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KST K ST Hangs Haangs it Up Very ffew Very ew peop people le go out on their own terms, but there’s therre’s no doubt that KARYN KAR RY YN SSINUNU-TOWERY INUNU-TOWER RY finished on top.

The pr prosecutor osecutor wrapped wr apped up a 30-year car career eerr in the District District Attorney’s A ttorney’s offic office ce by successfullyy sending fformer ormer county super supervisor viisor GGEORGE EORGE Karyn K aryn SinunuSHIRAKAWA SH IRAKAWA Towery T o owery her JR. to jail in he er final case, and she handed off what seems to be a str strong ongg case involvingg Shirakawa Shir akawa andd political mail fr fraud. aud.

Last week, coll eagues honor ed her colleagues honored accomplishme nts with a cash bar fiesta accomplishments at the De De Anzaa Hotel, where where junior and senior attorney ys clinked cocktails as attorneys equals ffor or minutes minutes at a time. DA DA JEFF R OSEN beamedd as he talked about ROSEN Sinunu-Toweryy as well as an infusion Sinunu-Towery of new talent in i his office Just thr office. ee years three They after winning election, e Did R osen said, nearly nearly a Rosen What? thir DA’s ’ staff thirdd of the DA’s has come aboa ard, aboard, SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O FLY@ FL LY Y@ cr eating a dr am matic creating dramatic METR ONEWS. METRONEWS. cul tural shift from frrom cultural COM CO M pr edecessor D o es olor predecessor Dolores CCarr. arr. Congresswoman Congressw woman ZZOE OE LOFGREN LOFGREN headlined h guests who came out to ho onor SinunuTooweryy, who honor Sinunu-Towery, colleagues rrespected esppected ffor or her acumen diligence—but and diligence— —but not necessarily ffor or her patienc ce. One young attorney patience. rrecalled ecalled being told early in his time at the DA’s DA’s ’ office, office, ““Be Be prepared prepared when you meet KKaryn aryn Sin nunu--Toweryy, because she Sinunu-Towery, will gut you lik ke a fish.” That rrep ep seems like unlikely to car r over to all of her futur ry carry futuree endeavors. In addition a to continuing to rreconstruct econstruct her ffamily amily tr ee, Sinunutree, TTowery owery said, sh he plans to car ry out she carry international aid a missions with the San Jose Rotary Rotarry Club Club as well as volunteer on The The Innocence Pr oject Project outside county.. ffor or inmates ou utside the county

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REED’S R REED’ S CREED San Jose M Mayor ay yor Chuck R Reed eed doesn doesn’t ’t see po politics litics in his fu uture after leaving office, but we w ’re not so sure. future we’re

YYear eear in Pr Preview review San Jose Inside tak S takes kes a look at some e of the biggest storie stories es to come BY JO JOSH SH K KOEHN OEHN

Reed R eed Pr Preps eps ffor or Roadshow R oadshow A ccourt ourt ruling Monda Monday ay gut gutted ttted somee of S Sa an JJose ose Ma ayor o Chuck R eeed’s p ensio on San Mayor Reed’s pension initiative, Measuree B B.. While rreform eform ef o initiativ ve, Measur savings already achieved keep the sa avvings alr eady achie veed will k eep th he city’s intact being, cit tyy’s budget int act ffor or the time b o ein ngg, the Measuree B— B—challenging th h meat off Measur he challengin h ll ing rights and rreducing vvested e ested educing ccost ost of living increases—was liv ving incr eases—w waas struck down.

Reed statement R Re e rreiterated eed eiterated in a st atement that the t ccourt’s o t’s decision highlights the need ffor our or o statewide pension will st atewide p ension rreform, effo orm, which wi ill bee his top priorit priority b ty in 2014. Despite all a the about low-key th he ttalk alk ab out going back to a low-k key law practicee after he terms out, R Reed la aw practic eed e d pension is gearing up ffor or a p o ension rreform effo orm office. rroad o tour in his last yyear oad ear e in offic e. Hee and hedge-fund billionaires spend an nd hedge -fund billionair es will sp en nd each m much of this time ccongratulating ongratulating ea ach other being get ot ther on b eing the only ones who ge et it.

EEnd nd to the EExodus xoduus Polic Police o e in San JJose, ose, who ha have ave b been een n fleeing fle eeing in dr droves, oves, will finally ffeel eeel

appr eciated as their pa ay b egins to b appreciated pay begins bee rrestored estored and the ne xt ma ayor will find next mayor ccommon ommon gr ound with h the tr oops. ground troops.

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Shirakawa Sloppy Shirakawa Seconds George Geor ge Shirak Shirakawa awa JJr. r. will w b bee back in ccourt ourt ffor o or the p political olitical a mail fraud scandal sc andal known as “saliv “salivagate. vagate.”

Thankfully, Thankfully y, the fformer o ormerr ccounty ounty supervisor’s sup ervisor’s plea deal fr ffrom om prior charges char ges means he ccan an ne never n ver run ffor o or officee again— offic again—otherwise otherwisse we might have ha ave one mor moree knuckl knucklehead lehead running ffor or o ma mayor ayor of San JJose. ose.

Weed W eed Seesa Seesaw aw While the cit cityy of San JJose ose lo looks oks at trimming down its numb number er of p pot ot clubs clubs,, a push ffor or outright legalization will b begin egin n to mobilize across acr oss C California. aliffornia. o If no not ot 2014, ccount ount on 2016.

TToo Infi Infinity finity and Beyond B eyonnd Char Charter ter sch school hool chain R Rocketship ocketship Educ Education ation will ccontinue ontinue op opening ening ccampuses ampuses in i Santa Santa Clara C County ounty at a rate only matched m b byy ne new w St Starbucks. arbucks.

Public edu education ucation will under undergo go a vvery ery rreal eal cultur culturee change change..

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San JJose ose Councilman C ouncilmaan Xavier Xa avier v C Campos am mpos will ccontinue ontin nue to stonewall stone wall ab aabout out his shady ccampaign ampaign maneuvers maneu uverss with Shirakawa Shirak awa in 2010 X Xavier avier Campos as he pr prepares epaares ffor o or rre-election—but e-election n—but this assumes that he’ll he ’ll still b bee in offic officee ccome ome JJune. une.

Secesssion Secession CCeasefire easeefir fie Silic Silicon on V Valley aallley tech ccompanies ompanies will stop ttalking alkin ng ab about out sec seceding eding fr from om the union— union—and —and its bur burdensome densome ttax ax la laws—because aw ws—b because it would just ccomplicate omplicatee their abilit abilityy to turn o over ver our inf information fo orm mation to the NS NSA. A.

CCivil ivil R Rights ight g ts Fight in SSochi ochi MEDAL M EDAL OF O HONOR Statues at San Jose State Sttate honor the stand taken by Olympians O Tommie Tommie o Smith and d John Carlos.

Carlos.

The ccountry oun ntry is on the wr wrong ong side of history, effectively outlawed histor y, as it has eff ffeectivveely outla aw wed the LGBT ccommunity o ommunit ty and those who support equal rights.. A Athletes, supp ort equ ual rights tthletes, straight and ga gay, ay, willl cconverge on nver ergge on the ccountry ountr o y next months,, and an any in the ne ext x ccouple ouple months ny moment of pr protest otest will rresound esound ar around ound because the world. And A b ecause of Smith and Carlos, C arlos, such a st statement taatement will not ha have ave associated the same ccondemnation on ndemnation asso ciated with such currently it. In fact, suc ch a moment is curr ently anticip being advancee b eing anticipated pated and lauded in advanc of an ny rreal eal action. a — Rich R oobinson any Robinson

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Wheree ar Want a megamillionair e. Wher aaree you? W ant to kick officials it sometime? LLottery als say the person who ottery offici $3244 million from bought last week’s $32 m winning ticket fr om Jennifer’s Jennif er ’ss Gift S Shop hop on T Tully ullly R u Road oad has yet to come It’s fforward. orward. It ’s possible that the t winning ticketholder is consultt with taking time to consul h a financial advisor about newfound wealth. how to handle their new wfound weal th. Or maybe they’re they’re having an extended pajama grandparents, aboutt getting the golden ticket. party with their gr andpaarents, singing and dancing abou

SStill till CCool ool ffor or School Scho ol administrators in n El P aso, School Paso, T exas xas—and x and b xtension n Sant Texas—and byy eextension Santaa Clara C ountty Sup erintendentt Xa avvier De L County Superintendent Xavier Laa T orre—were clear o ed of an aany ny wr ongdoing Torre—were cleared wrongdoing in changing students’ gra ade le vels e grade levels countabilitty measur es, to sidestep ac accountability measures, ac cording to an El Paso T iimes rreport. eport. according Times De L o orre to ok o ver e the ccounty’s ounttyy’s Laa T Torre took over top education education p ost in F ebruary post February 2012, after o verseeing the t So corro overseeing Socorro Indep endent Scho ol District Diistrict (SISD) Independent School the previous previous thr ee yyears. ear e rs. F our of his three Four top administrators while whiile in El P aso Paso wer suspended as an in nvestigation, weree suspended investigation, ccommissioned ommissioned in March, March h, ran its ccourse. ourse. An audit found fo ound that students ccoming oming across across the border border d fr om from Me xico were were b eing placed placced in grade Mexico being le vels outside the ffederal edera e al testing levels sc ope, which ccould ould then n help the scope,

school district distrrict school sc ore higher higheer and score gain additio onal additional funding funding..

De L o e orr Laa T Torre has b een un nder been under fir o or muc ch of firee ffor much the yyear ear aft fter after sparring wi ith with ccounty ounty st aff ff staff De L La aT Torre o orre her e, rreceiving eceivving here, a negativ negativee p erfo ormancce rreview eview fr om ccounty ounty performance from Boar d of Ed ducation trustees and Board Education dismissing the t So corro audit ’s findings Socorro audit’s verblow wn. In late Octob er, Met ro/ as o overblown.

October, Metro/ ose Ins side rreported eported that se veral San JJose Inside several trustees on the ccounty ountty b oard wer board weree consideringg terminating De L o orre’s considering Laa T Torre’s contract pr ematurelyy. — J osh o K oehn contract prematurely.

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k--gloved e fists in Raising their black black-gloved exxico Cit C ty in 19 68, the night air of Me Mexico City 1968, T o ommie Smith and JJohn hn C arlos wer oh Tommie Carlos weree almost univ versally e ccondemned. ond demned. The ey universally They br ought home gold and d br onze, brought bronze, rrespectively, espectivelyy, but the Oly ympic medalists Olympic rreceived eceived lit tttle mor n spite fr om the little moree than from ccountry ountry the oudly rrepresented. e esented. epr theyy pr proudly The ttwo wo ccourageous w ourageous men m are are now lauded ffor o or their ssymbolic ymbollic gestur e. The gesture. moment in time is pr eseerveed, as st atues preserved, statues of their silent pr otest ad dorn the San protest adorn JJose ose St ate ccampus—they ampus—they wer ormer o State weree fformer students at the scho ol. A ssymbol ymbol of school. hop or th o he vvoiceless oic o eless and hopee and defianc defiancee ffor the oppr essed, man ny fail to grasp the sc ope oppressed, many scope and rapidit ty of change at a that time rapidity time..

R ussia, now the host ccountry u ountry of the Russia, up coming W iinter Olym mpics, pr esents a upcoming Winter Olympics, presents similar opp ortunitty ffor or athletes acr o oss opportunity across the world to ha ave their vvoice oice hear d. have heard.

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Creative Convergences HARMONIOUS H A R MONIOUS OPPOSITES OPPOSITES In 2013, 3, Silico Silicon on Alleys y sat in on one off T Trina rrina M Merry’s erry’ y’s bodypainting yp g sessions sessions, s, saw p punk technology C2SV, contemplated culture Tea and technolo ogy come together at C2SV V, con ntemplated macarons and cultu ure at Satori T ea e Company and d took in shows Jose Textiles. at the San Jo ose Museum of Quilts and T extiiles. e

Of tim time me capsules capsules, s, macarons m macarons, s,, TVs sh TV Vs shot hot out by Elviss and C2SV— the year y in Silicon Alleys BY B Y GAR GARY Y SINGH

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s 2013 20013 draws draws to a close, allow allo ow me to reflect on some of this year's highlights. hig ghlights. On the level, macro leve el, world renowned celebrities and artists rolled into town and wormed their way this w ay into th his column.

From Fr ro om a mic micro cro p perspective, erspectivve, quite a ffew ew lo caal spirit ts ccame ame a into their own local spirits and materializ zed right her er ey materialized heree on this vvery page alw wayys, the lens thr ough which page.. A Ass always, through Silic con o Alle eyys tended t to obser ve and Silicon Alleys observe par ticipate in the t San JJose ose ccondition ondition w as a participate was

a lens of harmonious opp opposites: osites: luxu luxury ury and an gutter, technology, native nd gut ttterr, punk and technolo gy, na ativve and academe street. an nd eexotic, xxotic, ac caademe and the str eet. In I the words was good th he wor ds of Sinatra,, it w aas a vvery eerry go ood yyear. e . ear Three fixtures Thr ee fixtur es in SJSU's English Department—Cathleen Miller,, D Depar tmentt—Cathleen Miller Sally Sa ally Ashton Asshton and Alan Soldofsky— Soldofsk ky— infiltrated through in nfiltrated the public eeye ye thr ough various projects, both va arious pr ojects, b oth nonfiction and d poetry. artt depar department p oetry. The ar tment at that same presented sa ame institution i i i pr esented d a series i of of inspired ccentennial e entennial ccelebrations, elebrations, which inspir red this th his ccolumnist olumnist to muse on his own involvement.

Somehow, in nvo olvveement. Somehow w, it all comes comess back myy life, over over. b ack into m liffe, o veer and o veer. galleryy fr front, local luminaries On the galler ro ont,, lo cal lumina aries MACLA, att MA AC CLA,, Anno Domini,, and the San Textiles Saan JJose ose Museum of Quilts and T ext xtiles

all showc ased pr ovocaatiivve works this showcased provocative yyear. eearr. Cr eaTV and the Sc chool of Ar ts CreaTV School Arts age Plaza and Cultur xiccaan n Herit Culturee at Me Mexican Heritage lik kewise ratcheted up th heir rrespective espectivve likewise their operations.

Libraryy op erations. The San JJose osee Public Librar times,, with ccame ame into ffocus ocus quite a ffew ew times new openings historical ne w branch op enings and a historic caal sort, eevents veents t off eevery veery sor t, incl t, iincluding l di this luding thi his historyy author's rreflection eflection of hi is own histor branches,, his memories of at various branches the sheet music ccollection ollectio on and eeven ven e the dilapidated time ccapsule ap apsule originally Carlos arlos buried underneath the old San C Street library.

Somehow, Str eet main librar y. Som mehow w, past, present futuree all se seemed merge. pr esent and futur eemed to mer rgge.

Over over.

Ov veer and o veerr. landmark shows,, One of the yyear's eear's lan ndmark shows however, howe veerr, went down att the San JJose ose Museum of Ar Artt in JJune.

Legendary unee. L egendary photographer Leibovitz photo grapher Annie L e ovvittz eib presented personal esented a show of herr p ersonal pr photos—not of ccelebrities, elebritties, but shots from journeys across fr om her own journe eyys acr ro oss the walking ccountry, ountry, w aalking in the ffootsteps ootsteps of inspired her.. She eeven those who inspir ed her ven e included a photo of thee tele television Elvis evision v

Presley blew “David Letterman Pr esleey ble ew a hole in. “Da avid v L etttterman Elvis always television told me Elv vis alw ways y shot the tele evvision whenever Robert whene ever e R o obert Goulet ccame ame on,” said Leibovitz, around L eibovit v tzz,, while w showing us ar ound the That was probably eexhibit. xhibit. Tha at w aas pr obably the quote of the yyear. eearr.

Traveling, both Tra aveelin ngg, b oth at home and abroad, grandiose,, abr oad,, rresulted eesu ulted in a grandiose borderline b orderline ccosmic osmic eevolution vo olution of this space.

Urban spac ce. The U rrban Blight Exploration admittedly JJunkie, unkie, adm mittttedly silent most of this emerged space-time yyear, eearr, emer g again via a spac ged e-time rampage through ccontinuum-shattering ontinuum m shatttering mt through historyy of W Willow Street, the histor iillow Str reeet,, including dive pizza defunct div ve bars and eeven veen a piz zzza joint wheree the Do Doobie Brothers wher D obie Br others and Chet Baker performed.

Again, present Bak keer p erfo ormed. A gain, g , past,, pr esent futuree eexpanded like and futur xpanded x and ccontracted ontracted lik ke rubber band. a rubb er ba and. more mystical note,, and in On a mo ore m ystic y caal note three I've one of the top t thr ee ccolumns olumns I'v ve eever ver e written, culturee of Montr Montreal, writ tten, t , thee tea cultur eal, Quebec, illuminated Queb ec, illu uminated a grand ccosmic osmic web off ssynchronicitous ynchr y h on nicitous i it plot l t and d ccounterplot, ounterplot, t l t amplitude-all of which h frequencyfrreequencyy- and amplitude modulated mo dulated d the transdimensional muse personified byy the ffolks Tea p ersonified db olks at Satori T o eea Company Tryy their ginger C ompan ny in i San JJose. ose. Tr while one.. It's pu'erh whi ile rrereading ereading that one good digestion. go od ffor o or di igestion.

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JANUARY JANU U AR Y writer Bay w riter and fformer ormer South B ay LLabor abor director.

CCouncil o ouncil political dir ector. The website, website, SanJoseRevealed.com, Sa anJoseRevealed.com, anonymously smeared sm meared journalists and opponents of o labor-backed la bor-backed candidates, even going as addresses that ffar ar as to publish home addr esses tha at ledd to vandalism and a hate crime. For le Foor a $10-a-year domain ffee, ee, the Internet Interneet never ne ever fforgets. orggets.

WHIZ KID HANGS W HIMSELF H M SE L F HI NHLL LLOCKOUT NH O CK OUT ENDS It seems so lon It long ng ago, but once upon a time ther theree wass no hockey in San Jose.

And, man, was it boring. The NHL NHL lockout left ffans ans and ddowntown owntown business owners twiddling their thumbs ffor or sever al several months, pr ovinng that sports ar proving aree a key economic drive er in the city’s cor e.. (Now driver core. just imagine if we had the A ’’s, too.) The A’s, Shark Sharkss slipped into the playoffs after the shortened seas son but managed to yet season again ffall all shortt and br eak our hearts in break new ways. Maybe Mayybe this will be the year?

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MET RO BU METRO BUYS YS S SAN AN JJOSE OSE R REVEALED E EVEA L ED Unwilling to le lett a good story die, M Metro etro pur purchased chased the domain name ffor or an abandoned pol political litical attack blog that was run by Phi Philip ilip B Bump, ump, a freelance freelance

Aaaron SSwartz, Aaron wartz, the 26-year-old SStanford tanfor od dropout dr ropout who co-cr co-created eated R RSS SS and social so ocial news giant R Reddit, eddit, hanged himself. hi mself. H Hee rregularly egularly blogged about suffering su uffering depr depression, ession,, and his ffamily amily claims cla aims government spying on his online on nline activities pushed him over the edge. ed dge. After selling Reddit Reddit at age 19 too CConde o onde Nast ffor or a rreported eported $20 million million, n, the th he digital pr prodigy odigy went on to pr protest otestt IInternet nternet censorship. He He butted heads with w ith the FFBI BI in 2009 after rreleasing eleasing m millions of ffederal ederal court documents online, on nline, and Massachusetts Massachusetts authoritiess indicted in dicted him two years later ffor or allegedly allegedly hacking ha acking MI MITT computers. B Before efore his legal le gal tr troubles, oubles, though, SSwartz wartz pennedd a cryptic essay in 2007 entitled,, “A “A Moment M oment B Before efore Dying.”

Dying.” In In it, he described descrribed ““aa moment, immediately bef before ore lif lifee becomes be ecomes no longer worth living, whenn the th he world appears to slow down and alll its myriad details suddenly becom al becomee brightly, br rightlyy, achingly appar apparent.” ent.”

SUPERVISOR SUPER RV ISOR S SWAP WAP A Labor leader C Cindy indy C Chavez havez invited D District istrictt A Attorney ttorney JJeff eff Rosen R osen to lunch h at P P.F. .F. C Chang’s hang’s in JJanuary anuary and a warned that prosecuting pr osecuting em embattled mbattled county super supervisor visor G George eorge SShirakawa hirakawa would upset E East ast S Side ide voters. R Rosen osen didn’ didn’tt back down and Chavez’s disgrace, when C havez’ss ally rresigned esigned in disgr ace, she s rran an ffor or his seat C seat.

Chavez havez over o overcame came conflict conflict-of-inter conflict-of-interest of interesst allegations that she’d conspir conspired e with nonpr ed nonprofit ofit executive K Kathleen athleen K King ing to fund political campaigns c with money rraised aiseed to pay heal health th premiums pr emiums ffor or poor kids. H Her er victory in the low- turnout special electio election n was one of the costliest lo local ocal rraces aces ever ever..

APRIL AP R IL BALLET E EXITS XIT S AND DE ENTRANCES NT R AN C E S

Ballet San Jose principal ballerina KKaren Ballet aren Gabay rretired etired after 34 season seasons, ns, having started with the company during its early days d in CCleveland. leveland. South B Bay ay audien audiences nces saw Gabay in nearly every major ballet rrole; ole;; sh she he also coached and chor choreographed eographed ffor or B BSJ. SJ. D During uring the month of December, the company is staging a new production of The Nutcracker ker that Gabay created for BSJ last season. In other news, over the summer, former American n cer Ballet Theater principal dancer Jose Manuel Carreño was named as the company’s new permanent artistic wo director—its first in two er seasons since founder Dennis Nahat was let go. The company has had a partnership ip with ABT since late 2011.

COP K KILLER I ILLE R SSHOCKS HO C KS SANTA S ANTA C CRUZ R UZ Thousands o Thousands off mourners journeyed fr from rom the coast to San Jose to t honor Santa Cruz pol police ice officers Elizabeth E lizabeth But Butler, tlerr, 38, and Sgt. LLoran oran “Butch” “ ” Baker Baker,r, 51. A militaryy veter veteran an accused of sex sexual xual assaul assaultt February, jolting ffatally atally shot tthe he two in February y, jol ting the beach community, community y, which w had never had an officer die 150-year history. in the line of duty during its 150-yea ar history y.

Everyone E veryone fr from om mH Hells ells A Angels ngels and Bayy A Area rea cops U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta to fformer ormer U .S S. D efense Secr etary LLeon eo on P anetta service Pavillion. attended thee ser vice at HP P avillion..

THE T H E COOL P POPE O OPE Jorge M Jorge Mario ario B Bergoglio ergoglio be became came the first non-European nonEuropean pope in al almost most 1,300 years and the first pontif pontifff to choose the name Fr Francis. ancis.. Settlin Settlingg in as The CCool ool P Pope, ope Fr ope, Frannie annie yawne yawned ed at outr outrage age over contr contraception, aception, gay mar m marriage riage and abortion, and even denou denounced unced unf unfettered ettered capitalism as “tyr “tyranny.” anny.”

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operating operating of officer, fficer, shar shared ed the secr secret et to her success in Lean In, a book about workplace eempowerment mpowerment ffor or women that spur spurred redd a movement of networking groups groups as w well ell as a nonpr nonprofit ofit named ffor or the book. Le Lean ean In-ers and other ffans ans of the book lau lauded uded Sandber Sandberg’s gg’ss work as a feminist feminist ma manifesto nifesto but others,, like author Susan Falud Faludi,i, dissed it all as corpor corporate ate shilling that encour encourages ages women to adopt tr traditional aditiional ways of doing business instead of ch championing hampioning a diff different erent workplace cu culture. ulture.

In April, In April, Assemblyman Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski W ieckowski ((D-Fremont) D-Fremont) floated d the idea of selling an abandoned d mental hospital that dates backk to the Gold Rush to the Santa Clar Claraa Unified U nified School D District. istrict. Transforming Transform ming the shutter shuttered ed Agnews Agnews building into i a KK-12 12 school ffor or 2,800 studentss would benefit Alviso Alviso and north San S Jose neighborhoods,, he argued. argued.

Residents and local officials ar aree board, on boar d,, but the state agency property has that manages pr operty sales ha as board’s rrejected ejected the city and school boa ard’s $76 offer $7 6 million off er in hopes of wooing wo ooing corporate corpor ate buyers. The The grounds grounds served ser ved as the site for for Green Green Day’s Dayy’s “Basket C Case” ase” video in 1994,, bef before fore the ffacility acility closed in 2009.

Prosecutors ar Prosecutors aree still de deciding eciding whether Boston B oston mar marathon athon bom bomber ber D Dzhokhar zhokhar TTsarnaev ssarnaev should face face the th he death penalty. penalty.

U.S. A Attorney ttorney Gener General al EEric ric Holder is expected to announce his intention

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RIGHT TO PRINT ARMS? 3D printing technology will change the future, with bio prosthetics leading the list, but things got a little tense when Cody Williams, a young Texas libertarian, uploaded free-for-all instructions and CAD files for anyone to manufacture their own working—albeit plastic—gun. Think the Founding Fathers had that in mind when they penned the Second A mendment? Months late ed to extend a law banni ng Amendment? later,r, the House of Reps vote voted banning plastic gu uns. It kicked off a discuss sion about whether thes earms guns. discussion thesee printed-out fir firearms should have haave a shred shred of metal added, addeed, which would skirt thee ban but also make them m easy to sp pot by metal detectors. detectors spot

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S AME - SEX SAME-SEX MA RR IA GES S MARRIAGES LEGALIZED ((AGAIN) A GAIN ) California to gay couples since 200 California 2008: 08: “You “Y ou definitely can’t can’t get mar married. ried.. Oh, O fine, go ahead. Now stop! Nevermind (h (hangs hangs head), go on and get hitched.” The Supreme Supr eme Court Court’s ’s ruling in June stru struck uck down the Def Defense ense of Mar Marriage riage A Act ct and CCalifornia’s alifornia’s Pr Prop. op.. 8, allowing homo homosexual sexual couples in Santa Clar Claraa County to st stop top worrying wor rying about their fickle state an and nd finally tie the knot.

CURB-SITTING CU R B - SITT ING For years San Jose po police olice have fforced orced detainees to sit on thee curb mor more— e— with black and Latino rresidents esidents being stopped ffar ar mor en than whites and moree ofte often A sians. B ut ffor or the firs st time in its brief Asians.

But first history of independen nt oversight, the independent city decided to tr ack those t incidents. track Officers now have to rreport eport why they pulled someone over ’t over,, even if it doesn doesn’t end in an ar rest. They have to rreport eport arrest. inf ormation about thee person, including information rrace, ace, age and other di istinguishing distinguishing char acteristics, so the city can finally characteristics, determine if ther theree is a population that that’s ’s unfairly unf airly tar targeted. geted The rresults geted. esults of the rrecordkeeping ecordkeeping rremain emain to be seen.

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S AN JJOSE SAN OSE S SUES UE S MAJOR R LLEAGUE EA GUE BASEBALL BA S E B ALL No longer satisfied No s with Bud Selig’s tactics, hostage tac ctics, the city of San JJose ose filed a lawsuit against Major LLeague eague Bas Baseball seball to let the Oakland Oakland A ’s rrelocate elocatee her A’s heree after waiting five years ffor or an n answer Rainmaker answer.r. Rainmaker JJoe oe Cotchet Cotchett tt took the case on a contingencyy basis—he only gets paid if the city c wins—and has lambasted Commissioner C Selig at threw every turn. A judge thr ew out the argument MLB’s city’s ar gum ment against M LB’s kind one-of-a ki ind antitrust exemption appeal but an appe eal was filed.

OB A M A AD OBAMA ADMITS M IT S NSA N S A SSPYING P Y ING Standing behindd a podium in a Fairmont Standing Hotel conf conference erencce rroom oom in San Jose, President Obama delivered Pr esident Obam ma deliver ed the first of lies NSA’s his countless lie es rregarding egarding the NS A’s ’ spy average Americans’’ phone calls tactics on aver a Americans age and emails.. “Noo one is listening to your perverse, phone calls,”” hee said.. In rreality, ealityy, a per verse, Orwellian PRISM already Or wellian system m called P RISM had alr eady tracking been in place ffor o six years,, tr or acking and nearly electronic cataloguing nea arly every piece of electr onic communication.. EEdward communication dward Snowden,, a whistleblower, government wh histleblowerr, worked with Greenwald journalist Glennn Gr eenwald to bring the vast surveillance state’s sur veillance sta te’s exploits to light,, and moree inf information mor ormatioon is still coming out.

Thhe CCox The ox M Media edia Gr Group oup has appar apparently ently giv given ven upp on pur purging ging the Internet of KKTVU’s TVU’s rracist acist on-air blunder. blunder. It’s It’s just too damn ridiculous rid diculous watching anchor Tori Toori Campbell Campbeell unwittingly un nwittingly rread ead phony, phonyy, derogatory derogatory names nam mes while w hile rreporting eporting the July 6 A Asiana siana flight 214 crash cr ash at SFO,, especially after the station station’s n’s news ne ews dir director ector had br bragged agged earlier abou aboutt the network’s ne etwork’s “100 per percent cent accur accurate” ate” cover coverage a age off the cr crash ash that killed thr three ee passenger passengers. s.

The Th he station fir fired ed thr three ee pr producers oducers but sp spared pared the th he dir director ector and CCampbell, ampbell, who identifie identified ed the th he A Asiana siana cr crew ew as:: ““Captain Captain Sum TTing ing Wong, W ong, Wi TTu u LLo, o,, Ho Lee Fuk,, and B Bang ang D Ding ing Ow.” Ow w..” EExhibiting xhibitingg the prudence p and diligen diligence g nce off a ham sandwich,, the station ““confirmed” confirm med” the th he names with a summer intern at thee National Na ational Transportation Transportation Saf Safety ety B Board. oard.. No Note ote too journalists:: A Avoid vvoid sour sources ces who still liv live ve with w ith their mom.

TRAYVON T RAY V ON MAR MARTIN TIN VERDICT V VERDI CT Geeorge Zimmerman was ffound George ound not guil guilty tyy off mur murdering dering Florida youth TTrayvon rayvon M Martin, artiin, sparking sp parking pr protests otests ar around ound the US and a nationwide na ationwide debate on the justness of thee verdict. ve erdict.. Since then,, Zimmerman has been n arrested ar rrested twice ffor or domestic incidents involving inv volving his ex-wif ex-wifee and pr pregnant egnant girlfri girlfriend, end, both bo oth of whom he was pointing guns at.

MU S I C IN THE MUSIC M T HE P PARK AR K K KIND OF R RETURNS ETURN S When L.A.’s Ozomatli took the stage at SSt.t.

W James Ja ames P Park ark in a show touted as Music Music inn the Park’s P a revival, ark’s revival,, it wasn’t wasn’t just the venue tha that at had ha ad changed ffor or ffor or the 25-year-old outd outdoor door m music series. The pr previously eviously fr free ee show charged ch harged admission and instead of the us usual sual summer’s su ummer’s worth of shows,, ther theree was a single s concert. co oncert. M Music usic in the P Park ark went dark in 2012 2 after, af fterr, rrowdiness owdiness at the 2011 series at Plaz Plaza za dee CCesar esar CChavez havez rraised aised concerns among merchants. m mer chants. h t But Butt th the revamp revamp worked, k d, beca bbecause ause the th he event,, along with C2SV’s C2SV’s headliner concert co oncert in September September,r, kicked up inter interest est in establishing es stablishing a permanent outdoor stage in SSt.t.. James P Park. ark. The San Jose D Downtown owntow wn Association, A s ssociation, M Music usic in the P Park’s ark’s pr presenters, esenteers, has ha as alr already eady posted that ther theree are are plans ffor or the th he event to rreturn eturn in 2014.

BIKE-TO-WORK BI K E -TO - W OR K BOON B OON N Bay Ar Bay Area ea B Bike ike Sh Share hare bridged the gap betw between ween the tr train ain and the office, giving the public a chance to cycle c the last mile rrather ather than lug ar aaround ound their bikes on CCaltrain altrain or BART. BART. The $ $11.2 million pr project ojject pepper peppered ed 70 stationss in its first rrollout ollout from Francisco. fr om San Jose too San Fr ancisco.

COP OUT With the San Jose P Police olice D Department’s epartment’s morale mor ale shaken by a pens pension ion rreform eform plan that cut into rretirement etirement and a disability campaigned benefits,, unions campaig ned to get new officers defect rrecruits ecruits and active officer rs to def ect to cities. departments in other citie es.. In August, the police union hosted a jobb ffair, air, giving other San cities a chance to woo Sa an Jose cadets compensation to agencies with better co ompensation couldn’t packages. The union said it couldn ’t ethically ask new rrecruits ecruitss to work in San post-Measure Jose in a postMeasure B age, but was OK,

evidentlyy, wi evidently, with ith further thinning the rranks anks of an under understaffed staffed police fforce. orce.

BETT ER BETTER E G GOOGLE OOGLE AG GOOD OO OD D DIVORCE IV OR C E LAWYER L AW Y ER Google co-f co-founder founder Ser Sergey gey B Brin rin split with wifee Anne W wif Wojcicki ojcicki and B Brin’s rin’s rromance omance with Googlee Glass marketing manager Amanda R Rosenberg o osenber g was rreported eported by AllThingsD. AllThings D.

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th he gender they truly identify with. Critics Crittics the w orried that the pr ovision would open worried provision the th he door ffor or sexual pr predator edator students to t slip sli ip into locker rrooms ooms where where they don don’t ’t belong be elong or give tr transgender ansgender athletes ann unfair un nfair advantage on the field. While it can’t ca an’t stop har harassment, assment,, the law could give gi ve a vulner vulnerable able population an avenuee too seek pr protection otection and make gender nonconformity no onconformity less of a shock to futur futuree generations. ge enerations.

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BATHROOM BA T HRO OOM B BILL ILL TTransgender ransgender yo youth uth struggle disproportionately dispr oportionattely with thoughts of suicide and self-harm,, lar largely gely because they grow gr ow up ffeeling eelingg like outliers.. A landmark bill signed into law by Gov Gov. v. Jerry Jerry Brown Brown addr addressed essed thos thosee concerns by allowing students to usee school bathr bathrooms ooms and join sports teams off the opposite sex based on

A L L IN ALL I N A DAY’S D AY ’S T WERK WER K Miley CCyrus Miley yrus and R Robin obin Thicke made word—and “twerking”” a household wor d—and made just about a everyone with eyeballs uncomfortable. performance uncomf ortaable.. In a perf ormance that MTV’s upped the rraunch aunch ffactor actor on M TV’s Video M Music usic A Awards warrds, their medley of “W “Wee CCan’t an’t Stop” Stop” and ““Blurred Blurred Lines Lines”” kicked off with a chor chorus us of twerking teddy bears and CCyrus yrus donning d the first of many uncomfortaable leotar ds, tongue in full uncomfortable leotards, eepy-weird waggle. Thee duet hit its cr creepy-weird crescendo when w CCyrus yrus whipped out a crescendo giant ffoam oam finger and started rubbing on Blu urred Lines eady dr awn Thicke. ““Blurred Lines”” had alr already drawn orr lyrics called ““rapey” rapey”” and a criticism ffor emale models, video chockk full of naked ffemale Cyrus to ook most of the heat ffor or the but Cyrus took VMA V MA spectacle. spectaacle.. Some celebrities did back her with thee YOLO YOLO defense. defense.

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Tesla T eesla and S SpaceX paceX co-f co-founder ounder prospective Mars and pr ospeective M ars colonizer Elon Musk E lon M usk rrevealed evealed plans ffor or mysterious Hyperloop: the myster rious H yperloop: a superson supersonic nic gr ground-based ound-based transport tr ansport system. s T The he billionair billionairee imagines an a aluminum tube in solar-powered which hi h sola l r-powered d pods d shoot h t passengers 28 passeng gers up to 7760 60 mph cushions.

Think on air cush hions. T hink of it as a ridiculouslyy ffast ast air hockey puck belts. with seat bel b ts. Musk Musk estimates current the system m could handle cur rent passenger airline pass senger volume and compete in n the same price rrange. ange.

Hee also cla claims H aims construction will run about abo out $6 billion, which one-tenth is one-tent th the cost of the proposed California High pr oposed C alifornia H igh SSpeed peed Rail system.

Tesla R ail system m. T eesla and SSpaceX paceX engineers ar aaree designing the futuristic conveyor c with 3D technologyy that allows them to manipulatee objects using only gestures. hand gestu ures.

Event Event v company M Moveable oveable Feast is a fforce o ce in the local ffood or ood truck scene, bu but ut they th hey learned the har hardd way that hipste hipsters ers ha ave a point: some things ar noot have aree just not ass fun when they go mainstr eam. Thee mainstream.

Fe east’s first San Jose B acon Festival of o Feast’s Bacon Am merica was undone by the ever-sizz zling America ever-sizzling po opularity of its star attraction, attraction, with the popularity al lure of smoked pork pr oducts dr awiing allure products drawing 12 2,000 visitors—5,000 mor 12,000 moree than or riginally estimated. Lines rran an long,, ffood ood originally rran a out and bacon-ber an eft guests air ed bacon-bereft aired th heir grievances on social media. (Firs st their (First w orld pr oblems, anyone?) M oveable world problems, Moveable Fe east ffounder ounder R yan Sebastian issued Feast Ryan a mea culpa and pr omised to sur vey promised survey ffestival-goers e estival-goers on impr ovements ffor or aany ny improvements fu uture installments of the event. future

For its part, Jobs plods along the trite tr tragedyagedycum-redemption cum-redemption storyline à la “True an EE!! “T Trrue Hollywood SStory” tory” episode without the the tr treachery, eachery, rrevelry evelry and bathroom bathroom ffellatio ellatio that makes m The Social Networkk shine. KKutcher utcher gives g it a solid effort and plays a decen effort decentt asshole,, but the “Punk’d”” ffalls alls short of o embodying the rrounding Steve Steve mystery and intrigue sur surrounding Jobs. The audience neve neverr rreally eally catches a Job’s psyche or his motivation glimpse of Job’s aside from from a desir desiree to simply simply be the best.

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JJAIL AIL MAIL Saanta Clara Santa Clara County County wanted to nix all but b postcard correspondence po ostcard cor respondence to both jailss ffor or the th he sake of expedience. B But ut communi community ity activists ac ctivists rraised aised enough commotion th that hat th hey got jail officials to change their they m . Limiting mail to tiny postcards mind. postcards m make it har may der to smuggle in harder dr rugs and other contr aband, but it als so drugs contraband, also se eriously rrestricts estricts communication ffor or seriously th he incar cerated. TTry ry to wr ap up a dayy let the incarcerated. wrap al one week alone weekss and months on the backk of a th hree-by-five car d. After a series of pu ublic three-by-five card. public m meetings, the jail chief scr apped the plan. p scrapped

ASHTON A SHTON KUT KUTCHER CHER NOT N NO T HORRI HORRIBLE B LE IN JJOBS OBS B BIOPIC IOPIC If this movie wer weree a phone, it would bee a M Motorola otorola R Razr, azr, and if you’r you’ree into captivating ca aptivating tales of Silicon V Valley alley prophets, pr rophets, just watch the The Social Ne Network etworkk and enjoy TTrent rent R Reznor’s eznor ’s music. mu usic.

Speaking ffor Speaking or millions of perplexed Internet Internet users, TechCrunch’s TeechCrunch’s Michael Michael Arrington Arrington asked Yahoo!

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IINAUGURAL NA UGURAL C C2SV 2SV The first CC2SV 2SV CConference onferencce and Festival made its home in the ne newly ewly expanded McEnery M cEnery CConvention onvention CCenter. ennter. John McAfee M cAfee showed up to ta talk alk about guns in his bedr bedroom. oom. Nolan B Bushnell ushnell and SSteve teve W Wozniak ozniak shar shared ed th the he stage. And convention center staff booted naked models during a body-p body-paint aint session.

L t on th Later the models d l rreappeared eaappearedd on stage at SSt. t. James P Park ark with ffestival estival headliners Iggy and The SStooges. tooges. The band’s guitarist, James Williamson, W was also a keynote spea speaker aker at the conference, conf erence, where where he discussed discussed his 30-year hiatus from from punk punnk rock, rock, working Valley engineer. as a Silicon V alley engin neer.

M ERC UR Y N MERCURY NEWS EWS MOVIN’ M O V IN N ’ ON DO DOWN WN Print is dyin dying. ng. W Well, ell, maybe paid print is dying. The San S Jose Mercury Mercury News got too small for for o its britches and decided it was time too sell off its 36-acr 36-acree campus along Inters Interstate state 880 ffor or a cool $30.5 million to Super S Micro M icro CComputer. omputer. The fledgling da daily aily newspaper has yet to announce a new home, while production production crews crews expe experience rience widespr widespread ead layoffs as print oper operations ations wer weree consolidated in the East East B Bay. a. ay

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While Congressional Congresssional inaction doubled the interest inter est rate rate on n ffederal ederal college loans,, the CConsumer onsumer Finan Financial ncial Pr Protection otection Bureau Bureau announced a du dubious ubious milestone. milestone For the first time,, ffederal e al college loan debt eder topped $1 trillio trillion, on,, a crisis-level pr problem oblem according accor ding to ad advocacy dvocacy gr groups. oups.. Amplifying the quandary quandary, y, tthe he unemployment rrate ate ffor or M Millennials illennials climbed c to mor moree than 16 percent, per cent,, the hig highest ghest sustained jobless rrate ate ffor or 18- to 29-ye 29-year-olds ear-olds since World World War War II. M Meanwhile, eanwhile,, ccompanies ompanies struggled to fill generational blue-collar jobss because of a gener ational trade graduates. dearth of tr ade school gr aduates.. And schools? They kept k up a years-long years long spree moree amenities spending spr ee of building mor luree studentss in while chipping away to lur budgets increasing at academic bu udgets and incr easing class sizes. And then the Tea Tea e Party Party shut down government,t,, making this the least the governmen effective ever.. The Aristocr Aristocrats! eff ective Congress Congress e ever ats!

Feederal rregulators Federal egulators issued an enf enforcement orcem ment action ac ction against popular Silicon V Valleyalleybased ba ased genetic testing startup 23and 23andMe Me after af fter learning that some people wer weree panicking pa anicking over test rresults esults and optingg ffor or MRIs M RIs and double mastectomies.

Sheriff Laurie Sm Smith mith gave a head-smacking interview inter view after it i was revealed revealed that her office invited Sa San an Fr Francisco ancisco 49ers star Aldon Smith (noo rrelation) elation) to a gun rrange ange while he was be being eing investigated on gun charges. char ges.. Aldon Smith, S who lives in the east ffoothills, oothills,, threw th hrew a party last year that apparently appar ently got a wee bit out of hand—he and weree fir fired was stabbed an nd shots wer ed into happy the air like happ py hour in TTombstone. oombstone. later Investigators lat ter came back to his house illegal assaultt weapons and and ffound ound illega al assaul strewn bedroom. ammo str ewn about a his bedr oom. The District Attorney’s charge D istrict A ttorneyy’s office decided to char ge sheriff’s him against thee sheriff ’s recommendations, recommendations, questions leading to ques tions about the sheriff preferential treatment. giving pr eferenttial tr eatment.

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BATKID B AT KID T TO O THE THE RESCUE R E S CUE Making the wish ffor Making or one luck luckyy boy— boy—and —and m making every gr grown own child jealous to all a hell—the he ell—the city of San Fr Francisco ancisco shut down entiree day to honor B Batkid, do own ffor or an entir atkkid, 5-year-old 5-year-old M Miles iles Scott. Thousands of volunteers vo olunteers came together as part of the t Make-a-Wish M ake-a-Wish Foundation’s Foundation’s gift to Sco Scott, ott, whose w hose leukemia is now in remission. remission.

Dressed D ressed as a mini-Batman, mini-Batman, Scott tookk too the streets streets in a black Lamborghini Lamborghini and an nd stopped staged crimes ffeaturing eaturing the Riddler and Penguin R i iddler Penguin before before saving the the San Sa an Francisco Francisco Giants mascot, Lou-Seal, Lou-Seaal, AT&T Park. parade att A TT&T P ark. A par ade was then heldd with w ith M Mayor ayor y EEdd Lee ggivingg Scott a keyy to the city.. It was the make-a-wish to eend th he city nd alll wishes. al

XAV IER C XAVIER X CAMPOS AMPO S S TO SET TO FFOLLOW OLL O W SHIRAKAWA? S SHIRAK AWA ?

Saan Jose’s San Jose’s political version of Fr Fredo edo invoked in voked the Fifth Amendment to avo avoid oid grand ggr rand jjuryy questions q about a politica ppolitical al m fr mail fraud aud scandal perpetr perpetrated ated by hiss good go ood buddy Shir Shirakawa. akawa. Pr Prosecutors osecutors connected co onnected Shirakawa’s Shirakawa’s D DNA NA to a mai mailer iler sent se ent to Vietnamese voters in San Jos Jose se that th hat depicted CCampos’ ampos’ opponent in a CCity ity CCouncil ouncil rrace ace as a communist.

PENSION P EN S ION I REFORM San Jose M Mayor ayor C Chuck huck R Reed eed has decided to spend his penul penultimate tiimate year in office chipping awayy at the pension be benefits enefits of every public employee in nC California. alifornia.

Never N ever mind d that citywide M Measure easure B rreforms eforms met with a litany of lawsuits and shatter shattered ed San Jose P Police olice eed’s polarizing state ballot Department D epartmen nt mor morale. ale. R Reed’s

SHIRAKAWA SHIRAK K AWA GOES GOE S TO TO JAIL A little mor moree than year y after M Metro etro first reported reported George Geo orge Shirakawa’s Shirakawa’s misuse charge car d, the former forrmer county supervisor supervisor of campaign fundss and a county charge card, was sentenced to a year in jail. Prosecutors Prosecutors cited thee paper’s paper ’s work for for helping reveal reveal thatt Shirakawa Shirakawa opened a secret secret bank account to funnel moree than $130,00 mor $130,000 00 in campaign money to fuel his gambling and lavish lifestyle lif addictions. s. estyle addictions

CCampos ampos then rran an to N BCC’s D amian NBC’s Damian TTrujillo rujillo to say he doesn’t doesn’tt trust those lawyers local government lawyer rs but, of course, he’s he ’s an innocent victim in all of this. weekss later later,, M A ffew ew week Metro etro ffound ound that Campos and Shir akawa wer eating Campos Shirakawa weree cr creating fictitious business names namees ffor or their campaigns, which could have allowed et ban nk accounts— them to open secr secret bank akawa kn nows plenty something Shir Shirakawa knows DA and Fair P olitical Pr actices about. The DA Political Practices Commission (FPP C) ar Commission (FPPC) aree investigating.

move was made ev even ven mor moree contr controversial oversial when he enlisted help fr from om m scandal-plagued fformer ormer E Enron nron exec and T Texas eexas bil billionaire lionaire John A Arnold rnold to sponsor the statewide ball ballot ot measur measure, e, dubbed the P Pension ension Reform R eform A Act ct of 201 2014.

4. IIff voters somehow voted the initiative into law, law w, it would renege renege on contracts contracts ffor or thousands of government g workers by dialing down benefits.

MYSTERY MYS T ER E Y BAR BARGE GE When Goog Google gle launched a mysterious vessel into the San Fr Francisco ancisco Bay, Bayy, the tech pr press ess exploded e with speculation. Is it a secret secret lab? lab? An NS NSA A spy ship? An ark prepped pr epped ffor orr impending disaster of which only Googlee is awar aware? e? Turns Turns out the 12-sailed 12 -sailed st stationary ationary bar barge ge was nothing moree than mor th a marketing k ti vessel,l a floating fl ti publicity stu stunt unt designed to showcase new pr product oducct demos and act, basically, basicallyy, like a water waterborne rborne showr showroom. oom. B But ut a month laterr the company announced it will also lau launch unch floating stor stores es to dock in LLos os Angeles Angeles, s, San Fr Francisco ancisco and New York.

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CALL ALL W WAITING AITIN G An audit blaste blasted ed Santa CClara lara CCounty ounty child welf are se ervices and the agency welfare services that runs a loc al child abuse hotline. local A ecently as a year ago, up to half Ass rrecently of all calls wer opped, leaving an weree dr dropped, untold numberr of childr en in danger children danger..

Unf ortunatelyy, no one rreally eally stepped up Unfortunately, to accept rresponsibility espoonsibility ffor or the lapse in ser vice, i blamin bl ing budget b d t cuts t andd staffing t ffi service, blaming shortages. M orre people ar More aree expected to be hir ed to sta ff the call center as county hired staff super visors kee ep a watchful eye. supervisors keep

M IKE H MIKE HONDA’S O D A’ S ON WAKE-UP W A K E-U U P CALL Congressman M Congressman Mike ike Honda is a likable he’s old Joe, but he ’s been on the job so long some ar aree beginning to question his effectiveness. didn’t eff ectiveness.. He H didn ’t do himself any ffavors September ember when he was caught avors in Septe allingg asleep at his own town on video ffalling hall meeting.

TRAFFIC T RA FF IC C JAMME JAMMED D Call it the gr Call great eat American timesuck.

CCommutes ommutes tha an a half-hour thr ee thatt rran three decades ago ta take ake at least an hour now now..

The South B ay, in particular, particular, is one of the Bay, worst rregions egions ffor or rush-hour tr traffic. affic. San Jose became th he fifth-worst city in the the nation ffor or rroadway oaddway congestion, up fr from om 13th a ffew ew yea rs prior Francisco and years prior.. San Francisco Oakland togeth together her rranked anked the thir third-most d-most congested met tro area area in the nation. With metro any luck we’ll we’ll catch c them in no time!

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DELIVERY D DELIVER YD DRONES RONES Unmanned aerial rrobots U obots could c become a common sight if A Amazon can unleash its fleet fl of delivery dr drones. ones Th ones.

The he company aannounced nnounced the plan to de deliver eliver packages as quicklyy as 30 m minutes using airborne robots. robots. o But But don’t don’t hold you yourr br breath, eath, the th he technology won won’t ’t be rready eady ffor or another ffew ew yea years—if ars—if itt even gets approval. approval. Amazon Amaazon CEO CEO Jeff Bezos, Bezos, who’s whoo’s also bbuilding uilding a 10,000-year clo clock ock in the side of a moun mountain ntain and ppursuing ursuing private space flig ght, says these helicopte r-like flight, helicopter-like mechatronic m mechatr onic vehicles will one day be as commonp commonplace place as a UPS UPS truck. Just hope thieves thiieves don don’t ’t shoot your in incoming coming A Amazon Wishlist goodies out of the sk y. sky. the right people who can n aff afford ord it. YYou ou can ’t aff ord it? YYou ou can leave.” l What a can’t afford dick, right? TTurns urns u out Alp Alper per is an activist actor who snuck on the bus just to cr eate a vir al video. create viral

IN T IN THE HE SHA SHADOW S DOW O OFF PLENT PLENTY Y While the num number ber of homeless people ffell ell nationwide, nationwidee,, it continued to grow grow in Silicon V Valley, alleyy, one o of the wealth wealth capitals of the world. A report report highlighted the growing gr owing dispar disparity rity between rich and poor poor,, rranking anking South Bay’s Bay’s homeless population as the fifth-lar fifth-largest gest in the nation. The rreport eport notes th that hat the rregion egion also claims the country’s highest h per percentage centage of homeless ve veterans eterans and the most chronically chr onically hom homeless meless childr children en and young adults. adul ts. Those statistics s became rreal eal ffor or many when it was w ffound ound that ffour our people died during thee cold snap.

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HELD H EL D HOST HOSTAGE AG E FFAKE AKE GOO GOOGLE G LE WORKER W ORKER FFIGHTS I G HTS GENTRIFICATION G ENT RI F ICATION Heeld up as a sign of everything that is Held i wrong w rongg with the libertarian,, self-absorbed self-absorrbed startup st tartup cul culture ture in Silicon Valley, Valleyy, Max Max Bell B e Alper shouted down gentrificatio ell gentrification on opponents op pponents blocking a bus ffor or Google commuters co ommuters that they should leave Sa San an Francisco Fr rancisco if they can’t can’t aff afford ord their rrent. ennt. ““You ““ “You can can’t ’t pay your rrent? ent? I’m sor sorry. ry. Get G or a better job,”” he said.. “This is a city ffor

Merrill Newman spent hhis Merrill is lif lifee tr traveling aveling the world. B But ut his latest— latest—and —and most daring—adventuree met with tr daring—adventur trouble ouble when the 85-year-old P Palo alo Al Alto to rresident esident was fforced orced off a plane departing d fr from om Pyongyang and detainedd ffor or sever several al weekss in North KKorea. week orea. So Some ome called the detention a plea ffor or atte attention ention by the totalitarian nation. B But ut itt pr probably obably had moree to do with M mor Merrill’s errill’ss history as a KKorean orean W War ar veter veteran. an. The CCalifornian alifornian rretiree etiree appear appeared ed on Nort North th KKorea’s orea’s state TTV V apologizing ffor or war crimes, in what was almost certain certainly nly a coer coerced ced statement.

GOOGLEBOTS GOO O G LEBOTS Googlee went on a buying spree, spr ee, snatching up sever several al rrobotics obotics companies as part o off A Android ndroid head A Andy ndy Rubin’s R ubin’’s robotics robotics initiative.

Venture V enture B Beat eat called the evident eviden nt goal—to cr create eate a smart,, agile rrobot obot that can work with w or instead of humans—“as human ns—“as diverse as it is amb ambitious.” bitious.” W We’re e’re pr pretty etty suree tthey sur hey said the same thing before before Terminator.

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HICKEN AND WAFFLES have certainly risen in stature at Lillie Mae’s House of Soul Food. The sweet and savory comfort food has become the focus at a new Lillie Mae’s location—it has been on the menu since the THEof REAL The pizza in at Terrone House SoulTHING Food launched August 2010, but initially with a seal of Italian approval. wascomes a weekend-only special.

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When Lillie Mae’s owner Rhonda Manning opened a second location— actually right next door to her first restaurant—she not only decided to serve chicken and waffles every day, she made them the centerpiece of the new eatery.

The new location, which opened in August of this year, was originally OT A LOT of dishes have an organization called Lillie Mae’s Living Room Bistro. When Manning changed the name to to preserving Lillie Mae’sdedicating House of Chicken and Waffles,their she sawhistorical an immediate increase in authenticity.

Pizza does, or leastlocation Neapolitan customers. Unlike her House of Soul Food, theatsecond serves several pizza—the original modern version of pizza varieties of waffles that people can order with their fried chicken: Peach cobbler that came out of Naples, the bacon 1800s.waffle.

The waffle, Ghirardelli’s white chocolateItaly, waffle,in loaded That’s not the onlyAssociazione difference between Lillie Mae’s of Chicken and organization, Verace PizzaHouse Napoletana, Waffles and the original House of Soul Food.

The new place alsothe serves some hands out certifications to restaurants all over Cajun-style foods, like jambalaya, gumbo and shrimp po’ boys.

Otherwise the world that meet their very specific guidelines as to twowhat restaurants have a lot of overlap in their menus. constitutes a genuine Neapolitan pizza. Here When I got lunch at Lillie Mae’s House of Chicken and Waffles, the server in the Bay Area, only a handful of restaurants are offered me grape Kool-Aid ($2.95), which I haven’t had since I was a kid. They so certified. offor them, a casual do squeeze in someOne lemon addedTerrone tang, but Pizzeria, otherwise it’s plain Kool-Aid, and upscale joint, was opened a few weeks ago in Palo it is surprisingly delicious.

Alto byI three all of offried whom were For $5.95 orderedfriends, an appetizer pickles.

Evenborn in thein deep frying Southern Italy. process, the pickles retained their crunchiness and sharp flavor, though the tanginess was tempered by theabatter, whichpizza was surprisingly spicy.

Generally, what defines true Italian is its lightness.

The Of course, I had the and the unconventional crust is thinner, thechicken toppings arewaffles, sparserbut andskipped the ingredients are all flavors opted for the standard waffles ($13.95).

Lillie Mae’s regular veryand basic.

Rather than the heavy, doughy concoction familiar to waffles haveAmericans, the distinctpizza flavor of nutmeg, which, combined with the thick, in Italy is considered a light dish that will leave warm syrup, is comforting. one a little hungry after leaving the dinner table.

LillieToMae’s offers single and combo meat platters. obtain the both coveted certification, a restaurant mustI ordered meet the combo withmany barbecue beefsuch brisket and ingredients fried catfishare ($15.95). was chopped up criteria, as what used, The howbeef the pizza andisserved with a sweet, tangy barbecue sauce.

The catfish was juicy on the prepared, what kind of oven it’s cooked in and more. Terrone inside, crispy on the outside, but not as flavorful as it could have passed all the tests. They knead their dough by hand and let itbeen. rise The comboover plates come with twobefore sides, as well as ita into choice between naturally a 24-hour period popping a brick oven,cornbread andwhere hush puppies.

I ordered hush puppies, which are basically cornbread it is fully cooked in about 90 seconds. The crust is crispy and fritters.

For sides I had collard greens and mac’n’cheese. Collard greens have a very strong, bitter taste and Lillie Mae’s serves them authentic. The macaroni and cheese was some of the best I’ve ever had—just full of flavor, with a layer of cheese baked on top.—Aaron Carnes

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dark topics su such ch as alien invasions and the impendingg apocalypse with equal doom. fferocity erocity and do oom.. (AD)

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MAXX CABELLO MAXXC CABELLLO JR. Quarter Notee Bar & Grill, Sunnyvale Fri, 8:30pm, $5 Before heading Bef ore headin ng out on his tour of Virgin Islands, the Vir gin Isla ands, South Bay native Jr.. brings his incr incredible Maxx CCabello abelloo Jr edible guitar chops and soulful voice to the Quarter Note.

Note. Cabello’s Cabello’ss style isn’t isn’tt genre, easily confined confineed to one genr e, unless broad that genre genre is as br oad as ““American.”

A American.” mixture With a mixtu re of blues, soul, Latin music and classic, claassic, old-school rrock ock & roll, roll, Cabello Cabelloo and his backing band groove. isn’t deliver the gr roove. But it isn ’t so much CCabello’s abelloo’s diversity or musical carry it’s skills that car rry his tunes;; it ’s his

profound profound charisma. Cabello Cabello is a confident,, dynamic performer performer that belongs on on stage. He can wow any audience, even if blues or soul isn’t isn’t their cup of o tea. (SL)

WORKER W OR RKER BEE Café S Café Stritch, trittch, San Jose Fri, 9pm, Free Free indie-rock Few San JJose ose indie-r ock bands have perfectly captured mid-2000s’ so perf ectly captur ed the mid2000s’ guitar-heavy, effects pedal-drenched guitar-hea avyy, eff ects pedal-dr enched Worker sound likee W orker Bee. With twin crank electrics, bass b and drums, they cr ank gloomy, out some gloomy y, moody tunes that tinkerr with the rising tides of emotion and it’s a tone.. Sometimes it ’s intense, loud and in ntense,, other times as quiet as a whisper. whispper. At At the height of their popularity, popularity y, a ffew ew years back, they quits, called it qu uits,, as lead singer Evan moved aree Jewett mo oved to New York.

York. They ar appearance making a rrare are appear ance this Friday at Café Café SStritch. trritch. Their music holds

up wel well,l,, and they’ve always been a powerhouse (AC) powerh house live. (A C)

TOM TOMMY MMY CASTRO CA STRO & THE PAINKILLERS P AIINKILLERS Club Fox, F Redwood City Fri, 7pm, 7p pm, $20-$24 $20-$24 The classic claassic B.B. King electric blues sound gets a rrevival evival as Tommy Tommy o CCastro astro takes the stage with his band, Painkillers. live ba nd, the P ainkillers. Castro Castro some got som me YYouTube ouTTube u love last year “Greedy,” with “G Greedyy,,”” a song that melds blues and a R&B in a lament of how world’s the wo orld’s negativity is caused by peoplee trying to make a quick pr profit ofit at the expense of others. The video intercuts Painkillers inter cu uts ffootage ootage of the P ainkillers performing banks, perf orm ming live with shots of bank s, environmental drug addiction addiction and envir onmental destruction. destru ction. The rest rest of Castro’s Castro’s material energy materi al is steeped in high ener gy

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Mr ged. One of San Jose’s strangest Jos se’s str angest bands, Dot 3, were were Att their cor coree alsoo part of this scene. scene A they weree a rreally the ey wer eally fun, dancey funkdriven driv ven band, yet they also toyed around with African beats, weir weirdd ar o ound chords, cho ords, tribal chanting and just general Pere gen neral bizarre bizarre P ere Ubu-inspired Ubu-inspired post-punk pos st-punk texturing. In fact, fact, those offbeat offb beat nuances give Dot 3’s music quality.. (A (AC) a timeless timeless quality C)

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THE T HE R ROADSHOW OADSHOW 2 2014 014 Jan 16 at SAP SAP Center

HARLEM HARLE EM GL GLOBETROTTERS OBETROTTERS Jan 18 at SSAP AP Center

ZONGO JUNCTION

JJUSTIN JUS TIN TIMBERLAKE Jan 19 at SAP SAP Center

DAVID D AVID V GARRETT Jan 21 2 at City National Civic

CELEBRITY FORUM FORUM W/STEVE W W/STEVE WOZNIAK OZNIAK Jann 22-24 Ja 22-24 at Flint Center

CIRQUE CIR QUE DU D SOLEIL: AMAL AMALUNA UNA Jan 22 22-March -March 2 under the Big TTop oop at TTaylor aaylor SStreet treet Bridge

THE EA EAGLES GLES Jan 29 at SAP SAP Center

GEORGE GE ORGE SSTRAIT TRAIT Jan 30 at SSAP AP Center

GEORGE GE O GE KAHUMOK OR KAHUMOKU U JR, JR LED LEDWARD WA ARD KAAP KAAPANA ANA Jan 30 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

DAN D AN HICK HICKSS AND THE HO HOT T LICKS LICKS Feb 1 at at Montalvo Arts Center

SSTYX TYX Feb 6 at City National Civic

DEMI LLOVATO OVATO Feb 11 at SAP SAP Center

SPYRO SP YRO GGYRA YRA Feb 13 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

IMAGINE IMA GINE DRA DRAGONS GONS Feb 13 at SAP SAP Center

VALENTINE’S VA V ALENTINEE’S SUPER LLOVE OVE JJAM AM Feb 14 at SAP SAP Center

SHINOBU Homestead Lanes, Cupertino Cuperttino Sat, 8pm, $8 LLocals ocals Shinobu have always alwayys spot ffound ound a curious middle spo ot awkwardd jangle-pop between awkwar jangle-ppop and catchy post-punk. Singer Singger Mike Huguenor also writess lyrics aree part neur neurotic-nihilism that ar otic-nihilism and part goofiness. His words words aree br brainy tortured ar ainy and tortur ed andd express expr ess comprehension comprehension of how works, the world work s, but confusion confusion in how w to deal with it all. (“ (“I “I am suree I lik likee it/ alive/and I’m not sur it/and but I’m sure sure that I’d miss it t/and suree that I’ve expr expressed I’m sur essedd this/ in less annoying terms before”). before”).

It’s It ’s endearing, enlighteningg and (AC) occasionally emotional. (A C C)

ZONGO ZONGO JUNCTION Blackbird Tavern, Blackbird Taavern, San Jose J Sat, 8:30pm, $7-$10 $7-$10 Brooklyn Afrobeat Eleven-piece Br ooklyn Afr A obeat group, gr oup, Zongo Junction cr ccreates eates a danceable fun, uplifting, all-out da anceable Got experience. “The Van Van Go ot Away” Away” energetic, tune is an ener getic, jazzy tu une the with a video that tells th he silly Pavel, desperate story of P avel, a desper a car ate eventually salesman who eventual lly rreaches eaches enlightenment. The rest restt of their infectious. music is equally inf ectioous. They create instrumental cr eate catchy instrumen ntal tunes West-African influenced both by W esst-African rhythms and American jazz. Of the 11 members, five of them m make up the horn section, which in a venue as small as CCafe afe SStritch tritch should sound. make ffor or a big, bright so ound. (AD)

LLOS OS PISTOLEROS PISTOLER O OS Johnny V’s, V’s, San Jos Jose se Free Sat, 9pm, Fr ee offers Psychobilly off ers a mishmash of punk and rrockabilly ockabillly with the energy expect from ener gy one would ex xpect fr om a genree with “psycho” genr “psycho” in its name. from mountainous Hailing fr om the mo untainous wasteland known ass “Reno,”” ffourourPistoleros piece LLos os Pistoler os began playing currently shows in 2010 and ar aaree cur rently at LP. hardd work on their first LP P. Over a har section (featuring driving rhythm sectio on (f eaturing common an upright bass, com mmon in the three psychobilly scene) aand nd thr ee heavy chords, Pistoleroo and guitar chor ds, Chris Pistoler P Giraldo trade shouting Julio Gir aldo tr ade sh houting and that singing with lyrics th hat play into horror psychobilly’s ’50s ho orror B-movie aesthetic. (SL)

TOWER OF TOWER O POWER PO WER A AND WAR WAR A San Jose Civic Ce Center, enterr, San Jose Sat, 7:30pm, $25.50-$65.50 $25 5.50-$65.50 What is hip? How w about oldbandss that never quit? school funk band of P Power TTower ower o ower and a its ffamed amed horn section havee been touring ffor or decades and rrecently ecently marked band.

Throughout 45 years as a ban nd. Thr oughout its years, a wide-ranging wide-ranging lineup of musicians havee claimed membership, though though Emilio upka have CCastillo astillo and SStephen tephhen KKupka rremained emained constant constannt as ffounding ounding authors members and au thors of most catalogue. of the band’s cata alogue. War War has around surviving been ar ound just as long, sur viving the rise and ffall all of o disco in the ’70s (just Power), (just like Tower Toow wer of P ower), cultural and rreturning eturning to the cul tural consciousness viaa frequent frequent hip-hop sampling by hiphop artists. (SL)

PAUL P AUL SIMON & SSTING TING Feb 17 at SSAP AP Center

PIXIESS PIXIE Feb 2222 at City National Civic

THE SE SECOND COND CITY Feb 22 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

MILEY MILE Y CYRUS CYRUS Feb 25 at SSAP AP Center

OLETA OLET TA AD ADAMS AMS March Mar ch 7 at at Montalvo Arts Center

HAPA HAP A March Mar ch 21 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

KINGSS OF LE KING LEON ON March M Mar ch 25 at SAP SAP Center

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The Final CCountdown ountdown “WHA “WHAT AT ARE Y YOU O OU Doingg Ne New w Year’s Yeear’’s Eve?” Eve?”” It’s It’s not just a cool, cool,, oft-covered oft-coverreed old holiday song— it ’s a question that usuallyy st taarts ttoo ccome oome up not long after Than nksgiving each year oor it’s starts Thanksgiving year.r. And ffor those that don’t hav have ve an ans aanswer wer yet, here’s herre’s a last last-minute t--minutte guide ttoo local local clubs’ clubs’ parties. parties.

AGENDA A GENDA LLOUNGE OUNGE

MOJO MO JO LLOUNGE OUNGE

Dec 31.. $25-$669. San Jose.

Party P arty w/ DJs Tito Tito Bell and Ruben Rubben Free VIP bar.r.

R. Fr ee appetizers and V IP bar

Dec 31,, 9pm. No cover. cover. Fr Fremont. emont. performance ormance by the Live perf RevTones Free RevT Toones with Fr ee Champagne Free toast.. Fr ee snack buffet. buffet.

ANGELICA’S ANGELICA ’S BIS BISTRO TRO Dec 31,, 9:30pm.. $50-$1750.

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Party Redwood City y. P arty w/Paula w/Paula Harris, Har ris,, Beast & Blues and the Big B Ass City.

A ss Band.. Redwood City y.

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LAST DANCE DANCE E (THIS YEAR) YEAR) Ballet San Jose Jose’s ’s production of ‘The N Nutcracker,’ utcrack kerr,,’ at the San Jo Jose Performing Arts, Christmas ose Center for the P erforming Arts A s, closes just after Christma as Day. final Day y. The fina al shows take place Dec 24 and d 26.

*stage LITTLE W WOMEN OMEN TheatreWorks pr TheatreWorks presents e esents a musical rretelling etelling of o Louisa Louisa May Alcott’s Alcott ’s classic novel. noovel. Dec 4-Jan 4-Jan Wed, 4. W ed, 7:30pm, TThu-Fri, hu-Fri, 8pm, Sat,, 2 and 8pm,, SSun, un,, 2 and 7pm, $28-$55.

TTue, uue, 7:30pm. $28-$55. LLucie ucie Theatre, Palo Alto.

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*dancee *danc BALLET B ALLETSSSAN ALLET ANJOS AN JOS JOSE SE NUTCRACKER NUT CRACKER A new pr production oductionn by Karen Karen Gabay.

Gabay y. Thru Dec. 26.

2 Fri,, 7pm, Sat, 1:30 and 7pm,, Sun, Sunn, 1:30pm. $30$105. Center for for Performing Performing Arts, San Jose.

*concerts *c oncerrts GOSPEL HOLID HOLIDAY AY CCONCERT AY ONCER RT Oakland Interf Interfaith aithh Gospel Choir presents pr esents gospel arrangements aarrangements of holiday favorites, favoritees, conducted Director

by Dir ector Terrence Teerrennce Kelly.

Kellyy. Fri, $28-$36.

7:30pm.. $28-$36 6. Center ffor or the Performing View.

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*art MUSEUMS ART AR RT TMUSEUMOF MUSEUM OFFLLOS OSGA GATOS ATOS "Backward is For "Backward Forward: w d:: Layer and war Printmaking.”

Impact in Printma aking.”” Ends Wed-Sun, Jan 12. W ed-Sun, 11am-5pm.

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CANTOR CANT ORAR ARTS RTSCE CENTER ENTER “Carrie Mae Weems: “Carrie Weem ms: Three Three Photography Decades of Photo ography and Video.” Thru Jan J 5.

“Faith Embodied:: Saints From Fr om the Renaissance Renaisssance to the

Enlightenment.”” Wed-Sun, Wed-SSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm.

11am-8pm.

Stanford.

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MUSEUM OF AMERICA AMERICAN AN HERITAGE HERIT TAGE ““Annual A Annual Holiday LEGO Extravaganza.” except Extr avaganza.”” $2 exce ept ffor or museum members. Dec Deec 13-Jan 13-Jan Palo 19. Fri-Sun,, 11am-3:30pm.

11am-3:30ppm.. P alo Alto.

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SSAN AN JOSE MUSEUM OF O AR ART RT ““Around A Around the TTable aable SStage tagge One— Jitish KKallat: allat:: Epilogue.”” Ends April 20,, 2014. ““Around Aroundd the TTable: A able: a Creativity, Food, Cr Food, eativityy, Community,” Comm munityy,” an exhibition that delves into i how culture. ffood ood has shaped local cul ture.

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Dr ew McSher ryy..”” Dec 13 thru u Jan 26.. Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, 9am--77pm, Sat,, 9am9 Gallery, Center, 3pm. Mohr Gallery y, Finn Cent terr, View.

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EMPIRE SE SEVEN VEN SSTUDIOS TUDIOS “Spooky A “Spooky Action!” ction!” work workss by KKyle yle Pellet.

P ellet. Opening rreception eception Dec Deec 13, 77-11pm.

-11pm. Thru Dec 28. TTue-Fri, uue-Fri, noon-6pm,, Sat,, noon-4pm or o by appointment. San Jose.

GOOD KARMA CAFE GOODKARMACAFE “The LLucidity ucidity of TTravel,” ravel,” photography photogr aphy by Gary Singh.. Thru Jan 25.. San Jose.

MAIN GALLER GALLERY RY SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF SAN O QUIL QUILTS LTS & TEXTILES TEXTILES “Fiberart International “Fiberart International.” .”” W West est premiere Coast pr emiere exhibition, exhibittion, ffeaturing eaturing works works by 37 national artists, and international artis ts, both emerging, established and emer g , and ging, spectrum exploring a wide spect trum of practices. textile pr actices. "Translucence: "TTransslucence: Breslaw, workss cr created CCathy athy Br eslaw w," work eated in mesh. a unique industrial me esh.. Shows Wed-Sun, run thru Jan 19. W ed-SSun, 10am5pm.. San Jose.

TRITON TRIT ONMUSEUMOF MUSEUM OF AR ART RT San Jose SState tate Univers University sity Exhibition.. Thru Anniversary Exhibition Jan 26.. Opening Dec 7: KKay ay Russell: Recollections.. Thru T Feb 9. 2013 Statewide Statewide Painting Painting Competition/Exhibition.

Competition/Exhibitio p on.. Thru Fri-Sun, Feb 2. TTue-Wed uue-Wed and Fri i-Sun, 11am-9pm.

11am-5pm, Thu, 11am9pm.

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Santa Clar a.

GALLERIES BRUNI BR UNIGALLER GALLERY RY Jazz-related art by Bru Jazz-related Bruni uni Sablan.

Mon-Sat,, 1-6pm. San Jose.

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“2013 Holiday Show Show”” Ends Dec 29. Mon-Sun,, 10am10am-3pm, 3pm, City. holiday hours. Redwood City y.

Dec 31.. CCampbell ampbell The Degenerates, Ripoff,f, Degener ates,, Jack Ripoff Sexyback

BRITANNIA ARMS BRITANNIA ALMADEN Dec 31,, 8pm. $30 per person three includes thr ee course dinner w/ w glass of Champagne and partyy VIP ffavors. avors.. $299 per couple V IP three-course package includes thr ee-coursse dinner,r, bottle of Dom P Peringon, dinner eringonn, party ffavors. avors.. San Jose.

THE CA CATS ATS Dec 31,, 6pm. LLos os Gatos Neri Live music with the Johnny Ne eri TTrio rio r and Maneck.

CLUB CL UB FFOX OX Dec 31,, 8pm. $20 adv/$25 do doors. ors.

Rock In the New YYear ear e w/ RockSkool,, party rrock ock tribute band. Champagne toast,, partyy ffavors. avors.. Redwood City.

Cityy.

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Art Under $200 & Contemp Contemporary porary ecepption Mixed Media. Opening rreception Dec 6,, 5:30-8pm. p Thru Dec 26.

2 Palo Alto.

P alo Al to.

Dec 31,, 8pm8pm-2am, 2am,, Fahr Fahrenheit enheit Restaurant Restaur ant and Lounge, Lounge, San Jose.

Jose.

Premium with Pr emium hosted open bar wit th d'oeuvres, hors d'oeuvr es,, midnight balloon ballooon drop, dr op, champagne toast and live livve Fusion, countdown.. DJs Charly Fusion n, R&B, Melvis and Raymundo spin R& &B, top 40 and hip-hop.

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“Erased Loop “Erased Loop Random W Walk,” alk,,” sculptures Berlier. kinetic sculptur es by TTerry eerry Be erlier.

Thru Feb 15. Tue-Fri, Tuue-Fri,, 10am-5pm, 10am-55pm, Sat,, noon-5pm.. San Jose.

SEEING THING THINGSS GALLER GALLERY RY “Lay LLow,” ow w,” ,” new work workss by Frances Fr ances Marin. Thru Dec 29.. TTueuue11am-7pm, noon-6pm.

Fri, 11am-7pm, 7 , Sat, noon-6p pm.

Thirdd SSt,t, San Jose.

30 N. Thir Billiards South First Billiar ds

ZERO ZER O1GARA 1 GARAGE AGE G “P Patent aatent P Pending e g,” ending ,” a gr group oup exhibition that uses patents as a a starting point to investigate the relationship artists, relationship between artis sts, ownership,, and invention.. Sann Jose.

Dec 31,, 9pm. $40.. Redwood Ci City. tyy.

Party, New YYears eears Dance P artyy, featuring featurring Pride and Joy (two sets),, DJ Dinero, Diner o, Champagne toast,, balloon ballloon drop. dr op.

FRED’S PLA PLACE CE Dec 31.. Mountain View View..

DJ Lady Diesel.

JOHNNY V’S Dec 31,, 9pm. No cover cover.. San Jos Jose. se.

TTrap rap shop. Trappy Trappy New Years.

Yeears.

LILLY LILL Y MAC’S MAC’S Dec 31,, 4pm.. Sunnyvale.

New YYear’s eear’s Eve on Irish time.

MOTIF MO TIF LLOUNGE OUNGE Dec 31 31,, 8pm.

8pm $30 door.. advance/$40-$60 at the door VIP V IP packages with bottle service service $1000-$1500.. Open bar option d’oeuvres) (w/passed hors d’oeuvr es) $100 per person/$160 per couple. San Jose.. Live TV TV countdown,, confetti confetti cannon. Two Tw wo floors with different different music options.

dinner show with comedian Steven Steven Byrne from from TBS TBS comedy show Sullivan and Son.

SSTUDIO TUDIO 8 Dec 31,, 9pm. San Jose entiree night with a DJs spin the entir show, burlesque show w, live countdown drop and balloon dr op following. following.

MURPHY’S LA LAW W Dec 31,, 8pm. Sunnyvale The Honey Wilders perform. perform.

WILL DUR DURST'S ST'S YEAR KISSS OFF END KIS

Dec 31,, 8pm. $25.. Los Los Gatos.

The Cocktail Monkeys. W/party ffavors, avors, noisemakers, avors, noisemakers, hats and midnight balloon dr drop. op.

Dec 31,, 7pm and 10pm at San Jose Company.

SStage tage Company y. $40-$50 Skits,, sketches,, songs and stand-up comedy with comics Will Durst,, Johnnyy SSteele, teele,, Deb and Mike, Mari Magaloni and Arthur Gaus.

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Dec 31.. Sunnyvale. New YYear’s eear’s Eve Groove. w/Vicious Gr oove.

Dec 31, 9pm at Zen LLounge. ounge.. $120View.. DJs Audio1, $1100.. Mountain View Big B and Dynamic D spin all night.. Champagne toast with hors d'oeuvres drop. d'oeuvr es and a balloon dr op.

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SSADDLE ADDLE RA RACK CK Dec 31,, 7pm. $35.. Fremont.

Fremont. ’80s”” party with “Back to the ’80s Diablo Road.. Balloon drop, drop,, party ffavors. avors.

SSAN AN JOSE B BAR AR AND GRILL Dec 31,, 8pm.. San Jose. drop op and complimentary Balloon dr celebrate.

Dress champagne to celebr ate.. Dr ess impress, dress to impr ess,, dr ess code will be enforced. enf orced.. Champagne toast at midnight and live video mixing will go on all night with VJ VJ DVS Dave.

BLACK BLA CK AND RED B BALL ALL Dec 31,, 8pm at The Blank Club, San Jose.. $10-$20.. Resident DJ Basuraa will spin dance hits up Basur until a final countdown into 2014.

GREAT GREA AT GA GATSBY ATSBY B BALL ALL Dec 31,, 7pm at Charley’s LG LG (formerly ormerly Mountain Charley’s), (f LLos os Gatos.. DJ B-EZ spins ffor or this 1920s-inspired 1920s-inspir ed upscale ffete. ete. drop, Balloon dr op,, a Champagne toast and go-go dancers dressed dressed as flappers. 1920s attire attire suggested.

BRITANNIA ARMS BRITANNIA DOWNTOWN DO WNTOWN Dec 31,, 8pm. San Jose Ring in the New Year Yeear with drink specials,, a Champagne toast and a live countdown on Britannia Arm's outdoor patio.. DJ Ready Rock spins for for the night.

SAN JOSE IMPR SAN IMPROV OV NE NEW W SHOW YEAR'S EEVE VE SHO W Dec 31,, 7 and 10pm at San Jose Improv.

Impr ov. $35-$65.. A special NYE

THE B BACK ACK B BAR AR Dec 31,, 10pm.. San Jose Beerijuana will celebrate celebrate the New Bar..

YYear ear e at the Back Bar

CAFE SSTRITCH TRITCH Dec 31,, 8:30pm.. San Jose Singer Terrie Ter e rie Odabi and trombonist tr ombonist Steve SteveTTurre.

Tuurre.

POOR HOUSE BIS BISTRO TRO Dec 31,, 7pm. San Jose.. $60 Live music and dancing with Jay Laraa Price and the Po'Boys Po'Boys and Lar Velvet with V elvet e Plum.

VIXEN UL ULTRA TRA LLOUNGE OUNGE Dec 31, 31, 8pm 8pm. San Jose DJs,, bottle service service and a festive festive countdown. Festivities include a drop, balloon dr op,, a Champagne toast at midnight and complimentary party favors. favors.

PAGODA P AGODA LLOUNGE OUNGE Dec 31,, 9pm-3am.

9pm-3am. The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.. $40-$60 A new lineup of Vegas Vegas DJs.. DJ Fabian spins.. Bottle service service is available with an early rreservation. eservation.

HEDLEY HEDLE Y CLUB CLUB Dec 31,, 8:30pm.. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.. Roaring ’20s themed party. party y. Games, music,, dancing and cocktail specials will be available all night until the final countdown. Period Period dress dress code enforced. enf orced.

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GO G OF FOR OR B BROKER R OK E R L Leonardo eonardo DiCaprio p plays p y it broa broad d as JJordan Belfort, f , the fi film film’s ’s titular t wolf wolf. f.

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ORDAN BELF ORDAN BELFORT, ORT T, a penny stock billionaire billiona aire who squandered his h loot on helicopters, mansions, helicopters s, mansions m s, yachts yachts and prostitutes, prostitu utess, is still at large, and he has just made a distinguished director directtor his mark.

Wo olf of W a all Str reet shows The Wolf Wall Street strangely puerile Martin M a strangely e stuck Scorsese at work. W We Tibetan n Buddhist through his Tibetan stage for this?

As the gar As gargantuan gantuan hu hustler, ustler, so o versized that he ’s lik artoon— oversized he’s likee a ccartoon— this Belf fo ort lik es to sha oph hy Belfort likes shagg his tr trophy

wiffe on a b wife bed ed full of hundr hundred ed dollar bills—Leonardo Caprio bills bills—L Leon nardo Di C aprio pummels material likee JJake LaMotta. the materia al lik ake L aMottta. As As Di Caprio closes trying C aprio clos es in on 40, he’s he’s tr ying to place oncee had fill the plac ce JJack ack Nicholson onc as kamikaze kamikazee actor, actor, devil devil and joker. joker. He does do es go big—shoving bigg—shoving his jaw jaaw forward, fo orward, Mussolini-sized giving Mus solini-sized rallying speeches eeches to sp o a rroom oom full of salesmen.

Scorsese Sc orsese is determined d to light his star firee eeven rregular egular st arr on fir ven e if it ttakes akes putting litt ccandle put ting a li andle up his butt, butt,, as in pervy one p ervy sc sscene ene with i h a dominatrix. d i i actor’ss fr frenzy interesting The actor’ enzy is inter esting in an sense; watching abstract sen nse; as in w atching Daffy Daff ffyy Duck blow himself up in the famous cartoon—you Warner Brothers Brothers o cartoon— —you ask, possibly bee ne next? what ccan an p ossibly b xt?

Belfort Belf fo ort iss the narrator of his own life: he’s humble,, entr entry-level lif fee: first,, he e’s a humble y-le - veel

stockbroker, trying sto ckbrok keer, tr ying to do it the honest h way. right w ay. He then turns up at the rig ght placee to rrock time and the right plac ock ka Long job in a L ong Island strip mall,, coldcoldpenny-stock selling ccalling alling p enn ny-stock salesmen,, se elling “garbage to garbage men.” There There he meets his sidekick Donnie ((Jonah Jonaah Hill), with unnaturally bleached d teeth circular tree.

There’s and a cir cular family tr ee. Ther e’s Belfort’s from rroom, oom,, during Belf fo ort’s climb fr o om obscurityy to zillionair zillionairee vulgarian vulgarian, obscurit n, supporting ffor o or supp orting actors: a rrefreshing efreshin ng byy Matthew ccameo ameo b Matttthew McConaughey McConaugh hey as stockbroker—urging Belfort a cool cool sto ckbroker—urging Belf fo ort masturbation to ccocaine, ocaine, strategic masturbatio on New and N ew Age Age chest-thumping chest-thumping (McConaughey Texan mantra, (McC onaughey adds a T exan ma antra, a Bob W iills ccaw); aw); w Jean Jean Dujardin, Dujardin n,, the Wills most genuinely wolf fy man in the th he wolfy mo vie i , is i a rresentful esenttffull Swiss S i bank b ker e. movie, banker.

And JJoanna oanna L umley is a graciou us Lumley gracious but still alluring British aunt wh ho who ttakes akes up curr ency smuggling Kyle y currency smuggling.. Kyle Chandler was the drunk fa ather Chandler,, who was father in The Sp ecttaacular Now, Now, do es som me Spectacular does some sup erb C olumboing as a sup erficially fi superb Columboing superficially friendly F ed investigating investigating Belfort.

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this film ’s only glimp pse at an ything lik film’s glimpse anything likee a moral ccenter. enter.

Some of it is inimi itable Sc orsese— inimitable Scorsese— eextreme, xtreme, dr ooling b e eastliness . Belf fo ort drooling beastliness.

Belfort gets his brains kno ck ked out with ’ludes knocked and is rrevived evived b ass tub ocaine byy a gl glass tubee of ccocaine as the P oopeye y fanfar ayys. While Popeye fanfaree pla plays.

Sc orsese w as ar ound ffor o or the original Scorsese was around w ave of drugcomedyy— —he hir ed wave drug-comedy—he hired Cheech and Chong onc o e—the rrevival evival once—the lo oks lik age dir d ector tr ying to looks likee a vint vintage director trying join the Frat P ack. ((This T mo This ve is so Pack. move Gr eek that Hill do es the old fraternit ty Greek does fraternity stunt of sswallowing wallowing a liv livee goldfish.)

W olf o of W aall St reet’s ed diting has b een Wolf Wall Street’s editing been praised,, but it seems built lik likee an Apatow w. Ther oticeable bumps Apatow.

Theree ar aree no noticeable bumps,, as if ther e’d b een se veral e impr ovised there’d been several improvised ttakes akes to cho ose fr om m,, and the most choose from, ridiculous sc ene alw ayys won. Y o ou’d b scene always You’d bee cconvinced on nvvinced Sc orsese fforgot o orgot eeverything verything Scorsese he kne w ab out slapst tick fr om a sc ene knew about slapstick from scene in which Belf fo ort’s fur rious wif fe Naomie Belfort’s furious wife (Mar got R o obbie) is ge etttting rready eady to (Margot Robbie) getting hurl a glass of w ater at a her husband; water it ’s cut into thr ee sho ots, a damp gag it’s three shots, fur ther damp ened b ay it ’s further dampened byy the w way it’s st aged. staged.

T er e ence W iinter’s sc cript is un nw wieldyy, Terence Winter’s script unwieldy, as if a miniseries is trying trrying to break break mini-series out of it. This mo vie just won ’t end. movie won’t The displa ay of tramp -flesh—dozens display tramp-flesh—dozens of hir ed nudes—is ul ltimately sk eevyy. hired ultimately skeevy.

If The W oolf of W aall St treet is to o rrealistic ealistic Wolf Wall Street too to cconsider onsider Belf fo ort ch hastened or Belfort chastened punished,, the det ails of the sc am details scam ar en’t diab olically cle ever, either aren’t diabolically clever, either.. The w ay Belf fo ort’s crimes ar aaree eexplained xplained to way Belfort’s us m us,, ther theree would b bee mor moree strateg strategyy in a smash and grab rrobbery. obb bery.

Cinema,, with its gr reat facilit great facilityy to cconvey on nvey underst andin ng of p eople, helps understanding people, us get under the skin ns of the p eople skins people we ’d despise orsesee has made us we’d despise.. Sc Scorsese underst and ps ychos, sc ammers and understand psychos, scammers out -and-out killers b efor ef o e. I don ’tt out-and-out before. don’t w ant to value -jjudge Belf B fo ort,, but in want value-judge Belfort, W olf o f,, Sc orsese do esn’tt just w ant us to Wolf, Scorsese doesn’t want underst and him,, and d the pleasur understand pleasuree he get in scr ewing his vi ictims. (Belf fo ort screwing victims.

(Belfort is the kind of sales-t ap peworm who sales-tapeworm pantomimes buggeri ing his customers buggering when he ’s making a telephone t hustle .) he’s hustle.)

It ’s mor —Scorsese w ants us It’s moree than that that—Scorsese wants to b ordan Belf fo ort’s suck er. bee JJordan Belfort’s sucker.

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(R;; 138 min min.) n.) Return with us to the Abscam m aff affair: air:: In 197 1978, 8,, several several politicians wer weree hornswoggled into believing th that hat a swarthy FFBI BI agent with a napkin on on his head was in rreality eality a rich sheikh h with a suitcase full of cash, looking to buy U.S.. citizenship.. David O.. Russell’ss fiction on the subject, American Hustle H , gives us an unusual point of en entrance. ntrance. Ther There’s e’s a successful con-artist named Ir Irving: ving:: a charmingly light-comicc CChristian light-comi hristian B Bale. ale.. He ffalls alls ffor or a fformer ormer st tripper (Amy Adams) who stripper dons a bog gus English accent and calls bogus herself “La “Lady ady Edith.”The two ar aree busted in the act of o fleecing their clientele by a horny horny, y, burbling bu urbling FBI FBI agent (Bradley (Bradley who CCooper), ooper), w ho fforces orces them to find and entrap entr ap politicians poliiticians ffor or the B Bureau. ureau. The entrapee downside:: One entr apee is a South Jersey civicc par paragon agon (Jer (Jeremy emy Renner).

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Llewynn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is homeless in winte winter er 1961—a couch surf surfer er especially especia ally unappr unappreciated eciated by Jean (a fundamentally mentally miscast CCarey arey Mulligan), Mulligan), fundam girlfriend the girl friend of his buddy Jim (Justin TTimberlake). imberrlake). Jean is pr pregnant egnant after a misspent misspe ent night with Llewyn,, and she hates Llewyn L ffor or it.. Davis is making a ffew ew do dollars llars her heree and there there playing tr trad ad ffolk olk at pass-the-hat “baskethouses “baskethouses”” in Gr Greenwich eeenwich Village.. Sometimes he uptown crashes goes up ptown and cr ashes with his old professor. pr ofesssor. B But ut this situation takes a toll whe when en he loses his host host’s ’s cat.. On a spur-of-the-moment spur-o f-the-moment trip to Chicago Chicago to see a pr ppromoter, omoterr, Davis tries to escape his personal person al hell as well as the memories of a long-gone partner he once had. long-gone Inside Llewyn L Daviss is maybe Joel and Ethan Coen’s Coen’s chilliest work. The film is

IIT’S T’S A W WONDERFUL ONDERFUL LLIFE IFE ( (1946) ) The annual tradition—buy tradition—buyy tickets in advance a because it tends to sell out. Frank Frank Capra’s Capra’s basedon-a-pamphlet on-a-pam phlet ffable able is animated

by James SStewart’s tewart’s kindliness. He’s He’s self-sacrificing self-sacrifi cing Geor George ge B Bailey, aileyy, who decides to take his own lif lifee after he he’s ’s ruined by a chortling banker (Lionel Barrymore).

B arrymore).. And yet things could be worse.. A failure failur a e on rrelease, elease,, millions now understandd this as an American version of A CChristmas hristm mas Carol Carol told from from B ob Bob CCratchit’s ratchit’s view. v w. It’s view It’s one of the few few films honest about aboout what a har harrowing rowingg time of year thiss can be. Ever timely timely, y, ever rrewarding—even ewarding— —even to people who rrather ather like the loo ok of P otterville, and who look Potterville, appr eciatee Bruce Bruce Wayne’s Wayne’s comment appreciate when Dick Gr Grayson ayson ur urged ged him to watch the movie:: “I never could get past the title.” (Play (Plays ys Dec 2244 at 9pm in P Palo aalo Al Alto to at the SStanford ttannffor ord Theatr re.) e ) (Rv vB) Theatre.)

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inteelligently anti-nostalgic—even if the intelligently Villa age rreally eally look Village lookss like a snowbound villa age,, it makes you not want to go village, back bac ck to the 1960s. Like TV’s TV’s M Mad aad Men Meen, it makes m you rremember emember what a tightly run, run, unsparing place JFK’s America was.

T-Bone T-Bone Burnett, Burnett, who assembled the O Brother, Where B rootherr, Wher re Art Thou?? soundtr soundtrack, ack, collaborates collaborates with the Coens Coens once again.

As As a musician,, Isaac is sensationally watchful wattchful and sympathetic,, even playing a seething seeething thi man who h ddoesn’t doesn’t give i up much. much. (Rv (RvB) vB)

NEBRASKA NE BRASKA (R;; 115 1 min.) Bruce Bruce Dern plays Woody Woody Grant Billings, Gr a of B ant illings, Mont., Mont., a half-senile me chanic. The old man receives receives mechanic. aP Publisher’s ublisher ’s Clearing Clearing House-like solicitation soli icitation and decides that he’s he’s won a million m and sets out ffor or Lincoln,, Neb., several on ffoot oot to claim the prize. After sever al of these t escapes, Woody’s Woody’s sad-sack unmarried unm married son David (Will Forte of SNLL) decides to drive his ffather ather on the thousand-mile across West. tho ousand-mile trip acr oss the W est.

The ey see the rrawboned awboned landscapes, They exp experience perience the rreliable eliable disappointment of M Mt.t. Rushmor Rushmoree and note the tou touches ches of fr frontier ontier rremaining—the emaining—the mo monosyllabic nosyllabic uncles and a pubcr crawl aw wl in Woody’s Woody’s two-tavern home tow town. wn. They rrevisit evisit the abandoned hom homestead. mestead.. Dern’s Dern’s moment of dimly rrecalling ecaalling death and punishment in this tr trashed, asshed, vacant ffarmhouse armhouse is his single fine finest est scene as an actor actor,, and he’s he’s been act acting ing a long time. time (Rv (RvB) vB)

SSAVING AVI V NG MR. MR. B BANKS A N KS (PG (PG-13; G-13;; 125 min.) Emma Thompson is th the he best part of this seasons seasons’’ meretricious, me retricious,, exculpatory how-themovie-was-made mov vie-was-made story. storyy. She plays P.L. P.L. .

TTravers, ravvers,, the author of M Mary aary P Poppins oppins o , forced forced c by money woes to sell her work to the t movies, while aptly dr dreading eading the “chirping prancing” storee for “chirping and pr ancing”” in stor for her characters. chaaracters. A Att the studio,, trying to steer a ship shhip that’s that’s already already sailed, Travers Travers is plaggued by flashback agic plagued flashbackss of her tr tragic Ausstralian childhood with her wonderful Australian yet ruinously alcoholic ffather ather (Colin (Colin Farrell).

Farrell).. Dir Director ector John Lee Hancock’s view w is that Disney studios wer weree a confectioners’ connfectioners’ dream dream of a place to work, with with the enthusiastic Walt Walt Disney (Tom (TTom o Han nks) in char ge.. Naturally, Naturallyy, Hanks Hanks nails Hanks) charge.

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THE LIMOU LIMOUSINES: SINES: HUSH It’s It’s been been a ccouple ouple l years years since sinc i e synth-pop synth-p y h op duo d the h Limousines rreleased eleased d their brilliant debut, Get Sharp.

Sharp. But Bu ut Hush was was worth worth the wait: wait: a Its synth synth b beats eats ar aree dancier dancier,, the production production is more m e rrefined mor efined and in place place of their signature sign nature clever clever nihilism, Hush offers off ffeerss lyrics that are are raw raaw and honest. Thee album was was made with funds from from o a Kickst Kickstarter arter campaign campaign that sought sougght $30,000 $30,000 but ended up raising $75,000. $755,000.

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IIN N THE THE BLACK BL ACK Dinn Dinners’ ners’ ‘Black R Rabbits’ abbits’ melds lo-fi fi noise-pop into a meticulously y crafted album.

F Favorite avorite releases from Valley Silicon V a allley bands thiss year BY B Y AARON AARON CARN CARNES NES

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EAR-END LISTS EAR-END LIISTS hew typically he ew to the comfy round roun nd number although Top 10. And alth hough T o op 10 Silicon Valley’s has a ring to it, Silic con V alley’s musical melting pot of mus sical talent genres, collaborated, fused genres s, collab borated, innovated turned innov ated and turn ned out so LPss and EPss this many great LP d EP year that it became e a nearly impossible task to narrow n Top it down to even the eT o op 15 releases,, so we sque squeezed releases eezed one favorite more pick for a favo orite 16.

Here, particular order, H ere, in no particul lar order r, 2013’ss best are some of 2013’ b local releases.. F For full releases or the ful ll list, visit activate.metroactive.com activ ate.metroactiv ve.com THE B BANGERZ: ANGERZ: PRISM PriSM, PriSSM, the Bangerz’ second second soundtrack soundttrack LP for fo or the show, JJabbawockeez abbaawo w ckeez Las Las Vegas Veegaas stage stage show w, showcases crew going deeper showcases the cr ew goin ng deep er into

some amaz amazing ing futuristic soundsc soundscapes. apes.

The cr ew h as alw ays y straddled a line crew has always b etween throwback hrowback hip -hop and th between hip-hop cut ting edg ge electr o-jjams, but it ’s all cutting edge electro-jams, it’s fforward orwaard thi o inking with this rrelease. elease. In thinking e’s a health hy a sign of thee times times,, ther there’s healthy dose of dub bstep influenc dubstep influencee on this rrecord, ecord, as well. w REBELSKAMP: REBELSKAMP P: THE KILL Going g into recording studio without any an ny a recording writttten material matterial doesn’t doesn n’’t sound like lik ke written formula for fo for o an album, yyet et e a winning formula Reebelskamp p produced produced a remarkable remark kaable Rebelskamp yeearr. They’ve They’ve gotten gotttten so go od at LP this year. good improvisatio v on that they theey don’t don’t sound improvisation like they’re theeyy’re inventing in nveenting the music on like spot. These Th hese songs go an ny and the spot. any eveerywhere, drifting through through funk riffs, riffs, everywhere, psycchedelic space space jams and crazy crazzy fr eepsychedelic freejazz. z A highlight high hlight is “The The Rebel, Reebel, el”” with jazz. local rapper rapperr Dirtbag Dirtbag Dan freestyling freesttyyling a local couple verses. verse e es. couple PHILLTH PHILTHY T Y DR DRONEZ: O ONEZ: WEPA WEP PA LIFE U Up p until rrecently, ecentlyy, Ma attt Gonzales w aas known Matt was he go -to guit arist ffor or lo o cal mostly as th the go-to guitarist local bands An A nya y and the Getdown, Raul bands.. ((Anya y Me xia, Ch hris R eeed—to name a ffew). ew).

Mexia, Chris Reed—to

Now N ow the world gets a ttaste aste of his project: producing Latin-infused solo pr oject: pr oducing L atin-infu used electro-beats alter-ego, electr o-beats under his alter r-ego, Philthy Phil Philth hy Dronez.

D onez. His Dr Hi debut d b EP P, Wepa Wepa We Life, was Lif fe, w aas rreleased eleased on Global Bass Experience Exp erience a ffew ew months back. Itt emerging new-cumbia ccenters enters on the emer ging ne w-cum mbia sound, but also vveers eers e into electr electronic o onic -hop territor y, and eeven veen ssome ome and hip hip-hop territory, oldschool cumbia. old-school CARELESS CARELE SS HEAR HEARTS: TS: AL ALUM UM R ROCK OCK Alum m Rock Rock isn n’’t just the latest album by

by Careless Carelless isn’t Hearts; it’s it’s the culmination of five fivve years yeears Hearts; liffe-changing events. eveents. They Theey started starteed of life-changing Americana group, group, but b out a laidback Americana since 2008’s 2008’s Heart’s Heart’s Delight, Delight, they’ve theey’v y ve gone since thrro ough some major lineup changes changges through plaayeed a show with punk legend, legeend, and played Stooges guitarist guittaarist James James Williamson.

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Stooges roots-rock, power-pop powerr--p pop It shows in the roots-rock, songgw writing on Alum Rock.

Rock. The release rellease songwriting rocks harder, harderr, louder and with more mo ore rocks tw wo albums. album ms. passion than their first two ANTWON: IN DARK ANTWON: DARK DENIM In Dark Denim D isn n’t ’ as ac cessible as Ant tw won’s prio or isn’t accessible Antwon’s prior work and ttakes ak kees the San JJose ose rapp per in rapper a ne w dir ection. His b eats ar mier, new direction. beats aree grim grimier, the samples ar keer and the ly yrics aree dark darker lyrics ar tier than eever. ver e . “W Wo ork 4 Me e,” aree dir dirtier “Work Me, with its down-anddirty hip -shakiing down-and-dirty hip-shaking b eat and raunch hy lyrics ike beat raunchy lyrics,, sounds li like he ’s seducing the listener r. he’s listener.

DINNERS: BLACK RABBITS RABBIITS If such a thing as a San Jose Jose “supergroup” “ssupergroup” exists, exists, Dinners might ht be be that band, featuring feeaturing members members from f om Worker fr Wo ork ker e Bee and Doctor Doctor Nurse.

Nurse. Dinners D go into a different diff ffeerent direction direction than th han either Worker Work o ker e Bee (moody (moody indie rock) rock) or Doctor Doctor Nurse Nurse (psychedelic (psycchedelic folk) folk) fo o with lo-fi lo-fi noise-pop noise-pop and a heavy heaavvy dose of Guided

By Voices Voic o es influence. influence. Black Rabbits Raabbits is a meticulously, meticulouslyy, thoughtfully thou ughttffully crafted album. The cover cover art art is amazing, amazing, too too REY REY RE RESURRECCION, SURRECCION, MM-10, -10, LLOCSTA OCSTA VILLAN: FIR ST STREET STREET SE SSION NS Some of rapper rapper FIRST SESSIONS Rey Resurreccion’s Reesurreccion’s finest fi Rey works ar aree collaborations. collaborations. Last Last year, year, he worked worked o make make some killer with the Bangerz to old scho school ol hip-hop hip-hop tunes. t tunes . This year, year, he got together together with h emcees emcees M-10 and Locsta Locsta Villan Viillan an and nd cr created eated the 1sstt Street Street Sessions.

Sessions. T Together ogetther the trio has produced produced eight laidlaid-back, -back, dr dreamy eamy hip hip-hop songs that shou should uld b bee on urban stations stations all acr across oss the th he ccountry ountry RAUL RA UL Y MEXIA MEXIA:: AR ARRIBA RIBA Y LEJOS Brothers Brothers Raul y Mexia Mexia released releaseed a fun, passionate Spanish-l Spanish-language language album this year yeear on Nacional Nacional Records.

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Arriba Arriba y Lejos Lejos combines combiines elements of cumbia and other traditional trraditional L Latin atin sounds with hip-hop hip -hop p and electr electronica. onica.

The duo, duo, who are are so sons ons of Hernán Hernández, Hernández, bassist of o famous Norteño Norteño band Los Los Tigres Tigres del Norte, Norte, has created created something somethiing that both both pays paayys tribute to classi classic ic L Latin atin music, music, like like their father created, creaated, and all the newer newer American American music mu usic they they grew grew up with here here in San JJose. osse.

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THE ALBERT ALBERT SQUARE: SQUARE: HOW’S H W’S EVERYBODY’S HO EVERYBOD DY’S Y DOING S? Last Last year, year, Sim Siim Castro Castro DOINGS? reformed reffo ormed his punk rock rock outfit outfit the Albert Albert Square.

Square. The songwriting s song writing is much in the samee vein, vein, subtly nuanced nuanced ’80s ’80s and ’90s ’9 90s post-punkpost-punk kinspired, inspired, but the band’s ban nd’s performances perfo ormances are are far more more unhinged—a unhingged—a good good thing. energy thing. Their newfound newffo ou und spastic ener gy complements complements Castro’s Castro’s reflective reflective songwriting songwriting quite well. w

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THREE FLAMESSRE THREEFLAME RESTAURANT STAURA ANT Wed, 8pm:: Open-mic night with Wed, w Anita.. Willow Glen.

FLAMESSCCOFFEE FLAME OFFEESHOP SHOP Wed-Sat & TTue, Wed-Sat uue, 9pm:: Uncle Show.

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TRESS GRINGOS TRE Thu:: Everybody Get Get’s ’s Lei’d Saturday with DJ Aspect.

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Pete, Coop and Lucia play a two-night stand for excellent new album, ‘I’m a Stranger Here.’ Dec 27-28 at the Fillmore.

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22 years after landmark album ‘Girlfriend,’ power-pop tunesmith still conjures melodies. Dec 28 at SlimÕs.

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LIQUID Friday: DJs & dancing. Every second Sat:: Girls & Champagne.

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Dance the year away with DFA recording duo behind this year’s newest, ‘Dynamics.’ Dec 30-31 at the Independent.

DANNY BROWN Dress code enforced when Detroit rapper with list-topping album ‘Old’ celebrates 2013. Dec 31 at the Mezzanine.

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For F or o two months, monthss, I’ve been dating dating an awesome guy. guy y. He He does sweet things like windshield, leaving cute notes on my win ndshield, but I worry about how w he looks up worrisome to his older brother, brotherr, who isn’t isn’t the greatest person. What’s What’’s most m is how his brother treats women wom men like garbage, saying anything hing to get anyth them into bed and then ditching hing them or cheating. I haven’t haven n’t known my ditch apparently awesome boyfriend boyfrien nd long, so part of me worries about whether of a “family any part of his brother has rubbed ru ubbed off on him or will. How How much m resemblance”” is there between resemblance betwee en brothers?—Having brothers?—Having Cautious Cautiou us Fun Fun Younger brothers look Yo ounger ou ge br rot others o e s do te tend d to lo oo ok k up to older brothers, brrothers o , and frankly, frankly y, this iss hard harrd is always to avoid avoid o if one’s one’s older brother brrother o waays y alw dangling out some married woman’s woman n’s second-floor sec cond-flo o or window. window w.

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By CECIL ADAMS

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As someone who’s terrified to fly, I’ve always wondered why commercial liners don't come with emergency parachutes under the seats. In the event of fire or engine failure I’d much rather take my chances on the jump than the crash landing. Few people survive water landings and yet the seat doubles as a flotation device, so I don't buy the excuse that it’s because people wouldn't survive with parachutes. —Terra Reneau

I realize this seems like a clever idea, Terra. And I admit the thought of sitting in a doomed aircraft hurtling towards destruction brings out the Walter Mitty in all of us. After all, a 1 percent chance of survival is better than no chance, right? Unfortunately, 1 percent is way too optimistic. To see why, ask yourself a few questions: What are the odds of an accident happening when a parachute would do you any good? Analyzing 49 years of fatal aviation accidents, Boeing found that less than a third of the fatal accidents occurred at a point in the flight when parachute use might have been feasible, and that’s ignoring instant-death scenarios such as TWA 800’s midair explosion or crashing into the side of a mountain.

How do you expect the average passenger to put on a parachute properly?

If you’ve done any parachute jumping, you know getting the rig on right is no simple matter. And what about kids and babies, the elderly, the disabled, the just plain freaked-out? Now add in the chaos of everyone trying to manage this simultaneously in a cramped cabin with little or no instruction under emergency conditions. Ain’t happening, babe.

If by some miracle everybody got properly suited up, how would they get out of the plane? Due to the difference between inside and outside air pressure, a commercial jet’s doors can’t be opened at altitude. If they could, due to the aforesaid pressure differences, everyone would be sucked out and quite likely smashed against the aircraft, pulled into the turbines, or incinerated by the exhaust. True, D.B. Cooper may have eluded these perils in 1971 when he parachuted out of the Boeing 727 he’d hijacked, but he was the only remaining passenger on a depressurized, slow-moving aircraft with a rear-facing exit door, and he had plenty of time to prepare. That’s a far cry from the emergency scenario we’re contemplating.

You object: I still want my .001 percent! Very well, let’s do a little costbenefit analysis: What’s that minuscule chance of success

going to cost? A typical Boeing 737-800 holds 150 passengers and a crew of maybe six. An Army-grade T-11 model parachute could probably be had for about $600, but remember, we’re dealing with untrained users here— we’re going to need chutes equipped with an automatic activation device and possibly a reserve chute, which cost two grand and up. Factor in the cost of new seats or lockers to stow the parachutes in, maintenance and inspections, and periodic replacement, and it’s safe to say the cost per plane would be upwards of $500,000.

Where would you put the chutes?

As air travelers are painfully aware, commercial aircraft can barely accommodate a full load of passengers and their belongings as it is. Each parachute would at minimum take up as much space as a roller bag. Where would they all be kept? Under the seat means no legroom or stowage; overhead means no room for carry-ons.

What about the weight? A T-11 parachute weighs 37 pounds if we skip the reserve chute, but even so we’d be adding 5,800 pounds to the aircraft.

We could make this up by eliminating about 26 passengers and their luggage.

The good news is this would free up space for everyone else’s chutes. The bad news is ticket prices would likely increase at least 20 percent to cover lost revenue from the missing passengers.

In short, we’re talking exorbitant cost with virtually no payback. By comparison, flotation cushions and life vests for a water landing are the height of practicality. Granted, water landings aren’t common, but they happen— witness the legendary 2009 ditching of US Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River without fatalities by captain Chesley Sullenberger. Cushions and vests are cheap and easy to use, and the expectation, borne out by experience, is that the plane will be stationary and floating in the water when you exit.

To put things in perspective, your odds of being killed on a given airline flight are something like 1 in 20 million, whereas your odds of dying in a car accident per year are about 1 in 9,200.

Not to be heartless, but suck it up.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Edmund Kean (17891833) was one of the most famous British actors of his time. But a contemporary, the poet Samuel Coleridge, was frustrated by Kean’s inconsistency, regarding him as a great artist who on occasion lapsed into histrionics. “To see him act,” said Coleridge, “is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.” Now and then I get that feeling about you, Aries. You have bursts of brilliance that you sometimes don’t follow up on.

You’re like a superstar who loses your concentration.

But I’ve got a strong feeling that in 2014 you will at least partially overcome this tendency. Your word of power will be consistency.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ernest Rutherford

(1871-1937) is known as the father of nuclear physics not just because he won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

He was also a superb teacher. Eleven of his students won Nobel Prizes. That’s the kind of teacher or mentor or guide I urge you to connect with in 2014, Taurus. The coming months will potentially be an optimum time for you to learn deeply, and at a rapid rate. One of the best ways to fulfill that promise will be to apprentice yourself to adepts who have mastered the skills and savvy you want to acquire.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your last best hope to

get rich was back in the latter half of 2001 and the first six months of 2002. From July 2025 to June 2026, the cosmos will again conspire to give you a big fat chance to expedite your cash flow to the max. But why get bogged down dreaming of the past or fantasizing about the future when fertile opportunities to boost your prosperity are in front of you right now? Financial luck is flowing your way. Viable ideas for making money are materializing in your subconscious treasure house. The contacts that could help you build your wealth are ready to play with you. (This offer is good until July 2014.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): French poet Edmond

Jabès had this to say about the birth of big creative ideas that dramatically transform one’s life: “For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.” Regardless of whether or not you’re an artist, Cancerian, I expect that you will experience a wrenching and amazing awakening like this in 2014.

The opening you’ve been hoping and working for will finally crack its way into your destiny. It may be one of the most pleasurable disruptions you’ve ever had.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming months, I’m betting that you will exit a confined place or shed cramped expectations or break off your commitment to a compromise that has drained you. It may happen suddenly, or it could take a while to complete. How the escape unfolds will have to do with how thoroughly you extract the lessons that your “incarceration” has made available. Here’s a ritual that might also expedite the process: Give a gift to the people you’re leaving behind, or offer a blessing in the spot where your difficult teachings have taken place.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Now that you don’t have

to be perfect, you can be good,” says a character in John Steinbeck’s novel East of Eden. I suggest that you make this your rallying cry in 2014, Virgo. In fact, why not begin right now, wherever you are? Say “Now that I don’t have to be perfect, I can be good.” Free yourself of the pressure to be the polished, ultimate embodiment of everything you’d ever hoped you would be. That will allow you to relax into being more content with the intriguing creation you have already become. You may be surprised by how much mojo this affords you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1972, English folk musician Nick Drake recorded his album Pink Moon.

He finished it in a mere four hours, singing all 11 songs and playing every instrumental track himself.

It took years for anyone to appreciate his artistry, but eventually the magazine Melody Maker selected Pink Moon as number 48 on its list of the “All Time Top 100 Albums.” Here’s one way I suspect your efforts will be similar to Drake’s in 2014, Libra: You will have the ability to get a lot done in a short time. Here are two ways your fate will be different from Drake’s: First, you will have a big pool of trustworthy allies to call on for help. Second, what you produce won’t take nearly as long to get the appreciation it warrants.

By ROB BREZSNY week of December 25

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Eierlegende Wollmilchsau is a colloquial German term for a mythical pig that lays eggs like a chicken, provides milk like a cow, supplies wool like a sheep, and ultimately becomes bacon and pork chops.

Metaphorically, it may refer to a fanciful device that performs many functions. Imagine, for instance, a futuristic smartphone that could interpret your dreams, trim your unwanted hair, fix you a perfect cup of coffee, tell you you’re beautiful in ways you actually believe, and cure your little health problems. In the real world, there’s no such thing, right? Not yet. But there’s a chance you will find the next best thing to an eierlegende Wollmilchsau in 2014.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “We don’t accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do,” says Rainer Maria Rilke in the Duino Elegies. Do you promise to take that truth into consideration in 2014, Sagittarius? Will you pledge to diligently devote yourself to creating the right conditions for love to flourish? In the past, you may not have been fully able to carry out this slow-building marvel; you may not have had quite enough wise perseverance. But you do now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1588, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the ruler of Japan, confiscated the swords, daggers, and spears belonging to every citizen. He announced they would be melted down and used to make a giant Buddha statue. I’d love to see you undertake a comparable transformation in 2014, Capricorn. You shouldn’t completely shed all your anger and pugnacity, of course; a certain amount is valuable, especially when you need to rouse yourself to change situations that need to be changed. But it’s also true that you could benefit from a reduction in your levels of combativeness. What if you could “melt down” some of your primal rage and use the energy that’s made available to build your personal equivalent of a Buddha icon?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The period between last July and next June is prime time to find or create your dream job. That might mean simply upgrading your existing gig so that it serves you better. Or it could involve you rethinking your relationship with work and going off in quest of a new way to earn a living. So how are you doing on this project, Aquarius?

If you are proceeding on schedule, you should be halfway there by now. The goal should be clear, and you should be more disciplined, organized, and determined than ever. If for any reason this isn’t the case, start playing catch-up.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Singing teaches two skills that are essential for any creative process,” says author and vocalist Rachel Bagby, “the ability to listen and the ability to be flexible and spontaneous.”

I bring this to your attention, Pisces, because 2014 could potentially be a Golden Age for your creativity.

It will be a time when you will benefit even more than usual from exploring and enhancing your imaginative originality. That’s why I’m encouraging you to sing more than you ever have before. Make a list of your 50 favorite singable songs. Be aggressive about expanding the music you get exposed to, and learn the melodies and lyrics to a lot of new tunes. Cut loose with your vocal stylings whenever you have a chance, and take a vow to propel yourself out of funky moods with the creative energy of your singing.

Homework: Send me your New Year’s resolutions. Go to RealAstrology.com and click on “Email Rob.” For extra credit, send your anti-resolutions: weird habits and vices you pledge to continue.

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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