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Mr. Unnatural Why is it that the Bohemians amongst us simply cannot find another topic to deride other than the prophetic traditions which billions of mankind have and still

follow? The text you refer to as “Comic Genesis” is revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims (“The Genesis of R. Crumb,” Cover Story, June 22.). Freedom of speech is not freedom to enrage or provoke.

That is not my personal dictate.

It is recognized internationally by human-rights organizations.

Yes, Crumb is entitled to his opinion but so are those who find his expression insulting. Are you planning to give equal space to the believers amongst you?

L.B. RAINWATER | FREMONT

Pay As You Go I don’ t pretend to know a thing about running a state, but I’d be

surprised if California saves a cent after dealing with the problems it will likely face after closing 70 state parks and beaches in September.

Sounds like a bigger mess in the making, and for a mere $22 million?

Though it didn’t pass with a majority vote, why not provide the Prop. 21 option to those who supported it? If the 4,190,643 people (42.7 percent) who voted “yes” in November 2010 paid the $18 annual fee, that would be $75,431,574 annually. That’s right. If only the yes voters paid, we’d have over three times the amount closing the parks would save.

In addition, we’d continue to enjoy the money that having areas of interest, like state parks, brings to local economies. And, if the “no”

voters want to enjoy a state park or beach they can pay the $5-plus a pop fee while the rest of us cruise on through, having paid our annual dues with our vehicle registration.

LAUREL THOMSON | MONTEREY

Fear Itself Re: “Fear and Loading” (Cover Story, Aug. 17), I think it is really sick and disturbing that an industry which exploits women and teens in their films is now trying to exploit people who may not have even pirated these nasty films.

What happened to innocent until proven guilty?

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Bag Dog City officials in San Jose have now drawn the ire of a powerful special interest group: dog lovers.

Parks and Rec’s budget has been chopped to the point that it says it can longer afford to supply free bags at San Jose’s nine dog parks so that owners can clean up after their pups, as the law requires.

The city’s newest plastic bag ban is expected to save $111,000, according to the Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services department, including the staff costs of stocking the dispensers.

Acting PRNS director JULIE EDMONDS says while owners will have to bring their own bags, dog parks will still provide trashcans so owners don’t have to take full doggie bags home. Smelling an opportunity, councilmember PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO press-released Don’t his $1,000 to the forget Friends of the to tip!

San Jose Rose FLY@ Garden, which METRONEWS. will be seeking COM donations to keep the dispensers in District 6 stocked.

Oliverio’s donation came from a grant fund that the city gives each councilmember to distribute to non-profits. The purebreds in the swanky Rose Garden, however, won’t be the only canines enjoying sweet-smelling recreational facilities if the populist executive director of the San Jose Parks Foundation has his way. “We’re going to do it citywide,” SJPF’s JIM REBER says. TERRI FESTA, president of Society Dog, which sponsors events for women, men and their best friends, calls the decision to no longer offer the bags at San Jose’s dog parks a “bummer” but expects dog owners to continue to do the right thing.

Music in the Past?

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The Thursday-evening series began more than 20 years ago as a way to draw people to an empty downtown that had little in the way of entertainment or public events.

The free summer concerts lured nuclear families, hip-hop heads, tech geeks, San Jose State professors and students, baby mamas and business people to an all-inclusive scene particular to San Jose: West Coast with a South Bay twist.

Barring major changes, however, Thursday’s concert—the 13th and final event of the season—could be the last Music in the Park.

Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association, admits that one of the nation’s biggest and oldest free concert series is at a crossroads. Complaints from downtown business owners and residents have increased this summer, and attendees at an Aug. 12 association meeting expressed the view that while everyone enjoys Music in the Park, the concerts now attract an “undesirable element.” That’s a euphemism for potsmoking or gang-attired youth who cause trouble and don’t spend money at restaurants and entertainment venues.

Knies says the nonprofit organization will decide this fall if it should continue putting on Music in the Park, which has been a San Jose mainstay every June through August since 1988. Metro helped organize the first season and has been involved as

its principal media sponsor ever since, contributing advertising and receiving sponsorship recognition.

“It’s been tweaked over the years,” Knies says, “but it may need some major surgery now. And the patient doesn’t always survive when it undergoes major surgery.”

When Music in the Park first started, the audience leaned more toward downtown office workers and suburban yuppies. As it grew into one of the biggest concert series in America, the crowd evolved, with tens of thousands of people flocking to the downtown core each summer from near and far.

Performers like Greg Kihn and Pete Escovedo have headlined shows from the start, while bands such as Smash Mouth, Tower of Power, Maroon 5, Better Than Ezra and Third Eye Blind have made stops over the years. With each passing summer, the crowds have grown younger, which was never so obvious as July 14, when the Neon Trees assembled an enthusiastic army of screaming tweens in front of the stage for this year’s biggest concert. But not all the attendees come for the music.

“It’s drawing a different element compared to crowds of year’s past,” says Steve Villarreal, head of SCV &

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Associates, which handles Music in Knies says. “But last season, we noticed newspaper headlines. Villarreal says the Park security. “Out of the blue, there was an increasing number of this has been one of the safest years for some reason, this season there’s younger folk coming down not for since he took over security, and police been this bad element that could be the concert or the event itself but the records show only three calls for deemed as possible gang activity.” scene. They’re not really engaged.” service related to fights at Music in Given the choice between Music in According to local business owners, the Park this summer. the Park or silence in the park, some younger concertgoers aren’t spending Heckman believes the concerts downtown restaurateurs would take as much money downtown while also have become a scapegoat for society’s the latter. Matt Rocca, an owner of eating up parking spaces that could go ills. “Ironically, there’s nobody having Original Joe’s, says that the decision to to potential diners. problems in Music in the Park,” he book more reggae bands this summer “Anything that brings people here, says. “People causing trouble are on has attracted gangbangers and kids I’m all for it,” say Brad Goldberg, the outside.” who just want to get drunk and high. managing partner of Billy Berk’s The largest skirmish in downtown “I’m all for Music in the Park if restaurant. “But I want it to help me.” this summer was a late-night brawl it’s done the right way, but the way Berk’s manager Alex Chernett on June 9 at McDonald’s on San they’ve handled the last two years voiced concerns that the series was Carlos Street. The fight, which left has been an absolute detriment on hurting the restaurant’s business at two teenagers with stab wounds, took everyone’s business downtown,” place at 11pm and three blocks Rocca says. “I hate to say that, away from the plaza. Media because it used to bring people reports, however, linked the downtown for years. But if story to Music in the Park.

I have my two options, the “When the event is correlated existing Music in the Park or to incidents blocks away and nothing, I’ll take nothing.” hours after the event, what Supporters of Music in the can an organization like ours Park admit that changes are do?” an exasperated Knies asks. needed for the concert series “Something like that is the to regain its reputation as a antithesis of what we stand for. safe, family-friendly event. Less The Downtown Association’s frequently seen these days are mission is to produce a positive parents sitting on blankets and impression of downtown.” children running wild. The rear Economically, the Downtown :FCFI :FFI;@E8K<; :feZ\ie fm\i Z_Xe^`e^ Association has a tough choice end of Cesar Chavez Plaza, far away from the stage, has become ]Xj_`fe jkXk\d\ekj Xk Dlj`Z `e k_\ GXib gi\mX`c# to make about continuing Ylk Ó ^_kj _Xm\ Y\\e ]\n% a haven for teenagers and young Music in the Park. The concert adults sporting disaffected looks series represents more than beneath a haze of smoke. $400,000 of the nonprofit Despite beefed-up security within the Aug. 12 Downtown Association association’s annual revenues. Other the park, smoking and underage public hearing. The following revenues come from events such as drinking violations appear to be Thursday, Berk’s was booming the holiday ice rink and assessments rarely enforced. at 8:45pm, with only four empty on business and property owners, as “I’ve smelled less pot at a Grateful tables and several empty barstools. well as contracts with the San Jose Dead concert than [at] Music in the On Friday at the same time, the Redevelopment Agency, which has Park,” says Eric Heckman, a Naglee restaurant had noticeably fewer been downsized.

Park resident and supporter of the patrons. Goldberg acknowledged that What’s distressing to supporters series who’s a Downtown Association business was strong on the 12th but of Music in the Park, though, is that volunteer and former board member. noted that it wasn’t always the case on San Jose will lose a vital piece of its “That’s one thing the police officers Thursdays. identity if one of its flagship events are ignoring. I don’t care what you’re At Mezcal restaurant next door, during the summer sinks. smoking—if you’re smoking in a business is generally strong on Music in “During the summer, at least park, that’s against the law. If they just the Park nights because the restaurant among my friends and the office enforced that, I believe a lot of the switches from sit-down dining to a DJwhere I work, I constantly see emails wrong element would be forced to style club setup. The San Jose Museum saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to the park walk across the street or leave.” of Art fills its plaza with Europeantonight,’” says Curtis Meacham, a The only people who don’t want style outdoor cafe tables and umbrellas 39-year-old musician who has played to change Music in the Park seem to during the music shows.

Music in the Park almost a dozen be those who attend for everything While the consensus on business times. “As a culture we need that. We but the music. Kids from each sector impact is mixed, the series suffers need something that’s not work and of San Jose are now coming to the from an image problem stemming in it’s not home. It’s somewhere between concerts to see and be seen. part from this year’s bad publicity— where everyone can get together and “In a way, we think it’s a badge some of it grossly overblown. express a cultural identity.” of honor that Music in the Park is Incidents of violence—taking place Nothing’s been decided yet, but something that the youth feel so hours after the event and blocks it seems like the proverbial fat lady comfortable with and show up to,” away from the plaza— have drawn could take the stage this Thursday.

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sv 411.com ROBERT X CRINGELY

Losing the HP Way The HP I knew died many years ago. The decline of HP began, I think, with the spinoff of Agilent Technologies in 1999. Lew Platt was running HP and he thought the company was too diversified and really needed to concentrate on computers, storage and imaging. So everything else was spun-off into Agilent. And while this made sense at the time and even today, there were unintended consequences of that spinoff— the loss of HP’s corporate soul.

Hewlett Packard was in 1999 an instrument company that made a hell of a lot of money from printers, not a printer company that also built instruments. Hewlett and Packard were instrument guys; had they still been on the job in 1999, they would have gone with Agilent.

culture from the other. Fridayafternoon teams crossed product lines, and many of those teams were decimated when the company was split along product lines.

So Carly Fiorina inherited a company with an identity crisis, which she rightly saw as a call to establish a new identity—an identity built around her, not around HP’s wellestablished traditions. Carly’s plan was to grow the company, which she did through the acquisition of first Compaq Computer and then Electronic Data Systems. HP grew enormously, but it didn’t improve.

When HP bought EDS under Fiorina’s successor Mark Hurd, that company was losing money. As good as the culture was at HP, the long-past

Ross Perot EDS culture was bad.

Combining the two companies was like mixing oil and water, or more correctly hydrazine and nitric acid.

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Lew Platt blew it in my view. And then of course he left the company in the hands of ... Carly Fiorina?

We’ve all heard how great it is that Google allows its employees to spend 10 percent of their time working on their own projects. Google didn’t invent that: HP did.

The 10 percent time was after lunch on Fridays. Imagine what it must have been like on Friday afternoons in Palo Alto with every engineer working on some wild-ass idea.

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Take to the Seas Forget start-up companies. The next frontier is start-up countries.

“Big ideas start as weird ideas.”

That’s Patri Friedman, a former Google engineer, the grandson of the Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman and, as of 2008, when [Paypal co-founder Peter] Thiel seeded him with the same initial investment sum he’d given Mark Zuckerberg four years earlier, the world’s most prominent micro-nation

entrepreneur. Friedman, a short, kinetic 35-year-old with a wife and two children, maintains an energetic online presence that ranges from blogging about libertarian theory to tweeted dispatches such as “Explored BDSM in SF w/big group of friends tonight.”

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Microsoft had stepped up their efforts to become a major player in the market. With two major players and a third investing heavily to catch up, why would you bring a fourth (and very low-market share) technology to market?

American firms have been laying off their engineering staffs for years.

In today’s world of MBA-managed companies, R&D is perceived as not being a good use of money.

Apple is an exception, and over the last several years they have been producing one great product after another. HP worried about keeping up with Apple so Leo Apotheker—like Lew Platt back in 1999—decided to punt. Apotheker decided to no longer compete with Cupertino. He said as much this week.

establish new sovereign nations built on oil-rig-type platforms anchored in international waters—free from the regulation, laws and moral suasion of any landlocked country. They’d be small city-states at first, although the aim is to have 10s of millions of seasteading residents by 2050.

Architectural plans for a prototype involve a movable, diesel-powered, 12,000-ton structure with room for 270 residents, with the idea that dozens—perhaps even hundreds— of these could be linked together.

Friedman hopes to launch a flotilla of offices off the San Francisco coast next year; full-time settlement, he predicts, will follow in about seven years; and full diplomatic recognition by the United Nations, well, that’ll take some lawyers and time.

It’s highly symbolic, at least to me, that Apple’s new spaceship intergalactic HQ will be built atop what used to be one of HP’s most important labs.

But in the long run, I think Apotheker’s new course won’t work, either. Squeezed between Apple and Oracle, HP may have no route back to greatness.

They’ve lost the way.

Former InfoWorld columnist Robert X. Cringely is the author of the bestselling book Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can’t Get a Date. His blog, “I, Cringely,” can be found at www.cringely.com.

Ayn Rand’s John Galt and steered out to sea by Captain Nemo—but Friedman and Thiel, aware of the long and tragicomic history of failed libertarian utopias, believe that entrepreneurial zeal sets this scheme apart. One potential model is something Friedman calls Appletopia: A corporation, such as Apple, “starts a country as a business. The more desirable the country, the more valuable the real estate,” Friedman says. Appletopia, or any seasteading colony, would entail a more benevolent variety of dictatorship, similar to your cell-phone contract: You don’t like it, you leave. Citizenship as free agency, you might say.

“The ultimate goal,” Friedman says, “is to open a frontier for experimenting with new ideas for government.”

This translates into the founding of ideologically oriented micro-states on the high seas, a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage and few restrictions on weapons.

Some experts have scoffed at the legal and logistical practicalities of seasteading. Margaret Crawford, an expert on urban planning and a professor of architecture at Berkeley, calls it “a silly idea without any urbanplanning implications whatsoever.”

Other observers have mocked it outright, such as Slate’s Jacob Weisberg, who deemed it perhaps “the most elaborate effort ever devised by a group of computer nerds to get invited to an orgy.”

It’s a vivid, wild-eyed dream—think Burning Man as reimagined by

—Jonathan Miles, Details Magazine, Sept 2011 http://bit.ly/floatingcities

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Golf Courses Could Be on Chopping Block

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Can ‘Captain America’ Save San Jose?

take pension reform to voters, whether it’s March or November of next year, it’s a safe bet that the process will be anything but fun.—Josh Koehn

Greg Howe Nje! ]ZÉh 8VeiV^c Despite having strong support from voters, Chuck Reed does have his critics. Capitol Weekly in Sacramento is not one of them. The publication recently picked its 10 best mayors in California, and Reed made the list. The newspaper’s glowing review labeled Reed “San Jose’s ‘Captain America,’” and added that “his résumé is a wonder to behold.”

But what made Capitol Weekly go gaga for Reed is his work on the thorny issue of pension reform. Here is what the paper wrote: “He hopes to put a measure on March ballot cutting pension benefits for current city workers, raising the retirement age, increasing the rate of accrual of benefits, using average salaries instead of the highest 12 months to calculate benefits, but leaves already accrued benefits unaffected.

“If the measure holds up in court, it will set precedent as California’s first successful challenge against public employee ‘vested rights’, and could have national implications for cities facing similar fiscal challenges.”

The Top 10 list said it selected “mayors who we thought were interesting, talented and, amazingly, seem to be having fun.” If Reed does

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Faced with its 11th straight year of a budget shortfall, the city of San Jose is considering selling off and/or converting land used by public golf courses to prevent further cuts to libraries and community centers come next summer.

While San Jose Municipal is selfsufficient and has no debt to pay off, Los Lagos and Rancho del Pueblo golf courses could be placed on the chopping block due to negative revenue returns to the city and an inability to pay off millions in bonded debt.—Josh Koehn

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Through the federal economic stimulus program, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) awarded the airport $40 million in grants to help pay for systems and infrastructure improvement needed to properly

implement CTX9800 baggagescreening systems.

These machines sit behind the scenes—passengers never see them— and they screen all the carry-on bags heading for the airplanes. San Jose is the only airport in the world that has these machines, and they have eight of them. The machines came straight from the assembly plant.

When SJC received them, there were only nine in existence. The other one was in TSA’s testing lab.

After entering the employeesonly area, we observed the roomsize screening process in action.

The baggage explosive-detection systems include conveyors that move checked bags through a dazzling array of automated screening machines, with additional conveyors to move screened bags for staging for aircraft loading. TSA owns the machines, but the airport owns and operates the conveyor belts on both

sides of each machine.

The CTX9800 machines help streamline the process, reducing the number of human employees who need to touch the bags. As a result, each system—one each for Terminals A and B—has the capacity to screen approximately 1,800 bags per hour. Again, the bags arrive at the plane as the passengers do, so they never even see this process.

These new machines replaced 28 older machines.

Completed five months ahead of schedule last year, the new rentalcar facility streamlines quite a few factors previously irritating for everyone involved. Now located directly across the street from Terminal B, it’s probably the most convenient rental-car setup of any airport in the country. Customers no longer take a shuttle to the middle of nowhere to get their rental car and the rental companies no longer have to drive the return cars somewhere else in the airport to get cleaned up and refueled.

In what they call, “Stacked QTA,” SJC has the first elevated quickturn-around (QTA) facility to open at an airport in the United States.

The tri-level indoor elevated gas

station is quite a technological and engineering accomplishment, allowing all 10 rental companies to wash and gas up their cars on site in order to return them to service more efficiently. It’s also the largest gas station in San Jose. Huzzah!

Other new components of the airport popular with passengers are the award-winning public art projects, new faster WiFi and even newer rows of powered seats. That is, entire sections of seats are now equipped with AC power and USB ports. Frequent travelers will tell you it’s a massive improvement over having to fight others for plugs and/or sit on the floor to power your laptop.

If you think the grand total of $1.3 billion for all improvements is ridiculous, you’re probably right, but it was over three times that much at first. This is not a new story, but several major components had to be shaved off the $4.5 billion-dollar original plan, scaling it down to the final version we see today. The original plan would have destroyed Terminal A completely. There was going to be a double-decker roadway and a gate-to-gate people mover.

On a hysterical side note, according to the original plan, the rental-car facility was slotted for the old FMC property across Coleman Avenue—right where the San Jose Earthquakes are now gearing to build a soccer stadium. Quakes fans and Major League Soccer have airport director Bill Sherry to thank, as he oversaw about 80 people who hammered out a scheme to chop the original plan down to $1.3 billion, which included putting the rentalcar facility in a more logical place.

During our tour, journalists suggested a before-and-after display, showing visitors the old Terminal C before it was destroyed. I’ll go even further than that. People should see the airport back in 1936, when it resembled a hick-town garlic stand on King Road. (See photo.) Man, have we come a long way since then.

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A true cult film is different. It could be a movie that flopped (or was at least criminally underappreciated) at the time of its release, and then grew in reputation and popularity thanks to a cult of devoted fans. Or a movie that initially got its due, but fell out of the public eye and had to be given new life and appreciation by its rabid fans at midnight movies or in endless message board posts.

But in the post–Blu Ray era, can any movie truly fall out of the public

eye? Not too often, which is why there are fewer real cult films than there used to be. That and the fact that hipper audiences in the 1990s and 21st century turned just about any film that would have once been a surefire cult flick into a mainstream hit—Pulp Fiction, The Blair Witch Project, Shaun of the Dead and Paranormal Activity, for example.

But just when it looked like the cult film was dead, along came another wave of midnight movies and overzealous fans to rescue some of the best, worst and simply weirdest films of the last decade.

Here’s a list of the Top 10 films in this new cult canon, followed by a countdown of the Top 10 “classic” cult films of all time. Don’t see your favorite cult movies? See choices that suck? Send us your own list of Top 10 cult films from any era and we’ll publish the best online. Reach us at Letters@metronews.com or post on our Facebook page: Metrof b.com.

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TOP 10 NEW CULT FILMS 1. THE BIG LEBOWSKI

(1998) The movie that saved cult movies. Coming off hits Raising Arizona and Fargo, no one expected anything less than a slam dunk at the box office from the Coen brothers when Lebowski was released. But writer/directors the Coens had layered the movie so densely—packing it with circular dialogue, out-there characters and enough quotable lines for 10 movies—that audiences simply couldn’t digest it in one sitting in theaters.

The Big Lebowski disappeared quickly, and it wasn’t until movie geeks started watching the movie over and over that its sheer magnificence shone through. The Big Lebowski had such an effect on fans that in the early 2000s they started dressing in robes like The Dude and going to midnight screenings (full disclosure: I was one of them). Viewings were accompanied by White Russians and sometimes bowling (never on Shabbas).

Eventually, four duderinos started the now-legendary Lebowski Fests, wrote a book about it called I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski where they extensively quoted the movie’s cultists (full disclosure: I was one of them), and finally brought the original cast back together in New York for a reunion this month.

2. DONNIE DARKO

(2001) The fact that this film flopped can’t be blamed entirely on the fact that it was released right after 9/11, or even that final cut was taken away from director Richard Kelly, resulting in a theatrical version that didn’t make sense. Even after the director’s cut restored the film’s logic with extensive backstory, people realized that this movie was just un-freakin’believably weird.

But Donnie Darko’s creepy vision of a teenager either losing his mind or trapped in a time-travel nightmare hooked fans on home video. (Kelly is adamant that the sci-fi stuff in the film should be taken as real, and the director’s cut makes this way more obvious, but after many viewings of both I actually prefer the greater ambiguity of the theatrical version.) Jake Gyllenhaal’s performance as the title character is perfectly twisted, and Kelly’s use of the soundtrack is genius. The film’s current level of cult fame was best summed up in Campbell electro group the Limousines’ song “Very Busy People”: “That Donnie Darko DVD has been repeating for a week, and we know every single word.”

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(2004) Loved by many, loathed by some, this first collaboration from producer Judd Apatow, director Adam McKay and star Will Ferrell eventually paved the way for their megahit Talladega Nights. But at the time, the mainstream found Anchorman puzzling, and audiences never gave it a chance.

It had that stupid Ron Jeremy–parodying subtitle “The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” and was filled with highly improvised, absurd and even nonsensical humor, not to mention an unrecognizable Paul Rudd (I still forget it’s him).

What’s more, it is the kind of movie that makes you laugh maybe three or four times on first viewing, a little more often the second time through, and so on until it can have fans rolling in sheer anticipation of lines and news-anchor gang fights to come. Steve Carell recently named über-dolt Brick Tamland as his favorite character he’s ever played. He also loves lamp.

4. FIGHT CLUB

(1999) In his great tell-all What Just Happened?, producer Art Linson remembers that Fox executives completely freaked out when they first saw the movie they had paid David Fincher to make out of Chuck Palahniuk’s book. The way he tells it, they were downright scared of the film and its Molotov cocktail of anti-consumerism, violence, anarchy and man boobs, and made it their mission to sabotage the success of their own movie.

But it quickly found an audience on DVD, with a whole generation of disaffected suburban white kids turning “I am Jack’s (fill in the blank)” into their own punk manifesto. Most fascinating to me is Fincher’s obsession with putting bizarre suicide attempts at the end of his films (he also did it in Se7en and The Game). His recurring message seems to be: In order to be free in the modern world, you have to be willing to give up everything, including your life.

In any case, the finale, set to the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?,” is one of the most subversive and lyrical of any film ever.

5. AUDITION (1999) Japanese

director Takashi Miike is a cultmovie machine. Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q and Gozu all have their followings, but Audition is the film that made movie geeks sit up and take notice.

Ironically, it’s also his most simple and straightforward film.

The first hour is deceptively mundane, telling the story of a Japanese 20 widower who is convinced to

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history of The Room: Rejected by the studios, director Tommy Wiseau spends $6 million financing his own film, of which he is also the star. Critics barely even have time to rip it to shreds before it disappears from theaters.

Then, like so many cult films before it, it gets booked as a midnight movie.

For six years, it plays once a month in L.A., and word of mouth spreads about this latest contender in the “worst film of all time” sweepstakes, a barely comprehensible melodrama driven not so much by its love-triangle plot as by non sequiturs and unintentionally hilarious dialogue.

Wiseau suddenly claims the unintentional humor was intentional. No one believes him. The movie goes on the road to sold-out screenings, beginning in New York. The two most famous WTF scenes—a rooftop conversation (“I did not hit her, I did not … Oh, hi Mark!”) and a scene where the guys throw around a football in tuxedos, go viral on YouTube, drawing even more barely suspecting victims to its midnight screenings.

Fans begin throwing plastic spoons at the screen (a reference to a framed picture of a spoon that Wiseau fixates on for no reason), inviting comparisons to the rabid cult of Rocky Horror Picture Show 30 years earlier. Wiseau’s performance alone—he comes across like a malfunctioning Christopher Walken android with a heavy, impossible to place accent—guarantees this will be a cult favorite for years to come.

7. MULHOLLAND DRIVE

(2001) Throughout his career, David Lynch has basically made one cult film after another, his dream-state logic and hallucinogenic imagery never fully connecting with mainstream audiences.

Whether it’s Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, TV’s Twin Peaks or Wild at Heart, his films were pretty much surefire cult stuff until the ’90s, when the Twin Peaks movie, some failed TV shows and Lost Highway turned even movie geeks off.

His comeback was this film, originally filmed as a TV movie, then reworked extensively to be a feature film after ABC execs rejected it. (Its history can be

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8. WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (2001) The

people behind this movie claim it’s based on their actual experiences. If that’s even remotely true, summer camp may quickly replace drugs and gangs as the number-one threat to the youth of America.

In reality, this movie is an absurdist twist on the early’80s films that tried to cash in on the success of Animal House by setting their teen hi-jinx at camp. (Yes, Meatballs, but also the much lesser-known Gorp, which like this movie is set at a Jewish summer camp).

Wet Hot American Summer throws in black comedy, Monty Python–type scenes like the most awesomely funny motorcycle chase ever, and insane plot threads like a talking can of vegetables and the threat of Skylab falling on Camp Firewood. Most critics and audiences didn’t get it, and despite a cast featuring Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks and Amy Poehler (not to mention the screen debut of The Hangover’s Bradley Cooper), it flopped big time. But it found a cult following on video and within a few years was making the midnight movie rounds.

9. HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE

(2004) The little stoner movie that could. Written off by the uninitiated as braindead on arrival, those who actually gave this movie a chance were surprised to discover it’s actually a pretty sharp piece of social satire. Stars John Cho and Kal Penn deserve a lot of the credit for playing Harold and Kumar with charm and a certain innocence.

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traced even further back, as Lynch has said it was born out of his ideas for a third season of Twin Peaks that never came about.) In retrospect, it’s easy to see that Lost Highway was basically a failed dry run for Mulholland Drive—it uses identical plot devices like characters with two different identities and nonlinear structures.

But with Mulholland Drive, possibly his best film, Lynch was able to prop up his mysterious storyline with an actual narrative solution, which was so subtly embedded in the film that most viewers didn’t catch it until the second or third viewings (anyone who never figured it out or wrote the movie off as nonsensical should google Lynch’s own 10 clues).

Of course, it’s not all about the destination—the journey through the world of Mulholland Drive is one of the most fascinating Lynch has ever devised, with Naomi Watts’ intense performance grounding the surreal surroundings.

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TOP TEN NEW CULT FILMS 21 The other smart thing about Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is that unlike bad stoner movies like Pineapple Express, it doesn’t overcomplicate things with unnecessary plot. This movie is, on a story level at least, about nothing but Harold and Kumar trying to find a White Castle. What they encounter along the way, like Neil Patrick Harris in the cameo that made him cool, is what makes the movie.

The cult for this got so big that there was a 2008 sequel, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guatanamo Bay, with a slightly bigger budget and a slightly bigger take at the box office. It satisfied cultists, leading to the upcoming A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas.

10. BLACK DYNAMITE

(2009) The blaxploitation genre was deserted by the masses long ago; even Quentin Tarantino couldn’t do much for it with his tribute, Jackie Brown. Along comes musclebound actor Michael Jai White (best known for bits parts in Universal Soldier and The Dark Knight, and for starring in Spawn), who had an idea in 2006 for the ultimate blaxploitation badass, making a $500 trailer and co-writing a script with director Scott Sanders and co-star Byron Minns.

The humor is so deadpan and the attention to detail so perfect that it’s almost too easy to call Black Dynamite a spoof or even an homage—it’s more like an honest-to-god blaxploitation film with every element pushed to the point of absurdity. White’s portrayal of the Vietnam vet/ex-CIA title character is almost freakishly spot on, and the movie follows in the footsteps of Rudy Ray Moore’s Dolemite with its vision of an oversexed, superbad African American alpha male on a rampage.

The lines are endlessly quotable (“Why, Black Dynamite? Why?”), and even the little soul songs that describe the plot throughout the film are note-perfect.

The movie was finally released in 2009, but only played in theaters for two weeks; it found a following at midnight screenings and on DVD. You can bet Tarantino has two copies.

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Scott’s best film has swung slowly from “unlovable big-budget sci-fi flop” to “the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.” No kidding, this is now the movie that every geek on the Internet seems to use to prove they have good taste in movies—the ultimate insult in a movie-related flame war goes something along the lines of “Well, I watch movies like Blade Runner and The Big Lebowski, you probably like Twilight.”

That’s a far cry from what people were saying in 1982, when it failed to be the blockbuster hit that everyone expected from the director of Alien and a leading man who had just played Han Solo and Indiana Jones. But critics and audiences found Scott’s vision of epic future-fail too dark, and Harrison Ford too cold and distant as android hunter Rick Deckard.

On home video though, there was time to watch every incredible detail of Scott’s dystopian Los Angeles in 2019 (it could still happen, people!) over and over. And now we know that Ford played the character that way to suggest that Deckard was himself an android (don’t argue, just give in to the red-eye and unicorn clues).

After exhausting the five-disc “Ultimate Collector’s” DVD (with all three cuts of the movie) and reading the making-of book, I can safely say there’s nothing about the story of this movie that hasn’t been told by now. And yet, there’s a mystical, more-than-the-sum-of-its parts quality to the film that continues to promise the revelation of new secrets with each repeat viewing. In other words, it is the ultimate cult movie.

2. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) This ranking

doesn’t have much to do with the quality of the film: it is neither as life-alteringly amazing as its die-hard fans claim, or as abysmally awful as its critics say. It’s a fun, campy and, for its time, pretty edgy little genre mash-up that manages to pay tribute to musicals, monster movies and science fiction double features at the same time that it subverts their button-down moralizing. (Tim Curry as the cross-dressing Dr. Frank-N-Furter is the highlight of every scene he’s in.)

The simple truth is: There wouldn’t be cult films as we know them today without Rocky Horror Picture Show. It started the midnight movie craze and still brings out hordes of dressed-up, line-spewing, toast-chucking fanatics wherever and whenever it’s shown.

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3. THIS IS SPINAL TAP (1984) There’s

a reason why this is the most quoted cult film of all time. First-time viewers will latch on to the most obvious jokes—“these go to 11,” “none more black.”

But getting sucked into this mother of all mockumentaries is like going down the rabbit hole. By the third or fourth viewing, more subtle stuff like “mime is money” is starting to jump out, and by the 10th, completely buried jokes like the one about Boston: “I wouldn’t worry about it, though, it’s not a big college town.” To think that most of this dialogue was improvised is mind-blowing, although I was lucky enough to interview Michael McKean in character as David St. Hubbins, and I can attest that his improvised answers were as funny as anything in the film.

It’s also hard to believe it took so long to find an audience on video, although director Rob Reiner has said that the movie went over the heads of many people who thought Spinal Tap was a real band. Ironically, they did become one, with McKean and co-stars Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer “getting the band back together” for albums in 1992 and 2009, and touring.

4: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD

(1968) Every installment of Romero’s original zombie trilogy is an important cult film, but this one takes the cake because without it, we wouldn’t have the modern zombie movie.

Before this, zombies were the stuff of quaint voodoo flicks, but Night of the Living Dead changed everything. It used the idea of the dead coming back to life to eat the living as a blank slate onto which the whole world could project its fears.

Endless big-brain theories sprung up to explain the film: Did the undead symbolize the oppressed proletariat? The revenge of the third world? And all this over a little black-and-white drive-in movie made for $140,000. Romero’s most brilliant move was making the zombies slow, lurching ghouls who overwhelm their prey with sheer numbers and relentless onslaught—they literally “crowd out” most of their victims. The ending is one of the most shocking in movie history, although I’ve never believed the official line that its racial overtones were unintentional. The scene may have, as Romero says, been written before African American Duane Jones was cast as Ben, but I guarantee everyone involved knew the message they were sending when they shot it.

5. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) There’s a long-running

debate among Monty Python fans as to which is their best film, Holy Grail or Life of Brian. But really, there’s no contest: Holy Grail is perfect, from the many scenes that could have been skits in their earlier TV series (“Bring out your dead,” the Bridge of Death, etc.) to the funny throwaway lines like “Someday, all this will be yours”… “What, the curtains?”

What’s most ingenious about it all is that, rather than trying to hide the absurdity of a poorly financed comedy troupe trying to pull off a medieval period piece, the Pythons play it up whenever possible. The characters don’t ride horses, they skip along while banging coconuts together to sound like hooves, and the epic moment of their discovery of Camelot is undercut by the dismissive “It’s only a model.” Graham Chapman is perfect as the beleagured King Arthur, who has to put up with mouthy peasants, rude French soldiers and a Black Knight who doesn’t know when to call it a day.

6. REPO MAN

(1984) Though it’s now one of the iconic cult films of the ’80s, writer-director Alex Cox’s debut studio film came this close—more than once—to never being released at all. Cox, a UCLA film student at the time, wasn’t about to languish in development hell, however, and he gained his first real notoriety when he took out an ad in Variety daring Universal to make his movie. Still, he told me his midnight-movie favorite never would have seen the light of day if it hadn’t been for one man named Kelly Neal, who believed in it

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7. PINK FLAMINGOS

(1972) Chicken sex. Semen injections. Girl-on-girl vomit. Turd eating. Edith Massey. Those are just a few of the things that make Pink Flamingos the kind of movie that makes you want to take a shower after watching it.

The story of transvestite Divine’s quest to be “the filthiest person alive,” it’s got to be the most revolting film ever made. But its hour-and-a-half-long wallow in perversity and bad taste is exactly what made it so notorious, putting director John Waters on the map.

When I interviewed him a few years ago, Waters marveled at how much things have changed since then, with Pink Flamingos playing on TV: “How can that be?” he pondered. “I mean, cable, but still.”

8. THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

(1974) It’s hard to imagine now what it was like for audiences to see TCM when it came out. Wes Craven told me that when he saw it in a theater shortly after it was released, he found it so shocking and insane that he thought it might have been made by some sick cult somewhere.

He wasn’t that far off, as the production of director Tobe Hooper’s meat-versus-steel nightmare was as terrifying as the film itself (Edwin Neal, who plays the hitchhiker, said after filming wrapped: “If I see Tobe Hooper again, I’ll kill him”).

Though John Carpenter’s Halloween gets all the credit/blame for starting the slasher-movie cycle, Hooper’s film had most of the key elements of the formula in place: a masked killer, a group of teens being picked off one by one in a series of bizarre murders and, most importantly, the “Final Girl” element that would come to be mandatory.

Perhaps it doesn’t get the recognition it deserves as a trendsetter because it’s so weird and surreal that it’s hard to group it in with other movies; there hasn’t been one quite like it before or since.

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Immigration from Portugal and the Azores has slowed, while immigration from Mexico and Vietnam has soared. While there are still a few businesses that cater to what’s left of the Portuguese community and the striking Five Wounds National Portuguese Church still serves the neighborhood, Little Portugal has gotten a lot smaller.

But you wouldn’t know that if you walked into Lourenco’s Bacalhau Grill and Trade Rite Market. It’s as if nothing has changed. The store and restaurant are Silicon Valley’s premier outlet for all things Portuguese.

As the name implies, the year-old restaurant specializes in bacalao, or salt cod, a versatile staple of Portuguese cuisine.

Lourenco makes bacalao fritters, grilled bacalao and bacalao natas, a

creamy, delicious casserole of bacalao, potatoes and olives. There’s a wide selection of Portuguese pastries and a fantastic Portuguese wine selection. Soccer plays on the TV, and men sit drinking coffee speaking in Portuguese.

Lourenco is motivated by national and neighborhood pride, but he also wants to appeal to the broader Portuguese-speaking community.

A few weeks ago, he was cooking and couldn’t believe what he saw and heard. There were customers from Portugal, the Azores, Brazil, Mozambique and even Macau, and they were all speaking Portuguese at once.

“It brought a little tear to my eye,” he says.

This is Lourenco’s third time working in the building at 1555 Alum Rock Ave. As a kid, he worked for Johnny Rosa when he ran a grocery store in the location. It was the kind of place where you could buy groceries on credit if you were short.

Rosa opened the market back in 1945. Lourenco worked there a few years later, and when he was 16 he daydreamed about how he would

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“Here I am 25 years later,” Lourenco tells me.

In addition to standards of Portuguese cuisine like alcatra ($8.95), Azorean-style roast beef with garlic, onions and Portuguese crushed peppers; and coelho frito ($11.99), marinated and fried rabbit; and bife a Portuguesa ($8.75), a sandwich on papo seco bread with New York steak with garlic, cream sauce and egg and fries, he makes a great version of feijoada ($11.99), Brazil’s national dish—and even bacalao tacos ($8.95).

That’s right. He loads up three crispy taco shells with a mash of bacalao, potatoes and onions. It’s a huge plate of food that’s good with a generous dash of the restaurant’s housemade picante sauce.

“I’m probably the only place in America that’s serving bacalao tacos,” he boasts.

He says his multicultural menu is a reflection of California at large. “It is what California is.”

In addition to the food and groceries, what really sets the place apart is the array of Portuguese wine.

Lourenco has assembled the deepest selection of Portuguese wines I’ve even seen in the Bay Area. Portugal has long made great wines, but only in the past five years or so has the county ramped up exports. As such, the wines of Portugal are still something of an unknown and great values. The selection of vinho verdes, dry, lightly effervescent white wines, are particularly strong. The wines here alone are reason enough to visit.

While he doesn’t expect to see the neighborhood’s Portuguese community displace the Latino and Vietnamese businesses, he wants to serve as a catalyst for other Portuguese-Americans to open businesses in the area.

“I’m hoping someone else gets the urge to open something else across the street,” he says.

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AMATO’S Sandwich shop. $. The sandwiches make for greasy, sloppy, ferociously delicious eating. There are 34 varieties, categorized in three groups: hot, cold, specialty.

10am-11pm Mon-Fri, 10am9pm Sat, 10am-7pm Sun. 1162 Saratoga Ave. 408.246.4007.

AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. The sister to the popular Mountain View restaurant, Amber India’s Santana Row location continues to offer elegantly prepared Indian cuisine in a stylish setting. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-10pm, Mon-Thu, noon-3pm, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat, noon-3pm, 5-10pm Sun. 377 Santana Row. 408.248.5400.

BANGKOK TASTE Thai. $$.

Humble strip mall gem with a loyal following. Beef Pi-Roj is a house favorite. Veggies love the Rama tofu. 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm daily. 1769 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.358.2525.

BILL’S CAFE Diner. $. Serving only breakfast and lunch, Bill’s knows its way around typical diner standbys—eggs (scrambles and hollandaiselaced “benedictions”), pancakes and expertly grilled sandwiches and burgers. 6:30am-3pm daily. 302 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.2455.

CAO NGUYEN Vietnamese, Chinese-Vietnamese. $.

Gargantuan menu features nearly 200 Vietnamese menu options, including smoked duck, sautéed frogs and clay pot catfish. 10am-10pm Mon-Fri, 9am-10pm Sat-Sun. 2549 S. King Rd #A-16. 408.270.9610.

CASA VICKY Family-style Mexican. $. Nothing fancy, but

a hearty brand of Mexican food wrought from popular family recipes. Breakfast plates and warm sweet pastries in abundant supply. 7am7pm daily. 792 E. Julian St. 408.995.5488.

CITRUS New American. $$$.

In Santana Row’s chic Hotel Valencia, Citrus peels back the hotel dining myth. Here, diners match their own main dishes with their choice of rub, sauce and side dish. Fun continues in skilled desserts. 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 355 Santana Row. 408.423.5400.

COCOLA French bakery. $.

Cocola is a fine place to while away an afternoon sipping tea and sampling a pear tart with vanilla custard and slivered almonds. For heartier fare, try the gourmet sandwiches. 8am11pm Sun-Tue, 8am-noon WedSat. 333 Santana Row #1045.

408.551.0018.

CONSUELO Mexican. $$.

Good regional Mexican food made with lesser-known ingredients in an attractive, upscale atmosphere. The food is served tapas-style and meant to be shared. Fantastic tequila list. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 11am-11pm Sat, 11am-9pm Sun. 377 Santana Row #1125.

408.260.7082.

THE COUNTER Hamburgers. $. The Counter takes the quintessential American burger and turns up the Americanness by letting diners choose from dozens of options to build a custom burger. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat and noon-9pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave #1035 (Santana Row), San Jose, 408.423.9200. And 369 California Ave, Palo Alto, 650.321.3900.

CRAWDADDY Cajun. $$.

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3-10pm Mon-Fri and noon10pm Sat-Sun. 779 Story Rd. 408.286.2729.

DEEZI’S CAFE Persian. $$.

Deezi is a hearty lamb shank stew and it’s quite good here.

But the soul of the menu is the kebabs, and the koobideh kebabs are outstanding. Made from ground beef blended with puréed onions, garlic and various spices, the skewered and grilled meat stick is beautifully grilled and so tender and juice-filled it squirts when you bite down on it. The joojeh (chicken) kebab scores as well.

Try the fresh made dogh (a yogurt drink). 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Sat-Sun. 1312 Saratoga Ave. 408.244.0300.

DIA DE PESCA Mexican. $.

As you might guess from the name (Dia de Pesca means “gone fishing” in Spanish), the restaurant specializes in seafood—fish tacos, ceviche, shrimp cocktails and soups.

It’s all good. 10:30am-8:30pm daily. 55 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.3722.

DI LAC Vegetarian Asian. $$.

A bite of veggie heaven. The spacious Di Lac serves up an appetizing array of foods, all of which are made fresh daily, including the soy milk and tofu.

9am-9pm daily. 1644 E. Capitol Expwy. 408.238.8686.

DYNASTY CHINESE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Chinese $$.

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He was able to scoop up a restaurant space on Lincoln Avenue formerly occupied by Casablanca’s for relatively cheap. It looks a lot better now that he’s remodeled it. There is an eclectic array of photos on the wall (David Lee Roth and Patrick Swayze share one picture), and the dining room consists of several rough-hewen communal tables.

The only rub is there’s no gas or freezer space. To work around that, he had to get creative. He cooks many of his meats sous vide, in a lowtemperature water bath that yields supremely tender and moist meat.

Cirone says he’s attracted a good crew of young cooks fresh out of culinary school that love the idea of making up the menu new each day. “Everybody loves the idea of saying, ‘Hey, what do you want to do tomorrow’ instead of sitting here and grinding out the same thing day in and day out.”

While the menu changes regularly, there a couple of dishes that have become instant favorites like the vegetarian banh mi sandwiches and artisanal “Willow Glen hot dog” with apricot relish. “The hot dog has hit in a ridiculous way,” Cirone tells me. Other winners have been a duck meatloaf, braised beef cheeks, pepper-crusted hanger steak amd the excellent BLT featuring bacon made by Cirone’s dad.

Willow Glen is one of San Jose’s most appealing neighborhoods, but it’s never had a marquee restaurant that can pull in diners from outside of the community as well. Is Hay Market it? I’ll let you know what I think in the weeks to come.—Stett Holbrook

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11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm MonFri, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm SatSun. 1001 Story Rd, second floor.

408.286.6668

EDNA RAY Chinese. $$. Now in a new location, Edna Ray continues to serves classics of Chinese-American food with the same quantity, familiarity and reasonable prices. You’ll find all three here, and then some. 11:30am-9:30pm daily.

1181 Lincoln Ave. 408.280.7738.

EL TULE Mexican. $$. Most of the menu is devoted to Mexican-American standards, but the separate menu of Oaxacan specialties is where El Tule really shines. The black mole is uncommonly delicious while lesser-known dishes like tlayudas and molotes are also good. 10am-9pm daily. 5440 Thornwood Dr. 408.227.1752.

5-SPOT CHIVAS GRILL Mexican-American diner. $. The brick-walled 5-Spot is a perfect mix of American food, past and present. The diner still serves classic American diner food as well as Mexican standards.

7am-9pm daily. 869 S. First St. 408.294.4979.

FLOWER FLOUR French bakery. $. Mimi Brown’s flower shop/bakery charms visitors with freshly made to-droolover pastries, ready-to-go sandwiches and service with a smile. 8am-6pm Mon-Sat, 8am-4pm Sun. 896 Willow St. 408.279.0843.

FOOD TOPIA Chinese and Taiwanese. $. Food Topia serves a great, low-priced menu of Taiwanese and Chinese food.

Go for the beef noodle soup, pickle and fish fillet soup and the fried chicken roll. No alcohol served. 1600 S. De Anza Blvd.

408.873.7628.

FRANKIE, JOHNNIE & LUIGI TOO! Family-style Italian. $$.

Traditional Italian-American favorites—spaghetti and pizza—served with plenty of elbow room. Big portions and wholesome family-style service. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 5245 Prospect Rd, San Jose. Full Bar.

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FRATELLO Italian. $$. Bursting with simple flavors, Fratello boasts native Italian dining without affectation. 5-9:30pm Tue-Sun, Fri-Sat 5-10pm, 59pm Sun. 1712 Meridian Ave. 408.269.3801.

GIORGIO’S Family-style Italian. $. Simple Italian cooking—the rugged kind with Southern Italian leanings, full of robust flavors and tangy tomato sauces. 11:30am-9:30pm MonThu, 11:30am-10:30pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am-10pm Sun. 1445 Foxworthy Ave. 408.264.5781.

GOJO ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT Ethiopian. $.

Simplicity reigns here; just Ethiopian food—chicken, beef, lamb, vegetarian—and Ethiopian coffee. The flavors taste even better with honey wine. Beer, wine. Noon-9pm Sun-Thu, noon-10pm FriSat. 1261 W. San Carlos St. 408.295.9546.

GOVEA’S Mexican. $. A community hub that serves up wonderfully fresh, oldfashioned Mexican food with no trendy gimmicks.

Wholesome and filling. 10am9pm Mon-Thu, 10am-10pm Sat-Fri, 9am-9pm Sun. 1996 Tully Rd. 408.270.0973.

GREAT WALL Chinese. $$. This strip mall hideaway serves skillfully prepared Chinese dishes in an atmosphere where sandals and T-shirts are the perfect fashion. Beef and black mushrooms, salt-and-pepper spareribs and cashew chicken earn high marks. Take out available. 11am-2:30pm, 4:309pm Mon-Fri, noon-9pm Sat. 1409 Bird Ave. 408.287.1688 or 287.1689.

HABANA CUBA Cuban and Brazilian. $$. A culinary oasis full of good flavors, Habana Cuba exudes cultural delights.

Sensuous foods of the Caribbean and Cuba, long on tomato and peppers, slowroasted meats and earthy black beans. Beer and wine.

Lunch 11am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 4-10pm Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 238 Race St. 408.998.2822.

THE HAPPY BAMBOO Vegetarian. $. The menu at

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There’s also a vegetarian tuna salad and, out of nowhere, Hungarian goulash and spaghetti. 11:30am-9pm TueSun. Closed Mon. 1711 Branham Lane. 408.694.0740.

HOSHI Japanese. $$. Hoshi is one of Silicon Valley’s standouts for sushi and small plates.

Great sake selection, too. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Sat. 246 Saratoga Ave. 408.554.7100.

HUKILAU Hawaiian. $$. Simple, slightly salty, stomach-filling foods with an Asian-Pacific attitude. All daily specials come with a scoop of macaroni salad and steamed rice. Skip the quesadillas and nachos and head straight for the ahi poke. With tropical drinks to match. 11am-1:45pm Tue-Fri, 5-9:30pm Tue-Wed, 5-10:30pm Thu-Sat, 11am-2:30pm Sat-Sun, 5-9pm Sun. 230 Jackson St. 408.279.4888.

HUNAN TASTE. Chinese. $$.

The restaurant continues to pack them in because the food is so good. As the name implies, the restaurant specializes in the fiery, hearty food of China’s Hunan province, making it one of the few restaurants in the Bay Area to do so. 11am2:30pm, 4:30-8:30pm Mon-Sat. 998 N. Fourth St. 408.295.1186.

ISABELLA’S Peruvian. $$. One of the South Bay’s few outposts of Peruvian food, Isabella’s has much to recommend. Tacu-tacu, a starchy, beany blob enlivened with onions, garlic, oregano and other spices served with a thin steak, is great. Seafood dishes like the ceviche and cau-cau mariscos are also good. Don’t miss the delicious chicha morada, a Peruvian punch made with purple corn, pineapple and apple juice that’s boldly seasoned with cinnamon.

11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am11pm Fri-Sat, 2-8pm Sun. 700 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.248.PERU.

KAHOO Japanese. $ The people queuing up are ramen aficionados who know a good bowl of ramen when they find one. And they’ve definitely found one here. 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am3pm, 4:30-9pm Sat-Sun. 4330 Moorpark Ave. 408.255.8244.

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Streetlight Records, San Jose Wed – 6pm; free

Music in the Park Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose Thu – 5:30pm; free

Featuring members of the Mumlers, Plantain are the masters of ambient sound. Whereas the Mumlers sound like a conjuring of an undead Dixie band, Plantain is more stripped down folk mixed with what sounds like whatever instrument happens to be around. Completely innovative and absurdly different, these guys play the type of music I can only imagine someone like “Chief” Bromden, from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, would have swirling around in his head. The music will either set you free or make you crazy. Either way, it’s worth a listen. They play with Austin’s Megafauna. (BD)

I warrant that seeing Pete Escovedo free in the park is one of the essential San Jose experiences, like watching the Little Giants cream the Ports, like fighting a heatwave day with margaritas at Aqui, like watching the weird puppets gesticulating at you at Xmas time.

This Pittsburg, Calif.–born legend, who rose to fame playing with Santana before going on to his own solo career, turned 75 last year, and recently got a small sampling of his musical clan—daughter Sheila E. and sons Juan and Peter Michael—together for an E Family

album. There’s no better way to wrap up this Music in the Park season. (RvB)

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MELTED HORSES Mountain Charley’s, Los Gatos Fri – 8pm; $5 There are some things that won’t be missed from the ’70s: the gaudy home décor, the pet rock, Gerald Ford. But the Me Generation did manage to turn out some great rock & roll, and San Jose’s Melted Horses captures that sound. Built on the swampy, big-bottomed blues that the great guitarists of that era tapped into, their songs conjure up memories of the Allman Brothers and Led

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JEFF BRIDGES Mountain Winery, Saratoga Fri – 7:30pm; $45-$85 The dude arrives! The star of The Big Lebowski, one of our top cult movies (see page 16) has over the years become very closely associated with the role of The Dude. (Rod Lurie, who directed him in The Contender, told me that when he offered Bridges the role of fictional U.S. president Jackson Evans for the film, Bridges mused “Dude’s gonna be president.”) But it’s another film entirely that has given him a new artistic outlet.

After the success of 2009’s Crazy Heart, which won him his first Best Actor Oscar for his role as a country

singer, Bridges surprised everyone by revealing that he was in fact cutting a country record, and taking it on tour. So maybe he’s part Dude, part Bad Blake. Just no Rooster Cogburn, please. (SP)

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ROCK THE BELLS Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View Sat–10:30am; $56-$131 Perhaps the best thing Rock the Bells has done for hip-hop fans over the last eight years is bring Lauryn Hill back to us. The enigmatic singer-songwriter seemed to have dropped off the face of the Earth after recording years worth of unreleased

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

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

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

THE B-52S Sep 8 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

DEF LEPPARD Sep 9 at 7:30pm, Shoreline

TEARS FOR FEARS Sep 9 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

PALO ALTO PHILHARMONIC PA An evenin evening of Baroque music, Sep 10 at 8pm, First Baptist Church, Palo Alto 8pm

WILLIE NELSON Sep 111 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

KENNY LOGGINS Sep 15 1 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

BARENAKED LADIES Sep 119 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

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AIR SUPPLY Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Sat – 8pm; $59-$98 Whatever happened to Air Supply?

While it would be perfectly reasonable to assume they’ve

been serving time in Science Jail for violating the laws of physics in song (making love out of nothing at all? It’s just not possible!), in actuality Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock celebrated their 35th year together in 2010.

That’s further than most married couples get, so who can fault them for celebrating with a new studio album? However, the crowds that have been coming to see them in the U.S. and Southeast Asia (apparently it’s a serious Malaysian thing) no doubt want to hear the lighter than light ‘80s hits that all seemed to have the word “love” in the title, like “All Out of Love,” “The One You Love” and “Lost in Love.” (SP)

A FOUR STAR AFFAIR X Bar, Cupertino Sat – 8:30pm; $5 San Jose seems to have a surplus of broken-hearted boys ready to channel their angst into poppunk. They were around when I was a high school kid making the allages scene, and they’re still cropping up with bands like A Four Star Affair.

I’m pretty sure the South Bay’s emo boom is just a well-plotted scheme to get chicks. Cause you know there’s a certain kind of teenage girl that totally digs it. They wear band tees with terry cloth wristbands and low-top Chuck Taylors, and they drive red Jettas. I think these guys are onto something. This is their comeback show, with support from Noys Annoise, Wake Up Dolly and Fabulous Under Fire. (JA)

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Paolo “Cutso” Bello of the Bangerz crew and music writer David Ma join forces to host and DJ this event on every last Tuesday of the month. Staying true to their old-school roots, they’ll spin all vinyl, a mix of party anthems and rare records. They’ll also bring in special surprise guest DJs at each event. (SP)

SSep 24, noon–8pm, downtown Redwood City

SANTANA Sep 24 at 7pm, Shoreline

KEITH URBAN Oct 1 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Oct 7 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

INCUBUS Oct 9 at 7:30pm, Shoreline

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Dance JUERGA

With Rubina and Co., presented by the Flamenco Society of San Jose. Sat, 7pm. $10-$15. Historic Hoover Theatre. San Jose.

Theater 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.

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

RTE FUNDRAZOR A fundraising event for Renegade Theater Experiment with food, beverages, karaoke, a live auction and more. Sat, 6pm. $50 and up. Original Joe’s, San Jose.

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY The Jane Austen tale of two sisters brought to the stage

by TheatreWorks. Previews: Wed-Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows: TueWed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun 2 and/or 7pm. Runs thru Sep 18. $29$49. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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

SHOUT! THE MOD MUSICAL The popular salute to ’60s nostalgia returns, featuring five female vocalists. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sat-Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Sep 18. (See www. theretrodome.com for ticket info.) Retro Dome, San Jose.

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

MISSION CITY COFFEE Sat, 7:30pm: The Comedy Lab with Phil Johnson and guests. $7. Santa Clara.

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

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: American Me Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm: Joey Diaz. $15. Fri, 8 and 10pm: The Cocky Asians Comedy Tour. $15. Sat, 7 and 9pm: Thai Rivera. $14. Sun, 7pm: HalfBreed Comedy Tour. $12. Mon, 8pm: Battle of the Bay. $10.

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Museums ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “Crossing Boundaries.” Works by sculptor Kristen LindsethRivera 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 pages from the museum’s collection. Thru Oct 16. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM “Mammoth Discovery!” Plus activities and hands-on 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 Sun, 1-4pm. TueSun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

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

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

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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. 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 Photographs by Bill Jackson.

Thru Oct 17. 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.

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Biennial “Indoor Sculpture Exhibition.” Thru Sep. Santa Clara.

A talk by the author of “The Magician King.” Wed, 7pm.

Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

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

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.

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A book event with the author

GALLERY SARATOGA GARDEN PARTY An annual soiree featuring live music, prize and fine art. Sun, 11am-4pm. 19670 Farwell Ave, Saratoga.

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Guadalupe River Park and Gardens, San Jose.

CALIFORNIA HOME, GARDEN AND DESIGN SHOW

JILL’S RIDE FOR HOPE

ART ON THE SQUARE

Local artists show their works in many media in conjunction with free show by the Rising. Fri, 5-8:30pm.

Downtown Redwood City.

With tips on how to spruce up the house, inside and out. Fri, noon-7pm, Sat, 11am-7pm, Sun, 11am-5pm.

Free. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose.

FLEA MARKET A chance to divest yourself of your old goods and reinvest in somebody else’s vintage finery. Sat, 6am2pm. Prospect High School, Saratoga.

A bike ride (or walk) to raise money to help Counseling and Support Services for Youth agency. Sat, 7am-2pm. $10-$55. Los Gatos High School.

PALO ALTO FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS An art and wine celebration now in its 30th year with works by local artists, gourmet food and kids’ events. Sat-Sun, 10am6pm. University Avenue, downtown Palo Alto.

BILLED AS “a fun-filled, nostalgic revue that tracks five groovy gals coming of age during the liberating days that made England swing,” SHOUT! the Mod Musical, which opens this weekend at the Retro Dome in San Jose, is a theatrical celebration of the music, styles, mindsets and personalities of 1960s England. Centered around five very different young women of the time, the show explores each woman’s views on career, family, love, home, society and themselves in hip-swinging, smashing style.

There’s the career-minded “red girl” who is frustrated by the lack of opportunities, the “orange girl” who wants to be the perfect wife and have perfect children, the “green girl” who is still playing the field, the reserved, privileged “blue girl” and the transplanted American “yellow girl” who is intent on living life to its fullest. Between the five of them, the innerworkings of a time and place are revealed.

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An off-Broadway-gone-international success, SHOUT! is built around hit songs by artists such as Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and Lulu and is a high-energy flashback described as “Sex and the City meets Laugh-In.” It’s also a tongue-in-cheek nod to the advertising, advice columns and articles of the time. Covering the entire decade, the production is what co-producer, choreographer and performer Shannon Guggenheim calls a “funny, sweet, sad and poignant” tribute to an unforgettable time. “What I love about the show is that even though it is dated, it is completely timeless,” she says. “You can still dance to it and appreciate the music. And even though the lyrics are sickly sweet, teenagers today still swoon over the latest boy.”

Spanning 10 years, SHOUT! also shines a light on the idealism of youth and the sometimes harsh reality that things don’t always work out as planned. “You can experience the decade with these five women and you can learn from these women,” says Guggenheim. “[SHOUT!] is really an anthem. It’s the soundtrack to the life of more than half of our population.”

Now in its second year at the Retro Dome, which Guggenheim co-owns with her husband/director Scott and describes as “like stepping back in time,” SHOUT! promises to bring the colorful, fabulous and groovy ’60s back to town in fine style. Last year’s production was met with rave reviews and received a standing ovation at every performance.

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To a Brazilian, the idea of explaining who Ayrton Senna is would be as lunatic as asking a San Franciscan who Willie Mays is. Senna was bigger than the Christ of the Andes— “the one good thing about this country” say several of the subjects in Asif Kapadia’s hero-worshipping yet unquestionably touching biography-doc.

As it is sponsored by ESPN, Senna had the necessary budget to acquire several continents’ worth of TV footage, all concerning Senna’s short but glittering career. Certainly a definitive study of the races he ran, it could have been titled The Ecstasy and the Ecstasy. (Ready for the sampling: straight from the driver’s seat, Senna’s shrieks of pleasure as he took the 1991 Grand Prix in Brazil.) Senna was even a hero to his own physician,

who noted “a beautiful humility not common among racing drivers.”

From a privileged Sao Paulo background, Senna was as handsome as a movie star: a cross between Belmondo and Billy Crudup, with the oversized honker and trembling sensuality of the former, and the sensitive reticence of the other. He was a champion from an early age: first at competitive Go-Kart racing in Brazil, later at Formula One meets at Europe, Australia and Brazil, all the way to the final finish line in 1994.

For faults? To hear Kapadia tell it, none that counted. The film is basically conducted either in cautious TV interviews; otherwise, the man is seen in telephoto lens. Home-movie footage is so flawless it might as well be staged—Senna viewed waterskiing around Brazil and waving at shoreside urchins. (The champion helped many thousands of Brazil’s kids, as the end titles mention.) If he’s accused of questionable conduct, he’s found innocent with an explanation.

We can note a wasteful streak. The

man tended to use up jeroboams of Moët for shampoo. And he also drove female interviewers to hard-to-watch levels of simpering. He even flusters national treasure/kitsch idol Xuxa in front of her studio audience, her hand puppets, God and everyone. (After getting a good long whisper from the champion in her shell-like ear, Xuxa covers Senna with lipstick-heavy Happy New Year kisses, good for most of the next decade.)

One can hark to the complaints of fellow driver Alain Prost, with whom Senna had a long-running rivalry that was straight out of a Jerry Bruckheimer film. The two were teammates who ended up unable to speak to each other for years. Prost suggests Senna had such religious devotion that he took insane risks— that’s how certain he was of God’s favor.

If anything, this fortune looks all the brighter even after Senna’s terrestrial luck ran out. We see a woman at Senna’s final public appearance give his helmet a last kiss; it isn’t the first time you divine something strangely knightly in the man.

We learn tidbits about Senna’s techniques. He was what in horseracing parlance would be called a “mudder,” someone who performed even better in the rain. And we witness some of the controversies over cybernetics in the cars in the early 1990s, when money counted more than ever for those teams that could afford the gadgets. During a rare losing streak, Senna told reporters he was “fighting an electronic war.”

Despite the video footage from inside the cars during these races of the 1980s and 1990s, there’s no way here to suggest the power of these machines, the terrific g-forces they whip up on curves and the miracle that so relatively few drivers get killed.

Some more Formula One for Imbeciles details could have woven into Senna to make it the best film about its sport—instead of a loving profile of a man who carried the hopes of his nation whenever he drove.

Senna PG-13; 106 min.

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COLOMBIANA (PG-13; 107 min,) After seeing her parents killed, a girl grows up to be a killer herself. Directed by Olivier Megaton (please, tell us thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pseudonym) and stars Zoe Saldana.

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DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (R; 99 min.) A Guillermo del Toroâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; penned scary story about a young woman stuck in a marriage with a weird movie star. Wait, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the real life of Katie Holmes. Here she plays a woman stuck in a haunted house.

Also stars Guy Pearce. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.)

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (R; 90 min.) Paul Rudd plays a straight-shooter who disrupts the lives of his sisters. Also stars Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer.

(Opens Fri.)

SENNA (PG-13; 106 min.) See review on page 42. (Opens Fri at Camera 7 in Campbell and the Aquarius in Palo Alto.)

Revivals THE BALOONATICS/ OUR HOSPITALITY (Both 1923) Trying to ďŹ nd love at the amusement park, Buster Keaton ends up a creek. BILLED WITH Our Hospitality. A top-hatted fop of the 1840s, who goes to inherit some property in the American South and wanders straight into a blood feud.

Highlights include Keatonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision of an early train ride, which is more beguiling than any model train ever built, and the staggering waterfall ďŹ nale. Dennis James at the Wurlitzer.

(Plays Aug 26 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S/ WAIT UNTIL DARK (1961/1967) Like the cat she carries on her shoulders, the jet-age courtesan Holly Golightly seeks shelter without work, and love without responsibility. As Golightly, Audrey Hepburn is elďŹ n enough to eclipse the more troubling memories of the ďŹ lm: Mickey Rooney done up as an insult to the Japanese (who love this ďŹ lm, or at least the ďŹ&#x201A;oating-world waif in it) and George Peppard, the Man of Living Mayo. BILLED WITH Wait Until Dark.

Very effective thriller about a blind woman (Hepburn) under siege by three thievesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;primarily a psychotic beatnik (Alan Arkin) in nasty tinted granny glasses. Ageless and saturnine, Alan Arkin perks up even the likes of the recent The ChangeUp; he was every bit that good 45 years ago. (Plays Aug 20-25 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

FREE SUMMER MOVIES: Mary Poppins (Plays Aug 25 in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square), Fido (plays Aug 31 in San Jose at S. First and William streets).

NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent ďŹ lms. Tonight: Leap Year (1921) with Fatty Arbuckle. The rotund comedian plays an outof-control lover boy working the resorts at Santa Catalina. Also: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pool Sharksâ&#x20AC;? (1915) with W.C. Fields, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roughest Africaâ&#x20AC;? (1923) with Stan Laurel. Judy Rosenberg at the piano.

(Plays Aug 27 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

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Fast and Befuddled COVERED WITH Sundance laurels as it is, Bellflower seems only middling. It’s in the Harmony Korine vein of films about suburban wastrels, hooking up, drinking beer, breaking up and angrily throwing things into the storm drains of the namesake city in the L.A. Basin.

Woodrow (director/mechanic Evan Glodell) and Aiden (Tyler Dawson) are gearheads with a big budget for chrome and no visible means of support.

They are two Wisconsin transplants to Southern California, and they haven’t lost their downiness yet. (Woodrow still wears sweater vests.) Both dream of emulating the post-apocalyptic road ragers from 1982’s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. (Bellflower’s epigraph comes from a saying by that hockey-masked villain the Lord Humongous.)

No-good, two-timing women interfere with this boyish dream. But after a serious brain-damaging motorcycle accident, the film goes sideways into Lynchian fever dreams where you can’t tell actual revenge from fantasies of burning old girlfriends beyond recognition.

Bellflower has a unique look, thanks to a Skunk-Worked camera wrought by Glodell that created the goldenrod-

colored visuals, making blonde hair glow like electric fire, or giving the landscapes the hue of dead weeds in a liquor store parking lot. The smeary backgrounds and grease-halos seem mostly like an homage to the primitive video of julien donkeyboy (1999), with splattered motor oil on the lens as part of the atmosphere.

9\ccÔfn\i Take your gaze away R; 106 min. from the photography, Plays at and you’re left with one selected question: How is Bellflower theaters different from most power fantasies for young guys?

It is like watching Wes Anderson’s Bottle Rocket, another movie that was mostly all promise of something better to come.

If Glodell gets someone else to write for him, someone who can differentiate his many characters and add some kind of wit, he might be worthy of the kind of praise that’s getting ladled on him.

Bellflower isn’t aimlessly made, even if it’s about aimless people. There’s creativity here in the dialogue of these tunnelvisioned no-hopers, as in this blessing over a gift of birthday fruitcake: “I figure if I got you fruitcake now, then I can go get you a real present at Christmas, when we’ll probably know each other better.”

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surprising art direction. (RvB)

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER

(R; 113 min.) Filthy, creepy bromance that begins with a baby projectile-crapping into a dad’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 fight ends in love tattoos and scrotum-shaving. Women of all types interfere: a horny hag; a vastly pregnant succubus; and a tantalizing office 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 There’s Something About Mary. But the MILF character, Leslie Mann, gets the worst of it: she’s weeping, horny and smelly, thanks to Thai food diarrhea. The aforementioned Diaz homage is part of this stinker’s 1990s air, along with the references to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Atlanta Braves.

Despite their attempt to write

THE CHANGE-UP

(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 I’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. He’s significantly improved from his days in the weak Fantastic Four series, and his air of melancholy reminds you of ’40s star Alan Ladd. Hugo Weaving is the impressively disfigured villain, who doesn’t care for Hitler’s lack of scope any more than he likes the nickname Der Führer bestowed on him, “The Red Skull.” Joe Johnston’s direction may be too much in the mode of a classic ’40s movie for the kids, but it has loads to offer, including a drily funny Tommy Lee Jones and

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

COWBOYS & ALIENS (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)

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

FINAL DESTINATION 5 (R; 92 min.) And yet, somehow, as in Zenoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paradox, we keep getting sequels and we never arrive at the conclusion of this horror-movie franchise.

FRIGHT NIGHT (R; 106 min.) Anton Yelchinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighbor turns out to be a vampire (Colin Farrell) in a remake of the 1985 ďŹ lm.

THE FUTURE (R; 91 min.) Performance artist Miranda July is an undeniably erotic ďŹ gure: her mixture of candor and modesty has the allure of a great silent ďŹ lm star, though the brave explicitness is all her own. Too

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bad this movie, with its troubling narcissism and bouts of childish tweeness, is a sophomore-slumping follow up to her 2005â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Me and You and Everyone We Know. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 loverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s throat, or Sophieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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)

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Frat-Bro Pidgin, the scriptwriters show their age. A real serialkiller-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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THE HELP (PG-13, 137 min.) Just out of Ole Miss in 1962 we ďŹ nd struggling writer Skeeter (Emma Stone), who seeks oral histories from the black maids who keep things running in Jackson. ConďŹ dent actor-turneddirector Tate Taylor handles this cast in a What Would George Cukor Do? style. As that maid who ďŹ rst tells her story, perennial character actress Viola Davis gets her ďŹ rst

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star part. Cuddly yet furious Octavia Spencer revamps the bulky, shrewd black maid ďŹ gure from 1940s ďŹ lms, giving her vengeance at last. Jessica Chastain shines as a curvy, good-hearted whitetrash refugee from Sugar Ditch.

That tragic real-life townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name reinforces the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Terrible Awfulâ&#x20AC;? incident in the ďŹ lm actually suggests how deeply the white

audience loathes their own racism, and how much theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to poison it and see it poisonedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rather than how ready they are to congratulate themselves. (RvB)

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

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ONE DAY (PG-13; 108 min.) 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 Lone ScherďŹ g is neo-classic ďŹ lmmaking taking on a post-modern story. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s July 15, 1988: St. Swithinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day. After a sleepless night, two students are celebrating their graduation from the University of Edinburgh. Rich wastrel Dexter (Jim Sturgess) shares the bed of the working-class Emma Morley. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the doe-eyed non-pushover Anne Hathaway, using a British accent that would bafďŹ&#x201A;e Henry Higgins.

Over the course of the next 20something years, Emma and Dexter keep up a turbulent friendship, and

we see the changes in them and in society. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an edge to One Day; Sturgessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dexter is not just a rafďŹ sh Hugh Grantâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;like sot, but a genuine wreck in his lowest ebb. Hathawayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s undeniable next-doorness and honest tenderness are easy to love.

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POINT BLANK (Unrated; 84 min.) A French thriller about a thief on the run.

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

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13, 115 min.) If there are two words that sum up Rupert Wyattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ lm, they are â&#x20AC;&#x153;strangely plausible.â&#x20AC;?

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)

SARAHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KEYS (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.

the United Nations via a private security ďŹ rm. Bolkovac discovered that some local roadhouses are keeping prostitutes prisoners.

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)

ZOOKEEPER (PG; 102 min.) The world holds its breath in anticipation of the newest Kevin James comedy masterpiece about an animal caretaker who seeks romance with the help of his furry friends. With appearances by such beloved stars as Sylvester Stallone and Adam Sandler.

THE WHISTLEBLOWER (R; 112 min.) Aware of the problems of an audience with compassion fatigue, novice ďŹ lmmaker Larysa Kondracki takes already sensational material and pumps it up. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s based on the case of Kathryn Bolkovac (a thoroughly miscast Rachel Weisz), a police ofďŹ cer from Nebraska who went to the Balkans to work for

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

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A mainstay on the Bay Area Latin music scene for more than two decades, Parra introduces her latest discoveries Saturday at Angelica’s Bell Theatre in Redwood City. A program of Sephardic world jazz,

“Las Aventuras de Pasión,” features Old World songs set to various Latin American grooves. With poetic lyrics exploring the vagaries of romance and generational conflict, the themes are timeless and almost disconcertingly contemporary.

“The new program is based on the different stages of love in all its sordid and wonderful forms,” Parra says. “The message is that woman are always worrying and stressing over love.

When am I going to find it? He’s been unfaithful and/or I have. A lot of the music was sung by women working in the kitchen, kvetching about relationships, or it’s mothers giving advice to daughters, or daughters trying to get approval from mothers.”

Parra’s latest album, 2010’s Dos Amantes (Patois Music), features the Sephardic repertoire with lushly textured arrangements. Commissioned

by San Francisco Friends of Chamber

Music and the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the new program takes the music in a different direction, with stripped down instrumentation. The lyrics are mostly in Ladino, a language derived mostly from old Castilian.

For Saturday’s concert, Parra is joined by the latest incarnation of her working ensemble, featuring ace pianist Murray Low, Masaru Koga on woodwinds, bassist Chris Lopes bass, drummer Curt Moore and percussionist Katja Cooper, who “has a lot of experience with Middle Eastern tonalities and plays a mean darbuka,” Parra says, referring to a Arabic goblet drum.

In many ways, the Sephardic repertoire is just the latest sojourn on Parra’s long quest to take Latin jazz beyond the genre’s foundational AfroCuban grooves. Since the 2006 release of her debut album, Birds in Flight (JazzMa Productions), she’s explored an array of sensuous rhythms, from Brazilian samba and Peruvian lando to Andalucian flamenco and 19thcentury Cuban danzón.

She isn’t the first person to explore Sephardic songs, but no one else has infused the music of this lost world with jazz’s improvisational imperative.

Kat Parra Saturday, 8:30pm; $12–$16 Angelica’s Bell Theatre, 863 Main St., Redwood City

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Moorish Spain’s multicultural Golden Age came crashing to an end in 1492, when the Catholic Reconquest led to the Jewish expulsion, spreading Sephardic culture across the Mediterranean and the Americas (though most American Jews are Ashkenazi with roots in Eastern Europe).

“I’m very conscious of keeping the integrity of the melody, lyrics and storyline,” Parra says. “But what’s wrong with evolving this music to another level? I’ve done a lot of research into this music, and there are people doing Sephardic rock, but no one’s doing Sephardic jazz.”

One reason the Sephardic pieces blend so seamlessly with her other Spanish and Portuguese-language tunes is that Ladino consists largely of old Castilian, a language preserved by the Jews who found refuge in territories controlled by the Ottoman Empire. Another is that she’s worked closely with the key collaborators, like Santa Cruz pianist Murray Low, one of the most sought after Latin jazz musicians in the region.

“I’m always looking to combine music in new ways,” Low says. “I’m always looking to push Latin music and jazz in new directions, to combine different genres in new ways, and that’s exactly what Kat is doing in a fascinating new way.”

Ultimately, Parra’s sound is what makes the concept work. Full and throaty in her lower register, clear and crisp in her mezzo range, she possesses a voice with personality and soul. In transforming ancient Sephardic songs into evocative Latin jazz vehicles, she’s both following her muse and hoping to inspire listeners to explore a time distinguished by communal coexistence.

“Am I going to change the world with this music? Probably not,” Parra says. “But it’s a nice thought. It can’t hurt to recall a time when Jews and Muslims were able to live and thrive together. And these gorgeous songs flow so well into all the other music I’m doing.”

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Brian Wilson Wednesday at Mountain Winery in Saratoga, 7:30pm; $35-$85 American rock & roll’s greatest songwriter? It’s hard to listen to “Good Vibrations,” “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” and “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” and come to any other conclusion. Wilson’s troubled life is legendary, but since 1988 he’s turned it around with a post–Beach Boys solo career that saw him finally releasing his legendary lost album, Smile, once rumored to be his crowning achievement. Smile is excellent, but Pet Sounds is still the best. (SP)

Sade Thursday at HP Pavilion in San Jose, 8pm; $53-$179 Confusion reigned for years over the name of this band, made up not just of singer Sade Adu, but also guitarist Stuart Colin Matthewman, bassist Paul Spencer Denman and keyboardist Andrew Hale. Adu’s impossibly silky voice got so much of the attention that even the band started using “Sade” interchangeably for both her and the band.

They broke up in the late 1990s, but came out of retirement soon after, and after a career of huge hits like “Sweetest Taboo” and “Smooth Operator,” just released their second greatest-hits album. (SP)

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Sugarland Friday at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, 7:30pm; $25-$74.75 Considering that the tragic stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair happened two weeks ago, country duo Sugarland would be well within their rights to, say, take the rest of the year off, have a little therapy, etc. Instead, they’ve chosen to make music their therapy, picking up the tour again just five days later, and bring their No. 1 hits like “It Happens,” “Want To” and “Already Gone” to HP Friday. (SP)

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Suga Dady. Sun: The Gents.

Mon: Degenerates. Campbell.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Fri, 8:30pm: The E-Ticket Band. $10-$14. Redwood City.

AVALON Wed, 8pm: Cold. $15. Fri, 7:30pm: The Return of Babylon AD. $15. Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Fri, 9pm: Scream, Joe Q. Citizen, Local Legends. $10.

San Jose.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Dan Goughs Band. Rock and blues. Santa Clara.

Thu, 10pm: The Dejenerates.

Fri, 10pm: Spazmatics. Sat, 10pm: Superbad. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI

BOSWELL’S

Fri, 8pm: Vegipet, Tofu Beast.

San Jose.

Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: Junkshaker. Sat:

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

Campbell.

CLUB FOX

HP PAVILION Thu, 8pm: Sade. San Jose.

Cobb. No cover. Fri, 9:30pm: Pacific Standard Time. $10.

Sat, 9:30pm: Touch N Go. $10.

Los Gatos.

LILLY MAC’S Fri, 9:30pm: Dirty White Boys. Foreigner Tribute.

Sat, 9:30pm: Latin Nights.

Sunnyvale.

LOS GATOS CIVIC CENTER PLAZA Sun, 5-7pm: Journey Unauthorized. Los Gatos.

Thu, 5:30pm: Pete Escovedo Orchestra. Part of the Music in the Park Series. Free. San Jose.

THE QUARTER NOTE Fri, 8:30pm: Humdaddyz. $10.

Sat, 8:30pm: Repaid in Blood, Kenetik, Lyceum, Allegaeon, Short Fuse. $8. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE Sat, 8pm: The Coffis Brothers. Free.

Mountain View.

REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF FRIDAY NIGHTS Fri, 6pm: The Rising.

Bruce Springsteen tribute.

Free. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

LOS GATOS LODGE

THE REFUGE

Fri-Sat: Live rock bands.

Los Gatos.

Sat, 6pm: Metanoia. All ages. $8. Cupertino.

MOJO LOUNGE

SANTANA ROW

Thu & Sat: Live music. Fri: Charles Wheal. Fremont.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Sat, 8pm: Air Supply. $59$98. Saratoga.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Fri, 8pm: Melted Horses. 21+. $5. Los Gatos.

MOUNTAIN WINERY Wed, 7:30pm: Brian Wilson. $35-$85. Fri, 7:30pm: Jeff Bridges & the Abiders. $45$85. Sat, 7:30pm: Devo. $39.50-$89.50. Sun, 7:30pm: Kenny G, Michael Bolton. $55-$125. Saratoga.

Sat, 6:30-9pm: The Chad Tuckers. Part of Hot August Nights. Free. Park Valencia Main Stage, Santana Row.

SARATOGA REC CENTER Fri, 6pm: Battle of the Bands semifinals with Adventure Book, It Starts With Alaska, the Druids, We Are Promise, Pantheon, Eyes Like Mine, I Swallowed an Owl. All ages.

Saratoga.

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE Fri, 7:30pm: Sugarland, Sara Bareilles. $38.25-$93.90.

Sat, 10:30am: Rock the Bells 2011. $68.50-$149.50.

Mountain View.

NAGLEE PARK GARAGE Wed, 7pm: Littlefield. Free.

San Jose.

NETO’S GRILL Thu, 7pm: Scarlett la Rue Revival Band. Fri, 7pm: The Crocodiles. $10/$15. Sat, 7pm: Midlife Vices. $5/$10.

Santa Clara.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Thu, 9pm: Bird by Bird, Curious Quail, the Trophy Fire, the Ghost of Wrights.

Fri: The Honey Wilders. Sat: Freq Out. San Jose.

STATION 55 Fri-Sat, 9pm-1am: Live music. Gilroy.

NINE LIVES Thu, 8pm: Lynch Mob (George Lynch of Dokken), Madman’s Lullaby, I Am Empire. $15 adv. Fri, 8pm: Battle of the Bands semifinal with Cadent, Wicked Jupiter and Big Wood. $10. Gilroy.

Sat, 8pm: Live music.

San Jose.

WILLOW DEN PLAZA DE CESAR CHAVEZ

JACK’S BAR & LOUNGE Tue, 9pm: Fast Lane. San Jose.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

STREETLIGHT RECORDS Wed, 6pm: Plantain, Megafauna. Thu, 6pm: John Doe. Sat, 4pm: Claire on a Dare. All events are all ages and free. San Jose.

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SUNNYVALE SUMMER SERIES

Wed, 9:30pm: Jam Night with Backfire & Diva Stativa.

No cover. Thu, 9:30pm: Chris

Wed, 5:30pm: Pacific Standard Time. Free.

Downtown Sunnyvale.

Fri, 8-10:30pm: The Road Dogs. Willow Glen.

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

X-BAR Sat, 8:30pm: A Four Star Affair, Noys Annoise, Wake Up Dolly, Fabulous Under Fire. All ages. $5. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

World AGENDA LOUNGE Wed, 8pm: Salsa. $5.

San Jose.

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 & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

HUKILAU Fri: Aldon Sanders. Sat: Live music. San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT MV Wed: Moroccan music with belly dancing. Fri: World music. Sat: Belly dancing and world music. Sun: World music. Tue: Flamenco.

Mountain View.

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT SJ Wed, 5pm: Flamenco. Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancing. Sat: World music.

Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music and belly dancing. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music.

Sunnyvale.

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Sat, 8pm: Evolution. Journey tribute. $14/$16. Redwood City.

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

Mountain View.

Jazz/Blues

LOS GATOS BREWING CO. SJ Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos.

San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT MV

Fri, 6pm: Carl Tilchen. $5/$9.

Redwood City.

Thu: Mucho Axe. Mon: Blues music. Mountain View.

THE GRAPEVINE

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT SJ Mon: Blues music. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

C&W/Folk

Fri, 7pm: Beth Whitney. Sat, 7pm: Given to Fly. Willow Glen.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Sat, 7:30pm: Phil Johnson.

Sun, 8pm: Houston Jones.

Santa Clara.

Sat, 8:30pm: Kat Parra presents “Las Aventuras de Pasion.” World jazz concert premiere. $12/$16.

Redwood City.

MURPHY’S LAW

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

OLD WAGON SALOON & GRILL

Fri, 8pm: Susan Herndon. Free.

Sun, noon: Margaret & Victor.

Free. Mountain View.

Sun, 6pm: Caroline Jazz.

Cupertino.

Sun: Live blues. San Jose.

THE SADDLE RACK

A PERFECT FINISH

CLUB FOX

Fri, 9pm: Chris Berkhardt. Sat, 9pm: Regi Reginaldo. San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

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

Sun, 3pm: Wally Schnalle’s Idiot Fish, Joe DeRose & Amici. $14/$16. Redwood City.

FLAVORS OF JAZZ Tue, 6:30pm: Rick Vandivier Duo at El Jardin Tequila Bar & Restaurant; Scott Sorkin at Village Bistro. Santana Row, San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam with Aki. Fri, 8pm: Rhythm District. Sat, 8pm: Tip of the Top. Campbell.

HEDLEY CLUB Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio.

Fri, 8:30pm: Pamela Rose. Sat, 8:30pm: Ed Johnson & Novo Tempo Quartet . San Jose.

Wed: Hook. Thu: The Honey Wilders. Fri: Isis & the Cold Truth. Sat: After Shock. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE

SAM’S BBQ

Sun, 1pm: Swingtime.

Cupertino.

Wed, 6pm: Country Classics.

Tue, 6pm: Leftover Crow. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

PICCHETTI WINERY

Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price & Yesterdays Band. Fri, 6-10pm: Mark Hummel & the Blues Survivors. Sat, 6-10pm: Bobby Radcliff Band. Sun, noon-4pm: School of the Blues student jam. San Jose.

SENZALA Sat, 8pm: Dillon Baiocchi Quintet. Sunnyvale.

ST. MARK’S LUTHERAN CHURCH

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

Open Mic ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 7pm: Open mic.

Redwood City.

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

BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS

Sat, 5:30pm: The Jazz Mafia.

Murphy Avenue, Sunnyvale.

Sat, 7pm: Solo piano recital, plus a reception and fundraiser. Sunnyvale.

JAZZ ON THE PLAZZ

TESSORA’S

Wed, 6:30pm: Jack Jones.

Free. Los Gatos Town Plaza.

Fri, 8:30pm: James Michel Day Band. Sat, 8:30pm: Live music.

Campbell.

BLUE ROCK SHOOT

Wed, 9pm: Suska. Thu, 9pm: Jimmy Dewrance. Fri, 7pm: Blues Hammer, Nuthin’ But Trouble. $10. Sat, 9pm: Marvin Banks. $10. Sun, 4pm: Larry Valdez, Ruckus. Mon, 9pm: Waynes Way. Tue, 7pm: Dennis & Stuart, Blue J. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

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

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

UNWINED

CAFFE FRASCATI

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

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

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

WINE AFFAIRS

CITY ESPRESSO

Wed, 7:30pm: Larry Chinn Trio.

Thu, 7:30pm: Jason Lewis Trio.

San Jose.

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

JAZZ AND BEYOND SERIES

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

Thu, 7-10pm: Live jazz.

San Jose.

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

EAT EAT REALLY R EALLY W ELLL WELL (FOR R LESS)

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic.

Saratoga.

DA KINE CAFE Tue, 6:30-9:30pm: Open mic.

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

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BLUE BONNET BAR

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

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

Sunnyvale.

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

BLUE MAX

Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm2am, and last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke.

Campbell.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

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

BLUE PHEASANT

THE ESCAPE

Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger.

Cupertino.

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

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Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Tue, 6pm: Open-mic night.

San Jose.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

QUARTER NOTE

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

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: KJ Dennis. Sunnyvale.

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

BOSWELL’S

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

BOULEVARD TAVERN

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

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

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

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

ACAPULCO RESTAURANT & CANTINA Fri-Sat, 7pm-midnight: KJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

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

San Jose.

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

THE BEARS Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

BENNIGAN’S GRILL Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle.

Santa Clara.

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.

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

GALAXY Thu, 9pm-2am: August.

Milpitas.

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

Gilroy.

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

Cupertino.

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

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

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

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Menlo Park.

HOMESTEAD LANES

BRIX Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

HUDDLE

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather. Santa Clara.

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

THE COURTS LOUNGE

KATIE BLOOM’S

Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

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

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda.

San Jose.

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

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

DIVE BAR Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond.

San Jose.

KHARTOUM

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

Mountain View.

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Casale first formulated the notion of “Devolution” —the idea that humanity is actually moving backward on the evolutionary scale—while attending Kent State during the late 1960s. During the infamous shootings on May 4, 1970, Casale was about 15 feet away from the late Allison Krause, a personal friend, when she was shot. It changed him forever. “I was a live-and-let-live hippie until then and hadn’t really Saturday, Aug. 27 broken on through to see the big picture of how the world really works. I think that did it,” he says.

Mountain Winery He decided then and there that Devolution was no 7:30pm; $39.50 joke and formed Devo. Success was slow at first, but -$89.50. the band soon found a rabid cult following. After a few singles, they released their debut Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, which was produced by Brian Eno and contained fan favorites “Jocko Homo,”“Mongoloid,”“Uncontrollable Urge” and their cover of “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.” The world got their first real look at the band’s absurd futuro-art-rock look when they played SNL in 1978. But they had their biggest hit in 1980, with “Whip It” (which was inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s book Gravity’s Rainbow) from the Freedom of Choice album.

“Silly us, we thought we were absolutely mainstream. What we’re trying to tell you is a big, broad idea in your favor. It’s against people who are trying to screw you, special interests and fear-based power of illegitimate authority who try to put you under their boot.” he says.

Casale is also mostly responsible for Devo’s fashion, although the idea behind it is slightly different. “What I was trying to do there was obviously get people to look at something they felt superior to. They could look at us and say, ‘Oh, look at those sorry bastards in those ridiculous outfits.’ It was disarming, it other words, it didn’t threaten them. That was a way that made us more palatable to watch, because they could think we were fools,” he says.

After 30 years, the formula still works. Devo released their latest album, Something For Everybody, last year. “With our record right now, I think those songs are as strong as the songs on New Traditionalists or Freedom Of Choice,” he says. “I say that because we just mix them in with our old songs [at shows]. We have two crowds: We have the original Devo crowd, who are now in their 40s and 50s, and we have the twentysomethings. The twentysomethings don’t know which songs are old and which songs are new. They have no idea what year they’re from. They think they’re all from a long time ago. They like them all.”—Beau Dowling

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BLUE PHEASANT

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

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

SHERWOOD INN

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

MOJO LOUNGE

SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL

Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

Wed: Humpday Wednesdays.

Thu: DJ. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Chaos. Sun: Beer pong.

Tue: $2 Tuesdays. San Jose.

Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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MARIANI’S

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

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

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

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”.

Sun, 8pm: DJ Joe. Campbell.

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

For complete schedule, visit montalvoarts.org

Box Office, 408.961.5858, M-F, 10am-4pm ticketmaster.com or montalvoarts.org

OFF THE HOOK

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB 15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA 95070

Mon, 9pm: Matt. San Jose.

A PERFECT FINISH

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

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

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

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

San Jose.

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

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

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

Woodside.

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

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

Nightly karaoke, 9pm1:30am. San Jose.

REDI ROOM

Thu: VJ Mixing with DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Aaron-E. Sat, 10pm: DJ Aaron-E. Sun: Industry Night. San Jose.

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays. Mon: Power Hour.

San Jose.

X-BAR

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

Fri, 9pm: DJ Vinnie.

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

Wed & Sat, 10pm: DJ. Fri, 8:30pm: Sizzling. Salsa night.

Santa Clara.

Dance Clubs AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Fri: DJs. San Jose.

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

ROSIE MCCANN’S

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

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

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

THE BLANK CLUB

RUDY’S PUB

Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh.

Cupertino.

BRIX WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.

Tue, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

No cover. Santana Row.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

Wed-Sat: DJs. Menlo Park.

AZÚCAR RED STAG LOUNGE

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

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

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

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

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

BLOWFISH SUSHI Fri, 9:30pm: Lifted with DJs Adam Cova and Nick G..

Santana Row.

CLUBHOUSE RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.

CLUB ILLUSIONS Fri, 9pm: Sizzling. Salsa night. 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.

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Evergreen Inn, San Jose.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Party. Sat: Elite. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

KHARTOUM Wed: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

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

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

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Pascal Briggs !DV $RS s P M

METALACHI The worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1st & only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band Spin Farm

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TRIBAL SEEDS

Thu-Fri: Top 40, club hits, hip-hop, Latin. Sat: DJ Nelly presents. San Jose.

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Seedless !DV $RS s P M P M

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Ken Kraft, Bob Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, Donny Baldwin, Brett BloomďŹ eld members of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Chokes, Batteries, & White Album Ensemble, and Killer Andrijasavic on drums

plus The Spell also â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Catalystâ&#x20AC;? Movie !DV $R s P M 3UNDAY !UGUST Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+ PAT TRAVERS plus Lonero !DV $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M

3EP Montrose (Ages 21+) 3EP Breakestra Atrium (Ages 21+) 3EP Kylesa Atrium (Ages 18+) 3EP Fury 66/ At Risk (Ages 16+) 3EP The Chop Tops Atrium (Ages 21+) 3EP Black Uhuru (Ages 16+) 3EP Murder By Death Atrium (Ages 16+) 3EP Tesla (Ages 21+) 3EP The Aggrolites Atrium (Ages 16+) 3EP J Boog (Ages 16+) 3EP Hank 3 Attention DeďŹ cit Domination (Ages 21+)

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

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

www.catalystclub.com

ZEN LOUNGE

Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.

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

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Thu: â&#x20AC;&#x153;We Love Transcendanceâ&#x20AC;? Thumpinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thursday Takeover. Fri: Bobby Brackins. Sat: IMC Sinful Angels bikini fashion show.

San Jose.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE Wed: RedRun with D. Luzion and Illtraxx. Thu: JazBiz and Dave Dynamix. Fri: Video Mixing, then DJ Radio Raheem and DJ Ready Rock.

Sat: Live bands. San Jose.

MIAMI BEACH CLUB

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Wed, 10pm: So So Deep Sessions. Thu, 7pm: Music Machine. Fri, 4pm: Fiesta Fridays. Fri, 9pm: Beatz Boutique. Sat, 9pm: Video Killed the DJ. Los Gatos.

featuring Duane Peters, Kerry Martinez, Johnny â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two Bagsâ&#x20AC;? of Social Distortion, Wade Walston & Chip Hanna

Thursday, August 25 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+ plus

Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing.

Sun: Reggae. San Jose.

LOS GATOS BAR & GRILL

Wednesday, August 24 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 16+

US BOMBS

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

STUDIO8

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. Campbell.

Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Sir Dancealot. Willow Glen.

SABOR TAPAS BAR

Fri, 8pm: DJ Sean Denton.

Campbell.

KATIE BLOOMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

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.

GRAND DELL SALOON

Mon: Ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Night. Milpitas.

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336

PEACOCK LOUNGE

Thu: SOFA King Thursdays.

Fri: Video Killed the DJ. Sat: Sapphire Saturdays. Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Buck Wild Tuesdays. San Jose.

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JOHN DOE Formidable X bassist and all-around badass plays free in-store for new album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keeper.â&#x20AC;? Aug 26 at Amoeba SF.

Fri-Sat: DJs. Sun: You Know You Hot video ďŹ lming. San Jose.

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ROY AYERS

Wed, 7pm: House Party. Thu, 7pm: Throwback Thursdays.

Los Gatos.

MYTH TAVERNA Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy. Sun: Brunch party.

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.

The quiet storm reigns with Nigerian songstressâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; new album, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Soldier of Love.â&#x20AC;? Aug 26-27 at Oracle Arena.

Everybody loves the sunshine, especially coming from this jazz legendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vibes. Aug 27-28 at Yoshiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s SF.

BUTTHOLE SURFERS Despite no new material, Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; strangest serve up guaranteed spectacle. Aug 30 at Regency Ballroom.

YOUNG JEEZY Hustlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rapper from the Dirty South spins whitepowder tales with opener Freddie Gibbs. Aug 31 at the Mezzanine.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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Thursday, Aug. 25 â&#x20AC;&#x153;The mistake I made when I did my ďŹ rst solo record was I thought the punk rock stuff I had done was not as valid,â&#x20AC;? he told me.

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6pm; free That sounds crazy now, considering his band X is one of the most beloved bands in the history of American punk rock. Through their heyday in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s, X simply couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a bad recordâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from Los Angeles to Wild Gift to Under the Big Black Sun to More Fun in the New World, they got stranger and more fascinating as they went along. But even back then, Doe was fooling with country music, forming the Knitters with his ex-partner and X partner, Exene Cervenka. Along with Xâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drummer DJ Bonebrake and Blasters guitarist Dave Alvin, they easily mixed twang with post-hardcore power on songs like the trailer-park anthem â&#x20AC;&#x153;Call of the Wrecking Ball.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of similarities between punk rock and country music,â&#x20AC;? says Doe. It took him a while to ďŹ nd that balance in his solo career, but now he moves easily between the two genres. Some of his best solo songs, like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lean Out Yr Windowâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Golden Stateâ&#x20AC;? (used in HBOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s True Blood) could easily have been X songs, while his 2009 album with the Sadies, The Country Club, was a fantastic set of straight-ahead country standards.

His newest solo record, Keeper, drops at the end of the month, and it might seem surprising to see a rock legend of his stature promoting it with a free show in a record store, as heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do when he plays Streetlight Records on Thursday. But in fact, Doe is a huge supporter of independent record stores.

His release with Jill Sobule, A Day at the Pass, was this last Record Store Dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most interesting release. It was fully funded by fans, who got to sit in while the pair recorded it live-before-a-studio-audience style, at the Pass, an L.A. studio that was about to be sold.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Steve Palopoli

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