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Priorities P rioritiies It’s nic It’s nicee that you you (“Pension (“Pension Tension,” T eension,”” Pierluigi Pierrluigi Oliverio, Oliverio, SanJoseInside, S anJoseInside, June June 15) 15) want want to to

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THEFLY FLY THE TThe he 118th 8th edition edition of of the the political political comedy comedy Monday sshow how M onday Night Night Live Live promised promised to to which bbee ““kinder kinder and and gentler,” gentler,” w hich bbecame ecame abundantly clear cleaar when no one dared dared to joke councilmember about councilm ember ASH ASH KALRA’s KALRA’s DUI or PIERLUIGI PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO’s OLIVEERIO’s sign-stealing. Instead, the the SSan an Jose Jose Stage Stage Company Company provided provided a tender mash-up montages tender m ash-up of of skits, skits, vvideo ideo m ontages and and musical musical numbers—which numbers—which included included a pack pack of of foul-mouthed foul-mouthed Muppets Muppets roasting roasting MAYOR MAYOR “CHUCKLES” “CHUCKLES” REED REED (who (who showed showed for for the the pre-party pre-party but but bbolted olted before before the show), the everrational rational City City Council Council and the mouldering redevelopment redevelopment agency. agency. Emcee Emcee and and :fik\j\ : fik\j\ chief chief county county supe supe DAVE off the event by DAVE V CORTESE CORT TESE kicked k becoming becoming the the first first prospective prospective mayoral mayoral candidate candidate to to actually actually recite recite the the words words to to songs by Snoopp Dogg, Notorious B.I.G. B.I.G. and and EMINEM. messes everywhere, EMINEM. With budget b everywhere, a musical debate debatte about whose job sucks sucks most most broke broke out out between between an an actor actor playing playing exiting redevelopment redeveloopment boss HARRY HARRY MAVROGENES, MAVR V OGENES, a Muppet version of labor leader CINDY CIND DY CHAVEZ, CH HAVEZ V , the the real-life real-life county county tax man LARRY LARR RY STONE, STONE, and other local pols. pols. (In (In the the end, end, everyone everyone agreed agreed it it sucks sucks most most to to be be former former councilmember councilmember Forrest Forrest Williams, Williams, for for no no other other reason reason than than being being FORREST FORREST WILLIAMS.) WILLIAM A S.) Councilmembers ROSE ROSE HERRERA, H ERRERA, XAVIER XAV VIEER CAMPOS CAMPOS and DONALD DONALD ROCHA R OCHA had had a restrained restrained discussion discussion about about waste tthe he w aste water water treatment treatment plant, plant, using using S-wordd for the S-wor for fecal fecal matter only a couple hundred hundr ed times. And medical marijuana j provided pr ovided a near-limitless nearr-limitless supply of jokes, including the City City Council’s proposal proposal to iinstitute nstitute a similar similar cap cap of of 10 10 on on prostitutes prostitutes within w ithin tthe he city—enough city—enough for for one one at at every every VTA V TA stop. PETE CONSTANT CONSSTANT stayed stayed true true to to his his puritanical puritanical roots roots throughout throughout the the proceedings, with hand puppets proceedings, arguing arguing g about masturbation masturbaation and Internet porn in while Oliverio in public public libraries, libraries, w hile O liverio pplayed layed password password against against Constant Constant and and Randall Randall King as ARNOLD ARNOLD D SCHWARZENEGGER. SCHWARZENEGGER. Overall, Overall, the the pperformance erformance received received better better marks marks than than in in recent recent years. years. Only Only one one person person appeared appeared to to forget forget their their lines, lines, and and Rocha Rocha more more tthan han made made up up for for the the miscue miscue by by shedding his shirt sh hirt to the delight of a gaggle of gangly female female staff aides in the crowd. crowd.

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me tto me o aatt lleast east a fe few wn nights ights o off ggood ood eating and drinking. drinking.

The customer -serviice rep rep told me customer-service tthere here h had ad b been een a b breach reach o off ssecurity ecurity att a business business w here I h ad u sed m where had used myy ccard. ard. Identities of an untold u numb number er off ccustomers were All off o ustomers w ere lleaked. eaked. A ll o ttheir heir ccards ards w ere ffrozen. rrozen. M ine w as were Mine was one of them.

Last L ast month, month, the the same sam me thing thing happened 360,000 happ ened to more more than thaan 36 0,000 Citibank customers. customers. In n April, a 19yyear-old ear-old h hacker acker iin nL London ondon successfully successfully PlayStation network ttargeted arrgeted Sony’s Sony’s P layStation n etwork aand nd captured cap ptured personal personal information information from fr om 70 million subscribers, subscrribers, costing costing $171 tthe he ccompany ompan ny $ 171 million. million. So So far faarr tthis his yyear ear 2 2m illion personal personal records records 22 million have been h ave b een ccompromised—more ompromised—more tthan han n double the numb er in all of 2010. number A esult, banks have haave adopted Ass a rresult, hair-trigger when h air-trigger response response sstrategies trattegies w hen tthey hey ssuspect uspect a ccustomer’s ustomer’s credit credit

card card is being bein ngg misused. I am aware aware of this b because ecausse I bought bought a plane ticket ticket recently recently to to see see family family back back in in tthe he Midwest.

Midwest. BofA BofA did did me me the the kind kind ffavor avor of of freezing freezing my my account acccount because becau use the the transaction n was was considered considered suspicious. suspicious.

This is what whaat happens happens when you you rarely rarely make make a purchase purchase over over $50. We We cleared cleared that up up..

I called called the the bank bank about ab out this this more more recent recen nt suspension susp ension of activity. activity.

“You “Y You o should shou uld have havve been b een mailed out another card,” car a d,”” the operator operator told me. me.

“I haven’t haaven n’t received received anything,” anything,” I said, “and d no one contacted contacted me about ab out a breach brreach of security.” security.”

“That’s “That’s probably p obably because pr b ecause we send send out out cards cards to to everyone everyone who who has has been b een affected,” affected,” she aff she said. saiid. “There “There are are too too many many people p eople to to contact contact individually.” individualllyy.”

Annoyed, Annoyeed, I asked asked to to speak sp eak to to a supervisor super visor and and sat sat on on hold hold for f r the fo the next next 330 0 minutes, minutes, contemplating contemplating suicide suicide as as I listened listened to to a four-second four-second sample of elevator elevator music on a loop. loop.

I hung hung up up and and started started the the process pro cess over over with with a new new operator op erattor and and greater greater sense sen nse of wrath.

“I “I just just went went through through this this a couple couple

Stolen St olen Sec Secr Secrets e ets A similar similar—admittedly —admittedly more more serious— breach occurred nine ssecurity ecurity b reacch o ccurred n ine years years aago, go, when when hackers hacckers ggained aiined ac access ccess to to the T Teale eeale Dat Dataa C Center, enter, which w w was as the personnel database almost p ersonnel d attabasse ffor or al lmost eevery very state st ate agency and 265,0 265,000 00 public employees. emplo oyees.

Att the same time, A time, Joe Joe Simitian, then a first first-term -term assembly assem mbly memb member, er, had just intr introduced oduced a bill rrequiring equiring b k and banks d businesses b i to t rrelease elease l more m ore iinformation nformattion regarding regarding security security breaches br eaches in a timely manner. m manner . The bill was receiving b ill w as re ceiving little little support suppor t and and barely bar ely made it out of the t Senate despite a Democratic Democratic majority. m majorit y. ““All All o off tthem h em ggot ot a lletter e tt e r a m month onth and half af after fact, f tter the fact t, including 80 assembly 40 senators and 8 0 as ssembly members,” memb ers,” Simitian ssays. ays. “The “Theyy aall l l ggot ot tthe he ssame am e fform orm ssaying ay i n g ‘your ‘y our inf information formation o ma may ay ha have ve b been een ccompromised.’ ompromised.’ All of a sudden theree w was moree inter interest ther as mor e in the bill. est Ass you A you might eexpect.” xp ect.”

Like most people, L ike m ost p eople, politicians politicians tend tend tto o ta take ke m more ore decisive decisive action action when when an issue directly directly affects aff ffeectts them.

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under Simitian un nder his wing and helped bill passed, putting h elped gget et tthe he b ill p assed, p utting California forefront off C alifornia aatt tthe he fo refrront o protecting privacy p rotecting cconsumers onsumers ffrom rrom p rivacy intrusions.. intrusions worked “It work ked eextraordinarily xtraordinarily well years,” Simitian iin n tthe he iintervening ntervening ye ars,” S imitian more 40 ssays, ays, aadding dding tthat hat m ore tthan han 4 0 states st ates ffollowed o ollowed suit with similar legislation..

But has B ut ssince ince tthen, hen, tthe he ggame ame h as The cchanged. hanged. T he IInternet nternet iiss iin n a sstate tatte perpetual of p erpetual eexpansion, xpansion, and the potential forr iinformation p otential fo nformattion tto o sslip lip ((or or bee eextracted) through b xtracteed) thr ough the cracks has never been greater. ne ver b een n gr eater.

According A ccordin ng to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, C le a ri ngh ou se, 534 53 4 million million sensitivee rrecords have been sensitiv e ords ha ec ve b een ccompromised om p ro mi s e d nationally nati on ally ssince i n ce 2005.

Safeguards aree in plac place, 20 05. Saf feeguards ar e, but little information currently lit tle inf fo orrmation is curr ently rrequired equired to o be b e released released about ab out when where breaches w h e n aand nd w h e re b re ac he s ttake a ke place. bee rrelied plac e. Banks Bank ks ccan’t an’t b elied on up tto o vvoluntarily o lu n tar i l y ggive i ve u p aaccurate cc u r a t e when iinformation n fo r m a t i o n w hen ssomething omething goes wrong network. go es wr on g with their net work.

Last week, Citibank L ast w eek, C itib an k rreluctantly e l u c ta n t l y breach aadmitted d mi tte d tthat h a t iits ts rrecent e ce n t b re a c h was 200,000 w as almostt double the 20 0,0 0 0 rrecords ecords it originally o rreported, ep or ted, drawing the dra wingg th he ire ire of the U.S. U.S. Senate Committee.

Banking C ommittee. unsuccessfully Simitian n has unsuc cessfully ssubmitted ubmitted aadditional dditional llegislation egislation tto o original but sstrengthen trengthen his his o riginal eeffort, ffort, b ut might Hee h has tthat hatt m ight ssoon oon cchange. hange. H as new bill, SB 24, being an ew b ill, S B2 4, ccurrently urrently b eing rreviewed eviewed in n ccommittee, ommittee, that will require businesses re quire b usinesses to to provide provide tthose hose byy a ssecurity breach with aaffected ffected b ecurity b reach w ith off iinformation tthe he ttype yp e o nformattion lleaked, eaked, aass better well as a b e ter timeline of when it et was leaked. w as leak ed.

Former Gov. Arnold Fo rmer G ov. A rnold Schwarzenegger S chwarzenegger vvetoed eto ed tthree h re e prior off tthis p rior vversions ersions o his bill. bill. With With Fuller Sen. JJean ean F uller (R—Bakersfield) (R R— —Bakersfield) co-authoring SB 24, co -authoring S B2 4, iitt has has already a l re a d y breezed b reezed tthrough hrough tthe he ssenate enate aand nd assembly ju judiciary udiciar y ccommittee ommittee with bipartisan support. appears likely bipar tisan supp or t. It app ears lik ely to land on the assembly flo floor or soon. so on. on Gov. Jerry Brown, IIff ssigned igned byy G ov. Je rr y B rown, tthe he b bill ill w would ould ggo o iinto nto eeffect ffeect aatt tthe ff he b beginning eginning of ne next xt yyear. ear. ““Its Its o one ne o off tthose hose re relatively lattively obscure until you o bscure iissues ssues u ntil yo u aare re p personally ersonally aff affected,” ffeected,”” Simitian sa says, ayys, matters lot.”” “and then it mat ters a lot.

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weeks aago weeks go aand nd u updated p dated m myy p phone hone numb er and email address,” add dress,” I said. number “You “Y You o ha have ave that information, inffo orm mation, right?” right?”

“Yes, “Y Yes e , we do, do, Mr. Mr. Koehn.”

Koehn. e ” “OK, so let me ask you you a question.” question.”

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“I’m sorr y, I don’t don’t have have that sorry, inf formation, o Mr. Koehn.”

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Jimmy Johnson won last year’s event—not much of a surprise since he’s handed a trophy pretty much every time he fills the tank—but he’ll have stiff competition in five-time winner Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and a number of other billboards masquerading as race cars.

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entire weekend is being dedicated to race legend Bobby Allison. On top of being famous for winning more races than only a couple of other guys, Allison’s celebrated résumé also includes a horrific crash at Talladega in 1987 that people still talk about— his car flew like an arrow at 200 mph and took out more than 100 feet of guard rail fence—as well as the first nationally televised brawl in 1979 with Cale Yarborough in the Daytona 500 infield.

Kings of the Single-A Sandlot There isn’t a better example to show how dominant the San Jose Giants have been this season than to look at recent results for the secondplace Stockton Ports.

The Ports are on an eight-game winning streak entering a four-game series with the Giants that begins at 7pm Thursday. Despite going undefeated since the beginning of June, the Ports are still 12 1/2 games back of Los Gigantes (50-19), who recently had five players named to Tuesday’s All-Star game in Modesto.

(Not to keep beating up on the Central Valley, but is it really a reward to go play an All-Star game where it’s 105 degrees and the bestlooking women in town work at Applebees?) To keep fans cool, each game of the series, which wraps up Sunday, will have first pitch being thrown out in the early evening.

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T o mak ke a long stor t,, offic cials To make storyy shor short, officials an nd o ther ffranchise ran nchise owners owners in in the the and other N orth American American nS occer L eague North Soccer League ((NASL) NASL) d did id n not ot w want ant a tteam eam iin n S an n JJose. ose. T hey w anted an ny n ew B ay San They wanted any new Bay A Ar ea franchise to be be located located in San n Area F ran ncisco. They They cconsidered onsidered tthat hat ccity ity Francisco. moree pr m mor prestigious estigious and mor moree elegan elegant— ntt— o ne that would lift the league’s league’s st a . atus one status.

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Earthquakes owner owner Milan Milan n Earthquakes Mandaric had had d hired hired Dick Dick Berg Berg Mandaric away from from his his previous previous position position ass away promotions director director for fo or the 49ers.

49ers. promotions Together, they they convinced convinced NASL NASL Together, officials that that San San n Jose Jose deserved deserved a officials major-league major-leaggue sport. sport. Berg, Berg, admittedly admittedly nonsoccer person, person, then then orchestrated orchestrated a nonsoccer marketing campaign campaign to a guerrilla marketing saturate saturate the the general generall public public with with player player appearances appearrances and and promotional promotionall events in in order order to to introduce introduce San San n events Joseans to all the Earthquakes Earth hquak kes e players. plaayeers.

Joseans Sports Sports Illustrated Illusttrratteed reporter reporter Tex Tex Maule Maule wrote a story story and interviewed interrviewed five five wrote families. Each Each family faam mily had had met met one one of of families. the players players before before attending attending their their first first the game—something unheard unh heard of in pro pro game—something sports. sports.

In what what now now seems seems like like a brief brief In moment in in time, time, during during that that first first 1974 1974 moment season—before seasson—before the the New New York York Cosmos Cosmos were known for for o anything—San an nyyth hing—San Jose Jose were led the the league league in in attendance. attendance. During During led their first four four o seasons, seasons, the Quakes Quak kees outdrew the Giants and an nd the A’s, A’s, the outdrew latter of of which which had had d just just won won the the latter World o Series three three years yea ears in a row. row w.

World Since Since I was waas destined to hang out in an nyw y ay, there there I basements of libraries anyway,

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No No one one could could have have predicted predicted that that the league would quickly degenerate qualitty and a then collapse collapse a mere mere in quality 10 years years later, latter, so folks fo olks at the Merc Merc were were wholeheartedly wholleheartedly supportive. supportive.

For For example, exam mple, when when the the Quakes Quak kes played plaayeed their their first game 37 years years e ago, ago, sports sports editor edittor Dan Hruby Hruby wrote: wrote: “San San Jose area Jose is is the the largest largest ar rea of of its its size size iin n the United United d States States without a major professional al ssports ports franchise. fran nchise. Well, Well, it it professional was until today. t daay.” to was Staff writer writer Fred Fred Guzman Guzman n wrote: wrote: Staff Jose has h finally become become a Major “San Jose League City.

Citty.” California Calif a foornia Today, Today, the the League Sundaay magazine maagazine of the MercuryMerrccurrySunday News, ran a six-page cover cover e story story titled News, Jose Goes G es Big League.

Go League.” The “San Jose subtitle read: read ad: “They “They laughed lau ughed when when tthe he subtitle Earthquak kees sat down to play. plaay. Well, Weell, Earthquakes baby, who’s who’s got the last laugh now?” baby, anoth her story, story, the Merc’s Merrc’s In another John Lindb blom quoted Quakes Quakes John Lindblom promotionall maestro maestro Dick Dick Berg, Berg, who who promotional said: “What “What we we want wan nt to to do do is is cater cater to to said: the youth. youth. The The 49er 49er crowd crowd was was mostly mostly the 45-yeear-old dW orld War II vveterans, o eterans, 45-year-old World we’re not n going to get away away and we’re from that that altogether, altogether, but al but we we want want to to from present a mor m outhful o appearance.” present moree yyouthful appearance.

Beginning with with the the tteam’s eam m’s Beginning inception iin n 1974, 1974, now-legendary now-legendarry inception after-gamee parties parties took took place place at after-game Lou’s Village, Viillagge, a celebrated celebrated oldLou’s school San San Jose Jose restaurant restauran nt on on school Carloss Street.

Street. Their ad in the San Carlos Merrcur c ry-N News coinciding coinciding with the Mercury-News team m’s debut debut home home opener opener featured featured team’s encouragem ment fr om family member member encouragement from Mulller, who played plaayeed in the Frank Muller, German n League Leaggue o New York–New York–New German off New Jersey from from 11930 930 to to 1942.

1942. “We “We Love Love Jersey soccer too!!!” too!!!!”” the ad exclaimed. exclaimed. soccer Reetro T -shirts are are a good good start. start.

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Over five Over five years, years, sometimes sometimes working working half h alf a day day on on one one drawing, drawing, the the artist ar tist illustrated this by by turns turrns mysterious, mysterious, banal, b anal, sublime, sublime, ghastly, ghastly, demanding demanding aand nd self-contradictory self- contradictory 38,000-word 38,000-word ttext. ext. Crumb Crumb has has included included in in his his panels p anels every every word word in in Genesis, Genesis, using using a mix mix of of the the King King James James version version Robert aand nd UC-Berkeley’s UC-Berkeley’s professor professor R ob er t Alter’ss 2004 Alter’ 2004 translation. translatiion.

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Now No w lliving iving iin n a small small town town in Fran France, ce, Crumb rar rarely rely giv gives es interviews. inter views. But the ffootnotes ootnotes ffor or o his b book o ok eexplain xplain wha what at he’s he’s doing Although hee p personally cclearly. learly. A lthough h ersonally is is aan n unbeliever, unbeliever, C Crumb rumb iisn’t sn’t ttrying r ying burlesque Bible. hee tto ob urlesque tthe he B ible. IInstead, nstead, h wrestles w restles w with ith tthe he sseriousness eriousness of of Genesis: dust-to-riches human G enesis: tthe he d ust-to -riches h uman ssaga aga that thatt runs runs from frrom the the beginning b eginning off the universe burial off o the u niverse tto o tthe he b urial o JJoseph. oseph.

Local L ocal Crumb fans are a e eagerly ar aawaiting waiting the exhibit. exhibit. Adam Adam Johnson, Johnson, tthe he prize-winning prize-winning novelist novelist who who helps h elps lead lead Stanford’s Stanford’s graphic-novel graphic-novel project, p roject, says, says, “Crumb’s “Crumb’s style, style, with with its its iink-heavy, nk-heavy, writhing writhing lines lines emanates emanattes uncertainty unc ertainty and struggle. strugggle. It’s It’s a style style tthat hat lends lends itself itself to to a narrative narrattive of of woe, wo e, torment and redemption.” red demption.”

Lee L ee Hester, Hester, owner owner of of Lee’s Lee’s Comics Comics in Mountain Mountain View Vie i w and an nd San Mateo, Mateo, ssays, ays, “R. “R.. Crumb Crumb is is the the hard hard stuff, stuff ff,, the the world’s w orld’s greatest greatest cartoonist. cartoonist. Our Our Bob Bob an R. Dylan. I can’t can’t recall recall reading reading e storyy that didn’t Crumb stor did dn’t move move me.” me.”

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The shor shortt version version of Crumb’s C Crumb ’s ccareer areer is is that thatt the the former former Northern Northern Californian C alifornian was was a breaker breaker of of taboos taboos iin n his his youth. youth. His His fearless fearless and and explicit explicit illustrations of the world wo orld of sex sex (and

drugs, drugs, a lesser lesser concern) concern) were were both b oth dismaying dismaayyingg and comic. comic.

The bug-eyed, bugg- eyed, gloating fan Crumb drew as a logo l go for lo fo or the San Jose’s Jose’s drew Comic Comic Bo Book o Collector ok Collector shop w was as a l i eexample xam mple l off Crumb’s C Crumb b’s 1960s 1960s classic cartoony cartoony style s yle as seen in Zap Comix st Comix dozen ns of other works, works, such as and dozens Mr. Mrr. Natural.

Naturaal. When he was was young, young, was seized by by the police police his work was on obscenity obscen nity charges. charges. Ultimately Ultimately, y, livved to see his talent talent Crumb lived embrac embraced ed b byy the mainstream. mainstream. The 19 94 documentary docu umentary Crumb help ed 1994 helped make make him m world famous. famous.

19 980s, Crumb’s Crumb’s work In the 1980s, made d a drastic drastic dr i change h to graphic hi complexity, as he st arted mo ving complexity, started moving away from away fr om m the 1950s comic comic modes modes he used to o imitate. imitate. His ar artt stopp stopped ed looking looking like lik ke Golden Age Age cartoonist cartoonist C.C. C.C. Beck (who dr drew ew C Captain aptain Marvel Marvel among many maany other heroes) heroes) and started started to resemble resemble 19th-century 19th- century master illu illustrator ustrator Gustav Gustav Doré.

Doré.

Crumb illustrated Kaf k kaa as well as the sometimes som metimes comic, comic, sometimes somber Metro somb ber memoirs m i off former former o Met ro contributor Harvey contributo or Har vey Pekar, Pekar, the sexual sexual pathologist Krafft-Ebing, pathologisst Kraff fftt-Ebing, James James Boswell and Boswell an nd the Brothers Brothers Grimm.

He and hiss wife, wiffe, Aline Kominsky, Kominsk ky, discussed their open t open marriage in the appropriately appropriattely titled Dirty Dirtt y LLaundry. aundrry.

All of that hard-learned th hat har d-learned talent talent for fo or slaved-over, slaaved- over e , ink-heavy ink-heaavy v illustration is visible in n the show at the San Jose Jose Muse Museum um of Art. Art. If the book book was was impressive, impressiv e e, the art art itself is overwhelming. overwhelm ming. Banners blow up a few few of the dra drawings, aw wings, with the lines from from cr crow-quill ow w- quill pen pen and ink on Strathmore Strathmorre pap paper er lo looking oking as thick and bristlyy as ropes. ropes.

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Crumb’s drawing lettering aree so Crumb ’s dra awing w and let tering ar sure, sur e, it it’s ’s sc scary; ary; while th there’s here’s a bit of Wite-Out W iite- Out o occasionally: ccasionallyy: most of the white patches ar aree not mist mistakes, akes, but pigment added to make mak ke JJehovah’s ehovah’s glow.. Crumb Crumb’s suree rrobes obes glow ’s hand h is as sur engraver. as the hand of an engr raaver.

Crumb did rresearch, esearch h,, using from eeverything verything fr om Biblee ccomics omics to Geographic photos National Geo graphic ph hotos to

images Hollywood ccaptured aptured im mages from from Hollywo od biblical epics, biblic al ep ics, some of which are are also on display dissplaay at the exhibit. exhibit. As As Jon Jon observes Solomon obser o ves in The Ancient World the W oorld in th he Cinema, Cinema, many many classicists weree in involved wer vollved as cconsultants onsultants on the ssword-and-sandal word--and-sandal epics. epics. Their “educated “educ ated guesses” of what the ancient wo world looked orld lo oked like like were were often as go good od as anyone’s. anyone’s.

If yyou ou as ask sk Lee Lee Hester, Hester, one of the ar artists tists who made the biggest impression impr ession n on Crumb is Basil Wolverton. was W olverton o n. ““Mad Mad magazine w as a big influencee on influenc o Crumb,” Crumb,” Hester says. saayys.

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Mr.. Natur Mr Natural ral a In illustrating the Bible, Biblle, Crumb is working in a tradition of graphics that reaches reaches fr from om N Northern orthern German woodcuts wo odcuts to the watercolors waterrcolors of William W iilliam Blak Blake. e.

The most dramatic points points of the Book Book of Genesis were w e alr wer already eady well taken taken by by the timee of the late Renaissance, R eenaissance, though. Har Hard H d luck ffor or o the ar artist tist who tries to improve improve on Masaccio’s Masac cio’s vversion ersion of th the he eexile xile from from the Garden, Garden,, T Tiepolo’s iepolo’s eexpulsion xpulsion of Hagar or R Rembrandt’s embrandt e ’s vision of the ordeal or deal of Isaac.

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LLet’s et’’s Mak Makee a D M Deal eal Genesis iiss a m Genesis meeting eeting gground round o off tthe he divine d ivine an and nd tthe he d devious. evious. A And nd tthe he most heroic heroicc sp spot ot in this meeting is Crumb’s C rumb’s vversion ersion o off A Abraham brah ham aand nd G God od dickering dick keering over over e the fate of So Sodom. dom.

Will W iill Go God d kill the entire entire population, p opulation n,, then? What if ther theree aree 50 just men? What about ar about 40? In Cru Crumb’s umb’s vversion ersion of this

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heaavy heavy v line and eexposed xposed d wrinkle b byy Wolverton, W olv o l erton,, the h grandf grandfather dffather f h off the h underground.” under ground.””

Wolverton, W olverton, whose par o p parents ents lived lived in Sunnyvale Sunnyvale ffor or o a time, tim me, was was an ordained or dained minister minister.. He was was also the auteur of the most flab flabbergastingly bbergastingly strange dra drawings awings w eever ver published p in Mad. Ignoring the trad traditional ditional Tex Tex Avery A very dichotomy dichotomy of wolf wolf and girl, Wolverton W olverton combined o combined them t both both into cr creatures eatures with lolling lollling tongues and d enormous cracked crack ked d teeth. h In 20 2009, 09, Fant Fantagraphics agraph hics printed Wolverton’s W oolvertton’ o ’s Bible Bible,, fr from om work originally done in the late 1950s.

1950s. It’s It’s not faith in the old-time old-tim me religion religion that gives gives Wolverton’s Wolv o erton’s Biblic Biblical al work a little little more more pop-art pop -art p punch unch than we see in Crumb’s Crumb’s vversion erssion of the best-known b est-known incidents in i Genesis.

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It’s It ’s simply a matter matter of all the negativee space negativ space Wolverton Wolv o erton t has at his ccommand. ommand.

Y eet Crum mb do es work some vir gin Yet Crumb does virgin territor y. F or inst ance, he ma ay b territory.

For instance, may bee the first ar tist eever ver to dra aw these legions artist draw of one -nam med tribesmen tribesmen of eons one-named ago times, he eeven ven shrinks the ago.. Somet Sometimes, lit any of begottens begot e tens and b egetters litany begetters into thumb bnail-size portraits. portraits. And thumbnail-size chok ed with witth a sense of religious religious choked pr opriety, man m can’t get propriety, manyy illustrators can’t at the mor sexual passages moree vague or sexual i Genesis in G i that th t Crumb C b addresses addr dd esses so fforthrightly: orthrightlyy: the pla o ayyfulness of A dam playfulness Adam and Ev e, the th he stealing away away of human Eve, women b datebyy angels and the dateraping of L ot b Lot byy his daughters daughters..

On one level, l vel, Crumb le ’s Genesis Crumb’s is just whatt he calls calls it: “straight illustration n.” As As a rresult esult of including illustration.” eevery very word word of the text, text, Crumb’s Crumb’s work is hea avvy with wiith dialo gue and ccaptions. aptions. heavy dialogue Her every play plaay on Hebr ew wor ds Heree is every Hebrew words when h iit comes com mes to the h naming i off childr en. (The (The T author of Genesis children. lo ved puns.) puns.) loved W iith thee expanse expanse of the museum With w alls, the art a t has more ar more fforce, orce, and it o ’s walls, it’s all ob viously his obviously his.. In the squatness and hairine ess of old Abraham, we see hairiness a rrealistically ealisticallly illustrated vversion ersion of Crumb ’s tr ademark ccartoon artoon magus: Crumb’s trademark the angr h man Mr angryy holy Mr.. Natural.

N oah’s son ns, Shem, Ham and JJapeth, apeth, Noah’s sons, ar griz i zled l d, d deser d t-rat vversions ersions i off aree grizzled, desert-rat the Thr ee Stooges’ S oges’’ Shemp Sto Larry and Three Shemp,, Larry Mo e—a little little t token token of aff ffeection ffor o or Moe—a affection old vaude v villians . vaudevillians.

Crumb eeven ven inser ts outright inserts ccartoon artoon details. dettails. L ook closely y, and in a Look closely, pile of writ thing, burning So domites, writhing, Sodomites, one of the damned has just been been hit in the ass with w a chunk of flaming debris debris..

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negotiation, Abraham br breaks eaks down the Almight Almighty’s y’s sales rresistance. esistance. The episode episo de cconcludes oncludes with h Abraham alone,, wiping “plutes”” (the technic alone technical al term ffor or a ccartoon o artoon ssweat weeat dr drop) op) off of his fforehead: or o ehead: Whe Whew, w, what w a tough customer.. customer Crumb ttakes akes this actt of persuasion—a p ersuasion—a i lif life-and-death fe-and d- death d th matter—as mat ter—as the adv advent entt of JJewish ewish humor,, ccomplete humor omplete with h gesticulation and shrugging shrugging.. It It’s ’s a moment m of small triumph ffor or o hum humanity manity o over ver the unmovable unmo vable L Lord. ord.

Some dark humor tu turns urns up up,, but one learns not to laugh l in the

pr esence off JJehovah. ehovah. The fur presence furyy He shows whe en Sarah laughs at his when pr ophecy of o a late bir th mak es prophecy birth makes this panel Crumb C ’s most ffearsome eearsome Crumb’s depiction of o the wrath of Go d. The God. ar tist told critic c R o obert Hughes that artist Robert the mo del ffor o or Jehovah Jehovah was was Crumb’s Crumb’s model own father r, a ttyrannical yrannical eex-Marine. x-Marine. father, The ar tisst’s familiar hand is also artist’s visible amo ong the ancients among ancients,, who include som me of the most ttypical ypical some Crumb cha aracters: those strapping characters: strapping,, to oth hy, plump, plu ump, gloriously big toothy, big,, Mediterran nean-ffeeatured women Mediterranean-featured he ador es. adores.

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“I’m not very very go good od at dra drawing aw wing attractive women actu attractive actually,” uallyy,” Crumb oncee wrote. onc wrote.

That is mo modest; dest; it iss also ridiculous ridiculous..

It’s It ’s eevery very bit as ridicul ridiculous lous as überübercritic Har Harold old Blo Bloom’s om’s ccomment omment that all the women in Crum Crumb’s mb’s Genesis aree ugly ar ugly. y.

Sincee the back back-to-the-land Sinc -to -th he-land movement mo vement of the 1970s, 1970 0s, Crumb favored healthy has fa avored the health hy milkmaid above ab ove the o overcosmeticized vercosmetticized cit cityy dweller.. He pr prefers dweller effeers thee unruly to the sophisticated, sophistic ated, and he ccan’t an’t get o over ver power his astonishment at ffeminine e eminine power prone, skinny males.. dominating pr one, ski inny males

The w way ay he h p portrays ortraays y Sarai (later Sarah),, thee most complex complex woman in Genesis Genesis,, is key key to the novel novel perspective perspectivve Crumb brings to Genesis.

Genesis.

Woman W oomaan Trouble Trouble Genesis can can a b bee summed up rreductively: eductivelyy: W Women o omen ccan’t an’tt be be trusted. trusted They’ll The y’ll sne sneak eak themselv themselves es into a man’s man ’s bed. bed. They’re They’re liabilities liabilities.. The Theyy have ha ave to b bee smuggled through through enemy enemy territory. territor y. The Theyy pr T pretend etend to b bee rap raped, ed, as Potiphar’s Potiphaar’s wife wiffe did. If they they want want seed,, even even their own fathers are are not out of bounds. bou unds.

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Wee see real W real horror horror in i Crumb’s Crumb’s images o images off tthe he d drunken runken sseduction eduction off Lot o Lot by by his his daughters, daughters, and and his his vviewing iewing h his is o offspring ffsspring b ff born orn o off incest. inc est. Lot Lot is a lost geezer, geeezer, slumped, slump ed, ssurrounded urrounded b byy a m midden idden o off ssheep heep bones, b ones, as his big-legged d hoyden hoyden daughters instruct his sons-cumsons-cumgrandsons in ar archery. chery.

T Taking aaking advant advantage age off chanc chances es to go gentle on the more more pli pliant iant women of Genesis—Rebekah Genesis—R Reebekah at a the well,, for fo or eexample—Crumb xample— Crumb ccan an b bee lyric lyrical. al. But he also finds a ccounterpoint ounterrpoint to this b book’s ook’s ambient fear fear e off women in the p person erson of Sarah.

In his notes notes,, the ar artist tiist acknowledges being being he helped elped b byy the scholar Sa Savina avina v Teubal’s Teubal’ e sb book ook Sarah the Priest Priestess tess e (19 (1984).

84). T Teubal eeu ubal theorizes been that ancient tales tales had b een rrewritten ewritten obscuree the role Abraham’s to obscur role of Abraham A ’s wife the wif fe as a priestess of th he older rreligion. eligion. Such a powerful powerrful woman would ha have ave been been able to engage in sacr sacred ed marriage with men m of her cho choosing, osing, which ma may ay be be wh whyy she ends up with other men meen now and again.

And when Rachel he helps elps herself to her father’ father’ss household d idols b before effo ore she lea leaves aves home home,, Crum Crumb mb sa says ays y he

presumes it’s too, pr esumes it t’s a sign that Rachel, to o, was priestess. w as a priest tess. not interpretation.

This is no ot a drastic interpr etation.

Bloom may look Blo om ma ay not ccare are ffor or the lo o ok Crumb’s of Crumb ’s women, but he did write 1990 Book J,, wher wheree he he,, to too, the 19 90 Bo ook of J o, that written suggests th hat a woman had writ ten Bible.. the first five fivve books books of the Bible No N o sensee of the sacred? sacred? Certainly, Certainlyy, sacred if yyou ou don’t don’tt consider consider women sacr ed or powerful. powerfu ul. The majority majority of Crumb Crumb’s ’s w work ork during the past 25 25 yyears ears has b been een ab about out his ffear eear and tr trembling embling b before effo ore the opp opposite osite se sex. x In x. these stories storiees of men taking taking the rreigns eigns of a civiliza civilization, ation,, his work brings that fascination n to its p peak. eak.

Still,, onee admires admires Crumb Crumb’s ’s own ideas of a pre-Bible p e-Bible world. And pr as he write writes, s, “Even “Even we mo modern dern sophistic sophisticated ateed p people eople ha have ave tr trouble ouble wrapping our o minds ar around ound the idea of a so society ociety in which male and ffemale eemale p power ow wer ar aree equally balanc balanced.” ed.”

W We’ll e’ll ll ne never ver see a definitiv definitivee illustrated Bible.

Bible. The te text xt ccalls alls out cconstantly onstantly for fo or mor moree study as b both oth ar artt and ar artifact. tifactt. W Wee owe Crumb a great great deal for fo or thee clarity claritty he has brought brought into his ab above-all ove-all entertaining entertaining appr approach oach tto o turning The W Word or o d into pictur pictures. es.

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DEAN DEVINCENZI, who owns DOUBLE D’S and FORBES MILL with his brother DARIN DEVINCENZI, is opening the business with RON GARALD, who is also an owner of FORBES MILL. The restaurant held a soft opening last week, and Devincenzi said he was overwhelmed by the response. The opening was supposedly limited to friends and family, but he said he had a lot more friends and family than he realized. Devincenzi added that he and his staff are continuing to fine-tune the menu and service before they open to the general public. “There’s a lot of anticipation and that’s why we want everything to be right before we open,” he said.

The menu is the work of MANUEL MARTINEZ, the former executive chef at Palo Alto’s REPOSADO. Opening menus dishes include duck breast enchiladas, halibut with a pumpkin-seed crust and corn-truffle mashed potatoes, and seared day boat scallops with green rice gratin and a corn purée.

In addition to Martinez, the restaurant has made some key hires. Former STEAMER’S GRILLHOUSE general manager GREG BARDAKOS will serve as GM, while veteran C.B. HANNEGAN’S bartender SHAWN CARROLL will run the restaurant’s well-stocked bar.

“It’s a nice little collection of people,” said Devincenzi.

Dine Downtown Dine Downtown San Jose is about to kick off again. The annual event runs from June 22 to July 3 and is a showcase of downtown San Jose’s growing restaurant scene (see the program in this issue). It’s a great opportunity to sample a wide range of cuisine and great prices. Restaurants have created special three-course menus priced at $20, $30 and $40. Some of the dozens of participating restaurants include 19MARKET, the CAPITAL CLUB, MOROCCO’S, IL FORNAIO, ARCADIA, MEZCAL and PHO 69. —Stett Holbrook

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OME DAILY DAIL LY routines routines may ma y be cumbersome; c m cum mbersome; ome others other s can n be turned highlight into the hig ghlight of of those those precious precious s 24 24 hours. hours. Eating, Eating, a necessity n essity nec forgotten forgotten often often when w the hunger hunger fades, fades, can be a ritual that makes m es it mak worthwhile. S ome e people worthwhile.

Some have have the gift of of culinary c culinar y skill; some some have have the t uncanny uncanny ability to to burn the water water while making making te tea. a.

Whether y you’re ou’re a mas master ster che chef, f, or a master o master off dis disaster aster in the e kit kitchen, chen, it’s it’s always idea treat yourself alw ays a good good ide a tto o tr eat y ourself and let s someone omeone els else e do the har hard dw work. ork. Dine

Downtown offers Downtown offers many many choices choices for for that next ne xt gastronomical gastron nomical discovery. discovery.

With farms W ith organic organic a farms bursting bursting with fresh fr esh veggies, veggie es, salmon salmon making their way w ay tto o theirr spawning spawning gr grounds ounds and beeff dry-curing bee dry-curing at s select elect restaurants, restaurants, vegetarians, meat v egetarians, pesceterians pesceterians and me at lovers have off options options.. lo vers ha ve plenty plenty o Since Sinc e there the ere are are more more than 25 participating p articipating g restaurants, restaurants, diner diners sc could, ould, theoretically, theor etically y, try a new new restaurant restaurant every every evening off tthe e vening o he 12-day 12 12-da day event, even nt June 22–July nt, 22 July 3 3..

Downtown Dine D ownt w own showcases showcases a variety variety off prix fix o fixe e menus—at m $2 $20, 0, $30 and $40.. World enjoy $40 World travelers t avelers will enjo tr y the mélange mélang e of of ingredients ingredients and spices spices available—and a vailable—a and w won’t on’t have have tto og go o through through airport security. secu urity.

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off a w world borders.

Eulipia, ttour our o orld without bor ders. E ulipia, Affinity, Fahrenheit, Loft Bistro, A ffinity, F ahrenheit, enheit L oft Bar & Bis stro, Silicon Valley Club,, S San Pedro Silic on V alley Capital Club an P e o edr Square Bistro Wine, Sonoma S quare Bis tro & W ine, and S onom ma Chicken Coop each across Chick en C oop e ach rreach each acr oss oceans taste provide oc eans of of tas te tto o pr ovide high-end high-en nd dishes. dishe s.

Well-balanced, menus W ell-balanced, ttraditional raditional m enus are ar e jus justt as e exciting xciting this y year ear as at la last ast year’s event.

Downtown chefs use y ear’s e vent. Dine Dine D owntown c hefs u se filter ttime-tested ime-tested rrecipes, ecipes, fi lter tthem hem tthrough hrough maybe modern ttechniques echniques and add ma ybe a hint off a n new and suddenly h int o ew iingredient, ngredient, a nd s uddenly tthe he creation c reation tturns urns m magical—something agical—something tto o share others. shar e with other s.

Participating P articipating restaurants restaurants take take advantage adv antage of of the bounty bounty of of fresh fresh and varied v aried ingredients ingredients grown grown locally. locally. The The hard h ard work work of of California California farmers farmers is is evident e vident in in the the freshest freshest ingredients ingredients

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available at available at Paolo’s, Paolo’s, 19Market, 19Market, 71 71 Saint Saint Peter, P eter, Azuc Azucar, ar, Bella Mia, Mia Britannia Arms M Downtown, Restaurant, D owntown, Emile’s Emile’s R estaurant, Habana Habana Cuba, Cub a, Il F Fornaio, ornaio, Mezcal, Mezcal, Morocco’s, Morocco’s, P.F. P..F. Chang’s, Chang’ s, P Paesano aesano and and Pagoda.

Pagoda.

American also Americ an cuisine is is als o a staple staple of of downtown do wntown dining. Undeniably Undeniably original, with a flair ffor or both simplicity simplicity and decadence, dec adence, no one do does oes what w we e do as well w ell as we we do it. American steakhouses Amerrican steakhouses rule the world world of of meat, meat, a an assertion assertion that can c an be ttested ested at Arcadia, Arcadia, a Billy Berk’s, Berk’s, the Grill on the Alle Alley, y, L Los os Gatos Gatos Brewing Brewing Company C ompany and Mort Morton’s. on n’s.

With W ith such a wide arr array a ay of of choices choices available, a vailable, the only problem problem o will be where go first. deciding wher e tto og o fir st.

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19 N. MARKET S 19 ST., T.., S SAN AN JO JOSE; SE; 408.280.6111 408 .280.6111

For F or Dine D Downtown, owntown, 19 19Market’s Market’s $2 $20 0 prix fixe fixe menu s starts tarts wi with ith a choic choice eo off Vietnamese chicken spring rrolls olls or V ietname ese chick en salad, by second course s alad, ffollowed ollowed b yas ec cond c ourse of of lemon gr grass ass chick chicken, en, sp spicy picy gr ground ound pork and tofu, tofu, seared seared Mekong M ong basa Mek basa or eggplant and ttofu ofu in cu rry s auce, and curry sauce, dessert, tropical pudding. ffor or de ssert, tr opical pud dding. The $30 menu includes includes spring rrolls, olls, V Vietnamese ietnamese chicken chick en s salad alad or grilled bee beeff onion rrolls, olls, a s second econd c course ourse o off shaking beef beef lamb,, tamarind pr prawns, or lamb awns w , grilled salmon spicy green beans s almon with spic y gr een be ans or vegetarian stir-fried Shanghai v egetarian s tir-fried fried Sh anghai noodle; chocolate tropical and flourless flourless choc olate cake cake or tr opical dessert. pudding ffor or de ssert.

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IIN N THE THE M MARRIOTT ARRIOTT H HOTEL, OTEL, 3 301 01 S. MARKE S. MARKET ET S ST., T.., S SAN AN JO JOSE; SE; 408.278.4555 408 .278.4555 4 Michael Mi Mina’s na’s modern steakhouse steakhouse opens it its s door d doors s to to gue guests sts of of Dine Downtown D owntown with a $40 menu. Start off choice organic o ff with a choic c e of of heirloom or ganic arugula, lobster lob bster corn corn dogs dogs or Iacopi Iacopi butter bean soup.

Next choose from butt er be an s oup. Ne xt choo se fr om ph yllo-dusted petrale petrale sole, sole, chicken chicken mac phyllo-dusted and cheese charred flatiron steak; cheese or charr ed flatir on s teak; and for for the e last last course, course, a carrot carrot cake, cake, caramel c aramel baked bak a ed apple or frozen frozen yogurt yogurt parfait. p arfait.

AAZÚCAR ZÚCAR LATIN LATIN

RESTAURANT R ESTAURAANT & LOUNGE LOUNGE

71 7 1 E. E. SAN SAN FERNANDO FERNANDO ST., ST., SAN SAN JOSE; JO SE; 408.293.8482 408 8.293.8482

Saint Peter off do downtown San 71 S aint P eter is one o wntown S an Jose’s most intimate and Jo se’s mo st intimat e an nd rromantic omantic rrestaurants. estaurants. Fir First st up on n the $30 menu: a trio o off brus bruschetta, chetta, ffollowed ollowed b by yas sea ea s scallop callop and pr prawns awns ris risotto. o o. Thir ott Third dc course ourse Hawaiian swordfish is an herb-grilled Ha waiian s wordfish spice-grilled For or a dried spic e-grilled rib-e rrib-eye ye loin. F or dessert: de ssert: a mang mango o manila manilla tart. For For an additional $15 ine p airing with $15,, add a wi wine pairing each e ach course. course.

The loung lounge known e is kno wn for for its its homemade infused mojitos infus ed mo ojitos and pan-Latino pan-Latino cuisine served an intimate, s erved in a n intimat e, candlelit candlelit room. room. three All thr ee prix prrix fixe fixe menus feature feature a first fir st course course of of ceviche, ceviche, calamari calamari or house-made guacamole; second hous e-mad e mad de guac amole; and a s econd course off enchiladas suizas course o e suizas ($20), ($20), saltado camarones lomo s altad do ($30) or c amarones a la jalapeña. jalapeña. ($40). Dessert Dessert choices choices include che chef-selected ef-selected choic choices, es, and with the $4 $40 40 menu, mango mango sorbet sorbet with meringue and a mint. Coffee Coffee or soft soft drink is included. included d.

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BELLAA MIA BELL

71 N 71 N.. S SAN AN P PEDRO E D RO S ST., T., S SAN AN J JOSE; OS E ; 408 408.971.8523 .97 1.8523

IIN N THE THE H HILTON ILTON SAN SAN JOSE, J OS E , 3 300 00 ALMADEN ALMADEN BLVD., BLVD., SAN SAN JOSE; JOSE; 408.947.4444 408.947.4444 Affinity Affinity blends E European uropean a fla flavors vors and techniques ingredients. techniques made with loc llocal al ingr edients.

For For $30, $30, the prix fix fixe e menu menu s starts tarts off off with a choice choice o off Dungeness Dungen ness cr crab ab c cakes, akes, marinated marinated ahi tuna tart tartar tar or a mini– beef beef Wellington; Wellington; choices choices ffor or second second course include the A ffin nity cr epe course Affinity crepe with sautéed sautéed tomato tomato and an nd bacon, bacon, the sage sage crepe crepe with s sautéed autéed chick chicken en and mushroom, crepe mushroom, or the brie cr epe with panpanroasted roasted turk turkey; ey; and ffor or dessert, dessert, choo choose se from fr om tiramisu, tiramisu, New New Y York ork o k chee cheesecake secake or an Italian cream cream cake. cake.

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58 S. F 58 FIRST IRST S ST., T., S SAN AN J JOSE; OS E ; 408.280.1993 408 .280.11993 IIntimate ntimate a and nd w welcoming, elcoming, Bella Bella Mia Mia is is one of of downtown’s downtown’s top top picks picks for for refined refined IItalian talian ffood. ood. For For Dine Dine Downtown, Downtown, the the rrestaurant estaurant p plans lans tto os serve erve a fi first-course rst-course choice choic e of of either either a mixed mixed green green s salad alad Caesar choice or a Cae sarr salad; salad; an entree entree choic e of of either petite filet mignon e ither p etite fi let m ignon and and prawns prawns or or parmesan-crusted p armesan-crusted h halibut; alibut; a and nd a d dessert essert off white-chocolate o white-chocolate cheesecake cheesecake with with rraspberry aspberry s sauce auce or or seasonal seasonal fruit fruit crisp crisp with whipped whipped cr cream. eam. $30. $30.

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Michael Miller enrolled in the Culinary Institute of America in 1992 in New York City. While on the East Coast, he worked at some of the city’s most important culinary destinations, including Le Cirque under Chef Daniel Boulud and with Waldy Malouf at American Place. In the fall of 1994, Michael moved to Los Angeles and earned the saucier position at Spago under legendary Chef Wolfgang Puck. Ready for a new challenge, Michael and his wife took over the lease for the Coggeshall mansion, a Queen Anne Victorian located in Los Gatos. They opened the doors to Trevese in March 2007, and garnered back-to-back Michelin stars for 2009 and 2010. Silicon Valley Capital Club was thrilled to have Michael Miller join the SVCC team in 2010.

SIGNATURE DISHES: Seared U-10 Scallop with Chilled Soba

Noodle Salad and Mirin

BILLY BILL LY BERK BERK’S ’S

99 9 9 S. FIRST FIRST S ST., T., S SAN AN J JOSE; OS E ; 408.292.4300 408.292.4300 Billy B illy B Berk’s erk’s w will ill o offer ffer a fi first rst c course ourse of salad selections, of three three s alad s elections, rroasted oasted ttomato omato or vegetable vegetable flatbread, flatb bread, or fried zucchini; second course zuc chini; s econd c ourse is either the tri-mushroom tri-mushr oom p pasta asta ($2 ($20), 0), grilled pork chop or shitak shitake-stuffed e-stuffed chick chicken c en br breast east ($30) ($30) or or bacon-wrapped bacon-wrapped jjumbo umbo s scallops callops ($40); and dessert, one can opt ($40); a nd ffor or d essert, o ne c an o pt ffor or either k key-lime brûlée,, Bi Billy’s ey-lime brûlée illy’s monkey monkey delight or Ger Gerardo’s ardo’s br bread ead a pudding.

Receive R eceive 25 25 percent percent off off all all bottles bottles of of wine wine when two order two or more more people e or der from from the prix fix fixe e menu. menu

BRITANNIA AARMS BRITANNIA RMS DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN

1173 73 W W.. SANTA SANT TA CLAR CLARA AS ST., T.., S SAN AN JOSE; 408.278.1400 JOSE; 408.278.1400 The Brit o offers ffers a s starting tarting go off their house house

s salad alad with m mixed mixed greens, greens, Caesar Caesar salad salad soup or s oup of of the th he day; day; a second second course course of of their ffamous amous fish and chip chips, s, chick chicken en marsala, marsala, penne enne pasta pasta with grilled pe chicken, steak chick en, petite pettite sirloin s teak with grilled prawns prawns or th the he slider c combo; ombo; and a dessert de ssert of of Mum’s M Mum’ s apple pie pie,, homemade sticky sticky toffee toffee e pudding or deep-fried Mars vegetarian Mars bar. bar. Wine Wine specials and v egetarian are options ar e also also available. available. $20. $20.

EEMILE’S MILE’S RRESTAURANT ESTAURANT

545 S S.. SE SECOND COND S ST., T.., S SAN AN JO JOSE; SE; 408.289.1960 408 .289.1960 9 For F or $30 $30,, E Emile’s m s prix fix mile’ fixe e menu include includes s something s omething ffor or everyone. everyone. First First c course ourse presents off soups pr esents a selection selection o soups and s alads, or prawns prawns bor delaise; s econd salads, bordelaise; second c course, ourse, eith either er the bee beeff brochette, brochette, grilled lamb b chop chops, s, hous house-made e-made saucisson, s aucisson, chicken c chick en picatta, picatta, fillet of of

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ISAIAH ROTH

MORTON’S THE STEAKHOUSE Isaiah Roth hails from Olympia, Wash. He studied at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Portland, Ore., and under Morton’s corporate chefs Chris Rook and Tim Soldatt. Isaiah considers himself a “hands-on” chef and loves to jump on the hot line and work alongside his line cooks.

The secret to becoming a great chef, he says, is to work hard, be a good listener and be ready to adapt to constantly changing situations.

SIGNATURE DISH: Bone-in Rib-eye with Sautéed

Mushrooms

trout tr out Gr Grenobloise, enobloise, E Emile’s mile e’s ttortellini ortellini or s sautéed autéed potat potato o gnoc gnocchi; cchi; and ffor or third, choice from different the thir d, a choic e fr om five five diff erent desserts. desserts.

EULIPIA

RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT & B BAR AR

374 S 374 S.. FIR FIRST ST S ST., T.., S SAN AN N JO JOSE; SE; 408.280.6161 408 .280.6161 fixe Eulipia The $20 $20 prix fix e menu at E ulipia begins with a Cae Caesar sar s salad; alad; a second second c course ourse of of chick chicken en br breast east with melt melted m ed brie or arugula and b basil asil pe pesto sto linguine; and crème lemon lime pie or crèm e brûlée ffor or dessert. dessert. ert O On n the $30 me menu, enu choo enu, choose se from fr om a Caesar Caesar or house house salad, salad, Atlantic Atlantic salmon s almon roasted roasted with c cashews, ashews, penne marinara, chicken marinara, breaded breaded lemon lemo on chick en or blackened black ened rib-e rib-eye ye with bell pepper peppers, s, ffollowed ollowed b by y New New Y York ork ch o cheesecake heesecake or flourless flourless choc chocolate olate ttorte. orte.

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RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT A & LLOUNGE OUNGE

99 E 99 E.. S SAN AN F FERNANDO ERNANDO S ST., T., S SAN AN JOSE; JOSE; 408.998.9998 408 8.998.9998 The $30 pr prix rix fix fixe e menu at Fahrenheit Fahrenheit begins with h a fir first st course course of of either garden herbs g arden her bs and greens, greens, heirloom ttomato omato gazpacho, gaz zpacho, manchego manchego cheese cheese plate or br a ed and grilled Mongolian ais Mongolian plate braised short ribs; ribs; a second second course course of of either Ne New w York Yo ork steak steak frites frites truffle fries fries with fig and shallot shallot jam, fire-grilled fire-grilled eggplant “Medit “Mediterrano” erran no” heirloom tomato tomato ragu ragu and ang angel el hair h p pasta asta or pan-roasted pan-roasted sea sea bass butter b ass with herb h and butt er crust; crust; and a third thir d course course of of strawberry strawberry shortcake, shortcake, warm w arm chocolate choc colate br brownie ownie or seasonal seasonal sorbettos sorbettos and a gelatos. gelatos.

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IL FORNAIO

Claudio Zorloni was born and raised in Giussano, Lombardia, not far from the village of Barlassina, where the original Il Fornaio baking school began. He recalls: “Many of the dishes on this menu were inspired by the recipes I learned growing up in Lombardia. As long as I can remember, I have been especially fond of the robust flavors found in my homeland.” Claudio presents some of Italy’s most well-known Lombardian dishes such as traditional Filetto di Bue alla Lombarda.

SIGNATURE DISHES: Risotto, Ossobuco alla Milanese and the

traditional Pappardelle Gialle ai Funghi

THE G THE GRILL RILL O ON N TTHE HE ALLEY

IIN N THE THE F FAIRMONT AIRMONT H HOTEL, OTEL, 17 172 2 S. S. MARKET MARKET ST., ST., . S SAN AN JO J JOSE; SE; 408.294.2244 408 .294.2244

The The restaurant restaurant at at the the Fairmont Fairmont weighs weighs with great $40 The iin nw ith a g reat $ 40 menu. menu. T he first first course either course is is e ither the the featured featured soup soup of of day orr T The Grill chopped salad; tthe he d ay o he G rill c hopped s alad; ffor or the second second course, course, choose c choo se from from a petite petite filet mignon with h bordelaise bordelaise sauce, s auce, grilled grilled Atlantic Atlantic salmon salmon with with a mango mango relish, relish, or chicken chicken shiitake; shiitake; the dessert dessert options are are double-fudge double-fudge chocolate chocolate c cake, ake, crème brûlée b or k keyeylime pie pie.. V Vegetarian egetarian opt options ions a available. vailable.

HABANA HA BANA CUB CUBA BA RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT

238 2 38 RACE RACE S ST., T., S SAN AN J JOSE; OS E ; 408.998.2822 408.998.2822 Habana Habana Cuba Cuba o offers ffers an iintroduction ntroduction to cuisine,, with a fir first course to Cuban Cuban cuisine st c ourse of of either an a avocado vocado s salad, ala ad, g garden arden salad, soup soup; salad, chicken chicken s oup or garbanzo garbanzo s oup; as second course off ropa econd c ourse o ropa vieja (beef), (beef ),

fricassee fricassee de e pollo ((chicken), chicken), lechon a la Habana Habana (roasted (roas a ted pork) or tamal s sofrito ofrito ((vegetarian), vegetarian)), all served served with ric rice, e, black beans beans and plantains; p and a de dessert ssert of tres of either flan, flan n, arroz arroz con con leche or tr es leches. leches. $20. $20.

IILL FFORNAIO ORNAIO

IN THE S SAINTE AINTE C CLAIRE LAIRE H HOTEL, OTEL, 30 302 2S S.. M MARKET ARKET S ST., T., S SAN AN JO JOSE; SE; 408.271.3366 408 .27 1.33 366 Fornaio showcase off Italian ffood, Il F ornaio is a sho wcase o ood, and ffor or Dine e Downtown Downtown the rrestaurant estaurant will o offer ffer a $30 $30 prix fixe fixe me meal al that c celebrates elebrates the the food food o off IItaly. taly. S Starters tarters iinclude nclude a m mixed ixed g green reen s salad, alad, b bruschetta ruschetta pomodoro p omodoro or or minestrone minestrone s soup; oup; s second econd course c ourse options optio ons are are grilled chick chicken en br breast, east, g grilled rilled s salmon almon filet filet o orr llasagna. asagna. A And nd ffor or de ssert, the Italian clas sic, tir amisu, dessert, classic, tiramisu, chocolate orr IItalian creams c hocolate mousse mousse o talian iice ce c reams and s sorbets. orbets.

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AFFINITY (IN THE SAN JOSE HILTON) Guillermo Gonzalez has a background in French, American and Italian cuisine, with a wide mix of cooking experiences, including traditional, banquet and specialty cooking projects. He studied under William Smith at City College of San Francisco.

SIGNATURE DISH: Crepes

LO F T B LOFT BAR AR AAND ND BISTRO BIS TRO

90 S S.. SE SECOND COND S ST., T.., S SAN AN JO JOSE; SE; 408.291.067 7 408.291.0677 Good views views and good good food foo od are are on tap at the the L Loft. oft. For For $20, $20, $30 $30 or or $40, $40, start start o off ff with a blue-chee blue-cheese se and pe p pear, ar, b baby aby spinach or Caesar $20 entrees or C aesar salad; salad; $ 20 e ntrees include include the F rench dip, dip, chicken chicken avocado avocado w rap or or the French wrap meatloaf, meatloaf, $ $30 30 entrees entrees include include chicken chicken marsala, salmon pesto marsala, grilled s almon pe p sto or tteriyaki eriyaki short s hort ribs, ribs, and and ffor or $40 $40 choose choose from from crab crab cakes, cakes, filet filet mignon mignon or or chicken chicken and and prawn prawn picatta. picatta. F Finish inish tthe he m meal eal o off ff with with c chocolate hocolate mousse, mousse, New New York York cheesecake cheesecake or or white white chocolate chocolate crème brûlée. brûlée.

LO S G LOS GATOS ATOS B BREWING REWING COMP PANY A COMPANY

1163 63 W. W. SANTA SANTA C CLARA LARA ST., ST., . SAN SAN JOSE; JOSE; 408.292.9928 408.292.9928

The Los Gatos The first first two two courses courses of of L os G atos Brewing Brewing Company’s Company’s $ $30 30 p prix rix fi fixe xe m menu enu come c ome p paired aired w with ith a beer. beer. Some Some p people eople enjoy e njoy p pears, ears, s some ome p prefer refer b beets—all eets—all will be satisfied these satisfied by by the se first-course first-course choices choic es ffor or s salad. alad. E Entrée ntrée e options will

include eith either her a grilled 114-ounce 4-ounce pork chop blackened p (bone ( e in)) or black ened swai. swai.

Something sweet S omething s weet will will finish finish off off the the meal: meal: cheesecake cheesecake or German chocolate chocolate cake. cake.

MEZCAL M EZCAL RRESTAURANT ESTAURANT

25 W W.. S SAN AN N FERNANDO S ST., T.., S SAN AN JOSE; JO SE; 408.283.9595 408 8.283.9595 Mezcal specializes off Me zcal spe ecializes in the cuisine o Oaxaca Oaxaca in s southern outhern Me Mexico. xico. For For $20, $20, choose c hoose from from calamari, calamari, s salad alad or or the the soup s oup of of the the day; day; a second second course course of of beef b eef enchiladas, enchiladas, tamales tamales mole mole or or mole mole n negro; egro; a and nd fl flan, an, rice rice pudding pudding or or pecan pecan cream dessert.

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MOROCCO’S M ORO OCCO’S RRESTAURANT ESTAURANT

86 N N.. MAR MARKET RKET S ST., T.., S SAN AN JO JOSE; SE; 408 408.998.1509 .998.11509

E Enjoy njoy a c complimentary omplimentary g glass lass o off h house-made ouse-made S Sangria angria o orr iiced ced mint mint tea tea a att M Morocco’s orocco’s w while hile p perusing erusing iits ts p prix rix fixe fix e menu, s served erved ffamily-style amily-style ffor or $40

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Live Live Music Music Friday Friday Nights Nights Karaoke Karaoke Saturday Saturday Nights Nights Sunday Sunday Brunch Brunch Buffet Buffet

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OFFICIAL O FFI CIAL PROGRAM PRO OGRAM neighborho neighborhood. od. The restaurant’s restaurant’s $40 prix fix fixe e menu menu starts starts o off ff with a choic choice e o mozzarella caprese, caprese, calamari calamari fritti off mozzarella parmesan. choose or eggplant p armesan. Next, Next, choo se among the grilled g lamb chop veal chop,, veal V eronica or salmon salmon alla Siciliana.

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MORTON’S M O RTO N ’ S

IIN NT THE HE F FAIRMONT AIRMONT HOTEL, HOTEL, 17 170 0 S. M S. MARKET ARKET T ST., ST., . SAN SAN JOSE; JOSE; 408 408.998.3937 .998.3937

1177 7 7 PARK PA ARK AVE., AVE., SAN SAN JOSE; J SE; JO 408.947.7000 408.947.7000

Pagoda host $20 The ritzy P agoda will ho st a $2 0 prix fixe menu. First F st up: crisp Fir y vegetarian vegetarian fixe crispy spring rrolls, olls, salt salt and pepper c alamari calamari y garlic garlic and jalapeno or crisp with crisp crispy hone y-almo ond chick en. Ne xt c omes honey-almond chicken.

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CHINA BIS BISTRO TRO

98 S S.. SE SECOND COND S ST., T., . S SAN A JO AN JOSE; SE; 408.961.5250 408 .961.5250 The modern Chinese bistro offers T he m odern C hinese b istro o ffers a comprehensive prix fixe menu c omprehensive p rix fi xe m enu at at $40 $40 ffor or ttwo wo p people. eople. IItt iincludes ncludes a fi first rst course course off either hot o hot-and-sour -and-sour or egg-drop egg-drop s soup; oup; second course crispy green as econd c ourse of of either either c rispy g reen beans, be ans, chick chicken/vegetarian en/ /vegetaria an lettuce lettuce wraps, wraps, salt and pepper calamari, s alt a nd p epper c alamari, dumplings dumplings or or crab cr ab wontons; wontons; a thir third dc course ou urse ((choose choose ttwo) wo) o off Chang’ Chang’s s spic spicy chicken, cken, honey honey y chi chicken/shrimp, sesame chicken, chick en/ /s shrimp, s esame chick en, Mongolian M ongolian b beef, eef, p pepper epper s steak, teak, b beef eef w with ith broccoli, br occoli, almond and c cashew as shew chick chicken, en, g ginger inger c chicken hicken w with ith b broccoli, roccoli, kung kung p pao ao chicken/shrimp, chick en/ /s shrimp, or orange ange peel p chick chicken/ en/ beef/shrimp, beef Sichuan, sweet b eef/shrimp, b eef a lla aS ichuan, s weet and sour chicken/pork; a nd s our c hicken/pork; and and for for dessert, dessert, a choice off ttwo minidesserts. choic eo wo of of eight min nidesserts.

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RISTORANTE R ISTORANTE ITALIANO ITALIANO

350 W. 350 W. JULIAN JULIAN ST., ST., STE. STE. 1, 1, SAN SAN JOSE; JO SE; 408.217.9327 408.217.9 . 327 One off the ne newest O ne o west additions additions tto o the downtown dining s downtown scene cene is Paesano Paesano Ristorante Ris torante Italiano in the e Little Italy

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PPAOLO’S AOLO’S RRESTAURANT ESTAURANT

333 W. 333 W. SAN SAN C CARLOS ARLOS ST., ST., SAN SAN JO JOSE; SE; 408.294.2558 408 8.294 294.2558 2558 Paolo’s serves exemplary P aolo’s s erves e xemplary Italian ffood ood in beautiful dining For $40, first ab eautiful d ining rroom. oom. F or $ 40, tthe he fi rst c course ourse is a choice c choice bet between ween fried c calamari, alamari, rrock ock shrimp shrimp a and nd a artichokes, rtichokes, p pan-roasted an-roasted polenta p olenta or or a mixed mixed g green reen s salad; alad; ffor or tthe he entree, veal shank, pan-seared e ntree, braised braised v eal s hank, p an-seared salmon, wild s almon, grilled lamb chops chops or “half moon” m oon” p pasta asta with with rricotta icotta a and nd h herb erb fi filling; lling; a and nd ffor or tthe he d dessert, essert, c chocolate hocolate h hazelnut azelnut soft ice coconut “cooked cream, s oft ic e cream, cream, c oconut “c ooked cr eam,” or Tuscan Tu uscan “Big “B Big Bomb Bombs. s.”

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20 N. 20 N. ALMADEN ALMADEN AVE., AVE., SAN SAN JOSE; J OS E ; 408.298.9463 408 .298.9463 For $30,, thi this F or $30 s pleasant pleasant bistro bistro and wine b bar ar will serve serv ve a menu that include includes sa choic choice e between between a tricolor tricolor beet s salad alad or crab cake course; choice cr ab c ake ffor o the first or first c ourse; a choic e o off either chi chicken icken roulade, roulade, certified certified New York steak salmon Angus Ne wY ork o s teak or grilled s almon ffor or the entree; entree; e and gelato gelato or chocolate chocolate ttorte orte for for dessert. dessert.

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CHRISTOPHER GRAZE FAHRENHEIT RESTAURANT & LOUNGE

Fahrenheit has announced the arrival of executive chef Christopher Graze.

He brings with him a fresh seasonal menu that features sustainably farmed, allnatural and organic chicken and meat from local ranchers and fishermen, and the freshest biodynamic vegetables available from local farmers. Christopher has found his new home in Silicon Valley after relocating from the Napa Valley. He has learned from chefs from Spain, France, Japan and Thailand, the result being a cooking style that presents a diverse variety of flavors and the use of ingredients found globally. “What exactly is slow food? It’s the opposite of fast food. Slow food focuses on the simple pleasure of good food with an added value on the community and environment,” he says.

SIGNATURE DISHES: Wild Herb-Crusted Sea Bass, Seasonal Vegetables, Skin-on Mashed Potatoes, Beurre Blanc, Lobster Coral Oil

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50 W W.. S SAN AN FERNANDO S ST., T., . S STE. T TE. 11700, 700, SAN SAN JOSE; JOSE; 408.971.9300 408.97 1.930 00 private Silicon Valley’s This priv ate club ffor or Silic on V alley’ ys business business elit elite e will open it its s door doors s tto o the public W Wednesday ednesday through through S Saturday aturda d y for for Dine Downtown Downtown with a gr grand and $40 $ prix fixe first course, fixe menu. menu For For the fir st c ourse, a choice seared choice between between s eared U-10 U-10 scallops, scallops, pear pear salad salad or the soup soup or bisque bisque of of the da y; for for the entree, entree, a grilled wild s almon day; salmon or a roasted roasted lamb rrack; ack; and for for dessert, de essert, enjoy half -baked chocolate chocolate or chilled chilled enjoy half-baked melon soup. soup. Dress Dress c code ode is enforced. enforced.

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31 N N.. M MARKET ARKET S ST., T., . S SAN AN JO JOSE; SE; 408 408.287.4098 .287.4098 F or $2 0, do wntown diner d sc an choo se For $20, downtown diners can choose calamari, whit calamari, white e hot mozzarella mo m zzarella or a grilled artichok artichoke; e; for for tthe second second c course, ourse, choose choo se the chick chicken en or o shrimp pic picatta, atta, grilled sirloin s steak teak orr grilled s salmon almon risotto; risotto; and for for de dessert, ssert, e opt ffor or the chocolate choc olate hock hockey ey puc puck, ck, br bread ead pudding cheesecake. or chee secake.

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Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free

Mountain Winery, Saratoga Thu – 8pm; $65-$89

The Trims suddenly showed up on everyone’s radar after winning the highly coveted opening slot at the Live 105 BFD local-band stage recently. When it came down to it, the judges made their decision because the Trims were such a well-rounded, talented group. They play indie rock and post-punk with a unique, polished edge—moody vocals, a wall of lush, reverb-filled guitars and highly danceable drums. They tow the line between listener-friendly pop music and mixing unconventional elements in a familiar way. (AC)

Brian Regan definitely looks at the world from a unique perspective.

Unfortunately, the off-kilter spin he puts on his comedy is often lazily labeled “observational humor.”

Perhaps this is because Jerry Seinfeld considers Regan one of his favorite standup acts, but in any case, it doesn’t do much to adequately define the wordplay and surreal tangents in Regan’s bits on topics as varied as learning Spanish, kidnapping Russell Crowe and writing banana jokes for Planet of the Apes. Another curious quirk of Regan’s reputation is the media obsession with the fact that he doesn’t curse or do lewd material

in his act. In fact, it’s difficult to find a story about him that doesn’t make it seem as if his lack of profanity is just as—or even more—important than his jokes. “I cringe when I read the ‘clean’ headline in a newspaper. I feel like it oversimplifies what I’m trying to do,” he told me. “I don’t sit down and think, ‘Man, I’m going to write some clean jokes!’” (SP)

WHITE ALBUM ENSEMBLE Music in the Park, San Jose Thu – 5:30pm; free Santa Cruz’s White Album Ensemble has a remarkable connection with Music in the Park that stretches all the back to 2004, when WAE was devoted to covering its namesake in grand, theatrical style. Since then, Music in the Park regulars have seen the group work its way through the catalog,

one (or two) albums at a time. It was Sgt. Pepper’s in 2005, Revolver and Rubber Soul in 2006, Abbey Road and Let in Be in 2007, and then right back to where it all began in 2008. In 2009, WAE did an “Across the Universe” show, and this year, the group has moved into a “Beatles and Beyond” setlist that includes classics from every album and even solo work like “Imagine” and “Maybe I’m Amazed.”

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ARTIST VS. EMPIRE The Venue, Los Gatos Fri – 6pm; $10 Not a lot of metal bands out there referencing Arthur O’Shaughnessy, but this one seems to have taken

its name/philosophy from the 19th-century poet’s most famous work, “Ode.” But it seems apt, since this San Jose five-piece, who came on the scene at the end of last year, have shown a flair for the literate and thought-provoking in their earliest blasts of post-hardcore.

They also are avowed supporters of the always-controversial Oxford comma, so get ready for a freefor-all grammaritician brawl Friday night in Los Gatos. (SP)

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ANTI-SOCIAL Johnny V’s, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $5 In a world where rebellion is for sale, anarchy is a T-shirt design

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PETER HORVATH GROUP Begins Jazz on Main Series; Jun 27 6pm, downtown Redwood City 6p

NATURAL VIBRATIONS Music in the Park, Jun 30 at 5:30pm, P Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose

NEKO CASE Jul 1 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

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

TAHITI FEST Jul 2-4, SJSU Event Center

SF SYMPHONY Jul 4 at 8pm, Shoreline

REV. HORTON HEAT Jul 5 at 9pm, Avalon, Santa Clara Ju

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

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

MAYHEM FESTIVAL Jul 10 at 2:15pm, Shoreline

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EDDIE IZZARD and even a toddler can have a Mohawk, San Jose’s Anti-Social is one of the last honest punk bands. The group has stayed true to both its ethics and its sound.

With a mixture of early- ’80s Brit and ’90s melodic punk, these boys call it like they see it, whether it be hypocritical religious leaders who are all about the dough or toughguy morons who try to start fights at shows. (BD)

BIG SANDY Landmark Ballroom, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $16/$20 Left Coast Live has officially rumbled to life for 2011. The festival is set for October, and the “Left Coast Live 365” series, featuring shows through the rest of the year, which will be filmed for CreaTV, debuted last week with Almost Honest.

Now LCL presents Big Sandy in his return to the Landmark Ballroom.

Because really, how can anyone not like swing music, especially when it’s sung by a voice as sweet and pleasing to the ear as Big Sandy’s.

The big guy’s no stranger to LCL’s eclecticism—first making his mark as a straight-up rockabilly act, he later dabbled in blues, country, Cajun, mariachi and country boogie.

But swing is his forte, and swing he will. (SP)

FOREVERLAND Fox Theatre, Redwood City Sat – 8pm; $25-$30 San Francisco’s 14-piece Michael Jackson tribute band Foreverland played its first gig only five days before the King of Pop was found dead. If that wasn’t strange enough, several months later, Foreverland received a threatening letter from the Michael Jackson estate demanding it change its name, which was originally

Neverland. That’s a lot of grief for a band just trying to pay some homage to Michael Jackson while having tons of fun. But now here is Foreverland headlining the second annual Moonwalker tribute to MJ, so all is well. With four vocalists, crisp horns and a super-tight rhythm section, Foreverland isn’t the kind of tribute band that wants to do an impression of the great Michael Jackson. No, it’s the wedding band version of his career. Jackson attire is encouraged, and moonwalking on the dance floor is mandatory. (AC)

LUCINDA WILLIAMS Mountain Winery, Saratoga Sat – 7:30pm; $35-$69.50 I’ve seen Lucinda play a lot of places, but there was something undeniably special about the

intimacy of her Mountain Winery show last year. I felt like it freed her from a lot of the expectations that have hounded her throughout her career. Here, she doesn’t have to do a big quasi-rock show, and she doesn’t have to be anything except herself. Dealing with pressure has never been one of her strengths—the expectations (especially her own) around Car Wheels on a Gravel Road led her to spend six years doing and then redoing the album. So it’s not surprising that the Lucinda I saw last year was a lot more relaxed, funny and vulnerable than I’ve ever seen her. Drawing heavily on her moody Americana anthems from Car Wheels (like “Metal Firecracker,” maybe the best song she’s written) and even moodier ballads from the less well-known but every bit as good World Without Tears, she delivered a uniquely personal and affecting show. (SP)

Jul 16 at 8pm, Shoreline

INXS With Berlin, Jul 19 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

KID ROCK With Sheryl Crow, Jul 29 at 7pm, Shoreline

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

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

MICHAEL BUBLÉ Aug 13 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

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

DISASTER RELIEF BENEFIT With CS&N, Jackson Browne and more Aug 7, Shoreline

ITALIAN FESTA Family event from Italian American

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*stage Theater AVENUE Q 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 17. $25-$50. The Stage, San Jose.

BLITHE SPIRIT Palo Alto Players presents the Noel Coward comedy. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Jun 26. $21-$30. Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.

CALIFORNIA THEATRE CENTER For summer, the company mounts four productions in repertory. “Around the World in 80 Days”—no shows this week. “The Emperor’s New Clothes”—this week Sat, 3pm. “The Servant of Two Masters”—no shows this week. “Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee”—this week Thu-Sat, 7:30pm, Sun, 3pm. The whole series runs thru Jul 24. $10-$25.

Sunnyvale Community Center Theater.

DARWIN IN MALIBU Crispin Whittell’s comedy places Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley in present-day Malibu and lets the sparks fly.

Presented by Northside Theatre Company. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. Runs thru Jul 10. $15-$20.

Northside Theatre Company, San Jose.

THE IMAGINARY INVALID Shady Shakespeare Theatre Company adapts Moliere’s classic take of the health-care industry, bringing it to life in the era of glam rock. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2 and 7pm. Runs thru Jul 2. $16-$20. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

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 thru Jun 26. Full Circle Farm, Sunnyvale.

A RAISIN IN THE SUN Pear Avenue Theatre does its

take on Lorraine Hansberry’s plays about an AfricanAmerican family in the 1950s in Chicago. Preview Thu, 8pm.

Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows: Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Jul 10. $15-$30. Pear Theatre, Mountain View.

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SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Big Al’s Big Ass Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Harland Williams. $20$22. San Jose.

THE SORCERER A young couple sets off a series of mishaps in this Bollywoodmeets-Victorian-era work by Gilbert & Sullivan, performed

by Lyric Theatre. Thu-Sat, 8pm and Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Jun 26. $11-$36. Montgomery Theater, San Jose.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC The hills are alive with the famous musical at West Valley Light Opera. Opens Sat, Jun 25.

Regular shows: Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Jul 23. $18-$30. Saratoga Civic Theater

[TITLE OF SHOW] A new musical-within-amusical about two young songwriters, presented by TheatreWorks. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2. Runs through Jun 26. $24-$42.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

URINETOWN A tale of what happens when the water runs low. Presented

by Peninsula Youth Theatre.

Sat, 2 and 7:30pm. $17-$20.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

Comedy CLUB FOX Fri, 8:30pm: Auggie SMith and Dax Jordan. $13/$17. Sun, 8pm: So Not the Cleavers! Four comedians stand up against Prop. 8. $20. Mon, 8pm: Comedy Monday hosted by Dan St. Paul. $10. Club Fox, 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.

WILL DURST AND FRIENDS A comedy concert. Sat, 8pm. $20. Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center, Atherton.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun,

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis.” Jun 23-Sep 25. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

CONTINUING ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “In the Abstract.” Abstract works by artists Paula Schales, Ewa Gavriellov and Neal Boor.

Thru Jul 21. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “The Art of the Book.” A show about five fine presses in the Bay Area. Thru Aug. 28.

“Illustrated Title Pages: 15001900.” A show of 80 illustrated book pages from the museum’s collection. Thru Oct 16. “True Colors: Rediscovering Pigments of Greco-Roman Marble Sculpture.”Thru Aug 7. WedSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am8pm. Stanford.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Nature’s Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir’s Botanical Legacy.” A show dedicated to the many biological specimens collected by the naturalist. Runs thru Sep 11 at Pacific Hotel. “Celebrating Local Artists.”Thru Sep 18 at Pasetta House, History Park, San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Laboratory.”The museum’s new Beta Space hosts experimental shows. First exhibit features installations by Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa.

Runs thru Aug. 14. “Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art From India.”Thru Sep 4. “The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention.”Thru Jul 3. Tue-Sun,

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Good Help AT THE BEGINNING of California Theatre Center’s production of The Servant of Two Masters, cast member Stefan Fisher provided the audience with a few helpful announcements: turn off your cell phone, note the location of the nearest emergency exit and remember that this is living, breathing theatre—anything can happen. At which point he was delivered an engagement ring with an attached note “from Leslie, sans love.”

Before the show even started, the cast demolished the fourth wall separating the 21st-century audience from the 18th-century Venetian setting. Upon hearing about Fisher’s faux breakup, cast member Justin Karr crept offstage, whispering, “Awk-ward.” Though the antics of the pre-show performance were obviously less than spontaneous, the cast demonstrated that they were not ones to take themselves too seriously. Throughout the show, they jived about everything from day jobs at Burger King to underappreciated acting roles. The small dose of campiness freshened up the 350-plus-year-old play.

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Much of the humor comes from situational absurdity in the vein of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. But the cast enhanced the otherwise predictable escapades with exaggerated physical humor that seemed to make fun of not just the characters but of the actors themselves. A series of grandiose bows between Daniel Joyce, who played Florindo, and Michael Detmer, in the role of Silvio, produced quite a few veritable laughs. Moments like these punctured the fourth wall just enough to afford a peek at what these actors might really be like. More realistic than high-def TV, The Servant of Two Masters is living, breathing theater.—Alyssa Kies

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The story and music remain the same at Lyric Theatre, but details like names, the setting and a few lyrics have been changed to take the characters to Victorian colonial India. Instead of Alexis Pointdextre and Aline Sangazure, we follow Alexis Balishankar and Aline Balrampoor; instead of petticoats and top hats, the cast members don airy, brightly colored and richly textured clothing. It’s a sight to see, especially during the dance numbers.

“The adaptation gives the story a more earthy feel,” says Linda Kessel Solis, who plays Lady Balrampoor. “It allows the characters to be more sensual in a way that a traditional Victorian culture would not.”

—Sarah Suksiri

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & 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.

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

Ongoing. Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Non-Traditional Landscapes.”

Six artists display abstract images of landscape settings.

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

Paintings by Mirang Woone.”

Thru Jul 10. Tue-Wed and FriSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm.

Santa Clara.

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of Los Gatos 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.

“Mysterious.” A show by six local artists. Thru Jul 3. WedSun, 10am-3pm. Redwood City.

SILICON VALLEY AUTHORS’ PANEL

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

MOHR GALLERY “Cars, Gates and Landscapes.”

Paintings by Alexis Grant. Thru Jul 31. Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.

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

Thru Jul 17. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm.

Saratoga.

OLIVE HYDE ART GALLERY

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SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

AVENUE 25 GALLERY “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, 9am-5pm. San Mateo.

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

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

Woodside.

GALLERY HOUSE “Bird Song and Other Stories.”

Works by Trevlyn Williams and Martha Castillo. Thru Jul 16.

Palo Alto.

LOS GATOS COMPANY “Variations, Different Faces of the Same Place.” Oil paintings

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“Hobnob.” Featuring OHAG scholarship winners. Thru Jul 2.

Thu-Sun, noon-5pm. Fremont.

“Frames of War.” Works by Hanna Hannah. Thru Sep 10.

Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon5pm. San Jose.

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

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

*books MEG CLAYTON

A party for her new book, “The Language of Light.”Tue, 7pm.

Free. Books Inc., Palo Alto.

ARYAE COOPERSMITH A book event with author of

BOOKS

“Holy Beggars: A Journey from Haight Street to Jerusalem.”

Thu, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

An afternoon with local authors Christopher Wachlin, Tia Creighton and others who have written for the anthology “Fault Zone.” Sun, 2pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

“Art of Zines 2011.” With many examples from the publishing undergrounds. Runs thru Jun 25. San Jose.

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

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A chance to hear from eight local authors about their books.

Includes Greg Archer, Betty Auchard, June Chen and more.

Sat, 1-3pm. Free. Barnes & Noble, Stevens Creek, San Jose.

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CHILDREN’S THEATRE IN THE PARK A weekly family show presented

by Peninsula Youth Theater. This week: “The King Who Loved His Lollipops.” Fri, 6:30pm. Free.

On the lawn at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

HANSEL AND GRETEL: THE UNTOLD STORY A show by Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. Runs Jun 28–Jul 16.

(Call 650.463.4970 for tickets.)

Palo Alto.

RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS Performing a program called “Animal Crackers,” with songs inspired by wildlife. Fri, 7pm. $10-$25. Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center, Atherton.

*events DANCIN’ ON THE AVENUE

Dance the evening away at this community event featuring live music from local bands. Sat, 4–9pm. Free. Willow Glen.

DIA DE SAN JUAN FESTIVAL Presented by the Western Regional Puerto Rican Council, with cultural events and food.

Sat, 11am–7pm. $20/$25.

History Park, San Jose.

FINAL FRIDAYS A regular event with performances by artists in resident. Fri, 6pm. Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.

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Gang of Eight THIS SATURDAY, the typical booksigning goes into overdrive as eight local authors gang up to let readers know about their latest projects at the Barnes & Noble on Stevens Creek in San Jose. From sex and arthritis self-help books to dystopian science fiction, the genres tackled by this octet range widely, but all J`c`Zfe MXcc\p share a connection to the Bay Area community.

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Timothy Fitzgerald traces his roots in San Jose GXe\c to before World War I. A longtime student, poet and activist, he recounts his involvement in the Saturday, 1–3pm San Jose State campus revolt during the 1960s in Barnes & Noble on his memoir The Wawona Brotherhood. Although Stevens Creek, not a native like Fitzgerald, Audry Lynch and her San Jose. husband moved from Massachusetts to Saratoga, where she has since then published three books on the life of John Steinbeck; she currently teaches at Mission College.

Lynch will discuss her most popular work, Steinbeck Remembered.

June Chen, a local teacher for 26 years, will be on-hand to discuss her debut novel, Seeing the Light. In this story that follows teenaged Rhea on her family’s move from Iowa to California, Chen creates a novel of selfdiscovery that blurs the lines between adult and young adult fiction.

The Silicon Valley Authors’ Panel will also feature Greg Archer, Betty Auchard, Robert Balmanno, Martha Engber and Carter Multz. All of the authors will stay for a booksigning following the panel discussion.

—Sarah Suksiri

FLEA MARKET A chance to stock up for summer on bargains. Sat, 6am-2pm.

Prospect High School, San Jose.

along with music by the Hitmen (12:30pm) and the Cadillac Jack Band (4pm). Sun, noon-6pm. $3.

History Park, San Jose.

health and fitness. Sat, all day.

Almaden Valley Athletic Club, San Jose.

PORSCHES & POLICE

SAN JOSE JAZZ BENEFIT

Tapestry Arts and Loma Prieta Region of the Porsche Club of America along with the San Jose Police Foundation provide a day of vintage Porsches and police vehicles for the public to ogle,

A lobster bake plus jazz tunes for the Jazz Society. Fri, 6pm. $65.

Silicon Valley Capital Club.

Open house for the new location of TechShop features a talk

by Greg Papadopoulos of Sun Miscrosystems, Sat, 10am-6pm.

(New location, 300 S. Second St.) San Jose

SIZZLING SAFE SUMMER FUN An open house about safety,

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Beyond the View THE WORD “landscape” makes most people think one of several things: a panoramic view of a city skyline or a mountain range; a dreamy Romantic painting; one’s own front yard and the lawn that needs mowed. Concrete and expansive, landscapes typically offer the viewer something distant and real—a sight to be taken in from afar. But the 8 KiXejZ\e[\ek Triton Museum’s latest exhibit, “A Transcendent CXe[ Land—Non-Traditional Landscapes,” offers another “view.”

Runs through July 20 The show features a collection of works by five The Triton Museum, very distinct artists encompassing a range of Santa Clara mediums, all while challenging the familiar notion of landscape. SJSU lecturer Brenda Jamrus’ prints, for example, seem to capture traditional images of different scenes from Versailles, but upon closer inspection, something feels off. What appears at first to be a simple panoramic photograph is actually several mirror images of one smaller photograph, made to hinge on a distant focal point. One such print, Orangerie, Versailles, is beautiful in its swirling geometry, its grand and picturesque rendering of the palace grounds, but also equally eerie in its fun-house repetition and perfect symmetry.

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TOWER OF POWER

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BLUES FESTIVAL (12-8 PM)

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BLUE OYSTER CULT

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TENTH AVENUE NORTH

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WE THE KINGS

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SANCTUS REAL

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ROY CLARK

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Barbara Gunther departs even more radically from the expectations of landscape. Her Red Plum is a canvas of deep, velvety purple, mottled with spots of robin’s-egg blue—the landscape of a plum, made huge and immersive. Gunther challenges us to redefine landscapes as anything that fills our view and transfixes our eyes, whether we are standing on a mountaintop or peering closely at a piece of fruit in the kitchen.

David Ivan Clark takes landscapes to a more metaphysical vantage point.

Spacious, saturated with color and with no distinguishing features to identify a particular subject, Clark’s steel canvases could be of any place at any time. Rather than convey what the artist has already seen, his landscapes are concerned with what sorts of new or forgotten visions are evoked in the viewer. At turns industrial and romantic, the effect is to create landscapes of emotion and memory. Like the other works in A Transcendent Land, Clark’s landscapes take us somewhere, even if we cannot exactly say to where.—Sarah Suksiri

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(PG-13; 105 min.) Arrogant test pilot Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) receives a ring of power from a dying alien warrior. Director Martin Campbell revived such venerable action heroes as Zorro and James Bond, and he should be able to make this DC comic-book character live. Certainly, Reynolds is aesthetically pleasing, and the scenes of him gliding through the air have the excitement of old comic books come to life. Still, the movie, like Reynolds, lacks a personality, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s short in love interest. (It was a mistake to promote Blake Lively to the big screen.) Under furious rewriting, the scenes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always connect; one neither gets a sense of the

(Unrated; 93 min.) Joanne Froggatt plays a British vet of the Iraq War who is trying to smother her PTSD symptoms. Shows as part of the From Britian, With Love series. (Plays Jun 23 at 7pm and Jun 25 at noon in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

BAD TEACHER (R; 92 min.) Cameron Diaz puts the â&#x20AC;&#x153;lowerâ&#x20AC;? into â&#x20AC;&#x153;higherâ&#x20AC;? education in a comedy about a teacher gone feral. (Opens Fri valleywide.)

BRIDE FLIGHT (R; 130 min.) See review on page 44.

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Revivals THE GOONIES (1985) A sticky kids movie that picked up an enchanting musk over the years. Stars Josh Brolin, Sean â&#x20AC;&#x153;Samwiseâ&#x20AC;? Astin, Corey Feldman, Martha Plimpton and Ke Huy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Short Roundâ&#x20AC;? Quan, co-star of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. (Plays Jun 24-26 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

JURASSIC PARK (1993) Chaos theory, propounded by a leather-jacketed professor

(Jeff Goldblum), is proved at a nature reserve for genetically engineered dinos. The saurians are hard to beat; the narrowing of the pupil of one T-Rexâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye is one of the happiest in 1990s cinema. (Plays Jun 23 at sundown in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square; free.) (RvB)

NIGHT AND DAY/ RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945/1946) Night and Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bad reputation is well-earned.

Director Michael Curtiz and four luckless writers turned the Cole Porter catalog into a lead

pipeline of clichĂŠs. One example should suffice: Porterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supreme â&#x20AC;&#x153;Begin the Beguineâ&#x20AC;? is given the Latin American fantasia bit, with sombreros. Played by Cary Grant, Porter composes the catchy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yale Fight Songâ&#x20AC;? and faces modest but insistent familial pressure to become a lawyer. Meanwhile, Porter begins his courtship with Linda (Alexis Smith), depicted as the wet blanket of the century.

BILLED WITH Rhapsody in Blue.

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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR Christopher Benjamin stars as that idol of alternative journalists everywhere, Sir John Falstaff. Shot at the Globe Theater in London.

(Plays Jun 27 in Palo Alto at the Cine Arts 2, in San Jose at Santana Row, and other locations; see Fathomevents.com for details.)

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technical stops being pulled out, nor of a dreamy fairy tale of ultimate power and responsibility.

Worse, Mark Strong never lives up to his characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name, Sinestro.

As a super-psychic who looks like a cross between Philip Seymour Hoffman and a beluga whale, Peter Sarsgaard couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more fun. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s raving mad and big in the voice, and when he slaps Jordan down with the power of his mind, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a nightmare vision of a bad father. (Plays valleywide.)

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Alexis Smith plays a fictional society woman who romances Gershwin (Robert Alda, Alanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad).

Of all of the tough female Warner Bros. cookies, Smith was the most resistant to crumbling. (Plays Jun 25-27 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. This weekend: the Broncho Billy Film Festival, honoring the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first cowboy movie star. This weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus is the one and only Mabel Normand, as well as a program on silent movie action heroines Helen Holmes and Helen Gibson. The weekend long festival sells out early; plan in advance. (Plays Jun 24-26 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.) (RvB)

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Pity the Fuel LIKE SELLING STOCKS, making films is a division of gambling, and every streak ends at some point. The sad news about Cars 2 is mitigated by the hope that it might just be a temporary slump for Pixar. Cars 2 is a Bond parody, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the stale kind, with a bumpkin mistaken for a secret agent.

British agent Finn McMissile (a sentient Aston Martin voiced by Michael Caine) is on the trail of a mysterious group led by a monocled ZĂźndapp Janus known as Professor Z. Events lure Lightning McQueen (voiced by Owen Wilson) into a race demonstrating alternative fuels in Paris, London and Tokyo; tagging along is his gauche tow-truck buddy from Radiator Springs. Tow Mater attracts the attention of McMissileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s assistant Holley Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer), as curvy as a Miata, who stays as subordinate as the 007 girls of three decades ago.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not that Cars 2 is really bad; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cute and relentless, and paced to tickle 5-year-olds, leaving no after-images for adults. The comedy is gear-headed (the strange gauge of British Standard Whitworth tools being essential to a mystery); even the spelling of Holleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst name is an in-joke for car fanciers.

The heart of the matterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the classcrossing friendship between a yokel and a celebrityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is synthetic as possible. The blame has to go to the sophisticated comedy stylings of Larry the Cable Guy, Tow Materâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice. And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new emphasis on bathroom humor: Pixar usually had too :Xij ) much class to go there.

G Admittedly, the Ginza Plays scenes are more of an valleywide eyeful than the toy-Tokyo Gaspar NoĂŤ built for Enter the Void. But the passing light shows are like Speed Racer, and the desert scenes, dimmed by 3-D, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the colors and clarity of the first Cars.

Even NASCAR fans might admit there should have been an interior story with some heft in it here. The debate between regular fuel and fossil fuels ends with such nervousness youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think it was a matter of real controversy.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to be a way to find the grounds between soapboxing and treating a well-accepted idea as viable: that kind of triangulation used to be the method that made Pixar more than just a sum of its own technology. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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as Billy Crystal, as deep as Rob Reiner, as unaffectedly natural as Mandy Patinkin and as fresh as the talent of scriptwriter William â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Recyclerâ&#x20AC;? Goldman. (Plays Jun 22 at sundown in San Jose at San Pedro Square.) (RvB)

THREE SMART GIRLS/ SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD (1936/1944) Something of an early version of the Parent Trap plot, only with three daughters instead of two; here we see the debut of Deanna Durbin, a teenage opera singer who became Universalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest star of the 1930s. BILLED WITH Song of the Open Road, a rare one despite the common musical plot. A group of the tomato-picking volunteers put on a vaudeville show; MGM singing star Jane Powell debuts. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the penultimate film for W.C. Fields, who died two years later. (Plays Jun 22-24 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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THE ART OF GETTING BY (PG-13; 84 min.) Freddie Highmore and Emma Roberts star in the story of a outsider who hooks up with a popular girl at school.

BEGINNERS (R; 104 min.) Sweet, harmless, utterly coy. We meet Oliver (Ewan McGregor) as he’s cleaning up his father’s house after his death. The late father, who came out of the closet after 40 years of marriage, is played by an Oscar-bound Christopher Plummer. Seeing the actor’s sterling professionalism is like watching a man play Rachmaninoff on a toy piano.

Meanwhile, Oliver has his own offagain, on-again thing with Anna (Mélanie Laurent), one of those French child-women essential to 1960s cinema. Beginners, with its sense of a too-gentle graphic novel come to life, is excruciatingly cute. The downside of a story for aging children is, in a word, childishness, and Beginners has it heavy: the subtitled pooch; the roller-skating dates followed by slumber parties; the little cartoons scribbled out by Oliver at his desk.

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becomes more pretentious, more expensive and ever more humiliating for Annie. Wiig is at her most comically nonchalant as the desperation seeps out of her pores. In her capacity to register degrees of comedic suffering, this actress suggests what happens when a movie is really loose down deep in its soul, and is not just wobbly and formulaic. But Judd Apatow was the executive producer, and Bridesmaids is shaped like an Apatow film: it’s a half-hour too long. Though it’s released as a chick-flick alternative, we still get the

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traditional pointless fight between Annie and her new man (Chris O’Dowd). (RvB)

THE HANGOVER PART II (R; 102 min.) Maybe the saddest words in the movie, as the ensemble stirs from an evening of blackout debauchery in Bangkok: “I think it happened again.” The script takes far too much time to explain why Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) got back together in the first place. There’s a hostage this time (Mason Lee, Ang’s son,

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THE CINEMATIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR.” MICK LASALLE

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(R; 125 min.) Annie (Kristen Wiig) is a Milwaukee woman going downhill. Her ex-boyfriend (Jon Hamm) uses her for sex.

Suddenly, Annie’s best pal, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), announces her impending marriage. Lillian also introduces a new gorgeous friend (Rose Byrne) who elbows Annie aside and takes charge of the wedding. The wedding planning

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as a Stanford pre-med). And there’s no place for women. Look at Lee unveiled, and see the final destination of the bromance film.

It’s hard to get into the spirit of things until Ken Jeong’s profane Mr. Chow turns up; Jeong shows more talent in his, eh, little part, than the rest of the cast can prove (they’ve been rejiggered for the sequel as either too sleazy or too mushy). Runner-up for humor after Jeong is a spider monkey, who does a lot of things that the SPCA wouldn’t like. (RvB)

To Heck And Back THE PROJECT was called Hell. That’s exactly where the famed French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear and Diabolique) sent himself.

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (Flicker Alley) tries to reconstruct L’Infer, the film that nearly killed the director. Some 185 cans of not-yet-dubbed film remain from the 1964 feature; at peak production, Clouzot had three separate units shooting, with no end in sight.

In the lead: Romy Schneider, star known for her biopic about the illfated Empress Elizabeth. (Schneider’s stony visage suggests that she was of Austrian/Olmec heritage.). She plays a fresh, perhaps too-innocent wife of a hotel keeper at a stony lakeside resort in the south of France. She may be sporting with a mustachioed creep, as well as with a lascivious beautician (the petite, red-hot Dany Carrel). Her husband (Serge Reggiani) spies on her, contorting himself with suspicion. He nearly kills her and himself out of jealousy.

The premise could have worked. We know this because Claude Chabrol made a lethally efficient adaptation of the script in the 1990s. The documentary/reconstruction describes the crazed circumstances of the ’64 filmmaking: Clouzot was sleepless, and routinely woke up the crew and cast at 2am.

Staged script readings try to re-create the

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film’s bigger moments; it’s a device that only works for instructional purposes.

But the ruins of this project are often tantalizing, especially in the Blu-Ray version included in the two-disc set. It’s material begging to be sampled by video DJs. Take the scenes (shot by Claude Renoir) in which the wife goes off to the village while her husband tails her; she ?\ei`$>\fi^\j :cflqfkÊj sashays in a long, striped @e]\ief sheath and poses against perpendicular blinds Flicker Alley closed against the drastic $39.95 sun. She’s an Op Art siren.

There’s not a trace of farce in these shots. The visual luridness is worthy of Godard’s Contempt.

What we see suggests that the movie was threatening to become a long dream sequence or a documentary on fun-house mirrors; oddest of all are moments of erotica with a Whammo Slinky. Lured into the vertigo of effects and exotic lenses, Hitchcock’s only real rival stares at faces bathed in spinning, throbbing color—threatening to become the deluxe version of Bond title-designer Maurice Binder.—Richard von Busack

(PG-13, 94 min.) Whatever happens, one can’t go wrong filling up the screen with Paris. Woody Allen’s newest includes some sweet vistas. Owen Wilson is Gil, a disenchanted Malibu screenwriter who wants to be a novelist.

As a result, he gets midnight visitations by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda. (The gilded couple is played by Tom Hiddleston, Loki in Thor, and Alison Pill.)

The nights continue, and Gil meets the artistic and literary lights of the 1920s, magically reincarnated. One night, he meets a flapper (Marion Cotillard) with a similar yet drastically different taste for nostalgia. The not very pungent point is stretched into a culture-vulture’s version of Play It Again, Sam. Midnight in Paris is a harmless, gentle nothing, but it’s also a moldy vision of the city during its era of artistic adventurousness. (RvB)

MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (PG) Jim Carrey stars in a family comedy about a man who must tend for a sextet of penguins.

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG-13; 137 min.) A three-way race for the fountain of youth tangles Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), an old girlfriend (Penélope Cruz) and the ever-rotting Barbossa.

Geoffrey Rush takes over the film through sheer avidity; he has become a privateer, and his attempts to ape courtly manners are the funniest thing in a movie coming up short on comedy. The younger love interest is heavily Twilighted, with a chaste Christian meeting vampire mermaid. (RvB)

SUBMARINE (R; 97 min.) Dylan Thomas called Swansea “the graveyard of ambition,” and the local burghers were proud enough of that backhanded compliment that they put it in copper letters in

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the pavement right by the train station. This coming-of-age dramedy set in the 1980s in the seaside Welsh city concerns Oliver (Craig Roberts), who deals with the beginning of a first big romance, even as his parents’ marriage is hitting the shoals, thanks to the arrival of Mom’s old boyfriend (Paddy Considine).

SUPER 8 (PG-13, 112 min.) The Ohio River steel town of Lillian in 1979: a train wreck attracts a team of kid filmmakers. Suddenly, sinister Air Force Col. Nelec (Noah Emmerich) arrives and launches something distressingly called “Operation Walking Distance.” The young actors are talented (Elle Fanning the most impressive of them all), but director J.J. Abrams doesn’t make more than just a mere visual connection between his monster and the titanism of all the industrial hardware. Super 8 has one monster trapping people, when it could have had two of them: a creature on the loose and the Moloch-like mills. Few of the classic 1950s monster movies were shot with this kind of daring or visual density. But the too-close reading of Close Encounters of the Third Kind makes for a final split between serious terror and Steven Spielberg’s own brand of syrup and awe. (RvB)

13 ASSASSINS (R; 126 min.) Takashi Miike’s excitingly novel take on the samurai film. It’s the late 1800s; samurai are used to rank as a decoration, requiring no duties.

None among them is ready for what sword-fighting entails.

Unfortunately, the shogun’s brother, Lord Naritsugu (Goro Inagaki), is a Caligula type.

Recruited to do something about the situation is Shinzaemon, played by Koji Yakusho, maybe the most stirring Japanese actor since Mifune. It’s a suicide mission; the rebels will be greatly outnumbered. The time honored mixed-bag group of fighters is assembled: most flamboyant is Yusuke Iseya as a ragged, mosquito-bitten warrior who is lethal with a sling. The film is capped with a war to end all samurai battles, and frankly you hope it does. (RvB)

THE TREE OF LIFE (PG-13, 138 min.) A memory of loss transfixes a man of today, Jack (Sean Penn). Jack is led back to his early childhood home in the outskirts of Waco, Texas, in

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the late 1950s. In this world, his father is Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruler and his bitter enemy. In his lean, unsparing performance, Brad Pitt recalls the fierceness of the fathers of those days. The calm center of this film is the mother Mrs. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien. Jessica Chastain plays this â&#x20AC;&#x153;lover of the way of grace,â&#x20AC;? and she is as much a dancer as an actress. With a strong theme of feminine mercy vs. masculine authority; with its acute longing for reconciliation with the past; with its tender faith that â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one who loves the way of grace comes to a bad end,â&#x20AC;? director Terrence Malickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new film

is peaceful, and yet it breaks out in storms of color and rage. (RvB)

THE TRIP (Unrated; 107 min.) Sideways without the women. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan show off their celebrity impersonations as they tour various high-class restaurants and have a chat. The director is the prolific Michael Winterbottom.

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X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG-13, 132 min.) This on-again off-again prequel uses Cold War paranoia and the Cuban Missile

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But as a pianist steeped in the rhythms and cadences of the cradle of jazz, the New Orleans native’s primetime spot at Dinkelspiel

Auditorium makes perfect sense.

Though Toussaint hasn’t often intersected directly with the jazz scene, his latest album, 2009’s The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch), highlights his abiding ties to the jazz tradition.

Instigated by singer/songwriter Joe Henry, the session features Toussaint’s supple, easy-rolling piano on a program of pre–World War II tunes such as “Egyptian Fantasy” by New Orleans soprano sax legend Sidney Bechet, Django Reinhardt’s “Blue Drag” and Duke Ellington’s “Solitude.”

Knowing that people would expect him to play funk or New Orleans R&B, Toussaint was initially skeptical about the music Henry proposed.

Equally unexpected was the cast of collaborators hired by Henry. Instead

of session musicians or R&B players, he brought in a band of singular jazz improvisers, including clarinetist Don Byron, New Orleans trumpeter Nicholas Payton and guitarist Marc Ribot. Tenor saxophonist Josh Redman makes a guest appearance on “Day Dream,” and Brad Mehldau takes over the piano on Jelly Roll Morton’s “Winin’ Boy Blues.”

“It was quite uplifting and complimentary that he choose such wonderful musicians,” says Toussaint, 73, who performs solo on Friday. “It sort of jolted me a little, to see these beautiful old sophisticated standards.

I’d never been looked at the way, but I trust Joe. He’s a very class act.

“Many of the songs I had never heard before,” Toussaint continues. “I’ve been so busy writing and producing, I hadn’t been gigging. ‘Dear Old Southland’ sounds like something I should know, but I didn’t. I had never had to play ‘St. James Infirmary’ before, but you know it so well you can play it.

I think the most beautiful of all may be Billy Strayhorn’s ‘Day Dream.’”

Toussaint’s late-career emergence

as a graceful improviser is part of his post-Katrina renaissance as a performer after five decades of shaping American music from behind the scenes. Not that he’s ever been shy about the spotlight.

Over the years Toussaint has pursued an intermittent solo career, delivering his own songs with mellow authority on the classic 1970s Crescent City soul albums From a Whisper to a Scream and Southern Nights.

But since his early years writing songs for New Orleans R&B stars Irma Thomas and Lee Dorsey, Toussaint mostly expressed himself as a composer, producer and all-around studio wizard whose collaborations encompass dozens of hit singles and albums, such as Labelle’s “Lady Marmalade,” Paul McCartney and Wings “Venus and Mars” and the Band’s “Cahoots.”

After his New Orleans house was flooded (he rode out the storm and its aftermath at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel), Toussaint took refuge in New York City. Through his participation in various concerts staged to raise funds for flood victims, he came into contact with Elvis Costello, and their relationship quickly blossomed into the acclaimed 2006 album The River in Reverse (Verve Forecast). As the first major studio session recorded in post-Katrina New Orleans, the album represented the creative rebirth of the beleaguered city. An extensive North American tour with Costello led to Toussaint’s rebirth as a performing artist.

“Katrina and Elvis Costello, those are the culprits responsible for getting me on the road,” Toussaint says. “We toured to promote the album and that got me out performing onstage, as opposed to living my life in the studio. It was a reluctant start for me, but it has gotten to be quite rewarding. Being with the people you’re always trying to reach, that’s what music is supposed to be about.”

It’s difficult to overstate the reach and influence of Toussaint’s music.

While most of the musicians who came of age in New Orleans in the 1950s had trouble breaking out of the region until years later, Toussaint’s touch turned New Orleans R&B into a global force.

Invigorated by the addition of Eric Clapton in 1964, the Yardbirds covered Toussaint’s “A Certain Girl” on the Bside of their first single. And just about every British Invasion band wanted a piece of Toussaint’s “Fortune Teller” (a tune covered by Robert Plant and

Fest Bets Running June 24–Aug. 6, the Stanford Jazz Festival presents a dazzling array of jazz talent, from octogenarian legends to twentysomething stars who are investing the tradition with their own generational vision. Here are five shows not to miss.

1.) ANAT COHEN QUARTET Saturday, July 2, 8pm; Campbell Recital Hall While the buzz around Israeli-born reed expert Anat Cohen has quieted down some over the past two years, she has continued to come into her own. Her saxophone playing is often lithe and lyrical, but her clarinet work is inspired. She’s joined by her working New York quartet with pianist Robert Rodriguez, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Daniel Freedman.

2.) THE HEATH BROTHERS Sunday, July 17, 7:30pm; Dinkelspiel Auditorium Hailing from one of jazz’s most illustrious families, tenor saxophonist Jimmy and drummer Tootie Heath are at their best in each other’s company.

At 84, Jimmy is a bebop survivor, a consistently inventive improviser and gifted arranger and composer with at least a half-dozen jazz standards to his credit (“Gingerbread Boy” “CTA” and “For Minors Only”). Tootie made an early impression on classic recordings

by Wes Montgomery and John Coltrane, and remains an undervalued master. Pianist Jeb Patton and bassist David Wong (taking over for the late, eldest Heath brother Percy) round out the quartet.

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26, 7:30pm; Campbell Recital Hall Not many musicians can claim to have singlehandedly transformed an instrument into an effective vehicle for jazz, but Colombian harpist Edmar Castaneda has done jus that. He’s forged a tremendously sophisticated style, full of rippling polyrhythms and bracing harmonies, that draws on an array of modern jazz idioms and various South American folkloric styles.

He makes a rare Bay Area appearance with his working trio featuring trombonist Marshall Gilkes and Dave Silliman on drums and percussion.

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Alison Krauss on their Grammy Awardwinning album Raising Sand). While his songs proved irresistible for other artists, he created them with particular singers in mind.

“I always wrote directly for the artist, as you would make a dress or a suit,” Toussaint says. “If it wasn’t for Lee Dorsey, I wouldn’t have written ‘Yes We Can Can,’” the song that turned the Pointer Sisters into stars in 1973.

Now that he’s got a taste of the road, Toussaint doesn’t seem eager to give it up. As he explains it, he never decided against touring. He just got very busy doing other things.

“My life took a different turn,” Toussaint says. “Life commissioned me into the studio. But I enjoy traveling on the road tremendously. Being a writer, it’s quite inspiring.”

4.) YOSVANY TERRY QUARTET PLUS GUESTS Thursday, July 28, 7:30 p.m. Campbell Recital Hall A force on the New York scene for the past decade, Cuban alto saxophonist Yosvany Terry made his U.S. debut at the Stanford Jazz Festival back in 1995, and he’s been a Stanford mainstay ever since. Drawing on visionary altoist Steve Coleman’s intricate and esoteric musical ideas, he’s developed an approach that’s steeped in post-bop jazz and Cuban music while sounding utterly unlike traditional Latin jazz. His band features Menlo Park–raised pianist Taylor Eigsti, veteran drummer Deszon Claiborne and special guests.

5.) JOE LOVANO AND FRIENDS Monday, Aug. 1, 8pm; Dinkelspiel Auditorium Always looking for new musical settings, saxophone master Joe Lovano, one of jazz’s most heralded improvisers, takes full advantage of the festival’s wealth of talent with two very different trios. One represents state-of-the-art swing, with the superlative pianist George Cables, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Gregory Hutchinson.

The other is wry, pounding and iconoclastic, with pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer David King (who perform as the Bad Plus the following night). Whether the groups mix and match, or all join Lovano on stage simultaneously, probably won’t be decided until show time.

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Viviana Guzman & Jeremy Jouve Wednesday at Cambrian Library in San Jose, 6:30pm; free The South Bay Guitar Society presents Chilean flutist Viviana Guzman and French guitar master Jeremy Jouve performing works by Ravel, Faure, Dyens and Ourkouzounov at this show, plus Friday at the Joyce Ellington Branch in San Jose. (SP)

Chris Cain Band Friday at Poor House Bistro in San Jose, 7pm; free Long the go-to blues guitarist in the Bay Area, Chris Cain actually got his start teaching jazz at San Jose City College. But he was drawn back to the blues music of his youth, and has a closet full of awards for his rippin’ repertoire of new-blues wizardry. (SP)

March Into Paris Saturday at Streetlight Records in San Jose, 4pm; free Like a time warp back into the ‘90s, March Into Paris make slick, hard-hitting alt-pop with soaring melodies and lyrics as downbeat as their hooks are uplifting. To think that this femmefronted Sacramento band is bringing this much power and gloss while still unsigned makes the mind boggle at what they could do with a label behind them. (SP)

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Fri, 8:30pm: Undercover Band. $10/$14. Redwood City.

AVALON Fri: Shannon. Santa Clara.

BLINKY’SCAN’TSAY Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Zap. Rock and blues. Free. Santa Clara.

DJ Lori. Free. Fri, 9pm: Careless Hearts, Inciters, Soft Volume, $8. San Jose.

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Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: Love Stoned. Sat: 10 til 2. Sun: Chili Sauce. Mon: Hit N’ Run. Campbell.

Wed, 8pm: Bobby Boston. San Jose.

Sat, 2pm: The Growing Room.

San Jose.

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

Campbell.

Fri, 10pm: Drive. Sat, 10pm: Kid Dynamite. San Jose.

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Fri, 8pm: Alan Iglesias and Crossfire, tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan. $15. Sat, 8pm: Gregg Rolie. $20/$30. Redwood City.

Fri, 9pm: Debonair Dialects.

Sat, 6:15pm: Afton presents live bands. Cupertino.

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Wed, 9pm: The Trims, San Francesca, Bell Thieves with

Wed, 10pm: Silent Treatment.

San Jose.

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Redwood City.

City Jade, Deathmaster, Stone Leaf. $10. Gilroy.

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Fri, 6pm: Soul Kiss. Gilroy.

Wed: Jam night with Flea Amigos and Deeva Stativa.

Thu: Bone Drivers. Fri, 9:30pm: The Fundamentals. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: The Groove Doctors. $10. Los Gatos.

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Fri: High ’n’ Tight. Sat, 9:30pm: Saints and Sinners. Sunnyvale.

Fri: Liquid Paper. Sat: Red Heads.

Sunnyvale.

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Sun, 5-7pm: Foreverland. Part of the Los Gatos Music in the Park series. Los Gatos.

Fri, 8pm-midnight: Corduroy Jim. Los Gatos.

MOJOLOUNGE Thu: Liquid Sky. Fri: Kickin’ the Mule. Sat: Anniversary party with lots of bands and a raffle.

Fremont.

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

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

ANGELICA’SBISTRO Sun, 7pm: Fiesta Flamenca. $20/$225.

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

AZÚCAR Sun, 2pm: Violet Burning.

Mountain View.

REDWOODCITYDOWNTOWN Fri, 6pm: Live Wire. Music on the Square series. Free. Downtown Redwood City.

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Fri, 6pm: Burnside Drive, Analyzred and more. Sat, 6pm: It Starts With Alaska and others.

Cupertino.

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

San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

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

Thu, 8pm: Los Tigres del Norte.

Save the Music for Our Kids benefit. $35-$50. San Jose.

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Sun, 6pm: Traditional Irish music.

Tue, 7:30pm: Irish dancing.

Sunnyvale.

Fri, 8pm: The Ones. $5. Los Gatos.

Thu: Picture Atlantic, Please Do Not Fight, Noys Annoise. Fri-Sat: The Latin Music Invasion Tour with the Blank Manuscript, Santos de LA, Los Punks and Cado. Sat: Sonce Heavy CD Release Party. San Jose.

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Sat, 7:30pm: Lucinda Williams and David Lindley. $35 and up.

Saratoga.

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

Gilroy.

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Sat, 4pm: March Into Parks, Jesse Gass. Free. San Jose.

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Wed, 5:30pm: Showtyme. Free.

Downtown Sunnyvale.

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

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Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

Fri, 9:30pm: Canal Cero.

Sunnyvale.

Fri, 7:30pm: Soul Asylum, dada. $45 and up. Saratoga.

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Wed: Vegas Nights. Fri: Mid-Life Vices. Sat: South 46. Sunnyvale.

MUSICINTHEPARK Thu, 5:30pm: White Album Ensemble. Free. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose.

NETO’S GRILL Fri, 7pm: Dos Guys. Sat, 9pm: Kaye Bohler. $10. Santa Clara.

NICKELCITY Fri, 6:30pm: Reid Saw a Ghost, Don’t Fight the Giant and more for battle of the bands. Sat, 6:30pm: 2 Hot 3 Fast, Antisocial and more for battle of the bands.

San Jose.

NINELIVES Thu, 8pm: Battle of the bands with 408 Habitat, A Thousand Shall Fall and 5150. $5. Fri, 8pm: Dimidium, the Devil Himself and Fallrise. $10. Sat, 8pm: Dammaj,

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MOROCCO’SRESTAURANT Wed, 5pm: Flamenco music.

Thu, 5pm: Hot Kugel Live. Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancer Adriana. Sat, 5pm: World music with Lockett and Friend.

Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music.

Mon, 5pm: Magic Mondays with Avenue 7. Tue, 5pm: Doris Williams and Friends. San Jose.

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

Fri, 6pm: Artists vs. Empire. Sat, 6pm: I the Mighty, A Lot Like Birds, PK. Los Gatos.

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Fri, 8pm: Hit & Run. Willow Glen.

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

World AGENDALOUNGE Wed: Salsa night. San Jose.

Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

AFFINITY’S Wed, 7:30pm: Kat Parra. Hilton Hotel, San Jose.

ANGELICA’SBISTRO Sat, 8:30pm: Russo Alberts Jazz Trio with Charlie McCarthy. $15/$20. Redwood City.

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The ARTTEC 2011 Summer Concert Series Smash Mouth and Drake Bell Thu, July 7, 7:30pm San Jose’s own Smash Mouth brought their ska influenced pop-rock to millions of fans, with their hit songs “Walkin’ on the Sun”, “All Star”, and “I’m a Believer.” Singer, songwriter and popular Nickelodeon star Drake Bell gets the evening started.

The E Family Sat, July 9, 8pm This legendary musical dynasty: Pete Escovedo, Sheila E., Juan and Peter Michael is a force to be reckoned with. Their new release, “Now & Forever”, is a special 13 track collection encompassing a rich array of musical influences, ranging from Latin, Hip Hop, Pop and Jazz.

Howard Jones Classic Albums Tour 2011 Sun, July 10, 7:30pm Performing “Human’s Lib” & “Dream Into Action” in their entireties, you will relive the classic 80s hit songs including “Things Can Only Get Better”,”No One Is To Blame” “Life In One Day” and “What is Love”.

Blues Traveler Thu, Aug 4, 7:30pm From jam-band to mainstream stardom more than 24 years ago, the band’s best-known single, “Run-Around,” was the longest-charting radio single in Billboard history. Along the way, they played more than 2000 live shows to more than three million people.

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Careless Hearts EVERYBODY who saw Careless Hearts play with Stooges guitarist James Williamson in 2009 knew it was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of gig. It was the South Bay’s best show that year. But who knew we’d still be feeling the aftershocks two years later? We are, thanks to Careless Hearts. They were a fairly mild-mannered Americana outfit prior to hooking up with Williamson, but as I wrote about last fall, that The Blank Club show planted a seed in the band—something darker and harder.

Friday That seed finally sprouted this year with the band’s three-song EP, which shows off their new direction.

9pm; $8 It’s tempting, of course, to look for all the Stooges connections, especially in the tough-as-nails “I’d Be a Wreck.” Not only are the lyrics way Iggyed up (“I’d eat only trash/ I’d spend up all my cash”), but vocalist Paul Kimball indulges some of the deep-throated vocal mannerisms he re-created perfectly when filling in for the Pop idol. But to assume they’ve simply become Stooges 2.0 would be a huge mistake. When these guys search and destroy, they’re still barnburning, staying true to the alt-country sound that has always been at the core of their music. “Emily,” despite its fantastic amped-up drums and double-time pace, is a country song. And “Raspberry Wine”’s lap steel gives a nice Big Sky touch to what otherwise would sound like one of the greatest songs Elvis Costello never wrote. Fans of Wilco and the Old 97s at their peak would be smart to check out how effortlessly the Hearts have transplanted a heart full of napalm into their roots music.—Steve Palopoli

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BLUZBY-YOU Tue: Tuesday Bluesday.

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

Redwood City.

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Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: Isis and the Cold Truth.

Campbell.

Wed, 8pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8:30pm: Russo Alberts Trio.

Fri, 8:30pm: Wally Schnalle. Sat, 8:30pm: Harold Fethe. San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: Suska. Thu, 9pm: Jimmy Dewrance. Fri, 9pm: Nuthin’ But Trouble. Sun: The Prowlers for early show at 4pm, then Gene Washington and Special Purpose Band in evening.

Mon, 9pm: Dennis Dove. Tue, 7pm: Blue J early jam followed

by Liar’s Club. San Jose.

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Wed, 6:30pm: Spencer Day. Free. Los Gatos Town Plaza.

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

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Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

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Thu, 6pm: Harmonic Music Machination. Fri: Rick Merritt.

Campbell.

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San Jose.

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Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

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

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

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Wed, 6pm: Country Classics. Tue, 6pm: Windy Hill. San Jose.

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

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Thu, 6:30-8pm: Highwater Blues.

Part of the Summer Concert Series. Cupertino.

MURPHY’SLAW Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

OLDWAGONSALOON&GRILL Sun: Live blues. San Jose.

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

APERFECTFINISH

VASONACOUNTYPARK

Fri, 9pm: Steven Gary. Sat, 9pm: Kirk Tamura Jazz Trio. San Jose.

Sat, 5-7pm: Golden State Ramblers. Weekly summer concert. Free. Los Gatos.

POORHOUSEBISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price. Fri, 6-10pm: Chris Cain. Sat, 6-10pm: Beaufunk. Sun, noon: School of the Blues Student Jam. San Jose.

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SENZALA

BAMBOOLOUNGE

Tue, 7:30pm: Kristen Strom Jazz Camp Showcase. Sunnyvale.

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

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

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

ANGELICA’SBISTRO Wed, 7pm: Open mic. Redwood City.

Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic for singer-songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.

ALEX’S49ERINN

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

Campbell.

BAREFOOTCOFFEE ROASTERS

AZÚCAR

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

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

BLUEROCKSHOOT

THEBEARS

Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic.

Saratoga.

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

BENNIGAN’SGRILL

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

Wed, 9:30pm: Open-mic night.

Cupertino.

BLINKY’SCAN’TSAY

TESSORA’S

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

Willow Glen.

UNWINED Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz.

San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

BLUEBONNETBAR

C&W/Folk

CITYESPRESSO

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

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

BLUEMAX

ANGELICA’SBISTRO

MISSIONCITYROASTINGCO.

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Mon, 7:30pm: Marty Atkinson. No cover. Redwood City.

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

BLUEPHEASANT

CLUBRODEO

MOUNTAINCHARLEY’S

Wed: Ashton Shepherd. $5. San Jose.

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

THEGRAPEVINE

ORCHARDVALLEYCOFFEE

Sat, 3:30-8pm: Dancin’ on the Avenue Party. Willow Glen.

Thu, 6pm: South Bay Acoustic Music Group open mic. Hosted

by Celtic Rose. Campbell.

BOGART’SLOUNGE

MISSIONCITYCOFFEE ROASTING

POORHOUSEBISTRO

BOSWELL’S

Tue, 6pm: Open-mic night. San Jose.

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Fri, 7:30pm: True Wind Music.

Sat, 7:30pm: Women With Strings Attached. Sun, 7:30pm:

Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

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

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

BOULEVARDTAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

QUARTERNOTE

BRANHAMLOUNGE

Mon-Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.

Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

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

Cupertino.

Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.

HUDDLE

BRITISHBANKERSCLUB

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

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Menlo Park.

KATIEBLOOM’S

BRIX

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

Campbell.

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

Santa Clara.

THECOURTSLOUNGE

KCBARANDRESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

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

Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

CREEKSIDELOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

DASILVA’SBRONCOS

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

LILLYMAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

REDIROOM Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.

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

No cover. Santana Row.

RUDY’SPUB Wed, 10pm-1:30am: Purple.

Palo Alto.

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

SHERWOODINN Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

SHOOTERSBAR&GRILL Thu, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

SOUTHFIRSTBILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

STATION55 Thu, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

Sun, 5-9pm: Family karaoke.

Gilroy.

TEQUILASHOT’SBAR&GRILL

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

MARIANI’S Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

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

DIVEBAR

MOJOLOUNGE

Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

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

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

ELRANCHOSPORTSBAR Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

THEESCAPE Mon, 8:30pm-1:30am: DJ Curtis.

San Jose.

NETO’SMARKET&GRILL

NORMANDYHOUSELOUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

OFFICEBAR

FIREHOUSEGRILL&BREWERY

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

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

O’FLAHERTY’SIRISHPUB Mon, 9pm: Matt. San Jose.

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

GILROYBOWL Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.

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

OFFTHEHOOK Sun, 8pm: DJ Joe. Campbell.

GALAXY

Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

Sunnyvale.

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

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

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FAHRENHEITULTRALOUNGE

FLAMESCOFFEESHOP

Mon, 8pm-midnight: DJ Curtis.

Willow Glen.

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

Sunnyvale.

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

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

X-BAR Fri, 9pm: DJ Vinnie. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

DanceClubs AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Thu-Fri: DJs (Tito Bell on Fri).

San Jose.

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Perhaps the highlight of the festival was the reunion of Slapstick, which headlined the opening night. Slapstick was one of the ďŹ rst bands Park signed; they broke up after recording one album, but the members went on to form other successful bands such as the Lawrence Arms, the Broadways and the Alkaline Trio (all of whom also played the festival). During their performance, Slapstick lead singer Brendan Kelly said that everyone onstage owed their career to Park. It was a sentiment that nearly every other Asian Man band echoed at some point during the festival.

On the second night, Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Slow Gherkin reunited for a spectacular performance. One guy told me heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d waited a decade to see them and that it was worth the wait.

The third day started with a matinee performance by the Broadways. Sim Castro, from San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Albert Square, made a point to watch their set since he was such a big fan as a kid and never got to see them play. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was amazing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a teenager and you ďŹ nally get to see your favorite band,â&#x20AC;? Castro said.

There was a special treat on the fourth day, a free BBQ at Thee Parkside, where none other than Park himself spent the afternoon cooking food for everyone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seeing Mike cook hamburgers at his own festival, that is the most DIY thing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen,â&#x20AC;? said Alex Chapman, an Asian Man fan who ďŹ&#x201A;ew 5,000 miles from Wales for this festival.

A lot of the Asian Man bands were there, too. They took turns at the BBQ playing 15-minute sets on the stage. Since Park booked two shows simultaneously every night, it let people see bands they might have otherwise missed. Some of the bands that played were Kepi, Bomb the Music Industry, the Apers and Laura Stevenson.

On the last night, Park played a set from his forthcoming childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s album, Smile. He was backed by the members of San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hard Girls. He told the audience how much fun heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d had, how little sleep heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d gotten and how great it was to meet everyone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The thing I like is that the people who follow Asian Man are such nice people,â&#x20AC;? he said from the stage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been great meeting all of you â&#x20AC;&#x2122;cause you are such good people.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Aaron Carnes

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Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en espanol.

Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.

THEBLANKCLUB Thu, 9pm: Atomic with DJ Basura. $5. Sat, 9pm: Club Satori with DJ Vitus and DJ Kevin. $5. San Jose.

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

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

BRANHAMLOUNGE Wed: Humpday Wednesdays. Thu: DJ. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Chaos.

Sun: Beer pong. Tue: $2 Tuesdays.

San Jose.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays.

Fri, 9pm: 2011. Sat, 9pm: DJ. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON Tue, 9pm: Live DJ. Campbell

JOHNNY V’S Wed: The Cypher. San Jose.

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

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Live DJ and karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Thu: SOFA King. Fri: Video Killed the DJ with VJ Vinyl. Sat: Sultry. Sun: Sinful. Mon: Manic.

San Jose.

STEPHENS GREEN Wed, 10pm: DJ competition.

Thu, 11pm: DJ Ulises. Fri, 10pm: DJ Cesar. Sat: Vibe. Mountain View.

Sat: DJ Shift and XXX Divas Pool Party Fashion Show. San Jose.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Wed, 7pm: House Party. Thu, 7pm: Throwback Thursdays.

Los Gatos.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.

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.

BRITANNIAARMSDOWNTOWN

PEACOCK LOUNGE

Thu: VJ Mixing with DJ David Q. Sat, 10pm: DJ David Q. San Jose.

Fri, 8pm: R&B, R& , Top 40. Sat,

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO

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

STUDIO8 LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

Thu: DJs. Fri: Tease Friday. Sat: DJ I. Saturday. San Jose.

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Thu: VJ Don. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. Tue: Pub-stumpers Trivia. San Jose.

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9pm: Chill, R&B, Top 40. Sun & Tue, 9pm: DJ dancing.

Sunnyvale.

Wed: RedRun with D. Luzion and Illtraxx. Thu: JazBiz and Dave Dynamix. Fri: Video Mixing, then DJ Radio Raheem and DJ Ready Rock. Sat: Live bands. San Jose.

WILLOW DEN Thu, 10pm: DJ Uncle Hank. Fri, 12:30-2am & Sat, 10pm-2am: DJ Truth. Willow Glen.

ZEN LOUNGE Thu: 24 Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ D-Roc. Mountain View.

BRITISHBANKERSCLUB Wed-Sat: DJs. Fri: DJ Mike Frgaletti for Funk It. Menlo Park.

C&J’SSPORTSBAR

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Wed & Sat, 10pm: DJ. Santa Clara.

Literate and feisty indie-rock rabblers with new album, ‘I Am Very Far.’ Jun 22 at the Fox Theater.

CLUBILLUSIONS Fri, 9pm: Fuz Fridays. Sat, 9pm: DJs. Palo Alto.

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

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

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

THEELEGANTPUB Thu, 9pm-1:30am: Throwback Thursdays. Fri, 9pm-1:30am: DJ. Sat, 9pm-1:30am: Snapshot Saturdays. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.

PANIC! AT THE DISCO After half the band left, Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith soldier on, with exclamation point. Jun 22 at the Warfield.

PETER MURPHY Incomparable Bauhaus frontman plays free in-store in advance of sold-out show. Jun 23 at Amoeba SF.

ANA MOURA Popular Portuguese fado singer counts Prince among her many fans. June 25 at Herbst Theatre.

SONDRE LERCHE Boyish French idol crafts sweeping pop in a diversity of settings. Jun 28 at the Great American Music Hall.

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Your fiancé is acting like you don’t exist in his life—except on nights when he manages to stay conscious long enough to put down one joystick and order you to hop on the other. Oh, and by the way, that condom isn’t missing. It’s on vacation. You’d know that if you weren’t so pathetically insecure.

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