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Saddened Sadden ned and very I am deeply saddened s very disappointed ointed with the jury’s disapp jury’s verdict verdict in the De Anza An nza rape rape case. case. I know deciding a verdict verdict is a difficult job, job, and they they found foun o nd them “not guilty” guilty” based on lack k of evidence. evidence. I also believe b elieve that the t men involved involved will ccarry arry this burden burrden and also be be judged byy others (hopefully) b (ho opefully) for fo or the rest rest of their lives. lives.

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Cap andd Trade Traade Plan Fails Fails TThe San Jose City Ciity Council once again fell fell short on Tuesday Tuuesdaay in its efforts efforts to craft craft a pplan lan to to deal deal with with the the popularity popularity of of m edical m arijuana clubs clubs in in the the city. city. The The medical marijuana pr oposal under consderation, consderation, initiated proposal

by Mayor CHUCK CHUCK REED and co-signed by ROSE H ERRERA, SAM SAM LICCARDO LICCARDO and PETE PETE ROSE HERRERA, CCONSTANT, ONSSTAN A T, was wildly ambitious, and at times sounded like the council members w ere tthinking hinking out out loud. loud. The The free free associating associating were iincluded ncluded ideas ideas that that no no other other municipality municipality hhas as ttried ried in in the the 14 14 years years since since the the passage passage of Prop Prop 19, the “Regulate, “ Control & Tax Taax Control CCannabis” annabis” initiative. initiative. For example: The plan w ould nnot ot have have allowed allowed people people staffing staffing a would ddispensary ispensary to to be be paid paid in in US US currency; currency; they they would have to be b paid in weed. Seriously.

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FFor or some some unknown unknown reason, reason, it it banned banned tthe he ddispensing ispensing of of “edibles,” “edibles,” such such as as pot pot bbrownies, rownies, cookies cookies or or lollipops—an lollipops—an idea idea so so poorly thought out that councilmembers ccringed ringed w hen a 70-year-old 70-year-old patient patient who who when does not smokee pointed out that she would be unable to take takke her medicine if it passed.

A as bbeen een w idely rreported, eported, tthe he m ayor’s Ass hhas widely mayor’s pproposal roposal would would have have awarded awarded licenses licenses by by rrandom andom llottery ottery or or eBay eBay auction—an auction—an idea idea that everyone finally fi agree is seems to agree j plain silly. just sillyy. Worse, Worse, it would have forced forced eevery very ddispensary ispensary to to grow grow 100 100 percent percent of of its pr oduct on-site—an on-ssite—an idea more more loca product tthan han llocavore. ocavore. Finally, Finally, it it would would have have capped capped the number of dispensaries d (there at 10 (there ar more than than 100), a recipe recipe for for aree now more what would no doubt result result in what the City A ttorney’s office o “superstores” Attorney’s called “superstores” w ith iinevitable nevitable parking parking and and traffic traffic with nnighmares. ighmares. Earlier, Earlier, the the council council dismissed dismissed an amendment by PIERLUIGI PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO OLIVERIO and D ON ROCHA, ROCHA A, which which suggested suggested a strict strict DON bbut ut ssimple imple set set of of regulations regulations in in place place of of the command-and-control command-aand-control model under consider ation. Shortly Shortly before before the six-plusconsideration. hhour our meeting meeting ground ground to to an an end—when end—when it was clear thatt the motion on the table was going nowhere—Rocha nowh here—Rocha drew drew rueful llaughter aughter when when he he observed observed that that they they all all w ould hhave ave been been home home already already ifif a clear clear set set would of rules—r atheer than attempts to regulate regulate rules—rather the number of dispensaries d and their pr oduct offerings—had offeringgs—had carried carried the day. dayy. product

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Now, Hunter H is ttaking aking mor moree tha than an a full load State University d at a San JJose ose St ate U niverssity to complete pleete his teaching cr credential. edential.

A teaching ing n assist assistant ant ffor or 11 yyears— o ears— — who also o work worked ed as a bar bartender tender aand nd

snowboard instructor snowboard instructor—Hunter —Hunter has a unique p erspective. He H has witnessed perspective. budget cuts to educ education atiion at eevery very level, le vel, fr from om kinder kindergarten garten thr through ough ccollege, ollege, and seen how students and teachers are are jostling to o st stay ay afloat school with each subsequent scho ol yyear. ear.

“When I worked worked in element elementary ary schools schools at a 1-to-20 1-to -20 [te [teacher-toeacher-to student] ratio ratio,, it w was as such s a luxur luxury,” y,” Hunter sa says. ayys. “Y “You Yo ou had d so much time to engage these students s and giv ng, aawesome wesome w givee them an enrichin enriching, educ ation. N ow yyou’ve ou’vve got thir deducation.

Now thirdand ffourth-grade ourth-grade class o srooms with classrooms 35 students. students. It It’s ’s har hard d ffor o a teacher to or rreach each so many many students studentts at that le vel.” level.”

The strain is also b e eing ffelt eelt in being Hunter’ ourses at SJSU Hunter’ss own ccourses SJSU,, which ha ave ballo oned fr om 22 2 graduate have ballooned from students to 30 or mor e. Classr oom more.

Classroom ccounts, ounts, alr eady highac cross the b oard, already highacross board, ar out to b ecomingg bigger aree ab about becoming bigger..

When Go v. Jerry Jerry Brown Brrown called called off Gov. budget negotiations la ast week with last

Republic e an n lawmakers, laaw wmakers, who have haave Republican refused to allow a special special steadfastlyy refused n June June to extend extend several several election in taxes for fo or five fi e years, fiv years, the outlook outlook ffor o or taxes education became became even even bleaker. bleaker. education Califfo orn nia’’s nonpartisan nonpartisan California’s legislative analyst ’s office office has said legislative analyst’s onseq quences of not covering covering a the cconsequences littttle more more than half of the state’s state’s $26 little defi ficit through through tax tax extensions extensions billion deficit resu ult in $5 billion being being cut would result from K --12 education, education, $585 million from K-12 from ccommunity omm munity ccolleges olleges and $1.1 from from m universities. universities. billion from Pink slips slips w ere sent sent out out to to school school Pink were across the state state in March, March, and districts across updated projections projections will will be be going going out out updated next month. montth. Effects Eff ffeects on Silicon Silicon Valley Valle a y next will be be m ixed. W hile most most districts districts will mixed.

While Josee will be be able to weather in San Jose effeectively for eff for o the 2011-12 the storm effectively school year, year, it’s it’s the the coming coming years years that that school feeature the fiercest fiercest cuts if the tax tax will feature extensionss aren’t aren’t approved. approved. extensions Dan Moser, Dan M oser, superintendent superintendent for for East Easst Union n n High School School District, said Side Union his his district district is is bracing braccing to to cut cut 22 22 teaching teaching and administrative administrative positions positions this this and coming year, yea ear, and an additional 42 fullcoming emplo oyees (clerical, (clerical, custodians, custodians, time employees cam mpus monitors, monitors, etc.) etc.) will will lose lose their their campus jobs jobs if if the the tax tax extensions extensions are arre not not

Hidden CCosts ostss According to the 2011 State According S ate of St Education Education rreport eport giv given en nb byy Sant Santaa County Superintendent erinttendent of Clara C ounty Sup Schools Schools Charles W Weis, eeis, 40 4 percent percent off all ll county county public bli hig hi high gh h scho school h oll students are are not pr proficient oficcient in their grade-level skills,, and about grade -level skills a out 2,300 ab 2,300 middle and high school school o students drop Those numbers ers dr op out each yyear. ear. Th ose numb would almost certainly certainlyy increase increase if education cut. education funding is cu ut. need one-on“The yyoungsters oungsters nee ed that one - onone time time,” ,” Moser sa says. ayys. bee sa said about The same could could b aid ab out vativve and many man ny yyoung, oung, inno innovative energetic energetic teachers, teachers, who, who o, due to public school school ccollective ollective bargaining bargaining agreements agreements with teach teacher her unions unions,, bee laid off would be be the first to b because seniority. b ecause they they lack senio ority.

Local L ocal charter charter scho schools, olls, which number Santaa Clara numb er 36 in Sant Cllara County County and had mor moree than 17 17,000 7,,0 000 students

in the fall, also a receive receive public funding but ar alwayys beholden beholden to the aree nott always same restrictions restrictions on judging teachers teachers.. ““It’s It’s one one of of the the things things that that aallows llows ccharter harrter sschools choo o ls tto o be successful successful iin n ggeneral enerall an nd w eather tthis his ccrisis risis m ore and weather more eeffectively ffeectively than ff than n ttraditional raditionall sschools chools ccan, an n,” ssays ays JJed ed W allace, p resident o he Wallace, president off tthe C aliffo ornia Charter C ter Scho Char ols A ssociation.

California Schools Association.

But Wallace Walllace notes that a wave wave o charters could could aalso lso be be forced forced to to off charters cconfront onfront dire dire consequences consequences due due tto o budget budget cutbacks. cutbaccks. While While public public

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Tricia Johnson, Joh hnson, 36, who is in the same SJSU program S JSU tteaching eaching ccredential redentiall p rogram m ass Hunter H unter aand nd w will ill aalso lso b bee ggraduating rad duating iin n December, D ecember, ssays ays sshe he rremains emains o optimistic ptimistic about future ab out her fu uture ccareer, areerr, but knows ther acles to theree will b bee innumerable obst obstacles overcome and o vercome ffor or tteachers eachers an nd sstudents tudents if if education educ ation ccontinues o ontinues to get short short shrift from fr om legislat legislators. ators.

“Honestly, “Honestl lyy, coming coming out of school school and trying trying to t find a job in this market, market, I ffeel eel like like my my hands hands are are tied, tied,” Johnson Johnson says. don’t likee ther there’s sa ays y . “I don ’ ffeel ’t eeel lik e’s eeven ven much to do o at a grass-r grass-roots oots level. level.”

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approved. The worst, however, approved. ho owever e , would ccome ome over oveer the next next ttwo w wo o years. years. ““We’re We’re p projecting rojecting b being eing $ $13 13 m million illion shortt for school shor for o the scho ol yyear eaar in ’12-13, and bee ass h high $20 million iitt ccould ould b igh ass $ 20 m illion ffor or ’’13-14, 13-14,” M oser ssays. ays. ““If If yyou ou d on’t m ake Moser don’t make tthe he ccuts uts tthis his yyear, ear, yyou ou have have to to make make it it up the ffollowing ollowing year. o year.”

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Sometime soon ... many of you will be receiving receivin ng an email informing informing you that your services s vices as a freelancer ser freelancer will no longer lon nger be required. required. You You will be invited to contribute as part of our non-paid non-paid blogger system; and ...

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Hopes are high, and reasonably so, that this might finally be the Year of the Shark, when the boys representing the Valley of the Heart’s Delight stop leaving fans heartsick and follow through by putting every opposing player and puck into the back of the net, all the way until Lord Stanley’s Cup is paraded from HP Pavilion to San Pedro Square.

A quick glance at the Sharks’ roster leaves one with the feeling that this cast of characters should be remembered well beyond this season: Douglas Murray, Jamal Mayers and Ben Eager make up a goon squad we hereby declare should be respectfully known as the Three Stooges; Logan Couture, the slick-sticked rookie, is our

D’Artagnan; Joe Thornton, a gentle giant for more years than we can remember, has become a Little John unafraid to mix it up; Antti Niemi is Finnish (not that that matters, but he’s a hell of a lot better than that guy we had in goal last year); and Ryan Clowe has returned from injury in the nick of time to lead by example as the baddest badass in a gang of badassery.

Clowe is so cool the Most Interesting Man in the World asks for his autograph. And when he does, Clowe says, “No.” And yet, the fate of the Sharks will likely rest with the team’s one constant over the last decade: Patrick “Patty Boy” Marleau.

If, for the love of God, Marleau actually gets angry and plays with a chip on his shoulder, the Sharks should not only breeze through the first round but find themselves on the brink of greatness.

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Most ha have ave seen the Arcadia Arcadia books, books, sspecifically pecificallly the the Images Imagges of of America America

series. H series.

Historical istoricall photo photo books—maybe books—maybe 6 inches b 20 byy 9 inches and ar around 120 ound 12 pages chronicle stories p ages or so—they so—they chr onicle the sto ories and an nd histories of specific specific local local niches. nichees.

Now N ow we ha have ave one on Sunn Sunnyvale, nyyvalee, and an nd it’s it’s mor moree than o overdue. verdue. Some Arcadia A rcad dia b books ooks ccome ome ac across cross aass ridiculously ri idiculously arcane arcane and hair-splitting, hair-splittttiing, with w ith d dubious ubious ssubcategories ubcategories aand nd sseemingly eemingly random random iinclusions nclusions of of photos.

Sunnyvale p hotos. But Sunnyv ale is one of thee good good o ones. nes. T The he aauthors uthors p present resent a logical, lo ogical,, clear clear-headed r--headed unf unfolding fo olding of the t life life of of tthis his quiet quiet suburb suburb at at the the center center of of Silicon Silicon Valley.

Vaalley. There’s There’s a lot of weird weeird stuff, sttuff ff,, literally literally, y, contained contained therein. therein.

First things things first: first: Sunnyvale Sunnyvale was was the the First first ccity ity iin n California California to to have have a ffemale emale first mayor.

Atari Sunnyvale. mayo ma or. A tari started started in Sunn nyyvale.

Radio Raad dio p pioneer ioneer Arthur Arthur Bessey Bessey designed designed some off tthe world’s first home some o he w orld’s fi rst h ome rad adio cconsoles onsoles in in Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvalle. Quite Quite a radio bunch o eal-life m issile technology technology bunch off rreal-life missile was first Lockheed. was fi rst designed designed at at L ockheed. IIn n 1972, N olan B ushnell launched lau unched the the 1972, Nolan Bushnell

g craze when when he placed p ed plac video game a Pong Pong prototype protottyype in Andy A Capp’s Capp’s Tavern Tavern (now (now Rooster Rooster T. T. Feathers).

Feathers). In In 1933, 1933, the the United United States States government government commissioned commissioned Sunnyvale Sunn nyv yvale Naval Naavval Air Station, Station,, later renamed renamed d Moffett Moff ffeettt Field.

Field.

That stuff alone is primo prim mo material.

The The book book begins, begins, ass did did Sunnyvale, Sunn nyvale y , with entrepreneurship entrep preneurship and and innovation. innovation. The The town town started started when Irish immigrantt Martin Martin Murphy Murph hy allowed the San S Jose Jose and San San Francisco Francisco Railroad Railroad d Company Company to to build b ild a railroad railr il oad d line li across accross his hi land, l d linking the farms of San Saan Jose Jose with the docks docks of San Francisco.

Francisco. Then came came wheat wheat and an nd fruit fruit agriculture, agriculture, with with orchards orchards dominating dominating the the landscape landscap pe until until midcentury midcentury when when the the defense defense industry industry rolled rolled on in. Not Not too too much later, later, a generation generation of of electronic electronic innovation innovation directly directly led d to what is now Silicon Silicon Valley Valle a y history. history.

As As with the many many Arcadia A cadia books, Ar books, the photo selection iss what makes makes or breaks Sunnyvale, breaks the project. project. For For Sunn nyyvale, Koning Koning and Metz Metz did all the right legwork legwork in connecting connecting the dots. dots.

On page 13, we see a train schedule t from from 1886, 1886, with trains trains stopping at Murphy’s Murph hyy’s Station.

Station. We We then see acres acres of apricots, apricots, homemade homemad de tractors, tractors,

aerial views views w of canneries, canneries, missile production, production n, suburban expansion expansion and Steve Steve Wozniak’s Woz ozniak’s ruined Studebaker Studebaker after a tree treee fell feell on it in 1987.

19877. The original Atari Atari 2600 2600 makes makes an appearance appearancce on page 58.

Sunnyvale’s soaked Sunnyvaale’s history history is soak ed in inno innovation. vattion. Mack Wooldridge, Wooldridge, founder off Wooldridge founder o Wooldridge Manufacturing Manufactu uring Company, Compan ny, first patented a motorized scrap scraper er in 1931; the diagram diagram graces graces page 50. One then turnss to page 52 to see A.W A.W. W. Bessey’s Bessey’s original orriginal design for fo or a poultry poultry incubator in 1899.

1899.

Inventor Invento or Bob Merrick designed the Personal Person nal Punch,, which cuts notches in n business cards cards for fo or placement placementt in a Rolodex.

Rolo o dex. Millions of the punches punch hes have haave been been sold over over the years, years, and the company, compan ny, which sells many many of Merrick’s M Merrick’ s other gizmos, gizmos, is still in business bussiness today. todaay. On page 113, we see an employee employee inspecting inspecting a huge batch h of them.

And what be whaat would Sunnyvale Sunn nyvale y be without Weird Weeird Stuff and the haunted Toys Toys “R” “R” Us? Us? Honestly, Honestly, I would would have have thrown thrown the the book book across accross the the room room had had it it not not iincluded ncluded those those two two celebrated celebrated landmarks. landmarks. Originally Originally located located on on Lawrence Lawrence Expressway Expressway back bacck when when Fry’s Fry’s Electronics was Electronicss w aas a brand-new brand-new enterprise, enterprise, Weird Weir e d Stuff ff now sits way way up at the northern northern eend nd of of Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvale. The The place placce is still a vast, vasst,, venerable veenerable temple of discarded discarded ccomputer omputer surplus, surplus, a glorious paean to all tech-hobbyist alll tech-hobb byist y cultures, cultures, a mystical mysticall vortex vortex that that could could only only have have crystallized heree in Silicon Valley. crystallized d her Silicon V aalleey.

Equally illustrious is the Toys Toys “R” “R R” Us, on Us, llocated ocated o n original original Murphy Murphy ranch ran nch land. It is said s to be be haunted by

by John John Johnson, Johnson,, who w secretly secretly pined for fo or Martin Martin Murphy’s Mu urph hyy’s daughter, daughter, Elizabeth Elizabeth Yuba.

Yuba. Strange Strange phenomena phenomena sstill till regularly some.. regularly occur, occur, according according to some All all, will home A ll iin n al ll, tthe he rreader ead der w ill ttake ak ke h ome a significant significan nt dose of Sunnyvale’s Sunn nyvale y ’s story, story, told in a logical lo ogical fashion. It is a rich, kooky kooky history, history, one one to to make make all all valley valley denizens jump ju ump on the expressway expressway and head over over there. t e. The book ther book is available avvailable at local local stores sto ores and online. online.

IImages magess of A America: merica: SSunnyvale unnyvale Arcadia; Arcadiaa; $21.95 www.arcadiapublishing.com www .aarcadiapublishing.com 888.313.2665 888.313.2665

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While the facts regarding regarding d figures aree the therefore actual ttax ax figur es ar ereffo ore blurr y, one myth myth p ersistss: that blurry, persists: wealthy wealth hy C Californians’ aliffo ornians’’ ttaxes ornians axxes ar aree unfairly bur burdensome. densome. If that tthat’s ’s true ave to true,, then we would ha have why people wonder wh hy more more rich p eople cho ose to live live her choose heree than an anyy other st ate in the union. state Whitman On a rrelated elated note: Wh hitman claimed in her failed campaign cam mpaign (as many man ny memb members ers of he her er par party ty have) California’s business ha ave) that C aliffo ornia’’s bu usiness climate is the worst in th he nation, the thanks lar gely to high ttaxes. axxes. It ’s largely It’s worth Forbes wor th noting that more more F oorbes 50 0 businesses ar cateed her 500 aree lo located heree than in an ate in n the anyy other st state nation. —Eric J oohnson Johnson

Senator Ra Rand and Paul, Paul,, the tea par party ty favorite fa avorite fr from o K om Kentucky, entucky, told David Daavid v Letterman L etterman n rrecently ecently that ““the the wealth wealthy hy pay most do pa ay mo ost of the taxes taxes in this ccountry.” ountry.”

The with T he IInternet nternet is is aawash wash w ith statements pays, st atementss that the top 1 percent percent pa ays y, depending d epending on on tthe he year, yearr, 338 8 percent percent or or moree than mor n 40 percent percent of taxes. taxes.

It’s It ’s true that the top 1 percent percent of wage earners w age earn ers paid id 38 percent percentt off the th income 2008 ffederal eederal inc come ttaxes axes in 20 08 (the dataa is most recent recen nt yyear ear ffor o or which dat aavailable). vvailable). But people people forget for o get that the income inc ome ttax axx is less than half of federal federal e one-fifth ttaxes axes and only o one-fifth of taxes taxes at levels government. all le vels of o go vernment.

Social Security, Medicare So cial Se ecurity, Medic are and unemployment insurancee ttaxes unemplo y yment insuranc axes (known ass payroll paayyroll taxes) taxes) are are paid byy the b bottom 90 mostly b ottom 9 0 percent percent of wage earners. w age earn ers. That’s Th ’s because, That because, once once yyou ou rreach each $106,800 $106,800 of income, income, you you pay pa ay no more mo ore ffor or o Social Social Security, Security, thee much smaller Medic Medicare though th are ttax ax appliess to all wages. wages. Warren Warren Buffett pays Buff ffeettt pa ayys the eexact xact same amount Social of So cial Security S Securit y ttaxes axes as someone who earnss $106,800. $106,800.

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wealthy wealthy are are paying paying less ta taxes axxes e

The IInternal The nternal R Revenue evenue S Service ervice iissues ssues aan n aannual nnual rreport eport o on n tthe he 4 400 00 h highest ighest iincome-tax ncome-taxx p payers. ayers. IIn n 11961, 961, tthere here w were ere 398 39 8 ttaxpayers axpaayeers who made $1 million or more, mor e, so I ccompared ompared their inc income ome ttax ax burdens bur dens fr from om that yyear ear to 20 2007.

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Despite sk skyrocketing yrocketing inc incomes, omes, the ffederal eederal ttax axx burden burden on the richest 400 40 0 has been been e slashed, thanks to a variet varietyy of o lo loopholes, opholes, allow allowable able deductionss and other tools. deduction tools. The actual shar share re of their inc income ome paid in ttaxes, axes, according accor o ding to the IRS IRS,, is 16.6 percent. p ercent. A Adding dding pa payroll ayyroll taxes taxes bar barely ely nudges that thaat number. number.

Compare C omparre that to the vast majority majority Americans, of Americ a , whose share ans share of their income going inc ome go oing to ffederal eederal ttaxes axes increased incr eased fr ffrom om 13.1 percent percent in 1961 1961 to percent 2007.

22.5 p ercent in 20 07. way, seven (By the w ay, during se ven of the eight Bush h yyears, ears, the IRS rreport eport on 400 labeled the top 40 00 taxpayers taxpaayers was was lab eled a state secret, st ate secr et, a policy policy that the Obama

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vvery ery richest pay pay no current current in ncome income ttaxes tax es att allll John Paulson, John Paulson,, the most mosst suc successful cessful hedge fund manager of o all, b bet et et one against the mor mortgage tgage mark m market yyear ear and then bet bet with h Glenn Beck in the gold market market thee ne next. xt. P Paulson aulson made himself $9 billion billion in fees fees e in just ttwo wo years. years. His curr current rent ttax ax bill on that $9 billion? Zero.

Zero.

Congress C ongress lets hedge fund managers earn all the an now and theyy ccan pay pa ay their ttaxes axes yyears ears fr from om now now..

In 2007, 20077, Congress Congress de ebated debated whether hedge fund managers m should pay paay the top tax taxx rate that applies to wages, wages, b bonuses onu uses and other ccompensation ompensation for for o theirr lab ors, which labors, ax rate st is 35 p percent. ercent. That ttax starts arts at ab out $30 0,000 of ttaxable axxable inc ome; about $300,000 income; changge to Paulson, not even even pocket pocket change Paulson, but almost 12 years years of gr oss pa ay to gross pay the median median-wage median-w wage work worker. ker.

The Republicans Republic e ans and d a key key Democrat, Demo crat, Senator Charles Ch harles Schumer of New New Y ork, o , ffought ought o to o keep keep the York, ttax ax rate on hedge fund d managers at 15 percent, percent, ar guing that t the arguing profits pr ofits from from hedge fun funds nds should b considered capital capital gains ggains,, not bee considered ordinary or dinary income, income, whic which ch got a lot of at tention in the news. news. attention What the news news med media dia missed is th t h that hedge d ffund d managers manaagers don’t d ’t don eeven ven pay paay 15 percent. percent. A Att least,, not currently. curr entlyy. So long as they th hey lea leave ave their mone money, y, known ass “c “carried arried interest,” inter est,”” in the hedge fund, their ttaxes axes are are deferred. defferr e ed. The They ey only pa pay ay ttaxes axes when they they ccash ash out, o which ccould ould be be dec decades ades fr from om now ffor o or younger younger managers. managers. Ho How ow do these hedge fund managers get g money money in the meantime? By borrowing borrowing against i the h carried carried i d inte interest, i erest, often ft at absurdly absurdly low rates—currently rates— cu urrently ab about out 2 percent. percent.

Lots L ots of other people peoplee liv livee ttax-free, ax-free, too. to o. I have haave Donald Trump’s Tru ump’s ttax ax rrecords ecords for for o four four o years years early e in his ccareer. areer. He paid no taxes taxees ffor or ttwo o wo of those yyears. ears. Big real-estate real- esttate in investors vestors

5 And An ndd (surprise!) (surprise!) since Reagan, since R only the h w wealthy e l hy ha ealth hhave ve gainedd significant significant income inc ome

The Heritage Heritage a F Foundation, oundation, the C Cato ato nd similar conservative conservative Institute and an marketing marketing organizations organizations tell us rrelentlessly elentlesslyy that lower tax tax rates will makee us alll better mak better off off. ff.

“When When ttax ax rates ar aree rreduced, educed, ed, the economy’s ec onomy’s growth growth rate impr improves oves and living st standards and dards incr increase,” ease,” ac according cording to Daniel J. J. Mitchell, an ec economist onomist at Herit Heritage agee until he joined Cato.

Cato.

He sa says ayys that thaat supply-side supplyy-side ec economics onomics is ““the the simple simp ple notion that lower ttax ax rates w will ill b boost oost work,, sa saving, aving v , investment in vestmentt and entrepreneurship.” entrepreneurship.”

When R Reagan eeagan was was elected president, pr esident, the t marginal marginal ttax ax rate ffor o or income inc ome was was a 70 p percent. ercent. ent He cut it to 50 percent percent e and then 28 percent percent starting st arting in 1987.

1987. It w was as raised b byy George Geor ge H.W. H.W W. Bush and Clinton and then cut by

by George George W. W. Bush. The top rate is now w 35 percent. percent.

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enjoyy ttax-free 1993 enjo ax-frree living under a 19 93 law President la aw Pr esideent Clinton signed. It lets “professional” investors “pr offeession nal” rreal-estate eal- estate in nvestors paper likee depr depreciation use pap er losses l lik eciation buildings any on their bu uildings against an ny ccash ash income, theyy end up with inc ome, eeven ven e if the negativee in incomes likee Trump Trump.. negativ ncomes lik and McCourt, Frank an nd Jamie Jamie McC ourt, who Dodgers, have own the Los Los o Angeles Do dgers, ha ave any income sincee not paid an ny inc ome ttaxes axes sinc 2004, divorce att least l t 20 04, their 0 04, th i div di orce ccase ase Yet theyy sp spent rrevealed. evealed. Ye Y e the et ent $45 million alone.

Theyy just one yyear ear al lone. How? The borrowed Dodger ticket b orrowed against a Do dger tick et and To IRS,, rrevenue evenue an nd other assets. assets. T o the IRS theyy lo look like paupers. the ok li ike paup ers.

Wisconsin, Terrence In W iisconsin, o T eerrence Wall, unsuccessfully who unsuc ccessfully sought the Republican U.S. R eepublican n nomination ffor or o U .S. income Senate in 2010, 2 paid no inc ome ttaxes axes on as much h as $14 million of recent recent disclosure iincome, inc ome, his his disclosur di l e fforms orms showed. o h d A Asked sked ab about ut his living tax-free tax-free while ou people pay working p e eople pa ay ttaxes, axes, he had a simple rresponse: esp ponse: Ev Everyone eryone should pay less.. pa ay less

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Sincee 19 Sinc 1980, 80, when P President resident R eeagan won election p promising Reagan promising pr osperity thr ough ttax axx cuts prosperity through cuts,, income the aaverage verage inc ome off the vast majority—the bottom 90 percent majorit y—the b ottom m9 0p ercent of Americans—has increased Americ ans—has incr e eased a meager percent. $303, or 1 p ercent. Putt another way, way, people ffor or o each dollar p eoplee in the vast majorityy made in 19 1980, 2008 majorit 80, 0, in 20 08 their income was $1.01. inc ome w as up to $1.0 01. att the Th Those th top t did d better. bettter t . The Th percent’s income top 1 p ercent’s aaverage veragee inc ome moree than doubled to mor o $1.1 million, according dataa ac cording to an analysis analyssis of tax tax dat byy ec economists Thomas b onomists Thoma as Piketty Piketty and Saez.

Emmanuel Sae z. The rreally eally rich, the top 10th of 1 percent, percent, e each got 2008 almost $4 in 20 08 ffor or or each dollar 1980. made in 19 80.

Americans The top 300,000 300,000 Americ A ans now enjoyy almost as much enjo h income income as the bottom the dataa show show. b ottom 150 million, illi th h dat he d h .

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Corporate C orporate pr profits ofits fi in i 20 2 2008, 08, 8 the h latest l yyear ear ffor or which dat o vvailable, wer dataa is aavailable, weree $1,830 billion,, up alm almost most 12 p percent ercent fr om $1,638.7 in 20 00.

0 Y eet,, eeven ven from 2000.

Yet, though ccorporate orporate ttax ax rates ha ave have not b een cut, ccorporate orporate inc ome-tax been income-tax rrevenues evenues ffell eell to $230 billion b from from decline,, $249 billion—an 8 percent per e cent decline number loopholes. thanks to a numb er of o lo opholes.

The official 2010 pr profit ofi fit numb numbers ers ar aree byy the not added up and released releeased b government, go vernment, but b the h amount a paid id in ccorporate orporate ttaxes axes is: In I 2010 the theyy further, billion—a ffell ell e fur ther, to $191 bil llion—a decline of mor moree than 23 p percent ercent e ccompared ompared 2000. with 20 00.

ha avens lik ayyman Islands havens likee the C Cayman Islands..

And righ ht now Americ a’s right America’s ccorporations orporatio ons ar sitttting on close to aree sitting being $2 trillion in cash cash that is not b eing used to build bu uild factories, factories, create create jobs or anything insurancee an ything else eelse,, but act as an insuranc policy p olicy ffor or managers unwilling o unwilling to risk ttake ake the ri isk of actually building the aree paid so well to businesses they they ar hoard, way, run. That cash cash hoar d, by by the w ay, works k out to nearly l $13,000 $13,000 per per ttaxpaying axpaayying household.

A corporate corporate o ttax ax rate that is too too actually That’s low actual lly destroys destroys jobs. jobs. That ’s because tax b ecause a higher h tax rate encourages encourages businesses (who don’t don’t want want to pay paay keep ttaxes) axes) to k eep the profits profits in the and business an nd reinvest, rein nvest, rather than profits pull them out as pr ofits and have haave to pay pa ay high ttaxes. a . axes 2004 American Creation The 20 0 Americ 04 an JJobs obs Cr eation Act, A ct,, which h passed with bipartisan bipartisan support, 800 supp ort, allowed allowed more more than 8 00 ccompanies ompaniess to bring profits profits that were were untaxed overseas unt axed but bu ut o verseas back to the United States. the U nited St a . Instead of paying ates paaying y usual 35 percent percent tax, tax, the companies companies percent. paid just 5.2 55.255 p ercent.

The ccompanies om mpanies said bringing moneyy home home—“repatriating” the mone —“repatriating” theyy ccalled it—would it, the allled it —would mean lots of jobs. jjobss. Sen. JJohn ohn Ensign, g , the Nevada figuree at N evada Republican, Republic e an,, put the figur 660,000 jobs..

6 60,000 new n w jobs ne Pfizer,, the Pfizer th he drug company, company, was was the beneficiary. biggest b en neficiary. It brought brought home $37 billion, billion n, saving saavving $11 billion in taxes. taxes. immediately started Almost im mmediately it st arted firing people.

Since law took effect, p eople. Sin nce the la aw to ok eff ffeect, it 40,000 has let 40, ,000 workers workers go. go. In all,, it appears app ears that th hat at least 100,000 100,000 jobs weree destr destroyed. wer royed.

Now Congressional N ow C o essional Republicans ongr Reepublicans and some Democrats Democrats are are gearing up pass again to pa ass another tax tax holiday, holidaay, promoting new Act. pr omotingg a ne w JJobs obs Creation Creation A ct.

It would affect affeect 10 times as much aff moneyy as the 2004 mone t 20 04 law. laaw.

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Despite al Despite all ll the the n noise oise that that America America h has ass the world’ world’ss sec second-highest ond-higghest corporate corporate byy ttax ax rrate, atte, the the actual actual taxes taxes paid paid b ccorporations orporattions are arre ffalling alling because because o off tthe he ggrowing rowing n number umber of of loopholes loopholes aand nd companies compan nies shifting shifting profits profits to to ttax ax

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President R President Reagan eeagan signed into law laaw 11 ttax ax increases, increases e , ttargeted argeted at people people down the income income ladder ladder.. His administra ation and the Washington Washington administration pr ess ccorps orpss ccalled alled the incr eases press increases “r evenue enhanc eenhancers.” ers.” Among other “revenue things Rea eagan hik ed So cial Security Security things,, Reagan hiked Social

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F irst,, some history. history. In I 2009, 2009, First, Pr esident Obama push hed his own President pushed ttax ax cut —ffor o the working workiing class. class. He cut—for p ersuaded Congress Congress to o enact the persuaded Making W ork o Pay Pay T aax Credit.

Credit. Over Over Work Tax two years years 2009 2009 an nd 2010, it the two and sa aved single workers workers up up to $800 $800 and saved married heterosexual heterosexual couples couples up to $1,6 00,, eeven ven if only one sp ouse $1,600, spouse work ed. The top 5 p ercent or so of worked. percent ttaxpayers axpaayers were were denied this tax tax break. break.

The Obama administration adminisstration ccalled alled it “the “the biggest middle-class m middle - class ttax ax cut ver. Y et e last D December the cut”” eever.

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By doingg so, so, Congressional Congressional R eepublican n leaders incr eased taxes taxes Republican increased d of tually all on a thir o Americans, Americans, vir third virtually of them th poor, this year. year. thee working poor, A esullt,, of the 155 million Ass a rresult, h ouseholds iin n tthe he ttax ax ssystem, ystem, 5511 m illion households million w ill p ay an an aaverage verage of of $129 $129 more more this this will pay yyear. eear. That iss $6.6 billion in higher taxes taxes ffor or tthe he w orking p oor, tthe he n onpartisan n working poor, nonpartisan T aax P olicy C enter estimated.

Tax Policy Center In additi ddi iion,, the h R eepublic bli ans addition, Republicans changed th he rate of work ers’’ FICA FICA the workers’ ccontributions, ontributio ons, which finance finance half of So cial Secu urity. The result: result: Social Security.

If yyou ou ar make less than aree single and make $20,0 00,, o $20,000, orr married and less than $40,0 00,, yyou o lose under this plan. ou $40,000, But the top t 5 percent, percent,, people people who mak 6,800,, will makee mor moree than $10 $106,800, sa ave $2,136 6 ($4,272 ($4,272 for fo or two-career two - career save ccouples). ouples).

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Wee measure W measurre our ec economic onomic pr progress, ogress, and our ele ected leaders debate tax tax elected policy, terms p olicyy, in te erms of a crude measure measure product. known as gross g oss domestic pr gr oduct. way statistics The w ay the th he official st atistics are are together, put to getheer, each dollar spent spent buying solar solaar energy energy equipment ccounts ounts the same as each dollar spent spent investigating in vestigatin ng murders. murders.

Wee do no not give any measuree of W ot giv ve an ny measur vvalue alue tto o ttime ime sspent pent rrearing earing cchildren hildren or or ggrowing rowing o our ur o own wn vvegetables egetables o orr to to time time leisure service. off ffor or o leisur re and community communitty ser vice.

And do not measure A nd we we d on ot m eassure the the economic done by ec onomic damage d by shocks, shocks, ssuch uch aass llosing osing a job, job, which which means means not not only loss off income income and depletion of savings, sa avings v , butt loss of health insurance, insurance, which Harvard Medical School w hich a H arvard M edicall S chool 45,000 study ffound ound o d results results in 45,0 00 unnecessary unnec essary deaths each year. year.

Compare C ompare tthis his tto oG Germany, ermany, o one ne o off many man ny ccountries oun ntries with a smarter smarter tax tax smarter ssystem ystem and smar ter spending spending policies. policies.

Germanss work less, less, make make more more per and better p er hour an nd get much b etter parental par ental leave leaave than Americ Americans, ans, many many of whom get g no fringe benefits benefits such as health care, car a e, p pensions ensions or eeven ven a manyy rretirement etirement savings saavvings plan. By man measures measur es the th he vast majority majority live live better b etter in Germany G German y than in America.

America.

T o achieve achieve this, this, German work ers To workers on aaverage verage pay paay 52 percent percent of

income Americans their inc ome in ttaxes. axes. Americ an ns percent, according aaverage verage 30 p ercent,, ac cording tto o Organizations the Or ganizations ffor o or Economic Economiic Cooperation C ooperation and De Development. velopmentt.

Att first blush the German ttax A axx burden horrendous. bur den seems horr endous. But in Germanyy (as well as Brit Britain, German ain, France, Frrance, Scandinavia, Sc andinaavvia, C Canada, anada, A Australia ustralia and JJapan), apan), ttax-supported ax-supported institutions institutio ons provide many pr ovide man ny of the things Americans pay after-tax A Americ i ans pa ay ffor o or with ith after ft -ttax a dollars.. Buying wholesale rather dollars ratheer saves money. than rretail etail sa aves mone y. proper A pr oper ccomparison omparison would percent ttake ake the 30 p ercent aaverage verage ttax axx on American workers their Americ an work ers and add the ir outoutof-pocket of f-p - ocket sp spending ending on health care, care, ccollege ollege tuition and ffees ees e for fo or services servic v es and ccompare ompare that with ttaxes axes that th hat the aaverage verage German pa ays y . Add Add it all pays. up and the ccombination ombination of tax tax and p ersonall sp ending di is i rroughly oughly hl eq quall personal spending equal in b oth ccountries, ountries, but with a la arge both large risk of ccatastrophic atastrophic loss in Ame erica, America, and a tin ny. tinyy risk in German Germany.

Americ ans ttake ake on $85 billio n of Americans billion debt each yyear ear ffor or o higher educ a ation, education, while ccollege ollege is financ ed by by taxes taxes financed in German ap Germanyy and tuition is chea cheap to fr ee in other mo dern countries. countrries. free modern While soaring medical medical costs costs are are a key key rreason eason that sinc 1980 bankruptcy bankrup ptcy sincee 1980 in Americ h incr iincreased eased d 15 tim imes Americaa has times faster than population population growth, growth,, no one in German ny or the rest rest of the t Germany mo dern world go es broke broke because because a modern goes of ac cident or illness poverty accident illness.. And child poverty in Americ ng Americaa is the highest amon among mo dern ccountries—almost ountries—almost twice twice the modern rate in German ny, which is closee to Germany, the aaverage verage of mo modern dern ccountries. ountriees.

On the ccorporate orporate ttax ax side side,, th the he Germans enc encourage ourage reinvestment reinvestmeent at home and the outsourcing outsourcing of o low-value lowvalue work, lik likee auto assem assembly, mblyy, and German rules tightly control contrrol accounting ac counting so that pr profits ofits earned earneed at home ccannot annot b bee made to app appear eaar as profits pr ofits earned in tax tax havens. haavens.

Adopting A dopting the German system system m is not the ans answer wer for fo or America.

America. But Bu ut crafting a ttax ax ssystem ystem that b benefits enefi fits the vast majorit majority, y, reduces reduces risks, risks, provides pr ovides univ universal ersal health ccare are and a ffocuses ocuses on diplomacy rather th than han militarism milit arism abr abroad oad (and at hom home) me) would b bee a lot smar smarter ter than wh what hat we have ha ave now now..

Heree is a question to ask yourself: Her yourse o elf: We We sstarted tarted d down own tthis his road road d with with Reagan’s Reagan n’s election in 19 1980 80 and upped upped the ante an nte in this ccentury entury with George George W. W. Bush.

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AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. Meals unfold like a bolt of rare silk, served with care and efficiency in a rich, luminous interior. Dishes are complex and varied. 11:30am2:30pm, 5-9:45pm daily. 2290 El Camino Real. 650.968.7511.

AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza/Italian. $$.

When it’s done right, East Coast pizza can be a glorious thing.

Dough is rolled ultrathin and served noticeably charred on the sides and bottom, the ideal combination for a “foldable” slice on the go. It’s done right here. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am-11pm Sat, 11:30am-10pm Sun. 790 Castro St. 650.961.6666.

BODRUM CAFE Turkish. $$.

The menu at Bodrum Cafe is extensive and covers a lot of ground, but it’s the lamb dishes that stand out. A good place to start is with the lahmacun (Turkey’s take on pizza) and the kebabs. 10am-10pm daily. 383 Castro St. 650.396.7010.

CASCAL Spanish tapas. $$$.

The tapas menu yields big tastes in small portions at this pan-Latin charmer. Calamari, roasted quail and minted lamb meatballs are among the delicacies. Full bar. 11:30am10pm Mon-Sun. 400 Castro St. 650.940.9500.

CHAAT PARADISE Vegetarian Indian. $. Golden spices predominate at this popular spot for inexpensive, fun-toeat traditional Indian fare.

Casual shopping-center surroundings. 11:30-10pm Mon-Sun. 165 E. Camino Real.

650.965.1111.

CHINA CAFE Mandarin, Szechuan. $$. A little surprise in the Blossom Valley Center promises uptown ambience, spotless surroundings and well-presented classical Chinese cuisine. 1760 Miramonte Ave. 650.968.2298.

DON GIOVANNI Italian. $$$.

This pumpkin-hued eatery faces the bustling downtown with a handsome demeanor of mahogany and candlelight. Full bar. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 235 Castro St. 650.961.9749.

LE PETIT BISTRO Classic French. $$. There’s a lot to like about this pinch of a place with its simple, practiced French cuisine and quiet dining. Casual. Beer, wine. 5:309:30pm Tue-Sat. 1405 W. El Camino Real. 650.964.3321.

MARU ICHI Japanese noodles. $. Maru Ichi is a true noodle shop. While there are a few appetizers on the menu, the slurpable house-made noodles—ramen, soba and udon—are what you want.

Go for the house specialty kuro ramen or the soy sauce ramen. Beer and wine. Cash only. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am-10pm Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 368 Castro St. 650.564.9931.

NAMI NAMI Japanese. $$$.

Nami Nami specializes in kappo-style Japanese food, prepared in the artful, laborintensive, seasonally driven style associated with the city of Kyoto. For diners willing to open their minds and mouths, it offers one of the most exciting restaurant experiences in the Bay Area. 11:30am-2pm Tue-Sun, 7-10pm Tue-Thu and 6-11pm Fri-Sat. 240 Castro St. 650.964.6990.

NETO CAFFE AND BAKERY Cafe. $$. Neto Caffe and Bakery is a busy, good-looking

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space that has a happy buzz about it. There’s a little bit of everything including a number of Middle Eastern specialties.

7am-10pm daily. 135 Castro St. 650.625.9888.

PHO TO CHAU Vietnamese noodle house. $. The pho here is an honest noodle soup. Firsttimers might want to stick with the basic pho chin, topped with slices of beef brisket.

11am-10pm daily. 853 Villa St. 650.961.8069.

ROSE INTERNATIONAL MARKET Persian. $. Part Middle Eastern grocery store, part Persian food take-out counter and part kebab grill, Rose International Market is a gold mine of good food. The white plastic tables out front are packed with customers eating the market’s signature mesquite-grilled kebabs. 8am9pm Mon-Sat, 9am-8pm Sun. 1060 Castro St. 650.960.1900.

THE SPICE ISLANDS CAFE Singaporean, Malaysian, Indonesian. $$. This restaurant will send your taste buds to the tropics. Talented chefs put out dishes full of spice and passion, like jumbo chile prawns, papaya salad and Malaysian spareribs. The menu is expansive. Prices are reasonable. 210 Hope St. 650.960.1888.

SUSHI TOMI Japanese. $$.

Sushi Tomi serves Japanese food with an elegant simplicity.

Sushi and sashimi are ocean fresh. For a real treat, ask for an omakase dinner and let the chef put together a tasting menu for you. Lunch 11:30am2pm daily; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat,

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TAQUERÍA LOS CHARROS Mexican. $. This clean and fetching diner is the place for authentic fare. Generous portions. 6:30am-10pm MonFri, 6:30am-11pm Sat, 8am10pm Sun. 854 W. Dana St. 650.969.1464.

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BISTRO MAXINE Cafe. $$.

Bistro Maxine is a bright, friendly little spot, a coffee shop and creperie rolled into one. If you’re lucky, you’ll snag one of the five indoor or two outdoor tables while perusing the long but straightforward menu.

8am-2pm 6-10pm Tue-Fri, 9am-4pm Sun. 548 Ramona St. 650.323.1815.

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and smoked intensity make Empire Grill much more than simply a smart place to sip a cosmopolitan. Full bar. Tue-Sun 11:30am-10pm. 651 Emerson St. 650.321.3030.

EVVIA Contemporary Aegean. $$$. Forward flavors and plenty of laughter—that’s Dionysian dining. Evvia feels like a little taverna on Paros, only with an unmistakable Bay Area sophistication. Full bar. 420 Emerson St. 650.326.0983.

Italian. $$$. Entrees are attractively presented, and the waiters will make you feel as though you were the most important guests in the place.

Dessert lives up to the rest of the meal. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9:30pm Sun. 108 Castro St. 650.940.1717.

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

Breakfast 9-11am, lunch 11am3pm, dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri; brunch 9am-3pm, dinner 5:30-10pm Sat-Sun. 445 California Ave. 650.326.8640.

FUKI SUSHI Japanese. $$$.

For over two decades this superb Japanese restaurant has served sushi to Nobel laureates and other grateful foodies.

Open daily. 4119 El Camino Real. 11:30am-10pm Tue-Sun. 650.494.9383. www.fukisushi. com.

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CAFE RIACE Trattoria. $$. An absolute joy. Every dish is made with honest expertise—no tricky trendiness here. The homey offerings are based on wholesome Italian staples.

Beer, wine. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sun. 200 Sheridan Ave. 650.328.0407.

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Modern Vietnamese. $$.

Xanh (pronounced “zahn”) epitomizes the new breed of upscale, contemporary Vietnamese restaurant. The appealing menu ranges from the traditional to the unconventional and includes rolls, salads, noodles, small plates and full-size entrees.

11:30am-2pm, 4:30pmclose Mon-Fri. 110 Castro St. 650.964.1888

YAKKO Japanese, sushi bar. $$. A pairing of swift service with an exotic range of sushi and udon makes this a favorite among sushi lovers. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm Mon-Sun, 5:30-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 5:3010:30pm Fri-Sat. 975 W. Dana St. 650.960.0626.

ZUCCA Mediterranean. $$.

Time slows and the paella glows at this Turkish/Spanish charmer: lamb kofte, spicy shrimp, steak, baklava.

11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 510pm Mon-Sun. 186 Castro St. 650.864.9940.

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

CALAFIA CAFE AND MARKET A GO-GO Eclectic. $$. Calafia Cafe and Market A Go-Go combines elements of the fast-food world and the laborintensive slow cooking of morehigh-end restaurants. Chef and owner Charlie Ayers (who was Google’s first chef) calls his concept “slow food fast”— good-to-eat and good-for-you food that he hopes will appeal to Silicon Valley’s frenetic, toobusy-to-eat pace of life. Look for good burgers, pizza, salads and fresh fish. 11am-9pm MonFri, 9am-9pm Sat-Sun. 858 El Camino Real. 650.322.9200.

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

7am-11pm daily. 538 Ramona St. 650.322.6872.

EMPIRE GRILL & TAP ROOM California grill. $$. Waiters with charm to spare, an energetic clientele and a menu packed with grilled, roasted

American. $$$. Food takes equal billing with ambience and fine handmade beers at the first in this group of successful brewpubs. The menu is so fine-tuned, though, it could thrive even without a brewery attached. Beer, wine.

11:30am-10pm daily. 640 Emerson St. 650.323.7723. Also 33 E. San Fernando St, San Jose.

408.294.6785.

GREEN ELEPHANT GOURMET Burmese. $$. Burmese food draws influences from its three largest neighbors: China, India and Thailand. Standouts here include the coconut chicken soup, tangy tea leaf salad and refreshing glass noodle salad. Lunch 11am-2:30pm, dinner 4:30-9pm daily. 3950 Middlefield Rd (Charleston Shopping Center). 650.494.7391.

GYROSGYROS Mediterranean. $. The lunch crowd turns out in force to grapple with the oversize, and messy, lamb and beef gyros, chicken gyros and other treats. That’s especially true on sunny afternoons, when the sidewalk tables fill with folks downing the juicy sandwiches.

11am-11pm daily. 498 University Ave. 650.327.0107.

JUNNOON Contemporary Indian. $$$. This attractive Palo Alto restaurant serves eclectic modern Indian food, the kind you might get at an upscale restaurant in Bangalore or Mumbai. You could easily make a meal from the great selection

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They plan to open late next month under the name MILIAS RESTAURANT. ADAM SANCHEZ and ANN ZYBURRA, first-time restaurateurs, are opening the restaurant with the help of local consulting chef JESS LEDESMA of the Koa Restaurant Group.

Sanchez, who once owned the Al Sanchez VW and Mazda dealership in Gilroy, looks to classic San Francisco restaurants and bars like the Tadich Grill and Tosca for inspiration—and to the history of the restaurant itself. He says he doesn’t want to remodel the restaurant so much as bring it back to the way it was.

“This place has been a Gilroy staple for years,” he says. “We’re trying to revive that feel,” a feel he describes as “cowboys and chandeliers.”

While the restaurant will once again serve steaks and chops, Ledesma and newly hired chef JOHN STRUVI will showcase a more international menu of small plates and appetizers. “People won’t get just steak and potatoes,” Ledesma says.

Unlike the old restaurant, the new Milias will source some of its produce from a nearby garden the will grow dozens of varieties of garlic.

Ledesma and Sanchez have high hopes. “It’s going to be something really unique for Gilroy,” says Ledesma. “It’s going to be the anchor of downtown.”

Unlike the Milias Restaurant of old, the new place has a website: www.themiliasrestaurant.com.—Stett Holbrook

of appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm and 5:30-10pm Mon-Fri, 5:3010:30pm Sat. 150 University Ave. 650.329.9644.

KAN ZEMAN Middle Eastern/ Mediterranean. $$. A lively blend of Lebanese, Greek and Turkish cuisine fuels this festive social spot. A sampler plate offers garlicky hummus, earthy falafel, dolmas drenched in lemon, a minty tabouli salad and splendid marinated tomatoes. 11am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-close Fri-Sat. 274 University Ave. 650.328.5245.

LA BODEGUITA DEL MEDIO Cuban/California. $$$. Themed after a vintage Havana haunt of Ernest Hemingway’s, this zesty restaurant serves lively Cuban-influenced cuisine along with liquid staples like rum and mojitos in a handsome, casual atmosphere. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5:3010pm Fri-Sat. 463 S.California Ave. 650.326.7762.

LAVANDA Mediterranean. $$$.

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MANTRA French, American and Indian. $$$. Mantra serves inventive French and American food that speaks with an

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

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

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

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

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

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

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REPOSADO Mexican. $$$.

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

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

RESTAURANT SOLEIL New American. $$$$. A mouthwatering menu and an elegant, golden-hued room shine together at Soleil, upstairs in the Westin Palo Alto. Local ingredients and provocative sauces create dishes worthy of the wine list. Breakfast 6am11am, Dinner 5-10:30pm. 675 El Camino Real. 650.321.4422.

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

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

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motifs from India, China and Thailand, the food of Singapore is anything but timid. The menu at Straits is lavish and diverse. Full bar.

11:30-2pm Mon-Fri, 5:309:30pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 3295 El Camino Real.

650.494.7168.

TAMARINE New Vietnamese. $$$. A mesmerizing back bar of natural bamboo and glass sleekly adjoins a wall showcasing original artwork.

Even the waitstaff is sleek, clad in Prada black. Entrees are gorgeous and deeply aromatic. 546 University Ave. 650.325.8500.

THREE SEASONS Modern Vietnamese. $$$. Much of the menu is familiar, but the food at Three Seasons scores because of its superior execution and light touch. A cool, two-level dining room dominated by a striking circular stained-glass ceiling and an ornate wooden bar that serves great cocktails help set Three Seasons apart, too.

Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu and 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 518 Bryant St. 650.838.0353.

TRADER VIC’S PolynesianAmerican. $$$. A jungle gym of tiki gods—but a classy jungle. Sip a mai tai in the lounge before embarking on a dinner trip from pork spareribs to boat-fresh seared suki tuna to a Calcutta curry. 4-6pm daily happy hour. Dinner at 5pm Mon-Sat and 4:30 Sun. 4261 El Camino Real. 650.849.9800.

SHOKOLAAT. Modern European. $$. Shokolaat’s open kitchen and pastry display counter are as gleaming and clean as a laboratory, a fitting setting for the restaurant’s technically precise, modern European cooking. Counter open 8am-9pm (to-go only 4-9pm); lunch 11:30am-2pm Tue-Sun, dinner 5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun. 516 University Ave. 650.289.0719.

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

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

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$$. Along with a handsome interior, Spalti offers good wine and sparkling flavors. Beer, wine. 11am-2pm Mon-Fri, 59:30pm Mon-Sun. 417 California Ave. 650.327.9390.

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

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

431 Kipling St. 650.328.0450.

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HARMONIA FELICE Apr 16 at a 3pm, Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose

HOUSE OF FLOYD Apr 16 at 8pm, Club Fox, Redwood City

VAGABOND OPERA Apr 16 at 8pm, Sunnyvale Theater

BAROQUE MICRO ORCHESTRA BAR Apr 17 at 2pm, Congregation Etz Chayim, Palo Alto.

SJ SYMPHONIC SY CHOIR/VIVACE Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.

Apr 17 at 3pm, St. Andrew’s Episcopal, Saratoga

ANDY SANTANA Apr 23 2 at 6pm, Poor House Bistro, San Jose

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CHICAGO Montgomery Theater, San Jose Fri–Sat - 8pm, Sun - 1 and 6pm, Thu (Apr 21) - 7:30pm, through Apr 23; $30 The juicy tabloid tale of a Chicago murderess and her celebritysoaked trial began as a real-life trial, followed by a play, a very funny silent movie, a Broadway hit with choreography by Bob Fosse and an Oscar-winning movie. The

popular musical about Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and their headlinegrabbing lawyer Billy Flynn is the latest Marquee production

by Children’s Musical Theatre of San Jose. The show features top Bay Area actors and alums of the troupe, including Shannon Self as Roxie and Michael Mulcahy (who ran against Chuck Reed for mayor of San Jose) as Billy. (MSG)

SOMETHING LEFT UNSAID Johnny V’s, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $5 Though Pacifica’s chief metal export Something Left Unsaid sounds nothing at all like Campbell’s electro sensation the Limousines, the two groups do have something in common: they both started with members trading bits of songs over the Internet, developing their

work entirely in cyberspace. If this trend keeps up—and you know it will—flaky musicians will have to throw out all the classic excuses for missing practice and take a bunch of classes at DeVry just to develop some new ones. Drummer: “Dudes, sorry, but my L2TP connection attempt failed because there was no valid machine certificate on my computer for security authentication.” Guitarist: “Do you mean you were in your basement all afternoon hitting the bong?” Drummer: “Wait, isn’t that what I said?” (SP)

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LITTLE WINGS Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose Sun – 6:30pm; $7 Before the indie-folk explosion of the

last 10 years, before Iron & Wine and Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes, there was K Records. And still is, by the way, but the impact that the Olympia label run

by Beat Happening’s Calvin Johnson has had on the music landscape can’t be measured (even Kurt Cobain insisted on a tattoo of the K Records logo, and try to find a shred of K’s sound in Nirvana). Little Wings came out of the small California town I grew up around, San Luis Obispo, in the late ’90s, and got signed to K. The band is mainly Kyle Field (though he often collaborates), and to listen to his early records now—with their gentle, lush, but haunting melodies, and hushed vocals—is to realize just how prophetic his vision turned out to be. (SP)

Apr 27 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

ST. LAW LAWRENCE A STRING QUARTET May 1 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford Dink

RICKY MARTIN May 4 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

ST. MICHAEL TRIO May 8 at 3pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

PENINSULA SYMPHONY May 14 at 8pm, Flint Center, Cupertino

TRIMPIN’S ‘GURS ZYKLUS’ May 14 at 8pm, Memorial Auditorium, Stanford

GLEE May 24–25 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

USHER May 29 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

METRO FOUNTAIN BLUES FEST The festival returns with Fountain Blues Festival AllStars Band and Tommy Castro, Jul 9, St. James Park, San Jose.

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Enchanted April Thursday–Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 3pm, April 14–May 8; Northside Theatre, San Jose; $15/$20 Something always seems to happen to the English when they go on holiday to Italy (and the Germans, vide Death in Venice). The sun, the food, the ancient ways—all conspire to bring out the sensuous side in even the most strait-laced tourists. Matthew Barber’s comedy Enchanted April follows the loosening up of some London housewives succumbing to the allure of the Mediterranean. This Northside Theatre Company production opens this Friday.

Camping With Henry and Tom Wednesday (April 20 and 27), 7:30pm, Thursday–Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 3 or 8pm, through April 30; Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos; $24–$30 Almost a century ago, three notable Americans— Warren G. Harding, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford—took off in a Model T for some rest and relaxation. Too bad they got lost in the woods instead. Mark St. Germain’s comedy riffs on the incident with some intriguing speculations about the three men and their respective and sometimes contradictory ideas.

Illustrated Title Pages: 1500–1900 April 13–Oct. 16; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford; free One is not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but what about its title page? A new exhibit at the Cantor Arts Center pulls 80 sterling examples of decorated title pages from the museum’s extensive collection. These miniature works of art are triumphs of typography and the graphic arts, with images by Piranesi, Goya, Redon and Beardsley (pictured).

*stage Theater BAD DATES Dragon Productions presents a one-woman show about the perils of dating, with Laura Jane Bailey. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Apr 17. $16-$25. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

CAMPINGWITHHENRY CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM A witty re-creation of the famous camping trip with Warren G. Harding, Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun 3 or 7pm. Runs through Apr 24. $15-$32. Bus Barn Stage Company, Los Altos.

CHICAGO The popular musical about Roxie Hart, Velma Kelly and

celebrity Billy as l b it lawyer l Bill Flynn Fl interpreted by Bay Area actors and Children’s Musical Theatre of San Jose alumni. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm, Thu (Apr 21), 7:30pm, Sat (Apr 23), 2 and 8pm. $30. Montgomery Theater, San Jose.

ENCHANTED APRIL Northside presents Matthew Barber’s romantic comedy about a pair of London

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Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm (no show Apr 24). Runs thru May 8. $15/$20. Northside Theatre, San Jose.

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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.

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

“Classical Portraiture.” Works

by John Robert Peck, Andrew Ameral and Aaron Pavelis from the Florence Academy of Art. Thru Apr 22. Los Gatos.

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FOREVER PLAID Broadway by the Bay’s take on the popular musical about a ’50s vocal group. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Apr 17. $24-$50. Fox Theatre, Redwood City.

LEGACY OF LIGHT San Jose Rep puts on the West Coast premiere of a new comedy about two women and their ideas about the importance of childbirth. Tue, 7:30pm, Wed-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Apr 17. $25 and up. San Jose Repertory Theatre.

LOLITA ROADTRIP San Jose Stage Co. presents the world premiere of Trevor Allen’s play about Vladimir Nabokov and his journey across country to take a teaching job at Stanford. WedThu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru May 1. $14$40. San Jose Stage.

PEAR SLICES The group offers its annual slate of new short plays from the Pear Playwrights Guild.

Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Apr 24. $15$30. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.

SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS A stage version by TheatreWorks of David Guterson’s novel about a lonely Washington island in the 1950s. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 2 and 7pm. Runs thru Apr 24. $24-$67. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

STOMP A celebration of percussion in sound and movement.

Broadway San Jose show is asking people to help Harvest Food Bank as part

Comedy CLUB FOX Mon, 7pm: Comedy Monday with Dan St. Paul. Weekly comedy showcase. 21+. $10.

Redwood City.

COMEDYSPORTZ Fri, 9pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm: Live improv comedy. Fri, 11pm: The Midnight Show. Inside the Camera 3 building, San Jose.

Special showing of “Women Behind the Lens” about Mayan weavers. Sun, 2-3pm. San Jose.

CONTINUING

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.

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Wed, 8pm: Big Al’s Big Ass Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm: Dirtbag Comedy Kings. $12. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: D.L. Hughley. $30. San Jose.

“The Theater of Insects.”

Photographs by Jo Whaley.

“Life Cycle.” Photos of rare and endangered species by Susan Middleton. “Selections From the Smith Andersen Editions Archive.” Sample of works by the fine-art press in Palo Alto.

“Father Hubbard: Trekking Through Alaska.” A historical exhibit about a Jesuit priest from SCU who explored Alaska in the early 20th century. “Paul Locatelli, S.J.: Photographs.”

All run thru Jun 12. Santa Clara University.

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A night of “Tax Relief Comedy” with Will Durst, Mari Esther Kaplan and Kurt Weitzmann.

Fri, 8pm. $15/$20. Saratoga Civic Theatre.

“Celebrating Local Artists.”

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

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8pm and 10:30pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Don McMillan with Johnny Walker and Kevin O’Shea. $12-$18.

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Museums OPENING CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Illustrated Title Pages: 1500-1900.” A show of 80 illustrated book pages from the museum’s collection. Apr 13Oct 16. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

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,

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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. Thru Apr 24. MonWed, 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 MACLA “Latino Art Now.” An exhibit featuring Latino artists from the Bay Area is on display now and culminates May 14 in the annual art auction. Reception Fri. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, FriSat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI “Glimmer.” Works by Christian Breitkreutz, Megan Diddle, Luciano Scherer and Collin van der Sluijs. Thru May 21.

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

ART ARK “Bane.” Drawings and prints

by Fanny Retsek. Thru Apr 23.

San Jose.

CAFFE TRIESTE “Paintings by Centa Schumacher.” Thru Apr 29.

San Jose.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ART “Sedimentals.” A show of 14 sculptural installations by Jody Alexander. Runs thru May 31.

Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, Sat, 9am3pm. Mohr Gallery, Finn Center, Mountain View.

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A show of photographs about low-riders by Trevor Traynor.

Runs thru May 9. San Jose.

“Splashes of Spring.” Paintings

by Hildy Charbonneau. Thru Apr 30. Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm.

Saratoga.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA New works by Melissa Kreisa.

Thru Apr 30. San Jose.

FILOLI Expressions in Watercolors. Thru Jun 5. Tue-Sun, 10am-3pm, Sun, 11am-3pm. Meet the artists day Sat, 10am-3pm. Free with admission. Woodside.

GALLERY HOUSE “Of Light and Land.” Art landscape photography by Jennifer Fraser, Robert Adler and Dan McLean. Thru Apr 23.

Wed-Sat, 11am-8pm, Sun 11am3pm. Enter through Printer’s Ink, Palo Alto.

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

Thru Apr 30. San Jose.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE Group show of Bay Area clay artists. Thru May 5. San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY “Succor.” A show in honor of artist Jessica Beerli. Thru May 5. San Jose.

MAIN GALLERY “Clayful Shapes and Bodies of Art.” Works by Michael Ruiz

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Redwood City.

METRO LOBBY “Tough Love.” Photos by Honda Lotus Dumitriu. Thru Apr 30. San Jose.

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.

PHANTOM GALLERIES Works in vacant storefronts by Yumiko and Reiko Miyagama and Mike Park. Runs thru Apr 16 along South First Street, San Jose.

PHO69 “Visionary Reflections.”

Paintings by Janice Kirkpatrick. Thru Apr 30. San Jose.

PSYCHO DONUTS A rotating group show. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Size Matters.” A group show about concepts of scale. Thru Jun 18. “Powers of Ten.” A 1968 documentary short by Ray and Charles Ames. Thru Jun 11. “Urgency.” Large wooden installation by Mike Rathbun.

Thru Jun 4. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

SANTA CLARA CITY HALL

Paul G. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford campus.

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

Sunnyvale.

*books TONY BARNSTONE

THE SJSU Center for Literary Arts sponsors a reading by the poet and translator. Wed, 7pm.

Free. University Theatre, SJSU.

Fun for the kids who can have their pictures taken and decorate cookies and paint faces. Proceeds benefit Autism Diagnostics and Consulting Center. Sun. Santana Row.

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A NIGHT OF HOPE

“Great Soul,” a new biography of Mahatma Gandhi, has already caused controversy in India. The author appears for a booksigning. Wed, 7pm. Free.

Books Inc., Mountain View.

An appearance by evangelists Joel and Victoria Osteen. Fri, 7:30pm. $15. HP Pavilion.

San Jose.

WAYNE PACELLE

A chance to meet, mingle and share some mirth, featuring Reggie Steele with Robby Cole, Layla Baird and more.

Sat, 7pm. $20. Theater on San Pedro Square.

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BABY BOOMER DANCE PARTY

Current exhibit features paintings by Rajiv Khilnani, quilts by Yvonne Porcella and mixed-media works by Stell Zhang. Thru May 19.

Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5pm.

EASTER BUNNY HOP

JOSEPH LELYVELD

This month’s meeting features a plant sale. Sat, 9am-noon. State and Main streets, Los Altos.

STANFORD ART SPACES

Listen to the Bay Area Showcase Chorus in its preparatory concert for trip to Sweet Adelines Competition in October. Sat, 3pm. $5/$10.

Napradak Hall, San Jose.

A signing event for the author of “The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice.”

Wed, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

The president of the Humane Society talks on “The Bond: Our Kinship With Animals, Our Call to Defend Them.” Fri, 7pm.

Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

ANN PACKER The short-story writer talks about her new collection, “Swim Back to Me.” Thu, 7pm.

Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

With music by the Joe Sharino Band. Sat, 7pm. $30.

Boulder Ridge Golf Club, San Jose.

BEYOND THE PASTA A talk by author Mark Leslie about living in Italy. Thu, 7:30pm. $15-$18. Italian Cultural Center, San Jose.

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DESTINATION HARMONY

A symposium drawing on the varied expertise of academics and industry designers, with talks by Jordan Mechner, Tracey Fullerton and faculty from UCSC. Fri, 8:30am. $100.

India Community Center, Milpitas.

PETER CORNING

Biennial “Indoor Sculpture Exhibition.” Thru Sep. Reception Apr 30, 3pm. Santa Clara.

“Amity Blamity.” A showcase of work from new graphic novel by Mike White. Thru Apr 29. San Jose.

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SAN JOSE CHILDREN’S FAIRE With arts and crafts, games and community resources, plus live entertainment. Fri, 10:30am-3pm. Discovery Meadow, San Jose.

SIDEWALK FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL Featuring nearly 100 fine artists showing their wares.

Fri-Sat, 10am-6pm, Sun, 10am-5pm. Free. Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park.

TASTER’S SHOWCASE A showcase benefit for Kidango with food and beverages for tasting. Sun, 1-4pm. $35/$45. Marriott Fremont.

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Fancy Prose Style IN 1941, Vladimir Nabokov journeyed from New York to Palo Alto. It was the first of the Russian-American author’s many cross-country adventures and would come to influence his best-known work, Lolita. The trip also yielded a zoological discovery, a subspecies of butterfly, which Nabokov (an accomplished lepidopterist) christened Neonympha dorothea dorothea after Dorothy Leuthold, the woman who drove him and his family on the trip. These are the events that inspired Lolita Roadtrip, a fascinating new comedy by local playwright Trevor Allen now being presented by San Jose Stage Company in collaboration with PlayGround, a San Francisco theater group.

“Comedy” is a loose definition. Like Nabokov’s novel, Lolita Roadtrip is tragic as well as funny and deals with disturbing subject matter. In the play, Danny (Patrick Alparone), a teenaged runaway, hitches a ride with Julia (Chloe Bronzan), a Stanford graduate student who is retracing Nabokov’s 1941 trip as grist for her thesis.

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There are two more major characters: professor Drake (Juan López-Morillas) and his terminally ill, bed-ridden wife (Stacy Ross). López-Morillas and Ross also appear as Mr. and Mrs. Nabokov, as well as all the local eccentrics that Julia and Danny encounter on their trip, including a Civil War re-enactor (or is he the real thing, back from the grave?), a couple of UFO freaks and a relaxation specialist.

Essentially, though, Lolita Roadtrip is a four-person drama. The main players reveal details of their lives, often tragically sordid, through alternating soliloquies. As the story moves forward, their relationships with one another become clearer, and implicit parallels arise between them and characters in Lolita—both the young “nymphet” and the novel’s predatory narrator, Humbert Humbert.

Now let’s see a show of hands: How many of you have actually read Lolita?

To quote one of the play’s funniest lines, “Don’t look at me like that, it was on the syllabus!” Professor Drake speaks these words during a classroom lecture scene, and though they seem directed as much at the audience as at his students, there’s no need to feel intimidated. Those familiar with the novel will find Julia’s quest to dig deeper into Nabokov particularly enjoyable, but the uninitiated have a relatable figure in Danny, who is ignorant of almost everything that happened more than 10 years ago, and can only scratch his head in bewilderment when he eventually does read Lolita.—Sean Conwell

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by shooting in Savannah; nearby Ft. Pulaski substitutes for the penitentiary where most of the action takes place.)

The Conspirator begins with the victory celebration in Washington, D.C., for the end of the Civil War and with Lincoln’s fateful decision to see Our American Cousin. The audience’s hopes are raised early. The deadly John Wilkes Booth is a great part for any actor, and Toby Kebbell gives the film a jolt as he dashes off the fateful balcony and crashes onto the stage of Ford’s Theatre.

But Booth is out of the picture fast, killed in a burning barn. Meanwhile, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton (Kevin Kline) pulls a full Alexander Haig (“I’m in charge here”) right after the shooting.

The implication is that Vice President Andrew Johnson would be too drunk to take over the investigation into who killed Lincoln.

(This ill-fated Johnson got an unfair reputation as a drunkard for showing up crocked at Lincoln’s second inaugural, in 1864. Interestingly, the Tennessean made a speech that sounds like the classic Nixon/Boehner sobbing oration: the one about the rise from absolute nothingness, scrubbing the fruit stand, the tavern or whatnot.)

Booth’s accused accessories are rounded up, including the famous Dr. Mudd. Caught in the dragnet is one female prisoner: the landlady Mrs. Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), whose son had been in cahoots with Booth.

Imprisoned, the 42-year-old woman “who kept the nest that hatched the egg” refuses to inform.

She is defended by Maryland Sen. Reverdy Johnson (Tom Wilkinson).

Assisting the senator is one Frederick Aiken, a veteran; he’s played by James McAvoy, filling the outline of the part with little enthusiasm.

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military tribunal, on the grounds that Lincoln was a military commander himself. The film focuses on the one member of the accused who is less obviously guilty. Wright underplays the part of this suffering prisoner with Scandinavian-movie simplicity (you have to underplay when you’re wearing a ball and chain), but there’s not enough tension and flamboyance among the other actors to counterbalance her kind of purity.

Unfortunately, Wilkinson rolls out of the picture. As Joseph Holt, the prosecutor, Danny Huston seems ready for some kind of deviltry, but it never happens.

The movie rarely leaves the dungeon. The murky would-be daguerreotype photography, and the mutter of voices makes The Conspirator a movie for those with sleep disorders to avoid.

The earnestness—always a problem fil in Redford films—runs at an allTh script tells about the time high. The ambient fear and rage in America 1865, visual don’t give the sense of but the visuals eme a state of emergency or of post-war kn there’s resentment: shock. We know kic Aiken gets kicked out of his private club and his fiancée, fi club, played by Alexis Bledel, does the time-honored bit about the woman who may not be waiting when her man gets back from the courtroom.

Of the various figures stirring in the murk, Stephen Root, as a witness for the defense, is the one who looks most 19th century: it’s a relief to see someone in the movie who isn’t of the well-spoken classes—someone who embodies the rural nature of our nation then.

But is this movie really about 1865?

Throughout this trial of Mrs. Surratt, we can feel Redford whispering in our ear: “Stanton is like Cheney, no? This suspension of rights—remarkable how it anticipates Gitmo. Military tribunals and the hooding of prisoners are like Abu Ghraib. Did you notice the parallels?” And we do, but the parallels aren’t enough to make the stumbling and verbose film breathe. It’s more or less killed by a search for relevance, instead of a search for uniqueness or mood.

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Really Big STRONG CROSSWINDS stir Giant (1956): strife between generations, races and styles of acting. Standing like the rock he was, Rock Hudson tries to hold his ground against the loping and slitherings of James Dean. Dean took his one-way ride only three days after his filming was finished. As a result, there is some noticeable dubbing by actor Nick Adams. It takes place during Dean’s finest work ever: a drunken oration considered too mumbling to be understood.

To Maryland’s horse country in the 1920s goes Bick Benedict (Hudson) owner of a 595,000-acre ranch in Texas. He had been planning to buy a stallion, but he ends up marrying the rider. “That sure is a beautiful animal,” he says when he sees Leslie (Elizabeth Taylor) on horseback. The marriage causes discord: Bick’s tough sister (Mercedes McCambridge) isn’t sure this well-bred lady can handle Texas. This newcomer finds a sort of friendship with an awkward and despised hired hand, Jett Rink (Dean). Rink’s fortunes change when he inherits a seemingly worthless scrap of land.

In Dean’s performance—and to a lesser extent in Dennis Hopper’s performance as the rebellious son who would rather

(PG-13; 102 min.) This malign work of fiction (as heavy, homely and trenchant as a cinder block) has proved satisfyingly unadaptable for the screen. This is good news, because it’s proof (Michael Bay be damned) that there’s an innate common sense in movies, deeper than the supposed depth of supposed classics. Nevertheless, the amazing Randies apparently promised that tweeking, husbandstealing right-wing saint on her deathbed that they’d make a movie out of it, no matter how dated, blithering, fustian, adolescent, unlikely and very much like a bad Allied Artists sci-fi movie it really is. So here it is at long last for your delectation. Bon appetit. (Opens Fri at Century Cinema 16 in Mountain View and CinéArts Santana Row.) (RvB).

THE CONSPIRATOR be a physician—we see a new kind of movie acting, a change from the overt to the covert. The Stanford’s honoree Taylor is here, but mostly as a lovely, demure bystander. When Dean crosses the suitably gigantic prairies or climbs a rickety windmill to survey his domain, he’s >`Xek a silhouetted presence as comically iconic as April 14–15, 7:30pm Buster Keaton. And Stanford there’s a strong echo Theatre, of the quality of Citizen Palo Alto Kane in Rink’s decline and disgrace.

Denounce Giant’s length (well over three hours) or its self-congratulatory liberalism but admit it’s an epic about something: not just about the rise of dazzling fortunes but the legacy of racism that Texas would rather deny.

“We really stole Texas, didn’t we? I mean, away from Mexico,” Leslie asks Bick. Giant is also playing at the same time as the fearful Atlas Shrugged: Part I, opening April 15 in selected theaters. So there’s some piquancy to the comic scene here of the Benedicts, lollygagging around the swimming pool, praising the tax exemptions on oil in almost holy terms.

—Richard von Busack

(PG-13; 123 min.) See review on page 37.

IN A BETTER WORLD (R; 119 min.) Winner of this year’s Best Foreign Film Oscar, it concerns the strife between two Danish families, caused by school bullying—a situation neatly paralleled by a humanitarian disaster in Africa. (Opens Fri at Camera 7 in Campbell and the Aqurius in Palo Alto.) (RvB)

POETRY (Unrated; 139 min.) See review on page 40. (Opens Fri at camera 3 in San Jose.)

RIO 3D (PG; 96 min.) An animated family comedy about a footloose macaw.

(Opens Fri.)

SCREAM 4 (R; 103 min.) The venerable horror franchise lumbers on. Stars Lucy Hale, Anna Paquin, Kristen Bell and Neve Campbell. (Opens Fri.)

Revivals A PLACE IN THE SUN/ CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF (1951/1958) Elizabeth Taylor as we’d like to remember her. George Stevens directs a noirish adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s Lake Tahoe-set drama of class climbing and murder.

Taylor stars as the luscious cousin desired by striving Montgomery Clift; Shelley Winters is his unfinished

business. BILLED WITH Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Taylor as Maggie, a Southern cat in heat with a whiskey-soaked husband, Brick (Paul Newman), who can’t respond to her embraces. Censorship made it hard to understand exactly what was eating Brick. But the heavy symbolism (impotence represented as a broken leg) pays off, and it’s a dirty pleasure watching Taylor’s Maggie sink her claws into her richly deserving mob of no-neck relatives.

Burl Ives plays the patriarch, a bit of vaudeville Faulkner. (Plays Apr 16-18 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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BEAN BAG FILM FESTIVAL A riot of cult movies and gourmet food trucks gathering at a venerable downtown ballroom. Apr 14, 7pm: Sean of the Dead (2004), in which a zombie plague strikes London and no one notices. Edgar Wright directs the best film in the zombie revival, with Simon Pegg as the thin pink line against annihilation.

At 9:15pm: Zombieland (2009). A post-apocalyptic romp as a group of survivors head for what would probably be Disneyland, if there was no such thing as lawyers who scan movie scripts. Quite a cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin (who has the funniest moment, explaining the story of Hannah Montana) and the delightful Billy Murray. Apr 15, 7:30pm: Harold and Maude (1971), a beloved, locally filmed fable about youth, suicide and old age. Soundtrack by Cat Stevens (before he lost half of his brain and became someone else entirely). 9:15pm: Rushmore (1998).

Not enough Bill Murray and too much Jason Schwartzman in Wes Anderson’s breakthrough movie about a precocious preppy. Fantastic British Invasion soundtrack. Apr 16, 7pm: Swingers (1996). The vanguard of the Vegas revival. 9:15pm: The Big Lebowski (1998). “And deep-asleep he seem’d, yet all awake/ And music in his ears his beating heart did make.”—Tennyson, The LotosEaters. Tickets: $10 per night, $5 for costume relating to the night’s showings. (Plays Apr 14-16 in San Jose at the Landmark Ballroom of the San Jose Woman’s Club, 75 S. 11th Street; www.sjwomansclub.org.)

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GHOST WORLD (2001) Know the trick about masking your autobiography by changing the sex of the main character? Thora Birch’s Enid Coleslaw (Daniel Clowes, anagramized) is thudding with bad vibes during the course of a Southern California summer. She’s drifting

GIANT (1956) See page 38. (Plays Apr 14-15 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS/ A DATE WITH JUDY (1954/1948) F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Babylon Revisited” is the loose source for this story of a vet (the ever-underwhelming Van Johnson) returning to Paris, where he was a journalist involved with a flighty, hard-partying girl (Elizabeth Taylor). Roger Moore makes his debut here. BILLED WITH A Date With Judy. Singing and dancing sensation Wallace Beery (who never made a musical previously) stars in this spin-off of a popular radio show of the 1940s. Jane Powell has the title role and also dubs the singing voice of the late Liz, who plays her equally date-crazy pal. (Plays Apr 13 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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MOULIN ROUGE!, THE SINGALONG EXPERIENCE (2001) To some, this remake of Camille, starring Nicole Kidman, is the second-worst thing that happened in that immemorial year.

With an eye on the shift to the new century, director Baz Luhrmann tried to condense all musical film into one movie: everything from the kicklines of the 1930s to the Cinemascope extravagance of the 1950s—not to mention the “song montages” popularized by 1970s TV specials. (“Like a Virgin” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” turn up, too.) Strangely, a sing-along might be just the thing to push this monster over the line from stark kitsch into something likable.

(Plays Apr 15-17 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. Apr 16: a program observing the anniversary of the great earthquake and fire of 1906, beginning with 1922’s The Third Alarm, about a pair of orphans whose father was a firefighter.

Also, shorts: “A Trip Down Market Street” (1906) and “The Destruction of San Francisco” (1906). Frederick Hodges at the piano. (Plays Apr 16 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.)

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(PG-13, 110 min.) In this above-all unfunny remake of the 1981 comedy, Russell Brand plays a wacky drunken billionaire in Manhattan who covets the one thing money can’t buy, a girl from Queens (Greta Gerwig, whose slow-on-the-uptake reacting and summery wardrobe are delightful).

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“ away from her dearest pal, Becky (Scarlett Johansson). The original plan was that the girls would move out and get an apartment together.

However, fight-or-flight impulses that Enid won’t analyze are keeping her from committing to the program.

San Francisco’s Terry Zwigoff directs this uniquely true, intelligent and acridly funny variation on the common Salinger-style dilemma of a bright teen in a dull world. (Plays Apr 14 at 9pm and Apr 16 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

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Jason Winer, a TV vet, prefers the one-thing-after-another style of comedy. One joke, about a large diamond being “an ice rink for mice,” sums up the limits of the plot, which seems just about that wide and that deep. (RvB)

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Humility THE SLOW crushing of maternal love is a staple in Asian films. For instance, Bong Joon-ho’s Mother and now Poetry

by Chang-dong Lee offer a compareand-contrast exercise in approaches to such plots. Both Mother and Poetry concern a crime against a young girl committed by adolescents. In both cases, elderly women end up holding the bag.

In Poetry, Mija (Yun Jung-hie) is a 66year-old lady, white-gloved and genteel, from a small city on the edge of the countryside. Her live-in grandson, whom she loves, was involved with a disgraceful crime. It will take big money—about $5,000 in American dollars—to get his name out of it. This is bad enough, but Mija has worse news coming. What seemed to be mild forgetfulness proves to be the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. These dramas overlap, but they don’t interfere with Mija’s whim to enroll in an adulteducation poetry class.

She works her way up: first, little poems of appreciation to fruits and f lowers, later, a Sharon Olds–style commemoration of a girl’s ordeal. The quality of Mija’s writing—piercing or clumsy but inspired?—is lost in translation. The quality may be

immaterial, anyway. Poetry’s main subject is a woman enduring pressure.

To use a botanical metaphor, the stress on Mija causes a forced bloom.

Critics have already called Poetry a classic already, and there are times when it looks it. The appealingly crowded Gf\kip framing, the deftness with a landscape, creates Unrated; 139 min. high tension without Opens Friday, manipulation. You can Camera 3, San Jose feel the exuberance in the students: a ribald policeman who likes silly puns or an unfaithful wife telling the class what she’s told no one before.

Some may weep watching Poetry.

Others may feel a cold, hard fury at the smirking, dick-wielding men circling Mija. Even a feminist wrath disintegrates here because of the open, cryptic, even vague finish. By contrast, Yun Jung-hie’s embodiment of utter humility is believable, as are her choices to try to do something strong for once. Where director Chang-dong Lee takes the primal force of maternal love as something not to be tampered with, Poetry is melancholy, wondering at the limits of endurance and mercy.

—Richard von Busack

(PG-13; 116 min.) Like alcohol, the movie is taken as a stimulant, but the depressive qualities overwhelm that buzz, pronto. It’s a major sedative to yet another cheated audience, dull despite the (at least) 1,500 edits and furious yet substandard pixel wrangling against clam chowder–colored cityscapes. The troops battling the alien invaders are led by a sternly jawed Aaron Eckhart. What is the movie’s saddest moment? It could be Michelle Rodriguez as an Air Force pilot, saying, “I didn’t get here because I’m a pretty face” (obviously not, when she falls 60 feet and doesn’t get anything more than a scratch). Worse, perhaps, is a reference to Eckhart “doing some real John Wayne shit” followed by younger Marine asking, “Who’s John Wayne?” Cinematically speaking, the ground Wayne cared for is being ploughed with salt here. But in mentioning Wayne, the filmmakers are superstitious enough to throw a little of that salt over their shoulders. Incidentally, the production company name is “Original Film.” It is to laugh. (RvB)

CARANCHO (Unrated; 107 min.) The film has industrial-grade seaminess. Director Pablo Trapero prowls Buenos Aires’s nightscapes with a pair of troubled guides. Sosa (Ricardo Darin) is a crooked lawyer. Lujan (Martina Gusman), very pretty in a nerdy, melancholy way, is a dog-tired doctor with a drug habit. Simply trying to survive, Sosa unleashes a spiral of insurance frauds attracting bigger and more dangerous scavengers on either side of the law.

Darin is best known as the courtly lawyer in The Secret in Her Eyes. His honest homeliness is tenderized; everyone uses him as a punching bag. But he has enough spirit that it is plausible Lujan would fall for him. And when Sosa finally revenges himself on a tormenter, we can believe every bloody moment of his attack. (RvB)

HANNA (PG-13, 105 min.) Dressed in a fur wardrobe and living in the permafrost, Hanna (the icy Saoirse Ronan) was raised to kill; her exassassin father (Eric Bana) raises

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her with the motto “adapt or die.”

She turns 16, and Dad’s idea of a debutante party is to contact the CIA, which has been seeking Hanna since birth with the intent of rubbing her out. Evil intelligence agent Marissa (Cate Blanchett), as motivelessly evil as a wicked stepmother, chases the girl across Europe; so does a trio of theatrical German goons, with their own evil music-box tune by the Chemical Brothers. Director Joe Wright (Atonement) sensibly adds some art-house cachet to the butt-kicking action. Considering the Girl Who Brought People Back to the Art Houses trilogy, it’s a smart commercial tactic. This weirdly artsy mash of Jack London and Alias is meant as a pleasure machine, but it’s an oddly dour thrill ride that insists on repetitive training over the free-style adaptation it claims is the only key to survival. (RvB)

JANE EYRE (PG-13; 121 min.) Atmospheric yet unself-conscious version by Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), perhaps the best film of the novel ever.

Moira Buffini’s script makes the smart choice of circumventing Jane’s horrifying school years and starting the story after Jane leaves Thornfield. Mia Wasikowska, pale, hair tightly braided and dyed a dull brick-red, embodies the fine bones and honesty of the bravest of Gothic heroines. While no one beats Orson Welles, Michael Fassbender’s study of the proud yet internally crumbling Rochester takes this character out of the realm of the theatrical and into realism. A combination of popularity and rare talent is what you hope for in a film. And a young audience that associates Gothic lit with the massmarket paperback will be exposed to a story rich with depths and cross currents: it’s dreamy, tragic, completely fulfilling. (RvB)

NO ERES TÚ, SOY YO (Unrated) Local debut of the Mexican hit comedy about a young divorced man who learns to cope after his wife leaves him.

POTICHE (R; 103 min.) As the “trophy wife” of the title, Catherine Deneuve is at once regal and sensible in director Francois (8 Women) Ozon’s gift to Deneuve and to French politics—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 women’s liberation and corporate capitalism.

Deneuve takes over the factory when her husband, the CEO (Fabrice

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RANGO (PG; 107 min.) So almost great, it hurts. The central idea is a shrewd one: Johnny Depp’s chameleon with no name in search of character. A stranded pet lizard lies his way into being made sheriff of the drought struck village of Dirt. The mayor (voiced by Ned Beatty) has a fishy resemblance to John Huston’s Noah Cross. Director Gore Verbinski knows how to overstuff a film like no one else around. No one can say Rango lacks momentum—just direction.

And a long wow-factory chase scene stalls the ultimate showdown with a very frightening villain, an enormous and armed rattlesnake (Bill Nighy). The characterization, art direction and CGI are of a uniformly high quality. Roger Deakins was a consultant on the sunsets and skyscapes, and the soundtrack couldn’t be more eclectic. But the filims inner questions—about duty, surviving ordeals, returning to a lethal task after humiliation—are more like the Jimmy Stewart adult Western of the 1950s. Depp’s essential lightness overamplifies the po-mo qualities of this approach to Western myths, making it hard to take seriously. (RvB)

RED RIDING HOOD (PG-13; 100 min.) A disaster. And one hopes for the sake of fantasy movies that it’s not as expensive a disaster as it looks. The main problem is the wretched David Leslie Johnson script, Johnson being the hand behind the risible Orphan. Despite some hints of the tale’s menstrual imagery divined by Freudians (with a “blood moon” and whatnot), Johnson ends up making the people of a fairyland village sound like modernday Ohioans. Then he patches the story’s multiple leaks with tarlike gobs of narration. The red-caped heroine (Amanda Seyfried) is here caught in a gossipy town struck by a witch-hunt and repeated wolf attacks. As the witch-finder general: Gary Oldman, who always seems on the border of a Transylvanian accent as he fulminates away, stuck in this Thomas Kincaid–lit hamlet. It’s

frustrating to see Seyfried, who could be a major erotic icon, squandered again. One hoped for a good protofeminist take by director Catherine Hardwicke. Instead one got something with all the most vexingly, simple-minded, plot-delaying tactics of an 800-page Stephenie Meyer prose cinderblock. (RvB)

SOUL SURFER (PG) Occasionally inspirational, mostly banal biopic about Bethany Hamilton (AnnaSophia Robb), whose bout with a shark off the North Shore of Maui failed to end her surfing career. Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt are unable to shade their dull parts as the parents of this remarkable daughter. The views of the island are diverting, and director Sean McNamara doesn’t spare the gory details, but the Seventh Heaven emphasis on the religious element turns this noted family into the Surfin’ Flanderses. Seven credited story writers and four scriptwriters purée the material into something even a Great White would find hard to swallow. (RvB)

SOURCE CODE (PG-13; 93 min.) A train bound for Chicago has a bomb on it. Because of one of those new time/spacewarping devices the U.S. military keeps around, they can beam an officer named Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) back to try to find the bomber. Stevens’ control is Coleen Goodwin (Vera Farmiga). The timetraveling officer takes his orders from her, bunkered in a remote undisclosed location, wired up like a test monkey. The stage is set handsomely, then, and the twisting begins: Groundhog Day meets La Jetée, 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). She becomes a human stake in what will happen if the train evaporates into a fireball—as it does more than once.

When finding an escape route out of a seemingly inescapable situation, the movie doesn’t cheat. (RvB)

SUPER (96 min.) In some respects, a Flannery O’Connor-style story about Frank (Rainn Wilson), a downtrodden Shreveport chump whose wife (Liv Tyler) leaves him. Enslaved by the TV and sub–Fletcher Hanks funnybooks antics about a Christian superhero (Natahan Fillian), Frank decides to turn costumed vigilante. Geekslaking violence and a happy ending ensue. Taxi Driver tries

to have it both ways, leaving us uncertain if Travis BIckle is psycho or hero; Super lacks the same kind of density; it’s a spun-out anecdote. The good news: Ellen Page, in a part that would have been more believable if a far less conventionally attractive girl played it, brings on a forcefulness that’s like early Jane Fonda. Recently, it had seemed that Page was going to play one brittle intellectual chick after another, so it’s a pleasure to see her going in a different direction: lewd, physical and crazy.

(Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.) (RvB)

WIN WIN (R; 106 min.) Virtuous, heartfelt, unexciting. Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent) seems heading down the trail to regional filmmaker status.

There are worse fates: he has his end of Jersey nicely sewn up. Paul Giamatti plays Mike, an ethically compromised lawyer and high school wrestling coach in a small New Jersey town. The arrival of a troubled young man (Alex Shaffer in a solid debut) seems a godsend, but he also accidentally forces Mike to confront his own shady dealings. Giamatti gives the film some palpable desperation, but it’s hard to feel that

there’s any true downfall at stake, particularly when we see the upbeat ending. Decent work from Melanie Lynskey and Amy Ryan as the bad and good women, respectively.

Bobby Cannavale is a relief as Mike’s profane pal. (Plays at the Guild in Menlo Park and CinéArts Santana Row and opens Fri at Camera & in Campbell.) (RvB)

YOUR HIGHNESS (R; 102 min.) A comedy about the slapstick side of life in the age of chivalry. Stars James Franco, Natalie Portman, Danny McBride and Zooey Deschanel.

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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). “She may be a trophy,” says her husband. “But she’s not on the shelf.” The breezy pace, stellar cast and homage to Deneuve’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg make for a splendid—if stagebound—farce. (DH)

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CASCAL Thu: Grupo Flores. Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live music. Mountain View.

CLUBFOX Sun, 5pm: The Art of Tango. $18/$20. Redwood City.

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

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

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Fri, 8pm: Guilded Splinters. Sat, 8pm: Stan Erhart. Campbell.

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Record Store Day WHEN Los Gatos’ dredg needed strings for the song “Long Days and Vague Clues” on their 2009 album The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion, they turned to Oakland’s Judgement Day. The group, founded by brothers Anton and Lewis Patzner, plays “string metal”—that is, metal performed on classical instruments rather than guitars. It’s not like they invented it—Rasputina was setting Zeppelin to cellos 10 years ago, for example, and there now seems to be a “string tribute” to every major metal band that ever walked the Earth. But Judgement Day is different. They don’t stick to safe covers, and they push the prog elements far beyond what anyone except true metalheads would date to do.

So when they offered to provide free strings services to any major band that would let them open a tour, the impressed guys in dredg took them up on it. They weren’t the only ones; Judgement Day has appeared on songs by Pete Yorn, Slash and Taking Back Sunday, and Lewis toured as a cellist for Bright Eyes.

Saturday, April 16 at independent record stores around the South Bay. Judgement Day performs at 4pm at Streetlight.

Records, 4pm; free.

What it comes down to is the fact that Judgement Day is exactly the kind of band that represents everything Record Store Day stands for. The yearly international event is meant to remind everyone that neither Steve Jobs nor the Swedish pirate crew has a monopoly on the future of the music business. Indie record stores support local scenes, pay the artists, keep money in the community and promote the best new talents on the racks.

Among the draws of RSD are the releases that certain artists make available only to indie stores for the event—this year, Death Cab for Cutie has an exclusive 7inch, Beastie Boys have a single featuring “Make Some Noise” remixed by Passion Pit, Deftones are releasing a covers album, and there are dozens more examples.

But even cooler are the live events that certain stores are hosting as part of the celebration, and on Saturday Streetlight Records will have a day of music that starts with DJs spinning at 11am and culminates in a performance by Judgement Day, co-headlining with Seattle punk band Mercy Ties.—Steve Palopoli

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Sat, 9pm: Longshot. Sun, 9pm: Gene Washington and the Special Purpose Band. Mon, 9pm: Dennis Dove. Tue, 7pm: Blue J, Liar’s Club. San Jose.

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

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Sunnyvale.

NETO’SGRILL Tue: Blues jam with Dennis Dove.

Santa Clara.

APERFECTFINISH Fri, 9pm: Kirk Tamura Trio. Sat, 9pm: Chris Burkhart. San Jose.

POORHOUSEBISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays Band. Fri, 7-10pm: The 44’s. Sat, 6-10pm: Mitch Woods & the Rocket 88’s.

Sun, noon-4pm: The School of the Blues Student Jam. San Jose.

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Sun, noon: Margaret and Victor. Bluegrass. All ages. Free.

Mountain View.

Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

THESADDLERACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Jennifer Fuentes Hayward Band.

Fremont.

SAM’SBBQ Wed, 6pm: Dark Hollow. Tue, 6pm: Cabin Fever. San Jose.

OpenMic BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic night.

Cupertino.

CAFFETRIESTE SUNNYVALETHEATRE

Tue: Open mic. Free. San Jose.

Sat, 8pm: Vagabond Opera. $22$28. Sunnyvale.

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Mon: Rebels Camp open jam night. San Jose.

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

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

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Wed, 7:30pm: Larry Chin. Jazz piano. Thu, 8-11pm: Jason Lewis Trio. Sat, 9pm: Live music or DJ. San Jose.

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

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

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

Campbell.

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

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

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

BOULEVARDTAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

BRITANNIAARMS DOWNTOWNSANJOSE Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.

BRITISHBANKERSCLUB Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Menlo Park.

C&J’SSPORTSBAR Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

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

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

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

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Fri, 8pm: Cado, Christian Vela.

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San Jose.

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

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

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

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

Fri, 7:30pm: Noche Bohemia.

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Fri, 6pm: Ghost of Wrights.

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Campbell.

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

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Willow Glen.

WILLOW W ILLOWD DEN EN Wed: DJ JR. Thu: DJ Uncle Hank.

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TITUS ANDRONICUS Paul Westerberg, Conor Oberst and Joe Strummer evoked in this brilliant Jersey fury. Apr 13 at the New Parish.

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PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART New York indie-pop band plays free in-store to support new full-length, “Belong.” April 19 at Amoeba SF.

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“I find the complexity of nature so inspirational and fascinating,” she says while showing me around her San Jose workspace. “That’s the inspiration for everything.”

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“I’m in totally different moods when I work in different mediums,” she says.

“Photography is in my soul; it’s what I have to do. The jewelry comes from a lighter, more playful side.”

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She performs trial-and-error electroforming on all kinds of natural materials, including leaves, pods, shells and pinecones. She takes pride in the slow road to manifestation— each piece generally takes about a week to make—and she values quality over quantity, giving each piece her full attention.

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She received a lot of compliments on the bullet-shell jewelry, so she stayed with it. “I wanted to see what else I could put in them, so I started with the feathers,” she explains.

They were a hit, and demand for the creations grew, which raises the question: Where does she get the shells? “My father-in-law goes to the shooting range,” she says, holding up a bag stuffed full of them, “so he has bags and bags of shells.”

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Oh, no. The thing was, Wagner-Jauregg’s cure worked, sort of. The high fever of malaria killed the syphilis bacterium. The problem was you then had malaria, which 5 percent of the time would kill you.

Then again, the mortality rate of tertiary syphilis—when the disease had invaded the brain—was 100 percent. So it seemed like a good deal till penicillin came along.

The same fate undoubtedly awaits the hookworm “cure.” The syndicated public radio program you heard featured interviews with two hookworm pioneers. One was David Pritchard, an immunologist at the University of Nottingham in the U.K. who’s been on the front lines of hookworm research. The other was a guy named Jasper Lawrence, one of those people with a gift for latching onto an out-there concept and taking it over a cliff.

Long afflicted with severe asthma and allergies, Lawrence heard hookworms offered relief and promptly decided to get some, for which purpose he journeyed in 2006 to the tropical African country of Cameroon, where hookworm is endemic. Because (a) infected humans excrete worm eggs in their feces and (b) the resulting larvae typically burrow in through their host’s skin, Lawrence spent two weeks walking barefoot around village latrines and hoped for the best.

On returning to the United States, Lawrence noticed no change till the spring day he rolled down his car window. Normally, he would have been overwhelmed with allergy symptoms; instead, nothing. Concluding he was cured, Lawrence decided he needed to bring the gift of hookworms to his fellow sufferers and began selling hookworm treatment kits online at four grand a pop, using worms he’d cultivated internally.

(He says they’re sanitized before they’re shipped.) When the Food and Drug Administration went after him, Lawrence took it on the lam, although he can still be reached through his site.

In case you’re tempted, I need to

emphasize that Lawrence isn’t a doctor and has no research to prove his worms work. However, and here we get back to David Pritchard, it’s not out of the question that hookworms and their parasitic kin, collectively known as helminths, might offer some protection again asthma, allergies, inflammatory bowel disease and other immune disorders. While working in the tropics in the 1980s, Pritchard observed that hookworm sufferers rarely had such problems. He became a believer in the hygiene hypothesis, which holds that we in the developed world receive much less exposure to infectious agents than our ancestors did, so our immune systems don’t develop properly. As a result, they overreact to harmless stimuli, giving rise among other things to what’s been described as an asthma epidemic.

Epidemiological studies purport to show that allergies and asthma are less prevalent in rural societies than in cities, that children with intestinal parasites have less severe allergic reactions and so on. Pritchard became interested in hookworms and at one point deliberately infected himself with them.

Two points need to be made. First, no one has demonstrated that filling somebody with worms is going to cure his asthma or anything else. Clinical research has barely begun. In one study, porcine whipworms supposedly relieved ulcerative colitis; in another, hookworms failed to significantly improve asthma compared to a placebo. Second, even if worms conferred some clinical benefits, they’re still, let’s face it, worms—ones that can cause anemia, stunted development and sometimes death.

That’s not to say using one affliction to cure or prevent another is inherently nuts, just that there may be an intervening step or two before we arrive at a practical technique. Consider the famous example of Edward Jenner, who infected people with cowpox to prevent smallpox. What’s little remembered now is that cowpox vaccination replaced variolation, in which people were purposely inoculated with smallpox scabs in hopes they’d get a mild form of the disease to prevent a later fatal case. The technique worked—98 percent of those variolated became immune. The drawback was that 1 to 2 percent died.

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