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XAVIER TAKES TAKES THE FIFTH, COVER, COVER, NOV NOV 13 RE: XAVIER

It loo looks oks like the Campos/ C akawa/ Shira Shirakawa/ Camp pos parody of Campos The Sopranos S is finall ly crumbling, finally altho ough Livia although was able a to deftly ance herself dista distance and move m into fancy y digs at 70 W e est Hedding.

Hedding. edding West Than nks for your Thanks effor t, Mr. Mrr. Koehn.

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In more mo ore “every “e every legislator legisslator lives in a glass house” house” news, news s, Asm Campos in some hot water. w water r. Better be e nice to to Asm Garcia!

BACK RE: B ACK BAR BA R OPENS, MUSIC, NOV NOV 13

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Campos and her ilk are Campos are the t bbane ane of this city. city.

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Tough T oough T Turkey uurkey Almost 28,000 people ar aree expected to run in the 9th Annua Annual al Silicon V Valley aalley TTurkey uurkey TTrot, rot, ace put on each the Thank sgivinng morning rrace Thanksgiving year by the Silic con V alley Leadership Gr oup.

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P articipants mig ght be surprised to note Participants might that money rraised aissed in pr evious years to pay previous heal th care care premiums pprem miums for for low-income kids health was diverted to political campaigns. The Heal thier Kids Foundation, F , once known as Healthier the Santa Clar th Foundation, Claraa Family Heal Health will get a thir o the $800,000 SSVLG VLG thirdd of expects to rraise. aisee. B ut what Heal thier Kids But Healthier intends to do with w the money is not exactly clear arlier thiss spring, M clear.. EEarlier Metro etro rreported eported that the foundation’s foundaation’s CCEO, EO, KATHLEEN KA ATHLEEN T KING, KING, ran ffor or office while whhile collecting a salary fr om ran from charityy. She also oper ated political the charity. operated a local sales taxes with aise campaigns to rraise fellow SCFHF officer offficer CINDY CIND DY CCHAVEZ, HA AV VEZ, the fellow former head of the South B ay Labor Council former Bay and now a coun nty super visor. M ore than county supervisor.

More aising $400,000 was spent on two tax-r tax-raising a $150k was handed initiatives and another Working P artnerships ffor or “outreach.” “outreach.” off to Working Partnerships th hose rreports eports surf aced, In June,, after those surfaced, ealth Plan, which actually the county’s He Health ance administers thee insur insurance program for for poor pooor childr en, program children, They ng and cut ties with Kin King Did founndation booted the foundation What? yout of its county countySEND TIPS TIPS TTO O s.. Since supplied offices offices.

FLY@ FL LY Y@ enamed that time King rrenamed METR ONEWS. METRONEWS. oundation and has her ffoundation COM CO M been trying to id identify dentify a new mission to save her annuaal salary y. Last month,, King $181,000 annual salary. took meetings with supervisors, w county super visors,, to let them know her h rrebranded ebranded ““nonprofit” nonprofit” or a portion of the $10 intends to applyy ffor aised fr om Measure Measure million in excesss funds rraised from A,, the sales tax measur measuree she and Chavez organized. organized.. King also is expected to rreceive eceive Chavez’ nomina nomination ation ffor or a spot on the county Health Health Plan’s P ’s board, Plan board, which several several observers effort observers see aass an eff ort to eventually force DARROW, force out ELIZABETH ELIZABETH D ARROW, CCEO EO of the Health Health Plan.. “It sounds like business as usual between the two of them,”” a sour source ce told Fly Fly.. SSVLG VLG spokesman sppokesman STEVE STE T VE WRIGHT WRIGHT said that CCARL ARL GGUARDINO, UARDINO, CCEO EO of SSVLG, VLG, and Turkey Trot Turkey u Trot organizers organizers will ““continue continue to annually rreview eview w our beneficiaries and make adjustments wh when hen appropriate.” appropriate.”

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Outside the Box IN N THE P PAST AST Issac Brown-Meza, Brown-Meza, e like one in four adults in this t country country, y, faces hurdles to o finding employment because e of a past criminal record.

New New law givess rehabilitated convicts c g greater protection protectio on when job hunting hu unting BY B Y JENNIFER WADSWORTH WADSWOR RTH

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ssac Brown-Meza Brown-Meza wouldn’t wouldn ’t mind job job interviews if it weren’t weren n’t for that kick-in-the-gut kick-in-the-gu ut fe feeling eeling when they ask. And d they th h always hey alw l ays ask. k “I ffeel eel e lik like ke I’m in the hot seat,” he saayys. “I ffeel says. eeel lik like ke an any ny moment, no mat matter ttter how ho ow I pr present esent m myself, yyselff, that it it’s ’s all goin going ng to ob boil oil down to that one ans answer: swer: w Y Yes ees or no. no o. The They ey w want aant to know know, w, ‘Ha ‘Have ave yyou ou b o been e een cconvicted onvvicted of a ffelony?’ on eelon ny?’ y I ccan’t an n’’t lie lie.. I sa say ay yyes. ees.”

The 34-year-old 34--yeearr-old San JJose ose nativ native ve wil will ll w up pr wrap probation ro obation on old drug char charges g ges this He’ll classes th his week. He ’ll ccontinue ontinue ttaking aking classe es att San S JJose ose Cit City ty C College ollege ll to t b become ecome a ccertified e tified drug ccounselor. er ounselor. He He’ll ’ll go to one o 12-step 12 2-step meeting a day—two daay— —ttw wo if he skip skips ps the th he da day ay prior prior. r. He has to st stay ay on track.. His wife w wif fe and ttwo wo w daughters will mo move ove ba back ack from day start over fr o Texas om Texas x any an ny da ay now to st art o veerr as a family ffamily. y.

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saayys, bringing his hands to says, ttogether gether as in pra ayeer. “One da ay at a tim me. One blessing prayer. day time. at a time time..”

But Br ro own-Mezaa’s rrecord—a eccord—a rap sheet Brown-Meza’s dating back to middle sc chool—marks school—marks him ffor or lif o fe. He ’s luck ky iff he ccan aan eeven veen life.

He’s lucky land an in-p erson job interview, intterview, thanks in-person ox on most job applic caations to that b box applications e’s felony felon e ny on his rrecord. ecord. that asks if ther there’s N ormallyy, he checks thee affirmative affirmativve and Normally, jots down a note about about how h he ’d lik ke to he’d like eexplain xxplain it in p erson. person. ““At At least then, I ffeel, eeel, I ha ave a b etttter have better shot,” he sa ayys. “But I kno ow most of the says. know time the ey see m sw werr and toss it out. they myy ans answer If the ey do in nvvite me to in nterview, I ha ave they invite interview, have some hop e, but I know that t sometimes hope, sometimes,, yyeah, eeah, h the heyy’v ’ve alr l eady d ma ade d their hi they’ve already made judgments judgments..”

Starting St arting ne next ext x summer summer, r, fformerly ormerly o cconvicted on nvvicted job-seekers job-seek keers like lik ke Brown-Meza Brro own-Meza st taand a slightly impr oved ed chanc stand improved chancee of finding work. L ast mont th, Go ov. JJerry erry Last month, Gov. Br own signed a bill ttwo wo yyears w eears in the Brown making into la aw. AB 218 8 would nix the law.

criminal ba ack kggrro ound disclosur ox background disclosuree b box fr ro om initiall emplo oyyment applic ations from employment applications ffor or a wide range o r of public sector jobs jobs..

The “Ban Ban th he Box Box” bill, bill sp onsored the sponsored b ssembllyman R oger Dickinson byy A Assemblyman Roger (D -Sacrameento), do esn’t mean (D-Sacramento), doesn’t go overnmen e nt agencies ccan’t an n’’t vvet eet ne w hir es, government new hires, though.

“It do esn n’t get rid of back kgground doesn’t background checks ayyss Michelle R odriguez, st aff checks,,” sa says Rodriguez, staff at tttorneey for for or the National Emplo oyyment attorney Employment L aw Pr ojectt (NELP). “It just dela ayys them Law Project delays until emplo oyeers determine whether or employers erson is qualified ffor or a job o not a p person job..”

C alifforni o ia joins nine st taates and California states mor ounties o in moree than 50 cities and ccounties passing ban-the-box ban n-the-box legislation, a gr owing movement mo ovement e to ccombat ombat the growing illegal yyet eet ccommonplace o ommonplac ce practic practicee of rrejecting ejecting ap ppliccaants solely b eccause a of a applicants because criminal rrecord. eccord. In Octob err, T aarrgget, the October, Target, sec ond-largest g rretailer etailer in the ccountry, ountry, second-largest ed announc d it would “ban the b ox” on announced box” initial job applic aapplications, ations, too. too.

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Conservative Conservativve think ttank aank JJudicial udicial Watch calls legislation byy ttaking caalls the legis slation senseless b aaking away employers away a time-saving time-saavving tool tool for fo or emplo oyeers to screen prospective hires. screen pr osp pectivve hir es.

The Equa Equal Employment Opportunity al Emplo oyyment Opp ortunitty Commission (EEOC), however, Commission n (EEO C), howe eveerr, maintains that it’s discriminatoryy to mainttaains th hat it ’s discriminator deny employment arrest den ny emplo oyyment based on arr oy est records. records. Only ly after determining a person’s person n’s fit ffor or o the job should a ccompany ompan ny or agency ru rule ule in a cconviction on nvviction rrecord— ecord— unless that rrecord directly ecorrd applies dir ectly to the ttype like embezzlement yype of work, w lik ke emb ezzzlement or theft fr from Time since ro om m a rretailer. et etaailer. T iime sinc ce the last cconviction, person’s on o nvvictio on, as well as the p erson n’s rehabilitation efforts, bee rehabilitatio on eff ffo orts, should also b considered, says. considered, the t ccommission ommission sa ayys.

The EEO EEOC money C has used ffederal ederal e mone ey to sue privat private charges te ccompanies ompanies on char o ges of racist crimin criminal-background screening nal back nal-back kgground scr reeening practices.

PepsiCo practices. In 2012, P epsiCo shelled out $3.13 million settle EEOC charges n to set tttle EEO C char ges that it impr improperly operlly used criminal checks to screen minorities.. In some ccases, scr een out minorities m ases, it discounted were arrested disc ounted applic aapplicants caants who wer re arr reested but ne never ver e cconvicted. onvvicted. on No one’s No one ’s pushing p to eliminate criminal che checks altogether, Rodriguez ecks alto getherr, R odriguez says.

Under EEOC guidelines,, eex-cons saayys. U nder EEO n E C guidelines xx-cons don’t special protections. don n’’t get sp e civil rights pr ecial otections.

But B t the th ccommission om o mmission i i will ill sue if it sees criminal che checks disproportionately ecks dispr oportionately blocking out groups. blocking ou ut ethnic or racial gr ro oups.

“We urge employers “W We just ur g emplo ge oyeers to cconsider onsider the nature the crime,, how it rrelates nature of th he crime elates to the job and how person was w long ago the p erson w as a convicted, Rodriguez says.

“People con nvvicted,” R odriguez sa ays y . “P eople need a chanc chancee to pr prove themselves, especially p ove themselv vees, esp ecially if the they’ve made tremendous eyy’vve ma ade this tr emendous turnaround life. have turnaround d in their lif fe. But yyou ou ha o ave to get past the initial rrecords eccor ord ds to see it.”

Victoria Kirschner, been Victoria i K Kirschner i h r, 51, has h b een sober makes clean and so ober ffor or 11 yyears. o eears. She mak kees ends meet b byy driving par party ty buses and limousines—decent limousines— —deccent e work but with long hours and benefits. a no b enefits. She w aants wants to work mo more, re, but a past riddled with arrests drugs,, theft arr ests and cconvictions on nvvictions ffor or drugs o and pr prostitution prevented from ostitu ution has pr eveented her fr om applying ffor better-paying jobs.. She sa says orr b o etttterr--paayying jobs ayys word-of-mouth aree the only worrd d-off--mo outh rreferrals ef efeerrals ar way overcome about out way ffor or her to o t o veercome questions ab her past run run-ins law. n-ins with the la aw.

But on T Tuesday, u ay, she ffound uesda ound that at o least a ffew weree ew of o her past cconvictions on nvictions v wer dropped byy the DMV DMV. dropped b V. “I w want stay transportation aant to o st ay in the transp ortation industry, help,,” Kirschner industry, so that tthat’s ’s a huge help says. good. have moree saayys. “It ffelt eelt so s go od. I ha ave mor confidence try. confidence tto tr y.”

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charrges charges g down to misdem misdemeanors.“That meanors.“That time, says stuck with me all this tim me,” sa ayys the San JJose ose rresident, esident, now 36 yyears eeaars old. “I’v “I’ve ve been hired before good job,, but get b een hir ed b effo ore to a go ood job ccanned anned a as so on as the bac ck kgground check soon background clears.. I didn didn’t affect clears n’t ’ know how w it would aff ffeect m fe.” myy whole lif life. hook He rrelied eelied on a friend to o ho ok him up with his curr current ent bar bartending tend ding job job.. hasn’t been “II ccan an find work, work that has sn n’’tt b een a pr ro oblem ffor or me o ayys. “But the go od problem me,,” he sa says. good jobs—that’s thing jobs—that ’s the only thin ng that worries me.. C me Career-type arreeerr--ttyype jobs jobs,, the they ey won won’t n’’t eeven veen me.. P Policy policy. cconsider onsider me olicy is p ollicyy.”

T odaay, one in ffour our Ameri o icans has a Today, Americans arrest their cconviction on nvviction or arr est on th heir rrecord, ecord, according study ac ccording to a NELP stud dy titled “65 Need Not Apply.

Million N eed N ot Apply y.”

With statewide W iith st taatewide prison n rreform effo orm in full moree p people sswing, wing w g, eeven veen mor eoplee with ffelonies elonies e offenses aree and other non-violent non-violent nonv off ffeenses ar ff getting Santa Clara County get ttting rreleased. eleased. Sant ta Cl lara C ountty freeing inmates estimates fr eeing 77 inma ates a month California’s under C aliffo orniaa’s prison n rrealignment. ealignment. state already atee has alr This ccomes omes after the st eady number inmates byy slashed the numb er of in nmates b 46,000 sincee 20 2006.

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August, U.S. Supreme Court In A ugust, the U ..S. Sup preme C ourt 10,000 granted early rrelease elease e to another a 10,0 00 California inmates in C aliffo ornia to ease e prison overcrowding. held Dec.. 31 o veercrowdingg. JJudges udges hel ld up a Dec headcount byy 8 d dli to deadline t trim t i the th head h d ountt b dc percent 110,000, saying p errcent to 110,0 00, sa ayin y ng that inmate density stands amounts densit ty as it st tands a amou unts to cruel and unusual punishmen punishment.

California’s nt. C aliffo orniaa’s saw prison ssystem yystem in 2012 sa aw a suicide rate of 24 inmates p per 100,000, percent er 10 0,000, or 50 p erceent higher than the national aaverage. verage e .

With justicee ssystem W iith a criminal justic yystem that population, opulation, touches so much of the p have adjust ccommunities ommunities ha ave to adj just to accommodate have served ac ccommodate those who o ha ave ser veed dues,, sa says time and d paid id their h i dues d ayys JJesse esse Stout, policy director Legal Services egaal Ser ap olicy dir reector ffor or o L vices ffor o or Prisoners with Childr Children.

“We want en. “W We w ant a to eextend xtend x this to the privatee sector and to housing, says. housing g,” he sa ayys.

Local aree brac bracing L ocal agencies ar cing ffor or o the change.. That do doesn’t necessarily change esn’t nec cessarily e mean they hiree mor moree p people the ey plan to hir e eople with people criminal rrecords, ecords, just that at these p eople make farther along might mak ke it far ther alo ong in the interview process. city inter vieew pr ocess. In San n JJose, ose, the cit ty background checks new rrequires equires back kgr g ound che ecks on all ne w hires anyway, says city hir es an nyyw way, sa ayys cit ty ccommunications om mmuniccaations director David Vossbrink.

Santaa Clara dir ector Da avvid V ossbrink o k. Sant County already box C ountty alr reeady banned the t b ox last yyear, eearr, rremoving emo oving v the question until u the agency tentatively tent ativveely selects a ccandidate. andiidate. argue ban-the-box Critics ar gue that ban-the-box legislation rrestricts employers from estricts emplo oyers e fr om

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FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS? San Jose Councilman Xavier Campos (left) and F

D j g f fore last week Damian Trujillo have worked together before week’ss interview.

Birds B irds of a Similar FFeather? e eather?

Getttting San JJose Getting o C ose Councilman ouncilman Xa Xavier avvier Campos agree interview C ampos to agr ree to an inter view is a difficult pr proposition—unless oposition—unless o yyou’re ou o u’’re NBC’s Trujillo,, who sc scored NBC ’s Damian n Trujillo ored a raree onrar on-camera camera a a chat with the mediadodging Campos do dging ccouncilman, ounccilman, after C ampos invoked in nvo ok keed the F Fifth i Amendment at a ifth juryy hea hearing grand jur aring last month.

In the inter interview, v ew, C vie Campos ampos smiles nervously ner vo ously and d tells Trujillo that he had nothing to do with a fraudulent mailer helped defeat political that help ed him m def feeat his p oliticcaal opponent, opp onent, Ma Magdalena agdalena C Carrasco, arrasco, in the took 2010 ccouncil ouncil rac rrace. e. He also said he to ok the F Fifth ifth b because ecau use he do doesn’t esn n’’t trust the Attorney’s office.

District A tttorn neeyy’s offic e.

While the in interview nterview w was aas soft on details, ould influencee the ccourse det ails, it ccould d influenc ourse of eevents. veents. C Campos’ am mpos’ decision to do the interview might testify inter vieew migh ht fforce orce him to testif o fy at a later date date,, ac according cording to NBC legal Steven analyst Ste even en Clark.

But Trujillo ow wasn’t asn n’’t done done.. On Monday, Monda ay, he dug d g a little littttle deeper—just deep per—jjust not into C Campos’ am mpos’ activities activities,, howe however. ver.

He instead rreported ep ported that pr prosecutor osecutor Karyn Kar yn Sinunu Sinunu-Towery u--To owery ga gave ave C Carrasco’s arrasco’s

ontributio 20 2010 010 ccampaign ampaign a $10 $100 0 ccontribution. on.

Th his ccould ould rrepresent epresent a cconflict onflict of This in interest, nterest, ac according cording to Trujillo Trujillo’s ’s gotc gotcha, cha, w which hea avvily rrelied elied on ccomments ommentss heavily fr from om C Campos’ ampos’ at attorney. ttorne t y. D DA A JJeff eff R Rosen o osen sa aid he w as a aaware waare of the ccontribution ontributiion said was onflicct. in n Ma May ay and didn didn’t ’t see it as a cconflict.

Trujillo ’s rreports eports ha ave raised Trujillo’s have qu questions uestions of our own—such own—such as, as, what w ki ind of relationship relationship does does he have haave kind w Campos? with Campos? And why wh hy didn’t didn’t he pr ress him harder? harder? press Trujillo Trujillo, j , who declined an interview interviiew rrequest, e equest, haave been been is known to have fr friendly riendly with Campos Campos for fo or many man ny yyears, eears, and in October October 2011, Campos Campos o aawarded waarded Trujillo with an official ccommendation o ommendation from the City Citty Council Cou uncil from ffor o his work. Trujillo called or called the award awar ad “h humbling” and “an honor” before beffo ore “humbling” dr dropping ropping this gem of a quote. quote.

“F ox N ew ws, although the ey don't “Fox News, they ffollow o ollow it sometimes sometimes,, the they ey ha have ave it righ right ht w when the ey sa ay yyou ou ha o ave to b nd they say have bee fair an and ba alanced and yyou ou ccan't o an't a cr oss the line e— balanced cross line— no ot onc ou're in journalism o m,” not oncee when yyou're journalism, hee said. — J osh o K oehn Josh Koehn

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROPE ERTY City Hall gets a new room roommate mmate next year when

town. the U.S. Patent and Trademark T Office comes to tow wn.

Patent’s P atent’s Place P San JJose ose rreasserted easserted its claim as C Capital apital of Silic Silicon on V Valley aalley this week when plans weree announc wer announced ed to op open pen a U U.S. .S. P Patent atent and Trademark kO Office ffice at Cit Cityy Hall. The agency is slated to mo move ve into 40,0 40,000 00 squar squaree ffeet eeet on th the he sec second ond and 14th floors floors b byy the end of next next yyear—rent earr—r — ent fr free—through ee—through 2016, and att a steep disc discount ount thr through ough 2020. Mayor Maayor Chuck R Reed eed e and Silic Silicon on V Valley aalley business gr ggroups oups welc welcomed omed the move, move, which w was as held up ffor o or months b because ecause of the ffederal eederal sequester sequester.. The ne new w headquarters headquarters is eexpected xpectted to mak makee Cit Cityy Hall a destinati destination ion ffor or o patent patent-holders -holders and college college dropouts/entrepreneurs dropouts/entrepr e eneurs acr across oss the western st states. attes. — Jennifer Jeenniffeer W Wadsworth ads a woorth

“The thought of Reed’s R pension measure being funded by an a Enron trader who screwed screw wed California during the energy crisis—and who robbed Enron’s Enron n’ss employees and tens of n thousands of stockholders stock ckholders of their retirement retireme ent savings—gives Reed’s Re eed’s opponents a Big. Fat. Target.

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—SSteve —Steve t Maviglio, political consul consultant tant and spokesperson spokespeerson Californians Retirement Security, ffor or C o aaliffo ornian ns ffor o or Retir ement Security y, on San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed’s statewide pension rreform ef efo orm plan. p

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San Jose’s police union n rreached eached a tentative agr agreement eement wi with ith the city give this week that would g ive officers percent a 10 per cent rraise aise over the next three thr ee years. T The he P Police olice Officers Association A ssociation is expected d to be board POA President on boar d with the plan,, and so is the City Council.. But PO A Pr esident Jim Unland’s already rresponse? esponse? Meh.. Unland d says he isn’t thrilled, given that tthe he city alr eady slashed police percent SJPD pay by 10 per cent sincee 2009. In two years, he says, S JPD will once again be at a disadvantage cities. competitive disadvanta age with departments in other citie es. ""We're We're going to be sitting theree at the end of 201 2015 we'ree way behind the cur curve.’” there’s ther 5 saying, ''Wow, Wow w, we'r ve.’”” If ther e’s one they’ree continually under underwhelmed. thing hipsters and copss have in common, it's that they’r whelmed.

“Our opponents try to att attack tack the initiative as some sort of right-win right-wing ng conspiracy. …

People support pension reform r not because ideological they are part of some ide eological struggle. striipes support reform People of all political stripes because they understand d that this is simply potentially a math problem with pot tentially disastrous consequences.”

— Mayor Chuck Reed R in rresponse esponse e to Maviglio.

Chuck Reed

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attitude to ward hygiene.” toward Eating a stranger’s stranger ’s leftovers—what wrong? could possibly posssibly go wr ong?

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Data Plann Planners ners Fifteen volunteers fr from om m veteran veteran ser vice organization organization Team Teeam Rubicon service ar aree working in Tacloban, Taacloban n, Philippines— one of the ar eas most affected affected by areas Typhoon Tyyphoon Haiyan—with h software software from from Palo Al to-based Palantir.

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Palo Alto-based Palantir Palantir provided provided Team Teeam m Rubicon mobille devices that volunteers with mobile collect data and locate locatte vulnerable vulnerable areas for for volunteers to t distribute areas appropriate appropriate supplies.

“T Teeam Rubicon has Palantir Palantir mobile “Team devices on the ground ground d and we are are writing integrations integrations now no ow so they we can track GPS track with GP S devices devvices that sync by satellite,”” says Brian Briaan Fishman, Palantir's Palantir's lead philanthropic philanthropic engineer. engineer.

Volunteers Volunteers have begun n engaging with displaced locals and a plan to provide provide resources resources to locations lo ocations based on where where Palantir’s Palantir’s software software directs directs them. Team Teeam Rubicon began beegan receiving receiving intelligence from from Palantir-organized Palan ntir-organized data immediately afterr they landed in the Philippines this week, weeek, according according to team volunteer Nicholas Nicholaas Boucher.

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EE.. Coli à la King LeftoverSwap, LeftoverS wap, a ffood-sharing ood--sharing app designed g to curb was te,, has heal th waste, health officials worried worried that users might less-than-san nitary leftovers. pass on less-than-sanitary Using classified-type listings lisstings and social sharing capabilities, capabilities, the network enables “conscientious “conscientious eaters and spendthrifts alike to mutually mu utually benefit from quirks/laissez-faire from each others’ others’ quirk ks/laissez-faire

Founder Dan D Newman designed the platform, platform, which in beta allowed users to sell sell their gently used foodstuffs foodstuffss for for a quick buck.. Fearful of lawsuits, lawsuits, liability and citations, dropped Newman eventually e dropped money from from the equation. e money Sans mone ey exchanged,, the app is ostensibly ostensib bly nothing more more than a donation service. service. Yet Yeet if people want to pay into a leftovers black market,, as SF Weekly W eeeklyy pos posits, sits,, no one can stop them.

Lawsuits, however, Lawsuits however, could trip up this rre-gifting e-giffting economy economy. y. The app convey doesn’t co onvey an advisory on how to handle food, food, which means it could be o on the hook if someone contracts contr acts E.. coli or some spit-borne from flu fr om a bit of half-gnawed short ribs. —Je —Jennifer nniffer e W Wadsworth adsworth a

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S Silicon Valley’s It’s It ’s ffast, ast, quiet, quiet, saf safee and sleek, coveted in n the weal thiest ZIP codes wealthiest in the nation. nation.. Could it also make the ideal cop cruiser? c The city manager manager of Atherton, Atherton, where where Model S sales saales make up 15 percent percent of the new car caar market, seems to think so.

“I’d love to o see the Model S be used Atherton’s ffor or A therton’s police cars,”” George George Rodericks told the Mer Mercury cury News. agrees ees A writer aatt Motor Authority agr lu uxury electric vehicle that the luxury would make make a great great police cruiser. cruiser. th hing, the Model S has For one thing, rear-wheel rear-wheeel drive, which most police forces It’s forces require. req quire.. It ’s ffast, ast, going 0 to 60 mph in n 4.5 seconds.. Plus, it’s it’s built built in the the U.S.A.. Right here here in Fremont.

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IIN N THIS T H IS C CENTURY EN TURY In 1965, San Joseans ccould ould catch blockbusters ‘Docto ‘Doctor or Zhivago Zhivago’’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ at the Century 21 and a 22 theaters theaters, s, which were ju just ust a few years old.

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HIS WEEKEND, WEEKEND D, the folks at the Retr ro Dome and Retro Gug ggenheim Guggenheim Entertainm Entertainment, ment, who so elegantly repurposed r the old Century Centurry 25 theater near Westgate, W estgate, have h cosmic events in store.

Ass of a ffew A ew weeks ago ago,, the Retro R eetro Dome now op operates erates out of Century Winchester C entury 21 on nW iinchester ffor o or a special limited special limite ed series of film-based enter entertainment. tainmen nt. Sinc Sincee this week weekend end marks the 50 50th 0th anniv anniversary ersary of the op opening ening of C Century entury 21 in 19 1963, 63, the

Retro R eetro Dome will scr screen een It It’s ’s a Mad Mad, d, Mad, Mad, Mad W M World, oorld, the film th that at or riginally op ened the theater so originally opened theater.. Als Also sc screening creening this week weekend end will b bee 20 2001: 001: A Space Space Odysse ey, which ran ffor o or an Odyssey, unprecedented un nprecedented 87 weeks when it premiered pr remiered at C Century entury 21 in 19 1968, 68, m making it the longest running U .S. U.S. engagement en ngagement of the film.

Sincee the pr Sinc property operty owners pr residing o veer each and eevery veery one presiding over off the C Century entury theaters w want ant them m destroyed de estroyeed in fa favor avor of lif lifelessly feelessly unif uniform fo orm housing h ho ousing i and/or d/ rretail, etail, il, an eff effort ffort has ffo h emerged save em merged to sa ave at least one of the domes.

Retro Dome,, along wit with do omes. The R eetro Dome th the th he ffolks o olks at the Pr Preservation eservation A Action ction n Council Council of San JJose, ose, ha have ave a wondr wondrous o ous petition p e etition that eeveryone veeryo one should cconsider. onssider.

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When the R Retro eetro Do Dome ome and its successful successful live live theater op o operation eration w was aas booted booted out of its fformer orme o er home at Century Century 2 25, 5,, the landlo landlord, rd,, F Federal ederal R eealtty Trust (of Sant an na R o ow infam myy), Realty Santana Row infamy), w aas able to gr ease all th he skids at was grease the City them Citty Hall,, allowing the em to bulldoze the dome ’t happ ened yyet eet dome.. That hasn hasn’t happened because because the city citty now w wants aants at least one of the domes preserved, preseerved,, so long as the building ccan an b bee suc successfully ccessfully used fo or something after waarrd. Ther ein for afterward.

Therein lies the rub rub.. The pr property oper e ty owners ffor or o Century 22, Century theaters 21,, 22 2,, 23 and 24 haave also put in rrequests equessts to demolish have the domes sit sitting ttting on th their heir pr properties, operties, but the city citty is w waiting aiting until u a decision has b been happen en een made as to what w will happ with all fiv five ve of them.

Scott Sc ottt Guggenheim m of Guggenheim Enter Entertainment taiinment says saays y he would permanently move ld lo llove ve to p erman nently l mo ve the R Retro eetro Dome op operation erration into the old C Century building, best entury 22 buildi ing, the b est equipped equipped of the fiv fivee domes d domes,, should possibility emerge. is,, a that p ossibility emer g . That is ge creative creative ar architect chitect shou should uld b bee able to incorporate any new inc orporate the facility facilitty into an ny ne w development development ffor o or that sswath wath of land.

It makes It’s makes e me think of It ’s a Mad, World.

Mad, Mad, Mad W oorld. One of the best hysterical scenes b est and most m h yysterical sc enes in that film is Winters i when JJonathan onathan W inters i demolishes entiree gas st station ation demolishees an entir all by himself.

To day, by him mselff. T o this da ay, it is considered considered db byy man manyy to b bee his finest fivee minut minutes fiv tes on film. This whole scenario scenario with w the C Century entury theaters makes want Ray mak es mee w ant to track down Ra ay Farris,, the owner of rrecord Farris ecord ffor o or the property Century property on o which the C entury 21, 22 and 23 all sit, and “go go JJonathan onathan Winters” W iinters”” at a Farris’’ office. office.

But tha that’s at’s just m myy cr creative eative ttake, ake, of course. obviously course. While Wh hile the land is ob viously underutilized, underutiliized, ther theree should b bee a w way ay pay tribute historyy of these to pa ay trib bute to the histor domes b byy sa saving avving one of them and great Retro Dome,, giving a gr reat home to R eetro Dome a fantastic fantasticc liv livee theater op operation. eration.

Landlord-tenant aside—and L andlorrd-tenant issues aside —and indeed landlord-tenant this is inde eed a landlor d-tenant issue—perhaps best aspect issue —p perrhaps the b est asp ect of Retro Dome’s efforts R eetro Dom me’s eff ffo orts is its genuine attempt livee filmattempt to o rreinvent ein nvent the liv viewing especially vie wing eexperience, x erience, esp xp ecially in the rapidlyy changing distribution landscape. weree not landsc ape. These old films wer bee eexperienced Netflix meant to b xperienced with N ettflix fl smartphone on a smar t tphone while riding the texting bus and te exting yyour our girlfriend at the same time time.

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“We’re “W We’re taking taking our mission in live livve theater back bacck to film,” Guggenheim said. ““And artt is not A And the idea that ar supposed bee an insular eexperience. supposed to t b xperience.

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Learn Glass-making Glass-makin ng Since 1996, the nonpr nonprofit ofit Bay Ar Area ea Glass Institute has taught Sou South th Bay denizens the art of glassblowing, fusing and coldworking. The experience experiencedd use the studio spaces and the inexperie inexperienced enced come her heree to get acquainted with tthe he art.. Instead of buying a pr pretty-yet-mass-produced etty-yet-m mass-produced vase, her here’s e’s a way to giv give ve someone the opportunity to makee one of his or her own. Maybe then, th they ey can pay it fforward orward by gifting you with w one of their misshapen masterpieces masterpieces. s.. Beginners Bay ay Ar Area ea Glass classes start at $160. Ba Institute, Suite 115 at 40 01 EE.. TTaylor aaylor SSt, t, San 401 Jose.. 408.993.22 44. bagi i.org.

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Well, W ell, maybe he will afte afterr a ffew ew glasses of wine. Vino Artist, a st studio udio minutes away fr from om Santana R Row, ow w, off offers ers thr threeeehour art and wine partie parties es wher wheree attendees get to do the painting under

the gentle guidance g of expert painters and a stead steady dy buzz. For $65, guests food, can enjoy some s food, wine, a lesson in painting and cr creative eative company company.. The studio enco encourages ourages guests to dr dress ess to impress, impr ess, whatever whhatever that means to each person. A tu tux ux could earn a ffew ew admiring nods;; rrollerblades, ollerbblades, a rround ound of applause.

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Hang Gliding Pat Deneva Pat Denevan n is consider considered ed one of the best hang gliding g instructors in the country nce opening his shop and country.. Sin Since school Miss sion Soaring mor ee Mission moree than thr three decades ag o, it ’s become a destination ago, it’s ffor or anyone looking ffor or equipment, skills and saf safety ety tr training, aining, or an intr introduction oduction amental dynamics of hang to the fund fundamental gliding. For $160, the uninitiated can learn the in ns and outs of soaring at ins a five-hour five hour introductory introductory class, class which includes an n orientation ffollowed ollowed by sever al con trolled low-level solo flights. several controlled The betterbetter-prepared venturee on a -prepared can ventur high-flying tour of Big Sur eek Sur,, Hat Cr Creek or Indian V a . Mission Soaring, 1116 alley Valley.

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FFarm aarm T Tours oours Little pockets of Santa Cl Clara ara V Valley, alleyy, once known as the ““Valley Valley of the t Heart Heart’s ’s Delight,” ar aree rreturning eturning to the rregion’s egion’s agricultural agricul tural roots. roots. Full Circle Circle Farm those in Sunnyvale is one of th ose earthy technology enclaves in the technolog gy capital of the world. The nonpr nonprofit ofit ffarm arm off offers ers affordable aff ordable and locally pr produced o oduced ffood ood and education about agri agriculture iculture and sustainable living. living Come on o a weekday to get a tour of the land and discover composting, honeybees,, fruit f or orchards, chards, crop cr op rrows, ows, gar gardens dens and plenty p of chickens. If you stay long enough, you could make a salad usingg just-picked produce. pr oduce. TTours ours cost $10 ffor or an hour and CCircle cle Farm, 1055 $15 ffor or 90 minutes. Full Cir Dunf Dunford ord W Way, aayy, Sunnyvale. 408.735-8154. fullcir fullcirclesunnyvale.org. clesunnyvale.org.

Wine W ine T Tasting aastingg Classes Class es Coterie Cellars views sma smallness allness as a virtue. The tiny winemaking winemaking venture venture in Willow Glen cr crafts afts every wine w by hand, from berry aree free, fr om ber ry to bottle. Tastings Taastiings ar free, but to learn mor moree about the finer points

of detecting a note of cher cherry ry and a hint of pencil sha shavings, avings, or whatever, whatever, take $339 session taught by the a class.. A $39 a the bar rels explains winemaker among barrels nes ar how the win wines aree made and how to c flavors,, among other pick up on complex ey talk you into becoming things.. If the they g 15 per cent off a bottle a member member,, get percent before leave. before you le eave. Coterie Cellars, Unit 110 at 1805 Little O Orchard rchard SSt., t., San Jose.

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Take akkke It Outside ttside Outs Go for for a Ride Make a nigh Make night ht of it and get some exer exercise: cise: AN JO JOSE SE BIKE P PARTY ARTY, held join up with SSAN monthly ar around ound San Jose. The rroute oute is announce announcedd 2244 hours bef beforehand orehand (sjbikeparty.org).

Particularly (sjbikeparty.oorg). P articularly in the winter mont months, ths, the ride takes place after dark,, so ffor or saf ssafety’s ety’s sake, bike lights are are necessar necessary, ryy, but there’s there’s a ffestive estive way

extraa saf safe. to light the night and be extr e e.

Decorative Decor ative bike wheel lights, such as READ BIKE B BIKESS M onkey Lights ($59.99 at TTREAD Monkey r in CCampbell), ampbell),, are are getting to be de rigueur at the monthly ride—though noth nothing hing eally except dedication to riding saf safely ely iiss rreally rrequired equired at the party. party. Next Next month’s month’ss ride, Dec. 20, is Ugly SSweater-themed—raid weater-themed— —raid OOOM or BLA BLACK AC K vintage shops MOON ZZOOOM CA CAT AT COLLECTIVE COLLECTIVE V VINTAGE INTAGE EMPORIUM EMPORIUM to ensur ensuree everyone is pr properly operly atti attired. red.

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The hills that make Silicon V Valley alley a valley off offer er some decently str strenuous enuous views—particularly climbs and good views—particula rly winter.. And with the lower in the winter winter temper temperatures, atures, ffor or once no one o will car caree about the lack of shade inn all those gr grassy, assyy, wide-open spaces. Ju Just ust 15 minutes outside of downtown San S A LU M R ROCK OCK P PARK ARK ($6 parkingg fee) fee) Jose, ALUM is a popular picnic spot ffor or ffamilies amiliess but

also off offers ers a variety ooff tr trails, ails,, steep and moder moderate. ate. O One ne of the speedier hikes with Rock—the a good payoff is EEagle aglee R ock—the view fr from om the top of the hi hill ill look lookss acr across oss the CALERO ERO CCOUNTY OUNTY PARK PARK valley Jose’s CALE valley.. San Jose’s also off offers ers views off tthe he beaten path, and there’s in early spring, ther e’ss good wildflower Off course,, ev even spotting. O ven short hikes aree mor moree fun with sna snacks—a ar acks—a tastier option than Clif bars: dried d fruit fr from om NOVAKOVICH OVAKOVICH local pur purveyors veyors such as a N OR ORCHARDS CHARDS in Sar Saratoga atogga or Sunnyvale Sunnyvale’s ’ss CJ O OLSON LSON, which spec specializes ializes in cher cherries. ries.

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major br brand andd and sever several al instructional bookss (Beat book (Beatles tles songs sound particularly THE gr eat tr ansccribed to ukulele). THE great transcribed MUSIC MUSIC VILLAGE VILLAGE in San Jose is another orr atypical instruments. They hot spot ffor carry carry accor accordions, d dions, autoharps, Suzuki Q Chords, melodicas Chords, mel lodicas and right now they are are ffeaturing eaturin ng a rrelatively elatively new instrument called the Strumstick, Strumstick, which looks looks like a rreally eally long long, g rreally g, eally nar narrow row thr three-string ee string ee-string acoustic gu guitar. itar.

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Taiko T aaiko Drumming D SAN JOSE SAN JOSE TAIKO TAIKO, which celebr celebrates ates its 40th annive anniversary ersary this year year,, is one of the oldest ta taiko aiko companies in the country n ffor or incorpor ating diverse country.. Known incorporating musical influen nces into tr aditional influences traditional Japanese taikoo drumming,, the gr group oup

most rrecently m ecently wowed the South Bay in a collabor collaboration ation with local electr electroo hip-hop ho op cr crew, ew, the Banger Bangerz. z. San Jose TTaiko aaikoo of ffers lessons, including adul offers adultt classess th hat last eight week 40) and sing gle that weekss ($2 ($240) single workshops w orkshops ($50). For childr children, en, ther there’s e’ss a summer pr ogram ($375). Options ffor o or program no on-drummers include tickets to the non-drummers company’s Spirit co ompany’s spring concert, Rhythm Sp pirit (March (M March 21) or items from from the company’s companny’s online on nline store store (taiko.org), (taiko.org), which sells San Saan Jose Jo ose TTaiko aaiko CDs and DVDs ($9-$25) an and nd TT-shirts, -shirts, including one designed by lo local ocal art ar rt collective CUKUI to commemor commemorate atee the SSJJ TTaiko/Bangerz aaiko/Bangerz collaboration collaboration ($32)..

DJJ and Lighting Ki D Kits ts DJJs play packed venues these days.

DJs But Bu ut getting started as pr proo can be an intimidating in timidating and expensive venture. venture.

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VM MS2). Softwar Softwaree rranges anges fr from om $49.95 (Serato) (S Serato) to $699.99 (Scr (Scratch atch Live SL33 Interface).

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Despite wh what hat naysayers have been claiming fo for or the past decade, music stores havee not gone away y, particularly away, local indep endent record stores, which independent have outlas sted T ower o Records and The outlasted Tower :KHUHKRXVH 0XVLF $ JLIW FHUWL¿FDWH :KHUHKRXV VH 0XVLF VH 0XVLF $ JLIW FHUWL¿FDWH to one of th the he South Bay’ Bay’ss great indie ON N THE CORNER CORNER M MUSIC USIC, music stores— storees—O SSTREETLIGHT TREETLIGH HT and RA RASPUTIN’S SPUTIN’S—is a gift of expe experiencing eriencing music in a dif different ffferent way: Looki ing through rows of albums, Looking getting recommendations recoommendations from the staf fff, staff, even in som me cases watching live bands some perform wh while hile shopping.

CConcert oncert e Tickets Tickets $399.99 ther theree is a nice ffour-light our-light mul multiticolor system (American DJ Mega P Par ar Profile Pr ofile SSystem). ystem).. A nice bbonus onus would be a Dynamic ffog og machine, and Dynam mic has plenty— from they rrange ange fr om $79.99-$999.99. $79.99--$999.99.

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Theree are Ther are a lot of studios studios in San Jose offer, dancee lessons,, but that off er, not only danc much cooler alternatives alternativess to ballroom ballroom dancing and country linee dancing.

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classes). ffor or five clas sses). Over in downtown Island San Jose, Is sland Moves is teaching interested inter ested participants p a whole variety ARIEL RIEL D DANCE ANCE of Hawaiian n dance moves. A PRODUCTIONS PRODUCTIONS O in CCampbell ampbell off offers ers sever several al different diff erentt cla classes lasses in i diff different erentt dances d (even ballr ballroom o dancing) but a particular oom highlight is br eakdancing (appr ox. $15 breakdancing (approx. per class).

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The Nutcracker Nutcrraacker seems to have singlehandedly started the tr tradition adition of holiday theater theater,, and B BALLET ALLET SAN SAN JOSE JOSE is doing its part to keep the ritual alive—but fr esh. For the second year fresh. year,r, the company presents pr esents alum KKaren aren Gaba Gabay’s ay’s version of The Nutcracker Nutcrraackerr, Dec. 13-26 13-26 6 at the San Jose Center ffor or the P Performing erforming Arts ($30-$105).

SSAN AN JO JOSE SE D DANCE ANCE THEATER THEA AT TEER also stages The Nutcracker Nutcrraacker at the CPA, CP PA A, with a cast that combines dance students with pr professional ofessional dancers, Dec. 6-8 ($22-$55). ($22-$555).

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Engelbert Humper Humperdinck’s dinck’s oper operaa Hansel & Gretel Gretell isn isn’t ’t the only oper operatic a adaptation atic of a ffairytale, airytale, but it mightt be the ffamilyamilyfriendliest, and B BAYSHORE AYSHORE LLYRIC Y YRIC O OPERA PERA’s pr production oduction makes it even friendlier with a 60-minute version, Dec. 13-15 13-15 at the Saratoga Sar atoga Civic Theatre Theatre ($10-$16). ($110-$16).

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SSAN AN JO JOSE SE REP REP puts a stea steampunk ampunk spin on a fairytale fairytale with the world premiere premiere of The Snow Queen, Nov. Novv. 27-Dec. 27-Dec.. 7 ($10-$69).

CHILDREN’S MUSICAL CHILDREN’S MUSICAL T THEATER H AT HEA TER alumni and young perf performers ormers come com me together in Irving Ir ving Berlin’s Berlin’s White Chris Christmas stmas, Dec. 66-15, 15, at the Montgomery Theatre Theatre ($24-$30). ($24-$30).

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THEATREWORKS T HEA AT TREWORK O S pr presents esents the musical Dec. 4-29 4-29 at the LLucie ucie SStern tern Theatre Theatre ($25-$73).

TABARD T ABARD T THEATRE HEEA AT TRE COMPANY COMPANY has a full holiday schedule scheedule with two rotating rotating shows Theatre on o San Pedro Pedro Square.

Square. There’s There’s an at Theatre especially kid-friendly kiid-friendly world premiere—a premiere—a musical telling of The Elves and the new musical Shoemakerr, Nov Nov.. 29-Dec. 15 ($10-$35) and a Big Band Baand take on a holiday favorite, favorite, with jazz band baand Nineteen performing performing The Duke Ellingt Ellington ton Nutcracker Nutcrraackerr Suite, Dec. 5-15 5-15 ($10-$35).

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Bottles of Herm mitage beers ar for sale Hermitage aree for at the TTap ap a Room m and can also be ffound ound in stor es throughout throughout the area, area, such as stores Sar atoga Bottlee Shop and local markets.

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no otes of chocolate,, car amel, toff ee, notes caramel, toffee, lilicorice, lic corice, i vanilla ill oakk and—of d f course— — bo ourbon. Another gift possibility:: mak ke bourbon. make a pr esent of tickets—and maybe eve en present even of ffer to drive?— to Hermitage ’s fifth offer Hermitage’s an nnual Meet the Br ewers Festival, Fe b. annual Brewers Feb. 155 at their tap rroom oom ($35 per person /$5 person/$5 de esignated driver). Hermitage Br designated Brewing ewinng Tap Jose.

Taap Room, 1627 S. Seventh SSt, t, San Jo ose. hermitagebrewing.com he ermitagebrewing.com Coontinuing its gr Continuing growth owth since the launc launch ch off their first beer in late 2011, SSTRIKE TRIKEE ecently made a huge h BREWING BR REWING CCOMPANY OMPANY rrecently an nnouncement—the construction of iits ts announcement—the own Jose ow wn brick-and-mortar ffacility acility in San Jo ose Jennyy att 2099 S. TTenth eenth SStreet. treet. Founders Jenn Le Lewis, ewis,, Ben Lewis and Dr Drew ew Ehrlich exp expect pect too open their br brewery ewery in early 2014. In the m meantime, , SStrike trike bottles,, such as their Br Brown, rown, along with their IP IPA PA and Imperial Imperial Re Red ed (all $4 $4-$5 -$5 per bottle), can be ffound ound at CCask a & Flask in San Jose, and local ma ask rkets markets su such uch as Zanotto Zanotto’s ’s and Spr Sprouts. outs.. And the their eir seasonal se easonal stout,, a Russian Imperial stylee w with ith its deep chocolate and coff coffee ee not notes tes coming oming in at 9 per percent cent ABV ABV, V, is back in co a limited rrelease, elease,, due out next month. strikebrewingco.com st trikebrewingco.com SSANTA A A CLARA V ANT VALLEY A ALLEY BRE BREWING WING CCOMPANY OMP PANY prroprietors TTom proprietors om Clark and SSteve teve Dono Donohue ohue possess po ossess gr great eat pride ffor or the local ar area, ea,, as evidenced ev videnced by their namesake br brewery, eweryy, as

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well as the names of the their eir first series of brewed beers br ewed earlier thiss year—Electric IPA bottle) TTower ower o IP A ($6-$8 per bo ottle) with its hoppy, hoppy y, citrusy flavors andd the chocolaty Peralta P eralta Porter Porter ($5.50-$77 per bottle),, both available at local bottle shops, s , including Jane’s Mountain Jane ’s Beer SStore tore in Mou untain View and Market Beer Company inn downtown San Jose’s Jose ’s San P Pedro edro Squar Square. e. The bottles have artwork and write-ups oon n the labels that pay homage to this rregion’s egioon’s history history.. The next beer to be made av available vailable in bottles will be an Imperial Red Red—ready Red— —rready just a couple week weekss into 2014. Br Brewmaster ewmaster Donohue says,, “I was jus just st looking at the We'll brewing final five label mockups. W e'll be br ewing probably December. the rred, ed,, pr obably late De ecember. It should be bottled and available in midmid-January.”

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Rabbit Rabbit’s ’s Foot offers offers a diverse diveerse selection of meads (wine made out off honey),, ciders and honey ales.. Flavors rrange ange fr om light from and dry to the sweeter pr profiles. o ofiles.

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Eyes on The Pies

IS XXXXXX A PIZZA with xxxBrussels xxx xxxx sprouts andxxxxx honey still an xxxxxxx authentic pizza? Yes, according to Angelo Womack, one of the owners of Los Gatos’ new pizza-centric restaurant, Oak & Rye—so long, he says, as the concoction is fun and tastes good. Womack learned to push the boundaries of pizza-making as chef at INTO THE WOOD (FIRED OVEN) HEacclaimed BETTERBrooklyn’s pizza Angelo Womack oversees the new BEER Following scene joint, Roberta’s. pizza oven at Oak & Rye. continues its a quick remodel over the summer, RyeSouth openedBay last month in the space previously by ascentOak in&the with Steins Beer Gardenoccupied & Restaurant Jamesin Randall and, in fact, retained RJR’s former executive Restaurant downtown Mountain View set to open chef, Ross Hanson. oversees Oak Rye’s non-pizza fare, which includes March 28.He There will be&wine and cocktails, but the small plates, steaks, chops and chicken, while Womack focuses on turning out primary focus will be on high-quality beers. Steins unconventional pies from Oak & Rye’s new wood-fired pizza oven. Metro will feature 30 taps and a menu of modern American talked with Womack about all things wood-fired.

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Metro: How does baking native Colby Reade.pizza in a wood-fired oven make the pizza taste different than a standard gas oven?

OwnerIt’s and Bay native Ted is a oven, beer enthusiast; he tells me Womack: theSouth element of heat.

A Kim regular you can only bring that Steins is a salute to the traditional German beer halls and gardens, them up to certain temperatures. But with these wood-fired ovens, I can which experienced hisiftravels throughout premier bring myhe ovens to 1050during degrees I like. What these Europe’s ovens do, if you use beerthe cities.

Designed by architect Marc Dimalanta, Steins features a 300them right way, they should give [pizzas] a char.

If you do your dough 8,000-square-foot domed taste interior roomsweet and ainstead 4,000-square-foot theseat, right way, that char should almost of bitter. outdoor patio.

Are you doing traditional thin crust Neapolitan style pizzas?

Ted, with his contagious positive energy, says that he can’t wait We are Neapolitan-inspired in that it’s not too complex. You basically for folks to check out the “in-your-face, custom-made walk-in cooler” want to showcase the produce and meats. When you cook things in the next to the main bar. Guests can gaze at the unique direct-draw draft wood-fired oven, it cooks so fast, you’re not losing the essence of your system—the tap handles are connected to the kegs, eliminating draft items. A pizza in here cooks about a minute and a half, compared to most lines and helping to keep the beer at the highest quality and freshness pizzerias which are about 8-10 minutes. Our crust has life to it, like a levels. Having 30 draft beers is a manageable number for staff, Ted says: French baguette: crispy outside and a very tender inside.

“I want them to know exactly what we’re serving. I want to be able to You use some beer interesting ingredients like fennel give genuine recommendations, so ongoing beer (Fennel educationDestinawill be tion) and egg important. ” (Hog Whisperer).

The most popular is onea called the Scotty 2 Hottie.

It’s according a pizza I made The food will have local, farm-to-table emphasis to at Roberta’s in New York called the Bee Sting, and it got big there, so I brought it here. It has sopressata and honey. It’s a really great balance of spicy and sweet.

You also have the Brussel and Flow, but Brussels sprouts might be a tough sell for some pizza eaters. How do you make that work?

You roast the Brussels sprouts halfway then you cook them on the pizza the rest of the way. It’s like a cabbage. Put that with some prosciutto cotto, which is like a ham. What gives it the most flavor—other than the Brussels sprouts—is the pecorino cheese, which is a sharp sheep’s milk cheese.

So that really helps it pop. There’s the sweet onion on there. It’s a very well balanced pie. People get very surprised when they try it.

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’SON’ RISE Roy Choi, famed for helping launch the food truck movement, shares his story and recipes in his new book ‘L.A. Son.’

An American Story

“SOMETIMES IN the food world, we only talk about the pretty things and great recipes that are a little bit outside of what people live through,” says restaurateur Roy Choi, discussing his new cookbook that somehow managed to top both the Asian and Mexican cookbook lists on Amazon last week. “I wanted to create a book that felt like Milpitas.”

Choi, famous for inventing the Korean taco and igniting the food truck THEmost REAL THING The pizza at Terrone movement Kogi of food-truck in Los Angeles, is now shaking up the comes with withhis a seal Italian fleet approval. food publishing scene with a new memoir/cookbook, L.A. Son, the first release from Anthony Bourdain’s new publishing imprint.

For L.A. Son, Choi kept three goals in mind: Make it affordable, truly tell the story of L.A. immigrant life and always keep it rated R. He succeeds at all three, but in addition the L.A. story,an hisorganization narrative details his own struggle OT to A LOT of immigrant dishes have with adversity, addiction and finding his calling in dedicating to preserving theirlife. historical Choi moved from South Korea to Koreatown in Los Angeles as an infant. authenticity. Pizza does, or at least Neapolitan His parents failed with liquor store and restaurant businesses before striking modern version of pizza goldpizza—the with a jewelryoriginal business that grew from hand-to-hand sales to an appointthat came out of Naples, Italy, in the 1800s.

The ments-only storefront with the family name. As their wealth grew, Choi strugorganization, Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, gled with his identity in SoCal’s bleached-blond suburbs. hands certifications to restaurants over the around He turnedout to the streets, disappearing alone for daysall and bumming Hollywood, becoming thetheir only Asian a Latino lowrider club and world that meet verymember specificofguidelines as to running with a crew of roughnecks called the Grove Street Mob. He had flirtawhat constitutes a genuine Neapolitan pizza.

Here tionsinwith and crackabefore goingof allrestaurants in with the softare touch of green thealcoholism Bay Area, only handful felt on Indian casino card tables. so certified. One of them, Terrone Pizzeria, a casual Throughout all of Choi’s troubles, there was food, and you’ll find the recipes upscale joint, was opened a few weeks ago in Palo throughout the pages of L.A. Son: carne asada with the lowriders, pho and pork by three of whom werefrom born friedAlto rice from casinosfriends, and someall of the healing dishes hisin mother’s kitchen.

Southern Italy.

It was also food that saved Choi from self-destruction after a chance encounter with Emeril Lagasse’s show inspired age 26, toThe enroll at the Generally, what definesTV a true Italian pizzahim, is itsatlightness.

Culinary Institute America in New York. and the ingredients are all crust is thinner,ofthe toppings are sparser He excelled and found understudy job atconcoction Eric Ripert’s famedto Le Bernardin very basic. Rather thananthe heavy, doughy familiar in New York before the West aCoast. in California, Americans, pizzareturning in Italy isto considered light Back dish that will leavea string of hotel and resorthungry gigs culminated in Choi servingtable. as Northern California regional one a little after leaving the dinner manager Embassy Suites, overseeing 10ahotels, including in the Bay Area, To at obtain the coveted certification, restaurant mustfour meet before moving on such to a high-profile gig as chef cuisine thepizza Beverly Hilton. many criteria, as what ingredients aredeused, howatthe Somehow, after allkind of that, Choiit’s found himself jobless during the height of is prepared, what of oven cooked in and more.

Terrone the economic downturn in 2008, and with help from a friend, the idea for the passed all the tests. They knead their dough by hand and let it rise Korean taco, the Kogi food truck empire and now L.A. Son were born. naturally over a 24-hour period before popping it into a brick oven, “Iwhere thinkitthe greatcooked part ofin it now, that arc, is that it’s moving further is fully aboutin90 seconds.

The crust is crispy and and further away from having to define it as a Korean guy doing this and it’s just becoming a story that inspires others,” Choi says. “It doesn’t matter where you come from or what color you are, it’s just an American story.”

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L.A. Son is available at bookstores and online now. Choi’s book tour arrives in the Bay Area with stops in San Francisco, Napa and Oakland on Nov. 22-23.—Matt Crawford

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THEDUKE,THEC THE DUKE, THE CCOUNT OUNTAND OUNT AND DME D ME TTabard aabard Theatr Theatree Company presents premiere pr esents world pr emiere of a builtt around musical buil around the songs songs of Duke Ellington, Count Basie Basiie greats. and other jazz gr eats. Thru Nov 23. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun,, 2pm.

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15-24. $14-$18. $14 -$18. San Jose.

““Around Around the Table A Table a SStage tage One—Jitish KKallat: allat: Epilogue.”

“Swans, Ends April 20. “S wans, SSwine wine Sirens.” and Sir ens.” Artists influenced Greek mythology.

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24. TueTuueeeWed, W ed,, 7:30pm. $24-$79. $24-$79. San Jose Jose Performing Center ffor or P erforming Arts.

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FIDDLER ON THE R ROOF OOF The classic musical about a turn-ofJewish community in turn-of fthe-20th-century rural the20th-century rur al Russia.

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CANTOR CANT ORAR ARTS RTSCENTER CENTER “Carrie Mae Weems: “Carrie Weems:: Three Three Photography Decades of Photogr aphy and Video.” Thru Jan 5.

“Faith Embodied:: Saints From Fr om the Renaissance to the Wed-Sun, Enlightenment.”” W ed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm.

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24. $15-$30.. Pear Pear Avenue Avenue Theatre, Theatrre, View..

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SHE KILLSSMONS SHEKILL MONSTERS ST TERS Renegade Theatr Theatree Experimen Experiment nt presents woman pr esents the story of a woma an who learns about the hidden n side of her late sister when sshe he sister’s Dungeons discovers her sister ’s Dungeo ons Dragons & Dr agons notebook. Fri-Sat,, 8pm, Sun,, 7pm. Thru Dec 7.

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SANJOSEMUSEUMOF SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS QUIL LTS & TEXTILES TEXTILES “Fiberart International.”” West “Fiberart West premiere Coast pr emiere exhibition, ffeaturing eaturing works works by 37 national and international artists, both emerging, established and emer ging, and exploring a wide spectrum of practices.

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TRITON TRIT ON MUSEUM OF AR ART T YYori oori Seeger Seeger,, sculptur sculpture. e. Thru Dec 1. “Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Welcome Under wood: W elcome to Flower-Landia.” Thru Nov 224.

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ART AR RT TARKGALLER ARK GALLERY RY “The More More the Mer Merrier rier IV IV”: ”: Salon-Style Salon-S tyle Art Exhibition & Sale ffeaturing eaturing pieces by 51 Bay Area Ar ea artists working in variety of mediums and styles. San Jose.

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“Making Space,” a gr group oup show cultural exploring physical, cul tural and historic space. Thru Dec. 5.

Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm.

Mon-TThu,, 10am3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.

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Jazz-related art by Bruni Jazz-related Sablan. Mon-Sat, 1-6pm. San Jose.

HISTORY HIS STOR RY P PARK A ARK SSAN AN JOSE “Shaped by Water: Water:: Past, Past, Present Present Future,” & Futur e,” ,” the storyy of water in this rregion, egion,, from from the indigenous present Ohlone people to pr esent day. dayy.

“Bear in Mind: The SStory tory of the CCalifornia alifornia Grizzly.”

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CAFE SSTRITCH TRITCH “No W Walls alls Between Us,” portraits portr aits of jazz musicians by KKathy athy Sloane. San Jose.

COMMUNITYSCHOOLOF COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF ARTS MUSIC AND AR TS “Connecting Thr Threads... eads... Quil Quilts ts Worker Made at Day W orker Center of Mountain View.”

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PECKING ORDER ‘For the Birds’ includes monotypes by Katherine Levin-Lau and collages by Kelly Detweiler, as well as large paper bird heads on which the two artists collaborated.

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AFTER MORE than 20 years of friendship, artists Kelly Detweiler and Katherine Levin-Lau came to a surprising realization about each other’s work.

Levin-Lau, a printmaker, and Detweiler, a collage artist and professor at Santa Clara University, had both, for about four years, been incorporating images of birds into their artwork. But neither of them had any idea that the other was working on similar material.

Levin-Lau says that she and Detweiler made the discovery as they attended the now defunct Art Party a couple of years ago. They saw each other’s work and realized their pieces drew on similar inspirations.

And “For the Birds,” on view through Nov. 26 at Seeing Things Gallery in downtown San Jose, was ‘For the Birds’ born.

“I hadn’t seen her work and she hadn’t seen my Thru Nov 26 work for a while and we’ve known each other for a long time,” says Detweiler. “It was a total coincidence, Seeing Things both of us were working separately.”

Gallery, San Jose “When we realized what the other person was doing, seeingthingsgallery. com rather than feel threatened we just said ‘we need to do a show together,’” says Levin-Lau. “We picked each other’s work and hung the show together. It was so easy, Kelly is just a sweetheart.”

Both artists note that birds are omnipresent in everyday life, and their appreciation of them was the impetus for their artwork, albeit separately.

“I went on my first official birdwalk with a friend,” says Levin-Lau, referring to a trip she took four years ago. “I kind of had a summer of birds where I had all of these odd experiences going on with them.”

Detweiler’s interest was piqued during travels in other countries, where he saw many different kinds of birds.

“For me they’re kind of like this ever-present thing that’s always watching over you,” says Detweiler. “It’s something that’s everywhere but yet you don’t think of it.”

Detweiler creates collages. Levin-Lau says she appreciates them because of their open-endedness and breadth of subject matter that can be incorporated.

Levin-Lau creates monotypes, which Detweiler says he appreciates due to their technical soundness, as well as his perception that they are more substantial than his work.

The two artists collaborated on large birds heads—papered with images of both of their works—that are hung throughout the show.

Both artists say the differences and similarities in their work make it the perfect set-up for a joint show.

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In Grand Style was organized by the Asian Art Museum in collaboration with the National Museum of Korea and the National Palace Museum of Korea based on the exhibition Scenes of Banquets and Ceremonies of the Joseon Period held by the National Museum of Korea in 2009. Presentation at the Asian Art Museum is made possible with the generous support of Koret Foundation, Samsung, The Korea Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Silicon Valley Bank, Jamie and Steve Chen, John and Barbara Osterweis, and Suno Kay Osterweis. Image: Royal Protocol for King Jeongjo’s Visit to His Father’s Tomb in Hwaseong (detail), 1800–1900. Korea, Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). Album; ink and colors on paper. Courtesy of National Museum of Korea.

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(R Ronan). o Heer troubled, Her ne egligent father has shipp ed her out o negligent shipped fr om N ew York, Yo ork,, to go stay stay with her heer from New ccousins o ousins farmhou use and her aunt in a farmhouse eep in the ccountryside. ountryside. Dais deep de Daisyy has titude: she uses usees a vveritable eritable w wall aall of at attitude: he er temp er to tune out the sc oldin ng her temper scolding vvoices o es in her head, commanding oic commanding her h to o ccompulsively ompulsively w wash, ash, to hate hers ash, herself, selff, to ob ood. d bee disgusted b byy all kinds of ffood.

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MacKa ayy). She finally gets g a ffew ew minutes with her o verrbooked A unt overbooked Aunt P enn ((Anna Anna Chanc ello or), who is Penn Chancellor), tr ying to st ave off the imp iimpending ending trying stave w aar with the help of some so ome unnamed war NGO in i Gene G va; she h fl fli ther flies h e, Geneva; there, lea aving v her family b eh hind. She ’s a leaving behind.

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day, mighty One da ay, a might ty wind ccomes omes with flakes “It’s in,, and d wit th it flak es o of ash: “It ’s snowing,,” sa snowing ssays ayys the adorable yyoungest oungest Piper (Harleyy Bir Bird). ccousin ousin Pip per (Harle d). The radioactivee “snow”” brings with it radioactiv wartime measures: es: the drafting of w artime measur m the yyoung oungg men,, the rrelocation o elocation and into fforcing o orcing int to farm work of the yyoung oung girls.. It It’s new life Daisyy picking girls ’s a ne w lif fe ffor or Dais o through thr ough rrotted ottted piles of vvegetables ot egetables to edible potatoes; find the ed dible p otatoes; dinner is mystery m ystery meat, m and small pitcher of water rationed w ater purified with what looks Alka-Seltzer Daisy’s lo oks like like Alk A a-Seltzer ttablets. ablets. Dais y’s days aree pu punctuated byy the p pop, pop, da ays y ar unctuated b op, p op, fizz, fizz, electronic fiz z,, fiz z, and an nd the only electr onic broadcasts (Elgar’ss “P “Pomp media: br o asts (Elgar’ oadc omp and Circumstances”, Cir cumstanc a es”,, of ccourse) ourse) on the Wartime Service.

Ultimately, War time Radio R Ser vice. Ultimately y, Daisyy fleess with lit little Dais tttle Piper Piper to head harrowing, journeyy on a harr o owing , ccorpse-lined orpse-lined journe back to thee idyllic farm with its streams filled trout str eams fil lled with fat tr out and woods rabbits.. wo ods fulll of plump rabbits point today’s If the p o is to help to oint daayy’s teen bee lik likee in a imagine what w it would b state wartime st ate of w a time in their town—if ar theyy wer weree living in Baghdad or the Sarajevo instead someplacee nic nicee Saraje vo in nstead of someplac green—Macdonald achieves and gr een— —Macdonald achie ves partial success. par tial suc ccess. But when ccompared ompared more to the mor re ccomplex omplex allegories of occupation wartime o ccupation n and w artime (Ingmar Bergman’s Shame,, ffor instance) Ber gman’s Shame or inst o ance) How I Live presented atrocities, Liv ve Now is i pr esented as all atr ocities, subtleties. and no sub btleties. happen here, I know it i ccould ould happ en her e, but look likee this? Mac Macdonald would it lo ook lik donald lovelies byy lo velies hiss island up: gilded flies b day merge hovering embers from da ay mer gee into ho vering emb ers fr om byy night. What w was a ccozy ozy ccampfire am mpfire b as Hiroshima Amour?? that line in n Hir rooshima Mon Amour “Theyy mak make soap,, “The ke ccommercials ommercials to sell soap why don’t theyy mak makee ccommercials wh hy don ’t the ommercials peace?”

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New N ew DELIVERY DELIVER Y MAN N (PG-13;; 103 min.)) Vince V (PG-13; Vaughn aughn is the baby daddy of o them all when he learns that, due to t a mix-up at the where sperm bank whe re he donated 20 years ago, he is now n the ffather ather of moree than 500 childr Seriously, mor cchildren. en. Seriously y, how often did hee donate? (Opens Fri Fri.))

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THE HUNGER GAME GGAMES: S: CATCHING CA ATCHING FIREE (PG-13;; 146 min.) The rushed,, jostling (PG-13; sequel Hunger Ga Games: ames:: CCatching aatching Fir Firee has a sever severee casee of middle-child syndrome; it’s syndr ome;; it ’s only only there there as a conduit sequel. to the two part se equel. military-industrial-entertainment The military-indu y ustrial-entertainment futuristic Panem complex of futuri stic P anem celebrates celebr ates the 755th anniversary of the Hunger Games byy staging a pit-match moree than a dozen badlywith mor introduced previous intr oduced pr evioous winners. (A lot of aree actors we them ar w want to see,, such Jeffrey Wright as Jeffr ey W right made up to look traumatized like Lenin.) The tr raumatized KKatniss atniss

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Revivals Re viivals CHRISTM CHRISTMAS MAS IN JUL JULY/ Y/ ANIMAL CRA CCRACKERS CKERS (1940/1930) “If you can't sleep, it's not (1940/1930) coffee, the coff ee,, it's the bunk.” With these cognitive-dissonance-inducing words, cognitive-d dissonance-inducing wor ds, a young likable you ung clerk named Jimmy (Dick Powell) Maxford Brothers coffee P owell) at Maxf ord Br others coff ee company tries t to win a $25,000 $25 000 slogan What contest. W hat might seem like a CCapra apra different story takess a diff erent turn under the direction Preston dir ection of o Pr eston SSturges—the turges—the only-in-America haywiree as only-in-Am merica story goes haywir awarded, the prize iss first seemingly awar ded, than withdrawn. withddrawn. Ellen Drew Drew co-stars Circling as Jimmy'ss skeptical girlfriend. Cir cling around ar ound thee leads like hawks hawks among pigeons is SSturges’ turges’ usual gang— Demarest William De emarest as the holdout on advertising jury, the adverti ising slogan jury y, archsissy archsissy Franklin Fr anklin Pangborn, Pangborn, a , slicker Al Bridge, et al. al "The The film is the work of a man makess har hardd things look like who make way, doing it thee easy way y, rather rather than vice versa"—critic Ferguson. versa"—c critic Otis Fer guson.. BILLED WITH W ITH Anim Animal mal Cr Crackers. rackers. a Introducing Intr oducing CCapt. apt.

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Dumon oil nt). TToo earn their keep,, they ffoil thieves riffraff: art thie eves and dally with visiting riffr aff: pianist nist Emanuel Ravelli (Chico the pia Professor" Marx) and a "The Pr ofessor" (Harpo sweet-faced Marx). Lurking Lurking about is the sweet-f aced singer Lillian L Roth, who looks looks like a lot of fun … too much so,, apparently, apparentlyy, since she was waas one of the first celebs to write a rehab rehabb account. As As these films age, theyy become beecome Groucho’s Groucho’s battle to win or lose;; the great great raconteur raconteur can tell you African n lore lore you'll never hear on the Naturee Channel:: “One night I shot an Natur elephant elepha nt in my pajamas.. How he got into myy pajamas,, I'll never know.” know w..” (Plays 21-24 Palo Alto Nov 21-24 in P aalo Al to at the SStanford tanffor ord Theatre.)

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Wed,, 7:45: The Gas Men. $13Wed, $13Jr.. and $26. Thu,, 8pm: Will Russ Jr annd Force $10-$18.

For ce of the Will Band. $10-$1 18. info.

Fri:: CCall all ffor or inf o. Sat, 8:30pm: TTortilla oortilla Soup.. $16-$29.. Sun, Ricardo $20-25.

7pm:: Ricar do Scales.

Scales. $2025 25.

City.

Redwood City y.

Wed--Thu, Wed-Thu, T Sun, Evening: KKaraoke. araoke.. Free.

Free. 21 and over. over.

9:30pm-1:30am: Fri-Sat, 9:30pm-11:30am: Free.

Live bands. Fr ee.. 21 and over. over.

Fremont.

Fr emont.

ART AR RTBOUTIKI T BOUTIKI Thu, 7:30pm:: Jazz W Warehouse arehousee Drawing Jazz Jam and Dr awing Society.

Societyy.

San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S JOHNNYV’S Wed,, 8pm:: Paulie Wed, Paulie Think.. Fri, 8pm:: Proper Proper NONsense. Sat, 9pm:: LLyrics yyrics in Full Effect.

Effect.. Mon, 8pm:: Sean Blak. San Jose.

MOJO MO JOLLOUNGE OUNGE Thur:: DJ Mist.. Fri:: Night Train.

Train.

Sat: The Honey Wilders.. All shows 9:30pm, $5.. Fremont.

Fremont.

NETO’S NET O’S MARKET & GRILL THE B BACK ACCK B BAR AR Nov 27: TTrashKannon, rashKannon,, Packer, Packerr, Bracamonte, Paco Albert Br acamonte, P aco Excel.

Exceel.

San Jose.

THE BLANK CL CLUB UB Wed,, 9pm: W Wed, Wolf olf Snake Sun. Fr Fri, ri, Pounders.

Jose..

9pm:: P ounders. $10.. San Jose

BOSWELL’S BOS WELL’S Wed:: Jack Ripoff Wed: Ripoff.. Thu:: Sexy Ba Back. ck.

Fri: The Degenerates.

Degenerates.. Sat:: 10 TTilil 2. Sun:: Kid Dynamite. y . CCampbell. ampbe p ell.

Fri,, 8pm:: At At Least We’re We’re Dreaming, Dr eaming,, Driftwood Sinn,, Raiju. $10.. Sat,, 8:30pm:: South 46.

Santa Clara.

Clara.

NUMBER ONE BR BROADWAY OADWAY Wed:: New Amigos Jam. Thu:: Kid Wed: Pacific Dynamite. Fri:: P acific SStandard tandard Heros.

TTime. ime.. Sat:: Juke Box Her os.. All shows 9:30pm. Los Los Gatos.

PEACOCK PEA ACOCK LLOUNGE OUNGE Thurr, 9pm: Thursday night live Thur, bands.. $5. Sunnyvale.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN BRITARMSALMADEN Sun:: Sunday Funday Football, day.

Jose.

All day y. 10pm:: KKaraoke. araoke.. San Jo se.

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Wed,, 7pm:: Sean Jones. Thu,, Fri,, Wed, Peppe Merolla Quartet Sat,, 8pm:: P eppe Mer olla Quart tet Herring. ffeat. eat. Vincent Her ring.. Sat, Jose.

6:30pm: The Eulipions.. San Jos se.

Every Thu 6:30-9:30pm 6:30-9:30pm & Fri, 7:30-10:30pm: 7:30-10:30pm:: Live music. All Free.

Ages.. Fr ee.. LLos os Gatos

CAFFE FRASCATI CAFFEFRA ASSCA AT TI

Sat, 8pm: TBA, TBA, call ffor or info. info.

Homestead Bowl,, Cupertino.

Cupertino.

Fri,, 8pm:: P Paolozzi aolozzi TTango ango a TTrio. rrio.. Sa Sat, at, 8 : Basic 8pm: B i Elements.

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Wed,, 7pm:: Duo Br Wed, Brothers. others. Thu, 8:30pm:: Out of the Blue. Fri, 8:30pm:: Bone Drivers. Sat, 8:30pm:: Blind Pilots.. Sun, Ferrara.

6pm:: Joe Fer rara. Tue, Tuue,, 7pm: Aft h k LLos Aftershock. os Gatos G t

CLUB CL UBFFOX OX Wed,, 6:30pm:: Club Fox Blues Wed, 8pm: Jam:: Cold Feet, 21+,, $5.. Fri,, 8p m: Orqq Salson.. $15. Sat,, 7pm: The Or Hormones Ramones TTribute. rribute. $12-$15.

City. $12 -$15. Redwood City y.

CLUB CL UB FFOX OX Wed, 6:30pm:: Club Fox Blues Wed, Jam:: Cold Feet,, 21+,, $5. Fri,, 8pm: Orqq Salson. $15.. Sat,, 7pm: The Or Ramones H Hormones R TTribute. ribute. rib t $12-$15. $12 -$15.. Redwood City.

Cityy.

DANA D ANA SSTREET T TREET CCOFFEE OFFEE Second Mon of every month, 7pm:: Ukulele jam.. Mountain View..

View

FFAIRMONT AIRMONT A HO HOTEL OT TEL Wed, 8:30pm:: Jazz or Pop Wed, Pop Dance Hits. Thu,, 8:30pm: Grand Dueling Gr and Pianos.. Fri and Sat,, 9pm:: Rotating local bands. cover.. San Jose No cover

HEDLEY HEDLE Y CL CLUB UB Thu,, 8pm:: Brian Ho TTrio. rrio.. Fri, 8:30pm:: Kat Kat Parra.

Parra. Sat,, 8:30pm: Blues House.. San Jose.

HUKILAU HUKILA AU Fri-Sat,, 8pm:: Hawaiian music.

San Jose.

JJ.J.’S .J.’S BL BLUES UES CAFE Thu, 9pm: Jimmy Dewrance.

Dewrance. Fri, 7pm:: Ruckus.. 9pm: Doghouse Riley.

Riley y. Sat,, 7pm: Special Guest.

9pm:: Mike Osborn. Sun, 5:30pm:: Micheal Turner.

Tuurner. Mon, Desiree 9pm:: Desir ee and Diamond 99.

San Jose.

LITTLE LLOU’S OU’S BBQ Every W Wed, ed, 88-11pm: -11pm: 1 : Jazz jam.

Thu,, 7pm:: Aki’s Blues Jam. Fri, 8pm:: LenCat. LenCat.. Sat,, 8pm:: South City Blues Band.. CCampbell. ampbell.

Jazz/Blues/ World W orld o ART AR RTBOUTIKI T BOUTIKI

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Wed, 9pm:: Andrew Wed, Andrew Jackson Jackson Jihad, The Gunshy, Gunshyy, Blackbird Blackbird Raum. Thu,, Fri,, Sat 8pm:: Russell Ferrante Fer rante TTrio. rrio.. San Jose..

Every second Thu,, 7:30pm:: Jazz Warehouse W arehouse Jazz Jam.. Free; Free; donations rrequested. equested. San Jose.

LLOFT OFTB BAR ARANDBIS AND BISTRO STR T O Every Thu:: Live jazz in the evening. San Jose.

BLACKBIRD BLA ACCKBIRD T TAVERN AVERN V Thu,, 9pm:: Mark Ar Arroyo royo TTrio. rrio.

Sat,, 9pm: Fri, 9pm:: Ethio-Cali.

Fri, Ethio Cali.

Ethio-C ali. Sat Cole Walker Walker and his Rhythm.

San Jose

BL BLUE UE R ROCK OCK SHOO SHOOT OT Fri-Sat 8pm: Thriving Artists Artists’’ Showcase.. Sun,, 4pm:: Blues jam.

Saratoga.

Sar atoga.

LLOU’S OU’SVILLA VILLAGE GE Live music.. San Jose.

MOSAIC MOS AIC Fri,, 66-9pm: 9pm:: Jazz ffor or dinner. dinner.

San Jose.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY NUMBERONEBR OA ADWAY Wed: W ed:: New Amigos Jam. Thu: Kid

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Asking Alexendria

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DOUBLE LOGIC Acoustic duo Astralogik performs at a show beneďŹ ting typhoon relief efforts.

Pass it Around THE RECENT TYPHOON in the Philippines has shocked the world with a death toll climbing close to 4,000 people, and tens of thousands injured. People all over the globe have responded with support, with a lot of people contributing however much money they can to the victims.

At San Jose’s Blackbird Tavern, local promoter Danny Le has organized a beneďŹ t, featuring live music, spoken word and DJs. Tickets are $10 and all money raised from ticket sales will be donated to the Pass It Around: National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (nafconusa.org) for Fundraiser for the typhoon relief efforts.

Philippines “I have always been connected to the Filipino people through my upbringing here in the Bay Area, so when I Blackbird Tavern saw the destruction the earthquakes and typhoons caused Annex in much of the Philippines I was compelled to help out the home country of my friends,� Le says. “I hope during this Thu, 7:30pm, $10 process and after the show we come closer together as a community and not only react to the problems overseas, but also the ones here at home in the States.�

The three spoken-word artists come from the Bay Area Asian/PaciďŹ c Islander poetry collective, the ReWrite. These artists include Jason Bayani (who is also a member of the Filipino poetry collective, Proletariat Bronze), Lorenz and Kristen Sajonas.

Bay Area acoustic duo Astralogik, formerly known as CHARITOxFUNKCH3N, will also perform, along with jazz vocalist and San Jose native Amy Dabalos.

Between sets, DJ Sig-O from local DJ crew Affinity will be spinning records.

Co-hosting with Le is Ruby Veridiano, a writer and public speaker who works to educate women of color on advocacy and self-empowerment.—Aaron Carnes

54 Dynamite.. Fri:: P PaciďŹ c aciďŹ c SStandard tandard Heros.

TTime. ime.. Sat:: Juke Box Her os. All shows 9:30pm.. LLos os Gatos.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO POORHOUSEBIS ST TRO Wed, W ed,, 66-9pm: 9pm:: Ron Thompson.

6-9pm: Blues Thu, 69pm:: Howell Devine Bl ues 6-10pm: Dwight Band. Fri, 6-10pm:: Shane Dwig ght 6-10pm: Blues Band. Sat, 6-110pm:: Jeffrey Jeffrrey Halford Half ord and the Healers.. Sun, 11am-2pm: 11am2pm:: Piano Brunch with h Johnny Fabulous. San Jose.

UNWINED Every second and ffourth ourth Thu, 77-9pm: -9pm:: Don Balistreri.

Balistreri.. Every Sat, 77-9:30pm: -9:30pm:: Live jazz.. San Jose.

THEW THE W WOODSHED OODSHED Every ďŹ rst and thir thirdd W Wed, ed, 7pm: Blues jam with Johnny-Cat. Johnny-Cat. TTue: ue: u Ukulele Club. Sat, 7:30pm: Coulter, William Coul ter, Aria DiSalvia, Weed.

John W eed. LLos os Gatos.

C&W/Folk C&W W/F /Foolk ANGELICA'S ANGELICA A''S BIS BISTRO ST TRO Sun,, 6pm: YYoung Sun oung o Ir Ireland eland Folk Music.. Redwood City.

Cityy.

BOSWELL’S BOS WELL’S Wed:: Jack Ripoff Wed: Ripoff.. Thu:: Sexy Back.

Peelers.

Fri: The P eelers.. Sat:: SStompbox. tompbox.

Sun:: Kid Dynamite.. CCampbell ampbell

ZZONE ONE8 8 Sat,, 8pm:Live Jazz.. CCasino asino M8trix, San Jose.

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LLos os Gatos/Sar atoga Big Band d.

Fri, 9pm:: Diablo Road.. Sat, Paige.

7:15pm:: Joshua P aige.. 10:15pm: 10:15pm m: Fremont.

Diablo Road.. Fr emont.

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Legendary ry $5-$10.. Fri,, 9pm: The Legenda Extraordinaire Impersonators Extr aordinaire.. $10-$20. TTue, uue,, 77-10pm: -110pm:: Open Mic M Peter Sommer.. No Hosted by P eter Sommer charge.

City. cover char ge.. Redwood City y.

Karaoke Kar raok a ke 7B BAMBOO AMBOO Wed-Sat,, 9pm:: Karaoke.

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

THE GOOSET GOOSETOWN OWN LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri-Sun,, 9:30pm9:30pm-1:30am: -1:30am: KKaraoke. araoke. Willow Glen.

THE HUDDLE ALEX’S ALEX ’S4 49ER 9ERINN INN Nightlyy, 9pmNightly, 9pm-2am: 2am:: KKaraoke. araoke.

San Jose.

AZÚCAR LATIN AZÚCARLA ATINB T BAR AR Wed:: 8pm-midnight:: Karaoke Wed: Karaoke plus DJ party (English and Spanish). San Jose.

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

Nights KKaraoke. araoke.. Fr emont.

ISLAND CAFE & BAR ISLANDCAFE&B AR Fri-Sat,, 9pm:: KKaraoke. araoke.

Sunnyvale.

JOHNNY V’S JOHNNYV’S Sun:: Sunday Funday kar karaoke. aoke. cover.. San Jose.

No cover

KATIE KA AT TIEBL BLOOM’S OOM’S

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Wed & Sun,, 9:30pmWed 9:30pm-1:30am: -11:30am: KKaraoke. araoke. aoke Campbell.

Campbell. ampbell

Wed,, 7pm:: SStand-up Wed, tand-up comedy comedy. y. $10 $20. San $10-$20.

S Jose.

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Mon,, 7pm:: Musical open mic ffor or singer/songwriters.. Sign up at a Free.

7pm.. Fr ee. San Jose.

Fri,, 9pm9pm-1am: -11am:: Danielle. Sat, 9pm-1am: 9pm1am:: Karaoke.

Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Clara.

Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm:: Bruce of KKOR OR Karaoke.

Karaoke.. Mountain View.

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Wed,, Fri & Sun,, 9pm-1am: Wed, 9pm--11am: KKaraoke. araoke.. Sunnyvale.

Fri-Sat,, 9:30pm:: KKaraoke. araoke.. Santa Clara.

Clar a.

BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE

OASIS O ASIS

Thu, 7pm:: Musical open mic.

San Jose.

CAFFE FRA FRASCATI ASSCA AT TI TTue, uue, 7pm:: Open mic. San Jose.

CAMERA 3 Fri, 9pm, Sat, 7pm:: Comedy Sportz.

Sport z.. San Jose.

IMPROV IMPR OV Wed:: Renegades of Comedy w Wed: w/ / Garrett Future Gar rett Gonzales.. Thu:: The Futu ure Comedy, headliner. of Comedy y, w/mystery headlin ner.

Fri-Sun:: Arnez JJ.. San Jose.

TTue: uue:: KKaraoke. araoke.. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN BRITARMSALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm:: DJ Hank. Thu, Wed 10pm:: DJ Dinero.

Dinero.. San Jose.

BRIT ARMS CUPERTINO BRITARMSCUPER RTINO T Sun--Tue, Sun-Tue, u , 10pm:: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

CCupertino. upertino.

BRIT ARMS DO DOWNTOWN WNTOWN

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

Wed Sunnyvale.

PLAZA GARIBALDI PLAZAGARIB ALDI Wed & Sun,, 7pm-close:: Karaoke.

Wed Karaoke.

San Jose.

PIONEER SALOON PIONEERS ALOON TTue, ue, u , 8:30pm:: Acoustic Acoustic karaoke karaoke Woodside. with Sam Marshall. W oodside.

Wed, W ed,, 9pm:: August. San Jose.

SHERWOOD SHER WOODINN INN

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BRIX

Wed:: Downtown Comedy Wed: w/Marcc YYaffee, Night w/Mar aff a ee, Mike $10-B t Betancourt, t, Bryce B D i $10 Druzin.

Gilroy. $12.. Gilr oyy.

TTue, uue,, 9:30pm:: KKaraoke. araoke.. San Jose.

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

C&J’S SPORTS C&J’SSPOR RTSB BAR AR

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PHILZ CCOFFEE OFFEE Mon,, 7pm:: Open mic.. Fr Free. ee.

Downtown San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO ST TRO TTue, uue, 6pm:: Open mic. San Jose..

ROOSTER R OOSSTER T T T.. FEA FEATHERS AT THERS Wed:: New TTalent Wed: aalent Showcase.. Fr FririBargatze.

Sun:: Nate Bar gatze. Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvalee.

THREE FLAME FLAMESS RESTAURANT RE STAU URANT Wed,, 8pm: Open-mic night wi Wed, with ith Anita.. Willow Glen.

WOODHAMS W OODHAMSLLOUNGE OUNGE Mon:: Comedy open mic with Pete Clara.

P ete Munoz.. Santa Clar a.

Thu,, 9pm:: Karaoke.

Karaoke.. Santa Clara.

Clara.

THE CCOURT’S OUR RT T’S LLOUNGE OUNGE Thu & Mon,, 9pm:: Karaoke.

Karaoke.. Sat, 8:30pm: Joe or Darryl.

Darryl.. CCampbell. ampbell.

DIVE BAR DIVEB AR

Thu:: JR. Sun:: JR Diaz Family KKaraoke. araoke. Tue: Tue: u : James.. Gilroy.

Gilroyy.

TREATBOT TREA AT TBOT TTue, ue, u , 7pm:: KKaraoke araoke Night.

San Jose.

Wed, W ed,, 10pm: KKaraoke. araoke.. San Jose.

WOODHAMS W OODHAMSL O LOUNGE OUNGE

EFFIE’S RE RESTAURANT STAURANT

TTue-Thu ueu -Thu T & Sat:: KKaraoke. araoke.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

Wed-Sat& Wed-Sat & TTue, uue, 9pm-2am, 9pm-2am,, & last Sun of every month,, 22-7pm: -7pm: 7 B&S KKaraoke. araoke. Campbell.

Campbell.

FIREHOUSEGRILL& FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY BRE WER RY Sun, 7pm-close:: Uncle Dougie Show.

Palo Alto.

Show w. P alo Al to.

FRANCESA’S FRANCE SA’’S Thu,, 9pm:: Karaoke.

Karaoke.

View..

Mountain View

THE X BAR THEXB AR TTue ue u & Fri,, 9pm:: Karaoke Karaoke with KJ Vinnie. CCupertino. upertino.

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Thu,, 10pm:: Dancing to DJ Ben Vex. Clara.

Official & DJ V eex. Santa Clar a.

Fri,, 10:30pm:: Guest DJs. No cover.. Sat, 10:30pm:: DJ C-Note cover and guest DJs.

AGENDA A GGENDA Wed: W ed: Salsa W Wednesdays. ednesdays ednesdays.

Sun:: Thu: Noche De Bandas. Sun Vybez.

Reggae V ybez. San Jose.

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Thu,, 8pm:: Noches de Banda 300 & DJ Adrian. Fri,, 8pm:: DJ Adrian. Sat, 8pm:: DJ Adrian.

Sun,, 7pm:: Latin Beat. Sun, 9pm: Sonideroo Night.. Sunnyvale.

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FFAHRENHEIT AHRENHEIT A Wed, W ed 9pm:: Wine W ed, Wednesdays. ednesdays ednesdays.

Thu: Liquid Thursdays, with guest DJs spinning hip-hop, Top Top o 40 and R&B.. Fri,, 9pm:: Heit Fridays.. $10. Sat, 9pm:: CCall all ffor or info.

Industry. inf o. Mon:: Industry y. San Jose.

PLAYHOUSE PLA AY YHOUSE Thu,, 10pm:: Ambitious Thursdays.. Fri, 9pm:: Playhouse Industry.

Fridays. Tue: Tuue:: Industry y. San Jose.

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Fri,, 10pm: Nu Wave Wave Friday.

Fridayy.

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

Campbell.

AJ’S B BAR AR DJs and dancing every night.

6pm-1am; 8pmMon-Sat,, 6pm-1am; 1 ; Sun,, 8pm m12:30am. San Jose 12:30am.

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Thu,, 9pm:: DJ party party. y. Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am: 9pm2am:: Live music & DJs, more. salsa, house, hip-hop & mor e.

Mon:: Salsa. San Jose.

BAMBOO B AMBOO LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri-Sat:: DJ or Live info.

Entertainment. CCall all ffor or inf o.

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THE BLANK CLUB THEBLANKCL UB Thu 9pm:: A Atomic tomic with DJ Basuraa & DJ Traci.

Basur Traci.. $5.. San Jose.

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A -Noize. Fri: Video Junkie. Sat,, 10pm:: Omega the Neo-tablist Philemonster.. Every second and Philemonster and fourth fourth Sat, 10pm:: Prolific.

Prolific.

Mon:: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Tuue:: $2 TTuesdays. uuesdays.. San Jose.

Every Thir Thirdd Fri:: SStrictly trictly Freestyle.

Freestyle.

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Fri:: DJs & dancing.. Every fourth fourth Only.

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Thu:: Reverse Happy Hour.

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Thu:: DJ Vincent Fiction Fiction.. Fri:: DJ Claksaarb Clak saarb Sat,, 9:30pm:: DJ Kmac.

LLos os Gatos.

BLUE BL UE PHEA PHEASANT SANT Wed-Sun & TTue, Wed-Sun ue, u 7pm:: DJ and dancing. CCupertino. upertino.

BRANHAM LLOUNGE OUNGE Wed:: Almaden V Wed: Valley aalley Beer Pong ONEmanARMY. P ong with DJ ONEmanARMY Y. Thu:: Audio Revolution with Hi-Grade.

DJs Jason Dee & Hi-Gr ade.

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Fri:: Quality Contr ol w/DJ V JJ1.

Dreams Sat:: Cocktails & Dr eams w/DJ Aspect.

A spect. TTue: uue:: Irie Nights w/DJ HiH Grade Gr ade & Tesfa.

Teesfa.. San Jose.

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JASON MORAN RESIDENCY

Jazz visionary plays with a quartet, two comedians, a trio and even his wife. Nov 20-25 at SFJAZZ Center.

DJ CHEB I SABBAH TRIBUTE The beloved DJ, who died this month, is honored by fellow musicians and family. Nov 21 at 1015 Folsom.

DELTRON 3030 Del, Dan the Automator and Kid Koala try to re-create the magic of their landmark collaboration. Nov 23 at the Fillmore.

MELLOWHIGH BRIT ARMS ALMADEN BRITARMSALMADEN Thu:: DJ Nico and DJ Neeber Neeber..

San Jose.

BRIX Thu:: Pr Progressive ogressive P Power ower Hour.

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San Jose.

CARDIFF LOUNGE CARDIFFL OUNGE Every second and ffourth ourth Sun:

Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis and Left Brain from Odd Future raise the m’f’in’ ruckus. Nov 26 at the New Parish.

MORBID ANGEL If, for the past 20 years, you have been dying to hear ‘Covenant’ in its entirety, look no further. Nov 27 at Slim’s.

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I’ve read that 5 percent of all energy used in the U.S. goes into the production and transportation of food that eventually gets thrown away. That sounds like a lot, but then again, people can be mighty wasteful. Is this accurate? —Roger in Minneapolis It’s in the ball park, but that doesn’t mean if we all finished our broccoli we’d lessen our dependence on foreign oil. The real story is that the higher you go up the food chain, the more energy-intensive food production gets. This isn’t an argument for veganism or eating healthy, which isn’t to say you shouldn’t do those things. Rather, the question is: do you like civilization? OK, but it comes at a cost.

Of the studies I found discussing energy loss from wasted food, by far the most comprehensive was a USDA report called Energy Use in the U.S. Food System. In 2002, according to the USDA, food production consumed more than 14 percent of U.S. energy; by 2007, the agency estimated, food’s share had risen to nearly 16 percent.

Several things are notable about these numbers: First, in the short term, they reflected a sharp rise in per-capita U.S. energy expenditure on food—more than 16 percent.

During the same period, per-capita U.S. energy use overall fell almost 2 percent.

In the 1970s and ’80s, food’s share of energy use averaged 15 to 16 percent.

In other words, looked at over a span of 40 years, the percentage of energy Americans collectively expend on feeding themselves has barely budged.

So how much of the energy that goes into food is wasted?

The USDA estimated that in 1995 27 percent of all edible food in the U.S. was wasted at the consumer level. More recent studies have come to similar conclusions: a 2002 report estimated waste at 26 percent, and a 2009 study claims 29 percent.

That’s pretty bad compared to other developed countries. Consumer food waste is about 22 to 25 percent in the UK, 8 to 11 percent in the Netherlands, and 9 percent in Turkey. Nonetheless, as a general proposition, it’s fair to say poor countries waste less food than wealthy ones, and that as per-capita income rises, so does waste.

If we estimate the U.S. food energy share at 14 percent and food waste at 27 percent, we find about 4 percent of U.S. energy goes into wasted food, not far off from the 5 percent figure you cite.

That number may be high. Other

studies using different methodologies put energy losses on food at around 2 percent. The financial consequences in any case aren’t trivial—anywhere from $48 billion to $124 billion.

No one would claim there’s nothing to be done about that—as I say, many other affluent countries don’t waste anywhere near as much food as the U.S. does. From a big-picture standpoint, however, there may be limits to how much of the energy budget used on food—and I mean the global energy budget—can be reduced.

Here’s how the argument lays out: 1. Notwithstanding sizable short-term fluctuations, the fraction of U.S. energy expended on food now is about the same as it was 40 years ago.

2. To oversimplify, in less developed countries, more energy is expended at the beginning of the food production chain and less at the end, whereas in the developed world it’s the other way around. In largely rural economies, farms are small, production methods are relatively primitive and inefficient, and waste due to losses in storage and transit is high.

3. In the developed world, in contrast, industrialized agriculture, however much some may criticize it, produces a considerably larger harvest per unit of energy expended. Where energy use goes up is in the later stages of the process. Demand for meat (which is inherently energy-intensive to produce) is typically greater, food is subject to more processing, and affluent consumers simply throw more food away.

4. Does that mean that as a country gets richer, the fraction of energy it spends on feeding itself stays the same? That’s more than I’m prepared to claim without a lot more research. Let’s just say it seems to fluctuate less than you’d think.

The point of all this isn’t to excuse wasteful U.S. practices. Tossing out a shockingly large portion of the country’s food output doesn’t result from some implacable law of economics; it’s because we’re pigs. I simply make the observation that, as the world becomes more affluent, the amount of energy we’ll need to feed ourselves won’t necessarily rise to catastrophic levels. But there’s also little chance it’ll go appreciably down.

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By AMY ALKON

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Ten months ago, while studying abroad, I had one wonderful night with a girl. We kissed and danced the night away. She lives in Brazil, but we’ve communicated regularly via Skype and email. I’ve never felt such a strong connection. Recently, I asked what she wanted, and she said to be together in the same country.

We started imagining that, and she became extremely attached, wanting reassurance about our future that I couldn’t yet give. I confessed to feeling guilty about causing her emotional strain. She flipped, seeming like a totally different person. She said it wasn’t the first time someone had worried about how attached she was and said she’d start being more distant with me. Angry, I briefly blocked her on my phone so I wouldn’t communicate anything rash.

She later complained about her texts bouncing back, and I explained what I’d done and why. She lost it, saying she was “sick of this” and “done.” That was two weeks ago. Should I attempt reopening communication? I feel I’m missing the opportunity of a lifetime if I don’t. —International Love

Here’s a woman who flips out when you worry aloud that you aren’t making her happy fast enough. The prospect of being with someone who does this is the “opportunity of a lifetime” the way Hurricane Sandy was the vacation opportunity of a lifetime, complete with the chance to swim in the Jersey shore’s finest restaurants and mingle with celebrities (well, wave to Sean Penn if a disaster recovery photo op took his rowboat past the roof of your motel).

A long-distance relationship is a relationship that’s miles from reality.

Much of its power comes from what’s missing. For example, there are a lot of blanks left by “seeing” somebody by Skype and email. Nature (and human nature) abhors a vacuum, so you fill the blanks with your projections of who the person is, drawn from romantic memories and hopes of who you’d like them to be. The love you feel may, in part, be a love of how your conversations make you feel about you: that you’re witty, charming, and a great romancer. And of course, love that’s out of reach tends to

have the strongest pull, à la Romeo and Juliet. Frankly, if their families hadn’t basically been the Crips and the Bloods with linguini and instead had been all “Hey, you crazy kids, be home by curfew,” it probably would have been a matter of weeks before Juliet was sneaking out behind the palazzo with Marcello and then Luigi.

You find out whether you can have a life with a woman by experiencing her day to day—seeing whether she chases you around with a cleaver when you forget to wash a glass. You could propose living in the same place for a month— after getting in touch to tell her how wrong you were. But consider all that goes into a relationship with someone from another country (travel expenses, residency permits, and difficulty finding work and even getting a work permit).

Maybe it makes sense to deem what you had as “one wonderful night with a girl”—before you get to Brazilian customs and find yourself answering “Do you have anything to declare?” with “Yes, I think I’m making a big mistake.”

I’ve been on two dates with a woman, and she’s agreed to a third. We kissed on the second date and have been talking every night, but she seems to be playing it a little cool (letting me do all the calling, etc.). Perhaps I should also play it cool, but I’m dying to tell her I like her. Is there a magic number of dates you have to go on before it’s okay to do that? —Bitten Tongue

There are solutions that cause more problems than they solve, like giving your car a car bra, which traps moisture underneath and eventually leads to twotone paint. (And besides, what happens if your car doesn’t have a bra, someone sees its nipples and it gets embarrassed?)

Announcing that you like someone you’ve gone out with twice is another one of these problem-causing solutions. If this woman is at all ambivalent (a healthy

way to feel early on), telling her you like her wouldn’t make her like you, but it might make her uncomfortable enough to flee. So, go ahead and say those “three little words”—as long as they’re “You free Friday?” Rest assured; she knows you like her. Because you’re still around, because you’re calling every night, and because when you kissed her, you apparently didn’t spit afterward, wipe your hand across your mouth, and say “Eeeuw!”

©2013, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 550 S. First St., San Jose, CA 95113, or email adviceamy@aol.com.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The poet Charles

Baudelaire prayed for help, but not to God—rather he prayed to the writer Edgar Allan Poe. Novelist Malcolm Lowry sometimes pleaded with God to give him insight, but he also prayed to the writer Franz Kafka. I really like this approach to seeking guidance, and recommend it to you in the coming days. Which hero, dead or alive, could you call on to uplift you? What amazing character might bring you the inspiration you need? Be brazen and imaginative. The spirits could be of more help than you can imagine. Magic is afoot.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): U.S. Confederate General Richard S. Ewell (1817-1872) sometimes experienced episodes in which he truly thought he was a bird.

Princess Alexandria of Bavaria (1826-1875) believed that when she was young, she had eaten a glass piano.

Then there was the Prussian military officer Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher (1742-1819), who imagined he was pregnant with an elephant. Sad and funny and crazy, right? And yet it’s my understanding that all of us have fixed delusions. They are less bizarre than those I cited, but they can still be debilitating. What are yours, Taurus? Do you secretly believe that a certain turning point in your past scarred you forever? Are you incorrectly wracked with anger or guilt because of some event that may not have actually happened the way you remember it? Here’s the good news: Now is an excellent time to shed your fixed delusions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Philosopher Eckhart Tolle suggests that “there may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others.” For some of us, this numinous reflection comes from a special animal. Whatever is the case for you, Gemini, I urge you to devote extra time to your relationship with this creature in the next 14 days.

Meditate on how you could provide more nurturing and inspiration. Brainstorm about the possibility of deepening your connection. What practical actions could you take to boost your loved one’s fortunes?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Cancerian soprano

Kirsten Flagstad was regarded as one of the great operatic singers of the 20th century. Critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor said that “No one within living memory surpassed her in sheer beauty and consistency of line and tone.” She specialized in the operas of German composer Richard Wagner, whose master work, The Ring of the Nibelung, takes 15 hours to perform.

Flagstad was asked to name the single most important thing she needed in order to perform Wagner’s music with the excellence it demanded. Her answer: comfortable shoes. Regard that as good advice for your own life and work, Cancerian—both literally and metaphorically. It’s time to get really well-grounded.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you ever been in a social situation where you really didn’t care what anyone thought of you and therefore felt absolutely free to act on your inner promptings? When was the last time you lost all your inhibitions and self-consciousness while making love? Can you truly say that sometime recently you have been totally responsive to your festive impulses? If you have experienced any blockages in expressing this type of energy, now is a perfect moment to fix that. You have a date with robust, innocent selfexpression.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Norwegian public

television is experimenting with a phenomenon called Slow TV. In one reality show, the main character built a fire with logs and kept it burning for 12 hours. In another program, patient viewers watched for five days as a cruise ship made its way along the Norwegian coast. A third show featured a woman knitting a sweater from start to finish. I wish you would get hooked on slow-motion activities like those, Virgo.

Maybe it would help you lower your thoughts-perminute rate and influence you to take longer, deeper breaths and remember that relaxation is an art you can cultivate. And then you would be in righteous alignment with the cosmic rhythms.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re smarter than you think you are, and soon you will be even smarter.

Previously inaccessible wisdom is seeping up from the depths of your subconscious mind, making its way to your conscious awareness. Your eyes are noticing more than they usually do. Your memory is working at

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peak levels. And your enhanced ability to entertain paradoxical ideas is giving you special insight into the nature of reality. What will you do with this influx of higher intelligence? I suggest you focus its full force on one of your knottiest problems.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Paris Review interviewed Mexican poet Octavio Paz. “Just how much revising do you do?” the interviewer asked. “I revise incessantly,” Paz replied. “Some critics say too much, and they may be right. But if there’s a danger in revising, there is much more danger in not revising. I believe in inspiration, but I also believe that we’ve got to help inspiration, restrain it, and even contradict it.”

I bring this up, Scorpio, because I believe you are ripe for a phase of intense revision. Inspiration has visited you a lot lately, but now it will subside for a while so you can wrangle all your raw material into graceful, resilient, enduring shapes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Costa Rica will

be closing its zoos in 2014. What will happen to the 400 or so animals that are housed there? They will have to be rehabilitated at animal rescue centers and then released into the wild. I suspect there will be a metaphorically similar process going on for you in the coming months, Sagittarius. Parts of your instinctual nature will, in a sense, be freed from captivity. You will need to find ways to retrain your animal intelligence how to function outside of the tame conditions it got used to.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Will fate kick

your sweet ass sometime soon? Quite possibly. You may be compelled to face up to the consequences of your unloving actions or unconscious decisions.

I’m pleased to tell you, however, that you might be able to dramatically minimize or even neutralize the butt-thumping. How? Go over the events of the last 11 months, and identify times when you weren’t your very best self or didn’t live up to your highest ideals. Then perform rituals of atonement. Express your desire to correct wrong turns. Give gifts that will heal damaged dynamics.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Grammy-winning

singer-songwriter Bill Withers became a big star in the 1970s with hits like “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Lean on Me.” But he hasn’t recorded a new album since 1985, nor has he toured. What happened? In Still Bill, the documentary film about his life, Withers says, “I watch other people show off and I say, man, I used to want to show off. If I could just get, you know, moved to. I need a little injection in my showin’ off gland.” I wish you could get an injection like that, too, Aquarius. I’d like to see you show off more. Not in a contrived, over-thetop, Lady Gaga-esque way. Rather, the purpose would be to get more aggressive in showing people who you are and what you can do. I want your talents and assets to be better known.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I have a feeling that your value will be rising in the coming weeks. An attractive person you thought was out of your league may express curiosity about you. You could get an offer to do an interesting job or task that you had previously considered unavailable. I bet your reputation will be growing, mostly for the better. Who knows? If you put a half-eaten piece of your toast for sale on eBay, it might sell for as much as if it were Justin Timberlake’s toast. Here’s the upshot: You should have confidence in your power to attract bigger rewards and more appreciation.

Homework: Forget all you know about gratitude. Act as if it’s a new emotion you’re tuning into for the first time. Then let it rip.

Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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