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Penguin Poser For a minute, when I read in Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World in the April 20 issue—“Declarative: Your emotional attachment and/or

loyalty to the nation-state in which you reside is HIGHLY SUSPECT”—I thought the Conservabot was suspicious that the penguin was so “attach[ed] and/or loyal.” After all, what could be more patriotic than wanting our government to thrive and flourish? What could be more patriotic than supporting programs which protect and serve our citizens? I just thought I’d share.

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wife and robotic children could be our next “first family”? Time magazine (a magazine for the masses?) just nominated the World’s 100 most influential people. There are nearly 7 billion people in the world. Included in Time’s top 100 are: Justin Bieber, Amy Poehler, a chef, a cricket player, Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon, John Boehner and Chris (who?) Colfer.

Therein lies the mentality that ranks influential people. And that “pop culture” mentality would vote for “road kill” and/or the Donald, if it was packaged for the masses.

Influential indeed.

NEIL DAVIS | SEBASTOPOL

Dead Center I think this article is well presented and hits the target dead center (“Uncle Sam’s Pension Plan,” Norman Kline, SanJoseInside, April 27). The other question I would ask is what was happening politically when these deals were put into action. Always suspicious, I question was it the act of good negotiating by the unions or was there a selfserving benefit to those in office when these programs were designed.

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DA Gives DA Givves e Pot Pot Clubs Clubs Green Gr een Light Liight A pr protocol otocol put together t a few few weeks weeks ago by deputy DA DA JIM JIM SIBLEY SIBLEY tried to clarify his office office’s stance ’s stan nce on medical marijuana with with a simple simple explanation: explanation: Collectives Collectives are are legal under California Caliifornia law if they are are clearly nonprofit nonprofit and follow follow land-use land use codes. codes That didn’t Police didn’t stop P olicce Chief CHRIS CHRIS MOORE MOORE from from telling telling tthe he SSan an JJose ose CCity ity CCouncil ouncil tthat hat hhe’d e’d heard directly DA’s heard dir ectly ffrom rom the D A’’s office that not one one ooff tthe he 1100-plus 00-plus ddispensaries ispensaries iin n SSan an Jose Perhaps Moore Jose iiss llegal. egal. P erhaps M oore ddid id nnot ot rread ead Sibley’s pr protocol, otocool, which criticized police ffor or “an aggressive approach “an overly aggr essive appr oach driven by a sstrained trained iinterpretation nterpretation ooff tthe he llaw aw tthat hat appears unsupported unsuppported by any published authority.” authority.” Moore Moore then proceeded proceeded to claim that that pot pot clubs clubs pose pose a grave grave threat threat to to the the public public while while certain certain members members of of the the Reefer feer council re-created re-creatted a scene from from Reef arping oonn the the hazards hazards of of Madness, hharping marijuana—and m arijuana—and demonstrating demonstrating another another DA’s findings: of the D A’’s find ings: “Our investigation rrevealed evealed that that ... ... individuals, individuals, aagencies gencies and and oorganizations rganizations aare re still still actively actively engaged engaged iin n aadvocacy dvocacy aalmost lmost as as if if our our current current weree not iin laws wer n place,” while ““some some in enforcement law enf orcemen nt continue to argue argue that marijuana is sim simply mply a dangerous dangerous drug, w with ith nnoo m medical edical uuses ses or or benefits.” benefits.” DA DA ROSEN JEFF R OSEN ssaid aid tthe he City City Council Council is is free free to to sset et sstrict trict gguidelines—which uidelines—which tthe he council council weeks ddid id ttwo wo w eeks aago go by by imposing imposing a cap cap of of 110 0 oon n ccollectives. ollectives. But But just just because because the the ccity ity aand nd the the SSJPD JPD hhave ave a problem problem with with a ppot ot club club doesn’t doesn’t m mean ean Rosen’s Rosen’s ooffice ffice w will ill pprosecute. rosecute. IInstead, nstead, problem problem collectives collectives will will be given a warn ning and an opportunity warning to clean up the ir act. If dispensaries don ’t their don’t ddoo sso, o, ““we’re we’re ggoing oing ttoo w weed eed oout ut tthe he bbad ad oper ators,” Rose en vowed. (He added that operators,” Rosen the pun was no ot intended.) Councilmember Councilmembe not PIER LUIGI OLIVERIO, OLIVEERIO, who who has has been been pushing pushing PIERLUIGI ffor or rregulation egulation ssince ince 22009, 009, w hen tthere here w ere when were dozen ffewer ewer than a do ozen pot clubs in town, applauded the county’s new approach, approach, drastically different which he said iss dr astically diff erent than DAs tthose hose ooff oother ther D As iinn tthe he state, state, most most notably LLos os Ang geles’ raid-happy raid-happy SSTEVE TEVE T Angeles’ CCOOLEY. OOLEY. W ith SSibley ibley ssubmitting ubmitting a finalized finalized With ddraft raft ooff hhis is pprotocol rotocol tthis his week, week, Fly Fly is is

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And, ffor or the cit o city’s y’s million or so residents, tss, iin n play play are arre their their collective collective safety and nd the the fiscal fiscal soundness soundness of of the the institutions ions that that deliver deliver the the k kind ind o off government ment ser me services vices the they’re y’re most likely to o encounter e ounter in day-to-day enc daay--to - daay li life. iffe.

The P Police olic l e Officers Officers Association Asso s ciation announced Friday cceed Frida ay that its members memberss would accept ccccept a one one-time -time 10 p percent ercent cut in pay and benefits ayy an nd b enefits ffor or tthe he ccoming oming year. Union niio on leaders ccast ast the mo move ove as a

generous proposal generous proposal that would sa save ave jobs jobs..

M ayor C huck R eed iimmediately mmediately ccalled allled Mayor Chuck Reed tthe he offer off ffeer iinadequate, nadequate, aand nd warned war arned tthat hat iitt ccame ame danger dangerously ously late in i the game game..

IInitial nitiall agreements agreements are arre due due in in a m onth. As As of of Tuesday, Tuesday, both both ssides ides month. have dug and h ave d ug into into their their positions positions an nd are are rrefusing efusing to budge. budge.

A esult, 2 50 p oliice offic ers— Ass a rresult, 250 police officers— 20 p ercent of the force—could for o ce— could lose percent jobs. their jobs.

Reed R eeed will deliv deliver veer his budget message on o n JJune une 33,, aand nd h his is o office ffice ssays ays tthat hat u unless nless tthe he P POA OA ag agrees grees tto o an n indefinite indefinite p pay ay ccut, ut, aarbitration rbitration hearings hearings would would force force hundreds h undreds of of officers officers o out ut of of a job job u until ntil a rresolution esolution is rreached. eached. ““If If things things don’t don’t go go well, well, we’re we’re in in trouble, tr ouble bl ,” Reed Reeed d sa says. ays y . “If the they h y go worse worse,, we’re deeper So wee n need w e’re iin nd eeper ttrouble. rouble. S ow eed tto oh have ave ssome ome o off tthese hese cchanges hanges m made ade prevent cityy fr from fiscal to pr event the cit om m a fisc al and safety saf feetty disaster disaster..”

The $115.2 million T he ccity ity iiss ffacing acing a $ 115.2 m illion upcoming fiscal deficit ffor or o the up comiing fisc al yyear, ear, City Manager Debra Figone’s aand nd C ity M anager D ebra Fi gone’s

p roposed b udget, released released on on proposed budget, Monday o dayy, pa paints a b p bleak ea picture. pictur p c u e.

Monday, Libraries and a community community centers centers w ill be be closed closed for for three three or or more more d ays will days eevery very week. week. And And 650 650 city city positions p ositions w ill likely likely be be eeliminated—even liminated— even if if all all will 1111 llabor abor unions unions aagree gree to to 110 0 percent p ercent cuts in ccompensation. om mpensation.

“The severe severe reductions reductions rrecommended ecommen nded in this Pr Proposed oposed aree sob sobering Budget ar ering and will in one w ay orr another touch eevery very way p erson in San S JJose,” ose,” F igone writes person Figone writes..

T he n umber o ositions eeliminated liminated The number off p positions ccould ould incr e to mor ease 00 if increase moree than 1,0 1,000 Alexx Gurza Gurza, city’s negotiator,, Ale a, the cit ty’ y s lead negotiator ccannot annot ccut ut d eals w ith tthe he rremaining emaining ssix ix deals with u nions. G urza, w ho d id n ot rrespond espond tto o unions.

Gurza, who did not rrequests equests ffor or ccomment, omment, iiss cclearly learrly iirked rked with the PO OA’s strateg gy.

POA’s strategy. letter May In a let ttteer dated Ma ay 2, Gurza sscolded colded u nion p resident G eorge B eattie union president George Beattie ffor or o holdingg a pr ess cconference onffer e ence and press showing hi his is plan to the media “prior to the cconclusion oncclusion of our meeting— during which proposal was being d uring w hich tthe he p roposall w aass b eing presented City’s pr esented to t the Cit ty’ y s negotiating the time..” team ffor or th o he first time JJim im U Unland, nland, vvice ice p president resident o off tthe he PO A, sa ays y the t cit tyy’s pr oposed cuts POA, says city’s proposed u nfairly aaffect ff ffeect jjunior unior o fficers, w ho unfairly officers, who

Ballot Battle Reed, R eeed, Vice Viice Mayor Maayor Madison Madisson Nguy Nguyen yeen Councilmember Sam Liccardo and C ouncilmember Sa am Lic cardo have begun preparations ha ave already already b egun pr ep parations to The iinclude nclude voters voters in in the the process. proc o ess. T he ttrio rio iiss proposing proposing a b ballot allot m measure eassure ffor or November would abuses N ovember that that w ould ad aaddress ddress ab buses disability program. in the disabilit ty rretirement etirem ment pr ogram. gram A ccity ity audit audit sshows hows tthat, hat, ccompared ompared to the national aaverage, verage, San JJose ose has an unusually lar large ge num number mber of p police olice officers and firefighters on o fficers an nd fi refighters going going o n disability disabilit ty and then taking takin ng other fulltime jobs after they they rretire. etirre.

From 2000 2008, out off F rom 2 000 tto o2 008, ttwo wo o ut o tthree hree fire fire personnel personnel and and more more tthan han n one o ne out out of of three three SJPD SJPD personnel personnel rretired etired o on n a sservice-related ervice-related d disability—a isability—a dramatically rate dramatic d i ally ll higher hi h r than h those h Los seen for fo or sworn sworn officers officers in n Fresno, Fresno, L os Angeles,, San Francisco Angeles Francisco and a Oakland.

Unland U nland n says saays y the POA POA is willing to look look at rretirement, etirement, disability diisability and pension breath p ension reform, reform, but but in in the the same same b reath hee ac h accuses ccuses Reed Reed and and his his staff staff of of playing playing dirty game.. dir ty in the public rrelations elatiions game Unland points U nland n points to a so-called so o-called “Vested “V Veested Rights Doctrine, which R ights D octrine,” w hich according acccording tto o tthe he P POA OA prevents prevents the the city city from from officers changing the pension pension plans pllans of offic ers now serving serving on the force. fo orce.

“We’d “W We’d love lo ove to sit at the th he table table and eexplore xplore [vested [vveested rights],” Unland Un nland sa says. ayys. ““Tell Tell u uss w what hat Reed’s Reed’s p people eople k know, now, ttell ell uss w u what hat tthe he gray gray aarea rea is. is. But But that’s that’s not not R eeed’s style. sttyle y .”

Reed’s A his ssuggestion, uggestion, tthe he m ayor’s spine spine Att tthis mayor’s

official party sstiffens. tiff ffeens. ““That’s That’s tthe he o fficiall p arrty line line all unions, ffor or al ll of of the the u nions,” he he ssays, ays, “but “but that that fact, is not, in fac ct, what the law laaw is. is.”

Reed R eed ssays ays tthat hat even even though though a right right may bee vvested, doesn’t mean m ay b ested, iitt d oesn’t m ean n it’s it’s untouchable.

“We have untouchabl le. “W We ha ave some rights to cchange hange tthings hings tthat hat w ave rreserved eserved wee h have under our char ccharter, ter,” he sa ayys. says.

IIff G urza an aand nd his his n egotiating tteam eam Gurza negotiating ccan’t an n’t cchange han nge pe nsions tthrough hrough pensions mediation with w the city’s cittyy’s unions, unions, R eed ccould ould p ut m ore m eassures o n Reed put more measures on N oveember er’s ballot.

November’s “It ’s being beingg discussed constantly, constantlyy,” “It’s R eed e sa ayys. “W We’re in gr eat danger of Reed says.

“We’re great b eing unab le to pr ovide cit ty ser vices.” being unable provide city services.

All sides agree a ee that a lar agr ge number number large o an n JJose ose p olice officers officers are arre off S San police guaranteed to lose their jobs jobs,, which would b tyy’s histor y. bee a first in the cit city’s history.

Chief Chris Mo ore has alr eady handed Moore already o ut m ore tthan han n 1100 00 pink pink slips. slips. While While he he out more iiss w orking with with tthe he ccity ity o n securing securing a working on ffederal ederall ggrant ran nt tthat hat could could save save up up to to 50 50 jjobs, obs, a tthree-month hree-month ggap ap pb etween the the between b eginning o he ccity’s ity’s aand nd ffed’s ed’s fiscal fiscal beginning off tthe yyears—July earrs—July 1 aand nd O ct. 11—makes —mak kes iitt Oct. m uch m ore d ifficult tto om aintain staff staff much more difficult maintain le vels in thee meantime levels meantime..

L ess than than n ffour our w eeks rremain emain in in the the Less weeks rac ommon gr ound. racee to find ccommon ground. ““II tthink hink at at the the eend nd iitt could could always allways go go tto o ar rbitration,” ssays ays Councilmember Councilmember arbitration, Pierluigi Oliverio, Ollivveerio, “but if they theey go to aarbitration rbitration it’s it’s going going to to take take some some time —and 20 0 offic ers ar ff. time—and 200 officers aree laid off off.

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tempted to believe the matter is on the verge of being resolved—but not so fast. An additional actor has stepped onto the medical marijuana fracas in recent weeks: United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5.

Offering to throw some political clout behind the pot cubs, the union is slowly but surely garnering interest from collectives—although union rep JONATHAN HUGHES says no one is being actively recruited.

The union is also continuing to lobby City Hall for a different approach than the cap, which should make an at-times exasperated Mayor CHUCK REED just ecstatic. Just what he needs—another union battle.

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would b bee the first to los losee their jobs u nder tthe he u nion’s seniority seniority rules. rules. H under union’s Hee aalso lso ssays ays tthe he ccuts uts will will h hamstring amstring San San officers JJose’s ose’s ability abilitty to rrecruit ecruit offic o ers and rreesstaff taff tthe he rranks anks iin n tthe he ffuture. uture. ((San San JJose ose has no p olice ac adem my, so s an nyo one ne w police academy, anyone new w ould h ave to to transfer tran nsfer from from another an nother would have cit ty’ ysp olice depar tmentt.) city’s police department.) ““We We ccertainly ertainly h ave tto o worry worry aabout bout have the mark ketplac e e,” Reed Reeed concedes, concedes, marketplace, “but we ha ave priced priced ourselves ourrselvvees out of have tthe he m arrket. E ven tthough hough w eed market.

Even wee n need o fficers—I don’t don’t think think we we h ave enough enough officers—I have offic ers today—we todaay— —we ccan’t an’tt aff ffo ord them. officers afford W e’ll have haave to compete, compete, but b sometimes We’ll yyou ou don o n’t ’ ha ave the luxury luxu ury to ccompete ompete don’t have when yyou ou don’t o don’t have haave the th he cash. cash.”

T he ccity ity iiss fi rmly ccommitted ommitted The firmly tto o aaccepting ccepting n othing sshort hort o he nothing off tthe 110 0p ercent o ngoing cuts, cuts, because becau use percent ongoing agreements with other unions u contain agreements contain ““me-too” me-too” cclauses, lau uses, which which would would allow allow ffor or negotiations negotiations with with other other u nions tto o unions b eopened if if the the same sam me concessions concessions bee rreopened ar en n’t ’ reached. reached. aren’t

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sv 411.com The abbottabad helicopter/UFO h was shot down near n the Bilal Town area, T own o ar ea, and there’s th here’s report report of a flash. People People saying saaying it could be a drone. drone.

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Go away awaay helicopter—before helicopter—before I take take out my giant swatter swatte :-/ A hugee window shaking bang here heere in Abbottabad Cantt.

Cantt. I hope p its itts not the start of something somethiingg nastyy :-S All silent silent after the blast, but a friend friiend heard heard it 6km away awaay too... the thhe helicopter is gone too.

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Osama Bin Laden n killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan; Pakistan; ISI has confirmed it << Uh U oh, there there goes the neighborhood neighbo orhood :-/ Uh oh, now I’m th the he guy who liveblogged the Osama O rraid aid without knowing it.

I need to sleep, but b Osama had to pick this day to to die :-/ : / And the big ques question stion is—now that OBL does not no ot live in Abbottabad, is it open to terrorist ter rorist attacks too?

Funny, moving to Abbottabad was Funny, waas part of the ‘being saf safe’ e’ sstrategy. trategy.

I am JUST a tweeter, tweeeter, awake at the time of the crash. crash. Not many Twitter users in Abbottabad, T witter w A aree more these guys ar m e into mor Facebook. That’s That’s all.

The few few w people online at this time tim me of the night are are saying sayin one of the copters was not Pakistani Pakisstani ...

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Since Taliban Taaliban (probably) (probably) don’t don’t ha have ve helicpoters, and since sinnc they’r they’ree saying it was not “ours,” “ours,” so must be a complicated complicat situatio situation. on.

I guess I have a blog b post (or three) thr ee) to write when when I wake up.

Peace.

P eace. Out.

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Some havee said that the second man charge—Ayman in char ge— —Ayman al-Zawahiri—is probably pr obably a greater greater strategic strategic thinker than Osama Osam ma bin Laden ever was. But bin Laden had a presence presence about him and a greater greaater rresonance esonance among almembers.

Qaida mem mbers. decentralized Al-Qaida iss incredibly incredibly decentr alized theree are several franchises and ther are sever al fr anchises that operate operate a in different different parts of the world. That may have made bin Laden lookk not as important. But paid they all pa aid rrespect espect to him. He played an important symbolic rrole ole even if hiss operational operational role role was somewhatt diminished after 9/11.

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downside would be if we w did nothing just about bin Laden and ju ust let him go on. Then we’d look weak and ineffectual, ineff ectual, and that would w make us moree vulner vulnerable. mor able. —AD —ADAM DAM GORLICK, S ANJOSE.COM SANJOSE.COM

Lawsuit O Lawsuit Over ver Fake R elatiionship Relationship Janna St. St. James, who seduced seeduced a married mar ried woman over thee internet by pretending pr etending to be a hunky hunkky firefighter, firefighterr, may harsher penalties m ay fface ace h arsher p enalties than than tthe he awkward awkwar d confr confrontation ontation immortalized viral in a vir al video: An Illinois Illinois appeals court has rreinstated einstated a lawsuitt against her. herr.

St. James’’ adventures S t. James adventures as bipolar Colorado firefigher Color ado fir efigher Jesse Jessse James weree first covered wer covered in a now-classic L.A. Weekly Weekly article. She’d Shee’d introduced introduced her victim (anonymouss in the Weekly story, W eekly story y, but now public as Paula P aula Bonhomme, a digital digital media producer) pr oducer) to “Jesse” “Jesse” on on a message board boar d devoted to HBO’s HBO’s ’s Deadwood, Deadwood and, writing emails in character, character, long-term, quickly developed a lo ng-term, emotionally-involved relationship relationship with the then-married then-married Bonhomme.

“He” sent her gifts, photos, photos, and postcards; postcar ds; she corresponded corresponded with his friends and relatives. relatives. At At some point, Bonhomme got word James word that t had died of liver cancer. canceer. She was devastated. And then: About seven months later, laaterr, Bonhomme’s friends uncovered u uncover ed creepy the cr eepy truth. James, Jamees, his young son and about 20 other otheer friends and ffamily amily members Bonhomme B had been communicating communicating with for for months were were characters characters allegedly created cr eated by a woman in n Chicago’s west suburbs.

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James, exp posing g her as a fr aud. But Bonhommee soon decided to pursue legal action n against St. St. James, suing her ffor or “defamation” “defamation” and “fraudulent “fr audulent misrepresentation.” misrepresentation.” In 2009, the case c was thr own out. thrown month, But last mo onth, a divided Illinois appeals co court urt rreinstated einstated the case, St. James’’ argument rrejecting ejecting S t. James argument that she wa was as cr creating eating fiction and therefore ther efore wasn’t w liable.

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Praising his club’s pluckiness just minutes after San Jose went ahead 2-0 in its second-round playoff series with the Detroit Red Wings, McLellan said his guys were playing their best hockey to date and showing more “battleability.” The Sharks had scrapped, clawed and gnashed their teeth to an overtime victory Friday and a 2-1 win Sunday; showing the Red Wings the door back to Detroit and not minding one bit if it hit them on the way out.

The list of contributors in San Jose’s first two games this series is unexpected but absolutely welcome.

Two defenseman (Ian White and Niclas Wallin) not exactly known for their scoring prowess each found the back of the net for the Sharks’ goals in Game 2; Benn Ferriero—who we’re pretty sure was the only person in the Shark Tank wearing a sweater with that name on it Friday—celebrated his 24th birthday by scoring the winning goal in Game 1. And Antti Niemi has regained the form he showed at the end of the regular season by

stopping a redonculous 97 percent of shots on goal.

And then there’s that Polish prince of a man, Joe Pavelski, who basically guarantees victory every time he scores a goal. One lovely little piece of inductive logic on dynamo Joe: The Sharks have won their last 11 playoffs games when Pavelski places a puck past a goaltender.

With games in Detroit scheduled for 5pm Wednesday and 4pm Friday, the Sharks are just two victories shy of making a return to the Western Conference finals. But “Hockeytown” isn’t expected to roll over, not if Pavel Datsyuk and a recovering Henrik Zetterberg have anything to say about it. San Jose could end up returning home to HP Pavilion to host a game Sunday, but for now we’ll leave the hypotheticals to a minimum.

The Sharks are winning, local businesses are booming on game days and the general mood of fans is slowly meandering away from trepidation to a modest amount of temerity. People are starting to believe.

Battleability—it’s a slogan San Jose’s coach and players can hang their helmets on. It might be about as refined as a cross-check, and even McLellan admits he’s not sure it’s a word, but no term in the clichéd lexicon of professional sports seems to come as close to describing what it will take to dominate in a game well described as controlled chaos.

—Josh Koehn

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Pretty soon w won’t eeven ven ssee ee ttextbooks extbooks o n tthe he wee won’t on sshelves helves aatt S parrtan nB ookstore. W e’ll ssee ee Spartan Bookstore.

We’ll n nothing but bar codes codes instead.

E veryone ttalks alks aabout bout tthe he d eath o Everyone death off tr raditional books books and what it means meaans traditional ffor or authors, authors, but but how how about ab bout bookstore bookstore

receiving employees? receiving emplo oyees? If I professors proffessors e don’t order books what’s d on’t o rder b ooks aanymore, nymore, w hat’s ggoing oing to to h ap ppen? S parrtan nB ookstore happen?

Spartan Bookstore sells more more than just textbooks, textb x ooks, ob viouslyy, but since since I have have a past ha obviously, d irect cconnection onnection to to the the absurdity ab bsurdity o direct off this, I just had to bust bu ust in on the all this, p lace an nd rrevisit evisit tthe he lludicrous udicrous history history place and of it all.

A ffew ew w eeks ag go, o ver aatt S partan weeks ago, over Spartan Bookstore’s B ookstore’s off-site off ff--site warehouse, warrehouse, at at Se venth and C ommercial c str eets, Seventh Commercial streets, tthe he ffacility aaccility was wass being being shut shut down down and d gut tted. t d Har dl an dly yo one w as left. l ft gutted.

Hardly anyone was IItt was was tthe he b leakest-looking empty empty bleakest-looking w ar a ehouse I’v ve eever ver vis sited. It lo oked warehouse I’ve visited. looked eeven ven m ore b oring tthan han w hen it it w as more boring when was sto cked and op eration nal. Appar ently stocked operational.

Apparently B&N has no use for for o the th he facility facilitty and iiss m oving what’s what’s lleft eft o he rreceiving eceiving moving off tthe op eration to the down nstairs area area of operation downstairs the b ookstore. bookstore.

IIronically, ronically, this this is is originally originallly where where the rreceiving eceiving area area w as 20 yyears ears was ago beffor o e it moved moved to o the off-site off ff--site ago,, before w ar a ehouse in the first place. place. I was was warehouse a rreceiving eceiving emplo yeee at a that time employee time,, sso o I cannot can nnot h elp b ut llaugh augh aatt the au the help but p reposterous chain chain of of events events that that h ass preposterous has ccome ome full circle. circle.

N ow, I aam mb iased d ue tto om Now, biased due myy S partan S hops eexperience—the xperience—the Spartan Shops

perceived in amount off ineptitude I perceived compan ny would fill a textbook— textbook k— that company there were w e indeed good wer good times. times. but there Twent w ty years yeaars ago, ago, our warehouse waarehouse Twenty d downst airs in the bookstore bookstore manager downstairs was a lanky lank ky old character named was Mack Johnson.

Johnson. A legend legend among among Mack campus staffers staff affeers for for o a generation, campus he looked looked exactly exactly like like Orville Orville he Redenbach e her.

Redenbacher. hoot to t work for fo or and drink with, A hoot Johnson was wass approaching ap pproaching the the end end of of Johnson his career career and and saw saw the the big big changes changes his coming. That That is, is, he he didn’t didn’t want wan nt to to be be coming. around when wh hen the young young suits came came in around and moved moved the the entire entire warehouse warrehouse to to its its and new off-site off ff--sitte location location at Seventh Seventh and new Commerciial,, which they they did.

Commercial, pllanned a covert covert retirement retirement So he planned didn’t even even tell his own staff. staff ff. and didn’t We all showed showed up to work one day daay We and learned learned that that he he had had left. left. That That and was that. that. He He escaped escap ped quietly. quietly. No No was going-aaway parties, parties, no nothing. nothing. It was was going-away probably the the classiest classsiest exit exit I’ve I’ve ever ever probably an nyon ne pull off. off ff. seen anyone Under Mack’s M Mack’ s tenure, tenure, at the Under insistence of o his superiors, superiors, there there insistence already existed exiisted another off-site off ff--site already warehousee, a small unit,, way way up warehouse, on 13th 13th Street.

Street. This This is is where where the the on bookstore, in all its mismanaged glory, glory, bookstore, would store store old old fixtures fixtures it it couldn’t couldn’t use use would an nymor y e but b refused refused to throw throw out. anymore As receiving receiving employees, employees, it it was was As part of of our our jobs, jobs, at at $7 $7 an an hour, hour, to to part drive a half-busted hallff--busted moving mo oving v drive van all way up p 13th Street, Street,, past 101,, past the way the golf golf course, course, and an nd unload unload d piles piles the broken fixtures fi fixtur es and furniture, furniture, of broken literallly throwing throwing them them into into a rented rented literally warehouse that that was wass never never used used warehouse for o anything an nyythin ng else. else. It was waas the most for wasste of space space I’ve I’vve ever ever seen. useless waste Eventuallyy, the bookstore bookstore found fo ound Eventually, enough brain brain cells cells to to eliminate eliminate this this enough expense when when the the new new off-site off ff--site facility facility expense opened at Seventh Seventh and Commercial.

Commercial. opened Jump to to 2011, 2011, and and we’ve we’ve come come Jump circle. What’s W ’s left of the Spartan What Spartan full circle.

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But Kennedy Kennedy had read read d The View View From Fr om the C Center ent e er of the Univ U Universe, errse s , the 2006 2006 book book Joel Joel R.. Primack wrote wr ote with his wif wife, fe, p ph philosophy hilosoph phy professor pr offessor e Nancy Ellen n Abrams.

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That T hatt volume, volume, based based on on the the popular p opular ccourse ourse tthe he ccouple ouple started star ted teaching teaching at UC Santa Santa Cruz in 1995 19 995 (now ccancelled ancelled because because of cutbacks), cu utbacks), addressed addr essed the idea that thaat for for o the first hundreds fi rst ttime ime iin n tthe he h undre r ds of of years years sincee scienc sciencee split from sinc from m religion, religion, humans h umans have have v the the opportunity opp ortunity for for a unified underst understanding andin ng of their placee in the univ plac p universe. erse. More M e than Mor that, Abrams’ and Primack’s Prim mack’s first book b ook suggested that humans h enjoy enjoy a privileged privileged p place lace iin n tthe he cosmos cosmos thanks to long-ago tiny tin ny ac accidents cidents of chancee and substance; chanc substance;; eons later, later, we really re ally aare re tthe he p perfect erfect composition composition aand nd ssize ize fo forr iintelligence, ntelligence, and and

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F Five ive yyears earrs later Abrams and P Primack rimack h have avve ta taken ken tthe he ccentral entral cconcept oncept of of their their first first b book ook and and built on it. The Ne New w Univ Universe errsse and tthe he Human Human Future: Future: How How a Shared Shared C Cosmology oosmolog y C Could oould T Transform rransfform o the W World oorld addresses addre r sses tthe he sshared hared ccreation reattion stor storyy as thee st starting arting p point oint ffor or o ccommon ommon global g action on pr pressing essing pr problems oblems lik llikee climate change and tthe he little-known little-known phenomenon phenomenon o off debris. draws sspace pace d ebris. IItt aalso lso d raws parallels parallels between human b etween hu uman evolution evolution and the evolution evolutiion of the cosmos cosmos (see eexcerpt, xcerpt, p page age 2 24).

4). O On n a re recent cent w warm arm sspring pring aafternoon, fternoon, tthe he ccouple ouple ssat att o on n tthe he deck deck of of their their home home o overlooking verlooking M Monterey onterey Bay Bay aand nd explained explained a little little m more ore aabout bout ttheir heir p project, roject, sstarting tarting with the fundamental fu undamental pr proposition, oposition, sur suree to rais raise se secular eyebrows, eyebrows, that humans ar are re unique in the cosmos. cosmos.

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“We “W We ffound ound o that ourr students typically ccame typically ame into ou our ur ccourse ourse having ha avving this idea that tthey’re they’re insignificant insignific ant motes in a univ universe erse that doesn’t do esn’t ccare,” are,” sa says ays y Prim Primack. mack. “But the peak p eak of ccomplexity omplexity do doesn’t oesn’t happ happen en on the lar large ge end of th the he size sc scale.” ale.”

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“This is ph physics hyysics and d biolo biology,” gy,” sa says ayys Primack. “Onc “Oncee yyou ou underst u understand and it, it it’s ’s just the w way ay it is is. s. So we shouldn’t shouldn ’t ffeel eeel that we we’re ’re insignific insignificant ant ccompared ompared to the gigan gigantic ntic things.” things.”

Once understand O nce humans humans u nderstand tthe he ccosmos osmos and our uniquee place place in it, authors wee ccan making tthe he au uthors ssay, ay, w an sstart tart r m ak king the rational i l decisions d ii ffor or o th h long he l term and hopefully our planet’s an nd h opefully eextend xtend o ur p lan net’s livability.

Says Abrams,, “Onc “Oncee yyou livabilit ty. Sa ays y Abrams o ou understand think underst ink ccosmically— osmicallyy— and how to thi understand how to underst and thee vvery ery long term, because we’re partt of th this b ecause we ’re par his enormous flow, process flow w, this wonderful wonderful pr rocess of the off iintelligent out off eevolution volution o ntelligent llife ife o ut o particles, and amazing we’re here p articles, an nd iit’s t’s am mazzing w e’re h ere all—if aatt al ll—if yyou ou sstart tart tto o tthink hink ffrom rom tthat hat standpoint, new way st andpoint,, yyou’ll ou’ll see a ne ww ay of about problems tthinking hinking ab b ut tthe bo he p roblems yyou ou happen bee eexpert in. happ en to b xpert in n.”

Ass if in pr preparation A eparation n ffor o or a ccomputer-savvy, omputer-saavvvyy, forward-thinking fo orwar a d-thinking audience, book audienc e, the b ook ccontains o ains ont innovative (linked, inno vative ssymbols ymbols (li inked,, in the iPad pointing ccase ase of the iP ad vversion) ersio on) p ointing website, several to videos on their web bsite, se veral

with vvery ery high pr production oduction values (Pixar and d NOVA NOVA ar epresented aree rrepresented among thee credits) credits) and more more than one ffeaturing eeaturring music composed composed by by Abrams he herself. erselff.

A sked who w they they hop ead Asked hopee will rread their b book, ook k,, Abrams doesn’t doesn’t hesit hesitate. ate.

“I’ d lik igh scho ol students to “I’d likee hi high school rread ead it,”” she sh he says. saays y . “I would. Yale Yaale [U niversity Pr ess] is put [University Press] putting ting this at the top of their list of graduation pr esents, which w I think is just presents, great. gr eat. Because Because a this really really is a book book ffor or yyoung o eople. This sa ays y , ‘You ‘Y You o oung p people. says, don’t don ’t have haave to fall into the same thinking people.’ old thinkin ng traps as old p eople.’ It about eally is ab rreally bout finding a new new way way looking of lo okingg at the universe universe and an way optimistic ti i ti but b t convincing convincing i i w ay to t look lo ok at rreality.” eaality.”

N Nancy ancy EEllen llen A Abrams brams and JJoel oel R R..

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Wee have more half off W have destroyed destroyed m ore tthan han h allf o wetlands, tthe he eearth’s arth’s fforests orests aand nd w etlands, aand nd aree appr appropriating we ar opriating for for o our own cconsumption onsumption a large large and and increasing increasing off the ffraction racction o the biological biologgicall productivity productivity entiree ear earth.

Our aree of the entir th. Ou ur actions ar killing k illing not not just just individual individuall organisms organ nisms entiree species but wiping out entir species at the off ggreatest reatest rrate ate ssince ince the the extinction extinction o the dinosaurs and many man ny other species species meteor aafter fter tthe he m eteor iimpact mpact ssixty-five ixty-five million yyears ears ago. ago.

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The model fits T he m odel fi ts because becau use this this pivotal pivotal moment for fo or humanity humanitty is mirroring mirroring the most imp important pivot ortant pi ivot point point in history: beginning history: the b eginningg of our universe. universe.

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out of this dangerous dangerous period period in a w way ay demonstrated demonstra ated by by the univ universe veerse to work.

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Cosmic Cosmic IInflation nflation iiss tthe he o only nly ttheory heory known tha that at eexplains xplains how the Big Bang B ang ccould ould h have ave ggotten otten sstarted—how tarted—how tthe he rright ight iinitial nitial cconditions onditions ccould ould h have ave eexisted xisted ffor or tthe he B Big ig B Bang ang tto oh have ave h appened tthe he w ay iitt d id. T he ttheory heory happened way did.

The p predicts redicts exactly exacctly tthe he ssmall mall d differences iff ffeerences ffrom rom place placce to to place placce tthat hat ccould ould ggrow row with w ith ccold old d dark ark m matter atter iinto nto tthe he galax tribution that astr onomers galaxyy dist distribution astronomers actually ob observe bserve throughout throughout the visible univ verse: the gr eat chains universe: great chains,, cclusters, lusters, aand nd ssuperclusters uperclusters o off ggalaxies allaxies tthat hat lie lie along along tthe he filaments filam ments in in the the ccosmic osmic web. web. T These hese ssmall mall d differences iff ffeerences ar rose from from q uan ntum eeffects ffeects tthat ff hat arose quantum o occurred ccurred dd during i the h ccosmic osmic i inflation. i fl i The theo ory of C osmic Inflation theory Cosmic makes m ak kes ssix ix p predictions, redictions, aand nd aass o off tthis his w riting fi ve h ave b een ttested ested aand nd writing five have been agree observations. ffound o ound to agr a ee with obser vations. theoryy also app appears bee The theor ears to b ccompatible ompatiblee with modern modern particle particle p hysics ttheories, heories, sso o iitt iiss d efinitely tto o physics definitely bee ttaken b aken vvery ery seriously seriously. y.

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ALDO’S Italian. $$$. A warm and engaging atmosphere sets the scene for fullbodied flavors and healthy ingredients. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 14109 Winchester Blvd. 408.374.1808.

CALIFORNIA CAFE New American. $$$. An innovative approach to Pacific Rim staples makes for some lovely surprises. The ace service matches the smart setting. Full bar. 11:30am10pm Mon-Fri, 10:30am10:30pm Sat, 10:30am9:30pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.8118.

CIN-CIN Eclectic wine bar. $$$. The heart of Cin-Cin’s menu is an eclectic mix of small plates, tapas-size dishes that partner well with a great wine list. 4-10pm Mon-Sat. 368 Village Way. 408.354.8006.

DIO DEKA Greek. $$$.

Dio Deka is doing its part to elevate Greek food in Silicon Valley. There’s much to recommend at this handsome restaurant. Most starters are large so they’re best shared. 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 210 E. Main St. 408.354.7700.

FLEUR DE COCOA French bakery. $$. Almond croissant.

Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Los Gatos’ Fleur de Cocoa is rightly known for its chocolate confections and pastries, but I can’t stop thinking about the little pastry shop’s spectacular almond croissants. There’s plenty of other good stuff and not all of it sweet, like

the croque monsieur and the quiche. 7:30am-6pm Tue-Sat, 8am-4pm Sun. 39 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.3574.

FORBES MILL STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. When Metro first checked in with Forbes Mill in 2003, it was called “a big, burly brasserie equipped with style as well as substance.”

It’s holding up well and still does things in a big way.

5-9pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm FriSat. 206 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6434.

GREEN PAPAYA Vietnamese. $$. California cuisine meets Southeast Asia by way of Paris, with inventive updates of clay pot and five-spice authentica. Beer, wine.

11am-3pm, 5-9:30pm TueSun. 137 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9115.

I GATTI New Italian. $$$.

I Gatti fits like a glove along peaceful Main Street.

The chef understands the basics but isn’t afraid to create refreshing twists on traditional recipes. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Sat, 5-9pm Sun 25 E. Main St. 408.399.5180.

KAMAKURA SUSHI AND SAKE HOUSE Sushi bar classics. $$. In a smart setting, Kamakura showcases a procession of impeccable sushi and sashimi platters.

10:30am-2pm, 5:30-10pm daily. 135 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6650.

LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Brewpub. $$$. Most brewpubs seem to be cooking from the same menu, but executive chef Jim Stump has created a diverse menu of upscale comfort food that goes well beyond burgers and grilled-chicken sandwiches. The handsome wood-accented interior

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MAIN STREET BURGERS Burgers. $. Main Street Burgers offers fast-food convenience, affordable prices and food made with ingredients that are higher quality and more healthful than what you’d find at the golden arches. 11am-8:30pm Mon-Thu, 9am-9pm Fri-Sat, 9am-8:30pm Sun. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.1881.

MANRESA High concept. $$$$. Drawing from produce grown at his own farm, superstar chef David Kinch is blazing a trail of high caliber cuisine that’s as daring as it is delicious. Expensive but worth it. 320 Village Lane.

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NICK’S ON MAIN American. $$$. Nick’s on Main is a relaxed but elegant bistro full of neighborly charm and is a showcase for owner Nick Difu’s decadent and deeply satisfying style of cooking.

11:30am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 35 E. Main St. 408.399.6457.

PASTARIA & MARKET Italian. $$. Pastaria offers reasonably priced comfort food in an unpretentious but lively atmosphere. 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sun. 49 E. Main St. 408.399.3477.

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STEAMER’S New American. $$$. Styling itself as a grill house, Steamer’s includes rotisserie meats and fragrant

grilled chops in addition to fresh fish. Quality control and service are excellent. Full bar.

11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm daily. 31 University Ave. 408.395.2722.

TANDOORI OVEN Indian. $.

Tandoori Oven has quickly found its niche in Los Gatos among the burrito joints, sushi spots and upscale restaurants with its made-toorder curry dishes and spicy north Indian fare at good prices. 11:30am-9:30pm daily.

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I have written about it here before, but in case you forgot, it’s a show about the people changing the way we eat. The show starts with the premise that the way we eat is killing us and killing the planet— themes I’ve explored on these pages before. Food Forward evolved from what has become a passion of mine I discovered at Metro: how what we eat affects the world around us.

The road trip began as a wild idea that grew into reality over several months. As I write this, I’m in the newly renovated trailer for my first night. It’s very cozy at 26 feet. My son, 6, and daughter, 3, are sleeping soundly a few feet away. More than once I’ve questioned how sane the idea is. My wife and kids say they’re thrilled about the trip. I confess that at this early stage I find it daunting. Am I really doing this? But it’s too late now. I’ve got subletters living in my house. I’m committed.

Or maybe I should be committed, as in, I’m crazy. Maybe they’re one and the same.

In addition to the research, interviews, blogs and video content, I’ll be writing about my experiences for Live Feed. I can’t wait. I’ve written about the environmental consequences of what we eat many times before but it’s been as an office-bound observer from afar. Now I can go out into the farms, ranches, restaurants and fishing boats and see for myself what’s wrong and what’s right with the way we eat.

It’s going to take a while to get my sea legs in my land yacht (that’s what Airstream calls its trailers) so we’re going to start off slowly and work out the kinks in California before pointing east and making a counter-clockwise tour of the country.

Look for a new dispatch from the road each week and check for onthe-spot updates on Twitter at SVDining. Keep on truckin’!

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TAPESTRY Contemporary haute. $$$. Right on the main street, this cottagelike spot blends traditional French cooking with contemporary fusion: filet mignon with Mongolian-style brown sauce; crayfish chow mein. Elegant and friendly. 11:30am-2pm, 510pm Tue-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 11 College Ave. 408.395.2808.

THREE DEGREES Eclectic, California. $$$. Set inside the beautifully remodeled Toll

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Full bar. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri; dinner 3-10pm daily. 140 S. Santa Cruz Blvd.

408.884.1054.

VALERIANO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT AND BAR Contemporary Italian. $$$.

While the kitchen exudes earthy aromas, the dining room’s soft terra-cotta walls glow with a sense of Mediterranean mission.

Hands-on management makes each patron feel pampered. Full bar. 5pmclose daily. 160 W. Main St. 408.354.8108.

VIVA LOS GATOS NEIGHBORHOOD EATERY California. $$$. This popular Los Gatos restaurant mixes it up with Italian-leaning Mediterranean food, fresh fish, grilled steaks and several Asian-inspired dishes. 11am-9:30pm MonFri, 8am-10:30pm Sat, 8am-9:30pm Sun. 15970 Los Gatos Blvd. 408.356.4902.

WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$.

Silicon Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the definitive upwardly mobile California pizza. Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian wood-fired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas—delicate, light and satisfying. Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am-10pm SunThu, 11:30am-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.5566. For other locations see www. willowstreet.com.

WINE CELLAR New California. $$. This cozy dining spot offers an education in Old World charm and New World cuisine, from smoked salmon pizza to grilled ahi tuna to desserts as fresh as spring break. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10:30am-9pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.4808.

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LIOU’S HOUSE Chinese. $$.

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, 59:45pm Mon-Thu, 5-10:30pm 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, 10:30am-2:30pm, 4:3010:30pm 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.

11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10:30am-3pm, 4:309:30pm 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-

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, 4:30-9:30pm 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 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 great. 11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 11am9:30pm 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 11am-3pm, 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.” 11:30am2pm, 6-9:30pm Sun and Tue-Thu, 11:30am-2:30pm, 69:30pm Fri-Sat. 1208 S. Abel St. 408.945.1010.

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BAY LEAF Indonesian and Thai. $$. Bay Leaf’s menu is divided into Thai and Indonesian food and it’s the latter that stands out. While Thai food is characterized by bright, high notes, Indonesian food strikes a lower bass note. 11am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-10pm FriSat, 11am-9pm Sun. 122 S. Sunnyvale Ave. 408.481.9983.

CHELOKEBABI Persian. $$. Go straight for the baghali ghatogh, a fantastic appetizer made from delicate but rich baby lima beans, scrambled eggs and lots of garlic. Just as good is ghaymeh, a daily special made from tender chunks of beef, split peas, eggplant and tomato sauce. 11am10pm daily. 1236 Wolfe Rd. 408.737.1222.

DISHDASH Middle Eastern. $$. Dishdash celebrates the culinary glories of the Middle East beyond falafels and hummus. The menu is made from traditional recipes and ingredients but presented with a contemporary flourish.

There’s also a small but wellchosen wine list to match.

11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10pm Sat-Sun. 190 S. Murphy Ave. 408.774.1889.

IL POSTALE Italian American. $$$. Its previous incarnation as a post office lends this space eccentric charm, and the food delivers fullbodied taste in generous portions. Veal marsala, thin-crust pizza and New York steak are featured.

11am-1:30pm, 4-9:30pm TueSun. 127 W. Washington St. 408.733.9600.

LUCKY DHABA Indian. $. A dhaba is a roadside fastfood joint in northern India.

We’ve got our own version here at Sunnyvale’s Lucky Dhaba. Located off busy El Camino Real, Lucky Dhaba offers a wide variety of good Indian food. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu and 11am-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 1036 El Camino Real.

408.617.0660.

PEZELLAS Family Italian. $$. Serves popular Italian dinners with rich sauces and generous portions. East Coast seafood dishes like linguini and clams and calamari sautéed in tomato, garlic, and basil stand out. Pizza and pasta abound. Full bar. 11am2:30pm Tue-Fri, 5-10:30pm Tue-Sat. Closed Sun-Mon. 1025 W. El Camino Real.

408.738.2400.

P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO Chinese. $$. With atmosphere to spare, Chang’s doesn’t neglect taste.

Vibrant Szechuan flavors mix surprisingly well with rich Western-style desserts. Full bar. 11am-10pm Mon-Sun, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 390 W. El Camino Real. 408.991.9078.

SAIZO Japanese. $$. Part bar, part eatery, Saizo serves small plates of grilled and fried dishes made to go with sake and beer. It’s all good.

Open daily for lunch and dinner Mon-Sat. 592 E. El Camino Real. 408.733.7423.

SENZALA Brazilian. $$.

Senzala restaurant is like a Brazilian cultural center that also serves food. Brazilian art and photographs cover the walls. Go for the feijoada, a hearty, smoky black bean stew made with chunks of beef and pork. 11am-10pm Mon-Sat. 250 E. Java Dr. 408.734.1656.

SETO DELI Japanese. $.

Folksy country deli that offers hot and cold, takeout, eat-in and made-to-order food in a vibrant array of familiar and not-so-familiar Japanese dishes at prices that beat just about any restaurant’s.

Closed Sun. 155 E. Maude Ave. 408.735.7777.

SHALIMAR Indian-Pakistani. $. Walk up to the counter, grab a menu and place your order. One of the best dishes is the plain-looking haleem, a lentil and barley stew available with chicken or beef. Nihari, a rich beef shank stew, is also great. 11:30am2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm Sun-Thu, noon-3:30pm, 5:30-11pm Sat-Fri. 1146 W. El Camino Real. 408.530.0300.

SUGAR BUTTER FLOUR Bakery. $. Sugar Butter Flour’s

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desserts and pastries go well beyond the humdrum sweets found at most restaurants and bakeries. The bakery’s chocolate skills are particularly strong. 7am-7:30pm Mon-Thu, 7am-8:30pm Sat, 8am-5pm Sun. 669 S. Bernardo Ave. 408.732.8597.

TAVERNA GYROS Old Mediterranean/Turkish. $$. Mustard and ruddy pomegranate hues warm the restaurant’s interior; zesty Arabic infusions warm the food. Choose from mezes such as hummus or tabouli. Entrees include lamb, beef or chicken gyros or lamb kebab. 11am10pm daily. 133 S. Murphy Ave. 408.735.9971.

UDUPI PALACE Indian. $$. Udupi Palace, a south Indian vegetarian restaurant, specializes in dishes—dosas and uthappams. Dosas are long, thin crepes made with rice flour. Uthappams are pancakes made with rice and lentil flour. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am-10:30pm Sun. 976 E. El Camino Real.

408.830.9600.

YUME-YA Japanese. $$. Don’t come here looking for sake bombs and macadamia nut– encrusted gimmicky sushi rolls.

What sets this restaurant apart is its selection of izakaya-style dishes, little plates of food designed to go with beer and sake. 6-11pm Mon-Sat. 150 El Camino Real. 408.530.8156.

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THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE Continental. $$$. A menu strewn with rare game and hearty selections seems fitting for this forest find. Worth the trip. Bar 2pm; dinner 5pm, Wed-Sun. 13808 Skyline Blvd.

650.851.8541.

VILLAGE PUB New American. $$$. Chef Mark Sullivan’s unpretentious but refined French-influenced American food continues to make this a destination restaurant.

Brunch 10am-2pm Sun; lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-10pm daily. 2967 Woodside Rd. 650.851.9888.

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RICKY MARTIN HP Pavilion, San Jose Wed – 8pm; $34.50-$87

Anyone else notice how people are taking Ricky Martin more seriously since he came out on Twitter last year? It’s nice to see that the hand-wringing stories about whether his audience would accept his gay identity have amounted to zilch. Instead, pop culture has taken a collective sigh of relief, as if to say, “Finally, it’s out there, and why did we ever think it was a big deal anyway?”

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SOUTH FIRST FRIDAY Along South First Street, San Jose Fri – 7-11pm; free This month’s downtown San Jose art walk and happening is also a musical draw as well. San Jose Jazz presents the local Lee Pardini Trio at Eulipia, while Slave Labor Graphics hosts a unique melding of the Art Boutiki Quartet and Quasimodal. Caffe Trieste fills the night with opera arias, and

WORKS/San Jose invites folks to its under-construction new home at 365 S. Market St. for a performance by Haptic Synapes, which creates experiment sounds with homemade instruments.

South First Billiards welcomes Rebelskamp for some artistic revels. The evening also features receptions for new shows at Anno Domini, Kaleid, Metro, Higher Fire, Downtown Yoga Shala, Good Karma and more. (MSG)

ELI YOUNG BAND The Rodeo Club, San Jose Fri – 9:30pm; $10 Eli Young isn’t a person, it’s the moniker of two Texas songwriters, Mike Eli and James Young, who got tired of putting an ampersand between their names like they did when they were a coffeehouse duo. They have caused endless

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For instance, according to the rules of country music, their latest single, “Crazy Girl,” should be about a chick who likes to party too much. But in the video, she’s an actual mental patient they have to bust out of an insane asylum.

Clever stuff like that is why the band has gotten the stamp of approval from Robert Earl Keen, the reigning king of Texas rootsrock. Better to be known for that than the notorious YouTube video they also star in, “Eli Young band forgets national anthem at Chiefs vs. Broncos game.” Yup, brutal. (SP)

TOLTECA EXTRA Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $8 Not even the members of Tolteca Extra themselves think anybody else will get their music, and they don’t mind saying so. That may not be a great way to pimp your band, but it’s how this Mountain View quartet rolls. They’ve turned their fondness for bizarre riffage into a unique brand of experimental noise rock, a genre that’s never gotten a lot of attention from the mainstream—except maybe in Japan, which is its number one exporter. In this country, Sonic Youth is probably the best-known band to even touch the true sound of noise. Like math rock without the math or black metal without the church burnings, it’s more extreme than either, in some ways. Completely free-form and

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ROCKIN’ MOMS May 7, 5–7pm, Blossom Birth, Palo Alto

SJSU CHOIRS May 7 at 7:30pm, Basilica of St. Ma Joseph Cathedral, San Jose

WENDY HO May 7 aat 8pm, A Perfect Finish Wine Bar, San Jose.

CALIFORNIA POPS Mother’s Day Special, May 8 at 3pm, Mother’ Calvary Church, Los Gatos

MUSIC@MENLO May 8 at 4pm, Center for Performing Arts, Menlo-Atherton

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Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Temptations. Plus they’ve got originals, which mostly consists of polished, simple rock & roll throwbacks. Their best song would have to be the one they wrote about themselves, “Dead Men Walking.” Every band should have a theme song this good. Sharing the bill is San Jose singer-songwriter Joseph Mortella. (AC)

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FROST HAMMER Johnny V’s, San Jose Sun – 9pm; $5 If Danzig wrote songs about wizards and magical dwarves instead of zombies and Satan,

he might have been invited to join Frost Hammer. It fact, it kind of sounds like he did, since their lead singer has a similar soulful, crooning voice, and the riffs are moody, blues-based classic headbangers that pack a punch.

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Avalon Nightclub, Santa Clara Tue – 7pm; $12 Great things come from Japan,

SOUTH VALLEY SYMPHONY SO May 8 at a 4:30pm, Mission San Juan Bautista

like sushi, Godzilla and metal bands. And now comes Loudness on its 30th anniversary U.S. tour. For three decades and 23 albums, including last year’s King of Pain, band members have come and gone, but in 2000, original members Minoru Niihara (vocals), Akira Takasaki (guitar), Masayoshi Yamashita (bass) and Munetaka Higuchi (drums) reunited. Unfortunately, Higuchi passed away in 2008. Masayuki Suzuki stepped in, and Loudness has never sounded better, incorporating a thrash-metal sound. Lo Nero, Angerhead and Silent Sinner open. (BD)

CHORAL FEST May 9, 5–8pm, Shoreline

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

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

CLUB FOOT ORCHESTRA Music for “Metropolis,” May 20 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga

ARTURO SANDOVAL May 20 at 8pm, Campbell Heritage Theater

JASON BONHAM May 24 at Saddle Rack in Fremont

GLEE May 24–25 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

USHER May 29 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

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Sleep to Wake Saturday, 8pm; The Stage, San Jose; $25

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San Jose Stage Company presents a one-nightonly premiere of Sleep to Wake: Robert Browning Remembers Elizabeth, a one-man show by Julian López-Morillas. The play, which López-Morillas also wrote, looks at the marriage of the author of “My Last Duchess” and poet Elizabeth Barrett, a tale as full of passion as Browning’s dramatic verses.

E.L. Doctorow Tuesday, 7pm, and Wednesday (May 11), 1pm; San Jose State University Theatre; free Doctorow is famous still for Ragtime, a consummate example of novel crossed with history, but he hasn’t rested on his considerable laurels. His most recent novel, Homer and Langley, is an astute and fascinating meditation on those consummate obsessive collectors the Collyer brothers. Just out from Doctorow is All the Time in the World, an anthology of new and selected short stories. For the Center for Literary Arts, he reads on Tuesday and appears in conversation with the center’s director, Andrew Altschul, on Wednesday.

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Friday, 7pm until late; 365 S. Market St., San Jose; free The venerable artists’ collective is in the process of moving to its new location at S. Market and San Salvador streets. For South First Friday, the public is invited to a sneak peek while construction is being completed. The preview event features live painting and music by Haptic Synapses. The first show in the new space, “Out of State,” opens in late May.

Mother’s Day Variety Show Sunday, 3pm; Calvary Church, Los Gatos; $20–$35 The California Pops Orchestra celebrates Mother’s Day with favorite Broadway and movie tunes (from “Rhapsody in Blue” to “Peg o’ My Heart” and back). As a special treat, two acclaimed harmonica players will serenade moms: Jia-Yie He from the TV show America’s Got Talent, and Tom Stryker, a jazz harmonica specialist.

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FESTIVAL OF THE SILK ROAD An evening of dance, poetry and music from central Asia with ballet Afsaneh, Yore Turkish Folkdance Ensemble, Chinese Performing Arts of America and more. Sat, 8pm (pre-performance at 6:30pm

by Silk Road Bazaar). $13/$25.

Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater, San Jose.

FOREVER TANGO A night of passionate dance with Luis Bravo. Sat, 8pm. $40-$100. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

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

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

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A spring showcase presentation. Fri, 6pm, Sat, 1 and 6pm, Sun, 1pm. $20.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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

Opera LA BOHEME Puccini’s famed tale of the demimonde is presented

by Opera San José. May 6, 8pm, May 8, 3pm. $51-$101.

California Theatre, San Jose.

Theater ALTAR BOYZ 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.

ENCHANTED APRIL Northside presents Matthew Barber’s romantic comedy about a pair of London housewives on vacation in Italy. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm.

Runs thru May 8. $15/$20.

Northside Theatre, San Jose.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM Community members and Gavilan students appear in a South Valley Civic Theatre production. Fri, 8, Sat, 2 and 8pm. $8/$12. Gavilan College Theater, Gilroy.

GALILEO’S DAUGHTERS Inferno Theatre comes to town (thanks to Tabard Theatre) to perform an idea-filled

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition Finals. $15. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Wendy Liebman. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Laugh Lounge. $10.

Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm: Mark Curry. $20. Sun, 7pm: Jerry Rocha. $7. San Jose.

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Museums ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS High School Art Show. Thru May 19. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Illustrated Title Pages: 15001900.” 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. 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 “Nature’s Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir’s Botanical Legacy.” A show dedicated to the many biological specimens collected by the naturalist. Runs thru Sep 11. “Pacific Hotel.

Celebrating Local Artists.” Thru Sep 18. Pasetta House, History Park, San Jose.

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

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

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

Thru Jun 5. “The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention.” Thru Jul 3. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. 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 ANNO DOMINI “What He Meant by the Self Was Simply Our Truest Nature, Our Natural State.” New works by self-taught New York Artist Jeremiah Maddock. Reception for South First Friday. Runs May 6-Jun 18. San Jose.

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Saratoga.

GOOD KARMA VEGAN CAFE “Alviso Slough.” Photographs

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San Jose.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE “Tantalizing Tableware.”

Works in porcelain by Scott Jennings plus a group show of local potters. Reception for South First Friday includes pottery-wheel demos. Thru Jun 2. San Jose.

PHO69 “Visionary Reflections.”

Paintings by Janice Kirkpatrick.

Live music for South First Friday. Thru May. San Jose.

PSYCHO DONUTS A rotating group show with works by John Renzel, Lacey Bryant and more. San Jose.

SLG BOUTIKI Works by notable comic artists, including Jon Hastings, Crab Scrambly and others. Live music by Art Boutiki Jazz Quartet and Quasimodal for South First Friday. Thru May. San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS “A Night of Foolishness and Whimsey Art” by Lara Sophia, plus music by Rebelskamp and others for South First Friday.

San Jose.

WORKS/SAN JOSE For South First Friday, the gallery opens the doors to its new space. Evening features live painting plus music by Haptic Synapses. San Jose.

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“Renasci.” Works on human energy and rebirth by Emonic. Reception for South First Friday. Thru May 27.

San Jose.

Pastel paintings of the sea by Terri Ford. May 3-27. Mon-Sat, 111am-5pm, Sun, 11am-3pm.

Los Altos.

LOS GATOS COMPANY “Variations, Different Faces of the Same Place.” Oil paintings of Los Gatos by Riki R. Nelson.

Opens Thu. Los Gatos.

MACLA “Latino Art Now.” An exhibit featuring Latino artists from the Bay Area is on display now and culminates May 14 in the annual art auction.

For South First Friday, art professor Eugene Rodriguez talks about collection; also, poets Adriana Gracia and

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

San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY Jazz portraits by Bruni, plus sports art by Mark Gray . Thru Aug 31. Daily, 1-6pm.

San Jose.

sculptural installations by Jody Alexander. Runs thru May 31. Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, Sat, 9am-3pm. Mohr Gallery, Finn Center, Mountain View.

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.

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

MAIN GALLERY “Offerings.” Irene Carvajal and David Scouffas explore the influence of Asian culture. Thru May 29.

Reception Sat, 6-8pm.

Wed-Sun, 10am-3pm.

Redwood City.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “A Common Balance: Impossible Dream’n.” A sculptural installation in the Project Space Gallery in the form of a “grow lab” investigating biodiversity.

Thru Jul 17. Thu-Sun, 11am3pm. Saratoga.

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

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

by Ray and Charles Ames.

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

San Jose.

SANTA CLARA CITY HALL Biennial “Indoor Sculpture Exhibition.” Thru Sep. Santa Clara.

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.

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

Sunnyvale.

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The celebration of books includes a preview of Arclight Repâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s summer Shakespeare show â&#x20AC;&#x153;Much Ado About Nothing.â&#x20AC;? Bookfair all day, performances at 1 and 3pm.

Sun. Barnes & Noble Stevens Creek, San Jose.

CELEBRATION OF READING Entertainment by local students, and a portion of the dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sales will go to Belle Haven Library (if you mention the name at register). Sat, 9:30am-4pm. Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Menlo Park.

BRIDGING CULTURES A conversation on Vietnamese-American literature with Angie Chau, Andrew Lam and Isabelle Pleaud. Sat, 3-5pm. Free. King Main Library, San Jose.

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The author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ragtimeâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Marchâ&#x20AC;? reads and signs copies of his books on Tue, 7pm, at SJSU University Theatre; on Wed (May 11), 1pm, he will appear in a conversation with Andrew Altschul, director of the Center for Literary Arts, at University Theatre. Both are free.

TIM FLANNERY The science professor and author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Here on Earthâ&#x20AC;? talks to Greg Dalton about planetary issues. A Commonwealth Club event.

Wed, 7:30pm. $10/$15.

Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

ANA FORREST The author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spiritâ&#x20AC;? talks about yoga. Mon, 7pm. Free.

Books Inc., Palo Alto.

THE MIRACLE CHASE An event with Joan Hill, Katie Mahon and Mary Beth Phillips about three women and the miracles they experienced. Thu, 7pm. Free.

Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Menlo Park.

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Jordana Moore Saggese talks about the use of difference in artistic practice. Wed, noon.

San Jose Museum of Art.

HATS OFF TO MOTHER NATURE The annual ďŹ&#x201A;ower show fundraiser with ďŹ&#x201A;oral arrangements, garden exhibits and more. $0-$25.

Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day Weekend. Filoli, Woodside.

I DO, WHO CANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T? A panel of local leaders talks about same-sex marriage and civil rights. Mon, 6:45pm.

Free. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MAY! ITâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MAY! The month gets feted in poetry and song with Nils Peterson, Elena Sharkova and the Symphony Silicon Valley Singers. Fri, 7:30pm. $10/$15.

Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.

KOALOHA STORY AND CONCERT A screening of an animated

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METROACTIVE.COM ďŹ lm about a famous ukulele player plus a performance by ukulele master Herb Ohta, Jr., with Na Hoku Hanohano and others. Fri, 7:30pm. $15-$30.

Evergreen Valley College Performing Arts Center, San Jose.

MAY DAY MARKET A sale of donated fabrics, textiles and more to help support museum programs.

Fri, 10am-5pm and 7-11pm, Sat, 10am-5pm. San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.

MOTHERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DAY AT SANTANA ROW The Row salutes mothers with special brunches, complimentary champagne and more. Sun, all day.

Santana Row, San Jose.

MOTHERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DAY BRUNCH With seatings at 11:30am, noon and 1pm. $25/$50.

(Reserve by calling 408.961.5823.) Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.

MICHAEL PARENTI The author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Democracy for the Fewâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Culture Struggleâ&#x20AC;? gives a talk titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Free Speechâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;At What Cost?â&#x20AC;? Fri, 7pm. $10-$20.

First Christian Church, San Jose.

RACE TO NOWHERE The JCC screens the documentary about the pressures to get into a good school. Tue, 7pm. Silicon Valley JCC (see rtnapjcc. eventbrite.com for tickets).

SAN JOSE FARMERS MARKET The season opens with live music by Big Dog and the Bite. Every Fri, 10am-2pm.

San Pedro Square, San Jose.

WALK AGAINST CANCER A fundraising event with a health fair to raise awareness in the Latino community.

Sat, 7:30am walk, fair, 8am2pm. $15-$25. Alviso Marina County Park.

WINE STROLL A chance to check out downtown Sunnyvale, sample local wines and listen to live music. Sat, 2:30-5:30pm. $25/$45/ (Tickets available at Chamber of Commerce.)

Downtown Sunnyvale.

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But there’s nothing that says angst like director Werner Herzog describing what we’re seeing. In his 3-D film

Cave of Forgotten Dreams, he’s busy: the unnerved, emotionally affecting tones (you can imagine him saying “And I only am escaped alone to tell thee”) might be the words of the last man on Earth.

Herzog goes underground in Cave of Forgotten Dreams to Chauvet-Pont D’Arc in the Ardèche region of France.

This trove contains the oldest known prehistoric art, 30,000 years old, sealed off from the world for most of that time.

The caves were discovered in 1994, and since then only a few visitors have been allowed inside on a restricted path.

Due to government restrictions, Herzog faced some serious creative challenges; the officials limited his time and access in hopes of protecting these cave paintings from the kind of degradation that’s occurred at Altamira.

Herzog wasn’t allowed to use anything but cold electronic lights and small cameras. He filmed in 3-D to get the contours of the surfaces where the drawings are sealed under millennia of crystal deposits. These are pictures of animals, most of them extinct, executed over the course of 5,000 years, before a landslide locked them away.

The 3-D depth keeps claustrophobia from setting in. The strikingly expressive images have the timelessness of Aboriginal cave paintings in Australia. Unlike that traditional art, however, these works must be considered completely outside of art history.

Hidden away from the eyes of men for so long, they’ve had no influence on subsequent artists since the Paleolithic culture. They are perplexingly beautiful. The overlapping profiles of a quartet of horses seem like the birth of perspective in art, though Herzog himself forecasts cinema in the blur of their legs.

There’s nothing sticky about Herzog’s narration, and yet one feels implicit tragedy and mania; listening to him is like watching Peter Lorre on the verge of flipping out. To some, this

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style borders on parody. I personally find it affecting, deeply moving and seething with drama. That drama was there when he looked at the bears in Grizzly Man: “I discover no kinship, no understanding, no mercy.” (He was describing an obsessed filmmaker’s fate, he who knew well how fatal delusion can be.)

In Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Herzog looks backward into human history, to art made at the very dawn of consciousness. And then he adds what seems like an inane coda. There’s apparently a greenhouse in the town of Pierrelatte some 20 miles from the caves, heated with water runoff from the massive Tricastin nuclear power plant.

Crocodiles live in the greenhouse, tons of them. Herzog watches them paddle.

“Man, do they thrive,” he says with a dryness that sounds—after an hour or more of dazzled reverence to ancient art—absolutely uproarious.

These weird crocs are germane to a movie that is about mankind on the verge of discovering art. Aren’t these discov basking creatures creatu symbols of the world after man is gone?

Who knows what g they’ll eat, but bu they’ll have warm water for 20,000 years. ye When not urging us to admire—with an enthusiasm that is going to seem like too much information to some— Herzog visits with experts on the caves.

We meet a mustached academic, horsing around in the nearby vineyards with that spear-throwing device known as an atlatl in the Americas.

There is also a semi-interesting passage on the bulging, pocket-size prehistoric limestone Venuses, younger than the Chauvet art by some 6 to 8,000 years. (Herzog being Herzog, he draws a link between the Venus of Willendorf and the appeal of Baywatch.) He is a digresser, in love with the discursive, very playful, as in the seemingly impossible opening shot, which is ultimately revealed as the work of a toy. The material Herzog has here probably never should have been stretched to feature length, but he illuminates these caves with the light of his own pensiveness.

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New BATTLE OF THE BRIDES (100 min.) A Vietnamese movie about a man juggling too many women. Directed by Victor Vu. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.)

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (Unrated; 90 min.) See review on page 55. (Opens Fri at Camera 7 in Campbell.)

THE GRATEFUL DEAD MOVIE EVENT (Unrated; 132 min.) Thanks to the wayback machine, Deadheads can relive a superlative live concert

recorded at Winterland in October 1974.

The whole glorious era is on display: a skinny Jerry Garcia, girls riding their boyfriendsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shoulders for a better view, puffy shirts, Bill Graham, fringed jeans and lots of cringe-worthy hippie dancing. Also features interviews with Garcia and Bob Weir that werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t part of the original 1997 release. One night only. (Plays Thursday at Mountain View Cinema 16, CinĂŠArts Santana Row and Century 20 Redwood City.)

JUMPING THE BROOM (PG-13) A comedy about two marriage ceremonies overlapping.

Stars Angela Bassett and Paula Patton. (Opens Fri.)

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Hammer Film THE SON of Odin (Anthony Hopkins), lord of heavenly Asgard, is cast to earth in modern-day New Mexico. He must redeem himself, even as his dispossessed and troubled brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), schemes to keep him in exile forever. Putting Chris Hemsworth in on the poster for Thor was a big risk, but the risk pays off. It is a starmaking performance for Hemsworth, another Australian actor who knows the old ways of movie heroismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;how to embody heartiness and bravado without looking like an arrogant thug.

At age 19, Hemsworth was playing King Arthur; he assumes this even nobler role with ease, charm and humor.

In this, his best non-Shakespearean film, director Kenneth Branagh finds the perfect tone of nobility without too much loftiness. The movie is as full of grand, ringing voices as it is with fight scenes and fireworks. One of the biggest voices belongs to Idris Elba as the gatekeeper between worlds; he seems as massive and mysterious as Rex Ingramâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genie in The Thief of Bagdad.

Natalie Portman is very endearing as the astrophysicist befuddled by the arrival of a god. In her scenes with Hemsworth, Portman looks pleasingly discomfited to be paired with someone

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Thor touches, without getting tangled, on the War on Terror. The witty script (co-written by former Metro staffer Zack Stentz) sources all the science-fiction films about 1950s scientists K_fi worrying whether to contain an alien threat PG-13; 114 min. or destroy it outright.

Opens Friday.

An as-above/so-below subplot about the planet of the Asgardianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ancient foes, the Ice Giants, counterpoints this human problem in the land of the immortals.

The busy, anonymous score by Patrick Doyle is a drawback, but Tim Burton veteran Bo Welchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s marvelous production design makes Asgard a realm of old gold and bronze. Thor was adapted with fine understanding of the graphic fist of Jack Kirby (who is credited with thanks). The movie is full of rare sights: Loki crouched on his stolen throne, crowned with a Gothic headdress of curved horns, and the startling crimson of Thorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cape as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drawn to the heavens by his enchanted hammer.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13) A single woman falls for her best friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ ancĂŠ, with comic results. With Kate Hudson, Ginnifer Goodwin, Colin EgglesďŹ eld and John Krasinki. (Opens Fri.)

SOMETHINGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GONNA LIVE (Unrated; 80 min.) See review on page 58.

THOR (PG-13; 114 min.) See review on page 56.

THERE BE DRAGONS (PG-13; 120 min.) Roland JoffĂŠ directs

Charlie Cox, Wes Bentley and Dougray Scott in a drama about a journalist investigating an incident from the Spanish Civil War. (Opens Fri at Century 20 Oakridge, CinĂŠArts Santana Row and Century 20 Great Mall.)

Revivals BATTLE ROYALE (2000) Kinji Fukusakuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sci-ďŹ thriller stars Beat Takeshi as the teacher who oversees a novel game: an armed and dangerous game of last man standing for a group of Japanese teens. (Plays May 12 at 9pm and May 14 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

CABIN IN THE SKY/SWING TIME (1943/1936) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Faust story in which Petunia the good (Ethel Waters) vies against a bad girl (the ravishing Lena Horne) for the soul of Little Joe (Eddie

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rochesterâ&#x20AC;? Anderson). In delirium, Joe veers between a segregated heaven and hell. As always, hell is more 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 ďŹ lms were prose. Lucky (Astaire) is a hoofer by trade but a gambler by vocation.

He heads to New York and has his heart stolen by Penny (Rogers), who works at a dance school. Like Rogers, George Stevensâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the best director the team hadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;cuts across the toosweet qualities: when Lucky serenades

Penny with the melting Jerome Kern love song â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Way You Look Tonight,â&#x20AC;? sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got shampoo in her hair and a towel around her neck. Swing Time is Astaire and Rogersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most romantic ďŹ lm, mirroring as it does the lives of lovers with the lives of gamblers. It highlights Astaireâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s essential solitude, seen in the half-bow he makes as his lover leaves, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left alone onstage at the ďŹ nale of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never Gonna Danceâ&#x20AC;? number. (Plays May 4-6 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

GIGI/THE LOVE PARADE (1958/1929) The arch-rogue in youth, and as an old man. Maurice Chevalier stars as a slightly off-bias boulevardier

working his French charm (and coming off ever so slightly as Pepe Le Pew). In Gigi, he thanks heaven for little girls, particularly the fresh schoolgirl Leslie Caron, groomed for his embrace. BILLED WITH The Love Parade. Cashiered from the diplomatic service for philandering, a minor aristo (Chevalier) gets his new job: consort to the Queen of Sylvania (Jeanette MacDonald, debuting). Ernst Lubitschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy of innuendo is a model not only for romantic comedy but also for animation. We see the cartoon world coming in the looseness of the gags, the asides to the audience and the importance of tunes moving the story

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Living Memory THE TITLE of Somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gonna Live is a rephrase of ars longa, vita brevis. Daniel Raimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unusual and melancholy study looks at a half-dozen top talents in the cinema industry from the 1940s to the 1980s. They are six elder men whose memories are exceptionally keen. Robert F. Boyle was teaching all the way up to age 100; he was the art director on North

by Northwest and the subject of Raimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous ďŹ lm, The Man on Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nose.

Boyle was part of a mutual-admiration society with several other craftsmen.

One is Henry â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bummyâ&#x20AC;? Bumstead, the production designer of Vertigo and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). Another is Albert Nozaki, blind and very frail at the time of the interview, who created everything from the Egyptian tombs in The Ten Commandments to the Martian death ships in War of the Worlds; Nozaki was also an internee at Manzanar.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pleasure to watch the storyboard artist Harold Michelson (The Birds) work in charcoal, stenciling oďŹ&#x20AC; a rectangle and ďŹ lling it with silhouettes of attacking birds and saying that his original idea for the ďŹ lm was a visual swipe of Munchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Scream.

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for instance. This ďŹ lm leaves the mystery of the man alone, however. In Bodega Bay, the technicians marvel at the famous school still standing from The Birds. What we think of as the perfect record of that hamlet is mostly illusion, augmented with mattes and a false house.

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alongâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;though the tunes arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so important that a dog canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bark one of the verses. (Plays May 7-9 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

MAMMA MIA! THE SING-ALONG EXPERIENCE The 2008 musical is augmented by a spot of audience participation.

(Plays May 7-8 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

NILES FILM MUSEUM May 7: Nevada (1927) John Waters (!) directs Gary Cooper in a Zane Grey adaptation, with Thelma Todd as the love interest and William Powell. Plus shorts: D.W. GrifďŹ thâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Narrow Roadâ&#x20AC;? (1912) with Mary Pickford, and Charley Chase in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many Scrappy Returnsâ&#x20AC;? (1927). May 8 at 4pm: Laurel and Hardy and Thelma Todd in The Bohemian Girl (1936), an operetta about gypsies, featuring a pair of larcenous fools who end up with a purloined royal daughter. In the short â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glove Tapsâ&#x20AC;? (1937) with Our Gang, Alfalfa is challenged by a bully. Also: Laurel and Hardy in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thicker Than Waterâ&#x20AC;? (1935). (Plays May 7-8 in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.) (RvB)

Cinematographer/ director Haskell Jfd\k_`e^Ă&#x160;j Wexler and Conrad >feeX C`m\ Hall are sort of guest Saturday, 7pm stars, meeting up at a Menlo Atherton revival screening of In Performing Arts Cold Blood. While the Center, Atherton subject of photography Free, but reserve doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get nearly the at 650.330.2512 analysis given in Visions of Light (1992), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth hearing Hall describe how he captured the shadows of rain running across Robert Blakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face.

Here are men who designed imaginary worlds, one after another; the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s undertone is about coping with the real world in old age. Somethingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gonna Live begins with shots of a green cemetery sprinkled with shining crescents of water; it cuts to a dim bedroom, and the muttering voice of a television set broadcasting a baseball game. (This screening is part of National Older Americans Month; director Raim will appear in person.)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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Gil Carnal & Arina Burceva Saturday at Tully Library in San Jose, 2pm; free South Bay Guitar Society Ukranian-born classical guitarist Arina Burceva isn’t fooling around as a composer; she’s out to bring the guitar canon into the 21st century, and has been taking her mission around the world with a style influenced by baroque, jazz and world music. She’ll join luthier Gil Carnal for this demo and recital. (SP)

Bear State Rebellion Saturday at Caravan Lounge in San Jose, 10pm; free Oakland’s Bear State Rebellion is NorCal’s answer to Sublime. Mixing ska, reggae, punk and metal, they have the same direct lyrics and only-in-Cali sound, but without the cynicism and bitterness. There’s a sincerity to their music and message that befits their roots in the Bay Area, which seems to be home to more Jamaican music expats than anywhere west of the Rockies. They release their debut album, The Natives Are Restless, this week. (SP)

Gail Dobson Jazz Band Sunday at Poor House Bistro in San Jose, noon-4pm; free For Mother’s Day, Poor House Bistro is throwing a “New Orleans Jazz Brunch,” featuring music from Gail Dobson, the accomplished jazz singer who has performed throughout the Bay Area (as well as nationally and internationally), but really left her mark on the South Bay over the two decades that she performed at the Garden City Casino with her late husband, Smith Dobson. (SP)

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Neko Case, Jeff Bridges headline Mountain Winery season TICKETS GO on sale this week for the newly announced lineup of summer shows at Mountain Winery. With its rep as one of the top spots for outdoor concerts, Mountain Winery always draws repeat business—not just from fans, but from the headliner acts who want to come back every year. This year’s season has plenty of them, but it’s the first-timers on the newly announced summer season who really stand out.

Neko Case is possibly the hottest female singer-songwriter going after her post-New Pornographers solo career (technically she still contributes to the band) exploded with 2009’s Middle Cyclone album. She’s performed in San Francisco on recent tours, quickly selling out, but skipped over the South Bay. However, she’ll make her Mountain Winery debut on July 1, with Calexico opening.

Tickets go on sale Monday, May 9, for Also making his first appearance is the Dude all Mountain Winery himself, Jeff Bridges, on Aug. 26; he’ll perform shows, available songs from Crazy Heart (for which he won an through livenation.com, Oscar, of course) with his band. mountainwinery.com and Ticketmaster outlets.

Sarah McLachlan goes seriously intimate with a first-time show on July 17, and ’80s-music fans (always well served by the Mountain Winery slate) get the Psychedelic Furs in their debut, with Tom Tom Club opening (Sept. 14).

Among the venue’s repeaters this summer are Moody Blues, who open the summer season May 27; Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt (June 8); Lucinda Williams (June 25); Steely Dan (July 5); Kathy Griffin (July 16); Chris Isaak (July 22); Melissa Etheridge (July 29); Creedence Clearwater Revisited with Three Dog Night (Juy 30); k.d. lang (July 31); Doobie Brothers (Aug. 4); Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion (Aug. 23); B-52’s, with Human League and Men Without Hats (Sept. 8); Tears for Fears (Sept. 9); Willie Nelson (Sept. 11); Don Henley (Sept. 21); John Prine (Sept. 28); Emmylou Harris (Sept. 29); and ZZ Top (Oct. 4). Billy Idol closes the season on Oct. 8, rounding out a roster of over 50 shows. —Steve Palopoli

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Fri, 8pm: Cinco de Mayo with Malo, Lava and Blanca. $20/$25. Redwood City.

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LOFTBARANDBISTRO Thu: Live jazz. San Jose.

APERFECTFINISH Fri, 9pm: Jorge Faustman. Sat, 8pm: Wendy Ho. $10. San Jose.

CASCAL THE QUARTER NOTE Thu: 8:30pm: Cinco de Mayo Party. Fri, 8:30pm: Meanu, Andrew Mel and Mazim Chambi.

Sat, 8:30pm: Brannan, Billbillies. $8. Sunnyvale.

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

Mountain View.

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Sun, 6pm: Traditional Irish music. Tue, 7:30pm: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

Fri, 6pm: We Stand United.

Cupertino.

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Fri, 6-10pm: Anthony Paule Blues Band. Sat: Ladies Sing the Blues with pearl Alley Blues Band (noon-4pm) and Jan Fannuchi Band featuring Steve Freund (610pm). Sun, noon-4pm: Mother’s Day New Orleans jazz brunch with Gail Dobson Jazz Band.

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Redwood City.

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San Jose.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS

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SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Mon: Mr. Walker’s Comedy.

San Jose.

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TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

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Redwood City.

Fri, 7pm: Stickup Kid, Hear the Sirens, Point of View, Heart to Heart, Second to Last and the Caps. Los Gatos.

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People life rright ight nnow, ow, A ries. P eople yyou ou ccare are aabout bout aare re iin na daze, daze, sseemingly eemingly hhypnotized ypnotized bbyy a ccertain ertain ““rupture rupture in in the or order things”” that took pplace der of things lace some time ago. In my my oopinion, pinion, iit’s t’s your your task task to to wake wake them them up, up, gently gently if if possible, and motivate them to move on.

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And I mean that in the best sen senses ses of the word. word. Your Your o vitality vitality is is heading heading ttoward oward ppeak eak llevels, evels, aand nd yyour our bbody ody is were is as as smart smart aass iitt ggets. ets. IIff yyou ou w ere r eever ver ggoing oing ttoo aact ct as if every move you make is a dance, d now would be wanted be the the time time ttoo ddoo iit. t. IIff yyou ou eever ver w anted ttoo eexplore xplore the the righteous righteous blending blending ooff ggrace race aand nd ppower, ower, tthis his iiss a perfect moment. perfect m oment. Give Give yyourself ourself ppermission ermission ttoo bbee a fluid fluid bolt bolt of of ingenious ingenious fun, fun, Taurus.

Taurus. Play Play hard hard and and sweet, with sublime fferocity. erocity.

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dark force was first dark fo rce bbeautiful.” eautiful.” TThat hat w as tthe he fi rst lline ine ooff tthe he horoscope wrote dream horoscope I wr ote ffor or you in myy dr eam last night. night Here’s “Create Here’s what came next: “Cr eate a song out of your moans. Br Brag wounds. ag about your wounds s. Dance rreverently everently on the gr graves aves of your enemies.”” Does any of this make sense to you so ffar? perfectly ar? It all seemed perf ectly reasonable dream. reasonable and helpful in my dr ream. “Sneak a gift to your bad self self.. Dissolve the tie ties es that bind you to hollow intelligence. Seek the an angel funkyy ngel near the funk gulley winds man’s Dig forr gulley tthat hat w inds tthrough hrough nnoo m an’s lland. and. D ig fo treasure wheree the single treasure in the muddy puddle wher w lily gr grows.”

That’s ows.” That ’s it, Gemini—my Gemini—m my dream dream of your horoscope. yourself horoscope. If you can align your rself with its spirit, I bet you’ll be primed ffor waking-life or the wak king-life opportunities that ar aree headed your way way..

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Journal of Medical Ethics, psych psychologist hologist Richar Richardd Bentall proposed happinesss be rreclassified proposed that happines eclassified as a “psychiatric “psychiatric ddisorder”—a isorder ”—a ppathology athology tthat hat sshould hould be treated therapy.

“Happiness treated with ther apy. “Happi ness is statistically abnormal,” he ar argued. discrete gued. It ““consists consissts of a discr ete cluster with cluster of of ssymptoms, ymptoms, iiss aassociated ssociated w ith a rrange ange ooff cognitive reflects cognitive abnormalities abnormalities aand nd pprobably roobably re flects tthe he abnormal functioning of the cen central ntral nervous nervous system.”

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According astrological According to my rreading eading of the astr ological omens, you’re massive you’re about about ttoo bbee bbesieged esieged bbyy a m assive iinflux nflux ooff good ffeelings. hardd ffor eelings. It may be har o you to ffend or end off surges unreasonable joy,, wel well-being gratitude. surges of unr easonable joy l-being and gr atitude.

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They They ran ran sseven even uultramarathons ltramarathons in in seven seven consecutive consecutive days marathon was more days oon n sseven even ccontinents. ontinents. EEach ach m arathon w as m ore than miles. than 31 31 m iles. ((More More iinfo nfo hhere: ere: 77in7on7.com.) in7on7.com.) II’m ’m nnot ot recommending recommending that that you you ttry ry ssomething omething aass rridiculously idiculously excessive as they did, Leo, but I do want to note that you’re you’re now in a phase when when your capacity for for amazing ffeats usual. eats is bigger than us sual. Do you have any ideas what ideas aabout bout w hat yyou ou ccould ould aaccomplish ccomplish tthat’s hat’s beyond beyond your expectations?

VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Wh What hat have you had to re linquish iin n tthe he ppast ast 110 0m onths, V irgo? W hat w ere relinquish months, Virgo?

What were surrender? you fforced orced to sacrifice or sur ren nder? Whatever it is, I will forr iitt oover ppredict redict yyou ou w ill bbee ccompensated ompensated fo ver tthe he ccourse ourse process of the next 12 months. And the pr ocess begins soon.

IIt’s t’s not not likely likely that that the the incoming incoming blessing blessing will will bring bring dream away.. an exact rreplacement eplacement ffor or the dr ream that got away Rather,, you will be awakened too an unexpected new Rather source thereby sour ce of excitement, ther eby dissolving d the lingering liberating sense of loss and liber ating you u to rise again.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): If given g the choice ge or keeping our between having our lives chang change lives the same, many of us wou would ld choose the status quo. feel quo. We We tend tend ttoo fe el tthat hat eeven ven iiff tthe he ccurrent urrent sstate tate of things is uncomfortable, it’s uncomfortable, it ’s still s preferable preferable to having to deal with the uncerta uncertainty inty and ffear ear that come fitt come from from transformation. transformation. But But I ddon’t on’t tthink hink yyou ou fi this Off aallll tthe this description description right right nnow, ow, Libra.

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It’s It’s easier easier than than usual usual for for you you to to imagine imagine different different ways ways of of doing doing things. things. Take Take advantage advantage ooff tthis his superpower. superpower.

SCORPIO SC ORPIO ((Oct. Oct. 223–Nov. 3–Nov. 221): 1): H Hugo ugo CChavez havez is Venezuela, is tthe he ssocialist ocialist ppresident resident ooff V enezuela, nnot ot aan n astronomer New philosopher.. And yet he astronomer or N ew Age philosopher recently Mars recently sspeculated peculated tthat hat tthe he pplanet lanet M ars oonce nce hhad ad a thriving civiliza civilization ation that met its doom because its resources were its re sources w ere ddrained rained ooff ff aand nd ppoisoned oisoned bbyy tthe he excesses when excesses ooff ccapitalism. apitalism. I llove ove iitt w hen nnotable otable ppeople eople go off-message and fr freestyle wackyy ffantasies, eestyle wack antasies, so I applaud Chavez’s l d Chavez’ Ch ’s impr iimprovisation. ovisation. i ti May M I rrespectfully espectfully tf ll suggest suggest yyou ou cconsider onsider iindulging ndulging iin n yyour our oown wn version version of form?

According myy re reading of tthis his aart rt fo rm? Ac cording ttoo m ading ooff tthe he astrological omens, healthy astrological ome ens, it would be downright heal thy for from for you to departt fr om your usual rraps aps and unveil some unpr unpredictable self-expressions edictaable self-expr essions to anyone and everyone who th thinks figured hinks they have you all figur ed out.

SSAGITTARIUS AGITTARIU US (Nov (Nov.. 22–Dec. 21): SSymmetry ymmetry and equilibrium ar aree not all that valuable right now now..

They’ree certainlyy not worth obsessing over or having They’r screaming screaming fightss about. In ffact, act, I rrecommend ecommend that you cultivate cultivate a jaunty jaaunty knack for for stylish lopsidedness.

Appreciate Appreciate the the beauty beauty of of irregularity. irregularity. Be Be alert alert for for the the way incongruouss details and crooked crooked angles reveal reveal fresh, fresh, hot truths that provide provide you with exactly what you need. Even so-called flaws and mistakes may s lead to lucky lucky accidents. acccidents.

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could greatness ffor or me when I co ould imagine gr eatness in others, wasn’t eeven ven iiff iitt w asn’t aalways lways tthere,” here,” ssaid aid CCharles harles Bukowski, writer renowned B ukowski, a ggenerally enerally ccranky ranky w riter nnot ot re nowned optimism.. A According ffor or his optimism ccording to my analysis of the will work aastrological strological oomens, mens, tthis his sstrategy trategy w ill aalso lso w ork wonders ffor or you in the coming days. TTrying rrying to see what’s w hat’s great great about about other other people people will will tend tend to to activate activate dormant greatness generally your own dorma nt gr eatness and will just gener ally make feel What’s m ake yyou ou fe el ggood. ood. SSoo aask sk yyourself: ourself: W hat ’s interesting beautiful, smart, inter esting and successful about aggressively. the people you know? k Fantasize aggr essively.

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS ((Jan. Jan. 220–Feb. 0–Feb. 118): 8): TThe he iincome ncome gap between thee richest and poor poorest est sections of society recent society has has always always been been llarge, arge, bbut ut iin n re cent yyears ears it has grown grotesquely grown absurdly, abssurdly, gr otesquely humongous.

As As journalist Less Leopold notes (tinyurl.com/ RichEatPoor), RichEatPoor), there theere are are hedge-fund gamblers who rake rake in more more money money in an hour than a middle-class wage wage earner earner makes makes in in 4477 yyears. ears. FFrom rom aan n aastrological strological perspective, perspective, Aquarius, Aquarius, it’s it’s an an excellent excellent time time for for you you to raise voice inequity.. Furthermor Furthermore, raise your voic ce against this inequity e, you’d be wise to dr dramatically discrepancy amatically shrink the discr epancy between the haves havves and have-nots in your own personal personal sphere, sphere, where where you you can can aactually ctually hhave ave aan n immediate effect. effect. You You might start the healing by asking asking yourself yourself how how tthe he rrich ich aaspects spects ooff yyour our ppsyche syche steal from from the poor pooor parts.

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“Status: False.

“Example: [A] local radio station reported that bananas as we know them will not be in existence in five to 15 years. The banana has been genetically altered so much that new plants cannot be grown as there are no seeds and the existing plants are slowly being destroyed by a parasite.”

Snopes then explains, “Bananas aren’t about to be swept from the face of the earth. . . . There are about 300 varieties of the fruit, and the current fear applies to only one of them, the Cavendish.

Granted, the Cavendish is our banana of choice, but it isn’t the only banana out there.” No disrespect to Snopes, but this statement, while not flat wrong, is seriously misleading.

1. Bananas in general aren’t in danger of being expunged from the earth.

2. No one thinks the Cavendish is going to become extinct either. The banana the Cavendish replaced in the 1960s, the Gros Michel (or “Big Mike”), was wiped out commercially by an earlier version of the fungus that now threatens the Cavendish. But the Gros Michel didn’t die out completely and is still grown in some places. The same will no doubt be true of the Cavendish.

3. Nonetheless, there’s a high likelihood the Cavendish will be destroyed as a commercial crop. The banana is threatened by Panama disease race 4, a fungus that spreads through the soil. The fungus is wreaking havoc with the Cavendish industry in parts of Asia, Africa, and Australia. So far it hasn’t appeared in the Americas, but it’s transmitted through contact with shoes, clothes, etc., and many scientists think its arrival is only a matter of time.

4. The Cavendish isn’t just “our banana of choice”; in most of the developed world, it’s the only choice.

Roughly 100 billion are sold annually.

No other variety comes close.

5. Scientists are trying to develop alternative banana varieties that (a) are resistant to Panama race 4 and other diseases, (b) can be grown commercially and (c) people are willing to eat. There are two ways to do this: traditional plant breeding and genetic modification. Although cultivated bananas are sterile hybrids—farmers create new plants from cuttings of the old ones—most produce occasional viable seeds from which a better banana can be bred by and by.

However, it’s a slow process. Genetic modification is faster but obnoxious to many consumers. So far, no obvious replacement banana has emerged. If tomorrow the Cavendish were to join the Gros Michel on the compost heap of history, banana growers would surely come up with an alternative.

6. Then again, who cares what happens to the Cavendish banana? It’s a so-called dessert banana. Sure, it’s good for you, but in the industrialized world, bananas are an optional commodity.

In the developing world, different story. Bananas in many countries aren’t dessert; in the starchy form known as the plantain, they’re one of the most valuable food crops on earth.

Those are the bananas everybody should be worried about. Though they’re not going to become extinct either, they’re threatened by a long list of diseases and pests, with names like banana Xanthomonas wilt, burrowing nematodes and black Sigatoka. Black Sigatoka, another fungal infestation, afflicts Cavendish bananas, too, but people tend not to worry about it because it can be controlled with fungicides. Trouble is, the fungicides are becoming less and less effective.

Banana yields in central Africa are half what they were 30 years ago. Only a handful of scientists are working on the problem. No bananas for us affluent types means we’ll have to find something else to slice up on our cornflakes. For tens of millions in Africa, the potential loss of the banana is a matter of life and death.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #550174 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Uy Ban Toung Niem 30-4, 2290 Tully Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122, Viet-American Voters of Norther CA, 1704 Four Oaks Rd., San Jose, CA, 95132.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

The state of Corporation: California.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on. /s/John Ngo President #3108136 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/8/2011. (pub Metro 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18/2011)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #549775 NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is #550508 (are) doing business as: The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mejia Arts, 323 North 3rd St., San Jose, CA, 95112, David V. Mejia, Lisa A. Mejia.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on.

Refile of previous file #436615 with changes /s/Lisa A. Mejia This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa

Torres Lighting Main.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/19/2002.

Refile of previous file #300296 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Robert Torres This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/30/2011. (pub Metro 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18/2011)

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Boulder Creek 290 acres ! Run your dirt bikes or quads or take a hike and have a lot of fun on the 11 parcels ranging in size from 18- 40 acres. Santa Clara county. Sun, Views, Spring, Creek. Off grid.

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This business is conducted by a Corporation.

The state of Corporation: California.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/1/07.

Refile of previous file #499859 with changes /s/Manu Kumar

President #3230232 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 4/18/2011. (pub Metro 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18/2011)

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on August 2010. /s/Thanh T. Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/16/2011. (pub Metro 4/13, 4/20, 4/27, 5/4/2011)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #549252 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) is NAME STATEMENT (are) doing business as: #550088 Huon G Que, 3005 Silver Creek Road, #152, San Jose, CA, 95148, Nguyen, Thang T., 3134 Brightwood Ct., San Jose, CA, 95148 This business is conducted by a individual.

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