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You tell “black” jokes to anyone who is not of African descent, “Oriental” jokes to non-Asians, jokes about women to men, and so on. You are so obtuse that you don’t even realize people don’t engage you, all in the hopes that you’ll stop talking sooner. Guess what? By telling jokes about almost every demographic to just about everybody, you yourself become everybody’s joke, and it’s no laughing matter. Consider this your Friar’s Club roast. Wake up, dude, grab a vine and swing into the twenty-first century.

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Biting Material As an avid foodie I have yelped, walked and tried most of Downtown San Jose’s sandwiches. Nothing compares to a warm and crunchy sandwich. For the last three years, I have been a patron of all five of the

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Bottle Bust BITING BACK Atul Lall continues to criticize the SJPD, which arrested one of the men suspected of beating him in November. He says the real attackers are still free.

Arrest of assault suspects fails to quell controversy over attack investigation

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HERE ARE at least two sides to many stories, and in the assault against Atul Lall, one comes from a bitter victim of violent crime, while the other emerges from a defensive police department.

According to Lall, police lend more credence to his assailants’ drunken recollections.

On Nov. 21, Lall was driving home from an East Side Lucky grocery store when he was pulled from his car and beaten until several teeth jangled in his mouth and his jaw was broken. He says his unprovoked attackers hit him with a tequila bottle and called him a terrorist, while punching and pouring liquor on him, which led police to

classify the incident as a hate crime.

Last week, police announced the arrest of two suspects, based on an anonymous tip received Feb. 24. The District Attorney’s office charged one of the two suspects, Emilio Romayor, 21, with a felony count of assault with a deadly weapon, with enhancements for inflicting “great bodily injury” with a bottle of tequila. The other suspect, arrested and later released without charges, is Emilio’s older brother, Rogelio, 23.

The District Attorney’s office chose not to upgrade the charges to a hate crime, as silent and blurry video surveillance suggested that a parking-lot traffic dispute caused the incident. Both suspects contended that Lall came close to hitting Rogelio when backing out of a parking space and struck Emilio’s leg when fleeing the scene.

The Romayors also admitted in the investigative report that they were blacked-out drunk and don’t

remember much of what happened before or after the incident.

Although media coverage has suggested closure with the apprehension of the confessed attackers, Lall feels nothing close to pleased.

He says he has been victimized yet again, claiming that the suspect charged—still in custody as of press time—only held his car door open as Romayor’s accomplices did the real damage.

“I don’t know why he has any credibility,” Lall says. “Police are covering up their tracks, because I might sue them for negligence.”

Lall continues to doubt police—he awaits findings from a complaint filed with the Independent Police Auditor’s office for what he saw as negligence by investigators—and he claims that Emilio Romayor’s confession as the lone attacker is being accepted at face value for the sake of expediency. Or, he suggests, the suspect could be trying to protect accomplices from punishment.

Meanwhile, police officers involved in the case find themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to defend not only their procedures but also the arrest of someone who was

Prior Arrest Three men were with Emilio Romayor the night he’s accused of attacking Lall. Half of the quartet—Emilio and Rogelio Romayor—were arrested three years ago and charged with kicking and slashing a man’s face after a dispute in Marin County.

According to the investigative report of Lall’s case, two of the four suspects include a man named Michael Manders, who hasn’t been charged, and another referred to only as Alexander.

In the report, Det. Villanueva writes that Rogelio Romayor told him, “The

only person that might have” called Lall a terrorist “was Alexander because he is a former Marine and did a tour of duty in Afghanistan.”

Both brothers said in the crime report that they thought Lall was of Asian descent, instead of Indian, and that Emilio Romayor was the only person to attack him. In the report, though, the only fingerprint police found on the tequila bottle— located in Lall’s car weeks after the incident—matched that of Rogelio Romayor.

At the end of February, fed up with no leads or suspects when calling police for updates, Lall and a friend canvassed the area near the attack and circulated flyers that featured the police sketch.

On March 1, Lall Emilio Romayor says he and his friend received a tip—the name “Emilio”—from a man in exchange for a few cigarettes.

The Romayor brothers were arrested the next day, but not based on Lall’s canvassing, according to police.

“I specifically asked [Capt. Jeff Marozick] about that lead, and that wasn’t what cracked the case,” says Sgt. Jason Dwyer. “The tip had nothing to do with Atul Lall.”

As much as Lall is unsure of the police, law enforcement officials have their own hesitations about his ability to recall some events that night, including how he fled the scene. The Romayors claim Lall intentionally struck Emilio Romayor with his car after making a U-turn to follow them toward the parking-lot exit. Lall says his only goal was to escape, and he doesn’t know if he hit him or not.

The controversy between Lall and SJPD is awkward on all levels, even for San Jose Councilmember Rose Herrera, who offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.

“First of all, I want to say I’m glad there was an arrest. I credit the police department for that,” Herrera says. “I don’t know if we’ll ever know what exactly happened there, but apparently the [district] attorney felt there was enough evidence to feel comfortable to charge a crime. The bottom line is this: My residents are safer because this guy’s off the streets.”

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clearly involved in the attack.

“Our victim has made it very clear he feels we didn’t respond to his case adequately,” says SJPD spokesman Sgt. Jason Dwyer. “Our response is we’ve done everything humanly possible—we held a press conference, the detective has been working this case nonstop.

“To have an admission and letter of apology, I think we’re doing OK. I firmly believe we’ve satisfied our responsibility of finding who assaulted him, and we’re still not finished.”

Police released a sketch of one of the suspects at a Feb. 6 press conference. Afterward, Lall held court with reporters about what he perceived as missteps in the investigation. Chief of Police Chris Moore defended his department’s work and said communication with the victim was the only error.

Only a week later, when talking to Metro, Lall said that the detective on his case, Michael Villanueva, and other members of SJPD told him to thank Mayor Chuck Reed for budget cuts that slowed law enforcement’s response time.

“I’ve been put through hell by the SJPD and literally had to put my life on hold for three months,” Lall says. “I’ve had terrible nightmares, paranoia in public places, tons of chest/stomach pain and breathing complications due to anxiety attacks.

It’s pretty sad that most of the stress wasn’t just because of assault, but because of the way the SJPD handled my case. If there is in fact something funny going on at the SJPD, and if in fact there are incompetent cops on the force, then that’s a problem for our city, and I think the public should know about it.”

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BY BRENDAN NYSTEDT

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phones. Jobs felt the sting of betrayal as iPhone features were shamelessly copied and put into Android phones. A tense meeting between Schmidt and Jobs in Palo Alto showed there might be resolution, but Google, with significant market share in the booming mobile phone space, was understandably unwilling to meet his demands. The players who once were bosom buddies were now frenemies at best. Jobs practically placed a curse on Google with his dying breath, famously telling biographer Walter Isaacson he was ready to go “thermonuclear war” on Google’s ass.

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In fact, at the iPhone introduction, Schmidt said that the Internet had allowed Apple and Google to “merge without merging.” When Apple decided to do without Adobe’s Flash software in the iPhone’s OS, Google did Apple a favor and transcoded the library of YouTube videos into MP4 format, enabling Apple’s devices to access the world’s largest video collection without the fussy, battery-eating Flash software.

Unfortunately, Google was also working on their own mobile OS, and the iPhone showed them the template for all future

Since then, Apple has, seemingly, kept Google at arm’s length. In court, Apple’s been trying to nail Samsung for its patent-infringing Android-based phones and tablets.

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Israeli President Peres Visits Facebook On his tour of the United States, Israeli President Shimon Peres took some time to visit Facebook. During his tour, Peres stated that he is of the opinion that social media is

helping the Middle East gain more freedom, and hopes that services like Facebook will bring about peace in the unstable region. Previously, Peres hadn’t had a Facebook page, but he’s started one today, posting a message on his wall which was rapidly liked by thousands around the world. He sat down with Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg to answer questions about a range of topics, including Israel’s stance on Iran.

Israel has a vested interest in the Silicon Valley. Companies like Intel have helped to shape Israel by employing Israeli engineers. Most famously, Intel’s Mideast team greatly aided the development of the last few generations of Core, Core2 and Core i families of processors. Given the amount of college-educated workers that Israel boasts in the computer field, Peres hopes that this visit to the Bay Area will result in continuing relations between valley companies and Israel.

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After all its troubles have settled, HP will have to deal with the fact that it’s a company that needs to refocus. CEO Meg Whitman has stated that she’s not going to settle for mediocrity.

As part of her renewal plans, there’s a new corporate website set to be implemented later on this month, including an improved, streamlined shopping experience. In a letter sent to HP employees, project “Atlas” was detailed in brief:

Thanks to the efforts of our colleagues in IT, Operations and the HP Shopping Team, the new U.S. Home & Home Office consumer store is launching. The Employee Purchase Program site is now live and the official launch for general customers will happen later in March.

Code-named “Atlas,” it is the foundation of a new HP.com experience, with more visual content, more product information and better navigation. The new platform will enable our HP.com teams to bring products to market faster and make it easier to buy from HP.com.

It’s a start to what might be the most difficult rebranding any computer company has gone through since Apple in 1997. Whereas Apple always had the creative market to lean on (leading to the “Think Different” campaign), HP may have a harder time playing up a seemingly absent specialty. One thing is for certain though: A website does not a brand

Every year, before the California spring rolls around, the Bay Area uproots and makes its way over to Austin, Texas, for a celebration of technology and culture. The issue?

Nothing happens in the Silicon Valley while the technology world is away. Work stops. Development slows down. All eyes turn to what has become an the singular yearly event where media and tech are inextricable and omnipresent. South

By Southwest is a litmus test for what might be the next popular services, apps and media—not to mention bands, films and television.

A few years back, the amount of data being transferred from smartphones crippled AT&T’s wireless network in Austin (thanks, iPhone users).

This is also the scene where Twitter became the social media darling that it is today; SXSW was the testbed and petri dish for the cultivation of Twitter’s current popularity. Last year, Apple set up a temporary Apple Store in Austin with which to sell iPad 2s to the tech-obsessed masses attending the festival. Although it’s not in the Silicon Valley, the ripples and buzz created by SXSW have lasting effects on the tech industry this year, just as it has in every year past.

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SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics

WHAT’S YOUR SIGN? City workers in San Jose were furious last week when

the City Council decided to go forward with a ballot measure to curb pension and health benefit payouts to retirees.

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A Conversation About Public Negotiations DURING MY TENURE on the San Jose City Council, I have viewed the labor negotiation process between city staff and labor representatives, who meet behind closed doors, as simply maddening. Due to the closed-door nature of the meetings, it is clear that not enough information is shared with the public, employees, retirees and councilmembers.

Although the city does a good job posting documents on its website regarding proposals and correspondence from both sides, I believe many others would rather see the interaction of union officials and city staff in real time. Thus, I asked the Rules Committee on March 14 to support my recommendation to have the city and unions talk about this issue with the hope that both parties will agree to move forward and allow these meetings to be public.

The current process contributes to misinformation, which then results in ill will and hurt feelings all around. Why continue with the same process that drives people nuts? Public negotiations would open up the process so that we could avoid posturing, brinkmanship and

emotional pain. This would help restore trust for those who have become disillusioned.

Last year, the Association of Legal Professionals (ALP), the city attorneys’ union, allowed councilmembers and the public the opportunity to attend their negotiations. As a result, I attended all but one of the numerous public negotiation meetings involving this union, and I was the only councilmember to do so. After listening to both sides, I could not disagree with many points raised by the union. Attending these meetings allowed me to receive unfiltered information.

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I believe open negotiations would do a lot to help the low public approval rating of unions. It would allow others to see what I saw while attending the attorney union negotiations. The model used by ALP in my view was a good one.

I have high respect for the city of San Jose labor-relations team, but I still desire a more open process to actually end labor conflict(s). This would not affect the mediation process, which is a confidential proceeding. However, mediation is just a fraction of the entire labor negotiation process.

The public already spoke once in November 2010 by voting for arbitration to be held as public meetings. This would simply be an extension of that desire for a visible process. Ideally, it is done by mutual consent, but if not we should allow the public to decide in a future election.

SLevers Excellent recommendation, Councilman Oliverio. I hope my councilman, Ash Kalra, will endorse your proposal.

Plain Truth Put it on the ballot, PLO. Take a stand and demand it. But don’t stop there. Illuminate all the city’s negotiations, especially any involving finances. Because as we’ve seen time and time again, money is the motivating factor behind everything.

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Our City Forest takes visitors on tours through the exotic trees of mystery at Rosicrucian Park in San Jose

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LONG TIME AGO, I visited Rosicrucian Park and learned about the Bunya pine trees located throughout the property. These trees feature huge cones that grow to the size of footballs and often fall onto the heads of passersby. A Rosicrucian told me they had to eventually install warning signs, instructing visitors not to disturb the trees, as they risk getting injured by the pine cones.

Well, thanks to Nancy Nordman of Our City Forest, a nonprofit

organization dedicated to the preservation of San Jose’s urban ecosystem, exotic tree tours of Rosicrucian Park are now offered.

From 2 to 3pm, every Saturday for the rest of March, the tours are free and anyone can attend.

First, some history: The Rosicrucians first emerged in San Jose in the late ’20s. The original Imperator Harvey Spencer Lewis traveled to Toulouse, France, in 1909, where he was initiated into esoteric traditions supposedly going all the way back to Akhenaton’s time in ancient Egypt.

According to Lewis’ writings, ancient Egyptians and Persians probably settled in the Toulouse area, brought esoteric teachings with them, instilled those teachings into that part of the world, and hence, everything you know about the history of southern France is wrong.

After being initiated in Toulouse, Lewis was given permission to launch the Rosicrucian tradition in America and eventually settled in San Jose to build Rosicrucian Park.

Today, that park is an exotic oasis amid suburbia, and Nordman plans to enlighten everyone about the menagerie of fauna highlighting the grounds. Nordman, who has a degree in ecology, evolution and biodiversity from UC-Davis, will reveal secrets about the olive tree (Olea europaea), a silver-colored tree known around the world as a symbol for peace.

She will also point out the Irish Yew (Taxus baccata), an ancient tree that lives thousands of years.

And of course, she will include the football-size cones of the Bunya Pine (Araucaria bidwillii), which is actually native to Queensland and is one of the most unique trees at the park.

“There’s tons of trees there, they’re close together and there’s a bunch of different species,” she tells me. “It’s a great opportunity for people to walk around and get a lot of knowledge all in one place.”

But she says it will be a conversational, informal type of tour. Attendees will not be overwhelmed with exotic concepts or terminology. No ritualistic initiations are necessary.

“I picked out the trees I thought were particularly exotic or particularly interesting that maybe people haven’t seen before,” she explains. “There are a surprising number of exotic trees all over San Jose that people probably don’t realize are exotic. For example, Rosicrucian Park has many palm trees, but you can see palm trees all over San Jose, but there are many others that you don’t see very frequently.”

For example, the Bunya pine is also known as the monkey puzzle tree. It is a very rare tree, which is why the knowledge should be preserved. Even better, Rosicrucian Park is easy to get to. Across the street, one discovers free parking— an exotic concept in San Jose, if ever there was one. So park your car and go get some tree knowledge.

“The basic goal is really to get people outside and to get people appreciating the urban forest because it really is such an important part of our urban city that tends to go unnoticed sometimes,” declares Nordman. “San Jose is really trying to adopt a green vision right now, so we really want to support that and help people appreciate the trees and want to be around the trees more.”

To me, this makes sense. I have always viewed what I call the “San Jose Condition” as a harmonious tension between urban and suburban, between native and exotic. Rosicrucian Park exemplifies that harmony quite well. If San Jose just looks inside itself, it will find quite an interesting exotic ecosystem, right here at the suburban confines of Park and Naglee. I think Akhenaton and the Toulousains would be proud.

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HEN San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed terms out in a little more than two years, the roster of prospective mayoral candidates ranges somewhere between a couple and a couple too many, depending on who assesses the field. Invariably, in every discussion, two names pop up: San Jose Councilmember Sam Liccardo and Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese.

It’s difficult to understand why either man would want the job.

The pay only slightly exceeds that of the 10 councilmembers, and the rancor between San Jose’s workforce

and its city administration hovers somewhere between gangrenous and toxic. The position is a political dead end, too. No one since Norman Mineta, who held the office four decades ago, has gone on to higher office.

After a decade of budget shortfalls in San Jose, city workers took an across-the-board pay cut last summer, and dozens of police officers were laid off—an inglorious first in the department’s history.

Libraries limited access by cutting back days and hours. Community centers and a police substation that were built with more than $100 million in taxpayer bond money have yet to open their doors.

This summer, Mayor Reed’s controversial pension-reform ballot measure goes to the voters.

The strategy to opt out of labor

negotiations is bold—and littered with legal pitfalls. But the pension crisis is real.

An unfunded liability of hundreds of millions threatens to send San Jose on the trail to bankruptcy. The future deficit changes depending on the day and which interest group does the math, but most agree that the red ink to support the city of San Jose’s retirees will fall somewhere between $300 and $400 million by fiscal year 2015–16.

Reed has tied his legacy as mayor to pension reform, and he has no choice but to stay the course in his final two years in office. If he succeeds in scaling back the city’s pension and health benefit contributions, whoever is elected mayor in 2014 has an opportunity to lead that hasn’t been afforded to anyone at City Hall since the days

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of Tom McEnery. During the 1980s, McEnery led the transformation of a forgotten downtown into one with hotels, modern offices, museums and entertainment venues, though it still struggles to establish itself as an urban residential and retail center.

With a slowly improving national economy and Silicon Valley’s dramatic recent job growth, even without the San Jose Redevelopment Agency, a cautious sense of optimism

Both Sam and Dave, the betting crowd’s two obvious contenders in the 2014 race for mayor of San Jose, seem to be struck from the same mold. percolates about the city’s future, and mayoral aspirants appear hungry to capitalize on Reed’s stewardship through tough times.

Both Sam and Dave, the betting crowd’s two obvious contenders, seem to be struck from the same mold. Both are of Sicilian descent and were born to established Santa Clara Valley gentry, to accomplished dads who’d made names for themselves in the valley.

Both graduated from Bellarmine College Preparatory school, an allboys academy that’s pretty much a factory for valley judges, political leaders and prominent developers, including the billionaire Sobratos.

Both Liccardo and Cortese are attorneys, and both will have served two terms on the City Council as of 2014.

Once one gets beyond ethnicity, schooling, class and career, the similarities end. Cortese is a product of the valley’s conversion from

orchards to sprawling suburbia; Liccardo is an urbanist and alternative-transportation wonk.

Liccardo has aligned himself with San Jose’s business community and Reed’s pension-reform bloc, while Cortese, since losing out in the mayoral primary six years ago, has cozied up to organized labor.

The business vs. union divide will likely define the 2014 election, and millions will be spent in pursuit of the office.

The Stickler Even in his romantic life, Liccardo is a stickler for the rules. While charismatic and tall, dark and handsome, he is also a complete nerd.

Ten weeks into his first term as a San Jose city councilman, Liccardo, who is unmarried, fell in love with his chief of staff.

While office affairs might not matter in some workplaces, discreet relationships in the political arena have a decorated history of public relations disasters. Cupid’s arrows derailed a promising political career in 2002, when Mayor Ron Gonzales confessed in a press conference to an extramarital affair with one of his interns while hiding it from even his closest aides.

But in early 2007, love was yet again in the air at City Hall, and Liccardo had his eye on Jessica Garcia-Kohl.

“About two and half months in I professed my undying love,” Liccardo says with a sheepish smile, pausing to recall the nerve-wracking moment. “And she said, ‘No, I like my job.’” Garcia-Kohl wasn’t so sure she wanted to give up her job for a relationship that might not last.

Liccardo ruined any intrigue by doing things by the book. “You can have all the facts, but if I know the rules, I’ll beat you every time,” Liccardo recalls a professor telling him during his law school days at Harvard.

He persisted, and Kohl-Garcia gave in. At Liccardo’s insistence, the couple went to see newly sworn-in Mayor Reed to disclose the unfolding relationship.

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Madison Nguyen Felipe Buitrago

Madison Nguyen, 36, fits the new profile of a progressive big city mayor: young, ambitious, attractive—not white. But the base of support for San Jose’s vice mayor is suspect following an embarrassing 2009 recall election over the naming of a Vietnamese business district.

Nguyen escaped the recall, but some insiders suggest her alliances were decimated in the process.

“The Asian American community base is so splintered and half of it is very negative,” says Dean Munro, a former City Hall staffer. “If Madison is serious about this, I think she’s delusional. She’s a woman, and that does distinguish her.

But I would think if there’s a moderately crowded primary, she gets 10-15 percent of the vote.”

Despite having the support of public safety and labor unions when she was first elected, Nguyen’s alignment with Reed on pension reform may have pushed her into political no-man’s land if she intends to run for mayor of San Jose in 2014.

“She’s completely eviscerated the base that she has,” says political consultant Rich Robinson. “She’s toxic in some areas of the Vietnamese community. The only reason she won the recall is because the Latinos voted for her through the South Bay Labor Council.”

But former county supervisor Rod Diridon Sr. says those opinions might be a little shortsighted by the time the next election cycle rolls around. “People just look at her and say she’s just a little lady, but let me tell you—the Asian population in the valley is coming into its own. It’s going to be a much bigger player in the next election.”

Nguyen has yet to make any public comments about running for mayor, and part of that is due to the focus she and her husband, Teri, have had on their baby girl, who was born in February.

“I’ve also heard she may be interested,” says Pat Dando, who ran for mayor in 1998. “But having a young child, her priorities might start to change.”

before we had barely held hands, he wanted to go talk to the mayor,” Kohl-Garcia says. “I wasn’t ready to pursue anything, because I enjoyed working for him so much. I’m thinking, ‘I don’t even know if we’re going to be talking in two weeks, why would I want to make this public?’ We hadn’t even kissed. But

that’s his ethical side.”

Kohl-Garcia soon moved over to the mayor’s office, and Liccardo found a new chief of staff in Ragan Henninger.

Aside from one notable indiscretion, in which Liccardo

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Sam Liccardo went from putting rapists and child abusers in jail to navigating the tricky political waters in San Jose’s downtown District 3. accepted tickets to a San Jose Sharks game (which is curiously impermissible, according to city rules, because public officials can accept free tickets to any event as long as it’s not sports-related), his ethical conduct has been consistent.

But that hasn’t always made him popular or politically savvy.

In the last year, Liccardo took several positions that he saw as principled while others wondered whether he was a step out of touch.

When the City Council had the chance to regulate the budding medical marijuana industry in San Jose, Liccardo shirked the opportunity to lead and sided with the council majority by instituting an arbitrary cap of 10 on collectives.

Liccardo pleaded ignorance on how to handle the situation—a surprise coming from someone who left the U.S. Attorney’s office in San Diego because he felt the war on drugs was ineffective.

Last spring, when police and firefighters agreed to take a 10 percent pay cut, Liccardo was the

lone person on the council to vote against the deal, because he said the concessions didn’t go far enough to solve the city’s budget woes.

Having already aligned himself with Mayor Reed’s public employee pension-reform push, Liccardo’s posturing only further enraged angry police officers and firefighters.

Further criticism came when he joined Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen and Councilmembers Pete Constant, Rose Herrera and Pierluigi Oliverio in supporting Mayor Reed’s fiscal emergency declaration.

But halfway through his second term, Liccardo, 41, has toed the line adeptly during his six years in office.

His missteps have been relatively undamaging, and he has picked up numerous allies while representing the downtown district interests.

He sits in a good position to slide over a few seats to the middle of the council dais, where the mayor of the nation’s 10th largest city sits. And Liccardo no longer acts coy about his interest in the job.

“A few years ago I would have said

hell no,” he says, “but there’s a really good chance.”

The Mediator Cortese ducked phone calls for more than a month before agreeing to an interview and couldn’t accommodate an in-person meeting, a rarity for a local elected office holder.

Now, he’s finally on the phone.

The deadline for candidates to file for this summer’s Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors race is 10 minutes away, and by the time we hang up, he will learn he has an unopposed road to re-election.

It’s an enviable position to be in, and clearly a weight off the 55-yearold’s shoulders. Cortese has time to figure out what comes next in his political career, which to date has mirrored the path his father took. Dom Cortese, the patriarch, eventually went on to serve eight terms in the California State Assembly. Despite signs that he will be the labor-anointed candidate for mayor in 2014, Cortese’s insists he

isn’t so sure.

“I literally don’t know. I have strong interest to do that job. Maybe a couple years ago ... ,” he says, his voice trailing off. “I just really haven’t revisited it any kind of way. I could just as easily say no as yes.”

But Cortese does revisit the matter during our conversation, and the plodding baritone in his voice softens as he speaks about what went wrong in his bid to become San Jose’s mayor five years ago.

Clearly, the defeat still stings a little.

“Campaigns are always hard, win or lose,” he says. “The campaigning itself is satisfying, but you’re putting yourself out there and there’s a lot of discomfort that comes along as well.

Losing is never really fun.

“I have a poll sitting in front of me saying I was the frontrunner,” he sighs.

Here, for the first time, Cortese has just tilted his hand. He swears he never brings up the topic of running for mayor in San Jose; others do.

But who keeps a souvenir from the only defeat he has ever known in his political career, within an arm’s reach of his county office desk, unless it serves as much as a reminder as a motivator.

“Sometimes when you’re a frontrunner, you take a lot of spin and a lot of flack from people that are for somebody else,” Cortese says. “It’s very important to listen to that kind of feedback and take it seriously, and at the same time, continue to be yourself.”

But pinning Cortese down on a position can be tough.

“I think he sees himself as a mediator, but most generally he mediated in favor of labor issues,” says Pat Dando, who served on the council with Cortese for four years before working with Liccardo during her tenure as the San Jose/Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce’s CEO. “One thing with Liccardo,” Dando observes, “is he seems to tackle a problem and try to find a solution and gets on with it. And he does that through a lot of community outreach and working with the particular group that has an interest in the policy.

“On the other hand, Cortese, he can study an issue to death—which has its value, but you also get to the point

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Laurie Smith Almost no one expects Laurie Smith to run for mayor in 2014, but by all accounts the Santa Clara County sheriff would be the toughest candidate to beat. Smith has allies in public safety, labor and business, and she has a proven track record as an administrator since being elected by a landslide in 1998.

In addition to her experience, Smith meshes well with moderates and conservatives. She would also have an advantage as one of the few—if only— women on the ticket in a male-dominated field. Add to that the fact that locking up bad guys is a popular activity and Smith has yet to disappoint anyone with a controversial vote at the council or county level. We’re starting to wonder what’s stopping her.

where you’ve got to get to a decision and move on. And rather than alienate, Cortese might try to mediate to the point where no one is happy with the decision.”

“I’ve cast thousands of votes since I’ve been on the City Council; there alone close to 16,000 votes, and I never abstained,” Cortese says. “If somebody wants to say I couldn’t decide or something like that, I think they should point to the record.”

But when asked about his proudest accomplishments on the council, Cortese stammers before pointing to his “Just Cause Eviction” ordinance, which successfully offered a compromise to battling apartment tenants and landlords but hardly inspires voters.

The end of Gonzales’ tenure as mayor stalled progress on other issues, Cortese says, not mentioning that he penned the letter asking the DA to investigate the mayor, which led to Gonzales’ indictment.

At the county Board of supervisors, where he served as board president last year, Cortese offers fewer accomplishments of his work, aside from a work plan for School-Linked Services and some development work on a hospital site.

According to several people who

worked with Cortese during his time on the San Jose City Council and now at the Board of Supervisors, Cortese the man and Cortese the politician are intractably linked.

As one colleague, who asked not to be named, puts it, “Cortese’s shortcoming is what you see on the dais is what you see off. That’s his liability—those relationships, he doesn’t have a lot deeper. Superficial might not be the word, but that’s the relationship he has with a lot of folks.”

It’s an assessment repeated several times over by a sample of Cortese’s current and former colleagues.

Cortese’s reputation is that of a political middleman, a mediator.

He observes, calculates risk and, as a recent article in the Mercury News suggested, muddles his way through the gray area—not always a successful strategy.

A prime example of Cortese getting lost in the fog came in his 2006 mayoral interviews. “When Cortese ran against Chuck Reed and others for mayor six years ago, I think he lacked the support of both the chamber and organized labor,” says Carl Guardino, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and a friend of both Liccardo and

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Cortese.

“He tried to split the difference so much between the two in his oral and written interviews [with labor and the chamber] that the concern was he was trying to please both so much that he lost them both.”

Cortese says he may be guilty at times of pushing too often for compromise, but he argues that the mayoral deck was stacked against him from the start, with the South Bay Labor Council backing exemployee Cindy Chavez and the chamber backing Michael Mulcahy and then Reed.

“If I went back and did it again, there’s nothing I could have done even if I wanted to,” he says. “There was nothing I could have done to pry the labor support from Cindy.

The chamber endorsement—that was a three-way race. They decided to go off in their own direction.”

Cortese’s base in that race consisted of friends and family, cops and firefighters, bail bondsmen and construction and development companies—which altogether

helped him to a fourth-place finish and just 16 percent of the vote.

A year later, according to campaign disclosure forms, Cortese’s alliances increased with a surge of labor support as he ran for a county supervisor seat.

Unions for big agriculture, nurses, plumbers, painters, engineers, machinists, probation officers, Teamsters as well as AFSCME and AFL-CIO, among others, all threw $1,000 maximum contributions Cortese’s way, helping him coast to a seat on the board.

Cortese also had support from business leaders, but a larger chunk came from organized labor. Cortese was committed to not letting history repeat itself.

Gift of Gab Liccardo had a big mouth as a kid, which is not uncommon for the baby in many families—or future attorneys. The youngest of five siblings, Liccardo inherited the gift of gab from his father, Sal—a

personal injury attorney—and then went about putting it to good use at parochial school.

Skipping kindergarten and immediately entering school as a first grader, Liccardo was younger and smaller than his classmates until a growth spurt in high school.

Speaking up was his only way to gain stature, but he says it usually resulted in him getting pummeled or spending hours in detention with other talkative prepsters at Bellarmine.

“I think Bellarmine gets a bad rap for being an elitist institution,” Liccardo says. When that argument fails to gain traction, he relents.

“There’s a bit of a Bellarmine mafia in San Jose, and whatever reputation it has, it’s probably well deserved.”

Liccardo went from Bellarmine to Georgetown to Harvard—he received a law degree and a master’s in public policy—and then to the U.S Attorney’s Office in San Diego, where he became the youngest prosecutor on staff.

“It made it possible to avoid working for a law firm,” he says in a nod to his father, whose office is located in the wealthy enclave of Saratoga. When Liccardo moved back from San Diego to prosecute sexual assaults and child-abuse cases for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, he settled in rentfree into his grandfather’s North San Jose home.

In his only true election, back in 2006, Liccardo beat out laborendorsed former State Assemblyman Manny Diaz. In 2010, Liccardo ran unopposed, cloaking any allegiances as he raised a total of $62.

Once a week, Liccardo crosses Santa Clara Street from City Hall and walks to Horace Mann Elementary School, where he tutors a fourth-grader named Omar for 45 minutes. (Liccardo also teaches a political science class at San Jose State University.)

Shy, yet wearing his hair in a fauxhawk, Omar reads at a secondgrade level, which why he is enrolled in the “1,000 Hearts for 1,000 Minds” program Liccardo helped create with council colleagues.

“This school was opened back around World War II,” Liccardo says as we walk into the core of the school

campus. “That’s why it looks like an old army barracks. But that’s probably a good thing with some of the stuff that happens around here.” A few feet from the school’s parking lot entrance, a filthy sleeping bag was left stained and sprawled on the sidewalk.

The downtown vista isn’t always pretty, but it has shaped policymakers who tune in to San Jose’s hardscrabble realities.

‘There’s a bit of a Bellarmine mafia in San Jose,’ Liccardo says, ‘and whatever reputation it has, it’s probably well deserved.’

“Any downtown councilmember is always viewed as mayoral timber,” says Dean Munro, who served as chief of staff for McEnery in addition to working on the staffs of Reed and former mayor and U.S. congressman Norm Mineta. “McEnery, David Pandori, [Susan] Hammer, Chavez— not all were successful, but all of them were serious candidates, because of who they represented and the visibility.”

Crops to Caucuses To say that Cortese had it all from day one would be a stretch, mainly because an heir has to work diligently to keep an asset-rich legacy producing when passed down among generations. The Corteses have a deep heritage in the Evergreen area, starting with Cortese’s grandfather, Vincent, who like many Italian immigrants made his wealth from sprawling farms and orchards.

Cortese and his siblings spent nearly every summer day picking

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Ash Kalra Early last year, it would have been easy to add Ash Kalra to the list of potential mayoral candidates in 2014. A former public defender with deep labor ties, Kalra was on the right track until he was arrested for DUI in May. Politicians have bounced back from bigger mistakes, but it appears Kalra is more interested in seeking a seat in the state legislature than sticking around San Jose. If Dave Cortese decides to not run for mayor in two years, though, forget everything we said and look for Kalra—a fierce critic of Mayor Reed’s pension reform plan—to be at the top of labor’s ticket.

Enhance Enha ance your FUTURE! fruit during harvest time, he says.

“We didn’t go on summer vacations.

We went to school and went to work, seven days a week.”

When they weren’t working in the orchards, the Cortese kids were supporting dad’s public service, which familiarized Cortese at a young age to the political chops and public-safety friendships that nurture a political career. (Firefighters have always been his political bread and butter.)

When his grandfather retired in the mid-’80s, Cortese returned to the family business, handling finances (his focus at UC Davis).

The family was considering converting one of its 18 acres of apricot orchards into an apartment complex, in accordance with the city’s general plan, Cortese says. He was the most qualified Cortese—not holding political office—for the job. Under Cortese’s direction, the family’s business portfolio expanded to a shopping mall and apartment complexes.

“There were half a dozen different business entities that I ran for the better part of 15 years,” Cortese says.

Following in his father’s footsteps after graduating from Bellarmine in 1974, Cortese attended college and later earned his Juris Doctorate from Lincoln Law School in San Jose. He practiced law in a variety of fields before immersing himself

in civic affairs, joining groups such as the San Jose Rotary Club and other nonprofit boards. Realizing he had found his niche, in 1992 he successfully ran for his first political office to become an East Side Union High School District board member.

There are career politicians, and then there are people who are born politicians. With 20 years of experience, Cortese now falls into both groups.

Without ever receiving unsolicited advice, Cortese says, he learned from his father’s career, and at times his missteps.

In 1992, Dom was so excited to show a Metro reporter his passion for working at the Capitol that he conducted an impromptu faux meeting on the assembly floor, racing frantically around the empty room, acting out the roles of absent colleagues.

“Dom was part of the wimp caucus back in those days—basically progressive guys who didn’t have a lot of juice,” says Rich Robinson, a Silicon Valley political consultant of three decades. “He wasn’t a guy who could move legislation or move the agenda. He couldn’t raise any money. He wasn’t a player in Sacramento. He was a good vote for Democrats, but a couple times when they had to take out districts for reapportionment, he was the last

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guy on the totem pole.”

Watching the way party leaders dropped his father from commissions or consistently toyed with his district lines likely shaped Cortese’s political outlook, and his suspicious nature, which showed itself in the tentative way he approached agreeing to an interview.

“The son is more calculating, I guess, is the best way to put it,” Robinson says. “Because he’s calculating, he sometimes comes off as unprincipled or less than sincere.”

campaign dollars associated with any endorsement, Cortese sounds like he doesn’t want to enter the race as a cheerleader for only one team. For now, Cortese sounds like a man who wants to take two dates to the dance.

“Cortese will be backed by labor, but I think that’s a tricky thing,” Munro says. “Being identified by labor, at best, is a mixed blessing. They may be putting seven figures into a race, but the political wind is surely opposed to what labor stands for.”

The Big Stick

‘I think a mayor has to lead,’ Reed says. ‘The mayor has to represent all the people, and sometimes you have to say no to your friends and your supporters.’

In December, Cortese made an appearance outside of City Hall with labor leaders who denounced Mayor Reed’s pension-reform plan as an attack on city workers. Most observers took Cortese’s presence as a sign that the businessman from a land-owning family had swung completely to labor’s side, but Cortese says he never echoed or endorsed union complaints.

“I told the labor leaders to get back to the bargaining table, that’s what I told them out there,” he says.

“I didn’t get into right or wrong. I told them they need to get back to the table. I still believe that. I don’t think you ever stop negotiations when you have a festering problem.”

Though there will be plenty of

No one at San Jose’s City Hall appears to be particularly happy right now.

Employee morale has sunk as unionorchestrated complaints and lawsuits are underway against Mayor Reed, whose tactical approach in the last two years has been the stick, not the carrot.

“I think the mayor has to lead,” Reed says matter-of-factly as a grandfather clock chimes in his 18th floor office. “The mayor has to represent all the people, and sometimes you have to say no to your friends and your supporters.

And Cortese has always been more interested in sort of mediating things. Not that there’s anything wrong with mediation, but I don’t think the mayor can be a mediator.

There are times when you can possibly mediate something, but ultimately the mayor has to be a leader. And if you’re mediating, you’re not leading.”

Liccardo hasn’t exactly established himself as a brave and fearless leader on unpopular issues either. Until he independently raised the topic last year of mismanaged business incubators and what looked like a cover-up of $32 million wasted by the San Jose Redevelopment Agency, he’s pretty much subscribed to the conventional wisdom on downtown.

Liccardo admits that he didn’t challenge RDA project costs as much as he should have in his first term on the council. Even Liccardo’s partner, Garcia-Kohl, says she questioned his tenacity when the pair first met.

“I think what struck me first about Liccardo is he seemed to have a real long-term vision,” she says.

“He wasn’t interested in quick fixes and sexy solutions. But I remember going up to him after a meeting and

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With two years to go until the 2014 mayoral election, the field of candidates will certainly change—the primary for five City Council seats this year is still three months away. But a sampling of unlikely but why-the-hell-not candidates could include: former State Assmeblyman Joe Coto, who will likely lose out in his return bid against fellow Democrat Jim Beall; Scott Knies, San Jose Downtown Association’s executive director and deal broker; Pete Constant, a Chamber of Commerce-aligned former policeman; and Don Rocha, a councilman who has labor support and seems to be coming into his own.

saying, ‘I just don’t think you have the skin for this kind of game.’

“Little did I know about the DA in him; that is the one exception. As he’s been in it, he’s allowed his skin to get a lot thicker.”

Loosely mentored by McEnery and others, such as Downtown Association president Scott Knies, who pushed Liccardo to enter politics, the former prosecutor could have his eyes on positions other than mayor of San Jose. At 64, Zoe Lofgren (D–San Jose) is on the young fringe of the Bay Area’s delegation in Washington.

“Liccardo has always been a name thrown around, but I’ve also heard the little rumors of ‘Would you rather be a mayor of this city, with all we’re going through, or would you rather go after Zoe’s seat?” says first-term San Jose Councilmember Don Rocha. “With no kids, he could be interested in going to Washington.”

That might not be case for too much longer. A little more than five years have passed since Liccardo and Jessica hooked up, and Liccardo says he’s asked when the two are getting married “about every three hours.”

“It’s about time,” he admits. “We’re not getting any younger, and I want to have kids and raise a family.”

Meanwhile, Cortese and his wife, Pattie, already have four children and no plans to leave the area.

Cortese’s base is here, and he clearly believes he has the kind of deep alliances with business and labor that could make him a formidable contender in any race. And he could be helped by the fact that he has no need to align himself with a mayor whose approval with city workers could wither under attack between now and 2014.

“I think labor people trust me, and I think a lot of business people trust me. Trust is the important thing in politics,” Cortese says. “I think the labor unions, whether it’s the California Teachers Association or city labor unions, when I say something, when I tell them we don’t have any money, they trust that. Some people, when they say that, they don’t trust them. And that makes a big difference.”

In two years’ time, it’s possible labor could resurge in public opinion, or a new candidate not yet on the scene could cut into Liccardo and Cortese’s support. But one aspect that won’t change is the expectations that come with being the face of a city.

“Everything in public service is going to be more difficult than it used to be. People’s expectations continue to rise,” says former Mayor Gonzales. “Anyone who is attracted to public service thinking it’s a holiday is not living in this world.”

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ENNEKE DE VRIES’ husband takes pizza very seriously. He was born in Naples to Dutch parents, and although he left Italy when he was still a young boy, he returned frequently to eat the city’s famed wood-fired bread creation.

“He pretty much grew up on the pizza margarita,” she says. “He knows what he’s talking about.”

Years later, living in Silicon Valley and working as a software engineer, he built a dome oven in his backyard so he could create thin-crust pizzas of his own. His pies were apparently so good that friends and family urged him to open a restaurant and

give his Neapolitan-style pizzas a wider audience.

So that’s what he and de Vries did, snatching up a spot in San Jose’s new San Pedro Square Market. The couple’s pizzeria was one of the first businesses to open in the downtown marketplace.

“A chance of a lifetime,” de Vries called it.

He takes pizza so seriously he’s not willing to reveal his name. He’s still got his day job, because he doesn’t want to rock the boat while his 6-month-old pizza venture gets off the ground. So his pizza will have to speak for itself. And it does.

The nameless pizziaolo traveled to his native home to spend some time in the kitchen of Don Salvatore, a celebrated pizza restaurant in Naples.

When his countrymen learned what he was up to, they said to him, “bocca lupo,” an Italian phase for “break a leg” that translates literally

as “in the wolf ’s mouth”—not any stranger than “break a leg” really.

When it came time to name the new restaurant, the phrase received high marks from the de Vries’ children, so it stuck.

The menu at Pizza Bocca Lupo is simple: a half-dozen pizzas, a few salads and a couple of desserts.

The salads are simple but good.

The insalata ($4.99) is a haystack of arugula tossed with sliced pear and Gorgonzola cheese dressed with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. The caprese ($6.99) is good because of the buffalo milk mozzarella and fresh basin, but out-of-season tomatoes don’t do much for it.

While San Pedro Square Market is bright and open, the seating inside feels a bit like a mall food court. It’s far better to enjoy your pizza outside in the sun in the appealing courtyard opposite the Peralta Adobe.

The pizzas are beautiful. They come out of a glass-tiled oven that the pizza man had custom made in Italy. The oven is fired with almond wood and cranks up to a blistering 900 degrees.

The pizzas come out in 90 seconds or so, a higher-quality kind of fast food. They’re made with the staples of Neapolitan pizza—00 flour, San

He takes pizza so seriously he’s not willing to reveal his name.

He’s still got his day job, because he doesn’t want to rock the boat while his 6month-old pizza venture gets off the ground. So his pizza will have to speak for itself.

And it does.

While the abundance of toppings would disqualify it as true Neapolitan-style pizza, Joe’s Special was just as good ($12.99); it was made with crushed tomatoes, extra mozzarella, basil sausage, mushrooms and extra-virgin olive oil. The pizza is designated after a customer named Joe, who touted the creation on Facebook. In a gesture of customer appreciation, Bocca Lupo officially named the pizza after him, a nice gesture from a man who wishes to remain nameless.

Pizza Bocca Lupo 87 N. San Pedro St., San Jose 408.289.1775

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Marzano tomatoes, buffalo milk mozzarella (it costs a bit more than the cow’s milk mozzarella, but with double the butterfat it’s worth it), a sprinkling of basil.

My margarita pizza ($8.99) was textbook perfect with a well-blistered, rounded crust with a paper-thin interior that barely supported the tomatoes and cheese. Neapolitan pizza is supposed to be a light meal, not a gut-busting experience, and this pizza left me wanting one more slice.

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

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AMATO’S Sandwich shop. $. The sandwiches make for greasy, sloppy, ferociously delicious eating. There are 34 varieties, categorized in three groups: hot, cold, specialty.

10am-11pm Mon-Fri, 10am9pm Sat, 10am-7pm Sun. 1162 Saratoga Ave. 408.246.4007.

AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. The sister to the popular Mountain View restaurant, Amber India’s Santana Row location continues to offer elegantly prepared Indian cuisine in a stylish setting. 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm, Mon-Thu, noon-3pm, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat, noon-3pm, 5-10pm Sun. 377 Santana Row. 408.248.5400.

BANGKOK TASTE Thai. $$.

Humble strip mall gem with a loyal following. Beef Pi-Roj is a house favorite. Veggies love the Rama tofu. 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm daily. 1769 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.358.2525.

BILL’S CAFE Diner. $. Serving only breakfast and lunch, Bill’s knows its way around typical diner standbys—eggs (scrambles and hollandaiselaced “benedictions”), pancakes and expertly grilled sandwiches and burgers.

6:30am-3pm daily. 302 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.2455.

CAO NGUYEN Vietnamese, Chinese-Vietnamese. $.

Gargantuan menu features nearly 200 Vietnamese menu options, including smoked duck, sautéed frogs and clay pot catfish. 10am-10pm MonFri, 9am-10pm Sat-Sun. 2549 S. King Rd #A-16. 408.270.9610.

CASA VICKY Family-style Mexican. $. Nothing fancy, but

a hearty brand of Mexican food wrought from popular family recipes. Breakfast plates and warm sweet pastries in abundant supply. 7am7pm daily. 792 E. Julian St. 408.995.5488.

CITRUS New American. $$$.

In Santana Row’s chic Hotel Valencia, Citrus peels back the hotel dining myth. Here, diners match their own main dishes with their choice of rub, sauce and side dish. Fun continues in skilled desserts. 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 355 Santana Row. 408.423.5400.

COCOLA French bakery. $.

Cocola is a fine place to while away an afternoon sipping tea and sampling a pear tart with vanilla custard and slivered almonds. For heartier fare, try the gourmet sandwiches.

8am-11pm Sun-Tue, 8am-noon Wed-Sat. 333 Santana Row #1045. 408.551.0018.

CONSUELO Mexican. $$.

Good regional Mexican food made with lesser-known ingredients in an attractive, upscale atmosphere. The food is served tapas-style and meant to be shared. Fantastic tequila list. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 11am-11pm Sat, 11am-9pm Sun. 377 Santana Row #1125.

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in from Louisiana. The mud bugs are served steaming in a plastic bag swimming in a buttery, garlic-laced sauce that ranges from mild to ridiculously hot. 3-10pm MonFri and noon-10pm Sat-Sun. 779 Story Rd. 408.286.2729.

DEEZI’S CAFE Persian. $$.

Deezi is a hearty lamb shank stew and it’s quite good here.

But the soul of the menu is the kebabs, and the koobideh kebabs are outstanding.

Made from ground beef blended with puréed onions, garlic and various spices, the skewered and grilled meat stick is beautifully grilled and so tender and juice-filled it squirts when you bite down on it. The joojeh (chicken) kebab scores as well. Try the fresh made dogh (a yogurt drink).

11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Sat-Sun. 1312 Saratoga Ave. 408.244.0300.

DIA DE PESCA Mexican. $.

As you might guess from the name (Dia de Pesca means “gone fishing” in Spanish), the restaurant specializes in seafood—fish tacos, ceviche, shrimp cocktails and soups.

It’s all good. 10:30am-8:30pm daily. 55 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.3722.

THE COUNTER Hamburgers. $. The Counter takes the quintessential American burger and turns up the Americanness by letting diners choose from dozens of options to build a custom burger. 11am10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat and noon-9pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave #1035 (Santana Row), San Jose, 408.423.9200.

And 369 California Ave, Palo Alto, 650.321.3900.

DI LAC Vegetarian Asian. $$.

A bite of veggie heaven. The spacious Di Lac serves up an appetizing array of foods, all of which are made fresh daily, including the soy milk and tofu.

9am-9pm daily. 1644 E. Capitol Expwy. 408.238.8686.

CRAWDADDY Cajun. $$.

The setting is fit for royalty, and there’s a menu to match:

Crawdaddy specializes in boiled live crawfish flown

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HERE ARE cheese fries, and then there’s poutine—the French-Canadian gift to the world of hangovers. This simple dish consists of French fries layered with squeaky cheese curds and beef gravy. It seems predestined that Americans would revere this hypersaturated Montreal staple, yet the dish is virtually unknown in most of this country. And where it is popular, poutine bears a few “cosmopolitan” characteristics.

Take San Francisco’s Salt House, where they pair their poutine with the loftiest of company—foie gras. The Salt House was where chef ROBERT DASALLA of the new San Pedro Square Market’s LITTLE CHEF COUNTER was first inspired to bring the dish to San Jose, and add his own sublime variation: a braised shortrib poutine that he half-jokingly refers to as “a little heart attack in a bowl.”

From the jump, Dasalla’s adaptation contains a notable plot twist: the cheese curds have been omitted. “I don’t really care for them,” Dasalla admits. Opting instead for a freshly melted cheese sauce, he further departs from tradition by paying special attention to the base ingredient. “We blanch the fries, so even if they’re covered in gravy, they’ll retain their crunch,” he tells me. In this case, tender strips of short rib render a viscous, umami broth that’s reminiscent of pozolé, the Mexican stew.

Poutine has many close cousins. The closest hails from New Jersey, where the fries are thicker and the cheese is mozzarella—disco fries anyone? But it’s unlikely that something called “disco fries” will be served with caviar or lobster, and so poutine retains its charm. Dasalla trekked far and wide to see for himself. “I went to Montreal’s Au Pied Cochon specifically to try their poutine,” he tells me with a knife in hand, dicing vegetables in between shifts.

Dasalla and partner STEVE LE do not consider themselves gourmands, or less flatteringly, “foodies.” You wouldn’t know it by looking at their menu though, which boasts epicurean indulgences as well as upmarket renditions of old favorites. Duck confit risotto co-exists with the deceptively simple “mushrooms on toast” sandwich, filled with mascarpone and both portobello and cremini mushrooms. Even modest standards have subtle adjustments—they use rock cod for their fish and chips, and substitute horseradish for mayonnaise in the coleslaw.

When Dasalla and Le first thought about opening their own restaurant, they insisted it be on their terms. As the former sous chef of San Francisco’s Waterbar, Dasalla was constantly juggling a variety of tasks for everyone but himself. “I wanted to do something for myself and for San Jose,” he tells me. Le echoes a civic responsibility, adding that “[San Jose] isn’t a gourmet city ... yet.

But this kind of food shouldn’t be segregated. That’s what makes these types of bistros perfect—they’re for everyone.”—Shona Sanzgiri Little Chef Counter, 87 N. San Pedro St., San Jose; Monday–Wednesday, 11am–9pm, Thursday–Saturday till 10pm, Sunday till 7pm

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11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1001 Story Rd, second floor. 408.286.6668

EDNA RAY Chinese. $$. Now in a new location, Edna Ray continues to serve classics of Chinese-American food with the same quantity, familiarity and reasonable prices. You’ll find all three here, and then some. 11:30am-9:30pm daily.

1181 Lincoln Ave. 408.280.7738.

EL TULE Mexican. $$. Most of the menu is devoted to Mexican-American standards, but the separate menu of Oaxacan specialties is where El Tule really shines. The black mole is uncommonly delicious while lesser-known dishes like tlayudas and molotes are also good. 10am-9pm daily. 5440 Thornwood Dr. 408.227.1752.

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FISH MARKET Seafood. $$$.

This latest terrific-looking member of the dynasty attracts lines of customers to its bars—wine, sushi, oyster—with an extensive menu of fresh seafood.

Luscious desserts too. Full bar.

11am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri-Sat, noon-9:30pm Sun. 1007 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.269.3474.

FLOWER FLOUR French bakery. $. Mimi Brown’s flower shop/bakery charms visitors with freshly made to-droolover pastries, ready-to-go sandwiches and service with a smile. 8am-6pm Mon-Sat, 8am-4pm Sun. 896 Willow St. 408.279.0843.

FOOD TOPIA Chinese and Taiwanese. $. Food Topia serves a great, low-priced menu of Taiwanese and Chinese food.

Go for the beef noodle soup, pickle and fish fillet soup and the fried chicken roll. No alcohol served. 1600 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.873.7628.

FRANKIE, JOHNNIE & LUIGI TOO! Family-style Italian. $$.

Traditional Italian-American favorites—spaghetti and pizza—served with plenty of elbow room. Big portions

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650.967.5384.

FRATELLO Italian. $$. Bursting with simple flavors, Fratello boasts native Italian dining without affectation. 5-9:30pm Tue-Sun, Fri-Sat 5-10pm, 59pm Sun. 1712 Meridian Ave. 408.269.3801.

GIORGIO’S Family-style Italian. $. Simple Italian cooking—the rugged kind with Southern Italian leanings, full of robust flavors and tangy tomato sauces. 11:30am-9:30pm MonThu, 11:30am-10:30pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am-10pm Sun. 1445 Foxworthy Ave. 408.264.5781.

GOJO ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT Ethiopian. $.

Simplicity reigns here; just Ethiopian food—chicken, beef, lamb, vegetarian—and Ethiopian coffee. The flavors taste even better with honey wine. Beer, wine. Noon-9pm Sun-Thu, noon-10pm FriSat. 1261 W. San Carlos St. 408.295.9546.

GOVEA’S Mexican. $. A community hub that serves up wonderfully fresh, oldfashioned Mexican food with no trendy gimmicks.

Wholesome and filling. 10am9pm Mon-Thu, 10am-10pm Sat-Fri, 9am-9pm Sun. 1996 Tully Rd. 408.270.0973.

GREAT WALL Chinese. $$. This strip mall hideaway serves skillfully prepared Chinese dishes in an atmosphere where sandals and T-shirts are the perfect fashion. Beef and black mushrooms, salt-and-pepper spareribs and cashew chicken earn high marks. Take out available. 11am-2:30pm, 4:309pm Mon-Fri, noon-9pm Sat. 1409 Bird Ave. 408.287.1688 or 287.1689.

HABANA CUBA Cuban and Brazilian. $$. A culinary oasis full of good flavors, Habana Cuba exudes cultural delights.

Sensuous foods of the Caribbean and Cuba, long on tomato and peppers, slowroasted meats and earthy black beans. Beer and wine.

Lunch 11am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm

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THE HAPPY BAMBOO Vegetarian. $. The menu at the Happy Bamboo is almost all vegan and most of it Vietnamese or Asian-inspired.

There’s also a vegetarian tuna salad and, out of nowhere, Hungarian goulash and spaghetti. 11:30am-9pm TueSun. Closed Mon. 1711 Branham Lane. 408.694.0740.

HOSHI Japanese. $$. Hoshi is one of Silicon Valley’s standouts for sushi and small plates. Great sake selection, too. Lunch 11:30am-2pm MonFri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Sat. 246 Saratoga Ave. 408.554.7100.

HUKILAU Hawaiian. $$.

Simple, slightly salty, stomachfilling foods with an AsianPacific attitude. All daily specials come with a scoop of macaroni salad and steamed rice. Skip the quesadilla and nachos and head straight for the ahi poke. With tropical drinks to match. 11am-1:45pm Tue-Fri, 5-9:30pm Tue-Wed, 5-10:30pm Thu-Sat, 11am2:30pm Sat-Sun, 5-9pm Sun. 230 Jackson St. 408.279.4888.

HUNAN TASTE. Chinese. $$.

The restaurant continues to pack them in because the food is so good. As the name implies, the restaurant specializes in the fiery, hearty food of China’s Hunan province, making it one of the few restaurants in the Bay Area to do so. 11am-2:30pm, 4:30-8:30pm Mon-Sat. 998 N. Fourth St. 408.295.1186.

ISABELLA’S Peruvian. $$.

One of the South Bay’s few outposts of Peruvian food, Isabella’s has much to recommend. Tacu-tacu, a starchy, beany blob enlivened with onions, garlic, oregano and other spices served with a thin steak, is great. Seafood dishes like the ceviche and cau-cau mariscos are also good. Don’t miss the delicious chicha morada, a Peruvian punch made with purple corn, pineapple and apple juice that’s boldly seasoned with cinnamon. 11am-10pm MonThu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat, 2-8pm Sun. 700 S. Winchester Blvd.

408.248.PERU.

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KRUNGTHAI Thai. $$.

Perennial Metro “Best Of” winner, Krungthai has been around since 1988, but still tastes fresh and new.

11am-3pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri, noon-10pm Sat-Sun. 640 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.260.8224.

KUBOTA Japanese. $$. A beautiful dining room that serves exquisite rice, luscious ribs and decent sushi. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat, 59:30pm Sun. 593 N. Fifth St. 408.279.8440.

KUMAKO Ramen. $.

Japantown now has its missing ingredient—good ramen.

Kumako’s menu is simple: ramen, curry rice and a few appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 211 E. Jackson St. 408.286.2111.

LAYANG LAYANG Malaysian. $$. Layang Layang shines with clean, fresh flavors and ingredients, and offers a great entry into Malaysian food.

Service is fast and friendly, a feat given how harried the waitstaff can be. Wine and beer. Closed Mon. 1480 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.777.8897.

LE PAPILLON Contemporary French. $$$$. From start to finish, a meal at Le Papillon casts a spell on everyone who enters. The feeling is only broken when you walk out the door and abruptly step back into the real world outside. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Fri; dinner nightly. 410 Saratoga Ave. 408.296.3730.

MAGGIANO’S LITTLE ITALY Italian. $$. Like a warm Italian embrace, this Santana Row superstar proves a welcome haven for company lunches and congenial dinner parties.

The food is a cut above standard, with roast chicken and veal marsala standing out. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat, noon-10pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave. #1000.

408.423.8973.

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MENARA Moroccan. $$$.

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Since 1977, Menara’s been throwing back the pillows and bellying up to mint tea rituals, b’stilla (pigeon pie) and rabbit tagine. Full dinner menu includes vegetarian option.

Solid wine list. 6-10pm daily. 41 E. Gish Rd. 408.453.1983.

Mongolian barbecue. $. This mom-and-pop eatery gears itself toward the common man with the uncommonly large appetite. Thrown into the bargain is a Chinese steamtable buffet. 11am-3pm, 4:309pm daily. 1190 Hillsdale Ave. 408.978.7188.

MT. HAMILTON GRANDVIEW Cowboy continental. $$$. The Grandview is an old-school roadhouse with a warm atmosphere. Add dishes like surf and turf, rack of lamb chasseur and chicken Cordon Bleu and you’ve got yourself a destination. 5-10:30pm Wed-Sun. 94 Mt. Hamilton Rd. 408.251.8909.

MY KHE QUAN HUE Vietnamese. $. Food from central Vietnam is underrepresented in San Jose and that’s part of what makes this small restaurant such a find. Excellent noodle soups. 9am-9pm daily except Wed. Cash only. 960 Story Rd. 408.920.9603.

THE MYNT Indian. $. The Mynt’s lunch buffet is a Silicon Valley standout, while the sit-down dinner menu has plenty to offer as well. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 5:30-10pm Fri-Sat. 5210 Prospect Rd. 408.973.9673.

OMOGARI Korean. $. Omogari makes getting to know Korean food easy. The menu includes pictures of many dishes, the service is friendly and the food is consistently good. Try the dae gee bul go gi, spicy marinated pork. 11:30am9:30pm Mon-Sat. 154 E. Jackson St. 408.280.6588.

ORLO’S New American. $$$.

On the lush grounds of the historic Hayes Mansion, this is one beautiful, luxurious dining room, with menu and excellent service to match. 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. Hayes Conference Center, 200 Edenvale Ave. 408.226.3200.

PIZZA ANTICA UPTOWN Pizza. $$. The stony ovens of Pizza Antica turn out thincrusted designer pies with gourmet toppings in casual environs. Fine pasta and meat dishes also available. 11:30am10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat. 334 Santana Row #1065. 408.557.8373.

RAMEN HALU Japanese noodles. $$. Surfer-themed, casual-but-comfy, chef Kumao Arai’s noodle house imports traditional techniques to produce hearty, aromatic bowls stocked with pork-, sea-saltor soy-sauce-flavored broth.

Cash only. Call ahead; hours are irregular. 375-M S. Saratoga Ave. 408.246.3933.

REHOBOTH Ethiopian. $$.

Japantown isn’t all Japanese food. Rehoboth adds spice to the neighborhood with its diverse menu of Ethiopian standards.

Carnivores, vegetarians and vegans are all well taken care of.

Good coffee, too. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 665 N. Sixth St. 408.947.1717.

SELAM Ethiopian and Eritrean. $. Often it’s the places you have to work to find that turn out to be the good ones. Selam is tucked away in a mall off Winchester Boulevard, but the food is a real standout. 10am-10pm daily. 3120 Williams St. 408.984.9600.

SINO RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Modern Chinese. $$$.

Sino is owned by Christopher Yeo, the restaurateur behind Straits. The restaurant offers both traditional Chinese cooking and a few modern riffs. Good dim sum, too. 11am-10pm SunTue, 11am-midnight Wed-Sat. 377 Santana Row. 408.247.8880.

STRAITS RESTAURANT Asian fusion. $$$. By night it’s a jampacked hipster clubhouse; by day it’s Singaporean chef Chris Yeo’s latest chic fusion venue.

Small plates share the menu with entrees such as the lobster and shrimp pad thai. Outdoor seating available. 11am-10pm Sun-Wed, 11am-midnight ThuSat. 333 Santana Row #1100.

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South First Billiards, San Jose Wed – 7pm; $5 Those ’90s alt rockers Dada are back—you remember, the band responsible for that 1992 hit single “Dizz Knee Land.” (“I just robbed a grocery store, I’m going to Disneyland.”) But they’ve changed their name to 7Horse and beefed up their sound with a bit of Black Keys–inspired blues rock and elements of country, folk and psychedelic pop. This new direction happened after Dada spent years struggling to get back on top and eventually went on hiatus. Drummer Phil Leavitt and bassist Joie Calio started throwing ideas back and forth. They started

7Horse as a two-piece rock band with more focus on riffs and grooves—and, obviously, on their love for two-piece blues rock bands. (AC)

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Streetlight Records, San Jose Thu – 6pm; free Play shows. Break stuff. Drink a lot. That’s the M.O. of this Portland four-piece, who roll out Angus Young–sized riffs and gigantor basslines in pursuit of a sonic trail blazed by bands like the Stooges and Turbonegro, who played shows, broke stuff and

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drank a lot before them. With their obvious punk influences chafing up against their fondness for Flying V guitars, they would have been right at home opening for Gluecifer in the ’90s garage revival. The Gillbillies also play. (SP)

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JOHNNY LIMA 9 Lives, Gilroy Fri –8pm; $10 San Jose’s Johnny Lima started putting out albums on his own dime in 1996 and has continued to do so to this day with five full-lengths under his belt and a sixth on the way. During that time, Lima has been stuck in the ’80s,

specifically the Sunset Strip–era of big hair, heavy guitar licks, huge vocal harmonies and lots of double entendres. Incredibly, he says this will be his first solo performance in the United States—apparently he’s also been stuck in that recording studio for, like, 15 years.

(AC)

GHOST TOWN HANGMEN Nickel City, San Jose Fri – 6pm; $10 Not every punkabilly band sounds like those gender-bending lunatics the Cramps. Santa Cruz’s Ghost Town Hangmen, for instance, may be scoring opening spots for the wild and raunchy Reverend Horton Heat and the Chop Tops, but their influences range a bit wider.

Clearly, they’ve been listening to

the Beatles. Plus, their swinging rockabilly beats pay more obvious homage to the classic ’50s-era grooves. Even when the heavy distortion kicks in, the energy is much mellower than, say, Mojo Nixon. (AC)

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Johnny V’s, San Jose Sat – 12:45pm; $5 Club owner Johnny Van Wyk has been obsessed with this St. Paddy’s Day show; in fact, he’s literally been planning it all year.

In the end, he rounded up nearly a dozen of the South Bay’s best-

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RICARDO ARJONA BLAKE SHELTON Mar 16 at HP Pavilion

ANYA AND THE GET DOWN

CELEBRATING THE ROLLING STONES Mar 17 at 7pm, Montgomery Theater San Jose

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, Montalvo Arts Center

PHILIP GLASS Apr 7 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

RADIOHEAD Apr 11 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

TAJ MAHAL & THE TRIO Apr 13 at 6:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

JOYCE YANG Apr 15 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

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WOMEN FULLY CLOTHED Apr 19 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Apr 24 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

known underground bands to play, including NME, Late Night District, Them Rude Boys (see feature, page 49), Vie Victus, Talky Tina and headliner Usurper Vong. Perhaps the biggest news is that this will be only the second show by Ray Frankly, which is the new side project from Rivals’ vocalist Matt Reed. Something called the Green Beef Curtains opens the bill at 12:25. Be very afraid but strangely intrigued. (SP)

DJ LC Studio 8, San Jose Sat – 9pm; free before 11pm The Playmates-turned-DJ trend continues at Studio 8 with DJ LC, a.k.a. Laura Cavender. While Cavender isn’t technically a Playboy model, she did play Lingerie Football for a number of years and was the resident DJ at

the Playboy Mansion for a while.

I think that qualifies her to spin records at “Sexy Patrick’s Day Party” at Studio 8 this Saturday.

Since leaving the Maison du Hef, she’s gotten flown all over the world to spin dubstep, funk, disco and rock & roll, though her specialty is high-energy, bassthumping house. (AC)

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ANYA AND THE GET DOWN City Lights, San Jose Sun – 4pm; free Anya and crew have been blowing up since releasing their excellent three-song EP a while back. If you

still haven’t heard “Gone Baby Gone” (or seen the video), check it out immediately. It’s an ideal introduction to Anya’s spookycool songwriting and the band’s catchy mix of hip-hop, electro, dub and dark R&B. Since then, they’ve opened for Lyrics Born, played Cinequest’s opening party, played Freq Out! and, last week, opened for Pac Div and Thurz in L.A. With plans to record another EP, they show no signs of slowing down.

(SP)

LEO KOTTKE Center for the Performing Arts, Mountain View Sun–7pm; $18-$63 Over the last 10 years, acoustic guitar jedi Leo Kottke spent a lot of time collaborating with Phish bassist Mike Gordon, which

probably surprised a lot of people.

But it shouldn’t; Kottke plays just as many notes as Phish, it’s just that his sound they’re supposed to be where he puts them. Probably the most celebrated fingerpicker of his generation (and the guy’s headed for 70, so we’re talking a long run at the top), it’s not too early to declare this guy a national treasure. A book could be written just on his experiments with tunings alone, and it probably has been. Though he’s kicked around in the folk section for years, his instrumentals are the stuff the “Americana” label was made to describe. (SP)

COLDPLAY Apr 27-28 at 7pm, HP Pavilion

BASSNECTAR May 5 at San Jose Event Center

VAN HALEN Jun 5 at HP Pavilion

MAYHEM FESTIVAL Jul 1 at Shoreline

AZIZ ANSARI Jul 19 at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts

NEIL DIAMOND Aug 7 at 8pm, HP Pavilion

MADONNA Oct 6 at 8pm, HP Pavilion For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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BORDER ORDER MUSIC The wind ensemble Quinteto Latino interprets a new work about bout the U.S./Mexico border by Guillermo Galindo (center).

MACLA debuts Voces del Desierto, a suite about immigration inspired by found objects

By GARY SINGH

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ROM THE DESERT expanses near Laredo, Texas, haunting stories reveal themselves through extended techniques on a bass clarinet. Discarded objects left behind by immigrants crossing the border—a shoe, a juice can, pieces of rope—are now amplified with contact microphones.

A French horn provides breathy counterpoint to multiharmonics and embouchure experiments on a bass flute.

To composer Guillermo Galindo, these are voices from the desert, Voces del Desierto, a work MACLA

commissioned him to write for Quinteto Latino, a not-soconventional wind ensemble. The piece will be debuted this weekend.

Galindo, an established electroacoustic composer based in the East Bay, drew inspiration for the project when he, along with Quinteto Latino director Armando Castellano and videographer Marvin Barrera, traveled to the U.S./Mexico border at Laredo one year ago. During three days of intense and emotional work, they connected with memories of the immigrants’ experience by gathering personal items the immigrants left behind along the way: a rusted aluminum can, a child’s backpack, some desiccated tangerine skin, a red wool knit cap, a piece of rope and other objects.

Eventually, the items were shipped back to the Bay Area where they have now become sonic instruments of reconnection for Voces del Desierto.

For example, Galindo converts

a juice can into the resonating chamber for a stringed instrument that can be plucked or played with a bow.

Another instrument, a kind of loom, provides a whooshing sound made from the sewn-together pieces of fabric moving through the apparatus. To amplify these objects, he attaches piezoelectric elements to pick up the resonances and then wires them to 1/4-inch jacks for audio output. Together, they complement the instrumentation of the quintet: bass flute, bass clarinet, French horn, oboe and bassoon.

The amplified found objects seem to function as sonic leftovers, relics from the personal lives of those we do not necessarily know.

“Each personal object has its own voice, sound and its own imaginary story,” Galindo explains.

“My interest in the Mesoamerican, non-Western concept of music and sound is based on the meaning and function of personal objects in our lives. These objects have a particular sound and meaning connected to the lives of other human beings. I hope this piece contributes to cure the social wounds associated with immigration.”

Voces del Desierto Friday–Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2pm; $10–$15 MACLA, 510 S. First St., San Jose; 408.998.ARTE

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Sonic Avatars

The objects were part of the compositional concept from the very beginning. The crew traveled to the desert envisioning the totality of an interdisciplinary piece addressing the subject of immigration—but in unconventional ways. Discarded consumer materials became part of the orchestration and, perhaps, even sonic avatars of the immigrant plight.

“The experiment was to take music composition into a whole new realm,” said Galindo. “I believe that the traditional idea of a composition exclusively being just music written on paper must venture beyond musical borders. Voces del Desierto dares to cross borders, incorporating people, ritual, objects, imaginary stories and performance in the composition.”

The score is not conventional either. The first movement, “El aire se vuelve suspiro,” for instance, features quite a few extended techniques during the first two minutes. Some of the parts involve specific contours of multiphonics or singing through the embouchure.

Many times, the player removes the reed during certain passages or sings through the instrument.

The audience will hear elaborate vibratos, lip pizzicatos, key clicks, breath-driven passages and French horn parts with the valve slides removed. Since the bass flute and bass clarinet are more resonant than their higher-pitched cousins, the first movement emotes abstract and, as the title suggests, breathy atmospheric elements, perhaps indicative of the uncertainty and haziness of desert migration, where everything is at stake.

“I was gifted with musicians who are extremely proficient,” Galindo says. “They will be also playing drums. The members of Quinteto Latino play lots of instruments and the ranges that these instruments cover are a delight for any composer.”

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*stage Dance ABINAYA The Indian dance troupe presents choreography from north and south India along with the Tarangini School of Kathak. Sat, 6pm. $20 and up.

Smithwick Theater, Foothill College, Los Altos.

DIABLO BALLET A performance by the Bay Area troupe in classical and contemporary pieces; presented by sjDANCEco. Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2:30 and 7pm. $15$25. SJSU Dance Theater.

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

EMMA Jane Austen’s famous story is brought to the stage by the theater department at SJSU. Runs Mar 15-22. Thu-Sat, 7pm. $10/$20. University Theatre, SJSU.

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

Presented by Pear Avenue.

Runs thru Mar 18. Wed-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$30.

Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.

HAMLET A modern-day version of the classic drama, presented by City Lights. Runs Mar 15-Apr 15. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun 7pm (Mar 25) or 2pm (Apr 1 and 15, no show Apr 8). $25-$35. City Lights, San Jose.

NOW CIRCA THEN The West Coast premiere of a comedy about two historical re-enactors at a New York Tenement Museum; presented

by TheatreWorks. Runs Mar 7-Apr 1. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm (no 2pm show Mar 31), Sun 2

and 7pm (no 7pm show Apr 1). $19-$69. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

STUFF HAPPENS Arclight Repertory Theatre and San Pedro Square Market present a staged reading of David Hare’s play about the Iraq war; the show is designed to raise awareness for Iraq war vets. Mon, 8pm. $10.

Perazzo Bldg, 170 West St. John St, San Jose.

TOTEM A new show from Cirque du Soleil. Under the Big Top at the Taylor Street Bridge.

Runs thru Apr 15. Tue-Wed, 8pm, Thu-Sat, 4pm, Sun, 1 and 5pm. (See cirquedusoleil. com/totem for schedule and ticket info.)

Classical Concerts AFIARA STRING QUARTER The young ensemble is presented in concert by the Harker School. Sat, 8pm. $20.

Nichols Hall Auditorium, San Jose.

CALIFORNIA BACH SOCIETY An evening of madrigrals from the 16th century. Sat, 8pm. $10-$25. All Saints Episcopal Church, Palo Alto.

CALIFORNIA POPS ORCHESTRA A concert called “Broadway Nights” features guest vocalist Pierce Brandt, Peter Vilkin and Stephanie Rhoades.

Sun, 3pm. $15-$40. Calvary Church, Los Gatos.

EL CAMINO YOUTH SYMPHONY The annual benefit concert features guest cellist Zuill Bailey; the program includes works by Glinka, Mussorgsky and Dvorak. Sat, 7:30pm. $28/$38. Flint Center, Cupertino.

OHLONE COLLEGE CHAMBER SINGERS The choir is joined by the string orchestra for works

by Moravec, Mozart and Beethoven in a concert titled “For Those Who Serve.” Sat, 8pm. $15-$20. Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont.

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SAN JOSE YOUTH SYMPHONY The symphony’s Philharmonic Orchestra performs. Sat, 2:30pm. $5-$15. California Theatre, San Jose.

SJSU CHOIRS Under the baton of new director Dr. Jeffrey Benson, the choirs present “Dancing in Song.” Sat, 7:30pm. Campbell United Methodist Church.

STEPHEN HOUGH The pianist will performs sonatas

by Scriabin, Liszt and Beethoven, as well as his own compositions.

Mon, 7:30pm. $50. Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto.

SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY A Broadway in Concert presentation of “Guys and Dolls.” Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $39-$75. California Theatre, San Jose.

WINCHESTER ORCHESTRA The evening encompasses Vivaldi’s Piccolo Concerto (with Mimi Carlson) and Schubert’s Symphony no.

5. Sat, 7:30pm, West Valley College Theater, Saratoga.

Sun, 7pm, Trinity Cathedral, San Jose. $10-$20.

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

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

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Will Durst. $15-$20.

Mon, 8pm: The Rooster Roast celebrates Bay Area comedy history with Will Durst, Mark Pitta, Johnny Steele and more. $10. Tue, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition. $10.

Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Slanted. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Edwin San Juan. $20. San Jose.

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Past Lives HISTORICAL re-enactors Margie and Gideon discover love and meaning to life in playwright Carly Mensch’s hilarious, but sweet relationship comedy set in New York’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Now Circa Then makes its West Coast premiere at the Lucie Stern Theatre presented by TheatreWorks.

Margie and Gideon, played by Kimiye Corwin and Matt Harrington, meet after Margie is hired to play Gideon’s wife as 1890s Jewish immigrants from West Prussia who were forced together by an arranged marriage. And much like the characters they play, they are also trying to navigate their way through a new and different world.

While their alter egos, Julian and Josephina, struggle to overcome the perils for a better life in America, Margie is a Midwesterner who thinks people should stop worshipping boring old facts. She is busy escaping her family, which expects her to end up just like Josephine—a domestic housewife with five kids.

Gideon is a history buff who is trying to make it as an adult, while still pining for his dead mother.

Now Circa Then Runs through April 1; $19–$69 Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto

The two strike up a relationship that begins to mirror the historical characters they play. The audience is witness to their budding, yet at times awkward, romance, and follows the couple until the very end. Mensch, who is a writer for the popular TV series Weeds, clearly has a sharp ear for dialogue, which is evident in her characters’ sarcastic delivery with impeccable timing.

When Margie and Gideon decide to perform in private, the play really takes off.

Harrington is an engaging ball of energy as a dedicated historical enthusiast who has made a career of re-enacting, although the uptight native New Yorker has failed to develop much of a personal life outside of work. Corwin is captivating as she bounces from one extreme to the other. At first, her stiff posturing as an amateur re-enactor with no interest in history—she simply needed a job—is a bit much, but she quickly settles in and lets loose.

Under the direction of Meredith McDonough, set designer Andrew Boyce cleverly keeps the action moving between several rooms of the tenement museum, with his special attention to detail. While costume designer Jill Bowers chooses pieces that accurately reflect the late 19th century.

In Now Circa Then, Harrington and Corwin provide plenty of laughs as their relationship encroaches on the characters they are channeling and vice versa. They sift through the dialogue, extracting every possible joke, even after the story takes a serious turn.—Jen Nowell

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LET BYGONES BE BYGONES Matt Harrington and Kimiye Corwin find their lives intertwined with the historical characters they portray.

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San Jose.

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Museums CANTOR ARTS CENTER â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wood, Metal, Paint: Sculpture From the Fisher Collection.â&#x20AC;?

Thru Oct 13. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walker Evans.â&#x20AC;?

A celebration of the images of the great American photographer. Thru Apr 8. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Memory and Markets: Pueblo Painting in the Early 20th Century.â&#x20AC;? Thru May 27. WedSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am8pm. Stanford.

CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S DISCOVERY MUSEUM

Emily Ray Director

Roger Wright

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mammoth Discovery!â&#x20AC;? Plus activities and hands-on fun for kids. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, noon-5pm. Discovery Meadow, San Jose.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM â&#x20AC;&#x153;Indelibly Yours: Smith Andersen Editions and the Tattoo Project.â&#x20AC;? A show of works inspired by tattoos.

Thru Jul 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Andy Warhol: Polaroids and Portraits.â&#x20AC;? Thru Jul 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Golden States of Grace: Prayers of the Disinherited.â&#x20AC;?

A documentary photo exhibit

by Rick Nahmias about marginalized communities and spirituality. Thru Mar 28.

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

Pianist

EUPHRAT MUSEUM with San Jose Symphonic Choir

and the Vivace Youth Chorus Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no. 1 in B-flat minor, op. 23 DvorĂĄk: Te Deum, B. 176 Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe Suite no. 2

Sat, Mar 24, 7:30PM California Theatre 345 S.1st St, downtown San Jose Tickets available from Symphony Silicon Valley: 408 286-2600 x23.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Invoking Peace.â&#x20AC;? 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bay Area Youth Art Month Exhibit.â&#x20AC;? Runs thru mid-May. Reception Sun. PaciďŹ c Hotel Gallery, San Jose.

MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World: Antique Toys, 1870-1930.â&#x20AC;? Thru Apr 29. FriSun, 11am-4pm. Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frank Lobdell: Wonderland.â&#x20AC;?

A retrospective exhibit of works by the major Bay Area abstract painter. Thru Aug 5. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To Hell and Back.â&#x20AC;? A selection from the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection of illustrations for Dante in a contemporary vein by Sandow Birk. Thru Sep 16. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Renegade Humor.â&#x20AC;? 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. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quilt National.â&#x20AC;? A juried show of contemporary quilt and ďŹ ber art. Thru Apr 29. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM Exhibits about science and technology. New exhibit about International Space Station.

Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, ThuSun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rosa Louca dos Ventos.â&#x20AC;?

Mixed-media works by Brazilian-born artist Silvia Poloto. Thru May 2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Collecting Large.â&#x20AC;? A show of the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 The gallery hosts the local premiere of Antero Alliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flamingos.â&#x20AC;? Fri, 7:30pm. $5. San Jose.

CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cakewalk Championship.â&#x20AC;? A group show of hallucinations by members of N/TENCE. Thru Mar 17. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ordinary People.â&#x20AC;? A solo show by Daniel Jesse Lewis. Thru Apr 2. San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jazz Masters Seriesâ&#x20AC;? by BRUNI. San Jose.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Practice in Ink.â&#x20AC;? New drawings and paintings by Leslie Lambert. Thru Mar. San Jose.

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METROACTIVE.COM GALLERY AT FIBRE ARTS DESIGN â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anima: The Self Within.â&#x20AC;? An exhibit by 11 artists about the concept of anima/animus.

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

GOOD KARMA CAFE â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Go On; Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Go on.â&#x20AC;? New works by Jehoiakim Santos.

Thru Apr 27. San Jose.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Uninhibited.â&#x20AC;? Raku wall pieces by Elaine Pinkernell.

Thru Mar. San Jose.

KALEID GALLERY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Portraits of the Innerself.â&#x20AC;?

Works by Valerie Runningwolf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Steam Punk Explorations.â&#x20AC;?

Pieces by Dorothy Whitman.

Thru Mar 30. San Jose.

KING MAIN LIBRARY An exhibit celebrating SJSUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s role as the original â&#x20AC;&#x153;California Stateâ&#x20AC;? institution of higher learning, with historical artifacts. Thru Jul 31. Special Collections.

Also â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recollections: Art & the Archive of an IranianAmerican Journey.â&#x20AC;? Works

by Taraneh Hemami. Thru Mar 30. Second Floor Gallery.

Reception with artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk.

Thur, 7pm. King Main Library, San Jose.

MAIN GALLERY â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mainly Clay.â&#x20AC;? A group show in various styles and materials.

Thru Mar 18. Wed-Sun, 10am3pm. Redwood City.

METRO LOBBY â&#x20AC;&#x153;SnapShots of a Housewife.â&#x20AC;?

Photographs by Annalisa Hackleman. Thru Mar. San Jose.

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

by James Phelan 100 years ago. Thru May 13. 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hidden Treasures/Local Talent.â&#x20AC;? A salon show by local

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LEAVE IT to a legendary cartoonist to collect the stories of San Jose’s historical heroes and package the whole shebang into 40 pages of wonderment. Jim Hummel, a longtime fixture at the Mercury News, has now supplied the youth of the valley with an easy-to-grasp mechanism for retaining historical tidbits.

The Adventures and History of San Jose, California creates a gorgeous mishmash of colorful characters, new and old, and tells their story. Or to be more precise, two sisters, Morgan and Parker, lead us through the legends and yarns of San Jose history. Quite a few folks get their due in this elegant little paperback.

For example, in a side-splitting juxtaposition, the two Steves—Jobs and Wozniak—occupy a page directly opposite Tiburcio Vasquez, every local historian’s favorite forgotten troublemaker, who rampaged across California during the post–Gold Rush era. Jobs had the Midas Touch, as we all know, so in the cartoon, he touches a gold sphere in the air, while a light bulb appears over Woz’s head. Floating in the air between them is the proverbial apple with a bite taken out of it.

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

Thru Mar 30. 95 S. Market St, San Jose.

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.

PSYCHO DONUTS Group show by local artists.

San Jose.

modern office. Thru Jun 2.

“Younhee Paik: Ascending River.” Large-scale gallery installation. Thru May 12.

“4x4.” Videos in the Cardinale Project Room. Thru Jun 14.

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

SJSU GALLERIES SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “The Office.” A group show looking at the oddities and absurdities of life in the

By Jim Hummel; Trafford Publishing

The very next page features Vasquez, who traveled throughout the land stealing gold, acquiring ammunition and charming as many women as he could. Even though the garage where Steve and Steve built the first Apple is 12 miles away in Los Altos, and Vasquez is buried in Santa Clara, they each had enough of a connection to San Jose to warrant inclusion in the book. To me, it doesn’t matter anyway.

SISTER SARAH Broadway star Sarah Uriarte Berry sings the role of Sister Sarah for the Broadway in concert presentation of ‘Guys & Dolls,’ presented by Symphony Silicon Valley Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2:30pm at the California Theatre in San Jose. artists. Thru Mar 17. Thu-Sun, noon-5pm. Fremont.

The Adventures and History of San Jose, California

Works by student artists.

Inside the Art Building and Industrial Studies Building, SJSU.

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Others depicted in the book, and those with much more direct connections to San Jose, include Madison Nguyen, Charles “Doc” Herrold, Sarah Winchester, Yoshi Uchida and many more. Sports fans will dig the pages on Bud Winter and Brandi Chastain. Students at Andrew Hill and James Lick will dig the fact that their namesakes are also included here, in picturesque cartoon quality.

Hummel also calls to our attention other historians, like Clyde Arbuckle, Leonard McKay and Pat Loomis, the latter of whom wrote 40 zillion “Signposts” columns in the Mercury News eons ago. Every single one of us owes a great deal to those three individuals. Without their tireless advocacy of crackpot San Jose lore, much of the history of this place would have been lost a long time ago. And thanks to the whimsical theatrics of Hummel’s cartoons, many school kids can now get their history fix.—Gary Singh

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WORKERS OF THE WORLD, FREAK OUT A new group show at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art offers artists’ takes on the ubiquitous world of ‘The Office.’ A detail from Packard Jennings’ ‘Business Reply Pamphlet’ captures the mood of many workplaces. The exhibit runs through June 2.

“Miniature Art Show.” Thru Mar 30. Mon-Sat, 9am-7pm.

Sunnyvale.

The religious scholar discusses her latest work, “Revelations: Visions, Prophecy and Politics in the Book of Revelation.”

Sat, 7pm. General admission requires book purchase. Sat, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

and the San Jose Sharks collaborate on a drop-off recycling event. Bring an item—from computers to appliances—and get a chance to watch the Sharks’ pre-game morning skate and a chance at a drawing to win team memorabilia. Sat, 9am-1pm.

Main Parking lot, HP Pavilion.

San Jose.

THOMPSON GALLERY

LEE ROSSI

“Dread Scott: Revolutionary Archive.” A series of paintings using old photos from various revolutions. Runs through Apr 6. Art Building, SJSU.

VALERIE PLAME

The poet reads from his works. Thu, 7pm. Free.

Willow Glen Library.

The CIA agent who was infamously outed by the Bush Administration appears as part of a women’s lecture series called Unique Lives and Experiences. Mon, 7:30pm. $36-$75. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

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Lanterne Rouge” speaks. Wed, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

SLG BOUTIKI Group show about cult films and midnight movies. Thru Mar. San Jose.

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ASIAN ART MUSEUM MAHARAJA: THE SPLENDOR OF INDIA’S ROYAL COURTS ENDS APRIL 8 asianart.org/maharaja GET $3 OFF ADULT ADMISSION (Reg. $17)! Use the code MAHARAJA3OFF to buy tickets online. Meet the Maharaja of Marwar-Jodhpur on March 31, 3:00 pm, free event.

Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Presentation at the Asian Art Museum is made possible by support from Rajnikant and Helen Desai, the Society for Asian Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Draper III, MetLife Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Credit Suisse, the Koret Foundation, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Franklin Templeton Investments, United, AT&T, the Mary Van Voorhees Fund of the San Francisco Foundation, Richard and Kim Beleson, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and Incredible !ndia. Media sponsors: San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, ABC7, KQED, San Jose Mercury News, and India West. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.

Artwork by Sanjay Patel, gheehappy.com

“Femme Fatale.” A group show about the complexities of the feminine. Thru Mar 17. San Jose.

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BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN

A screening of a movie about a neighborhood fighting to save itself from the Atlantic Yards project. Wed, 6pm. Free. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

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ISLAND LAND ROMANCE The Asian American Film Festival opens Friday in San Jose with Michael Kang’s ‘Knots.’

The Asian American Film Festival brings a weekend of features and documentaries to San Jose

By RICHARD VON BUSACK

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ARD ON THE HEELS of Cinequest comes the International Asian American Film Festival. The opener of the weekend-long San Jose leg of the Bay Area event at Camera 3 is Knots (Friday at 7pm), Michael Kang’s sitcomish story of Hawaii, helped a bit by island scenery and Illeana Douglas.

More authentic island life can be found in Papa Mau: The Wayfinder (Saturday at 12:15pm) regarding the Micronesian navigator Mau Piailug.

Also on view is the story of the last surviving student of the pioneering martial artist Dr. Jigoro Kano; the 99-year-old San Franciscan Keiko Fukuda is the star

of Mrs. Judo: Be Strong, Be Gentle, Be Beautiful (Sunday at 2pm). The drama Touch by Minh Duc Nguyen, which just showed as Cinequest, will be screened on Saturday at 6:30pm.

One of the furthest afield of the films is Love Crimes of Kabul (Saturday at 10pm) about the Afghan prison where women are being held for morals charges.

Of local interest: Mr. Cao Goes to Washington (shows Sunday at 7:10pm) is former San Josean S. Leo Chiang’s follow-up to his documentary A Village Called Versailles. That film concerned a Vietnamese community that arose in Louisiana, settled by former refugees from the camp at Ft. Chaffey, Ark. Chiang worked at Apple for some time before changing careers and going to film school at USC. In Mr. Cao, he expands on the story touched on in his previous film:

the election of Anh “Joseph” Cao, h first Vi A i the Vietnamese-American congressman ever.

Cao (pronounced Gao) is a surprising character: a Republican who won in a heavily black and Democrat district. Clearly, Cao trusted Chiang. We see some of the most revealing interviews of a politician since the era of cinema verité began some 50 years ago.

Cao’s finest hour occurred on June 15, 2010. He was part of a congressional committee grilling the president of BP America, Lamar McKay, over his company’s Gulf of Mexico eco-atrocity.

With grim whimsy, Cao decided to play on the chronic Caucasian inability to tell one Asian nationality from another. Thus Cao told McKay that back where he came from in Asia, “We do things differently. During the samurai days, we’d just give you the knife and ask you to commit hara-kiri.”

Mr. Cao Goes to Washington likens Cao to Jimmy Stewart, and that seems fair enough. Chiang records how this sincere and likable ex-Jesuit seminarian learned the hard way what happens to a junior congressman who first promises to support health care reform—and

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then changes his mind on the grounds that somewhere, somehow an abortion might be performed with some part of the federal money.

Topic for discussion, though: Does it befit a man, however selfmade, with waterfront property to complain about all this talk we hear about class war?

For some reason (subject matter?), the Richard Wong/H.P. Mendoza Yes We’re Open isn’t on the schedule for San Jose’s part of the festival. Too bad, because the team behind Colma, the Musical has delivered its most solid and funniest film: a Truffautian trifle about a San Francisco couple tempted by a pair of swingers.

Instead, we get Viette (Sunday at 5:20pm), which has some smoldering material in it. Mye Hoang directs herself as a Los Angeles college-age girl still living with her parents. Viette is in a hot and heavy affair with Matt (Sean McBride), an American boy; when her parents find out, she makes the hard decision to leave home.

The local singer Yen Ly and San Jose’s Chi Pham, who co-starred in All About Dad, play Viette’s furious father and mother. Unfortunately, when Viette moves away from them, her troubles continue.

As a director, Hoang impresses with her ability to capture the sensuality of young love without going pornographic. And the events seem likely—it seems as if Hoang is derived this film this from a true story, instead of from some high concept. Too often the first film of a first-generation American focuses on lovable foibles rather than on the serious viciousness that’s sometimes indicated by the phrase “old country.”

So Viette is a wise film for a first-timer. Unfortunately, as an actress, Hoang isn’t always up to the demands of a tough role.

The ending of her film tapers off into vagueness, as if the meaning of it all hadn’t been worked out.

Nevertheless, Hoang is clearly a director to watch.

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New N e ew BEING BEI NG FL FLYNN YNN (R; 102 102) 2) Robert De Nir Niroo and Paul Paul Dano star s in the scr screen een adaptation of Nickk Flynn’s Flynn’s book about a son’s son’s rrelationship elatioonship with his con-man ffather. ather.

(Openss Fri.)

CASA CA SA DE MI P PADRE ADRE ((R; 84 min.) m ) A comedy spoofing Mexica an W esterns starring starring Gael Gar cía Mexican Westerns García Bernal and Will Ferrell.

Ferrell. (Opens Fri.)

questions at the premiere screening of ‘The Black Tulip.’

Cinequest Wrap-Up IN DOWNTOWN San Jose, deals were signed, friends were made and oceans of Stella Artois were navigated by filmmakers, journalists and fans. Some 95,000 attendees turned out for Cinequest this year. The local winner among the films in competition was former De Anza film student Kurt Kuenne. Kuenne’s 2008 documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father was an international success story. His new feature film, Shuffle, about a photographer mysteriously unstuck in time, won the New Visions award.

If there was a theme besides Neverending Passion, it was the large number of awards for films about people with disabilities. A festival favorite was Jesse Vile’s documentary about a paralyzed Richmond, Calif., musician in Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet. It won the Special Jury Prize for Documentary and the Audience Award: Best Documentary Feature.

The Best Documentary-winning short Everything Is Incredible by Tyler Bastian, Trevor Hill and Tim Skousen concerns a polio-stricken Honduran man who has been building a helicopter for decades.

The Best Feature Film: Comedy award went to Belgium’s Come As You Are—an unlikely mix of the virginity-losing road trip film and a story of the terminally ill

and differently abled. And the winner for Best Narrative Short winner was Brian Lannin’s excellent And Winter Slow, concerning the plight of a woman facing another snow-bound winter with her moribund, bedridden husband.

Among the foreign films honored at this year’s Cinequest were Norway’s King Curling, which took the Audience Award for Best Feature. Bence Miklauzic’s Children of the Green Dragon won Best Feature Film: Drama. Seattlite Taylor Guterson’s Old Goats won the Special Jury Prize: Narrative Feature. Best Documentary Feature went to Agnes Sos, the Hungarian director of Invisible Strings: The Talented Pusker Sisters, concerning the love and rivalry between sibling violinists.

Omaha scriptwriter Travis Heermann won the screenplay competition for his unproduced horror-western Death Wind.

A festival first was the awarding of a Maverick Ensemble Award, which went to Kat Coiro and Krysten Ritter for L!fe Happens. Other Maverick Spirit awards winners this year were Elliott Gould, Philip Kaufman and Terence Davies.

Davies, whose first-rate Deep Blue Sea closed the festival, was particularly jazzed at his chance to see San Jose for the first time: “It sounds so romantic!” he told Metro.—Richard von Busack

Mar 17: Rod le Roque meets a Mar Russian Rus ssian princess (Jetta Goudal) in Thee Coming of Amos (1925) plus Why Wh hy Br Broncho oncho Billy Left Bear County (1913) (191 13) and The P Perils erils of P Pauline auline epi episode isode 3:: The Pir Pirate ate TTreasure reasure (1914).

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(R; 83 min.) Jason Segel plays a young man who lives with his parents par entts in a comedy dir directed ected by andd Mark Duplass. Also stars Ed Jay an Helms,, Susan Sar Sarandon Helms andon and Judy Green.

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SSALMON ALMON FISHING FISHING IN IN THE YEMEN YEMEN (PG-133; 111.) Lasse Hallstr (PG-13; Hallström öm helms a come comedy edy with dramatic dramatic undertones about a man who tries to intr introduce oduce fly-fishing fly-fish hing to an unlikely place. Stars Stars McGregor.

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21 JU JUMP M SSTREET MP TREET (R; 110 min.) They said it couldn’t couldn’t be done. don ne. They said it shouldn’t shouldn’t be done. But B dir directors ectors Phil LLord ord and Christopher Christo opher Miller ignor ignored ed the haters went and we ent ahead and rremade emade the silly ’8 ’80s 0s TTV V show into an even sillier movie with Jonah Hill and Channing TTatum. aatum. They even talked Johnny Depp iinto nto showing up. (Opens Fri.)

Revivals R evivals LAURA/THE B LAURA/THE BAD AD A AND ND THE BEAUTIFUL BEA UTIFUL (1944/1952) (1944/ /1952) A mystery about a detective detect tive (Dana Andr Andrews) ews) and the death of a society beauty (Gene TTierney). ierney). Clifton W Webb ebb is immortal as W Waldo alldo Lydecker, Lydecker, a wisened-up versionn of W Walter alter Winchell, and Judith Anderson and Vincent Price beautifully. skulk about a beautifully. Billed with The Ba Bad ad and the Beautiful. Kirk Douglas Dougla as stars as an untrustworthy movie mogul, Jonathan Shields, who, ffacing acing ruin, tries to rround ound up three three of his pr previously e eviously burned pr protégés otégés ffor or a comeback comeb b k pr back project. oject. j t Shield’s Shi ld’ rreluctant eluctant l t t ex-employees ex-em mployees include Lana TTurner uurner as a ffemale e emale star based on Diana Barrymore, Bar rym more, W Walter alter Pidgeon and Dick Powell Powell as a writer mar married ried to a high high-flown -flown Southern lady (Gloria Grahame, Gr aham me, who steals the show).

(Plays Mar 1616-19 19 in P Palo alo Al Alto to at the Stanford Stanffor o d Theatre.)

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(1955) Our language’s (1955) language’s gr greatest eatest salu ute to meanness ffor or the fun salute of it. it. Laurence Laurence Olivier’s Olivier ’s version of Shakespeare’s S Shakespear e’s tr agicomedy of tragicomedy “hell’s intelligencer”—the “he ell’s dark intelligencer ”—the hun nchbacked medieval king who hunchbacked clim mbs to the top. Olivier’s Olivier ’s king is a climbs kin tremendously kindd of monument: a tremendously viri le and funny perf ormance, based virile performance, on the then-risky then-risky idea of a serial kille er taking the audience into his killer con nfidence. As As dir ector, Olivier cast confidence. director, his gr eatest rivals as theatrical greatest kni ghts: Richar dson as the king’s knights: Richardson cat ’s-paw Buckingham, Gielgud cat’s-paw as wine-dr w owned Clar ence and wine-drowned Clarence Har rdwicke as lecherous lecherous old king Hardwicke Edw ward. (Plays Mar 20Edward.

20-22 22 in Palo Palo Alto Altoo at the Stanford Stanffoord Theatre.)

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THE T HE SOUND SOUND OF OF MUSIC MUSIC (1965) The Sing-along experience— (1965) climb clim mb every mountain and warble alo ng to “The LLonely onely Goatherd”—a Goatherd”—a along titlee fr om a mor era. (Plays from moree innocent era.

Ma Mar ar 1616-18 18 in San Jose at the Retr Retroo Dome.)

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TEENAGE MUTANT TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA NINJA TURTLES T URTLES (199 (1990) 90) The four four shellbacks shellbacks face face their most mo st daunting challenge: Judith Hoag Hoa ag as April. (Plays Mar 15 at 9pm andd Mar 17 at 11:55pm in San Jose at Camera Caam mera 3.) (RvB)

WAGON MA WAGON MASTER/THE STER/THE SSOUTHERNER OUTHERNER (1950/1945) John Ford’s (1950/1945) Ford’s Western Western abo out the trek trek of a group group of about Mo rmons, escorted to the ter ritory Mormons, territory

by Har ry Carey Carey Jr. Jr. and Ben Johnson; Harry thee pilgrims encounter str anded, stranded, flas shy medicine show people flashy ((inc cludingg Joanne Dru as “Denver ”)) (including “Denver”) andd a gang of ffour our outlaws. BILLED W ITTH The Southerner. The ill-f WITH ill-fated ated TTexan ex exan writer Geor ge Sessions P erry George Perry dr o owned at 46 during a mental drowned br e eakdown, breakdown, allegedly trying to swim to the t North P ole via a Connecticut Pole river. rive er. His book Hold Autumn in Your Your o Hand Hannd was the sour source ce for for this famed famed Jea an Renoir film; an uncr edited Jean uncredited

“JONAH HILL AND CHANNING TATUM ARE THE PERFECT COMEDY DUO.”

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 POVheavy 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)

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 classpresidential timber); Dane DeHaan is the dad-bashed underdog; and Alex Russell is Matt, a philosophycrazed 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 girl-cam; 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)

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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.

FRIENDS WITH KIDS (R; 107 min.) Jennifer Westfeldt and Adam Scott are, well, “friends with kids.” Then they start seeing other people, and their friends (Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiia, Chris O’Down) make jocular relationship comments from the sidelines. What could be funnier than that?

GHOST RIDER 2: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE (PG-13; 95 min.) Longtime fans of Nicolas Cage knew that someday

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

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

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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,

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William Faulkner worked on it, but what Renoir said attracted him was the lack of story: it’s a series of incidents in the life of a squatter (film noir luminary Zachary Scott) and his family making it through a hard-scrabble year. (Plays Mar 13-15 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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JJOHN OHN CCARTER A RT E R (R; 132 min.) Slightly (R; S confusing and ripsnorting. A Andrew ndrew SStanton tanton (W Wall-E aall-E) adapts “A “A Princess Prin ncess of Mars Mars”” (1912), the first of Ed Edgar dgar R Rice ice Bur Burroughs’ roughs’ 11 blood and thunder novels about the planet thee indigenous Martians

refer refer to ass “Barsoom.” Transported Transported there, there, former form mer Confederate Confederate officer John Carter Carteer (Taylor (TTaaylor Kitsch, physically fit but a clunky cllunky actor) has great great strength strength and a the ability to leap tall pinnacles in a single bound. While a prisoner of Tharks, o the savage tusked Thark s, Carter Carter rescues rescues princess Dejah Thoris (Shakesperean (Shakespeerean actress actress Lynn Lynn CCollins) ollins) not just a princess but a pr professor, ofessor, investigating investigatting the mysterious “9th Ray.” Ray.” And And bald alien shapeshifters— led by a ppriestly riestly Mark SStrong—lurk, trong—lurk, watch, wa wait interfere.

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JJOURNEY O U R N EY 2 2:: THE MYSTERIOUS T HE M YSSTERIOUS IISLAND SLAND (PG; 9 (PG; 944 m min.) in.) A ssequel equel ttoo 22008’s 008’s JJourney ourney ttoo tthe he CCenter enter ooff tthe he EEarth arth ((see see what what they they ddid id tthere? here? w with ith tthe he while ttitle?), itle?), and and w hile tthe he ccast ast hhas as bbeen een aalmost lmost entirely entirely scrapped scrapped (with (with the the eexception xception of of Josh Josh Hutcherson, Hutcherson, who who rreprises eprises hhis is rrole ole aass SSean, ean, tthe he oonly nly more maps tteen een m ore iinterested nterested iinn m aps tthan han ggirls), irls), tthe he ccrux rux iiss tthe he ssame: ame: A ssignal ignal iintercepted ntercepted leads leads ttoo a family-wide family-wide eexpedition xpedition to to a mysterious mysterious island island

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No T-shirt T-shirt will be safe. safe.

RAMPART R AMPART (R; 108 (R; 8 min.) A baroque baroque L.A.P.D. L.A.P P.D. . policierr dir directed Oren policie ected by Or en Moverman, longtime the lon ngtime scripter who did 2009’ss The Messenger. The film is co-written co-written by James Ellroy Ellroy in the sense that the term here here means “Something “Someething That Looks Looks Like a Knock-off.”

Knock--off.” Woody Woody Harrelson Harrelson plays Dave Brown, B own, 24 Br 24 years on the job and still in uniform. uniform. This bad cop has been judge, juudge, jury and executioner ever since since he was old enough to plead Vietnam as the reason V reason for for it all. He’s surrounded wreathHe’s ’ sur rounded by a wr eathshapedd family family tree tree of exes and daughters. daughters. Protecting Protecting these ladies is his psychological psyychological excuse for for having once killed a suspected serial date k rapist—hence rapist— apist—hence hence his nickname. nickname “You’re “YYou ou’r o re a dirty cop with a dirty mind,” says his disapproving disapproving daughter, daughter, Helen Helen (Brie Larson); this comes later after L a scene scene in which Helen Helen reads reads him the riot riot act: “You’re “YYoou’re a dinosaur, dinosaur, Date Rape, Rape, a sexist, a racist.” racist.” “How “How long have haave you rehearsed rehearsed this?” her father father replies. replies. I was thinking “not “not

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SSAFE AFE HOUSE HOUSE (R; 115 min.) Denzel Washington (R; Washington plays play ys a fugitive who ends up on thee run with the CCIA IA operative operative tasked tas ked with transferring transferring him (Ryan (Ryan Reynolds) R eyynolds) after their safe safe house comes com mes under attack by neighboring rrebel ebbel soldiers. The film, which will surely sur ely feature feature top-notch eyebrow eyebrow acting Reynolds act ing by R eynolds and a lot of ““rational” rattional” yelling by Washington, Washington, is director d ector Daniel Espinosa’s dir Espinosa’s firstt American firs American feature. feature. And And he’s he’s clearly clea arly studied up on what makes a good good American American thriller starring starring Washington W ashington work: Stand Stand back and let his overgrown overgrown pupils do the rest. rest. est

A SEPARATION SEPARATION (PG (PG-13; G-13; 123 min.) In Iran, Iran, a potential divorce divo orce is complicated by a criminal case cas se when a pious nursemaid (Sareh (Sareh Bayat) Bay yat) tending to an aged member of the t splitting-up family family claims that tha at she was made to miscarry. miscarry. The significant sign nificant glances and open-faced open-faced words— liess make the title a play on wor ds— thee film is actually about the split between bet tween the world of men and the world wo rld of women. women This is obviously worse wo rse in an Islamic republic republic that works wo rks to keep the two as separate separate Director as possible. p Director Asghar Asghar Farhadi’s drama Far rhadi’s astonishing dr ama shows problems morality, thee pr oblems of legislated mor alityy, butt he seems to have his eye on a more mo re metaphysical, ancient statute: thee hidden laws of bad luck, and how that tha at luck inevitably worsens because of the t acts of desperate desperate men and women. wo men. (RvB) (RvB)

SSILENT ILENT H HOUSE OUSE (R; 85 min.) Elizabeth Olsen goes ffor (R; or what thinkss is a rrestful wh at she think estful interlude in a secluded cabin in the wood.

Then, weirdd stuff The en, of course, rreally eally weir starts sta rts to happen. CChris hris KKentis entis and Laura direct Americanized Lau ura Lau dir ect this A mericanized version ver sion of a Uruguayan film by Gustavo Hernández.

Gus stavo H ernández.

THIS T HIS MEANS MEANS WAR WAR (PG (PG-13; G-13; 98 min.) In this “not“notan-adaptation-but-totally-anan-adaptation-but-totally-anadaptation” ada aptation” of the Spy vs. Spy comic, twoo CIA CIA agents (who also happen to be attractive attractive best friends) discover through the magic of contrived through o cinema cineema that they are are dating the same sam me woman (Reese (Reese Witherspoon, who who is attempting to answer questions queestions of whether or not she can playy a sul sultry try and mysterious dream dream girl by proving proving that we’re we’re right, she

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THE SKA’S NOT THE LIMIT Them Rude Boys go looking for musical roots beyond genre conventions.

San Jose’s Them Rude Boys bring reggae, punk, ska and rock together for a sound that hearkens back to the greats BY

STEVE PALOPOLI

“I

’M REALLY into ska, but a very specific kind of ska,” says Kevin Castout, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for San Jose’s Them Rude Boys. “I’m not into the ska where it sounds like I should be on a cruise.”

In other words, Castout never had much use for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Reel Big Fish or the rest of the genre’s third wave. Growing up, he found his way back from Rancid to the Specials, Bad Brains, the Clash and beyond, all of which inspired the alt-reggae-ska-punk sound of his band.

“The roots reggae and roots ska from Jamaica, and especially 2-tone

ska that came out in the ’70s, and punk ska—man, it really gets me,” he says.

He couldn’t have found a better symbol for his dislike of ska’s goofy side than the name of the group. Though most people outside the scene don’t know the phrase anymore (beyond its use in Rihanna’s pick-up song of the same name), “rude boys” were once the most dangerous and controversial element of Jamaican music. They were the snappily dressed, heavily armed youth of West Kingston.

Unemployed, often living in squatter camps and always ready for a fight, they were basically the original gangstas, and a whole generation of Jamaican artists lined up to claim them or shame them.

In the early ’80s, the 2-tone movement brought the phrase back.

“The rude boys are dancing to some heavy, heavy ska” sang the Ruts in 1980’s “Staring at the Rude Boys” (most recently covered by Gallows).

With the Ruts’ call for punk-ska unity blazing a trail for bands like Them Rude Boys, the name has yet another layer of meaning for Castout’s band. But ironically, it didn’t click with him when the band first got together in the summer of 2010, and it was suggested by the Boys’ former drummer, Armando “Mando” Cardenas, best known for his time in Insolence.

“To be honest, at first I thought it was kind of stupid. I was like ‘I don’t know about that,’” Castout recalls.

“But we started using it, and then I wrote ‘Rude Boy Radio,’ and that got on Live 105, and got us onto BFD. It just kind of stuck.”

Weirdly, a messy divorce with Cardenas almost led to two incarnations of the band, one with a “z” at the end, as it was first spelled, and one with an “s.” Thankfully, that never materialized, but Castout kept the “Boys” spelling in the end, and is glad he did.

That situation also led to Castout and bassist Frank Stax bracing

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themselves for a long drummer audition ordeal, but somehow hitting the jackpot with Justin Estep, formerly of local ska legends Janitors Against Apartheid, and more recently in the metal band Thunderhorse.

“Me and Frank were like ‘Oh great, here we go, the drummer search. We’ll have to go through a million guys,” says Castout.

“Then lo and behold, we put up this Craigslist ad, and the first guy who hit us up was Justin. He came down, and it worked perfectly. I don’t think we could have gotten anybody better. He’s a super cool dude, very down to earth, an amazing drummer.”

The first thing Them Rude Boys has put out this year is a video for song “R.I.P.Her,” an ode to a the so femme fatale that’s quite different femm stylistically from “Rude Boy Radio” stylist (actually all the songs on their most (actua recent EP sound very different, from recen reggae-rock of “Only Thing That the re Matters” to the punky New Wave of Matte “Skater Punk”).

“Skat “That was the only song on “Th the EP that was more like a straightforward rock song,” he says of “R.I.P.Her.” “We decided to do that one because when we play live, people are always like ‘What’s that one song you play? Da-doo, da-doo, da-doo, da-doo, what is that song?”

The slow, insistent central riff is indeed memorable, as is the video—for South Bay residents at least, since all of the action is set in easily recognizable San Jose locales.

“That’s really what we wanted to do with that video,” says Castout. “I think a lot of bands try to portray themselves as something that they’re not. We’re just this little local band from San Jose. That’s what I wanted to show in that video: this is where we’re from, this is who we are. I really wanted to be as authentic as possible.”

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REVIEW: A$AP ROCKY AT AVALON Just before performing “Peso” late into his set at Avalon Nightclub, A$AP Rocky stood and watched as the packed room chanted his name as if it were their dying words— and he smiled, frozen, turning his back to gather himself and for perhaps the first time, to acknowledge the possibility that he is greater than even he knows.

RISE AGAINST ANNOUNCE IN-STORE BEFORE SAN JOSE SHOW As Rise Against have gone from scruffy Chicago punks to chart-topping mainstream hitmakers over the last decade, they’ve run into no end of blowback from early fans who think they should still be putting out minutelong blasts of hardcore for Fat Mike.

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Rock/Pop THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 8pm: Hugh Cornwell, Glen Matlock and guests. $10/$12. Fri, 9pm: Beerijuana, Abrupt, Cyanic. $8. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S Wed, 9:30pm: Jack Rip-Off. Thu, 10pm: Sexy Back. Fri, 9:30pm: Vent. Sat, 9:30pm: Metal Shop. Sun, 8:45pm: The Gents. Mon, 9:30pm: chili Sauce. Campbell.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Sexy Back. Sat, 10pm: SuperBad. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Sat, starting at 11am: St.

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Thu: Hip-hop with Casper.

Sat: St. Patrick’s Day show with underground bands. Tue: Rebelskamp. San Jose.

THE CARAVAN Fri, 8pm: Punk music with the Casual Rapists. San Jose.

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Thu, 7pm: Frank Sorci.

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50 photographer Robert Altman. $18/$21/ San Jose.

NETO’S GRILL Fri, 8:30pm: Blue the Band. $10. Sat, 8:30pm: The Hitmen. $10. Tue, 7pm: Jam with Dennis Dove. Thu (first and third of month), 7pm: Junction Duo. Santa Clara.

NICKEL CITY Fri, 6pm: The Accidentals, ICD, Cova and more. Sat, 6pm: Theseus, Hypergyant, Sagas and more. San Jose.

NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: Johnny Lima, Gundacker Project, Tony Ortiz. $10, Sat, 8pm: St. Pat’s Day tribute party with AC/DZ and Invader. $12. Gilroy.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed: Jam night. Thu: Cool Under Pressure. Fri, 9:30pm: Sugadady. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Sage. Los Gatos.

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

Thu: Pro Jam hosted by Vicious Groove. No cover. Fri: California Blues Machine. $5. Sat: St. Patrick’s Day with Norman Skinner’s All-Star Party. $5. Sun, 9pm: Pro Jam. No cover. Sunnyvale.

RED ROCK COFFEE Sati, 8pm: Rin Tin Tiger and Friends. Mountain View.

THE REFUGE Fri, 6pm: A Lot Like Birds, I the Mighty, From Indian Lakes, the Trims and more.

Sat, 6pm: Molotov Solution, the Art of War and more.

Cupertino.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

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

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

Mountain View.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, 8:30pm: Amici Brass for the Irish in Bell Theatre. $20-$25. Also, in Blues Room, St. Patrick’s Day celebration with Peter Daldry. $8/$12.

Redwood City.

Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music. Sat: St. Patrick’s Day fun all day, with Rosin the Bow at 5pm.

Mountain View.

Jazz/Blues AFFINITY Wed, 7:30pm: John Worley and the Mo Chi Quartet. No cover.

Hilton Hotel, San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 8:30pm: Ricardo Scales. $20-$25. Mon, 7pm: Walt Hern Jazz Project. No cover.

Redwood City.

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

AZÚCAR

BLUZ BY-YOU

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

San Jose.

Thu-Sat: Live jazz. No cover.

Santa Clara.

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

HUKILAU Fri: TBA. Sat: Aldon Sanders.

San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S Tue: Irish dancing. Thu: Celtic Soul. Fri: Live music warmup for St. Patrick’s Day. Sat: St. Patrick’s Day celebration all day. Sunnyvale.

LIQUID Tue: Rock en espanol.

San Jose.

MOROCCO’S MV

MOROCCO’S SJ

Thu, 6pm: Gillbillies. San Jose.

Wed,56pm: Acoustic guitar with Shane. Thu, 5pm: Jazz with Johnny Williams. Fri, 5pm: World music. Sat, 5pm: Dan Goghs. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music. San Jose.

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

STEPHENS GREEN

ART BOUTIKI

STREETLIGHT RECORDS WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

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

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

Gilroy.

STATION 55

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE

Wed, 5pm: Belly dancing with Katia. Thu, 5pm: Live acoustic guitar with Paul. Fri, 5pm: Blues with Dan Goghs. Sat, 5pm: World music and belly dancing. Sun, 5pm: World music. Mon, 5pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 6pm: Johnny Williams. Mountain View.

Wed, 7pm: 7Horses, Raza Kosmics, Melted Horses. $5.

Thu, 9pm: Them Rude Boys, Catch Hell and more. San Jose.

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GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam. Fri, 8pm: Jack Nelson’s Triple Threat. Sat, 8pm: Fred McCarty. Campbell.

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

Fri, 8:30pm: Kurt Ribak Trio. Sat, 8:30pm: Tiger Club. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Thu: Madylan Rose. Fri. Dog House Riley. Sat: Blues Kitchen. $10. Sun: Ruckus at 5pm; Gene Washington and the Special Purpose Band. Tue: Diamond 99. Tue: Blue J, Liars Club. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

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

San Jose.

MURPHY’S LAW Thu-Sat: Live blues. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Quasimodal. Sat, 9pm: Neil Adler Trio. San Jose.

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ALEX’S49ERINN Drink specials all day, 6am-2am.

2214 Business Circle, San Jose.

ANGELICA’SBISTRO Peter Daldry and bagpiper Richard Charette. 6:30pm. $8/$12. 863 Main St, Redwood City.

BLINKY’SCAN’TSAY Corned beef and cabbage plus shots of Irish whiskey. 1031 Monroe St, Santa Clara.

BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN Corned beef and cabbage, Irish dancers, then music from SuperBad at 10pm. 5027 Almaden Expwy, San Jose.

BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO Irish menu starts at 11am; music by the Rouges at 5:30pm. 1087 De Anza Blvd, San Jose.

CAPERS Live music for the holiday and everyone wearing green. 1710 W. Campbell Ave, Campbell.

C.B.HANNEGAN’S An entire day (opening at 10am) devoted to St. Patrick’s Day. 208 Bachman Ave, Los Gatos.

CLUBFOX Bluegrass and Green Beer with Windy Hill and Snap Jackson.

9pm. $10. 2209 Broadway, Redwood City.

COURT’SLOUNGE Free Irish food, a darts tournament and $2.50 pints of George Killian. 2425 S. Bascom Ave., Campbell.

DIVEBAR Drinks at holiday prices plus DJ C-Note and guests. 78 E. Santa Clara St, San Jose.

DUKEOFEDINBURGH Corned beef and cabbage, entertainment, Irish dancers.

10801 N Wolfe Rd, Cupertino.

THEESCAPE The party runs all day, starting at 6am. Corned beef and cabbage will be served at 3pm; prizes and give-aways. 2942 S. Bascom Ave., San Jose.

FAHRENHEITULTRALOUNGE Legacy with sounds by Justo and Adam Cova. 99 E San Fernando St, San Jose.

FAULTLINEBREWINGCO. Wed-Sat (Mar 14–17): The Fourth Annual Lucky Pot o’ Gold celebration with food and drink

IFJ@E K?< 9FN gcXpj Xk Jk\g_\eÊj >i\\e ]fi Jk% GXki`ZbÊj ;Xp% from Ireland and special prices.

1235 Oakmead Pkwy, Sunnyvale.

FIBBARMAGEES Irish beers; Irish dancers at 3 and 4pm; DJ Menace spins at 9pm. 156 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale.

FIREHOUSEGRILL A pre-party on Thursday with California Celts; the Silver Threads on Friday; and the Whiskey Avengers on Saturday.

111 S. Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale.

NETO’S The Hitmen plus green beer.

Sat, 8:30pm. $10. 1313 Franklin St, Santa Clara.

NINELIVES St. Pat’s Day tribute party with AC/DZ and Invader. $12.

7430 Monterey St, Gilroy.

OFFTHEHOOK Irish food and green beer. 2369 Winchester Blvd., Campbell.

O’FLAHERTY’SIRISHPUB

GOOSETOWNLOUNGE

Entertainment and Irish menu.

25 N. San Pedro St, San Jose.

Complimentary corned beef and cabbage, green beer and karaoke.

1072 Lincoln Ave., San Jose.

PATTY’S

GRANDDELLSALOON Traditional Irish breakfast and Fred McCarty performs at 8pm.

1040 Dell Ave, Campbell.

JOHN’SOFWILLOW GLEN Special prices on drinks, plus corned beef and cabbage. 1238 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

LILLYMAC’S Fun all day with Crubeens, 11am, Shallow Glasses, 3pm, Celtic Soul, 7pm, and more. Plus more Irish music Thu–Fri. 187 S. Murphy Ave., Sunnyvale.

KATIEBLOOM’SIRISHPUB A full day’s celebration. 369 E Campbell Ave, Campbell.

MARMISTCOCKTAILLOUNGE Corned beef and cabbage and Irish drink specials. 2306 Almaden Road, San Jose.

MINIGOURMET Corned beef and cabbage and more for $12.99. 11am-10pm.

599 S Bascom Ave, San Jose.

MURPHY’SLAWPUB Corned beef & cabbage starting in the early afternoon. Live music at night with Maneck. 135 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale.

Irish menu, bands and bagpipes. Montgomery and San Fernando, San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Celtic Soul, 5-7pm. Jay His Band & Street Choir, 7-9pm.

91 S Autumn St, San Jose, 408.292.5837.

RED STAG LOUNGE Green beer, corned beef and cabbage. 1711 W. San Carlos St., San Jose.

ROSIE MCCANN’S Food and drink specials, bagpipers, DJs and give-aways., 355 Santana Row, San Jose.

STEPHEN’S GREEN Rosin the Bow, 5 to 9pm. DJ Caesar at 10pm. 223 Castro St, Mountain View.

TIED HOUSE Green beer and food specials.

954 Villa St, Mountain View.

WOODHAM’S Drink specials; corned beef and cabbage. 4475 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara.

ZEN LOUNGE Drink specials; Dynamic D. 7pm.

DJ Maniakal and DJ Big B. 251 Castro St, Mountain View.

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52 POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson.

Thu, 6-9pm: Gumbostew. Fri, 6-10pm: Mitch Woods and the Rocket 88s. Sat, 5pm: St. Patrick’s Day party with Celtic Soul, the Jay and His Bond and Street CHoir at 7pm. Sun, 2pm: Lara Price. Tue, 5-9pm: PHB open mic. San Jose.

CITY ESPRESSO

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

BBC GASTROPUB

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

San Jose.

DA KINE CAFE

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

Fri, 8pm: Mollie O’Brien and Rick Moore. $20/$22. Sat, 7pm: Piano recital. Santa Clara.

RED ROCK COFFEE

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

Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.

THE BEARS

HOT JAVA COFFEE ROASTING

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

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

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

JOHNNY V’S Wed: The Cypher. Hip-hop open mic. San Jose.

BENNIGAN’S GRILL BLACK CARD LOUNGE Thu, 8pm: KJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke. San Jose (upstairs at El Palenque Restaurant).

MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.

Fri, 8pm: Bright Side Band.

Mountain View.

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

THE SADDLE RACK

NINE LIVES

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

Wed, 9pm: Midnight Wranglers.

Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Fremont.

Fri, 8pm: Open mic. No cover.

Gilroy.

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

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

BLUE BONNET BAR

SAM’S BBQ

Tue, 6pm: Open-mic night.

San Jose.

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

QUARTER NOTE

BLUE MAX

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam.

Sunnyvale.

Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

BLUE PHEASANT

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

Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger.

Cupertino.

Wed, 6pm: Dark Hollow. Tue, 6pm: Cabin Fever. San Jose.

CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE DINNER

Open Mic

IRISH DRINK SPECIALS Strongest Drinks in Town - No Cover

ANGELICA’S BISTRO Tue, 7pm: Open mic.

Redwood City.

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

2306 Almaden Road 2306 Roa ad 8 ·266 ·2415 San Jose 40 408·266·2415

Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Free.

San Jose.

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING

“The The Best Kept Secret In TTown” oownn

CAFFE FRASCATI

WINE AFFAIRS

Thu, 7pm: Live acoustic music.

Woodside.

COCKTAIL LOUNGE

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

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

ALICE’S

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Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic.

Cupertino.

7 BAMBOO

ALEX’S 49ER INN

C&W/Folk

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BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

Karaoke

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

Campbell.

Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz.

San Jose.

“World Famous”

Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic.

Saratoga.

TESSORA’S

UNWINED

BRING YOUR FRIENDS

BLUE ROCK SHOOT

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BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic.

Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

SONOMA CHICKEN COOP Wed, 8:30pm: Open mic.

Campbell.

SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY

BOGART’S LOUNGE

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

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

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

BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BOULEVARD TAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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Robert Glasper Experiment “WE KILL the alive to praise the dead,” is how Robert Glasper summed up the current jazz scene in his interview on NPR last week. In other words, if you can’t relate to jazz, he’s feeling you. And he’s making big waves for trying to change that, especially in the wake of his latest, shimmering genre-slam, Black Radio. For sure, it’s one of the best records I’ve heard yet this year, Pagoda Lounge but let’s bring a little realism to the hypefest for a moment. First, how can it be that in 2012 critics’ heads Fri., March 16 are still exploding at the notion of someone mixing hip-hop with jazz? That’s only been happening for 8:30pm; $15 three decades or so. Second, no one is going to confuse the “Lift Off ” on Glasper’s record with the one on Jay-Z and Kanye’s. Despite the odd attempts by some to adopt him as some kind of de-facto rapper, Glasper is a freaking jazz pianist. There are only two real jazz-rap collaborations on Black Radio, “Always Shine” (with Lupe Fiasco and Bilal) and the title track (with Yaslin Bey). Of these, the latter is the most interesting—catchy and relentless, I’d go so far as to say it points one viable direction for both hop-hop and jazz to move toward. The rest of the collabs with vocalists on the record are more neo-soul and R&B. They have a warm, gentle vibe, which is right in line with Glasper’s positive-vibration philosophy. There’s too much focus on the “Experiment” part of the Robert Glasper Experiment—let’s not forget that this is a real jazz record, and that’s what makes it one of a kind.—Steve Palopoli

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN

C&J’S SPORTS BAR C&J’SSPORTSBAR

DIVE BAR DIVEBAR

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ UncleHank.

San Jose.

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather.

Santa Clara.

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

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

THE COURT’S LOUNGE Thu, Sat, Mon, 9pm: Karaoke.

Campbell.

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

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

Thu, Sat, Mon, 9pm: CampbeWed, 8pm, and Sat, 8:30pm: KJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

San Jose.

BRIX Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

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

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BREWING STORM Beerijuana thrashes at the Blank Club Friday.

Beerijuana BEERIJUANA is definitely not something you’d have playing in your car on a blind date. By the same token, it’s probably something you’d enjoy blaring from your car speakers on your way home. Their music is a breed all its own.

Sure, death metal, crustpunk and thrash come to mind; but, like most original bands, it’s tough to pin down the Blank Club sound. While vocalist Paul the Prophet is belting out inhuman vocals, guitarist Dr. Crazyfingers utilizes his neckFri., March 16 thru Kramer (drop-tuned to Bb of course) as a polyphonic back up. The guitar work is so fast Bach would flip his wig.

9pm; $8 If that wasn’t enough, Zach Hick’s drums create a salvo of percussive tones reminiscent of WWI trench warfare, and bassist Frank Resina’s 300-watt GK rig can probably set off seismic sensors.

Abrupt and Cyanic open this show. In.—Tomek Mackowiak

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

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

HUDDLE

Karaoke Mountain of KOR Karaoke.

View.

KYOTO PLACE

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

Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

JERSEYS

Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

LIQUID

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

JOHNNY V’S

Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

Sun: Sunday Funday. Karaoke.

No cover. San Jose.

MARIANI’S

GALAXY

KATIE BLOOM’S

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

Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke.

Campbell.

FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY

the Metro photo exhibit

GILROY BOWL GILROYBOWL

featuring local photographers South First Fridays @ 550 S First

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

Illustration by Chris Hack

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

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

LILLY MAC’S

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

MOJO LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

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

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

KING OF CLUBS Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce

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Corned Beef & Cabbage Green Beer & Drink Specials

KARAOKE Fri-Sun 9:30pm-1:30am

OCALAHOLICS UNANIMOUS San Jose crew Ocalaholics drop ‘The Intervention Mixtape’ this week, with a show at Fahrenheit. What the group—Marvelous, Highly Authentic, J.Rod and Fluid—have leaked so far suggests the mixtape combines their realist raps with a surprisingly bright sound. They’re still writing street stories of struggle, as on last fall’s stay-strong anthem ‘Same Song,’ but ‘Da Come Up’ pops with irresistible percussion and ‘Fluid Flow’ soars. Fri., March 16, Fahrenheit, 10pm.

56 OFF THE HOOK Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

OFFICE BAR

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

AVALON

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

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

SHERWOOD INN

AZÚCAR

Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

BEST OF SILICON VALLEY

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

Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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.

Best Karaoke

PEACOCK LOUNGE

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

BAMBOO LOUNGE

Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

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

2011

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

Sunnyvale.

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

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

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

Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

QUARTER NOTE Mon: Ed. Tue: Sue and Sherrie.

No cover. Sunnyvale.

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

San Jose.

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

SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL

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

BBC GASTROPUB

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL

THE BLANK CLUB

Wed, 9pm: DJ Joe. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

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

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

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

San Jose.

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

Santa Clara.

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

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

Dance Clubs

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

Santana Row.

AGENDA

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

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

BLUE PHEASANT THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT

ROSIE MCCANN’S

RUDY’S PUB

Fri: DJs. Menlo Park.

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays.

Thu: Antromix. Banda nights.

Fri: Rock en Español. San Jose.

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

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

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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.”

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High Society LAVISH LA AVISH & K KUSH USH Arc H Healing ealing Center in San Jose offers patie patients ents a relaxing ambience in ad addition ddition to bud.

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HE CANNIBiS CANNIBiS CLUB landscape in San Jose Jose offers about as many options options as the restaurant restaurant scene—fast-food sccene—fast-food style ta akeout to the peaceful takeout ambience of fine dining. And An nd ambience ju ust as there are foodies who wh ho just seek se eek out the finest mélange mélange of of service, atmosphere and d taste, ta aste, so are there cannabiss connoisseurs co onnoisseurs loyally loyally patronizing patronizing standouts in San Sa an Jose’s Jose’s diverse medical medical marijuana m marketplace.

One club that is high on man many ny people people’s e ’s lists is Ar Arcc Healing C Center, enterr, which w makes m mak ak kees su sur suree it do doesn’t esn es n’’t p pr project oject aan In-n In-n’n’-’O ttype Out yype op operation. eration. Op Open en now ffor or mor o m moree than th han ttwo wo yyears, w eears, Ar Arcc is b both oth a sur survivor vivvo orr and an nd a suc success cess e stor storyy in the cit city’s ty’ y s ccannabis annab bis club clu ub industr industry. y. F Founded ounded ar around ro ound the same sa ame time San JJose ose cit city ty C Councilmember ouncilmem mber Pierluigi Pi ierluigi Oliv Oliverio veerio adv advocated vocated ffor or o rregulating e egulating clubs in San JJose, ose, Ar Arc rc set it itself tself apart ap part with a mo modern, dern, almost ne new-age w-agee style st tyle y déc décor cor o to match its high st standard andard off pr professionalism. offeessionalism. Ar Arcc is now widelyy rrecognized e ognized as one of the industr ec industryy standards, st a andar ds, almost univ universally veersally rrespected especteed byy p b peers, eers, patients and p politicians oliticians who o have ha ave ttaken ak keen the time to study the issue issue. e.

“From “Fr om the b beginning eginning we w wanted aanted to o cr create eate a high st standard, taandard,” sa says ayys Hectorr Gonzalez, G Gonzale z, Ar Arc’s c’s pr president. esident. “W “We We w wanted aanteed to put pu ut our b best est ffoot oot fforward—clean, orwaard—clean, we o wellell-

lit and ccomfortable, omffor o table, with h high qualit quality ty medicine at eevery veery pric price-point. e-p point. W Wee work hard har d to b bee b better etttter than p people eople eexpect. xxpect.”

Arc’s Ar rcc’s rreputation eputtaation as one of o the b better etttter clubs in San JJose ose do doesn’t esn n’’t mean n it isn isn’t n’’t subject to ccompetitive ompetitivve pr pressures reessuress of the dealseeking cultur culturee of cconsumers. onsu o umers. W With iith so many man ny clubs off offering ffeering fr freebies eeebies on the first visit, some p patients in th the he ar area ea b bounce ounce freely fr eely fr from ro om club to club club,, ne never eveer rreturning eturning to the same one ttwice. wic w e. So Some ome clubs operate op erate in vvery eery Spar Spartan rtan digs or op operate erate delivery deliv veery ser services vices with low wo overhead veerhead and aggr aggressive essivve pricing pricing, g, making m Ar Arc’s c’s prices pric es app appear ear eexpensive xxpensivve b byy ccomparison. omparison.

And others off offer ffeer onon-site site cconsumption, onsumption, something that Ar Arc rc cconsidered onssidered but ultimately declined to al allow. llow w.

Platinum So Society, cietty, ano another other lo local cal ccollective ollectivve that has b een ar aaround ound sinc been sincee the genesis of San JJose’s ose’s p ot club sc ene, also pot scene, sees the need to distingu uish itself fr om distinguish from the cr owd. Dr r. Sacha N e ov uses his emc crowd.

Dr. Nemcov back kgr g ound as a clinic caal ps ycchologist to background clinical psychologist set Platinum So cietty apa art fr om other Society apart from clubs ollectiivve’s niche as clubs.. He sees his ccollective’s pr oviding v sp ecialized ser rvice that helps providing specialized service patients cut thr ough thee o veerwhelming through overwhelming numb er of strains to ffocus ocus c on one that number ttargets argets sp ecific needs specific needs..

“Sometimes p patients ccan aan gget o ver e whelmed, esp eciallyy if the ey ar overwhelmed, especially they aree a lit ttle t older r,” N emccov sa ayyss. “The ey ar en n’t ’ little older, Nemcov says.

“They aren’t cconcerned oncerned with the diff ffeer e ent names; the ey different they ar oking ffor or someonee to w o aalk them aree lo looking walk thr ough the diff ffeerent ch hoices and sp end through different choices spend time get ttting to know wh hat the ey ar getting what they aree lo oking ffor. orr.” o looking

Da ave Ho odges, ffounder ounder of The All o Dave Hodges, Americ an C annabis Club ((A2C2) A2C2) American Cannabis in San JJose osee sets his est ablishment establishment apar n er of w ays y as apartt in a numb number ways well. Origi ginally st arted as San JJose ose Originally started C annabis Buy B ers C ollective, A2C2 and Cannabis Buyers Collective, its outsp ok ken ffounder ounder ha o ave cultivated outspoken have a rreputation eputatio on as a hub ffor or o activit activityy and activis sm. “W We ar activism.

“We aree one of the ffew ew ccollectives ollecttivvees whose ccontributions ontributions ar n strict ccompliance ompliance with aree done in st ate la aw ac aaccording cording to the cit ty of state law city San JJose’s ose’s interpr iinterpretation etation of SB420 and Pr op 215, 2 ” sa ays y Ho dges, whose Prop says Hodges, interpr etattion of cit ty la aw diff ffeers fr om interpretation city law differs from p olicymak kers. Ho dges rrefuses efuses to pa ay policymakers.

Hodges pay the Measu ure U ttax ax b ecause he sa ays y Measure because says that would d put him and his club in violation of o st ate la aw. state law.

A2C2’ “ ccompliance” ompliance” b ent and A2C2’ss “strict bent its deep rroots oots in Silic on V aalley supplies Silicon Valley rresources esources ffor or patients and other club o op erators to t rally in p olitical action. operators political Whether a patient at ttends t one of the attends rregular egular bar rbeques hosted b barbeques byy A2C2 or is engaged thr ough its rrobust obust so cial through social media pr essence, it ’s clear that one presence, it’s of the thin ngs that mak es this club things makes diff ffeerent iss the cconstant onstant adv ocacy and different advocacy dialo gue ar aaround ound the eever-changing veer-changing dialogue landsc ape of medicinal ccannabis annabis landscape rregulation egulation n in the St ate.

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One ccould ou uld ar gue that the ccannabis annabis argue club mark etplace in the South Ba ay is marketplace Bay just as div e as the ar erse ea itself f. A diverse area itself.

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Systems Analyst and Programmer Analyst Location: Sunnyvale. CA Position Type: Full Time.

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Systems Analyst and Programmer Analyst Location: Sunnyvale. CA Position Type: Full Time.

Experience: 5 years.

Education: Bachelor’s Deg.

Systems Analyst to Analyze, design, develop, maintain, install, and test computer software programs. Work with Business Objects, Oracle/Sybase, and PL/SQL.

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CA. Salary: $47.91/ hour. Travel may be required to work on projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States.

Programmer Analyst to Design, develop software applications using J2EE, JSP, EJB, Oracle and Sybase. Req. Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science, CS, Commerce, Management with 5 years experience. Jobsite: Sunnyvale. CA. Rate of Pay: $63.98/ hour. Travel may be required to work on projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States.

Send Resume to: HR Dept, Horizon Technologies Inc, 1270 Oakmead Pkwy, Suite # 115, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Email: admin@ horizontechnol.com

Send Resume to: HR Dept, Horizon Technologies Inc, 1270 Oakmead Pkwy, Suite # 115, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Email: admin@ horizontechnol.com

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Core Projects & Technologies Ltd, Santa Clara, CA seeks 1)Programmer Analyst - Design, conďŹ gure & test ERP & PLM Solutions.; Plan & execute Data Migration from legacy systems to target systems in PLM, CAD & ERP arena; System Integrations & Interface development between PLM & ERP Systems; Implement Engineering change mgmt. solutions, Infrastructure Planning, Production Support & System Admin.

2)Industrial Engineer - Identify & gather process reqmts.; Devlp procedures to meet quality assurance standard; Develop & implement 3PL/Distribution Center Operations; Lead improvement initiatives using Six Sigma strategies; Develop & implement Supplier Recovery prog. for OEM by using Value Stream Mapping, Line Balancing and Capacity Planning.

3)SAP Financial Analyst - ConďŹ gure SAP ďŹ nancial modules; Conduct ďŹ nancial analysis of internal data; Create ďŹ nancial reports; Gather Business Reqmts. docs. & functional speciďŹ cations; Provide Project Scope & budget; Perform GAP, Cost beneďŹ t & Risk analysis; Provide status updates & presentations to Sr. Management.

4)SAP/ABAP Manager - Manage & deploy SAP methodology; ConďŹ gure & Implement SAP SCM Demand/Supply Planning with SAP R3; Manage scope, deliverables, timelines, budget and resources for SAP project Lifecycle; Design, Develop, analyze, maintain & test Object oriented SAP ABAP programs & ABAP Webdynpro; Plan, design & develop data conversion strategy using BO, LSMW and BDC; Develop & coordinate quality standards & perform quality audits.

Job Site: Santa Clara, CA and various unanticipated locations throughout the USA. Resumes to HR, 3350 Scott Blvd, 34A, Santa Clara, CA 95054. Complete job details: www. coreprojectstech.com

CashEdge, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA seeks 1) Systems Administrator Manage & maintain customers facing, production systs; Scripting in shell or Perl; Implement processes necessary to achieve 99.99% SLA for clients; Administer Linux systems, Weblogic app. servers, and JBoss app. servers; Administer Netscaler and BigIP Load Balancers.

2) Lead Systems Engineer Architecture lead for design & implementation of Authentication & Authorization services & Single Sign-On (SSO) services; Install Open AM 9.5.2 & Sun GlassFish Message Queue 4.4; Lead design for security & new apps; Design & implement Sun Directory Serve 6.3Open DJ 2.4.2; Design & deploy enterprise storage solutions; Architect the implementation of new apps.

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Stepping Out For its Seven’s Bloom anniversary show, San Jose boutique Black & Brown showed off the best of its in-house fashions

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N ANY OTHER PART of the country, B&B means bed and breakfast, but in San Jose, it means Black & Brown. Black & Brown is more or less a clothing boutique that specializes in vintage and new apparel.

In reality, Black & Brown is more of a clubhouse for artists from all walks of life—and a reminder that San Jose is a serious participant in the world of art, music and (of course) fashion. In between the coat hangers live little projects, ideas, parties and friendships waiting to be discovered. Black & Brown is just as

much a clothing boutique as it is an idea incubator.

Last weekend, the store, its owners and friends, celebrated seven years in business with a fashion show, “Seven’s Bloom.” The show was not a collection of various takes on a singular theme or designer. Like the multifaceted population of San Jose, Black & Brown chose to showcase designers and clothing spanning decades, the entire color spectrum and all flavors of fashion.

A mix of haute couture and prêtà-porter pieces were displayed by models on the catwalk. The models looked every bit as fabulous as any seen in New York and Milan. With hair help from the 5 Color Cowboy team, and makeup by Thang Dao, the models had no trouble looking their best.

Black & Brown owners Monisha Murray and Irene Kim put on a show that had eager viewers lined up and down the block. With the help of right-hand-man Josue Ramirez, the show went off without a flaw. As Monisha says, the boutique is always looking to “challenge ourselves and raise the standard higher.”

In the spirit of Christopher Kane, the show was moda operandi (a method of operating, while looking good). The styles seemed effortless, yet striking and original. Most interestingly, all the models were robed in what’s available for purchase at Black & Brown. In that sense, this was a special fashion show.

It had the exclusivity of a designer collection, with the nostalgia of a classic movie, all sewn together with the thread of a local community ready to show how good San Jose looks.

During the show, Paolo Bello conducted music. Most folks know him as DJ Cutso, and he is one of those talented San Jose artists who broke out, beyond the confines of the city, but still perform locally.

For those eager to see what San Jose puts on the walls of galleries around the world, Black & Brown will host an art retrospective on March 31. It will be B&B beyond the catwalk. If you’ve etver wondered what San Jose looks like to gallerygoers in Japan or Finland, this will be the time to see.

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