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THIS MODERN WORLD

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Low Talker I see you and your ilk everyday, in various places and situations. You’re the people with low or soft voices who are so self-centered that you assume that everyone is aching to hear whatever utterance might ooze from your mouths. But your crime isn’t your lack of volume, it’s that you call other people “stupid” or accuse them of “not paying attention” because they didn’t hear whatever it was that you were too lazy to say clearly or loudly enough for the environment. People with hearing problems or battling background noise, are not stupid because they didn’t hear your mumblings. People who say something and get no nod or other acknowledgment that they were heard, and then get upset when they get “ignored,” are morons. Speak up or shut up!

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Church of Willow Glen to raise funds for the homeless (“The Maestro,” Metroactive Arts, Oct. 26).

Fortunately, we had a full audience that donated generously, and I believe that was largely due to the article.

The Metro has done a great job of supporting local artists for a long time, and I’m sure I speak for many in expressing my gratitude.

HENRY MOLLICONE | SAN JOSE

Where the Art Is

Occupy This

I would like to thank Scott MacClelland for the piece written about my recent musical activities, particularly the concert that was given Oct. 29 at the Stone

The editors definitely edit at the Metro, here’s what I really said when talking with Ash, “Different Strokes,” SanJoseInside, Nov. 2): “It’s not hard for places like S.F. and Manhattan to

organize massive protests like that,” says Frank Door, owner of Element 151 Productions on First Street in San Jose. “Those places have those kind of people. The flaw in regional protests like this—San Jose isn’t exactly booming with activism. They’ll all go to San Francisco. And what they need to be doing is storming the field and occupying the fucking World Series or something. They’re just all on a camping trip. If you don’t have an agenda, it’s a vacation.”

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Teach a Man Thanks for the article on farmed-fish problems (“Fish Killer,” SVNews, Nov. 2). A few of us were talking about why

or why not to eat farmed fish. At first idea to use ffarmed iit seems like lik a good d id d fish, but a closer look shows that these fish are raised in less than ideal situations. It diminishes their immune system, requires lots of antibiotics and leaves us with a weakened fish overall. While many might consider that fish are non-sentient beings, they still do not deserve to suffer crowded tanks, illness, overmedicating, etc, all so we can have a lovely piece of fish at dinner. I say fresh wild fish or nothing at all. It may be too late, though, as this fish virus is on its way to contaminating the entire population of fish. Thanks for informing us to make better choices—maybe vegetarian!

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THE FLY

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It’s Hard Not to Love Election Season A political comic strip/hit-piece lampooning Cupertino Mayor GILBERT WONG was sent to 7,200 Cupertino voters over the weekend, just two days before the city’s election on Tuesday. Titled “The Adventures of Gilbert Wrong, Mayor of Cupertino,� the comic strip sets out four different scenarios in which Wong is contacted by a secretary with someone waiting to bend the mayor’s ear.

The people in waiting include: land developers; the late STEVE JOBS, because Apple’s headquarters is in Cupertino; a cement-plant manager; and concerned parents of school children.

Don’t A group called forget Cupertino Against to tip!

Corruption sent out FLY@ the email blast, and METRONEWS. Wong wasn’t the only COM person called out by name. MARTY MILLER, a planning commissioner also running for council, was labeled in the email as someone beholden to developer interests as well. A consistent message in the political ad is Wong’s interest in free WiFi, an Apple store and iPads for his supporters— causing Jobs to ask, “What am I, your uncle?â€?—and disinterest in environmental concerns over the Lehigh Permanente quarry and cement plant. Those who remember the dog days of summer might recall Cupertino Councilmember BARRY CHANG being reprimanded by JEFF SMITH, the Santa Clara County chief executive, for his ďŹ erce clashes with colleagues over the quarry. Not that we’re saying Chang had anything to do with the comic strip.

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But Buzzard didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come here to found the next tech startup. He came to â&#x20AC;&#x153;plant,â&#x20AC;? or open, a church. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a region thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impacting the rest of the world, and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have another place like this on the planet,â&#x20AC;? says Buzzard, whose 2-month-old Garden City Church attracted 120 worshippers on a recent Sunday.

Buzzard shepherds just one of 20 socially conservative, nondenominational Christian churches slated to open around the Silicon Valley by 2015.

Many of these churches are targeting a particular demographic: under-30, ever-more-secular adults.

Garden Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website references research from the Barna Group calling the San Francisco Bay Area the most unchurched region in America. And Forbes magazine recently named San Jose one of the most sinful cities in America. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was a good part of our motive to want to be here,â&#x20AC;? Buzzard says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to plant a church in Nashville, where Nashville has more churches than gas stations. I want to go where there is real need.â&#x20AC;?

Muscular and faux-hawked, Buzzard takes the stage at one of his services. As he opens his sermon on the parable of the minas, most of the crowd opens up their Bibles to follow alongâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;except for

the two men in one row who pull up the scriptures on their iPads. For half an hour, Buzzard engages the crowd with a relaxed, humorous, casual delivery, working in references to the NFL, D-Day, Francis Ford Coppola, Albert Einstein and fermented cod liver oil. He often gestures toward the crowd, ďŹ&#x201A;ashing the cross tattooed on his right wrist.

Buzzardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ambitious plan isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t new nor is it often successful. He says between 50 and 80 percent of church plants fail. But the risk is one worth taking. Buzzard didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just target San Jose for its sin.

Garden City, which rents space from Westminster Presbyterian Church, draws college students from nearby San Jose State University and Santa Clara University. Most of his membership are in their mid-to-late 20s. With some followers working for tech giants like Google and Facebook, he hopes they use their faith and career connections to make a difference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I can get these people to understand that the work theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing is impacting the rest of the world, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge,â&#x20AC;? Buzzard says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I really think to plant a church in San Jose youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not just going to impact San Jose and Silicon Valley, you can have a broader worldwide impact.â&#x20AC;?

But taking a strict interpretation on

The Gameplan Garden City was one of the first Bay Area churches to join up with Vision 360, a worldwide collaboration between church and business leaders hoping to transform the world’s cities for God. Former Sunnyvale pastor Dave Chae joined the organization in September.

Having already planted six churches in 10 years, “Vision 360 came knocking,” Chae says. “They wanted somebody who understood church planting and multiplying.”

The goal: Plant three churches by the end of 2012, 20 by 2015 and 100 by 2020.

“When I first asked them about why the numbers are so big, it’s kind of interesting, these guys are fairly scientific about it,” Chae explains. “I think the idea is that they would be multiplying; churches that plant other churches.”

Vision 360 officially launches in the South Bay at Westgate Church this week, where more than 200 pastors and church planters will gather to talk about spiritually transforming the South Bay. Chae says church planters who pass Vision 360’s assessment process can get up to $150,000 in funding over three years, along with help to find meeting space or even church bands.

That kind of support can really help out men—and the planters are all men—like British-born and selfdescribed “serial church planter” Bill Jenkins, who recently opened Urban Life Church, which meets on the top floor of Loft Bar and Bistro on South Second Street. Urban Life is billed as “church in a bar” on signs dotting nearby sidewalks.

Jenkins has planted suburban churches in the past, but he’s been turned off by the “Christian country clubs” he’s seen out there.

“I think there’s more opportunities downtown to be effective in ministry,” Jenkins says between sips of an afterchurch pint. “We’re focusing on cities because we believe God is orchestrating the biggest migration of human beings in history.”

Kristal Serrano, a SJSU undergrad, says she showed up to Jenkins’ service after spotting the “church in a bar” sign while shopping downtown. Growing up attending a few nondenominational

churches in Southern California, she says she enjoyed the relaxed, casual atmosphere at Urban Life.

“I thought it was kind of cool, kind of different, like really, really modern,” Serrano says.

Professor Jeffrey Danese, who teaches courses on religion in America at SJSU, says he sees fertile ground for churches that focus on younger adults. “From many of my own students, I hear often, a deficit in meaning, that students really miss and don’t have a basis upon which to make important decisions in their lives,” says Danese.

And while reaching out to the less fortunate may attract younger South Bay believers, Danese says conservative churches may focus on charity for other reasons.

“They see what’s happened in Europe, and they know exactly why secularism dominates in those countries. It’s because the welfare state takes care of people,” he explains “Their needs are filled by the state. I don’t think those ministers would acknowledge that consciously, but I’m sure they intuit that. I’m sure they feel the competition.”

Indeed, the website for Vision 360, a nationwide network for church planters that will hold its first South Bay conference next week, cites a survey of young evangelical and mainline Protestants, that found that 70 percent who attended church regularly in high school quit attending by age 23.

“On the current trajectory, America will shift from a post-Christian culture to a post-church culture, much like Europe,” reads Vision 360’s site.

That’s probably nowhere more apparent than in the Bay Area—a liberal enclave for issues like gay and women’s rights.

Garden City’s Statement of Faith says Adam and Eve established “the only normative pattern of sexual relations for men and women.” Translation: Marriage is only between a man and woman.

Buzzard acknowledges he’ll have to address those third-rail issues carefully.

“We want to do that in a way that engages our community, that’s winsome, that’s thoughtful, that’s sophisticated, that doesn’t just merely say, ‘Hey, this is what we believe, if you don’t believe this, well, screw you,’” says Buzzard.

“But we’re not going to have, like, ‘Gay Marriage Sunday’ or preach a sermon on that. That’s not really the plans for what we do,” he adds. “We’re not here to pick fights or pick battles.”

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some of the more divisive passages of the Bible—such as those dealing with homosexuality—the Bay Area might be the last place Buzzard and other church planters can succeed.

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TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE IN SILICON VALLEY

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Talk Therapy Apple’s neat new Siri feature ran into some issues on Tuesday, Nov. 2, around 11am PST, when suddenly Apple’s servers stopped responding. Was this possibly an omen for things to come? Has Siri gained self-awareness this quickly, and gone all HAL on us? I’m sorry, Dave, but it’s still a mystery. Although there is no official explanation for why the Siri servers stopped doling out the data required by phones, many iPhone users appeared to have regained service.

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I Wake Up Streaming YouTube (and parent Google) has always been interested in branching out into areas other than ad-supported videos. Now, both companies are making deals to broaden the kinds of content on tap.

Firstly, Eric Schmidt has reportedly been in talks to get a slew of Korean music content in order to build a true presence in the region.

Asia, over the past few years, has gone nuts for K-Pop and alreadyuploaded Korean music content is a big hit. Meanwhile, Google is under antitrust investigation in Korea for blocking use of local search providers in its open Android operating system. Could this be a move to gain popularity through popular music?

YouTube also announced a deal with Disney to start promoting original content on the videosharing site. The first featured Disney show is based on the popular game “Where’s my Water?”

Disney Interactive and YouTube are partnering up and spending a reported $10-$15 million on the project. Disney is attempting to

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bring better video content to its own webpage and YouTube is the chosen partner for the endeavor.

Finally, on a completely different note, there is now an all-adult entertainment channel on the Google TV set top boxes. Google has partnered with porno house Vivid in order to offer streaming, on-demand skin flicks. Up to this point, Google TV has been an unmitigated failure.

Is this finally a legitimately different path they’re setting on? Offering porn to customers is something few set-top manufacturers have ventured into thus far. —BRENDAN NYSTEDT

In Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, there are many interesting anecdotes about how Jobs insisted on working even as he was succumbing to his long battle with cancer. One project Jobs undertook was the redesign of the now-iconic New York 5th Avenue Apple Store. The store is located underground, topped by a massive glass cube on ground level which serves as the grand staircase down into the store. Earlier this year, Jobs showed Isaacson the cube: “One afternoon he showed me a picture ... and pointed to the 18 pieces of glass on each side.

‘This was state of the art in glass technology at the time,’ he said. ‘We had to build our own autoclaves to make the glass.’ Then he pulled out a drawing in which the 18 panes were replaced by four huge panes. That is what he wanted to do next, he said. Once again, it was a challenge at the interaction of aesthetics and technology. ‘If we wanted to do it with our current

technology, we would have to make the cube a foot shorter,’ he said.

‘And I don’t want to do that. So we have to build some new autoclaves in China.’”

According to VentureBeat, the cube went under the knife in June and has now finally reopened. It’s a pity that Jobs didn’t live quite long enough to see his vision become reality. Surely, Jobs had many more “One More Thing”’s planned to keep us on our toes for some time to come. —BRENDAN NYSTEDT

AMD Adds to Jobless Rate AMD, the processor manufacturer headquartered in Sunnyvale, is letting some employees go.

A memo leaked on the Internet from CEO Rory Read says that the company is striving to “rebalance our skill sets.”

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Read also says that the industry is at a crossroads and that to stay in the game, AMD must take “aggressive steps to create distinct value for our customers.”

AMD has struggled in the past five years to remain competitive with Intel’s new families of chips.

Although both AMD and Intel are without a foothold in the new tablet space (Qualcomm and Samsung supply most of the processors used—Apple’s A4 and A5 are both Samsung ARM processor derivatives), Intel’s competitive and price advantage in the mobile computer and desktop space have severely eaten away at AMD’s market, relegating their chips to the lowest of low-end computers.

Google Makes An Offer Google is ramping up its efforts to compete with startup coupon companies Groupon and LivingSocial with a new national daily discount.

The first company to partner with Google is REI, the famous purveyor of outdoor equipment. Users across the United States can get the special deals either from the Google Offers website or from their custom Android app.

Google’s been busy adding new Google Offers partners, recently adding Gilt City and Tippr. The REI offer is $15 for $25 worth of outdoor equipment. —BRENDAN NYSTEDT

The Verge’s Nilay Patel goes so far as to speculate that AMD is going to refocus on its graphics processor efforts.

AMD acquired graphics giant ATI five years ago and last year brought both its graphics and processor arms under the AMD banner. — BRENDAN NYSTEDT

Google’s foray into what techexperts traditionally call ‘Jesus Christ, Everything Ever’ now includes a challenge to major coupon companies.

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Through the Looking Glass at the redesigned New York Apple store.

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SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics

What to Do With the Dead?

There are some topics that are difficult to talk candidly about, let along think about, among our family and friends.

One of them is discussing our eventual death and the specifics that accompany end of life. Issues like a will, trust, medical power of attorney and funeral preparations are sensitive things to prepare for but prudent to do while we are still of sound mind and body.

The above discussion relates to the new General Plan adopted by the San Jose City Council last week. Beyond being a document that celebrates New Urbanism, the plan also has strict regulations on hillside development outside the urban growth boundary. Since these regulations were not an absolute abolition of changing the landscape, this led some to believe it was an opening to develop in the hills. This notion is incorrect. …

These restrictions really only allow for one viable option and that is the potential for a future cemetery.

Cemetery? We certainly do not vote on these often at the City Council. In fact, this makes sense since cemeteries in San Jose were established well over 100 years ago. Oak Hill cemetery on the west side was established in 1800, and Calvary on the east side was established in the same century. Both of these facilities are 90–95 percent full and will soon run out of space.

Thousands of San Jose residents pass on each year in the cycle of life, and even more will as the baby boomer generation ages. It is a very personal choice to be buried, and for some it is dictated by their religion.

Most of the families in Santa Clara County and the United States choose in-ground burials vs. cremation.

Although the majority of the members of the General Plan Task Force may agree that burial is a personal choice, some felt that burial is “old fashioned” and people should be cremated. I do not believe the city is the appropriate level of

government to dictate that all people should be cremated by not allowing for the land use opportunity of a new cemetery. Mandatory cremation attacks individual rights about a very personal choice that a family may make. ... —Pierluigi Oliverio, San Jose City Councilmember

BS Monitor What to do with the dead is an issue that needs to be addressed, and I for one am willing to tackle it and think outside the box. For instance, why not figure out a way to utilize the dead, rather than just burying or incinerating them? How about finding a cost-effective way to plasticize them and use them to improve life for the living? The potential applications boggle the mind.

Plasticized bodies could be used to: • Fill the council chambers with the type of citizens those meetings are designed for: placid flat-liners who won’t object to the staged process that now passes for participatory government.

• Make it look like there’s a cop on every corner in the downtown. Plant enough plasticized gendarmes around our city and, if we can keep Chuck Reed from laying them off, they just might fool the dope peddlers into going back to Oakland.

• Fill the seats in all those otherwise empty buses and light-rail cars, so that those who don’t know better (out-of-

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towners, drunks, Rod Diridon, etc.) might be duped into viewing that Sarah Winchester–inspired system as fiscallysmart and vibrant.

• Take a seat on the County Board of Supervisors and strip George Shirakawa of his status as the most clueless member of that cursed repository of dullards.

• Suppress minority gang activity in key areas and neighborhoods. Norteños and Sureños may not be afraid of prison or each other, but they’re damned scared of ghosts. One plasticized lady dressed in white (La Llorona) would do more to keep a neighborhood thug-free than any gang injunction, at least until Sean Webby accuses the tireless servant of racism.

• Disguise the emptiness of our closed public and vacant office buildings. A few plasticized citizens lounging about out front of these structures may help disguise a city going through its death throes.

• Lounge about the city’s closed swimming pools and neglected parks, giving the idea that our city leaders have actually made it possible for its citizens to enjoy the great outdoors without leaving the city.

• Fill up the stands and playing field at Chuck Reed’s Field of Dreams. San Jose’s big league dreams are dead, so why not too its players and fans? Our mayor and city manager would be indistinguishable in a stadium filled with the dead.

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No Bailing CONCRETE ONCRETE DREAMS The skatepark at Lake Cunningham draws daredevils of all ages.

A San Jose grassroots campaign fights to keep Lake Cunningham Regional Skatepark open By

GARY SINGH

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AN JOSE is a place where, if you want anything interesting to happen, you usually have to fight for it.

Thus brings us the case of Lake Cunningham Regional Skatepark (LCRSP), originally slotted to close last June.

Due to budget cuts, the city did not plan on maintaining the facility anymore, but in a dramatic battle that will go down in local history, parents and community members fought to keep the park open. At least for now, the grassroots effort has succeeded, but much more money still needs to be raised.

The largest of its kind in California and a world-class facility that has successfully put San Jose on the map all across the United States, LCRSP is a place where thousands of boys—and girls—have honed their chops, built their self-esteem, learned how to follow their passion, set goals and positively challenged themselves for the better.

To add to the inspiration, each year the Tim Brauch Memorial Skateboarding Contest takes place there. Skaters arrive from far and wide to compete, including youngsters, as well as aging “grandmasters” who originally put San Jose on the worldwide map 30 years ago. Brauch, of course, was a San Jose native who died prematurely at age 25, right when he himself was atop the world of professional skateboarding.

None off this hi is hyperbole. San Jose has always been a major center for skateboarding. There isn’t even enough room here to list all the folks who’ve filmed or starred in countless videos over the decades.

Plus, in the early ’80s, bands like the Faction and Los Olvidados successfully merged San Jose skate culture with punk rock, influencing generations of bands thereafter.

The opening of LCRSP in 2008 marked a milestone in San Jose history, in the sense that thousands of folks no longer had to drive hundreds of miles to find a park of similar magnitude. We finally had our own paradise made from 3,500 cubic yards of concrete and 437,000 linear feet of reinforced steel.

But as the budget cuts loomed, parents were aghast when they learned the park would probably close at the end of June. It took a letter from local resident Paul Murphy to San Jose City Councilmember Rose Herrera to get the ball rolling. Parents and community members jumped on board and the grassroots battle commenced.

Carol Kruger, whose two boys regularly skate at Lake Cunningham, never thought that taking her 6- and 8-year-olds to skate camp would turn her into a community activist, but it did. Upon hearing of the park’s imminent demise from one of the instructors, she was wrought with sadness.

“I was so bummed, I cried all the way home,” she recalled. “I started to do some research, then got mad and started making phone calls to Mayor Reed, Councilmembers Herrera and Pyle, and Parks and Recreation.”

She was not the only one. Kim Smallwood regularly takes her son to the skatepark whenever the facility is open. She says skateboarding provided a positive channel for her son’s energy and even helped to improve his performance in school.

“My son was getting in trouble,” she said. “But skating built up his confidence and his security in himself, and gave him an outlet that was positive for him. Skateboarding is not as rebellious as it used to be, since there’s now a lot of parental involvement. But in my mind, that’s a good thing.”

As of right now, meetings take place on a regular basis under the banner of Save Our Skatepark!

(SOS!). The group is working with the support of the San Jose Parks Foundation, an independent nonprofit laboring to reinvent funding models for maximum access to all parks.

While they fight for the park’s future, parents continue to take their kids to skate at Lake Cunningham. It has become a fullblown family atmosphere.

“For a family of four, for less than what it costs to see a movie, you can take your family out there and have the time of your life,” said Kruger. “I’m just thankful that so many people have come together to support this.”

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ust press this button and he’ll be able to hear everything you say.” I take the walkie-talkie and look upwards. Perched 36 feet above me, with legs dangling from the edge of a five-foot-wide concrete shelf, is 27-year-old Shaun O’Kelly.

From this distance, I can make out a gritty smile through a scraggly blond goatee.

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The nationwide campathon began Sept. 17 at Liberty Square in Manhattan, and thousands followed

suit by assembling in cities from Boston to San Francisco. Even Mosier, Oregon, population 430, has an occupation movement, according to the website occupywallst.org.

A small circle of Silicon Valley’s students, unemployed and disenfranchised pitched several tents Oct. 2 in San Jose’s municipal plaza.

Designed to draw attention to the influence of big banks and corporations on government, the Occupy Wall Street movement has sought to cast the American Dream as a mirage to most and a realization meted out to few.

Not everyone in the occupation

19 Police refuse to bring him down for fear that officers or Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly could suffer injuries or worse from a fall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They deďŹ nitely donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want anyone to get hurt and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to get hurt,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really no safe way they could force me down from here.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My understanding is he claims to be a mountaineer, which Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m grateful for,â&#x20AC;? says Chris Moore, San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s police chief. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to see people walking around at those heights.â&#x20AC;?

A short list of occupation grievances is anything but that. However, a common theme is combating the assault taking place by the haves against the have-nots. According to a recently drafted 99 Percent Declaration, which is pushing for a National General Assembly to mobilize the movement in advance of the 2012 presidential electionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;similar to the Tea Party in the 2010 mid-term electionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there are 21 items that must be addressed. They include: the abrogation of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Citizens Unitedâ&#x20AC;?

Supreme Court ruling, which by a 5-4 vote gave corporations â&#x20AC;&#x153;protected free speechâ&#x20AC;?; a not-for-proďŹ t healthcare system; stricter environmental laws; student loan reform; banking and securities reform; and higher taxes for the wealthy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the general populationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the 99 percent in the imagery of the Occupy movementâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really harsh and it could get worse. This could be a period of irreversible decline,â&#x20AC;? writes leftist stalwart Noam Chomsky, an enthusiastic Occupy Wall Street supporter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the 1 percent, or furthermore 1/10th of 1 percent, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just ďŹ ne. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at the top, richer and more powerful than ever in controlling the political system and disregarding the public, and if it can continue, then sure why not?â&#x20AC;?

In his ďŹ rst days on the wall, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly demanded a meeting with the mayor and city manager that would allow Occupy San Jose members to air all their grievances inside City Hall in return for his removal. The city considered his ransom demand. But Tom Manheim, communications director for the city, says it soon became clear that Cracker was only seeing how far the city would cave.

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movements will agree on each point, but the membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; overall discontent unites them. And some government officials have sympathized with the occupation membersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; grievances.

But almost three weeks after Occupy San Jose was formed, Debra Figone, San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s city manager, directed police to arrest eight protesters in the early morning of Friday, Oct. 21. A city ordinance forbids people from camping on city property, and Figone suggested the decision was made because of health and safety issues.

Whether it was fatigue from sleeping on the sidewalk, a lack of company in the cold night or anonymous death threats, which at least one outspoken female member received, the occupation in San Jose was noticeably dwindling in bodies and enthusiasm as the arrests started.

And then Cracker went climbing.

Spending time in preparation at Mt. Shasta to overcome his fear of heights, he says, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly climbed the 36-foot plaza wall in the early morning hours of Monday, Oct. 24, with the help of some mounted trashcans. That same day, four more Occupy San Jose protesters were arrested. Throughout the rest of the week, hundreds more were arrested or forcibly removed from occupation sites throughout the country, no more noticeable than in the violent clashes with police in Oaklandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Frank Ogawa Plaza, renamed Oscar Grant Plaza by occupiers.

Were it not for Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite possible the Occupy Wall Street movement would have only two homes in the Bay Area: San Francisco and Oakland. Fifteen people in San Jose have been arrested and 28 have been cited, according to police, and Cracker was the ďŹ rst on both counts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had people go as far as to say I am Occupy San Jose,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly says through the walkie-talkie, taking drags off a cigarette as he looks down from the wall. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true. There might not be the tents that there are down there today, but it would still be in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mindsets and there would still be people out on the corners holding signs.â&#x20AC;?

Maybe. Maybe not. But no one in San Jose has been as bold as Cracker.

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Manheim says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then it changed; he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to talk to [Figone].

It became clear that he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really interested in talking with her. He was trying to create a showcase.â&#x20AC;?

Media outlets around the Bay Area as well as the Associated Press have spread word of San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lone protester on an elevated perch, and Facebook and Twitter have ampliďŹ ed the reach exponentially. But there is irony to Crackerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s situation. In his attempt to hold the city hostage he acknowledges that he is also holding himself hostage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If City Hall starts working with us, I would agree to come down,â&#x20AC;?

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to issue us a permit [to camp at City Hall overnight] until I come down, and that wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be fair to the team that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a part of. But I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stay up here forever and 99 days sounds like a pretty great number.â&#x20AC;?

After those 99 days, members of the street-level occupation, who

move their tents across the street from City Hall at night to avoid citations and arrest, say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll continue. What role Cracker will play following his descentâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he will assuredly be arrested, according to policeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is undetermined. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see how he feels when he comes down,â&#x20AC;? says Alicia Rice, a 24-year-old occupation member who splits her time working in a coffee shop and contributing to the cause through volunteer work and documenting the movement on ďŹ lm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not about stopping. If he comes down, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the end of the movement.â&#x20AC;?

The truth, though, is Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly has already come down. City officials and police were stunned to learn that Cracker secretly left his perch brieďŹ&#x201A;y last weekend to spy on the ground-level proceedings before scaling the wall again before anyone was the wiser. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would love to know what day that was,â&#x20AC;? Moore says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be there 24 hours a day.â&#x20AC;?

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Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resolve has been sustained through the help of fellow occupation members, who send up food, water and other supplies on a rope that he pulls up the wall.

There is a space near the back of the table-top that he uses as shelter to dispose of bodily functions in a bag. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not an easy or glamorous life, especially as the weather turns cold, but Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been straightforward from the start. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I never made it out of 10th grade,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only reason I made it through ninth grade is because I was in a juvenile prison at the time and I had to go to school.â&#x20AC;?

Cracker says he has private ďŹ nanciers who have offered to post his bond if and when arrested, but he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect rough treatment when his stand comes to an end. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All the contact Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had with police, even before I came up here, they were very pleasant,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The police were very respectful. They werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t trying to give us any more

Joining some friends in Hollywood, Shaun Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly came to California a little less than a year ago. An unknown with few connections, he would last only a week in the city best known for its celebrities. Joining a friend and his girlfriend, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly climbed into a car the day after Thanksgiving and came to San Jose, where he has taken turns living with friends and on the streets.

It was the kind of impulsive act that seems to have deďŹ ned Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and made him friends as well as enemies. And while he wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t call law enforcement the enemy, Cracker also wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always been on the friendliest of terms.

With a â&#x20AC;&#x153;pretty extensive juvenile record,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly, who grew up in Florida, says he has been in jail more times than he can count, for everything from failure to appear on warrants to disorderly conduct to beating up a man outside of a bar in front of police.

The evening he spent in jail after police hauled him away from the San Jose City Hall plaza â&#x20AC;&#x153;was the shortest stay in jail Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had,â&#x20AC;? he says.

Growing up in Crystal River, Floridaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;about 90 minutes from Tampaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Kelly says he and his family moved to a cattle ranch near Lake Okeechobee when he was 8. Later on he moved to Fort Myers, where he found most of his trouble, picked ďŹ ghts, dropped out of school and found refuge in bars and local libraries. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember there was a week where I was trying to stay away from my friends because they pissed me off,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I would go to a bar and have a couple drinks and then go to the library and read The Universe in a Nutshell.â&#x20AC;?

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trouble than they were forced to give us. Some of the city officialsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;there was one lady in particular who was really a hard ass about being up here, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had some good conversations with the city.â&#x20AC;?

So, where did Cracker come from? And how long has he lived in San Jose? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been living everywhere, if you ask me,â&#x20AC;? he says.

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And that, in a sense, is Cracker in a nutshell. He is serious but self-deprecating, thoughtful yet untamed; he has a tattoo on his neck, piercings in his lower lip and septum and holds his hands in the shape of a heart to passersby.

The complexity of his character at times mirrors the alternately unified and fractious movement he joined.

No one is so bold at any of the Occupy Wall Street movements to claim a leadership position. Instead, many choose to passively coordinate at the risk of letting the message against financial inequalities and government corruption be hijacked by vandals, drug peddlers, unions and various others seeking attention.

Cracker is the biggest star of Occupy San Jose and yet he has little involvement in the general assembly meetings below him, which fluctuate in attendance from a few dozen to more than one hundred and now take place twice a week.

“Not being able to help out with some of the disputes on the ground is the toughest part,” says O’Kelly, whose blue tent serves as living quarters. Boredom isn’t uncommon, and he spends much of his time meditating and reading as well as walking back and forth on the wall for exercise. He has talked about setting up a garden where he can grow industrial hemp. “I feel like I’m not really doing much up here.

But everyone says just by me being up here I’m doing a lot by inspiring people.”

The same could be said about another Bay Area protester who has become a symbol of the resistance, although less for his actions than what happened to him. When Scott Olsen, a 24-year-old Iraq war veteran, was seriously injured in the Occupy Oakland protests two weeks ago—by a police tear gas canister—he became the face of a people suppressed.

“Scott Olsen is my hero, for sure,” says O’Kelly, who has been able to keep tabs on other occupations by using a laptop that is periodically sent up the wall. “I hate to say it couldn’t have happened to a better person, but the fact that it happened to a two-time Iraq war vet, they really screwed up that time.”

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Nailing down why San Jose’s movement has been so docile is a lesson in history, says Police Chief Moore “Part of it has to do with where we are in Silicon Valley, compared to Oakland and its proximity to CalBerkeley and San Francisco, which has a robust history of public protest,” he says. “We’ve never really had that here in San Jose. A lot of people might be inclined to go up there.”

O’Kelly says he is proud of his “brothers and sisters” in San Jose, but he admits he would like to see more participation in protests here, especially when watching what’s happening in the East Bay. “The things that are going on in Oakland, there really is no comparison to San Jose. We don’t have the numbers. We haven’t had the confrontations with the police,” O’Kelly says. “But the important thing is we’re doing something now.

We’re not just bending over and taking it anymore.”

And that, it seems, is all Occupy San Jose can ask for at the moment.

There likely won’t be mass marches that collide with cops in riot gear, rubber bullets, tear gas canisters or flash grenades.

“One of the best things to come out of this is that it gave me a solid notion that I’ve changed this world,” O’Kelly says. “I got a cupcake from an elementary/middle school last week. It had an eyeball on top of it. And the kids said they had their eye on me, because they would have never known any of these things were going on unless they saw me on TV and asked their parents.

“I haven’t been able to cry in quite a long time, but the Saturday before this, I cried myself to sleep with tears of happiness. I know it sounds like one of those movies, but I really felt like I’ve touched people. It’s an incredible and powerful sensation.”

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A man in a plaid shirt stood up and told the moderator and the crowd, “I want to create a tool for organizing debt strikes.”

The man was Thomas Gokey, an artist and adjunct professor at Syracuse University, and his idea wound up one of the four “winners” at ContactCon, a conference hosted by Douglas Rushkoff that urged people to think of solutions to the problem of the corporatecontrolled Internet—and by extension, the world.

The project, nicknamed “KickStopper,” is in the works, but Gokey notes that he’s far from the only person out there suggesting, especially in the wake of Occupy Wall Street’s successes, that it’s time for some more serious, organized direct action around the issue of debt.

“I wanted to do this project because I kept having the same basic conversation with everyone at Zuccotti and everywhere else,” Gokey told me. “When I talk to people about what we could do that would really compel Congress and Wall Street to meet our demands or really alter the current system, we inevitably start discussing what non-cooperation with our own oppression would look like. What does it mean to stop cooperating

with the banks? What we inevitably end up describing is some variation of a debt strike, simply ending our own participation in a system that exploits us.”

Are debt strikes, then, the next logical step in the fight against Big Finance’s domination of the 99 percent?

Republic of Debtors One of the fascinating things about the media dominance of Occupy Wall Street has been how the conversation has shifted away from the deficitobsession of the last few years.

Suddenly, the debt that everyone is talking about is personal, individual debt—student loans, mortgages, credit cards and other ways the big banks control our lives.

“That’s one of the things, debt really does tie the 99 percent together.

Everyone who is under the 99 percentile saw a debt run-up in the 2000s,” Mike Konczal, finance blogger and fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, told me. “You can talk about ‘the richest 1 percent makes this much money,’ but part of what they’re making is debt. Their wealth is a claim on everyone else’s future income.”

That debt was for many years a substitute for wages in the pockets of many Americans. As incomes stagnated or even shrank, credit cards and home equity filled the gap—until the housing bubble popped, leaving millions underwater on their mortgages, owing more than their homes were worth, and unable to get more credit cards or even make the minimum payments on the ones they had.

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Making It Happen At ContactCon, the debt strike group discussed what would be necessary to help organize debt strikes, and debated whether the best plan was to hold money in escrow or to funnel it back into the economy when not paying.

The group wound up growing, and was nominated as one of the ideas people would like to see happen. Attendees voted on four, and Kick-Stopper was selected as one of Contactâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most Actionableâ&#x20AC;? ideas. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tentatively planned on holding a 54-hour hackathon later in November or in early December to start building the platform and continue to work out the idea,â&#x20AC;?

Gokey says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think there is any need to re-create campaigns like Move Your Money. A debt strike takes things to the next logical level and would have a much bigger impact than just moving our personal savings accounts, it would stick a wrench in the gears of capital and bring everything to a grinding halt. It would give us tremendous power to back up our demands, but it would take a complex grassroots democratic organization to succeed.â&#x20AC;?

Many ideas were discussed for the platform, which would act as a sort of social network for horizontally organized, networked strikes. Users could possibly share their personal stories as well as which banks hold their debt, and coordinate with other debtors in their area or who owe money to the same bank or for the same problem to maximize impact.

In many ways, the combination of online/offline activism is the hallmark of the Occupy Wall Street movement, organized with the help of hacker groups like Anonymous and promoted through citizen media like livestreams, camera phone videos and Twitter, but solidly grounded in real-world action.

Creating a Web application to organize something like a debt strike would be another step in marrying direct action with the ability of the web to connect people across the country. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Contact is about unlocking the potential of the networked era, and a strong networked organizational structure is what we will need to maintain a large-scale debt strike of millions of people,â&#x20AC;? Gokey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a lot of ways, a debt-strike is a low-tech thing, but our networked technology can help us organize it.â&#x20AC;?

Sarah Jaffe is an associate editor at AlterNet; you can follow her at @ seasonothebitch. Š 2011 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.

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Order from the comfort of your car at Fusion 9, Silicon Valley’s first drive-thru Indian restaurant

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USION 9 is Silicon Valley’s (America’s?) first drive-thru Indian restaurant, and it represents the Indianization of American food. Or maybe it’s the Americanization of Indian food. Whatever it is, the El Camino Real restaurant is an intriguing bit of culinary anthropology in the making.

To me Fusion 9 sounds like some radioactive material from a low-budget science fiction movie (“Behold! I’ve isolated the dilithium crystals and produced a powerful substance the likes of which the world has never seen:

Fusion 9!”)

Drive up and place your order at a garish red and yellow sign with a speaker that looks like a boombox from 1983. That’s part of the fun. The predictably garbled, static-ridden voice comes out of the void to ask for your order. It was hard to make out what she said when I drove through, but I barked out my order and heard “Please proceed to the window” in a singsong Indian accent. I did as I was asked.

The food at Fusion 9 isn’t great.

There’s much better Indian food up and down El Camino. I tried about half the menu, a.k.a. the Fusion Jumbo Pack ($24.99). The heavy bag of food contains decent naan (kept warm in a foil lined paper bag), a chicken/cheese kebab, chicken dum biryani, goat dum biryani and a choice of goat or chicken curry.

I went for the goat, and it was pretty

good. I liked the juicy, tandoor-cooked kebabs, but there was no cheese in evidence. The goat biryani was decent, too. But then I’m a sucker for goat.

The fact that you can get goat from drive-thru window is what’s really interesting. And the dish was ready in about three minutes.

Unlike many El Camino Real Indian restaurants that specialize in south Indian vegetarian food and chaat, Fusion 9 is meat-centric. There are a few vegetarian dishes, but they are not the restaurant’s strong suit. There’s also a side menu of Indo-Chinese classics: chicken Manchurian ($5.99), ginger chicken ($5.49) and egg-fried rice ($5.49). The paneer chicken and tikka chicken wraps ($5.99 and $6.99 respectively) are good drive-thru options, too But the fact that you can get an armful of decent Indian food in just minutes without leaving your car is noteworthy. I’d rather get out of my car and take my time to eat, but I know that’s an option many people don’t always have. So Fusion 9 does fill a niche. You can eat inside the restaurant, but it’s pretty nondescript in there. Best

Once upon a time, El Camino was a street of white-bread American restaurants and traditional fast-food outlets, but as Silicon Valley’s ethnic stew has grown more diverse, so too has El Camino Once upon a time, El Camino was a street of white-bread American restaurants and traditional fast-food outlets, but as Silicon Valley’s ethnic stew has grown more diverse, so too has El Camino. Now you see not only a drive-thru Indian restaurant but also Korean restaurants occupying old Taco Bell buildings and entire shopping centers devoted to regional food from South Asia with nary a McDonald’s in sight. Fusion 9 is owned by the folks at Dosa Place, a good restaurant that offers a different kind of fast food in its own right.

Fast food ain’t what it used to be, and that’s a good thing.

Fusion 9 2277 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 408.296.2277

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For me, Fusion 9 adds another dimension to the ever-changing culinary scene of El Camino Real.

I’ve long maintained that El Camino between Santa Clara and Sunnyvale is Silicon Valley’s best street of eats.

The road is dominated by Korean and Indian restaurants of all different kinds, but there are also Japanese, Chinese, Persian, Vietnamese and even Afghani restaurants that make El Camino an endless source of cheap eats and culinary discovery.

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VAHL’S CONTINENTAL $$$.

Since 1941, Vahl’s has served a wide variety of old-style favorites in warm Alviso comfort. Steaks, lobster and squab are specialties. Full bar.

Closed Mon-Tue. El Dorado and Taylor. 408.262.0731.

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ANGELO MIO Italian. $$. A small space with a large menu, sporting the traditionals that have been mainstays at local eateries. Appetizers and salads are the best bets.

11:30am-2:30pm, 4:30-10pm Mon-Sat, noon-2:30pm, 4:309pm Sun. 820 Santa Cruz Ave. 650.323.3665.

BACK A YARD CARIBBEAN AMERICAN GRILL Jamaican. $. “Back a yard” is Jamaican slang for “the way things are done back home” and this is one of the few Jamaican restaurants around. Jerk pork and chicken shine. 11am-3pm, 5-8pm Mon-Thu, 11am3pm, 5-9pm Fri, noon-3pm, 5-8pm Sat. 1189 Willow Rd. 650.323.4244.

BISTRO VIDA French $$.

Impeccably authentic bistro dishes and welcoming prices are spun through Bay Area culinary consciousness to create regional homey French cuisine. Brunch 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 9am-2:30pm Sat-Sun; dinner 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 59pm Sun. 641 Santa Cruz Ave. 650.462.1686.

FLEA STREET CAFE New American. $$$$. Carefully crafted, impeccably chosen

food featuring seasonal local produce and Niman Ranch meats. Atmosphere is casual and eclectic. Full bar. 5:309:30pm daily. 3607 Alameda de las Pulgas. 650.854.1226.

IBERIA. Spanish. $$. Iberia’s cheap tapas menu is available at the bar anytime or in the dining room at lunch, but these nibbles alone are worth the trip. Lunch noon2pm Mon-Sat; dinner 5:3010pm daily. 1026 Alma St. 650.325.8981.

KAYGETSU Japanese. $$$.

Kaiseki is a rarefied Japanese cuisine born in Kyoto with impeccably seasonal ingredients and poetic presentations. Kaygetsu bills itself as “classic Japanese cuisine” but its kaiseki menu is like discovering a new galaxy of food. Closed Mon. 325 Sharon Park Dr. 650.234.1084.

LEFT BANK Grandma’s French. $$$. Wise country fare combined with metropolitan savoir faire and a dash of Gallic attitude. Full bar.

11:30am-10pm Sun-Mon, 11:30am-11pm Tue-Sat. 635 Santa Cruz Ave. 650.473.6543.

SULTANA Turkish. $$$. If you’ve eaten Greek, Iranian or Middle Eastern food, you’ll find much that’s familiar here. Sultana makes your introduction to Turkish food easy with its warm service, well-executed dishes and soothing ambience. 11am2:30pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri, 11am-10pm Sat-Sun. 1149 El Camino Real. 650.322.4343.

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ABC SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Chinese. $$.

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restaurant, and that means dim sum and lots of fresh, fancifully prepared seafood.

At lunch the place is a traffic jam of dim sum carts proffering an assortment of little snacks. 11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm daily. 768 Barber Lane. 408.435.8888.

BANANA LEAF Southeast Asian/Malaysian. $$$.

A charming, exotic gem of a place with some of the best Southeast Asian food in the county. Sauces are masterfully crafted and reduced to glossy consistencies. 11am-3pm, 59:45pm Mon-Thu, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 182 Ranch Dr. 408.719.9811.

CHILI GARDEN Szechuan. $$. There’s a lot to recommend at this Szechuan standout. Mapo tofu is a classic that rules here. For sheer fireworks, go for the Chongqing spicy chicken, a fearsome-looking dish of chicken lightly battered and crisp. 10:30am-2:30pm and 4:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 10:30am-2:30pm, 4:3010:30pm Fri-Sun. 210 Barber Lane. 408.526.9888.

DARDA SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Islamic Chinese. $. Darda serves halal meat and draws parts of its menu from western China, a region that borders the Muslim countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Seafood and noodle dishes are particularly good. No alcohol served.

11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10:30am-3pm, 4:309:30pm Sat-Sun. 296 Barber Court. 408.433.5199.

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HOSE WHO happen to have been laid off, downsized or just broke may have taken it upon themselves to make from scratch food they used to buy at the store. Or maybe some people just like to cook.

Whatever, the DIY ethos is big in cooking right now.

SAVING DOUGH Author Jennifer Reese Mill Valley’s Jennifer Reese runs the numbers of what’s economical found herself out of a job as and what’s not in the kitchen.

Entertainment Weekly’s book critic.

Walking through the grocery store, she always had the nagging feeling that she could and should be cooking from scratch instead of buying boxes and bottles of stuff. The loss of her job forced the issue, but it also raised a question in her mind: What if it actually cost more to make your own jelly, yogurt and ice cream?

The result of this line of thinking is Make the Bread, Buy the Butter (Free Press, $24), a funny but authoritative cookbook that breaks down what’s worth making from scratch and what’s not. Her analysis is based not just on dollars and cents but also on investments of time. Sure, you could make your own hot dogs, but the labor and cleanup required test one’s patience. I also like that Reese puts factors like sustainability and animal welfare in her calculations.

When she considers whether to make it or buy it, most of the time the answer is “make it.” That’s the subversive message that runs throughout the book. The food industry would like us to believe that fending for ourselves is far too difficult and that we need to buy mustard, bread, pesto, muffins and caramel corn in brightly colored packages. The reality is many of the foods we never considered making ourselves are ridiculously easy (check out Reese’s recipe for hot sauce: just chiles, vinegar, garlic and salt), and they usually taste infinitely better.

For example, a quart of sauerkraut costs $2 per quart to make at home while a quart of Bubbies-brand ’kraut runs $5.70. If you’re fond of Reuben sandwiches, consider that making your own pastrami costs just $4 per pound while the store-bought stuff goes for as much as $15 a pound.

It seems like a no-brainer, but Reese admits the hassle required to make your own pastrami is “prodigious.”

Her recipe for dill pickles is worth the purchase price alone. I love pickles, but I find myself hording them because they’re so pricey and they go so fast. But now I make my own, and they cost about $2 a quart, and they’re so much better than the ones from the store. Now I press pickles on anybody who come over. Want a pickle? Pickle? Pickles all around!

Devoted urban homesteaders might be committed to making everything themselves, but as a busy mom and blogger (www.tipsybaker. blogspot.com), Reese isn’t out to make herself a kitchen martyr. Consider her decision to punt when it comes to rice pudding. “Rice pudding is so dowdy and old-fashioned it seems like something you make at home. But I can’t make rice pudding better than Cozy Shack—the ingredient list is more than acceptable: milk, rice, sugar, eggs, salt, natural flavors. I give up.

They win.”

But more often than not, you win in flavor and price by making it yourself. Reese shows you how.—Stett Holbrook

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LIOU’S HOUSE Chinese. $$.

A shopping center next to a miniature golf course is an unlikely place to find a classically trained Chinese chef, but Silicon Valley offers good food in unexpected places. Check out the Hunan tofu, kung pao chicken and stir-fried pea greens.

11am-2:30pm, 4:30-9:30pm Tue-Sun. 1245 Jacklin Rd. 408.263.9888.

SAVORY CHICKEN Filipino. $. Savory Chicken offers a Filipino take on fried poultry.

The chicken is tossed in a proprietary blend of herbs and spices and fried in soybean oil. No flour or bread crumbs are used. The result is an almost translucent skin that is so crisp it shatters on contact. 11am-8pm Tue-Sun. 1557 Landess Ave. 408.945.8616.

SOUTH LEGEND SICHUAN RESTAURANT Szechuan Chinese. $. The menu of this Milpitas standout reads like an encyclopedia of Szechuan food. The kung pao chicken and Chen ma pa tofu are great. 11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 11am9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1720 N. Milpitas Blvd. 408.934.3970.

SWAGAT Indian. $. Swagat explores both southern and northern Indian cuisine in its traditional and extensive menu. Beer, wine. Buffet daily 11am-3pm, 5:30-10pm. 68 S. Abel St. 408.262.1128.

TIRUPATHI BHIMAS Indian. $$. Tirupathi Bhimas specializes in vegetarian food from south India, particularly that of Andra Pradesh, a spicy and aromatic cuisine, as well as a few north Indian dishes and “Indo-Chinese.” 11:30am2pm, 6-9:30pm Sun and Tue-Thu, 11:30am-2:30pm, 6-

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food and a few Salvadoran dishes. That makes the food unlike the Mexican food typically served in Silicon Valley, but it’s definitely typical Mexican food.

10am-11pm daily. 2323 The Alameda. 408.243.1357.

ANDY’S BAR-B-QUE

DONG TOFU CABIN Korean.

Barbecue. $$. Andy’s Bar-BQue is the reincarnation of one of the South Bay’s best barbecue joints. Originally located in Campbell, Andy’s is still serving great oaksmoked meats to a dedicated following. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 3-9pm MonThu, 3-10pm Fri-Sat, 3-9pm Sun. 2367 El Camino Real.

408.249.8158.

$. This is the real deal, priced to keep patrons coming back for bowls of spicy beef, seafood, pickled vegetables, chili soup and, yes, bean curd in its many permutations. 1484 Halford Ave. 408.246.1484.

9:30pm Fri-Sat. 1208 S. Abel St. 408.945.1010.

Santa Clara

ATHENA GRILL Greek. $$.

The Santa Clara restaurant serves the standards you’d expect, but the menu goes deeper and offers authentic Greek dishes you’re not likely to find elsewhere at bargain prices. 10:30am-9pm Mon-Fri. 1505 Space Park Dr. 408.567.9144.

BEQUE Korean. $$. Beque stands out on El Camino Real’s Korean restaurant row for its high style and modern design, but it’s the Korean barbecue, soups and noodles dishes that are the main attraction. 11am-10pm daily. 3060 El Camino Real.

408.260.2727.

BIRK’S American grill. $$$. What makes Birk’s stand out from the rest is a commitment to quality, freshness and hygiene.

Concentrate on the specials, or enjoy creative selections from the appetizer menu.

Full bar. 11:15am-2:30pm, 59:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm SatSun. 3955 Freedom Circle.

408.980.6400.

BY-TH-BUCKET American. $$. All walks of humanity rub shoulders here, enjoying just about everything that can be baked, fried, broiled or steamed. Full bar. 11:30am9pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 4565 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.248.6244.

CHALATECO Mexican and Salvadoran. $. Chalateco, a San Jose-based sixrestaurant chain, serves Mexico City-style Mexican

HATCHO Japanese. $$.

Santa Clara’s Hatcho restaurant offers a little bit of everything. Restaurants that strive to be jacks-of-alltrades often end up being masters of none, but Hatcho displays a wide range of talent. 11:30am-2pm, 5:3010pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1271 Franklin Mall.

408.248.8500.

KABAB AND CURRY’S Indian-Pakistani. $. Because it’s tucked into a quiet, semiresidential side street, Kabab and Curry’s feels like a neighborhood secret.

The Indian and Pakistani restaurant serves a good lunch buffet, and at dinner try the butter chicken, choley and tandoori chicken.

10:30am-2:30pm, 5:3010:30pm Tue-Sun. 1498 Isabella St. 408.247.0745.

KABAB HOUSE HALAL Middle Eastern. $. Santa Clara’s Kabab House Halal, a spare, eight-table restaurant, serves a pan-Middle Eastern menu that leans toward Iran. As the name implies, Kabab House is basically a kebab house. 11am-9pm Mon-Sat. 2521 Newhall St. 408.984.2204.

99 CHICKEN Korean-style fried chicken. $. The simple restaurant specializes in Korean-style fried chicken.

Korean chicken is rendered of its fat and produces smooth pieces of meat with a taut, shatteringly crisp epidermis.

Noon-midnight daily. 2781 El Camino Real. 408.244.5599.

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408.970.6104.

PHO #1 NOODLE HOUSE Asian noodle house. $. A good and friendly destination when one’s stomach screams for a three-course meal but one’s wallet has but $10, Pho boasts an ambitious menu of nearly 100 Vietnamese and Chinese items. 10am-9pm daily. 5025 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.249.1111.

PHO THANH LONG Vietnamese noodle house. $.

This diner’s pho rates among the Top 3 in the South Bay. Beer. 9am-9pm daily. 2450 El Camino Real. 408.983.0888.

SABOR SALVADOREÑO Salvadoran. $. One of the few outposts for Salvadoran food in the South Bay, Sabor Salvadoreño serves excellent pupusas, soups, tamales and other standards from the tiny Central American nation.

9am-9pm daily. 2045 White Oak Lane. 408.985.6464.

SHAN Pakistani and Indian. $. Shan serves a mix of northern Indian and Pakistani food. Unlike India, most of which is Hindu, Pakistan is Muslim, and that means that meat—chicken, beef, lamb, and goat—plays a starring role. Kebabs, Tandoori and curries all shine here.

11:30am-3pm, 5:30-10pm daily. 5251 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.260.9200.

TOFU HOUSE Korean. $.

Soup stars at this casual, popular stop. To tofu soups, add mushrooms, beef, pork or seafood—plus scores of condiments like daikon, cucumber, radish. Hot stuff! 11am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri, 11am-9pm Sat. Closed Sun. 3450 E. El Camino Real #105.

408.261.3030.

YAN CAN FRESH ASIAN COOKING Chinese and panAsian. $$. At Yan Can you can

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have chicken satay, wonton soup, chicken teriyaki and Korean barbecue beef all in one sitting. This outpost of celebrity TV chef Martin Yan’s growing empire does a reasonably good job with all those cuisines. 11am-9pm daily. 3927 Rivermark Plaza.

408.748.3355.

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.

YOYO SUSHI BAR & GRILLE

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.

Japanese fusion. $$. The fusion-friendly menu features such expertly realized creations as the deep-fried California Roll and the Fisherman Roll, crab and avocado wrapped in rice, topped with salmon and rich masago sauce and then baked. Weekday happy hour. 11am-10pm daily. 3958 Rivermark Plaza.

408.213.9696.

YUKI SUSHI Japanese $$.

A family-friendly ambience prevails here, full of community hubbub, good food, generous portions and super chefs. Yuki keeps it simple but always interesting with dishes that are well thought out and presented. 11:30am-2pm, 5-9:30pm Tue-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. Closed Mon. 1827 Pruneridge Ave. 408.248.9144.

ZAFRAN Northern Indian and Pakistani. $. Zafran serves northern Indian and Pakistani food, a muscular, hearty cuisine that revolves around meat: chicken and beef but also lamb and goat, lamb brains and other organ meats. 11am-11pm daily. 1855 El Camino Real. 408.247.9998.

Saratoga ¿book online at saratogacalifornia.com

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 French-European. $$$. After three decades, La Mere is a tradition. Old World

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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.

Woodside ¿book online at WoodsideCalifornia.com

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

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

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

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

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Meditation and Buddhist View with Reed Sherman. Everyone is welcome. No previous experience necessary. $10 per class. Every Thursday evening, 7:30-9, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Los Gatos, 15980 Blossom Hill Rd. Los Gatos, 95032. Call Kelsang Gamo 408/2260595 for information or visit us at www.MeditationInSanJose.org

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South First Billiards Wed – 10pm; free

Studio 8, San Jose Fri – 10pm; $20 after 11pm

Local drummer Wally Schnalle has found a way to marry live, improvbased jazz and preprogrammed electronic dance music using a high-tech setup to program the electronics live during shows with his outfit Idiot Fish, along with keyboardist Lee Pardini and bass player Joe Costantini. The key to the band is that technology has finally reached a point that allows Schnalle to execute all the complex ideas he has envisioned for his music. Idiot Fish performs Wednesdays throughout November. (AC)

Sure, you can trash-talk about Vida Guerra’s music career. Just try it.

The Game did, in the admittedly lame song “Wouldn’t Get Far,” where he numbered her among a load of “video vixens” that he considers talentless hip-hop hacks.

Apparently, lines like “Her ass took her to the top” didn’t sit well with the lad-mag’s favorite cover girl, and just like that, it was on. In a video response and a series of brutal interviews, Guerra proceeded to kick

The Game’s ass to the curb, proving she is not to be messed with. To sum up: What did we think of her single “You Got Me”? Uh ... loved it! Just don’t kill us. (SP)

KIWI TIME Britannia Arms Cupertino Fri – 9pm; $5 The Red Hot Chili Peppers took ’70s funk, sped it up, added a dash of chaos and created a whole new hyper funk-punk sound. Kiwi Time took the Chili Peppers’ sound and slowed it back down, but instead of going back to booty-shaking funk, they found a whole new musical dimension—an indierock, funk opium den. Their singer only clouds the issue further by choosing unusual, dreamy melodies to sing. But while their music is an odd, mellow take on funk, they never stray from

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like “Children of the Crypt” prove (in a nod to their namesake’s shtick, it starts “C’mon now, all you kiddies”). Their bloodsoaked lyrics are chockfull of ax murders, premature burials and maggots.

Cryptie would be so proud. Buried at Birth and Skin & Bonez open.

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Caravan, San Jose Sat – 10pm; free

A NIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD

the raw, club edge of Kiedis and company. (AC)

CRYPT KEEPER The Crypt Keeper has been a trusted name in ghoulishness for five decades, since his first job hosting E.C.’s Tales From the Crypt comic in the 1950s. He made a big comeback in the ’90s on the HBO series of the same name, dishing terrifyingly bad puns and cackling over the vicious twists in every episode. This Oakland thrash band has resurrected the Crypt Keeper’s zombified corpse once more, and it’s not just a name, as songs

The Refuge, Cupertino Sat – 6pm; $10 What makes one pop-punk band better than another? Some say it’s the rawness of the punk, while others will argue it’s the catchiness of the pop. What about a band that can weave in a gorgeous piano-ballad at the beginning of their song, like A Night in Hollywood did on their track “Darling, This Is Just the

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GORDON LIGHTFOOT THE STONE FOXES

WALLY SCHNALLE

Nov 10 at 9pm, Club Fox

DIERKS BENTLEY Nov 11 at the San Jose Civic

THE ODD NUMBERS Nov 11 at 9 9pm, the Blank Club, San Jose

SOULS OF MISCHIEF Nov 12, Avalon, Santa Clara

SSOUTH BAY BLUES BLAST Nov 12 aat 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

KENDRA PEREZ Nov 18, Studio 8, San Jose

EBI Nov 19 at 8:30pm, Flint Center, N Cupertino

ROBERT CRAY BAND Nov 20 2 at 7pm, Campbell Heritage Theatre

TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA TRA Nov 20 at 5pm, HP Pavilion

VINCENTE FERNANDEZ Nov 25 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

SWINGIN’ UTTERS Nov 25 at 9pm, the Blank Club, San Jose

and programs electronic WALLY SCHNALLE drums H on Wednesday. dance sounds for IDIOT FIS

RICHARD THOMPSON Dec 2 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

GGERSHWIN: HERE TO STAY Beginning”? It’s a song-opening song opening worthy enough to stand on its own, without ever going into Yellowcard territory. But after 30 seconds, the electric guitars kick in and the pop-punk begins, with pop trumping punk. Which is the way some people think it should be. (AC)

JOSH ROSEMAN SEXTET Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center Sat – 8pm; $24 When a trombonist has a composition called “Olsen Twins Subpoena,” you know you’re not talking about a typical jazz player.

Indeed, New York’s Josh Roseman is anything but typical. Heavily influenced not only by brass legends like Sonny Rollins and

Fred Wesley but also by Motown and especially ska, he was just as comfortable touring Jamaica with the Skatalites as he was lighting up the Knitting Factory scene. His sound is a constant tug of war between groove and free jazz, but the half-Jamaican Roseman always seems to return to his love of dub and ska. At this Stanford Lively Arts show, he’ll have a chance to let loose as he pays tribute to the founding fathers of the Jamaican sound, like his own idol, Skatalites trombone legend Don Drummond. (SP)

FUNKRANOMICON New Jersey’s, Campbell Sat – 8pm; free Funk is in the midst of a revival, which makes it the perfect time for the return of Funkranomicon, the Santa Cruz group that broke

up in 2001 just as it was getting popular on the Bay Area circuit.

Two of the founding members, vocalist Joe Neto and drummer Tim Welch, pulled together a new group of musicians, which they showed off in the South Bay this summer at the San Jose Jazz Festival. They also have a new album, The Book of Funk, which more or less picks up where their debut, Blood to Groove, left off 10 years ago. (SP)

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BOOTS ELECTRIC Blank Club, San Jose Sun – 8pm; $10/$12 When a sleazy, hip-shaking garage rocker forms an electronic

solo project project, it only makes sense to expect sleazy, hip-shaking electronic songs. Jesse Hughes has been churning out clever, sexy, three-chord rock songs with his band the Eagles of Death Metal (who as you probably know are not and have never been a death metal band) for years. Hughes’ songs seem like they took him approximately five minutes apiece to write, but that is precisely the charm. It’s no big deal, only rock & roll, like the early Stones, though he’s too self-aware to actually be the Stones—and no less so as a solo artist. (AC)

Dec 3 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET Dec 4 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

BALLET SJ NUTCRACKER Dec 10–23, SJ Center for the Performing Arts

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

WAR/TOWER OF POWER Dec 30 at the San Jose Civic

WILCO Jan 28 at the San Jose Civic

BLAKE SHELTON Mar 16 at HP Pavilion Join Metro on Facebook at Metrofb.com for a chance to win concert tickets.

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Chinese Dreamers ENFLAMED NFLAMED D San Jose’s Chinatowns were sometimes the scene of devastating fires.

From farmers to civil-rights pioneers to tech innovators, a new exhibit highlights the Chinese role in shaping the valley By

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N 1985, during the construction of the Fairmont Hotel on Market Street in San Jose, workers made a startling discovery: porcelain dinnerware, glass bottles and other artifacts from the city’s first Chinese settlement.

The find, considered one of the most important collections of Chinese artifacts ever recovered in the United

States, led to the creation of San Jose’s Chinese American Historical Museum, which is celebrating its 20th year with a new traveling exhibit.

“Pioneering the Valley: The Chinese American Legacy in Santa Clara Valley” tells the Chinese immigrant story from the Gold Rush years to the achievements of today’s technology and civic leaders.

The exhibit, comprising 14 panels with photos and text, will be on display next door to the museum at the Pacific Hotel Gallery in History Park (at Kelley Park) through February 2012 before moving to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library and other public venues.

“If we can get the history of the Chinese contribution out to the community, we can create a better understanding about diversity and the valley’s multicultural roots,” says Anita Wong Kwock, president of the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project, the show’s creator.

The exhibit begins with “The Five Chinatowns.” Like other immigrants, the Chinese came seeking opportunity and settled in their own communities.

From the 1850s through 1931, there were five distinct Chinatowns in San Jose, each forming after the demise of the other due to fire or prohibitive laws.

During this period, anti-Chinese sentiment ran high. Local workers and those across America complained that the Chinese were taking jobs away from them. In 1882, U.S. lawmakers passed a law prohibiting the Chinese from becoming citizens. The exhibit’s second panel discusses how locals fought against these exclusion laws.

“There are so many cases in which Chinese went to court to fight against

inequality,” explains Connie Young Yu, a historian who has written extensively about Santa Clara Country Chinese history. Yu’s grandfather came to San Jose from Canton in 1881, and her father was a local activist. “Their efforts helped protect and uphold the constitution for all Americans,” she says.

A number of the other panels point to the Chinese role in shaping the area’s economy and culture. Early settlers, mostly from Guangdong province in southern China, brought farming expertise and helped build roads and rail lines. Chinese helped fuel tech (engineer Art Fong joined Hewlett-Packard in 1946; Dr. Robert Mah NASA Ames Research in 1973), and further the arts (former Los Altos Hills resident and documentary filmmaker Jessica Yu won an Oscar).

One of the most interesting panels is a timeline, showing the parallel histories of San Jose, the United States and China.

Lillian Gong-Guy, who founded the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project with Gerrye Wong, says the exhibit’s most important feature is acknowledging the second wave of immigrants who came not just from mainland China but also from Hong Kong and Taiwan. This group notably includes Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, who arrived in San Jose at age 10 from Taipei, and former Cupertino Mayor Michael Chang from Hong Kong.

“I hope people identify with the exhibit,” says Rodney Lum, the exhibit’s chairman. “Maybe they’ll say, ‘Oh, that’s my story,’ because it’s not just our story, but the American story.”

The museum itself is a replica of Ng Shing Gung, the temple that stood at the center of San Jose’s Chinese community life in the early 1900s. The museum houses a small collection of the recovered Market Street artifacts (Stanford’s anthropology department is cataloging, preserving and studying the rest), as well as the temple’s original altar and other items from early settlers.

Pioneering the Valley Runs through February 2012 Pacific Hotel, History Park, San Jose Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm

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OPERA SAN JOSÉ The company offers a double bill of “Pagliacci” and “La voix humaine.” Nov 12, 8pm, Nov 13, 3pm, Nov 17 and 19, 8pm, Nov 20, 3pm, Nov 22 and 25, 8pm, Nov 27, 3pm. $51 and up. California Theatre, San Jose.

Theater FABULOUS DIVAS OF BROADWAY A one-man show by Alan Palmer parodying Hollywood vocal stars like Liza Minnelli and Julie Andrews. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $32.50. Retro Dome, San Jose.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING A musical comedy about the foibles of corporations with music by Frank Loesser.

Presented by West Valley Light Opera. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. No Nov 25 show.

Runs thru Dec 3. $29-$33.

Saratoga Civic Theater.

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 LARAMIE PROJECT A staging by Foothill College’s Theatre Arts Department. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun (Nov 13 and 20), 2pm. $8–$16. Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS SCU Presents offers the musical comedy about a man-eating plant. TueThu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm.

Runs thru Nov 12. $5–$15.

Mayer Theatre, Santa Clara University.

MAURITIUS Pear Avenue stages Theresa Rebeck’s dark comedy about

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING An SJSU production by Buddy Butler of the Shakespeare comedy set in 1846 Monterey during the battle for California independence.

Opens Fri, 7pm. Regular shows Wed-Sat, 7pm. Runs thru Nov 19. $5-$20. SJSU Theater, San Jose.

MY THREE ANGELS Three convicts in French Guinea demonstrate the multiple sides of justice in a Santa Clara Players production. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Nov 19. $10-$18. Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara.

9 CIRCLES A South Bay premiere

by Renegade Theatre Experiment of a psychological drama about the troubled life an Iraq veteran who may have committed a terrible war crime. Preview Fri, 8pm.

Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7pm. No show Nov 25. Runs thru Nov 26. $10-$25. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

OUR TOWN The Thornton Wilder classic presented by the Stanford drama department. Wed-Sat, 8pm. $5-$15. Pigott Theater, Stanford.

PARADE A music drawn from the 1913 trial of a Jewish factory manager accused of murder.

With a book by Alfred Uhry; presented by Palo Alto Players. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $23-$32. Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.

SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS An Italian comedy by Carlo Goldoni adapted by Oded Gross and Tracy Young. ThuSat, 8pm. $10-$15. Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont.

SNOOPY THE MUSICAL Sunnyvale Community Players present a musical based on the comic strip. Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Nov 20.

A WORLDWI DE E XC LU S IVE

$18.50-$23.50. Sunnyvale Community Theatre.

STONES IN HIS POCKET Dragon Productions explores the sometimes comic, sometimes difficult, effects of a Hollywood film crew on location in an Irish village in Marie Jones’ play. Thu–Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Dec 4. (Nov 10 is pay-whatyou-can preview.) $16-$30.

Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

THE STORY OF MY LIFE The premiere of a musical about lifelong friends, presented by Tabard Theatre.

Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun 2pm, Thu (Nov 17 only), 8pm.

Runs thru Nov 20. $15-$35.

Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

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Classical Concerts ISAAC BUSTOS A classical guitarist in recital presented by the South Bay Guitar Society. Sat, 8pm. $15-$30. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

MUSICSOURCES For a concert called “Choreomania,” guest canconier Tom Zajac and the MusicSources ensemble perform dance music of medieval Europe. $35/$30/ Sun, 3pm. St. Luke’s Episcopal, Los Gatos.

PALO ALTO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA The Sinfonia performs with violinist Angela The and violist Tessera Chin, with works by Mozart and Graham Fitkin. Sun, 3pm. Free.

Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto.

PALO ALTO PHILHARMONIC The fall chamber concert features selections by Mozart, Bruch and Tailleferre.

Sat, 8pm. $10-$20. First Baptist Church, Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY The guest group Interpreti Veneziani plays works by Vivaldi, Boccherini and Paganini. Sun, 7pm. $37-$50.

Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

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Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Nov 20. $15-$30. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.

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metroactive ARTS 37 SOUTH BAY PHILHARMONIC The orchestra presents the U.S. premiere of Ludolf Nielsen’s Third Symphony. Fri, 7:30pm. Donations. Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose.

Comedy ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 8pm: Comedy night with host Dan St. Paul. No cover.

Redwood City.

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

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: Fruit Punch, gayfriendly comedy. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: David Feldman. $12/$18. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Unfiltered. $12.

Thu, 8pm: Big, Bad and Sexy. $15. Fri-Sat, 7 and 10pm: Eddie Griffin. $30. Sun, 7pm: Justin Berkman filming his comedy special. $15. Mon, 8pm: Battle of the Bay. $12.

San Jose.

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Museums OPENING CANTOR ARTS CENTER

Nov 18. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm.

Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 18761936.” Ongoing. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm.

Stanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM “Mammoth Discovery!” Plus activities and hands-on fun for kids. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, noon-5pm. Discovery Meadow, San Jose.

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

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

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

Thru Feb 5. Tue-Sun, 11am4pm. Santa Clara University.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM “Bridging Generations: De Anza Collects. A look at award-winning art from De Anza students over the last 40 years. Thru Dec 28. MonThu, 10am-3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.

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

“The Legend of Rex Slinkard.”

Oils and works on paper by the influential California artist of the turn of the early 1900s.

Nov 9-Feb 26. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm.

Stanford.

LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

“Invisible Lineage.” Works by a quartet of mid-20th-century artists in conjunction with four contemporary textile artists. Nov 15-Feb 5. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

CONTINUING ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “Clauda Borgna: Paper Bags and Ephemeral Dreams.” Thru

“Shaped by Water—Past, Present and Future.” A juried show on theme of water. Runs thru Nov 30. Thu-Sun, noon4pm. Los Altos.

“This Kind of Bird Flies Backward.” 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 kinds address the issue of personal identity.

OPERA 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, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

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

WINGED MIGRATION Sharon Maxwell-Yamamoto shows off the elaborate costume Opera Bravura is using for its selections from ‘Madama Butterfly.’

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Kenjilo Nanao.” Paintings by the San Francisco Bay Area artist. Thru Nov 27. “Heather Wilcoxon.” Whimsical paintings and works on paper that make sly comments about the state of the world.

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

Galleries OPENING SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “One Thing Leads to Another.”

A group show about process and repetition in prints and drawings. Nov 12-Feb 25.

Reception Fri, 6-8pm. 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.

BRUNI GALLERY “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.” Paintings and prints by Sukey Bryan. Thru Nov 27. Finn Center, Mountain View.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “Simply Seen.” Photographs

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Up in the Aria AT THE AGE of 3, Sharon Maxwell-Yamamoto announced that she was going to be an opera singer. It was a promise that she kept—and furthered.

In addition to being a professional opera singer, she created an opera company. The San Jose–based Opera Bravura, whose second production, “Passion, Enchantment and Love, Oh My!,” is born of Maxwell-Yamamoto’s vision to present music from a variety of operas, operettas, musical-theater and the golden age of Opera Bravura Hollywood in an operatic style and setting.

Saturday, 7:30pm; $30 Now rounding the bend on its first anniversary, First Unitarian Church, Opera Bravura is proceeding full-speed ahead in 160 N. Third St., San Jose its mission. Its upcoming production picks where May’s concert, “Love, Lust, Revenge and Death,” left off—though on a slightly cheerier note. “There’s a lot of passion in this one,” says Maxwell-Yamamoto. “There’s not a lot of sadness. There’s a little,” she adds with a laugh, “but it’s not the predominant theme. There are some familiar songs and some that may not ring a bell for everyone, but they are worth hearing.”

The feedback that Maxwell-Yamamoto received about Opera Bravura’s inaugural concert was that it was a little too short, so this time she has extended the show and included songs from 15 different operas. The orchestra has also grown, now boasting eight pieces and a conductor.

Showcasing the talents of local artists Maxwell-Yamamoto, Diane Squires and Jo Vincent Parks, the cast also includes New Yorkers Lazaro Calderon and Katja Heuzeroth and includes songs from Carmen, Pagliacci, Tales of Hoffman, Madama Butterfly, The Pearlfishers and more.

In true, operatic fashion, the Opera Bravura singers will be decked out in detailed, lavish and beautiful costumes. “We have some amazing costumes,” Maxwell-Yamamoto says. “When I’m singing about the enchantment of India, I’m dressed as an Indian bride in the whole regalia, in a costume custom-made in India. The dress alone weighs 16 pounds,” she says, “and that’s without the tons of jewelry.”

For Maxwell-Yamamoto, Opera Bravura provides a wonderful way to do what she loves and to share with audiences some of the highlights of opera’s rich tradition. “The operatic voice is such an amazing way to sing,” she says.

“It takes so much effort and skill and years of training. There are pop singers and belters on Broadway,” she continues, “but the operatic voice is so glorious it can bring you to tears.”—Cat Johnson

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Friendship TABARD THEATRE COMPANY continues its season with The Story of My Life. Under the direction of Diane Milo, actors Tim Reynolds and Kevin Kirby bring to life Thomas and Alvin, two men whose lifelong friendship greatly shaped the men they became. This two-character musical, which made its Broadway premiere in 2009, begins with one boy agreeing to write his friend’s eulogy if the friend writes his. This pact sets an immediate solemn tone, while also garnering a few laughs from the audience as a second boy’s voice asks how that would work.

With music and lyrics by Neil Bartram and book by Brian Hill, The Story of My Life focuses on Thomas Weaver, a successful short-story writer in the big city, who has returned home to deliver the eulogy of his friend Alvin, the “weird” kid who never left the small town after taking over his father’s bookstore. Alvin is Thomas’ muse for all of his short stories, who uses their adventures as kids as the basis for everything he writes, but one longing question leads Thomas The Story of to struggle with what to say when it comes My Life to Alvin’s passing. Thomas wrestles with his thoughts as he relives the stories from his past Tabard Theater Company that determined the path of his friendship with Runs through Nov. 20 at Alvin.

Theatre on San Pedro Reynolds and Kirby put everything they have into Square; $10–$35 their performances from their times as young boys by the bridge over the falls to their heated arguments as grown men. The simple set leaves it up to the actors to bring animate their surroundings for the audience.

Using the whole stage and at times running out into the audience, they successfully make viewers believe that they are making snow angels, even if they are doing so atop a wood-paneled floor. The three-member band under the direction of Michael Johnson successfully accompanies the characters’ actions throughout the entire play.

However, the story falls short when it comes to any climactic events that would grab theatergoers and fulfill their need for dramatic closure. Toward the end, it seems that this might actually happen, but the possibly hairraising moment is brought up and quickly left behind.

In the end, Thomas realizes that to write well you must write what you know, and Alvin helps Thomas understand that certain events will always be out of his reach if he wasn’t present for them.—Jen Nowell

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PALLING AROUND Thomas (Tim Reynolds, left) and Alvin (Kevin Kirby) explore a lifelong bond in ‘The Story of My Life.’

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in a Hipstamatic vein by Marco Zecchin. Thru Nov 25.

San Jose.

“Rhythm and Lift.” Paintings

by Sonia Gill, Ruth Koch and Wendy Yoshimura. Thru Nov 12.

Thu-Sun, noon-5pm. Fremont.

GOOD KARMA CAFE

PHANTOM GALLERIES

“Milk and Bones.” New paintings by Izer the Mizer.

Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE Raku works by Joe Battiato.

Thru Nov 30. San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY “A Box Is a Box Is a Box.” Works by Gianfranco Paolozzi.

“Photographs From Italy and Greece.” Images by John Eric Paulson. Thru Nov 25. San Jose.

KRAUSE CENTER “Cuba in Focus.” An exhibit

by Cuban and American photographers. Thru Dec 8.

Mon-Fri, 7:30am-8:30pm, Sat, 9am-5pm. Krause Center for Innovation, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

MACLA “Cuban Connections: Near & Far.” A show with examples from Bay Area collectors of Cuban artists. Thru Jan 7. San Jose.

MAIN GALLERY “Sea Shells and Sonatas.”

Works by Susan Wolf and Arup Biswas. Thru Nov 20. Redwood City.

METRO LOBBY “Invitation.” Portraits by Richard James Arredondo and friends. Thru Nov 25. San Jose.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Soil to Site.” A look at the relationship between nature and culture with video artist Richard T. Walker and Bay Area artist Mari Andrews.

Thru Jan 15. “Claudia Borgna: Plastic Bags and Ephemeral Dreams.” In conjunction with the Museums of Los Gatos, Montalvo presents a two-part exhibit of Borgna’s ongoing project to create art from recycled materials. Thru Nov 18. “Sculpture on the Grounds: Traces, Twigs and Time.”

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.

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“Kanji Garden.” An installation created from cut and manipulated folded books from the landfill by Shannon Amidon. In the storefront at 95 S. Market St, San Jose.

PHO69 “Of Light & Shadows.” New photos emphasizing high- and low-key lighting by Robertino Ragazza. Thru Nov 25. San Jose.

PORTER SESNON “Resistant Archeology.” New paintings and prints plus a video installation by ChineseAmerican artist Xiaoze Xie. Thru Nov 23. Wed, noon-6pm, Thu-Sat, noon-5pm. Porter College, UC-Santa Cruz.

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.

Thru Feb 29. Wing of San Jose City Hall.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Dos Mundos.” Works by Tim Craighead. Thru Feb 18.

Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon5pm. San Jose.

SLG ART BOUTIKI “Make a Jazz Noise Here.” A show of comic-book artists responding to jazz in their images. Thru Nov 25. San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS “Progress.” Art from the members of MESHcollective.

Thru Nov 4. San Jose.

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

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

WORKS/SAN JOSE “Iraqimemorial.org.”

A participation-based conceptual project for artists and others to make memorials for the unrecognized civilian dead of the war. Thru Nov. San Jose.

SEEING DOUBLE Opera San José offers two productions for the price of one with a pairing of ‘La voix humaine’ and ‘Pagliacci,’ opening Saturday and running through Nov. 27 at the California Theatre in San Jose.

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The author speaks about “Midnight Rising,” his historical study of John Brown and the coming of the Civil War. Fri, 7pm. Kepler’s Menlo Park.

A musical from Peninsula Youth Theatre. Thu, 9:30am, Fri, 9:30am and 7:30pm, Sat, 2 and 7:30pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm (also Nov 20, 1pm). $7-$22.

MainStage, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

DINESH SHARMA The author of “Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia” appears in a conversation with Lewis Aptekar of SJSU. Wed, 7pm. Kepler’s Menlo Park.

SCOTT WALLACE A signing event for Wallace and his new book, “The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon’s Last Uncontacted Tribe.” Thu, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW A California Theatre Center production. Sat, 11am. $8 and up. Sunnyvale Community Center.

PINOCCHIO Presented by Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. Wed-Thu, 4:30pm, Nov 12, 2 and 7pm, Sun, 2pm. $10/$12. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre.

SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL Dr. Seuss brought to the stage

by Children’s Musical Theater San Jose. This week Fri, 7pm,

Sat, 2 and 7pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. $15-$18. Runs thru Nov 20.

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS A Stories on Stage show by Peninsula Youth Theatre.

Fri, 9:30 and 11am, Sat, 11:30am and 1:30pm. $8/$10.

SecondStage, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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A chance for kids to learn about archaeology and San Jose and its original inhabitants and settlers.

Sun. Digs at 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30pm. History Park, San Jose.

KOFI ANNAN The U.N. secretary-general and Nobel winner speaks on the need for food security in the world.

Thu, noon. Memorial Auditorium, Stanford.

BALLET BENEFIT The Wilkes Bashford holiday fashion preview helps raise

money for Ballet San Jose School. Event features cocktails and couture. Tue, 6-9pm. $125.

Wilkes Bashford Palo Alto, Stanford Shopping Center.

SUSAN HOCKFIELD A talk about “Revving Up America’s Innovation Engine” for the Commonwealth Club. Wed, 7pm. $12/$20. Silicon Valley Bank, Santa Clara.

HOLIDAY GIFT FAIR An annual event with arts and crafts. Sat-Sun, 10am-5pm.

Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara.

STEREOTYPING A discussion with Dr. Reza Aslan, Wajahat Ali, Aman Ali and Bassam Tariq about “Muslims, Myths and the Media. Sun, 2pm. $5/$10. Tech Museum, San Jose.

TREE LIGHTING A holiday ceremony for the family with Thia Megia of “American Idol.” Tue, 3-9pm (photos with Santa), 7pm, tree lighting. Santana Row, San Jose.

World Beater ZAPPED APPED In ‘Melancholia,’ Kirsten Dunst never has to worry about the battery life of her iPhone 4 again.

Director Lars von Trier threatens earthly greed with a cosmic catastrophe in Melancholia By

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HE World’s Greatest Film Critic, Slavoj Zizek, addressing Occupy Wall Street on Oct. 9: “It’s easy to imagine the end of the world—an asteroid destroying all life and so on. But you cannot imagine the end of capitalism.”

In his new film, Melancholia, Lars von Trier tries to imagine just that by killing two birds with one planet.

Melancholia isn’t as doctrinaire Marxist as Dogville but does go beyond the typical peek-a-boo populism of the disaster movie—the callous rich

mending their ways because of a massive quake or a bad volcano.

In such cases, the system doesn’t need wiping out, it just needs remedies. It needs teepees, as the joke went in Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks.

One of these most sincere of sincere dwellings isn’t enough to ward off the end in Melancholia.

The first half wittily observes a wedding so stinky with lucre as to pale the Kardashians (they’re Star Trek villains, yes? I know, I don’t watch enough TV). The setting is a chalet on a lake. Sweden substitutes for the United States—Lake Tahoe or the Adirondacks—and von Trier gives a better sense of the country than in any of his previous films. Wedding planner Udo Kier runs the show, scowling deliciously at the lack of propriety on all sides.

The encircled bride (Kirsten Dunst) has the de Sadean name Justine. The father of the groom happens to be the bride’s boss: Stellan Skarsgård at his most swinish. Justine’s sister, Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and her husband, John (Kiefer Sutherland with a previously unheard, cigartoned bass note in his voice), shelled out beaucoup bucks for the big event.

Why, on the happiest day of her etc., has Justine gone feral with sadness—hiding from the company, ducking her husband to go pee on the lawn of the golf course?

The second half reveals why. There is cosmic trouble, which some are willfully ignoring, having to do with a newly discovered planet. A few fanatics are suggesting that this new globe is in a “Dance of Death” orbit with Terra.

Von Trier hides some evidence but flashes other parts: the pre-title sequence gives us coming-attraction previews of an angry blue planet.

It’s named, for some linguistically indefensible reason, “Melancholia,” and it’s heading for us like a giant billiard ball.

Melancholia R; 136 min.

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Dunst ensures that her part is not a hole in the screen. With her particular cross of intensity and impassivity, she’s the least like a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale sufferer of any of von Trier’s heroines—and the most like an imprisoned woman forcing her way out. The desperation Justine feels is tangible. She tries to go along with social rituals that disgust her. You don’t squirm at her; you squirm with her.

In Melancholia’s second part, the estate has been cleared of guests and staff. The two sisters try their best to function as the inevitable starts to occur. And there is the consolation—unusual in von Trier—of a child, Justine’s nephew (Cameron Spurr).

Melancholia only sounds like a Scandinavian bummer. Made by a man who suffered through a major depression, the film communicates what it feels like to have the weight of the world crushing you. Its cosmic qualities harmonize with Terrence Malick’s views of the beginning and the end of Earth; Melancholia might be von Trier’s Stump of Death to Malick’s Tree of Life.

Melancholia makes poetic sense if not sense as science fiction. The official story is that the planet will make a pass by and maybe suck a little atmosphere. It’ll be pretty.

Justine Googles the topic of planet Melancholia hitting earth; this worrisome possibility has only scored a couple of million hits.

And von Trier almost petulantly snatches away the chance of ultimate hope; God, or life, doesn’t figure in this scheme.

Does von Trier feel life itself is evil? That seemed to be the idea in Antichrist. And yet Melancholia itself is much easier to take seriously because of its clarity and stillness, and because of Dunst’s wistful, frightening acting. Von Trier is probably a madman, but every madman has at least one lucid argument in him.

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and a slave named Stavros (Stephen Dorff). Surely a metaphor for the recent Greek crisis. (Opens Fri.)

IMMORTALS (R; 110 min.) A film founded on a release date (11/11/11), Immortals is the latest hyperstylized fantasy film to be churned out of a post-300 industry. It tells the fable of Titan Hyperion (Mickey Rourke), a Greek god who, upon finding a legendary weapon, declares war on all of humanity. The only people standing in his way: Thesus (Henry Cavill), son of Poseidon; priestess/assumedeyecandy, Phaedra (Freida Pinto);

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Seinfeld scribe Steve Koren, the film proves the age-old adage ”When all else fails, put Adam Sandler in drag” to be alarmingly true. (Opens Fri.)

MELANCHOLIA

(R; 137 min.) See review on page 44.

(R; 136 min.) See review on page 41.

JACK AND JILL (PG; 93 min.) What at first seemed like a parodic trailer, a la Tropic Thunder, will, come Friday, prove to be in fact a real film. Adam Sandler stars as the titular characters (plural), a brother and sister reunited every Thanksgiving, much to the chagrin of Jack and his family.

Bafflingly rewritten by former

SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Nov 9 at 7:30pm, Camera 7, Campbell: Berlin ’36: the docudrama story of Gretel Bergmann, the token Jewish high jumper at Hitler’s Aryan Olympics. Nov 10 at 7:30pm, OFJCC, Palo Alto: The Human Resources Manager. A harried manager at

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a huge bakery has to escort the body of a Romanian guest worker back home. Nov 13 at 1pm, Camera 12, San Jose: Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story. Dustin Hoffman narrates the story of some familiar larger-than-life players: Hank Greenberg who almost broke Babe Ruth’s record; Moe Berg of the Chi Sox, whose still-classified WW2 OSS service record seems to include almost assassinating Werner Heisenberg; titan of the game Sandy Koufax pitched four perfect games and was devout enough to take Yom Kippur off. Delightful and informative. Nov 13 at 3pm, Camera 12, and Nov 16 at 7:30pm, Camera 7: Restoration. Israeli hit about a furniture restorer who finds himself facing the end of his business. Nov 13 at 5:30pm, Camera 12: Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray. Jewish warriors fought on both sides of the American Civil War. Nov 13 at 7:30pm.

Camera 12: Intimate Grammar. David Grossman’s novel is the source for this story about an undersized kid facing adolescence in the 1960s.

(Plays various locations Oct 22-Nov 20.) (RvB)

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“People like symbols. I’m the symbol of certain things.” At about age 40, Steve Jobs unfolded on his career to journalist Robert X. Cringely; a small portion of this interview was used for the 1995 TV documentary Triumph of the Nerds. Most of this is being shown for the first time. Jobs describes childhood fascination with computers in a long-gone valley. As a 12-year-old, he got Bill Hewlett’s phone number out of the telephone book and called him up, speaking with him for 20 minutes and landing a summer job. Later came a criminal life, engineering the infamous “blue box” that skeleton-keyed the telephone system; following that he got into business home-wiring Apple One computers for sale at the Byte Shop in Mountain View. Cringely asks intelligent questions; more importantly, he has a subject who was in a mood to look backward.

Jobs’ talk is mainly of companies crashing and burning. One of them was the company he founded: “Apple is dying a very painful death.”

Jobs didn’t foresee his second life at Apple, but he scopes the future clearly: “The web is incredibly exciting, the fulfillment of the computer being used not primarly for computation but communication.

Plus it’s exciting because Microsoft doesn’t own it.” (Plays Nov 16-22 in Palo Alto at the Aquarius Theatre.)

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Revivals ALIEN (1979) As for the central love story, time cannot stale it. The tall, dark leading man is a 9-foot-tall cephalopod with molecular-acid blood and titanium teeth. “Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility,” observes science officer Ash (Ian Holm). The creature’s partner is Sigourney Weaver, whose structural perfection is matched only by her hostility. But she’s not the emotionless action-man-in-drag heroine, like the ones (such as Ms. Jolie) who began turning up in the field after Alien became a hit. The morals of the story, both useful, are “Don’t trust corporations” and “Don’t let the cat out!” (Plays Nov 10 at 9pm and Nov 12 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

BICYCLE DREAMS Documentary on the 2005 Race Across America; the screening benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. (Plays Nov 17 at 7pm in Cupertino at the BlueLight Cinema.) (RvB)

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT/SUSAN LENOX: HER FALL AND RISE (1934/1931) An heiress (Claudette Colbert) jumps off of her family’s yacht; a working-class reporter (Clark Gable) tracks her down to find out why. It’s invigorated by the class differences between the rough-housing Gable and the pampered Colbert—not to mention the gritty locations of bus stations and motels, unseen in the context of a comedic love story before. Still, I’m not a fan of this classic; Gable’s contempt seems to be turned up too many notches. BILLED WITH Susan Lenox: Gable and Garbo in a romance of a kept woman’s adventures.

(Plays Nov 16-18 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

LOST HORIZON/GOODBYE MR. CHIPS (1937/1939) The brilliant opening sequences of Chinese revolt gives way to a Tibetan neverland. There, an important British politician (Ronald Colman) wanders, a man soul-sick by the prospect of upcoming war.

An early example of New Age art, the Celestine Prophecy of its day complete with the usual disquieting imperialist undertones, and the implicit threat underneath the offer of spiritual awakening and longevity.

Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton and Sam Jaffe co-star. BILLED WITH Goodbye Mr. Chips: A staid British headmaster (Robert Donat), grown

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NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. Nov 12 at 7:30pm: The Coast Patrol (1925) with Fay Wray and shorts “Mabel’s Blunder” (1914) and “The Halfback of Notre Dame” (1924).

Nov 13 at 4pm: Laurel and Hardy in “A Day at the Studio” (1940), “Laurel and Hardy, Magicians” (1929), and “Pack Up Your Troubles” (1932); Our Gang in “Little Rebel” (1961) and “Double Trouble” (1962). (Plays Nov 12-13 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

is half (with Ron Perlman) of a pair of aging but lethal gangsters. Still, Drive is so studiously cool it’s hard not to feel cool toward it. Impractical, coincidental things happen that might have made more sense in a smaller-scale location, such as Phoenix, where James Sallis’ nouveau pulp novel was set. (RvB)

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 scheduled bullish (or bullying) comedy moments, Rogen’s Kyle turns up to rattle the

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PURPLE RAIN (1984) Entertainingly ridiculous semiautobiographical musical about the rise of Prince (called here “The Kid”) from the apparently incense-scented swirling ground fog of Minneapolis.

Terrific tunes (“I Would Die For U,” etc.) but it’s stolen outright by the villains: Clarence Williams III as the Kid’s battering father, and Morris Day as his sarcastic rival. (Plays Nov 11-12 in San Jose at the RetroDome.) (RvB)

WINCHESTER ‘73/CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (1950/1948) James Stewart wins a state of the art rifle at a shooting contest in Dodge City. But the weapon has a life of its own, ending up in the possession of Indians, robbers (Dan Duryea plays one of the gang), and Stewart’s own crooked brother (Stephen McNally). Anthony Mann’s Western goes for frontier slices of life with a series of rising actors: Shelley Winters plays a dance-hall girl, Rock Hudson is an Indian and Tony Curtis is a soldier. BILLED WITH Call Northside 777: Ripped from the Chicago streets is this story of a crusading reporter (James Stewart) opening up the false conviction of an inmate (Richard Conte.) Reputedly the first Hollywood movie shot on Chicago locations.

(Plays Nov 9-11 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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DRIVE (R; 100 min.) Ryan Gosling transforms from first-rate actor to movie star here. He plays an unnamed getawaycar driver in L.A. with a studious code of noninvolvement. He tosses away this code at first sight of the film’s girl (Carey Mulligan) and her kid.

Terrific action sequences—much pre-Avid magic here—and a cast of HBO/FX all-stars. Among them is the Oscar-bound Albert Brooks who

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old in the job, had one fleeting moment of blooming: and that was in the presence of the women he loved, played by Greer Garson. Bring Kleenex. (Plays Nov 12-13 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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metroactive FILM cage of the seriously ill Adam (GordonLevitt). 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.

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

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CLINT EASTWOOD’S shot-full-of-curare biopic J. Edgar takes on a half-century of history, from the Palmer Raids to Nixon’s regime. But the movie unfolds entirely in a few rooms. It’s a defensible stance when telling a lifelong bureaucrat’s story, but a chore to watch.

This J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio), founder of the FBI, sits at a desk. He’s a pudgy minotaur, encircled by a loyal secretary (Naomi Watts) and a proud but suffocating mother (Judi Dench). He emerges for lunches, dinners and jaunts to the racetrack with longtime companion Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer, the Winklevosses of The Social Network). Scriptwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk) underscores everyone’s favorite tale of Hoover: the urban legend of his gayness and transvestitism. The film asks you to mourn Hoover, who may have hidden his own sexuality even as he snooped into the sex lives of others.

Would this epic blackmailer—the head of the American secret police—have been a better man if he just could have declared his secret love to the world?

Understandably, Eastwood cites the good work done by Hoover. Kidnappers have never prospered in America, thanks to the FBI. J. Edgar follows the Lindbergh case, which is treated as an open-and-shut

criminal matter, solved by innovative fingerprinting and forensic analysis— rather than by circumstantial evidence.

Hoover is a catastrophically recessive part for DiCaprio: he’s a glowing smudge on Eastwood’s underlit screen. At first, we see a snazzily dressed, fussy young man, less interesting even than A% <[^Xi Kevin Costner in The Untouchables. In the leap of R; 137 min. a scene, Hoover is a swollen Opens Friday elder in thick makeup.

At their worst, Eastwood’s films are a series of incidents with little connection, anecdotes that don’t lead to any truth. His many fans consider this lack of emphasis essential to Eastwood’s pragmatic coolness. But J. Edgar has no highs or lows, even when famous people turn up: say, a squandered Jessica Hecht playing Emma Goldman.

Maybe the moment when the film stirs from its coma is at the end: Richard Nixon (Christopher Shyer) pronounces both a public and private obit for Hoover.

The private, obscene obit is a relief from the sanctity of the rest of the film. Say what you will about Nixon, but at least he had an opinion on J. Edgar Hoover.

—Richard von Busack

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 low-temperature drama of idealism simmers further when Molly (Evan Rachel Wood) 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.

(RvB)

IN TIME (PG-13; 109 min.) As any good agent will tell you, time is money. Writer/ director Andrew Niccol takes this credo seriously in this heady, post-recession sci-fi flick where people stop aging at 25 and time is used as currency, leaving the rich immortal and the average Joe bartering for a few extra hours. Justin Timberlake gets caught up in a murder-conspiracy that leaves him with a fortune in years and timetaskforce on his tail in this Logan’s Run–esque thriller (in which the age limit was a slightly more reasonable 30).

MARGIN CALL (R; 105 min.) First timer J.C. Chandor’s

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brutal but hushed thriller concerns how men cooperate, particularly in a scheme of vast capitulation. In this case, it’s the deliberate collapsing of a century-old Wall Street brokerage. The cast includes Stanley Tucci, as the one who goes to the wall first; Demi Moore is the lone woman exec; Peter, a new hand in the Risks Department is played by the actor (and producer here) Zachary Quinto. Quinto plays it very neutral and looks poreless and slightly synthetic; he’s a marvelously unusual figure to have as a moral center.

Jeremy Irons is the big boss, who may well have some issues with sanity; he dresses down his subordinates, not in a Mamet tirade, but in the cordial, self-amused patronization of a public school headmaster. As a middle-level exec sick unto death of this job Kevin Spacey is first-rate; he’s never got a chance to be this well-rounded, and yes I remember American Beauty.

The release of this film during the same weeks as the Occupy Wall Street protests is timely, but timeliness isn’t Margin Call’s only virtue; it’s a fascinating display of nerve and talent.

(RvB)

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R; 120 min.) A tongue twister of a title, but it’s worth learning. In this highly tense and disturbing thriller, Elizabeth Olsen plays a girl unstuck in time, completely hollowed out by a cult leader named Patrick (John Hawkes).

After she escapes from the compound in upstate New York, Martha is traumatized by memories of what was done to her, and what she did to others. Martha’s estranged sister, Lucy (Sarah Paulson), puts the penniless girl up in her lakeside vacation house. The vacation, however, quickly turns dismal as Martha, severely traumatized and yet unable to express her ordeal in words, continuously thwarts her sister’s attempts to connect. In one of the year’s key performances, Olsen gives us a portrait of a girl split in pieces. What works best here is the note of arrogance that comes in cult living: Who else can experience love and life as well as those within the width of the circle? The film shows us where the attraction lies: the cracks in normal society, the fissures large enough for a spider to crawl in. (RvB)

MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE (Unrated; 82 min.) A semi-literate village man (Gerard Depardieu) strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly woman (Gisele Gasadesus), who teaches him to love great literature.

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Black and Blues BACKWARD CKWARD TO THE FUTURE The retro revival has elevated the together. e Black Keys to stardom a decade after they got together

The Black Keys have made a point of being everywhere this past year— and San Jose is next on the list

By ROD BASTANMEHR

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UCCESS is a matter of perspective. The same could be said of time, of quality. When we speak of a band’s rise, we’re talking about gradual cultural awareness. For the Black Keys, their ascent from indie mainstays to festival top-billers didn’t come as quickly as it may seem.

They didn’t, for instance, release one album (Brothers), and suddenly find themselves with a No. 1 single, a bestselling record and five Grammy nominations (though they

did, indeed, achieve all of this in the short span of a single year).

The time it took for us to first hum a Black Keys song, for us to tell our friends about a Black Keys album, and for us to see the Black Keys perform at one of about three major festivals that they were subheadlining, was short. But the band took the better part of a decade to enter the dialogue. Fans have been following them since 2001; everyone started following them in 2010. This is what the Black Keys do: They make you lose sense of time; they make you do it willingly.

After a year that’s seen them perform everywhere from down South at the Bonnaroo Music Festival to a rumored gig in South Africa, the Black Keys have become

the band that everyone’s watching because there seems to be nowhere to turn where they won’t be.

For instance, San Jose fans need look no further than their own backyard, as they prepare for an exclusive performance at San José City College to celebrate the grand opening of the Microsoft Store in the Westfield Valley Fair mall. The performance is free for the first 700 people to visit the store on Thursday, Nov. 10, upon which they’ll be given two tickets to either the Keys show on the 11, or to another show, Joe Jonas on Saturday (the latter comes with one VIP pass to meet Joe Jonas after the show). General admission tickets for both concerts will be available as supplies last.

Born in Akron, Ohio, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney (32 and 31, respectively) formed a bond at an early age, first through mutual friends putting together a flag football team and eventually through a shared love of music.

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For Auerbauch, his infatuation was rooted in classic blues and bluegrass; Carney’s ears were drawn to the alternative-rock sounds of Pavement and Devo, the latter also hailing from Akron.

In time, their passions would dovetail, and a mere listen to their two-man band confirms the perfect blend of these two interests: the smoky drawl of underground blues, with the searing riffs of alt rock. In 2002, they released their first major album, The Big Come Up, a prophetic title that set their expectation for the album’s success.

Their first major singles, “Leavin’ Trunk” and “She Said, She Said,” while successful, were both covers (the former a traditional blues standard; the other, a Beatles song).

It wasn’t until their second album, Thickfreakness, released in 2003, that their original songs began to build up steam.

Four albums and six years later, Fou release of Brothers catapulted the re Black Keys to major name the B recognition, and a sound so recog that a mere guitar riff definitive n paired with Auerbach’s scratchy paire vocals (distorted using Soundtoy, vocal simply placing the and sometimes s mic i on his forehead) can elicit yelps from a crowd.

For a generation of listeners obsessed with musical nostalgia (vintage vocals, ’80s synthesizers, the sudden surge of lo-fi enthusiasts, higher sales for vinyl than CD), the Black Keys are the ghost of music future: drenched in the haze of the bluesmen that came before them but with eyes firmly planted on what lies ahead. With a seventh album, El Camino, scheduled for early December, the Black Keys show no sign of slowing down.

Their performance on Saturday Night Live this past January helped bring the show to its highest ratings in its entire 37-year run.

Jim Carrey was the host that night; does anyone who watched even remember that?

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Carriage House Theatre Concert Series 2011/2012 SOUTH BAY BLUES BLAST: CHRIS CAIN BAND & J.C. SMITH BAND WITH MAXX CABELLO, JR

Wet Witch

These Bay Area blues musicians, accomplished artists in their own right, come together to deliver what is sure to be an unforgettable night!

J.C. SMITH

MAXX CABELLO, JR

The combination of his blues upbringing and his jazz studies melded to form the searing guitar style that sets Chris Cain apart in the blues music scene.

Smith has shared the stage with Pinetop Perkins, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Shaw, Elvin Bishop, and Tommy Castro.

His work is inspired by Jimi Hendrix and Carlos Santana, but Cabello definitely adds his own artistry, showing only influences by the guitar legends.

Wednesday at Blank Club, 9pm; free Brooklyn noise-punkers already have a lot of buzz, despite the fact that their debut EP is not even out yet. It doesn’t hurt that they’re a favorite of indie darlings Sleigh Bells—and even if Wet Witch is louder and faster, there are definitely similarities in their percussive blasts of sound. Buried at Birth and Moon Eater open. (SP)

Odd Numbers Friday at Blank Club, 9pm; $8 The Odd Numbers are a fixture of the South Bay music scene, so the idea they could go for over a year without gigging here seems crazy. But for the first time in over 20 years, that’s the case. Fear not, though, the mod-loving rockers are firing up their mopeds and returning with a lineup that also includes Factory Minds and Dirty Pillows. (SP)

MACEO PARKER January 11, 7:30pm “Quite simply, there is no better living showman than Maceo Parker. Catching one of the alto sax maestro’s marathon three-hour shows is a truly transcendent experience for any fan of funk, jazz, hip-hop, R&B and soul...” - WESTWORD Maceo Parker is the essence of Funk and his band is the tightest Funk orchestra around. Parker’s played with James Brown (he was with the Godfather of Soul for 20 years), George Clinton and Bootsy Collins. He’s the living, breathing history of Funk and he’s at the top of his game!

Jeffrey Halford & the Healers Saturday at Poor House Bistro, 6pm; free

Parker has collaborated with Ray Charles, Prince, Dave Matthews Band and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

Don’t miss this opportunity to experience the Master of Funk up close and personal — and bring your dancin’ shoes!

Free on-site parking!

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Fiery guitar licks turn heads, so it’s no surprise that a lot of contemporary blues players are driven to rock their 12 bars as hard as they can. But Jeffrey Halford has always been different—with a more laid-back, soulful approach to the blues, he’s a genuine troubadour. (SP)

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Celebrating 100 Years!

Metro’s music calendar runs Wednesday–Tuesday.

Rock/Pop

Fri: The Peelers. Sat: Joe Bazooka.

Sun: The Gents. Campbell.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Fri, 8:30pm: David Brookings, JL Stiles and Hillary Bratton. $5/$8. Redwood City.

AVALON Fri: Veteran’s Day Salute Dance with the Jive Aces. $19. Sat: Souls of Mischief. Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Wet Witch, Buried at Birth, Moon Eater. Free. Fri, 9pm: Odd Numbers, Factory Minds, Dirty Pillows, Matt Tognetti. $8. Sun, 8pm: Boots Electric with Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal, Death Valley High. $10/$12. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back.

FLINT CENTER Thu, 8pm: Gordon Lightfoot. $40 and up. Cupertino.

Fri, 10pm: Zoo Station. Sat, 10pm: Superbad. San Jose.

LOS GATOS LODGE BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

Fri-Sat: Live rock bands. Los Gatos.

Fri, 9pm: Phil Traina Band, Kiwi Time and A Farewell Device.

Cupertino.

MOJO LOUNGE

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

Campbell.

CLUB FOX Thu, 9pm: The Stone Foxes, Vanaprasta, Battlehooch. $12/$16. Fri, 8pm: New Sun CD release. $10. Sat, 8pm: Aja Vu, Alien Cowboys. $12/$14.

Redwood City.

Fri: Daniel Castro Band. Sat: Steve Freund. Fremont.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Sat, 8pm: South Bay Blues Blast with Chris Cain and J.C. Smith. $22 and up. Saratoga.

MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE Tue-Wed, 6pm: Live music San Jose.

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of South Bay blues luminaries at Montalvo.

South Bay Blues Blast THREE OF THE biggest guns in the Bay Area blues scene perform at this Montalvo showcase, and all have a South Bay connection. Headliner and San Jose native Chris Cain got his start teaching jazz at City College here, while openers J.C. Smith and Maxx Cabello Jr. are top names in the local scene, most recently joining Montalvo Arts forces in Smith’s Fountain Blues Festival All Stars.

Center Just as importantly, this is a line-up that shows the peak performance level working bluesmen are capable Sat, Nov. 12, 8pm; of getting to when they are constantly honing their $25/$30 skills. It’s all about class issues these days, right? Well, this is Occupy Blues Music. The absence of Tommy Castro notwithstanding, I’d be hard-pressed to think of a better lineup of working-class musicians to represent the South Bay’s contribution to the art of blues guitar.—Steve Palopoli

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NETO’S GRILL

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

Gilroy.

Fri, 8pm: Rhythm District. $5.

Sat, 8pm: Beach Cowboys. $5.

Santa Clara.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS

NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: 408 Habitat, the Devil Himself, the Burning of Rome. $10. Gilroy.

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

Fri, 9:30pm: Cocktail Monkeys. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Street Lucy Project. $10. Los Gatos.

THE QUARTER NOTE Wed-Thu: Pro jam. Sunnyvale.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Music on the weekends.

San Jose.

Banda nights. Fri, 8pm: Rock en Español. San Jose.

ALBERTO’S

Thu, 6pm: The Liquid Scene, Wishing Well. Tue, 6pm: Tom Gewecke, the DTs. San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

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Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

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

WILLOW GLEN COFFEE ROASTING

AZÚCAR

Sat, 7:30pm: Summer of Love Trio. San Jose.

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

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

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

San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI Fri, 8pm: Nuevo Flamenco and Spanish guitar. Sat, 8pm: Gianfranco and friends.

San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

Every ďŹ rst and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Bassment. Sat, 8:30pm: Brian Ho Quartet. San Jose.

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Sat, 8pm: Kalapana. $19 and up.

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Wed: Ron Tomasello and Friends. Thu: The Dan Goghs.

Fri: Blues Hammer. Free. Sat: Mike Osborn. $10. Sun: Gene Washington. Mon: Desireee and Diamond 99. Tue: Liarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club.

San Jose.

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Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

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HUKILAU Fri: E Ono Kane. Sat: Shaka. San Jose.

MOROCCOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SJ Fri, 5pm: World music. Sat, 8pm: World music. Sun, 6pm: World music. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

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

Mountain View.

Jazz/Blues

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

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

A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Quasimodal. Sat, 9pm: Steve Czarneki Jazz Trio. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6pm: Tia Carroll Band. Fri, 6pm: Mark Hummel and the Blues Survivors. Sat, 6pm: Jeffrey Halford and the Healers. Sun, noon: The Bornia Boys. San Jose.

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Wed, 7:30pm: Stan Erhart Band.

Hilton San Jose Hotel.

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

Campbell.

ANGELICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BISTRO

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Thu, 7:30pm: Blues talent contest. Fri, 6pm: Walter Earl Trio. $7/$11. Mon, 7pm: A Swinginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Affair and Jazz Jam with Walt Hern Jazz Project. No cover. Redwood City.

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

ART BOUTIKI

C&W/Folk

Thu, 7pm: Jazz jam. $5. San Jose.

BACH DANCING AND DYNAMITE Sun, 4:30pm: George Cole Quintet. $35. Half Moon Bay.

BLUZ BY-YOU Wed: Sista Monica. Fri: Vegas Nights. Sat: Blues Cadillac. Santa Clara.

CLUB FOX

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

San Jose.

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San Jose.

Open Mic ANGELICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BISTRO Tue, 7pm: Open mic.

Redwood City.

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

BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS 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.

HOT JAVA COFFEE ROASTING Tue, 6:30pm: Hot Acoustic Tuesdays. Open mic for instrumentalists, vocalists, poets and more. Morgan Hill.

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

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

Sat, 7pm: Blue Rockers. Willow Glen.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

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

Fri, 8pm: Suzy Without a Net. $20/$22. Sat, 7:30pm: County Line Trio. Santa Clara.

QUARTER NOTE

THE SADDLE RACK

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Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

Wed, 7pm: Blues jam. $5.

Redwood City.

Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

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

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

GRAND DELL SALOON

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

Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: Mark Hummel and Sid Morris. Campbell.

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

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CHURCH OF ROCK Vacant Churches performs at the new performance space at San Jose Rock Shop Saturday.

San Jose Rock Shop SINCE 2008, David Nevin has been running San Jose Rock Shop, which specializes in custom modifications of guitars and amplifiers. It’s a two-story building with 17 practice spaces upstairs, ranging from $275 to $800. Local bands like Beerijuana, Case in Theory and Zed hone their chops there.

The Rock Shop takes orders for professional repairs and customization.

They offer guitar and drum lessons, taught by John Ortiz and Jeff Ortega.

Nevin says the Rock Shop also wants to focus on providing the materials for professionals to beef up their sound quality. If that also requires a custom guitar, they have their own woodshop.

“Here we can do heavier cutting, guitar molding, repair and finish work,” he says.

The Rock Shop’s latest venture is providing a venue for all-ages shows. The first floor has an indoor parking lot, where a small stage has been built. Showgoers enter through the back door, and at the end of the show, a huge rolling door on the side becomes the exit.

“We’re working to try to make it a regular thing, as soon as we get some of the logistics and legalities out of the way. For now, we’re just doing local events and keeping it as communal as possible,” Nevin said.

Vacant Churches San Jose Rock Shop Sat., Nov. 12 9pm; $8

With that in mind, local punk band Vacant Churches will be hosting their album release party on Nov. 12 at the Rock Shop. Last Hour is their first album with their new drummer, and they’ve never sounded better.

With haunting melodies, driving beats and a crunchy edge, their music is a reflection of their philosophy: Just be yourself. Also on the bill is Sad Boy Sinister and Culo A Boca.—Beau Dowling

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

Fri-Sat, 7pm-midnight: DJ Bob & Starmaker Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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

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

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

LILLY MAC’S

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

MARIANI’S

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

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

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

THE BEARS

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

MOJO LOUNGE DIVE BAR

Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

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

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL EFFIE’S RESTAURANT Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

BLUE BONNET BAR Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke.

No cover. Sunnyvale.

BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

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

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

Santa Clara.

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

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

Sunnyvale.

OFF THE HOOK FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY

Sun, 8pm: DJ Joe. Campbell.

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

OFFICE BAR

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

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

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

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

GALAXY

Sun, 8pm: DJ Matt. Mon, 8pm: Matt. San Jose.

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

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BOGART’S LOUNGE

GILROY BOWL

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

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.

BOSWELL’S

PEACOCK LOUNGE

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Thu and Tue: Comedy at 8pm, karaoke at 9pm. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Sunnyvale.

BOULEVARD TAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

PIONEER SALOON

BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

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

Cupertino.

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

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

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

Sun, 9-11pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

QUARTER NOTE

HUDDLE

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

Sunnyvale.

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

JOHNNY V’S Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

KATIE BLOOM’S

BRIX

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

KHARTOUM

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

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

Campbell.

Sat, 9:30pm: DJ Joe. Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

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

HOOOTERS RESTAURANT

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.

THE COURTS LOUNGE

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

San Jose.

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

KYOTO PLACE Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

San Jose.

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

ROSIE MCCANN’S Tue, 8:30pm: Karaoke. No cover.

Santana Row.

RUDY’S PUB Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

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

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

San Jose.

SAN JOSE’S the Branham Lounge has reopened with some fresh ideas. New owner John Conway, who also owns Britannia Arms Downtown, hopes to position the Branham Lounge to keep its reputation as a neighborhood favorite while also catering to a diverse crowd. “We have an eclectic crowd in here; everyone from 21 to 121 is in here, and we want them to enjoy themselves,” Conway says.

The lounge will feature a variety of weekly parties, with funk, electro and house on “Quality Control” Fridays, featuring DJ Aspect; rock, punk and ska on Wednesday night’s “London Calling” with DJ Clint Eastwood; Thursday nights are “Rewind,” a retro-theme party with DJ Rated R playing hip-hop, rock and house; and “Jukebox Monday.”

The lounge is known for its retro look and feel, maintained with refurbished wood panels and imported red-velvet wallpaper. The bar’s 1960s-era jukebox remains, but Conway plans to bump up the music with a new DJ booth and state-of-the-art sound system. Newly installed HDTVs and $12 bottomless PBRs during San Jose Sharks and San Francisco 49ers should please sports fans.

The Branham Lounge Daily, 10am–2am 1116 Branham Ln, San Jose

The Branham Lounge was originally opened in 1969 by Nate Wasserman, who owned the bar for its first 37 years. Conway’s partners in the new venture include Sam Ramirez (Cardiff Lounge, El Guapo’s Tacos, Opa), Dave Powell/ Tony Beers (Tres Gringos downtown and at the airport, Los Gatos Bar & Grill, San Jose Bar & Grill, El Guapo’s Tacos), John McKay (Almaden Brit, Airport Brit) and Mike Rathje (former player for the San Jose Sharks).—Nina Tabios

SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

BAMBOO LOUNGE

Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Wed-Thu & Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie.

Sat, 9:30pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

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

Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

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Fri & Mon, 9pm: Vinnie.

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

Thu, 9pm: Atomic, DJ Basura. $5.

Sat, 9pm: Dead Beat, DJ Gabriel77 and Julian Destrukt. Free. San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

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

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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BLUE PHEASANT AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Thu: Antromix. Banda nights. Fri: Rock en Español. San Jose.

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.

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

BOSWELL’S Mon: DJ Geekstar. Campbell.

BRANHAM LOUNGE DJs and more. San Jose.

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BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Thu, 10pm: DJ Nicolo. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. Tue: Pub-stumpers Trivia. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

KING OF CLUBS

SABOR TAPAS BAR

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

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

LILLY MAC’S

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night.

Sunnyvale.

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.

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

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

Fri: Featured Fridays. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB BRIX

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

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.

CLUBHOUSE RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

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.

MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy.

Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.

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

Santa Clara.

Thu: Dreamscape, Foobs, Liam Shy and more. Fri: Vida Guerra hosting life. Sat: DJ scene hosted by #1 Industry. San Jose.

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

Fri-Sat: DJs. Menlo Park.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

STUDIO8

MOTIF

Thu, 10pm: DJ Night. Cupertino.

Thu: DJ Benoficial. Fri, 10pm: DJ Radio. Sat: DJ Quantum.

San Jose.

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

WILLOW DEN Wed-Sat, 10pm: DJs. Willow Glen.

ZEN LOUNGE

PEACOCK LOUNGE

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

Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ DRoc. Mountain View.

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.

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

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

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

San Francisco’s City Guide

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

M83

THE ELEGANT PUB

France’s most overboard cinematic producer, Anthony Gonzalez, on the tour of the month. Nov 10 at Mezzanine.

Fri, 9pm: DJ Checo. Sat, 9pm: DJ Checo. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.

RA RA RIOT

EMPIRE CLUB

Ivy League-wave sextet from Syracuse high on violins and uplift. Nov 11 at the Great American Music Hall.

Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

POOR MAN’S WHISKEY FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Selective. Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: First Friday. $10. Sat, 9pm: Fame. $10. Mon, 9pm: Martini Mondays. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

GALAXY Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.

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

Bluegrass tribute to ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ on 11-11-11 with stunning visual show. Nov 11 at the Fillmore.

DAVID MURRAY Saxophone colossus leads Cuban ensemble honoring Nat King Cole’s Spanish recordings. Nov. 11-13 at Yoshi’s SF.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS The Johns play free 4pm in-store between evening shows in the city (at the Fillmore, on Nov 12 and 13). Nov 13 at Amoeba SF.

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BALLOT BATTLE Faced with a referendum on the city’s pot-club regs, Mayor Chuck Reed calls for a tax hike to pay for the election.

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ITHIN HOURS of receiving 17 boxes of signed petitions, the San Jose City Clerk’s office determined that enough signatures were collected to temporarily suspend a new medical marijuana ordinance.

Citizens Coalition for Patient Care (CCPC) ran the petition drive, and the County Registrar of Voters (ROV) now has between 30 and 60 business days to perform a random signature-verification check.

If the ROV determines that the petition is sufficient, the City Council will then decide whether to repeal its own ordinance or let San Jose voters decide the issue in an election. The referendum is a challenge to the council-imposed ordinance that would have capped the number of dispensaries at 10 and required onsite growing.

Mayor Chuck Reed has signaled he’s willing to take the scuffle to the ballot box—and for cannabis dispensaries to pay for it.

On Nov. 1, a few days after the petition drop-off, Reed proposed temporarily hiking the tax on dispensary receipts from the current 7 percent to 10 percent, the maximum permitted under Measure U, which voters passed last year.

“The probability of election costs of more than $1 million could threaten our ability to preserve the very services voters intended to fund with the marijuana business tax,” Reed wrote in a memo to the Rules and Open Government Committee.

“I propose that any city costs that may be associated with an election should be paid by the marijuana business industry” through the tax increase.

But CCPC hopes it doesn’t go that far. “There’s no need to raise the tax, because this doesn’t need to go to an election, if the city is reasonable going forward,” says Rich Robinson, the chief campaign advisor for CCPC. “If the goal of the mayor is to have regulations that work, we are certainly willing to sit down at the table and do that.”

Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio says raising the tax means the mayor is “calling the bluff ” of cannabis supporters. Voters in San Jose rejected Prop. 19 in 2008, which would have legalized recreational cannabis use, but some districts supported legalization.

If the council goes forward with a special election, “then it’s a real challenge to the medical cannabis community,” Oliverio says. “Can you convince voters to say, ‘No?’” While it’s too soon to say who would triumph at the ballot, the advantage might go to medical cannabis activists.

“Who’s going to run the campaign against collectives?”

Oliverio asks. “I think you might have to give the upper hand to the medical cannabis people, because they’ll have the money to run a campaign.”

Over the 30 days CCPC gathered signatures for the peitition, the group says that nearly 8,000 new voters were registered and more than $200,000 was raised.—Ted Cox

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EMPLOYMENT K<:?EFCF>P Varian Medical Systems has multiple openings for the following positions in our Palo Alto and Milpitas locations: Product Support Engineer (ref# 6642.72) Provide technical support to field engineers, technicians, & technical support personnel who are diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing and debugging complex electro/mechanical equipment, computer systems, complex software, or networked &/ or wireless systems for company’s proprietary products.

Enterprisewide Program Analyst (ref# 6642.146) Responsible for implementing BI solutions which include BI reports, dashboards, and business planning and budgeting solutions for the organization using SAP BW/BO products.

Software QA Engineers (multiple positions; various levels/types) (ref # 6642SQAE) Develop & implement automated testing solutions and services used for methodically testing medical software consoles; Collaborate with members from all departments to create and execute tests to verify and improve quality of products; or

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Troubleshoot, test and install new and existing oncology information systems software products.

Research Scientists (ref #6642RS) Conduct research to solve or develop solutions to problems in the field of computer hardware and software.

Design, develop, analyze, troubleshoot and provide technical skills during research and/or product development for company’s proprietary products.

Technical Product Manager (ref #6642.36) Define, review, and document computer hardware specifications for new and existing products for the radiation oncology information system.

Provide technical and product expertise to sales managers, sales specialists, customers, engineering, & service organization to define and review technical customer implementation proposals and improvement requests relative to the radiation oncology information systems.

Field Service Representative (ref# 6642.31) Troubleshoot, test, repair new & existing diagnostics instrumentation. Apply electrical / electronic engineering knowledge & utilize complex testing equipment for verification & calibration of our advanced & complex medical oncology

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products. Must be available to work at various sites throughout the U.S. Domestic & International travel is required.

Software Engineers (multiple positions; various levels/types) (ref #6642SWE) Analyze, design, program, debug and modify and software enhancements and/or user interface and/or new software product; or Research, analyze requirements, design, develop, and test operating systemslevel software, compilers and network distribution software for RT treatment delivery system; or Design and develop scalable and distributed healthcare software applications using next generation technologies and applying proven software design patterns.

Usability Engineers (ref #6642.128) Create, evaluate and modify user interfaces to support hardware and software application development.

Research and analyze users’ needs and goals.

Product Managers (ref # 6642.15) Responsible for managing and coordinating product management activities for assigned product lines to yield profit performance consistent with company stated objectives.

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a knowledge-based segmentation and planning system for Radiation Oncology.

Manager, Software QA Engineer (ref #6642.26) Directs activities in software quality assurance engineering in test automation. Develops test automation roadmap & quality standards for company products. Oversees the development and execution of software test automation, and the analysis of test results.

To apply, send resume to Irina Nikolaeva, Sr. Corporate HR Specialist, Varian Medical Systems, 3100 Hansen Way, MS E154, Palo Alto, CA 94304. Must reference title and ref# above. EOE.

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Systems Analyst and Programmer Analyst Location: Sunnyvale. CA Position Type: Full Time.

Experience: 5+ years.

Education: Bachelors.

Systems Analyst to Analyze, design, develop, maintain, install, and test computer software programs. Work with Business Objects, Oracle/Sybase, and PL/SQL. Programmer Analyst to Design, develop software applications using J2EE, JSP, EJB, Oracle and Sybase.

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A little piece of South-facing magic, high up on a hill. This haven is surrounded by trees and good neighbors. Just a few minutes to the post oďŹ&#x192;ce or grocery store in this quaint little town. Pavement, power at the street, and city water. Sun and view await you. Owner ďŹ nancing Available. OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at 225,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com

IFL>? 8E; KLD9C< Bring your dreams. Travel 3 miles in, on a private road to a bit of the forest to call your own. This 8 AC parcel is pretty much untouched.

Approx. 90 member, private Road Assoc. Broker will help show. OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at $350,000. Broker will help show.

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8N8P =IFD @K 8CC Perched right on top of a little ridge, come and experience sunrise serenade, birds singing and delicious mountain air. 5 AC with canyon views and redwoods. Plenty of room for parking, storage and gardening.

House with one bedroom, loft, tiled white bathroom with tub and bonus sunroom with deck. Many upgraded Amenities. Shown by appointment only. OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at 295,000. Call Debbie @ Donner

<E; F= IF8; GI@M8:P Ă&#x2026; CFJ >8KFJ Feel the breeze through the trees from these Breathtaking Sanctuary Acres. Flat and spacious with Beautiful Oak trees, Giant Redwoods, Turkeys and Deer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just too pretty to describe. Excellent location, just minutes to town.

Already has Well, Phone & Power.

Septic Perc. test completed. OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at $750,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com

)0' 8:I<J DK D8;FEE8 Come explore 290 acres consisting of 11 meandering parcels varying in size from 18 acres to 40 acres. This sprawling land is rough and rugged, ideal for your quads and dirt bikes or saddle up the horses and have your own Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Massive, yet pretty much untouched acreage with Timber possibilities. If you appreciate land that is sprinkled with springs, warmed by lots of sun, and has views as far as the eye can see, consider this beautiful spread. Excellent owner ďŹ nancing is available with just 20% down, the seller will carry at 6%. Inquiries welcome. OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at $1,150,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com

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Approx. 1/2 acre located in Boulder Creek with Stunning Views and many lovely Redwoods. Design your dream home for this unique property. Already has water, power at property line, Approved septic plan, soils report, and survey. Plans Approved & Building permit ready to issue. Easy drive to town, yet feels private. Shown by appointment only.

OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at 198,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408395-5754 www.donnerland.com

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