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NASA Naysayer This is in response to your blurb on Google and Hangar One (“SV411,” Dec 14). I am utterly appalled at recent reports that NASA headquarters is not responding to a proposal from Google’s founders that would not only save the biggest historic landmark in the South

Bay, it would save NASA $32.8 million.

Up until now, the sticking point in restoring historic Hangar One has been deciding who would pay for installing the new exterior of the Hangar, necessary to replace the toxic material now being removed. There has been a multi-year buck-passing exercise between the Navy and NASA, as both agencies try to escape any responsibility for preserving this landmark.

NASA’s inaction sums up what’s wrong with government. An offer was made for private funding to reskin the hangar. Paying for the reskinning was the sticking point in the discussions.

So money comes along, and what does NASA do? Stall, diddle and procrastinate. This is why people hate government.

BILL HOUGH | SAN JOSE

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Holy Economy Capitalism has become a religion. The holy economy is its god. The corporate is its ruler. The consumers are its supporters. Its prayer is: Create wealth.

Greed is Good. Privatize everything.

Produce, consume, make the economy grow. Have faith in the holy economy.

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Housing Crisis Abandoned houses bring down property values. Banks foreclosed on the homes, refusing to lower the principal so homeowners could stay and they would get something for the property. I don’t understand how they can do it. And they are not held accountable. Banks were key players in creating the economic meltdown.

To allow them to get away with this is unconscionable. We have a crisis of homelessness, and these houses are being ripped down. Common sense and compassion lead me to say, “Let’s put people in those houses and let them pay what they can.”

MOSS HENRY | SANTA ROSA

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THE FLY

Undercover Ally ’Tis the season to make a political run, and a newcomer to the scene intends to shake up San Jose’s City Council. TAM TRUONG, a 30-yearold San Jose Police Department detective, filed papers with the City Clerk’s office this week and plans to challenge District 4 Councilmember KANSEN CHU this fall. Truong was one of more than 100 officers who received pink slips in the spring, but he managed to escape the axe.

Truong’s candidacy intrigues political watchdogs for two reasons: whom he intends to align himself with and who helped nudge him into the race. Surprisingly, Truong approves of Mayor CHUCK REED’s sprint to the ballot box for pension reform, and the detective would rather uncover savings with the mayor than wait for Don’t another round of forget pink slips. Adding an to tip! additional wrinkle, Truong was prodded FLY@ to run by Reed’s ally, METRONEWS. COM Vice Mayor MADISON NGUYEN, who is no fan of Chu after the District 4 incumbent advocated her recall during the “Little Saigon” controversy. Going even deeper into the machinations of City Hall, though, Truong represents a countermove in the chess game between Reed’s bloc on the council—Nguyen, SAM LICCARDO, PETE CONSTANT and ROSE HERRERA—and organized labor. With future vote crucial to cementing Reed’s legacy, which will be retirement benefits reform if nothing else, it’s no coincidence that Truong’s announcement came on the heels of labor-friendly Steve Kline stepping forward to challenge to District 6’s PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO. While Oliverio marches to his own drumbeat on most issues, he aligns with the mayor when it comes to pension pullbacks.

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The Last Cigarette TALK TO THE SECONDHAND Linda Roma quit smoking cigarettes after lighting up for more than 30 years, and now she wants Morgan Hill to go cold turkey on public smoking.

South Bay cities explore new bans on smoking, inside and out, while some businesses worry

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DRINK and a drag off a cigarette were once a classic fixture of American nightlife. But in the mid-’90s, new laws made smoking illegal in California bars and other public places, and to light up a cigarette meant placing a coaster on a pint and stepping out the door.

Increasingly, cities around the Bay Area now are considering taking the law much further than that. Multiple municipalities in the South Bay are putting forth proposals to make smoking in public and, in some cases, inside one’s home, illegal.

With the aid of a $6.9 million federal grant aimed at reducing secondhand smoke in Santa Clara County, the cities of Gilroy, Sunnyvale, Morgan Hill, Palo Alto and San Jose have all taken steps toward a tobacco-free future, with some community activists pleading for laws to make butts illegal altogether.

Linda Roma is one such person. A smoker for 36 years, the Morgan Hill resident quit when she noticed the exhaled plumes harming the health of her husband, who had developed a brain tumor. Now, as Morgan Hill officials draft a strict ordinance against public smoking, Roma is ready to see cigarettes banished. Unlike some who are in favor of partial restrictions, Roma—who has attended three recent public meetings to voice support for an ordinance—wants something close to full prohibition.

“If we’re going to do this, we should just do it across the board,” Roma says, naming side-by-side living units, sidewalks, parks, playgrounds and areas of employment as places she thinks smoking should be illegal.“That makes it the easiest to understand and the easiest to enforce.”

In San Jose, anti-tobacco organization Breathe California is leading the attack on public smoking. CEO Margo Sidener says lawmakers should consider the overwhelming support for smoking bans revealed through surveys and questionnaires.

“People who oppose these bans forget that there’s the 90 percent of people

who don’t want to breathe secondhand smoke,” Sidener says.“The fact is, cigarettes kill people and cause lung cancer and heart disease, and I think you have to have more compassion for the people whose health may be harmed than for the people who want to be able to do something that’s known to be dangerous for others.”

A survey randomly conducted by the city of Morgan Hill found that most people favor the idea of a ban. Of about 500 people questioned, 76 percent supported a ban on smoking in private doorways, 56 percent supported a ban on smoking at all public events, 66 percent supported a ban in all city-owned recreation areas and 53 percent supported a ban on smoking on all public sidewalks.

Breathe California asked the owners and managers of 173 San Jose restaurants if they would oppose an ordinance against smoking in outdoor dining areas; 158 said they would not object to such a law, according to Sidener.

She points out that smoking has never been a civil right. “It’s a privilege,” Sidener says, “and society allows us some privileges and not others.”

The battle has advanced dramatically since the 1980s, when merely establishing smoking and nonsmoking sections in public places, like restaurants and airplanes, proved difficult. Santa Clara County received federal money in 2010 through the American Recovery

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and Reinvestment Act, aimed at curbing smoking. Around the world, 2,106 states, commonwealths, territories, cities and counties now enforce laws against smoking in one or more outdoor areas, according to the Americans for Nonsmokers Rights website. In California, 164 cities and counties— including 23 in the Bay Area—now prohibit smoking in parks.

But Jeff Burrus, co-owner of the Morgan Hill Cigar Company, thinks people should have the privilege of lighting up. His shop is among the few county establishments where smoking is allowed, thanks to an exemption in the state commerce code that overrides any city ban. “I’m fighting it as a violation of the freedom of choice,” Burrus says. “This is a case of one group forcing their will and their want onto another group.”

Burrus’ business partner, Mike Davenport, lobbied for smoking restrictions in the past and recently helped push through an oncampus ban in the Gavilan Community College District, where he serves as a trustee. But when it comes to individual businesses, he and Burrus both believe they should be allowed to make their own choices about smoking on the premises.

“This is a matter of property owners’ rights,” says Davenport, adding that new bans are “an example of far, overreaching authority.”

In Belmont, city law forbids smoking on sidewalks, in parks, at public events and in all residences except free-standing townhouses and single-family homes.

The restrictions took effect in January 2009, several years after Ray Goodrich, a resident of a multi-unit complex, began writing letters to the city complaining that smoke from his neighbor’s apartment was drifting through the ventilation shafts into his own home.

Though the city has received 138 complaints about violations of the ordinance in the past three years, no citations have ever been issued, according to Belmont’s officer of code enforcement, Kirk Buckman. He says the bulk of the calls came soon after the ban.

“There was a lot of controversy at the time,” says Belmont’s former mayor, Coralin Feierbach, who spearheaded the effort to ban smoking about six years ago. “But things have changed. People just don’t want to be in a place where others are smoking.”

Now, the concept of eliminating secondhand smoke from multi-housing

living units is spreading. Earlier this month, the Tri-County California Apartment Association announced that starting in January its member property managers will be strongly encouraged to forbid tenants from smoking and make it a violation of their lease to do so.

Up in Smoke According to Robert Proctor, an author and professor of the History of Science at Stanford University, people who smoke aren’t the source of the problem. Proctor’s new book, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, due out in January, describes the firm grip that the tobacco industry maintains on hundreds of millions of nicotine addicts.

Proctor admits that the fight against smoking will be a difficult one, especially for those battling the powerful tobacco industry, which took Proctor to court in a failed effort to block publication of his book. Though national anti-tobacco campaigns seem to be effective—per capita smoking is down by almost half nationwide since 1982—Americans still smoke 340 billion cigarettes per year.

Proctor says that Californians consume 28 billion cigarettes annually, a rate that is just less than the worldwide average.

Proctor says that people who smoke are not so much exercising a right as they are being victimized by an industry.

“Even smokers don’t like smoking,” he says, explaining that nicotine is not a recreational drug the way alcohol and marijuana are. “Only 3 percent of drinkers are alcoholics while nearly every smoker is an addict. Smoking is much more like heroin than drinking.”

Though some dispute the notion that secondhand smoke is dangerous, Proctor asserts that cigarette smoke can ride on a breeze in unbroken streams to bystanders as far as 100 feet away. This, he says, merits the increasingly common proposals by city governments to ban smoking in outdoor places.

While some call the new measures invasive and draconian, Proctor believes grassroots policies and local-level laws like these have the greatest power to harm the tobacco industry.

“Their lobbyists just don’t have the manpower to come out to all these cities and fight the laws,” Proctor says. “They hate these local ordinances more than the state laws, and they probably won’t even come in and fight because they’ll look like bullies. What the tobacco industry wants is to be invisible.”

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Playing too much Farmville may have lost you your job, but it’s helped the folks at Zynga start rolling in the dough. Symbiosis, y’all.

regarding the future of its Flash platform on mobile devices (read: “stick a fork in it, it’s done”) and a massive round of layoffs, Adobe is doing just fine, thankyouverymuch.

Its revenue this quarter is up 14 percent to a whopping $1.152B. This in contrast to predictions from analysts at FactSet Research, which had Adobe’s revenue coming in at $1.09B. Good to hear positive news from a company seemingly on the wane after years of domination in the interactive software creation business. Adobe has seen the light and is attempting now to push open HTML5 standards instead of its closed Flash platform for the next generation of online content.

Zynga Goes Public, Meets Expectations

Facebook’s Timeline Goes Live Worldwide

San Francisco–based gaming company Zynga has started trading its stock. Its IPO was estimated to be worth between $8 and $10 a share, and for the most part it’s been trading around that value since the morning of the 16th, peaking thus far at $11.50. It’s the biggest tech IPO since Google in 2004 and has already raised at least a cool billion for the company. For the 14 percent (100 million shares) of the company offered up today, that’s on track for the previous valuation of the company at $8.9B. Pretty mindboggling for the company that, just a few years ago, started quietly rolling out soon-to-be-hit games like Farmville and Words With Friends.

Finally rolling out the new feature announced earlier this year at their F8 conference, Facebook has hit the switch on its Timeline. In what’s being called the biggest new Facebook feature since the news feed, Timeline shows each user’s history, going back all the way to when said user created her or his account. Given the awkwardness that this might create for some users, Facebook has given people a 7-day grace period in which to omit questionable (that drunken office party at your old work) or painful things (when your husband got custody of the children) from their

This has been prompted by a severe misreading of many ‘I want to kill myself’ comments found under horrendous pictures. Props to FB nonetheless.

Facebook Adding Suicide Prevention to its Services Today, Facebook is launching a new service to its users aimed at providing an understanding ear for people who might be having suicidal thoughts. With 800M users, Facebook has become a way for many people to express themselves and live their lives.

Unfortunately, this also means that it’s become a place people express their depression and distress as well. Facebook is now stepping in and offering instant message connections to a suicide prevention operator. Given that many young people at risk for suicide often prefer to instant message or text, this is a perfect solution for a generation of digital natives. According to the AP, friends of users can report troubling language or posts to Facebook and then that user will receive an email encouraging them to talk out their problems either on the phone or via IM.

Adobe Beats Market Expectations for Q4 2011 Despite making some difficult announcements this quarter

Facebook establishes its end-goal of a politician-free future, by forcing all dirty laundry to be accessible by trackpad. In other news: Herman Cain’s Facebook has been mysteriously deactivated.

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Unlike in prison, nearly everybody is actually advising to drop the SOPA.

Silicon Valley Leaders Band Together to Oppose SOPA SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, is a controversial bill essentially giving the government the option to block websites at their discretion. Internet freedom advocacy group the Electronic Freedom Foundation calls it an “unconstitutional online blacklist.” It’s been decried as marking the end of the truly free and open Internet. Because their livelihoods have depended on the Internet being the way it has been since its inception, heads of major Silicon Valley companies have signed a letter condemning this piece of legislature.

An excerpt of the letter can be read below:

An Open Letter to Washington We’ve all had the good fortune to found Internet companies and nonprofits in a regulatory climate that promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, the creation of content and free expression online.

However we’re worried that the PROTECT IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act–which started out as well-meaning efforts to control piracy online–will undermine that framework.

These two pieces of legislation threaten to:

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pasts. After the grace period ends, everything in your past is visible depending on your privacy settings.

* Require web services, like the ones we helped found, to monitor what users link to, or upload. This would have a chilling effect on innovation; * Deny website owners the right to due process of law; * Give the U.S. Government the power to censor the web using techniques similar to those used by China, Malaysia and Iran; and * Undermine security online by changing the basic structure of the Internet.

Anyone who regularly uses the Internet and who values the freedom of expression granted by the information age owes it to themselves to read up on SOPA. Visit SV411.com for the full letter.

Apple Acquiring Flash Memory Company Apple, the world’s biggest purchaser of flash memory, famously has to plan its product launches around the quantities of flash it’s able to get from companies like Toshiba, Samsung, Hynix, Micron and Intel. Finally tapping a little bit of its astronomical cash resources, Apple’s plonking down an estimated $500M for its own flash memory company.

Although Israeli company Anobit is a fabless company (which means it lacks manufacturing facilities of its own), developing its own designs could mean that Apple might have more advanced flash memory technology faster than anyone else in the tech industry. Letting the imagination run a little more wild, given Apple’s beaucoup bank account, Apple could theoretically create its own flash memory manufacturing facilities and cut out other companies from that crucial piece of their parts pipeline. Anobit’s technology is already reportedly licensed to many of the major flash memory makers, and their portfolio boasts 21 patents.

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With so much important business to be done at San Jose’s City Hall these days, one would think petty arguments over wishing people “Happy Holidays” were a thing of the past. And one would be so very, very wrong in making that assumption.

A recent San Jose Mercury News article blows the lid off a holiday controversy, which reporter John Woolfolk dubbed “Greeting-gate”— because any controversy worth its salt should have a “gate” on the end.

No exceptions.

Apparently, the brouhaha started when Councilmember Xavier Campos had the temerity to ask City Manager Debra Figone “to send holiday greetings on his behalf to city workers.” Here is how Woolfolk summarized Campos’ bold attempt to strike while the holiday season iron was hot: “City workers have suffered a beating lately, taking 10 percent pay and benefit cuts as hard times have widened budget shortfalls and forced layoffs. So Campos asked if Figone could email his well wishes to the city’s entire workforce of 5,400.

He and his staff posed in front of a Christmas tree in the City Hall lobby for a note that said: ‘Happy Holidays from Council Member Xavier Campos and the District 5 Staff. Seasons greetings and may your holidays be filled with happiness.’”

Not wanting Campos to be the lone councilmember extending his greetings—or worse, show a tree in his card and hint at the C-bomb (a.k.a. Christmas) at the expense of other holidays—Figone cited Charter Section 411 in an email to

the mayor and councilmembers.

She wrote that it’s not “good practice” for the mayor or councilmembers to have individual correspondence with the workforce.

Methinks the city manager might have been showing who’s the boss by not allowing Campos to “go rogue” and send his own holiday greetings, but there is a valid point to be made.

Giving one councilmember the right to send out holiday wishes could lead to an envious chain of emails from other councilmembers, some of whom would rather cancel Christmas than be outdone in voicing their appreciation of the city’s workforce.

The compromise was each councilmember and the mayor crafting their own personal wellwishes in a group greeting card. The difference in each person’s approach is instructive.

Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen’s message begins, “As the holidays approach,” which was a strategic and inclusive move, as Christmas is Sunday, Dec. 25, and Chanukah began Tuesday, Dec. 20. Meanwhile, Kwanzaa runs from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1.

Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio played it safe by not even mentioning the holidays when he wrote, “Wishing you and your family the best of health in 2012.” Meanwhile, Councilmember Pete Constant

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stuck to his conservative Christian roots in his message. “As my family and I celebrate Christmas, we revel in fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home and family,” he wrote. “We hope your holiday season is merry and wish you a Happy New Year.”

Constant was the lone person to include his staff—minus one secretary—in the greetings.

At the end of his article, Woolfolk notes that Campos thought the issue was “blown out of proportion” and he “simply wanted to make a nice gesture.” We disagree.

Now it has been properly blown out of proportion. — Josh Koehn

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SILICON ALLEYS

Blightings GARDEN OF WEEDS San Jose’s Hacienda Gardens is a veritable anti–Garden of Eden.

The urban explorer is once again unable to resist the siren call of a half-empty strip mall By

GARY SINGH

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XACTLY one year ago, the Urban Blight Exploration Junkie relapsed at the crumbling remains of the Hacienda Gardens Shopping Center on Meridian Avenue between Hillsdale and Foxworthy.

Sure, there existed new components of a once-thriving center—replete with demoralizing San Jose strip mall color schemes of mustard yellow, brick red, olive and beige—but with the majority of those newer units remaining empty, the intended upgrade fell completely flat. The entire property remained a decrepit, postapocalyptic paean to landlord neglect, a result of botched urban planning, real estate greed,

political indifference and suburban apathy—in other words, textbook San Jose.

Since Christmas season seems to be when troubled addicts relapse the most, the blight junkie was no exception, so his intrinsic feelings of hopelessness, isolation and unresolved abandonment issues again drove him to go on a bender by searching out the most rundown eyesore of dead retail he could find. That is, he needed to change the way he felt, so he resumed his craving for decrepitude and blight, consuming it all at Hacienda Gardens.

That was a year ago, and we are sad to report that another relapse has occurred. The junkie went on another binge at the ruined shopping center just last week. On the Meridian Avenue side, one of the newer signs proclaims that Panda Express is located therein.

The rest of the sign is hauntingly

blank, as if the spaces designated for future tenants were just too premature.

Another sign proclaims that BlueRock BBQ and Hometown Buffet are the only two tenants in other parts of the complex. The older buildings, housing the Rite-Aid and Hometown Buffet, are feeble, decrepit and just plain uninviting. Behind the Rite-Aid, parts of the corner at Hillsdale and Yucca are fenced off. A trailer with a flat tire sits in the parking lot.

The sign for the Cardinal Coffee Shop still remains, but the facade of the former restaurant is falling apart and covered with graffiti. Old clothes, soaked from the rain, sit on top of a broken concrete garage receptacle in front of the place. Before the Wells Fargo moved across the lot to a new building, it sat next door, and one can still look through the dirty windows at what’s left of the ’70s-era décor inside.

What a waste.

But even on a bender, the blight junkie can acknowledge the good things in life. He has learned to be grateful for what he has. Right across Foxworthy, a new grocery store finally moved into one of the abandoned buildings, providing cheap Listerine,

frozen food, $9.99 flannel jackets and much more. The genius who owns the chain couldn’t even come up with an interesting name, so it’s called Grocery Outlet Bargain Market®. Yes, you’re reading that correctly—there’s even a registered trademark symbol at the end.

Exploring the physical and cultural wreckage of a once-thriving set of buildings brought back numerous childhood memories for the blight junkie, as relapses often do. Perhaps the most fascinating place he could recall in Hacienda Gardens Shopping Center was Van’s Hobby Shop, a jam-packed outpost of interesting stuff.

As a kid, the future blight junkie perused the shelves at Van’s all the time, often without even looking for anything in particular. Like most curious people, he just loved to browse and a look around, but unfortunately the t old bats that ran the place did not want kids to browse. They followed w him h while he innocently looked around the shop. The bats repeatedly a insisted on knowing why he was there, i what he was looking for, his purpose, w etc. e Apparently, they didn’t understand that his journey of browsing and t exploration was more important than the final outcome. The bats did not understand that, for him, life was not a problem to be solved; rather, it was a mystery to be experienced.

As the Urban Blight Exploration Junkie recalled this childhood memory, his spirits lifted. He felt more integrated, as if a missing part of him had finally been filled, enabling him to build a more complete identity.

The old bats had been misguided.

One needn’t emphasize the goal, the outcome. Instead, curiosity and imagination were more important.

The experience of browsing in Van’s Hobby Shop at Hacienda Gardens Shopping Center taught him that the journey was more precious than the final result. Now the junkie began to feel better about his current predicament. The road to recovery began. He was not going to let the present blighted state of Hacienda Gardens trigger him to relapse ever again.

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NYE Party Guide AGENDA DJ Tito Bell, video mixers, DJ Solrock and DJ Jazzy Jezz ring in the New Year. Special packages available. Sat, Dec 31. No cover before 9pm. Hotel packages available. 399 S. First St, San Jose. 408.287.3991.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Pianist Ricardo Scales plays jazz for New

Year’s Eve plus dancing, dining and traditional festivities. Sat, Dec 31, 8:30pm. $150. 863 Main St, Redwood City. 650.365.3226.

AZÚCAR Two rooms, one with a DJ and another with live music by Orquesta Saboricua—plus a laser light show. Dressy attire. Sat, Dec 31. $25. 71 & 81 E. San Fernando St, San Jose. 408.293.8482.

BAMBOO LOUNGE A “Thick & Sexy, Glow in the Dark” party with prizes and champagne toast. Sat, Dec 31. $20 in advances, plus VIP packages, $150. 1355 N. Fourth St., San Jose. Thick408.com.

9pm. $10/$15. 44 S. Almaden Ave, San Jose, 408.292.5265.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Karaoke and champagne toast. Sat, Dec 31.

1031 Monroe St, Santa Clara. 408.985.7201.

THE BLANK CLUB DJ Basura presides over dancing with a champagne toast at midnight. Sat, Dec 31,

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he year just now being eclipsed took its toll, which is why the waning weeks of 2011 would be a good time to turn away from economics and politics and just enjoy the comforting rhythm of the holidays.

Options abound this weekend and next, from the traditional pleasures of Christmas in the Park in downtown San Jose to the final family matinees of Ballet San Jose’s The Nutcracker (Dec. 21–22 at 1:30pm and Dec. 23 at 11am). Our Stage and Events calendar (on page 39) offers more alternatives to one more day at the mall.

This week also marks the rapid deployment of holiday movies, from Steven Spielberg’s grandly scaled War Horse (reviewed on page 44) to the Freudian mind games of A Dangerous Method (see page 46) and the big-screen arrival of Tintin (page 41).

chute of history. This New Year’s Eve, the party’s in the club. Live-music options are scarcer than in year’s past, but the dance floors of the South Bay look to be packed.

Many local favorites will be presiding, like Basura, Aspect, Benofficial, Melvis and more. Our annual guide to New Year’s Eve covers the best events, dining options and hotel packages, and features an advance look at the big evening planned by the popular rock and rap duo Calicove at San Jose’s Motif.

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Tony Lindsay presides over a dinner and dance party at Neto’s Market and Grill in Santa Clara.

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BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Champagne toast at midnight, drink specials and more. Sat, Dec 31. No cover. 765 E. Capitol Ave, Milpitas. 408.262.8363.

Music from Junkshaker, plus a variety of dinner packages with champagne. Sat, Dec 31. 5027 Almaden Expwy, San Jose. 408.266.0550.

BOSWELL’S

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

DJ RJ and DJ Geekstar plus party favors and champagne toasting. Sat, Dec 31. 1875 S. Bascom Ave, Campbell. 408.371.4404.

Featuring music by DJ Checko and much more.

Sat, Dec 31. 173 W. Santa Clara St, San Jose.

408.278.1400.

BOULEVARD TAVERN

BRITISH BANKER’S CLUB

Live music; free champagne toast at midnight.

No cover. Sat, Dec 31. 15043 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos, 408.358.0774.

BOWLMOR LANES Unlimited bowling, an open bar and a gourmet buffet. Sat, Dec 31. Vallco Shopping Mall, Stevens Creek Boulevard and Wolfe Road, Cupertino. 408.252.2695.

BRANHAM LOUNGE DJ Aspect spins for “Cocktails and Dreams.”

Sat, Dec. 31, 10pm-2am. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose. 408.445.1716

A Russian celebration with four-course dinner, champagne, costumes and music. Sat, Dec 31, 9:30pm-5am. 1090 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, 650.327.8769.

BRIX NIGHTCLUB The night features a balloon drop, the Brix dancers and a champagne toast. Sat, Dec 31. $10 before 10pm; $20 after. 349 S. First St, San Jose. 408.947.1975.

CARDIFF LOUNGE Party away the first day of the new year, open at 6am. Sun, Jan 1. No cover. 260 E. Campbell Ave, Campbell. 408.374.7477.

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ARCADIA 100 W San Carlos St, San Jose.

408.278.4555. Michael Mina’s Arcadia modern American Steakhouse features a five-course prix fixe menu for $85 per person. The selections include a caviar amuse bouche; a choice for first course between curried kabocha squash soup, frisée salad with lardoons or smoked salmon salad; a choice of cioppino, lobster pot pie or sea bass for second course; and either duck “two ways,” beef filet and short rib or a Colorado lamb chop. Dessert includes a tasting trio of panna cotta, bonbon and chocolate molten cake. Arcadia will be seating until 11:30pm.

ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE 19930 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino.

408.996.9606 Arya features dinner in addition to music and belly dancing.

Beginning at 8:30pm, Arya’s four-course meal, for $85 a person, begins with combo of sambosa, dolmeh, pomegranate pistachio meatballs and borani bademjoon, sautéed eggplant onions and garlic with mint and yogurt. Second course features a beet salad with oranges and feta cheese.

Third course is a choice of shish kebab, Persian stuffed bell peppers, lamp chop, grilled prawns and mushrooms, stuffed chicken breast or pistachio crusted sea bass.

CITRUS Hotel Valencia Santana Row, 55 Santana Row San Jose. 408.551.0010 For $100 a person, the Savor the Night package begins with a five-course holiday menu and admission to the New Year’s Eve Valencia Gala.

DONATO ENOTECA 1041 Middlefield Road, Redwood City.

650.701.1000. Donato Enoteca will be featuring live jazz and serving its regular a la carte menu until 8pm in addition to its four-course prix fixe menu for $68 with entree choices of seared dry-aged Angus rib eye, pepper crusted with a sweet onion tart and wild “chiodini” mushrooms or fresh Pacific grouper with cherry tomato and shrimp broth, and “crostone Pugliese.” The restaurant will seat from 5:30 to 10:45pm.

lobster tail filets, blue tiger shrimp, teriyaki sirloin and breast of chicken for dipping.

Dessert is their signature chocolate fondue with milk and bittersweet chocolate, mocha, cinnamon and a splash of liqueur. Dinners also receive a complimentary glass of champagne.

LB STEAK 334 Santana Row, Suite 1000, San Jose.

408.244.1180. LB Steak will be seating until 11pm, offering a limited a la carte menu, in addition to a $71.50 four-course prix fixe menu. Entree choices include a pan-seared Gigha Island halibut with an herb-bacon crust with ruffle root vegetable risotto, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese and Maine lobster bisque or 36-hour-braised Wagyu short ribs with white cheddar grits, Brussels sprouts and pancetta. Dinner includes complimentary party favors and a midnight glass of sparking wine.

LEFT BANK 635 Santa Cruz Ave, Menlo Park.

650.473.6543. The French bistro will be seating until 11pm and serving a limited a la carte menu, as well as a $64.50 four-course prix fixe menu. Entree choices for the prix fixe include butter-poached Maine lobster, beef tenderloin, bordelaise sauce, gnocchi filled with abalone mushrooms and truffle or pan-seared day boat scallops with parsnip purée, Wiley’s Farm Bloomsdale spinach, carrot and orange emulsion and parsnip chips.

PAGODA 170 S Market St, Fairmont Hotel San Jose.

408.998.3937. Pagoda restaurant at the Fairmont will feature a four-course Asian dinner. For $125 a person, couples receive a complimentary bottle of champagne and music by Wally’s Swing World. The fourcourse dinner for two includes sesamecrusted tuna, roast duck and mushroom soup, a choice between orange honey glazed Maine lobster tail and jumbo scallops or sweet hoison beef tenderloin strips.

SHOKOLAAT

Pruneyard Center, Campbell.

408.377.6465. The special menu for New Year’s Eve comes with party favors, lots of champagne and steak, seafood and lobster; from $33.95.

516 University Ave, Palo Alto.

650.289.0719. Restaurant and patisserie Shokolaat will be serving its regular a la carte menu including pappardelle and Bolognese, roasted mushroom and cheese raviolis, duck breast and honey-roasted sweet potatoes, Atlantic salmon with fennel and a veal rack with herb polenta and wild mushrooms. Diners will receive a complementary sparkling wine toast.

LA FONDUE

SIENA BISTRO

KYOTO PALACE

14550 Big Basin Way, Saratoga.

408.867.3332. Celebrating New Year’s Eve with a special four-course prix fixe dinner for two ($175 per couple). The dinner includes a choice of chef or spinach salad and cheese fondue made of gruyere and champagne. Main course includes two

1359 Lincoln Ave, San Jose. PHONE. This hidden Italian restaurant in Willow Glen will be offering its normal menu as well as special entrees for New Year’s Eve, including lobster and prawn macaroni and cheese, filet of sole Oscar-style and veal osso bucco.

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MURPHY’S LAW

DJ Checo mixes videos, plus drink specials, VIP areas and traditional New Year’s Eve fun.

Dress code enforced. Sat, Dec 31, 9pm. $5.

Evergreen Inn, 3273 S. White Road, San Jose.

408.238.8846.

An evening with the Honey Wilders, party favors and a champagne toast. Sat, Dec 31. 135 S. Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale. 408.736.3822.

FAHRENHEIT LOUNGE Hosted open bar, hors d’oeuvres, drop and champagne toast and seven plasma screens to countdown to 2012. DJs Benofficial, OneKnite and Melvis spin hip-hop, Top 40, R&B and club hits. Sat, Dec 31, 8pm-2am. $45-$125. 99 E. San Fernando St, San Jose. 408.998.9998.

Shane Dwight performs. Sat, Dec 31, 8pm. $35/$65. 7430 Monterey St, Gilroy.

408.337.1799.

GRAND DELL SALOON

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY

Food and dessert buffet, champagne toast, party favors and live music. Fri, Dec 31, 7pm. $40; advance tickets only. 1040 Dell Ave, Campbell. 408.378.3970.

With Sage and a balloon drop. Sat. Dec 31, 8pm. $25. 102B S. Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos.

408.354.4303.

The ICC hosts “A Starry Night,” featuring Fire Pixi, DJ Shem and an Indian buffet. Sat, Dec 31, 8pm. $29-$59. 525 Los Coches St, Milpitas.

408.934.1130, ext. 239.

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JJ’S BLUES JC Smith and a midnight toast. Sat, Dec 31. $20. 3439 Stevens Creek Blvd, San Jose.

408.243.6441.

JOHNNY V’S

The Devil Makes Three, Brothers Comatose and Miss Lonely Hearts. Sat, Dec 31, 7:30pm. $35/$40. 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz.

831.423.1336.

CLUB FOX Club Fox and the Unauthorized Rolling Stones celebrate the New Year with a 50-year tribute to the band. $39.95. Sat, Dec 31, 8pm. 2215 Broadway St, Redwood City.

COCOANUT GROVE Celebrate with music from Live Action Heroes and DJ Robin Cortez, plus a dinner buffet, balloon drop and midnight toast. Sat. Dec 31, 7pm-1am. $35-$79. 400 Beach St, Santa Cruz.

CREEKSIDE BAR & GRILL The Niteliters plus champagne, door prizes

CROW’S NEST Music by Ronnie Dobbs and the Fuzz. Sat, Dec 31, 9pm. $15. 2218 E. Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz.

831.476.4560.

DIVE BAR Complete the night with some dancing, music, champagne toast and drink specials. Sat, Dec 31. No cover before 9pm; $10 after. 78 E. Santa Clara St, San Jose. 408.288.5252.

DON QUIXOTE’S The Sun Kings perform a tribute to the Beatles.

Plus party hats and favors and champagne at midnight. Sat Dec 31, 9pm. $35-$40. 6275 Hwy 9, Felton. 831.603.2294.

Dance party with Tony Lindsay plus threecourse meal. Sat, Dec 31, 6:30pm-1am. $65.

1313 Franklin St, Santa Clara. 408.296.0818.

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INDIA COMMUNITY CENTER

and party favors. Dinner available with reservation. Sat, Dec 31, 7pm-1am. $25. 544 Alma Ave, San Jose. 408.289.9781.

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL

Bay Area R&B stars Lenny Williams and Earl Thomas. Sat, Dec 31, 8pm. $57.50-$100. 2209 Broadway, Redwood City. 650.369.7770.

Dance party with champagne toast. Sat, Dec 31, 9pm-2am. 260 S. California Ave, Palo Alto.

650.321.6464.

CATALYST

With DJs Jimmy Stewart Jr. and Jay Reese.

Sat, Dec 31. Dinner and party package $70 per person. 152 Post St, San Jose. 408.903.5192.

FOX THEATRE

ILLUSIONS SUPER CLUB

DJ Benofficial heads a night of revelry at Fahrenheit Lounge in San Jose.

MYTH

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Live Irish music at 6pm. Sun, Jan. 1. No cover.

25 N. San Pedro St, San Jose. 408.947.8007.

A PERFECT FINISH Music by Blue House. Fri, Dec 31. 55 S. First St, San Jose, 408.288.6000.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Drinks, dinner and dancing with Jay & the Po Boys on the patio and Lara Price with Velvet Plum inside. Reservations required. Sat, Dec 31, 7pm-12:30am. $50 (appetizers, dinner, dessert and two drink tickets). 91 S. Autumn St, San Jose. 408.292.5837.

THE QUARTER NOTE

Dub Massive. Sat, Dec 31. 31 E. Santa Clara St, San Jose. 408.947.8470.

Balloon drop, party favors, live music and a champagne toast. Sat, Dec 31. $8. 1214 Apollo Way #403, Sunnyvale. 408.732.2110.

LILLY MAC’S

REDI ROOM

Dinner and music from Saints and Sinners and DJ Twenty12. Sat, Dec 31, 6:30pm. $10/$15 admission; $39/$45 dinner and admission. 187 S. Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale. 408.732.0200.

A party with music, food and champagne.

Sat, Dec 31. 4340 Moorpark Ave, San Jose.

408.257.7770.

LIQUID

RETRO DOME

The new San Jose club teams up with Ciroc vodka for its first New Year’s Eve party. Sat, Dec 31. 32 S. Third St., San Jose. 408.293.3800.

The dome laughs in the new year with ComedySportz and a dessert buffet. Sat, Dec 31, 7pm. $25-$30. 1694 Saratoga Ave, San Jose. 408.404.7711.

LOFT BAR AND GRILL

ROSIE MCCANN’S

Tunes, balloon drop and champagne toast. Sat, Dec 31, 7pm. No cover. 90 S. Second St, San Jose. 408.291.0677.

A DJ for dancing, champagne toast, prizes and party favors. Fri, Dec 31, 9pm-2am. $20. 355 Santana Row #1060, San Jose. 408.247.1706.

LOS GATOS BREWING COMPANY

ROUX LOUISIANA KITCHEN

With a DJ, dancing and balloon drop. Fri, Dec 31, 5-9pm. No cover. 130G N. Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos. 408.395.9929; and 163 W. Santa Clara St, San Jose. 408.292.9928.

Music by Jackie and Friends Band (5-8pm), guest DJs (8:30pm-midnight). 355 Olin Ave., Santana Row, San Jose. 408.249.8000.

MOTIF “Glitz and Glam” with Calicove, Sixty1, Dstrukt, Cyber Joe and more. Dress code. Fri, Dec 31, 9:30pm-1:30am. $75 and up. 389 S. First St, San Jose. 408.279.1888.

RUBY SKYE Cedric Gervais and DJ Dan spin all night.

Purchase tickets either for entire night, after midnight, or for the 2am after-hours party.

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The Dub Massive crew (pictured is Troma) spins away 2011 at Johnny V’s in San Jose.

Sat Dec 31, 7pm. $25-$75. 420 Mason St, San Francisco.

SADDLE RACK A country club goes for a Mardi Gras NYE with balloon drop and party favors. Sat, Dec 31, 7pm. $45. 42011 Boscell Road, Fremont.

510.979.0477.

SAN JOSE STAGE COMPANY Will Durst’s Big Fat Year End Kiss Off Comedy Show. Thu, Dec 29, 8pm. $25. 408.283.7142.

music and a champagne toast. Packages start at $30/$40 per person, include bowling, pizza buffet, shoe rental and favors. Sat, Dec 31, 4pm-1am. 5420 Thornwood Dr, San Jose.

408.578.2940.

TEMPLE Live music by Suga Dady plus DJs Rayzaruckus, Jay-Blz, Hostyle and Verz. Sat, Dec 21. $40 advance, $60 door, $20 after 10pm. 52 S. First St, San Jose. 408.288.8518.

TESSORA’S BARRA DI VINO SINO Dinner and a NYE White Party with DJ. Sat, Dec 31. 377 Santana Row, San Jose. 408.247.8880.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Cumbia party with sonideros and live music. Sat, Dec 31. 420 S. First St, San Jose.

408.294.7800.

STEPHENS GREEN DJ Cesar spins top hits. Sat, Dec 31, 10pm-2am.

223 Castro St, Mountain View. 650.964.9151.

Featuring balloons, bubbles and dancing with Isis and the Cold Truth. Sat, Dec 31, 8:30pm.

1875 S. Bascom Ave, Ste. 560, Campbell.

408.626.7711.

THEATRE ON SAN PEDRO SQUARE “Ring-Ding-Ding” swing party with jazz by Juanita Harris and the Jack Conway Trio plus food from Eulipia. Sat, Dec 31, 8pm–1am. $125 per person (Tabard Theatre subscribers $95).

29 N. San Pedro St, San Jose. 800.838.3006.

TRADER VIC’S “Glitz,” featuring a confetti drop, balloon drop, champagne toast, party favors and props. Sat, Dec 31. $40-$50. 8 First St, San Jose. 408.279-4444.

Full dinner, Tikiyaki Orchestra, party favors and more. Sat, Dec 31, 6pm. $100. Dinah’s Garden Hotel, 4261 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.

800.227.8220.

300 SAN JOSE

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

STUDIO 8

Celebrate with the family during the NYE Matinee and then later on with neon lights,

A cover band for dancing, plus free champagne toast and party favors. Sat, Dec 31, 9:30pm-

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The Devil Makes Three plucks the night away with punk folk on New Year’s Eve at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz.

1:30am. 4475 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara.

408.247.3144.

ZEN LOUNGE WIth DJs D-Roc and Dynamic champagne.

Sat, Dec 31. 251 Castro St, Mountain View.

650.969.4847.

Hotel Hijinks DOUBLETREE HOTEL Rhythm 2012 with DJ Rhythm, DJ Victor, DJ Prince and DJ Jitesh. Plus dinner at Spencer’s, and live music from Showtyme at Club Max. $42. Sat, Dec 31, 7pm-2am. 2050 Gateway Place, San Jose. 408.453.4000.

FAIRMONT HOTEL At Club Regent, dinner and music with Little

Sister. 8:30pm. $150. At Pagoda Lounge, two seatings. The second seating (8:30pm) is $125 and features Wally’s Swing World. 170 S. Market St, San Jose, 408.998.3960.

HOTEL DE ANZA HEDLEY CLUB Tiger Club performs. Overnight packages start at $199. Sat, Dec 31, 9pm-1am. 233 W. Santa Clara St, San Jose, 408.286.1000.

HOTEL VALENCIA Packages include complimentary champagne, guest room, New Year’s Eve Gala and breakfast.

Sat, Dec 31. Rates at $350 per room. 355 Santana Row, San Jose. 408.423.5405.

SHERATON HOTEL A pre-New Year’s Party for single professionals. Fri, Dec 30, 8pm-midnight. $20.

625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. 415.507.9962.

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Amazin (left) and Authentic bask in the tinsel for New Year’s Eve at Motif in San Jose.

Party Animals

Calicove’s Amazin and Authentic get ready to do what they do best on New Year’s Eve at Motif in San Jose

BY STEVE PALOPOLI

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HE TWO MCs behind Calicove are talking about the aftermath of their last party. It was just last week, in fact, after they played a show.

“We took the party back to our studio in Santa Clara, and we continued to party through the night,” says Douglas “DJ” Williams Jr., who goes by the stage name Amazin. “I’ll tell you this much: I did not wake up until 8 o’clock the next night. PM. No AM stuff. PM. I woke up, and I was like, “OK, I’m going to try.’ But then I was like ‘I can’t move.’”

His partner in the group, Travis Lindsley, a.k.a. Authentic, isn’t even phased by the recovery time. He’s

more impressed that Williams pulled it together enough to tidy up the place afterward.

“Did you clean up?” asks Lindsley.

“I did. You saw that?”

Lindsley shakes his head. “You’re a beast.”

“Party,” says Williams authoritatively. “Then clean.”

These two know the rules of partying. In Calicove, they’ve mixed rap with big rock power chords on songs like “Party Animal” and “Life of a Rock Star” from their debut mixtape 808s and Rock ’n’ Roll. Not to mention this year’s catchy anthem “I Wanna Party.” All of which makes them a natural for Motif ’s New Year’s Eve bash; they’ll headline a party that also features five DJs, go-go dancers, champagne and more. “We party pretty hard,” boasts Williams.

Calicove play live with a full

rock outfit but do the songwriting themselves and work with a team of producers on beats. They started the band in 2009, but they met four years earlier. Williams grew up in San Jose; Lindsley is from Hayward.

They became friends, and each knew the other did music, but back then they never even talked about working together. Then they lost touch, but reconnected completely by chance in, of all places, Las Vegas.

“It was my 21st birthday,” remembers Lindsley. “I hadn’t seen him in like two years. We’re at Rain in the Palms. I’m just chillin’ out, I’m walkin’, and someone bumps into me.

I look at him and I’m like ‘hey, what’s up,’ and we just started talking.”

“I really feel like Calicove and our relationship is supposed to be, because all the things that happened between ’05 and ’09, I never thought would happen,” says Williams. “The funniest thing was the conversation at first [in Vegas] was ‘Dude, look what I just got. I just got two tattoos!’ Now look at us. About a million tattoos later.”

Other than their shared obsession with getting inked, just looking at them might give the impression that each MC plays a very defined role in Calicove’s rap-rock hybrid.

Besides the fact that one is black and one white, Lindsley looks every bit the rocker, while Williams sports a classic hip-hop look. But in reality, it’s much more complex than that.

In fact, Lindsley suggested the twotone-vocalist approach initially as a way to get around the preconceived notions he was coming up against.

“I’m super hip-hop, but it’s kind of hard to be accepted being white in the hip-hop scene,” he says. “I was like, how can I get that crowd? So I came up with this scheme in my head: I wanna make a band like JayZ and Linkin Park, and have a black vocalist and a white vocalist. He was already kind of rock, and I’m already kind of hip hop. ... Now anybody who questions his rockness, it’s like ‘He’s with me.’”

More importantly, joining forces boosted both of their careers.

“Our first show ever we did as a band, our mixtape release show, when we walked in the place was packed,” remembers Williams. “It

was in Palo Alto at Illusions. I’m talking about wall to wall packed.

The DJ was like “Calicove’s in the bulidinggggg!’ They put the spotlight on us, and everybody went nuts.

I went from doing open mics to having a huge crowd singing lyrics and cheering.”

Since then, they’ve found their biggest following in the South Bay scene. “It’s been the best,” says Lindsley. “Not that I don’t think we’d be successful in San Francisco, it just seems like the promoters who want us are in the South Bay. He grew up in San Jose, so this is his turf. And I promoted at Wet, so I know all the promoters and the GMs.” Their quick rise also has to do with the accessibility of Calicove’s music.

That they’re both fans of Nirvana is evident in the throwback-’90s grunge element of their sound—the kind of big, hard guitar riffs that seem to be on their way back. For Calicove, mixing them with hip-hop and electro beats for a party-ready musical cocktail is a natural.

Williams’ influences also include some family—his uncle is MC Hammer. While their music is completely different, Williams says he’s learned a lot from the hip-pop megastar’s work ethic and drive.

But he also takes great pride in the fact that he’s never come to Uncle Hammer looking for a handout. “ I want us to build this ourselves,” he says. “I’ll be able to sit back on my recliner one day and be like ‘Look what I did for myself.’ Not ‘Oh wow, I’m so glad my uncle is MC Hammer!’”

“I feel like he’d be successful even if he wasn’t in the band,” says Lindsley of his partner. “And I feel like I’d be successful even if I wasn’t in the band. So combined, how can we lose?”

GLITZ & GLAM New Year’s Eve party with Calicove, Sixty1, Dstrukt and more DJs. Dress code enforced.

Saturday, Dec. 31 Hosted bar $75 and up Motif, 389 S. First St., San Jose; 408.279.1888.

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Raising the Bar THE HE POUR SHALL INHERIT THE BAR Beverage specialist Jeff ff Bareilles creates a Field Notes cocktail at Manresa.

The cocktails at Manresa in Los Gatos are as good and distinctive as the food

By STETT HOLBROOK

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HEF AND OWNER David Kinch always wanted to serve cocktails and spirits in his nearly 10year-old Los Gatos restaurant, but red tape and other obstacles stood in the way.

In May, the bar was finally unveiled after a remodel that moved the front door to the end of a wide stone walkway around the side of the restaurant. Once in the door, the small, backlit bar beckons at the end of short, sparely decorated foyer.

The bar is really more of a lounge.

There are no bar stools yet, just a pair of comfy gray chenille couches between the bar and the reception desk.

Additional seating will come next year, as well as a small menu. The lounge may evolve into a place where people come just for a cocktail, but for now it’s geared to offer early arrivals an opportunity to savor a drink while they wait for the rest of their party or for diners to enjoy a drink before or after diner. The drinks run in the range of $14 to $19.

Of course, this being Manresa, one of the most celebrated restaurants in the world, this is no ordinary bar.

“My vision has always been for the cocktail program to be a logical extension of what we’re doing already in the kitchen,” says Jeff Bareilles, Manresa’s beverage director.

That means creating seasonally inspired cocktails made from ingredients sourced from Love Apple Farms, Manresa’s biodynamic farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Given Kinch’s modern and cerebral style of cooking, Bareilles decided against serving a lineup of classic cocktails.

While the craft-cocktail renaissance

is still going strong, and he was strongly encouraged by consultants to go in that direction, Bareilles felt serving faithfully rendered martinis and Manhattan’s would not serve Kinch’s food well.

But he didn’t want to make the bar so esoteric that someone looking for his or her go-to cocktail will feel out of place. As a compromise, Bareilles and his team have developed a changing list of “Manresa original cocktails” as well as “Manresa classics,” old-school cocktails upgraded with a shot of Manresa’s signature creativity and cleverness.

“I wanted Jameson and Jack Daniel’s off the shelf,” Bareilles says. “People have their drink no matter where they are.”

But if a guest asks for a Jack and Coke, they’ll get a drink made with the caraway-seed syrup and molasses syrup instead of Coca-Cola or a Gibson made with Vietnamese-style pickled leaves instead of those little pea-size pickled onions.

Simple syrup? Please. Manresa uses an A.O.C. sugar cane syrup from Martinique that has a complex, less sweet sweetness. A.O.C. stands for appellation d’origine contrôlée, a French term that means “controlled designation of origin.” It’s a French certification given to certain products.

The syrup is the only A.O.C. product

Manresa 320 Village Lane, Los Gatos 408.354.4330

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made outside of France. Take that, sugar and water.

Bareilles says he makes his drinks “backwards.” Instead of starting with a base spirit like gin or bourbon and building a drink around that, he begins with the ingredients and supporting flavors and then layers in the appropriate spirit.

“This what I’ve learned working with David over the past seven years,” he tells me.

Like Kinch, Bareilles takes his inspiration from what’s growing at the farm and the produce and other ingredients come into the kitchen door.

“Field Notes” is a vodka drink based around the acidic tang of sorrel and the aromatic base of celery bitters and lemongrass infusion. Bareilles’ idea for the drink came from sorrel growing at Love Lov Apple Farms and the memory of munching on sour grass as a kid playing mu in tthe East Bay hills. It’s a delicate, yet aromatic drink that does evoke the smells aro and aroma of a grassy field.

Manresa’s take on a margarita is M the excellent Smoke Signals, a cocktail invented by dining room captain and inve mixologist Ricardo Huitron. The drink mix blends blen tamarind syrup, mezcal, Luxardo maraschino liqueur and lime juice.

The smokiness of the mezcal shines through but it’s the interplay of the lime, tamarind and maraschino liqueur that make the drink.

Many of the drinks are made collaboratively. Bareilles hosts monthly meetings at his house with his staff to create new cocktails.

“My kitchen has transformed. It’s a bit like a laboratory.”

He’s got high hopes for a cocktail made with Meyer lemon and chanterelleinfused vodka. “It’s not there yet but we’re almost there,” he says.

While he once worked as a bartender, Bareilles is a wine guy—a sommelier.

While he was excited about adding a cocktail program to the restaurant he admits he was scared, too. A restaurant with two Michelin stars works on a world stage and screw-ups don’t go down well.

“This could have been an incredible disaster,” he confides. “That was the fear.”

Disaster averted. By a long shot.

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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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AFFINITY Classic American. $$$. Big-shouldered food in handsome surroundings is the rule. The steaks are big and juicy, the pot pies better than Grandma used to make. Full bar. 300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444.

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

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

ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$.

Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be.

Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555.

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

BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$.

Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and tastes like the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s.

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

DALAT Vietnamese. $$.

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

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

Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:30-9:30pm Sun. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161.

FLAMES EATERY AND BAR American. $$. In Silicon Valley, the home-grown Flames restaurant chain is the area’s definitive coffee shop.

And now they’ve opened in downtown San Jose to great acclaim. 7am-midnight daily.

88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

4TH STREET PIZZA CO. Pizza. $. 4th Street Pizza Co. occupies a prime corner spot on East Santa Clara and Fourth with big windows to watch the comings and goings at City Hall across the street.

The thin-crust margherita fell short but the thicker-crust pies are better. 11am-9pm

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Sun-Thu, 11am-10pm FriSat. 150 E. Santa Clara St. 408.286.7500.

HOUSE OF SIAM Thai. $. This popular establishment runs the gamut of Thai treasures.

Beer, wine. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm daily. 151 S. Second St. 408.295.3397.

IL FORNAIO Regional Italian. $$. Embraced by the graceful Sainte Claire Hotel, this location (there are several up and down the coast) transports the diner. The menu showcases a different region of Italy monthly. 7am-10pm Mon-Thu, 7am-11pm Fri, 8am-11pm Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. Full bar. 302 S. Market St. 408.271.3366.

KOJI SAKE LOUNGE $$.

Japanese. In spite of Koji’s well-tuned atmosphere, it’s the sakes that really set the tone. Koji’s sake list includes tasting notes that help you find one that suits you.

Happy hour 6-9pm Wed-Fri with $3 beers and $5 small plates. 6pm-close Wed-Fri, 8pm-close Sat. 48 S. First St. 408.287.7199.

LA PASTAIA Italian. $$. La Pastaia remains a stalwart of downtown San Jose’s dining scene. Set inside the Hotel De Anza, the rustic Italian restaurant has big-city style to spare. Lunch 11am-3pm MonFri, noon-2pm Sat-Sun; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm FriSat, 5-9pm Sun. 233 W. Santa Clara St. 408.286.8686.

LA VICTORIA TAQUERIA Mexican. $. La Vic’s famously addictive orange hot sauce merely tops off its tasty

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HILE none of these restaurants have redand-white checkered tablecloths and strawcovered Chianti bottles, they all exude a familiar, welcoming vibe that defines San Jose Italian restaurants.

Il Fornaio

Elegant Il Fornaio celebrates the regional food of Italy with a regularly changing menu that goes well beyond pizza and pasta.

302 S. Market St., San Jose; 408.286.0919

Ristorante Fratello

With a menu redesigned by Michelin-starred chef Salvadore Calisi, Fratello brings Italian food with an upscale touch to San Jose.

1712 Meridian Ave., San Jose; 408.269.3801

La Pastaia

Located in the beautiful Hotel De Anza, La Pastaia brings some bigcity glamor to downtown San Jose with a menu to match.

233 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose; 408.286.8686

Paolo’s

Open since 1958, Paolo’s longevity is due to its great service and winning menu of food and wine.

333 W. San Carlos St., San Jose; 408.294.2558

Paesano Ristorante

A small, friendly and elegant bedrock of San Jose’s new Little Italy district near the arena, Paesano Ristorante carries on the tradition of the legendary Palermo (the small one on Second Street, before it expanded into the corner location).

350 West Julian Street San Jose, CA 95110-2305 408.217.9327 —Stett Holbrook

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taqueria fare: big burritos of the breakfast and lunchtime varieties, overflowing nachos, delectable chile rellenos. 7am3am daily. 140 E. San Carlos St. 408.298.5335.

this taqueria cultivates a devout lunch following. All standards get billing, but the mesquite-roasted chicken is the star. Beer. 11am-10pm daily. 72 E. Santa Clara St. 408.277.0333.

LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$.

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Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades.

Lunch 11am-2:30pm MonFri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 1-10pm Sat and 4-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.

MCCORMICK AND SCHMICK’S Seafood. $$$. Harks back to big-city fish houses with stately, masculine interiors.

Menu follows the freshest fruits of the sea, grilled, panseared, steamed. Desserts will hook you. 11:30am-10pm daily; 11pm happy hour Fri-Sat. 170 S. Market St. 408.283.7200.

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

MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food cooked and served by people with a personal investment in customer happiness. Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant.

Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-11pm Mon-Sat, Sun 5-9pm. 86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.

MORTON’S STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, a Chicago-based chain of restaurants with more than 80 locations across the U.S. and abroad, offers delicious, premium-priced steaks. The rest of the menu is a mixed bag. 5:30-11pm Mon-Sat, 5-10pm Sun. 177 Park Ave. 408.947.7000.

MUCHOS Mexican. $. A small player with a big rotisserie,

New American. $$. Lots of restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood joints but few deliver. The Garage does.

Small but satisfying menu of well-executed comfort food classics. 5-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm Sat, 9am-1pm Sun. 505 E. San Carlos St. 408.286.1100.

NHA TOI Vietnamese. $$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern-style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am10pm daily. 460 E. William St. 408.294.2733.

PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor.

Pagoda offers the gamut of regional all-stars. Full bar. 610pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St. 408.998.3937.

PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$.

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

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

P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO Chinese. $$. With atmosphere to spare, Chang’s doesn’t neglect taste.

Vibrant Szechuan flavors mix surprisingly well with rich Western-style desserts. Takeout. Full bar. 11am-10pm SunThu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 98 S. Second St. 408.961.5250.

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

Live music on Fridays and

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Saturdays. 11am-9pm MonThu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10am-8pm Sun; brunch 10am2pm Sun. 91 S. Autumn St. 408.292.5837.

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

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

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

SONOMA CHICKEN Mixed. $. If you don’t mind carrying your own tray and fighting for a table you’ll be rewarded with hearty spit-roasted chicken that requires at least six napkins. 11am-9pm SunThu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat. 31 N. Market St. at San Pedro Square. 408.287.4098.

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

VUNG TAU Vietnamese. $$.

Traditionalists might gripe that they can get authentic Vietnamese food for less elsewhere, but it’s hard to top Vung Tau for its fresh, quality ingredients and sleek yet comfortable décor.

Encyclopedic menu. 10am3pm, 5-9pm daily. 535 E. Santa Clara St. 408.288.9055.

WING’S Chinese. $. The food is complemented by an exotic dining room with sequestered seating equipped with hanging beads and doorbells, and other miscellaneous peculiarities of a bygone era.

Always a fun place to visit.

11:30am-9:30pm daily. 131 E. Jackson St. 408.294.3303 or 998.9427.

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Harkening back to the goodie-two-shoes days of yesteryear, The Plaids offer a slew of classics that take listeners back to a simpler time—one before plaid meant hip.

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LADS IN PLAID The premise for Plaid Tidings is pure cornball. The Plaids, having perished in 1963 when their car was hit by a bus carrying a gaggle of schoolgirls to see the Beatles (this is explained in Forever Plaid), are given a chance to return to present-day Earth to do the Perry Como–style Christmas program they always dreamed of, launching into “Strangers in Paradise,” followed closely by “Sh–Boom,” “Mambo Italiano” and a slew of jazzed-up holiday classics.

The quartet of clean-cut fraternity brothers work their way through some of the campiest hits of the late 1950s in the close-harmony style of the Lettermen

and the Brothers Four until they finally start working the Christmas angle with a holiday-style tribute to Harry Belafonte’s “Matilda” and entertaining hand-bell versions of “Carol of the Bells” and “Mr. Santa.”

The singing and acting are both strong throughout. To hear four-part harmony done at all in this era of gutted school music programs is a pleasure; to hear it done well is a rare treat.

Under the musical direction and piano accompaniment of Drew Lewis (David Nordgren plays bass), this foursome turns out the kind of closely woven fourpart harmony you can hardly separate into its constituent threads.

As the nerve-wracked, stage frightbattling Jinx, first tenor Tad Kistner wows the audience with a sweet, pure

tone. Max Bennett-Parker (like Kistner a Forever Plaid veteran), often singing lead, anchors the production both musically and dynamically as the charismatic Frankie. Scotts Valley High graduate Sean Gorski as Smudge, the lanky, hornrimmed glasses-wearing nerd, blends in beautifully as the group’s baritone and has some hilarious comic moments in his somewhat spastic dance number, “Let It Snow.” Matt Dunn as Sparky ably holds down the bass and emerges as a reliable comic element throughout, delivering snarky ripostes at every opportunity.

Not surprisingly, veteran Cabrillo Stage director Andrew Ceglio’s sense of playfulness and wit keep this production buoyant and energetic, especially during a three-minute show-stopping recapitulation of The Ed Sullivan Show, during which characters like Topo Gigo and Jose Jimenez dash onstage, do a few seconds of shtick and dash off again. Plaid Tidings truly does offer entertainment for everyone, but there’s a little extra love in it for the Moms of the world. And that’s a beautiful thing.

THURSDAY 12/22

CAROLYN SILLS Carolyn Sills’ bass may be almost as big as she is, but whatever she lacks in stature she more than makes up for with her sultry, potent voice. She’ll take on the swinging pop and country hits of the 1950s—think classic holiday tunes made popular by the likes of Patsy Cline, Elvis Presley and the Andrew Sisters—in her show Santa is Real: A 1950s Christmas Spectacular (a play on the Satan is Real album by’50s country duo the Louvin Brothers). She’ll be backed by local instrumentalists and special guest

vocalists Patti Maxine and Tracy Parker.

Don Quixote’s; $10; 7:30pm.

FRIDAY 12/23

LE BOEUF BROTHERS Identical twins Pascal and Remy Le Boeuf got started in jazz here in Santa Cruz when they were 12 by playing every weekend at the downtown farmer’s market. With Remy on sax and Pascal on piano, they’ve since hit it big on the modern jazz scene in New York City, playing with a sound characterized by odd time signatures, shifting harmonies and a broad range of contemporary influences (among those they cite: Radiohead and Sufjan Stevens). On their most recent album, In Praise of Shadows, they gained recognition through experimentation with state-of-the-art production techniques. Don Quixote’s; $12; 8pm.

WEDNESDAY 12/28

PEPPINO D’AGOSTINO Award-winning Peppino D’Agostino is a virtuoso fingerstyle guitarist who moves seamlessly between classical, pop, folk, ragtime and more. Born in Italy, D’Agostino moved to the Bay Area over 25 years ago and played his first gigs in America on the streets of San Francisco.

A self-taught artist with tremendous depth of expression, D’Agostino admits to incorporating everything he hears, sees and feels into his music. “Music is not only what you know musically, but also what you experience in life,” he says.

“It is a reflection of our personalities and spirit.” Don Quixote’s; $15; 7:30pm.

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LA PLEBE The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Wed – 8:30pm; $6/$8 Self-described “bilingual punks with horns ’n’ vomit,” San Francisco’s La Plebe has spent the past decade rocking audiences worldwide with an astonishingly energetic live show. Seriously.

As soon as these five musicians from the barrio start playing, they turn into an erratic pack of speed demons, demanding attention from anyone within earshot. Their social and political messages about human rights are accented by bilingual lyrics and a two-piece brass section that keeps the music spicy and fresh. They will be joined by fellow local punks the Pop

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Bottle Bombers, Street Justice and Bankrupt District. Catalyst Atrium; $6 adv/$8 door; 8:30pm. (MW)

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JIMMY DEWRANCE JJ’s Blues, San Jose Thu – 9pm; free Jimmy Dewrance fell in love with the blues when he was a kid and ever since he started his first Blues group in 1987, has been doing everything in his power to bring the music to as many smoky dive bars and outdoor festivals that he can. It’s an uphill battle, but Dewrance is up for it. His voice is

passionate and conveys the pain the genre’s best songs are known for. His band swaggers, while still baring their souls. (AC)

TIMM WALKER

BURIED AT BIRTH

Timm Walker is best known as bandleader for the six-piece New-Orleans-meets-Oakland funk-soul outfit Beaufunk, and as the bassist in the ever-popular Creole revivalists Zydeco Flames.

He’s also played with Elvin Bishop, gospel luminaries the Fantastic Violinaires, and others. This week, he brings his blues and soul trio to Poor House Bistro, streamlining his normal ensemble approach.

Walker had the ingenious idea of combining Big Easy rhythm with the powerful soul of the Bay Area sound pioneered by Tower of Power. That’s not always an easy combo to hold together, but he’s got an impeccable ear for arrangements, as seen in his

Caravan, San Jose Thu – 9pm; free Combining grindcore, thrash and powerviolence, Buried At Birth has already gotten the attention of Corruption Recordings, after being together less than a year. They say the musical experience they’re going for is: “smashed in the face with a fistful of bricks.” They get damn close. (BD)

Poor House Bistro, San Jose Thu – 6pm; free

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THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Dec 30-31 30 at the Catalyst, Santa Cruz

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

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL Jan 13-15 at HP Pavilion

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

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

WILCO Jan 28 at the San Jose Civic

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SOCIAL DISTORTION Feb 9 at Santa Cruz Civic

WILLIE K songwriting for Beaufunk and his production and engineering work on the Flames’ records. (SP)

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THE RIVALS Johnny V’s, San Jose Friday – 9pm, free South Bay punkers the Rivals are known for their annual Halloween shows. But this year, they’re inviting everyone to wear their ugliest Christmas sweater and spend the holidays with them, too. Not only that, they are planning on taking a big “family photo” with everyone in the audience, so clear some space on your refrigerator. After 10 years, the Rivals still bring

intense, adrenaline-drenched performances to their shows.

Their new album, I Live Electric sounds as fresh as their early records, and they’ve tempered the screamo elements with some oldschool hardcore. (AC)

NAUGHTY XMAS PARTY Studio 8, San Jose Fri – 10pm; $20 after 11pm Middle America still freaks out when horror movies get released on Christmas Day every year, but the entertainment industry calls it “counter-programming.”

What Studio 8’s put together for the holidays definitely qualifies.

First is this “Naughty Christmas Party” on Friday, produced and hosted by Arash Dibazar. Dibazar is a martial arts master who’s

gotten an extra dose of celebrity from a side acting career that included being cast as the red Power Ranger (he walked away to become a real-life fighting monk, which is infinitely cooler).

He founded the IMC Academy in San Jose, which produces not only martial artists, but sexpots.

This show features a video shoot for the scantily clad hotties of the IMC Sinful Angels, and the XXX Divas. If that’s not enough counter-programming for you, Studio 8 has a Sexy Santa party on Saturday. (SP)

A VERY METAL CHRISTMAS Avalon Nightclub, Santa Clara Fri – 7pm; $5 or a toy It may have been a joke when Spinal Tap proposed spending “Christmas with the Devil,” but even the evil forces of black metal dream of a white Christmas (they can’t help it, they’re from Norway). Now the Avalon will host A Very Metal Christmas, a free show benefitting Toys for Tots.

All patrons are asked to bring is either an unwrapped toy or a $5 donation. Thrash/power metal outfit Skinner is headlining, with Angerhead, Bomb and Scary, the Venting Machine and Silent Sinner.

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Feb 10 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

SPENCER DAY Feb 11 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

KRONOS QUARTET Feb 12 at 7pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

BLAKE SHELTON Mar 16 at HP Pavilion

LADY ANTEBELLUM Mar 23 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

COLDPLAY Apr 27-28 at 7pm, HP Pavilion Join Metro on Facebook at Metrofb.com for a chance to win concert tickets.

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Season’s Reading TRENCHANT RENCHANT RE CH THOUGHTS The late Christopher Hitchens was an H.L. Mencken for modern times.

Novels, N l comics, i histories, hi i biographies, bi hi memoirs and short stories: four ways to fend off the dark The Someday Funnies Edited by Michel Choquette Abrams; ComicArts, 216 pages, $55 The backstory: Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner asks Michel Choquette, an editor at National Lampoon, to put together a collection of original comic strips about the 1960s. To be called The Someday Funnies, the strips would broach that decade from the perspective of different artistic voices.

Choquette spent months pitching the idea and commissioning work from figures as diverse as Federico Fellini, Frank Zappa and Tom Wolfe.

But Wenner passed on the book.

The year was 1972. Then yet another publisher backed out. Financiers circled the project and disappeared.

Dejected, Choquette shelved years of work and moved on with his life. The Someday Funnies became a legend in the industry. All of those strips were locked away in a trunk and forgotten, like suppressed memories.

Three decades later, a journalist wrote about the failed project, reviving interest and leading to, of all things, publisher interest. Choquette secured the money to publish the book he had

started a lifetime before. A third of his contributors had by that time died.

And now at long last, The Someday Funnies is out, and it’s about as impressive as you can imagine: 129 comic strips, by 169 writers and artists from 15 countries, delving into the 1960s, produced in the early and mid1970s, an unreleased primary source of sorts, presented gorgeously.

Great writers, illustrators, thinkers and visionaries of Europe and America, all in one place: Will Eisner, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kirby, Harlan Ellison, Moebius, Ralph Steadman, Pete Townshend, Art Spiegelman, Harvey Kurtzman, Sergio Aragones, Gahan Wilson, Red Grooms, Dick Giordano, Denny O’Neil.

(Greg Akers)

Secret Historian

By Justin Spring; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 458 pages, $18 Although novelist, English professor and sexual renegade Samuel Steward’s name is little known outside cult literary circles, Justin Spring’s 2010 biography Secret Historian (now in paperback) serves as a snapshot of how far we’ve come in the LGBT civil rights struggle.

Self-described as an “invert,” Steward chronicled his thousands off sexual escapades with fellow educators, sailors and curious straight men.

But despite Steward’s seeming openness about his sexuality, he wrestled in the closet for part of his teaching career, especially after the State College of Washington fired him for his portrayal of straight prostitution in his first novel, Angels on the Bough.

In 1949, Steward began collaborating with sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.

Around that same time, he abandoned his teaching career to become a tattoo artist, and shortly after, he produced gay erotica pulp fiction. Written under the pen name Phil Andros, the works were risque even in the more liberal 1960s.

Spring’s book comprehensively details Steward’s life, using photographs, drawings, manuscripts and more, which had been collecting dust in a San Francisco attic. But at times, the book indulges in excessive name-dropping of writers and Steward associates who’ve likely been forgotten outside academia.

Thankfully, there are plenty of erotic tales woven throughout to keep readers of this secret history interested.

(Bianca Phillips)

The Last Sultan

By Robert Greenfield; Simon & Schuster, 417 pages, $30 Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records, was born to be a historical figure. When his father, an adviser to Kemal Ataturk at the

founding of modern-day Turkey, was appointed ambassador to the United States, Ahmet and his older brother Nesuhi followed. By the time the two boys arrived in the United States, they had an air of sophistication about them.

When 13-year-old Ahmet breaks away from a babysitter and goes to 1930s Harlem, where he meets piano titan James P. Johnson, it’s enough to turn a jazz lover the deepest shade of green.

The Last Sultan is a history lesson on postwar America, race and civil rights. The image of the bald, preppy Ertegun and his jug-headed genius business partner Jerry Wexler shouting the chorus to “Shake, Rattle and Roll” behind Big Joe Turner in 1954 is a welcome counterpoint to the typically black vs. white take on the period.

But it was a rough business and the sale of Atlantic in the late 1960s was as much about running from some dirty accounting as any motive for profit. Good thing, as the sale is considered one of the worst business deals in history. The tensions between the aristocratic Ertegun and his working-class hit machine Wexler make for the raciest case study in business history. (Joe Boone)

Arguably: Essays

By Christopher Hitchens; Twelve; 816 pages; $30 The late Christopher Hitchens was the H.L. Mencken of our time—an atheist, journalist, man of letters, and prodigious reader and thinker who was always clear, forceful and interesting.

His last book, a collection of previously published essays titled Arguably, puts his talents and wide range of interests on display in a big volume reminiscent of Mencken’s A Mencken Chrestomathy, right down to the chapter headings such as “Amusements, Annoyances, and Disappointments.”

Hitchens, who passed away on Dec. 15, sounds off on men and women of letters (most of them Englishmen like himself), American immortals, dirty words, wine, Iraq, Afghanistan and Harry Potter.

Many of the essays originally appeared in The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The Guardian and Slate, but Hitchens was so prolific that even his ardent fans will probably find something new.

This is the perfect book for the bedside table; it can be delved into for a half-hour or so every night until the thing is finished. It made me wonder why I didn’t read him more often, and why I’ve wasted so much time reading lesser essayists. (John Branston)

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BALLET SAN JOSE Dennis Nahat’s “Nutcracker.”

Runs thru Dec 23. This week Wed-Thu, 1:30pm, Fri, 11am. $20-$100. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

Theater CATS A touring production of the popular musical presented by Broadway San Jose. Runs Dec 27-Jan 1. Tue-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 1 and 7pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. $20 and up. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

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 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.

THE SECRET GARDEN A musical based on Frances Burnett’s novel, from TheatreWorks. Tue, 7:30pm, Wed, 2and 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 1pm (Dec 24) and 2pm (Dec 31). $29-$49. Runs

thru Dec 31. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

Classical Concerts CHANTICLEER The male chorus performs seasonal songs. Thu, 6:30 and 8:30pm. $32-54. Mission Santa Clara.

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.

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CRACKING UP There’s still a chance to catch Ballet San Jose’s production of ‘The Nutcracker’; with family matinee performances this week on Wednesday–Thursday at 1:30pm and Friday at 11am at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

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

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm: Home for the Holidays with Dan St. Paul and Jeremy Beth Michaels. $12/$18.

Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Big Al’s Comedy. $12.

Thu, 8pm: Allan Havey. $12. Fri, 8pm: American Me Comedy. $12. San Jose.

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Museums CANTOR ARTS CENTER “The Legend of Rex Slinkard.”

Oils and works on paper by the influential California artist of the early 1900s. Thru Feb 26.

“Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936.”

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

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

DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present.” “The Changing Face of Homelessness: Portraits by SCU Photography Students.” “Between Struggle and Hope: Envisioning a Democratic Art in the 1930s.”

“This Camera Fights Fascism: The Photographs of David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez.”Thru Feb 5.

Tue-Sun, 11am-4pm. Santa Clara University.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM “Bridging Generations: De

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Anza Collects.” A look at award-winning art from De Anza students over the last 40 years. Thru Dec 28. Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.

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

MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE “A Child’s World: Antique Toys, 1870-1930.” Fri-Sun, 11am4pm. Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “This Kind of Bird Flies Backward.” A retrospective of paintings by Bay Area figurative artist Joan Brown. Thru Mar 11.

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

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

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

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

Thru Feb 26. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Invisible Lineage.” Works by a quartet of mid-20th-century artists in conjunction with four contemporary textile artists.

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

TECH MUSEUM “Islamic Science Rediscovered.”

A show about technological advances in the Islamic world before the Renaissance period in the West. Mon-Wed, 10am5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm.

San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART Works by Eve Page Mathias.

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

THE OTHER SCROOGE Northside Theatre Company of San Jose finds new meaning in the Dickens classic by turning the protagonist into a woman, one Ebeneeda Scrooge. The show runs through Dec. 24.

ART ARK “The More the Merrier II.” A holiday show. San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY “The Jazz Masters Series”

by BRUNI. “Sports Originals”

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

Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ART “To Great Lengths.”

Installations by Esther Traugot.

Thru Jan 22. Finn Center, Mountain View.

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

GALLERY HOUSE Gallery House’s annual art and holiday show. Thru Dec 24. Wed-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.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE “Killer Crystals.” Creations by Jon Price. Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

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Galleries ANNO DOMINI “Fresh Produce.” Annual group show and holiday sale. Thru Jan 14. San Jose.

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

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.

drawings. Thru Feb 25. “Dos Mundos.” Works by Tim Craighead. Thru Feb 18. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm.

San Jose.

STANFORD ART SPACES Mixed media by Kathryn Dunlevie, paintings by Brian Huber and Leo Posillico. Thru Feb 25. Weekdays, 8:30am5pm. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford.

NEXTSPACE COWORKING

VIEWPOINTS GALLERY

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

“Impressions of Costa Rica.”

Watercolors by Barbara von Haunalter and sculptures by Jean Prophet. Thru Dec 31.

Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm, Sun, 11am-3pm. Los Altos.

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

PHO69 “Outside the Lines Inside of the Box.” New works in oil by Jane W. Ferguson. Thru Dec 31.

San Jose.

SAN JOSE CITY HALL “City of Champions: 2001, a San Jose Soccer Odyssey.” An exhibit of photos and other historical items relating to the history of soccer in the city.

Thru Feb 29. Wing of San Jose City Hall.

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“Cuban Connections: Near & Far.” A show with examples from Bay Area collectors of

“One Thing Leads to Another.”

A group show about process and repetition in prints and

*events CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK/ WINTER WONDERLAND

The San Jose tradition continues thru Jan 1. Cesar Chavez Park. Plus rides at Paseo de San Antonio and the San Jose Rep Plaza.

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

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

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

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

Parking Lot of Great America, Santa Clara.

ME & MOMMY ON THE ROW Holiday activities like ornament making and breakfast with Santa and performances at Santana Row. Tue, 10am-noon. Santana Row, San Jose.

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

Thru Dec 31.

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

Every Tuesday in Dec, 6-9pm.

Santana Row, Santa Clara.

TOYS FOR TOTS A toy drive held by Marine Corps Reserves. Thru Dec 24.

Cesar Chavez Park.

Tintin Type BUMPY UMPY RIDE Tintin and Captain Haddock crash land in the desert in ‘The Adventures of Tintin.’

Steven Spielberg brings the boy reporter to life in animated version of The Adventures of Tintin

By RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE WORST THING to be said about The Adventures of Tintin is that Andy Sirkis’ voice isn’t quite what elder ex-kids associate with Captain Archibald Haddock.

Paul Frees dubbed the voice of that bibulous captain when the French TV series of the 1950s came to the United States.

Frees’ barnacle-encrusted baritone seems as distinctive in the memory as the Cornish accent Robert Newton gave Long John Silver, a catarrh-rich raspiness, a throat-

clearing “arrrr,” possibly the result of too much exposure to fog or grog.

This time Haddock is a lowland Scotsman (should it not be “Haddoch?”), and he has narrow eyes, indicating occasional amnesia and a perpetual sense of lostness.

Thus, Steven Spielberg’s insistence on the child within us all is overlaid upon a sea captain second only to Popeye as a brawler, and second to none as a boozer.

Apart from this quibble, everything is terrific. John Williams’ novel, small-scale jazz theme accompanies Saul Bass–worthy silhouette animation of Hergé’s characters during the titles. In them, our hero, the intrepid of all intrepids, and his wonder-terrier Snowy pursue a pearl the size of a grapefruit. They chase it through alleys, airports and

the machinery of Bob Kane–size giant typewriters.

Then comes the motion-capture animation; justly maligned for its essential wigginess, the technique works here delightfully. It ought to be grotesque to pose a realistic human character next to a character with a knob or banana nose or jumbo ears, but in this vaguely French, vaguely 1950ish backdrop everything fits together.

Jamie Bell voices the famed cub reporter with the frontal cowlick. At the flea market, Tintin purchases a model of the famous man-of-war of 1676, the HMS Unicorn. The purchase turns out to be hazardous. Tintin’s wallet gets pinched by a gentleman pickpocket, and he’s menaced by a needle-nosed Russian named Ivan Sakharine (Daniel Craig).

Soon Tintin discovers a secret message inside the ship model, and the ball begins rolling in earnest. Tintin is knocked out and shanghaied aboard a rusty freighter.

A few decks below our hero sits the ship’s rightful captain, imprisoned by paid mutineers and kept tranquil by

The Adventures of Tintin PG; 107 min.

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a constant supply of whiskey.

What follows is a Captains Outrageous kind of journey. Man, boy and dog escape the cutthroats.

This segment has lines that show the team rewrite, particularly in the story of the seaman who lost his eyelids (“That was a memorable card game!”).

Haddock, Tintin and Snowy survive an open-boat ordeal, a plane crash and a desert crossing. Due to the absence of alcohol, Haddock has what they used to call in the days of psychedelics “an ancestral memory trip,” during which Haddock recovers lost memories of his grandfather: master and commander of the actual Unicorn, taken by the infamous buccaneer Red Rackham.

The combat condenses in a few minutes all of the best parts of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies—the seas heavy, the sky afire with lightning, the trussed cannons slamming across the decks. Tangled in the rigging, Rackham’s own ship hangs crosswise over the Unicorn, slicing at it like the pendulum in the Poe story.

That’s just a sidebar. The mystery (involving Sakharine’s secret weapon, the “Milanese Nightingale”) is resolved in the desert port of Bagghar. Here one is certain Spielberg’s tendency to caricature Arabs is going to get a workout.

In fact, the sultan (“a patron of the arts”) seems to be artistically modeled on Spielberg, bespectacled and simpering in his palace. The action comes to a carnival finale including a trained falcon and an out-of-control motorcycle.

If Tintin as a character is undynamic, he’s got the same thing going on as Jerry Seinfeld or Archie Andrews: He is the steadfast center of a world of peculiar men and uncanny adventure. Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson have made this holiday film much in the mood of the comics and yet without stodginess. The Adventures of Tintin is suffused with antique charm and yet it’s a really ripping yarn.

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

New THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG; 107 min.) See review on page 41.

A DANGEROUS METHOD (R; 99 min.) See review on page 46.

THE DARKEST HOUR (PG-13; 89 min.) In Moscow, aliens have started an invasion by messing with the power supply—apparently, what they did at Candlestick on Monday Night Football was just a training exercise. Stars Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby. (Opens Sun.)

(R; 158 min.) At last, the perfect date movie for the holidays—a disaffected journalist and a bitter, avenging hacker chick pursue creepy killers and end up brutalized themselves, and it was originally thought up and written down in a foreign language. And in case you were worried that the fun would end too soon, it’s more than two and a half hours long. Stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. (Opens Wed.)

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Cold War Reboot SHOW UP early and get into the centerback sweet spot at a full-size 15/70mm IMAX Theater. Not only will you be the first person on your block to see, via the preview for The Dark Knight Rises, Bane’s inadvisable method of catching a plane, but you will also get the full effect of Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol’s money sequence: a technical marvel of cinema.

Given no other alternatives, Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt crawls up the side of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, wearing some sort of futuristic electric climbing gloves—and then the right one fritzs out on him a bit. Whatever you say about Cruise, and however braced and harnessed he was, he was insanely brave to do the actual stunts on this. The climb is a physically painful, palm-sweating ordeal to watch; it certainly clears out the chakras.

Calling Ghost Protocol a good movie on this basis alone would be like describing This Is Cinerama as an unforgettable classic. See the film on a tinier screen, and it is only mildly diverting. Longtime Pixar talent Brad Bird builds two other ingenious, silent-comedy quality sequences. One is a car chase in a blinding haboob; such a monstro dust storm justifies itself in a movie about nuclear terror, since it looks so much like what happens when an

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War Horse will leave only the stoniest hearts untouched.”

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atomic bomb goes off. Also pleasurable: the Impossible Missions Force hoodwinking a guard in the Kremlin using a digital screen.

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Cell phones break up, messages refuse to self-destruct and the rubber-mask-making apparatus malfunctions, oozing vanillacolored muck like a broken waffle iron.

Cruise, strange man-without-qualities that he is, is supposed to be darker here, vengeful because of a dead wife. That darkness is harder to believe than 1.) a nuclear missile could behave like the one we see here, 2.) that Jeremy Renner’s magnetic suit wouldn’t lobotomize the electronic gizmos he carries, or 3.) that human beings would actually say something like “Failure for a terrorist is just a rehearsal for success.”

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Neighsayer ONLY Steven Spielberg could do what is done in War Horse. Only he could have authorized the expensive World War I re-creations: a sumptuous cavalry charge, with oďŹ&#x192;cers Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hiddleston (depicting military arrogance and Rupert Brooke sensitivity, respectively). Only Spielberg could have achieved the harrowing camera pullbacks that display the mud and craters of the Western Front. But movies are more than war re-enactments. If Spielberg has enough clout to get away with historical buzzkill, he balances the death toll with barrels of sap.

Spielberg tries to gets around the callouses most audiences have developed against antiwar ďŹ lms by clapping a steel helmet on a horse. War Horse recycles the Black Beauty plot. One owner is kind, and Joey the horse gets oats and a warm blanket. The other owners (Germans, naturally) are cruel and sentence the beast to hard labor.

The ďŹ lm is bracketed by sequences of a rural Devon that, for unforgivable quaintness, always threaten to become John Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ireland. They also come with retina-cooking crimson sunsets not seen since Gone With the Wind. Peter Mullan plays the tippling pa who decides to show up his landlord (David Thewlis with fancy whiskers) by outbidding the rich

man on a thoroughbred, when he should have purchased a plough horse. Ma (the luminous Emily Watson, made to look like a sack of spuds) scolds away. Their son, Albert (Jeremy Irvine), knows he can train Joey to save the turnip harvest.

Comes the war, and ďŹ rst the horse goes and then the boy. Joey passes from NXi ?fij\ the British cavalry to an idyll on a French farm with PG; 146 min. an ailing little girl and her Opens Sunday granddad (Niels Arestrup).

Finally, the steed is put to the hard labor of pulling obscenely oversized cannons with steelshod wheels up a steep muddy hill.

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(R; 127 min.) Tomas Alfredsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavily atmospheric retelling of John le CarrĂŠâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mystery about the quiet, smallerthan-life civil servant George Smiley (Gary Oldman) called out of forced retirement to play a deadly game of Whack-a-Mole. Alfredson (who did the last really good vampire movie, Let the Right One In) wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t working from an enormous budget or loads of CGI, and yet he creates a Fritz Langâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;worthy impasto of British 1970s despair thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as detailed and compelling as an alternate universe. (It reminds us that Brazil, Terry Gilliamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of the country wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t so much imagined as it was rotoscoped.) James Bond fans be advised: This is a darker, deeper story than most ďŹ ctions about the British secret service. (Opens Fri at CinĂŠArts Santana Row and the Palo Alto Square.) (RvB)

WAR HORSE (PG-13; 146 min.) See review at left.

WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG; 124 min.) No mystery here. Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson star in a movie about a family thatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wait for itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bought a zoo.

(Opens Fri.)

(1940/1939) Jimmy Stewart plays Alfred Kralik, the best salesclerk at a Budapest notions store. A woman he thought was a customer, Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan), turns out to be just another job seeker. Both Klara and Alfred are passionate love-letter writers; each never realizes that their soulmate is actually the colleague theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been spatting with all the livelong day. There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t many movies that work when they try to show how antagonism is overcome with gathering love; this is one of the noble few. BILLED WITH The Wizard of Oz. Famous for the unquenchable yearning in Judy Garlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voice and the witty Tin Pan Alley songs.

(Plays Dec 21-23 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

NILES FILM MUSEUM Escape holiday hoo-haw with the greatest escapist of them all: Harry Houdini in 1922â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recently restored The Man From Beyond. Houdini plays a man coping with life after spending a century frozen in an iceberg. Plus the shot-in-San Rafael â&#x20AC;&#x153;Broncho Billyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christmas Dinnerâ&#x20AC;?

(1911), in which our hero is lured to reformation by the Yuletide.

Plus early cinemaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most popular comedian, the rotund John Bunny in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hearts and Diamondsâ&#x20AC;? (1914). (Plays Dec 24 at 7:30 in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.) (RvB)

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Speilberg uses everything he knows to make anew the rural Disney dramas Robert Stevenson used to direct in the 1950s. He uses novel angles: the sight of a ďŹ ring squad, eclipsed by a sweep of a windmillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blade, or the horse loose and masterless in No Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Land, an image recalling the maddened war horse in Henri Rousseauâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painting. The problem is ultimately one of a lack of economy. Spielberg couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resist an embedded series of endings: the turns of the screw that fracture this ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandly produced but ultimately pure balsa-wood structure.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (PG; 97 min.) This animated childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ&#x201A;ick, which furthers the decades-long trend of releasing Christmas-festive ďŹ lms before Thanksgiving has even arrived, tells the tale of the titular Arthur, Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youngest son, who has to take charge of the high-tech North Pole operation when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s given a sudden and vital assignment. Until we get an animated, politically sensitive tale of Native American and pilgrim relations, it seems weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be feasting on turkey while lighting the tree. So it goes.

THE ARTIST (PG-13; 100 min.) Michel Hazanaviciusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; black and white and silent salute to silent ďŹ lm features his regular star. In the lead is the amazing Jean Dujardin, better known as the idiot secret agent of Hazanaviciusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 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. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the other ďŹ lm this season besides Hugo that recalls the vividness and universality of the silent age.

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HUGO (PG; 127 min.) A kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie at heart,

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(R; 115 min.) A Hawaiian workaholic named Matt King (George Clooney) is forced to reckon with his family: his wife is in a coma, his daughter Alexandra (Shailene Woodward) parties hearty, and his cutely awkward, profane younger daughter (PaciďŹ c Groveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Amara Miller, debuting) is causing a little trouble as well. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a movie almost everyone will enjoy. In the lead is our most unambiguously appealing movie star. Behind and around this eminently watchable actor is more Hawaii than Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen in a feature ďŹ lm in decades, with the

land and seascapes photographed with considerable care by Phedon Papamicheal. Director Alexander Payne made Sideways quite a few years ago. If this ďŹ lm is a successful comeback, a shoe-in for Oscars and so forth, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also very commercial: from the completely trustworthy narration to the ďŹ nal assurance to the audience that all is well. You can enjoy the classicism of it all, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not taking movies to the next level. (RvB)

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Freud Slips IN THE MINOR A Dangerous Method, David Cronenberg analyzes the analysts.

The film is an adaptation of a play (Christopher Hampton’s The Talking Cure), but like Polanski’s upcoming Carnage, it isn’t quite fully adapted. People stand and deliver their lines, and don’t leave rooms where they’re unwelcome, as they do in real life or in the movies.

Cronenberg critiques Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Freud (Viggo Mortensen) as self-deluding, self-promoting opportunist doctors wandering in the dark. The two giants of psychiatry are illuminated by a woman neglected by history: Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a masochistic hysteria patient of Jung. Jung is seduced by her vulnerability, which of course may be a way of saying that he finds something thrilling in her urge to be hurt. It’s possible he’s drawn by tenderness; there’s something like very old-movie drama in the shyness of Jung, his guilt at betraying his blonde, wealthy and homebound wife (Sarah Gadon).

For this role, Fassbender dons prim spectacles and a waxed mustache. There’s an air of panic in him, a fixed stare magnified by the eyeglasses. The doctor has just discovered synchronicity and is worried at the implication of every

creaking piece of wood.

metroactive FILM 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)

MARGIN CALL Mortensen’s Freud is more worldly; he anticipates Jew-hatred and is always ready for the riposte. He’s a harder man.

The idea of the pair in some adventure (pursuing Moriarty to the Swiss waterfalls, let’s say) seems workable: They harmonize. But the 8 woman between them ;Xe^\iflj keeps them off-key. As for D\k_f[ Knightley’s performance, R; 99 min. it’s a catastrophe: a series of Opens Friday strange contortions, funny accenting and gnashing of teeth. The most dangerous thing in A Dangerous Method is her set of dangerous choppers.

Amid the talky story of the gamesmanship between the doctors, there are moments of nostalgia for old architecture and furnishings, as in the lair of Freud, with its masks and idols. Cronenberg has made a few films regarding the pathology of physicians— most notably Dead Ringers, from a similar blueprint of a pair of doctors encircling a woman. He’s turned from the outand-out psychological horror of the past to a Dangerous Liaisons–style battle of attraction and snobbery. And nothing could be more like watching water trying to boil.—Richard von Busack

(R; 105 min.) First timer J.C. Chandor’s brutal but hushed thriller concerns how men cooperate, particularly in a scheme of vast capitulation. In this case, it’s the deliberate collapsing of a centuryold Wall Street brokerage. The cast includes Stanley Tucci, as the one who goes to the wall first; Demi Moore is the lone woman exec; Peter, a new hand in the Risks Department is played by the actor (and producer here) Zachary Quinto. Quinto plays it very neutral and looks poreless and slightly synthetic; he’s a marvelously unusual figure to have as a moral center. Jeremy Irons is the big boss, who may well have some issues with sanity; he dresses down his subordinates, not in a Mamet tirade, but in the cordial, self-amused patronization of a public school headmaster. As a middle-level exec sick unto death of this job Kevin Spacey is first-rate. The release of this film during the same weeks as the Occupy Wall Street protests is timely, but timeliness isn’t Margin Call’s only virtue; it’s a fascinating display of nerve and talent. (RvB)

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 all

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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 firstrate supporting work by Stellan Skarsgård, at his most swinish; Charlotte Gainsbourg, at her most tender; and Kiefer Sutherland, with a previously unheard, cigartoned 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)

THE MUPPETS (PG; 98 min.) After a 12-year absence from the big screen, and the birth of a generation that likes anything even moderately retro, The Muppets are back, and just in time, too. When oil is discovered underneath the Muppet theater, Gary (Jason Segal, also the film’s writer) and his girlfriend Mary (Amy Adams) begin to stage the Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever. But to do it, they need Kermit the Frog to reunite the gang, who in the 12-year span since the last flick have all gone their separate ways.

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

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 head-on, and Ludacris and Robert De Niro, together at last.

47 (NC-17, 101 min.) Steve McQueen’s previous film, Hunger, was about an imprisoned man starving to death.

Shame is the story of a free man gorging himself. Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is ruled by his penis.

Through days and nights, this executive compulsively sexes the pain away. Meanwhile, Brandon is trying to keep his enormously troubled sister, Sissy (Carey Mulligan), at arms’ length. As Sissy demands more attention, McQueen leaves the possibility of incest open.

Shame’s strength is the kamikaze acting by brave-as-a-lion Michael Fassbender. Because of him, there are glimmers: maybe Shame is arguing that Brandon’s problem isn’t his endless sex—rather, it’s his terrible guilt? Likely not. Note the squeamishness about porn, the gloomy attitude about needs and the high-toned alienation—it’s like watching people couple inside artgallery vitrines. (RvB)

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG-13, 128 min.) Hasty and frequently low-class. The detective is treated as a clown throughout— with cheap wigs and beards and long underwear scenes. This time, Moriarty (Jared Harris, good) is kind of a Krupp. There’s a vaguely syphilitic quality to this citizen above suspicion, and the movie’s true suspense is in the finale: a game of chess on what looks like a frozen castle in Mordor. The movie’s real romance is bromance, as a tuxedoed Holmes dances with Watson (Jude Law). It’s a moment is absent of all sexual magnetism.

Unless you’re sexually aroused by stupidity. (RvB)

THE SITTER (R; 81 min.) Continuing the longstanding comedy tradition that cursing is just funnier in front of unassuming children, The Sitter follows Noah (Jonah Hill), who has recently returned home after being expelled from college and is in need of money. In desperation, he accepts a baby-sitting gig, and soon finds himself entangled with two psychopathic drug kingpins in a chase through Manhattan.

The film is helmed by David Gordon Green, whose filmography includes everything from the taut drama George Washington to the hyperbolic-stoner comedy Pineapple Express. The Sitter falls more in line with the latter, though any viewer with a taste for the dramatics should Google pictures of star Jonah Hill’s post-production weight loss.

TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN, PART 1 (PG-13, 117 min.) Stupefying. A self-described “Emo band from Wheaton, Ill.” named Sleeping at Last serenades literature’s most unfathomably backward heroine, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), as she finally gives it up to her wealthy vampire husband, Edward (Robert Pattinson), on a private island in Brazil. But Bella begins to wish she’d kept it to herself when she develops morning sickness—vampire morning sickness. When Stewart, Pattinson and Taylor “The World’s Angriest Ab Fitch Model” Lautner (in the hopeless role of Bella’s spurned werewolf buddy) exchange glances, one feels sympathetic pain. What can it be like to have to recite these lines and keep a straight face, and worse, meet the tearful fans? The series bottoms out here, trying to terrify the premarital sex out of its audience. Its focus is unplanned pregnancy that one cannot end, even under the circumstances of killing the mom and unleashing a demon baby on Puget Sound. (RvB)

YOUNG ADULT (R; 125 min.) Irked, drunk and 30something young-adult fiction writer Mavis (Charlize Theron) returns to her home town in Mercury, Minn. Her mission is to retrieve her high school boyfriend Buddy (Patrick Wilson) from his wife, Beth (Elizabeth Reaser), who has just had a new baby. Instead, she ends up in the company of a depressed beta-male (Patton Oswalt), whom she barely glanced at back in her glory years.

Theron has a good time playing this disagreeable woman, but scriptwriter Diablo Cody gilds this story with an unbelievable level of alterna-culture; she even gives the unsteady main character supposed wisdom. Ultimately, Young Adult is like an SNL skit that wears out its welcome. (RvB)

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CREATURES ATURES FROM THE BLACK LEATHER LAGOON The Gillbillies play the Caravan Car Friday.

San Jose’s Gillbillies bring a dose of outlaw chic to surf-rock genre

By AARON CARNES

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THER SURF bands tell the Gillbillies they’re really a rockabilly band. But rockabilly bands tell them they’re really a surf band.

“I guess neither camp wants to claim us,” says guitarist Jimbo Borkowitz.

They call themselves outlaw-surf and look like they’d feel at home in a rowdy biker bar. With cowboy hats, leather jackets and two-thirds of the band sporting ZZ-Top-beards, Borkowitz notes, “We look more like hillbillies than surfers.”

But the beards and cowboy hats

aren’t an act—it’s how they dress offstage, as well. Even stranger is where the members all grew up—in gunfighter towns like Cheyenne, Wyo. (Borkowitz), Nevada City, Nev. (bass player Nick Kavros) and Yuma, Ariz. (Brad Hunton).

“It sort of fell in place. We didn’t add up the whole ‘Where we all come from’ thing when the Gillbillies came together. It’s funny how it’s all unfolding,” says Kavros.

Their songs are mostly surf and instrumental covers, but what gives them a harder edge than the originals is the Gillbillies’ love for ’70s power-trios, particularly their love of ’70s hard rock guitars, like the Les Pauls and Flying Vs. Traditionally surf is played on Fender Stratocaster, which gives

the guitar that legendary Dick Dale tone.

“No one’s ever played a Les Paul in surf, let alone a Flying V,” Borkowitz says. The bass and drums match the edgier guitar tone by giving the songs the power and volume of early heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Black Sabbath.

While the whole outlawsurf theme initially developed organically, the members have fun with it and continue to add new details to it to make it more complete. For instance, they decorate the stage with cow skulls and other old West imagery.

These elements come help fulfill what the Gillbillies feel like is their primary role at clubs—being entertainers. To them that means a whole lot more than just playing good music.

“We want to put on a show as much as we can, something that people will talk about and remember no matter how many

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beers they’ve had,” Borkowitz says. “As far as I’m concerned, the performance part begins as soon as we get out of the car in front of the venue.”

Borkowitz, who studied graphic design in college, understood that in order to really solidify their theme, they’d need a logo, so he designed one that plainly summarized what they were all about: a skull with a long beard and a cowboy hat. It also fit his image for the perfect Gillbillies Tshirt, especially after thinking back to rock shirts he always liked.

“What’s the most successful rock & roll shirt of all time? The Misfits.

Everybody’s probably owned one of those shirts because it’s a cool image,” Borkowitz says.

In fact, the Gillbillies shirt is only their image. They left their name off because they think it’s actually better publicity for them that way.

“When people see a shirt without a name, anybody that comes up to them, they have to explain the shirt to them. Now they’re talking about the Gillbillies,” Kavros says.

Their take on surf may be different than most other surf bands, even compared to all the subgenres of surf that already exist like space-rock and spyrock. This difference comes from who their biggest influence is, an instrumentalist that came along before the terms surf was ever coined—Link Ray. “He was pre-surf. He had that aggressive raw energy, that kind of outlaw thing. We are more influenced by Link Ray than Dick Dale or the Ventures or any of those surf bands,” Borkowitz says.

Their biker attitude and classic rock execution is just a natural extension of what Ray was doing as early as 1958 with his instrumental classic “Rumble.”

“He started metal, punk and all of it. It all sprung from there,” Hunton says.

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The Gilded Splinters Friday at Poor House Bistro in San Jose, 6pm; free Taking their name from a Dr. John song, this Bay Area outfit features musicians a lot of South Bay music fans will know digging on New Orleans R&B and funk: Kenny Schick and David Sierra from dark-carnivalers Artemesia Black, Steve Scarpelli from Beatles-tribute faves the Sun Kings, and Jeff Meduri and Chris Jercha from San Jose alt-pop band Fear of Bridges. (SP)

Superbad Friday at Brittania Arms Downtown in San Jose, 10pm; free San Francisco cover band Uncle Melvin got famous a few years ago when they got on a VH1 cover-band competition, and because one critic called vocalist Henry Lange “the most obnoxious singer in human history.” Lange eats that stuff up, and remains a crazy man in his spin-off band Superbad, who cover everything from classic rock to R&B to hip-hop. (SP)

DJ Snowjob Saturday at Johnny V’s in San Jose, 9pm; free Christmas Eve shows are hard to find, but could there be anyone better to trust with the night before Christmas than DJ Snowjob? OK, the truth is he doesn’t exist—Johnny Van Wyk made him up for this event while he was dreaming of a White Christmas. But who knows, maybe he’ll show up with a corncob pipe and a button nose while the real DJs spin hip-hop and drum and bass tonight. (SP)

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Fri, 7pm: A Very Metal Christmas. With Skinner, Angerhead, Bomb and Scary, the Venting Machine, Silent Summer. Toys for Tots event. $5 donation or free with one unwrapped toy. Santa Clara.

THEBLANKCLUB Wed, 9pm: Shuteye Unison, Syn Ack. Free. Fri, 9pm: The Limousiness, DJ Kayvon. $10.

San Jose.

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

LOSGATOSLODGE

Fri, 10pm: Superbad. San Jose.

Fri-Sat: Live rock bands. Los Gatos.

CAPERS

MOJOLOUNGE

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

Thu, 9:30pm: Live music. Fri, 9:30pm: Weslester. Fremont.

FLINTCENTER Fri, 8pm: A Johnny Mathis Christmas. $65-$115. Cupertino.

NETO’S GRILL Thu: Ruckus Christmas party.

Santa Clara.

GOODKARMA Thu: Acoustic music. San Jose.

JOHNNYV’S Fri: Rivals. San Jose.

LILLYMAC’S Fri, 9:30pm: 10 Til 2. Sunnyvale.

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

Thu: Blind Pilots. Fri, 9:30pm: Spang-a-Lang. $10. Los Gatos.

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UNWINED

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

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

STEPHENSGREEN

WINEAFFAIRS

Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

Wed, 7:30pm: Blues Barachos. Thu, 7:30pm: Kirk Abe. San Jose.

SOUTHFIRSTBILLIARDS

Jazz/Blues

C&W/Folk

Thu, 9pm: Stories in Braille. No cover. San Jose.

ANGELICA’SBISTRO

ANGELICA’SBISTRO

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

Gilroy.

Thu, 7pm: Blues night. No cover.

Mon, 7pm: A Swingin’ Affair and Jazz Jam. No cover. Redwood City.

Fri, 8:30pm: The Larry Douglas Alltet. $10/$14. Redwood City.

TEMPLEBAR&LOUNGE

BBCGASTROPUB

Thu: Jason O’Reilly. Sunnyvale.

THEQUARTERNOTE Wed-Thu & Sun: Pro jam. Fri: Feather Wiutchm, Vinyl Lux. $7.

Sat: Nightmare Before Christmas. $5. Sunnyvale.

STATION55

Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

Fri, 6:30pm: Live jazz. Menlo Park.

WOODHAM’SLOUNGE

BLUZBY-YOU

FIBBARMAGEES MISSIONCITYCOFFEE ROASTING

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

Thu, 8pm: JC Smith. Fri, 8pm: Vegas Nights. San Jose

World

GRANDDELLSALOON

AGENDALOUNGE

HEDLEYCLUB

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

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

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

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

Wed, 9pm: Blues Angel. Thu, 9pm: Jimmy Dewrance. Fri, 9pm: Liars Club. Mon, 9pm: Desiree and Diamond 99. Tue, 7pm: Liars Club, Blue J. San Jose.

ARYAGLOBALCUISINE

LIQUID

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

Wed: JC Smith. San Jose.

AZÚCAR

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

Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Redwood City.

LOSGATOSBREWINGCO.

BAMBOOLOUNGE

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.

Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Campbell.

J.J.’SBLUESCAFE

LOFTBARANDBISTRO

Fri, 8pm: Tony Furtado and Stephanie Schneiderman. $20/$22. Santa Clara.

THESADDLERACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

Thu-Fri, 9pm: Diablo Road.

Fremont.

SAM’SBBQ Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, 6pm: Windy Hill. San Jose.

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Bit & Spur Band. Sun, 8pm: Guest band weekly. San Jose.

OpenMic ANGELICA’SBISTRO

LOSGATOSBREWINGCO.SJ

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

CASCAL

Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos.

San Jose.

BAREFOOTCOFFEEROASTERS

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

Mountain View.

MURPHY’SLAW

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic. Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

CLUBFOX

Fri: Chris Cobb Band. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

BLUEROCKSHOOT

Fri, 9pm: Pre-Christmas Eve Salsa Night. $10. Redwood City.

APERFECTFINISH

HUKILAU Fri: Shaka. San Jose.

LILLYMAC’S Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

LIQUID Tue: Rock en espanol. San Jose.

MOROCCO’SMV

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

Fri, 9pm: Steven Gary Christmas Extravaganza. San Jose.

POORHOUSEBISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6pm: Timm Walker Blues & Soul Trio. Fri, 6pm: The Guilded Splinters. San Jose.

THEATRE ON SAN PEDRO SQUARE

Wed & Fri-Sun, 6pm: World music.

Mon, 6pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 6pm: Flamenco music.

Mountain View.

Thu, 8pm: Swinging blues Christmas show with Kaye Bohler. $20. San Jose.

MOROCCO’SSJ

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

Campbell.

Fri, 6pm: World music. Sat, 6pm: Jerry J. San Jose.

TESSORA’S

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

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic.

Cupertino.

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

CITYESPRESSO Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

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

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

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

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ELRANCHOSPORTSBAR Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

JOHNNYV’S

ELTORITORESTAURANT

Wed: The Cypher. Hip-hop open mic. San Jose.

MISSIONCITYROASTINGCO.

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

Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

MOUNTAINCHARLEY’S

BLUEBONNETBAR

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

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

POORHOUSEBISTRO

BLUEMAX

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

Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

QUARTERNOTE

Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

BLUEPHEASANT

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

Fri, 7pm: KJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke (followed at 10pm by DJ dance music). Santa Clara.

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

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

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

GALAXY

REDROCKCOFFEECO.

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

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

BOGART’SLOUNGE

GILROYBOWL

SONOMACHICKENCOOP

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

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

Wed, 8:30pm: Open mic.

Campbell.

BOSWELL’S

SUNNYVALEARTGALLERY

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

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

BOULEVARDTAVERN

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT

Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN

Karaoke

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

BRANHAMLOUNGE

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ UncleHank.

San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO

7BAMBOO

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

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

BRIX Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

ALEX’S49ERINN Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

BBCGASTROPUB

C&J’SSPORTSBAR Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

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

CREEKSIDELOUNGE

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

Wed, 8pm, Sat, 8:30pm: KJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke. San Jose.

THEBEARS

DASILVA’SBRONCOS

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

BENNIGAN’SGRILL

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

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

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

JERSEYS Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

JOHNNYV’S Sun: Sunday Funday. Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

Campbell.

KCBARANDRESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond.

San Jose.

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

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

KYOTO PLACE Wed, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

DIVEBAR

BLACKCARDLOUNGE

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

LILLYMAC’S

Thu, 8pm: KJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke. San Jose (upstairs at El Palenque Restaurant).

EFFIE’SRESTAURANT

Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

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Anya’s ‘Gone Baby Gone’ Video Pays Homage to Hitchcock THE USUALS has been the command center for Anya and the Get Down over the last few months as the young South Bay singer-songwriter has kickstarted her solo career. So it was fitting that she held the release party for her new video there on Saturday.

The show was packed, with locals Vida Killz and Rey Resurreccion bringing short opening sets. Killz started low-key, sitting down at the edge of the stage to rap “47.” But by “Oro De Corazon” just a couple of songs later, she was up and delivering that off-kilter, hair-in-her-eyes intensity that seems to smolder in her best work. Usually setting her songs to dark, glimmering beats, it was a trip to see her backed by a live acoustic guitar and drum, but it worked.

And what can you say about Rey? There’s something about his playful, SanJose-proud swagger that is totally infectious, even in such a short set. He had Aaron Aquino (a.k.a. Squareweezy of the Bangerz) DJing, and the results were nuts. Aquino was just going off on whatever that electronic device he was fiddling with was, and they both were egging each other on. “Spaceship music, man!” shouted Rey near the end.

Anya’s attention to every detail was evident in her live set, which opened with a cover of Amy Winehouse’s “In My Bed,” and also included Nancy Sinatra’s “Bang Bang” (“Anybody seen Kill Bill?” Anya asked before she played it) and Estelle’s “American Boy,” as well as her original songs like “Baggage” and “Runnin.” Her singing style, the band’s jams and even the song choice all reflect a heady mix of vintage nightclub swank with modern cool.

But it was even more evident in the video for “Gone Baby Gone,” which The Usuals screened right before the performance. Looking like a glossy, Vertigo-era Hitchcock film mashed up with a 21st-century postmodern horror movie, it brings out the dark themes of betrayal, anger and murderous vengeance that casual listeners to the song are almost certain to miss the first time through. A mix of rock, reggae, hip-hop and dubstep, the song is bouncy and beat-heavy enough for its meaning to fly under the radar, but the video spells out everything with a noirish plot and a building air of menace. The song is like something Winehouse herself would have written, but the look of the video captures a totally different feel—from the clothes to the hair to the way she moves, it’s all an extension of an outof-time persona Anya has been cultivating since her earlier work with the hip-hop crew Soapbox Melodics.—Steve Palopoli

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GIRL TROUBLE Anya plays a jealous lover plotting revenge in the video for ‘Gone Baby Gone’ she premiered at The Usuals Saturday night.

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SEA LEGS San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the High Sea walk a line between the propulsive folk-punk of Ted Leo and the wave of South Bay quirk-rock thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arisen over the last couple of years. There are even echoes of the Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience, the totally non-ironic, Pogues-covering Celtic band that Nate and Sean Kavanaugh play in with their family. Smart lyrics and catchy tunes are their main calling cards; they play the Blank Club Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 9pm; free. (SP)

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X-BAR

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

Fri & Mon, 9pm: Vinnie.

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

REDSTAGLOUNGE

DanceClubs

Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

MOJO LOUNGE

REDIROOM

Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

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

NETOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MARKET & GRILL Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336 Wednesday, December 21 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 16+

LA PLEBE

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Sunday December 25 - Closed Happy Holidays!

Thursday, Dec. 29 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+

SPUN

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THE DEVIL MAKES THREE Friday, December 30, $20 in Adv./ $25 Drs. with

Miss Lonely Hearts

Saturday, NEW YEARS EVE, $35 Adv./ $40 Drs. with

RUDYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SPUB

OASIS

SANJOSEBAR&GRILL

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

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

BAMBOOLOUNGE

OFF THE HOOK

SHERWOODINN

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

Sun, 8pm: Joe. Campbell.

Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

BBCGASTROPUB

OFFICE BAR

Friday, Dec. 30 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+ CYLINDER plus The Devil Himself

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;FLAHERTYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S IRISH PUB

3ATURDAY $EC Â&#x2039; In the Atrium Â&#x2039; AGES 21+ ELIQUATE plus DJ Stone Dabone .O #OVER s $RS P M 3HOW P M

Jan 4 NOFX/ No Use For A Name (Ages 16+) Jan 5 STRFKR Atrium (Ages 16+) Jan 6 LoveRance Atrium (Ages 16+) Jan 8 Total Chaos Atrium (Ages 16+) Jan 12 Equipto Atrium (Ages 16+) Jan 13 Vetiver Atrium (Ages 21+) Jan 15 Slightly Stoopid (Ages 16+) Jan 27 Buckethead (Ages 16+) Jan 28 Jackie Greene (Ages 21+) Feb 6 Groundation (Ages 16+) Feb 11 Y & T (Ages 21+) Feb 19 Rebelution (Ages 16+) Mar 8 SOJA (Ages 16+) Mar 17 Iration (Ages 16+) Apr 10 Dark Star Orchestra (Ages 21+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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

www.catalystclub.com

AZĂ&#x161;CAR

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

Brothers Comatose and Miss Lonely Hearts

AT THE $RS s $RS P M 3HOW P M

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

Santana Row.

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

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

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.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

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

"OTH SHOWS $RS P M 3HOW P M

ROSIEMCCANNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

AGENDA

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

Fri: DJs. Menlo Park.

SHOOTERSBAR&GRILL Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

THEBLANKCLUB

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

SOUTHFIRSTBILLIARDS

BLUEPHEASANT

Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

A PERFECT FINISH

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

STATION55

Thu, 9pm-midnight: Karaoke with Jordan River Productions.

San Jose.

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

PEACOCK LOUNGE Tue, 9pm: DJ Ryan. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Sunnyvale.

PIONEER SALOON

TEQUILASHOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;SBAR&GRILL Wed, 9pm: Larry. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Call for info. San Jose.

BRANHAMLOUNGE 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.

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO

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

TOUCHDOWNTOMMYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

POINCIANA LOUNGE

Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMS DOWNTOWN

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

WOODHAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE

Thu: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Aaron E. San Jose.

Thu & Sat, 9:30pm: Wild Side karaoke. Santa Clara.

Thu, 10pm: DJ Night. Cupertino.

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Carriage House Theatre Concert Series

“The soul king, best known for his work alongside James Brown in the ‘60s, is still awesome, able to ratchet up the funk like nobody else in the business.” - San Jose Mercury News Maceo Parker is the essence of Funk and his band is the tightest Funk orchestra around. Parker’s played with James Brown (he was with the Godfather of Soul for 20 years), George Clinton and Bootsy Collins. He’s the living, breathing history of Funk and he’s at the top of his game!

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

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

Free on-site parking!

Presented by

Box Office, 408.961.5858, M-F, 10am-4pm ticketmaster.com or montalvoarts.org 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga, CA 95070

Celebrating 100 Years!

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

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

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

SANJOSEBAR&GRILL

Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live DJ. San Jose.

THESADDLERACK Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.

BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN

MIAMI BEACH CLUB

Thu, 10pm: DJ Aaron E. Sat: DJ Uncle Hank. Tue: Pub-stumpers Trivia. San Jose.

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

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

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

BRIX

MOTIF

SOUTHFIRSTBILLIARDS

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

Fri-Sat: DJs & dancing. San Jose.

Sun: DJ Paul X. San Jose.

C&J’SSPORTSBAR

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

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

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

Los Gatos.

Thu: Christmas Party. Fri: Naughty X-Mas Party. Sat: Sexy Santa Party. San Jose.

CLUBHOUSERESTAURANT& SPORTSBAR Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.

CLUBILLUSIONS Thu: Kaymaar’s birthday bash.

Ages 15-19 only. Fri, 9pm-2am: Dazzling Salsa. Tue: Club Starz.

Ages 14-18 only. San Jose.

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

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

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

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

Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.

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

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

STUDIO8

TEMPLEBAR&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.

THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.

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

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

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

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

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

San Francisco’s City Guide

FAHRENHEITULTRALOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays.

Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays.

Fri, 9pm: It’s a Party. $10. Sat, 9pm: Elite Ugly Sweater Edition. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: College Night. San Jose.

GALAXY

HANIN ELIAS Alec Empire’s token super-vixen from Atari Teenage Riot strikes out on her own. Dec 22 at Hemlock Tavern.

DAN THE AUTOMATOR Architect of Dr. Octagon, Deltron 3030 and Gorillaz plays DJ set at Holiday Ball. Dec 22 at Rickshaw Stop.

Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.

PLASTIC FAUXNO BAND

JOHNNYV’S

Over two hours of John Lennon hits from tribute band.

Dec 23 at Great American Music Hall.

Fri: DJ Snowjob. Mon: Retox.

San Jose.

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

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

LILLYMAC’S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night.

Sunnyvale.

BRIAN MCKNIGHT Multimillion-selling singer and producer sits in for a holiday show at the jazz club. Dec 20-23 at Yoshi’s SF.

TONY! TONI! TONÉ Without Raphael Saadiq, Oakland’s R&B heroes soldier on in style. Dec 23-24 at Yoshi’s Oakland.

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MEASURED HIGH Elemental’s Dustin Mahoney tests marijuana samples.

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NTER ANY one of San Jose’s 100-plus medical cannabis dispensaries and you’ll find dozens of jars containing a variety of strains. But patients may wonder: Who grew the grass?

And how can anyone be sure if it’s free from pests, mold, pesticides and/or other contaminants?

The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates, well, food and drugs, won’t touch Schedule I substances like cannabis. So, as California’s medical cannabis industry matures, a handful of South Bay collectives are turning to scientific labs to test their buds, tinctures and edibles for both safety and potency.

“We are dealing with an ill population, a patient population, sometimes immune-compromised, sometimes [with] pulmonary issues, and you would not want to have them smoking mold, mildew, and other totally questionable medicine,” says Ariel Loveland, the executive director at Elemental Wellness Center.

Loveland says that when patientproviders bring in extra meds, Elemental’s über-experienced purchasing specialist, Dustin Mahoney, puts the growers through a rigorous screening process. “He will go over their growing procedures, he’ll go over what nutrients they use, he’ll go over everything about the plant,” explains Loveland, who opened Elemental in March 2010.

Mahoney checks for mold and mildew, then puts the buds under a PC-connected Dynascope to magnify them to incredible detail. “There’s a lot of love and a lot of one-on-one

that goes on between a grower and his plants if they want it to come off successfully,” says Loveland.

If the meds pass the in-house inspection, Mahoney then packages a two-gram sample and sends it to Steep Hill Lab in Oakland. Labs like Steep Hill are no joke—their Ph.D.-level scientists use gas and liquid chromatographs and mass spectrometer machines, the same pieces of equipment used in the biomedical industry.

Steep Hill’s services include checking for THC, CBD and CBN, the cannabinoids responsible for cannabis’ psychotropic and anti-inflammatory effects. Earlier this year, several labs joined forces to form the Association of California Cannabis Laboratories to help standardize testing procedures.

“This alliance establishes a basis for the evolution of an improved scientific approach to protocols and procedures our laboratories perform,” said Dr. Robert Martin, co-founder of cannabis testing labe CW Analytical, in a press release. “The more we standardize our protocols the more we truly serve our industry and the patient community.”

Elemental will soon participate in a pilot project for onsite, remote testing with Steep Hill, which will allow collectives to analyze samples in-house and get test results over the web.

The cannabis testing industry is young, but Loveland says he gets people coming through his doors specifically because they do test their meds. He adds that testing is one of the biggest advantages cannabis dispensaries have over the black market. “People never knew what they were getting when they were getting their medicine from the street,” Loveland says.—Ted Cox

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