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Airhead Marshal I saw you at the airport, mouth breathing, with a vacuous expression on your face. I was wearing my military fatigues. You asked me such a stupid question— “Are you in the military?”— that I sarcastically replied, “No,” out of mild annoyance, being as it was so obvious by my attire that I was in the military. Evidently, the subtlety of my sarcasm was lost on you because shortly after being seated, the flight attendant asked me for my military ID. I know you put her up to it, you busybody airhead.

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Sweet Success I wanted to take a moment to thank Stett Holbrook for that very nice article you wrote about our cafe (“Sweet Dreams,” SVDining, Feb. 8).

We’ve already had several customers come in after reading it, and it will

Not Ecstatic Re “Home of the Rave” (SVNews, Jan. 25): Let me get this right. MAPS wants to treat war vets who sustained brain damage with synthetic multidrug medication that causes more brain damage? Sorry, Mr. Brown, but the data shown in one study you cited on sexually abused women given the drug Ecstasy (MDMA) as treatment for PTSD is questionable and leaves the public with a sense of “bad faith” science. Perhaps the reason your organization is the only one funding clinical trials of MDMAassisted psychotherapy is because no

other organization would do these experiments on human subjects.

Personally, I think giving MDMA to our military (or anyone for that matter), that would result in brain and thought loss, hyperthermia, hypertension, hepatitis and low seratonin levels that lead to increased depression and aggression is “one of the meanest and most misguided things our government could do.”

PAMELA R. VILLANUEVA

Image-Busting Some mayors don’t know of the Mayors for Freedom to Marry, but Mr. Reed does (“Mayor Reed Opposes Freedom to Marry Campaign,” SanJoseInside, Feb. 8). Clearly, he chose not to sign for the dignity

and the equal treatment of his gay and lesbian citizens, and to align the city with the far-rightist agenda of discrimination and intolerance.

Does he really want San Jose to be the last major U.S. city denying what is just decent? All the major companies in Silicon Valley strongly supported marriage equality, explaining how it is important for them to provide all their employees a friendly work environment, willing to attract the best competencies and skills. Discrimination is certainly not that.

Mr. Reed is damaging the image of San Jose in many ways. Gay and lesbian people who are numerous in San Jose, all the people who care for them and the ones who understand how much Mr. Reed’s stand is damaging for the city’s image.

The mayor of Palo Alto signed the pledge. This, in contrast with San Jose, is very good for the city’s future and image in Silicon Valley.

MICHAEL BROWN | SAN JOSE

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“This is not appropriate for our personnel to be blaming the mayor and city council for our professional conduct—period,” says Moore. “Our officers have been told that is not an appropriate response and that message is going out loud and clear to our organization.”

City Councilmember Rose Herrera, who represents the Evergreen district, says she has the utmost respect for law enforcement but has heard similar complaints from residents about police blaming bureaucracy.

When she arranged a meeting with Lall after reading about the attack— another police oversight because councilmembers should be notified of hate crimes in their district—she says she was shocked at how upset he was.

“I expected him to tell me about the crime, and I wanted to reassure him and put him in touch with the proper resources,” says Herrera, who is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspects. “It turned out it was a really good thing I talked to [Independent Police Auditor] LaDoris Cordell beforehand, because I ended up calling her and telling her what he said.

Over half his concerns were about the process the police used.”

Lall says he called Cordell’s office three weeks ago and filed a formal complaint, which he thinks may have led to the press conference. The Independent Police Auditor’s job is to forward complaints to IA and then review the unit’s findings.

Neither Cordell nor Sgt. Rick Weger, who helps oversee the IA unit, say they can confirm an investigation is underway because of privacy and personnel concerns, but Weger says the turnaround from the time the IPA’s office receives a complaint to the start of an investigation by his department usually takes just several days, meaning Lall’s file should be in the IA pipeline.

If recent history is any indicator of what an IA investigation will yield, the unit is unlikely to find fault with police.

Internal Affairs closed 19 neglect of duty investigations in 2010, and not a single allegation was sustained. Cordell says there have been dramatic improvements at IA, and she credits Moore for reaching out to the division. “It’s the hardest job of all police jobs because you have to sit and judge your fellow officers,” she says. “But if you don’t have integrity in your police department, you might as well hang it up and go home because you will have chaos in the streets.”

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room. The initial police report says an officer was unable to locate the crime scene in the shopping plaza.

Careful not to criticize the victim, police have held their tongues for the most part. “I feel bad for the guy, I really do, because they screwed him up really good,” says Sgt. Jason Dwyer, the police spokesman. “But the things he is saying are not true or he’s spinning it in a way that makes the department look bad.”

According to the police report and log of contact, though, questions arise about how timely and thoroughly the investigation has been handled.

From the start of the investigation until the press conference, Lall says, police have repeatedly misstated the number of assailants as two rather than three. Investigators also didn’t attempt to retrieve video surveillance of the incident from the grocery store until nine days after the attack.

Most confounding of all, a search was never conducted of Lall’s car. Lall himself discovered the tequila bottle, wedged in the backseat of his Honda, almost three weeks after the incident. Two months have passed, and the lab has yet to send back fingerprints or any DNA evidence retrieved from the bottle.

“I said, ‘My car is the scene of the crime. Don’t you want to look for evidence?” Lall recalls. “And the cop is like, ‘Nah, we already looked for everything.’ Several weeks, later we found the bottle of tequila in my car.”

“I wasn’t there, you weren’t there,” says Police Chief Chris Moore. “Clearly, if we didn’t collect evidence the way we’re supposed to collect evidence, that’s on us. ... Are we perfect? No one’s perfect.

At the same time, we have a very serious investigation.”

What the police log excludes is how many times Lall attempted to reach the lead detective on the case, Michael Villanueva, as well as the curious fact that the incident wasn’t listed as a hate crime from the start.

Lall says he lost count of how many times he called police for details on how the case was progressing, and says that Villanueva and other department officials answering phones sounded apathetic. “After talking to the detective, it was like ‘budget cuts, budget cuts, thank your mayor,’” Lall says. “It was almost like he was saying, ‘You’re alive, just be thankful for that.’”

The police chief says that Lall’s allegation of officers blaming the city’s budget cutbacks for their work, if true, is unacceptable.

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TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE IN SILICON VALLEY

BY BRENDAN NYSTEDT & ROD BASTANMEHR

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Apple Shares Climb Above $500 Shares of techno-titan Apple hit a record-breaking company high of more than $500 per share on the morning of Feb. 13.

The company’s worth was spurred by the first-quarter earnings report that came close to 20 percent. At the close of Monday’s trading, Apple was going for $502.60 a share, with a high on the day of $503.83. While other companies do cost more per share (Google and Priceline, for starters), this is a major moment for a company that managed to turn a 4.2 percent decline in October–December into a 4.4. percent gain by February. In total, Apple’s stock has risen 22 percent this year, compared to the more modest 12 percent of most technology companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.

“It reminds us all of the amazing transformation of Apple over the past eight years,” investor Timothy Ghriskey told Bloomberg, even going so far as to expect the stock to hit $600 in the not-too-distant future. “It’s still an inexpensive stock for a company that is executing at the very highest level and continues of innovate.” (RB)

Whitman Capital Caught for Insider Trading Menlo Park-based Whitman Capital allegedly used illegal information to make more than $900,000 on stocks from Marvell Technology, Polycom and Google.

Doug Whitman, the founder of his eponymous hedge fund firm, has been accused of getting insider info from two sources, paying cash once and exchanging a valuable tip on the second occasion. Whitman pled not guilty to the charges in Manhattan, and was released on a $1.5 million bond. One of the sources he allegedly got information from has already admitted to divulging information to the co-founder of another hedge fund firm.

Whitman’s legal team insists that he got the information through legitimate means like research and market analysis. Unfortunately, Roomy Khan, one of the sources of information Whitman used, was simultaneously working for the government in an insider trading probe. (BN)

Don’t Worry, Google Will Fairly License Motorola Patents Google, in a letter to standards organizations, has stressed that they will be wielding the huge cache of Motorola Mobility’s patents in a “fair and reasonable” way and not as a superweapon. Bloomberg had scooped the content of said letter before it had been sent to

Because Motorola has been in the mobile device space for a while compared to newcomers like Apple, Samsung and HTC, it’s been speculated that Google will use the patents to defend Android licensors from Apple’s attacks. Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously told his biographer that he wanted to wage “thermonuclear war” against Google for what he felt were ideas rippedoff from the iPhone. Still, Apple and Google haven’t butted heads as they’re maintaining an image of civility but it hasn’t kept Apple from attacking Samsung over Android phones.

Google, with patents in hand, will likely start backing up the battles of besieged Android-licensing companies. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t want others to start ponying up to license their portfolio of patents. Could this cold war come to an end if Apple and Google reach a cross-licensing agreement or is Apple resolved to make Google pay? (BN)

Tesla’s Model X Crossover a Strange Beast In preparation for its production in 2013, Tesla’s crossover vehicle has finally been unveiled to the public.

At first glance, the vehicle is a pretty straightforward baby SUV—a tall, brawny, jellybean-shaped hatchback.

But open the doors, and the SUV shows how weird it truly is. The second-row of doors open upward, similar to gull-wing doors on such iconic cars as the Mercedes-Benz 300SL coupe and, of course, the Delorean DMC-12. Tesla’s marketing has dubbed the doors “falcon wings” because of the hinge in the middle.

This design allows the rear doors to open with less side clearance than a conventional door design. Also, it scores x1000 cool points.

Based on the work Tesla’s accomplished on its Model S sedan,

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the Model X, in some configurations, will throw in an extra motor to drive the front wheels, giving this car proper, symmetrical all-wheeldrive. Standard models will have rear-wheel-drive, like the Model S. Tesla’s done a good job adding a family resemblance, too. The Model X, despite its meatier exterior, retains the swoopy design language of their more classic sedan. Pricing has been announced as starting at $49,900, with government tax credit.

The Model X will be manufactured at Fremont’s NUMMI plant per Tesla’s partnership with Toyota. (BN)

Alibaba Works to Buy Stock Back From Yahoo!

With the future uncertain for Yahoo, Alibaba Holdings is working furiously

to take control of the search company’s shares, even going so far as to suspend all public trading of its stock in Hong Kong in order to facilitate the deal. Yahoo owns 40 percent of Alibaba. If the deal goes through as it is speculated to, Yahoo would let go of its stakes in Alibaba, Yahoo Japan and Japanese mobile phone company SoftBank.

The Alibaba deal is going to give Yahoo a windfall of $3 billion alone, but take into consideration the other holdings and that number skyrockets.

Yahoo could gain a one-time payoff of around $17 billion by divesting all its Asian stocks. Alibaba previously wanted to buy all of Yahoo, but is this move strategic or a sign of no faith in the future of one of the original dotcom darlings? Yahoo, with $17 billion, could easily pivot a bit to reposition itself in a hitherto unforeseen way to keep the company relevant for years to come. (BN)

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SanJoseInside.com An iinside nside look at San Jose politics

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Jazz Brush MILES, A HEAD Bruni’s portrait of Miles Davis captures the jazz great’s intensity.

Bruni’s paintings, created around midnight, plumb the creative souls of jazz players

By GARY SINGH

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HEN I search for the eyes of Miles Davis, a Bruni painting is among the likenesses that emerge.

At least in Google, that is.

And when I slither into 1171 Lincoln Ave. in Willow Glen, his eyes appear slightly to the right of the entrance, as I cross the threshold.

They stare back at me, in a small cordoned-off area that Bruni has dedicated to the iconoclastic jazzman of mystery. To You Miles the wall says, in more ways than one.

Originally from Sao Paolo, Brazil, Bruni has created a catalog

of jazz paintings that reached epic proportions decades ago, but her new space in Willow Glen will celebrate its one-year anniversary this Saturday, complete with vino from the Thomas Fogarty Winery and music by Tim Volpicella. She refers to him as “Tommy.”

Before the current location, Bruni set up shop in Campbell for 11 years, and before that, Los Gatos landlords allowed her to stay for 19 years.

The Lincoln Avenue compound features an incalculable amount of paintings on the walls. Every jazz legend I can think of surrounds me as I contemplate the scene.

After I experience the Miles Davis subdivision in the right front corner, I look left towards the shrine to Einstein. A Mother Teresa Chapel occupies the middle of the gallery, to the right.

Piles of binders, each one containing images of sold paintings, sit on a table. There are also paintings of Picasso, Sinatra and the famous Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna. A small statement on the table says: “Great art doesn’t have to match the sofa.”

Aside from painting some of the greatest jazz people, Bruni can weave tales about meeting just about everyone. The stories flow.

She initially attended gigs up and down the Bay Area, sketching musicians from her spot in the audience. Her career grew from there. Not only has she painted more than 1,400 portraits, but she’s also spoken to many of her subjects in person.

“I’m pretty lucky,” Bruni says.

“I’ve met some of the greatest human beings that walked the Earth.”

Bruni famously paints only at nighttime. She begins at midnight and works through the wee hours, while the Willow Glenites are busy sleeping.

Her subjects, the jazzmen and

women of legend, were often conflicted characters exhibiting both a dark side and light side. Even though many of them suffered greatly, Bruni says they always conveyed a sense of humor.

“In the jazz world, I’ve never come across a dark spirit,” she says.

“It doesn’t matter how many drugs they’ve done, it doesn’t matter how much they did themselves in. It wasn’t through being dark, it was through being in pain. The most that I do is I acquire their pain for maybe a couple of days, and it stays with me. Basically, I’m kind of a channel in a way, which is why nighttime helps too. I feel their pain, I feel what they went through, I become them. It’s like method acting.”

In this way, her process of painting these individuals becomes a spiritual exploration, however you attempt to elaborate such a concept. The way I see it, the energy of the musician is the painting is the process is the experience and the entire encounter. There is no separation, no dividing line between performer and audience, between the painter and the subject.

“Psychically, I can feel everything that’s going on,” says Bruni.

“Especially if it’s an entity that suffered a lot, I’ll be crying when I’m painting—Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Bill Evans. Almost all of the jazz greats were people that were kicked in the teeth.”

Best of all, Bruni’s compound in the heart of Willow Glen is where this all goes down. It’s like a secret vortex of creativity amid the genteel conformist landscape. One can only guess how her career will evolve from here.

“My ambition is to be able to have all of the greats painted before I die,” she declares. “Just this year, there’s so many people who’ve passed—Etta James, Johnny Otis—I’m behind, there’s so many others I haven’t done. I have a list and I’d like to catch up with that list someday. The plan is to just paint them all.”

Bruni Gallery Anniversary Saturday; 6–10pm

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2015 deadline “I just ha haven’t aven’t seen a hummingbir hummingbird d long.. And it it’s right byy yyou now, in so long ’s rig ght b ou now w, right b behind ehind yyou.” ou.” journeyy st started The journe arted d ffor o or Brandon was student when he w as a studen nt at the University U niversity of R Rochester. ochester. His chanc chancee Open Scenes knowledge of the Op e Sc en enes Graph softw software are nabb nabbed e him a ed NASA summer internship with w NAS A at the L Langley angley R Research eesearch c C Center enter in V Virginia. iirginia.

NASAThe internship led to o a NAS Aprompted p rompted iiPhone Phone aapp-making pp-making ccontest, ontest,, which he won won, n,, which led to an internship sp spot ot at Ames A R Research eesearch C enter iin nM ountain V iew. IItt w as aatt Center Mountain View. was A MES tthat hat B randon w ould fi rst be gin AMES Brandon would first begin

to work with w the mo on in mind. moon bassic idea of the summer “The basic pr ogram w as to mak on program was makee a mo moon rrover over thatt went along with this landing ssystem y ystem that NAS A was was NASA working to owards a while ago towards ago,, that the ped working on and w as theyy stopp stopped was eeventually ventuallyy ttaken aken over over b byy a private ccompany,” ompany,” he eexplains. xplains.

After Pr resident Obama a’s hefty President Obama’s cut to the 2011 fiscal-year fiscal-year budget left NAS A all but out of the mo on NASA moon eexploration xploratio on business business,, the intention w as alw ays y for for o the private sector to was always ccome ome in i ffu ull ll fforce o orce and d pick i k up the h full slack left b ehind b ormer o fathers of behind byy fformer inno vation n. innovation.

Still,, eeven ven e Brandon w asn’t entir ely wasn’t entirely cconfident onfident that the seemingly rregular egular ffolks olks o (whi (which ch is to sa say, ay, an anyone yone who isn ’t, quitee literally, literallyy, a rocket rocket scientist) isn’t, would b ything on bee able to craft an anything Apollo. par with Ap A ollo.

“We “W We wer were re just de developing veloping this rover project, was rover ffor or o that t pr oject, and that w as honestly it it.” t.” hummingbird gone..

The hum mmingbird is gone “It ne never occurred me,, nor verr o ccurred to me anyone els se on the pr oject, that it anyone else project, make moon.” would ma ake it to the mo on.” n has a tendency to end Brandon up in situations never situaations he ne ver rreally eally anticipated. anticipated.

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Moon Express arrived on Aug. 17.

“We had this demo for this company, and it was the first time I’d ever heard of them,” Brandon says. “And they loved [the rover], and what we were doing with it, with the project.”

Within two days, they had come to us and offered every member of the project a job.”

Brandon is one of around 20 employees currently stationed at Moon Express, and one of many science-crazed dreamers the company shipped from the East Coast and beyond to a post-bubbleburst Silicon Valley.

Brandon was thrown into the infamous Blackbox Mansion in Atherton, which, aside from “that one garage that Apple started in,” can often be the birthplace of radical new ideas. It’s the kind of sprawling, quasi-suburban turf that Hugh Hefner might have created had his interests been more tailored to the self-made men of the startup generation, as opposed to scantily clad bunnies.

The house is filled with other similarly big-picture-minded youngsters. Here, the belief is that the geek shall inherit the earth.

“It wasn’t the best financial offer,” Brandon says of Moon Express, “but, I mean, I couldn’t believe it. The idea is that by 2013 we’re sending something to the moon. How do

you say no to that?”

Bob Richards would have been the man to say no to. The Canadian-born space entrepreneur has been orbiting a company like Moon Express for some time, having founded and served as CEO of Odyssey Moon Limited, a commercial lunar enterprise that was also the first team to join the Google Lunar X PRIZE as an official competitor.

In 1986, Richards was one of the co-founders of the International Space University in France, as well as the Singularity University in 2008.

For Richards, looking forward is a simple matter of looking upward.

“The health of our home planet and the survival of our species will only be secured through the use of space resources and the expansion of Earth’s economic sphere to the moon and beyond,” says Richards, speaking like a true big-picture thinker, which is just another way of saying he sounds like a walking press release.

But the nature of the big picture is, as Newt Gingrich likes to put it, the grandiose, so when Richards says that “creating an off-Earth economy and multi-planet civilization will safeguard the long-term prospects of humanity,” he isn’t trying to downplay what’s at stake.

What Richards is doing is aiding in the not-so-silent shift that the space industry has seen take place in the last five years. While murmurings of a commercial and private form of space travel have circulated for years now, never before have we seen such a massive shift to the privatization of aerospace itself.

Never before has the future of space travel depended so much on the work being done by the private sector—which was always viewed in the past as a Plan B, as a possibility, as an “if it should come to that.”

Bob Richards, Brandon Plaster and the entire Moon Express operation stand at the forefront of this change. And the fear, of course, is that nothing is more dangerous than the unexpected, and trying to get somewhere far away often proves more dangerous than one can predict.

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Around 7am, Brandon jets out his first hitchhiker’s thumb. By noon, he is halfway to Cape Reinga. At around 1pm, Brandon stretches his thumb out again. A small, black four-door sedan pulls up next to him; behind its ominously tinted windows sit two teenagers, smirking, and Brandon recalls the car with such astute detail (“yellow cigarette butts and empty DB beer cans carpeting the floor, wires hanging from the dash”) that even without saying it, I can almost recall the sting of instinct that must have reared its head. Against better judgment, and perhaps due to an unquenchable thirst for adventure and frenzy, he gets in, thinking, this car must be stolen.

“It’s our uncle’s car; we’re just using it while he’s in prison.”

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The car halts; the driver turns to Brandon, telling him to get out and check the car tire. Brandon refuses point blank, first because his expertise regarding car maintenance is lacking, but eventually because growing tension has made the situation increasingly dangerous—though it would seem not dangerous enough to make the sane decision of getting out. The driver turns to the other passenger, smirks and looks back at Brandon. “I don’t think you understand. This is your stop.”

For Moon Express, the Google Lunar X PRIZE is the jumping-off point for a large-scale plan of action that will take the company far beyond the competition’s 2015 deadline.

MoonEx sees the moon not just as a grandiose political statement or a fledgling symbol of faded Americana but also as an untapped resource with the ability to fundamentally drive innovation forward—namely the push for clean energy.

“One of our biggest limitations for having clean energy is that there is only 30 kilograms of helium 3 on Earth,” Vergalla says.

“The moon has a lot of it, and that would be able to facilitate all of this research on clean energy. And suddenly, clean energy pockets start

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even going so far as to frame the moon as a potential future U.S. territory.

His seriousness regarding the plan is of course burdened by context: He announced his intentions in the same breath as his claim to embrace grandiose ideas as a definitive and distinct characteristic of his potential presidency; he also made the announcement in Florida, the state with the largest investment in the future of space exploration—and, conveniently, a major early state on the Republican primary schedule.

For Gingrich, the moon is the logical next step, and could even fall in line with the Northwest Ordinance, which dictates that once 13,000 people reside in a region, it could legally be petitioned as a state. A permanent colony on the moon would allow for just that, and suddenly Hawaii wouldn’t feel so distant.

Of course (and perhaps, as expected), Gingrich, who calls

himself a historian, appears to have misstated the number of lunar colonists required for a space-based outpost to apply for statehood: the reality is that the number is 20,000 for self-government in the original bill, which requires the population of the nation’s least populous state— or, now, greater than Wyoming’s 563,626 people (according to the 2010 Census).

“Moon Express is not really associating itself with [the Northwest Ordinance],” says Michael Vergalla, one of the company’s Projects and Aerospace Engineers.

“One of the key things [we’re interested in] is Space Policy, and we plan to use the precedent laws of international waters. If you use your own personal resources to obtain something like oil, fish or minerals, they are yours—but you can’t claim the land as your land.”

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Bob Richards is the man with the plan, serving as CEO of Moon Express, as well as founder of a competing GLXP team.

Vergalla insists that the journey is the least of MoonEx’s concerns.

“Getting to the moon is not as difficult as you may think—it’s landing that’s tricky. You need to know how high you are, you need to be able to look out for rocks, and you need to be able to do that all without someone driving.”

Luckily, NASA has proven quite the passenger, serving as mentors from a distance and aiding Moon Express as it works toward its steadily nearing launch date. Because NASA had a bevy of projects underway before funding was cut and the lunar missions all but permanently cancelled, Moon Express has managed to find use of all the disregarded, half-projects that almost never were. “[NASA] had a plan to go to the moon, with a lot of projects and satellites to go and support that plan.

They’d collected data and everything,” Vergalla says, citing NASA’s leftovers

as a great starting point for MoonEx. “They have a lot of expertise; a lot of good standards,” Vergalla adds.

“They’ve been with us for a long time, and they’ll review or comment on what we’re doing, but they won’t give us answers.”

Brandon agrees: “It’s a helpful process, because at the same time Moon Express is learning, and the facilities that NASA has should be utilized.”

For example, MoonEx’s partnership with NASA Ames, and aided by the Reimbursable Space Act agreement, has, according to Crane, given the company access to a fantastic test bed that NASA had built: the Hover Test Vehicle (HTV), a prototype lunar lander that has been fitted out with a propulsion system that lets it fly cleanly and safely, using thrusters fed by highpressure compressed air as opposed to rocket fuel.

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What’s happening in Santa Cruz County this week It’s vets vs. newbies when Santa Cruz Derby Girls are pit against each other in an all-out brawl on wheels.

FRIDAY 2/17

Lyrics Born Bay Area rapper Tom Shimura has been making music under the moniker Lyrics Born ever since his college days at UC Davis. An early freestyle session at the college radio station KDVS grew into the first single recorded on SoleSides Records, a collaborative venture with MC Gift of Gab, Chief Xcel (the two would later become Blackalicious), DJ Shadow and Lateef the Truthspeaker. In 2003 Lyrics Born delivered his most complete and most commercially successful album, Later That Day, along with his first-charted

single, “Callin’ Out.” Since then, Lyrics Born has kept busy with a number of collaborations that have kept him touring an average of 150 days a year.

Moe’s Alley; $15 adv/ $20 door; 9pm.

FRIDAY 2/17

Heartbreaker Possibly the best Led Zeppelin tribute band in the world comes to Felton for a night of rock & roll revelry. Heartbreaker prides itself on having the most talented musicians, the most authentic sound replication and the most accurate stage show in the business, and its members are dedicated musicians who have

been working in original and tribute projects for decades. For fans of the Zep, Heartbreaker provides the closest thing to seeing the band perform live in their heyday. Don Quixote’s; $18 adv/ $20 door; 8pm.

SATURDAY 2/18

Santa Cruz Derby Girls 2012 Season Opener Rookies will team up with vets for a season opening scrum pitting Santa Cruz Derby Girls against their own.

Saturday, Feb. 18, 5:45pm at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church St., Santa Cruz.

SUNDAY 2/19

Tommy Castro Tommy Castro earned the moniker “the most dangerous man in blues” when he did something unheard of at the 2010 Blues Music Awards—he swept the ceremony’s most prestigious categories, taking home four “Handys:” Entertainer of the Year, Contemporary Blues Artist of the Year, Blues Album of the Year and Band of the Year. An unprecedented feat, but that’s not to say it was a surprise.

Castro, as his longtime fans already knew, is a master practitioner of that particular alchemy that turns the blues into gold.

Moe’s Alley; $20 adv/$25 door; 8pm.

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MENU ENU MEME Suddenly, everybody seems to be serving Brussels sprouts with bacon.

The secret to cooking Brussels sprouts is as simple as remembering to slice them in half By

ARI LEVAUX

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RUSSELS SPROUTS with bacon is hardly a new idea, but the combination has taken off lately. The pair has become a menu meme, a darling of online recipe searches and food TV. Given the recent spike in all things bacon, I suppose this was inevitable.

But the pairing has gotten popular enough to necessitate a reminder that it’s possible to eat Brussels sprouts without bacon as well. Those green brassica balls go effortlessly and deliciously, for example, in that most vegetarian of dishes: the leafy salad.

However one likes to prepare sprouts, the fundamentals remain the same. And the foundation of most successful Brussels sprout dishes is that the sprouts are cut in half.

Cutting Brussels sprouts in half

multiplies the ratio of surface area to volume, which is key when it comes to holding sauce. The many layers of tightly wrapped leaves exposed by a halved Brussels sprout can hold a surprising amount of flavoring. This is crucial, because Brussels sprouts have a strong flavor of their own, and the more sauce you can balance against it the better.

If the sprout is not sliced at least once, the ratio of surface area to volume is not at all conducive to holding sauce.

Additionally, the tightly wrapped leaves form an almost impermeable barrier that repels sauce or dressing like water off a freshly waxed car. The sauce has no access to the sphere’s inner folds and can only wait helplessly on the sidelines while a flavor foul is committed in your mouth.

Raw Brussels sprouts are too strong for most palates, so they generally need to be cooked before being tossed in a greasy pan or a salad bowl. My two favorite ways of cooking Brussels sprouts are roasting and steaming.

Roasting gives them a weathered taste and feel. The dry heat cultivates

flavor as the outer leaves develop a extra flavor brown crisp.

Steaming sprouts preserves a certain clean, bright innocence in them, the better to deflower with bacon grease, ranch dressing, or a light mix of olive oil, salt and vinegar.

Growing Brussels sprouts is a grind.

They take a long time to mature and don’t produce much poundage per plant.

That’s why they’re expensive and why each sprout should be groomed like the treasure it is.

Trim the cut end at the bottom of each sprout to create a new, nonbrowned end and pull off the outer leaf or two if they’re brown, yellow, dirty, shriveled or otherwise tainted. What remains are densely packed layers of green and pregreen yellow.

In the oven, I roast my cut sprouts at 350, sprinkled with olive oil and tossed with carrot coins or slices of winter squash. Stir often and cook for about half an hour, or until the first signs of browning.

Steamed, they only need 5 to 10 minutes, depending on the sprouts’ thickness, until they soften all the way through but retain the rich green glow of spring grass.

If you plan to fry Brussels sprouts in bacon grease, a quick steaming is way less trouble. For salad, the rough, rich flavors of roasted Brussels sprouts add bold contrast to the leafy greens.

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If cooking Brussels sprouts with other vegetables, just make sure everything is cut to a size that allows it to cook at the same rate as the Brussels sprouts. Both carrots and squash cut to Brussels sprout size will take about the same time or a few minutes longer.

To accompany Brussels sprouts in a salad, I go for sturdy greens like romaine lettuce or endive, and a dressing of equal parts olive oil, cider vinegar and soy sauce. Some or all of the cider vinegar can be replaced by balsamic.

One snazzy way to liven up a winter salad is with seasonal fruit. Even if you don’t live anywhere near the citrus orchards of Florida, Arizona or California, yyou can eat seasonally, if not locally, in winter. Chunks of orange or grapefruit wi add nice acidic sweetness to a Brussels ad sprouts salad, as do pomegranate seeds. spr And about that bacon vinaigrette. Any salad can be made omnivore-friendly sal by preparing the Brussels sprouts with bacon prior to adding them to the salad. ba Start by chopping the bacon and putting it in a pan, perhaps with a little pu olive oil if the bacon isn’t super-fatty. oli While it’s cooking you can also add other red meats like beef or venison and let it all brown together.

When the bacon is crispy to your liking, add some minced or mashed garlic and stir it in really well. As soon as you smell the garlic, which should be just about immediately, add the pre-cooked sprouts, along with any other veggies you may have cooked them with.

Stir quickly and deglaze with a shot of bourbon if you have it, and turn off the heat—all within about a minute of when you first added the garlic.

That bourbon shot is a secret trick, by the way. From hunting camp. Share it wisely.

Season with black pepper and hot sauce, and add the above dressing of vinegar, soy sauce and olive oil. Toss the sprouts to maximize their uptake of dressing. Add the meaty, greasy sprouts to your salad, or pop them straight in your mouth.

After hanging on their stalks like bare knuckles in farm fields through late autumn, Brussels sprouts can be stored all through the winter under proper conditions, waiting to offer a refreshing bolt of green when you need it most.

If more people knew how to cook these tight wads of bitter leaves, maybe Brussels sprouts wouldn’t be such a symbol of vegetable-hating. And remember, with Brussels sprouts, good cooking starts with slicing and sauce.

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

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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, 5:309:30pm Tue-Sat. 448 California Ave. 650.327.0284.

BISTRO MAXINE Cafe. $$.

Bistro Maxine is a bright, friendly little spot, a coffee shop and creperie rolled into one. If you’re lucky, you’ll snag one of the five indoor or two outdoor tables while perusing the long but straightforward menu. 8am-2pm 6-10pm Tue-Fri, 9am-4pm Sun. 548 Ramona St. 650.323.1815.

BUCA DI BEPPO Nondesigner Italian-American. $$. Like a Sicilian Christmas carnival in the ’50s, this party spot blends clutter, joy, high spirits and, oh yes, huge portions. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 643 Emerson St. 650.329.0665.

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 11am-3pm, 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. $$. 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.

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

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.

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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.

LA BODEGUITA DEL MEDIO Cuban/California. $$$. Themed after a vintage Havana haunt of Ernest Hemingway’s, this zesty restaurant serves lively Cubaninfluenced cuisine along with liquid staples like rum and mojitos in a handsome, casual

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KEEPING IT REAL Chef Bradley Ogden is filming his new cooking show in San Jose.

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HEF AND restaurateur Bradley Ogden has set up shop in San Jose to film a new television series that he will begin shopping to networks for broadcast.

The show is called Real Food With Chef Bradley Ogden. Ogden moved into a house in the Evergreen neighborhood in southeast San Jose that he’s using as both a residence and a set. Earlier this month, he shot the first episode, which included a Super Bowl watching party at his house.

Ogden said he moved to San Jose to be closer to investor and Facebook co-founder Chris Kelly.

The show is still evolving, but Ogden said it will be an unscripted “community-to-table,” experiential cooking show with his son, Bryan Ogden, who is also a chef. He likens it more to the cinema verité–style of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations than a straight-up cooking show a la Rachael Ray. “Everything about it excites me,” Ogden said, adding that it’s been a project in the works for the past 25 years of his career.

Ogden was executive chef at San Francisco’s Campton Place Hotel before opening his first restaurant, the Lark Creek Inn, in 1989. His Lark Creek Restaurant Group went on to open One Market in San Francisco, Yankee Pier in Santa Row and elsewhere, Bradley Ogden at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and Parcel 104 in Santa Clara.

Given the surfeit of chef TV shows, director and executive producer Lee Abbot says what make the show different is it’s about “the community of people that are brought together by a love of real food, from fishermen to artisans to grandmothers, and how Bradley pulls it all together.”

In addition to the TV show, Ogden is launching the Bradley Ogden Restaurant Group and is considering opening a “one-off ” restaurant as part of the show, possibly somewhere in the Bay Area.—Stett Holbrook

atmosphere. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5:3010pm Fri-Sat. 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. 11:30am2:30pm 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

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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 MonFri; 9am-4pm and 5-9pm Sat-Sun. 855 El Camino Real.

650.853.9200.

OSTERIA Italian. $$. Authentic Italian cooking done by skilled chefs from Italy. Be sure to make a reservation, or you’ll be lucky to put a single foot through the door. Beer, wine.

11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sat. 247 Hamilton St. 650.328.5700.

PAMPAS Brazilian steakhouse. $$$. Pampas is a meat lover’s haven. The $44 rodizio service gets you unlimited spitroasted meat. The sprawling side bar offers one of the most extensive selections of vegetarian options you’ll find in a nonvegetarian restaurant.

Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 529 Alma St. 650.327.1323.

QUATTRO RESTAURANT AND BAR Italian. $$$$. Quattro Restaurant and Bar brings high-style, impeccably sourced Italian cuisine to the South Bay, an area that has about as many great Italian restaurants as it does snow days. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Sun, lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sat and dinner 5:30-10pm Mon-

Sun. 2050 University Ave. 650.470.2889.

REPOSADO Mexican. $$$.

Reposado offers modern, refined Mexican food served in a lively setting. The restaurant is easily one of Palo Alto’s most striking. The soaring, exposed beam ceilings make the dining room feel at once industrial and inviting because of the warm colors, wood accents and dramatic light fixtures. There’s a beautiful bar and cozy booth seating on one side and spacious table and banquette seating on the other. Great selection of tequila. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat and 11:30am-9pm Sun. 236 Hamilton Ave. 650.833.3151.

RESTAURANT SOLEIL New American. $$$$. A mouthwatering menu and an elegant, golden-hued room shine together at Soleil, upstairs in the Westin Palo Alto. Local ingredients and provocative sauces create dishes worthy of the wine list.

Breakfast 6am-11am, Dinner 510:30pm. 675 El Camino Real.

650.321.4422.

ST. MICHAEL’S ALLEY New California. $$$. Reservations are a must at this smart bistro, whose menu includes inventive potato, meat and seafood dishes that tilt toward New American cookery. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat; brunch 10am-2pm Sat-Sun. 806 Emerson St. 650.326.2530.

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motifs from India, China and Thailand, the food of Singapore is anything but timid. The menu at Straits is lavish and diverse. Full bar.

11:30-2pm Mon-Fri, 5:309:30pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 3295 El Camino Real.

650.494.7168.

TAMARINE New Vietnamese. $$$. A mesmerizing back bar of natural bamboo and glass sleekly adjoins a wall showcasing original artwork.

Even the waitstaff is sleek, clad in Prada black. Entrees are gorgeous and deeply aromatic. 546 University Ave. 650.325.8500.

THREE SEASONS Modern Vietnamese. $$$. Much of the menu is familiar, but the food at Three Seasons scores because of its superior execution and light touch. A cool, two-level dining room dominated by a striking circular stained-glass ceiling and an ornate wooden bar that serves great cocktails help set Three Seasons apart, too.

Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu and 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 518 Bryant St. 650.838.0353.

TRADER VIC’S PolynesianAmerican. $$$. A jungle gym of tiki gods—but a classy jungle. Sip a mai tai in the lounge before embarking on a dinner trip from pork spareribs to boat-fresh seared suki tuna to a Calcutta curry. 4-6pm daily happy hour. Dinner at 5pm Mon-Sat and 4:30 Sun. 4261 El Camino Real. 650.849.9800.

SHOKOLAAT. Modern European. $$. Shokolaat’s open kitchen and pastry display counter are as gleaming and clean as a laboratory, a fitting setting for the restaurant’s technically precise, modern European cooking. Counter open 8am-9pm (to-go only 4-9pm); lunch 11:30am-2pm Tue-Sun, dinner 5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun. 516 University Ave. 650.289.0719.

VERO Italian. $$. Vero aims to offer truly authentic Italian food. The Palo Alto restaurant has had to make a few nods to American tastes but it mainly succeeds with its simple but satisfying food that’s a refreshing break from the same old pasta and pizza.

11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, 5:3010pm Mon-Sat. 530 Bryant St. 650.325.8376.

SPALTI RISTORANTE Italian.

VINO LOCALE Italian bistro.

$$. Along with a handsome interior, Spalti offers good wine and sparkling flavors.

Beer, wine. 11am-2pm MonFri, 5-9:30pm Mon-Sun. 417 California Ave. 650.327.9390.

$$. This restaurant focuses on locally produced Santa Cruz Mountains wines and small plates of food sourced from local purveyors and growers.

On Thursdays, if you can guess all the varietals in your flight of wine, it’s free. 11am-9pm daily.

431 Kipling St. 650.328.0450.

STRAITS CAFE Singapore exotica. $$. Blending culinary

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FUTURE OF POP Studio 8, San Jose Thu – 10pm; $20 after 11pm It’s not easy to predict the next big thing in the music world, but it helps if you hedge your bets.

That’s what the organizers of “Future of Pop” have done by bringing together a broad range of acts to their bill. For sure, at least one of these performers has to represent a sound just waiting to hit it big. Headlining is Calicove, the rap-rock duo based out of the South Bay and featuring the hard-partying Travis Lindsley (a.k.a. Authentic) and DJ Williams Jr. (Amazin). Also scheduled are Oakland rapper

Jayleez, who performs with a full band and mixes the sounds of NorCal and SoCal hip-hop, rockers FOS, pop band Sim Style, the League and KOH. (SP)

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GHOST TOWN HANGMEN Blank Club; San Jose Fri – 9pm; $8 Not every punkabilly band sounds like those gender-bending lunatics, the Cramps. Santa Cruz’s Ghost Town Hangmen for instance, may be scoring opening spots for the wild and raunchy Reverend Horton Heat and the Chop Tops, but their influences

range a bit wider. Clearly, they’ve been listening to the Beatles, and their swinging rockabilly beats pay more obvious homage to the classic ’50s-era grooves. Even when the heavy distortion kicks in, the energy is much mellower than that of, say, Mojo Nixon. (AC)

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& Wanted. Over time, they changed their name to the more democratic Sweet HayaH (the latter being the Arabic word for “life). They just released their first EP this month. Abuelata will be playing solo, however, at this show—sort of. She’ll join Troy Curtis and Duke Hearts. (SP)

ANTIOXIDANTS

Caffe Frascati, San Jose Fri – 9pm; free

Nickel City, San Jose Fri – 6:30pm; $6

In 2011, Egyptian-born, Sunnyvalebased singer/songwriter Nehal Abuelata met guitarist Devin Moreno, bassist Aaron Marquez and drummer Josh Gardner. Their musical chemistry developed quickly with songs like “Let Me Be Your Prozac” and “Blues and Decay,” and they began performing as Nehal and the Lost

The Antioxidants are bringing back the ’90s melodic-punk sound—Green Day mixed with Fat Wreck Chords. The emphasis is less on speed and more on a midtempo standard beat with an alternative rock feel and a little bit of ska. Speaking of Green Day, lead singer/guitarist Dylan Gutierrez does his best Billy Joe

but is arguably a better singer.

Their ethic is completely DIY, and if you don’t have enough money to buy one of their shirts, they will gladly spray paint their logo on the shirt you’re wearing. Also performing are With Every Story Told, Daily City Symphony and INFM. (BD)

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SOUTH BAY DUB MASSIVE Johnny V’s, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $5 South Bay Dub Massive is back at Johnny V’s with dubstep, glitch and underground hip-hop all night long. Dubstep may be a little less

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BIG TIME RUSH

CHUCHO VALDÉS Feb 19 at 7pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

NEHAL ABUELATA

MEGADETH Feb 23 at 6:30pm, SJSU Event Center

ST. MICHAEL TRIO Feb. 26 at 3pm, Montalvo Arts Center

TOTEM, CIRQUE DU SOLEIL Opens Mar 2, downtown San Jose

ANGÉLIQUE KIDJO Mar 3 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

LIONHEART Mar 4 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford

SAN JOSE JAZZ WINTER FEST Mar 9–11, San Pedro Square area, San Jose

DRAKE Mar 10 at 8pm, SJSU Event Center

RICARDO ARJONA Mar 14 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

BLAKE SHELTON Mar 16 at HP Pavilion

LADY ANTEBELLUM Mar 23 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

KELLY CLARKSON Mar 27 at 8pm, SJSU Event Center

LUCHA LIBRE Mar 30 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

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ETIENNE CHARLES QUINTET Apr 4 at 8pm, Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford

KYLE EASTWOOD BAND underground than it used to be, as more mainstream pop artists are incorporating elements of their sounds. Still, there is a world of difference between, for instance, Britney’s “Freakshow”—with its imitative wobbly bass, percussive pauses and abrasive soundscapes—and legit dubstep.

DJ Whores headlines SBDM on Saturday, bringing grooves a little more laid-back than the genre typically champions. Opener Gurthmax, though, will play some loud, aggressive, abrasive dance music. (AC)

PURPLE HAZE Club Fox, Redwood City Sat – 7pm; $12 So many treasures from Jimi Hendrix’s short career keep arriving (especially a great Live at

Winterland set from Sony Legacy), that the guitar great seems almost omnipresent, even some 42 years after his untimely passing. Ralph Woodson keeps the wah-wah pedal pumping onstage with a tribute band called, appropriately, Purple Haze. Not just sounding like his idol, Woodson has Hendrix’s psychedelic look down pat, even unto the scarf ties around the bicep. The only difference: Woodson is right-handed. (MSG)

SEABRIGHT Nickel City, San Jose Sat – 6pm; $6 Justin Morales’ one-man ambient project is chill without being boring, fusing the confessional style of a singer/songwriter to a bright electronic soundscape.

Morales doesn’t need eight

minutes to build a mood; some of his headiest grooves slip by in barely 120 seconds. He plays this show with the Bellafonte, La Montagne, Vulture Smile and Animal Super Species. (SP)

*tue SCOTT H. BIRAM The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Tue – 8:30pm; $8/$12 Austin-based “dirty old oneman-band” Scott H. Biram once recorded an album once called Lo-Fi Mojo. That sums up his sound in a few words. As he snaps the strings of his ’59 Gibson, there’s a ghost of Johnny Cash

in production, and of Waylon Jennings in the vocals. Ultimately, though, Biram is one of the last Texas bluesmen. A former punk rocker who headed deeper into roots music, Biram is famous for his successful attempt to knock some sense into an 18-wheeler.

While recuperating, he recorded the “Rehabilitation Blues” EP showing his car-crash-ravaged self on the cover. (RvB)

Apr 6 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

PHILIP GLASS Apr 7 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

RADIOHEAD Apr 11 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

RISE AGAINST Apr 17 at 7pm, SJSU Event Center

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Apr 24 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

COLDPLAY Apr 27-28 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

VAN HALEN Jun 5 at HP Pavilion

NICKELBACK Jun 18 at HP Pavilion

MAYHEM FESTIVAL Jul 1, Shoreline

MADONNA Oct 6 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

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*stage Opera

DIE FLEDERMAUS Presented by Mission City Opera.

Sat, 8pm. $25/$35. Mission City Center for the Performing Arts, Santa Clara.

DON GIOVANNI David Cox directs Mozart for West Bay Opera. Feb 17 and 25, 8pm, Feb 19 and 26, 2pm. $52 and up. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

LA TRAVIATA Verdi’s famous work interpreted

by Opera San Jose. Feb 16, 18, 21 and 24 at 8pm; Feb 19 and 26 at 3pm. $51-$101. California Theatre, San Jose.

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. $25-$35. City Lights, San Jose.

ART Two friends get into an argument over a piece of art that turns into something deeper. A Northside Theatre Company presentation.

Runs thru Mar 4. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. $15/$20. Northside Theatre, San Jose.

BECOMING BRITNEY A musical (of course) about the ups and downs of the pop star’s career. Runs thru Mar 11. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm, $33-$44. Retro Dome, San Jose.

BURIED CHILD The Stage tackles Sam Shepard’s play about a farming family coming apart at the seams. Runs Feb 15- Mar 11. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$40.

The Stage, 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. Runs thru Feb 19. ThuFri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square.

DOUBT, A PARABLE At a Catholic school, allegations of sexual misconduct affect the lives of four people. A Bus Barn Stage Company production. Runs thru Feb 18. Wed, 7:30pm, ThuSat, 8pm. $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 thru Feb 18. Thu-Sat, 8pm. $18-$38. Saratoga Civic Theater.

GREEN WHALES A middle-aged woman with a disease that makes her look like a 13-year-old navigates life and romance. A Renegade Theatre Experiment production. Runs thru Feb 25. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7pm. $12.50-$27.50. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

NEIL BERG’S 101 YEARS OF BROADWAY A revue featuring hits from decades of great musicals. Runs thru Feb 18. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm. $29-$69. San Jose Repertory Theatre.

SHORTS ON STAGE Staged readings by Word for Word Performing Arts Company for Lively Arts Series. Fri, 8pm. $24. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

Classical Concerts SONDRA HELLSTROM A vocal recital by mezzo-soprano Hellstrom, tenor Eric Tuan, viola player Lexie Frosh and pianist Sumi Park, featuring pieces by Bach, Britten and Barber. Sat, 8pm. Free. Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford.

MAGNIFICAT Monteverdi’s “Madrigals of War and Love.” Fri, 7:30pm. $12-$35.

St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Palo Alto.

MESOPOTAMIAN NIGHT A benefit evening of Assyrian music and dances. Sat, 7pm. $75 and up. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

PALO ALTO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA The program features Berlioz’s “Roman Carnival” Overture and works by Mozart, Strauss and

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RAGNOLIA RAGTETTE Pianists Jack and Chris Bradshaw and others perform ragtime selections. Sun, 3pm. $10. Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose.

CAROLE TERRY The organist performs works

by Bach, Buxtehude and Mendelssohn. Wed, 8pm. Free.

Memorial Church, Stanford.

DANIIL TRIFONOV Classical prodigy from Russia in a piano recital. Sun, 8pm. $32-$43.

Carriage House Theater, Montalvo Arts Center.

VOCALLECTIVE: FRESH MELODIES A performance of works by American composers working in the vocal chamber-music genre.

Sun, 5pm. Free. Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford.

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

Redwood City.

CLUB FOX Call for info. 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.

TUNING UP San Jose Repertory Theatre presents ‘Neil Berg’s 101 Years of Broadway,’ featuring tunes from big-name musicals; the production runs through Saturday at the Rep. CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Walker Evans.” A celebration of the image of the great American photographer. Thru Apr 8. “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.

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.

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

Kind of Bird Flies Backward.” A retrospective of paintings by Bay Area figurative artist Joan Brown.

Thru Mar 11. Works by installation artist Anna Sew Hoy in the Beta Space. Thru Feb 26. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Quilt National.” A juried show of contemporary quilt and fiber art. Thru Apr 29. Tue-Sun, 10am5pm. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Statewide Photography Competition and Exhibit.”Thru Apr 22. Reception Feb 24, 7pm.

Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM

TECH MUSEUM

Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Ryan Stout. $13/$19. Sunnyvale.

“Invoking Peace.” A group show features varying approaches to a call for peace. Runs thru Mar 17.

Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.

SAN JOSE IMPROV

“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.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS

Wed, 7pm: Big Al’s Comedy. $12.

Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Christina Pazsitzky. $17. San Jose.

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

MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE

Museums

“A Child’s World: Antique Toys, 1870-1930.”Thru Apr 29. Fri-Sun, 11am-4pm. Palo Alto.

ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

“Source Material: Works by Darla McKenna, Jeanne Tillman and Josette Urso.” Assemblage pieces. Thru Mar 9. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm. Los Gatos.

“Renegade Humor.” A show about the uses of humor in art, with pieces by Roy De Forest, John Bankston, M. Louise Stanley and more. Thru Jul 8 “This

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART Statewide Photography Competition and Exhibit. Feb 11Apr 22. Reception Feb 23, 7-9pm.

Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries OPENING KRAUSE CENTER “The Courage to Remember.”

A traveling exhibit from the Museum of Tolerance about the Holocaust. Feb 21-Mar 2. MonFri, 7:30am-8:30pm, Sat,

9am-5pm. Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

MAIN GALLERY “Mainly Clay.” A group show in various styles and materials. Feb 15-Mar 18. Reception Sat, 5-7pm.

Wed-Sun, 10am-3pm. Redwood City.

OLIVE HYDE ART GALLERY “Hidden Treasures/Local Talent.”

A salon show by local artists. Feb 17-Mar 17. Reception Fri, 7-9pm.

Thu-Sun, noon-5pm. Fremont.

SJSU GALLERIES Works by Adrian Lopez, Patrick Kingshill, Ismael Villanueva, Elizabeth Medina, Steven Haman and Eliana Cetto. Feb 20-24.

Reception Tue, 6pm. Inside the Art Building and Industrial Studies Building, SJSU.

CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI “Cakewalk Championship.” A group show of hallucinations by members of N/TENCE. Tru Mar 17. San Jose.

ART ARK “DYAD.”The show looks at juxtapositions of two works of art that compliment or comment on each other. Thru Feb 17. San Jose.

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

CAFFE FRASCATI Henna-inspired paintings by Lisa Mejia and portraits by David Mejia. Thru Feb 28. San Jose.

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star in a new production of ‘Buried Child.’

Flocking to Shepard SAN JOSE Stage Company’s latest challenge is Sam Shepard’s Pulitzer Prize– winning Buried Child. Written during the economic slump of the 1970s, the semiautobiographical play explores the decay of the American Dream through the eyes of a struggling rural farm family. Within this household teetering on the brink of self-destruction, notions regarding family, identity and morality converge to form a macabre yet compelling narrative that director Kenneth Kelleher considers a timeless Buried Child story for all.

Buried Child begins with Vince bringing his Runs Feb. 15–March 11; $14–$35 girlfriend home to meet his family for the first time.

The Stage in San Jose While initially the farm seems to embody the idyllic midwestern backcountry, the members of the family quickly dispel the façade. Vince’s grandparents are deranged alcoholics, his father is emotionally absent, and his uncle is an embittered amputee. When their darkest secret slowly begins to surface, it threatens to either snap the tenuous threads holding the family together, or offer a chance at salvation. “It’s a very personal and also highly theatrical story,” notes Kelleher, a longtime Shepard fan, in reference to the playwright’s real-life influences.

Shepard’s grandfather owned a farm, and his father constantly battled with alcoholism. The character of Vince’s uncle was inspired by one of Shepard’s relatives, who had a false leg from a childhood accident. But despite these similarities between reality and fiction, the key to Buried Child’s lasting appeal is Shepard’s ability to richly layer themes and symbols. “The theme is about spiritual and moral decay,” says Kelleher. “It’s a mythic story about a family about to erode.”

Citing the play’s powerful premise, the director saw no reason to update it or attempt to bring it into the present day. The production stays true to Shepard’s vision and to his last and most recent revision to the work, in 1997. On the one hand, the economic depression and questioning of family values is undoubtedly quite pertinent to today, but at the same time Shepard’s skills transform the play into a classic. “From Sophocles to Shakespeare,” observes Kelleher about major playwrights, “they all investigate this issue and condition. Family and identity … the bonds that keep family together and destroy them at the same time.”

If Buried Child seems overly grim, rest assured that Kelleher sought to balance out the play’s bleak undertones with lighter moments. At heart the text is not just about adversity but rather a gripping “mixture of comic and tragic elements.”—Misa Shikuma

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POETRY READING

Works by Sean Paul Richards, the Dirty Brushes Group, Eliza Ranjeet, Vaness Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hanlon, Nathan Cox and Lauren Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Korb. Runs thru Feb 17. Inside the Art Building and Industrial Studies Building, SJSU.

Monthly event welcomes Patricia Machmiller, Joan Zimmerman, Judith Schallberger and Carol Steele. Thu, 7pm. Willow Glen Library.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anima: The Self Within.â&#x20AC;? An exhibit by 11 artists about the concept of anima/animus. Thru Mar 22. Tue-Sat, 10am-5pm.

Fibre Arts Design, Palo Alto.

STANFORD ART SPACES

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heart to Heart.â&#x20AC;? Jewelry and paintings for lovers by Tim McKay. Thru Mar 4. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm.

Saratoga.

A show of recent works by faculty in Spatial and Digital Media. THru Feb 24. Art Building, SJSU.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blessed Are the Beasts, for They Shall Inherit the Earth.â&#x20AC;? Works by Katrina Marie Loera. Thru Feb 25.

San Jose.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Self-Help Book Club.â&#x20AC;? An exhibit of new works by ďŹ rst-year MFA students. Thru Feb 26. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun, 1-5pm.

Stanford.

KALEID GALLERY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lunar Phases.â&#x20AC;? New digital photos by Centa Schumacher. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Brutal/Tender.â&#x20AC;? Sculptures, paintings and more by Al Preciado. Thru Feb 24.

San Jose.

MACLA â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chicana/o Biennial.â&#x20AC;? A group show featuring new works by Chicano artists. Thru Mar 10.

Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

METRO LOBBY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Live. Local. Loud.â&#x20AC;? Photographs

by Claire Young and Jessica Shirley-Donnelly. Thru Feb 29.

San Jose.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Great Reverie: Montalvo 1912-2012.â&#x20AC;? An exhibit about the history of the estate built

by James Phelan 100 years ago.

Thru May 13. Reception Fri, 7pm.

Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.

MOHR GALLERY Photographs by Tony Grant. Thru Apr 1. Reception Feb 24, 6-8pm.

Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, Sat, 9am3pm. Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART â&#x20AC;&#x153;One Thing Leads to Another.â&#x20AC;? A group show about process and repetition in prints and drawings.

Thru Feb 25. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dos Mundos.â&#x20AC;?

Works by Tim Craighead. Thru Feb 18. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

Mixed media by Kathryn Dunlevie, paintings by Brian Huber and Leo Posillico. Thru Feb 25. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm.

Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford.

WORKS/SAN JOSE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Femme Fatale.â&#x20AC;? A group show about the complexities of the feminine. Feb 3-Mar 17.

San Jose.

Books DAVID AGUS A talk by the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The End of Illness,â&#x20AC;? sponsored by the Commonwealth Club. Tue, 7pm. $7-$20. Schultz Cultural Hall, Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto.

RAE ARMANTROUT The Center for Literary Arts presents two events with the poet. Wed, 7pm: A reading and booksigning. Thu, 1pm: A conversation with Juliana Spahr.

Both events are free. King Main Library, Rm 225/229, San Jose.

RAMONA AUSUBEL A visit from the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;No One Is Here Except All of Us.â&#x20AC;?Thu, 7pm. Palo Alto Library.

PHIL MCKINNEY A discussion about ideas that can change the world, with author McKinney (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beyond the Obviousâ&#x20AC;?) and John C. Hollar. Thu, noon. Computer History Museum, Mountain View.

JENNY S. MARTINEZ The Stanford law professor talks about her book â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law.â&#x20AC;? Wed, 7pm.

Books Inc., Mountain View.

PATRICIA SCHULTZ A chance to meet the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;1,000 Places to See Before You Die.â&#x20AC;? Sat, 8pm. Keplerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Menlo Park.

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MISS SMITHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S INCREDIBLE STORYBOOK A family play from Peninsula Youth Theatre. Fri, 9:30 and 11am, Sat, 11:30am and 1:30pm. $8/$10. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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

CHINESE NEW YEAR A celebration with singer Tony Chen, dragon and lion dances and Chinese cuisine. Sat, 1-4pm.

Santana Row, San Jose.

DAY OF REMEMBRANCE The Nihonmachi Outreach Committee remembers the 70th anniversary of the order that led to the incarceration of JapaneseAmericans during World War II. Guest speakers include Mike Honda and Karen Korematsu.

Sun, 5:30pm. San Jose Buddhist Church Betsuin.

MUSLIM IN SILICON VALLEY A panel discussion called â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Like to Be the Muslim Next Door in Silicon Valley,â&#x20AC;? with Muhammad Qayoumi, Muhammed Chaudhry and others. Thu, 6:30pm. Free. Tech Museum, San Jose.

SAP OPEN TENNIS With big-name players competing. Thru Feb 19. HP Pavilion.

SPAY NEUTER MONTH For the month of February, the Humane Society Silicon Valley offers discounts on spay and neuter surgeries for pet owners; up to 40 percent off. See hssv. convio.net for details.

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JAMES CURTIS’ monumental (in length at least) biography examines the life of an actor who specialized in “pillar of strength.” Spencer Tracy was homely and often portly, but he was the embodiment of fortitude. And he was a nimble, if craggy, light comedian.

They say Astaire and Rogers worked because Ginger made Fred look sexy, and Fred made Ginger look classy. Such alchemy occurred when Tracy met Katharine Hepburn. In a series of what producer Leland Hayward called “toad and grasshopper comedies,” Tracy donated the street smarts to the aristocratic Kate. She in turn showed Spencer Tracy: the limitations of old-time wisdom in an America A Biography seeking justice and progress.

Curtis squashes speculations that Tracy the pillar

By James Curtis was bent. There is, he writes, “a curious subgenre Knopf; 1001 pages; pandering to an audience that apparently wants to $39.95 be told that practically everyone in Old Hollywood was secretly gay.” Countered here also are the rumors that Tracy’s drinking was caused by guilt—the slander that he caught venereal disease, which caused his son John to be born deaf. The truth was less flashy: Usher syndrome. The drinking, though, was Eugene O’Neill–worthy, binges finishing in hospitals and jail cells, including assaults on other actors. There’s even evidence Tracy roughed up Hepburn. Tracy was the son of a middle-class Wisconsin father who had his own binges. Spencer rose through sheer hard work: After college and a short Navy stint, Tracy excelled at the American Academy of the Dramatic Arts.

Curtis shines in re-creating the sights and sounds of Tracy onstage; anyone can rewatch a movie, but this digging for the past is more difficult. We get an idea of how electrifying Tracy was through the multiple viewpoints of critics, audiences, co-actors and technicians. Tracy’s breakthrough play was The Last Mile—as a doomed prisoner, Tracy was so intent that he choked a fellow actor semiconscious onstage. Tracy parlayed this success into five years at the low-rent 1930s Fox studios. In 1935, MGM’s Irving Thalberg took a gamble on the hitless actor. Tracy stayed at that studio for 20 years, making San Francisco, A Guy Named Joe and Boys Town. Later came Tracy’s towering work in Bad Day at Black Rock.

Certainly the best introduction to Tracy’s power is Fritz Lang’s Fury, based on a double lynching in San Jose in the 1930s. Curtis describes the necktie party as payback for “the kidnapping of a department store heiress.” If he got that wrong (it was the son who was kidnapped), Curtis is elsewhere more accurate in summing up the impact of this troubled giant among actors. “I’m easy to imitate,” Curtis quotes James Cagney, “but you never see anyone imitate Spence.”—Richard von Busack

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HAVANA NIGHTS Chico discovers the beautiful Rita in a Cuban nightclub under the stars.

A pianist and a beautiful singer make a fateful journey from Cuba to New York in animated Chico & Rita

By RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE MOLDINESS of the 1950s musical plot of Chico & Rita is mitigated a little by stirring, even lavish, animated recreations of mid20th-century Havana and New York City, as seen from convertible roadsters and motorcycle sidecars.

Chico (voiced by Eman Xor Oña) is a handsome Havana nightclub pianist of the late 1940s. He sees the most beautiful singer ever at an open-air nightclub, singing “Bésame Mucho.” As a cartoon character, Rita (Limara Meneses) can be described as a more chemical version of the singer Sade: the demure, green-eyed leopard-woman type.

When the two meet, Rita is with some rich mark; Chico and his pal are squiring a pair of American babes. But they ditch these encumbrances at Havana’s posh Hotel Nacional de Cuba. Chico gets a last-minute gig there. The film’s best joke has it that Chico is expected to go straight onstage without rehearsal and pound out Stravinsky’s Ebony Concerto along with Woody Herman’s band.

The couple has a modern romance: sleep-over first, then a gradually rising set of troubles.

Chico’s used-to-be lover shows up and gets into a catfight with Rita.

Made for adults, Chico & Rita plays up the erotic side of the affair.

The limits of its stylized animation show in the most intimate moments. Depicting lovemaking is the most difficult task an animator can take on; no wonder these scenes

are usually euphemized.

After a final quarrel, Chico and Rita head off to hard, cold New York separately. Rita becomes the bird in an Anglo entertainment magnate’s gilded cage and is hired

by MGM to star in a wide-screen musical.

What we see of her movie is a crimson-tinged number performed under wrought-iron balconies in the American South; it looks a little more like Goldwyn’s Porgy and Bess than the MGM musicals of the day.

Unfortunately, there’s a bracketing story, as if to give this romance more weight—and to present the frustrations of the Communist Cuba in its decline.

We see Chico is alone in old age, drinking by himself and shining the shoes of rich, presumably Canadian, tourists.

Such old-age sequences were done better in the book Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. That book, with its unhappy ending, was published before the unbelievable real-life curtain call so many of these Cuban musicians got after the Buena Vista Social Club sessions. The way Chico & Rita handles this belated

success, in a whirling-newspaper montage, makes the real-life story of comeback look like cheap fiction.

It’s a pity. This animated feature should have had it all going on. The soundtrack boasts the music of Bebo Valdés. Giants of jazz and mambo turn up in animated form, including Nat King Cole, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente and the wild, ill-fated percussionist Chano Pozo.

Chico and Rita drift around in their hard-to-resolve love affair, so Pozo’s particular zest for life and sensation hijacks the movie. He may be dangerous, but he’s not passive. He’s got that diabolical glint you see in pictures of Fats Waller. When Pozo turns up in the New York sequences, suddenly there’s something proactive going on—then, of course, all of a sudden Pozo is gone.

Chico & Rita is good-looking, and it might pass muster after a few mojitos. It’s a collaboration between Spanish director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and the wellknown cartoonist and designer Javier Mariscal, who created the all-time best Olympic mascots (for Barcelona in 1992). The handsome design keeps you amused, either in the intricate cityscapes or in Chico’s nightmare scene that owes a little something to the painter Stuart Davis.

But it’s one thing to make a movie about a men-on-top society— and another to make the female lead mostly nebulous. The way Rita’s later life is handled is embarrassing.

Chico & Rita suggests that a rising star’s one small moment of letting the mask drop would end a career utterly for decades.

What happens to this supposedly celebrated and talented singer is something more than you can blame on an underwritten script. It ends up looking like penance Rita is supposed to suffer for her easy ways.

And it denies that her art was more important than finding the right man.

Chico & Rita 94 min.

Opens Friday at Camera 12 in San Jose.

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Weinstein Company to pick the film up for a seven-figure deal—and, as with any true Hollywood-Industry fairy tale, reserve the rights for a remake. (Opens Fri.)

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(PG-13; 95 min.) Longtime fans of Nicolas Cage knew that someday he’d act so hard he’d burst into flames. Thus, the first Ghost Rider, an agreeable supernatural-wheeler shot in Melbourne. It was plagued by undervillaining (Peter Fonda as Satan?!) but sweetened with the Raquel Welch–stylings of Eve Mendez. In this unpreviewed flamethrower, the ADD-addled team of Neveldine and Taylor (Crank) bring us the chariots of fire. In search of Satan, GR heads to Romania to deal with Ciarán “Mr. Baleful” Hinds and the towering Idris Elba. (Opens Friday.)

THIS MEANS WAR (PG-13; 98 min.) In this “notan-adaptation-but-totally-anadaptation” of the Spy vs. Spy comic, two CIA agents (who also happen to be attractive best friends) discover through the magic of contrived cinema that they are dating the same woman (Reese Witherspoon, who is attempting to answer questions of whether or not she can play a sultry and mysterious dream girl by proving that we’re right, she can’t). The two engage in a series of action-packed shenanigans, all in an attempt to one-up the other and woo the gal. Star Trek’s Chris Pine and Inception’s Tom Hardy star as the dueling friends in a script co-written by Mr. & Mrs. Smith scribe, Simon Kinberg, which ought to give viewers an idea of just what to expect both thematically and visually: hyped-up action as a stand-in for sex, and maybe the other way around as well. (Plays early in select theaters, opens nationwide Fri.)

BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) Michael J. Fox and a frizzyhaired scientist (Christopher Lloyd) ride the red gull-winged DeLorean into the past to fix a troubled family’s destiny. (Plays Feb 16 at 9:30pm and Feb 18 at midnight in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

THE DEVIL TO PAY!/ EMPLOYEE ENTRANCE (1930/1933) Ronald Colman stars as a rakish blueblood who returns to his family, only to get involved with a debutante (a 17-year-old Loretta Young). It’s love on his part, but she fears it’s money he’s after. BILLED WITH Employee Entrance. “My code is smash or be smashed!” Warren Beatty in the bedroom and J. Montgomery Burns in the boardroom, Warren Williams pursues a married shopgirl (Young) through the corridors of the department store he owns. Seventyfive minutes of the kind of drama that

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UNDEFEATED (Unrated; 113 min) This surprise Best Documentary Oscar nominee follows the Manassas Tigers, an underfunded and underprivileged football team in Memphis, Tenn., as it attempts a winning season after years of constant losses. The team’s coach, Bill Courtney, is the film’s true star, as his unwavering devotion to his players helps turn the group into academic and athletic stars. The film received critical acclaim at 2011’s South by Southwest, leading the

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got the Production Code enacted in the ďŹ rst place. (Plays Feb 14-16 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

HENRY V (1944) The ďŹ rst completely artistically successful Shakespeare ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the warrior king who conquers France and wins a princess to boot. Director/star Laurence Olivierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adaptation begins in a recreation of the Globe Theater in May Day 1600 where a rowdy crowd is watching the play unfold. The groundlings rebel and talk back to the actors when they hear of the impending death

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

NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent ďŹ lms. Feb 18: The Pawnshop (1916) with Chaplin, The Playhouse (1921) with Buster Keaton, His Royal Slyness (1920) with Harold Lloyd and Wrong Again (1929) with Laurel and Hardy. Judy Rosenberg at the piano. (Plays Feb 18 at 7:30 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.)

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Hiromasa Yonebayashi is credited as the director, but it seems like an elder manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;slow, contemplative and ringed with loss.

An action sequence, with an injury and a rescue, takes place oďŹ&#x20AC;screen. The main male character is a young convalescent, bedridden as he waits for a dangerous operation. This mortality is discussed in blocky dialogue; the boy accepting his possible death, his tiny new friend counseling him to ďŹ ght against it. The exchange adds a tang to the seeming hopelessness of the friendship between the full-size boy and a tiny girl.

Arrietty, 14 year olds, 5 inches high, desires to spy on the world of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;beansâ&#x20AC;? (human beings), despite the warnings of her father, who endures perils to â&#x20AC;&#x153;borrowâ&#x20AC;? food, and of her mother, a little woman in constant terror of what might happen.

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Marlon Brando’s Mark Antony has to make his “Friends! Romans!

Countrymen!” heard in the midst of a major hubbub. BILLED WITH The Man in Grey. Starring James Mason as a

not-so-divine marquis in the British regency. (Plays Feb 18-20 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

ROMANCING THE STONE (1984) Fondly remembered adventure with Kathleen Turner as a romance novelist who goes to Colombia to rescue her sister; there she’s helped by a dashing American (Michael Douglas). (Plays Feb 17-19 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

STELLA DALLAS (1925) Ronald Colman plays Stephen Dallas in the first version of the unkillable melodrama about

maternal love. Belle Bennett has the title role. Dennis James at the Stanford’s Wurlitzer. (Plays Feb 17 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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a director who can harmonize the various acting styles. Rodrigo Garcia helms with the same fits and starts of his connect-the-dots dramas, most notably Nine Lives. 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 floorboards of her dingy room.

Close’s portrait of a bound-in woman is the kind one can admire rather than feel. (RvB)

CHRONICLE (PG-13; 84 min.) Captured entirely on home video, three high school students discover a weird star-shaped crystal

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ALBERT NOBBS (R; 113 min.) Based on a George Moore novella, Albert Nobbs has some plusses. It’s a plausible story, and a well-staged and beautifully costumed re-creation of 1898 Dublin for Ulysses-philes to daydream over.

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JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG; 94 min.) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island is a sequel to 2008â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Journey to the Center of the Earth (see what they did there? with the title?), and while the cast has been almost entirely scrapped, the crux is the same: A signal intercepted leads to a family-wide expedition to a mysterious island that may or may not have been the inspiration behind Treasure Island, Gulliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Travels and Verneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own Mysterious Island. The ďŹ lm introduces two new elements: High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens and 3-D. (RB)

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SCRAWL RAWL OF ME After winning a round of the Battle of the Bands at 9 Lives in Gilroy last week, Pounders will compete in the semi-finals.

San Jose’s Chris Pounders finds success in the band named after him, and lots of truly odd jobs

By STEVE PALOPOLI

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HEN CHRIS POUNDERS cut his hair into a Mohawk, he never thought David Lynch would want to set it on fire.

The vocalist and guitarist of San Jose pop-punk band Pounders— which won a round of the Battle of the Bands at 9 Lives in Gilroy last week, and will compete in the semi-finals in March—has had his hawk for a few years now. It’s been blond, red, pink and black, and to say the least, it’s given him a distinctive look both onstage and in the acting work he occasionally does. Distinctive enough that Lynch

handpicked him to be in the video for his song “Crazy Clown Time,” the title track from Lynch’s bizarre recent album.

Pounders doesn’t know when the video will be coming out, but he filmed his part three weeks ago.

In it, he appears to light his hair on fire, though the effect was actually achieved by cutting a shot of him putting a match close to his hair with a shot of a matching Mohawk on a fake Chris Pounders head going up in flames.

“The video is just as messed up as the music is,” he promises.

The ironic thing is that his trademark look isn’t even a huge political statement on Pounders’ part; it was originally done as an emergency measure after his hair was massacred on a shoot. He

planned to keep it just one day but ended up loving it.

“I have a Mohawk, I have tattoos, but I don’t consider myself a punk rocker,” says the 26-year-old Pounders, though it is clearly a bit of a tribute to the hard-core punks he encountered in his formative years: “When I was growing up, those guys were crazy.”

Similarly, people often tell the band—which also includes drummer Justin Imamura and bassist Alonso Hernandez—that they sound like old-school punks.

This puzzles them to no end, since they’re the first to admit they don’t.

Besides their look, this perception has more to do with the energy of their shows; they’re a lot rawer in concert. Pounders accurately describes their sound on record as “old Green Day meets the Cure.”

If that sounds like a pretty ingenious combination for the current music climate, you’re not the only one who thinks so. Live 105’s Aaron Axelsen has played three of their songs so far: “Scream

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and Let It Go,” “Chasing the Sun” (the title track from their debut album) and the new “Dead Man.” But Pounders isn’t too impressed with the retro-’80s movement, feeling like the current groups have drawn way too heavily from the synth side of the electro-dance/ guitar-band split that existed in the music of that decade. The band’s unofficial motto is “Put away your dancing shoes, turn off that drum machine.”

“I’m trying to go more toward the dark, emotional, energetic ’80s stuff,” he says.

To hear their stuff getting airplay is a validation of the huge push the band has made in the last couple of years. Though he recognizes that radio has less importance than it once did, Pounders compares the importance of it in his mind to the 1994 flop-turned-cult-movie Airheads, where Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi Bre break into a radio station to get bre their record aired. the ““They raided the radio station just to get that one play,” he says. jus “To me, it still feels like that. It’s still exciting.” exc IIn actuality, though, Pounders has been around since the mid-2000s. bee Pounders met Imamura when Po they were both in high school, drumming at Great America. The pair began playing together, then met Hernandez when they went back to star in Great America’s “School of Rock” show.

Nor, by the way, were any of these the weirdest gig the band members have had. Imamura has hosted Nickelodeon’s Slime Time Live, and Pounders took a couple of years off from the band to perform full-time with Stomp in Las Vegas, including their show at the NBA All-Star Game. They actually incorporate their drumming experience into some of their shows by performing trash-can drumming during their set.

In fact, considering that his last name, from which the band derived their moniker, is the one he had at birth, and not a stage name, he sometimes can’t help but feel he’s in the wrong line of work doing vocals and guitar.

“Honestly, deep inside I sometimes wish I was a drummer still,” he says. “It’s just too perfect.”

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Rock/Pop ART BOUTIKI Fri, 7pm: The Trophy Fire, Conversations, Two Star Hotel, Noys Annoise, Stories in Braille.

All ages. Sat, 7pm: Endoxi, Cartoon Bar Fight, Rin Tin Tiger, ColorScout. All ages. San Jose.

Christian Vela, Cado. All ages.

No cover. San Jose.

CAPERS Fri, 8:30pm: Live music.

Campbell.

THE CARAVAN Thu, 8pm: The Casual Rapists, Cremation Chamber. All ages.

San Jose.

AVALON

CLUB FOX

Thu, 7pm: Prong. $15. Fri, 8pm: Cry Wolf. $12. Sun, 7:30pm: Testament. $20. Santa Clara.

Thu, 8pm: Lyrics Born. $20.

Fri, 8pm: Fred Eaglesmith. $18/$20. Sat, 7pm: Purple Haze and Kevin Russellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cream of Clapton. $12. Sun, 7pm: Vicious Groove. $10/$13. Redwood City.

THE BLANK CLUB Fri, 9pm: Ghost Town Hangmen, Them Rude Boys, Atomic Aces. $8. San Jose.

BOSWELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Wed, 9:30pm: Jack Rip-Off. Thu, 10pm: Sexy Back. Fri, 9:30pm: Suga Dady. Sat, 9:45pm: Rod. Sun, 8:45pm: The Gents. Mon, 9pm: Chili Sauce. Campbell.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: The Cheeseballs. Sat, 10pm: Drive. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI Fri, 9pm: Nehal Abuelata, Troy Curtis, Duke Hearts. All ages.

No cover. Sat, 8pm: Troy Curtis,

DOSA BIRYANI Thu, 6pm: Sovereign Strength (last show), Ecophagy, Leaders, Watchers & Hunters, YourOwnDestroyer, Eidola. All ages. $10. Sunnyvale.

FOX THEATRE Sat, 7:30pm: Tony Orlando. $35-$52.50. Redwood City.

THE GRAPEVINE Sat, 7pm: Hootenanny with Mike Murdock and Sean McGuire. Willow Glen.

JOHNNY Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Thu: Live hip-hop. Fri: Nasci,

Something Left Unsaid, Momento. Sat: South Bay Dub Massive. San Jose.

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

MOJO LOUNGE Fri, 9:30pm: The Chris Cobb Band. $5. Sat, 9:30pm: The Honey Wilders. $5. Fremont.

MONTGOMERY THEATER Sat, 8pm: House of Floyd. Pink Floyd tribute. $36-$46. San Jose.

NETOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GRILL Fri, 8:30pm: The Cruzers. $10.

Sat, 8:30pm: John Garcia.

Santa Clara.

NICKEL CITY Fri, 6pm: A Broken Opera, Seven Year War, the Antioxidants, With Every Story Told, Touch My Rash, Coyote Blue, INFM. All ages. Sat, 6pm: The Bellafonte, La Montagne, Seabright, Vulture Smile, Animal Super Species. All ages.

San Jose.

NINE LIVES Thu, 8pm: Battle of the Bands with 1989, Den of Antiquity, Section 5150, Illfusion. $10.

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Prong PRONG founder/lead-singer Tommy Victor never really considered Prong a metal band. Sure, metal was an influence, but so was punk, industrial and classic acid-rock. But in 1994, metalheads all over the country were regularly banging their heads to their songs “Broken Peace” and “Snap Your Finger, Snap Your Necks” thanks to some heavy rotation on MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball. Their midtempo heavy thrash beats, atonal melodies, syncopated rhythms and atmospheric experimentalism would help define the emerging alternative-metal genre, Avalon along with bands like Helmet and White Zombie. Prong leaned more towards industrial, however, than their Thu, Feb. 16 contemporaries. They put out a couple successful albums, then broke up in 1996 after Epic dropped them. Victor 8pm; $15 quickly took his rock skills and toured and recorded with other metal acts like Danzig, Rob Zombie and Ministry.

Victor has stated before that he never left the world of rock & roll because he had no other skills (citing his only prior work experience—soundman for CBGBs—as proof). Prong reformed in 2002 and have been releasing albums on Al Jourgensen’s relatively small indie label. Prong’s recent output has been spotty, but their influence on modern metal is still obvious.

Bands like Korn, Static X, Demon Hunter and even Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails have all cited Prong as an influence.— Aaron Carnes

Sat, 8pm: 1989, the Relief, Fairgrounds, Oh My Land. $10.

Gilroy.

Dream. Sun, 9pm: Pro Jam. No cover. Sunnyvale.

I Swallowed An Owl. No cover.

San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE

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Sat, 8pm: Austin Willacy.

Mountain View.

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

Gilroy.

THE REFUGE

STREETLIGHT RECORDS

Sat, 6pm: Dennis Is Dead, the Art of War, For a Better Kind, A Breed Extinct, A Shattered Hope, the Human Centipede. All ages. $10. Cupertino.

Tue, 6pm: Josh Tatum. No cover.

San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

TRES GRINGOS CABO CANTINA

Thu, 9:30pm: Joint Chiefs. No cover. Fri, 9:30pm: The Groove Doctors. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Naked in Vegas. $10. Los Gatos.

THE QUARTER NOTE Wed: Pro Jam hosted by Mental Notes. No cover. Thu: Pro Jam hosted by Vicious Groove.

No cover. Fri: California Blues Machine. $5. Sat: Madman’s Lullaby. $5. Sun, 5pm: Tomorrow’s

Thu, 9pm: The Ghost of Wrights,

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

Thu, 9pm: Solejive. San Jose.

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PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

A PERFECT FINISH

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

STEPHENS GREEN

Fri, 9pm: Mark Arroyo Jazz Trio.

Sat, 9pm: The 3/4 Crowd Jazz Trio. San Jose.

Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

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

World

Jazz/Blues

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.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 6:30pm: Christian LaPaglia. $8/$12. Mon, 7pm: A Swingin’ Affair and Jazz Jam. No cover.

Redwood City.

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

BBC GASTROPUB

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Fri, 6pm: Live jazz. Menlo Park.

Fri, 8:30pm: Fiesta Flamenca. $20/$25. Redwood City.

BLUZ BY-YOU

ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music and belly dancing. Tue: Dinner and performance by Italian tenor Pasquale Espositio. Cupertino.

AZÚCAR Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Dinner, live music with Angel Zelada and more for Valentine’s.

San Jose.

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Fri: Brad Wilson. Sat: Bonedrivers. Santa Clara.

Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson.

Thu, 6-9pm: San Jose Jazz Blues Thursday with David Landon Band (CD-release party). Fri, 610pm: John Nemeth Band with John Lee Sanders. Sat, 6-10pm: Terry Hanck Band. Sun, 2-6pm: Junior Watson & Friends. Mon, 6-9pm: Lundi Gras & Ukulele Jam Night. Tue, 5-9pm: Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) with the Montegos. San Jose.

TESSORA’S Fri, 8:30pm: South City Blues.

Sat, 8:30pm: Scotty Griffin Trio.

Campbell.

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

GRAND DELL SALOON

WINE AFFAIRS

Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam with Aki, featuring Andy Santana. Fri, 8pm: Johnny Neri Band. Sat, 8pm: Jimmy’s 60th birthday bash. Campbell.

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

San Jose.

C&W/Folk

HEDLEY CLUB

ALICE’S

CASCAL

Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo-Alberts Trio.

Fri, 8:30pm: Harold Fethe.

Sat, 8:30pm: JP & the Rhythm Chasers. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.

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

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

Thu, 7pm: Live acoustic music.

Woodside.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE Fri: Skidanenko and Green Bluegrass Duet. Campbell.

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: Wild at Heart. ThuFri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Rodeo House.

Fremont.

Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

Wed, 9pm: Blues Angel. Thu, 9pm: Madylan Rose. Fri, 9pm: Dog House Riley. Sat, 9pm: Sammy Varela. $10. Sun, 9pm: Stevie B. Mon, 9pm: Diamond 99. Plus Pro Jam. Tue, 7pm: Blue J, Liar’s Club. San Jose.

LIQUID

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THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Tue: Rock en espanol. San Jose.

Wed: JC Smith Band. San Jose.

MOROCCO’S MV

LILLY MAC’S

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

Wed, 6pm: Middle Eastern music. Thu, 6pm: Flamenco guitar with Paul Renslow. Fri, 6pm: The Dan Goghs. Sat, 6pm: Belly dancing. Sun, 6pm: World music. Mon, 6pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 6pm: Johnny Williams. Mountain View.

Fri, 9:30pm: Laura Price.

Sunnyvale.

MOROCCO’S SJ

LOS GATOS BREWING CO. SJ

HUKILAU Fri: Shaka. Sat: Na Kalohe Kane.

San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S

Wed, 6pm: Acoustic guitar with Jack. Thu, 6pm: Johnny Williams.

Fri, 6pm: World music. Sat, 6pm: World music and magic. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music. Mon, noon on: French music.

San Jose.

SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, 6pm: Cabin Fever. San Jose.

Open Mic

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

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

LOS GATOS BREWING CO.

Tue, 7pm: Open mic.

Redwood City.

Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.

BAMBOO LOUNGE Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos. San Jose.

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

MURPHY’S LAW

BAREFOOTCOFFEEROASTERS

Thu: Maneck. Fri: Dave Abbott Band. Sat: Chris Cobb Band.

Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

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Carriage House Theatre Concert Series GEORGE KAHUMOKU JR. and MASTERS OF HAWAIIAN MUSIC

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with Dennis Kamakahi, Uncle Richard Ho’opi’l and Bobby Ingano

SUN, MAR 11, 7:30PM “…every performance is the essence of aloha” – popmatters.com

Grammy Award winner, master slack key guitarist George Kahumoku Jr., known as “Hawaii’s Renaissance Man” is joined with Dennis Kamakahi, award-winning slack key guitarist and prolific songwriter of many famous Hawaiian standards; Uncle Richard Ho’opi’l, ukulele and vocals; and Bobby Ingano, renowned lap steel guitarist. This will be an unforgettable evening in celebration of the true essence of aloha. The music of George Kahumoku Jr. also appears in the award-winning 2011 film “The Descendants.”

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Saratoga.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

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

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

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN ALEX’S 49ER INN

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

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

BRIX Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI

“Very sharp work. Kyle has imagination and skill” - The Observer, UK

Son of actor Clint Eastwood, Paris-based jazz musician Kyle Eastwood has become a star in the jazz world. An accomplished and multi-talented musician and composer, his second album, Paris Blue, rose to number one on the French jazz charts. About his work he says, “My roots remain in jazz but I like adding all kinds of different flavors.” Eastwood composed pieces of music for several of Clint Eastwood’s films, including “Mystic River” and “Million Dollar Baby.”

TAJ MAHAL & THE TRIO FRI, APR 13, 6:30PM & 9PM “No artist has stretched the definition of blues like Taj Mahal” - Christian Science Monitor A two-time Grammy Award winner, Taj Mahal is one of the most influential American blues and roots artists of the last 50 years. A self-taught composer and multi-instrumentalist, Taj Mahal has done much to reshape the definition and scope of blues music over the course of his long career by gathering and distilling countless musical traditions from a wide range of geographical and cultural sources.

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FRI, APR 6, 8:00PM

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Karaoke

Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic.

Cupertino.

KYLE EASTWOOD BAND

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Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Free.

San Jose.

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

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

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

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

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

THE BEARS Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

HOT JAVA COFFEE ROASTING

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

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

BLACK CARD LOUNGE

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

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

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

DIVE BAR

JOHNNY V’S

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

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

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Celebrating 100 Years!

1912-2012

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

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

San Jose.

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

Presented by

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

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

NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: Open mic. No cover. Gilroy.

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

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

EL TORITO RESTAURANT

BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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

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

QUARTER NOTE

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

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

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

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

SONOMA CHICKEN COOP

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

BLUE BONNET BAR

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

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

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

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

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover.

San Jose.

Wed, 8:30pm: Open mic.

Campbell.

BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

GALAXY

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

BOULEVARD TAVERN

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

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

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

GILROY BOWL

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

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

Thu and Mon: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

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underground Bay Area hip-hop.

Lyrics Born IN 1997, Latyrx’s debut Latyrx (The Album) changed the very idea of what Bay Area underground hip-hop could sound like. Fifteen years later, Lyrics Born is still changing minds and waking up ears as a solo artist, and still working with the other half of Latyrx duo, Lateef the Truthspeaker, who guests on his new Club Fox mixtape, Variety Show Season Five. Set to drop at the end of this month, Season Five is unlike any of Lyrics Thu, Feb. 16 Born’s previous Variety Show mixes. All of the remixes are two-step and boogie, mixed by DJ Icewater. The 9pm; $20 Japanese-born, Berkeley-raised rapper revisits songs like “Later That Day,” “As You Were,” “Overnight Encore,” and “The Bay.” Besides his former partner in Latryx, Lyrics Born’s guests on the new one include Far East Movement’s Proh, Sam Sparro (their collaboration “Coulda Woulda Shoulda” is mashed up here with Teena Marie’s “Square Biz”), Trackademicks, Francis & the Lights and more.—Steve Palopoli

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QUARTER NOTE

Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Mon: Ed. Tue: Sue and Sherrie.

No cover. Sunnyvale.

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

RED STAG LOUNGE

LIQUID

Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

JERSEYS Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

JOHNNY V’S Sun: Sunday Funday. Karaoke.

No cover. San Jose.

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

Campbell.

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

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

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

MARIANI’S

REDI ROOM

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

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

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL

ROSIE MCCANN’S

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

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

Santana Row.

OASIS

RUDY’S PUB

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

Sunnyvale.

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

OFF THE HOOK

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Tue: Kamikaze. San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

PEACOCK LOUNGE 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.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL Wed, 9pm: Karaoke Contest.

Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

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

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Santa Clara.

Dance Clubs AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

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

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

San Jose.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

9pm: Legacy. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: College Night.

San Jose.

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

Los Gatos.

JOHNNY V’S

MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE

Mon: Hip-hop with DJ Casper.

San Jose.

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

KATIE BLOOM’S

SABOR TAPAS BAR

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

Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing.

Sun: Reggae. San Jose.

KING OF CLUBS

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

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

Wed: Wingy Tango night.

Thu: Paradisco Nights. Fri: Video Junkie Fridays. Sat: Sapphire Saturdays. Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Buck Wild Tuesdays. San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night.

Sunnyvale.

LIQUID

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

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

THE BLANK CLUB

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

Thu, 9pm: Atomic with DJ Basura. $10. Sat, 9pm: Club Satori with DV Vitus and DV Kevin. $5. San Jose.

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

BAMBOO LOUNGE

More listings:

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STUDIO8 Thu: Future of Pop. Fri: Mardi Gras Model Search. Sat: 99.7 presents Bitter Ball 2012.

San Jose.

LOS GATOS BAR AND GRILL

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Fri: BeatzBoutique. Sat: Video Killed the DJ. Los Gatos.

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

WILLOW DEN

MIAMI BEACH CLUB

Wed-Sat, DJs. Willow Glen.

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

ZEN LOUNGE Wed: Lil Saturday. Thu: 24 Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Mountain View.

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

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

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

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Thu, 10pm: Live DJ. Cupertino.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Thu: VJ mixing with DJ Benofficial. Fri, 10pm: DJ Christiano Intrigue. Sat, 10pm: DJ Junky. San Jose.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

POMPLAMOOSE Quirky YouTube sensations in danger of being usurped by even-more-twee Karmin. Feb 18 at Great American Music Hall.

TREY SONGZ “Bottoms Up,” “Neighbors Know My Name,” “I Invented Sex”—hits galore, here. Feb 19 at the Paramount Theater.

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

Santa Clara.

HOT CHELLE RAE

DIVE BAR

THE FRAY

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

THE ELEGANT PUB Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Checo.

Evergreen Inn, San Jose.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays.

Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays.

Fri, 9pm: For the Love. 10. Sat,

Interminably peppy boy-toy rock band pose for cameras, sing about love, invade tweens’ hearts. Feb 20 at Slim’s.

Piano-rock torchbearers from Colorado deliver majestically on Christian-church roots. Feb 20 at the Fox Theater.

CURSIVE Long-running Omaha emo powerhouse returns with new album “I Am Gemini” and free in-store. Feb 21 at Amoeba SF.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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HEN IT came time for Gary “Ace” Salvatore, owner of SVCare, to plead his case with city officials at San Jose’s City Hall, he had the feeling of walking into a Michelin-starred restaurant minus the shirt and shoes.

Phone calls went unreturned.

Meetings were promised but never made. After working in the high-tech industry for 15 years and spending a decade with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Salvatore was lost and shunned in his attempt to traverse the muddy waters of running a medical marijuana collective where nothing is legal and everything is taxable.

When city officials talked tough last spring about capping collectives at 10 and changing requirements ranging from zoning and the legality of edible products to where the pot should be grown, Ace realized he was in over his head.

Looking for a seat at the table, SVCare took up an informal partnership with the United Food and Commercial Workers union

(Local 5), which has been avidly pursuing the medical marijuana industry. Last week, SVCare became the city’s first unionized dispensary by formalizing a deal with Local 5.

“It lends credibility to the industry,” Salvatore says. “We wanted a partner in this going forward, because we’re in the fight for our lives.

“I think we get a little bit more recognition when were talking to these politicians who don’t know us.

We’re kind of ‘nuisance’, but when they’re talking to us as a union it’s a little different approach.”

Matthew Witemyre, a co-chair for the Citizens Coalition for Patient Care (the group that galvanized a successful referendum drive to kill the city’s planned ordinance), organized SVCare’s entry into Local 5. CCPC is a coalition of 20 collectives that spawned out of a smaller group that was called MC3.

Salvatore is a board member.

The process of joining Local 5 was relatively simple, according to Witemyre, but it was clearly a process of building trust through relationships. Local 5 representatives talked to Salvatore and his wife,

Eydie, to see if they could gauge workers’ interest in a “card check neutrality agreement.”

When more than 50 percent of workers turned these cards back in saying they were interested in learning more, the union began contract negotiations by talking to management and employees to better understand the work environment.

Contracts for a collective bargaining agreement on wages, hours and holiday and paid-time off were drawn up, and employees unanimously voted to approve the agreement, Witemyre says.

“That’s the goal—to have closed shops,” he adds, using the term of having everyone in agreement.

“This industry shouldn’t be about getting rich quick. It should be about dignity and providing a good job and providing quality health care.”

Local 5 is continuing talks with other dispensaries in San Jose, including Cinnabar Health Collective.

“I feel that the industry is really starting to come around to that and so we’re here for the long haul,” Witemyre says.—Josh Koehn

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