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Proof of Intent?

I was very disappointed in your choice of Tom Tomorrow’s twisted cartoon on the Second Amendment (Feb. 20). In these difficult times, let us not be distracted and confused

by propagandistic manipulations which are the antithesis of mindful thinking, and look at the original intention of the Second Amendment: “The strongest reason for a people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”-Thomas Jefferson.

As Obama enlarges his Drone Assassination List of robotic death from above and the criminal banker elite rob many American families openly for fun and profit, this quote from the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and the third President of the United States speaks far better to us on the subject than Mr. Tomorrow’s cartoon. You might also watch the new documentary Hubris from

MSNBC and see why the above quote by Thomas Jefferson is just as important today as it was in 1776, and is certainly nothing to make jokes about.

DREW LEWIS | SANTA CRUZ It’s always fun to invoke Thomas Jefferson, and we understand that. The problem with the above quote, like so many attributed to some important historical figure in order to lend weight to one’s argument, is that Jefferson never actually said it. The quote first showed up in an op-ed piece in 1989, and no one knows where the author got it. It has been floating around since, despite no record of it in any of Jefferson’s speeches, papers or letters.

So maybe it is worth a chuckle after all?—Editor

Saints Alive Memo to Richard von Busack (“La Camioneta,” Cinequest, Feb. 20): St. Christopher has not been “decommissioned.” The church cancelled his feast day and toned down his veneration because saints are real people, and St. Christopher was obviously legendary.

He’s still there, though; they couldn’t get rid of him entirely, with all the churches, people and whatnot named after him. If the Guatemalan bus drivers want his shrine on their dashboards, let ‘em go for it.

BOB DENNIS | SAN JOSE

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Big Kni Kniss-take ss-take LIZ KNISS LIZ KNISS termed termed out of her Santa Santa Clara Clara CCounty ounty super supervisor visor seat at the end of last year,, and it wass assumed she would ride year off into the sun sunset nset to finish her political career car eer on P Palo alo Alto’s Alto’s City City Council.

Council.. During the budget cyc cycle cle last year year,, the Board Board of SSupervisors upervisors even gave her a parting $47k gift of sorts,, donating doonating $4 7k to Palo Palo Alto Alto Animal Services—while Services—while she was running ffor or that city’s council c seat—even though it is not a coun county nty entity entity.. But But it seems throwing around Kniss may havee been thr owing ar ound her own hando handouts outs in her final year on the board. used charge card, boar d. Kniss us sed her county char ge car d, or PP-Card, Card, on N Nov. ovv. 20, 2012, to pur purchase chase $796 in ser vicees fr om FForexMentor.com, orexMentor.com,, a services from website that te teaches eaches amateur day tr traders aders how to pr ofit fr rom the cur rency exchange profit from currency market. CCounty ountyy auditors managed to miss the char ges in an audit perf ormed last charges performed winter w come as a shock winter,, which would if auditors had n’t rrepeatedly epeatedly glossed hadn’t over SSupervisor upervisor GEORGE GEORGE SHIRAKAWA’s SHIRAKAWA’s illegitimate P-Card P-Card charges, charges, which include trips too casinos. B ut the gambling But tutorial Kniss bought b g Don’t could equate too just a forget fr action of the pension fraction spike she gave her to tip! fformer ormer chief off staff staff,, FLY@ MELLOPINE. LOPINE. IIn n P AT TTIE DEMELL PATTIE METRONEWS. April of last yea year, ar, Kniss COM bumped DeMellopine’s DeMellopine’s annual salary to t almost $150,000 a yea year ar in base pay pay.. The $12,000 rraise aise made thee fformer ormer District 5 staff staffer er the highest pai paid id B Board oard of SSupervisors upervisors employee—ev employee—even ven higher than the total compensation Kniss and the other super visors rreceived. ecceived. While Kniss had the supervisors right to dictatee her staff salaries thr through ough her office ’s bud dget,, the secr office’s budget, secret et pay bump thousands DeMellopine’s could add thou usands to De Mellopine’s annual pensionn payout fr from om CalPERS, CalPERS, which in eff effect ectt passes down added cost to the county ((DeMellopine’s Mellopine’s pension is county.. (De according still under rreview, evieew w, accor ding to a CCalPERS alPERS Kniss employee.) Kni ss did not rrespond espond to multiple mul tiple requests requessts for for comment, but that’s that’s probably because pr obably becau use converting county funds into eur o and yen is a timeos euros consuming tas k. task.

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Madison M adison N Nguyen g guyen is the first can candidate ndidate to declare her intentio intention on to run for mayor of San Jose Jose. e.

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Nguyen N guyen oorr TTake aake All It k keeps eeps yyou ou up at night. Yo Y You ou o toss toss,, yyou ou tu urn. Y ou o absentmindedly ccarry arry ou ut turn.

You out assh the th he daily rroutine: outine: brush teeth; w wash fa ace; one pant leg and then ttwo. wo. An nd face; And akingg yyet, e yyou et, ou ccan’t an’t shak shakee it. Y Your our o w waking ho ours ar onsumed b hours aree cconsumed byy a single qu uestion, a question that gna aws w at question, gnaws yyour o vvery our ery soul: l Who will run ffor or ma o ayor of San JJose ose mayor in n 2014?

Put ting aside the fact that yyou ou Putting de esperately need a hobb y, the desperately hobby, qu uestion rreceived eceived a par tial ans wer at question partial answer th he end of last yyear ear with lit tttle to no o the little fa anfare. Madison Nguy en, San JJose’s osee’s fanfare.

Nguyen, vi ice ma ayor and ccouncilmember ouncilmember ffor o or vice mayor D District 77,, filed pap erwork Dec paperwork Dec.. 19 w the Cit with ng Cityy Clerk’ Clerk’ss offic officee declarin declaring h he er intent i to run ffor or ma o ayor. her mayor.

Nguy en sa ays y her early entr t Nguyen says entryy to the ra ace had mor each h race moree to do with outr outreach th han fundraising andidates wo on’t than fundraising,, as ccandidates won’t b art ccollecting ollecting ccampaign ampaign n bee able to st start ccash a until this ccoming ash oming Dec ember.

December.

“Ill b o ou—a cit o bee honest with yyou—a cityy of a million p eople, I w aant to ttake ake eevery ver ey people, want

opportunity have theree opp ortunitty ty I ha ave to get av g out ther and find what p people eople w want ant and need from officials, says. fr om our elected offici ials,” she sa ayys.

Nguy Nguyen en is the first p person erson to file paperwork, makes such pap erwork, and she s mak es ffor or o an intriguing ccandidate. andidatte. Her intrigue from gender, stems not fr om her gen nder, eeven ven aree eexpected th though h ffew ew ffemales emales e l ar xpected t d partt in the rac race; to ttake ake par e and it has e; little fact lit tle to do with the fac ct that she is Vietnamese-American, V iietnamese-American n, which will play undoubtedly pla ay a rrole olle in how she ttargets argets vvoters. oters. partt of The most intriguingg par Nguyen’s will bee wher wheree she Nguy en’s ccampaign ampaign wi ill b finds institutional supp support. port.

While Nguy Nguyen yeen onc oncee enjo enjoyed oyeed a go good od rrelationship elationship with the South Ba Bay ay L Labor ab bor C Council, ouncil, il those h da d days ays y ar aree a dist di distant ant memor memoryy sinc sincee the passa passage age of measur measures es V V,, W W,, B and a ffew ew other let letters ttters to thr throw ow in the soup soup.. C County ountty Sup Supervisor pervisor Da Dave ave C Cortese, ortese, fformerly ormerly the vi o vice ice ma mayor ayo or of San JJose, ose, has not yyet et said d if he will run ffor or ma o mayor, ayor o , but it it’s ’s no sec secret cret he is lab labor’s or’s pr preferred effeerred ccandidate. andidate.

Councilmember District 3 C ouncilmember Sam Lic Liccardo cardo is another lik likely ely ccandidate, andidate, who,, lik likee C Cortese, declared ed who ortese, has not declar an intent to t run but has b been een quietly solidifying support solidif fyyingg his base of supp ort business Chamber with busin ness and the Chamb er Commerce.

Former of C ommeerce. F ormer San JJose ose Mayor Tom McEnery Silicon M Ma ayor T om o m McEner M E y and d Silic Sili on Valley Leadership Group Carl V alle a yL ead dership Gr oup CEO C arl Guardino have both been Guar dino ha h ave b oth b een making Liccardo’s behalf. ccalls alls on Lic ccardo’s b ehalff. going “I’m goin ng into this ccampaign, aampaign, that probably knowing th hat I will pr obably not support Chamber get supp ort fform o orm the Chamb er of Commerce Bay Labor C ommerce and South Ba ay L abor C Council, ouncil,” Nguy N Nguyen yeen sa says. ayys. “What I w want aant to do is maint maintain tain an indep independent endent vvoice, oice, and not ne necessarily cessarily b bee influenc influenced ed b byy p powerful owerful f l fforces o ces in or i the h cit city. ity.”

Nguy Nguyen en n sur survived vived a 20 2009 09 rrecall ecall eff effort ffo ort in he her er sec second ond term due to the naming off a V Vietnamese iietnamese shopping district, wh which hich w was as eeventually ventually named Lit Little ttle t Saigo Saigon, on, not her original choic choice. e.

But the vic vice ce ma mayor ayor sa says ayys that saga is “w “water ater und under der the bridge bridge..”

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Mayor Chuck R Mayor Reed eed du dumped umped the idea of San Jose hos hosting sting the 2024 Olympics almost as soon as it was w suggested.

“During the L Lunar unar N New ew Y Year eear celebration, I sat down and had tea celebration, with a lot of these ffolks, o olkss, who a ccouple ouple yyears ears ago opp osed me ayys. “N ow opposed me,,” she sa says.

“Now we ’re sit ting down and ttalking alking ab out we’re sitting about the futur future. e.”

JENNIFER WADSWORTH WADS W OR T H

Mayor M ayor R Reed eeedd Says Says Noo TThanks N hanks to 20244 Olympics 202 Olym mpics The U U.S. .S. Olympic C Committee omm mittttee (USO (USOC) C) letters nation’s sent let ttters last week to the nation ’s lar largest gest 2 255 metr metro o ar areas, eas, in inviting nvviting cit city ty officials ffi i l to submit b i a bid to host h the h 2024 Summer Olympic Olympics. cs. A da day ay after rreceiving eceiving the in invitation, nvvitation,, San JJose ose Mayor Ma ayor Chuck R Reed eeed shott down an any ny idea of San JJose ose hosting futu future ure Olympic city officials.. games in an email to cit ty officials Reed R eeed said that while it it’s t’s an honor ffor or o San JJose ose to b bee cconsidered onsidered dap potential otential

Olympic ho host, ost, it it’s ’s just to too o ccostly. ostlyy.

“Hostingg the Olympics is a major undertaking undertakin ng with a pric pricee ttag ag of $3 billion, according accor o ding to the USOC, USOC,” Reed Reed e said. “In pas past st eff efforts, ffo orts, Chic Chicago ago and N New ew York spent before Yo ork sp ent $10 million b effor o e the bid was submitted.

Given fiscal was submit tted. Giv en this fisc al rreality, ealitty, San JJose doesn’t have ose do oesn’t ha ave the ccapacity apacitty to bid, nor ccan an we ttake ake the lead on a regional effort. regional eff ffo ff ort.”

But if a nearb nearby city—say, n by cit y—saay, San Francisco—wants Francisco—w — ants to ttake ake the lead, San JJose ose ccould ou uld chip in rregional egional support, adds.. support, hee adds effort emerge, “Should a rregional egional eff ffo ort emer ge, bee happ happyy to discuss we would b facilities, infrastructuree facilities, vvenues e enues and infrastructur with the or organizers; however, ganizers; howe ver, San Jose doesn’t have invest Jose do esn’tt ha ave funds to in nvest in pursuing th the Reed he bid,” R eeed said.

The Olym Olympics ympics p thrust cities into the international spotlight, preparing internationaal sp otlight, but pr eparing for month-long for o the mon nth-long international games takes USOC says tak kes e a hugee toll. The USO C sa ayys the games rrequire 45,000 equiire 45,0 00 hotel rrooms, ooms, an Olympic vill village 16,500 athletes,, spac spacee lage ffor o or 16,50 0 athletes for 15,000 for o 15,0 00 rreporters, e orters, an international ep

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Ciisco pleged to buy naming righ Cisco rights hts of a new stadium A’s iff the Oakland A ’s move to San Jose.

J aiirport, public transit, rroadways airport, oadw ways y able to ob bee ccordoned ordoned off ffor or the eevent o veent and a workforce w workf fo orce of up to 20 200,000.

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A’s A ’s ’s R Receive eceive Mystery M ystery Memo Memo FFor or SSJJ M Move ove After nearly ffour A our yyears o ears of w waiting aiting ffor o or M Major L League eague Baseball to appr approve ove ap potential otential mo move ve b byy the Oakland A’s A ’s to San JJose, ose, the offic officee of baseba baseball all ccommissioner o ommissioner Bud Selig has finall finally ly provided pr rovided guidelines ffor or the A o A’s ’s to o ffollow, ollow o w, ac according cording to a LLos os Angele Angeles es Times T i imes rreport. eport.

What ar aree the guidelines? Who the hell he ell knows knows.. What has b been een rreported eported t is that the ne new w rroadmap oadmap do doesn’t esn’t ensure A’s bee mo moving en nsure the A ’s will b ving to San S anyy time so soon, several steps JJose o an ose on, and se veral ste eps bee ttaken m must b aken ffor o or MLB owners to o eeven ven vvote ote on an A A’s ’s rrelocation. elocation.

Still lo Still, llocal call officials ffi i l wer weree optimis optimistic ti istic ti about ab bout the rreport. eport.

“It’s “It ’s a big deal b because ecause of the fa fact act that th hat Major L League eague Baseball has finally fin nally said something something,, that the they’re y’rre seriously se eriously cconsidering onsidering cconditions onditions to t [let [le et the A A’s] ’s] mo move ve to San JJose,” ose,” L Larry arrry Stone, St tone, the ccounty ounty assessor assessor,, said in

an inter interview view with San n JJose ose Inside Inside..

“But ther theree ar aree so man many ny mo moving ving par parts ts which need to b bee don done.” e.”

The San Francisc Francisco o Giants G ha have ave eexclusive xclusive rights to San Santa nta Clara County, C ounty, which include includes es San JJose. ose.

If the A A’s ’s wer weree to mo move ve her here, e, the theyy might ha have ave to ccompensate ompen nsate the Giants ffor or the loss of their o t territorial rights—which, ac according cording to the Times, T iimes, is the least of th their heir cconcerns. oncerns.

Under U nder R Rule ule u 1 of the Major L League eague Rules, R ules, the A u A’s ’s would owe o the Giants whatever whate ver “sum of mon money ney the Commissioner C ommissioner deems appr appropriate.” opriate.”

In addition to R Rule ule u 1, it iit’s ’s curr currently ently being b eing determined whe whether ether the A A’s ’s ccan an “satisf fy the C omm missioner as “satisfy Commissioner to the b ona fides” of th he rrelocation elocation bona the pr oposal of a $50 0-miillion ballpark proposal $500-million in San JJose. ose.

PIERLUIGI PIERL UIGI OLIVE OLIVERIO RI O

overwhelm overwhelmingly mingly supp supported orted Measur Measuree D.. Man Manyy business have D b owners I ha ave spoken sp oken wit with th plan to ccover over the increase payroll byy raising incr ease in n pa ayr y oll ccosts osts b prices, pric es, rreducing edu ucing the hours of curr current ent employees emplo yeess and, in some ccase, ase, simply eliminating ng p positions ositions alto altogether. gether. eliminatin Given these circumstances, myy Giv en th hese cir cumstances, m suggestion gg n to business owners is theyy should that the s cconsider onsider adding a surcharge sur charge to each customer’ customer’ss bill. item bee clearly This line it tem should b sp spelled elled ou out, t, and appr appropriately opriately ccalled alled 2012.””

“San JJose ose Minimum M Wage 2012.

This is sim similar milar to what is b being eing done today San Francisco, wheree a to daay in Sa an Francisc o, wher “Healthy Francisco Surcharge” “Health hy San S Francisc o Sur charge” bills.. This ffee is added to o rrestaurant estaurant bills ee e goes go es tow toward arrd the ccost ost of pr providing oviding health ccare are to emplo employees yees as mandated b byy San Francisc Francisco oC County. ounty.

When cit cityy sp specific ecific ffees—such ees— e such as Measuree D Measur D—are —are clearly stipulated on an in invoice, voice, it rremoves emoves an any ny ambiguit ambiguityy as to wh why hy pric p prices es ar aree higher in San JJose ose than in i neighb neighboring oring cities cities..

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That weekend, Chuck Palahniuk was in San Francisco to promote his

new book, Diary, and was scheduled to do a reading that night in the library’s rec room, on the street level, accessible through an entrance set back from the sidewalk.

At half-past-six in the morning, however, no one was around when the Cacophonists showed up. In clandestine fashion, the quintet of pranksters unloaded the fake plywood wall and began carrying it toward the entrance of the rec-room.

Diary takes place on a fictional islandto which yuppies travel to their vacation homes every summer. A building contractor named Peter lives on the island and hates the yuppies, so during the off-season he infiltrates their summer homes and walls off the doorways to particular rooms—that is, he seals off the entrances. Come summer, the yuppie vacationers return

d their h i bathrooms b h to find gone, their kitchens gone or their living rooms gone, because Peter has walled off the rooms.

Palahniuk was a member of the Portland chapter of the Cacophony Society and a seasoned prankster himself, so, apropos of the Diary novel, members of the local chapter decided to prank his author event by sealing off the entrance to the room so no one could get into the building.

The Cacophonists constructed the wall with precise measurements, so it fit securely in front of the rec-room doors, leaving a solid white partition flush with the building, which completely sealed off the entrance. After securing the wall, they scurried back to the truck and hightailed it east down Page Street, in search of a cheap breakfast spot, as the autumn sun began to rise in the sky.

Unfortunately, as history tells us, not all great pranks are successful. Later that morning, as soon as library employees arrived, they took the wall down. Had the wall stayed long enough for the audience and Palahniuk to show up, the prank would have been a masterpiece— for anyone who had read the book.

Therein lay the other problem.

Diary was just being released—the reason Palahniuk was touring—and even though the Cacophonists managed to obtain an advance copy, no one else, including the library employees, even knew the story yet.

And because the wall was removed long before Palahniuk showed up that night, not one single person even got the joke.

Now, anyone experienced in the prankster business understands that sometimes the best pranks are the ones in which the perpetrators don’t get a chance to witness the result. But in this case, since neither anyone at the library nor anyone involved with producing the event had read the book yet, none of them realized the sealed-off entrance was related to the event. As a result, the perpetrators were the only ones who even knew that a prank had been played.

On Chuck’s next tour, to hype his following release, Stranger Than Fiction, he appeared in L.A. but did not come back to the Bay Area. In 2005, he did a reading at Kepler’s in Menlo Park, where one of the perpetrators, yours truly, presented him with “before” and “after” photos of the rec-room entrance sealed off by the Cacophony Society, apropos of Diary. Only then did Palahniuk seem to fully appreciate the prank. He definitely had a maverick spirit.

Two years later, Palahniuk returned to the Park Branch Library, divulging to the Cacophonists that the wall still existed but was stored somewhere in the back of the place. At that time, he said he was conspiring to autograph it and ship it to a storage area, to be included with numerous other artifacts sent to him by rabid fans over the years. The rec-room entrance has long since been remodeled, preventing any such prank from happening again.

Now, in 2013, Palahniuk arrives in San Jose on Saturday for the first time, to receive a Writer Maverick Spirit Award from Cinequest in connection with the film Romance, for which he did the script, based on his short story.

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Donostia is the Basque name for San Sebastián, a Spanish coastal town known for its tapas. The new place is the latest venture of owners Joe Cannistraci and Michael Guerra, the team behind Los Gatos’ wine bar Enoteca La Storia.

“We thought Spanish cuisine would be an exciting transition,” says Guerra of the move from Italian to Spanish dining with Donostia.

Both men have roots in Italy, a connection that resulted in the creation of Enoteca La Storia. Guerra and Cannistraci were inspired to create Donostia after exploring San Sebastián with friend Jorge Bianchi, who introduced them to Agustin Elbert, the chef responsible for Donostia’s classic San Sebastián cuisine. “This is the authentic Basque experience,” Guerra says.

The wave-detailed walls and blue geode piece hanging above the bar call to mind the beauty of the Spanish coast. The extensive tapas menu is matched by the wine and beer choices, which have been carefully selected to pair well with the cuisine. Tapas selections include Bonito tuna belly pierced with a toothpick alongside an anchovy, a guindilla, an onion and an olive; and carrilleras en salsa (slow-cooked beef cheeks).

The beverage selection boasts Txakoli, the Basque country’s famous dry, slightly sparkling wine; Isastegi cider, a refreshing palate cleanser; a variety of Spanish wines selected by Guerro and beers chosen by resident beer specialist Ryan Smith.

Donostia is located just three doors down from Enoteca La Storia. The restaurant is open 3–10pm, Sunday and Monday; 3–11pm, Tuesday and Wednesday; 3pm–midnight, Thursday–Saturday. —Eliza Lamson DONOSTIA 424 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos

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For $7.95, I ordered the combo, which comes with rare steak, brisket, tendon, beef balls and tripe. Obviously, the pho is a main feature on the Vietnamese side of the menu, but I also ordered the vermicelli combo for $8.95. In Vietnamese cuisine, vermicelli are thin rice noodles, as opposed to the slightly thicker semolina-based Italian pasta. The combo plate comes with veggies, mint leaves, peanuts, grilled beef, chicken, shrimp, pork and a crispy imperial roll.

Whereas the pho shined though its simplicity, the vermicelli succeeded in its complexity. The flavors of the cucumbers, carrots and the onions, as well as the still sizzling, lightly seasoned meats, all competed for attention. It was delicious.

The Chinese dishes are a recent addition. Asian Bistro opened a few years back at a different location near Willow Glen with a different owner. After chef Andy Lau took over and moved the restaurant to its current location, he added Chinese food. Lau, originally from Vietnam, moved to the Bay Area a couple decades ago. He has worked at different restaurants ever since, including Anna Lien’s in Napa, Red Shallot in Fairfield and Kang Nam in Oakland.

Chinese food is one of his passions, and at Asian Bistro, he cooks curries, chow mein, chow fun and fried rice. I ordered the fried-rice combo (beef, chicken and shrimp) and the chow fun combo (beef, chicken and shrimp)—$8.50 each.

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THE UNDERSTUDIES Johnny V’s, San Jose Wed – 10:30pm; free

What makes the Understudies great isn’t that they are reinventing hip-hop. This East Bay crew plays some impressive alternative rap, mixing classic boom-bap beats with modern cutting-edge loops, but what they really bring to the genre is excitement. The immediacy in their delivery and group interplay is so fresh it’s infectious. These guys really do function well as a collective, which makes you wish more rappers still performed in crews. They’ve put out five mixtapes together so far, and who

knows how many solo releases between them. (AC)

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Caravan Lounge, San Jose Thu – 10pm; free

CALL MR. ROBESON

What is there to be angry about in Hollister? For starters, it’s going to take Domino and the Derelicts an hour just to drive to their gig at the Caravan Lounge. Hollister is that far away. Little towns all across the country, like Hollister, seem to spawn the loudest, angriest punk bands, which is good for us big-city dwellers. And

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all that anger is channeled by only two members, with Domino taking the lead vocals and guitar duty, while her back-up band, the Derelicts, which is really just one guy—drummer Bill—pounds the skins. Raw, passionate music, for sure, but also a lot of fun.

Their “Bad Reputation” cover is a delight. (AC)

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Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose Thu-Sat – 7:30pm; $8-$25 One of the towering figures of the 20th century, African American actor and activist Paul Robeson cut a large swath through American culture and politics. A football star in both college and the pros, Robeson

became gure in the beca a leading fi figure Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s as an actor and singer. He was electrifying in the 1933 film version of Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones, although movie audiences know him best for his rendition of “Old Man River” in Showboat. He gave an electrifying performance as Othello on the London stage and Broadway. His outspoken political views eventually ran afoul of the Red Scare that blighted so many lives during the 1950s. In celebration of his remarkable life, Tayo Aluko and friends present the biographical play Call Mr. Robeson with details about his manyfaceted career and re-creations of his speeches, major stage roles and songs. (MSG)

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The alternative version (and the one that’s gotten more than 100,000 views) features the duo sitting down at a table and smoking as much pot as the two-and-a-half-minute song will allow. Check this buzz band out at the Blank Club before it starts playing big indie-rock festivals. (AC)

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After years in hiding, she finally found her way to New York. Her 1861 autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, detailed the extra burden of sexual abuse inflicted on female slaves; as she wrote in her introduction, “I have not exaggerated the wrongs inflicted by Slavery; on the contrary, my descriptions fall far short of the facts.” Her story has been turned into the drama Fragrance of Freedom for by San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild and Tabia African-American Theatre Ensemble, with Zyanda Johnson in the lead role. (AR)

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Ruviaro, who recently joined the Santa Clara University faculty, teaches in the music department, with an emphasis on electronic music. This spring, he will be putting together the first laptop orchestra at Santa Clara, integrating computers into the traditional ensemble approach to composing and performing. (Stanford already has an active one known as SLOrk.) Ruviaro has played in and organized laptop orchestras before, including the six-machine protoensemble he assembled for a preliminary concert in early January at Santa Clara. Using a laptop to create music is exciting because there are no restrictions on how it can be used. Pianists must use the keys on

their instrument, but a laptop can be hooked up to a video controller, a motion sensor, a piano keyboard or even the regular typewriter-style keyboard it came with.

Similarly, during a laptop concert, the performers can be sitting, standing or dancing in any arrangement. The use of laptops pushes the limits of what we understand as music.

It took Ruviaro a long time to move from studying piano as a child in São Paulo to organizing laptop orchestras in the Bay Area. After receiving an undergraduate degree in Brazil, where his interest in electronic music blossomed, he decided he wanted to continue his studies in the United States, but he didn’t know much about what opportunities were available here.

“I was literally typing in Google: ‘Electronic Music, masters degree,’” Ruviaro explains in his office at SCU. His charming Portuguese accent, broken-in flannel and tweed Hanna hat all combine to create a laid back musician vibe.

The Internet search worked.

Ruviaro was accepted to a small masters program at Dartmouth. He liked the studies, but two winters of waist-deep snow encouraged him to relocate once he received his degree.

After visiting here, the Bay Area was a natural choice. Ruviaro explains that he felt a kind of openness in this region and a willingness to take risks in terms of art. He also felt that in the Bay Area, there was time to let things unfold in their own time, as opposed to the frantic pace in a city like New York.

Now that he’s teaching at Santa Clara, Ruviaro is excited to see where he can take the university’s electronicmusic program—and the laptop orchestra in particular.

“You really start from zero and invent a new way of playing,” he says, explaining that the school is buying enough equipment for 16 students to participate. There will be a concert in early June at which students will be able to showcase their new skills.

He views his students as young colleagues, choosing to abandon the traditional hierarchy between students and professors.

In addition to the laptop orchestra, Ruviaro also works to create fixed pieces of electronic music. These are composed and recorded in the studio over a period of days or weeks. During a concert, 10 or 20 speakers surround the audience. The lights are dimmed, and music streams out of different speakers at different times, creating a cinematic experience for the ears—an extreme surround-sound experience.

The composer works the soundboard, choosing which speakers to use at particular times during the piece.

Although most of his time these days is spent teaching, Ruviaro still enjoys composing more traditional music. He loves the classics and enjoys finding connections between pieces across a broad spectrum of music.

“I really like stuff from 500 years ago, and I like experimental stuff that is being made now. I try to include as many influences as possible in my music,” he says.

His favorite part of composing?

Sitting back and listening to a finished piece. It can be a struggle to get a piece going and know what it will become. But by the time of the performance, he explains, “it’s not in your hands anymore, it has a life of its own.”

More listings:

metroactive ARTS THE APPLE NEVER FALLS A detective drama by Paul Braverman. Runs thru Mar 10.

Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$24.

Pear Avenue Theatre, Mtn View.

CALL MR. ROBESON A drama about the African American actor. Thu-Fri, 7:30pm. $8-$25. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

DEGREES OF SEPARATION SCU Theatre & Dance presents John Guare’s drama. Runs Mar 1-9. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular Shows: Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, FriSat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $10-$15.

Mayer Theatre, Santa Clara.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF A family play by Peninsula Youth Theatre. Runs Mar 2-10.

This week: Sat, 2 and 7:30pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm. $16-$20.

Mtn View Center for the Performing Arts.

FRAGRANCE OF FREEDOM A play from SJMAG/Tabia African-American Theatre Ensemble about Ann Jacobs.

Fri-Sat, 8pm. $25.$30. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

RED John Logan’s drama about painter Mark Rothko. Runs thru Mar 3. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, FriSat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$35.

The Stage, San Jose.

SPRING AWAKENING A musical about sexual rebellion, by Foothill Music Theatre. Runs thru Mar 10. Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $10-$28. Logman Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

SUGAR A musical comedy from West Valley Light Opera. Runs Mar 2-30. This week: Fri, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $18-$33. Saratoga Civic Theater.

*classical GIRL POWER South Bay Philharmonic presents a work by Amy Scurria plus selections by Bizet and Rimsky-Korsakov. Fri, 7:30pm.

Free. Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose.

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Piano recital by young virtuoso. Sun, 7:30pm. $15-$45. Carriage House Theatre, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.

“Modern Mata Ortiz.” Works

by Jerado Tena and other Mata Ortiz potters. San Jose.

SILICON VALLEY SYMPHONY The program features works

by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky and highlights young violinist Stephen Waarts. Fri, 7:30pm, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto; Sat, 7:30pm, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Menlo Park. $15-$20.

*art MUSEUMS CANTOR ARTS CENTER “North Africa and the Holy Land in 19th-Century Photographs.” Thru Jun 2.

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

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

KALEID GALLERY “Crime Scene.” Works by Julie Bilyeu. “Left Front Lobe Slowing.” Work by René Lorraine. Reception for South First Friday. San Jose.

PHO69 “Color.” Paintings by Ken Brenner. Thru Mar 23. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Val Britton: Intimate Immensity.” Thru May 18.

“Judith Rothchild: Black Magic.”

Thru May 18. Tue-Fri, 10am5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

SEEING THINGS GALLERY “Possessed.” Skateboard photography. Runs Mar 1-26.

Part of South First Friday. 30 N. Third St, San Jose.

“Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography.” Thru Jun 30. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES

“See Your Self Sensing.” Works

by Madeline Schwartzman. Mar 4-Apr 5. Art Building, SJSU.

“Folk Indian Textiles From the Collection of Carol Summers.”

“Meditation in Space & Time: Junco Sato Pollack Sutra Chants Hangings and Stitch.”

Both thru Apr 28. Indonesian shadow puppets demo for South First Friday. Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Echoes of Islam.” Thru Apr 7.

“Domenic Cretara: 20 Years of Painting and Drawing.” Thru Apr 14. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm.

Santa Clara.

GALLERIES ART ARK GALLERY “Cross Pollination.” Works from local community colleges.

Runs Mar 1-16. Reception with music by Andy Dela Cruz for South First Friday. San Jose.

ECO MONSTER “Animal Catalogue.” Paintings

by Jordan Maliksi. Opens for South First Friday, runs thru March. Sperry Station (30 N. Third St), San Jose.

“Japaints on Studio Parade.”

San Jose.

THOMPSON GALLERY

WORKS/SAN JOSE “Beyond Gaga.” A group show.

Thru Mar 9. San Jose.

*events RICHARD BLAIS A public Q&A (11:30am) with celebrity chef, followed by a booksigning (noon). Book purchase necessary for booksigning. Sun. Sur la Table, Santana Row.

LITERARY ARTS Event with short-story writer Susan Steinberg and novelist Susan Straight, by SJSU Center for Literary Arts. Wed, 7pm.

Free. King Library, San Jose.

STARS ON ICE Famed blade runners perform.

Sun, 3pm. $26.50 and up. HP Pavilion, San Jose.

ROY ZIMMERMAN A concert by SJSU grad Zimmerman. Sat, 8pm. $18.

First Unitarian Church, San Jose.

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BY SHEER COINCIDENCE, this week we received a press release announcing that downtown San Jose had been designated “one of America’s top ArtPlaces for 2013.” Even with the corporate carapace (ArtPlaces is “an initiative of national and regional foundations and major banks to accelerate creative place making across the United States”), the point is well taken.

Downtown has become a vibrant spot for creative expression—and one of the main contributors to that happy fact has been the monthly South First Friday art walks. That might be a good starting point for some grant money from ArtPlaces.

This installment of South First Friday comes with some new wrinkles. Two venues have been added to the mix: EcoMonster in the refurbished Sperry Station on North Third Street presents SoFF animal paintings with an urban edge by Jordan Maliksi, while the ZERO1 Garage features a cinematic installation Friday, March 1;

by Michael Joaquin Grey, the first solo exhibit at the space.

7–11pm; free Also a first: TechShop San Jose mounts a resident-artist show by Darius B’Alexander. Meanwhile, a venerable SoFF South First Street participant, SLG Art Boutiki, says goodbye to its current and environs, location (don’t worry, they’ll be opening a new space soon San Jose off The Alameda) with a “Do It Yourself Art Show” and music by Grooveyard Shift and Scribe Sayer.

Among the many shows, “Assembling the Pieces: Reconstructing Memory & Hybrid Identity” at MACLA is especially noteworthy. This two-person exhibit foregrounds the work of Tessie Barrera-Scharaga and Samuel Rodriguez, two artists from San Jose. Barrera-Scharaga uses familiar objects and video in her site-specific installation, which cuts across a wide swath of contemporary anxieties, from violence to ecological crisis. Rodriguez creates fractured and multifaceted portraits in pursuit of questions of identity in a multicultural world. His Fractions, a mixed-media work from 2012, graces this week’s cover.

For South First Friday, the artists will talk about their images and ideas.

Other shows to keep in mind include “Deciphering the Ash of Effigies” by British artists Joseph Loughborough at Anno Domini; “Cross Pollination,” a highly diverse show by art faculty and staff from local community colleges at Art Ark; “Possessed,” a group show of skateboard photographers at Seeing Things Gallery, along with a video by Justin Albert; and “Always Have Your iPhone With You,” a show promoting the many virtues of the iPhone as a camera and the apps that accrue to it, by Nadia Matta-Toledo.

As always, the art comes with music. Andy Dela Cruz performs at Art Ark Gallery; John Worley pays tribute to Miles Davis at Pagoda; and Containher and the Star People appear in front of San Jose Stage. —Michael S. Gant

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CONGRATULATIONS! (U.S.) A few years ago, the Fake Wood Wallpaper collective out of Atlanta arrived in San Jose with probably my favorite Cinequest movie ever, Blood Car, and won an award for it. They’re back with a follow-up, written and directed by Mike Brune, who starred in Blood Car. It’s a completely different film, however, showcasing the vastly different comic sensibilities of Brune and Blood Car writerdirector Alex Orr. Congratulations! is just as weird but not in the same adrenalized, inyour-face way. Instead, it’s quietly odd, much more David Lynch than Roger Corman. In fact,

Twin Peaks is not a bad point of reference for this mystery about a missing kid, especially with the deadpan delivery of familiar character actors John Curran and Jack McGee as cops on the case. They get to go Leslie Nielsen a few times, with stony deliveries of ridiculous lines. But other than that, this is subtle stuff, right down to the semiserious point to be made about obsession and loneliness. (Steve Palopoli) Sat, 3/2, at 7pm (C12); Sun, 3/3, at 4pm (C12); Tue, 3/5 at 4:15pm (C12)

HABANASTATION (Cuba) Cuba’s entry for the 2012 Oscars.

Director Ian Padron makes it a tale of two cities, both of them Havana, in the form of the class divide in the People’s Republic observed on the May Day holiday. Two school lads, both of them dressed in Young Pioneers kerchiefs, spend the day together: the young son (Ernesto Escalona) of a welloff musician and his wife, and the poor kid (Andy Fornanis) whom he mocked in the schoolyard. The after-school-special plotting doesn’t get much more developed than that;

Habanastation has the air of a movie that abov age 9, though could be sold to kids above what might have given distributors cold feet is the story of the fate of animals in a poor country (including pigeons raised to be sold for Santeria sacrifice). This is a valuable movie in that it gives a vision of a city still legally forbidden to Yankees: both the cozy well-off suburbs and the slums where darker-skinned kids do their best to make their way. (Richard von Busack) Thu, 2/28, at 4:15pm (C12); Tue, 3/5, at 6:45pm (C12); Sat, 3/9, 11am (Rep)

PLIMPTON! STARRING GEORGE PLIMPTON AS HIMSELF (U.S.) This straightforward documentary recalls a major figure in the “new journalism” of the ’60s. After making his literary bones as the co-founder of The Paris Review in the 1950s, Plimpton became a pioneer of participatory reportage.

Tall, skinny and guilelessly patrician, Plimpton tried a variety of professional occupations—sports primarily—to see how the common man (although he was anything but common) would fare at the highest levels of competition and performance—and then wrote bestsellers about his experiences. The method worked

(U.S.) Documentary about the remarkable feat of Steven Wampler, a Southern Californian with cerebral palsy who ratcheted his way up the face of El Capitan in Yosemite, inch by inch—several thousand feet above the valley floor. The purpose was to raise money for a Lake Tahoe camp for differently abled children. The climb is a daunting one even for people with control of their limbs—at least two dozen people have died in the attempt. “It goes from Disneyland to the morgue sometimes,” says one of the regular climbers there. Wampler and his wife, Elizabeth, are credited as co-directors, hence the frequent cuts to the base camp where his loyal wife and two children are watching this ordeal. The novelty of this truelife story is bound to make it a favorite of the festival. The vertigo-inducing sequences off the cliff face would do justice to an action film. Unfortunately, the style has the canned manipulativeness of TV news: cuts to newscasters again and again reiterating the historic nature of this climb, celebs (including a literal walk-on by Will Ferrell) wishing Wampler well and guides explaining what will be waiting for this climber at the top. All this, and the uplifting music, tell you what you’re going to feel watching this movie, way before you can feel it on your own. (RvB)

Fri, 3/1, at 7:15pm (Rep); Sun, 3/3, at 12:15pm (Calif); Thu, 3/7, 4:30pm (C12)

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well in sports, and Plimpton’s most famous effort, Paper Lion, about taking snaps at quarterback for the Detroit Lions, is a classic. After a while, though, the format turned into a gimmick, as Plimpton tried everything from trapeze to standup comedy.

Period footage gives a flavor of his exploits so that the talking heads don’t dominate the film. The crucial moment comes in the account of Plimpton’s most immersive experience: helping to wrestle the gun from the hand of Sirhan Sirhan moments after he shot Bobby Kennedy. Plimpton somewhat shamelessly flogged his own celebrity status (mainly in pursuit of funds to keep the Review going). One remarkable section shows Plimpton’s TV ads—when was the last time an author of distinction was considered famous enough to hawk cars and garage-door openers? (Michael S. Gant)

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21 AND OVER (R) A comedy about partying on the biggest night of a young adult’s life.

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‘Sparks’ and Rec THE DARK superhero opus Sparks, one of the most vaunted films at this year’s Cinequest, hosts an off-campus event Feb. 28 at Santa Clara’s Illusive Comics: it’s a signing for the graphic-novel version of Sparks (Catastrophic Comics), edited by Notre Dame High School teacher Derek McCaw. Tickets on Thursday are $20 for grips, grins and an autographed copy of the book. The stars will be on hand: the film’s convincing villain, William Katt, veteran heavy Clancy Brown, lead Chase Williamson and Gossip Girl’s Marina Squerciati (a scene-stealer in the film).

On Friday, the celebs will attend Sparks’ premiere in downtown San Jose.

McCaw, who has a cameo part in the film, said that he had met Sparks’ director through some writing he’d done about director Christopher Folino’s 2006 film Gamers, all about the longest-ever Dragons and Dungeons game. McCaw and Folino became friends, and ultimately collaborators on a comic book with Katt, former star of TV’s The Greatest American Hero. The project—McCaw calls it “Percy Jackson for adults”—didn’t come to pass, but down the line another one did: Sparks, a story of parallel worlds of superheroes, with strife between those (like Batman) who got into the business of vigilante crime-fighting for personal reasons, and those (like the Flash, the Fantastic Four) who got their godlike powers through industrial accidents.

After twin happenstances, a radioactive meteor and a train wreck, “Supers” are

plying their trade in late 1940s America.

One is Sledge (Jake Busey), a helmeted bruiser. Another is Lady Heavenly (Ashley Bell of The Last Exorcism), a Silk Spectre–like avenger. A newcomer among them, Ian Sparks (Chase Williamson), suffers a key failure during a mission—he apparently faints on the job. This makes him a national joke. Seeking his redemption, he discovers a conspiracy that goes back to the 1920s.

Burrows and Folini depart from the Comic Code’s Sparks moralizing, and the welldone composite animation/ Friday, 7pm, live action style resembles California that of The Spirit and Sin Theatre City.

Saturday, 2pm, Tuesday, Sparks is very much what 4:45pm, SJ it is—an experience that Repertory Theatre separates the seriously maskcrazed from the case-by-case fan. But the cast is unusually good for an indie, and the hard PG violence is a little more extreme than one might find in the films derived from the DC/Marvel universe. Also unusual is the set-up, sourcing the mood and era of classic film noir.

Besides a sequel, McCaw hopes that the upshot of Sparks will be that Katt can start getting some disturbing roles: “While he’s been an actor who has huge connections to this genre, he can tell you stories about getting direction from Bob Fosse on stage in Pippin. This is the best part he’s had in years. I hope someone will see him and see how well he can do scary men.”—Richard von Busack

This Cinequest feature starts when a framer gets framed, or does he? In rural New York, Tony (Chris Penn), a construction worker recently paroled from prison, is the prime suspect when his much-hated foreman vanishes without a trace—and a violent crime wave spirals out as a result. Penn was Nice Guy Eddie in Reservoir Dogs; he died during the production of Aftermath some years ago, and the question is whether the coherence-threatening postmodernism of the whole is designed to cover this disruption.

Or was the film always this overly fancy from the beginning—with the ostentatious chapter design, splitscreen, date stamping and graphicnovel illustrations? It’s clear that indie director (and sometime construction worker) Thomas Farone has talent—it’s flaunted in every off-kilter, low- or high-angle shot, in the skeevy, sweaty cops leering into the camera, in the use of FannyPack’s raunchy “Camel Toe” over a visit to a strip club and in the outrageous tough guy lines (“I’m too old a cat to get fucked by a kitten.”) (Plays Friday at 9:30pm and Sunday at 5:15pm at the California Theatre, and Tue at 1:30pm at Camera 12 in San Jose.) (RvB)

JACK THE GIANT SLAYER (PG-13; 114 min.) Not a masterpiece, but a solidly made, scary, heartfelt and handsomely designed fantasy.

Another collaboration between director Brian Singer and valley-raised composer/editor John Ottman. The film is satisfyingly free of spoof and winks to the audience. Nicholas Hoult (Hank “The Beast” McCoy in the last X-Men film) plays the polite yet proactive boy cornered into swapping his farm’s horse for a handful of beans. Eleanor Tomlinson is the princess bored with castle life. With skill, Singer matches the story of the royal and the commoner, up to the point where the world of cannibal giants and Earthlings is bridged by vast lianas of vines. Leading the expedition into the clouds is a soldier (Ewan McGregor in one of his most pleasing roles, an unironic salute to golden-age movie heroism), his brave squire (rough Eddie Marsan, looking fierce in a smooth suit of armor) and Stanley Tucci as a treacherous aristo with a nasty TerryThomas grimace. “Gantua,” the land of the giants, is the home of creatures who look like they escaped from Goya’s Black Paintings; they’re fierce, gross and hard to kill. The fun is in trying to figure out how they’ll be stopped, when they invade earth, chase mounted troops down a field and besiege a castle.

Everyone involved, from Ian McShane (as the king) right on down to an orange house cat who does very rich reaction shots, seems to be giving this film their best game. (Opens Fri.) (RvB)

THE LAST EXORCISM PART II (PG-13; 88 min.) Nobody in particular stars in a sequel to a movie that selfidentified as not having a sequel (what part of “the last” don’t the filmmakers understand?). Anyway, it’s proof that the Friday after the Oscars is no-man’s land.

(Opens Fri.)

LORE (NR; 109 min.) A drama by Cate Shortland about five children in Germany who must embark on a troubling journey in the chaos just after the end of World War II. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.)

A PLACE AT THE TABLE (PG) A documentary about hunger in America. (Opens Fri at the Aquarius in Palo Alto.)

Revivals RENDEZVOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA A festival of French films at the Camera 3. Mar 2, 1pm: Persecution. Patrice Chereau directs the fearless Charlotte Gainsbourg as one half of a couple torn apart by a male stalker. Mar 3, 1pm: Granny’s Funeral, a.k.a. Adieu, Berthe.

Distracted by his personal soap opera, a pharmacist must plan his estranged grandma’s funeral. Mar 6, 7pm: Me, You & Us. A mother leaving her marriage is thinking over having a child with her new lover. (Plays through March in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN/ROPE (1951/1948) Strangers on a Train is one of Hitchcock’s (and the American cinema’s) best. The gimmick is luscious.

Two strangers have drinks together on a train. One, Guy (San Jose’s own Farley Granger), is a celebrated tennis player who has climbed out of the ghetto. The other is a senator’s son, Bruno (Robert Walker). When Bruno suggests the idea of killing a troublesome woman in Guy’s life, the tennis player thinks it’s a joke. But Bruno is all too serious, and after performing the hit in question, he wants Guy to reciprocate. The manic climax on a carousel is startling enough, but what repays the rewatching is Walker’s Bruno, one of cinema’s most memorable villains—the aesthetic kind, a combo of one of Bill Murray’s silky scroungers and Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Lecter. Keep an eye open for a really delicious joke about abstract art.

BILLED WITH Rope, a more sedate study of mania. Rope is remembered as a trick film of Hitchcock’s, filmed in a series of continuous, “real-time” long takes in an apartment in which a Leopold and Loebish pair (John Dahl and Granger) entertain their professor (James

42 Stewart, miscast), whose Nietzschean ideas have supposedly stimulated them to murder. (Plays Feb 28-Mar 3 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

56 UP (NR; 144 min.) The survivors of documentary film’s longest-running project reiterate what I was writing about them 14 years ago: “42 Up proves that marriage can be hard, painful work; that the loss of mother and father is a bitter lesson in mortality; that consumer debt is a plague; that a man can count himself lucky and happy if he has a backyard to sit in and a beer to drink in it—42-year-old wisdom, dearly bought and absolutely useless to the young.”

In this 2-hour survey, the mixed-class British children, 7-year-olds in 1964, are now deep in their 50s, with some failed marriages and some successful children.

There’s been exodus to the sunbelt.

If some of the interviewees still look like they want to spit when they say the name “Thatcher,” the cultural and class certainties with which the series started have been shaken by social mobility. Sue, who never went to college, is now a university administrator. Neil argues against watchers of this series really knowing him at all; meanwhile he continues a poorly paid but necessary career in political activism. As usual, director Michael Apted asks the banal questions, but the views of ordinary bravery and spirit redeem the film. (RvB)

AMOUR (127 min, PG-13.) A serious film.

Profound, cruel and not at all depressing, despite director Michael Haneke’s insistence on avoiding anything that euphemizes. The story follows a cultured Parisian couple as the lady of the house (Emmanuelle Riva) perishes by inches from the complications of a stroke; her elderly husband (Jean-Louis Trintignant)— who is a bit of a cold bastard—tries to preserve their dignity as a couple as situations worsen. What we see is the final stage of a successful love story, the end of the line. It’s a destination that we all think of as tender and romantic in the abstract, mainly because no one seriously thinks through what it actually encompasses. The film has the 3am clarity of a fantasy of downfall, unredeemed by false uplift and spiritual afflatus. (RvB)

BLESS ME, ULTIMA (PG-13, 102 min.) Carl Franklin’s adaptation of the young-adult book is as good looking as any movie ever made in New Mexico. Drying chile peppers glow with the hearty crimson of a neon sign at dusk, and the silver streams and moonscapes gleam. Downside is a visual Santa Fe accent on that world: a clean and boutique version of it. The story is about the post-WWII childhood of Antonio, called Tony (Luke Ganalon), youngest son of a Chicano farmer. The curandera Ultima (Miriam Colon) who delivered Antonio when he was a baby comes to spend her last days with his family. Her gentle influence teaches Tony to seek out the Virgin Mary’s side of Catholicism, instead of the hell-fire religion pushed at the adobe church.

The subject matter is rare, but the approach is often clumsy. The narration couldn’t possibly sound more straight off the page. Re his parents: “They took their truth from the earth,” narrates the elder Antonio. (RvB)

(R; 165 min.) Django, an escaped slave (Jamie Foxx) joins up with a benign German (Christopher Walz).

Their mission is to free Django’s wife (Kerry Washington) from a vicious Southern planter. The film rests solidly in Quentin Tarantino’s comfort zone, with alternating bands of speechifying and big payback.. Samuel L. Jackson catalyzes what Tarantino has to say about slavery. Every white liberal who flinches at seeing an Uncle Ben rice box will get that sting watching Jackson playing a diabolical old house man.

Jackson shows us the corrosion of a man who has to pretend to be a pet, putting on a show of human warpage that only white people grown stupid and lazy from the slaveholder’s life wouldn’t suss out. If it’s foolery, it’s the kind of fooling that goes on in King Lear. (RvB)

LES MISÉRABLES (PG-13; 157 min.) The realism of the cinematic close-up marries the figurative qualities of the stage hit—they have a baby and it’s ugly. It’s the material that’s to blame: a rhyming-dictionary heavy libretto, a plot that zips around making characters turn up aged with white hair for yet another coincidental pathcrossing, requiring them to describe their feelings in “What is this I’m feeling right now?” lyrics. Tom Hooper’s film seeks streetiness through hand-held cameras and an emphasis on blood. Through it all, Hugh Jackman (Jean Valjean) and Russell Crowe (Javert) bellow at each other at close range. As the show-stopping Fantine, Anne Hathaway gives something like 10,000 percent; she plummets into her fate so fast, that there’s no time to feel anything for her. She sings her swan

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SIDE EFFECTS (R; 106 min.) Nimble but thin—still, this thriller has a pulse. Stephen Soderbergh’s allegedly last movie has a witty, plausible subject—it plays on the shudders you get seeing cartoony advertisements on television and billboards for antidepressants. A serious crime is committed by Emily (Rooney Mara, recalling the most jittery waifs of the ’60s). Emily’s defense is that she cannot recall the crime because her meds made her a sleepwalker.

This leaves her psychiatrist (Jude Law) legally vulnerable. Some clues are provided by Emily’s severe former psychiatrist (Catherine Zeta-Jones).

Law’s skeeviness (this shrink forgets to shave) is well worked; Channing Tatum is used deftly; and Soderbergh has a fine sense of the erotic, for making you feel you’ve seen far more than you have. (RvB)

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK (R; 123 min.) The bipolar Pat (Bradley Cooper) returns home after an eightmonth sentence to the mental hospital for threatening his wife. He’s lured back to coping with the help of his pal’s widowed sister-in-law, Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who’s just as full of meds and emotional troubles as he is. Director David O. Russell veers all over the map charting these two troubled love birds, considering them as everything from quirky truth-tellers to screaming troublemakers. (RvB)

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ART BOUTIKI Thu, 7pm: Still the Skyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Limit, Claire on a Dare, the Forms. All ages. $6 with canned-food item/$8 at the door. San Jose

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live music.

San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Thu: Jack Rip-Off. San Jose.

THE CARAVAN Thu, 10pm: Dun Bin Had, the Runs, Domino & the Derelicts.

Sat, 9:30pm: Resistant Me. San Jose.

Thursday, February 28 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 21+

Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Tue, 6pm: Johnny Fabulous. Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX Sat, 8pm: Pop Fiction. $13/$15.

Redwood City.

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Fri, 7pm: Acoustic Leather Jacket. Sunnyvale.

3ATURDAY -ARCH Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 21+ Infamous Blue Eyes presents THE SHOWCASE AT THE $OORS s $RS P M 3HOW P M

Monday, March 4 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 21+

JOHNNY Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Wed, 9pm: The Understudies.

San Jose.

SAPIENT also Evil

plus Zigzag Robinson with TSFPB Ebenezer s P M P M

Tuesday, March 5 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 21+

FERAL FAUNA formerly Audiafauna

Fri, 9:30pm: Big Cat Tolefree. $5.

Sat, 9:30pm: Stevenson ProďŹ tt. $5. Fremont.

Wed, 8:30pm: Johnny Neri. Thu, 8:30pm: Out of the Blue. Fri, 9pm: Eddie Toro & the Blues Rockers. Sat, 9pm: Dutch Uncle.

Saturday, March 2 Â&#x2039; AGES 21+

PENNYWISE Lagwagon Death By Stereo and

Wed, 9pm: All City Elite, Seabright, Casey Chisolm. Free.

Fri, 9pm: Sisu, Dune Rats, Dirty Pillows. $8. San Jose.

Wed, 9:30pm: Jack Rip-Off. Thu, 7pm: Liquid Courage. Fri-Sat & Mon, 9:30pm: Live music.

Campbell.

plus Eliquate & the Peoples s P M P M

DA KINE CAFE

MOJO LOUNGE

THE CATS

Friday, March 1 Â&#x2039; In the Atrium s AGES 16+

RADICAL SOMETHING

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MOTIF Thu: Omarion. San Jose.

plus The Horde & the Harem also Colorfair s P M P M

Mar 6 G-Eazy â&#x20AC;&#x153;Must Be Nice Tourâ&#x20AC;? (Ages 16+) Mar 8 Too Short/ AKA Frank (Ages 16+) Mar 17 Rebelution/ J Boog (Ages 16+) Mar 28 Living Colour (Ages 21+) -AR Tech N9ne (Ages 16+) !PR Trinidad James (Ages 16+) Apr 4 Pierce The Veil (Ages 16+) Apr 5 Zion I/ The Grouch/ Eligh (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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Fri, 8:30pm: The Cruzers. $10. Sat, 9pm: Zebop. $10. Santa Clara.

Wed, 7pm: Blues jam. $5. Fri, 7:30pm: World Wide Dance Party with Will Magid Trio, Baba Ken Okulolo, Rafa. $20. Redwood City.

Fri, 8:30pm: Mary Ellen Duo. Sat, 8pm: Kirk Abe Jazz Trio.

Campbell.

NINE LIVES

FAIRMONT HOTEL

Thu, 8pm: Battle of the Bands. $5/$10. Fri, 8pm: Pounders, Light the Rocket, February Zero. $10.

Sat, 8pm: The HazeXperience, the Wicked Fools. $10/$15. Gilroy.

Wed, 8pm: Citizen Rhythm with Terrence Brewer. Free. San Jose.

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NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed, 9:30pm: Johnny Caruth.

Thu, 9:30pm: Bone Drivers. Fri, 9:30pm: Live music. Sat, 9pm: Chubby’s Allstars. Los Gatos.

THE QUARTER NOTE Wed: Pro Jam. No cover. Thu: Pro Jam hosted by Vicious Groove. No cover. Fri-Sat, 9pm: Live music.

Sun: Pro Jam. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE STATE EVENT CENTER Tue, 7pm: Tiësto, Tommy Trash, Quintino. $35. San Jose.

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GRAND DELL SALOON Wed, 8pm: Little Johnny, Aki Kumar. Thu, 8pm: Lisa Leuschner.

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music.

Campbell.

THEATRE ON SAN PEDRO SQUARE Sat, 8pm & Sun, 3pm: Jazz Nights with Nineteen. $20-$35. San Jose.

TRAIL DUST BBQ Fri, 6-9pm: Live blues, roots and Americana. Morgan Hill.

HEDLEY CLUB Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Jazz jam. Thu, 5pm: Brian Ho Trio. Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live jazz. Mon, 5pm: Gus Kambeitz Duo. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.

HP PAVILION Fri, 7:30pm: Isaignani Maestro Ilayaraja. $52-$102. San Jose.

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

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

Fri-Sat: Jazz bands. Morgan Hill.

ZONE 8 Sat, 8pm: David Iadd. Casino M8trix, San Jose.

Wed: Suska. Thu: Jimmy Dewrance. Fri-Tue: Live blues.

San Jose.

C&W/Folk

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

BLUE ROCK SHOOT

STATION 55

Fri, 8pm: Makana. $27-$35. Sun, 7:30pm: Natasha Paremski. $15$45. Saratoga.

Fri, 8pm: Music showcase. Sat: Thriving Artists presents live music. Saratoga.

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

MURPHY’S LAW

MISSION PIZZA

STUDIO8 Fri: Omarion. San Jose.

Thu: The Honey Wilders. Fri-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

X BAR

PAGODA LOUNGE

Thu, 7pm: Mill Creek Ramblers.

Fri, 7pm: Cowboy Bill & the Sierra Travelers. Sat, 7:30pm: Mill Creek Ramblers & Friends jam.

Fremont.

Sat, 8:30pm: The Thermals, Hard Girls, E V Kain. All ages. $10.

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

Fri, 8:30pm: John Worley tribute to Miles Davis. Free. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

PEACOCK LOUNGE

First three Fri of month: Live music. Santa Clara.

Strongest Drinks in Town!

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Jazz/Blues/ World AGENDA LOUNGE Wed, 8pm: Salsa. Thu, 9pm: Banda. Sun: Reggae and hip-hop.

San Jose.

AZÚCAR LATIN BAR Thu, 9pm: Tequila RoX Lounge.

Fri-Sat, 9pm: Live music & DJ. Mon, 8pm: Salsa lessons.. San Jose.

BLUE ROCK SHOOT Sun, 4pm: Pink House live blues and jazz jam. Saratoga.

CAFFE FRASCATI Sun, 7pm: Jazz jam. San Jose.

Thu, 9pm: Pure Roots. Every third Sat: Reggae Nights. Every fourth Sat: Live island music. Sun: Island Rock Sundays. Sunnyvale.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: BLEU with Virgil Thrasher.

Fri, 6pm: Mark Hummel & the Blues Survivors feat. Little Charlie Baty. Sat, 6pm: Adrian Costas Blues Persuasion. Sun, 2pm: PHB blues jam with Sid Morris. Mon, 6pm: Ukulele jam with Steve Martin. San Jose.

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

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: Chris Creek Band. ThuFri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Live country music. Fremont.

SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Loganville. Tue, 6pm: Bean Creek. San Jose.

SAN JOSE CIVIC Sat, 7:30pm: Aaron Lewis. $25$35. San Jose.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET

Open Mic

Fri, 7pm: Nicolas Bearde. Free.

San Jose.

BAMBOO LOUNGE

THE SMOKING PIG Tue, 6pm: Tuesday Bluesday.

Jam hosted by the Dan Goghs.

San Jose.

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

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Friday, March 1; An ethnomusicology graduate from UCLA, Magid is 8:30pm; $20 fascinated with tracing musical connections between genres and cultures. His choice to complement vintage sounds with Club Fox, EDM’s four-to-the-floor base helps him revive old sounds for Redwood City a new audience. “Electronic music is this cool equalizer where, as long as the music is danceable, you can throw in all these different sounds and take the listener to a variety of different contexts and, in many ways, paint your own history of the world,” Magid says.

Old-school 12-piece reggae outfit RAFA joins Magid on the bill, as will Babá Ken Okulolo, whose connection with the trumpet player stretches back to Magid’s college days. Okulolo’s son, a singer, was in the Afrobeat group Magid joined as a freshman. This later led to meetings with the master Nigerian musician himself, who has worked with such African greats as Fela Kuti and King Sunny Adé.

World Wide Dance Party!!, through a partnership with Amnesty International, also works to raise awareness on global issues. For this installment, the focus is on the Arms Trade Treaty, set for a U.N. vote in March. The treaty aims to keep weapons away from dictators and armed groups who commit crimes against civilians.

A seasoned world traveler, Magid’s curiosity with the sounds and rhythms of the world has taken him to six continents thus far. He hopes in time he’ll be able to claim all seven, with Antarctica still a destination he plans to one day tour. “It’s a work in process,” Magid offers with a laugh. “Hopefully, it won’t be melted by the time I get the tour booked.” —Brandon Roos

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BLUE ROCK SHOOT Thu, 7pm: Musical open mic.

San Jose.

CAFFE FRASCATI Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

CITY ESPRESSO

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Wed & Fri-Sat, 8pm-2am: Wildside Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

MARIANI’S MOJO LOUNGE

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN

Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.

JOHNNY V’S

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Uncle Hank.

San Jose.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEYS

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

LIQUID Wed: Poetic Justice. Open to all forms of expression. Free. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

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

PHILZ COFFEE

BRIX

Mon, 7pm: Open mic. Open to all forms of expression. Free.

Downtown San Jose.

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

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

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

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

DIVE BAR

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

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

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

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

Karaoke

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP

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GALAXY

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

7 STARS BAR & GRILL Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke.San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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

Wed: Cabaret Karaoke. Los Gatos.

THE NEW JERSEY’S Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

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

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

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Sun-Mon, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

PEACOCK LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: Matt. Tue, 9pm: DJ Ryan. Sunnyvale.

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

POINCIANA LOUNGE

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

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

Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

GILROY BOWL

QUARTER NOTE

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

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

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

San Jose.

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

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

San Jose.

RUDY’S PUB THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

Fri, 9pm: Darryl. San Jose.

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

SHERWOOD INN

BLUE BONNET BAR

HUDDLE

Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke.

No cover. Sunnyvale.

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

Wed, 8:30pm: Vinnie. Thu-Sat, 8:30pm: Thomas. Sun, 8:30pm: Dan. San Jose.

THE BEARS

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

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

THREE FLAMES

JOHNNY V’S

Wed, 8pm: Chris. San Jose.

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

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

KATIE BLOOM’S

Tue-Thu & Sat (plus fourth Fri of month): Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

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

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

KYOTO PLACE Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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?\Xk NXm\ THE LAST RECORD the Thermals released, Personal Life back in 2010, was not quite the frantic explosion their fans expected. It was a downright hook-driven, midtempo, New Wave production—quite different from the unhinged urgency present on early indie-punk recordings. The band, in fact, received plenty of emails and letters from fans addressing the album’s change of sound. “People like this band when it’s irrational and crazy, when it kind of rails against the world,” says lead singer/guitarist Hutch Harris. “We learned what made people fall in love with this band in the first place, ’cause they told us. They definitely told us.”

Those fans will be happy to know that the Thermals are returning to form for their upcoming record, Desperate Ground, which comes out April 16 on Saddle Creek Records. And those early classic Thermals records—the first three—will be reissued on vinyl on March 5, just a The Thermals few days after the band’s March 2 gig at Homestead Lanes.

According to Harris, Desperate Ground sounds a lot like More Saturday, March Parts Per Million (2003), their first record, and the critically 2; 8pm; $10 acclaimed The Body, the Blood, the Machine (2006), their third album. He insists that the return to the noisy, chaotic sound is Homestead unrelated to the fans’ response but has more to do with what Lanes, music has been playing in their iPods. “We’ve just been listening Cupertino to a lot of the bands that we grew up with, like the punk bands we loved: Agent Orange, Black Flag. When we were making Personal Life we were totally listening to the Cure and New Order,” Harris explains.

The first single off Desperate Ground, “Born to Kill,” released Feb. 11, isn’t quite the fiery mess that characterized More Parts Per Million, but it definitely swings the band back into punk-rock territory once again. As the title suggests, the lyrics talk bluntly about death, violence and war, which are ongoing themes on the album.

“Human violence is such a huge part of all our lives. The story of human history is mostly war and violence. It’s just inevitable. It’s not an anti-war record. It’s not a pro-war record. It’s definitely right in the middle. It’s more talking about how war and violence are inevitable,” Harris says.

This isn’t the first time the Thermals have taken on specific issues on an album.

The Body, the Blood, the Machine discussed religion and fascism at length, which was, in part, why critics fell in love with the album. When the Thermals do approach political content, they aren’t so much political in the traditional sense as they are sharing their own experiences, what they’ve seen as regular people and how these issues have affected their lives.

“Too many punk bands want to preach,” Harris says. “I don’t feel like I want to tell people that this is how it is, and this is what’s wrong. We’re not trying to tell people what to think or do.”—Aaron Carnes

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Dance Clubs

LOS GATOS BAR AND GRILL Fri, 9pm: BeatzBoutique. Los Gatos.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN AGENDA

Thu, 10pm: DJ Dinero. San Jose.

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

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN

AXIS NIGHTCLUB Sat, 9:30pm: Playboi. Santa Clara.

CARDIFF LOUNGE

AZĂ&#x161;CAR LATIN BAR

Thu: Foxy. Campbell.

Wed, 8pm: Karaoke & DJ. Thu, 9pm: Tequila RoX Lounge. Fri-Sat, 9pm: Salsa, Latin fusion DJs. Mon, 8pm: Salsa lessons. San Jose.

THE ELEGANT PUB

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

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Fri: DJ BenofďŹ cial. Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays.

Thu, 9pm: Liquid. Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJs. $10. Mon: Industry. Tue: College Night. San Jose.

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Sat: Smoking Hot. Los Gatos.

PLAYHOUSE Fri, 9pm: SJ Bass Club. San Jose.

PURE LOUNGE 408 Fri: Pure Bliss EDM. Sat: Pure Saturdays. Sunnyvale.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Thu, 9pm: Atomic. $5. Sat, 9pm: Dead Beat vs. Club Satori. No cover. San Jose.

Thu: Wreck-A-Noize. Fri: Video Junkie. San Jose.

BLUE PHEASANT

Fri: Omarion. Sat: DJs. San Jose.

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

WILLOW DEN

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JOHNNY Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

Thu: Irie Nights. Fri: Quality Control. Sat: Cocktails and Dreams.

Tue: Fat Tuesday. San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: The Cypher. Hip-hop open mic. No cover before 10:30pm, $3 after. Thu, 9pm: Slap!. Mon, 9pm: Retoxx. Tue, 9pm: Trap Shop. San Jose.

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

Wed-Fri: DJs. Sat, 10pm: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s Dance Party. Willow Glen.

ZEN LOUNGE Thu: Reverse Happy Hour Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays.

Sat: Girls Night Out. Mountain View.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Just Vapor, 1748 Capemisty Dr., San Jose, CA, 95133, Dominic Lopez, Jesus Gonzalez, 3231 Young Rd., Modesto, CA, 95358.

This business is conducted by a Joint Venture. Registrant not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Dominic Lopez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/12/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574058

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Harmony In-Home Care Services, 2352 Castro Place, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Aida Miranda.

This business is FICTITIOUS conducted by a BUSINESS individual. Registrant NAME STATEMENT began transacting business under the #575220 fictitious business name The following person(s) or names listed herein. is (are) doing business /s/Aida Miranda. This as: Property Solutions statement was filed Services, 3194 De La Cruz with the County Clerk Blvd., #9, Santa Clara, of Santa Clara County CA, 95054, Alex Yap, 460 on 1/24/2013. (pub Glenmoor Circle, Milpitas, Metro 2/20, 2/27, 3/06, CA.. This business 3/13/2013) is conducted by a individual. Registrant has FICTITIOUS not begun transacting BUSINESS business under the fictitious business name NAME STATEMENT or names listed herein. #574656 /s/Alex Yap. This The following person(s) statement was filed is (are) doing business with the County Clerk as: Eric Enterprises, of Santa Clara County 6584 Tam Oshanter Dr., on 2/22/2013. (pub San Jose, CA, 95120, Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, Eric Zibell. This business 3/20/2013) is conducted by a individual. Registrant FICTITIOUS began transacting BUSINESS business under the NAME STATEMENT fictitious business name or names listed herein. #575142 /s/Eric Zibell. This The following person(s) statement was filed is (are) doing business with the County Clerk as: H & M Concrete, 3033 of Santa Clara County Duran Ave., San Joe, CA, on 2/08/2013. (pub 95111, Heriberto Lopez, Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, Manuel Cardenas.

3/20/2013) This business is conducted by a general LIEN SALE NOTICE partnership. Registrant # 7818 has not yet begun Notice is hereby given transacting business pursuant to sections under the fictitious 3071 and 3072 of business name or The civil code of the names listed herein. state of california, the /s/Heriberto R. Lopez. undersigned; This statement was filed Simply green plumbing. with the County Clerk 2350 Venndale ave of Santa Clara County San jose, ca 95124 on 2/21/2013. (pub Will sell at public sale Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, on: march 14,2013 3/20/2013) at 11:59 am. The following property FICTITIOUS 2007 Us jetting trl Vin# BUSINESS 1u9fs13187a044859 NAME STATEMENT Lic# 62znkk. The lien holder has the right to #575126 bid at the said sale.

The following person(s) Agent asap lien sales is (are) doing business lic# 03228s as: Williamson Music www.asapliensales.com Production, 3939

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574865 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Patchcore, 5524 Taft Dr., San Jose, CA, 95124, Michael Barber. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael Barber. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/14/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574380 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: K & S Refurbisher, 16120 Caputo Dr., Suite F, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Eric Sanders, 5652 Scenic Meadow Ln., San Jose, CA, 95135, Scott Sanders.

This business is conducted by a general partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Eric Sanders. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/01/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574692 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. All Walls Drywall, 810 Harliss Ave., San Jose, CA, 95110, 2. All Walls Construction, Gilbert Chavez. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/01/2007. /s/Gilbert Chavez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/11/2013. (pub Metro 2/20, 2/27, 3/06, 3/13/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573701 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aserve, 3602 Flora Vista Ave., Apt 304, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Raj George. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on Jan 16, 2013.

/s/Raj George This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/14/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574685 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Huijia International Trade Co., 3452 Hostetter Rd., San Jose, CA, 95132, Yanbo Hui. This business is conducted by a indvidual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/08/2013. /s/Yanbo Hui This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/11/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574693 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Inkollectiv, 505 S. 10th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Linh Ngo, 2524 Glen Ian Ct., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Linh Ngo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/11/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574667 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ramos Furniture, 577 Burke Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Laurel Wood Furniture Inc. 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 1/1/2013. /s/Jose Alejandro Ramos CEO #C3529300 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/08/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574607 The following person(s) is

(are) doing business as: Innoled Lighting, 4507 Porter Ct., San Jose, CA, 95127, Yuping Hu. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Yuping Hu. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/07/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573836 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Prototype Solutions, 1520 E. Capitol Expy, #72, San Jose, CA, 95121, Binh Nhan Ngo. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/17/13. /s/Binh Nhan Ngo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/17/2013. (pub Metro 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/06/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574367 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mooresolutions Handyman Services San Jose, 2246 Los Gatos Almaden Road, San Jose, CA, 95124, Scott Moore.

This business is conducted by a Individual. Registrant

began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/01/2013. /s/Scott Moore. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/02/2013. (pub Metro 2/06, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574393

transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/1/2012. /s/Nicholas Ulleseit. Executive Officer #201201810277 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/01/2013. (pub Metro 2/06, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #573792

fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1990. /s/Philip Casella This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 1/31/2013. (pub Metro 2/06, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27/2013)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574261

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The following person(s) is Overstock Mall LLC., 1065 (are) doing business as: Cross Springs Ct., San South Bay Rain Gutters, The following person(s) is Jose, CA, 95120.

13141 Brown Ave., San (are) doing business as: This business is Jose, CA, 95111, South Papadon’s 2051 O’Toole conducted by a Limited Bay Rain Gutters Inc..

Ave., San Jose, CA, 95131, Liability Company.

This business is SCVCS Inc., 89 S. Main Above entity was formed conducted by a St., Milpitas, CA, 95035. in the state of California Corporation. Above entity This business is Registrant began was formed in the state conducted by a transacting business of California. Registrant Corporation. Above entity under the fictitious began transacting was formed in the state business name or business under the of California Registrant names listed herein on fictitious business name began transacting 1/1/2013. or names listed herein business under the /s/Alyssa Terrizzano on 2/07/03. /s/David fictitious business name Manager Morales President or names listed herein #201235210043 #2497471. This statement on Feb 2006. /s/Marilyn This statement was filed was filed with the County Gomez. Secretary of with the County Clerk of Clerk of Santa Clara Board #02868148 Santa Clara County on County on 2/01/2013.

This statement was filed 1/30/2013. (pub Metro 2/06, 2/13, with the County Clerk (pub Metro 2/06, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27/2013) of Santa Clara County 2/20, 2/27/2013) on 1/16/2013. (pub FICTITIOUS Metro 2/06, 2/13, 2/20, 2/27/2013) BUSINESS

NAME STATEMENT #574377 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NU-Ricks LLC, 1900 Camden AVe., #201D, San Jose, CA, 95124, 17480 High St., Los Gatos, CA, 95030.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #574324 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Beverage Snack Express, 2760 Longford Dr., San Jose, CA, 95132, Philip Casella. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the

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Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara, CA, 95031, Albert F. Williamson Jr., 42 Montgomery St., Los Gatos, CA, 95030.

This business is conducted by a Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2000. /s/ Albert F. Williamson Jr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/21/2013. (pub Metro 2/27, 3/06, 3/13, 3/20/2013)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21–April 19): In 1993, Frenchman Emile Leray was on a solo trip through the Sahara Desert. In the middle of nowhere, his car suffered a major breakdown. It was unfixable. But he didn’t panic.

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not the soaring eagle or the shrewd wolf or the brave bear. No, Taurus, it’s the rubber chicken. I’m serious.

With the rubber chicken as your guardian spirit, you might be inspired to commit random acts of goofiness and surrealism. And that would reduce tension in the people around you. It could motivate you to play jokes and pull harmless pranks that influence everyone to take themselves less seriously. Are you willing to risk losing your dignity if it helps make the general mood looser and more generous? Nothing could be better for group solidarity, which is crucial these days. (Thanks, Gina Williams.)

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): In the language of the

Huron Indians, “orenda” is a word that refers to the spiritual power that resides in all creatures and things.

If you’ve got enough of it, you may be able to declare at least partial independence from your own past. You can better shape the life you want for yourself rather than being so thoroughly subject to the limitations of your karma and conditioning. I happen to believe that your current supply of orenda is unusually abundant, Gemini.

What’s the best use you can make of it?

CANCER (June 21–July 22): When I lived in Santa Cruz years ago, some of my published writings were illustrated by a local cartoonist named Karl Vidstrand.

His work was funny, outrageous, and often offensive in the most entertaining ways. Eventually, he wandered away from our colorful, creative community and moved to a small town at the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, near where the Space Shuttles landed. He liked living at the fringes of space, he told journalist R.D. Pickle. It gave him the sense of “being out of bounds at all times.” I suggest you adopt some of the Vidstrand spirit in the next three weeks, Cancerian. Being on the fringes and out of bounds are exactly where you belong.

LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): The history of your pain is entering a new phase. Gradually, almost imperceptibly at first, an emotional ache that has been sapping your vitality will begin to diminish. You will free yourself of its power to define you. You will learn to live without its oddly seductive glamour. More and more, as the weeks go by, you will find yourself less interested in it, less attracted to the maddening mystery it has foisted on you. No later than mid-April, I’m guessing that you will be ready to conduct a ritual of completion; you’ll be able to give it a formal send-off as you squeeze one last lesson out of it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): “When looking for a book,

you may discover that you were in fact looking for the book next to it.” Italian writer Roberto Calasso told that to The Paris Review, and now I’m passing it on to you. But I’d like you to expand upon its meaning, and regard it as a metaphor that applies to your whole life right now. Every time you go searching for a specific something—a learning experience, an invigorating pleasure, a helpful influence—consider the possibility that what you really want and need is a different one that’s nearby.

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): At least once a day, a cell in your body mutates in a way that makes it potentially cancerous. Just as often, your immune system hunts down that dangerous cell and kills it, preserving your health. Do you understand how amazing this is?

You have a vigilant protector that’s always on duty, operating below the level of your awareness. What if I told you that this physical aspect of your organism has an equivalent psychic component? What if, in other words, you have within you a higher intelligence whose function it is to steer you away from useless trouble and dumb risks? I say there is such a thing. I say this

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): Some rules in the game of life don’t apply to you and can therefore be safely ignored. Do you know which ones they are? On the other hand, do you understand which of the rules in the game of life are crucial to observe if you want to translate your fondest dreams into real experiences?

To recognize the difference is a high art. I’m thinking that now would be an excellent time to solidify your mastery of this distinction. I suggest that you formally renounce your investment in the irrelevant rules and polish your skills at playing by the applicable rules.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “Don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter,” wrote the Persian mystic poet Rumi. “It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” I think you’re like that winter garden right now, Sagittarius. Outwardly, there’s not much heat and flash. Bright ideas and strong opinions are not pouring out of you at their usual rates. You’re not even prone to talking too loud or accidentally knocking things over. This may in fact be as close as you can get to being a wallflower. And yet deep beneath the surface, out of sight from casual observers, you are charging up your psychic battery. The action down there is vibrant and vigorous.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “When you come

right down to it,” says religion writer Rabbi Marc Gellman, “there are only four basic prayers. Gimme!

Thanks! Oops! and Wow!” Personally, I would add a fifth type of prayer to Gellman’s list: “Do you need any assistance?” The Creator always needs collaborators to help implement the gritty details of the latest divine schemes. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you would be an excellent choice to volunteer for that role right now—especially in tasks that involve blending beautiful fragments, healing sad schisms, furthering peace negotiations, and overcoming seemingly irreconcilable differences.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): In the movie Fight

Club, there is an animated scene at the very end that required an inordinate amount of time to produce.

Each frame in this scene took the editors eight hours to process. Since there are 24 frames in each second, their work went on for three weeks. That’s the kind of attention to detail I recommend you summon as you devote yourself to your labor of love in the coming days, Aquarius. I think you know which specific parts of your creation need such intense focus.

PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): “I have decided to

rename the constellations that have domineered our skies too long,” writes an Internet denizen named Hasheeshee St. Frank. He gives only one example. The Big Dipper, he says, shall forevermore be known as the Star-Spangled Gas Can. I invite you to come up with additional substitutes, Pisces. It’s an excellent time for you to reshape and redefine the high and mighty things to which you have given away too much of your power. It’s a perfect moment to reconfigure your relationship with impersonal, overarching forces that have wielded a disproportionately large influence over your thoughts and feelings. How about if you call the constellation Orion by the new title of Three-Eyed Orangutan? Or instead of Pegasus, use the name Sexy Dolphin? Other ideas?

Homework: What would the people who love you best say is the most important thing for you to learn? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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