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Tax and Save Lives More than a few eyebrows lifted last week when Councilmember SAM LICCARDO proposed raising the city’s sales tax to help fund police and firefighter jobs. With 73 officers expected to lose their jobs on July 1, according to police union VP JIM UNLAND, Liccardo showed the kind of political savvy that was conspicuously absent this spring, when he voted against approving union concessions because he said they didn’t go far enough. Even though h sales taxes generally affect less-affluent citizens disproportionately, it will be hard for union yodelers like YOLANDA CRUZ to crucify Liccardo for focusing on “imaginary”” issues when her union sisters and brothers are being fired—and the city’s murder rate is running more than double what it was last year. Similarly, pro-police folks and anti-tax types often attend the same tea parties, minimizing the possibility of opposition from the right. But this lastsecond maneuver might be a case of too little, too late, despite having the support of Mayor CHUCK REED and others on the council. Liccardo was hoping to piggyback the vote on a statewide ballot scheduled forr November, but Gov. JERRY BROWN couldn’t gain enough Republican support to stage a special election, which means the soonest San Jose will have a chance to decide if SJPD Chief CHRIS MOORE can get boots back on the ground will be March 2012.

Civil Unions District 8 Councilmember ROSE HERRERA, whose seat comes up for renewal in 2012, has suddenly gotten popular with the union leaders representing the city’s public employees. She dined at Flames restaurant last week with NANCY OSTROWSKI, lead negotiator for three bargaining groups.

Over the past several weeks, she’s also met with JIM UNLAND, the police union VP, and TONY ALEXANDER of Local 5, the food workers union (which could also soon be representing the bud-dispensers of the city’ss marijuana collectives). Her sudden popularityy might be due to the fact that Herrera could be fighting for her political life. CHUCK REED

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Locations include Millennium City (a rebuilt Detroit), the desert outside Area 51, Monster Island, the underwater city of Lemuria, outer space, mystical realms and alternate universes. All are well populated with avatars of countless

players at all hours of the day and night.

Craig Zinkievich, Cryptic’s chief operating officer, admits that managing such vast worlds is a technical challenge.

He says Cryptic isn’t intimidated though.

“To be frank, the world is not empty for ideas of cool MMOs,” he says, “but there are precious few studios who can go out and technically deliver. It’s awesome to have an MMO engine and a foundation that’s so mature that we can just think about making the game, making the best game that we can, and not necessarily the technical challenges behind that.”

Cryptic Studios was founded in 2000

by Michael Lewis and Rick Dakan, a couple of friends in Los Gatos, along with three veterans of Atari’s coin-operated games division. Their first big game was 2004’s City of Heroes, followed soon after by City of Villains. That franchise was sold to the game’s publisher, South Korea–based NCsoft, which continues to work on that universe with Mountain View’s Paragon Studios, a team made up of many former Cryptic employees.

In 2007, Cryptic was purchased by

Atari, the pioneering game company founded by Silicon Valley legend Nolan Bushnell, which is now French-owned.

If this all seems very complicated and international, it’s an indication of where the global game industry is at today.

Cryptic made a big splash two weeks ago when it launched a free-to-play version of Champions Online. Like most MMOs, Cryptic’s most popular game had previously made money by requiring players to buy subscriptions. In a subscription-based model of gaming, players don’t pay for the software, they pay, on a monthly basis for access to an online world. You can’t buy an MMO, you can only rent it.

In a free-to-play model, much of the game’s content can be accessed for free.

Sometimes the game is supported by ads. More often, in the case of MMO’s and virtual worlds, a “freemium” model lets users pay for extras like extra content or options. Or different character classes, better weapons, cooler clothes.

Free-to-play MMOs are a fairly recent phenomenon in North America, where for the longest time subscription services have dominated. In Asia, it is the free-to-play model, supported with microtransactions, that is king.

The free version of Champions should not have been a total surprise to gaming enthusiasts. Last month, it was announced that Perfect World, a huge

Fantasy Job The sale to Perfect World would cap off a big year for Cryptic. Last July, the company released Star Trek Online, a galaxy-spanning MMO based on one of the most esteemed properties in all of geekdom. And they’re currently at work on Neverwinter, a Dungeons and Dragons game.

Zinkievich revels in the chance to work with these beloved franchises. “It’s every nerd’s greatest dream,” he says. But apparently it’s also a tricky proposition.

The companies that own such properties put a lot of restrictions on what can be made from them. They have to be very careful about maintaining the brand and making sure the franchise’s notoriously passionate, possessive and nitpicky audience is satisfied with any derivative products.

Zinkievich says that’s not much of a problem at Cryptic. “Quite frankly, the audience is us. Usually our audience is pretty darn comfortable knowing that we’re going to nerd it up.”

Zinkievich says the goal of Cryptic’s writers, designers and executives is “to make a game that we’re excited to play.”

Apparently, through all of the rapid growth that has turned the gaming industry into an annual $50 billion worldwide industry, it is just as important as ever that the people in charge watch a massive amount of Star Trek and play a lot of Dungeons and Dragons.

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and his budget-hawk buddies have never expected the backing of the union bosses, but Herrera may need their help. STEVE PREMINGER vowed that any further support of Reed’s move to reform public employee pensions at the ballot will result in an official rebuke—mere sticks-and-stones to the termed-out mayor, but which could nevertheless hurt first-termer Herrera.

Preminger is president of the local Democratic Central Committee, whose members recently voted to censure the mayor and his majority crew: Herrera, SAM LICCARDO, MADISON NGUYEN, PETE CONSTANT and PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO. The reprimand was purely for show—and somewhat surprisingly excluded Councilmembers Donald Rocha and Nancy Pyle, who also supported the proposal. The city’s biggest union, AFSCME, followed suit by sending out flyers branding each of the mayor’s supporters a “hypocrite.” Liccardo responded that he won’t bow down to “union cronies” like Preminger, who in his day job serves as the executive director of Working Partnerships, a nonprofit wholly controlled by the South Bay Labor Council. The unions will most certainly continue hammering Herrera, who cast the swing vote to declare a fiscal emergency, until the next council session in August. Meanwhile, there is talk that PATTIE CORTESE—wife of county supervisor and likely 2014 mayoral candidate DAVE CORTESE— covets Herrera’s seat. Herrera says she won’t support the mayor’s pension reform proposal without an accompanying tax increase, so she may have something to trade for labor’s helping hand in election season.

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Chinese MMO company that specializes in free-to-play games, had agreed to buy Cryptic Studios outright for around $50 million. The deal has yet to be finalized.

At the announcement of the sale, gamers’ forums and comment threads erupted with reactions ranging from certain predictions that this spells the end for Cryptic, to optimism about what an infusion of cash will do for the studio.

CEO Michael Chi says the acquisition “will help Perfect World penetrate into the U.S. and global online game markets”—one step among many in the company’s global expansion efforts.

Those efforts have created a stir in Silicon Valley, birthplace of and still home to many of the world’s biggest gaming companies. Venture Beat’s Dean Takahashi called the Cryptic deal “another sign of the times: Cash-rich Chinese online game companies are flexing their muscles on the world stage of the gaming market.”

Zinkievich says it’s a natural evolution.

“The world of Chinese MMOs is its own world,” he says. “They’ve been doing the free-to-play model for years and years, and they have tremendous experience on how to work in that business model.

They really want to crack this nut and they’re not shy about going out and trying to make that happen.”

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tterms erms o n ccouncil. ouncil. T he former former u nion on The union lleader ead der fi led a llawsuit awsuit ag aagainst gainst tthe he filed C ounty of Santa Santa Claraa after a 20 04 County 2004 eelection, lection, accusing accusing ccounty ounty government government off “interfering o “interffering iin n tthe he eelectoral lectoral pr ocess thr ough the un nauthorized process through unauthorized eexpenditure xpenditure o ublic ffunds unds an nd off p public and p ublic rresources. esources.” T he suit suit al lleged that that public The alleged the ccounty ountty sought to influence in nfluence the vvote ote on measures measures that would aff ffeect affect public emplo yeees’ contracts. conttracts. — Silic S on employees’ —Silicon Valley Newsroom V aalleey Ne wsrroom BS Monitor F our sc core and thr ee Four score three done well. Saluto!

Darryl DiQuisto was D arryl JJohn ohn D iQuisto w as a gr eat tr easure to the cit ccityy and F ire great treasure Fire Depar tment. He will be be missed.

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&C Country ountry V Village illage aand nd tthe he ssurrounding urrounding ar reas. After the game Brazilians, areas. game,, Brazilians, Mexicans, M Me xiccaans, Americ Americans, ans, Swedes Swedes,, It Italians, taalian ns, Germans G ermans aand nd ccountless ountless o others thers d danced anced and an nd drank into the eevening. veeningg.

An yone who liv Anyone lived ed in L Los os Gato Gatoss at th hat time will be be mor py that moree than happ happy to o shar xperiences of the Brazil lian sharee eexperiences Brazilian fans over entiree town fa ans ttaking aking o ver the entir ffor o the str or stretch etch of time the Brazili Brazilian ian team te eam st stayed ayed ther there. e. Some eeven ven jok joked ked there th here wer weree mor moree Brazilians than rresidents e esidents of L Los os Gatos Gatos..

This Satur Saturday, daay, memb members ers of tha that at 1994 U.S. Team bee 19 994 U .S. National T eeam will b honored h honor ed during halftime at the San S JJose o Ear ose Earthquakes’ thquakes’’ match against New N ew Y York, o ork, ttaking aking plac placee at St Stanford anffo orrd Stadium St tadium at 7:30pm. That 19 1994 94 squad sq quad pa paved aved the w way ay ffor or a ne o new w er era ra o offeessional so ccer in Americ a a, off pr professional soccer America, including in ncluding the league that started started ttwo w yyears wo ears later cked thee later.. The Theyy sho shocked

world b feeating C o olombia in the byy def defeating Colombia first rround, ound,, leading th hem to a sp ot them spot in the kno ckout st age. Ev en though knockout stage.

Even the U nited St ates lost that game United States to Brazil,, those pla ayerrs, rrelatively elatively players, unknown at the time time,, left a huge impact, set ting the st a on which age setting stage the national team st an nds to daay. stands today.

Se veral memb ers off that 19 94 Several members 1994 U.S. have area.

One,, U .S. team ha ave ties to this ar ea. One Eric W ynalda, y , pla ayed ffor o or San JJose ose Wynalda, played and sc ored the league ’s first goal in scored league’s 19 96,, right her artan St adium.

1996, heree at Spa Spartan Stadium.

Another ernando Cl laavvijo, had Another,, F Fernando Clavijo, actually pla ayed ffor o or thee old San Jose Jose played Ear thquakes in the ea arly ’8 0s and, at Earthquakes early ’80s 38, was was the oldest American Am merican player plaayer to par ticipate at the 19 94 4W o orld Cup participate 1994 World Cup..

Alexi Lalas played 2003 Los Ale xi L alas pla ayed ffor or the 20 o 03 L os Angeles squad that the th he Earthquakes Earthquakes def feeated in the pla ayoff ffs, o verturning defeated playoffs, overturning many a ffour-goal our-goal deficit in what o w many ccall all the gr eatest game in Major M League greatest League So ccer history. history.

Soccer Paul Caligiuri, midfielder P aul C aligiuri, a mi dfielder on the 19 94 W orld Cup team o m, ble w thr ough 1994 World team, blew through San JJose ose just last week k and stopped stopped an Britannia long enough at Brit nnia Arms Almaden to tell some stories ab out about 1994 World the 19 94 W orld o Cup and a that now-

famous ga ame against Brazil on the game F ourth of JJuly. ulyy.

Fourth ““When When yyou ou dedicate dedicate yyour our life life tto o a ssport, port, you you do do iitt be cau use iit’s t’s a because cchildhood hildhood d ream, you you do do iitt because because dream, yyou ou enjo oy it, i ” he said. “But then as enjoy yyou ou gget et o lder, you you rrealize eallize you you want want to to older, m ake aan n iimpact, mpact, and and bring bring the the ggame am me make aand nd k eep iitt o nA merican ssoil. oil. W keep on American Wee kne w the W orld Cup w o aas ccoming oming and knew World was tthe he iimpact mpacct it it was wass going going tto o have, have, but but tthe he ggreatest reatest feeling feeling was wass to to see see tthat hat you you had Ameri ican fans out ther e, cheering American there, ffor or ttheir heir n ational team, team m, in in what what w ass national was rreally eally the first fi time. time.”

It ’s true or most Americ ans, It’s true.. F For Americans, the 19 94 W orld Cup w o as their first 1994 World was rreal, eal, in-your-face in-you ur-face eexperience xperience with the game on o a global level. level. It was was a magic al, tr ransffo ormative summer for fo or magical, transformative millions millions..

“Eight th 90,000, 77,000, 777,,000, “Eightyy thousand, 90,000, en nue it w as, that w as whatever vvenue was, was rning p oint ffor or so o ccer in really the tur turning point soccer ry,” C aligiuri said. “Not “Not just this country,” Caligiuri merrican so ccer fan,, but ffor or o for the American soccer can n sp orts fan. the American sports fan.”” ys, there there wer As always, weree also a idees to that World Wo W orld Cup few dark sides Cup.. n own-goal, which led to Following an he hands of the United United a defeat at th the St ates, And dres e Esc obar of Colombia Colombia States, Andres Escobar w as gunne ed down in a parking lot was gunned on JJuly uly 2, after he rreturned eturned home home..

The rreasons eason ns ar gued ab out aree still ar argued about to this da ay, but at the time, time, the day, Brazilians had to think about about such things whe en pla ayying the U nited when playing United St ates ttwo wo o days daayys later States later..

“W We hea ard b effor o e this game “We heard before game,, that if Brazil wer w weree to lose lose,, the theyy had a 30daay extension exttension on their passports,” passports,” 30-day C aligiuri rrecalled. ecalled. “The ould not Caligiuri “Theyy ccould go back to o Brazil because because of the situation with w Escobar.

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F or the st atistics geeks out ther e, For statistics there, the Brazil-U.S.A. match on July July 4, Brazil-U.S.A. 19 94, at St tanffo ord Stadium Stadium outdrew outdrew 1994, Stanford Sup er Bow wl XIX—pla ayed at St anffo ord Super Bowl XIX—played Stanford on JJanuary anuary 20, 1985—by 1985—by a grand tot al of 8 8p eople. total 88 people.

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Your Y oour Boss Boss Ca Called alled This ttrip This rip h had ad started, start r ed, ass so so many man ny others do, do, with the ritual ritual provisioning. provvisioning.

On O n the the w way ay from from the the San San an Jose Jose b bus us sstation tation tto o the the grocery grocery store, store, II’d ’d ttold old Matt Mat tt I w was as a going with a “minimalist “minimalist”” philosophy philosoph hy for for o this trip. trip. He snorted, snorted, probably pr obably because because he knows kn nows me well enough to take tak ke this as a disclaimer tthat hat II’d ’d al already lread dy rrealized ealized aatt least leasst three three essentials I’d I’d forgotten. for o gotttten. His philosophy, philosoph hy, he said,, is “comfort”—meaning “comffor o t”—m meaning he he’d ’d b bee hauling h auling a b bunch unch o off eextra xtra lluxury-item uxuryy-item weight. (Our conflicting conflictin ng ideologies ideologies only come come to a head once, on nce, in Saf Safeway. feway.

Me: M e: ““These These tortellini tortellini w will ill d double ouble iin n size!”” Matt: Mattt: t “Let’s “Let’s get ttwo w wo just in ccase. ase.

II’ll ’ll carry carrry them. them.”)

There are ways up with T here ar re tthree hree w ays tto o llink ink u pw ith Skyline-to-the-Sea Silicon the Sk kyyline-to - -the-Sea trail in Silic on Valley: Palo Alto, Los V al alley: ffrom rom P allo A lto, vvia ia tthe he L os Trancos Open Spacee Pr Preserve; from Tranc os Op pen Spac eservee; fr om Cupertino, Upper Stevens Creek C uperttino, vvia ia U pper S tevens C reek County Park; from Saratoga, C ountty P arrk; and fr om Sarato ga,, via Sanborn-Skyline County Park.

We’ve S anborn-Skyline C ounty P arrk. W e’ve because possible cchosen hosen tthe he llast ast be cau use iit’s t’s po ssible tto o overnight arrange ffor or o o vernight parking here. here.

2.2-mile out off tthe IIt’s t’s a steep steep 2 .2-mile cclimb limb o ut o he valley Skyline Boulevard valle ll y toward t war tow a d Sk kyyline li Boule B l vard (a.k.a. ( k Highway during which San H ighway 335), 5), d uring w hich S an JJose ose aand nd tthe he ssurrounding urrounding ssuburbs, uburbs, vvisible isible between branches, be tween b ran nches, sslowly lowly rrecede ecede iin n tthe he distance under haze.. dist ance un nder a thin veil veil of haze Wee reach skirtt W reach h Highway Highway 35 and skir below it ffor o or a mile and along just below before Castle Rock. half b effor o e crossing crossing at C astle R ock. I ecause we see we’ve arrived because know we ’ve arriv ed b the climb errs, looking looking like like hob os as climbers, hobos the trundlle up the highway high hway with theyy trundle crash h pads d strapp ed d to their h i b backs k. strapped backs.

Mat tt’s phon ne b eeps near the gate; Matt’s phone beeps we ’re out of o ser vice, but he has a we’re service, missed ccall all from from a par tner at the la aw partner law firm wher ’s rrecently ecently inter viewed. wheree he he’s interviewed.

W p ay phone and Mat t, Wee find a pa pay Matt, alw ayys pr ep pared, ffeeds eeeds it quar ter always prepared, quarter after quar ter, chat ting ccasually asually as if quarter, chatting he ’s got an endless supply of them. he’s After a ffew ew minutes he hangs up the rreceiver eceiver and an nd bum rushes me with the h go od d news: news: H e’s jjust ust be b en o ffeered ff good He’s been offered his first job job..

The R The Road oad Mor Moree Travelled T ravellled Officiallly, tthe Officially, he S Skyline-to-the-Sea kyline-to-the-Sea ttrail rail sstarts tarts aatt S aratoga Gap, Gap, just just above above Saratoga the nor therrnmost tip of Castle Castle Rock, Rock, northernmost w here H ighways 35 35 and an nd 9 meet. meet. The The where Highways ttrail rail iiss 330 0m iles llong, ong, connecting connecting miles C asstle R ock and and B ig Basin Basin parks parks and and Castle Rock Big eending nding aatt W addell Beach Beacch on on Highway Highway Waddell O ne. U nfortunattely, it it hedges hedges along allong One. Unfortunately, h ighways ((9, 9, tthen hen 2 36) ffor or a tthird hird o highways 236) off tthe he way, way, w hich m eans that that once once we we which means rreach each it, C a astle R ock’s sp ectacular Castle Rock’s spectacular ssweeping weeping vistas viistas and sandstone spires spires aare re rreplaced eplaced by by ssounds ounds and an nd scenes scenes a lit tttle more more familiar. familiar. little Ther ticular strangeness Theree is a par particular tto oh appening u pon a suggestion suggestion happening upon o ivilizattion where where it it should should not not off ccivilization b e. Shor tly b effo ore our arrival at be.

Shortly before W atterman n Gap, Gap p, our our ccamp am mp for for the the Waterman n ight, w urn a corner corner to to ssee ee a night, wee tturn sk y-blue st a ation w agon that,, at some sky-blue station wagon

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During a long stretch stretcch of da day ay three trip,, I learned thr ee on that first trip theree is a basketball ther basketball court cour o t inside the top of Disne Disneyland’s yland’s Matterhorn, Matttterhorn, that the Monorail has the highest accident ac cident rate of any an ny ride rid de and that player, this gruff ffootball ootball pla ayer, always alwayys in a Navy Na avy v ssweatshirt, weatshirt,, had an a inordinate inordinate amount of knowledge ab about out the Goofy home of Mickey, Mickey, Go offy and the gang.. If you gang you want wantt to t get geett to t know k someone,, and I mean rreally eally know someone someone—from someone —from his orr her habits and values down to the th he inane trivia stored stor ed away away in the mind’s min nd’s rrecesses ecesses and how that person person ssmells mells after a week without showe showering—an ering—an extended extended backcountry backcountry hiking trip is an excellent excellent way way to do that.

That’s That’s as true ffor or places o plaaces as it is for fo or people. people. You You o might think, for fo or instance, i ance, that inst h because because yyou’ve ou’v ’ e driven d i en driv on Highway High hway 17 or 9 or 35 that you you know the Santa Mountains, Santa Cruz Mount M ains, but behind trees behind a buffer buff ffeer off tr ees that line the road, open road,, the landscape landscape splits op en to reveal reveal so many many surprises—peaks surprises—peaks and valleys valleys and snakes snakes and waterfalls, waterfalls, vast sandstone faces faces and an nd fallen redwood redwood giants and abandoned ab bandoned artifacts artifacts and, yes, yes, skunks. skunks.

Since Since that first trip together, t gether, Matt to Mattt (now a third-year student Santaa ( thir hi dd year stud dent at Sant Clara Law have Law School) School) and d I ha ave done several several others—another others—anotheer 11 days daays y in the Ventana Vent e ana Wilderness, Wilder i rness, a few few weekends Sierras—so weekends in the Sierra as—so when my my editor asked asked if I would wo ould hike hike from from Silicon Silicon Valley Valle a y over over the Santa Santa Cruz Mountains Mountains and down to t the sea, I knew knew just the man to call. call.

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point p oint iin n tthe he llast asst 40 40 or or so so years, years, ttook ook an nosedive osedive o off ff tthe he h highway. ighway. T The he ccar ar has been h ass b een sstripped tripped of of all alll distinguishing distinguishing ffeatures. eatures. A Any ny iinsignia nsignia hinting hinting at at tthe he make model been mak ke or mo d l has del h b e pried een i d off, off ff ff,, the h ccushions ushions h have ave b been een rripped ipped o out ut aand nd byy a nest off branches rreplaced eplaced b nest o branches aand nd tthe he ssteering teering w wheel heel iiss broken broken iin nh half. allf. A little farther lit tle far ther up the trail, traail,, bottles botttles t and jjugs ugs fi filled lled w with ith brown brown liquid, liquid, al along long with filing w ith fi ling cabinets cab binets and and rusted-out rusted- out off B Bud, dot ccans ans o ud, d ot tthe he hillside. hillside. II’m ’m inclined to imagine these th hese as hastily disposed moonshine disp osed eevidence vidence of a mo onshine operation; Matt o peration; M att thinks thinks they’re they’re urine.. ccontainers ontainers of urine Att the ccampsite look over A ampsite I lo ook o ver at Mattt unpacking and see Mat s that he suree we ha have has made sur ave eextra xtra of water purifier eeverything: verything: a w ater pu urifier and iodine pot boiling io dine ttablets, ablets, a p ot ffor o b or oiling water pot w ater and a p ot ffor or o ccooking ooking ffood, ood, a spicee kit. JJust meanwhile, spic ust in ccase. ase. I, I, mean while, unpacking rrealize ealize while unpackin ng that I’ve I’ve to eat fforgotten or o gotten a dish and utensil u tortellini does with. The tor tellini do oes double in size,, and luckily luckily, sincee the sec second size y, sinc ond way bag turned out to be be w ay past its date.. After dinner Mat Mattt eexpiration xpiration date sits ccomfortably omffo ortably in hiss ccamp amp chair torts textbook. post rreading eading a tor ts te xtbook. I p ost logg and mak makee a list of the up on a lo wildlife we’ve that day. wildlif fe we ’ve seen tha at da ay.

Skunks Sk unks (2) Snak Snakes es (4; ( 3 Gar Garters, ters, 1 R Rubber ubber Boa) u Deer (2)) Mouse (1; ( dec deceased) eased)

And Miles M to to GGoo The no novelty veltty of seeing piec pieces es of civilization n in the middle of the wildernesss wears off early on the second day. sec ond da ay. It is three three miles of asphalt an and nd forest fo orest ccoated oated in highway high hway soot. so ot. The terrain t is not challenging, challenging, but it is tr trying, y , maybe ying maayb y e because because theree is som ther something mething inherently inherently depressing depr essingg ab about out walking walking along a highway, high hway, b being eing passed by by motorist after motorist. moto orist. Mat Mattt is not in a good good mood, mo od,, either; eith her; seeing two two Caltrans Caltrans crews cr ews st standing an nding around around their trucks shooting sho oting the t breeze breeze gets him thinking ab aabout out wasted wasted tax tax dollars, dollars, which in turn t sends him into a fit of grumpin grumpiness ness (“Get back to work!” he mut mutters ters under his breath). breath). For For a stretch, str etch, the the high highway way and trail wea weave ave along the outskir outskirts o ts of a small encla enclave ave of homes homes.. We We w walk alk through through one woman’s woman ’s front fr f ont yard yard and she peers peers out at us quizzically q zically from quiz from her living rroom oom pictu picture ure window window..

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ROUGHING R OUGHING IT 21 we trade High Highway hway 35 ffor or Opal o Creek Creek and follow fo ollow the languid white waterway waterway through through several several miles of elfin woodland woodland before beffor o e meeting the entrance entrance to Big Basin Redwoods Redwo e ods State State Park Park headquarters. headquarteers. We We stop for for o a couple couple of Berry Berry Creek C eek Falls Cr smoothies, smoothies, and the lady lad dy behind behind the snack bar counter counterr says saayys it’s it’s another 6.7 miles to Sunset Trail S Camp, Camp, where wher h e we’re we’r ’ e planning pllanning i to t stay stay tonight. We’ve We’ve hiked hiked 10 miles so far and it’s it’s almost 4pm, 4 , so this is not great great news. news. A better better t scenario scenario is presented presented by by our map, map p, the distance distance key key of which suggests it is 2.75 miles. miles.

The park sign says saays y 4.5 miles, miles, though it cautions cautions in big block block letters lettters t “SSTRENUOUS TRENUOUS.” (We (We bought bought the recommended reccommended map, map, a two-parter two -parter putt out by by the Sempervirens S Semp ervir i ens Fund, Fund, d which whi h built b il the h Skyline-to-the-Sea trail Skyline-to -the-Sea trai il and helps maintain maintain it. Mapmakers Mapmakers e absolve absolve themselves themselves of any an ny rresponsibility esp ponsibility with a fine-print fine-print note that reads: reads: “This map is not mean to be be a substitute for fo or official maps provided proviided by by park agencies. hiking, current agencies. When hiking g, have haave curr ent maps available avvailable and check ch heck with rangers on duty duty for fo or current cu urrent trail conditions.” conditions.” Helpful.)

In any have choice, an ny case, case, we ha h ave no choic h i e, so we start off. start off ff.. The trail cuts c down and back up through through gullies gulliies and ridges, ridges, one after the other after aft fter the other. other.

At scoff warning, At the start, start, we sc off at a the w arning, figuring the “strenuous” “strenuou us” was was meant to deter the less serious (unlikee seriou us types types (unlik ourselves), ourselves), and now we w are are being being punished for for o our hubris hubrris by by this series of demanding elevation elevatio on gains and losses that are are str strenuous enuo ous indeed. W Wee spend spend the ne next xt thr three ee hours h chasing the sun. A ffold old o of mou mountain untain will begin begin to get progressively progressivvely darker, darker, then we’ll we’ll summit a ri ridge idge and buy ourselves ourselves another 30 minutes m of light before beffo ore our trail falls f into shade once once more. more.

When When we we fi finally nally reach reach Sunset Sunset Trail Trail Camp, Cam mp, the the sun sun has has just just sslipped lipped beneath beneath the horizon for for o the last time that day, daay, and the chalk chalky, ky, madr madroneoneshaded shad ded fl floor oor o off tthe he ccampground am mpground iiss sstill till warm. waarm. As As mid-week campers cam mpers tonight, like like last lasst n night, ight, w wee h have ave tthe he w whole hole place place to to ourselves, ourselves, if if you you d don’t on’t ccount ount the swarms swaarms of mosquit mosquitoes. toes. W Wee set up camp, camp, cook cook and and devour devour a pot pot of of chili chili while in turn being being devoured devoured by by the little little buggers, buggers, all all before before we we realize realize that that

there is no water there water a at the ccampsite. ampsite.

“Put that thaat in your your article,” article,” Matt Matt says saayys for for o the the ffourth o ourth time that day, daay, in the same tone one would use to tell t another to o put that in their pipe pipe and smoke smoke it,, or to put it where where the sun don’t don’t shine. s shine . Map miles didn’t didn’t add up? “Put “P Put that in yyour our article!” article!”

Ruthless mosquitoes?

Ruthless u mosquito m es? “You “Y Yo ou should put that in n your your article, article, too.” too.” As As if the be—the state th powers powerrs that th t b e—the th st tate t park k district,, Caltrans, Caltrans a , Mother Nature— Nature— would read read d it and adjust their behavior behaavvior ac aaccordingly. cordinglyy.

The second second o night, hiding fr from om mosquitoes mosquitoes e in the tent, I take take out my my notebook notebook and write: “The Skyline-toSkyline-to the-Sea trail: Grievances.” the-Sea tra ail: A List of Grie vances.”

Proximity Highway Proximiity to High way Map-Sign Map -Siggn Mileage Disparities Mosquitoes M Mosquit itoes No Water No Wat ter The next day next x da ay I’ll add “Boars?” to the list. In the middle of the night we wake wake up u to ferocious feerocious snorting snorting and rustling rustlin ng a few few feet feeet from from our tent; when it’s discover it’s llight ight out we disc over the Ziploc Ziploc bags baggs we’d we’d stashed stashed our dirty dirty dishes in are a e punctured ar punctured by by teeth marks, we’d marks, 10 feet feeet from from where where we ’d left them. park spoke h A pa ark k ranger we later l spok ke to reckoned reckoneed that we actually had raccoons, he said can raccoons, which w can grow grow up to the size of small dogs here. dogs out her e.

“And ‘Don’t “A And ‘D Don’t forget for o get your your bear bear canister!’ gotta canister!’’ You You o got ta put that in yyour our article Mattt says article too,” too,” Mat saays y as we start start the descent out day three. descent ou ut of ccamp amp on da ay thr ee.

Advice for Advice for Beginners B Begin inners Coming upon Coming upo p n iitt ffrom rom behind, behind, Golden Golden Cascade, C ascade, tthe he fi first rst o off tthree hree waterfalls waterffalls o on n the trail that th hat connects connects Sunset Camp Camp with the final fin nal stretch stretch of the Skyline-toSk kyline y -tothe-Sea the -Sea tra trail, ail,, does does not look look like like much.

It app appears ears to t b bee barely barely more more than a ttrickle rickle and and a murky murky shade shade almost almost the the ccolor olor of bil bile. le. By this time we should know b better, ettte ter, though,, than to have haave any an ny eexpectations. xpectation i ns.

In a sing single gle twist twist of trail, suddenly spr spreading eading out before beffo ore us is the kind of breathtakingly, br eathtakiinglyy, hear heart-stoppingly, t-stoppinglyy, jawjaaww droppingly dr oppinglyy b beautiful eautiful landscape landscape that it is eas easyy to o fforget orget eexists o xists outside of

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CCooking ookingg Lite Lite Cooking par Cooking paraphernalia aphhernalia can often str strain ain the capacity of even the lar largest gest pack—remember pack—r emembber when people took toook cast iron iron pans iinto nto the high countr country? ry?

TThe he GS GSII H HALULITE A LU L I T E MINIMALIST MI NIMALIST go goes es direction, the other dir ecttion, with a pot and lid converts combo that con nverts into an insulated silicone mug. TThe he silicon ne pot gripper is designed to pr prevent event finge finger er burns, and the system comes with a “f “foon,” foon,” which is a lot lighter Runs (and one letter shorter) than a spork. R uns canister extra. $25; the fuel ca nister is extr a.

Pack P aack Knack John M John Muir uir ffamously amously adv advised vised wilderness types to “thr “throw ow a loaf of o br bread ead and a pound of tea in an old sack s and jump over the back ffence.” ence.” TToday’s ooday’ss campers need a bit mor moree in the way of pr pprovisions, ovisions, which is why a stur dyy, capacio us but lightweight sturdy, capacious backpack is a bedr ock essential. e TThe he bedrock VER TO 26 P ACK from from the the North North Face finds VERTO PACK the sweet spot between n minimal weight and maximal toughness toughness. s. A bit more more weight can be jettisone jettisoned ed because the pack also work workss as a stuff stu uff sack for for your sleeping l i bag. b R Runs uns around arou undd $69. $69

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Can Y Can You oouu See Me Now? Now? w For the natur naturee lover who literally liter ally wants to be one with nature, natur e, conside considerr the GGHILLIE HILLIE SUIT (about a $100 and up in various combinations).

TThis his ingenious ffashion ashion statement dr drapes apes the wearer wearer in en enough nough fr fronds, onds, tendrils and ffoliage oliage to makee Swamp Swamp Thing Thing stick out metrosexual Okefenokee. like a metr osexual in O kefenokee. enokee TThe he rreal eal purpose of such garments is to going dangerous hunting ffor or “thee most danger ous game,” but they would pr obably do just as well ffor or probably some innocent bird bird watching.

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The festivities started on June 25 with men’s and women’s Volo tournaments at Campo’s Livermore facilities, and arrived in Los Gatos on June 27.

It was a major coup for Campo di Bocce, which started out as a small family-owned business and has grown to become one of the biggest names in bocce ball in the United States. Since it first opened its doors in 1997, it has hosted several regional, national and international bocce competitions.

Part of the widespread appeal and growing reputation of bocce lies in its simplicity. The game begins when one member of a two-, three- or four-person team rolls the pallina (small ball) out onto the court.

The point of the game is to roll the bocce (big ball) as close to the pallina as possible. The team closest to the pallina gets a point for each of its balls that are “inside” the other team’s closest ball.

And that’s pretty much it.

To accomplish this, players may choose to roll a gentle puntata,

smash an opponent’s ball with a fast raffa or deliver a high flying volo with varying amounts of backspin.

Anyone can participate in bocce regardless of age, gender or athletic ability. However, bocce’s simplicity does not deprive the game of its competitive edge. Campo di Bocce’s motto sums it up quite nicely: “Bocce takes five minutes to learn, but a lifetime to master!”

“The last person you’d think to be good bocce ball player is usually the best,” says Campo’s Thomas D. Martino.

Because it is so easy to play, bocce ball is extremely popular worldwide.

It is the third-most-popular ball sport in the world, right behind soccer and golf, according to Martino. It is also one of the fastestgrowing ball sports in the United States, with more than 25 million bocce players participating in what Martino calls the “bocce movement.”

And because bocce comes from Italy, it is entirely acceptable if players use their free hand for a glass of wine. (Campo di Bocce does double duty as a wine bar and Italian restaurant with a nice menu and excellent wine list.) And with plans to host the 2012 World Bocce Championship, Campo di Bocce is reinforcing its reputation as a haven for professional bocce players as well as beginners.

The competition continues this week 8am-6pm and closes with an awards ceremony and dinner event Saturday from 6-10pm at Campo di Bocce, 565 University Ave., Los Gatos.

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CALIFORNIA CAFE New American. $$$. An innovative approach to Pacific Rim staples makes for some lovely surprises. The ace service matches the smart setting.

Full bar. 11:30am-10pm MonFri, 10:30am-10:30pm Sat, 10:30am-9:30pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.8118.

DIO DEKA Greek. $$$.

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

FORBES MILL STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. When Metro first checked in with Forbes Mill in 2003, it was called “a big, burly brasserie equipped with style as well as substance.” It’s holding up well and still does things in a big way. 5-9pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 206 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6434.

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

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

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

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

LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Brewpub. $$$. Most brewpubs seem to be cooking from the same menu, but executive chef Jim Stump has created a diverse menu of upscale comfort food that goes well beyond burgers and grilled-chicken sandwiches. The handsome wood-accented interior and open kitchen with its wood-fired pizza oven and rotisserie grill add to the restaurant’s appeal. Breakfast 10am-2pm Sat-Sun; lunch 11:30am-3pm; dinner 5-9pm daily. 130 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9929.

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

TAPESTRY Contemporary haute. $$$. Right on the main street, this cottagelike spot blends traditional French cooking with contemporary fusion: filet mignon with Mongolian-style brown sauce; crayfish chow mein. Elegant and friendly.

11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm TueSat, 5-9pm Sun. 11 College Ave. 408.395.2808.

THREE DEGREES Eclectic, California. $$$. Set inside the beautifully remodeled Toll House Hotel, Three Degrees delivers a mixed bag of big and small plates from an eclectic menu. Some dishes, like the New York steak, are great, but others fall flat.

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

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

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

Hands-on management makes each patron feel pampered.

Full bar. 5pm-close daily. 160 W. Main St. 408.354.8108.

VIVA LOS GATOS NEIGHBORHOOD EATERY California. $$$. This popular Los Gatos restaurant mixes it up with Italian-leaning Mediterranean food, fresh fish, grilled steaks and several Asian-inspired dishes. 11am9:30pm Mon-Fri, 8am-10:30pm Sat, 8am-9:30pm Sun. 15970 Los Gatos Blvd. 408.356.4902.

WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$. Silicon Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the definitive upwardly mobile California pizza.

Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian wood-fired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas—delicate, light and satisfying. Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too.

11:30am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.5566. www.willowstreet.com.

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

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Raw milk is simply milk that hasn’t been pasteurized or homogenized. The milk goes from the cow straight to the bottle. Given our industrial food system that process freaks some people out. Isn’t milk from a cow kinda dirty? If it comes from the typical confinement dairy operation where the cows stomp around in mud and feces all day, you better believe it’s dirty—positively teeming with pathogens and nasty bacteria. That’s what the pasteurization is for. Heating the milk to about 145 degrees kills most (but not all!) of the nasty bugs. The process also happens to kill any of the beneficial bacteria and enzymes.

Raw milk, on the other hand, is alive with beneficial bacteria and enzymes. It’s hypoallergenic. It doesn’t produce lactose intolerance (pasteurized milk does). It promotes digestion. And it contains beneficial ratios of fatty acids. “If the cow is in the right set of conditions—green pastures, sun, no use of antibiotics—if the water being used to wash her and for drinking is clean and she’s eating the right kind of forage, the milk she is producing should be safe to drink,” says McAfee.

The way he describes it, there are two kinds of milk: raw milk fit for human consumption and raw milk not fit for human consumption.

The latter kind is the milk that gets pasteurized and is what most of us drink. Mark’s cattle live their lives eating grass and also happen to live about four times longer than the typical dairy cow, because they’re fed a healthier diet (i.e., grass) and not milked as frequently. And they don’t need antibiotics to keep them well.

All the confusion and fear about raw milk benefits big industrial dairies, milk processors (the guys who do the pasteurization and homogenization) and the Food and Drug Association (the guys who regulate the industry). However, the confusion and fear do not benefit consumers or cows. Of course, there are dairies who sell raw milk that should not, because of poor practices, but a Grade A–certified dairy like Organic Pastures, which is certified organic and accredited by Animal Welfare Approved for its humane treatment of its livestock, should put your mind at ease. The state tests the dairy’s milk, but Mark says he does his own testing 20 times a month.

McAfee’s business is growing about 20 percent a year and he’s about to launch the Raw Milk Institute, an industry advocacy group, to help other dairies go raw. “We see this really exploding,” he says.—Stett Holbrook

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AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. Meals unfold like a bolt of rare silk, served with care and efficiency in a rich, luminous interior. Dishes are complex and varied. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:45pm daily. 2290 El Camino Real. 650.968.7511.

AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza/Italian. $$. When it’s done right, East Coast pizza can be a glorious thing. Dough is rolled ultrathin and served noticeably charred on the sides and bottom, the ideal combination for a “foldable” slice on the go. It’s done right here. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am-11pm Sat, 11:30am-10pm Sun. 790 Castro St. 650.961.6666.

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BODRUM CAFE Turkish. $$.

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

CASCAL Spanish tapas. $$$. The tapas menu yields big tastes in small portions at this pan-Latin charmer.

Calamari, roasted quail and minted lamb meatballs are among the delicacies. Full bar. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Sun. 400 Castro St. 650.940.9500.

CHAAT PARADISE Vegetarian Indian. $. Golden spices predominate at this popular spot for inexpensive, fun-to-eat traditional Indian fare. Casual shopping-center surroundings. 11:30-10pm Mon-Sun. 165 E. Camino Real.

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Szechuan. $$. A little surprise in the Blossom Valley Center promises uptown ambience, spotless surroundings and wellpresented classical Chinese cuisine. 1760 Miramonte Ave. 650.968.2298.

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DON GIOVANNI Italian. $$$.

This pumpkin-hued eatery faces the bustling downtown with a handsome demeanor of mahogany and candlelight.

Full bar. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 235 Castro St. 650.961.9749.

LE PETIT BISTRO Classic French. $$. There’s a lot to like about this pinch of a place with its simple, practiced French cuisine and quiet dining. Casual. Beer, wine.

5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 1405 W. El Camino Real. 650.964.3321.

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

Go for the house specialty kuro ramen or the soy sauce ramen. Beer and wine. Cash only. 11:30am-2:30pm, 510pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am-10pm Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 368 Castro St. 650.564.9931.

NAMI NAMI Japanese. $$$. Nami Nami specializes in kappo-style Japanese food, prepared in the artful, labor-intensive, seasonally driven style associated with the city of Kyoto. For diners willing to open their minds and mouths, it offers one of the most exciting restaurant experiences in the Bay Area.

11:30am-2pm Tue-Sun, 7-10pm Tue-Thu and 6-11pm Fri-Sat. 240 Castro St. 650.964.6990.

NETO CAFFE AND BAKERY Cafe. $$. Neto Caffe and Bakery is a busy, good-looking space that has a happy buzz about it. There’s a little bit of everything including a number of Middle Eastern specialties.

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

PHO TO CHAU Vietnamese noodle house. $. The pho here is an honest noodle soup. Firsttimers might want to stick with the basic pho chin, topped with slices of beef brisket. 11am-10pm daily. 853 Villa St. 650.961.8069.

THE SPICE ISLANDS CAFE Singaporean, Malaysian, Indonesian. $$. This restaurant will send your taste buds to the tropics. Talented chefs put out dishes full of spice and passion, like jumbo chile prawns, papaya

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salad and Malaysian spareribs.

The menu is expansive. 210 Hope St. 650.960.1888.

SUSHI TOMI Japanese. $$.

Sushi Tomi serves Japanese food with an elegant simplicity. Sushi and sashimi are ocean fresh. For a real treat, ask for an omakase dinner and let the chef put together a tasting menu for you. Lunch 11:30am-2pm daily; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 635 W. Dana St. 650.968.3227.

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

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

Dessert lives up to the rest of the meal. 11:30am-2pm MonFri, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9:30pm Sun. 108 Castro St. 650.940.1717.

XANH RESTAURANT Modern Vietnamese. $$.

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

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

YAKKO Japanese, sushi bar. $$. A pairing of swift service with an exotic range of sushi and udon makes this a favorite among sushi lovers. 11:30am-2pm MonSun, 5:30-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 5:30-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 975 W. Dana St. 650.960.0626.

ZUCCA Mediterranean. $$.

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

11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sun. 186 Castro St. 650.864.9940.

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French. $$$. The only problem with the menu is that it’s all tempting. Using seasonal produce, the chef allows flavors to speak for themselves.

11:30am-1:30pm Tue-Fri, 5:309:30pm Tue-Sat. 448 California Ave. 650.327.0284.

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BISTRO MAXINE Cafe. $$.

Bistro Maxine is a bright, friendly little spot, a coffee shop and creperie rolled into one. If you’re lucky, you’ll snag one of the five indoor or two outdoor tables while perusing the long but straightforward menu. 8am-2pm 6-10pm Tue-Fri, 9am-4pm Sun. 548 Ramona St. 650.323.1815.

BUCA DI BEPPO Nondesigner ItalianAmerican. $$. Like a Sicilian Christmas carnival in the ’50s, this party spot blends clutter, joy, high spirits and, oh yes, huge portions. 11am10pm Sun-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 643 Emerson St. 650.329.0665.

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

Breakfast 9-11am, lunch 11am-3pm, dinner 5:309:30pm Mon-Fri; brunch 9am-3pm, dinner 5:30-10pm Sat-Sun. 445 California Ave. 650.326.8640.

CAFFE RIACE Trattoria. $$.

An absolute joy. Every dish is made with honest expertise— no tricky trendiness here.

The homey offerings are based on wholesome Italian staples. Beer, wine. 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sun. 200 Sheridan Ave. 650.328.0407.

CALAFIA CAFE AND MARKET A GO-GO Eclectic. $$. Calafia Cafe and Market A Go-Go combines elements of the fast-food world and the labor-intensive slow cooking of more-high-end restaurants.

Chef and owner Charlie Ayers (who was Google’s first chef) calls his concept “slow food

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fast”—good-to-eat and good-for-you food that he hopes will appeal to Silicon Valley’s frenetic, too-busyto-eat pace of life. Look for good burgers, pizza, salads and fresh fish. 11am-9pm Mon-Fri, 9am-9pm SatSun. 858 El Camino Real.

650.322.9200.

COUPA CAFE Venezuelan. $$. Venezuela is best known for its oil production and resilient populist president; Coupa shines attention on the country’s premium coffee and chocolate. The beautiful storefront also serves excellent arepas, white corn griddle cakes stuffed with various fillings. 7am-11pm daily. 538 Ramona St. 650.322.6872.

EMPIRE GRILL & TAP ROOM California grill. $$. Waiters with charm to spare, an energetic clientele and a menu packed with grilled, roasted and smoked intensity make Empire Grill much more than simply a smart place to sip a cosmopolitan.

Tue-Sun 11:30am-10pm. 651 Emerson St. 650.321.3030.

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

FUKI SUSHI Japanese. $$$.

For over two decades this superb Japanese restaurant has served sushi to Nobel laureates and other grateful foodies. Open daily. 4119 El Camino Real. 11:30am-10pm Tue-Sun. 650.494.9383.

GORDON BIERSCH New American. $$$. Food takes equal billing with ambience and fine handmade beers at the first in this group of successful brewpubs. The menu is so fine-tuned, though, it could thrive even without a brewery attached. 11:30am-10pm daily.

640 Emerson St. 650.323.7723.

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GREEN ELEPHANT GOURMET Burmese. $$.

Burmese food draws influences from its three largest neighbors: China, India and Thailand.

Standouts here include the

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coconut chicken soup, tangy tea leaf salad and refreshing glass noodle salad. Lunch 11am-2:30pm, dinner 4:309pm daily. 3950 Middlefield Rd (Charleston Shopping Center).

650.494.7391.

GYROS GYROS Mediterranean. $. The lunch crowd turns out in force to grapple with the oversize, and messy, lamb and beef gyros, chicken gyros and other treats.

That’s especially true on sunny afternoons, when the sidewalk tables fill with folks downing the juicy sandwiches. 11am11pm daily. 498 University Ave. 650.327.0107.

JUNNOON Contemporary Indian. $$$. This attractive Palo Alto restaurant serves eclectic modern Indian food, the kind you might get at an upscale restaurant in Bangalore or Mumbai. You could easily make a meal from the great selection of appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm and 5:30-10pm Mon-Fri, 5:30-10:30pm Sat. 150 University Ave. 650.329.9644.

LA BODEGUITA DEL MEDIO Cuban/California. $$$. Themed after a vintage Havana haunt of Ernest Hemingway’s, this zesty restaurant serves lively Cuban-influenced cuisine along with liquid staples like rum and mojitos in a handsome, casual atmosphere.

Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-9:30pm MonThu, 5:30-10pm Fri-Sat. 463 S.California Ave. 650.326.7762.

LAVANDA Mediterranean. $$$. This urban grill at the top of University Avenue offers eclectic, small tasting plates, along with heartier fare such as roasted sea bass with chanterelle mushrooms and guinea fowl with sautéed chard.

11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun, 510pm Mon-Thu, 5-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 185 University (at Emerson). 650.321.3514.

MANTRA French, American and Indian. $$$. Mantra serves inventive French and American food that speaks with an Indian accent. It isn’t fusion, but a more subtle blend of surprisingly compatible flavors and techniques. Lunch 11:30am-

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MAYFIELDBAKERYAND CAFE American. $$$. With its simple but handsome décor, open kitchen fronted by a long counter and tidy stacks of split almond logs tucked against the wall for the great smelling wood-burning oven, Mayfield Bakery and Cafe presents updated versions of seasonally driven Mediterranean and American classics—big, bold, rustic flavors and simple preparations that aim to let locally grown ingredients speak for themselves without any undue manipulation or pretence. You know the stuff: Niman Ranch burgers, spitroasted meats, frisée salads with crumbled bacon and a poached egg on top, pizzas, grilled fish, crusty, fresh bread and hearty, satisfying desserts. 8am-4pm and 5-9pm Mon-Fri; 9am-4pm and 5-9pm Sat-Sun. 855 El Camino Real. 650.853.9200.

OSTERIA Italian. $$.

Authentic Italian cooking done by skilled chefs from Italy. Be sure to make a reservation, or you’ll be lucky to put a single foot through the door. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm MonFri, 5-10pm Mon-Sat. 247 Hamilton St. 650.328.5700.

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

QUATTRO RESTAURANT AND BAR Italian. $$$$.

Quattro Restaurant and Bar brings high-style, impeccably sourced Italian cuisine to the South Bay, an area that has about as many great Italian restaurants as it does snow days. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Sun, lunch 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Sat and dinner 5:30-10pm Mon-Sun. 2050 University Ave. 650.470.2889.

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REPOSADO Mexican. $$$.

Reposado offers modern, refined Mexican food served in a lively setting. The restaurant is easily one of Palo Alto’s most striking.

The soaring, exposed beam ceilings make the dining room feel at once industrial and inviting because of the warm colors, wood accents and dramatic light fixtures.

There’s a beautiful bar and cozy booth seating on one side and spacious table and banquette seating on the other. Great selection of tequila. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat and 11:30am-9pm Sun. 236 Hamilton Ave. 650.833.3151.

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

ST. MICHAEL’S ALLEY New California. $$$. Reservations are a must at this smart bistro, whose menu includes inventive potato, meat and seafood dishes that tilt toward New American cookery. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat; brunch 10am-2pm Sat-Sun. 806 Emerson St. 650.326.2530.

SHOKOLAAT Modern European. $$. Shokolaat’s open kitchen and pastry display counter are as gleaming and clean as a laboratory, a fitting setting for the restaurant’s technically precise, modern European cooking. Counter open 8am-9pm (to-go only 4-9pm); lunch 11:30am2pm Tue-Sun, dinner 5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun. 516 University Ave. 650.289.0719.

SPALTI RISTORANTE Italian. $$. Along with a handsome interior, Spalti offers good wine and sparkling flavors. Beer, wine. 11am-2pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Mon-Sun. 417 California Ave. 650.327.9390.

STRAITS CAFE Singapore exotica. $$. Blending culinary motifs from India, China and

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Thailand, the food of Singapore is anything but timid. The menu at Straits is lavish and diverse. Full bar. 11:30-2pm Mon-Fri, 5:30-9:30pm SunThu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 3295 El Camino Real. 650.494.7168.

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

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

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

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

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

VERO Italian. $$. Vero aims to offer truly authentic Italian food. The Palo Alto restaurant has had to make a few nods to American tastes but it mainly succeeds with its simple but satisfying food that’s a refreshing break from the same old pasta and pizza. 11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat. 530 Bryant St. 650.325.8376.

VINO LOCALE Italian bistro. $$. This restaurant focuses on locally produced Santa Cruz Mountain wines and small plates of food sourced from local purveyors and growers. On Thursdays, if you can guess all the varietals in your flight of wine, it’s free.

11am-9pm daily. 431 Kipling St. 650.328.0450.

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ANDY’S BAR-B-QUE Barbecue. $$. Andy’s Bar-BQue is the reincarnation of one of the South Bay’s best barbecue joints. Originally located in Campbell, Andy’s is still serving great oaksmoked meats to a dedicated following. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 3-9pm MonThu, 3-10pm Fri-Sat, 3-9pm Sun. 2367 El Camino Real.

408.249.8158.

ATHENA GRILL Greek. $$.

The Santa Clara restaurant serves the standards you’d expect, but the menu goes deeper and offers authentic Greek dishes you’re not likely to find elsewhere at bargain prices. 10:30am-9pm Mon-Fri. 1505 Space Park Dr. 408.567.9144.

BEQUE Korean. $$. Beque stands out on El Camino Real’s Korean restaurant row for its high style and modern design, but it’s the Korean barbecue, soups and noodles dishes that are the main attraction. 11am-10pm daily. 3060 El Camino Real.

408.260.2727.

BIRK’S American grill. $$$. What makes Birk’s stand out from the rest is a commitment to quality, freshness and hygiene.

Concentrate on the specials, or enjoy creative selections from the appetizer menu.

Full bar. 11:15am-2:30pm, 59:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm SatSun. 3955 Freedom Circle.

408.980.6400.

BY-TH-BUCKET American.

Valley, but it’s definitely typical Mexican food.

10am-11pm daily. 2323 The Alameda. 408.243.1357.

Sat-Sun; lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri. 2700 Mission College Blvd. 408.970.6104.

DONG TOFU CABIN Korean. $.

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

Asian noodle house. $. A good and friendly destination when one’s stomach screams for a three-course meal but one’s wallet has but $10, Pho boasts an ambitious menu of nearly 100 Vietnamese and Chinese items. 10am-9pm daily. 5025 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.249.1111.

HATCHO Japanese. $$.

Santa Clara’s Hatcho restaurant offers a little bit of everything. Restaurants that strive to be jacks-of-alltrades often end up being masters of none, but Hatcho displays a wide range of talent. 11:30am-2pm, 5:3010pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1271 Franklin Mall.

408.248.8500.

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

The Indian and Pakistani restaurant serves a good lunch buffet, and at dinner try the butter chicken, choley and tandoori chicken.

10:30am-2:30pm, 5:3010:30pm Tue-Sun. 1498 Isabella St. 408.247.0745.

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

99 CHICKEN Korean-style

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

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

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

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

CHALATECO Mexican and

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Salvadoran. $. Chalateco, a San Jose-based sixrestaurant chain, serves Mexico City-style Mexican food and a few Salvadoran dishes. That makes the food unlike the Mexican food typically served in Silicon

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$$$$. Parcel 104 casts a spell with its stridently seasonal, ingredient-driven menu of new American food. The restaurant is one of the South Bay’s must-eats. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri, 7-10am

PHO THANH LONG Vietnamese noodle house. $.

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

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

9am-9pm daily. 2045 White Oak Lane. 408.985.6464.

SHAN Pakistani and Indian. $. Shan serves a mix of northern Indian and Pakistani food. Unlike India, most of which is Hindu, Pakistan is Muslim, and that means that meat—chicken, beef, lamb, and goat—plays a starring role. Kebabs, Tandoori and curries all shine here. 11:30am-3pm, 5:3010pm daily. 5251 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.260.9200.

TOFU HOUSE Korean. $.

Soup stars at this casual, popular stop. To tofu soups, add mushrooms, beef, pork or seafood—plus scores of condiments like daikon, cucumber, radish. Hot stuff! 11am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri, 11am-9pm Sat. Closed Sun. 3450 E. El Camino Real #105.

408.261.3030.

YAN CAN FRESH ASIAN COOKING Chinese and panAsian. $$. At Yan Can you can have chicken satay, wonton soup, chicken teriyaki and Korean barbecue beef all in one sitting. This outpost of celebrity TV chef Martin

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*thu MONKEY Thursday Night Street Dance, Downtown Morgan Hill Thu – 7pm; free The Street Dance is Morgan Hill’s most popular music series, the kind of summer institution that inspires a minor South County riot any time there’s talk of changing it up or moving it. This week, there will be an extra helping of heels and elbows as San Jose’s Monkey gets the city skankin’.

Led by founder Curtis Meacham, the band continues to turn out deep traditional ska grooves as wave after wave of neo-skank and

ska-punk come and go. A decade and a half into their career, they’re still riding the wave of their best album, 2009’s Lost at Sea. (SP)

FROST HAMMER Caravan Lounge, San Jose Thu – 10pm; free If Danzig wrote songs about wizards and magical dwarves instead of zombies and Satan, he might have been invited to join Frost Hammer. It fact, it kind of sounds like he did, since their lead singer has a similar soulful, crooning voice, and the riffs are moody, blues-based classic headbangers that pack a punch. Some of the best parts are right there in between vocals, during the lengthy instrumental jams. There are tempo changes, intense buildups, heavy pounding chords and, of course, frantic guitar solos. (AC)

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BARB ROCKS BIRTHDAY BASH Britannia Arms Cupertino Fri – 9pm; $5 It’s become a tradition for local rock & roll promoter Barbara Wahli to host a show on her birthday every year. That’s the part she likes; what she’s more squeamish about is the newer tradition—basically forced on her by friends seeking to entertain themselves at her expense—of her singing a song with the band at a show. Earlier this year, she seemed to have decided to quit while she was ahead, but last week she confirmed to me it’s on

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Since this all-girl Sunnyvale cover band is pretty entertaining on its own—besides being named after the classic porn actress, they tend to throw themselves into their work—it should be quite a scene.

For the Broken and Insex Music also perform. (SP)

*sat RIKK AGNEW BAND Johnny V’s, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $5 It’s difficult to talk about hardcore punk’s formation during the early

’80s without mentioning Rikk Agnew. A multitalented musician, he played a major role in the SoCal scene with Social Distortion, the Detours, Adolescents, D.I. and Christian Death. Even today, the albums he played on continually influence and inspire angry kids looking for an outlet and are considered classics. Sporadic Spontaneous, Vacant Churches and the Quirx (members of Ribzy, Hayride to Hell and the Pimpsticks) open. (BD)

WARPED TOUR Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View Sat – 11am; $34 The funny thing about the Warped Tour is that even the newschoolers seem to be going for the old-school (or at least mid-school) punk. A couple of years ago, it

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

ANAT COHEN QUARTET

REV. HORTON HEAT

Stanford Jazz Festival, Jul 2 at 8pm, Stanf Campbell Recital Hall

DJ SKRATCHY Jul 2 at Studio 8 San Jose

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

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

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

MAYHEM FESTIVAL Jul 10 at 2:15pm, Shoreline

AMERICAN IDOL LIVE Jul 13 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

EDDIE IZZARD Jul 16 at 8pm, Shoreline

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

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Jack’s Mannequin, Simple Plan, Relient K, Paramore, Unwritten Law, the Devil Wears Prada and Gym Class Heroes are among those scheduled to perform. Black eyeliner is handed out free at the gate—oh wait, no, it only seems like it is. (SP)

PINK MARTINI Flint Center, Cupertino Sat – 8pm; $30-$75 Need a fresh perspective on what it means to be an American? Take a lesson from Harvard grad and

Pink Martini band leader Thomas M. Lauderdale, a guy whose music employs a veritable mixed drink (think Cosmopolitan) of sounds, resulting in a sort of international freeway where all the drivers speak different languages. The heterogeneous quality is, of course, the point. Lauderdale believes in a melting pot that swirls together sounds as well as cultures, with 1930s-era French jazz, Brazilian samba and Middle Eastern raga as just a few of the 13-piece Pink Martini’s choice ingredients. Their vocalist China Forbes is on an extended leave, undergoing surgery on her vocal cords, so for this show, which has them hooking up with the San Francisco Symphony, they’ll be fronted by Lucy Woodward. (AC)

*tue HORTON HEAT The Avalon, Santa Clara Tue – 8pm; $20 Johnny Horton would be proud.

The country musician from the late ’50s and early ’60s was one of the first to play rockabilly, and he started a craze during that time with “saga songs” and “historical ballads.” The Reverend Horton Heat, who borrowed the last name out of respect, carries on the tradition while crossing over into other genres, including punk, swing and big band. Swingin’ Utters and Ghost Town Hangmen also perform. (BD)

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

BLUES TRAVELER

STEELY DAN Mountain Winery, Saratoga Tue – 7:30pm; $65-$225 Steely Dan did their best to make right with fans in 2009 by touring Aja, an album that had never gotten a proper live vetting since the band had stopped performing by the time they recorded it in 1977. At the San Jose Civic, it was clear that every effort had been made to re-create the dense sonic wizardry of the album. It took up to 14 people on stage at a time, of course, but they got it right.

Those who felt that show was a little too specific in focus should dig their new Shuffle Diplomacy Twenty Eleven Tour, which features set lists chosen by fans online, across their entire catalog. I know, that means they’ll probably still be playing all of Aja, but ain’t nothing wrong with that. (SP)

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 Heritage Foundation, Aug 27-28, Guadalupe River and Gardens Park

DEVO Aug 27 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

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

BARENAKED LADIES Sep 19 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

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

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The popular Broadway musical about snarky puppets and people comes to town in a San Jose Stage Company production. WedThu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Jul 17. $25-$50. The Stage, San Jose.

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

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ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri-Sat, 9pm, Sun, 8pm: Dave Burleigh. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.

For summer, the company mounts four productions in repertory. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Around the World in 80 Daysâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;this week Thu, 7:30pm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Emperorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Clothesâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;no shows this week. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Servant of Two Mastersâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;this week Sat, 3 and 7:30pm, Sun, 3pm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Agatha Christieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Black Coffeeâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;this week Fri, 7:30pm, Sun, 3pm. The whole series runs thru Jul 24. $10$25. Sunnyvale Community Center Theater.

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DARWIN IN MALIBU

ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS

Crispin Whittellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy places Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley in presentday Malibu and lets the sparks ďŹ&#x201A;y. 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 Moliereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic take on the health care industry, bringing it to life in the era of glam rock.

Thu-Sat, 8pm. Runs thru Jul 2. $16-$20. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

A RAISIN IN THE SUN Pear Avenue Theatre does its take on Lorraine Hansberryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plays about an AfricanAmerican family in the 1950s in Chicago. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Jul 10. $15-$30. Pear Theatre, Mountain View.

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

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Wed, 8pm: Tinkle Time. $12.

Thu, 8pm: Funny Men of Buy More. $15. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Donnell Rawlings. $20. San Jose.

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Museums â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Abstract.â&#x20AC;? Abstract works by artists Paula Schales, Ewa Gavriellov and Neal Boor. Thru Jul 21. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Art of the Book.â&#x20AC;? A show about ďŹ ve ďŹ ne presses in the Bay Area. Thru Aug. 28. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Illustrated Title Pages: 1500-1900.â&#x20AC;? A show of 80 illustrated book pages from the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection.

Thru Oct 16. â&#x20AC;&#x153;True Colors: Rediscovering Pigments of Greco-Roman Marble Sculpture.â&#x20AC;? Thru Aug 7. WedSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am8pm. Stanford.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Natureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Botanical Legacy.â&#x20AC;? A show dedicated to the many biological specimens collected by the naturalist.

Runs thru Sep 11 at PaciďŹ c Hotel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebrating Local Artists.â&#x20AC;? Thru Sep 18 at Pasetta House, History Park, San Jose.

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Thru Sep 25. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Laboratory.â&#x20AC;?

The museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Beta Space hosts experimental shows. First exhibit features installations by Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa.

Runs thru Aug. 14. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art From India.â&#x20AC;? Thru Sep 4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention.â&#x20AC;?

Thru Jul 3. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Primary Structures.â&#x20AC;? A look at sculptural art knitting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Southwestern Banded Blankets: Three Cultures, One Horizon.â&#x20AC;? Thru Aug 7. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

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

Ongoing. Mon-Wed, 10am5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm.

San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART â&#x20AC;&#x153;Non-Traditional Landscapes.â&#x20AC;? Six artists display abstract images of landscape settings. Thru Jul 20. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fire Strokes, in Memory of Won Choe.â&#x20AC;? Paintings by Mirang Woone.â&#x20AC;? Thru Jul 10.

Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Runs Jul 2-Sep 10. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm.

San Jose.

and Martha Castillo. Thru Jul 16. Palo Alto.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Variations, Different Faces of the Same Place.â&#x20AC;? Oil paintings of Los Gatos by Riki R. Nelson. Los Gatos.

ANNO DOMINI â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art of Zines 2011.â&#x20AC;? With many examples from the publishing undergrounds.

Runs thru Jun 25. San Jose.

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Galleries OPENING GALLERY SARATOGA â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wild.â&#x20AC;? Photograph by Judy Bingman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Images Remembered.â&#x20AC;? Paintings by Dorothy Atkins. Jul 5-Jul 31.

Reception Jul 16, 2-6pm. TueSun, 11am-6pm. Saratoga.

METRO LOBBY â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Is Me: Dolls â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Drag.â&#x20AC;?

Works by Miss Oblivious.

Opens Fri. Metro, San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lift Off.â&#x20AC;? Works by SJSU Master of Fine Art grads.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Visions of Childhood.â&#x20AC;? A show of works by California women artists presented

by Peninsula Chapter of the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Botanical Art Exhibit.â&#x20AC;? Thru Jul 31. Reception Jun 30, 57pm. Woodside.

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MACLA â&#x20AC;&#x153;Navigations of the Fantastic.â&#x20AC;? A group show by Elizabeth Gomez, Betty Davis, Jose Arenas and Veronica Felix. Thru Aug 13. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon5pm. San Jose.

MAIN GALLERY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mysterious.â&#x20AC;? A show by six local artists. Thru Jul 3. WedSun, 10am-3pm. Redwood City.

MOHR GALLERY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cars, Gates and Landscapes.â&#x20AC;? Paintings by Alexis Grant. Thru Jul 31.

Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER GALLERY HOUSE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bird Song and Other Stories.â&#x20AC;?

Works by Trevlyn Williams

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Common Balance:

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Artist and UC–Santa Cruz lecturer Hannah uses this image and other scenes of international tragedy—South African shantytowns, a child buried in debris—and radically decontextualizes them in a way that makes viewers sit up and take notice.

But she doesn’t splatter them with blood or add more grotesque details for simple shock value; instead, Hannah adds flowers—romantic, luxurious, full-bodied flowers.

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The images of war occupy only the smallest space in most of her pieces, while the flowers grow to extravagant proportions. Her paper canvases run large, up =iXd\j f] NXi to 6 feet high, and two of her installations cover four walls each. One of them, titled (embedment), Runs through displays a small room wallpapered with Hannah’s Sept. 10 gorgeous floral paintings, and fragments of the San Jose Institute of Amerli image are framed and hung, like family Contemporary Art photos on someone’s grandmother’s wall. That is, if the colors on her wall were reminiscent of army camouflage—browns, greens and golds swirl around the room—and the people in the frames were survivors of the Amerli attack.

Frames of War, however, doesn’t just make an ironic comment on desensitization and violence in the media; that would be too easy.

Hannah’s work does critique our indifference, but it also offers a poignant eulogy to these disasters. It’s important to note that while the images of war are artistically reproduced and literally placed in a bed of roses, the images themselves are not romanticized or even much changed. Despite the lavishness of Hannah’s paintings, we are still confronted with the less beautiful reality of what has happened in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon. Like flowers at an unmarked grave, Hannah’s work reminds us of, and honors, what we may have forgotten.—Sarah Suksiri

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metroactive ARTS 40 Impossible Dream’n.” A sculptural installation in the Project Space Gallery in the form of a “grow lab” investigating biodiversity.

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

MOUNTAIN VIEW CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Paintings by Gail Ragains.

Thru Aug 22. Mountain View.

OLIVE HYDE ART GALLERY “Hobnob.” A show featuring OHAG scholarship winners.

Thru Jul 2. Thu-Sun, noon5pm. Fremont.

PHANTOM GALLERIES “Defragmentation 66.” An installation by Michele Guieu. Thru Jul 23. Storefront windows on South First Street, San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Frames of War.” Works by Hanna Hannah. Thru Sep 10. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

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

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

*books JAMES FADIMAN

A talk by the author of “The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Therapeutic and Sacred Journeys.” Thu, 7pm. Free.

Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

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CHILDREN’S THEATRE IN THE PARK A weekly family show presented by Peninsula Youth Theater. This week: “Henny Penny.” 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 thru Jul 16. (Call 650.463.4970 for tickets.) Palo Alto.

*events FARMERS’ MARKET

The downtown weekly market is open for summer. Fri, 10am2pm. San Pedro Square, San Jose.

HOT SAN JOSE NIGHTS Five evenings of nonstop entertainment from Bay Area entertainers begins next week, plus almost 1,000 classic hot rods and specialty vehicles on display, a poker walk, a swap meet and an auction. Runs Jul 6–10. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose.

PIONEER DAY Get into the spirit of California’s history with gold panning, roll hoops, butter churning and more. Sun, 11:30am-3:30pm. History Park, San Jose.

4th of *July THE COUNTER FOURTH A holiday barbecue with Music in the Park outside the Counter, a burger place. $15.

Mon, 1-6pm. Park Valencia, Santana Row.

CUPERTINO FOURTH A pancake breakfast, hosted by the De Anza Optimist Club, plus a children’s parade at Memorial Park at 10am and fireworks at 9:30pm. Mon. Cupertino.

FREMONT FOURTH OF JULY PARADE Patriotic parade with floats and bands. Mon, 10am. Warm Springs Boulevard, South Fremont.

GILROY FIREWORKS Annual salute. Mon, 9:15pm.

Gilroy High School.

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Cracked Up GREAT TRAIN ROBBERIES Shootouts, duels and other blazing re-enactments will demonstrate why the West was wild. Sat-Mon. Roaring Camp Railroad, Felton.

INDEPENDENCE DAY AT ARDENWOOD A look back at how people used to celebrate the holiday.

Mon. Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont.

LOS GATOS FOURTH An old-fashioned celebration with red-white-and-blue trimming and a traditional band concert featuring the San Jose Wind Symphony. Mon. Free. Downtown Los Gatos.

MILPITAS JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION Red, White and Boom!

Annual fireworks display, plus live music, a pool party and a barbecue. Free. Sports Center, Milpitas.

MORGAN HILL FREEDOM FEST With a parade at 11am and all the traditional trappings.

Event includes a 5k and onemile run/walk and family festival, plus fireworks. Mon. Free. Fourth and Monterey streets, Morgan Hill.

PALO ALTO CHILI COOK-OFF AND SUMMER FESTIVAL Music, dancing, food vendors, kids’ activities and lots of chili vying for top prizes. Mon, noon-5pm; free. Mitchell Park, Palo Alto.

REDWOOD CITY FAMILY 4TH Presented by Peninsula Celebration Association, with a parade, festival and fireworks. Mon, 9am-5pm; parade starts at 10am. Free.

Downtown Redwood City.

ROSE, WHITE & BLUE PARADE An old-fashioned family patriotic event, kicking off with a parade and continuing with an antique and classic car show, live music and more.

Mon. Parade at 10am, festival at 11am. Hanchett Avenue and The Alameda, San Jose.

SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY AND FIREWORKS A concert and sky show. Mon,

MARK ARNOLD’S If You’re Cracked, You’re Happy is not just the best book about the history of Cracked magazine, it’s near certain to be the only book about it. “Did anyone besides me wonder or care?” Los Gatos’ Arnold asks. Cracked was Mad magazine’s most long-lasting rival. In fact, writing or drawing for Cracked meant instant blacklisting from Mad. Cracked editor Mort Todd, a major source for the book, said, “Yeah, Bill Gaines hated us. He must have figured every issue we sold was $1.49 out of his own pocket.”

Cracked survived almost 50 years, while never being what most people would call funny. It is back in the public eye as the sire of a highly witty website, whose current management wouldn’t talk to Arnold about the magazine. No respect. Still, @] PflÊi\ Cracked got them on the way up and the way :iXZb\[# down: Spider-Man creator Steve Ditko, Dan Clowes and Peter Bagge all worked there. Mostly, John PflÊi\ ?Xggp Severin was the magazine’s workhorse, sometimes drawing 50 pages an issue. Cracked’s biggest fish was

By Mark Arnold “Mad’s Maddest Artist,” the late-career Don Martin.

Two volumes, If, as artist Jack Davis said, “low prestige and low $34.95 each pay” was the lot of the Cracked contributor, at least Bear Manor Media Martin was at long last able to license and sell his own art work in his sunset years, which was not the case at Mad, Arnold writes.

Of the two volumes, the second has the more boggling tales of the fringes of publishing. As the new century begins, the tottering Cracked sprouts typos galore and seeks relevance by becoming a lad’s magazine. And it elbows aside venerable white-clad mascot Sylvester P. Smythe in favor of a hulking Jersey thug with a sideways baseball cap. This cartoon bruiser is seen advertising stickers in 2001: “Phat Cracked Collector Signs with ’Tude!”

Cracked’s own modest budget is reflected in these two volumes’ production values. Illustrating material is tiny and sometimes distorted with moiré, and the editing is hasty. Still, the book includes the most thorough checklist of Cracked’s features ever made, and a “Where are they now” section.—Richard von Busack

8pm. Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View.

SAN JOSE GIANTS The local minor-league home-runners host a fireworks display following their game against the Modesto Nuts. Mon, 6:30pm.

San Jose Municipal Stadium.

SANTA CLARA ALL-CITY PICNIC Family-friendly Fourth, beginning with a pancake breakfast, followed by dancing,

a flag dedication, jump houses, face painting, carnival games and more. Mon, 8am-5pm.

Central Park, Santa Clara.

SARATOGA INDEPENDENCE DAY A 10th annual observance of our nation’s independence from England, featuring patriotic music and children’s fun, presented by Saratoga Historical Foundation. Mon, 9:30am-noon. Free. Kevin Moran City Park, Saratoga.

TAHITI FETE OF SAN JOSE Featuring a Tahitian dance competition, plus food and crafts. Fri-Mon. SJSU Event Center.

WORLD’S SHORTEST PARADE Preceded by a pancake breakfast and followed by a party in the park. Mon; pancake breakfast at 7:30am, parade at 10am and party at noon. Free. Soquel and State Park drives, Aptos.

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resourceful, romantic but completely crooked Riva (Patsha Bay). Not far behind Riva is a white-suited crime boss, César (Hoji Fortuna), who wants the gas back. The boss extorts a lesbian soldier named Malou into helping him find Riva.

Riva, seemingly because he doesn’t have enough heat on him already, starts macking on a kept woman played by Marlene Longange, all heavy eyelids and pouting lower lip.

Her keeper is a vicious local gangster.

This breathless Jim Thompson–style tale is full of triple-crosses, and even the local priests are on the take.

A scene explaining why Riva took the wrong path isn’t all that necessary; all we have to do is see the city to know why he’s gone bad. Vast as it is, Kinshasa glows by firelight during one of the many power failures. Some swank colonial balconies and rotting,

absurd, Florida-style villas remain from the Mobutu kleptocracy. The nightclubs are hot and lively, with gold and silver lamé shimmering in the bronze light or magenta neon wriggling through wavy glass bricks.

Viva Riva! isn’t a cheap holiday in other people’s misery. Munga isn’t drunk on torture, and he’s more into delivering information than raw sensation. The editing is mesmerizingly efficient; you aren’t allowed a chance to look away.

In one scene, the memory of the Congo fight between Ali and Foreman (memorialized in the documentary When We Were Kings) gets referenced in a poster. Debs Gardner-Paterson’s Africa United has a character called Foreman, named in honor of the Rumble in the Jungle. Maybe having the loser in that bout as a namesake is the reason why he had trouble.

Part of the From Britain With Love series, Africa United begins with the novel use of a condom. A child who knows what he’s doing can inflate it, wrap it with a plastic shopping bag, tie it snugly with twine: voila, a soccer ball.

The bright Rwandan orphan kid Dudu (Eriya Ndayambaje) is the child “manager” of his buddy, a more affluent young football hopeful.

The problem is that they have to get to the World Cup in South Africa, without money or papers. As they make their way south, they pick up fellow travelers, each representing the challenges facing Africa—a traumatized former child soldier (the aforementioned Foreman) and an underage bar girl among them.

Dudu’s sister, who wants to be a doctor, represents the hope of the future; we know she is, because the film literally tells us she is the hope of the future.

The screen gets soaked in African landscapes during the 3,000-mile journey with fine footage of the great lakes and guest appearances by a hippo, a leopard, a lion and a zebra.

Dudu is a storyteller, so there are cartoon intervals that address, in sideways fashion, some of the other problems in Africa: malaria and lack of sanitation, among them.

In short, it’s one “jai ho!” away from turning into Slumdog Millionaire. Bright kids might be interested; if it weren’t for nerves about the readymade condom project at the beginning, a distributor probably would have picked this up already.

Africa United has only one problem: It’s absolutely shameless.

Dudu is hiding something, hiding it with a kind of smiling-throughthe-tears bravery at its most schmaltzy.

So you’re given a choice between fantasies—all wise child or utterly fearless gangster. Why one decides in favor of Viva Riva! is the not the scenery but the texture. Africa United gives you 3,000 miles that goes a few inches deep, whereas Viva Riva! takes you to an unimaginably bad capital city, and you sink into it.

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(2011) Slouchy, mean and as oddly unfunny as its star when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s off his game. Seth Rogenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Britt Reid is a trust-fund case, purposeless until he meets the ingenious Kato (Asian musical phenom Jay Chou).

Rogen bullies both Chou and the film. As the beard, Cameron Diaz is treated with what could only be described as contempt. (Plays Jun 30 at sundown in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square; free.) (RvB)

BUCK (PG; 88 min.) See review on page 46.

LARRY CROWNE (PG-13; 99 min.) Tom Hanks stars as a laid-off big-box-store employee who learns to rebound thanks to community college classes taught by Julia Roberts.

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Bucking the System EVERY REALLY good teacher is, in part, a performer. And if they’re a great teacher, their mask never slips. It’s because what such a teacher has to teach isn’t an ordinary curriculum but a way of life.

Buck Brannaman, subject of the excellent documentary Buck, spends most of the year driving through the West. He holds clinics on the gentling of out-of-control horses.

An inspiration for the novel and the movie The Horse Whisperer, Brannaman had been a rodeo performer from early childhood. Despite success as a young lariat artist (he starred in a Sugar Pops commercial), his stage-managing father beat the boy and his brother so viciously that the county had to intervene.

Apparently, Brannaman conquered the kind of rage and fear this experience must have induced. Buck is most startling in the way we see the magic happen.

Temperamental, misbehaving horses aren’t broken; rather, they’re tamed in front of us. Brannaman speaks of avoiding “rudeness” to them.

Finally, this instructor’s methods and courage are tested by a real hell-horse: a huge, brain-damaged stallion from a ranch outside of Chico, whose killer rage is like nothing you’ve ever seen. It’s a testament

to Brannaman’s ability that he didn’t suggest what some of the audience must have been thinking: That horse needs to be calmed down with a Winchester. Buck’s encounter with this maddened creature stimulates his most philosophical words about the relations between horses and humans.

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Redford admits he thought Opens Friday that was the case when Camera 7 meeting Buck, who was Campbell dressed up in hat, fringed chaps and spotless Western threads, during a pre-production meeting before the movie of The Horse Whisperer.

The documentary respects the limits of its subject. Director Cindy Meehl polishes Brannaman but never goes against his grain. And she leaves alone the question of how Buck’s brother survived the abuse, although there is a visual postscript mentioning the man. (It’s understood. If someone as intense as Buck Brannaman asked for privacy, you’d probably give it to him.) Buck is quite a show about quite a teacher and quite a showman. Even the cynical have to admit this phenomenally calm and graceful figure is out to help people and animals alike.

—Richard von Busack

(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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BAD TEACHER (R; 92 min.) Cameron Diaz puts the “lower” into “higher” education in a comedy about a teacher gone feral.

BRIDE FLIGHT (R; 130 min.) A parakeet-size version of The Thorn Birds. In the preamble, Rutger Hauer plays a celebrated vineyard owner before the plot heads back into the 1940s to his early days. Now played by Waldemar Torenstra, Frank catches the interest of two women: the blonde, pious Ada (Karina Smulders) and the chic Jewish Esther (Anna Drijve). There is plot by the pound throughout, with pregnancies and the lack thereof, and maternal duty vs. romantic love.

The film wanders through history, marking its path with changing fashions. Since Esther becomes a dress salon operator, there’s even (as in The Women) a strange fashion show. While the women undergo

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changes, as the days of liberation arrive, it’s impossible to imagine the kind of evolution that would turn Torenstra into Hauer. (RvB)

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

CARS 2 (G) An animated Bond parody. Agent Finn McMissile (a sentient Aston Martin voiced by Michael Caine) is on the track of a mysterious professor. Events lure Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) into a race demonstrating alternative fuels in Paris, London and Tokyo. Tow Mater attracts the attention of McMissile’s assistant, Holley Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer), who stays as subordinate as the 007 girls of three decades ago. It’s not really bad, but it’s cute and relentless, and paced to tickle 5-year-olds. (RvB)

GREEN LANTERN (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 it’s short in love interest. (It was a mistake to

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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: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it happened again.â&#x20AC;? 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. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hostage this time (Mason Lee, Angâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son, as a Stanford pre-med). And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no place for women. Look at Lee unveiled, and see the final destination of the bromance film.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to get into the spirit of things until Ken Jeongâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profane Mr. Chow turns up; Jeong shows more talent in his, eh, little part, than the rest of the cast can prove (theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like. (RvB)

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-vultureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of Play

It Again, Sam. Midnight in Paris is a harmless, gentle nothing, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a moldy vision of the city during its era of artistic adventurousness. (RvB)

MR. POPPERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PENGUINS (PG) Jim Carrey stars in a family comedy about a man who must tend to a sextet of penguins.

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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)

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(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

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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 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. (RvB)

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Robots at Bay BLENDING IN TV and newsreel footage, Transformers: Dark of the Moon tells how Transformerism was hushed up in the 1960s. On the moon, Optimus Prime jumpstarts an aged robot sentinel (voiced by noble old Nimoy). Meanwhile, evil Megatron (now wearing a tattered cloak like King Lear) vows revenge in the African veldt. The final battle (45 minutes of drowse-inducing clash) takes place in Chicago after an opening act in D.C. A strange variety special with killbots, the film approaches entertainment through the unleashed flamboyance of the actors. John Malkovich (digitally dyed to the color of a tangelo) lolls at the feet of a robot like a puppy. Alan Tudyk, renowned as Wash in Firefly, brings in some European suaveness as a Dutch bodyguard. Frances McDormand’s disgust with the entire film is infectious. Even John Turturro takes his tired part and runs with it. And then they put him in a wheelchair, and he rolls with it.

Strange how well 3-D improves matters, too. The technique forcibly slows the editing and gives some visual dimension to what used to look like wrathful lawnart junk sculptures, or $300 million versions of the roller-skating saps in a production of Starlight Express. Kneeling, looking indomitable and jabbing their big

metal digits right into our eyeballs, the Transformers this time sometimes look as scary as the colossi of Russian illustrator Boris Artsybasheff.

What director Michael Bay has in mind for a mood is anyone’s guess. The new Transformers is less the work of a man KiXej]fid\ij1 frenzied by clashing ;Xib f] k_\ metal than someone Dffe coming down: It’s not PG-13; 157 min. speedy, it’s tweeked.

So much onscreen is Opens Thursday like the prattling of our hero’s non-sequitur-crazed parents. Indeed, so much is like the very name of the family itself, “Witwicky,” which wouldn’t even be funny in a Honolulu-set film. The whole thing is just so odd.

The grinding metal does its stuff. There is that. I was more beguiled by the pitiless sexual menace and lethal martial arts moves of the amazing Dr. Ken Jeong, who gives Shia LaBeouf a good roughing up. Hit him again, doc! Of the boggling moments, none boggle so much as Sam Witwicky receiving a rabbit’s foot from a Hawt British Gurl (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley).

LaBeouf holds this token of good luck but why? What does he need it for? Look at his career. He’s the luckiest bastard since Ben Affleck.—Richard von Busack

metroactive FILM 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 swordfighting 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)

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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 Crisis to add historical resonance to the comic-book strife between Professor Xavier (James McAvoy), the world’s most powerful psychic, and his rival, Michael Fassbender as the bitter concentration camp survivor Erik, who is later to become master of magnetism Magneto.

There’s a clever spy-movie motif; Fassbender is very suave in black turtleneck or scuba suit going on the trail of a powerful ex-Nazi.

He, Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon) has a private nuclear submarine loaded with a serious collection of post-Impressionist art as well as a lingerie-clad psychic moll, Emma Frost (January Jones). This is, as it sounds, great fun. But someone also thought this movie should be Harry Potter. Thus dead-on-the-screen scenes of the students sharing their powers over Cokes and Oreos. (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 the late 1950s. In this world, his father is Jack’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. O’Brien. Jessica Chastain plays this “lover of the way of grace,” 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 “No one who loves the way of grace comes to a bad end,” director Terrence Malick’s new film is peaceful, and yet it

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Payne, who is also known as Miss Oblivious and now goes by the name Kook Teflon, is an underground hero in the Bay Area and beyond. Creator of the long-running, now-retired Oblivious Nation zine and founding contributor to the Teflon Sisters zine, Payne is an artist extraordinaire: a photographer, doll maker, clothing designer, writer and more. She refers to herself as a documentarian of her life and the people in it.

The thread of connectedness that runs through Payne’s various creations is that they all offer a glimpse into the shadow side of life and the often-overlooked characters therein: castaways, punks, underdogs, wanderers, sideshow characters,

vaudevillian performers, historical misfits, lost causes and the like.

“I get inspired by dark history,” Payne says from Seattle, where she and her family—she is married and has two children—now live. “I like to find beautiful things in dark places.”

Born in Morgan Hill, Payne got an early start on creative selfexpression. “As a kid, I was always making things and dressing up, doing my makeup all crazy,” she says.

“I had a really open-minded, freethinking mom who taught me to embrace the things that I love.”

By fifth grade, Payne was telling everyone, “I’m punk now,” and by the sixth grade, she had her first Mohawk. At 17, Payne left Morgan Hill—“You were just too much for this town,” her mom told her—and moved to downtown San Jose, where she spent the next 13 years. It was here that she began documenting the vibrant punk and art scene that was thriving in the area.

“I started documenting my friends and everything around me; like bands that are legendary now,

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playing at the Cactus Club,” Payne says. “My key thing is to make sure that everyone is being documented the right way. It’s important to document everybody, not give the impression that one of us is more important than another.”

Payne’s focus on documenting real life is apparent in all of her creations, including her dolls, which are all based on real people and are as detail-accurate as possible, down to their era-appropriate construction materials.

“I insist on doing research and being authentic,” she says, explaining that, for example, if she’s making a Civil War–era doll, she finds material from that period. “I study the person and learn so much,” she says. “My dolls have taught me so much.”

Along with her zine- and dollmaking, Payne’s photography reflects her appreciation of the underside of life. She explores hidden, sometimes contradictory aspects of her subjects and finds ways to draw out those things that lie beneath the surface. She shares a story of asking burlesque dancers to come to a photo shoot without any makeup or fancy dress on, telling them, “There are a lot of great photographers that do the pinup stuff, but nobody ever gets to see the more personal and intimate side of you.”

In her upcoming photography exhibit in the Metro lobby, titled “This Is Me: Dolls ’n’ Drag,” Payne— showing as Miss Oblivious—will present images of her dolls and some of her more flamboyant human subjects, though in her world, the term “drag” doesn’t refer solely to drag queens.

“Drag doesn’t just have to mean guys in drag,” she explains. “The people I’ve photographed for this show are very self-confident, freethinkers who don’t feel like they need to be like everyone else.

“What I’m surrounded by, everyone is in drag in a glamorous, dark sort of way,” she continues.

“But the glamour is easy. I want to capture what’s inside.”

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Natural Vibrations Thursday at Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose, 5:30pm; free Native islanders give reggae a Hawaiian punch at Music in the Park this week. This is one to show up early for, as San Jose DJ crew the Bangerz make their return to the downtown festival circuit and are still wanted for the way they crushed it last time.

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New Kids on the Block/ Backstreet Boys Saturday at HP Pavilion in San Jose, 7:30pm; $31.50–$93 Millions of teenagers pored over the lyrics to Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” in 1999—“am I your fire your one desire... I never want to hear you say/ ‘I want it that way.’” What? Finally, 10 years later, the group came out and admitted they’d screwed up while changing the original lyrics, and that the song actually, unequivocally made no sense. That’s not likely to matter when it comes to the big finish at their show with boy-band forerunners New Kids on the Block, who got back Donnie Wahlberg, but not his brother (and original member) Mark. (SP)

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Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri-Sat: Live music. Sun: Chili Sauce. Mon: Hit N’ Run. Campbell.

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Fri, 7pm: Los Amigos Invisibles, the Mumlers, Rin Tin Tiger. $15.

Tue, 7pm: Reverend Horton Heat, Swingin’ Utters, Ghost Town Hangmen. $20. Santa Clara.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY No music this week. Call for info.

Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Fri, 9pm: Vultures Await, Bibles and Hand Grenades, Bronsson. $5. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live music. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Fri, 9pm: Barb Rocks birthday

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CAFFE TRIESTE Sat: Rebelskamp. Free. San Jose.

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Haunted by Heroes. $15. Sun, 8pm: L.A. Guns, Haunted by Heroes, Mercy Fists. $15. Gilroy.

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Thu: Live music. No cover. FriSat, 9:30pm: Live music. $10.

Los Gatos.

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

Campbell.

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Fri, 9pm: Wild Night. Van Morrison tribute. $8. Sat, 7pm: Zebop! Santana tribute. $10/$12. Redwood City.

Fri-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

Fri, 8pm: Michael Steven, Kenny Corso. Free. Mountain View.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

Wed, 6:30pm: Mission City Opera. Central Park Pavilion, Santa Clara.

Fri: Bell Thieves, the Even Tide.

Fri: Mesh Collective Presents South First Friday. Sat: M.O.R.E., Skyway View, Hawk Jones, Scarlet Spoke. San Jose.

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Fri: Nasci. Sat: The F@gz featuring Rick Agnew of the Adolescents. San Jose.

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

Gilroy.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS Tue, 4pm: Rebekah Todd, Lamont Coal. Free. San Jose.

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Fri-Sat: Live bands.

Los Gatos.

Wed, 5:30pm: Night Fever. Free.

Downtown Sunnyvale.

MEMORIAL PARK

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

Thu, 6:30-8pm: OTR. Part of the Summer Concert Series.

Cupertino.

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Sat, 8pm: Live music.

San Jose.

MOJO LOUNGE

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Thu: I the Mighty. Fri: Daniel Castro Band. Sat: Mid-life Vices.

Fremont.

Fri, 6pm: And Came Back Brutal.

Los Gatos.

MOUNTAIN WINERY

Fri, 8pm: Live music. Willow Glen.

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

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

San Jose.

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

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

HUKILAU Fri: Aldon. Sat: E Ono Kane. San Jose.

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

Tue, 7:30pm: Irish dancing.

Sunnyvale.

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT MV Fri, 5pm: World music with Fontain’s M.U.S.E. Sat, 5pm: Belly dancing with Adriana. Sun, 5pm: World music. Mon, 5pm: Live blues. Tue, 5pm: Flamenco.

Mountain View.

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WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

Wed, 5pm: Happy Together. Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancer Adriana. Sat, 5pm: World music with Fontain’s M.U.S.E. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music and belly dancing. Mon, 5pm: French music. Tue, 5pm: Strolling violinist Pamela J. Page. San Jose.

Wed: Blind Pilots. Thu: Honey Wilders. Fri-Sat: Live music.

Sunnyvale.

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

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

MUSIC IN THE PARK Thu, 5:30pm: Natural Vibrations.

Free. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose.

Sat, 8pm: Kepi Ghoulie, Dan P & Stitch Up, Pets, Dog Party, the Caps. $8. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

NAGLEE PARK GARAGE

World

Wed, 7pm: Doctor Nurse. San Jose.

AGENDA LOUNGE

Fri, 7:30pm: Neko Case, Calexico. $35-$75. Saratoga.

MURPHY’S LAW

NETO’S GRILL Sat, 9pm: Fog City. Santa Clara.

NINE LIVES Thu, 8pm: Battle of the bands with Kaldera, Just Chill. $5. Fri, 8pm: Muph and the Maniacs. $10. Sat, 8pm: Adler’s Appetite,

WILLOW DEN

X-BAR

Wed, 8pm: Edgardo & Candela. $5. San Jose.

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

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

SENZALA Sat, 9:30pm: Dildo. Sunnyvale.

STEPHENS GREEN Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

Jazz/Blues

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

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

AFFINITY’S Wed, 7:30pm: Jazz Wednesdays.

Hilton Hotel, San Jose.

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Montalvo Arts Center & Sobrato Arts Foundation present

The ARTTEC 2011 Summer Concert Series

The E Family and Grupo Yndio Saturday, July 9 at 8pm This legendary musical dynasty: Pete Escovedo, Sheila E., Juan and Peter Michael is a force to be reckoned with. Their new CD, “Now & Forever,” is a special 13 track collection brimming with a rich array of musical influences, ranging from Latin, Hip Hop, Pop and Jazz. This promises to be a night full of Latin rhythms and more under the stars at Montalvo! Grupo Yndio, a wildly popular band from Sonora, Mexico, will open for The E Family.

Join us in the outdoor Lilian Fontaine Garden Theatre!

Visit montalvoarts.org for a complete listing of summer concerts.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Box Office, 408.961.5858, M-F, 10am-4pm ticketmaster.com or montalvoarts.org

15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA 95070

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metroactive MUSIC 54 ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 8:30pm: Doris Williams. $10/$14. Sat, 7pm: GG Amos. $8/$12. Redwood City.

Sun, 5-7pm: Bruce Gwynn & Big Rain. Part of the Los Gatos Music in the Park series.

Los Gatos.

ART BOUTIKI

MURPHY’S LAW

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

BLUZ BY-YOU Tue: Tuesday Bluesday.

Santa Clara.

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO Sun, 6pm: Dixieland jazz.

Cupertino.

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

Redwood City.

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FAIRMONT HOTEL Wed, 8:30pm: The Girlz Band.

Thu, 8:30pm: Contemporary or Latin jazz. Fri-Sat, 9pm: Live music. San Jose.

FLAVORS OF JAZZ Tue, 6:30pm: Harold Fethe Duo. At LB Steak restaurant.

Tue, 6:30pm: Oscar Pangilinan Quartet. At Straits Restaurant.

Santana Row, San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam with Aki. Fri, 8pm: Twin City Slim & The Feral Cats .Sat, 8pm: South City Blues Band. Campbell.

HEDLEY CLUB

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Santa Clara.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE Sat, 6pm: Rich Berger Band.

Campbell.

THE SADDLE RACK

Sun: Live blues. San Jose.

Wed, 7:30pm: Country get down with Heide D. Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys. Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Fremont.

A PERFECT FINISH

SAM’S BBQ

Fri, 9pm: Levitate with Jorge Faustmann. Sat, 9pm: Original Jones, OMB. San Jose.

Wed, 6pm: Matt & George and Their Pleasant Valley Boys. Tue, 6pm: Bean Creek. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

OLD WAGON SALOON & GRILL

Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Honey Island Swamp Band. Fri, 6-10pm: Tip of the Top. Sat, noon-3pm: Zydeco Voodoo Revival. Sat, 6-10pm: Kickin’ the Mule. Sun, 2-6pm: Billy T Blues Band. San Jose.

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

VASONA COUNTY PARK Sat, 5-7pm: Kitchen Help.

Vasona Vibrations concert series. Free. Los Gatos.

Open Mic

RINCONADA PARK Sat, 6:30-8pm: United States Air Fiorce Band of the Golden West.

Part of the Twilight Concert Series. Palo Alto.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

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

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

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

Campbell.

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

Wed, 7pm: Open mic. Redwood City.

BAMBOO LOUNGE

BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

BLUE ROCK SHOOT Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic.

Saratoga.

Thu, 8:30pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live jazz.

San Jose.

WINE AFFAIRS

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

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

San Jose.

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

Cupertino.

JASON-STEPHENS WINERY

C&W/Folk

CAFFE TRIESTE

CLUB RODEO

CITY ESPRESSO

Fri, 6pm: Havanna Jazz. Gilroy.

JAZZ ON THE PLAZZ Wed, 6:30pm: Pamela Rose.

Free. Los Gatos Town Plaza.

Wed: Kip Moore & Brother Trouble. $10. San Jose.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Nightly: Live jazz. San Jose.

COURTHOUSE SQUARE

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Thu, 7-10pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

Fri, 6pm: Whiskey Dawn. Music on the Square series. Free.

Downtown Redwood City.

LOS GATOS BREWING CO.

THE GRAPEVINE

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

Sat, 7pm: Hootenanny. Willow Glen.

LOS GATOS BREWING CO. SAN JOSE Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos. San Jose.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 7:30pm: The Bobo. Sun,

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

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

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

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Wed, 8-11pm: Live music, comedy and poetry. Los Gatos.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE Thu, 6pm: South Bay Acoustic

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Neko Case NEKO CASE IS alt-country’s reigning poet laureate. Growing up in punk bands and even becoming an indie rock sensation as part of the New Pornographers now seems like it was all just prep for the dark and dramatic power she’s brought to roots music over the last 10 years. Case’s solo career as a singer-songwriter actually began long before that, on a parallel track with her rock-star path. The very idea of rock stardom, however, seemed to bore if not Friday, July 1 downright annoy her. She had both the looks and the voice to milk the New Pornographers’ success Mountain Winery for all it was worth, but instead she pulled herself in Saratoga as far out of the spotlight as she could get, choosing to develop her own sound. Her first stabs at country 7:30pm; $35-$75. were rickety, coming off somewhat like one of the Jolie Holland indie types who seem to be almost ironically mimicking a popular notion of what country music should sound like. But her third album, Blacklisted, was like nothing anyone had heard before, a creepy dreamscape that put the alternative (as in, universe) in alt-country. Fox Confessor Brings the Flood blew Blacklisted’s successes into almost mythological proportions: the sound was impossibly lush and sweeping, but as personal as a whisper in your ear, while the lyrics seemed to mean all the right things even though it was impossible to know exactly what they meant. It was 2009’s Middle Cyclone that made her the people’s poet, digging into the most elemental forces of Mother Nature to lay out the essential truths of human nature. If there’s anyone who can’t relate to “I’m an Animal,” I haven’t met them—and most likely wouldn’t want to. —Steve Palopoli

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metroactive MUSIC 57 Music Group open mic. Hosted

by Celtic Rose. Campbell.

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

QUARTER NOTE Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.

KATIE BLOOM’S

BRIX

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

Campbell.

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

THE COURTS LOUNGE

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

Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

OFFICE BAR

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

A PERFECT FINISH

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

Thu, 7-9pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

DIVE BAR

PEACOCK LOUNGE

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

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

Sunnyvale.

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

Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

THE ESCAPE

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

REDI ROOM Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

No cover. Santana Row.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

BLUE BONNET BAR

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

Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

FIREHOUSE GRILL

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

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

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

BOGART’S LOUNGE

Campbell

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

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

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July 14th 6:00pm

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

AZÚCAR

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

MOJO LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

July 7th 6:00pm

KHARTOUM

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

Karaoke ACAPULCO RESTAURANT & CANTINA

LIVE MUSIC MUSIC! C!

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

Cupertino.

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

The Last Great Record Store Stoore

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

Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

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THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

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

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

BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BOULEVARD TAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

SHERWOOD INN

Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR

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

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

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

Mon, 8pm-midnight: DJ Curtis.

Willow Glen.

GILROY BOWL

TOUCHDOWN TOMMY’S

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

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YDMC YDMC knew trying to make a career out of music might be a little difficult.

“I’ve freaked out, thrown computers and yelled, ‘Screw this, I’m never doing music again. Never. Throw away everything and burn the fliers. This is B.S. I’m going to get a real job,’” he says.

For San Jose rapper David Manson, aka YDMC (Young DM; the “C” stands for “Craziness”), the journey so far has been daunting, but rewarding.

Growing up an Army brat whose father eventually got stationed at Fort Ord, he grew up hanging with the skaters and punks, but also playing trumpet in funk and jazz bands, and writing Friday, July 1 poetry. He never thought about putting his words to a beat until he met some people from San Jose chapter of The Grange in Hip Hop Congress.

Morgan Hill, 7pm.

“It’s an international organization that uses hip-hop as a social vehicle for causes like health care, education and community service,” he says. A lot of mainstream and underground artists are part of it. I’ve met a lot of cats through that program and they’ve basically become my family. DLabrie and Shamako Noble are highly involved in it.”

Through the Hip Hop Congress he released two tracks on a mixtape called Expressions For Relief. The proceeds were donated to the Red Cross. Things were starting to take off for him, but he still needed a source of steady income, becoming a youth leader for the Bay Area After School All-Stars.

In 2009, he released the Out the Trunk project, after working with producer/ engineer Enormus Tha Ox. He took the album from Seattle to San Diego, going to Hip Hop Congress conventions and shows, handing it out and selling it. His latest is this year’s Under the Radar, which came out on RonDavoux Records.

“Now people have a real idea of what my music is. It’s pure expression. I think people are going to like it because it has a lot of good Bay Area artists on it, like DLabrie, The Jacka, Goldie Gold from The Federation, Messy Marv and Traxamillion,” he says.

YDMC is now playing bigger shows and opening up for bigger artists.

Despite the rising success, he always manages to stay grounded with a level head.

“You have to remain positive and friendly. So many people think they’re entitled to things and they’re already something, in their head, and people are supposed to respect them, but that’s not the case. You’re nobody until you’re nobody. You’re nobody until you’re the best you can be, then you’re nobody again,” he says.—Beau Dowling

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NOISE CLINIC

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 866-384-3060 & online

www.catalystclub.com

metroactive MUSIC C&J’S SPORTS BAR Wed & Sat, 10pm: DJ. Santa Clara.

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

DIVE BAR WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Wed-Thu, Sat, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.

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

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

SABOR TAPAS BAR

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

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

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

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

THE ELEGANT PUB

Dance Clubs

Thu, 9pm: Throwback Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: DJ. Sat, 9pm: Snapshot. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.

AGENDA

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

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

San Jose.

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

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

THE BLANK CLUB Thu, 9pm: Atomic with DJ Basura. $5. Sat, 9pm: New Wave Prom with DJs Kevin and Vitus. $5. San Jose.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Thu: College night.

Santa Clara.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Wed: Humpday Wednesdays.

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

Thu: SOFA King Thursdays. Fri: Video Killed the DJ. Sat: Sultry Saturdays. Sun: Sinful Sundays.

Mon: Manic Mondaze. San Jose.

STUDIO8

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

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Live DJ and karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live DJ. San Jose.

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

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Fri: Stars and Stripes live body art show. Sat: DJ Skratchy.

Sun: Fourth of July Weekend Industry Night. San Jose.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE 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.

Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover.

San Francisco’s City Guide

BLONDE REDHEAD BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Angular, atmospheric New York trio plays in support of new album ‘Penny Sparkle.’ Jun 30 at the Independent.

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Thu: VJ Don. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong.

Tue: Pub-stumpers. San Jose.

PINK MARTINI

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

RIHANNA

Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.

Cee-Lo drops out of the tour; wild mix-ups at BET Awards; it’s been a crazy week for Rihanna. Jun 30 at Oracle Arena.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Thu: DJ David Q. Sat, 10pm: DJ David Q. San Jose.

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB Wed-Sat: DJs. Fri: DJ Mike Frugaletti for Funk It. Menlo Park.

Cosmopolitan loungesters appear with San Francisco Symphony. Jun 30-Jul 1 at Davies Symphony Hall.

SONNY & THE SUNSETS Globetrotting San Francisco tunesmiths play with Calvin Johnson. Jul 1 at Gream American Music Hall.

GRANDMASTER FLASH Hip-hop turntable legend from the Bronx appears in jazz club lounge. Jul 2 at Yoshi’s SF.

BRIX Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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LLEO EO (July 23–Aug. 22): The yea year’s r ’s half over over,, Leo. Let Let’s ’s talk aabout bout w hat yyou ou w ant ttoo m ake hhappen appen iin n tthe he nnext ext talk what want make six months. My analysis of the as astrological strological omens ’ll be an excellentt time to fformulate ormulate a suggests that it it’ll long-term m aster pplan lan aand nd ooutline utline iin n ddetail etail w hat yyou ou long-term master what will need to car carry inspiration, ry it out. For inspi ration, rread ead this pep talk talk ffrom rom pphilosopher hilosopher JJonathan onathan ZZap: ap: ““An An eextremely xtremely effective grounded effective and gr ounded magical pr ppractice actice is to identify eams, the missions yo ou rreally eally need to your big dr dreams, you accomplish in this lif lifetime. test dream etime. The te est of a big dr eam comes fr from yourself,f, ‘Will I rremember om asking yourself emember this well myy ddeath well oon nm eath bbed?’ ed?’ IIff yyou ou hhave ave a bbig ig ddream, ream, yyou ou will pr probably accomplish obably find that to accomp plish it will rrequire equire a ed activity per day .” minimum of two hours of devote devoted day.”

VIRGO VIR GO ((Aug. Aug. 223–Sept.

3–Sept. 222): 2): ““The The ppassion assion ttoo eexplore xplore

is at the heart of being human,” said s CCarl arl Sagan.

“This iimpulse—to mpulse—to go, go, ttoo ssee, ee, to to kknow—has now—has ffound ound “This expression culture.” expression in every cul ture.” But SSteven teven Dutch, a professor Wisconsin, disagrees. professor at the University of Wis sconsin, disagr ees. e’ve been lots of soc cieties that have had He says ther there’ve societies little inter interest exploration.

Africans est in explor ation. Afric cans never discovered discovered Madagascar or the CCape Verde archipelago, ape V erde ar rchipelago, ffor or example.

Asian cultures probed example Few A sian cul tures pr obbed ffar ar and wide. wide During a thousand years of histo oryy, ancient Romans history, ignored Russia, Baltic, made ignored R ussia, SScandinavia candinavia aand nd tthe he B altic, aand nd m ade only minimal Where only m inimal fforays orays ttoo IIndia ndia aand nd CChina. hina. W here ddoo yyou ou personally fitt oon personally fi n tthe he sscale cale ooff tthe he hhuman uman eexploratory xploratory urge, Virgo?

Regardless urge, Vir go? Regar dless of what you’ve y done in the past, I bet you’ll be on the move in thee coming months. Your Your o hunger for for novelty novelty and unfamiliarity unfamiliaarity should be waxing.

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(Sept. 223–Oct. 3–Oct. 222): 2): IIn n tthe he ccoming oming m months, onths, iit’s t’s more action action than usual— likely you will experience more ssome ome ooff it it qquite uite expansive—in expansive—in your your astrological astrological eighth eighth

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Aree you rready habit mind rrewired, ewired, e your certainties rreworked eworked and your pleasures pleasur es rreconfigured? econfi figured?

SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oct. (Oct. 223–Nov. 3–Nov. 221): 1): I hhope ope tthat hat iin n tthe he

first half half ooff 2011 2011 you you have have been been ddoing oing some some ddevoted evoted first work messy work on on tidying tidying up up tthe he m essy oold ld karma karma tthat hat hhad ad been interfering interfering with with the the ffree ree fl ow ooff ggrace race iinto nto been flow rellationships. If there’s there’s still work to your intimate relationships. be done on that noble task,, throw into throw yourself y it now. now. The The renaissance renaissance of of ttogetherness ogetherness is is ddue ue ttoo it begin begin soon soon and and last last for for many many months. months. You You don’t d o n’ t want any any lingering lingering ignorance, ignorance, sself-deceit elf-deceit oorr llack ack ooff want gum it up. compassion to gum

SSAGITTARIUS AGITTARIU US (Nov. (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): In 1498, Leonardo Vinci masterworks, Leonar do da Vinc ci completed one of his master works, the mur al known as The Last Supper. N mural Nineteen ineteen yyears ears llater, ater, tthe he ppaint aint hhad ad bbegun egun ttoo fl ake ooff, ff, aand nd bbyy 11556 556 flake LLeonardo’s eonardo’s bbiographer iographer cconsidered onsidered tthe he w hole tthing hing ttoo whole bbee ““ruined.” ruined.” O ver tthe he ccenturies, enturies, ffurther urther ddeterioration eterioration Over ooccurred, ccurred, eeven ven aass m any eexperts xperts ttried ried ttoo rrestore estore aand nd many rrepair epair iit. t. TThe he m ost rrecent ecent rreclamation eclamation pproject, roject, fi nished most finished in 1999, lasted m ore than two decades. I hope that in more tthe he ccoming oming m onths, SSagittarius, agittarius, yyou ou w ill sshow how a ssimilar imilar months, will Please work ddedication edication ttoo tthe he hhigh igh aart rt ooff rregeneration. egeneration. P lease w ork long and har hardd on bringing vitality back into what has ffallen allen into decay or stagnancy stagnancy..

CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN ((Dec. Dec. 222–Jan. 2–Jan. 119): 9): IIn n a hhoroscope oroscope whether llast ast yyear, ear, I aasked sked yyou ou CCapricorns apricorns w hether yyou ou eever ver oobsessed bsessed oon n yyour our llonging onging ttoo ssuch uch a ddegree egree tthat hat missed yyou ou m issed oopportunities pportunities ttoo aactually ctually ssatisfy atisfy yyour our G.. ssent llonging. onging. IIn n rresponse, esponse, a rreader eader nnamed amed JJohn ohn G ent mee tthe message: m he ffollowing ollowing ccorrective orrective m essage: ““We We CCapricorns apricorns comprehend compr ehend the futility of too much longing. We We uunderstand nderstand iitt can can be be a pphantasm hantasm tthat hat ggets ets iin n tthe he w ay ooff rreal eal aaccomplishment. ccomplishment. IIt’s t’s llike ike a ttelephone elephone tthat hat way kkeeps eeps ringing ringing somewhere somewhere but but can’t can’t bbee ffound. ound. W on’t Wee ddon’t w aste eenergy nergy oon n ddreamy reamy ffeelings eelings tthat hat m ay oorr m ay waste may may not be satisfied, since s that ener gy is so much better energy ffunneled unneled iinto nto m astering tthe he ddetails etails tthat hat w ill bbring ring uuss mastering will uuseful seful rrewards.” ewards.” II’m ’m hhere ere ttoo ttell ell yyou, ou, CCapricorn, apricorn, tthat hat tthe he ccoming oming m onths w ill bbee aan n eexcellent xcellent ttime ime ttoo m ake uuse se months will make of the CCapricornian apricorniaan capacities John G. describes.

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. (JJan. 20–Feb. 18): “T “Truth Trruth is, everybody Bob Marley. iiss ggoing oing ttoo hhurt urt yyou,” ou,” ssang ang B ob M arley. ““You You jjust ust ggotta otta find worth How fi nd tthe he oones nes w orth ssuffering uffering ffor.” or.” H ow aare re yyou ou ddoing oing oon n tthat hat sscore, core, A quarius? H ave yyou ou bbeen een ddiscerning iscerning Aquarius?

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PISCESS (Feb. PISCE (Feb. 119–March 9–March 220): 0): A Any ny m minute inute nnow, ow, yyou ou m ight sstart tart llearning earning aatt a ffaster aster rrate ate tthan han yyou ou hhave ave might Any will ssince ince 22000.

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010. A ny m onth nnow, ow, P isces, yyou ou w ill fi nd yyourself ourself aable ble ttoo aaccess ccess m ore ooff yyour our vvisionary isionary find more 2007.. What intelligence than you have since maybe 2007 does it all mean?? YYou ou o may not ffeel eel an amazing, spectacular,r, extr extraordinary degree spectacular a dinary degr aor ee of personal unity will ttomorrow, omorrow, bbut ut yyou ou w ill ssoon oon bbegin egin bbuilding uilding ttoward oward tthat hat hhappy appy sstate. tate. B ecember I bbet et yyou’ll ou’ll bbee eenjoying njoying aan n Byy D December unprecedented unpr ecedented aamount mount of it.

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