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FFong’s ong’’s W Way ay PAUL P AUL FONG FONG doe doesn’t sn’t like to pay his debts.

A Att least not in cash. In his sixth year in the State State Assembly, Asssemblyy, Fong still has a $100,000 bill he h acquir ed during his acquired 2008 campaign n.. If that seems like a campaign. lot,, it is.. But thee cr editor in this case— creditor RICHIE R OSS, one on ne of Sacramento’s Sacramento’ss most ROSS, notorious lobby yists—raises some lobbyists—raises serious questio ons about Fong’s ability questions to vote with hiss conscience. Right after managing Fong g’s successful campaign Fong’s in 2008,, Ross went w back to his rrole ole as a K Street Street lobbyist. lobbyyist.. He’s He’s been wildly successful in do oing this work,, both in doing terms of getting getting paid—he’s paid—he’s collected 60,000 just in a little less thann $7 $760,000 l bb i ffees lobbying ees in in the th last l t five fi years— and getting leg gislation passed. But legislation during this time e,, Ross has also been time, able to count on o Fong’s They vote.. Every gle. TTime. ime.

Every.. Sing Single.

Did Of the 42 bills,, between What?

200913, that Ross R 2009-13, lobbied the leg islature, legislature, SEND TIPS TIPS TTO O 35 made it to the t FLY@ FL LY Y@ A ssembly floor Assembly floor.. All 35 of METRONEWS. METRONEWS. COM COM Fong’s votes we ere ““ayes” ayes” were in ffavor avor of Ross s’ clients, Ross’ which include Native N American tribes, fformidable ormidable stat te construction and state attorney associ iations, and nonpr ofits. associations, nonprofits.

Ross owns his own print shop and mail house, which means m he could easily contr ol, and infl flate, candidate expenses control, inflate, bef ore waylayin ng payments—perhaps before waylaying in lieu of ““non-monetary” non--monetary” non monetary” contributions. contributions “This is Ross b model,”” a Ross’’ business political consul tant told Fly. Fly. “What he consultant does is completely completely unethical. You You don’t don’t n campaigns. You You make make money oon amento money on bein beingg a player in Sacr Sacramento .”” Ross has a flair ffor or the and [lobbying]. [lobbying].” dr amatic that has h made him ffeared eared dramatic and admired admired for for o decades, which could be why legislat ion specifically aimed legislation at bar ring his tw wo-way tr ansactions barring two-way transactions in 2003 never made m it to a vote.. Fong, who along withh Ross ignor ed multiple multiple ignored calls for for comment, commeent, won’t won’t be so lucky. lucky.

His rrecord ecord will be b inspected as he clings to a political ca areer while running ffor or a career seat on the Sann Jose City Council.

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Gunning for Control NO N O LA LAME ME D DUCK UCK In one of hiss final acts as mayor of Sunnyv Sunnyvale, vale, T Tony ony Spitaleri helped gett Measure some country.

Measure C passed to create som me of the most progressive gun n control laws in the country y.

L Los os Gatos and other local citie cities es gun measures c consider own gu un control mea asures Sunnyvale’s challenge as Sunnyvale ’s faces court cha allenge BY B YP PAM AM MARINO A

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attie Scott stands in front of a packed packe ed house at the Mountain M ountain View City Citty Council C ouncil Chambers.

Chambers. She’s She’s here h to o talk about her son and nephew, n nephew w, both of whom were we ere killed k illed in gun violence. As she s tells storry te ells her and the boys’ story, y, someone so omeone in the back shouts, shou uts, “You’re “Y You’re disgusting!”

Another woman sp speaks eaks ab about outt th the he gut gut-wrenching -wrenching loss of her chi child, ild, w w who was as also shot and killed. Lik Like ke Scott, Sc cott, she has ccome ome her heree to adv advocate o cate ffor o or b better etter gun ccontrol ontrol in her ccommunity. o ommunit y. But not eeveryone ver yone ha has as

the same agenda. In tthe he back of the chamb chambers, ers, a gr group oup of mostly white men ar aree her heree to shoutt them down.

Some hold pr otest signs protest signs,, while others wear yyellow ellow St ar of Star Da avvid armbands David armbands.. The Theyy ar aree the p ersecuted—not the dead. d Bef fo ore persecuted—not Before the meeting ends ends,, onee of these men will tell Sc ott, an Afri can Americ an, Scott, African American, ou ccame ame to “go back to wher wheree yyou fr om.” Said one at tend dee, “I think from.” attendee, there should ha ave b eeen a met al there have been metal detector .” detector.”

This F eb. 8 meeting g, held thr ee Feb. meeting, three months after Sunn yvaale passed Sunnyvale Measur C, a municip pal gun-control gun- control Measuree C, municipal or dinance, is only thee b eginning. ordinance, beginning.

C ommunities in Silic o V on aalley ha ave Communities Silicon Valley have une xp ectedly b ecomee gr ound zer o unexpectedly become ground zero ffor or o gun nuts and the male m volent malevolent NRA, as towns lik o Gatos and os likee L Los Cup p ertino cconsider onsider measur m es Cupertino measures

similar to Sunn Sunnyvale’s, yvale’s, which rrestricts estricts the th he size of gun clips and rrequires equires greater grreater record-keeping record-keeping of firearms. fir earms.

F Forum orum or organizer ganizer and Mount Mountain ain View V ie i w rresident esid dent Sally Lieb Lieber, er, a fformer ormer o state st ate assem assemblymember mblymember who in 20 2005 05 successfully suc cessfullly cco-authored o -authored a bill to ban snip sniper err rifles rifles,, sa says ays y the pr protesters otesters were were “helll b bent ent on shouting down and stoppi stopping ing our fforum. orum. But we o kept k ept mo moving viing fforward.” or o ward.” The anger displayed displa ayed b byy pr pro-gun o -gun activists ma may ay have ha ave work worked ked to dr drown own out the speakers, sp eakers, Lieb L Lieber er adds adds,, but ther there’s e’s a far mor moree subst substantial antial gr group oup that won’t won ’t b bee so s easily intimidated: vvoters. oters.

O Officials fficialls fr from om mor moree than a half halffdozen lo local cal a municipalities— municipalities—San San Carlos, C arlos, Me Menlo enlo P Park, ark, L Los os Altos Altos,, Cupertino, Cup ertino o, San JJose ose and L Los os Gatos— — ar aree closelyy w watching atching Sunn Sunnyvale’s yvale’s ccase ase whilee cconsidering onsidering their own initiatives initiativ es in up upcoming coming elections elections..

The San F Francisco–based rancisco –based L Law aw Center C enter to Pr Prevent event Gun V Violence iiolence has b begun egun n pr providing oviding fr free ee legal

laws stores. laaw ws when it ccomes omes to gun stor es.

That mo movement began vement b egan when Templar Sports opened doors Teemplar Sp ports op ened its do ors just days after Newtown. daays y aft fter N ewtown. Alarmed residents residents demanded ouncil deemanded the ccouncil revoke gun-shop revoke the gunshop owners’ zoning permit, partt b because theree wer weree permit, in par p ecause ther prior to the stor store’s no public hearings h e’s opening.

Templar was opening. T eemplar w as eeventually ventually allowed to rremain open new emain op en with ne w conditions, approval process conditions, and an appr oval pr ocess was created stores. was cr eated d ffor or future o future gun stor es.

Shannon member Sh n Susick, S i k a memb b er off the Citizen Citizens Safe ns Coalition Coalition for for o a Saf fe Los Gatos,, says group Los Gatos saayys the gr oup plans on starting process organizing starting thee pr o cess of or ganizing toward ballot measuree this spring spring.. toward a b allot measur “There’s bee done done,, “There’s more m e work to b mor that’s says. that’s ffor or sure,” o su ure,” she sa ayys.

The process Sunnyvale took process in Sunn yvale to ok several months organizing, several mo nths of or ganizing, says saayys Spitaleri, Spitaleri, who w dedicated dedicated his last year year in office offi ffice to working with other concerned on Measure concerned d citizens ii Measure C. C. He insists that t he rreached eached out to the NRA and other pro-gun advocates o pr o -gun adv o cates to find ccommon ground.

“Theyy om mmon gr ound. “The never says. never ccalled alled back,”” he sa ayys. spokesman A sp okesman e ffor or o the law w firm representing representin ng the NRA in the Sunnyvale lawsuit Sunnyvale la aw wsuit told Metro Metro in an email that his firm was too busyy to was to o bus respond interview respond to o an inter view request. request.

Spitaleri Spit aleri says saayys the majority majority of gun owners want laws want a sensible la aw ws on the books, b ooks, and d that it’s it’s the gun industry industr y and a small, small, vocal vocal group group that refuse refuse to b bend. end. measures “These local l cal measur lo es are are going to b bee their A Achilles says. chilles heel,”” he sa ayys. “It will weak weaken en n them, maybe maayybe driving down”” and discuss them to sitt down solutions. solutions.

Spitaleri people Spit aleri adds that most p eople he’s spoken aree he’s sp oken n to about about gun ccontrol ontrol ar not inter interested essted in ttaking aking aaway way guns. guns.

“We’re “W We’re not n there there to say saay you’re you’re not allowed allowed to have haave a gun in your your house to protect prrotect your your family,” familyy,” says saayys Scott, Scott, who spoke spoke at the forum forum o as a representative represeentative of the groups groups Healing 4 Our O Nation and Mothers in Charge.

Charge. “They “They didn’t didn’t give give us a chance chance to explain explain that.” that.”

Regardless, Regar e dleess, the momentum appears app ears to be be leaning in favor faavor of gun control. control.

“It was was unfortunate u fo unf or tunate that pro-gun pro -gun activists didn't did dn't take take advantage advantage of the opportunity opportunit t y to listen and learn more more about abou ut a movement movement that they they oppose,” opp ose,” Lieber Liieber says. saayys. “We “W We will keep keep organizing organizingg and continue continue to make make further fur ther gains.” gaiins.”

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counsel to some of the counsel these ese cities in inevitable anticipation of the ine evitable ccourt ourt challenges br brought ought b byy the NRA and pro-gun other pr o -gun fforces. o orces.

Sunn Sunnyvale’s yvale’s Measure Measurre C, C, which direct ccame ame in dir ect rresponse esp onsse to the December Dec emb er 2012 mass sho sshooting oting Newtown, Conn., in N ewtown, C onn., passed p with 66 6 6p percent ercent of vvoters oters ap approving pproving package a pack age of some of the t most progressive gun-control laws pr ogressive guncontrol o la aw ws in ordinance the ccountry. ountr y. The or din nance bans magazines moree ownership of magazin nes to no mor than 10 rrounds, ounds, rrequires equirres rresidents esidents to lock home,, plac places lo ck up their guns at home h es the onus on gungun-store store owners to keep k eep rrecords ecords of ammunition unition sales ammu makes ffor or o ttwo wo yyears ears and mak kes it a crime if lost or stolen guns ar aree not rreported epor ted hours.. within 48 hours A Ass eexpected, xpected, the NR NRA RA to took ok sswift wift temporary action, demanding a te emp orar y Lawyers injunction in ffederal eederal ccourt. ourt. L aw wyers both argued positions on b oth th sides id ar gued dp ositions iti i in Ronald Whyte’s JJudge udge R o onald M. Wh hyte y ’s San JJose ose Friday. ccourtroom our troom Frida ay.

Whyte’s anyy Wh hyyte’s decision is eexpected xp ected an day, bee aff affected da ay, and his ruling ccould ou uld b ffeected byy a rrecent Francisco, b ecent ccase ase in San n Francisc o, wheree a judge last wee week wher ek tossed out the NRA NRA’s lawsuit A’s law wsuit against a cityy st statute high-capacity cit atute banning h igh- capacity magazines.. An NRA sp spokesman magazines p okesman organization appeal said the or ganization will w app eal that Overcoming h judge's j d ' decision. d ii O Ov ercoming i bee far mor moree an electorate ccould ould b difficult. While C Congress ongress has done Newtown tragedy, nothing since since the N ewtown w tragedy y, polling broad majorityy p olling shows that a b road majorit Americans favor greater of Americ ans fa avor gr e eater gun background checks.. ccontrol ontrol and back groun nd checks “The one thing [thee NRA is] Tony afraid of is the vvotes,” otes,” sa ssays ayys T ony o Spitaleri, previously served Spit aleri, who pr eviou usly ser ved as ma mayor ayor of Sunn Sunnyvale yvalee and spearheaded sp earheaded Measure Measure C. C. “We “W We demonstrated that wh when hen yyou ou put sensible gun measur measures ess on the ballot, theyy pass the pass.. The Theyy ccan’t an’t buy b the vvoters. oters.

The Theyy ccan’t an’t influenc influencee th the he vvoters oters with their mone money. y. So knowi knowing ing that, that that’s ’s our le leverage.” verage.”

Along with memb members e of the ers Sunnyvale Sunn yvale Citizens ffor o orr Sensible Gun Measures gun-control Measur es and other gu un- control groups, Spitaleri Lieber aree gr oups, Spit aleri and Lieb L er ar other locales. helping activists in oth her lo cales.

And the Sunn Sunnyvale group yvale gr o is not oup town—even moree done in its own town— — even mor gun-control measures bee on guncontrol measur es ccould ould b way. the w ayy.

Activists Gatos successfully Activists in Los Los Gato os suc cessfully lobbied the town ccouncil oun ncil in September tougher Septemb er to enact tou ugher zoning

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Union-backed pollsterss marketed the rresults esults survey of their first publicized sur vey in the San mayor’s proof Jose mayor ’s rrace ace as pr roof that their pick, early Dave Cortese,, has an ea arly lead with 19 percent approval. the per centt appr oval.l But B t th h number he b th thatt rreally eally ll percent, haven’t matters is 39 per cent,, the t rrate ate of rrespondents espondents who haven n’t yet decided who to support year.r. in the rrace ace to succeed Mayor M Chuck Reed, who terms out at the end of the year finished percent ceent but held just a 6-point Madison Nguyen finishe ed second in the poll with 15 per Liccardo edge on Cortese with Asian Asian voters. Sam Liccar do garnered garnered d 10 percent percent approval approval for for third, subgroup. thir d,, despite not having having a lead in any demographic demographic subgr roup. Pierluigi Oliverio had 8 percent per cent of respondents’ respondentss’ support, Rose Herrera Herrera came in fifth fiffth with 6 percent. percent.

HIGH-WASTED HIGH-WASTE ED Miley Cyrus’ concert in San n Jose on Tuesday brought out the fans—of hers and pot.

Pot P ot Cl Clubs lubs Go to Twerk Tw weerk Mile Mileyy Cyru Cyrus us told Rolling Roolling Stone Stone magazine that thaat “weed is the best best drug on earth,” earth h,”” and that she once once smoked smoked a joint join nt with peyote p eyote in it and saw saaw a wolf wo olf howling at the moon. mo on. So when wh hen the pop pop star star known for fo or humping foam fo oam fingers and blazing on stage stage stopped stopped by

by San Jose’s on Tuesday Jose’s SAP SAP Center Center e Tuesdayy as part par t off her h tour, to our, supporters suppor ters off a local local marijuana marijuaana initiative initiative knew knew they they needed to canvass can nvass the area area like like a leotarded ball. leotarded wrecking wrecking e Advocates Advocates of the San Jose Jose Medical Medical Marijuana Regulation for Regulation e fo or San Jose Jose Act Act of 2014—drafted 2014— —drafted in response response to the city’s cittyy’s “failure “failure to come come up with workable workable regulations regu ulations for fo or San Jose Jose cannabis cannabis clubs”—want club bs”—want to gather 30,000 30,000 signatures signattures by by 4/20 to place place it on the November Novem mber ballot. Targeting Tar a geting “Smilers” aged d 18 and above above seemed like like a good good place pllace to start. start.

The initiative initiattive came came in response resp onse to the city’s city’s efforts effo eff or ts to clamp down on pot p ot clubs. clubs. Despite collecting collecting more more than $55 million annually in taxes taxes from from m medical medical marijuana

trransactions, city city officials continue continu ue transactions, o say saay collectives collectives are are illegal and to m be shut down. A most should be prrop osed ordinance ordinance expected exp ected to proposed come o for o ward in March March would come forward eff ffeectively shutter ff shutter most of the effectively 8 00 or-so pot pot clubs that operate operate 80-or-so w city limits. limits. within city Cannabis club advocates advo cates hope hope Cannabis o have havve better better luck with voters, voters, and a to M y fans, Mile fans, as polling p olling shows greater greaater Miley accceptance of medical medical marijuanaa acceptance an nd outright legalization since since Prop P op Pr and 19 9’s defeat deffeat e in 2010.

19’s “Don’t worry,” worr y,” Dave Daave Hodges, Hodges, “Don’t on ne of the initiative’s initiative’s authors, authors, said saaid one ah head of the concert, concert, “we will be be ahead collecting o signatures for for o the 2014 4 collecting signatures sttatewide legalization at the show w statewide well.” ass well.” eff ffo ort comes comes off as a little littlle If the effort —ffor o Pete’s Pete’s sake, sake, tweens t weens are are crass—for crrass— prresent!—it’s probably probably worth wor th noting notting present!—it’s th hat earlier this month Girl Scouts Scou uts that an nd their parents parents had no problem problem m and tar a geting local local collectives collectives to sell targeting co okies. cookies.

—Jeenniffeer Wadsworth Waadsworth —Jennifer

High SStakes takees The nearly ttwo-year wo-yeear st w sstandoff andoff bettween between w the cit city ty of San n JJose ose and owners of C Casino asino M8trix ma may ay finally fi b bee ccoming oming to an end. On Monda Monday, ay, owners of the Tetris-adorned T eetris-adorned tower and an nd ccard ard club filed papers pap ers to pull their la lawsuit aw wssuit o over veer se several veral e disputes—mainly the ci city’s itty’ y s rrejection ejection of gaming on the top/eigh top/eighth hth flo floor. or.

Sean Kali-Rai, a lobb lobbyist byyist ffor or the ccard o ar ad club,, said he met Cit club City ty Manager M Ed Shik Shikada hik kada ad last l week k ffor o or ccoffee offe off ffee and d had h d his hi “first meaningful intera interaction” action n” with a cit city ty official in six months months..

A CCall all to Action Action c A bur bureaucratic reeaucratic glitch h has made it cheaper ffor cheaper or inmates to phone o p out out-oft-offstate st taate than close to home home. e.

The F Federal ederal C Communications ommu uniccations a Commission C ommission (FC (FCC) C) han handed nded down a ruling this month that slashed s the rate of interst interstate ate ccalls alls b byy 85 p percent, ercent, dipping the ccost ost down to 21 ccents en nts a minute ffor or o pre-paid pr e-paid and 2 255 ccents ents ffor o or ccollect ollect ccalls. alls.

Now N ow it it’s ’s up to Santa Santa Cla Clara ara County Countty jails to figur figure re out how to bri bring ing lo local cal pric prices es down to scale sccaale with federal feedeeral rates rates..

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Law cityy officials Law enforcement enffo orcement and cit delayed delaayed M8trix’s M M8trix’ s opening opening ffor or ffour o o our months in partt b because n 2012, in par ecause of concerns concerns about a out how easily gaming ab floor bee monitor monitored. on the top p flo or ccould ould b ed.

M8trix owner Swallow ow wner Eric Sw allow originally proposed poker proposed high-limit h p oker ffor or o the partitioned floor, partitioned flo or, but gaming commissioner commissio oner Richard Richard Teng Teeng and former police Moore former o pollice chief Chris Mo ore had reservations. lawsuit reservation ns. In its la aw wsuit against the city, accused Teng having city, Swallow Swallo ow ac cused T eeng of ha avving conflicts cityy is now conflicts off interest. interest. The cit in the process moving oversight process of mo ovving o versight away away from from m police police to an independent independent body. body.

“Once “Once litigation liitigation takes takes place, place, everything freeze, everythingg goes goes into a deep fr eeze,” Kali-Rai said. saaid. “There’s “There’s been been a little little bit of thawing, thaaw wingg, so we’re we’re hopeful. hopeful.”

Josh Koehn — J oosh K oehn

step fforward o orwar ard because beccause a impr improving oving v inmate ccommunication ommuniccation a with the outside world has b been een pr proven roveen to rreduce educe the o odds dds of rre-offending. e-off ffeendin ngg. Plus Plus,, the FC FCC C adds adds,, families of inmates ar are re dispr disproportionately oportionately poverty-stricken, p oveerty-striick keen, which mak makes kes e spik spiked-up ked-up e phone rate ratess unjust and pr predatory. edatory.

O Off ccourse, ours o e, Global T Tel-Link, eel-Link, the provider pr ovvider ffor o Elm or Elmwood mw wood and the main jail in San JJose, ose, opp opposes oses the ruling ruling, g, sa saying ayying it brings the rates r b below elow the ccost ost of doing business.. Th business The he pric pricee dr drop op also means ccounty ountty jailss will ha have ave to find ne new ww ways ays y to pa pay ay ffor o or jo job ob training and par parenting enting classes.—Jennifer classes .—Jennif e feer W Wadsworth aadsworth

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Janet Lipkin, Hommage to African Quilt, 2003

MARCH 7th ART WALK 7–11pm

MACLA

499 So. Market St.

510 So. First St.

Opening: We's Gone Be Fine new works by Jeremiah Maddock “because I have said that verbally more times this year than ever before...and we are always gone some place rolling the dice. It’s been a nice vagabonding period.” ~Jeremiah Maddock All new works from our favorite hyper obsessive nomadic artist from the Pacific Northwest (this time.)

Scott Jennings creates supple, sensuous tableware from thin slabs of porcelain–pinched, stretched, patterned and assembled by hand.

Bright pastel glazes adorn each piece to emphasize details and add vibrant color. Watch Scott demonstrate his techniques First Friday, March 7th at 8pm at Higher Fire!

LATINO ART NOW! 16TH ANNUAL ART AUCTION + EXHIBITION The auction includes work by established contemporary artists and prominent Bay Area artists.These artists have generously donated selections from their current work, including paintings, light installations, sculpture, collage, mixed-media work, and photography, reflecting the breadth of visual arts media for which MACLA is known.

Art Ark Gallery

KALEID Gallery

1035 So. Sixth St.

88 So. Fourth St.

Cross Pollination An art exhibition featuring the work of art faculty and staff working in the Art Departments of Silicon Valley's 6 community colleges: Evergreen Community College, San Jose City College, Mission College,West Valley College, Foothill College and De Anza College.

Live music by Freya Seeburger.

Two new feature exhibitions: Siddhartha Year by Bryson Bost.

Influenced by the nature of the land and the people of distant places, as well as his favorite sanctuary, “the Bay Area.”

Fracture by Andy Wallace.

Geometric, figurative imagery encoded with social commentary.

Above image by Andy Wallace.

Phantom Galleries + Cinequest Live Art Contest

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

WORKS San José

520 So. First St.

While You Are Here…

A collaborative experience of being in the present: Trina Merry and Theresa Because play with creative processes between artists and viewers to create environments. The community is invited to participate in this process by using mixed media tools to capture and visually layer moments of interaction into a time-based collage.

Metamorphosis: Clothing & Identity showcases work by influential founders of the Artwear movement,.

Tasty, too! highlights work from the Women of Taste, A Collaboration Celebrating Quilt Artists and Chefs exhibit & catalog. Meet & Make workshop with SF Etsy leader Jen Johnson: celebrate spring by making tiny birdhouses.

Additional Participating Venues:

Higher Fire Clay

366 So. First St.

Jean Davis, Emergence I, oil on canvas

Anno Domini

365 So. Market St.

Phantom Galleries 95 So. Market Street Seeing Things Gallery 30 No.Third Street Silicon Valley Music Festival at Sliding Door Company 355 So. First Street Zero1 Garage 439 So. First Street Café Stritch 372 So. First Street Caffé Frascati 315 So. First Street Downtown Yoga Shala 450 So. First Street Pho69 Restaurant 321 So. First Street Psycho Donuts 288 So. Second Street South First Billiards 420 So. First Street The Studio Climbing Gym 396 So. First Street TechShop San Jose 300 So. Second Street

Camera Cinemas 12 on Paseo de San Antonio @ So. 2nd St. Phantom Galleries is proud to once again partner with Cinequest Film Festival to bring a live painting event and contest featuring artists: Jean Davis, LAuruS Myth & Avery Palmer.

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HOUSE H OUSE OF OF THOUGHT THOUGHT A meditation cabin n stands among trees at the Sh Shanti hanti Ashrama.

L Local oca al history has ov overlooked verlooked the Western world’s first ashram, W e este ern world ’s firs st ashram m,, builtt behin a century cen ntury ago behind nd Mt. Hamilton Hamilton n BY B Y GARY GARY SINGH

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HE ANTI-MAN-ABOUTANTI-MAN-ABOUTTOWN T OWN W recently became bec ame aware aware of yet another ano other slice of halfhalf-Western Eastern, ha alf-Western history unique to Santa Clara Clara County.

County.

At the Asian Asia an Art Museum in San Francisco, Fran ncisco, he was was the South Bay reminded that t played a major m or role in the maj history of Hinduism's Hinduism s foray foray into the West.

West.

In the sum summer mmer of 19 1900, 00, the ccelebrated elebrated Sw waami V iivveekananda Swami Vivekananda dispatched a delegation d of the V eedanta So cieety to the eastern side Vedanta Society of Mt. Hamilt ton with the purp ose of Hamilton purpose est ablishing a “p eace retreat. retreat.” establishing “peace

Byy then,, V Vivekananda iivekananda had alr already eaadyy lectured Chicago, New le ectured extensively extensively in Chic ago, N ew York Francisco, Y ork and San Francisc o o, but this locale rremote e emote lo cale 15 miles southeast of o Observatory, L Obser Lick vatory, in the middle off nowhere, portion n nowher e, at the far eastern p ortio on off Sant Santaa Clara C County, first st o ounty, was was a the fir Western H Hindu rretreat etreat in the W eestern world. worrld.

Att least that's what the V Vedanta A eedanta Society says.

Swamis Turiyananda S ociety sa ays y . Sw amis T uriyanandaa and Trigunatitaa wer weree among thos those an nd Trigunatit se helped lleaders le eaders d who h initially i iti ll help h l ed d establish esttabl bllish li h and maintain an nd maint ain the property, property, which h blossomed popular b lossomed into a p opular rretreat etreat d during the first half of the 20th ccentury. e entur y. books, On its website and in its b ooks, the Vedanta Northern th he V eedanta Society Society of N orthern California documents the C aliffornia o do cuments much of th he

story b ehind hi d the h rretreat's etreat's e ' inc iinception. eption. A story behind emarkable tale, tale, it bears bears a quick truly rremarkable summary. In 1900, 1900,, a Vedanta Veedanta student, summary.

C. Bo oock, owned one Miss Minnie C. Boock, 160 acres acres of isolated isolated pr operty nearly 160 property a y— alle —that is in the San Antonio V Valley—that is,, between Lick Obser vaatory and where where between Observatory Interstate 5 would late er emer ge.

Interstate later emerge. aas in New New York York o at tttending She w was attending lectures and hanging out o with Sw ami lectures Swami Viivekananda,, who was was a then initially Vivekananda, eedanta teachings to bringing the V Vedanta American soil.

American Viivekananda was waas looking lo ooking for fo or a Vivekananda place to establish establish a retreat rettreat and Boock Boock place gaave him the property. property. Vivekananda Viivvek e ananda gave am mi Turiyananda, Turiyananda, then dispatched Sw Swami alreaady assigned to whom he had already aliffornia o chapterr, to lead a the C California chapter, contingent o ver Mt. Hamilton H contingent over and on etreat area. area. It was was to b alled to the rretreat bee ccalled Sh i Ashrama.

Ashrama. h O their th i w ay up Shanti On way they stayed stayed at the to Mt. Hamilton, they Rita Hotel,, and after a tr eacherous Rita treacherous descent into then-unknown known territor then-unk descent territoryy side, they they arrived arrived at the on the other side, property in August August off 1900.

1900. At At that property time, San Jose Jose was was nott yet yeet the prune time, capital of the Western Western e n world. capital

Ov ver e thee ne xt ffew ew decades, decades, V eedanta Over next Vedanta sswamis wamis an nd de votees would build and devotees living quar rters, work the land quarters, and utilizee the rretreat etreat ffor o or lectur es lectures and medit tation sessions. sessions. The only meditation rremnant emnant of o the original ccompound ompound still remaining remaining today todaay is the 12-by-1212-by-12ffoot oot medit tation ccabin, abin, now painted meditation white ich sits in a meadow white,, whi which surr oundeed b or o ested en virons. surrounded byy fforested environs.

Each yyear, ear, sswamis wamis and de votees still devotees visit the is olated pr operty to engage isolated property in spiritua al practic e. spiritual practice.

N o San JJose ose histor ook No historyy b book acknowled dges an de acknowledges anyy of this this.. In Cly Clyde Arbuckle'ss definitiv y, he definitivee histor history, thr ew in a ffew ew Swedish chur ches threw churches that date fr ffrom om ar ound the same around time n on the V eedanta time,, but nothing Vedanta So ciety. I rrelayed elaayed this ttale ale to m cal Society. myy lo local eexperts—both xperts—b both in ac ademe and in the academe gut ters‚ an nd none of them kne w the gutters‚ and knew stor eitheer. storyy either.

T odd P e eira, err i who h lectur llectures t es att Todd Perreira, SJSU in ccomparative o omparativ e rreligious eligious studies and activ e rresearches ely esearches the histories actively n rreligions eligions and their initial of Eastern fforays oraayys into o o the lo cal geo graph hy, said local geography, V edant e a's entranc Vedanta's entrancee into Sant Santaa Clara C ounty is imp ortant.

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“Ther w ery ffew ew opp ortunities “Theree wer weree vvery opportunities in those da ays y to actually translate days one ’s ssympathy ymp path hy ffor o or these rreligions eligions one’s into an act tual practic e,” P erreira told actual practice, Perreira me “S th h fact he f that h Miss Mi Minnie Mi i me.. “So the C ock, in i the summer of 1900, 1900, C.. Bo Boock, fformally ormally deeded o d her Mt. Hamilton homestead d to Sw ami V iivekananda, Swami Vivekananda, the st ar off the W orld’ o sP arliament,, ffor or o star World’s Parliament, the eexpressed xpresssed purp ose of set ttting up purpose setting an ashram m,, the first V edant e a rretreat etreat in ashram, Vedanta ose into the W eesterrn world,, ccasts asts San JJose Western the rrole ole off inaugural her o during the hero pioneer da ayys of rreligious eligious and cultural days pluralism in i Americ a.”

America.

Shanti A shrama ccan an b ed Ashrama bee plac placed in the sam me historic al ccontext ontext as same historical Herman V eetterling, a.k.a. Philangi Vetterling, Dasa,, the publisher p of the first Buddhist p eriodical in Americ a,, who periodical America, p ermanen ntly set tled in San JJose ose in permanently settled 19 01. F ifty yyears ears later o 1901.

Fifty later,, another her hero named JJack acck K erouac would stumble Kerouac into the Sa an JJose ose Public Librar San Libraryy and disc over Bu uddhism. discover Buddhism.

The eexploits xploits of V iivekananda and Vivekananda the V eedantta So ciety wer Vedanta Society weree seen as k ooky by

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CINEQUEST CINEQUEST XXI IV XXIV DATES D AT ES March Mar ch 4-16 4-16

WHEREE Camera C amera 12 1 Cinemas, Cinemas 201 S. Se Second econd S St., t., San Jose (C12) Theatre, San Josee Repertory Theatr e, Paseo 101 P aseeo de San Antonio, San Josee (Rep) California Theatre, C aliforniaa Theatr e, First (Cal) 345 S. Fir rst St., St., San Jose (C al)

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IS CINEQUEST a bigger biigger deal for for the ffans anss and filmmakers who o fly in fr from om all parts of the world d, or ffor or locals who gett to see downtown San San Jose come world, alive in a way it do oes ffew ew times in the year—in y s eenings of scr does addition to screenings mor ind dependent films, and pr p esentations ffeaturing eaturin ng influential moree than 150 independent presentations filmmaking figures? figures?

Cinequest q #24 is 13 1 days y and nights g p ,p part ties and #24 of films, workshops, parties networking. The ffamous a amous (such as novel ist Neil Gaiman, actorss Matthew novelist Modine and Christopher Christtopher Meloni, Ain’t Itt Cool ffounder ounder Har ry Knowles) Knowles) Harry ar memorable local appe earances this year ening night aree sur suree to make memorable appearances year.. Op Opening ffeatures eatures a screening screeniing of director director Don Mc cKellar ’s The Gr Grand rand a Se Seduction eduction, McKellar’s March 4, 7pm at the the California California Theatre.

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March But it’s it’s the peoplee you haven’t met yet who will make this year’s yeear ’s event festivals of years yeears before. before. What makes makkes Cinequest at least as speciall as the festivals really Cinequest iss the surprise of seeing seein ng something you’d never neever see really anywhere else. Below Beelow are are some of the standouts, s anywhere and check upcoming Metro o ffor o mor or moree on the ffest est in the weeks to come.. And A visit issues of Metr metroactive.com for for additional stories, including a Q&A with Martin metroactive.com Cooperr, the ffather atherr of the cellphone.

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Star rk, wide-angle winter land dscapes. As Uneasy Lies the th he Mind snapsho Min nd opens, opens, it’s it’s a string of familiar fa amiliar moments: snapshots ots thatt could have turned up on n Facebook, Facebook, posted by a who’s friend who o’s in Tahoe Tahoe for a few days. dayss. The saturated saturated colors, colors, darkened edges e of frames frames and washes washes of overly warm warm or cold d blend tones blen d into a blown-out, blown out lo-fi lo fi look lo ook that confers a patina of nostalgia, instant no stalgia, like Instagram Instagram shots sho ots come to life. And that’s that’’s from not far fro m the truth.

Though Instagram Insttagram had nothing to do with the film,, director d ector Ricky dir Rick ky Fosheim Fosheim shot the thrille thriller er using an iPhone 5 and an app ccalled FiLMiC Pro alled F iLMiC Pr ro 2.

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iPhone and Andr Android oid as a to tools ols to create cr eate cinema. Uneas Uneasy sy Lies the Mind implements the smar smartphone t tphone as a ne new ww way ay to sho shoot ot a mo movie; vie; the Dutch thriller APP em mploys the employs phone as a ne ww ay to o vie w a mo vie. new way view movie.

L os Angeles-based fil lmmaker Los filmmaker F osheim sa ayys his Uneas sy Lies the Fosheim says Uneasy Mind d pr emiere at Mind,, making its world premiere Cinequest,, is the first fictional fi ffeature eatur e e film to b elly on an iPhone bee made entir entirely 5—a film shot with a Hong H K ongo Kongmade T urtleback 35mm m lens adapter Turtleback meant to use the visua al limit ations visual limitations and glitches in the med dium. medium.

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“I kne knew w that it w was as going to b bee kinda grain ny and handheld and grainy vvery ery fragm mented,, distor ted. It w asn’t fragmented, distorted. wasn’t supp osed to t b supposed bee a crisp and clean image ,” F o osheim sa ays y. image,” Fosheim says.

Mik abehl,, pr ogramming Mikee Ra Rabehl, programming dir ector off Cinequest, ccomments, omments, director “W We ha ave shown shor “We have shortt films shot on phones b efo ef ore, of ccourse, ourse, but ne ver a before, never ffeature eeature shot sho ot entir ely on the iPhone entirely iPhone..

This is the first I know of that utilizes thee phone as a true ccamera.” amera.”

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A DIFFERENT ‘HER’ STORY? In ‘APP,’ Anna (Hannah Hoekstra) discovers IRIS, a new app, has appeared phone—and quickly mysteriously appeare ed on her phone and it quick kly begins taking over her life.

Fosheim F osheim has writ written ten n ab about out how careful he w careful was as to test this t rigged-up iPhone against other p popular opular digit digital al ccameras, ameras, such as the R Red eed Epic and the C Canon5D anon5D Markill.

The dir director ector notes hi his is influenc influencee byy JJanusz b anusz Kaminski’ Kaminski’ss work w in Saving Priv Private atte R Ryan. yan. Th The he P Polish olish cinematographer cinemato grapher br brought ought a ticky, tick ky, thousand-yard thousandyard st stare are to the pictur picturee byy gut b gutting ting his 35mm ccamera a amera of its pressure pr p essure p plate and rregistration egis g stration p pins that k keep eep the film in pl place lace as it passes byy the iris b iris.. The rresult: esult: Kaminski K emulated the slightly unsteady u images ccaught aught b byy the 33-lens, -lens, 16mm wind-up Bole Bolexx mo movie vie ccameras ameras used during W World o orld War II b byy newsreel newsreel ccamera amera op operators. erators. ((The Thee lo look ok has

become become a cliché; c it it’s ’s turned up p in w war ar movie movie afterr w war ar movie movie since.) since.)

The distorted disto orted lo look ok rreinforces einffo orces a surreal surreal quality quaalitty in Uneas Uneasy sy Lies the Mind as thee stor storyy emer emerges: ges: friends gather at a mount mountain ain ccabin abin to celebrate celebrate P Peter’s eter’s ((Jonas Jonas F Fisch) isch) birthday. birthdaay. An A under undercurrent current of apprehension apprehensiion (o (over ver P Peter’s eter’s wif wife’s fe’s pregnancy, pregnancyy, another ccouple’s ouple’s marit marital al tension) de devolves evolves into jealous confrontations confrontatiions and fragmented g conversations con nversatio ons that seem incr increasingly easingly distant distant fr from om m rreality. eality.

The phon phone’s ne’s small size and light weight allo allowed owed ffor o or claustr claustrophobic ophobic closeups an and nd shots ttaken aken fr from om tight corners corners or fr ffrom om right within the action, whe where ere a mor moree cumb cumbersome ersome

traditional ccamera amera rigg ccouldn’t ouldn’t go. go. However, However, the phone pr proved oved d less hardy hardy than a ccamera, amera, as we well. ell.

Working Wo orking on an icy mountain—the mountain— —the film w was as shot at Mammoth L Lake ak ke during a bliz blizzard—the zard—the dir director ectorr notes the fr frequent equent fr freezing eezing up of the iPhone due to low temp temperatures. eratures e.

Fosheim Fosheim emphasizes that des despite spite the aavailability vvailability of higher higher-end - end equipment,, he ffelt eelt that the iPh iPhone hone best best cconveyed onveyed the lo look ok he w wanted— antted— it was was aesthetics that dr drove ove his choic choicee of ccamera. amera. “Ev “Even en when yyou’d ou’d p plug lug the iPhone into the char charger ger wh while hile you you were were filming filming,, yyou’d ou’d get the these ese weird weird electrical electrical pulses pulses,, onc oncee eevery ver e y three three or ffour our sec o seconds, onds, ther theree wil will ll b bee one frame kind of flashing a lit little t tle

brighter. brighter g . It It’s ’s vvery ery su subtle. ubtle. What b better etter way way to represent represent a dying d man man’s ’s memory memory than to ha have ave these electric electrical al pulses and these dirty, dirrty, grain grainy, ny, vignetted vignetted shots. shots. W We’d e’d k keep eep dir dirtt and hair on the lenses so o it would b bee kind of nast nastyy lo looking.” okin ng.”

Fosheim Fosheim aims to rrecall ecall the first generation of digital digital a filmmak filmmakers, ers, who also got an aes aesthetic thetic b byy pushing the limits of their har h hardware: dware: the smeary, smeary, ggoldenr goldenrod-colored od- colored nimbuses in Harmony Harmony K Korine’s orinee’s digit digital-taped al-taped camera camera work, the w way ay the to too-bright o -bright candles candles glow lik likee ccathode-ray a atho de-raay flar flaree in early Do Dogme gme films films.. And ttwo wo of the last rreally eally frightenin frightening ng horr horror or films films,, David Daavvid Lynch’s Lynch’s Inlandd Empir Empiree and The

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Unseen U nseen fforces o orces of a diff d different ffeerent natur naturee fuel the sc scares ares in Dutc Dutch ch dir director ector Bobb Bobbyy Bo Boermans’ ermans’ APP APP, P, a thriller about ab out IRIS IRIS,, a male malevolent voleent app that ttakes akes o over ver a woman woman’s ’s lif life. fe. (IRIS is SIRI sp spelled elled back backwards.) kwards d .)

Touted T outed o as the first mo movie m vie made ffor or o the “sec “second ond scr screen,” een n,”” APP allows audiences audienc es to use theirr phones as par partt of the film. V Viewers iiewers do download ownload an app—a app —a b benign enign vversion ersion n of IRIS—at the mo movie’s vie’s st start art to rreceive eceive ssynced ynced texts te xts and additional ccontent o ontent on their phones as the atch the mo vie in theyy w watch movie the theater ermanss par tnered theater.. Bo Boermans partnered with media ccompany ompany 2CF ilm 2CFilm produce the IRIS ap pp, which to produce app, supplements the actio on on the action scr een with messages or shor screen shortt clips on vie wers’’ de vices. If characters te xt viewers’ devices. text each other es will see the other,, audienc audiences cconversation onversation on their phones phones..

“Most of us generall users ha ave no have idea wher erson nal dat es wheree our p personal dataa go goes after we enter it on a ccomputer, omputer, ttablet ablet or smar tphone …. ermans smartphone ….”” Bo Boermans sa ayys. “This sc ary thoug ght led to the says. scary thought idea of de veloping an eexciting xciting stor developing storyy aabout bout a ruthless smar tp phone app smartphone app.. ... A e eally w anted a Att the same time time,, I rreally wanted to mak ke a film that esp pecially would make especially app eal to a yyounger o ounger au udience. And appeal audience.

sinc ayys ar sincee most kids these da days aree glued to their sm martphones (y yees, let's fac smartphones (yes, facee it,, eeven veen insi ide a mo vie theater),, it inside movie b ecame pr etty ob et bvious v to me that became pretty obvious we also had d to de velop e an actual app develop app,, ccomplementary omplementary to the mo ovvie itself movie itself.f. It just ffelt eelt lik ke sec ond natur e.” like second nature.

In or derr to ssynchronize ynchronize vie wers’ order viewers’ phones wit p th the action on the bigg with scr een, APP P rrepurposes epurposes technolo gy screen, technology originally de d veeloped to ccombat ombat illegal developed downloads s. SyncN ow w, digit al audio downloads.

SyncNow, digital w atermark king softw waare, is emb edded watermarking software, embedded in the mo ovvie’s soundtrack. These movie’s w atermark ks, which use the full audio watermarks, sp ectrum but b ar spectrum aree inaudible to humans humans,, send signal ls to the mo ovie v app thr ough signals movie through the sp eak keerrs on vie wers’’ phones speakers viewers’ phones..

The app is then pr ompted to show prompted messages g and a additional ccontent. ontent.

Cr eatingg a film ffor o or dual scr eens— Creating screens— wher ome ccases ases audienc es on wheree in so some audiences their phon nes will learn k ey piec es phones key pieces of inf fo ormaation b effo ore the film ’s information before film’s pr otagonisst do es, while also structuring protagonist does, APP P so tha at it mak kees sense ffor or vie o wers that makes viewers not using their t phones—pr oved a phones—proved challenge ffor o or editing the film.

“Y Yo ou ha ave ttwo wo stor ylines and yyou o ou “You have storylines ha ave to det termine what yyou’re ou ou’’re going to have determine show on which w scr een,” Bo ermans sa ays y. screen, Boermans says.

Anotherr unusual cconsideration: onsideration: ac countingg ffor o or the thr ee sec onds on accounting three seconds aaverage veerage ne eeded ffor o or audienc es to sswitch witch needed audiences ffocus ocus b etween w the mo vie scr een and between movie screen phone scr e . A ffew eens ew sc enes had to screens. scenes b xtended so that audienc es bee slightly eextended audiences ccould ould mak ke the transition without make

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CALLING AH AHEAD HEAD Neither N either F Fosheim osheim nor Bo B Boermans ermans have their ccould ould ha ave achieved achieeveed thei ir rrespective eespectivve portability visions without the p ortabilit a ty of mobile devices. de vices. And phones willl eevolve volv o ve to become moree mob mobile, says Martin b ecome eeven veen mor bile, sa ays y Mar tin Cooper, wireless C ooperr, the wir eless ccommunications om mmuniccations a who’s pioneer who o’s known as the father of phone.. (Cineque (Cinequest the ccell ell phone st ccelebrates elebrates Cooper’s Maverick C ooper’s work with a Ma aveerick Innovator Award Inno ovator v A war ard this yyear.) eeaarr.) . operative “The op erative thingg is that aree now part ccellphones ellphones ar part of our lives, livvees,” says. he sa ays y.

Cooper envisions a future, possibly C ooper en nvisions v fu uture, p ossibly moree generation, in just one mor generaation,, in which bee worn cconstantly, phones might b onstantlyy, embedded skin. emb edded under the sk kin. He sees the boon mobilityy in a b oon of eever-increasing verr--increasingg mobilit broader scope, greater br oader sc ope, as enabling enabliing still gr eater ccommunication. ommunication.

“The idea of makingg ccollaboration ollaboration moree efficient,, mor moree eff effective— mor ffeective— ff affect that will aff ffeect eeverything veerythiing we

do.. [Mo [Moviemaking] do viem making] is another where business wh here ccollaboration ollaboration is hierarchal crucial; thee whole idea of hierar chal organizations, start or ganizatio ons, that’s that’s going to st art disappearing.

Certainly that’s disapp earin ng. C ertainly that ’s true moviemaking, there’s of mo viemaaking, ther e’s still the director, still producer, dir ector, sti ill the pr oducer, when I see the cr credits watch movie. edits on it after I w atch a mo vie. thousands people.

It ttakes akes tho ousands of p eople. The have idea to ha ave a ccollaboration ollaboration going on people aree going and d lots l off those h p eople l ar i to bee par partt of the process.

Wee ha have b t pr ocess. W ave this naivee thingg wher wheree ther there’s naiv e’s one idea p erson. Thee thing that is true is that person. a lot of p eo ople ne veer get to off ffeer their people never offer input.”

P erhaps it iit’s ’s no accident accident that b oth Perhaps both of the filmss at Cinequest that pioneer the use of mobile m technolo gy, alb eit technology, albeit in vastly diff ffeerent w ff ayys, are are thrillers, thrillers, different ways, each dra aw win ng on the fact of ccellphones’ ellphones’ drawing integral rroles olees in daily lif fe. Phones ha ave life. have b ecome tru usted digit al assist ants that become trusted digital assistants not only go o most eeverywhere veerywhere their owners do ersonal do,, but also enable p personal interactions s: inst ant ccontact ontact with interactions: instant family and friends friends..

Uneas sy Lies Liies the Mind uses that Uneasy pr oximitty— —both ph hyysical and proximity—both physical figurativ ve—to — ccapture apture what we might figurative—to see in our mind’ m ye. APP pla ayys on mind’ss eeye. plays that same nearness n to sp peculate on speculate a worst -casee sc enario of p ersonal worst-case scenario personal technolo gy turned against us—while technology at the samee time enlisting de vicedevicetoting audie ences to mak en. audiences makee it happ happen.

Both F ossheim and Bo ermans Fosheim Boermans sa ay that the ey chose ccellphones ellphones say they simply as to ools in the ser vice of tools service telling sp eccific stories specific stories.. Though curr ent mo obile technolo gy ma ay current mobile technology may not supplan nt traditional means of supplant mo viemakiing, b oth dir ectors’’ films ectors moviemaking, both directors’ suggest thee eevolution volution of the phone in filmmaking filmmak king b eyond a no velty ffor or o beyond novelty its own sak ke. sake.

“I don ’t think t [A [[APP] APP] is going to don’t b ning ans wer of what the bee the defin defining answer futur ing to b e, but it ’s a small futuree is go going be, it’s par t. Ther ases part.

Theree will b bee mor moree test ccases and mor eexperiments—people xperiments—people ar moree ex aree going to seee what the an do with theyy ccan this technol logy,” Boermans Boermans sa ays y . ““As As technology, says. long as it se erves the stor y, eevery ver e y to ol is serves story, tool p ermitttted and a allowed.” permitted ‘Uneasy Lies the Mind’ shows Sat, 3/8, 9pm (C12); Sun, 3/9, 3/ /9, 2:30pm (C12); Fri, 3/14, 2:15pm (C12) ‘‘APP’ APP’ shows Fri, F 3/14, midnight (C12); Sat, 3/15, 4:3pm (C12) (

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APP P will mak make ke its U U.S. .S S. debut at already been Cinequest,, but has alr eaady b een ountries rreleased eleased in some European European e ccountries Kong.

Boermans says and Hong K ong o g. Bo erm mans sa ayys audiences, particularly audienc es, par ticularly yyounger ounger o viewers, have embraced second vie wers, ha ave embrac ed the sec ond screen scr een element.

“Everybody “Ev erybody has theirr phone with person them. If one p erson in the t theater they want h that has h rreaction eaction i that h th h hey w ant a to tryy it,, then other p people want tr eoplee w aant to go It’s socially acceptable, with it. It ’s so cially ac cep ptable, the fact there’s bee phones that ther e’s going to b p in the because it’s partt of the film,” theater b ecause it ’s par Boermans Bo ermans was Despite the fact that APP A P wa as generation made with a yyounger o ounger ge eneration of viewers Boermans doesn’t vie wers in mind,, Bo erm mans do esn n’’t necessarily nec essarily see second second screen sccreen as a successor gguaranteed suc cessor to o cconventional on nveentional moviemaking. mo ovviemaking. futuree of cinema is “I do think the futur that’s something that ’s going to t eevolve vo olvve in ways—second ccertain ertain w ays— y second screens, sccreens, moving moving chairs,, snow eff effects—cinemas have chairs ffeects—cin nemas ha ave innovate little to inno ovvate a lit tttle bit in n making the immersive eexperience xperience more more immer rsivve and more more enjoyable … Sec Second screen bee one enjo oyable y ond scr reen ccan an b things.. All thesee technolo technology of those things gy tools story, to ols ccan an help the stor y, the eexcitement xcitement entertainment and the enter tainment factor f of the movie. that’s where futuree mo ovvie. I think that ’s wh here the futur go.. Ev Every is going to go veery city citty is going to have movie theaters,,” he says. ha ave 5D mo ovvie theaters saayys.

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ACTING A CTING LIKE ADUL ADULTS LTS (76 min.) No surprise: (76 surrprise:: they don’t. don’t. A story of the squabbly afternoon Brett Brett (Mark Famiglietti) and Shannon (the Rose Byrneish Leslie Murphy) Murphhy) spent together, together, teetering or break on the verge verge of engagement e break up, as they participate participaate in a Los Los Angeles–wide scavenger hunt. hunt First prize is a diamond ring: if he gives her the thhe ring, will she give him the finger? At At times directors directors Kyle Kyle Laursen and Eric Martin show w some keen observation observation in anatomizing thee simmering quarrel quarrel between the two leads. One O scene stands out: the couple observing observingg the city from from a hillside, and neither can agree agree e on what they’re they’re seeing— the most exciting excitinng town in the world or a flat wasteland of endless endless suburb. The extensive L.A. locations are are a sign of ambition in itself, itself, and a sign of thee effort effort of getting the cast would outt off the th boxes b s mostt mumblecorians bl i ld have kept them in. But this debut gets stuck in the cute zone. zonee. The actors keep reassuring reassuring us we forgive forgive them them for for their pettiness, their inability to recognize recoggnize how made for for each other they apparently apparently are. are. (RvB)

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BLOOD B BL OOD PUNCH (103 min.) In this indeed bloody (103 and annd metaphysical neo-noir neo-noir,, a methrrattled attled chemistry student, Milton Milton (Milo (Millo decides to cook a batch for CCawthorne), a awthorne), for a femme femme fatale, fatale, Skyler Sk yler (Olivia Tennet), Tennet)), hee meets in rehab. rehab. Her crooked-cop crooked-cop boyfriend’s bo oyfriend’ss (Ari Boyland) fondness oyfriend fondness ffor o weaponry complicates an already or already sketchy endeavor.. What Blood Punch sk ketchy endeavor lacks lacks in nuance it makes up ffor or in gore. goore.

The director Th he wife-and-husband wife-and-husband team of dir ector Madellaine Paxson Madellaine P axson and screenwriter screenwriter Eddie couple’s quotidian Edddie Guzelian bring a couple ’s quoti idian negotiations (literally) neegotiations to a (liter ally) backstabbing backstabbbing triangle. triangle. Although Although you may think that that you’ve yoou’ve seen Blood Punch before, before, the solid so olid acting and inventive script bringg an oldd genr genree back to lif life. ol e. (DH)

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T DE THE DESERT SERT FISH (8 (84 84 min.; min.; Farsi with English subtitles) For Fo or his first ffeature-length eature-length film, Iranian-Canadian Ir a anian-C anadian director director Mohammad

Ghorbankarimi shows off his visual skills, effects honed by years as an eff e man, animator ects cinematographer. and cinematogr apher. Thee Desert Fish unfolds Iranian unfolds like a ffairytale airytale as a young Ir anian boy’s visions of his vanished vanishhed mother lead him fr from om his desert homee south to the sea that took her away as my mysteriously ysteriously as it conjured conjured her up. Ahmad’s ffather ather cautions against trifling with ffate; ate; the t mother was like ““an abused an angel,”” but he abu used her love with a gr greed eed that emptiedd the waters of fish and destr destroyed village. oyed a vil llage. Dad’s punishment is to toil everr after in a well, bent into the pr pretzel etzel form form m of a penitent.

After an opening section that dr drags ags on too long with extr extraneous aneous dialogue, Ahmad reaches embarks reaches the coast and em mbarks on quietly beautiful, almost wor wordless dlesss journey on a brightly painted boat capt captained tained by Ahmad’s Uncle Abbas. The swayingg perspective of the deck reveals reveals great great expanses exppanses of gemgreen green water; in the torch-lit torch--lit night, Abbas, wrestling wrestling with demons of his own, staggers drunkenly about the ship, overwhelmed overwhelmed by the mystery of a sea gonee barren. barren. Finally, Finallyy, Ahmad makes a literal literal (and (annd figurative) figurative) leap of ffaith maternal aith into the mate ernal depths that haunt his dr dreams.

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with mostly nonpr nonproo actors, and the rresults esults aree uneven. As ar As Ahmad, young Iman Afshar isn’t appealing expressive isn ’t appeali ng or expr essive enough to carry car ry the film, film m, but Ayoub Ayoub Afshar’s Afshar ’s Abbas proves natural tremendous pr oves to bee a natur al with tr emendous presence. pr esence. Th The he Desert Fishh implies, only somewhat obliquely, o obliquely , the price we will pay for for messing with Mother Nature, Nature, but the most lastingg impr impression ession is that of rrapturous apturous saturated colors—what saturated co olors—what we'll miss most won't be thee bounty but the beauty beauty.. (MSG)

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HEAVENLY HEA AV VEENLLY SHIFT (100 min. min.;; H Hungarian ungarian with English subtitles) A Hungarian Coen br brothers others movie with Tarantinoesque Taarantinoesque violence, and Half-Hungarian/half-Serbian why not? Ha alf Hungarian/half Serbian alf-Hungarian/half-Serbian (Andras Sarajevo Milan (Andr a Otvos) flees Sar as ajevo ffor or during Budapest du uring the 1992 Balkan war. war. He finds work as a a paramedic paramedic for for a shifty lateambulance company.. The interplay night ambu ulance company (Tamas with his ffellow elloow driver Kistamas (T Tamas a KKeresztes, eresztes, who w looks looks like Steve Steve Buscemi

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Penn. as it was was in the early days—a draped drap ped cross standing next to a chainchain link fence on which whicch odds and ends, ends, baseballl caps and license plates, plates, hung hun ng rattling rattling in the winter wind. wind.

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tackling a gu tackling gun-wielding un-wielding thief in the Castro, playing sport C astro, and pla ayying the injurious sp ort rugbyy ffor life. of rugb or or most of his lif fe. Bingham was Los w aas ccaptain aptain n of the L os Gatos High Wildcats, and played W iildcats, an nd later he pla ayed e ffor o or the champion Berkeley. national cha ampion team at Berk keeleey.

At Bingham was fratAt Cal, Cal,, Bi ingham w aas a classic frat trat—a prankster rat t— —a pran nkster jailed ffor or o tackling tackling Stanford Tree 1992 the St anffo ord Tr ee during the 19 92 Big Game.. C Coming gay Game om ming out as ga ay in such a uber-male have been ub err--male milieu m must ha ave b een as anything frightening as an nyything he eever ver e did.

Interviewees Bingham’s partner Inter vieweees include Bingham ’s par tner six-and-a-half Paul ffor or o six-and-a a-half yyears, eears, P aul Holm,, who describes Labrador describ es Mark M as “a human L abrador Retriever”—though was R eetrieever”— —though Bingham w aas smartt enough have also smar e to ha ave made a good go od living in PR ffor o or high tech during dot-com Talking-headsy the dot t-com m yyears. ears e .T aalking-headsy at times, though arcc off Mark’ Mark’s life times i , thoug h gh h the h ar M k’s lif fe is i documented great do cumenteed with a gr eat deal of home movies: watch mo ovvies: we w aatch and see how this good-humored, mullet-headed valley good-humo ored,, mullet t--headed valle ey became hero ecame a her kid b o of his nation.

—Richard v von Busack 80 min. Thu, 3/6, 6:45pm (C12); Sat, 3/8, 12:30pm (C al); Sat, 3/15, 4:45pm 44 (C al) (Cal); (Cal)

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INERCIA INER CIA A (100 min.; min.; Spanish Spanish with English subtitles) LLucia, ucia, a woman in her late 20s, maybe carries early 30s, car riees a Lady Liberty–sized torch long-ago tor ch ffor or a long -ago boyfriend, Felipe.

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hospital, drops ho ospital, she dr ops everything to play nursemaid ex-beau, nu ursemaid to her sickly ex ex-beau beau, who needs, ne eeds, but rresists, esists, kidney dialysis. The rromance o omance took place 12 years ago, but ffor o or LLucia u not a day has passed without herr ucia rreliving eliving it—the concept of moving on do oesn’t exist ffor or her er doesn’t her.. Felipe, on the othe other ha and, enjoys the attention but is mor hand, moree co oncerned about his Ph.D. thesis. As As LLucia ucia concerned dr raws closer, closer, Felipe grows grows increasingly increasingly draws qu uerulous, verbally and psychologically querulous, ab busing her (in his def ense, the doctorss abusing defense, in dicate that his condition is turningg hi m indicate him pa aranoid). He is the quintessential bad paranoid). bo oyfriend, but that seems to be firstboyfriend, tim me dir ector Isabel Muñoz Cota CCallejas’ allejas’ time director po oint: the purity of the woman’s woman’s love point: ju stifies all sacrifices; Lucia Lucia is in love with wiith justifies th he idea of love. The action takes place the m ostly in Felipe’s Felipe’s hospital rroom oom (which mostly is spacious and well-appointed, much

to the envy of American viewers), v filmed in stately ormalist compo ositions with ositions, stately,, fformalist compositions, slow camer cameraa movements and a minimum of editing. Maricela P eñaloosa makes a Peñalosa compelling LLucia, ucia, expr essiing both the expressing early elation of her char accter ’s joyous character’s rre-entry e-entry into the orbit of the love object and her incr easingly painf ful rrealization ealization of increasingly painful just what she has sacrificed sacrificeed for for her ideal.

TToo ooo bad that Flavio Medina’s Medin na’s Felipe shows us barely barely a hint of what might m have attr acted LLucia ucia in the firstt place. (MSG) attracted

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ONG BEFORE they opened Nemea Greek Taverna and Flames Coffee Shop, Nick Tsigaris and his brothers loved eating Greek gyros and souvlaki on family vacations to Greece during the summer. Their newest downtown San Jose restaurant, Nick the Greek, which opened earlier this month, will try to replicate those dishes from the homeland. “Baby Nick” (so called as the youngest of three generations of Nicks in his family) says he is enjoying the restaurant boom in San Jose and is always looking toward his family’s next restaurant venture.

METRO: WHAT HAS IT BEEN LIKE WORKING WITH YOUR FAMILY’S VARIOUS RESTAURANTS? Tsigaris: It’s fun, we’ve all grown up in restaurants—it’s pretty much in our blood. Nemea I started with my cousin because we always wanted to open a Greek place. It was going to be something like this but we changed it last minute to make it more fine dining. Realistically this [Nick the Greek] was our dream place, because this is the kind of place we grew up with, pitas and gyro sandwiches. In Greece it’s all very fast paced, fast service.

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WHAT CAN WE EXPECT FROM NICK THE GREEK? A very small, simple menu; there are three salads, a soup, three different skewer plates and seven sandwiches.

We’ll have pork, chicken, beef and lamb all from the rotisserie—also we’ll have skewer sandwiches. In Greece, the pork gyro is the most popular. I’m going to stay open until 3 a.m. Thursday, Friday, Saturday—give La Vic’s some competition.

THERE HAVE BEEN MANY RESTAURANTS OPENING IN DOWNTOWN. WHAT’S YOUR THOUGHT ON THAT FROM SOMEONE WHOSE FAMILY RUNS SAN JOSE RESTAURANTS? A lot of people are opening restaurants and businesses, so things must be good. Look, across the street—there will be an 18-story apartment building.

I mean that’s awesome—it’s blowing up. When I first started at Flames, it was just customers from school. Now it’s picking up, there’s more nightlife, more everything.

ARE YOU ALWAYS THINKING AHEAD TO A NEW RESTAURANT? Always expanding.

Yeah, we’re planning on opening up another one of these—Almaden. We just opened up another place in Campbell, Hash House, and we’re trying to make another location near downtown.

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EER HAS rarely been known as understated beverage, but it’s all low-key at ISObeers, which opened its doors earlier this month with little fanfare, and on a limited-hours basis.

The downtown San Jose bar’s quiet launch belies the fact that some local beer aficionados had been patiently waiting for its opening, as those who know owner Dee—he also helps run Bobby’s Liquors in Santa Clara—know that he is a big beer fan and a knowledgeable one at that.

Don’t expect a formal grand opening any time soon, if ever, as that’s not Dee’s style. Rather, the bar’s current hours will gradually expand while more staff are hired and finishing touches made. Of note so far has been the hiring of Jake McCluskey, who previously managed Market Beer Company and, before that, Kelly’s Liquors.

I recently caught up with Dee, who was low-key as always as he showed me around. On tap were the well-regarded North Coast Old Stock Ale, Drake’s Hopocalypse Double IPA and Deschutes 2010 The Abyss Imperial Stout, among others. The keg room was stocked with a cache of hard-to-get beers that Dee will release in the coming weeks. (The bar will list current offerings on its website and Facebook page.)

I was struck by the sleek bar and the modern and spacious feel of the indoor space, as well as the potential of the outdoor patio. Dee mentioned already having ideas for possible events for this summer’s Silicon Valley Beer Week.

METRO: A LOT OF FOLKS HAVE BEEN WAITING PATIENTLY—MANY FOR WELL OVER A YEAR—FOR ISOBEERS TO OPEN. CAN YOU SHARE WHY THE DELAY AND HOW IT FEELS NOW TO BE FINALLY OPEN? Dee: Inspections, but it’s all been good. We’re open—I feel relieved. It’s good to start paying some bills off [smiles] WHERE DOES THE NAME ISOBEERS COME FROM? ISO stands for “in search of” and is commonly used in the beer trading community. It sounded like a good name HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE ISOBEERS? WHAT KIND OF A PLACE DO YOU WANT IT TO BE? Just a casual craft beer bar.

HOW BIG IS THE PLACE? We can hold about 45 inside and 45 outside. We’ll be putting up a trellis in the patio soon.

HOW MANY TAPS? HOW MANY BOTTLED BEERS? There are 40 taps, including two wine taps, one for craft root beer and a couple for mead or cider—the rest will be craft beer. We’ll have about 1,000 bottled beers.

ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD? We won’t be selling food, so people can bring in food and sit inside or outside.—Andy Lee ISOBEERS 75 E. Santa Clara St, #120, San Jose. 408.298.2337.

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ISO CHAMBER ISObeers opened in a sleek, modern spot along Santa Clara Street.

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Chaat Room

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UDGING A BOOK by its cover, from the outside, Chaat Bhavan looks like a place for a quick bite.

The anonymously squat, square architecture of the building, the plate glass windows and its location in Sunnyvale along a stretch of El Camino populated by other fast food joints further support the idea—as does the name “chaat.” In Indian cuisine, chaat is fast food, served from food trucks or street carts.

Inside the restaurant, however, the white tablecloths, as well as the modern, clean lines of the simple decor, hint at somewhere a bit more luxurious—not too upscale, but a hybrid of casual snacks and sit-down dining. And the menu bears that out.

Chaat Bhavan offers a wide-ranging vegetarian menu that does include an array of Indian fast food snacks, but also wraps, thalis (assortments of small plates) and a variety of familiar Indian dishes such as aloo gobi (potatoes and cauliflower) and sag paneer (spinach and fresh cheese).

Portions of even the snack-oriented fare were substantial enough for a meal. The dahi papdi chaat ($4.99), a snack of light, crispy crackers topped with potato, chutney and yogurt, hit the right balance of sweet, sour and salty—as well as crunchy—with hints of cilantro and mint, as well as bits of cucumber.

The paneer tikka skewers ($7.99) arrived still sizzling on an iron plate, reminiscent of fajitas. Large cubes of paneer (at least the biggest I’ve ever seen) came with a nice char at the edges. The garlicky, slightly spicy tang of the tikka sauce offered a perfect contrast to the subtly creamy, rich cheese. Chunks of skewer-roasted bell pepper and onion complemented the firm bite of the paneer.

The masala poori ($6.99) pairs puffy deep-fried bread with diced potatoes that have a subtle spiciness that can sneak up on you after a few bites. The bread helps cool the heat from the potatoes. But diners seeking a bit more spice can add the sliced jalapeño that’s served on the side.

Also packing a twinge of heat was the masala roti ($1.99), a chewy whole-wheat flatbread with spices baked into it.

—Heather Zimmerman CHAAT BHAVAN 976 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale. 408.795.1100.

(Chaat Bhavan also has a Fremont location.)

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PUFF ’N’ STUFF Deep-fried bread tempers the heat of spicy potatoes in Chaat Bhavan’s masala poori.

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HABIB KHAN March Mar ch 8 at at Montalvo Arts Center

EMBLEM 3 March Mar ch 1122 at City National Civic

HAPA HAP A March Mar ch 21 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

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

JENNIFER NETTLE NETTLESS March Mar ch 27 2 at City National Civic

JON N NAKAMA NAKAMATSU/JON ATSU/JON MANASSE MANASSE March Mar ch 27 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

PAULA P AULA CCOLE OLE March Mar ch 29 aatt Montalvo Arts Center

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HI LIFE WEDD WEDDING DING Homestead Bowl & The X Bar Bar,r, C upertino Cupertino Sat, 8pm, $8 Electronic Lifee Wedding, Electr onic duo Hi Lif Weddding, based out of Taiwan, Taaiwan, layer synth loops, electro-drum electro-drum parts beats, noodling guitar part ts and funkyy bass lines to cr create funk eate some s d downright i ht ddark, k atmospheric atmosphe t h ric i dance music. Kate Kate Boehmss and Broman trade Davos Br oman tr ade off onn vocals, haunting both contributing a haunti ng unique element in their own uniqu ue way. way.

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TY DOLLA $IGN $ Studio 8, San Jose Studio Sat, 9pm, $20 Mustardd produced several DJ Mustar produced se everal club gotten bangers that have gotte en heavy rrotation otation on KMEL rrecently. ecenntly. (YG’s (YG’s “Show “My N***a,” Kid Ink’s “S Show Me,” B.o.B’s “Headband”). Ty Ty Dolla $ign’s “Paranoid” standss out fr from $ign ’s “P aranoid”” stand om unexpected the pack with an unexp ected bit tossed of autotune harmony to ossed into sparee xylophone the mix over the spar x skittering synth loop and skitterin ng hiconfidentlyy beyond hats. TTyy goes confidentl Mustard’s Mustar d’s self-described self-describeed ““ratchet ratchet music”” sound on the rest music resst of his rrecently ecently rreleased eleased Beach h House EP, EP P, with forays forays into trap trapp and R&B along with a long list off big-name collaborators collaborators like Wiz Khalifa, Khalifa, Trey Trey Songz and B.o.B. (SL)

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TTobyMac’s oobyMac’s one of thosee artists who’s who’s well-known to the Elect Elecct but flies under the radar radar a of most mosst mainstream mainstream from listeners.. Aside Aside s fr om DCC Talk, Talk, a , he’s he’s one ap. of the biggest names inn Christian rrap.

He’s Grammys He ’s been nominated ffor o Gr or ammys pretty pr etty much every yearr since 2003 and won a couple,, includingg one last year ffor or his album, Eye on Itt. And he wins a whole bunch of Christian-musicChristtian-musictian music specific awar awards ds all the time t too. Eye on Itt’s ’ production production sound sound ranges ranges from from something like Inspirational Inspiratiional Christian Hip-hop Lonely Lonely Island to t Inspirational Inspirrational a Christian Hip-hop Owl City Ass a rrapper, CCity. y. A apperr, he has an old-school ca cadence, adence,, though he often br breaks eaks out intoo a sing-songy style fr from time.. (SL) om time to time

insanely Like punk rrock’s ock’s in sanely popular Manor,r, Run For Forever Joyce Manor F ever melds chords, thick,, distorted guitar guitar chor ds, driving rrock ock beats and heart-on-the-sleeve heaart-on-the-sleeve pop-punk vocals into pop-pu unk that also draws slow, dr aws on some of the slow w, heavy guitar of Weezer Weezer aand nd the jangly aggressiveness aggr essiveness of early Against Me. Anthony Lead singer Antho ny Heubel might be one of the mostt intense new from Barry singers in punk rrock occk (aside fr om Bar ry from Johnson fr om the af aaforementioned orementioned are Joyce Manor). His lyrics l are honest direct, justt the sound of his and dir ect, and jus cracking acking at key voice occasionally cr songs moments in the so ongs is enough to get anyone swept away into his little private world. (JS)

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*stagee 101 D DALMATIANS ALMA AT TIAN NS Presented by SStage Presented taage Kids Fri-Sun. CCalifornia. alifornia. Fri-Su un. $10.

Theatre, Historic Hoover TTheatr e, San Jose.

CIRQUE CIR QUE DU SOL SOLEIL LEIL Acrobatics, ffeats Acrobatics, eats of str strength ength and clowning in a show set on island a mysterious isla nd watched goddesses. over by goddesse es. Thru Mar 2. $60-$150. Big TTop oop at TTaylor aaylor 87, SStreet treet Bridge/Hwy Bridge/Hw wy 87 7, San Jose.

GAME ON San Jose Rep pr presents essents a play about two sports ffanatics anatics swanky Altos wound up in a sw wanky LLos os Al tos cocktail home during a co ocktail party to green projects. rraise aise funds ffor or gr e pr een ojects.

27-Apr San Mar 27 -Apr 19. Sa an Jose.

MADAMA MAD AMA BUTTERF BUTTERFLY FLY Opera San Jose presents Opera presentts Puccini’s heartbreaker. heartbr eaker. Thu, Sat aand ndTTTue, uue, Mar 8pm,, Sun,, 3pm. Thru Ma ar 2.. $51Theatre, $111.. California California Theatr e,, San Jose.

*art MUSEUMS ART MUSEUM ART GATOS OF LLOS OS GA ATOS “Unmasking the SStage: tage: The Visual Artists Behind the Theater Experience.” Thru T March Mar ch 30. LLos os Gatos.

CANTOR CANT OR AR ARTS TS CENT CENTER TER “Her SStory: tory: Prints by Elizabeth E Murray.”

WedMur ray.” Thru Mar 30.. W edSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am1 8pm. SStanford. tanford.

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San Jose SStage tage Company Coompany presents landmark pr esents the landm mark early 20th century musical bbyy KKurt urt Weill Weill and Bertoltt Brecht.

Bertol Brecht. Wed-Thu, Wede -TThu,, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm and Sun, S , 2pm. Thru Mar 30. $25-$50.

“Pi Day Day,” y,,” a part of Fam Family mily Night March at the Museum. Mar ch 14. $20Playground,” $25. “Imagination Pla ayground,” ffeaturing eaturing giant blue building b blockss to inspir inspiree cr creativity. block eativity.

Thru Mar 30.

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FLAMENCO SOC FLAMENCO SOCIETY CIETY OF SSAN AN JOSE A juer juerga, ga, or flam flamenco enco jam presented session, pr esenteed by the academy, academy y, ffounded oundeed in 1985. $12-$14.

Mar 15, 7pm. $12 -$14. Historic Hoover Theater.

Theater. San S Jose.

*concerts *c oncerts e CLASSICAL MUSIC CLASSICAL MU USIC PERFORMANCE PERF ORMANCEE Pr Presented esented by Outreach Outreach with Music, students fr ffrom om The Academy Ki ’ A King’s cademy d hi h school. high h l 1pm-3pm.

Sat. Mar 1. 1pm3 3pm.

The Academy Kings A cademy High H School Sunnyvale.

EL CAMINO Y YOUTH OU UTH ANNUAL SSYMPHONY YMPHONY AN NNUAL BENEFIT CCONCERT ONCERT An all-Russian pprogram rogram guest with special gues st Ilya program YYakushev. aakushev. The pr ogram includes TTchaikovsky’s chaikov c vsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Shostakovich’s Shostakovich’s No. 9.

SSymphony ymphony h N 9 Mar M 15, 15 Center.

7:30pm. Flint Cen nter. CCupertino. upertino.

“Sip. Do Not Gulp,”” in conjunction with San Jose Art’s Museum of Art ’s “Around “Arou und The TTable” aable” exhibition. Thru u Mar Shapes: 16 ““A 16.

A Ser SServing ving i off Shap Sh es: An A Exploration Printing”, Exploration in 3D Prin ting”,, ffeaturing eaturing works works by Corinne Corinne Santa Clara.

TTakara. aakara. Thru Mar 16. Sa anta Clar a.

DISCOVER DISC OVER SAN SAN JOS JOSE SE “An Evening in Italy” ffeaturing “An eaturing white color and black & whi te photos by various artists. Sann Jose.

Maasai tribe of the Great Great Rift R Valley Valley of Kenya Kenya and Tanzania.

Taanzannia.

SSAN AN JOSE MUSEUM OF AR ART A T ““Around Around the Table A Taable SStage tage On One— e— Jitish Kallat: Kallat:: Epilogue.”” Endss April 20, 2014. “Around “A Around the Table: Table: a Creativity, Community,” Food, Cr eativityy, Community y,” ,” an exhibition that delves into how h culture. ffood ood has shaped local cul ture.

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF SAN QUILTS QUIL TS & TEXTILES TEXTILES “Metamorphosis: Clothing and Identity.”

27.. Sa San Identity .” Jan 29-Apr 27 an Jose. TTasty, asty a y, too! SStarts tarts Jan 27.

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“I SStand tand For Sacrifice,” wor works ks by Bill Dunlap. Opening Reception.

Recepption.

Mar.. 22. San Jose.

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“Unsettled”,, collabor collaboration ation Seeger, between sculptor YYori oori See ger, Harris and printmakers Dana Har rris Jose. and Betsy Barnum.

Barnum San Jo se se.

“Filoli Instructors and their workss byy SStudents” tudents” ffeatures eatures work their Filoli’s art instructors and th heir students in the Visitor and Center.. Thru Mar 30.

Education Center Woodside.

W oodside.

ART AR T BOUTIKI “Despondency - A Midtow Midtown wn Show”,”, a Beat Art Opening Show post-Valentine’s Day, prepostValentine’s Day y, pr eheartbreak works heartbr eak show with wor rks Foley.

7:30pm.

by Michael Foley y. Fri, 7:30p pm.

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“Deep Reading”” is a lookk at humanity the intersection of hum anity technology, traditional and technology y, and tr additional practices pr actices in the digital age. a Artworkss include one-o one-of-a-kind, Artwork of-a-kind, digital small edition,, and digita al artists' bookss with mixed media media. book a. Thru Mar 20.. De Anza College,, CCupertino. uppertino.

Jazz-related art by Bruni Sa Jazz-related Sablan. ablan.

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

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LLOS OS GA GATOS ATOS CCOMPANY OMPAN NY “Zulugrass Jewelry Ga “Zulugrass Gallery”, allery”,, ffeaturing eaturing the colorful clothing adorned and ornaments adorn ned by the

March through M arch 2 at the t Caifornia Theatre.

“TTeerritories of Experience” “Territories Experience” a charcoal drawing char coal dr awing exhibit byy Meyer.. Thru Thru. artist KKatherine atherine Meyer u.

May 4. Opening reception reception Fri, F 6pm-8pm.. Santa Clara.

Clara.

“The Art of Living Black”,, ffeaturing eaturing mixed media andd ceramic workss by Bill Dalla Dallas, cer amic work as, Ricks, Anjuelle Floyd, TTracy racy Rick s, Will Johnson. Thru Mar 2. San Jose.

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Third Friday Artwalk. Visit Third Visit with exploree bou boutiques artists and explor tiques and galleries. Every third galleries. third Frii of the 6-9pm.

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“American Bohemia: The “American T CCats ats Estate in Los Los Gatos.” Thru T April 20. LLos os Gatos.

Opera Night. Firs Opera First st Friday of every month. Sann Jose.

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“Three S’s,”” abstr “Three abstract act work workss on wood, ffabric, abric,, and canvas by Allegraa Bick-Maurischat.. San Jose.

Allegr Jose.

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GALLERY GALLER Y HOUSE “Time and Again, W “Time Weaving eaving the t Walk—Spain andd W alk—Spain 2011, 2012 an woven, 2013,” Anne Lamborn’s Lamborn’s wov ven, dyed and ffelted elted interpretations interpretatiions of walking the CCamino amino de Palo Alto.

Santiago. Thru Mar 2. P alo Al A to.

GALLERY GALLER Y SSARATOGA ARA ATOGA “The Bigg Pictur Picture,” e,” , ggalleryy abstract by ffeatured eatured abstr act acrylic Wedpainter Isaias Sandoval. W edWay, Sun, 11am-5pm. Big Basin W ayy, Saratoga. atoga.

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

“Painting the TTown “Painting oown since workss by Sa San 1935,”” ffeaturing eaturing work an Jose signpainter Rey Giese.

Thru Feb 28. San Jose.

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF COMMUNITY O ARTS MUSIC AND AR TS

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“Imagined “I i d Spaces, S painting paintings i ti gs

by Ernest Regua.” Thru Marr 30.

9am-7pm, 9amMon-Fri, 9am-7pm, 7 Sat, 9a mGallery, Center, 3pm. Mohr Gallery y, Finn Cen nter, View..

Mountain View

DE NO NOVO VO Annual Valentine’s Valentine’s show show.. Thru T Palo Alto.

Feb 28. P alo Al to.

of of the Bay Area Area Artwear movement starting from from the original Levi’s “Denim Art Contest” Contest” of 1973 to the works works of contemporary contemporary designers. Thru Apr 27.

277. “Tasty “TTaasty Too!” Tooo!”” offers offers a look at the most basic needs— food, food, warmth, community— showcasing ffood inspired quilts ood inspir ed quil ts and textiles from from a private collection, contemporary contemporary artists, and the community. community. Thru Apr. Apr. 27.

277. San Jose.

“TToriawase,” “Toriawase,” o ” which juxtaposes traditional tr aditional and historical Japanese art and objects with Western selected contemporary contemporary W estern Co-curated artwork. Co-cur ated by Misako 17.

Mitsui. Feb 22-May 22-May 17 7. TTue-Fri, uue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm.

San Jose.

PACIFIC P ACIFIC AR ART T LEAGUE LEAGUE

SLIDING DOOR CCOMPANY OMPANY

““Abstractions” Abstr A actions” and “S “Stamps tamps Paper.”

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Crafts on P aper.” Thru Feb 27 7. Cr afts exhibit hibit bby Ph Phyllis lli Lee. L Thru Th Mar M Palo Alto.

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“One Thousand Thousand Project,” workss by Jason Pr oject,” work McHenry..

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PALO P AL A O ALTO ALLTO ART ART CENTER

“On the UP UP,” P,” ,” a gr group oup show show..

San Jose.

“Pencils Down” “Pencils Down” explor explores es the creating artistic possibilities of cr eating graphite drawings. intricate gr aphite dr awings.

Palo Alto.

Thru April 13. P alo Al to.

PHANT PHANTOM OM AR ART T GALLERIE GALLERIESS ““Astra Astra Inclinant, non workss by Necessitant,”” work Jesse CCupp. upp. Art explores explores the rrelationship elationship between mankind and the stars.

PHO69 PHO6 9 Phantom Galleries pr presents esents Gianfranco ““Journals” Journals J ” by Gianfr anco Paolozzi.

P aolozzi.

PSYCHO P SYCHO DONUT DONUTSS

“Come Healing.”” Six artists exploree healing and explor Thu-Sun, wholeness. Ongoing. Thu-Su un, 11am-3pm.

Saratoga.

11am3pm. Sar atoga.

Works by John Renzel, Lacey Works Bryant, Nicolas CCaesar, aesar, Murphy Adams, Christine Benjamin, Foley, Michael Foley y, Michael Borja, Valery V aleryy Milovic,, CCarlos arlos Villez,, Eric Joyner,, Laur Lauraa CCallin Joyner allin Bennett, John Hageman and Robert McColley.

McColley y. San Jose.

MUSEUM OF QUIL QUILTS TS & TEXTILESS TEXTILE

SAN JOSE INS SAN INSTITUTE ST TITUTE OF ART CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORAR RY AR RT

“Metamorphosis: Clothing & artists Identity”” ffeatures eatures various artis sts that chart the development

“Erased LLoop “Erased oop Random Walk,” sculptures W alk,” kinetic sculptur es by Berlier.. Thru Feb 15.

TTerry er e ry Berlier

SEEING THING THINGSS GALLERY GALLERY "Let's Meet In The Middle!" a workss by David and series of work Imlay.. San Jose.

Ana CCarolina arolina Imlay

SOUTH FIR FIRST ST BILLIARDS

STUDIO R STUDIO ROCK OCK CLIMBING GYM GY M Recent paintings by Al Preciado.

Pr eciado. San Jose.

TECH TE CH SHOP SSAN AN JOSE Computerized ffabrication abrication ppieces byy artist KKat at Russo.

San Jose.

ZERO ZER O 1 GARAGE GARAGE “ZERO1 Fellowship/xx,” , a gr group oup exhibition that showcases early prototypes prototypes of innovation challenges given to each of the artists. San Jose.

*events *e vents SARA SARATOGA ATOGA SIS SISTER TER CITY OPEN HOUSE A 30th anniversary celebr celebration ation of Saratoga’s Saratoga’s sister city rrelationship elationship with Muko, Japan. cultural With taiko drumming, cul tural crafts displays, cr afts and games.

Free.

Saratoga atoga Mar 29, 1-4pm. Fr ee. Sar Prospect Pr ospect Center.

Center.

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March h 8 & 9, 2014

Day events at San Santa nta Teresa High School

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Michael Bautista: Bautissta: Classical Guitar Technique Albert Marques: Maarques: Flamenco Techniques Arina Burceva: Performing Perfoorming on the Classical Guitar Rick Vandivier: Vandivvier: Improvising Techniques Salome Sandoval: Survey Surrvey of Voice and Guitar Songs Yuri Liberzon: Practicing Practiccing Hands Separately & Speed

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ETHICAL LEADER The Dalai Lama discussed ethics and compassion

Thesee are 20 min. performances performannces followed by expert advice from m adjudicators: Marc Te Teicholz, eicholz, Lawrence Ferrara

in his appearance Monday at Santa Clara University.

Master Compassion

Master Classes Eduardoo Minozzi Costa on Saturday S Salome Sandoval on Sunday

“HELLO. Good Morning. Sit Down,” the balding older man in tinted glasses and a red robe said with raised hands, a slight bow and a large smile to a laughing crowd.

Downplaying the significance of his own presence, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, visited Santa Clara University on Feb. 24. It marked the first visit by a Dalai Lama in the Jesuit institution’s 162-year history.

Finishing up his three-day Bay Area trip His Holiness, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was the guest of honor for “Business, Ethics, and Compassion: A Dialogue with the Dalai Lama.” The event was cosponsored by Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, along with Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.

Concerts at a Le Petit Trianon Salome Sa lome Sandoval on Saturday Eduard Eduardo do Minozzi Costa on Sunday Silicon Valley Arts Coalition Community in Arts

Details & Tickets at www.sbgs.org

Mission Chamber Orchestra of San Jose invites you to the 2nd Annual

The event proceeded smoothly in spite of the expected protestors (practitioners of Shugden Buddhism, a subset of the religion that disagrees with the Dalai Lama) who lined up across the street from the university.

His Holiness arrived a fashionable 15 minutes late. The estimated 4,000 attendees who were asked, for security reasons, to arrive two hours before the event gave only positive energy for the Dalai Lama, cheering when in lieu of his traditional red sun visor he donned one instead emblazoned with the words “Santa Clara University.”

After performances by traditional Tibetan throat chanters and a youth choir, the Dalai Lama addressed his audience on the importance of humanity and kindness in a materialistic world, stressing his belief that humans are born with an innate compassion.

The Dalai Lama then joined a panel with Santa Clara University President Father Michael Engh, S.J. and Lloyd Dean, the president/CEO of Dignity Health, one of the top five largest healthcare systems in the United States, to further discuss the ethical issues of compassion in business and medicine.

“The Dalai Lama’s words were very thought-provoking. Profit and compassion are often seen as antonymous in today’s business world, but it doesn’t have to be that way,” said Ian Teraoka, an SCU marketing major attending the event.

—Michael Rosa

A pairing social & silent auction featuring great music, fine wines, hors d’oeuvres, poetry pairings and decadent desserts!

Friday, March 7, 2014, at 7PM Beshoff Motorcars’ Gallery 3000 E. Capitol Expy., San Jose Tickets $45 at www.missionchamber.org Silicon Valley Arts Coalition Community in Arts

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New N ew BOTTLED BO TTLED UP (R;; 84 min.) Proving Proving that nothing nothinng says rromance omance like a little oxycontin,, Melissa Leo plays a woman addicted too pain love killers who finds that a new lov ve (Josh Hamilton) Hamil ton) helps her understand understannd the extent of her addiction. (Openss Fri.)

LIKE FFATHER, AT THER LIKE SON THER, (Not rrated; ated; 121 min.) See rreview eviiew on this page. (Opens Fri.)

NON-STOP NONSTOP (PG-13; 106 min.) Thr (PG-13; Through ough a series s threatening of thr eatening texts, an air m marshal (Liam Neeson) learns that hiss ffellow ellow aree eff effectively being passengers ar ectively be eing held Perhaps ffor or a $150 million rransom. ansom. P e erhaps co-star Michelle Dockery (Do Downton ownton Abbeyy’s ’ Lady Mary) can put the t freeze guy.

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SON OF GOD (PG-13; 138 min.) No jokey orr clever (PG-13; here. metaphors in the title her e. This T drama lifee story of Jesus dr ama tells the lif J of Nazareth.

Nazar eth. (Opens Fri.)

Ongoing 3D DAYS AYS T TO O KILL (PG--13; (PG-13; 1 ; 113 min.) KKevin evin Costner stars s as Secret Service who a dying Secr et Ser vice agent wh ho sees a estranged chance to rreconnect econnect with his es stranged offered daughter when he’s he’s off ered a potentially p life-saving drug—in lif e-saving experimental drug— —in assignment. signment. exchange ffor or taking one last as

AMERICAN HUS HUSTLE TLE (R;; 138 min.) Return with us to the t affair: Abscam aff air:: In 1978, 1978,, several several politicians p weree hornswoggled into believi believing wer ing that napkin a swarthy FBI agent with a nap kin on sheikh eikh his head was in rreality eality a rich sh with a suitcase full of cash,, looking lookking to Russell’s b U.S. buy U S. citizenship. iti hi . David D id O. O. Ru R ussell’s ll’ fiction on the subject, Americann Hustle, gives us an unusual point of en entrance. trance.

There’s Ther e’s a successful con-artist named IrIrving: ving:: a charmingly light-comicc Christian stripper Bale.. He ffalls alls ffor or a fformer ormer stripp per (Amy English Adams) who dons a bogus Eng lish accent and calls herself “Lady Edith.”

E aree busted in the act ooff fleecing The two ar horny, burbling their clientele by a horny y, burbli ng FBI (Bradley agent (Br adley Cooper), who fforces orrces them entrap to find and entr ap politicians ffor o the or Bureau. entrapee Bur eau. The downside:: One entr rapee is paragon a South S th Jersey J civic i i par (Jeremy (Je agon (Jeremy cardd is IrIrving’s Renner). The wild car ving’ss sunstupid-like-a-fox lamp-toasted, stupid-like-a-f oxx wife wife (Jennifer Lawrence).

(Jennif er Lawr ence). American Hustle is ffast ast and loose,, and it could bee ffaster aster looser.. Nostalgia rules.. But thr through and looser ough voice-over,r, withheld inf info, shaggy voice-over o,, shagg gy dog stories and flywheel-spinning actor aactor’s ’s exercises, exer cises,, Russell keeps yankingg the plot

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grabbing back like a balloon salesmann gr abbing merchandise. fleeing mer chandise.. (RvB)

HER (R; 126 min.) LLos os Angeles (dir (director ector merged Spike Jonze digitally mer ged it spread with today’s Shanghai) hhas as spr ead It’s up and out. It ’s crowded crowded but prosperous.

Phoenix’s pr osperous. Joaquin Phoe enix ’s Theodoree has an unusua unusually Theodor lly nice divorce divor ce apartment in the skies at Wilshiree Beverly TTower Theodoree Wilshir oower 5.

5 Theodor from bounced back fr om an LA AW Weekly eeekly job to become a love-letter love-lettter writer at BeautifulHandwrittenLetters.

BeautifulHandwrittenLLetters. com. During a walk, he learns learns of a new OS that that’s ’s available—a available— —a system that is like the super-powered super-pow wered granddaughter granddaughter of Siri. The The bubbling, flirtatious voice on his po pocket ocket sized computer calls itself Sam Samantha, it’s ’s mantha, it omniscient yet sensual. Theodore T Theodor e has found found a new friend, and a more. more.

There’s There’s a 1,000 ways thiss slip of an idea could have gone wr wrong. ong ong.

Essential to the success of o the romance romance is Scarlett Johansson’s Johansson’s voice acting. Herr is not a bitter film: Samantha isn isn’t perfect alternative ’t a perf ect al ternative to other women. She pus pushes shes back and withdraws, flares temper.. withdraws, has flar ess of temper At Theodore.

At one point she swears at Theodor e.

The evolution of love rising risinng in this human-like computer pr program o am ogr puts an edge in her voice. voicee. And this unlikely love story stays believable b into a third Samantha grows third act as Saman ntha gr ows in i strength str t ength th andd consciousness. consciou i sness. (RvB) (R B)

THE LE LEGO GO MO MOVIE VIE (PG; 100 min.) What we have h her heree is Buddhist nothing less than a Budd dhist debate between en the fixed about the polarity betwe Batman and the mutable, with Ba atman and Abraham Certainly Abr aham Lincoln in it. Ce ertainly the wittiest movie ever made m about a brick, this toy-derived movie m anonnymous ffollows ollows the rrevolt evolt of anonymous gentleman little yellow Lego gentlem man Emmet Pratt); years (voiced by Chris Pr att); ye ears ago, soundtrack the movie’s movie’ss soundtr ack ccomposer Mark Mothersbaugh oncee described character DEVO such a char acter in a DEV VO song: stares straight “Flat top, star es str aight ahead, SStock tock parts…”.. Under the guidance warrior Wyldstyle of ffemale emale war rior W yldstyyle (voiced Banks) Emmet

by Elizabeth Bank s) Emm met is drafted multi-dimensional dr afted into a mul ti-dimeensional rrebellion ebellion against an evil pr ppresident esident leader’s and the leader ’s head of security Park’s Bad Cop (Liam Neeson). South S P ark’s episodes “Imaginationland” episod des (and much of TTV’s V’s Robot Chick Chicken ken) pr prepare epare the viewer for for a vortex off all fictions based on the chaos of a kid’s k toybox.

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OMAR (96 min.) Ar Arrested rested after an a Isr Israeli aeli Palestinian alestin soldier is killed, a P nian man informant, jeopardizing becomes an inf ormant, je eopardizing a rromantic omantic relationship. relationship.

NOT HIS BY NATURE Architect Ryota Nonomiya (Masaharu Fukuyama) pushes the child he believes is his son (Keita Nonomiya) to do well in school, even at the tender age of 6.

Switch Back THE SWITCHED-BABY melodrama has been dormant for some time now. One of cinema’s great living kid-wranglers, Hirokazu Kore-eda, brings the once popular genre to life in the overlong, occasionally poignant Like Father, Like Son. As always, Kore-eda is capable of subtle, tender moments, but the too-stark contrast between the victimized families oversimplifies his story. It’s the problem of going big: he’s making a statement about the contrasts in today’s Japan, and he does it by illustrating a north-south split, which seems to be as much of a divide in Japan as it is in France, Italy or California.

Masaharu Fukuyama is playing an essentially stereotypical character: a cold, swaggering, success-chasing Tokyo architect. He’s pushing the boy who he believes is his son hard right at the beginning of his scholastic career—at age 6. Down in the south, the architect’s natural son is being raised by a much more easygoing dad—Yudai (Riri Furanki) the tattooed, Hawaiian shirt–wearing proprietor of a funky fix-it shop/hardware store. Furanki’s presence proves the Howard Hawks principle that you ought to try to make a comedy out of your story.

When you see the sympathy Kore-eda has

for this happy-go-lucky slob, you wonder why the director bothered using the workaholic in his blood-freezing modern apartment as his starting point of the tale. Yudai has so much grit that he’s even openly looking forward to the settlement the Like Father, Like Son hospital is going to lay on him for their Not rated; 121 min. mistake. Could Homer Opens Fri. Simpson be earthier?

Naturally, Yudai is perfect and doesn’t have an arc to follow, and it’s the architect who needs to rescue his inner child. There’s never been a switched-baby melo without third-act problems, and this lauded (and doomed to an American remake) drama is no exception. There are instances where you’re certain that Kore-eda is as good as Mike Leigh or the Dardenne brothers in dramatizing the banal thought: the human race’s refusal to acknowledge the familial ties between us worsens the world. This inconceivable switched-atbirth situation takes on a sad plausibility in those instances: you wonder what you’d do if it happened to you.

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STRUNG S TRUNG T TOGETHER OGETHER Miguel Atwood-F Atwood-Ferguson, erguson, wh who ho emphasizes diversity headliner Winter Fest. in his music, is a head dliner at the San Jose Jazz W in inter F est.

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HAT DO John HAT John Williams, Williams s, John John Cale, Flying Lotus, Lotus o , Dr. Dr. Dre, Hubert Hub bert Laws, Laws, Billy Higgins, Higgins, Hall and a Oates, Oates, Lana Del Rey, Rey y, Barry y Manilow and Ray Charles have ha ave in common? They’re just a few of j the acts that have called upon the talent of Miguel Migue el AtwoodFerguson.

Ferguson.

Multi-instrumentalist, Multi-instrument alistt,, arranger, arranger, ccomposer, omposer, producer, producer, educator, edu ucator, Atwood-Ferguson’s A two w od-F d Ferguson n’s job j b titles titl rival i l his cr edits, which include includ de mor credits, moree than 30 0 rrecordings ecordings and innu umerable 300 innumerable liv ve performances—both perfo ormances—botth as a session live musician and as a lead in i the gr oups groups Quar tetttto Fantastico Fantastico and an nd the Miguel Quartetto A two w od-Ferguson Ense mble.

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N ot so widely known nb eyo ond his Not beyond

native L native Los os Angeles A Angeles,, the ar artist tist thatt L.A. Weekly city’s W eeekly ccalled alleed one of that cit tyy’s “most instrumentalists” rrevered evered inst trumentalists”” will headline Winter this yyear’s eear’s San S JJose ose JJazz azz W iinter JJazz azz Fest. album elease later F est. An alb bum slated ffor o or rrelease will bee his first rrecording this yyear eear wi ill b ecording under name.. solely unde er his own name Atwood-Ferguson Whe A When tw wood-F d Ferguson g o di discusses e music,, th the word “diversity” his music he wor d “div ersittyy” Perhaps rresurfaces esurfaces again a and again. P erhaps surprise, from this is no su urprise, ccoming oming fr om a biartist racial ar tist who ttakes ak kees his inspiration from diverse fr om one off the most div erse cities on many however, the planet. In man ny rrespects, espects, howe ver, this is a man n who ccontains ontains multitudes own—a instantly all on his ow wn—a fact that is inst antly cconfirmed onfirmed when w yyou ou listen to his ccompositions, omposition ns, which combine combine the narrativee ccomplexity classical, narrativ o omple xitty of classic al,, the inventiveness jazzz and the seductiv seductive in nventiveneess of jaz ve rhythms rh hythms y off classic soul.

Yet, someone Y eet,, ffor or o so omeone who ccourts ourts diversity, Atwood-Ferguson’s div ersitty, A two w od-Ferguson n’s bio is Att the age surprisinglyy monolithic: A picked of ffour, our o , he pick p ed up the violin and, basically, never basic allyy, hee ne ver put it down again.

“I’v ve alw ways y b een a music ner d ” he d, “I’ve always been nerd, sa ayys quite simply y. says simply.

By age 10,, A tw wood-Ferguson w aas Atwood-Ferguson was ccomposing omposing ssymphonies, ymphonies, which wer w e were p erfo ormed ffor o or audienc es b effo ore he h performed audiences before left middle scho ol. Then a degr eee school. degree in classic al viola fr h om USC put him classical from on a path tow waard a ccareer areer in a str ring toward string quar tett— —until a gr owing obsessi ion quartet—until growing obsession with jaz knocked him clean off it. jazzz knocked Ther as no rrepudiation epudiation of Theree w was classic al music veer, just an classical music,, howe however, ine xorable change in outlo ok ((This ok.

T This inexorable outlook. is a stor out div veersity, after all.) alll.) By storyy ab about diversity, graduation,, A twood-Ferguson rrealized, e ealized, Atwood-Ferguson “I just w anted impr ovvise, and wr rite wanted improvise, write music avel the world pla ayi ying music,, and tra travel playing man ny diff ffeerent st yles of music many different styles music..”

Lik ke man ny ttalented alented musicians Like many who w ant to earn a living twoodwant living,, A AtwoodF erguson turned to session work k. He Ferguson work. sp eaks ffondly o ondly of its eclecticism an nd, speaks and, esp eciallyy, of how much he learn ned especially, learned d i that during h time i ab bout all ll asp ectts off about aspects the craft and the business of mak king making music music..

“I w aas so geek ed! I appr eciated d that was geeked! appreciated I had work,, but m aas rreally eaally in myy hear heartt w was it to o.” too.

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eclecticism—at his own o pr ompting, prompting, not mine —he p ositss this: “It has to do mine—he posits with richness of spiri it and in nvoking spirit invoking the infinite eaave it at that.” infinite.. I’ll just lleave A tw wood-Ferguson n do esn’t sh hy fr om Atwood-Ferguson doesn’t shy from spiritual cconcepts. oncepts. (He (H He ccalls alls hearing a ssymphony ymphon ny fr om with hin the or chestra from within orchestra a “sacred “sacred experience. experience.””)) It ’s clear that he It’s leads fr om the hear veersitty from heartt and that div diversity isn ’t a slogan slogan ffor o or him. him m. It really really is the isn’t apsulation of thee infinite variety— enc varietty— encapsulation the endless miracle yo ou will—of will—of life liffe miracle,, iif you itself itself.f.

I ask if music ffor o or him h is tied to the sear ch ffor or o a lif fe worth worth t living. living. search life He inst antly lightss up “That’s so instantly up.. “That’s enc ouraging that yyou ou u said that !” encouraging that!”

Then the cconversation on nversaation go es into an goes eat une xpected dir ection n. “I’ve “I’ve had a gr unexpected direction. great lif fe, but I’ve I’ve also had d a difficult lif fe.” life, life.

He ttalks alks about about hiss lif feelong battle batttle t lifelong with depr ession,, about about o suicidal depression, thoughts as a teen— —and also ab out teen—and about some har d-won d won wisd dom he ’s gained hard-won wisdom he’s fr om the struggle from struggle..

“In the pursuit of f— —reallyy, just of—really, tr ying to b e, I ccame ame to rrealize ealize the trying bee aliv alive, function of m t: I had zer o desir myy ar art: zero desiree of b eing a self f--absorbed d artist artist that didn ’t being self-absorbed didn’t ccare are ab out the world d that he ’s living about he’s in. I w aanted to b mebody whose wanted bee so somebody ar ething ffor o or other artt actually did some something p eople. people.

“That ’s the place place I’m I’m ccoming oming fr om: “That’s from: Iw aant m want myy music to b bee a healing thing thing,, and an enc ouraging, empowering empowering encouraging, thing don n’t ’ want want a that [message] thing.. But I don’t to b eat an nyo one o ver the head. It’s It’s beat anyone over intensely rreal eal to me—but me—but — whether p eople know that ’s my my intention people that’s do esn n’t ’ mat ttter that much m to me doesn’t matter me..”

Listeners will ha ave to answer answer ffor o or have themselv vees whether ther e’s healing themselves there’s in the music epresentative music.. But in a rrepresentative piec e, such as Drips/ / Tak ake Notic e, n o piece, Drips/Take Notice, no one ccould ould miss A two ood-F d Ferguson’s Atwood-Ferguson’s cinematic ssweep weep or the t jo oy he takes tak kees joy in marshaling the man m ny specialized specialized many worlds he spans to rreach e each tow waard that toward transc endent plac w veerything transcendent placee wher wheree eeverything co nvvergges. converges.

“I’m only 33,” Atwood-Ferguson Atwo w od-Ferguson tells me b effo ore we hang up u fo or the before up,, “and for rremainder emainder of m liffe, I’ll be be developing developing e myy life, all those worlds worlds..”

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

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

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THEB THE B BACK ACK CKB B BAR ARSOF AR SOF SOFA FA Sat, 9pm: Symbiotic.

Symbiotic.. Every Wednesday W ednesday 9pm:: Roadhouse Wednesday Slacker..

W ednesday with Slacker San Jose.

Sat,, 9pm:: Sad Boy Sinister Sat Sinister,, Get Dead, DJs RogCon & CCarlos. arlos.

Every TTue: ue: u : Soul’r SSystem yystem with soul, punk, metal, and art bands/DJs.. San Jose.

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8:30pm:: Mar cus Shelby Quinte et.

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THE CARAVAN THECARA AVA AN Thu,, 8pm: Even Gods CCan an Die. San Jose

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Fri:: AmyLou AmyLou and The Wild Ones. Sat:: Blackout.. All shows 9:30pm, $5.. Fremont.

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CITY NATIONAL CITYNA AT TIONALCIVIC CIVIC Wed, Mar 12,, 7pm: Emblem3, Wed, MKTO Jackson Guthy.

MK TO & Jack son Guthy y. $29.

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Trrio.. $13$13$22. TTue: uue: Jazz on TTuesdays. uuesdays.

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Muse. Mountain View

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SANJOSES SAN JOSE SSTATE TAT TEEEVENT VENT CENTER Sun,, 7pm: TTobymac, oobymac, Matthew West, Brandon W est, Br andon Heath, Mandisa, Maher.. $27 $27.50-$55.

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Maydayy. $58$258. San Jose.

Fri-Sun:: San Jose Jazz Winterfest.

Winterf est.. San Jose.

Every Thu:: Out of the Blue. Fri, 8pm: Aftershock. Sat, 8:30pm: Eddie and The Blues Rockers.

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SAN PEDR SAN PEDRO O SQU SQUARE ARE MARKET Fri-Sun: San Jose Jazz Winterfest.

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UNWINED Every second and ffourth ourth Thu, Balistreri.

77-9pm: -9pm:: Don Balistr eri. Every Sat, S Jose..

77-9:30pm: -9:30pm:: Live jazz. San Jose

THE W WOODSHED OODSHED Every first and thir thirdd W Wed, ed, 7pm 7pm: m: Johnny-Cat. Blues jam with Johnny-C at. os Gatos.

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Open p Mic/ d CComedy oomedy ANGELICA’S ANGELICA A’’SBIS BISTRO ST TRO

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MARMIST MARMIS ST TCCOCKTAIL OCKTA AILLLOUNGE OUNGE Sun,, 9:30pm: Comedy Comedy. y. San Jose.

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

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ROOSTER R OOSST TERT T T...FEA FEATHERS ATHER T S Every W Wed, ed,, 8pm:: New Talent Taalent Showcase.. Thu-Sun: Kyle Kyle Kinane.. $13 w/ two-item minimum per person.

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

Jose Wed & Sun, 10pm:: DJ Hank. Thu, Wed Dinero.

10pm:: DJ Diner o.. San Jose.

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

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Even second Thu:: Gothic, karaoke. industrial kar aoke.. Club Lido, San Jose.

Thu,, 7pm:: Musical open mic.

San Jose.

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TTue, uue,, 7pm:: Open mic. San Jose Jose..

Wed: 8pm-midnight:: Karaoke Wed: Karaoke plus DJ party (English and Spanish).. San Jose.

Fri,, 6pm: KJ Bob and SStarmaker, tarmaker, ollowed by DJ at 9pm. ffollowed Clara.

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Thu, 8pm:: KKaraoke. araoke.. San Jose.

Fri,, 9pm,, Sat, 7pm and 9:15pm 9:15pm: m: Sportz.

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Fri, 9pm:: Dar Darryl. ryl. San Jose.

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Sat,, 9pm:: August. Santa Clara.

Clara.

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

Palo Alto.

Show w. P alo Al to to.

Fri,, 7pm:: Open mic. San Jose.

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Thu, 9pm:: KKaraoke. araoke.

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Wed, 8pm:: Fr Wed, Fresh esh Faces Come Comedy edy Show.. $12. Thu, 8pm:: Spicy Show Latino w/ Rick Martinez.. $17 Pazsitzky. $18.

Fri-Sat:: Christina P azsitzky. $1 18.

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GALAXY BLINKY’S BLINK KY Y’S CAN’T SSAY AY Sat,, 9pm-1am: 9pm--11am:: KKaraoke. araoke.

Santa Clara.

Clara.

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

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

Karaoke. Gilroy.

Gilrroyy.

Wed & Sun,, 7pm-close: KKaraoke.

Wed araoke.

San Jose.

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TTue: ue: u : KKaraoke. araoke.. Sunnyvale.

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Thu,, 9pm:: $5.. Club Lido, San Jose.

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KCCB K BAR ARANDRE AND RESTAURANT STAU URANT Wed, 8pm:: DJ Desmond.

Wed, San Jose.

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

Campbeell.

KING OF CLUBS KINGOFCL UBS Thu & Sun-Mon,, 8:30pm:: Bruce Brucce of KKOR OR Karaoke.

Karaoke. aoke Mountain View.

View w.

KYOTO K YOTO PLA PLACE CE Wed, W ed, 7pm:: KKaraoke. araoke.. Sunnyvale.

Sunnyvalee.

LILLY LILL LY YMA MAC’S C’S Thu:: Karaoke.

Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

MARIANI’S Thu,, 8pm:: Chris.. Santa Clara.

Clara.

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Thu-Sat, 9pm:: DJ CCurtis. urtis. San Jose Jose.

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Wed, W ed, 10pm:: Purple. P Palo alo Al Alto. to.

SHERWOOD SHER WOODINN INN Thu-Sun, 8:30pm:: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

SOUTH FIR FIRST ST BILLIARDS

Wed-Sun & TTue, Wed-Sun uue,, 7pm:: DJ and dancing. CCupertino. upertino.

Thu:: JR.. Sun:: JR Diaz Family Gilroy.

KKaraoke. araoke. TTue: uue:: James.. Gilr oyy.

TEQUILA TE QUILA SHO SHOT’S OT T’S B BAR AR & GRILL Mon & W Wed, ed, 9pm: Dar Darryl. ryl. Milpitas.

THREE FLAMESS THREEFLAME Thu,, 8pm:: KKaraoke araoke Night with Show.. the Uncle Dougie Show San Jose.

WOODHAMS W OODHAMS LLOUNGE OUNGE TTue-Thu ueu -TThu & Sat: KKaraoke. araoke.

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

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Dee & Hi-Gr ade. Fri:: Quality Control VJ1.

Contr ol w/DJ V JJ1. Sat:: Cocktails & Dreams Dreams w/DJ Aspect.

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San Jose.

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Thursdays & Friday Night 9pm ~ 11pm

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

San Jose.

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Wed, W ed, 9pm:: KKaraoke. araoke.. CCampbell. ampbell.

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Sun-Mon, 9pm:: Ryan.. San Jose.

Josee.

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San Jose.

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Every Thu, 7:30pm7:30pm-9:30pm: 9:30pm: KKaraoke araoke Club.. San Jose.

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

KKaraoke. araoke. Mountain View

Thu,, 8pm:: A Atomic tomic Dance Club. $5. San Jose.

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Sun:: KKaraoke. araoke. San Jose.

Sat: KKaraoke. araoke. CCampbell. ampbell.

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

Clara.

Santa Clar a.

AZĂšCAR LA LATIN AT TIN B BAR AR Thu,, 9pm:: DJ party party. y. Fri-Sat,, 9pm2am:: Live music & DJs,, salsa, more. house, hip-hop & mor e.. Mon: Salsa.. San Jose.

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6pm-1am; Mon-Sat, 6pm-1am; Sun,, 8pm12:30am.. San Jose

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Fremont.

Fri-Sat, 9pm:: KKaraoke. araoke.. Sunnyva Sunnyvale. ale.

DR. DOG Moses Sumney

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

Clara.

Sun,, 9pm: Joe.. Santa Clar a.

Sun,, 10am:: Psycho KKaraoke. araoke. ampbell.

CCampbell.

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Thu:: DJ Nico.. Fri:: DJ BenofďŹ cial.

Sat:: DJ Ready Rock.. San Jose.

THE X B BAR AR TTue ue u & Fri,, 9pm:: Karaoke Karaoke with KJ Vinnie.. Cupertino.

Cupertino.

CARDIFF LLOUNGE OUNGE Every second and ffourth ourth Sun: Return of the Boom Zap, underground electronic under ground electr onic music.

CCampbell. ampbell.

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CCOURT’S OUR RT T’S LLOUNGE OUNGE

Fri & Sat 9pm:: Live music.

Gilroy.

Gilr oyy.

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Thu,, 10pm: Dancing to DJ BenOfficial & DJ Vex. Veex.. Santa Clara.

Clara.

Thu, 10:30pm: Reggae Thursdays.. Fri:: DJ Tony.

Toonyy. Sun, 11:30am:: Bottomless Mimosa.

View..

Mountain View

PAGODA P AGODA LLOUNGE OUNGE

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call ffor or inf info. o.. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

Fri, 10pm:: Manuf Manufactured actured Superstars. Sat, 9pm:: DJ Cobra.

Cobra.

San Jose.

DIVE BAR DIVEB AR Thu, 10:30pm:: Rotating Guest Guest DJs.

EL RANCHO SPOR SPORTS RTS B BAR AR

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Fri-Sat, 8pm:: Old School Danc Dance ce Party.

P artyy. San Jose.

Thu,, 10pm: Ambitious Thursdays.

Thu Thursdays Fri,, 9pm:: Playhouse Fridays. TTue: uue: Industry.

Industry y. San Jose.

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Fri,, 10pm: A ACC Slater Slater,r, P Petey etey Click Clicks, s, Anthony Midas.. $10. Sunnyvale.

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

Aspect.. Sat:: Satur day Cooldown with DJ-Luzion, DJ-Luzion, Illtraxx, Ill traxx, WreckaNoize WreckaNoize & HiGrade.

HiGrade.

TTues: uues: TWOSdays.

TWOSdays. San Jose.

Call ffor Call or inf info. o.. Ever Evergreen green Inn, San Jose.

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Thursday y. Every Fri,, 9pm: Soul Therapy.

Ther apyy. Every Sat:: Social Saturdays.

Satur days.. San Jose.

CCall all ffor or inf info. o.. CCampbell. ampbell.

CCall all ffor or inf info. o.. San Jose.

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JOHNNY V’S JOHNNYV’S Thu,, 9pm: Heavy Hittaz (T (Trap, Trap, dubstep, D&B).. Fri,, 9pm: TTraffic raffi fic w/ DJs RagCon,, CCarlos arlos C.. (80ss and 90s House) San Jose.

call for for inf info. o. Four P Points oints Sheraton, Sher aton,, San Jose.

SSAN AN JOSE B BAR AR & GRILL Wed: Gamer W Wed: Wednesdays. ednesdays.. Thu: TTanked aanked Thursdays w/DJ WreckWreckA-Noize.

A -Noize.. Fri: Video Junkie. Sat, 10pm: Omega the Neo-tablist and Philemonster Philemonster.. Everyy second Prolific. and ffourth ourth Sat, 10pm:: Pr olific.

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

WILLOW WILL OWDEN DEN Mon:: Magic Mike Mondays.

Wed-Fri: W ed-Fri: DJs. Willow Glen.

ZEN LOUNGE ZENL OUNGE Thu:: Reverse Happy Hour.

Hour. Every first Fri: Famous. Every second & ffourth ourth Fri:: Diamond. Sat:: Girls Night Out. Mountain View.

View.

SONOMA CHICKEN COOP SONOMACHICKENC OOP Thu-Sat, 9pm:: Late Night at the more.

Coop. Live DJ and mor e.

San Jose.

KATIE KA AT TIEBL BLOOM’S OOM’S Thu-Sat, 9:30pm:: DJs and dancing. CCampbell. dancing. ampbell ampbell.

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LILLY LILL LY MAC’S MAC’S Fri,, 9:30pm:: Phil ‘‘n n the Blank Blanks. s s.

Every second and ffourth ourth Sat: DJ night with Latin music.

Sunnyvale.

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

San Jose.

LLOFT OFTB BAR ARANDBIS AND BISTRO ST TRO

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LLOS OS GA GATOS ATOS B BAR AR AND GRILL

S.F. staple rocks their garage folk sound with heart. Feb 26 at Brick and Mortar Music Hall.

Fri,, 10pm: Foundation Fridayss at LLGBG. GBG.. Sat: Video Killed the DJ.. LLos DJ os Gatos.

MILANO Every Thir Thirdd Fri:: SStrictly trictly Fr Freestyle. eestyyle.

Jose.

Every ffourth ourth Fri:: Fuz.. San Jose e.

THE MO MOJO JO LLOUNGE OUNGE

BOB MOULD Hardcore legend and Husker Du front man celebrates the 25th anniversary of his first solo album. Feb 27 at Great American Music Hall.

COM TRUISE The DJ and producer likes getting funky with his stylized synths. Feb 27 at Mezzanine.

Every Thu:: DJ Mist.. Fr Fremont. emont.

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Rich and fun folk rock band from Philly never fails to impress. Mar 1 at the Warfield.

Fri:: DJs & dancing.. Every ffourth ourtth Only.

Sat: Thrive. Sun:: Members Onl lyy.

San Jose.

MOUNTAIN MOUNT TA AINCHARLE CHARLEY’S Y’S Thu:: DJ Vincent Fiction. Fri: Claksaarb DJ Clak saarb Sat, 9:30pm:: DJ Kmac.. LLos os Gatos.

WILL DOWNING Sophisticated soul man tours in support of his new album. Mar 2 at Yoshis SF.

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to play Lewis to her Clark, she wouldn’t even consider dating a guy whose idea of a nature hike is probably cutting across the lawn to get the mail. I shared this thought with a mentally ill friend of mine (translation: one who camps on purpose), and she agreed. She also added that “camping with 20 people is not camping; it’s ‘camping.’ It’s getting drunk beside your car, tripping over your tent stake and passing out next to your sleeping bag.

Even a city boy can do that once.”

Let your girlfriend know that camping isn’t your thing but that you’re sure you’ll have a great time with her over the weekend. This sets her up not to expect much more of this outdoorsy business from you while setting you up as a good sport who’s willing to go out of his way to make her happy. If both you and your relationship survive the weekend, maybe you can show her a thing or two about the great indoors—like how, of all the current wonders of nature, one of the most wonderful is how you can sit in your house drinking martinis while watching them on Discovery Channel.

And don’t forget my absolute favorite thing about nature—the whoosh it makes as you’re driving past it to get back to your hotel.

My best friend, “Rob,” is really into this girl he’s been dating. She is loud, talks constantly about vapid subjects, generally rubs everyone the wrong way and—I’m not kidding—makes cat “meow” sounds. (For instance: “I'm hungry; let's get pancakes! Meow.”) Recently, a mutual friend blurted out to Rob, “Dude, seriously, how do you put up with her?” Rob was upset, and I sympathized, but the reality is, we all think that. Shouldn’t he know the truth—that none of us wants to be around him when he’s around her? —Biting Tongue When you’re all out to dinner, you must live for those moments when she and some other woman excuse themselves to go talk about all you guys in the litter box. As hard as it must be for you to hold back, all this guy should know is that you’re his friend.

People mistakenly believe that you can criticize somebody into changing. You can’t. What you typically end up doing is criticizing them into clinging even more tenaciously to whatever you were hoping to pry them away from. Because,

in relationships, initially adorable idiosyncrasies can turn screechingly annoying, it’s possible your friend will eventually grow allergic to loud, vapid women who make cat sounds. Until then, well, that’s why there’s guys’ night out at the cigar bar. You might also try to curb your annoyance by feeling happy for him.

For him to be blind to how irritating she is, she must do some really special things in the bedroom—you know, like marking the bed with urine and killing mice and leaving them on his pillow.

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This great girl I’ve been dating just invited me on a camping trip. Frankly, there is nothing I would like to do less. I hate camping, and I won’t know anyone but her. The trip is three days with 20 of her friends, including her ex-boyfriend, so I worry about asking her to go without me, especially since we aren't “official” yet. Can I skip this without it being a big deal, or is it a mistake to let her go when we're right at the monogamy crossroads?—City Boy The comforts of civilization abound.

Even Walmart stocks a heated toilet seat—complete with a handy-dandy nightlight in the bowl—for a rather reasonable $119. Yet—go figure—there are all these people who think it would be super-cool to go out for a weekend and squat behind a bush.

In other words, I’m right there with you, City Boy. My idea of camping is waiting for our room to be ready in the lobby of a hotel with exposed wood. My favorite hiking safety tip? Avoid hiking.

But I understand your problem. It’s a bad idea to stay home when it means she’ll be out there in nature with nothing to block the view of her ex-boyfriend.

Unfortunately, you’re being asked on not just a camping trip but a vetting trip (even if she hasn’t put it that plainly to you or even herself). She’ll be looking at how well you fit in with her friends (which will tell her something about how well you’ll fit into her life) and, possibly, evaluating your camping prowess: whether you can start a fire with a single soggy match, put up a tent using only your teeth and talk geopolitics with a raccoon.

But chances are, if she were some hardcore camper looking for the man

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By CECIL ADAMS

The mainstream view is that microwaves basically do what conventional heating does, only faster.

A few scientists, however, think there may be what are known as nonthermal microwave effects of possibly ominous significance. Since precision microwave ovens have become widely available in labs, an opportunity to settle this longstanding controversy is now at hand—or so it seemed in 2005.

Which brings us to the article cited above, published last year by three Austrian chemists, C. Oliver Kappe, Bartholomäus Pieber and Doris Dallinger, in the journal Angewandte Chemie (“Applied Chemistry”). Having reviewed the literature and done some experiments, they report as follows: Everyone agrees microwaves are far too low-energy to break molecular bonds and cause chemical reactions. (Cooking, whether done conventionally or with microwaves, unbends or “denatures” proteins, changing their shape much as one might unbend a paper clip, so in that sense it changes molecular structure.

But it doesn’t turn the molecules into something else.)

That said, laboratory microwave ovens do things that are difficult or impossible to replicate with conventional heating. A reaction that might take five hours to complete if the starting mixture were simply boiled can be accomplished in one second using a microwave to superheat the stuff in a sealed vessel. The fact remains: these are still thermal effects.

Claims of nonthermal microwave effects continue to show up in the scientific journals, but in the opinion of Oliver, Bart, and Doris, these are mostly due to (a) chemists not really getting how microwaves work and (b) experimental error. A common problem is inaccurate temperature monitoring.

One article won’t end the argument.

But I’m inclined to agree with Oliver, Bart and Doris: mysterious microwave effects (and presumably their attendant dangers) are a myth.

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The jury was still out, although if my eyes don’t deceive me they just filed back into the courtroom. More on that in a moment, but first a word.

Next time you get some fragile eggshell mind telling you that “microwaving changes the molecular structure of food,” look them in the eye and reply as follows: “You’re 100 percent correct— it’s been scientifically proven that microwaving changes the molecular structure of food. THIS IS CALLED COOKING, YOU NITWIT.” The verdict comes in the form of an article published last year entitled: “Microwave Effects in Organic Synthesis: Myth or Reality?”

The answer, not to kill the suspense, is: myth.

To recap, people freak out about microwaves because they use (horrors!) radiation, failing to grasp that there are two kinds of radiation: (1) ionizing, the high-energy kind produced by nuclear bombs, radioactive elements and such, and (2) non-ionizing, the relatively lowenergy type we encounter every day in the form of light, heat and radio waves.

Microwaves are located between radio and heat (infrared) on the non-ionizing end of things.

Microwave heating is different from conventional heating because, whereas infrared energy warms up pretty much any molecule it plows into, microwaves only affect molecules having polarity— that is, positive and negative ends, which rotate rapidly back and forth as the microwaves go by. A common type of polar molecule is water, which, happily for us, is distributed fairly evenly throughout many foods.

So while ordinary heat gets absorbed by the outer layer of a food and only slowly penetrates to the interior, microwave energy passes through most of the food as though it were transparent and heats up mainly the water and, to a degree, the sorta polar fats and sugars, which in turn heat up everything else. The food thus cooks uniformly (more or less) and in much less time.

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