusians and Russians who were under 18 at the time, many likely stemming from radiation exposure.

However, only 15 deaths had been reported as of 2005—thyroid cancer is readily treated. There’s evidence of increased leukemia and cataracts among recovery workers who received higher doses, but no health effects otherwise.

(Experts project an eventual 4,000 additional cancer deaths among the 600,000 people most exposed—i.e., an increase of a few percent beyond the 100,000 cancer deaths you’d expect for this group.) An irregularly shaped “exclusion zone” of about 1,700 square miles around the plant remains off-limits to human habitation, 220,000 people had to be permanently relocated and agriculture is restricted, but vegetation and wildlife for the most part have thrived.

That’s about it. An astute spokesperson might have said: “Look, here was a fivestar fiasco and the confirmed death toll is about the same as from 12 hours of U.S. traffic accidents. Is that an outstanding safety record or what?”

OK, your columnist is being sarcastic.

Still, while I don’t have space for the complete comparison of nukes vs. everything else you’re looking for, consider a few more numbers. Each year, on average, 35 U.S. coal miners are killed and 4,000 are injured. In China, 2,600 coal miners were killed in 2009, following 3,200 dead in 2008. Coal-burning power plants release close to three times as much radioactivity as nuclear plants. I focus on coal because it’s the one other energy source we can count on to deliver a big piece of predicted rising demand, but even solar cell manufacturing involves toxic waste production.

Point is, there’s no risk-free way to do this. Is radiation sickness or cancer a horrible way to die? Yeah. So is black lung.

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