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“Can I get you a drink?” No, thank you. “Oh, so you have a boyfriend.” I didn’t say that. “You’re a lesbian?” Not interested. “A prude?” Just. Not. Interested. I shouldn’t have to say, “I have a boyfriend,” or summon a male friend to hover nearby and glare at you to relay the message.

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THE FLY

Drinking Games Elected officials in Santa Clara can’t get on the same page, mirroring the efforts of the city’s beleaguered football team.

Earlier this month, JAMIE MATTHEWS doffed his mayoral hat and sent a letter to 49ers season ticket holders in his role as chair of the Santa Clara Stadium Authority.

Matthews warned that anyone violating Levi’s Stadium’s code of conduct could have their seat license revoked. Some of his colleagues on the City Council, who also sit on the Stadium Authority, were caught off guard by the timing of the message.

Councilmembers DEBI DAVIS, LISA GILLMOR and TERESA O’NEIL—the lone women on the seven-person council—drafted a memo demanding a public discussion on the matter considering just a week prior to Matthews’ letter going out, the city’s police chief, MIKE SELLERS, and city attorney, REN NOSKY, had suggested the Stadium Authority had little ability to change the time of last call for alcohol. Instead, the two men indicated, the Niners and They VP of Stadium Operations Did JIM MERCURIO control What? alcohol concessions, which end before the SEND TIPS TO O fourth quarter. But FLY@ as it turns out, Chief METRONEWS. WS. WS S..

COM Sellers does have the power to stop alcohol sales at any time if he thinks there’s an “imminent threat” to the public, according to Nosky. A fan being beaten in the parking lot, apparently, didn’t rise to that level.

The councilmembers’ request to flesh out who has authority on alcohol sales was mysteriously left off this week’s meeting agenda. The city has no system in place to make sure things are agendized, which Nosky called “problematic.” Perhaps more concerning is the growing sense that elected officials and 49ers brass have grown too cozy, and dissenters will be targeted. Sellers, the lone elected police chief in California, recently got remarried and invited Mercurio to his wedding. The chief says no gifts were exchanged. Meanwhile, polling is being done in Santa Clara that suggests the women on the council are already being targeted for the next election.

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Sky Detective SKY SCANNER Azadeh Tabazadeh escaped Iran to become one of the most successful scientists in her field.

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HE DOORBELL seemed to buzz louder than usual, signaling the start of a long escape.

Azadeh Tabazadeh paused for one last look at her room.

To one side, the desk where she conducted her first chemistry experiment with a kit her uncle had given her as a gift nearly a decade before. Beside it, the bed where she nearly took her own life knowing she could never become the “Iranian Madame Curie.”

In 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile, overthrew the Shah and ushered in sharia law. Women could no longer become judges or pursue studies in science and engineering. They had to wear veils or risk being whipped in public. “We were born in a place where women just don’t get what they want from life,” Tabazadeh would later write.

With nothing but two suitcases, 17-year-old Tabazadeh and her brother left their parents and younger sister behind. In 1982, at the start of the Iran-Iraq War, wealthy families like her own sent their sons away to avoid the draft and their daughters to escape sexist repression under Ayatollah Khomeini’s reign. For $44,000, Tabazadeh’s parents hired

traffickers to smuggle the two young siblings through the deserts and mountains of Pakistan, away from the violence and into the unknown.

Ultimately, by way of London and Madrid, they landed in California, where Tabazadeh went on to become a renowned climate scientist. The Mountain View resident and former NASA researcher chronicles her harrowing escape as well as daily life in Tehran leading up to the Islamic revolution in a new memoir, The Sky Detective (iUniverse 2015).

The book offers an eyewitness account of the Islamic revolution as told by her younger self, a girl preternaturally aware of gender and class inequities that nearly stifled her ambitions and set her and her childhood friend, a servant girl named Najmieh, forever on separate paths.

“I wrote this, in some sense, for the people I left behind,” says Tabazadeh, now 49 and a mother of three, leafing through the hardback volume in her Mountain View home. “I never got any closure.”

Safe in the United States, however, she put those unresolved feelings

Before the revolution, the Tabazadeh family lived in affluence, afforded by the fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work as an engineer. They vacationed in a villa on the Caspian Sea, took trips to England and hired the servant girl, Najmieh, to keep house. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We became very close,â&#x20AC;? says Tabazadeh, who was 8 when she met Najmieh, whose father had sent her from her home in a north Iranian village to earn money for the family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was very curious, intelligent for her age.â&#x20AC;?

The bond between the two girls grew as Tabazadeh taught Najmieh, unschooled and illiterate, to read and write in Farsi. Having another person to teach fueled her interest in academics, which she recognized as a privilege. In Iran, then and now, many families send their underage children to earn money as domestic servants instead of going to school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even as a little girl, I knew that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t right,â&#x20AC;? says Tabazadeh, who dedicated the book to Najmieh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to share what I had with her.â&#x20AC;?

She credits her uncle Mahmood, an atheist and geologist who settled in Germany, with ďŹ rst igniting her passion for science. It was that same year, when she was 8, that he gave her a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chemistry set that included a white lab coat, goggles and copper sulfate to make crystals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That really gave me the idea that science was exciting,â&#x20AC;? she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;that this is something I could do forever.â&#x20AC;?

But after the Khomeiniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edict mandating sharia law, she would no longer be able to pursue a science career in her own country. To this day, the Iranian government prohibits women from taking science and engineering university classes. Some 36 Iranian universities have banned women from 77 ďŹ elds of study, including physics and computer science, according to the Committee of Concerned Scientists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such a different world,â&#x20AC;? says Linda Joy Myers, president of the National Association of Memoir Writers, who coached Tabazadeh as she wrote The Sky Detective. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She lived through history. You learn so much about it through this very personal story. What I always say about memoir is that it takes us into the truth and the family home. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just about the events and facts, but what happened in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hearts and minds during that time.â&#x20AC;?

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While still in graduate school, Tabazadeh became one of the ďŹ rst scientists to make a connection between ozone depletion and climate change. The discovery shattered claims that humans had only a negligible impact on global warming.

While critics pointed to natural events, such as volcanic eruptions, as the cause, Tabazadeh proved that volcanic chlorine dissolves in rainfall without reaching the stratospheric ozone. She demonstrated that chloroďŹ&#x201A;uorocarbons, coolants from air conditioners and refrigerators, ďŹ&#x201A;oat up and weaken the ozone layerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to ďŹ lter the sunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultraviolet rays.

Those ďŹ ndings brought her national acclaim and led to a landmark federal ban on chloroďŹ&#x201A;uorocarbon manufacturing in 1996. The White House, the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society granted her prestigious awards. NASA paid the bulk of her doctoral tuition, hired her and gave her a medal. Popular Science named her one of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;brilliant 10â&#x20AC;? scientists shaking up their ďŹ elds in 2002. In 2005, Time magazine dubbed her a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sky detectiveâ&#x20AC;? for her groundbreaking insights into the destruction of the ozone. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For years, all I thought about was my research,â&#x20AC;? Tabazadeh says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But when I started to get all this media attention, when the Time article was published, people expressed interest in this other part of my story, in my journey here from Iran.â&#x20AC;?

In 2011, Tabazadeh left her teaching job at Stanford University to write her book. She began mining her memory, interviewing her parents and friends to reconstruct the events leading up to her escape. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I rediscovered not only my own history, but the history of Iran,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Almost all of the stories that are written about Iran are told by journalists, or focused on politics. I wanted to tell this from a personal standpoint, from someone who lived through this tumultuous time.â&#x20AC;?

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BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH California’s new cannabis regulations violate the state constitution, according to a lawsuit filed by the owner of a San Jose collective.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a trio of bills earlier this month that establish a marijuana bureaucracy. The bipartisan legislative package creates a complex system of licensing and testing and governs everything from seed to sale.

Dave Armstrong, however, argues that the just-passed Medical Marijuana Regulations and Safety Act violates the California Constitution. In a lawsuit filed last week in Santa Clara County Superior Court, the MediMarts operator claims that the law amends a voter initiative—Prop. 215, called the 1996 Compassionate Use Act—without voter approval.

“The state cannot take this away from the people and make

it the ‘Cash In On Our Use Act,’” Armstrong told San Jose Inside.

“When did ‘compassion’ turn into ‘compensation?’”

Armstrong takes issue with the state-set limits on how much marijuana a patient or caregiver can grow. New restrictions on how many patients a doctor can see also conflict with the two-decade-old voter initiative and infringe on the rights of patients, according to the lawsuit.

Regardless of what the state passes, it all flouts federal law, the complaint continues. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency still classifies the plant as a Schedule I drug, which makes it illegal for clinical or personal use.

“It’s a sad truth in this matter when one arm of the state tells you one thing and the other supports unlawful business activities,” said

Armstrong, who has also sued the city of San Jose over local marijuana regulations.

The American Medical Marijuana Association (AMMA), a patient and caregiver advocacy group, plans to file a similar complaint alleging that the state Legislature is trying to override a voter initiative.

Under incipient state rule, patients’ gardens will be limited to 100 square feet, regular family doctors must issue recommendations and local governments can continue to ban cannabis cultivation, storage, manufacture and transport. All those provisions go against Prop. 215, AMMA claims.

“Our medical cannabis rights … have been hijacked,” AMMA director Steve Kubby said. “Prop. 215 is under attack like never before.”

San Jose’s recently retired independent police auditor will lead a task force assigned to investigate Santa Clara County’s jails.

LaDoris Cordell, who served as a judge before becoming a civilian police auditor in 2010, will chair the “blue ribbon” commission, county officials announced Monday. The Board of Supervisors convened the committee after the Aug. 27 beating death of 31-year-old mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree. Three jail guards were charged with his murder: Jereh Lubrin, Matthew Farris and Rafael Rodriquez.

In the week that followed, Sheriff Laurie Smith, who oversees the Department of Corrections (DOC), called for a top-down review of custody operations. From a field of nearly 100 applicants, Supervisor Dave Cortese appointed 25 people to the board. In addition to Cordell, other members include judges, behavioral health experts, inmate advocates and retired law enforcement.

“They were chosen for their unique perspectives that can move us toward a more holistic approach to better serve and keep inmate, custody staff and visitors safe,” Cortese told reporters at Monday’s press conference.

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N OLD FRIEND recently lured me into the lair of one Mr. Ernie Cassetta.

A living legend at the celebrated intersection where First and Second streets collide and transform into Monterey Highway, Ernie has operated car lots in San Jose longer than I’ve been alive. As he and I sit in his makeshift command center, decades-old furniture surrounds us, each piece oozing with character.

His desk is an original, he tells me, dating back to the ’50s. The fourdrawer filing cabinet, aged like a fine Cabernet and jammed with years of paperwork, seems straight out of Raymond Chandler. I’m expecting Marlowe to emerge any second and slip his fedora hat onto the rack. It’s fantastic. The point of all this? Ernie is a fountain of history. All I can do is slump down into a comfy old couch and let the conversation sail.

At the ripe young age of 94, Ernie still puts in long hours and even repossesses cars, but he’s a lot more congenial than Harry Dean Stanton in Repo Man. A fixture at this property, Ernie schools me on life’s lessons with the soft-spoken repartee

of someone whose decades have taught him it’s better to give than to receive. People seem to forget the virtues of modesty and humility, he tells me. Now that I’m thinking about it, I never knew either of my grandfathers, but they’d probably be Ernie’s age if they were alive.

As I become one with the cozy couch, Ernie’s life story unfolds. His dad emigrated from Italy, entering the USA through Ellis Island with $2.50 to his name. Ernie was born in San Jose, on George Street, in 1921, when hard-working Italians ruled the landscape. Growing up with many siblings, dinner felt like an army mess hall. They didn’t have much money.

For fun, he hitchhiked to Santa Cruz, long before Highway 17 existed.

Traveling over the tiny mountain road took all day. Around the same time, he remembers when trolleys ran all over San Jose, before the idiots

in charge ripped them out and sent the resulting metal off to Japan.

“The metal returned to us via torpedos,” he laughs, referring to Pearl Harbor, but with no animosity.

Ernie participated in WWII and tells me war is garbage. Killing more people over and over again doesn’t accomplish anything, yet politicians never learn. But I sense no hostility in his voice. Again, his genial, humble nature is infectious.

Humility just oozes out of him. I’m almost at peace just contemplating the scene here in the command center: the ancient furniture, the box of VHS tapes on the floor, the decades-old bulletin board with car keys hanging on it, and even some 1950s-era photos of when he used to operate three different car lots.

I seem to wind up in these scenarios all the time. It happens automatically. I guess natives of a feather yak together. Call it luck.

Or fate. Or simply being sentenced to life in San Jose with no parole. I jest, of course, but when Ernie starts mentioning the old pop songs he regularly sings at Vahl’s in Alviso, I feel an odd sense of camaraderie. All I can possibly offer in response is that I grew up playing many of those same tunes on a beat-up Lowrey Genie organ from Stevens Music in Willow Glen. I fumbled through Sinatra stuff at age 12, using dorky viola and trombone sounds on that organ, so in a strange way I know the songs Ernie talks about. We both laugh out loud.

“We have music in our hearts,” he tells me.

Except for his army stint, all of Ernie’s 94 years have unfolded in San Jose. Here, on this comfortable couch, I am only experiencing a few moments’ worth of his life story.

And what a yarn it is. There aren’t many people left in this town from his generation, let alone those who can go out and repossesses cars, work 12-hour days and then sing at Vahl’s every other weekend. I hope I can still remember the chords for “My Way” when I arrive at his age. How does he manage such a variety of interests?

“I keep busy,” Ernie says. “It’s occupational therapy.”

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ACH YEAR, on the final day of October, bands of children take to the sidewalks of neighborhoods all over the country— skittering from house to house and ringing doorbells— seeking the rush of free candy and the thrill of remaining outside after dark. Similarly, each year at the same time, packs of young adults take to the streets, cluster in apartments and crowd into bars, on the hunt for rushes and thrills of their own.

Dressed as ghouls and goblins, knights and princesses or figures from popular culture, they are ostensibly celebrating a Christian holiday, whose earliest incarnations began more than a thousand years ago as All Saints Day and All Hallows’ Eve—a time for

commemorating dead saints and the recently deceased who have yet to find their way into the heavenly kingdom.

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and author of Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England.

First and foremost, Luhrmann says, people dress up because “it’s fun.” But also, she continues, as the heat of this year’s Indian Summer fades and leaves continue to fall in the Valley of the Heart’s Delight, children and young adults will don every costume, from Donald Trump to … well … Sexy Donald Trump, taking advantage of all the cultural transgressions to which the holiday lends sanction.

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Of course, not everyone is happy with the idea of “license”—structured or otherwise. “Not all observers think it’s proper,” she says, noting that many chafe at the idea that others would

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Some religious folk will object to the idea of dressing children as spectral beings, contending that the practice makes light of very real evil forces. Others have lashed out at the sexiďŹ cation of Halloween, linking it to a patriarchal society that objectiďŹ es women. And then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the drinking and drug use.

Yet, as the anthropology professor observes, festivals which promote â&#x20AC;&#x153;inversionâ&#x20AC;? practices are nothing new and certainly donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to be going anywhere. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The British upper classes used to love costume parties,â&#x20AC;? she says by way of example. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think that was not unconnected with their social awkwardness.â&#x20AC;?

Then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Carnival, the days-long party that precedes the Christian fasting season of Lent in many countries.

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Wearing clothing that covers the majority of our bodies, refraining from excessive consumption of alcohol, laws forbidding the use of recreational drugsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;these are all social choices, Luhrmann explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Culture constrains much of human behavior and experience, giving us rules to follow, and of course people chafe against those. So, these periods of structured licenseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;people really like them.â&#x20AC;?

Luhrmann says that the glut of highly revealing Halloween costumes are a reďŹ&#x201A;ection of the desire people have to break with social normsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if only for an evening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The sexiness of Halloween for adults is much more tied to the idea of license that you are allowed to do things with your body and expose parts of your body that you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in a ordinary day.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Nick Veronin

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WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE FLASHLIGHT TOURS Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, Thru Oct 31 The limited run of flashlight tours at Winchester Mystery House go through 110 rooms of the world famous (and

The Dead Time Dreams haunted house returns for 2015 with "The Devils Sacrifice" and "Backwoods," plus the preentry show "Midway of Terror," a circus freak inspired pre-show. Dead Time Dreams is located at the corner of Tully and East Capitol Expressway Roads by Eastridge Mall.

HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE BALL JW Marriott, San Francisco, Oct 30 If having to figure out a quirky and relevant costume every year seems tough, check out the Halloween party that only requires a mask and some snazzy cocktail attire at the JW Marriott San Francisco in Union Square.

PRE-HALLOWEEN WITH ATB City National Civic, San Jose, Oct 30 Andre Tanneberger, under his stage name of ATB, brings a pre-Halloween EDM party to City National Civic.

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TRICK OR TREAT Studio 8, San Jose, Oct 31 Studio 8 hosts one of San Jose's biggest Halloween parties with $1,000 in cash prizes for scariest, sexiest and crowd favorite costumes.

THE BLACK CAT BALL The Cats Restaurant & Tavern, Los Gatos, Oct 31 Enjoy drinks, dancing to live music, and a costume contest with prizes at The Black Cat Ball. Best of all, admission is free, and so is the shuttle which runs revellers back and forth between the party and the Toll House hotel in downtown Los

Gatos, so you don’t have to worry about the ghastly act of driving drunk.

HALLOWEEN PARTY Woodhams Sports Lounge, Santa Clara, Oct 31 Singing pop songs in front of a crowded room can be scary. Imagining them in their underwear? Scarier still. Good thing Woodhams will be offering up plenty of drink specials during their Halloween Party this year. Make sure you come decked out, as you might be the lucky guy or gal who claims a cash prize for the best costume of the night.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY The Ritz, San Jose, Oct 31 Put on your best face—literally. It could help you cover your rent next month. The Ritz, everybody’s favorite orange and black nightclub in San Jose, is hosting a costume contest this Halloween and the cash prize is $500.

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“There’s a misperception when it comes to beef—that it has to be cooked all the way through,” says owner Regina Chan. “Fast food places factor into that because [their meat] could be frozen. It could be from last week, from last year.

Ours are very fresh patties. You wouldn’t order a steak well-done. You need to have the flavor there. And the flavor is not going to be there if you cook it all the way through.”

Their menu offers seven burgers. The Nom ($12) features melty gruyere, red caramelized onions and roasted tomato aioli. The Hoi-Sin Hoi-Sum ($13) comes topped with pickled cucumbers, fried wonton skins and a hoisin glaze. Distinctive accessories on other burgers include slow-braised pork belly, jalapeno bacon and housemade guacamole. A crispy over-medium egg can be added for $1.75 and vegans can substitute a cauliflower-stuffed portabello.

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*mon *tue *wed *thu Continental, San Jose Mon, 8pm, Free The music genre known as Motown ranks among the great American artforms. By mashing together the spirit-soothing weight of soul with the viral catchiness of pop, the soulful sounds that came out of mid-century Detroit have aged like Bordeaux. Motown on Mondays is a weekly event that rollicks in clubs in cities across the nation. The talented DJs behind the Monday night party mix the superb source material in compositions that have a bassy modern pulse—weaving modern and classic influences that might, for example, set Mos Def’s storytelling verses from Ms. Fat Booty smack next to some next-level wailing from Diana Ross. (JF)

TED KOPPEL

Santa Clara Convention Center Tue, 7pm, $25 After rising as the diplomatic correspondent on ABC television, Ted Koppel anchored Nightline for 25 years—covering figures from Madonna to Pol Pot, places from Mount Everest to Iraq, and events from the AIDS epidemic to apartheid. Koppel just finished work on Lights Out: A Cyber Attack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath, where he paints a vivid and uncomfortably plausible scenario in which a laptoporchestrated strike on a major power grid wipes out electricity for a sizable swath of our nation. He speaks with doomsday preppers, such as the veryready Mormon Church, a brick-making Wisconsinan and a retreat supervisor with a fish-stocked lake—and wonders what the rest of us would do. (JF)

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Cantor Art Museum, Palo Alto Wed, 11am, Free Edward Hopper pioneered an American impressionism that captured the essence of streetside life in New York City during the early 20th century. He established himself with “New York Corner,” which portrayed milling market-dwellers, a golden facade and foggy, looming skyscrapers.

Richard Diebenkorn studied at Stanford and took immediately to Hopper’s style—borrowing elements of his interplay between light and shadow, and austere splotches of color. The Cantor presents 29 of Diebenkorn’s sketchbooks, digitally remastered for easy navigation, to trace the progression of the artist’s storied career. The exhibit runs through Feb 8. (JF)

PAUL REISER Oshman Center, Palo Alto Thu, 7:30pm, $40

In college, Paul Reiser hit the stage desperate to achieve his dream of becoming a comedian. He’d go on to attract the attention of television executives and anchor the sitcom, Mad About You, alongside Helen Hunt. The show would win 40 awards over seven seasons.

Since then, he’s appeared in last year’s Academy-Award nominated Whiplash, as the beleaguered and supportive father of a slighted drum prodigy. This year, he stars alongside Will Smith in the NFL-centric drama, Concussion. Despite this stellar career, he hungered for the simplicity of stand-up and after shaking off the rust, he’s back to his roots. (JF)

ANDREW NORELLI Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale Thu, 8pm, $14 Andrew Norelli graduated from UC-Berkeley and decided to pursue stand-up comedy as his career. Since debuting, he’s made the rounds on the comedy circuit (Letterman, Kimmel and Ferguson) and toured with big names like Jay Leno, Dave Chappelle and Bob Saget. On his Comedy Central special, he explored the give-up-on-life mentality of security guards, proposed that women who get breast reduction surgery donate to the less-endowed and squinted at the unrealistic peptalks of masseuses about soothing problems that can’t be solved by backchops. Blending social commentary and absurdity, Norelli’s been carving out a nationwide niche for himself on the comedy circuit since 1998. (JF)

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GARTH BROOKS Nov 13-14 at SAP Center

MISFITS Nov 21 at RockBar Theater

THE CHOCOLATE WATCHBAND TH Nov 21 at The Ritz

THE PHENOMENAUTS Nov 21 at The Ritz

GIVE THANKS: EDM FEST Nov 25 & 27 at City National Civic No

NASHVILLE PUSSY Dec 1 at RockBar Theater

TRIPLE HO SHOW Dec 2 at SAP Center

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA TR Dec 3 at SAP Center

JASON BONHAM’S LED ZEPPELIN JASO EXPERIENCE Dec 4 at City National Civic

THE WEEKND Dec 6 at SAP Center

THE LIMOUSINES Dec 18 at The Ritz

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HANNIBAL BURESS Improv, San Jose Fri, 7:30/9:45pm, $27 Hannibal Buress meanders cooly through observational sets, his Chicago drawl chugging through daily minutiae and cresting in little staccato bursts of outrage.

On Comedy Central’s Why? with Hannibal Buress, he deconstructs life’s biggest questions with disarming simplicity. He also plays slow-burning supporting roles on Broad City and The Eric Andre Show and has done cameos on Bob’s Burgers, Louie and The Mindy Kaling Show. At the roast of Justin Bieber, he eviscerated the popstar with a deadpan demolition of the transparent publicity motives of the evening. He is a complete comedic natural. (JF)

METALACHI The Ritz, San Jose Fri, 9pm, $15 The culture clash is irresistible with “The World’s First and Only Heavy Metal Mariachi Band.” Metalachi are undeniably clever and the ultimate example of the fabled American melting pot. The band has a fantastical origin story: allegedly they are the bastard offspring from a horse-tranquilizer-fueled night of passion between Consuela Espinoza and seven members of the local Jai Alai team. They command the stage with a suave bravado. Their renditions of metal classics are worshipful, but infused with hooting ad-libs. They have bouncy dueling guitarists, a kicking horn section, and a frontman that translates the occult language of metal into the pitch-perfect yelps and screeches of mariachi. (JF)

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Seeing Things Gallery, San Jose Fri, 7pm, Free

Art Boutiki, San Jose Sat, 7:30pm, $10

Seeing Things Gallery offers a visual tonic from the banal repetitions of everyday sights by acting as an oasis of occult and odd creations.

Their show features a quartet of local artists who bring color to our beige-colored suburbia. Girafa made a name for himself by emblazoning walls with his trademark, wide-eyed and mildly deranged giraffe avatar.

Brent Wick meticulously illustrates birds of prey, hoofed grazers and labyrinthian curled snakes. Amine Rastgar covered an electric box in the Willow Glen Neighborhood with a psychedelic scene of deviously-faced houses. Mat O’Brien does surrealist deconstructions of faces featuring kaleidoscopic, mesmerizing eyes. (JF)

This Halloween, the “Art Boo-tiki Voodoo Hoodoo” hosts South Bay indie rockers, Picture Atlantic. The band molds tracks by mushing together charged drums, poignant guitar riffs and new wave electro behind the crystal clear yowls of frontman, Nikolaus Bartunek. Their single, “Convenient Lovers,” gallops along behind the strength of spiraling synths, spraying cymbals and an infectious melody. But they also slow the tempo with their stripped, strummed-acoustic ballad, “We Sing Like Jailbirds,” which wallows in the melancholy aftermath of drunken confessions. (JF)

THE WHISKEY AVENGERS Dec 19 at The Ritz

MACHINE HEAD Dec 19 at RockBar Theater

QUEENSRYCHE Jan 7 at RockBar Theater

EUROPE Jan 19 at RockBar Theater

SUPER BOWL OPENING NIGHT Feb 1 at SAP Center

STRANGELOVE Feb 4 at RockBar Theater

SUPER BOWL 50 Feb 7 at RockBar Theater

BLACK SABBATH Feb 9 at SAP Center

DISNEY ON ICE: FROZEN Feb 17-22 at SAP Center

SELENA GOMEZ May 11 at SAP Center For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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contemporary altars by local artists including: Rick Moreno Jr., Curator, Raquel Burciaga, Carlos Villez and more.

6TH ANNUAL DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS Calvary Cemetery, San Jose, Oct 31 One of San Jose’s premier Day of the Dead events, Día de Los Muertos at Calvary Cemetery is a cultural and spiritual celebration that honors deceased ancestors.

LA ULTIMA PARADA 2015 Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater, San Jose, Nov 1

Deadly Respect MUERTOS MOVES A man performing a traditional dance in commemoration of Día de los Muertos.

Silicon Valley will honor its ancestors at multiple Día de los Muertos celebrations

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UCH LIKE THE religious traditions that predate Halloween, the traditional Mexican holiday of Día de los Muertos— Spanish for “Day of the Dead”—is tied to honoring family, friends and loved ones who have passed on.

Also, like Halloween—which

scholars believe to be the result of pagan European harvest festivals being taken into the fold of the Christian church—Día de los Muertos blends Spanish and Catholic tradition with a centuries-old indigenous celebration honoring the Aztec goddess of the afterlife.

In San Jose, it means art exhibits, family activities, food, music, dance and processions in solidarity with lost loved ones. It also means leaving food and other gifts at the graves of the deceased. Ornate face-painting—of both human subjects and sugar skulls—draws

After a brief hiatus, the parade returns. More than 200 dancers, decked out in traditional tribal garb, will dance to Mexican folk music provided by San Jose folklorico companies, including Los Laureles de San Jose and Grupo Folk Yoloti Guerrenese, at this long-running Día de los Muertos celebration.

ALL SAINT’S DAY & DAY OF THE DEAD

attention to the temporal nature of our existence, while also finding beauty in the hereafter.

Morbid, maybe, but the Day of the Dead isn’t meant to bum anyone out. The crowds, skeletons and elaborate decor make the celebratory, rather than somber, affair.

It is a jubilant tribute to those who have come before us, as well as an acknowledgment that while we all must one day shuffle off this mortal coil, at least we lived, loved and knew love in return.

Oak Hill Funeral Home & Memorial Park, San Jose, Nov 7

18TH ANNUAL DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS

Fruitvale Village, Oakland, Nov 8

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose, Thru Nov 6 An exhibit of traditional and

After a memorial service to honor the dearly departed, sweet bread, coffee and champurrado will be served, live music will be played and a ceremonial dance will be performed in celebration of All Saint’s Day and el Día de los Muertos.

DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS: OAKLAND Featuring arts and crafts made by local community members, food, dancing and live music, the 20th annual Día De Los Muertos Festival is one of the most vibrant in the Bay Area.

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NOVEMBER 6th ART WALK

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Art Ark Gallery

KALEID Gallery

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1035 So. 6th St.

88 So. 4th St.

Artist reception: Eminence Front Bill Koeb solo exhibition.

Bill Koeb is a painter, illustrator and comic book artist well known for his work in the comic series Hellraiser by Clive Barker and his paintings in the film The Crow City of Angels (attributed to character Sarah.) The series presented here are new monographs by Koeb depicting intimate desires and secrets of anonymous subjects.

Opening Reception 6–9pm: THE MORE THE MERRIER VI 2015 Salon-style Holiday Art Exhibition and Sale Featuring original artwork by 50 local artists working in a variety of media with most work priced under $200, making this event the perfect place to find gifts for the holiday season. Live music the Paolozzi Tango Trio.

Join us for the opening reception of two new feature exhibitions:

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Artist Reception: Spaces Within & Spaces Without by Corinne Okada Takara This collection celebrates patterns in nature from various scales ranging from our human eye’s lense to macro and micro perspectives. By combining Japanese sashiko stitching and mizuhiki knot cording with laser cutting and 3D printing; the artist hopes to create works that are both familiar and surprising.

Shrouded Identity by Joe Barajas As I search the faces of the human race, I see a lack of identity, a lack of authenticity, a lack of confidence in what defines them, and a fear of being truly known. I long for the day when fellow human beings can look each other in the face and reveal their true identities so that we can experience true empathy, true acceptance, and true love. Until then I will look upon the human race and see only a sea of blurred faces.

American Gun Show An intense exhibition of artistic responses at the intersections of free speech, personal liberty, and national identity. Guns are explored in societal, technical, and formal context to provide a much needed dialogue around an object rife with personal, cultural, and political meaning. This First Friday starts with short performances at 7pm!

Sculpture by Charles Krafft

Walk with me Where no one follows an exhibition of new works by Nadja M. represents self portraits, an internal scenario and Nadja’s observation of the world. Her art tends to speak about emotional conditions in respect to today's world and its social and personal challenges using subjects from the animal kingdom.

Additional Participating Venues:

Also on view: Orbital–Cut Up and Rewired Dale VN Marshall (UK) Marshall has cut up and reworked parts of a 30 foot self portrait on recycled cardboard originally exhibited illegally on the streets in Bristol UK.

Contes d 'un autre monde new works by Michael Foley chronicles the stories of those living in another world, one very similar to our own. Also available at the show will be Foley’s latest Life's a Pisser zine.

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*stage DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY Tired of being feared, Death becomes incarnate as a handsome prince who wins the heart of a brave young lady, and then must choose whether to fulfill his own desires or let her live. $15-$38. Nov 6-28. Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.

CLYBOURNE PARK The winner of 2012’s Tony for Best Play follows two families: a black family moving into a white neighborhood in the ’50s and then 50 years later a white family moving into the same house as part of the gentrification of the neighborhood. Nov 7- 22. $32.

Lucie Stern Theatre. Palo Alto Players. Palo Alto.

MAN OF LA MANCHA This play within a play tells the story of the mad knight Don Quixote by his author, Cervantes, and fellow prisoners awaiting the judgment of the Inquisition.

Nov 19-Dec 19. $18-$28 Bus Barn Theater. Los Altos Stage Company. Los Altos.

Saturday, alternative concert.

Free. San Pedro Square Market. San Jose.

MUSIC AT THE MARKET A hotbed of live jazz talent, organized by San Jose Jazz.

Every Fri, 7-9pm. San Pedro Square Market. San Jose.

TOSPS TUESDAYS A weekly showcase of Bay Area’s budding music scene across all genres. Most Tuesdays, 7pm. Thru Dec. Theatre on San Pedro Square.

San Jose.

“The NASA Paintings” by Rick Guidice. Thru Feb 14. “The Art of Social Justice: Woody Guthrie and the Power of Songwriting.” Thru May 16.

Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE

A deaf young man who has been lip-reading all his life meets a woman who is losing her hearing and teaches him how to sign, sparking conflict with his non-signing family.

Nov 6-22. $10-$35. Pear Theatre. Mountain View.

“Slugs, Dingbats, and Tramp Printing” The printing press is one of the most important inventions in human history.

See the machine that printed the first newspaper in California. Thru Dec 12. San Jose.

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

DAYDREAM NATION San Pedro Square Market hosts its monthly last

“Orbital—Cut up and Rewired” A reimagining of a single 30-foot self-portrait.

Thru Dec 12. San Jose.

ART ARK GALLERY “The More the Merrier,” Nov 6- Dec 4. San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY

COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS

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“Maker Space” Thru Jan 17.

“Artists including Me: William Wegman,” “Diebenkorn in the Bedroom, DeFeo in the Den: Generous Gifts from the Dixon and Barbara Farley Collection,” “Character Studies: Clay from the Collection” Thru Feb 7. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Menagerie” Selections from the permanent collection.

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Evita Perón lived her life in service of the less fortunate in Argentina, earning the title “Spiritual Leader of the Nation” before her death at the age of 33. This play tells the story of her remarkable life. Nov 7-22. $14-$30. Sunnyvale Community Players. Sunnyvale Theatre.

A musical production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, a tangled romance meets a mobster caper in this three-time Tony Award winner. Nov 6-22. $47-$69.

Fox Theatre. Redwood City.

Thru Jan 3. “A Subtle Edge” by Christopher Winfield. Thru Jan 3. “Life. Water” by Yao Pi-Hsu. Thru Jan 3. Santa Clara.

Jazz paintings by Bruni Sablan.

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

“Piranesi’s Paestum: Master Drawings Uncovered.”

Thru Jan 4. “Pop Art from the SFMOMA Anderson Collection” featuring works by Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, and others. Thru Oct 26.

“Artists at Work” demystifies the creative process. Thru Jan 18. “Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed.”

Thru Feb 8. “Edward Hopper: New York Corner.” Thru Feb 8.

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“Heirloom” Paintings and Mixed Media Works by Bryan Keith Thomas. Thru Nov 22.

Mountain View.

EMPIRE SEVEN STUDIOS CHRIS GONZALES. THRU OCT. SAN JOSE.GALLERY HOUSE “Altered Reality” by Stephen Shpall, Debbie Bakker. Thru Nov 13. Palo Alto.

KALEID GALLERY “God’s Garden” by Anthony Palomo. “Atomic Number 92”

by Andrew Irvine San Jose.

MACLA “Found in Translation” Thru Nov 15. San Jose.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Bontanica Poetica” New Work by Lucas Art Fellows.

Thru Dec 13. Saratoga.

PACIFIC ART LEAGUE “Landscape, Seascape, Urbanscape” and “Watercolors by Amy Ratner.”

Thru Oct 29. Palo Alto.

STUDIO ROCK CLIMBING GYM “Petrified” Works by Andy Wallace. San Jose.

*events HALLOWEEN MAGIC SHOW Halloween is full of unpleasant surprises: ghouls, goblins, that weird hand that’s in the candy bowl, but if you’re going to be jolted, might as well entrust professionals of the occult. Fri, Oct 30, 7:30pm. $10.

Downtown San Jose.

HIGHER LEARNING The School of Visual Philosophy seeks to create a new kind of arts education experience.

Liberal Arts BACK WHEN THEY were first dating, Dana and Yori Seeger would dream, over beers, about exactly what they would do if they won the lottery. The answer: Open an art school, of course.

But not like the schools they’d attended—where they’d experienced complacent faculty, parochial politics and an education lacking connection to the outside world. How can artists create a business for themselves? Who are they in the context of their community, and really, in society? With a winning lottery ticket, the Seegers’ school would answer all these questions.

But the lottery is a notoriously fickle financial strategy. So the Seegers figured: let’s just go for it. “We dove into the deep end to see if we could swim,” Yori says.

The School of Visual Philosophy is tucked into a former auto glass installation shop in Delmas Park, a neighborhood itself squeezed between a tangle of freeways. It isn’t easy to stumble across, but drivers cutting through to 280 might catch a flash of the statue fronting the high windows of the school’s workshop—a bearded man emerging from something like a shipwreck.

The high-ceilinged space is home to worktables sided with wooden riprap; private artists’ studios hug the perimeter; and a brass foundry is stationed out back. As long as the studios are rented out, the school stays open.

They’ve managed to survive their first year, the Seegers say, but mere survival is not the goal.

The Seegers have no qualms about expounding on the current state of art and art education. “Everyone scratches each other’s backs,” Dana says of many MFA faculty. “There’s no accountability.” Later, Yori adds: “So many artists are just doodling. But we’re not in a time and place where there’s nothing to say.”

The couple imagine a new kind of MFA at the school: five years, in-depth and tuition free. The first two years students would choose one of several shops, like the foundry or the print studio, then jump into creating a product the school can sell to the community. This would familiarize students with the tools and process, and pay for their education. The next two years would be more intensive study, and in the fifth year the students would begin to teach as well.

“If you say you have an MFA, it should be a professional degree. People should think, ‘Oh they worked their ass off for that,’” Dana says.

This is the long term plan. For now, The School of Visual Philosophy wants to be challenged by the community within its walls, and in wider San Jose.

What is a school? the Seegers ask. What can we be? —Stephen Layton

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TOLD YOU SO In ‘Our Brand Is Crisis,’ Sandra Bullock can be seen ‘changing from someone who we sympathize with, right or wrong, to someone who is always right, no matter how crazy she gets.’

Political dramedy ‘Our Brand Is Crisis,’ finds Sandra Bullock staring down an uncertain future

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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NIT-RADDLED and recovering from a meltdown, Sandra Bullock’s Jane is literally in the wilderness.

Over the titles we hear a political campaign ad-style montage of news readers and unidentified voices, speaking about her epic failure.

Jane has lost the election she was shepherding, and her consolation prize was a stint in Betty Ford. Today she works a pottery wheel in her mountain, making Mohawk-style medicine bowls. Tomorrow, it’s off to the Andes.

Even the appeal of menopausal ceramics is not strong enough to

allow Jane to muster an argument against her former colleague Nell (Ann Dowd), who has driven up to recruit her for a job as a consultant in a Bolivian election: “You’re a fighter,” Nell tells Jane. A real fighter would have fought against the mingy script of David Gordon Green’s Our Brand is Crisis.

This is an awkwardly fictionalized version of a very good 2005 documentary about a neo-liberal political rout in Bolivia. The original Rachel Boynton film concerns the 2002 election campaign of Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada—“Goni” for short, who was the IMF’s candidate in all but name, a comebacker who’d had a stint as president in the 1990s.

The chances of this uninspiring candidate were poor, but he had

the marketing acumen of former Clinton wizard James Carville and his firm Greenberg Carville Shrum.

The gang successfully turned Goni’s unappetizing persona into votes.

What’s missing in this shoddy fictionalization is the fact that the Norte Americano meddling eventually provoked a populist uproar leading to the victory of the first native-Bolivian president, socialist Evo Morales.

Portuguese actor Joaquim de Almeida as Castillo plays the Goni figure, good as an effete blank with little political relevance. “Calamity Jane,” as Bullock’s character is nicknamed, arrives, unleashing an arsenal of well-worn Sun Tzu quotes, along with her staffers—Ben (debonair Anthony Mackie), Buckley (aggrieved WASP Scoot McNairy), and the only one of the lot who can speak Spanish very well, LeBlanc (Zoe Kazan, whose determination perks up the film a little).

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presidential candidate. What follows is like a romantic comedy without the payoff, as the two eyeball each other.

Thornton, reprising and doubling down on his slurring Carville in Primary Colors (1998), keeps sexually harassing Jane and describing himself as “Mephistophelean.” If only. The devil keeps his secrets to himself; Pat keeps announcing his aims and strategies. The contest between Jane and Pat gets fratty, including a bus race on a mountain road in which the loser gets mooned, and a hotel roomtrashing with the help of three street kids and Jane’s assistant Eduardo.

This is a movie about Bolivia with few Bolivians in it—Eduardo (Reynaldo Pacheco) tries to give the sense of what’s at stake for his nation. He is made for the description “dewey-eyed”: the lad who worships Castillo ever since he was a child.

Shot in a way to suggest blown up 16mm, the movie boasts extensive La Paz locations—but you’d learn more about what happened to Bolivia if you rewatched the Bond film, Quantum of Solace. Following the brave, solitary and larger-than-life acting in Gravity, Bullock is heading into drabber roles, both here and in Secret in Their Eyes. You can’t fight aging by taking roles in which you act like a bored, agro teenager, in movies where the comedy highlight is a llama getting squashed. Bullock is in a dangerous phase as an actress, as she shifts into parts with an emphasis on dispirited haircuts, auras of tragedy and frequent outbursts. Like lateperiod Barbra Streisand, Bullock is changing from someone who we sympathize with, right or wrong, to someone who is always right, no matter how crazy she gets.

This morose yet juvenile comedy has a moral, intoned by Bullock: “If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.” Tell it to Evo Morales. Our Brand is Crisis sends you home with this bumper sticker-sized sentiment. The U.S. national election of 2000 ought to have demonstrated its stupidity, but of course that was 15 long years ago.

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Director Guillermo del Toro’s tribute to the English macabre cinema is so worshipful that he even names his captive girl Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska) … as in Peter Cushing, icon of Hammer Films. The haunted but lovely daughter of a master builder in Buffalo in the 1890s, Edith longs to be a writer. And when a slim, black-clad baronet named Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston) arrives to cause a social sensation, Edith wants to marry him. But this aristocrat is penniless, and Edith’s doting father Carter (Jim Beaver, very believable as a man of his time) detects the smell of a fortune

hunter. When the millionaire dad meets with a fatal mishap, Edith is spirited away to Allerdale Hall on the cold borderlands with Scotland.

Because of the damp blood-red clay in the area, the crumbling old manor is known as “Crimson Peak”—and Thomas’s sinister, raven-haired sister (Jessica Chastain, terrific) seems ready and willing to add to the local color. Back in Buffalo, Edith’s old friend, Dr. Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam) an oculist who believes in ectoplasm, heads for a long slow rescue.

Once the film starts simmering, it loses something. Hiddleston is as Gothic as a Tim Burton illustration come to life, but he has to stand back and take care of other business as Edith pines and sickens, and the ghosts appear. The phantoms aren’t quite as key to the plot as they could

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For its décor and ravishing color, the haunted house is insubstantial in CG, as well as unfeasible—gooey with red clay and open to the elements, it’s so draughty it snows indoors. Still, the film makes you smile like a jack o’lantern for the traditions respected; Del Toro has taste and yet knows how to twist a knife. (RvB)

JACK PIERCE, THE MAKER OF MONSTERS The Bay Area’s Strephon Taylor directs this study of a key figure in the history of movie makeup. Born Janus Piccoula, Pierce was a Greek immigrant who worked as everything from a goatherd to a semi-pro baseball player to a stunt man before creating a specialty for himself as a wizard of makeup. Pierce created the look of some of the most memorable creatures who ever shambled through a film. Boris Karloff’s look for The Mummy (1932) took eight hours to complete, with clay dried under his bandages, so that dust would puff from him as he walked. And Pierce solved the questions of how Frankenstein’s monster would look, with a flat head (a skull trepanned and covered with a lid), the electrodes in the neck and a “sky-gray” colored skin. Batman’s foe The Joker is heavily drawn from Pierce’s makeup for Conrad Veidt. Two-Face, who debuted in the Batman comics a year after Joan Crawford flaunted scar make up in A Woman’s Face, is another one that can be chalked up to Pierce’s influence. Pierce sharpened Bela Lugosi’s Transylvanian strangeness in a variety of films, and created the look for Lon Chaney, Jr’s Wolf Man—a monster who was as much a boar as a wolf. Taylor points out that Pierce did a great deal of glamour make up (for Irene Dunne in Back Street, for example), but the emphasis here is on Pierce’s monster work.

The personal Pierce is elusive here: Taylor quotes from Elsa Lanchester’s autobiography, where the actress who played the Bride of Frankenstein complained of Pierce’s hauteur, his doctor’s lab coat, and formality. Some of the most useful material here is taken from a 1962 interview Pierce did on Los Angeles’ KHJ Million Dollar Movie with Wayne Thomas.

Thoroughly researched as this is, it’s a low-budget homage. Sometimes the visuals consist of Realart Studios’ previews for reissues of the Universal monster movies in the 1950s. But it’s hard to imagine a more loving tribute to Pierce and the nightmares he created. Narrated by animator Ernie Fosselius, who did Hardware Wars, the first and best parody of Star Wars.

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OH, MOTHER Glenn Danzig finds inspiration for his unique brand in unexpected places—like in the music of The Everly Brothers, ZZ Top and Aerosmith.

On ‘Skeletons’ Danzig shares the music that made him

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IKIPEDIA is full of shit.” I’m barely a minute-and-a-half into my interview with Glenn Danzig and I’ve already managed to set off his notorious hair trigger temper by asking a pair of misinformed questions about his upcoming covers LP, which is slated for release in late November—about a month after his upcoming show at the City National Civic.

My bunk information—namely that Skeletons is to be a six-song EP, instead of a 10-track full-length—isn’t from

Wikipedia. Nonetheless, my heart rate quickens, as the Misfits-founding, horror-punk-pioneering, living legend continues his tirade against the ofterrant, crowd-sourced encyclopedia.

For the better part of a decade, I have made a living profiling musicians. I’ve battled my way through a painfully awkward phoner with delinquent Odd Future founder, Tyler, The Creator; attempted to untangle the enigmatic ramblings of oddball rapper and aspiring pro wrestler, RiFF RAFF; and been sent running to the dictionary by The Mars Volta’s defiantly dadaesque frontman, Cedric Bixler-Zavala. Never before have I been so sure I would be hung up on by an interviewee as I was during those few, tense minutes I spent speaking with punk rock’s most infamous curmudgeon.

Lucky for me, once he finishes his

Wiki-rant, he settles into a calmer tone, and even gives me a verbal pat on the back, assuring me it’s really not my fault. In fact, the way he sees things, the website owes me an apology.

“Wikipedia should be apologizing to everybody, because they’re a piece of shit.”

Duly noted. Now, on to the topic at hand.

As it turns out, Danzig is actually a pretty reasonable guy—with a wellrounded musical palate, to boot.

Skeletons will feature Danzig’s take on a wide array of rock & roll, metal, psych and rockabilly classics from the likes of Black Sabbath, Elvis Presley and even The Everly Brothers—whom, Danzig insists, are punk as hell.

Reflecting on what drew him, and so many others, to the punk movement in the ’70s and ’80s, the singer and songwriter explains that he was fed up with how bloated rock & roll had become.

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it back. It was more about the song, instead of proving you could do a 15 minute solo.”

The Everlys don’t mince words, they don’t beat around the bush, and they certainly don’t take extended solos.

They understand the value of “telling you a story and getting the fuck out. So, actually, in effect, The Everly Brothers are a lot more punk” than plenty of other groups who have adopted the loud and fast dynamics of punk without fully understanding that punk rock isn’t about one specific sound, he reasons. “Punk is an attitude.”

Skeletons will ostensibly reveal much of the source material for Glenn Danzig’s attitude and persona.

“A skeleton can be a building foundation,” he says, explaining the title of his covers record. “A skeleton is a frame. It’s basically what some of these songs are—a framework for who I ended being, for what I do.”

The album includes Danzig’s version of “N.I.B.” by Sabbath. He says the fuzzy guitar work of Tony Iommi and the sludgy rhythms of drummer Bill Ward and bassist Geezer Butler were as important to him as a developing artist as the swaggering, early rock & roll sounds of The King—whom he covers in the form of “Let Yourself Go.” Lesser-known, deep cuts on Skeletons include “Satan”—from the soundtrack to the 1969 cult biker film, Satan’s Sadists—and “With a Girl Like You,” by the English garage quartet, The Troggs. And then there are a few choices that might raise some eyebrows, including ZZ Top’s fluffy, synth-heavy “Rough Boy,” and Aerosmith’s ode to legs, “Lord of the Thighs.”

Then again, no one should be surprised with these picks. After all, Danzig has built a career out of constantly cutting against the grain.

“I’m not ashamed of them,” he says of songs he chose for Skeletons. “I think I’m pretty happy with the selection that I made.”

Danzig plays the City National Civic with support from the Phil Anselmofronted Superjoint, Veil of Maya, Prong and Witch Mountain.

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JOHNNY V’S Sun: Karaoke for the Industry.

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Men are especially likely to put a lid on fear and sadness, emotions that reflect vulnerability—though it’s also the rare man you’ll hear chirp to his buddy, “OMG, those are, like, the cutest wingtips!”

Men’s emotional coolness is an evolved survival tactic, Benenson explains.

“Emotions communicate feelings to others. They also affect our own behavior.”

In battle, “a person who loses control of his emotions cannot think clearly about what is happening around him. Revealing to the enemy that one feels scared or sad would be even worse.”

Women, on the other hand, bond through sharing “personal vulnerabilities,” Benenson notes. Men and women do have numerous similarities—like having the adrenaline-infused fight-or-flight reaction as our primary physiological response to stress. However, psychologist Shelley Taylor finds that women also have an

alternate stress response, which she named “tend-and-befriend.” Tending involves selfsoothing through caring for others, and befriending describes “the creation of and maintenance of social networks” to turn to for comforting.

So, as a woman, you may long to snuggle up to somebody for a restorative boohoo, but for a man, opening up about his feelings can make him feel worse— and even threatened. The problem is we have a tendency to assume other people are emotionally wired just like us. Being mindful of that and of the evolutionary reasons a guy might need to go off in a corner to lick his wounds might help you avoid taking it personally: “I’m upset about how you’re upset!” (Great! And now his problem has a problem.)

It would be helpful if an upset man would hang a “Do not disturb” sign on his face when he just wants to drink a beer (or four) and watch “South Park.” You could try to read his body language—like crossed arms and stiff posture saying “go away.” But if his body isn’t speaking up all that clearly, you could say, “I’m here if you wanna talk—or if you don’t.” In other words, comfort him in the way a clammed-up guy needs to be comforted.

It beats being the girlfriend version of the enthusiastic good Samaritan who, on a slow day, forces little old ladies across the street at gunpoint.

My girlfriend loves to “spoon” when we sleep. She says it makes her feel safe and loved. I have recently developed spinal problems and have to sleep on my back like a corpse with this weird neck pillow. I’ll put my hand on her thigh to make her feel connected, but it’s not really cutting it. I suspect this reminds her of her marriage falling apart and her now ex-husband sleeping on the other side of the bed with a bunch of pillows between them.—Ouch

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You can surely understand where she’s coming from. Nothing like going from sleeping lovingly intertwined with somebody to feeling as if you’re sleeping next to an open casket. This may feel even worse for your girlfriend if she does associate physical distance with emotional distance, having had an ex who built a Berlin Wall of pillows between them and would only have

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What you can do is promise to make it up to her with extra affection when you’re out of bed—and do that: Go to cuddlesville when you’re watching TV together; shower with her; put your arms around her and kiss her head while she’s washing a mug. (P.S. This is also a smart practice for men who don’t sleep on a foam log.) Love does involve making sacrifices, but one of them probably shouldn’t be no longer being able to feel your toes.

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The other day I trekked over to my local high-end grocer to examine the leporine options, hoping to gin up a little anecdotal evidence. I found five rabbits—fresh, not frozen, which would seem to indicate that someone’s eating them once in a while, at least among the Whole Foods set. In summer 2014 Whole Foods launched a rabbit-meat pilot program in select stores, recognizing the bunny’s potential to be a next big thing in proteins. As you say, the case isn’t hard to make: the meat is low-fat, the animals are famous for breeding prodigiously, and rabbit husbandry is far better for the environment than many other options.

Rabbit’s been a next big thing before.

For nearly as long as the republic has existed, really, people are on record wondering why we don’t eat more of it.

“The cultivation of Rabbits would be profitable in America,” argued Amelia Simmons in American Cookery (1796), initiating a media tradition that continues to the present: every few years or so a spate of newspaper stories proclaim, as the Los Angeles Times did last year, that “rabbit appears to be going through a renaissance of sorts,” enumerating all the reasons it makes sense to eat the critters and suggesting they may finally be on the cusp of culinary glory.

And yes, there was a period when rabbits were big here. Beef, you’ll recall, was rationed during World War II; the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service advised housewives instead to “meet the meat shortage by eating domestic rabbit meat,” the Department of Agriculture released rabbit recipes, and Life magazine pitched in to the effort with a 1943 article featuring the memorable opening line “Domestic rabbits are one of the few pets which can be enjoyed dead or alive.” After the war, though, the American eating public went back to its old ways—beef, chicken, pork.

There’s no single explanation for rabbits’ failure to catch on, but we might point to a cluster of issues. Like squirrels, rabbits as foodstuff suffer from an association with poverty. Even before wartime rationing, during the Great Depression rabbits were maligned as “Hoover hogs”—the poor man’s pork, lean meat for lean times.

Also during the Depression, a feed farmer named Jesse Jewell figured out how to vertically integrate the production of chicken, theretofore a

decentralized affair—and, contra the bunny, chicken was then considered something of a luxury meat. (Recall the political ad promise of “a chicken in every pot.”) Jewell lived in Georgia, where many farmers raised poultry, whereas the rabbit producers of the time were centered in California. Had the contingencies of history and geography been different, we might be eating a lot more rabbit these days.

Then again, maybe not. Rabbit producers say the creatures resist the kinds of industrial farming that would allow them to be raised on a mass scale. Those that receive insufficiently gentle treatment may engage in such uneconomical behaviors as eating their young. They’ve got weak immune systems and are prone to illness.

And then there’s the cuteness factor.

That Whole Foods pilot program I mentioned up top? It’s about to end. The store blamed low sales, and journalists uncovered some unsavory practices on the rabbit farms, but it didn’t help that the initiative was met with ferocious opposition by animal rights activists, who picketed stores with signs saying things like “Whole Foods Market Is Now Serving Our Pets.”

In a context of infinite plenty, this outsize sympathy for charismatic megafauna—the so-called Bambi effect— wouldn’t be too troubling. But given an era of climate change, dwindling natural resources, and rising consumption—global meat production almost doubled between 1980 and 2004—we are seriously in want of proteins more environmentally friendly than, say, cows, which require enormous amounts of energy to raise and process.

One researcher claimed last year that giving up beef would be more effective in cutting carbon emissions than giving up cars. Rabbits convert calories into meat far more efficiently, producing six pounds on the amount of feed and water it takes a cow to produce one.

Of course, they’re not the only alternative protein source out there.

One sees touted, for instance, the potential of insects, which also tend to elicit some real resistance—this time it’s the ick factor. Given our need for more sustainable sources of protein, though, consumers might someday have to make a choice: bugs or bunny?

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): How dare you be so magnetic and tempting? What were you thinking when you turned up the intensity of your charm to such a high level? I suggest you consider exercising more caution about expressing your radiance. People may have other things to do besides daydreaming about you. But if you really can't bring yourself to be a little less attractive—if you absolutely refuse to tone yourself down—please at least try to be extra kind and generous. Share your emotional wealth. Overflow with more than your usual allotments of blessings.

Halloween costume suggestion: a shamanic Santa Claus; a witchy Easter Bunny.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the last 10 days of November and the month of December, I suspect there will be wild-card interludes when you can enjoy smart gambles, daring stunts, cute tricks, and mythic escapades. But the next three weeks will not be like that. On the contrary. For the immediate future, I think you should be an upstanding citizen, a well-behaved helper, and a dutiful truth-teller. Can you handle that?

If so, I bet you will get sneak peaks of the fun and productive mischief that could be yours in the last six weeks of 2015. Halloween costume suggestion: the most normal person in the world.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Members of the gazelle species known as the springbok periodically engage in a behavior known as pronking. They leap into the air and propel themselves a great distance with all four feet off the ground, bounding around with abandon. What evolutionary purpose does this serve?

Some scientists are puzzled, but not naturalist David Attenborough. In the documentary film Africa, he follows a springbok herd as it wanders through the desert for months, hoping to find a rare rainstorm.

Finally it happens. As if in celebration, the springboks erupt with an outbreak of pronking. "They are dancing for joy," Attenborough declares. Given the lucky breaks and creative breakthroughs coming your way, Cancerian, I foresee you doing something similar.

Halloween costume suggestion: a pronking gazelle, a hippety-hopping bunny, a boisterous baby goat.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “A very little key will open a very heavy door,” wrote Charles Dickens in his short story “Hunted Down.” Make that one of your guiding meditations in the coming days, Leo. In the back of your mind, keep visualizing the image of a little key opening a heavy door. Doing so will help ensure that you'll be alert when clues about the real key's location become available. You will have a keen intuitive sense of how you'll need to respond if you want to procure it. Halloween costume suggestion: proud and protective possessor of a magic key.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Hindu text

“Was it really that bad? I mean, comparing my presentation to a ‘nearly coherent Donald Trump campaign speech?’”

known as the Kama Sutra gives extensive advice about many subjects, including love and sex. “Though a man loves a woman ever so much,” reads a passage in chapter four, “he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking.” Take that as your cue, Virgo. In the coming weeks, stir up the intimacy you want with a great deal of incisive talking that beguiles and entertains. Furthermore, use the same approach to round up any other experience you yearn for. The way you play with language will be crucial in your efforts to fulfill your wishes. Luckily, I expect your persuasive powers to be even greater than they usually are. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate salesperson.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I encourage you to be super rhythmical and melodious in the coming days.

Don't just sing in the shower and in the car. Hum and warble and whistle while shopping for vegetables and washing the dishes and walking the dog. Allot yourself more than enough time to shimmy and cavort, not just on the dance floor but anywhere else you can get away with it. For extra credit, experiment with lyrical flourishes whenever you're in bed doing the jizzle-skazzle. Halloween costume suggestion: wandering troubadour, street musician, free-styling rapper, operatic diva, medicine woman who heals with sound.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I expect you to be in a state of continual birth for the next four weeks.

Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly. Does that sound overwhelming?

I don't think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about how strong it feels. To help maintain your poise, keep in mind that your growth spurt is a natural response to the dissolution that preceded it. Halloween costume suggestion: a fountain, an erupting volcano, the growing beanstalk from the “Jack and the Beanstalk” fairy tale.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” So says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield.

Can you guess why I'm bringing it to your attention, Sagittarius? It's one of those times when you can do yourself a big favor by sloughing off the stale, wornout, decaying parts of your past. Luckily for you, you now have an extraordinary talent for doing just that.

I suspect you will also receive unexpected help and surprising grace as you proceed. Halloween costume suggestion: a snake molting its skin.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Speaking on behalf of your wild mind, I'm letting you know that you're due for an immersion in revelry and festivity.

Plugging away at business as usual could become counterproductive unless you take at least brief excursions to the frontiers of pleasure. High integrity may become sterile unless you expose it to an unpredictable adventure or two. Halloween costume suggestion: party animal, hellraiser, social butterfly, god or goddess of delight. Every one of us harbors a touch of crazy genius that periodically needs to be unleashed, and now is that time for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope you will chose a Halloween costume that emboldens you to feel powerful. For the next three weeks, it's in your long-term interest to invoke a visceral sense of potency, dominion, and sovereignty. What clothes and trappings might stimulate these qualities in you?

Those of a king or queen? A rock star or CEO? A fairy godmother, superhero, or dragon-tamer? Only you know which archetypal persona will help stir up your untapped reserves of confidence and command.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It's time to stretch the boundaries, Pisces. You have license to expand the containers and outgrow the expectations and wage rebellion for the sheer fun of it. The frontiers are calling you. Your enmeshment in small talk and your attachment to trivial wishes are hereby suspended.

Your mind yearns to be blown and blown and blown again! I dare you to wander outside your overly safe haven and go in quest of provocative curiosities.

Halloween costume suggestions: mad scientist, wildeyed revolutionary, Dr. Who. Homework: What is your greatest fear?

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