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THIS MODERN WORLD

I SAW YOU

By TOM TOMORROW

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ISawYou@metronews.com Send us your anonymous rants and raves about your co-workers or any badly behaving citizen—or about citizens you admire. I SAW YOU, Metro, 550 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email.

Code Orange You: Three San Jose police officers. My crime: being dressed in bright orange. You cornered me at a fast-food joint. One of you asked if had been drinking. I answered, “Yeah, I downed a few. That’s why I’m hoofing it home.” You then belittled me and put me through sobriety tests that I couldn’t even pass if sober.

But when asked to recite the alphabet backward, I did so at lightning speed. You then asked me to give you a reason you shouldn’t “haul my ass downtown.” I replied, hand on heart, “I’m a warm, loving man, a great father to my lively daughter and an excellent singer.” You exclaimed, “Sing for us, then!” So I belted out the song “Hair.” The crowd cheered as you chuckled, and told me it was my lucky day and to go on home. Whew!

Thank gosh there ain’t no crime for oranges.

COMMENTS Letters@metronews.com Metro welcomes letters. Like any great work of art, they should be originals—not copies of material sent elsewhere. Please include your name, city of residence and daytime telephone number. (Phone number will not be published.) Letters may be edited for length and clarity or to correct factual inaccuracies known to us. = SanJoseInside

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The Dark Side On the other side of the rosy, happyface story of the “Physical Web” (Cover story, Sept. 28) by Josh Koehn is an ominous one.

In an interview with the late film director Aaron Russo in America: From

Freedom to Fascism, he talks about a conversation with his former friend and billionaire Nick Rockefeller.

Rockefeller foretold of future plans by his global elite to get everyone to want RFID chips implanted in their bodies for “safety” and “convenience.”

He said they would use propaganda, marketing, fear and other techniques to create conditions where people would want to use the RFID chip and ultimately have it surgically embedded in their bodies. He further went on to tell Russo that after that it would be easy to control people’s behavior; if you did something the rulers didn’t like they would simply turn off your chip and you wouldn’t be able to buy food or function in society anymore.

Says digital consultant Greg Swanson: “I think many people think

trading privacy for convenience is fair and reasonable.” Let me have Benjamin Franklin rephrase that for you: “Those who are willing to give up liberty for security deserve neither.”

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Idiots at Work Watching this tussle between idiot occupiers and idiot politicians is sort of like watching a game between the Dodgers and the Yankees. You can’t figure out which team you hate the most.

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Praise Giver Re the review in your film section

of The Skin I Live In by Richard von k (Film, l Oct. 26). Thank h k you, Busack Richard, for such a brilliant review of a brilliant film. I am a huge Almodovar fan. This review was “right on.” What a great critic Richard is.

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Correction An article in the Nov. 16 edition (“The Big Show”) incorrectly identified Ken Shamrock as a previous opponent of Cung Le. The opponent was, in fact, Shamrock’s brother, Frank. The Style column about Polyvore.com (Nov. 16) inadvertently identified Jennifer Yuille as still working for the company; she no longer works there. Metro regrets the error.

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THE FLY

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Crowded Field It appears the race for San Jose’s District 10 City Council seat next November will have even more company than initially anticipated.

Fly detailed in June the crush taking place for the south San Jose council seat being vacated by a termed-out NANCY PYLE. The list of potential =<;FI candidates, which numbered six in the summer, included: Harry Mavrogenes, former head of the nearly extinct redevelopment agency; financial advisor JOHNNY KHAMIS; CLAUDE FLETCHER, a councilmember in the ’80s who now works at Valley Christian High School; neoconservative SJUSD board member LESLIE REYNOLDS; former KANSEN Don’t CHU council aide forget EDISA BITBADAL; the to tip! remarkably relaxed former Police Chief FLY@ ROB DAVIS—most WS. METRONEWS. likely because he is COM former police chief; and celebrity high school sports broadcaster ROBERT BRAUNSTEIN. Whew! Got all that? But now there are whispers at City Hall that another person is interested in joining the field. DENELLE FEDOR, chief of staff for Councilmember PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO (District 6), could announce her candidacy in the coming weeks.

Known as an 18th-floor hardball player, Fedor is well regarded as a political back-watcher who enables Oliverio’s freewheeling ways. Fedor’s close ties to law enforcement could also be a plus, which we can’t exactly say for Davis. The question is: How much support will Fedor, who ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the SJUSD board in 1996, get from her current boss? Oliverio, who runs for re-election next year, might be too busy with his own campaign to make it over to Almaden.

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“There’s a deepening crisis,” says Matthew Sharp, a senior advocate with

the nonprofit California Food Policy Advocates. “California’s high housing costs and extreme unemployment are two forces that have put pressure on households.”

Despite increasing need, however, less than half of those eligible for CalFresh assistance receive it, placing California next to last nationally. In other states, about 75 percent of those eligible for federal food stamp help take part, and some states are well above that threshold. Oregon, for instance, reaches about 90 percent of those who qualify.

In California, though, just 43 percent of those eligible take part.

Socially, this means that millions of people are not getting enough to eat, leading to a range of other issues, including health problems and hungry children underperforming at school. In California, about 17 percent of children

live in poverty, including roughly 3 million who qualify for free or reduced price meals.

Economically, low participation in CalFresh also leaves money on the table at a time when businesses and California’s tax bureau are badly in need of funds. While the money per day may seem small—$4.50 per individual; roughly about the cost of that bagel and coffee—can still go a long way. Weekly CalFresh assistance equals $31 for an individual, or $325 monthly for a family of four.

“Food stamps stimulate the economy in a variety of ways,” explains Chris Wimer, associate director of the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. For instance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture— the federal administrator of the food stamp program—has found that every $5 spent from food stamps generates about $9 in related economic activity.

Additionally, CFPA has found that boosting California’s food stamp participation to the 75 percent level would generate about $131 million in sales tax revenue, including $27 million for non–general fund expenses.

Instead, low enrollment means California loses out on about $5 billion

The Law Steps In In October, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law several bills that eliminated obstacles to CalFresh enrollment.

Assembly Bill 6, for example, ended California’s unusual requirement that mandated everyone who is 18 and over in a household receiving CalFresh be finger printed.

“It should help in lifting some of the access barriers, but it’s going to take time to get in place,” McCown admits, noting that the law goes into effect in January 2012. “You look at that and ask, does it really make sense? Because it costs millions of dollars to administer fingerprints.”

New laws have also ended a rule requiring CalFresh participants file quarterly reports. Instead, California will switch to simplified semiannual, or roughly twice a year reporting, beginning in 2013.

But there are still challenges and threats ahead. “The recession has erased a lot of the social gains made during the 1990s, so it will take a number of years to make that up,” says Caroline Danielson of the Public Policy Institute of California in Oakland.

She points to a need for smarter policies such as placing jobs closer to communities and public transit.

CalFresh and Second Harvest Food Bank partner in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, and they are the two largest food providers in the Bay Area for low income individuals and families. According to Second Harvest spokesperson Caitlyn Kerk, the organization provides meals to 250,000 people a month in the two counties—a 50 percent increase since 2007. Meanwhile, CalFresh helps feeds about 50,000 people each month.

But there is a concern that the current deficit reduction talks at the federal level could add to the burden on households in or near poverty, increasing their need for supplemental help.

“The [deficit reduction talks] could reduce support for low-income families,” Stanford’s Wimer says. While the food stamp program may not be a target, he adds, related services such as a women and child component known as WIC could be on the chopping block.

“We’ll have to see how it plays out,” says CFPA’s Sharp. “But right now there is extreme pressure on households and they are struggling to find adequate resources. It is certainly not unreasonable to try to close that 50 percent [CalFresh] gap.”

This story was funded by a grant from the Sierra Health Foundation to do independent reporting on the topic of food access in California. Josh Koehn contributed to this report.

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annually or nearly $9 billion in related economic activity, according to a CFPA report. This includes huge losses at the county level as well.

Santa Clara County is missing out on an estimated $79.6 million in federal benefits per year due to underutilization.

“Leaving these federal funds untapped doesn’t just hurt struggling households; it hurts our economy, as well,” says Tia Shimada, nutrition policy advocate at CFPA and the author of the county report. “Every dollar in CalFresh benefits generates $1.79 in economic activity. Santa Clara County forgoes as much as $142 million in annual economic activity because of low participation in CalFresh.”

At the same time, the level of need continues to increase due to a stalled economy and flat wages.

“Overall, wages have dramatically declined, particularly in the services industries such as hotel workers,” says Sharp.

In addition, the type of person in need of help has also shifted and can include college students, those with jobs but not making enough to get by as well as senior citizens.

“The variety of households taking part has increased astronomically,” Sharp says. “This includes families that have never struggled with unemployment before, and it has had a staggering effect on them.”

Cindy McCown, a senior director for CalFresh programs and services, says the changing face of poverty now increasingly includes the suburbs as well as inner-city neighborhoods.

“What is realistic is that [at] any given time, people need help. You never know when,” she says. “We are seeing people in this downturn of the economy who were at one time donors of our organization, and now they receive help.

They’re finding themselves in situations they never thought they would be in.”

Despite this grim news, California is making strides toward helping those in need.

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‘Arrested Development,’ a 20th Century Fox and Imagine Entertainment co-production, had a run of 3 seasons from 2003-2006 and became a critical darling.

Although the show failed to find a huge audience during its time on Fox, it had legs on DVD and was constantly a top seller at Amazon.com. The show has now become a classic, cancelled before its time despite the protest of fans and television critics alike.

The resurrection of the Bluth family and their exploits has been kicked around by Mitch Hurwitz and the former cast of ‘Development’ for years but it has now been confirmed that the show will return in 2013. Hurwitz has said that the season would be shorter than usual, around 9 or 10 episodes leading into a feature film. No word from Netflix on whether or not this is still the case.— BRENDAN NYSTEDT

On Wednesday, Nov. 16, at a special music event in Los Angeles, Google finally unveiled its long-murmured music strategy. A large part of the new Google Music plan is their cloud music storage solution, now in beta, which will store users’ music up to 20,000 songs and all music purchased through Google’s download service. This pricing beats out Amazon and Apple’s cloud storage solutions by charging users the low, low price of $0.

Additionally, the service ties into Google+. Google also announced music distribution deals with a few record labels, including Sony, EMI, Universal and a handful of smaller labels. These announcements are a clear threat to Apple’s domination of content distribution.

— BRENDAN NYSTEDT

New Apple Board Members Apple’s board of directors has picked up two new members. After Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO, he was named the new chairman of the board shortly before passing away. Now, his position has been filled by Arthur D. Levinson.

Levinson is currently the chairman of Genentech (formerly he served as CEO), NGM Pharmaceuticals among other biomedical board positions. He comes from the world of biochemistry and joined Genentech way back in 1980. Bob Iger (pictured), on the other hand, is currently the CEO of Disney. Jobs was the largest single shareholder of Disney stock since his animation studio Pixar was purchased by the entertainment giant. Jobs’ relationship with Disney through Pixar was an important piece of Apple’s growth as an online content provider. This appointment will keep a strong connection between Disney and Apple despite the loss of Jobs.

— BRENDAN NYSTEDT

Roku Expands to Canada and UK Although they won’t be ready for the holiday shopping season, Roku is preparing to invade our neighbors to the north as well as our former colonial matriarch next year. Roku’s product lineup has a price for every budget. Their product is likely to get a boost from ongoing efforts from Netflix to push into the UK and Irish markets. Both companies could greatly benefit from the timing of Roku’s expansion. If Netflix gets its content deals in those markets done in a timely manner, many Britons and Canucks might find themselves

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HP Unveils MacBook Air Competitor Apple’s gaining competition in the so-called ultrabook category. The latest entrant in the super thin and light laptop race comes from HP. Called the Folio, this laptop undercuts the 13” MacBook Air by a couple Benjamins and has all the same features–a 128 GB SSD, backlit keyboard, an Intel Core i5 as its beating heart. It also has a USB 3.0 port, a full HDMI port and an ethernet, something the MacBook Air doesn’t have out of the box. Although the industrial design isn’t quite as svelte and it’s a little heavier than the MBA, the price difference might be enough to sway Windows-lovers away from buying Apple hardware.— BRENDAN NYSTEDT

Google Cuts Chromebook Prices to $299 Competing with tablets and

netbooks, Google has had a hard time moving its Chromebook laptop computers. Their OS is based on Google’s Chrome OS which centers the computer experience around the Chrome web browser instead of a desktop or simplified experience a la Android or iOS. The two Chromebook laptops available are manufactured

by Acer and Samsung and they have worked with Google to make their products less expensive in order to stay in the game with the myriad other devices available. These devices haven’t had an easy time going head to head with the iPad selling like hotcakes at the same price point as the Chromebooks and although Google clearly is still putting resources into the Chrome OS project, it will take a real Hail Mary product to gain real marketshare.—BRENDAN NYSTEDT

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How many people are against BART today? You can’t find them.

And why do Santa Clara County residents have to fork over billions of dollars to get BART to San Jose now? It’s because some morons in San Jose in the 1960s and their sheepish leaders voted against being included in the system.

It was a huge and costly mistake for the rest of us.

Every major project has Citizens Against Virtually Everything (CAVE) people fighting against it. They hold up every good project, they hurt our economy, our progress and cost us money.

But how many times can these people be wrong before they simply go away?

Who among us would remove the Golden Gate Bridge, HP Pavilion, the Metcalf Energy Center in Coyote Valley, the McEnery Convention Center, the Fairmont, AT&T Park in San Francisco, Highways 85 and 87 and don’t forget that “freeway to nowhere,” Interstate 5?

The most recent CAVE people hail from the peninsula, and more than a few are from San Jose—yes, the same lineage that voted against

bringing BART to San Mateo and Santa Clara now oppose high-speed rail. To hear them whine, this fast, quiet, nonpolluting train would split their towns, ruin their view and provide unmitigated disaster to their humble hamlets.

Really? Has anybody noticed the 19th-century diesel train that spews pollution, is loud and noisy, has heavy train stock, kills unstable kids and adults and runs an operating deficit that is currently in their backyard?

These same people hail that system and expect the rest of us to subsidize it indefinitely.

But the fight goes on, as Gov. Jerry Brown said in a recent Los Angeles Times article referring to the CAVE people mentality. “It is part of the reason we can’t get anything done in this state,” he said.

Brown didn’t add, but could have, that if voters had embraced this technology when he proposed it the first time he was governor, in 1974, we would be way ahead of the rest of the world. But the Governor is too polite to say, “I told you so.”

I, on the other hand, don’t suffer any such restraint. —Rich Robinson Rich Robinson is a political consultant and author of “The Shadow Candidate.”

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Wreck of the Old 97 I don’t believe it. No real political constultant [sic] would be so stupid as to insult the constituencies that he expects to vote for and fund his client’s projects.

Name Callers It is easy to call people names CAVE, NIMBY, etc. rather than address their valid concerns as our government is supposed to do in an open democratic manner—not the secretive heavily criticized High-Speed Rail Authority mismanagement of a megabillion-dollar project. What names will you call Tea Party, Occupy movement and voters who believe we have specialinterest elitist government politicians with legalized bribery bought and paid for to influence special-interest legislation and tax subsidies to wealthy and corporations The Robot DANGER Rich Robinson. DANGER! Persons of diverse political philosophy detected in area!

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O MOST South Bay residents, winter sports include activities that are strictly done somewhere near Lake Tahoe. Although the slopes around that crystal lake offer some of the best snow sports on the planet, in Silicon Valley we are blessed with mild weather, which precipitates other options during the winter season.

The San Jose Bike Club’s Winter Series allows cyclists to maintain their fitness during the colder months and—almost more importantly—congregate, talk shop and enjoy the outdoors on Sunday mornings.

San Jose Bike Club has been crowding podiums around California and beyond since 1939.

Today, it is more than 400 strong, with one-third of its members participating in races regularly.

The Winter Series, which started in late October, features 11 events, including team and individual time trials (TTT and ITT), criteriums, road races (RR) and some of the most spectacular scenery in the South Bay. The club offers racing events for all levels of cyclists, producing competition on all levels.

The club takes great care to match people of equal skill,

according to organizers, so everyone is almost guaranteed a thrilling day of competition and camaraderie.

“It takes at least a year to go from fit to being recreationally fit to race,” says Ramon Alarcon, the club’s president. “It can be rewarding to see progress along the way.”

San Jose Bike Club racers are affectionately known as “the blue train” due to their distinctive blue jerseys often seen in a pace line, covering miles of rolling hills at speeds that would make most drivers blush. For some, “the blue train” is a great way to stay fit; for others, it’s just a way to have a little weekend fun.

“I got into cycling for my health,” says Richard Hanke, Winter Series coordinator. “About eight years ago, my doctor told me I had to exercise more because my cholesterol was too high. I went from riding an hour or two on weekends to riding 20 hours or more a week.”

Registration for events is generally at 8am and races start at 9am. Membership to SJBC ($50 annually) is required. There is also a $10 entrance fee per race.

The upcoming schedule includes: Nov. 20, Criterium #1; Dec. 4, Criterium #2; Dec. 11, 4-Person TTT; Jan. 8: RR #2; Jan. 15, 2-Person TTT; Jan. 22: 15 Mile ITT #2; Jan. 29, RR #3; Feb. 21: Awards Banquet —Tomek Mackowiak

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THOSE HOSE WERE THE DAYS Fans of F/X gather to remember the club’s heyday.

This Friday, the fans of San Jose’s once-famed F/X nightclub will gather at Brix

By GARY SINGH

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SWITCHEROO is always good on the day after Thanksgiving. That is, the fourth annual Black Friday reunion of the old F/X nightclub takes place this week at a new location— Brix on South First Street in San Jose. In a side-splitting turn of events, the city’s nightclub history comes first circle this time around.

First, some quick history: During an era that now seems like the vanishing Wild West, F/X was an

integral component of the original SoFA District alternative music scene 20 years ago—when local and national touring bands all supported each other many nights a week, orchestrating a Bohemian substratum all along South First Street. For an entire generation, it was the first time San Jose had ever produced anything to brag about.

When F/X was located at First and San Salvador streets from 1989 to 2005, it hosted a visionary conglomeration of live alternative music and dance nights, plus film events, costumed affairs, biker nights, touring bands and a wide variety of mishmash that helped spearhead the SoFA Street Fair, which lasted from 1992 to 2001.

Nowadays, a pastiche of provocative characters that originally

frequented F/X congregate every year to dance, drink and celebrate that particular rocking era of their lives, as well as the music.

When the club was active, the notorious Black Sunday events took place on a regular basis, so the reunions now take place on Black Friday—the day after Thanksgiving.

The fourth one promises to be even more provocative, taking place at Brix, located in the building that formerly housed both Sal & Luigi’s Pizza and Mac’s Cocktails.

This is not nostalgia. Not at all.

Rather, the event has actually now evolved into its own unique annual club night, successfully redefining the socially networked reunion.

In 2008, when Facebook had yet to really infiltrate everyone’s lives the way it has now, original F/X co-owner Fil Maresca corresponded with some of the original F/X regulars to see what would transpire. Lo and behold, hundreds of folks emerged within a few weeks and the first reunion was born. At that time, “groups” were the collective entity on Facebook,

and the whole process was still somewhat fresh. In fact, Maresca had never even used Facebook until he started organizing the first F/X reunion.

“I only joined for this party,” he recalled. “I had heard about Facebook, but was, like, ‘who cares?’

And then a couple of people said, ‘Let’s do this on Facebook and put up a bunch of photos.’ And now I don’t know what I’d do without it.”

The previous reunions all took place at the Blank Club, but this year’s affair will go down at Brix, a gay bar that will take an unprecedented move by allowing a non-gay-centric event to occur within its walls. This is an amusing switcheroo, because back in the day, F/X was officially a straight club, although gay-friendly. The owners would host a regular gay night, wildly called “the Back Door,” and admit patrons through the back door of the club on San Salvador.

No other straight club at that time even attempted such an idea. Thus, it confused many of the regulars.

“In those days, you were either a gay bar or a nongay bar,” Maresca said. “There were still plenty of people who didn’t get the club. Is it a movie theater or a dance club? Is it gay or straight? Is it Live or DJ? There just weren’t places here that changed styles on different nights yet.”

Now, 20 years later, a gay bar down the block will do just the opposite—it will deviate from its normal clientele and host the F/X reunion. And some of the Brix regulars will surely arrive confused.

“The Brix owner and management recognize they are taking a chance with us,” Maresca told me. “Just like we took a chance when we moved into a former porn theater in the red light district.

It will likely alienate some of the regular crowd who won’t get it. But I hope the mutual respect of the F/X crowd and the gay community will enhance the experience rather than detract. And if the experience is successful, we hope to make it a regular thing.”

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408.279.4787 Domus has been selling kitchen tools and gadgets for 41 years. Its sister store closed its Los Gatos location, but the Willow Glen store continues to serve kitchen tool junkies. One of owner Kathy Haren’s favorite locally made gifts is the AeroPress, a coffee press made in Palo Alto by a former Stanford student. The $29.99 caffeine delivery device is like a French press, but it sits right on top of one’s mug, allowing java junkies to brew just one cup. Another top seller is the Cork Pops ($28.99), a CO2-powered wine cork remover. To operate the gadget, sit it over the opening of a wine bottle. Push a button, and a straight pin descends into the cork to remove

it easily with an audible “pop,” no twisting required.

IPOD TOUCH $199 for 8GB model; Apple.com, Apple Stores Apple’s best-of-breed mobile media device has received nothing in the way of hardware updates this year, but it benefits from a $50 price drop.

The iPod Touch is available in white as well as the classic black. $199 for the 8 GB model.

MACBOOK AIR 11" $999; Apple.com, Apple Stores, Best Buy Apple’s MacBook Air is one of the best notebook computers ever made, hands down. With a slim profile,

light weight, vivid high-res display, backlit keyboard, long-lasting battery and zippy SSD storage, the Air makes other computers look morbidly obese by comparison.

ROKU LT $50; roku.com Roku’s low-priced video streaming box has finally hit a no-brainer price.

Although the LT doesn’t have some of the features of the more expensive boxes from the Saratoga-based company, it retains the important ones: WiFi, a remote control, HDMI and 720p video-out. Get ready for a Boxing Day Netflix streaming marathon. Also, Angry Birds.

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SATORI TEA EXPERIENCE Gift certificate; 37 N. San Pedro St., San Jose; 408.292.1502 As a tea lover since childhood, Victoria Boyert got to wondering why it’s the top drink (after water, that is) in every country in the world except the United States.

Perhaps the answer is that most places here don’t have a company like Satori.

Before she started the company in San Jose in 2008, many locals would go somewhere like Berkeley’s Teance for a truly pure hit of the loose-leaf experience. But Satori not only has its own line of tea, it boasts a tea bar now on San Pedro Street in San Jose, featuring properly brewed whites, greens, blacks and beyond.

REVOLUTION IN THE VALLEY

BY ANDY HERTZFELD $24.99; O’Reilly Media Although the Walter Isaacson Steve Jobs biography has shed new light on the Silicon Valley icon, this book about the development of the original Macintosh served as an important source material for Isaacson. Hertzfeld was a programmer and star member of Jobs’ Mac team from early on. He recollects stories from Apple and tells them in a way only someone

on the ground floor could. It’s like a trip back in time to 1980s Cupertino, without having to get yelled at by Steve Jobs or work 90 hours a week.

TESLA T-SHIRT $26; Shop.teslamotors.com, Tesla’s retail stores in Santana Row and San Carlos You might not be able to afford one of Tesla’s electric vehicles, but at the very least you can show your support for the local company.

Tesla offers a variety of different, fashionable T-shirts for men and women. You’ll have something to sport until you win the lotto and can plonk down for a shiny, new, NUMMI-made Model S sedan.

FIN CITY SHIRT BY MAYBERRY WORKSHOP $25; Mayberryworkshop.com OK, maybe riffing on other cities’ classic designs isn’t the most original way to show our civic pride in the 408. Except it is. Last year, it was the “I Heart SJ” shirt, but the pick for this season has got to be Mayberry Workshop’s “Fin City.” First of all, it’s a two-fer, bringing the love for San Jose as well as the city’s No. 1 sports export, the Sharks. (After all, not to jinx it or anything, but this is their year, right?)

MEAD FROM RABBIT’S FOOT MEADERY $16 and up; 1246 Birchwood Dr., Sunnyvale; 408.747.0770 Honey-based mead is what Thor or Zeus would drink if they were at home. In short, mead is a very old style of beverage that could consider mankind’s ancient friend beer as an upstart. The Rabbit’s Foot Meadery in Sunnyvale specializes in meads, ciders and even a braggot (mead made with malt, like beer). The

CANDY—SNAPDRAGON BAKING COMPANY $5; Facebook.com/SnapdragonBaking-Company Visions of sugarplums? Boring!

And so 1823. Luckily, San Jose’s Snapdragon Baking Company is making candy for the 21st century.

It all started with Snapdragon mastermind Hway-ling Hsu’s brittle, which comes in flavors like black sesame, hazelnut espresso and even the seasonal pumpkin ale. Now they’re selling holiday assortments of the stuff. Find Snapdragon at Barefoot Coffee locations, buy online or watch their Facebook page to find out which local events they’ll be repping at next.

VINTAGE MODERN REMADE FROM KERFUFLE JEWELRY Facebook.com/Kerfufle San Jose’s Mayra Marcotte has a flair for the strangely out-of-time relic. For her Kerfufle line, she takes vintage pieces and styles and tweaks them with a modern touch, adding a layer of alt-cool that transforms them completely. Her jewelry is available at two local shops, Eni*thing Boutique on San Carlos and the Usuals on the Alameda, as well as online. Marcotte does custom work, and she has a new fall line decked out with skulls, mermaids and bats—and yet, so Victorian.

It’s a steampunk Christmas!

urged her to open a store. Six years ago she did, and with her husband, Dean Scott, created Artisan Candies—“old-fashioned candy with a twist.” They make and sell candy out of San Jose’s Brannan Center. One of the bestsellers is the highly giftable maple pecan chipotle brittle, brittle made with real maple syrup and a hint of smoky chipotle. Don’t miss the pecan toffee with chocolate and salted caramel made with sea salt.

LOS GATOS COFFEE ROASTING CO. 101 W. Main St., Los Gatos; 408.354.3263. www.lgcrc.com Chances are one’s relatives from Dubuque, Iowa, can pick up a pound of coffee from their local chain coffee shop, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be tempted with something better. Send them the gift of small batch, hand-roasted coffee from one of the pioneers in the bean game, the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Co. The “Creme de la Creme Trio” is three pounds of exceptional coffee that includes a pound each of Costa Rican “La Minita,” Hawaiian Kona and Ethiopian Yrgacheffe.

THE DETACHMENT

BY BARRY EISLER $14.95; Thomas & Mercer

At the beginning of 2011, Menlo Park author Barry Eisler irritated nearly everyone in the major book industry—agents and publishers— by walking away from a six-figure deal with St. Martin’s Press to publish his next book with Amazon’s thriller imprint, Thomas & ARTISAN Mercer. Eisler now has 8ik`jXe :Xe[`\j CANDIES a much larger cut of the A four-pound gift box profits and can move for $40. 4432 Pearl Ave., San Jose; books much, much faster than 408.267.7090 any of the big six houses in the Big Apple. His newest one (which came Kristen Scott began making caramel out last month), The Detachment, at home using a recipe from her is his seventh book featuring John grandmother. Friends and family Rain, a rousing half-Eastern, half-

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RECYCLED CAN RINGS $6 and up. Kathryn Marie. At the Usuals, 1020 The Alameda, San Jose; 408.294.4500. www. facebook.com/seektheunique “Responsibly eclectic” is Kathryn Marie’s motto. As an 18-year-old student in fashion design, she hit on the notion of eye-catching daisy rings made from recycled soda cans, which she sells online ($6 and up). Now she has a celebrity fan in Project Runway’s Nick Verreos. Everything from Coke to Monster Orange to Admiral Iced Tea has been given a second life.

She’s also been helping out South Bay schools with fundraising.

LOST SAN JOSE PHOTOS $25–$85; lostsanjose.com “Lost San Jose” is a fascinating project from native-born photographer and writer Josh Marcotte. He describes it as “guerrilla photography in an urban sprawl,” which makes sense when you read what he went through to get some of these pics. But in a larger sense, Marcotte’s photos are a map of a San Jose that seems to teeter on the

edge between reality and Lynchian fantasy. Often, his pictures inspire the question of not just “where is this place?” but “what, why and how is this place?” The irony being that the place in question may be only a few blocks from where the person is looking at its photo. Marcotte sells limited-edition, signed prints of his work on his website.

LYTRO CAMERA Pre-order (starting at $399); Lytro.com Lytro is a brand-new type of camera based on research done at Stanford.

Using a light-field sensor, the Lytro takes photos that can be refocused after the fact. Lytro also has a sleek design with a small touchscreen on the back of a long rectangular prism shape. Although Lytro’s camera isn’t out until next year, the company is taking preorders for early adopters.

NESTED SCROLLS

BY RUDY RUCKER $25.99; Tor Books In December, Los Gatos native Rudy Rucker releases his long-awaited memoir, Nested Scrolls. It is quite refreshing to see a renowned science

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WIMM ONE WATCH Below the models from long ago $299; Wimm.com are one sentence interpretations of the cards. It’s exactly what the site Tinkerers will love getting their calls it: “A great gift for the pagans, hands on the new WIMM One witches and Gypsies in your life.” watch from the Redwood City tech company. Although on the surface, this tiny, Android-powered POETRY CENTER OF SAN wristwatch seems simple, the JOSE MEMBERSHIP intention is to start a new, flexible $15 and up; pcsj.org computing platform for a variety of devices. The elegant square device Nonprofits are hurting everywhere, comes with a variety of looks and and thus is the case for the Poetry functions. WIMM wants developers Center of San Jose. Shocking, to start cooking up new uses for this considering the big money to be micro marvel, and so it is offering made in the poetry business, with its free developer access to their flavor of Android. The watch has WiFi, Bluetooth, an outdoor-friendly multi-touch color screen and a bundle of sensors.

SHOKOLAAT 516 University Ave, Palo Alto; 650.289.0719 Chocolate is kind of a no-brainer as a gift. But do you really feel special when someone hands you a box of See’s candy? Chances are the box of industrial chocolates is a re-gift from someone just looking to unload the mediocre sweets on you. It is possible to break the cycle and buy some real, hand-made chocolates at Shokolaat. The Palo Alto chocolatier

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DODOCASE FOR IPAD Starting at $60; Dodocase.com Dodocase has taken a page out of Moleskine’s book—literally. The famous Italian notebooks have provided inspiration for Dodocase’s iPad case. Made using traditional bookbinding techniques, this unique case holds your iPad in place between covers in a bamboo tray.

They’re handmade in the Bay Area and also available for Kindle and BlackBerry Playbook tablets.

THREE LIBATIONS COLLECTION FROM SNAKE & BUTTERFLY $25, various locations A seasoned veteran in the South Bay’s current high-end sweets boom, this is Snake and Butterfly’s fifth Christmas. They’re in three local Whole Foods now, have signed a deal with Williams Sonoma, and are looking to open a shop in Campbell. They’re also at Barefoot Coffee Roasters, who’ve been with

them since the beginning, Vintage Wine Merchants and J. Lohr, with whom they’ve worked up a wine-pairing list. For the holidays, Snake and Butterfly has got several packages of jarred caramels, like the Three Libations Collection—which includes bourbon, rum and scotch caramel, and the Three Virtues Collection, which is one jar each of balsamic fig, honey and red alaea salt caramel.

IMAGES OF AMERICA: SUNNYVALE $21.99; Arcadia

is the perfect gift for the Holidays

In Sunnyvale, one finds decades of important Silicon Valley history, and it took a triumvirate of powerhouse researchers to finally throw together a photo book. Michael S. Malone penned the introduction, while Ben Koning and Anneke Metz compiled the wonderful historical photos. Many Arcadia books are ridiculously arcane, filled with dubious subcategories and seemingly random inclusions of photos, but Sunnyvale is one of the good ones.

The authors present a logical, clear-headed unfolding of this quiet suburb. From homemade tractors to the Atari 2600—it all went down in Sunnyvale.

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JOSEPH GEORGE WINES $20 and up; 1559 Meridian Ave., San Jose; 408.448.9463 Who says sports lovers are all beer drinkers? San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Joseph George wine shop has been selling ďŹ ne wine to Sharksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; fans for 18 years. In fact, the store is the exclusive distributor of a whole lineup of NHL wines.

The store sells Sharks red (a blend of cabernet sauvignon and merlot made by Napaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Minor Family

Winery, $32) and Sharks white (sauvignon blanc made from grapes grown at the family owned wine shopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Napa Valley vineyard, $20). To dress the bottles up as a gift, the store offers wooden Sharks wine boxes and glassware. Baseball fan on your list? Joseph George offers 2010 World Series San Francisco Giants commemorative bottles made by Napaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Duckhorn Winery.

The bottles were just released in August and are beautifully etched and signed and range in size from 750 milliliters to a hulking 3 liters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anybody whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Giantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fan has to have one of these bottles,â&#x20AC;? says owner Bert George.

TWO BUCK TUESDAYS AT KALEID GALLERY 88 S. Fourth St., San Jose; 408.947.1785 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two Buck Tuesdayâ&#x20AC;? doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only $2 art to be had.

But isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it kind of amazing that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there to be had at all? The real question, no doubt, is: What kind of art can you get for two bucks? Well, at last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s TBT, there were $2 handmade monster-head key covers paying tribute to Drac, Frankenstein, Jason, etc., and for $3 you could make your own. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best thing about this event, so much of it is

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about DIY. There’s just so much that goes on at these things every month: live art, food, music, and a lot of sharing intelligence about what’s new in the South Bay art scene. The next event is Dec. 20, 7–10pm.

HAY MARKET BACON $9 a pound; 1185 Lincoln Ave., San Jose; 408.295.4800 The bacon in Hay Market restaurant’s bacon became an instant hit. It’s made by owner Joe Cirone’s dad. It’s cured for a week with garlic, peppercorns, chiles, brown sugar and salt. It’s then air-dried, smoked over alder and air-dried again. It tastes great and makes a fantastic gift (sliced or whole slab for $9 a pound).

It tastes even better because it comes from sustainably sourced pork. Hay Market also sells house-cured (in Guinness and brine) and smoked pastrami-to-go for the discriminating sandwich eater.

KITCHEN GIFTS FOR GOOD CAUSES Kitchen.com It’s tempting to shower more stainlesssteel cladded gadgetry on the person who does most of the cooking in your life. Kindness aside, you can never know if such a cook has got

some sentimental attachment to what they’re using already: some battered wood utensil or some plastic measuring cup. Since the holidays are an excellent time to show some generosity to the rest of the world, it’s appropriate that The Kitchen.com site has a list of selected donation partners.

The Adventure Project seeks better fuel for the stoves of Third Worlders.

Other partners include City Harvest, one of the oldest food banks in the nation, and the Wooly School Garden, using a mix of recycled planters and donated funds to introduce school children to farming.

TRAIN OF LIGHTS $25 and up; www.ncry.org Niles Canyon was once the gateway into the Bay Area by train.

Throughout the year railroad buffs take passengers in a round trip excursion into the canyon, so surprisingly rural for being so close to the sprawl of the valley.

Throughout December, a special illuminated Train of Lights takes travelers up around sundown, and a pair of tickets on the excursion train sets a holiday mood that’s not to be forgotten. Trains leave from Niles at 4:15pm and from Sunol at 7:15pm.

Wednesday, Friday–Sunday and some Mondays.

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HP Financial and Treasury Specialist Michael Randazzo calls TechShop his “happy place.” The words “Build Your Dreams Here,” displayed boldly at the shop’s entrance, lately seem to be more than simply inspirational: They are literally true. This holiday season, it’s easy to take advantage of the products being made by TechShop members.

For those who like to make their own gifts, TechShop holiday

membership discounts starting after Thanksgiving are available at significant savings (see and save more than $200). (www.techshop.ws)

I-C2 SC AND I-C4 SC SYNCING CHARGERS FOR IPAD AND IPHONE Entrepreneur and former battery provider for Apple Michael Madson has developed a two- or four-bay iPad and iPhone charger and syncing device that not only refuels all of one’s Apple gadgets in one stylish and convenient dock, it can also sync devices to each other without a wireless connection. Product comes in black, blue and red. The four-bay charger is $199; $299 with sync. The two-bay model is $135, or $159 with sync. Place orders at querries22@ madsonline.com. The website is www.madsonline.com.

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Bring the game home with ďŹ nancial professional Michael Randazzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s custom-etched balls and gloves.

Personalized graphics, icons and names can be etched on sporting goods such as softballs, footballs, volleyballs and even glovesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from a favorite pro sports team to a recreational-league outďŹ t. These would make perfect stocking stuffers or team gifts. The custom baseballs are $10 if Randazzo provides the ball; $2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$3 for provided balls. Contact michael@dazzlah.com or go to http://www.dazzlah.com/Baseball/ About_Me.html to order.

SLR C-LOOP CAMERA STRAP MOUNT SOLUTION The C-Loop invites shutterbugs to Free Your Cameraâ&#x201E;˘ from the annoying straps traditionally mounted on top of cameras. A nifty little gadget that attaches to any camera with existing straps and a tripod mount, the C-Loop from Custom SLR helps photographers on the go easily take pictures by enabling quick access, ďŹ&#x201A;exibility and better handling. Great for amateur photographers and experts alike. As the website says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Photographers, sigh no more.â&#x20AC;? They run $39.95 at customslr.com; Twitter at http:// twitter.com/customslr; and Facebook at http://facebook.com/customslr for more information.

CUSTOM PINS, JEWELRY AND MORE

invites? Plush Invite creator Marie LaCour has created felt and paper invitations that can be bought or custom-ordered from her website.

These are deďŹ nitely more arresting than digital Evites. They cost $2.95 per invitation. plushinvites.com. customerservice@goobittygoo.com

IPOD AND IPHONE HOLDERS When Jeff Osborn, a co-founder of Insanely Great Products, Inc., told the tow man that his car accident resulted from searching for his phone while driving, the tow manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response was: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know.â&#x20AC;? Osborn wanted to change this, creating devices that enable you to place your phone upright on a desktop, your windshield and by the control panel in your car for easy access and viewing capabilities. Price range from $15 to $25. www.igproducts.us

HAS BAGS

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Large Variety of Lingerie

Palo Altoâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based Heidi Stern uses Napa Valley leather to create anything from clutches and cuffs to belts and luggage tags. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also making washable, reusable bags, leather totes and messenger bags great for both men and women.

Products can be custom-createdâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; making them perfect for this holiday season. Price varies by product.

(Clutch purse: $85; laser-etched leather cuff: $35; laser-etched belt: $98; luggage tag starting at $25. HAS bags stands can be found at many farmersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; markets in the area. www. hasbags.com. Orders@HASbags.com.

Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/HASbags

Yes and Yes Designs founder and artist Laura Bruland uses recycled books as canvases upon which to etch unique pins, clips and jewelry.

By nature, almost every piece is one of a kind. Classic designs with modern detailing make these perfect gifts for any age. Prices run about $10 to $20. yesandyesdesigns.com, laura@yesandyesdesigns.com. Or see her shop on Etsy: www.etsy.com/ shop/YESandYES

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“What to get the man who has everything?” is a classic idiom for a reason. And thanks to a historical barrage of feminist movements, we now have to worry about what to get women too, who, even after gaining the right to

vote in Saudi Arabia, would never admit that they too “have everything.”

And finally, a solution. We are on the verge of Black Friday, with many a friend to purchase gifts for. But since the founding of Bath and Body Works, gifts for the 99 percent is a problem long since solved.

What we’re left with is the 1 percent, and questions of what to do for them have never been more relevant. Tax breaks, certainly, but it’s hard to tie a ribbon around them.

Luckily, I am here to bring a calm before the holiday storm, and give everyone the gift of a gift guide.

The following are some ideas for impressing the 1 percenter on your holiday shopping list.Yes, they are of a particular price variety, namely, they are so absurdly expensive that one becomes a test case for the old saying “Laughter is the best medicine.” You’ve surely heard that one can never put a price on a gift.

I’m here to tell you that, at the very least, you can try.

Because I am a firm believer in the old saying that “simple is safe,”

our first stop will, predictably, be none other than Tiffany & Co., in the Stanford Shopping Mall, where we will look for the perfect gift not for our female one-percenter, but rather for the male. And before we can even say “Home Depot Gift Certificate,” low and behold, we’ve found our gift: the stunning ATLAS CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH. Dipped in 18k rose gold, the Atlas chronograph features genuine brown alligator strap and a brushed metal fold-over clasp. And what’s more, the watch is available for a mere $19,700, giving new meaning to the old saw “Time is money.” Perfect for the one-percenter who loves the theatrics of an exasperated watch-glance while the waiter takes back the tap water and brings the chilled Pellegrino.

Of course, a watch is only good if one has somewhere to be, and no one has somewhere to be more than your one-percenter. Whether it’s a quick cab ride uptown to move some things around in the Cayman Islands, or finally getting to that “somewhere” that they always say

they have to be when prompted with questions, your 1 percenter is a person on the go.

So this holiday season, consider the gift of connection with the VERTU CONSTELLATION QUEST MOBILE PHONE. Priced at $7,400, the Constellation line is carried in the most select stores (Tourneau is the only retailer in the Bay Area, with two locations: Market Street in San Francisco and on Santana Row in San Jose).

As the Vertu website explains, “The Constellation Quest has a quiet elegance and understated style that whispers confidence.” This should not be viewed as a review of the phone’s audio quality. The battery cover features fine-stitched leather, sliding open to unveil the etched signature of Joe Cameron, product designer, on the battery itself.

Hand-built in England by people with class-identifying accents, the keyboard is made up of cut sapphire gemstones, a process that, even with the U.K. time change, takes an unseemly 25 hours. Your giftee expects nothing less.

But to be a quality gift giver, one should start thinking outside the box (especially big ones), and remember that stockings need stuffing, too.

The Zeno Platinum Crown Series cigar is just that, imported directly from the Dominican Republic, and only available through 90 dealers across the United States. One of those 90 dealers just happens to be the Cohiba Cigar Botique & Lounge, located just east of some other store also on Santana Row. Cohiba specializes in upscale tobacco blends; the ZENO PLATNIUM CROWN SERIES CIGAR is made up of three different Dominican tobacco plants and one Peruvian tobacco called Habano. Each strand is aged roughly four to five years, coincidently the same amount of time it would take an average 99 percenter to earn enough to afford a gift of this magnitude. Or so one would think. The Zeno Platinum Crown Series is relatively moderately priced at $64.99 per cigar. Watch as your one-percenter joyfully participates in one of his favorite activities: burning your money away, in this case literally.

It is a scientific fact that with the advent of keyboards, the necessity of typing, and the desire to communicate with speed,

29 large enough to fit his mistress and her dog, the Veyron is a must-have for the holiday season. Finally—a gift that doubles as a public announcement regarding genital size and allows your one-percenter to feel at home even when on the road. Now, 300 of these finely crafted cars were made in 2005, and as of 2011, they have all either been sold or spoken for. But the good people at LGLC are able to order one and have it shipped internationally right to their front door.

The process takes 8–10 months, but by then your one-percenter has probably hired a new “nanny,” and will be dying to take her out for a K_\ 9lZZ\ccXk` 8ekfZ_ife 9\cc`j spin. The gift that keeps on giving. :l]] NXkkZ_ And finally, nothing says “holiday spirit” quite like a fistful of African conflict diamonds. But since the Congo has become a bit of a cliché over the years (the more ornate equivalent of a gift card), we’re going to sidestep it entirely—but only out of a taste for relevance, as any true one-percenter is notable for Third World apathy.

When it comes to getting that special something, Lustre (located in the Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara) is a one-stop shop for maxing out credit cards in honor of “the act of giving.”

Our first item is the BUCCELLATI ANTOCHRON BELLIS CUFF WATCH, which offers, rather politely, to rest on your wrist and tell time, all while being made of dazzling 18K yellow gold and diamonds. If the $59,500 price tag has you worried it’ll come off looking like a last-minute purchase, fret not—the wonderful humans at Lustre have another knockout with DAVID LIN’S A-GRADE NATURAL JADEITE DRAGON PENDANT. The pendant is outfitted with 18K white gold and a stunning diamond-trimmed clasp, and at $130,000 it’s perfect for the one-percenter who, when receiving a gift, firmly believes that it’s the thought that costs.

Time to Volunteer During the holiday seasons, offering your time to help others can be very rewarding and fulfilling. In San Jose, there are plenty of organizations you can choose to volunteer at based on your availability and preference.

Volunteering can take on a number different of opportunities, such as donating blood with the Red Cross, creating audio books for the blind or even helping harvest fruit trees for the hungry.

Whether you are looking to volunteer occasionally or make it a regular practice, our guide below offers a selection of the many volunteer opportunities around the South Bay.

ENVIRONMENTAL VOLUNTEERS For those who are environmentally conscious and wish to teach the future generation how to care for the planet, Environmental Volunteers “promote understanding of and responsibility for the environment through hands-on science education.” Volunteers train to teach natural science to children in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties through classroom lessons, day camps, nature walks and field trips. Teaching experience is not a requirement, however volunteers must complete at least one offered training program.

Commitment: Minimum of three hours a month for at least one year.

Volunteer opportunities are generally during the school day (Monday–Friday, 8am–2:30pm).

Contact: 650.961.0545 or 408.244.2449 weekdays between 9am and 5pm.

South Bay: 4020 Moorpark Ave. Suite 105, San Jose; 408.244.2449 Peninsula: 3921 East Bayshore Road; Palo Alto; 650.961.0545

BOOKS ALOUD Helping the blind, visually impaired and disabled find more enjoyment in reading, the 30-year-old nonprofit Books Aloud records books into audio format. The program has more than 5,000 unabridged titles with selections available for all ages and interests. Volunteer opportunities range from participating in book selection, reading audio books for recording, sound editing, assembling books for distribution and circulation and check in.

Commitment: Those interested in being a book reader must audition and commit one hour per week.

Contact: 408.808.2613. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library (Lower Level); 150 E. San Fernando St., San Jose

VILLAGE HARVEST Harvesting fruit from backyards and small orchards year round, Village Harvest delivers fresh produce to local food agencies to feed the hungry. Duties for volunteers include participating in harvests throughout the year, where children as young as seven can help, making this a great opportunity for families to volunteer together. Commitment: No minimum commitment.

Contact: 888.378.4841. Village Harvest, P. O. Box 9231, San Jose

SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICES Sacred Heart fulfills its mission to change lives and impact poverty in San Jose by providing essential services and offering tools for self-sufficiency.

Volunteer positions include working in the food pantry accepting and sorting donations, and other positions such as housing assistance and adult education.

Commitment: No minimum commitment for volunteering in food pantry or clothes closet; other volunteer positions have a three-month commitment.

Contact: 408.278.2160. Sacred Heart Community Services. 1381 S. First St., San Jose

AMERICAN RED CROSS SILICON VALLEY Providing disaster relief nationally and locally, the American Red Cross is one of the most recognized volunteer opportunities. Volunteers young and old have the opportunity to offer aid and assistance to those displaced by disasters, donate blood or participate in First Aid and CPR safety courses.

Commitment: Time requirements vary with positions; check www.siliconvalleyredcross.org for more information on each volunteer opportunity.

Contact: 408.577.1000 between 8:30am and 5pm. 2731 N. First St., San Jose

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quality of penmanship has declined significantly. And while on the subject of scientific facts, it is also true that quality of penmanship is directly proportional to quality of writing instrument. Considering that we live in an age where quality is denoted by price, the following must be true: Only expensive pens work.

Thus, we arrive at the HAKUBI PLATINUM FOUNTAIN PEN; because checks simply don’t write themselves—though if, one day, they are able to, we can only assume who will have first dibs on such technology.

The Hakubi fountain pen (available at Maido Fine Stationary & Gifts, Santana Row) is carefully and painstakingly made by eventually damaged hand; it is also devoid of irony.

The Hakubi features a white seashell trim and two-tone 18K gold nib (which, for us peasants, is the traditional name for “pointy thing the ink comes out of”); the Hakubi also features a class-act of a clip, made from rhodium, a close member of the platinum and a distant cousin of the silver families. The pen comes with a bottle of complementary black ink from Platinum, as well as options to purchase in fine or medium point, and, in a steal that should be illegal, is only $1,350.

Los Gatos Luxury Cars, located in Los Gatos and featuring luxury cars, is the go-to spot for the onepercenter tired of riding their Segway from guesthouse to guesthouse and in dire need of a new set of wheels.

And while LGLC has a seemingly endless supply of upscale automobiles to choose from, your one-percenter will accept no less (nor should they) than the BUGATTI VEYRON SUPER SPORT. At $2.7 million, the Bugatti is more than just a fake-sounding Italian word; it’s a catalyst for a new life—one in which the novelty of driving oneself has yet to wear off. With a 1,200 horsepower engine, sleekly stitched leather interiors and a passenger seat

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The gathering darkness of the year’s end has various human masks.

Depict this Shadow however you please: as the well-born Swedish Nazis in the remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Tintin’s sinister Muskovite nemesis Sakharine, Professor Moriarty or “Karla.”

The holidays are the time of year when you want to see things brought to extremes onscreen; by contrast summer movies, for all their mayhem, are just diversions from longer days. Winter is for frosty cataclysms and old wars.

Back in the oughties, many of us spent the best part of our Decembers getting our cages rattled by one Peter Jackson dwarf-opera after another, with his rousing King Kong as a coda to the Middle Earth Trilogy.

There’s only one film that evokes that kind of perfect mood this winter—and it’s on a smaller scale than The Lord of the Rings, and definitely not fun for the whole family.

So far my favorite film of this season, the one that sums up the danger unique to winter, is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Dec. 9). Gary Oldman is the most recent in a long line of actors, from James Mason to Alec Guinness to Denholm Elliott, to play smaller-than-life British MI6 inquisitor George Smiley.

Hamster in a world of moles, Smiley tries to figure who perforated the security of “The Circus,” meaning the British intelligence service of the 1970s. (Those unfamiliar with novelist John Le Carré should understand that

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The ďŹ lm is brilliantly done. Fans of the 1980s BBC series with Alec Guinness will be surprised to see the puzzle turned brutal. Here the focus is not on the quipping of sardonic upper-class schemers, so much as it is on the violent results of their treachery. As for Oldman, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a protean actor, he bears comparison to Guinness himself. He demonstrates the wisdom of silence and watchfulness as an actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tactic.

Oldman does seemingly little, and yet you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop watching him.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Dec. 16) may be a disappointment.

The previews look so loaded with the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s every explosion itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as if they were cut by the design ďŹ rm of Beavis & Butthead Associates. This time, out of the darkness comes Moriarty (Jared Harris). The ďŹ lm must work somehow: Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey Jr.) is like Shakespeare, he looks out for himself. And even director Guy Ritchie, responsible for so many benighted moviesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stale Holmesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;can he?

The Adventures of Tintin (Dec. 21) uses motion-capture animation (by Peter Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s WETA specialeffects house) to bring to the screen the story of HergĂŠâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famed comicbook boy reporter as he seeks the lost treasure of a ship called the Unicorn, with the help of seafarer Capt. Haddock (voiced by Andy Serkis). Jamie Bell does the voice of the detective, and Daniel Craig is Ivanovich Sakharine.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Dec. 21) has as its director Brad Bird (the Pixar ace behind The Incredibles).

Tom Cruiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ethan Hunt and the rest of the Impossible Mission Force are officially disavowed after the Kremlin is bombed. (Come to think of it, Red Square gets renovated the hard way as well in The Darkest Hour).

David Fincher directs the remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Dec. 21), and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s certain to overlay his own brand of kink onto a story that was grisly enough back when it was subtitled. This time, Rooney Mara plays the hard-bitten punkette hacker in uneasy alliance with Daniel Craigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journalist.

War Horse (Dec. 25) by Stephen Spielberg is likely more kid-safe, a live-action ďŹ lm based on a West End stage success originally done with puppets and choreography. (All in all, sounds like a slightly gentler version of Equus.) The ďŹ lm relates the saga of a pony sent to the trenches in World War I, as his master (Jeremy Irvine) tries to get him back.

Stephen Daldry (The Hours) directs Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Dec. 25, tentatively) based on Jonathan Safran Foerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brooklyn Book of Wonderâ&#x20AC;? (in critic Melvin Jules Bukietâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s phrase). The novel was a literary way of trying to make lemonade out a very large lemon named â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sept. 11.â&#x20AC;? Stephen Daldry (The Hours) directs, and once again itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a detective story: a little boy (Thomas Horn) tries to ďŹ nd out what his father (Tom Hanks) was doing on that particularly bad day. Sandra Bullock plays the mom. In the end, suggest the trailers, it all turns out OK, and the springtime returns.

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Holiday Events STAGE ALMOST, MAINE A tale of love and snow by Bus Barn. Runs thru Dec 18. Wed (Dec 7 and 14) at 7:30pm, Thu-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 3 and/or 7pm. $24/$30. Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos. 650.941.0551.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Northside Theatre Co.’s version. Dec 7-24; TueWed at 7:30pm, Thu-Fri at 8pm, Sat at 2 and 8pm, Sun at 2 and 7pm. $15/$20. Northside Theatre, San Jose. 408.288.7820.

EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD San Jose Stage brings back the popular holiday comedy. Wed-Thu at 7:30pm, Fri-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2pm. Runs from Nov 23-Dec 18. $14-$45. The Stage, San Jose. 408.283.7142.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL San Jose Rep offers a new version by Rick Lombardo.” Nov 30-Dec 24. Tue-Wed at 7:30pm, Thu-Fri at 8pm, Sat at 3 and/or 8pm, Sun at 2 and/or 7pm. $10-$74. San Jose Rep, San Jose. 408.367.7255

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE A stage version by Tabard Theatre of the famous movie. Dec 2-18. Thu-Fri at 8pm, Sat at 3 and 8pm, Sun at 2pm. $10-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose. 800.838.3006.

THE SANTALAND DIARIES David Sedaris’ tale of toiling as a department store elf. Runs thru Dec 18. Thu-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 2 or 7pm. $25-$35. City Lights, San Jose.

THE SECRET GARDEN A musical based on Frances Burnett’s novel, from TheatreWorks. Nov 30-Dec 31. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and/or 8pm (1 and 6pm on Dec 24), Sun at 2 and 7pm. $29$49. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

SISTER’S CATECHISM A mystery comedy with holiday theme. Dec Fri, 2, at 8pm, Sat, Dec 3, at 2pm. $31-$35.

Campbell Heritage Theatre. 408.866.2700.

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN The musical “Peanuts” tale. Dec 2-18. The Retro Dome, San Jose. 408.404.7711.

NUTCRACKERS & MORE BALLET AMERICA A full-length version of the seasonal classic.

Fri, Dec 2, at 7pm. $18-$39. Fox Theater, Redwood City.

BALLET SAN JOSE Tchaikovsky choreographed by Dennis Nahat.

Dec 10-24. Dec 10 at 1:30 and 7:30pm, Dec 11 at 1:30pm, Dec 17 at 1:30pm and 7:30pm, Dec 18 at 1:30pm, Dec 20 at 7:30pm, Dec 21 at 1:30pm, Dec 22 at 1:30, Dec 23 at 11am. $30-$100. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. 408.288.2800.

MOSCOW BALLET The troupe’s annual “Nutcracker.” Fri, Dec 16, at 8pm. $27.50-$87.50. Flint Center, Cupertino.

PACIFIC BALLET Celebrating their 21st season of sugar plum

fairies and more. Fri-Sat, Nov 25-26, at 1 and 6pm, Sun, Nov 27, at 12:30 and 4pm. $22/$27.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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The California Pops Orchestra performs Christmas favorites. Sun, Dec 11, at 3pm. $15$40. Calvary Church of Los Gatos, 16330 Los Gatos Blvd. 650.856.8432.

PENINSULA YOUTH BALLET An annual tradition for the young dancers. Nov 26-27, Dec 4-5. Sat-Sun at 2pm. $25-$40. San Mateo Performing Arts Center. 800.595.4849.

SAN JOSE DANCE THEATRE Now presenting its 46th production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Nutcracker.â&#x20AC;? Fri, Dec 3, at 7:30pm, $20-$50.

San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

408.286.9905.

SANTA CLARA BALLET A local troupeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nutcracker.â&#x20AC;? Sat, Dec 10, at 2 and 7pm, Sun, Dec 11, at 1 and 5pm. Santa Clara Convention Center Theatre. $20.50-$30.

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PENINSULA WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHORUS The chorus celebrates 45 years with a concert of jubilation. Sat, Dec 10, at 4pm, Sat, Dec 17, at 2:30pm, St. Markâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto.

Sun, Dec 18, at 4pm, St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seminary, Menlo Park $10-$30. 650.327.3095.

RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS Christmas classics in concert. Sat, Dec 3, at 5pm. First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. Also Sun, Dec 11, at 5pm, St. Matthewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal, San Mateo. $10-$25. 650.342.8785.

SAN JOSE SYMPHONIC CHOIR â&#x20AC;&#x153;Holiday Magicâ&#x20AC;? concert. Sat, Dec 3, at 7:30pm. $10-$20. Church of the Ascension, Saratoga.

SMUIN BALLET The companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christmas Ballet.â&#x20AC;? Dec 7-11. Wed-Fri at 8pm, Sat at 2 and 8pm, Sun at 2pm. $52-$65. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. 650.903.6000.

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Featuring Clara, Fritz and friends. Fri, Dec 2, at 7pm, Sat, Dec 3, at 1 and 7pm, Sun, Dec 4, at 1 and 6:30pm. $25-$30. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. 650.903.6000.

Performing holiday favorites. Sun, Dec 11, at 3pm. $5-$20. First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. $5-$20. 650.254.1700.

A holiday concert for choir and brass. Fri, Dec 9, at 8pm, Sun, Dec 11, at 4pm. $7-$28.50.

Mission Santa Clara. 408.883.4722

SEASON OF HOPE A WINTER FAIRY TALE Bayer Ballet Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magical holiday show.

Sat, Dec 17, at 5pm, Sun, Dec 18, at 2pm. $25$30. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. 650.903.6000.

A series of concerts presented by South Bay arts groups. Dec 12-23, at 7:30pm. Free.

Basilica of St. Joseph, San Jose. 408.283.8100.

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SBGS performs Community Holiday Concerts at various locations. See www.sbgs.org for schedule. Dec 10-22. 408.292.0704.

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Conductor Elena Sharkova and the Silicon Valley Chorale. Sat, Dec 10, at 7pm. $36.

California Theatre, San Jose. 408.286.2600.

Songs of the season by the teen ensembles of the choir. Sat, Dec 17, at 4pm. $8/$15. West Minister Presbyterian, San Jose. 408.885.1746.

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Seasonal music by New Century Chamber Orchestra. Tue, Dec 13, at 8pm. $29-$59.

Menlo-Atherton Center for Performing Arts.

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408.866.5302.

CHANTICLEER The male chorus performs holiday numbers.

Tue, Dec 13, at 8pm , at Memorial Church Stanford. $47-$52. Also Thu, Dec 22, at 6:30pm, 8pm. $32-54. Mission Santa Clara.

CLASSICAL CHRISTMAS AT THE MISSION Holiday selections performed by the SJSU Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. Sat, Dec 10, at 7:30pm. $10 and up. Santa Clara Mission.

EL CAMINO YOUTH SYMPHONY Young artists perform pieces from Weber, Offenbach, Handel, Kabalevsky, and more. Sun, Dec 11, 2:30pm. $8/$15. California Theatre, San Jose, 650.213.7111.

MAGNIFICAT The San Francisco Early Music Society presents Heinrich SchĂźtzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas work.

Fri, Dec 16, at 8pm. $12-$35. First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto. 510.528.1725.

WINTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GIFTS: CELTICA The Choral Project, Sonos Handbell Ensemble and San Jose Chamber Orchestra celebrate the season. Sun, Dec 18, at 7pm. $20-$35. Mission Santa Clara. 408.295.4416.

YOU-SING-IT MESSIAH San Jose Symphonic Choir presents its 32nd annual concert, featuring the Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose. Mon, Dec 5, at 7:30pm. $26.50. California Theatre, 345 S. First St, San Jose, 408.286.2600, ext. 23.

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Spectacular outdoor light displays. Nov 25-Dec 31, 6-10pm. $10/$15 per vehicle. Vasona Lake County Park, Los Gatos, 408.355.2201.

LIGHT UP THE VILLAGE GLOBAL WINTER WONDERLAND Giant lanterns depict famous buildings, plus games, arts and crafts. Nov 25-Jan 2. $10/$12.

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ME & MOMMY ON THE ROW HOLIDAY TEA & TOUR History San Jose presents a tea room, tours and a visit by Santa. Sat, Dec 3, at 11am on. $45. San Pedro Square Market, San Jose.

Holiday activities and breakfast with Santa and performances at Santana Row. Dec 13, 10am-noon. Santana Row, San Jose.

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History Park San Jose.

Girl Scouts host this holiday crafts show. Sat, Dec 3, 10am-3pm. $10. Expo Hall, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.

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Indo Outpost OUT UT OF THE BOARDROOM INTO THE KITCHEN Chef Maria Handayani used to o toil in financial services; cooking at Indo Café relaxes her, she says.

The small Indo Café brings a new look and wonderful tastes to downtown Saratoga

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OR THE PAST 30 years, downtown Saratoga has been known for its fancy, candlelit restaurants, places like the Plumed Horse, Le Mere Michele, Le Mouton Noir and Sent Sovi. But times change, and downtown Saratoga isn’t what it once was. Dwindling foot traffic and the city’s failure to do much about the growing number of vacancies along Big Basin Way have changed downtown into sleepytown.

But maybe the city’s do-nothing policy is doing something after all.

Downtown isn’t dying. It’s evolving.

I don’t know if it’s a decrease in commercial rents or changing demographics or both, but mixed in among the empty storefronts one now sees a growing diversity on Saratoga’s restaurant row.

Restaurants like Rose International

Market (Persian), Casa de Cobre (Mexican) and Hachi Ju Hatchi (Japanese) represent a new wave of restaurants you wouldn’t have encountered 10 years ago. My favorite of the newcomers is 3-month-old Indo Café.

Indo Café is the most un-Saratoga restaurant in Saratoga, at least by the old standards. For one, it’s not even visible on Big Basin Way. It’s behind the UPS store across from the tumbleweedblown Buy and Save shopping center.

You have to drive between Ristorante di Mario and Rose International Market buildings and park in back to find it, and even then it’s a bit of a search your first time. The place itself isn’t even really a restaurant. It’s a commercial catering kitchen that happens to have two communal tables.

I hesitate to heap praise on the restaurant, because it’s so dang small— 12 chairs small. But with food this good and people so nice, praise must be heaped. Maria Handayani runs Indo Café with the help of boyfriend Rick Horwege. Handayani, who is from East Java, is a surprisingly cheerful presence in the kitchen in spite of the hours she works. She’s there everyday, cooking for

a growing number of restaurant and catering customers well into the earlymorning hours.

But she’s not afraid of hard work.

Before she came to the United States in 1985 to flee an arranged marriage and deadbeat husband, she ran a catering business, a beauty salon and a dog kennel all out of her home. In the United States, she worked in the bakery department at large supermarkets before starting a career in the financialservices industry for companies like New York Life, Morgan Stanley and the dreaded Countrywide Financial. When that industry started to crumble, she fell back on her skills as a cook, an ability she credits to her grandmother.

“I came back full circle to cooking,” she says. “I love it. It’s more relaxing for me. It’s better than working for a corporation that is only concerned about profit.”

Sitting in the restaurant is like pulling up a chair in a big open kitchen. I began to feel like I was in Handayani’s home watching her cook. You’re free to get up and watch what she’s doing and get a quick lesson in Indonesian cooking.

Apparently Indonesian college students at nearby universities have discovered her cooking and have become some of her best catering customers. She was readying a big order for them while cooking for my party and a few Indonesian expats who wandered in later. One brought in a few fiery-looking

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thin chiles, looking for her to use them.

Handayani says she makes everything by hand. There are few appliances in the kitchen, and she seems to get the most use out of an Indonesian version of a mortar and pestle, a shallow wooden bowl with a right-angled pestle for grinding spices, roots and herbs.

What’s good here? Everything I tried.

The menu is brief, just five rice plates that reflect regional variations of the island nation of Indonesia. Indonesian food is similar to Thai or Malaysian food but is really a cuisine unto itself.

While I waited, Handayani was making potato croquettes, chubby, patties of mashed potatoes stuffed with seasoned ground beef and rolled in panko, Holland’s gift to Indonesia. The patties are fried and served with what I think is the best peanut sauce I’ve ever had. The sauce is made with fresh-roasted peanuts, salt, sugar, chiles and vinegar.

It’s not runny and overly sweet. She makes the croquettes for the Big Basin Café down the street, so she says she doesn’t want to sell them herself and undercut the café, but she let us have a complementary sample.

I loved the yogyakarta rice combo ($7.99), a hungry-person sampler plate that includes young jackfruit, a light, pale yellow curry. The tropical fruit is picked early and has a texture like artichokes hearts. The plate includes thick battered boiled eggs in wonderful red chile-spiked sambal and curry-laced fried tofu.

The Padang rice plate ($7.99) is a standout for its 24-hour braised rendang beef. The beef shoulder verges on too dry, but the deep, velvety marinade/sauce served with it keeps any dryness in check.

The gulai chicken served along with it, tender, on-the-bone chicken swaddled in a coconut milk, ginger and lemongrass sauce/paste, is excellent, too. Various sauces and condiments add additional notes and flavors, and pretty soon it’s all mixed up and still just as good.

Drinks are limited to soda pop, bottled water and Indonesian tea. I’ll have to come back to try dessert. Handayani says she does a lot of catering for weddings, making Indonesian wedding cakes and pastries. If I can find a space at the table, that is. Otherwise you’ll find me eating in my car in the parking lot out back.

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ALDO LOS ALTOS Italian. $$.

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

388 Main St. 650.949.2300.

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

CHEF CHU’S Chinese. $$.

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

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

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

LOS ALTOS GRILL American.

$$. The handsome Los Altos Grill celebrates big plates of grilled meat and fish with plenty of fixings on the side. Try the spit-roasted chicken, fresh fish and big burgers. The long, horseshoe-shaped bar is a big draw, too. Full bar. 4:30-9:30pm Sun-Mon, 4:30-10pm Tue-Sat. 233 Third St. 650.948.3524.

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

200 Main St. 650.948.3300.

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SUMIKA Japanese. $$.

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

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

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ALDO’S Italian. $$$. A warm and engaging atmosphere sets the scene for full-bodied flavors and healthy ingredients.

11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Thu, 5-10pm FriSat. 14109 Winchester Blvd.

408.374.1808.

CALIFORNIA CAFE New American. $$$. An innovative approach to Pacific Rim staples makes for some lovely surprises. The ace service matches the smart setting.

Full bar. 11:30am-10pm Mon-

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CIN-CIN Eclectic wine bar. $$$.

The heart of Cin-Cin’s menu is an eclectic mix of small plates, tapas-size dishes that partner well with a great wine list.

4-10pm Mon-Sat. 368 Village Way. 408.354.8006.

DIO DEKA Greek. $$$. Dio Deka is doing its part to elevate Greek food in Silicon Valley.

There’s much to recommend at this handsome restaurant.

Most starters are large so they’re best shared. 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 210 E. Main St. 408.354.7700.

FLEUR DE COCOA French bakery. $$. Almond croissant.

Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Los Gatos’ Fleur de Cocoa is rightly known for its chocolate confections and pastries, but I can’t stop thinking about the little pastry shop’s spectacular almond croissants. There’s plenty of other good stuff and not all of it sweet, like the croque monsieur and the quiche.

7:30am-6pm Tue-Sat, 8am4pm Sun. 39 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.3574.

FORBES MILL STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. When Metro first checked in with Forbes Mill in 2003, it was called “a big, burly brasserie equipped with style as well as substance.” It’s holding up well and still does things in a big way. 5-9pm SunThu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 206 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6434.

GREEN PAPAYA Vietnamese. $$. California cuisine meets

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F THERE was ever any doubt that Congress is a bunch of corrupt morons, last week’s vote on schoollunch reform should clear that up once and for all.

Legislators voted to block a long-overdue overhaul of the nation’s school-lunch program proposed by the U.S. Agriculture Department—and handed a victory to makers of frozen pizza, French fries and tomato paste.

Among other things, Congress agreed with the food industry that tomato paste is really a nutritious vegetable and that as little as a quarter-cup on a limp piece of greasy pizza counts as a vegetable.

This would be funny if it weren’t for the fact that we’re facing an epidemic of childhood obesity and Type 2 diabetes. Better-off kids can boycott the low-grade garbage the feds unload on schools and pack more nutritious food to school, but children who depend on free or reduced lunches will continue to be forced to eat foods that Coca-Cola, ConAgra, Del Monte and other corporations want them to. The strategy is if these companies can hook kids early on bad food it will be tough the break them of their habits as adults. Or at least until they die prematurely from diet-related illness.

As proposed, the changes would have cost $6.8 billion over the next five years and increased the cost of a school lunch by 14 cents.

For a little perspective, the United States spends $9.7 billion each month on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The vote has to be seen as a defeat for Michelle Obama, whose “Let’s Move” campaign was aimed at ending the epidemic of childhood obesity. Her plan sounded nice, but without a hammer to get corporations to do the right thing and stop hawking junk to kids not much was going to change.

Here in Silicon Valley, school districts have been trying their best to muddle through with inadequate funding and out-of-touch politicians. In spite of the fact that it outsources its food service program to Sodexo, an institutional food-service company, Sunnyvale School District child nutrition consultant GAIL BURKE said the district has made efforts to improve the school lunches by cutting back on things like pizza, potatoes and rice and offer more fresh fruit and vegetables.

She was of course disappointed with Congress’ decision last week.

“Don’t they take into consideration the kids?” she asked.

Obviously, they don’t.—Stett Holbrook

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SVDINING 39 Southeast Asia by way of Paris, with inventive updates of clay pot and five-spice authentica.

Beer, wine. 11am-3pm, 59:30pm Tue-Sun. 137 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9115.

I GATTI New Italian. $$$. I Gatti fits like a glove along peaceful Main Street. The chef understands the basics but isn’t afraid to create refreshing twists on traditional recipes.

11:30am-2pm, 5-9:30pm MonSat, 5-9pm Sun 25 E. Main St. 408.399.5180.

KAMAKURA SUSHI AND SAKE HOUSE Sushi bar classics. $$. In a smart setting, Kamakura showcases a procession of impeccable sushi and sashimi platters. 10:30am2pm, 5:30-10pm daily. 135 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6650.

LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Brewpub. $$$. Most brewpubs seem to be cooking from the same menu, but executive chef Jim Stump has created a diverse menu of upscale comfort food that goes well beyond burgers and grilledchicken sandwiches. The handsome wood-accented interior and open kitchen with its wood-fired pizza oven and rotisserie grill add to the restaurant’s appeal. Breakfast 10am-2pm Sat-Sun; lunch 11:30am-3pm; dinner 5-9pm daily. 130 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9929.

MAIN STREET BURGERS Burgers. $. Main Street Burgers offers fast-food convenience, affordable prices and food made with ingredients that are higher quality and more healthful than what you’d find at the golden arches. 11am8:30pm Mon-Thu, 9am-9pm Fri-Sat, 9am-8:30pm Sun. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.1881.

MANRESA High concept. $$$$.

Drawing from produce grown at his own farm, superstar chef David Kinch is blazing a trail of high-caliber cuisine that’s as daring as it is delicious.

Expensive but worth it. 320 Village Lane. 408.354.4330.

NICK’S ON MAIN American. $$$. Nick’s on Main is a relaxed but elegant bistro full of neighborly charm and is a showcase for owner Nick Difu’s

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decadent and deeply satisfying style of cooking. 11:30am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 35 E. Main St. 408.399.6457.

PASTARIA & MARKET Italian. $$. Pastaria offers reasonably priced comfort food in an unpretentious but lively atmosphere. 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sun. 49 E. Main St. 408.399.3477.

RESTAURANT JAMES RANDALL Californian. $$$.

Chef and co-owner Ross Hanson takes his cues from the seasons and favors a simple, ingredient-driven approach that places it squarely in the California school of cooking. He favors big, robust flavors and large serving sizes to create a kind of California comfort food.

5:30-11pm Tue-Sat. 303 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.4441.

STEAMER’S New American. $$$. Styling itself as a grill house, Steamer’s includes rotisserie meats and fragrant grilled chops in addition to fresh fish. Quality control and service are excellent. Full bar.

11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm daily. 31 University Ave. 408.395.2722.

TANDOORI OVEN Indian. $.

Tandoori Oven has quickly found its niche in Los Gatos among the burrito joints, sushi spots and upscale restaurants with its made-to-order curry dishes and spicy north Indian fare at good prices. 11:30am9:30pm daily. 133 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, 408.395.1784; 1875 S. Bascom Ave., Campbell, 408.559.3885; and 109 S. First St., San Jose, 408.292.7222.

TAPESTRY Contemporary haute. $$$. Right on the main street, this cottagelike spot blends traditional French cooking with contemporary fusion: filet mignon with Mongolian-style brown sauce; crayfish chow mein. Elegant and friendly. 11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm Tue-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 11 College Ave. 408.395.2808.

THREE DEGREES Eclectic, California. $$$. Set inside the beautifully remodeled Toll House Hotel, Three Degrees delivers a mixed bag of big and small plates from an eclectic menu. Some dishes, like the New York steak, are great, but others fall flat. Full bar.

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Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri; dinner 3-10pm daily. 140 S. Santa Cruz Blvd. 408.884.1054.

VALERIANO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT AND BAR Contemporary Italian. $$$.

While the kitchen exudes earthy aromas, the dining room’s soft terra-cotta walls glow with a sense of Mediterranean mission. Handson management makes each patron feel pampered. Full bar.

5pm-close daily. 160 W. Main St. 408.354.8108.

VIVA LOS GATOS NEIGHBORHOOD EATERY California. $$$. This popular Los Gatos restaurant mixes it up with Italian-leaning Mediterranean food, fresh fish, grilled steaks and several Asian-inspired dishes.

11am-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 8am10:30pm Sat, 8am-9:30pm Sun. 15970 Los Gatos Blvd.

408.356.4902.

WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$. Silicon Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the definitive upwardly mobile California pizza. Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian wood-fired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas—delicate, light and satisfying. Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too.

11:30am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.5566.

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WINE CELLAR New California. $$. This cozy dining spot offers an education in Old World charm and New World cuisine, from smoked salmon pizza to grilled ahi tuna to desserts as fresh as spring break. 11:30am9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10:30am-9pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.4808.

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AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. Meals unfold like a bolt of rare silk, served with care and efficiency in a rich, luminous interior. Dishes are complex and varied. 11:30am-

2:30pm, 5-9:45pm daily. 2290 El Camino Real. 650.968.7511.

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

BODRUM CAFE Turkish. $$.

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

383 Castro St. 650.396.7010.

CASCAL Spanish tapas. $$$.

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

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

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

650.965.1111.

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

DON GIOVANNI Italian. $$$.

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

LE PETIT BISTRO Classic French. $$. There’s a lot to like about this pinch of a place with its simple, practiced French cuisine and quiet dining. Casual. Beer, wine. 5:309:30pm Tue-Sat. 1405 W. El Camino Real. 650.964.3321.

MARU ICHI Japanese noodles. $. Maru Ichi is a true noodle shop. While there are a few

NAMI NAMI Japanese. $$$.

Nami Nami specializes in kappo-style Japanese food, prepared in the artful, laborintensive, seasonally driven style associated with the city of Kyoto. For diners willing to open their minds and mouths, it offers one of the most exciting restaurant experiences in the Bay Area. 11:30am-2pm Tue-Sun, 7-10pm Tue-Thu and 6-11pm Fri-Sat. 240 Castro St. 650.964.6990.

NETO CAFFE AND BAKERY Cafe. $$. Neto Caffe and Bakery is a busy, good-looking space that has a happy buzz about it. There’s a little bit of everything including a number of Middle Eastern specialties.

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

PHO TO CHAU Vietnamese noodle house. $. The pho here is an honest noodle soup. Firsttimers might want to stick with the basic pho chin, topped with slices of beef brisket.

11am-10pm daily. 853 Villa St. 650.961.8069.

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

SUSHI TOMI Japanese. $$.

Sushi Tomi serves Japanese food with an elegant simplicity.

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

TAQUERÍA LOS CHARROS Mexican. $. This clean and fetching diner is the place for authentic fare. Generous portions. 6:30am-10pm Mon-

Fri, 6:30am-11pm Sat, 8am10pm Sun. 854 W. Dana St. 650.969.1464.

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

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

XANH RESTAURANT Modern Vietnamese. $$.

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

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

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

ZUCCA Mediterranean. $$.

Time slows and the paella glows at this Turkish/Spanish charmer: lamb kofte, spicy shrimp, steak, baklava. 11:30am-2:30pm MonFri, 5-10pm Mon-Sun. 186 Castro St. 650.864.9940.

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BISTRO ELAN California French. $$$. The only problem with the menu is that it’s all tempting. Using seasonal produce, the chef allows flavors to speak for themselves. Wine, beer. 11:30am-1:30pm Tue-Fri, 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 448 California Ave. 650.327.0284.

BISTRO MAXINE Cafe. $$.

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

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appetizers on the menu, the slurpable house-made noodles—ramen, soba and udon—are what you want.

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

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

CAFE BRIOCHE Southern French. $$. Mediterranean magic: exceptional cuisine on oversize plates is whisked to tables as soon as it’s created.

Breakfast 9-11am, lunch 11am3pm, dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri; brunch 9am-3pm, dinner 5:30-10pm Sat-Sun. 445 California Ave. 650.326.8640.

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

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

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

Chef and owner Charlie Ayers (who was Google’s first chef) calls his concept “slow food fast”—good-to-eat and goodfor-you food that he hopes will appeal to Silicon Valley’s frenetic, too-busy-to-eat pace of life. Look for good burgers, pizza, salads and fresh fish.

11am-9pm Mon-Fri, 9am-9pm Sat-Sun. 858 El Camino Real.

650.322.9200.

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

EMPIRE GRILL & TAP ROOM California grill. $$. Waiters with charm to spare, an energetic clientele and a menu packed with grilled, roasted and smoked intensity make Empire Grill much more than simply a smart place to sip a

cosmopolitan. Full bar. Tue-Sun 11:30am-10pm. 651 Emerson St. 650.321.3030.

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

420 Emerson St. 650.326.0983.

FUKI SUSHI Japanese. $$$.

For over two decades this superb Japanese restaurant has served sushi to Nobel laureates and other grateful foodies. Open daily. 4119 El Camino Real. 11:30am-10pm Tue-Sun. 650.494.9383. www. fukisushi.com.

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

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

GREEN ELEPHANT GOURMET Burmese. $$. Burmese food draws influences from its three largest neighbors: China, India and Thailand.

Standouts here include the coconut chicken soup, tangy tea leaf salad and refreshing glass-noodle salad. Lunch 11am-2:30pm, dinner 4:309pm daily. 3950 Middlefield Rd (Charleston Shopping Center).

650.494.7391.

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

JUNNOON Contemporary Indian. $$$. This attractive Palo Alto restaurant serves eclectic modern Indian food, the kind you might get at an upscale restaurant in Bangalore or Mumbai. You could easily make a meal from the great selection of appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm

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

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

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

650.321.3514.

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

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

8am-4pm and 5-9pm Mon-

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OSTERIA Italian. $$.

Authentic Italian cooking done by skilled chefs from Italy. Be sure to make a reservation, or you’ll be lucky to put a single foot through the door. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm MonFri, 5-10pm Mon-Sat. 247 Hamilton St. 650.328.5700.

PAMPAS Brazilian steakhouse. $$$. Pampas is a meat lover’s haven. The $44 rodizio service gets you unlimited spitroasted meat. The sprawling side bar offers one of the most extensive selections of vegetarian options you’ll find in a nonvegetarian restaurant.

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

QUATTRO RESTAURANT AND BAR Italian. $$$$.

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

REPOSADO Mexican. $$$.

Reposado offers modern, refined Mexican food served in a lively setting. The restaurant is easily one of Palo Alto’s most striking. The soaring, exposed beam ceilings make the dining room feel at once industrial and inviting because of the warm colors, wood accents and dramatic light fixtures. There’s a beautiful bar and cozy booth seating on one side and spacious table and banquette seating on the other. Great selection of tequila. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat and 11:30am-9pm Sun. 236 Hamilton Ave. 650.833.3151.

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

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dishes worthy of the wine list.

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

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

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

STRAITS CAFE Singapore exotica. $$. Blending culinary motifs from India, China and Thailand, the food of Singapore is anything but timid. The menu at Straits is lavish and diverse. Full bar.

11:30-2pm Mon-Fri, 5:309:30pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 3295 El Camino Real.

650.494.7168.

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

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

THREE SEASONS Modern Vietnamese. $$$. Much of the menu is familiar, but the food at Three Seasons scores because of its superior execution and light touch. A cool, two-level dining room dominated by a striking circular stained-glass ceiling and an ornate wooden bar that serves great cocktails help set Three Seasons apart, too. Lunch 11:30am-2pm MonFri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu and 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 518 Bryant St. 650.838.0353.

TRADER VIC’S PolynesianAmerican. $$$. A jungle gym of tiki gods—but a classy jungle. Sip a mai tai in the lounge before embarking on a dinner trip from pork spareribs to boat-fresh seared suki tuna to a Calcutta curry.

4-6pm daily happy hour.

Dinner at 5pm Mon-Sat and 4:30 Sun. 4261 El Camino Real.

650.849.9800.

VERO Italian. $$. Vero aims to offer truly authentic Italian food. The Palo Alto restaurant has had to make a few nods to American tastes but it mainly succeeds with its simple but satisfying food

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that’s a refreshing break from the same old pasta and pizza.

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

VINO LOCALE Italian bistro. $$. This restaurant focuses on locally produced Santa Cruz Mountain wines and small plates of food sourced from local purveyors and growers. On Thursdays, if you can guess all the varietals in your flight of wine, it’s free.

11am-9pm daily. 431 Kipling St. 650.328.0450.

ZIBIBBO Mediterranean. $$$.

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

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

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

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

RED LANTERN Southeast Asian. $$. Scattershot panAsian restaurants often falter because their menus offer tepid examples of each cuisine, but Red Lantern shows confidence and mastery of a variety of cooking styles. Lunch 11am-2pm MonFri; dinner 5-10pm Sun-Wed, 5-11pm Thu-Sat. 808 Winslow St. 650.369.5483.

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Motif Lounge, San Jose Fri – 10pm; $10

Earlier this year, San Jose indie-rockers Bell Thieves released their debut EP, Real Fun. From the driving drone of “Rhinoceros” through the moody pulse of “Track and Field Girls,” and the rest of these tightly constructed little gems, their opening salvo is convincing, catchy stuff that suggests they should be closely monitored.

Especially around bells. (SP)

Motif’s monthly fourth Friday event comes on strong this Black Friday with “All Black Everything,” DJs Lish and Luicidal will be upstairs spinning house, electro and dub step; downstairs Dstruckt and Goldenchyld will bring in a Top-40-free mix of hip-hop. Best of all, though, is that there will also be live performances from Anya and Vida Killz, who are currently working together on a new EP. (SP)

SCARLET STOIC Johnny V’s, San Jose Friday – 9pm; $5 Scarlet Stoic are great at straightforward rock songs. Well, except that the guitarist isn’t doing at all what you’d expect a guitarist in a straightforward rock band to do—single notes, atmospheric sounds, weird chords. If he did follow the rest of the band in a more traditional way, they would be a totally different kind of rock group. Thank god he doesn’t.

The unusual approach adds a whole layer of texture and shifting moods, all while the band continues rocking in a totally normal way. Well, except for the 10-minute-long songs. (AC)

SWINGIN’ UTTERS Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $12/$14 First, Swingin’ Utters defied the odds by rising out of the tiny Santa Cruz hardcore scene of the late ’80s to become one of the defining punk bands of the Fat Wreck Chords era. Then last year, they reached official icon status when they inspired the album Untitled 21: A Juvenile Tribute to Swingin’ Utters. It featured not only some major national acts like Dropkick Murphys but also influential punkers from this area, like San Jose’s the Forgotten, who ripped through “Catastrophe,” and Russ Rankin from Santa

Cruz’s Fury 66 and Good Riddance (doing “Beach Sailor”). The album’s surprisingly reverent covers reveal what has given the Utters their lasting power: incredibly catchy hooks and lyrics that walk the line between funnystupid and all-too-relatable. (SP)

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The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Sat – 9pm; $8/$10 “What does it stand for?” is the first thing everyone asks about SoCal punk band D.I.

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ANDRE NICKATINA Dec 3 at the Avalon, Santa Clara

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

THE CHOP TOPS Dec 9 at the Blank Club, San Jose

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Casey Royer and Rikk Agnew first inspired this question when they left Social Distortion in 1982. Combining elements of gothic rock and punk, D.I. first released a self-titled debut, then Ancient Artifacts. But it was 1986’s Horse Bites Dog Cries that solidified them as a seminal band and captured the SoCal punk sound, dropping the gothic touches. Incidentally, it’s also the album that finally revealed the meaning of the name—just track down a vinyl copy and listen to the backwards dialogue. The Highway Murderers open. (BD)

PATSY CLINE TRIBUTE Sunnyvale Theatre Sat – 8pm; $22/$28 Even those neutral on the subject of country music appreciate the music and legend of Patsy Cline—“Walkin’ After Midnight” and “I Fall to Pieces” are drenched in emotional pain that can’t be gainsaid by mere genre issues. The evocative sound, married with a tragic early death, have cemented an enduring legacy. Country singer Joni Morris brings the memories alive again in a re-creation of Cline’s best songs. She will

be accompanied by the After Midnight Band, along with guest star Bobby Black on steel guitar. (MSG)

DJ MISS LISA Studio 8, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $20 after 11pm Internationally recognized DJ and playmate model DJ Miss Lisa comes to San Jose to spin some heavy house that will make you sweat. (The dancing that you will be doing is what will cause you to sweat, that is.) Though she started out over a decade ago spinning hiphop, disco and dance music, she began writing originals and remixing hits into nearly

unrecognizable house jams (most notably “Crawling” by Linkin Park, “Blister in the Sun” by the Violent Femmes and the long-anticipated, still unreleased remix of Nine Inch Nails’ “Closer”). She was a regular at nightclubs in her hometown San Diego for years, but more recently has been in high demand at some of the most interesting places on the planet—Singapore, Korea, South Africa, Manila and even San Jose. (AC)

MACEO PARKER Jan 11 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

WILCO Jan 28 at the San Jose Civic

ERIC BIBB Feb 4 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

SOCIAL DISTORTION Feb 9 at Santa Cruz 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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FAMILY SERIES MATINEES Full-length production perfect for young audiences (ages 3 and up) and their families, featuring full sets and costumes at signiďŹ cantly reduced prices!

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Z. Randall Stroope: American Christmas Songs of the Season Cathedral Basilica of Saint Joseph 80 S. Market St, downtown San Jose

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PENINSULA YOUTH BALLET A presentation of “The Nutcracker.” Sat-Sun, 2pm. Also Dec 3, 2 and 7pm, Dec 4, 2pm. $20-$40. Bayside Performing Arts Center, San Mateo.

Opera OPERA SAN JOSE The company offers a double bill of “Pagliacci” and “La voix humaine.” Nov 25, 8pm, Nov 27, 3pm. $51 and up.

California Theatre, San Jose.

Theater ALMOST MAINE

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.

9 CIRCLES A South Bay premiere

by Renegade Theatre Experiment of a psychological drama about the troubled life of an Iraq veteran who may have committed a terrible war crime. Thu-Sat, 8pm, No show Nov 25. Runs thru Nov 26. $10-$25. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

A holiday tale about the citizens of a magical town under the Northern Lights; presented by Bus Barn Stage Company. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun (Dec 4 and 18), 3pm, Sun (Dec 11), 7pm. Plus Wed (Dec 7 and 14), 7:30pm. Runs through Dec 18. $24-$30.

Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos.

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SANTALAND DIARIES

Because it wouldn’t be Christmas without “A Christmas Carol.” Presented

by San Jose Repertory Theatre in a new adaptation by Rick Lombardo. Nov 23-Dec 24.

This week Wed, 7:30pm, no show Thanksgiving, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun 2 and 7pm, Tue, 7:30pm. Official opening is Nov 30, 7:30pm. $29-$74. San Jose Rep.

For the holidays, City Lights presents David Sedaris’ comedy about working as an elf in a Macy’s. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm (except Nov 27 at 7pm). $25-$35. City Lights, San Jose.

EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD San Jose Stage Company celebrates the holidays with the popular comedy that races through the seasonal classics in brief, from Dickens to the Grinch.

Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Dec 18. $20-$45. The Stage, San Jose.

HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING A musical comedy about

Tabard Theatre and Steve Oliver pay tribute to Burt Lancaster with biographical material and re-enactments of famous scenes from his movies. Fri-Sat, 3 and 8pm. $25/$29. Theater on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

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. $16-$30. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

Classical Concerts CLASSICAL PIANO FEST Three performances by Thomas Tobin, Sandra Write Shen and Mack McCray. Sun, 4:30pm. $30/$35. Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society,

BOOKS

Douglas Beach House, Half Moon Bay.

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: New Talent Showcase. $10. Fri-Sat, 9pm, Sun, 8pm. Jackie Kashian. $12/$18. Sunnyvale.

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NGLISH AUTHOR Stephen Cavalier seems to be emulating Robert Sklar’s now-indispensable World History of Film, and as such, his book The World History of Animation divides that history into three parts, just as Sklar does with movies. Rather than “silent, sound and digital,” Cavalier prefers “studio, television and digital.”

Wed, 8pm: Chicano Kings. $12. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Bobby Slayton. $20. Mon, 8pm: Battle of the Bay. $15. San Jose.

The last decade was one of animation’s most prodigious ever—there was a lot of garbage around, but Pixar’s John Lasseter did prove himself exactly what Cavalier calls him, the successor to Walt Disney. Cavalier also retrieves the memories of forgotten pioneers and exponents of smaller nations—we learn that there was a cartoon made in Hanoi in 1966, for instance.

Museums

Names we were delighted to re-encounter or meet for the first time include Cine16 stalwart Carolyn Leaf, Richard Williams, the Wan Brothers of China and Karel Zeman, The World History whose 1958 Fabulous World of Jules Verne is just of Animation lying around waiting for steampunks to see it and claim it. Ladislaw Starewicz’s stop-motion

By Stephen Cavalier animation continues to dazzle decades later. But who has ever heard of Emile Cohl, the pioneer UC Press; $39.95 animator of more than a century ago, who was a member in good standing of a proto-surrealist group called the Incoherents?

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CANTOR ARTS CENTER “The Legend of Rex Slinkard.” Oils and works on paper by the influential California artist of the early 1900s. Thru Feb 26. “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 handson fun for kids. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, noon-5pm.

Discovery Meadow, San Jose.

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

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

“Between Struggle and Hope: Envisioning a Democratic Art in the

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Glancing through the volume reaffirms an old prejudice that Bruno Bozzetto’s Allegro non Troppo was the best full-length animated film of the 1970s. However, ideas taken as certainties are challenged. Lotte Reiniger, the shadow-puppet animator who collaborated with Jean Renoir and Fritz Lang, may still be director of the oldest extant feature-length animated film. But the lost and forgotten Argentine cartoon El Apostol may have indeed been the first full-length animated film back when it was made in 1917.

This book is written for general readers. It’s Wikipedia-ish and comfortingly reasserts simple facts, such as the idea that an audience “just wants to see a good story, well told.” To his credit, Cavalier gives placement to people who don’t draw or paint in the Disney style, such as Don (Rejected) Hertzfeld and the South Park gang. His history of Warner Bros.’ best years in animation neatly condenses the studio’s high points (1939–58 or so with a coda of excellent TV animation in the 1990s). Unfortunately, there is little visual evidence here of what the characters all looked like—licensing is a bitch. If there’s a problem, it’s that Cavalier is more of a historian than a critic. Overcautious judgments leach color from his prose. And it’s hard to forgive an author who blazons Betty Boop on his cover for his muted enthusiasm for the Fleischer brothers: “Their achievements now seem insignificant relative to Disney’s.” In fact, this very rivalry with Disney (whom Cavalier clearly prefers) makes a forked path through the history of animation: between the slaved-over realistic and the bizarrely, anarchically cartoony.—Richard von Busack

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ARTISTIC ROYALTY California artist Rex Slinkard (pictured in a self-portrait from 1914–15) knew just about everybody worth knowing in early-20th-century creative circles. The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford explores his career as a painter and artistic force in a new show running through Feb. 26.

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Tue-Sun, 11am-4pm. 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.

LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM “Shaped by Water—Past, Present and Future.” A juried show on the theme of water.

Runs thru Nov 30. Thu-Sun, noon-4pm. Los Altos.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “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.

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.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Invisible Lineage.” Works by a quartet of mid20th-century artists in conjunction with four contemporary textile artists.

Thru Feb 5. Tue-Sun, 10am5pm. San Jose.

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

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Thru Nov 27. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries ARTOBJECT GALLERY “Belly of the Beast.” A group show by eight San Jose artists. Thru Dec 16. 592 N. Fifth St, 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

The Tech Museum

Now playing at The Hackworth IMAX® Dome Theater, the largest IMAX® dome screen in the west. For showtimes and tickets go to thetech.org.

“Simply Seen.” Photographs in a Hipstamatic vein by Marco Zecchin. Thru Nov 25.

San Jose.

GALLERY SARATOGA “My Passion.” Oil paintings and jewelry by Lin-Ching Peng. Thru Dec 5. Reception Nov 26, 3pm. Tue-Sun, 11am6pm. Saratoga.

GOOD KARMA CAFE “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 “Holiday Show.” A group exhibit of paintings and mixed-media works. Nov 23-Dec 24. Reception Dec 3, 5pm. Wed-Sun, 10am-3pm.

San Mateo.

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. “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.

PHANTOM GALLERIES “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 highand low-key lighting by Robertino Ragazza. Thru Nov 25. San Jose.

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 “One Thing Leads to Another.” A group show about process and repetition in prints and drawings. Thru

Feb 25. “Dos Mundos.” Works

by Tim Craighead. Thru Feb 18. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. 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.

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.

*books SUE GRAFTON

A chance to meet the mystery author and get a copy of “V Is for Vengeance.”

Mon, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

*events DOWNTOWN ICE

A holiday tradition. Rink is open daily thru Jan 29. Circle of Palms, downtown San Jose.

SILICON VALLEY TURKEY TROT A chance to run off some calories and raise money for Second Harvest Food Bank.

Thu, 6:30am. (See www. svturkeytrot.com for info.)

Guadalupe Park, San Jose.

SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAY A day to encourage shopping with local independent businesses. Sat.

TREE LIGHTING An annual seasonal celebration with music and culinary treats. Mon, 4:306:30pm. Four Season Hotel Silicon Valley, East Palo Alto.

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Sixty Years Young WHEN Yair Samet took over as music director of the San Jose Youth Symphony in 1994, there were between 40 and 50 young musicians involved.

Today, it numbers 350 musicians and is considered one of the finest youth symphonies on the West Coast. Celebrating its 60th anniversary, SJYS is kicking off the season with a concert featuring cellist Iris Liu, winner of the 2011 Young Artist Competition, on Dec. 3. On the program are works by Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Gould and Liszt.

“When I started, I had to adjust the repertoire I chose very carefully,” says Samet. “Some kids were faking more than playing, but I saw a lot of talent. ... Every year they play harder and harder music. Their repertoire now is a standard orchestra repertoire.”

Highlights of the 60th season include a holiday concert; collaborations with local schools; guest soloists; and a gala celebration featuring world-renowned pianist Jon Nakamatsu. The Philharmonic Orchestra, with “as many alumni members as can make it,” is performing Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. “This is a huge piece that’s not easy at all,” Samet explains. “It’s a reward knowing that we can now play at this level.”

San Jose Youth Symphony Dec. 3; 2:30pm California Theatre, San Jose

The symphony has played in concert halls and festivals around the world, in countries including Germany, the Czech Republic, Japan, Spain and South America. There are former SJYS students in top universities nationally and abroad, and several students have gone on to perform professionally in renowned orchestras and opera companies; but that is not Samet’s goal. “My goal is not necessarily to see everyone become a professional musician,” he says.

“We do it to give everyone a complete education. Just knowing that they’ve been through the experience and gotten the opportunity is good enough.”

Samet stresses the importance of music in human development and believes that every child who expresses an interest in music should be given the opportunity to learn. To that end, SJYS has several programs that are geared toward providing instruments and lessons to students that may not have the opportunity otherwise. One program, Music Matters, provides introductory group lessons to students in elementary and middle schools. SJYS also arranges tuition and private lesson scholarships for symphony members whose families can’t cover the costs. “We don’t let money be a reason why a student can’t study music,” says Samet.

Samet concludes, “For the students, everything is new and fresh. I can tell in rehearsals how they are absolutely taken with the music. The hope is to keep growing.”—Cat Johnson

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GLOBE-TROTTERS This summer, the San Jose Youth Symphony performed at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

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South FIRST FRIDAYS an eclectic evening of arts and culture in downtown San Jose’s SoFA District (and beyond) on the First Friday of every month

DECEMBER 2nd ART WALK 7–11pm

Anno Domini

Higher Fire Clay

MACLA

366 So. First Street

499 So. Market Street

510 So. First Street

FRESH PRODUCE 11 Anno Domini’s highly anticipated annual invitational group exhibition and sale.This year includes original works of art from over 45 artists residing in 14 countries working in the urban contemporary arts.

All items, affordably priced for the holidays, are cash and carry beginning at 8pm (Preview at 7pm.)

Killer Crystals by Jon Price Jon Price’s latest creations far outshine the holiday lights in the Hi-Fi Gallery this December. Price’s carefully crafted vessels wear crystalline glazes like you’ve never seen. Think exploding fireworks on silky porcelain! Price spent years mastering finicky chemistry and quirky firing schedules to arrive at the forefront of crystalline ceramic artistry.

Join MACLA for an extraordinary evening of art. In MACLA’s Gallery: Cuban Connections: Near & Far. Highlighting several Bay Area collections, this group exhibition features Cuban artists whose work explores cultural icons, architectural form, and the human condition.

Artwork above: Rafal Karcz (Poland)

Image: Nereida Gacia Ferraz, Untitled, opaque pigment drawing on cardboard, 2011

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery

520 So. First Street

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Invisible Lineage showcases the work of four influential mid 20th century fiber artists—Mary Buskirk, Lydia Van Gelder, Mary Walker Phillips, Katherine Westphal alongside works of four late century artists, Patricia Abrahamian, Pam Moore, Karen Hampton, and Janice Sullivan. Join us for our South First Friday Salon art activity: Make your own decorative textile ornaments with recycled material.

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IT’S T’S GOOD TO BE GEORGE CLOONEY He’s fit, famous and gets to make movies in Hawaii.

A patriarch must wrestle with family and heritage on the islands in The Descendants

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LMOST everyone will enjoy the George Clooney/Alexander Payne film The Descendants. In the lead is our most unambiguously appealing movie star, looking, as Mary Astor described Clark Gable, “crumbly” in a handsome array of Hawaiian shirts, glowing with a tropical tan as if he’d been regularly rubbed with tung oil.

Behind and around the eminently watchable Clooney is more Hawaii than I’ve seen in a feature film in

decades. The soundtrack is rhapsodic and full of well-chosen island music.

Each location seems more plumeriascented and succulent than the one before, but The Descendants doesn’t give us a staged Hawaii, like the lobby of a Sheraton. This Hawaii is affluent, though, and you don’t get the highs and lows of life there.

Director Payne balances Honolulu’s wealthier suburbs with the as-yet-unbulldozed corners of Kauai. Unlike many of the bad movies made in Hawaii recently (Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Just Go With It come to mind), the land and the seascapes are photographed with considerable care by Phedon Papamicheal.

And if this comedy/drama is fairly vanilla, from the completely trustworthy narration to the cartoon

maps showing the journeys to the final assurance to the audience that all is well—if it’s a movie that hugs the family tree trunk when von Trier and Terrence Malick are going out on a limb—it is still a rare mainstream movie that fits with what you might know about the islands.

One can easily suppose that the “King family” is a substitute for the royal name of one of the biggest-name property holders in Hawaii, known for lots of idle country-club cousins.

Clooney’s Matt King differs from his relatives. Matt is a lawyer who toils while his family has a good time. The film’s press material amusingly describes King as a “flawed character,” by which they mean he’s an overworker who neglects his family. Don’t go to The Descendants if you expect the kind of character flaws found in Cheever or Updike.

Matt’s wife languishes in a coma after a bad boating accident. He goes to retrieve his daughter, Alexandra (Shailene Woodley), currently immured at a strict boarding school because of her

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partying. Alexandra confesses that she’s been acting out lately because she saw her mom with a stranger’s hands on her.

Matt also has to deal with his cutely awkward, profane younger daughter, Scottie (Pacific Grove’s Amara Miller, debuting), as well as with his ornery father-inlaw (Robert Forster, excellently embodying the old military side of Hawaii). Coming along for the ride is Alexandra’s pal Sid (Nick Krause), her seemingly silly young partner in partying, who wedges himself into this family tragedy.

Meanwhile, Matt must make the painful decision to liquidate a piece of property that he’s holding in trust for the rest of the family. The end result of the deal will be yet another resort with golf course, part of the endless effort to turn Hawaii into Costa Mesa.

All of this family angst leaves Matt with little free time, but he decides to track down his wife’s lover to let him know she’s in serious condition at the hospital. This situation of a husband stalking his wife’s lover, to do both wife and lover a favor, has a Lubitsch tang to it. Clooney is roguish and entertaining; he gives the kind of star’s performance that probably only looks easy and smooth to pull off. And he finishes with some very heavy old-school acting, which puts Clooney farther out on the aforementioned limb than he is in the rest of the film. He usually doesn’t do lamentations.

Payne made Sideways seven years ago. If The Descendants is a successful comeback, a shoe-in for Oscars and so forth, it’s also very commercial.

The breathtaking tartness of that wine-tasting film isn’t visible here.

Despite the complaints of the Hawaiian-born Matt that there is no paradise on this Earth, the arguments advanced for local pride, strong fathers and good breeding suggest otherwise. That’s not a bad thing, and you can enjoy the classicism of it all, but it’s not taking movies to the next level.

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Revivals A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT/ MORNING GLORY (1932/1933) Once Bugs Bunny asked Elmer Fudd, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is there any insanity in your family?â&#x20AC;? The rabbit picked up that line from Bill of Divorcement, which teamed Katharine Hepburn (debuting) and John Barrymore in a faithful version of Clemence Daneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play about the problems of hereditary taint. Not available on DVD. BILLED WITH Morning Glory .

Hepburn stars as a striving actress heading for the top; she won a Best Actress Oscar herself as the brittle Eva Lovelace. (Plays Nov 23-25 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

CAMILLE/NINOTCHKA (1936/1939) With her bouquet of camellias concealing a bloody handkerchief, Greta Garbo has been the deďŹ nitive Camille for decades. She plays Marguerite, the very highest-priced sort of concubine in 1840s France.

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writer) and his girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams) begin to stage the Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever. But to do it, they need Kermit the Frog to reunite the gang, who in the 12-year span since the last flick have all gone their separate ways.

Bathed in a marketing blitz, the film should sound the triumphant return of the cultural giant, bringing in hoards of fans, new and old. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not easy being green, but it sure seems easy to make it.

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SWEETLY adapted from a salty book, Simon Curtis’ My Week With Marilyn has enough charm to overcome the calluses induced by Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind.” No matter how much truth there might be here, it’s a good story. Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne) is the young son of art historian Sir Kenneth. In 1957, Colin wangles a job as “third assistant director” (gofer) on the set of The Prince and the Showgirl, a movie based on a bad play about a Balkan prince’s amours. Star and director Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) has as his leading lady Marilyn Monroe (Michelle Williams). She arrives with husband Arthur Miller and her kneeling sycophant of an acting teacher Paula Strasberg (Zoë Wanamaker).

Marilyn is skittish and oversensitive, and perhaps intimidated by Olivier, who stands accused of having designs on her body.

The wrecked woman looks for a new protector, and finds it in young Colin; she pours her heart out to the dazzled young man, and takes him for a naked swim.

The film avoids the cream-puffism of the star biopic thanks to a notable counterpoint. Observe the ugly storm brewing when Marilyn merely thinks Colin is suggesting that she’s crazy. Crazy women go crazy when you call them crazy. When Colin hears from Marilyn’s

Marguerite is absolutely right for Garbo, who doesn’t have the Comédie Française-style perfection of Carole Lombard or Claudette Colbert. Garbo’s reluctance, refusal or inability to “nail down” the part is what makes this possibly creaky story live. BILLED WITH Ninotchka.

Melvyn Douglas is the courtesan this time, involved with a White Russian grand duchess. A Soviet commissar named Yakischova turns up with the duchess’s jewels, trying to sell them to raise money for the USSR. So the gigolo must turn his charms upon her, but she (Garbo) is quite immune. “Don’t make an issue of my vomanhood,” she frowns, poring over a map of Paris as if it were an overdue bill. Wearing what look like waterproof stockings and speaking as tonelessly as a Martian, Garbo is the immovable object of totalitarianism, undone by the irresistible force of romance.

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films, and there’s few better than Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), a barbed study of father-son disappointment and a brilliantly engineered slapstick comedy. Buster comes to River Junction, Miss. (in reality, Freeport and Broderick, river towns near Sacramento) to meet his disappointed father (Ernest Torrance). Keaton gives us bleak, even painful, moments of comedy—the father taking charge of the grown student as if he were a 6-year-old—followed by an amazing finale: an entire breakaway town peeled apart by a killer storm.

Billed with “The Leather Pushers: Round 3” with Reginald Denny and “Run Girl Run” with Carole Lombard.

Frederick Hodges at the piano.

(Plays Nov 26 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.) (RvB)

THE ROOM (2003) It’s the dirty story of a dirty man, and his “future wife” doesn’t understand. (Plays Nov 26 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

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As for the real her: I advise avoiding Marilyn before you see the movie.

Williams performs the dance Monroe did to the music of an organ grinder in The Prince and the Showgirl. Williams shows us solitude and fragility. Watch the original, and you’ll hear the bass notes of the real Marilyn’s personal music: the vaudeville wiggle, the soft little belly.

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Revolutionary Road OCCUPYING CCUPYING EVERYWHERE: New York–based rapper Immortal Technique shows solidarity olidarity by making an impromptu tour through nationwide encampments.

Immortal Technique takes his music and convictions on a cross-country tour of Occupy camps and music venues

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RYING TO TRACK down politically inclined MC Immortal Technique (real name Felipe Andres Coronel) for an interview felt a lot like playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

After buzzing his phone several times with no success, I started sleuthing recent Immortal Technique–related news items and the rapper’s Twitter Feed to find out which Occupy Wall Street encampment he was hitting up that day. A few weeks ago, it was home base in Zuccotti Square, in New York.

Last week, Miami. This past weekend, Houston.

Immortal Technique’s OWS visits coincide with “The Martyr” tour, set

to march into Avalon Nightclub on Friday. Watch out for him mingling among the tents at San Jose City Hall before or after the show, rallying the hard-core protesters still occupying San Jose. Maybe his appearance will even entice Occupy San Jose warrior Shaun “Cracker” O’Kelly down from his perch on the wall of the city’s headquarters for a visit with the New York–based rapper.

I finally managed to catch him while on a tour bus to El Paso, Texas, and he gave me some insight into what fuels his life and his music, and why he supports Occupy Wall Street. Born in Peru in a military hospital during a period of violent civil unrest, a young Felipe Coronel and his family escaped to the States, landing in Harlem in the 1980s. Growing up, he wasn’t exactly the pocket-protector type.

“I rarely ever took school seriously,” he said. “I would read what I wanted to, unless I was forced to cover the

annoying curriculum.”

Despite his defiance of authority, Coronel had a thirst for knowledge about the world outside of his urban playground. “[Social and political issues were] always on my mind in some way, shape or form, even through the most ignorant and crazy years,” he said.

Although Coronel played jazz trumpet and dabbled in hip-hop in his younger days, “Being a rap artist was just an idea. I just rhymed because I felt like I needed to represent what I saw that was real and fraudulent.”

He also was a bit of an anarchist.

“If you met the 19-year-old incarcerated Immortal Technique and told him he was gonna be a rapper, he’d probably just laugh at you, and then rob you,” Coronel joked. While no longer committing felonies, Immortal Technique still retains that “fight against the man” credo.

Coronel began rapping under the name Immortal Technique about 15 years ago as he began competing— and winning—rap battles.

“To complete any task in life you need some sort of technique, and when that technique is immortal, then anything is possible,” he explained.

Whether onstage or in the recording studio, Immortal Technique sounds like a tenured political science professor from Stanford who began

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spitting rhymes during a lecture, and he’s brought that awareness and passion to multiple OWS sites over the past couple of weeks as he travels around the country.

He eschews the issue-skirting tendencies of big record companies, opting instead to release albums off counter-culture label Viper Records, which has a prominent tab for “Activism” on its website.

“Without economic freedom, you cannot have political freedom, in this and just about every other society,” he said. “We need to control our own music.”

His intense, boxer-in-the-ring style of rapping, infused with political furor, can be compared to underground rhyme slingers Sage Francis or Atmosphere. While other famous rappers pollute the airways with the same old refrain of “Bentleys, bitches Immort Technique and bling,” Immortal m chooses to use his musical platform in a more constructive fashion.

In the media and on the streets, the voices—of the student debtors, up of the foreclosed foreclosed-upon, of the families who used to live paycheck to paycheck, without a paycheck anymore—are growing louder. This is the time when Immortal Technique’s lyrics become their battle cry.

“I see [Occupy Wall Street] as one of the greatest expressions of democracy in the recent decades this country has seen. They are on the ground dealing with the real issues in the local community,” he said.

In the irony-tinged single “Rich Man’s World (1%)” off his recently released mixtape The Martyr, Immortal Technique makes a strong statement about the plight of the people: “Only little people pay all these taxes and fees/ Since you were born, we control all you watch and you read/ And pretty soon we’re going to own the f****** air that you breathe.” I’m thinking if I head down to Fourth and Santa Clara streets this weekend, I’ll finally find out where in the world Immortal Technique is.

He’ll be the one with the microphone, surrounded by 99-percenters, giving his two cents on the 1 percent.

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Mike Osborn Thursday at J.J.’s Blues in San Jose, 8pm; free

When I say J.J.’s encourages clubgoers to bring a side dish to their Thanksgiving Potluck, I don’t mean some metaphorical musical side dish, like they want guitar jammers. No, I mean a real side dish to go with their “turkey extravaganza.”

The musical accompaniment will be provided by San Jose native Mike Osborn, the veteran blues guitarist who, in addition to having played with John Lee Hooker and Charlie Musselwhite, has been a favorite of Robben, Patrick and Mike Ford so long he’s practically the fourth Ford brother.

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Sad Boy Sinister Saturday at Johnny V’s in San Jose, 9pm; free

So, you think you’re punk, huh? Sad Boy Sinister has been around these parts since the early ’90s and practice what they preach, whether it be drinking, swearing, fighting, hating cops or inciting riots. They play fast, they play loud and they don’t give a damn what you think about it.

With I, Madman and Seduce the Dead. (BD)

Jay & The Po Boys Sunday at Poor House Bistro in San Jose, 2pm

PHP owner Jay Meduri likes to joke that he invites “ringers” to play in his house band so he’ll sound better. But I’ve heard Meduri play, and he does not need the help. Still, he’ll have plenty of hands on deck at this “Leftover Turkey Jam,” with Sid Morris, Anthony Paule, Randy Hayes, Dave Chavez and more. (SP)

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CLUB FOX Fri, 8pm: Mystique. Latin music & dancing. $12/$15.

Redwood City.

Tue-Wed, 6pm: Live music.

San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S

NETO’S GRILL

MOROCCO’S MV

Sat, 8pm: Burnin Vernon Davis Group. $5. Santa Clara.

Wed & Sat, 6pm: World music & belly dancing. Fri & Sun, 6pm: World music. Mon, 6pm: Moroccan music.

Mountain View.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed, 9:30pm: Spang-a-Lang, Tony Lindsey. No cover. Fri, 9:30pm: Touch N Go. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Joint Chiefs. $10. Los Gatos.

THE QUARTER NOTE Wed-Thu: Pro jam. Fri: Thanksgiving Hangover. $5. Sat: Mike Coysn. $5. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE CIVIC AUDITORIUM

MOROCCO’S SJ Wed, 6pm: Flamenco music.

Fri, 6pm: World music & belly dancing. Sat, 6pm: Jason Bellenkes Duo. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

STEPHENS GREEN

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

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

Gilroy.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

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

X-BAR Tue, 9pm: Lemuria, I Sing the Body Electric + Faco. No cover.

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

World AGENDA LOUNGE

Jazz/Blues ANGELICA’S BISTRO Thu, 7:30pm: Blues talent contest. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Every second Thu, 7pm: Jazz jam. $5. San Jose.

CLUB FOX Wed, 7pm: Blues jam. $5.

Redwood City.

GRAND DELL SALOON

AZÚCAR Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa,

Wed: Charles Wheal Band. Sat: Vinny Johnson Blues Band.

Sunnyvale.

MYTH TAVERNA Call for info. San Jose.

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Fri, 6pm: The Hum. Sat, 6pm: Gary Smith Blues Band.

Sun, 2pm: Jay & the Po Boys Leftover Turkey Jam. San Jose.

SAINTE CLAIRE HOTEL Wed, 7:30pm: Modesto Briseno.

No cover. San Jose.

TESSORA’S Sat, 8:30pm: Thom & Mary Ellen. Campbell.

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

WINE AFFAIRS Wed, 7:30pm: Brian Fitzgerald Trio. San Jose.

C&W/Folk CAFFE FRASCATI Sat, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. San Jose.

THE GRAPEVINE Wed, 7pm: Hootenanny. Willow Glen.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE

Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Rodeo House. Fremont.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

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

MURPHY’S LAW

HEDLEY CLUB

ALBERTO’S

ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE

Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos.

San Jose.

Sat: The Liasons. Campbell.

Wed, 8pm: Salsa. $5. Thu, 8pm: Banda nights. Fri, 8pm: Rock en Español. San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: Suska. Thu, 7pm: Mike Osborn. Thanksgiving potluck. Fri, 9pm: Liars Club. No cover. Sat, 7pm: JC Smith, Brian Ward. $10. Sun, 4pm: West Bay Blues, Gene Washington & the Special Purpose Band. Mon, 9pm: Desiree & Diamond 99.

Tue, 7pm: Liars Club, Blue J. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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LOS GATOS BREWING CO. SJ

Sat, 8pm: South City Blues Band. Campbell.

Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio.

Fri, 8:30pm: Harold Fethe . Sat, 8:30pm: Rick Vandivier. San Jose.

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

Mountain View.

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

Sun, 8pm: Mannheim Steamroller. $30-$85. San Jose.

Fri: The New Black hosted by DanDiggity. San Jose.

LOS GATOS BREWING CO.

THE SADDLE RACK

SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Country Classics. Tue, 6pm: Leftover Crow. San Jose.

SUNNYVALE THEATRE Sat, 8pm: Portrait of Patsy.

Patsy Cline tribute. $22-$28.

Sunnyvale.

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

Sun, 8pm: Guest band weekly.

San Jose.

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Fri-Sat: Live rock bands.

Los Gatos.

merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa.

San Jose.

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Tue, 7pm: Open mic.

Redwood City.

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

BAMBOO LOUNGE

ACAPULCO RESTAURANT & CANTINA

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

BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS

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

Santa Clara.

Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic.

Cupertino.

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

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

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

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

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

C&Jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SPORTS BAR

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Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic.

Saratoga.

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San Jose.

AZĂ&#x161;CAR Wed, 9pm: English and Spanish karaoke and dancing. San Jose.

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

BENNIGANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GRILL Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

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

THE COURTS LOUNGE Sat, 9:30pm & Mon, 9pm: Joe. Thu, 9pm: Vinnie. San Jose.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

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

DA KINE CAFE

DIVE BAR

Tue, 6:30-9:30pm: Open mic.

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

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

HOT JAVA COFFEE ROASTING

EFFIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RESTAURANT Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 27pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

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

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MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

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

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

BLUE MAX

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

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

MOUNTAIN CHARLEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Wed, 8-11pm: Live music, comedy and poetry. Los Gatos.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

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

BLUE BONNET BAR

Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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

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

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

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

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

QUARTER NOTE

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

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

BOGARTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

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

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

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

Sunnyvale.

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

GALAXY Thu, 9pm-2am: August.

Milpitas.

BOSWELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BOULEVARD TAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

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FREE EXPRESSION New York indie darlings Lemuria play free (with a can of food) at X Bar Tuesday.

Lemuria LEMURIA HAVE NEVER BEEN the kind of punk band to churn out a bunch of records. In eight years, they’ve released a total of two fulllengths. There have been some singles and splits here and there, but for the most part, they spend time carefully crafting their recordings, even if what they’re doing isn’t reinventing the wheel. Their first record is a whopping 28 minutes of short, three-chord, ultra-catchy pop-punk songs. They’ve mastered the pop-punk formula well, but what’s most impressive is how deep—and yet simple—their lyrics are.

On the surface, lead vocalists Sheena Ozella and Alex Kerns have a sort of childlike energy, like a boy and girl playing in the playground; you know, before puberty sets in and complicates the whole thing. That’s how it sounds anyway—cute but without trying to sound cute. Yet their lyrics express something darker and more complicated. (“You use your lipstick as an excuse to not kiss me” or “I’m miserable with you/I’m more miserable without you/a state’s length away from you.”)

Tue., Nov. 29 X Bar, Cupertino 9:30pm; free with a can of food, $8 without

Some of their strongest songs, though, were a handful Kerns wrote about his father passing away. (“I found the pack of cigarettes that you were always quitting/you always leave a mess purging your pockets in the laundry/all your clothes were donated because none of them fit me/my legs are too long.”) The upbeat, innocent tone of the music is not ironic. Despite the sadness and pain in the lyrics, the songs aren’t meant to be sad, but just to express it. There is an underlying optimism to the music, or at the very least there floats within the songs the idea that life doesn’t have to be painful all the time. I’d like to think that’s why they named their debut album Get Better.—Aaron Carnes

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INDUSTRIAL SABOTAGE The Beastie Boys are among the artists supporting local record stores with an exclusive, limited release this Black Friday.

Record Store Day HOWEVER one feels about the pros and cons of Record Store Day, it’s working. Every one of the RSD events is bringing music fans back into local independent stores, and one shop reported that its store drew more people than any single day in its history earlier this year. One of the biggest draws is the limited, exclusive releases, and for RSD Black Friday (Nov. 25), artists from the Beastie Boys—who are putting out a limited edition of Hot Sauce Committee Part Two that includes a 60-page hardbound book—to Kings of Leon to Wilco are dropping new stuff.

Local participants include Streetlight Records, who are carrying exclusive releases and taking 25 percent off used items and On the Corner Music, which will have no tax all day and a selection of 50-cent used records.— Steve Palopoli

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Gilroy.

KING OF CLUBS

OASIS

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

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

KYOTO PLACE

OFF THE HOOK

HUDDLE

Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

LILLY MAC’S

JOHNNY V’S Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

KATIE BLOOM’S

Sun, 8pm: Joe. Campbell.

OFFICE BAR

Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

MARIANI’S

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

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

Campbell.

MOJO LOUNGE

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

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

KHARTOUM

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

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

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

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

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Carriage House Theatre Concert Series MACEO PARKER January 11, 7:30pm

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“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!

ERIC BIBB February 4, 8pm “Bibb may be the quietest blues player out there, but he is also becoming one of the best.” - Billboard Eric Bibb’s unique talent as a performer and songwriter continues to draw critical acclaim around the world. He has been recognized with a Grammy Award nomination, four W.C. Handy Blues Award nominations, and won the “Best Newcomer” title in the British Blues Awards. Bibb has been described by critics as “a total original” and The London Times raves, “A voice to die for.”

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February 10, 8pm “Able to pretty much ace any kind of music from soulful Hawaiian to incendiary rock, Willie has recently been dazzling audiences with his extraordinary ability…” -The Maui News Raised on Maui and known as the “Hawaiian Jimi Hendrix,” Grammy nominated Willie K (Willie Kahaiali`i) has been bringing audiences to their feet for standing ovations since the age of 10. From reggae to rock, blues to opera, Willie’s performances offer a wide range of musical styles that have earned him the reputation of Hawaii’s most versatile artist.

Free on-site parking!

PLUCKING THE LIGHT FANTASTIC Kendall Sallay of Cartoon Bar Fight was one of the highlights at Friday’s eMerging Arts Series at SLG Boutiki.

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

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

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

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RED STAG LOUNGE Celebrating 100 Years!

1912-2012

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.

STATION 55

THE BLANK CLUB

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

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

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL

BLUE PHEASANT

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.

X-BAR Fri & Mon, 9pm: Vinnie.

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

AGENDA

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

San Jose.

SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed: Black Wednesday. Fri: Quality Control. Sat: Cocktails & Dreams with DJ Aspect.

Mon: Jukebox Hero. Tue: Service Industry Night San Jose.

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

Dance Clubs

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

BRANHAM LOUNGE

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

RUDY’S PUB

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

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.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Thu & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

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

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Night.

Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Thu: DJ Benoficial. Fri, 10pm: DJ Aaron-E. Sat: Charly Fusion.

San Jose.

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

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

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SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

Thu-Fri: Top 40, club hits, hip-hop, Latin. Sat: DJ Nelly presents. Sun: DJs & dancing.

San Jose.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

MOTIF

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.

BRIX

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

Santa Clara.

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

CLUB ILLUSIONS Wed, 9pm: Sizzling Salsa Night. Sat: Club Starz. Pajama Jamparty. Ages 14-18 only.

Palo Alto.

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

No cover. Santa Clara.

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

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dance Party. San Jose.

THE ELEGANT PUB Wed, 9:30pm: PreThanksgiving party with DJ Checo. Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Checo.

Evergreen Inn, San Jose.

EMPIRE CLUB Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

Wed: Black Wednesday.

San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

Sat: Club Sofa presents the Motto with DJ Paul X. San Jose.

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

Los Gatos.

STUDIO8 Wed: Black Wednesday. Fri: Shopping Spree Designer Gift Card Giveaways. Sat: DJ Miss Lisa. San Jose.

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

Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

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.

Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover. Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo.

Sat, 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik. Sun, 7pm: Latin Beat.

Sun, 9pm: Sonidero Night.

Sunnyvale.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

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

Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

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

SABOR TAPAS BAR

ZEN LOUNGE

Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing.

Sun: Reggae. San Jose.

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

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

THE SADDLE RACK Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Black Wednesday.

No cover. Fri, 9pm: It’s a Party. $10. Sat, 9pm: Elite: College Take Over Edition. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: College Night. San Jose.

GALAXY

San Francisco’s City Guide

B.B. KING Unstoppable 86 year-old king of the blues continues rigorous schedule. Nov 23 at the Paramount Theatre.

Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.

DIGITAL UNDERGROUND

KATIE BLOOM’S

What else are you going to do on Thanksgiving night to beat the tryptophan inertia? Nov 24 at Mezzanine.

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

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

LILLY MAC’S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night.

Sunnyvale.

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

MAYHEM Seminal Norwegian black metal band with notorious biography. Nov 25 at the Regency Ballroom.

RODNEY-O West Coast represent with 1980s rhymester, absent former partner Joe Cooley. Nov 25 at Yoshi’s SF.

MELT-BANANA Pushing extremes is this Japanese noise band’s specialty, be they aural or visual. Nov 29 at the Bottom of the Hill.

LOS GATOS BAR & GRILL Wed, 5pm: Black Wednesday.

Pilgrims & Indians party with costume contest. Los Gatos.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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MEETING OF THE MINDS Former state Sen. John Vasconcellos has joined talks between city officials and medical cannabis advocates.

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HILE SAN JOSE’S newly suspended medical marijuana regulations float in legal limbo, Metro has learned that city officials have held meetings with cannabis activists to find a compromise.

After the City Council approved tough regulations on the city’s unbridled dispensaries, cannabis activists gathered 47,000 signatures calling for a referendum against a law that they call “unworkable.” The County Registrar of Voters is currently verifying the petition signatures.

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Neither Mayor Chuck Reed nor Citizens Coalition for Patient Care Chairman James Anthony would say much about the meetings. Nor did they say who first stretched out the proverbial olive branch. Reed says the first meeting was “preliminary” and that the second was scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 22. Former state Sen. John Vasconcellos also took part in the first meeting, but he declined to comment about any progress in the talks.

The mayor says he’s unsure what middle ground would be, but dispensaries would have to be in compliance with state law, “so that’s the place where we start.” However, both sides say that the law requires substantial differences to the previous ordinance. This would likely mean an increase to the cap of 10 collectives.

Even in the absence of clear city guidelines—or even state and federal guidelines, for that matter—San Jose is still targeting certain dispensaries. Last month, this column profiled Golden State Care Collective owner Corinne

Reyes, who set up shop close to St. James Park so she could provide cheap cannabis to patients with limited means.

The former provider of pro-bono legal advice wanted to create a safe space to refer her clients to local social services.

Reyes now says that after her lease expired in late October, her landlord, David Taxin, more than doubled her monthly rent, from $1,500 to $3,200.

Initially shocked, Reyes decided she could afford it. But, she says, that after she agreed to pay the increased rent, Taxin then gave her until December to move her business elsewhere. “Please keep in touch and let me know the status of your move,” Taxin writes in an email Reyes provided to Metro. “Thanks for always paying your rent on time.” Taxin did not reply to interview requests.

Taxin also forwarded Reyes an Oct. 19 letter from San Jose’s Department of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement, which said Golden State neighbors had complained the business was a creating public nuisance.

Michael Hannon, the codeenforcement official who wrote the nuisance notice, tells Metro that Golden State is just one of six to 10 cannabis dispensaries the city is pursuing for code violations. That number will grow as Hannon focuses on others with loitering issues, those not paying the city’s cannabis sales tax, or those violating state law that prohibits dispensaries within 600 feet of schools.

“The ones that we’re focusing on are those business that we’ve received multiple complaints regarding nuisancerelated activities, and that would be the case with Golden State,” says Hannon.

Reyes believes her neighbors have a sort of not-on-my-sidewalk attitude when it comes to the poor, and she is seeking legal counsel. “I’m trying to help this population, and now I need help,” Reyes says.—Ted Cox

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Existing, good producing well.

Owner will carry. Broker will help show. Offered at $349,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com

<8JP 9I<<Q<J 8E; 9@> JB@<J 15 sprawling acres in Boulder Creek. This south facing ridge has “a peaceful easy feeling...” The ridge terrain is soft and rolling - easy to walk with Beautiful Monterey Bay views. Enjoy Full sun and big mature trees - lots of Magestic Oaks. Just about 20 minutes to the property from a paved county road, then a 3 mile private road. No services or reports and gloriously off the grid.

If easy breezes, bay views, soft air, big skies are what you dream about ... Come visit this beautiful parcel.

Some owner financing available.

Offered at $625,000. Shown by appointment only. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com

KI<< ?L>><IJ :89@E u =<CKFE Storybook setting that boasts a rustic redwood getaway and a quintessential babbling brook. Here is a 1925 classic 2BR/2BA with traditional living room featuring wood beam ceilings and a brick fireplace. Additional features include charming builtin bookcases & drawers; original cabinetry & countertops, bonus room, inside laundry facility, and roomy front deck to accommodate your front yard forest. Possible dual rental opportunity with a 1BR/1BA upstairs and a Studio/BA w/private entrance downstairs. Blissfully quiet, and yet just a hop, skip and a jump to Felton’s quaint downtown restaurants, entertainment, schools & services. Walking distance to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. Offered at $219,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com

E@E8 ;<C@>?K u 9FLC;<I :I<<B Seller says this is one of the last buildable properties in Nina Heights! A little piece of Southfacing magic, high up on a hill. This haven is surrounded by trees and good neighbors. Just a few minutes to the post office or grocery store in this quaint little town. Pavement, power at the street, and city water.

Sun and view await you. Owner financing Available. Offered 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. Offered at $350,000. Broker will help show.

Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com

Feel the breeze through the trees from these Breathtaking Sanctuary Acres.

Flat and spacious with Beautiful Oak trees, Giant Redwoods, Turkeys and Deer. It’s just too pretty to describe.

Excellent location, just minutes to town. Already has Well, Phone & Power. Septic Perc. test completed.

Offered at $750,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-3955754 www.donnerland.com

JBPM@<N :89@E 12 Gorgeous AC, Off the Grid, in the heart of the Santa Cruz Mtns.

Beautiful spot for a Large house.

Comes with a stage that opens 40’ by 16’ +, (great for storage, the owner was thinking about an amphitheatre).

The amazing landscape in a dreamlike environment, surrounded by Redwoods, Madrones, Oak Trees, and friendly terrain. You’ll never stop exploring & enjoying this unique piece of land, just 8 MI from town. Water & nice neighbors! Great Investment.

Approx. 90 member, private Road Assoc. Broker will help show. Offered at $450,000. 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 financing is available with just 20% down, the seller will carry at 6%. Inquiries welcome.

Offered 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.

Offered at 198,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408395-5754 www.donnerland.com

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. Offered at 295,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408395-5754 www.donnerland.com

:CFJ< KF KFNE 8E; JLEEP KFF Sweet, Sunny, 6,875 SF lot close to town and in a good neighborhood too. 2005 permits approved in all departments, but expired and in need of resurrection because prior owner did not pick them up! Close to shopping, entertainment, schools and beach. Come and see for yourself.

Offered at $100,000. Call Debbie @ DonnerLand & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com

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