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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.

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Circus Freak Did you really publish a cover story about puerile attempts at humor through vandalism? (“Family Devalues,” Cover Story, Nov 16.) I bet you could do a whole issue on pre-teen boys drawing mustaches on models in

magazines. Original! Gender bending!

Flaunting social norms!

Thank you for reminding me why I need never waste my time reading Richard von Busack—if he’s not lionizing depressing stretches of West San Carlos as “hidden treasures,” he’s tooting his own horn as a “radical” humorist.

In neither case has he anything to say. Would the comic featured first in the print edition (and, wisely, last online) have still been funny if Billy had threatened Dollie with genital mutilation?

DAVE LAND | SAN JOSE

Slow Down Does anybody really believe that

high-speed rail will get built? (“Passing Train,” SVNews, Nov. 16).

It’s a ridiculous waste of taxpayer money that needs to be shot down pronto.

JEEPER | SAN JOSE

Tarp Program I for one will continue to protest with and bring tarps and hot chocolate to Occupy San Jose.

They keep the area clean and are peaceful and respectful. I have been down there several times and have never seen trash, fights, drug use or anything unlawful.

If the Little Saigon folks weren’t kicked out for exercising their First Amendment right to freedom of

The last two years, you arrived at our home for Thanksgiving with a grocery bag full of raw ingredients and proceeded to commandeer bowls, pots, tools, stove burners and limited counter space in order to prepare a side dish— unlike everyone else, who brought their contributions preprepared. I figured you would have seen then the results of your stupidity and come with your dish preprepared the following year, but noooo. The second time, your intrusion caused me to spill turkey drippings which burnt my arm. So this year, I asked you to “just bring eggnog.” You arrived with the ingredients to make eggnog from scratch and acted offended when I told you “Sorry, there’s no room in the kitchen for another cook.”

How can you not “get” this?

Next year, you’ll be stuffing yourself elsewhere, even if my son goes ahead with the wedding.

expression, and their right to protest something they believe in, neither should Occupy San Jose.

Unlike foreign countries that protest in a violent way, these protests have been peaceful.

This is America, and we are founded on the right to freedom of speech.

I think the Occupy movement is vital to bringing attention to matters that need to be addressed. Ignoring the truth won’t make it go away.

KATHLEEN | SAN JOSE

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THE FLY

Unsupervised Move over Google, it seems public service is one of the valley’s most desired jobs. First, former Saratoga Mayor KATHLEEN KING and Mountain View City Councilmember MARGARET ABE-KOGA tossed their names into the ring for a seat on the county Board of Supervisors.

Then came JOE SIMITIAN, a lapsed supe who :?8E> will be termed out of the state Senate at the end of this year, joined the fray. Apparently, he wants his old job back while waiting for ANNA ESHOO to tire of the U.S. Congress. And Don’t now two Cupertinans forget are supposedly to tip! interested in the race.

The first is KRIS WANG, FLY@ who was Cupertino WS. METRONEWS. COM mayor in 2007 and 2010. She failed in her 2008 state assembly bid in between mayoral slots. The other is Cupertino Councilmember BARRY CHANG, who, let’s face it, is a reporter’s dream. Chang was willing to aggressively argue with almost anyone about environmental concerns he had about his city’s quarry, which earned him a written reprimand from county executive JEFF SMITH to cool his jets. There are some are people who privately wonder if Chang is, in fact, nuts.

While Simitian is still the race’s big gorilla with name recognition and fundraising prowess, Abe-Koga could be a credible opponent who can talk up her experience as chair of the county’s Valley Transit Authority board. Woohoo!

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He doesn’t spend much time talking about himself, even when the questions pertain to the uncomfortable political role Qayoumi is currently being forced to play. The president of SJSU—who was born in Afghanistan and previously presided over Cal-State East Bay—is being pulled in two different directions.

On one side, tugging for his advocacy, are students and faculty staging protests: the former incensed about increased

tuition fees, the latter coordinating strikes over compensation complaints.

And on the other side are Qayoumi’s superiors: Chancellor Charles Reed and the board of trustees.

Qayoumi’s job is to mediate between the various interests and lead the university at the same time, pretty much an impossible assignment. So, when he is asked about the difficulty of being stuck in the middle, it’s not surprising that his answer is political.

“I think the unfortunate thing is we have a bigger societal issue,” Qayoumi says. “There is such a hyper-level of partisanship that has really impeded any level of compromise for both sides of the political spectrum working together. One side of our political arena has been shackled with no-tax pledges, and then on the other side people are trying to protect a lot of social programs.

When our revenue streams and our expense streams do not match, that has created the quagmire that a lot of us in California are facing.”

When Gov. Jerry Brown reviewed his state budget plan at the beginning of this year, many knew public education would be one of the first things on the chopping block. The Cal-State system alone took $650 million in cuts, forcing students to see tuition increases for the sixth straight year. That is almost guaranteed to grow to seven, as an additional $100 million in cuts are expected due to revenue shortfalls based on unmet projections.

“There has always been an easy way out for a lot of our public officials,” Qayoumi says. “They can cut us since there is a vehicle of being able to increase fees.”

Students protested the CSU board of trustees’ meeting on Nov. 16, when a 9 percent increase in tuition fees was approved. Several students were arrested for trying to storm the meeting, which was eventually held behind closed doors.

Objections were raised by students, faculty, the media and Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who took part in the 9-6 vote to increase fees. Reed, however, said there was no good reason to revisit the vote.

As a result, students at SJSU walked out in protest the same day, with more than a couple hundred people carrying signs, banging drums and chanting before stopping at the iconic Tommie Smith and John Carlos statue on campus.

Double Vision When Karpf lists off the achievements and eventual decline of societies such as the Aztecs, Mayans or Incas, he sees twice as many students as the two dozen or so he had sitting in his classrooms a generation ago.

“In the late ’80s and early ’90s, my average class size was 25 students,” Karpf says. “In those same classes, my class size has gone up to 50 to 60.”

In Karpf ’s opinion, he isn’t just teaching about technically advanced societies that once flourished through education only to become decimated— he’s living in one. Budget cuts have made increased class sizes and stretchedthin teachers an all-too common tale in California’s educational system. As a result, lecturers such as Karpf, who hold no tenure and can easily lose their jobs, are voicing dissent at their own peril.

“When you’re talking about state funding cuts, that is real,” says Karpf, who sits on the California Faculty Association’s board of directors.

“That argument is legitimate. No faculty member, certainly not me, will dispute that.”

But Karpf and others will debate where the board of trustees directs its dollars.

“The thing is people say the budget is bad and California doesn’t have the money, but they do have the money,” says Gloria Collins, a 31-year English lecturer at SJSU and secretary on the

CFA board. “It gets misappropriated, in my opinion.” That theory will be tested, in part, when auxiliary organizations and foundations for California’s community colleges, the University of California system and CSU schools open their books for public inspection for the first time on Jan. 1.

Sponsored by state Sen. Leland Yee (D–San Francisco), Senate Bill 8 clears those organizations and foundations’ records for public records requests while protecting the names of donors.

It’s from these university foundations and auxiliaries where not all but a portion of salaries of presidents and administrators are paid. How much is not always known but is a topic of hot debate amongst faculty.

“The short answer is we don’t really know how much money is there, but we’re looking forward to the opportunity of finding out,” Karpf says. “I can’t cite empirical basis for this, but I have the feeling the foundations—because they have not been transparent—allow the chancellor to move funds from the general fund into the foundations.”

Much was made of the CSU trustees’ decision in July to raise the salary of new San Diego State President Elliot Hirshman to $400,000, which was an increase of more than $100,000 over that of his predecessor, Stephen Weber. But Weber went a substantial time without a raise, Qayoumi says, adding that the CFA’s use of limited information regarding negotiations as well as Hirschman’s salary during their protests was misleading.

“When you’re trying to make the best case of your own situation, you want to use data very judiciously and also promote your case, while not really giving all of the context of it,” he says.

While that could be seen as a company line, Qayoumi agrees with the legislation to open the foundations and auxiliary organizations’ books: “I always believe what they say: ‘Light is the best disinfectant.’ For accountability, transparency is the first step.”

Nailing down exactly where Qayoumi stands in the continuing fight between faculty and students against the chancellor and his board will also soon be revealed. But for now, it seems he is content to side with the latter.

“I think they are trying to do the right thing,” Qayoumi says, “but I think part of it is that many of the specialized interests are not interested in hearing it.”

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Qayoumi had no power to influence the board of trustees’ vote nor the subsequent protests, but students and faculty are keeping a close eye on how he responds. With no immediate solutions at hand to curb costs substantially or to create additional revenue outside of tuition increases, matters can only get worse.

“What remains to be seen is what kind of president he is and what policies he favors and enacts,” says Johnathan Karpf, an anthropology lecturer at SJSU. “He’s been open to hearing the frustrations that faculty, students and staff have. But all the university presidents serve at the pleasure of the chancellor, so as a consequence of that very few are willing to say anything that contravenes with what the chancellor is saying. My feeling is [Qayoumi] will be touting whatever line the chancellor wants him to tout. And that’s the nature of the beast.”

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Viviane Reding, EU Commissioner for Justice, is calling for transparency, telling ‘The Telegraph’ newspaper, “Users must know what data is collected and further processed [and] for what purposes.” Facebook continues to operate in the United States without concern, and only time will tell if the U.S. will start taking a more critical look at the company as well. This is sure to become a greater issue in the future, as social media will undoubtedly require regulation at some point.

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Facebook Teases IPO ... Again.

New rumblings are pointing to an IPO offering from Facebook between April and June. Facebook is famous for not putting its stock on the market despite the company’s mindboggling estimated value. According to a CNBC report this past June, the IPO has been valued at around $100B. According to VentureBeat, Facebook is already talking to the SEC about the launch timing. No matter what the valuation or the timing, Facebook is surely set to rake in the dough with their IPO. —BRENDAN NYSTEDT

Google Year Of Redesign Continues Google, the once seemingly untouchable web behemoth, has had a rough month, with public reactions to the redesigns of Google Reader and Gmail having been anything but supportive. But that may have just been the trailer before the coming attraction, as a major overhaul of the site’s black toolbar is aiming to alter the site’s user interface — with a desperate emphasis placed on Google+ for good measure.

The Next Web discovered a video on YouTube featuring a revised toolbar that drops tabs in favor of a dropdown menu that’s activated

when a cursor hovers over the site’s logo on the upper left-hand side.

According to the site’s breakdown (the video quickly vanished from the web, though TNW’s Vimeo account snagged it right before the pull) the new “Google Bar” will feature the Google dropdown menu, the search bar itself, and a G+ widget.

Whether users will find the redesign refreshing, or simply another in a long line of undesirable changes to a site where minimalism was a strong suit, remains to be seen. Until then, to see the rumored redesign for yourself, head over to The Next Web’s Vimeo account. — ROD BASTANMEHR

Web Developers Rise Up Against Adobe Flash Adobe’s Flash Plugin has long been a resource that web developers have turned to in order to offer an interactive, animated web experience. Flash is the reason YouTube exists; it enabled fun games to be offered up in browsers everywhere (hello, Farmville), and it brought a new kind of animation to the world. However, given today’s demands, Flash has fallen from grace. Criticized as sluggish, prone to crashes, proprietary and outdated, Flash began to lose its luster as recently as 2009 when Apple refused to enable Mobile Flash on its iOS devices. Although other companies have Mobile Flash on their devices (QNX, HP webOS and Android all have Flash plugins), Adobe recently announced it was ending development on Mobile Flash.

Now, web developers have anonymously banded together to put the final nail in the coffin of Flash for all web browsers. The Occupy Flash movement calls out Flash in its manifesto: “Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a

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SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics

After a delay due to an outbreak of violent crime, Police Chief Chris Moore, finally turned in his answers to questions submitted in October by San Jose Inside readers. The complete, unedited Q&A, with comments, can be found on sanjoseinside.com.

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The CAB, which includes both critics of the department as well as supporters, meets on a regular basis to provide feedback to the command staff and me. Most recently, they have been asked to help develop a comprehensive community policing plan for San Jose. These community leaders have been helpful in allowing us to hear and understand community concerns quickly and be able to resolve concerns more quickly than in the past.

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The short answer to your question is that with less staffing, we must prioritize how we provide services.

Our main priorities now are reducing and preventing violent crime, as well as responding to 911 emergency calls.

Obviously, many other low-level crimes/tasks may not be given the same attention they once were. Our sworn staffing level currently sits at approximately 1,100 officers. This is extremely low for a city of our size.

To go any lower than this level would be, I believe, dangerous for both the community and the department.

Optimally, a city of 1 million residents should have at least 2,000 cops.

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We currently have a team of both civilian and sworn personnel dedicated to implementing this critical project. We anticipate that the new system will be deployed next year.

This will greatly increase the efficiency of the Department. Our Department will finally become “paperless.”

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However, the bulk of the heavy lifting in our gang suppression efforts this year was done by our Special Operations Unit. Additionally, our Patrol Division gang cars made some excellent arrests that helped keep violence down. As a result of these collective efforts, we did not have a single gang-related homicide from June 14 through the beginning of the school year.

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SPORTS

Power Cycles OLD-SCHOOL POWER The Vincent Black Shadow staked its claim for street cred at the Progressive International Motorcycle Show.

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HE Progressive International Motorcycle Show rolled into the San Mateo Expo Center a couple weeks ago. The conference halls were filled with the usual suspects: Harley, Ducati, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Suzuki, Honda and Triumph. You could almost hear Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild” playing in everyone’s head at the Harley exhibit.

It wasn’t all new toys, though. A large portion of the show was dedicated to historic motorcycles that paved the way. There were some very early Harley machines on display: a Vincent Black Shadow, a Honda CX series Turbo and even Suzuki’s rotary-powered bike.

Some of the machines on display simply defied any stab at definition. At first glance, the new Norton seemed like a ’60s cafe racer. In fact, Norton has returned, and will be (with luck) available on this side of the Atlantic within a year.

The various Japanese manufacturers took the majority of show-room space and presented the most varied product lines. Honda, Yamaha and Kawasaki displayed their flagship models next to smaller-displacement cruisers and motocross offerings.

The aesthetic here is heading toward more robust-looking machines that push the limits of performance. The superbikes, for example, boast evergrowing displacement and power-toweight ratios that should probably only be allowed on airplanes.

One of the most surprising machines displayed was the Can-Am, a trike manufactured under the umbrella of BRP USA. It shared the spotlight at

BRP with Evinrude, Sea-Doo, Ski-Doo, Lynx and Rotax. Most enthusiasts will recognize Rotax as the Austrian engine and drive-train manufacturer of some note, but they probably won’t recognize a Can-Am as a motorcycle. In fact, it’s not. The Can-Am has two wheels up front and one in the back, and only resembles a motorcycle in the fact that it has handlebars, and the rider straddles it. They are fast and include technologies that make them very manageable and safe.

Although the multitude of manufacturers at the show should have satisfied anyone’s curiosity for design, the custom bikes took imagination to another level.

Some of them looked like futuristic bobbers yet sported power plants from days gone by. Other customs resembled something from the set of Akira, and some gave the impression they performed better standing still than on the road.

There was even a custom Harley Davidson Topper scooter, with pin striping and a paint job that probably cost more than the machine itself.

With Supermoto racers vying for positions just outside the conference halls, and demo rides available from Harley, Yamaha and Kawasaki across the parking lot, the show did what it was supposed to do: showcase motorcycle culture in all its forms and give riders a chance to check out all the manufacturers’ lineups.

If anything, the Progressive International Motorcycle Show is a huge time saver, which allows riders to explore their GAS (gear acquisition syndrome) and spend more time riding what they want than thinking about what they want to ride.

—Tomek Mackowiak

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The Hermann Hesse Museum in Switzerland keeps the novelist’s spirit alive with unexpected treasures and events

BY GARY SINGH

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HE anti-man-abouttown has emerged in this space quite a few times over the years, but after experiencing the Hermann Hesse Museum and Foundation in Montagnola, Switzerland, he just may have found a new inspirational terrain.

The author of Steppenwolf, Magister Ludi, Siddhartha and others, Hesse was an original anti-man-about-town who often merged inner travel with outer travel, exploring his internal conflicts through his novels. And he won the Nobel Prize for doing it.

Born in Germany in 1877, Hesse spent the last half of his 85 years in Montagnola, a tiny village in Ticino, the Italian-speaking section of Switzerland. At exactly the age I am now, he separated from his family and country, moved to Montagnola and started all over again.

While en route to Ticino, he produced the short book Wandering, a juxtaposition of poems, prose and watercolor paintings of panoramic landscapes he found along the way.

After settling in the Baroque-style Casa Camuzzi, he immediately wrote Klein and Wagner, followed by Klingsor’s Last Summer. Both novellas are based on Hesse’s conflicted life against the scenic backdrop of Ticino.

Today, the Fondazione Hermann Hesse includes a small museum in the tower adjacent to Casa Camuzzi,

filled with many of the author’s personal artifacts—his typewriter, desk, eyeglasses, books, watercolors and much more. One can peruse displays, posters, photos, plus audio accompaniment in Italian and German. A garden provides a regular setting where children take painting classes. Throughout the facility, collections of photos occupy the walls, accompanied by two different sets of texts. One set functions as explanatory material, while the other provides passages from Hesse’s works that relate to the particular photographs displayed.

Regina Bucher, the museum’s director, leads me around, explaining various components of the museum.

Next door, the Boccadoro Literary Cafe hosts concerts, readings and other events. Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye recently showed up and performed together for a crowd of just a few hundred, while thousands jammed the cobblestone lanes outside.

“Our success is partly because we are very active,” Bucher tells me.

“Sometimes a museum is a calm, rather boring place. We try not to be boring.”

In the main room, Hesse’s typewriter sits atop his writing desk—quiet, calm and still, almost as if it is meditating. Hesse posters flank the walls on either side of the desk. This is the typewriter on which he wrote Magister Ludi, Narcissus and Goldmund and The Journey to the East. I imagine it’s like experiencing the Bodhi Tree in India. But, Hesse did not write Siddhartha on this machine.

“Siddhartha he wrote by hand,” says Bucher, as she leads me up to a small area on a landing. We then gaze at an original printed version of Siddhartha sitting behind a locked case. The book was one of a few dozen copied by the publisher and hand-bound by Hesse for his close friends.

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From the museum, an official walking path takes one through the village and down to the cemetery where Hesse is buried. The graveyard is on the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National and Regional Significance. Along the path, placards contain texts Hesse wrote while wandering down the exact same route.

One particular clearing presents a breathtaking, unreal view of Lake Lugano, as it disappears over the horizon, between jagged hills and snowcapped peaks.

At the cemetery, Hesse’s grave sits in the far right corner. Tiny lizards dart back and forth across the thick gravel paths. There is no epitaph, just his name, along with the pertinent dates. On the bus back to Lugano, the anti-man-about-town could almost feel his inner conflicts beginning to resolve.

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FANG SWAY Bella (Kristen Stewart) relishes the morning after with vampire hubby Edward (Robert Pattinson), who looks oddly distressed by the long-awaited consummation.

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In one of the film’s more memorable scenes, Bella stands in front of the mirror and remembers sleeping with her husband with pleasure playing across her face, not noticing the bruises. But husband Edward, chagrined at said bruises, refuses to consummate their marriage again despite her best attempts at seduction.

Finally, she begins to beg him to sleep with her again: “Please,” she says, crying. “Please.” This is a girl who has wanted some vampire loving from day one (or book one), and she’s not going to take “no” for an answer.

Welcome to the twisted glory that is Mormon housewife turned teen-lit sensation Stephenie Meyer’s imagination.

On the pages of Breaking Dawn, Meyer let that imagination, which has been hovering under the repressed surface of the series’ previous three books, run rampant: bed-board-breaking, feather-spilling, bruising honeymoon sex; a demonic pregnancy that grows so fast the fetus is nudging and jumping around the heroine’s womb days after conception; a grown-up werewolf falling in love with a half-vampire infant; and our heavily-pregnant heroine sipping blood from a soda cup just before her ribs and spine are shattered by the immortal

spawn she’s carrying. It gets better: a c-section performed by vampire teeth; a shot of venom straight to the heart; a crazed childless vampire woman who will protect the fetus at all costs.

All these tableaux await viewers of Breaking Dawn: Part 1, whose gory images are interspersed with teenage romantic mooning, a fairy-tale wedding and the best smoldering gazes the young actors can muster.

Fang Base Every time a new installment of the never-ending Twilight film franchise comes out, I have to reassess this massively popular tale that is such a paradox. It is centered around a young woman’s desire, yes, but it’s a desire for all the wrong things (by feminist standards as well as by normal social ones).

There’s no question that Twilight is saturated with sexist tropes—to the point of being disturbing. But there’s also no question that that disturbing element is compelling, too. Deeply so.

There’s a reason teenage girls are obsessed with this story, after all, and it’s not because they’re shallow consumers of pop trash. Over the course of four books and five movies, Bella’s needs, wants and impulses are by the strongest power manifested— stronger than the vampires and

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Welcome to the twisted glory that is Mormon housewife turned teen-lit sensation Stephenie Meyer’s imagination She wants to sleep with Edward even though he might accidentally kill her, and she finally gets to, and she loves it.

Bella wants to be a vampire even though Edward and Jacob hope she can stay human and have a good human life, but her suicide by demon-childbirth leaves them no choice but to turn her vamp (the final shot of the latest film in which her new vampire eyes open is a stunning one), so now she’s a vampire—and she loves it!

And (spoiler alert) in the second installment of Breaking Dawn, her desire to hang with her human relatives despite her new thirst for their blood will win out, as will her desire for the bad vampires to leave her family alone. She ends up being the strongest vampire around, too; now that she’s immortal her desires take physical, supernatural form and allow her to shield her loved ones. But this new power is an afterthought, almost redundant. For the entire series, what Bella wants, Bella gets.

Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg answered a question about the troubling overtones in the book by alluding to this quality and acknowledging her own concerns in an interview with Vulture: ...as a pro-choice feminist, that was certainly my concern going in.

No matter what, I would not have done this movie if it violated my own beliefs. ... I would have just walked away—so I had to find a way into it that was in line with my own thinking and yet not violating anyone else’s beliefs. ... from the very beginning—and certainly in this film —she knows what she wants and goes for it, hell or high water.

It seems that Rosenberg was as struck as many readers were by the sheer force of Bella’s will.

Infantasizing Still, all this wish-fulfillment can be boring, and Bella has rightly been criticized as a “Mary Sue” character (one who exists as a stand-in for the author and has no flaws).

But as for the substance of her wants, therein lies the perversely haunting twist. I’d argue that Bella’s desires are direct responses to the patriarchy we actually live in. In fact, Meyer has created for her heroine an inverted version of our unjust society.

In this invented, inverted world, Bella is allowed to want sex, and vocalize it, and initiate it, while her partner is the gatekeeper who makes sure she is safe and married before she gets “hurt.”

In her world, the men around her urge her to abort her fetus for her own safety, but she gets to “choose” to deliver it. In her world, her boyfriend can urge her to attend college and better herself while she can push for an early marriage—and be right!

In her world, she can reject her body and trade it in for a new one that is agile, strong, lithe. Her choices are consistently to fall into the arms of the patriarchy and trust that it will catch her, and her faith is validated: She gets a perfect husband, angelic child, new body.

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werewolves combined. Her inmost wishes are the steady heartbeat that propels the action forward to an absurd degree.

She wants to date vampire Edward, she dates Edward—even though he is dangerous. She wants to keep her second suitor, werewolf Jacob, in her life, she keeps him in her life—even though he keeps messing with her relationship.

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What if we could do this, the fantasy suggests? What if we could just will ourselves to accept the prescribed roles society gives us (damsel in distress, object of protection, vessel for childbearing) and make it OK through the power of our wills? And what if the men in our society were horrified by their power: physical, social, sexual and curbed it themselves, and we didn’t constantly have to be on our guard?

I’m fairly convinced that this stuff, along with the blood and guts and the sex that is always expressed in chaste, PG-13 terms but underlies everything, comes right out of Meyer’s subconscious, that it’s almost a gargantuan effort in self-deception or at least suspension of disbelief.

She herself has said: The politics I never think of when I’m writing. It’s about a story that is interesting to me. I’m not going to say that “Breaking Dawn” doesn’t get weird, because it does. But these are things that as I was exploring what it means and meant to be a woman, particularly to be a mother because that is a big part of my life.

My strong feeling—and yes, it’s a total guess—is that Meyer has a host of mixed emotions about her own role in her patriarchal religious tradition, her role as a mother, her role as an American woman; all that ambivalence, that understandable fear and horror, bubbles up in these pages and then is shut down again by the author.

Thus, Bella’s story reads as a fantasy, but it is also uncannily compelling because it’s so fantastical.

A real Edward would be an abusive stalker. A real Bella would probably be labeled a slut for pursuing Edward, or maybe end up dead from carrying his child.

A real Bella might want an abortion and be stopped by men in authority, instead of the other way around. A real Bella might want to continue her education or career but feel pressured to get married, instead of the other way around. And if a real Bella were able to express her desires freely and escape stigma, that would be due to feminism, not a chiseled killer who watches her while she sleeps.

In the real world, female sexuality remains so taboo that the Breaking

Dawn sex scene had to be re-shot when Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella, “thrust” too much (no joke).

So yes, the universe Stephenie Meyer creates gets creepier and bloodier and more like a Christian Rosemary’s Baby in this final installment, so much so that there was a “fan revolt” and backlash when the book first appeared. On the other hand, it’s consistent with Meyer’s MO throughout the series: advance a threat, then let it retreat because Bella (and Meyer, and her readers) refuses to face it.

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There’s a reason teenage girls are obsessed with this story, after all, and it’s not because they’re shallow consumers of pop trash which a man gets to kick the villains out of existence, Bella gets to will the monstrous consequences of patriarchy into the ether.

And here’s why that’s such a hard lure to resist for readers. All the potential horrors that Meyer conjures up are actual fears women face: being shamed or hurt because of our own desires, being raped, death and deformity in childbirth, our bodies and their needs leaving us vulnerable.

The greatest magic of Twilight is that for the duration of its pages, Meyer makes those fears seem groundless.

Sarah Seltzer is an associate editor at AlterNet and a staff writer at RH Reality Check. Find her at sarahmseltzer.com. © 2011 Independent Media Institute.

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UP FOR THE COUNT The most famous vampire of them all, Bela Lugosi, eyes the jugular of a swooning Mina (Helen Chandler) in Tod Browning’s 1931 ‘Dracula.’

Society’s Blood Suckers In all good vampire stories, from Stoker to Meyer, the real prize isn’t sex but status—and great real estate

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udiences, I think, are more shocked by a sad vampire than a ferocious one.”— Christopher Lee, 1976 “Emo vampires?! Aw, girls ruin everything!”—Bart Simpson

I WOULD fundamentally rather not hate on the Twilight series. I enjoy those mile-wide, inch-deep moments of communion with a mass audience. The first Twilight had its appeal, certainly. First was the harmonious substitution of the Olympic Peninsula for

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THE DARK BACKWARD In 1943’s ‘Son of Dracula,’ Lon Chaney Jr.’s Count Alucard busies himself biting Southern belles and snapping up plantation property in Louisiana.

the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania. Second was director Catherine Hardwicke’s skilled handling of a young cast. Third was Kristen Stewart’s plaintive shyness in her first performance as Bella Swan. Back in 2008, there was even freshness in one of Stewart’s touching mannerisms: the way she sucked on her lips to conceal her prominent front teeth. (Taylor Swift’s brutal parody on Saturday Night Live picked right up on Stewart’s facial tic.)

Author Stephenie Meyer is working from a model that will be sturdy when we’re all long gone, the Gothic novel. In Twilight, a girl with few prospects and no great expectations is torn between an aristo with a bit of what they used to call hereditary taint and a healthy yet penniless countryman.

Wuthering Heights almost invented this plot in 1847; Thomas Hardy renovated it for the late Victorian period. In 1897, Bram Stoker caused a teacher named Mina Harker to be divided between a good man named

Jonathan and a strangely sensual and hairy blueblood from across the Danube.

Even if Meyer taffy-pulls this will-she-or-won’t-she dilemma for thousands of pages in four seemingly endless tomes and a novelette—even if Summit Entertainment keeps delivering sequels whether they’re ready or not—the Twilight saga plays variations on an unkillable theme. It has good bones.

Martin Landau’s Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood gave a plausible explanation for why vampires continue to dazzle female fans, from the Team Edward devotees to the “fang bangers” who follow True Blood: “In their collective unconsciousness, they have the agony of childbirth. The blood. The blood is horror.” Freud’s idea was that Dracula, like so many figures from supernatural lit, represented “a return of the repressed.” Apt, since what is a vampire if not a figure who comes in the window, right after you’ve locked the door against him?”

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grabs in the same Louisiana terrain where the vamps in True Blood dwell.

It’s not clear how much of the original TV series’ spirit Tim Burton will include in the 2012 film version of the TV vampire soap opera of the late-’60s, Dark Shadows. But if there was one thing Mr. Barnabas Collins could go on about, it was the mansion Collinwood. When the peerless Jonathan Frid started rolling his r’s about the noble ancient walls of the place, he could outdo any real estate agent.

And Dracula schemes to get his hands on some heritage British property. As Buffy’s frenemy Spike complained: “The count has to have his luxury estate, and his bug-eaters, and his special dirt, doesn’t he?”

In the book, it’s not the British castle Dracula especially wants, it’s London itself. As the novel was published seven years after the Whitechapel Murders, readers could surmise the real reasons why the count longs for the then-capital of the world: “to go about the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death.”

He was a vigorous monster, if “aloof and austere” as Christopher Lee described him. He’s a figment from the days when vampires took what they wanted, instead of sitting around idle in “Cullenwood,” smiling at each other and making collages out of their mortarboards. (Don’t ask, because the people who saw the movie know what I mean.)

The wedding-magazine porn of Breaking Dawn Part 1, complete with Vogue-style honeymoon shots seem to make it clear what Bella sees in Edward Cullen. And it’s not his fangs. The penultimate episode of the Twilight saga gets slightly more anatomically correct, and that’s got to be responsible for some of this episode’s big box office.

At long last, the tease is over—but rather than fulfillment, what we get is a couple of modest lingerie shots of Stewart followed by almost immediate morning sickness and superanemia. That’s how Meyer settles it for the audience; she lets them have the fantasy but then slams down the warning: Social climbing isn’t for poor people

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took on Dracula once, was supposed to be a reject, just like Bella. She was also a child of divorce. And no one accused her of being a Rhodes Scholar: “You know Buffy? Sweet girl, not that bright,” said Willow, the Wiccan who was the second in command of the vampire fighting operation in Sunnydale, California.

Otherwise, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, heroine of the 1997-2003 television show, was about the perfect opposite to Bella, even despite Buffy’s own unresolvable crush on a vampire. (We can take it on faith that those who stare into the abyss, etc.)

About the time of the third Twilight movie Eclipse, a meme started among Twilight-haters, praying that Buffy would suddenly arrive and give Edward a taste of “Mr. Pointy.” (Sadly, Twilight vampires cannot be staked.)

Compared to Buffy, Bella Swan doesn’t put up much of a fight.

She’s a fragile creature, first in her father’s care, then under the protection of a clan of Quileute werewolves; and finally, she’s the ward of a cultlike extended family of vamps, the Cullens. If Bella has strength, it’s the kind of strength the other women have in Twilight—the ability to endure the mauling of these Washington werefolk and bloodsuckers.

Trying to write about a world of money is, as George Orwell suggested, a simple matter of trying to convince readers that nasty things are nicer than nice ones. A crane shot in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 coasts us over the top of the house in the Rez where Jacob (Taylor Lautner) and his brotherhood of Native American werewolves live. The place needs reroofing; it’s tarped and held down with metal odds and ends, including a barbell someone tossed up there.

And Bella, former ugly duckling, is a princess in training. Is she going to live in that leaky dump with that pack of moon-mutts? Or is she going to dwell in a Hood Canal trophy mansion that would bankrupt a Microsoft VP? Vampires are, on the whole, owners of top-drawer real-estate.

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OLAND, in winter, under the Communist regime of the 1980s, was an unlikely studyabroad location. With my Polish heritage only three generations old, and a sense of adventure, I signed up for four months in Poland.

Poles love food. Bread.

Mushrooms. Cabbages, potatoes and beets. These ingredients capture the imagination east of Germany, north of the Tatry mountains and through the plains into Russia.

Each region has its own specialties, like sausage in German, duck in Warsaw, fish from Gdansk or sashlik in Lithuania.

In the late ’80s, the Soviet Union was a crumbling juggernaut. In Poland, meat rationing was still prevalent. As a student, I was allocated a monthly standard ration of 2 kilograms of bones, 250 grams of beef and assorted amounts of stomach, tendon and other parts. As a good Pole, I subverted the hated Soviet system and sold my ration card on the black market.

Bones make soup, and soup is the soul of Polish cooking. It comes in two categories: clear meat-based simmers including cabbages and beets, or mushroom soup with a cream base. A cabbage or beet soup should have a rich hearty core and mouth feel but no obvious meat, with a depth imparted by a healthy fat content, as when a home cook would use the ration’s quota of bones. In summer, the soup can

be lighter, allowing freshness of the vegetables to shine through.

In winter, the silky feel of fat predominates.

Growing up, I ate standard American fare, except for Christmas dinner. Although our household was nonreligious, the Catholic feast of seven fishes was enthusiastically observed. The table would groan with a dozen dishes, but to honor the fast before Christmas, no meat was served. In my grandparent’s house, the centerpiece fish was always a lightly breaded and baked cod or haddock. The first course of the festivities was always beet soup, made meatless to fit the holiday.

Instead of a clear, sweet soup with a hint of fat, our Christmas beet soup has the zing of a Chinese hot-and-sour. To replace the richness of fat, the greens of the beet are sautéed first, then the grated beets and water are added to simmer.

Several tablespoons of peppercorns are featured, along with a healthy serving of vinegar. The vinegar must be added late, so the bite remains in the bowl.

A lovely regional specialty is

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zurek, often translated as fermented rye soup, or listed as “sourdough soup” at Bona Restaurant in Menlo Park. Zurek is a specialty of Wielka Polska—Old Poland—the area between Warsaw and Berlin where the first kings of Poland were crowned, central to the rolling farmland stretching from Amsterdam to Moscow.

Zurek is fermented rye, first soaked then hung in a bag until the mash becomes naturally fermented and slightly sour. The soup is lightly cream based—not as heavy as a mushroom soup nor a winter beet soup. The slightly sour taste, in moderation with the cream, creates an interest that should dance in the mouth. Similar to our Christmas beet soup, sour adds interest and punch.

Two restaurants in the South Bay feature eastern European soups.

Bona Restaurant in Menlo Park serves a delightful collection of Polish soups, including zurek and an astonishing mushroom soup.

Zurek is rare; I ate it in Poland, at now-defunct Old Warsaw in San Francisco, and now at Bona. It’s a soup structured to surprise and delight, and worth the trip.

Russian Cafe and Deli in Campbell, is a little south bay gem. A selection of vodka lines an entire wall. The shop has a small seating area, so take-out might be well advised. The style of beet soup ($6.99) hails from the Ukraine and Russia, where soups are sweeter and uncomplicated. Good ingredients are grated and simmered, and the requisite dollop of sour cream must be added to create the necessary complexity. Russian Deli’s offering is bright and fresh, but my taste prefers the Polish style.

In the best tradition of South Bay dining, several hidden gems highlight an entire region’s complexity. Stop by and try the soup.

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CAPERS Well-heeled sports bar and restaurant. $$$. Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Welldevised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious finger foods. 11am-10:30pm MonThu, 11am-midnight Fri-Sat, 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777.

LA PIZZERIA Italian. $$. La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand on the strength of a few high-quality ingredients, expertly prepared.

Open for lunch and dinner daily.

11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am11pm Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Ave. 408.370.0826.

MICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi standards are transformed into palate-awakening presentations; culinary boundaries are stretched.

11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.378.8000 or 378.0838.

NEGEEN Persian. $$. Mira ghasemi, grilled and puréed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, puréed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs. Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice cream. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-midnight Fri-Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400.

PSYCHO DONUTS Donuts. $.

Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory with flavors like apricot, the Cookie Monster (topped with Oreos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits of vanilla wafers) and the intimidating Psycho Donut, a maelstrom of marshmallow,

pretzel and chile powder. 6am5pm Mon-Thu, 6am-11pm Fri, 7am-11pm Sat, 7am-5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester Blvd #C. 408.378.4540.

RUSSIAN CAFÉ AND DELI Russian. $$. This is a small Russian grocery store with a good little restaurant tucked in the corner. Borscht soup, pelmeni and solyankya sbornaya, a thick soup studded with chunks of mild pork sausage, black olives, pickles and barley all satisfy. 11am-8pm daily. 1712 S. Winchester Blvd.

408.379.6680.

SUSHI ZONE Japanese. $$. Fun sushi meets fun surroundings in this zone. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd #1.

408.866.1323.

TIGELLERIA Italian. $$.

Tigelleria’s menu centers on fine cheeses and Italian salumi paired with tigelle, free-flowing, piping-hot flatbreads the size of mini pitas. The bread forms the addictive heart of the meal.

11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm daily. 76 E. Campbell Ave. 408.884.3808.

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ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE American-Asian steakhouse. $$$$. Alexander’s is much more than a steakhouse. Add a 500-bottle wine list, multiple dining rooms and Asianaccented ambience and you’ve got a standout South Bay restaurant. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 10330 N. Wolfe Rd. 408.446.2222.

CAFE TORRE New Italian. $$$. A gem tucked away in an unassuming little mall, with a sophisticated interior

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and congenial hosts. Even better is the great pasta and seafood. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 510:30pm Fri-Sat. Closed Sun. 20343 Stevens Creek Blvd.

408.257.2383.

CUPERTINO BAKERY Indian and bakery. $. Don’t be fooled by the name. Cupertino Bakery is a really great South Indian restaurant. Unlike many South Indian restaurants, Cupertino Bakery isn’t vegetarian. Good lunch buffet for $7.99. Don’t miss the dosa and utthappam.

11:30am-9:30pm daily, but weekdays the kitchen closes 2:30-5:30pm. 102521 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.517.9000.

DYNASTY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Hong Kongstyle Chinese. $$$. Dynasty specializes in Hong Kongstyle seafood. The seafood is very fresh, especially the creatures swimming minutes before they arrive on your plate. Good dim sum, too.

Full bar. 11am-2:30pm, 59:30pm Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 10123 N. Wolfe Rd (in Cupertino Square). 408.996.1680.

FLORENTINE RESTAURANT Italian. $. Bold flavors, fresh ingredients and lavish portions. Beer, wine. 10257 S. De Anza Blvd. (plus six other locations, some with full bars). 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 408.253.6532.

FONTANA’S California/ Italian. $$$. A steady performer, Fontana’s rarely disappoints pasta lovers.

Beer, wine. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri,

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HAVE MUCH to be thankful for. First and foremost, I’m thankful for my family and my health. Once you have those two things, everything else is pretty much gravy. This being Thanksgiving time, it’s the gravy I want to write about it.

I’m thankful that I get to write about food, a passion of mine for the past 30 years. It’s a privilege to do what I do. For me, that means it’s my responsibility to write about more than meals good and bad. While I want to continue sharing my restaurant discoveries with you, I think it’s my duty to also report about the ills of a food system gone off the rails and point out solutions wherever they may be.

Speaking of solutions, I’m thankful for urban farms. I believe one of the main reasons, if not the main reason, we’ve become so disconnected with the source of our food is because we seldom see where our food comes from. If we could see, for example, how turkeys are raised in vast windowless bunkers amid clouds of burning ammonia and filth, or how industrial agriculture must plow ever greater quantities of chemicals into the soil, we would change what we eat in an instant.

Silicon Valley’s urban farms (VEGGIELUTION, FULL CIRCLE FARM , pictured, and CHARLES STREET GARDENS) not only provide their communities with a source of fresh produce, they’re building a constituency that understands where its food comes from and demands something better than the “cheap” food that dominates the market.

I’m thankful for immigration. Without newcomers from Mexico, Vietnam, China, Japan, India, Ethiopia, Iran, Korea and everywhere else, eating out in Silicon Valley would be dreadfully dull. Immigration makes Silicon Valley taste better.

Similarly, I’m grateful for ethnic food havens like El Camino Real, Keyes/Story Road and Calaveras Boulevard. Silicon Valley hasn’t exactly been awash in new restaurants, and whenever I’m hungry for something new, I just drive down one of these dynamic streets of eats, and I almost always find something new.

I’m thankful for chef/owners like DAVID KINCH (Manresa), JOE CIRONE (Hay Market), NICK DIFU (Nick’s on Main), JOSIAH SLONE (Sent Sovi), MASAHIKO TAKEI (Gochi) and JESSE ZIFF COOL (Flea St. Café). It’s not easy owning a restaurant in the best of times. Going it alone without the backing of a chain or a hotel is risky business. The result of this risktaking is food that’s a reflection of the chefs’ creativity, not a distant boardroom. Silicon Valley isn’t known for its chef-run restaurants, and we’re lucky have the ones we’ve got.

Finally, I’ve got to give thanks to my stomach. A food writer relies on his stomach as much as his brain. While my brain sometimes falters, my stomach is far more reliable. No matter what I put in it—or how much—it hardly ever complains, doesn’t keep me up at night and is ready for more a few hours later. Thanks, belly of mine!—Stett Holbrook

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GOCHI Japanese. $$$. Gochi is a globally inspired izakaya (small plates) restaurant.

Most of the food is straightup Japanese fare, but there are a few American, French and Korean twists. Highly recommended. 19980 Homestead Rd. 408.725.0542.

LOON WAH Chinese. $. The kitchen produces good wokcentric dishes, but its main draw is fresh, hand-pulled noodles. Casual. Beer, wine.

11am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri-Sun. 1146 De Anza Blvd. 408.257.8877.

TATAMI Japanese. $$. Billed as a Japanese seafood buffet, Tatami doesn’t limit itself to Japanese dishes. Pan-Asian and just plain odd specialties rotate. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am3pm, 5:30-9:30pm Sat-Sun. Cupertino Square mall (near Sears), 10123 N. Wolfe Rd #2001. 408.996.3444.

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

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

408.782.7550.

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

300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444.

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

ANTONELLA’S Classic Italian standards in a relaxed, family-friendly Rose Garden neighborhood setting. 11am9pm Mon-Fri, 8am-3pm and 4-9 pm Sat-Sun. 1701 Park Ave., 408.279.4922

ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$.

Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu, 5:3011pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555.

BELLA MIA Italian-American. $$$. One of downtown San Jose’s most attractive eateries, Bella Mia serves regional dishes with flair. Full bar. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 4:30-10pm Sat, 4:30-8pm Sun. 58 S. First St. 408.280.1993.

BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$.

Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and tastes like the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American, Mexican and Asian food. Most dishes are designed for sharing—appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am-10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat. Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St. 408.292.4300.

DALAT Vietnamese. $$.

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

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

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beautiful presentations. Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails.

Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:30-9:30pm Sun. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161.

FLAMES EATERY AND BAR American. $$. In Silicon Valley, the home-grown Flames restaurant chain is the area’s definitive coffee shop. And now they’ve opened in downtown San Jose to great acclaim. 7ammidnight daily. 88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

4TH STREET PIZZA CO. Pizza. $. 4th Street Pizza Co. occupies a prime corner spot on East Santa Clara and Fourth with big windows to watch the comings and goings at City Hall across the street. The thin-crust margherita fell short but the thicker-crust pies are better.

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

HOUSE OF SIAM Thai. $. This popular establishment runs the gamut of Thai treasures. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm daily. 151 S. Second St. 408.295.3397.

IL FORNAIO Regional Italian. $$. Embraced by the graceful Sainte Claire Hotel, this location (there are several up and down the coast) transports the diner. The menu showcases a different region of Italy monthly.

7am-10pm Mon-Thu, 7am-11pm Fri, 8am-11pm Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. Full bar. 302 S. Market St. 408.271.3366.

KOJI SAKE LOUNGE $$.

Japanese. In spite of Koji’s well-tuned atmosphere, it’s the sakes that really set the tone. Koji’s sake list includes tasting notes that help you find one that suits you. Happy hour 6-9pm Wed-Fri with $3 beers and $5 small plates. 6pm-close Wed-Fri, 8pm-close Sat. 48 S. First St. 408.287.7199.

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

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LA VICTORIA TAQUERIA Mexican. $. La Vic’s famously addictive orange hot sauce merely tops off its tasty taqueria fare: big burritos of the breakfast and lunchtime varieties, overflowing nachos, delectable chile rellenos. 7am3am daily. 140 E. San Carlos St. 408.298.5335.

LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$.

Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades. Lunch 11am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 1-10pm Sat and 4-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.

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

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

MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food cooked and served by people with a personal investment in customer happiness. Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-11pm MonSat, Sun 5-9pm. 86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.

MORTON’S STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, a Chicago-based chain of restaurants with more than 80 locations across the U.S. and abroad, offers delicious, premium-priced steaks. The rest of the menu is a mixed bag. 5:30-11pm Mon-Sat,

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MUCHOS Mexican. $. A small player with a big rotisserie, this taqueria cultivates a devout lunch following. All standards get billing, but the mesquiteroasted chicken is the star. Beer.

11am-10pm daily. 72 E. Santa Clara St. 408.277.0333.

NAGLEE PARK GARAGE New American. $$. Lots of restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood joints but few deliver. The Garage does. Small but satisfying menu of wellexecuted comfort food classics.

5-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm Sat, 9am1pm Sun. 505 E. San Carlos St. 408.286.1100.

NHA TOI Vietnamese. $$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern-style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am-10pm daily.

460 E. William St. 408.294.2733.

PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor. Pagoda offers the gamut of regional allstars. Full bar. 6-10pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St. 408.998.3937.

PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$.

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

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

P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO Chinese. $$. With atmosphere to spare, Chang’s doesn’t neglect taste. Vibrant Szechuan flavors mix surprisingly well with rich Western-style desserts. Take-out. Full bar.

11am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11am11pm Fri-Sat. 98 S. Second St. 408.961.5250.

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

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and muffaletta. Live music on Fridays and Saturdays. 11am9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10am-8pm Sun; brunch 10am-2pm Sun. 91 S. Autumn St. 408.292.5837.

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

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

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

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

408.287.4098.

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

VUNG TAU Vietnamese. $$.

Traditionalists might gripe that they can get authentic Vietnamese food for less elsewhere, but it’s hard to top Vung Tau for its fresh, quality ingredients and sleek yet comfortable décor. Encyclopedic menu. 10am-3pm, 5-9pm daily. 535 E. Santa Clara St. 408.288.9055.

WING’S Chinese. $. The food is complemented by an exotic dining room with sequestered seating equipped with hanging beads and doorbells, and other miscellaneous peculiarities of a bygone era. Always a fun place to visit. 11:30am-9:30pm daily.

131 E. Jackson St. 408.294.3303 or 998.9427.8156.

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*wed KAYE BOHLER Club Fox, Redwood City Wed – 7pm; $5 Having unleashed Like a Flower, her first collection of new music in six years, Bay Area performer Kaye Bohler is good and ready to perform a hard-won set of songs about grit and triumph. On the album, Bohler is flanked by some of the best blues players the West Coast has to offer, including Tommy Castro, Danny Caron, Garth Webber and Robben Ford, but the real attraction remains the singersongwriter herself. Bohler’s brassy spin on soul, blues and R&B is a

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seemingly endless resource, and allows her to take on both originals and standards with equal portions of confidence and ease. (PMD)

screaming and sweet harmonies, it’s that they do it without sounding hyperchaotic. They transition from each section with such ease, like weaving in some synth sounds or metal-vocal-grunts is the most natural thing in the world to do.

And, somehow, they come out of it sounding like a pop band. (AC)

WE ARE PROMISE

MONKEY

The Refuge, Cupertino Fri – 6pm; $10

Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $8

It’s not often that you hear a growling-cookie-monster, death metal vocalist and a superslick pop-punk vocalist side by side in one band. But there’s a lot about We Are Promise that you don’t often hear. It’s not just that they mash together such diverging elements as hardcore, poppunk, electro’d-up death metal,

Last month, Monkey returned from an overseas tour that took them everywhere from the U.K. to Switzerland, Slovenia and Slovakia.

This is their homecoming show, and it’s great to see that after a decade and a half, the San Jose six-piece is getting some of the appreciation it deserves. Band leader Curtis Meacham’s passion for traditionalist

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RS2 Solid Sound and Los Hot Boxers open. (SP)

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J. STALIN

The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Sat – 9pm; $16/$21 In the documentary On Behalf of the Streets, named after J. Stalin’s first album, one of his childhood friends says “he done been on everything in the Bay, basically.” He also predicts the rapper he once knew as Jovan Smith will be a legend by age 30. J.

Stalin’s got a few years to go still, and if he doesn’t make it, it won’t be for lack of trying. Other rappers may fake hustler cred, but J. Stalin grew up in West Oakland, and his first record was a criminal record, after getting busted for selling drugs in the projects. Now he runs Livewire Records, and the list of Bay Area rappers who work either with him or for him is ridiculous. He came along just in time to put a new spin on hyphy as it was starting to sound stale; several years later, songs like “Hopscotch” from his new mixtape show how he continues to twist his sound. (SP)

MELTED STATE X Bar, Cupertino Sat – 9pm; $5 The name “Melted State” is an apt band name for these guys, because they play a bunch of mixed-up styles

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GGERSHWIN: HERE TO STAY Dec 3 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

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

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

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

JONATHAN RICHMAN Dec 11 at 8:30pm, the Catalyst, D Santa Cruz

ST. MICHAEL TRIO Dec 11 at 3pm, Montalvo Arts Center

JOHN WAITE Dec 111 at the Avalon, Santa Clara

CHANTICLEER Dec 13 at 8pm, Memorial Church, De Stanford

JAY-Z/KANYE WEST Dec 14 ((new date) at 8pm, HP Pavilion

BRIAN SETZER Dec 20 at 8pm, the Catalyst, Santa Cruz

THE LIMOUSINES Dec 23 at the Blank Club, San Jose

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

MACEO PARKER that’s all blended evenly. They list their influences as Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder and Tool—there are three bands you’d never see together on one bill. Yet, you can hear them all in Melted State’s music, in equal parts. They are a soul-rock band. Or maybe more like a rock-soul band; they groove and rock at about an even 50/50 split. Their lead singer has a strong, powerfully soulful voice, sort of like Kim Wilson from the Fabulous Thunderbirds. Drunken Starfighter, Sweet Hayah and Lou Evans open. (AC)

DJ CRYSTAL ELLIS Studio 8, San Jose Sat – 10pm; $20 after 11pm DJ Crystal Ellis started out a model, getting her first real notice as Miss Rehab in Vegas. In April of 2009,

she was the centerfold in Playboy, and things got real crazy real fast.

Ironically, she was already well into the career she actually wanted to pursue, DJing. Sure, “Playboy Playmate DJ” sounds way sexier than, say, “Goateed Dude in a Hat DJ,” but you can imagine the preconceived notions it creates about her skills.

They’re probably the same ones all the guys she beat in the L.A. Beezo Battle—the old-school/new-tech live DJ battle in which she placed third—had too. (SP)

ANDRE NICKATINA Avalon, Santa Clara Sat –8pm; $25 He started his career as Dre Dog in 1993 and even scored a modest single, “Situation Critical” in 1995 that fell somewhere between ’90s gangsta rap and we-funk party rap, with just

a dash of ’80s throwback production style. The music quickly evolved when he changed his name to Andre Nickatina in 1997. While his rhymes and vocal styles have always been strictly old school, with no fancy tricks, his music became a playground for experimentation, mixing up bizarre live instrumentation loops, screeching keyboards, orchestra bursts and plain old gangsta rap. With 18 albums under his belt, he’s proven he has something that only a select group of rappers have managed: staying power. (AC)

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MILITIA OF LOVE Poor House Bistro, San Jose Sun – 2pm; free

It’s not surprising that some band would hear local blues diva Lara Price and think “We have got to get her on our record.”

What is surprising is that it’d be a reggae band, although Price’s last album Everything did prove that she can sing exactly what the title promises. In any case, the members of Militia of Love met Price earlier this year and drafted her into their band (though of course she continues to perform solo). And these guys know their reggae singers, since MoL is basically an all-star band for Central Coast reggae, made up of members of Cardiff Reefers, Salinas’ Dubwize, SLO’s Rock Steady Posse, and more. Price will be on board for this, PHB’s Reggae Christmas Party. (SP)

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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CAUGHT AUGHT IN HISTORY In Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus,’ history became a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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ARTOONIST Art Spiegelman’s new book MetaMaus is a series of literary concentric rings around his Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel Maus, which was originally published between the years 1977 and 1991.

These are conceivably Spiegelman’s last words on the subject. He has been drawing “tragics” (as opposed to comics) about the Nazi death camps ever since a three-pager in a San Francisco underground comic in 1972.

His main source was his own father, Vladek Spiegelman, a prisoner of both Auschwitz and Dachau. (Spiegelman’s mother, who also made it out alive, later committed suicide in 1968.)

Trying, like so many undergrounders, to free cartoons from the realm of Disney, Spiegelman portrayed the Holocaust as a cat-andmouse game. In the two parts of Maus, the Nazis are cats and the rounded-up Jews are mice.

Spiegelman began this project when there wasn’t really much business in shoah business. Today though, no comment is necessary under one of his drawings in Maus, critiquing what the artist calls “Holokitsch.” We see a starved, shocked concentration camp prisoner holding an oversized Oscar.

How to communicate this inconceivability? In this collection of transcriptions, documentation, memoirs and interviews—not to mention the sheaf of rejection letters Maus received from a dozen publishers—Spiegelman chronicles his life of being a historian of something people would prefer not to remember.

“No one wants anyway to hear such stories,” says his father.

“Maybe everyone has to feel guilty!

Forever!” Spiegelman satirically imagines shouting at an interviewer.

Due to its dozens of translations, easy accessibility and frequent assignments in schools, Maus may be the only book a postliterate generation reads about the extermination of the European Jews.

The good news is that the beginner couldn’t ask for a better guide than MetaMaus, which has much better mapping: guides to further reading, along with contemporary illustrations by Nazis and camp prisoners alike. MetaMaus is a fine

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primer on how to create a graphic novel, with Spiegelman’s early sketches linked to final versions to show the artistic choices he made. More importantly, now we can actually listen to Vladek Spiegelman’s voice (on the accompanying CD) and read a transcript of his interviews.

Of course, the younger Spiegelman tries to refute some of the charges against him. Two reoccur frequently.

One is how he used (or perverted) the age-old funny-animals format, which goes back to Aesop. Spiegelman’s Poles are pigs, but in the Warner Bros. bestiary, Porky was always the settled one, the farmer and the straight man. The animals aren’t of any one type. Civilian German cats are less fanged than Spiegelman’s Nazis. No American who knows his historical slang can object to the U.S. soldiers as literal dogfaces. Spiegelman also seems sensitive to those who thought he equated his own personal angst with the sufferings of his father.

Rereading Maus, one gets a fresh exposure to the old man’s abrasiveness.

Who was Vladek typical of, except himself ? His ingenuity was the reason he was the one among thousands who lived. Vladek was an escape artist, a salesman and a conniver, with poetic syntax (he knew five languages, but his English was idiosyncratic).

He was a racist and a selfaggrandizer. And he was a scavenger.

Vladek embarrasses his son by salvaging some wire from a garbage can. Yet this incident makes a subtle lead into a story of the camps—of one Mandlebaum who prayed to God for a length of string, because he couldn’t guard his soup and hold up his sagging uniform pants at the same time.

As one of the ones who made it back, Vladek was never entirely sure that the Nazis might not return. And he wanted to pass his prison education to his child. Many would have run away from such lessons for good.

Critics have pointed to this cartoon version of Art Spiegelman as a bad son, angry, neglecting and neurotic. In fact, such a slaved-over and haunting preservation of a father’s history shows nothing but a son’s devotion.

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A Christmas Carol Runs through Dec. 24; San Jose Repertory Theatre; $29–$74 No holiday season would be complete with the ghosts of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, past, present and reimagined. In San Jose Rep’s production, artistic director Rick Lombardo stays true to the Victorian trappings of the tale while giving it a fresh psychological twist. Richard Farrell stars as Scrooge, a one percenter who learns some valuable lessons from 99 percenters like Tiny Tim (Everett Meckler).

The Secret Garden Runs Nov. 30–Dec. 31; Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto; $19–$69 Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic story about an orphan girl and the garden in which she finds solace is given the full musical-theater treatment in TheatreWorks’ holiday production. Robert Kelley directs the show, with music by Lucy Simon and lyrics by Marsha Norman.

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The Nutcracker Friday at 7:30pm, Saturday at 2 and 7:30pm, Sunday at 1pm; San Jose Center for the Performing Arts; $20 and up The season of Dickens is also the season of Tchaikovsky. This weekend San Jose Dance Theatre in collaboration with Los Gatos Ballet presents four performances of The Nutcracker, directed by Marcie Ryken. The event honors the memory of San Jose Dance Theatre co-founder Paul E. Curtis, Jr., who passed away this August.

Symphony Silicon Valley Friday–Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2:30pm; California Theatre, San Jose; $38–$74 Guest pianist Jon Nakamatsu settles in for a threeconcert stint with Symphony Silicon Valley. On Friday, Nakamatsu will perform both solo recital pieces and orchestral works, most notably Chopin’s Piano Concerto no. 1. On Saturday and Sunday, Nakamatsu will perform selections by Milhaud and Kodaly with the orchestra under the baton of JoséLuis Novo.

Dance

BALLET AMERICA A full-length version of “The Nutcracker.” Fri, 7pm. $18-$39.

Fox Theater, Redwood City

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

SAN JOSE DANCE THEATRE Now presenting its 46th production of “The Nutcracker.”

Fri, 7:30pm, $20-$50. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

408.286.9905.

WESTERN BALLET Featuring Clara, Fritz and friends. Fri, 7pm, Sat, 1 and 7pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm. $25-$30.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

YOKO’S DANCE ACADEMY “The Nutcracker” with the Fremont Symphony Orchestra.

Sat, 2 and 7pm, Sun, 2pm. $20 and up. Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont.

Theater ALMOST MAINE A holiday tale about the citizens of a magical town under the Northern Lights; presented by Bus Barn Stage Company. ThuSat, 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.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL 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) official opening, ThuFri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm, Tue, 7:30pm. $29-$74. San Jose Rep.

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, FriSat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru

Area. Sun, 2pm. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

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RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS

A musical comedy about the foibles of corporations with music by Frank Loesser.

Presented by West Valley Light Opera. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Runs thru Dec 3. $29-$33. Saratoga Civic Theater.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE A stage version by Tabard Theatre of the famous Frank Capra 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.

SANTALAND DIARIES For the holidays, City Lights presents David Sedaris’ comedy about working as an elf in a Macy’s. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm.

Runs thru Dec 18. $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 CHRISTMAS A mystery comedy with holiday theme. Fri, 2, 8pm, Sat, Dec 3, 2pm. $31-$35. Campbell Heritage Theatre.

STONES IN HIS POCKET Dragon Productions explores the sometimes comic, sometimes difficult, effects of a Hollywood film crew on location in an Irish village in Marie Jones’ play.

Thu–Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Dec 4. $16-$30. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

Classical Concerts EL CAMINO YOUTH SYMPHONY Two concerts. At 1:30pm with the Flute Ensemble, Wind Orchestra and Galbraith Honor Strings. At 3:15pm with the Chamber Players and Camerata Orchestras. Sun. $$8/$15.

Menlo Atherton Center for the Performing Arts.

HEIDI HAU TYAN A free piano recital present by the Steinway Society of the Bay

The chorus performs Christmas classics. Sat, 5pm. First Congregational Church of Palo Alto. Also Sun, Dec 11, 5pm, $10-$25. St. Matthew’s Episcopal, San Mateo.

SAN JOSE SYMPHONIC CHOIR Performing “Holiday Magic,” featuring selections by Bach and Rutter and seasonal favorites Sat, 7:30pm. $10$20. Church of the Ascension, Saratoga.

SAN JOSE WIND SYMPHONY A concert of music celebrating America’s pastime, baseball.

Sun, 3pm. $5-$20. McAfee Center, Saratoga.

SAN JOSE YOUTH SYMPHONY Anniversary concert. Sat, 2:30pm. California Theatre, San Jose.

STEWART TARTAN PIPES AND DRUMS Annual holiday show in a Scottish vein. Sun, 3pm. Freewill offering. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Saratoga.

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

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

Redwood City.

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

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm. Sadiki Fuller. $12/$18.

Tue, 8pm: Dave Burleigh. $12.

Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: United Nations Comedy. $10. Thu, 8pm: Reggie Steele. $10. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Bobby Lee. $22. Mon, 8pm: Battle of the Bay. $15. San Jose.

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Museums 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, 1876-1936.” Ongoing. WedSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am8pm. Stanford.

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

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

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

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

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

EUPHRAT MUSEUM “Bridging Generations: De Anza Collects.” A look at award-winning art from De Anza students over the last 40 years. Thru Dec 28. Mon-Thu, 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. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Invisible Lineage.” Works by a quartet of mid-20th-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, 10am5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm.

San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART Works by Eve Page Mathias.

Dec 3-Feb 12. Reception Dec 9, 7-9pm. Department of Art Faculty show. Dec 3-Feb 5.

Reception Dec 9, 7-9pm. TueWed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries

SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS This Friday’s artwalk brings with it Anno Domini’s annual ‘Fresh Produce’ exhibit full of original art all priced to make good holiday gifts (including the painting above by Tyler Bewley). The evening’s activities include clay works by Jon Price at Higher Fire Clay, a FESTIVUS celebration at SLG Art Boutiki, a Mesh Collective presentation at South First Billiards and a holiday show at Kaleid Gallery. Also on tap is a performance by Hristo Vitchev and Weber Iago at Eulipia.

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KRAUSE CENTER

“Belly of the Beast.” A group show by eight San Jose artists.

Thru Dec 16. 592 N. Fifth St, San Jose.

“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.

BRUNI GALLERY “The Jazz Masters Series”

by BRUNI. “Sports Originals”

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

Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA

OPENING SOUTH FIRST FRIDAY The galleries and museums of downtown San Jose stay open late for South First Friday with receptions for new shows, live music, holiday gifts and more.

Fri, 7-11pm.

CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI Fresh Produce, group show and sale. Dec 2 to end of the year. San Jose.

ART ARK “The More the Merrier II.” A holiday show. Closing reception for South First Friday. San Jose.

“Simply Seen.” Photographs in a Hipstamatic vein by Marco Zecchin. Continuing. San Jose.

GALLERY SARATOGA “My Passion.” Oil paintings and jewelry by Lin-Ching Peng. Thru Dec 5. Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm.

Saratoga.

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

Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

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

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“Killer Crystals.” Creations by Jon Price. Dec 2-31. San Jose.

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

KALEID GALLERY

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HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE

“Hark!” Holiday art show and sale. Dec 2-31. San Jose.

“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 “Outside the Lines Inside of the Box.” New works in oil by Jane W. Ferguson, plus live music for South First Friday. Dec 2-31.

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 FESTIVUS celebration for South First Friday. San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS “Labour of Love,” presented

by Mesh Collective with the Rumblefish and Scarlet Stoic.

South First Friday. 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. Continuing. San Jose.

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THE CHRISTMAS MOUSE A family show from Santa Clara Players. Fri, 7pm, Sat 11am and 3pm, Sun, 3pm.

Runs thru Dec 11. $7/$10.

Triton Museum Santa Clara.

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THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER A family holiday show presented

by California Theatre Center.

Fri, 7pm, Sat, 11am and 7pm. $12/$14. Sunnyvale Theatre.

DISNEY’S TARZAN A family show from Children’s Musical Theatre San Jose. Runs Dec 2-11. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm (no 6pm show Dec 11), plus Thu (Dec 8), 7:30pm. $30. Montgomery Theatre, San Jose.

FAMILY CONCERT A holiday show with San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and Circus Bella. Sun, noon.

College of San Mateo Theater.

Free (Reserve tickets at sjfchamberorchestra.org.)

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A film about the effect of plastics on the environment.

Sat, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK With displays in a holiday vein.

Runs thru Jan 1. Cesar Chavez Plaza, downtown San Jose.

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

FANTASY OF LIGHTS Vasona Park shows off spectacular outdoor light displays. Thru Dec 31, 6-10pm. $10/$15 per vehicle. Vasona Lake County Park, Los Gatos.

HOLIDAY TEA & TOUR History San Jose presents a tea room, tours, demonstrations and a visit by Santa. Sat, 11am on. $45. San Pedro Square Market, San Jose.

LIGHT IT UP A Chanukah celebration for ages 21 and up. Features music, raffle prizes and an open bar. Sat, 9pm. $10/$15. Congregation Beth David, Saratoga.

ONE WARM COAT GLOBAL WINTER WONDERLAND Giant lanterns depict famous buildings, plus games, food, arts and crafts and celebrations of various holiday traditions. Thru Jan 2. $10/$12.

Parking Lot of Great America, Santa Clara.

HOLIDAY PEACE FAIR Gifts, handicrafts, music and dance, presented by San Jose Peace and Justice Center and Women’s International League.

Sat, 10am-4pm. $2 donation.

Willow Glen United Methodist, San Jose.

Bring new or gently used coats to drop-off locations: InnVision, Emmanuel Baptist Church, Momentum For Mental Health, Sacred Heart Community Service, San Jose.

Thru Dec 31.

SHOP, ENJOY AND GIVE Shop, eat, and drink at discounted rates at Santana Row, benefits donated to Second Harvest Food Bank.

Every Tuesday in Dec, 6-9pm.

Santana Row, Santa Clara.

WINTERFEST 2011 Girl Scouts host this holiday crafts show. Sat, 10am-3pm. $10. Expo Hall, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.

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GOOD NEWS FOR CAPRA CORNS The perennial holiday movie favorite ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ made in 1946 by Frank Capra and starring Jimmy Stewart, lives on not just at special screenings but onstage, thanks to Tabard Theatre Company’s version. Tabard has recast the tale of a man who gets a glimpse of what life in a small town would be like without him as a 1940s-era radio play complete with on-the-fly sound effects. The show runs Dec. 2–18 at Theatre on San Pedro Square in San Jose.

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Man Under The Influence

THE FLAME BECKONS Sultry Heather Gordon is too good to pass up in ‘Seducing Charlie Barker.’

A down-and-out actor falls hard for a blonde siren in Seducing Charlie Barker By

RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ORMER SJSU drama teacher Amy Glazer’s Seducing Charlie Barker is an adaptation of a play by Theresa Rebeck titled The Scene. It’s a kind of light tragedy with a penumbra of comedy glowing around it.

We see the title character, a man on the way down, drinking right out of a bottle of Blue Angel vodka, and that’s a clue. Clearly Charlie was drawn “like a moth to the flame” as Marlene Dietrich sang in The Blue Angel.

Charlie (Stephen Barker Turner),

a 40ish actor, is recovering from a stint in California. He had a bad time there. In the pursuit of work, he was forced to socialize with insincere TV stars. His wife, Stella (Daphne Zuniga, in a comeback role), is still supporting Charlie as he gets it together in Manhattan; she’s a producer on a high-stress, low-quality TV show. In her spare time, Stella is organizing the adoption of a baby from China.

Not really understanding just how restless he is inside, Charlie goes to a party and sees Clea (Heather Gordon), a young blonde in a tight red dress. Charlie meanly teases the girl as an airhead, mostly out of thwarted desire. That’s when he learns a coincidence: Clea just got fired as an assistant from his wife’s show.

Later, Stella urges Charlie to take a lunch with a talentless friend whose TV pilot seems likely to be picked up. There may be a role for Charlie in the show—we can guess this from the miserable, uncomfortable abrazo the two share at the end of the lunch—but the script is bilge.

After this lunch, the bitter actor encounters Clea again, this time at the apartment of Charlie’s best pal, Lewis (David Wilson Barnes).

The groundwork is laid for a hot heavy affair, an affair soon to be discovered by Stella.

Gordon has wide eyes, a dangerous shape and some of the capacity for amusing meanness that Lisa Kudrow shows. She also knows a couple of Marilyn Monroe’s tricks.

One that stands out is the careful enunciation of words that her character may not quite completely understand, as well as an aversion to contractions (maybe someone told her people who say “can’t” or “won’t” are ill-bred?).

Clea has recently arrived in New York from Ohio, but she’s got

city opinions already. Refusing a platter of cheese cubes, Clea rants a little about the evils of cheese in particular and food in general: “That’s how bad food is—did you just not know this?” A crazy-in-thehead-crazy-in-bed-type of character, Clea overwhelms Charlie. But by the time he can notice this home wrecker has a sign in her kitchen reading “I believe in Santa,” it’s too late for him to protect himself.

Gordon’s portrayal of this blonde climber is sharp satire, equal to the defter moments in Woody Allen. But Glazer doesn’t slam Clea morally, the way Allen gave Lucy Punch the works in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.

Turner himself has the air of an actor who has been around the block—there’s expressiveness in his bitterness. During a flashback, where he remembers doing live theater in the park, we can see that he fills the stage well.

Zuniga has to cope with an underwritten part. Stella is oddly pliant about the whole situation.

She gets in the face of the female interloper, instead of her cheating husband. The moment Stella catches the two of them in the act is the moment we’re certain we’re not watching a farce. Rather, we’re seeing a different kind of comedy, where the moral center keeps slipping around like a hockey puck.

The New York locations are well-picked and not overused; Glazer and her photographer, Jim Orr, prowl among the cornices and columns of what’s left of Manhattan’s lofts. Veteran orchestrator Bruce Fowler’s entertainingly brash jazz soundtrack starts to push the action a little too noticeably, but that’s just at first.

As the story unfolds, though, things calm down, and that’s when Seducing Charlie Barker gets more sophisticated. It’s a four-handed blame game played by people who all consider themselves evolved, civilized and artistic.

Seducing Charlie Barker R; 89 min.

Opens Friday, Camera 3, San Jose

THE HEIR APPARENT: LARGO WINCH

DOUBLE INDEMNITY/THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN

New ANSWERS TO NOTHING (R; 123 min.) A detective encounters distraught parents, obsessed school teacher and overburdened cops during the course of a child-abduction case.

Stars Dane Cook, Elizabeth Mitchell and Julie Benz. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.)

THE ARTIST

(108 min.) A French thriller about a son seeking to avenge the death of his hyper-rich father and take back his ďŹ nancial inheritance. Probably not a good suggestion for the Occupy protester who wants to take a night off at the movies. Stars Tomer Sisley and Kristin Scott Thomas. (Opens Fri at the Camera Cinemas.)

PSYCHOTRONIC FILM FESTIVAL â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fishing for eels in the Baltic/with a horseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head /(unintelligible)/Cast that horse head in the sea/Wait for the eels to come/Then you stew those eels right up/just like in The Tin Drum.â&#x20AC;? Oad Houyhnhnmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The National Anthem of Pomerania won the Iron Stork at the 1983 Daugavpils Film Festival. Despite that honor, it is not playing at this selection of 16mm bits, pieces, jumbles and yarbles. (Plays Dec 3 at 7-11pm in Los Altos Hills at Room 5015 Foothill College; a beneďŹ t for KFJC. Bring $2 in quarters for the meters.) (RvB)

SEDUCING CHARLIE BARKER (R; 89 min.) See review on page 42.

Revivals THE AFRICAN QUEEN/DESK SET (1951/1954) The gin-soaked Cockney river rat Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) has his boat, and his heart, requisitioned in service of the king ... or more speciďŹ cally in the service

(1944/1933) Two featuring the immortal Barbara Stanwyck. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the template for the ďŹ lm noir angel of death in this steel-trap tale of a hustling insurance salesman (Fred MacMurray) who outsmarts himself, and a worn, fatherly little troll (Edward G. Robinson) who almost ďŹ gures the scam out. BILLED WITH The Bitter Tea of General Yen. During the Chinese Civil War, Megan (Stanwyck) a new arrival in Shanghai, ends as the honored guest of a warlord. Megan takes to the general with just the right amount of hesitation. Playing Yen is the Swedish actor Nils Asther. The movie belongs to an age when directors shaved a Scandinavianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyebrows and called him an Asian. Stanwyck, who never had a grain of Victorian prudery onscreen, modernizes the material by gives herself to it completely. (Plays Nov 30-Dec 2 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

GREMLINS (1984) A bit of Xmas relief by the admirable Joe Dante. A mysterious pet sires a hoard of scaly vandals that go on a rampage. The sweet-faced Phoebe Cates and Zach Galligan play the teens who try to ward off the plague. Cates tells a storyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;stolen from a Gahan Wilson cartoonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;about why sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always dreaded Christmas, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only part of the hoard of injokes guaranteed to delight animation and science ďŹ ction fans. (Plays Dec 2-4 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

â&#x20AC;&#x153;AN EPIC, PULSE-POUNDING THRILLER!â&#x20AC;?

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THE MIDDLE-AGED German is all the more emotional for his dispassionateness. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tone of respect in that easy-to-imitate voiceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; an oncologistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s note of quiet doom.

Into the Abyss is Werner Herzogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent documentary on a triple murder in Texas, carried out by a pair of then-teenagers. One of the convicted was the chipmunklike Michael Perry, who, as of the time of the film, was awaiting execution. His partner in crime, Jason Burkett, received a life sentence. When Burkett went to prison, he joined one of his closest relations, who was already serving an extended sentence.

Into the Abyss isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t obsessed with violence. The crime was quick, banal and commonplace, with clear motives.

The object was a red Camaro that the two killers wanted. When Herzog shows us, in several camera angles, what finally became of this prize, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an indelible lesson in ultimate folly and waste.

In the presence of Perry, a man who can only really focus on his own suffering, Herzog is sympathetic, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a tool. Eventually, Herzog leaves the prison and visits the city where the murders took place. Herzog

juxtaposes the two sides of the tracks in Conroe, Texas: the gated community where the murder occurred, and the rougher side of town. He talks to people who knew people. We meet a female bartender at the bucket-ofblood tavern where Perry stopped to show off his brand-new stolen ride. @ekf k_\ And the filmmaker 8Ypjj rounds the circle of PG-13; 107 min. misery caused by these Opens Friday, foolish, drugged kids, Camera 7, by speaking to others Campbell affected. One is a prison death-house captain who quit after ministering to too many executions. Another is the victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, who imprisoned herself in her home for years. Lastly is a woman who loves Burkett with a great reservoir of hope.

Into the Abyss makes a subtle yet damning case against the death penalty, shot in a state that adores the process beyond reason. Even Gov. Ann Richards, of sainted memory to Democrats, executed 50 people.

The film makes its point without underlining itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;surely even the most beloved custom has to yield some day to common sense.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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(PG-13; 100 min.) See review on pg. 44.

of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;psalm-singing, skitty old maidâ&#x20AC;?: Katherine Hepburn. The unlikely adventure/romance has aged beautifullyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both leads showing off their specialties (careless man, learning to care; unbending lady, learning to soften). BILLED WITH Desk Set. Spencer Tracy plays a computer designer who seems ready to put a reference librarian (Hepburn) out of business.

Gig Young and Joan Blondell co-star in this romantic comedy about the early effects of automation. (Plays Dec 3-4 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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TO SOME critics and cinĂŠastes, the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;escapismâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;artâ&#x20AC;? are mutually exclusive. To others, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no higher calling than providing moviegoers with a temporary escape from the everyday world. Those in the second camp will ďŹ nd The Artist, a black-and-white, silent pastiche by Michel Hazanavicius, a writer/director known for OSS-117: Lost in Rio and OSS 117: Cairo: Nest of Spies, Gallic spy spoofs.

Set between 1927 and 1932 in Los Angeles, the ďŹ lm centers on George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a Golden Age movie star modeled on silent-ďŹ lm actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. Valentin specializes in playing romantic, swashbuckling heroes.

The constant adoration that only fans can provide feeds Valentinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s borderline narcissism. Even a strained, deteriorating marriage to Doris (Penelope Anne Miller) seems to have little eďŹ&#x20AC;ect on Valentinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jovial, positive disposition. The Artist shifts between Valentinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meteoric fall from movie deity to forgotten alcoholic with the arrival of talkies and the spectacular rise of Peppy Miller (BĂŠrĂŠnice Bejo) from an extra in one of Valentinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ lms (and potential, unrequited romantic interest) to one of the talkiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ďŹ rst movie stars and Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sweetheart.

Explored in microcosm through Valentinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plunge from cinematic grace, the larger

story concerns the end of the silent era, the beginning of the sound era, and the writers, directors, actors and actresses who failed to make the transition from one era to another. Hazanavicius obviously drew from Singinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in the Rain, as well as on A Star Is Born, Sunset Blvd. and Citizen Kane. For all the homage Hazanavicius packs into The Artist, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a K_\ 8ik`jk refreshing absence of irony PG-13; 100 min. (hipster or otherwise) or Opens Friday, cynicism (dispiriting or Palo Alto otherwise), just a warm, Square aďŹ&#x20AC;ectionate celebration of a dormant art form, skillfully executed by Hazanavicius, his cinematographer, Guillaume SchiďŹ&#x20AC;man, Dujardin, Bejo and a stellar supporting cast that includes John Goodman and James Cromwell.

Hazanaviciusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; singular focus on Valentin and Miller also means that other silent ďŹ lm genres, other, presumably more serious-minded directors are left oďŹ&#x20AC;screen. That, of course, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the ďŹ lm Hazanavicius intended to make and to judge The Artist by those standards would be patently unfair. What The Artist does provide, however, mirrors what (ďŹ ctional) audiences would have expected from a George Valentin production: entertainment that engages, entrances and enthralls.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Mel Valentin

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PUTTING UTTING THE EIGHT IN SEVEN South Bay soul-rockers Dirty Odd Seven play the Bank in Saratoga on Friday.

From fuzzy math to misfit soul, the South Bay’s Dirty Odd Seven do things differently

By AARON CARNES

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HE MEMBERS OF Dirty Odd Seven call themselves an “experimental soul” band, because the grooves are all based in ’70s soul and funk, while the instrumentation has a lot of ’60s psychedelic and rock influences. The mix of these different and sometimes opposing elements creates a hazy batch of slow grooves that are simple, danceable and yet bizarre.

They fully recognize that what they’re playing isn’t what everyone else would call soul. But then, the band has eight members, not seven, so their labeling system is clearly a bit unorthodox. “We have our own version of soul,” says drummer Curtis Funderburk.

“We have all the parts, but we don’t put it together the same way other soul bands do,” explains trombonist Justin Rivera.

Keyboardist Juan Soria thinks of it a different way. “It’s Silicon Valley soul,” he says. Soria knows most people don’t normally associate soul music with this area. In fact, he says, they often consider the South Bay’s tech landscape the antithesis

of soul. But he feels his bandmates are some of the most soulful people he’s ever met.

“Soul music is a release. It’s a celebration. Soul is the upside of blues—in blues, you’re just wallowing,” says bassist Kevin Cole.

Joy is not something they’ve always experienced in their years of playing music. Every member of the Dirty Odd Seven is a veteran in the San Jose music scene—they come from such notable local bands as Horchata, Shovelhead, Squeeze the Dog, INQ, the Flames and others.

But they say they got tired of band infighting and the stress of trying to make music their career, so they started Dirty Odd Seven with an entirely different mindset.

“The key factor was to get together with people we can play music with for the rest of our lives, ’cause I’m sick and tired of this bullshit. We’ve all experienced it.

Sometimes it’s just a pain in the ass,” says Stevie Delaney, the band’s harmonica player.

Dirty Odd Seven Friday, Dec. 2 The Bank, Saratoga

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Dirty Deeds

“I love being here. It’s like mediation. It’s my mass twice a week,” says guitarist Sal Gaeta.

Services are the free-form jam sessions they hold in their rehearsal space. There are no rules. They jam out new grooves, or reimagine already written ones. Not all eight members are always available to practice twice a week, but those who show up play whatever makes them feel good and helps them forget about their problems.

“We don’t have to play another show for the rest of our lives. I’m OK with that. I just want to play music right here with these guys,” says Delaney of their space. “We do our best work here.”

“This is definitely the easiestgoing band I’ve ever had,” adds vocalist Chris Landon.

The long jams are also how they write new music, or even alter existing songs. The process is rarely quick, but through the months of q jjamming and experimentation, ssongs slowly emerge.

“There’s no choreography to iit. It’s just like I’ll be thinking of ssomething in my head, and Stevie pretty much has been thinking p tthe same thing. It’s always sort of sserendipitous when we’re grooving,” ssays alto sax player David Penney.

They do like to play their songs in front of an actual audience once and a while, but they recognize that audiences might not appreciate watching them play 20-minute improvised jams.

“When we play shows, we have an obligation to the club to play our songs. We could probably do what we do here, but you’re kind of escaping the reason people go to shows,” Delaney says.

In contrast to their anything-goes rehearsals, they always play their songs exactly as they’ve written them at shows. “We’re definitely not a jam band, but sometimes we want to sound like one,” Penney says.

“We are a jam band,” Cole corrects. “But when we play out we’re not one.”

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Richard Thompson Fri-Sun at Montalvo Arts Center, 8pm; $40-$45 A weekend of all-requests shows from one of the greatest living guitarists is a beautiful thing.

Though first known for throwback folk in Fairport Convention, his later guitar blaze-ups and dark songs like “Wall of Death” and “Shoot Out the Lights” had a huge influence on indie rock. (SP)

Mr. Crumb Saturday at Streetlight Records in San Jose, 4pm; free In a week that sees the Long Beach new wave launching a full-scale invasion of the South Bay (see Korey Dane, page 53), Chris Caplan (better known as Mr. Crumb) is yet another rising indiefolker from the LBC to watch. (SP)

Harrington Saints Saturday at Johnny V’s in San Jose, 9pm; $5 Glam-punkers Romeo’s Dead got big in the Bay Area, but just when it looked like they were going to break, they disappeared. Guitarist Jayson Shepard and drummer Forry Maestretti have resurfaced in an entirely different kind of band, playing old-school oi in the Harrington Saints. (SP)

Metro’s music calendar runs Wednesday–Tuesday.

Rock/Pop ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 8:30pm: A Rhythm & Blues Christmas featuring Shari Bennet Jackson, Kitt Redmond and Stacey Carter. $20/$25.

Sat, 6pm: Heather Scarlett Rose. $5/$8. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Fri: Live music for South First Friday. San Jose.

AVALON Wed, 8pm: Me Talk Pretty, Madina Lake, Hell or Highwater, New Year’s Day. $14. Sat, 7pm: Andre Nickatina. $25. Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Curious Quail, Brightlighters, Cuban Cigar Crisis. Free. Fri, 9pm: Monkey, RS2 Solid Sound, Los Hot Boxers. $8. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S

JOHNNY V’S

Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: Dejenerates. Sat: Fusion. Sun: The Gents.

Campbell.

Sat: Crooked as Fuck, Harrington saints, STD, Cantoker. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Mad Karma. Sat, 10pm: Kid Dynamite. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI Sat, 8pm: Rebelskamp. San Jose.

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

Campbell.

CLUB FOX Fri, 7pm: Led Zepagain. $15/$17. Sun, 5pm: Rockin’ for Tots, with Claudine Gundacker Project, Robert Morton Janes Band and Rubberside Down.

Redwood City.

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

MOJO LOUNGE Thu, 9:30pm: Live music. $5.

Fri, 9:30pm: Daniel Castro Band. $5. Sat, 9:30pm: Buzzy Dupree. $5. Fremont.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Fri-Sat, 8pm & Sun, 7:30pm: Richard Thompson. $36-$45.

Saratoga.

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

San Jose.

GOOD KARMA

NETO’S GRILL

Thu: Acoustic music. San Jose.

Fri: Midlife Vices. Tenth

anniversary party. Sat: The City Band. Santa Clara.

Sat: Jake Mackey and the Muddy Sons. $10. Sun: Stevie B. Mon: Desiree and Diamond 99. Tue: Liar’s Club. San Jose.

CASCAL

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live music. Mountain View.

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

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY

HUKILAU

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

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

Thu: Static Band. Fri, 9:30pm: Touch of Class. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Pacific Standard Time. $10. Los Gatos.

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

LOS GATOS BREWING CO. SJ

LILLY MAC’S

Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos. San Jose.

THE QUARTER NOTE

Wed & Sat-Sun, 6pm: World music. Fri, 6pm: Vic Moraga. Mon, 6pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 6pm: Flamenco music. Mountain View.

NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: Wicked Jupiter, Den of Antiquity, Big Wood. $10. Sat, 8pm: The Last Nova, Until We Sleep, Stone Leaf. $10. Gilroy.

Wed-Thu: Pro jam. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE Fri, 8pm: Highway Christmas open mic Sat, 8pm: Dogcatcher, the St. Valentinez. Mountain View.

Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

MOROCCO’S MV

MOROCCO’S SJ

Thu, 8:30pm: Drive!. Campbell.

Thu, 6pm: Blues music. Fri, 6pm: World music. Sat, 6pm: Vic Moraga. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 6pm: Johnny Williams.

San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Fri: Mesh Collective for South First Friday. San Jose.

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

STATION 55

Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

SONOMA CHICKEN COOP

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

Gilroy.

STREETLIGHT RECORDS Sat, 4pm: Mr. Crumb, Animal Lore. Tue, 6pm: Korey Dane, Sam Outlaw. San Jose.

STEPHENS GREEN

LOS GATOS BREWING CO.

A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Levitate. Sat, 9pm: Chris Burkhardt. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6pm: Cleome Bova Duo . Fri, 6pm: Jimmy Dewrance Blues Band. Sat, 6pm: Lady Bianca. Sun, 2pm: Reggae Christmas party. Mon, 6pm: Ukulele jam night. San Jose.

TESSORA’S Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Club D. Campbell.

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

WINE AFFAIRS

Jazz/Blues

Wed, 7:30pm: Brian Loud Trio.

Thu, 7:30pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

AFFINITY RESTAURANT

C&W/Folk

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

Wed, 7:30pm: Octobop. Hilton San Jose Hotel.

Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

Thu, 7:30pm: Blues talent contest. Redwood City.

Sat, 7pm: Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band. $20. Mountain View.

ART BOUTIKI

THE GRAPEVINE

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

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

BACH DANCING AND DYNAMITE

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING

Sun, 4:30pm: Kenny Werner Quintet. $35. Half Moon Bay.

Fri, 8pm: Bill Evans. Sun, 7pm: Doug Young & Friends. Santa Clara.

Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Santa Clara.

X-BAR Sat, 9pm: Melted State. All ages. $5. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

World AGENDA LOUNGE

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

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

Sun, 6pm: Dixieland Jazz.

Cupertino.

ALBERTO’S

Wed, 7pm: Blues jam. $5. Thu, 7pm: Seva. $14/$16. Redwood City.

Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night.

Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, 8pm: Holiday Hafla & belly dance showcase. $10/$15.

Redwood City.

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

AZÚCAR Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video

CLUB FOX

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Fri, 8pm: Duke Montee & the Gold Money Band. Sat, 8pm: Red Eye Express. Campbell.

HEDLEY CLUB Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. San Jose.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Wed: Still Kicking Blues Band. Thu: Dennis Dove. Fri: Dog House Riley.

RED ROCK COFFEE Sat, 8pm: Dogcatcher. Mountain View.

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: Ashley Buchart Band.

Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Live country music. Fremont.

SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Matt & George and Their Pleasant Valley Boys. Tue, 6pm: Bean Creek. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Bit & Spur Band. Sun, 8pm: Guest band weekly.

San Jose.

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Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic. Saratoga.

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

Cupertino.

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

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

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

BRIX Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

THE COURTS LOUNGE ALEX’S 49ER INN Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

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

Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

THE BEARS

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

AZÚCAR

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

BENNIGAN’S GRILL Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

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

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

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

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

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

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

San Jose.

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

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

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Menlo Park.

DA KINE CAFE

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

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Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke.

No cover. Sunnyvale.

BLUE MAX

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

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

FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

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

BLUE PHEASANT

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

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

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE Call for info. Campbell.

GALAXY

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

QUARTER NOTE Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

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

BOGART’S LOUNGE

GILROY BOWL

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

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

BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

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

BOULEVARD TAVERN

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

BRANHAM LOUNGE

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

Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

San Jose.

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

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

Cupertino.

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

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

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Curious Quail THANK YOU, Mike Shirley-Donnelly, for taking back clever titles from the emo and math bands. The San Jose singer/songwriter started Curious Quail as a channel for solo acoustic songs, but what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s become is inďŹ nitely more bizarreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and fascinating.

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Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

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

Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

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

Campbell.

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

KHARTOUM

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

Sunnyvale.

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

Sunnyvale.

OFF THE HOOK

RED STAG LOUNGE

Sun, 8pm: Joe. Campbell.

Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

OFFICE BAR

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

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

KYOTO PLACE

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

Tue, 8:30pm: Karaoke. No cover.

Santana Row.

Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

San Jose.

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Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Dec 8 Supersuckers Atrium (Ages 21+) $EC The Expendables (Ages 16+) Dec 10 Avey Tare Atrium (All Ages) Dec 11 Jonathan Richman Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 15 Shawn Colvin (Ages 21+) Dec 15 Tornado Rider Atrium (Ages 21+) Dec 16 Thrive/ Whiskey Avengers Atrium (Ages 16+) Dec 17 The Growlers Atrium (Ages 16+) Dec 18 Streetlight Manifesto Reel Big Fish (Ages 16+) Dec 20 Brian Setzer (Ages 21+) Dec 30 & 31 The Devil Makes Three (Ages 21+) Jan 4 NOFX/ No Use For A Name (Ages 16+) Jan 15 Slightly Stoopid (Ages 16+) &EB Rebelution (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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BIRDS OF A FEATHER Mike Shirley-Donnellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Curious Quail has evolved from a one-man project to a full band.

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Carriage House Theatre Concert Series MACEO PARKER January 11, 7:30pm “Quite simply, there is no better living showman than Maceo Parker. Catching one of the alto sax maestro’s marathon three-hour shows is a truly transcendent experience for any fan of funk, jazz, hip-hop, R&B and soul...” - WESTWORD

metroactive MUSIC 50 SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

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!

STATION 55

ERIC BIBB

Wed, 9pm: Larry. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

February 4, 8pm

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.”

Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

WILLOW DEN Call for info. San Jose

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

“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.

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

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

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

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Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.

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

No cover. Santa Clara.

DIVE BAR

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

THE ELEGANT PUB BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed-Thu & Sun, 10pm: DJs. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. Tue: Pub-stumpers Trivia. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Night.

Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Thu-Sat; DJs. San Jose.

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

BRIX

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

EMPIRE CLUB Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays.

Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays.

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Live DJ. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: College Night. San Jose.

GALAXY Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

KATIE BLOOM’S

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

Santa Clara.

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

Fri: DJ night. San Jose.

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Thu: Antromix. Banda nights.

Fri: Rock en Español. San Jose.

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CLUBHOUSE RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR

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

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

WILLIE K

Wed: London Calling. Thu: Rewind. Retro night with DJ Rated R. Fri: Quality Control.

Sat: Cocktails & Dreams with DJ Aspect. Mon: Jukebox Hero.

Tue: Service Industry Night San Jose.

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

“Bibb may be the quietest blues player out there, but he is also becoming one of the best.” - Billboard

February 10, 8pm

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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.

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

THE BLANK CLUB Thu, 9pm: Atomic, DJ Basura. $5. Sat, 9pm: New Wave Prom with host DJs Vitus & Kevin. $5. San Jose.

BLOWFISH SUSHI Call for info. Santana Row.

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

BOSWELL’S Mon: DJ Geekstar. Campbell.

San Francisco’s City Guide

JOHNNY MATHIS Christmas just ain’t Christmas without a miraculously high falsetto. Dec 2 at the Paramount Theater.

YO! MAJESTY Florida’s dynamic lesbian hip-hop duo brings back the pulse of 2008 in small club. Dec 3 at the Hemlock Tavern.

CASS MCCOMBS Literature, Kodachrome and drug use all find a place in McCombs’ music. Dec 4 at Great American Music Hall.

PETER MURPHY No one takes a free apple and everyone wears black jeans when former Bauhaus frontman plays. Dec 4 at the Fillmore.

CHELSEA WOLFE Gothic folk artist with a penchant for drone and the scariest set of eyes you’ll ever see. Dec 4 at Bottom of the Hill.

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Korey Dane THANKS TO SUBLIME and the two Doggs (Snoop and Nate), Long Beach is best known for ska-punk and hip-hop. But in the last year, another movement has taken root, with Streetlight Records an outbreak of talented and popular indie singer/ songwriters. It started with Avi Zahner-Isenberg’s band Tue, Dec. 6 Avi Buffalo, which is signed to SubPop and touring the world just a year and a half after dropping their first 6pm; free single. Now other LBC troubadours are getting some attention, like Korey Dane. The 22-year-old Dane won Buskerfest in Long Beach last year, and has released his first album, Loomer. The sound couldn’t be more different than Avi Buffalo— whispered, rootsy songs of longing that counterbalance his melancholy voice with the sweet vocals of Tess Shapiro. Opening is another up-andcomer from Long Beach, country crooner Sam Outlaw.— Steve Palopoli

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

Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover.

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

Fri: Grp. E Jeans winter collection, plus DJ Maniakal and Josh Hyland. Sat: DJ Crystal Ellis. San Jose.

PEACOCK LOUNGE

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

LILLY MAC’S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night.

Sunnyvale.

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

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

MOTIF

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.

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

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

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

Fri-Sat: DJs & dancing. San Jose.

THE SADDLE RACK

WILLOW DEN

Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

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

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

Los Gatos.

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.

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

Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.

ZEN LOUNGE Thu: Dynamic D. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays. Mountain View.

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Numbers Game DISCOVERY STAR Cannabis activist Steve DeAngelo appears in a new reality show about his dispensary.

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AST TUESDAY MORNING, San Jose City Clerk Dennis Hawkins got a call from the County Registrar of Voters telling him the referendum petition against San Jose’s medical cannabis regulations had enough valid signatures. Hawkins passed the big news on to the mayor, city council and Citizens Coalition for Patient Care chairman James Anthony. A few hours later, Hawkins called them all back, telling them there had been a mistake; a sample of the petition signatures didn’t pass the legal threshold to certify it, and the RoV would now have to verify all 47,000 signatures.

So, what happened?

Hawkins tells Metro that Tuesday morning the RoV called saying that after completing a measure of sample they found the petition sufficient and were planning to issue a certificate of sufficiency. Hawkins notified both city officials and Anthony, whose organization collected the signatures calling for a referendum against the city’s plan to limit the number cannabis dispensaries to 10, then his office got to work drafting a memo for the city council’s Nov. 29 agenda.

He called the RoV, asking for scanned copies of documents. When he got those late Tuesday late afternoon, he noticed some of the data was missing, and when his office began crunching the numbers, they found the sample wasn’t enough to certify the petition.

The RoV declined to comment and referred the matter to Hawkins’ office.

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“There is a process, and we just need to make sure that we have all the facts before we move it forward,” says Hawkins. “It’s unfortunate that there was misunderstanding or miscommunication. But we value our working relationship with the registrar, and we’ll continue to work with them throughout the process.”

Meanwhile, city leaders and cannabis activists are staying tight-lipped about their ongoing negotiation meetings hoping to stave off both the regulations that pot providers say are too strict and a special election that city leaders say is too expensive.

“We’re having positive discussions of issues of serious concerns,” says Anthony.

Weed Wars Bay Area cannabis activist Steve DeAngelo makes his TV debut on Dec. 1. The Discovery Channel cameras followed DeAngelo around to film the docudrama Weed Wars, about the struggles to keep open Oakland’s Harborside Health Center.

“Viewers will have the opportunity to really step inside our facility and see how we interact with patients and how we handle the medicine,” says DeAngelo. Harborside has a sister site in San Jose, and DeAngelo often addresses the City Council about cannabis issues.

He hopes the show will convince viewers see that cannabis “is a good plant and not an evil plant.”

“So it was pretty marvelous for me to have an opportunity after 40 years as an activist to have such a great platform to tell my story on,” DeAngelo says.—Ted Cox

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