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Memo to to Geor George ge I just wanted wanted d to thank Mr. Mr. JJosh osh Koehn the Mr..

K oehn ffor o or th he rreporting eporting on Mr Shirakawa, Shirak awa, Jr. Jr. I had no idea m myy impostor likee him in district had an a imp ostor lik office. o ffice. myy home I feel feel e like like a person person is in m

watching w atching TV and drinking a ccold old d one, on ne, and I ccannot annot do an anything ything ab bout it. I did not used to care care so o about m much ab about out p politics, olitics, but in the past p ffour o to fiv our fivee yyears ears I ha have ave graduall gradually ly become moree entic enticed intrigued. b e ome mor ec ed and intrigu ued.

This stor storyy w was as painful to rread, ead,, an nd I do ha ave a job that rrequires equiress and have manyy mor moree hours than I lik like, but m man e, bu ut if there th here is an anyy help that yyou ou ccan an th think hink off that yyou ou need an anyy assist assistance ance with w please pl lease let me know know.. Curr Currently, entlyy, I am w writing daily “R “Reminder” Reminder” e emails to o Mr Mr.. Shirak Shirakawa, aw wa, JJr. r. and his chie chief ef off st aff to submit his ccampaign ampaign staff rreports. e orts. ep Thank yyou ou vvery ery much again ffor o or the th he rreporting, eporting, as it will inspir inspiree th those hose tryy and mak makee mor moree of an imp impact to o tr pact on n the community. community.

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Slanted Slant ed R Reporting epporting I think Sup er visor Ge eorge Supervisor George Shi Shirak kawa should h ld nott rresign esign i based b d Shirakawa on the rrevelations evelations rreported ep por ted b byy JJosh osh K oehn in the Metro; Meetro; only Koehn his cconstituents onstituents and vvoters oters in his district should ha ave the t final sa ay. have say.

U nless what he did w as criminal, Unless was and a serious crimina al off ffeense criminal offense at that, then I don ’t think t an don’t anyy p olitician should ha ave to rresign esign just politician have because b ecause someone obj objects ects to their noncriminal morals morals..

I think that the dec cision to decision personal one rresign esign is a p ersonal on ne that the sup ervisor has to mak ke ffor or o himself supervisor make indep endent of m y/our opinion of independent my/our Until now,, ffor know,, him. U ntil now o or aall ll we know these cr edit ccard ard char rges and use credit charges might b ould b bee and ccould bee past and curr ent practic es of fformer o ormer and current practices

current board current boar o d members. memb ers. Nothing Nothing is said in those t rregards, egards, or is this slanted rreporting ep p orting by by news news media?

P oliticiaans ar b eings just Politicians aree human beings lik rest e of us. us. They They do the same likee the rest things we do o ou ar do.. Y You aree deluding yyourself ourself iff yyou ou think an anyy of them ar etter than the ccommon ommon aree b better citizen. Th There here are are millions dying ar ound th he world from from starvation, starvation, around the poverty, p over ty, war, war, tyranny, tyranny, horrid living cconditions onditionss and jjoblessness joblessness,, and yyet et our fr o pages our filled with ont front opinions fr ffrom om ne wspapers ar ticles newspapers articles b ve their own byy writerss that hav have agenda? I ha ave not seen an have anyy of them in m orhoo d. myy neighb neighborhood.

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He’s H e’’s Go Goin’ in’ Down Down There’s blood in the water There’s water,r, and the number of political shark sharks ks cir circling cling Super Supervisor visor GE GEORGE OR RGE not SSHIRAKAWA’s HIRA AKAWA’s no ot yet vacant seems to be growing. gr owing. Top Toop on the list of candidates to Shirakawa—who rreplace eplace Shir akaw wa—who may have to rresign esign and/or fface a criminal char ace charges ges ffor or flagrant misuse his flagr ant misu use of taxpayer money ffor or personal vacations, vacaations,, dinners and golf outings—appears TERESA ALVARADO, outings—appea ars to be T ERESA A LVARA A DO, a popular comm communications munications manager ffor or the Santa CClara lara Valley Vaalley W Water ater District District and daughter of fformer orm mer supe BLANCA A ALVARADO. LVA ARA ADO. But B ut a number ooff others could also take a run at the seat.. Among A the possibles ar aree councilmembers San Jose counci lmembers SSAM AM A LLICCARDO ICCARDO and M MADISON ADISON NG NGUYEN, UYEEN, who both have their eye mayoral XAVIER on a 2014 mayo oral run,, and XA AV VIER CCAMPOS, AMPOS, frequent Shirakawa a fr equent Shir a akawa dining companion and principal beneficiary beneficciary of the supe’s supe’s spendy ways.. Scandal se eems to ffollow ollow CCampos ampos seems ar ound.. He neve er seems to notice when his around. never associates ar aree charging charging personal expenses to rting teachers all of us or diver diverting teachers’’ pension funds, as happened wh when hen he was COO of M MACSA. ACSA. It seems Assemblywoman Assemblywoman N ORA CCAMPOS’ AMPOS’ baby b br NORA broo Don’t may have to sta ay in his stay forget rroom oom this time. D ARCIE DARCIE to tip!

GREEN ecently installed GREEN,, rrecently FLY@ on the county ed ducation education METRONEWS. board, boar d,, has also tr ttrained ained her COM eye on Shirakawa’s Shirakaw wa’s seat on the way to su ucceeding succeeding N ora,, but timing g’s poor Nora, timing’s poor.. It seems one likely nominee—alon ng with Alvar ado—to nominee—along Alvarado—to Shirakawa rreplace eplace Shir akaw wa could be CCINDY INDY CCHAVEZ, HA AV VEZ, headmistress Bay headmistr ess off the South B ay Labor CCouncil. ouncil.

If a vacancy occu urs on the county’s B oard of occurs Board Super visors,, the leftover cast of ffour our must Supervisors, ne or call ffor or an election someone appoint someon supervisors DAVE within 45 days. CCurrent urrent super visors D AV VE KEN YEAGER, CCORTESE OR RT TESE and KE EN Y EA AGER, both laboristass, could help her cause. c . If supervisors supervisors fail fail to act or call ffor or an n election within 45 days of a vacancy, vacancyy, how however, weverr, Gov. Govv. JERR JERRY RY BROWN BROWN W must step in andd appoint a new supe.. A deadlocked ffour-member ourr-member boar boardd could increase incr ease odds for for o a Chavez Chavez appointment by B rown, who owes owees labor some love after Prop.

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THE T HE W WAITING AITING GA GAME ME In add addition dition to his work as a marketi marketing ing consultant, P Pratik ratik Dakwal Dakwala la helps lead the charge immigration Voice. ch harge for comprehensive imm igration reform through the nonprofit n Immigration V oice. o

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RA RATIK AT TIK D DAKWALA AKWALA arrived in the Unite United ed States from India 133 years ago. ago. H e starte ed He started the th he application process forr his h green card nine years ago a ago..

He’s He’s still w waiting. aiting.

“You “Y Yo ou ha have ave no idea how frustratingg it is,,” Dak is Dakwala kwaala sa says. ays y.

A ccore ore memb member er of Immigration Vo V Voice, oice, a nonpr n nonprofit ofit or organization rgganization and online employment-based green fforum o orum ffor o or emplo oyymentt--based gr een ccard ard applicants, ap pplic li ants, Dak D Dakwala kwaala l curr currently ently l works k marketing ass a mark keeting cconsultant onsulttaant in San JJose. osee.

Iff yyou ou ha o have ave the p potential otential to cr create reeate job jobs, bs, the th he o odds dds of b becoming ecoming a p permanent ermanent U U.S. ..S. rresident e esident shouldn shouldn’t n’’t b bee ccomparable omparable to striking lottery. the str riking the lot tttery. But ffor or some of th o he workers Silicon Valley m ttalented most alented work keers in Silic con o V all a leey aand an nd d nationally nationally, at o a y, the t e eemplo employment-based p oyyment e t--base baseed

gr green een ccard ard pr process ocess range ranges es fr from om random game.. to a rigged game In 20 2004, 04, only 16 p percent ercent of legal immigrants wer weree ccategorized ateggorized as skilled work workers. ers. But o over ver e the past nine yyears, eears, the emplo employment-based ym mentt--based green gr een ccard ard pr process ocess has h backlo b backlogged kl gged d and rretrogressed etrogressed so mu much uch that p people eople must w wait ait a se several veeral yyears earss or eeven ven dec decades ades to b become ecome p permanent ermanent rresidents. esidents.

Applicants Applic ants fr from om Chinaa and India ccan an eexpect xpect the longest w aaitts, b ecause no waits, because moree than 7 p mor percent ercent off the annually allot ttted 140,0 00 emplo oyymentt--based allotted 140,000 employment-based gr een ccards ards ma ay b ued to nativ es of green may bee issu issued natives any an ny one ccountry. ountry.

“You “Y Yo ou see ccolleagues olleagues fr from rom other ccountries ountries get their visa in n six months to a yyear, eear,” Dak kwaala sa ayys.

Dakwala says.

A rrecent ecent Kauffman F o oundation study Foundation ffound ound that of all enginee o ering and tech engineering ccompanies ompanies ffounded o ounded b i byy immigrants in the last six yyears, eears, 41.3 p errcent had percent Vivek Indian or Chinese ffounders. ound o ders. V iivveek Wadhwa, study’s Wadh Wad hwaa, one o e of o the t e stu udy s cco-authors, udy’ o-authors aut o s,

suggests tha at C ongress’s inabilit ty to that Congress’s inability enact immi igration rreform eeffo orm ffor or the highly o immigration skilled is adv dvveersely aff ffeecting job cr eation eation, adversely affecting creation, par ticularlyy in Silic on V aalleey st artups. particularly Silicon Valley startups.

These imm migrants either rreturn eeturn home immigrants or lo ok else ewhere to st art a business ayys look elsewhere start business,, sa says book, Wadwha, whose w b ook, The Immigrant Exo dus: Whyy America Is LLosing osing o the Glob al Exodus: Global R aacce ttoo C aaptturre Ent treeprreneurial e T aalent, w as Race Capture Entrepreneurial Talent, was October. published in n Octob err.

Sinc 005, the pr oportion of Sincee 20 2005, proportion immigrant t--ffounded o ccompanies ompanies immigrant-founded in Silic on V aalley has dr opped 8.5 Silicon Valley dropped p ercentagee p oints i , fr ffrom om 52.4 p ercent percentage points, percent to 43.9. Th he pr oportion of immigrant The proportion immigrant-nationwide ffounded ounded ccompanies o o ompanies nation nw wide has dr opped fr rom 2 5.3 p ercent to 24.3 dropped from 25.3 percent p ercent sin nce 20 05. percent since 2005.

Lam, director Emily L a senior dir am, ector of health ccare are and ffederal eederal issues ffor or o Silicon Silic on V Valley aallley L Leadership eadership Gr Group oup (S VLG), a nonpr n ofit that adv ocates (SVLG), nonprofit advocates on b behalf ehalf of o lo local cal businesses businesses,, notes that it ’s im mpossible to pr ove a negativ it’s impossible prove negativee proposition about pr oposition ab out the impact on the lo cal ec ono om my, but she adds that the local economy, ra aw dat uggest a fla aw in the ssystem. ystem. raw dataa su suggest flaw “It ’s har d to put a pric “It’s hard pricee on that kind of thing g, oth her than that when we see thing, other oad, moree inno innovation startups abroad, mor ovvation in st artups abr mor nology de veeloped abr oad, moree techn technology developed abroad, tthat’s that at’s pr p probably obaably ab y the t eb best est indic indicator d caator ato of o how ow

immigrants alr already eady living in the U United nited n States, September.

St ates, but itt did not p pass in Septemb p err.

The bill wou would uld ha have ave allo allocated caated up 55,000 green per to 55,0 00 gr reeen ccards aards p er yyear eear to advanced ed immigrant graduates g with advanc degrees degr ees in S STEM T TEM fields fields.. Howe However, eveerr, ther theree weree dra drawbacks. wer aw wbaacks.

U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren U .S. C oe L offggren onggresswoman Z (D–San (D –San JJose) osee) vvoted oted against the bill, o because have sacrificed b ecause it would w ha ave sacrific ed the Diversity Visa Lottery Program Div veersitty V i L isa ottery Pr ogram ffor o or new allocation STEM the ne w allo ocation of visas ffor or S o TEM graduates.. The lottery program graduates T lot tttery pr ogram provides 55,000 pr ovides up p to 55,0 00 visas each citizens from yyear ear to citiz zens fr om ccountries ountries with historically historic ally low rates of immigration to U.S. majority the U .S. Thee majorit ty of these visas go applicants from Africa, particularly to applic antts fr om Afric a, par ticularly Egypt, Nigeria in Eg gyypt, Ni igeria and Ethiopia.

Dakwala argues Dak kwala a ar rggues that the bill is also flawed because increase fla aw wed b ecau use it would incr ease backlogs backlo gs and d add ccomplexity ompleexxitty to an already process. alr eady cconfusing onffusing pr ocess.

House The Hou use is eexpected xpected to vvote ote on a slightly rrevised eviised vversion ersion of H.R. 6429 new at the end of o the week. The ne w bill eliminates lottery program still elimina ates the lot tery pr ogram boosts number green and b oosts the numb er of gr een ccards ards graduates.. aavailable vvailable to o fforeign o oreign graduates Currently, Curr entlyy, when fforeign or o eign students studies,, the they finish their graduate g studies ey often leave lea ave the ccountry ou untry or apply ffor or an H-1B o visa, which allows a ffor o or up to six yyears eears of The 85,000 rresidence. esidence. Th he US only issues 85,0 00 workers H 1B visas ffor H-1B o or highly skilled work keers temporary naturee of eevery veery yyear, eear, and a the temp orary natur hinder the visas hin nder those who hold them from making fr om makin ng long-term ccommitments. ommitments.

Even advancing one’s presents Ev veen advanc cing one ’s ccareer areer pr reesents difficulties,, b because promotion new difficulties ecause a pr omotion or ne w job title ccould oulld rrequire equirre rrestarting esttaarting the application process. application pr p ocess.

“For Dakwala says, “F or eevery veery decision,” Dak kwaala sa ayys, “you have “y yo ou ha ave to o put the immigration issue front it. in fr ont of it t.” application delay Hi applic His licaation i dela d lay has h meant postponing like p ostponing things lik ke buying a house starting or st arting a ccompany. ompan ny. Ong admits that green without a gr reen ccard, aard, she would not have been able have business.. ha ave b een ab ble to ha ave her own business “Having green like “Ha avving a gr een ccard ard is lik ke striking lottery, says.

“It’s pricee yyou the lot tttery,” she s sa ayys. “It ’s the pric ou o have pay want. ha ave to pa ay to t do the work yyou ou w o aant.” started Ong st arted t her ccompany ompan ny 10 months ago,, and alr already she’s hired seven people. ago e eady she ’s hir ed se eveen p eople.

Nationwide, Nation nw widee, immigrant ffounders o ounders of technology engineeringg and technolo gy ccompanies ompanies have employed 560,000 ha ave emplo oyeed rroughly oughly 56 0,000 workers work keers and d generated an estimated from 2006 $63 billion in n sales fr om 20 06 to 2012, according Foundation. ac cording to o the Kauffman F oundation. entrepreneur, creating ““As As an ent trepreneurr, I’m cr reeating jobs,,” Ong sa says. government jobs ayys. “The go oveernment should speed green process. sp eed up thee gr een ccard ard pr ocess.”

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it’s hur it’s hurting ting us us,,” she sa says. ayys. “W “We We don don’t n’’t know next Sergey if we jjust sent aaway way the ne n exxt Ser ggey Brin [Google’s [Go ogle’s cco-founder] o-ffo ounder] or someone lik like ke Wee don don’t what they that. W n’’t know wha at the ey would have heree vversus there. ha ave done her eersus th here.”

Aihui Ong is the ffounder o ound der and CEO Love With Food, gourmet of L ove W ith i F ood, a gou urmet ffoodoodservice Santa subscription ser vicce based d in Sant ta Clara.

United States from She ccame aame to the U nited St n S ates fr om Singapore 1999 green Singap ore in 19 99 and rreceived e eivved ec e her gr een 2003, applying. ccard aard in 20 03, a ffew ew yyears eears after applying g.

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A RECENT Mercury News editorial called on Supervisor George Shirakawa to resign based on the revelations reported by Josh Koehn in the Metro. Shirakawa’s actions included misappropriating taxpayer money, fraudulent reporting of expenses, misuse of campaign donations and failure to file the appropriate financial documents after repeated warnings.

It is right and proper the Mercury News came to its conclusion based on the overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing. Supervisor Shirakawa should resign. But it is a painful conclusion, because I support George’s political agenda.

It is always easier to ask a person whom you disagree with politically to resign. It is easier to call out opponents on their transgressions.

But what happens when the elected official is a friend or supports your political agenda?

When Chuck Reed misappropriated taxpayer money—reimbursing himself for

political meetings while a city councilmember—the outrage came from a different sector of the body politic. When Rose Herrera’s past fraudulent conduct was revealed, there were no calls from her side of the aisle for resignation. On the contrary, supporters dismissed these actions as lapses in judgment and rationalized them as unethical personal attacks made during a campaign.

While distinctions can be drawn on the conduct, when it was made and the appropriate level of corrective action—from simple apology to legal indictment—the fact remains that unethical behavior should be repudiated by all elements of the body politic.

There are no perfect people in public office. Nearly everyone will make a mistake. Not every unethical incident or revelation of bad judgment should require a resignation. But certainly we must apply the same standards of ethical conduct to our friends and political opponents. Ethical behavior is not a partisan issue.

That said, Shirakawa’s actions have clearly crossed the line, and even his friends and supporters should help him reach the inevitable conclusion. His recent outburst that the scandal is a “political lynching” is sad.

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If it is a hanging, it was George who held the rope. There is no one else to blame for his situation.

Some Shirakawa supporters have asked he be given due process before any final determination is made. But the evidence is clear by his own admissions, and the facts regarding impropriety are not in dispute. Some people don’t want to be considered disloyal friends or in the position of kicking someone when they are down. These are laudable, if misguided, motives.

Friendship and loyalty demand honesty. Shirakawa cannot make things right now. A person cannot be acquitted of bank robbery, even if he gives the money back after being caught. Shirakawa has violated the public trust, and his friends and supporters need to help him do what is right for the public.

There is no denying that this is a painful episode for those of us who helped him get elected and supported his views over the years.

But it is absolutely necessary to end this quickly for the benefit of his constituents, for the county he serves and for the issues he has always championed.

Rich Robinson is a political consultant in Silicon Valley. He previously worked on George Shirakawa’s 2008 supervisor campaign.

normankline Good call, Richard.

I don’t know George and never really met him. But if the famous saying about democracies end with the applause to a dictator, then surely corruption is allowed with a wink and a nod to the well connected.

John Galt Robinson “agreed with his agenda”? But squandering and misappropriating taxpayer dollars is the entire foundation of the Democrat agenda.

George’s only error was that he didn’t think big enough.If he’d only understood that to be a sucuccesful career Democrat you have to throw money away by the millions rather than the hundreds he’d be given a free pass.

So So Interesting You’re republican, you lost, give it a rest.

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percent due in part to more people opting to visit the website through their social devices, which don’t employ advertisements.

Now, jumping into e-commerce could prove to be a wise decision, at least according to Arvind Bhatia, an analyst at Sterne Agee & Leach Inc. “It’s a good first step to get into ecommerce,” said Bhatia. “In the near term, I don’t expect Facebook to be selling televisions or appliances, but there are certain categories like flowers, chocolate and wine where they could add revenue.”

So far, it’s working. After introducing this new feature, sales rose 32 percent to $1.26 billion (per the Washington Post) in the third quarter; Facebook stock closed at $23.56 on Nov. 16, the highest it’s been since July 27.

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Facebook to Play Secret Santa Facebook is gearing up for the holiday season and expanding its roster of online retailers to help the social media giant transition into the world of e-commerce.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the Silicon Valley–based company will add such partners as Brookstone Inc., Fab.com Inc. and Dean & Deluca Inc. to its Facebooksupported retail platform to help users buy and send (physical) gifts on its website. Users have the option of sending these gifts from a birthday reminder or from viewing a friend’s profile, and can add the gift to a user’s Timeline.

Facebook announced the news last week at an event in New York.

“Starting today, Facebook Gifts will include hundreds of gifts from new retail partners and will be available

to more people on Facebook,” according to the company. “Now you can say happy birthday, congratulate new parents, or wish a friend happy holidays with gifts from babyGap, Fab, Brookstone, Dean & Deluca, L’Occitane, Lindt, ProFlowers, Random House, Inc. and NARS Cosmetics,” the company said. “You can also gift TV shows and music with subscriptions to Hulu Plus, Pandora, Rdio and more.”

The move is a big shift for Facebook, whose stock value has plummeted significantly since it went public on May 18. In fact, the social media giant and its shares slipped 38

The new function is an obvious step forward in developing a one-stop shop for users not only to share life’s important moments but also to add to them through gift-giving.

And when they do, Facebook will get a share of the pie. —Nick Trenchard

The Monday After the Friday Will online sales during Cyber Monday increase over last year? Many analysts are saying yes, and the growth should be much higher than Black Friday’s— even though overall revenues will still be much lower.

While some have suggested that Cyber Monday sales could reach $2 billion this year, others say the total is likely to be more on the order of $1.4 to $1.5 billion. That’s still a significant chunk and represents a much higher growth rate than Black Friday, according to IBISWorld research.

“Black Friday will remain one of the biggest shopping

days of the year, but busy consumers will shy away from brick-and-mortar retailers for the convenience of online shopping and the ability to avoid overwhelming crowds and long lines,” said IBISWorld industry analyst Olivia Tang.

Also, more retailers are extending Black Friday deals throughout the entire weekend so that consumers can take advantage of deals on alternative days. Therefore, spending on Friday alone is forecast to rise only 0.1 percent to $12.2 billion, according to the report, which adds that overall weekend spending will grow at a faster 2.8 percent for 2012.

Although Cyber Monday’s estimated $1.5 billion for 2012 is only a fraction of Black Friday spending, IBISWorld said Cyber Monday’s revenue is projected to skyrocket 21.4 percent.

Consumers increasingly prefer the convenience of online shopping over visiting traditional stores. Websites dedicated to compiling Cyber Monday deals are also facilitating this rapid growth by making it easier for consumers to navigate the extensive and growing list of deals.

Online sales during the entire 2012 holiday shopping season are expected to rise 15 percent over last year, to $68.4 billion, according to Forrester Research. Cyber Monday will represent a considerable chunk of that figure, with up to 65 percent of holiday shoppers browsing and 57 percent purchasing on that day, according to research by Radium One. —Dan Holden

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Thankfully, Arnold’s new book, Salt to Summit: A Vagabond Journey From Death Valley to Mount Whitney, documents his entire adventure.

After hopping on the bus at Torrance Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway with a backpack that he calls “Goblin,” Arnold crisscrossed Los Angeles on street buses—a ridiculous vagabond journey in itself—and then took a commuter train over the San Gabriel Mountains to Lancaster before eventually hitchhiking to Death Valley.

From there, the journey began in earnest.

The Lowest-to-Highest Trail is a famous one, but Arnold refused to take the standard path. Manmade concrete or previously forged trails did

not interest him. Anything designed to make travel easier was dismissed.

Instead, he spent more than two weeks off the beaten path, literally between the cracks of the landscape.

Arnold’s talent for descriptive prose highlights each and every page, although the book moves along at a leisurely pace, intended for readers to experience the timeless, ignored wasteland feel of the landscape Arnold occupies.

On Badwater Basin, Arnold says: “Getting pinched between the salt and the sun there feels like hanging out in a jerking oven. It’s the apocalypse as written by a banana slug.”

Other passages contemplate the apparent relationship between land and time—the way in which the desert destroys any sense of how time passes in the Western linear sense. Arnold compares it to minimalism: “There is something eerily patient about the big red curves of the mountains here, the heavy stillness. Mortality and frailty feel more inescapable in Death Valley than

anywhere else I travel. Our time scales are comically disconnected. The desert, with its billion-year-old rocks, won’t twitch during the time it takes me to finish my little dance. Here, I am the mayfly who lives for a day.”

Even though Salt to Summit is an adventurous tale, Arnold does not focus on gear, gadgets and testosterone. This is not high-fivin’ adventure writing for crotch-grabbing frat boys. Instead, Arnold spends much of the book absorbing historical legends of ramblers, nomads, prospectors and other misfits who traversed the same terrain before him, intertwining their histories with his present-tense narrative. What unfolds is just as much a history and philosophy book as a travel story.

We learn about colorful characters like author Mary Austin, who came to the Mohave by accident and wound up staying for 15 years. The famous Western writer Zane Grey also makes an appearance, through his novel Wanderer of the Wasteland, a book Arnold brought with him on the trip, and a novel in which Grey overdramatized the same territory.

“He force-fed his characters romantic lard by the tubful,” Arnold writes of Grey. “But every so often, while chewing through the fat, I’m stung by a sharp line of thought—a cactus spine hiding in the greasy pate.”

At another juncture, Arnold even throws in a little Manson family history for the reader’s experiential pleasure.

Even though the desert is a lonely place, history always loves company.

“I just want the readers to have a full-bodied adventure story to read,” Arnold told me. “I think that’s the goal with all my writing right now, is to give the reader an experience in a place that maybe they’ve never been to or maybe they’ve never heard of. For me, that full experience is both in the present— having the adventure—and also the stories, both old and new, of the land.

What I’d like [readers] to do is experience this incredible place, and experience it at a bunch of different levels.”

Arnold will talk about his work on Nov. 29 at 6pm in the Steinbeck Center at the King Library.

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NOW FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT Yeganeh Riazi works the counter at her namesake bakery.

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Yeganeh is really more of a cafe, despite the word “bakery” in its name.

The menu includes coffees, juices, bite-size Iranian pastries and Persian sandwiches, which are served on the sangak bread or a baguette.

I ordered the sossi banari, which is a mildly spicy sausage and potato sandwich, and a kookoo sabazi, which is a vegetarian soufflé made with spinach, cilantro and mint. I ordered them on sangak since I can get a sandwich on a baguette anywhere. They come with tomatoes, pickles, onions and lettuce and range in price from $6 to $8. The sossi banari tastes like a delicious hot dog and potato sandwich and has a faint hint of mustard. The kookoo sabazi is a bit too minty, though the combination of spinach, eggs, pickles and tomatoes is delicious.

The bakery’s made-to-order juices are Yeganeh’s hidden gem. I tried the watermelon, and it was amazing—like drinking a whole, fresh watermelon.

They also offer cantaloupe, carrot and pineapple ($3.50–$4.50).

Yeganeh’s mission to make everything special includes even the coffee. I tried the “lavender latte,” which is, as the name suggests, a latte made with lavender syrup. I couldn’t decide if I liked the unusual blend of coffee and lavender or not, but then again, I don’t usually like flavored coffees. I’m sure for many a coffee connoisseur, this drink would be a well-received treat.

For dessert, approximately 20 traditional bite-size Iranian pastries go for $8 a pound. The desserts are all lightly sweet and go great with a fresh cup of coffee. My favorites were the coconut and zaban—which is a soft biscuit served with or without apricot jam. —Aaron Carnes P<>8E<? 98B<IP 3275 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose

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Having attended Santa Clara High School together, the Liquid Bread partners have South Bay pride and more than 10 years of food and beverage experience each. JORDAN TRIGG, owner of Jack’s Bar & Lounge in San Jose’s Japantown, helped start the successful San Jose Beerwalk events.

RYAN BANDERAS has worked extensively in the restaurant and bar scene and developed the beer program at Rootstock Wine Bar in Los Gatos.

Executive chef JOHN BURKE has cooked at several acclaimed Bay Area restaurants, including two with a Michelin star—the Village Pub in Woodside and Trevese in Los Gatos as its chef de cuisine. He was most recently the chef de cuisine at the Silicon Valley Capital Club in San Jose. Along with sous chef TYLER GRAHAM, he provides a fresh take on new and traditional California cuisine that features local ingredients and is vegetarian friendly.

Regarding the unusual name, Jordan explains: “Liquid bread refers to beer.

The phrase came from the time when water was not very sanitary, and beer was consumed for both water and valuable nutrients. We feel Liquid Bread represents our primary focus of beer, but at the same time encompasses the aspects of a gastropub—the focus on drinks—liquid—complemented by high-end cuisine—bread.”

The partners recently hired a beer manager to help order and maintain a stellar beer lineup and to run beer-related specials, including food- and beerpairing events and beer club memberships. The beer manager is LARRY HOANG, previously the assistant brewer at Campbell’s Rock Bottom Brewery and, yes, also a friend from Santa Clara High.—Andy Lee LIQUID BREAD GASTROPUB 379 East Campbell Ave., Campbell, CA; 408.370.3400

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Johnny V’s, San Jose Thu – 9pm; free

Studio 8, San Jose Thu – 10pm; free before 11pm

Bay Area indie band Drop Dead Sixty is serious about its craft, and alt-rock music fans looking for an ambient sound won’t be disappointed. DD60 brings to mind a layered Stone Temple Pilots sound with a touch of U2 emotion.

This music leaves ample room to get rowdy and romantic, all in the same night. Cosmic Machine and Chris Ely support. (NP)

On their website, Zombie Pool Party describe what they do simply as “music you can party to.” What they’re not telling you is that it’s music to party to ... if you’re a zombie. Their lyrics drive the point home: “There’s a party in the graveyard/The drinks are on me.” So, apparently, zombies like wild, energetic music that mixes elements of hardcore, rap and funk-metal, all sprinkled with some upbeat garage-rock riffs. There’s a chance that even humans might like it, thought they might find it tough to connect

Studio 8 is always a reliable spot to catch top DJs spinning dance songs. Tonight, the club is adding a little Latin music to the mix. It is Tequila Thursday, and DJ Audio1 and DJ DVS will be spinning some merengue and reggaeton as well as plenty of hip-hop, electronic and Top 40 standards. DJ Audio1 is a veteran who tends to play slower, nastier tunes, while DJ DVS prefers a higher-energy, technooriented mix. Cuban artist 2Four and Venezuelan WilJ will also appear. (AC)

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Over the past six years since Port of Miami debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200, Rick Ro$$ often finds himself at the top of hip-hop superlative lists and collaborating with the hottest rappers in the business. In spite of his penchant for starting hip-hop feuds over perceived slights (see: 50 Cent, Young Jeezy), a stint as a correctional officer before getting into the rap biz and a multitude of health and legal issues, he has maintained his mandate from fans as rap royalty. His most recent album, God Forgives, I Don’t, hit the highest industry benchmarks

again, carried by the single “3 Kings” with two other czars of hiphop: Jay-Z and Dr. Dre. “The Boss,” as he is sometimes known, will exercise his lyrical authority over the crowd in San Jose with his Maybach Music Tour, also featuring buzz rappers Meek Mill, Wale and Machine Gun Kelly. (MC)

COUNTER PRODUCTIVE Peacock Lounge, Sunnyvale Fri – 9pm; $10 Before Dirtbag Dan was headlining major venues in San Jose, he was rocking tiny clubs with his rap outfit, Counter Productive.

The quartet also featured DJ Ichy the Killer, a turntable wizard who continues to spin with Dan to this day; Skylar G, who’s produced several local hip-hop records (including Dan’s amazing mixtape

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Dec 1 at 8pm, San Jose Civic

ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ Dec 2 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

BARRY MANILOW Dec 6 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

JON B Dec 7 at Studio 8, San Jose

KUNGFU VAMPIRE Dec 8 at 9pm, the Blank Club

TOWER OF POWER/WAR Dec 8 at 8pm, San Jose Civic

THE WHAMMY Dec 12 at 8pm, the Blank Club, San Jose

SUPERSUCKERS Dec 14 at 9pm, the Blank Club, San Jose

FRED HERSCH Dec 16 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Dec 26–30, HP Pavilion

LOS LOBOS Jan 12 at 7 and 9pm, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

LADY GAGA Jan 17 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

last year); and Able Abilities Abilities, whose rapid-fire flow is downright mind-boggling. They were an underrated, energetic outfit that made a nod to the days when rappers still formed crews—with each member bringing a little something different to the table.

This will be their first show in more than two years. It’s also Able Abilities’ and Skylar G’s 30th birthday celebration. (AC)

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AJ’S BIRTHDAY AJ’s Restaurant and Bar, San Jose Sat – all evening Venerable adult club AJ’s started small—with one show and one

bikini. Twenty-five Twenty-five years later later, AJ’s bikini boasts that it is the only bikini bar in the city limits (because Sunnyvale is Silicon Valley’s Sin City). In addition to the eye candy, AJ’s also gathers a mixed crowd to listen to DJ music nightly. For its birthday bash, the club will hand out some free food and door prizes, not to mention some cameo appearances and the famed Jagermeister girls. (AR)

conduct, and the program also conduct features Tchaikovsky’s Symphony no. 6. (AR)

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Le Petit Trianon, San Jose Sun – 7pm; $39–$42

California Theatre, San Jose Sat – 8pm, Sun – 2:30pm; $39–$75 The symphony welcomes guest pianist Peter Serkin—his first time back in more than 20 years—to perform Brahms’ Piano Concerto no. 1 in D minor. Longtime area musical master George Cleve will

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SJ CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY The guest group for the San Jose Chamber Music Society is the Flanders Recorder Quartet— minus one, because member Tom Beets is unable to travel with the ensemble for medical reasons. Undaunted, Flanders plans to soldier on as a trio. The program for this concert is called “The Miracle of the Recorder” and highlights some significant works

from the history of the group’s namesake. On tap are medieval, Renaissance and Baroque selections, along with a taste of contemporary recorder music from composers WW van Nieuwkerk and Pete Rose. (MSG)

ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Sun – 7:30pm; $36–$5 Alfredo Rodriguez comes with the imprimatur of Quincy Jones, who spotted the talented young Cuban pianist at the Montreux Jezz Festival six years ago. Now 27, Rodriguez has established himself as an in-demand touring artist, as well as an accomplished composer.

His latest album, Sounds of Space, has been praised for both its lyricism and its prodigious intricacy and difficulty. (AR)

KEOLA BEAMER JJan 18 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center

JACKSON BROWNE Jan 22 at 7:30pm, San Jose Civic

MINGUS BIG BAND Jan 25 at 8pm, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

PHINEAS AND FERB Jan 26 at San Jose Civic

PINK Feb 18, HP Pavilion

TIËSTO Mar 13, SJSU Event Center

RIHANNA Apr 13 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion

JOE BONAMASSA Apr 18 at 8pm, San Jose Civic For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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It was no small feat to obtain rights to the full Broadway version, Hauge says.

Never before has the show come to a South Bay stage and only three other theater companies in the country were granted rights this season to produce the full-length version.

“It’s a perfect time to see this the way it’s meant to be,” Hauge says, “in person, in 3-D, up close.” In short, the way 60 million people around the world have witnessed the longest-running musical in theater history for the past 27 years.

The San Jose production will be brought to life by alumni of one of the most prestigious children’s theater companies in the nation.

The theatrical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s colossal novel follows the now-familiar story, set in 19th-century France, of fugitive Jean Valjean and the policeman Javert who relentlessly pursues him. It is a tale of youthful love and a nation’s bloody revolution.

““Les Misérables is a perfect show for a wide variety of people,” says Hauge, ticking off the reasons: “It’s epic, it’s got battle, it’s got guns, it’s got love, it’s got thievery, it’s got everything … something for everybody.”

Audiences will hear orchestral versions of some vey familiar songs: “On My Own,” “Stars,” “One More Day” and the moving, Grammy Award–winning “I Dreamed a Dream.” Picking up the theme, Adam Scott Campbell, who plays Valjean, says, “Being part of this production is a dream come true. It’s the greatest musical ever written, and I can’t think of a better company to produce this.”

Campbell became a CMT actor when he was 12. Now, at 30, he’s part of the company’s adult alumni group, Marquee Productions. He is appearing in Les Misérables while on hiatus from a full-time career in musical theater.

“For them to call and invite me to come sing for this was a huge honor,” says Campbell, who toured nationally as part of the Broadway cast of Jesus Christ Superstar. “I’ve known Kevin for most of my life. … This is like a reunion for me.”

It’s also a chance to prove he’s better than some Hollywood heartthrob, he

adds jokingly. “My claim is that Hugh Jackman continues to steal my thunder … first as Wolverine and now this,” he quips.

Like Campbell, many of the 40member cast of CMT grads are coming from out of town—two have flown in from New York for a month, one from L.A. and others from around the Bay Area. “It’s an opportunity to re-engage in the community they group up in,” Hauge explains. “Many of them are professional actors; they’re all giving us quality work.”

Hauge, who’s been with CMT for 18 years, has fostered a relationship with Musical Theatre International, which holds the license for Les Mis. That’s rare for a children’s theater company.

“We get rights to productions like this because we’re known for putting on quality shows,” Hauge says.

A lot of pressure comes with accepting the license to perform a Broadway version of a famous musical, Hauge acknowledges. But CMT has earned the trust, he adds, and its performers stand up to the task.

“Of course we accepted without hesitation,” he wrote to CMT members upon news of obtaining the rights. “It is an honor to have our artistic integrity acknowledged on such a grand scale.

Anyone in this industry knows the powerful vocals, the heartfelt acting and the complex staging this show requires.”

He’s had a fair bit of practice, too.

In 2006, CMT produced the student version of Les Mis. All the actors had to be younger than 18, and certain scenes were edited out for length. It was put on by CMT’s younger troupe, the Mainstage division of all-teen performers.

Audiences looking for a more personal experience will enjoy seeing locally grown talent act Les Mis on the historic Montgomery Theater stage.

“It does in fact resonate in a more intimate theater,” Hauge says.

“Learning how to make the most of that wonderful building and that stage, which has almost no backstage whatsoever, has made this an interesting challenge … and that’s made the show, famous as it is, uniquely our own.”

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Runs thru Dec 8. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2:30 or 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $18-$33. Saratoga Civic Theater.

BIG BAND CHRISTMAS SURPRISE Tabard Theatre presents big-band arrangements of seasonal favorites. Nov 30Dec 16. Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $10-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

BIG RIVER A musical take on Mark Twain, from TheatreWorks. Runs Nov 28-Dec 30. $31-$51. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.

BOOM A comedy from Renegade Theatre Experiment. Runs thru Dec 1. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7pm. $12.50-$27.50. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL Rick Lombardo’s adaptation.

Runs thru Dec 23. Opens Wed, 8pm. $20 and up. San Jose Rep, San Jose.

CHRISTMAS DESSERT THEATER A presentation of “The Christmas Schooner” by the King’s Company. Fri, 7pm, Sat, 1 and 7pm, Community Christian, Morgan Hill; also Dec 8, 7pm, Campbell Community Center. $14/$20.

CHRISTMAS SHORTS Five short plays in a satirical vein. Runs thru Dec 23. ThuSat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $24.95$39.95. City Lights, San Jose.

MARCH A drama by Dragon Productions. Runs thru Dec 2. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm.

(No show Nov 22.) $20-$30.

Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

RECKLESS A black comedy by Craig Lucas. Nov. 28-Dec. 16. WedThu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $14-$45. The Stage, San Jose.

SAN JOSE DANCE THEATRE The troupe’s “Nutcracker” is done in collaboration with Los Gatos Ballet and features Melissa Sandvig from “So You Think You Can Dance.” Fri, 7:30pm, Sat, 2 and 7:30pm, Sun, 1pm. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

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SANTASTIC! A musical revue for families.

Run thru Dec 22. Sat, 11am and 2pm. $18. Retro Dome, San Jose.

SMUIN BALLET

12. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM “Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition.”Thru Jan 16. MonWed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Portraits: New Works by Donna Cehrs.” Nov 28-Jan 27. Reception Dec 7, 6pm.

“Karen Frey.” Encaustics and watercolors. Thru Feb 3.

Reception Dec 7, 6pm. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

A holiday dance show called the “Christmas Ballet.”

Wed-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $23-$68.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS Seasonal numbers. Sat, 5pm. $16-$27. First Congregational Church of Palo Alto.

SJ SYMPHONIC CHOIR AND NOVA VISTA The collaboration includes classical favorites. Sat, 7:30pm. $15/$25. Church of the Ascension, Saratoga. The choir also presents “YouSing-It Messiah” with Mission Chamber Orchestra. Mon, 7:30pm. $15/$20. California Theatre, San Jose.

SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY Pianist Peter Serkin appears in a program of Brahms and Tchaikovsky. Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $39-$75. California Theatre, San Jose.

*art MUSEUMS CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Video Quartet,” Christian Marclay’s multiscreen installation collaged from movie clips. Thru Feb 10. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm.

Stanford.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting.”Thru May

GALLERIES “Re:Collections.” A sampling of the gallery’s own holdings.

San Jose.

“The Ghosts of Storytellers.”

Portraits by Megan Eckman.

Thru Nov 30. San Jose.

GALLERY HOUSE Annual art and holiday show.

Thru Dec 24. Gallery House, Palo Alto.

MACLA “Power in Numbers.”Thru Jan 5. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

METRO LOBBY Paintings by Joseph Demaree.

Thru Nov 30. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Rashomon.” Sculpture by Charles Ginnever. Thru Feb 16.

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

*events ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW Featuring handmade gifts by residents of Moldaw Residences. Sun, 10am-4pm.

Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto.

SJ MADE A holiday show for local artisans. Sat, 11am-6pm. San Pedro Square. San Jose.

SUPER TOY & COMICS SHOW Sat, 11am-4:30pm. $5$15. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose.

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The way I see it, the timing of this book is perfect, because for decades in San Jose, it seems the apparatus of planning has been implemented to make cars happy and people miserable. And if this town wants to have a reputable urban center, then that urban center must be attractive, safe and interesting for pedestrians. That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean anti-automobile. It just means all dimensions of planningâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from high-rises down to the guttersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;should incorporate walkability.

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We W e see them winding wind ding along Skyline Boulevard, Boulevard d, before stopping at Big Basin Ba asin State Park, P ark, just above Saratoga.

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Sar It is ther there, e, along the park’ p park’ss celebrated celebrated Redwood R eedwood Trail,, that the they eyy encounter encounter a 2,000-year-old 2,0 00--yeearr-old redwood redwood tree, tree, which fforces orrces Madeleine to cconfront o onffront her mortality mor taalitty b byy thinking “of “o of all the p people eople who’ve who h ’v ’ve b been een b born orn and d ha h have ave died di d while hil the tr trees ees went on living living. g.” Hitchcock Hitchccock framed much of the sc scene en ne in wide angle angle,, emphasizing the immen immensity nsitty of the rredwoods. edwoods.

The scr screenplay reeenplaay for fo or Vertigo Veerrtigo was waas based on the Fr French ench no novel, oveel, D’entre D’eenttre les morts, morts, by by Boileau-Narcejac, Boileau-Nar cejac, but Hitchc Hitchcock H ock infused

the 1958 film m with a N Northern orthern C California aliffo ornia aesthetic,, in which the geo geographical aesthetic graphical locations historyy lo cations and d ccomplex o ompleex colonial colonial o histor of the rregion egion n ar aree ine inextricably exxtricably wo woven oveen into the dram dramatic matic ar arcc of the film. Indeed, one ccould ould ccomfortably o fo omf ortaably ar argue gue that the greater gr eater San Francisc F Francisco o Bay Baay Area Area ser serves vees as Vertigo, a central central character chaaracter in V eertigo, vying ffor o or Stewart Novak. equal billingg with Ste waart and N ovvak.

It ’s long b een a ccommon ommon bit of lo cal It’s been local historical lore Alfred Hitchcock kept historic caal lor re that Alfr ed Hitchc ock k ept e the Santa Mountains a home in th he Sant ta Cruz Mount taains above Scotts Valley) latter (just ab ove Sc S co ottts t V aalleeyy) ffor o or the lat tter t partt of his lif life, par fe, making him a ccelebrated eelebrated history. ffootnote ootnote to rregional egional cinematic histor y. attention Much of the t cinephilic at tttention Hitchcock’s six-day has ffocused ocused on o Hitchc cock’s sixdaay V Vertigo eertigo sho shoot ott in nearb nearby

by San JJuan uan Bautist Bautista, a,, dur during ring which the mission were significantly altered buildings we ere signific antly alter ed to accommodate Hitchcock’s ac co ommodaate Hitchc ock’s ccarefully aarreefully crafted sensee of ssymmetry. yymmetry. Hitchc Hitchcock ock also substitu uted a shot of San JJose’s ose’s substituted train st station, ation n,, with T Tippi ippi Hedr Hedren, en,, her back to the ccamera, aamera,, w aalking along the walking railw way plat tfo orm,, as the op ening sc ene railway platform, opening scene of Marnie —b both inter esting bits of lo cal Marnie—both interesting local historic ephe emera,, to b e. ephemera, bee sur sure.

But b ocusing c on these par ticular byy ffocusing particular ar ails and sc enes, one architectural chitecturaal det details scenes, loses p perspective erspecctivve on the bigger pictur picturee at work her here, e, namely that Hitchc Hitchcock’s ock’s 3030-year -year e par part-time t-time rresidency esidency in the rregion egion profound h d a pr had offo ou und d impact i on his hi cinematic i i marked latter sensibilities that t mark ked e the lat ttter half of his rremarkable eemark rk kaable ccareer. areer. assertt that ffour One ccan aan saf ssafely feely asser o our of his major works works—Shadow s— —SShadow of a Doubtt (1943), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960) V eertigo (1958 8), P sycho y (19 60) and The Birds (1963)—were directly influenced Bir rdds (19 63)— —werre dir ectly influenc ed inspired byy his lif life and inspir ed db fe in the rregion, egion,, and influences bee ffound that these in nfluenccees ccan aan b ound in at o half-dozen Hitchcock films,, least a half f-dozen d other Hitchc ock films Rebecca including R e ecccca (1940), Suspicion (1941), eb (1964), Topaz (1969) Marnie (19 64 4), T oopaz (19 69) 9 and his final theatrical theatric caal rrelease, ellease, Family Plott (1976).

British-born Hitchcock—already The Britis sh-born Hitchc cock k— —alrreeady established Europe’s great est ablished as a one of Eur ope’s gr eat directors—arrived United States dir reectors—aarrivveed in the U n nited St taates settling in the springg of 1939,, first set tttling in California, wheree he b began Southern C a fo alif ornia,, wher egan immediately starring work immed diately on Rebecca, Reb e ecca, st arring

Richard R ichard von von Busack’s Busack’’s B Busack Top T oop 5 Hitchcock Hitchcock o FFilms ilms VERTIGO VER TIGO A wounded Sa San an Fr Francisco ancisco detective (James SStewart, tewarrt, at his best) is lur lured necrophilia by ed into the fringes of necrophilia Novak). a young woman (Kim No ovak). This dense and stunning dr dream eam movie movvie kicked Citizen KKane aane off the top of the Sight S & Sound list of gr greatest eatest films. Thee combination of the Bay Ar ea locationss and Bernar Area Bernardd Herrmann’s Her rmann’s oper operatic atic sou soundtrack undtrack is mesmerizing. V Vertigo ertigo e is a disturbing, gloriously appointed tr aggedyy. New viewers tragedy. discover it and mar marvel vel ov over ver it, even as older viewers learn new things about it and themselves with eve every ery viewing.

NOTORIOUS N OTORIOUS One of thee thr three ee or ffour our films (including the one below) most rresponsible esponsible ffor or the James Jamees Bond series.

CCary ary Gr Grant ant is at his mostt rreprehensible eprehensible as a U.S. agent who must ppimp imp out a party Bergman) girl (a downright edible Ingrid I Ber gman) to bust a ring of Nazis inn Rio. Hitchcock proud was justly pr oud of the ffact act that he cr created eated an atomic spy movie m even bef before ore the TTrinity rinity r test.

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BY NORTHWEST NORTHWEST A prepreColumbian statue with a bellyful of microfilm: microfilm: that that’s ’s what’s what’s at a stake, but Mad Man Roger O. Thornhill (“ (“ROT—it’s “ROT—it’s my trademark”) doesn’t doesn’t kno w all that when trademark”) know he’s mistaken ffor or an Am erican agent. he’s American He has to run ffor or his lif life—for e—for 1,717 adventure bef bbefore ore its time, miles. A 007 adventure with a magnificent Berna Bernard ard Her Herrmann rmann soundtrack and CCary ary Gr ant at his soundtrack Grant autumnal finest.

REAR R EAR WINDOW WINDOW “Oh, dear, deear, we’ve we’ve become a race race of P Peeping eeping TToms.”—Thelma ooms.””—Thelma Ritter.. This elabor elaborate Ritter ate thriller thriiller about scopophilia stars Jimmy SStewart tewart as a disabled photogr apher, wor w ried about an photographer, worried impending mar marriage riage (wit (with th Gr Grace ace KKelly, ellyy, ““aa snowcapped volcano,”” as Hitchcock described her). And well SStewart tewart might wor ryy, seeing as how all diff erent kinds worry, different of mar riage play themse elves out fr om his marriage themselves from window, window w, including a poss possible sible mur murder der of a wife, wif e, car carried ried out by a hea heavy avy and str strange ange tr aveling salesman (Raym mond Bur r). traveling (Raymond Burr).

SSTRANGERS TRANGERS ON A TRAIN TRA AIN No one can Murray call themselves a Bill Mur rray fan fan unless they love Robert Walker Walker aas the MurrayMurraylike Bruno, the louchee mu murderer urderer fr from om this mystery.. Hitchc Hitchcock diabolical mystery cock has a hell of a time with optical tricks triccks (a girl’s eyes liter literally ally lighting up, ffor or instance) instance) and the ffantastic antastic mer merry-go-round-broke-down ry-go-roundd-broke-down finale. Plus, it co-stars Sa San an Jose Jose’s ’s Farley Gr Granger anger and features features onee of the best jokes about amateur art ever sseen een in a movie.

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British writer Daphne Du Maurier Maurier. oduction of Rebecca Reebecca w aas to t The pr production was haave a lasting impact on Hitchcock’s Hitchcock k’s have liffe and ccareer. aareerr. Although set in b otth life both Monaco Monaco and England,, Hitchcock Hitchcock second-camera assigned a sec ond-camera unit to film fi coastal scenes Point Lobos, coastal sc ceenes at P oint L obos, just south s of Monter Monterey.

Hitchcock ey. Hitchc ock blended in n the sequences Point Lobos sequences shot at P oint L obos to double d for many for o the ccoast oast of England—and,, in man m ny ways, served metaphor wayys, that ser veed as a met taaphor ffor o orr his relocation relocaation to the rregion. eegion.

“I think N Northern California always orthern C aliffo ornia alw wayys reminded production reminded Hitch of England,” pr odu uction designer R Robert Boyle thee o obert Bo oyyle rrecalls eccaalls in th superb Footsteps Fog: Alfred superb F ootstteeps In The F ogg: Alfr reed Hitchcock’s byy JJeff Kraft Hittcchccock’’s San Francisco, Franciscco, b eff Kra aft and Aar Aaron Leventhal (Santaa Moni Monica on L eveenthal (Sant ica Press). was moody area, Press). “It w aas a mo ody strange ar e ea, both both fforbidding o orbidding and fforeboding, or o ebodingg, and an I believe that’s believe that ’s what intrigued him. It I had kind of a m mystical quality. yystical qualit ty.”

Hitchcock been introduced Hitchc ock had first b een intr odu uced to N Northern California byy his ffemale orthern C aliffo ornia b eemaale lead,, JJoan Fontaine, oan F ontaine, whose motherr had rrelocated Saratoga. elder elocated to Sarato ga. The elde er Fontaine Vine Fontaine rrecommended ecommended the V iine Hill H area above Scotts Valley area ab ove Sc otttts V aalleey on the oceanoceane side of the Sant Santaa Cruz Mountains Mountains as an ideal plac placee to rreside. eside. In 1940,, the th he Hitchcocks 200-acre Hitchcocks purchased purchased a 20 0-acre estate, e ate, est replete replete with a well-seasoned well-seasoned vineyard, vineeyyaard, for $40,000. for o $40,0 $40 000.

0 With classic,, Shadow of Doubt Doubt,, With i his 1943 classic D Hitchcock Hitchcock directed directed his first film sett entirely Northern California, this entirely in N orthern C aliffo ornia,, th his time in small-town Santa Rosa.

Santta R osa. o Two decades later,, in A August Tw wo dec ades later u ugust of 19 11961, 61, a startling occurred Santa startling eevent veent o ccurred in Sant ta Cruz C County, Capitola, ountty, primarily in C apitolaa, that would have impact haave a considerable considerable im mpact on Hitchcock’s Thousands Hitchcock’s next neexxt film. film m. Thousan nds of So Sooty otty Shearwaters—migratory Shearwaaters—migratory birds arrive Monterey Bay bi ds bir d that h arriv ive in i Monter M ey Ba ay each e h summer—came homes summerr—caame crashing into hom mes and ccommercial the ommercial buildings along th he Santa County Santa Cruz C ountty ccoastline. oastline.

At time,, Hitchcock was At the time Hitchcock w aas at work w adapting another work b byy Du Mau Maurier, urier, a short storyy titled “The Bir Birds, oncee short stor ds,” and d onc again he inc incorporated orporated rregional egional eevents vents e into his cinematic vision. “Someth “Something hing like happened Santaa Cruz lik ke this happ ened in Sant last yyear, eearr,” sa says ayys a tra traveling aveeling salesman in the film. ““And they A And the ey made some mess, mess, smashing into buildings and everything…” eveerything…”

Shor tly after the film op ened, Shortly opened, Hitchcock needled his friend,, the Hitchcock San Francisco Caen: Francisco ccolumnist olumnist Herb C aeen: “Perhaps some da ay I will b n as “Perhaps day bee known ‘Birdman of Sant the ‘Birdman Santaa Cruz.’”

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Staging Tolstoy

Adapter Tom Stoppard does a superior job of whipping the story into just over two hours, keeping as many aphorisms as possible and not neglecting Tolstoy’s compassion for the minor characters.

Stoppard even takes an ironic, postSoviet stance on the hay-making scenes.

But director Joe Wright (Atonement) stages the tale of ruinous adultery as a postmodern entertainment on the stage of a theater that expands in several directions. Often, this world-as-a-stage concept is intriguing, as when the fly loft of the theater turns into a ghetto street full of the poor.

An indoor hippodrome hosts the race sequence, a row of footlights is often visible during scenes of solitude and the camera coasts in to ride a toy train for the snowy voyages in and out of

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Knightley can’t break through the thickness of the frame that the filmmakers have hung on this classic.

By her last half-hour of willfulness, changeability and opiation, one just wants to remind her that she has a train to catch. Jude Law makes a dutiful sympathetic Karenin; he is a dull understanding saint dressed in clerical robes like a priest. Aaron TaylorJohnson’s vain, curly-haired Vronsky wears some gleaming uniforms but has an unignorable resemblance to Gene Wilder.—Richard von Busack

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The members are well aware of the confusion their name creates; they just like subverting expectations. “When you hear the music, it’s a surprise,” says guitarist and lead vocalist Kendall Sallay.

“We like it because it doesn’t match up with the music.”

Sallay describes the band’s recently

released debut album, Reincarnate, as a “concept album about death,” so it’s no surprise that they venture in an unexpected direction. Rather than making Reincarnate depressing or macabre, they gave it a more inquisitive bent. The subjects range from death in a very literal sense, as on “Hymn,” to death in the figurative sense—“Fox and Grapes” is about the death of a relationship.

“It’s not negative,” Sallay asserts. “It’s something that everyone can relate to.”

This isn’t to say that there aren’t depressing songs on the album. “Fox and Grapes” adopts the point of view of the person who was dumped in a relationship. But the individual songs vary in topic, perspective and tone.

Some, like the title track, take a position that death isn’t altogether a bad thing.

“It’s fascinating, the concept of death

as reincarnation—like the ttransfer i ti lik th f off energy from your body when you die,” Sallay muses. “It becomes something else—in the sense you never really die.”

Before Reincarnate, Cartoon Bar Fight released the EP Tell All the Children, which is a more straightforward, mellow indie-folk effort, somewhere between Feist and the Decembrists. Since then, other than founding members Sallay and keyboardist Dirk Milotz, the whole band has changed. About a year ago, Joel Zelaya joined on guitar and Max Rogers joined on bass. Just two months ago, Jerald Bittle joined on drums.

Their music has veered a bit from folk to experimental soundscapes. They also play heavier rock sections than before, while still retaining plenty of softer, quieter moments.

“We were writing music based on the instrumentation that was available to us at the time,” Sallay explains. “The sound was never as full as we wanted.

It was more intimate. It’s fun to play an intimate little acoustic place, but we wanted to be able to put on a solid rock show.”

Between the contributions of the new

members, and the process of working on all the material for Reincarnate, Sallay and Milotz, who started the band in 2007, believe that they are just now coming into their own.

Even still, they are quick to point out that part of coming into their own also includes the flexibility to change. They already have new ideas for what their next project will be—a concept album about space, covering such topics as solitude and mystery of the unknown.

Musically, they’d like it to be more synthdriven and to actually sound like space.

“We don’t want to be limited to one thing. It’s ongoing. We just want to play whatever kind of music we like,” Sallay says.

The idea for the space concept album came to them, in part, from the title track from Reincarnate, the last song on the album. It has a more futuristic, synth-driven sound and moves lyrically into the unknown—reincarnation. The song, they hope, will serve as a bridge between the albums.

Their fascination for concept albums didn’t just begin with Reincarnate. The songs on Tell All the Children revolve around the theme of childhood and disillusionment, which gets expressed in ways such as disenchantment with fairy tales and religious beliefs.

“When I listen to an album, I like the feeling that there was a greater vision than the individual tracks,” Sallay says.

“I like being able to get inside an artist’s head and think that these thoughts must have been something that was picking their brain for years, so they wrote this whole album,” Sallay says.

The three albums even have a nice flow to them—disillusionment with childhood fantasies, facing the reality of death and then exploring the unknowns of the universe. Only question is: What comes after an album about space?

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Rock/Pop ANGELICAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BISTRO Sun, 3pm: Top Shelf. Holiday music. $65. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Sat, 7pm: Conversions, Finish Ticket, 8:19. All ages. San Jose

Fri, 9:30pm: Junkshaker.

Sat, 9:30pm: Cut Loose. Sun, 8:30pm: The Gents. Mon, 9:30pm: Ric Williams Trio.

Campbell.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Spazmatics. Sat, 10pm: Sexy Back. San Jose.

BOSWELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Wed, 9:30pm: Jack Rip-Off. Thu, 7pm: Liquid Courage.

Fri, 8pm: Led Zeppelin Live featuring Heartbreaker. $18/$20. Sun, 6pm: Carlos Reyes and Peppino Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Agostino. $20/$25.

Redwood City.

HP PAVILION Fri, 7pm: Andrea Bocelli. $79.50-$379.50. San Jose.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Drop Dead Sixty, Cosmic Machine, Chris Ely. No cover. Fri, 9pm: Curbside, El Buzzard, 4 Banger. $10. Sat, 9pm: Fungo Mungo, Extra Ordinary Astronauts, Girls With Guns. $10. San Jose.

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THE CATS Wed, 8:30pm: Out of the Blue.

Thu, 9pm: Soulburst Band.

Fri, 9pm: Buck Ford. Sat, 9pm: Michael Beck Band. Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Tue, 8pm: Johnny Fabulous. Los Gatos.

Thu, 9pm: Zombie Pool Party, Fogtongue. No cover. Fri, 9pm: Forgotten Gods, No Trust, Bottom. Mon, 7pm: To Our Legends. San Jose.

MOJO LOUNGE Fri: Buzzy Dupree. Sat: The RevTones. Fremont.

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The Conceal PUNK LEGENDS Hüsker Dü don’t actually sound like San Jose’s the Conceal, yet I can think of no better band for a point of comparison. Both groups transcend their genre (doom metal, in the case of the Conceal) by creating a signature sound based mainly on their distinct guitar tones. Bob Mould’s thick guitar sounds were unlike those of any other punk rockers at the time. The Conceal creates a total, consuming wall of feedback-laden distortion unlike any sludge metal band The Caravan out there—to the point that the label barely applies.

The Conceal’s music does technically have all the Friday, Nov 30; attributes of doom metal—dark, slow, punishingly 10pm; free dissonant. Yet the absence of the typical sludgy distortion creates an odd effect—not to mention the complete lack of dynamics. From the beginning of each song to the end, the Conceal plays at one tempo and at one volume (really, really loud). Their penchant for feedback is really more like the tease of feedback. They rest right at that moment that the guitars start to turn into feedback and just stay there.

Listening to the Conceal is a long unrelenting, grating assault, yet a certain beauty arises upon closer inspection, the kind you might see in a surreal post-apocalyptic landscape painting—ugliness so breathtaking it can only be described in terms of beauty.

The band’s debut album, Endless River | Stunted Prayer, was not only recorded entirely on GarageBand, but it was also done before the band played any shows. The production is very cohesive, with the kind of chemistry most bands spend years gigging to develop.—Aaron Carnes

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Fri, 8:30pm: Funkranominicon, Petty Theft. $10. Sat, 8:30pm: Road Show, T. Clemente. $10.

Santa Clara.

Fri, 7pm: I Declare War, Aethere, Five Characters In Search of an Exit, Strength In Numbers, the Human Contortion. $10.

Cupertino.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed, 9:30pm: Jam with Donny Caruth and Friends. Thu, 9:30pm: Jam with Stan Erhart.

Fri, 9:30pm: Tsunami. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Touch of Class. $10.

Los Gatos.

Mine All ages Mine. ages. $5 $5. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

Jazz/Blues/ World

SJSU EVENT CENTER Fri, 6:30pm: MMG Tour with Rick Ro$$, Meek Mill, Wale, Machine Gun Kelly. $45-$55. San Jose.

X BAR Sat, 8:30pm: Them Rude Boys, Scarlet Stoic, Solwave, Eyes Like

AGENDA LOUNGE Wed, 8pm: Salsa, with free lessons at 8pm. Thu, 9pm: Banda, two parties on two levels. Sun: Reggae and hip-hop. San Jose.

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BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO Sun, 6pm: Carolyn’s Jazz.

Cupertino.

CLUB FOX Wed, 7pm: Blues jam. $5.

Redwood City.

FAIRMONT HOTEL Wed, 8pm: Tony Lindsay. Free.

San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Mike Schermer. Fri, 8pm: Rhythm District. Sat, 8pm: BBQ & Blues.

Campbell.

HEDLEY CLUB Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Jazz jam. Fri, 8:30pm: Primary Colors. Sat, 8:30pm: Live jazz. Mon, 6pm: Gus Kambeitz Duo. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Wed: Suska. Thu: Jimmy Dewrance. Fri-Tue: Live blues.

San Jose.

Fri, 8:30pm: Ruth Gerson. $12/$17. Mon, 7:30pm: Ruth Gerson student showcase. $5.

Redwood City.

SAN PEDRO SQ MARKET Fri, 7pm: Tortilla Soup. Free.

San Jose.

TESSORA’S Fri, 8:30pm: Rich Kubec. Sat, 8pm: Stuart Westbrook. Every first Sun, 3:30pm: Jazz jam.

Campbell.

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

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Fri, 9pm: Danielle. Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Fri, 8pm: Bluegrass Duets. San Jose.

BLUE MAX

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Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

Wed: Live band. Los Gatos.

RED ROCK COFFEE Fri, 8pm: Rebop. Sat, 8pm: Dogcatcher. Mountain View.

RODEO CLUB

BOGART’S LOUNGE

Thu: Edens Edge. San Jose.

Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: Wildside Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

THE SADDLE RACK

BOSWELL’S

Wed, 9pm: Rodeo House. ThuFri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Live country.

Fremont.

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

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Uncle Hank. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Comedy. San Jose.

BRIX Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

THE COURT’S LOUNGE

Thu: Honey Wilders. Fri: Bone Drivers. Sat: Blind Pilots. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 6pm: A.C. Myles. Fri, 6pm: Lara Price Blues Band. Sat, 6pm: Mark Hummel & the Blues Survivors with Steve Freund.

Mon, 6pm: Ukulele jam night.

San Jose.

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ANGELICA’S BISTRO

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Thu, Sat, Mon, 9pm: Karaoke.

Campbell.

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CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

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

San Jose.

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

Karaoke

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

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

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

Thu, 9pm-2am: August.

Milpitas.

ALEX’S 49ER INN Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke.

San Jose.

UPSTAIRS JAZZ CAFE Wed: Jazz jam. Thu: Piano bar.

Fri-Sat: Jazz bands. Tue: Blues.

Morgan Hill.

APPARITION Every second Thu: Gothic, industrial karaoke. Club Lido, San Jose.

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

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

KYOTO PLACE Wed, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

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Thu, 10pm: Underground goth deathrock tunes. Club Lido, San Jose.

Tue: DJ Uncle Hank. Los Gatos.

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

No cover. Sunnyvale.

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

San Jose.

REDI ROOM

BRANHAM LOUNGE Wed: Black Wednesday with DJ’s Goldenchyld & Gwerx. Thu: 43rd Annual Thanksgiving Celebration with DJ Wrek-a-Noize.

Fri: DJs. Sat: Cocktails and Dreams with rotating DJs. Mon: Comedy. San Jose.

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

Cupertino.

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

BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJs. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN Most Fri: Hip-hop, Top 40, club hits. San Jose.

LOS GATOS BAR & GRILL Wed, 9pm: Black Wednesday.

Thu: EDM Thursdays. Sat: Video Killed the DJ. Los Gatos.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Wed: Country Wednesdays.

Fri: Jamnesia with DJ Noble.

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Fri: Pure Bliss EDM. Sat: Pure Saturdays: Winter Wonderland. Sunnyvale.

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

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Thu: Wreck-A-Noise. Fri: Video Junkie. Sat: Insomnia Saturdays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. San Jose.

STUDIO8 Thu: Tequila Thursday. Fri-Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.

WILLOW DEN Wed-Fri: DJs. Willow Glen.

Thu: DJ Benofficial. Fri: DJ QZR. Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

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KENNY G HOLIDAY SHOW If you’ve never thought there was anything worse than Christmas music, well... Nov 28-Dec 1 at Yoshi’s SF.

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Jersey’s finest brings his bristling ‘Wrecking Ball’ tour around for a victory lap. Nov 30 at Oracle Arena.

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Zach Hill’s ferocious, major label-snubbing hip-hop project makes up for canceled date. Dec 3 at Slim’s.

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Although we think having loads of options is ideal, when presented with more than a handful, we often choose poorly and are bummed out afterward, or we find ourselves unable to choose at all.

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and physically underfabulous, a more fruitful and less confidence-eating option than a dating site is a group meetup site like meetup.com or grubwithus.com, where you sign up for group dinners and other activities with people who share your interests. Some groups have hundreds or thousands of members, and the criterion for joining is whether you, say, like to combine tennis and Bible study, not whether you have a waist the size of a chewed pencil.

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Request for Public Notice EBI Project #61124907 Sprint is proposing to modify an existing wireless telecommunications FICTITIOUS BUSINESS facility on a building NAME STATEMENT located at 1730 Curtner #571665 Ave @ Meridian Ave, The following person(s) is San Jose, CA 95125. The (are) doing business as: modification consists of Seeing Things Gallery, 30 replacing three existing North Third St., San Jose, antennas with three CA, 95112, Jai Tanju. new antennas mounted This business is inside the steeple at a conducted by a center height of 38 feet individual. above ground level. Any Registrant began interested party wishing transacting business to submit comments under the fictitious regarding the potential business name or names effects the proposed listed herein on 11/10/12. facility may have on any /s/Jai Tanju historic property may This statement was filed do so by sending such with the County Clerk of comments to: Project Santa Clara County on 61124907-SJF c/o EBI 11/13/2012.

Consulting, 11445 East (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, Via Linda, Suite 2, #472, 12/12, 12/19/2012) or via telephone at 781273-2500.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #571985 NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) #571761 is (are) doing business The following person(s) as: Conforcare Senior is (are) doing business Services-San Jose, 1650 as: O’Sullivan Vending Zanker Road, Ste 135, Service, 1525 Atteberry San Jose, CA, 95112, TLC Lane, San Jose, CA, For You, LLC., 5088 Fell 95131, Jacob O’Sullivan.

Avenue, San Jose, CA, This business is 95136. conducted by a This business is individual. conducted by a Refile of previous file Corporation. #497243 Above entity was formed Registrant began in the state of California transacting business Registrant has not under the fictitious yet begun transacting business name or business under the names listed herein on fictitious business name 7/23/2007. or names listed herein. /s/Jacob O’Sullivan /s/Dale Taketa This statement was filed President with the County Clerk of #3507109 Santa Clara County on This statement was filed 11/15/2012. with the County Clerk of (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, Santa Clara County on 12/12, 12/19/2012) 11/21/2012. (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 12/12, 12/19/2012) NAME STATEMENT #571874 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) NAME STATEMENT is (are) doing business #571310 as: Amber Glass Water The following person(s) Pipes, 280 San Anotnio is (are) doing business Ct., San Jose, CA, 95116,

Luis Chavez.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Luis Chavez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/19/2012. (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, 12/12, 12/19/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571337 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Style Scrubs, 2697 Casey Way., San Jose, CA, 95121, Chris Sanchez.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Chris Sanchez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/02/2012. (pub Metro 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12//2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570752 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Design Collective, 150 Kingsley Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94301, Adam Selzer, Lena Wolfe 3220 Sunset Beach Dr., NW, Olympia, WA, 98502.

This business is conducted by a general partnership.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/01/2012. /s/Adam Selzer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571047 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Quick-One Financial, 2441 Alvin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95121, Provence Realty.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/20/2004.

Refile of previous file #499602 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Don Hoang President #2670712

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/24/2012. (pub Metro 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571193 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jupiter Editing, 1575 Calaveras Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126, Patrick Burns.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/15/2012. /s/Patrick Burns This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/30/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571598 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cleaning Solutions, 117 Bernal Rd.,#70-113, San Jose, CA, 95119, Mark Kline.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 6/2/2006.

Refile of previous file #478984 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Mark Kline This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571357 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Avanti Tech, 60 Desanso Dr., Unit 3103, San Jose, CA, 95136, Lalit Gajare.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/02/2012. /s/Lalit Gajare This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/02/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571398 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Diamond Certified Plumbing, 1183 Palamos Ave., Sunnyvale, CA,

94089, Robert Seet.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Robert Sweet This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/05/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571057 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Maria’s Tree Service, 1017 Cheswick Dr., San Jose, CA, 95121, Maurilio Barragan.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/24/2012. /s/Maurilio Barragan This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/24/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2012)

10/25/2012. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570674 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sedona Immigration Law group. 1602 The Alameda, Suite 200, San Jose, CA, 95126, Jenny K. Hong, 3183 Hastings Way, San Ramon, CA, 94582.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jenny K. Hong This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/15/2012. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571185 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Astrotecture, 4260 Terman Drive., #104, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Marc M Cohen, Architect PC. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/13/2012. /s/Marc M. Cohen President, Owner #3303986 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/30/2012. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #570350 NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) #571371 is (are) doing business The following person(s) is as: Body Purity, 988 (are) doing business as: Edenbury Ln., San Jose, 1. Prologix Instruments, CA, 95136, Angela LLC., 2. Prologix, LLC., St.John.

1691 Grizilo Drive, San This business is Jose, CA, 95124. conducted by a This business is individual. conducted by a Limited Registrant has not FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Liability Company. yet begun transacting NAME STATEMENT Above entity was business under the #571089 formed in the state of fictitious business name The following person(s) is Washington. or names listed herein. (are) doing business as: Registrant began /s/Angela St. John The Plumbing Guys, 117 transacting business This statement was filed S. Claremont Ave., San under the fictitious with the County Clerk of Jose, CA, 95127, Aaron business name or Santa Clara County on Sanchez. names listed herein on 10/05/2012.

This business is 11/01/2012. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, conducted by a /s/Abdul 11/14, 11/21/2012) individual.

Manager Registrant has not #201227510247 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS yet begun transacting This statement was filed NAME STATEMENT business under the with the County Clerk of #570217 fictitious business name Santa Clara County on The following person(s) or names listed herein.

11/02/2012. is (are) doing business /s/Aaron Sanchez (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, as: Excel Financial, 6472 This statement was filed 11/21, 11/28/2012) Camden Ave., #21, San with the County Clerk of Jose, CA, 95125, Sheldon Santa Clara County on K. Perry, 1500 Camino

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This business is conducted by a husband and wife.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Danilo Tejam This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2012. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2012) PUBLIC NOTICE REDEMPTION OF ALL GARDEN CITY CASINO CHIPS $1000, $500, $100, $20, $10, $5, $3, $2, $1, $.50 and $.25 chips can be redeemed at the casino cage from August 7, 2012 through February 7, 2013 - 24 hours per day.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571936 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Referral Realty Mainstream, 14607 Nelson Ct., San Jose, CA, 95124, Mainstream Real Estate Group Inc. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Chris Zanger Co Founder/ Owner #3515400 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/20/2012. (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, 12/12, 12/19/2012)

as: Fluffy Puppy, 656 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Carnival Arts.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Refile of previous file #569792, due to publication requirment nor met on previous filing.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/1/12. /s/Dan Augustine Vice President #3163826 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/01/2012. (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, 12/12, 12/19/2012)

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ARIES (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are trying to make me into a ďŹ xed star,â&#x20AC;? complained religious leader Martin Luther a few centuries ago. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am an irregular planet.â&#x20AC;?

I invite you to use that declaration as your own in the coming weeks. You have every right to avoid being pinned down, pigeonholed, and forced to be consistent.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need abundant freedom to mutate your identity.

You deserve a poetic license that allows you to play a variety of different roles and explore the pleasures of unpredictable self-expression.

TAURUS (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Star-Spangled

Bannerâ&#x20AC;? is Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national anthem. It features the lyrics of a patriotic poem written by Francis Scott Key. But the melody itself is entirely lifted from a bawdy old song that celebrates Bacchus, the ancient god of wine and ecstatic dancing. I love it when things are repurposed as dramatically as that. Do you? The coming weeks will be prime time to repurpose stuff with creative abandon. Make the past useful for the future, Taurus. Turn good old ideas into fantastic new ones. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just recycle; transform.

GEMINI (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guessing that in

the coming weeks you will be receiving a multitude of inquiries, invitations, and temptationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;probably more than you feel capable of responding to, and certainly more than you should respond to. A few of these opportunities might be appealing and lead to interesting adventures. But some will be useless, diversionary, or trivial. Will you be able to tell the difference? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your big challenge. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like help dodging unwanted solicitations, give out this phone number as your own: 212.479.7990. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a free service provide by â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Rejection Lineâ&#x20AC;? at Rejectionline.com.

People calling that number will be politely told you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t available.

CANCER (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): For millennia, the plant

known as the yellow avalanche lily has thrived on mountain slopes and meadows throughout western North America. It blooms early in the spring, just in time for broad-tailed hummingbirds that migrate from Central America to sip the ďŹ&#x201A;owerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nectar. But now thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a problem with that ancient arrangement. Due to global warming, the lily now blossoms 17 days earlier than it used to. But the hummingbirds havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t made an adjustment in their schedule, so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re barely showing up in time to get their full allotment of nectar. I suspect this is a metaphor for a shift you may be facing in your own life rhythm. Fortunately, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been forewarned, and you can adjust better than the hummingbirds.

LEO (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): In our calendar, there is no special holiday devoted to honoring the joy and power of rebellion. This oversight confounds me.

All my experience tells me that the urge to revolt is a fundamental human need. Every one of us has a sacred duty to regularly rise up and overthrow a stale status quo that is oppressing usâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;whether thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an organized group effort weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re part of or our own deadening routine. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m telling you this, Leo, because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an excellent time to celebrate your own Rebellion Jubilee. Your vitality will soar as you shed numbing habits and decaying traditions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): Recently youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had resemblances to an 8-year-old kid wearing the pajamas you loved when you were ďŹ ve. Your bare arms are jutting out beyond where the sleeves end, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a similar thing going on with your legs.

The fabric is ripped here and there because it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accommodate how much youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve grown. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re feeling discomfort in places where the overly tight ďŹ t is squeezing your ďŹ&#x201A;esh. All of this is somewhat cute but mostly alarming. I wish you would wean yourself of the past and update your approach.

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been hiding in plain sight. You will â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ ndâ&#x20AC;? something that actually revealed itself to you some time ago.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): Tom Tolbert is a sports

talk-show host on San Francisco radio station KNBR. I am amazingly neutral about him. Nothing he says fascinates me or mirrors my own thoughts. On the other hand, he never makes me mad, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not boring. I neither like him nor dislike him. I simply see him for who he is, without any regard for what he can do for me. He has become a symbol of the possibility that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m able to look at a human being with complete impartiality, having no wish for him to be different from what he is. In the coming week, I suggest you try to achieve this enlightened state of mind on a regular basis. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prime time, astrologically speaking, to ripen your mastery of the art of objectivity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): If you say â&#x20AC;&#x153;rabbit rabbit rabbitâ&#x20AC;? as soon as you wake up on the ďŹ rst day of the month, you will have good luck for the next 30 to 31 days. At least thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how reality works according to a British superstition. But judging from your astrological omens, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think you will have to resort to magic tricks like that to stimulate your good fortune. In the next four weeks, I suspect you will be the beneďŹ ciary of a ďŹ&#x201A;ood of cosmic mojo, as well as a surge of divine woowoo, a shower of astral juju, and an upwelling of universal googoo gaga. If it would give you even more conďŹ dence to invoke your favorite superstitions, though, go right ahead. Even scientists say that kind of thing works: tinyurl.com/ SuperstitiousBoost.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): According to Greek myth, Perseus cut off the head of Medusa. She was the creature whose hair was composed of snakes and whose gaze could turn a person into stone. The immortal winged horse Pegasus was instantaneously born from Medusaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blood. He ultimately became an ally to the nine Muses, and Zeus relied on him to carry thunder and lightning. I predict that while youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sleeping, Capricorn, you will have a dream that contains elements of this myth. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a preliminary interpretation of that dream: You are undergoing a transition that could in a sense give you the power of ďŹ&#x201A;ight and a more abundant access to a muse.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for you to be leader of the pack, Aquarius; to take your gang to the next level; to make sure the group mind isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t suppressing innovation and enforcing peer pressure but is rather inspiring every member of the tribe to be as creative as they dare to be. And if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not realistic for you to wield that much power, then do whatever you can to synergize the alliances that hold your posse together. Build team morale. Gossip constructively.

Conspire to animate an inďŹ&#x201A;ux of fresh magic.

PISCES (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a food company that wants to sell chicken in the shape of a chicken wing, it must have actual chicken wing meat in it. Otherwise, the law says youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to call your product â&#x20AC;&#x153;wyngz.â&#x20AC;? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always thought that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of information the media presents as â&#x20AC;&#x153;newsâ&#x20AC;? that is really as fake as wyngz. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why I advocate calling the bogus stuff â&#x20AC;&#x153;newzakâ&#x20AC;? (rhymes with â&#x20AC;&#x153;muzakâ&#x20AC;?). Your assignment in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not putting out any wyngz- or newzaklike stuff in your own chosen ďŹ eld. The fates will help you rather dramatically if you put a high premium on authenticity.

Homework: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the title of the book youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to write? Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the name of the rock band youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be in? Testify gy at Freewillastrology.com.

LIBRA (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): A lot of leopard frogs live

on Staten Island, one of New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ ve boroughs.

Most of them make a sound that resembles a long snore or a rapid chuckle. But over the years, biologists have also detected a third type of frogly expression: a clipped, repetitive croak. Just this year, they ďŹ nally ďŹ gured out that this belonged to an entirely distinct species of leopard frog that they had never before identiďŹ ed. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still so new it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a name yet.

I expect a metaphorically similar development in your life, Libra. You will become aware of a secret that has

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