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THIS MODERN WORLD

I SAW YOU

By TOM TOMORROW

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

Flyer Pollution I saw you, distraught pet owners, posting your “Lost Dog” notices on poles and trees all along Lincoln Avenue.

While I empathize with your pain, I wonder if you will be considerate enough to go back and remove all your trash after you find your dogs. Is it really OK to slap three layers of packing tape onto light poles when it’s likely to remove the paint if/when you clean up after yourself? Also, did you know that it’s illegal and bad for the trees to use even one staple or nail, never mind using six staples each, to post your flyers? Next time, please try to find a less destructive way to locate your animals.

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Thrash Master Thank you, Gary Singh and Metro for finally giving recognition to the Bay Area thrash metal scene! (“Thrashed,” Cover Story, Dec. 7.) For many years through my TV show Reality Check TV and just by word of

mouth I’ve been screaming for the local media to acknowledge this part of Bay Area music history. Too many stories have been written about the ’60s psychedelic scene and the ’70s punk scene. Even though Metallica has gotten a lot of love, the heritage they came from seems to be always overlooked.

L.A. and Seattle got a lot of mainstream press as well for their scenes, but in the ’80s, the underground and European metal press was always praising the Bay Area as the thrash metal capital of the world. Bands like Exodus, Testament and Death Angel were proudly representing the Bay Area wherever they toured, and thrash fans through out the world worshipped the Bay Area bands. Bands were moving here

because they knew this was the place to be.

So many albums were revered as classics, yet when music documentaries and news articles about the Bay Area music scene came out, thrash was missing. So it’s about time. With the documentary Get Thrashed, Sam Dunn’s VH1 Classic Series and now with the book Murder in the Front Row, the scene is finally getting its just due.

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Pipe Dream [City Manager] Figone wants 900 cops. At least, Chief Moore (“Chris Moore, Q&A,” SanJoseInside, Nov. 30.) admitted 2,000 is the need. It is a pipe dream with Figone and

Define Freedom This country suffers from a bad case of semantic miscommunication.

While some people think of freedom as a state of liberation from religious, political and class oppressions, there are others who interpret that word to mean something entirely different.

Freedom in the United States means to them a place where you can find free land and free labor and life without moral constrictions to the land or to other people. When we send the troops to “fight for our freedom,” which definition are they defending? We ought to clarify to ourselves and the rest of the world just what it is that we represent.

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THE FLY

Double Time The winter of discontent continues unabated for the Milpitas Monarch JOSE ESTEVES, who complained at last week’s City Council meeting of feeling harassed by Public Records Act requests. (Message to Mayor Esteves: If you already feel harassed, stop reading here.) It would be one thing if the PRA requests were coming from an angry citizen, but almost half of the 66 requests— which ask for phone records, emails, video surveillance, and dates and times the mayor used a key card to enter City Hall—came from Councilmember DEBBIE GIORDANO. This caused Councilmember ALTHEA POLANSKI to request a full report detailing each of the PRA requests.

Thanks for doing our job for us, Ms. Polanksi. It turns out the mayor, whom critics accuse of holding an unauthorized wedding on City Hall property Don’t earlier this year, may forget be up to more than to tip! just connubial biz.

According to people FLY@ who are familiar with WS. METRONEWS. some of the requests, COM Esteves has been spending a lot of time at City Hall while also on the clock for his day job as an IT specialist with the Santa Clara County Superior Court. Fly has learned that on Aug. 16 and 18 the mayor’s key cards were swiped at City Hall no fewer than 23 times—and at times long before a 7pm City Council meeting on the 16th and a Finance Subcommittee meeting on the 18th. CARL SHULHOLF, a spokesman for the court, says he can’t release information on whether or not Esteves worked on either of those days because it is a personnel issue. Meanwhile, Milpitas’ city attorney, MICHAEL OGAZ, is saying certain records in the requests are public but not disclosable—whatever that means. But taking a quick look at the mayor’s calendar on the city of Milpitas website, there is no mention of him stopping by City Hall on either of the days in question.

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“When I was outed, I wasn’t ready to come out,” she says. “Everyone was

just like, ‘Why are you gay, and why are you this and why are you that?’ I didn’t know why people were so mean about it. It was just who I was.”

Realizing that awareness was the first step to acceptance, Dorian created a Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) club at Pioneer. While her own admission was stunning enough to fellow students, Dorian says she was shocked by the even greater opposition she encountered over the club.

“This one guy was like, ‘This is completely wrong. You shouldn’t have this in schools,’” Dorian says.

Going around the table at a recent club meeting, Dorian’s story is echoed by more than a dozen other students. Raphael Joseph, a freshman at Pioneer, says one of the more common forms of bigotry—people saying, “That’s so gay”—bothers him the most. “When you talk like that, it creates an atmosphere around a

school and around a community that makes it difficult for gay people to come out,” he says.

But at this GSA meeting, it’s clear that many of the members, including Dorian, who is now a senior and president of the club, are comfortable in their own skin. It wasn’t easy, though “The whole experience of being open with your sexuality is hard enough,” Dorian says. “It’s hard because you know that if these certain people were just educated a little bit more, then they wouldn’t say these things.”

That’s the hope of Senate Bill 48, commonly known as the FAIR Education Act. The new law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, requires that the historical contributions of certain minorities—specifically LGBT—be included in the public school curriculum. State Sen. Mark Leno (D–San Francisco) authored the bill, which hopes to ensure the historical contributions of LGBT members are accurately portrayed in instructional materials.

Due to budget constraints, new textbooks detailing underrepresented groups are set for distribution in the

Famous Names Joe Di Salvo, board president for Santa Clara County Office of Education, takes bullying and discrimination in schools so seriously that he listed SB48 as an agenda item for a Dec. 14 meeting—his last as president.

“My personal view is that children need the truth,” Di Salvo says. “There are issues where children don’t

understand, particularly in the world of LGBT, how impactful certain LGBT people have been in the history of the United States. Representing that truthfully is important for children, particularly those in middle school and high school who are dealing with their sexual identity.”

Meanwhile, the national GayStraight Alliance Network, which sponsors nationwide youth organizations like Pioneer’s, is taking steps to help schools implement FAIR education act material. The network created tool kits, which consist of a fact sheet and resource guide, for teachers and school administrators to work into their curriculum. There are also tool kits for students who want to lobby their teachers to start incorporating the material.

Schmidt, like Di Salvo, says all students will benefit from having a more complete picture of the historical figures they study.

“It’s important that students realize this was a lesbian poet or this was a gay artist,” Schmidt explains.

“Michelangelo, da Vinci, Walt Whitman—all of these individuals are important to identify with.”

Jackie Zeller, director of curriculum and instruction for secondary schools in the San Jose Unified School District, says she and a committee of teachers will gather in January to address the new law and how to seamlessly integrate lesson plans.

“It isn’t necessarily going to be a stand-alone unit, it might be a day devoted to it,” Zeller says. “But it will be infused throughout the 6-12 social studies curriculum.”

While the bill’s language pertains to the K-12 education system, Zeller says elementary schools spend less time on social studies and more on language arts and math. At these levels, she says, little curriculum regarding LGBT would be implemented.

That’s fine, according to SB48 advocates, who say the law was designed with adolescents and young adults in mind, such as Dorian and her classmates.

“In a picture-perfect world, I think it is important to stress that [people] were gay, because I don’t want them to beat around the bush,” Dorian says. “You don’t need to be dramatic about it—just make it a lesson about a historical figure.”

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2015–16 school year. In the meantime, school districts have the option of adopting supplemental materials pending reviews of the educational content.

Several opposition groups, including the Christian Coalition, Traditional Values Coalition, Protect Kids Foundation and Family Research Council, have filed initiatives to repeal SB48. The state’s Attorney General’s office has reportedly received five initiatives in total.

Proponents of Stop SB48, an anti-implementation group, argue that the legislation does nothing to reduce bullying, improve the state of education or ensure that students graduate. The Protect Kids Foundation released a statement that the bill would “sexualize” students while also transforming them into radical political advocates for LGBT issues.

Leaving aside some of the more hyperbolic rhetoric, the group raised an interesting point about how the bill classifies LGBT. “This legislation would also create a social class for homosexuals, transsexuals and bisexuals,” the foundation writes. “They would be regarded the same as Hispanics, African Americans, Pacific Islanders, Asians, etc.”

Ronald Schmidt, a retired middle school teacher in Morgan Hill who co-founded the Bay Area Network for Gay and Lesbian Educators (BANGLE), says that that is the point.

“For me, there is no difference,” Schmidt says. “It’s exactly the same,” However, in several school district meetings where Schmidt conducted outreach work for the LGBT community, he was challenged by African American parents who took offense with the association.

“Obviously, lots of African American LGBT understand,” Schmidt sighs, “but not everybody does.”

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TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE IN SILICON VALLEY

BY BRENDAN NYSTEDT

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of the day’s stories both from their own life and the world around them. Initially the app was intended for the iPad with its larger, more reading-friendly form factor but now the company has expanded its market to also include iPhone users.

Meg Whitman herself is looking out for the company within the HP board. They see HP as their “mother tiger.” Additionally, Whitman reportedly told HP’s board “not to smother” their huge investment, obviously trying to sidestep what happened with the wasted investment on Palm.

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Mac App Store Hits 100M Downloads Since introducing the App Store earlier this year, Apple has dished out more than 100 million applications to users.

The App Store was rolled out in January for Snow Leopard users. Apple has used the model of their iOS app store and essentially ported it over to their desktop and laptop systems, creating an environment where apps in the App Store face scrutiny and approval before being posted. Although big-boy pro apps like Adobe’s Creative Suite and Microsoft’s Office suite are nowhere to be found, it’s become a place for indie developers to thrive and get noticed. Apple itself leveraged the App Store on Snow Leopard computers to roll out its Lion update, the first time ever a major operating system has been successfully deployed via the Internet.

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Flipboard Updates iPhone App; Apple VP Chimes In

Although the seas are still rough for the mighty ship HMS HewlettPackard, Captain Whitman is continuing forward. HP had previously said that it would hold off any new acquisitions until the waters calmed down. After the fiasco that was Léo Apotheker’s time at the helm, the company has found itself in a pickle, and Whitman knew that refocusing the company was priority No. 1. Surprise! HP broke its word, gobbling up German company Hiflex Software. The terms of the deal aren’t clear yet, but Hiflex is all about print-management software. At least after the gigantic Autonomy deal, the Hiflex acquisition makes sense for HP’s already existing printer business.

Palo Alto startup Flipboard pushed out an update to its popular reading software yesterday. This update marks the first time that the app has been enabled on iPhones as well as iPads. The software aggregates sources chosen by the user to build a virtual newspaper for easy reading

Speaking of Autonomy, the $10B baby is preserving its internal structure in order to keep things business as usual. Mike Lynch, CEO of the U.K.-based analytics and search company told Bloomberg that their “high-speed” culture is the key to their success and that

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Google Founders Offer to Save Moffett’s Hangar One (to get Expensive Parking Spot) A landmark of the Silicon Valley, Moffett Field’s giant airship hangar, Hangar One, has long sat disused.

Constructed in the 1930s to house Navy airship the USS Macon, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt have offered to pony up the estimated $33M the restoration would cost. The Hangar is currently under construction to remove the toxic lead, asbestos and PCBs from hangar’s outer skin and surrounding area. The three Google musketeers want to use part of the hangar to hold their private corporate jets in exchange for the money. It’s still not certain what fate awaits this iconic

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HP Keeping WebOS After All In an unexpected twist of fate, HP has made a decision that is beneficial to all parties involved.

Instead of killing their much lauded underdog of a mobile operating system, HP is making it open source.

WebOS was initially developed for Palm in 2009 with the launch of its Pre smartphone, but HP was never able to make it a viable competitor in the smartphone marketplace. HP purchased Palm and all its assets and promised to use all its scale to leverage webOS across printers, smartphones and PCs. However, the CEO responsible for the acquisition, Mark Hurd, was ousted in a scandal and his successor, Léo Apotheker decided this August that despite the work put into new webOS products that HP would immediately cease development on the phone and tablet smartphone hardware, leaving the fate of the software up in the air. Apotheker left the CEO position after being ballyhooed for this decision and CEO Meg Whitman has finally made a decision regarding the software, announcing some very interesting, hopeful news to the employees working on said software.

The decision is that HP is keeping webOS but opening it up to the open source community. The company hopes that this move will speed up development on the software due to the extra brainpower coming from the free-as-in-beer software programmers working together on the project. HP is also setting loose on the world its development framework, Enyo, which could also be used to develop for other platforms. HP’s website houses the press release in its entirety, available to read.

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Apple Infringes On Chinese Ownership of iPad Name How do you say ‘iPad’ in Chinese?

Well, Apple might have to figure something different out after staring down the barrels of a $1.6B lawsuit over a Taiwanese company who registered the iPad trademark way back in 2000. The company, monitor manufacturer Proview, owns the right to the name in eight regions which include the EU, China and South Korea according to The Telegraph. A botched deal back in 2006 meant that the trademark never swapped owners even though Apple made a deal to purchase the rights through a middleman. Once Proview realized who it was actually selling the name to, they demanded $10M for the the trademark. The problem with Apple ‘s legwork is that Proview, although based in Taiwan, had registered the name on mainland China with their Shenzhen branch to meet legal requirements.

Proview has already made the first move to block sales of iPads in Shenzhen and Huizhou and is going to try to block sales nationwide if they can. Anyone want to help Apple out by coming up with a backup name in case they lose the case?

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is the perfect gift for the Holidays

building but we can only hope that it isn’t too late to keep Hangar One from staying a visible marker of the place we call home.

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because funding for the project could only come from the Redevelopment Agency. In my memorandum to the City Council, I also requested that funding for this project come from the Redevelopment Agency.

I did not support the name “Little Saigon,” because I believed that “Saigon Business District” was a good compromise, since many Vietnamese organizations and several Latino business organizations supported the name “New Saigon.” My office received a letter with 13 signatures from leaders representing 13 Vietnamese organizations supporting the name “New Saigon.” I did not want to choose between Little Saigon and New Saigon out of respect for the input coming from various segments of the community so I proposed “Saigon Business District” as a compromise.

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Mfk\ij ;\j\im\ Xe 8ejn\i The current ballot language is not cemented in stone. The bargaining units have the opportunity to modify the ballot language through a process called mediation. The city can no longer function with simply trying to make ends meet by bridging the budget deficit every year through employee concessions. We need to target the root of the problem—which is our rising pension costs and this is what this ballot measure intends to do.

I encourage all 11 bargaining units to engage in mediation so that we can work together to come up with a collaborative ballot measure rather than a divisive one. At the Dec. 6, 2011, council meeting, the City Council approved direction for staff not to transmit the ballot measure resolution to the County Registrar’s Office until March of 2012. Therefore, the bargaining units have time to engage in mediation in an effort to modify the ballot language.

I will support the release of any legal analysis that is not protected under the confines of “attorney-client privilege,” which belongs to the City Council as a whole. I believe that voters should have all the necessary information relating to pension reform before they have the opportunity to vote in June.

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SILICON ALLEYS

On the Venue

WALL OF FAME FC Basel’s stadium features a mural of the team’s storied players.

A trip to Basel reveals what a great soccer stadium should be —can San Jose do the same?

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GARY SINGH

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HIS TIME around, it took the city of Basel, Switzerland to provide interdimensional, spacetime-continuum-shattering inspiration. I write in terms of soccer stadiums, that is.

In regards to the now, by the time you read this, the San Jose Earthquakes will most likely have passed a major hurdle in obtaining a Planned Development Permit to finally head toward the next major hurdle in achieving what most teams in the league already have: their own venue.

On Dec. 14, the San Jose Planning Director’s hearing will include a consent item approving the

construction of the new stadium across Coleman Ave from the Mineta San Jose International Airport.

A long public hearing took place last September in which a few people who live on the other side of the railroad tracks from the site in question voiced their concerns about extra noise and light pollution generated by the stadium.

At presstime, documents from an acoustical engineering company were to be presented at the Dec. 14 hearing, demonstrating that the stadium design, including its noise profile, are consistent with the original Environmental Impact Report.

But back to Switzerland. A few months ago, as a guide took me around Basel, I insisted we segue over to St. Jacob’s Park, home of FC Basel, the city’s legendary football club since 1893. A new San Jose stadium was on my mind as we prowled around

the outside perimeter of St. Jacob’s Park—a large concrete behemoth of a facility. It was locked, and we couldn’t get in. Everything was silent; it was Sunday and hardly anything was open, but we were able to gaze in wonderment at the empty 38,000capacity stadium.

St. Jacob’s Park, the venue, is attached to a shopping center and residential apartment complexes.

Probably 50 shops make up the whole center, including restaurants, pubs, retail, video game stores, telecom outlets and much more.

The FC Basel Fan Store and Museum occupies a 600-squarefoot space, which was open when we showed up. Filled with jerseys, banners, paraphernalia and more, the store also includes a section with historical photos, trophies and other tidbits related to the clubs’ storied 118-year history. Families and tourists drifted in and out as we showed up to linger.

FC Basel’s color scheme is half red and half blue, with yellow trim— many claim it inspired Barcelona’s color scheme—and the entire stadium lights up at night. Half the

building turns red and the other half turns blue. In fact, every component of the facility, straight down to the beer trailers, corresponds to that color scheme. It is a gorgeous venue to look at.

The stadium also has its own train station and sits right across the street from the city’s hockey arena, which is also used for concerts. Basel’s fans are thus notoriously loyal, inspired and raucous. Tennis legend Roger Federer, a Basel native, is one of the club’s most fanatical supporters.

Just skulking around the empty St. Jacob’s Park fired up the right half of my brain—you know, the one associated with creativity and the bigger picture, the imaginative dreamer half—and I easily summoned up visions of all the great things a new San Jose Earthquakes stadium will do for what should be st the most authentic club in the league. th No other club’s fans have amassed such a gargantuan collection of su memorabilia and collaborated with m their city’s historical nonprofit to th aarchive it all. In a league characterized by manufactured “flagship” franchises b with no historical tradition, the w Quakes, on the other hand, have a Q tradition going back almost 40 years, and the new stadium should reflect the club’s history. No other stadium in the league does this. At least not yet.

With that in mind, just last week I found myself in one of downtown San Jose’s soccer-safe-houses to watch FC Basel miraculously upset Manchester United, knocking them out of the UEFA Champions League.

The game was played in Basel, at St. Jacob’s Park, and the city went absolutely insane. The world watched that match, never expecting to see FC Basel advance to the Final 16. Having just been to that stadium two months ago and having enjoyed that city so much, I felt at least a minuscule connection to the celebration, if anything. The sport intertwines with the city, Basel’s people, its cultural life, its history and so much more. The new San Jose soccer stadium—if it’s done right—could unfold in just the same manner.

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Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne tour hits San Jose this week—and the debate over street cred and Wall Street credit rages on

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HAT DO Jay-Z and Adbusters magazine have in common? On the face of it, not much.

Adbusters is a small magazine published out of Vancouver, while Jay-Z is one of the most successful entertainers in the world. Yet both Adbusters and Jay-Z have seized upon the economic and psychic dislocation caused by the grinding global recession as a means of extending their brands and product lines, with wildly different results.

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU WEAR Jay-Z comes under fire over a T-shirt critics (fans included) believe exploits the movement’s notoriety.

Adbusters is credited with having conceived of the Occupy Wall Street protest that began in New York in mid-September. The protest against unemployment, inequality and the power of the financial elites was nicely captured by the slogan “We are the 99%” (as opposed to the elite one per cent who control a widely disproportionate share of global wealth) and was a natural extension of the magazine’s main product line— strident screeds against branding, marketing and the symbolic flotsam of global capitalism.

The Occupy meme proved highly viable, and it quickly spread to other cities in North America and Europe.

But anticipating that anything this popular must have commercial value, some members of the protest in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park quickly applied for a trademark on the phrase “Occupy Wall Street,” to prevent it from being co-opted.

But if the decision to trademark “Occupy” led to a moment of soulsearching among the participants, Jay-Z’s attempt at getting a piece of

the action snapped participants out of their existential gazings. In midNovember, he was photographed backstage at a concert wearing a shirt that read “Occupy All Streets,” and announced plans to make the shirts available through his clothing label, Rocawear. But while the company said that the point of the shirts was to remind people that “there is change to be made everywhere, not just on Wall Street,” it said it had no intention of sharing the proceeds of any sales with the Occupy movement itself.

The backlash against Jay-Z was so fast, and so vicious, that Rocawear quickly pulled the T-shirts from its website, only to quietly re-introduce them a few days later, with still no commitment to supporting the Occupy movement. For his efforts, Jay-Z has been immortalized in bronze by the artist Daniel Edwards, whose sculpture Mogul (Jay-Z Occupies Occupy Wall Street) depicts the blinged-out rapper at the base of a totem pole, with busts of cartoon

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Founded in 1989, Adbusters is the ďŹ&#x201A;agship publication of the culture-jamming movement. In their view, society has become utterly permeated with capitalist propaganda, to the extent that the culture as a whole is designed to reproduce faith in the system.

The goal of culture jamming is to monkeywrench the system by subverting the messages used to reproduce this faith, by blocking the channelsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;advertising and the mass mediaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;through which it is propagated.

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Adbustersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most successful innovation is Buy Nothing Day, which falls on the Friday after the American Thanksgiving holiday, and which is reputedly the busiest shopping of the year. Buy Nothing Day is pretty much as billedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it is a day when citizens are invited to spend no money at all, as a way of jamming what would otherwise be a largescale orgy of consumerism. Adbusters has since expanded its anti-capitalist rhetoric into other areas, most notably the Occupy movement. But in an inspired bit of brand extension, the magazine has just launched its OccupyX-mas campaign. Through various pranks that will include mall sit-ins, ďŹ&#x201A;ash mobs, credit card cut-ups and poster campaigns, it aims to â&#x20AC;&#x153;unseat the corporate kings on the holiday throne.â&#x20AC;?

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always known that his success rests on maintaining a careful balance between his street cred and his marketability, and with his “Occupy All Streets” shirt, the self-styled “black Warren Buffett” has for once misjudged his audience.

It would seem that when it comes to selling rebellion, even Jay-Z has nothing on the Warren Buffett of counterculture, Kalle Lasn.

Andrew Potter is the author of “The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves,” out now in paperback from McLelland & Stewart.

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retailing for between $75 and $99, and Adbusters has made Blackspot into an “open-source brand” that can be used by anyone, to sell any product whatsoever.

But when it comes to profiting off anti-capitalist sentiment, it is hard to see what distinguishes the Blackspot sneaker from Jay-Z’s “Occupy All Streets” T-shirt. For that matter, it is hard to see what distinguishes either of these from other successful businesses that arose out of a desire to “do capitalism differently,” from The Gap and Starbucks to the Body Shop and Whole Foods.

Perhaps, then, the difference is simply this: More than almost any other mogul alive, Jay-Z has

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VERYTHING ABOUT Watch the Throne has been big.

Not just anothersequel-to-Tha Carter big, but truly epic, on a scale dizzying even for hip-hop.

Two of the genre’s most successful, ambitious and downright relentless stars delivered the year’s most anticipated album, which has become the year’s most anticipated tour, which arrives at HP Pavilion Wednesday.

Anything less would be a letdown for a project that brought hip-hop’s unstoppable force Kanye West back together with its immovable object Jay-Z. Kanye got his big break producing for Jay-Z, but that was a decade ago—a lifetime in hiphop. This time, they were working together as equals.

Right from the start, the project was as over-the-top as it had to be, with Kanye kicking the rumor mill into gear almost two years ago, and initial talk of some kind of minialbum with a handful of songs blossoming into plans for a full-length.

Their collaboration on “Monster” from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy last year raised the stakes, proving they could still make something brilliant together. And when the “H.A.M.” single dropped early this year, the anticipation hit new heights.

When the duo finally released Watch the Throne this summer, it was every bit the monster hit everyone thought it would be. But if every action has an equal and opposite reaction, then it should be no surprise that the backlash snowballed quickly.

Reviews were positive, but almost begrudgingly so—while most everyone had to admit the beats were untouchable, the complaints started rolling in, and Watch the Throne got called everything from soulless to stupid to insensitive in the rush to take the album down a notch.

Some fans, too, got a little queasy on first listen, and I admit I was one of them. Gone, it seemed, was the neurotic Kanye whose self-analyzing had powered the best songs on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

Instead, Watch the Throne was two naked egos on a rampage, rapping about the high life in the year of the 99 Percent. Did anyone want to hear about West’s “other other Benz” in the “Try a Little Tenderness”– sampling “Otis,” or Jay-Z calling the paparazzi on himself ?

But after repeated listens and enough time, I came around. The haters can maintain that Watch the Throne is nothing but shameless

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In many ways, despite its dose of social commentary on songs like “Murder to Excellence,” it’s a party record. But it’s a party record that came along at exactly the right time.

Here’s the short list of who needs it: Kanye needs it: For his last album, this guy wound himself tighter than he ever had before. Think about his history, and then read that last sentence again. It’s fairly mind-boggling. He pushed himself

Hip-hop needed ‘Watch the Throne,’ both the album and the tour.

It’s spectacle, but it’s not empty spectacle. to the limit, reportedly keeping the recording studio going 24 hours a day and working with more than three dozen other artists over the course of laying it down.

The resulting record was his masterpiece, but it was also a huge downer. Dense layers of sound made it feel oppressive even through its best beats. That’s why he needs something ridiculous like “Otis” on the new album. This is his catharsis.

And Jay-Z humanizes him, even when they’re boasting about private planes. Reports from the early stops of the tour are that Kanye is goofing around on stage and actually having fun.

Jay-Z needs it: It’s not 2002 anymore. Jay-Z has still outsold Kanye by millions, but it’s been a decade since his best work. West is at the height of his powers, and

critical acclaim. One of the thrills of Watch the Throne is hearing how their two very different styles sound better and better together over time. Ye’s the better writer, but he still can’t touch Hove’s flow. “I guess I got my swagger back,” Jay-Z raps on “Otis.” And why not?

Hip-hop needs it: No genre has been getting the beatdown like hiphop as of late. Every year, somebody new is declaring it dead, from Nas to The New Yorker.

Lil Wayne can’t prop it up forever, even if he achieves his apparent goal of appearing on every song released by anyone. No, hip-hop needed Watch the Throne, both the album and the tour. It’s spectacle, but it’s not empty spectacle. It’s a joke, but it’s not a joke. Anyone who doesn’t get that both rappers know how goofy their oversized boasts are just needs to listen for the Blades of Glory sample buried in “Niggas in Paris”: (“I don’t even know what that means!” “No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative!” ) These guys are cracking themselves up.

But more seriously, Jay-Z has stated flat out that Watch the Throne is partly a response to rock music’s total dominance on the live-music stage. He doesn’t want hip-hop to be confined to the club floor, he wants it to be the biggest show in town, which is why the tour is even more important than the record itself. Songs like “Lift Off ” seem to have been written specifically to be performed live.

Jay-Z and Kanye have given the entire genre a come-to-Jesus moment, so it’s no surprise Watch the Throne constantly invokes an odd kind of hip-hop spirituality.

“Hova flow the Holy Ghost,” JayZ raps, but upon repeat listens, it becomes more clear that this is not just about two egos and a game of thrones, but also about two artists asserting the power of their music, and of hip-hop music in general.

After all, as they say in “No Church in the Wild”: “Human being to the mob/What’s a mob to a king?/ What’s a king to a god?/What’s a god to a non-believer?/Who don’t believe in anything?”

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SCOTT KELLEY Since 1985, Oakland-born Scott Kelley has been at the forefront of the underground metal scene. First he co-founded the post-hardcore-turned-doommetal outfit Neurosis while continuing to work on a slew of side projects like creating indie label Neurot Records and doing guest stints on the last five Mastodon albums. Kelley’s (not so) newest project finds him stripped bare of the rock star eccentricities, armed with only his words and a lone guitar— the perfect combo for a man whose art is eerie and ethereal. He will be joined

by Jay Munly (Slim Cessna’s Auto Club) and Bob Wayne. Crepe Place; $10 adv/$12 door; 9pm.

SATURDAY 12/17

INCITERS Taking its cue from mid-1960s American soul music, the U.K.-born genre known as northern soul is full of upbeat tempos and soulful vocals in the spirit of the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas and the Temptations. As local purveyors of the genre, the Inciters are a throwback in all the right ways.

The 11-piece outfit has the rhythms, harmonies, band and soul to keep the house rocking all night, and whether crammed into a tiny venue or stretching out in a theatre, the Inciters are one of the must-see treasures of the Santa Cruz music scene. Crepe Place; $8 adv/$10 door; 9pm. (Cat Johnson)

Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot plays the Catalyst Tuesday, December 20.

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STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO While some may argue that ska is dead, nobody ever told the guys in Streetlight Manifesto. Even after various line-up changes and not one but

two robberies in 2005 that resulted in all of their equipment being stolen, the seven-piece hodgepodge of musicians is sill skankin’ strong. To prove this point, the rock-steady crew decided to embark on the massive 99 Songs of Revolution project in 2010. In collaboration with three other bands (all Streetlight Manifesto-related), they will

be releasing eight full-length albums of cover songs from the archives of musical history. Sharing the stage with fellow skankers Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto will be dropping (and picking up) a night that’ll put a smile on people’s faces. Catalyst; $21 adv/$23 door; 7pm.

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LIME TRAVELER The empanada de amarillo con pollo at Monte Alban transports diners to Oaxaca.

San Jose’s Monte Alban features fine examples of southwestern Mexican cuisine and drinks

By STETT HOLBROOK

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HEDDAR-CHEESE-andsour-cream-slinging Mexican-American restaurants are the mainstay of Silicon Valley’s Mexican food scene, but places that specialize in Oaxacan food have emerged as a lively and welcome subset of Mexican food.

Oaxaca, a state in southwestern Mexico, has maintained a strong connection with its Zapotec and Mixtec indigenous culture and this is most deliciously experienced through the region’s wonderfully complex food.

If you had to restrict me to one kind of regional cuisine, Oaxaca City would suit me just fine.

San Jose’s Felipe Hernandez has a fondness for Oaxacan food that runs even deeper. He grew up in Mexico City with great street foods like pambazos, gorditas and tacos, but it was the cooking of his late mother’s native Oaxaca that he loved best. He opened Monte Alban on South First Street in San Jose with his aunt a year ago in part to showcase his mother’s cooking, now done by his cousin who apparently learned her lessons well.

The food is excellent.

Monte Alban took over a Salvadoran restaurant, and apparently not wanting to alienate any of the old restaurant’s customers, the menu includes Salvadoran specialties alongside

Oaxacan and Mexico City–style dishes.

I like pupusas and tacos, but it was the Oaxacan food I came to try.

One of the things that sets Monte Alban apart is its selection of beverages.

The place serves beer, licuados (fruit smoothies) and aquas frescas like many Mexican restaurants, but more unusual are the tepache and agua de chilacayote (both $3.50).

Tepache (I’ve heard it called “Mexican champagne”) is made from fermented pineapple with spices like clove and cinnamon tossed in. The result is a mildly effervescent and barely alcoholic drink that’s refreshing and light. For an even bigger flavor, go for the “Mex Oaxaca” ($8). It’s tepache that’s been fermented longer with the addition of maguey pulp. Maguey, as you know, is the cactus used to make tequila and mezcal. It’s dark and delicious.

I’ve seen tepache at a few places, but I’ve never seen agua de chilacayote on the menu. It’s made from pumpkins that have been boiled down with brown sugar and cinnamon. It’s got a

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deep pumpkin flavor, but it’s still light and refreshing.

For something really special, try for the tejate ($3.75), a pre-Colombian chocolate drink served in a traditional painted gourd. It’s like a nutty chocolate milk. The only other place in Silicon Valley I’ve encountered that served it is the now closed La Juquilita. La Juquilita’s was my favorite, but Monte Alban comes in at a close second.

Oaxacan food is best known for mole, particularly mole negro. But Oaxaca is famous for many kinds of moles, and in addition to mole negro, Monte Alban serves five kinds of moles.

Everything I tried was great. For an excellent two-for-one, try one of the banana-leafed wrapped tamales ($2.50) with the mole amarillo, a bright-yellowcolored mole that’s quite flavorful. Mole estofado is served over chicken or pork ($7.75); it has a velvety consistency and faintly sweet flavor framed by a creamy, savory richness. The little salty green olives strewn into the sauce round things out. Mole verde ($7.75) looks like puréed spinach and cream and it has a creamy texture, but it’s made with a variety of fresh herbs and tomatillos. It’s great, too.

The rest of the menu contains other standards of Oaxacan food like memelas, molotes and tlayudas. Other than the moles, my two other favorites are the entomatadas ($9.25) and empanadas ($8.99). With entomatadas you get thin, house-made corn (it’s always corn with Oaxaca food; wheat flour is for northerners) tortillas ladled with a tangy green salsa and paved with tasajo, thinly sliced dried beef. Every country in Latin America, it seems, has its take on empanadas. Here, the hand-sized corn tortilla turnovers are filled with chicken or beef and draped with mole verde or amarillo. Both are good.

The restaurant is small and clean and done up in bright taqueria colors or yellow and orange. On both my visits, a TV monitor was playing Mexican music videos. All the effort goes into the food.

If you like Oaxacan food, Monte Alban is the real deal.

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

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VAHL’S CONTINENTAL $$$.

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

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

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

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

AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. The sister to the popular Mountain View restaurant, Amber India’s Santana Row location continues to offer elegantly prepared Indian cuisine in a stylish setting.

11:30am-2:30pm, 5-10pm, MonThu, noon-3pm, 5-10:30pm FriSat, noon-3pm, 5-10pm Sun. 377 Santana Row. 408.248.5400.

BANGKOK TASTE Thai. $$.

Humble strip mall gem with a loyal following. Beef Pi-Roj is a house favorite. Veggies love the Rama tofu. 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm daily. 1769 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.358.2525.

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

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

CAO NGUYEN Vietnamese, Chinese-Vietnamese. $.

Gargantuan menu features nearly 200 Vietnamese menu options, including smoked duck, sautéed frogs and clay pot catfish. 10am-10pm MonFri, 9am-10pm Sat-Sun. 2549 S. King Rd #A-16. 408.270.9610.

CASA VICKY Family-style Mexican. $. Nothing fancy, but a hearty brand of Mexican food wrought from popular family recipes. Breakfast plates and warm sweet pastries in abundant supply. 7am7pm daily. 792 E. Julian St. 408.995.5488.

CHEESECAKE FACTORY American. $$. A true “American restaurant” in every sense of the term, this popular chain lives by the red-white-andblue credo that bigger is definitely better. 11am-11pm Sun-Thu, 11am-12:30am SatSun. Westfield Shoppingtown Oakridge, 925 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.225.6948; and Valley Fair, 3041 Stevens Creek Blvd, 408.246.0092.

CITRUS New American. $$$.

In Santana Row’s chic Hotel Valencia, Citrus peels back the hotel dining myth. Here, diners match their own main dishes with their choice of rub, sauce and side dish. Fun continues in skilled desserts. 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 355 Santana Row. 408.423.5400.

COCOLA French bakery. $.

Cocola is a fine place to while away an afternoon sipping tea and sampling a pear tart with vanilla custard and slivered almonds. For heartier fare, try the gourmet sandwiches. 8am11pm Sun-Tue, 8am-noon WedSat. 333 Santana Row #1045.

408.551.0018.

CONSUELO Mexican. $$.

Good regional Mexican food made with lesser-known ingredients in an attractive,

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upscale atmosphere. The food is served tapas-style and meant to be shared. Fantastic tequila list. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 11am-11pm Sat, 11am-9pm Sun. 377 Santana Row #1125.

408.260.7082.

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

CRAWDADDY Cajun. $$.

Crawdaddy specializes in boiled live crawfish flown in from Louisiana. The mud bugs are served steaming in a plastic bag swimming in a buttery, garlic-laced sauce that ranges from mild to ridiculously hot.

3-10pm Mon-Fri and noon10pm Sat-Sun. 779 Story Rd. 408.286.2729.

DEEZI’S CAFE Persian. $$.

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

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

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

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HEN IT comes to creating a progressive, local food system in the Bay Area, Silicon Valley has been the odd man out. The East Bay is arguably the birthplace of the good-food movement. Former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom embarked on an ambitious sustainable-food policy by directing all city departments to tally unused city land, including vacant lots, rooftops and median strips, that could be turned into urban gardens or farms to feed local residents. Although it is overplanted with vineyards, the North Bay maintains a close relationship with the source of its food with its many dairies, farms and ranches. North Bay governments and nonprofits have joined forced to create forward-thinking food policies.

Silicon Valley touts its tech-based economy and spirit of innovation, but the region has been a backwater when it comes to something so basic as securing a healthy source of local food. But thankfully that could be changing. Last month the San Jose City Council adopted “Envision San Jose 2040,” a 30-year general plan for the city. Among other things, the sprawling document calls for new policies to promote urban agriculture in the city. Specifically, the document encourages the City Council to look to urban ag to improve access to healthy food to low-income areas, increase the sale and availability of locally grown food and increase urban agriculture production.

That’s great news. While there is a strong community garden system in San Jose, a program to teach low-income residents how to grow their own food and Veggielution, a notable urban farm on city land, the city has not done enough to promote a local food economy even though cities from New York to Seattle have embraced its myriad benefits.

Mayor Chuck Reed’s “Green Vision for San Jose” is an admirable, 15-year plan to green the city with clean-tech jobs, energy conservation and landfill diversion. But the plan made no mention of growing the local food economy. The updated general plan corrects that.

I don’t want to get all Mad Max on you, but if the economy truly melts down, cheap petroleum runs dry and global warming continues at its frightening pace (last year carbon emissions reached the highest lever ever), making greater swaths of land unproductive for agriculture, local farms and food production will look a lot more attractive than office parks. If this scenario comes to pass, the first order of business will be how we feed ourselves.

But even if doomsday never comes to pass, public investment in a local food system just makes sense. Seeding the City: Land Use Policies to Promote Urban Agriculture, a new report published by the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity, a program of Oakland’s Public Health Law & Policy, cites evidence that urban agriculture boosts property values, promotes community engagement and can be even be part of a crime fighting strategy by increasing “eyes on the street.”

Silicon Valley has an enviable climate and great soil (at least that not tainted by industry) to grow food. Urban farms and the local food movement may seem cute and crunchy, but investing in local food system is really a matter of local (and national) security. As the largest city in Silicon Valley, San Jose can and should play a leadership role to create a robust local food system. The updated general plan is a good start.—Stett Holbrook

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SVDINING DIA DE PESCA Mexican. $.

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

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

DI LAC Vegetarian Asian. $$.

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

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

DYNASTY CHINESE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Chinese $$.

The setting is fit for royalty, and there’s a menu to match: lobster with special sauces, Peking duck, emerald-colored mustard greens, even suckling pig. Or try the more delicate fare: dim sum every lunch.

11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1001 Story Rd, second floor. 408.286.6668

EDNA RAY Chinese. $$. Now in a new location, Edna Ray continues to serves classics of Chinese-American food with the same quantity, familiarity and reasonable prices. You’ll find all three here, and then some. 11:30am-9:30pm daily.

1181 Lincoln Ave. 408.280.7738.

EL TULE Mexican. $$. Most of the menu is devoted to Mexican-American standards, but the separate menu of Oaxacan specialties is where El Tule really shines. The black mole is uncommonly delicious while lesser-known dishes like tlayudas and molotes are also good. 10am-9pm daily. 5440 Thornwood Dr. 408.227.1752.

5-SPOT CHIVAS GRILL Mexican-American diner. $. The brick-walled 5-Spot is a perfect mix of American food, past and present. The diner still serves classic American diner food as well as Mexican standards.

7am-9pm daily. 869 S. First St. 408.294.4979.

FLOWER FLOUR French bakery. $. Mimi Brown’s flower shop/bakery charms visitors with freshly made to-droolover pastries, ready-to-go

sandwiches and service with a smile. 8am-6pm Mon-Sat, 8am-4pm Sun. 896 Willow St. 408.279.0843.

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

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

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

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

650.967.5384.

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

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

GOJO ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT Ethiopian. $.

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

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

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

GREAT WALL Chinese. $$. This strip mall hideaway serves skillfully prepared Chinese dishes in an atmosphere where sandals and T-shirts are the

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perfect fashion. Beef and black mushrooms, salt-and-pepper spareribs and cashew chicken earn high marks. Take out available. 11am-2:30pm, 4:309pm Mon-Fri, noon-9pm Sat. 1409 Bird Ave. 408.287.1688 or 287.1689.

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

Sensuous foods of the Caribbean and Cuba, long on tomato and peppers, slowroasted meats and earthy black beans. Beer and wine. Lunch 11am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 4-10pm Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 238 Race St. 408.998.2822.

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

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

HOSHI Japanese. $$. Hoshi is one of Silicon Valley’s standouts for sushi and small plates. Great sake selection, too. Lunch 11:30am-2pm MonFri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Sat. 246 Saratoga Ave. 408.554.7100.

HUKILAU Hawaiian. $$. Simple, slightly salty, stomach-filling foods with an Asian-Pacific attitude. All daily specials come with a scoop of macaroni salad and steamed rice. Skip the quesadilla and nachos and head straight for the ahi poke.

With tropical drinks to match.

11am-1:45pm Tue-Fri, 5-9:30pm Tue-Wed, 5-10:30pm ThuSat, 11am-2:30pm Sat-Sun, 5-9pm Sun. 230 Jackson St. 408.279.4888.

HUNAN TASTE. Chinese. $$.

The restaurant continues to pack them in because the food is so good. As the name implies, the restaurant specializes in the fiery, hearty food of China’s Hunan province, making it one of the few restaurants in the Bay Area to do so. 11am2:30pm, 4:30-8:30pm Mon-Sat. 998 N. Fourth St. 408.295.1186.

ISABELLA’S Peruvian. $$.

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408.248.PERU.

KAHOO Japanese. $ The people queuing up are ramen aficionados who know a good bowl of ramen when they find one. And they’ve definitely found one here. 11:30am2pm, 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am-3pm, 4:30-9pm Sat-Sun. 4330 Moorpark Ave. 408.255.8244.

KRUNGTHAI Thai. $$.

Perennial Metro “Best Of” winner, Krungthai has been around since 1988, but still tastes fresh and new.

11am-3pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri, noon-10pm Sat-Sun. 640 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.260.8224.

KUBOTA Japanese. $$. A beautiful dining room that serves exquisite rice, luscious ribs and decent sushi. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat, 59:30pm Sun. 593 N. Fifth St. 408.279.8440.

KUMAKO Ramen. $.

Japantown now has its missing ingredient—good ramen.

Kumako’s menu is simple: ramen, curry rice and a few appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 211 E. Jackson St. 408.286.2111.

LAYANG LAYANG Malaysian. $$. Layang Layang shines with clean, fresh flavors and ingredients, and offers a great entry into Malaysian food.

Service is fast and friendly, a feat given how harried the waitstaff can be. Wine and beer. Closed Mon. 1480 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.777.8897.

LE PAPILLON Contemporary French. $$$$. From start to finish, a meal at Le Papillon casts a spell on everyone who enters. The feeling is only

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broken when you walk out the door and abruptly step back into the real world outside. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Fri; dinner nightly. 410 Saratoga Ave. 408.296.3730.

MAGGIANO’S LITTLE ITALY Italian. $$. Like a warm Italian embrace, this Santana Row superstar proves a welcome haven for company lunches and congenial dinner parties.

The food is a cut above standard, with roast chicken and veal marsala standing out. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat, noon-10pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave. #1000.

408.423.8973.

MENARA Moroccan. $$$. Since 1977, Menara’s been throwing back the pillows and bellying up to mint tea rituals, b’stilla (pigeon pie) and rabbit tagine.

Full dinner menu includes vegetarian option. Solid wine list. 6-10pm daily. 41 E. Gish Rd. 408.453.1983.

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ORLO’S New American. $$$.

On the lush grounds of the historic Hayes Mansion, this is one beautiful, luxurious dining room, with menu and excellent service to match. 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. Hayes Conference Center, 200 Edenvale Ave. 408.226.3200.

PASTA POMODORO Italian. $. Exuberant, inexpensive and fast cuisine made to order and served with sparkle. High concept and low costs make Pasta Pomodoro a dream trattoria for lovers of robust Italian flavors. 11am-10pm daily. 1205 The Alameda.

408.292.9929.

PIZZA ANTICA UPTOWN Pizza. $$. The stony ovens of Pizza Antica turn out thincrusted designer pies with gourmet toppings in casual environs. Fine pasta and meat dishes also available. 11:30am10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat. 334 Santana Row #1065. 408.557.8373.

Cowboy continental. $$$. The Grandview is an old-school roadhouse with a warm atmosphere. Add dishes like surf and turf, rack of lamb chasseur and chicken Cordon Bleu and you’ve got yourself a destination. 5-10:30pm Wed-Sun. 94 Mt. Hamilton Rd. 408.251.8909.

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Vietnamese. $. Food from central Vietnam is underrepresented in San Jose and that’s part of what makes this small restaurant such a find. Excellent noodle soups. 9am-9pm daily except Wed. Cash only. 960 Story Rd. 408.920.9603.

THE MYNT Indian. $. The Mynt’s lunch buffet is a Silicon Valley standout, while the sit-down dinner menu has plenty to offer as well. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 5:30-10pm Fri-Sat. 5210 Prospect Rd. 408.973.9673.

OMOGARI Korean. $. Omogari makes getting to know Korean food easy. The menu includes pictures of many dishes, the service is friendly and the food is consistently good. Try the dae gee bul go gi, spicy marinated pork. 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 154 E. Jackson St. 408.280.6588.

Mongolian barbecue. $. This mom-and-pop eatery gears itself toward the common man with the uncommonly large appetite. Thrown into the bargain is a Chinese steamtable buffet. 11am-3pm, 4:309pm daily. 1190 Hillsdale Ave. 408.978.7188. noodles. $$. Surfer-themed, casual-but-comfy, chef Kumao Arai’s noodle house imports traditional techniques to produce hearty, aromatic bowls stocked with pork-, sea-saltor soy-sauce-flavored broth.

Cash only. Call ahead; hours are irregular. 375-M S. Saratoga Ave. 408.246.3933.

RASA MALAYSIAN Malaysian. $$. Rasa Malaysian is a homey restaurant that offers a number of solid examples of Malaysian food including satay chicken, char tway keow and sambal kangkung. 11am-3pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat. 1290 Coleman Ave. 408.980.0668.

REHOBOTH Ethiopian. $$.

Japantown isn’t all Japanese food. Rehoboth adds spice to the neighborhood with its diverse menu of Ethiopian standards. Carnivores, vegetarians and vegans are all

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SVDINING 34 well taken care of. Good coffee, too. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 665 N. Sixth St. 408.947.1717.

REYHAN Persian. $. Reyhan restaurant is located in the most unlikely of areas—an industrial strip of Almaden Road in south San Jose. As such, the place is kind of an oasis—an oasis of kebabs.

11am-8pm daily. 1625 Almaden Rd. 408.293.3600.

SELAM Ethiopian and Eritrean. $. Often it’s the places you have to work to find that turn out to be the good ones. Selam is tucked away in a mall off Winchester Boulevard, but the food is a real standout. 10am10pm daily. 3120 Williams St. 408.984.9600.

SIAM Thai. $$. Siam is a sweet little Thai restaurant between Valley Fair and Santana Row. The menu offers a lineup of Thai standards and crowdpleasing combinations with Americanized names like “cashew lover,” “Thai angry” and “pleasing garlic.”

There’s plenty to recommend.

11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9pm TueSat. 2910 Stevens Creek Blvd.

408.246.0304.

SIENA MEDITERRANEAN BISTRO Mediterranean. $$$.

Tucked into picturesque Willow Glen, this tiny bistro offers big tastes. Entrees such as Moroccan Cornish game hen, venison medallions and seasonal risotto battle for your appetite with a bread pudding dessert. Patio dining available.

1359 Lincoln Ave. 408.271.0837.

SINO RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Modern Chinese. $$$.

Sino is owned by Christopher Yeo, the restaurateur behind Straits. The restaurant offers both traditional Chinese cooking and a few modern riffs. Good dim sum, too. 11am10pm Sun-Tue, 11am-midnight Wed-Sat. 377 Santana Row. 408.247.8880.

STRAITS RESTAURANT Asian fusion. $$$. By night it’s a jam-packed hipster clubhouse; by day it’s Singaporean chef Chris Yeo’s latest chic fusion venue. Small plates share the menu with entrees such as the lobster and shrimp pad thai. Outdoor seating available.

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11am-10pm Sun-Wed, 11ammidnight Thu-Sat. 333 Santana Row #1100. 408.246.6320.

SUSHI BOAT Sushi bar/ Japanese specialties. $. With a décor that is upbeat and sophisticated and sushi that is as dazzling as handmade jewelry, Sushi Boat walks on water! 11am-9:30pm daily.

Westgate Mall, 1600 Saratoga Ave. #119. 408.378.4000.

SUSHI FACTORY Sushi bar/Japanese. $$. It’s all here: sushi, bento box meals and teriyaki and at great prices.

11:30am-9:15pm daily. 4632 Meridian Ave. 408.723.2598.

TAIWAN RESTAURANT Chinese. $. For nearly 25 years this Willow Glen landmark has served a nonstop stream of Szechuan, Cantonese and Taiwanese specialties.

Beer, wine. 1306 Lincoln Ave. 11am-3pm, 5-9pm Mon-Sun. 408.289.8800.

THEA Greek and Turkish. $$. While some dishes have a tenuous connection to Turkey and Greece, the pretty restaurant serves a number of standouts like the roasted prawns, octopus salad and excellent moussaka. Full bar.

11:30am-3pm, 5-8:30pm daily.

3090 Olsen Dr. 408.260.1444.

TLAQUEPAQUE NO. 3 Mexican. $. Willow Glen’s Tlaquepaque No. 3 occupies that sweet spot between a taqueria and a more formal sit-down restaurant. And then there are those highly gulpable chavelas. 7am-9pm Mon-Sat. 699 Curtner Ave. 408.448.1230.

THREE FLAMES Continental. $$. A Willow Glen favorite with an enormous menu. Among the best choices are scampi, rack of lamb and pepper steak.

Full bar. 11am-3:45pm daily, 4-10pm Mon-Thu, 4-11pm Fri-Sat. 1547 Meridian Ave. 408.269.3133.

VIN SANTO Italian $$. A beautifully simple and low-lit dining room sets the stage for offerings of earthy aromas, bold sauces and well-seasoned market-fresh meats and produce. Extensive wine list plays host nearly as well as the informative servers. 5-10pm Tue-Sat, 5-8pm Sun. 1346 Lincoln Ave. 408.920.2508.

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WAHOO’S FISH TACO Fish tacos/Cal-Mex. $. Beachside shack décor gives Wahoo’s a Disney quality. Fish is the dish at this L.A.-based fast-food staple, served flame-broiled or blackened in a spicy Cajun rub in tacos, burritos, bowls and salads. Beer. 10:30am-9pm Sun-Wed, 10am-10pm Fri-Sat. 3050 Olin Ave (Santana Row).

408.244.3991.

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

Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am-9pm Sun-Wed, 11:30am-9:30pm Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 1072 Willow St. 408.971.7080.

For other locations see www. willowstreet.com.

YANKEE PIER American seafood. $$. Veteran restaurateur Bradley Ogden brings a bit of Cape Cod to Santana Row, with a menu ranging from old-fashioned fish and chips to gourmet oysters and a mouth-watering Maine lobster roll. Sunday brunch available. 11:30am9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am10pm Fri-Sat. 378 Santana Row #1100. 408.244.1244.

YAS Persian. $$. In keeping with this ancient cuisine’s traditions, entrees are dressed up with the clean, fresh tastes of lemon and saffron, and desserts wear a distinctive hint of rose water. Beer, wine. 11am9pm daily. 1138 Saratoga Ave. 408.241.5115.

ZENI ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT Ethiopian. $$.

Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant rises above other Bay Area Ethiopian restaurants with fresh, vibrant food, much of it deliciously enrobed in berberé, Ethiopia’s signature—and spicy—seasoning. Traditional seating and coffee ceremony add to the experience. Full bar. 11:30am-10pm Tue-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, noon10:30pm Sat, noon-9:30pm Sun. 1320 Saratoga Ave. 408.615.8282.

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But the Metro Best of Silicon Valley Hall of Fame DJ quickly turned his open-mic hip-hop night into one of the liveliest underground music events in the South Bay. At this point, he’s able to bring in top DJ talent from all over, like the recent visits from Turtle and Backus of L.A.’s Learning Curve crew and Portland’s

Lomo & Asol (L&A Music). But it’s also still a spot where local MCs “sharpen their swords,” as Moyco puts it, and new talent gets their first chance to bum rush the stage.

This anniversary show has a killer lineup, featuring performances by Rey Ressurecion, Insolence’s Mecha1, Pariah and Cerebral Coretext of the Architex, and Sway D. Moyco himself will provide the beats, along with his fleet of Cypher resident DJs: Champ, Abraham and Lucidal. (SP)

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People got to watch Suicidal Tendencies slowly evolve from an erratic skate-punk group into a thrash-metal band. Now they can hear East Bay’s Idols Plague take all the Suicidal Tendencies elements from down through the ages—including Mike Muir’s ranting, spewing vocals and the crossover metal-punk guitar chops—and mix them into something new. Every song Idols Plague plays, regardless of tempo, is a complete explosion of energy, an all-out assault on the senses. It’s unrelenting, but that’s the whole point. Don’t bring your earplugs, unless you want to be mocked by everyone else at the show. (AC)

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LIVIA JEAN SLINGERLAND Britannia Arms, Cupertino Fri – 9pm; $5 What’s most remarkable about Livia Jean Slingerland isn’t that she’s a 17-year-old girl who can play a mean electric guitar.

It’s that as a 17-year-old, she’s mastered a genre most other teens have little interest in these days—traditional R&B-inspired rock & roll. It recalls a time when you could still hear the blues in rock, before power chords and psychedelic flower power blurred the lines, Her voice is surprisingly confident, also, sounding way too

mature for anyone too young to buy cigarettes. With Drop Dead Sixty, Name Parade, Animal Lore (AC)

THE GROUCH Avalon, Santa Clara Fri – 8pm; $20 The Grouch first came to prominence as one of the MCs in the Bay Area’s popular Living Legends crew. The scene has changed a lot since he came up: back then, Eminem was years away from hitting it big, and no one knew what the hell to think about a white rapper. The Grouch earned his cred, though, and has put out a dozen albums since the mid-’90s.

He’s ahead of the curve still, dissing the digitization of hip-hop, and throwing down some seriously old-school beats. Hand claps and

* concerts REY RESURRECCION

JAY-Z/KANYE WEST Dec 14 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

THE MAKEUP SEX Dec 14 at 9pm, the Blank Club, San Jose

AVENGED SEVENFOLD Dec 16 at HP Pavilion

DJ SKRATCHY Dec 17 at Studio 8, San Jose

THE LIMOUSINES Dec 23 at the Blank Club, San Jose

THE RIVALS Dec 23 at Johnny V’s, San Jose D

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

CALICOVE NYE Dec 31 at Motif, San Jose

JC SMITH Dec 31 at JJ’s Blues, Santa Clara D

DICK DALE Jan 6 at the Blank Club, San Jose

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

etown shows this week an appearance at two hom ke ma l wil N CIO release.

EC RR RESU iversary and Anya’s video Top San Jose rapper REY —The Cypher five-year ann

everything. This is the fifth year of his How the Grouch Stole Christmas Tour, and while he still doesn’t have a dog with antlers to help him, he does have fellow Living Legends expat Eligh, as well as Oakland duo Zion-I, Evidence from Dilated Peoples and DJ Fresh. (SP)

THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS Agenda Lounge, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $10 Reggae patriarchs the Mighty Diamonds were the first artists signed by Virgin Records with 1976’s “The Right Time.” Banned from the island charts during the years of too much sufferation, in Jamaica’s gunfighting 1970s, it’s now gentle, relaxing nostalgic music that goes with today’s trustafarians like pinot

noir goes with manchego cheese.

One of the MD’s best tunes: the herb-burning barn-burner “Pass the Kouchie” (bowdlerized in 1982 in a Sesame Streetish cover by Musical Youth); the original could be read as a protest against the iron fist of the San Jose jackboot, treading on the cannabis clubs. Inna De Yard (2006) is the trio unplugged with hand drums, revisiting old hits like “I Need a Roof.” The Diamonds never sounded younger. (RvB)

While the debut solo record from South Bay singer-songwriter Anya may still be a ways off, she’ll give hometown fans of her unpredictable style—which slides from rock, soul and jazz to hiphop, reggae and dubstep—a taste at this premiere of the video for her song “Gone Baby Gone.” Directed by Brandon Van Auken, the Hitchcock-influenced video is a perfect showcase for Anya’s vintage look, and the contrast of the song’s edgy subject matter. She’ll also perform a full set with her band the Get Down, with Rey Resurreccion and Vida Killz opening. (SP)

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ANYA AND THE GET DOWN

BRIAN SETZER

The Usuals, San Jose Sat – 7pm; free

The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Tue – 8pm; $35/$40

“Rev it up and go!” Brian Setzer’s back in town and this time he’s causing a riot. The man who single-handedly brought back the swinging “big band” sound is returning to his leather-andleopard-print rockabilly roots for the holidays. But, as anyone who follows Setzer knows, the man never skimps, and to prove that point, the “Rockabilly Riot” band features a boogie piano, two drum kits and a double dose of that slappin’ stand-up bass rockers never get sick of. As if that weren’t enough, Setzer’s spiking the eggnog with Slim Jim Phantom as one of the drummers. So that’s six slick musicians on four kinds of instruments and two out of three Stray Cats; who needs 12 days of Christmas when there’s one stellar night? Catalyst; $35 adv/$40 door; 8pm. (MW)

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL Jan 13-15 at HP Pavilion

THEATRE OF VOICES Jan 25 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford

DIAVOLO DANCE THEATRE Jan 28 at 8pm, Memorial Auditorium, Stanford

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

WILLIE K Feb 10 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

KRONOS QUARTET Feb 12 at 7pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

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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BALLET SAN JOSE Dennis Nahat’s “Nutcracker.”

Runs thru Dec 23. This week Sat, 1:30 and 7:30pm, Sun, 1:30pm, Tue, 7:30pm. $30-$100. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

BAYER BALLET COMPANY The troupe presents “A Winter Fairy Tale” complete with a Russian Santa Claus. Sat, 5pm, Sun, 2pm. $25/$30. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

MOSCOW BALLET The annual “Great Russian Nutcracker.” Fri, 8pm. $59.50$99.50. Flint Center, Cupertino.

Theater ALMOST MAINE A holiday tale about the citizens of a magical town under the Northern Lights; presented by Bus Barn Stage Company. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm, Runs thru 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.

This week Wed, 11am and 7:30pm. Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm, Tue, 7:30pm.

Runs thru Dec 24. $29-$74. San Jose Rep.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Theatre of the famous Frank Capra movie. Thu-Fri at 8pm, Sat at 3 and 8pm, Sun at 2pm. Runs thru Dec 18. $10-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

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. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and/or 8pm (1 and 6pm on Dec 24), Sun, 2 and 7pm. $29-$49. Runs thru Dec 31. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN A musical show based on the “Peanuts” characters. Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, Sun, 3 and 7pm. Runs thru Dec 18. $26.50-$38.50.

Retro Dome, San Jose.

Classical Concerts CHRISTMAS AT THE MISSION Michael Morris leads the Ohlone Chamber Singers performing Schubert’s “Magnificat” and Rutter’s “Gloria.” Sat, 8pm, Sun, 4pm. $10-$15. Old Mission San Jose, Fremont.

MAGNIFICAT The baroque ensemble, presented by SF Early Music Society, performs Schütz’s “Christmas Story.” Fri, 8pm. $12/$35. First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto.

An annual production by Northside Theatre Company of the Dickens tale. Wed-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. Runs thru Dec 24. $15/$20. Northside Theatre, San Jose.

OAKLAND INTERFAITH GOSPEL CHOIR

EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD

PALO ALTO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

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

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

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE A stage version by Tabard

A South Bay holiday concert.

Fri, 7:30pm. $28-$36. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

A concert celebrating Beethoven and Mendelssohn with guest artist Dina Glendening. Sat, 8pm.

Free. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

PENINSULA WOMEN’S CHORUS The chorus celebrates 45 years with a concert of jubilation. Sat, 2:30pm. $10-$30. St. Mark’s

More listings:

METROACTIVE.COM Episcopal Church, Palo Alto. Also Sun, 4pm, St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park.

RAGAZZI The men’s choir for graduates of the boys chorus offers “A Little Christmas Now and Then.”

Sat, 7pm. $18/$20. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Redwood City.

Also Sun, 4pm. Christ Church, San Mateo.

RUDENKO AND JOO A piano program featuring selections by Piazzolla and Gershwin. Sat, 8pm. Free. First Prebyterian CHurch of San Jose.

SEASON OF HOPE A series of concerts presented by South Bay arts groups, including San Jose Symphonic Choir, South Bay Trombone Society and more. Thru Dec 23, 7:30pm. Free.

Basilica of St. Joseph, San Jose.

408.283.8100.

SOUTH BAY GUITAR SOCIETY SBGS performs Community Holiday Concerts at various locations in the South Bay. Sat, 4pm, West Valley Branch Library, San Jose. Also Sun, 3pm, City of Sunnyvale Library, Sunnyvale.

VIVA LA MUSICA Holiday performances featuring Glorias by John Rutter and Randol Alan Bass. Sun, 4pm. $15/$25. St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Redwood City.

VIVACE YOUTH CHORUS Songs of the season by the teen ensembles of the choir.

Sat, 4pm. $8/$15. Westminster Presbyterian, San Jose.

WINCHESTER ORCHESTRA Lou De La Rosa directs this year’s holiday concert, “Music From Broadway.” Sat, 7:30pm.

West Valley College Theatre, Saratoga. Also Sun, 7pm. $10$20. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, San Jose. $10-$20.

WINTER’S GIFTS: CELTICA The Choral Project, Sonos Handbell Ensemble and San Jose Chamber Orchestra celebrate the holiday season. Sun, 7pm. $20$35. Mission Santa Clara.

Comedy CLUB FOX Thu, 8pm: Monique Ranae’s Comedy Extravaganze with Scruncho. $15/$20. Thu, 8pm:

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DANGER ZONE Aliaa Elmahdy has been condemned for her photos.

Naked Truth DURING the holiday season, one finds time to reflect on the things that matter in life. Recent protests can provide a stark reminder. Artists in China and Egypt are challenging conservative power structures through the mere gesture of photographing themselves naked and posting the images online.

China’s Ai Weiwei has riled Communist authorities by posting in a nude photo.

Egypt’s Aliaa Magda Elmahdy has been broadly condemned in Egypt for posting a naked image of herself. Her action has dominated discussion in the Muslim world, and Egypt’s protest movement has disowned her. A few years ago, Ai was celebrated in China. Now an image of his hefty 50-something body can spark a superpower’s fear. Elmahdy, an art student, became famous a few weeks ago due to her nude self-portrait. Egypt is a devoutly Muslim country, and there has been speculation that the photo has affected the country’s first post-dictatorship national elections. She told CNN, “I am not shy of being a woman in a society where women are nothing but sex objects harassed on a daily basis.”

The similarities between these disparate situations are noteworthy. Ai’s movement highlights the fault lines of China’s tightly centralized communist dictatorship.

Elmahdy’s photograph challenges accepted limits to the ongoing revolutions in Egypt and the Muslim world. Ai noted that he created his photo because, “fear and the feeling of isolation are defining characteristics in certain societies.” He has also been a focus of China’s effort to extinguish local protests aligned with the “Jasmine Revolution”—the movement that has been toppling Muslim rulers.

Nudity and nude protest have been American mainstays for years, to the point that we feel we cannot be shocked anymore. Yet these protests are speaking to us loudly. At a time of rapid and unpredictable change, surprising events and images can have an impact. Vladimir Putin, whose power is finally being challenged, has faced major protest rallies in recent days, as well as a dramatic protest at the hands of groups like FEMEN, a Ukrainian organization that garners press by going topless. Likewise, a large group of Israeli women posted a much-circulated photo of their nude bodies holding a banner in support of Elmahdy, while an Iranian woman posted a similar photo of herself days later. The young Iranian felt compelled to use a pseudonym and block out her face online, yet she still had to retract her posting almost immediately, noting on her blog: “Sorry to everyone, I’m not safe. ... I need to abandon this blog. It’s not only because of myself, they will harm my family in the harshest way too. ... I will always remember that [the] fight for liberty never ceases to bloom.”

The naked body is revealing anew the paranoia of elites. Forget public nudity, which our laws allow. Courageous individuals face serious danger for photographing their bodies. Ai and Elmahdy, artists both, have found that their own unadorned bodies can have the largest impact. These actions are holding up a mirror to longstanding power structures—truly a case of the emperor’s new clothes. One hopes that the tale will end well for all involved.—Craig Kaufman

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LOOK, MA, NO HANDS Ballet San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sumptuous production of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Nutcrackerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; includes some moves that people shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try at home; the show continues with performances Dec. 17â&#x20AC;&#x201C;18 and 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;23 at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

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Joey Medina. $15-$27.50.

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. Andrew Norelli; Jessi Campbell and Red Scott open. $12/$18. Sunnyvale.

Mancini:

Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany's Handel: Messiah (excerpts) with Valley College Chorale Lou De La Rosa, Director Traditional Christmas Sing Along Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue Daniel Glover, pianist Guest Conductor: Dale King

Sat, Dec 17, 7:30PM West Valley College Theater 14000 Fruitvale Ave, Saratoga

Sun, Dec 18, 7PM Trinity Episcopal Cathedral 81 N. 2nd St, downtown San Jose Tickets $20/15/10 on-line: www.winchesterorchestra.com 408 866-5302

Discover the Arts www.svArts.org

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: UnďŹ ltered. $10. Thu, 8pm: Zhangster. $15. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm: Wayne Brady. $30. San Jose.

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Museums CANTOR ARTS CENTER â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Legend of Rex Slinkard.â&#x20AC;?

Oils and works on paper by the inďŹ&#x201A;uential California artist of the early 1900s. Thru Feb 26. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rodin and America: InďŹ&#x201A;uence and Adaptation, 1876-1936.â&#x20AC;?

Ongoing. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DISCOVERY MUSEUM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mammoth Discovery!â&#x20AC;? Plus activities and hands-on fun for kids. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, noon-5pm. Discovery Meadow, San Jose.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hobos to Street People: Artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the

Present.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Changing Face of Homelessness: Portraits by SCU Photography Students.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Between Struggle and Hope: Envisioning a Democratic Art in the 1930s.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Camera Fights Fascism: The Photographs of David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez.â&#x20AC;? Thru Feb 5. TueSun, 11am-4pm. Santa Clara University.

Thru Feb 5. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm.

San Jose.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM

Works by Eve Page Mathias.

Thru Feb 12. Department of Art Faculty show. Thru Feb 5. TueWed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bridging Generations: De Anza Collects.â&#x20AC;? A look at awardwinning art from De Anza students over the last 40 years.

Thru Dec 28. Mon-Thu, 10am3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pioneering the Valley: The Chinese-American Legacy in Santa Clara Valley.â&#x20AC;? A new historical exhibit. PaciďŹ c Hotel Gallery, San Jose.

MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World: Antique Toys, 1870-1930.â&#x20AC;? Fri-Sun, 11am-4pm.

Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Kind of Bird Flies Backward.â&#x20AC;?

A retrospective of paintings

by Joan Brown. Thru Mar 11. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Book-ish.â&#x20AC;? A show about how the printed book has inďŹ&#x201A;uenced visual artists, . Thru Jan. 15. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, Who Do You Think You Are?â&#x20AC;?

Portraits address the issue of personal identity. Thru Jan. 15. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks.â&#x20AC;? Thru Feb 5. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Invisible Lineage.â&#x20AC;? Works by a quartet of mid-20th-century artists in conjunction with four contemporary textile artists.

TECH MUSEUM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Islamic Science Rediscovered.â&#x20AC;?

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

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART

Galleries OPENING HIDDEN TALENT STUDIO Paintings by Andrew Glass. Sat, 5-8pm. 1375 Blossom Hill Rd, San Jose.

CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fresh Produce.â&#x20AC;? Annual group show and holiday sale. Thru Jan 14. San Jose.

ART ARK â&#x20AC;&#x153;The More the Merrier II.â&#x20AC;? A holiday show. San Jose.

ARTOBJECT GALLERY Closing party for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Belly of the Beastâ&#x20AC;? exhibit, with live music and refreshments. Fri, 6-10pm.

592 N. Fifth St, San Jose.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA â&#x20AC;&#x153;Simply Seen.â&#x20AC;? Photographs in a Hipstamatic vein by Marco Zecchin. Continuing. San Jose.

GALLERY HOUSE Gallery Houseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual art and holiday show. Thru Dec 24. Wed-

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The show, which stars Will Springhorn Jr., Martin Rojas Dietrich and Kevin Blackton, finishes its run this weekend, closing on Sunday.

Sat, 11am-8pm, Sun, 11am-3pm, Tue, 11am-4pm. Palo Alto.

GOOD KARMA CAFE “Milk and Bones.” New paintings

by Izer the Mizer. Thru Dec 31.

San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY “Hark!” Holiday art show and sale. 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.

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

Show about 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.

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JUNIE B. IN JINGLE BELLS, BATMAN SMELLS A Palo Alto Children’s Theatre

production. Wed-Thu, 4:30pm, Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2 and 7pm, Sun, 2pm. $10/$12. Children’s Theater, Lucie Stern Center, Palo Alto.

MADELINE’S CHRISTMAS A family show from California Theatre Center. Sat, 11am. $12/$14. Sunnyvale Community Center.

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Volunteers needed to put together gift totes for homeless San Jose teenagers.

Bag assembly Dec 14-15, 9am and 1pm shifts. Contact cherylmarkman@hotmail.com or 408.578.8315.

FESTIVAL OF TREES Trees decorated by local schools on display and voted on by guests. Thru Dec 22, Kings Court Shopping Center, Los Gatos.

FIRST NIGHT OF CHANUKAH A celebration of the Festival of Lights with crafts, music and food sponsored by PJ Library and the Jewish Federation of SV. Tue, 5:30pm. Santana Row.

FUZZY BLANKET DRIVE Frida and her doggy friends encourage people to bring clean blankets, towels and dog treats that can be distributed to the San Jose Animal Shlter. Fri, 9pm1am. Cinebar, San Jose.

For Friends of the King Library.

Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, 1-5pm. King Main Library, San Jose.

CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK

HUMANE SOCIETY

Runs thru Jan 1. Cesar Chavez Park. Plus rides at Paseo de San Antonio and San Jose Rep Plaza.

DOWNTOWN ICE Rink is open daily thru Jan 29.

Circle of Palms, San Jose.

FANTASY OF LIGHTS The park showcases spectacular outdoor light displays for the holiday season. Thru Dec 31, 6-10pm. $10/$15 per vehicle.

Vasona Lake County Park, Los Gatos.

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NOW OW I’M GOOGLING O O PARIS HILTON In ‘Shame,’ Michael Fassbender’s Brandon rrandon ndon can’t get enough of Internet porn.

Michael Fassbender can’t keep his clothes on in Shame, a tale of sex addiction

By RICHARD VON BUSACK

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RTIST turned director Steve McQueen’s last film, Hunger, was about an imprisoned man starving to death. His new film, Shame, is the story of a free man gorging himself; perhaps there’s intrinsically less drama in this second situation.

Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is ruled by his penis and his need.

Through days and nights, this executive compulsively sexes the pain away. The art direction insists that Brandon is a man half-evaporated from this excess. We first see him in

post-coital wipeout; cleansing himself, he prowls his whiter-than-white apartment, in the nude.

Commuting to work, he silently macks on married women on the subway. At his office, he desperately masturbates in the men’s room and downloads porn on the company computer.

Meanwhile, Brandon is trying to keep his enormously troubled sister, Sissy (Carey Mulligan), at arm’s length—not an easy task. The sometimes jazz singer has come uninvited to stay at Brandon’s onebedroom apartment.

I found it hard to get a bead on the exact nature of Brandon’s job, one more point that McQueen prefers to keep impressionistic. The place is hip. The boss, David, played by James Badge Dale, keeps calling Brandon

“bro” and “dude.”

As in a porn film, the worksite seems to be an office for the manufacturing of double entendres.

“You fucking nailed it today!” says David, accent on the “nailed.”

Brandon’s fellow worker Marianne (the delightful Nicole Beharie) sidles up and asks Brandon if he likes sugar—for his coffee, that is.

There’s a retro air in the film’s American Psycho–style interior decoration and in Brandon’s collection of LPs. It’s always ’80s night in the bars, with the Tom Tom Club, and Deborah Harry on the soundtrack—you keep expecting “Call Me” to turn up, a la American Gigolo.

As Sissy demands more attention, McQueen leaves the possibility of damned incest open, particularly in Sissy’s fine, vague line to her brother: “We’re not bad people; we just come from a bad place.”

Speaking of full frontalness, as we will, the camera zeroes in on Mulligan’s face for the length of her minor-key, overpoweringly yearning rendition of “New York, New York.”

Those who think of Mulligan as

this eon’s Audrey Hepburn will be weeping along with her at the brutal coldness and callousness of Manhattan.

Others will feel they couldn’t ask for a better demonstration of why there’s such a long film tradition of cutting away from singers in close-up.

Shame’s strength is the kamikaze acting by Fassbender. Every critic this side of the one at Highlights for Children has mentioned his frequent nudity. Fassbender is as brave as a lion for doing these scenes, but his other qualities are more interesting: the ruthlessness, the sense of panic and ravenousness.

Fassbender’s best scene finds him fully clothed at a sweetly awkward, semi-improvised first-date dinner with Marianne at an ineptly run but fancy cafe.

Since Shame is an addict’s tale, it ends showing us Brandon bottoming out, soon after his date with Marianne.

This last mad night of soulless compulsion is meant to be alienating, but unfortunately it looks like wild fun, no matter how ominously McQueen scores and shoots it.

Perhaps Shame is arguing that Brandon’s problem isn’t his endless sex—rather, it’s his guilt. Likely not.

Note the squeamishness about porn (in a kaleidoscopic collage of smut as Brandon cleans his house); we’re also supposed to share Dave’s scorn for the “filthy … dirty” computer on Brandon’s desk. The computer catches all the viruses for Brandon, in the way the decent buddy in a movie catches the bullet meant for the corrupt cop.

As in the face of so many putative shockers over the years, I felt I must have lived in cities too long to realize how shocked I was supposed to feel.

Unlike that other driven Manhattan compulsive—Mr. Don Draper, the Mad Man—Brandon makes us guess what he’s running from and what he’s running toward. There was a time—the time of Philip Roth and the Buzzcocks’ tune “Orgasm Addict”—when people took this quest and this fleeing afterward more lightly, understanding that such monkeyishness never lasts long.

Shame NC-17; 101 min.

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BEING ELMO: A PUPPETEERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S JOURNEY (PG; 80 min.) Constance Marks directs a study of the life and career of Kevin Clashâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the puppeteer who makes Sesame Streetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Elmo live. It won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. While itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a study of an essentially shy and slightly private family man, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a documentary with much edge, conďŹ&#x201A;ict or challenge to it. Still, it is a warm and entertaining look behind the scenes at the show. Clashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talent was easily recognizable. In adolescence he was doing live TV. Clash went from a seriously workingclass background in Dundalk, near Baltimore, straight to New York.

After a stint on Captain Kangaroo, he moved on to Sesame Street, where his talent was recognized.

One of Marksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; discoveries is that the universal triumph of the Muppets may have something to do with a particular sewing stitch (â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Henson stitchâ&#x20AC;?) that made the creatures look seamless and smooth.

As for the secret of Elmoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success, according to this ďŹ lm, the roundheaded shaggy creature embodies the qualities of the supportive and strong parents who raised Clash: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Elmo is love.â&#x20AC;? A documentary about Kevin Clash, the man behind (and below) Elmo. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.) (RvB)

SHAME (NC-17; 101 min.) See review on page 44.

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(2003) A sweet Christmas tale about a human orphan (Will Ferrell) who finds his way into Santa’s gift sack one Christmas. He ends up at the North Pole, where the elves (with Bob Newhart as Papa Elf) raise him as their own. Director Jon Favreau navigates the Christmas cheer without dipping too far into cheesy territory. (Plays Dec 16-18 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (Davina Baum)

(PG-13; 100 min.) Michel Hazanavicius’ black and white and silent salute to silent film features his regular star. In the lead is the amazing Jean Dujardin, better known as the idiot secret agent of Hazanavicius’ two OSS parodies. Here Dujardin plays a silent star named Valentin whose luck runs out when sound comes in at the end of the 1920s. It’s the other film this season besides Hugo that recalls the vividness and universality of the silent age. Recommended. (RvB)

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Mercury Rising THE THIRTIES-ISH Mavis (Charlize Theron), the antiheroine of Young Adult, is a hack writer for a series of young-adult novels. Needing a break, she drives her Mini Cooper from her tower home in Minneapolis to Mercury, Minn., the small town where she grew up. Mavis plans to rescue her highschool prince, Buddy (Patrick Wilson), from his wife, Beth (Elizabeth Reaser, Esme from the Twilight series). Buddy and the surprisingly tolerant Beth have just had a new baby. But Buddy shows no sign of dissatisfaction.

The setup is ticklish, but director Jason Reitman and scriptwriter Diablo Cody decided to alternatize the film, adding a touch of the zaniness of their mutual hit Juno. What we see in Mercury can’t convince us this is supposed to be the bad small town we’re hearing described, poor and stinky from some kind of agribusiness. Instead, it looks like John Hughes land. Also, Cody had to include a nod to the righteous moms she knows in Hollywood. Beth and some new mom friends take a break from breastfeeding to play in a bar band called Nipple Confusion. Just how backward is Mercury supposed to be?

Mavis picks up a drinking buddy named Matt (Patton Oswalt), a pudgy,

short beta-male still crippled from being queer-bashed by a gang years ago. Oswalt is covert—he’s a good reactor, comically tolerating Mavis’ many moods. He gives this film some earned bitterness, and Young Adult snaps out slightly out of its sitcomishness whenever he turns up.

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Incidentally, one of the things that makes mumblecore films bearable is their smallness. The nasty, fail-prone, mean-for-the-fun-of-it characters live in a bad, cheap and ugly world. While these films are often half-baked and self-pitying, they strive against the idea that movies have to be about pretty people with pretty problems. In Young Adult, Reitman and Cody seem to be attempting that kind of seat-of-thepants filmmaking without having the stomach to go really down and dirty.

—Richard von Busack

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(1946/1945) Charles Dickens’ tale of snobbery and ingratitude got its best adaptation in the 1946 film version by David Lean. This elegant trimming of an unwieldy narrative is also probably Lean’s best film—a memento of the days when Lean knew the virtue of leanness.

Great cast: John Mills as Pip, Jean Simmons, Finlay Currie as Magwitch and Alec Guinness as the beguiling Pocket. BILLED WITH Brief Encounter, a rather devastatingly underplayed tearjerker about a housewife (Celia Johnson) who falls for a doctor (Trevor Howard). Lean’s direction, with use of authentically glum railway stations and cafes, paved the way for the kitchen-sink films in England—even though the spirit of the story was old-fashioned even then. (Plays Dec 17-18 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

LITTLE WOMEN/STAGE DOOR (1933/1937) Katharine Hepburn plays the striving Jo; the rest of the cast includes Frances Dee as Meg and Joan Bennett as Amy. BILLED WITH Stage Door, George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber’s comedy/drama about aspiring actresses sharing a boarding house. The film co-stars Katharine Hepburn, Eve Arden, Ginger Rogers, Ann Miller and a brilliant cat named Whitey (who earned $25 a day for his part). (Plays Dec 14-16 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. Dec 17: silent shorts including “The Cure” (1917) with Charlie Chaplin as a dipsomaniac taking the waters, while dealing with a troublesome revolving door; Charley Chase in “There Ain’t No Santa Clause” (1926); Buster Keaton in “The Scarecrow” (1920) and Laurel and Hardy in “Big Business” (1929).

Judy Rosenberg at the piano. (Plays Dec 17 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.) (RvB)

HUGO (PG; 127 min.) A kid’s movie at heart, with its lock and key quest taken straight from a children’s book.

Yet it’s bewitchingly different. In a Beaux-Arts composite of the Quai D’Orsay and Gare St. Lazare train stations in Paris, an orphan lives in the garret, tending the many clocks there. In his spare time, Hugo (Asa Butterfield) is repairing a robotlike clockwork automaton. Down below, the station is patrolled by a comically fierce gendarme (Sasha Baron Cohen). Another adversary for Hugo is a bearded elder man (Ben Kingsley) who tends a kiosk of toys and novelties—and who turns out to be cinema royalty in disguise.

The old man’s daughter is the bright young girl Isabelle (the talented Chloe Grace Moritz). All that’s left is for the young detectives to solve the mystery.

Not everything in Hugo runs like, eh, clockwork, and yet it’s an absolutely captivating film. Director Martin Scorsese’s use of 3-D is immaculate (the film must be seen in that format).

With great charm, Hugo shifts from a boy’s search for family, to join the family one finds in the company of film watchers. (RvB)

JACK AND JILL (PG; 93 min.) What at first seemed like a parodic trailer, a la Tropic Thunder, will, come Friday, prove to be in fact a real film. Adam Sandler stars as the titular characters (plural), a brother and sister reunited every Thanksgiving, much to the chagrin of Jack and his family. Bafflingly rewritten by former Seinfeld scribe Steve Koren, the film proves the age-old adage ”When all else fails, put Adam Sandler in drag” to be alarmingly true.

MELANCHOLIA (R; 130 min.) When one of the world’s most frustrating directors makes his magnum opus, it’s a puzzle: Will this persuade the doubters who never liked him, or will it prove to the supporters that he was capable of better work

47 bass note in his voice, this is a work wrought out of profound depression, and yet there’s nothing adolescent about it. Trier is probably a madman, but every madman has at least one lucid argument in him. (RvB)

NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG-13; 118 min.) Garry Marshall’s latest A-list orgy (or, as Hollywood calls it, “an ensemble cast”) chronicles the lives of several interconnecting individuals in New York on New Year’s Eve, dealing with love, life and all the things movies tell us New Yorkers have time to contemplate rather than worrying about heinous rent costs.

The film is an indirect follow-up to

2010’s Valentine’s Day, even retaining a couple of the same cast members (but not characters), and features the kind of onscreen pairings film buffs have been waiting eons for, like Zac Efron and Michelle Pfeiffer finally confronting their sexual tension headon, and Ludacris and Robert De Niro, together at last.

TOWER HEIST (PG-13; 104 min.) The Brett Ratner– directed caper chronicles the working staff of a New York high-rise who conspire to rob one of the building’s tenants after discovering that they’ve fallen victim to a Ponzi scheme

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all along? In two parts, Lars von Trier forecasts the end of the world: the first half is a wormwood-bitter—lush and alluringly surfaced—comedy of the nigh-royal wedding. Kirstin Dunst does the best work of her career as Justine, a woman who connects von Trier’s previous visions of abused Little Match Girl and dangerous vixen. In the second half, we see the cause of her despair: a massive planet heading for ours, a blue orb named, for no linguistically defensible reason, Melancholia. With first-rate supporting work by Stellan Skarsgård, at his most swinish; Charlotte Gainsbourg, at her most tender; and Kiefer Sutherland, with a previously unheard, cigar-toned

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The match-up between Holmes and Jared Harrisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Professor Moriarty survives Ritchieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unconquerable urge to vulgarize. This time, Moriarty is kind of a Krupp, as one can see from all the explosive ordinance in the trailers. The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true suspense comes in the end-game: Holmes and Moriarty, in heavy bearskin robes, play a game of chess on the balcony of Swiss chalet. The place looks like a frozen castle in Mordor.

The professor is a sweet role for any actor, and Harris does it well. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a vaguely syphilitic quality to this citizen above suspicion, with his smooth manners and ogreish teeth. One nasty scene has Moriarty admiring his reďŹ&#x201A;ection in a mirror, singing Schubertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Die Forelleâ&#x20AC;? while putting Holmes through the torture sequence.

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Possibly because of the snow scenes in Game of Shadows, Ritchie delivers two separate shout-outs to the 007 Christmas classic On Her Majestyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Secret Service. It has been forgotten that there was a romance in OHMSS, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really none here: just the partnership of two men and their conveniently missing beard, Mrs. Watson.

The bromance peaks in a cramped ballroom, where a tuxedoed Holmes dances with Watson (Jude Law). Like all the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many jokes and double-entendres questioning the closeness of the great detective and his assistant, this moment is absent of all sexual magnetism. Unless youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sexually aroused by stupidity. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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NY GOOD discussion of contemporary klezmer music is bound to wind up at the Klezmatics. In fact, that there even exists a “contemporary klezmer” genre to discuss is due in large part to the New York City–based band that is at once boundary-pushing pioneer, aficionado and trusted representative of the style brought to the United States by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.

Recognizable by its lively violin-, clarinet- and accordion-driven dance tunes, its melodies that mirror human laughter and crying and its

forlorn undertones, klezmer music dates back thousands of years and anchors many Jewish celebrations, which is where the story of the Klezmatics begins.

Formed in 1986, the Klezmatics was originally a party band playing traditional klezmer at weddings, anniversaries and the like. A turning point came when a record label executive advised the members to add personal material reflecting their diverse musical backgrounds and worldviews to the repertoire.

“When we did our first international show in Berlin in 1988, we ended up making our first recording,” says Klezmatics co-founder, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Lorin Sklamberg. “The CEO of the record label encouraged us, now that we had learned the language of the music, to take it and really put ourselves into it.”

The advice was a catalyst.

Members began writing original material “that came from our hearts and what we believe,” says Sklamberg. They incorporated jazz, classical, gospel, avant-garde, folk, blues, salsa, Irish music and more into the music.

“It was part of this mandate that the band follows that we would not just impart our worldview but our musical vocabularies as well,” says Sklamberg. “It widens the colors and possibilities for arrangements.

The tough thing is that it’s not easy to combine these things in an organic way. That’s something that we experiment with a lot.”

For Sklamberg, who has a background in political activism through music, the commitment to writing from the heart provided something that he wasn’t getting from other musical projects.

“It made it a lot more personal for me to express myself as an artist and a human being,” he says. “All the other types of music that I was doing fell away because they didn’t have as much resonance anymore.

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They kind of felt empty in a way that this doesn’t.”

Now, more than 25 years in, the Klezmatics is an institution. The band has won numerous awards (including a Grammy), reached No. 1 on Billboard’s world music chart, performed in 20 countries and inspired a wave of contemporary klezmer outfits. Its members have collaborated with a diverse array of artists including Itzhak Perlman, Allen Ginsberg and Arlo Guthrie, and they were asked by Nora Guthrie, daughter of folk icon Woody Guthrie, to write music for some of her father’s lyrics.

The band’s latest release, Live at Town Hall, was funded through Kickstarter, an online, crowdfunding platform that provides fans a way to contribute to creative projects. While Sklamberg had reservations about asking fans to fund the CD—“What does it say about us, as a band that’s b been together for 25 years, shilli shilling for money on the Internet Internet?” he wondered—the project wa was a success and the band rraised 104 percent of the funds necessary necess to produce and promote th the CD. True to the members’ ea early commitment to each othe he and the other music, the album’s central themes are of the small planet–on n people planet–one variety and include gospel gospel, R&B, world beat, folk and, of cou course, plenty of rousing and rolli rollicking klezmer.

Looking down the road, d Sklamberg sees a continue continued merging l and d traditions di i d more off styles and collaborations, but the specifics are not yet clear.

“We’re still working on what’s next,” says Sklamberg. “We’re sort of in a holding pattern where we get together and see what we come up with. We’ve been together 25 years and we’ve accomplished an enormous amount of work in that time,” he continues, “but we have so much more music to make.”

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The Growlers Friday at Blank Club, San Jose, 9pm; $10 Raised on the Long Beach waves, the Growlers are surf rock for this century—introspective lyrics and a melancholy, ambient vibe. (They call it “beach goth.”) At any time, however, their neo-psych grooves can go rootsy or full-tilt garage rock, like they took a smoke break in a time machine and came back as the 13th Floor Elevators fronted by Jim Morrison. (SP)

Supporting and protecting protecting San Jose’s Jose s Parks, Pa arks T arks, ra ails Trails and Recreation Recreation t Pr ogrrams a Programs

December People Saturday at Sobrato Center for the Arts, San Jose, 7pm; $12/$24 Featuring former sidemen for Sammy Hagar, Greg Kihn, Steely Dan and others, December People turn the holiday songbook into something out of classic-rock drive-time, turning, for example, “Joy to the World” into a Who song. This show is a fundraiser for the Sobrato Arts Foundation for Education and ARTTEC. Tickets are half-off ($12) with five cans of food for Second Harvest Food Bank. (SP)

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The Started Its Tuesday at Johnny V’s, San Jose, 9pm; $5 Skinny ties rule when Terrible Tuesdays at Johnny V’s continues its tradition of mad genre-hopping, this time pairing San Francisco’s Started Its with San Jose’s Talky Tina. The Started Its play punky, stripped-down rock, and do a bitchin’ cover of “Billie Jean.” (SP)

Metro’s music calendar runs Wednesday–Tuesday.

Rock/Pop AGENDA LOUNGE Fri: The Mighty Diamonds. San Jose.

AVALON Fri: How the Grouch Stole Christmas. Sun, 8pm: John Waite. $15. Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: The Makeup Sex. Free. Fri, 9pm: The Growlers, Tomorrow’s Tulips, the Abigails. $10. San Jose.

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

Fri: Metal Shop. Sat: Joe Bazooka.

Sun: The Gents. Mon: Matt Bolton.

Campbell.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Drive. Sat, 10pm: Groove Nugget. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Fri, 9pm: Drop Dead Sixty. Sat, 8:15pm: Live music.

CAFFE FRASCATI Sat, 8pm: Nate Kavanaugh and Friends. Sat, 8pm: Vejipet and Tofu Beast. San Jose.

$59.50 and up. Fri, 7pm: Avenged Sevenfold. Sun, 7:30pm: Wild Jam. $21.50 and up. San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S Sat: South Bay Dub Massive. Tue: Talky Tina. San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S Fri, 9:30pm: Street Wise Band.

Sunnyvale.

CAPERS Fri, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.

LOS GATOS LODGE

CLUB FOX

Fri-Sat: Live rock bands.

Los Gatos.

Sat, 8pm: Elvin Bishop. $25/$30.

Redwood City.

MOJO LOUNGE

GOOD KARMA

Fri, 9:30pm: Neckbeard. Sat, 9:30pm: Willie G. Fremont.

Thu: Acoustic music. San Jose.

HP PAVILION Wed, 7pm: Jay-Z and Kanye West.

MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE Wed: Maxx Cabello Jr. San Jose.

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53 NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: The Spliffs, Four Blind Mice, Wasted Noise. $10. Sat, 8pm: Red Glare, Picture Me Broken, Cadent. $10. Gilroy.

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

Thu: Bone Drivers. Fri, 9:30pm: The Groove Doctors. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Naked in Vegas. $10.

Los Gatos.

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

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MOROCCO’S SJ

Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 6pm: Jason Bellenkes Duo. San Jose.

LIQUID Tue: Rock en espanol. San Jose.

MURPHY’S LAW

MOROCCO’S MV

Fri: Dave Abbott and Chris Cobb.

Sat: Maneck. Mon: Pro blues jam.

Sunnyvale.

Wed & Fri-Sun, 6pm: World music. Thu, 6pm: Hot Kugel. Mon, 6pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 6pm: Flamenco music. Mountain View.

MOROCCO’S SJ Wed, 6pm: Flamenco music. FriSat, 6pm: World music. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

NETO’S Fri, 7:30pm: Kenny Neal. $15/$20. Sat, 8pm: John Garcia Band. $5. Santa Clara.

A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Kirk Tamura Jazz Trio.

Sat, 9pm: 3-4 Crowd Jazz Trio.

San Jose.

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

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

Gilroy.

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

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

Mountain View.

Jazz/Blues

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

X-BAR Sat, 8pm: Albert Square, Pillowfights, Summer Vacation, Boboso and Friends, Daikon. $8.

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

AFFINITY Wed, 7:30pm: Tony Lindsay. Free.

Hilton San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6pm: Con Brio. Fri, 6pm: Andy Just, John Carcia, Phillip Benson. Sat, 6pm: The House of Hughes. Sun, noon: School of the Blues student jam.

San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE Sat, 8pm: Timeout.

Mountain View.

Mon, 7pm: A Swingin’ Affair and Jazz Jam. No cover. Tue, 7pm: Students of Ruth Gerson perform. $10/$14. Redwood City.

TESSORA’S

BBC GASTROPUB Fri, 6:0pm: Live jazz. Menlo Park.

Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz.

San Jose.

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

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

WINE AFFAIRS

Sun, 6pm: Joe Major Jazz.

Cupertino.

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

San Jose.

ALBERTO’S

GRAND DELL SALOON

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

Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Fri, 8pm: Chrome Deluxe. Sat, 8pm: West Side Shakers. Campbell.

C&W/Folk

World AGENDA LOUNGE

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

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

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

San Jose.

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

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Wed, 9pm: Ron Tomasello and Friends. Thu, 9pm: Madylan Rose. Fri, 9pm: KSCU Christmas Party with Maxx Cabello Jr. $10.

Sat, 9pm: Mike Osborn. $10. Sun, 4pm: Ruckus. Sun, 7pm: Stevie B. Mon, 9pm: Wayne’s Way. Tue, 7pm: Dennis and Stuart.

San Jose.

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

Campbell.

UNWINED

THE GRAPEVINE Thu, 7pm: Hootenanny.

Willow Glen.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 8pm: Jamie Laval and Richard Mandel. $20/$22.

Sat, 7pm: Avalanche Choir and Friends. $20/$22. Santa Clara.

RED ROCK COFFEE Sat, noon: Margaret and Victor, bluegrass. Mountain View.

THE SADDLE RACK

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

Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

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

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

LOS GATOS BREWING CO.

SAM’S BBQ

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

HUKILAU

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

Fri: Aldon Sanders. Sat: Garden Island Band. San Jose.

Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos.

San Jose.

CASCAL

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Albert Square & the Pillowfights TWO OF the South Bay’s most prominent punk bands, the Albert Square and the Pillowfights, are calling it quits. It’s not entirely a coincidence that they are playing their final show together—they’ve shared many bills over the years, including some of their very earliest and even a recent West Coast tour. “It is very strange that it just happened. It just seemed appropriate to play our last show together,” says Albert Square guitarist Sim Castro.

Indeed, the bands have always been very closely linked.

They half-jokingly referred to themselves as the last of the “Bracket bands.” It’s a reference to how they got their start four years ago, when they and a handful of other bands used to practice in their friend Ben Bracket’s garage. Bracket’s mom basically gave her son’s friends a much-needed place for their bands to practice. All the other bands have long since broken up.

X Bar, Cupertino Sat., Dec. 17 8pm; $8

“Nobody practices there anymore. It’s like an end of an era. It was a very popular area for a while,” says Pillowfights singer Daniele Bailey.

As the two groups moved out of the garage and into actual venues they always made a point to play together frequently despite having two totally different takes on punk rock. Albert Square play early-’80sinspired eclectic post-punk. Pillowfights play sugary sweet pop-punk. The loss of these two bands is a blow to San Jose’s already tiny punk scene.

The reason for Pillowfights’ breakup is simple—Leo Henderson, their bass player, is moving to Seattle. According to Bailey, “Leo can’t be replaced.

He’s too important.”

Albert Square’s breakup is more complex. They struggled for over a year to keep a drummer in the band. In that time, Castro moved up to San Francisco. Practice became more difficult to orchestrate and everyone was having a harder time making the band a priority. “It just seemed like the logical decision to say let’s just call it quits and move on to other things,” Castro says.

So far, Castro has already moved on to playing solo shows and getting together with different musicians in the hopes of forming a new group.

Bailey wants to start a new group also—though this time she wants to play an instrument, not just be the lead singer, something she’s never done before.—Aaron Carnes

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JAMMING FREQUENCY Drake returns to 94.9’s Wild Jam as this year’s headliner.

94.7 Wild Jam IF YOU’RE looking to get game-day conditioning for the upcoming New Year’s Eve bacchanalia, hip-hop/R&B station 94.9’s Wild Jam live show has proven to be an adequate Sun., Dec. 18 annual training ground. This year’s headliner, Canadian singer-rapper and Lil Wayne protégé Drake, 7:30pm; is also a Wild Jam veteran. In his brief time in the $21.50-$153 spotlight, the 25-year-old has managed to score a No. 1 album on the Billboard Top 100 with Thank Me Later, which also went platinum—a hard feat in the current state of party-cup-flimsy music sales. Since his mix tape So Far Gone was released, Drake has worked with hip-hop deities Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Timbaland, while also composing for Alicia Keys, Jamie Foxx and Dr. Dre. Also performing are B.O.B., New Boyz, Taio Cruz, J. Cole and Tyca.—Maureen Coulter

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

San Jose.

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

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

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

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

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

Saratoga.

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

Cupertino.

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

CITY ESPRESSO

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

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

Tue, 6pm: Open-mic night.

San Jose.

DA KINE CAFE

QUARTER NOTE

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

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

HOT JAVA COFFEE ROASTING

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

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

JOHNNY V’S Wed: The Cypher. Hip-hop open mic. San Jose.

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

SONOMA CHICKEN COOP Wed, 8:30pm: Open mic.

Campbell.

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY First and third Thursday of every

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JERSEYS

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

BOULEVARD TAVERN

JOHNNY V’S

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

Sun: Sunday Funday. Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

Thu and Mon: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Karaoke

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month, 7pm: The Canvas. Open to all performers. Sunnyvale.

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

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

Santa Clara.

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ UncleHank. San Jose.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

BRIX

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

San Jose.

KATIE BLOOM’S Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Campbell.

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

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

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

KYOTO PLACE

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

LILLY MAC’S

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

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

LIQUID Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie.

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

BBC GASTROPUB

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

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

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

THE BEARS

DIVE BAR

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

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

OFF THE HOOK

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

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

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

AZÚCAR

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

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.

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

Sun, 8pm: Joe. Campbell.

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

BLUE BONNET BAR

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

FIREHOUSE GRILL

Thu, 8:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

PIONEER SALOON

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

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

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

RED STAG LOUNGE

GILROY BOWL

Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

Thu-Sat: Karaoke. Gilroy.

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

Santana Row.

BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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

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

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

BOGART’S LOUNGE

HUDDLE

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

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

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

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

Sunnyvale.

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Dance Clubs AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

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

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

San Jose.

BBC GASTROPUB Fri: DJs. Sat, 3pm: Art and Music event. Menlo Park.

THE BLANK CLUB Sat, 9pm: Adult Dance Party, hosted by Black and Brown, presented by DJ Basura and Eric Belladonna; wear formal attire.

San Jose.

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

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PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover.

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

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays.

Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays.

Fri, 9pm: Seductive. $10. Sat, 9pm: Fame. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: College Night.

San Jose.

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

JOHNNY V’S

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Fri: DJ Dance Night. Mon: DJ Flavatone. San Jose.

Wed: Wingy Tango. Thu: SoFA King. Fri: Video Killed the DJ. Sat: Sapphire. Sun: Sinful Sundays.

Mon: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Buck Wild Tuesdays. San Jose.

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

LILLY MAC’S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night.

Sunnyvale.

LIQUID Thu: DJ Tesfa and rotating DJs, reggae, hip-hop. Fri-Sat: Rotating DJs, including Remedy, Goldenchyld and others. Sun: Live music. San Jose.

MIAMI BEACH CLUB

BOSWELL’S

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

Mon: DJ Geekstar. Campbell.

MOTIF

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Fri-Sat: DJs & dancing. San Jose.

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.

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

Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: DJ Paul X. San Jose.

STUDIO8 Thu: Calicove Christmas Concert. Fri: Wild Jam pre-party.

San Jose.

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

San Jose.

WILLOW DEN Wed-Sat: DJs. Willow Glen.

ZEN LOUNGE Wed: Lil Saturday. Thu: 24 Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays.

Mountain View.

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BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Thu, 10pm: DJ Nicolo. Tue: Pubstumpers Trivia. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Night. Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Thu, Sat: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Check-O. San Jose.

CLUBHOUSE RESTAURANT Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.

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

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

THE PHARCYDE “Passin’ Me By” hitmakers take their bizzare ride to the jazz club with live band. Dec 16 at Yoshi’s SF.

D.R.I. After defining “crossover,” seminal hardcore band returns playing classic ‘Dealing With It’-era thrash. Dec 16 at Slim’s.

TORI AMOS Pianist and singer with a new album, ‘Night of Hunters,’ out on classical label. Dec 16 at the Paramount Theater.

THE NAKED AND FAMOUS New Zealand buzz band working actively on the latter, lackadaisically on the former. Dec 18-19 at the Independent.

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