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THIS MODERN WORLD

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I SAW YOU

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

We Hear You We can’t tell if you are immature, obtuse, oblivious, clumsy, mean or just flatout insensitive. Yes, you, we’re talking to you, the people at workplaces everywhere who loudly plan and discuss their afterwork activities without regard to the feelings of those not included in their little soirees. Yes, you are overheard. Yes, most “others” would rather not participate. But there will always be at least a few whose feelings are hurt when they hear about activities to which they are not included. We hope Santa put clues in your stockings.

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Volunteerism

As a librarian for more than 20 years with San Jose Public Library, I find my Councilmember PierLuigi Oliverio’s latest idea for lowering the quality of library services in San Jose

endearing (SanJose.com, Nov. 15).

But it does raise a few questions: (1) Where are these volunteers to come from? (2) What happens when they fail to show up, are injured on the job or are involved in something that puts the city at a risk for liability? (3) If all positions are to be frozen, that presumably means that volunteers will fill library jobs at every level. This will include full-time staff who work 40-hour weeks. How many such volunteers does the councilmember expect to recruit? Also, at this time, all SJPL librarians are degreed professionals.

Does the councilmember propose to make these volunteers earn the MLIS degree, or does he prefer to deprofessionalize the staff ?

SJPL already has several programs

that utilize volunteers, most notably the Engaged Volunteer Program, which enables us to offer services that would not otherwise be possible. But to imagine that a modern library system can function by substituting untrained workers for professional staff is to suggest that it’s time for the councilmember to inform himself about how much libraries actually do, and what it takes to do it.

We look forward to seeing him.

DOUGLAS REES | SAN JOSE

Clown Act

The post office is going bankrupt and Congress fails to act. The country is borrowing $38,000 each and every

second d and dC Congress ffails il tto act. t A supercommittee of congress is appointed to address deficit reduction.

The supercommittee fails to act.

We elected these clowns and we must replace them. Replacing them with a clown from a different party does no good. I urge you to join the nonpartisan organization I found at www.goooh.com that will reform the way congressional candidates are selected. GOOOH (pronounced Go) intends to challenge incumbents, in the primaries, with citizen representatives chosen by the members of their district. Will you act to save your country or will you, like Congress, fail?

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THE FLY

Commerce, si!

As part of its mission to encourage local dollars to be spent at local businesses, the Republican-led SAN JOSE/SILICON VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE is sponsoring … a trip to Cuba? The Chamber Explorations program sent out a flyer advertising a nine-day, “once in a lifetime travel opportunity!” to visit the socialist island. Among the trip’s highlights is a tour of the Cathedral de la Havana, which Cuban writer ALEJO CARPENTIER described as “music turned to stone,” which, although opposite in meaning, is similar to how many describe San Jose’s City Hall.

On Day 4 of the trip, visitors will take a jaunt to the city of TRINIDAD, where they “will drive through the beautiful province of CIENFUEGOS.” No word on whether the capitalist cheerleaders will then drive north from there to visit Santa Clara (Cuba, that is) to pay their respects at the tomb of CHE GUEVARA, or visit Parque Lenin on the rebound to HAVANA. The brochure advertises the trip at a cost of less than $4,000 per person, for couples, that is.

Seat Wars

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Contrary to rumors circulating at City Hall, FLY@ Vice Mayor MADISON METRONEWS. NGUYEN says she COM did not tell police officer TAM TRUONG to run for a District 4 City Council seat against KANSEN CHU next fall. Instead, Nguyen says she was introduced to the Dick-Tracy-turned-political-candidate through a friend of a friend. (Isn’t that what Facebook is for?) This set off a flurry of phone calls before the holiday break, which left Nguyen exasperated with Fly on two fronts. First, she says she still hasn’t endorsed anyone in the race; and second, because we dropped the CONTROVERSY WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED—(Hint: Its initials are L.S.)—and a lingering tiff with her fellow councilmember. “I’m so over it,” says Nguyen, adding that she has no beef with Chu. “I wish my name was not connected to that issue.”

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Where’s the Fire?

PASSING GAS Campbell’s Planning Commission opposed plans to turn the historic Gaslighter Theater into a restaurant and bar, but the City Council will hear an appeal Jan. 3.

Campbell argues over its self-image, as the Gaslighter Theater waits to learn its fate

By JOSH KOEHN

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N ITS nearly 100 years of existence, the Gaslighter Theater in Campbell has gone from holding sharecropper’s cash as a bank in the 1920s and showing movies during World War II to being a small-stage theater for vaudeville acts and an allages rock venue as recently as 2006. At that time, the white marble landmark, with thick columns bracketing the entrance, was closed temporarily so it could be refashioned as a lounge.

Five and a half years later, the Gaslighter remains dark. But there’s hope the theater could be resurrected in coming months if it can overcome the kind of obstacles that frequently crop up in small town development battles.

The South Bay nightclub veterans who operate of Sabor and Myth Taverna and Lounge in San Jose have been working to reopen the Gaslighter as a restaurant and bar called Dasha. “It is my intention is to bring the Santana Row crowd back down to Campbell,” says Ray Shafazand of Melodann Inc., which has teamed up with property owner West Hall Properties, LLC to launch the project.

Holding up the potential migration of nightlife customers south on Winchester is a strict alcohol

ordinance that Campbell imposed in 2009. The Downtown Alcohol Beverage Policy prohibits any new establishments from serving drinks after midnight. In October, the city’s Planning Commission unanimously opposed Melodann’s application for a conditional use permit (CUP) on the grounds that the application would violate the ordinance. Underlying the technical objections are some cultural issues related to just how stylish a downtown befits a town whose central district was not too long ago populated by prune packing warehouses.

“The applicant talked about comparing this club to a club in New York City,” planning commissioner Phil Reynolds reportedly said at the time of the CUP denial. “Campbell is not New York City. Campbell is Campbell.”

Several dozen community members speaking against the project at the commission meeting amplified the Our Town chorus. They used the investor group’s marketing materials, which promised a “Las Vegas-style”

Rep Grows Bigger Campbell’s permit process has been criticized before as business unfriendly.

D’Arpino tried to purchase the Gaslighter in 2006 from Mark Gaetano, whose family owned and operated the theatre for almost 30 years. The Gaetanos told Metro at the time that problems with the city’s redevelopment agency began in 2002, when the agency demanded payment for late-night-hour and live-entertainment permits that had never before existed.

Fed up, the Gaetanos tried to sell the property to D’Arpino, who had no luck getting Motion Ultra Lounge off the ground and was unable to cover the mortgage payments. The property then reverted back to the Gaetanos, and in 2008, Sean Buxton and Matt Klemchuck, who run West Hall Properties, LLC, purchased the Gaslighter.

Buxton says the company has turned

down offers from other nightclub operators in the past, but Dasha offers an experience that will cater well to Campbell’s community.

On Dec. 21, West Hall and Melodann sponsored a mixer at Campbell’s Orchard Coffee Shop to provide residents with more information on the proposed restaurant and club.

Meanwhile, opponents stood across the street passing out their own informational leaflets.

The project’s reception perplexes Shafazand, who says that turning away Dasha would not only leave the theater closed for at least another couple years, but would also be detrimental to Campbell’s city coffers.

“Anybody in their right mind would approve for this project to come into Campbell,” Shafazand says. “They don’t even have enough money to do their Easter Egg hunt. They canceled that, but then they’re saying they’re worried about four individual residents, like they’re some kind of grandma town.”

Gates adds that Melodann has gathered hundreds of signatures in support of the project, and while the group is not interested in conflict, he believes the city’s alcohol beverage ordinance is unconstitutional based on state law that allows for bars to remain open until 2am.

“But we aren’t going to attack that and get a decision on it at this time in our lives,” he says.

Campbell’s Mayor Mike Kotowski, who played a key role in fine-tuning the city’s alcohol beverage ordinance, says bottle-service style bar like Dasha “might not be the best use of the building.” He will be one of five city councilmembers voting on Dasha’s appeal on Jan. 3. It will take three votes in favor of Dasha to turn the Gaslighter’s lights back on.

“I think Kotowski is one of the guys who wrote that downtown alcohol policy and that is his pride and joy,” Shafazand says. “But what he needs to do is he needs to think outside of the box and say, ‘OK, this is a historical building.

I’m not opening the flood gates to everyone’.”

But Theresa Alster, chair of the city’s planning commission, says it’s Campbell’s past that worries her and residents more than an unknown future.

“Twenty years ago, Campbell was known as the place you went and got trashed and the city has really cleaned up its act,” she says. “The old-timers are worried about things going back to the way it used to be.”

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“Probably, there could have been better examples,” admits Bill Gates, an attorney for Melodann, “but those are the ones they’ve used.”

The chorus of objections prompted Dasha to scale back its ambitious plans in the hope that an appeal with Campbell’s City Council, which will reconvene Jan. 3, will fall upon more receptive ears.

“That was our intention at the beginning—to get an extremely upscale venue there—but we’ve been beaten up so much we scaled it down to a regular upscale restaurant like Santana Row,” says Shafazand, noting that the club will now hold a maximum of 250 people.

What confounds Shafazand and others in his group is that plans for the club were unanimously approved in 2006—only at that time, the CUP request came from Nick D’Arpino, who was in the process of buying the property. A few years later, Campbell instituted its downtown beverage ordinance, after a noticeable uptick in the number of alcohol-related arrests.

There have been minor tweaks to the ordinance in recent months, and it’s no secret that they were made to benefit existing businesses.

But it seems that the fight over the Gaslighter’s future has become personal for some.

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TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE IN SILICON VALLEY

BY BRENDAN NYSTEDT

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Oracle Fails to Meet Estimates

Tesla’s goal is to look sort of like every other car in the market but just different enough that it’s obvious you’re driving a Tesla.

Tesla Reveals Model S Sedan Pricing After months of taking pre-orders, Tesla Motors has finally revealed its pricing for its first mass-model automobile. The car, called Model S, is a swoopy, futuristic sedan with a full electric drivetrain. Finally going on sale to a wider public next summer, the car is going to be built at the former NUMMI plant in Fremont. The base price for a 2013 Model S will be $49,900 after a government rebate of $7,500.

This falls in line with CEO Elon Musk’s desire to offer an electric vehicle with a more flexible form factor under $50K as Tesla’s next vehicle. For more money, buyers get an extended range (40 kWh/160 miles is the base; 60 kWh/230 miles and 85 kWh/300 miles are optional) and a slightly plusher interior, as well as spiffier wheels, extra technological aids and a panoramic glass roof.

Oracle’s earnings dropped last quarter, driving its stock price down by 14 percent. Oracle’s sales and profits were announced Dec. 20 as hitting a nine-year low. The depression is being chalked up to the larger economic state, with companies spending less on new software and hardware and making do with what they have for longer. The company, based in Redwood City, has been hit hard by the economy. And despite the growth of the markets the company has access to (largely thanks to the Sun Microsystems acquisition), even the hardware that Oracle purchased has failed to bolster the company to levels that speculators had predicted.

Apple Wins in Court Against HTC In what is being called a narrow victory, the courts have ruled in favor of Apple against smartphone maker HTC. HTC has been found

Ice Cream, You Scream, We All Scream over yet another tug-of-war between Apple and Google.

guilty of infringing on patents pertaining to the iPhone, iOS and its design elements. Although the original claim involved 10 of Apple’s patents, six were dropped and the ruling was over four of them.

Because HTC manufactures phones that primarily run Google’s Android operating system, this event could become the first of a string of victories for Apple. Apple has been using its IP to battle smartphone manufacturers using Google’s Android OS. Could this be Steve Jobs’ thermonuclear strategy finally coming to fruition? Will Google’s new Motorola patent portfolio protect Android licensees from future hurt?

Xerox Founder Passes Away At 90 Silicon Valley patron Jacob “Jack” Goldman has passed away. He was 90 years old. A brilliant man with a penchant for innovation, he developed an electric car for Ford during the 1960s and contributed to the spirit of innovation during his time at Xerox. Goldman was hired

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hired by Xerox founder Chester Carlson to lead Scientific Data Systems, a research lab on the West Coast that was acquired by the copy-machine company and would eventually become the Palo Alto Research Center. PARC developed the technologies that would become Ethernet and the graphical user interface. Every computer user is in his debt.

Hastings’ Netflix Stock Options in The Red After a rough year, Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings has seen his stock options reduced by the value of 50 percent.

His take-home pay has remained the same for the upcoming year, but due to expected losses next year, the streaming and DVD rental company has been forced to make cuts.

Google Bets More On Solar Adding to its past investments in clean energy, Google has just tossed a cool $94 million into the coffers of Recurrent Energy. Recurrent is building four solar farms near

Sacramento, and Google intends the millions to go specifically toward these projects. This new investment is not the first time Google has put money toward a large solar power project.

In the past, Google has invested money to enable homeowners to install rooftop solar panels as well as plonking down $168M toward a Mojave Desert solar farm earlier this year. Here’s hoping that in spite of solar’s bad image after the Solyndra fiasco, solar can make a comeback in the alternative energy race.

British Telecom Goes After Google Gray lady BT is going after Google over six patents that the U.K. communications company claims are being deliberately infringed. Unlike other companies targeting Google’s Android operating system, BT has many of Google’s core services in its sights: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Music, Google+ among others. What is unclear is whether or not Google’s newly acquired Motorola patents will protect them against this new battle.

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Jesus Was a Liberal, Happy Holidays It is the height of irony that FOX News and the conservative right wing consider themselves the guardians of Christmas tradition. From all that was allowed to be published regarding Jesus, there is no evidence that Jesus was anything but a liberal pacifist. Thus, the war for Christmas perpetrated by the right would be anathema to Jesus.

I have long dismissed the notion of Jesus Christ as a God or even a relative, and relegated him to the same status I reserve for Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Nevertheless, his human traits as portrayed by the Bible are truly admirable.

What I find baffling is how a social right-wing conservative can claim to be a Christian at all. The same people who want to keep the manger scene at a Texas City Hall are the first to decry wasteful government spending.

The same people who loudly and self-righteously profess Jesus as their savior—the same Jesus who said, “Do not judge, lest you be judged”—have large websites dedicated to the hatred and judgment of everyone from Muslims to gays and everything in between that does not fit their

paradigm of a good Christian.

Don’t get me wrong, many Christians are very good people who do not engage in this hatred and are offended by the hypocrisy shown by their alleged fellow believers. The problem is that the right-wing Christian is now the poster child for the religion. Polling shows it is they who dominate the belief system of religion in this country and their evangelical desire for conformity has permeated every political issue from taxes to who gets social services in this country.

Jesus, on the other hand, was very clear about the separation of church and state: “Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.”

His views on the poor were pretty straightforward and indisputably liberal—one might even call them socialist. The only signs of him having a temper were exhibited against the Wall Street crowd of his day, the money changers whom it is said he chased out of the temple and warned people to be on their guard against

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greed. In manner, dress and attitude he would have been very comfortable with the Occupy San Jose folks who were evicted from City Hall.

But the best legacy—and best political policy—he advanced was the simple notion that one should “Love thy neighbor as yourself ” and “Do to others as you would have them do to you.”

As a philosophy, that is worth celebrating. It is the same philosophy that allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Cesar Chavez, Bishop Tutu and many other liberal icons to be the symbols of freedom in their respective societies.—By Rich Robinson

Greg Howe Rich Robinson is a liberal, Jesus is just fine.

Kurt Sharp Using a figure like Jesus to support an argument like this is dangerous sledding, but there is truth in saying the only thing that props up the Republican party these days is evangelical Christians.

Otherwise, it would just be a bunch of rich people blatantly cutting taxes for corporations and their country club friends.

John Galt Merry Christmas, Rich! May you and yours continue to benefit from the tradition of Judeo-Christian ethics and morality upon which this great country was built—even if you do fail to appreciate it.

By John Rasmussen

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SILICON ALLEYS

A Look Back LOOKING UP Local singer Lisa Dewey made the big time in 2011.

The columns, alleys and interstices that defined 2011 in San Jose and beyond

By GARY SINGH

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S ANOTHER calendar year barrels to an end, reflections begin to emanate, not just from the literal alleys, but also the cognitive routes, creative throughways and that which fogs the above.

As this columnist perceives them, alleys are side passages usually subordinated by society to the “in-between.” The alley denizen occupies the interstices. He operates off the beaten path—geographically, creatively and even psychically.

Sometimes the result is linear, while in other cases, more abstract multidimensional explorations emerge.

With that in mind, the alley

denizen will fondly recall some particular highs from the last 52 weeks. The themes tend to circle back; everything filters through one’s own hometown. Tensions exist between native and exotic, between domestic and international, between one’s home turf and one’s inclination to go somewhere else.

Art and writing seem to harmonize those tensions—the experience of which constantly reinvents the columnist’s relationship with San Jose as a whole.

This year in particular, a few inspiring women came to light in this space.

SJSU professor Cathy Miller, whose 1998 biography of Somali supermodel Waris Dirie sold millions of copies, was blown away to hear that the U.S. premiere of the film was debuting at Cinequest, right here in San Jose.

Fourteen years ago, immediately

after completing her MFA at Penn State, Miller co-authored Desert Flower, the worldwide-blockbuster story of Dirie’s life and the horrors of female genital mutilation. It was a sheer coincidence that after all these years, the film debuted right down the street from where Miller teaches. Go figure.

In another twist, lifelong San Jose musician, songwriter and SJSU graduate Lisa Dewey began to see pay dirt when Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham recrafted one of her songs for his latest solo effort.

It was a great story; as any musician who grows up here knows, the decision to remain in San Jose is a difficult one if you expect to be taken seriously by anyone else in the world.

Part of the human condition here is dealing with the ridicule hurled at San Jose from musicians in more happening cities. Our reputation seems like that of a wasteland of squandered musical potential, where commercial success is equated with leaving. One often longs to be that one musician who finally makes the big time without having to go somewhere else.

In terms of classical music and youth musical education, one particular SJSU graduate did make it without leaving. Christine Eunmi Shin runs the New Mozart School of Music, which started above a pizza joint in Palo Alto. It was hard work, but her story, like Lisa’s, was quite an inspiring one. Over lunch, she said she was an “accidental entrepreneur,” and the rest of the story wrote itself.

When it comes to foreign travel improving one’s relationship with one’s local landscape, 2011 revealed several synchronicities to the antiman-about-town.

Immediately upon returning from Chiang Mai, Thailand, for instance, he found himself at House of Siam in downtown San Jose, coincidentally sitting right next to two Thai Buddhist monks. With the help of the restaurant owner’s husband, the anti-man-about-town gave his remaining Thai currency to the monks and went home to deal with his jet lag.

A few experiences in the Great White North also evoked connections to San Jose. A trip to Vancouver brought back memories of the San Jose Earthquakes’ intertwined history with the Vancouver Whitecaps, right on the stadium parcel where the author first saw a Vancouver game 30 years earlier.

Similarly, an unexpected visit to Ken Kesey’s old PA system at the Cantos Music Foundation in Calgary produced a wild romp through the 1960s counterculture, right at the time when the movie Magic Trip about Kesey and the Pranksters opened in the valley, featuring the bus from which the PA system came from.

There was much more, of course: the Mexican Heritage Plaza, the Chocolate Watchband, Winchester Skatepark, dive bars, a soccer stadium, technology symposiums and the Spartan Bookstore receiving department. I can’t wait to see what 2012 brings.

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he Social Media Bubble of 2011 doesn’t resemble past ones like the Dotcom Bubble, the Real Estate Bubble or the Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1637. Prosperity’s rewards seem to have a shorter reach these days, like the hot dog thrown at Tiger Woods during his recent golf game here. While the price of a Silicon Valley pad cracked the $100 million mark and Google’s execs sought parking spots for their personal jet fleet, Wal Mart chopped health benefits and protesters encamped at City Hall.

Even shrewd business minds seemed baffled by the new economic landscape. Netflix announced it was splitting its business in two, then changed

JANUARY The Arab Spring Begins In a world-shaking development, a surge of politically minded uprisings begin in the Arab world, proving that Facebook and Twitter have more international influence than the Obama administration. American Idol’s new season starts a week or so later.

Google No Longer Requires Adult Supervision Google co-founder Larry Page names himself to replace CEO Eric Schmidt, who a year earlier joked about privacy, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.”

Google hands the septibillionnaire a $100 million bonus in lieu of the traditional gold watch.

Reed Hastings kept his job. How?

its mind, but customer reaction to its price hike destroyed three-quarters of Netflix’s $16 billion in shareholder value anyway. HP announced its withdrawal from the personal computer business, then switched CEOs and 180-ed two months later. The valley’s daily mused about

Facebook IPO Talk A new IPO bubble begins with chatter about a possible Facebook IPO. Each user account would be valued at more than $100, giving the company a value of at least $50 billion. Though users, naturally, will not be seeing a dime of it.

Vengeance and Caffeine Frustrated with the justice system’s inability to bring his sister’s killer to

justice, Wayne Sanchez shoots Maurice Nasmeh to death inside a Peet’s Coffee on Saratoga Avenue. Sanchez then kills himself in the parking lot. In August, District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced his conclusion that Nasmeh had indeed killed Jeanine Harms in 2001, though it was too late to put him on trial.

Google Plans to Hire 6,000 Humans The news of excessive human

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changing its name by removing “San Jose” from the masthead, but reversed course. And Coke went back to red cans after consumers complained that the beverage tasted different in polar bear white aluminum.

This end-of-year issue that we publish may be the only reliable institution left in Silicon Valley. We continue to find absurdity in the solemn and to insult common decency, marked by a logo that remains red, a price (okay, free) that’s proudly the same and an optimistic belief that there will be lots of work for us in 2012 chronicling society’s devolution amidst technology’s uncharted future.

Happy New Year!

hiring promptly ignites a machine recession, leading to a series of toaster occupations and a confused UC Davis police officer to pepper spray his blender.

UCSC Astronomers Find A New Galaxy A press release eventually clarifies that the astronomers were actually metaphorically describing the process of listening to the Grateful Dead.

HP Reviews Handling of Mark Hurd’s Dismissal After its stock tanked and Oracle hired Mark Hurd, the board wonders if its firing was an overreaction, considering that at this point spending money on cheesy blondes is a bit of a cliché.

Crime Wave After a string of more than 20

robberies, it’s officially a 30-year high for armed robbery in Palo Alto, giving the descriptive phrase used most often to describe Palo Altoans—“Stuck Up”—a horrifyingly literal meaning.

FEBRUARY World Without Borders The killer of independent bookstores is killed itself this month, when Borders, the nation’s second-largest bookstore chain, announces that it is filing for bankruptcy.

Hosni Mubarak Forcibly Removed or Graciously Resigned, Depending On Who You Talk To After 18 days of civil protests and worldwide attention, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak steps down, marking the beginning of a re-energized Arab revolution.

Simultaneously, this also marks a stressful increase in spell checking for Fox News.

Housing Slump? What Housing Slump?

Russian 1 percenter Yuri Milner sets a real estate record by paying $100 million for a 25,500-squarefoot house in the Los Altos Hills.

Yuri Milner’s new crib Of course, it helps that Milner, a Facebook and Twitter investor, got a $50 million loan from the home’s owner, Fred Chan, founder of ESS Technology. Milner has reportedly bought Chan lunch, so they should be even.

We’d Like You to Pay Taxes Anyway San Jose invites the operators of the city’s 100-plus cannabis clubs to City Hall to discuss a new 7 percent tax on medical marijuana sales under a measure voters overwhelmingly approved in November. Even though the city will be collecting taxes, it still considers the dispensaries to be operating illegally, which cannabis experts and researchers cite as “totally bogus.”

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It’s Die Day Rebecca Black’s YouTube arrivalanthem, “Friday,” is released on Feb. 10. By month’s end, she is getting telephoned and emailed death threats. The video receives close to 200 million views over subsequent months, as well as a spot on the iTunes charts, further proof that irony is the silent killer of culture.

Tsunami Devastation Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster rocks Japan and the world on March 11, with news spreading via Twitter before Japanese officials even have time to announce evacuation plans.

Hello, We Hate You Westboro Baptist Church threatens to protest San Jose’s Gunderson High School student-production of The Laramie Project. The church is, of course, doing it for the children.

Conflict Zone State Attorney General’s office drops its case against Williams Rodriguez in murder of Vahid Hosseini. The case was a plum for former DA Dolores Carr until revelations that her husband was a consultant for the victim’s family forced her recusal.

Carr’s successor, Jeff Rosen, will get his chance at the plate now.

MARCH Oh, We Forgot Milpitas After closing its stores in Palo Alto, Los Gatos and San Jose, the owners of Borders chain quickly remember that they had a store at Milpitas’ McCarthy Ranch and shut that one, too.

Not So Blue Metro Fountain Blues Festival organizer Ted Gehrke is so sure the three-decade-strong festival was coming to an end after it lost its SJSU sponsorship that he has the farewell speech in his back pocket on March 2. Unlike a blues song,

17 there was a happy ending: That very day, he gets a call from a mystery benefactor willing to sponsor the festival, so it’s back on.

A Cheeky End After more than two years of lawsuits, closures and reopenings, the tortured relationship between the city of San Jose and Club Wet comes to an end thanks to a stiletto through the cheek. After a female clubgoer took one while in line for the bathroom last New Year’s Eve, it seemed like an inevitable grind toward what the city always wanted, closing for good in March

Meanwhile Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor suffers an estimated $15 million in damage at the hands of Japan’s tsunami, really bringing the disaster home for people who own yachts.

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In late March, the San Jose City Council shifts key chunks of real estate to a new quasi-public entity in order to have land ready for a baseball stadium in the remote possibility that Bud Selig will make up his mind on territorial rights before the Cubs finally win the Series.

Foxy Pete San Jose Councilmember Pete Constant goes on Fox News to defend his decision not to hire a union receptionist at $70k salary. His defense is inaudible, however, due in large part to everyone on Fox News screaming all the time.

APRIL Everyone Loses in De Anza Rape Case A jury in the civil suit of the De Anza rape case rules in favor of the defendants, ending an ugly saga where everyone came out looking bad. Except, surprisingly, former DA Dolores Carr.

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, named the year’s worstdressed man in Silicon Valley by GQ, abandoned his hoodie to dine with President Obama at John Doerr’s house.

Obama Releases Birth Certificate

perjury charges ... no retrial set yet).

Like most big sports stories, this has nothing to do with sports at all.

Turns out he’s actually Ukrainian.

History Revisited

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A bill sponsored by Sen. Mark Leno would require California teachers to add the history of gays, lesbians and transgender people to the publicschool curricula. Republicans and evangelicals fume loudly—you know, for the children.

Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) attempts to raise fines for drivers who text while driving from $20 to $50 for a first offense and add a point on the record of drivers with more than one cell-phone violation.

Feds Whiff on Nailing Home-Run King Barry Bonds convicted of obstruction of justice (waste of time and money because of mistrial on

RDA Gutted On April 6, the San Jose Redevelopment Agency, reading the writing on Jerry Brown’s wall of budget cuts, lays off over half of its staff.

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19 Camping re-announces that the Rapture will actually happen on Oct. 21, leading again to nothing.

(Although, as it turns out, Kim Kardashian divorces on Oct. 31, so maybe he was on to something after all.)

Bin Laden Is Killed 9/11 mastermind and hipsterish VHS lover Bin Laden, is shot and killed in a covert operation orchestrated

by Santa Clara University grad Leon Panetta. The world rejoices; Time Magazine’s cover design team goes buck wild, painting a dripping red “X” on his face. All is well.

Drawing New Lines, but Little Change State starts redistricting process (eventually finalizing it on June 10), angering minorities and activists, only to end up more or less the same.

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Sharks Sink Yet Again Why should 2011 be any different from 2006–2010? After a successful regular season, the Sharks once more tease their fans with visions of the Stanley Cup and then drop them back to earth without a parachute, losing to the Canucks in the Conference Finals. Wait till next century!

Double Digits and Not 1 More San Jose’s City Council arbitrarily decides to trim the city’s 100-plus medical marijuana collectives to 10.

The decision is based on no expert analysis of the situation. Ten just sounds like a good round number.

MAY First Republican Debate Five (of the eventual seven) Republican presidential hopefuls line up onstage in the first of roughly 1,400 debates before the primaries.

They go head-to-head on a number of heavy topics, including immigration

reform, fiscal readjustment and, eventually, even Newt Gingrich’s breakfast choices, which probably taste better than they sound, but how can you be sure, really?

Rumors Fly (Again) of Facebook IPO

Google challenges lawsuit by PayPal that says Google stole idea for cell phone transactions. PayPal alleges that Google recruited the executive who was negotiating their contract with Google, leaving no one to sign the deal.

Reed Declares Fiscal Emergency Mayor Chuck Reed makes his first call to put pension reform on the ballot, even though everyone admits there is no legal precedent for his actions. He is still saying there is an emergency as everyone goes about their business.

Once again, the social media giant is the center of discussion, with murmurs of a potential IPO announcement getting louder— usually in the same breath as discussions regarding hovercars and Joan Rivers’ passing (namely, things that will never happen).

After a long day of drinking and watching the San Jose Sharks, Councilman Ash Kalra is arrested in his gold Prius, and suddenly everyone stops mentioning him as a potential mayoral candidate.

The World Is Coming to an End! Or Not

A Shark and a Lawyer Go Into a Bar

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litigants in Silicon Valley already knew: Lawyers in the San Jose metropolitan area rake in the biggest bucks in the country. The average lawyer in the area earns around $192,000 a year, well ahead of fellow sharks in San Francisco, who command only $167K per.

Tased and Confused San Jose reaches a settlement of somewhere between $90,000 and a quarter mil with an SJSU student who was violently subdued by SJPD two years ago after he allegedly threatened his roommate. It didn’t help that the incident was captured on cell phone video.

The Sperminator California reels at the news that former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child out of wedlock a decade ago with the family nanny. A devastating family revelation, but a gift from heaven to all late-night hosts. The need for a paternity test is scrapped when it is revealed that the lovechild is actually just a bicep.

JUNE No Smooth Sailing As if Arab unrest wasn’t intense enough, it’s revealed that San Jose has the most potholes of any place in Santa Clara County.

Textual Seduction Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal (which marks the first, and hopefully last, time that 50-plus year old news anchors utter the word “sexting”) forces him to resign from Congress, and forces us to be mature and not make mention of his last name (which is literally Weiner, by the way).

Good to Be Google And good to be Google’s hometown.

While most cities are suffering from deep budget crises, the Wall Street Journal reports that Mountain View

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would get $30 million from the search giant as an upfront fee for a 52-year lease on 9.4 acres.

who attend Hell’s Angels funerals.

Apple’s 1% Concentrate

Netflix stock reaches 298 points on July 13.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs offered to give Cupertino residents free wifi, if the company could stop paying taxes. Otherwise, “we pay taxes and the city should do those things.” The hardball negotiating session occured after Jobs made a presentation about Apple’s proposed new headquarters, which would resemble a large, round spaceship. Not satisfied with having the world’s most futuristic corporate building and 12,000 jobs, Councilmember Kris Wang asked, “Do we get free wifi or something like that?” A suggestion that residents get free iPads failed to gain traction as well.

JULY Predict and Serve The Santa Cruz Police Department takes a chapter out of a Philip K. Dick science-fiction tale when they begin using an algorithm to predict the locations and times of spikes in crime. Santa Cruz becomes the first city in the nation to use this relatively new and totally controversal technique, with the inaugural prediction leading officers to a dorm room housing a six-pack of Zima. The future is here.

No Mo’ Money San Jose budget cuts go into effect, which means police layoffs, gang task force stripped in half, libraries and community centers closed, etc. More brutally, the number of quality Thai restaurant dips from a respectable 1,400 to a measly 862.

Stayin’ Alive San Joseans know how to beat the reaper. According to a study released

by The Daily Beast, the city’s life expectancy is the longest of any big American city: 79.2 for men and 82.9 for women. The study apparently does not take into account people

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AUGUST See No Waste San Jose City Councilmember Sam Liccardo discovers a buried report that concluded that the city’s Redevelopment Agency spent more than $30 million on business incubators over a 15-year period, which only brought in $4.2 million.

Solar Outage Fremont-based Solyndra files Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, lays off 1,100 employees and shuts down all operations and manufacturing. No severance or earned vacation paid out to fired employees. On the bright side, Republicans are now able to blame green energy for the budget deficit, rather than the war in Afghanistan.

Obama Was Warned Released White House emails reveal that Steve Westly expressed concern to Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett about Obama visiting shaky solar manufacturer, Solyndra.

“Many of us believe the company’s cost structure will make it difficult for them to survive long term. . . .

If it’s too late to change/postpone the meeting, the president should be careful about unrealistic/ optimistic forecasts that could haunt him in the next 18 months if Solyndra hits the wall, files for bankruptcy, etc.”

Facebook Preferable to Sex for Some Twenty percent of more than 2,000 women surveyed by Cosmopolitan magazine said they would rather give up sex for a week than go without Facebook for a week,

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The City of San Jose continued to slash services and wrestle with an expensive pension system. According to city stats, the city’s top pensioner is former Police Chief Rob Davis, who worked a dangerous desk job for most of his 30 years as a cop. Davis is now paid $221,488 a year to enjoy his retirement, and the 53-year-old is looking considerably more tan and fit than when we photographed him two years ago for a story about his troubled reign as chief.

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favoring, it seems, a less intensive version of “poking.”

SEPTEMBER

Bag Happens As a result of budget cuts, the San Jose City Council decides to get rid of bags at dog parks for picking up shit, leaving citizens to raise their own money to fund bags and avoid an all around shitty situation.

City Hall Evacuated On Aug. 29, San Jose City Hall is cleared out after the city’s chief information officer, Vijay Sammeta, receives a “pretty generic” email threat. The threat is directed at the building and not a specific person— so it is probably a disgruntled architecture critic.

99 Percent Get a Clue The #Occupy movement begins with protesters taking up residence in New York’s Zuccotti Park in financial district. Fox News decries unfair, one-sided class war, asking what the message is. Protestors hold up bevy of signs declaring their message in response. Fox asks what the symbols on the signs mean.

Protestors explain that they are letters, often used to make words.

Fox remains baffled.

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He Listened to the Dionne Warwick Song President Obama visits San Jose for the first time, but his only stop is the Fairmont Hotel. He then travels to Mountain View, a place where many geographically confused bands yell “San Francisco” during their concerts.

Only in California Lady Gaga dines at the home of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to lobby Obama to take action to stop schoolyard bullying. At least that’s what we’re assuming since she showed up in a dress made up of stolen lunch money and post-wedgy underwear.

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Despite thinning ranks that left them scrambling to keep up with the violent crime wave that swept the city, San Jose police officers found time to cite three waitresses at Quyen Cafe on Tully Road for serving customers while topless. The women, aged 22, 22 and 23, were charged with public nudity.

Solyndra Criminal Investigation FBI raids Solyndra. Chief executive Brian Harrison and chief financial officer Wilbur G. Stover of bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra plead the Fifth Amendment before a Congressional subcommittee.

Biker Clubs Lose Their Cool at Casino San Jose Hells Angels leader Jeffrey “Jethro” Pettigrew is gunned down by a member of the Vagos Motorcycle Club on the casino floor of John Ascuaga’s Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada. He was a heavy equipment operator for the city of San Jose’s Department of Transportation.

HP Cans Its CEO After the revelation that the HP’s board didn’t even meet with controversial HP CEO Léo Apotheker

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How To Kill a Successful Company Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announces that Netflix will spin off its DVD business into a separate entity called Qwikster, while reserving the Netflix domain exclusively for streaming content. Users balk at the thought of a second set of usernames and passwords. Stock plunges to 143 points on Sept. 20.

OCTOBER ‘I Just Can’t Believe It’ San Jose public television host Shareef Allman surprises friends and community members by being at the center of Silicon Valley’s largest recorded manhunt. After Allman was identified as the suspect in a Cupertino cement plant shooting that left three dead and seven injurred, with Allman himself gunned down by day’s end.

Just Kidding! Away Qwikster Goes Less than a month after the announcement, Netflix CEO Hastings drops Qwikster plans after critical outcry. He later admits to scrapping the idea partly after being reminded that “Qwikster” was also the nickname bestowed upon him by his first girlfriend. Stock down to 77 on Oct. 5. Way to go, Reed.

Bravo Sets its Sights on Silicon Valley The television network starts courting various bigwigs in the Valley for a proposed realty series, even going so far as to contact Digg creator Kevin Rose. The series hopes to exploit residents who cheat on their PCs with Macs; the television term for this is “drama.”

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Mercury News says it won’t move ahead with a plan to rebrand itself as just “The Mercury News” without “San Jose,” saying instead to have been more “thinking aloud” than in any planning stages.

Biker Club Fractures at Funeral for Hells Angels President Hells Angel Steve Tausan, who called himself Mr. 187, after the penal code section for homicide, is killed by a gunshot at the funeral of fellow Hells Angel Jeffrey “Jethro” Pettigrew. Police were unable to hold witnesses at the site following the shooting, and 1,000 bikers, including murder suspect Steven Ruiz, ride away from the crime scene.

Weiner Toss Moved by the film Drive, Petaluma’s Brandon Kelly decides to hurl a hot dog and bun at Tiger Woods when the golf champ came to the Fry’s Open in San Martin. Kelly tells the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, “As soon as the movie ended, I thought to myself, ‘I have to do something courageous and epic,’” And unable to come up with anything, Kelly threw the hot dog in frustration.

Hope All Goes Wal Wal-Mart reverses years of progress toward providing its 1.4 million employees with health benefits by scaling back coverage for its part-time workers, and jacking up medical insurance premiums for many of its full-time workers. Limb transplants post–Black Friday are also not covered.

Take That, Vallejo Michael Lewis releases book Boomerang, which becomes a national bestseller. The book includes a profile of San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and entertaining anecdotes about Gov. Schwarzenegger after he leaves office.

Moral of the story: At least San Jose is not Vallejo.

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After several delays, the muchanticipated San Pedro Square Market finally arrives. More or less.

Several business have yet to open their doors, and portions of the project are still under construction, but San Jose finally has a downtown focal point to match, well, the San Pedro Square Market.

NOVEMBER How To Motivate A Pot Smoker Hippies, unions and medical marijuana patients join forces in a successful petition drive to overturn San Jose City Council’s ordinance on pot clubs, setting up a referendum or new ordinance. They promptly find a different use for all the paper afterwards.

I’m a PC, and I Really Want to Be Cool Microsoft’s play for the hip crowd backfires when it brings in the Black Keys to play for free as part of the grand opening of its new store in Valley Fair Mall in November. The first few hundred visitors to the store’s grand opening get a pair of tickets to see their choice of the Black Keys or Joe Jonas, which for most barely qualified as a choice at all. The kids line up, and the media shows up to quote them, but unfortunately for Microsoft, they don’t stay on message. Most admit to being Apple users, and many fiddle with their iPhones in line.

He’s In Deep Doo Doo Authorities finally collar the suspect in the decade-old exploding robot dog case. Anthony Chang is suspected of sending the killer mechanical pooch to the South San Jose family home of Wendy Hsu, his estranged wife. Wendy’s brother Patrick, home on a visit from UC–Santa Barbara, where he

“Would you please raise my taxes?”

Google millionaire Doug Edwards became an instant celebrity when he politely begged President Obama to raise taxes on the ultrawealthy. Edwards believes that taxes are a useful way to preserve Pell Grants and other out-of-fashion public programs that help Americans become contributing members of society.

was studying, died after he triggered the bomb by putting batteries in the innocent-seeming robot toy. Chang fled the country and was featured on America’s Most Wanted. He was finally apprehended in Venezula, and awaits extradition.

When I Dip, You Dip, We Double Dip The exodus of middle management at SJPD continues as Meynard “J.R.” Gamez accepts the police chief ’s post in Redwood City. He‘ll be paid more than $300,000 a year, including his estimated $117,000 pension from the city of San Jose.

Now That’s a Driver Incentive When San Jose’s Charles Preston can’t open the driver’s side window on the used minivan he bought this year, he probably wondered if it was worth the $14,000 he paid to Thrifty Car Sales in Santa Clara. Little did he know he’d come out about $486,000 ahead, if you count the half a million dollars in cocaine that his mechanic found wrapped in cellophane in the door panels of his 2008 Chrysler Town and Country. The downside was that after the police arrived to confiscate all the blow, he was still driving a minivan.

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The Naked Truth Never been to a clothing-free holiday gift bazaar? Then this year will be no different, as the Lupin Lodge cancels theirs.

A Really Smart Smartphone On Nov. 5, a woman’s 2004 Toyota is stolen in Campbell with her phone inside. The woman’s sister texts the

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Tastes Like Chicken Morgan Hill area resident Henry Arnibal is arrested for alleged meth use and cited for killing a bobcat without a permit. According to the Merc, Arnibal shot and ate the beast after it took out some of his 100 roosters.

Rebecca Blacklisted UC Davis police officer unlawfully pepper sprays protesters and becomes international meme.

Amazingly, the cop in question was considered one of the best on the force, showing why it’s hard to trust anyone with a gun.

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Tear Down This Wall Occupy San Jose protester Shaun O’Kelly, a.k.a. Cracker, comes down from a 36-foot wall at City Hall after a month of solidarity, and decides to occupy Chuck Reed’s driveway. He changes his mind the same afternoon after seeing how boring the Berryessa neighborhood is.

Smashing Good Deals Black Friday brings out the worst in people. A woman cracks a fellow shopper on the head with a hammer at Oakridge Mall during the postThanksgiving shopping frenzy.

DECEMBER Special Delivery A man in a gas mask and body armor seen stuffing a package into a mailbox at the main San Jose Post Office isn’t the world’s funniest terrorist but just a guy out for some

exercise. The man tells police that he was sporting a “cardio mask” and jogging to shed some weight using the CrossFit system—and, oh, yeah, mailing stuff, too. The bomb squad destroys the package. The man won’t be charged with anything more serious than misdemeanor cluelessness.

Big Whiffa A group called “Stand for San Jose” filed a lawsuit claiming city officials broke the law by agreeing to sell land to owners of the Oakland A’s at a bargain price. As it turns out, the group should be called “Stand for San Francisco Giants,” because the recent World Series champs are

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Appleheimer Apple announces plans to begin exploring the possibility of hydrogenfueled batteries for their products, This is great news for hydrogen enthusiasts, who’ve been looking to re-position the element since Hiroshima.

The Day The Music Died San Jose’s iconic Music in the Park series, one of the largest free concert series’ in the country, is officially

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shut down due to its success in attracting too many people to the formerly dead downtown.

Mommy Dearest Los Gatos mother of four, Sara Cole, comes under fire after she is charged with three felony counts of unlawful intercourse with a minor. The 16year-old boy originally downplays the nearly four month long-affair, but eventually comes to his senses.

Cole was given six months on counts of child molestation.

Good Company What do Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon, and David Kinch have in common? They are all named “men of the year” in their respective fields by GQ December issue. Kinch, chef at Manresa in Los Gatos, is named “chef of the year.”

Seed Packets The federal government threatens to arrest prolific sperm donor Trent Arsenault of Fremont. The HewlettPackard engineer has fathered at least 14 children through the nontraditional method of giving away his DNA for free to women who spot his ad on the Internet, rather than go through sperm banks and comply with blood test laws. Who exactly is the winner in this story?

The Search for an Angel Police continued to search for Steve Ruiz, 38, who is suspected of killing bail bondsman Steve Tausun, 52, at the Oak Hill Cemetery. Tausan accused Ruiz of failing to adequately protect San Jose Hell’s Angel president Jeff Pettigrew, who was killed in a casino shootout in Sparks, NV. Ruiz disappeared from the cemetary and there have been several reports of his sighting.

Fry’s Embezzler Sentenced After pleading guilty earlier this year to embezzlement of $65 mil from Fry’s, former company VP Ausaf Umar Siddiqui is sentenced to six years in the slammer. In a misplaced bid for sympathy Siddiqui’s lawyer, Paul Meltzer, argues that his client was a victim of gambling addiction and couldn’t handle hard time because he was used to “being treated like royalty by casinos all over the world.”

Apple Sues Samsung District Judge Lucy Koh rejects Apple’s request for a preliminary

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bankrolling the lawsuit. All of this is moot until Major League Baseball gives the A’s the OK to move to San Jose—which will probably happen around the same time the Giants get some hitting.

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Hang In There: Google executives Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt propose to pay the full $33 million it would cost to revamp the Hangar One, one of the largest freestanding structures in the world. And in the true nature of giving, all they ask for in return is to house their eight private jets in the structure.

injunction against four Samsung products—including Samsung’s Galaxy Infuse—that Apple claims infringe upon its patents. They’re also in the middle of suing a television for having a reflective screen, and a local infant for being buttonless.

Support Your Local Casino The San Jose Police Foundation is called on the carpet for conflicts of interest by the head of the very

group it raises money for. Police Chief Chris Moore takes issue with foundation president Rich De La Rosa’s role as a lobbyist for gambling casino Garden City.

Carrier IQ Gets Phone Makers in Trouble Mountain View–based Carrier IQ’s software is used to monitor activity without users’ permission on smartphones made by Samsung and HTC as well as Apple. Apple ceased using the technology earlier this year.

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What’s happening in Santa Cruz County this week performances aim to answer one question: “What would the Beatles do if they performed this song live?”

Anyone who’s ever wanted an answer to this query can now breathe easy, as Santa Cruz’s very own White Album Ensemble brings classics from the Beatles to the stage. For these performances, the WAE had fans pick what they wanted to hear the band perform. The winners? The “White” album on Friday night and Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on Saturday. Featuring guest artists the Barry Phillips String Quartet, the Mind Over Matter Horns, the Honey Pies and more, and benefiting music education in the community, there’s no reason to miss this event. Word: Last year James Durbin performed. We’re just saying. Rio Theatre; $25 general/$40 gold; 8pm.

WEDNESDAY 1/4

NOFX

SambaDa rings in 2012 at Moe’s Alley.

THURSDAY 12/29

Billy Manzik As Americans, we have an obligation to pick on Canada. But sometimes the Canadians get it right, and in those moments it’s good to give credit where it’s due. Such is the case with Billy Manzik. Within a year of his self-titled debut album hitting stores in 2007, he

was performing at the Juno Awards (that’s the Canadian Grammys, buddy) and launching North American tours.

His 2010 release “AllTogetherNow,” with its catchy hooks and charmingly upbeat melodies, is perfect for fans of Dave Matthews and Steve Earle.

Manzik’s knack for finding seasoned musicians results in a lush and vibrant sound that’s missing from most of

today’s radio hits. Backstage Lounge; free; 8pm.

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Ageing punk bands used to be a joke, and maybe some still are, but thankfully there’s still NoFX. For almost 30 years straight, the deviant minds of Fat Mike, El Hefe, Eric Melvin and Erik Sandin have been writing songs ranging from the crude to the political, and always with a great sense of humor. With roughly a dozen albums under their belt, not to mention a slew of singles and EPs resulting in over 300 songs, NoFX has pounded its way to the top of the punk food chain, all while never signing to a major label. If that’s not punk, then I guess I’m blind.

Must be something stickin’ in my eye.

Catalyst; $25; 8pm.

The White Album Ensemble’s

Adrian Cruz, Brad Briske & Gema Cruz

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Station 1 Zack Freitas is no longer chef at the Station 1, and I need to get back to see how the place is doing now under chef Ryan Harris, but I still have fond memories of smoked gnocchi. Crispy outside and silken inside, the little dumplings tasted like cubes of bacon fat. Curling strands of Anaheim chiles added a lively, vegetal counter-note to the rich gnocchi. The dish was part of a $49 prix fixe menu. (2991 Woodside Road, Woodside; 650.851.4988)

State of The Plate

International Kabob House

FISHY ISHY FINERY The late Steve Jobs enjoyed the sushi at Jin Sho, with good reason.

A look l kb back k at the h b best meals l and d tastes of 2011, from sushi to steak to salsa By

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OW IS the time of year when I sit back, loosen my belt and select the very best things I ate during the past 12 months. In no particular order, I give you my Top 10 meals of 2011. May 2012 be a delicious year for you.

Jin Sho After reading that Steve Jobs had one of his last meals here I skeptically decided to give it a try. What can I say? Jobs knew design and he knew his sushi. The guys here know their stuff, and the fish selection surpasses most other sushi bars. The Jin Sho salsa ($12.50) was my favorite.

It’s similar to tuna tartar, but the addition of cubed avocado, candysweet cherry tomatoes, cucumber and a savory, tangy and delicious sauce elevates it into something else.

(454 S. California Ave., Palo Alto; 650.321.3454)

Dio Deka Dio Deka remains the gold standard for Silicon Valley Greek restaurants, and on a follow-up visit, I loved the grilled octopus, writing, “If you’ve never had the eight-legged creature before, this is the place to start. If you have had octopus, it’s unlikely you’ve had it better. Dio Deka’s octopus is as tender as roast chicken with a smoky, meaty flavor that’s great swabbed with the accompanying braised borage, which has been reduced to a dark-emerald sauce. The dab of Meyer lemon pudding adds a lighter note.” (210 E. Main St., Los Gatos; 408.354.7700)

Birch St. Bistro Elan was a gem, an intimate California-French Bistro on Palo Alto’s California Avenue. It’s gone now, but the owners really just relocated to a smaller spot down the street on Birch Street. There’s plenty to like here, but my favorite was the gazpacho. You won’t find it on the menu now, but I hope it comes back next summer. It was a pure expression of the tomato in all its sweet, savory glory. (2363 Birch St., Palo Alto; 650.327.0284)

Steak Out I guess the fact the grass-fed beef for Steak Out’s burgers comes from Joe Morris, a thinking-man’s rancher, influenced my thinking, but even if I didn’t know the source of the meat, Steak Out serves an undeniably fine burger—juicy, meaty, well proportioned and delivered on a superb, custom-made bun. Add a crisp IPA and fries, and you’ve the allAmerican meal you can feel good about eating. (383 Castro St., Mountain View; 650.209.0383)

The Hay Market This Willow Glen place was probably my favorite new restaurant of 2011. Its cool, urban style and friendly, neighborhood demeanor made the Hay Market an instant hit. That and the food. My favorite dish was the beef cheeks ($18). The succulent hunks of meat are wet-braised into a beautiful, pleasantly leathery black exterior and wonderfully moist and spoon tender inside. (1185 Lincoln Ave., San Jose; 408.295.4800)

Oaxacan Kitchen The food-truck craze was slow to catch on in Silicon Valley, but it’s here in force now. The Oaxacan Kitchen’s mobile unit supplies one of the best meals on wheels out there, and the simple but simply delicious lentil and

The International Kabob House was one of the places I kept meaning to check out but for some reason never did. I corrected that oversight this year and am glad I did. I loved the chicken shawarma sandwich. The restaurant marinates and roasts its own meat in a vertical broiler (some places buy their meat frozen). The chicken ($7.95) is best, with juicy slices of bird loaded into a lavash wrap with marinated red cabbage, onions and tomatoes. (2707 Union Ave., San Jose; 408.626.7211)

Scratch It’s hard to stand out on Castro Street’s crowded restaurant row, but Scratch has made its mark with its upscale American comfort food. Top of my list during my visits was the pork belly ($11). It’s a bit of a cliché now, but it’s still good. Two bourbon-glazed blocks of pork are served atop creamy Anson Mills grits and delicious braised greens.

Southern-fried goodness. (401 Castro St., Mountain View; 650.237.3132)

Tu Mero Mole I love this place. While I seek out Mexican restaurants that specialize in one kind of regional food Tu Mero Mole manages to make food from throughout Mexico and do it well.

The salsa bar is reason enough for going, but my top dish was the cabrito al estilo los altos de Jalisco ($11), roast goat accented with a spicy sweet sauce. (2041 Woodard Road, San Jose; 408.369.9559)

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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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CAPERS Well-heeled sports bar and restaurant. $$$.

Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Well-devised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious finger foods.

11am-10:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-midnight Fri-Sat, 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777.

LA PIZZERIA Italian. $$.

La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand on the strength of a few highquality ingredients, expertly prepared. Open for lunch and dinner daily. 11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am-11pm Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Ave. 408.370.0826.

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

11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd.

408.378.8000 or 378.0838.

NEGEEN Persian. $$. Mira ghasemi, grilled and puréed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, puréed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs.

Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice cream. 11:30am10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30ammidnight Fri-Sat, 11:30am9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400.

PSYCHO DONUTS Donuts. $. Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory with flavors like apricot, the Cookie Monster (topped with Oreos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits

of vanilla wafers) and the intimidating Psycho Donut, a maelstrom of marshmallow, pretzel and chile powder.

6am-5pm Mon-Thu, 6am11pm Fri, 7am-11pm Sat, 7am5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester Blvd #C. 408.378.4540.

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

1712 S. Winchester Blvd.

408.379.6680.

SUSHI ZONE Japanese. $$. Fun sushi meets fun surroundings in this zone.

11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-2:30pm, 510pm Fri-Sat. 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd #1. 408.866.1323.

TIGELLERIA Italian. $$.

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

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

Cupertino ¿book online at cupertino.com

ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE AmericanAsian steakhouse. $$$$.

Alexander’s is much more than a steakhouse. Add a 500-bottle wine list, multiple dining rooms and Asianaccented ambience and you’ve got a standout South Bay restaurant. Full bar. 5:3010pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-11pm

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Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 10330 N. Wolfe Rd. 408.446.2222.

CAFE TORRE New Italian. $$$. A gem tucked away in an unassuming little mall, with a sophisticated interior and congenial hosts. Even better is the great pasta and seafood. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 510:30pm Fri-Sat. Closed Sun. 20343 Stevens Creek Blvd.

408.257.2383.

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

11:30am-9:30pm daily, but weekdays kitchen closes 2:305:30pm. 102521 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.517.9000.

DYNASTY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Hong Kongstyle Chinese. $$$. Dynasty specializes in Hong Kongstyle seafood. The seafood is very fresh, especially the creatures swimming minutes before they arrive on your plate. Good dim sum, too. Full bar. 11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm, 59:30pm Fri-Sat. 10123 N. Wolfe Rd (in Cupertino Square).

408.996.1680.

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

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BIG IDEA Young Helen’s love for popsicles inspired her mother, Liz Snyder, to create a new business.

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OOD IDEAS can come from anywhere. Even 6-year-old girls. Mountain View resident Liz Snyder was enjoying a visit to the park with her daughter, Helen Liles. A popsicle vendor walked by, and Helen pleaded for a treat.

Snyder said no because of the artificial and highly processed ingredients found in popsicles and ice cream. “I gave her a lecture for the umpteenth time,” she recalls.

Snyder knows more about food than most. She helped start FULL CIRCLE FARM, an 11-acre urban farm in Sunnyvale. She worked as a development coordinator and educator at East Palo Alto’s urban farm, COLLECTIVE ROOTS. She was a communications manager for BON APPETIT MANAGEMENT CO. (BAMCO), sustainable food provider to eBay, Cisco and Yahoo! And she worked for First 5 Santa Clara County, where she helped run start a produce program for low-income residents.

Blah, blah, blah, thought Snyder’s daughter. She just wanted a popsicle. Then she had an idea. “She said, ‘Mom, you just need to make your popsicles and bring them to the park so all the kids and the parents can have them.’” In a lightbulb moment, Snyder paused and thought, “Huh—you may be right.”

Snyder left her job at BAMCO so she could home school her daughter, who was struggling in public school. The decision was good for her daughter but made securing a steady income a challenge. Why not start a healthy popsicle company? So she did.

Thanks to Helen’s idea, Snyder created LITTLE BEE POPS. (Helen’s nickname is “Little Bee.”) The popsicles will be made with local fruit and honey and healthy fats like olive oil and flax seed. Snyder plans to source as much fruit as she can from local urban farms, buying cosmetically challenged but otherwise delicious fruit that would otherwise end up in the compost.

“I started an urban farm and I know how difficult it is,” she explains. “The idea is we’re buying produce that can’t go to market, diverting food waste and creating a new income stream for small farmers.”

Flavors will change with the seasons, but the starting lineup includes strawberry-lemon-flax, cherry-lime-olive oil, raspberry-spinach-lemon-flax and the “green-eyed monster,” clementine-avocado-edamame.

Snyder is raising funds on Kickstarter.com and hopes to roll out her first popsicles this spring. She will sell her creations from a refrigerated pushcart in and around Mountain View. She’s raising funds to help pay for a blast freezer and a commercial kitchen space in San Jose. When we spoke last week, she had raised about $4,000 toward her $15,000 goal. Kickstarter, a crowd-sourced funding site, has an all-or-nothing policy. If Snyder falls just $10 short of her goal

by Jan. 10 she doesn’t get the money. “I’m biting my nails at night,” she says.

Go to Littlebeepops.com and you’ll be directed to the Kickstarter site.

—Stett Holbrook

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

Beer, wine. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 5-10pm Sat, 4:30-9pm Sun. 20840 Stevens Creek Blvd.

408.725.0188.

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

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

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

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

11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; 5-9pm daily. 170 State St. 650.948.1382.

CHEF CHU’S Chinese. $$.

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

Full bar. 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11:30-10pm Fri, noon-10pm Sat, noon9:30pm Sun. 1067 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.2696.

ESTRELLITA RESTAURANT Mexican. $$. Estrellita’s reverence for regional Mexican cooking distinguishes it from the enchilada-and-taco masses.

The menu is full of MexicanAmerican standards, but the changing selection of specials make this restaurant a star. Full bar. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-2pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 971 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.9865.

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

LOS ALTOS GRILL American.

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AKANE Japanese/sushi bar. $$. Nigiri and maki treasures are gracefully presented at this attractive restaurant. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, 5-9pm Tue-Sat. 250 Third St. 650.941.8150.

ALDO LOS ALTOS Italian. $$.

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

388 Main St. 650.949.2300.

BEAUSÉJOUR Continental. $$$. Elegant seafood, meat and game dishes lean toward reducing fat without compromising taste. Call for reservations. Full bar. Lunch

$$. The handsome Los Altos Grill celebrates big plates of grilled meat and fish with plenty of fixings on the side.

Try the spit-roasted chicken, fresh fish and big burgers.

The long, horseshoe-shaped bar is a big draw, too. Full bar.

4:30-9:30pm Sun-Mon, 4:3010pm Tue-Sat. 233 Third St. 650.948.3524.

Japanese bakery. $. Satura Cakes offers sweet treats for adult tastes. A Japanese take on a French patisserie, these confections are prepared fresh daily and meticulously crafted using the finest organic ingredients. 8am8pm daily. 200 Main St. 650.948.3300. (Also 320 University Ave, Palo Alto.

650.326.3393.)

SUMIKA Japanese. $$.

Sumika is a Japanese pub, but that doesn’t do it justice.

It’s elegant, yet still a great place to drink beer and sake.

The specialty is kushiyaki, small bites of grilled chicken, beef and vegetables cooked on bamboo skewers over charcoal. 11:30am-2pm, 6-10pm Tue-Fri, 11:30am2pm, 5:30-11pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 236 Central Plaza.

650.917.1822.

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ALDO’S Italian. $$$. A warm and engaging atmosphere sets the scene for fullbodied flavors and healthy ingredients. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 14109 Winchester Blvd.

408.374.1808.

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

Full bar. 11:30am-10pm MonFri, 10:30am-10:30pm Sat, 10:30am-9:30pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.8118.

CIN-CIN Eclectic wine bar. $$$.

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

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

DIO DEKA Greek. $$$. Dio Deka is doing its part to elevate Greek food in Silicon Valley. There’s much to recommend at this handsome restaurant. Most starters are large so they’re best shared.

5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 210 E. Main St. 408.354.7700.

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

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

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

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

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11am-3pm, 5-9:30pm TueSun. 137 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9115.

I GATTI New Italian. $$$.

I Gatti fits like a glove along peaceful Main Street.

The chef understands the basics but isn’t afraid to create refreshing twists on traditional recipes. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Sat, 5-9pm Sun 25 E. Main St. 408.399.5180.

KAMAKURA SUSHI AND SAKE HOUSE Sushi bar classics. $$. In a smart setting, Kamakura showcases a procession of impeccable sushi and sashimi platters.

10:30am-2pm, 5:30-10pm daily. 135 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6650.

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

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

MANRESA High concept. $$$$. Drawing from produce grown at his own farm, superstar chef David Kinch is blazing a trail of high caliber cuisine that’s as daring as it is delicious. Expensive but worth it. 320 Village Lane.

408.354.4330.

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

11:30am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 35 E. Main St. 408.399.6457.

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

RESTAURANT JAMES RANDALL Californian. $$$.

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

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

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

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

TANDOORI OVEN Indian. $.

Tandoori Oven has quickly found its niche in Los Gatos among the burrito joints, sushi spots and upscale restaurants with its madeto-order curry dishes and spicy north Indian fare at good prices. 11:30am-9:30pm daily. 133 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, 408.395.1784; 1875 S. Bascom Ave., Campbell, 408.559.3885; and 109 S. First St., San Jose, 408.292.7222.

TAPESTRY Contemporary haute. $$$. Right on the main street, this cottagelike spot blends traditional French cooking with contemporary fusion: filet mignon with Mongolian-style brown sauce; crayfish chow mein. Elegant and friendly.

11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm TueSat, 5-9pm Sun. 11 College Ave. 408.395.2808.

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

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

408.884.1054.

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

While the kitchen exudes earthy aromas, the dining room’s soft terra-cotta walls glow with a sense of Mediterranean mission.

Hands-on management makes each patron feel pampered. Full bar. 5pmclose daily. 160 W. Main St. 408.354.8108.

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

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

408.356.4902.

WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$.

Silicon Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the definitive upwardly mobile California pizza.

Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian wood-fired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas— delicate, light and satisfying.

Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am9:30pm Fri-Sat. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.5566. For other locations see www. willowstreet.com.

WINE CELLAR New California. $$. This cozy dining spot offers an education in Old World charm and New World cuisine, from smoked salmon pizza to grilled ahi tuna to desserts as fresh as spring break.

11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10:30am-9pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.4808.

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BLACK COBRA Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $10 Fans of legendary San Jose band Sleep (and there are tons of them, judging from the series of sold-out reunion shows) will like Black Cobra, a Bay Area duo who are continuing the doom-sludge tradition. Guitarist and vocalist Jason Landrian was formerly in another somewhat iconic stoner metal band, Cavity, and drummer Rafael Martinez was in Sleep’s Bay Area scenemate band Acid King. Their new album, Invernal, is bigger and thrashier than ever.

(SP)

TOWER OF POWER San Jose Civic, San Jose Fri – 8pm; $25-$65 Horn-driven R&B outfit Tower of Power successfully made the move from East Bay local band to pop sensation, picking up multiple hit singles including “So Very Hard to Go,” “What is Hip” and “Don’t Change Horses (In the Middle of the Stream).” They hit gold record status with their self-titled third album, earning a loyal fan base around the world. The band has been together consistently since 1968 and had more than 60 members rotate through its fold, anchored by founders Emilio Castillo and Stephen “Doc” Kupka.

Its celebrated horn section has collaborated with a diverse range

of musical heavy-hitters including John Lee Hooker, Elton John, Aerosmith, the Grateful Dead, Santana and Phish. (CJ)

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GLITZ & GLAM Motif Lounge, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $75 singles, $125 couples Motif’s declares its year-end party “the biggest New Year’s Eve in town.” While that’s pretty brash, they’re backing it up with a night of entertainment that includes DJs Sixty1, Dstrukt, FM, Gbeats and Cyber Joe, and go-go dancing from Mars & Emmy, topping it all off with a live set from raprockers Calicove, whose anthems

like “I Wanna Party” make them a natural NYE selection. (SP)

HONEY WILDERS

UNAUTHORIZED ROLLING STONES

Murphy’s Law, Sunnyvale Sat – 9pm; free

Club Fox, Redwood City Sat – 8pm; $39.95

“Just give me that old time rock & roll.” So says San Jose’s Honey Wilders, and what they mean specifically is ’70s power-pop.

Bands like Thin Lizzy and Cheap Trick come to mind. The Honey Wilders also have a keyboardist and an occasional harmonica player, who give the band just a slightly mellower sound. They play a mixture of classic rock songs they love and some originals, which sound like they could have been lost ’70s rock classics themselves. The lead singer even has mutton chops. That’s commitment to a fault. (AC)

Watching the Rolling Stones perform nowadays is sort of like watching a neutered hound hump a couch: Sure, they might have had it someday, but now it’s just a sad and somewhat alarming spectacle.

Ace cover band the Unauthorized Rolling Stones seem to know this; they even boast in their press materials that “it’s even better than watching the real thing.” And while that’s an admittedly low bar, conjuring up the dirty grit-andswagger of the Stones’ glory years is a much tougher trick, one that the Unauthorized Rolling Stones pull off with style. Even Grandpa

* concerts Dec 30 at the San Jose Civic

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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

ERIC BIBB Feb 4 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

SOCIAL DISTORTION Feb 9 at Santa Cruz Civic

WILLIE K Feb 10 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

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SPENCER DAY Feb 11 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

KRONOS QUARTET Feb 112 at 7pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

Mick could learn a few moves from frontman Rudy Colombini.

Their New Year’s party includes appetizers and champagne at midnight. (PMD)

DEVIL MAKES THREE The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Sat – 8:30pm; $20/$25 Devil Makes Three shows can get pretty wild, but the audiences’ raw energy is merely a reflection of the music itself.

The band, which formed in Santa Cruz eight years ago, has always made acoustic music for the adrenaline junkie, a timeless brand of Americana that on the one hand sounds more punk than half of the

latter-day punk bands, but on the other hand recalls a time when “punks” lived in the mountains, bootlegged whiskey and didn’t have a lot of teeth. The same quality that has helped them to connect with audiences for years is now getting them noticed on a larger stage. In 2010, they got their first national TV exposure when they were invited onto IFC’s Dinner With the Band. They played the Bonaroo and Outside Lands festivals last year, and the Newport Folk Festival in the summer. (SP)

JUNKSHAKER

THE TIGER CLUB

Britannia Arms Almaden, San Jose Sat – 10pm; free

Hedley Lounge, Hotel De Anza, San Jose Sat – 9pm; free

If you want to start a cover band these days you’ll need something your parents’ cover band didn’t have—variety. Just look at San Jose’s Junkshaker.

They cover songs across time and genre, juxtaposing songs

by Green Day, Weezer, Kanye West, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Dwight Yoakum, Bon Jovi, Sublime, KC and the Sunshine Band and more. And these young musicians are just starting out. In another couple of years, they’ll probably be playing techno, polka and reggaetone, as well. (AC)

For a New Year’s Eve filled with drinks and dancing, how about channeling that early’60s lounge vibe, grabbing a martini at the Hedley Lounge and watching the Tiger Club.

They are a seven-piece lively, swinging, spy-rock-loungeLatin band complete with horns, bongos, an organ and the standard drums and guitars. Put on your best suit and/or dress and bring your cigarette holder; it’ll be the Herb Albert Tijuana Brass New Year’s Eve Party you’ve always dreamed of. (AC)

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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SPLIT PLIT DECISION Michael Gazzaniga thinks about thinking in ‘Who’s in Charge?’

Author Michael Gazzaniga explains how the left side of the brain is all too willing to take credit for the right side

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EUROSCIENCE has not been kind to the concept of free will.

In recent years, the field has given us a picture of the conscious mind that isn’t very flattering—it often looks to be quite an underachiever compared to the unconscious mind, and it’s also disturbingly willing to take credit for work it didn’t do.

Neuroscience shows us a brain that is determined by its physical characteristics, a brain that can be understood as a very complicated mechanism. Can a mechanism be said to have free will? And if there is no free will, what happens to the concept of personal responsibility?

“When you go through a whole journey of 50 years in brain science, you start wondering about that,” author Michael S. Gazzaniga told me, in a conversation over the phone. In his new book, Who’s in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain (Ecco; $27.99), he explores these questions in depth.

Gazzaniga is a neuroscientist, and he was involved in some of the groundbreaking studies that clash most dramatically with our instinctive notions about how our minds work and how we decide. Gazzaniga worked with people who’d had such severe epilepsy that the only course of treatment left to them was a surgery to sever the connections between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

The curious thing about this surgery is that patients who had undergone it did not notice any difference and never reported anything unusual.

Gazzaniga’s insight was to test these patients by feeding different

information to the two hemispheres.

When the hemispheres are severed, what the right eye sees only makes it to the left hemisphere, and what the left eye sees only makes it to the right hemisphere. The results of Gazzaniga’s experiments i t are ffascinating. i ti “It’s really a multi-agent system in there,” he explained. “There’s a bazillion control systems in there running our lives. And which one is sort of in our conscious mind at any moment is the result of a competition that goes on with these agents.”

But when the hemispheres are severed, the agents on one side can’t share information with the agents on the other side. The left hemisphere is the side that handles language, so initially, this is the side that answers questions. And when asked, it is happy to explain and take responsibility for actions initiated by the right hemisphere in response to information not at all available to the left. How does it do this? Well, it just makes something up and believes that it is true.

This is done by a part of the brain called the interpreter, and though it may seem a little dishonest, it’s just doing its job. The interpreter is what explains your mind to you. It gives you your personal narrative—gives you a sense of yourself as a unified being, rather than an anarchy of independent

MICHAEL GAZZANIGA BOOKSIGNING Tuesday, 7pm; book purchase or $10 gift card Kepler’s, Menlo Park

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agents. Often what the interpreter tells you is just a useful fiction, and sometimes, as Gazzaniga’s experiments demonstrated, it is wildly incorrect about what’s happening in the brain.

But what it gives us is what we believe.

Other experiments have shown that often the interpreter will give the conscious mind credit for decisions and actions that were actually the unconscious mind’s. And what is attributed to conscious mind are sometimes things it is simply way too slow to actually accomplish.

This has given some cause to think that all consciousness might be is an after-the-fact explainer: a device to rationalize and take credit. If this is true, then it doesn’t make much sense to talk about free will. But late in the book, Gazzaniga sticks up for conscious decision-making, will power and restraint. These things do exist, he shows us, and he makes the case for their importance in how the mind operates.

So, does this mean he believes in free will? “The idea of free will seems antiquated and out of date and not very helpful to understanding what we humans are all about,” he responded.

Gazzaniga has spent his career studying the brain, and what he has seen is a gloriously complicated biological mechanism, but a mechanism nonetheless. It is made out of matter subject to the laws of the universe.

“You know, that concept that there’s something in there pulling the levers, that works independently of the natural forces of the world, doesn’t make much sense. This an idea that’s time has come and gone. And now we should be thinking about other matters that are of social relevance.”

What Gazzaniga is referring to is the question of responsibility. Not whether it can be said to exist in a world without free will—he argues forcefully in the book that the two concepts don’t depend on each other, and that people must be held accountable for their actions. Gazzaniga believes the real question is how to hold people accountable for their actions.

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

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Theater CATS A touring production of the popular musical presented

by Broadway San Jose. Runs thru Jan 1. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 1 and 7pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. $20 and up. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

THE SECRET GARDEN

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!

A musical based on Frances Burnett’s novel, from TheatreWorks. Wed, 2 and 7:30pm, Thu, 8pm, Fri, 2 and 8pm, Sat, 2pm. $29-$49.

Runs thru Dec 31. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

Classical SF CHAMBER ORCHESTRA A program of Beethoven pieces with violinist Robin Sharp. Sun, 3pm. Free (nonmembers get tickets by phoning 415.692.5258). St. mark’s Episcop0al Church, Palo Alto.

Comedy ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 8pm: Comedy night hosted by Dan St. Paul. Free.

Redwood City.

Presented by

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

COMEDYSPORTZ Celebrating 100 Years!

1912-2012

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

GRAND DELL SALOON

WALK THE RED CARPET

Wed, 7pm: Half and Half Comedy Show with comedians from Bay Area and Los Angeles. Free. Campbell.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS

TICKETS ON SALE AT WWW.CREATVSJ.ORG

Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 7:30 and 10:30pm: Lisa Landy. New Year’s Eve shows include complimentary champagne toast and balloon drop. $12/$18/$35/$50.

Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: United Nations Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 10pm.

Maz Jobrani. NYE shows include dinner and a glass of champagne. $22/$25/$65.

San Jose.

WILL DURST The Big Fat Year-End Kiss-Off Comedy Show with Durst and a stage full of comedians. Thu, 8pm. $25. San Jose Stage.

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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.

More listings:

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

by Owens in the 1970s. Thru Feb 5. Works by installation artist Anna Sew Hoy in the Beta Space. Thru Feb 26. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Invisible Lineage.” Works by a quartet of mid-20thcentury artists in conjunction with four contemporary textile artists. Thru Feb 5. TueSun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM

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

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

DE SAISSET MUSEUM

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM

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

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

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

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

Works by Eve Page Mathias.

Thru Feb 12. Department of Art Faculty show. Thru Feb 5.

Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE

“Fresh Produce.” Annual group show and holiday sale.

Thru Jan 14. 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

Galleries ANITA SEIPP GALLERY “Waterforms.” Paintings and prints by Sukey Bryan. Jan 3Feb 3.Palo ALto.

ANNO DOMINI

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.

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PARTIES

Sat. 1072 Lincoln Ave, San Jose.

408.292.4835. dessert buffet, champagne toast, party favors and live music.

Sat, 7pm. $40; advance tickets only. 1040 Dell Ave, Campbell.

408.378.3970.

HOTEL INN MORGAN HILL Music of ’70s, buffet, drinks, room packages.

Sat, 7-12:30pm. Club performs.

Overnight packages start at $199.

Sat, 9pm-1am. 17035 Condit Road, Morgan Hill. 408.776.7676.

FILL IN THE BLANK DJ Basura hosts the New Year’s Eve party at the Blank Club in San Jose.

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here’s still time to find a party that suits one’s feelings about 2011 and hopes for 2012. Below are a few of our favorite picks for New Year’s Eve revelry.

AGENDA DJ Tito Bell, DJ Solrock and

DJ Jazzy Jezz. Sat. No cover before 9pm. Hotel packages available. 399 S. First St, San Jose. 408.287.3991.

plus party favors and champagne toasting. Sat. 1875 S. Bascom Ave, Campbell. 408.371.4404.

BOWLMOR LANES Unlimited

CREEKSIDE BAR & GRILL The

Niteliters plus champagne and door prizes. Sat, 7pm-1am. $25. 544 Alma Ave, San Jose. 408.289.9781.

BAMBOO LOUNGE A “Thick & Sexy, Glow in the Dark” party. Sat. $20 in advance; packages, $150. 1355 N. Fourth St., San Jose. Thick408.com.

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

DOUBLETREE HOTEL Six-course meal at Spencer’s ($55-$78, 5 and 10pm). Live Band Showtime at Club Max ($50/$75). Sat. 2050 Gateway Pl, San Jose. 408.437.2170.

BRANHAM LOUNGE DJ Aspect. Sat, 10pm-2am. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose. 408.445.1716

ELEGANT PUB DJ Checo mixes

THE BANK Champagne toast at

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

midnight. Sat. No cover. 14421 Big Basin Way, Saratoga.

Junkshaker. Sat. 5027 Almaden Expwy, San Jose. 408.266.0550.

THE BLANK CLUB DJ Basura. Sat, 9pm. $10/$15. 44 S. Almaden Ave, San Jose, 408.292.5265.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN DJ

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Karaoke and champagne toast. Sat. 1031 Monroe St, Santa Clara.

408.985.7201.

CARDIFF LOUNGE Party away the first day of the new year, open at 6am. Sun, Jan 1. 260 E. Campbell Ave, Campbell. 408.374.7477.

AZÚCAR DJ and live music by Orquesta Saboricua. Sat. $25. 71 & 81 E. San Fernando St, San Jose.

408.293.8482.

Checko. Sat. 173 W. Santa Clara St, San Jose. 408.278.1400.

BLOWFISH SUSHI A night of

THE CATALYST The Devil Makes

“Seduction.” Complimentary champagne after 10pm. Sat. 355 Santana Row. 408.345.3848.

Three, Brothers Comatose and Miss Lonely Hearts. Sat, 7:30pm. $35/$40. 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz. 831.423.1336.

BLUE NOTE Champagne toast and drink specials. Sat. No cover. 765 E. Capitol Ave, Milpitas. 408.262.8363.

BLUZ BY-YOU Bonedrivers plus Cajun

buffet. Sat, 6pm on. $40/$50.

1240 Coleman Ave, Santa Clara.

408.588.1111.

BOSWELL’S DJ RJ and DJ Geekstar

CLUB FOX The Unauthorized Rolling

Stones. $39.95. Sat, 8pm. 2215 Broadway St, Redwood City.

COURT’S LOUNGE Chris Burt plays

rock covers. Sat, 9pm-1am.

2425 S. Bascom Ave, San Jose.

408.559.9880.

videos, plus drink specials, VIP areas and traditional New Year’s Eve fun. Dress code enforced.

Sat, 9pm. $5. Evergreen Inn, 3273 S. White Road, San Jose.

408.238.8846.

FAHRENHEIT LOUNGE Hosted open bar, hors d’oeuvres and DJs Benofficial, OneKnite and Melvis. Sat, 8pm-2am. $45-$125.

99 E. San Fernando St, San Jose.

408.998.9998.

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.

FOX THEATRE Bay Area R&B

stars Lenny Williams and Earl Thomas. Sat, 8pm. $57.50-$100.

2209 Broadway, Redwood City.

650.369.7770.

GOOSETOWN COCKTAIL LOUNGE Party

with favors and lots of karaoke.

JJ’S BLUES JC Smith and a midnight toast. Sat. $20. 3439 Stevens Creek Blvd, San Jose. 408.243.6441.

food and champagne. Sat. 4340 Moorpark Ave, San Jose.

408.257.7770.

RETRO DOME ComedySportz and a dessert buffet. Sat, 7pm. $25-$30.

1694 Saratoga Ave, San Jose.

408.404.7711.

RUBY SKYE Cedric Gervais and DJ Dan. Sat Dec 31, 7pm. $25-$75.

420 Mason St, San Francisco.

415.693.0777.

SADDLE RACK A country club goes for a Mardi Gras NYE with balloon drop and party favors. Sat, 7pm. $30/$45. 42011 Boscell Road, Fremont. 510.979.0477.

JOHNNY V’S Dub Massive. Sat. 31 E. Santa Clara St, San Jose.

408.947.8470.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Cumbia

KYOTO PLACE Dinner and champagne. Sat, 2-9pm, Pruneyard Center, Campbell. 408.377.6456/

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

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

MOTIF “Glitz and Glam” with Calicove, Sixty1, Dstrukt, Cyber Joe and more. Dress code. Sat, 9:30pm1:30am. $75 and up. 389 S. First St, San Jose. 408.279.1888.

MURPHY’S LAW The Honey Wilders,

party favors and a champagne toast. Sat. 135 S. Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale. 408.736.3822.

MYTH With DJs Jimmy Stewart Jr. and Jay Reese. Sat. Dinner and party package $70 per person. 152 Post St, San Jose. 408.903.5192.

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL Dance party with Tony Lindsay plus threecourse meal. Sat, 6:30pm-1am. $65. 1313 Franklin St, Santa Clara.

408.296.0818.

A PERFECT FINISH Music by Blue House. Sat. 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, 7pm12:30am. $50. 91 S. Autumn St, San Jose. 408.292.5837.

party. Sat. 420 S. First St, San Jose.

408.294.7800.

300 Music and a champagne

toast. Packages start at $30/$40 per person, include bowling, pizza buffet, shoe rental and favors. Sat, 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 Featuring

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

1875 S. Bascom Ave, Ste. 560, Campbell. 408.626.7711.

THEATRE ON SAN PEDRO SQUARE

Juanita Harris and the Jack Conway Trio plus food from Eulipia. Sat, 8pm–1am. $95/$125.

29 N. San Pedro St, San Jose.

800.838.3006.

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Cover band

and party favors. Sat, 9:30pm1:30am. 4475 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara. 408.247.3144.

ZEN LOUNGE With DJs D-Roc and Dynamic champagne. Sat. 251 Castro St, Mountain View.

650.969.4847.

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GRAND DELL SALOON Food and

REDI ROOM A party with music,

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RING OUT THE OLD IN THE DURST WAY Comedian Will Durst (right) and comedians Johnny Steele, Michael Bossier, Debi Durst and Mari Magaloni give 2011 the send-off it deserves with a Big Fat Year-End Kiss-Off show on Thursday at San Jose Stage Company.

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

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.

the Metro photo exhibit

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

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

featuring local photographers

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.

South First Fridays @ 550 S First

Illustration by Chris Hack

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

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

PHO69 “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.

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

A group show about process and repetition in prints and drawings. Thru Feb 25. “Dos Mundos.” Works by Tim Craighead. Thru Feb 18. TueFri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon5pm. 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.

VIEWPOINTS GALLERY “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.

*books MICHAEL GAZZANIGA

A talk by the author of “Who’s in Charge? Free Will and the Science of the Brain.” Tue,

7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

*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.

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.

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.

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Regularly scheduled programs of silent movies. Dec 31: The Iron Mask (1929). Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. stars as an older and wiser Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Artagnan, fourth of the three musketeers; he seeks out the identity of the mysterious prisoner of the Bastille.

Billed with what surely must be a satire of Valentino, 1922â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mud and Sand, starring Stan Laurel. Bruce Loeb at the piano. (Plays Dec 31 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.) (RvB)

(PG; 107 min.) John Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; novel, small-scale jazz theme accompanies Saul Bassâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;worthy silhouette animation of HergĂŠâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comic-book characters during the titles. 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 Kaneâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;size giant typewriters.

Then comes the motion-capture animation; 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 ďŹ ts together. (RvB)

(R; 158 min.) At last, the perfect date movie for the holidaysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;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, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than two and a half hours long. Stars Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara. (Opens Wed.)

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CRITICSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; CHOICE AWARD NOMINEE BEST ACTOR

MICHAEL FASSBENDER BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

CAREY MULLIGAN

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIP-WRECKED (G; 87 min.) If you have to ask, you shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go.

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.

Recommended. (RvB)

A DANGEROUS METHOD

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(R; 99 min.) David Cronenberg attempts to critique Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Freud (Viggo Mortensen) as self-deluding, self-promoting opportunist doctors wandering in the dark.

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The two giants are illuminated by a woman neglected by history: Sabina Spielrein, a masochistic hysteria patient of Freud (and lover of Jung) who eventually becomes a scholar. Keira Knightley plays Spielrein, and the performance is a catastrophe: a series of strange contortions, funny accenting and gnashing of her teeth. The most dangerous thing in the picture are those choppers. Mortensen and Fassbender do their best, and there are moments of fun: Freud, always on the lookout for advantage, catand-mousing anyone in his vicinity.

And here Jung is a guilty, gentle idealist unnerved by a girl who craves a spanking. (RvB)

THE DARKEST HOUR (PG-13; 89 min.) In Moscow, aliens have started an invasion by messing with the power supplyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;apparently, what they did at Candlestick on Monday Night Football was just a training exercise. Stars Emile Hirsch and Olivia Thirlby.

THE DESCENDANTS (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)

HUGO (PG; 127 min.) A kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie at heart, with its lock and key quest taken straight from a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book. Yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bewitchingly different. In a Beaux-Arts composite of the Quai Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 ButterďŹ eld) is repairing a robotlike clockwork automaton. Down below, the station is patrolled by a

comically ďŹ erce gendarme (Sasha Baron Cohen). Another adversary for Hugo is a bearded elder man (Ben Kingsley) who tends a kiosk of toys and noveltiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and who turns out to be cinema royalty in disguise. The old manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter is the bright young girl Isabelle (the talented Chloe Grace Moritz).

All thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s left is for the young detectives to solve the mystery.

Not everything in Hugo runs like, eh, clockwork, and yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an absolutely captivating ďŹ lm.

Director Martin Scorseseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use of 3-D is immaculate (the ďŹ lm must be seen in that format). With great charm, Hugo shifts from a boyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s search for family, to join the family one ďŹ nds in the company of ďŹ lm watchers. (RvB)

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; GHOST PROTOCOL (PG-13; 142 min.) The Cold War is rebooted, and the IMF ďŹ nd themselves on a New Austerity missionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;cell phones break up, messages refuse to self-destruct and the rubber-mask-making apparatus malfunctions. Leader Tom Cruise, strange man-withoutqualities that he is, is supposed to be darker here, vengeful because of a dead wife. Several good sequences in this harmless caper ďŹ lm: a car chase in a blinding dust storm, the confounding of a Kremlin

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to 2010â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, even retaining a couple of the same cast members (but not characters), and features the kind of onscreen pairings ďŹ lm buffs have been waiting eons for, like Zac Efron and Michelle Pfeiffer ďŹ nally confronting their sexual tension head-on, and Ludacris and Robert De Niro, together at last.

guard with an optical illusion and a ďŹ ght in a futuristic tower parking garage. But the true money shot is only available in 15/70mm IMAXâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Cruise crawling up the side of the Burj Khalifa, wearing some sort of fritz-prone electric climbing gloves. (RvB)

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IT IS slicker, anyway, than Niels Arden Oplevâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original version of the ďŹ rst book in Stieg Larssonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sloppily plotted series of novels. In Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher slathers on style, ultimately turning the facially perforated, Moe Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;haircutted heroine, Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara, miscast), into a softer little-girl-lost who talks like a Star Trek android. He also makes a love triangle out of what once was a set of sleepover friendships between Lisbeth, Mikael and his editor (Robin Wright, excellent).

Disgraced magazine journalist Mikael (Daniel Craig) is hired by the genial old head (Christopher Plummer) of a powerful Swedish familyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ostensibly to write the old manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s autobiography. Really, the man wants Mikael to investigate the disappearance of his niece Harriet some 40 years previously. Meanwhile, we observe the comings and goings of the semilegal free-lance investigator Lisbeth, whose ďŹ rst task is to pay back the social worker who raped her. When the tattooed Lisbeth and Mikael team up, they discover the nieceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappearance is connected to a cold case of a Bible-mad serial killer, who operated 40 years ago.

Fincher knows how to shuďŹ&#x201E;e photographs. So much of what goes on

here is about staring at old photos, the animated ďŹ&#x201A;icker of coronerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shots or the detection of murky ďŹ gures lurking in the background. And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s typically excellent cinematography by JeďŹ&#x20AC; Cronenweth. Yellows and whites, the color that customarily comes up stark or glaring in digital projection, K_\ >`ic N`k_ glow in a variety of k_\ ;iX^fe shades: dirty snow, the KXkkff old ivory of the sunlight R; 158 min. in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s ďŹ&#x201A;ashbacks, the Plays valleywide creamy interiors of the glass house of the missing girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friendly brother (Stellan SkĂĽrsgard).

The title-sequence ballet of ďŹ gures, knives and ďŹ&#x201A;aming ravens is iconic enough. But The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo comes to a ďŹ nish early and keeps on going.

The money scene of the rape-revenge, stretched out by Fincher, is shot in a way that really ought to make people ask themselves what, exactly, is in it for them.

The rickety source material defeats even Fincherâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so, so much throat clearing.

Compare the time it takes for Philip Marlowe to get into Gen. Sternwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mansion in The Big Sleep with the amount of time it takes Blomkvist to get hired.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack

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(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 filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not easy being green, but it sure seems easy to make it.

SHAME (NC-17, 101 min.) Steve McQueenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s previous ďŹ lm, 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 armsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; length. As Sissy demands more attention, McQueen leaves the possibility of incest open.

Shameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strength is the kamikaze acting by brave-as-a-lion Michael Fassbender. Because of him, there are glimmers: maybe Shame is arguing that Brandonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problem isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t his endless sexâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;rather, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his terrible guilt? Likely not. Note the squeamishness about porn, the gloomy attitude about needs and the high-toned alienationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like watching people couple inside artgallery vitrines. (RvB)

NEW YEARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S EVE (PG-13; 118 min.) Garry Marshallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest A-list orgy (or, as Hollywood calls it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;an ensemble castâ&#x20AC;?) chronicles the lives of several interconnecting individuals in New York on New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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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 ďŹ nds himself entangled with two psychopathic drug kingpins

in a chase through Manhattan.

The ďŹ lm is helmed by David Gordon Green, whose ďŹ lmography 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 Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s post-production weight loss.

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (R; 127 min.) Tomas Alfredsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heavily atmospheric retelling of John le CarrĂŠâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mystery about the quiet, smaller-than-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. (RvB)

WAR HORSE (PG-13; 146 min.) In 1914 Devonshire, a young man (Jeremy Irvine) befriends a thoroughbred.

Then comes the Great War, and War Horse tries to get around the resistance most people have to anti-war movies by clapping a steel helmet on a brown-eyed and sensitive beast. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the old Black Beauty plot: the creature passes from kind owners to cruel German ones. Only Steven Spielberg could have authorized the expensive World War One re-creations. Only Spielberg could have engineered the harrowing camera pullbacks that display the mud and craters

of the Western Front. And only Spielberg would have balanced all this historical buzzkill with somany barrels of sap. (RvB)

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. (RvB)

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.

YOUNG ADULT (R; 125 min.) Irked, drunk and 30something young-adult ďŹ ction writer Mavis (Charlize Theron) returns to her home town in

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with cheap wigs and beards and long-underwear scenes. This time, Moriarty (Jared Harris, good) is kind of a Krupp. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a vaguely syphilitic quality to this citizen above suspicion, and the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true suspense is in the ďŹ nale: a game of chess on what looks like a frozen castle in Mordor. The movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real romance is bromance, as a tuxedoed Holmes dances with Watson (Jude Law). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a moment is absent of all sexual magnetism.

Unless youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sexually aroused by stupidity. (RvB)

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Hidden Shane DWIGHT POWERED Shane Dwight plays New Year’s Eve at 9 Lives in Gilroy.

Mo Morgan Hill’s Shane Dwightt returns from Nashville for NYE with his best and most personal album yet By

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OUNG MUSICIANS are often warned that if they leave home for a place like Nashville, it’ll change them. The thing is, sometimes it’s for the better.

Take Shane Dwight, for instance.

Born in San Jose and raised in Morgan Hill, he made his name as a blues machine.

“I’d play anywhere that’d throw five bucks at me,” he remembers.

Quickly becoming a fixture on the small South Bay blues scene, he was getting regular gigs in San Francisco, as well, by the time he released his first record, 2002’s Boogie King. That same year, he won the Monterey Blues Festival battle

of the bands. He was racking up fans and critical acclaim. Everything seemed to be falling into place.

Except, Dwight realizes now, there was no there there. He was one hundred percent committed to walking in the footsteps of his idols, but there was no Shane Dwight sound, no Shane Dwight style.

“I enjoyed hearing myself play someone else,” Dwight remembers.

And damn, could he play them.

But his new album, A Hundred White Lies, sounds as different from Boogie King as night and day. For one thing, Dwight has opened up to the other musical influences he was raised on—the rock of Zeppelin, the country of Willie and Waylon, the grooves of Prince. There’s still a lot of blues in his sound—the record is in the top 10 on the blues charts—but it’s a lot quirkier and more personal, part of the larger

Americana movement that’s changed how people think about roots music.

The lyrics are more personal, too.

Dwight wrote all but one song on the new album, and they draw on the painful experiences of his recent divorce. There’s a new maturity and confidence to his songwriting.

“Stylistically, a lot of things have changed,” he admits. “When I was first starting out, I was carrying the blues torch in a very traditional sense. Now, I listen to my music and go ‘that sounds like me.’”

It might not have happened this way if he hadn’t left California three years ago for Nashville. Very quickly, weird things started happening.

“I wasn’t there three months and I was sitting in a meeting with [Dixie Chicks and Lady Antebellum producer] Paul Worley,” he says.

Not only that, but he just happened to move next door to Grammy-nominated producer Kevin McKendree, best known for his work with Delbert McClinton. Dwight had no idea until a neighbor told him “another musician lives right next door to you, he plays with some guy

named Delbert.” Long story short, McKendree ended up producing A Hundred White Lies.

“Once he heard what I was doing, he insisted on producing it,” says Dwight. McKendree also played keyboards on the record, along with McClinton’s recording and touring band. Bekka Bramlet, best known for replacing Stevie Nicks in Fleetwood Mac for a time, sang backing vocals, as did the McCrary sisters (Ann, Alfreda and Regina) who’ve recorded with Dylan, Johnny Cash, Wynonna and many more.

Gradually, Dwight was able to embrace the shift in his sound and his new approach to songwriting, with the result being his best album yet.

“It’s worked out really good,” he says of his time in Nashville. Still, he’s seen the cautionary tales play out plenty of times. “You can get lost there, too.”

Dwight still spends a lot of time in California, and his New Year’s Eve gig at 9 Lives in Gilroy is practically a hometown show. He had a lot of offers for December 31, but he chose 9 Lives after seeing how it had been renovated.

“They’ve remodeled it, and it’s just beautiful,” he says. “It’s fancy and cool. It’s a great venue.”

One thing Dwight has been getting more and more is his audience wanting to hear his original songs, to the point that fans actively try to get him not to play the covers he was once known for. He’s still a little surprised, but completely flattered: “It’s really cool when they’re like, ‘no, stop it!, We came to hear Shane Dwight.’”

Of course, part of Dwight will always be that wide-eyed blues fan dying to wail away on his heroes’ classic songs. “I can still get up there and bang out a Texas shuffle,” he says. “I love it.”

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Tony Lindsay Saturday at Neto’s Market, 8pm; $65 Lindsay has a remarkable story, coming up out of the South Bay pub scene as a solo artist and band leader, before being summoned to audition for Santana one night after a performance. Even as he’s racked up 11 Grammys as one of Santana’s most popular vocalists, he’s never abandoned his Bay Area R&B/jazz band Spang-a-Lang, or his solo career. (SP)

DJ Uncle Hank Saturday at Willow Den in San Jose, 10pm; free Though they’re often mistakenly perceived as a faceless slave to the turntable, the truth is that a good DJ needs to bring a distinct personality to his work. Anyone who’s seen Henry Lange in the band Superbad will understand why he has no trouble with this when he performs as DJ Uncle Hank, playing everything from rock to country to hip-hop to R&B. (SP)

PHB New Year’s Eve Poor House Bistro, San Jose, 7pm; $50 The party is on in Jay Meduri’s house of blues.

Once again, he’ll make space for a blowout party, with music by his band Jay & The Po Boys (featuring Sid Morris, Johnny Cat, Dennis Dove and Dave Chavez) and his wife Lara Price, who’ll perform with Velvet Plum. Dinner and drink tickets included; reservations required. (SP)

Metro’s music calendar runs Wednesday–Tuesday.

Rock/Pop ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, 9:30pm: New Year’s Eve with Ricardo Scales. $150. Redwood City.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Showtyme. $70/$75. Doubletree Hotel, San Jose.

Fri, 10pm: Bitch’n Camaros. Sat, 10pm: NYE party with Junkshaker.

San Jose.

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

Sat: Desi NYE Bash with Instant Karma. Santa Clara.

CIVIC AUDITORIUM

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: The High Sea, Color Scout, Brooke D. Free. Fri, 9pm: Black Cobra, Serpent Crown, Disastroid. $10. San Jose.

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

Fri: Kid Dynamite. Sun: The Gents.

Mon: Matt Bolton. Campbell.

Fri, 8pm: WAR, Tower of Power. $25-$65. San Jose.

CLUB FOX Sat, 8pm: New Year’s Eve: A Celebration of 50 Years of the Rolling Stones. $39.95.

Redwood City.

Sat: Drink and food specials for NYE, rock covers by Chris Burt (9pm). Campbell.

CREEKSIDE BAR & GRILL Sat, 7pm: New Year’s Eve party with the Niteliters. $25; dinner available with reservation.

Redwood City.

FOX THEATRE Sat, 8pm: New Year’s Eve 2012 with Lenny Williams and Earl Thomas. $57.50-$82.50; group rates available. Redwood City.

CLUB MAX Sat, 8pm: New Year’s Eve with

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Cover band for NYE plus champagne toast. Santa Clara.

LILLY MAC’S Fri, 9:30pm: Groove Fusion.

Sat, 6:30pm: New Year’s Eve with Saints and Sinners and DJ Twenty12. $10/$15; $39/$45 for dinner package. Sunnyvale.

MOJO LOUNGE Thu, 9:30pm: Live music. Fri, 9:30pm: Steve Freund. Sat, 9:30pm: Mardi Gras NYE with Big Cat Tolefree. $10. Fremont.

NETO’S GRILL Fri: Level 4. Sat: New Year’s Eve with Tony Lindsay. $65.

Santa Clara.

NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: Zebop! Santana tribute. $10. Sat, 8pm: Rockin’ New Year’s Eve with Shane Dwight. $35.

Gilroy.

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

Thu: Stan Erhart. Fri, 9:30pm: Joint Chiefs. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Sage. $10. Los Gatos.

THE QUARTER NOTE Wed-Thu & Sun: Pro jam. Fri: Zap Band, Blackwood Royalty, Gilbillies. $8. Sat: NYE party. $8.

Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE Fri, 8pm: Le-Ti. No cover.

Mountain View.

REDI ROOM Sat: NYE party with live music.

San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sat: NYE celebration and cumbia party. San Jose.

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

Gilroy.

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

TRADER VIC’S Sat, 6pm: Aloha, Baby! New Year’s Eve 2012. With the Tikiyaki Orchestra. $100. Dinah’s Garden Hotel, Palo Alto.

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Fri: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am.

BLUZ BY-YOU

World

Wed, 7:30pm: Sista Monica. Thu, 8pm: Willie G. Fri, 8pm: Andre Thierry. Sat, 8pm: Zydeco Voodoo Revival. San Jose

AGENDA LOUNGE

GRAND DELL SALOON

JOHNNY V’S Fri: Morning Ablaze. Sat: Dub Massive. San Jose.

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

Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Fri, 8pm: Rhythm District. Sat, 8pm: NYE Bash. $45. Campbell.

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

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

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 8:30pm: Carlos Xavier. $15/$20. Redwood City.

ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE

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

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Wed, 9pm: Suska. Thu, 9pm: Live blues. Fri, 9pm: Tip of the Top, Ron Tomasello. $10. Sat, 9pm: NYE with JC Smith. $20. Sun, 4pm: Ruckus.

Sun-Tue, 7pm: Live blues. San Jose.

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

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Wed: JC Smith Band. 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.

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

CASCAL

Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos.

San Jose.

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

LILLY MAC’S Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

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LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

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MURPHY’S LAW Fri: Isis and the Cold Truth. Sat: New Year’s Eve with the Honey Wilders. Mon: Pro blues jam.

Sunnyvale.

Tue: Rock en espanol. San Jose.

PAGODA LOUNGE

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Sat: NYE with Wally’s Swing World. The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

Wed & Fri-Sun, 6pm: World music. Mon, 6pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 6pm: Flamenco music.

Mountain View.

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

San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

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

Mountain View.

Jazz/Blues ANGELICA’S BISTRO Thu, 7pm: Blues night. No cover.

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

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

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

A PERFECT FINISH Fri: Dirty Downtown Jazz Syndicate. Sat: NYE with Blue House. $10. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6pm: Kid & Lisa Andersen. Fri, 6pm: John Nemeth Band. Sat, 6pm: New Year’s Eve party with Jay & the Po Boys, Lara Price and Velvet Plum.

Reservations required. $50.

San Jose.

TESSORA’S Fri, 8:30pm: Live music. Sat, 8:30pm: New Year’s Eve and Tessora’s third birthday party.

Featuring Isis and the Cold Truth.

Campbell.

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

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

San Jose.

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Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Free.

San Jose.

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

FIBBAR MAGEES

CITY ESPRESSO

Thu: Ted. Sat, 4pm: Jason O’Reilly.

Sunnyvale.

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

Karaoke

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

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

Thu-Fri, 9pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Mardi Gras-style New Year’s Eve. $30/$45. Fremont.

SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Country Classics. Tue, 6pm: Bean Creek. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

Redwood City.

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

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

DA KINE CAFE Tue, 6:30-9:30pm: Open mic.

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

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

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

JOHNNY V’S

ALEX’S 49ER INN

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

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

AZÚCAR

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

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

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

BBC GASTROPUB

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

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Menlo Park.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

THE BEARS

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

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

BLACK CARD LOUNGE

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

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

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

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

SONOMA CHICKEN COOP

BLUE ROCK SHOOT

Wed, 8:30pm: Open mic.

Campbell.

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

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

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

Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic.

Cupertino.

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Her new A Kinder Winter EP is a perfect seasonal sampler 9pm; free for anyone who thought She and Him’s Christmas album wasn’t nearly alternative enough. She opens for the High Sea, along with Color Scout, which is the new project for former Emerald Hill vocalist Rosa Leonardo.—Steve Palopoli

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BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

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

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

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

DIVE BAR

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

BRIX BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: KJ Dennis. Sunnyvale.

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

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

EL TORITO RESTAURANT

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

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

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

THE COURTS LOUNGE

BOULEVARD TAVERN

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

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke.

San Jose.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

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

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

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

OFF THE HOOK

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

Sun, 8pm: Joe. Campbell.

Thu & Sat, 9:30pm: Wild Side.

Santa Clara.

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

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Sun-Mon, 8pm: Matt. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

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

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

Dance Clubs AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Thu: Antromix. Banda nights. Fri: Rock en Español. Sat: NYE party with DJ Tito Bell. San Jose.

AZÚCAR

POINCIANA LOUNGE

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

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

Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

BAMBOO LOUNGE

QUARTER NOTE

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

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

BBC GASTROPUB

Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

RED STAG LOUNGE

Fri: DJs. Sat, 9:30pm-5am: New Year’s Eve. Menlo Park.

JOHNNY V’S

Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

THE BLANK CLUB

REDI ROOM

Sat, 9pm: 2012 New Year’s Eve Dance with DJ Basura. $15. San Jose.

PIONEER SALOON THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Sat: NYE party.

Willow Glen.

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

JERSEYS

Sun: Sunday Funday. Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

Campbell.

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

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

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

KYOTO PLACE Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

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

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

Santana Row.

RUDY’S PUB

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

BOSWELL’S

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

Sat: NYE with DJs RJ and Geekstar. Campbell.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

BRANHAM LOUNGE

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

Wed: London Calling. Thu: Rewind.

Retro night with DJ Rated R. Fri: Quality Control. Sat: Cocktails & Dreams with DJ Aspect. Mon: Jukebox Hero. Tue: Service Industry Night San Jose.

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

San Jose.

SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL

LIQUID

Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

MARIANI’S

Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

STATION 55

MOJO LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

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

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL

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

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

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

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

OASIS

TOUCHDOWN TOMMY’S

Thu: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Nicolo. Sat: NYE party with DJ Check-O. San Jose.

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

Sunnyvale.

Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

Thu, 10pm: DJ Night. Cupertino.

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SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

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

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

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

Santa Clara.

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.

MOTIF

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

Fri-Sat: DJs & dancing. San Jose.

Sun: DJ Paul X. San Jose.

CLUB FOX

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

STUDIO8

Fri, 9pm: Pre-New Year’s Eve 2012 with DJs Willie, Rulas and DannyG. $10. Redwood City.

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

CLUBHOUSE RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR

MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE

Thu: New Year’s Eve Warm Up. Fri: Resolutions Pre-NYE Party. Sat: Glitz New Year’s Eve Extravaganza. San Jose.

BRIX Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

CLUB ILLUSIONS Sat, 9pm-2am: New Year’s Eve Dance Party. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

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

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

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

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THE SADDLE RACK

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

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE Wed: RedRun with D. Luzion and Illtraxx. Thu: JazBiz and Dave Dynamix. Fri: Video Mixing, then DJ Radio Raheem and DJ Ready Rock. Sat: NYE party with Suga Dady and guest DJs. San Jose.

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

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

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

Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: New Year’s Eve with D-Roc and Dynamic-D. Mountain View.

Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.

San Francisco’s City Guide

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Tickets start at $87 to see film director play clarinet in New Orleans jazz group. Dec 28 at Regency Ballroom.

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

TROMBONESHORTY

KATIE BLOOM’S

New Orleans funk and soul strutter with a huge dollop of showmanship. Dec 30-31 at the Fillmore.

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

THEVELVETTEEN

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

LILLY MAC’S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night.

Sunnyvale.

LIQUID

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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.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.

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Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover.

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

Fri, 9pm: DJ Checo. Sat, 9pm: New Year’s Eve with DJ Checo. $5. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays.

Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays.

Fri, 9pm: DJs & dancing. $10.

Sat, 9pm: NYE 2012. $45 and up.

Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: College Night. San Jose.

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MIAMI BEACH CLUB

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy.

Sat: NYE bash with DJs Jimmy Stewart Jr. and Jay Reese. San Jose.

Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.

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Thu: DJ Tesfa and rotating DJs, reggae, hip-hop. Fri-Sat: Rotating DJs, including Remedy, Goldenchyld and others. Sat: NYE party hosted by Ciroc vodka.

Sun: Live music. San Jose.

Santa Rosa’s indie heroes close out 2011 with epic night of music from new EP, ‘No Star.’ Dec 31 at Bottom of the Hill.

SEAOFDREAMS Santigold, Beats Antique, Amon Tobin’s incredible ‘Isam’ show and more. Dec 31 at SF Concourse Exhibition Center.

PRIMUS Les Claypool’s annual New Year’s Eve show goes tropical with a ‘Hawaiian Hukilau.’ Dec 31 at the Great American Music Hall.

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Only Just Begun POT PEN PAL California’s Attorney General, Kamala Harris, recently sent letters to four U.S. Attorneys telling them to stop targeting the medical cannabis collectives.

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INCE THE medical cannabis industry exploded in 2008, California has become the Wild West of weed. “420 doctors” charging as little as $20 for 10minute sit-down exams made it easy for almost anyone to score a recommendation to grow their own pot or purchase it from any of the hundreds of storefront dispensaries across the state. Dispensaries and delivery services popped up in communities around California, with NPR recently reporting that some communities have more cannabis dispensaries than Starbucks.

But 2011 featured major setbacks for the state’s billion-dollar industry. With San Jose’s own cannabis regulations on hold until the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters verifies signatures for a petition to repeal those regulations, here’s a look where medical cannabis in California now stands, and what issues will be tackled as we roll into 2012.

The big news is the federal crackdown on dispensaries operating too close to schools and parks. In October, four U.S. attorneys in California announced they would invoke asset forfeiture laws to threaten landlords who rent to cannabis providers. Landlords in San Francisco and San Diego have reported receiving letters, but hundreds of dispensaries across the state have voluntarily shut down out of fear of federal action. (It looks like California isn’t the only state facing federal crackdown. Colorado,

which has a more regulated yet still vibrant cannabis industry, could see federal action in the next few months.)

Then, in November, the 4th District Court of Appeal ruled that California’s medical marijuana laws do not prevent cities from banning pot clubs. The case stemmed from Inland Empire Patient’s Health and Wellness Center appealing a ban in Riverside. Cities locked in expensive legal battles with dispensaries applauded the ruling, which should make it easier for communities to shut down clubs. San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed told Metro after the ruling that the city would consider a ban on all dispensaries should city leaders and cannabis advocates be unable to resolve the dispute on the regulations.

But some Californians hope that tightening the medical marijuana laws might help avert a total industry blackout. Pro-pot group Americans for Safe Access and the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents a growing number of cannabis workers across the country, joined forces to propose a 2012 ballot initiative that would create a state body to license, tax and regulate the production, processing and distribution of medical cannabis.

And last week, Attorney General Kamala Harris sent a letter to Senate President Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Perez urging them to clarify the state’s existing medical cannabis laws. Harris also sent a letter to the four U.S. attorneys who announced the October crackdown to back off and instead focus on human trafficking and international gangs.

One thing is certain: 2012 promises to be the most uncertain year for the industry yet.—Ted Cox

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