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allow any more to open, they should shut the ones down that are not in compliance. The city will lose a lot of tax money, and the patients will be frustrated. The city should have set these boundaries before opening the first club instead of changing regulations and compliances after they allowed the dispensaries to be open to the patients. Double standards are not cool. Get it together, City Council.

of money for the city in its fivemonth lifespan. Personally, I would rather see that money go to the city to rehire some police officers and fix other issues then back into the hands of the street dealer. That’s what will happen if the number of clubs is cut. They will eventually come down in numbers on their own. Just like Starbucks when they put one on every corner.

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TIM CARBONELL | FROM FACEBOOK

Get It Together If the medicinal clubs are paying their taxes then they should remain open (“Lighten Up,” SVNews, Aug. 10). What’s going to happen to all the patients? San Jose shouldn’t

MJ Money I honestly have not seen an uptick in drama or crime in San Jose as a result of the Pot Clubs. Measure U has brought in a substantial amount

City Needs I voted for Mayor Reed because I thought he was diplomatic—what a letdown: $1.25 million since March!

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down in fall, have Chu and Campos represent the city when it gets sued.

This is not the time to be uptight; the city needs the money and the jobs. Measure U=$$$.

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High Praise The Metro is getting to be nothing more than a rag to cater to drugheads and people who need cannabis no more than Obama needs another stimulus program.

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Musical Chairs in Milpitas At a July meeting of the Milpitas Planning Commission, MARK TIERNAN, the recently ousted chair, was heard hissing at fellow commissioner NOELLA TABLADILLO, telling her (and anyone within earshot) that she couldn’t be trusted. Tiernan is convinced that Tabladillo was part of a “coup” that forced him out three weeks ago, and that Mayor JOSE ESTEVES orchestrated the whole thing.

Tabladillo’s measured response included a reminder that Milpitas is not a thirdworld country, and a calm suggestion that Tiernan stop being such a “selfabsorbed asshole.” Tiernan immediately filed a complaint with City Manager TOM WILLIAMS. The new commission chair, SUNDHIR MANDAL, told Fly he will look into Tiernan’s dispute with Tabladillo, and then spent five minutes talking about his childhood in India—where people apparently get along much better than they do in Milpitas. Tiernan, a famously gruff political consultant, has a history of rubbing people all kinds of wrong. After he ran DAVE CORTESE’s successful bid for a seat on the Board of Supervisors in 2008, nobody involved in the campaign was surprised when Tiernan did not receive a sweetheart job in return. Then, when he was slated to become ROSE HERRERA’s chief of staff later that year, Tiernan was abruptly fired following a power struggle with fellow aide JENNIFER MALUTTA. And last year, Tiernan alienated fellow staffers while helping five-time Milpitas mayor PETE MCHUGH lose a race to get his old job back. That campaign left Tiernan with enemies on all sides, including Esteves, whom the former chair now accuses of strong-arming commissioner GURDEV SANDHU into changing his vote at the 11th hour. Tiernan’s combative six-month stint chairing the commission stands in stark contrast to his modest predecessor, CLIFF WILLIAMS. But the Lincoln Law School graduate says he isn’t about to rest his case. Tiernan says he is determined to someday be an attorney, and a Milpitas City Council member.

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Anzalone is a longtime local viticulturalist whose father was a grower in Sicily. With weathered and permanently tanned skin—a testimony to the 30-plus years he’s worked among the vines—he smirks at the beginning and end of every

thought, and can’t help but slip a few curse words in between. He walks at a steady pace, stopping here and there to pull unwanted leaves from the vines, joking sparingly and puffing his cigar.

Anzalone clearly loves his job, but this summer it’s been too much like work. “This year has been a challenge trying to second guess the weather,” he says. “Sometimes you’re at the mercy of the season. Climate is what you expect; weather is what you get.”

Santa Clara County vineyards are coping with the fallout from late spring rains that shattered a portion of the crops. (Growers use the term “shatter” to describe what happens when crops are too wet and cold during bloom to set seeds and produce fruit.) They’re also negotiating cooler-than-average summer temperatures that have led to overgrowth and a late harvest.

The past two summers in the Bay Area prove that “global warming” was renamed “global

climate change” for good reason.

While the Midwest, the Northeast, and the Central Valley roast, local temperatures have been dropping.

The numbers don’t tell the whole story. Bob Benjamin, who runs the National Weather Service’s regional observation program, says this season’s average high temperature in the Santa Clara Valley is two degrees below the normal 81.9. That might not seem like a big difference, but it is.

The two-degree drop is a result of a persistent low-pressure trough that has parked itself offshore. “The air masses are not migrating as frequently as usual,” Benjamin says, pointing out that this is the very same atypical weather system that has anchored the heat wave in the Midwest.

“This trough has been stagnant on the West Coast, feeding the warm air in the central part of the country,” he says. “And nothing is moving. It’s all in connection.”

Wine-grape grower Ron Mosely, who’s worked in the industry for more than 30 years, says that out of the 60 vineyards he oversees in Santa Clara and Santa Cruz

all varietals except chardonnay.

“There are some who have no yield problem at all, there are others who lost everything,” Foxx says. “It’s hit-and-miss based on location and weather.”

Weather Beaten The cold summer’s moisture and lower amounts of fruit have turned some crops’ canopies into a jungle.

In another vineyard where Anzalone works, vines reaching for the sky shake as workers wrestle them into submission.

“You can almost hear them at night,” Anzalone says. “If you came out here with a flashlight, you’d see it.

They look like they grew almost a foot overnight.”

Foxx has witnessed similar overgrowth in many of the vineyards she manages.

“It’s an expensive year because you still have to clean out the leaves in the cool wet mornings,” Foxx says.

When doing “canopy management,” or trimming overgrowth, the weather’s mood swings are something to fear; in cold weather a grower can trim the leaves to give the grapes more sunlight, only to have all their exposed fruit zapped by hot weather the next day.

“It’s a delicate balance,” she says.

“We’ve trained crews that know how to do it, but it’s expensive.”

The increased moisture that causes growth also creates a greater need for money, time, and in some cases chemicals to prevent mildew.

The natural remedy for the problem is hot weather—Mosely points out that there haven’t been enough hot days to dry out the problem.

Despite the profound impact of the cooler weather, Anzalone doesn’t think this season qualifies as a complete disaster. “In every season there’s some aspect of the weather you’re not completely happy with,” he says.

Anzalone has reason to be relatively sanguine. The Peter Martin Ray Vineyard, above Saratoga, stands on a ridge with clear views of Oakland and Mount Diablo, well above the fog that creates even bigger problems for growers. And Santa Clara County vineyards don’t face some of the problems that Northern California growers do, such as frost. “Those guys are as nervous as a hooker in a church,” Anzalone says.

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counties, more than half have been hit hard by the cooler weather.

“You don’t have full clusters this year,” Mosely says. “Rather than about 200 berries per cluster, there’s half of that this year. Some of the clusters only have 25 berries.”

With some exceptions, that means local vineyards will yield half the normal average of three to five tons per acre.

Some of California’s first premium wine grapes were grown in the Santa Clara Valley, and for a time this area competed with Napa and Monterey as a top wine producer. While many of the area’s vineyards have been nudged out by office campuses and housing developments, local wine-grape growers produce upwards of $10 million worth of fruit for California’s $18.5 billion wine industry. Last year that number dropped to $7.5 million, and this year’s harvest will be even less.

And in coming years, when the 2011 vintage begins to show up on shelves, consumers will likely be paying more for a bottle of locally grown David Bruce Pinot or Clos LaChance Chardonnay.

Mosely says the fruit that is left this growing season is still of good quality; there’s just not much of it. To make matters worse, crops are two to three weeks behind harvesting schedule.

“Some of my clients are computer executives and they can easily set a release date,” Mosely says. “In farming you want to set a time for harvesting but you can’t. These are things you don’t know. You have to wait till it’s ready.”

Anzalone remains stoic about the situation. “A lot of farmers are living on the edge,” he says. “When you go into a partnership with God, you’re going to get the short end of the stick once in a while.”

Although each growing site is experiencing the season in its own way, depending on geography, management and other somewhat mysterious factors, many of the Santa Cruz Mountains vineyards— 60 percent of which are in Santa Clara County—have experienced a similar effect.

Prudy Foxx, a viticulture consultant who works with many of the area’s leading wineries, says yields are down 30 percent for

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sv 411.com are activated every day across 39 manufacturers, but there is no single phone or Android manufacturer that can best the iPhone. By owning Motorola, Google can create Android phones to its exact specifications and take advantage of the latest advances in the operating system, just like Apple does. When CEO Larry Page says that buying Motorola will “supercharge” Android, that is what he means I suspect.

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Google Goes Soup-To-Nuts On Android With its purchase of Motorola, Google is going all in, dipping into its $39 billion of cash to make its biggest acquisition ever. The deal signals that mobile will be one of Google’s main growth drivers and that growth will come from entering new markets, specifically mobile hardware. With the acquisition, Google gains a portfolio of 17,000 patents and another 7,000 patents pending globally, an area where it is a currently a laggard. But more than anything, it signals how crucial it is for Google to control the Android experience from soup to nuts.

There may now be 150 million Android phones and they command the largest smartphone market share, but the most popular single smartphone by far is still the iPhone. (The iPhone has the most market share for any single smartphone device, whereas the Android OS has more share across devices). Buying Motorola is an acknowledgement on Google’s part that it must control the experience from software to hardware if it hopes to unseat Apple.

Up until now, Google has taken the Windows approach to mobile—create an OS that all manufacturers can build on top of and just concentrate on the software—but that approach is not enough. More than 550,000 Android phones

Page is careful to note that “Android will stay open” and that Motorola will remain but one of many licensees. But there is no doubt that if the deal passes antitrust review, Motorola’s Android phones will be the first among equals.

It’s a big bet. What if Google messes it up? Well, it will still have all those mobile patents, which arguably could be worth a good portion of the total acquisition price. Remember, Nortel’s patents went for $4.5 billion to Google’s competitors.

I’m interested, as we all are, to see where Googorola is headed. So don’t think of this as losing a handset manufacturer. Instead, think of this as gaining a Google-sanctioned straw man hardware manufacturer that will, in the end, pull the rest of the Android handsets up to more compelling and exacting standards.

—ERICK SCHONFELD, TECHCRUNCH.COM

Anil R Jadhav Who cares now.. even if there is no single phone or Android manufacturer that can best the iPhone, together combined will beat iPhone sales for sure.

Chris Manning Apple has the developers in their pocket, because iOS developers feel more protected, and designing for iOS is a far better experience for them than designing for Android. The developers will always play a big role in how the actual market plays out.

Brett Stubbs If the design lead is the same as google+, their phone will rule.

Ramakanth Dorai He [Andy Hertzfeld ] developed Macintosh!

Chris Manning One thing’s for sure, they need to fire the Motorola designers and bring in a fresh team that can design some beautiful hardware.

Mark Ely This could put Google on a path to have a legit iPad competitor by next spring when Apple is supposed to announced their next iteration.

Peter Smith Buying Motorola will make their biggest android manufactures (LG, Samsung, HTC) look like they’ve been back stubbed.

These vendor will probably think about investing their own OS to compete with Google-Motorola.

Michael Wales ·LG, Samsung & HTC are absolutely ecstatic that Google is purchasing Motorola. Previously, Android was in a serious bind when it came to patent litigation.

Rohan Suri I think the whole deal is about acquiring Motorola’s patents.

Google has no experience in hardware design, managing chip manufacturers and dealing with telecomm operators.

Google is Reborn Once upon a time, Google was run like a playground; it was the sort of place where you’d get points for attending the Burning Man hippie drug fest. Under new CEO Larry Page, we’re seeing a more ruthless Google—the sort of company perfectly comfortable turning its business partners into creepy sock puppets.

To rebut criticism of its acquisition of Motorola on Monday, Google collected and published quotes from the mobile phone business partners with whom it will now be competing.

And it’s remarkably evident that Google PR force fed the “partners” these quotes, North Korea style: “We welcome today’s news, which demonstrates Google’s deep commitment to defending Android, its partners, and the ecosystem.”

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are maturing if they managed to keep the lid on this thing until today.

“We welcome the news of today‘s acquisition, which demonstrates that Google is deeply committed to defending Android, its partners, and the entire ecosystem.” Peter Chou, CEO, HTC Corp.

gramercypolice If they think the solution to stealing from Oracle is to threaten Oracle and Apple and Microsoft, well, it’s going to take more than Asperger’s Syndrome to help them worm their way clear on that.

Also: “I welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.” Bert Nordberg, President & CEO, Sony Ericsson

Was pulling the plug on people’s phones a quick, on-the-spot decision, or part of a protestresponse plan vetted by BART’s lawyers? Who decided that blocking all cellphone calls at these BART stations was the right response to news that there might be a protest? Were the carriers ever in the loop about this plan of action?

Who decided that the news of this planned protest justified the shutdown? How do we know this isn’t going to happen again?

“We welcome Google‘s commitment to defending Android and its partners.” Jong-Seok Park, Ph.D, President & CEO, LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company Of course, Google’s rivals Apple and Microsoft orchestrate this sort of regurgitation all the time, they’re just not so incredibly obvious about it. But give Google time; the “Don’t Be Evil” company is just getting used to some of the more common forms of corporate subterfuge as Page, who took over from Eric Schmidt just four months ago, makes Google leaner and meaner.

Google was once the sort of place where employees could remake their jobs on a whim, change projects with little fuss from HR, and launch wildly unprofitable new products. Page has been cleaning house, shutting down underperforming products and the Google Labs incubator.

Google’s even making noises about becoming “frugal” with its notoriously posh employee perks.

And now it’s running a corporate acquisition like a tight lipped, iron fisted PR pro. Set aside the quote feeding; financial journalists are also agog there wasn’t even a single leak or rumor about the Motorola deal.

Welcome to new Google. It doesn’t seem as special, or nearly as friendly, as the old one. But it might just end up more profitable. —RYAN TATE, VALLEYWAG/GAWKER.COM

NorwoodIsMyHero I’m sad as a consumer, but I’d be happy as a shareholder to see all of this. Google’s growing up. Their management teams

asking them to turn service off.

Later statements by James Allison, deputy chief communications officer for BART, assert “BART staff or contractors shut down power to the nodes and alerted the cell carriers” after the fact. AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and T-Mobile have not yet made comment as to whether or not they were complicit in the shutdown.

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BART Pulls a Mubarak This week, EFF has seen censorship stories move closer and closer to home—first Iran, then the UK and now San Francisco, an early locus of the modern free speech movement.

Operators of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) shut down cell phone service to four stations in downtown San Francisco last week in response to a planned protest.

Last month, protesters disrupted BART service in response to the fatal shooting of Charles Blair Hill by BART police on July 3rd. Thursday’s protest failed to materialize, possibly because the disruption of cell phone service made organization and coordination difficult.

Early reports indicated that BART cut off cell phone service by approaching carriers directly and

One thing is clear, whether it’s BART or the cell phone carriers that were responsible for the shut-off, cutting off cell phone service in response to a planned protest is a shameful attack on free speech. BART officials are showing themselves to be of a mind with the former president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, who ordered the shutdown of cell phone service in Tahrir Square in response to peaceful, democratic protests earlier this year.

Cell phone service has not always been available in BART stations. The advent of reliable service inside of stations is relatively recent. But once BART made the service available, cutting it off in order to prevent the organization of a protest constitutes prior restrain on the free speech rights of every person in the station, whether they’re a protestor or a commuter. Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right.

Censorship is not okay in Tahrir Square or Trafalgar Square, and it’s still not okay in Powell Street Station. —EVA GALPERIN, EFF.ORG

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Councilmember Sam Liccardo has called for an audit of four incubator programs funded by the San Jose Redevelopment Agency. The request responds to a 2009 studyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;unseen by most city officials for two yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which ďŹ nds that RDA spent more than $30 million on programs which showed very poor returns on investment.

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The study found that the incubators had an estimated overall economic impact of $515 million to the local economy. However, it lists the annual revenue to the city at only $280,980, or about $4.2 million total.

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An expansive multiplex straddling the Skeena River where a few dozen buildings sit suspended above the water on cylindrical wood pilings, the cannery seems to go on forever.

I scoped out industrial butchering machines, a net loft, rows of former sleeping quarters, a mess hall, a bunkhouse and an aromatic reduction plant, plus numerous other buildings in various states of decay. Snowcapped peaks commandeered the skyline, while cedar and hemlock forests multiplied indefinitely across the landscape. The scenario conveyed a triple shot of abandonment, isolation and loneliness I found to be downright inspiring.

Established in 1889, the cannery operated for almost a century and is the oldest fish cannery on the West

Coast of North America. Much of it remains intact, but parts are falling off into the ocean, so locals are banding together and raising funds to ensure it gets properly restored.

On a day when no one else was around, manager of conservation and operations Steve Milum walked me through a never-ending maze of warehouses, ramshackle boardwalks, wooden pathways, ancient administrative offices, rusted tanks and other sordid structures, schooling me on the comprehensive history and ecology of the British Columbia fishing industry.

Components of the complex are adequately fixed up and converted into museum-style displays for public tours, but much more money needs to be raised for the place to achieve full restoration. Nevertheless, the cannery presents an eye-popping throwback to a century ago, when hundreds of canneries occupied the coast of Western Canada.

On the flip side, the Gulf of Georgia Cannery National Historic Site in the thriving fishing village of Steveston provides a restored, more modernized scenario. Located in Richmond, British Columbia, this one operated from 1894 to 1930, but

was then revived during World War II as a herring reduction plant.

By contrast, everything is fixed up. The place is a full-blown commercialized museum, containing many of the same industrial machines, but all of which have been turned into public displays.

There are placards, films, interactive exhibits and a variety of group tours for kids and adults. Numerous tour guides provide insight into what it was like working at each position on the canning line. There are farmers’ markets outside in the summer and even a concert series on a stage near the entrance. As a result, thousands of tourists who already flock to Steveston make this cannery a regular stop.

Inside, the placards feature retro cartoon diagrams of each stage of the fish-canning process—cleaning, butchering, canning, labeling, steaming and more—replete with arrows, instructions and bilingual descriptions. Le scie éventre le poisson translates as “fish opened by splitting saw,” while le plongeur pousse le saumon dans la cavité becomes “plunger pushes salmon into cavity.”

Our tour guide, a woman wearing a Canadian-red jacket and silver salmon earrings, walked us through every detail of the operation, explaining that back before the butchering machine was invented, workers could butcher four to five fish a minute. Losing a finger was common, she said.

At the end, I felt serene. On one hand, at the upper reaches of the province one finds the North Pacific Cannery, an expansive complex in various stages of restoration. People are banding together, just trying to raise funds to make sure the place doesn’t fall off into the ocean. It’s a long-term project. And at the southern edge of British Columbia, just 10 miles from the U.S. border, the Gulf of Georgia Cannery remains a top tourist draw.

Like an addict, I have gotten my fix of cannery culture to replace what my hometown has lost. I have a new appreciation for all things salmon. Especially earrings.

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Yet when Mrs. Doe set eyes on that ignominious title, she couldn’t help but crack a smile at the absurdity of the situation. Her husband is legally blind, with vision roughly 1/100th of that of a person with normal sight. He is physically incapable of watching any film, this particular porno included.

“To be honest, it’s a little ridiculous,” Doe 2,057 says with a rueful chuckle. “My movie-watching ability is nonexistent. My kids watch movies, but they are 4 and 6, so they don’t watch porn either.

Well, hopefully they don’t.”

The amusement quickly turned to anxiety. Doe, then living in Santa Clara, had just accepted a job in the network-security division of a Seattle software company. The mere suggestion that he swaps illicit smut online could jeopardize his career.

At least at the outset, he could remain anonymous.

The attorneys for Imperial Enterprises tracked his Internet protocol (IP) address, the unique number

assigned to a computer when it connects to the web, but they didn’t yet—and perhaps still don’t— know his real name. He is referred to in the court documents as John Doe 2,057, and he requested anonymity for this story, fearing repercussions if his employer hears of the lawsuit. But as he learned via his letter from Comcast, Imperial’s lawyers had already asked the judge to order the cable company to identify him.

Doe remains adamant that he is innocent. Clad in black slacks and a black turtleneck, his eyes visibly disfigured from ocular illness that leaves him living his life in a literal blur, the former South Bay resident recounts the rookie mistake that got him into this mess.

“I didn’t have time to set up the wireless network in my old apartment,” he says. “I was working 18-hour days so I just told my wife to go to Best Buy and pick up a router. She installed it, hit next,

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next, finish, and boom, that was it. We lived in a very upscale building, there was no riffraff. We just assumed we didn’t have anything to worry about.”

In the following months, Doe says he contacted Comcast on numerous occasions to complain that his Internet connection was frustratingly slow. In hindsight, he believes his neighbors were using his unprotected wireless to download movies. But after researching his options online and consulting an attorney, he realized his predicament was thornier than he’d initially perceived. A simple mea culpa would not suffice.

To fight the case in court would set him back thousands of dollars in attorney’s fees. Plus he’d be entangled in litigation in Washington, D.C., while living 2,700 miles away. Finally, if he were to lose the case, he could be ordered to pay up to $150,000 under federal copyright law.

But it just so happens that the offices of Dunlap,

Grubb and Weaver—the D.C.-based attorneys who represent Imperial Enterprises—offer an easy alternative: Doe can pay a few thousand dollars in fees and the porn case will disappear. In exchange for the settlement, they will drop their lawsuit, and John Doe 2,057 can rest assured that he will remain blissfully anonymous.

“The sad part about this entire porn thing is it will cost more to go to a judge,” Doe says. “At the end of the day, I’ll probably settle and pay the fee to make this go away.”

He is hardly alone in his predicament: Number 2,057 is one of 3,545 John Does being sued in a mass lawsuit for allegedly infringing on the copyrights of Tokyo Cougar Creampies and/or Teen Paradise 4, another Imperial Enterprises production. This lawsuit isn’t unique, either: Since January 2010, 194,345 John Does from across the country have been sued in 296 cases

for alleged copyright violations, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit digital-rights advocacy organization. Virtually all the cases stem from the use of a popular filesharing technology called BitTorrent, and all are the work of a handful of enterprising attorneys suing on behalf of independent film studios and distributors, purveyors of everything from Academy Award winners like The Hurt Locker to low-budget schlock and hard-core porn.

The film industry loses $6.1 billion annually to digital piracy, according to a study conducted by economist Stephen Siwek and cited recently by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).

And the Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA) says royalty rights for indie films have been halved from what they were five years ago. The John Doe lawsuits are a way for desperate movie studios and distributors to recoup those losses.

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FEAR & LOADING 19 Armed with a list of IP addresses and draconian copyright laws, lawyers for the scorned studios are treating a broad swath of the Internetbrowsing public like their own personal ATM. The litigation is taking place on an unprecedented scale. During its campaign against file-sharers from 2003 to 2008, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued approximately 35,000 individuals. In comparison, a whopping 94,000 John Does have been sued in just the first seven months of 2011. Tellingly, not a single case has ever been decided by a jury.

“These lawsuits are not geared toward going to trial,” says Robert Cashman, a Houston attorney who defends accused copyright infringers.

“They’re geared as extortion schemes to pull out thousands of dollars for every accused downloader. It’s not illegal, it’s just wrong. It’s an abuse of the legal process.”

It’s the sequel to the music industry’s war on digital pirates, and the margins of Hollywood are exacting revenge as in some twisted Johnny Depp flick. Most of the accused are likely guilty, and the attorneys going after them say the cyber-thieves are simply getting what’s coming to them. But, in a turn that’s more tragic than comic, many innocent Internet surfers are serving as legal cannon fodder while moviemakers and their lawyers line their pockets with plunder.

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dmittedly, John Doe 2,057 knows a thing or two about BitTorrent. Working with computers, it’s hard not to. The latest in peer-to-peer, or “P2P,” file-sharing, Torrents, as they are known in techie vernacular, are staggeringly popular.

With more than 100 million monthly users—more than Hulu and Netflix combined—Torrent file transfers account for 20 to 40 percent of all Internet traffic at any given time, according to BitTorrent, Inc., the San Francisco company that developed the technology.

For better or worse, BitTorrent has made it easy to swap a DVDquality feature film or a musician’s entire discography. Created in 2002 by a San Francisco computer

programmer named Bram Cohen, the technology is much different than Napster and its descendants, LimeWire and Kazaa. With these earlier applications, files were transferred directly from one person’s hard drive to another on a centralized network. BitTorrent, on the other hand, divides the workload among dozens of users, each of whom shares fragments of the file that are combined like puzzle pieces when the download is completed. In essence, it creates a unique network, known as a “swarm,” dedicated to sharing each specific file. The more people exchanging data, the faster the download happens.

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21 John Doe lawsuit. The RIAA spent millions on their piracy crusade and suffered a series of public-relations meltdowns, such as the time they targeted a dead woman. Meanwhile, the two largest John Doe suits, with a combined 48,905 defendants, were filed against alleged pirates of The Hurt Locker and Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables, both owned by independent studios.

Not coincidentally, both pictures underperformed at the box office.

Traditionally, they likely would have been reliable earners at the video store, with The Hurt Locker cashing in on the cachet of winning multiple Oscars and The Expendables relying on a star-studded cast to woo renters.

But these days, both films can easily be obtained for the low, low price of free with just a few mouse clicks.

“There’s been a sea change of how content and information is exchanged,” says Lory Lybeck, a copyright attorney who’s led several high-profile legal clashes against the RIAA and now defends John Does. “Copyright owners and distributors of that content can either adapt to the new technology or they can adapt in a mutant way.

They can sue and exact hundreds of thousands of dollars for something they could only charge $20 for previously. All they need to do is find out who is sharing that content, and all of a sudden it becomes a gold mine.”

Porn studios are the ones who have sued the majority of John Does. They too have been hit hard by piracy: One industry expert estimates that adult-entertainment revenues shrank 40 percent between 2004 and 2009.

“It’s a helpless feeling to know that when you put a title out, it’s free everywhere within an hour,” says Jason Tucker, head of anti-piracy efforts for Private Media Group, one of the largest international porn distributors. “It happens so fast—in the blink of an eye. And it’s not just here; it’s everywhere for anyone with a computer, all over the world, instantly. People either don’t realize or don’t care that there’s work and money that went into making that product.”

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with [piracy] as Google or Comcast, the companies providing the web browser and Internet connection,” he says. “We don’t condone or support any form of piracy or copyright infringement.”

The piracy is made possible by websites that host links to BitTorrent “trackers,” which direct users to people sharing the copyrighted content they hope to acquire. The Sweden-based Pirate Bay, to name one well-known example, is a repository for innumerable Torrent trackers, which provide access to movies, music, books, software, and more. These trackers, as their name suggests, keep track of the IP addresses participating in the swarm.

To make their sprawling cases against thousands of John Does, the attorneys who represent the scorned movie producers connect to a tracker and identify as many IP addresses as possible, along with the date and time they joined the swarm. Then comes the tricky part: convincing a federal judge that all those BitTorrent users are in cahoots.

“People come and go from the swarm,” explains Chris Ridder, a copyright attorney and a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. “They pop in and share for a while, then they’re done sharing and they leave. It’s not like everybody got together in a smoke-filled room and decided to rob a bank. It’s considerably different.”

The pirate chasers in Doe 2,057’s case contend that “because of the nature of the swarm downloads . . . every infringer is simultaneously stealing copyrighted material.” Hence, they should be considered co-conspirators who can be sued in any court in the country where a single download took place.

“Thousands of people are lumped together in one lawsuit just because, basically, a few lawyers have decided they can be,” says Rebecca Jeschke, a spokeswoman for the EFF. “They’re suing where their firms are, where it’s easiest for them—not where the alleged infringement occurred. It can make it really hard for people to defend themselves.”

Major Hollywood studios, however, have yet to file a single

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FEAR & LOADING 21 information about 749 IP addresses that had allegedly downloaded The Gray Man, a low-budget horror flick. Once they had the names and addresses of the presumed pirates, the lawyers mailed them a notice bearing the newly minted, officiallooking seal of their US Copyright Group. The message made it clear that the John Does could do things the easy way or the hard way: fork over a settlement or risk getting slapped with a $150,000 judgment in federal court, plus the cost of attorneys’ fees.

The tactic was not original.

Starting in late 2007, a British law firm began suing thousands of alleged pirates in Europe and squeezing them for settlements. The scheme fell apart when two of the lawyers were convicted of six counts of professional misconduct, including charges that they were “acting in a way likely to diminish trust in the profession” and knowingly targeting innocent victims.

Nevertheless, the US Copyright Group broke new ground in American courts. Over the next five months they proceeded to sue nearly 15,000 John Does in Washington, D.C.—about 9,000 more people than had ever been sued for copyright infringement in all federal courts combined in a single year.

It remains unclear exactly how much cash the pirate hunters have reaped from their John Doe scheme. The settlements are private agreements, and the attorneys are not obligated to divulge their earnings. That being said, it’s conceivable that a movie studio and their attorneys could turn a handsome profit on a film without ever selling a single ticket or DVD. Needless to say, copycat attorneys have clamored to get in on the lucrative action. Chief among them is John Steele, a Chicago divorce lawyer who was the first to file John Doe suits on behalf of porn studios.

By his own estimate, in the past year Steele has sued roughly 15,000 John Does in 110 separate cases, and he plans to file another 50 cases in the next month. Steele has no qualms about the fact that most people he goes after are unlikely to defend

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odney Githens got his John Doe letter in the mail in January, a month before he was scheduled to ship out to Afghanistan. The 45-year-old North Carolinian retired from the army as a captain shortly after completing a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004, but was headed to Kabul to work as a civilian contractor. Ironically, Githens was accused of downloading The Hurt Locker, which tells the tale of an army Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Baghdad.

“I just didn’t have a lot of interest in watching that,” Githens says, his Southern drawl audible all the way from Afghanistan during a Skype chat. “I was kind of there. I didn’t need to see it. I don’t have any of the Torrent software installed on my computer. My son, who is 19, said the same thing. He allowed me to go through his computer, and I didn’t see anything. I’m fairly confident it didn’t happen at my house.”

Githens hired an attorney and was prepared to fight, but the case against him and all but a handful of his 24,583 fellow John Does was eventually dropped. According to the EFF, the judge in the case was perturbed by the slow progress of the proceedings, and “set up a schedule for the timely dismissal” of the Does who had already been identified via subpoena. The soldier, though, says he never had any intention of forking over a settlement. “I feel like if you pay, it marks you as a victim, and they’ll come right back a second and a third time,” he says, echoing a claim made by several John Doe defense attorneys. “It’s a never-ending well for them. It’s a fishing expedition.”

Coincidentally, the men casting the nets are veterans like Githens.

Thomas Dunlap and Daniel Grubb are the founding partners of Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver. Both men are active National Guardsmen, and Dunlap, a former New York stockbroker, spent 33 months in Afghanistan as an embedded trainer with Afghan security forces.

In January 2010, Dunlap and Grubb trademarked the name US Copyright Group. Later that month, they filed the first largescale copyright lawsuit against John Does in U.S. history, subpoenaing

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In December 2010, four months after he began targeting John Does, the website Ars Technica called out Steele for plagiarizing passages from the legal filings of Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver, and earlier this year the firm threatened to sue Steele for $25,000 for creating the Media Copyright Group, a name the D.C. attorneys claimed was “confusingly similar” to their US Copyright Group. Dunlap did not return multiple calls seeking comment for this story; Steele says the quarrel was resolved amicably. “We had a nice conversation and realized this is silly,” he says. “We’re actually good friends now. That firm did some good pioneering stuff, and then we kind of took it to another level.”

Steele certainly isn’t the only imitator out there. West Virginia lawyer Kenneth Ford created the Adult Copyright Company (motto: “Hardcore Protection”), and last July a north Texas attorney named Evan Stone established the Copyright Defense Agency.

Reached by phone recently, Stone says he is no longer filing John Doe suits on behalf of adult studios, but for ordinary independent filmmakers only. He explains that he is an aspiring director himself, and fighting to keep the movie business profitable. To that end, he believes his work has already made a difference. “Anecdotally, I’ve had friends tell me their friends aren’t using BitTorrent anymore,” Stone says. “They’re looking for new ways to pirate shit, because so many people are getting caught by guys like me.”

Then again, Stone acknowledges that his operation suffered a serious setback when judges in Texas began to toss out his cases, ordering him to go after pirates individually rather than en masse. With a mandatory $350 filing fee per case, the prospect of suing 1,337 John Does, as Stone

once did, is significantly less palatable when it costs $467,950 up front.

“Obviously they got fed up with the adult cases, and so they shitcanned all of those,” Stone grumbles.

“That’s just how it is. The same thing happened in West Virginia.”

Steele too has had a handful of John Doe cases derailed in northern Illinois by Judge Milton Shadur, who in one court filing criticized the attorney’s legal strategy as “shoot first, and identify his targets later.”

Steele says he has since shifted course, and is now suing Does in significantly smaller groups, and only in jurisdictions where alleged downloads have occurred.

But where Stone and Steele’s cases have fizzled, attorneys using nearly identical tactics in other jurisdictions are still being granted carte blanche to sue Does by the bushel.

Most cyber-pirates are prosecuted in the nation’s capital. More than 85,000 John Does are currently caught in ongoing litigation in the district’s federal court, according to the EFF. Not only is D.C. the home court of Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver, it is also the jurisdiction of Judge Beryl Howell, who worked as a lobbyist for the RIAA from 2004 to 2009, during the peak of the organization’s anti-piracy campaign.

In February, Howell issued a ruling that is now frequently cited by pirate-chasers as proof that their tactics are valid. Howell shot down a request by the EFF, the ACLU, and Public Citizen, a national nonprofit consumer-advocacy organization, that she not issue subpoenas for the IP addresses of 1,062 John Does accused of downloading the children’s movie Call of the Wild.

Among other points, the judge asserted that the Does “cannot demonstrate any harm that is occurring to them” before their names are disclosed to the attorneys who are suing them.

David Abrams, a fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, points out that while Howell’s ruling is legally sound, she ignores the reality of the situation on this particular point.

“None of these lawyers expect to

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“They want a subpoena so they can send out that settlement letter. I suspect it works well on people who download the movies and just as well with people who didn’t, because of the threat of being exposed for downloading something like transsexual porn.”

Naturally, Howell’s background has prompted skepticism about her impartiality when it comes to ruling on John Doe cases. She was paid $415,000 to lobby on the RIAA’s behalf as the Executive Managing Director and General Counsel at Stroz Friedberg LLC, a consulting firm, according to the Center for Responsive Politics and the implu Corporation, a company that tracks spending by lobbying firms.

“There is certainly bias,” says Cashman, the Houston copyright attorney. “As soon as we saw [the ruling] and saw who she was, we knew she should have recused herself.”

Through a court spokesperson, Howell declined an interview request for this story, citing the fact that she is currently presiding over an ongoing John Doe case.

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ergeant West is a 38-year-old exMarine living in Michigan. She works as a financial planner and maintains a rental property to help make ends meet. She includes free Wi-Fi in her lease agreement, so when she got a John Doe letter in March accusing her of downloading the Maverick Entertainment Group film Smile Pretty (a.k.a. Nasty), it didn’t take much deduction for her to figure out that her tenant was the likely culprit.

“I called Comcast first; I said, ‘This isn’t me! This is a mistake!’ “ recalls West, who requested a pseudonym because she fears retribution from the attorneys who filed the lawsuit against her. “The guy basically said, ‘Sorry, lady, you’re on the chopping block. The account is in your name.

You can try to fight it, but they’re probably going to fry you.’ “ Though West, Githens, and Doe 2,057 all offer compelling claims of innocence, the vast majority of those accused are likely guilty as charged. They are identified by their IP address, a method that, while far

from foolproof, is reliable enough to be used in criminal prosecutions for more serious cyber-crimes such as child pornography and hacking.

There are, however, several key differences between the way the FBI goes about nabbing a pedophile and the way trolling copyright attorneys pursue their prey. For one thing, says Mike Freedman, a computer-science professor affiliated with Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, the folks in law enforcement have a strong incentive to make a tight case. They must convince a judge to issue a search warrant, and then turn up evidence that the illegal files actually are on their suspect’s hard drive. “If their falsepositive rate is high, they waste a lot of man-hours,” Freedman says. “It’s in their best interest to get good data.

They are working with limited time and resources.”

But since an innocent John Doe is just as likely to pay up as a guilty one, unscrupulous copyright lawyers might not be so meticulous in their search for targets. “The end game isn’t to win a lawsuit for some of these people,” says Quentin Boyer, spokesperson for Pink Visual, a large porn distributor that opposes the John Doe suits. “It’s to exact a settlement. And if you’re not worried about prevailing, maybe you’re not worrying about the accuracy of your data.”

Pirate-hunters are cagey about the exact methods they use to trace IP addresses, but experts like Freedman suspect it is a relatively simple process. Either the attorneys themselves or a cyber-security firm contracted for the task connect to a swarm for their client’s copyrighted file and start sharing.

“Essentially, they think we’re one of them,” Steele says. “They try to give us copyrighted info not knowing we’re gathering that for our clients. They’re giving us all the proof we need, just handing it to us.”

For some judges, a list of the IP addresses that allegedly participated in a swarm is enough to order Comcast and other Internet service providers to provide the names of their customers. “Comparing it to a criminal case,” Freedman says,

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“it’s like you walk into a bad part of town where there’s a substantial amount of drug use and you see lists on the ground with the addresses of suspected drug users. Would that be enough to issue a subpoena, without any further verification?”

The gaping flaw in the system, according to Freedman and other experts, is that not every IP address involved in the swarm is sharing copyrighted data. In fact, not every IP address corresponds to an actual person. In 2008, a team of researchers from the University of Washington’s Computer Science Department set out to determine if it is possible to draw the ire of piratechasers without sharing a single copyrighted file. By adding their IP addresses to a BitTorrent tracker— but never uploading or downloading any data—the academics received more than 400 complaints (“takedown notices,” filed under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act), including several that were addressed to their office printer.

“Some monitoring agencies don’t verify that a user reported to be sharing a file actually is sharing that file,” Michael Piatek, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Arvind Krishnamurthy write in their paper, “Tracking the Trackers.” They conclude that “practically any Internet user can be framed for copyright infringement today.”

The savviest Internet users can also use “spoofing” technology to scramble their IP address or make it appear as though they are surfing the web from a computer halfway across the globe. For a networksecurity expert like Doe 2,057, this is the most galling aspect of his case: If he’d really wanted to pirate porn, he could have done it undetected.

“There needs to be a reasonable effort to prove guilt,” he says.

“They’re accusing me because of an IP address? Please. I could go on the web right now, and in a few seconds I could make it appear as though my IP address was coming from Russia.

It’s that easy.”

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n addition to being the leading source for BitTorrent news, the Dutch website TorrentFreak publishes articles such as “5 Ways to Download Torrents Anonymously.”

But even Ernesto Van Der Sar, the pseudonymous author behind the site, doesn’t mince words when asked how many of the John Does are responsible for cyber-theft.

“On average, 95 percent or more of the cases are accurate,” Van Der Sar says from his home in Amsterdam. “Someone in that household probably downloaded that file. But if you have four persons in a home, it’s basically impossible to determine who downloaded what.

And there’s also the issue of open Wi-Fi and shared networks.”

Of course, the lawyers leading the charge against the John Does argue that leaving a wireless network unprotected is like being an accessory to a crime. “It’s like if you take a pistol, put ammunition in it, leave it in the front yard, and somebody uses it to shoot somebody,” Steele says. “Yeah, you’re going to be held responsible for that.” Unfortunately for Steele, the law doesn’t quite work that way. At Harvard’s Center for Internet and Society, Abrams points out that the accused John Doe is supposed to be the person who clicked the button that initiated a download. But it’s cost-prohibitive for misidentified John Does to go to court and prove it was somebody else behind the keyboard.

“If people say ‘I didn’t do it,’ that’s perfectly OK, but you have to get in front of a judge and jury,” Abrams says.

“That’s a very expensive proposition.

Unless somebody wants to prove a point, it’s not going to make economic sense to take it to a jury.”

While numerous John Does have fought to remain anonymous by asking a judge to “quash” the subpoenas filed against their IP addresses, thus far only one person has had the resources and inclination to wage a full-scale counterattack against his accusers. In February, a Massachusetts man named Dmitriy Shirokov filed a class-action lawsuit against Dunlap, Grubb and Weaver on behalf of himself and 4,576 other John Does accused of downloading a German-made film titled Far Cry. Shirokov is seeking $5 million in damages from the attorneys, arguing that they engaged in “fraud and extortion” by pressuring him for settlement payments and intentionally overstating the possible

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“It’s clear to me that not all the named people are actually sitting at the computer downloading,” Collyer told Dunlap and his colleague Nicholas Kurtz during a hearing last June. “I’m feeling a little bit like I was terribly naive, to be perfectly frank, when you filed this, and I just blithely signed the subpoena and headed you off into the wilderness.

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“It’s clear that this is an injustice, and our client wanted to see something done about it,” says Shirokov’s attorney, Dan Booth. “The statutory damages—what they are threatening people with and saying ‘If you don’t settle, we may go after you in a court of law seeking these damages’—they reference cases that just don’t apply. They have no relationship to what they could actually get in this case. They’re not playing it straight. The law doesn’t support their claims.”

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n July 7, the five largest Internet service providers and the heavyweights of the movie, music, and TV industries announced that they have devised a novel new strategy to combat piracy: Educate, don’t sue.

An alphabet-soup coalition— which includes the RIAA, MPAA, and IFTA—will monitor BitTorrent file transfers and report offending IP addresses to cable companies. Under a new “Copyright Alert System,” the ISPs will then send a warning to the offending subscriber stating that their account “may have been misused for content theft,” and that “consequences could result.” The potential pirates will also receive information about “the abundant sources of lawful music, film, and TV content.” The ISPs will issue up to six such warnings before they resort to “mitigation measures,” such as throttling back the bandwidth of the infringing IP address.

The underlying theory behind the alert system is that many parents or people with open wireless networks are likely oblivious to the rampant piracy being perpetuated on their dime, and “subscribers have a right to know when their Internet accounts are being used for content theft.” According to the website for the new Center for Copyright Information, recent studies conducted in Norway, France, and England found that up to 70 percent of users stopped downloading illegally once notified that their ISP was on to them.

However, attorneys on both sides of the John Doe battle are skeptical about the plan. “It’s a step forward,” says Stone, the north Texas pirate pursuer. “But it’s also a bit of a fucking joke.”

“My understanding, and the understanding of a lot of attorneys, is this is a flat-out disaster,” adds Cashman, the Houston John Doe defender. “The conclusion I came to is I don’t want to be a subscriber to any ISP that signed on to this.”

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Cashman agrees with Stone’s latter point, and adds that people should only be sued individually or in small groups, and in the jurisdiction where the downloading occurred.

A handful of copyright attorneys for adult studios generally abide by those guidelines, including Floridabased Marc Randazza.

Randazza says he speaks with each accused pirate and works with them to weed out cases of mistaken identity. He believes that when the John Doe cases are “done right” and combined with savvy marketing and the utilization of new technology, piracy will ultimately decline. “I think it is a wise company that does enforcement plus business-model changes,” Randazza says. “You aren’t going to stop it entirely with enforcement, but with that and business changes, you can really stem the tide.”

Indeed, virtually everyone interviewed for this story agrees that the only real solution to piracy is to make more movies available online for an affordable price. As long as it remains difficult for people to access the most popular types of content from their home computer, illegal downloading will continue unabated. Services like Netflix, Hulu, and iTunes have made momentous strides in this regard, but industry observers—and frustrated movie viewers—still say that Hollywood has been too reluctant to embrace new technology.

“The movie industry often functions as an ocean liner,” says Jason Squire, editor of The Movie Business Book and a professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

“It’s very tough to make deliberate

change; it does take time. The studios historically wait on the sidelines while somebody else takes a chance and makes a mistake and loses money, and then they find a way to make money from new technology. It happened with TV and home theaters, and it’s what’s happening on the web.”

Porn, on the other hand, is everywhere online—yet piracy is still pervasive. Addressing the paradox, Boyer, the spokesman for adult distributor Pink Visual, blames YouTube–like sites that stream unlicensed content, as well as a history of underhanded business practices like overbilling, for driving away customers.

“There has been mistreatment of the consumer,” Boyer says. “It’s not industry-wide, but common enough for people to notice. All it takes is a few sites that are highly trafficked doing it to sour a lot of consumers.

They say ‘The heck with paying for it, I’ll just go to the site where they give it away.’ “ Earlier this year, Pink Visual organized two “copyright retreats” for leading porn studios and distributors to brainstorm effective ways to combat piracy. Boyer says that among the attendees there was “tremendous sympathy” and majority support for the John Doe tactics, but that his company and others are wary.

“It’s carpet-bombing,” says Tucker, the Private Media Group executive.

“With technology we have now, when you can strategically target somebody and put the missile down the air shaft, it doesn’t make sense to carpet-bomb the entire city. In the process, innocent people are getting swept up. It’s the wrong way to fight a war. There’s too much collateral damage.”

Yet John Doe 2,057, despite his claims of innocence, paid a settlement to make his case go away. He hired an attorney, who negotiated a settlement with undisclosed terms. The experience, he says, taught him a valuable lesson.

“The moral of the story is: Never leave your wireless network open,” he says. “It could end up costing you a few thousand dollars.” khamilton@seattleweekly.com

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Morris was busy selling his meat directly to customers and had no interest in selling to a restaurant, but the owners of Steak Out persuaded him. The restaurant was previously Bodrum Cafe, a Turkish restaurant.

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“I had a real desire to do something

straightforward and honest but that was also high quality,” said Finley.

Unlike most restaurants where the beef arrives at the restaurant in the back of a truck, Finley has to pick up the beef in San Juan Bautista. He buys whole animals and has a butcher process and hang the meat for nearly two weeks. Dry aging the meat adds flavor and complexity to the burger, a process that is unheard of in a casual restaurant like Steak Out. What is more, the meat is ground from virtually every part of the animal, not just sirloin or chuck meat.

“I have no idea who else is doing this,” he told me. “This not a pushbutton operation at all. It’s superhard work.” I’d say no one.

Most grass-fed beef is seasonal. When the grass dries up, cattle get skinny unless you offer them supplemental feed. But that’s when things get expensive. But Finley is looking at possibly bringing in another small-scale producer from Tomales Bay that is able to grow grass year round because of the cool and fog-irrigated climate.

As good as the actual beef patties are, the buns deserve a special shoutout, too. An inferior bun undoes many a good burger. Too crumby, too soft or too dry—there are many ways for a bun to go wrong. Not here. Steak Out creates its buns from a special recipe

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developed by one of the partners and made by a local baker. The yeasted rolls are made from a natural starter and have a great fresh-baked taste with a beautiful light-brown glaze. They’re moist, springy, vaguely sweet and lightly toasted and hold up to the burgers.

“The big hole in the burger industry is the bun,” Finley said. I think he has successfully plugged that hole.

The burgers ($8.50) come three ways: the “experience,” with sharp Cheddar cheese, Steak Out sauce (essentially a better-than-average ranch dressing), lettuce and tomatoes; the “euphoria,” with caramelized onions, horseradish mayonnaise and Cheddar cheese; and a simpler version you can built to your own specifications.

The “experience” burger is a solid choice. The third-of-a-pound patty is cooked medium unless you tell them otherwise. Medium rare is a better way to go, as Morris’ beef is lean, and longer cooking means a drier burger.

In addition to Morris Grassfed burgers, Steak Out used to serve a cheaper burger made from a Sonoma County grass-fed beef supplier, but the restaurant dropped them because of what they said was inconsistent quality.

The restaurant’s menu is small. In addition to the burger, Steak Out serves grass-fed beef hot dogs, a crab-cake burger ($9.25), a grilled cheese sandwich ($4.50) and a veggie burger ($6.75) made from deep-fried garbanzo beans.

The vegetable burger is good, but a little doughy inside.

Steak Out serves good fries ($2) and a small but thick gelato milkshake ($4).

They offer breakfast, too, but I didn’t check that out.

Steak Out also boasts some good beers ($4), from the likes of Anderson Valley Brewing Co., Green Flash Brewing Co. and the Lost Coast Brewing Co. Sit on the outdoor patio with beer and burger in hand. It’s much nicer than the staid dining room.

Is $8.50 too much to pay for a burger?

If you don’t want a heaping portion of externalized social and environmental costs on the side, I say it’s a bargain, much “cheaper” than anything you’d find at Burger King or McDonald’s.

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pretzel and chile powder. 6am5pm Mon-Thu, 6am-11pm Fri, 7am-11pm Sat, 7am-5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester Blvd #C. 408.378.4540.

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Campbell and restaurant. $$$. Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Welldevised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious finger foods. 11am-10:30pm MonThu, 11am-midnight Fri-Sat, 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777.

LA PIZZERIA Italian. $$. La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand on the strength of a few high-quality ingredients, expertly prepared.

Open for lunch and dinner daily.

11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am11pm Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Ave. 408.370.0826.

MICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi standards are transformed into palate-awakening presentations; culinary boundaries are stretched.

11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.378.8000 or 378.0838.

NEGEEN Persian. $$. Mira ghasemi, grilled and puréed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, puréed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs. Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice cream. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-midnight Fri-Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400.

PSYCHO DONUTS Donuts. $.

Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory with flavors like apricot, the Cookie Monster (topped with Oreos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits of vanilla wafers) and the intimidating Psycho Donut, a maelstrom of marshmallow,

Russian. $$. This is a small Russian grocery store with a good little restaurant tucked in the corner. Borscht soup, pelmeni and solyankya sbornaya, a thick soup studded with chunks of mild pork sausage, black olives, pickles and barley all satisfy. 11am-8pm daily. 1712 S. Winchester Blvd.

408.379.6680.

SUSHI ZONE Japanese. $$. Fun sushi meets fun surroundings in this zone. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd #1.

408.866.1323.

TIGELLERIA Italian. $$.

Tigelleria’s menu centers on fine cheeses and Italian salumi paired with tigelle, free-flowing, piping-hot flatbreads the size of mini pitas. The bread forms the addictive heart of the meal.

11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm daily. 76 E. Campbell Ave. 408.884.3808.

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

300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444.

AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza. $. Amici’s specializes in thin-crust, New York-style pizza. With its upscale atmosphere and friendly service you’ve got

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ANTONELLA’S Classic Italian standards in a relaxed, family-friendly Rose Garden neighborhood setting. 11am9pm Mon-Fri, 8am-3pm and 4-9 pm Sat-Sun. 1701 Park Ave., 408.279.4922

ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$.

Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu, 5:3011pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555.

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

BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$.

Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and taste likes the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American, Mexican and Asian food. Most dishes are designed for sharing—appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am-10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat. Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St. 408.292.4300.

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

EULIPIA New American. $$$. The revamped menu emphasizes robust flavors and beautiful presentations. Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails.

Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:30-9:30pm Sun. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161.

FLAMES EATERY AND BAR American. $$. In Silicon Valley, the home-grown Flames restaurant chain is the area’s definitive coffee shop. And now they’ve opened in downtown San Jose to great acclaim. 7ammidnight daily. 88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

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

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

HOUSE OF SIAM Thai. $. This popular establishment runs the gamut of Thai treasures. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm daily. 151 S. Second St. 408.295.3397.

IL FORNAIO Regional Italian. $$. Embraced by the graceful Sainte Claire Hotel, this location (there are several up and down the coast) transports the diner. The menu showcases a different region of Italy monthly.

7am-10pm Mon-Thu, 7am-11pm Fri, 8am-11pm Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. Full bar. 302 S. Market St. 408.271.3366.

LA PASTAIA Italian. $$. La Pastaia remains a stalwart of downtown San Jose’s dining scene. Set inside the Hotel De Anza, the rustic Italian restaurant has big-city style to spare. Lunch 11am-3pm MonFri, noon-2pm Sat-Sun; dinner

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LA VICTORIA TAQUERIA

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

11am-10pm daily. 72 E. Santa Clara St. 408.277.0333.

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

LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$.

Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades. Lunch 11am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 1-10pm Sat and 4-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.

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

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

MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food cooked and served by people with a personal investment in customer happiness. Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-11pm MonSat, Sun 5-9pm. 86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.

MORTON’S STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, a Chicago-based chain of restaurants with more than 80 locations across the U.S. and abroad, offers delicious, premium-priced steaks. The rest of the menu is a mixed

NAGLEE PARK GARAGE New American. $$. Lots of restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood joints but few deliver. The Garage does. Small but satisfying menu of wellexecuted comfort food classics.

5-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm Sat, 9am1pm Sun. 505 E. San Carlos St. 408.286.1100.

NHA TOI Vietnamese. $$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern-style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am-10pm daily.

460 E. William St. 408.294.2733.

PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor. Pagoda offers the gamut of regional allstars. Full bar. 6-10pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St. 408.998.3937.

PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$.

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

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO New Orleans. $$. Poor House Bistro offers a low-priced menu of Crescent City classics like po’ boys, barbecued shrimp, gumbo and muffaletta. Live music on Fridays and Saturdays. 11am9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10am-8pm Sun; brunch 10am-2pm Sun. 91 S. Autumn St. 408.292.5837.

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But when it does open, it’s poised to breath some new life into downtown San Jose. The market is patterned after great European public markets or Pike Place in Seattle and the Granville Island Public Market in Vancouver, British Columbia. When it finally opens, it will feature about 20 vendors and a lively outdoor space built around the historic Peralta Adobe.

Borkenhagen says more than 80 percent of the market has been leased out. Among the food vendors are TREATBOT, purveyor of desserts and karaoke; LA FINA COCINA, a Latino-themed kitchen and lifestyle store; PIZZA BOCCA LUPPO, wood-fired, Neapolitan-style pizza; and ROBEE’S FALAFEL. Nonfood vendors include CREWNERS, an old-school barbershop, and the SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET GIFT SHOP. For more information, go to sanpedrosquaremarket.com and sanjosemade.com.

In other food news, CINNABAR WINERY will host its fourth-annual harvest barbecue Sept. 17, noon–4pm, at its Sunny Slope vineyard in Saratoga. The event includes a wine-tasting reception and freshbaked wood-fired pizzas noon–1pm. Lunch will be served 1–2pm and feature Caesar salad, pasta primavera, grilled tri-tip, grilled vegetables and various desserts.

The event will also comes with a dessert contest. The winner gets a three-liter bottle of Mercury Rising. There will also be bocce ball, live music and an opportunity to talk with winemaker GEORGE TROQUATO. Tickets are $50. Advanced registration is required for the dessert contest. Contact Cinnabar Winery at 408.867.1012 or 408.741.5858 for details.—Stett Holbrook

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

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

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

SONOMACHICKEN Mixed. $.

If you don’t mind carrying your own tray and fighting for a table you’ll be rewarded with hearty spit-roasted chicken that requires at least six napkins.

11am-9pm Sun-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat. 31 N. Market St. at San Pedro Square. 408.287.4098.

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

VUNGTAU Vietnamese. $$.

Traditionalists might gripe that they can get authentic Vietnamese food for less elsewhere, but it’s hard to top Vung Tau for its fresh, quality ingredients and sleek yet comfortable décor. Encyclopedic menu. 10am-3pm, 5-9pm daily. 535 E. Santa Clara St. 408.288.9055.

WING’SChinese. $. The food is complemented by an exotic dining room with sequestered seating equipped with hanging beads and doorbells, and other miscellaneous peculiarities of a bygone era. Always a fun place to visit. 11:30am-9:30pm daily.

131 E. Jackson St. 408.294.3303 or 998.9427.

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BAY LEAF Indonesian and Thai.

$$. Bay Leaf’s menu is divided into Thai and Indonesian food and it’s the latter that stands out. While Thai food is characterized by bright, high notes, Indonesian food strikes a lower bass note. 11am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri-Sat, 11am-9pm Sun. 122 S. Sunnyvale Ave. 408.481.9983.

CHELOKEBABI Persian. $$.

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

11am-10pm daily. 1236 Wolfe Rd. 408.737.1222.

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

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

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

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

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

LUCKY DHABA Indian. $. A dhaba is a roadside fast-food joint in northern India. We’ve got our own version here at Sunnyvale’s Lucky Dhaba.

Located off busy El Camino Real, Lucky Dhaba offers a wide variety of good Indian food. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu and 11am-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 1036 El Camino Real. 408.617.0660.

PEZELLAS Family Italian. $$.

Serves popular Italian dinners with rich sauces and generous portions. East Coast seafood dishes like linguini and clams and calamari sautéed in tomato, garlic, and basil stand out. Pizza and pasta abound.

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Sun-Mon. 1025 W. El Camino Real. 408.738.2400.

SAIZO Japanese. $$. Part bar, part eatery, Saizo served small plates of grilled and fried dishes made to go with sake and beer.

It’s all good. Open daily for lunch and dinner Mon-Sat. 592 E. El Camino Real. 408.733.7423.

SENZALA Brazilian. $$.

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

SHALIMAR Indian-Pakistani. $. Walk up to the counter, grab a menu and place your order.

One of the best dishes is the plain-looking haleem, a lentil and barley stew available with chicken or beef. Nihari, a rich beef shank stew, is also great. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm Sun-Thu, noon-3:30pm, 5:30-11pm Sat-Fri. 1146 W. El Camino Real.

408.530.0300.

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

TAVERNA BISTRO Old Mediterranean/Turkish. $$. Mustard and ruddy pomegranate hues warm the restaurant’s interior; zesty Arabic infusions warm the food.

Choose from mezes such as hummus or tabouli. Entrees include lamb, beef or chicken gyros or lamb kebab. 11am10pm daily. 133 S. Murphy Ave. 408.735.9971.

UDUPI PALACE Indian. $$. Udupi Palace, a south Indian vegetarian restaurant, specializes in dishes—dosas and uthappams. Dosas are long, thin crepes made with rice flour. Uthappams are pancakes made with rice and lentil flour.

11:30am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am10:30pm Sun. 976 E. El Camino Real. 408.830.9600.

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The Emerald Hill is a band that sounds like nothing this side of the 415 area code; their willingness to work with whatever they can get their hands on has evolved a sound that sets them apart. The songs tell dark and descriptive fairy tales. “Kite Song” is frontporch folk, “Dr. Appleseed” has a dirty stomp with a Silversteinian storyline. Where they would have taken it from here we’ll never know, since this is the Emerald Hill’s last show ever, although there is at least a future project from lead singer Rosa Leonardo to look forward to. (JA)

Tron Guy. Look at That Horse Guy. Peter Pan Fail Girls. Foul Ball Couple. These are the people Daniel Tosh hangs out with. His Tosh.0 show on Comedy Central made stupid viral videos funny again, for the full Tosh effect, go straight to his DVD, Completely Serious. Can there ever be too much of a freaky-looking white guy parodying freaky-looking white guys? (SP)

WAILING SOULS Music in the Park Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose 5:30pm; free Like the blues here, the story of reggae’s rise in Jamaica is more myth than history at this point. Wailing Souls’ founder Winston Matthews, better known as “Pipe” for reasons that even my mom would be able to guess, didn’t take down Satan at the crossroads, but he did supposedly learn to sing from reggae’s original pied piper, Joe Higgs. Whether the two were ever really out harmonizing in the legendary Higgs’ back yard is anyone’s guess, but what is undisputable is that Matthews has drawn the top reggae talent to his musical projects for almost five decades now. Higgs did perform with Wailing Souls in the 1970s, as did Black Uhuru’s Rudolph Dennis.

They recorded on Bob Marley’s label, and on Sly & Robbie’s, as well, laying down now classic singles like “Soul and Power,” “You Should Have Known Better” and “Fire Coal Man.” (SP)

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TIM KAHIHIKOLO MEMORIAL Avalon Nightclub, Santa Clara Sat – 5pm; $20 “We’re all old men now!” vocalist/ saxophonist Kenny Schick told me while talking about how long local legends The Brownies had been around. The band started in 1986, meshing roots reggae, ska and rock,, and will be the headliner at a benefit memorial for their late

singer/guitarist, Tim Kahihikolo, who passed away in February, only 41 years young. Schick says a few different people will take vocal duty that night, including Dale Mungaray (vocals, sax), Paul Dawson (Dub FX) and Lawrence Martinez (Salmon).

The other bands performing are from numerous different genres, further proving Kahihikolo’s influence.

Proceeds will go to his widow and their two children, age five and seven.

Slated to perform with the Brownies are Willie’s Conception, Dub FX, Los Hot Boxers, Insolence, Neosoreskin, Live Evil and Sad Boy Sinister. (BD)

TOAD THE WET SPROCKET Mountain Winery, Saratoga Sat – 7:30pm; $35-$55 Glen Phillips is an interesting guy.

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CHRISTOPHER CROSS Aug 19 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

SAN JOSE PRIDE Aug 20–21, downtown San Jose Au

JOSH GROBAN Aug 23 at 8:30pm, HP Pavilion

SADE Aug 25 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

SUGARLAND Aug 26 at 7:30pm, Shoreline

AIR SUPPLY Aug 27 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

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DEVO Aug 27 2 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

ROCK THE BELLS Aug 27 at 10:30am, Shoreline

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

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Now that Toad the Wet Sprocket is back together—even recording, reportedly—it’ll be interesting to see how much the Santa Barbara hitmakers have been affected by Phillips’ years of musical soulsearching. (SP)

WESLESTER Saratoga Rec Center, Saratoga Sat – 6pm; $10 What first caught my eye was that one of the influences Weslester names is Frank Zappa. You don’t read that too often. But then again, Weslester is not an average band.

They call themselves “revolutionary hard rock.” While they may not incite the masses to rise against

oppression, they definitely are a cut above the rest, especially in the talent department. It’s hard rock mixed with melodic interludes, surreal electronic dance and hip-hop beats. Expect to be surprised with their borderline ADD songwriting, which is done exceptionally well. (BD)

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Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Sun – 7:30pm; $59-$98 If Mad Men wanted to show a little extra attention to detail, they’d have a Herb Alpert poster up somewhere in the offices of Sterling Cooper Draper Price. In 1964 and 1965, there were few people cooler than trumpeter

and bandleader Alpert—and not just because he had a naked girl covered in white goo on the cover of his most famous album, Whipped Cream and Other Delights (okay, the girl was a big part of it, but still). Besides being an American music icon, Alpert is a true Renaissance man—painting, sculpting and co-founding A&M Records, in addition to his composition and performance. For almost 40 years, he’s been married to singer Lani Hall, who performs with him at this show. (SP)

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reggae, marijuana, sex and space aliens have always been well served by Omaha quintet 311. For more than 20 years now, Nick Hexum, P-Nut, Tim Mahoney and the rest of Clan Cornhusker have been shucking out feel-good vibes and high energy shows to their gluttonous herds of fans. After a four-year studio hiatus, which saw more than a few nasty rumors fly that perhaps the funk farmers had hung up their pitchforks, the boys returned in ’09 with Uplifter.

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

SALSA FESTIVAL Sep 24, noon–8pm, downtown Redwood City.

KEITH URBAN Oct 1 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

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BIG FAT SUMMER COMEDY EXTRAVAGANZA Nothing but laughs with Mari Magaloni, Debi Durst, Johnny Steele, Will Durst and Michael Bossier. Sat, 8pm. $25/$30. San Jose Stage.

CYMBELINE A production of Free Shakespeare in the Park.

Fri-Sun, 7:30pm. Runs thru Aug 28. Free. Memorial Park Amphitheater, Cupertino.

INHERIT THE WIND A courtroom drama based on the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, presented by South Valley Civic Theatre. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Aug 27. $14/$18.

NEW WORKS FESTIVAL A showcase for new plays, presented by TheatreWorks.

Includes “Little Rock.” Sat, 2pm, Sun, 7pm. “The Giver,” Thu, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. “Wild With Happy.” Fri-Sat, 8pm.

See www.TheatreWorks.org for ticket info. Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.

NINE City Lights presents the musical based on Fellini’s famous film “8-1/2.” ThuSat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Aug 28. $25-$35. City Lights, San Jose.

SHADY SHAKESPEARE The summer troupe presents “Henry V” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in repertory.

Thu-Sun, 7pm. Runs thru Sep 4. $10-$15. Free. Sanborn Park, Saratoga.

SHAKESPEARE SANTA CRUZ “The Comedy of Errors,” “Henry IV, Part One” and “The Three Musketeers” run in repertory. Runs thru Aug 28. UC-Santa Cruz campus.

SHOUT! THE MOD MUSICAL The popular salute to ’60s nostalgia returns, featuring five female vocalists. Aug 26-Sep 18. Retro Dome, San Jose.

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois renew their strange courtship in Dragon’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ famed drama. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Aug 21. $16$25. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

TAIKO JAM A concert with five taiko drum ensembles. Sat, 8pm. $30. Memorial Auditorium, Stanford.

Comedy COMEDYSPORTZ Fri, 9pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm: Live improv comedy. Fri, 11pm: The Midnight Show.

Inside the Camera 3 building, San Jose.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Ron Shock. $12$18. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Big Al’s Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Bret Ernst. $15/$17.

San Jose.

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Museums ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “Crossing Boundaries.”

Works by sculptor Kristen Lindseth-Rivera and painter Ming Jing Wang. Thru Sep 15.

Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm.

Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Expanding Views of Africa.”

A reinstallation of works of African art from the museum’s collection looking at the continent’s art and culture in diversity and depth. Ongoing. “The Art of the Book.” A show about five fine presses in the Bay Area.

Thru Aug 28. “Illustrated Title Pages: 1500-1900.” A show of 80 illustrated book

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METROACTIVE.COM pages from the museum’s collection. Thru Oct 16. WedSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am8pm. Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM “Mammoth Discovery!”

Plus activities and handson fun for kids. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm. Sun, noon-5pm.

Discovery Meadow, San Jose.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present.”

“The Changing Face of Homelessness: Portraits by SCU Photography Students.”

“Between Struggle and Hope: Envisioning a Democratic Art in the 1930s.” “This Camera Fights Fascism: The Photographs of David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez.” Thru Feb 5.

Santa Clara University.

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

Runs thru Sep 11 at Pacific Hotel. “Celebrating Local Artists.” Thru Sep 18 at Pasetta House, History Park, San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks.”

A selection of photographs taken by Owens in the 1970s. Thru Feb 5. “The Bible Illuminated: R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis.” Thru Sep 25. “Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art From India.”

Thru Sep 4. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Scrap ART.” Historical quilts and “scrappy contemporary works.” Thru Oct 16.

Reception Aug 28, 1-4pm.

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.

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It is truly my great pleasure to welcome you to the 36th Annual San Jose Pride Festival. It is with the hard work and dedication of the San Jose Pride board that we survived yet another year in an economy where festivals all over the country have lost the battle to produce an annual event. With tremendous gratitude, I would like to thank every member of the 2011 San Jose Pride board, which is entirely comprised of volunteers who put in the blood, sweat and tears necessary to make this event possible. I would also like to commend all of the past and future board members who take on a piece of this huge commitment.

We started planning this year’s festival last October and right from the start we knew that there were going to be some challenges. We had inherited a sizable operating deficit from the prior year, we received zero grant monies from the city cultural affairs office and corporate sponsorship was down 60%. I am not sure if many people realize that it takes about a quarter of a million dollars to produce our pride festival each year and that figure is before any entertainment headliner is booked. We sincerely believe that the San Jose Pride festival is important to the local LGBTQA community and supports our rich cultural diversity. So we did what comes naturally, rolled up our sleeves and got to work.

This year’s festival theme is “moving forward together” and it represents the concept that tremendous progress can be made when we support each other’s efforts and work together. A shining example of this was the new collaboration that was forged with the Billy DeFrank Center, HRC, Rainbow Chamber of Commerce and San Jose Pride. For the first time leadership from these organizations regularly met around a table, shared a glass of wine and discussed what we could do to support each other. This type of partnership would have been unheard of before. We organized the first LGBTQA events at the San Jose Sharks and San Jose Giants games with overwhelming positive feedback from the community. We also established a fresh working relationship with some of the local bar owners that was based on supporting each other and promoted multiple special events throughout the year with rave reviews. Per the most recent census, San Jose is the 10th most populous city in the United States, we have the people to create an army that could work to revitalize our local LGBTQA community, change minds, and invent new possibilities that were previously unimagined. —So I ask the question, what might be possible if we all were “moving forward together”?

I wish to thank everyone who has supported me this year and especially those who put me in a position to make a difference. I would like to especially thank my family and friends for their invaluable support; you guys mean the world to me. On behalf of everyone involved in the 2011 San Jose Pride festival, I would like to say welcome and we hope that you enjoy yourselves.

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Pride Board Steve Bass – President Jen Beehler – Vice President Andre Mathurin – Administrator Monica Gimenez – Controller Ray Mueller – Sponsorship Jesse Lacuesta – Volunteers CY Shih – Board Member Natalie Romano – Board Member

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Saturday Schedule

!UGUST s AM n PM s &REE For vendor applications and other info, go online to www.sanjosepride.com

On the Grounds of Discovery Meadow at Guadalupe River Park Advance Sales for Sunday $10 - tickets available all day at the San Jose Pride Information Booth Children’s Discovery Museum Kid’s Korner - Bounce House, Spin Art, Face Painting, Jugglers, Magicians Rainbow Recreation - Volley Ball on the Main grass San Jose Non Profit Row - Booths representing the finest non-profit gay community related services The Arts and Crafts Village - A wide array of arts, crafts and pride related goodies The International Food Court - Foods and beverages from around the world Micro Brew Tent - Imported Bottled Beer Specialties at Ridder Square Rainbow Chamber Business Village – Meet many LGBT Businessmen in person

Pride Stage Hosted by Angie Taha 11:30am Noon

NATIONAL ANTHEM Diamond John’s Revue

Main Stage 5th Annual Women’s Music Festival Lineup 12:45pm 1:45 2:45 3:45 4:45 6:00

Holly Heaven Xollie Morra Scranton Five Nines Tehya Beaver Fever

Community Dance Stage Under The Trees in Ridder Square Carnevale Kings Drag Show with Burlesque and Artisans Noon Jen Beehler Opens the stage 12:05pm GQS 12:15 Ashton Krotcher 12:20 Fella Fem & Friends 12:30 Tori Scoville 1:00 Boneca & Laxman Drivas 1:20 Fella-Fem Dicky, Mitchell Brothers 1:30 Nehal Abuelata 2:00 Tony Spanks & Justin Timetolick 2:10 Cado Dos Santos 2:40 Veronica Malki 3:10 Fella Fem 3:30 Ben Henderson 4:00 Troy & Friends 4:30 Sourpatch 5:00 Frootie Flavors 5:30 DJ Sean Bassett 4 | SAN JOSE PRIDE PROGRAM 2011

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Sunday Schedule

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Festival at Discovery Meadow at Guadalupe River Park 11 am - 8pm $10 in advance available at the Info Booth in the Park on Saturday, or $15 at the door on Sunday.

Children 12 and under, Seniors 60+ and handicapped patrons are free

On the Grounds Children’s Discovery Museum Kid’s Korner - Bounce House, Spin Art, Face Painting, Jugglers, Magicians Rainbow Recreation - Volley Ball on the Main grass San Jose Non Profit Row - Booths representing the finest non-profit gay community related services The Arts and Crafts Village - A wide array of arts, crafts and pride related goodies The International Food Court - Foods and beverages from around the world Micro Brew Tent - Imported Bottled Beer Specialties at Ridder Square Rainbow Chamber Business Village – Meet many LGBT Businessmen in person Mobile USA Rock Climb Wall - In front of Ridder Square

Pride Main Stage 11:00am NATIONAL ANTHEM 11:15 Xavier Toscano 11:30 Gq Society Noon Rendevous With Cool Beans 12:45pm Mommas Boyz 1:00 Unity Dance Troupe 1:30 Bray 2:15 Desi 2:45 Luciana 3:00 Lucy Manhattan 3:15 Cheer Sf 3:30 Orquestra D’ Soul 4:30 Lady Bunny 4:45 Martha Wash 5:15 Cheer Sf 5:30 Sherry Vine 6:00 The Cheeseballs Live DJs Sean Bassett and Jeff Morena will spin in-between acts

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Ring Thing WHEN Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Fully Charged circus arrives Aug. 17, San Jose residents will be pleased to see one of their own leading the festivities. The show is led by ringmaster Brian Crawford Scott, a San Jose native who attended Oak High School.

The 25-year-old University of Northern Colorado alum has a degree in musical theater, but some of his earliest introductions to the stage were Oak High’s productions of West Side Story and Sweet Charity. He is now one of the youngest ringmasters in the storied circus company’s 141 years in the business. “This is nothing like the theater that I’ve done in the past,” Scott says. “There are thousands in the audience, and I’m working with extraordinary =lccp :_Xi^\[ performers from all over the world.”

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In addition to Scott’s performance, attendees can look forward to acrobatics from the Danguir Family. Brian “The Human Fuse” Miser lights himself on fire before shooting out of a self-made crossbow, and the Brothers of Brawn twirl giant telephone poles while acrobats balance on top. Eager audience members can get more bang for their buck an hour before the show at the free “All-Access Pre-Show Power Up Party,” where they can take photos with the stars, learn special circus skills and watch an elephant paint a picture. “People don’t expect how personal and one-of-a-kind everyone’s experiences are when they come to the circus,” Scott says. “There’s so much going on that everyone gets a chance to take away their own unique experience.”—Anna Pan

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metroactive ARTS TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Photographs by Diane Kreiter.” Interior shots of industrial plants in Silicon Valley.” Thru Sep 11. “Atmospheric Firing.”

Examples of wood-fired ceramics. Thru Sep 11. “David Ogle: Sculptures.” Thru Sep 18. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm.

Santa Clara.

Galleries ANNO DOMINI “The Melting Kingdom.”

Twelve new pieces by the New York artist Dimitri Drjuchin. Thru Sep 17. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

CAFFE TRIESTE “Art Alive.” Bodypainting art by Trina Merry in collaboration with Bay Area photographers. Thru Aug 30.

San Jose.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “Dreams” by Valerie Runningwolf. Thru Aug 26.

San Jose.

GALLERY SARATOGA “Images From California and the World.” Photos by Don del Castillo. Thru Sep 4. Reception Aug 20, 25pm. Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm.

Saratoga.

KALIED GALLERY “Convergence” by Jojo Perea; “Musings From the Wasteland” by Michelle Waters. Thru Aug 31. San Jose.

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

METRO LOBBY “Know Trespassing.”

Photographs by Jason Duffany illustrating his bike ride across Canada and the United States. Thru Aug 31.

San Jose.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Records and Marks.” A show about mapping and identity

by Lordy Rodriguez, Adriane Colburn, Alexander Chen, Amanda Hughen and Ehren Elizabeth Reed. Thru Oct 16.

“Sculpture on the Grounds: Traces, Twigs and Time.”

Ongoing. Thu-Sun, 11am3pm. Saratoga.

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

Thru Aug 22. Mountain View.

PHANTOM GALLERIES Works in storefronts. At 386 S. First St: “Street Swag Photo Booth” photos by Abe Menor from SubZERO Festival. Thru Sep 17.

San Jose.

PHO 69 “Collection of Light.” Naturepatterned work by Laurus Myth. Thru Sep 23. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Lift Off.” A show of works by recent MFA art grads from SJSU. Thru Sep 10. “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.

SARATOGA LIBRARY Photographs of West Coast people and places by Charles DiLisio. Thru Aug 31.

Saratoga.

*books JANE FONDA

The famed performer is on tour promoting her book “Prime Time: Making the Most of Your Life.” Thu, 7pm.

(Ticketed event, see www. keplers.com for details.)

Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

JAFAR YAGHOOBI The author of “Let Us Water the Flowers” talks about his experience as a political prisoner in Iran. Wed, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.

*events ARTS FESTIVAL

This week featuring a performance by jazz star John Worley with Worlview.

Sun, 2pm. (see www.r-house. org for details). Rengstorff House, Mountain View.

DIY ART A session on drawing comic books with illustrator and author Richard Becker, for all ages. Sat, 1-3pm. Free with regular museum admission.

San Jose Museum of Art.

CELEBRATE JOHN MUIR A day to learn about the famed naturalist in conjunction with the exhibit in the Pacific Hotel, “Nature’s Beloved Son.” Sun, 12:30-3:30pm. History Park, San Jose.

SLG ART BOUTIKI Tikis and Polynesian pop art from the Modern Primitives Cultural Research and Cocktail Society. Live music for South First Fri. Thru Aug 31. San Jose.

STANFORD ART SPACES Paintings by Jeung H. Kang, Claudia Stevens and Ichen Wu. Thru Sep 22. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford.

WORKS/SAN JOSE An exhibit of works by five Oaxacan artists. Thru Sep 10.

San Jose.

CSMA OPEN HOUSE A chance to learn about the school and hear live music and see digital-art presentation. Sun, 10am1pm. Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.

GUGLIELMO HARVEST WINE FESTIVAL With a dinner, games, live music from the Heartbeats and fine wines. 21+. Sat, 29:30pm. $50-$60. Guglielmo Winery, Morgan Hill.

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Christopher Cross Fri, August 19, 8pm This five-time Grammy winner was the biggest new star in the ‘80s with the #1 hit “Sailing”. Other popular songs include “Ride Like the Wind”, “Never Be the Same”and the #1 “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do),” from the popular movie starring Dudley Moore that earned Cross an Academy Award. Opening the evening is Cupertino native Jenn Grinels.

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An Evening with Herb Alpert & Lani Hall Sun, August 21, 7:30pm Music legend Herb Alpert and his wife, vocalist Lani Hall (the original lead singer of Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66) will celebrate their newest release I Feel You, performing an evening of innovative arrangements and skilled improvisations that make old songs new and bring new songs to their audience.

Air Supply Sat, August 27, 8pm With heavily orchestrated sweet ballads, this Australian soft rock duo (Graham Russell & Russell Hitchcock) became a staple of early ‘80s radio, scoring a string of hits including “Lost in Love,” “All Out of Love,” “Every Woman in the World”, “The One That You Love”, “Even The Nights Are Better”, “Here I Am” and “Making Love Out of Nothing At All”.

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Villages Golf and Country Club, San Jose.

NORTH FAIR OAKS COMMUNITY FESTIVAL A morning parade is followed by performing arts, a San Jose Earthquakes soccer clinic, a climbing wall, food and more, sponsored by the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office. Sun, 11am– 6pm. Free. Middlefield Road, between First and Fifth avenues, Redwood City.

PARACELS AND SPRATLYS ISLANDS A talk by Dr. Nguyen Nha about the dispute over the two islands in the South east Asia Sea. Sat, 2-4pm. San Jose Public Library, Tully Branch.

RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUS

SILICON VALLEY ROLLER GIRLS

Dazzling feats and daring spectacles. Wed-Sun. HP Pavilion, San Jose.

A flat-track derby event with a double header with KillaBytes and Dot. Kamikazes. Sat, 5:30pm. $8/$15. San Jose Skate.

SAN JOSE GAY PRIDE FESTIVAL AND PARADE Two days celebrating the LGBT and diverse cultural community of San Jose and surrounding areas, including family day, children’s activities, live entertainment, a parade and booths. Aug 20-21. Downtown San Jose.

SPINNERS AND HAND CRAFTS

SAN JOSE SALSA FESTIVAL

A portion of the day’s proceeds will go to help the Giants fan and his recovery.

Wed, lunch and dinner.

Henry’s Hi-Life, San Jose.

The Alum Rock Village Business Association sponsors this fourth annual festival featuring salsa music and dancing as well as a salsa-tasting contest. Sat, noon–7pm. Free. Alum Rock Village, San Jose.

SARATOGA SWINGS A celebration of Bollywood.

Sun, 5-8pm. Bank of America parking lot, Saratoga.

A day of demonstrations and activities for the whole family. Sat, 11:30am-3:30pm.

History Park, San Jose.

SUPPORT 4 BRYAN STOW FUNDRAISER

TARGET FAMILY DAY The theme for the event is “Culture, Crafts and Curry,” with Bhangra Empire, CA Kung Fu and more. Sun, 11am-3pm. Free. Downtown Redwood City.

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The Big Beat FIVE WORLD-CLASS taiko drum ensembles from around the country will convene at Stanford University on Aug. 20 for the North American Taiko Conference and Taiko Jam 2011. The event, sponsored by the L.A.–based Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, offers audiences a rare opportunity to glimpse an art form that is more than 1,000 years old.

Taiko dates to around 500 B.C.E., when it was used for court music in Japanese castles and shrines. Taiko was also used in feudal Japan during warfare to help motivate troops and to establish a marching pace for the soldiers with different rhythms representing different meanings. Taiko drumming was also used in Buddhist ceremonies to ward off KX`bf AXd )'(( demonic spirits and summon gods.

Saturday, 8pm; $30 Modern taiko styles were first introduced Memorial Auditorium, in Japan in 1951 by Daihachi Oguchi, who Stanford added a jazz element to the otherwise strictly traditional musical form. Not long after, taiko ensembles began cropping up around the world, and ultimately becoming popular in North America in the late 1960s.

The San Francisco Taiko Dojo, established in 1968, was the first American taiko ensemble. While taiko currently has little to do with modern warfare or god-summoning, it has retained its popularity throughout the world.

This year’s Taiko Jam will feature five such ensembles, each offering a unique blend of traditional taiko music and modern rhythms. The San Francisco Taiko Dojo will participate as well as Inochi Tiako from Seattle, the Kenny Endo Taiko Ensemble from Honolulu, Mirai Daiko from Arvada and Soh Daiko from New York. Each of these ensembles has extensive performing experience and is sure to bring their own unique spin on taiko to the stage.—Joe Garza

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This exhibition is co-organized by the Musée National Picasso, Paris, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. Major Patrons are Penny and James George Coulter and the Estate of Mary Price Moffatt. Lead Patrons are The Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund, The Bernard Osher Foundation and Douglas A. Tilden. Lead Sponsors are the Muriel T. French Trust and Isabelle and Charles Picasso.

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The American army enters, having successfully routed the Spaniards in Manila. The young Gen. Douglas MacArthur himself is in the area.

Sayles decided not to deal with that colorful figure, likely on the grounds that history is not made by great men.

The Yank troops are digging in to mop up insurgent action in the jungle. The nearby commanding officer, a hard-bitten ex–Indian fighter colonel (Chris Cooper, rationed in small doses), orders the garrisoning

of the town. He seeks to make it the kind of place that would later be called a “strategic hamlet” in Vietnam.

Rafael tries to accommodate the U.S. lieutenant in charge: the handsome if remote Compton (Garret Dillahunt, the green deputy in No Country for Old Men).

The young men of the village are all gone, some as guerrillas; the truth is that Rafael’s own brother, as well as his own son, are in the hills. But the guerrillas are still holding fast, so the Americans ramp up the war: depriving the so-called bandits of food by slaughtering the water buffaloes and keeping the villagers quarantined behind barbed wire. Eventually, the time comes when Rafael is caught between his ability to protect his village and to shield his family in the hills.

Sayles took the high road, when it’s remarkable he took the road at all. Many directors would have told this story from the point of view of the American soldier. Here, the subdued villagers tell their stories in subtitled Tagalog. In details, Sayles

is unimpeachable; the soldier talk between the young Midwestern volunteers is perfectly laconic. It’s the way they speak that bothers you; they move into their marks, stand and declaim to each other.

The village itself is alive with folkloric activity, noisy with the constant pounding of women polishing the rice, but the huts look as newly built and swept up as a world’s fair exhibit.

Amigo advances by steps, and it’s as if there’s a pause on every landing. The writing is what one might expect from Sayles: a fair-minded account that is lucid and refuses to pander or exploit.

The script is as informative as reading the Christian Science Monitor. And sometimes just as exciting.

The crosscutting—between funerals, or between a skirmish and a cockfight—would make sense on paper, but one senses that all the careful balancing of the story kept Sayles from advancing matters. When a Sayles film isn’t quite compelling, one becomes aware of what a writer he is compared to a writer/director. It’s not the staging of the finale that startles, but the fine bitterness of the Ambrose Bierce–like punch line.

Our early war of conquest aroused disgust in the likes of Mark Twain, who described it as a “quagmire”; it was to be the first of many.

The war is, by contrast, remembered with satisfaction by the military officers and defense contractors at the annual Carabao Wallow in Washington, D.C., as has been reported by The Baffler and the Village Voice. There, one can hear the singing of this forgotten war’s “Soldiers Song,” as performed in the film by the soldiers marching the captive amigo Rafael: “Damn, damn, damn the Filipino/Civilize ’em with a Krag” (a rifle of the time).

Sayles demonstrates what happens to ground soldiers who try to win hearts and minds while the upper echelon demands fast results and faster punishment. The end results of that recipe seem to slip the American public’s mind no matter how often it is tried.

Amigo R; 128 min.

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New AMIGO (R; 128 min.) See review on page 48.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN (R; 112 min.) The well-muscled pulp hero returns in the guise of Jason Momoa. (Opens Fri.)

FRIGHT NIGHT (R; 106 min.) A teen’s neighbor is a vampire. Big deal; I’d had worse.

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Day by Day SAD, ROMANTIC, elegantly turned, a potential mainstream hit not too differently shaped from Love Story and yet not at all a commercial sellout. One Day, by the ever-rising director Lone Scherfig, is neo-classic filmmaking taking on a postmodern story.

July 15, 1988: St. Swithin’s day. A significant day like Groundhog Day— how the weather behaves signifies how the weather will be for the summer to come.

It begins the morning after a sleepless night; two students are celebrating their graduation from the University of Edinburgh. Rich wastrel Dexter (Jim Sturges) shares the bed of the working-class Emma Morley, played by the doe-eyed Anne Hathaway, using a British accent that would baff le Henry Higgins. Over the course of the next 20-something years, Emma and Dexter keep up a turbulent friendship.

It’s almost a sleepover friendship, underscored by their attraction, their involvement with others, and the question of who has the upper hand.

In the 1990s, Dexter becomes a regularly televised embarrassment, hosting a TV dance show. Dexter’s

parents try to conceal their wellbred contempt. Patricia Clarkson, as Dexter’s mother, shows where he got his sense of humor and why he needed to rebel. Emma tries to make it as a writer while toiling at one of those lousy Velveeta-pumping Fe\ ;Xp Mexican restaurants PG-13; they have in London.

108 min.

She moves to a f lat near Opens Friday Hackney’s “Murder Mile” with her boyfriend, a loyal but unemployable comedian Ian (Rafe Spall) she never can shake.

(R; 91 min.) Performance artist Miranda July is an undeniably erotic figure: her mixture of candor and modesty has the allure of a great silent film star, though the brave explicitness is all her own. Too bad this movie, with its troubling narcissism and bouts of childish tweeness, is a sophomore-slumping follow up to her 2005’s Me and You and Everyone We Know. It’s narrated by Paw Paw the cat (in a furry suit, July plays the beast); the cat is waiting in the animal shelter to be rescued by Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater). These

live-in lovers worry about even the kind of commitment a cat requires.

Some time and space dislocation cause Sophie to fall into the arms of a middle-aged stranger deep in the suburbs. Moments are surprising: a dialogue about a gold chain on a lover’s throat, or Sophie’s completely unique dance with a pup-tent-size T-shirt. Ultimately, one wonders if the metaphysical stoppage of time, or even the transcendental cat herself, are more novel or elemental symbols of the attraction/fear of settling down than the dancing baby on Ally McBeal. (RvB)

ONE DAY (PG-13; 108 min.) See review at left.

SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Family fun with gadgets as Robert Rodriguez keeps the franchise alive. (Opens Fri.)

Revivals CHILDREN’S CLASSICS FILM FESTIVAL Aug 17-19. See www.theretrodome. com for schedule.

E N T E R A N A G E U N D R E A M E D O F.

As the years pass, we see grotty London morphing into millennial wretched excess and thus to the embrace of diminished expectations in the 2000s.

There’s an edge to the film; Sturges’ Dexter is not just a raffish Hugh Grant–like sot but a genuine wreck at his lowest ebb. Hathaway’s undeniable next-doorness and honest tenderness are easy to love. Likely One Day is meant as a women’s picture. But to the men in the audience, Hathaway here embodies what the Lou Reed song describes: Everything you had but could not keep.—Richard von Busack

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(1954/1943) In London, a foolproof murder-for-hire plan goes awry, when the victim (Grace Kelly), who is supposed to die quietly, grabs a huge pair of scissors. John Williams steals the show as the mustard-keen Inspector Hubbard.

Also starring Robert Cummings and Ray Milland, unfortunately. BILLED WITH Shadow of a Doubt. A bright, trusting niece (Teresa Wright) with a bit of a crush on her uncle (Joseph Cotten) begins to suspect the man of being the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Merry Widow Murderer.â&#x20AC;? One of Alfred Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s key essays on the subject of betrayal. (Runs thru Aug 19 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

VIVA LAS VEGAS (1964) Elvis Presley often made movies so bad that the theater rats voluntarily ate strychnine, but this was the happy exception: heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teamed with a talent that made him glad to be onscreen again: Ann-Margret. Elvis impersonation contest beforehand. (Plays Aug 17 at sundown on Post Street between First and Market in San Jose.) (RvB)

Reviews CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG-13; 125 min.) Above all, a luxurious recreation of the past; the long 3-D chase through 1940s Brooklyn is one of the best arguments for that technology that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen. It is an appealing comic-book story: the legend of how a New York stripling became the patriotic champion of World War II. Chris Evans must have got some of whatever it was that they shot up into the real Captain America. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s significantly improved from his days in the weak Fantastic Four series, and his air of melancholy reminds you of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;40s star Alan Ladd. Hugo Weaving is the impressively disfigured villain, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care for Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lack of scope any more than he likes the nickname Der FĂźhrer bestowed on him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Red Skull.â&#x20AC;? Joe Johnstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction may be too much in the mode of a classic â&#x20AC;&#x2122;40s movie for the kids, but it has loads to offer, including a drily funny Tommy Lee Jones and surprising art direction. (RvB)

THE CHANGE-UP (R; 113 min.) Filthy, creepy bromance that begins with a baby projectile-crapping into a dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

mouth and heads south from there. Weenie Justin Bateman and Absolute Dick Ryan Reynolds are the buddies who switch bodies.

The magical-realist calamity brings them closer. What starts as a urine sword ďŹ ght ends in love tattoos and scrotum-shaving. Women of all types interfere: a horny hag; a vastly pregnant succubus; and a tantalizing ofďŹ ce wench whose own sword tattoo reminds us that she, too, goes for the scrotum. The wench in question, a secretary, is played by a heavily body-doubled Olivia Wilde, doing Cameron Diaz in Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Something About Mary. But the MILF character, Leslie Mann, gets the worst of it: sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weeping, horny and smelly, thanks to Thai food diarrhea. The aforementioned Diaz homage is part of this stinkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1990s air, along with the references to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Atlanta Braves.

Despite their attempt to write FratBro Pidgin, the scriptwriters show their age. A real serial-killer style moment has The Dick justifying himself: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You would not believe the nasty stuff I get women to do just by asking. Really, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revolting.â&#x20AC;?

Sure is. (RvB)

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(PG-13; 118 min.) The summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dullest blockbuster. It plays like the result of someone flicking between TV channels: a bug hunt on one show, an overdressed Western on the other. Daniel Craig plays Jake, an amnesiac outlaw of the 1800s who teams up with Col. Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), a smalltown boss (one imagines one of the many versions of the script describing him as â&#x20AC;&#x153;sadistic but fairâ&#x20AC;?). The two macho men and the survivors of a blasted town team up against razor-toothed and fairly uninteresting creatures from beyond. Could have used some more rewriting to go over the love interest between Craig and Ella (Olivia Wilde), the saloon girl who wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be shooed away; Wilde seems to have the most trouble acting around the spots where the CGI is going to take place. The film wants to be taken seriously, as a metaphor for how the West was spoiled. Since director Jon Favreauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roots are as a comedy director, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strange how anxious this movie is not to be laughed at. (RvB)

(PG-13; 118 min.) A comedy with Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Julianne Moore.

(R; 108 min.) Director Lee Tamahori takes on Uday Husseinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Neroworthy enormities and has some ripe dirty fun with them. The son of Saddam hires the reluctant army vet Latif (Dominic Cooper) to be his twin. At ďŹ rst, Tamahori and Cooper make Uday seem

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Tony Montana was, as he said, just a businessman, while this Uday had a whole nation to devour. (RvB)

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (R; 109 min.) Friends With Benefits follows No Strings Attached, which bowed earlier this year, and both tackle the idea of two friends having all the benefits of a sexual relationship with none of the emotional strings attached. Both films walk a fine line between raunchy, slapstick humor and classic romantic

comedy sentimentality, but Friends with Benefits edges out slightly ahead. Even stranger than the similar concepts is that both are the follow-up films for Black Swan stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. While Portman hasn’t always shown her silly side, Kunis grew up (literally) on the hit sitcom That 70’s Show and has proven comedy chops. She uses some of that to her advantage but, unfortunately, she isn’t really given much to work with. Justin Timberlake, playing Dylan, and Kunis, playing Jamie, become friends and decide they’re both sexually attracted

our lovely Snape (Alan Rickman, rolling every syllable as if it were Sisyphus’ rock) steal their parts of the show. It’s a nocturnal film, and director David Yates is at his best borrowing from Fritz Lang in the formations of men lined up in the dark, or conferring with each other in the shadows. (RvB)

to each other but don’t want a relationship. Against the advice of their friends and family that it will never work, they give it a shot.

And guess what? They realize it’s a lot harder than they thought. So how does it unfold? It’s innocent enough and Kunis and Timberlake have enough chemistry that it’s very enjoyable. However for a film that is constantly referencing, and knocking, romantic comedy films it doesn’t end up being the antithesis or savior of the genre it hopes to be. Instead it’s another middling rom-com that gets some genuine laughs but is nothing special. (MM)

THE HELP (PG-13, 137 min.) Just out of Ole Miss in 1962 we find struggling writer Skeeter (Emma Stone), who seeks oral histories from the black maids who keep things running in Jackson. Confident actor-turneddirector Tate Taylor handles this cast in a What Would George Cukor Do? style. As that maid who first tells her story, perennial character actress Viola Davis gets her first star part. Cuddly yet furious Octavia Spencer revamps the bulky, shrewd black maid figure from 1940s films, giving her vengeance at last. Jessica Chastain shines as a curvy, good-hearted whitetrash refugee from Sugar Ditch.

That tragic real-life town’s name reinforces the film’s metaphor of raw sewage as a symbol for stinking racism. You could say (as the blogosphere has been saying) that The Help allows white audiences self-congratulations. Yet the nowinfamous crowd-pleasing “Terrible Awful” incident in the film actually suggests how deeply the white audience loathes their own racism, and how much they’d like to poison it and see it poisoned—rather than how ready they are to congratulate themselves. (RvB)

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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG-13, 94 min.) Whatever happens, one canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go wrong ďŹ lling up the screen with Paris. Woody Allenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest includes some sweet vistas. Owen Wilson is Gil, a disenchanted Malibu screenwriter who wants to be a novelist. As a result, he gets midnight visitations

by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda.

(The gilded couple is played by Tom Hiddleston and Alison Pill.)

The nights continue, and Gil meets the artistic and literary lights of the 1920s, magically reincarnated. One night, he meets a ďŹ&#x201A;apper (Marion Cotillard) with a similar yet drastically different taste for nostalgia. The not very pungent point is stretched into a

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At Genesis, a Bay Area genetic tech lab of about 2012 or so, scientist Will Rodman (Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own James Franco) is working on a cure for Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. When a superintelligent baby lab chimp named Caesar is ordered to be destroyed, Will brings him home to his peninsula home, and a San Francisco Zoo veterinarian (Freida Pinto) helps him raise the critter. As Caesar grows, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s played by a synthespian modeled on the always-amazing Andy Serkis; this and the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s links to the tragic story of Nim Chimpsky (as seen recently in Project Nim) â&#x20AC;&#x153;grounds the balloonâ&#x20AC;? as James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum put it. The last third of the ďŹ lm, thrilling and fast, takes over Caesarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story. Wyatt shines here, bringing in images of urban rebellion that have as much zeitgeist as the ďŹ rst Apes movie did in 1968. Like the J.J. Abrams remake of Star Trek, this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a demolition job but a handsomely done renovation of an old property. (Read a full-length review on Movietimes. com.) (RvB) (PG-13; 111 min.) Kristin Scott Thomas plays a journalist who investigates a terrible incident from World War II.

30 MINUTES OR LESS (R; 83 min.) Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride and Nick Swardson star in a comedy about a robbery gone bad.

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Not just that the local cops but her company are involved in the slavery. Weiszâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fellow actors (Benedict Cumberbatch, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn) are little relief, though thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mitigation with Monica Bellucci as some kind of frowning NGO ofďŹ cer who looks like she knows the lay of the land. Keeping the generic title of Bolkovacâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, The Whistleblower is an uneasy combo of the Soderbergh-stylized and Saw-speciďŹ c. Kondracki wants our noses rubbed in it to make the paranoid encirclement complete; this mix of the exploitative and the undercooked makes an audience feel victimized, helpless. (RvB)

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“I quit. I just quit,” remembers Abuelata. “I was 11 or 12. I told my mom, ‘I’m never touching the piano again.’”

And yet, when her family moved from France to the South Bay—where

she enrolled in Homestead High School and then San Jose State University—her mother held on to the piano. The summer before she started SJSU, her mom somehow convinced her to check out a three-hour piano workshop at De Anza College.

“I said OK, and I went. Although I couldn’t tell you anything concrete I learned from this guy, it was something that he said: ‘To be a good musician, you don’t necessarily need to know how to read music.’ I felt this crazy relief and inspiration. When I got home that day, I started playing on the piano. It planted the seed that you can do this, you’ve just got to keep doing it. And I kept doing it.”

But for years, Abuelata would lock herself away whenever she played, still self-conscious about her music and the sting of a system that nearly crushed her unusual, improvisational style.

“When I play solo, I’m doing my song differently every single time I play it. I don’t like to repeat things,” she says. “Sometimes I get a certain vibe

from people, and I’m like, I’m going to play this song slower. I’m going to play this song faster. I’m going to linger on that one place. Sometimes I stop in the middle of the song, and I sing it differently. Sometimes I change lyrics.

That’s the fun part for me.”

She has only been performing in public for a year, and when she plays at San Jose Pride this weekend, it’ll be the first time some of the people who know her will have heard her.

Though she is straight herself, she’s discovered that she has developed a following in the LGBT community in the last 12 months.

“They always come to my shows, they’re some of the most loyal fans I have,” she says. “I think they connect with the lyrics. A lot of my songs are about discrimination or not feeling like you belong, being an outsider. A lot of my gay friends can relate to that, because growing up, they weren’t sure where they belonged, identity-wise. For somebody like me, who’s moved from one continent to another growing up, you really search for who you are.”

Her struggle with anti-immigrant and anti-Arab racism in France fueled a long battle with depression. “There’s a lot of discrimination, a lot of narrowmindedness. In France, it’s like ‘Learn our language, lose the accent, look like us, dress like us.’ So I grew up with a lot

of frustration, which shows through in my lyrics, and the way I sing them.”

Indeed her songs, initially moody ballads but now increasingly bluesy and gritty, have an unmistakable personal-aspolitical edge to them. Some, like “Clear With Our Demands,” are more obvious, while others like “On Your Side” reveal bigger implications with repeat listens.

Abuelata’s music is evolving quickly.

She recently began working with a band—Devin Moreno on guitar, Aaron Marquez on bass and drummer Josh Gardner—billed as Nehal and the Lost & Wanted. At Senzala in Sunnyvale, they sounded tight already, debuting songs like “Let Me Be Your Prozac” and “Blues and Decay,” a 10-minute jam that had Abuelata improvising lyrics and spoken-word, even howling, as the band went off.

It’s only recently that she’s felt so comfortable improvising in English. A translator for Cisco Systems who speaks four languages, she’s most always written her lyrics in English but improvised in French. But now that she feels ready to let loose in English, she’s loving it.

“I’m pretty passionate, and a little hyperactive, if you ask anyone who knows me,” she admits. “I think that’s what I love so much about the English improvisation. There is room for me to get crazy and intense and passionate without sounding like I’m just screaming. Because the blues is about that, the blues is just getting your blues out, getting all that stuff out. It’s freeing, in a way that French wasn’t able to be for me.”

Abuelata knows none of this might have happened if it weren’t for the sly move her mother made years ago, telling her it was OK if she didn’t want to play the piano anymore—they would just keep it “as furniture.”

“She’s my biggest supporter, and the most patient woman you’ll ever meet on earth,” she says of her mom. “She had that motherly instinct of ‘I know there’s something in you that needs to express itself, and in France hadn’t had the chance to.’ I don’t think she knew exactly what was going to happen, but she felt there was a potential somewhere, maybe. Then years later, I’m like ‘You were right.’”

San Jose Pride, Aug. 20–21 Nehal Abuelata performs Saturday at 1:30pm Discovery Meadow, San Jose

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Christopher Cross With Jenn Grinels Friday at Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, 8pm; $49-$86 Texas singer-songwriter Christopher Cross has been putting out records every few years for three decades (he just released his newest, Dr. Faith), but he’ll probably always be best known for his run of early’80s hits like “Sailing” “Never Be the Same,” and “Arthur’s Theme.” He’s joined at this show by Jenn Grinels, the Cupertino-raised singer-songwriter who just released her third album, Broken Heart Breaker.

Goo Goo Dolls Sunday at Mountain Winery, 7:30pm; $35-$85 Somehow avoiding the scrap heap of ’90s alt-pop, the Goo Goo Dolls have a song on the soundtrack for the last Transformers movie. “All That You Are” isn’t great robot smashy-smashy music, but it’s remarkable how much it sounds like their biggest hit, 1998’s “Iris” (which was also written for a soundtrack).

John Rzeznik and company are still making soaring, acoustic-edged music for the masses. (SP)

Josh Groban Tuesday at HP Pavilion in San Jose, 8pm; $78.25-$98.25 Think back to the popular music of 2007. Rihanna.

Kanye. Shakira. And topping them all … Josh? Yup, singer Josh Groban, he of “Believe” and “You Are Loved (Don’t Give Up)” fame, sold 21 million records in the United States. All of his albums have gone platinum several times over. But his best moment was his hilarious medley of TV themes at the Emmys.

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? Oh, man. Awesome. (SP)

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Free. Fri, 9pm: Beerijuana, Boar Hunter, 1000 Shall Fail. $9.

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AVALON Fri: Natural Vibrations and the Green. Sat: Tim Kahihikolo Memorial Show, with the Brownies. $20. Santa Clara.

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Fri, 9pm: The F-Off Boys.

Cupertino.

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

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Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa.

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Fri, 8:30pm: Ded Ringer. $5.

Sat, 8:30pm: Black Mast bday, Death Master, Madman’s Lullaby. $8. Sunnyvale.

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

Mountain View.

REDWOOD CITY

LILLY MAC’S

Fri, 6pm: Cream of Clapton.

Free. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

Fri: Summer Jam. Sat: Na Kalohe Kane. San Jose.

55 CLUB FOX

Fri, 9pm: Phil n the Blanks. Sat, 9:30pm: Saints and Sinners.

Sunnyvale.

LOS GATOS CIVIC CENTER PLAZA Sun, 5-7pm: Jukebox Heroes.

Los Gatos.

HUKILAU

LILLY MAC’S Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

SANTANA ROW Sat, 6:30-9pm: Soul Intention.

Part of Hot August Nights.

Free. Park Valencia Main Stage, Santana Row.

SARATOGA REC CENTER Fri, 6pm: Battle of the Bands semifinals. Sat, 6pm: Battle of the Bands semifinals. Saratoga.

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT MV Wed: Medieval folk with Accolade. Fri: World music. Sat: Belly dancing. Sun: World music.

Tue: Flamenco. Mountain View.

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT SJ

Thu, 7pm: Hurricane Roses, Hillside Fires, Orangutang. Fri: The Ghosts of Wrights, Redoaks, Strawberry Girls and No Captains. San Jose.

Wed, 5pm: Live flamenco.

Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancing. Sat: Late-night flamenco with Chris Cucuzza.

Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music and belly dancing. Mon: French music. Tue: Happy Together.

San Jose.

STATION 55

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Thu, 6:30pm: The Groove Kings. Castro and Dana streets, Mountain View.

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

Gilroy.

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS

MOUNTAIN WINERY

Sat, 4pm: Secure Sounds, Hello Monster. San Jose.

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

LOS GATOS LODGE Fri-Sat: Live rock bands.

Los Gatos.

MOJO LOUNGE Thu: Live music. Fri: Henry Hawk. Sat: Willie G. Fremont.

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Limit 8 tickets per person. All dates, acts and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable service charges.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW SUMMER CONCERTS

Thu, 7:30pm: Aimee Mann with Liz Phair. $35 and up. Fri, 8pm: Lewis Black. $35 and up. Sun, 7:30pm: Goo Goo Dolls. $35 and up. Tue, 7:30pm: Garrison Keillor. $45 and up. Saratoga.

NETO’S GRILL Thu, 7pm: Junction. Fri, 7pm: Tony Lindsay. Santa Clara.

NICKEL CITY Fri, 6pm: Clockwork Hero, Sanctuary Lost, Word, the Hit System. San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed, 9:30pm: Jam Night with Backfire & Diva Stativa. No cover. Thu, 9:30pm: Stan Erhart.

No cover. Fri, 9:30pm: Groove Doctors. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Cocktail Monkeys. $10.

Los Gatos.

PALO ALTO MUSIC SERIES Sat, 6:30-8pm: Teens on the Green. Part of the Twilight

SENZALA

SUNNYVALE SUMMER SERIES

Sat, 7pm: Sergio Augusto. $18.

Sunnyvale.

Wed, 5:30pm: Take 2. Free.

Downtown Sunnyvale.

STEPHENS GREEN

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

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

World

NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: Battle of the Bands semifinal with 408 Habitat, Just Chill and the Epidemik. $10. Sat, 8pm: Frost Hammer, Vultures Await. $10. Gilroy.

RISTORANTE FRATELLO

Jazz/Blues BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Sun, 6pm: Joe Major Jazz.

Cupertino.

AGENDA LOUNGE

CLUB FOX

Wed, 8pm: Salsa. $5. San Jose.

Sun, 2-6pm: The International Blues Challenge with Kathy Teicka Band, GG Amos and Paul Harris and Blu Gruv. $5/$15.

Redwood City.

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

Mountain View.

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

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

FLAVORS OF JAZZ Tue, 6:30pm: Jessica Johnson Band at Cielo Wine Bar; Neil Kelly at Amber India. Santana Row, San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: Hip Shake. Campbell.

HEDLEY CLUB Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz

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Outside Lands’ Epic Weekend WITH SO many great acts playing at various stages around Golden Gate Park, the only losers at last weekend’s Outside Lands were the crowd’s shoes. While the Original Meters were firing up the main stage, it was time to head across to Lindley Meadow to catch Foster the People. After that, there was barely enough time to get some refreshments and see MGMT before the wave of day-glo colored girls (with their entourage of brooding young men always 20 feet behind) took over the Polo Field. Some festival goers had to make the difficult decision between seeing Big Boi or The Limousines. The Big Boi fans ultimately regretted their choice, since he never took the stage (although he was able to hang out backstage with Dave Chappelle). Luckily, Big Audio Dynamite had no problems.

Saturday and Sunday were epic in the way music festivals should be. Muse sent off the crowd on Saturday night, spilling thousands of happy people onto the city streets.

With legends like Mavis Staples (featuring Win Butler), John Fogerty and Lyrics Born solidifying the musical foundation, Sunday was also the perfect day to catch the next generation of talent: Little Dragon, Major Lazer, the Decemberists, Beirut, Deadmau5 and the Arcade Fire, to name a few. Even Tommy Lee took time out to visit, but with a roster that includes the best musicians around, who wouldn’t?—Tomasz Mackowiak

Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Harold Fethe.

Sat, 7pm: The Jazz Mechanics.

San Jose.

LOS GATOS BREWING CO.

MURPHY’S LAW

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

Wed: Vinnie Johnson Blues Band.

Fri: David Abbott. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

JAZZ ON THE PLAZZ

Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos.

San Jose.

Wed, 6:30pm: Monterey Jazz Festival High School All-Stars.

Free. Los Gatos Town Plaza.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

LOS GATOS BREWING CO. SJ

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT MV Mon: Blues. Mountain View.

Blues most night. San Jose.

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT SJ

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

Thu: Jazz with Jason Bellenkes Duo. San Jose.

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

NAGLEE PARK GARAGE Wed, 7pm: Workhouse Poets.

Free. San Jose.

OLD WAGON SALOON & GRILL Sun: Live blues. San Jose.

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POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and Friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays. Fri, 7pm: Chris Cain Band. Sat, 1pm: Dennis Dove Band. Sat, 6pm: Andy Santana and the West Coast Playboys. Sun, 1pm: Noel Catura Band. San Jose.

TESSORAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music.

Campbell.

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

BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS

THE BEARS

Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic.

Saratoga.

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

Wed, 9:30pm: Stand-up comedy. Cupertino.

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

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

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

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POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Wed: Phil Vassar and Glen Templeton. $10/$15. Fri: Sunny Sweeney, DJ Miller. $10/$15.

San Jose.

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

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

SAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle and Co. Tue, 6pm: Windy Hill. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

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

QUARTER NOTE

BOGARTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: KJ Dennis. Sunnyvale.

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

BOSWELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

BOULEVARD TAVERN

Mon, 7pm: Cavin and Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Mic. Mountain View.

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

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

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

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BRANHAM LOUNGE

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

San Jose.

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

Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Comedy with Mr. Walker. San Jose.

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

Menlo Park.

Open Mic Wed, 7pm: Open mic.

Redwood City.

BLUE MAX

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

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

ANGELICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BISTRO

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

Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

C&W/Folk

RODEO CLUB

BLUE BONNET BAR

BLUE PHEASANT

MOUNTAIN CHARLEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

Fri, 8pm: The Dusty Books. Sat, 8pm: FC Hold. Santa Clara.

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

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

Wed, 7:30pm: Blue House Band.

Thu, 7:30pm: Barber/Davis Band. San Jose.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING

BLINKYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T SAY

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

WINE AFFAIRS

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UNWINED

Sat, 7pm: Mark Rodriguez.

Willow Glen.

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BLUE ROCK SHOOT

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

THE GRAPEVINE

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

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

CAFFE FRASCATI

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ACAPULCO RESTAURANT & CANTINA

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz.

San Jose.

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BRIX ALEXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S 49ER INN

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

C&Jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SPORTS BAR Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

CONCERT

Aimee Mann & Liz Phair THOUGH THEY released their first solo albums in the same year, and to many they might seem like two sides of the same girlie-alt coin, Aimee Mann and Liz Phair couldn’t have approached their careers any differently. In fact, they’re almost the bearded-Spock inverses of each other.

Thursday, Aug. 18 Mann started out in ’Til Tuesday, who had the goofy (but damn catchy) hits like “Voices Carry.” Then she Mountain Winery found her singer/songwriter soul, dropped the pop in Saratoga stuff and started writing hard-hitting, wicked solo material, starting with 1993’s Whatever. Since then, 7:30pm; $35-$55. she’s had more of a cult following, but it’s a rabid one.

Ironically, a cult director earned her a whole new wave of fans when she did some songs for the soundtrack to Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout film Magnolia, including “Save Me,” which became her signature. Also in 1993, Liz Phair released her first album, Exile in Guyville, one of the best and most talked-about alt-rock records of all time. Though she developed a fairly big following over the course of three excellent indie albums, she shocked everyone by going for pop stardom on her fourth, self-titled album.

Hipsters ran away in droves, even though the album was far better than most reviewers were willing to admit. On her next tour, I saw mothers and pre-teens who most definitely came out to hear pop hits like “Why Can’t I?”; I’m sure “Fuck and Run” and “Flower” must have thrown them for a loop. Her most recent release, Funstyle, is the most schizophrenic of her career—critics piled on at her attempts at rapping and a Bollywood sound. But a bonus disc also has several of the songs from her legendary demos recorded under the name Girlysound.

She’s been reworking these early songs throughout her career, but has never released more than a handful, other than the original cassettes. Does that mean she’ll play some of those Girlysound songs at this show? Longtime fans want to know.—Steve Palopoli

THE COURTS LOUNGE

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

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

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

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

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

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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THE ESCAPE

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

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

San Jose.

OASIS

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

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

Sunnyvale.

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

OFF THE HOOK

Mon, 8pm-midnight: DJ Curtis.

Willow Glen.

FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY

Sun, 8pm: DJ Joe. Campbell.

OFFICE BAR

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

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

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

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

Mon, 9pm: Matt. San Jose.

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

TOUCHDOWN TOMMY’S Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

A PERFECT FINISH

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

Thu, 8:30pm-midnight: Karaoke with Jordan River Productions.

San Jose.

GILROY BOWL

PEACOCK LOUNGE

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

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

Sunnyvale.

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

PIONEER SALOON

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

GALAXY

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

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

X-BAR

POINCIANA LOUNGE

Dance Clubs

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

AGENDA

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

QUARTER NOTE

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

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

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Fri: DJs. San Jose.

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

Cupertino.

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

RED STAG LOUNGE Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

THE BLANK CLUB

REDI ROOM

KATIE BLOOM’S

Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.

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

Campbell.

ROSIE MCCANN’S

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT

Tue, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

No cover. Santana Row.

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

RUDY’S PUB

KHARTOUM

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

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

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

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

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL

MARIANI’S

Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

MOJO LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.

Thu, 9pm: Atomic with DJ Basura. $5. Sat, 9pm: Club Satori 6th anniversary party with DJ Vitus and DJ Kevin. $5. San Jose.

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

BRANHAM LOUNGE Wed: Humpday Wednesdays.

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

SHERWOOD INN Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

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.

HOMESTEAD LANES

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

STATION 55 Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Sun, 5-9pm: Family karaoke. Gilroy.

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

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

San Jose.

Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Thu: VJ Mixing with DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Quantum. Sat, 10pm: DJ David. Sun: Industry Night. San Jose.

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB Wed-Sat: DJs. Menlo Park.

BRIX Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Wed & Sat, 10pm: DJ. Fri, 8:30pm: Sizzling. Salsa night.

Santa Clara.

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

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

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

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dance Party. San Jose.

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

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hip-hop, Latin. Sat: DJ Nelly presents. San Jose.

THE SADDLE RACK

MOTIF

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

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

Mon: Manic Mondaze. San Jose.

Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.

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

STUDIO8 Thu: Liquid. Fri: Bad Girls Club with Tasha, Miami Bad Girl from Season 7. Sat: Turbulence. San Jose.

MYTH TAVERNA Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy.

Sun: Brunch party. San Jose.

PAGODA LOUNGE

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

Call for info. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

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.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover.

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

PEACOCK LOUNGE

Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Sir Dancealot.

Willow Glen.

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

Sunnyvale.

WILLOW DEN Thu, 10pm: DJ Uncle Hank.

Fri, 10pm-2am: DJ Itchy and Grouch. Sat, 10:30pm: DJ. Willow Glen.

ROUX Sun, noon: Soak, house music party. Santana Row, San Jose.

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

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

GALAXY

San Francisco’s City Guide

CUT CHEMIST Master DJ and Jurassic 5’s former secret weapon appears with the rappers Edan and Mr. Lif. Aug 18 at Mezzanine.

Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.

NICK 13

GRAND DELL SALOON

Ukiah-born tough punker now obsessed with Morrissey and eyeliner plays free in-store. Aug 18 at Amoeba SF.

Fri, 8pm: DJ Sean Denton.

Campbell.

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

BELL BIV DEVOE Relive “Poison,” “Do Me” and “B.B.D.” with all original members in New Jack Swing party. Aug 18-19 at Yoshi’s SF.

PUBLIC ENEMY

Wed: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

With a live band and incendiary as ever, despite goofiness of “that reality-show star.” Aug 19 at Regency Ballroom.

KING OF CLUBS

BE GOOD TANYAS

KHARTOUM

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

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

Enduring Canadian folk trio hits all the right notes, from early hit “The Littlest Birds” to now. Aug 20-21 at the Independent.

MIAMI BEACH CLUB

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Thu-Fri: Top 40, club hits,

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