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NANCY ANCY PYLE PYLE voted TTuesday uesday CAMPOS CA MPOS and N against dockin dockingg their own pay pay.. Only a money masoch hist would enjoy taking masochist home less cashh at the end of the day, day, but the trio represent reppresent three-quarters three-quarters of the council’ss ffour our biggest union backers— backers—ASH ASH H KA KALRA LRA said he wanted to empathize with w the plight of his less-privileged brethren. brethren. The rhetoric rreached eached lofty new n heights by the time dais discussionn reached reached Chu, who wor ried that future fuuture members could worried be fforced orced to moonlight m in other jobs when they should shoould be resting resting at home to ““replenish replenish themselves” them mselves” with the fruits of their labor. labor. Campos Campos went a step further by wondering wonndering how a singleincome ffamily amily of ffour our could survive survive on a councilmemb ber ’s $81,000 annual councilmember’s salary—he didn’t diddn’t bother to mention that he’s he’s singlee and has no kids. Pyle different went a diff erennt route route by asking the city staff questions questions about how their

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Social Securityy would be affected, affected, and everyone in the the City Hall chambers went to sleep. One thing thing everyone on the council wantedd to make clear is that continued pay cuts jeopardizes jeopardizes the city’s ability to attract attract talented individuals to politicaal office—and then every run ffor or political one of them added addded that they didn’t didn’t get into politics for for the money. money. First-year Councilmember Councilmembe er DONALD DONALD ROCHA, ROCHA, playing the rrole ole of awkward awkkward freshman freshman to a “T T,,”” summedd up up the th exercise exercise i by b noting ti “T,” that he thought thoughht it was weird weird that the council votes on o reducing reducing its own salary. salary.

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Zanotto’s ttto’s isn isn’t ’t ccompletely ompletely abandoning ning i the downtown area. area.

Troy Tibbles, manager,, bbles b , the store’s store’s manager says they’ll y’ll ’ soon soon ink a lease on a nearby spot sp pot formerly fo ormerly occupied occupied by by a pizza parlor paarlor and reopen reopen there there ass a smaller err deli operation operation on Aug. Aug.

1. Zanot Zanotto’s to’s Expr Express, ess, ass the ne new w vventure enture will b alled,, will ser ve up bee ccalled, serve sandwiches,, salads and sandwiches d sushi in a grab -and-go fformat. ormat. o grab-and-go “What we’re we’re going to t try try and do is ser service vice the lunch clie clientele, entele,” said T ibbles, who who has has been been w ith the the Tibbles, with Zanotto’s Zanot to’s family since since 1984 1984 and to took ok o ver m anaggement of of the the downtown downtown over management lo cation in 2002.

2002. location Likee Zanot Lik Zanotto’s, to’s, othe other er South Ba Bay ay independent gr ocers ha h ave struggled independent grocers have to stay stay op open en as the economy econom o y ttanked ank ked d or bigger bi ccompetitors, omp petitors, fr ffrom om sp ecialty gr ocers to bigg b ox stor es, specialty grocers box stores, moved mo ved in on what w was as onc oncee their tur f. In F ebruary, valle ey institution turf.

February, valley Cosentino’s C osentino’s closed dow down wn after 63 yyears ears in the gr ocery business. bu usiness. L ast grocery Last yyear, ear, PW Markets Markets tran nsitioned fr om transitioned from gr ocer to real real estate estate ag gency when grocer agency

they b egan n leasing the buildings that they began onc ose stor es. oncee held their fiv fivee San JJose stores.

Tibbles sa ssays ayys his stor Tibbles storee has had to batttle w ith iinconvenient nconvenient p arking battle with parking access, p oor o visibilit ty in its mid-blo ck access, poor visibility mid-block location an nd a lack of downtown location and development. T he 8 8, a sstylish tylish n earby development.

The 88, nearby condo tower, tower, was wass ssupposed upposed tto ob ring iin n condo bring more shoppers, shoppers, but but iitt brought brought iinstead nstead more jarring ssurprise: urprise: ccompetition ompetition iin n tthe he a jarring form Market” form of of a Safeway’s Safeway’s ““the the M arket” iin n ground-floor rretail etail space. spacce. ““And And w a ground-floor wee didn’t see that t ccoming, oming,” said T ibbles. didn’t Tibbles.

“That was broke “That w as tthe he sstraw traw tthat hat b roke tthe he camel’s back, camel’s bac ck, if yyou ou will.”

With news off tthe Safeway With n ews o he S affeway sstore tore opening, Z anotto’s ttemporarily emporarily cclosed losed opening, Zanotto’s hrink its leased spac om down to sh shrink spacee fr from 22,000 22,000 ssquare quare ffeet eet tto o 114,000 4,000 ssquare quare feet, about off tthe Naglee feet, ab bout tthe he ssize ize o he N aglee Avenue llocation. ocation. T he ssmaller malller sspace pace Avenue The asn’tt enough. just w wasn’t

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b etter as his his customers ffeel eeel a lit tttle better little mor onfid dent ab out the economy. economy. moree cconfident about “W We’re st tarting to see a lit tle “We’re starting little ggrowth rowth ag gain,” ssays ays D raeeger. ““It’s It’s b een again, Draeger. been a lit ttle t while whille since since I could could sa ay that.” little say Lik o gr ocers inter viewed Likee the other grocers interviewed ffor or tthis his sstory, tory, D raeger ssays ays h Draeger hee iiss on friendly terms with his fellow feellow iindependent ndependent grocery grocery cchains. haiins. H Hee ssaid aid w ass ssaddened ad ddened tto oh ear aabout bout tthe he was hear downtown Zanot to’s closure, closure, but that Zanotto’s he w aasn’t ccompletely o ompletely wasn’t surprised. ““They They h aven’t rreally eally d one w ell w ith haven’t done well with

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T he sstore tore won’t won’t lay lay off off any an ny The eemployees. mployees. They’ve They’ve b een o peratting been operating with a delisize staff staff for for o several several deli-size m onths. N ine o hem h ave b een w ith months.

Nine off tthem have been with the stor sin nce it opened opened in 1996.

1996. storee since He ’s ccautiously auttiously optimistic about about the He’s lleaner eaner vventure, enture, noting noting that that the the store’s store’s str ong lunc ch-customer following following o strong lunch-customer puts them in a b etter p osition than a ne w better position new sandwich sh hop. shop.

“W We ha ave 14 yyears ears of building a “We have b rand tto o tthat hat llunch unch ccustomer, ustomer, w hich brand which iiss h arrd tto od o iiff yyou ou jjust ust o pen u pa hard do open up ssmall-format malll-format d eli an nd you’re you’re n ot deli and not known,” hee sa ays y. says.

T ibbles sa ayys he ’s torn ab out closing Tibbles says he’s about the lar ger st tore. larger store.

“The The wor rst par worst partt is the d isappointment from from lloyal oyal ccustomers ustomers disappointment w ho h ave ssupported upported tthe he sstore tore ssince ince iits ts who have op ening,” he h sa ays y . “The other side of it opening, says. iiss tthat hat iit’s t’s been been a llot ot m ore w ork tthan han more work iit’s t’s eever ver been been reward, rewarrd, and and I’m I’m grateful grateful that it ’s goin ng to be be b ehind us. us.” it’s going behind

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Steve Ste ve Pinne Pinney, y, generall manager at L unardi’s L os Gatos stor sstore, e, w as Lunardi’s Los was w orking ass a n ight cclerk lerk sseveral everal years yearrs working night ago when Whole F oods d Mark et Foods Market aannounced nnounced a n new ew sstore tore jjust ust o on n tthe he other side of Blossom Hill H R Road. o oad.

“When we hear d that thaat the heard theyy wer weree going in, that’s that’s what pu ushed us into pushed getting or ganic ffoods oods an nd natural getting organic and ffoods, oods,” said Pinne y, who o’s b een with Pinney, who’s been L unardi’s ssince ince 11987.

987. ““As As a result result we we Lunardi’s kind of built up a client tele ffor or that o clientele b effo ore the ven e op eneed,” he said. before theyy eeven opened, L unardi’s h as eeight ight sshops hops ar round Lunardi’s has around tthe he B ay Area.

Area. P inney ssays ays b usiness Bay Pinney business at his stor ll. In fact, the storee is doing wel well. chain just op ened a ne w stor opened new storee in the sspot pot fformerly ormerly o ccupied b osentino’s occupied byy C Cosentino’s on South Basc om A ven nue in San Jose.

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Bascom Avenue B ut iit’s t’s n ot jjust ust W hole F oods aand nd But not Whole Foods Saf feway vying ffor or his cu o ustomers.

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“W We’re getting gettting t ccompetition ompetittion now fr om “We’re from T ar a get and Wal-Mar t,” sa ssays ayys Pinne ey, Target Wal-Mart, Pinney, rreferring effeerring to the megar ettailers that now megaretailers sell fresh fresh produce produce and packaged p aged ffoods. pack oods.

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Well, Well, bring g in fresh fresh blood, for for one.

The company compaany recently recently hired hired Ross Levinsohn, Levinsohn, formerly formerly of Fox, to lead North America.

Ameerica. erica Prior to that, that it hired hired Blake Irving, Irvin ng, formerly formerly of Microsoft, Microsoft, to lead product.

I’ve spent time with product. o both in thee past month, and one thing is for for sure: sure: They’re They’re singing from song sheet. Both from the same s men are are energized energized by the chance to leverage leveragee the Yahoo Yaahoo platform, platform, and both are as well—it won’t are realistic realistic e be easy, easyy, and an nd it won’t come fast. fast.

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Venture Crapital: Venture Crapital: a Ann H HTML5 A TML5 Game Whether you’re you’re on Team Teeam m Andreessen, Andreessen, who held that we wer en n’t in a tech weren’t bubble at the AllThingsD AllThingsD conference, conference, or the now revised revised Team Teeam m Arrington Arrington (“All (“ “A All signs point to a real reaal bubble, p robably starting starting later later this this year year probably when a lot more more compa anies start companies to go public ”), there’s there’s no n denying public”), p ost Groupon Groupon S-1 S-1 drop drop that that w e’re post we’re in a bubble of people talking taalking about whether or not we’re we’re in n a tech bubble.

Hence Venture Venture Crapital, Crapitaal, an HTML5 HTML5 game buil TeechCrun nch Disrupt builtt at TechCrunch Hackathon by Dmitri Cherniak, C Adrian Sanders, Wylie Wylie Conlon and Chris Bliss. The game, game, whose cr eators mostly work at a startups creators themselves, lets you role role o play an early-stage VC with millions millions in your throw at startups piggybank to throw based on T eechCrunch headlines. h TechCrunch The goal is to sell before before each each bubble pops, making a return return so you can thr ow more more money y. You You know, know w, sort of throw money. like a rreal eal life life investor investor..

T he m ost impressive impressive part part of of tthe he The most game is that it [uses] actual a company inf ormation from from Crunchbase.

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Once you have money invested, it shows you the total amount am mount you have vested in that company. companyy. If you click on a bubble you’ve yyou’vve invested in, you get back all that thaat money. moneyy. But if it gets too big, it’ll it’ll pop pop and you’ll lose it all. If a lot of them them start to pop, then a whole bunch bunch more more will pop too, like a rreal eal bubble bub bble..—ALEXIA —ALEXIA TSO TSOTSIS, TSIS, T TECHCRUNCH.COM ECHCRUNCH H.COM

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It helps having major league talent on the field, but overall the club is so balanced it might as well be telling the rest of the CAL North teams to show rabbit ears before the Giants walk away with their lunch money. More than 10 games ahead of Bakersfield and Stockton, San Jose has been absolutely dominant at home, winning close to 75 percent of its games when wearing white.

Pitchers Kelvin Marte and Craig Westcott have been doing people dirty all season—both have an ERA under 3.00—while 23-year-old center fielder Gary Brown (people still name their kids Gary?) has a ridiculous .366 batting average.

Third baseman Chris Dominguez and catcher Hector Sanchez are also not to be toyed with, as they lead the club with 10 and eight home runs, respectively. In total, the Giants have five players who are currently batting over .300.

And last but not least, while his beard leaves a little to be desired, closer Heath Hembree has been making big whiffers out of almost everybody.

The Giants will be back in their comfy confines Monday through Wednesday to face the Bakersfield Blaze after playing four games in Modesto. Obviously, the Giants will be happy to be back at home for work, even on Monday, as there really is nothing more depressing than a Sunday sunset—in Modesto.

To go the cheapskate route for free tickets, fans can either stop by an OSH hardware store or bring a Kraft Singles package wrapper for a buy one, get one deal. Why Kraft Singles? Because it’s American cheese, basically a synonym for the goofy, fun-loving minor league experience.—Josh Koehn

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Phelan himself was was a legend. Born Bo orn in n San Francisco, Francisco, he served served three three tterms erms as as mayor mayor of of that thatt city city att the the tturn urn of of the the 19th 19th century century and an nd was wass instrumental in nstrumental in the rebuilding rebuilding of parts p arts of it after the 1906 1906 earthquake. earthquaake. served H ser He ved a term in the U.S. U.S. Senate, S enate, from from 1915 to 1921, and was wass a member off tthe m ember o he cconspiracy-theorized onspiracy-theorized Bohemian B ohemian Club, Club, an an association associattion that that iinspired nspired him him to to organize organize San San Jose’s Jose’s equivalent eq quivalent group, group, the St. Claire Claire Club, Cllub, and an nd erect erect tthem hem a building building at at Second Second and an nd St. St. James James streets. streets. The The club club and an nd the th he building still exist exist today. todaay. patron A poet poet and patr on of the arts, arts, lived P Phelan built and liv ed at Villa Viilla Montalvo M Mont alvo in the Saratoga Saratoga Hills, Hills, now known n ow k nown ass Montalvo Montallvo Arts Arts Center.

C enter. During his time there, there, he numerous artists, h hosted numer ous ar tists, writers and a

philosophers. In his will, wiill, ill, he deeded philosophers. entire property property to the people people of the entire Santa Clara County, County, instructing in nstructing that Santa it forever forever become become a center center for for arts arts it and culture. culture. He He also also built built San San Jose’s Jose’s and first opera opera house, house, the the Victory Victory Theatre Theatre first North First First Street.

Street. on North It doesn’t doesn’t stop stop there. there. Phelan Phelan was was a It mainstay at San Jose Jose Teachers Teeachers College, College, mainstay where hiss legacy remains remains (now SJSU),, where intact. Aside Aside from from bequeathing bequeathing the the intact. land on on which which Spartan Spartan n Stadium Stadium was was land built, Phelan Phelan also also endowed endowed literary literarry built, awarrds that that still still exist exist today. today. He He was was awards also an an overt overt racist racist who who encouraged encouraged also anti-Asian n exclusionary exclusionarry laws laws and an nd anti-Asian campaigned to to “keep “keep California California campaigned white.” I guess no one’s one’s perfect. perfeect. white.

With such such notable notable history history With ingrained in in his his psyche, psyche, the the Blight Blight ingrained Junkie began began his bender bend der at Kelley Kelley Junkie Park, where where Phelan Phelan dead-ends dead d-ends near nearr Park, complex of cookie-cutter cookie-cu utter condos condos a complex stereottyypically suburban s with a stereotypically name: Springbrook.

Springbrook. From From there, there, the the name: architectural highlights highlights along allong Phelan Phelan architectural between Senter Senter and and 10th 10th began began with with between the Santa Santa Clara Clara Valley Vaallley Water Watter District District the sandbagg-pickup station. station. The The six six RVs RVs sandbag-pickup parked across across the street streeet looked looked like like parked

they had been been there there for fo or decades. decades. they Corrugated d metal metal warehouses, warehouses, Corrugated cement contractors, contractors, roofing roofing supply supply cement d few few graffiti-stained graffiti-stained cargo cargo outlets and domiinated the scene. scene. vans dominated Bligght Junkie Junkie couldn’t couldn’t stop The Blight at that that point. point. Continuing Continuing from from at Avenue of Phelan, 10th alongg the Avenue tubing, PVC PVC pipes, pipes, a muffler muffler shop shop tubing, and a legendary legendary tortilla tortilla chip chip factory faacctory and held court. court. What What a scene. scene. From From held there, Smith Smitth Avenue Avenue (I don’t don’t know there, history)) dead-ends deaddead ends south into its history) yet more more corrugated corrugated structures, structures, yet shopss, collision collision businesses and auto shops, transmission-repair places. placces. The The dusty dusty transmission-repair landscape was was flat, the sun beat beat down landscape and everything everything seemed seemed to to go go on on for for and miles. But But the the Junkie Junkie didn’t didn’t bother bother miles. h Avenue—he Avenue—he was waas “Phelan with Smith groovy”” by by this point. point. groovy” emp pty house, house, two two semi-trailers, semi-trailers, An empty abando oned forklift fo orklift and a closed an abandoned flooring supply supply yard yard later, later, Seventh Seventh flooring S eet emerged Str emeerged like like a breath breath of Street s ale air. st air. At At that point, point, the Junkie Junkie stale could have haave gone south to the UPS could warehousee and Frank’s Frank’s Tractors, Tractors, warehouse but he he ignored ignored the the temptation temptation and and but persisted down d more persisted Phelan into more graffiti-stained cargo cargo vans, van ns, a paint paint graffiti-stained company, a brake brake shop shop and an nd straight straight company, up to to the the railroad railroad d tracks. tracks. There There up are so many man ny pieces pieces of tracks in this are part of of San San Jose, Jose, it’s it’s impossible impossible to to part even remember remember which which ones ones are are still still even functionall. functional.

At this vivid v wasteland intersection, At wasteland Junkiee finally caught caught sight of the Junkie other pedestrians. pedestrians. A man man n in in a torn-up torn-up other green sweat sweaat jacket jacket hobbled along the green tracks, with with crutches, crutches, and and made made his his tracks, way off into intto the southern horizon. way Looking the th he opposite opposite direction, direction, Looking towarrd downtown, downtown, a man man and and a toward weeaaved and bobbed bobbed their woman weaved way into into the the distance. distance. Just Just past past that that way point, Phelan Phelan ends ends att Monterey Monterey point, High hway, providing p oviding a blurry-eyed pr blurry- eyed Highway, view of thee Pick ’n’ ’n’ Pull and the view decrepit Casa Casa Linda motel—two motel—two decrepit legendary San San Jose Jose establishments, establishments, to to legendary say the the least. leas ast. The The Blight Blight Junkie Junkie will will say eventuallyy go back on the wagon, wagon, a , but eventually the Avenue Avenue of of Phelan Phelan n will will eternally eternally the exist as as a trigger trigger for for relapse. relapse. He He must must exist beware. beware.

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I put the sk skull ull back k on my my desk and turned the light off. off. But he ccame off ame in again, and put the sk skull ull back in bed b ed ne next xt to me me,, grinn grinning ning and sa saying, aying y , “What ab about out the mon monster?” nster?”” Then he left again.

He ga gave ave me that sk skull u se ull several veral moree times mor times,, alw always ays y wi with ith that same funny funn ny lo look ok on his fac face, e, and sa saying ayying only, only y, “What ab about out thee monster monster?” ?”

In the time sinc since, e, whene w whenever ver I’v I’vee asked ask ed him ab about out that night and wh why hy he did that, he just lau laughs ughs and shrugs his shoulders shoulders..

IIndie ndie IIcon con I’ve known Mik I’ve Mikee P Park ark k ffor or o 20 yyears. ears.

I th In thatt time ti time,, I’v I’ I’vee w watched atc tched h d him hi become b ecome one of the biggest bigggest success success stories in the South Bay Bay music sc scene. ene.

His band Sk Skankin’ ankin’ Pic Pickle ckle w was as one of just a handful of groups grou ups in the late ’80s ’8 0s rresponsible esponsible ffor or ccarving o a ving out the ar third thir dw wave ave punk punk-ska k-ska genre. g e. U genr Unlike nlike the Might Mightyy Might Mightyy Bo Bosstones osstones and N o Doubt,, Sk ankin’ Pickle P br oke up No Skankin’ broke b effo ore sk nstream. before skaa went main mainstream.

It w asn’t until afterr P ark left wasn’t Park Sk ankin ki ’ Pi Pickle kl that h th hi hings h really ll Skankin’ things really to ok off ffor or o him. In 19 996, he took 1996, st arted A sian Man R ecords, a lab el started Asian Records, label ssynonymous ynonymous with ind dependent independent punk and sk a. N ow 155 yyears ears running ska.

Now running,, A sian Man R eecords is b est known Asian Records best ffor o or launching the ccareers areers e of L ess Less Then JJake ake and Alk alin ne Trio Alkaline Trio,, but

onsistently put label has h also cconsistently the label quality independent independent ska ska and out quality albu ums by by bands like like Andrew Andrew punk albums Jackson JJihad, ih had, Bomb the Music Jackson Industry, the t Queers, Queers, Lawrence Law wrence Industry, Arms, MU330, MU U330, Buck-o-Nine, Buck k- o -Nine, Link Arms, 80, Let’s Let’s Go G Bowling Lemuria, Big D 80, Bowling,, Lemuria, Kiids Table, Taable, Smoking Popes Popes and the Kids many more. more. and many At the ssame ame time, time, P ark has At Park become known kn nown for fo or his charit able become charitable endeaavors. Between Between 2001 2001 and 20 03, endeavors.

2003, ganizzed the Plea for for o P eace he or organized Peace tours which raised more more than tours,, which $100,000 for fo or 1.800.suicide, 1.800.suicide, a youth youth $100,000 suicide-prevention organization. organization. suicide-prevention To ccelebrate eleb brate 15 yyears ears of A sian To Asian Reecords, P ark is throwing throwing 10 Man Records, Park between w JJune une 15 and JJune une 19 shows between featuring e m more than 40 Asian Asian Man featuring more bands. Some, Som me, like like Slapstick and Slow bands. have not pla ha ayed to gether Gherkin, have played together ears. in yyears.

Park’s public p persona as a smart smart Park’s persona sociallly conscious conscious businessman and socially well- desserved,, but eeven ven after years years is well-deserved, pub blic face face of the South Bay’s Baay’ ys as the public successful e record lab el, what most successful record label, ver emer ged is a p ortrait of has ne never emerged portrait th rreal eall Mik M ark, k the th one I know. k know. the Mikee P Park, intervieews, he usually sticks to In interviews, talking about about bands on his label label and talking charitable/p a olitical pr ojects he ’s the charitable/political projects he’s involved with. w involved k that I’m very very silly and “I think like to ha ave a good good time ,” Park Park like have time,” 22 saays y . “But I think the public says.

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persona is that I’m a very persona very serious p eace activist,, which I am,, but that peace doesn’t do esn’tt mean that I ha have ave to b bee this uptight b ore of a p ersson.” bore person.”

Dan Andriano from from m the Alk Alkaline aline Trio puts it another way. way. nuts,” says.

“That dude is nuts ,” he sa ays y.

“Mikee is the most ri ridiculous “Mik idiculous esse person p erson I eever ver met,”” sa says ays y JJesse Michaels he bands Michaels,, who is in th the Operation Op eration Ivy and thee Classics of L ove, with a laugh. “I ha ave ne ver met Love, have never an yone lik e.” anyone likee Mik Mike.”

Livee FFree Liv ree One of the first times I hung out with P Park, ark, he and his rroommate oommate weree bus wer busyy assemblingg cheeseburgers cheeseburgers out of McDonald’ McDonald’ss ha hamburgers amburgers and deli slic sliced ed cheese fr from om Saf Safeway. feway.

Park P ark ccalculated alculated that th they hey wer weree saving sa avving rroughly oughly 2 ccents entss p per er bur burger ger this w way ay rather than ju just ust buying cheeseburgers. cheesebur gers. It w was as lik llikee he had discovered disc overed a secr secret. et.

It w wasn’t asn’t the mone moneyy he w was as sa saving avving so much as the fact th that hat he had figured figur ed out a w way ay to ssave ave mone moneyy that other p people eople had hadn’t dn’t thought of. of f. He w was as eexcited. xcited. Th This is w was as only the beginning. b eginning.

“It ’s har d to eexplain, xplain,, but, seriously y, “It’s hard seriously, exciting things ffor o or one of thee most exciting me is get tiing fr ee stuff ff,,” P ark admits getting free stuff,” Park admits..

“Things th hat ar xciting ar that aree eexciting aree when I get ho ok ked up at the movies movies with hooked fr ee p opcorn. o I did it! it! I won!” free popcorn.

Andrian no told me that when he Andriano visited fr om m Chicago, Chicago, P ark would from Park weird ttake ake him on o weir d adventures. adventures. The goal was was always always y to have haave the most fun spending while sp en nding the least amount of money. mone y. “We’d “W We’d go to an apartment apartment ccomplex omplex wher w wheree he kne knew w one p person, erson, not vvery ery well, well and sneak in to their w Deuce ce hot tub tub.. W Wee snuck in to see Deuc Bigelow w at a theater in downtown San JJose. ose. Mik Mikee was M was probably probably in his 30s at the time,” time,” Andriano sa says. ayys.

When Andriano Andriano’s A ’s band Alkaline Alkaline Trio w was as on o the Warp Warped ed Tour Tour o in 2001, 20 01,, Park Park k went along as the road road manager.. Excited manager E to be be on a fully ccatered atered tou tour, ur, he made it his mission to sp spend end no n mor moree than five five dollars a week week. “II actually went 19 days daays y spending without sp pending one dollar. dollar. I broke broke down in New New Orleans and bought bought a bowl b owl of beans beans e and rice,” rice,” Park Park says. saays y.

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But even even after 15 years years of doing it, P Park ark is still sho shocked cked that thaat this is his job. job.

“I’vee alw “I’v always ays y thought you you have haave a b better etter chanc chancee of winni winning ing the lottery lottery than doing what I do do,, b because ecause I don’t don ’tt eeven ven know whatt I do. do. It makes makes no sense to me,” me,” he sa says. ays y.

His greatest greatest talent talent iss that he can can assess,, quickly and fair assess fairly ly accurately accurately how well bands will se sell ell records. records.

But,, A Asian sian Man R Records ec e ords d isn isn’t ’t just about ab out making money. money. It It’s ’s equally important imp ortant to Mike Mike tha that at he run his

how he wants business exactly exactly x wants to have and to be be able a to ha ave fun doing it. weree “II ccould ould ttell which bands wer Even going to do o well. Ev en the bands that I knew knew weren’t weren’t going to do well, guys,, I still put as long as they’re t y’re nice the nice guys their record record out,”” he says. saays y.

Asian Man Records A sian Ma an R eecords has been been a operation. famously ccasual, asual, friendly op eration.

To day, label T o this da ay, he still runs the lab el garage.. Whene Whenever out of his mom’s m ’s garage mom ver I come upstairs come over, over e , Park Park runs upst airs to makee me ssome mak ome tea. His mom will ccome ome down downstairs nstairs and sa say ay hi. hi When Park Skankin’ W hen P ark lleft eft S kan nkin’ Pickle, Pickle, his his parents par ents wer were re pushing har hard d for fo or him to rreturn eturn tto o sschool chool iinstead nstead of of trying trying to to sstart tart a rrecord ecord label. lab bel. His His only only startup startup capital Hee capitall was wass tthree hree ccredit redit ccards. arrds. H was was determined determ mined and worked worked hard. hard.

Fortunately, success quickly.

F ortunatelyy, suc cess ccame ame quickly y.

Park P ark kne knew w things wer weree going well, but but hadn’t had dn’t rreally eally wrapped wrap pped his his head head d around arround how how well. well. It It all all happened happened so so fast. faasst. Nine Nine months months after aft fter starting starting Asian Records, Park Asian n Man Man R ecords, P ark and and his his one one employee, were employee, Tony Tony w ere iin n the the backyard bacckyard playing playing basketball. basketballl. Park Parrk took took a break break k to They to get get the the mail. mail. T hey rreceived eceived a ccheck heck from $119,000. fr or o $119,0 00. om their distributor ffor

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Ted T ed e of ccourse ourse st stayed ayed up p all night, and they they went double or nothing the next next night. I fforgot orgott how many o many days da ayys T Ted ed e st stayed ayed up, up, but but he st started arted hallucinating,, and it was hallucinating was affecting aff ffeecting his drumming.. Mik drumming Mikee wound woun nd up ha having aving v to pa pay ay him 30 300 0 dollars dollars. s. Mik Mikee hated that. He was was sur suree Ted Ted e would w fall asleep at some point,” point,”” P Potthast otttthast sa says. ays y.

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Ther ave been been opp portunities Theree ha have opportunities to mak Asian Man records reccords a bigger makee Asian op eration, but Park Park ha as turned them operation, has down because because he w antts to ccontinue ontinue wants to run things his own way. way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I don â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t w ant this to be be this bigg ccorporation orporation want with 1,0 00 emplo yees. A sian Man is 1,000 employees.

Asian just me now w. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doingg eevery very aspect aspect now. of Asian Asian Man,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? P ark sa ays y.

Park says. ations He understands understands the limit limitations of running a label label the w ay he do es, way does, so he has encouraged encouraged bands b are that are getting bigger to move move to a bigger getting lab el. Alk aline Trio, Trio, for fo orr instance instance label.

Alkaline eeventually ventually signed to V agrant, a ,a Vagrant, Park supported. supporteed. Bef for o e their decision Park Before mo ve to Vagrant, Vagrant, a , Park Park k had his hands move full keeping keeping up with or rders. orders. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Maybe Maybe Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll C atcch F at ire [their Catch Fire second full-length] full-length] came cam me out, my my second

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Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a big fa fan,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? an,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? P Park ark rremembers. emembers. I hook said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oh,, dude, d dude , can can you you ho ok me Front up?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Fr ont row! row! I was was three three seats Ventura, was aaway way from from JJesse esse V eentura,, who w as governor go vernor att the time.â&#x20AC;? time.â&#x20AC;?

If yyou ou go o to the Asian Asian Man newsletter, website or read read Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ne wslettter t , he announces announc es every every time, time, right at the top that hee wants wants free free stuff and is music for anything. willing to trade t for o an nyything. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;vee got gotten free â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;v t fr ten ee ffood ood at cream. rrestaurants. estaurantss. Free Free ice ice cr eam. Some Pittsburg guy in Pit tttssburg that works at a chocolate cho colate factory f factor y just sent me tons chocolate. of cho colatte. It was was cool, cool, but man, so says. bad ffor o or you,â&#x20AC;? you u,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? Park Park sa ays y.

Going out ou ut to eat with Park Park is always too. alw ayys an adventure, a enture, to adv o. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every Mike, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ev ery time tiime you you eat with Mik e, he orders orders the th he biggest burrito. burrito. Seeing

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Sinc ark has b n running his een Sincee P Park been lab el ffor o or long ’s got tten to not label long,, he he’s gotten only work with some of his idols, idols, but b osition to o help them, bee in a p position lik ore F isshbone, one likee Angelo Mo Moore Fishbone, of his fa avorite bands gr ggrowing owing up favorite up.. In 19 99 and 20 00, P ark put out ttwo wo of 1999 2000, Park Mo ore’s solo rrecords. ecords.

Moore’s “The first time I me et Mike Mike w as met was when I sa aw Sk ankin’ Pickle P pla ay. saw Skankin’ play.

That w as b effo ore he w a P as apa P ark. was before was Papa Park.

N ow he ’s P apa P ark. Mik M ed Now he’s Papa Park.

Mikee has help helped me out mor ou u will know ,” moree than yyou know,” Mo ore sa ays y.

Moore says.

Ther e’s also JJesse esse Michaels M There’s fr om Op eration Ivy y. P ark had the from Operation Ivy. Park opp ortunity to put ou ut Michaels’ opportunity out ne w band, the Classicss of Love.

Love. P ark new Park used to tell me that hee would get so ner vous b eing ar ound d Michaels nervous being around Michaels.. He w as such a huge Op erration Ivy fan was Operation in High Scho ol. But th he ttwo wo ha ave School. the have b ecome close friends become friends..

Michael ls has some of the best best Michaels o Mike, out Mike, like like the time stories ab about Classics off Love Love and Park Park were were touring Eu urope. One night the Europe. theyy st ayed at a hotel so bad they they had to stayed put garbag ge bags on the floor. floor. garbage “Mik eemed depr p essed b effo ore we “Mikee se seemed depressed before went to sle sleep. eep. In the middle of the night we all a woke woke up Mike had the up.. Mike light on an and nd was was pouring pouring catsup catsup on his stomac ch and smearing it around, around, stomach sa aying y ‘Thi is is my my blo od! This is what saying ‘This blood! the world has done to me!’’ I said, ‘Mik e, it ’s not n that bad,, man.’ man.’ He said, ‘Mike, it’s ‘Shut up Michaels!

M Y ou o ’re one of You’re the ones th hat is killing me. me. If I had that ne ver heard hearrd the music yyou ou made I never wouldn ld ’t be be in i this thi shitty shit hittty squat! squatt! I wouldn’t should killl yyou ou right now!’ Michaels sa ays y , addin ng, “It was was very very funny.” funn ny.” says, adding,

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When Park Park has a tough tou ugh decision to mak makee regarding regarding his label, label, he thinks about about Ian MacKaye, MacK Kaaye, F Fugazi ugazi singer and owner of Dischord Dischord Records.

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AFFINITY Classic American. $$$. Big-shouldered food in handsome surroundings is the rule. The steaks are big and juicy, the pot pies better than Grandma used to make. Full bar. 300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444.

AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza. $. Amici’s specializes in thin-crust, New York-style pizza. With its upscale atmosphere and friendly service you’ve got one of downtown San Jose’s best pizza shops. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am-11pm Sat, 11:30am10pm Sun. 225 W. Santa Clara St. 408.289.9000.

ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$.

Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be.

Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555.

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

BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$.

Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and taste likes the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s.

The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American, Mexican

and Asian food. Most dishes are designed for sharing— appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am-10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat. Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St. 408.292.4300.

DALAT Vietnamese. $$.

San Jose’s second-oldest Vietnamese restaurant continues to draw those in search of delicious traditional fare. Surroundings are clean and friendly. Lunch and dinner daily. 408 E. William St. 408.294.6989.

EULIPIA New American. $$$. The revamped menu emphasizes robust flavors and beautiful presentations.

Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:30-9:30pm Sun. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161.

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

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

88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

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

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

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

Beer, wine. 11:30am-2:30pm

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IL FORNAIO Regional Italian. $$. Embraced by the graceful Sainte Claire Hotel, this location (there are several up and down the coast) transports the diner. The menu showcases a different region of Italy monthly. 7am10pm Mon-Thu, 7am-11pm Fri, 8am-11pm Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. Full bar. 302 S. Market St. 408.271.3366.

KOJI SAKE LOUNGE $$.

Japanese. In spite of Koji’s well-tuned atmosphere, it’s the sakes that really set the tone. Koji’s sake list includes tasting notes that help you find one that suits you.

Happy hour 6-9pm Wed-Fri with $3 beers and $5 small plates. 6pm-close Wed-Fri, 8pm-close Sat. 48 S. First St. 408.287.7199.

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

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LA VICTORIA TAQUERIA Mexican. $. La Vic’s famously addictive orange hot sauce merely tops off its tasty taqueria fare: big burritos of the breakfast and lunchtime varieties, overflowing nachos, delectable chile rellenos. 7am3am daily. 140 E. San Carlos St. 408.298.5335.

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Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades.

Lunch 11am-2:30pm MonFri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 1-10pm Sat and 4-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.

MCCORMICK AND SCHMICK’S Seafood. $$$.

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

MEZCAL Regional Mexican. $$. Mezcal specializes in delicious regional cuisine from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. People who need nachos and sourcream-topped burritos on the menu will probably be miffed, but for those willing to venture beyond the same old Mexican-American standards, Mezcal offers an excellent point of departure. 11:30am11pm Sun-Fri and 5-11pm Sat. 25 W. San Fernando St. 408.283.9595.

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MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food cooked and served by people with a personal investment in customer happiness.

Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant.

Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-11pm Mon-Sat, Sun 5-9pm. 86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.

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

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

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New American. $$. Lots of restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood joints but few deliver. The Garage does. Small but satisfying menu of well-executed comfort food classics. 59:30pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm Sat, 9am1pm Sun. 505 E. San Carlos St. 408.286.1100.

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

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

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

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

PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor.

Pagoda offers the gamut of regional all-stars. Full bar.

6-10pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St. 408.998.3937.

PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$.

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

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

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. Takeout. Full bar. 11am-10pm SunThu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 98 S. Second St. 408.961.5250.

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

Live music on Fridays and

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

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

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

VUNG TAU Vietnamese. $$.

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

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

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

Always a fun place to visit.

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

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Placer County has a thriving local food scene and David is tapped into it. David went out of his way to schedule visits for us during our short stay there. He even offered to let us park at his house. We ended up at an RV lot for one night (had to dump sewage—nice) and spent the next night on the farm of one of his vendors—BRYAN KAMINSKY of the NATURAL TRADING CO. David met us at the great little farmers market in downtown Auburn and then took us to the excellent DONO DAL CIELO winery, makers of some refreshingly nimble zinfandel. He even brought sandwiches!

During our great meal at his restaurant, I met JEROME BEAUCHAMP, a friend of Bryan Kaminsky’s. Jerome and his son, Pierre, offered to connect with us at the RV park and escort us to the farmer’s market and then Bryan’s farm. Along the way, we stopped at his house and checked out Pierre’s very cool hydroponic operation. And then there’s Bryan.

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That was after they played with sheepdog puppies and baby goats. The morning before we left, Bryan helped me attach a gas line that had detached from the underbelly of the Airstream. And then he handed us a dozen fresh jumbo eggs as we drove off.

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ANDY’S BAR-B-QUE Barbecue. $$. Andy’s Bar-B-Que is the reincarnation of one of the South Bay’s best barbecue

joints. Originally located in Campbell, Andy’s is still serving great oak-smoked meats to a dedicated following. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 39pm Mon-Thu, 3-10pm Fri-Sat, 3-9pm Sun. 2367 El Camino Real. 408.249.8158.

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408.260.2727.

BIRK’S American grill. $$$.

What makes Birk’s stand out from the rest is a commitment to quality, freshness and hygiene. Concentrate on the specials, or enjoy creative selections from the appetizer menu. Full bar. 11:15am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 59pm Sat-Sun. 3955 Freedom Circle. 408.980.6400.

BY-TH-BUCKET American. $$. All walks of humanity rub shoulders here, enjoying just about everything that can be baked, fried, broiled or steamed. Full bar. 11:30am9pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 4565 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.248.6244.

CHALATECO Mexican and Salvadoran. $. Chalateco, a San Jose-based six-restaurant chain, serves Mexico Citystyle Mexican food and a few Salvadoran dishes. That makes the food unlike the Mexican food typically served in Silicon Valley, but it’s definitely typical Mexican food. 10am11pm daily. 2323 The Alameda.

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DONG TOFU CABIN Korean. $.

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

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

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

408.248.8500.

KABAB AND CURRY’S Indian-Pakistani. $. Because it’s tucked into a quiet, semiresidential side street, Kabab and Curry’s feels

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The Indian and Pakistani restaurant serves a good lunch buffet, and at dinner try the butter chicken, choley and tandoori chicken. 10:30am2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun. 1498 Isabella St. 408.247.0745.

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

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

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

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

PARCEL 104 New American. $$$$. Parcel 104 casts a spell with its stridently seasonal, ingredient-driven menu of new American food. The restaurant is one of the South Bay’s must-eats. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri, 7-10am Sat-Sun; lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri. 2700 Mission College Blvd. 408.970.6104.

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

11:30am-3pm, 5:30-10pm daily. 5251 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.260.9200.

TOFU HOUSE Korean. $.

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

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

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

408.748.3355.

YOYO SUSHI BAR & GRILLE

Asian noodle house. $. A good and friendly destination when one’s stomach screams for a three-course meal but one’s wallet has but $10, Pho boasts an ambitious menu of nearly 100 Vietnamese and Chinese items. 10am-9pm daily. 5025 Stevens Creek Blvd.

408.249.1111.

Japanese fusion. $$. The fusion-friendly menu features such expertly realized creations as the deep-fried California Roll and the Fisherman Roll, crab and avocado wrapped in rice, topped with salmon and rich masago sauce and then baked. Weekday happy hour. 11am-10pm daily. 3958 Rivermark Plaza.

408.213.9696.

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YUKI SUSHI Japanese $$.

Vietnamese noodle house. $.

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

A family-friendly ambience prevails here, full of community hubbub, good food, generous portions and super chefs. Yuki keeps it simple but always interesting with dishes that are well thought out and presented. 11:30am-2pm, 5-9:30pm Tue-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. Closed Mon. 1827 Pruneridge Ave. 408.248.9144.

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SABOR SALVADOREÑO Salvadoran. $. One of the few outposts for Salvadoran food in the South Bay, Sabor Salvadoreño serves excellent pupusas, soups, tamales and other standards from the tiny Central American nation.

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SVDINING 32 ZAFRAN Northern Indian and Pakistani. $. Zafran serves northern Indian and Pakistani food, a muscular, hearty cuisine that revolves around meat: chicken and beef but also lamb and goat, lamb brains and other organ meats.

11am-11pm daily. 1855 El Camino Real. 408.247.9998.

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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.

11am-10pm 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 full-bodied taste in generous portions.

Veal marsala, thin-crust pizza and New York steak are featured. 11am-1:30pm, 4-9:30pm Tue-Sun. 127 W. Washington St. 408.733.9600.

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

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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.

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.

PEZELLAS Family Italian. $$.

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.

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. 11am-2:30pm 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 served 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.

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. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm Sun-Thu, noon-3:30pm, 5:30-11pm SatFri. 1146 W. El Camino Real.

408.530.0300.

SUGAR BUTTER FLOUR Bakery. $. Sugar Butter Flour’s desserts and pastries go well beyond the humdrum

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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 nutencrusted 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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LOVETT & HIATT Mountain Winery, Saratoga Wed – 7:30pm; $35-$95 My favorite part of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass every year is the songwriter showcase, where they stick four musicians onstage who take turns talking about and playing their songs. Now, there are plenty of other forums for this kind of showcase, but the thing about HSB’s version is that there’s always something weird about the mix of artists. But then it turns out to be genius. That’s how I feel about teaming Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt for this acoustic show. They’re two Americana artists who have taken very different musical paths, yet there’s an undeniable similarity in the uniqueness of their vision, and their unwavering ability to be true to it as

musical trends shift around them.

And let’s be honest, they’re both a little bit off their rockers, in the best possible way. Will Hiatt get Lovett to join him on an acoustic Ramones cover? Will Lovett reveal he secretly wishes he’d written “Perfectly Good Guitar?” Stay tuned. (SP)

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ORIGINAL STONE CITY BAND Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose Thu – 5:30pm; free He may have been an unmannerly houseguest, but no one could deny Rick James’s spot in the hall of funk fame. He’s gone now, but his sidemen, the Vegas-based Original Stone City Band, still walk this earth after some 30 years of laying down

the lowest-down funk; to see them live and for free at Music in the Park in the plaza, fragrant with the “warm smell of colitas” that that awful Eagles song rhapsodizes about, will be an exquisitely funkified experience. (RvB)

BRIAN MCKNIGHT Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Thu– 7:30p,; $59-$98 If there’s one thing that R&B singer/songwriter Brian McKnight has, it’s diverse talent. He can play nine different instruments (including the tuba) and is said to be able to mimic the timber and tone of other famous singers. He’s performed on Broadway, hosted a talk show and even appeared on the second season of Celebrity Apprentice. (Well, not sure that last one requires much talent). For the past two decades, fans have enjoyed his smooth, piano-based

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DJ CUTSO: GENIO DE AMOR Johnny V’s, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $5 All of the members of San Jose’s premier DJ/production crew the Bangerz also do their own solo spinning, and DJ Cutso’s “Genio de Amor” (“Genius of Love”) dance night every second Friday of the month

at Johnny V’s has been building a following for a few months now. The open-format dance night features everything from house to New Wave to old-school rap, and more. “This is the place I get to play the stuff I don’t normally get to play,” says Cutso. He always invites some friends along, and this month, he’s teamed up with DJ Sig-O and DJ SmoovGroovs, whose dance-night attack is known as “The Pickup.” (SP)

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JUSTIN BIEBER Mountain Winery, Saratoga Sat – 8:30pm; $250-$1500 Right, Bieber Fever, I get it. I understand the insane level of marketing genius that’s conspired to present Justin Bieber as a wholesome, lovable pop star.

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Jun 11 at a 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

CALIFORNIA POPS God B Bless America Show, Jun 12 at 3pm, Calvary Church, Los Gatos 3p

THE FIXX Jun 12 at a 7pm, Saddle Rack, Fremont

JETHRO TULL Jun 114 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

FREDDY MCGREGOR Music in the Park, Jun 16 at 5:30pm, Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose P

DIANA KRALL Jun 117 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

BRITNEY SPEARS W/ Nicki Minaj. Jun 18 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

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NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK Jul 2 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

SF SYMPHONY Jul 4 at 8pm, Shoreline

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

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UNCONVENTIONAL THOUGHT PROCESS Johnny V’s, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $5 Where does metal end and hardcore begin? As far as Unconventional Thought Process is concerned, it outta just be one big jumbled mess. In fact, they’re

spazzy, chaotic chaotic, hoping that their spazzy musical assault will confuse you ’til you forget what a “genre” even is. Indeed, in one song you’ll hear the singer growl like Chris Barnes from Cannibal Corpse, scream like Phil Anselmo from Pantera and shout like Mike Muir from the Suicidal Tendencies, all within 45 seconds. The music is just as all over the map. Expect some slow death metal, hyper skate punk, bizarre progressive rock and whatever other insane tricks they have up their sleeves. (AC)

TIM MCGRAW Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View Sat – 7:30pm; $29.75-$75 Faith Hill’s husband, Tim McGraw, got himself a rep as a country music kingmaker after he took Taylor Swift and Lady Antebellum out as opening acts and they turned into superstars seemingly

overnight. This time his discovery overnight is the Band Perry, an Antebellumlike trio of siblings who’ve already had a hit with “If I Die Young.”

So what is his secret to success with openers? Could it be his own unbelievable track record, having released so many number one hits that last year’s Number One Hits collection had to be a two-disc set? Nope. He lets his 12-year-old daughters pick ’em. (SP)

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Streetlight Records, San jose Tue – 6pm; free Iowa’s Poison Control Center have been taking their spastic,

energetic live show around the United States for the last couple of years. But where they’ve shown remarkable skill is on their recordings. Sad Sour Future, their second full-length release, is a controlled, casual janglepop record that meanders in a Pavement kind of way. The stylistic change-ups are immediately noticeable but make sense when you find out that the four band members wrote the demos for the album separately, all while living in different cities. It comes together with just enough cohesion to sound like more than the sum of its parts. (AC)

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

MAYHEM FESTIVAL Jul 10 at 2:15pm, Shoreline

EDDIE IZZARD Jul 16 at 8pm, Shoreline

BLUES TRAVELER Aug 4 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

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

HERB ALPERT Aug 21 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

ITALIAN FESTA Family event from Italian American Heritage Foundation, Aug 27-28, Guadalupe River and Gardens Park

TAYLOR SWIFT Sep 1–2 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

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Hats off to Tabard Monday, 7:30pm; Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose; $40 As a salute to Tabard Theatre Company on the occasion of its 10th birthday, a whole host of local performers have gotten together for a tribute and fundraiser called “Hats Off to Tabard.” The varied evening of dance, song and comedy includes appearances by area performers such as Diane Mile, C. Michael Traw and Tabard stalwart Lee Garay Toney.

18th-century Venice; Thu-Sat, 7:30pm. The whole series runs thru Jul 24. $10-$25. Sunnyvale Community Center.

CURTAINS A theater-loving detective takes on a whodunit in this musical presented by South Valley Civic Theater. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Runs thru Jun 11. $35-$60. Morgan Hill Community Playhouse.

DISTRACTED City Lights’ fifth show of the season is a comic drama by Lisa Loomer about a mother whose child is diagnosed with ADHD. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Jun 19. $15-$28. City Lights, San Jose.

HATS OFF TO TABARD!

Blithe Spirit June 11-26; Thursday–Saturday, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm, runs June 11–26; $16.80–$32; Palo Alto Players The season ends on a frothy note for Palo Alto Players with the troupe’s version of Noel Coward’s ineffable comedy Blithe Spirit. The famous play concerns the unintended consequences of a drawing-room séance as a man’s irascible first—and dead—wife returns to foment mischief.

Previews Saturday, opens Friday.

A gala fundraiser for Tabard’s 10th anniversary, featuring many local performers and a special raffle for big prizes. Mon, 7:30pm, $30. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

HAY FEVER A sophisticated Noel Coward favorite in a Broadway West production. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 1pm. Runs thru Jun 11. $15/$23.

Broadway West, Fremont.

MAMMA MIA!

Navigations of the Fantastic MACLA; runs through Aug. 13, open Wednesday–Saturday; free The latest show at MACLA brings together artists Elizabeth Gomez, Berry Davis, Jose Arenas and Veronica Felix for a look at how people and animals interact in the city. Gomez paints birds seen around her Redwood City home; Davis uses a migratory metaphor to address her own bicultural status.

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DANCE THEATRE INTERNATIONAL A performance of ballet favorites called “Carnival of Animals,” presented by San Jose Youth Ballet Showcase.

Sat, 7pm, Sun, 4pm. $15-$20.

Evergreen Valley Performing Arts Center, San Jose.

ESPRIT DE LA DANSE A student presentation by Gay Tarabonovic’s pupils. Sat, 7pm. $20. Flint Center, Cupertino.

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Maykel Solas of Ballet San Jose appears with Bayer Ballet Company for a program of classical selections. Sun, 1 and 4pm. $20. Menlo Atherton Performing Arts Center, Menlo Park.

Palo Alto Players presents the Noel Coward comedy. Preview Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm.

Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs Jun 11-26. $21-$30 ($32 opening night).

Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.

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AVENUEQ The popular Broadway music about snarky puppets and people comes to town in a San Jose Stage Company production.

Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Jul 3. $25$50. The Stage, San Jose.

For summer, the company mounts four productions in repertory. The first presentation is “Around the World in 80 Days”—this week Sun, 3pm.

The second play is “The Emperor’s New Clothes”—this week Sat, 3pm. Opening this week, “The Servant of Two Masters,” a comedy set in

A hit musical based on ABBA hits, presented by Broadway San Jose. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm.

Runs thru Jun 12. $20-$69. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

MID–PENINSULA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL This year’s plays, running in repertory, are “Twelfth Night,” “Charlie’s Aunt” and “Macbeth.”

Fri–Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7:30pm. Runs through Jun 26. Full Circle Farm, Sunnyvale.

[TITLEOFSHOW] A new musical-within-a-musical about two young songwriters, presented by TheatreWorks.

Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat 2 and/or 8pm, Sun, 2 and/or 7pm.

Runs through Jun 26. $24-$42.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

TONGUEOFABIRD A search-and-rescue effort for a young girl prompts pilot Maxine to face fragments of her own past in this presentation by Dragon Productions Theatre Company.

Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Jun 19. $16-$25. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

Comedy CLUBFOX Mon, 8pm: Comedy Monday hosted by Dan St. Paul. $10.

Redwood City.

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

ROOSTERT.FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri-Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: John Hendon. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.

SANJOSEIMPROV Wed, 8pm: Unfiltered. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Jim Jefferies. $20.

San Jose.

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Bus Barn Stage Company mounts a comedy by Ken Ludwig about backstage misadventures.

Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7pm. $24-$30. Runs thru Jun 18.

Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos.

“In the Abstract.” Abstract works by artists Paula Schales, Ewa Gavriellov and Neal Boor. Thru Jul 21. Los Gatos.

RAMAYANA The classic India tale performed

by Mt. Madonna School. Preview Thu, 7pm. Regular shows Fri-Sat, 7pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs through Jun 12. $25-$85. Mexican Heritage Theater, San Jose.

SAN JOSE REP For its 30th anniversary, the company holds a Blue Box Bash fundraisers. Sat, 6pm. $75 and up. See www.SJREP.com for details.

CANTORARTSCENTER “The Art of the Book.” A show about five fine presses in the Bay Area. Thru Aug. 28. “Illustrated Title Pages: 1500-1900.”

Illustrated book pages. Thru Oct 16. “True Colors: Rediscovering Pigments of Greco-Roman Marble Sculpture.”Thru Aug 7. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm.

Stanford.

DESAISSETMUSEUM “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.

EUPHRATMUSEUMOFART De Anza College Student Art Show. Thru Jun 14. De Anza College, San Jose.

HISTORYPARKSANJOSE “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 at Pacific Hotel. San Jose.

SANJOSEMUSEUMOFART “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.

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

SANJOSEMUSEUMOFQUILTS &TEXTILES “Primary Structures.” A look at sculptural art knitting.

“Southwestern Banded Blankets: Three Cultures, One Horizon.”

Thru Aug 7. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm.

San Jose.

TECHMUSEUMOFINNOVATION Exhibits about science, technology and the world. Ongoing. MonWed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am8pm. San Jose.

TRITONMUSEUMOFART “Non-Traditional Landscapes.”

Thru Jul 20. “Fire Strokes, in Memory of Won Choe.” Paintings

by Mirang Woone.”Thru Jul 10.

Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries OPENING FILOLI “Botanical Art Exhibit.” Jun 7-Jul 31. Reception Jun 30, 5-7pm.

Woodside.

SUNNYVALEPUBLICLIBRARY A show of paintings by members

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A Really Big Show IT WAS a strange sight outside the Children’s Discovery Museum on a showery Wednesday morning: the nearly 1-ton Colombian mammoth replica lying on its right side as workers attached its four 100-pound legs. Mamu, as she’s affectionately called, had just completed her journey from Blue Rhino Studio in Minnesota. Once the legs were attached, a crane lifted her off her side and lowered her 15-foot body into place on the museum’s north side. Dozens of kids inside—and some parents—pressed up against the windows to watch. Mamu will look after Lupe, the juvenile mammoth whose fossil remains are now displayed inside the museum.

Mamu is the final touch to the museum’s new “Mammoth Discovery!” exhibit, which officially opens Saturday. But the story starts some 14,000 years ago when Lupe bit the dust next to DXddfk_ what we now call the Guadalupe River. In 2005, area ;`jZfm\ip resident Roger Castillo was walking his dog near the airport when he spotted whitish bones poking out of Opens June 11 the ground. Crews eventually unearthed parts of Lupe’s Children’s Discovery skull, pelvis and femur. Scientists then created a life-size Museum, San Jose replica of the young mammal, which now stands inside the museum next to more than 20 mammoth-themed exhibits, including the actual fossil remains.

The fossils didn’t reveal the animal’s sex, but Lupe’s name was chosen not only for the river where she was found but also to inject some gender equality into the scientific dialogue. “Children tend to automatically refer to large animals as male,” explained museum spokeswoman Autumn Young. “By calling her ‘Lupe,’ we hope to engage more girls in the scientific process.”

While Mamu was being lowered into place, children inside were practicing their paleontology skills digging up faux-fossils in two sand pits. It might look like child’s play, but the exhibits have been carefully designed to get kids to use critical thinking skills and learn basic scientific concepts. Steve Tornallyay, director of exhibits and facilities, said that the museum partnered with UC–Santa Cruz psychologists to test several exhibit prototypes to see if kids were picking up on the ideas being presented. Using video cameras and microphones, the researchers checked if kids were saying words like “teeth” or “mouth” while looking at sets of animal jaws. If the kids didn’t pick up on the concept, the exhibit went back for redesign.

Overall, though, the mammoth exhibit is designed to get kids excited about the scientific discoveries waiting literally in their own backyards. After all, Lupe and her family probably wandered up and down along our own Highway 87.

As Mamu was bolted into place, one mother crouched next to her young son and pointed to the Guadalupe River just a few feet from where he stood. “You see those bones?” she said to him. “They found her at that river right over there.”—Ted Cox

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of Sunnyvale Art Club. Sat-Sun, noon-6pm. Reception, Sat, noon.

Sunnyvale.

“Lost San Jose: Signs of Exhaustion.” Photos by Josh Marcotte. Thru Jun. Metro, San Jose.

The author of “A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion” appears. Mon, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

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“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, 11am-3pm.

Saratoga.

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“Art of Zines 2011.” With many examples from the publishing undergrounds. Runs thru Jun 25. “What He Meant by the Self Was Simply Our Truest Nature, Our Natural State.” New works by self-taught New York artist Jeremiah Maddock. Thru Jun 18.

San Jose.

ARTARKGALLERY “If Only.” A solo sculpture exhibit by Diana Mihalakis. (Call 408.691.5393 for viewing days and hours.) San Jose.

AVENUE25GALLERY “Visions of Childhood.” A show of works by California women artists presented by Peninsula Chapter of the Women’s Caucus for Art. Thru Jul 9. Mon-Fri, 9am5pm. San Mateo.

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

San Jose.

CAFFETRIESTE “Barbarians and Beauties.” New works about the life conflicts of women by Sandi Billingsley. Thru Jun 24. San Jose.

GOODKARMAVEGANCAFE “Alviso Slough.” Photographs by Josh Marcotte of the forgotten slice of Silicon Valley. Thru Jun 24.

San Jose.

KALEIDGALLERY “Layers of Age in Monster Land.”

Installation and paintings by Sean and Steven Sczepanik. Thru Jun 25. San Jose.

OLIVEHYDEARTGALLERY “Hobnob.” A show featuring OHAG scholarship winners.

Thru Jul 2. Thu-Sun, noon-5pm.

Fremont.

PHANTOMGALLERIES “Defragmentation 66.” An installation by Michele Guieu.

Thru Jul 23. Storefront windows on South First Street, San Jose.

SANJOSEINSTITUTEOF CONTEMPORARYART “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. TueFri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm.

San Jose.

SLGBOUTIKI “The Punks of Steam Part One.” Pieces by local steampunk artists. Thru Jun 30. San Jose.

STANFORDARTSPACES Paintings by Haiying Wang, digital art by Mark McAfee Brown, photography by Gabe Sheen. Thru Jul 23. Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5pm. Paul G. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford campus.

WORKS/SANJOSE “Out of State 2011.”The first show at the gallery’s new space features pieces by SJSU BFA grads. Runs thru Jun 18. San Jose (now at 365 S. Market St.)

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

MACLA “Navigations of the Fantastic.”

A group show by Elizabeth Gomez, Betty Davis, Jose Arenas and Veronica Felix. Thru Aug 13.

Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

MAINGALLERY “Mysterious.” A show by six local artists. Thru Jul 3. Reception Jun 11, 6:30pm. Wed-Sun, 10am3pm. Redwood City.

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The noted art critic discusses artist Joan Mitchell, American abstract expressionist. Thu, 7pm.

Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

CAROLEDGARIAN A booksigning for the author of “The Three Stages of Amazement.”Thu, 7pm. Free.

Books Inc., Mountain View.

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Potters in Peril Trust hosts a discussion about the Indian potters, who have been devastated by an earthquake; delivered by Paulomi Abhyankar.

Thu, 7pm. Free (but seating limited; call 650.918.6335 for details). Private home, Palo Alto.

DIADEPORTUGALFESTIVAL With food and activities, plus a parade in a family event. Sat, 11:30am-4pm. History Park, San Jose.

HEMPCON A weekend devoted to hemp and medical marijuana. Fri-Sun. $20. San Jose Convention Center, South Hall.

FARMERS’MARKET The weekly market comes with a Cherry Pit Spitting Contest this week. Fri, 10am-2pm. San Pedro Square, San Jose.

SKATETHELAKE A summer contest series begins.

Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park, San Jose.

BEFORE Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen created the Broadway musical [title of show], they were two undersized and overmotivated New York nobodies working on Disney cruises and daytime TV dramas. Their big break, as this show about creating a show will reveal, came when they decided to enter the New York Musical Theatre festival with only three weeks before the deadline. The show goes by as quickly as those three weeks must have felt to the time-pressed duo; in 90 minutes, [title of show] bounces through the agony of placing the first word on a blank page to the dilemma of making art vs. making money to the glory of a glowing review in The New York Times.

Though its creators stress that they would rather their musical, now getting its regional premiere from TheatreWorks, be “nine people’s favorite thing” than “a hundred people’s ninth-favorite thing,” that doesn’t stop Rk`kc\ f] j_fnT them from citing at least eight musicals that are better than [title of show]. But just because Runs through June Les Miz is the love of your life doesn’t mean that 26 at Mountain [title of show] can’t be your best friend. The show’s View Center for the Performing Arts beauty lies in its honest adoration of musical theater and its ability to remind audiences of just $19–$56 what they love about all of their favorites. Musicaltheater geeks will delight in references ranging from Bernadette Peters to iconic New York hangout Tavern on the Green, which pop up throughout the show like kernels in the microwave.

ITALIANCOOKING A series sponsored by Italian American Heritage Foundation continues with a session on making limoncello. Thu, 7:309pm. $15/$18. IAHF Italian Cultural Center, San Jose.

MAMMAMIA!EVENT In conjunction of Broadway San Jose run, the cast will perform selections from the show. Wed, 12:30pm. Free. Park Valencia, Santana Row, San Jose.

NATIVITYCARNIVAL Music, food, games and rides. Fri, 5–11pm; Sat, noon–11pm; Sun, noon–6pm; free. Nativity School, Menlo Park.

SVDUCKRACEANDFESTIVAL A fundraiser with rubber floaters.

Sun, Vasona Park, Los Gatos.

[title of show] is earnest, smart and rather goofy. The show stumbles into dream sequences, and if you let your mind wander for a second, you may find yourself stranded in the middle of an extended metaphor about a monkey on a speedboat. But you won’t be lost for long, for the scenes are fast and dirty and punctuated by voicemail messages that nudge the narrative along.

The show comes together, appropriately, after the first draft is submitted to the festival. Songs like “Secondary Characters” and “A Way to Back Then” display the talents of Farah Alvin, an actress with Broadway credentials and a voice to match. Alvin plays Heidi, a chronic secondary character and one of two friends that Jeff and Hunter enlist to be in their musical. The other friend is named Susan, played by the hilarious Laura Jordan, a businesswoman and sometime actress who is both wacky and wry. Hunter, who wrote the book for the show, is played by Jamison Stern, a likeable actor but with lines that would be more at home in a studio with a laugh track. Ian Leonard gives an adorable performance as Jeff, the dryly funny composer of the show.—Alyssa Kies

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Puppet Masters MOST OF US under 45 can probably recall a childhood spent in front of the TV with programs like Sesame Street, which showed our young minds a world of endless possibilities. When we grew older, we realized that the world was actually full of frustration, limitation and uncertainty. This disconnect forms the basis for Avenue Q, the smash musical that netted three Tony Awards in 2004, became a national phenomenon and is now playing at the San Jose Stage Company.

Basically an off-color and hilarious Sesame Street for grown-ups, Avenue Q follows the adventures of a recent college grad named Princeton (puppeteered by David Colston Corris), who moves into a grimy urban tenement run by a caricature of the late Gary Coleman (Cheryl B. Scales, one of 8m\el\ H three nonpuppeteering actors). There, he meets others who share his financial hardship and lack of Runs through July 3 purpose, including Kate Monster (Halsey Varady), The Stage, 490 S. a lowly teacher’s assistant who dreams of opening a First St., San Jose school for monsters; Brian (Martin Rojas-Dietrich), $25–$50 an unemployed thirtysomething who wants to be a standup comedian; and Brian’s fiancée, Christmas Eve (Rinabeth Apostol), an unsuccessful therapist.

The colorful cast of personalities also includes roommates Rod and Nicky (David Colston Corris and Robert Brewer), who resemble Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street; Trekkie Monster (Brewer), a big goofy porn addict; and the Bad Idea Bears (Monique Hafen and Robert Brewer), two adorable critters who show up to suggest things like bulk purchases of beer and suicide by hanging.

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Puppetry has become big in today’s theater thanks partly to the success of Avenue Q, but the play’s Muppet-inspired creatures still stand out from the crowd. Supplied to San Jose Stage by original cast member Rick Lyons, these apparently simple creations prove amazingly lifelike, and the puppeteers capture many of the classic Muppet mannerisms. That we can accept these things as characters without a second thought attests to the skill of those who operate them as well as the others who interact with them onstage.

As with Sesame Street, there are many songs with an instructive bent, like “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist,” “The Internet Is for Porn” and “Schadenfreude.” Other songs, like “I Wish I Could Go Back to College” and “What Do You Do With a B.A. in English?” speak directly to the experiences of many young people and seem even more appropriate during the Great Recession than they did when the play premiered on Broadway.—Sean Conwell

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The WHEELS WHEELS OF STEEL STEEL DJ BATTLE BA ATTTLE Wedneesday, June 8 Wednesday, Fahrennheit Restaurant Restaurant and Lounge Lounge Fahrenheit in San Jose at 9pm. ďŹ nnals are are Wednesday, Wednesdayy, June 15, The ďŹ nals at 9pm m at Fahrenheit.

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Talky Tina Wednesday at the Blank Club in San Jose, 9pm; free Love the moody, (mostly) black and white clip for Talky Tina’s “Drugster.” The post-mod local band (who are looking especially sharp in this video) will unveil it at this show, so everybody go and then tell me what the hell it means. (SP)

This or the Apocalypse Tuesday at the Venue in Los Gatos, 6:30pm; $12 Call me a wuss, but I freely admit that given the choice between any band’s music and the apocalypse, I’ll pick the music. The decision is made easier by this intriguing, extremely outspoken and political Pennsylvania metal band, a discovery of Chris Alder, the nasty-bearded drummer for headbanging heavyweights Lamb of God. (SP)

Jethro Tull Tuesday at Mountain Winery in Saratoga, 7:30pm; $49.50-$125 Something happened when Ron Burgundy did his flute solo in Anchorman, riffing on Jethro Tull’s best known song, “Aqualung.” Maybe it didn’t exactly make Ian Anderson and company cool again, but it did make some hip new fans for the ’70s prog-rockers who sold more than 50 million records in their time. This tour celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Aqualung album. (SP)

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

Campbell.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

CLUB FOX

Fri, 7pm: Corinne Marcus and the Kindred Spirits. No cover.

Sat, 8:30pm: Soul Providers Band. $12/$16. Redwood City.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

AVALON

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

MURPHY’S LAW

Fri, 10pm: Superbad. Sat, 10pm: 10 til 2. San Jose.

Fri: The Mofo’s. Sat: Vegas Night. Sunnyvale.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

MUSIC IN THE PARK

Sat: The Chop Tops. $12-$15, Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Talky Tina, Silent Pictures, Shores. Free. Fri, 9pm: Brothers of Brazil, Los Hot Boxers. $7. Sat, 9pm: Old Firm Casuals, the Forgotten, Tough Skins. $10. San Jose.

Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Jackie and Chris Cobb, live rock and blues. Free. Santa Clara.

Sat, 9pm: Zoo Station and Petty Theft. $15. Redwood City.

JASON-STEPHENS WINERY Fri, 6pm: Shane Dwight. Gilroy.

Fri, 9pm: Rock Solid. Sat, 9pm: A1one. Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Fri, 10pm: Sexyback. San Jose.

Thu, 5:30pm: Original Stone City Band. Free. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose.

NETO’S GRILL Thu: Me & U. Fri, 7pm: Dos Guys.

Sat: Hatrick. Santa Clara.

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HEDLEY CLUB

Fri, 8pm: SoMoS. $10. Sat, 8pm: Sat: Those Charming Crooks, State Line Empire. $10. Gilroy.

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

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY

Thu, 8:30pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Leon Joyce Trio. Sat, 7pm: The Jazz Mechanics. San Jose.

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

We: Jam night with Flea Amigos and Deeva Stativa. Thu: Cool Under Pressure. Fri, 9:30pm: Touch of Class. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Sage. $10. Los Gatos.

RED ROCK COFFEE

AZÚCAR

CASCAL

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Wed: Gomer Hendrix. Thu: The Dan Goughs. Fri: Blues Hammer. $10. Sat: JC Smith. $10. Sun: The Prowlers at 4pm, followed later by Gene Washington and the Special Purpose Band. Mon: Dennis Dove. Tue: Blue J early jam, then Liar’s Club. San Jose.

Fri: St. Valentinez. Sat, 8pm: Go Kart Mozart. Mountain View.

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

REDWOOD CITY DOWNTOWN

CLUB FOX

Fri, 6pm: Boys of Summer, Eagles tribute. Music on the Square series. Free. Downtown Redwood City.

Sun, 9pm: Peatot Summer Party, Israeli his. 9pm. $20. Redwood City.

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

DANA STREET ROASTING CO.

THE SADDLE RACK

LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

Sun, 7pm: The Fixx. Fremont.

Every second Mon, 7pm: Ukulele jam. Mountain View.

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LOS GATOS BREWING CO. SAN JOSE

Fri, 9pm: The Ramblerz. Sat: Stateside Radio. San Jose.

Fri: Shaka. Sat: Derrick Demotta.

San Jose.

Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos. San Jose.

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MOROCCO’S RESATURANT

Fri-Sat, 9pm-1am: Live music.

Gilroy.

Sun, 6pm: Traditional Irish music.

Tue, 7:30pm: Irish dancing.

Sunnyvale.

Thu, 5pm: LB Muzac. Sat, 5pm: Purple Hat. San Jose.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS Sat, 6pm: Tony from Stickupkid and Always Ready. Tue, 6pm: Poison Control Center, Tom Holehouse. Free. San Jose.

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT

Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

Wed, 5pm: Flamenco music.

Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancer Adriana. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music. Mon, 5pm: Magic Night with Robert Cerne.

San Jose.

THE VENUE

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Tue, 6pm: This or the Apocalypse. $12. Los Gatos.

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

WILLOW DEN

RISTORANTE FRATELLO

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

MURPHY’S LAW Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

NETO’S GRILL Tue: Jam with Dennis Dove.

Santa Clara.

A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Quasimodal. Sat: Blue House. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays. Fri, 6pm: Steve Willis and the Allstars.

Sat: Legally Blue (1:30pm), the Joint Chiefs (6pm). Sun, 1-5pm: Gail Dobson Jazz Band and Student Performance.

San Jose.

Fri, 8pm: Aivar. Willow Glen.

Fri, 7pm: Claudio. Italian classic guitar and vocals. San Jose.

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

SENZALA

Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Santa Clara.

Fri: 9:30pm: Love Star, $15.

Sunnyvale.

X-BAR

STEPHENS GREEN

Sat, 9pm: Fabulous Under Fire, Back Pocket Memory, Drop Dead Sixty, Stoic Nai. $5. Tue, 9pm: Pounders video premiere and local music networking event. Free. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

World

Thu, 7pm: Blues jam. Sat, 6pm: Lisa Forkish. No cover. Redwood City.

Sun, 8pm: Dance Party Band.

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

AGENDA LOUNGE

ART BOUTIKI

UNWINED

Wed: Salsa night. San Jose.

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

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

CLUB FOX

WINE AFFAIRS

Wed, 7-11pm: Blues jam with Amy Lou. $5. Tue, 8pm: Willie K. Warehouse Blues Tour. $18/$20.

Redwood City.

Wed-Thu, 7:30pm: Live music.

San Jose.

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

Jazz/Blues

TESSORA’S Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music.

Campbell.

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BISTRO TUPAZ Wed, 6:30-9pm: Longliner. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S Sun: Mike Leatherman.

Campbell.

CLUB RODEO

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO. Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.

QUARTER NOTE

THE COURTS LOUNGE

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

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

Sat: Cartoon Bar Fight. Campbell.

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: Rodeo House.

Thu-Fri, 9pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sun, 7pm: The Fixx. Fremont.

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

DAN BROWN’S

7 BAMBOO

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

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

Thu, 9pm: Doug Rose and Bit and Spur Band. Willow Glen.

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

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

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT ALEX’S 49ER INN Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 27pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

AZÚCAR

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

THE BEARS

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

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

FIREHOUSE GRILL

Fri, 9pm: Danielle. Santa Clara.

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

BLUE BONNET BAR

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

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

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

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

BLUE PHEASANT WILLOW GLEN COFFEE ROASTING

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

DIVE BAR

BLUE MAX THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

Karaoke

Thu, 7pm: Mike Medina. Willow Glen.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE

Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.

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

THE GRAPEVINE

Sat, 8pm: The Bolos, the Honkey Tonk Dreamers. Santa Clara.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

Thu: Aaron Watson. $5. San Jose.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING

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GILROY BOWL Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

Sat: Celtic Rose. Free. Willow Glen.

Open Mic

BOGART’S LOUNGE

BAMBOO LOUNGE

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

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S

Fri-Sun: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

HOMESTEAD LANES

BOULEVARD TAVERN

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

Cupertino.

Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic night.

Cupertino.

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

CAFFE TRIESTE

Wed and Sun: DJ Hank. San Jose.

Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

CITY ESPRESSO Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

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

Campbell.

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Brothers of Brazil WHEN IS a band from South America’s San Jose show like a homecoming?

When it’s Brothers of Brazil, the latest gutsy signing from L.A.’s SideOneDummy Records. SOD is run by South Bay expat Joe Sib, whose most recent performance here was The Blank Club his one-man show about growing up punk in Silicon Valley. The label found breakout success signing hit Friday, June 10 bands like Flogging Molly and the Gaslight Anthem, at 9pm; $7. but what’s remarkable is the way Sib and associates have staked their legacy by expanding the definition of “punk rock” to something that’s as inclusive and dangerous as the music always should have been. Their success with an international group of bands that once would have been written off with the useless label “world music.” Their past success with gypsy crazies Gogol Bordello shows they know how to bring bands that would normally have been ghettoized as “world music” into the public eye. As for Brothers of Brazil, well … wow. A pair of brothers armed with only an acoustic guitar and drum set, they blend traditional samba and bossa nova with rock in a way that makes the Brazilian sounds funkier and the rocker chords cooler. With suits apparently ransacked from John Lydon’s closet (the drummer may have stolen his hair, too), their look is as hard to wrap your mind around as the music. “I Hate the Beatles” is about loving the Beatles, “I Love the French” is about hating Paris, and “Samba Around the Clock” pretty much captures everything they’re trying to do in two minutes and 46 seconds.

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OFFICE BAR

POINCIANA LOUNGE

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

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

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

KHARTOUM

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

REDI ROOM

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Mon, 9pm: Matt. San Jose.

Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.

PEACOCK LOUNGE

ROSIE MCCANN’S

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

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

Sunnyvale.

Tue, 8:30-11:30pm: Karaoke.

No cover. Santana Row.

PIONEER SALOON

Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

Fri-Sat: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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

OFF THE HOOK Sun, 8pm: DJ Joe. Campbell.

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

Woodside.

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SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

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metroactive MUSIC STATION 55 Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Sun, 59pm: Family karaoke. Gilroy.

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL Wed, 9pm: Joe. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

BRANHAM LOUNGE

KING OF CLUBS

Wed: Humpday Wednesdays.

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

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

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.

MOTIF Sat: Suck It Saturday Summer Edition. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Thu: VJ Mixing. Sat, 10pm: DJ Primo. San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover.

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

BRIX

PEACOCK LOUNGE

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Breathless.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

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

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

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

DIVE BAR

SABOR TAPAS BAR

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

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

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

X-BAR

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Fri, 9pm: DJ Vinnie. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

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

Dance Clubs

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

Thu: SOFA King Thursdays. Fri: Video Killed the DJ. Sat: Sultry Saturdays. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Mon, 8pm-midnight: DJ Curtis.

Willow Glen.

WILLOW DEN Wed, 9:30pm: DJ JR. San Jose

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

CLUB ILLUSIONS

AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Thu-Fri: DJs. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: Wheels of Steel DJ battle. Thu: The Heit Thursdays.

Fri, 9pm: It’s a Party. Mon, 9pm: Elite. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

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

STUDIO8 Fri: Industry Night. Sat: DJ Stonerokk. San Jose.

WILLOW DEN Thu, 9:30pm & Fri, 10:30pm: DJ Uncle Hank. Sat, 11:30pm: DJ Truth. Willow Glen.

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

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

THE BLANK CLUB Thu, 9pm: Atomic with DJ Basura. $5. San Jose.

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VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Darryl Darrryl Dawkins played professional 1975 professional basketball from from 197 75 to 1996. One of the sport’s sport’s more more colorful personalities, personalities, he said he lived part-time on the planet Lovetron, wheree he Lovetronn, a place wher perfected funkmanship. perfected his interplanetary funk kmanship. He also liked to give names to his slam dunk ddunks. s. The “Turbo “TTuurbo Sexophonic Delight Delight”” was a favorite, favorite, but the best was his “Chocolate“Chocolate-Thunder-Flying, Thunder-Flying, TTeeth-Shaking, eeth-Shaking, e Glass-Breaking, Bun-Toasting, Glass-Breaking, Rump-Roasting,, Bun-Toasting, o WhamBam-I-Am Jam.” I encourage encourage you u to try some Darryl Darryl Dawkins–like Dawkins like behavior in your own o chosen field, field Virgo.

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CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Nicolas CCage age is a Capricorn.

Capricorn. While performing performing his film roles, roles, he often loses his composure. compossure. Of course, the crazy crazy things he does as an actor aren’t diree aren’t rreal eal and don’t don’t lead to dir consequences in his actual life. life. But they afford afford him a gr great emotional Let’s eat deal of em motional rrelease. elease. Let ’s hypothesize that, like Cage, Cage, you yoou could benefit from from expressing expressing the hell out of yourself yourseelf without causing any mayhem. Is there there a cork-lined cork-lined sanctuary where where you could go and safely safely unveil explosions explosions of extreme extreme emotions? Or some equivalent?? For inspiration, inspiration, check this YouTube YoouTTube u compendium of Cage Cage uncaged: bit.ly/CageUncaged. bit.ly/CageUncaged.

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (J(Jan. Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My divinations you’d suggest that you ’d be wise to assign yourself errand precise naturee an er rand in the wilderness. w The pr ecise natur errand of the er rand hass not been rrevealed evealed to me, but I involves suspect it involve es you going to an untamed place provocative alter ovocativve magic will tangibly al whose pr ter your consciousness, aawakening wakening you to some truth about decipher.. I your destiny thatt you’ve been unable to decipher moree likely to succeed if you also believe your task is mor create whimsical theree in your ad hoc cr eate a small, w himsical shrine ther sanctuary.. sanctuary PISCESS (Feb. 19–March PISCE 19–March 20): Do you have any idea

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BANG BANG (2010) See page 46. (Plays Jun 15, 16 and 19 in San Jose at Camera 12.)

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JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (PG; 91 min.) A family film about an adventurous third grader. Stars Jordana Beatty and Heather Graham.

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when actually it’s just a matter of summing them up right. BILLED WITH International House. It’s a race to China to be the first bidders on the amazing new invention: television. In the lead, Fields pilots his propeller-equipped automobile, The Spirit of South Brooklyn, into the lobby of the International House Hotel. This 70-minute stream-ofconsciousness comedy includes Rudy Vallee, Bela Lugosi (as a Russian warlord), George Burns and since-forgotten radio comedian “Colonel Stoopnagle.” (Plays Jun 8-10 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

THE BLUES BROTHERS (1980) The opening film for this summer’s Starlight Cinema. One still misses John Belushi, and maybe you have to have been stranded on the roadside many times by those lousy Detroit clunkers of the 1970s to truly appreciate the spectacle of their punishment: watching them get blown up, smashed and dropped.

There is no forgiveness, however, for the underuse of John Lee Hooker, Aretha Franklin, Cab Calloway and James Brown, all of whom make Belushi and Dan Aykroyd’s silly but unbelievably popular tribute act look as minor as it was. The screening includes a Blues Brothers look-alike contest and music beforehand.

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YELLOWBRICKROAD (Unrated) The Bloody Disgusting film festival presents its June offering: this mysterious ’70s style horror story about the vanishing of a New Hampshire town in 1940. The incident is investigated by a team of researchers who don’t like what they find. (Plays Jun 8 and Jun 15 at 10pm and Jun 10 at midnight at the AMC Mercado in Santa Clara.) (RvB)

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It ďŹ&#x201A;oats a shipload of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s rock (Cracker, Evan Dando, Cranberries, etc.), on which it is semi-schooled: the Pixies vs. Primus debate at the end is the most like the talk you hear at a record store. (Plays Jun 9 at sundown in Old Courthouse Square, Redwood City; free.) (RvB)

GREASE (1978) The sing-along version. Take John Travolta out of this supposed classic musical set in a fake-1950s high school, and all that would remain are some good moments with Stockard Channing and the interestingly tense theme song.

Greaseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s romantic lead is Olivia Newton-John, a toothy teen idol for those repelled by the sinfulness of Marie Osmond. Channing, as bad girl Rizzo, describes Newton-John well as â&#x20AC;&#x153;that goody-two-shoes [who] makes me want to barf.â&#x20AC;? (Plays Jun 15 at sundown in San Jose at Post and Market; free.) (RvB)

Sundance Kid ROBERT REDFORD came from a typical 1930s L.A. background, where the oil business met Christian Science. We learn in Michael Feeneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new biography that Redford ran with a gang of Santa Monica JDs. Later, he f lunked out of the University of Colorado. These misdeeds serve the same purpose as the subcutaneous cysts on Redfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s face in Nora Ephronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s description: Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re there to keep him from looking too handsome.

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By Michael his early and tireless Feeney Callan environmentalism. $28.95, Knopf Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to be a conservationist in the Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;far less so in rural Utah. And whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so funny about Redfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desire to play â&#x20AC;&#x153;representational romantic characters of some moral standingâ&#x20AC;??

(The zillionaire whoremaster of Indecent Proposal is the exception that proves the rule.)

This relentlessly exculpatory biography sums up Redfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s driveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as well as his calm self-justification that reminds one of that other RR, Ronald Reagan.

The untold story is hinted at by a quote from Jeremy Larner, Redfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collaborator on The Candidate: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The trouble with you guys [movie stars] is that you fictionalize your own existence.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

(1964) Oversized, but it boasts Rex Harrison as the snide elocutionist professor Henry Higgins, who transforms a cockney ďŹ&#x201A;ower peddler into a society lady. Audrey Hepburn co-stars as Eliza. There are some terriďŹ c songs: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Grown Accustomed to Your Face,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;On the Street Where You Liveâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Rain

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in Spain.â&#x20AC;? Quite stiff and cautious, actually, but the old-time music-hall star Stanley Holloway gives it a lift (as Liza Doolittleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reprobate dad, who sings â&#x20AC;&#x153;Get Me to the Church on Time.â&#x20AC;?) Remade, with guys, as The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speech. (Plays Jun 11-13 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

(RvB)

NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent ďŹ lms. Jun 11 at 7:30: Top Hat (see below.) Jun 12 at 7:30: Mary Pickford in Stella Maris (1918), billed with Charley Chase in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Big Red Riding Hoodâ&#x20AC;? (1925) and Stan Laurel in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frozen Heartsâ&#x20AC;? (1923). Frederick Hodges at the piano. Jun 12 at 4: Laurel and Hardy in The Flying Deuces (1939) and the short â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going Bye Byeâ&#x20AC;? (1934) and Our Gang in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roaminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Holiday.â&#x20AC;? (Plays Jun 11-13 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.)

(RvB)

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) Archaeologist Indiana Jones avoids being squashed by neo-Incas only to ďŹ nd himself on the trail of the Biblical Ark of the Covenant; Harrison Ford channels the allergicto-dames adventurers of the old serials, and uses bullwhip and gun to tame gibbering natives. Top-notch stunt work and storyboarding; the Nazi villains always take care of a plot, and Karen Allen remains everlovely. Yet the politics of these things make a Bond ďŹ lm look like a UNESCO meeting. (Plays Jun 10-12 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

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(1935) Ginger Rogers mistakes Fred Astaire for a cheating husband, instead of a yearning bachelor. The budding love affair is complicated by the usual gang: arch-Brit Eric Blore, immortal stage foreigner Erik Rhodes, fey New Englander Edward Everett Horton and the sizable Helen Broderick. (Plays Jun 11 at 7:30 in Fremont at the Edison Theatre of the Niles Film Museum.) (RvB)

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Model Gangstas ASK ANY film teacher or film-festival submissions person: The gangsta film is the most popular and probably the easiest kind of movie for a first-time director. The San Diego–made Bang Bang only really has the novelty of being about Asian American gangstas—or, as the Vietnamese-American hero played

by Thai Ngo says in a song describing himself, “gooksta.”

It’s a movie about the thug life, but it’s not thuggish, and there is a sense of pity and waste in the criminal career of two pals. One is a well-off Taiwanese student named Charlie (David Huynh), a latchkey kid drawn to the life of crime. The other is his working-class pal Justin (Ngo) who is sick of the constant fighting and the drug dealing, and who longs to get out of the life.

Justin especially gets tired of playing when he meets a good girl who works as a florist’s store, even as he’s being groomed to take over the local marijuana racket by his friend Rocky. Rocky is played by Walter Wong, the best actor in the picture by a long distance, and the one who looks the most like he knows something about street life.

Director Byron Qiao has talent on his side; he knows how to make the film

symmetrical, starting and ending with an act of violence. Intelligently, he covers for the fight sequences where the choreography may not be 100 percent by going wide, long or shooting the scene through a window. None of these party, park or parking-lot brawls are as efficient or as haunting as the 9Xe^ 9Xe^ mysterious late-night Plays June 15–16 drive-by shooting and 19 captured with a long at Camera 12 lens. Still, one method in San Jose of dealing with fights— cutting a la Raging Bull to black & white freeze frames—teeters on the edge of laughable when it’s used so many times, particularly when used to cover a domestic fight between Justin’s mom and her lay-about boyfriend.

The answer to these problems is more rehearsal, and there are a few scenes too many where another take on the dialogue would have helped. Ultimately, the director has followed a well-beaten path, but the gangsta fans who want to escape the stereotype of being model minorities should come out for it. Music

by Thai, Miki Tae, Far East Movement, D.U.S.T., TraxMyth and Snacky Chan.

—Richard von Busack

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Ewan McGregor and Mélanie Laurent’s chemistry is palpable.”

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