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Technically T eechniccally Anyone An yone want wantt to take take a wager wager that there there will be be a line of people people outside city city hall before beffore dawn? daaw wn? (“Spliff Decision,”” The Th he Fly, Flyy, April 20) I see pandemonium. pandemonium m. Maybe Maayybe an accusation accusation of “You “Y Yo ou cut in n front front of me” me” and possible p ossible a fistt thrown thrown or two. two.

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Diaz Shilling Shhilling for for LLoan oan Sharks Shharks EMMETT CARSON, EMMETT CARSON O , CEO of the Silicon Valley Community V alley Commun nity Foundation, says it is “hard “hard to understand” undderstand” why the San Jose City Council Council chose to delay action on accepting a $50,000 grant grant to look into anti-predatory anti predaatory lending policies, anti-pr policies people falling what with so many m falling deeper into debt. deebt. He should ask MANNY MANNY DIAZ,, a former DIAZ former city councilmember and assemblyymember who is now state assemblymember a registered registered lobbyist lobbyist for for Community Financial Services Services Association Association of trade group America, a tr adde gr oup that rrepresents epresents loan industry.. San Jose has the payday loa an industry moree than 40 payday lending offices. mor charge interest Some char ge annualized a inter est rrates ates ffor or short-term loans that can exceed percent, aree located in 400 per cent, aand nd most ar communities. low-income co ommunities. Diaz himself such community, rrepresented epresented su uch a community y, east San Jose, until 2000, when, following following a rracially acially tinged, last-minute political hit piece, he defeated defeaated then–U.S. Assistant Assistant D.A. T TONY ONY WEST WEST (now the Assistant Assistant U.S. A ttorney General General in charge charge of the Civil Attorney Division) and moved m Sacramento. to Sacramento.

In January y, Diaz Diaz met with eight of January, the 10 councilmembers councilm members about payday lending, and apparently appparently it was not to stick up for for hiss constituents who were were couldn’t getting shook down when they couldn’t come up with the vig. According According to a lobbyist report, reportt, Diaz was in contact with councilmembe rs and their staffers, staffers, as councilmembers wellll as staff t ff members m b for for Mayor M CHUCK CHUCK REED and City Manager DEBRA DEBRA FIGONE, FIGONE, no less than 311 times between Jan. 1 and Mar ch 31. Councilmembers NANCY NANCY March P YLE, XA AVI V ER CAMPOS, C POS, DONALD CAM DONALD ROCHA ROCHA PYLE, XAVIER and A SH KALRA KALRA A each met with Diaz ASH and at least one onne payday lending official, accor ding to the thhe councilmembers’ councilmembers’ according calendars, while whille Campos Campos and Rocha both tour ed a payday lending office with toured Diaz. Vice Mayor Mayor MADISON MADISON NGUYEN NGUYEN was supposed to take taake a tour but cancelled.

PIERLUIGI PI ERLUIGI OLIVERIO OLIV VERIO was the only councilmemberr not to get any attention councilmembe from fr om Diaz, while while SAM SAM LICCARDO LICCARDO was in contact with Diaz D just once.

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Crashed Cr asheed Fisheries The T he o open-ocean pen-o - cean salmon-farming salmon-farming iindustries ndustries o ritish C olumbia,, eeastern astern off B British Columbia, Canada C anada and and northern northern E European uropean n nations ations ha ave already alrreeadyy devastated—and deevvasttaated—and eeven ven e have destroyed—many d estroyed—many w wild ild p populations opulations o off ssalmon, almon, aaccording ccording tto o sscientists cientists iin nm any many nations.. nations T hough many many cconsumers onsumers m ight Though might opt o pt against against p purchasing urchasing tthe he p product roduct if they theey ar rovided v with the lab eling aree pr provided labeling iinformation, nformation, llocal ocal cchef hef JJesse esse C Cool ool b elieeves e man ny others will eat it up believes many up.. ““Unfortunately, Unfortunately, m most ost o off tthe he ccountry ountry won n’’t ccare, are,” said s C ool, who owns thr ee won’t Cool, three South Ba Bay ay rrestaurants, e taaurants, including Flea est S treet C afé iin nM enlo P ark. ““II ssee ee iitt aall ll tthe he Street Café Menlo Park. ttime, ime, tthe he ffour our tthings hings p people eople ccan’t an’t llive ive w ithout: S trawberries, ttomatoes, omatoes, ssalmon almon without: Strawberries, aand nd beef. beef. W With ith tthese, hese, iitt d doesn’t oesn’t m matter atter wher re it comes com mes fr om.” where from.

Cool, C ool, w who ho d doesn’t oesn’t sserve erve ffarmed armed salmon, b eliievees that Americ ans’ believes Americans’ iincreasing ncreasing rreliance eliance o on n ggenetically enetically modified ffoods, oods, farmed fish and the yyeareearrmodified rround ound aavailability vailability o off p previously reviously sseasonal easonal products—like p roducts—like ssalmon—is almon—is d distancing istancing them fr from om the t Ear Earth. th. ““People People aare re fforgetting orgetting aall ll cconnection onnection tto o tthe he b biosystem, iosystem, o other ther sspecies pecies aand nd diversity, d iversity,” sshe he ssaid. aid. ““They They aare re ccompletely ompletely disconnected d isconnected ffrom rom n nature ature aand nd ttheir heir ffood, ood, and th that’s hat’s a disaster disaster. r.”

Huffman’s Huffman n’s Assembly Asssembly Bill 8 88 8 is now undergoing under rggoing legislativ legislative ve rreview. evview. In all, 114 4 elected elected o officials fficials iin nC California alifornia aand nd several se veral e doze dozen en House rrepresentatives eprreesenttaativves e aand nd senators senators h have ave sspoken poken o out ut aagainst gainst AquaBounty’s A quaBounty’s fi fish. sh. T The he p public ublic m may ay h have ave final power power in appr approving ovving or rrejecting eejecting ffood ood pr products oduccts via the mone money ey the they ey sp spend end as consumers. consumerrs. Such a selectiv selective ve pr process rocess ccannot annot ffunction, unction, h however, owever, iiff b buyers uyers don’t d on’t k know now w what hat tthey’re hey’re b buying—and uying—and AquaBounty A quaBounty T Technologies echnologies hopes hopes to to keep k eeep it that w way. ay.

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But B ut ttest est batches batches of of eggs eggs hatched hatched by by A quaBounty rrendered endered ass m any aass one one AquaBounty many ffertile ertile offspring—a off ffsspring—a normal normal diploid diploid fish fish w ith ttwo wo ssets ets of of chromosomes chromosomes to to eeach ach with ccell—per ell—per 100 100 eggs, eggs, and and AquaBounty’s AquaBounty’s p ermit applic ation, now under rreview, evvieew, permit application, aallows llows ffor or u p tto o5p ercent of of ttheir heir up percent ssalmon’s almon’s eggs eggs to to become become fertile fertile d iploid diploid offspring g. offspring.

R esear e chers at Purdue Purduee University Un nivversit e ty and Researchers at the U nivversit n e ty of Stirlin ngg, Scotland, Scotland, University Stirling, ha ave describ ed se veeral mechanisms m that have described several ccould ould o ccur in wild fish populations populations if occur ffertile ertile genetically genetically engineered engineered ssalmon almon eescape. scape. In In ttheir heir w orst--case hypothetical hypothetical worst-case sc enarios, extinction extinction results. resu ults. scenarios, IIn n iits ts 1172-page 72-page rreport, eport, the the FDA FDA rrecognized ecognized an an “extremely “extremely small” small” rrisk isk o off A quA q dvantage salmon escaping e aping and esc AquAdvantage eestablishing stablishing themselves themselves as as a manmade manmade iinvasive nvasive sspecies. pecies. This This would would rrequire equire ““escape escape (or (or intentional intentional malicious malicious rrelease) elease) o arge n umber o eproductively off a llarge number off rreproductively ccompetent ompetent b roodstock ffrom rom tthe he [[Prince Prince broodstock Edw war a d Island] egg production produ uction facilit tyy. y”” Edward facility.

Highsecuritty physical ph hyysiccaal barriers baarriers make mak ke High-security veent unlik kely e y, th he rreport eport sa ayys. such an eevent unlikely, the says.

Ev ven e if no genetically geneticcaally engineered e engineer ed fish Even eever ver eescapes, scapes, says says state state Assemblyman Assemblyman JJared ared Huffman (D-San (D-San Rafael), R the m ere presence presence of of farmed farmed salmon salmon meat meat mere h arms w ild ssalmon almon by by hamstringing hamstringing harms wild eefforts ffo ff orts to to preserve preserve tthe he streams streams in in which which tthe he w ild fish fish spawn. spawn. U.S. U.S. Sen. Sen. Mark Mark wild B egich (D-Alaska) (DD-Alaska) has has publicly publicly eexpressed xpressed Begich tthe he ssame ame concern. concern. H uff ffm man rrecently ecently Huffman iintroduced ntroduced Assembly Assembly Bill Bill 88—legislation 88—legislation tthat, hat, iiff p assed into into law, law, would would require require passed aany ny ggenetically enetically modified modified ssalmon almon sold sold in C aliffornia o be labeled labeled as a such. Sen. California be B egich has has introduced introduced a similar similar bill bill that that Begich w ould require require llabeling abeling o enetically would off ggenetically engineer red e fish nationwide. nation nw wiide. engineered A quaBounty’s representatives representatives h ave AquaBounty’s have b alked aatt the the iidea. dea.. In In an an email, email, S totish balked Stotish ssaid aid h is ccompany ompany favors favors existing existing ffederal ederal his llaws aws tthat hat require require ggenetically enetically eengineered ngineered ffoods oods to to be be clearly clearly labeled labeled o nly iiff tthe he only pr roduct is “compositionally “compositionaally different. diff ffeerreent.” product ““Because Because fi sh grown grown from from fish A quAdvantage salmon salmon eggs eggs are are exactly exactly AquAdvantage tthe he ssame ame as as any any other other North North Atlantic Atlantic salmon, there there is no legal authority a authorit ty to lab el the fish,” Stotish sa ayys. label says.

IIndeed, ndeed, the the F DA stated stated in in its its FDA S eptember rreport eport tthat hat AquAdvantage AquAdvantage September ssalmon almon fl esh iiss nutritionally nutritionally no no different diff ffeerent flesh tthan han w ild ssalmon almon meat. meat. Diploid Diploid wild sspecimens—which pecimens—which aare re eexpected xpected tto o eenter nter the mark ket e in vvery eery small numbers— numbers— market wer re not extensively exxtensivvely e studied, stud died, howe eveerr, were however, aand nd tthe he F DA could could not not rule rule o ut FDA out aller rgenicit g ty. allergenicity.

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sv 411.com Privacy advocates, po politicians oliticians and the pr press loudly ess have lo oudly rraised aised concerns about how this t extensive history of personal movements m is going to be used. Sen. S Al Franken Fr anken and Rep. Ed Markey, M Markey y, for for to example, both wrote wrote letters l Apple why A l demanding d di to t know k h the location dossiers are are being created, created, and Monday the Illinois attorney general general followed follo owed suit. The information information is also collected co ollected even if the iPhone’s “location “location services” services” preference preference is set to “off,” “offf,,” the Wall Wall Street S treet Journal reported reporteed Monday.

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Apple A pple Patent Patent Reveals Reveals Exten Extensive nsive Stalking Stalkinng Plans TTHE HE SPYING G iPhone is no accident. A rrecent ecent Apple patent application n reveals reveals that the location-tracking location--tracking dossiers accumulated accumulateed in iPhones are are to be used used in apps from from Applee and any number nuumber of other companies..

Ronald Ronald Huang, Huang, an an Apple Apple senior senior engineering engineering manager, manager, filed filed patent patent application application 12/553,554 12/553,554 last last month, month, “Location “Location histories histories for for llocation ocation aaware ware ddevices,” evices,” w which hich eexplains xplains hhow ow A Apple pple ccan an amass andd use location l ti data d t in i the th very veery ways Apple A l critics iti fear. fea searchable TThe patent application, ffor or example, envisions e a sear chablee map plotting plottinng the owner’s owner ’s location history; history; tying location too financial transactions; transactions; tr transmitting ansmitting lo location ocation data over the Internet to remote remote servers; servers; and manyy other uses.

Apple A has been b enmeshed in controversy controverrsy since computer researchers researchers disclosed disclosed last last month month that that the the iPhone iPhone indefinitely indefinitely stores stores data data about about its its whereabouts whereabouts gleaned gleaned from from cell cell phone phone towers towers and and WiFi WiFi access access points. points. The The data data collection collection started started with with the rrelease elease of iOS 4 last June. The iPhone iPhoone puts the location data daata in file which in aann eeasily asily read read fi le ccalled alled ““consolidated.db,” consolidated.db,” w hich iiss apparently apparen e never pruned pruned for for old entries.

Apple hasn’t officially commented on why iPhones are are compiling co ompiling such a long history of information information on owners’’ moveme movements. their owners ents. But it does d oes appear appear to to be be trying trying to to quell quell the the controversy. contr oversyy. CEO Steve Stevee Jobs recently recently sent an email to a concerned con ncerned ccustomer, ustomer, writing, writing, “We “We don’t don’t track track info circulating around anyone. The inf o cir culating ar ound is ffalse.” alse.” to Apple has also done nothing n dispute a widely read read report report that softwaree bug is the likely reason a softwar reason so much data has been beeen compiled p on iPhones. But Apple’s Applee’s patent highly application makes it seem s is unlikely the location gathering g due to a bug. Indeed, the company outlines big plans for for the troves troves of data it has quietly created. created. e that Apple The patent makes it clear c has been planning an n extensive, rrather ather than a very limited, lim mited, location database.

Clearly, Clearlyy, Apple sees big g potential iPhone’s in exploiting the iPho one’s ability to rrecord ecord our every move. m Now explain it just needs to expla in to its practice users how ffar ar this pr a actice will much be taken, and how mu uch consent before building it will seek bef ore bui ilding up before movement dossiers aand nd bef ore software. using them in its own n softwar e. Its track disclosure tr ack rrecord ecord on disclo osure thus ffar ar encouraging. is not encour aging. —R —RYAN — YAN TATE, TAT E, GIZMODO COM GIZMODO.COM

geaufrite_usef_salam geaufrite_usef_ _salam That That’s ’s why they’re they’re building that thaat giant data center in NC. There There are are lots of iPhones to data mine.

SkimMilkSteak SkimMilkS teak SStalking talking you like a creepy creepy ex? There’s There’s an app ffor or that.

PrzewalskisWhores Pr zew walskisWhores AAss I did lanndline, I leave my cell phone with my landline, at home every evvery day. dayy. Consequently, Consequentlyy, Apple must think I never leave the house.

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Whitee iPhone ‘Mysttique’ Will ‘Mystique’ Drivee Sales Nearly a year y after it was promised, promised, the white iPhone 4, that rarest rarest of handsets, handsets, is finally headed to market. Will W its arrival arrival have any material impact im mpact on sales?

Analysts seem to think it will, s though it’s it’ss nearly a year old and identical in n everything but color to the black iPhone 4 that has been widely available avaailable for for quite some time. time The theoryy is that the white iPhone 4 carries carries a certain scarcity scarcity value that will catalyze catalyze sales and drive incremental incrementtal demand.

“In our view, view w, the purchase purchase of consumer electronic electronic devices is not alwayss a completely rrational ational decision, and a people buy Apple products pr oducts for for many different different including rreasons, easons, in ncluding status, aesthetics, functionality, functional ityy, quality and the ‘‘cool cool says Ticonderoga ffactor,’” actorr,’” , sa ays T iconderoga analyst White.

Brian Whit te. “The delayed launch of iPhone created a white iP hone has cr eated a certain product, mystique ar aaround ound the pr oduct, and demographics we believee certain demogr aphics the product Ass will find th he pr oduct appealing. A incremental such, we expect e incremental iPhone purchases 4 pur chasees due to this launch, upgrades driven by rreplacements, eplacements, upgr ades new purchases.” and/or ne ew iPhone 4 pur chases.” interesting argument, An inter essting ar gument particularly gument, in light of rumors of a fall fall iPhone 5 Question launch. Qu uestion is, if you’ve held out this long lo ong for for a white iPhone 4, why nott wait a few few months moree and buy a white iPhone 5? mor DIGITALDAILY. —JOHN PACZKOWSKI, PACZKOWSKI, DIGIT TA ALDAILLY. ALLTHINGSD.COM ALL LTHINGS SD.COM

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Amazon’s $ Amazon’s $23 23 Million M illioon TTextbook eextbook Textbooks T eextbooks cost way too much money money, y, as any coll ege student knows. T aake college Take P Peter eter Lawrence’s Lawrrence’s ‘The Making of a Fly y,,’ whic ch ffor or a moment last Fly,’ which would week woul d have run you a cool $23,698,655.93 $23,698,65 55.93 on Amazon.

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The white iPhone, to be b clear, clearr, is the iPhone same as the black iPho one 4. But it is white. —JOHN BIGGS, TECHCRUNCH. T ECHCRUNCH. COM

Dan Osipov YYou oou know k a bunch of people will buy them. EEven ven if they alr already eady have a black iiPhone Phoone 4.

Vivek Iyer TThey hhey must m be nuts then. aveesh AAnd nd with those t words wor ds you’ve clearly specified Apple’s Apple’s tar target get market.

Batrick P Pateman ateman a n TThe hhe demand for for the white iPhone iPhhone is just normal consumerism. I’m I’m m not saying consumerism is a good thing, t I’m I’m just saying its not surprising or abnormal. ujjwal The Thhe 1 in !!!!!1! !!!!!1! ! is always at the end (!!!1), (!!!1), because people peeople leave their shift early ::P P

weeks A ffew ew week ks ago, UC-Berkeley evolutionary evolutiona ry biologist and blogger Eisen Michael Eis sen was looking to pick Lawrence’s up a copy of Lawr ence’ss book. ence book The book’s out of print, but Amazon gave Eisen an option: Either one copies, starting of the 15 used u at $35.54, or one of two new copies, thee cheapest of which is $1,730,0 $1,730,045.91. copy, 45.91. The other copy y, meanwhile, $2,198,177.95. meanwhilee, cost $2, 198,1777..95.

What was happening? Were Were we Peter watching the t rise of a P eter Lawrence Lawr ence bubble? b Eisen, a scienceminded ffellow, ellow w, noticed a pattern. pattern (Scientists!! They ar aree just the best.)

(Scientists Ass it happe happened, A ened, the two sellers— profnath bordeebook—were pr ofnath and and bor deebook—were both using g pricing algorithms to determine the optimum prices books. ffor or their bo ooks. They had become locked in an a algorithmic deathstruggle, that th hat eventually led the book to bee priced at $23,698,655.93, shipping not no ot included.

Interestingly, Interesting glyy, similar algorithms are are execute trades used to ex ecute stock tr ades on a large large scale. scalee. Not that anything this crazy crazy could d happen in the stock market! —MAX — READ, GAWKER. GAWKER. COM/#!V COM/#!VALLEYWAG A ALLEY WA G

corey3rd cor eyy3rd does it have the answers written wriitten in the back of the book? alboy2 alboy lb y22 “Dave?

“D ? II’m ’ scar ’m scared...Dave. ed...Dave. d D II’m....scared...Dave.” ’m....scaredd...Dave.” rroguedandelion ogueedandelion Give me the I’ll tell you the ending—Fly money and I’ll segmentatioon mutations are are really really segmentation grosss. fucking gross.

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esspecially at fforeigners. especially oreigners. Ev o Even en the m monks bless p eople b people byy sprinklingg w ater. water.

F or those who w ant to learn th he For want the lo ocal cuisine, cuisine, tourist - driven ccooking ooking local tourist-driven cl lasses ar classes aree the rage in Thailand, w se with veral varieties aavailable. vvailable. In n several so ome inst ances, a family simply some instances, op pens its kitchen ffor or o pr earranged d opens prearranged gr roups, while other institutions offer offeer off groups, pr roffeessional set ttings t with ccooking ookingg professional settings st tations spr ead thr oughout an en ntire stations spread throughout entire ba ack kyyard. backyard.

In a suburb of Chiang Mai, the aan Hongnuall Cookery Cook kery Scho h oll Ba Baan School off ffeers the lat ff ter option, in a L ann naoffers latter Lannast tyle teak house style house.. Guests learn ho ow to ccook ook ffour o our diff ffeerent dishess how different th hroughout the ccourse ourse of an entir re throughout entire m morning or afterno on. afternoon.

In our ccase, ase, ttwo wo women, our ccooking ooking teachers—Phantanan teachers—Phantanan JJala, alla,

“Pam,”” and Siriporn Sirip porn Wongin, Wongin, o a.k.a. “Pam,” “Por”—first took took o us shopping a.k.a. “Por”—first at a local local market, market, where wheere we got a chance chance to buy galangal galangaal root, root, kaffir kaffir lime leaves, leaaves, tamarind tamarind sauce, sauce, radishes, radishes, peanuts, and more. peanuts, chiles, chiles, holy basil b more.

We present We were were the only foreigners fo oreigners e present at the market, market, located located d on a suburban side street. street. The facility facility even even included an elaborate elaborate butchery butchery room, room,, where where several several older women sliced sliced up piles of meat left and right. rightt. Everything Everything seemed to be be run by by women. w Upon Upon arriving at the th he Baan Hongnual compound, Por compound d, Pam Pam and P or provided from provided us with tea made m from pandanus leaves—a leaaves—a perfect perfeect intro. intro. We We then received received the lowdown low wdown on the four to cook: four o dishes we were were going g cook: (1) Pad Pad Thai,, (2) Tom Tom o Ka Gai—a coconut coconut chicken chicken soup, soup p, (3) stir-fried stir-fried chicken and chick hi ken with i h cashew cashe h w nuts n d (4) ( ) a dessert dessert of pumpkin and coconut coconut milk. Participants Participants are are to cook cook one dish, eat it and then move m ve on to the mo next next one. one.

Next hands-on Next came came step-by-step step -by-step handson instructions for fo or each dish, d , beginning beginning with the easy easy method method for for o crushing

knife garlic with h a knif fe and running way all the w ay to ccomposing omposing the final product. person pr oduct. Each E p erson manned cutting board his or her own cut tting t b oard and prep station, before pr ep st atio on, b effor o e migrating to a setup, ccooking ooking se etup, rreplete eplete with a wok, water, vvegetable egetable oil,, w ater, rreceptacles eceptacles ffor or o ingredients essentials.. ingr edientts and all the essentials want “Do yyou ou uw ant to know how to delicious asked Pam. ccook ook delic ious ffood?” ood?” ask ed P am. “Be happyy and smile.” happ d smile .” that’s happened.

And tha at’s what happ ened. She from cracked grinned fr om ear to ear and crack ed laughing up laughin ng at nearly everything everything Pam we said. P a also eexplained am xplained that currently she curr en ntly rrents ents a rroom oom at Baan Hongnuall while she continues continues English to study E nglish at Chiang Mai University.

Rajabhat U niversity. During the season, operates high seaso on, the house op erates ttwo wo day, classes a da ay, one in the morning and afternoon. one in thee afterno on.

Throughout aromas omas Thr ough hout the lesson,, ar For dessert, filled the atmospher aatmosphere. e. F or desser t t, pumpkin soaked the pumpk kin soak ed in the ccoconut oconut milk as thee fragranc fragrancee saturated the air.. Ev Everyone too air eryone o ate to o much.

Hongnual Baan Ho ongnual also ffeatures eatur e es a garden with several gar den wit th se veral herbs and fruits: pandanus,, lichee lichee,, papa papaya, pandanus ayya, galangal more. and mor e. Some classes include herbs from garden picking he erbs fr om the gar den rather market, than goingg to the mark et, but the market byy far the w way go.. mark et is b ay to go Ass alw always, A ays y , I rrelate elate eeverything verything to myy own la landscape, byy chanc chancee m andscape, eeven ven b occurrences. days myy o ccurrences e . A ffew ew da ayys after m throes lag,, I adrreturn, eturn,, in the thr oes of jet lag libbed myy w way libb ed m ay into House of Siam in downtown n San Jose Jose ffor o or some lunch. bee describ described In what ccan a only b an ed as a meaningful meaningfu ul ccoincidence, oincidence, I wound up sitting right next sit ting righ ht ne xt to ttwo wo Buddhist saffron monks in saffr on rrobes. obes. scene looked likee what The sc en ne lo oked eexactly xactly lik Thailand. I eeven I had just left in Thailand ven had 100 currency 0 Thai baht 10 b of curr ency still left myy w wallet, offered, in m alllet, which I off ffeered, via the proprietor, monks.. Affiliated pr oprietorr, to the monks Temple Fremont, with the Thai T Temple e in Fr emont, weree on their w way the monkss wer ay to Cityy Hall to Cit t rreceive eceive a cceremonial eremonial proclamation from pr oclamattion fr om the San JJose ose Cityy C Council was Cit oun ncil ffor or Songkran. It w o as way home,, a splendid dw ay to rreturn eturn home further me,, as Buddhists fur ther rreassuring eaassuring me claim, l i , that th t eeverything verything thi is i cconnected. onnected. t d

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Theyy pair ffounded ounded AnchorF o Free. The software program cconstructed onstructed a softw are pr ogram with substantial aspirations.. simple but subst antiall aspirations have Most jobs ha ave their rredeeming edeeming moments,, Gor Gorodyansky says, moments odyansk ky sa ayys, theree is somethingg far more but ther more invigorating one’s in vigorating when on ne’s work not serves functional purpose only ser ves a function nal purp ose but also changes the world. world d.

“It’s great have “It ’s gr eat that we ha h ave got profitable, fast-growing a pr ofitable, fast -growing tech valley, it’s ccompany ompany in the valle y, but it ’s also there’s social rreally eally ccool ool that ther e’s a rreal eal so cial says. impact,”” he sa ayys. In ccontrast, on ntrast, he points Zynga, free p oints to Z ynga, the fr ee gaming ccompany ompany that is rresponsible esponsible o ffor or o Facebook walls worldwide Fac ebook w alls world dwide showing spend just how much time people people sp end imaginaryy fa farms. building imaginar arms.

“It’s Gorodyansky “It ’s a ccool ool ccompany,” ompany,” Gor odyansky says, theyy sell vir virtual sa ayys, “but the t tual ccows ows or goats.. The Theyy ar aree not ha having any goats avving an ny rreal eal social impact.”” so cial impact.

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off the gr ground, o ound, the two two founders’ founders’ o weekly ho ours surpassed triple hours digits.. Complementing digits Com mplementing each other,, Mal Malobrodsky other lobrodsky handled IT and infrastructure infr frastructure logistics, logistics, Gorodyansky while Gor odyansky became became the facee and vvoice fac o e of the company. oic compan ny.

In just three three months of trying trying to attract investors—which at tract angel anggel in vestors—which rresulted esulted in n $6 million of vventure enture funding—Gorodyansky funding— — Gorodyansky flew flew from from Francisco San Franci isco to New New York Yo ork and back times.. R Relationships both oth men 35 times eelationships ffor o or b weree strain strained, wer ned,, and their anxiety anxiety about out the possiblity ab possiblity of the company compan ny Malobrodsky, failing was wass constant. constant. Malobr odsky, daughter,, who has a 2-year-old 2-year- old daughter barely bar ely saw saaw his wife, wiffe, and when he was was was working.. Gor Gorodyansky, home he w as working odyansky, who has a long-time girlfriend,, faced faced pressures. similar p pr e essur es.

“Off ccourse, it’s “O ourrse, it ’s difficult, because because 100 when yyou ou have haave 10 0 things going on hard bee a normal in yyour our head heead it’s it’s har d to b being,” “It’s likee human b e ,” he says. eing saayys. “It ’s not lik working att a regular regular company. company. You You o always likee something is going to alw ayys ffeel eeell lik wrong.” go wr ong.”

Greg Coleman, formerly Gr eg C o oleman, fo ormerly the president Huffington pr esident of o Huffing ton Post Post after serving ser ving as the lead global sales AOL eexecutive xecutive ffor o or A OL and Yahoo, Yaahoo, invested in vested in n AnchorFree AnchorFree and joined advisoryy board its advisor board in the second second year year Getting of the ccompany’s om mpany’s eexistence. xistence. Get tting t aboard him to ccome om me ab oard was was no easy easy ttask. ask. Cocktail Cockttail waitresses waitresses with $5,000 $5,000 breast implants br east imp plants get solicited less Coleman does than C olem man do es to guide startup startup ccompanies. ompaniess. But he knew knew after AnchorFree’s studying AnchorFr A ee’s analytics and Gorodyansky meeting with w Gor odyansky that the ccompany ompany had h a unique vision.

“When I met David, Daavvid,, he was was 24,” Coleman, who on ssays ays C oleman, w ho iiss jjoined oined o n tthe he board byy fformer b oard b o ormer MCI chairman Bert Bert Roberts well Silicon R oberts ass w ell as as S ilicon Valley Val alley icon icon Dyson. incredible Esther Dys son. “He had an incr edible business was early busin ness sense, sense, but his sense w as a mostly m ostly aaround round the the technology technology and an nd ssurrounding urrounding himself himself with with some some good go ood people. p eople.” wasn’t It w asn’tt long, long, Coleman Coleman says, saays y , until became Gorodyansky’s he b ecamee aaware ware that Gor odyanskyy’s abilityy to identify good abilit i identif fy go od ideas and people was byy his ttalented alented p eople w as eexceeded xceeded b drive. driv e. “He’s “He’s always always y working—always. working—alwayys.

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U.S. Congresswoman U .S. C ongresswomaan Anna Eshoo Esho o met with Gorodyansky Gorodyansky and Malobrodsky Malobr odsky in JJanuary anuaary when

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ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE AmericanAsian steakhouse. $$$$.

Alexander’s is much more than a steakhouse. Add a 500-bottle wine list, multiple dining rooms and Asianaccented ambience and you’ve got a standout South Bay restaurant. Full bar. 5:3010pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 10330 N. Wolfe Rd. 408.446.2222.

CAFE TORRE New Italian. $$$. A gem tucked away in an unassuming little mall, with a sophisticated interior and congenial hosts. Even better is the great pasta and seafood. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 510:30pm Fri-Sat. Closed Sun. 20343 Stevens Creek Blvd.

408.257.2383.

CUPERTINO BAKERY Indian and bakery. $. Don’t be fooled by the name. Cupertino Bakery is a really great South Indian restaurant. Unlike many South Indian restaurants, Cupertino Bakery isn’t vegetarian. Good lunch buffet for $7.99. Don’t miss the dosa and utthappam.

11:30am-9:30pm daily, but weekdays kitchen closes 2:30-5:30pm. 102521 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.517.9000.

DYNASTY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Hong Kongstyle Chinese. $$$. Dynasty specializes in Hong Kongstyle seafood. The seafood is very fresh, especially the creatures swimming minutes before they arrive on your plate. Good dim sum, too.

Full bar. 11am-2:30pm, 59:30pm Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 10123 N. Wolfe Rd (in Cupertino Square). 408.996.1680.

FLORENTINE RESTAURANT Italian. $. Bold flavors, fresh ingredients and lavish portions.

Beer, wine. 10257 S. De Anza Blvd. (plus six other locations, some with full bars). 11:30am9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am10pm Fri-Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 408.253.6532.

FONTANA’S California/Italian. $$$. A steady performer, Fontana’s rarely disappoints pasta lovers. Beer, wine.

11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 5-10pm Sat, 4:30-9pm Sun. 20840 Steven Creek Blvd. 408.725.0188.

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wine. wine 11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, Tue-Fri 5-9pm Tue-Sat. 250 Third St. 650.941.8150.

ALDO LOS ALTOS Italian. $$.

Downtown Los Altos is ghostly quiet after dark but Aldo has injected some life into this corner of town with its lively wine bar, friendly service and welcoming atmosphere. 11am2pm, Mon-Fri; 5pm-close daily.

388 Main St. 650.949.2300.

GOCHI Japanese. $$$. Gochi is a globally inspired izakaya (small plates) restaurant.

Most of the food is straightup Japanese fare, but there are a few American, French and Korean twists. Highly recommended. 19980 Homestead Rd. 408.725.0542.

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CHEF CHU’S Chinese. $$.

Speedy service, superb preparation and the ability to cater to varied tastes keep this landmark in business. Full bar.

11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11:30-10pm Fri, noon-10pm Sat, noon-9:30pm Sun. 1067 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.2696.

kitchen produces good wokcentric dishes, but its main draw is fresh, hand-pulled noodles. Casual. Beer, wine.

11am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri-Sun. 1146 De Anza Blvd. 408.257.8877.

TODAI Japanese. $$. Billed as a Japanese seafood buffet, Todai doesn’t limit itself to Japanese dishes. Pan-Asian and just plain odd specialties rotate.

11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am-3pm, 5:309:30pm Sat-Sun. Cupertino Square mall (near Sears), 10123 N. Wolfe Rd #2001.

408.996.3444.

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AKANE Japanese/sushi bar. $$. Nigiri and maki treasures are gracefully presented at this attractive restaurant. Beer,

$$$. Elegant seafood, meat and game dishes lean toward reducing fat without compromising taste. Call for reservations. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; 5-9pm daily. 170 State St. 650.948.1382.

ESTRELLITA RESTAURANT Mexican. $$. Estrellita’s reverence for regional Mexican cooking distinguishes it from the enchilada-and-taco masses. The menu is full of Mexican-American standards, but the changing selection of specials make this restaurant a star. Full bar. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-2pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 971 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.9865.

LOS ALTOS GRILL American. $$. The handsome Los Altos Grill celebrates big plates of grilled meat and fish with plenty of fixings on the side. Try

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Celebrate Mother’s Day at TusCA Restaurant May 8, 2011, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Put Hyatt Regency Santa Clara on the menu this Mother’s Day and enjoy our champagne brunch. The menu is complete with a display of salads, grilled shrimp, cooked-to-order egg and antipasti station, your choice of entrée including roasted sea bass, strip steak, braised chicken or grilled eggplant all served with family-style lemon-and-pepper pappardelle pasta. For reservations, call 408 510 6480 or visit santaclara.tusca.com. Hyatt. You’re More Than Welcome.

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On June 9, MASSIMO CHISESSI, IAHF’s culinary program curator, will teach a one-night course on how to make limoncello, a lemon-infused liqueur. Participants will go home with one of Chisessi’s liqueurs in a decorative bottle.

Chinessi came up with the idea for the culinary series as a way to learn more about his Italian heritage and to connect with a wider Silicon Valley audience. “I saw it is a way of reaching out to the community at large,” he said. “The way that Italians share their cultural heritage is through food. Food is a conduit for relationships.”

July 14 is all about tomatoes. While not native to Italy, the tomato has become central to Italian cuisine. In this panel discussion, participants will learn about the history and mythology of the tomato.

The evening will include discussion of the selection and cultivation of heirloom varieties that flourish in Silicon Valley as well as traditional and innovative preservation techniques. After the panel discussion, you’ll get to taste your way through 10–12 types of heirloom tomatoes.

For more information about these classes and other Italian events, go to IAHFSJ.org.—Stett Holbrook

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SATURA CAKES FrenchJapanese bakery. $. Satura Cakes offers sweet treats for adult tastes. A Japanese take on a French patisserie, these confections are prepared fresh daily and meticulously crafted using the finest organic ingredients. 8am-8pm daily. 200 Main St. 650.948.3300. (Also 320 University Ave, Palo Alto.

650.326.3393.)

SUMIKA Japanese. $$. Sumika is a Japanese pub, but that doesn’t do it justice. It’s elegant, yet still a great place to drink beer and sake. The specialty is kushiyaki, small bites of grilled chicken, beef and vegetables

cooked on bamboo skewers over charcoal. 11:30am-2pm, 6-10pm Tue-Fri, 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-11pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 236 Central Plaza. 650.917.1822.

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ANGELO MIO Italian. $$.

A small space with a large menu, sporting the traditionals that have been mainstays at local eateries. Appetizers and salads are the best bets.

11:30am-2:30pm, 4:30-10pm Mon-Sat, noon-2:30pm, 4:309pm Sun. 820 Santa Cruz Ave. 650.323.3665.

BACK A YARD CARIBBEAN AMERICAN GRILL Jamaican. $.

“Back a yard” is Jamaican slang for “the way things are done back home” and this is one of the few Jamaican restaurants

around. Jerk pork and chicken shine. 11am-3pm, 5-8pm MonThu, 11am-3pm, 5-9pm Fri, noon-3pm, 5-8pm Sat. 1189 Willow Rd. 650.323.4244.

BISTRO VIDA French $$.

Impeccably authentic bistro dishes and welcoming prices are spun through Bay Area culinary consciousness to create regional homey French cuisine. Brunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 9am-2:30pm Sat-Sun; dinner 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm FriSat, 5-9pm Sun. 641 Santa Cruz Ave. 650.462.1686.

FLEA STREET CAFE New American. $$$$. Carefully crafted, impeccably chosen food featuring seasonal local produce and Niman Ranch meats. Atmosphere is casual and eclectic. Full bar. 5:30-9:30pm daily. 3607 Alameda de las Pulgas. 650.854.1226.

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SVDINING IBERIA. Spanish. $$. Iberia’s cheap tapas menu is available at the bar anytime or in the dining room at lunch, but these nibbles alone are worth the trip. Lunch noon-2pm Mon-Sat; dinner 5:30-10pm daily. 1026 Alma St. 650.325.8981.

JZCOOL EATERY & WINE BAR American. $$. Fresh, local, sustainable, organic is the mantra of jZcool. Look for straightforward, flavorful dishes like pasture-raised chicken breast stuffed with creamy goat cheese, tangy preserved lemons and salty olives. Lunch 11am-2:30pm TueThu; dinner 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 827 Santa Cruz Ave. 650.325.3665.

KAYGETSU Japanese. $$$.

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

LEFT BANK Grandma’s French. $$$. Wise country fare combined with metropolitan savoir faire and a dash of Gallic attitude. Full bar. 11:30am10pm Sun-Mon, 11:30am-11pm Tue-Sat. 635 Santa Cruz Ave. 650.473.6543.

SULTANA Turkish. $$$. If you’ve eaten Greek, Iranian or Middle Eastern food, you’ll find much that’s familiar here.

Sultana makes your introduction to Turkish food easy with its warm service, well-executed dishes and soothing ambience.

11am-2:30pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri, 11am-10pm Sat-Sun. 1149 El Camino Real. 650.322.4343.

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ABC SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Chinese. $$. ABC is a Hong Kong-style restaurant, and that means dim sum and lots of fresh, fancifully prepared seafood. At lunch the place is a traffic jam of dim sum carts proffering an assortment of little snacks. 11am-2:30pm, 5-

9:30pm daily. 768 Barber Lane.

408.435.8888.

BANANA LEAF Southeast Asian/Malaysian. $$$. A charming, exotic gem of a place with some of the best Southeast Asian food in the county. Sauces are masterfully crafted and reduced to glossy consistencies. 11am-3pm, 5-9:45pm Mon-Thu, 510:30pm Fri-Sat. 182 Ranch Dr. 408.719.9811.

CHILI GARDEN Szechuan. $$.

There’s a lot to recommend at this Szechuan standout. Mapo tofu is a classic that rules here.

For sheer fireworks, go for the Chongqing spicy chicken, a fearsome-looking dish of chicken lightly battered and crisp. 10:30am-2:30pm and 4:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 10:30am2:30pm, 4:30-10:30pm Fri-Sun. 210 Barber Lane.

408.526.9888.

DARDA SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Islamic Chinese. $. Darda serves halal meat and draws parts of its menu from western China, a region that borders the Muslim countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Seafood and noodle dishes are particularly good. No alcohol served. 11am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10:30am-3pm, 4:30-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 296 Barber Court.

408.433.5199.

DING SHENG Chinese. $$.

Bustling Ding Sheng restaurant specializes in Shanghai-style Chinese food but features a wide variety of regional dishes.

Shanghai dishes include cold weather fare like dumplings, braised meats and sweet and savory meats. 11am-2:30pm, 5pm-midnight daily. 686 Barber Lane. 408.943.8786.

LIOU’S HOUSE Chinese. $$.

A shopping center next to a miniature golf course is an unlikely place to find a classically trained Chinese chef, but Silicon Valley offers good food in unexpected places.

Check out the Hunan tofu, kung pao chicken and stir-fried pea greens. 11am-2:30pm, 4:309:30pm Tue-Sun. 1245 Jacklin Rd. 408.263.9888.

PHO TAM Thai/Vietnamese. $$. The attractive room belies the low prices. Fusion menu offers mainstays like bun and

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claypots. Beer, wine. 11am2:30pm, 5-9pm daily. 1720 N. Milpitas Blvd. 408.934.3970.

SAVORY CHICKEN Filipino. $.

Savory Chicken offers a Filipino take on fried poultry. The chicken is tossed in a proprietary blend of herbs and spices and fried in soybean oil. No flour or bread crumbs are used. The result is an almost translucent skin that is so crisp it shatters on contact.

11am-8pm Tue-Sun. 1557 Landess Ave. 408.945.8616.

SOUTH LEGEND SICHUAN RESTAURANT Szechuan Chinese. $. The menu of this Milpitas standout reads like an encyclopedia of Szechuan food. The kung pao chicken and Chen ma pa tofu are all great.

11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm MonFri, 11am-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1720 N. Milpitas Blvd. 408.934.3970.

SWAGAT Indian. $. Swagat explores both southern and northern Indian cuisine in its traditional and extensive menu.

Beer, wine. Buffet daily 11am3pm, 5:30-10pm. 68 S. Abel St. 408.262.1128.

TIRUPATHI BHIMAS Indian. $$. Tirupathi Bhimas specializes in vegetarian food from south India, particularly that of Andra Pradesh, a spicy and aromatic cuisine, as well as a few north Indian dishes and “Indo-Chinese.” 11:30am-2pm, 6-9:30pm Sun and Tue-Thu, 11:30am-2:30pm, 6-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 1208 S. Abel St. 408.945.1010.

Redwood City OLD PORT LOBSTER SHACK New England. $$. Made with lobster flown in from Maine, the lobster roll is simple but good: a toasted, buttery hot dog-style bun cradles fresh, juicy lobster meat. The Gruyère-laced lobster mac ’n’ cheese and lobster bisque are good, too. 11am-8pm MonFri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 851 Veterans Blvd. 650.366.2400.

PAMPLEMOUSSE Cafe. $. Aside from owner Kelli Manukyan’s pastry skills, the cafe offers a number of

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rub shoulders here, enjoying just about everything that can be baked, fried, broiled or steamed. Full bar. 11:30am-9pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-10pm FriSat. 4565 Stevens Creek Blvd.

408.248.6244.

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

Restaurants that strive to be jacks-of-all-trades often end up being masters of none, but Hatcho displays a wide range of talent. 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-10pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1271 Franklin Mall. 408.248.8500.

KABAB AND CURRY’S IndianPakistani. $. Because it’s tucked into a quiet, semiresidential side street, Kabab and Curry’s feels like a neighborhood secret. The Indian and Pakistani restaurant serves a good lunch buffet, and at dinner try the butter chicken, choley and tandoori chicken. 10:30am2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun. 1498 Isabella St. 408.247.0745.

$$. Andy’s Bar-B-Que is the reincarnation of one of the South Bay’s best barbecue joints. Originally located in Campbell, Andy’s is still serving great oak-smoked meats to a dedicated following. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 39pm Mon-Thu, 3-10pm Fri-Sat, 3-9pm Sun. 2367 El Camino Real. 408.249.8158.

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

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

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

BIRK’S American grill. $$$.

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

408.980.6400.

BY-TH’-BUCKET American. $$. All walks of humanity

Eastern. $. Santa Clara’s Kabab House Halal, a spare, eight-table restaurant, serves a pan-Middle Eastern menu that leans toward Iran. As the name implies, Kabab House is basically a kebab house. 11am9pm Mon-Sat. 2521 Newhall St. 408.984.2204. fried chicken. $. The simple restaurant specializes in Korean-style fried chicken.

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

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

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

408.970.6104.

PHO #1 NOODLE HOUSE Asian noodle house. $. A good and friendly destination when one’s stomach screams for a threecourse meal but one’s wallet has but $10, Pho boasts an

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10am-9pm daily. 5025 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.249.1111.

PHO THANH LONG Vietnamese noodle house. $.

This diner’s pho rates among the Top 3 in the South Bay. Beer. 9am-9pm daily. 2450 El Camino Real. 408.983.0888.

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

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

Kebabs, Tandoori and curries all shine here. 11:30am-3pm, 5:3010pm daily. 5251 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.260.9200.

TOFU HOUSE Korean. $.

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

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

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

YOYO SUSHI BAR & GRILLE Japanese fusion. $$. The fusion-friendly menu features such expertly realized creations as the deep-fried California Roll and the Fisherman Roll, crab and avocado wrapped in rice, topped with salmon and rich masago sauce and then baked.

Weekday happy hour. 11am10pm daily. 3958 Rivermark Plaza. 408.213.9696.

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*wed PAPA ROACH The Avalon, Santa Clara Wed – 8pm; $25 Give Papa Roach credit for getting out of the nü-metal bubble long before it burst. They were pretty much synonymous with rap-rock in their Y2K years, even joining Eminem’s Anger Management tour. But they dropped the rapping, moving on to metal-plated hard rock and—well, for a few years there, nobody really knew what Papa Roach was supposed to be, possibly not even the band itself.

Getting Away With Murder (2005) is all boring ballads and overproduced mid-tempo alt-rock. By their last record, Metamorphosis, they had livened things up again, almost going for a throwback hair-metal vibe.

At their core, they’re still the same angsty band, though, and they’re still searching; rumor has it they’ll be working an electronic sound into their next record. (SP)

EMERALD HILL Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free The Emerald Hill sounds like nothing this side of the 415 area code; the band’s willingness to work with whatever it can get its hands on has resulted in a sound that sets it apart. The songs tell dark and descriptive fairy tales. “Kite Song” is front-porch folk; “Dr. Appleseed” is a dirty stomp with a Silversteinian storyline. Luckily, there’s been a resurgence of local bands with an unorthodox sound, so not fitting into a mold is actually getting the Emerald Hill some notice. Opening

for this show are Daemon City Lights, Ghost and the City. (JA)

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The Avalon, Santa Clara Thu – 8pm; $16 Hawaii may be part of the States, but in some ways it’s like another country. For instance, many of the local artists charting on Hawaiian radio are completely unknown on the mainland. Iration was headed that way in 2007—scoring big on the Islands with its debut single, “Cookie Jar,” but not really going anywhere outside of aloha country. Things changed when Iration’s music was featured on such MTV programs as Maui Fever and Living Lahaina.

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CULO A BOCA Johnny V’s, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $5 If you speak Spanish, then it probably only took a half-second before this band’s name filled your head with gross images. If

you’re not bilingual, then close your eyes and think back to all those memorable scenes from The Human Centipede, and you’re all up to speed. Culo a Boca is, no surprise, a trashy, campy, noisy, punkabilly novelty act that parades onstage in bizarre and offensive costumes. You can imagine what sort of subject matter is near and dear to its heart by simply listing the song titles: “Captain Stabbin,” “Droppin Loads,” “2 Girls 1 Cup.” Culo a Boca has dubbed itself “your favorite vomit party band.”

The only question is, who are all these other, inferior vomit party bands? (AC)

KENNY CHESNEY Shoreline, Mountain View Fri – 7pm; $39-$73 Nobody’s going to confuse Kenny Chesney and, say, Black Flag, but

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Apr 29 at Studio8 San Jose

ANNE AKIKO MEYERS Classical violinist in Japan benefit concert, Fri at 8pm, Woodside High School

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

SAN JOSE WIND SYMPHONY SA May 1 at 2:30pm, Los Gatos High School Theater

RICKY MARTIN May 4 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

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

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

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ARTURO SANDOVAL

Chesney is country music’s bona fide DIY star. Somehow, he beat the Nashville machine mentality by playing honky-tonks and selling his self-recorded demo at his shows. Eventually, the major labels couldn’t ignore him any more; he got a contract writing songs for other people, and then got signed himself, building a bigger following with each album. Time has mellowed him considerably, and it’ a shame that he has left most of his writing to other people in the last few years. But things are looking up—he made a Guy Clark song (“Hemingway’s Whiskey”) the title track of his most recent album, for one thing, and the album itself is his best in a decade.

Billy Currington opens. (SP)

*sat MISSION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Le Petit Trianon, San Jose Sat – 7:30pm; $18/$22 For its season finale, Mission Chamber Orchestra winds up in high style with Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7. Fans of The King’s Speech will recognize the second movement which played a telling part at the end of the film. The program also features Schumann’s Overture, Scherzo and Finale op. 32, Gluck’s Dance of the Blessed Spirits and a Concerto for Flute and Chamber Orchestra by contemporary composer Eric Ewazen, featuring guest flutist Karen Kevra. (MSG)

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STAND FIGHT RESIST Johnny V’s, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $5 Perhaps Rodney Dangerfield said it best while being tested on Dylan Thomas’ poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” in Back to School: “Rage, rage against the dying of the light! It means . . .

I don’t take shit from no one.”

Stand Fight Resist conveys the same message with a mixture of progressive rock and a heavy, oldschool punk sound. Think Black Flag and a Descendents’ offshoot all meshed with the Police’s Andy Summers—a strange combo, but it works. Now, if they could only work the Triple Lindy into their live show. Anti Social, Razor Stalemate and Piss Broke open. (BD)

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Jinx House, San Jose Tue – 7pm; $5 donation If you don’t know Bobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggits, you’re probably thinking they’re some shock-rock punk act. You don’t know the half of it. The first twist is that they’re mostly acoustic, and I think we both know that no band with this name should be acoustic, because—well, you can understand what they’re saying. Luckily, songs like “Babies in Butter” and “Frogs, Mud, Birth and Cruxification” are as funny as they are wrong. In the end, Bobby J is more Captain Beefheart than GG Allin. (SP)

May 20 at 8pm, Campbell Heritage Theater

JASON BONHAM May 24 2 at Saddle Rack in Fremont

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.

See Metroactive.com for all the details.

FURTHER Jun 3–4 at 7:30pm, Shoreline

THE TUBES Jun 11 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK/ BACKSTREET BOYS Jul 2 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion, San Jose

SMASH MOUTH Jul 7 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

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Opening Reception: What He Meant by The Self Was Simply Our Truest Nature, Our Natural State New work by Jeremiah Maddock Maddock is a self taught artist currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. Inspired by the repetition in people, nature, music and visuals of the everyday, Maddock’s imagery is not preconceived but instead comes out of spontaneous, obsessive and trance-like sessions.

Barbarians and Beauties by Sandi Billingsley. A series of work inspired by the conflict Billingsley has felt and witnessed in some women: the desire to be a hard competitor in the workplace and the desire to be a gentle object of desire.

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

Tantalizing Tableware Scott Jennings uses paper-thin porcelain to create gorgeous vessels for the table. Each piece gets pinched, stretched, patterned and assembled completely by hand. Check out Jennings' colorful creations while sampling olive oil from Cloud 9 Orchard - a local organic farm making TRUE extra virgin olive oil from Italian, French, and Spanish varietals.

View MACLA’s 13th Annual Exhibition and Auction “Latino Art Now.” Join artist and art professor Eugene Rodriguez for Collecting 101.

Geared to first time buyers or collectors who want to make informed decisions about buying art. In the Castellano Playhouse MACLA is featuring poets that have changed the meaning of “WORD”: Adriana Gracia and Yosimar Reyes.

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RENASCI by Emonic A series of work dealing with cconcepts and subject material based on human energy.

The Art Boutiki takes the first of several looks at art from 25 years of SLG Publishing comics, this month featuring art by Jon "Bean" Hastings, Crab Scrambly and art from some of our less known titles.

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The Strip by Katie C. Gutierrez Gutierrez encaustically collages her own photos with iconic vintage Vegas imagery.

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles 520 So. First Street Join us for the third annual May Day Market! Friday, May 6, from 7-11pm This Market is a sale of all kinds of donated goods to benefit the Museum. Last year, we had fabric, ethnic textiles, notions, stylish vintage clothing, and amazing quilts–both new creations and historical.

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Wearable Art Show And Sale Saturday, 10am–5pm; Lucie Stern Community Center, Palo Alto; $10 The annual showcase for local clothing and accessory designers sponsored by the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation moves to a new location. The event features models showing off new works of wearable fashion by nearly 40 area artisans in a vivid array of styles and materials. The fundraiser can be supplemented with lunch at Calafia Café.

(Pictured is a colorful jacket by Jacquelyn Rice and Uosis Juodavalkis.)

*stage Dance

DANCIN’ DOWNTOWN A celebration of national Dance Week features performers of all kinds from local companies. Sun, 10am2pm. Free. Park Valencia, Santana Row.

NHAN HO PROJECT A concert with Nhan Ho Project, M production Co., Rawson Project Contemporary Ballet and more. Sat, 8pm. $20. Santa Clara Convention Center Theater.

ONCE UPON A TIME

John Muir’s Botanical Legacy

A dance show in many styles.

Thu-Sat, 8pm. $12-$15.

Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont.

Opens April 29; Pacific Hotel, History Park, San Jose; free

SPRING SHOWCASE

John Muir explored wilderness America, traveling with a plant press, preserving samples of flowers, grasses and ferns. Amazingly, many of his botanical specimens have survived; they have been carefully scanned and turned into large images that are more scientific and artistic. This San Jose show also includes artifacts about San Jose’s own A.P. Hill, who enlisted Muir’s aid in saving the redwoods at Big Basin.

Young performers from local companies show off their steps. Sat, 1:30pm. $15/$18.

Santa Clara Convention Center Theater.

Opera LA BOHEME

Mayda del Valle Saturday, 8pm; MACLA, San Jose; $8–$10 Undaunted by more seasoned competitors, Mayda del Valle of Chicago was the youngest entrant (and first Latina) to win the National Poetry Slam. She has since been on Def Poetry Jam. In addition to her performance, del Valle is also coaching local members of MACLA’s South Bay Teen Slam League.

Puccini’s famed tale of the demimonde is presented

by Opera San José. Apr 28, 30, 8pm, May 1, 3pm, May 3 and 6, 8pm, May 8, 3pm. $51-$101. California Theatre, San Jose.

Theater ALTAR BOYZ

Pacific Coast Dream Machines Show Sunday, 10am–4pm; Half Moon Bay Airport; $10/$20 Even the Sons of Anarchy might be taken aback by the Big Monster Cycle (left), a 6,500-pound hog that stands 11 feet tall—at last a ride worthy of Paul Bunyan. The show includes all sorts of rolling and flying vehicles from historic airplanes and fire engines to custom rods and clean-tech cars.

A musical comedy about a Catholic boy band, presented

by Palo Alto Players. Thu– Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs through May 8. $23–$34.

Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.

CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM A comedic speculation about a famous trip that Warren G. Harding, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford once took. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm. Runs thru Apr 30. $24/$30. Bus Ban Theater, Los Altos.

Italy. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm.

Runs thru May 8. $15/$20.

Northside Theatre, San Jose.

Fri, 9 and 10:30pm Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: John Roy. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.

GALILEO’S DAUGHTERS

SAN JOSE IMPROV

Inferno Theatre comes to town (thanks to Tabard Theatre) to perform an ideafilled play about science and faith. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm.

Runs through May 8. $24.

Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

Wed, 8pm: Unfiltered. $12.

Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Guy Torry. $15-$17. San Jose.

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.

Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru May 1. $14-$40. San Jose Stage.

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Museums OPENING ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS High School Art Show. Apr 28-May 19. Reception Thu, 6-8pm. Los Gatos.

SQUABBLES

HISTORY SAN JOSE

A comedy about generational conflict in a family by Marshall Karp; a Santa Clara Players show. Runs Apr 29May 21. This Week: Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2:30pm. $16/$18. Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara University.

“Nature’s Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir’s Botanical Legacy.” A show dedicated to the many biological specimens collected by the naturalist.

Opens Apr 29. Pacific Hotel Gallery, History Park, San Jose.

MAYDA DEL VALLE MACLA hosts a performing arts residency with the Chicago slam poet. She will read on Sat, 8pm. $8/$10.

MACLA, San Jose.

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

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

Comedy CLUB FOX Mon, 8pm: Comedy Night with Dan St. Paul and more.

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.

9 LIVES Wed, 6:30pm: Sammy Obied, Rachel McDowell and Kelly McCarron. $10/$12. Gilroy.

ENCHANTED APRIL

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS

Northside presents Matthew Barber’s romantic comedy about a pair of London housewives on vacation in

Wed, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition, with Reggie Steele and Kabir Kabeezy Singh. $12. Thu, 8pm,

CONTINUING CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Illustrated Title Pages: 1500-1900.” A show of 80 illustrated book pages from the museum’s collection.

Thru Oct 16. “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.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM “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.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE

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

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

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

Thru Jun 5. “The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention.” Thru Jul 3. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

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

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

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

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

TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION Exhibits about science, technology and the world.

Ongoing. Mon-Wed, 10am5pm, 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, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm.

Santa Clara.

Galleries OPENING MAIN GALLERY “Offerings.” Irene Carvajal and David Scouffas explore the influence of Asian culture. Apr 27-May 29. Reception May 7, 6-8pm. Wed-Sun, 10am-3pm.

Redwood City.

MACLA

“A Common Balance: Impossible Dream’n.” A sculptural installation in the Project Space Gallery in the form of a “grow lab” investigating biodiversity. Apr 29-Jul 17. Reception Fri, 7pm.

Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.

“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. WedThu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon5pm. San Jose.

CONTINUING

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

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

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.

METRO LOBBY

OLIVE HYDE ART GALLERY Textile exhibition. Thru Apr 30.

Thu-Sun, noon-5pm. Fremont.

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

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA

“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.

New works by Melissa Kreisa.

Thru Apr 30. San Jose.

SANTA CLARA CITY HALL

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

Runs thru May 9. San Jose.

FILOLI “Expressions in Watercolors.”

Thru Jun 5. Tue-Sun, 10am3pm, Sun, 11am-3pm. Meet the artists day Sat, 10am3pm. Free with admission.

Woodside.

GALLERY HOUSE “Suspended in the PRESENT.” A show of photos of dancers performing by Joahnna Rivera.

Thru Apr 30. Reception Apr 30, 5-7pm. Wed-Sat, 11am-8pm, Sun 11am-3pm. Enter through Printer’s Ink, Palo Alto.

GALLERY SARATOGA “Splashes of Spring.” Paintings

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

Saratoga.

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.

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

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

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

Thru May 19. Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5pm. Paul G. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford campus.

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

Sunnyvale.

*books BOOK SALE

A large sale of used records, books and other media,

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

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

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SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM SJSU Center for Literary Arts sponsors a reading by the novelists (“Ms. Hempel Chronicles” and “Madeleine Is Sleeping) and National Book Award finalist. Wed, 7pm. Free. King Main Library, San Jose.

MARY GORDON The author of the new novel “The Love of My Youth” signs copies of her work. Fri, 7pm.

Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

LISA HARPER A meet-and-greet with the author of “A Double LIfe: Discovering Motherhood.”

Thu, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

MEGHAN O’ROURKE In her memoir “The Long Goodbye,” O’Rourke examines the ways we cope with grief. Mon, 7pm. Free.

Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

ROBERT VAMOSI A booksigning event with author of “When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of Our Infatuation With New Technologies.” Tue, 7pm.

Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.

*kids ANDREA ALBAN

On Holocaust Memorial Day, parents and children can meet the author of “Anya’s War,” a book about a family’s life in the Jewish Quarter of Shanghai during World War II. Sun, 4pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

ART A LA CARTE The county-wide event brings art and culture opportunities to children with the theme Sharing Our Culture. Sat, 10am-2pm.

Free. Morgan Hill Community Center.

WATERS OF THE EARTH A family-oriented presentation of music and folklore from many different

seafaring peoples, directed

by James Donlon. Sat, 11am and 1pm. $10/$20. Carriage House Theater, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.

*events (DE)CONSTRUCTING DIVERSITY IN THE BAY AREA

A seminar and conference with speakers, workshops and performances. Author Jeff Chang gives the keynote address (4:30pm). Sat, 8:30-5:30pm. Santa Clara University.

DINING OUT FOR LIFE Some 40 restaurants in Silicon Valley will donate a portion of proceeds to support the Health Trust AIDS. Suvir Saran of “Top Chef Masters” will make surprise appearances. Thu. (See www.healthrust.org/ diningoutforlife/dine for list of participating restaurants.)

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METROACTIVE.COM survive life’s many crises, featuring Ronnie Lott, Trent Dilfer, Sandi Selvi and others. Thu, 6:30-9pm.

Hangs Theater, Santa Clara Convention Center.

PACIFIC COAST DREAM MACHINES An annual show devoted to unusual vehicles like giant motorcycles, airplanes and clean-fuel alternatives— plus live entertainment. Sun, 10am-4pm. $10-$20. Half Moon Bay.

THE ROYAL WEDDING A chance to stay up late or get up early to see the whole event broadcast live.

A British breakfast will be served for $10.99. Fri, 3am.

Britannia Arms, Almaden.

SOUTH BAY MUSIC SWAP Featuring records, art, music gear and more to buy, sell or trade. Sun, 10am-5pm. (See facebook. com/SouthBayMusicSwap for details.) San Jose.

STYLE 2011 WEARABLE ART SHOW

A city of San Jose event designed to facilitate “green” strategies at local schools.

Sat, 8am-5pm. $40. Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose.

A wide selection of artisan clothing and accessories will be featured with live models and designers on hand. Sat, 10am-5pm. $10. Lucie Stern Community Center.

GRACE COMMUNITY CENTER

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A 40th-anniversary celebration for center that helps adults with mental illnesses. Includes food, art and music with the Groove Kings. Sat. Free. (Call 408.799.2784 for details.)

San Jose.

MARCH FOR BABIES The March of Dimes sponsors a fundraising event to help children. The march’s ambassador is a 10-year-old boy who was born prematurely but has overcome many obstacles.

Sat, 8am registration.

Vasona Park, Los Gatos.

NIKKEI MATSURI A traditional celebration with taiko drums, food, exhibits and arts and crafts. Sun, 9am-4pm. Free. Japantown, San Jose.

OVERCOMING ADVERSITY A program about how to

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A screening of a local documentary with interviews of World War II JapaneseAmerican veterans from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Sat, 2pm.

Free. SJSU Engineering Bldg Auditorium.

JONATHAN WATERMAN Peninsula Open Space Trust presents a lecture by the explorer titled “Running Dry: A Journey From Source to Sea Down the Colorado River.” Mon, 8pm. $22.

Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts.

WORLD WITHOUT FISH A talk by the author of “Cod, Salt and the World Without Fish.” This Commonwealth Club event is hosted by Alison van Diggelen. Mon, 7pm. $12/$20. Carriage House, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.

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Finding Truth THE FLEDGLING Bay Area company Inferno Theatre is off to a promising start with Galileo’s Daughters. This new play, written and directed by Giulio Cesare Perrone, details the relationship between the great natural philosopher Galileo Galilei and his two daughters, Celeste and Arcangela, as well as his difficulties in publishing a book advocating the heliocentric model, in which the Earth revolves around the sun.

Other plays, such as Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo, have focused on the conflict between faith and reason that Galileo’s struggle epitomizes. Galileo lived during a dangerous >Xc`c\fÊj time in European and Italian history, when ;Xl^_k\ij the same societies that produced great works of art and science also gave rise to witch hunts Inferno Theatre and religious persecution. The Catholic Church, Thursday–Saturday, 8pm, which held the Earth to be the center of the Sunday, 2pm, runs universe, labeled Galileo a heretic and attempted through May 8 to suppress his ideas. These hardships play a Theatre on San Pedro large role in Galileo’s Daughters, but interestingly, Square, San Jose there is no conflict between scientifically minded Tickets $24 Galileo and his devoutly religious daughters, both nuns of the order of Saint Clare.

As the play begins, Galileo (Michael McCamish) appears with Celeste and Arcangela (Valentina Emeri and Simone Bloch, respectively). The daughters kneel and pray, while Galileo remains standing, clutching two orbs, which he rotates in his hands. It is clear from the start that these three have very different ways of looking at the world, but as the story unfolds, they show each other nothing but love.

Arcangela is prone to superstition, and at one point, after looking at the moon through her father’s telescope, says, “I like it better from a distance, Papa.” Celeste is more intelligent and takes an active interest in Galileo’s work. However, both are equally supportive, seeing him not as a heretic but as someone uncovering the truth of God’s creation.

McCamish’s portrayal of Galileo is stilted (apparently a stylistic decision), though nonetheless convincing. He looks bent, weary and half-blind, but there is a vigorous and optimistic mind in there, reflecting his hopeful belief that “The truth can never be silenced, it can only be revealed more slowly.”

This slow-paced, expressionistic play is not geared toward a mainstream audience, but it is a beautiful story, one that is greatly complemented by Bruno Louchouarn’s haunting musical score and excellent period costumes designed by Anne Victoria Banks Perrone. Those inclined toward serious historical drama will certainly enjoy it.—Sean Conwell

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FAST FIVE (130 min.; PG-13) Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, unable to ďŹ nd other avenues for their abundant acting talents, return for yet another sequel to Fast and Furious. Also stars Jordana Brewster, Ludacriz and Tyrese Gibson. (Opens Fri.)

POM PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD (PG-13, 88 min.) Morgan Spurlock

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HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL (PG; 85 min.) An animated kid comedy about a teenage Red Riding Hood trying to ďŹ gure out what happened to Hansel and Gretel.

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LEGEND OF THE FIST: THE RETURN OF CHEN ZHEN (R; 105 min.) See review at right.

THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER (Unrated; 139 min.) See review on page 48.

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MUCH OF Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen is golden superhero garbage, with Donnie Yen, dressed in the black livery and visor mask of Kato from The Green Hornet, walloping most of Shanghai. Director Andrew Lau makes a kind-of sequel to the 1972 Bruce Lee Fist of Fury. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mix of Western tropes and kung fu mayhem. My favorite moment of culture clash: after hours at the Club Casablanca, Yen drowns some heartache with a glass of whisky, while tickling out a minor-key version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Internationaleâ&#x20AC;? at funeral-march tempo on a grand piano.

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in the world, that agent of imperialism had to come into mine.

Well he might brood: Yenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chen Zhen survived a little known chapter of historyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;historian Xu Guoqi describes it in Strangers on the Western Front. Some 140,000 Chinese troops, badly armed, were forced to perform manual labor for the Allies during World War I. Now a veteran back in China during the 1920s, Chen sees trouble everywhere: the Japanese military (led by an ultrasadistic colonel played by Ryu Kohata) is planning to start World War II 20 years early. A Zorro-like movie is playing in Shanghai. Chen steals the heroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s costume

from a window display and becomes a masked avenger, inspiring both the public and the supine local police to take a stand.

Legend of the Fist crashes out of the gate with C\^\e[ f] Chenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bayonet attack on k_\ =`jk1 K_\ a battalion of the Kaiserâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s I\klie f] men. It ďŹ nishes with an :_\e Q_\e articulated takedown of R; 105 min. an entire dojo (ďŹ&#x201A;ashbacks Opens Friday of the villainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evil come during the ďŹ nal duel, just in case we forgot his atrocities).

Very satisfactory mayhem, certainly, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a troubling undertone to the way the ďŹ lm broods over encirclement and national humiliation.

We keep hearing how Western powers loved a divided Chinaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;yet no Hollywood ďŹ lm about that period was complete without a scene of a plutocrat in a white dinner jacket, complaining about how the Chinese civil war was interfering with trade. Legend of the Fist amps up the geek fodder (torture scenes and slow strangulations); meanwhile, it tries to denounce the satin clothes, neon decadence and Western trinkets the camera loves so dearly. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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PROM (PG; 103 min.) All the fun and laughs of that high school rite of passage, starring Aimee Teegarden, Danielle Campbell and Nicholas Braun. (Opens Fri.)

REEL WORK 2011 See story on page 50.

THE ROBBER (Unrated; 90 min.) Deadpan and detail-rich account of the career of the real-life Johann Rettenberger, a highly successful (for a time) Viennese bank robber, as well as a champion long-distance runner.

Director Benjamin Heisenberg surveys the unpromising cityscapes with the absolute-zero chill of late period Jean-Pierre Melville. We watch as Rettenberger (Andreas Lust) takes over a series

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The Tillman Story (April 27, 6:30pm, at San Jose City College Student Center) revives one of last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two or three best documentaries. It tells the tale of an Almaden Valley Army Ranger whose preventable death was used for propaganda by the U.S. Armed Forces. On hand to talk to the audience: Mary Tillman, Patâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother. We still donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why Pat Tillmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diary was burned, but all the details of the attempted hoodwinking of Ms. Tillman (and the rest of the American people) is here in Amir Bar-Levâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s study.

On May 3 at 9:15 and 10:45am, also at SJCC Student Center: a tragic piece of strayed history is recovered. Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program charts what one man might describe as the illegal immigrant problem, and another man might describe as the systematic eďŹ&#x20AC;ort by the ag business to keep farm labor dirt cheap. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perhaps not in the nature of old Mexican men to complain

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News photos (and a vintage Chet Huntley report from 1963) show the sometimes lethal conditions, including crowded, roasting tin barracks, in the I\\c Nfib )'(( Arizona cotton ďŹ elds.

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On April 29 at 7pm at the San Jose Peace and Justice Center: Way Down in the Hole, Alex Johnstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s account of the war against coal-mining unionizers almost a century ago, reputedly the bloodiest strike in the history of American labor.

(Its centerpiece, the Ludlow Massacre, is well known to Woody Guthrie fans.)

Locked Out by Joan Sekler (April 28 at the SJCC Student Center) tells a happier story of how the ILWU endured a 107-day long strike against mining giant Rio Tinto.

Sponsored by a host of labor unions, this fest couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be a better present for International Workerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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of nondescript suburban banks.

He wears a rubber mask thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more expressive than the features underneath. He hides out with Erika (Franziska Weisz), a girl he seems to have known before his time in jailâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the connection between them is strangely like brother and sister, denuded of backstory or of conventional tenderness. As passionate as this robber gets is the moment where he tells her off: â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I do has nothing to do with what you call life.â&#x20AC;? I know this opposes the silliness of conventional heist movies (thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a scene where Erika and Johann smirk at a movie screen we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see, though we hear the sound effects of police whistles, breaking glass and squealing tires). The Robber is trying to be rigorously honest, and during the final pursuit it evinces some fine existential suspense.

However, it seems that we are denied an entry point; the film is just that rigorously locked in.

(Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.) (RvB)

SOCIAL ISSUES DOCUMENTARY FEST Three hundred-plus high schools compete for prizes in the field of social issue documentaries; this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s semifinalists include students from Freestyle Academy, Saratoga High, Lincoln High and Valley Christian. (Plays Apr 30 at 2pm in San Jose at Camera 12.)

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Harry Langdon. Judy Rosenberg at the piano. (Plays Apr 30 in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.)

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ROYAL WEDDING/THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE (1951/1958) The Stanford Theatre inaugurates a string of vintage musicals; this first is doubtlessly much more interesting than the TV rip-off this weekend. Fred Astaire is in London to attend the nuptials of Princess Elizabeth. In the most memorable sequence, Fred takes a little twirl on the ceiling (a revolving set built in a drum is how

it was done). Sarah Churchillâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Winstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;co-stars, romancing Peter Lawford to tickle the juveniles of the day. BILLED WITH The Reluctant Debutante, Vincente Minnelliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy about an American stepdaughter getting the works in London society. Stars Rex Harrison and his wife, the illfated comedienne Kay Kendall, as well as Sandra Dee. (Plays Apr 30May 2 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) Barely Legal interprets the classic. (Plays Apr 30 at 11:30pm in

Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. Apr 30: The original Harrison Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;accept no substitutes!â&#x20AC;&#x201D;in The Nervous Wreck (1926), as a hypochondriac who gets his health back the hard way in the American West. Also: Harold Lloyd in Just Neighbors (1919) and Fiddlesticks (1926) with

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WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988) Robert Zemeckisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; brilliant parody film noir is a swan song for the art of Golden Age studio animation, as well as a mystery about how the freeways ravaged Los Angeles. Bob Hoskins is the cheap detective who â&#x20AC;&#x153;used to be a sober chapâ&#x20AC;?; Charles Fleischer does the voice of the seemingly cuckolded rabbit-clown and Kathleen Turner voices the devastating Jessica. (Plays Apr 30-May 1 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

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interesting (Louis Armstrong and Rex Ingram are Satanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little helpers). Cabin in the Sky reveals its anti-racist sympathies in a few minutes of the astonishing John W. Sublett as the gambler Domino. Sublett sings the Ford Dabney/Lew Brown tune â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shine,â&#x20AC;? a song that sums up the African American tradition of transforming a barb into an ornament. BILLED WITH Swing Time. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were poetry in motion. Unfortunately, the plots of their films were prose. Lucky (Astaire) is a hoofer by trade but a gambler by vocation. He heads to New York and has his heart stolen

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IInsolence nsolennce Fridayy, 9pm Friday, The Blank Blaank Club, Club, San San Jose Jose The doonation to Japanese Japanese Red Red Cross Cross $12 donation

Classic silent film “Metropolis” with live music!

May 20, 8pm, Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre Don’t miss this opportunity to see Fritz Lang’s classic silent film, “Metropolis,” screened outdoors in Montalvo’s Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre — with live accompaniment by The Club Foot Orchestra! The 1926 film takes place in a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners. The son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. The Club Foot Orchestra, founded in 1983 by Richard Marriot, has a forged a reputation in the Bay Area for performing their original complex and dramatic film scores to classic silent films.

The classic cartoon, “Felix the Cat Woos Whoopee,” opens the show!

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Lisa Engelken Wednesday at the Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, 7pm; free Jazz covers of rock tunes aren’t uncommon anymore, but they’re usually instrumentals. And they’re definitely not Billy Idol songs. That’s why Lisa Engelken’s version of “White Wedding” crushes; she throws out the sneer, but keeps the dark edge.

Idol isn’t the only artist that gets Engelkenized on her most recent record, Caravan—the inspired covers range from Duke Ellington to Cole Porter to Joni Mitchell. (SP)

Eddie and the Hot Rods Sunday at Blank Club, San Jose, 8pm; $10 There was a weird time in England when pub-rock collided with punk rock. Some of the pub-rockers, like Graham Parker, loved it; others just got their gear trashed by the Sex Pistols, which is what happened to Eddie & the Hot Rods when they let Johnny Rotten and company open for them. Best known for the hits “Do Anything You Want to Do” and “Teenage Depression,” they were never really punks. But then, there was never anyone in the band named Eddie, either. They’ll be playing the Teenage Depression album in its entirety. (SP)

Ty Curtis Band Sunday at Poor House Bistro in San Jose, 1pm; free In 2009, Salem, Oregon’s Ty Curtis Band took on more than 2,000 other groups in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. They came in second, and in case, like Vince Lombardi, you thought there was no room for second place, you should know that’s where they caught the attention of one of the judges David Z, who’s produced everyone from Prince to Etta James. He liked their sound—a mesh of influences from classic blues to R&B to reggae to gypsy jazz— and produced their album Cross That Line.

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BLINKY’SCAN’TSAY

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

Fri, 7pm: Mystic Pilots. Santa Clara.

THEBLANKCLUB

MOROCCO’SRESTAURANT

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

Campbell.

Ca

Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Bitchin’ Camaros. Fri: Junkshaker. Sat: Garcia Bros. Campbell.

Fri, 10pm: Fast Times. Sat, 10pm: Superbad. San Jose.

Tue, 7:30pm: Irish dancing.

Sunnyvale.

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BRITANNIAARMS ALMADEN

Fri: Jimini. $5. Sat: L.E.D., Danger Girl. $8. Sunnyvale.

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

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

HEDLEYCLUB Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Kristen Strom Quartet. Sat, 8:30pm: The Jazz Mechanics.

Hotel de Anza, San Jose.

J.J.’SBLUESCAFE Wed, 9pm: Suska. Thu, 9pm: Jimmy Dewrance. Sat, 9pm: Marvin Banks. $10. San Jose.

CASCAL

LOFTBARANDBISTRO

Thu: Gypsy Tribe. Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live music. Mountain View.

LOSGATOSBREWINGCO.

DANA STREET ROASTING CO. Every second Mon, 7pm: Ukulele jam. Mountain View.

LILLY MAC’S Sun, 6pm: Traditional Irish music.

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

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

LOSGATOSBREWINGCO. SANJOSE Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos.

San Jose.

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Undergone THE MEMBERS of Undergone are preparing themselves for a very busy summer. Made up of two sets of brothers—vocalist Pat Hopkins, bassist Greg Hopkins, drummer Paul Carr and guitarist Evan Carr, along with non-brother guitarist Mike Duell—the San Jose alt-rock band is releasing the EP Devil in You this week, with a CD release show at X Bar in Cupertino. Meanwhile, their music has been featured on several MTV shows and in the rugby documentary A Giant Awakens. The band took some time away from practice to talk to Metro.

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NETO’S GRILL Thu, 6pm: Scarlett Rue Revival Band. Sat, 7pm: Sid Morris Band.

Santa Clara.

A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Steven Gary. Sat, 9pm: Chris Burkhardt, Delta blues.

San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays Band. Fri, 6-10pm: Kickin the Mule. Sat, 6-10pm: Mark Hummel and the Blues Survivors. Sun, 1-5pm: Ty Curtis Band. San Jose.

TESSORA’S

RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Fri, 8pm: Rhythmscapes, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Bobby McDowell Band. Fremont.

SAM’S BBQ

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

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

Wed, 6pm: Country Classics. Tue, 6pm: Bean Creek. San Jose.

ACAPULCO RESTAURANT & CANTINA

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Sat, 7pm-midnight: KJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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

Open Mic ALEX’S 49ER INN ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 7pm: Open mic.

Redwood City.

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

AZÚCAR

Fri, 8:30pm & Sat, 8pm: Live jazz. Campbell.

BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

THE BEARS

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

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

UNWINED

Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic night.

Cupertino.

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

CAFFE TRIESTE

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

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

WINE AFFAIRS Wed, 7:30pm: ADNB. Thu, 811pm: Michael Medina. San Jose.

C&W/Folk ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 5-7pm: Fundraiser for Wings Learning Center with the Magic Makers and hors d’oeuvres. $35.

Fri, 6-8pm: The Coffis Brothers.

Sat, 8:30pm: Acoustic Son. $12/$16.

Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Free. San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S

BLUE MAX

Mon: Rebelskamp open jam night. San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

BLUE PHEASANT

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Fri, 8pm: Rick Shea and Tom Corbett. Sat, 7pm: Tony Perez.

Santa Clara.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE Thu: Ghost of Wrights. Fri: AnnMarita. Sat: SJG. Campbell.

Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

Sun: Mike Leatherman.

Campbell.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING

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

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

Thu, 7pm: Hootenanny with Mike Murdock and Sean McGuire. Sat, 7pm: Given to Fly. Willow Glen.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

CIY ESPRESSO

BOSWELL’S

THE GRAPEVINE

Fri, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

Tue, 6pm: Open mic night.

San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

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

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

BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BOULEVARD TAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

HOMESTEAD LANES

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

Cupertino.

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

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE

HUDDLE

Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.

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

Wed-Thu, 8:30pm: Thomas. SatSun, 8:30pm: Chris. Fri, 8:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

KATIE BLOOM’S

SHOOTERSBAR&GRILL

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Menlo Park.

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

Campbell.

Thu, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

BRIX

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT

SOUTHFIRSTBILLIARDS

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

KHARTOUM Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Thu, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

Sun, 5-9pm: Family karaoke.

Gilroy.

KING OF CLUBS

TEQUILASHOT’SBAR&GRILL

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

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

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

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Mon, 8pm-midnight: DJ Curtis.

Willow Glen.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

MARIANI’S

TOUCHDOWNTOMMY’S

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

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

DAN BROWN’S

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL DIVE BAR Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE EFFIE’S RESTAURANT Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 27pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

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

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

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY

Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

PEACOCK LOUNGE

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

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT

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

OASIS

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

STATION55

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

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

SHERWOODINN

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

Sunnyvale.

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

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

POINCIANA LOUNGE

GILROY BOWL

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

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

QUARTER NOTE

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

DanceClubs AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Thu-Fri: DJs. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

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

BLINKY’SCAN’TSAY

REDI ROOM

BLOWFISHSUSHI

Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.

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

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

No cover. Santana Row.

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

RUDY’S PUB

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

Wed, 10pm-1:30am: Purple.

Palo Alto.

Thu: College night. Santa Clara.

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

BRANHAMLOUNGE Wed: Humpday Wednesdays.

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THESADDLERACK

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: DJs and dancing. Campbell.

Wed, 9pm: DJ Henry. Thu, 9pm: DJ Mark. Fri, 9pm: DJ Rita. Sat, 7:15pm: DJ Mark. Fremont.

KHARTOUM Wed: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

KINGOFCLUBS Fri, 9:30pm: Club Brinca. Tue, 9pm: Nox. Mountain View.

LILLYMAC’S BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

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

San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.

BRITANNIAARMS DOWNTOWN Thu: DJ David Q. Sat, 10pm: DJ Aspect. San Jose.

BRITISHBANKERSCLUB Wed: Reggae. Thu: Latin. Fri: ’70s and ’80s. Sun & Tue: Lounge.

Menlo Park.

BRIX Thu: Therapy. Fri: Breathless.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

C&J’SSPORTSBAR Wed & Sat, 10pm: DJ. Santa Clara.

CLUBILLUSIONS

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

LOFTBARANDBISTRO Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live DJ. San Jose.

MOTIF Thu-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

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

PARRANDANIGHTCLUB Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover.

Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo. Sat, 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik. Sun, 7pm: Latin Beat. Sun, 9pm: Sonidero Night. Sunnyvale.

PEACOCKLOUNGE Fri, 8pm: DJ dancing featuring R&B, Top 40. Sat, 9pm: DJ dancing featuring chill, R&B, Top 40. Sun & Tue, 9pm: DJ dancing.

Sunnyvale.

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

SABORTAPASBAR

DASILVA’SBRONCOS

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

Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ or live band. No cover. Santa Clara.

SANJOSEBAR&GRILL Thu: Thursday Night Live. Fri: Video Killed the DJ with VJ Vinyl.

Sat: Sultry Saturdays. Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze.

San Jose.

STEPHENSGREEN Thu, 10pm: DJ competition.

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

STUDIO8 Thu, 10pm-2am: Supreme Thursdays. Fri, 9pm-2am: Stacie the bartender from “The Hills” appears. Sat, 9pm-2am: Tina T and XXX Divas and fashion show.

San Jose.

TEMPLEBAR&LOUNGE Wed: RedRun Wednesday. DJs D. Luzion and Illtraxx. Thu: Dig. Hiphop and R&B. Fri, 8pm-close: Video mixing with DJ Ready Rock. Sat: Temple All-Star DJs. San Jose.

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Sir Dancealot.

Willow Glen.

WILLOWDEN Fri, 10:30pm-2am: DJ Jazzy C. Sat, 9:30pm-2am: DJ Noble.

Willow Glen.

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

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FAHRENHEITULTRALOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Wheels of Steel DJ battle. Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Elite. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

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FIBBARMAGEES

German heavy metalers still best known for 1983 hit “Balls to the Wall.” Apr 28 at the Regency Ballroom.

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

GALAXY Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.

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

THEGRANDDELLSALOON

Sweaty, unbridled rock toned down for a promised “mellow set.” Apr 28 at Cafe du Nord.

ACCEPT

MIKE WATT San Pedro represent with the van-driving, bass-playing, spiel-spouting great. Apr 29 at Bottom of the Hill.

GHOSTFACE KILLAH While other Wu-Tang alumni descend into caricatures, Ghostface remains a vital exception. Apr 29 at Mezzanine.

Tue, 9pm: Live DJ. Campbell

MARK MCGUIRE

JOHNNYV’S

Member of Emeralds and pioneering hero in underground noise circles. May 3 at Hemlock Tavern.

Wed: The Cypher. Thu: Treatment.

Live electronica, analog funk and beats. San Jose.

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But the partner who will be most annoying is one you only find halfway hot—somebody you have the hots for physically but whose character flaws and incompatibilities you ignore. You basically need to have a crush on a partner as a human being (have deep respect and even admiration for who he is and how he goes about life). Being human, he’ll do things that would annoy a Buddhist monk who could relax for an afternoon in a tank of fire ants. If you have the hots for him all around, it’s far less likely that the things you dream of doing to him in bed will involve strangling or blunt force trauma.

You should also make sure your partner isn’t your second greatest love, after your love of being right. Approaching problems as “ours” rather than “mine vs. yours” takes what researcher John Gottman calls “deep friendship,” where overwhelming positive feelings about each other and the relationship really suck the life out of any negative ones. The more relationship research I read, the more essential an overall positive sentiment seems. For example, researcher Shelly Gable found that the happiest relationships involve partners who make sacrifices for each other—because they love and want to support their partner, and not as some sort of investment to avoid conflict or keep from losing them. So, in a good

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Each time you snap at each other, you hack a little chunk out of your relationship. Before long, snapping becomes the culture of your relationship, and you become your snarly parents. It helps to make a pact that you won’t act like you’ve forgotten you love each other.

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yyou ou Ca ncerians ccan an bbe, e, bbecause ecause II’m ’m oone ne ooff yyour our Cancerians ttribe. ribe. SSometimes ometimes tthe he ssecrecy ecrecy iiss a bbit it nneurotic, eurotic, bbut ut more m ore ooften ften iitt sserves erves tthe he ppurpose urpose ooff ssheltering heltering your your vulnerable areas. awaree of how important it vulner able ar eas. I’m also awar forr yyou Noo oone iiss fo ou ttoo bbee sself-protective. elf-protective. N ne iiss bbetter etter tthan han guarding safety you at guar ding your goodies, eensuring nsuring your saf ety caree of your well-be well-being. and taking car ing. I would never forr eexpressing would sshame hame yyou ou fo xpressing tthese hese ttalents alents aand nd I w ould them. never ask you to downplay them m. Having said that, suree tha that weekss though, I want to make sur at in the coming week don’t interfere getting they don ’t interf ere with you ge etting the blessings deserve.

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(Sept. 23–Oct. 23–Oct. 22): 22): IIt’s t’s time time for for the the Big Big Squeeze.

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As As you bask and thrive in your enhanced support system, system, you you also also deserve deserve to to feel feel better better appreciated appreciated for for the the wonderful wonderful qualities qualities you’re you’re working working so so hard hard to to develop in yourself. yourself. Ask Ask and you shall rreceive. eceive.

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Here’s where things stood as of 1996.

Planet X was the name astronomer Percival Lowell gave in the early 20th century to the hypothetical celestial body that would account for apparent irregularities in the orbit of Neptune, the outermost planet then known. In 1930, what we now call Pluto was discovered in the approximate location Lowell had predicted for Planet X. But this discovery was coincidence, made possible by sheer doggedness on the part of Clyde Tombaugh, the astronomer who found the new planet—Pluto, it turned out, was far too small to budge Neptune.

The search for Planet X continued. In 1972, astronomer Joseph Brady predicted it would be a massive body with an orbit at a steep angle to those of most other planets that took 464 years to revolve around the sun. Brady’s conjecture was never widely accepted, and more precise observations during the 1989 Voyager 2 flyby established that the supposed anomalies in Neptune’s orbit were, in fact, nonexistent. In short, there was no Planet X. End of story? Naturally not. In 2005, astronomers poring over telescopic images discovered another largish object out past Neptune. Initially called 2003 UB313 (the 2003 part identifies the year the crucial photos were taken), it bore several distinctive traits: First, it was the most distant object known to orbit the sun other than a few comets. Second, it was pretty big, with a diameter roughly a fifth of Earth’s, although it was only a quarter of 1 percent as massive. Third, it takes 557 years to circle the sun, and its orbit is at a steep angle to those of the other planets, much as Joseph Brady in 1972 had predicted for Planet X. Again, however, it was just coincidence. Eris was nowhere near as massive as Brady’s hypothetical giant.

Nonetheless, 2003 UB313’s discoverers had Planet X on their minds and nicknamed their find Xena, after TV’s warrior princess. Wiser heads prevailed, and ultimately the thing was named Eris.

The discovery of Eris proved to be the downfall of Pluto. The two objects were about the same size; if Pluto was a planet, so was Eris. Astronomers were now faced with the prospect of a planetary roster consisting of eight large to really large planets plus two relatively dinky ones. Pluto’s status as a planet had always struck some people as dubious, not only because of its size but also its funky orbit, which is itself sharply angled and at times brings Pluto closer to the sun than Neptune. The arrival of Eris on the scene revived the argument.

The problem wasn’t just Eris. Pluto is located in a remote section of the solar system beyond Neptune’s orbit known as the Kuiper Belt. (Eris is in an even more distant zone called the scattered disk.) For a long time, astronomers thought there wasn’t much in the Kuiper Belt other than Pluto and its moons, dust and the occasional comet. Then starting in 1992, they discovered the first of what are now more than 1,000 known Kuiper Belt objects, or KBOs. Some think the KBO count could eventually reach 70,000.

The Kuiper Belt, in other words, was like the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—that is, a region of crud, little if any of it worthy of planetary designation.

But there was no way to define “planet” so that Pluto stayed in the club while the largest of the crud was kept out. One attempt to preserve Pluto’s planethood wound up elevating several other miscellaneous objects to planetary status as well. This will never do, the International Astronomical Union decided. In 2006 it demoted Pluto to dwarf planet.

You’d think that would mean the end of the Planet X saga, too. Not so. “Planet X” has now become the default term for any large orbiting item of interest on the solar system’s fringe. To learn more about what’s out there, NASA has launched the New Horizons space probe, which will fly past Pluto in 2014 and later, it’s hoped, past some KBOs. The space agency doesn’t expect to spot any new mystery objects, project scientist Harold Weaver told my assistant Una. But at least speculation about future Planet Xs (in the Kuiper Belt, anyway) won’t be so wildly off the mark.

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Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on. /s/Antonio Uribe Guerra This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/09/2011. (pub Metro 4/6, 4/13, 4/20, 4/27/2011)

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