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

The Bike Spoke Speaks I saw you (yet again) packing your child into the car as I was riding by on my bike with my kids. Every day, you’ve been driving your children the grand total of three blocks to school. Originally, I gave you the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe you were dropping them on the way to work.

But no, it’s settled: you’re just a lazy parent. Maybe your ass would be a little less fat if you walked more?

I’ve heard you complaining to other mothers about how hard it is to lose weight, so maybe you would feel safer in your neigborhood if you got outside more and said ‘hi’ to your neigbors as you walk by?

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Pushing Back Gary Singh starts his article (“Stadium Push,” Silicon Alleys, Feb. 22) by stating, “If I lived 1,000 feet away from a brand-new soccer stadium, I would welcome the fact that my property values would increase as a

result.” Sir, I live less than 1,000 feet from that above-mentioned soccer stadium, and I doubt that having tarp-covered aluminum bleachers filled with 18,000 excited fans [with] vuvuzuelas, air horns and other devices throughout the weekend will do much for my property values, but I guess that’s just me.

As a neighbor of Campbell Avenue, I could not feel anything but duped by the city of San Jose. After all, they were the ones that changed the zoning of that surrounding area from light industrial to high-density residential, knowing all along that they wanted to build a soccer stadium, a BART station and an elevated highspeed rail right next to us, which I find important to remark, was a fact that was never disclosed to us in the proposed area plan that was presented

to us when close to 250 families invested close to $150 million buying homes on that small corridor.

(The full text of this letter can be read online at Metroactive.com) LUDMILA PARADA | SAN JOSE Gary Singh replies: The appeal, by one person, was unanimously and justly rejected.

I applaud the Planning Commission for doing something right for a change.

Price of Parking This Tuesday, Feb. 21, I realized the cost of parking in the wrong place at the wrong time in San Jose. The police have contracted with towing companies to tow your car: grand total $428.

Many citizens of San Jose had their

cars towed, many who, like me, didn’t see the signs hung up every 50 feet at night. I parked in a spot which had normal metered parking, free after 6pm—I parked at 7pm. These signs were only required to be hung 24 hours in advance, per code.

The police told me the street was cleared to prevent vandalism on Mardi Gras; well, thanks, glad they were only in front of City Hall. I know the fees are the same for cars parked during marathons, etc. The vehicle code cited does not say anything about towing for these purposes. The fees/extortion and the low visibility of signs, as evidenced by the high amount of vehicles which were towed (I saw one woman in tears...) seem unfair and unnecessary.

Who is really being helped here?

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Fast Starter Some people can’t wait to start campaigning. Case in point: LESLIE REYNOLDS, a District 10 City Council candidate in San Jose. On a hot summer day last August, Reynolds erected a booth at the “Grandelicious” event in Almaden put on by 95120 Magazine.

Her booth included a banner declaring Leslie Reynolds her intention to run for NANCY PYLE’s termed-out seat in 2012 as well as free glasses of Don’t lemonade featuring forget her campaign logo. to tip!

(See Facebook for photos of the good FLY@ family fun.) A couple METRONEWS. COM months later, Reynolds says a friend of her son designed her sleek campaign website pro-bono. While Reynolds, a San Jose Unified school board member, says she has tried to comply with city rules by not accepting contributions until Dec. 9, that might not matter. None of her “out of pocket” expenses for the booth or the website (or the lemonade!) were reported in campaign disclosure forms. Instead, her only expense was a whopping $42 to set up a Wells Fargo bank account. This information comes on the heels of a complaint filed with the city’s Elections Commission in January against Reynolds by fellow D-10 candidate JOHNNY KHAMIS. In that complaint, Khamis alleged that Reynolds solicited contributions in a flyer sent out by the Silicon Valley Association of Republican Women before the kickoff date to collect cash. “Either she doesn’t understand the rules or wants to be oblivious to the rules,” he tells Fly. For now, though, Khamis says he won’t go back to the well and file another complaint.

Contra Intuitive REAL TALK Bill Maher put his money where his mouth is last week in San Jose when he announced a $1 million personal donation to President Obama’s Super PAC to help defeat Republicans in November’s election.

Moving beyond abortion, Republicans take on birth control. Will abstinence be the only option left?

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OMEWHERE between the time I snuck into a seat at the San Jose Center for Performing Arts last Thursday and the end of comedian Bill Maher’s set, when he announced a personal $1 million contribution to President Obama’s Super PAC, the topic of contraception came into his cross hairs.

After a year of conservativecoordinated assaults on Planned Parenthood and other attacks on oral contraceptives and protected sex, we as a country have entered a bizarre moment. Not getting pregnant is the new abortion.

The Catholic Church’s fight to forbid insurance-provided birth control to employees of religious organizations— and the all-male panel on a House Oversight Committee hearing on contraception—officially codified the latest culture war.

“You would have thought from the right-wing reaction that Obama had ordered the Navy Seals to force nuns to put the rubber on your dick,” Maher quipped to wild applause. He stopped.

“Don’t applaud for that!”

In the midst of all this, a few questions stand out; namely, how is it in a country where 99 percent of women have used birth control that we are fighting over whether people should have access to birth control? How did a position this freakisly extreme enter the mainstream political conversation?

“If you look at this argument with respect to the Catholic Church, they’re basically saying Obama is violating in his health plan the separation between church and state,” says Mary Jacobsen, a board-certified ob-gyn who teaches a course at Stanford University called Current Topics and Controversies in Women’s Health. “Well, what about the right of the women? Why does the institution take preference over her?

And if we’re saying that the institution is right, what other kinds of healthcare could they end up limiting?”

Jacobson says she and other Stanford faculty recently fought and won their

own birth-control battle this year when the university’s health insurance provider sought to omit Intrauterine Devices (IUDs), which prevent pregnancy at a better rate than The Pill, from coverage.

“That kind of raised a lot of eyebrows at Stanford,” Jacobson says. “Our family-planning division and ob-gyn department mobilized and contacted the Stanford rep responsible for that and overturned it.”

In her book How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America, author Christina Page argues that right-wing attacks on abortion are merely cover for a far more radical social agenda.

The real target of organized antichoicers, she says, is not abortion.

Abortion is simply the divisive, emotional topic used to mobilize grassroots support. The real target of the organized anti-choice movement, she says, has always been birth control.

Page says she’s been recommending since 2008 that reporters ask all GOP candidates their position on contraception. “The media wasn’t willing,” she says, “because they thought asking made them look foolish.”

Fast-forward to the current day, and all current Republican presidential candidates—Romney, Santorum, Paul and Gingrich—have publicly opposed access to contraceptives.

It’s worth noting how very far

Kid Games A long silent pause and heavy breath comes across the line as Monique Kane, the executive director of the Community Health Awareness Council (CHAC), weighs whether or not to answer the question.

“We don’t usually get involved in political stuff because we’re a nonprofit,” she says.

This would make sense, but the question wasn’t leading or loaded. It was a general query about what services CHAC provides.

“What we do is work to help teens so they make good choices and lead healthy, successful lives,” Kane says.

“We do some work in the schools on pregnancy prevention, in order to prevent kids from having children when they’re not ready. It shouldn’t be political, the health of our youth.”

But somehow the rhetoric against contraception and organizations like CHAC or Planned Parenthood has made it political, equating awareness to anathema. The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation succumbed to the pressure earlier this year, announcing it was cutting $600,000 in annual financial support of Planned

Parenthood—despite the fact that 97 percent of the clinics’ services have nothing to do with abortion, and the foundation’s money was put toward breast cancer screenings for poor people. The outcry was swift, and the foundation reversed its decision.

“I think that enlightened people know that we do a lot of breast screens of women and lot of preventative care,” says Lupe Rodriguez, Planned Parenthood’s director of public affairs for Silicon Valley.

But the rhetoric on healthcare plans mandated to provide contraception continues. Adding a layer of hypocrisy to the debate, “these are the same health plans that pay for men to use Viagra,” says Jacobson. “For them not to provide contraception for women seems counterintuitive to me. The fact of the matter is, there’s a 50 percent unplanned pregnancy rate in this country, and these kinds of attitudes against prevention support that.”

“We’d be putting our heads in the sand if we didn’t acknowledge many teenage girls are getting pregnant and do not want to be pregnant,” says Liz Kniss, who sits on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and previously worked as a nurse. “It’s a war on women, it really is. And once again it’s an attempt to remove the right from women to make choices of any kind.

That’s what I find is stunning.”

Ann Neumann, editor of The Revealer, a website dedicated to covering the relationship between religion and the media, says fiscal conservatives are systematically leveraging religion to carry out their objectives on eliminating what they see as entitlements.

“If you push a free-enterprise Republican on the cost savings of free contraception, their second line of defense will be the moral one,” Neumann says. “In other words, freeenterprise folks are necessary to this mix in that they cover for the social conservatives.”

This approach works for attacks on reproductive health care, Neumann notes, in a way that wouldn’t work for other medical issues, simply because of whom it affects.

“Contraception and any other reproductive care,” she says, “has been ghettoized as women’s.”

Sady Doyle contributed to this report.

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from the mainstream the roots of the anti-contraception movement are. According to polling published in February by the Public Religion Research Institute, a majority—55 percent—of Americans agree that “employers should be required to provide their employees with health care plans that cover contraception and birth control at no cost.”

An even higher ratio of Catholics, 58 percent, believe that employers should be required to provide their employees with health-care plans that cover contraception, the poll found.

“I think it’s quite scandalous as to how candidates are playing political games with people’s lives,” says Paul Blumenthal, a colleague of Jacobson’s and the director of Family Planning Services and Research at Stanford.

“Contraception is acknowledged and a very well studied health intervention, that actually improves people’s health and improves the life of women and their families. Even from an employer’s standpoint, the ability to access contraception easily and inexpensively actually produces a healthier and more productive employee. From that standpoint, it’s incomprehensible to me.”

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TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE IN SILICON VALLEY

BY BRENDAN NYSTEDT

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Intel Issues A Battle Call: To ARM Intel is giving it all it’s got to take a slice of the new mobile marketplace.

Most smartphones and tablets run on ARM-based chips. ARM has a long history of low-power mobile processors stretching all the way back to the original Apple Newton in the early 1990s.

Its designs have enabled Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Apple, Samsung, Nvidia and other chip producers to optimize their devices for greater battery life and a minimal profile well-suited for phones and tablets.

Intel plans to compete with ARM in a big way, as the company outlined at the Mobile World Congress in Spain.

Intel’s new Medfield chipset will arrive this summer in the United Kingdom and France with a phone codenamed “Santa Clara.”

Tech Guru Ron Conway (!), professional geek Jim Parsons (!!) and Goldie Hawn (...) attend the 2012 TechFellow Awards.

The Stars Come Out for the TechFellows The TechFellow Awards celebrate the innovation of programmers, managers, designers and entrepreneurs of all high-tech stripes. This year’s TF class of 20 received the honor of being recognized as well as a $100,000 investment in a company of their choice.

Although the awardees were from all over the country, many of the winners had local connections.

Former and current Facebook, Path, Flipboard, Zynga and Groupon designers, engineers and founders were winners at the ceremonies last week.

The event, hosted by “Big Bang Theory” star and Emmy-winner Jim Parsons, was held at the SFMOMA. In attendance were Ron Conway, Michael Arrington, Sean Parker and, inexplicably, actress Goldie Hawn.

There was much schmoozing in the lobby of the museum, which, for the before-and-after parties, was transformed into a technonightclub, trance music and all.

Heather Harde, former CEO of TechCrunch DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION

The phone will pack a 1.6 GHz processor derivative of Intel’s Atom processor and run an x86 build of Android 2.3 (x86 is Intel’s processor architecture, continuing here but on a smallscale device).

Intel has promised to cut in half the size of the current chip by 2014, according to the chip company’s future plans. Given Intel’s resources, it could potentially own much of the mobile landscape if its processors are up to snuff.

Diego Berdakin, co-founder and president of BeachMint Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper Leilah Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource PRODUCT DESIGN & MARKETING Craig Mod, former designer at Flipboard

Some of the winners include:

Dustin Mierau, co-founder and chief designer of Path

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Wilson Miner, designer at rdio

Joe Greenstein, founder and CEO of Flixster

Joe Hewitt, former product manager (iPhone) at Facebook

Intel’s upcoming smartphone will feature an app designed to let owners know when Goldie Hawn is near their current location.

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Chinese company Proview has made an aggressive move against Apple in their fight over the iPad trademark.

Proview’s has taken its case to the Santa Clara County Superior Court in order to confront Apple on its own turf.

Apple bought the iPad trademark through a subsidiary company called IP Application Development, but Proview maintains that there was fraud involved due to IPAD claiming that they were going to use the name as an abbreviation.

Whitman has complained about the mess left over by the company’s previous head. Meanwhile, President Obama yawns audibly.

Whitman Puts on Her Happy Face HP’s down, but CEO Meg Whitman thinks she’s steering toward a brighter tomorrow. “For years, we’ve been basically running our business in silos,” she told investors and analysts last week. “Under that model, we’ve built some of the biggest franchises in technology, but it’s also made us too complex and too slow.”

Whitman didn’t directly criticize her predecessors but, without mincing words, she acknowledged that she has been burdened with a huge mess to clean up. Instead of planning for the future, the company’s former leadership, headed by Léo Apotheker, without warning decided to change the direction of the company.

Whitman has tried to reverse these changes, but it was too late to keep damage from happening. In Whitman’s first quarter, HP’s profits dove 44 percent. Meanwhile, HP’s planning a new slew of products based around the upcoming Windows 8.

Proview’s IPAD was released in the late ’90s as a reaction to Apple’s iMac all-in-one PC. Proview already tried to suspend iPad sales in its home country of China, but the case has been put on hold by a Shanghai court, awaiting a decision from a higher court.

Apple has been able to continue sales of the tablet computer in the country at the same time that the company has been fending off other legal complaints.

One of those cases in Germany against Motorola has forced Apple to shut off its iCloud email service to German customers. iCloud’s reliability is essential in order to attract customers to the service and Apple’s ecosystem, and such a blow could damage Apple’s user base in the country. Other services will continue working, but iCloud’s email won’t be able to push messages to users.

No word yet on why the IPAD also happens to look like an old iMac.

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Lawyers to the Left—Lawyers to The Right

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SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics

PETER ALLEN

Democratic Primary Wars EARLIER THIS MONTH, I attended my fourth California Democratic Party Convention as an elected delegate to the State Central Committee (or DSCC).

At its core, the DSCC exists to set a platform for California Democrats and endorse candidates for state and federal offices. Candidates aggressively seek the party’s stamp of approval because it means financial and volunteer support from various party factions—labor unions, environmentalists, equal rights groups, etc.—and the chance to position themselves as the best choice for Democratic primary voters.

Primary endorsement contests generally amount to two formerly cordial Democrats nitpicking their respective records to death. Ideally, these squabbles would be resolved at the local level, but invariably, DSCC delegates are treated to gauntlets of campaign hacks chanting and waving signs, lobbying that borders on harassment, and piles of campaign cash expended on what amounts to infighting.

The Citizens Redistricting Commission—created by voters in 2008 and revised in 2010—threw a twist into this year’s process by dramatically shifting legislative district lines across the state without regard for incumbents or party strength. In some areas, incumbents of the same party were drawn into the same turf, triggering a boon for political consultants and realtors and a nightmare for party cognoscenti.

The top-two, open primary—see: Prop 14 (2008)—added another wrinkle by making it possible for two Dems to duke it out in June only to reprise the same fight in November in districts where no viable candidate emerges from another party.

Because nobody truly knows what to expect when voters begin casting ballots, this year’s “Dem-on-Dem” endorsement

races became knock-down, drag-out fights for any shred of superiority, complete with mud-slinging hit pieces and ballot shenanigans.

At the local level, current Assemblyman Jim Beall, Jr., is pitted against former Assemblyman Joe Coto in the new 15th State Senate District, which stretches across the valley from Saratoga to Alum Rock.

Personally, I prefer to stay out of Dem-on-Dem races unless they involve family members, close personal friends or candidates who have absolutely no business running. This is especially true when I know and like both candidates and have little interest in picking sides, similar to when two good friends who were dating break up.

My policy of neutrality applied to the SD-15 race. But it didn’t prevent me from receiving more than a dozen phone calls, texts and emails from both sides, nor did it keep a third-party organization (which shall remain nameless) from lobbying my mother to influence my vote.

But that seems tame when compared to the tussle over the new 30th Congressional District in the San Fernando Valley between fellow Democratic Caucus members Howard Berman and Brad Sherman.

The end result of these primary wars will be millions of dollars and countless hours sucked up by races

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that Democrats will almost certainly win in November, while the party’s goals of taking back the House and winning two-thirds majorities in the state legislature fall by the wayside due to lack of resources.

So how much is the party’s endorsement really worth?

In the case of Beall and Coto (and Berman and Sherman), we’ll never know. Neither candidate secured enough votes to be endorsed.

Peter Allen is an independent communications consultant and a proud native of San José.

Citizens for Party Reform Pre-primary endorsement really needs to be collapsed into debates over state constitutional officers. The California Democratic Council was created as a means to endorse in local races, and I believe one large convention debating gubernatorial candidates or even presidential candidates would be far better than little brush fire wars in the districts.

Leslie Knope You raise excellent points, Peter—especially because the parties and candidates tend to conveniently forget that their frantic efforts to be king of the mountain regardless of who falls by the wayside, commonly causes them to lose credibility in the eyes of the reasonable voter.

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Song of the River A RIVER RAN THROUGH IT The Colorado River Delta, once a network of lagoons, has seen water only in very wet years since 1960, the year the Glen Canyon Dam was completed.

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N A SENSE, photographer Pete McBride has been preparing to make Chasing Water all his life. He grew up in Colorado working hay fields irrigated by the snowmelt that carved the Grand Canyon and slaked the thirst of the Southwest.

“I often used to think about water,” he says in the film. “I wondered how much went into our fields and how much returned to the creek. ...

I wondered how long it would take irrigation water to reach the sea.”

His 18-minute documentary, judged the Best Short Mountain Film of the 2011 Banff Film Festival and screening on March 10 in Los Altos, didn’t begin as a film at all. “This started as a magazine assignment for the nowdefunct National Geographic Adventure,” McBride explains. The original idea was to shoot writer Jonathan Waterman’s paddling trip down the length of the Colorado River. “Then I was like, ‘This is too dear to my heart,’ and I thought maybe we could get a book, and then sponsors showed up.”

In fact two books resulted from the project, Waterman’s Running Dry and the McBride/Waterman collaboration The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict. While taking aerial footage for the book, McBride shot some HD video. McBride also connected with film editor Anson Fogel, who got him busy shooting more footage and insisted on a key approach.

“Anson really pushed me: You have to be in your own film,” McBride says.

“I said, ‘No way. Gives me the heebie jeebies. I’ll be a voice. I’ll be a narrator.’

He helped drive that.”

McBride’s narration provides the link between individual human experience and the grandeur of the subject matter. Shot largely from overhead, Chasing Water follows the Colorado’s progression as it flows southwest from its mountain headwaters through the Grand Canyon and Southern California toward its ignominious end in the Mexican desert, drained by the dishwashers and toilets of 30 million people and 3.5 million acres of farmland. The vantage point gives the piece a cerebral aspect: there’s nothing like an aerial view to show the cold logic of dams and canals, and the 100-foot “bathtub rings” around Lake Powell serve as a grim reminder that the water demands of the Southwest far exceed its diminishing supply.

Chasing Water succeeds as art rather than lesson because of its remarkable beauty and its impact. When McBride as cameraman deplanes, leaving behind lyrical views of the turquoise river meandering through red sandstone to meet up with the kayak-bound Waterman in what McBride calls “the frappuccino pit” in the Delta, it’s like a kick in the gut.

Even the fearsome machinery of the Hoover Dam is easier to contemplate than this lazily foaming sludge of agricultural effluent and sewage found at the graveyard of the Colorado River.—Traci Hukill CHASING WATER shows as part of the Banff Mountain Film Festival on March 10 at Los Altos High School’s Eagle Theater.

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Art About FALLON LON IDOL Past public art projects in San Jose have generated much interest—not all of it positive, as was as the case with the controversial Thomas Fallon statue, which spent many years in a warehouse before finally being Westt JJulian Street. ll b i iinstalled t ll d on W li St t

New projects promise interactive high-tech public art pieces in and around downtown San Jose

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HE TENTACLES of San Jose’s Public Art machine will soon reach into yet more arenas of audience participation. New projects are slotted for the McEnery Convention Center, the streets of downtown, Lake Cunningham Regional Skatepark and even a hideous former corporation yard in Japantown.

In some cases, the project is a high-tech collaboration of artists and engineers, while in other scenarios,

community boosters are celebrating local history.

In most cases, however, the artists and curators are not yet releasing photographs or potential mockups of the projects—in order, I’m assuming, to avert a public relations fiasco, a la the oft-maligned and vulgarly nicknamed Quetzalcoatl statue. Yes, the city of San Jose does learn a few things every so often.

Most folks know by now that the McEnery Convention Center is undergoing a long overdue expansion, and a new addition is being constructed.

Part of the botched design on the original footprint is the public space in front of the entrance, essentially an uninviting concrete plaza that no event attendee ever uses for anything.

Enter South Korean artist Soo-

In Yang, who is at work designing an interactive high-tech cloud to be suspended over the entire plaza, cantilevered from the roof of the new addition.

A floating 60-foot canopy of sorts, the structure will give the public an opportunity to leave short audio messages via recording stations, or “sculptural seeds”—audio pods from which their messages will then be played back and remixed in real time.

Audio pods will also be located within the convention center as well as other sites in the city—at least that was the idea presented last week to the San Jose Public Art Committee, which approved the preliminary concept.

The project aims to convert the entire plaza into an interactive, immersive experience.

At the committee meeting, Yang said he was inspired by San Jose’s interactive technology-driven public art works, especially those at the new airport terminal, such as eCloud and Show Your Stripes.

He said that interactivity is

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paramount and that he has already talked to local technology startups Kovio and Armageddon as well as Cisco, Polycom and Brocade, some of whom might contribute technology to make the whole thing work.

There will even be filtering technology in case someone leaves a nasty message at one of the recording stations. That is, when the homeless punk-rock kids who congregate at the Convention Center Light Rail Station decide to scream expletives into the project, their voices will be mixed into unintelligible ambient compositions of some sort.

Another public art project will see lampposts along San Carlos Street, between Fourth Street and Market Street, converted into permanent interactive LED installations, fully operable by the public at large.

Pedestrians will be able to walk up to a lamppost, punch a button similar to a regular crosswalk button and see the panel of multicolored lights react as a result. Each lamppost will have an infrared sensor to detect a human pre presence, as well as the manual button, all of which will drive algorithms that con control lighting sequences on the LED dis displays, all along the street. That is, you pu punch a button on one pole and get to ssee how it affects the LED panels on every other pole.

Artists Steve Durie and Bruce Gardner, both of whom are longtime fixtures at the CADRE Lab for New Media at SJSU, conceived the project and will begin installation during the next few months.

“The way we’ve built this system, it’s pretty flexible in terms how we can program its behavior,” Durie said. “What we want to do in the end is have an interface that can be reprogrammed once or twice a year.” For example, if the Sharks are in the playoffs, the system can be reprogrammed so that only teal lights will go off when people hit the buttons, or something similar.

In Japantown, Tamiko Rast is planning a huge series of murals along Jackson Street from Sixth to Seventh. At Lake Cunningham Regional Skatepark, artist Stephen Glassman will create a sculpture on-site. No more poop statues, please.

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George Aviet has an uncanny knack for picking Michelin-star chefs. And when they move on, they win even more stars. What’s in his special sauce?

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HEZ TJ will turn 30 years old this year. Three decades is a long run for any restaurant, but what’s more remarkable is that Chez TJ continues to be a culinary hit maker. The restaurant has become an unlikely training ground for some of the Bay Area’s top chefs.

Two thousand and eleven was an especially good year for Chez TJ. Newly appointed executive chef Joey Elenterio earned one Michelin star.

Former chef Joshua Skenes now runs Saison in San Francisco, where he has earned two stars. Ex-chef Bruno Chemel received two stars for his übermodern cookery at Baumé in Palo Alto.

Christopher Kostow, the chef who garnered Chez TJ its first star, in 2006, held onto his trio of stars at St. Helena’s Restaurant at Meadowood—the only other chef in California with three Michelin stars is Thomas Keller of French Laundry fame.

That adds up to eight stars in all for Chez TJ and its graduates—not

too shabby for a puny restaurant in downtown Mountain View.

The stars have become increasingly important to Bay Area restaurants. The first Michelin Guide debuted in France in 1900 as a means of promoting travel (and tire sales) to recommended restaurants. It has since grown into what is arguably the premier restaurant rating system in the world, feared and praised alike by chefs.

The guide only appeared in the United States in 2005 and covered just New York City. Now the guides rate restaurants in the Bay Area and Chicago as well.

The guide awards one to three stars to top restaurants. One star indicates a “very good cuisine in its category,” a two-star ranking represents “excellent cuisine, worth a detour,” and three stars are awarded to restaurants offering “exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey.” There are only two three-star restaurants in the Bay Area—The French Laundry and the Restaurant at Meadowood. Manresa and Baumé are Silicon Valley’s only two-star restaurants.

This is the rarified company Chez TJ is keeping.

In many ways, Chez TJ operates like the innovative tech companies in the

valley, discovering and nourishing nascent talent—though it does so with cuisine instead of software.

A look at Chez TJ’s ongoing recruiting success reveals techniques specific to the restaurant trade yet applicable to any enterprise that thrives on regular infusions of new ideas.

Sometimes, the ability to pick the next innovator out of a crowded field of wannabes is as difficult and important as being a path-breaking creator. In a review of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, Malcolm Gladwell (author of Outliers and The Tipping Point) noted that Jobs’ real genius was more “editorial than inventive”; he was a “tweaker” who could see the potential in ideas and people and make them better.

Aviet’s track record at Chez TJ is the result of an unusual combination of personal narrative, being at the right place at the right time, intuition and perseverance.

Spotting the next star-worthy chef is as difficult as picking the next great pianist, high jumper or computer engineer. The

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Jo Lynne Lockley heads San Francisco’s Chefs’ Professional Agency, a headhunting firm for culinary talent. She tried to find a chef for Aviet once but was unable to uncover someone who would take what he was paying.

Lockley attributes Aviet’s knack for finding talent to luck, vision and guile.

“I think he could charm the socks off a baseball player,” she says. “But I think he [also] has a sense of what’s good. He puts everything into the chef and the kitchen.”

Of course, she says that Aviet expects a lot from his chefs: “He hires young chefs who will kill themselves, chefs who will fall dead two inches before the finish line.”

It helps to have a large talent pool to fish in, but the odds are running against local restaurateurs these days, Lockley says.

A steady stream of young cooks used to arrive here from New York City, but with the cost of living in the Bay Area on a par with New York that stream has been reduced to a trickle.

Waiters must be paid well, reducing what’s available for the kitchen. In spite of record high enrollment, local culinary academies, according to Lockley, aren’t turning out enough truly skilled cooks to fill the pipeline that restaurants need.

Aviet himself says he owes his string of good chefs to “luck” and “aggressiveness.” While he can’t stop chefs when they want to leave, he would prefer they stick around longer. Economics make that difficult.

“Sometimes I wish I had the money to pay them what it takes to live in this valley,” he says.

Then there’s what Lockley calls the Food Network effect. A new generation of cooks has been raised watching glib chefs yell at hapless staff and preen oncamera. Many young chefs now expect that all they need to do is whisk, chop and look good—and they, too, can be become a great chef, something that Lockley says takes years of work.

“With the Food Network everybody confuses being a chef with being a cook,” she says. “It has diluted the pool of available people.”

Chefs are made, not born and she says Aviet is doing the right thing by elevating Joey Elenterio from sous chef to chef.

“The way you make a chef is you make a sous chef first,” she says.

“George is doing the right thing— he’s a chef maker.”

The Long Road Chez TJ’s success reflects the eye for culinary talent of owner George Aviet. That crucial ability is very much a product of Aviet’s biography.

Aviet’s path to Chez TJ was a

21 in. As the restaurant’s business grew by word of mouth, McCombie and Aviet converted the entire space into the restaurant. McCombie’s old bedroom became a dining room; the living room was transformed into a tidy pastry kitchen.

After three decades in the restaurant Aviet, a 65-year-old, voluble man with a thin gray beard and swooped back hair of the same color, says still gets the same pleasure of serving people that he developed as boy.

“I don’t feel like I’m working when I’m here,” he says.

Rising Stars Aviet was playing golf when he got the call. Christopher Kostow, his former chef at Chez TJ, informed him that he had just earned two Michelin stars, making him one of only two Silicon Valley chefs to be so honored—and the first chef at Chez TJ to earn the prestigious designation.

Aviet was thrilled for his skilled chef and for his restaurant. But mostly he was happy for his late business partner and first chef.

Thomas J. McCombie, whose initials are enshrined in Chez TJ’s name, had died of a heart attack in 1994.

“The first thought that came into my mind was ‘Bless Tom,’” Aviet remembers about winning those two stars in 2007. “Because that was his dream. It wouldn’t have happened without him.”

Kostow had earned one star the year before, and to garner a second star was an emotional moment for the young chef and Aviet.

“It was validation for what he’d been doing for all these years,” Kostow says.

For a man who has made it his business to serve people willing to drop hundreds of dollars on a single meal, Aviet lives a simple life.

In order to keep nonfood costs down and give his chefs free reign to order to top-quality ingredients, Aviet does as much work around the restaurant, a building that dates back to 1894, as he can. He makes tables for the dining room. He fixes the stove and unclogs the drains.

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circuitous one. He was born in Iran to an Armenian mother and FrenchEnglish father. His father worked for an oil company, but he left the family before Aviet was born, only to reappear when the boy was 10.

The father paid for Aviet’s Catholic school tuition and exposed him to the world of French food, an interest that clearly became part of his life. A psychoanalyst might conclude Aviet is trying to make up for his father’s absence by immersing himself in the cuisine of France.

When Aviet was 6, he was severely injured playing with a toy. A piece of metal skewered his back and exited his stomach—another moment rich with symbolic connotations.

He spent 18 months in the hospital and then many months convalescing at home. During that time, he became steeped in his mother and grandmother’s Armenian cooking.

Aviet later fled Iran during the run-up to the 1979 Islamist revolution after his family’s property was expropriated. He came to the South Bay as an exchange student with the hopes of becoming an engineer.

He enrolled at Cañada College, in Redwood City, and worked at a longgone Menlo Park restaurant called Pear William. That’s where he met chef Thomas J. McCombie.

Aviet rediscovered his love for food and service and asked McCombie if he wanted to open a restaurant with him. They named the restaurant Chez TJ, and it opened in 1982.

McCombie invested his savings, and Aviet kicked in all the money he had, which was “not enough money to buy a used car today,” he jokes.

“I said, ‘I don’t have any money, but I’ll put my life into it,’” Aviet remembers.

He grandmother always encouraged him to take the long view. Longevity is very important to Aviet: “I’ll probably die here.”

The restaurant offered three options: a petit menu for $18, a “moderne” for $22 and the grand menu gastronomique for $38. Today, the menu gastronomique goes for $85. The chef ’s tasting menu is $120.

Tax, tip and wine not included.

At first, McCombie and his wife lived in the house. Then Aviet moved

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RISING STAR Chez TJ’s chef, Joey Elenterio, is Aviet’s latest choice to maintain the restaurant’s high-end reputation.

His mother planted the kumquat trees in the restaurant’s small garden out back. For fun, he limits himself to nine holes of golf early in the morning at Shoreline Golf Links, a public course in Mountain View. “It’s like $22 bucks,” he says.

Farm Team When Aviet and McCombie opened the restaurant with their now exwives, the Michelin guide did not yet rate restaurants in the United States, but McCombie, who had traveled throughout Europe, aspired to create a Michelin-worthy restaurant, a destination that diners would go out of their way to find.

“We never had the goal of financial success,” Aviet says.

The goal, instead, was to provide great food and a memorable dining experience.

“Tom said he would have given his arm for a Michelin star,” Aviet recalls.

“The poor guy gave his life for it.”

After losing his partner, Aviet sought to hire a young chef who could carry on McCombie’s legacy.

And so began what has become one of the Bay Area’s premier farm teams for culinary talent.

Joshua Skenes, who stepped into Chez TJ’s famously minute kitchen on New Year’s Day in 2004, was one of the restaurant’s first prodigies.

“I was 24 at that time, which is way too young to be a chef, and how the fuck do you know anything at that level,” Skenes says. “It was a very experimental time. It was just off radar enough that it allowed me to really work out my own voice in cooking.”

Skenes says the experience helped shape him as a chef. “It was a really small kitchen, and it allowed me

to whatever I wanted to do,” he explains. “George never placed any restrictions. It was basically do whatever you want and go for it, make it the best. That was a good thing with his attitude, and that’s the same way we do it at Saison. There was no limits to anything. It was open book.”

Chefs who have worked at Chez TJ say the restaurant provided them with a great opportunity. The restaurant is far enough from San Francisco that talented chefs don’t have to compete with a crowded field of competitors and yet close enough to the city that they don’t work in obscurity.

Parting Thoughts Christopher Kostow was Chez TJ’s greatest success story. He vaulted the restaurant to fame but left shortly

after winning his two Michelin stars.

Kostow was too ambitious and too underpaid to stick around long.

Aviet had hired a culinary headhunter who recruited Kostow from San Francisco’s Campton Place, where he worked under superchef Daniel Humm.

Humm was leaving Campton Place for New York, and he asked Kostow to come with him. Kostow decided to take the job at Chez TJ, a decision that he says was the right one.

“I wanted to do my own thing, and Chez TJ was a tremendous opportunity,” Kostow tells me. “It’s a perfect first chef job.”

David Kinch, chef and owner of Manresa in Los Gatos, a restaurant with two Michelin stars, introduced Aviet to Bruno Chemel, Chez TJ’s next chef.

Chemel, now chef and owner at Baumé in Palo Alto, made a rocky departure from Chez TJ, although both he and Aviet speak of each other with respect.

Chemel took over from Kostow and was charged with earning two stars. Shortly after the restaurant was downgraded to one star in 2008, the maximum a new chef can receive, Chemel announced that he would be leaving to open his own restaurant.

Aviet followed that announcement with a comment that Chemel was “incapable” of earning a second star, a claim that Chemel proved false with his two stars at Baumé in 2011. Chemel’s highly technical, avant-garde cooking was out of sync with Chez TJ’s antiquated dining room. Baumé has the modern aesthetics to match Chemel’s cooking.

Chemel “did what he could do here, and I was very grateful,” Aviet says. “But he was ready to leave, and I never stop people when they’re ready to go.”

A New Cycle Aviet hired Joey Elenterio, a lanky, aw-shucks 26-year-old who rides an old Kawasaki police motorcycle, to replace the restaurant’s last chef, Scott Nishiyama, a veteran of the French Laundry. Elenterio was Nishiyama’s sous chef.

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“I saw something special with this guy,” Aviet says of his decision to hire from within.

While scores of chefs have passed through Chez TJ’s kitchen and each has had his own style, there has been a surprising amount of consistency given the high turnover rate.

The food falls well within what has become the defining style among high-end Bay Area restaurants: French, Californian, modern and local.

The food is French at its core with a minimalist Japanese aesthetic woven throughout. The presentation and technique are decidedly modern. Gels, foams and sous vide cooking make recurring appearances, but the food draws from seasons and local purveyors.

Chez TJ is in capable hands with Elenterio, but the new chef is still honing his style. His cooking is technically precise, artful and often quite delicious, but he still exhibits a caution and conservatism that separates him from his predecessors.

In any other setting, his cooking would stand apart, but the bar is

high at Chez TJ, and his cooking comes off as a bit tame. But that may be a strength.

Aviet has a history of hiring chefs who aren’t fully formed and allowing them to grow on the job.

A chef who thinks he already knows everything probably wouldn’t last very long in Chez TJ’s small kitchen.

But all of Aviet’s chefs leave sooner or later—it is part of a process that keeps the restaurant interesting. But it might be a boon to have Elenterio buck that trend.

Aviet won’t take on any investors because he says doesn’t want anyone telling him that his chefs are spending too much money on food.

But he is open to the idea of having a chef-partner, something he resisted in the past.

“I’m ready for that,” he said.

“That’s why I gave Joey the opportunity when he was young.”

Jeff Cianci contributed to this story.

Bloody Good SANGUINARY NGUINARY STYLE San Jose restaurant Picasso’s serves Spanish blood sausage, a.k.a. morcilla.

The valley’s ethnic restaurants serve surprising variations of traditional blood-sausage dishes

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LOOD doesn’t have a taste exactly. It’s more of a feeling or an ambiance. Rich, certainly, with body and a robustness.

The essence of eating blood haunts.

For me, the experience has the sincere, yet very disturbing character of a funeral home with the smiling but eerie director and the pervasive scent of overly sweet lilies. Even with the best and most subtle blood preparations, blood left me unsettled hours later.

Blood dishes are associated with immigrant communities and often evoke a sense of nostalgia and comfort for modern eaters. Most cuisines have some vehicle for using the protein-rich slaughter byproduct, but often the dish is dressed with salt, onions and garlic, similar to liver. Blood exists in a medium: a soup or porridge, or soaked into rice and noodles then stuffed into sausage.

Silicon Valley is rich in restaurants with blood on the menu. Korean sundae, Spanish morcilla and Vietnamese soups featuring duck or pork blood. In sampling a number of preparations, the character of the ingredient can be seen more clearly, like examining multiple facets of a gem to find the interior luster—and the hidden flaws.

The Vietnamese enjoy a complex soup from Hue, bún bò Hue, which has a specialist restaurant devoted to it: Bun Bo Hue An Nam. The soups use clotted pig’s blood as one ingredient among many, and the exact taste contributes but is a minor component.

Binh Minh specializes in tiet Cahn, dishes with coagulated duck’s blood. In these dishes, the character of blood is front and center.

Two tapas bars in San Jose include Spanish blood sausage: morcilla.

Picasso’s and La Catalana serve the same preparation. The sausage is first boiled, then cut into 1/2-inch bites, then sautéed with garlic, onions, and peppers.

La Catalana, located near Cisco, is a joy of a restaurant that deserves greater

fame. fame The owners of this true mommom and-pop shop are natives of Catalonia and take pride in their small strip-mall outpost of the Iberian peninsula. A flag of Barcelona’s champion soccer team adorns the wall, and service is performed with pride. La Catalana closes unfortunately early, at 8pm.

The restaurant cuts no corners and stands with the best. The sausage perfectly balances the garlic and peppers, and the peppers are an unusual Spanish variety. The depth of the blood is complemented and muted into a marvelous combination.

Picasso’s tapas bar, in downtown San Jose, squarely on Santa Clara Street, has a warmer and more relaxed atmosphere.

Open until 10pm, the restaurant stays true to the feeling of a tapas bar.

The fact that it serves morcilla ($8.99) shows a dedication to traditional tapas dishes, unlike tapas fusion restaurants.

When I visited, the dish came with standard bell peppers. The trip to La Catalana is worth an extra few miles.

A friend of mine describes Korean food as the soul food of the continent.

Sundae is a divisive dish with a few staunch adherents and many who don’t prefer it. The dish isn’t considered a restaurant food. It’s either bought at a butcher’s and cooked at home, or eaten as street food on a stick.

Like a traditional hot dog for many local Koreans, sundae is comforting and nostalgic at best, or outdated at the

Bun Bo Hue An Nam 740 Story Road, San Jose; 408.993.1755.

Binh Minh 1006 E .Santa Clara St., San Jose; 408.297.9868.

Picasso’s 62 West Santa Clara St.; San Jose.

408.298.4400 La Catalana 3720 N. First St., San Jose; 408.324.1321.

Hankook Market 1092 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale; 408.244.0871.

Jang Tu 1012 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale; 408.245.5720.

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worst. The sausage can be prepared as a complex dish but is often eaten with no sauce and only dipped in a mixture of salt and hot pepper.

For the home-cooked experience, Hankook Market in Sunnyvale sells sundae by the pound and is a fun food outing. On weekends, the market is packed but has a broad variety of samples and tastes. The banchan bar allows purchasing a wide variety of items, all by weight, allowing a selection broader than individual Korean restaurants.

In the same shopping center, Jang Tu, serves the same sausage but cooked and delivered to your table ($7.99).

The restaurant is very casual with little English spoken. The sausage was revelatory, as there was no adjunct—no garlic or peppers.

Unadulterated blood, held together by neutral noodles and meal, made the power and texture concentrated and unavoidable. The dish was unctuous, in the sense of “marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness.”

While I was unable to finish the several pounds of sausage at my table, the dish made sense of blood cuisine.

Unlike most meat, sundae places you face to face with the simple fact that meat is made of animals and we share the same blood. Unsettling, perhaps, but an eloquent truth that bears remembering.

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VAHL’S CONTINENTAL $$$.

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

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

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MAURIZIO’S AUTHENTIC ITALIAN RISTORANTE Italian. $$. You don’t dine here for a quick upscale fix, you dine here for downhome atmosphere. Tender vitello saltimbocca tops the menu. 11:30am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-2pm, 510pm Fri, 5-10pm Sat. Closed Sun. 25 E. First St, Morgan Hill. 408.782.7550.

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ABC is a Hong Kong-style restaurant, and that means dim sum and lots of fresh, fancifully prepared seafood.

At lunch the place is a traffic jam of dim sum carts proffering an assortment of little snacks. 11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm daily. 768 Barber Lane. 408.435.8888.

BANANA LEAF Southeast Asian/Malaysian. $$$.

A charming, exotic gem of a place with some of the best Southeast Asian food in the county. Sauces

are masterfully crafted and reduced to glossy consistencies. 11am-3pm, 59:45pm Mon-Thu, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 182 Ranch Dr. 408.719.9811.

CHILI GARDEN Szechuan. $$.

There’s a lot to recommend at this Szechuan standout.

Mapo tofu is a classic that rules here. For sheer fireworks, go for the Chongqing spicy chicken, a fearsome-looking dish of chicken lightly battered and crisp. 10:30am-2:30pm and 4:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 10:30am-2:30pm, 4:3010:30pm Fri-Sun. 210 Barber Lane. 408.526.9888.

DARDA SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Islamic Chinese. $. Darda serves halal meat and draws parts of its menu from western China, a region that borders the Muslim countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Seafood and noodle dishes are particularly good. No alcohol served.

11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10:30am-3pm, 4:309:30pm Sat-Sun. 296 Barber Court. 408.433.5199.

DING SHENG Chinese. $$. Bustling Ding Sheng restaurant specializes in Shanghai-style Chinese food but features a wide variety of regional dishes. Shanghai dishes include cold weather fare like dumplings, braised meats and sweet and savory meats. 11am-2:30pm, 5pmmidnight daily. 686 Barber Lane. 408.943.8786.

LIOU’S HOUSE Chinese. $$.

A shopping center next to a miniature golf course is an unlikely place to find a classically trained Chinese chef, but Silicon Valley offers good food in unexpected places. Check out the Hunan

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tofu, kung pao chicken and stir-fried pea greens.

11am-2:30pm, 4:30-9:30pm Tue-Sun. 1245 Jacklin Rd. 408.263.9888.

SAVORY CHICKEN Filipino. $. Savory Chicken offers a Filipino take on fried poultry.

The chicken is tossed in a proprietary blend of herbs and spices and fried in soybean oil. No flour or bread crumbs are used. The result is an almost translucent skin that is so crisp it shatters on contact. 11am-8pm Tue-Sun. 1557 Landess Ave. 408.945.8616.

SOUTH LEGEND SICHUAN RESTAURANT Szechuan Chinese. $. The menu of this Milpitas standout reads like an encyclopedia of Szechuan food. The kung pao chicken and Chen ma pa tofu are great. 11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 11am9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1720 N. Milpitas Blvd. 408.934.3970.

SWAGAT Indian. $. Swagat explores both southern and northern Indian cuisine in its traditional and extensive menu. Beer, wine. Buffet daily 11am-3pm, 5:30-10pm. 68 S. Abel St. 408.262.1128.

TIRUPATHI BHIMAS Indian. $$. Tirupathi Bhimas specializes in vegetarian food from south India, particularly that of Andra Pradesh, a spicy and aromatic cuisine, as well as a few north Indian dishes and “Indo-Chinese.” 11:30am2pm, 6-9:30pm Sun and Tue-Thu, 11:30am-2:30pm, 69:30pm Fri-Sat. 1208 S. Abel St. 408.945.1010.

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BLISS ON BREAD Le Bon de Cuisine serves what it calls a ‘Parisian chicken sandwich.’

Meals on Wheels TRUCK NAME: Le Bon de Cuisine SPECIALTY: Vietnamese-French fusion USUAL LOCATIONS: Moveable Feast, Food Truck Mafia and Mobile Gourmet events; 56 S. Autumn St. by HP Pavilion before Sharks games; private events YEARS IN BUSINESS: First opened September 2011 OWNER/CHEF: Jeffrey Nguyen BACKGROUND: After working in the kitchens of various bistros and restaurants, Jeffrey Nguyen, the 21-year-old owner and chef of Le Bon de Cuisine food truck, sought to do something more. Lacking the capital to open his own restaurant, he invested his savings instead in a beat-up, yet functional, food truck. Combining classical French culinary techniques with traditional Vietnamese flavors, Le Bon de Cuisine was born. Using fresh, local ingredients, Jeffrey emphasizes the quality and integrity of the food.

THE FOOD: Le Bon’s succulent and savory pork can be eaten in a variety of ways. We enjoyed the pork belly sandwich, served on a fresh baguette with pickled vegetables, although the miniature sliderlike pork buns were a close second. Non–pork eaters will be satisfied by the spiced lemongrass “Parisian chicken sandwich,” très chic Angus burger and tangy shrimp. And for the adventurous, go for the garlic noodles.—Misa Shikuma

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AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. Meals unfold like a bolt of rare silk, served with care and efficiency in a rich, luminous interior. Dishes are complex and varied. 11:30am2:30pm, 5-9:45pm daily. 2290 El Camino Real. 650.968.7511.

AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza/Italian. $$.

When it’s done right, East Coast pizza can be a glorious thing.

Dough is rolled ultrathin and served noticeably charred on the sides and bottom, the ideal combination for a “foldable” slice on the go. It’s done right here. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am-11pm Sat, 11:30am-10pm Sun. 790 Castro St. 650.961.6666.

BODRUM CAFE Turkish. $$.

The menu at Bodrum Cafe is extensive and covers a lot of ground, but it’s the lamb dishes that stand out. A good place to start is with the lahmacun

(Turkey’s take on pizza) and the kebabs. 10am-10pm daily. 383 Castro St. 650.396.7010.

CASCAL Spanish tapas. $$$.

The tapas menu yields big tastes in small portions at this pan-Latin charmer. Calamari, roasted quail and minted lamb meatballs are among the delicacies. Full bar. 11:30am10pm Mon-Sun. 400 Castro St. 650.940.9500.

CHAAT PARADISE Vegetarian Indian. $. Golden spices predominate at this popular

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650.965.1111.

CHINA CAFE Mandarin, Szechuan. $$. A little surprise in the Blossom Valley Center promises uptown ambience, spotless surroundings and wellpresented classical Chinese cuisine. 1760 Miramonte Ave. 650.968.2298.

DON GIOVANNI Italian. $$$.

This pumpkin-hued eatery faces the bustling downtown with a handsome demeanor of mahogany and candlelight.

Full bar. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 235 Castro St. 650.961.9749.

LE PETIT BISTRO Classic French. $$. There’s a lot to like about this pinch of a place with its simple, practiced French cuisine and quiet dining. Casual. Beer, wine.

5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 1405 W. El Camino Real. 650.964.3321.

MARU ICHI Japanese noodles. $. Maru Ichi is a true noodle shop. While there are a few appetizers on the menu, the slurpable house-made noodles—ramen, soba and udon—are what you want.

Go for the house specialty kuro ramen or the soy sauce ramen. Beer and wine. Cash only. 11:30am-2:30pm, 510pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am-10pm Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 368 Castro St. 650.564.9931.

NAMI NAMI Japanese. $$$.

Nami Nami specializes in kappo-style Japanese food, prepared in the artful, labor-intensive, seasonally driven style associated with the city of Kyoto. For diners willing to open their minds and mouths, it offers one of the most exciting restaurant experiences in the Bay Area. 11:30am-2pm Tue-Sun, 7-10pm Tue-Thu and 6-11pm Fri-Sat. 240 Castro St. 650.964.6990.

NETO CAFFE AND BAKERY Cafe. $$. Neto Caffe and Bakery is a busy, good-looking space that has a happy buzz about it. There’s a little bit of

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7am-10pm daily. 135 Castro St. 650.625.9888.

PHO TO CHAU Vietnamese noodle house. $. The pho here is an honest noodle soup.

First-timers might want to stick with the basic pho chin, topped with slices of beef brisket. 11am-10pm daily. 853 Villa St. 650.961.8069.

THE SPICE ISLANDS CAFE Singaporean, Malaysian, Indonesian. $$. This restaurant will send your taste buds to the tropics. Talented chefs put out dishes full of spice and passion, like jumbo chile prawns, papaya salad and Malaysian spareribs. The menu is expansive. Prices are reasonable. 210 Hope St. 650.960.1888.

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11:30am-2pm, 4:30pmclose Mon-Fri. 110 Castro St. 650.964.1888

YAKKO Japanese, sushi bar. $$. A pairing of swift service with an exotic range of sushi and udon makes this a favorite among sushi lovers.

Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm Mon-Sun, 5:30-9:30pm SunThu, 5:30-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 975 W. Dana St. 650.960.0626.

ZUCCA Mediterranean. $$.

Time slows and the paella glows at this Turkish/Spanish charmer: lamb kofte, spicy shrimp, steak, baklava.

11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 510pm Mon-Sun. 186 Castro St. 650.864.9940.

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SUSHI TOMI Japanese. $$.

¿book online at saratogacalifornia.com

Sushi Tomi serves Japanese food with an elegant simplicity. Sushi and sashimi are ocean fresh. For a real treat, ask for an omakase dinner and let the chef put together a tasting menu for you. Lunch 11:30am-2pm daily; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 635 W. Dana St. 650.968.3227.

THE BASIN New American. $$$. The Basin has some refreshingly high standards.

Produce is organic, seafoods are fresh and the menu accentuates American ideas, enhanced by Spanish and Italian spin. 5pm-close daily. 14572 Big Basin Way. 408.867.1906.

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Mexican. $. This clean and fetching diner is the place for authentic fare. Generous portions. 6:30am-10pm MonFri, 6:30am-11pm Sat, 8am10pm Sun. 854 W. Dana St. 650.969.1464.

French-European. $$$. After three decades, La Mere is a tradition. Old World standards such as pâté, escargots, wiener schnitzel and veal scallopini find a distinguished setting in the crystal-dotted dining room. 11:30am-2pm Wed-Sun, 5:30-9pm Tue-Sun. Closed Mon. 14467 Big Basin Way. 408.867.5272.

VASO AZZURRO Ristorante Italian. $$$. Entrees are attractively presented, and the waiters will make you feel as though you were the most important guests in the place. Dessert lives up to the rest of the meal. Beer, wine.

11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9:30pm Sun. 108 Castro St. 650.940.1717.

XANH RESTAURANT Modern Vietnamese. $$.

Xanh (pronounced “zahn”) epitomizes the new breed of upscale, contemporary Vietnamese restaurant. The appealing menu ranges from the traditional to the unconventional and includes rolls, salads, noodles, small plates and full-size entrees.

PLUMED HORSE Contemporary French. $$$$.

After undergoing a $9 million remodel and expansion of its wine list, the Saratoga restaurant has been reborn as Silicon Valley’s premier luxury restaurant. How does the food taste at a $9 million restaurant? Mostly, like a million bucks. 5:30-10pm daily. 14555 Big Basin Way. 408.867.4711.

RISTORANTE DA MARIO Italian. $$. Ristorante Da Mario serves the greatest hits of Italian-American food but prepares them with

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SENT SOVI New American. $$$$. A pretty dining room hosts an inspired, always fresh and seasonally driven menu of contemporary American and French food, complete with seductive desserts. 14583 Big Basin Way. 408.867.3110.

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BAY LEAF Indonesian and Thai. $$. Bay Leaf’s menu is divided into Thai and Indonesian food and it’s the latter that stands out. While Thai food is characterized by bright, high notes, Indonesian food strikes a lower bass note.

11am-3pm, 5-9:30pm MonThu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat, 11am9pm Sun. 122 S. Sunnyvale Ave. 408.481.9983.

CHELOKEBABI Persian. $$.

Go straight for the baghali ghatogh, a fantastic appetizer made from delicate but rich baby lima beans, scrambled eggs and lots of garlic. Just as good is ghaymeh, a daily special made from tender chunks of beef, split peas, eggplant and tomato sauce.

11am-10pm daily. 1236 Wolfe Rd. 408.737.1222.

DISHDASH Middle Eastern. $$. Dishdash celebrates the culinary glories of the Middle East beyond falafels and hummus. The menu is made from traditional recipes and ingredients but presented with a contemporary flourish.

There’s also a small but wellchosen wine list to match.

11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10pm Sat-Sun. 190 S. Murphy Ave. 408.774.1889.

IL POSTALE Italian American. $$$. Its previous incarnation as a post office lends this space eccentric charm, and the food delivers full-bodied taste in generous portions. Veal marsala, thin-crust pizza and New York steak are featured.

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11am-1:30pm, 4-9:30pm TueSun. 127 W. Washington St. 408.733.9600.

LUCKY DHABA Indian. $. A dhaba is a roadside fast-food joint in northern India. We’ve got our own version here at Sunnyvale’s Lucky Dhaba.

Located off busy El Camino Real, Lucky Dhaba offers a wide variety of good Indian food. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu and 11am-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 1036 El Camino Real. 408.617.0660.

PEZELLAS Family Italian. $$.

Serves popular Italian dinners with rich sauces and generous portions. East Coast seafood dishes like linguini and clams and calamari sautéed in tomato, garlic and basil stand out. Pizza and pasta abound.

Full bar. 11am-2:30pm Tue-Fri, 5-10:30pm Tue-Sat. Closed SunMon. 1025 W. El Camino Real.

408.738.2400.

P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO Chinese. $$. With atmosphere to spare, Chang’s doesn’t neglect taste. Vibrant Szechuan flavors mix surprisingly well with rich Western-style desserts. Full bar.

11am-10pm Mon-Sun, 11am11pm Fri-Sat. 390 W. El Camino Real. 408.991.9078.

SAIZO Japanese. $$. Part bar, part eatery, Saizo served small plates of grilled and fried dishes made to go with sake and beer.

It’s all good. Open daily for lunch and dinner Mon-Sat. 592 E. El Camino Real. 408.733.7423.

SENZALA Brazilian. $$. Senzala restaurant is like a Brazilian cultural center that also serves food. Brazilian art and photographs cover the walls. Go for the feijoada, a hearty, smoky black bean stew made with chunks of beef and pork. 11am10pm Mon-Sat. 250 E. Java Dr. 408.734.1656.

SHALIMAR Indian-Pakistani. $. Walk up to the counter, grab a menu and place your order.

One of the best dishes is the plain-looking haleem, a lentil and barley stew available with chicken or beef. Nihari, a rich beef shank stew, is also great.

11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm Sun-Thu, noon-3:30pm, 5:3011pm Sat-Fri. 1146 W. El Camino Real. 408.530.0300.

SUGAR BUTTER FLOUR Bakery. $. Sugar Butter Flour’s desserts and pastries go well

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beyond the humdrum sweets found at most restaurants and bakeries. The bakery’s chocolate skills are particularly strong. 7am-7:30pm Mon-Thu, 7am-8:30pm Sat, 8am-5pm Sun. 669 S. Bernardo Ave. 408.732.8597.

TAVERNA BISTRO Old Mediterranean/Turkish. $$. Mustard and ruddy pomegranate hues warm the restaurant’s interior; zesty Arabic infusions warm the food. Choose from mezes such as hummus or tabouli. Entrees include lamb, beef or chicken gyros or lamb kebab. 11am10pm daily. 133 S. Murphy Ave. 408.735.9971.

UDUPI PALACE Indian. $$. Udupi Palace, a south Indian vegetarian restaurant, specializes in dishes—dosas and uthappams. Dosas are long, thin crepes made with rice flour. Uthappams are pancakes made with rice and lentil flour. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am-10:30pm Sun. 976 E. El Camino Real.

408.830.9600.

YUME-YA Japanese. $$. Don’t come here looking for sake bombs and macadamia nutencrusted gimmicky sushi rolls.

What sets this restaurant apart is its selection of izakaya-style dishes, little plates of food designed to go with beer and sake. 6-11pm Mon-Sat. 150 El Camino Real. 408.530.8156.

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THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE Continental. $$$. A menu strewn with rare game and hearty selections seems fitting for this forest find. Worth the trip. Bar 2pm; dinner 5pm, Wed-Sun. 13808 Skyline Blvd.

650.851.8541.

VILLAGE PUB New American. $$$. Chef Mark Sullivan’s unpretentious but refined French-influenced American food continues to make this a destination restaurant.

Brunch 10am-2pm Sun; lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-10pm daily. 2967 Woodside Rd. 650.851.9888.

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ALKALINE TRIO The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Wed – 8pm; $19-$22

Punk stars Alkaline Trio came out of Chicago’s thriving scene in the ’90s, but they linked their wallet chains to the South Bay early on, playing their first show here in front of Radio Free Records back in the day. They were local label Asian Man Records’ biggestselling band, thanks to the breakout album Goddamnit (which Asian Man rereleased on its 10thyear anniversary in 2008) and its follow-up Maybe I’ll Catch Fire. At this Catalyst show, Matt Skiba and company will relive their South Bay days by playing Maybe I’ll Catch Fire in its entirety. They’ve also

invited one of the local scene’s up-and-coming bands, Pounders, to open for them, showing they’ll never forget where they kinda sorta came from. (SP)

APRYLLE GILBERT J.J.’s Blues, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free San Jose singer/songwriter Aprylle Gilbert plays the kind of ambient, catchy indie folk that Suzanne Vega pioneered in the ‘80s, but she’s neither as arty nor as obtuse. Instead, Gilbert sings passionately emotional tunes about real-life struggles and redemption. Underneath the straight talk, there’s usually a deeper message, and Gilbert maintains a certain positivist philosophy even when singing

about breakups in “Bye Bye Baby” or last-ditch efforts in “One More Time Around.” This is her CD release show. (SP)

*thu I SWALLOWED AN OWL

South First Billiards, San jose Thu – 9pm; free A name like I Swallowed An Owl prompts so many questions, not the least of which is “Why did such a normal, straightforward rock band give themselves such a weird name?” It’s awfully bold to name your band a complete sentence and not play 18-minutelong psychedelic-prog-rock songs.

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I mean, they break out the kind of guitar-driven, female vocal-lead, amphitheater-power-rock that begs for swaying lighters in unison from everyone in the audience. There’s got to be a good story behind that name. (AC)

DEVONWHO Johnny V’s, San Jose Thu – 9pm; free The Klipmode crew is Portland’s current Next Big Thing, uniting the hip-hop and electro scenes with a four-way flow that twists samples into entirely new rhythms and manages to put a warm glow and some nonmechanized soul into their heavily teched-up beats.

These are hipsters even Carrie and Fred wouldn’t go after (although, ironically, a couple of their chillest tunes do kind of sound like the Portlandia theme). Klipmoder

8 on Friday.

Devonwho’s stuff is some of the most interesting—it gets glitchy and spaced-out, but never alien.

When androids dream of electric sheep, this is what it sounds like.

Devinwho performs at Treatment this week, along with the South Bay’s own Demone. (SP)

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DRE SINATRA Studio 8; San Jose Fri – 9pm; $20 after 11pm When Dre Sinatra isn’t spinning club-thumbing, ass-shaking hip-hop tracks at clubs all over the country, he’s producing songs with hot emerging rappers—people like Tyga, YG, Drake and of course Ray J, whom

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SONNYMOON

Mar 3 at 8pm, Heritage Theatre, Campbell

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

LEO KOTTKE Mar 18 at 7pm, Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts

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

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

KYLE EASTWOOD BAND Apr 6 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

Electronic duo SONNYM

nge Saturday.

OON play the Pagoda Lou

PHILIP GLASS Apr 7 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

RADIOHEAD Apr 11 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

he’s been friends and collaborators with for a while (meaning you’ve probably seen him on one of Ray J’s reality shows at some point). Judging by the rappers that Dre works with, you can bet that when he DJs, he spins some of the raunchiest records out there. (AC)

THE TRIMS Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $8 One thing Trims founders Gabriel Maciel and Eric Scharer could agree on was a love for atmospheric, dynamic, pop-oriented music that made liberal use of interesting instrumentation. Bands like Joy Division, Interpol, U2 and Radiohead came to mind. They set out applying these influences to create a music that was intricate and unconventional while still

maintaining a listener-friendly simplicity. The dueling guitar work is haunting. The vocals are organic and honest. The drumming is soft but precise. What they’ve ended up creating isn’t exactly pop music, but it’s not particularly unfamiliar either. It’s a nice blend of moody guitar-centric songs that have a soft edge while maintaining a subtle emotional undercurrent. (AC)

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HAWK JONES Nickel City, San Jose Sat – 6pm; $6 I love bands that channel raw, straight forward punk rock energy, but deliver it with some intricate

musicianship and without ever sacrificing that hard edge. This is Hawk Jones in a nutshell. While the spastic drums do their thing, the guitarist is bouncing between musical extremes—one minute he’s playing technical finger-tapping progressions and the next he’s creating spacious textures and feedback. (Never anything in the middle, you know, the kind of stuff that every other guitarist plays.)

Add to that an additional layer of keyboards and electronics, giving the songs a tense-uneasy feeling that will consistently surprise and assault you like a punk rock slap in the face.

Angels of Vice, Better Promises and Somber Sombrero also perform. (AC)

SONNYMOON Pagoda Lounge, San Jose Sat –10pm; $10 The Pagoda’s breakout show as a

live music venue was Little Dragon a couple of years ago. So maybe it’s karma that they’re hosting the newest act to get electro fans all a-twitter on Twitter. Dane Orr and Anna Wise believe in karma, for sure, and if you ask, they’ll tell you that their electronic duo Sonnymoon is named after a planet that collided with Earth, and … uh, it gets weirder from there. Luckily, their tongue-incheek cosmological ramblings don’t keep them from making music that’s as catchy as it is trippy. In some ways, they’re not so different from Little Dragon, without the pop aspirations. It’s pretty music constantly rubbing up against jagged noise and raw beats. Thanks to Wise’s ambient vocals, pretty wins. (SP)

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

MAYHEM FESTIVAL Jul 1, Shoreline

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Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $10$28. Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

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 thru Mar 11. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$40. The Stage, San Jose.

THE DROWSY CHAPERONE A musical contained in a comedy, presented by West Valley Light Opera. Runs Mar 3-31. Opens Fri. Regular shows Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $18-$33. Saratoga Civic Theatre.

FAMILIAR STRANGERS A drama about an Iranian family living in L.A. facing issues of generational and politico-cultural struggles.

Presented by Pear Avenue.

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8pm. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$30. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.

the Western and Eastern repertoire. Sat, 7:30pm. $15/$25. Flint Center, Cupertino.

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Actor Kurt Gravenhorst brings Jazz Age novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald to life in a one-man play presented by Tabard Theatre Company. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $29-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

IN THE MOOD A musical revue that recreates the big-band and swing era of the 1940s. Sun, 2pm. $27-$57. San Jose Civic Auditorium. Also, Sat, 3 and 7pm, Fox Theatre, Redwood City.

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The program includes a premiere by Evan Price and works by Gordon Getty, John Adams and Vivaldi, with special guest Caterina Lichtenberg on mandolin. Fri, 8pm. $29-$59. First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Barbara Day Turner leads the orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony no. 4, with soprano Talise Trevigne.

Sun, 7pm. $35-$60. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

A stage reader of a new bilingual play by Paul S. Flores about three generations struggling through the civil war in El Salvador and migration to the United States; this presentation by MACLA feature Ricardo Salinas of Culture Clash. Sat, 8pm. $8/$10. MACLA, San Jose.

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An evening called “March Forth to Mozart,” with pieces by Mozart, Puccini and Leoncavallo. $15-$20. Sat, 7:30pm, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Menlo Park; also Sun, 4pm, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto.

A new show from Cirque du Soleil. Begins Mar 2. Under the Big Top at the Taylor Street Bridge. (See cirquedusoleil. com/totem for schedule and ticket info.)

Classical Concerts ACME The American Contemporary Music Ensemble, along with Lionbook, presents the premiere of Ingram Marshall’s “Psalmbook.” Presented by Stanford Lively Arts. Sun, 2:30pm. $19-$42. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

COLIN CURRIE The avant-garde percussionist appears with the Stanford Philharmonia.

Wed, 8pm. $44/$50.

Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

EL CAMINO YOUTH SYMPHONY A concert to mark Lunar New Year features young performers, the Zhi Yin Singers and works from both

The San Francisco Early Music Society presents the Archetti Baroque String Ensembles in a program of Italian concertos

by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.

Fri, 8pm. $12-$30. First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto.

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STANFORD CHAMBER CHORALE A performance featuring works in various combinations for string orchestra and choir, organ and choir and more.

Fri, 8pm. $9/$10. Memorial Church, Stanford.

STANFORD WOODWIND QUINTET With guest artists Gregory Dufford, clarinet, and Rufus Olivier, bassoon, performing Janacek, Ewazen and others.

Sat, 8pm. $5/$10. Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford.

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

CLUB FOX Sun: Silly Sunday with Sammy Obeid and Marty Laquidara.

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

RIO THEATER Fri, 8pm: The return of Sinbad. $37/$48. Santa Cruz.

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase.

$10. Thu, 8pm: Fruit Punch, gay and gay-friendly comedy. $12.

Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Jimmy Pardo. $20.

Tue, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition. $10. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Danny Cruzz. $12. Thu, 8pm: Chicano Kings. $10. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Orlando Jones. $20. Tue, 7:45pm: Laugh Sing Dance Care, benefit. $55. San Jose.

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

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Walker Evans.” A celebration of the image of the great American photographer. Thru Apr 8.

“Memory and Markets: Pueblo Painting in the Early 20th Century.” Thru May 27. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm.

Stanford.

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

DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Indelibly Yours: Smith Andersen Editions and the Tattoo Project.”

A show of works inspired by tattoos. Thru Jul 1. “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.

EUPHRAT MUSEUM “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.

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

MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE “A Child’s World: Antique Toys, 1870-1930.” Thru Apr 29. FriSun, 11am-4pm. Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “To Hell and Back.” A selection from the museum’s collection of illustrations for Dante in a contemporary vein by Sandow

Birk. Thru Sep 16. “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 Kind of Bird Flies Backward.” A retrospective of paintings by Bay Area figurative artist Joan Brown.

Thru Mar 11. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm, 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, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

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

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Rosa Louca dos Ventos.”

Mixed-media works by Brazilian-born artist Silvia Poloto. Thru May 2. “Collecting Large.” A show of the museum’s recent acquisitions.

Thru May 2. Statewide Photography Competition and Exhibit. Thru Apr 22. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries OPENING ANNO DOMINI “Ordinary People.” A solo show by Danie Jesse Lewis.

Reception in the evening for South First Friday. Opens Marc 2. San Jose.

ART ARK GALLERY “Rebels in Wonderland.” Live music and art presented by RebelsKamp for South First Friday. San Jose.

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by Elaine Pinkernell. Reception for South First Friday. San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY “Portraits of the Innerself.”

Works by Valerie Runningwolf.

“Steam Punk Explorations.”

Pieces by Dorothy Whitman.

Show opens Mar 2. Live music for South First Friday with Lance Canales and the Flood.

San Jose.

MACLA “Chicana/o Biennial.” A group show featuring new works by Chicano artists. Reception at South First Friday includes an artist talk and performances

by Paul Flores and Quinteto Latino. San Jose.

METRO LOBBY “SnapShots of a Housewife.”

Photographs by Annalisa Hackleman. Reception for South First Friday. Runs through end of March. San Jose.

PHANTOM GALLERIES “Soliloquies From the Silent Country.” Window-front installations by Lacey Bryant.

95 S. Market St, San Jose.

PSYCHO DONUTS Group show by local artists.

Reception for South First Friday.

San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Younhee Paik: Ascending River.” Large-scale gallery installation. Mar 3-May 12.

“4x4.” Videos in the Cardinale Project Room. Mar 2-Jun 14.

Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon5pm. San Jose.

SLG BOUTIKI Group show about cult films and midnight movies. For South First Friday, CD-release party for Sweeney Schragg. San Jose.

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“The Practice in Ink.” New drawings and paintings by Leslie Lambert. Reception for South First Friday. San Jose.

“Art and Chrome Culture” group show featuring art and live painting by Alfredo Reyes, Freddy Alfaro and more, plus a display of custom choppers and live entertainment of all kinds presents for South First Friday.

San Jose.

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Opera night for South First Friday. San Jose.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA

“I Can’t Go On; I’ll Go on.” New works by Jehoiakim Santos.

Reception for South First Friday. San Jose.

Works by student artists. Mar 5-9. Reception Tue, 6pm. Inside the Art Building and Industrial Studies Building, SJSU.

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“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 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 by gathering and distilling countless musical traditions from a wide range of geographical and cultural sources. Not-to-be-missed!

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A show of pieces made at the workshop by Ilana Murray. Part of South First Friday. San Jose.

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

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

GALLERY AT FIBRE ARTS DESIGN “Anima: The Self Within.” An exhibit by 11 artists about the concept of anima/animus.

Thru Mar 22. Tue-Sat, 10am5pm. Fibre Arts Design, Palo Alto.

GALLERY HOUSE “Land & Water, Flow & Form.”

Landscapes by Charlotte Coqui, Starr Davis and others. Mar

“Heart to Heart.” Jewelry and paintings for lovers by Tim McKay. Thru Mar 4. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Saratoga.

KRAUSE CENTER “The Courage to Remember.”

A traveling exhibit from the Museum of Tolerance about the Holocaust. Thru Mar 2. Mon-Fri, 7:30am-8:30pm, Sat, 9am-5pm.

Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

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

by Chicano artists in the Bay Area and beyond. Thru Mar 10.

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

MAIN GALLERY “Mainly Clay.” A group show featuring works in various styles and materials. Thru Mar 18. Wed-Sun, 10am-3pm.

Redwood City.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “O’ Great Reverie: Montalvo 1912-2012.” 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. Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, Sat, 9am-3pm. Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.

OLIVE HYDE ART GALLERY “Hidden Treasures/Local Talent.” A salon show by local artists. Thru Mar 17. Thu-Sun, noon-5pm. Fremont.

PHO69 “Catchwork in Rhythm.”

Paintings by Ricky Gumbrechi.

Thru Mar 24. San Jose.

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

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WOMEN FULLY CLOTHED THU, APR 19, 7:30PM “Each sketch is a masterpiece of performance and writing” - The Village Post With a cast of four Canadian comedy all-stars, “Women Fully Clothed” never disappoints.

Using sketches and improvisation, Kathy Greenwood of “Whose Line is it Anyway?”; Robin Duke of “Saturday Night Live”; Janye Eastwood of My Big Fat Greek Wedding; and Teresa Pavlinek of “The Jane Show,” come together to create the ultimate “all-estrogen comedy dream team.” (Toronto Star) MARTINI MADNESS - For just $25 per person, all ticket holders to Women Fully Clothed can enjoy delicious food and cocktails in the Villa’s charming solarium or on the front veranda with views to the Great Lawn (weather permitting).

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We hoist tri-colored flags in a diverse program of music from England, France and the United States. Parry’s beautiful English Suite begins our tour, then we’re on to France where our featured soloist, bassoon virtuosa Karla Ekholm, will amaze you in Jean Francaix’ delightful Divertimento for Bassoon and Strings. We end at home, where we’ll perform the First Suite for Strings

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WORKS/SAN JOSE “Femme Fatale.” A group show about the complexities of the feminine. Thru Mar 17.

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Contributors to the new short-story anthology appear, including Christopher Wachlin and Tory Hartmann. Sun, 2pm.

Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

MEREDITH MARAN A meet and greet with the author of the novel “A Theory of Small Earthquakes.” Thu, 7pm. Books Inc., Palo Alto.

WINTER LIGHT Poetry reading with Cupertino poet laureate David Denny and guest poets Sally Ashton, Parthenia Hicks and others.

Thu, 7pm. Peet’s Coffee, Stevens Creek, Cupertino.

IRVIN D. YALOM A book event with author of

the new novel “The Spinoza Problem.” Tue, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

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A presentation by Peninsula Youth Theatre. Mar 3-11. This week Thu, 9:30am, Fri, 9:30am and 7:30pm, Saturday, 2 and 7:30pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm. $7-$22. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

LEGALLY BLONDE The popular music presented

by CMT Mainstage. Mar 2-11, Montgomery Theatre, San Jose. (See www.cmtsj.org for full sked and ticket info.)

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Screening of a film about an immigrant and his son. Fri, 6:30pm. $5-$10 donation. San Jose Peace and Justice Center.

ART HISTORY SERIES Lectures about topics in the history of the fine arts. Every Thu thru Mar 1, 7pm. $20 per lecture. Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara.

For girls ages 1 month to 13 years, with beautiful crowns. Sat (see www. centralcoastpageants.com for details). Embassy Suites Hotel Santa Clara.

A lunch by chef Charles Lewis and wine of the month. Sat, 1pm. $25-$55. Cloa LaChance Winery, San Martin.

PETER DIAMANDIS A talk from the author of “Abundance” about prospects for the future. Tue, 7pm. $7$20. Schultz Cultural Hall, Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto.

DIY ART A workshop on felted dolls with Christine Benjamin; materials included. Sat, 1-3pm. $35. SJ Museum of Art.

LIVING IN TRUTH A program with Jane Curry and Steven Boyd Saum about the life of Vaclav Havel. Wed, 7pm. Free. Fess Parker Studio Theatre, Santa Clara University.

SARATOGA’S GOT TALENT A monthly open-mic talent show. Sat, 7-10pm. Blue Rock Shoot, Saratoga.

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Contemplative Healing: An Introduction to Christ-Centered Healing Through Contemplative Prayer (Workshop) Experience how contemplative practices prepare us for healing by focusing on The Holy`s presence.

Fri, Mar, 9, 7-9p, Journey Center, 707-578-2121, www.journeycenter.org.

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Sat, Mar 10, Introduction: 9-10a, Class: 10:30a-Noon.

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Gould’s appeal seems obvious.

Over the decades, the seeming effortlessness of the dancer yielded to portrayals of men with warmth and humane shrewdness.

He was the ailing heart at the center of the hit Ocean’s Eleven

movies, and a regular on TV’s Friends.

But when considering the best work of his heyday, you come back not to his hit role as the battlefield surgeon Trapper John in Altman’s movie M*A*S*H but to his slightly haphazard Philip Marlowe in Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973)— without this film, there would be no defective detective Lebowski; watch and learn.

Gould’s new film, Dorfman, by Palo Alto’s Brad Leong, is playing March 2, 4 and 6 at Cinequest. I asked Gould if the subject of the renaissance of downtown L.A. had attracted him to the film.

He retorted, “Well that’s not what the movie is about! It’s about Sara Rue’s character renewing her view of life, and of nature and relationships.

It’s nice to have Los Angeles in it. But what I brought to it was an old actor

with a lot of experience and love in my heart.”

His favorite scene?

“The scene where I’m outside, sitting on the bench. The father tells the daughter she has to be able to think of herself and she deserves to have a life, that there’s nothing wrong with her. He’s had somewhat of a closed mind and a closed heart up to that point.”

Gould went on to tell me, “I love to work, I’m very grateful for any opportunity especially at this time.

“Ego and vanity are very toxic. A grain of pride is good for the heart, but more than that is blindness. Not wanting to be a hypocrite, I have had to accept my own ego and vanity.

Whatever parts I can get are based on what people think of me, and if they’re interested in my work.”

He continued, “Sometimes, we can be typecast. The character I played on Friends was a stereotypical character: it worked famously, but it needed to be somewhat to be stereotypical and two-dimensional. I didn’t think that I would do it, and then I saw what Jim Burroughs was doing with the show.”

Though he’s still a hardworking actor years, Gould’s performance in The Long Goodbye is worth the revisit.

“For a while it was my favorite film,” he said. “I wouldn’t have gotten to do it if Robert Altman hadn’t taken it over. UA sent him the script.

Altman called me from Ireland where he was shooting Images and asked me, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘I always wanted to play that guy.’ He said, ‘You are that guy!’”

I told Gould that I saw The Long Goodbye the day it opened, back when I was a young kid. I had no idea how much I’d love it 39 years later.

“I saw it screened with Leigh Brackett at Grauman’s Chinese Theater,” Gould recalled. “She wrote the script for The Big Sleep. She was the first to note how the book had changed the ending, and she said the film had broken the mold. I was making Busting with Robert Blake, a film directed by Peter Hyams, and Peter said he hated it. And [then Los Angeles Times film critic] Charles Champlin destroyed it.”

In Gould’s view, “The studio didn’t know how to present it. It was against the grain. Nobody’s been able to get close to The Long Goodbye.

Altman’s original plan was to remake everything of Chandler, one book every two years. It didn’t happen.”

The movie is definitely on Gould’s mind. “I’m still trying to make the sequel to The Long Goodbye but I can’t find a nickel to make it!” he said. “The sequel would be based on a short novel, The Curtain, a book written before there was a Marlowe.

We worked some time with the Chandler estate, and they sold me the rights to the book for a dollar.

Altman and I started to talk about it—the concept for it, bringing Marlowe into the present, having him old and arthritic. The title would be It’s Always Now. “Alan Rudolph wrote a script, which I haven’t transposed yet. I’d like to do it in a way we’ve never seen the character of Marlowe before. The values don’t age.”

Elliott Gould award presentation March 2, 9:30pm, California Theare Dorfman will be screened

MOHAWK OHAWK MAN Even behind the camera, director Nate Taylor draws attention to himself.

Director Nate Taylor has made one of Cinequest’s most startling, genretwisting films. Now, how to sell it?

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STEVE PALOPOLI

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HE WORD “maverick” has had its ups and downs over the years (thanks for nothing, John McCain), but Cinequest has stuck with it. And each year, festival organizers seem to find a way to put the edge back in the concept by standing up for at least one film that defies the conventions of genre, and does everything you’re not supposed to do in the marketing-obsessed world of moviemaking.

This year, that film is director Nate Taylor’s Forgetting the Girl. A genreshank of epic proportions, Taylor has made a movie that constantly

toys with audience expectations, and in the end delivers something truly original and startling—and unclassifiable.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, he was rewarded for his accomplishment by a long list of rejections from film festivals, until Cinequest accepted it and offered to host its world premiere.

“It’s been our nemesis, the genre tag,” says Taylor. “I don’t like the constraint of genre. It forces you into a creative box. But people really want to categorize things.”

What he did instead is turn many of the genre clichés that moviegoers are familiar with upside down.

The film starts out as a romanticmisfit kind of a story, following photographer Kevin (Christopher Denham), who likes to date his models, but can’t seem to make a commitment. So instead he parades through a series of dates

and awkward breakups, while his assistant Jamie (Lindsay Beamish) secretly pines for him.

If the early setup of the film is all too convincing, it may be in part because Taylor, who has built a career directing TV commercials, got some of his Hollywood training as an editor on 2001’s Kissing Jessica Stein.

Though he says that back then he didn’t think it was even possible for him to direct a feature, let alone one that deconstructed the romantic comedy, he admits that he put his intimate knowledge of the genre to work when digging into Peter Moore Smith’s script for this film.

“I really tried to emulate a lot of the filmic vocabulary of the romcom for the first half,” he says. “I was trying to be in that world enough to lull our audience into a sense of security.”

Things take a dark turn, however, with the introduction of Kevin’s friend Tanner (Paul Sparks of Boardwalk Empire), who seems unhealthily obsessed with Kevin’s photography—and his models.

From then on, as the movie twists and turns, it could be considered a thriller, or a mystery, or even horror.

Forgetting the Girl (U.S.; 85 min.)

March 2, 7:15pm; March 4, 9pm; March 6, 2:30pm; all at Camera 12.

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“In the treatment I wrote to help us get investment, I described the technique of ‘genre shock,’ where you lure people into thinking they’re in a different genre than they’re in,” says Taylor. “They’re thinking, ‘Oh we’re in a romcom, nobody really gets hurt. People cry, but no one dies.’”

Of course, trying to shoehorn the movie into the often cookiecutter marketplace hasn’t been easy.

Taylor cut endless variations on the trailer, trying not to give too much away, but also avoid betraying the audience’s trust by misrepresenting it.

“The trailer was an animal. We ended up doing something that was kind of short and intense,” he says.

“It’s been very tough trying to figure out how to market this.”

The movie finished shooting two years ago, and Taylor drew on a network of other TV-commercial crewmembers he knew (there are plenty of frustrated artists in commercials, he says) to finish post-production on weekends and holidays.

There’s been one unexpected advantage to the extended schedule, which is that it gave his cast time to get more famous. Denham, who is fantastic in the lead role, has two big releases this year: Argo, Ben Affleck’s directorial follow-up to The Town, and Barry Levinson’s muchanticipated sci-fi film The Bay. Anna Camp, who plays a model named Adrienne whose subplot is key to the story, has been in True Blood and Mad Men, and now has a regular role on The Good Wife.

Meanwhile, Taylor is prepping two new projects as he prepares for Forgetting the Girl’s premiere. One is another collaboration with writer Smith, who he also continues to work with on his day jobs.

“We’re actually working together right now on a Cheerios commercial,” says Taylor. “The guys who brought you Forgetting the Girl are doing Cheerios, the most wholesome brand in America.”

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AFGHAN LESSONS This Thursday’s showing of ‘The Black Tulip’ will feature an onstage discussion with executive producer Natalie Cole at San Jose Repertory Theatre.

Cinequest Picks The Black Tulip (Afghanistan; 115 min.)

As a restaurant/cultural center called “The Poet’s Corner” tries to open in Kabul, it’s besieged by the Taliban. The co-owner is the daughter of an Afghan killed by the occupying Russians years previously.

Meanwhile, a young girl (Somaia Razaya) waits for her impending marriage. This was the only feature film made in Afghanistan in 2010, shot in inarguably hazardous conditions by L.A.–based Afghan exile Sonia Nassery Cole. Cole relies heavily on the folkloric scenes: a wedding, a funeral, many musical performances and a round of the national goat-polo buzkashi. The soundtrack is by the distinguished Christopher Young; the street scenes of Kabul have interest; and there’s a moving performance by an old poet with a huge felt hat like an emperor’s crown. But Cole leans toward melodrama. The film’s executive producer, Natalie Cole (Nat King Cole’s daughter) and producers will attend a Q&A at the premiere of the film on Thursday. Metro’s executive editor Dan Pulcrano will moderate.

(Richard von Busack) March 1, 9:30pm; March 6, 4:15pm; March 8, 9:45pm; all at SJ Rep.

some pretty stupid situations,” Daphne admits to Robert. “Like this one?” he replies, and he could easily be talking about the plot. The performances are good, but the arty trappings get irritating, and the finale is straight out of the romcom fake-surprise playbook.

(Steve Palopoli) Feb. 29, 4:30pm; March 2, 9:30pm; March 4, 9:30pm; March 10, noon; all at Camera 12.

Mimesis I’m Yours (Canada; 80 min.)

Road movies don’t need a lot of backstory. By nature, they’re about the constant push forward, and the adventures to be found between Point A and Point B. Canadian writer/director Leonard Farlinger should know this; his countrymen are fairly obsessed with the genre (a tradition stretching back to 1970’s Goin’ Down the Road). So it’s odd that he would tie his entry to a contrived, high-concept setup the way he does in I’m Yours. After a night of sex, Daphne (Karine Vanasse) packs Robert (Rossif Sutherland, son of Donald) into her car. She announces she is taking him to see her parents in Northern Canada, and that he’ll pretend to be her fiancé, under threat of losing the big bag of money he carelessly left lying around the motel after picking her up in a bar. This isn’t your average blackmailing—they continue to have sex, and he doesn’t seem too upset by the whole thing.

Actually, the motivations just get weirder and less believable. “I’m been in

(U.S.; 97 min.)

Countless horror movies have paid tribute to Night of the Living Dead, and the argument could be made that every modern zombie movie has in some way ripped it off. But Mimesis puts a weird and clever spin on the idea. Set in the nerdicilicious world of the horror-fan convention, Mimesis starts us off with cult icon Sid Haig (as a jaded horror director) defending his movies against the charge that they incite violence. He’s not onscreen too long, but he gets to say, “Today’s sicko wants the real thing!” Then matters quickly get bizarre as our main fan characters go to an after-party and suddenly wake up in Night of the Living Dead.

For reasons they can’t figure out, they are dressed like characters from the original film and fighting off zombies. Since the mystery of what is really going on drives the movie, it’s best to know as little as possible in advance. The setup is strange and well-executed enough to guarantee most everyone (especially horror fans) will be puzzled and fascinated

until the truth is revealed. However, there are some distracting leaps of logic. When horror nerd Russell (Taylor Piedmonte) wakes up in a graveyard in a suit, with a woman who looks like Barbara, pursued by zombies, he doesn’t realize he’s in one of the most famous scary-movie scenes of all time? In fact, despite the fact that the Romero film is on continuous play in the house, it’s 40 minutes into Mimesis before someone actually says, “This is Night of the Living Dead. We’re all dressed like characters from the movie.” Later, the same character claims not to remember the details of the plot. Uh, wasn’t it just on continuous play— until he turned it off ? But these are mostly issues of the “if we didn’t do it this way, there wouldn’t be a movie” variety. Though plenty amateurish in parts, Mimesis finds a smart way to rise above its low-budget trappings.

(SP) March 2, 9:30pm; March 3, 9:45pm; March 8 at 2:30pm; all at Camera 12.

Must Come Down (U.S.; 85 min.)

Made possible thanks to a Kickstarter campaign that asks strangers to support one another, Must Come Down is a film about a similar process: of strangers coming together with the intention of a specific goal.

The story follows Holly and Ashley (Ashly Burch and David Fetzer, respectively), members of the ennui generation, each attempting to come to terms with their own sense of loss, befuddlement and aimlessness.

Of course, these two directionless, unemployed folks eventually run into one another at a bus stop, and before long, the two engage in a unique, although brief, series of adventures in which they come to terms with age, time and all the other things one thinks they’ve wasted. The narrative’s contrived nature is both a blessing and a curse: for a film about those who lack direction, it’s almost always obvious where things in the film are going. But the meet-cute at the film’s heart and its rather predictable blend of quirky honesty and forced pathos actually allow the film to move about without any burden of reinvention. Sometimes it helps not to reinvent the wheel, but just move gracefully alongside it.

(Rod Bastanmehr) March 3, 6:30pm; March 5, 9:30pm; March 6, 4:15pm; all at Camera 12.

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Salt (Chile; 114 min.)

Salt is, simply put, a Chilean film about a Chilean film called Salt. If that isn’t postmodern enough, how about writer/director Diego Rougier making a movie about a moviemaker who goes to a small town to scout his film about a Sergio-Leone-Western mystery man and is mistaken for a Sergio-Leone-Western mystery man called Diego? The basic plot device has been done many times, but Three Amigos was never like

GROUP BANTER The four stars of ‘Percival’s Big Night’ spend most of their time acting jaded. this. Juxtaposing the real spaghetti Western of the filmmaker’s fantasy world with the main character’s modern-day misadventures in Chile’s Atacama Desert, it’s not a parody but a quirky, culty homage. There is some humor, mostly at the expense of the ever-underachieving “hero,” but Salt also has some shocking violence, and gets more suspenseful, intense and existential as it goes—transforming from a Western pastiche to an actual Western. Beautifully shot, it also reflects what the movies teach us about how to live—but more importantly, what they fail to teach us. Life, it turns out, doesn’t always imitate art, making Salt an oddly cautionary tale about passion for film.

(SP) March 3, 7pm; March 4, 4:15pm; March 8, 4:15pm; all at Camera 12.

Sunflower Hour (Canada; 85 min.)

Mockumentaries are more popular than ever with young filmmakers, since they’re relatively cheap to produce and appeal to a certain cynicism about the world—you can show more truth, the theory goes, making something up. Sunflower Hour has the required catchy setup that promises a peek into a “secret world”—in this case, puppets, as four puppeteers compete for

a spot on a long-running (and also fake) Canadian children’s TV show. The performances are good, and there are quite a few funny bits. But writer-director Aaron Houston is simply trying way too hard. Mockumentaries work best when the characters are trying to cultivate a certain image for the camera but can’t hide their flaws and contradictions over time. Within five minutes of Sunflower Hour, the producer of a kid’s show is bragging about how he ran the porn company that pioneered a certain sex act on film. Would this really happen? Of course not. The same TMI problems plague the other characters—though they are trying to get onto a kid’s show, they all immediately reveal the exact character traits that should keep them from getting hired on any kid’s show. As satire, it’s all too easy, and it keeps us from buying into these overly quirked-up creations as real people—or caring about what ultimately happens to them. (SP) March 3, 5pm; March 4, 9:15pm; March 8, 11am; all at Camera 12.

Touch (U.S.; 109 min.)

Touch isn’t just the name of writer/ director Minh Duc Nguyen’s film, it’s also its visual and metaphorical

obsession—and a perfect choice, since Nguyen himself has a gift for nonverbal communication. There’s so much in this film that is said without being spoken; Touch is “show don’t tell” at its finest. Nguyen uses fluid editing, montages and tableaux of his characters to relate the real story here, the emotional one. The result is a lot more interesting and relevant than the throwaway romantic-drama setup would suggest. In fact, it’s almost misleading to characterize the film by way of its plot devices—a lovelorn mechanic in a struggling marriage ( John Ruby) begins going to a lonely young Vietnamese clinician in a nail salon (Porter Lynn) in the hope of un-grubbing himself enough to win back the attention of his seemingly heartless wife (Melinda Bennett).

Yes, of course, sparks are going to fly, but beyond that, Nguyen refuses to settle for the expected clichés in any of the film’s subplots. Ultimately, this is a surprisingly deep and moving film about the Vietnamese-American experience. It’s also about the human need for touch, and what it makes us do—and, in our bravest moments, allows us to do, too. (SP) March 4, 7:30pm, Camera 12; March 7, 9:30pm, California Theatre; March 9, 1:15pm, Camera 12.

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(U.S.; 84 min.)

Is an art-house version of a Judd Apatow bromance really what the indie film world needs right now? I doubt it, but that’s what it’s gets in director William Sullivan’s comedy.

Actually, the driving force here is probably writer/star Jerret Kerr, who, other than being remarkably skinny, nails his Seth Rogan impersonation.

He plays Sal, the drug dealer friend and roommate of Percy (Tommy Nelms). Percy is hot for one of Sal’s clients, Chloe (Sarah Wharton), and he convinces Sal to let him sell to her when she comes over with her friend Riku (Angelica Reeve). When they finally do, the film becomes a series of people arguing and bantering in different combinations in the guys’ New York apartment. Everyone in this movie acts jaded and cynical (except for the semi-doe-eyed Percy) and tries to talk loudly over everyone else—mostly about screwing, naughty parts, the death of romance and other Apatow-approved topics. The word “mangina” is actually uttered, which is never a good sign. There is an underlying sweetness here, thanks to Nelms’ performance, but if you’re sick of twentysomethings blathering about their sorry lives while getting stoned and playing video games, this is not the movie for you. (SP) March 3, 9:15pm; March 5, 7:15pm; March 9, 1:45pm; all at Camera 12.

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New DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (PG; 94 min.) The first time the story’s been put on the screen. The Lorax is the tale of a creature who’s mean.

Mean but lovable, as most creatures are in Dr. Seuss’ endless oeuvre.

Heartthrob Zac Efron of Walt Disney fame is the voice of Ted, a romantic aflame. His desire and heart are set squarely on Audrey, voiced by Taylor Swift, whose casting feels tawdry. Ted goes beyond his hometown’s locked gates and learns the repercussions of his town’s mistakes. The story’s a classic, as most Seuss tales are, and it’ll have to do until we hear from Pixar. (Opens Fri.)

PROJECT X (R; 88 min.) Beating any lingering bit of air out of the found footage subgenre, Project X is produced by The Hangover’s Todd Phillips, and is touted by made-up critics as “Superbad on crack,” officially making it the Frankenstein of frat films.

Project X follows three high school seniors as they throw a massive birthday party in an attempt to rise up the social ladder that is high

school, all of which is captured on a handy portable camera. What this aesthetic adds to the film, I couldn’t say, but expect the typical array of beer, breasts and, if the trailer is any indication, big explosions. The film is sure to lure in the most coveted of demographics, and its hybridizing of other zeitgeist-claiming films will surely bring even the most doubtful into the theatre. Though, be warned: One should fear the inevitable surplus of quotes the film will surely produce.

No T-shirt will be safe. (Opens Fri.)

Revivals HAMLET (1948) To kill or not to kill is the question in Laurence Olivier’s pre-Jan Kott take on Hamlet’s dilemma. Here, the prince is simply “a man who could not make up his mind.” The studio’s struggles to “de-Freudianize” Olivier’s version weren’t helped by the shapely Eileen Herlie, a Gertrude who was 11 years younger than Laurence. It’s film noir by chance. According to Olivier’s biographer Terry Coleman, Olivier had such tangles with the people from the Technicolor company that he decided to go black and white, dying his hair

Danish blonde so he could be spotted in the long dark halls of Elsinore.

(Plays Mar 6-8 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

HOOK (1991) Reportedly modeled on William F. Buckley, Dustin Hoffman’s snide Captain Hook is amusing, but Robin Williams is sticky even before the Lost Boys start their food fight in this lesser, if not least, Spielberg film. I once heard from one of the technicians who shrunk the films’ Tinkerbelle: “Even six inches of Julia Roberts is too much.” (Plays Mar 2-4 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

THE MARRIAGE CIRCLE (1924) See One Hour With You. Adolphe Menjou and Marie Provost co-star. Dennis James at the Stanford’s Wurlitzer. (Plays Mar 2 at 7:30pm in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

NILES FILM MUSEUM The Prairie Pirate (1925), an introduction to the great movie cowboy Harry Carey. He was from the Bronx, an NYU law student who wrote a Western play while he was convalescing; he parlayed this into a long career as both heroes and villains in the west. Plus “The Monster” (1903) by George Méliès, and Episode 1 of “The Perils of Pauline” (1914). Judy Rosenberg at the piano. (Plays Mar 3 at 7:30pm at the Edison Theatre in Fremont.) (RvB)

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(Both 1932) Sore temptation for Maurice Chevalier when his wife’s best friend arrives. Jeanette MacDonald and Genevieve Tobin co-star in a film based on the same play co-director Ernst Lubitsch had filmed as The Marriage Circle. BILLED WITH Trouble in Paradise.

A pinnacle of Lubitsch’s graceful art of insinuation. The contrast of higher aspirations and base motives are apparent from the very beginning, when we hear the beautiful singing of a gondolier hauling rubbish. In this peerless Art Deco confection, Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play society jewel thieves who move in on a perfume magnate (Kay Francis). (Plays Mar 3-5 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

TRAFFIC (1971) M. Hulot hits the road for the 300-mile drive between Amsterdam and Paris and finds some congestion along the way. Jacques Tati’s answer to the pileup in Godard’s Week End. Essential viewing for fans of The Artist, and it’s free. (Plays Mar 7 at 7:30 in Palo Alto at Cubberley Auditorium, Stanford University.) (RvB)

Reviews ACT OF VALOR (R; 101 min.) The Navy SEALS who portray Navy SEALS hit their marks and speak their lines in loud, clear voices. Fording swamps, assuming sniper positions and performing HALO jumps, they demonstrate guts. Aside from that, this POV-heavy chunk of regurgitated gamer-crap is about the jihad of a bug-eyed Islamaniac scarface who is organizing a mass band of Columbian guerillas, drug runners and Islamic Filipinos. In a demonstration not just of contempt for the intelligence of the audience but for the resilience of the American people, it’s said Scarface’s small squad of suicide bombers will destroy the economy of the West. “It’ll make 9/11 look like a walk in the park!” The stateside footage looks like someone making a home movie imitating Michael Bay, and the film is nearly woman-free. Its box-office success is a dangerous sign: It’s a wet dream of killshots, medallion-encrusted coffins and hairy foreign terrorists. How could you be a tumescent fan of this movie and not be ready, willing and able to do anything a man in uniform told you to do? Get ready to take your orders. (RvB)

THE ARTIST (PG-13; 100 min.) Michel Hazanavicius’ black and white and silent salute to the pre-talkies features his regular star. In the lead is the amazing Jean Dujardin, better known as the idiot secret agent of Hazanavicius’ two OSS parodies.

Here Dujardin plays a silent star named Valentin whose luck runs out when sound comes in at the end of the 1920s. It’s the other film this season besides Hugo that recalls the vividness and universality of the silent age. Recommended. (RvB)

CHRONICLE (PG-13; 84 min.) Captured entirely on home video, three high school students discover a weird starshaped crystal buried deep in the Earth, just outside of Seattle. They develop superhuman powers: invulnerability and telekinesis that, when manipulated, allows them to fly. Director Josh Trank doesn’t stick with the Blair Witch/Cloverfield idea that only the hero’s cameras can pick up the story; by the end, when there’s a war of two supermen in the air around the Space Needle, we’re seeing the POV from everyone’s camera, from the police helicopters to cell phones). The acting is quite worthwhile; The Wire’s Michael B. Jordan is a sort of Young Obama (he’s

likable class-presidential timber); Dane DeHaan is the dad-bashed underdog; and Alex Russell is Matt, a philosophy-crazed student who can’t go into a cave without talking about Plato. The movie never really figures out a way to integrate women into the plot. The most uninteresting camera angle in the film is the girlcam; was Ashley Hinshaw’s Casey a Lois Lane character at some draft of the script? She’s barely developed enough to be even an accidental hostage by the end of the film. In Cheap-Camera Vision, the special effects at the end are actually a knockout—you wouldn’t want to be working on the effects in the new Superman movie and have it served to you like this. (RvB)

THE DESCENDANTS (R; 115 min.) A Hawaiian workaholic named Matt King (George Clooney) is forced to reckon with his family: his wife is in a coma, his daughter Alexandra (Shailene Woodward) parties hearty, and his cutely awkward, profane younger daughter (Pacific Grove’s Amara Miller, debuting) is causing a little trouble as well. It’s a movie almost everyone will enjoy. In the lead is our most unambiguously appealing movie star. Behind and around this eminently watchable actor is more Hawaii than I’ve seen in a feature film in decades, with the land and seascapes photographed with considerable care by Phedon Papamicheal. Director Alexander Payne made Sideways quite a few years ago. If this film is a successful comeback, a shoe-in for Oscars and so forth, it’s also very commercial: from the completely trustworthy narration to the final assurance to the audience that all is well. You can enjoy the classicism of it all, but it’s not taking movies to the next level. (RvB)

GHOST RIDER 2: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (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. (RvB)

GONE (PG-13; 95 min.) Amanda Seyfried stares down a serial killer. Two things to note: Nobody, but nobody, wins a

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GOOD DEEDS (PG-13; 11 min.) A comedy about a business man who meets a cleaning woman. Stars Tyler Perry, Gabrielle Union and Thandie Newton.

HUGO (PG-126 min.) An orphan boy (Asa ButterďŹ eld) lives in an attic of a Parisian train station, some time during the 20th century. He discovers clues to a prized possession of his late fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. He also meets an intrepid girl (the ever-rising ChloĂŤ Grace Moretz) and a man who turns out to be a pioneer of the art of cinema, now in shabby retirement. Director Martin Scorsese is working with Tim Burton regulars: scriptwriter John Logan and Sweeney Todd production designer Dante Ferretti. The too-simple lock-andkey-style childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-book writing is overcome by Scorseseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delight in the machinery of cinema. The stars here include Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen (never better), and Richard GrifďŹ ths and Frances de la Tour as a pair of dog-crossed lovers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best seen in 3-D. (RvB)

THE IRON LADY (PG-13, 101 min.) It transcends political naivetĂŠ by trying to sleaze its way into former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal life. The Iron Lady presents Thatcher (Meryl Streep) in her senility as being haunted by the prankish specter of her late husband Denis (Jim Broadbent). Great: a Tory version of Topper. The way that director Phyllida Lloyd (Mamma Mia!) presents the doddering old lady, you feel some slight sympathy.

But too much of the ďŹ lm is a grateful celebration of a politician who really knew how to spread misery around.

And the ďŹ lm reverses the angle on the way Thatcher worked, making her a besieged woman encircled by furious crowds and mad bombers. (RvB)

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 (with the exception of Josh Hutcherson, who reprises his role as Sean, the only teen more interested in maps than girls), 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 3D. The latter will surely result in many a high-ďŹ&#x201A;ying gag made literal, and the former is deďŹ nitely an example of the term â&#x20AC;&#x153;starâ&#x20AC;? being used fast and loose. Dwayne â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Artist Formerly Known as the Rockâ&#x20AC;? Johnson stars, as does Sir Michael Caine. Though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably not the star power bringing the kiddies in.

PINA (PG; 103 mins.) Wim Wendersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; glorious cinematic festschrift for the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who passed away in 2009.

The dancers deliver their memories of Bausch straight to the camera.

We can see why they fell in love, despite what Bausch demanded from them. However rareďŹ ed it seems in descriptions, Bauschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art was all about hard work and ordinary pain.

Note the melancholy yet sweet line of geriatric dancers at the rim of a stripmined chasm. And one performance is staged on the edge of trafďŹ c with TJ Maxx and McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s signs looming overhead. (RvB)

RAMPART (R; 108 min.) A baroque L.A.P.D. policier directed by Oren Moverman, the longtime scripter who did 2009â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Messenger. The ďŹ lm is co-written

by James Ellroy in the sense that the term here means â&#x20AC;&#x153;Something That Looks Like a Knock-off.â&#x20AC;? Woody Harrelson plays Dave Brown, 24 years on the job and still in uniform.

This bad cop has been judge, jury and executioner ever since he was old enough to plead Vietnam as the reason for it all. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surrounded by a wreath-shaped family tree of exes and daughters. Protecting these ladies is his psychological excuse for having once killed a suspected serial date rapistâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hence his nickname. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a dirty cop with a dirty mind,â&#x20AC;? says his disapproving daughter, Helen (Brie Larson); this comes later after a scene in which Helen reads him the riot act: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a dinosaur, Date Rape, a sexist, a racist.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;How long have you rehearsed this?â&#x20AC;? her father replies. I was thinking â&#x20AC;&#x153;not long enough.â&#x20AC;? At times, watching Harrelson walk at night down a bad street makes you agree with Robin Wright (as a lawyer he sleeps with): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like a John Wayne thing.â&#x20AC;? If you love squandered acting, this movie is for you. (RvB)

SAFE HOUSE (R; 115 min.) Denzel Washington plays a fugitive who ends up on the run with the CIA operative tasked with transferring him (Ryan Reynolds)

after their safe house comes under attack by neighboring rebel soldiers.

The ďŹ lm, which will surely feature top-notch eyebrow acting by Reynolds and a lot of â&#x20AC;&#x153;rationalâ&#x20AC;? yelling

by Washington, is director Daniel Espinosaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst American feature. And heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clearly studied up on what makes a good American thriller starring Washington work: Stand back and let his overgrown pupils do the rest.

THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY (G; 94 min.) Studio Ghibliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Japanese animated version of the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tale The Borrowers. Though Hiromasa Yonebayashi is credited as director, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an elder manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s movie for children, and this may be the touch of 70+ co-writer Hayao Miyazaki. The ďŹ lm is slow, contemplative and ringed with loss. The main male character is a young convalescent, bedridden as he waits for a dangerous operation.

This illness adds to the seeming hopelessness of the friendship between the full-size boy and a tiny girl. The ďŹ lm excels at the charm of the miniature and counters the world of Disney princesses, with a brave, bold girl who ties her hair back, carries a straight-pin sword at her side and scales the clifďŹ&#x201A;ike walls of kitchen cabinets. (RvB)

A SEPARATION (PG-13; 123 min.) In Iran, a potential divorce is complicated by a criminal case when a pious nursemaid (Sareh Bayat) tending to an aged member of the splitting-up family claims that she was made to miscarry.

The signiďŹ cant glances and openfaced lies make the title a play on wordsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the ďŹ lm is actually about the split between the world of men and the world of women. This is obviously worse in an Islamic republic that works to keep the two as separate as possible. Director Asghar Farhadiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s astonishing drama shows the problems of legislated morality, but he seems to have his eye on a more metaphysical, ancient statute: the hidden laws of bad luck, and how that luck inevitably worsens because of the acts of desperate men and women. (RvB)

engage in a series of action-packed shenanigans, all in an attempt to one-up the other and woo the gal.

Star Trekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chris Pine and Inceptionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 standin for sex, and maybe the other way around as well.

THE VOW (PG-13; 104 min.) The Vow is the book Nicholas Sparks forgot to write. It tells the tale of Paige and Leo (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, respectively), a couple torn apart by a car accident that leaves Paige with no memory, and Leo with the pieces of a shattered love, trying his hardest to put them back together again. The sappy tale of memory and love lost hinges on whether She will get her memory back, or if He can convince her that memories are secondary to loveâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or that love is secondary to memories, or something like that, or nothing like that. The message of the ďŹ lm is surely on a key chain somewhere. Until then, come for the sap and bring your own tissues.

WANDERLUST (R; 98 min.) Two New Yorkers ditch the big city for life in the country. With Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, so it must be funny, right?

WAR HORSE (PG-13; 146 min.) In 1914 Devonshire, a young man (Jeremy Irvine) befriends a thoroughbred. Then comes the Great War, and War Horse tries to get around the resistance most people have to anti-war movies by clapping a steel helmet on a brown-eyed and sensitive beast. Only Steven Spielberg could have authorized the expensive World War I recreations. Only Spielberg could have engineered the harrowing camera pullbacks that display the mud and craters of the Western Front. And only Spielberg would have balanced all this historical buzzkill with somany barrels of sap. (RvB)

THE WOMAN IN BLACK (PG-13; 96 min.) Susan Hillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1983 novel is the source for this Victorian-era gothic about a hardpressed lawyer (Daniel Radcliffe) going to investigate a reputedly haunted house.

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Rappers Gone Rock REBEL BE YELL YE Rebelskamp plays Art Ark Gallery as part of South First Friday’s Artwalk.

Rebelskamp’s members can’t stop freestyling BY

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HAT WOULD HAPPEN if a bunch of freestyle rappers started a jam band? It might sound impossible, but that’s exactly what happened to San Jose’s Rebelskamp. Four members of this rock, funk, avantgarde, free-form, genrebusting quintet (along with Kung Fu Vampire) were at one time the local freestyle rap crew, LSB. “With that pressure of freestyle rap, you’re going to stumble, but the key is how quickly you recover from the stumble. We’re basically taking that freestyle rap pressure that we thrive on and we’re freestyling with our instruments,” says drummer Dan Gilardoni.

Their instrumentation is a fairly

standard rock setup: drums, bass, guitar, keyboards and cello. The music meanders from slow, mellow, experimental swells to hyper-funky night-club jams, with just about everything else in-between. It is all 100 percent made up on the spot with no planning in advance, not even the lead vocals.

“We realized that we would stumble upon brilliance by not trying. That was the key. That was our formula, to have no formula,” says guitarist and lead singer Gee Willikers.

They may not sound like rap, but they don’t sound like a typical jam band either. First off, there are no solos. The songs are short and concise, unlike the standard 10–15 minute long songs other such bands tend to play. Plus, their music takes shape more cohesively than other completely free-form bands. The songs actually sound pre-written, and people often refuse to believe they are making these songs up on the spot. With just about a year

and a half under their belt, they’ve made up and recorded over 800 distinct songs, covering a multitude of musical styles, even within a single song.

“It completely evolves, too. It might start out sounding like one kind of genre and depending on what each person adds, it can transform into something completely different,” says cello player Natasha Littlewood.

In order to create so many uniquesounding songs, they follow the freestyle strategy of pulling every detail from their environment to stream together cleverly rhyming sentences. Whether it’s the mood of the club, a belligerent drunk or just the weather outside, it’s all fodder for their music.

For instance, they’ve played shows at Tres Gringos where the Sharks game was playing on the screen at the same time. Rather than try and fight it, their music follows right along with the highs and lows of the game. They even incorporated the Sharks theme song in at one moment.

“We are all psychic. That’s why the crowd affects us so much, cause we’re psychically in tune with the

atmosphere,” says Gilardoni.

This flexibility on their part has led to some wholly unique shows.

They played on Valentine’s Day once to an empty nightclub and two lonely drunks at the bar. All the songs that night were melancholy brokenhearted love songs. They played a different show on Christmas where everyone was having a blast, but hurting from the recession.

They spontaneously made up several funny, bluesy Christmas songs like, “We Cancelled Christmas,” “I Didn’t Buy Anybody Presents” and “Ho Ho Ho, Bitches.”

The strangest moment occurred at a show where Tony Danza appeared on one of the TVs during a show. The band broke into a goofy rendition of Elton John’s “Tiny o o o Jo Dancer,” only instead tthey sang Tony Danza.”

“Who’s the boss? It’s T adaptability has been a Extreme adaptabilit their first show motto since before the in 2010. Originally the group got Littlewood’s garage just together in Littlewood moved (and no to jam. When she mo longer had a garage) tthey decided to every Monday start playing shows, ev at Johnny V’s. The Metro listed their first shows as open-mic nights, so people showed up with instruments, ready to jam with the band. It wasn’t what Rebelskamp planned, but they went with it, letting everyone jam with them. That is, until a tap dancer tried to freestyle with them.

“He tapped his ass right offstage,” Willikers says.

After a while, they decided to gig elsewhere and to not invite the audience to play along. But each set continues to be different because of the countless different environmental factors that they aren’t even aware of when they’re playing. Fortunately all the shows are recorded so they can listen back.

“Every session takes you back to that moment. We were basically taking in what was happening and recording an audio version with music incorporated and not knowing it,” says Willikers. “We were just jamming.”

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AZIZ ANSARI ANNOUNCES SAN JOSE SHOW Fully recovered from that racist fruit vendor incident, and even 30 Minutes or Less, comedian Aziz Ansari brings his “Buried Alive” tour to the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts on July 19.

THE TWILIGHT SAD VS. U.S. CUSTOMS Scottish shoegazers the Twilight Sad had a hell of a time getting visas for their new U.S. tour, which comes to the Blank Club in San Jose on Wednesday, March 7.

PHOTOS: MEGADETH AND MOTORHEAD How big is heavy metal in San Jose? Gigantor.

Megadeath and Motörhead filled the San Jose Event Center with rabid metal fans.

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Metro’s music calendar runs Wednesday–Tuesday.

Rock/Pop ART BOUTIKI Fri, 7pm: PK, Twin Atlantic.

All ages. $10. Sat, 7pm: Bell Thieves, Coast Jumper, Rat Trap, Analyzer Generator. All ages. San Jose.

THE BLANK CLUB Fri, 9pm: The Trims, Anya & the Get Down, Silent Pictures. $8.

Sat, 9pm: The Bang, Talky Tina. $8. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S Wed, 9:30pm: Jack Rip-Off. Thu, 10pm: Sexy Back. Fri, 9:30pm: Savoire Faire. Sat, 9:45pm: Superbad. Sun, 8:30pm: The Gents. Mon, 9:30pm: Matt Bolton. Campbell.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Fri-Sat: Live music. San Jose.

CAPERS Fri, 8:30pm: Live music.

Campbell.

CLUB FOX

LOS GATOS LODGE

Fri, 7pm: Zanzibar, Point of Order. $12/$15. Sat, 7pm: Kim Baker & Heather Combs with Garrin Benfield. $15/$20.

Redwood City.

Fri-Sat: Live rock bands.

Los Gatos.

DINKELSPIEL AUDITORIUM Sat, 8pm: Angelique Kidjo. $38-$42. Stanford University, Palo Alto.

MOJO LOUNGE Fri, 9:30pm: John Nemeth. $5.

Sat, 9:30pm: The Rev Tones. $5.

Fremont.

NETO’S GRILL Sat, 9pm: Soul Intention. $10.

Santa Clara.

NICKEL CITY FOX THEATRE Fri, 8pm: George Thorogood and the Destroyers. $45-$60.

Redwood City.

THE GRAPEVINE Sat, 7pm: Mark Rodriguez.

Willow Glen.

HERITAGE THEATRE Sat, 8pm: The Temptations. $46-$61. Campbell.

JOHNNY V’S Thu: Treatment. Fri: Buried at Birth. Sat: Ladies night, presented by Violet and Renee.

Mon: Metal Mondays. San Jose.

Fri, 6pm: Carouselabra, Hypergyant, Cyborg Octopus, Time Spills, Speed, Cremation Chamber. All ages. Sat, 6pm: Hawk Jones, Angels of Vice, Better Promises, Somber Sombrero, Toxic Playground, Affinity, Poor Juliet. All ages.

San Jose.

NINE LIVES Thu, 8pm: Battle of the Bands with Four O’Clock Heroes, Euphoria ver. SC, Deathmaster, 6:A.M. $10. Sat, 8pm: Shane Dwight. $15. Gilroy.

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NIGHTLIFE: DJ DEMI CHILD

SAN JOSE’S nightlife comes up short in decent places to listen to electronic music.

Not content to bitch and moan about the situation, San Jose DJ Chris “Demi Child” Rios has become proactive in the last year, quietly networking with a string of like-minded DJs and club owners to find a place where both the inveterate clubgoer and electronic geek can find common ground. And with the broadly titled Bass Club, his newest monthly held at Motif, he believes he’s done it. We spoke about the rise of brostep (read: Skrillex), why the EDM acronym sucks and kidnapping groupies.

What’s your take on San Jose’s scene?

As a citizen, I love the nightlife—it’s alive! As a DJ, it brings me down at times. It’s a big city and yet everybody knows what you do, how you do and who you do.

Which is a great benefit for entertainers, promoters and DJs, but it stays contained. San Jose is great and has talent Motif, 389 S. First St but no one really listens or gives anyone a chance due to various cliques and clichés.

Second Friday of every month What are you guys playing?

A lot of bass, percussion-heavy house, techno, b-more, indie disco, moombahton and an emphasis on San Jose stuff. You’ll hear a lot from Justin Weisberg’s label Filthy WHAT?!, and lots of Bay Area–produced music. No David Guetta.

DJ Wool headlines the next event on Friday, March 9.

EDM (electronic dance music) is a terrible acronym, wouldn’t you agree?

I was barely aware of it until last year. I think it’s from the younger crowd. It’s funny ’cause I didn’t quite get it until I realized that’s what we used to call IDM—“indie dance music”—in early 2000 [sighs]. It’s what the younger generation called it, and it has a stigma. I know what you mean though—it sucks. People who say that usually listen to Skrillex.

Can you explain his popularity? Let’s talk ‘brostep.’

[laughs] There’s this guy in Santa Cruz who plays it, very wompy and grindy—it’s electronic grunge for head-bobbers. Dubstep isn’t really my thing. I’m into U.K. love step. That stuff is saucy, like Roni Size and Goldie.

I once read that Wu Tang’s Raekwon refuses to listen to rap music on the weekends—something about needing to clear his mind. With that incredibly bogus segue, what do you listen to that’s under 120 BPM?

So true. To keep my palette fresh, everything I listen to in my car is either a part of my set or way off in left field. I usually listen to a lot of older punk and indie. Right now I’m into some Southeast Asian go-go music I found at Streetlight. A lot of stuff from people out here too, like Albert Preset. I can go on for days about Joy Division then go to talking about some bootleg of the Supremes found at a garage sale. —Shona Sanzgiri

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metroactive MUSIC 50 NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed: Jam night. Fri, 9:30pm: The Cocktail Monkeys. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: The Hitmen. $10.

Los Gatos.

OSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER Sat, 8pm: George Komsky. $30$40. Palo Alto.

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

No cover. Fri-Sat: Live music.

Sun, 9pm: Pro Jam. No cover.

Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE Fri, 8pm: Mariah McManus, Matt Koziol, Royal Sons. Sat, 8pm: Dogcatcher. Mountain View.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Thu, 9pm: I Swallowed An Owl, the Lazzari Experiment. Fri: First Friday live art and music. Sat: So Timeless. No cover. San Jose.

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

Gilroy.

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

featuring Andy Santana. Fri, 8pm: Red Eye Express. Sat, 8pm: John Garcia. Campbell.

HUKILAU

HEDLEY CLUB

Fri: E Ono Kane. Sat: Live music.

San Jose.

Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.

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

Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live jazz. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.

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Tue: Rock en espanol. San Jose.

Nightly: Live blues. San Jose.

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Wed, 6pm: Middle Eastern music.

Thu, 6pm: Live acoustic guitar with Shane. Fri, 6pm: World music. Sat, 6pm: Belly dancing.

Sun, 6pm: World music. Mon, 6pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 6pm: Johnny Williams. Mountain View.

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

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Fri-Sat, 6pm: World music. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music. Mon, noon on: French music. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

WOODHAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE Fri: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Santa Clara.

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

LOS GATOS BREWING CO. SJ Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos.

San Jose.

MURPHYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LAW Thu-Sat: Live blues. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Levitate. Sat, 9pm: Chris Burkhardt. San Jose.

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

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Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson.

Thu, 6-9pm: Charles Wheal Band. Fri, 6-10pm: Contino Band. Sat, 6-10pm: Bobby Radcliff. Sun, noon-4pm: Wally Schnalle Jazz Trio & student drum performance. Mon, 69pm: Ukulele jam. Tue, 5-9pm: PHB open mic. San Jose.

Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music.

Mountain View.

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

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Jazz/Blues AFFINITY Wed, 7:30pm: John Stowell/ Mike Zilber Quartet. No cover.

Hilton Hotel, San Jose.

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

Fri, 8:30pm: Ricardo Scales & Friends. $15/$20. Mon, 7pm: A Swinginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Affair and Jazz Jam. No cover. Redwood City.

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

Campbell.

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ART BOUTIKI

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

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

Mountain View.

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

WINE AFFAIRS

AVALON

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

San Jose.

Sat, 3pm: Andre Thierry & Zydeco Magic. $20; $10 students with ID. Santa Clara.

C&W/Folk

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

AZĂ&#x161;CAR 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 Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

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

Tue: Footnotes Jazz. Sunnyvale.

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Thu, 7pm: Live acoustic music.

Woodside.

Thu-Sat: Live jazz. No cover.

Santa Clara.

ANGELICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BISTRO

EULIPIA Fri, 8:30pm: D-Lucca. No cover.

San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam with Aki,

Sun, 5:30pm: Peninsula Scottish Fiddlers. $12/$16. Redwood City.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 8pm: Goh Kurasawa. Sun,

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Santa Clara.

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: Midnight Wranglers.

Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Rodeo House. Sat, 7:15pm: Live country music. Fremont.

SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Live music. Tue, 6pm: Live music. San Jose.

SONOMA CHICKEN COOP

BOULEVARD TAVERN

Wed, 8:30pm: Open mic.

Campbell.

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

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

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

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

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

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

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

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

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Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Redwood City.

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

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS

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

Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

THE BEARS

AZÚCAR

DIVE BAR

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

DA KINE CAFE

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

BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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

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

QUARTER NOTE Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

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

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

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

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

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

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

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

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

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

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

BLACK CARD LOUNGE

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

HOT JAVA COFFEE ROASTING

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

San Jose.

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

CAFFE FRASCATI

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

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

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

CITY ESPRESSO

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

BOGART’S LOUNGE

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

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

GALAXY

BOSWELL’S

GILROY BOWL

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

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

PACIFIC MAMBO ORCHESTRA

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DMN Ology @ Cypher CHICAGO’S DMN OLOGY has been spelling his name about six different ways since he came up in the Chicago scene in the early ’90s. It’s not so much that he’s into Satan—although devils and demons do pop up in the imagery of his songs—it’s that “Demon” was Johnny V’s his nickname growing up, a play on his real name “Damien.” When he started rapping, he was looking Wed., Feb. 29 for a good MC name and liked how “Demonology,” in this case, implied a certain amount of self-examination.

9pm; $5 It also fits with the alchemist style of his almost streamof-consciousness raps. Nor is music the only flow he’s known for—he’s also one of Chicago’s best graffiti artists, who tagged many a “Demon” on the routes of the Transit Authority. Now, he’s gone legit, painting murals in his trademark “wild onion” style and getting invited to galleries around the country and internationally, but he still organizes the global graffiti summit Meeting of Styles. He’ll headline the list of guest artists this week at the “Leap Year Edition” of the Cypher open-mic night, along with Self Destruct and Ackrite.—Steve Palopoli

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond.

San Jose.

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

KYOTO PLACE

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

Sunnyvale.

Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

A PERFECT FINISH

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

LIQUID Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

MOJO LOUNGE

RED STAG LOUNGE

Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am.

San Jose.

Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

JOHNNY V’S Sun: Sunday Funday. Karaoke. No cover. San Jose.

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

Campbell.

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

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE & GERALD CLAYTON

JAMIE DAVIS QUINTET

PEACOCK LOUNGE

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

JERSEYS

San Pedro Square, Downtown San Jose

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

GRACE KELLY FULL SCHEDULE AT

SANJOSEJAZZ.ORG

RUPA & THE APRIL FISHES SAN PEDRO SQUARE CLUB CRAWL Fri-Sat, March 9-10, 9pm–Midnight 71 Saint Peter The Brit La Piñata Los Gatos Brewing Company The MmooN Empanadas

O’Flaherty’s Irish Pub Old Wagon Saloon & Grill San Pedro Bistro & Wine Satori Tea Company

ROSIE MCCANN’S OFF THE HOOK Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

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

Santana Row.

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F R E E daytime Sat & Sun, March 10 &11 activities Evergreen Valley High School, 3300 Quimby Rd. San Jose Visit www.sbgs.org for schedule.

--------------------------------------------------------------------Two 8PM virtuoso classical guitar concerts staged at Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. 5th St. downtown San Jose tickets: $30/25/15 on-line or call 408 292-0704 susanmcdonald.eventbrite.com mattpalmer.eventbrite.com

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

RUDYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PUB Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

THE ELEGANT PUB

SHERWOOD INN

Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Checo.

Evergreen Inn, San Jose.

Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

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

Sunnyvale.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

BRIX Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays.

Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

TOUCHDOWN TOMMYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

C&Jâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SPORTS BAR

Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke.

San Jose.

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

Santa Clara.

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

Santa Clara.

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

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

Dance Clubs AGENDA

Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays.

Thu, 9pm:The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Seductive. $10. Sat, 9pm: Fame. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry.

Tue: College Night. San Jose.

Thu, 10pm: DJ Aaron E. San Jose.

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

WOODHAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE

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JOHNNY Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Wed: The Cypher. Hip-hop open mic. Thu: Thumpinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Thursdays.

Sat: Dance party with DJ Creeper. San Jose.

LILLY MACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night.

Sunnyvale.

CARDIFF LOUNGE Sun, 10pm: The 45 Sessions.

Campbell.

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

CLUB ILLUSIONS Thu: College night. First and third Fri: Fuz Fridays. Sat: Club Starz. Ages 14-18 only. Palo Alto.

CLUBHOUSE

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

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

DASILVAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BRONCOS

AVALON

DIVE BAR

Sat: Mumbai Salsa. Desi Latino Bollywood party. Santa Clara.

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

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

MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE

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

Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy.

San Jose.

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

AZĂ&#x161;CAR 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.

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

BBC GASTROPUB

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FLIPPER SF heroes play with basically every member of the Dead Kennedys except Jello Biafra. Mar 2 at the New Parish.

ESG

Fri: DJs. Menlo Park.

South Bronx disco pioneers play special show with all four Scroggins sisters. Mar 3 at Mezzanine.

THE BLANK CLUB

CLOUD NOTHINGS

Thu, 9pm: Atomic with DJ Basura. $10. San Jose.

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

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

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Thu: VJ mixing with DJ BenofďŹ cial. Fri, 10pm: DJ Christiano Intrigue. Sat, 10pm: DJ Aaron-E. San Jose.

Cleveland band ditches pop for darker feel on acclaimed album â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Attack on Memory.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mar 3 at Bottom of the Hill.

ANDREW W.K. Once a bloody-nosed party animal, now the most unpredictable man in rock. Mar 6 at the Regency Ballroom.

CEREMONY From the suburbs of Rohnert Park to Matador Records, innovative hardcore masters play free in-store. Mar 6 at Amoeba SF.

More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.

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off its new lineup at the Blank Saturday.

The Bang A LOT HAS happened to Derek See in the last year. It’s been about that long since the Bang, the girl-group band he started with his partner Angeline King broke up.

“There was a lot of turmoil,” he says about the lineup at the time, with different members pushing for different directions. He and King wanted to eventually restart the band, but they didn’t Blank Club want to rush it.

“We took a little bit of time off,” says See. “We thought a lot about how we were going to approach it when we regrouped.”

Sat., March 3 9pm; $8

And indeed, the Bang 2.0 is quite a bit different than its predecessor. Now, instead of three girl singers up front, there are two—King and new addition Rachel Mae Havens—but the whole band sings, as well. Richard Gutierrez has joined on drums, with Jafar Green holding down the basslines.

Perhaps the biggest change musically, however, is the addition of a co-lead guitarist in Alison Green (of the all-girl Kinks tribute band the Minks). It’s a surprising change, since See’s guitar is synonymous with the sound of the Bang, but he says he couldn’t be happier. “It allows me to play more how I want to.

Trying to play horn parts and keyboard parts, it was exhausting,” See admits.

The retro-’60s style of the band is the same—“still guys in suits and women in minis,” as he puts it. But the sound has noticeably expanded. “I think we have a lot more dynamic range now,” he says. “There’s still that garage-y drive behind everything, but we can be more subtle.”

They’re still doing the covers they’re known for, like “Be My Baby” and “I’m a Good Woman,” and have been writing new songs, too. Not to mention that See and King got married in September, although that hasn’t had a big effect on their music. “We really try not to be a couple when we’re doing band things,” he says.—Steve Palopoli SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Wed: Wingy Tango night.

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

STEPHEN’S GREEN Thu, 11pm: DJ Ulises. Fri, 10pm: DJ Cesar. Sat, 10pm:

Vibe Saturdays.

Saturdays Mountain View.

STUDIO8 Fri: Dre Sinatra. Sat: DJ Greg Lopez. San Jose.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE Wed: RedRun. Thu: JazBiz and Dave Dynamix. Fri: Video Mixing, then DJ Radio Raheem and DJ Ready Rock.

San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJs. San Jose.

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

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

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Topical Thunder HERE’S THE RUB Daniel Kosmal, president of Doc Green’s Healing Collective, found a niche market in the medical cannabis industry by releasing a line of marijuana infused topical lotions.

A new trend in medical marijuana finds pain relief in targeted lotions

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S THE CLIENTELE of medical marijuana collectives grows, operators are noticing a new niche market: patients who want the therapeutic relief of getting high without feeling high.

Sticky and stinky buds as well as increasingly popular “concentrates,” such as bubble hash or honey hash oil, continue to be the most common method of ingestion—set fire, inhale.

Edibles, or “Medibles,” have long been the only alternative to smoking, but the ubiquitous marijuana-infused brownies, cookies and candies have their own drawbacks.

Many “canna-foods” are made by infusing the essential components of cannabis—Tetrahydrocannabinol

(THC) and other cannabinoids— into regular butter and then using that “canna-butter” to impart its medicinal properties into the end product.

Edibles are perishable, though, meaning that the quality of both taste and effectiveness diminish fairly rapidly, depending on variables such as packaging, handling and storage environment.

Equally inconsistent, dosages can be imprecise from product-to-product, producer-to-producer.

Recently, however, an emerging trend is topicals, which patients and providers say can offer relief without the reek. “We are seeing more and more new patients coming in because they have heard about different ways to get relief from cannabis, other than smoking” says SFBay THC’s Dr. Rita Thakur, who prescribes cards in Milpitas.

Thakur says that not only are new patients who have never smoked using this alternative but that other lifelong smokers are also finding that the topical forms of medical cannabis, or lotions, can provide more targeted relief.

Doc Green’s Healing Collective produces a line of healing creams featured at several South Bay dispensaries. “Our topical lotions are one of the best examples of the medicinal qualities of cannabis,” says Daniel Kosmal, president of Doc Green’s. “You don’t get high from the lotion, but you will experience nearly instant pain relief if rubbed on the joints for arthritis or into muscles to relieve soreness and cramps.”

Jose–based company One San Jose–bas to taking a different approach ap marijuana’s beneficial serving up marijuan Tetra Labs, creator cannabinoids is Tetr Sublingual Spray. The of Goldmist Subling the vast majority product removes th and impurities to of plant material an produce one of the purest forms of medicinal cannabis on the market. amber-colored extracts The amber-colore are available in gel ccap and oil sublingual spray is forms, but the subli receiving the most aattention from dispensaries. Tetra cclaims that a cinnamon-flavored spritz of the cinnam mist under the tongue allows the user to know within 15 minutes whether or not their dosage is sufficient for the desired effects.

Goldmist is also packaged in a discreet-looking spray mister which can be easily be tucked into a pocket or purse. This proves to be especially popular for “upscale” or “nontraditional” patients.

“Silicon Valley is doing what it has always done. It focuses on customers and builds businesses and business models around their needs,” says Vanessa Ellis, president of the Silicon Valley– based marketing firm the Velocity Group. “There is a large and diverse customer base for medical cannabis in the bay area and intense competition amongst providers.

That makes successes and failures happen more rapidly, which leads to better development of products and market segments.”

It appears the marketplace has found a way to make one of the oldest medicines in the world new again.—Simon Seidler

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