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I SAW YOU
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ISawYou@metronews.com Send us your anonymous rants and raves about your co-workers or any badly behaving citizen—or about citizens you admire. I SAW YOU, Metro, 550 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email.
Mall Mauler You don’t listen. You won’t take no for an answer. You lack the ability to read body language. You chase after me even when I speed up and I try to avoid eye contact. You make comments about my appearance and how you can help me with it, or try to convince me that I need to steam my clothes, or try to force samples on me. You’re a mall kiosk jockey, and though I understand that you’re trying to make a living, and it’s tough, and I feel for you, still ... you make me wish I had bought online instead of traveling to the mall.
ridiculous (“Obama Slept Here,” SanJoseInside, Sept. 28).
COMMENTS Letters@metronews.com Metro welcomes letters. Like any great work of art, they should be originals—not copies of material sent elsewhere. Please include your name, city of residence and daytime telephone number. (Phone number will not be published.) Letters may be edited for length and clarity or to correct factual inaccuracies known to us. = SanJoseInside
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Not Eden Close Re: Gary Singh’s Silicon Alleys about Cambrian 36, (Sept. 28), I definitely agree with the quote “One of the most heavily trafficked, congested,
fractured, patched-up, worn, beaten and downright ugliest stretches of wide-open concrete anywhere in San Jose.” I hate that stretch of road. So ugly. SONJA CALDWELL | METROFB.COM
Park It I think the positives of this move tickets (“Clara Buoyant,” SVNews, Sept. 28) outweigh the negatives, i.e., decrease in unemployment, increase in house market value, decrease in rent, increase in business revenue and value, basically our investments become investments again and not as much of a gamble. KRISTA ZIMMERMAN | METROFB.COM
Don’t Park It Always a financial disaster for taxpayers. The owners and shareholders will manage to profit handsomely, and local officials get tickets (“Clara Buoyant,” SVNews, Sept. 28). Actual jobs created never offsets the losses. Everyone else will get screwed. Let the owners finance and build it themselves—with zero concessions from the city. TONY TISSOT | METROFB.COM
Another Park Rumors abound that Obama thinks a downtown San Jose ballpark is
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Stay, Anna Here’s hoping that Eshoo doesn’t stand down—I don’t think we could handle Simitian taking his nanny statism nationwide (“Shifting Into Reverse,” The Fly, Sept. 28). SIERRA SPARTAN | SJ INSIDE
Editor’s Note: The Fly item “Shifting Into Reverse” in the Sept. 28 issue had an incorrect name for Mountain View City Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga. Metro regrets the error.
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THE FLY
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Fong and Games PAUL FONG may be chair of the state Elections and Redistricting Committee, but that didn’t do the state assemblymember any good over the summer. A citizen commission for the ďŹ rst time in 10 years redrew district lines, and Fong lost 75 percent of his real estate—as well as the leverage of incumbency. Fong’s district, which goes from being called the 22nd to the 28th starting next year, will no longer include Sunnyvale, Mountain View or Santa Clara, which were supplanted by the golden ghettos of Saratoga, Los Gatos, Campbell and south San Jose. All of this means Fong could face a tougher challenge than expected—and from a registered Republican no less. CHAD WALSH, a West Valley Community College trustee and patent attorney in Santa Clara, is gearing up for an assembly run of his own. Walsh is showing some bipartisan appeal. His supporters include longtime X donor to Democratic candidates MIKE FOX SR., who backs moderate Republicans from time to time as well. Speculation is rife that Don’t Walsh will change his forget party afďŹ liation from Republican to “Decline to tip! to stateâ€? before the campaign kicks off (like FLY@ WS. METRONEWS. that will fool anyone). COM Fong doesn’t seem too bent out of shape about Walsh and Fox’s budding friendship, though, considering he just received a $1,500 check from Fox. The state assemblymember points out that he has already won the support of Countyy Assessor LARRY STONE. One person who deďŹ nitely lost out in the redistricting shufe is wonder kid EVAN LOW, a currentt Campbell councilmember and former mayor. Not yet 30, Low, a senior district representative for Fong’s ofďŹ ce, was hoping to make his own State Assembly run before his boss was given his turf. Interestingly, Walsh’s support system in his bid to become a West Valley trustee included Low, who was one of his few Democratic supporters. Fong says with a laugh that Low will have a job regardless of whom he supports next fall.
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Police Chief Chris Moore, caught in a web of cost-recovery policies that prevented him from waiving the fee, apologized to council members. “This is the ďŹ rst time I am aware of that this wound up on the agenda of the Rules Committee,â€? Moore said. “I apologize for this rising to this level.â€? Under city sunshine rules, staff may levy charges to members of the public who request information that is not already in document form. Since more and more information is stored in electronic databases, programming fees are charged for conducting queries. Metro’s crime stats request was an attempt to get some actual information on a hotly debated issue that has been the subject of ďŹ erce debate on public safety issues and police salaries and pensions. Over the last few months, various media outlets have reported anecdotal evidence that prostitution is on the rise in San Jose. The police union blog, Protect San Jose, linked budget cuts
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Metro asked the police for stats on annual prostitution arrests over the past decade to see if trends supported the claims. A police analyst said the information would require 30 minutes of search-related work, necessitating the $42 fee. Budget troubles have forced the cash-strapped municipality to implement a number of new cost-recovery measures, including a payment structure for public information other than easily accessible reports. Broad requests by researchers, the media, citizen activists and litigious attorneys further stretch an already thin workforce, city officials say. Metro made a formal appeal rather than pay the fee, setting in motion an expensive bureaucratic chain of events. At first, the city’s Rules and Open Government committee planned to deny the appeal. But city officials now admit that it took far more workhours to discuss whether to invoice the charge than the 30 minutes it would have taken to provide the requested statistics. Just the hearing’s 15 minutes of discussion—involving some of San Jose’s most highly-paid officials—incurred considerably more expense than it would have cost for a technician to produce the report itself. After weeks of phone calls, emails
and in-person conversations with city officials regarding the matter, Police Chief Chris Moore provided Metro with the numbers a day before appearing in front of the committee, bypassing the fee requirement by requesting the data for his own use. “The Chief of Police was interested in seeing this information himself,” Mannheim said. (Through the first eight months of the year, San Jose Police report that 253 arrests were made relating to misdemeanor and felony prostitution, pimping and pandering charges. That number puts the city on pace for roughly the same annual number of arrests seen from 2005 to 2009, when there were as many as 408 and no fewer than 374 arrests. The police, however, say that hours dedicated to the issue have dropped significantly, raising the possibility that prostitution activity is in fact increasing.) A new ordinance in July mandated that any public information request not readily available and requiring staff to compile information should be billed at $84 per hour. “I’m sympathetic to the appeal, but I’m not sympathetic to some of the reasons we might hear for the appeal,” Councilmember Pete Constant said. His view on crime stats: “I think we have an obligation to provide them.” After public testimony by Moore, Manheim and City Attorney Rich Doyle and representatives of Metro, Mayor Reed and Councilmembers Madison Nguyen, Pierluigi Oliverio and Constant—unanimously approved the appeal. According to Tom Norris, the city’s public-records manager, it is the first time an appeal of public-records fees has ever been given the green light. Confusion was created by the PRA request, because Moore and the police were unsure who had the power to provide the report at without cost. “It raised the question of, ‘Chief, you don’t have the authority to waive the fees,’” Moore said. “That doesn’t make sense to me.” “This request has raised an interesting internal debate for us,” Manheim said, about “the question of who has the authority to waive [fees].” He added while addressing the committee, “At this point, only you, on behalf of the City Council, have the authority.” In addition to the approval of
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Metro’s appeal, Constant put forward a motion that staff rewrite the city ordinance so that fees for publicrecords requests can be waived if the cost is less than $250. The motion included a qualifier that city staff retain discretion to deny any request if found to be an unreasonable use of time and resources. The motion was met with unanimous approval. Two issues receiving scrutiny from the appeal appear to go to the core of Reed’s commitment to Sunshine Reforms and open government. Councilmember Oliverio wondered if the city distinguishes between information requests from media vs. the public. Manheim and Moore both acknowledged that their departments do their best to accommodate any questions posed by the press or public in a timely manner, but they did acknowledge they recognize a difference. City Attorney Rich Doyle quickly interjected that, “Under the law you can’t distinguish.” Concerns about being tied up by an endless stream of frivolous public information requests, city staff believes fees can weed out resourcewasting inquiries. A public-records fee appeal that preceded Metro’s on the agenda would have cost more than $1000 to produce, city staff estimated, and a citizen offered to write an excoriating rejection letter with his own pen. His invitation was met with chuckles.
Metro CEO and executive editor Dan Pulcrano told the committee the fees and other restrictions on information make it more difficult for media to perform the mission of informing the public about city government. “It’s getting harder and harder to get information,” Pulcrano, who served on the committee that drafted the Sunshine Ordinance, said. “Twenty-five years ago, I used to be able to go into the police station and ask for a police report. Now it’s very difficult to get these.” “Transparency is cost effective,” Pulcrano said after the meeting. “We need to make it easy for San Jose’s smart citizenry to help the city’s reduced staff watch trends and crowdsource solutions. More eyes are better.” Senior Citizens Commission chair Martha O’Connell listened to the testimony and shared her thoughts during public comment time. “What happens if you’re poor and you want to petition your government and you request a record?” she asked, adding that it was a “slippery slope” to the point when “only the rich are going to be able to get the information to petition their government.” O’Connell called the staff ’s recommendation to sustain the fee “extremely insulting” while the city was spending money to fly representatives to Dublin, Ireland. “Shame on the staff for this,” O’Connell said.
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with a teenage girl from Fresno being forced into prostitution as an example of the crisis. “San Jose is Becoming Sin City,” wrote a top police union in a column, and television stations broadcast images of short-skirted women standing on city sidewalks in provocative poses.
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Apple’s ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ event On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook and his posse took the stage to release a new slew of products just in time for the holiday season. Like the well-oiled presentation machine they are, Apple’s bullpen of VPs unleashed one announcement after another. First, iOS SVP Scott Forstall ran down the greatest hits of the upcoming iOS 5 update. These included Tasks (with geofencing—a feature that will remind the user of tasks when he or she arrives or departs from a set location), vastly improved Notifications, iMessage, systemwide Twitter integration, a camera shortcut on the lock screen and more. Forstall also showed off a new Apple app that lets users create greeting cards using photos on your iOS device and have them mailed to recipients for $2.99 a card. Hallmark who? iOS 5 is set to drop on October 12 (it’s a free update for iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 3GS and 4 as well as recent iPod Touch devices). Next up, SVP of Internet Software Eddy Cue demoed the integration between iOS 5 and iCloud. iCloud is set to roll out simultaneously with iOS 5 with features like iTunes in the Cloud,
photo and document syncing between all on one’s devices, as well as backups, calendar, contacts, push email and Find My iPhone.
Yahoo! and ABC News team up
Apple is also beginning iTunes Match service later this month, which will go through a user’s library of music and enable access from anywhere. The service is $24.99 a year and also works for music obtained from— ahem—less-reputable sources.
This week, Yahoo! News and bigthree network ABC announced an agreement to start “a strategic online news alliance that will deliver content to more than 100 million U.S. users each month.” Yahoo! News, the most popular online news outlet, now has access to ABC’s journalistic legacy with this agreement. ABC now becomes Yahoo! News’s main content generator while both parties maintain control of their own editorial on their sites. The story from ABC’s site notes:
For the main event, SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller announced lightly updated iPod nanos, as well as iPod Touches, with both gadgets also getting a nice little price cut to sweeten the deal ($199 for the entry-level Touch). Schiller swiftly moved on to what everyone was waiting for: the latest iPhone. iPhone 4S is the same basic form factor as last year’s but with a slew of new features. The camera has been given a shot of steroids and can shoot faster and handle 1080P HD video. A dual-core A5 chip replaces the outgoing model’s A4. The separate AT&T and Verizon models become one unified model with GSM and CDMA (Sprint is getting in on the carrier game now as well). Although the phone does not have 4G high-speed wireless, it uses a clever antenna trick to keep bandwidth at maximum availability. Apple’s acquisition of voicerecognition app startup Siri finally came to fruition with the inclusion of Siri commands on the iPhone 4S. The user can dictate, ask complex questions and tell the phone to plan alarms, calendar events, dial names and more. It’s in Beta for now with only English, French and German supported out of the box. Apple plans more languages soon. With a 2-year contract, these shiny new iPhones will be available on the 12th with $199 for a 16GB, $299 for 32GB and $399 for 64GB capacities. With that, the Apple faithful start coming up with excuses to miss work on Oct. 12.—BRENDAN NYSTEDT ON 4 OCTOBER 2011
“Under the agreement, ABC News becomes the premier news provider on Yahoo! News, with editorial teams from both organizations collaborating on original coverage to appear on both the Yahoo! News and ABC News sites. ... ABC News content will be integrated throughout the Yahoo! News network, including the Yahoo! front page.” It sounds like the making of an Aaron Sorkin television show: the new-school journalism team from Yahoo! and the ABC reporters are forced together by corporate merger, overcome cultural differences and learn to work with each others’ strengths. Or something like that. —BRENDAN NYSTEDT
Netflix lines up more original content After buying up the exclusive distribution rights to David Fincher’s project ‘House of Cards,’ Netflix has made a deal with a Norwegian production company to be the distributor of yet another show. The property they’ve snagged is called ‘Lilyhammer,’ a drama about a mobster who moves to Norway for witness protection purposes. Although it’s hardly surprising that
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Who is Aaron Levie? VentureBeat has an in-depth profile of Box.net CEO Aaron Levie. The Palo Alto–based cloud storage company is on the up-and-up with an estimated 77 percent market penetration among Fortune 500 companies. This week, the company put on their first annual conference, featuring a performance from Third Eye Blind. Author Matthew Lynley paints the portrait of this newgeneration Valley entrepreneur by putting him up on the shelf next to such legends as Jobs (Apple, Pixar), Zuckerburg (Facebook) and Benioff (Salesforce). Similar to Jobs, Levie has a flair for the dramatic. Although Box.net seems to be successful at the moment, fortunes change rapidly in the tech business. Idiosyncrasies like orange sneakers and a penchant for throwing rock concerts for clients do not a successful CEO make.—BRENDAN NYSTEDT
Take three tablets and call me in the morning That Amazon Silk browser that is being touted as so revolutionary and key to the Kindle Fire’s supposedly snappy behavior—it’s clever, but not revolutionary at all. In fact, for all the gee whiz technical claims of Amazon, this exact same technology has been used by thousands of rural Internet users for more than a decade. The power of Amazon Silk that allows the Kindle Fire to need only eight gigs of local storage is its integration with Amazon S3 storage and EC2 cloud services. S3 will hold a copy of all data in the cloud for free while EC2 will run a smart application proxy that will cache, prefetch and transcode data on behalf of the Kindle Fire user with the help of massive computing resources on that backend and gigantic data pipes. Where a dynamic page might require 20 or more DNS hits and data grabs, we’re told, the Kindle Fire will do all that via EC2 making the actual page generation a single grab at WiFi speeds, the page having been pre-assembled in the cloud at lightspeed right down to resizing graphics to smaller sizes that fit the Kindle Fire screen. Cool, eh? Yet those features (TCP Acceleration and Web Page Acceleration) were both present in my old Starband satellite Internet connection back in 2000, where they were necessary to make surfing even possible over a 44,600-mile round trip. The Starband equivalent of EC2 was (and still is) a Gilat data center in Virginia. I’m not sure the Amazon Silk team has actually invented anything at all. So, unless Amazon quietly bought Gilat, the owner of Starband, they are going to have a hard time keeping other tablet companies from copying or licensing these clever browser features. Amazon Silk is cool, but we’ll see its equivalent on an iPad, too, almost immediately. — ROBERT X. CRINGELY, WWW.CRINGELY.COM
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Netflix would try to make deals on shows before they’re launched, it’s an interesting move considering how this could disrupt the traditional model of distribution. By cutting out a traditional television network, the content goes directly from the editor’s bay to the viewer’s computer. Do not pass go, do not collect commercials. Essentially, this strategy places Netflix in a position to compete with HBO and Showtime.
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SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics
Turning Rails Into Trails Rails to Trails is a term for the conversion of obsolete rail lines into recreational trails. This has been done all over the United States. Railroad lines provide unique and scenic routes through cities. These trails lend themselves to both recreation and transportation that is not dependent on gas. Last week, the San Jose City Council authorized the city manager to purchase property from Union Pacific railroad for $6 million. It was a long process in dealing with the railroad as they originally were not a willing seller. ... In this case, San Jose obtained grants from the county of Santa Clara park trust fund, Santa Clara Valley Water District, Open Space Authority and a state of California grant to come soon. In the interim, some funds from the Construction and Conveyance tax are covering the purchase price and will be replenished once the state funds are received. I am very thankful for all the people who worked on this project, including elected officials, staff and trail advocates. However, I have a question. Should cities rely on grants to fund projects? Our own city policy of exempting affordable housing developers from paying park fees created a lost opportunity of approximately $90 million dollars, which could have been used for parks and trails. That left San Jose needing to apply for state grants that if we are lucky may add up to $10 million, rather than the $90 million that was left on the table. It would seem simpler for local governments to fund their own projects rather than having to anticipate the different and changing priorities of state and federal office holders.—Pierluigi Oliverio, San Jose City Councilmember
You Are Off Message Fiscal Emergency, Fiscal Emergency, Fiscal
Emergency! Leave the Railroads for a Monopoly Game ...
Will It Ever End We grow tired of your weekly manifestos! Really, $6 million for a RR trail, how is it the city cries fiscal emergency and yet you keep pulling money out of your A##. When does it stop! Comments to SJI Readers Some of you weekly (weakly) disagree with Pierluigi, others praise him but unlike the rest of council, he writes his weekly opinions, policy recommendations, suggests changes in current government practice, and provides us information generally not well known. Personally, I look forward to seeing what he has to say each week; many times I agree, sometimes not, a few times he upset me but he puts himself, his ideas, recommendations and opinions out there for everyone to see which I respect and you should too even if you disagree.
A’s Expect Selig’s Decision ‘Very Soon’ Almost three years since a special committee was formed by Major League Baseball to figure out the best place for the Oakland A’s to play, San Jose continues to wait for a report
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to be released on whether or not the team should relocate here. But that could change in the coming weeks. Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane says he expects to hear from MLB Commissioner Bud Selig on a decision “very soon.” Lew Wolff, A’s owner and a longtime real estate developer here in San Jose, says the timeline all comes down to one’s interpretation of “very soon.” In the spring of this year, San Jose city officials grouped together parcels of land to form the Diridon Development Authority, which has been designated for either a stadium or corporate and retail offices adjacent to HP Pavilion. Mayor Chuck Reed has lobbied Selig to make a decision, but there seems to be no rush from the city’s perspective on what to do with the land while the commissioner drags his feet. But as the A’s continue to wait on word from Selig, the A’s financial future hangs in the balance, which affects many offseason decisions such as retaining players and signing free agents. All of this could alter the look of the team by the time it does (or doesn’t) end up in San Jose. —Silicon Valley Newsroom
Greg Howe Betting that Mayor Chuck-O will be greatly disappointed with Selig’s “very soon” decision.
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The Hunt Begins POWER PLAYERS Patrick Marleau (left) and Joe Pavelski will have huge roles for the Sharks as usual this season.
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time with Dany Heatley and Devin Setoguchi last campaign, but the latter two were shipped to Minnesota this offseason. Playoff hero Joe Pavelski will have the opportunity to step into an even more prominent role with the team, giving the Sharks a powerful first line just waiting for a nickname— Thormarpav? Marthornski? Um, we’ll get back to you. The second line has a chance to be just as dynamic as the first, with Rookie of the Year runner-up Logan Couture teaming with wings Martin Havlat and Ryane Clowe. Havlat, who has been plagued with the injury bug throughout his career, was acquired from Minnesota in a trade for Heatley this summer. It remains to be seen how he will fit in with the club, but his playmaking skills and excellent speed should complement Clowe and Couture. Antti Niemi will be the primary fixture in net again for the Sharks, with Thomas Greiss in a backup role. Niemi’s play down the stretch was a large reason the Sharks finished so strong, but his play in the postseason left a little to be desired. A four-year contract extension worth $15.2 million kicks in this year, meaning the pressure will fall on Niemi to become more consistent. The biggest question for the Sharks isn’t whether they’re good enough to compete for a championship—they definitely are. The issue is whether or not the team can find the consistency to set itself up for another deep playoff run, and finally capture the Stanley Cup. —Jason Plank and Matt Taylor Read more on the Sharks at the blog Fear the Fin.
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Rebirth COMMUNITY WALL The mural at the Mexican Heritage Plaza celebrates local artists and culture.
A new School of Arts & Culture seeks to revive San Jose’s Mexican Heritage Plaza By GARY SINGH
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AM standing in the blazing hot sun on King Road in San Jose, in front of the Mexican Heritage Plaza, as Tamara Alvarado talks about the mural on the wall facing us. To the bottom right of the mural, I see a painted white scroll that used to be blank for years. Now, it actually contains the names of the many artists who worked on the mural, which was the original purpose of the scroll, although it just never got completed. After launching the new School
of Arts & Culture at MHP—an operation with 20 contracted faculty members and loads of kids still signing up—Alvarado, director of community access for the school, took it upon herself to make sure this portion of the mural was completed, so the original artists could finally get acknowledged. It is a symbolic gesture of how the school thinks. Artists are important. As we saunter inside the plaza, she points out a pink step stool beneath one of the water fountains that she placed there so kids can reach the faucet. “We also have step stools in the bathrooms,” she tells me. By now, many are at least a little acquainted with the repeated failures of the Mexican Heritage Plaza. Millions of dollars were originally dumped into the place with absolutely no competent planning and no realistic vision for making it
appeal to the general public. Now the next reincarnation of the plaza has begun, thanks to the School of Arts & Culture at MHP. They will manage and operate the facilities, renting out the theater and other components of the plaza, while they run the school. A pilot program recently concluded during the summer and classes for the eight-week fall term will begin Oct. 11. A wide variety of instruction will be offered including Aztec drumming and dance for families, group mariachi and solo instruments, plus drawing, guitar and much more. Most of the participating children hail from the surrounding area. “Part of the criticism of this place was that it wasn’t serving the immediate neighborhood,” Alvarado says. “That’s why during the summer we were happy to see that most of the kids were from around here. That’s because we had all these relationships—local churches, community centers and nonprofits— to get the word out.” One doesn’t necessarily have to live nearby to take classes, but it’s apparent how much this project could help bring attention to an
ignored neighborhood. The ancient crossroads of Alum Rock and King presents a characteristically wide, hot and dusty east San Jo intersection. Looking south, one sees the giant backstop at the Rancho del Pueblo Driving Range—a defining landmark of east San Jo. Northward, one can see almost all the way to Milpitas. Most importantly, the neighborhood is rich with independent businesses. The Guadalajara Market and eatery has been there since the 1950s. A newer place, El Patio, features a variety of food and even gigs outside in the back. And La Costa has always been one of the best and cheapest places for tacos or seafood anywhere in that part of San Jose. The scheme for the School of Arts & Culture also includes engaging the owner of the decrepit, rundown strip mall across Alum Rock. As of last week, the school finalized its logo, a depiction of Quetzalcoatl. It looks much better than the poop statue in Plaza de Cesar Chavez. Plaza employees are already proudly wearing shirts with the logo. “We picked the feathered serpent because it represents precious knowledge,” Alvarado explains. “And so we picked that, because as a school, we’re a place focused on the acquisition of knowledge through arts and culture.” The sum total of all the above is inspiring. The plaza seems to be making a new attempt at actually connecting with the surrounding community. There finally seems to be an orchestrated, logical plan to put the plaza back on the radar, a plan incorporating arts and music instruction for youth—a component sorely lacking in today’s crumbling education infrastructure. As my conversation with Alvarado came to an end, I declared the plaza back from the dead. In recent years, it seemed like a dormant elephant passed out in the blazing sun. Now it has been given an IV drip. The resuscitation has begun. “And that IV drip is filled with arts and music and culture,” Alvarado added.
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“I remember going to a show at the Blank Club where Worker Bee, Ugly Winner and Doctor Nurse were playing,” she recalls. “I was like, ‘This is amazing. There’s more of a scene than I had any idea was happening.’ I felt like there’s this incredible music that’s happening in San Jose, and there’s not enough people who know about it.” In the two years since, the Los Gatos designer has done everything
she can to change that by starting her own label, Side With Us Records. She now puts out releases from some of the most interesting bands that have come up in this newest explosion of talent in the South Bay: The Record Winter, Corpus Callosum, the Albert Square, Dirty Pillows, Ugly Winner, Worker Bee and more. And she’s seen the scene grow even bigger since she started Side With Us in 2009. “It’s definitely built up more.
There’s a lot more underground stuff happening. It’s house shows and more stuff spreading out a little,” she says. If underground gigs at spots like Gingerbread House, Texas Toast House and House of the Dead Rat have become proving grounds that lead to shows at bars and clubs like the Blank, Johnny V’s, Caravan, Avalon and X Bar, they’ve fostered a scene deeper and more diverse than anyone around here can remember in well over a decade, back when venues like the Cactus Club and the Usual encouraged a similarly remarkable music community. Possibly, the South Bay scene can shed its reputation as a third tier musical incubator, producing only two commercial breakout bands—the Doobie Brothers and Smash Mouth— in the past four decades. More
immediately, the scene has recovered from its dark ages in the mid-2000s, when anything that wasn’t straightup punk or metal (the meat and potatoes of any big-city rock scene) or, interestingly, roots-rock had a hard time finding a foothold. Some of the more off beat bands that formed in that time have found a following now, and new groups are crossing genres with abandon. Whether in rock, roots, punk, hip-hop, soul or electronic, unique and sometimes downright strange musical visions have taken hold. Many longtime scene watchers credit this “new eclectic” movement in the last couple of years to the rise of South Bay bands like Campbell’s electro duo the Limousines and the eccentric Mumlers.
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“The Mumlers definitely broke down some walls and made it more acceptable to do something weird,” says promoter Eric Fanali. “For every Mumlers that make it, for every Limousines that make it, there’s at least half a dozen bands from the South Bay of that type that start popping up and playing more regularly.” Jeff Evans, drummer for Dirty Pillows, DJ and owner of the Campbell vinyl shop On the Corner Music, agrees there’s been an explosion of talent and diversity in the scene since. “The more off beat bands coming up, that’s the thing now,” Evans says. “Anything goes. And it’s not like ‘those guys are playing this weird stuff.’ Now it’s applauded, if it’s good, if it’s something people can latch
onto. People can do more types of music than ever before.”
Breakout Bands Indeed, there’s been a trickle-down effect from a highly visible block of breakout South Bay acts. Besides the Mumlers, who’ve been garnering national attention since their debut album in 2007, and the Limousines, who got their first radio play with their “Very Busy People” single in 2009, there’s longtime Los Gatos rockers dredg. The band played Coachella in 2008 and ironically put out its highest-charting album after leaving a major label a year later. There’s also DJ and producer crew the Bangerz, who turned their success on national TV into a collaboration with dance crew the
Jabbawockeez on a Vegas show, and will perform at New Orleans’ huge VooDoo Experience festival at the end of this month. “The fact that I can name 10 acts from San Jose that are doing quite well, and that have their own sound but also are kind of within a certain genre, I couldn’t have done that three or four or five years ago,” says Chris Esparza, co-founder of Left Coast Live, the downtown San Jose festival that will, on Oct. 8, showcase several of the bands central to the scene’s comeback. For the festival’s third year, LCL organizers wisely chose one of those recent South Bay success stories, the Limousines, to headline. Esparza believes that the group’s success has had a major impact on the rest of the scene.
“I think it gets a lot of people excited,” he says. “It inspires a whole generation of people looking at their peers and friends onstage. You know—‘With a little dedication and practice I could be up there.’” After playing the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco over the summer, the Limos are finishing up a video for their song “The Future,” before going on tour with Swedish indie sensation the Sounds. Limousines vocalist and lyricist Eric Victorino admits that since they’ve gotten songs on the radio and have been playing bigger festivals, he’s noticed a lot more interest in electro-pop in the South Bay and larger Bay Area scenes. That’s a bit ironic, since some in the rock scene initially turned up their
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nose at Victorino’s foray into the genre after his many years with the rock band Strata. “I’ve seen it on Twitter where there’s a two-man electronic band, and in their bio it’ll say, ‘Electropop duo from the Bay Area, how original.’ I don’t know if we have anything to do with that, if it’s a good thing or a bad thing,” he muses. “I don’t want to say we inspired it, but when we first started out I remember saying you don’t need four dudes with guitars to start a band; there’s no rules, do whatever you want. Three years later, there’s a lot of that going on.” Fanali says he’s seen the Limousines’ influence in the local scene already: “There’s three or four other electronic bands in San Jose alone that might have been around for a while before, but have only just now started emerging on my
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radar.” Once they see the Limousines are doing well, then all these other bands pop up and start knocking on my door, like, hey, can we do a show? It’s like, wow, you guys have your own electro thing going. The Young Digerati, SlapBracelet, Seabright— people making their own music with just laptops and stuff.” “It might not be influence like ‘We’re so awesome, they want to be like us,’” says Victorino. “It might be like if you went to the circus and you saw someone do something, and the whole crowd clapped and it was great, and then you realize ‘Wait a minute; I could do that. I just gotta figure out how to not burn my face when I’m blowing fire.’”
DIY Valley The influx of new talent bubbling up from the underground has led to more
(and more varied) bands looking for places to play. But at the same time, the number of mainstream live-music venues has shrunk. Frustrated by the shortfall, several local musicians simply began booking shows themselves, inadvertently spawning a new set of subscenes that have been instrumental in growing the scene. “There’s a lot more people who have a real do-it-yourself attitude. Not just do it yourself, but do it yourself successfully,” says Ben Henderson of Good Hustle. “People have gotten a little bit smarter, and they’ve gotten craftier about throwing shows in backyards, warehouses, art galleries and clothing stores.” Henderson has booked many of his own shows for several years now, both for his band and for his solo performances. “Whenever anybody pops up
with a new venue, I check it out. If it doesn’t feel like the right fit for me, I’ll try to get my friends’ bands in. I’m definitely a fan of a lot of things happening here, and I try to help other folks out when I can,” he says. Henderson often works within an emerging local subscene that connects the music underground with art culture. There have been shows at WORKS/San Jose, MACLA and other galleries; the tech-oriented 01SJ festival and its offshoots; skateart events like Ray Stevens II’s Art ’N’ Soul series; and a thriving First Fridays scene. But the center of this boho art underground has been Brian Eder and Cherri Lakey of Anno Domini Gallery, who organize the SubZero festival every year. They also work with bands like Corpus Callosum,
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who stage their bimonthly “Uncanny Valley of the Heart’s Delight” events at Anno Domini. “Things kind of dried up for a few years, so we started playing our own shows,” says the group’s Dax TranCaffee. “It’s been so good, because we can finally curate our own style of stuff.” The collaboration between Anno Domini and Corpus Callosum has been a fruitful one. The band brings their flair for the theatrical and bizarre to Eder and Lakey’s
events—two years ago, they invaded SubZero with giant puppets—and the gallery owners don’t mind if the band occasionally knocks a piece of art off the wall. The band finally has a home in the South Bay, after years of playing everything from muffler shops to museums. “Our whole history in San Jose has been playing these alternative places,” says Tran-Caffee. “Corpus Collosum, with Dax and his puppets, and that moving book he made, it’s amazing,” says
Hampton, who put out one of their EPs on Side With Us. “It’s natural for [Anno Domini Gallery] to want to use them in their festivals, because they really are bringing art and music together. But they want to have other people involved, too. San Francesca got involved recently. Ghost and the City, which is Ash, who was in A Burning Water, lives in Oakland, but recently he’s been doing more stuff down here.” The increase in shows outside of the traditional bars and clubs
circuit includes everything from all-ages shows at Streetlight Records (“We’re like a bigger house show,” says booker Paige Brodsky) to Caffé Frascati to Good Karma’s Thursday shows. Matt Gonzales of Blank Manuscript often puts together shows with his band, including several benefits. Rich Gutierrez from Sourpatch (who’s long booked underground shows) put together the three-day, completely DIY Think and Die Thinking Festival at the Billy de Frank Center and Streetlight in August. Gutierrez has also been involved with bringing acts like K Records legend Calvin Johnson to the San Jose vintage store Black and Brown. Andrew Kutsenda of 5606 books multiple shows every week through his PinUp Productions, at spots like the Refuge in Cupertino and Nickel City in San Jose. And there are many more. Evans from Dirty Pillows points out that often this innovation is born from a lack of traditional venues to play. He’s frustrated that the club scene hasn’t grown with the talent pool, and it’s true that for every place like Pagoda Lounge or Myth trying something new, there seems to be a loss like VooDoo Lounge. He wonders what the livemusic scene would do if it lost a spot like Blank Club or Johnny V’s. “The thing I love about Johnny [van Wyk, Johnny V’s owner] is you could say ‘Hey, I’ve got this Mexican techno polka band,’ and he’d say ‘sure, whatever’,” quips Evans. But he does see an upside. “If bands are finding these weird places to play, there will be more energy, because people get excited about going to odd spots like that,” he says. “It takes the new generation of bands to keep it going.”
Left Turn Esparza hopes to tap into that excitement with the lineup at Left Coast Live, which features local up-and-comers like Henderson, roots-rockers Hurricane Roses, hiphop and electronic chanteuse Anya Kvitka, ’80s-influenced alt-rockers the Trims, ambient project Seabright and more.
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“We’re starting to see people embrace live music and find their own way to present it,” Esparza says. “We’re still emerging, and not all of it is going to be perfect or right. But I love seeing a show at the Caravan and then walking over to the Blank, and then walking over to the De Anza Hotel and then ending my night late at Pagoda. That shouldn’t happen only once a month, when the moon aligns. We’re getting there.” Part of the mission of Left Coast Live, Esparza says, is to get the scene there faster. “We want people just to have a great time, but there’s also a sense of growing the ecosystem of music. It’s a big goal of Left Coast Live, but we don’t say it all that much,” he admits. “San Jose Jazz, the Symphony, what the Blank Club is doing, and the way a lot of the festivals are featuring some of the best local stuff around. There’s a sense that ecosystem has really grown in the last couple of years.” For the Limousines, the show is a bit of a homecoming after their recent successes. They had been looking for something a little bit different to come along, though they didn’t expect to be headlining. “The two biggest factors for us were that it’s all-ages and the size of the PA,” says Victorino. “We like to be loud, and there hasn’t really been anywhere in San Jose where you can just take a big stage and do something fun with it.”
Bangerz Ball Also appearing at Left Coast Live this year are Paolo Bello (DJ Cutso) and Dominic Cueto (Goldenchyld), both members of the acclaimed DJ/producer crew the Bangerz. Before they travel with the group to perform in New Orleans in front of thousands of people at the VooDoo Experience festival, they’ll individually spin at one of LCL’s coolest events, the Silent Disco, where dancers listen to the DJ’s output on wireless headphones. For Cueto, whose skills won him the Red Bull Thre3style competition
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in San Francisco this year, it’s a rare opportunity for a DJ. “It’s one of those situations where you have 100 percent of their attention. You have the ability to do a lot more,” he says. As his group has found success on a national level, Cueto has watched the local hip-hop scene take off in the last couple of years, with some of his favorite rising stars being Rey Resurreccion and the MCs on San Jose label Isolated Wax, which is home to Opski Chan, Megabusive, Dave Dub and more. “There’s a bunch of groups that are starting to take it a lot more seriously as of late,” says Cueto. “They’re all making moves, and they’re starting to deliver a highquality sound. I’m seeing a new wave of cats who pay attention to the standard of what’s out there.” He’s also happy to see some competition in the scene, the kind that drives the obsessive attention to detail in his own group.
“I think you’re seeing a little bit of that among the younger rap groups, too. With each release, they’re trying to step it up and make everyone else step it up. It’s healthy for the scene. You want that,” he says. Brandon Slater, a promoter and DJ for The Workout, the South Bay electronic music event that celebrates its third anniversary this week, says the electronic scene is experiencing a similar boom locally. “There’s a lot of artists coming up, even just in San Jose,” he says. “There’s a handful of producers that are also DJs who are doing a lot of good stuff on the producing side. Justin Weisberg, he’s doing a lot of stuff. Even Johnatron [one of the regular DJs at Agenda’s monthly the Workout] has released a couple singles on some record labels. He’s come out with another one on Disco Texas, which is a pretty big label.” Slater has seen how the attitude toward San Jose has changed within
the larger electronic community as he’s approached agencies and artists about guesting at the Workout. “At first when I said the Bay Area, and it wasn’t San Francisco, they wouldn’t talk to me. They didn’t know anything about San Jose. They didn’t know where it was,” he remembers. “Last year, for our anniversary, we had Le Castle Vania. That was our first really big one, and ever since then agencies are contacting me saying, ‘Do you have a date open?’ They’re realizing there’s a scene in San Jose.”
Orange Sauce Scene Throughout this revival of the scene, the best place in the South Bay to hear new music of all genres has been the Blank Club’s free Wednesday shows, booked by Grand Fanali Productions. In more than a decade of promoting
shows locally, Fanali had stuck to all-ages shows until the Blank’s Corey O’Brien made him an offer he couldn’t refuse: a space for free on Wednesdays to showcase new bands. “I was like, ‘I like that idea. Let’s do that,’” says Fanali. “There’s no Cactus Club anymore, that’s where you used to go see new bands. So this was a great opportunity.” Since those Wednesday nights started, Fanali has booked many of the acts that have gone on to be the top bands in the local scene. He says there’s one real secret to booking the best new music in the South Bay: orange sauce. Sometimes you have an idea to put bands together because of their sound, sometimes because of the fans,” he explains. “But really, in San Jose, sometimes you just go into La Vic [La Victoria Taqueria] and find who’s in there at 1 o’clock in the morning and put together a bill of bands that are just hanging out at La Vic. I think that’s one of the best things about San Jose. Everyone’s getting a burrito late at night, and they just happen to be in a band. That might be their connecting factor—everyone’s getting some orange sauce.” As her label’s roster continues to grow, Hampton sees continued growth for the scene, as well. “The number of good bands that are here, like Ugly Winner, Family Room, Worker Bee, Hard Girls, Albert Square, San Francesca and these other bands—that’s a lot to build on. And it’s not just that they’re good musicians, they’re all good people too,” she says. “I think people are coming around to the idea that it doesn’t matter what genre you’re going out to see, just go with a smile on your face and have fun,” says Victorino. “Of course the music matters, but it’s not high school. You can hang out with whatever clique you want.” “For me, in the last two or three years,” says Henderson, “it feels like a changing of the guard.”
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Inside the new Willow Glen restaurant, it was noisy and a little hot as everybody talked and ate and drank and generally enjoyed their seat what is easily the most exciting restaurant to open in Silicon Valley in years. Hay Market is just the kind of restaurant Silicon Valley needs. It’s a friendly neighborhood place with a hip, urban vibe, modest prices and an eclectic menu that dispels the notion that the South Bay is a parochial culinary backwater.
Hay Market is the work of San Jose native Joe Cirone. As a restaurant consultant, Cirone opened restaurants all over the world, but this is the first restaurant he calls his own. He said he was tired of living out of hotels and wanted to settle down in San Jose, a city he said is “starving for culinary attention.” Silicon Valley does not need any more steakhouses, mediocre Chinese restaurants, pizza parlors or chain restaurants. It needs neighborhoodbased, chef-owned eateries that don’t cost too much and where the kitchen’s creativity can shine. At Hay Market, Cirone has given the hungry South Bay just what it needs. The restaurant serves globally inspired American comfort food. There’s an eclectic, adventurous spirit to the menu. You’ll find dishes you won’t encounter anywhere else. Cirone also sources his food from local and sustainable sources, too. Am I swooning? The menu changes daily, but there are a few mainstays. Starters are particularly
strong. Duck, duck and duck ($11) paired a glazed duck wing with duck pâté and duck rillettes. While the wing was too tough, the little ramekin of duck pâté was absurdly, silkenly rich and delicious. It was like duck-flavored butter. It’s no wonder it’s served in such a small amount. Any more and your eyes would tumble back into your head in pleasure overload. The rillettes, slow-cooked meat rendered into a spreadable consistency, are great, too. The oyster kimchi ($10) is an odd but good dish. Raw oysters occupy a spicy mound of house-made kimchi, a delicious combination of similar textures. The addition of two kale-filled knishes seemed out of place and didn’t add much. Jewish-Korean? The petite fried egg and Napa cabbage slaw served on the side was superfluous, too. Just give me more kimchi. You don’t see beef marrow ($12) many places, but Hay Market’s version is stellar: two bones split lengthwise and served with puréed parsley, capers and coarse salt. Scoop a little marrow onto a crouton, dab on some parsley purée, add a few capers and some salt, and I defy you not to sigh with audible pleasure. The duck meatloaf ($18) is outstanding. Duck is a meaty bird, but it tastes downright beefy here, ground and formed into a rough patty. It’s served with a cauliflower-carrot purée and
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roasted sweet potatoes. The beef cheeks ($18) might be the best I’ve had. The beefy nuggets are wetbraised to achieve a beautiful, pleasantly leathery black exterior that contrasts wonderfully with the succulent meat within. The whole-grain mustard jus and horseradish-whipped potatoes make for a delicious trilogy. On my dinner visit, most of the dishes skewed rich and hearty, so the olive oil–cured black cod ($19), afloat in an herby nage (a brothy sauce) and cooked to delicate perfection, was a study of Japanese restraint on a plate. Desserts are good enough. I liked the plum clafoutis with marsala-spiked cream ($6) and the chocolate, chocolate and chocolate ($8)—chocolate milk poured over crumbled up chocolate crumble cake and bits of milk chocolate. In a word: chocolaty. The restaurant does a great job with lunch, too. I had an excellent vegetarian banh mi sandwich ($7) made with delicately pickled vegetables that can stand up to the best of those in Vietnamese restaurants. There’s a winning hot dog ($5) served with apricot relish and an outstanding BLT ($8) stacked with smoky, private-label bacon made by Cirone’s dad. Servers are competent and confident and can speak about the food with knowledge and enthusiasm. Cooks also act as food runners, meaning the person who made your food is often the one to set it before you. As good as Hay Market is, it’s by no means perfect. As I mentioned, it can get really loud. The communal tables are fine for lunch, but come dinner I’d prefer the privacy of a table of my own. (In my perfect world Cirone opens another restaurant with more space and turns the current location into a casual lunch spot.) The three large-screen monitors that play a random selection of foreign films and documentaries were a creative solution to cover up an ugly wall, but they’re out of sync with the country-chic décor that pervades the rest of the place. But I’m more than happy to let these things go. Hay Market fills a hangar-size gap in Silicon Valley’s restaurant scene. It’s just the kind of place the South Bay needs and deserves.
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ALDO’S Italian. $$$. A warm and engaging atmosphere sets the scene for full-bodied flavors and healthy ingredients. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Thu, 5-10pm FriSat. 14109 Winchester Blvd. 408.374.1808. CALIFORNIA CAFE New American. $$$. An innovative approach to Pacific Rim staples makes for some lovely surprises. The ace service matches the smart setting. Full bar. 11:30am-10pm MonFri, 10:30am-10:30pm Sat, 10:30am-9:30pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.8118.
CIN-CIN Eclectic wine bar. $$$. The heart of Cin-Cin’s menu is an eclectic mix of small plates, tapas-size dishes that partner well with a great wine list. 4-10pm Mon-Sat. 368 Village Way. 408.354.8006.
DIO DEKA Greek. $$$. Dio Deka is doing its part to elevate Greek food in Silicon Valley. There’s much to recommend at this handsome restaurant. Most starters are large so they’re best shared. 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 210 E. Main St. 408.354.7700. FLEUR DE COCOA French bakery. $$. Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Los Gatos’ Fleur de Cocoa is rightly known for its chocolate confections and pastries, but I can’t stop thinking about the little pastry shop’s spectacular almond croissants. There’s plenty of other good stuff and not all of it sweet, like the croque monsieur and the quiche. 7:30am-6pm Tue-Sat, 8am-4pm Sun. 39 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.3574.
FORBES MILL STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. When Metro first checked in with Forbes Mill in 2003, it was called “a big, burly brasserie equipped with style as well as substance.” It’s holding up well and still does things in a big way. 5-9pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 206 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6434.
GREEN PAPAYA Vietnamese. $$. California cuisine meets Southeast Asia by way of Paris, with inventive updates of clay pot and five-spice authentica. Beer, wine. 11am-3pm, 5-9:30pm TueSun. 137 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9115.
I GATTI New Italian. $$$. I Gatti fits like a glove along peaceful Main Street. The chef understands the basics but isn’t afraid to create refreshing twists on traditional recipes. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Sat, 5-9pm Sun 25 E. Main St. 408.399.5180.
KAMAKURA SUSHI AND SAKE HOUSE Sushi bar classics. $$. In a smart setting, Kamakura showcases a procession of impeccable sushi and sashimi platters. 10:30am-2pm, 5:30-10pm daily. 135 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6650.
LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Brewpub. $$$. Most brewpubs seem to be cooking from the same menu, but executive chef Jim Stump has created a diverse menu of upscale comfort food that goes well beyond burgers and grilledchicken sandwiches. The handsome wood-accented interior and open kitchen with its wood-fired pizza oven and rotisserie grill add to the restaurant’s appeal. Breakfast 10am-2pm Sat-Sun; lunch 11:30am-3pm; dinner 5-9pm
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MAIN STREET BURGERS Burgers. $. Main Street Burgers offers fast-food convenience, affordable prices and food made with ingredients that are higher quality and more healthful than what you’d find at the golden arches. 11am-8:30pm Mon-Thu, 9am-9pm Fri-Sat, 9am-8:30pm Sun. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.1881.
MANRESA High concept. $$$$. Drawing from produce grown at his own farm, superstar chef David Kinch is blazing a trail of high caliber cuisine that’s as daring as it is delicious. Expensive but worth it. 320 Village Lane. 408.354.4330.
NICK’S ON MAIN American. $$$. Nick’s on Main is a relaxed but elegant bistro full of neighborly charm and is a showcase for owner Nick Difu’s decadent and deeply satisfying style of cooking. 11:30am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 35 E. Main St. 408.399.6457. PASTARIA & MARKET Italian. $$. Pastaria offers reasonably priced comfort food in an unpretentious but lively atmosphere. 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sun. 49 E. Main St. 408.399.3477.
RESTAURANT JAMES RANDALL Californian. $$$. Chef and co-owner Ross Hanson takes his cues from the seasons and favors a simple, ingredient-driven approach that places it squarely in the California school of cooking. He favors big, robust flavors and large serving sizes to create
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STEAMER’S New American. $$$. Styling itself as a grill house, Steamer’s includes rotisserie meats and fragrant grilled chops in addition to fresh fish. Quality control and service are excellent. Full bar. 11:30am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm daily. 31 University Ave. 408.395.2722.
TANDOORI OVEN Indian. $. Tandoori Oven has quickly found its niche in Los Gatos among the burrito joints, sushi spots and upscale restaurants with its made-to-order curry dishes and spicy north Indian fare at good prices. 11:30am9:30pm daily. 133 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, 408.395.1784; 1875 S. Bascom Ave., Campbell, 408.559.3885; and 109 S. First St., San Jose, 408.292.7222. TAPESTRY Contemporary haute. $$$. Right on the main street, this cottagelike spot blends traditional French cooking with contemporary fusion: filet mignon with Mongolian-style brown sauce; crayfish chow mein. Elegant and friendly. 11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm Tue-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 11 College Ave. 408.395.2808. THREE DEGREES Eclectic, California. $$$. Set inside the beautifully remodeled Toll House Hotel, Three Degrees delivers a mixed bag of big and small plates from an eclectic menu. Some dishes, like the New York steak, are great, but others fall flat. Full bar. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri; dinner 3-10pm daily. 140 S. Santa Cruz Blvd. 408.884.1054. VALERIANO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT AND BAR Contemporary Italian. $$$. While the kitchen exudes earthy aromas, the dining room’s soft terra-cotta walls glow with a sense of Mediterranean mission. Handson management makes each patron feel pampered. Full bar. 5pm-close daily. 160 W. Main St. 408.354.8108.
VIVA LOS GATOS NEIGHBORHOOD EATERY California. $$$. This popular Los Gatos restaurant mixes it up with Italian-leaning Mediterranean food, fresh
fish, grilled steaks and several Asian-inspired dishes. 11am9:30pm Mon-Fri, 8am-10:30pm Sat, 8am-9:30pm Sun. 15970 Los Gatos Blvd. 408.356.4902.
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WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$. Silicon
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Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the definitive upwardly mobile California pizza. Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian wood-fired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas—delicate, light and satisfying. Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.5566. For other locations see www. willowstreet.com.
$. Darda serves halal meat and draws parts of its menu from western China, a region that borders the Muslim countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Seafood and noodle dishes are particularly good. No alcohol served. 11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10:30am3pm, 4:30-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 296 Barber Court. 408.433.5199.
WINE CELLAR New California. $$. This cozy dining spot offers an education in Old World charm and New World cuisine, from smoked salmon pizza to grilled ahi tuna to desserts as fresh as spring break. 11:30am9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10:30am-9pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.4808.
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ABC SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Chinese. $$. ABC is a Hong Kong-style restaurant, and that means dim sum and lots of fresh, fancifully prepared seafood. At lunch the place is a traffic jam of dim sum carts proffering an assortment of little snacks. 11am-2:30pm, 59:30pm daily. 768 Barber Lane. 408.435.8888.
BANANA LEAF Southeast Asian/Malaysian. $$$. A charming, exotic gem of a place with some of the best Southeast Asian food in the county. Sauces are masterfully crafted and reduced to glossy consistencies. 11am-3pm, 5-9:45pm Mon-Thu, 510:30pm Fri-Sat. 182 Ranch Dr. 408.719.9811. CHILI GARDEN Szechuan. $$. There’s a lot to recommend at this Szechuan standout. Mapo tofu is a classic that rules here. For sheer fireworks, go for the Chongqing spicy chicken, a fearsome-looking dish of
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DING SHENG Chinese. $$. Bustling Ding Sheng restaurant specializes in Shanghai-style Chinese food but features a wide variety of regional dishes. Shanghai dishes include cold weather fare like dumplings, braised meats and sweet and savory meats. 11am-2:30pm, 5pm-midnight daily. 686 Barber Lane. 408.943.8786. LIOU’S HOUSE Chinese. $$. A shopping center next to a miniature golf course is an unlikely place to find a classically trained Chinese chef, but Silicon Valley offers good food in unexpected places. Check out the Hunan tofu, kung pao chicken and stir-fried pea greens. 11am-2:30pm, 4:309:30pm Tue-Sun. 1245 Jacklin Rd. 408.263.9888.
SAVORY CHICKEN Filipino. $. Savory Chicken offers a Filipino take on fried poultry. The chicken is tossed in a proprietary blend of herbs and spices and fried in soybean oil. No flour or bread crumbs are used. The result is an almost translucent skin that is so crisp it shatters on contact. 11am8pm Tue-Sun. 1557 Landess Ave. 408.945.8616.
SOUTH LEGEND SICHUAN RESTAURANT Szechuan Chinese. $. The menu of this Milpitas standout reads like an encyclopedia of Szechuan food. The kung pao chicken and Chen ma pa tofu are great. 11am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1720 N. Milpitas Blvd. 408.934.3970.
SWAGAT Indian. $. Swagat explores both southern and northern Indian cuisine in its
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$$. Tirupathi Bhimas specializes in vegetarian food from south India, particularly that of Andra Pradesh, a spicy and aromatic cuisine, as well as a few north Indian dishes and “Indo-Chinese.” 11:30am-2pm, 6-9:30pm Sun and Tue-Thu, 11:30am-2:30pm, 6-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 1208 S. Abel St. 408.945.1010.
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ANDY’S BAR-B-QUE Barbecue. $$. Andy’s Bar-B-Que is the reincarnation of one of the South Bay’s best barbecue joints. Originally located in Campbell, Andy’s is still serving great oak-smoked meats to a dedicated following. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 39pm Mon-Thu, 3-10pm Fri-Sat, 3-9pm Sun. 2367 El Camino Real. 408.249.8158. ATHENA GRILL Greek. $$. The Santa Clara restaurant serves the standards you’d expect, but the menu goes deeper and offers authentic Greek dishes you’re not likely to find elsewhere at bargain prices. 10:30am-9pm Mon-Fri. 1505 Space Park Dr. 408.567.9144.
BEQUE Korean. $$. Beque stands out on El Camino Real’s Korean restaurant row for its high style and modern design, but it’s the Korean barbecue, soups and noodles dishes that are the main attraction. 11am10pm daily. 3060 El Camino Real. 408.260.2727. BIRK’S American grill. $$$. What makes Birk’s stand out from the rest is a commitment to quality, freshness and hygiene. Concentrate on the specials, or enjoy creative selections from the appetizer menu. Full bar. 11:15am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Sat-Sun. 3955 Freedom Circle. 408.980.6400. BY-TH-BUCKET American. $$. All walks of humanity rub shoulders here, enjoying just
Salvadoran. $. Chalateco, a San Jose-based six-restaurant chain, serves Mexico Citystyle Mexican food and a few Salvadoran dishes. That makes the food unlike the Mexican food typically served in Silicon Valley, but it’s definitely typical Mexican food. 10am-11pm daily. 2323 The Alameda. 408.243.1357. This is the real deal, priced to keep patrons coming back for bowls of spicy beef, seafood, pickled vegetables, chili soup and, yes, bean curd in its many permutations. 1484 Halford Ave. 408.246.1484.
HATCHO Japanese. $$. Santa Clara’s Hatcho restaurant offers a little bit of everything. Restaurants that strive to be jacks-of-all-trades often end up being masters of none, but Hatcho displays a wide range of talent. 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-10pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1271 Franklin Mall. 408.248.8500.
KABAB AND CURRY’S IndianPakistani. $. Because it’s tucked into a quiet, semiresidential side street, Kabab and Curry’s feels like a neighborhood secret. The Indian and Pakistani restaurant serves a good lunch buffet, and at dinner try the butter chicken, choley and tandoori chicken. 10:30am2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun. 1498 Isabella St. 408.247.0745. KABAB HOUSE HALAL Middle Eastern. $. Santa Clara’s Kabab House Halal, a spare, eight-table restaurant, serves a pan-Middle Eastern menu that leans toward Iran. As the name implies, Kabab House is basically a kebab house. 11am9pm Mon-Sat. 2521 Newhall St. 408.984.2204. 99 CHICKEN Korean-style fried chicken. $. The simple restaurant specializes in Korean-style fried chicken. Korean chicken is rendered of its fat and produces smooth pieces of meat with a taut, shatteringly crisp epidermis.
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PARCEL 104 New American. $$$$. Parcel 104 casts a spell with its stridently seasonal, ingredient-driven menu of new American food. The restaurant is one of the South Bay’s musteats. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri, 7-10am Sat-Sun; lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri. 2700 Mission College Blvd. 408.970.6104.
PHO #1 NOODLE HOUSE Asian noodle house. $. A good and friendly destination when one’s stomach screams for a threecourse meal but one’s wallet has but $10, Pho boasts an ambitious menu of nearly 100 Vietnamese and Chinese items. 10am-9pm daily. 5025 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.249.1111.
PHO THANH LONG Vietnamese noodle house. $. This diner’s pho rates among the Top 3 in the South Bay. Beer. 9am-9pm daily. 2450 El Camino Real. 408.983.0888.
SABOR SALVADOREÑO Salvadoran. $. One of the few outposts for Salvadoran food in the South Bay, Sabor Salvadoreño serves excellent pupusas, soups, tamales and other standards from the tiny Central American nation. 9am9pm daily. 2045 White Oak Lane. 408.985.6464.
SHAN Pakistani and Indian. $. Shan serves a mix of northern Indian and Pakistani food. Unlike India, most of which is Hindu, Pakistan is Muslim, and that means that meat—chicken, beef, lamb, and goat—plays a starring role. Kebabs, Tandoori and curries all shine here. 11:30am-3pm, 5:3010pm daily. 5251 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.260.9200. TOFU HOUSE Korean. $. Soup stars at this casual, popular stop. To tofu soups, add mushrooms, beef, pork or seafood—plus scores of condiments like daikon, cucumber, radish. Hot stuff! 11am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri, 11am-9pm Sat. Closed Sun. 3450 E. El Camino Real #105. 408.261.3030. YAN CAN FRESH ASIAN COOKING Chinese and panAsian. $$. At Yan Can you can have chicken satay, wonton
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YOYO SUSHI BAR & GRILLE Japanese fusion. $$. The fusion-friendly menu features such expertly realized creations as the deep-fried California Roll and the Fisherman Roll, crab and avocado wrapped in rice, topped with salmon and rich masago sauce and then baked. Weekday happy hour. 11am10pm daily. 3958 Rivermark Plaza. 408.213.9696.
YUKI SUSHI Japanese $$. A family-friendly ambience prevails here, full of community hubbub, good food, generous portions and super chefs. Yuki keeps it simple but always interesting with dishes that are well thought out and presented. 11:30am-2pm, 5-9:30pm TueFri, 5-9:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. Closed Mon. 1827 Pruneridge Ave. 408.248.9144. ZAFRAN Northern Indian and Pakistani. $. Zafran serves northern Indian and Pakistani food, a muscular, hearty cuisine that revolves around meat: chicken and beef but also lamb and goat, lamb brains and other organ meats. 11am-11pm daily. 1855 El Camino Real. 408.247.9998.
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BAY LEAF Indonesian and Thai. $$. Bay Leaf’s menu is divided into Thai and Indonesian food and it’s the latter that stands out. While Thai food is characterized by bright, high notes, Indonesian food strikes a lower bass note. 11am-3pm, 59:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat, 11am-9pm Sun. 122 S. Sunnyvale Ave. 408.481.9983.
CHELOKEBABI Persian. $$. Go straight for the baghali ghatogh, a fantastic appetizer made from delicate but rich baby lima beans, scrambled eggs and lots of garlic. Just as good is ghaymeh, a daily special made from tender chunks of beef, split peas, eggplant and
tomato sauce. 11am-10pm daily. 1236 Wolfe Rd. 408.737.1222.
DISHDASH Middle Eastern. $$. Dishdash celebrates the culinary glories of the Middle East beyond falafels and hummus. The menu is made from traditional recipes and ingredients but presented with a contemporary flourish. There’s also a small but well-chosen wine list to match. 11am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10pm Sat-Sun. 190 S. Murphy Ave. 408.774.1889.
IL POSTALE Italian American. $$$. Its previous incarnation as a post office lends this space eccentric charm, and the food delivers full-bodied taste in generous portions. Veal marsala, thin-crust pizza and New York steak are featured. 11am-1:30pm, 4-9:30pm TueSun. 127 W. Washington St. 408.733.9600. LUCKY DHABA Indian. $. A dhaba is a roadside fast-food joint in northern India. We’ve got our own version here at Sunnyvale’s Lucky Dhaba. Located off busy El Camino Real, Lucky Dhaba offers a wide variety of good Indian food. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu and 11am-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 1036 El Camino Real. 408.617.0660.
PEZELLAS Family Italian. $$. Serves popular Italian dinners with rich sauces and generous portions. East Coast seafood dishes like linguini and clams and calamari sautéed in tomato, garlic, and basil stand out. Pizza and pasta abound. Full bar. 11am-2:30pm Tue-Fri, 5-10:30pm Tue-Sat. Closed Sun-Mon. 1025 W. El Camino Real. 408.738.2400.
P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO Chinese. $$. 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 FriSat. 390 W. El Camino Real. 408.991.9078.
SAIZO Japanese. $$. Part bar, part eatery, Saizo served small plates of grilled and fried dishes made to go with sake and beer. It’s all good. Open daily for lunch and dinner Mon-Sat. 592 E. El Camino Real. 408.733.7423.
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SENZALA Brazilian. $$. 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. 11am10pm Mon-Sat. 250 E. Java Dr. 408.734.1656.
SHALIMAR Indian-Pakistani. $. Walk up to the counter, grab a menu and place your order. One of the best dishes is the plain-looking haleem, a lentil and barley stew available with chicken or beef. Nihari, a rich beef shank stew, is also great. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm Sun-Thu, noon-3:30pm, 5:3011pm Sat-Fri. 1146 W. El Camino Real. 408.530.0300. SUGAR BUTTER FLOUR Bakery. $. Sugar Butter Flour’s desserts and pastries go well beyond the humdrum sweets found at most restaurants and bakeries. The bakery’s chocolate skills are particularly strong. 7am-7:30pm Mon-Thu, 7am-8:30pm Sat, 8am-5pm Sun. 669 S. Bernardo Ave. 408.732.8597.
TAVERNA BISTRO Old Mediterranean/Turkish. $$. Mustard and ruddy pomegranate hues warm the restaurant’s interior; zesty Arabic infusions warm the food. Choose from mezes such as hummus or tabouli. Entrees include lamb, beef or chicken gyros or lamb kebab. 11am10pm daily. 133 S. Murphy Ave. 408.735.9971.
UDUPI PALACE Indian. $$. Udupi Palace, a south Indian vegetarian restaurant, specializes in dishes—dosas and uthappams. Dosas are long, thin crepes made with rice flour. Uthappams are pancakes made with rice and lentil flour. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am10:30pm Sun. 976 E. El Camino Real. 408.830.9600.
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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soup, chicken teriyaki and Korean barbecue beef all in one sitting. This outpost of celebrity TV chef Martin Yan’s growing empire does a reasonably good job with all those cuisines. 11am-9pm daily. 3927 Rivermark Plaza. 408.748.3355.
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The Dum Dum Girls know how to write catchy indie pop songs with dreamy, melancholy lyrics. Their two EPs and first album are chock full of tongue-in-cheek bubble-gum melodies—sort of modernized ’60s girl group, with a bit of ’70s glam-punk for good measure). Things got a little heavier on their second album, Only in Dreams, which was released last month. Lead singer Dee Dee Penny’s mother passed away, and Penny became more lonely and alienated as she and her husband maintained busy,
separate tour schedules. Only in Dreams became cathartic for her, exploring those themes in depth. But is it still catchy indie pop? Of course. The production is a little more professional, and the lyrics are more personal. But the songs will still be stuck in your head for days. (AC)
MATT AND KIM Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View Wed – 7pm; $20-$69 It’s somewhat ironic that Matt and Kim are on the bill for the big Blink 182/My Chemical Romance show; if either of those bands had a DIY moment in their life, it’s long since forgotten. In contrast, the freakishly cute couple of Matt (Johnson) and Kim (Schifino) have kept it pretty indie, even
on their breakthrough record, Sidewalks, last year. Maybe it’s just good karma catching up with them—they dared to be a punky dance duo several years before most indie kids had rediscovered the dance floor, although you gotta think Kathleen Hanna’s jump from Bikini Kill to Le Tigre had an impact. (SP)
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I mean, didn’t we just have the last “annual” crawl like a month ago? So, clearly these are fast zombies we’re talking about, not slow zombies. I mean, let’s face it, classic Romero-style shamblers may be championed by horror nerds everywhere in the ongoing fast vs. slow debate, but their crawls are biannual at best. Anyway, you should know the drill by now—this begins at the firehouse and dress is Living Dead Casual (jean shorts OK, as long as they’re smeared with blood). (SP)
JOSH THOMPSON Rodeo Club, San Jose Thu – 8pm; $10 For country beer anthems, it’s hard to beat Todd Snider’s “Beer Run”—I mean, it has frat boys
from Abilene driving all the way to Santa Cruz to see Robert Earl Keen, and even has a message: “Oh, how happy we would be, if we’d have only brought a better fake ID.” But Josh Thompson’s “Beer on the Table” isn’t too shabby, especially the chorus (“Come Friday night. my friends and I start peeling off them labels, working hard all week puts the beer on the table”). He’s also got a supercool tribute to outlaw country, “Blame It on Waylon,” which especially works since he looks a little like a young Willie. In any case, this guy’s in the right country state of mind. (SP)
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Oct 6 at Avalon, Santa Clara
CALICOVE Oct 7 at Studio 8, San Jose
LEFT COAST LIVE Oct 8, downtown San Jose
INCUBUS Oct 9 at 7:30pm, Shoreline
BILLY IDOL Oct 12 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery
UPROAR FESTIVAL Oct 14 at 1pm, Shoreline
EVENING WITH GROUCHO Oct 15 at 8pm, Mayer Theatre, Santa Clara University
JOURNEY Oct 15 at 7pm, Shoreline
ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY Oct 16 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center
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Caravan, San Jose Sat – 10pm; free
It gets hot in the Central Valley. Real hot. Sometimes, the only way they can deal with the blistering heat is by pumping heavy metal into their eardrums to dull the pain. San Jose may not be quite as hot, but we did have a decent late-fall heat wave. Fortunately, the Central Valley is sending over one of their best thrash metal bands, Recognize. They will numb your senses with crushing guitars, double bass rolls and growling lead vocals. There’s even some chaotic tempo changes and crazy, screaming to keep it interesting.
After walking away from Britney’s tour after being demoted from coheadliner to support act, Enrique Iglesias brings his own world tour to the South Bay. He also brings Pitball, who was on his No. 1 song “I Like It,” and Prince Royce. The son of Julio is more popular than ever since the release of his album Euphoria—this year he passed Prince and Michael Jackson to become the artist with the most No. 1 hits on the dance charts. (SP)
Combining the best elements of hardcore punk and thrash metal, Cheapskate run through each blistering song like a jackrabbit on a hot date. Fans of underrated bands like Rich Kids on LSD or the Crumbsuckers will feel right at home; it’s fine musicianship mixed with hyper-ferocity. This is music for skateboarding down the street for a beer at the nearest dive bar. PDR and Fukm open. (BD)
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DJ SPRYTE Studio 8, San Jose Sat – 10pm; $20 after 11pm DJ Spryte style goes back to his Chicago roots—mostly high energy club mixes, but he’s got plenty of skill on the turntables, and he’s not afraid to use it. He has an impressive, albeit unusual résumé . Not only does he regularly fly to clubs all over the country as one of the most sought after DJs working today, but his mixes have found their way into Iron Man 2, The Jenny Jones Show and Method Man and Redman’s brief FOX show. He has performed at everything from the 2010 Winter Olympics to the Transformers movie premiere. Keeping his list of gigs interesting is this fashion show at Studio 8 by Kaatje Designs. (AC)
ROGER DALTREY Oct 21 at 8pm, San Jose Civic Auditorium
BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT Oct 22-23, Shoreline
JOHN CAGE CELEBRATION Oct 26 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford
STEEP CANYON RANGERS Oct 27 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center
ARIEL STRING QUARTET Oct 20 at 3pm, Montalvo Arts Center
LEMONHEADS Oct 31 at Avalon, Santa Clara
JOSH ROSEMAN SEXTET Nov 12 at 8pm, Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford
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Thinking Big STEPHENSON’S SENSE OF SNOW CRASH Author Neal Stephenson doesn’t shy away from mind-bending plots.
Neal Stephenson’s new novel, Reamde, takes a long look at a futuristic world of online gaming and intrigue By NEAL SOLDOFSKY
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EAL STEPHENSON occupies a unique place in the world of literature. He writes extremely smart and obscenely long novels about science, history, philosophy and mathematics. And not only does he manage to get these things published, but somehow they always become bestsellers.
His last novel, Anathem (2008) was 935 pages long, focused heavily on an alternative history of philosophical and scientific thought, featured a lengthy glossary of invented terms and had two
appendices covering mathematics and one covering metaphysics. The day it came out, I bought a copy at Costco. But one of the reasons for Stephenson’s commercial success is that he is not just dedicated to ideas, he is dedicated to telling fun adventure stories. And this is the aspect of Stephenson that you are most likely to notice when reading his latest novel, Reamde (William Morrow). If this 1,044pager looks massive, perhaps that’s because Stephenson wanted to build a monument to the power of plot. “My basic stance towards the novel,” Stephenson told me over the phone, “is that the novel is first and foremost a medium of mass pop culture. It can also be a work of fine art, in the sense of, you know, ballet or an opera. But in its basic roots, it’s a mass-culture phenomenon. The people who wrote those 19th-
century serialized blockbuster novels understood that. They were making stories that appealed to a huge swath of the population. And they were able to entertain them and reach a lot of people, while still producing work that has literary qualities that we still find respectable today.” Stephenson’s first big success as a novelist was Snow Crash in 1992, a semisatirical science-fiction novel about a pizza-delivery boy/swordsmen/hacker, set in a future United States in the process of run-away privatization, with much of the country divided into franchises of for-profit suburban microstates. Along with descriptions of American hyperinflation, adventures of teenaged delinquents and lengthy jaunts into Sumerian myth, Stephenson presented an early and compelling vision of a virtual online world. He wrote of people controlling “avatars” in “the Metaverse” and occasionally getting into duels to the virtual death. Snow Crash is now widely regarded as a classic, especially among the sorts of people most likely to built virtual worlds. With Reamde, Stephenson returns to
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the subject of virtual worlds, but this time the setting is contemporary, and the virtual world a popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (or MMO) called T’Rain. The game is not all that unlike World of Warcraft, but it is designed from the ground up (literally, as it’s a matter of virtual geology here) to support gold farmers—those players who grind away at the game in order to collect virtual wealth to sell to other players. While WoW cracks down on them, T’Rain embraces them, with a monetary policy that is tied to the mineral output of the world and a payment system envisioned by the game company’s founder, a draft dodger and former drug smuggler, well acquainted with money-laundering. I asked Stephenson how he came to write about an a multiplayer online game. “I’ve been familiar with that world since I was playing dungeons and dragons back in my college years,” he said. “Since then, there’s been this ongoing process of trying to translate those types of games into more and more sophisticated electronic forms. Starting with text-based adventures and moving on up to the massively multiplayer games that exist today. And it’s very easy to see the through-line that joins those games.” Stephenson also did plenty of research (much of it in World of Warcraft), and it shows. The action scenes set in T’Rain manage to feel like an accurate representation of video-game combat, while somehow remaining as tense and exciting as the action scenes set in the real world. I asked Stephenson if he found his research subject addictive. “Well, it’s meant to be addictive,” he replied. “These things are very carefully designed to have addictive qualities, and that works just as well on me as on anyone else. In my case, it’s just a matter of how much time I can afford to spend feeding that addiction.” Reamde isn’t just about video games. It’s also about hackers, Russian mobsters, Welsh and Central Asian terrorists, and well-armed American right-wing idealists—an unlikely set of players brought into contact with one another in chain of accidents set off by the titular Chinese-made computer virus, which is cleverly designed to take advantage of the monetary infrastructure of T’Rain.
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Oct. 6–30, Thursday–Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm; Northside Theater, San Jose; $15/$20 These days, Sam Shepard is probably more familiar as a craggy, slow-drawl actor than a playwright. For its season-opener, Northside Theatre Company has picked a worthy reminder of how Shepard got his start: the superlative drama Fool for Love. Locked in a desert liebestod of sorts, Eddie and May hole up in a remote motel room and thrash their way through a mine-filled relationship.
Sister Cities
Thursday–Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm, through Oct 23; Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto; $18/$30 It’s tough enough when for siblings get together, but when four sisters all have different fathers and wildly different backgrounds, the reunion is really fraught. Dragon’s new play explores the comic and dramatic possibilities in Colette Freedman’s play, directed by Dale Albright.
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AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Three generations of dark secrets are revealed at a family reunion in Tracy Letts’ drama; presented by City Lights. ThuSat, 7:30pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs through Oct 23. $25-$35. City Lights, San Jose.
BANDSTAND BEAT Tabard Theatre Company opens its season with the premiere of a revue about TV dance shows of the 1950s and early ’60s. Thu (Oct 6), 8pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs through Oct 9. $10-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.
CABARET Kit Kat Klub chanteuse Sally Bowles romances two men in the highly charged world of Germany between the wars in the Kander and Ebb musical; presented by San Jose Stage Company. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Oct 23. $17.50-$40. San Jose Stage Co.
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The premiere from TheatreWorks of a drama about surviving and rebuilding in post-Katrina New Orleans. Previews Wed-Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows TueWed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm Sat, 2 and/or 8pm, Sun, 2 and/or 7pm. Runs through Oct 30. $29$49. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
Two lovers work through their passionate attachment in a desert motel room in Sam Shepard’s drama; presented by Northside Theatre Company. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. Runs thru Oct 30. $15/$20. Northside Theatre, San Jose.
DAMN YANKEES A musical about temptation on the diamond, presented by South Valley Civic Theatre. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Oct 29. $14/$18. Morgan Hill Community Playhouse.
DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE The drama department at SJSU presents a comedy by Sarah Ruhl. Opens Fri, 7pm. Regular shows Tue-Sat, 7pm. Hall Todd Theatre, SJSU.
THE FIFTH OF JULY Friends and relatives in Missouri look to the future on the occasion of the American bicentennial in Lanford Wilson’s play, presented by Pear Avenue Theatre. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Oct 5. $15-$30. Pear Avenue, Mountain View.
42ND STREET A musical about Broadway babies and their hopes and dreams. A South Bay Musical Theatre presentation. Thu, 8pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Oct 8. $15-$28. Saratoga Civic Theatre.
GYPSY A musical taken from the memoir of stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. A Broadway by the Bay production. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Oct 9. $33 and up. Fox Theatre, Redwood City.
H.M.S. PINAFORE Gilbert & Sullivan from Lyric Theatre of San Jose. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $11-$36. Montgomery Theater, San Jose.
OLIVER! A musical ripped from the pages of Dickens and brought to the stage by the Sunnyvale
CRESCENT CITY REVISITED TheatreWorks opens ‘Clementine in the Lower 9’ this weekend at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. Dan Dietz’s play looks at life in New Orleans after Katrina. Among the stars are Laiona Michelle (left) and Jack Koenig. Community Players. Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs through Oct 9. $10.50-$23.50. Sunnyvale Community Theatre.
SISTER CITIES Four sisters from four different fathers reunite after their mother’s death in Colette Freedman’s comedy; a presentation of Dragon Productions. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm Runs thru Oct 23. $16-$20. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.
Classical Concerts FORTNIGHTLY MUSIC CLUB
“Orpheus in the Underworld,” Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait” and Dvorak’s Symphony no. 9. Anthony Quartuccio conducts. Sat, 7:30pm. $20. Gavilan College Theater, Gilroy.
Comedy ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 8pm: Comedy night, hosted by Dan St. Paul. No cover. Redwood City.
COMEDYSPORTZ Fri, 9pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm: Live improv comedy. Fri, 11pm: The Midnight Show. Inside the Camera 3 building, San Jose.
ROOSTER T. FEATHERS
A concert with Libby Kardontchik, Sondra Clark and others performs works by Clark, Deussen and Ravel. Sun, 8pm. Free. Lucie SternCenter, Palo Alto.
Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Dan Cummins. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.
DANIEL PEARL WORLD MUSIC DAYS CONCERT
Wed, 8pm: Laugh Lounge. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Bill Bellamy. $20. Mon, 8pm: Battle of the Bay. $10. San Jose.
The annual tribute to the slain reporter is the prelude to the Stanford Lively Arts season. Thu, 8pm. Free. Memorial Church, Stanford.
OHLONE COLLEGE WIND ORCHESTRA A fall concert directed by Tony Clements with works by Gershwin and Philip Sparke. Sun, 2pm. $8-$15. Smith Center at Ohlone College, Fremont.
SOUTH VALLEY SYMPHONY The season begins with Offenbach’s Overture to
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Museums CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936.” “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: 15001900.” 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 hands-on fun for kids. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm. Sun, noon-5pm. Discovery Meadow, San Jose.
DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present.” “The Changing Face of Homelessness: Portraits by SCU Photography Students.” “Between Struggle and Hope: Envisioning a Democratic Art in the 1930s.” “This Camera Fights Fascism: The Photographs of David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez.”Thru Feb 5. Santa Clara University.
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE “Victorian America: Invention and Technology.”Thru Nov. 6. “Early Aviation Paper Models.” Thru Nov. 6. Fri-Sun, 11am-4pm. Palo Alto.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Book-ish.” A show about how the printed book has influenced visual artists, featuring works from the permanent collection.
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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES For South First Fridays, the museum hosts a Recycled Fashion Show, 8-10pm. “Scrap ART.” Historical quilts and “scrappy contemporary works.” Thru Oct 16. Tue-Sun, 10am5pm. 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, 10am5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.
TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Kenjilo Nanao.” Paintings by the San Francisco Bay Area artist. Thru Nov 27. “Heather Wilcoxon.” Whimsical paintings and works on paper that make sly comments about the state of the world. Thru Nov 27. TueWed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.
Galleries OPENING
CAFFE FRASCATI Opera night this Friday evening as part of South First Fridays. San Jose.
CANVAS GHOST GALLERY “Beyond the Comic Strip.” A music and art show. Fri, noon5pm. 992 S. Eighth St, San Jose.
DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “Wire and Thread.” Sculptural pieces by Jonathan and Joella Kermit. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
GOOD KARMA CAFE “The Peculiar Pageant.” Paintings by Lacey Bryant. Reception for South First Fridays. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
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WORKS/SAN JOSE “Movin’ on Up!” Members’ exhibit by arts collective. Reception for South First Fridays, with music by Mission Chamber Orchestra. Thru Oct. 22. San Jose.
CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI
Artist reception and silent auction for group exhibit. Sat, 5-7pm. San Jose.
“The Jazz Masters Series” by BRUNI. “Sports Originals” by Mark Gray. ““Figurative Sculpture” by Kristina Sablan. Thru Dec 31. San Jose.
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Works by John Renzel and Troy Sims. Reception for South First Fridays features Mission Chamber Orchestra. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
MACLA For this month’s South First Fridays event, the gallery presents an open house with Peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academy. San Jose.
METRO LOBBY “Pictures From Paris.” Photographs by Sonja Caldwell. Thru Oct 28. San Jose. Featuring work by Phantom Galleries artists Michele Guieu, Katie Guiterrez and Jeanne Yee. Reception Friday. Thru Feb 1. San Jose.
“Space Palette.” A musical instrument that allows users to paint sounds. On view for South First Fridays. San Jose.
A show of works created at TechShop. Friday evening. San Jose.
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“White Light.” A solo show by of paintings by Brett Amory. Thru Oct 14. San Jose.
“Bloodworks.” White Light.” A preview show of skin art by Analog Tattoo Arts Collective. Reception for this month’s South First Fridays event. San Jose. “Sonic.” Group show about artists who use sound in their works. Reception Friday, 5-8pm, part of South First Fridays. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
Perez and Francisco Franco. With a live-art party and music by INFM, the Nielson Raiding and O’Craven, plus San Jose Symphonic Choir (8 and 9pm) for South First Fridays. San Jose.
“Naked.” A group show by gallery members for first anniversary. Reception for South First Fridays. San Jose.
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“Fashion and Fusion.” Works by Wendy Fitzgerald, Kiyoco Michot and Sydell Lewis. Thru Oct 15. Wed-Sat, 11am-8pm, Sun, 11am-3pm, Tue, 11am-4pm. Palo Alto.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “31st Annual Art Exhibition and Auction.” With scores of works in many styles and methods. Thru Oct 22. Reception Oct 8, 5-7pm. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
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.
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“Ilion Modern.” New paintings by Randall L. Elkins. Live music for South First Fridays. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
“Altered, a Matter of Perspective.” Works by Belinda Chlouber, Katinka Hartmetz and Ginger Slonaker. Thru Oct 16. Redwood City.
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“Caustic Curio.” The art of Crab Srambly. Live music this Friday evening. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
“Claudia Borgna: Plastic Bags and Ephemeral Dreams.” In conjunction with the Museums of Los Gatos, Montalvo presents a two-part exhibit of Borgna’s ongoing project to create art from recycled materials. Thru Nov 18. “Records and Marks.”
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS “Art of the Dead.” A group show with John Cloud, Greg Carillo, Steven Suiter, Fernando
FROM KIDS TO STARS This is the last chance to catch up with South Bay Musical Theatre’s ‘42nd Street,’ a fond tribute to the all-singing, all-dancing extravaganzas of the 1930s, starring Rebecca Lipon and David Mister. The show closes Saturday at Saratoga Civic Theater. 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 Works in storefronts. San Jose.
STANFORD ART SPACES “3 Artists.” Paintings by Sue Averell, Carmen Barefield and Marianne Bland. Thru Dec 1. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford.
*books MARIKA BLOSSFELDT
A book event with the author of “Essential Nourishment: Recipes From My Estonian Farm.” Mon, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
DOREEN CRONIN A visit with the author of the “Mom Operating Manual.” Thu, 6pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
DENISE GIGANTE The author of “The Keats Brothers” talks about the
Romantic movement in poetry. Thu, 7pm. Books Inc., Palo Alto.
NEAL STEPHENSON
donation. Reay Recital Room, Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.
The author of “Snow Crash” and “Cryptonomicon” appears on behalf of his new epic, “Reamde.” Fri, 7pm. Book purchase required. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
FLAVORS WINE AND FOOD FESTIVAL
MELANIE RAE THON
HALLOWEEN HARVEST FAIR
The novelist and short-story writer appears for a Litquake South Bay Event in collaboration with the Center for Literary Arts. Tue, 7pm. King Main Library, San Jose.
With crafts for kids and train rides to the pumpkin patch. Sat-Sun. $7-$24. Roaring Camp, Felton.
*events CHESTER ARNOLD
A talk by painter Chester Arnold. Wed, noon. Free with admission. San Jose Museum of Art.
DAY OF THE DEAD The events run through the month, including an altar exhibit at King Main Library and at Tropicana Shopping Center, San Jose; plus mask-making workshops Oct 10, 12, 17 and 19, 3:30pm at School of the Arts and Culture, Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose.
FIREBIRD YOUTH ORCHESTRA A concert in conjunction with pianist Patricia Cheng, French horn player Armando Castellano and the Marimo Kai Koto Ensembles. Sun, 3pm. $5
Two days to sample fine foods and vintages. Sat-Sun, 11am5pm. San Jose Convention Center.
MUDDY BUDDY A family-friendly team running and biking event over obstacle jourse. Raises money for athletes with disabilities. Sun, 8am. Joseph D. Grant Park.
PUMPKINS IN THE PARK Gourd grabbing for the family with scarecrow row, apple cider and a children’s concert. Sat, 10am-4pm. Guadalupe River Park, San Jose.
RENAISSANCE FAIRE The celebration of Elizabethan culture and arts runs every weekend thru Oct 16. Sat-Sun, 10am-6pm. Casa da Fruta.
ZOMBIE CRAWL Another chance to get gory and lurch through downtown San Jose; drink specials, raffle and $500 costume contest. Thu, 8pm-1am. Beginning at Firehouse, San Jose.
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Kit Kat Days THAT classic musical snapshot of late Weimar Germany, Cabaret, opened last week as the first production of San Jose Stage Company’s 2011–12 season. With music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, the play alternates between bawdy sequences of the seamy Kit Kat Klub and scenes set in the outside world, contrasting Berlin’s carefree nightlife with its ominous political climate on the eve of the rise of Hitler. The Stage’s production is immersive, with an electric sign looming overhead and first-row seating resembling nightclub tables. You, the audience member, are a patron of the Kit Kat Klub, a sensation that you may find at once fun and disturbing. Taking after the revivals of the ’90s, this version is somewhat darker than either the Cabaret Broadway original or the 1972 film, with a more explicit, ambisexual attitude. This is most conspicuous Runs through Oct. 23; in the iconic Emcee, a sort of lustful, sinister night $25–$50 creature, played outrageously by Jef Valentine. The Stage, 490 Halsey Varady turns in a nuanced performance as S. First St., San Jose Cabaret’s other iconic character, Sally Bowles, who takes nothing seriously and believes that “life is a cabaret.” Varady’s rendition of the title song is a subtle mix of exuberance and uneasiness, suggesting that Sally doesn’t completely believe her own lines. Sally’s love interest, Clifford Bradshaw, isn’t the most interesting hero, but Brandon Mears fills this role nicely, projecting a naïve bemusement at the decadence of Berlin and a gradual disillusionment. Judith Miller and Martin Rojas Dietrich, meanwhile, play a pair of aging lovers, and have some great songs together, including “It Couldn’t Please Me More,” probably the most touching song ever written about pineapples. The real-world scenes in which all these characters interact are not as captivating as the Kit Kat Klub numbers, but they possess a warmth and poignancy that offsets the darkness of the sardonic nightclub scenes. Like Chicago, another of Kander and Ebb’s plays, the musical numbers use flamboyant spectacle to mock a society that is flashy on the surface but rotten at its core. While much energy and humor are packed into songs like “Willkommen,” and “Two Ladies,” there is a mean streak in them that grows more pronounced as the play progresses. Even so, the musical numbers are such a joy to behold that it’s easy to lose sight of the play’s message—which, really, seems to be the whole point. The Stage’s Cabaret invites you to “leave your troubles at the door” and then shocks you with the realization that life isn’t, in fact, a cabaret.—Sean Conwell
WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS Sonja Caldwell shows photographs of the City of Lights at Metro for South First Fridays.
Fall First THE FIRST South First Friday art event of the fall arrives this week. On Oct. 7, various venues and galleries along and near South First Street in downtown San Jose host eclectic artistic endeavors. A number of receptions will feature music and performance; with a special appearance by jazz drummer Adam Everett and his quartet at Eulipia Restaurant, courtesy of San Jose Jazz. New to this edition of South First Fridays will be performances by the San Jose Symphonic Choir at South First Billiards and the Mission Chamber Orchestra at WORKS/San Jose and Kaleid. Some of the highlights of the night follow: ANNO DOMINI The gallery will feature its third and final installment of the tattoo-documentation project by the Analog Tattoo Arts Kolectiv. Bloodworks: Bodies provides a look at the work of 53 tattoo artists inking more than 100 back pieces and body suits. A fresh perspective is promised in the use of 360-degree views of the South First process—an advance on the 2-D “flat” photograph.
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ART ARK The gallery presents Sonic, a group show that
explores the various ways artists work with sound— either directly or by implication—in their creations.
Friday, all evening South First Street San Jose
ART GLASS CENTER OF SAN JOSE The center showcases Space Palette, by Tim Thompson. This unique instrument uses Microsoft’s Kinect and a 3-D camera to allow people to interact with the piece by moving their hands. Various gestures will create shifting musical and visual patterns. KALEID GALLERY Kaleid will host a reception for artists John Renzel and Troy
Sims. Renzel’s “Fictitious Portraits” is a series of character studies given slightly wacky overtones. “Rights-Rituals-Regards” by Troy Sims explores big topics such as civil rights, ancestors and perceptions of beauty through mixed media paintings and paper-and-wire sculptures. METRO LOBBY As always, Metro will display work by a local photographer. This
month, Sonja Caldwell contributes “Pictures From Paris.” SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS & LOUNGE The popular downtown pool hall will be
displaying a plethora of Halloween and Dio de Los Muertos–style images in a show called “Art of the Dead.” The exhibit features the work of John Cloud, Greg Carillo, Steve Suiter, Fernando Perez and Francisco Franco. WORKS/SAN JOSE The gallery offers “Movin’ on Up!,” its annual members’ show. Some 100 artists will participate with pieces in a wide array of styles and mediums.—Justin Albert
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NIGHTCLUB ON THE EDGE The performers at the Kit Kat Klub (from left, Clarissa Chun, Chellana Dinsmore, Halsey Varady, Carmichael ‘CJ’ Blankenship, Allison F. Rich and Christine Capsuto) tease their audience with troubling political undertones in ‘Cabaret.’
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Robotics SPARRING PARTNERS Hugh Jackman learns that you can teach an old robot new tricks in ‘Real Steel.’
Real Steel remakes the classic kid-boxer story with large metal objects bashing and crashing By RICHARD VON BUSACK
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HEN YOU HAVE seen something particularly bad, you start to worry about the stars of the film. Think, for instance, how long it’s been since Hugh Jackman got a really good role. You can see even his charm and energy starting to flag in Real Steel, an arguably worthy attempt to put some heart into the clobbering-robot genre.
Shawn Levy (the Night at the Museum franchise) fills the screen with slightly futurized Americana. As seen from the opening helicopter shot, Jackman’s Charlie Kenton is driving to a carnival at twilight. He’s the kind of barnstorming robotboxing proprietor who wakes up with the Budweiser bottles rolling around next to his bunk. He plans to match his battered ’bot against what was billed as a steer—and turns out to be an angry bull. Happily, for those who prefer not to see animals mistreated, the bull takes one good punch and then tears the robot apart with his horns. Now broke, ’botless and owing a vicious gambler (Kevin Durand) some serious money, Charlie gets
some other news; the 11-year-old son he knew little and cared less about, Max (Dakota Goyo), has just lost his mother. Charlie takes a $75,000 bribe in exchange for custody rights from his ex’s in-laws. Some of the money will pay for a space at the local robot gym. He is welcome to stay there because the owner, Bailey (Evangeline Lilly), is sweet on him. Charlie and his son are prowling the wrecker’s yard. The rain unearths an old-time robot, with blue LED eyes and a face that looks like a scarred fencing mask. Max’s insistence that the Atom the Robot has skills leads the three from Palookaville rings in places called “The Crash Palace” and “The Zoo” right up to the high-market arenas. Real Steel really steals a primal boxing-movie plot (King Vidor’s 1931 The Champ). Nominally but scarcely based on a Richard Matheson story, once adapted on The Twilight Zone, the movie aims for lyrical moments; there’s even a reel or so without
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robots. Peaceful minutes include a training session where Max seems to instructing his pet ’bot in what looks like tai chi. But someone worried about the movie going sweet: Levy also tries to amp up even the macho side of giant metal machines punching each other, with announcers shouting, “Get back in your corner, bitch, and take your whipping like a man.” I expect that this kind of talk is supposed to make the battle ’bots warmer, in contrast with the vileness of humans. But you also wonder who, exactly, Real Steel is for. The bloody-minded little boy and bloody-minded former little boy demographic is pretty large (as per the box office on Transformers). But they want what they want. Are they going to feel they robbed of regularly scheduled wreckage in favor of dad and son bonding? Jackman looks distempered, as if he were weary of staring with admiration into the space where the robot action is going to be digitized later. Admittedly, he does wake up a little during a kiss with Lilly during Real Steel’s 10-minutes-of-girl sequence. While it’s wrong to go after child actors, Goyo is so clearly an actor that a joke sneaks in about it. During an argument with Dad, Goyo commences a Pacino-style “Look at me. Look at me” riff. Real Steel attempts some kind of resonance with the broken United States. When unearthed, the muddy Atom looks like it’s wearing the sand-colored body armor our soldiers don in Iraq. But Levy overloads his movie with craptasticism: with the swelling of Danny Elfman’s music (suggested title “The Coronation of God”), with the Russo-Japanese villains and Mohawk wearers snarling in defeat. Even the robots don’t have interesting names. A two-headed ’bot is called “Twin Cities”—that must have taken an all-nighter. And as Matt Groening once put it, it ain’t over until the plucky little boy puts his fist in the air and screams, “Yes!”
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New COURAGEOUS (PG-13) A drama about four policemen coping with personal tragedies. (Opens Fri at Century 20 Great Mall Milpitas.)
THE DEAD (R; 105 min.) See review at left.
DIRTY GIRL (R; 90 min.) An ’80s-era comedic drama about a misfit girl running away from her high school and finding a new friend in a closeted gay fellow student. Stars Juno Temple and Jeremy Dozier. (Opens Fri at CinéArts Santana Row.)
THE IDES OF MARCH (R; 101 min.) See review on page 50. (Opens Fri.)
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Wily Lurchers BEING DEAD, zombies would seem to have a lot of time on their hands. Not the case this Oct 6. The baleful festivities around the fourth-annual downtown San Jose Zombie Crawl include a chance to preview The Dead, which opens Oct 7. It’s the first zombie movie in years to have some real lead in its pencil. The Africanmade film (not to be confused with John Huston’s 1987 screen version of James Joyce’s story) is distributed by Global Cinema Distribution, LLC, the San Jose group that helped make a national success out of the Benjamin Bratt film La Mission. Brothers Howard J. and Jonathan Ford went from England to Bourkina Faso to direct this strangely plausible, beautifully photographed and hellaciously gory horror film. If there’s almost nothing new to be said about zombs, the fresh scenery re-energizes the myths. We may know the drill, but we don’t know the terrain. With bad roads, thorny bushes, little water and no place to hide, a pair of humans prowl a dead land. U.S. Air Force Lt. Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) is the only survivor of the crash-landed last plane out of Africa. He is rescued by a soldier, Sgt. Daniel Dembele (played by the film star Prince David Oseia, whose presence and
remarkable physique reminds one of Djimon Honsou). The two commandeer a skeletonized pickup truck and search for an airbase in a Wages of Fear–style journey to find sanctuary from the inexplicable plague of undead cannibals. The Fords’ zombies are as slow as the Romero K_\ ;\X[ kind, but they’re fearless Opens Friday, and wily; they stand Camera 12, San back and watch, sizing Jose, and AMC up opportunities. You Mercado 20, could accuse the Fords of Santa Clara glomming on to old movie tropes about Africa as a place of sudden death. The Fords are quite skilled. The Dead is a compulsively watchable, crisply trimmed piece, with elegant matching shots, but it’s yet another film about Africa that keeps yielding to the European point of view. However, there’s hardly anything fantasylike in the idea of Africa being left by the world to implode from plague and disaster. Also plausible: the idea of the breakdown of everything but existential decency, such as the duty to protect children. The acknowledgement of common bravery in Africa brings some hope to a situation where the living would envy the dead. —Richard von Busack
MACHINE GUN PREACHER (R; 127 min.) A biker (Gerard Butler) gets religion and works to help the children of war-torn Sudan. Also stars Michelle Monaghan. (Opens Fri.)
THE MILL AND THE CROSS (Unrated; 92 min.) Charlotte Rampling, Michael York and Rutger Hauer star in a film by Lech Majewski about Bruegel’s 16thcentury painting “Way to Calvary.” (Opens Fri at Camera 2 in San Jose.)
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(R) An epic about the toppling of the Qing Dynasty by Sun Yat-sen; directed by and starring Jackie Chan. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.)
REAL STEEL (PG-13; 127 min.) See review on page 47. (Opens Fri.)
SAIGON ELECTRIC (Unrated; 106 min.) Pretty much the Saigon version of Step Up. It takes us to a putative underground of inner-city kids, whose Adidas logos, breakdancing, Major League Baseball hats, Krylon murals and kanji tattoos mark them as rebels who must have freeze-framed MTV to get every detail perfect. Onto this block comes an innocent country girl, Mai (Van Trang), who is attending the traditional dance academy. She fails. Uncertain of what to do next, she keeps the room she’s rented from a hard-drinking oldster (Phan Tan Thi). At a restaurant job, Mai meets the tough and spiky Kim (Quynh Hoa) part of a troupe of street hip-hoppers called Saigon Fresh. Samsung, which gets a lavish amount of product placement here, is hosting a dance-off against the team’s mortal and evil rivals, the North Killaz. The only spontaneous moves in this film are the ones the dancers perform. Directed by Stephane Gauger (The Owl and the Sparrow, which was produced by former Sunnyvale director Tony Bui). (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.) (RvB)
WEEKEND (Unrated; 96 min.) Intense, beautifully turned story of a weekend’s tryst in Nottingham, U.K., between Russell (Tom Cullen), a barely out lifeguard, and the impatient and rebellious Glenn (Chris New), who doesn’t want any strings attached. Director Andrew Haigh’s focus on all-night conversations and alien, high-rise cubicles (Urszula Pontikos’ outstanding photography puts a chill on the film’s sweetness) almost justifies the borrowing of the title of a deathless Godard film. Sexually uncompromising as it is, the film is a protest against the pigeonholing of gay people that one sees in mainstream movies. “Straight people like us as long as we follow the rules,” says Glenn. The finely balanced combination of emotional restraint and serious eroticism make this one that could transcend a niche audience. Whether it does or not, you can only hope that this is what the future of gay cinema looks like. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.) (RvB)
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AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL 2: THE THIN COMMANDMENT Darryl Robert’s documentary on the dieting industry. (Plays Oct 9 at 1pm in San Jose at Camera 12.) (RvB)
DESPICABLE ME (2010) The brisk and intelligent rephrase of the evil genius plot makes up for several cul de sacs. The bald, heavy-eyebrowed Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) is a mad scientist seeking to surpass his recent theft of the Times Square Jumbotron: a nice feat, but it’s one that’s been eclipsed by a new villain on the block called Vector, an unsightly nerd bearing a notable resemblance to Bill Gates. The scheme to retrieve it depends on a trio of forlorn, cookie-selling orphans who have been haunting Gru’s front door. (Plays Oct 6 at sundown in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square.) (RvB)
lethal gangsters. Still, Drive is so studiously cool it’s hard not to feel cool toward it. Impractical, coincidental things happen that might have made more sense in a smaller-scale location, such as Phoenix, where James Sallis’ nouveau pulp novel was set. Directed, with all homage to Michael Mann, by Nicolas Winding Refn ( Bronson ). (RvB)
50/50 (R; 139 min.) Alternate title could be So/So, despite leads Anna Kendrick and Joseph GordonLevitt. Their work in this comedy/
drama is disrupted by Seth Rogen. In regularly scheduled bullish (or bullying) comedy moments, Rogen’s Kyle turns up to rattle the cage of the seriously ill Adam (Gordon-Levitt). When Rogen is gone, the film develops interesting counterpoints. Rather than just the sketchily drawn victim of cancer, Adam may be a kind of a princeling. Gordon-Levitt finds some humorous notes, but his Adam isn’t a very well-defined character. He’s outlined by the contrast between the two girls in the picture: bitchy live-in
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NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. Oct 8 at 7:30pm. Shorts: Keaton in “The Haunted House,” Charlie Chase in “Forgotten Sweeties,” “Liberty” with Laurel and Hardy, and Chaplin in “Behind the Screen.” Frederick Hodges at the piano. Oct 9: An afternoon with Laurel and Hardy, including “The Laurel and Hardy Murder Case” and “Berthmarks” (1929). (Plays Oct 8-9 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK/ INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (1981/1984) Two of Lucas/Spielberg reconstitution of vintage serials, featuring Harrison Ford as one of the old hat-act adventurers. (Plays Oct 7-9 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)
Reviews DRIVE (R; 100 min.) Ryan Gosling transforms from first-rate actor to movie star here. He plays an unnamed getaway-car driver in L.A. with a studious code of noninvolvement. He tosses away this code at first sight of the film’s girl (Carey Mulligan) and her kid. Terrific action sequences—much pre-Avid magic here—and a cast of HBO/FX all-stars. Among them is the Oscar-bound Albert Brooks who is half (with Ron Perlman) of a pair of aging but
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metroactive FILM Rachel (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Katherine (Kendrick). It may be that Rogen’s ultimate contribution to cinema is taking the fun out of that game where you pretend that the hero and his buddy are lovers. On the bright side, this may be the least spiritual film about facing death we’ve been offered. (RvB)
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Evan Rachel Woods is first satisfyingly forward and tough, and then oddly melodramatic. The film’s plot hangs on the problem of this girl not being able to raise $900 in an emergency. But given the way Molly looks, she probably spends that kind of money on a Saturday night. Clooney rations himself K_\ @[\j onscreen (justifiable, f] DXiZ_ maybe, to convey the R; 101 min. mystique of a man who Opens Friday might be president). Thus Ides of March doesn’t start to get exciting until far too deep in the game, when we get the latenight confrontation we’ve been promised between Myers’ hero worship and the ruthlessness of the candidate. Clooney’s visuals are essentially televisionistic, though he has some worthwhile ideas to darken the film. A rally at Xavier University means Myers is alone, prowling a half-lit basketball court with the sinister letter X in it. The cityscapes of Cincinnati have some resonance—nothing says political angst like Hoffman standing on a slushy Ohio street in a duffle coat, smoking a cig. And politics here is as unappetizing a business to view as sausage making in Porkopolis.—Richard von Busack
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WELL SUITED FOR A ROCK REVIVAL New York’s Postelles headline the First Street stage at Left Coast Live on Saturday.
The Postelles bring a new wave of offline rock to this weekend’s Left Coast Live festival in San Jose By
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HREE-CHORD, DRIVING rock & roll seems to go in and out of style every few years, but when it comes back, it comes back. So while the Postelles may be one of the hottest indie bands in the country right now, it wasn’t too long ago though that these New York natives were playing tiny clubs in their hometown, sticking out like a sore thumb.
“I remember going to shows and every band had a Mac on stage. We didn’t do any of that. We didn’t really fit in. We actually cared about playing our instruments,” says singer/ guitarist Daniel Balk. The hip Brooklyn electronic bands weren’t too interested in the Postelles, but the crowds liked it. For them it was something refreshing and new, despite the fact that the band’s influences stretch into rock & roll through the ages, from Buddy Holly to Ramones to early post-punk and even to later garage revivalists like the Strokes. Balk has a knack for writing simple, energetic rock songs that are catchy, sunny and seem devoid of any irony or self-awareness.
It’s just straight-forward feel-good rock, which he contends people are still hungry for. “We all act like rock & roll has been around for 300 years. It’s only been around since the ’50s. I don’t think it’s going anywhere. I think kids love to learn how to play the guitar and write songs. As long as you have three chords, you can write a rock & roll song,” Balk says. Within a year, EMI signed the New York quartet, who quickly released an EP and recorded their debut full-length album. When EMI kept pushing back the LP’s release date and providing no reasonable explanation, the Postelles became uneasy. “It was a confusing time. We would ask questions, like ‘What’s going on? What are we doing?’ They didn’t say anything. It went on this way for a year,” Balk recalls. At the same time as all this majorlabel confusion, the Postelles were touring heavily, playing festivals and generating quite a buzz. There was a
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lot of anticipation surrounding the release of their debut album but no album to speak of. They finally got word that EMI was dropping them. The label had fired a lot of their employees, including the people that signed them. Fortunately, there were plenty of other labels interested in releasing their debut album, both major and indie. The Postelles went with indie label +1 since they were willing to release the album as is. Besides, at that point, being on a major label lost some of its appeal. “I’m not sure we would go down that route again,” Balk says. The fact that the Postelles can in one breath describe their love for one hit-wonders from the ’80s and in another talk about how much they love doo-wop and Motown and even the Strokes, whom they get compared to often, explains exactly what distinguishes them from other rock bands. They are not a retro rock band, they are a modern band with a fan’s love of rock and pop past. “I tend to write catchy songs. I always liked pop and I listen to a lot of ’80s pop songs, like those one hit-wonders. I find them really interesting,” Balk says. A lot has changed for the Postelles over a relatively short period of time, and so has the underground scene in New York they came out of. Rock & roll, it seems, is back in style again. As they continue to tour heavily and try to prove they are worth the hype, they’ve found time between shows to work on a second full-length, which will be a little different than their first. According to Balk, the first album was recorded live and sounds exactly the way they do when they play live in concert. This time, they’ve not only been taking more time to craft each song, they are also overdubbing pianos, keyboards and percussion. Balk says the new songs are “more mature,” but that the songwriting is essentially the same. “With the new stuff, we’re spending a lot more time with the sounds. We’re letting it breathe a little more,” Balk says.
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Dub FX Friday at Blank Club, 9pm; $10 Providing a perfect primer for next week’s looping festival is Australia’s Dub FX, a man who creates his grooves using nothing but his voice and a pedal for looping and effects. Seeing him live, it’s hard to believe he’s not hiding a band somewhere—even while watching him do it all right in front of you. What he’s able to do with his soundscapes and lyrics is incredible. Most influenced by reggae and hip-hop, he’s recently been working dubstep into his one-mouth sonic attack as well. (SP)
The Good Hurt Saturday at Streetlight Records, 4pm; free This Seattle band have found some buzz thanks to their gig at SXSW this year. There’s a barely a trace of a Northwest sound on these guys’ debut record, You Are Here. “In Her Name” sounds more like the Chili Peppers, while “Slash and Burn” showcases their softer, harmonic side. Strong melodies and lyrics from a band going somewhere fast. (SP)
Le Castle Vania Friday at Catalyst in Santa Cruz, 8pm; $15 Now one of the most famous DJs in the world, Atlanta’s Le Castle Vania (a.k.a. Dylan Elland) returns for a full set after playing the Identity Festival this summer. Last year’s The Bulletproof Tiger Mixtape is a good example of his style—nearly an hour and a half of nonstop aggressive beats from his own work, along with a bunch of his favorite other artists. (SP)
Metro’s music calendar runs Wednesday–Tuesday.
Rock/Pop ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, 8:30pm: Claire Mack presents the Women of Soul with Dee Johnson, Stacy Carter and Joyce Grant. $20/$25. Redwood City.
BOSWELL’S
CLUB FOX
Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: Savoir Faire. Sat: Kid Dynamite. Sun: The Gents. Mon: Kid Dynamite. Campbell.
Fri, 8pm: Pat Travers, Lonero and Points North. $19/$23. Sat, 8pm: Tony Lindsay, Carlos Xavier. $14.$16. Redwood City.
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Thu: TBA. Fri, 10pm: Superbad. Sat, 10pm: Stung, a tribute to the Police. San Jose.
Thu: Badfish, a tribute to Sublime. Sat: Bamboo, Gloc9. Santa Clara.
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Sat, 6:15pm: Afton presents live music. Cupertino.
Wed, 9pm: Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles, Colleen Green. $10/$12. Fri, 9pm: Dub FX, Los Hot Boxers, Drunken Starfighter. $10. Sat, 9pm: Old Firm Casuals, Brassknuckle Boys, Pressure Point, Factory Minds. $10. San Jose.
CAFFE FRASCATI Wed, 7pm: Jack Gilmour, acoustic rock. San Jose.
CAPERS Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
Fri, 7pm: Enrique Iglesias. $19.50 and up. San Jose.
LOS GATOS LODGE Fri-Sat: Live rock bands. Los Gatos.
MOJO LOUNGE Thu: TBA. Fri: Daniel Castro Band. Sat: The RevTones. Fremont.
MOUNTAIN WINERY Thu, 7:30pm: Stevie Nicks. Fri, 7:30pm: Blondie, English Beat. Saratoga.
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Playing the Fall Classixx MOST electro-indie fans in San Jose are forced to trek to San Francisco to fulfill their dance-party needs. But to the delight of the local bandana-ed and tightpanted crowd, Agenda Lounge has consistently alleviated some of its patrons’ pumped-up pain with its lively monthly DJ bash known as the Workout, which celebrates its third anniversary this week with L.A.-based disc-scratching duo Classixx. Expect the crowd to sweat like Jillian Michaels. Classixx embodies the Workout vibe. Middle-school buddies Tyler Blake and Michael David started out blaring dance music from Blake’s basement apartment in Echo Park, where carousers lined up around the block to get in. Those early playdates got Blake evicted, The Workout but the parties continued. After high school, Blake shipped off to the Berklee School of Music, while David honed his craft as guitarist and keyboardist for a New Wave band, but they continued sending each other new music discoveries via email. They reconnected back in 2007 and began running the L.A. club circuit, toning and refining their sound.
Friday Agenda Lounge, San Jose
The DJ duo represents a shift from hulking, grunting electro to a smoother, cardio-friendly dance composition, in the same vein as Treasure Fingers (which Classixx remixed) and Breakbot. Their remixing credits also include hot items such as Phoenix, Major Lazer, Fischerspooner, LadyHawke and Holy Ghost. Previously known as Young Americans, their current name reflects the twosome’s affinity for timeless artists who invoke impromptu road trip singalongs, such as Paul Simon, Talking Heads and Kraftwerk. Many of their tracks, such as the remix of Holy Ghost’s “I Will Come Back,” sound like what one would have heard at the Palladium in New York in the 1980s. Blake and David are doing some major power-lifting these days, continuing to perform and remix while working on their debut LP of original tracks. In addition to their Agenda affair, they will be performing at the Halloween Ball along with 12 other artists on Oct. 31 at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco.—Maureen Coulter MYTH
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Tue, 6pm: The Thom and Mary Ellen Duo.
Sat, 8pm: Melted Horses. Gilroy.
Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Sunnyvale.
NAGLEE PARK GARAGE
Wed, 9:30pm: Jam Night with Backfire & Diva Stativa. No cover. Thu: TBD. Fri, 9:30pm: Naked in Vegas. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: The Groove Doctors. $10. Los Gatos.
Wed, 7pm; April Chase. Free. San Jose.
NETO’S GRILL Fri, 7:30pm: EnVivo. Sat: Hatrick. Santa Clara.
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RED ROCK COFFEE Fri, 8pm: Cartoon Bar Fight, Roosevelt Radio. Mountain View.
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THE REFUGE
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Fri, 6pm: Battle of the Bands with Recognize, Better Days and more. $8/$10. Cupertino.
SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE
Wed, 5pm: World music. Fri, 5pm: World music. Sat, 5pm: Belly dancing and world music. Sun, 5pm: World music. Mon, 5pm: Moroccan music. Mountain View.
Sun, 7:30pm: Incubus. Mountain View.
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SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS
Wed, 5pm: Flamenco. Fri, 5pm: World music. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music. San Jose.
TESSORA’S
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Sat, 4-11pm: Left Coast Live Record Swap, also at 4pm, live show by Good Hurt. San Jose.
World AGENDA LOUNGE
Man Overboard - This Time Next Year
Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night. Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.
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STEPHENS GREEN Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music. Mountain View.
Sat, 6pm: Christine Noble and Peter Vasllev. Redwood City.
EULIPIA RESTAURANT Fri, 8:30pm: Adam Everett Quartet for South First Fridays. Free. San Jose.
GRAND DELL SALOON
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.
CAFFE FRASCATI Fri: Opera night for South First Fridays event. San Jose.
CASCAL Thu: Live music. Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live music. Mountain View.
CLUB FOX Thu, 8pm: Ticket 2 to the PaciďŹ c
Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz. San Jose.
WINE AFFAIRS Wed-Thu, 7:30pm: Live music. San Jose.
C&W/Folk MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 8pm: Jill Knight Trio. Santa Clara.
RED ROCK COFFEE Sat, 8pm: Mariana Bell, David Gielan. Mountain View.
RODEO CLUB Wed: Gloriana. $10. Thu: Josh Thompson. $10. San Jose. Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys. Thu, 9pm: Jennifer Hayward. Sat, 9pm: Rodeo House. Sat, 10:15pm: Jennifer Hayward. Fremont.
J.J.’S BLUES CAFE
AZĂšCAR
Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
HEDLEY CLUB
Fri, 8:30pm: Aza. $10/$15. Redwood City. Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music and belly dancing. Cupertino.
Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6-9pm: TBA. Fri, 710pm: Andy Just Band with John Garcia and Philip Benson. Sat, 610pm: Annie Sampson Band. Sun, 2pm: Zydeco Dance Party with the Zydeco Flames. Mon, 6pm: Ukulele jam night. San Jose.
THE SADDLE RACK
ANGELICA’S BISTRO
ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE
POOR HOUSE BISTRO
Sat: Live music. Campbell. Every ďŹ rst and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Sat, 8:30pm: Jessica Johnson. San Jose.
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Fri, 7pm: Claudio. Italian classic guitar and vocals. San Jose.
ANGELICA’S BISTRO
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WOODHAM’S LOUNGE
Wed, 8pm: Salsa. $5. San Jose.
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Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.
Jazz/Blues
Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Santa Clara.
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Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.
Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.
TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE
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Fri, 9pm: Levitate with Jorge Faustmann. Sat, 9pm: Live jazz for Left Coast Live. San Jose.
LILLY MAC’S
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Fri, 6pm: LIXX. Free. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.
Thu: The People’s Challenge Film Fundraiser and Poetry Slam, music by Niteliters, MetaďŹ zix and Baylingual. Fri: First Fridays Art of the Dead Exhibit, INFM, the Nielsen Raiding, O’Craven. San Jose.
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with Valu Fa and Funckch3n. Hashanah Party. $15/$20. Redwood City.
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LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Thu, 7-10pm: Live jazz. San Jose.
SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Siddesaddle and Co. Tue, 6pm: Carolina Special San Jose.
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LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.
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Wed, 7pm: Open mic. Redwood City.
Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos. San Jose.
MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT SJ Sat, 5pm: Purple Hat. Mountain View.
MOUNTAIN WINERY Sun, 2-7pm: Wine tasting plus live jazz by Meritage. $20/$25. Saratoga.
BAMBOO LOUNGE Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic . Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.
BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic. Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.
BLUE ROCK SHOOT Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic. Saratoga.
OLD WAGON SALOON & GRILL Sun: Live blues. San Jose.
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(THIS SATURDAY NIGHT AT PATTY’S) Time to get your Shark Bite on Hot Dogs, Polish $2.00 Italian Sausage $3.00 PBR Draft $2.50 Drink specials all night Ask about $3.00 Shark Shots And calling all Gumbas Italian fest Sunday October 23rd Dinner 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM Outdoor Bar & Music (And as always, first drink $1.00 off with ticket after any HP event.)
A good old fashioned corner bar Corner of Montgomery and San Fernando 408-998-4566
CONCERT
HOW SOON IS NOW Incubus brings the revamped sound of their new album ‘If Not Now, When?’ to Shoreline Sunday.
Incubus NOT OFTEN does a band with a string of No. 1 singles stop to reconsider whether or not it’s headed in the right direction. But that’s exactly what SoCal hitmakers Incubus did, right about the time their “Love Hurts” single was sitting on top of the alt-rock charts (the most recent in a string of hits that began with 2001’s “Drive”). The band—made up of founders Brandon Boyd (guitar/ Shoreline Amphitheatre vocals), Mike Einziger (guitar) and Jose Pasillas (drums), along with bassist Ben Kenney and Chris Kilmore on keyboards—went on hiatus, agreeing that in order to Sunday, 7:30pm write new material, they had to live a little. They came $20–$99.50. back with a renewed sense of purpose and entirely new ideas about what an Incubus record could sound like. Asserting that the aggressive walls of guitar they were known for can turn into a crutch, Incubus dared to go in a whole other direction on their new record, If Not Now, When? It’s stripped down, half as loud and moody. But songs like “Defiance” and “Promises, Promises” are as catchy as the band ever was. Young the Giant opens. —Steve Palopoli
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DA KINE CAFE
Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY
Tue, 6:30-9:30pm: Open mic. Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.
Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.
BLUE PHEASANT
Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.
Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Wed, 8-11pm: Live music, comedy and poetry. Los Gatos.
RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.
SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY First and third Thursday of every month, 7pm: The Canvas. Open to all performers. Sunnyvale.
ALEX’S 49ER INN Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
AZÚCAR
BOGART’S LOUNGE
Wed, 9pm: English and Spanish karaoke and dancing. San Jose.
Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: KJ Dennis. Sunnyvale.
THE BEARS
BOULEVARD TAVERN
Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.
Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.
BENNIGAN’S GRILL
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN
Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.
Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. San Jose.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT
BLUE BONNET BAR
Wed, 8pm: Open-mic night with Anita. Willow Glen.
Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
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2011/2012 Carriage House Theatre Concert Series LIMITED AVAILABILITY
Sun, October 16, 7:30pm For the past two decades Acoustic Alchemy has dominated the contemporary smooth jazz scene earning three Grammy nominations and thousands of fans worldwide.
“Redefining the rules is what Acoustic Alchemy does best.” – All About Jazz
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
Tickets On Sale Now! Free on-site parking!
Presented by
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BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Comedy with Mr. Walker. San Jose.
HOMESTEAD LANES Fri, 9:30pm: Vinnie. Mon, 9pm: Vinnie. Tue, 9pm: August. Cupertino.
HUDDLE Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.
JOHNNY V’S Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
KATIE BLOOM’S BRITISH BANKERS CLUB Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.
Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.
KC BAR AND RESTAURANT BRIX
Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am. San Jose.
ROSIE MCCANN’S Tue, 8:30pm: Karaoke. No cover. Santana Row.
RUDY’S PUB Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.
SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.
SHERWOOD INN
KHARTOUM
Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas. San Jose.
C&J’S SPORTS BAR
Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.
Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather. Santa Clara.
KING OF CLUBS
THE COURTS LOUNGE
Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. Mountain View.
Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.
KYOTO PLACE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.
RED STAG LOUNGE
Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.
Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.
CREEKSIDE LOUNGE
More listings:
METROACTIVE.COM
Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
DASILVA’S BRONCOS
SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
STATION 55 Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Sun, 5-9pm: Family karaoke. Gilroy.
TEQUILA SHOTS BAR & GRILL
Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
MARIANI’S
EFFIE’S RESTAURANT
NETO’S MARKET & GRILL
Wed, 9pm: Larry. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.
Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 27pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.
Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT
OASIS
EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR
Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug. Sunnyvale.
Mon, 8pm-midnight: DJ Curtis. Willow Glen.
Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.
OFFICE BAR Fri-Sat, 9pm, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.
THE ESCAPE Mon, 8:30pm-1:30am: DJ Curtis. San Jose.
FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Tue, 9pm: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
FLAMES COFFEE SHOP Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.
GILROY BOWL Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.
O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB
TOUCHDOWN TOMMY’S Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke. San Jose.
WILLOW DEN Wed, 9:30pm: DJ JR. San Jose
Mon, 9pm: Matt. San Jose.
A PERFECT FINISH Thu, 8:30pm-midnight: Karaoke with Jordan River Productions. San Jose.
PEACOCK LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: Brian. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Ryan. Sunnyvale.
PIONEER SALOON Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall. Woodside.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Wed-Thu, Sat, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.
X-BAR Fri, 9pm: DJ Vinnie. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.
Dance Clubs
POINCIANA LOUNGE Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No cover. Santa Clara.
QUARTER NOTE Mon-Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.
REDI ROOM Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.
AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: Antromix. Fri: Workout Party. San Jose.
AZÚCAR Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock
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PORTUGAL. THE MAN looked ecstatic at the Avalon last Wednesday.
Credit Jessica Shirley-Donnelly
Kenny Sinatra
The turntables at Johnny V’s got warmed up with beats from DJ IAN SMIZZLE Wednesday.
Halloween came early to the Avalon at the MISFITS show.
DROP DEAD SIXTY’s Michael Kerosene lit up the X-Bar Friday.
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THE BLANK CLUB Thu, 9pm: Atomic, DJ Basura. $5. San Jose.
BRANHAM LOUNGE Wed: Humpday Wednesdays. Thu: DJ. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Chaos. Sun: Beer pong. Tue: $2 Tuesdays. San Jose.
More listings:
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KING OF CLUBS
LOFT BAR AND BISTRO
SoFA King Thursdays. Fri: Video Killed the DJ. Sat: Sapphire. Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Buck Wild Tuesday. San Jose.
Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live DJ. San Jose.
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS
Fri, 9:30pm: Club Brinca. Tue, 9pm: Nox. Mountain View.
Sat: DJ Paul x. San Jose.
MIAMI BEACH CLUB STUDIO8
Thu-Fri: Top 40, club hits, hip-hop, Latin. Sat: DJ Nelly presents. San Jose.
Thu: Highlighter Glow Party. Fri: Live with Calicove. Sat: DJ Spryte and fashion show by Kaatje Designs. San Jose.
MOTIF Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.
TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE MYTH TAVERNA
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.
Wed: Live music. Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy. San Jose.
PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. Tue: Pubstumpers Trivia. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.
BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Thu: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Benofficial. Sat: DJ Quantum. San Jose.
BRIX
Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover. Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo. Sat, 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik. Sun, 7pm: Latin Beat. Sun, 9pm: Sonidero Night. Sunnyvale.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Sir Dancealot. Willow Glen.
PEACOCK LOUNGE 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
SABOR TAPAS BAR
ZEN LOUNGE
Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing. Sun: Reggae. San Jose.
Thu: 24 Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ D-Roc. Mountain View.
Wed, 10pm: DJ jr. Thu, 10pm2am: DJ Uncle Hank. Fri, 10pm2am: DJ Itchy. Sat, 10pm-2am: DJ Mouth. Willow Glen.
SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Wed: Wingy Tango night. Thu:
Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays. Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.
C&J’S SPORTS BAR Wed & Sat, 10pm: DJ. Fri, 8:30pm: Sizzling. Salsa night. Santa Clara.
San Francisco’s City Guide
CLUB ILLUSIONS
BORIS
Every first and third Fri: Club Fuz. Every second and fourth Fri: Hot/Live. Palo Alto.
Japan’s loudest three-piece has released three fulllength albums this year. Oct 8 at the Regency Ballroom.
DASILVA’S BRONCOS
STEVIE NICKS
Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ or live band. No cover. Santa Clara.
The original gold dust woman gets her witchy vibe on with new album, “In Your Dreams.” Oct 8-9 at the Fillmore.
DIVE BAR
GIRLS
Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs. San Jose.
The lazy, crazy summer haze of their debut has turned to a sophomore fall. Oct 8-9 at the Great American Music Hall.
EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dance Party. San Jose.
THE ELEGANT PUB Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Checo. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.
FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Coyote Ugly Night. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
GANG GANG DANCE Indie-tribal, reverb-heavy outfit with compelling new album, “Eye Contact.” Oct 11 at the Independent.
LUPE FIASCO Modest Mouse-sampling hip-hop star celebrates a whopping five years in the game. Oct 11 at the Fox Theater.
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Reeferendum BUD ON THE BALLOT Activists rallied at City Hall last week to announce a referendum that challenges San Jose’s cannabis regulations.
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ILL THERE be enough weed to go around? Some San Jose patients requiring medical marijuana to cope with their ailments worry they will be left out in the cold once the city’s new regulations take effect. The regulations, which the San Jose City Council approved Sept. 27, will grant 10 permits to dispensary operators on a first-come, firstserved basis. Those 10 collectives will be required to grow their buds and manufacture all edibles and ointments onsite. Currently, the city’s 140 or so dispensaries source their meds from dozens of growers and manufacturers, many of them well outside city limits. “My wife and I were probably some of the most vulnerable patients in San Jose, and this law is going to make me even more vulnerable,” says John Shannon, a soft-spoken polio survivor who stood with a group of about 40 activists, growers, doctors, patients and dispensary operators at a press conference outside of City Hall last week. The group formed to create a referendum calling for repeal of the city’s soon-to-be-enacted medical cannabis regulations. Shannon, who uses a cane, tells Metro he worries the new regulations will make it harder to get the only medication that calms his muscle spasms. Other speakers took a more direct tone. “They passed a law which is an effective ban on medical cannabis collectives in this city,” said
James Anthony, an attorney and the chairman of the week-old Citizens’ Coalition for Patients Care (CCPC). CCPC has begun collecting signatures on a referendum petition to repeal the regulations. The group has just 30 days to gather 30,050 signatures from registered voters to qualify for the November ballot. The referendum’s rallying cry is: Let the voters decide. Activists recently collected enough signatures to put cannabis regulations on the ballot in Butte County, while cashstrapped San Diego, citing the cost of a vote, repealed its ordinance. San Jose City Clerk Dennis Hawkins tells Metro that if the referendum qualifies for the ballot, a special election could cost the city between $1.4 million to $3.4 million. “It is unfortunate that some marijuana advocates are opposed to reasonable regulations that will allow safe access to medical marijuana,” Mayor Chuck Reed said in a statement. Reed added that the city is trying to accommodate patients in the absence of state and federal guidelines, and that the coalition is putting patient safety and the city’s budget at risk. Shannon says CCPC contacted him hoping that his wife, a vocal cannabis activist who battled throat cancer and emphysema, would speak at the press conference. She died two weeks earlier, which is why Shannon spoke that morning in her honor. “That’s probably all I’m capable of doing right now, is asking people to please show some compassion for their fellow citizens,” Shannon says.—Ted Cox
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21–April 19): “Do unto others as they wish,â€? advised French artist Marcel Duchamp, “but with imagination.â€? I recommend that approach to you, Aries. You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you can create good fortune for yourself by tuning into the needs and cravings of others, and then satisfying those needs and cravings in your own inimitable and unpredictable ways. Don’t just give the people you care about the mirror image of what they ask for—give them a funhouse mirror image that reects your playful tinkering. TAURUS (April 20–May 20): Winner of the American Book Award in 1963, William Stafford wrote thousands of poems. The raw materials for his often-beautiful creations were the fragments and debris of his daily rhythm. “I have woven a parachute out of everything broken,â€? he said in describing his life’s work. You are now in a phase when you could achieve a comparable feat, Taurus. You have the power to turn dross into sweetness, refuse into treasure, loss into gain.
GEMINI (May 21–June 20): Is there something you’ve always wanted to create but have not gotten around to creating? Now would be an excellent time to ďŹ nally get that project off the ground. Is there any role you have fantasized about taking on but have never actually sought out? Now would be a perfect moment to initiate an attempt. Is there any big mysterious deal you’ve thought about connecting with but never have? Any profound question you’ve longed to pose but didn’t? Any heart-expanding message you’ve wanted to deliver but couldn’t bring yourself to? You know what to do. CANCER (June 21–July 22): The experiences you’re irting with seem to be revivals of long-forgotten themes. You’re trying to recover and reinvigorate stuff that was abandoned or neglected way back when. You’re dipping into the past to salvage defunct resources, hoping to ďŹ nd new applications for them. To illustrate the spirit of what you’re doing, I’ve resurrected some obsolete words I found in an 18th-century dictionary. Try sprinkling them into your conversations; make them come alive again. “Euneirophreniaâ€? means “peace of mind after a sweet dream.â€? The deďŹ nition of “neanimorphicâ€? is “looking younger than one’s true age.â€? “Glozeâ€? is when you speak soothing or attering words in order to persuade. “Illapseâ€? means the gradual or gentle entrance of one thing into another. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): An old Egyptian saying declares that “the difference between a truth and a lie weighs no more than a feather.â€? I suspect that your upcoming experiences will vividly demonstrate the accuracy of that statement. There will be a very ďŹ ne line between delusional nonsense and helpful wisdom ... between colorful but misleading BS and articulate, provocative analysis ... between interesting but irrelevant fantasies and cogent, evidence-based prognostications. Which side will you be on, Leo? To increase your chances of getting it right, be a stickler for telling yourself the heart-strong truth. VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): What’s the most practical
method of acquiring wealth? One out of every ďŹ ve Americans believes that it’s by playing the lottery. While it is true, Virgo, that you now have a slightly elevated chance of guessing the winning numbers in games of chance—the odds are only 90 million to one instead of 100 million to one—I don’t recommend that you spend any time seeking greater ďŹ nancial security in this particular way. A much better use of your current cosmic advantage would be to revitalize and reorganize your approach to making, spending, saving and investing money.
LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): The Jet Propulsion Laboratory landed two robotic vehicles on Mars in 2004. They were expected to explore the planet and send back information for 90 days. But the rover named Spirit kept working for more than six years, and its companion, Opportunity, is still operational. The astrological omens suggest that any carefully prepared project you launch in the coming weeks could achieve that kind of staying power, Libra. So take maximum advantage of the vast potential you have available. Don’t scrimp on the love and intelligence you put into your labor of love.
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): “I don’t want to play
the part of the mythical phoenix again,â€? my Scorpio friend Kelly has been moaning as she prepares for her latest trial by ďŹ re. “I’ve burned myself to the ground and risen reborn out of the ashes two times this year already. Why can’t someone else take a turn for a change?â€? While I empathized, I thought it was my duty to tell her what I consider to be the truth: More than any other sign of the zodiac, you Scorpios have supreme skills in the art of metaphorical selfimmolation and regeneration. You’re better able to endure the ordeal, too. Besides, part of you actually enjoys the heroic drama and the baby-fresh feelings that come over you as you reanimate yourself from the soot and cinders. Ready for another go?
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): When she was
7 years old, my daughter, Zoe, created a cartoon panel with colored pens. It showed an orange-haired girl bending down to tend to three orange owers. High overhead was an orange ďŹ ve-pointed star. The girl was saying, “I think it would be fun being a star,â€? while the star mused, “I think it would be great to be a girl.â€? I urge you to create your own version of this cartoon, Sagittarius. Put a picture of yourself where the girl was in Zoe’s rendering. Getting your imagination to work in this way will put you in the right frame of mind to notice and take advantage of the opportunities that life will bring you. Here’s your mantra, an ancient formula the mystics espouse: “As above, so below.â€?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): Years ago, I
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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Right now, you have license to make pretty much everything bigger and funnier and wickeder. Good fortune is likely to ow your way as you seek out experiences that are extra interesting and colorful and thought-provoking. This is no time for you to be shy about asking for what you want or timid about stirring up adventure. Be louder and prouder than usual. Be bolder and brighter, nosier and cozier, weirder and more whimsical. The world needs your very best idiosyncrasies and eccentricities! PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): There is a slight chance the following scenario will soon come to pass: A psychic will reveal that you have a mutant liver that can actually thrive on alcohol, and you will then get drunk on absinthe every day for two weeks, and by the end of this grace period, you will have been freed of 55 percent of the lingering guilt you’ve carried around for years, plus you will care 40 percent less about what people think of you. Extra bonus: You’ll feel like a wise rookie who’s ready to learn all about intimacy as if you were just diving into it for the ďŹ rst time. But get this, Pisces: There’s an even greater chance that these same developments will unfold very naturally—without the psychic, without the prediction about a mutant liver and without the nonstop drunkenness. Homework: Provide proof of the following hypothesis: “You know what to do and you know when to do it.â€? Freewillastrology.com.
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Please watch the movie ‘What in the World Are They Spraying?’ and try to prove it wrong. The claim: Aluminum oxide is being sprayed into the air to deect the sun’s energy and help prevent global warming. The aluminum falls to Earth and seriously alters everything. Is this true? —Kevin Brown, Logan, Ohio
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CECIL@METRONEWS.COM On the History Channel’s ‘Ancient Aliens’ series, they said aliens came to Earth to mine gold in order to protect their atmosphere. On radio’s ‘Coast to Coast AM,’ they said our government is shooting gold into the atmosphere to protect us from gamma rays. How do they get the gold to stay up in the sky and not fall back down to earth?— Jean Brown, Savannah, Geo.
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