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THIS MODERN WORLD

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.

Pencil Pusher You work in one of the offices of a large hotel where most employees have uniformed, customer-service jobs.

Evidentially, you think you’re better than the rest of us, sighing, rolling your eyes and acting annoyed almost every time one of the uniformed masses makes a necessary request—and complaining to a manager that we are rude if we don’t react cheerfully your insolent behavior. What makes you think we should kiss your hiney when you’re condescending to us? Because you’re not in a uniform? Your daddy got you the job? You’re sleeping with the boss? I don’t know how you got your job or why you think you’re above everyone else, but I do know that you won’t go far in this world with that attitude, no matter who you know.

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Paging Ahab Astrology columnist Rob Brezsny (Oct. 12) repeats claims that there is no reference in the Bible to Jonah being swallowed by a whale or the three wise men visiting the baby Jesus. To the

contrary, in the King James version, Book of Jonah Chapter 1, verse 17, it states that “the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.” It was common to refer to whales as “great fish” in centuries past. As for the wise men, Matthew, Chapter 1 verses 1–12, describes “wise men come from the east to Je-ru-sa-lem.” Following “the star,” they come into the house where Mary and the child are “and fell down and worshiped him” giving him gifts of “gold and frankincense and myrrh.”

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Remote Vote Less than half of the council was there to vote? Seems to me that if a majority can not be represented at the time of

a vote, then a vote should be nullified.

It’s pretty ridiculous when all it would take for a council member to be there is an active broadband connection and a MSN account.

NICHOLAS CORTESE

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Oracle just had their convention in San Francisco at the Moscone center— 45,000 employees, venders, contractors spending their money. Low estimate, city of San Francisco made $10 million that week, easy. What was going on at our convention center? Why are we kidding ourselves that companies like Oracle are going to come here and spend their money, even with a $140million dollar renovation?

Lew Wolff is running a dying ball club (“Six Degrees of Michael Lewis,” The Fly, Oct. 12), but Chuck Reed wants to give his friend Wolff a billion dollars to build a park. Once again San Jose is going to promise money to people who provide a service while not funding that promise. Instead they steer the funds to those who pay them well for favors.

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While Occupy Wall Street movements rally with a base called the 99 percent, a group at San Jose City Hall goes by a similar title but with an altogether different meaning.

The group known as UNIT 99, made up of the city of San Jose’s top managers as well as some clerical workers in the City Council offices, includes some of the highest-paid officials in San Jose. The most lucratively compensated of these officials is DEBRA FIGONE, San Jose’s city manager, who earned $239,000 last year. Figone has worked for the city on and off for nearly a quarter of a century, and since returning from a stint as Los Gatos’ city manager, she has racked up the limit of 1,200 hours of unused sick leave. Doing some crude math, if the most powerful unelected official were to retire today, she could cash out roughly $100,000 in sick leave. After former police chief ROB DAVIS and former fire chief DARRYL VON RAESFELD both took the money and Don’t bolted upon retirement forget last year—$298K and to tip! $268K in sick leave payouts, respectively— FLY@ the city changed its METRONEWS. COM golden parachute policy.

Employees of four public bargaining groups have already been stripped of their sick leave payouts unless they quit or retire before the Jan. 1, 2012, while a timetable of June 30, 2012—the end of the fiscal year—is the current expiration date for the rest of city workers. All of this has set off speculation that Figone will retire sooner than later. But TOM MANHEIM, the director of communications for the city, says any talk of a windfall for Figone is irrelevant: “I can tell you unequivocally she is not going to resign,” he says. For a city that expects more layoffs as well as closures of libraries and community centers, having the highest-paid employee give up a six-figure sum would be an impressive display of discretion. But as one dubious political insider points out: “If the city manager is giving up $100,000, then the city ought to be blaring that with a trumpet.”

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Stimulus Pack-up

UNDER THE WIRE San Pedro Square Market is one of the last private projects to be funded by the San Jose Redevelopment Agency.

With the Redevelopment Agency coming to an end, downtown San Jose looks for new direction

By JOSH KOEHN

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IVE STOREFRONTS and a parking lot along South First Street, from San Carlos to San Salvador, stand in dark contrast to their neighbors. The white lights and customers in occupied areas only accentuate what urban planners call “missing teeth” on this city block.

Downtown San Jose, like many cities trying to recover from the recession, has seen companies come and go, and restaurants and bars launch and leave.

But one entity the city could always rely on to plow money into recruiting and subsidizing new businesses has all but turned out the lights as well. The San Jose Redevelopment Agency, which 10 years ago had 126 employees, has been reduced to a staff of just eight, mostly to process bond payments.

The agency has been thrown into limbo while municipalities sue the state of California over which branch of government should capture the economic benefits of urban revitalization. The lawsuit, filed by the California Redevelopment Association and the California League of Cities, comes in response to Gov. Jerry Brown’s redeployment of $1.7 billion in local redevelopment funds to balance the state budget. The California Supreme Court is expected to rule in January.

In the meantime, with no RDA involvement in propping up the economy in the core of America’s 10thlargest city, business leaders wonder what the future holds.

“Is the private sector ready to lead?” asks Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association, who delivered an address to business and property owners last week at the Downtown Association’s annual meeting. Knies sees opportunity to be found in the RDA’s likely demise.

“My sense is really it’s going to be a mash-up of public sector, the city and a

third sector—nonprofit leadership from us,” Knies says about the future.

And yet the impact felt by the impending elimination of one of the state’s most active agencies can’t be understated. Projects such as HP Pavilion, the Convention Center, the Fairmont Hotel and Tech Museum would not have come about without RDA investments.

San Jose’s signature summer event, Music in the Park, produced by the Downtown Association and sponsored

by Metro, could be eliminated next year. The annual Christmas parade has already been canceled, ending the event’s nearly 40-year run.

“The parade is off. The city can’t afford it,” Knies says. “I don’t think that one has really hit home for people yet.”

The Downtown Association has been responsible for coordinating many of the city’s events that are free to the public, but that well could run dry soon.

Redevelopment funding was 15 percent of the Downtown Association’s revenue last year, or about $650,000. This year, funding has been cut to $250,000.

“We got chopped pretty good,” Knies says. “We’re looking next fiscal year at potentially zero, because redevelopment might not even exist.”

If that happens, it will be anything but business as usual in San Jose.

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So Rich It’s Sick

Felipe Buitrago

THE FLY

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Giving and Taking When it comes to the impending extinction of redevelopment agencies, few business owners have feelings as complicated as Steve Borkenhagen.

Since co-founding the Camera One cinema in 1976, Borkenhagen has watched his own establishments—his family still owns Eulipia Restaurant on South First Street—and others scratch and claw to remain relevant in the face of rising rents and publicly subsidized competitors.

The Redevelopment Agency, created in 1956, stimulated the economy by buying up underdeveloped and blighted land, but it also inflated property values.

Meanwhile, owner-operated restaurants like Eulipia were forced to battle regional and national chains like Morton’s, Grill on the Alley, Il Fornaio and McCormick & Schmick’s, who moved into modern buildings funded or improved by the Redevelopment Agency after being recruited with the help of city officials.

“There was a time when the Redevelopment Agency was the only entity buying and selling properties, so it probably was creating a false market,” Borkenhagen says. “One thing I felt like it did was subsidize restaurants like McCormick & Schmick’s, when little guys like myself were trying to compete.

It created a very unfair playing field.”

Borkenhagen’s current employer, the San Pedro Square Market, launched by former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery, does not suffer from the same inequities. The market received $2.5 million in grants and a $2.5 million loan from RDA. An additional $1 million also will go to sidewalk and street improvements. But the difference in this newest venture and the RDA’s old habit of picking winners and losers, says Borkenhagen, who is charged with managing the market, is that it will serve as a local attraction and public benefit.

“The best agency projects would be infrastructure, sidewalks, street lighting, parks and the arena,” Borkenhagen says. “These are things that made the downtown a better place.”

The last chapter in the RDA’s history has yet to be written, and it could be an ambitious finish. The Diridon Development Authority, a shell organization established just before Gov. Brown’s move to abolish the state

agencies, currently holds parcels valued at almost $25 million.

The City Council is considering a proposal to sell some of those parcels to Oakland A’s owner Lew Wolff to help solidify his bid for a proposed baseball stadium. If the team’s relocation is approved by Major League Baseball, and San Jose voters give their consent for city property to be leased for a stadium, the draw of a ballpark could make the Redevelopment Agency’s continuing existence seem superfluous in atrracting other businesses. Last year, 75 Silicon Valley CEOs and business leaders signed a letter to MLB Commissioner Bud Selig endorsing the A’s relocation to San Jose.

“A stadium would be a real shot in the arm to the city and its future,” says Richard Keit, the Redevelopment Agency’s executive director.

But with no other options for now, businesses, nonprofits and City Hall are being forced to form stronger bonds to encourage growth. The advocacy group 1stAct, which works to create a cultural identity for Silicon Valley through targeted events and streetscape improvements, is part of that plan.

The city’s Office of Economic Development (OED) recently formed a joint retention program with the Downtown Association, where a few members from both sides dedicate time to keep city office space filled. According to Kim Walesh, director of the OED, the program has pushed Oracle to move several hundred workers into its downtown office building while also attracting co-working community office spaces like NextSpace and TechShop.

“Sometimes when you have fewer staff and resources, it catalyzes an organization,” Walesh says. “It’s clear it’s time to write the next chapter in downtown—less dependence on government funding and more dependence on private leadership.”

But with cutbacks at all levels of government, staff ’s ability to work at the “speed of business,” as Mayor Chuck Reed has called for, is easier said than done.

“How do you switch the mindset over there from regulator and tax collector, fee collector to enabler and partner?”Knies asks.

“It’s going to require people working together and partnerships and having a clear idea of where downtown is going,” Walesh says. “But business and property owners have a real opportunity to shape their environment.”

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Samsung has sued Apple in Japan according to a Bloomberg report. Samsung is claiming a conflict between Apple’s devices and Samsung’s patents “covering wireless communications and user-interface technologies.”

Seeking any venue to fight their patent dispute, Samsung is attempting also to block sales of Apple’s new iPhone 4S in Australia, just a week after Apple successfully stopped sales of Samsung’s iPad doppelgänger Galaxy Tab 10.1 there. This year, the two tech titans have struggled in the Netherlands, France and Italy.

The battle is over the similarities between Samsung’s products and those coming from Cupertino. It’s hard to imagine, though, what alternate touchscreen-based tablets and phones could look like other than the basic minimalist button-free direction Apple took. This legal fight is interesting because Apple and Samsung are inextricably linked. Apple is heavily dependent on Samsung for flash memory and other parts used in their products.

But how long will this go on? Will either company actually benefit from the undoubted fortune being spent on legal fees?

And apropos of death, the iPhone’s Siri has something to say about that too. Should users tell their phones that they “have to hide a body,” they will be asked the sagacious query, “What kind of place are you looking for?” followed by a list of options: “reservoirs, metal foundries, mines, dumps, and swamps.”

Of course, the iPhone is constantly looking out for its users. When asked, “Where can I get some drugs?” it answers, “I found two addiction treatment centers fairly close to you.”

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learn that life is “the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.”

One should, however, be wary of asking it, “Who’s your Daddy?” The phone will respond, “You are,” but adds, “Can we get back to work now?”

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The Meaning Of Life Almost 30 years ago, Monty Python released The Meaning of Life, a classic film that reminded us that every sperm is sacred, that corporate America really does use slave labor and that a wafer-thin mint at the end of a meal isn’t always a good idea. In today’s fast-paced high-tech world, however, who has time to see a feature-length film to find out the meaning of life?

In comes Apple. Its new iPhone 4S has all the answers, and all anyone has to do is talk into the phone to get them. Users who ask, “What’s the meaning of life?” can learn that it is “To think about questions like this,” or perhaps be told, “I can’t answer that now, but give me some time to write a very long play in which nothing happens.” Sadly, not enough time has elapsed since the iPhone 4S was first released.

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Bloomberg quotes a Korean legal expert: “The legal battle is lasting longer and is more extensive than originally expected,” James Song, a Seoul-based analyst at Daewoo Securities Co., said. “This kind of legal saga isn’t good for both companies given their business relationship. The parties will eventually seek to resolve the issue.” —BY BRENDAN NYSTEDT

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Fight Club— The Sequel?

According to a Valleywag story sourced from the New York Post, earlier in the month “Napster founder Sean Parker tipped a West Hollywood waitress $5,000 during a big night out with friends” at the Beverly Club.

“Turns out Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was one of those friends, and the night ended with him and Parker in a drunken ‘screaming match.’”

As Valleywag has it, the two social-

media heavyweights were sparring about just how to integrate Spotify (in which Parker has invested) users with Facebook—mostly a matter of whether or not the former should be required to sign up for an account with the latter.

Citing the Post, Valleywag expands: “It was a full-on screaming match outside the club, but stopped short at coming to blows. They then stormed off in different directions.”

That figures—people don’t usually storm off together after an argument.

However, according to a post on London’s The Telegraph site by San Francisco–based digital-media editor Emma Barnett on Tuesday, Parker “has strenuously denied the clash.” Barnett reports that Parker, appearing at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco “ridiculed the story and ironically blamed social networks for making it go viral.”

She quotes Parker as sniffing, “I love this story because it shows the potential for one little minute irrelevant vastly incorrect rumor to spark this enormous explosion in [the] press largely driven by social media.”

Will Parker put this incident on his Timeline?—MICHAEL S. GANT

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Pot Prohibition Will Fail San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is out of central casting for the role of Eliot Ness, the famed Chicago lawman who battled the likes of Al Capone.

Now Reed is a no-nonsense official out to protect the public from the “evil” purveyors of cannabis in his city—not unlike Ness in the bootleg era of the 1920s. But like Chicago of the 1920s, this is a losing battle.

The majority of people know prohibition is a failure. Further, unlike alcohol, there is actually science-based research to support the proposition that marijuana has therapeutic effects. Moreover, the care providers of cannabis are not gangsters; they are legitimate entities who provide a needed service, pay taxes and alleviate pain.

Reed’s attempt to shut down these healthcare advocates who provide medicine to their patients through an onerous and unworkable regulation scheme is about to see a huge backlash from the public. A referendum is currently on the street that will challenge both the leader and his professed solution.

It didn’t have to be this way.

Reasonable people can agree that some regulation must occur. The current reputable members of the healthcare profession understand that appropriate regulation is a positive step forward for the issue.

But prohibition in the form of regulation is untenable, and it is a fraud upon the citizens of San Jose.

Consider the consequences of the proposed ordinance: patients forced to use illegal methods to obtain medicine prescribed by doctors, an immediate loss of $3.5 million in revenue to the city, the loss of 1,500 jobs in the midst of recession, economic impacts including buildings going vacant and increased crime as real drug pushers take to the streets.

Reed is a smart guy. But it appears he sees this issue as more a nuisance than an opportunity. San Jose could create a model ordinance that protects patient rights, insures safe access, provides real revenue to a cash-strapped city and allows law enforcement to go after the real bad actors in the business. That’s what a model regulation should do. —Richard Robinson, a political consultant working to repeal the city council’s medical marijuana regulation ordinance.

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Former SJ Police Chief Candidate Resigns Some people thought it was only a matter of time until Anthony Batts would leave his post as Oakland’s chief of police following his public and unsuccessful bid to become the head of the San Jose Police Department.

Those people were right.

Earlier this week, Batts decided to look for the door again, only this time there will be no uncomfortable homecoming. Batts offered the city of Oakland his resignation, which is expected to go into effect in about a month.

The competition to become San Jose’s chief of police in January became a contentious PR campaign as San Jose City Manager Debra Figone deliberated on who to select in a two-man race. Community activists lobbied hard for Batts’ hiring, while Moore had plenty of internal support. Moore was ultimately tabbed to stay on as chief after serving in an interim capacity. Batts returned to a department and community appropriately unsure of his long-term commitment. —Josh Koehn

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Mysterioso PORTAL ORTAL OF THE PAST John Thompson charts an alternative past ast narrative in ‘Secret History of Carmel.’

From Kepler to Father Serra, John Thompson’s new book uncovers the conspiracies of a California mission

By GARY SINGH

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FIRST encountered the illustrations of John Thompson while experiencing a copy of the reality-shattering Robert Anton Wilson masterpiece Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of the Illuminati.

In that book, Thompson’s imagery seemed the perfect accompaniment to Wilson’s hysterical tour de force of quantum physics, conspiracy theory, mathematics, ancient Egyptian mythology, dope, occultism, Korzybski semantics, the Freemasons, yoga and surveillance technology.

I just wish I had been old enough to ingest that book in the ’70s, since it predated Holy Blood, Holy Grail and talked about many of the same elements of the grand conspiracy complex suggested by that book and, later, by Dan Brown’s third-rate airplane novels.

After a conspiracy column I wrote a few years ago, Thompson and I exchanged a zonked bouillabaisse of emails, thrashing out everything from Mormon conspiracies, the CIA’s remote viewing program, the Order of Melchizedek, secret NASA research, Mesopotamian lore, the Journal of Electronic Defense and much more. We bonded immediately.

A longtime resident of Carmel, Thompson wrote hundreds of columns on these matters back in the ’90s, many of which are now compiled in the first limited edition of Secret History of Carmel, from a new outfit called Satya Designs.

Satya, Thompson told me, is a Sanskrit word for wisdom, truth or correctness.

For example, in the Noble Eightfold h off Buddhism, ddhi Path satya means “right” in regards to right speech, right action, etc.

Secret History of Carmel begins right where Robert Anton Wilson left off.

The first 5000 words will explode off your ebook device and reprogram your entire intellectual capacity regarding the Carmel Mission. The star-shaped window of the mission, says Thompson, might be connected to Masonic lore, the summer solstice, Gnostic wisdom and a plethora of native astronomical interpretations.

Three pages later, after brilliantly hysterical digressions through Johannes Kepler, the Knights of Malta and the Cult of the Black Virgin, our author, Saint John of Thompson, arrives, of course, at the Merovingian dynasty of France including Godfrey de Bouillon— the medieval crusader and fixture of every bloodline-of-Jesus conspiracy known to man.

Thompson’s analysis paints a refreshing and alternative picture of the mission, suggesting that the building may not be what it seems. It may secretly honor very different entities than what its own employees realize.

Saint John of Thompson also calls

into question the entire textbook history of Father Junipero Serra, the famed padre who traveled up the coast from San Diego, beginning in 1769. Disputing the traditional story, Thompson argues that Serra cannot be simplified as a Catholic priest who subjugated the natives.

In reality, says Thompson, Serra was quite receptive to the spiritual beliefs of the natives and felt comfortable combining his Catholicism with the animism and sacred astrology of the indigenous folks. Thompson relates how Junipero Serra was born on the isle of Majorca, a place populated by mystical heretics who had escaped the Inquisition: “Alchemists like Raymond Lully and geomancers took refuge on the island of Majorca during the Inquisition, along with occult Bethlehemites, passing down their lore. When Serra taught philosophy at Majorca’s royal monastery at Palam, he knew the island’s most astute scholars.”

As Thompson claims, Serra took that knowledge and appreciation with him to the New World and noticed similarities between the metaphysical cosmologies of the indigenous peoples and those of his native European heretics. He had this in mind when he built the missions.

It doesn’t stop there, of course.

Thompson covers such intrigues as the plethora of Japanese tourists who flock to Carmel. He researches the Asian influence on the Central Coast, lambasting the populace of rich art ladies in Carmel who often hire feng shui consultants without even realizing the Chinese probably first landed in the area long before anyone else did.

In other chapters, Thompson illuminates the histories of when Jack London, John Steinbeck and Robert Louis Stevenson each traveled through the area. He writes about Carmel’s feminist movement, its first music teacher, and Robinson Jeffers’ dealings with the Carmel sewage district. Thompson even places Dashiell Hammett’s novel The Dain Curse in Carmel. The novel, says Thomson, drops enigmatic clues that can be understood only by those versed in esoteric subjects.

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Silicon Valley Chefs Tell All

BY STETT HOLBROOK

WITH ADDITIONAL RESEARCH BY JEFF CIANCI

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ELEBRITY CHEFS like Emeril Lagasse, Paula Deen and Rachael Ray are celebrities. But are they chefs? They were at one time, but because they now spend most of their time before a TV camera or at booksignings, it’s hard to make the case that they’re working chefs any more.

They are entertainers.

The six chefs profiled in this issue of SV Dining aren’t celebrity chefs, but they are definitely chefs. They are craftsmen and -women.

They work long hours on their feet in hot places of fire and boiling oil with sharp blades in their hands. They boast burns and scars. On weekends and holidays when most of us have the day off, they are toiling over their stoves and cutting boards.

These chefs represent the hardworking middle tier of Silicon Valley restaurants, neither the high-end fancy restaurants nor the fast, casual counter-service places.

These restaurants are nice enough for a weekend night out but are really dependable midweek dining spots that

one can enjoy again and again. And these chefs are doing something right. The restaurants remain some of the most perennially popular dining spots in Silicon Valley.

We wanted to get personal with them. Where do they eat on their days off?

What do they stock in the refrigerators at home? Who are their culinary heroes?

What was their biggest menu flop? So turn off the Food Network and meet some real chefs right here in Silicon Valley.

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What are your most enduring childhood food memories?

Frankie, Johnnie and Luigi, Too

Every Sunday that I can remember, there would be about 14 of us at my grandmother’s for dinner. She cooked simply, but it was always delicious.

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’Ambrosio has been cooking for more than 50 years, but says he never received any formal training. He learned at home with his parents and grandparents. D’Ambrosio started in restaurants washing dishes at 9 and worked the sauté and other line positions by the age of 15.

Without the Internet, cooking shows or the resources chefs have today, D’Ambrosio said that creativity for new menu items had to come from the chefs themselves.

“You were on your own, you had to be a natural at it,” said D’Ambrosio.

Frankie, Johnnie and Luigi’s is a Silicon Valley institution. The restaurant opened in 1956 and in 1972, D’Ambrosio and his brothers purchased the restaurant. He acts as head of operations for the restaurant’s three locations.

Where do you eat on your day off?

I eat at home a lot but when I do go out, I favor Vietnamese food.

[Khanh’s Restaurant is his favorite.]

I love their fresh rolls, appetizers. It’s not overly greasy. It’s very healthy, and I love the husband and wife that own it.

If you could have only five things in your refrigerator at home what would they be?

A jar of Christopher Ranch crushed garlic; I always need fresh basil and fresh parsley. I always like to keep some bread in the fridge and some fresh pasta or raviolis.

What five things do you have in the fridge now?

I’m leaving town, and I’m going home to make sauce tonight. I have a container of shredded cabbage, I got some diced onions, some diced fresh tomatoes, diced parsley and some sausage. [He plans to make sausage and cabbage sauce with oil and a little bit of tomato sauce to eat with fresh pasta.]

If you had to eat fast food, where would you eat?

I don’t like hamburgers that much,

I don’t usually eat late anymore because I don’t sleep well. For a late snack, I always like to find a place that will make will make me a thin slice of pizza, plain with a little slice of anchovy. but I’d have to say Mexican. I’d probably go for a real healthy burrito or fish tacos. You don’t need all the beans and the cheese and rice.

I tell them to keep it out, just a little bit of beans and some meat, lettuce, tomatoes and you’re eating fresh.

What is the most illicit act you’ve ever witnessed in a restaurant?

I will never forget, on the busiest night of the year, a guy was taking his girlfriend out to dinner, and his wife shows up and they had a big thing right on the floor. She was throwing everything all over him and everywhere. It was kind of strange.

What are your favorite dishes/foods for wooing a love interest?

I would probably do several small courses; a butter leaf salad with tomato, fresh mozzarella, a little shrimp or prawn and some crumbled blue cheese and an Italian vinaigrette. And then a pasta course, something very delicate like pappardelle with a very nice ground meat sauce topped with reggiano cheese.

What was your biggest menu flop?

Every place is different; what worked at one place may not work at another. My favorite dish that flopped miserably broke my heart. I love chicken cacciatore on the bone. I had it on the menu, and it flopped miserably.

I don’t know why, maybe people figure they can make it at home.

Who are your greatest culinary heroes?

I gotta say Ted Faravelli of Michaels Restaurant. Back in the ’70s and ’80s, that waæs the place. I would have to say Ted Faravelli is definitely a mentor of mine. On TV, I do like Lidia Bastianich and Jacques Pepin.

Pound for pound, mechanically they are the best cooks.

What is your favorite locally sourced ingredient?

I gotta call this my secret weapon, is the New York Style Italian sausage. I use it in a lot of dishes. On my menu you will see it in at least six places.

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For the entree, probably a baconwrapped filet mignon is always safe, a real good quality asparagus with butter garlic and lemon, and probably something interesting with the potato like twice-baked.

For dessert, hopefully it would be me, but I would pull out the Fringelike and Grand Marnier. If I was trying to impress I would make a Marsala poached pear with ice cream.

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orking with his crew of talented chefs at The Basin and the excellent Casa de Cobre next door, Andrew Welch oversees one of Silicon Valley’s real success stories. The Basin is downtown Saratoga’s go-to restaurant for a casual, but refined meal and a drink. The restaurant serves a mix of American and Mediterranean– inspired food in big portions with a generous, goodtimes vibe on the side. The patio under a giant, 200year-old oak tree makes for great outdoor dining. It’s a romantic spot. Maybe overly so. Read on.

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Where do you eat on your day off?

I try to go into San Francisco as often as possible. I also really enjoy Fish in Sausalito.

If you could have only five things in your refrigerator at home what would they be?

Definitely Parmigiano Reggiano.

Good quality oil-cured anchovies. San Marzano tomatoes. Some jamon Iberico de bellota. And Paisano olive oil.

What are your most enduring childhood food memories?

Definite growing up in San Diego and working as a deck hand as a young teen on a fishing boat and constantly eating fresh fish. And fresh cioppino. My mom’s cioppino.

Where do you go for late-night eats?

What five things do you have in the fridge now?

Nopa in San Francisco.

Parmigiano. White anchovies. Salted butter. Fresh thyme. And I have some great trout fillets that we’re featuring at the restaurant.

What’s your favorite item on the menu?

If you had to eat fast food, where would you eat?

That’s a tough one for me. Wow. Put a gun to my head. In-N-Out Burger.

What is the most illicit act you’ve ever witnessed in a restaurant?

Oh goodness. Can I say this? I had a couple out on our patio who thought that everyone had left and they started to make love. We didn’t interrupt them.

What are your favorite dishes/foods for wooing a love interest?

Well presented and cured raw fish.

Oysters. On the half shell. And wellpresented finger foods.

Right now it’s the McFarland trout.

It’s amazing.

What was your biggest menu flop?

I tried to do a fresh-roasted turkey Italian piccata style. It didn’t work.

At the end of the day who wants to have turkey?

Who are your greatest culinary heroes?

There’s so many—Julia Child. I’ll have to go with her.

What is your favorite locally sourced ingredient?

They’re not in season right now but my favorite local ingredients are definitely sardines. And believe it or not, here in October, we’re still getting amazing local albacore.

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Where do you eat on your day off?

My last day off, I had dim [sum] at the Hong Kong Flower Lounge with my young son. And we try to get to San Francisco when we can.

If you could have only five things in your refrigerator at home what would they be?

Soy sauce. I have to have a roast chicken. I’d have to have some cut fruit.

That’s always there. Milk. And cheese.

Name five things you have in the refrigerator now?

As of this morning, I had roast chicken, soy sauce, tomatoes, cut pineapple and beer, wine and Champagne.

If you had to eat fast food, where would you eat?

In-N-Out Burger. That’s one we do.

What is the most illicit act you’ve ever witnessed in a restaurant?

Cocaine consumption. That’s going back a few years. I used to work in L.A. Enough said.

What are your favorite dishes/foods for wooing a love interest?

It’s been a while. I still have a love interest, I just don’t have to woo her as much. I’d say a whole roasted chicken and onion rings.

What are your most enduring childhood food memories?

Sunday brunch at my mother’s house. She’d make lox and bagels.

She would also make blintzes with hoop cheese and farmer’s cheese.

Hoop cheese is a drier version of cottage cheese. Also Chinese food on Sunday nights.

Where do you go for late-night eats?

On the peninsula? There is nowhere else to go. This place closes up at 8pm.

What’s your favorite item on the menu right now?

Chinese chicken salad. I eat it almost every day. After two years of eating pizza every day, I think I’m almost done.

What was your biggest menu flop?

I think it was the turkey-leg osso bucco.

All through the process, it looked just like a veal shank, and we were thinking we had a winner on our hand. But braised turkey was not a good thing. Oh well, what are you going to do?

Who are your greatest culinary heroes?

Paul Bocuse. Alain Chapel. Way back when I was a puppy, I worked for those guys. They were enormously kind to let me come into their kitchens. It was a mindblower. ... For better or worse those guys influenced me enormously. They gave me the skill set I wouldn’t have had.

What is your favorite locally sourced ingredient?

What pops in my head is the McEvoy olive oil. Very grassy, very green and very acidic olive oil. It’s great drizzled over anything. It cuts through the richness of whatever. Also Sparrow Lane vinegars.

Mushrooms from Todd [Spanier] and strawberries from the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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Where do you eat on your day off?

“Oh, my God, what am I going to do now?”

Sometimes I cook for my family at home. We eat fish, chicken, cheese. I go to eat at a lot of tapas restaurants in the area.

What are your favorite dishes/foods for wooing a love interest?

If you could have only five things in your refrigerator at home what would they be?

I would make some kind of hearty fish, with chorizo, garbanzo beans and smoked paprika sauce with pumpkin cheesecake for dessert.

Rice and beans, tortillas, chiles and cheese.

What five things do you have in the fridge now?

Right now, all of those ingredients, rice and beans, tortillas, chiles and cheese.

If you had to eat fast food, where would you eat?

I like to go to In-N-Out. It’s close by, and I usually have a double cheeseburger.

What is the most illicit act you’ve ever witnessed in a restaurant?

One day, one of my guys dropped a whole pan of vegetables, and he was kind of scared. He tried to pick it up right away. He was kind of confused and asked, “Should I wash it or throw away?” It was fine that accidents happen, but it was like

What are your most enduring childhood food memories?

I was about 14 cooking at my house and noticed I could cook. I remember making pasta for myself and thinking “Wow, not bad.”

Where do you go for late-night eats?

There’s this taqueria on El Camino.

They have awesome tacos there.

What was your biggest menu flop?

None.

Who are your greatest culinary heroes?

I always had a lot of respect for [Cascal owner] Don Durante. I also have a lot of friends who work in kitchens as chefs or line cooks.

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Where do you eat on your day off?

I usually eat at home, making very simple food.

Some people just grab some edamame and eat it but keep cooking. I see that and say, ‘Hey! Wash your hands.’

What is the most illicit act you’ve ever witnessed in a restaurant?

Some people just grab some edamame and eat it but keep cooking. I see that and say, “Hey! Wash your hands.”

What are your favorite dishes/foods for wooing a love interest?

I am married, and usually she cooks.

What are your most enduring childhood food memories?

For New Year’s, my family always prepares food for three days, usually a stew we keep outside overnight.

Where do you go for late-night eats?

If you could have only five things in your refrigerator at home what would they be?

Usually I go to Denny’s, just to have some dessert.

Tofu, miso paste, green onion, some Japanese vegetables and a chicken.

What was your biggest menu flop?

What five things do you have in the fridge now?

The same things I would always have in the fridge, plus some noodles and frozen stuff.

If you had to eat fast food, where would you eat?

I usually go to Carl’s Jr., just a basic hamburger.

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Who are your greatest culinary heroes?

I never met him, but I like Masaharu Morimoto.

What is your favorite locally sourced ingredient?

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What are or were your favorite dishes for wooing a love interest?

Something creamy with seafood.

A seafood pasta. And some kind of decadent chocolate cake.

What are your most enduring childhood food memories?

Where do you eat on your day off?

I like Thai food, and we have a local place in Los Gatos that we go to.

Thai Spice. I like barbecue so we go to Armadillo Willie’s. I go to San Francisco a lot, too.

If you could have only five things in your refrigerator at home what would they be?

I always have to have butter and cream because I do a lot of baking.

And cheese. Wine. And bacon.

We have a big extended family and my grandfather was a good cook, and we used to watch Julia Child together. We cooked big feasts at my grandparents for 25 people for more.

Where do you go for late-night eats?

There isn’t anywhere in the South Bay. And I don’t stay up late anymore.

What’s your favorite item on the menu right now?

Probably the romaine gorgonzola salad. I eat it five times a week.

What five things do you have in the refrigerator now?

What was your biggest menu flop?

Right now I have all kinds of sauce because we’re doing research. Things like Key Lime raspberry. Romesco sauce and bacon-onion jam.

I’m sure there’s something. I think we tried to do a meat dish that didn’t work. ... We haven’t had very many. A potato pizza. That didn’t work.

If you had to eat fast food, where would you eat?

In-N-Out Burger. If I’m on the road, that’s the one place I’d stop.

Who are your greatest culinary heroes?

Julia Child for sure. I love her. And Emeril Lagasse.

What is the most illicit act you’ve ever witnessed in a restaurant?

What is your favorite locally sourced ingredient?

Someone making out.

Artichokes are one of my favorites.

And avocado.

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SERIOUS ERIOUS SOUP The ginseng chicken soup at BN Chicken is a meal unto itself.

The Korean hango hangover er so soup p at BN Chicken in Santa Clara isn’t just hot, it’s incendiary

By STETT HOLBROOK

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N CHICKEN is a 10month-old broom closet of a restaurant on El Camino Real’s Korean restaurant row. As best I could understand it, B and N are the initials for the Korean word for son-in-law.

In Korea, I learned, mothers love their sons-in-law a great deal. So much do they dote on the men who marry their daughters that they are forever treated liked honored guests whenever they show up. And that means these sons-in-law eat very well. So the name BN references the kind of motherly attention sons-in-law get when they come over to eat.

BN Chicken is part of a laudable trend I see at El Camino Real Korean

restaurants. The trend is specialization.

There are still plenty of Korean barbecue restaurants that serve encyclopedic menus of all things Korean, but far more interesting are the places that drill down into subsets of Korean cuisine like sushi, congee, soondobu and soups.

BN Chicken is all about soup, and what’s homier, more mother-in-lawly, than a big bowl of soup? One of the specialties of the house is dakdoritang.

It’s touted as a hangover cure—a special kind of hangover cure that drove me to drink. But then dakdoritang is a special kind of soup.

First, the soup goes for $25.99, but it’s meant to be shared, so don’t sweat the price. Three could share a bowl and be satisfied. Sharing a hangover soup strikes me as the right thing to do. Misery loves company, and unless you have a real drinking problem and drank to excess all by yourself, it’s good to commiserate with your drinking

soup. buddies over a bowl of soup One word of caution: When the women at BN Chicken ask you if you want mild or spicy, order mild if you want to live, or even breathe, again. I have a higher tolerance for spicy food than any one I know, but the women behind the counter just smiled as I gasped and cried in chile-paste pain.

That’s why it drove me to drink. A cold beer was like medicine—medically necessary. I ordered my soup medium spicy, and it was like a bowl of hot lava.

But it was so good, I kept on eating through the pain, even after I splashed some into my right eye. I’ll wear protective goggles next time.

I thought the guy next to me was crying, but it turns out he was just sweating profusely as he ate his soup.

Maybe the women in the kitchen were messing with us just to watch us sweat. I didn’t happen to be hungover at the time I ate the soup, but if I had been, I’m sure the soup would have exorcised whatever alcohol demons that remained in my system. So trust me: Order it mild.

Serving the dakdoritang is quite a presentation. The soup takes about 20 minutes, because it’s all made from scratch. Before the soup come two cold

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earthenware crocks that hold pickled turnips and kimchi. These are spicy, but as mild as bathwater compared to the soup.

Then comes a hot plate upon which a hulking pot of soup is deposited. The soup includes bony hunks of chicken, potatoes, green onions, carrots, bell peppers and sweet-potato noodles.

What makes the soup so flavorful is the generous addition of sesame paste.

Even through the fire and brimstone of the chile paste, the rich and nutty flavor of the sesame paste shone through.

The other specialty is samgyetang ($15.99), a nourishing ginseng soup that includes an entire chicken, whole ginseng roots, red dates and chestnuts.

How’s that for wholesome?

At the other end of the spectrum is the excellent kimchi marikooksu ($9.99), an icy kimchi and noodle soup that I like even better than my other favorite cold Korean noodle soup, nyaeng myuen. The cold kimchi soup includes kimchi, of course, but it’s also made with wheat-flour noodles, matchstick-thin slices of carrots, sliced turnips, thinly sliced beef and a hardboiled egg. The best part is the redtinted, electrically briny and tart broth.

It’s wonderfully refreshing on a hot day.

In addition to soups, BN Chicken is the place for good Korean-style fried chicken. Korean fried chicken wears a thin, but crispy crust that’s lightly seasoned with salt and pepper. That’s it—no 11 herbs and spices. It’s not hard to best KFC, but the fried chicken at BN Chicken excels because of its simplicity.

The wings special ($9.99) comes with an unremarkable salad and a little ranch dressing on the side. Maybe it’s a short trip from the fryer to the dining room or the thin crust has secret insulating powers, but the fried chicken is ridiculously hot, too. Going from the chicken to the icy soup made my teeth hurt. I had to warm up my mouth with tea before I could enjoy more chicken.

Now that I think about it, maybe BN Chicken isn’t all about mother-inlaw love and hugs. It’s more of a tough love thing that makes you stronger. Are you tough enough?

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Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Metro food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro. Updates from vigilant readers and listed restaurateurs are heartily encouraged; please submit via email to sholbrook@metronews.com.

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11:30-10pm Fri, noon-10pm Sat, noon-9:30pm Sun. 1067 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.2696.

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Mexican. $$. Estrellita’s reverence for regional Mexican cooking distinguishes it from the enchilada-and-taco masses. The menu is full of Mexican-American standards, but the changing selection of specials make this restaurant a star. Full bar. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-2pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 971 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.9865.

MAURIZIO’S AUTHENTIC ITALIAN RISTORANTE Italian. $$. You don’t dine here for a quick upscale fix, you dine here for down-home atmosphere.

Tender vitello saltimbocca tops the menu. 11:30am-2pm, 59pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm Fri, 5-10pm Sat. Closed Sun. 25 E. First St, Morgan Hill.

408.782.7550.

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AKANE Japanese/sushi bar. $$. Nigiri and maki treasures are gracefully presented at this attractive restaurant. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, 5-9pm Tue-Sat. 250 Third St. 650.941.8150.

ALDO LOS ALTOS Italian. $$.

Downtown Los Altos is ghostly quiet after dark but Aldo has injected some life into this corner of town with its lively wine bar, friendly service and welcoming atmosphere. 11am2pm, Mon-Fri; 5pm-close daily.

388 Main St. 650.949.2300.

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BEAUSÉJOUR Continental. $$$. Elegant seafood, meat and game dishes lean toward reducing fat without compromising taste. Call for reservations. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; 5-9pm daily. 170 State St. 650.948.1382.

CHEF CHU’S Chinese. $$.

Speedy service, superb preparation and the ability to cater to varied tastes keep this landmark in business. Full bar.

11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu,

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$$. The handsome Los Altos Grill celebrates big plates of grilled meat and fish with plenty of fixings on the side.

Try the spit-roasted chicken, fresh fish and big burgers.

The long, horseshoe-shaped bar is a big draw, too. Full bar.

4:30-9:30pm Sun-Mon, 4:3010pm Tue-Sat. 233 Third St. 650.948.3524.

SATURA CAKES FrenchJapanese bakery. $. Satura Cakes offers sweet treats for adult tastes. A Japanese take on a French patisserie, these confections are prepared fresh daily and meticulously crafted using the finest organic ingredients. 8am-8pm daily.

200 Main St. 650.948.3300.

(Also 320 University Ave, Palo Alto. 650.326.3393.)

SUMIKA Japanese. $$.

Sumika is a Japanese pub, but that doesn’t do it justice. It’s elegant, yet still a great place to drink beer and sake. The specialty is kushiyaki, small bites of grilled chicken, beef and vegetables cooked on bamboo skewers over charcoal.

11:30am-2pm, 6-10pm Tue-Fri, 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-11pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 236 Central Plaza.

650.917.1822.

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AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. Meals unfold like a bolt of rare silk, served with care and efficiency in a rich, luminous interior.

Dishes are complex and varied.

11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:45pm daily. 2290 El Camino Real.

650.968.7511.

AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza/Italian. $$.

When it’s done right, East Coast pizza can be a glorious thing. Dough is rolled ultrathin and served noticeably charred on the sides and bottom, the ideal combination for a “foldable” slice on the go. It’s done right here. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am-11pm Sat, 11:30am10pm Sun. 790 Castro St. 650.961.6666.

BODRUM CAFE Turkish. $$.

The menu at Bodrum Cafe is extensive and covers a lot of ground, but it’s the lamb dishes that stand out. A good place to start is with the lahmacun (Turkey’s take on pizza) and the kebabs. 10am10pm daily. 383 Castro St. 650.396.7010.

CASCAL Spanish tapas. $$$.

The tapas menu yields big tastes in small portions at this pan-Latin charmer. Calamari, roasted quail and minted lamb meatballs are among the delicacies. Full bar. 11:30am10pm Mon-Sun. 400 Castro St. 650.940.9500.

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S THE Occupy Wall Street tent big enough to accommodate the environmental movement? It better.

While protesters are still figuring out what they want to say about corporate greed and government collusion, thus far the “99 percenters” have focused their anger on the banks that have gotten stinkin’ rich while sticking the rest of us with the bill. This critique is all well and good. I’m amazed it’s taken Americans this long to get off the couch and revolt against a system so blatantly rigged against them.

But limiting the Occupy Wall Street movement to the excesses of corporate America and their D.C. lackeys misses the bigger picture. The U.S. economy—all economies—depends on the natural economy, i.e., the environment. Without water, air and soil, there is no economy—because we’ll be dead. Since the Industrial Revolution, the world has treated natural resources (“life-support systems” might be a better word) like a bottomless lake it can draw upon forever.

But the lake is drying up. The environmental bills racked up over the past 200 years are way past due.

As a food writer, my entry into the environmental movement was via my stomach. It’s become all too clear to me that the way we eat is killing us and the planet. Part of the power of the good-food movement is that it awakens people to the importance of an ecologically sound and just food system. It also offers the opportunity to make change each time we eat in favor of a system that works with people, animals and the planet instead of simply enriching Big Ag. Now is the time for the food movement and Occupy Wall Street to make common cause with the environmental movement at large, particularly around climate change.

Last week, environmental activist and author Bill McKibben called upon Occupy Wall Street protesters to stand against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Due to the dirty nature of tar sand oil, top NASA scientist James Hansen says tapping the oil would mean “game over” for the climate. McKibben is organizing a mass protest Nov. 6 that will encircle the White House in an effort to get Obama to make good on the many, many unkept promises he made including “ending the tyranny of oil.”

You could argue that crowding more causes under the Occupy Wall Street/99percent banner would dilute its message. But that message is still being written, and it will be even more powerful if it addresses the devastation wrought by unchecked corporate power on a planet we all share. Casting the problems we face as the wealthy 1 percent sticking it to the 99 percent is thinking too small.

If we don’t wake up to the looming environmental crises we face, all of us, 99 percenters and 1 percenters, will be 100 percent screwed.—Stett Holbrook

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SVDINING CHAAT PARADISE Vegetarian Indian. $. Golden spices predominate at this popular spot for inexpensive, fun-toeat traditional Indian fare.

Casual shopping-center surroundings. 11:30-10pm Mon-Sun. 165 E. Camino Real.

650.965.1111.

CHINA CAFE Mandarin, Szechuan. $$. A little surprise in the Blossom Valley Center promises uptown ambience, spotless surroundings and well-presented classical Chinese cuisine. 1760 Miramonte Ave. 650.968.2298.

DON GIOVANNI Italian. $$$.

This pumpkin-hued eatery faces the bustling downtown with a handsome demeanor of mahogany and candlelight. Full bar. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm MonFri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 235 Castro St. 650.961.9749.

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

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

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

Go for the house specialty kuro ramen or the soy sauce ramen. Beer and wine. Cash only. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am-10pm Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 368 Castro St. 650.564.9931.

NAMI NAMI Japanese. $$$.

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

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

NETO CAFFE AND BAKERY Cafe. $$. Neto Caffe and Bakery is a busy, good-looking space that has a happy buzz

about it. There’s a little bit of everything including a number of Middle Eastern specialties.

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

PHO TO CHAU Vietnamese noodle house. $. The pho here is an honest noodle soup.

First-timers might want to stick with the basic pho chin, topped with slices of beef brisket. 11am-10pm daily. 853 Villa St. 650.961.8069.

THE SPICE ISLANDS CAFE Singaporean, Malaysian, Indonesian. $$. This restaurant will send your taste buds to the tropics. Talented chefs put out dishes full of spice and passion, like jumbo chile prawns, papaya salad and Malaysian spareribs. The menu is expansive. Prices are reasonable. 210 Hope St. 650.960.1888.

SUSHI TOMI Japanese. $$.

Sushi Tomi serves Japanese food with an elegant simplicity.

Sushi and sashimi are ocean fresh. For a real treat, ask for an omakase dinner and let the chef put together a tasting menu for you. Lunch 11:30am2pm daily; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 635 W. Dana St. 650.968.3227.

TAQUERÍA LOS CHARROS Mexican. $. This clean and fetching diner is the place for authentic fare. Generous portions. 6:30am-10pm MonFri, 6:30am-11pm Sat, 8am10pm Sun. 854 W. Dana St. 650.969.1464.

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

Dessert lives up to the rest of the meal. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9:30pm Sun. 108 Castro St. 650.940.1717.

XANH RESTAURANT Modern Vietnamese. $$.

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

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

YAKKO Japanese, sushi bar. $$. A pairing of swift service with an exotic range of sushi and udon makes this a favorite among sushi lovers. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm Mon-Sun, 5:30-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 5:3010:30pm Fri-Sat. 975 W. Dana St. 650.960.0626.

ZUCCA Mediterranean. $$.

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

11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 510pm Mon-Sun. 186 Castro St. 650.864.9940.

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

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

BISTRO MAXINE Cafe. $$.

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

BUCA DI BEPPO Nondesigner Italian-American. $$. Like a Sicilian Christmas carnival in the ’50s, this party spot blends clutter, joy, high spirits and, oh yes, huge portions. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 643 Emerson St. 650.329.0665.

CAFE BRIOCHE Southern French. $$. Mediterranean magic: Exceptional cuisine on oversize plates is whisked to tables as soon as it’s created. Breakfast 9-11am, lunch 11am-3pm, dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri; brunch 9am-3pm, dinner 5:30-10pm Sat-Sun. 445 California Ave. 650.326.8640.

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SVDINING 49 CAFFE RIACE Trattoria. $$.

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

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

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

Chef and owner Charlie Ayers (who was Google’s first chef) calls his concept “slow food fast”—good-to-eat and good-for-you food that he hopes will appeal to Silicon Valley’s frenetic, too-busy-toeat pace of life. Look for good burgers, pizza, salads and fresh fish. 11am-9pm Mon-Fri, 9am9pm Sat-Sun. 858 El Camino Real. 650.322.9200.

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

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

11:30am-10pm daily. 640 Emerson St. 650.323.7723. Also 33 E. San Fernando St, San Jose. 408.294.6785.

GREEN ELEPHANT GOURMET Burmese. $$. Burmese food draws influences from its three largest neighbors: China, India and Thailand. Standouts here include the coconut chicken soup, tangy tea leaf salad and refreshing glass noodle salad. Lunch 11am2:30pm, dinner 4:30-9pm daily. 3950 Middlefield Rd (Charleston Shopping Center).

650.494.7391.

GYROS GYROS Mediterranean. $. The lunch crowd turns out in force to grapple with the oversize, and messy, lamb and beef gyros, chicken gyros and other treats. That’s especially true on sunny afternoons, when the sidewalk tables fill with folks downing the juicy sandwiches. 11am-11pm daily. 498 University Ave. 650.327.0107.

JUNNOON Contemporary

California grill. $$. Waiters with charm to spare, an energetic clientele and a menu packed with grilled, roasted and smoked intensity make Empire Grill much more than simply a smart place to sip a cosmopolitan. Full bar. Tue-Sun 11:30am-10pm. 651 Emerson St. 650.321.3030.

Indian. $$$. This attractive Palo Alto restaurant serves eclectic modern Indian food, the kind you might get at an upscale restaurant in Bangalore or Mumbai. You could easily make a meal from the great selection of appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm and 5:30-10pm Mon-Fri, 5:3010:30pm Sat. 150 University Ave. 650.329.9644.

EVVIA Contemporary Aegean.

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$$$. Forward flavors and plenty of laughter—that’s Dionysian dining. Evvia feels like a little taverna on Paros, only with an unmistakable Bay Area sophistication.

Full bar. 420 Emerson St. 650.326.0983.

FUKI SUSHI Japanese. $$$.

For over two decades this superb Japanese restaurant has served sushi to Nobel laureates and other grateful foodies. Open daily. 4119 El

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

Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-10pm FriSat. 463 S.California Ave. 650.326.7762.

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LAVANDA Mediterranean. $$$. This urban grill at the top of University Avenue offers eclectic, small tasting plates, along with heartier fare such as roasted sea bass with chanterelle mushrooms and guinea fowl with sautéed chard. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun, 5-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 185 University (at Emerson).

650.321.3514.

MANTRA French, American and Indian. $$$. Mantra serves inventive French and American food that speaks with an Indian accent. It isn’t fusion, but a more subtle blend of surprisingly compatible flavors and techniques. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Tue-Fri, dinner 5-10pm Sun-Thu and 5:30-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 632-636 Emerson St. 650.322.3500.

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

8am-4pm and 5-9pm MonFri; 9am-4pm and 5-9pm Sat-Sun. 855 El Camino Real.

650.853.9200.

OSTERIA Italian. $$. Authentic Italian cooking done by skilled chefs from Italy. Be sure to make a reservation, or you’ll be lucky to put a single foot through the door. Beer, wine.

11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sat. 247 Hamilton St. 650.328.5700.

PAMPAS Brazilian steakhouse. $$$. Pampas is a meat lover’s haven. The $44 rodizio service gets you unlimited spitroasted meat. The sprawling

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SVDINING side bar offers one of the most extensive selections of vegetarian options you’ll find in a nonvegetarian restaurant.

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

QUATTRO RESTAURANT AND BAR Italian. $$$$.

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

REPOSADO Mexican. $$$.

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

The soaring, exposed beam ceilings make the dining room feel at once industrial and inviting because of the warm colors, wood accents and dramatic light fixtures. There’s a beautiful bar and cozy booth seating on one side and spacious table and banquette seating on the other. Great selection of tequila. 11:30am10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat and 11:30am-9pm Sun. 236 Hamilton Ave. 650.833.3151.

RESTAURANT SOLEIL New American. $$$$. A mouthwatering menu and an elegant, golden-hued room shine together at Soleil, upstairs in the Westin Palo Alto. Local ingredients and provocative sauces create dishes worthy of the wine list.

Breakfast 6am-11am, Dinner 5-10:30pm. 675 El Camino Real. 650.321.4422.

ST. MICHAEL’S ALLEY New California. $$$. Reservations are a must at this smart bistro, whose menu includes inventive potato, meat and seafood dishes that tilt toward New American cookery. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm Tue-Fri, 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat; brunch 10am-2pm Sat-Sun. 806 Emerson St. 650.326.2530.

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SHOKOLAAT. Modern European. $$. Shokolaat’s open kitchen and pastry display counter are as gleaming and clean as a laboratory, a fitting setting for the restaurant’s technically precise, modern European cooking. Counter open 8am-9pm (to-go only 4-9pm); lunch 11:30am-2pm Tue-Sun, dinner 5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun. 516 University Ave. 650.289.0719.

VERO Italian. $$. Vero aims to offer truly authentic Italian food. The Palo Alto restaurant has had to make a few nods to American tastes but it mainly succeeds with its simple but satisfying food that’s a refreshing break from the same old pasta and pizza.

11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, 5:3010pm Mon-Sat. 530 Bryant St. 650.325.8376.

SPALTI RISTORANTE Italian.

$$. This restaurant focuses on locally produced Santa Cruz Mountains wines and small plates of food sourced from local purveyors and growers.

On Thursdays, if you can guess all the varietals in your flight of wine, it’s free. 11am-9pm daily.

431 Kipling St. 650.328.0450.

$$. Along with a handsome interior, Spalti offers good wine and sparkling flavors.

Beer, wine. 11am-2pm MonFri, 5-9:30pm Mon-Sun. 417 California Ave. 650.327.9390.

STRAITS CAFE Singapore exotica. $$. Blending culinary motifs from India, China and Thailand, the food of Singapore is anything but timid. The menu at Straits is lavish and diverse. Full bar. 11:30-2pm Mon-Fri, 5:30-9:30pm SunThu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 3295 El Camino Real. 650.494.7168.

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

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

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

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

VINO LOCALE Italian bistro.

ZIBIBBO Mediterranean. $$$.

This eye-popping remodel by the chef-partners of Restaurant LuLu in S.F. offers wood-fired favorites, pastas, risotto and more. Full bar.

11:30am-10pm Mon-Fri, noon-10pm Sat; daily happy hour 4-6pm. 430 Kipling St. 650.328.6722.

Redwood City OLD PORT LOBSTER SHACK New England. $$. Made with lobster flown in from Maine, the lobster roll is simple but good: A toasted, buttery hot dog-style bun cradles fresh, juicy lobster meat. The Gruyère-laced lobster mac ’n’ cheese and lobster bisque are good, too. 11am-8pm MonFri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 851 Veterans Blvd. 650.366.2400.

PAMPLEMOUSSE Cafe.

TRADER VIC’S Polynesian-

$. Aside from owner Kelli Manukyan’s pastry skills, the cafe offers a number of tasty sandwiches, soups and quiches. 7am-7pm Mon-Thu, 7am-9pm Fri, 8am-7pm Sat, 8am-5pm Sun. 2401 Broadway St. 650.599.9714.

American. $$$. A jungle gym of tiki gods—but a classy jungle.

Sip a mai tai in the lounge before embarking on a dinner trip from pork spareribs to boat-fresh seared suki tuna to a Calcutta curry. 4-6pm daily happy hour. Dinner at 5pm Mon-Sat and 4:30 Sun. 4261 El Camino Real. 650.849.9800.

RED LANTERN Southeast Asian. $$. Scattershot panAsian restaurants often falter because their menus offer tepid examples of each cuisine, but Red Lantern shows confidence and mastery of a variety of cooking styles. Lunch 11am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner

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THE BASIN New American. $$$. The Basin has some refreshingly high standards.

Produce is organic, seafoods are fresh and the menu accentuates American ideas, enhanced by Spanish and Italian spin. 5pm-close daily. 14572 Big Basin Way. 408.867.1906.

LA MERE MICHELLE FrenchEuropean. $$$. After three decades, La Mere is a tradition.

Old World standards such as pâté, escargots, wiener schnitzel and veal scallopini find a distinguished setting in the crystal-dotted dining room. 11:30am-2pm Wed-Sun, 5:30-9pm Tue-Sun. Closed Mon. 14467 Big Basin Way. 408.867.5272.

PLUMED HORSE Contemporary French. $$$$.

After undergoing a $9 million remodel and expansion of its wine list, the Saratoga restaurant has been reborn as Silicon Valley’s premier luxury restaurant. How does the food taste at a $9 million restaurant? Mostly, like a million bucks. 5:30-10pm daily. 14555 Big Basin Way. 408.867.4711.

RISTORANTE DA MARIO Italian. $$. Ristorante Da Mario serves the greatest hits of Italian-American food but prepares them with a freshness and integrity that elevates them above your typical red-and-whitecheckered tablecloth ItalianAmerican restaurant. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9:30pm daily. 14441 Big Basin Way. 408.741.1518.

SENT SOVI New American. $$$$. A pretty dining room hosts an inspired, always fresh and seasonally driven menu of contemporary American and French food, complete with seductive desserts. 14583 Big Basin Way. 408.867.3110.

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

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

AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. The sister to the popular Mountain View restaurant, Amber India’s Santana Row location continues to offer elegantly prepared Indian cuisine in a stylish setting. 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm, Mon-Thu, noon-3pm, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat, noon-3pm, 5-10pm Sun. 377 Santana Row. 408.248.5400.

BANGKOK TASTE Thai. $$.

Humble strip mall gem with a loyal following. Beef Pi-Roj is a house favorite. Veggies love the Rama tofu. 11am3pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm daily. 1769 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.358.2525.

BILL’S CAFE Diner. $. Serving only breakfast and lunch, Bill’s knows its way around typical diner standbys—eggs (scrambles and hollandaiselaced “benedictions”), pancakes and expertly grilled sandwiches and burgers.

6:30am-3pm daily. 302 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.2455.

CAO NGUYEN Vietnamese, Chinese-Vietnamese. $.

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

408.270.9610.

CASA VICKY Family-style Mexican. $. Nothing fancy, but a hearty brand of Mexican food wrought from popular family recipes. Breakfast plates and warm sweet pastries in abundant supply.

7am-7pm daily. 792 E. Julian St. 408.995.5488.

CHEESECAKE FACTORY American. $$. A true “American restaurant” in every sense of the term, this popular

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chain lives by the redwhite-and-blue credo that bigger is definitely better.

11am-11pm Sun-Thu, 11am12:30am Sat-Sun. Westfield Oakridge, 925 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.225.6948; and Valley Fair, 3041 Stevens Creek Blvd, 408.246.0092.

CITRUS New American. $$$.

In Santana Row’s chic Hotel Valencia, Citrus peels back the hotel dining myth. Here, diners match their own main dishes with their choice of rub, sauce and side dish. Fun continues in skilled desserts.

5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 355 Santana Row. 408.423.5400.

COCOLA French bakery. $.

Cocola is a fine place to while away an afternoon sipping tea and sampling a pear tart with vanilla custard and slivered almonds. For heartier fare, try the gourmet sandwiches. 8am-11pm SunTue, 8am-noon Wed-Sat. 333 Santana Row #1045.

408.551.0018.

CONSUELO Mexican. $$.

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

408.260.7082.

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

CRAWDADDY Cajun. $$.

Crawdaddy specializes in boiled live crawfish flown in from Louisiana. The mud bugs are served steaming in a plastic bag swimming in a buttery, garlic-laced sauce that ranges from mild to ridiculously hot. 3-10pm Mon-Fri and noon-10pm Sat-Sun. 779 Story Rd. 408.286.2729.

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

But the soul of the menu is the kebabs, and the koobideh kebabs are outstanding.

Made from ground beef blended with puréed onions, garlic and various spices, the skewered and grilled meat stick is beautifully grilled and so tender and juice-filled it squirts when you bite down on it. The joojeh (chicken) kebab scores as well. Try the fresh made dogh (a yogurt drink).

11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Sat-Sun. 1312 Saratoga Ave. 408.244.0300.

DIA DE PESCA Mexican. $.

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

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

DI LAC Vegetarian Asian. $$.

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

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

DYNASTY CHINESE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Chinese $$. The setting is fit for royalty, and there’s a menu to match: lobster with special sauces, Peking duck, emeraldcolored mustard greens, even suckling pig. Or try the more delicate fare: dim sum every lunch. 11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1001 Story Rd, second floor. 408.286.6668

EDNA RAY Chinese. $$. Now in a new location, Edna Ray continues to serves classics of Chinese-American food with the same quantity, familiarity and reasonable prices. You’ll find all three here, and then some. 11:30am9:30pm daily. 1181 Lincoln Ave. 408.280.7738.

EL TULE Mexican. $$. Most of the menu is devoted to Mexican-American standards, but the separate menu of Oaxacan specialties is where El Tule really shines. The black mole is uncommonly delicious

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while lesser-known dishes like tlayudas and molotes are also good. 10am-9pm daily. 5440 Thornwood Dr. 408.227.1752.

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

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

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

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

Go for the beef noodle soup, pickle and fish fillet soup and the fried chicken roll. No alcohol served. 1600 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.873.7628.

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

Traditional Italian-American favorites—spaghetti and pizza—served with plenty of elbow room. Big portions and wholesome family-style service. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 5245 Prospect Rd, San Jose. Full Bar. 408.446.9644. Also 939 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View.

650.967.5384.

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

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

GOJO ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT Ethiopian. $.

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

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

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

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

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

THE HAPPY BAMBOO Vegetarian. $. The menu at the Happy Bamboo is almost all vegan and most of it Vietnamese or Asian-inspired.

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

HUKILAU Hawaiian. $$.

Simple, slightly salty, stomachfilling foods with an AsianPacific attitude. All daily specials come with a scoop of macaroni salad and steamed rice. Skip the quesadilla and nachos and head straight for the ahi poke. With tropical drinks to match. 11am-1:45pm Tue-Fri, 5-9:30pm Tue-Wed, 5-10:30pm Thu-Sat, 11am2:30pm Sat-Sun, 5-9pm Sun. 230 Jackson St. 408.279.4888.

HUNAN TASTE. Chinese. $$.

The restaurant continues to pack them in because the food is so good. As the name implies, the restaurant specializes in the fiery, hearty food of China’s Hunan province, making it one of the few restaurants in the Bay Area to do so. 11am-2:30pm, 4:30-8:30pm Mon-Sat. 998 N. Fourth St. 408.295.1186.

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The Venue, Los Gatos Thu – 6pm; $10/$12 Molotov Solution say they’re out to expose “the new world order, the loss of our freedom and the agenda to make one world currency.” I’ll have to take their word for it, because I can’t understand a single word they’re saying. Of course, that’s exactly what I want, nay, expect from any respectable death-metal band.

This Vegas quintet will make your head explode with a full out auditory assault, if you’re into that sort of thing. After you piece it back together, you can open up their CD booklet and maybe learn

a few things. Of Legends, Fit for an Autopsy, Aethere, Behold the Desecration and A Breed Extinct open. (AC)

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JONNY MANAK AND THE DEPRESSIVES Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $7 Give Jonny Manak (full discolsure: Manak’s day job is at Metro) a stage, and he’ll take it. But he’s been mostly relegated to supporting gigs lately, even with the release of his best throwback garage-punk yet with I Am Not a Bum … I’m a Jerk. Now he headlines

his first Blank Club show in years, after streamlining the Depressives down to a three-piece once again.

He’s got his own openers for this show, an impressive bill featuring Ray Stevens II’s Rs2 Solid Sound, Dave Miller of Talky Tina and the Odd Numbers playing solo acoustic and Santa Cruz’s Creatures of the Deep (which features members of the infamous Diesel Queens). (SP)

ANIMAL LORE Café Frascati, San Jose Fri – 8pm; free The light shuffling drumbeat of Animal Lore’s mellow jangle-pop sound is a cozy backdrop for the best part—the singing guitars.

Yes, you heard me, their guitars sing. Not literally, but damn well close. They create sunshine. Like in animated movies, when a song starts up and everything sings

along—the flowers, the candles, the clocks. Well, maybe that’s taking it too far. Their music isn’t corny or anything; it’s actual more solemn, dreamy even. The vocalist is a somber storyteller, and the music chugs along slowly behind him with a hint of sadness. But when those guitars come in and take over, they really brighten the place up. (AC)

ROGER DALTREY San Jose Civic Auditorium Fri – 8pm; $46 and up The whole rock opera genre never quite caught on, but the Who’s 1969 double-album Tommy was a sensational event then—and lingers in the memories of fans, even if the Ken Russell movie has been mercifully shelved. Just the other day, I heard “Pinball Wizard” on KFOX, for instance, and it sounded just as propulsive as the day it came

out. Roger Daltrey, lead microphone whipper from the Who, is now touring a full-length concert version of Tommy, playing all the songs (from “It’s a Boy” to “We’re Not Gonna Take It”) in order with visual accompaniment. The rest of the Who, lamentably, are not with him; the touring group features guitarist Frank Simes, drummer Scott Deavours and Simon Townshend (Pete’s younger brother). The Tommy segment will be followed by a medley of the Who’s biggest numbers. (MSG).

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Studio 8, San Jose Sat – 10pm; $20 after 11pm Like rap’s most famous fivesome, Tyga came straight outta Compton,

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Oct 20 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

FOREVERLAND Oct 221 at 8pm, Avalon, Santa Clara

ANNUAL ART AUCTION Oct 22 at 6pm, ICA, San Jose

BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT Oct 22-23, Shoreline

JOHN CAGE CELEBRATION Oct 26 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

STEEP CANYON RANGERS Oct 27 at 7:30pm, 7 Montalvo Arts Center

ARIEL STRING QUARTET Oct 20 at 3pm, Montalvo Arts Center

HEAVY GRINDER Oct 27 at Studio 8, San Jose

LEMONHEADS Oct 31 at Avalon, Santa Clara

AMONIE Nov 2 at the Blank Club, San Jose

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but the similarities with Eazy Eazy, Ren Ren, Dre, Cube and Yella end there. E.’s breath might have been stinking from the 8-Ball, but Tyga prefers “Coconut Juice” and is definitely the first hip-hop star in history to turn his aversion to alcohol into a pop hit.

Yeah, since joining T-Pain and Nicki Minaj on Lil Wayne’s Young Money, Tyga’s a world away from early songs like “I’m a Gangsta.” HalfJamaican and half-Vietnamese, at 22 he represents a new generation of hip-hop stars, twisting oldschool rap up with reggae style, humor (“Listen, this is Encino, not Compton!”) and big-bottom beats into party-ready anthems. (SP)

DAVID WILLIAMS Streetlight Records, San Jose Sat – 4pm; free Hairy, spacy Southern-style cafe folk blues. First impression of

Emerson. Physical vocals: Keith Emerson appearance: Phineas Freak from the Gilbert Shelton comic books, sans granny-glasses. (Not an insult, Phineas was the suave one.)

Here he is seen dueting with Ms. Jeremi Hanson at San Francisco’s Amnesia (so-called because the place forgot it was once the Chatterbox). Here we also have a video of the man alone guitaring it, surrounded with wrack, ruin, dead seagull feathers and bones near (let’s guess because Williams is from Utah) the Great Salt Lake.

Verdict: acquitted. Williams fails to disgrace time-tested approaches, such as a rock & roll song that has the repeated phrase “rock & roll” in the chorus, or performing a pretty, slowpoke, chiming number titled “Sunday Morning,” meant to be listened to on guess which moment of the week. (RvB)

BOW WOW Motif Lounge, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $15 Shad Moss has come a long way since Snoop dubbed him Lil’ Bow Wow in the ’90s. “Lil’” was no joke back then, since he was six. At 13, he put out his first record, Beware of Dog, which made his name once and for all with the hits “Bow Wow (That’s My Name)” and “Bounce With Me.” Within a couple of years, though, “Lil’” wasn’t sounding quite so fresh, as he struggled to be accepted as more than a novelty.

A decade later he’s only 24, with seven albums under his belt. His latest, Underrated, features “Sweat,” the single he did with a Wayne who made “Lil” work for him. Snoop also returns as a guest, along with T.I., Birdman, Soulja Boy and more. His Motif show also features DJs Hostyle, Caprise, Krucial, Dru and Sixty1. (SP)

*sun TECH N9NE Avalon, Santa Clara Sun – 8pm; $25 If the bizarre hardcore hip-hop beats and the ultrafast speed-rhyming patterns of Kansas City rapper Tech N9ne aren’t enough, that’s only the tip of the iceberg at the “Lost Cities Tour.” Tech N9ne is bringing Strange Music labelmates, Krizz Kalko, Kitt Calhour, Jay Rock and Flawless, some great up and coming indie rappers. Still need more? Then I suggest forking over the $125 bucks and get the VIP package with the one-hour meet and greet. They’ll send you away with more swag than you can hold in two hands. (AC)

RICKIE LEE JONES Nov 4 aat 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

FILTER Nov 6 at Avalon, Santa Clara

JOSH ROSEMAN SEXTET Nov 12 at 8pm, Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford

ROBERT CRAY BAND Nov 20 at 7pm, Campbell Heritage Theatre

TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 20 at 5pm, HP Pavilion

VINCENTE FERNANDEZ Nov 25 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

JAY-Z/KANYE WEST Dec 10 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

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WONDERS ONDERS OF THE PAST The Tech Museum looks at the early innovations of the Muslim world.

A fascinating new show at the Tech Museum charts the scientific achievements of Muslim scholars and inventors

By GARY SINGH

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S ONE whirls into Parkside Hall, a map of the Islamic World, circa 1200, extends from Northern Africa and Spain in the west, through the Middle East and onward to India and then southward as far as Mali and Sudan.

Timelines document significant contributions by Muslim scholars to various fields, circa 8th to 18th centuries C.E.

The initial placards collectively function as an overarching framework for the current exhibit “Islamic Science Rediscovered: Celebrating a Golden Age of Science and Technology.” From there, one ventures in to experience a wealth of information. Large clusters of placards divide the exhibit into numerous categories with titles like “Great Explorers, “Math, Art and Architecture,” “Water Raising Machines,” “House of Wisdom,” “Astronomy” and more.

First things first. There is nothing controversial about the exhibit whatsoever. It is not religious or political. Although nowhere near as big as the Leonardo show, “Islamic

Science” does provide a smattering of reading material, a few interactive displays and a few videos. If you miss any sordid details, the Tech Museum’s wandering employeescholars will fill you in.

The optics cluster explains how Islamic scholars laid the foundations for modern optics. The medicine cluster features perhaps the most intricate display of minute Islamic surgical tools anywhere. There are homemade bone saws, chisels, scalpels, a tongue depressor and a “tonsil guillotine.”

Another section titled “Fine Technology and Inventions,” highlights the machines and autonomous projects of al-Jazari, a polymath, scholar, inventor and overall engineering genius of the Muslim world in the Middle Ages.

Before Da Vinci came up with his ideas for automata, al-Jazari designed programmable humanoid robots, plus a number of inventions, including a precursor to the modern-day

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automobile crankshaft. A huge replica of his elephant water clock stands in the middle of the exhibit, although it was broken upon my visit.

Over in the House of Wisdom cluster, one receives enlightening facts about Ibn Khaldun, the legendary historian considered by many to be one of the founding forefathers of modern-day economics and sociology.

Khaldun’s philosophies have crept up in many circles over the centuries, especially his concepts of tribalism, nomadism, plus the rising and falling of cohesive societies.

Also portrayed in the House of Wisdom is al-Jahiz, the classic Arabic prose writer and author of the encyclopedic Book of Animals, the first tome to discuss animal communication, intelligence and social organization.

But unfortunately, with Parkside Hall as the venue, the exhibit does not always come across as a high-end museum experience. The carpets are worn, and some of the stands holding the placards are scuffed up.

Parkside Hall is basically the old convention center from the ’70s—universally recognized as the building where everyone went for the vacuum cleaner demonstrations at Tapestry ’n’ Talent—and for me it doesn’t come across as a museum space by any stretch.

Some utterly fantastic stories emerge from the show. One gains insight about individuals either long forgotten or relegated to footnotes or antiquarian interest, even though their ideas and inventions predated anything in the West by centuries.

The “who knew” factor emerges from every section of the show.

Long before anyone else, Muslims used catgut to close surgical wounds and also discovered the pulmonary circulation system. Houses of Wisdom were precursors to modern libraries and universities. Over a thousand years ago, in front of a crowd on a hill near Cordoba, Spain, Abbas ibn Firnas—the world’s first aviator—climbed into the harness of his glider, launched himself into the air and flew across the Spanish countryside. Now that is inspiring.

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Drum Fest THIS YEAR, the Rhythm Spirit concerts by San Jose Taiko drumming troupe will focus on the origins of Taiko through the Japanese-American festival experience, known as the Matsuri. Artistic director Franco Imperial says that this year the primary theme of the show is to fully embody the spirit of the Japanese festival into an enclosed concert setting.

“What the audience will be experiencing are glimpses of the festival experience,” Imperial says. “We’ve been inspired by these moments that are very much a part of our San Jose Taiko community and the core of who we are, so we’re celebrating that.” Longtime fans of San Jose Taiko Friday, 8pm, Saturday, can look forward to feelings of nostalgia, familiarity 2 and 8pm; $20–$25 and a greater appreciation for the cultural context Campbell Heritage in which San Jose Taiko performs.

Theatre San Jose Taiko, created in 1973 as a youth activity in Japantown, is one of about 30 taiko ensembles in the Bay Area and is the third organization to form outside of Japan. Known primarily for its movement and choreography, the company tours both nationally and internationally.

“Being in an enclosed space offers a lot of different potential,” says Wisa Uemura, the troupe’s executive director. “The environment is much more controlled and dramatic, and the sound is more articulate and clear. The Rhythm Spirit show is a glimpse of what we usually take on tour, as far as the production value,” she adds. Although Taiko is culturally based, Uemura said that overall, the music is both open to and inclusive for people of all backgrounds due in part to the generally accessible and appealing nature of the drum. “The power of the drum is a very primal and universal calling that everyone can relate to,” she says. “It’s something that connects us all, whether it is based in one culture or another.”—Justin Albert

62 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. WedThu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Oct 23. $17.50$40. San Jose Stage Co.

CLEMENTINE IN THE LOWER 9 CLEMENTINEINTHELOWER9 The premiere from TheatreWorks of a drama about surviving and rebuilding in Post-Katrina New Orleans. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, ThuFri, 8pm Sat, 2 and/or 8pm, Sun, 2 and/or 7pm. Runs through Oct 30. $29-$49. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

DAMN YANKEES A musical about temptation on the diamond, presented by South Valley Civic Theatre. Fri-Sat, 8pm,

Sun, Sun 2:30pm.

2:30pm Runs thru Oct 29.

29 $14/$18. Morgan Hill Community Playhouse.

FOOL FOR LOVE Two lovers work through their passions in an 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.

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65 IT WAS ONLY ROCK & ROLL A new production by Teatro Nahual. Opens Sat, 7:30pm. Runs every Sat thru Nov 26. (See www. teatronahual.org for ticket info.)

Hispanic National University Auditorium, San Jose.

THE LAST ROMANCE San Jose Repertory Theatre introduces the local premiere of Joe DiPietro’s ageless story about taking a chance on love later in life. Wed, 7:30pm, ThuFri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and/or 8pm, Sun, 2 and/or 7pm, Tue, 7:30pm (plus 11am Oct 26). Runs thru Nov 6. $23-$57. The Rep, San Jose.

A PAIR OF KORNBLUTHS Pear Avenue presents Josh and Jake Kornbluth in a comic event.

Sun, 3pm. $50 and up. Tateuchi Hall, Mountain View Community School of Music and Arts.

RHYTHM SPIRIT 2011 Annual Taiko San Jose concerts.

Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm. $20/$25. Campbell Heritage 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.

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Classical Concerts CARPE DIEM STRING QUARTET Presented by Los Gatos Community Concert Association.

Sun, 2:30pm. %4-$20. Los Gatos High School Theatre.

CYPRESS STRING QUARTET In a concert with cellist Gary Hoffman performing works by Cassadó, Ravel and Schubert.

Sun, 7pm. $30-$42. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

ENSEMBLE CAPRICE A concert tracing the history of Gypsy music. Fri, 8pm. $35. First Lutheran Church, 600 Homer St., Palo Alto.

IGUDESMAN AND JOO “A Little Nightmare Music” by new comedic classical duo. Fri, 8pm. $20-$75. Flint Center, Cupertino.

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Thomas Shoebotham conducts the orchestra in a program of Liszt and Tchaikovsky with guest pianist Peter Toth. Sat, 8pm. $10-$20. Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto.

Wed, 8pm: Big Al’s Big Ass Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Pablo Francisco. $25. Mon, 8pm: Battle of the Bay. $10. San Jose.

PENINSULA SYMPHONY The season opens with works

by Tchaikovsky and features violinist Nikki Chooi and cellist David Requiro. $20-$39. Fri, 8pm, Fox Theatre, Redwood City; Sat, 8pm, Flint Center, Cupertino.

ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET The group performs Golijov and Schubert. Part of Stanford Lively Arts. Sun, 2:30pm. $44/$50.

Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

SPHINX VIRTUOSI/CATALYST QUARTET For Stanford Lively Arts, a collaboration between two chamber groups. Program features works by Mozart, Halvorsen, Perkinson and Ginastera. Wed, 8pm. $28/$30.

Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

STEINWAY SOCIETY The guest performer is pianist Adam Neiman. Sat, 7:30pm. $20-$45. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY Guest conductor Giampaolo Bisanti and violinist Ju-Young Baek join the orchestra for “Petrushka and the Violin.” Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $39-$75.

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WINCHESTER ORCHESTRA Young violinist Yujin Ariza joins the orchestra for a Tchaikovsky’s concert. $10-$20. Sat, 7:30pm, West Valley College Theater, Saratoga; Sun, 7pm, Trinity Cathedral, San Jose.

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

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Anthony Jeselnik. $12-$18.

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Museums OPENING SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “High Fiber Under Five.”

An exhibition of textile arts culminating in a benefit sale. Oct 22-Nov 6. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm.

San Jose.

CONTINUING CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936.”

Wed-Sun, 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.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Pioneering the Valley: The Chinese American Legacy in Santa Clara Valley.” Pacific Hotel Gallery, San Jose.

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.

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In Worm: The First Digital War (Atlantic Monthly Press; $25), journalist Mark Bowden tells the story of Conficker, and of the brilliant and dedicated group of volunteers who came together to fight it. I asked Bowden how Conficker came to his attention. He told me, “A front-page article in the Wall Street Journal in January 2009, which I remember vividly because I read it and didn’t understand anything about it.” Bowden wasn’t the only one who had trouble Mark Bowden understanding the threat. Our national security agencies were slow to get the picture. I asked Bowden Tuesday, 7pm to describe the role the government played: “Well, Computer History I think the way it was described in the DHS’s own Museum, report was ‘Zero involvement.’” But luckily, some folks Mountain View were paying attention. Researchers at Menlo Park’s SRI International spotted Conficker early and picked it apart to discover how it would be receiving instructions. Because the worm employed state-of-the-art cryptography, it could not receive commands from anyone but the botmaster. But there was an opportunity to do something. The worm automatically and predictably generated 250 domain names a day and contacted them looking for instructions. It would be possible to stop the botmaster from talking to the botnet. And all it would take would be to register 250 domain names a day, indefinitely. An expensive task, but it would buy time.

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66 Backwards.” A retrospective of paintings by Bay Area figurative artist Joan Brown. Thru Mar 11.

“Book-ish.” A show about how the printed book has influenced visual artists, featuring works from the permanent collection.

Thru Jan. 15. “So, Who Do You Think You Are?” Portraits of various kind address the issue of personal identity.“Thru Jan. 15.

“Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks.” A selection of photographs taken

by Owens in the 1970s. Thru Feb 5. Works by installation artist Anna Sew Hoy in the Beta Space.

Thru Feb 26. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM “Islamic Science Rediscovered.”

Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Kenjilo Nanao.”Thru Nov 27.

“Heather Wilcoxon.” Thru Nov 27. “Jamie Brunson: Indra’s Net.” Thru Nov 20. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries

STANFORD ART SPACES

“Sonic.” A show about artists using sound in their works.

Thru Oct 28. San Jose.

“3 Artists.” Paintings by Sue Averell, Carmen Barefield and Marianne Bland. Thru Dec 1.

Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford.

“The Jazz Masters Series”

by BRUNI. “Sports Originals”

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

Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ART “Glacier Works.” Works by Sukey Bryan. Thru Nov 27. Finn Center, Mountain View.

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.

Thru Oct 28. San Jose.

KALIED GALLERY Works by John Renzel and Troy Sims. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.

METRO LOBBY “Pictures From Paris.”

Photographs by Sonja Caldwell.

Thru Oct 28. San Jose.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

OPENING MAIN GALLERY “Sea Shells and Sonatas.”

Works by Susan Wolf and Arup Biswas. Oct 19-Nov 20.

Redwood City.

SAN JOSE CITY HALL “City of Champions: 2001, a San Jose Soccer Odyssey.” An exhibit of photos and other historical items relating to the history of soccer in the city. Oct 19-Feb 29. Opening ceremony Wed, 10 am-noon. Wing of San Jose City Hall.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “31st Annual Art Exhibition and Auction.” With scores of works in many styles and methods.

Culminates on Saturday with auction and reception, 6pm. $50. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI “Bloodworks.” Skin art by Analog Tattoo Arts Collective.

Thru Nov 19. San Jose.

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“Claudia Borgna: Plastic Bags and Ephemeral Dreams.” In conjunction with the Museums of Los Gatos, Montalvo presents a two-part exhibit of Borgna’s project to create art from recycled materials.Thru Nov 18. Ongoing.

Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.

NEXTSPACE COWORKING Featuring work by Phantom Galleries artists Michele Guieu, Katie Guiterrez and Jeanne Yee. Thru Feb 1. San Jose.

OLIVE HYDE GALLERY “Rhythm and Lifht.” Paintings by Sonia Gill, Ruth Koch and Wendy Yoshimura. Thru Nov 12. THuSun, noon-5pm. Fremont.

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by Randall L. Elkins. Thru Oct 28.

San Jose.

PORTER SESNON “Resistant Archeology.” New works by Chinese-American artist Xiaoze Xie. Thru Nov 23.

Wed, noon-6pm, Thu-Sat, noon5pm. Porter College, UCSC.

SLG ART BOUTIKI “Caustic Curio.”The Art of Crab Scrambly. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.

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VARGAS GALLERY “A Journey of Hope.” New paintings by George Rivera. Thru Nov 3. Mission College, Santa Clara.

WORKS/SAN JOSE “Movin’ on Up!” Members’ exhibit by arts collective. Thru Oct. 22. San Jose.

*books DONIA BIJAN

An event for Bijan’s book “Maman’s Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen.” Tue, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.

EVANGELINE BUELL Community activist signs copies of her book about growing up in a Filipino immigrant family. Tue, 11am.

Free. Mission College Library, Santa Clara.

BARRY EISLER A new John Rain novel is the occasion for a special book event. Fri, 7pm. Four Seasons Silicon Valley, E.ast Palo Alto.

AMITAV GHOSH The author of “River of Smoke” signs copies of his new novel.

Thu, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

CHRIS KIMBALL The chef talks about “The Cook’s Illustrated Cookbook.”

Wed, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.

LAWRENCE LESSIG The author of “Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress” speaks. Mon, 6:30pm. Free.

Santa Clara University Library.

LET US PREY The Weston family of Oklahoma puts a darkly comic twist on a reunion dinner in Tracy Letts’ ‘August: Osage County,’ running through Sunday at City Lights Theater in San Jose.

*kids DISNEY ON ICE

Skating favorites for a show called “Treasure Trove.” Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 10:30am and 7:30pm, Sat, 11am, 3 and 7pm, Sun, 1 and 5pm. $16-$75. HP Pavilion, San Jose.

DOCTOR NOIZE A concert for kids. Sat, 10am and 2pm. $10. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre.

A chance for parents and kids to make arts and crafts and get faces painted for the holiday. Tue, 10am-noon. Left Bank, Santana Row.

THE LITTLE MERMAID A family show by California Theatre Center. Sat, 11am. Thru Oct 29. $10-$14. Sunnyvale Community Center.

RAMONA QUIMBY

The author discusses his new translation of “The Illiad.” Wed, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

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ZOPPÉ

A poetry event by the author of “The World Is a Text” and “Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry.” Thu, 7pm. Willow Glen Library.

ART OF COLLECTION

A symposium with art educators and collectors. Sat, 1-4:30pm. San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.

BREAST CANCER AWARENESS A fundraiser for Breast Cancer Research Foundation with pink champagne and more. Sat. The Blues Jean Bar, Santana Row.

BREATHE DEEP BAY AREA HALLOWEEN FAMILY FEST

A show about two sisters by Los Altos Youth Theatre. FriSat, 7:30m, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Nov 5. $10-$15. Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos.

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A circus for the whole family done in the traditional Italian style. This week: Wed-Thu, 6:30pm, Fri, 4 and 7pm, Sat, 11am, 3 and 7pm, Sun, 11am, 3 and 6pm. $10/$18. Circus Tent, downtown Redwood City.

A run and walk to help stop lung cancer. Sun, 8am. $20.

Discovery Meadow, San Jose.

CLIMATE CHANGE LAW A talk by Fabian Nunez about the Global Warming Solutions Act. Wed, 7pm. Free. Morris Dailey Auditorium, SJSU.

FIGHTBACK TOUR Speakers address antiwar and Justice issues. Sat, 2-4pm. San Jose Peace and Justice Center.

JIM LEHRER A conversation between the PBS newsman and history prof David Kennedy. Wed, 7pm. $25/$45. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

SJ DOWNTOWN ASSOC. A fundraiser event to celebrate the group’s silver anniversary.

Includes silent auction and food. Sat, 7pm. $150. U.S. Armory, downtown San Jose.

SV JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL The festival gets its 20th year started with a night of music and film, including Andy Santana and Rusty Zinn and Friends. Sat, 7:30pm. De Anza College Performing Arts Center, Cupertino.

WHERE ART ORIGINATES A Djerassi Program discussion with Laurie Frick and Hafez Modirzadeh about “Jazz and the Brain.” Mon, 7pm. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre.

hallo *ween HALLOWEEN HAUNT

Haunted mazes, themed scare zones, live stage shows and more. Runs thru Oct 30. Great America, Santa Clara.

SILICON VALLEY BROOMSTICK BALL A costume event with dinner, silent auction, dancing and more to aid nonprofits. Sat, 6:30pm. $150. Dolce Hayes Mansion, San Jose.

WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE Fright Nights tours allow visitors to enjoy the Curse of Sarah Winchester Maze. Thru Oct 31. $15-$25. San Jose.

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Over the Wall St. FOLLOW LLOW LOW THE TH BOUNCING DOW Kevin Spacey tracks a volatile market in ‘Margin Call.’

In Margin Call, the excesses of the traders at one broken brokerage echo the economy’s big bust

By RICHARD VON BUSACK

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CTOR Paul Bettany comments in the press notes for Margin Call, “It’s like David Mamet, but in a good way.” No, a better way. The film’s subject is workplace ruthlessness, a topic Mamet branded with Glengarry Glen Ross. Visually, Margin Call is a gathering of besuited men. The one woman (Demi Moore) hardly has a ledge to jump off of.

A 107-year-old Wall Street

brokerage firm is clearing the decks with a brutal layoff. Men are all but frog-marched out with their cardboard boxes in their hands.

Rent-a-cops in polyester jackets follow them out to make sure they cause no fuss. To calm the remaining traders, middle manager Sam (Kevin Spacey) tells his employees: “You were better. Now they’re gone.

Never to be thought of again.”

The dialogue has just that blankverse quality. The characters ask questions they don’t want answered, and nobody answers anyway. Their talk is like numerical glossolalia: the amount of their salaries, the speculation on the salaries of their bosses and rivals, the money they have spent or squandered.

Stanley Tucci, as Eric, the most human of them—the one who goes to the wall first—has a knack. Even in the dawn after a sleepless night, he can do a mental time-benefit analysis, counting the years he saved commuters, back when he was an engineer, back when he was doing something that helped people.

The film has no proactive hero as such. One bloodless young genius is Peter, who works in the Risks department. He seems good at his job and seems to register some pity about the layoffs. Peter is played by the actor (and producer here) Zachary Quinto; he plays it very neutral and looks poreless and slightly synthetic. Like playing Jesus, once you play Spock, it’s hard to come back.

The just-laid-off Eric gives Peter a thumb-drive as he leaves. Late at night, when Peter analyzes the data, he sees figures that spell the certain doom of the brokerage.

Word gets out. Helicopters arrive at 3am bearing the preternaturally calm (or completely insane)

company headman, John Tuld, played by Jeremy Irons. Tuld enjoys talking down to his subordinates— not in a Mamet tirade but in the cordial patronization of a publicschool headmaster.

Considering the size of the debacle and the lateness of the hour, Tuld is unruffled by the company’s assets: “The biggest bag of odorous excrement in the history of capitalism.” What’s in the bag? The word “mortgage” is not even being mentioned until a half-hour into the movie.

First-time feature filmmaker J.C. Chandor is the son of a 40-year Merrill Lynch employee. Speculate, if you like, how Chandor knows what we’re all learning piece by piece: the pathological abstraction of the financial industry and its happy willingness to ruin others.

Margin Call was shot in Red camera.

This means the post-Soderbergh look: ultraclose profiles; the glowing polk dots of diffused translucent polka traffic lights thr through moist car clamwindows; clam-colored Manhattan skies and office b bathrooms where co characters are cornered.

Spacey He’s played hardAs for Spacey: d ons. He’s also done penance for meanness by pl playing saintly sad men, trip like Pay It Forward in New Age tripe K-PAX But he has never had a and K-PAX. chance to be this well-rounded (and, yes, I remember American Beauty).

He’s brought down to earth, by a commonplace tragedy with his pet dog that’s so simple that it’s a big risk for a writer to use it.

Coming to terms with a life spent making horrendously rich people horrendously richer, Spacey’s Sam delivers a line that’s both too good to spoil and so good it echoes.

For that matter, Irons’ speech about the numbers has its own ringing quality. Tuld talks of how the few booms and the many, many busts never change the invariable percentage of the wealthy to the poor.

Margin Call may seem particularly relevant, then, if the “99 percent” idea catches on as a nickname—used as it is by the protesters keeping their vigils in the financial districts everywhere.

MARGIN CALL R; 105 min.

Opens Friday

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metroactive FILM FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN (R; 99 min.) A family tragedy strikes Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson and Julia Roberts in a drama that showed up at the Berlin festival in 2008 and hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t had a theatrical release until now, which should serve as a warning of sorts. Supposedly based (â&#x20AC;&#x153;looselyâ&#x20AC;?) on a Robert Frost poem. (Opens Fri at Century Cinema 16 in Mountain View.)

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG-13; 101 min.) Rowan Atkinson stars in a James Bond spy-movie parody with Rosamund Pike and Dominic West. (Opens Fri.)

MARGIN CALL (R; 105 min.) See review on page 70.

THE MIGHTY MACS (G; 102 min.) This 2009 movie about the champion Immaculata College team of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;71â&#x20AC;&#x201C;72 isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a contender; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dull-witted, and the basketball games arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ lmed with any excitement. (Call it White Girls Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Jump.) The movie that celebrates the victory of a ragtag team of underfunded misďŹ ts, while squandering the ragtag misďŹ t cast: Carla Gugino as real-life coach Cathy Rush, cute Marley Shelton as a formerly swinging nun and the renowned Ellen Burstyn paying her rent as a mother superior who at ďŹ rst frowns at all that dribbling and shooting and then learns to love the champs. David Boreanaz does what he can in the neglectedhusband role; if this movie comes to anything, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the suggestion that Boreanaz could be cast in Aaron Eckhart parts for half the price. The students react to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;successoryâ&#x20AC;? mottoes as if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never heard them before. And the ďŹ lm loads the sports pieties with religious ones (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jesus loved to dance!â&#x20AC;?), though there are visible undertones suggesting that the exhortations of faith are just there to tickle the block-booked, advance-ticket church crowd. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.) (RvB)

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (84 min.) More things that go bump in the night. (Opens Fri.)

RUSH TIME MACHINE: 2011 Live in Cleveland, the venerable band performs their â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moving Picturesâ&#x20AC;? album in its entirety. (Plays Oct 26 at 7pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

SAN JOSE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL See story on page 74.

SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Oct 22 at 7:30pm: Who Do You Love? The screening includes the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 20th anniversary gala at De Anza College VPAC in Cupertino. TV/Broadway vet Jerry Zaks directs the story of the Chess Brothers of Chicago, founders of a label that made blues history. Plus live performances by Andy Santana and Rusty Zinn. Oct 23 at 1pm: Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness: an elegantly produced, enlightening and beautifully scored (by John Zorn) documentary biography of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mark Twain of Yiddish.â&#x20AC;? Ultimately, Aleichem will best be known as the source writer for the hit Fiddler on the Roof. That musicalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lyricist, Sheldon Harnick, is among the many interviewees in the ďŹ lm. Another is Bel Kaufman, Aleichemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s granddaughter, who just turned 100. Oct 23 at 3pm: Little Rose. The title is a code name of an agent for the Polish Communist government; a woman is forced to spy on a Jewish intellectual in the late 1960s. (Also plays Oct 26 at 7:30pm at Camera 7 in Campbell). Oct 23 at 5:30pm: Strangers No More. Documentary about an international school for children in Tel Aviv. It shows with Sayed Kashua: Forever Scared. ProďŹ le of a Palestinian TV comedy writer who lives in Israel.

Oct 23 at 7:30pm: Bride Flight.

Ben Sombogaartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parakeet-size version of The Thorn Birds. Three women, one of them (Anna Drijve) Jewish, relocate to the fusty New Zealand of the 1950s. Pictorially pretty and forgivably bad in a 1940s way of badness. (Plays Oct 22-Nov 20 in San Jose at Camera 12 and Campbell at Camera 7.)

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with a ďŹ&#x201A;ock of other Spanish domestics, including her aunt, played by Carmen Maura, and a salty Communist exile from Franco, Lola DueĂąas. Even if this plot was disagreeable when it was made into Spanglish, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mildly amusing hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;although, just as last time, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a thorough celebration of a patron. Sandrine Kiberlain is Luchiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, who misreads the situation; similarly, director Philippe Le Guay misreads an old manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for a young girl as a consciousness raising. The nostalgia for the smock and beret days of De Gaulle tends to mitigate the none-too-crispy writing.

(Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.) (RvB)

Revivals

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) The sing-along version. In 1950s New York, Rick Moranis is Seymour, a nebbishy clerk at a ďŹ&#x201A;oristâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shop; seeking to develop a new kind of ďŹ&#x201A;ower to impress a busty and lisping co-worker (Ellen Greene) instead spawns a maneating plant; Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops gives this bad ďŹ&#x201A;ower a

NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent ďŹ lms. Oct 22 at 7:30pm:

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GRAND HOTEL/ANNA CHRISTIE (1932/1930) Greta Garbo as an exhausted ballerina, who is sleepless despite satin pajamas and the best hotel room in Berlin: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been so tired in my life ... not even the Veronal can help me sleep.â&#x20AC;? Giving her a reason to brush the sleep from her eyes is a soi-disant Baron (John Barrymore).

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voice (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Feed me!â&#x20AC;?). Steve Martin, leathered up like a biker, ďŹ lches the show as a mad dentist. (Plays Oct 21-22 in San Jose at 7pm in San Jose at the RetroDome.) (RvB)

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THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG-13; 110 min.) At last, Dumas fans are rewarded with yet another screen adaptation of the swashbuckler epic. This time, it stars Matthew Macfadyen, Ray Stevenson, Orlando Bloom and Milla Jovovich (who seems like a strange choice for a period ďŹ lm). (Opens Fri.)

the No. 1 comedy smash hit from director Philippe Le Guay

Help is on the way.

UNAFF 2011 See page 72.

THE WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR (Unrated; 106 min.) Fabrice Luchini uses (and needs) everything heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got as a farceur here. He plays a put-upon middle-aged Parisian stockbroker of 1962 who gets a crush on Maria, the new Spanish maid (the Julia Roberts-ish Natalie Verbeke). Maria lives upstairs

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A diplomat is laid waste by a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pyrogenic half-pintâ&#x20AC;? (S.J. Perelman): World War Iâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;era sex bomb Theda Bara (â&#x20AC;&#x153;an anagram for Arab Death!â&#x20AC;?) stars in 1915â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s A Fool There Was. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kiss me, my fool!â&#x20AC;?

Billed with early cinemaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy superstars John Bunny and Flora Finch in The Locket (1913) and Will Rogers in The Truthful Liar. Oct 23 at 4pm: Nosferatu/Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1922/1920). Beware: â&#x20AC;&#x153;New score, dialogue and sound effects

by HobGoblin.â&#x20AC;? (Plays Oct 22-23 in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.)

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THIS YEARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S UNAFF, which includes stops in Palo Alto, is as rich as ever, and rich with local interest. The short Making Noise in Silence, playing Oct. 26, is a unique and well-made observation of life within the California School of the Deaf in Fremont. Next week (Oct. 29), is the highly recommended River of Renewal, about the water wars over the Klamath River.

What seemed particularly informative and entertaining in the selections I previewed: two dynamic studies of the ďŹ lm industries of the demised Yugoslavia and Iran. What they have (or had) in common is real sophistication yoked with the totalitarian viewpointâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a party line that insists on its moral rightness and yet is terriďŹ ed of contradiction. Both play Oct. 23 at the Aquarius Theater.

Cinema Komunisto from Serbia is so woeful in subject matter itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost funny. We knew that Tito was President for Life; we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know he was crazy for movies.

Among the interviewees is the great manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s projectionist for some 30 years. We also tour the former Yugoslaviaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Avala Studios, where numberless Partisans vs. Nazi movies were foaled. (Then-star Bata Zivojinovic recalls, â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are ďŹ lms from start to ďŹ nish where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m killing Germans. Hitlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last words were â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Get Bata!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?)

Cheap labor, runaway productions and the wayward fortunes of Orson Welles meant that Belgradeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hotel Metropol was a little, little Hollywood. Even Liz and Dick dropped in, after Richard Burton landed the plum role of Tito in the 1973 The Battle of

Sutjeska. Director Mila Turajlic has a point: Tito was constructing a Communist dream as sturdy as a movie setâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s false front. But we get a diďŹ&#x20AC;erent angle as wellâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all cinematic Babylons, from D.W. GriďŹ&#x192;thâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on down, seem doomed to rot. All thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left is what we see here: pageantry, epics, accordions and footage of Tito gleaming in his cult of personality, gilded with foolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gold.

The valuable survey Iran: A Cinematographic Revolution charts Iranian ďŹ lm from 1933â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hadji Agha, The Cinema Actorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;made to sell an uneasy local population on LE8== the idea of moviesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to the Oct. 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;30, Day of the Locustâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;like riots Palo Alto in Mohsen Makhmalbafâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Stanford Salaam Cinema (1995). In www.unaff.org the oďŹ&#x20AC;screen Iran, good religious people burned nearly a hundred movie theaters; making some obeisance to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Islamic correctness,â&#x20AC;? this doc suggests that all the smut on the 1970s screen gave them some grounds.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the shrewd and thoughtful Makhmalbaf whose perspective becomes the most valuable, while the narration becomes slightly suspect. In its view, the masters of Iranian cinema â&#x20AC;&#x153;succeeded in restoring their countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honorâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;though a country might lose its honor because of its leaders rather than its invaders. So in both Iran and Yugoslavia, artists face (or faced) a party insisting on moral rightness, that, strangely, trembled with a deep terror of contradiction.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

ON THE WATERFRONT/ A FACE IN THE CROWD (1954/1957) The partisan struggles it reďŹ&#x201A;ected are forgotten, and all thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remembered is how fetching Brando looks with a chunk out of his eyebrow. Longshoreman Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is caught between the gangster-led union of his brother (Rod Steiger, never better) and the civilizing mission of his girlfriend, schoolmarm-intraining Eva Marie Saint. BILLED WITH A Face in the Crowd. What if Elvis became dictator? This berserk Elia Kazan movie has a crypto Elvis called Lonesome Rhodes (Andy GrifďŹ th!), who, on the basis of a hit called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mama Guitarâ&#x20AC;? (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good!) becomes a celebrity. Trouble begins when he allows himself to be manipulated by Southern kingmakers. The highly chemical Lee Remick debuts, playing a Lolita of a cheerleader. (Plays Oct 26-28 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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THE ROOM (2003) Invite all your friends! Good thinking! (Plays Oct 22 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD/ THE BLACK LEGION (1962/1937) Gregory Peck copped an Oscar for his performance as a lawyer (and single father of two) in the South defending a black man (Brock Peters) accused of rape; Robert Duvall made his debut as the soft-witted Boo Radley. BILLED WITH The Black Legion. Humphrey Bogart is a factory worker lured in by a Klan-like anti-foreigner organization; unfortunately, he ďŹ nds out itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easier to get in than get out. A topically brave ďŹ lm.

Warner Bros. were sued by the KKK for â&#x20AC;&#x153;infringement of designâ&#x20AC;? for the robes and hoods (the goons lost, happily). (Plays Oct 22-23 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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50/50 (R; 139 min.) Alternate title could be So/So, despite leads Anna Kendrick and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Their work in this comedy/drama is disrupted by Seth Rogen. In regularly

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FOOTLOOSE (PG-13; 113 min.) A new version of the tale of a kid with happy feet.

THE IDES OF MARCH (R; 101 min.) George Clooney’s stiff adaptation of Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North minces some questions of loyalty and politician worship. Can a political activist find a safe ground between foolish innocence and cynicism? Clooney plays Mike Morris, a Gulf War veteran and Democratic governor of Pennsylvania running in a tough Ohio primary. If he wins, he seems destined to triumph against a scattered opposition. Ryan Gosling plays Stephen Myers, the young but longtime strategist who adores this candidate. This lowtemperature drama of idealism simmers further when Molly (Evan Rachel Woods) enters, though the action seems elsewhere, with the strategizing between two rivals, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti. Ides of March doesn’t start to get exciting until far too late in the game, when we

get the confrontation we’ve been promised between Myers’ hero worship and Morris’ ruthlessness.

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MONEYBALL (PG-13; 133 min.) Seemingly about baseball and number-crunching— really about disappointment and lowered expectations. The film follows the gamble of the Oakland A’s Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) on sabermetrics. Beane encounters a true believer in the system: a cubicle-dwelling dweeb (Jonah Hill) who seems to have a system to find undervalued players. Director Bennett Miller, and shrewd scriptwriters Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, make this a species of buddy movie but a dry, unusual one, more interested in exchanged glances than backpatting. It is Pitt’s movie, a lean,

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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 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 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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mean performance, one of his best. The rest of the cast are up to his level, including Robin Wright (demonstrating the guarded pity of an ex-wife) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (seething wrath in the face of upper-echelon nonsense).

The film stirs up those mile-wide, inch-deep feelings fans have about baseball, even as Beane insists that there’s nothing in the sport to sentimentalize. The director and cast give us authentic disenchantment and then make it yield to the kind of benign reversals of fortune that do occur sometimes: actual second acts in American lives, rallies in the bottom of the ninth inning. (RvB)

1911 (R) Jackie Chan directs an epic based on the story of Sun Yat-sen.

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SHORT but to the point—the San Jose Short Film Festival hopes to explore the world of the minifilm during a three-day stand. There are well-known international figures getting their work seen here. Just out of Sundance is a short by Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men): Sexting, starring Julia Stiles.

Local filmmakers are also featured. Emmett Winters’ The Valley depicts the story of how one Karinah Guzman overcame her childhood trauma of sexual abuse. Winters, who had been a senior at Santa Clara University, considered various topics for making of a film. When his cousin Karinah decided to go public with her story, Winters offered to tell what happened through film.

Winters raised the money for The Valley via Kickstarter. Perhaps naturally, the project caused a schism among his relatives: “Half of the family won’t speak to the other half,” Winters said by phone.

The director, a fan of Scorsese, Tarantino and Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) hopes to expand the story here into a feature film.

“What I like about Lawrence is that he’s really big in religious themes, and faith is a big thing for both me and her. My cousin struggled with this by herself for 10 years before she took it to court, and she made it through because of God—I’m trying to make this point very subtle, but I do want people to get it.”

The scheduled films may be brief, but all the formalities will be observed, including a redcarpet reception and a program replaying the hits of last year’s festival (the awardwinners Blueberry and Dolores). One series includes eight animated films from the United States, Canada and Germany. Artist Jason JXe Afj\ Mecier’s Jason Mecier J_fik =`cd Does Amy Sedaris is a =\jk`mXc 13-minute-long quest to complete a portrait of the Thursday–Sunday comedienne/performance CinéArts artist.

Santana Row sjshortfest.com Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats’ Horizon follows a retro-futuristic war between groundlings and zeppelin-riding raiders.

Retro-futuring also takes place in Grzegorz Jonkajtys’ The 3rd Letter, in which a hapless factory worker fights an insurance company for the right to keep his heart ticking.

The short film is in such sharp focus at this young festival that one movie on display is Peter Meech’s Winner Best Short Film. Meech’s entry concerns an aspiring filmmaker who poses as the winner of the best short-film award at Sundance, with a film that’s a half-second long. Want to see it again?—Richard von Busack

REAL STEEL (PG-13; 127 min.) Even Hugh Jackson’s charm and energy start to flag in this arguably feasible attempt to put some heart into the clobbering-robot genre. Shawn Levy fills Real Steel with slightly futurized Americana as Jackman’s Charlie Kenton goes through the circuit of the prizefighting movie: debt, dejection, discovery of a contender (a robot in this case) and bonding with son and girlfriend. (Dakota Goyo, who plays son Max, is a coldly deft little professional; Evangeline Lilly is as pretty as her name, but she only gets about 10 minutes onscreen). Sometimes you also wonder who, exactly, Real Steel is for. The bloody-minded little boy and bloody-minded former little boy demographic is pretty large.

But they want what they want.

Are they going to feel they robbed of regularly scheduled wreckage in favor of dad and son bonding?

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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 harddrinking oldster (Phan Tan Thi). At a restaurant job, Mai meets the tough and spiky Kim (Quynh Hoa) part of a

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troupe of street hip-hoppers called Saigon Fresh. Samsung, which gets a lavish amount of product placement here, is hosting a danceoff 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). (RvB)

TAKE SHELTER (R; 124 min.) Michael Shannon delivers a phenomenally compelling and tough piece of acting. In a movie about a storm to come, Shannon’s face has its own share of turbulence. He looks like so many men who snap: simultaneously too weak and too strong. As a driller in Elyria, Ohio, Shannon’s Curtis is plagued with visions of disaster that dismay him, and that damages his marriage (to wife Jessica Chastain).

But we’re given an alternative explanation, provided in a small but incisive role by the too-seldomseen Kathy Baker. Just as Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life showed how many fathers were strangling on their neckties in Ike’s day, and Todd Haynes’ Safe perfectly outlined the gargantuan affluence and bad chemicals of the Reagan years, Take Shelter seems keyed to the madness of our time. But after the film comes to a bleak point, a twist undoes what has been a seriousminded tragedy. (RvB)

THE THING (R; 103 min.) Yet another version of the classic tale about a dangerous creature found frozen in the ice.

WARRIOR (PG-13, 139 min.) Nick Nolte puts a third mortgage on his integrity to try to give this hyped-up wrestling movie some integrity of its own.

He’s the formerly drunken father of two battered sons (Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton) who need to pull together as a Mixed Martial Arts tournament is about to open.

Director Gavin O’Connor makes a 2-1/2-hour Testament of Faith; big books with big titles (“STEINBECK”) float onscreen behind Nolte to remind us of what the film is getting at. The “wars” are one long series of two man clusterfights. Summing up, Brendan’s principal says, “Literally it looks bad; figuratively it looks worse”—there’s something politically scary in the film’s astronomical Riefenstahlism, in the way it keeps leaving ground level and going big, as if the fate of the nation depended on the bouts. (RvB)

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On the Curve STYLE YLE MOVES MO S Tanesha Awasthi offers tips for curvy women on her blog.

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San Jose blogger Tanesha Awasthi’s website, Girl With Curves, has become a shapely success

By JODY AMABLE

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HEN ASKED her age, Tanesha Awasthi will answer with great confidence.

“I’m 30,” she says boldly.

“Turning 30 changed me a lot, as far as obsessing about the size, the weight.”

Lots of things have caused Awasthi to obsess over the years, mostly revolving around weight gain and loss. Her most recent obsession—some would say her healthiest—is her fashion blog, Girl With Curves.

Awasthi is naturally endowed with an ultrafeminine figure—think the

coveted Joan Holloway hourglass shape from Mad Men. She has always been a follower of fashion. “I always thought in the back of my mind, ‘I’ll design one day,’” she says.

As a teenager growing up in Milpitas, Awasthi would rip out pages of editorial spreads from fashion magazines and save them. The fashion industry, however, has never been too kind to curvy girls, so in February 2011, Awasthi took matters into her own hands and established the blog that is fast becoming her claim to fame.

The content of her blog shows a clear editorial influence, made up mostly of dreamy photo spreads featuring Awasthi in her latest retail conquests. It’s no surprise that she’s been a model. After attending a disenchanting orientation at

FIDM in San Francisco in pursuit of her design career, she turned to modeling so she could have some sort of foot in the fashion industry’s door.

Modeling jobs fall into two categories: “straight size” and “plus size.” However, humans don’t fall quite so neatly into categories, Awasthi included. “They would tell me, ‘If we only shoot your top half, you look like a straight size, but your bottom half looks plus size.’ Modeling gave me a complex,” she says—it’s hard not to have one in an alternate universe where a size 8 is considered plus-size. Eventually, it was suggested that she start padding her torso to make her top half agree with her bottom half.

That was the last straw. “I’m not gonna wear a fat suit!”

Then, about three years ago, Awasthi

sustained a knee injury from running, a sport she took up to get herself to the weight that, she says, she thought she wanted to be. Being laid up made her realize how frivolous the pursuit of a certain size was. “Trying to obtain a body that isn’t naturally obtainable for me personally was a waste of time and energy.”

Working as an account manager and living in north San Jose, she needed an outlet for the creativity that had always been in her. “I was so bored!” she says.

“I’d come home from work and watch Project Runway … and I’d be so envious of those people that they got to make a living doing something like that.”

So she decided to conduct an experiment to combat the boredom. She posted a photo to Flickr of her in an outfit that she liked. The photo was eventually reblogged on Tumblr more than 400 times and shared on social networks.

The responses, in an unusual turn for notoriously mean Internet commenters, were deliriously supportive.

From there, she established Girl With Curves, posting Marie Claire–worthy shots of favorite outfits, information on where she got the pieces and tips on how to wear them. Her blog began to attract readers, and by the time she had hit 1,500, Tumblr, Girl With Curves’ platform, announced that it would send a select group of fashion bloggers to New York Fashion Week.

Awasthi submitted a post about her love for accessories and their ability dress up any outfit on any body type to the selection committee. She was chosen and attended some of Fashion Week’s hottest events as an ambassador for Tumblr.

Her blog is now at 36,000 readers, not counting those who subscribe to her mailing list, follow her Twitter account and like her Facebook page. While she tries not to make the blog about her body—the only mention of curves is in the title—the buzz surrounding her blog inevitably comes back around to her shape.

Like turning the big 3-0, she’s made peace with that. “I feel like, as girls, we all have curves. We’re supposed to. That’s something we all have in common. I’m trying to set an example of not being so upset with yourself.”

Follow Tanesha Awasthi http://girlwithcurves.tumblr.com

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Beaufunk Friday at Poor House Bistro in San Jose, 6pm; free Maybe the Bay Area’s best-kept funk secret, Beaufunk features some incredible players.

Guitarist Ian Lamson toured with Elvin Bishop for nine years, saxophonist Jim Peterson has been a powerhouse since his days in Mumbo Gumbo, bassist Timm Walker and drummer William Allums were in Zydeco Flames, and keyboardist Lorenzo Hawkins is a veteran of Tower of Power. (SP)

Boar Hunter Friday at Johnny V’s in San Jose, 9pm; $5 Boar Hunter make it a point to tell people they’re not a metal band, and it’s true. They’re more of a punk supergroup, with Rob Fraser of Whiskey Sunday and Branch Benson of Shitkickers (who played together before in Apeface) joining up with Nathan Jones of Santa Cruz thrash band Uzi Suicide (who gave us the immortal “I Won’t Mosh in Your Dojo If You Don’t Start Fights at Our Show”). Still, Boar Hunter get heavy, mixing metal riffs into their hardcore breakdowns. (SP)

Bristol to Memory Saturday at X Bar in Cupertino, 9pm; $5 Santa Ana pop-punkers have taken off since playing Warped Tour in 2009 and releasing their second album, Light Up the Fire, last year. They’re joined by Usurper Vong, Attik Door and Violet Hour. (SP)

Metro’s music calendar runs Wednesday–Tuesday.

Rock/Pop

10pm: Starving Millionaires.

San Jose.

AVALON

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

Thu: Monte Negro. Fri: Foreverland. Sun: Tech Nine.

Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Fri, 9pm: Jonny Manak and the Depressives, RS2 Solid Sound, Fascinating Creatures of the Deep, Dave Miller, $7.

San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S Fri, 9pm: Bonedrivers.

Sunnyvale.

Sat, 9pm: T. Clemente Band.

Cupertino.

CAFFE FRASCATI Fri, 8pm: Animal Love. Sun, 5pm: Jack Gilmour. San Jose.

CAPERS

LOS GATOS LODGE Fri-Sat: Live rock bands. Los Gatos.

MOJO LOUNGE

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

Campbell.

Thu: TBA. Fri: Big Cat Tolefree and the Hypnotics. Sat: The Tilton Band. Fremont.

BOSWELL’S

CLUB FOX

Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: Junkshaker. Sat: Superbad. Sun: The Gents.

Mon: Matt Bolton. Campbell.

Thu, 8pm: Preston Reed. $20.

Fri, 8pm: Blue and Groovy Judy. $10/$15. Sun, 9pm: The Dodos and Release the Sunbird. $20. Redwood City.

MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Thu: Live entertainment. Fri, 10pm: Kid Dynamite. Sat,

JOHNNY V’S Fri: Boar Hunter, Death Crisis.

Sat: TBA. San Jose.

Wed, 6pm: The Road Dogs.

Tue, 6pm: Vegas Nights. San Jose.

NETO’S GRILL Fri, 8pm: The Hum with Ron E. Beck and Dave Gonzales. $5.

Santa Clara.

CONCERT

Bridge School Benefit AFTER some last-minute shuffling, Neil Young’s Bridge School benefit still winds up with maybe its best lineup ever to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Various emergencies have forced Diana Krall and Jenny Lewis off the bill, but taking their Shoreline Amphitheatre place will be Devendra Banhart and Norah Jones— which is, let’s face it, even better. Other headliners Saturday, 5pm, both days include Young performing solo (after Sunday 2pm joining his former Buffalo Springfield bandmates last year), Dave Matthews, Arcade Fire, Eddie Vedder, $39.50-$150 Los Invisibles (with Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman Santana and guests), Beck and Mumford & Sons. Foo Fighters and Tony Bennett perform Sunday only, and Jimmy Fallon has been added as host on Saturday.—Steve Palopoli

NINE LIVES

RED ROCK COFFEE

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

Thu, 8pm: Noys Annoise, Silly Creature. $3. Fri, 8pm: Wicked Jupiter, Oh My Land. $10. Sat, 8pm: Vulture King, Asyst. $10. Gilroy.

Fri, 8pm: Ira Marlowe.

Mountain View.

Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE

Thu, 6pm: Molotov Solution, Of Legends, Fit for an Autopsy and more. $10/$12. Los Gatos.

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

Fri, 9:30pm: Pacific Standard Time. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Six Strings. $10. Los Gatos.

Sat, 5pm: Bridge School Benefit. Sat, 2pm: Bridge School Benefit. Mountain View.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sat: Xavier the X-Man’s party with Pachuco Jose y Los Diamantes. San Jose.

THE QUARTER NOTE

STATION 55

Wed, 8:30pm: Pro jam. Thu, 8:30pm: Pro jam funk. Fri, 9pm: Hummers, Stealing Third, Evolution Eden. $8. Sat, 9pm: Recoil, Venting, Machine, Weapon Status, Red. $8.

Sunnyvale.

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

Gilroy.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS Sat, 4pm: David Williams. San Jose.

THE VENUE

X-BAR Sat, 9pm: Bristol to Memory, Usurper Vong, Attik Door, Violet Hour. $5. All ages. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

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

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2011/2012 Carriage House Theatre Concert Series

metroactive MUSIC 79 ALBERTO’S Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night. Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea.

Mountain View.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, 8:30pm: Fiesta Flamenca. $20-$25. Redwood City.

ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE

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 2011 Entertainer of the Year Award - International Bluegrass Music Association

RICKIE LEE JONES Fri, November 4, 8pm Hailed as “one of the most intriguing, idiosyncratic vocalists of our time” by USA Today, Rickie Lee Jones’s performances are infused with over 30 years of experience in rock, blues, pop, soul and jazz. Jones is a two time Grammy Award winning artist, and is ranked #30 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Women of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Songs from her 1979 debut album have become classics: “Chuck E’s in Love”, “On Saturday Afternoons in 1963” and “Last Chance Texaco.” Her three-disc anthology “Duchess of Coolsville” (Rhino) was released in 2005 and featured essays by Randy Newman, Quincy Jones, and Tori Amos.

Tickets On Sale Now! Free on-site parking!

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15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA 95070

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

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

San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

HUKILAU Fri: E Ono Kane. Sat: Na Leo Pumehana. San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S Sat: Celtic Soul and guests.

Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

MOROCCO’S MV Wed, 5pm: World music. Fri, 5pm: World music and magic with Robert Cerne. Sat, 5pm: Belly dancing and world music. Sun, 5pm: World music.

Mon, 5pm: Moroccan music.

Mountain View.

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UNWINED

Fri, 6:30pm: Upside Trio. Sun, 4-6pm: Anya Malkiel.

Menlo Park.

Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz.

San Jose.

CLUB FOX Wed, 7pm: Blues jam with Terry Hiatt. $5. Redwood City.

Wed, 7:30pm: Blues Borachos.

Thu, 7:30pm: Jason Lewis Trio.

San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON

C&W/Folk

Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: Jumpin Bad. Campbell.

DANA STREET COFFEE ROASTING

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

Fri, 8:30pm: Primary Colors.

Sat, 8:30pm: Eric Bolvin.

San Jose.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Wed: Blues Angel. Fri: Madylan Rose. Fri: Dog House Riley, Mike Osborn. $10. Sat: The City with Paula Sorce. $10. Sun, 4pm: Ruckus; followed by Stevie B. Mon: Wayne’s Way. Tue: Dennis and Stuart. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

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

MOROCCO’S SJ Thu, 5pm: Jason Bellenkes Duo. Tue, 5pm: Johnny Williams.

San Jose.

WINE AFFAIRS

Every second Mon: Ukulele jam. Mountain View.

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Sat, 7:30pm: Octobop. San Jose.

THE GRAPEVINE Sat, 7pm: Mark Rodriguez.

Willow Glen.

ITALIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FOUNDATION Sun, 3pm, dinner, 5-7pm, dance: An event to honor Shorty Joe Quartuccio with sunday dinner and music by Richard Chon and the Saddle Cats. $25. IAHF, San Jose.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Sat, 7:30pm: Kevin Hull. $7.

Santa Clara.

NAGLEE PARK GARAGE We, 7pm: Golden State Ramblers. San Jose.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE Fri: South Bay Acoustic Meetup. Sat: Richard Berger Band. Campbell.

Wed, 5pm: Flamenco. Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancing. Sat, 5pm: Mucho Ave. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music.

San Jose.

NETO’S

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Sun: Live blues. San Jose.

SAM’S BBQ

Thu-Sat: Live music.

Sunnyvale.

A PERFECT FINISH

Wed, 6pm: Dark Hollow. Tue, 6pm: Cabin Fever. San Jose.

Sat, 7:30pm: Kaye Bohler Band. $15. Santa Clara.

OLD WAGON SALOON & GRILL

Fri, 9pm: Steven Gary. Sat, 9pm: Kirk Tamura Trio. San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

Jazz/Blues ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 7:30pm: Bennett RothNewell Trio. $5/$8. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Thu, 7pm: Jazz jam. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Stan Erhart Band. Fri, 6-10pm: Beaufunk. Sat, 6-10pm: Lara Price Blues Revue. Sun, noon4pm: School of the Blues Student Jam. Tue, 6pm: Ukulele Jam Night. San Jose.

TESSORA’S

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Bobby McDowell. Fremont.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Bit & Spur Band.

Sun, 8pm: Guest band weekly.

San Jose.

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

Redwood City.

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

Campbell.

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celebrates John Cage, Afro-Cuban jazz, West African funk and more, the Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet perform Wednesday, Oct. 19 at Dinkelspiel Auditorium in Palo Alto. Celebrated for bringing diversity both to the performance and programming of classical music, the ensemble is made up of top alumni from the nationwide Sphinx Competition for Black and Latino string players (founder Aaron Dworkin was named a MacArthur fellow in 2005 and was President Obama’s first pick for the National Council on the Arts). The group will perform works by composers of color like Perkinson, Plaza and Ginastera, as well as pieces by Bach and Mozart. 8pm; $26.

QUARTER NOTE

AZÚCAR

BAMBOO LOUNGE

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

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

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

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

THE BEARS

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

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

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

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

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

Saratoga.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic.

Cupertino.

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

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

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

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

First and third Thursday of every month, 7pm: The Canvas.

Open to all performers.

Sunnyvale.

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

Karaoke

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

BLUE BONNET BAR

7 BAMBOO

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

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

BLUE MAX

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

Santa Clara.

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger.

Cupertino.

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

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

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

San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

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BOULEVARD TAVERN

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

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY

BRANHAM LOUNGE

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

Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;FLAHERTYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S IRISH PUB Mon, 8pm: Matt. San Jose.

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

HOOOTERS RESTAURANT

PIONEER SALOON

THE COURTS LOUNGE

Sun, 9-11pm: Karaoke.

Campbell.

Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

HUDDLE

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

Woodside.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

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

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

Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

DASILVAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BRONCOS Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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

Campbell.

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

The Green Atrium (Ages 16+) Country Trash Atrium (Ages 18+) Zion I/ The Jacka (Ages 16+) Pink Mountaintops Atrium (Ages 21+)

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

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

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POINCIANA LOUNGE Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside.

No cover. Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

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

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

San Jose.

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

KING OF CLUBS

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

San Jose.

REDI ROOM Thu-Sat, 9pm: DJ Curtis. San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

ROSIE MCCANNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

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Wed, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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

Sunnyvale.

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

MATT MASIH & THE MESSENGERS Eliquate

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

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

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

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Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

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Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Menlo Park.

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Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

Thu, 9pm-2am: August.

Milpitas.

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

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MOJO LOUNGE

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

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LILLY MACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S THE ESCAPE

Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

MARIANIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

Tue, 8:30pm: Karaoke. No cover. Santana Row. Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

CONCERT

(YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE ITALIAN TO COME)

Sunday October 23 ~Dago Day~ Food, Fun, Music 1:00-7:00 Pasta, Italian sausage, salad, and garlic bread $5.00 (to go $6.95) Show parking validation and get a glass of Chianti for 25 cents Drink specials and give aways all day Parking lot party, outside bar Music donated by 1:00-4:00 Hit Man Dave, 4:00-7:00 Hip Shake of Santa Cruz, 7:00 till who knows… Jerry Sauceda

ZOOT SUIT UP Pachuco Jose headlines the benefit at South First Billiards Saturday.

Pachuco Jose/ Cerebral Palsy Benefit SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS has hosted countless benefits over the last few years, but owner Ben Soriano never considered doing one for himself. Finally his brother, best known to South Bay radio listeners as “Xavier the X Man” (who DJed on 94.9 FM before he moved to SoCal) took it into his own hands—this South First Billiards benefit is happening, he told Ben. So this weekend, Xavier is bringing another L.A. staple, Pachuco Saturday; 9pm; Jose y Los Diamantes, up to the South Bay for a $15/$20 night of zoot-suited Latin swing and rockabilly. He’s looking out for his brother’s family because Ben’s 18month-old daughter Sophya was diagnosed last October with cerebral palsy. A severe stroke during her birth left her without half of the right hemisphere of her brain. It was devastating at the time, but now, amid all of the joy Sophya’s early years are bringing Ben and his family as she learns to talk and sing, they are learning, too. The cost of her therapy and treatment has been the most shocking lesson, and the proceeds from this event will go towards helping them meet them. They’ll be bringing in a dance floor, Pachuca Cosmetics will be on hand to do pin-up style makeup for the girls, and Jimmy Jam from Time Warp will be spinning classic songs.—Steve Palopoli

SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT

X-BAR X BAR

Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Fri & Mon, 9pm: Vinnie.

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

TOUCHDOWN TOMMY’S

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

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

Dance Clubs Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Thu: Antromix. Fri: Workout Party. San Jose.

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

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METROACTIVE.COM DASILVA’S BRONCOS Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ or live band.

No cover. Santa Clara.

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

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

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

BAMBOO LOUNGE

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

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

Sat, 9pm: Thick & Sexy Saturdays. $10. San Jose.

THE BLANK CLUB Sat, 9pm: Adult Dance Party with Eric Belladonna and DJ Basura. $5. San Jose.

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

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

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

San Jose.

BRANHAM LOUNGE

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

Wed: Humpday Wednesdays.

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

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

Santa Clara.

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.

Fri-Sat: DJs. Menlo Park.

BRIX

CLUBHOUSE RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Night.

Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays.

Fri, 9pm: Origin. $10. Sat, 9pm: Legacy. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

GALAXY Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.

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

Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.

KING OF CLUBS

CLUB ILLUSIONS

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

Every first and third Fri: Club Fuz. LGBT party. 18+.

Every second and fourth Fri, 8:30pm: Sizzling Salsa Night.

Palo Alto.

Thu: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Check-O. Sat: DJ Primo.

San Jose.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

LILLY MAC’S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night.

Sunnyvale.

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

MIAMI BEACH CLUB San Francisco’s City Guide

SPANK ROCK Brooklyn rapper with new album, ‘Everything is Boring and Everyone is a Fucking Liar.’ Oct 21 at Mezzanine.

DJ SHADOW Mill Valley’s legendary producer and DJ performs inside of giant visual-laden egg. Oct 21 at the Regency Ballroom.

TOM MORELLO Rage Against the Machine guitarist as ‘Nightwatchman’ folk-esque moniker. Oct 21 at Great American Music Hall.

JOHN SCOFIELD Timeless jazz guitarist plays in quartet stretching limits of rhythm and harmony. Oct 21-23 at Yoshi’s Oakland.

SHELLAC Steve Albini, homemade amps, abrasive noise, even more abrasive attitude, cranial overload. Oct 22-23 at the New Parish.

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

MOTIF Fri: DJs. Sat, 9pm: Bow Wow, with DJs Hostyle, Caprise, Sixty1, Krucial, Dru. $15. San Jose.

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

MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE Wed: Live music. Thu: Therapy.

Fri: Soul Therapy. Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.

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

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

PEACOCK LOUNGE More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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.

CONCERT

Foreverland WHICH MUSIC VIDEOS are the greatest of all time is a matter of opinion—except when it comes to Halloween. For that, the undisputed number one is “Thriller.” It’s got everything: dancing, perfectly choreographed zombies; a young Michael Jackson that turns into a werewolf; and, of course, Vincent Price.

Avalon While the rest of the Thriller album isn’t about ghouls and things that go bump in the night, it is arguably Friday; 9pm; one of the best pop records ever made. Foreverland, $15/$20 the Bay Area’s 14-piece Michael Jackson tribute band, will be celebrating Halloween at the Avalon this year by performing the album in its entirety. Oh yeah, and they’ll be doing it dressed as zombies on a graveyard stage.

They’ll also do a second set of Michael Jackson/Jackson Five hits, for which they’ll be joined by Pamela, their “Janet Jackson,” who shares the stage with them only on rare occasions to do Janet medleys. MJ mania has only gotten more intense since his death, and interestingly it’s not just old die-hard Jackson fans that come to see them. They are gaining newer, younger fans all the time, which is why they prefer all-ages shows like this one at Avalon. “A lot of people weren’t even into Michael Jackson and somehow made it to a Foreverland show and became a fan, and now they have a new admiration for Michael Jackson,” says Morty Okin, trumpet player for Foreverland.—Aaron Carnes

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Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing.

Sun: Reggae. San Jose.

Thu: Transcendance, Stoplight Party. Fri: Sexy Halloween Fashion Show, with IMC Sinful Angels. Sat: Official Young Money afterparty with Tyga life. San Jose.

THE SADDLE RACK Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Wed: Wingy Tango night.

Thu: SoFA King Thursdays.

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

SOUTH FIRST BILLILARDS Sun: DJ Paul x. San Jose.

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

WILLOW DEN Wed, 10pm: DJ JR. Thu, 10pm2am: DJ Uncle Hank. Fri, 10pm2am: DJ Mouth. Sat, 10pm2am: DJ Itchy. Willow Glen.

ZEN LOUNGE Wed: Lil Saturday. House & electronica. Thu: 24 Thursdays.

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

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ORINNE REYES sits in the lobby of Golden State Care Collective and thumbs through a four-inch binder stuffed with fliers and pamphlets for everything from gang-tattoo removal to veteran services.

Her dispensary is located just steps away from Saint James Park, long known as a hangout for San Jose’s homeless and hard-up. If location is everything in business, Reyes says she has found the perfect spot. Besides offering low-cost or free cannabis— “compassionate,” in the lingo—GSCC connects some of the most vulnerable patients with social services.

“We’re able to refer them to any local, city, county organization to help them get connected with the right resources,” Reyes says while turning the pages of her community resource binder. “So there’s anything in here for senior citizens, people who need help finding Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, people that need help who are ex-offenders or LGBTQ supportive programs.”

But some neighbors aren’t happy with Reyes’ business model. “I haven’t heard yet in any of the networks that marijuana prescriptions are helping the homeless get off the street,” says Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association.

“The idea of getting folks into homes is kind of the whole county plan to end homelessness, not proscribing marijuana to them.”

Located near Golden State Care, Knies’ office coordinates the Groundwerx Ambassadors, which refers downtown’s homeless with EHC Lifebuilders, a Silicon

Valley emergency-housing organization.

While Knies acknowledges that his office sits in the middle of a rough corridor from Fountain Alley to Saint James Park, he complains about the suspicious foot traffic during GSCC operating hours—especially the able-bodied teenagers skateboarding up to its doors.

Knies’ concerns touch on the two issues San Jose has struggled with most in its attempt to reign in collectives: clientele and land use. Worried about the undesirable element collectives can draw, as well as an increase in foot traffic in certain business and commercial areas, the City Council two weeks ago approved a cap of 10 on collectives as well as restrictions on ground-level storefronts—a restriction that would put Reyes out of business.

But Reyes, a political scientist graduate of San Jose State University, with one year of law school under her belt, defends her work, saying she picked her First Street location for a reason. Previously volunteering at the county’s Pro Bono Project, which offers legal aid to clients with limited means, Reyes says her dispensary is modeled after Axis of Love, a San Francisco “medical cannabis community center,” where founder Shona Gochenaur provides free pot to low- and noincome individuals.

“I did open up here and was able to do a community needs-based assessment and realize that these people cannot give a $65 donation for an eighth,” Reyes says. “So if Prop.

215 wasn’t written for them, who was it written for? If it’s not written for the indigent, the low-income, the disabled, the veteran, then who would need help escaping the dangers of the streets?”—Ted Cox

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