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Tank T aank Bets B Hewlett P Packard LEO APO APOTHEKER’s THEKER’s ackarrd CEO LEO move to exit th the he consumer computer business business ccould ould bbring ring m more ore bbad ad nnews ews for for SSan an JJose’s ose’s bbudget. udget. TThe he P Palo alo A Alto lto computing computing ccolossus olossus ccurrently urrently ppays ays SSan an Jose and the aarena’s rena’s management ďŹ rm $3.25 million $3.25 m illion aannually nnually ttoo hhang ang iits ts ssign ign at at tthe he H HP PP Pavilion’s avilion’s eentrance. ntrance. O Off tthat hat amount, $1.25 million goes dir directly ectly into the city’s gene general ral fund. But with the agreement agreement sset et ttoo eexpire xpire aatt tthe he eend nd ooff 2015, 2015, aand nd H HP’s P’s pplan lan ttoo sspin pin ooff ff iits ts lline ine ooff PCs—like the “Pavilionâ€? “Pavilionâ€? models—the Shark TTank’s proper ank’s a pr roper name seems unlikely to stick. T TOM MANHEIM, OM M ANHEIM, ddirector irector ooff communications communication ns for for City Manager DEBRA DEBRA FIGONE, FIGONE, says says the the city city is is pretty pretty sure sure it it hasn’t HP hasn’t hheard eard ffrom rom H P tthat hat tthe he ccompany ompany wants wants to to cchange hange tthe he arena’s arena’s nname ame oorr eend nd the the agreement agreement prematurely. prematurely. Part Part ooff the the reason reason for for the the uuncertainty ncertainty is is that that ddowntown owntown ccoordinator oordinator LEE WI WILCOX, who LCOX, wh ho rrecently ecently Don’t took took oonn nnaming-rights aming-rights management, management, just just forget returned returned from from ppaternity aternity to tip! leave. leave. With With a ffew ew million million FLY@ dollars potentia potentially ally in METRONEWS. limbo, Wilcox Wilcox might might limbo, COM want make want to to m ake cchecking hecking that inbox inbox a ppriority. riority. An An that HP spokesman said no one at the the company company ccould ould provide provide ddetails etails at agreement or discuss the name on the agreement game. But if a name change does occur, occur, won’tt be the ďŹ rst time. LLongtime ongtime HP it won’t employee RON RON GONZALES, GONZALES, who took a break serve break to ser ve as mayor of San Jose, was 02 when the city rrebranded ebranded in ofďŹ ce in 200 2002 er â€? after his corpor ate “Compaq Cente Centerâ€? corporate benefactor H P aacquired cquired CCompaq. ompaq. IIff tthe he benefactor HP conventional w isdom tthat hat O racle CCEO EO conventional wisdom Oracle LARR RY ELLISON ELLISON N is is now now girding girding for for a LARRY er of HP after bringing hostile takeove takeover HP’s dumped CEO C MARK MARK HURD HURD on on board board comes true, true, San San Jose Jose could could do do even even comes better. Ellison Ellison hhas as llong ong sought sought ownership ownership better. franchise. In 2007 the arena’s arena’s of an NBA franchise. naming-rights aagreement greement was was amended amended naming-rights so would so the the city city w ould rreceive eceive aann aadditional dditional baskeetball ever ffound ound its way to $800K if basketball San Jose.

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sv 411.com Carol Bartz: I’ve Just Been Fired Carol Bartz confirmed that she is no longer the CEO of Yahoo in a memo that appears to have been sent from her iPad to all employees of the company.

She found out Arrington and her boss, Tim Armstrong, were planning to launch a VC fund about the very startups that Arrington writes about.—Nicholas Carlson, Sept. 2

fakecarolbartz Fuck! Sent from my iPad

fakecarolbartz Relax people, I only got fired from Yahoo! Not drinking. It’s not the end of the world.

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fakecarolbartz Good fuckin riddance, the only way Y! could turn into any more of a novelty is if it were AOL. I’m getting tanked.

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Mashable has obtained a copy of the note, which reads:

To all, I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward.

Pishabh Badmaash Bartz/ Arrington 2012 Presidential Campaign about to begin! (posted to Mashable)

Thomas Hawk, Oakland CA, via Google+ I hope whomever the new CEO is has the sensibility to actually set up a flickr account. If +Larry Page and +Sergey Brin can take a few seconds out of their VERY busy days to post their photos to Google+, certainly whomever is named the new CEO of Yahoo ought to be able to find a way to actually post a few vacation snapshots to Flickr — the best social property that Yahoo has left.

Carol Sent from my iPad The firing apparently came as a surprise to Yahoo employees. …Someone either forgot to turn off Bartz’s email account before doing the deed or decided (however unlikely) to let Bartz have the last word… .

As of 8:08 p.m. ET, Yahoo employees have yet to receive an official memo from the company updating them on Bartz’s departure. — JENNIFER VAN GROVE, WWW.MASHABLE.COM

Arianna!

Arrington!

Armstrong! AOL! What a day for Michael Arrington.

TechCrunch’s founding editor just got bounced from the staff by his boss, Arianna Huffington.

Arianna Huffington, the boss of all media at AOL Huffington post—including TechCrunch—was not informed of TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington’s plans to launch a venture capital fund with AOL’s money until yesterday, a source familiar with the situation tells us.

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong knew and didn’t tell her. Obviously, Arrington knew and didn’t tell her.

When she did find out, Huffington got pretty angry.

Huffington quickly kiboshed that plan and then booted Arrington out of her media empire altogether.

Tim Armstrong already has a big enough mess on his hands dealing with Wall Street, which has pretty much given up on the company. —NICHOLAS CARLSON AND ALYSON SHONTELL, SEPT. 2, WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM/

CEO Lacks Control Of course things blew up. Armstrong should have known that they would. No matter how hungry AOL is for revenue, such a deal was incompatible with the company’s stated interests of being more professionally journalistic. …It also suggests that Armstrong lacks a good control of the operation.

Forget TechCrunch. AOL continues to show signs that its management structure won’t scale to properly control the company. If this organization is going to work, then all the people involved have to get out of a small company mindset.

Those days are gone. –ERIK SHERMAN, BNET, WWW.BNET.COM

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Sunshining the Solyndra Deal There’s definitely spin control going on following the collapse of Fremontbased Solyndra. The George Kaiser Family Foundation’s 35.7 percent stake in the government-subsidized solar panel maker has come under scrutiny because the foundation namesake’s role in bundling political contributions for President Barack Obama — and his reported visits to the White House in the weeks preceding the taxpayer-guaranteed $535 million loan to the failed green technology firm.

Tax-paying Americans may be annoyed to find out about Solyndra shoveling money to politicians and lobbyists while it was slurping from the public trough. At least hundreds of thousands of dollars in lobbying fees went to big name lobbying firms like the Glover Park Group and McAllister & Quinn. Among the elected officials to benefit from Solyndrical largess were Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Barbara Boxer and our very own Assemblymember Nora Campos (D-San Jose).

Naturally, Republicans haven’t missed the opportunity to jump all over this.

The Republican-led house Energy Committee has demanded White House documents regarding the Solyndra loan. The George Kaiser foundation, meanwhile, is denying a connection between its investment and Kaiser’s political activities. “George Kaiser is not an investor in Solyndra and did not participate in any discussions with the U.S. government regarding the loan,” the foundation said in an e-mailed statement quoted by Bloomberg News.

According to Bloomberg, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said in an e-mailed statement that the selection of companies for U.S. financial support are “merit-based decisions made by career staffers at the Department of Energy, and the process for this particular loan guarantee began under President George W. Bush.”

“Every project that receives financing through the Energy Departments goes through a rigorous financial, legal and technical review process,” Schultz said.

In the coming weeks, we’ll find out just how frickin’ rigorous this fasttracked deal’s review was. Obviously, it wasn’t rigorous enough.—DAN PULCRANO, SV411

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Academy for State and Local History, both located at the Martin Luther King, Jr. main library. To get started, simply call up www.scanjose.org on a smartphone or tablet, and away it goes.

This Saturday, library staff will host a special kickoff tour from 11:30am to 12:30pm, free and open to the public, starting in front of the San Jose Museum of Art in downtown San Jose. Bring your iPad. Users can actually choose from three different tours. “A Walk Around the Plaza” begins at the art museum and takes users to various sites of historical interest in the vicinity of Plaza de Cesar Chavez. At each stop, users call up a historical photo of what the particular spot looked like over 100 years ago, plus a description of what transpired.

For example, the De Saisset House occupied the parcel of land right

where the Tech Museum currently sits. One can see four different photos, including the guts of the Civic Auditorium as it was first getting built.

Also, what’s now the Fairmont used to be one of San Jose’s three Chinatowns. On that page, one sees a sketch of the area, where, in the 1870s, more than 1,000 people were crowded into one square block. In March of 1887, the San Jose City Council ordered the destruction of Chinatown, declaring it a “health hazard.” But before the razing of the area could take place, a fire of suspicious origin broke out. My, how times have changed.

Another tour, titled “Old Santa Clara Street,” takes one from the De Anza Hotel all the way down Santa Clara to Third Street. Of course, that hotel now sits on part of the land once occupied by College of Notre Dame, established in 1851 on Santa Clara Street. Users call up 1860s-era photos of what the campus looked like. It stretched from the corner of Notre Dame Street, west to about the middle of the Comerica Bank building.

Perhaps the most interesting of the three tours is titled “Tragedies and Calamities,” featuring numerous period shots of damage inflicted on downtown by the famous 1906 earthquake—the one San Francisco often hogs all the publicity for.

One sees spectacular shots of the damage at Second and San Fernando streets, plus the corner of First and Post streets, which was then named El Dorado. St. Patrick’s Church on Santa Clara Street also suffered major damage, as did San Jose High School. The tour even begins with an original post-earthquake proclamation from 1906, declaring, “All lawlessness will be repressed with a heavy hand.”

To experience these tours, all one needs is a smartphone and some curiosity—a character trait sadly lacking in too many people. Similar, more elaborate, app-based tours exist in major cities all over the world, replete with audio accompaniment, video and the whole nine yards.

Many, if not most, are produced by former guidebook authors from the print era and they are gaining popularity, especially for tourists.

In any event, Scan Jose’s version is a welcome step in the right direction. One can easily envision app tours of the seedier parts of the San Jose experience, perhaps homeless encampments and their stories, or a history of each empty building, complete with historical documentation of landlord neglect and code violations.

How about a tour of all the defunct railroad tracks or an app guide to kitsch signage from the 1960s? I can also imagine an audio tour of historical music riots—from the Palomar Ballroom to the Civic Auditorium to the infamous Black Flag gig in downtown San Jose. We can go on and on.

So if you’ve got stories, write them down or at least start taking photographs. Documentation is paramount. Many years from now, people will want to know this stuff.

As the saying goes, history must be written of, by and for the survivors.

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Casualties of War As to American casualties, the figure now is beyond twice those who died in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., on 9/11. The casualties are rarely totaled, but broken down into three categories by the Pentagon and Congressional Research Service. There is Operation Enduring Freedom, which includes Afghanistan and Pakistan but, in keeping with the Long War

definition, also covers Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Second, there is Operation Iraqi Freedom and its successor Operation New Dawn, the name adopted after September 2010 for the 47,000 U.S. advisers, trainers and counterterrorism units still in Iraq. The scope of these latter operations includes Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. These territories include not only Muslim majorities but, according to former Centcom commander Tommy Franks, 68 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves and the passageway for 43 percent of petroleum exports, another American geo-interest which was heavily denied in official explanations. (See Michael Klare’s Blood and Oil and Antonia Juhasz’s The Bush Agenda for more on this.)

A combined 6,197 Americans were killed in these wars as of Aug. 16, 2011, in the name of avenging 9/11, a day when 2,996 Americans died. The total American wounded has been 45,338, and rising at a rapid rate. The total number rushed by military Medivac out of these violent zones was 56,432. And the active-duty military suicide rate for the decade is at a record high of 2,276, not counting veterans or those who have tried unsuccessfully to take their own lives. In fact, the suicide rate for last year was greater than the American death toll in either Iraq or Afghanistan.

The Pentagon has long played a numbers game with these body counts. In addition to being painfully difficult and extremely complicated to access, there was a time when the Pentagon refused to count as Iraq war casualties any soldiers who died from their wounds outside of Iraq’s airspace. Similar controversies have surrounded examples such as soldiers killed in noncombat accidents.

The fog around Iraq or Afghanistan civilian casualties will be seen in the future as one of the great scandals of the era. Briefly, the United States and its allies in Baghdad and Kabul have relied

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on eyewitness, media or hospital numbers instead of the more common cluster-sampling interview techniques used in conďŹ&#x201A;ict zones like the ďŹ rst Gulf War, Kosovo or the Congo. The United Nations has a conďŹ&#x201A;ict-of-interest as a party to the military conďŹ&#x201A;ict, and acknowledged in a July 2009 U.N. human rights report footnote that â&#x20AC;&#x153;there is a signiďŹ cant possibility that UNAMA is underreporting civilian casualties.â&#x20AC;?

In August, even the mainstream media derided a claim by the White House counter-terrorism adviser that there hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been a single â&#x20AC;&#x153;collateral,â&#x20AC;? or innocent, death during an entire year of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, a period in which 600 people were killed, all of them alleged â&#x20AC;&#x153;militants.â&#x20AC;? As an a speciďŹ c explanation for the blindness, the L.A. Times reported on April 9 of this year that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Special Forces account for a disproportionate share of civilian

casualties caused by western troops, military officials and human rights groups say, though there are no precise ďŹ gures because many of their missions are deemed secret.â&#x20AC;?

Sticker Shock of War Among the most bizarre symptoms of the blindness is the tendency of most deďŹ cit hawks to become big spenders on Iraq and Afghanistan, at least until lately. The direct costs of the war, which is to say those unfunded costs in each yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget, now come to $1.23 trillion, or $444.6 billion for Afghanistan and $791.4 billion for Iraq, according to the National Priorities Project. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another sleight-of-hand, when one considers the so-called indirect costs like long-term veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; care. Leading economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes recently testiďŹ ed to Congress that their previous estimate of $4

21 DynCorp featuring trafficked boys as entertainment, and an Afghan vice president carrying $52 million in a suitcase. The efforts of the White House to prosecute Julian Assange and persecute Pfc. Bradley Manning in military prison should be of deep concern to anyone believing in the publicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to know.

The news that this is not a physical war but mainly one of perceptions will not be received well among American military families or Afghan children, which is why a responsible citizen must rebel ďŹ rst and foremost against The Official Story. That simple act of resistance necessarily leads to study as part of critical practice, which is as essential to the recovery of a democratic self and democratic society. Read, for example, this early martial line of Rudyard Kipling, the poet of the white manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burden: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re left wounded on Afghanistanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plains and the women come out to cut up what remains/ just roll to your riďŹ&#x201A;e and blow out your brains/And go to your God like a soldier.â&#x20AC;? Years later, after Kiplingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beloved son was killed in World War I and his remains never recovered, the poet wrote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;If any question why we died / Tell them because our fathers lied.â&#x20AC;?

A Hope for Peace An important part of the story of the peace movement, and the hope for peace itself, is the process by which hawks come to see their own mistakes. A brilliant history/ autobiography in this regard is Dan Ellsbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Secrets, about his evolution from defense hawk to historic whistleblower during the Vietnam War. Ellsberg writes movingly about how he was inďŹ&#x201A;uenced on his journey by meeting young men on their way to prison for draft resistance.

The military occupation of our minds will continue until many more Americans become familiar with the strategies and doctrines in play during the Long War. Not enough Americans in the peace movement are literate about counterinsurgency, counterterrorism and the debates about â&#x20AC;&#x153;the clash of civilizations,â&#x20AC;? i.e., the West versus the Muslim world.

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to $6 trillion in ultimate costs was conservative. Nancy Youssef of McClatchy Newspapers in D.C., in my opinion the best war reporter of the decade, wrote recently that â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost impossible to pin down just what the United States spends on war.â&#x20AC;? The president himself expressed â&#x20AC;&#x153;sticker shock,â&#x20AC;? according to Woodwardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book, when presented cost projections during his internal review of 2009.

The Long War casts a shadow not only over our economy and future budgets but our innocent and unborn childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future as well.

This is no accident, but the result of deliberate lies, obfuscations and scandalous accounting techniques.

We are victims of an information warfare strategy waged deliberately by the Pentagon. As Gen. Stanley McChrystal said much too candidly in February 2010, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is not a physical war of how many people you kill or how much ground you capture, how many bridges you blow up. This is all in the minds of the participants.â&#x20AC;? David Kilcullen, once the top counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, deďŹ nes â&#x20AC;&#x153;international information operations as part of counterinsurgency.â&#x20AC;? Quoted in Counterinsurgency in 2010, Kilcullen said this military officerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal is to achieve a â&#x20AC;&#x153;unity of perception management measures targeting the increasingly inďŹ&#x201A;uential spectatorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gallery of the international community.â&#x20AC;?

This new â&#x20AC;&#x153;war of perceptions,â&#x20AC;? relying on naked media manipulation such as the treatment of media commentators as â&#x20AC;&#x153;message ampliďŹ ersâ&#x20AC;? but also hightechnology information warfare, only highlights the vast importance of the ongoing WikiLeaks whistleblowing campaign against the global secrecy establishment. Consider just what we have learned about Iraq and Afghanistan because of WikiLeaks: tens of thousands of civilian casualties in Iraq, never before disclosed; instructions to U.S. troops to not investigate torture when conducted by U.S. allies; the existence of Task Force 373, carrying out night raids in Afghanistan; the CIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secret army of 3,000 mercenaries; private parties by

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Not enough is being written about how to end the wars in Iraq,

Afghanistan and Pakistan, but experts with much to say are the University of Michiganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Scott Atran (Talking to the Enemy) and former U.K. envoy Sherar Cowper Coles (Cables From Kabul).

Also there is my own 2007 book, Ending the War in Iraq, which sketches a strategy of grass-roots pressure against the pillars of the policy (the pillars necessary for the war are public opinion, trillions of dollars, thousands of available troops and global alliances. As those fall, the war must be resolved by diplomacy.)

The more we know about the Long War doctrine, the more we understand the need for a long peace movement. The pillars of the peace movement, in my experience and reading, are the networks of local progressives in hundreds of communities across the United States. Most of them are voluntary, citizen volunteers, always and immersed in the crises of the moment, nowadays the economic recession and unemployment. Look at them from the bottom up, and not the top down, and you will see: Š SGD ODNOKD VGN L@QBGDC HM SGD hundreds of thousands during the Iraq War; Š SGNRD VGN ADB@LD SGD DMSGTRH@RSHB consumer base for Michael Mooreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s documentaries and the Dixie Chicks anti-Bush lyrics; Š SGD ĂŚQRS SN RTOONQS NV@QC D@M when he opposed the Iraq war, and the stalwarts who formed the antiwar base for Barack Obama; Š SGD NMKHMD KDFHNMR NE NUD M who raised millions of dollars and turned out thousands of focused bloggers; Š SGD UNSDQR VGN CTLODC @ Republican Congress in 2006 on the Iraq issue, when the party experts said it was impossible; Š SGD LHKKHNMR VGN DKDBSDC A@L@ president by an historic ďŹ&#x201A;ood of voluntary enthusiasm and get-outthe vote drives. Š SGD L@INQHSHDR VGN RSHKK NOONRD SGD Afghanistan and Iraq wars, and want military spending reversed.

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The White House approved of the resolution. Then 205 House members, including a majority of Democrats, voted for a resolution that almost passed, calling for the same rapid withdrawal. Even the AFL-CIO executive board, despite a long history of militarism, adopted a policy opposing Afghanistan.

The president himself is quoted in Obama’s Wars as opposing his military advisors, demanding an exit strategy and musing that he “can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.”

At every step of the way, it must be emphasized, public opinion in

Congressional districts was a key factor in changing establishment behavior.

In the end, the president decided to withdraw 33,000 American troops by next summer, and continue “steady” withdrawals of the rest (68,000) from combat roles by 2014. At this writing, it is unclear how many remaining troops Obama will withdraw from Iraq, or when and whether the drone attacks on Pakistan will be forced to an end.

The Arab Spring has demolished key pillars of the Long War alliance, particularly in Egypt, where the CIA only recently was able to render its detainees for torture.

Obama’s withdrawal decision upset the military but also most peace advocates he presumably wanted to win back. The differences revealed a serious gap in the insideoutside strategy applied by many progressives. After a week of hard debate over the president’s plan, for example, Sen. John Kerry invited Tim Carpenter, leader of the heavily grass-roots Progressive Democrats of America, into his office for a chat. Kerry had slowly reversed his pro-war position on Afghanistan, and said he thought Carpenter would be pleased with the thensecret Obama decision on troop withdrawals. From Kerry’s insider view, the number 33,000 was a very heavy lift, supported mainly by Vice President Joe Biden but not the national security mandarins. (Gen. Gates had called Biden “ridiculous,” and Gen. McChrystal’s later ridicule of Biden helped lose the general his job.) From Carpenter’s point of view, 33,000 would seem a disappointing too little, too late. While it was definite progress toward a phased withdrawal, bridging the differences between the Democratic liberal establishment and the idealistic progressive networks will remain an ordeal through the 2012 elections.

As for Al Qaeda, there is always the threat of another attack, like those attempted by militants aiming at Detroit during Christmas 2009 or Times Square in May 2010. In the event of another such terrorist assault originating from Pakistan,

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It won’t happen overnight, but gradually we are wearing down the pillars of the war. It’s painfully slow, because the president is threatened

by Pentagon officials, private military contractors and an entire Republican Party (except the Ron Paul contingent) who benefit from the politics and economics of the Long War.

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SEPT. 11 MEMORIALS all bets are off: According to Woodward, the United States has a “retribution” plan to bomb 150 separate sites in that country alone there, and no apparent plan for The Day After. Assuming that nightmare doesn’t happen, today’s al Qaeda is not the al Qaeda of a decade ago. Osama bin Laden is dead, its organization is damaged, and its strategy of conspiratorial terrorism has been displaced significantly by the people-power democratic uprisings across the Arab world.

It is clear that shadow wars lie ahead, but not expanding ground wars involving greater numbers of American troops. The emerging argument will be over the question of whether special operations and drone attacks are effective, moral and consistent with the standards of a constitutional democracy. And it is clear that the economic crisis finally is enabling more politicians to question the trillion-dollar war spending.

Meanwhile, the 2012 national elections present an historic opportunity to awaken from the blindness inflicted by 9/11.

Diminishing the U.S. combat role by escalating the drone wars and Special Operations could repeat the failure of Richard Nixon.

Continued spending on the Long War could repeat the disaster of Lyndon Johnson. A gradual winding down may not reap the budget benefits or political reward Obama needs in time. With peace voters making a critical difference in numerous electoral battlegrounds, however, Obama might speed up the “ebbing,” plausibly announce a peace dividend in the trillions of dollars, and transfer those funds to energy conservation and America’s state and local crises. His answer to the deficit crisis will have to include a sharp reduction in war funding, and his answer to the Tea Party Republicans will have to be a Peace Party.

SEPT. 11 COMMEMORATION AND CEREMONY Several San Jose churches—the Journey Church, San Jose Christian Reformed Church and Church of the Chimes—collaborate on a 10thanniversary memorial. Karina Rusk from ABC-7 will emcee, and the scheduled guests include San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, Chief of Police Chris Moore and Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith.

San Jose Giants/Municipal Stadium, 588 E. Alma Ave., San Jose; Sunday, 1am; Lunch will be served.

SAN JOSE FIRE DEPARTMENT 9/11 PATRIOT DAY The 10th-anniversary event features a mass at Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, a memorial march down Market Street to Fire Station One, the Ringing of the Last Alarm Ceremony and an open house.

Sunday, 11:30am mass; 12.40pm march; 1pm ceremony; 1:20pm open house, Fire Station One, 225 N. Market St., San Jose

EASTRIDGE DAY OF SERVICE AND REMEMBRANCES The center hosts opportunities for members of the public to “do something for those in need.” A table will be set up to collect donates for the victims of the Joplin, Mo., tornado, Eastridge Mall, San Jose; Sun, noon– 3pm

REQUIEM FOR 9-11 The premiere of a performance piece

by Rosemary DeSiervi, using poetry, operatic voices and keyboard.

Divine Science Community Center, 1540 Hicks Ave., San Jose; $10 minimum donation asked; Sun, 1:30pm

MUSICAL TRIBUTE HONORING THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11 A presentation by Schola Cantorum and the Office of Religious Life and the Department of Music. Choirs from the region will participate. The program features Mozart’s Requiem in D minor.

Stanford Memorial Church; Sun, 1:30pm

LOS GATOS OBSERVANCE A siren-sounding observance by members of police department.

Police Operations, 15900 Los Gatos Blvd., Los Gatos, Sun, 10am

After more than 50 years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden is a leading voice for ending the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan and reforming politics through a more participatory democracy.

CAMPBELL BLOOD DRIVE Sponsored by the Campbell Rotary Club.

EMQ Families First, 251 Llewellyn Ave., Campbell; Sat, 11am–5pm

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Loft Bar and Bistro 90 South 2nd Street San Jose, CA 95113 408 291-0677

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CITRUS Restaurant 355 Santana Row San Jose, CA 95128 (408) 423-5400

Village California Bistro & Wi Wine ne Bar 378 Santana Row #1035 San Jose CA 95128 408 248-9091

Yankee Pier 378 Santana Row #1100 San Jose, CA 95128 408 244-1244

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Piatti Ristorante & Bar 3905 Rivermark Plaza Santa Clara Clara, CA 95054 (408) 330-9212

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“Because of the weather in Austria, most of the dishes are a little bit on the heavier side. There’s pretty cold winters over there, so you want something that heats you up from the inside,” Froeschl says.

That’s why one of the first surprises at Naschmarkt is how light many of the dishes are. Anyone who knows that quark spatzle is basically an Austrian mac and cheese is likely to be taken aback

at the spry, fresh dish on Froeschl’s menu. A casserole-style pairing of the Germanic egg noodle with quark cheese, smoked chicken, corn, lemon thyme and wild mushrooms, it’s creamy, savory and smoky, but so light it barely qualifies as a carbohydrate.

An even bigger surprise is how elegantly Froeschl’s vision of upscale Austrian dining lines up with the Bay Area’s culinary concerns: fresh, local, organic ingredients and a return to simple, essential flavors. In fact, one of the most popular dishes on the menu is the summer pea soup with mint and Maine lobster ravioli.

“It’s the simplest thing ever,” says Froeschl. “There’s not many ingredients in it, so no flavors get in the way of each other. It’s nice and smooth, and it creates its own complexity with really simple ingredients. You can actually taste

the peas; you can taste the mint and the lemon.”

The dish is exemplary of his larger approach to cooking: “You take a few ingredients and let them shine.”

Froeschl was born in Austria and worked his way up through the Austrian culinary system, starting his apprenticeships at 15 and simultaneously studying at culinary school. After three years, he passed his final exams and was certified as a chef. He worked around Austria, before moving to New York a decade ago at the behest of a former employer who was running an Austrian restaurant there.

Eventually, Froeschl was running four kitchens for him, but he also met his future wife, Margaux, who is from Los Gatos and wanted to move back. His in-laws had run Cafe Marcelo in Los Gatos for 17 years before selling it, and, along with a family friend, the two couples decided to open Naschmarkt together this summer.

Froeschl enjoys putting a Californian spin on certain dishes— Dungeness crab with mango and avocados, or roasted organic salmon

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with Swiss chard, for instance. But there are certain traditional dishes, like the wiener schnitzel and the incredible, succulent bratwurst, that he refuses to fool with.

“A schnitzel is not broken, why fix it? It’s perfect as it is,” he says. “It’s worked for hundreds of years now.”

So far, that approach seems to be paying off. The bratwurst is so popular he’s had people come in to the restaurant after dinner just to get a wurst fix, and his other dishes have earned approval even from native eaters.

“Last night, I had a couple that just moved here from Vienna,” says Froesch. “They relocated because of work. They were so happy to get a schnitzel—they said they thought they’d have to live without schnitzel the rest of their lives now.”

That history of Austrian food is why everything from pasta to Hungarian goulash to various styles of meat preparation can be found on the menu. At one time, almost all of Europe was part of the AustroHungarian empire, bringing in all stripes of international influences, from Germany, Italy, France, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, all the way up to Russia.

“All of those influences stayed with Austria, that’s why it has a really, really broad range of food,” Froeschl explains. “It’s called ‘Hungarian goulash,’ but it’s also a classic Austrian dish from the old empire.”

The biggest gambit in opening Naschmarkt was betting that a community probably unfamiliar with Austrian cuisine would give it a chance.

“We weren’t sure, is it going to work or is it not going to work? Are people going to like the Austrian flavors, or reject it? It’s always difficult when you try something new for the area. There was no real authentic Austrian.”

He smiles. “So far, so good.”

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

408.947.4444.

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

ANTONELLA’S Classic Italian standards in a relaxed, family-friendly Rose Garden neighborhood setting. 11am9pm Mon-Fri, 8am-3pm and 4-9 pm Sat-Sun. 1701 Park Ave., 408.279.4922 ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$. Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu, 5:3011pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555.

Sat, 4:30-8pm Sun. 58 S. First St. 408.280.1993.

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BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$.

Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and tastes like the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American, Mexican and Asian food.

Most dishes are designed for sharing—appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat. Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St. 408.292.4300.

DALAT Vietnamese. $$.

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

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

Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails. Full bar.

5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:309:30pm Sun. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161.

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BELLA MIA Italian-American.

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

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

88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

$$$. One of downtown San Jose’s most attractive eateries, Bella Mia serves regional dishes with flair. Full bar. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 4:30-10pm

Pizza. $. 4th Street Pizza Co. occupies a prime corner spot on East Santa Clara and Fourth with big windows to watch the comings and

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goings at City Hall across the street. The thin-crust margherita fell short but the thicker-crust pies are better.

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

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

Beer, wine. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm daily. 151 S. Second St. 408.295.3397.

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

KOJI SAKE LOUNGE $$.

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

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

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

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SVDINING LA VICTORIA TAQUERIA Mexican. $. La Vic’s famously addictive orange hot sauce merely tops off its tasty taqueria fare: big burritos of the breakfast and lunchtime varieties, overflowing nachos, delectable chile rellenos.

7am-3am daily. 140 E. San Carlos St. 408.298.5335.

LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$.

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

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

MCCORMICK AND SCHMICK’S Seafood. $$$.

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

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

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

Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant.

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

MORTON’S STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, a Chicago-based chain of restaurants with more than 80 locations across the U.S. and abroad, offers delicious,

premium-priced steaks. The rest of the menu is a mixed bag. 5:30-11pm Mon-Sat, 5-10pm Sun. 177 Park Ave. 408.947.7000.

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MUCHOS Mexican. $. A small player with a big rotisserie, this taqueria cultivates a devout lunch following. All standards get billing, but the mesquite-roasted chicken is the star. Beer. 11am-10pm daily. 72 E. Santa Clara St. 408.277.0333.

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

Live music on Fridays and Saturdays. 11am-9pm MonThu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10am-8pm Sun; brunch 10am-2pm Sun. 91 S. Autumn St. 408.292.5837.

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SCOTT’S SEAFOOD Seafood.

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

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

NHA TOI Vietnamese. $$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern-style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am10pm daily. 460 E. William St. 408.294.2733.

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

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

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

PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$.

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

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

P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO Chinese. $$. With atmosphere to spare, Chang’s doesn’t neglect taste.

Vibrant Szechuan flavors mix surprisingly well with rich Western-style desserts. Takeout. Full bar. 11am-10pm Sun-

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

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

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

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

VUNG TAU Vietnamese. $$.

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

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

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SVDINING 33 WING’S Chinese. $. The food is complemented by an exotic dining room with sequestered seating equipped with hanging beads and doorbells, and other miscellaneous peculiarities of a bygone era.

Always a fun place to visit.

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

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BAY LEAF Indonesian and Thai. $$. Bay Leaf’s menu is divided into Thai and Indonesian food and it’s the latter that stands out. While Thai food is characterized by bright, high notes, Indonesian food strikes a lower bass note. 11am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-10pm FriSat, 11am-9pm Sun. 122 S. Sunnyvale Ave. 408.481.9983.

CHELOKEBABI Persian. $$.

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

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

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

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

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

IL POSTALE Italian American. $$$. Its previous incarnation as a post office lends this space eccentric charm, and the food delivers full-bodied taste in generous portions.

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

LUCKY DHABA Indian. $. A dhaba is a roadside fast-

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We’ve got our own version here at Sunnyvale’s Lucky Dhaba. Located off busy El Camino Real, Lucky Dhaba offers a wide variety of good Indian food. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu and 11am-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 1036 El Camino Real.

408.617.0660.

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

PEZELLAS Family Italian.

Mediterranean/Turkish. $$. Mustard and ruddy pomegranate hues warm the restaurant’s interior; zesty Arabic infusions warm the food. Choose from mezes such as hummus or tabouli. Entrees include lamb, beef or chicken gyros or lamb kebab. 11am10pm daily. 133 S. Murphy Ave. 408.735.9971.

$$. Serves popular Italian dinners with rich sauces and generous portions. East Coast seafood dishes like linguini and clams and calamari sautéed in tomato, garlic, and basil stand out. Pizza and pasta abound. Full bar. 11am2:30pm Tue-Fri, 5-10:30pm Tue-Sat. Closed Sun-Mon. 1025 W. El Camino Real.

408.738.2400.

P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO Chinese. $$. With atmosphere to spare, Chang’s doesn’t neglect taste.

Vibrant Szechuan flavors mix surprisingly well with rich Western-style desserts. Full bar. 11am-10pm Mon-Sun, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 390 W. El Camino Real. 408.991.9078.

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

Open daily for lunch and dinner Mon-Sat. 592 E. El Camino Real. 408.733.7423.

SENZALA Brazilian. $$.

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

SHALIMAR Indian-Pakistani. $. Walk up to the counter, grab a menu and place your order. One of the best dishes is the plain-looking haleem, a lentil and barley stew available with chicken or beef. Nihari, a rich beef shank stew, is also great. 11:30am2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm SunThu, noon-3:30pm, 5:30-11pm Sat-Fri. 1146 W. El Camino Real. 408.530.0300.

SUGAR BUTTER FLOUR Bakery. $. Sugar Butter Flour’s

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UDUPI PALACE Indian. $$. Udupi Palace, a south Indian vegetarian restaurant, specializes in dishes—dosas and uthappams. Dosas are long, thin crepes made with rice flour. Uthappams are pancakes made with rice and lentil flour. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am-10:30pm Sun. 976 E. El Camino Real.

408.830.9600.

YUME-YA Japanese. $$. Don’t come here looking for sake bombs and macadamia nutencrusted gimmicky sushi rolls.

What sets this restaurant apart is its selection of izakaya-style dishes, little plates of food designed to go with beer and sake. 6-11pm Mon-Sat. 150 El Camino Real. 408.530.8156.

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THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE Continental. $$$. A menu strewn with rare game and hearty selections seems fitting for this forest find.

Worth the trip. Bar 2pm; dinner 5pm, Wed-Sun. 13808 Skyline Blvd. 650.851.8541.

VILLAGE PUB New American. $$$. Chef Mark Sullivan’s unpretentious but refined French-influenced American food continues to make this a destination restaurant.

Brunch 10am-2pm Sun; lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-10pm daily. 2967 Woodside Rd. 650.851.9888.

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Avalon Nightclub, Santa Clara Thu – 8pm; $25

Though their name has changed (they were Le Verita, now they’re San Francesca), not much else has.

Anyone that’s had a chance to hear their debut full-length The Ghost and the Waves knows that, and also knows that the sky’s the limit for this San Jose duo. They’ve carved a unique spot in the South Bay scene between artsy indie rock and straight up electronic-pop, and it all sounds larger than life despite just two members and a drum machine.

It’s thoughtful, moody music, better suited for late-night drives than the dance floor. I hope they never get a drummer. (AC)

Since the ’70s, New Zealand reggae has had a number of well-regarded bands, such as the legendary Herbs and Twelve Tribes of Israel.

Within the Maori community, Marley’s appearance fanned the flames of a burgeoning Rastafarian movement that reached full blaze in the ’80s. It’s this rich history that Katchafire founder, drummer Jordan Bell, tapped into in 1997.

Though the group began as a Bob Marley tribute band, the members quickly began writing their own material, drawing deep upon early ska and reggae and giving it a breezy, modern flair. Within a few

years—and after an auspicious break on a TV talent show that led to a recording deal—the band became one of New Zealand’s biggest acts, going from playing tiny nightclubs to large venues in short order. (PMD)

BILLY CURRINGTON Rodeo Club, San Jose Thu – 8pm; $20 Nashville is a notoriously tough place to make it, but Billy Currington got rejected by country’s capital early and often.

In high school, the Georgia-born Currington was turned away from an audition for the Opryland theme park, forever crushing his hopes of making it in Nashville. Oh wait, actually, he did come back after high school, only to fail again at

getting any kind of a career going, forever crushing his hopes of making it in Nashville. Wait, this lunatic came back again, only to fail one final time—I mean, only to sign to Mercury Nashville in 2003 and release four albums and six No. 1 hits, including “Let Me Down Easy,” “Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right” and “People Are Crazy”—all of which could describe various points in his career trajectory. Looks to be a sold-out show. (SP)

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TEARS FOR FEARS Mountain Winery, Saratoga Fri – 7:30pm; $45-$95 I have no idea why, but I remember standing in line at the supermarket

checkout with my mom in junior high reading People magazine’s review of Songs From the Big Chair.

It just said, “Endless repetition is boring ... endless repetition is boring ...” over and over again until it ended with “zzzzzzzzz.” Goes to show you how little the mainstream understood this group, even as they were sitting at the top of the charts with songs like “Shout” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” Heavily influenced early on both by Arthur Janov’s primal scream therapy and Brian Eno’s audio experiments, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith made music that was every bit as interesting as their alterna-peers like the Cure and New Order. Tears For Fears just happened to have more pop hits. Ironically, it was Gary Jules’ brilliant cover of “Mad World” (used in Donnie Darko) that made everyone re-evaluate the group’s talents as songwriters. (SP)

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DEF LEPPARD Sep 9 at 7:30pm, Shoreline

TILA TEQUILA Sep 9 at Studio 8, San Jose

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

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

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

RASCAL FLATTS Sep 16 at 7pm, Shoreline

BARENAKED LADIES Sep 19 1 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

ZIGGY MARLEY Sep 220 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery

SALSA FESTIVAL SSep 24, noon–8pm, downtown Redwood City

SANTANA Sep 24 at 7pm, Shoreline

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KEITH URBAN Oct 1 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

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POUNDERS X Bar, Cupertino Sat – 9pm; $5

Combining hard-rock and pop-punk, the Pounders are capturing the attention of San Jose’s rebounding rock scene with heartfelt lyrics and fine musicianship. This summer, they released a video for the melodic “Chasing the Sun.” Now, if I could only talk to lead singer Chris Pounders about his Sanjayalooking Mohawk. They play this show with the Relay Company.

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OPERA SJ California Theatre, San Jose Sep 10–25; $51 an up Opera San Jose opens its 2011–12 season with Mozart’s early work Idomeneo, a tale from the aftermath of the Trojan War. On his way home, the king of Crete makes a rash promise to the gods that threatens his son with sacrifice and the whole island with besiegement by a sea monster (talk about homeland security).

Complicating matters is the notinsignificant fact that the son has fallen in love with the daughter of Priam, the king of Troy—a trophy piece of the conflict. The lead roles are double-cast, with Christopher Bengochea and Alexander Boyer trading off the lead part. (MSG)

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HERENCIA MUSICAL Sunnyvale Theater, Sunnyvale Sat – 8pm; $28 Opening this year’s season at the Sunnyvale Theater are four local guys known as Herencia Musical.

They play the music they know and love the best: authentic, traditional Mexican Music. The members—Filiberto Sanchez, Patrick Jimenez, John Lopez and Margarito Jimenez—have been around a while, playing music in different groups, and the variety in Herencia Musical’s sound reflect this experience. There’s a bit of Ranchero, Mariachi, Romantic ballads and some salsa too, all done with skill and passion. The fact that they can harmonize beautifully is a bonus. (AC)

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THE PACK A.D. Streetlight Records, San Jose Tue – 4pm; free The White Stripes may have come and gone (and now Jack White is apparently collaborating with the Insane Clown Posse), but gritty garage-rock duos aren’t going anywhere. In fact, Vancouver’s all-female Pack A.D. may be even more rock & roll than the White Stripes ever were. Aggro beats.

Bluesy riffs. Low tenor lead vocals.

Pure garage-rock scuzz: primal, dirty and rough at its core. The Pack A.D. is a good, fresh band that plays rock & roll its way. I’m not sure if they’re the next White Stripes, but I’m definitely keeping my eye on them, just in case. (AC)

BLINK 182 Oct 5 7pm, Shoreline

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Oct 7 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

INCUBUS Oct 9 at 7:30pm, Shoreline

JOURNEY Oct 15 at 7pm, Shoreline

ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY Oct 16 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

SPHINX VIRTUOSI Oct 19 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford

MELISSA MANCHESTER Oct 20 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT Oct 22-23, Shoreline

RICKIE LEE JONES Nov 4 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center Join Metro on Facebook at Metrofb.com for a chance to win concert tickets.

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simple lists or even just one or two names of films I’d left off, and I did get a lot of emails like that. But I also got some lengthy replies that not only debated the choices on the list but also engaged the actual philosophy of what constitutes a cult movie.

Interestingly, not too many people seemed to have much of a problem with the list of classic cult films, though many had their own favorites they would have put on it. It was the list of new cult films that was more controversial.

Louis Pantelakos Jr., who wrote one of my favorite emails, actually took the time to go through my list of new cult films and write a detailed analysis of why I shouldn’t have included certain films and which movie I should put in the place of each; e.g., Mallrats instead of Anchorman, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas instead of Fight Club

and Oldboy instead of Audition. I gotta admit, that last one is just too close to call, although I guess I went with Takashi Miike’s Audition over Chan-wook Park’s Oldboy just because the former seemed to have a greater impact on the moviegoing psyche at the time. Oldboy is nearly as disturbing, in its own way, and probably the better film, but to my mind Audition paved the way for the cult of extreme Asian films that has sprung up since.

Central to Pantelakos’ argument was the idea that “to begin with, a true cult movie has to be a bona fide bomb. If a movie is popular right off the bat, even with minor success, you are playing lose with the term ‘cult.’”

I simply don’t agree with this; even Blade Runner made its budget back (eventually). And I don’t see how anyone can argue that Fight Club, for instance, is not a true cult film.

I’m more enamored of how a cult of fans can turn the popular perception of a film from “bomb” or “turkey” to “underappreciated classic” or “undiscovered masterpiece.” The actual dollar amounts don’t interest me as much.

As Justin Brown wrote in: “I’m glad

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that you added the addendum that cult can be defined as a film that received its due then vanished into obscurity, since I believe the ‘cult as defined by lack of monetary success’ is entirely too narrow a definition to encompass all cult cinema.” (Not that Brown loved everything in my lists: “To include Mulholland Drive on the new-school list feels like more of a space filler. Even though I enjoyed Black Dynamite, I feel that other self-aware genre films such as Planet Terror would have deserved the slot more.”)

Some people included their own analyses of the films I wrote about, like Kevin Riley O’Keeffe, who on Night of the Living Dead took issue with my assertion of social commentary in the ending: “People are always trying to tell me that the final scene has some deep, heavy racial subtext,” he wrote, “which frankly I’m not seeing. ... I think perhaps some people are seeing what they wish to see there, rather than what really is. Its sequel, on the other hand, the original Dawn of the Dead, has a very blatant racial subtext, which has perhaps led people to look into this film trying to see the same thing.”

Of all the lists sent in, the films I didn’t include that popped up the most were Office Space, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and Slap Shot. Valid choices, all, and in good company with dozens of other films readers wrote about, from Strange Brew to Point Break to Hedwig and the Angry Inch to pretty much every early Kevin Smith movie. And to Matt Tueller, who wrote in about Forbidden Zone: as an Oingo Boingo fan, I feel ya. Danny Elfman as the devil! Love it!

For those who wrote in interested in The Room, Camera 3 is now showing it monthly, and the next screening is Sept. 24 at 11:30pm.

They also have a cult movie series, and one of my picks, David Lynch’s Eraserhead, screens Sept. 8 at 9pm and Sept. 10 at 11:30pm at Camera 3.

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A trilogy of one-woman dance shows by Rivera Sun Cook, who performs 30 different roles. “The Imagine-a-nation of Lala Child,” Sat, 7pm. The other parts of the show take play Sep 24 and Oct 1. $15. First Congregational Church of San Jose.

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A Mozart opera set in the ancient world at the end of the Trojan War. Sat (Sep 10 and 17), 8pm, Sun (Sep 11, 18 and 25), 3pm, Tue (Sep 13), 8pm, Thu-Fri (Sep 22-23), 8pm. See operasj. org for ticket info. California Theatre, San Jose.

SHOUT! THE MOD MUSICAL The popular revue gets a workout from Bus Barn Stage Company. Wed (except Sep 7), 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3 or 7pm. Runs through Sep 25. $25-$32.

Bus Barn Stage, Los Altos.

SPRING AWAKENING The Wedekind play has been updated and turned into a musical. Rick Lombardo directs this San Jose Rep production. Opens Wed, Sep 7, 7:30pm. Regular shows: Wed, 7:30pm (plus 11am, Sep 14), Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sun, 2pm Runs thru Sep 25. $12.50$67. The Rep, San Jose.

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS Shakespeare Santa Cruz brings the comedy over the hill. Thu (Sep 15 only), 7:30pm, Fri, 7:30pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Sep 18. $40 and up. Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.

Comedy ANGELICA’S BISTRO

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Wed, 8pm: Comedy night with Dan St. Paul. No cover.

Redwood City.

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An applicant for a grantwriting position must impress a series of eccentric interviewers. The audiences casts the show. A Renegade Theatre Experiment show.

Previews Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat. 8pm. Regular shows: Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7pm.

Runs thru Oct 1. Opening $28.50 and up; regular shows $12-$28.50. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

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

by TheatreWorks. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and/or 8pm, Sun 2 and/or 7pm. Runs thru Sep 25. $29$49. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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.

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

Inside the Camera 3 building, San Jose. (Also Fri, Sep 9, 8pm, at Smith Center at Ohlone College, Fremont; $12/$15).

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

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Laugh Lounge. $10. Thu, 8pm: Filipino Kings of Comedy. $18. Fri-Sat, 7 and 10pm. Gabriel Iglesias. $39.99. Sun, 7pm: James Davis. $10. Mon, 8pm: Battle of the Bay 2011. $10. San Jose.

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Museums ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “Crossing Boundaries.”

Works by sculptor Kristen Lindseth-Rivera and painter Ming Jing Wang. Thru Sep 15. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Expanding Views of Africa.”

A reinstallation of works of African art from the museum’s collection looking at the continent’s art and culture in diversity and depth. Ongoing. “Illustrated Title Pages: 1500-1900.” A show of 80 illustrated book pages from the museum’s collection. Thru Oct 16. WedSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am8pm. Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM “Mammoth Discovery!”

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

Discovery Meadow, San Jose.

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

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

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

Santa Clara University.

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

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

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San Jose Repertory Theatre The songs touch on mature topics; the youthful cast releases their emotions through “Touch Me,” “Mama Who Bore Me” and “The Bitch of Living.” But Spring Awakening wasn’t dubbed Best Musical for its risqué song titles alone. Duncan Sheik’s masterfully composed melodies are hauntingly melancholy and blend with Steven Sater’s lyrics and libretto, which are packed with weight in symbolism.

San Jose Repertory’s cast is a mix of young Broadway veterans with talented San Jose State University undergraduate students. The production stays true to the original in most senses, but a few creative choices set it apart. For one, Tayeh’s choreography involves extremely physical staging. “Sonya is brilliant at this; she’s one of the hot, hip, young choreographers of today,” says director Rick Lombardo.

For another, the Rep will show off its technical side with five jumbo video screens displaying large-scale images, videos and animations during the performance to enrich the experience.

“There’s so much heart in it,” says Lombardo. “People know Spring Awakening for its sexual awakening, but I’m surprised everyday in rehearsal by how moving it is from moment to moment. We really try to tell the story of what it means to take that journey from pre-adolescence to adolescence and how delicate, fragile and vulnerable that time is.” Fans of Rent are usually enamored with Spring Awakening because of its similar rock style, but the fan base of Spring Awakening is diverse because so many people can relate to its sensibilities. As Lombardo puts it, “Every generation goes through thinking that they’re the first generation to go through puberty. Everyone goes through the same anxieties, fears and sensations. That’s why the show is timeless.”—Anna Pan

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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. Works by installation artist Anna Sew Hoy in the Beta Space. Thru Feb 26. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Scrap ART.” Historical quilts and “scrappy contemporary works.” Thru Oct 16. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM “Islamic Science Rediscovered.” A show about technological advances in the Islamic world before the Renaissance period in the West. Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.

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

Examples of wood-fired ceramics. Thru Sep 11. “David Ogle: Sculptures.” Thru Sep 18.

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

Galleries ANNO DOMINI “White Light.” A solo show by of paintings by Brett Amory.

Thru Oct 14. Twelve new pieces by the New York artist Dimitri Drjuchin. Thru Sep 17.

San Jose.

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GOOD KARMA CAFE “The Peculiar Pageant.” Paintings

by Lacey Bryant. Thru Sep. San Jose.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE “Higher Learning.” Works by young clay artists from SJSU. Thru Sep 30. San Jose.

KALIED GALLERY

“Forest Time.” New works by Christine Canepa. Thru Sep 23.

San Jose.

“Circus Act.” Works by Leslie Ann Rice. “Looking Through the Glass.” Paintings by Sara Tomasello. Thru Sep 30. San Jose.

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“The Jazz Masters Series”

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by Mark Gray. ““Figurative Sculpture” by Kristina Sablan.

Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

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

Los Gatos.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “Memories of My Travels.”

MACLA “A Body Parted: Shrapnel of Present Time.” A multi-media

work featuring a digital mural and exhibition that looks at immigration issues. Thru Oct 16.

San Jose.

METRO LOBBY “Seek Party Destroy.” Photos

by Albert Bracamonte III. Thru Sep 30. 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, 11am-3pm.

Saratoga.

MOUNTAIN VIEW CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Photographs by Bill Jackson.

Thru Oct 17. Mountain View.

PHANTOM GALLERIES

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

JANE HIRSHFIELD

Works in storefronts. San Jose.

“Reflejos de Nuestras Raices.”

Thru Oct 1. San Jose.

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STANFORD ART SPACES

The poet signs copies of her new collection, “Come, Thief.”

Mon, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

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

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

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Lift Off.” A show of works by recent MFA art grads from SJSU. Thru Sep 10. “Frames of War.” Works by Hanna Hannah. Thru Sep 10. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm.

San Jose.

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

SLG ART BOUTIKI “The Art of the Zombie Apocalypse.” Thru Sep. San Jose.

WORKS/SAN JOSE “Primer pas (First Step).” A show featuring artists from Oaxaca and San Jose. Thru Sep 10. San Jose.

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A talk about the author’s daughter, Iris Chang, who wrote “The Rape of Nanking.”

Thu, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

TOM PEROTTA A booksigning event for the author of “The Leftovers.” Tue, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

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A talk by Kim Munson about R. Crumb and the underground comics movement. Wed (Sep 7), noon. Free with museum admission. San Jose Museum of Art.

LU’AU An all-you-can eat dinner plus entertainment by Melveen Leed. Sat, 6-9pm.

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MIDORI KAI BOUTIQUE An annual show of arts and crafts. Sat, 9am-4pm.

Mountain View Buddhist Temple Hall.

MOUNTAIN VIEW ART AND WINE FESTIVAL Two days of arts and crafts and food. Sat-Sun, 10am– 6pm. Downtown Mountain view.

RENAISSANCE FAIRE The theme for this year’s

edition is Shakespeare’s Muse; the park will become an Elizabethan town. Sat, 10am–6pm, Sun, 10am–5pm.

Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont.

SAN PEDRO MARKET SQUARE Grand opening festivities for the new marketplace. Sat, all day. San Pedro Square, San Jose.

SEPTEMBER FASHION FLURRY A series of events including Fashion’s Night Out and

culminating in a runway fashion show. Thu-Sat. Santana Row.

TALLY HOEDOWN USA A benefit for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital with wine and buffet dinner, fashion show and equestrian demonstration. Sat, 6–11pm.

Allied Arts Guild, Menlo Park.

WILD CAT ADVENTURE A chance to see big cats up close from the Wild Cat Education and Conservation Fund. Sun, 2pm. $5/$10.

Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

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Brighton Rock, adapted from the 1938 Graham Greene novel, has a poetic subject for the camera. It doesn’t disappoint on the level of poetry, but the literalness is hard to credit.

The film tells the story of a razor

boy’s attempted rise to the top.

Sam Riley, who plays the sociopath Pinkie Brown, is the best thing in the picture. The actor previously starred as the doomed singer Ian Curtis in Control; he has a wolfman’s widow’s peak like Leonardo Di Caprio and the too-niceness of Dennis Hopper.

Pinkie doesn’t drink, and he doesn’t like sex, but he doesn’t mind slicing people up. One of his victims fought back, and now Pinkie has a large cut on his soft pink cheek.

Brighton Rock starts in the middle of a gang war between rival protection rackets preying on the racetrack touts.

At the top sits boss Colleoni (Andy Serkis, demonstrating what’s meant by “lip-smacking acting”).

The Brighton police are passive onlookers until things go out of control.

When Pinkie corners a member

of a rival gang on the Palace Pier, a half-witted waitress named Rose (Andrea Riseborough) witnesses the scene. Pinkie figures that he could marry Rose and thus legally prohibit her from testifying against him in court. Rose falls abjectly in love with this killer. And since her father is out of the picture, the only one in Rose’s corner is her boss at the teashop, Ida. Tarted up with red henna, Helen Mirren is strongly miscast as Ida. Greene’s novel describes a woman of complacent Cockney voluptuousness, a beery lady with the wit to look stupid. It’s a cleavage part if ever there was one. Mirren’s unearthly shrewdness throws the film out of balance; there’s no common wisdom to counterpoint Rose’s commonsenselessness.

Director Rowan Joffe updates the story to 1964 to make up for the post-war changes. Pinkie’s hovel is a veritable mural of mold. Rose’s childhood home is a filthy council high-rise, with buzzing faulty wiring. Seeking ambient chaos for the background, Joffe takes some advantage of the mods/rockers

battles of the day, saluted in the Who’s rock opera Quadrophenia. As disappointed American fans saw in Franc Roddam’s 1979 screen version of Quadrophenia, it’s hard to match the operatic visions we had of this titanic struggle with what it really looked like: slicked-up Londoners on poofy Vespas whirring by, being gesticulated at by guys dressed like Elvis.

Brighton Rock has been filmed before, by John Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough (and hard to find on DVD). Tellingly, the 1947 version was titled Young Scarface in America. Novelist Greene’s time as a film critic showed in the gangster subject matter. He took the real-life dealings of the local Sabini gang and then framed them with a bit of Hollywood and his own Catholic metaphysics. As the narrative leads to an ironic, Somerset Maugham–style miracle, Brighton Rock gives us the play of Good and Evil, boldly stated.

“You’re good and I’m evil,” Pinkie says. “That means we’re made for each other.”

Can this evil run down to the soul’s bedrock, as it were, legible to the very bottom, like the words “Brighton Rock” inside the stick of souvenir hard candy? It’s a question movies like to rephrase as: Do some people belong dead, no matter how charming we find them? This Brighton Rock is caught between being a piece of candy and spiritual nourishment.

What persists is the view of the false seaside glamour, like the sweating face of a painted-up consumptive: the Christmassy party lights on the pier glowing against a promise of heavy rain, starling swarms about-facing over the deserted beach and Riley’s embodiment of sharply dressed and spotlessly combed mania.

Riley is what makes the movie as interesting as it is. His entrapment is seen visually in one perfect image: him trying to rub out a spot of cigar ash in a white plush carpet with the toe of his shoe and just spreading the stain wider.

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BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR (R) Tom Brady (director of the Rob Schneider atrocity The Hot Chick) directs Adam Sandler cohort Nick Swardson in a tale of a man who learns his parents were famous porn stars. (RvB)

CIRCUMSTANCE (R; 107 min.) An Iranian girl comes of age while her brother struggles with delusions in a family drama directed

by Maryam Keshavarz. (Opens Fri at Camera 7 in Campbell.)

CONTAGION (PG-13; 105 min.) Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon star in a thriller about a dangerous infection. (Opens Fri.)

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who finds a chilly welcome at his manor. Her husband seems distracted, bitter; her housekeeper (Judith Anderson), is in open revolt against her. Gradually, she begins to fear that the first Mrs. de Winter, Rebecca, was such a paragon that she will never be able to match her.

“It’s not a Hitchcock picture, [but] it has stood up quite well to the years—I don’t know why,” Alfred Hitchcock told Francois Truffaut. It might be that Rebecca means more to women than any of Hitchcock’s other films, especially in the way it plays upon senses of inferiority and the worst fears about the silences of men. BILLED WITH Suspicion.

More on the same theme. A shy, well-off girl (Fontaine) marries a man with a reputation (Cary Grant).

Gradually, she begins to believe that he’s a murderer. Grant’s “Got milk?” moment on the staircase— achieved with a hidden light bulb— carries plenty of menace even after all these years. (Plays Sep 10-16 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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(R; 95 min.) During a trip through the background, some clueless travelers encounter the legend and reality of Lockjaw—half-man, half-alligator.

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Finalists from this year’s contest are screened. (Plays Sep 10 at 7:30pm in San Jose at the Theater on San Pedro Square.) (RvB)

(1998) Steven Spielberg at his technical best, re-creating Dday on Omaha Beach with no cinematic euphemisms whatsoever.

Tom Hanks plays Capt. Miller, who, having barely survived the storming of Normandy, is set on a new mission: to find one Pvt. Ryan (Matt Damon). Barry Pepper, a junior version of Christopher Walken, steals the show as an ace sharpshooter with a biblical bent. The first 30 minutes are pure and horrible, from the vomiting privates in the landing craft to the final clearing out of a pillbox. But then Spielberg goes with his worst tendencies: appalling sentimentality and manipulativeness. The problem: The technical brilliance is shamed by the moral simplicity. The film bewilders you with images that say, we must never let it happen again, and a plot that says, “Oh, but it was all worth it.” (Plays Sep 9-11 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

WARRIOR (PG-13) See review on page 46.

Revivals ERASERHEAD (1976) “A dream of dark and troubling things.” (Plays Sep 8 at 9pm and Sep 10 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. Sep 10: The Roaring Road (1919) starring ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid. With shorts “The City of Stars” (1925) about Universal City, and “Putting Pants on Phillip” (1927). Frederick Hodges on the piano. Sep 11, 4pm: Laurel and Hardy are jailbirds in “Pardon Us” (1931) and The Hoose-gow (1929) plus Our Gang in “Fish Hookey” (1933) (Plays Sep 10-11 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

REBECCA/SUSPICION (1940/1941) Joan Fontaine plays the new wife of a British nobleman Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier),

(1975) The Bawdy Caste shows you underwear that’s fun to wear. (Plays Sep 10 at 10pm in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

SHERLOCK HOLMES (2009) Ripping fun, though there are times you could hit director Guy Ritchie with his own storyboard.

Robert Downey Jr.’s OCD-ridden detective arouses a note of pity along with the customary admiration for his infernal

brilliance. Ritchie follows the sturdy paradigm of one of the best Holmes movies, 1939’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, from a horsedrawn coach race at the start to the fight on a climactic towering London monument. (Plays Sep 8 at sundown in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square.) (RvB)

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TO CATCH A THIEF/NOTORIOUS (1955/1946) Your ultimate French Riviera jewel-thief movie, with Cary Grant wrongly suspected of having restarted his former career as a cat burglar. Grace Kelly plays an heiress desired either for herself or for her jewels. Alfred Hitchcock’s routines here include the use of fireworks to represent a love scene and a famous double-entendre picnic, where it’s not clear what exactly is on the menu. BILLED WITH Notorious. Ingrid Bergman takes up the Bogart part in Casablanca as a woman who doesn’t care about patriotism and who would rather hit the sauce. That’s when the highly authentic government agent Devlin (Cary Grant) enters the picture. Seduced, Alicia becomes an agent too, traveling to Rio to get intimate with an old acquaintance named Sebastian (Claude Rains).

As satisfyingly nocturnal a romance as Hollywood ever made, it’s also a seminar for lens geeks: visual distortion for sickness and hangovers, but also unusual emphasis on the size and brightness of objects. (Plays Sep 7-8 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

Reviews APOLLO 18 (PG-13) A fright movie purports to expose in found footage the dark side of an abandoned mission to the moon.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG-13; 125 min.) Above all, a luxurious recreation of the past; the long 3-D chase through 1940s Brooklyn is one of the best arguments for that technology that 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

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Captain America. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s significantly improved from his days in the weak Fantastic Four series, and his air of melancholy reminds you of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;40s star Alan Ladd. Hugo Weaving is the impressively disfigured villain, who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t care for Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lack of scope any more than he likes the nickname Der FĂźhrer bestowed on him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Red Skull.â&#x20AC;? Joe Johnstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction may be too much in the mode of a classic â&#x20AC;&#x2122;40s movie for the kids, but it has loads to offer, including a drily funny Tommy Lee Jones and surprising art direction. (RvB)

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Boxed In BRANDISHING a ďŹ fth of Overactorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice whiskey and sobbing about the Pequod, Nick Nolte puts a third mortgage on his integrity to try to give Warrior some integrity of its own. First seen emerging from an AA meeting on a steeltown street, last seen ďŹ ngering his tweed cap in farewell, Nolte almost draws enough water to ďŹ&#x201A;oat this barge.

Director Gavin Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor (Miracle) tries to make a 21â &#x201E;2-hour Testament of Faithâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; big books with big titles (â&#x20AC;&#x153;STEINBECKâ&#x20AC;?) ďŹ&#x201A;oat onscreen behind Nolte to remind us of what the ďŹ lm is getting at.

Nolteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estranged oďŹ&#x20AC;spring, Brendan (Joel Edgerton) is a Pittsburgh physics teacher by day, parking-lot prizeďŹ ghter by night. His wife, Tess (Jennifer Morrison), doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like where heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s headed. Like so many good working people, Brendan is going glub glub glub, but when a smarmsville banker suggests bankruptcy, he tightly says thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not how itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done in his world. How it is done: Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll enter a $5 million mixedmartial arts competition called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spartaâ&#x20AC;? (pronounced â&#x20AC;&#x153;SPARTAAAAAA!â&#x20AC;?). He will probably be creamed by a Tartar: â&#x20AC;&#x153;the legendary Russian ďŹ ghter Kobaâ&#x20AC;?

(Stalinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s code name!).

Meanwhile, his long-lost brother, Terry Malloy, whom he should have looked out

for, emerges â&#x20AC;Ś wait, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually Tom Hardy as Tommy, who has the carved Brando eyebrow from On the Waterfront.

Too bitter to talk to Old Nolte, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bitter enough to train with him. Tommy is also a veteran of Iraq, which he also will not talk about. A YouTube video does the talking for him. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;He ripped the door oďŹ&#x20AC; a tank!â&#x20AC;?

NXii`fi exclaims a commentator).

PG-13 Meanwhile, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Russian Opens Friday Bear,â&#x20AC;? who proudly wears the hammer and sickle on his shorts, is waiting for his chance to grapple.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of oďŹ&#x20AC;stage material that has to be described. The â&#x20AC;&#x153;warsâ&#x20AC;? are one long series of two-man cluster ďŹ ghts.

Summing up, Brendanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s principal says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Literally, it looks bad; ďŹ guratively, it looks worse.â&#x20AC;? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something politically scary in Warriorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s astronomical Riefenstahlism. The ďŹ lm is inďŹ&#x201A;ated and needs a serious lancing, with its ďŹ reworks, helicopter shots, 300 singing Marines in khaki and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ode to Joy.â&#x20AC;?

The supposed emulation of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s movie making (less Rocky than Rocky IV) misses the iconoclasm and intimacy of the real deal. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

(R; 113 min.) Filthy, creepy bromance that begins with a baby projectilecrapping into a dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mouth and heads south from there. Weenie Justin Bateman and Absolute Dick Ryan Reynolds are the buddies who switch bodies. The magicalrealist calamity brings them closer. What starts as a urine sword ďŹ ght ends in love tattoos and scrotum-shaving. Women of all types interfere: a horny hag; a

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vastly pregnant succubus; and a tantalizing ofďŹ ce wench whose own sword tattoo reminds us that she, too, goes for the scrotum. The wench in question, a secretary, is played by a heavily body-doubled Olivia Wilde, doing Cameron Diaz in Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Something About Mary.

But the MILF character, Leslie Mann, gets the worst of it: sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weeping, horny and smelly, thanks to Thai food diarrhea. The aforementioned Diaz homage is part of this stinkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1990s air, along with the references to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Atlanta Braves. Despite their attempt to write Frat-Bro Pidgin, the scriptwriters show their age. A real serial-killer-style moment has The Dick justifying himself: â&#x20AC;&#x153;You would not believe the nasty stuff I get women to do just by asking.

Really, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s revolting.â&#x20AC;? Sure is. (RvB)

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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47 (R; 112 min.) What director Marcus Nispel lacks in craft and competency, however, he more than makes up through a seemingly endless, ultimately numbing series of action scenes crammed with random dismemberment, sporadic decapitations and bucketsful of unconvincing CG blood. With Morgan Freeman reading a confusing history of an ancient, mythical Hyborian Age, the ďŹ lm starts at the literal beginning of the title character: Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;battle-born,â&#x20AC;? torn from his dying motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s womb by her warriorleader husband, Corin (Ron Perlman), moments before she expires from a sword wound. She lives just long enough to give Conan his name.

Saving the best for ďŹ rst, Nispel shows teen Conan engaging in parkour-inspired acrobatics around his village. Unfortunately for Conan, Corin holds one of several magically empowered bone shards that, when combined into an uncomfortable looking helmet-mask, will give the owner, godlike powers of some kind. A minor tyrant, Khalar Zym (Stephen Lang), attacks the village, slaughtering dozens, sending a newly orphaned Conan on a meandering, 20-year journey that eventually culminates in a swordďŹ ght to the death. Before we get to the obligatory sword-ďŹ ght to the death, Nispel introduces an adult Conan (Jason Momoa) and his indistinguishable band of barbarian

sidekicks attacking a slave caravan, partly out of an ethical code of some kind, but more, apparently, for the orgy with topless ex-slaves that Conan and his men accept as their just reward. As Conan, Jason Momoa has the necessary physicality and athleticism for the role but falls noticeably short when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not hacking-and-slashing to growl cringe-inducing lines. (Mel Valentin)

COWBOYS & ALIENS (PG-13; 118 min.) The summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dullest blockbuster. It plays like the result of someone ďŹ&#x201A;icking 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 small-town 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 razortoothed 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 ďŹ lm 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)

THE DEBT (R; 113 min.) In 1997 in Tel Aviv, Rachel (Helen Mirren) tells the true story of how she killed the infamous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Surgeon of Birkenau.â&#x20AC;?

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Flashback to East Berlin in the 1960s; the three are played by Jessica Chastain, the stolid Sam Worthington (David) and Marton Csokas (Stephan). This Israeli cell schemes to capture the “Surgeon.”

Jesper “Mr. White” Christensen certainly reinforces the law that your movie is only as good as its Nazi. The Debt has a before and after but not really a center, and it’s littered with bad-novel moments. (RvB)

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Buster Poses BOTH A barbed study of father-son disappointment and a brilliantly engineered slapstick comedy, Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928, showing this weekend at the Stanford Theatre) is neither the deepest nor the most popular of Buster Keaton’s films. Still there’s enough here to prove that Keaton was the monarch of silent comedy, who, as the greatest comic talents must, teamed up the highest and lowest comedy, telling of the smothered registration of disappointment as well the walloping kick in the pants.

Son of a presumably divorced family, the prissy beret-wearing Bostonian William Canfield, Jr. (Buster) comes to River Junction, Miss. (in reality, Freeport and Broderick, river towns near Sacramento).

He’s gone to meet his father (Ernest Torrance, a bigger, scarier version of James Cromwell). Times are troubled: old Steamboat Bill’s decaying boat is being put out of business by the town’s arrogant boss, who is named King. Not only is this too-smooth college boy a disappointment to dad, but there’s worse trouble: King’s pert little flapper daughter, Kitty (the teeny Marion Byron), who is also in town, is a college pal of Bill Jr. Keaton gives us bleak, even painful, moments of comedy—the father taking charge of the grown student as if he were a

6-year-old—followed by an amazing finale: an entire breakaway town peeled apart by a killer storm. It’s a demonstration of Keaton’s spectacular yet precise prop engineering, as well as the brute force of six wind machines, each powered with a V12 400-horsepower Liberty engine. (Keaton later recalled with Jk\XdYfXk 9`cc# satisfaction, “We took Ai% a truck past there K_\ K_i\\ 8^\j once, and one machine blew it off the bank, Friday, and it rolled into the Stanford Theatre, Sacramento River.”)

Palo Alto Double-billed with Steamboat Bill, Jr. is Keaton’s first feature, The Three Ages, his burlesque of D.W. Griffiths’ epic Intolerance. In this big step in Keaton’s evolution from two-reelers to feature films, he first plays a cave wimp of the Paleolithic (“My card,” he says, handing a stranger a slab of rock with an unsmiling pictograph in it). As a Roman Androcles, he manicures a lion. And in the modern-day segment, he experiences the “speed, need and greed” of city life. The film is a catalogue of what was on the minds of the times: ethnic humor, gadgets, comic strips (a big shoutout to Barney Google), suffragettes, prohibition, football, baseball and the movies. (At the screening, the authors of Theatres of the San Francisco Peninsula will sign copies of their books.)—Richard von Busack

(R; 139 min.) No one believes Sally (Bailee Madison) when she sees diabolical little creatures in a mansion being renovated by her architect father, Alex (Guy Pearce, with an odd Mark Wahlberg haircut), as well as his mistress, Kim (Katie Holmes, looking drawn). Producer/ “presenter” Guillermo del Toro, steadily rising to the point where he can be likened to Val Lewton, demonstrates numerous moments of horror mastery.

Ultimately, it’s newcomer Troy Nixey who directs, though. Set in Rhode Island but filmed in Melbourne, Australia, and this disconnect may be the reason for the stage-bound quality, and the way the film’s adult

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leads don’t seem to share their space.

Still, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is unquestionably elegant, it does make you jump and Madison is terrific, not just as the endangered child but as a source of pathos. When she begs her mother to let her come back to California (“It’s cold here”), the effect is just as piercing as any of the stabbing scenes. (RvB)

A GOOD OLD-FASHIONED ORGY (R) A comedy about some aging orgy guys, starring Jason Sudekis, Lake Bell (are we the only ones who remember the short-lived TV series Surface?), Leslie Bibb and Nick Kroll.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG-13; 130 min.) The saga wraps up in a cluttered, confusing, if fast-paced adventure in which Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) confronts Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). It’s the end game set up in the vastly superior first part; you’ll be lost if you didn’t rewatch the first half within a week of seeing this one.

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THE HEDGEHOG (Unrated, 100 min.) A 12-year-old Parisian girl named Paloma (Garance Le Guillermic) becomes aware of her concierge, Renee. This hedgehog of the title is played by Josiane Balasko.

It’s Renee’s duty to make sure a new tenant (Togo Igawa) gets settled.

He turns out to be a gentleman, a scholar and a reader. A demure, hesitant friendship between the three characters begins. The feature debut of Mona Achache sometimes has as much edge as a brioche, and the soundtrack swamps the tender mood. “Elegance” was the word used to describe the correct middle aged woman in the title of the source novel by Muriel Barbery. Elegant isn’t a bad word for Balasko, stocky and tough as she is. (RvB)

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

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

HIGHER GROUND (R; 109 min.) Vera Farmiga directs and stars in a story of a woman working through issues of spirituality and faith.

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

by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda.

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

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

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.

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 Scherfig is neo-classic filmmaking taking on a post-modern story. It’s July 15, 1988: St. Swithin’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. She’s the doe-eyed non-pushover Anne Hathaway, using a British accent that would baffle 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. There’s an edge to One Day; Sturgess’ Dexter is not just a raffish Hugh Grant–like sot, but a genuine wreck in his lowest ebb. Hathaway’s undeniable next-doorness and honest tenderness are easy to love. (RvB)

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

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13, 115 min.) If there are two words that sum up Rupert Wyatt’s film, they are “strangely plausible.”

At Genesis, a Bay Area genetic tech lab of about 2012 or so, scientist Will Rodman (Palo Alto’s own James

Franco) is working on a cure for Alzheimer’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, he’s played by a synthespian modeled on the always-amazing Andy Serkis; this

and the story’s links to the tragic story of Nim Chimpsky (as seen recently in Project Nim) “grounds the balloon” as James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum put it. The last third of the film, thrilling and fast, takes over Caesar’s story. Wyatt shines here, bringing in images of urban rebellion that have as much zeitgeist as the first Apes movie did

in 1968. Like the J.J. Abrams remake of Star Trek, this isn’t a demolition job but a handsomely done renovation of an old property. (Read a full-length review on Movietimes. com.) (RvB)

SHARK NIGHT 3D (PG-13) The predators vs. the party people in a Louisiana lake.

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The success of these revivalist bands is a big part of why the Vancouver Island– based Doroschuk has put Men Without Hats back on tour, almost 30 years after “The Safety Dance” turned the band’s debut album, Rhythm of Youth, into an international hit, and 20 years since the band was a going concern (although he

did reunite with his guitarist brother Stefan, an original member of the Hats, for the one-off 2003 record, No Hats Beyond This Point). He sees in the new bands the same satisfaction he took years ago in drawing from his own influences, like Kraftwerk, Roxy Music and Bowie.

“They’re doing the same thing to us that we did to the guys before us,” says Doroschuk of the ’80s revival. “That’s definitely made it possible for us to come back.”

That doesn’t mean that he can’t be a little jealous of the technology they have at their disposal. Men Without Hats was a pioneering band in terms of onstage electronics, in fact, their live show was second only to Kraftwerk in its use of computers. Of course, being the ’80s, that meant that they ran on two Macs, each of which had one megabyte of RAM. “We thought we were this crazy cyber band,” says Doroschuk. “My dad’s got a watch that does more now.”

The other reason that now seems like

the optimal time to bring the Hats back is that “The Safety Dance” has become a nonstop pop-culture reference point. In the early ’80s, who could have guessed there was a level of fame beyond Weird Al parodying your song (his version was “The Brady Bunch”), but in recent years the song has been played, parodied or name-dropped on seemingly every TV show, from The Simpsons to Glee to Aqua Teen Hunger Force to Family Guy to Scrubs, and many more.

Part of the song’s enduring appeal has proven to be its openness to interpretation, with most people who saw the video thinking “safety dance” was some kind of an anti-nuclear statement. Greenpeace even played it at no-nuke rallies. But the video’s imagery was entirely the work of director Tim Pope, Doroschuk says, and had nothing to do with the band or the meaning of the song. He’s heard a lot of strange interpretations over the years, including its supposed message about safe sex (“I don’t see where that comes into play,” he says, seemingly truly puzzled).

The real story behind the song has an interesting link to the B-52s, who Men Without Hats are supporting at this show. It seems that in Canada, when punk and New Wave first came out, the clubs would only play a couple

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of songs from those bands, namely Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and the B-52s’ “Rock Lobster.” So when those songs would come on, “we’d jump up and start pogoing and slam dancing,” says Doroschuk of his crowd. The bouncers, not knowing the style and thinking fights were breaking out, would throw them out. “The Safety Dance” was literally his way of asserting that they could dance if they wanted to. (Whether they dressed real neat or surprised anyone with a victory cry remains a matter of speculation.)

Because they’re best known for “Safety Dance” (and the title hit from their 1987 album Pop Goes the World), Men Without Hats haven’t completely gotten a fair shake in terms of their legacy. They’re remembered as a tad silly and goofy (“I’ve always done everything tongue in cheek,” admits Doroschuk), but the 1982 Rhythm of Youth album was a groundbreaking slice of synth-pop, full of aggressive, angular electronics, and clever lyrics that alternated between angry and confused in the best rock tradition. (A typically great double-meaning line in the song “Living in China” also playfully referenced the budding New Wave movement: “Revolution’s out of hand when the Gang of Four try to make it as a Western band.”)

“I always called us ‘electronic hardcore,’” Doroschuk explains. Since the punkers and New Wavers hung together at that time, Men Without Hats would end up on bills with both types of bands in the early years, further blurring the line.

They went on to do the gentler and more complex Pop Goes the World, and its stylistically similar 1989 follow-up, The Adventures of Men and Women Without Hate in the 21st Century, before changing up to a fullon guitar sound for 1991’s Sideways.

The return of the electro sound has inspired Doroschuk to get back to his own electronic beginnings.

“I’m going back to my roots now.

It’s as if the band from Rhythm of Youth was back,” he says of this tour. “”There’s no pressure, there’s no agenda. We’re just out there to have a blast.”

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Los Hot Boxers Thursday at Johnny V’s in San Jose, 9pm; $5 Drawing inspiration from the East Side working man, Los Hot Boxers’ mellow Latin music has the ability to transport the listener away from the crummy job, the obnoxious boss and frustrating coworkers. It also tends to get people up and dancing.

Yeshun and the Hightones, I Roots open. (BD)

Def Leppard & Heart Friday at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, 7:30pm; $29-$131 At their peaks in the mid-’80s, Def Leppard and Heart couldn’t have been less alike. The Wilson sisters were dressing up in lace and crooning ballads like “These Dreams” (not to mention singing on the Footloose soundtrack), while DL were perfecting their big, sleek, free-associative metal that would reach its apex in “Pour Some Sugar On Me.” A quarter-century later, they’re both lumped into “nostalgic ‘80s hard rock,” playing on the same bill. (SP)

Willie Nelson Sunday at Mountain Winery in Saratoga, 7:30pm; $45-$125 Willie’s “On The Road Again” was just voted the top driving song of all time. Too bad country’s greatest outlaw can’t seem to get on any road himself without getting stopped by the po-po. Jesus Christ, this guy is a 73-year-old national treasure who has places to go. Can’t they just assume there’s pot on his bus and mail him the bill? (SP)

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Rock/Pop ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 6pm: John Honingford.

No cover. Fri, 8:30pm: The Headliners. $10/$14. Sat, 6pm: Highway 61. $8/$12.

Sat, 8:30pm: Acoustic Son. $12/$16. Mon, 7:30pm: Marty Atkinson. No cover.

Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Fri: Dan Vado Birthday Extravaganza with the Doormice, the Ghost of Wrights, the Dirty Pillows, Animal Super Species. San Jose.

Fri, 8pm: KRS-One. $15.

Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: San Francesca, Art School Kids. 21+. No cover.

Fri, 9pm: Dirty Odd Seven, Rebelskamp. 21+. $7. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri-Sat: Live music. Sun: The Gents. Mon: Degenerates.

Campbell.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Superbad. Sat, 10pm: Drive! the Band. San Jose.

AVALON

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

Thu, 8pm: Katchafire, Elan Atias, White Elephant, DJ Jay Biz. $25.

Fri, 8pm: Nigel & Clive. Sun, 6:15pm: Live music. Cupertino.

CAFFE FRASCATI Sat, 8pm: Four of Hearts. All ages. Free. San Jose.

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

Campbell.

CARAVAN Thu: Vie Victus. Fri: Detox. Sat: Them Slack-Jawed Sons of Bitches. San Jose.

CLUB FOX Fri, 7:30pm: Ruth Gerson Band, Metal Shop, Stealing Third.

Family Violence Prevention benefit. $16/$10 after 9pm.

Sat, 8pm: RockSkool. $12/$15.

Redwood City.

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For the past two decades Acoustic Alchemy has dominated the contemporary smooth jazz scene earning three Grammy nominations and thousands of fans worldwide.

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Melissa Manchester Thu, October 20, 7:30pm Best known for her hits, “Midnight Blue”, “Through the Eyes of Love” & “Don’t Cry Out Loud”, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter and actress Melissa Manchester is an all around superstar entertainer.

“One of the greatest singer/songwriters of our time” – Grigwaretalkstheatre.com

Steep Canyon Rangers Thu, October 27, 7:30pm This all-American band has become a premier acoustic ensemble while remaining true to its bluegrass and country roots. Their 2011 record Rare Bird Alert, in collaboration with Steve Martin on banjo, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart.

“One of the most engaging string bands around” - Washington Post

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Redwood City.

JOHNNY V’S Thu: Los Hot Boxers, Yeshun and the Hightones, I Roots. Sat: Live hip-hop presented by Lucky Lucianni. Mon: Mostly Metal Mondays. San Jose.

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE Fri, 7pm: Def Leppard, Heart. $29$131. Mountain View.

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Sun: World music. Tue: Flamenco.

Mountain View.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Fri: Sean Blak’s Birthday Bash.

Hip-hop. Sat: Leukemia & Lymphoma Benefit with Dino Planet, Rebelskamp, Anya & the Getdown, My Peoples. San Jose.

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

Gilroy.

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

Sat, 5pm: Jerry J. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music and belly dancing. Mon, 5pm: Vic Moraga. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB STREETLIGHT RECORDS Fri-Sat: Live rock bands.

Los Gatos.

Thu, 4pm: Aireene Espiritu. Fri, 4pm: Sam Friend. Tue, 4pm: The Pack A.D., Bascom. All shows are all ages & free. San Jose.

MOJO LOUNGE

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

Thu: Live music. Fri: RJ Mischo.

Sat: The RevTones. Fremont.

Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

MOUNTAIN WINERY

Sat, 8pm: Black Pearl. Willow Glen.

LOS GATOS LODGE

Thu, 7:30pm: The B-52s, the Human League, Men Without Hats. $35-$85. Fri, 7:30pm: Tears for Fears. $45-$95. Sat, 7:30pm: Hall & Oates. $49.50-$99.50. Sun, 7:30pm: Willie Nelson & Family. $45-$125. Saratoga.

NAGLEE PARK GARAGE Wed, 7pm: Doctor Nurse. Free.

San Jose.

NETO’S GRILL Every first & third Thu: Junction Duo. Every second & fourth Thu: Ruckus. Fri, 7pm: Vegas Nights.

Sat, 7:30pm: Champagne City. $10. Santa Clara.

NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: Led Zepagain. Led Zeppelin tribute. 21+ $12. Sat, 8pm: Go Kart Mozart. 21+. $10.

Gilroy.

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

Thu, 9:30pm: The Kind. No cover.

Fri, 9:30pm: Too Smooth. $10.

Sat, 9:30pm: Touch of Class. $10.

Los Gatos.

THE QUARTER NOTE Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music.

Sunnyvale.

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

X-BAR Sat, 9pm: The Backpocket Believers, Pounders, the Relay Company. 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.

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Sun, 10:30am-12:30pm: Red Stripe Reggae Beach Party with Sharon B. & the Steel Drums.

Sun, 12:30-1:30pm: Jay’s Punky Reggae Party. A tribute to the Clash. Sun, 2-6pm: Rusty Zinn Reggae Band featuring Hux Brown. Mon, 6-9pm: Ukulele jam night. San Jose.

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

SENZALA Sat, 9pm: Reggae City Band.

Sunnyvale.

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

Mountain View.

SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY THEATRE Sat, 8pm: Herencia Musical.

Traditional Mexican music. $22$28. Sunnyvale.

Jazz/Blues ANGELICA’S BISTRO Thu, 7-10pm: Blues jam. Mon, 7-10pm: Swingin’ Affair & jazz jam. Redwood City.

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: Andy Just. Campbell.

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

Fri, 8:30pm: Lavay Smith Trio.

Sat, 8:30pm: Leon Joyce Trio.

San Jose.

Fri, 8pm: The Valentinez. Sat, 8pm: Stephen Covell, Brandon Walker. All shows are all ages and free. Mountain View.

HUKILAU

LILLY MAC’S

Nightly: Live blues. San Jose.

REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF FRIDAY NIGHTS

Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT MV

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

Wed: Moroccan music with belly dancing. Thu: Happy Together.

LOS GATOS BREWING CO.

Fri, 6pm: Foreverland. Michael Jackson tribute. Free. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.

Fri: Aldon Sanders. Sat: Na Kalohe Kane. San Jose.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

CONCERT

KRS-One KRS-ONE is, simply put, one of the most influential rappers of all time.

In the early ’80s, he more or less invented alternative hip-hop, taking on political and social issues at a time when most other rappers were still boasting about their bling.

Avalon Nightclub To realize that his critique of hip-hop in “My Philosophy” (when he was part of Boogie Down Friday, Sept. 9 Productions) came out in 1988 is stunning: “See I’m tellin, and teaching real facts/The way some 8pm; $15. act in rap is kind of wack/And it lacks creativity and intelligence/But they don’t care cause the company is sellin’ it.” KRS always seemed a step ahead; around that same time he won what some consider the first real MC battle, against MC Shan, and started the Stop the Violence Movement that nearly united East Coast hip-hop. After Nas put out Hip-Hop Is Dead in 2006, KRS-One released Hip-Hop Lives. And it does, thanks in large part to him. Dirtbag Dan, Ocalaholics Krew and DJ Aspect open.—Steve Palopoli

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POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos. San Jose.

Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Gino Matteo & Jade Bennett. Fri, 6-10pm: John Nemeth. Sat, 6-10pm: Sid Morris Blues Band. Sun, 10:30am12:30pm: Red Stripe Reggae Beach Party with Sharon B. & the Steel Drums. San Jose.

MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT MV Mon: Jazz & blues night.

Mountain View.

MURPHY’S LAW Wed-Sat: Live music. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

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

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

TESSORA’S

C&W/Folk CAFFE FRASCATI Fri, 8pm: Jon Rubin, Laurel Shannon Miller. All ages. Free.

San Jose.

DANA STREET COFFEE ROASTING

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

Campbell.

Every second Mon: Ukulele jam.

Mountain View.

UNWINED

THE GRAPEVINE

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

Sat, 7pm: Given to Fly. Willow Glen.

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

San Jose.

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BOSWELL’S

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

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

BRANHAM LOUNGE

RODEO CLUB

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

Thu: Billy Currington. 21+. $20.

San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

THE SADDLE RACK

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

Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

Thu-Fri, 9pm, Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Saddleback Ridge. Fremont.

Karaoke

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55 MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 8pm: Jill Knight Trio. Sun, 2pm: X-Factor. Santa Clara.

SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, 6pm: Carolina Special. San Jose.

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

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BOULEVARD TAVERN

Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

ACAPULCO RESTAURANT & CANTINA

Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Comedy with Mr. Walker.

San Jose.

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

Santa Clara.

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

Menlo Park.

BRIX

BAMBOO LOUNGE

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

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BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

AZÚCAR

BLUE ROCK SHOOT

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

Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic.

Saratoga.

THE BEARS

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic.

Cupertino.

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

THE COURTS LOUNGE Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

DASILVA’S BRONCOS Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

DIVE BAR

CAFFE FRASCATI

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

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

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

CITY ESPRESSO

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

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

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

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

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BLUE MAX

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

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

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

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

BLUE BONNET BAR

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

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

BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY

Tue, 6pm: Open-mic night.

San Jose.

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

QUARTER NOTE Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

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

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

San Jose.

GALAXY

PEACOCK LOUNGE

X-BAR

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

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

Sunnyvale.

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

GILROY BOWL

Dance Clubs

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

AGENDA

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

QUARTER NOTE THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

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

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

Cupertino.

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

JOHNNY Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

KATIE BLOOMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Campbell.

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

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

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

LILLY MACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

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

San Jose.

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

ROSIE MCCANNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Tue, 8:30pm: Karaoke. No cover.

Santana Row.

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Fri: DJs. San Jose.

AZĂ&#x161;CAR Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa.

San Jose.

THE BLANK CLUB Sat, 9pm: New Wave Prom with DJs Kevin and Vitus. $5.

San Jose.

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

BLUE PHEASANT

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

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

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

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

SHERWOOD INN

Wed: Humpday Wednesdays.

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

Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

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Sunnyvale.

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Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

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

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Thu: Kid Dynamite. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. Tue: Pub-stumpers Trivia.

San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

NETOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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

TEQUILA SHOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAR & GRILL Wed, 9pm: Larry. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

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Thu: DJ BenofďŹ cial. Fri, 10pm: DJ Radio. Sat, 10pm: DJ Quantum.

San Jose.

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

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

BRIX

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

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

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Mon, 9pm: Matt. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

WOODHAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE Wed-Thu, Sat, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.

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Willow Glen.

Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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Santa Clara.

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CLUB ILLUSIONS Wed, 6pm: 106 Miles Mixer.

Every second and fourth Sat, 8:30pm-2am: Hot Live Salsa Night. 21+. Sat, 9pm: Bobby Brackins & Mike Stud Ages 1418 only. . Palo Alto.

MIAMI BEACH CLUB Thu-Fri: Top 40, club hits, hiphop, Latin. Sat: DJ Nelly presents.

San Jose.

Video Killed the DJ. Sat: Sapphire Saturdays. Sun: Sinful Sundays.

Mon: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Buck Wild Tuesdays. San Jose.

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Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

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

MYTH TAVERNA

Thu: I Love College. Fri: Tila Tequila live. Sat: DJ Splyce. San Jose.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy.

Sun: Brunch party. San Jose.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

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

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

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.

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

PEACOCK LOUNGE

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

THE ELEGANT PUB Thu, 9pm-1:30am:Throwback Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: DJ. Sat, 9pm1:30am: Snapshot Saturdays.

Evergreen Inn, San Jose.

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

Fri, 9pm: Coyote Ugly Night. $10. Sat, 9pm: HEROs Leukemia & Lymphoma Society benefit.

With DJs Benofficial and Aaron the Era. Mon, 9pm: Industry.

Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Sir Dancealot.

Willow Glen.

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

Sunnyvale.

WILLOW DEN Thu, 10pm-2am: DJ Uncle Hank.

Fri, 10pm-2am: DJ Truth. Sat, 10pm-2am: DJ Tony. Willow Glen.

SABOR TAPAS BAR

WINE AFFAIRS

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

Call for info. San Jose.

THE SADDLE RACK

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

ZEN LOUNGE

Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Thu: SOFA King Thursdays. Fri:

GALAXY Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.

GRAND DELL SALOON Fri, 8pm: DJ Sean Denton.

Campbell.

JOHNNY V’S Wed: The Cypher. Underground hip-hop, drum & bass, jungle.

Fri: DJ spins ‘80s and ‘90s. Tue: DJ Westwood. San Jose.

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

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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DR. JOHN The unceasing night tripper growls out the spirit of organ- and piano-fueled New Orleans. Sep 7-9 at Yoshi’s Oakland.

SHE WANTS REVENGE Band seemingly custom-geared for Live 105 airplay appears with DJ from Live 105. Sep 8 at Rickshaw Stop.

KE$HA Concert moved from a 7,000-seat venue to a 2,800seat venue. Just sayin’. Sep 9 at the Fox Theater.

DEF LEPPARD 80s rockers pour some sugar on classic hits. With openers Heart. Sep 9 at Shoreline Amphitheatre.

RANCID East bay stalwarts mine their deep 40 oz. well of street punk anthems. Sep 10 at the Warfield.

LOS GATOS BAR & GRILL 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.

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