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I SAW YOU

By TOM TOMORROW

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Dancing Queen I saw you, a pretty, young African American lady, dressed in royal blue sweats, dancing joyously on a busy street corner not far from downtown San Jose, throwing your arms gleefully into the air, bouncing energetically, flashing a huge sunny smile to anyone who made eye contact with you. You brightened my day, and I’m sure you brightened many others’ days as well. You are an angel in disguise.

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SSay ay W What? hat? State Assemblymember State Assemblymember NORA NORA CAMPOS CAMPOS (D–San Jose) Jose) probably probably doesn’t doesn’t need to wor ry all that much m NTHONY worry about A ANTHONY M ACIAS, a 21-ye ear-old college student MACIAS, 21-year-old aatt CChico hico SState tate w ho w ants ttoo rrun un who wants aagainst gainst hher. er. IIn na rrecent ecent CCraigslist raigslist ppost, ost, hhee eexcoriates xcoriates tthe he fformer ormer SSan an JJose ose CCity ity ccouncilwoman ouncilwoman for ssupporting upporting bbills ills 8ek_fep DXZ`Xj 8ek_fep DXZ`Xj for that w ould aallow llow that would “girls as as young young as as 1122 ttoo bbee sswept wept aaway way ttoo “girls linic” for for STD STD vaccinations vaccinations aand nd ““requires requires a cclinic” that public public sschools chools that teach homosexuality homosexuality teach Don’t to cchildren hildren as as early early as as to forget kindergarten.” Both B of kindergarten.” to tip! allegationns aren’t aren’t these allegations true, bbut ut M acias claims claims true, Macias FLY@ Campos is is just just “too “too Campos METRONEWS. extreme ffor or Sann Jose!” Jose!” extreme COM didn’t say What Macias didn’t in his his post post is is that that he’s he’s a in Log Cabin Cabin Republican Republican w ho iiss aan n aacademic cademic Log who senator ffor or his his school’s school’s G ay-Straight senator Gay-Straight Alliance. In his many m oﬁles, some Alliance. online pr proﬁles, more pr ovocativve than others, Macias takes more provocative consservative stances in posts a variety of conservative that were were bbanned anned oon n YYahoo ahoo fforums—at orums—at that times ccalling alling himself himself “No “No H omo **RON RON times Homo PAUL 2012*”—and 2012*”— —and even vents frustration frustration PAUL ew-run media by asking, “Whyy does the JJew-run ignore R ON P AUL U ?” When Fly asked Macias ignore RON PAUL?” for hhis is vviews iews oon n rreligion eligion iin n tthe he m edia, hhee for media, stopped rresponding esponding ttoo eemails. mails. W e’ll llet et yyou ou stopped We’ll INGLETON oorr know if we run into DEAN SSINGLETON HEARSTS at a a Bar Mit zvah, okay Tony? Toony? THE HEARSTS Mitzvah,

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response to what health response h officials call call an ecstasy ecst asy epidemic in thee South Ba Bay. ay. The popular popular “ra “rave” ave” drug d is crossing crossing over o ver to at at-home t--home use, use, he health ealth officials warn, 2010 off 11,850 w arn, cciting iting a 2 010 ssurvey urvvey o ,850 Santaa Clara high scho school Sant o students that ol one have ffound ound tthat hat o ne iin n ffour our ssay ay tthey hey h ave ecstasy, MDMA. tried ecst asy, or MDMA A. But who B ut some some llocal ocall sscientists cientists w ho sstudy tudy off p psychoactive drugs tthe he eeffects ffeects o ff sychoactive d rugs aree ccalling ar alling the ccounty’s ounty’s epidemic Madness cclaim laim a new new form form of of Reefer Reefer M adness propaganda. pr opaganda. “MDMA is a rrelatively elativveelly saf safe fe drug drug, g, without a lot of risks risks,, th that hat rreally eally should bee legal ffor b or o rrecreational ecreationall use use—and —and most m ost ccertainly ertainly iitt sshould hould b bee aavailable vailab ble ffor or o medic medical al use use,,” sa says ayys Da David avid v JJay ay Br Brown, own, a rresearcher esearcher and writer based in Sant Santaa Cruz who ccalls alls the antianti-drug -drug ccampaigns ampaigns a shortt on scienc shor sciencee and lon long ng on p politics. olitics. agrees While not eeveryone veeryone agr g ees with that

assessment t, eeven ven those char ged with assessment, charged monitoring m onitoring tthe he ttrafficking raffi fficking o off d drugs rugs iin n Sant ountty sa ay it ’s not time to Santaa Claraa C County say it’s panic ab about ou ut an ecst ecstasy asy epidemic epidemic.. “I ha aven n’t seen a huge spik haven’t spikee in it,” says sa ays y JJim im Sib Sibley, bley, the sup supervising ervising deput deputy ty off tthe o he n narcotics arrcotics u unit nit aatt tthe he d district istrict aattorney’s ttorney’s o office. ffice. ““We’ve We’ve sseen een eecstasy cstasy ffor or a llong ong ttime—for ime—for tthe he be better tter p part arrt o off 15 yyears. ears. It ccomes omes and go goes. es.” IIff aanything, nything, S Sibley ibley ssays, ays, iit’s t’s tthe he drugs that ar aren’t en’t MDMA or ecst ecstasy asy that ccan an do o the most damage damage.. MDMA, M DMA, ccolloquially olloquially rreferred eferred tto o aass M Molly, olly, o often ften ccomes omes iin n tthrough hrough black-market b lack-market sshipments hipments o off p pills ills o orr ccapsules apsules ccontaining o aining p ont powder, owder, Sible Sibleyy ssays, ays, w which hich ccan an llead ead d tto o tthe he d drugs rugs being b eing cut with w methamphet methamphetamine, amine, ketamine, k etamine, be b benzopiprozene nzopiprozene ((BZP), BZP), o orr dextromethorphan d de xtr t ometh th h h (DXM). horphan (DXM) According A ccordin ng to ccounty ountty figur figures, es, fiv fivee people p eople h have ave d died ied ffrom rom ttaking ak king d drugs rugs theyy thoug the thought ght wer weree ecst ecstasy asy sinc sincee 20 2009. 09. ““The The ffrightening rightening tthing, hing, w when hen yyou ou lo look ok at a it, is that so ffew ew of them actually ccontain o ain [MDMA ont [MDMA], ],” Sible Sibleyy ssays. ays. Of tthe he ttablets ab blets sseized eized b byy llaw aw

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The Multidisciplinar Multidisciplinaryy A Association ssociation off P Psychedelic Research o sychedelic R esearch ((MAPS) MAPS) iiss a California C alifornia o organization rgan nization tthat hat cconducts onducts benefits eevaluations valuations on the riskss and b enefits of ps psychedelics ychedelics in medi medicine. icine. Att the moment, it is the only A organization o rganization iin n tthe he w world orld ffunding unding off M MDMA-assisted cclinical linical ttrials rials o DMA-assisted psychotherapy, p sychotherapy, an and nd tthe he rresults esults h have ave been promising. b een pr omising. A re recent cent ccase ase sstudy, tudy, w which hich w was as out South Carolina with ccarried arried o ut iin nS outh C arolina w ith tthe he aapproval pproval o off tthe he F Food oo d aand nd D Drug rug Ad ministrattion ((FDA), FDA), sshows hows tthat hat a Administration h igh p ercentage o omen ssexually exually high percentage off w women aassaulted ssaulted aand nd aabused bused ccan an o vercome overcome p ost-traumatic sstress tress d isorder post-traumatic disorder (PT SD) with the help of MDMA (PTSD) MDMA-enhanc ed therap y. enhanced therapy. ““We We ffound ound tthat hat 8 ercent o 833 p percent off par ticipants in that stud dy no longer participants study qualified ffor o or a diagnosiss of PT SD,” PTSD, ssays ays B rad B urge, a ccommunications ommunications Brad Burge, dir ector at MAPS And A d those b enefits director MAPS.. ““And benefits w aw w ere cconfirmed onfirmed w ith llong ong wee ssaw were with term ffollow-up. o ollow-up.” T he o rganization h opes tthat hat sstudy tudy The organization hopes and one curr ently ttaking akin ng plac e, currently place, w hich llooks ooks aatt rreducing educing P TSD iin nw ar which PTSD war vveterans eterans rreturning eturning ffrom rom IIraq raq aand nd A fghan nistan, w ill p ave tthe he w ay ffor or Afghanistan, will pave way M DMA tto ob DA-approved iin n tthe he MDMA bee F FDA-approved ne xt 10 yyears. ears. next “W We ha ave so man ny br raave Americ ans “We have many brave Americans rreturning eturning ffrom rom IIraq raq aand nd A fghanistan n Afghanistan with p ost-traumatic str ress disor der, post-traumatic stress disorder, aand nd w e’ve n ow sshown hown tthat hat M DMA we’ve now MDMA ccan an tr eat PT SD b etter than t an treat PTSD better anyy other tr eatment, b de,” sa ayys Br own, treatment, byy a landslid landslide, says Brown, a gguest uest eeditor ditor w ith M APS. ““Keeping Keeping with MAPS. MDMA fr om our milit tary, and from military, aallowing llowing tthem hem tto o ssuffer, uff ffeer, iiss o ne o he one off tthe m ean nest aand nd m ost m isguided tthings hings meanest most misguided that our go vernment iss doing government doing..” S oldiers rreturning eturning ffrom rom w aarr ar ren’t Soldiers war aren’t tthe he o nly p opulation tthat hat B rown ssays ays only population Brown ccould ould b enefit ffrom rom M DMA-assisted benefit MDMA-assisted ps ycchotherap py. MDMA induc es psychotherapy. induces o xytocin, tthe he h ormone rreleased eleased w hen oxytocin, hormone when am other b onds w ith h er b aby o hen mother bonds with her baby orr w when p eople ffall all iin n llove. ove. A necdotall rresearch esearch people Anecdotal suggests that MDMA ccould o ould eeven veen help alle viate the ssymptoms ymptoms of o autism. alleviate ““MDMA MDMA h elps tto o ffacilitate acilitate helps ccommunication, ommunication,” Br own n sa ayys. “It helps Brown says. tto o ffacilitate aaccilitate eempathy, mpathy, bo onding w ith bonding with p eople—these seem to b people—these bee the primar primaryy tthings hings tthat hat au utism aattacks, ttaccks, aand nd ssome ome autism

THE FLY

lieutenant, but he was moved over to swing shift. As a bonus, he was reunited with his old union nemesis, Sergeant BOBBY LOPEZ. Not too long ago, Lopez tried to overthrow Beattie and current Police Ofﬁcers Association President JIM UNLAND in an unsuccessful coup to form a new union. Lopez, a former POA president who also may have withdrawn retirement papers recently, now has Beattie as his boss. Neither talked to Fly about the situation, but as one wag says, “It’s like putting two scorpions in a bottle.”

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Healing Effects Effects

people w ith aautism utism w ho ttried ried iitt h ave people with who have rep ported tthat hat iitt n ot o nly be nefited reported not only benefited them d uring tthe he aactual ctual eexperience, xperience, b ut them during but he drug wor ff.” ff” long after th the woree off off. But L arrry S ilveira, a sschool chool But Larry Silveira, counselor who w help ed pr oduce the counselor helped produce county’s n ew d ocumentary, ssays ays h county’s new documentary, hee has n oticed an n iincrease ncrease iin n sstudents tudents has noticed talking ab o ecst out asy, which he talking about ecstasy, doesn’t sepa arate fr om pur doesn’t separate from puree MDMA. “[MDMA A] is not an feer,” he sa ayys. “[MDMA] anyy saf safer, says. “It’s llike ike ssaying, aying, ‘‘Which Which iiss ssafer, afer, tthe he “It’s bite o iger o he b ite o ion?’ IIn n bite off a ttiger orr tthe bite off a llion?’ my o pinion, iitt iiss sstill till a h igh rrisk, isk, aand nd iitt my opinion, high can still killl yyou. ou. o ” can Silveira aand nd ccounty ounty h ealth o fficials Silveira health officials hope tthe he d ocumentary sstops tops k ids hope documentary kids from ttaking aking p ills, yyet et m any p eople from pills, many people acknowledg ge the chanc es ar re slim. acknowledge chances are elaayying inf fo ormation to But instead of rrelaying information students aabout bout ttesting esting k its tthat hat ccan an eeasily asily students kits be ffound o ound on n the Internet, the ccounty ountty be ak ke an appr oach similar to chose to ttake approach promoting abstinenc aabstinencee o veer se ex ed. promoting over sex “It’s vvery ery imp ortant to help educ ate “It’s important educate parents, and d other p eople who ar parents, people aree concerned aabout bout ttheir heir k ids, tto o gget et concerned kids, the sscientific cientific ffacts acts tto o tthem, hem, aand nd tto o the d this fr om help them distinguish from propagandaa,” sa ayys Br own. propaganda, says Brown. aadds,, “If it rreally eally is hur ting But, he adds hurting people, tthen hen tthe he tthing hing tto od o iiss tto o people, do legalize and and regulate regulate it. it. So, So, like like alcohol alcohol legalize co, kids ccan’t an’t get ahold of it, and tobac tobacco, and iit’s t’s o nly aavailable vailable tto o rresponsible esponsible and only egulated manner adults in a rregulated manner.. Then, if tthere here aare re aany ny p roblem, tthere here w on’t if problem, won’t be aany ny d ifficulty iin nk nowing w hether be difficulty knowing whether what o ne h ad w as aactually ctually p ure what one had was pure MDMA or not.”

TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE IN SILICON VALLEY

BY BRENDAN NYSTEDT

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that even more of the Palm faithful have jumped shipâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; Matt Schnell, former webOS national sales manager went to Apple in November. Similarly, Jim Dudenhoefer, an enterprise sales manager from the HP webOS team is making the move to 1 InďŹ nite Loop, changing his LinkedIn proďŹ le earlier this month. Perhaps this is some kind of retribution from Apple for Palmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hiring of iPod godfather Jon â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rubyâ&#x20AC;? Rubinstein as CEO back in 2008.

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President Obama to hang Out on Google+ Jan. 30

Apple isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the only one licking its chops at the talent thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now on the market since HP mishandled webOS. Former Palm webOS software architect Larry Barras took a position within Intel with their Ultra Mobility Group after leaving HP last October. Intel is desperately trying to get a foothold in the tablet and phone game with its x86-based chips for mobile devices called MedďŹ eld. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a lot of catching up to do with their ARM-based opponents in the same realm so they can use all the help they can get.

Google+ is set to get a boost from the highest ofďŹ ce in the land. President Barack Obama will be answering submitted questions during a live stream via YouTube, as well as Google+â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hangout feature. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always wanted to hang with the Commander in Chief, this is your chance, even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just online. You can participate by submitting questions to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ask Obamaâ&#x20AC;? YouTube page. Only the top-voted questions will be answered by the President. The live stream starts on the 30th at 2:30 PM PST.

HP WebOS Talent Jump Ship

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Dollar to Spare: Tim Cookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2011 Compensation Although Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken the reins from late co-founder/CEO Steve Jobs, that

doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean he is doing the job for the same pay. Jobs famously worked for a salary of $1 per year, plus other perks. Cook on the other hand prefers cold, hard cash. In 2011, he was paid $378M, making him the top-paid CEO in the industry. This also means that his earnings alone beat those of not just other CEOs but also many other leaders in the tech sector. For comparison, Twitter only made an estimated $139.5M last year. Even Rovio, purveyors of the red-hot Angry Birds property, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come close with 2011 earnings around a messily $100M.

Facebook Unveils Long-Rumored Apps After the word slipped out that Facebook was having a press event last week, much speculation was ďŹ red off as to what they might have up their sleeves. A report from AllThingsD indicated that the Mountain View-based company was planning on rolling out the Open Graph apps that ďŹ rst saw the light of day last year at the F8 conference. Now, the company has done just that, ramping up efforts to expand its service to include apps from a myriad of other companies. The idea behind their Open Graph system is to add new verbs to the already established status update system. That means that users can update their Facebook to show, for instance, what they watched on NetďŹ&#x201A;ix or Hulu, or how much they ran that day using MapMyRun. 60 new partners were announced this week including Urbanspoon, Pinterest, eBay, Livingsocial, Rotten Tomatoes, Zynga, Monster and Ticketmaster. Facebook is letting developers use Open Graph not only to post information to Facebook, but also as a conduit for information from other services that the user permits. Either Open Graph will completely change the face of Facebook forever, or users will dabble in adding apps but continue

First the Billboard, Now This: Yahoo Founder Resigns In a shocking move, Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang has left his post at the company he helped build from the ground up. Previously, he was overseeing the investigation of what to do with the company and its assets, as well as choosing a new CEO (PayPal president Scott Thompson was selected late last year). Yang is quoted as saying the following in a letter to Yahoo board chairman Roy Bostock: “My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life. However, the time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo! As I leave the company I co-founded nearly 17 years ago, I am enthusiastic about the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Ofﬁcer and his ability, along with the entire Yahoo! leadership team, to guide Yahoo! into an exciting and successful future.” It’s still too early to interpret this as a sign of the company’s

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downturn. After all, the appointment of a new CEO means that they’re still committed to ﬁnding a new direction and purpose for the company. Otherwise, this will be a day remembered as the beginning of the end for the once-great search engine company. The full text of the press release is available online.

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iBooks Author, Another Apple ‘Game Changer’ In an astonishing move today, Apple has enabled the production of everything from complex textbooks to the next great American novel, the latter of which may be published through its ebook store. With a free application called iBooks Author, writers and publishers will be able to easily add things like animation, movies and even embedded Keynote slides into books. On top of that, the software provides tools to add neat features like built-in ﬂashcards, and all the stuff users have come to expect from Apple. If you’re more code savvy, the application also works with HTML 5 and Javascript so that custom effects can be created. The app also makes uploading to the iBookstore as easy as a few clicks (it’s not clear whether or not books have to be OKed by Apple a la the App Store). The application is free for all, starting today in the Mac App Store.

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SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics

This week, District Attorney Jeff Rosen answered questions selected by San Jose Inside staff out of dozens submitted by SJI commenters. The topics ranged from how he handled the De Anza sex case, his hiring of a Mercury News reporter and the timeline for several high-profile cases. The entire interview can be found at SanJoseInside.com.—Editor N_Xk Xi\ k_\ i\jlckj f] k_\ D8:J8 RD\o`ZXe 8d\i`ZXe :fddle`kp J\im`Z\j 8^\eZpT èm\jk`^Xk`fe6 N_\e n`cc pfl i\c\Xj\ k_\d6Æ @ehlìè^ Dè[j As the chief law enforcement officer of Santa Clara County, I ethically can do nothing to obstruct or reveal an investigation before it is complete. I hope to be able to answer your question and be fully transparent by the end of February or beginning of March. N_\e pfl n\i\ ileeè^ kf Y\ ;8# pfl _Xdd\i\[ pfli fggfe\ek# ;fcfi\j :Xii# ]fi k_\ nXp j_\ _Xe[c\[ k_\ ;\ 8eqX j\o ZXj\ Yp efk gi\jjè^ Z_Xi^\j% Efn k_Xk k_\ Z`m`c ki`Xc `j Zfdgc\k\ Xe[ pfli f]Ó Z\ [\Zcè\[ kf gi\jj Z_Xi^\j# [f pfl k_èb :Xii dX[\ k_\ i`^_k [\Z`j`fe è _è[j`^_k6Æ :XdgX`ê Hl\jk`fe In 2010, I ran a vigorous campaign against the incumbent because I believed she had made a series of missteps in her short time in office. I knew that Santa Clara County deserved stronger and more ethical leadership from its chief law enforcement officer. One of my criticisms involved the manner in which my opponent handled the announcement of her decision not to prosecute the men who were arrested for rape in what came to be known as the De Anza

Rape Case. I believe that victims and witnesses of crimes should be treated with courtesy and compassion; the former DA showed neither when she blithely announced that she was “at peace with her decision” not to prosecute. My concern as the DA is with peace in the community and with helping victims of crimes. After taking office in January 2011, my office conducted an exhaustive and extensive review of all the evidence in the case. I then met with Jessica Doe and other young women involved in the case, listened to their concerns and explained my decision not to ﬁle criminal charges.Although they disagreed with my decision, I believe they appreciated and respected that I talked with them before making a public announcement. At a subsequent news conference, I stated: “What happened to Jessica on March 3, 2007, at 349 S. Buena Vista Ave. in San Jose was not her fault. It was reprehensible and inexcusable ... however, the district attorney’s office cannot prove that a crime occurred and therefore will not ﬁle criminal charges.” I don’t disagree with my predecessor’s conclusion. I disagreed with how she handled this tragic situation and the manner in which she explained her decision to all of us.

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graduating high school rowers go on to a four-year university, with many of them receiving scholarships.â&#x20AC;? LGRC alumni have been recruited to row at Princeton, Harvard, Yale, University of Washington, Cal, Boston University, Michigan, Virginia, MIT, UCLA, UCâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;San Diego and USD. The juniors develop their prowess under the watchful eye of Jamie Velez, who returned to his South Bay roots in 2008 after coaching in Philadelphia. Jamie also shares his expertise with the roughly 120 master members. Both juniors and masters participate in 15 races which are held locally and as far as Portland and Boston. Beyond their regular training schedule, Hilary reveals, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are active in a variety of outreach activities, offering programs for autistic young adults, economically disadvantaged youth, sight-impaired adults and breast-cancer survivors. The club is also active in the local community, providing hands-on support for Los Gatosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jazz in the Plazz summer concert program and no-cost Taste of Rowing programs for the County. We also offer corporate team-building rowing programs for Silicon Valley companies.â&#x20AC;? With their permanent home located on the shore of Lexington Reservoir, LGRC is easy to get to and their program schedule has something for everyone.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tomek Mackowiak

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Memory Bites IN N OTTAWA’S WAY The Sharks defend against an Ottawa shot at last Thursday’s game.

A trip to the Sharks-Senators game conjures up memories of hockey watching in the ’70s By GARY SINGH

HE anti-man-abouttown resurfaced at HP Pavilion just last week to experience the Sharks taking on the Ottawa Senators. He had not been to a game in many years.

The experience threw him into a space-time-shattering vortex where past, present and future expanded like a rubber band and then snapped back to reality. It brought back memories of when he ﬁrst watched hockey as a kid, and, more recently, when he traveled to Ottawa a few times. Originally, the author watched hockey as a little tike, back in the late ’70s, when the pioneering San Jose

company, Gill Cable, broadcast New York Rangers games on a regular basis. Just before ESPN emerged to cannibalize everything, Gill offered “The Sports Channel” on 13A, and Phil Esposito, Ron Duguay and Anders Hedberg were stars for the Rangers. Exactly why the Rangers were featured, I still don’t recall, but that was indeed the case. At that time, not all the players were required to wear helmets, and Duguay was the rockstar-looking character with long curly hair and no helmet. He stood out on the ice wherever he went. The future anti-man-about-town was inspired. Those were also the days when basic TV service topped out at 12 channels, but Gill Cable offered 24 channels via a dual-cable line and a manual twoposition A/B switch. That way, one didn’t need to install a converter.

Even better, depending on which part of San Jose one lived in, the technician would have to crawl under your house, through the slime and spiders, in order to install the dual-cable line. That was even more inspiring. I only knew the basic rules of the sport, but I did collect hockey cards for a few seasons. Sadly, by the time the Sharks arrived, my interests had changed; I was on to other exploits, so I wasn’t among the heroes who slogged it up to the Cow Palace for those ﬁrst two seasons. Right or wrong, my interest in the sport did not resume until I began traveling to Canada around 2003. If one goes to that country on a regular basis, it is difficult not to come back a hockey fan. Not that every citizen worships the sport, but generally speaking, it’s in their blood, their lingo, their sense of humor, everything. In particular, two different trips to Ottawa brought me to a few museums. The Canadian Museum of Civilization, right on the other side of the river, in Gatineau, Quebec,

staged an exhibition of the iconic Montreal forward, Maurice “the Rocket” Richard, as well as the violence and ethno-political battles his legacy supposedly intertwined with. Another exhibit at the Canadian War Museum included an Anglophone wearing a Leafs jersey, a Francophone wearing a Habs jersey and an indigenous fan in Vancouver Canucks gear—all watching a humorous TV version of the battle that created Canada. From the places I went and the people I spent time with, I began to contemplate the country as a traveler, but through the lens of hockey. And vice-versa. So, sitting there at the game last week, the anti-man-about-town conjured up a bouillabaisse of connections between San Jose and Ottawa. Hell, it was easy. Sharks GM Doug Wilson is from Ottawa originally. He played junior hockey for the Ottawa 67’s in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA), as did two current Sharks—Jamie McGinn and Logan Couture—who were selected in the NHL Entry Drafts of 2006 and ’07 respectively. Current Ottawa forward Milan Michalek played several seasons with San Jose before they traded him to Ottawa in 2009. Following the game last week, the Sharks headed out on a four-game Canadian road trip before the all-star break. Sharks coach Todd McLellan and Logan Couture will represent San Jose at the NHL All-Star Game, which is in Ottawa this Sunday. Back during the dotcom boom, Ottawa was also known as Silicon Valley North. The suburban sprawl of nearby Kanata was the site of numerous high-tech ﬁrms and still remains the locale of Scotiabank Place, home ice of the Senators. Even though the Sharks lost the game, everything conjured up thoughts of the past, present and future. Ron Duguay, slime-covered San Jose cable TV technicians and the glorious capital city of Ottawa. I thank you all for the inspiration. And futurewise, may the Sharks bring home the Stanley Cup soon.

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companies companies lik like ke Facebook, Facebook,, Google, Google, Wikipedia Wikipedia and and other an other user-generated user-generated content content sites sites would would be forced forced to to dramatically dram maticallly restructure restructure and and monitor monitor content, content, possibly po ossibly delaying delaying posting posting times and rremoving emo ovving the immediacy of the social social eexperience, x erience, losing customers xp and ther therefore effor o e losing rrevenue. evenue. The bills’ bills’ goal is to combat combat fforeign o oreign sites stealing American stealin ng Americ an ccompanies’ ompanies’ intellectual intellectual property, property, but but American American sites sites that that don’t don’t fall fall under under defined defined domestic URLs bee targeted. U ccan an b targeted. Conversely, Conversely, sites sites based based outside outside of of the the United United States States with with .com, .com, .org, .org, .us .us and and other suffix suffixes—like xes—like Pirate Bay, Baay, for fo or instance—are instance—aare defined as “domestic” in the bills and would not b bee targeted. because targeted. Many M ny argue Man argue that b ecause of this alone, of these bills would alone, neither n make make any an ny headway headw h ay in combating combating online piracy. li pira i acyy. “They’re “They’re both both totally totally horrible horrible draconian draconian at aattempts tempts at ccontrolling ontrolling the the Internet, Internet,” says says Schell Schell Scivally, Scivally, lead lead d developer Bay developer at a a Ba ay Area Area software software developer, developer, the the Synapse Synapse Group. Group. “If “If I have have a website website that that has has users, users, I don’t don’t want want to to be be responsible responsible for for anything anything they they post post up up there, there, because because that’s that’s not not me, users..” me, it’s it’s the users As programmer and site designer designer,, As a pr ogrammer g Scivally affect way i ll says, saayyss, “it “i would ld aff ffect the ffe h w ay we we have have to to structure structure our our websites. websites. It It would mean moree work,, actually. an a lot mor actuallyy.” In In Silicon Silicon Valley, Valley, startup startup companies companies rarely large rarely have haave funds ffor o or a lar ge legal team. An An idea idea is is developed developed and and the the details details are are sorted becomes popular sorted out later l if it b ecomes p opular and an nd financially finan ncial ally viable. viable. According According to to a Booz Booz and an nd Co. Co. study study released releassed in in November, November, holding holding hosts hosts rather rather than than users accountable accoun ntable ffor o or ccontent ontent ccould ould reduce reduce the the pool pool of of “angel “angel investors” investors” for for startup byy 81 p percent. startup ccompanies om mpanies b ercent. “If “If [a [a startup starrtup company] compan ny] is is a social sociall technology, technology, you’re you’re pretty pretty much much screwed, screwed, unless unless you you have have a lot lot of of money money dedicated moderating, dedicated to o customer mo deratingg,” said Scivally. [social Scivallyy. “It fforces o orces [so cial media sites] to b become Brother. eccome Big Br other.”

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SOP SOPA PA and PIP PIPA PA include includ de Go Google, ogle, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook, Y aahoo, T witter, Fac w ebook,, AOL, AOL, Tumblr, T umblr, eBay, eBaay, Reddit, Reeddit,, Microsoft, M osoft, Micr Rackspace, R ackspacce, O’Reilly O’Reilly Media, Media, the the American A merican nC Civil ivil Liberties Liberties Union Union and and Internet a host of other Interne et ccompanies, ompanies, human h uman rights rights groups groups and and nonproﬁts nonproﬁts dedicated protecting free speech. dedic ated to pr otecting fr ee sp eech. Manyy of these ccompanies Man ompan nies ccollectively ollectively placed p laced a full-page full-page ad ad in in The The New New York Times Nov. Y ork T imes N ov. 115, 5, stating, stating, “We “We measures aare re cconcerned oncerned tthat hatt tthese hese m easures pose p ose a sserious erious risk risk to to our our industry’s industry’s innovation ccontinued ontinued track rrecord ecord of inno vation aand nd job job creation, creation, ass well well as as to to our our nation’s nation ’s cybersecurity. cybersecurity.” industry’s One of the tech indu ustry’s most beloved pioneers, b eloved p ioneers, Apple Apple co-founder co -founder Steve S teve W Wozniak, ozniak k, jjust ust told told the the Vancouver SOPA V aancou uver Sun, “If SO OP PA is passed,, a innocent people lot of inno cent p eoplee doing nothing wrong bee charged. wr ong would ld b char h ged. g d” Users off tthe are U sers o he IInternet nternet aatt llarge arrge ar re also bills. Once news al lso aagainst gainst tthe he b ills. O nce n ews broke domain host GoDaddy b roke tthat hat d omain h ost G oDaddy SOPA, ssupported upported S OPA, tthe he ccompany ompany llost ost 29,000 about 29,0 00 domain rregistries egistrries in ab out a week, adding up around $300,000 w eek, ad dding u p tto o ar round $ 300,000 annually. sincee changed annually y. GoDaddy hass sinc stance issue,, but did its “official”” st ance on the t issue many, customers.. not win back man ny, if an aany, ny, customers Congress been bombarded C ongress has also b e b een ombarded with i h ccalls. alls ll . Sen. Leahy Leah hy released released l da sstatement tatement Jan. Jan. 12, 12, saying, saying, “I “I and and the the bill’ss co-sponsors bill’ co-sponsors have haave continued continued hear tto oh earr cconcerns. oncerns. . . . This This is is in in ffact act a highly highly technical technical iissue, ssue, and and I am m prepared give pr epared to rrecommend ecommen nd we giv ve it moree study b before implementing mor effor o e imp plementing it.”

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Take a Number PRIMAL IMAL PLEASURE The chicken 65 at Sneha’s in Sunnyvale has a spicy bite and rich taste.

The South Bay is rich in Indian restaurants that h serve a special i l snack known as chicken 65 By BRIAN BULKOWSKI

HICKEN NUGGETS. Morsels cut small and fried, a dish elemental and primal, as popular as french fries. In the South Bay, the large south Indian community serves chicken 65, a particular species of chicken nugget marinated in chile powder, turmeric and ginger, then laced with red food coloring and curry leaves. It’s a simple and ubiquitous meat snack similar to Korean fried chicken or Chinese 1,000 chile chicken. Supposedly borrowed from China, it graces scores of Silicon Valley menus. Why the number 65? There are literally hundreds of theories. No

one knows and everyone who says they know is a liar. In an attempt to survey the area’s offerings, I have been reacquainted with the incredible depth of Indian food in the South Bay. From Chettinad curries and Hyderabad dum biryani to Indo-Chinese favorites such as Gobi Manchurian, the Silicon Valley is brimming with excellent south Indian choices and few of the rote standard Indian restaurant menus. There are two distinct styles of Chicken 65. The deep-fried version is a true bar snack item, eaten with the ﬁngers, and best with a cold, crisp lager. When overly fried, the dish simply tastes of oil and fry. As it cools, the subtle underlying spices emerge. I think it’s best eaten a day later. The softer, less fried version allows the marinade and the yogurt to survive to the table. The yogurt makes

the dish richer, and the spices are far more alive in the mouth. In this form, the and h dish di h is i less l appetizer i d more main course, best served over rice or with bread. I prefer this version. In order to eat at so many different restaurants, I ordered take-out and ﬁshed a bite out of the to-go container in the parking lot to taste it as it would be served in the restaurant. I ordered each with standard spice, although the deep-fried versions would be better ordered spicy. As each restaurant was sampled only once, this list should be a guide to your own exploration. AACHI APPAKADAI: This is a cozy spot that looks like an old adobe-style Mexican restaurant. The portion was large, and the restaurant gives a 5 percent discount for cash. Of the deep-fried versions, this one was more succulent and less crisp, allowing the spice to shine through. Price: $8.49. 3075 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, 408.243.2778. ANJAPPAR: Located in the Milpitas Square complex, Anjappar’s atmosphere is pleasant and bustling. The place specializes in Chettinad dishes and has a reputation for very hot food. The chicken 65 used the

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lightest frying and the highest spice level of all the deep-fried versions. Price: $8.99. 458 Barber Lane, Milpitas, 408.435.5500. ARKA: Arka was the most modern and upscale restaurant I visited. The menu includes tandoori, southern dosas and Belgian and local beer. The chicken 65 was spicy, and for a fried preparation it had more taste than most, but the portion size was small. The preparation was perfect for bar snacking, and Arka had the only bar atmosphere of the sample. Price: $7.95. 725 S. Fair Oaks Ave., Sunnyvale, 408.733.2752. ATHIDHI: This restaurant was full of patrons and had a homey, welcoming feel. The menu has Indo-Chinese dishes as well as less common dishes. The chicken 65 was overly crisp, thus removing much of the spice, but allowing the chicken taste to come through. Price: $6.99. 727 S. Wolfe Road Sunnyvale, 408.773.8412. Road, FUSION9: Fusion9 claims to be the FU only Indian drive-through in North Ame America. Whether true or not, the port portion was large, and prepared well th softer, stir-fried fashion. The in the settin is reminiscent of a hamburger setting chain that has seen better days. Use d the drive-through. Price: $5.99. 2277 Ca El Camino, Santa Clara, 408.296.2277. MAYURI: Mayuri is a large and MA ll well-appointed restaurant I’ve long enjoyed. Avoid the Wednesday dinner buffet but try the dosas, which are served with a sauce of unusual heat and complexity. Atmosphere is like a comfortable Midwestern coffee house or Denny’s. Alas, the deep-fried style chicken 65 was not a standout. Price: $7.95. 2230 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, 408.248.9747. SNEHA: Sneha has been selling chicken 65 for decades. Sneha’s version is redder than any other and the soft “stir-fried” preparation has a spicy bite and rich taste. The portion was large, the size of a full entree. The dish packed a complex punch and a highly addictive peculiar soft texture. Price: $7.95. 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale, 408.481.0700. These are but a few South Bay Indian restaurants that offer chicken 65. Although I had long known of the Indian food brilliance in Sunnyvale, I was amazed at the quantity and range of restaurants. From high end to drive-through, you owe it to yourself to try a few new places—and the chicken 65.

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GUIDE TO SANTA CRUZ COUNTY

What’s happening in Santa Cruz County this week partly because the modern-day troubadour is always on tour and has been for the past six years. He doesn’t even keep a home where he pays rent or a mortgage. “I am literally on the road 100 percent of the year,” Craigie says. “You gotta keep moving. You don’t want to overstay your welcome anywhere.” This Saturday Craigie, a UCSC alum, is playing his first headlining show in Santa Cruz. Since those early open mic days, Craigie, now 31, has honed John Craigie plays Saturday, Jan. 28 at 7pm a repertoire of serious at Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320-2 Cedar Street, songs like “So Many Santa Cruz. Tickets $18 adv/$22 door at www. Lives” mixed with in with snazzyproductions.com or 831.479.9421. goofier choices like his YouTube classic, “Chuck SATURDAY 1/28 Norris’ Tears Cure Cancer SIX-STRING (Too Bad He Never Cries).” Craigie’s mix of funny and STORIES serious stories is reminiscent Ramblin’ Man of Greg Brown, Arlo Guthrie JOHN CRAIGIE has plenty and Bob Dylan. Some of stories and song material, audiences may walk out

remembering his quirky song introductions and jokes more than his tunes themselves. It’s his unique delivery, after all, that has drawn comparisons to John Prine, Rambling Jack Elliot and even the late comedian Mitch Hedberg. “It’s sort of a way of pulling the audience in and saying, ‘I don’t know if this is funny, but I’m going to hope it works,’” says Craigie, who is promoting his new album, October is the Kindest Month. Craigie talks fast, using trademark cadence and well-timed pauses to give his stories extra punch and keep people coming back for more. “People ask, ‘Are you worried you’re going to run out of stories?’” Craigie explains. “And I say, ‘As long as I’m still living, the stories are going to keep coming.’”

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THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS Alternative music mainstays They Might Be Giants have done everything in their long careers. From their early years as the house band at Darinka

on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to Grammy Awards (two, for 2002’s “Boss of Me” and 2008’s Here Come the 123s), They Might Be Giants have used their knack for blending catchy melodies with offbeat humor to put together one of the most successful careers in the music business (and garnered a huge cult following along the way). They are currently touring in support of their new album, 2011’s Join Us. Rio Theatre; $25 adv/$28 door; 8pm.

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MONTCLAIR WOMEN’S BIG BAND Made up of 17 of the most highly regarded jazzwomen in the Bay Area, the Montclair Women’s Big Band is what All About Jazz calls “one of the most formidable jazz ensembles on the West Coast.” Founded in 1998 by trumpeter and bandleader Ellen Seeling, the band has garnered praise from audiences and critics alike for its dynamic, swinging blend of jazz and blues. Kuumbwa; $20 adv/$23 door; 7pm.

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CAPERS Well-heeled sports bar and restaurant. $$$. Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Well-devised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious ﬁnger foods. 11am-10:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-midnight FriSat, 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777. LA PIZZERIA Italian. $$. La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand on the strength of a few high-quality ingredients, expertly prepared. Open for lunch and dinner daily. 11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am11pm Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Ave. 408.370.0826.

MICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi standards are transformed into palate-awakening presentations; culinary boundaries are stretched. 11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.378.8000 or 378.0838. NEGEEN Persian. $$. Mira ghasemi, grilled and puréed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, puréed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs. Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice cream. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-midnight Fri-Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400.

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

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

RUSSIAN CAFÉ AND DELI Russian. $$. This is a small Russian grocery store with a good little restaurant tucked in the corner. Borscht soup, pelmeni and solyankya sbornaya, a thick soup studded with chunks of mild pork sausage, black olives, pickles and barley all satisfy. 11am8pm 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, freeflowing, piping-hot flatbreads the size of mini pitas. The bread forms the addictive heart of the meal. 11:30am-2pm, 510pm daily. 76 E. Campbell Ave. 408.884.3808.

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

CAFE TORRE New Italian. $$$. A gem tucked away in

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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, 5-10:30pm 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 Kong-style seafood. The seafood is very fresh, especially the creatures swimming minutes before they arrive on your plate. Good dim sum, too. Full bar. 11am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 10123 N. Wolfe Rd (in Cupertino Square). 408.996.1680.

FLORENTINE RESTAURANT Italian. $. Bold ﬂavors, fresh ingredients and lavish portions. Beer, wine. 10257 S. De Anza Blvd. (plus six other locations, some with full bars). 11:30am9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am10pm Fri-Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 408.253.6532.

FONTANA’S California/Italian. $$$. A steady performer, Fontana’s rarely disappoints pasta lovers. Beer, wine. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu,

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GOCHI Japanese. $$$. Gochi is a globally inspired izakaya (small plates) restaurant. Most of the food is straightup Japanese fare, but there are a few American, French and Korean twists. Highly recommended. 19980 Homestead Rd. 408.725.0542. LOON WAH Chinese. $. The kitchen produces good wokcentric dishes, but its main draw is fresh, hand-pulled noodles. Casual. Beer, wine. 11am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri-Sun. 1146 De Anza Blvd. 408.257.8877.

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

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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. $$$. Elegant seafood, meat and game dishes lean toward reducing fat without compromising taste. Call for reservations. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; 5-9pm daily. 170 State St. 650.948.1382. CHEF CHU’S Chinese. $$. Speedy service, superb preparation and the ability to

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cater to varied tastes keep this landmark in business. Full bar. 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11:30-10pm Fri, noon-10pm Sat, noon-9:30pm Sun. 1067 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.2696.

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

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

SATURA CAKES FrenchJapanese bakery. $. Satura Cakes offers sweet treats for adult tastes. A Japanese take on a French patisserie, these confections are prepared fresh daily and meticulously crafted using the ﬁnest organic ingredients. 8am-8pm daily. 200 Main St. 650.948.3300. (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, 11:30am-2pm, 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 full-bodied ﬂavors and healthy ingredients. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Thu, 5-10pm Fri-

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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 Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 206 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6434.

GREEN PAPAYA Vietnamese. $$. California cuisine meets Southeast Asia by way of Paris, with inventive updates of clay pot and ﬁve-spice authentica. Beer, wine. 11am-3pm, 59:30pm Tue-Sun. 137 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9115.

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HIS SATURDAY marks the 2012 Winter KraftBrew Beer Fest, a welcome opportunity to shake off those winter doldrums. As a follow-up to last spring’s inaugural KraftBrew, this edition focuses on the spiced ales, porters and stouts introduced by craft breweries throughout the past holiday season. With local musicians, a revamped menu and still-growing list of brews, Winter KraftBrew looks to be even bigger than its predecessor.

Held for the second time at the Landmark Ballroom in the San Jose Women’s Club, KraftBrew is the work of Chris Esparza, Brendan Rawson and Louis Silva, who opened the neighborhood bistro Naglee Park Garage in 2006. Silva, the Garage’s head chef, is constantly on the lookout for new brews, but it was thanks to the support from the Garage’s customers and staff that the trio garnered enough confidence to launch KraftBrew last year. “We are having a lot of fun choosing beers that are great companions for this cold and damp time of year,” wrote KraftBrew co-founder Rawson in an email, “so you’ll see some flavorful American spiced ales and porters as well as some big robust stouts.” “We also have some hard-to-find beers from Belgium, France, Austria and Scotland,” he added. But for those intimidated by the extensive list of brews, Rawson recommends the Old Viscosity Ale from Port Brewing, Drake’s Drakonic Russian Imperial Stout and the IPA from Utah’s Uinta Brewing Company. In addition to tastings, guests will be able to chat with representatives from local breweries including Bison Brewing Company, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Santa Cruz Ale Works and Devil’s Canyon Brewery, as well as hear from speakers like Ryan Summers, owner of Good Karma restaurant. To pair with the robust craft brews, Silva has come up with a menu of hearty dishes: ale-poached smoked bratwurst and Polish dogs, cocoa-braised beef stew and dark-ale braised pork ribs. Vegetarians will appreciate the beet and green bean salad, home fries with smoked porter ketchup and winter vegetable lasagna. Headlining the musical lineup is accordionist and California native Andre Thierry, whose band Zydeco Magic melds the rhythmic foundations of Louisiana’s French Creole culture with hip-hop, blues, jazz and rock. The Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience blends Celtic, folk and Americana tunes, while the Pimpsticks bring back 1940s–1960s swinging jazz and R&B with a vengeance. Admission to the event is free, although guests must pay to taste. —Misa Shikuma KraftBrew; Saturday, 3–9pm; Landmark Ballroom, 75 S. 11th St., San Jose

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SVDINING 32 I GATTI New Italian. $$$. I Gatti ﬁts like a glove along peaceful Main Street. The chef understands the basics but isn’t afraid to create refreshing twists on traditional recipes. 11:30am-2pm, 5-9:30pm MonSat, 5-9pm Sun 25 E. Main St. 408.399.5180.

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

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

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

MANRESA High concept. $$$$. Drawing from produce grown at his own farm, superstar chef David Kinch is blazing a trail of high caliber cuisine that’s as daring as it is delicious. Expensive but worth it. 320 Village Lane. 408.354.4330.

NICK’S ON MAIN American. $$$. Nick’s on Main is a relaxed but elegant bistro full of neighborly charm and is a showcase for owner Nick Difu’s decadent and deeply satisfying style of cooking. 11:30am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 35 E. Main St. 408.399.6457.

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

RESTAURANT JAMES RANDALL Californian. $$$. Chef and co-owner Ross Hanson takes his cues from the seasons and favors a simple, ingredient-driven approach that places it squarely in the California school of cooking. He favors big, robust ﬂavors and large serving sizes to create a kind of California comfort food. 5:30-11pm Tue-Sat. 303 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.4441.

STEAMER’S New American. $$$. Styling itself as a grill house, Steamer’s includes rotisserie meats and fragrant grilled chops in addition to fresh ﬁsh. Quality control and service are excellent. Full bar. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm daily. 31 University Ave. 408.395.2722.

TANDOORI OVEN Indian. $. Tandoori Oven has quickly found its niche in Los Gatos among the burrito joints, sushi spots and upscale restaurants with its made-to-order curry dishes and spicy north Indian fare at good prices. 11:30am9:30pm daily. 133 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, 408.395.1784; 1875 S. Bascom Ave., Campbell, 408.559.3885; and 109 S. First St., San Jose, 408.292.7222. TAPESTRY Contemporary haute. $$$. Right on the main street, this cottagelike spot blends traditional French cooking with contemporary fusion: filet mignon with Mongolian-style brown sauce; crayfish chow mein. Elegant and friendly. 11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm Tue-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 11 College Ave. 408.395.2808. THREE DEGREES Eclectic, California. $$$. Set inside the beautifully remodeled Toll House Hotel, Three Degrees delivers a mixed bag of big and small plates from an eclectic menu. Some dishes, like the New York steak, are great, but others fall flat. Full bar. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri; dinner 3-10pm daily. 140 S. Santa Cruz Blvd. 408.884.1054.

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While the kitchen exudes earthy aromas, the dining room’s soft terra-cotta walls glow with a sense of Mediterranean mission. Handson management makes each patron feel pampered. Full bar. 5pm-close daily. 160 W. Main St. 408.354.8108.

VIVA LOS GATOS NEIGHBORHOOD EATERY California. $$$. This popular Los Gatos restaurant mixes it up with Italian-leaning Mediterranean food, fresh ﬁsh, grilled steaks and several Asian-inspired dishes. 11am-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 8am10:30pm Sat, 8am-9:30pm Sun. 15970 Los Gatos Blvd. 408.356.4902.

WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$. Silicon Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the deﬁnitive upwardly mobile California pizza. Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian wood-ﬁred oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas—delicate, light and satisfying. Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.5566. 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. 11:30am9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10:30am-9pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.4808.

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

BISTRO MAXINE Cafe. $$. Bistro Maxine is a bright, friendly little spot, a coffee

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CAFE BRIOCHE Southern French. $$. Mediterranean magic: exceptional cuisine on oversize plates is whisked to tables as soon as it’s created. Breakfast 9-11am, lunch 11am3pm, dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri; brunch 9am-3pm, dinner 5:30-10pm Sat-Sun. 445 California Ave. 650.326.8640.

CAFFE RIACE Trattoria. $$. An absolute joy. Every dish is made with honest expertise—no tricky trendiness here. The homey offerings are based on wholesome Italian staples. Beer, wine. 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sun. 200 Sheridan Ave. 650.328.0407.

CALAFIA CAFE AND MARKET A GO-GO Eclectic. $$. Calafia Cafe and Market A Go-Go combines elements of the fast-food world and the laborintensive slow cooking of more-high-end restaurants. Chef and owner Charlie Ayers (who was Google’s first chef) calls his concept “slow food fast”—good-to-eat and goodfor-you food that he hopes will appeal to Silicon Valley’s frenetic, too-busy-to-eat pace of life. Look for good burgers, pizza, salads and fresh fish. 11am-9pm Mon-Fri, 9am-9pm Sat-Sun. 858 El Camino Real. 650.322.9200.

COUPA CAFE Venezuelan.

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

EVVIA Contemporary Aegean. $$$. Forward flavors and plenty of laughter—that’s Dionysian dining. Evvia feels like a little taverna on Paros, only with an unmistakable Bay Area sophistication. Full bar. 420 Emerson St. 650.326.0983. FUKI SUSHI Japanese. $$$. For over two decades this superb Japanese restaurant has served sushi to Nobel laureates and other grateful foodies. Open daily. 4119 El Camino Real. 11:30am-10pm Tue-Sun. 650.494.9383. www. fukisushi.com. GORDON BIERSCH New American. $$$. Food takes equal billing with ambience and fine handmade beers at the first in this group of successful brewpubs. The menu is so fine-tuned, though, it could thrive even without a brewery attached. Beer, wine. 11:30am-10pm daily. 640 Emerson St. 650.323.7723. Also 33 E. San Fernando St, San Jose. 408.294.6785.

GREEN ELEPHANT GOURMET Burmese. $$. Burmese food draws inﬂuences from its three largest neighbors: China, India and Thailand. Standouts here include the coconut chicken soup, tangy tea leaf salad and refreshing glass noodle salad. Lunch 11am2:30pm, dinner 4:30-9pm daily. 3950 Middleﬁeld Rd (Charleston Shopping Center). 650.494.7391.

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

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

and 5:30-10pm Mon-Fri, 5:3010:30pm Sat. 150 University Ave. 650.329.9644.

LA BODEGUITA DEL MEDIO Cuban/California. $$$. Themed after a vintage Havana haunt of Ernest Hemingway’s, this zesty restaurant serves lively Cuban-inﬂuenced cuisine along with liquid staples like rum and mojitos in a handsome, casual atmosphere. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-10pm FriSat. 463 S.California Ave. 650.326.7762.

LAVANDA Mediterranean. $$$. This urban grill at the top of University Avenue offers eclectic, small tasting plates, along with heartier fare such as roasted sea bass with chanterelle mushrooms and guinea fowl with sautéed chard. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun, 5-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 185 University (at Emerson). 650.321.3514. MANTRA French, American and Indian. $$$. Mantra serves inventive French and American food that speaks with an Indian accent. It isn’t fusion, but a more subtle blend of surprisingly compatible ﬂavors and techniques. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Tue-Fri, dinner 5-10pm Sun-Thu and 5:30-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 632-636 Emerson St. 650.322.3500.

MAYFIELD BAKERY AND CAFE American. $$$. With its simple but handsome décor, open kitchen fronted by a long counter and tidy stacks of split almond logs tucked against the wall for the great-smelling wood-burning oven, Mayfield Bakery and Cafe presents updated versions of seasonally driven Mediterranean and American classics—big, bold, rustic flavors and simple preparations that aim to let locally grown ingredients speak for themselves without any undue manipulation or pretence. You know the stuff: Niman Ranch burgers, spitroasted meats, frisée salads with crumbled bacon and a poached egg on top, pizzas, grilled fish, crusty, fresh bread and hearty, satisfying desserts. 8am-4pm and 5-9pm Mon-Fri; 9am-4pm and 5-9pm Sat-Sun. 855 El Camino Real. 650.853.9200.

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

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

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Though no one with a Mohawk probably wants to admit it, punk has its share of one-hit wonders. The difference is that while pop music’s usually fade away, some of the punk bands known for pretty much one song still manage to have lasting inﬂuence in the genre. That’s the case with the Avengers, who were the biggest seller on the legendary punk label Dangerhouse Records when they put out their We Are the One EP in 1977. Based on the popularity of the title song, and probably the fact that they lived in SF, the Avengers opened

for the Sex Pistols at Winterland Ballroom—the Pistols’ notorious last show. The Avengers didn’t last much longer, breaking up in 1979. Lead singer Penelope Houston went on to play folk music, but the anthemic power of “We Are the One” wouldn’t go away. A few years, Houston and original guitarist Greg Ingraham put together a new version of the Avengers and are still playing occasional shows for the leaders of tomorrow. (SP)

know how to slow down. It seems like he’s in a different county every week insulting yet another new MC’s penis. Somewhere between ﬂights he managed to record an album, The SelfHelp Tapes. He’s already released four songs, but the entire album comes out the day of this show. Despite the funny title and the even funnier cover (think Zach Galiﬁanakis pretending to be a motivational speaker) the album contains some of Dan’s most serious, heartfelt songs to date, rapping about how much he loves his wife, family and friends. But don’t worry, next battle he’ll still have at least a dozen new dick jokes prepared. (AC)

it, when Santa Cruz’s Wild Ones throw punk speed into the Wall of Sound. They just ﬁnished a tour that took them up and down the West Coast, and also introduced them to the unfortunate rite of passage that is having your van broken into and your gear stolen. This quartet of rock divas, however, proved irrepressible and have a full schedule of upcoming gigs. Not bad for a band that played its ﬁrst show four months ago. (SP)

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Motif, San Jose Thu– 10pm; $10

Caravan, San Jose Thu – 9pm; free

San Jose’s favorite foul-mouthed battle rapper, Dirtbag Dan doesn’t

The classic-girl-group revival continues—and why shouldn’t

Usurper Vong proudly proclaims that they are from San Jose every chance they get, but I’m have trouble believing they’re not from another planet. Good luck ﬁnding any kind of neat classiﬁcation for these guys—not even a

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very broad deﬁnition like “rock” can cover them. But they do use geek-rock devices like sudden and abrupt changes in rhythm and key, and moaning, spoken-word vocals, with lyrics that barely make sense. (JA)

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FIERCE CREATURES Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $8 Fresno, really? Fierce Creatures need to get their asses to the South Bay, where their gorgeous brand of indie dream-rock is currently all the rage thanks to bands like the Record Winter, Ugly

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Jan 28 at 7pm, Poor House Bistro, San Jose

RICHARD EGARR, BACH RECITAL Feb 1 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

THIS CHARMING BAND Feb 3 at 9pm, the Blank Club, San Jose

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

SPENCER DAY Feb 11 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

SUPER LOVE JAM Feb 11 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

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EDDIE PALMIERI Feb 12 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

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Winner and Bell Thieves, the latter of whom will not coincidentally also be performing at this show. Gotta love Fierce Creatures’ “Satan is a Vampire,” with shimmering guitars and pounding drum driving one of their typically ornate arrangements—you can never quite be sure if their songs will blow up into something orchestral, settle into acoustic riffs, or take a sudden left-ﬁeld turn into spaghetti-western chants. (SP)

hardcore songs, only they didn’t want it to be full of screaming like most hardcore bands. Instead they found a singer that could, well, sing. They ended up creating some catchy, bombastic punk songs that could best be called ‘hardcore-pop.’ Also, there’s electronic-programming on some of their songs. OK, there is some screaming, but there is less screaming than programming. That’s how little screaming there is. (AC)

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HERO SHOT Nickel City, San Jose Sat – 6pm; $6

Down in Salinas, Hero Shot set out to play some loud, aggressive

KING CONQUER The Refuge, Cupertino Mon – 6pm; $10/$12

Did you know that Tampa, Florida,

is the death metal capital of the world? It’s true! Every noteworthy death metal band either came from Tampa or nearby. There’s Cannibal Corpse, Death, Atheist, Obituary; the list goes on … all the way to King Conquer, though technically they are from Naples, Fla. That’s three hours away— close enough! Their music is a pure sonic assault—lots of ear-bleeding distortion, neverending double-bass drum rolls and of course screaming. Lots of growling, like a mufﬂed demon voice beckoning you closer. Should be a fun night; leave the kids in the car. (AC)

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FROST HAMMER Johnny V’s, San Jose Tue – 9pm; $5 If Danzig wrote songs about wizards and magical dwarves instead of zombies and Satan, he might have been invited to join Frost Hammer. It fact, it kind of sounds like he did, since their lead singer has a similar soulful, crooning voice, and the riffs are moody, blues-based classic headbangers that pack a punch. Some of the best parts are right there in-between vocals, during the lengthy instrumental jams. There’s tempo changes, intense buildups, heavy pounding chords, and of course, frantic guitar solos. Orbiter 500 also performs. (AC)

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BLAKE SHELTON Mar 16 at HP Pavilion

LADY ANTEBELLUM Mar 23 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

PHILIP GLASS Apr 7 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

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PARTNERS RTNERS IN CRIME AND PASSION Carrie Paff and John Bogar play a pair of lovers hoping to outsmart the insurance company in ‘Double Indemnity.’

San Jose Rep’s ’ stage version i of Double Indemnity is noir for a post-psycho-thriller world By STEVE PALOPOLI

ILLY WILDER’s ﬁlm version of Double Indemnity is so iconic now that it’s easy to forget that originally the story came from a much different book by hardboiled noir writer James M. Cain, who also gave the world The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce. Part of the reason most people have overlooked Cain’s novel is that Wilder’s ﬁlm, co-written by Raymond Chandler, is vastly superior. To be fair, it also happens to be my favorite movie of all time, and there’s a certain fanaticism that sets in after 15 or 20 viewings. Cain himself admitted that if he had thought of many of the changes Wilder and Chandler made to

his novel, he’d have used them. That doesn’t mean, however, that Cain’s version should be eclipsed. Even more than his other books, Double Indemnity leans heavily on a ferociously paced, plot-driven style that many have called “economical,” but might also be described as “mechanical”—a good portion of the unforgettable character study we remember from Double Indemnity originated in the film. But the book mines a different, darker and more extreme vein than the subtler, shades-of-gray Wilder take. First and foremost, the story is about death, and more specifically about a one-woman cult of death named Phyllis. Though movie fans will remember Barbara Stanwyck’s portrayal of a restrained, enigmatic femme fatale, she’s really not much like the Phyllis of the book—who is, not to put too fine a point on it, a psycho bitch from hell. For their new stage adaptation

i att S h t now on view San JJose R Rep, what playwrights David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright seem to have realized is that Phyllis is, weirdly enough, a femme fatale for our time. Despite the fact that Double Indemnity was originally serialized in 1936 (and published as a slim novel in 1943, two years before the movie version), Cain’s Phyllis fits in far better among the villains of modern psycho-thrillers than she did in the sultry world of mid-20th-century noir. Like Basic Instinct’s Catherine Tramell, she kills for thrills; like Fatal Attraction’s Alex Forrest, she confuses romance and sickness; like Single White Female’s Hedy Carlson, she won’t stop until everyone around her is dead or ruined. The stage version does borrow from the movie (for instance, there’s no wrap-around narration in the book), but mostly it sticks close to Cain, lifting chunks of dialogue verbatim from the novel and going back to the original names (Walter Huff instead of Neff, Phyllis Nerdlinger instead of Dietrichson, etc). Fans of the film will find it a fascinating alternate universe for that reason alone, but this co-production from San Jose Rep and ACT Seattle stands on its own, as well.

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The switch does take some getting used to: John Bogar as Walter Huff— the insurance salesman who gets involved with Phyllis and promises they’ll collect $50,000 from his murder if they can make it look like an accident that falls under his policy’s “double indemnity” clause—doesn’t use a lot of the noir conventions we’re used to. He’s passionate and emotional, and hides his darkness behind a quick smile rather than a deadpan stare. The same is true with Carrie Paff as Phyllis—emotionally, she’s all over the place. These are the kind of twofisted, hot-blooded characters Cain populated his stories with, not the droll, ever-cool noir anti-heroes of the movies. Things speed along nicely in Act I, even when Cain’s shortcomings in the sparkling-dialogue department show. sparkling-d really Act II that delivers the But it’s real Whether one has seen the shocks. Wh not, without having read movie or n there’s no way anyone could the book th where Cain took this story. The guess wher Grisham–type paranoia and John Grish bizarre last scene are straight totally biza book, and they’re fun to from the bo watch. h The h action burns like a fever dream through the whole second half. As usual, the Rep’s staging is simple and effective. Director Kurt Beattie does incredible things with the fluid, surreal transitions, and lighting director Rick Paulsen nails a perfect noir-nightmare mix of spotlight and shadow. The only thing I couldn’t accept was the use of the same actors for multiple roles. Since the cast is uniformly excellent in their primary roles, it was distracting to see them filling in for the few incidental parts as well. Why is Richard Ziman, who delivers a fantastic take on Huff ’s boss, Keyes (he will stun anyone expecting a retread of Edward G. Robinson from the film), also stuck playing the thankless role of Phyllis’ husband? It’s a minor complaint, of course— the Rep’s production is a great take on a classic and a true Double Indemnity for our time.

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SV International Art Competition Sunday, 10am on; Visual and Performance Art Center of De Anza College, Cupertino The competition is designed to enhance cultural dialogue between China and the United States and features young performers in a variety of categories, from piano and folk instruments to painting, martial arts, acrobatics and dance. The competitive performances take place all day at De Anza College (with the martial arts happening at the Chinese Performing Arts Center in San Jose), with a gala awards presentation at 4:30pm and a celebration party at 9:30pm. (See www.artsiliconvalley.org for details.)

Crossing Delancey Runs Jan. 27–Feb. 19; Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose; $15–$35 Susan Sandler’s play about a young woman named Izzy who wants to be part of New York’s literati set while her Jewish grandmother Bubbie tries to marry her off to a pickle vendor, got made into a well-received 1988 movie with Amy Irving. Tabard Theatre presents the original version of the warm-hearted cross-generational drama, directed by Cathy Spielberger Cassetta.

Chicana/o Biennial Runs through March 10; MACLA, San Jose The creative ferment of the area’s art scene can be experienced in a concentrated dose in MACLA’s biannual show. The 23 artists in the exhibit are on the leading edge of Chicano art-making in a wide range of media in the Bay Area—many with a strong emphasis on politics and community interaction. There will be a reception with talks by some of the artists on Feb. 3 at 6pm.

*stage Theater APHRODISIAC A drama about a politician and his missing aide. Written by Rob Handel and presented by City Lights. Runs thru Feb 19. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm (7pm on Jan 29). $25-$35. City Lights, San Jose.

CROSSING DELANCEY Susan Sandler’s play tells the story of a woman who wants to move into Manhattan’s literary scene. Presented by Tabard Theatre. Jan. 27-Feb

19. 19 Opens Sat, Sat 8pm. 8pm Regular shows: Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square.

DOUBLE INDEMNITY A stage adaptation by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright of the famed James M. Cain story about a not-sobright insurance salesman and a sultry siren with a husband in need of eliminating. Presented by San Jose Rep. Runs thru Feb 5. Wed, 7:30pm (plus 11am on Jan 25), Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm, Tue, 7:30pm. $29-$74. San Jose Repertory Theatre.

DOUBT, A PARABLE At a Catholic school,

allegations of sexual misconduct affect the lives of four people; a Bus Barn Stage Company production. Runs Jan 26-Feb 18. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun (Feb 5 and 12), 3pm, plus Wed (Feb 8 and 15), 7:30pm. Preview (Jan 26), $24, opening night with champagne reception, Fri, $32. Regular admission $24-$30. Bus Barn Theatre, Los ALtos.

FINIAN’S RAINBOW South Bay Musical Theatre presents a story of an Irish family, a pot of gold and a leprechaun. Runs Jan 28-Feb 18. This week: Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $18-$38. Saratoga Civic Theater.

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A one-man play about President Truman and his no-nonsense style of politics and governing; presented by Palo Alto Players. Jan 27 preview, runs Jan 28-Feb 5. This week: Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $20-$29. Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.

A version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” mashed up with Joss Whedon’s “Fireﬂy.” Fri, 8pm, Sat, 1:30pm. $10/$20. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

MARVIN’S ROOM Two sisters are brought together after years of estrangement in a dark comedy by Scott McPherson; a Dragon presentation. Runs thru Feb 12. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $16$30. Dragon Theater, Palo Alto.

A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN Pear Avenue presents the Eugene O’Neill drama about the troubled Tyrone family. Runs thru Feb 5. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$30. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.

ON THE TOWN The Bernstein, Comden and Green musical is staged by South Valley Civic Theatre. Runs thru Feb 11. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $14/$18. Morgan Hill Community Playhouse.

THE PITMEN PAINTERS TheatreWorks mounts a West Coast premiere of Lee Hall’s play about coal miners who take up ﬁne art. Runs thru Feb 12. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm (2pm only Feb 11), Sun, 2 and 7pm (2pm only Fed 12), Tue, 7:30pm. $29-$49. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

SILICON VALLEY ARTS COALITION ARTS PANORAMA A gala with wine, desserts, art auction and entertainment by member groups, including the Mission Chamber Orchestra, Nova Vista Symphony, South Bay Guitar Society and more. Fri, 6:30pm. $25. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL ART COMPETITION Competitors will perform music, dance and martial arts. Sun, 10am-6pm. There will be a gala awards performance at 4:30pm and a party at 6:30pm. Competition at Visual and Performance Art Center, De Anza College, Cupertino; ceremony at Mission Hills, Saratoga. (Martial arts competition starts at 8am at Chinese Performing Arts of America Culture & Arts Center, San Jose.)

Classical Concerts PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA Conductor and harpsichordist Richard Egarr joins the orchestra for a program of selections by Handel, Locke, Purcell and Lawes. Thu, 8pm, $25-$85. Center for Performing Arts, Atheron.

Night hosted by West Hoffman, with Paul Ogata and Mike Betancourt. $12. Gilroy.

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

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: United Nations Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 7 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 10pm, Sun, 7 and 10pm: Jo Koy. $30. San Jose.

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Museums

CHARLES FERGUSON The classical guitarist performs solo and with guest trio. Sat, 8pm. $5-$10. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

DAVID HIGGS A performance of organ music by Bach and others. Wed, 8pm. Free. Memorial Church, Stanford.

PAUL HILLIER’S THEATRE OF VOICES A mix of pop and contemporary music; program features world premiere commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts. Wed, 8pm. $44/$50. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

HAMED NIKPAY An evening with world music fusionist on multiple instruments. Fri, 8pm. Free. Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford.

ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET The group performs works by Haydn, Schumann and Berger, with help from pianist Pedja Muzijevic and soprano Mellissa Hughes. Sun, 2:30pm. $2550. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

Comedy ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 8pm: Comedy night hosted by Dan St. Paul. No cover. Redwood City.

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

NINE LIVES Wed, 8pm: Downtown Comedy

CONTINUING ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “Source Material: Works by Darla McKenna, Jeanne Tillman and Josette Urso.” Assemblage pieces. Thru Mar 9. Reception Sun, 4-5pm. Wed-Sun, 11am5pm. Los Gatos.

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

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

DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Andy Warhol: Polaroids and Portraits.” Thru Jul 1. “Golden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited.” A documentary photo exhibit by Rick Nahmias about marginalized communities and spirituality. Thru Mar 28. “Between Struggle and Hope: Envisioning a Democratic Art in the 1930s.” Thru Feb 5. Tue-Sun, 11am4pm. Santa Clara University.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM Call for info. Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.

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

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Ultimate Aphrodisiac EVERY FEW DAYS, it seems, some “family values” politician is caught sleeping with an intern, soliciting sex in a restroom or asking his second wife for an open marriage. What boggles the mind, besides the hypocrisy involved, is how these men can engage in behavior that they know could destroy their careers. Rob Handel’s Aphrodisiac, now at City Lights, is a political thriller—with a twist, which I’ll get to in a moment—that speculates about this mystery of the political beast. Based loosely on the Gary Condit–Chandra Aphrodisiac Levy affair of 2001, Aphrodisiac follows the case of Congressman Dan Ferris, who becomes Runs through Feb. 19; embroiled in scandal after the disappearance of $15–$30 his mistress, Ilona Waxman. City Lights Theater Company, 529 S. Second In the opening scene, the married congressman St., San Jose (who, like Condit, had chastised Bill Clinton for his extramarital affair) is dining with Ilona. They quarrel and leave the restaurant, and after the scene ends, we learn that the poor girl has vanished. The play then throws us for a loop: The characters we saw were actually Ferris’ children, Alma and Avery, acting out the parts. The siblings, played by Kate McGrath and George Psarras, rarely see their father and have taken to role-playing as a way of demystifying him. The actual Dan Ferris never appears, except in offstage voiceovers. Alma and Avery toss around a number of chilling scenarios involving their dad—maybe he killed Ilona or hired someone else to do it—but also some very funny insights into Washington, including an anecdote about Bill Clinton, Willie Nelson and Keith Richards hanging out and talking about girls. The two eventually meet Monica Lewinsky (yes, Monica Lewinsky), played astutely and with a surprising amount of dignity by Amanda Folena. This character sheds light not only on the behavior of men in power, but gives the perspective of the women who become involved with them. In the end, Alma and Avery come up with their own conclusions, though the truth is still open to interpretation. Running at about 80 minutes, this is a compact little play, smartly directed by Lisa Mallette, that will, perhaps, give audiences a fresh perspective on the next political sex scandal. However, the multiple layers of impersonation by the actors—McGrath playing Alma playing Alma’s mother, or Psarras playing Avery playing Ferris playing Clinton—are what really make the production interesting.—Sean Conwell

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FINDING FATHER Alma (Kate McGrath) and Avery (George Psarras) act out their father’s indiscretions in ‘Aphrodisiac.’

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metroactive ARTS 42 MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE “A Child’s World: Antique Toys, 1870-1930.” Thru Apr 29. Fri-Sun, 11am-4pm. 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. “Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks.” A selection of photographs taken by Owens in the 1970s. Thru Feb 5. Works by installation artist Anna Sew Hoy in the Beta Space. Thru Feb 26. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

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

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

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART Works by Eve Page Mathias. Thru Feb 12. Department of Art Faculty show. Thru Feb 5. Statewide Painting Competition and Exhibit. Thru Feb 12. TueWed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries OPENING MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “O’ Great Reverie: Montalvo 1912-2012.” An exhibit about the history of the estate built by James Phelan 100 years ago. Jan 27-May 13. Reception Fri, 7pm. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.

CONTINUING ANITA SEIPP GALLERY “Waterforms.” Paintings and prints by Sukey Bryan. Thru Feb 3. Palo Alto.

BRUNI GALLERY “The Jazz Masters Series” by BRUNI. San Jose.

MACLA “Chicana/o Biennial.” A group show featuring new works by

Chicano artists. Thru Mar 10. Reception Feb 3, 6-8pm. WedThu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon5pm. San Jose.

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

PARC GALLERY A show about information culture by L.A. artist Katie Herzog. Thru Mar 30. Mon-Fri, 8am-5pm. Xerox, Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE CITY HALL “City of Champions: 2001, a San Jose Soccer Odyssey.” An exhibit of photos and other historical items relating to the history of soccer in the city. Thru Feb 29. Wing of San Jose City Hall.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “One Thing Leads to Another.” A group show about process and repetition in prints and drawings. Thru Feb 25. “Dos Mundos.” Works by Tim Craighead. Thru Feb 18. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

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.

WELTON GALLERY “Self-Help Book Club.” An exhibit of new works by ﬁrstyear MFA students. Thru Feb 26. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun, 1-5pm. Stanford.

Books RICHARD GARTNER The local author appears to sign copies of his novel “The Angel Jon.” Sat, noon. Elva’s Coffee Stop, San Jose.

SV READS A literary program with authors Sumbul Ali-Karamali and G. Willow Wilson and columnist Mike Cassidy. Wed, 7:30pm. Free. Campbell Heritage Theatre.

Kids GO , DOG. GO! A family play. Thu-Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2 and 7pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs

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Every Thu thru Mar 1, 7pm. $20 per lecture. Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara.

BOOK SALES Bargains in all genres to help the Friends of the King Library. Sat, 1am-5pm, SUn, 1-5pm. King Main Library, San Jose.

CAPITALISM 2.0 A Commonwealth Club talk by Sramana Mitra, founder of 1M/1M Global Initiative about the need for reforms to capitalism. Thu, 7pm. $7-$20. SV Bank, Santa Clara.

PATRICK DOUGHERTY LECTURE The environmental artists talks about his site-speciﬁc works. Wed, 7pm. Free. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre.

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

FIGURE SKATING U.S. championship event. Runs thru Jan 29. Various times. HP Pavilion, San Jose.

HACK THE FUTURE A chance for young tinkerers to learn about innovation and creation. Sat, 10am-5pm. $10. Tech Museum, San Jose.

ISLAMIC ART San Jose Museum of Art, Institute for Contemporary Art and Tech Museum present a screening of the new documentary “Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World.” Sun, 2pm. $10. San Jose Museum of Art.

NASA EXPLORATION LECTURE A talk about national disaster resiliency with Robert Dolci, Martin Griss, Steve Jordan and Tor Andre Nilson. Tue, 7-9pm. Free. NASA Ames Research Center, Bld. 3 Ballroom.

TEEN VOLUNTEER FAIR High school students are welcome learn about volunteer opportunities with local noproﬁts. Sat, 9am-noon. Lexus of Stevens Creek, San Jose.

She’s Leaving Home FAMILY STRAIN Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moadi) are on the verge of a breakup in ‘A Separation.’

In the Iranian feature A Separation, a knockout follows a spiral of lies in the wake of a split-up By RICHARD VON BUSACK

NOTHER BRILLIANT movie from the land of brilliant movies, Iran’s A Separation unfolds in layers, with a secret revealed in the last 20 minutes.

There isn’t a lead actor per se; the cast is more of a circle than a hierarchy. But director Asghar Farhadi has cast his daughter, Sarina, in an auspicious debut. This preciously wise and pretty girl plays 10-going-on-11 Termeh: a student with no social life to speak of (her

life is all homework and tutoring). However, she receives a shaming ethics lesson at home. Termeh’s parents are on the threshold of divorce. Her mother, Simin (Leila Hatami), has already moved back in with her own parents for the time being. Simin yearns to take her family out of Iran, perhaps to the West. The ﬁlm doesn’t explain why a Europeanized English teacher who drives a Peugeot would want to leave Iran. The audience can hazard a guess or two. Simin’s husband, Nader (Peyman Moadi), who works at a bank, is granted custody of his daughter. Nader needs to stay in Iran to tend to his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father

(Ali-Asghar Shahabazi). He hires a caretaker for the father. She’s the deeply religious Razieh (Sareh Bayat); she’s pregnant, but not visibly so, because of her tentlike black robes. When Razieh arrives, the troubles begin. This would-be nursemaid is hiding her job from her angry blue-collar husband, Hodjat (Shahab Hosseini). And the senile old man turns incontinent and has to have his pants changed. (Terriﬁed of being exposed to male nudity, Razieh phones an imam to ask for guidance: “Will it count as a sin?”) Razieh is overwhelmed by caring for the old man. When Nader’s father is injured as a result of her inexperience, Nader strikes back against Razieh physically. She miscarries. Charges are ﬁled. It’s up to the court to decide whether Nader should go to jail for infanticide—or perhaps even to the gallows. Razieh’s outraged husband seems

A Separation PG-13; 123 min. Opens Friday

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a particularly universal character: the young father with a stunning instinct for making matters worse for himself and his family. Hodjat’s own troubles include a ruinous lawsuit and the threat of debtor’s prison. And yet you see Hodjat’s side of it, too, especially when Nader’s story starts to get as fishy as a vat of bouillabaisse. We have so many, many movies, and so few have a real reason to exist. A Separation was made under pressure and with clear urgency; rich as it is, it has no extraneous details. And despite the simmer to this story, and editing that’s so sharp it’s almost harsh, A Separation is visually toiled over. Hand-held freshness melds with satisfyingly complex setups, with scenes playing out in rear-view mirrors and in reflections. A Separation has probably been framed for viewing on TV, but it has some classic elements. It’s strange how black chadors isolate actress’s faces and put the emphasis on the em drama there, as if in a great silent film. (How can swaddled Iranian swad women act with the their bodies, as they do in the West?) This focus on faces face shows how signals cross rooms—with lightning, rooms— real-life speed. The ssignificant glances and open-faced lies make the title a play on words. A Separation is about the split between the world of men and the world of women. It’s obviously worse in an Islamic republic that works to keep the two as separate as possible. Despite the subject matters of courtroom suspense, tragic divorce and a dead baby, A Separation is postmelodrama. You couldn’t ask for a more eloquent protest against the moral courts, seemingly engineered to complicate already painful situations. Farhadi argues against these tangled laws with eloquence. Yet he seems to have his eye on a more metaphysical, ancient statute: the hidden laws of bad luck, and how that luck inevitably worsens because of the acts of desperate men and women.

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A SEPARATION (PG-13; 123 min.) See review on p 45.

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(R; 113 min.) Based on a George Moore novella, Albert Nobbs is plausible, which is a plus. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a well-staged and beautifully costumed re-creation of 1898 Dublin. But what it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have is a director who can harmonize the various acting styles. Rodrigo Garcia helms with the same ďŹ ts and starts of his previous connect-the-dots dramas (such as the post-Crash tag-teamer Nine Lives, which also co-starred Close). Glenn Close is the frozen-in-fear title character, a waiter at a pretentious hotel. She hides her sex in male clothes and also conceals a trove of hard-earned money hidden in the ďŹ&#x201A;oorboards of her dingy room. Closeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portrait of a bound-in woman is the kind of sad you can admire rather than feel. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also hard for an actress to make the idea of fatal purity compelling: Nobbs says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A life without decency is unbearable.â&#x20AC;? (Opens Fri at Camera 7 in Campbell and selected theaters.) (RvB)

ONE FOR THE MONEY (PG-13; 106 min.) The long-awaited (surely by someone) adaptation of Janet Evanovichâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel. It chronicles Stephanie Plum (Katherine Heigl), an out-of-work charmer who, in desperation, turns to bounty hunting, because thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the go-to occupation in a skillless, post-recession world. Her ďŹ rst high-stakes client turns out to be a former high school ďŹ&#x201A;ame, whose murder rep doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t add up, and who may be winning Plumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart all over again. This is the ďŹ rst â&#x20AC;&#x153;convenientlysequel-ready-titleâ&#x20AC;? in the series that now houses more than 20 novels, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll thankfully have a lot more minorintrigue and predictable mystery to look forward to. (Opens Fri.)

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Revivals FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: THE SACRED STAR OF MILOS (2005) More adventures of the Elric brothers, blasted by the power of alchemy, restored somewhat by metal prosthetics. In pursuit of a rogue magician, the Elrics get entangled into a complex border war situation: a desert Holy Land, with a nation of refugees living like troglodytes within sight of their sacred mountain. The sly allegory to the Palestinian situation, in which black magic substitutes for terrorism, is just one distinction for this second ﬁlm in the hit Japanese franchise. It’s about two-thirds of the way to the kind of work Studio Ghibli does; the violence can be extreme, but it never seems to be there just to crank up the audience. And the often-articulate subtitles shame the kind of cheap, crass dubbing that ruins so much anime. (Plays in San Jose at Camera 3 Jan 25 at 7pm.) (RvB)

NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent film. Jan 28 at 7:30pm: The Ice Flood (1926). Based on a novel by Johnston McCulley, the creator of Zorro, it’s a brawling tale of a well-bred heir (Kenneth Harlan) coming back to his father’s lands to establish order (which also sounds like a Zorro story); this time the setting is the timberlands of Oregon. BILLED WITH four George Méliès films, demonstrating the magic behind the film Hugo. Jon Mirsalis at the Kurtzweil. (Plays Jan 28 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) With Barely Legal using Lacan’s Ecrits to unpack the ﬁlm’s paradigm. (Plays Jan 28 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER AND UNCUT (1999) The Swear-along, and the show’s ﬁnest hour. A brave reminder that America was founded on intellectual liberty, not the hypothetical purity of hypothetical children. The gang almost trigger the apocalypse simply by being fans of Terence and Philip, a stupid duo of Canadian

comedians who indulge in what the MPAA calls “unsuitable language.” Whatever their language, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone truly honor the form of the classic musical comedy—I mean, the Rodgers and Hammerstein storytelling musical, in which show tunes have different tempos and moods and meanings, not the anemic Webber/Rice/Disney brand, in which each song is the same squirt of audio Glade to perfume shoppers at a mall. (Plays Jan 27-29 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

Reviews THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG; 107 min.) John Williams’ novel, small-scale jazz theme accompanies Saul Bass–worthy silhouette animation of Hergé’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 Dick Sprang–sized giant typewriters. Then comes the motioncapture animation; the technique

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GONE WITH THE WIND (1939) The courtship of Scarlett and Rhett is like a mirror of the war, with conﬂict between the northernized Rhett (Clark Gable), from Charleston, but he don’t talk it, and the sometimes dippily romantic Scarlett (Vivien Leigh). It’s deeply racist, and it’s cast with some of the worst child actors ever. Still, Gone With the Wind is that unimaginable thing, a ﬂexible epic: thrilling, vivid, moving and funny when you least expect it. (Plays Jan 21-26 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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at the hands of her son. Questions of nature vs. nurture merely hover around the film’s central mystery (unveiled in nonlinear fragments), but they don’t bog the film’s eerie pacing down. Instead they sit in Swinton’s mind (and ours by proxy) like a splinter. Ramsey crafts a character study told through a fever dream, with a near-perfect blend of narrative and technical cohesion. Every bit of the film’s tremendous sound design—the way tension is able to rise merely by the flapping of an untacked poster corner at the hands of a desktop fan—is in place. And Swinton’s haunting performance manages to resonate longer than the film’s gruesome reveal, bypassing any potential argument denouncing exploitation. (Opens Fri.) (Rod Bastanmehr)

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

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Bausch House IT IS one of the 10 best films of 2011, but when you describe Wim Wenders’ Pina, it sounds like fodder for SNL’s Sprockets. The documentary is a cinematic festschrift for the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who passed away in 2009; it’s also an introduction (visible in superb 3-D) to her works. Bausch’s choreography sometimes exhibits the German angst that looks deranged to American eyes. “This is veal!” screams a lone dancer in the courtyard of a factory; she then stuffs this raw meat into the toes of her ballet slippers. Meaning? Potentially, a note about the agony dancers endure to get en pointe. Yet few dances outside of children’s ballets engage with a person in a hippopotamus costume; “I had a love affair with the hippo,” recalls one of the members of Pina’s dance company, whose names aren’t seen in caption. The dancers deliver their memories of Bausch straight to the camera. They recall vague yet penetrating advice: “You have to go crazier”; “She saw everything I was afraid of.” From the evidence of Pina, we can see why they fell in love, despite what Bausch demanded from them. She led them through obstacle courses: a minefield of scattered chairs and sleeping drunks

in the Café Muller piece. The tossing of a rag-doll dancer between two men looks tougher than most of the fight scenes in modern movies. Bausch’s famed Rites of Spring is carried out on a peat-covered stage. The old vaudeville joke is that you never let the audience see you sweat, though it’s actually this sweat on the dancers GèX that brings out the PG; 106 min. primeval mud in the Opens Friday Stravinsky. CinéArts We’re all supposed to Santana Row be very worried about elitism in high art. Yet however rarefied it could be, Bausch’s art was all about hard work and ordinary pain. There’s even a kind of homeliness in the site-specific pieces, done in and around Wupperthal’s famous aerial tram. Bausch worked in an unsung city. Tom Tykwer’s 2000 The Princess and the Warrior may be the last film shot there. Despite the note of Disneyland in the sky tram, the city has more than its share of ordinariness and forlornness. Note the melancholy yet sweet line of geriatric dancers at the rim of a strip-mined chasm. And one performance is staged on the edge of traffic with TJ Maxx and McDonald’s signs looming overhead. —Richard von Busack

(G; 84 min.) The Disney Vault opens once again and releases a classic work from its wretched grasp. Beauty and the Beast became the first animated film to ever be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards and helped bring about the Disney Renaissance, and now it returns to the big screen for roughly the 58th time, though in an entirely new dimension. The story is by this point, as the titular song promises, a tale as old as time. And in the age of Pixar, revamping arguably the most beloved film in the Disney filmography offers a chance for everyone to rediscover the magic, the power and the ability to refill Michael Eisner’s wallet. Happily Ever After indeed.

CONTRABAND (R; 110 min.) This remake of a 2009 Icelandic thriller features Mark Wahlberg as a former drug-runner who has to get back in the game to save his brother-in-law after a botched run puts him in debt with a brutal drug lord (Giovanni Ribisi). The ﬁlm also stars Kate Beckinsale as Wahlberg’s toughas-nails wife, who makes new strides in wifely requests by asking him to risk

his life on behalf of her brother’s. When she and their sons get kidnapped, Wahlberg has to use his network of criminal connections to track him down. Just in time for awards season.

A DANGEROUS METHOD (R; 99 min.) David Cronenberg attempts to critique Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Freud (Viggo Mortensen) as self-deluding, selfpromoting opportunist doctors wandering in the dark. Nothing wrong with that, but the days when these pioneers of psychoanalysis were considered ﬂawless paragons is long past. 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, cat-and-mousing anyone in his vicinity. And here Jung is a guilty, gentle idealist unnerved by a girl who craves a spanking. (RvB)

EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE (PG-13; 129 min.) A dismally cute, greeting-card-size fantasy of September 11, beefed up with movie stars. Thomas Horn is Oskar, a bright child who has something that’s supposed to be similar to Asperger’s syndrome. His perfect fairy-tale version of a father (Tom Hanks) disappears in the smoke and the rubble, leaving behind a mysterious key in an envelope; Oskar believes the key was a message was left for him. Praising a movie’s photography is calling it a failure by another name, but Chris Menges’ cityscapes are lambent. However, high-class performers from Max von Sydow to Viola Davis to Sandra Bullock are merely a chorus to

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THE FLOWERS OF WAR (R) Zhang Yimouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sentimental epic about the 1937 Rape of Nanking (â&#x20AC;&#x153;An especially dark chapter in human historyâ&#x20AC;? explains the titles) demonstrates one thingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;when Technicolor literally went to China to die, some of our older movie plots went to join it. As per the Bogie picture Left Hand of God, American sinner Christian Bale helps himself to a dead priestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s robes and ďŹ nds out the hard way that clothes make the (holy) man. A group of fancy courtesans seek refuge behind the church walls where Bale is hiding; the new girls quarrel with the convent-raised virgins already there. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when the rapacious Japanese soldiers arrive to encircle the compound. The use of color is sometimes eye-popping, as in the iridescence of the prostitutesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gowns, or in the scenes lit by a neoncolored stained glass window. But the very deďŹ nition of decadence is the reďŹ nement of aesthetics even as the material gets morbid. When the ďŹ lm notes noting the arresting effect of arterial blood spray on a piece of torn silk, its attempt to memorialize this atrocity seems less important than making it all eerily gorgeous. (RvB)

HAYWIRE (R; 93 min.) A thriller about a spy seeking revenge, starring MMA champion Gina Carano and directed by Steven Soderbergh. (RvB)

IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY (R; 127 min.) The titleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s awkwardness is well matched in the script. A secular Muslim artist named Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) meets a Bosnian Serb policeman, Danijel (Goran Kostic). The two re-encounter once the ethnic cleansing begins in the 1990s. Ajla is transported to a prison/bordello. Danijel is now an army ofďŹ cerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and is revealed to be the son of a racist general in the Serb forces (Rade Serbedzija). Thus the young captain has limited power to protect the woman he loves. While the Story of O thing between captor and captive has a twist, the incidents of romance (scored with piano solo) arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough honey to sweeten the movie. Director Angelina Jolie pumps us to the max with the horrors committed by shaven-headed goons. We arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

redeemed by romantic relief. What we really end up desiring is to see Belgrade bombed all over again. (RvB).

THE IRON LADY (PG-13, 101 min.) It transcends political naivetĂŠ by trying to sleaze its way into former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal life. The Iron Lady presents Thatcher (Meryl Streep) in her senility as being haunted by the prankish specter of her late husband Denis (Jim Broadbent). Great: a Tory version of Topper. The way that director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) presents the doddering old lady, you feel some slight sympathy. But too much of the ďŹ lm is a grateful celebration of a politician who really knew how to spread misery around. And the ďŹ lm reverses the angle on the way Thatcher worked, making her a besieged woman encircled by furious crowds and mad bombers. (RvB)

JOYFUL NOISE (PG-13; 188 min.) Todd Graffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sometimes appealing vision of the no-color-line town of Palaschau, Ga. The only local energy is in the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s church choir, perennial semiďŹ nalists in a national competition. Dolly Parton, rendered strange by plastic surgery, is â&#x20AC;&#x153;G.G.â&#x20AC;? (it stands for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gorgeous Grandmaâ&#x20AC;?); sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the rich church lady who was married to choir director Kris Kristofferson, who drops dead during the title sequence. G.G. contends for leadership with her rival, tough Vi Rose (Queen Latifah), who is single and overparenting her children. One of the kids is Dexter Darden as Walter, an Aspergerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, and the way this movie plays with

questions of acceptance and Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will, Walter may well have been gay in the ďŹ rst draft of the script. Meantime, Vi Roseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 16-year-old daughter, Olivia (Keke Palmer), just happens to fall for G.G.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandson, the aptly named Randy (Jeremy Jordan). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a ďŹ&#x201A;imsy musical plot, and the music is pretty ďŹ&#x201A;imsy itself; however it includes a couple of showstoppers: Ivan Kelley Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powerful Michael Jackson-style attack on Billy Prestonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Way God Planned Itâ&#x20AC;? and Latifahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s solo version of the spiritual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fix Me, Jesus.â&#x20AC;? (RvB)

RED TAILS (PG-13) The heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen will never be forgotten. Red Tails, howeverâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;forget about it. Executive producer George Lucas once used excerpts of World War II-era movie dogďŹ ghts to let 20th Century Fox know what he had in mind for the not yet completed outer-space battle sequences in Star Wars. Red Tails seems to have rewoven all those loose snippets together into one ďŹ lm. It follows the history of the African American 332nd Fighter Group, and its ofďŹ cers Col. Bullard (Terrence Howard) and Maj. Stance (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) Director Anthony Hemingway disinters every pre-Catch-22, devil-dogs-ofthe-air line of dialogue ever written. We even get a scar-faced German called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pretty Boyâ&#x20AC;? (Lars van Riesen) attacking in a Messerschmitt 262 jet ďŹ ghter, shouting, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Die, you foolish African!â&#x20AC;? Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not much more of the unexpected in the tender courtship of an Italian girl (Daniela Ruah from â&#x20AC;&#x153;CSI: Los Angelesâ&#x20AC;?) and the hot-shot â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lightningâ&#x20AC;? Little (David Oyelowo).

Hopes are that patriotism will make us turn a blind eye to the weary falseness of this poorly written ďŹ lm and the synthetic visuals of its digitally animated aerial scenes. (RvB)

SHAME (NC-17; 107 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)

WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG; 124 min.) Cameron Croweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comeback ďŹ lm after the debacle that was Elizabethtown is based on the title of British author Benjamin Meeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book. Matt Damon is a laid-off L.A. widower who unaccountably has enough dough to purchase 18 acres of prime California real estate near Ojai, as well as the small decrepit wild animal park that comes with it. Helping out is Angus Macfayden as the most vaudeville Scotsman since James Doohan died. Maggie Elizabeth Jonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cute, wise-beyond-her-years little girl steals scenes remorselessly. Scarlett Johansson has the notice-me-dammit role as the head zookeeper, Kelly, who keeps trying to get around Benjaminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grief for his dead wife. (The romantic dialogue between them is easily 2011â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most forced.) Bravura performances by Felix the Lion and Bart the Bear II are bypassed in Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scheme to work the hell out of the familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problems. We came to watch animals, not 7th Heaven. The steamrollering soundtrack (Randy Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Think Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Going to Rain Todayâ&#x20AC;? over a rainstorm) shows Croweâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s typical lack of trust in his audienceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to feel. (RvB)

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Dan P and the Bricks rise from the ashes of third-wave ska greats By AARON CARNES

HIRD-WAVE SKA legends Dan Potthast of MU330 and Slow Gherkin thought they had put skanking behind them years ago. But it all came back to them in 2009, when Potthast joined up with four ex-Gherkin members (A.J. Marquez, Matt Porter, Brendan Thompson and Phil Boutelle) and his fellow MU330 bandmate Matt Knobbe to form Dan P and the Bricks, who play X Bar in Cupertino on Saturday. “I’d been living in Santa Cruz for eight years, hanging out with these guys that have ska ﬂowing through their veins,” Potthast says. “Both of our bands, Slow Gherkin and MU330, as they grew older, moved

away from traditional-sounding ska. When we got together many years later, it felt like this guilty pleasure to just play ska songs.” In reality, neither MU330 nor Slow Gherkin had ever played only ska songs. Like the other prominent bands of the third-wave movement, they were fusing ska with punk and other genres. “Gherkin was aggressive. It was that ska-punk thing. Everyone was playing at every moment during every song, just hammering,” says founding Gherkin member Marquez. MU330 took the ska-punk sound to a whole different level, dubbing itself a “psycho-ska” band and mixing manic punk energy with crazy circus music and hyper-ska. In later years, indie rock made it into their sound as well. It was all counterbalanced with Potthast’s penchant for writing in an Elvis Costello-esque New Wave style. “I have more of an appreciation

of the bounce of ska rather than just the really fast punky stuff, the groove where it makes you really want to dance,” Potthast says. When Dan P and the Bricks formed, they decided that, rather than reach back to the third wave movement of their heyday, they’d return all the way to ska’s source—back to that sweet, soulful, midtempo groove like it used to be played in Jamaica in the ’60s by artists like the Skatalites and Prince Buster. “It is such a powerful musical genre. It’s so fun to play and watch people explode. My ears have grown a little. We’ll take some space and play less,” Marquez says of the new approach. After a few shows, they added three more members to the mix: Liam Ryan, Eric Johnson and Kevin Zinn (horn players from the local reggae band Soul Majestic). Now a 10-piece, the Bricks are a powerhouse ska machine. Both Gherkin and MU330 spent the ’90s relentlessly on the road, but the Bricks were never intended to be a serious, touring project. Everyone in the band is in their 30s and has

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other commitments, careers and/or families. So most of their shows are for the community, meaning that they stay in the Bay Area, but also that they donate a majority of the money they make to local charities. “With the Bricks we wanted to increase the fun factor. That’s what we’re all about. If we can help some different charities along the way, even better,” Potthast says. When the opportunity came up to record an album, they jumped on it. The hardest part was coordinating schedules. Potthast took the rhythm section down to Los Angeles to record with his friend, producer Chris Murray, famous from his days with the Canadian ska band King Apparatus, then spent the remaining part of the month recording horns and vocals. He’d re then drive down to L.A. to mix the th record with Murray. re The result is Watch Where You Walk, a lush, well-crafted, traditional W ska record that remains authentic sk in its production and arrangements but still has Potthast’s early–’80s bu New Wave approach to songwriting. N The album has already received Th positive reviews on several music blogs, including a “2011 album of the year” nod on Upstarter.com. Potthast says he put more work into Watch Where You Walk than on any of his post-MU330 solo albums. It’s also the ﬁrst ska album anyone in the Bricks has made in over a decade. There’s a sweet full-circle sense to the whole project, he says. “When MU330 really started going in 1991, we were always the odd band on the bill. There would be a metal band, a punk band, a whatever band. We were the anomaly. Then suddenly in the mid-to-late ’90s there were ﬁve ska bands in every small town in the Midwest. Now there doesn’t seem like as many bands doing what we’re doing,” he muses. “Maybe we had to get away from it, give it some time and get back to where it didn’t feel trendy.”

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ERIC BIBB February 4, 8pm

RIN TIN TIGER

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

Sunday at Downtown Ice in San Jose, 3pm; free A lot of alt-folk outﬁts don’t want to be pegged as too rootsy, perhaps for fear they’ll slide right off of the indie landscape. But San Francisco’s Rin Tin Tiger mixes cerebral lyrics and gentle acoustic guitar with some gritty harmonica and a vocal delivery that’s straight-up, unapologetic croon. They play this free downtown show with pop-punkers Blood and Water. (SP)

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.”

SPENCER DAY February 11, 8pm

POBLANO PROJECT

Vocalist-songwriter-pianist Spencer Day brought down the house when he performed at the Carriage House Theatre in February 2011. At 29, he has enjoyed a musical career remarkable for someone twice his age. His voice inspires comparisons to that of Harry Connick Jr. and his compositions to those of Cole Porter, Paul Simon and Rufus Wainwright. His latest release, Vagabond, is a genuine crowd pleaser and demonstrates Day’s eclectic taste and remarkable ear for music. Call box office for information on

Friday at Caffe Frascati, 8pm; free San Jose lawyer Bob Hawn can explain to you in excruciating detail whether or not a letter of intent is a binding legal contract, but he’s inﬁnitely more entertaining as keyboardist for the Poblano Project. Along with guitarist Elias Kesh, drummer Peter Wallack and percussionist Eddie Jimenez, he’s created a fusion of classic jazz with funk and Latin rhythms that’s now a San Jose Jazz Fest favorite. (SP)

pre-concert Valentine’s dinner in the Villa.

EDDIE PALMIERI February 12, 7:30pm

MONOPHONICS

“Lynch and Palmieri are arguably each the most important Latin Jazz voices of their respective generations...” - ALL MUSIC GUIDE

Friday at Poor House Bistro, 6pm; free The Monophonics come into the soul revival sweepstakes with a gritty, heavy Blaxploitation-era sound punctuated by brass blasts, but the video for “Loose Nukes” shows how tuned in they are to current hip-hop style. It doesn’t hurt that hip-hop borrowed so much from P-Funk, at whose altar this San Francisco band genuﬂects with every note. (SP)

Nine-time Grammy Award-winner, Eddie Palmieri (with a successful musical career that spans over 50 years) is known for his distinctive blend of jazz piano with Latin rhythms. Palmieri is joined by the Brian Lynch Quartet. Lynch is a Grammy Award-winning New York-based jazz trumpeter.

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Rock/Pop ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, 6pm: Highway 61. $13/$17. Redwood City.

AVALON Fri: Trapt. Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 8pm: The Avengers, Factory Minds, Boats! $10. Fri, 9pm: Bell Thieves, Fierce Creatures, B. Hamilton. $8. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: Metal Shop. Sat: Sexy Back. Sun: The Gents. Mon: Matt Bolton. Campbell.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Duran Duran Duran. Sat, 10pm: 10 Til 2. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Sat, 9pm: Behold the Desecration, Ignite the Raid, 5150, Valensorow. Cupertino.

CAFFE FRASCATI Fri, 8pm: Poblano Project. San Jose.

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

CLUB FOX Sat, 8pm: The Cheeseballs. $18/$20. Redwood City.

THE GRAPEVINE Thu, 7pm: Hootenanny. Sat, 7pm: Mark Rodriguez. Willow Glen.

JOHNNY V’S Fri: DJ Flavatone and the band Without Thought. Sat: Ray Frankly. San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S Fri, 9:30pm: Top Secret. Sunnyvale.

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

NETO’S GRILL Fri, 8:30pm: Sole Proprietors, $5/$10. Santa Clara.

CONCERT

Wilco A LOT OF rock stars want to be outlaws, but their heroes tend to be tragic cowboys. Gram Parsons and Townes Van Zandt are just two of the ill-fated Americana icons to get their own cults when dissatisfied alt-rockers started covering their songs. Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy was almost one of those brilliant country-rock train wrecks. As part of Uncle Tupelo in the late ’80s, he was on his way to being the classic better-to-burn-out-than-fade-away story. Even as they defined a new alt-country sound, Uncle Tupelo had the worst luck imaginable, with label disputes, band infighting and Tweedy’s alcohol problems just a few of the problems that piled up over the course of San Jose Civic four studio albums. The band’s breakup was infamously brutal, with a paper trail of lawsuits and tales of band Sat., Jan. 28 mates behaving badly. Jay Farrar left to start Son Volt, while Tweedy kept the rest of the group together as Wilco.

8pm; $45 Looking back now, it’s amazing that almost 20 years after the breakup, Tweedy seems to have just now found some drama-free happiness in his career. After Wilco’s 1995 debut A.M., he gained a new level of success with the near-perfect alt-country record Being There in 1996, and 1999’s Summerteeth, an equally masterful record that explored a new pop sound. In between, he got another boost from Mermaid Avenue, the album of Woody Guthrie sounds that Wilco recorded with Billy Bragg. What Tweedy and Wilco had done in a larger sense was make country music cool for the indie-rock set, ushering in an era of rootsy chic that would see singer-songwriters like Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine and Andrew Bird thrive. But the revolving band lineup hadn’t changed, and neither did the label troubles. In 2001, the music world was stunned when Reprise Records refused to release Wilco’s feverishly anticipated album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, claiming it wasn’t commercial enough, and dropping the band immediately. To this day, it’s considered one of the record industry’s all-time stupidest moves. When the album finally came out, it was another game-changer for Wilco, quickly becoming their best-selling record and finding its way onto critics’ best-of lists for 2002. Ten years later, Tweedy finally has stability, keeping together the same Wilco lineup for an unheard-of three albums now. And their latest, last year’s The Whole Love, is possibly the best Wilco album since Being There. Part alt-country, part rock & roll, part experimentation, it captures all the qualities that have made Wilco great in equal quantities. It also captures Tweedy sounding like he’s finally having fun, and considering this guy’s history, that’s maybe the most remarkable thing of all.— Steve Palopoli

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BEING THERE Jeff Tweedy brings a shockingly stabilized Wilco lineup to the San Jose Civic Saturday.

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

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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.

CLUB FOX

Thu, 9:30pm: Generation Rex. No cover. Fri, 9:30pm: Blind Pilots. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Six String. $10. Los Gatos.

CASCAL

Wed, 7:30pm: Le Jazz Hot. Free. In the lobby bar. San Jose.

THE QUARTER NOTE

Fri, 9pm: Hard Salsa night with DJ Willie and DJ Rulas. $10. Sun, 8pm: Art of Tango. $12/$15. Redwood City.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY

Wed: Pro Jam hosed by Mental Notes. Thu: Pro Jam hosted by Vicious Grooves. Fri: Jay’s party with live band. Sat: Dead Master, Bad Boy Eddy. Sun: Pro Jam hosted by Mental Notes. No Cover. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE Fri, 8pm: Eddie Cohn, experimental rock. Mountain View.

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

CLUB FOX

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

X-BAR Sat, 8pm: Dan Potthast and the Bricks, Kepi Ghoulie. $8. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

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

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

HEDLEY CLUB

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

Tue: Rock en espanol. San Jose.

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Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: John Garcia. Fri, 8pm: The Old Glory’s. Sat, 8pm: Tip of the Top. Campbell.

LIQUID

LILLY MAC’S

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

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE

GRAND DELL SALOON

Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

Fri: Aldon Sanders. San Jose.

STATION 55

Sat: The Royal We. San Jose.

FAIRMONT HOTEL

Every ﬁrst and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo-Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Anton Schwartz. Sat, 8:30pm: Primary Colors. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.

HUKILAU

Wed & Fri-Sun, 6pm: World music. Mon, 6pm: Moroccan music. Mon, 6pm: French music night. Mountain View.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

Wed, 6pm: Garth Webber Band blues jam. $5. Sun, 4pm: Octobop. $14/$16. Redwood City.

Wed, 6pm: Flamenco music. Fri, 6pm: World music and belly dancing with Adriana. Sat, 6pm: World music. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music. Mon, noon-midnight: French music. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Wed, 9pm: Suska. Thu, 9pm: Jimmy Dewrance. Fri, 9pm: Liars Club, no cover. Sat: John Garcia. $10. Sun, 6pm: Gene Washington. Mon: Wayne’s Way. Tue: Dennis and Stuart. San Jose.

LIQUID Wed: JC Smith Band. San Jose.

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

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

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

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STEPHENS GREEN

Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos. San Jose.

Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music. Mountain View.

Jazz/Blues ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 7pm: Cheyenne Mikailli. $5/$9. Fri, 8:30pm: Ricardo Scales and Friends. $15/$20. Sat, 8:30pm: Russo Alberts Jazz Trio. $10/$113. Redwood City.

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

MOJO LOUNGE Fri: Steve Freund. Sat: Martin Murray. Fremont.

MURPHY’S LAW Thu: Honey Wilders. Fri: Bone Drivers. Sat: John Neri Band. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE Fri, 6pm: SJG School of music guitar night. Sat: Let’s Play. Campbell.

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ANGELICA’S BISTRO

BBC GASTROPUB

Sat, 8:30pm: Not Your Grandmother’s Klezmer Music, with Redwood Symphony. $20/$25. Redwood City.

Fri, 6pm: Live jazz. Menlo Park.

Fri, 9pm: Steve Gary. Sat, 9pm: The Kirk Tamura Jazz Trio. San Jose.

BLUZ BY-YOU

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Fri: Vegas Night. Sat: Marla Goody and Revelation. Santa Clara.

Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6pm: Stan Erhart

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54 band. Fri, 6pm: Mono-phonics. Sat, 7pm: Sista Monica CDrelease party. Sun, noon: School of the Blues Student Jam. San Jose.

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

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Tue, 6:30-9:30pm: Open mic. Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

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Sat, 8pm: Folk-tronica with Robert Kinsalla. Sun, noon: Bluegrass with Margaret and Victor. Campbell.

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THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: Midnight Wranglers. Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Fremont.

SAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Country Classics. Tue, 6pm: Leftover Crow. San Jose.

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

DA KINE CAFE

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

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

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

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

QUARTER NOTE Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam. Sunnyvale.

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Thu, 9pm: Bit & Spur Band. Sun, 8pm: Rebecca West. San Jose.

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

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Feb 4 Bamalama Soul Club Atrium (Ages 21+) Feb 6 Groundation (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating. Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 866-384-3060 & online

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Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Redwood City.

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

Wed, 8:30pm: Open mic. Campbell. First and third Thursday of every month, 7pm: The Canvas. Open to all performers. Sunnyvale.

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

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

Karaoke

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

BLINKYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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

BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

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

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

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

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

Sat, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. San Jose.

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

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

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

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

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BOGARTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: KJ Dennis. Sunnyvale.

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

BOULEVARD TAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

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

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

FEBRUARY 3rd ART WALK 7–11pm

Porous Walker

Anno Domini

Higher Fire Clay

MACLA

366 So. First Street

499 So. Market Street

510 So. First Street

Members of N'TENCE will be sharing artwork they created while experiencing past hallucinations. Visitors will experience an overwhelming sense of De Ja VU as each of the “artists” have seen into the very near future psychically drawing from personal thoughts and wishes from the people who will be visiting the gallery during the length of the exhibition. Live music by Comfort Slacks.

Group showing of Bay Area clay artists: Jan Schachter, Joe Battiato, Margaret Cheng, Shawn Felts, Mark Goudy, Joy Imai, Hsin-Chuen Lin, Linda Mau, and more! Check out locally crafted wares, and enjoy light refreshments while watching the potters juggle clay, water, and fire!

Join MACLA for an extraordinary evening of art. Opening in MACLA’s Gallery: 4th Chicana/o Biennial: This is the NOW! an exhibition and public forum conceived to take inventory of and invite reflection every two years on the continuously emergent energy, critical edge, and aesthetic interventions within contemporary Chicano art.

Above art work by: Jan Schachter

Image: Jaime Guerrero, Charros y sus Caballos / A Budget of Paradoxes

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery

520 So. First Street

577 So. Market Street

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

The month of February brings us to thoughts of romance. Love (maybe a little hate) is in the air and so it always is at the SLG Art Boutiki as we present our annual Valentine's Day themed show Hearts and Arrows. Combining work from some great local artists as well as some of SLG's stable of comic artsts, the Art Boutiki brings you the month romance as you have never seen it.

Image: River Ever Flowing by Mary Buskirk

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Stephanie Metz, Amorphozoa 13

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Art Ark Gallery

KALEID Gallery

365 So. Market Street

1035 So. Sixth Street

88 So. Fourth Street

Femme Fatale is a seductive and haunting exhibition exploring the complexities of femininity. Monochromatic sculptures, installations, paintings, and photographs subtly and thoughtfully reference domesticity, social constructs, and the feminine experience. Featuring the work of Bay Area artists Jody Alexander, Connie Begg,Victoria May, Stephanie Metz, and Sylvia Min.

6–9pm DYAD: an exhibition that explores the relationship between two pieces of art. The theme of the show is intended to create an exhibition of paired works that suggest a dialogue or create a dynamic interaction. Classical guitar by Gene Torchia

KALEID presents two new solo exhibitions by Centa Schumacher, and Al Preciado.

Image provided by the artist, Wendy Crockett

Phantom Galleries 95 So. Market Street San Jose Jazz at Eulipia 374 So. First Street Caffé Frascati 315 South First Street Downtown Yoga Shala 450 So. First Street Good Karma Vegan Café 37 So. First Street Pho69 Restaurant 321 So. First Street Psycho Donuts 288 So. Second Street South First Billiards 420 So. First Street TechShop San Jose 300 So. Second Street

Lunar Phases, new photography series by Centa Schumacher. Brutal / Tender, recent paintings and sculptures by Al Preciado. Live performances by cellist Freya Seeburger.

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

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

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

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

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

BRIX Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

JERSEYS

HUDDLE

Thu, 9pm: Matt. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Tue, 9pm: DJ Ryan. Sunnyvale.

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

PIONEER SALOON

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

Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

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

JOHNNY V’S

POINCIANA LOUNGE

THE COURTS LOUNGE

Sun: Sunday Funday. Karaoke. No cover. San Jose.

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

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

DASILVA’S BRONCOS Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, & last Sun of every month, 27pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

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

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

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

FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY

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.

QUARTER NOTE Mon: Ed. Tue: Sue and Sherrie. No cover. Sunnyvale.

RED STAG LOUNGE Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am. San Jose.

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

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

KYOTO PLACE

RUDY’S PUB

Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto. Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.

SHERWOOD INN

Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas. San Jose.

MARIANI’S

SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL

LIQUID

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

MOJO LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL

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

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

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

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

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

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

STATION 55 Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Sun, 59pm: Family karaoke. Gilroy.

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL Wed, 9pm: Joe. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

GALAXY

OASIS

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

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

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

GILROY BOWL

OFF THE HOOK

Mon, 8pm: Chris. Tue, 9pm: Randy. San Jose.

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

Sun, 8pm: Joe. Campbell.

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

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

PARTY

Andre Thierry ONE MIGHT EXPECT that the accordion is a dying art, or even be cheering its demise. But there’s a player from the Bay Area who’s earning comparisons to the squeezebox greats—and not only that, but his inventive, ﬁery style is enough to get even the haters pumped about the accordion. The story goes that when Andre Landmark Thierry was only three years old, the “King of Zydeco” Ballroom Clifton Chenier predicted that he’d grow up to be a great accordion player. His parents could have chosen Sat., Jan. 28 exorcism, but instead they let him keep the accordion given to him at a young age by Billy Wilson, and he was 3pm-9pm; free performing “Give ’Em Cornbread” in his grandparent’s house not long after. By age 12, he’d formed his own band, which he still plays with today. Thierry’s furious brand of zydeco emphasizes the music’s connection to reggae, ska and a whole spectrum of other inﬂuences. He headlines the Winter KraftBrew Beer Fest 2012 at the Landmark Ballroom Saturday, with the Kavanaugh Brothers and the Pimpsticks opening.— Steve Palopoli

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE WOODHAM’SLOUNGE Thu & Sat, 9:30pm: Wild Side. Santa Clara.

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

Dance Clubs AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: Antromix. Banda nights. Fri: Rock en Español. San Jose.

AZÚCAR Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video

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

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

BBC GASTROPUB Fri: DJs. Menlo Park.

THE BLANK CLUB Thu, 9pm: Atomic with DJ Basura. $5. San Jose.

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

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Thu, 10pm: DJ Aarone. San Jose.

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

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LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

Rangel. Thu, 9pm: Mark. Fremont.

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

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

MIAMI BEACH CLUB

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays. Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

MOTIF Fri-Sat: DJs & dancing. San Jose.

Wed: Wingy Tango night. Thu: SoFA King Thursdays. Fri: Video Killed the DJ. Sat: Sapphire Saturdays. Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Buck Wild Tuesdays. San Jose.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

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

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

STEPHENS GREEN

CLUB ILLUSIONS

MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE

Thu: College night. First and third Fri: Fuz Fridays. Palo Alto.

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy. San Jose.

CLUBHOUSE

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose. Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ or live band. No cover. Santa Clara.

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.

DIVE BAR

PEACOCK LOUNGE

Thu: VJ mixing with DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Aaron-E. Sat, 10pm: DJ Nicolo. San Jose.

BRIX

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

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

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

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

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

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

Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.

JOHNNY V’S Fri: DJ Flavatone. San Jose.

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

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

LILLY MAC’S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night. Sunnyvale.

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

STUDIO8 Fri: Jenni V. Sat: Amy Bad Girls Las Vegas. 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. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

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

Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJs. San Jose.

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

SABOR TAPAS BAR

ZEN LOUNGE

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

Wed: Lil Saturday. House & electronica. Thu: 24 Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Mountain View.

THE SADDLE RACK Wed and Fri-Sat,, 9pm: p Tonyy

Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays. Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJs & dancing. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: College Night. San Jose.

GALAXY

Thu, 11pm: DJ Ulises. Fri, 10pm: DJ Cesar. Sat, 10pm: Vibe. Mountain View.

San Francisco’s City Guide

TOM TOM CLUB Tina Weymouth and Chris Franz, one half of Talking Heads, soldier rhythmically onward. Jan 25 at Mezzanine.

QUARTER MILE COMBO Long-running rockabilly outﬁt hangs up the bandanas and plays ﬁnal show. Jan 27 at Cafe du Nord.

MINT CONDITION Smooth R&B doesn’t get much sweeter than “Breakin’ My Heart” and “Forever in Your Eyes.” Jan 27 at the Warﬁeld.

DOOMTREE Hip-hop collective rooted in hardcore and fronted by the imaginative P.O.S. Jan 30 at Amoeba SF; Jan 31 at Slim’s.

V-NASTY Notorious Kreayshawn sidekick courts controversy, records with Gucci Mane, plays headlining show. Feb 1 at Slim’s.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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The Supreme Court has yet to announce a schedule for hearing arguments, but city officials in San Jose have been closely following both cases as negotiations for a new regulatory ordinance here chug along. The city still has until March 6 to decide on a way to regulate medical marijuana dispensaries that is signiﬁcantly different than the one passed in September, following the successful petition drive for a referendum. Otherwise, the decision gets sent to the ballot in June. According to San Jose City Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio, the city wants to cut a deal. “At this point, putting it on the ballot is probably not the best route,” he says. But to avoid the ire of federal authorities in San Jose, city officials are carefully considering the language they employ. “We are not going to issue permits or licenses,” says Mayor Chuck Reed. “Our ordinance is structured so that we give them a certiﬁcate of compliance in local law. The courts have been giving us some guidance.”

Leaving future court decisions aside, a recent city memo provides a glimpse into which collectives are more likely to remain in business. The city says there are 117 active dispensaries in San Jose, but only 54 have paid the business tax every month since it went into effect last March. One thing the mayor and councilmembers have consistently agreed upon is that up-to-date payments on that tax—which could go from 7 to 10 percent in February—are mandatory to continue operations when an ordinance is finalized. Since the referendum qualified for the ballot, Title 20, which deals with land use and zoning, has been suspended and will only become effective if the regulatory ordinance does as well. For now, Oliverio predicts that collectives that have operators with clean records (i.e., no drug offenses) and on-site physicians will further whittle down the number of qualified applicants if/ when a compromise is reached. —Alyssa Kies

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Strain of the month:

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!! or Chuc Mung Nam Moi to our Vietnamese friends. The Dragon is a symbol of good fortune and sign of intense Power. At YB we have bred a strain akin to its legendary myth. It’s so intense that we have named it “Dragon Fire” This will be YB Strain of the month to be released on Friday, January 27th at all YB stores. Must WU\ WKLV ¿UH

YB Weekend Sale: January 27-29 Accessories Sale: Herb Grinders $8 - $20 Glass Pipes $10 - $15 Digital Scale $15-$20

YB FIRE BOX 1/8 Oz of herb Glass Bubbler Pipe Herb Grinder 1x Lollipop 2x KannaRoo Chillo Hemp Energy Sale Price: $65 Reg. Price: $85

Bronze Sale: Snake Bite, Hindu Kush 2 Gm = $15 4 Gm = $29 1/4 = $50 1/2 = $96 1 Oz = $190

Silver Sale: Sour Diesel, Casey Jones, Purp 2 Gm = $25 4 Gm = $49 1/4 Oz = $82 1/2 Oz = $155 1 Oz = $295

Gold Sale: Purple Diesel, Purple Snow 2 Gm = $30 4 Gm = $59 1/4 Oz = $101.50 1/2 Oz = $195 1 Oz = $350

YB Fire Sale: GDP, Purple Berry, XJ-13 2 Gm = $34 4 Gm = $65 1/4 Oz = $110 1/2 Oz = $205 1 Oz = $380

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Welcomes 2012

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**“Please be advise, Each YB store may have different strain variety in different category of the Sale.”

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YB Saratoga 4211 Barrymore Dr. San Jose, CA 95117 (Off Saratoga Ave.)

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YB Valley Fair 325 S. Monroe St. San Jose, CA 95128 (Off Stevens Creek)

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YB Capital 459 S. Capitol Ave. San Jose, CA 95127 (Capital Exp & Capitol Av.)

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