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From the Heart In regard to the article about the Careless Hearts (“Gimme Danger,” Metroactive Music, Oct. 20): I find it disappointing that there was no mention of Brian Michael, the bass player for the Careless Hearts. He made
the replica of the guitar that James Williamson used on tour after putting the original in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last winter. And after that, James had him make a guitar for the bass player, Mike Watt, and then James purchased another guitar designed and made by Brian. The other four members of the Careless Hearts were mentioned by name in the article. Brian would never complain, but I’m his mother and extremely proud of what he has accomplished as a “boy” from a very small town in New Hampshire! CAROL MITCHELL |
Anti-Flippancy I read your recent article, which
contains a flippant reference to Werner Erhard’s est training (“Localized Lit,” Silicon Alleys, Oct. 13). In its time, est made an enormous contribution. More than 500,000 people participated worldwide, including respected government leaders and members of the judiciary, prominent leaders in business, the arts and entertainment, the military, media and the general population. Now, 40 years later, Mr. Erhard’s ideas are recognized as being the leading edge in personal and corporate training and development. Mr. Erhard was the recipient of the Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Award and he was recognized by Fortune Magazine for his significant contribution to
corporate leadership and strategic thinking in introducing the idea of empowerment in business. MARTIN N. LEAF | FORMER EST ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER, FORMER COUNSEL TO EST, AN EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
Magical Thinking I would have no problem voting yes [on Prop. 19] if I knew that everyone was considerate of each other, but that is not the case in our society. It’s ridiculous and ignorant to think pot smoke wouldn’t affect other people, like it disappears in thin air unless it magically hits a lung and then the smoke is effective. This is magical thinking to justify junky mentality. SYSTAH | ONLINE
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PUBLIC NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY
Project Overview The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) proposes to construct a 16.1 mile extension of BART from the planned Warm Springs Station in Fremont to Milpitas, San Jose and Santa Clara. Due to funding availability, the project will now be constructed in phases. Phase 1 would begin at the approved BART Warm Springs Station in Fremont and end in the Berryessa area of San Jose. The Draft 2nd Supplemental EIR (Draft 2nd SEIR) will address changes in the project design for Phase 1 only.
Draft 2nd SEIR Release/ Findings VTA has prepared a Draft 2nd SEIR to identify the environmental impacts resulting from proposed design changes that have occurred since the Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report certification in June 2007. The Project would have the following significant unavoidable impacts: four freeway segment impacts, 12 intersection impacts, one construction related roadway impact, and air quality and noise impacts during construction. The project would also include construction on known hazardous waste sites.
Draft 2nd SEIR Availability The Draft 2nd SEIR is available online at www.vta.org/bart, or you may request an electronic copy by calling (408) 321-5789. The Draft 2nd SEIR is available for viewing during normal business hours at 3331 North First Street, Building B Lobby, San Jose, CA.
Submit a Comment: In addition to comments received at the Public Hearing, written comments will be accepted until December 17, 2010. Comments may be submitted via mail, email, fax, or the project website, with attention to: Tom Fitzwater VTA Environmental Planning Building B 3331 North First Street San Jose, CA 95134-1927 Email: BARTSV-SEIR2@vta.org Fax: (408) 321-5787 1010-7538
ADA and Language Accommodations To receive an accessible format of this notice, or if you require an interpreter, including sign language services, or other accommodations at any of these public hearings, please contact VTA Customer Service five days prior to the meeting at (408) 321-2300, or email vtabart@vta.org. Information is also available at www.vta.org.
Public Hearing Attend a Public Hearing to learn more about the project and to provide input on the Draft 2nd SEIR. The input received will be addressed in the Final 2nd SEIR.
Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010 6:30 p.m. Milpitas Senior Center 40 N. Milpitas Blvd, Milpitas This location is served by VTA Bus Line 47 and AC Transit 217. Presentation & Public Comment: The presentation will be followed by an opportunity to enter formal comments into the public record.
Public Transit Service to the Hearings Please call VTA Customer Service at (408) 321-2300 or TTY: (408) 321-2330 for specific schedule and service information.
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Why is such a thing necessary? Well, according to CEO and co-founder Rick Skrenta, it’s because the web is filling up with spam and lowrent webpages from content farms like Demand Media. The web now has 100 billion URLs, most of them created by bots. “You need to bring large-scale human curation and combine it with algorithmic techniques to bring the quality back,” Skrenta said. “If you have the set of the top 150 health sites, you know what, you really can answer nearly any health question, and you know what, you really don’t want to be searching outside of that set.” “You don’t want to search the world wide web for health information,” Skrenta said. “It is scary.” So will we all have to learn a new search language? Blekko hopes to solve that, as well.
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Ignore for a minute the awkward name: Blekko. Instead, behold that as of late Sunday afternoon, there’s a new search engine in town that’s got a fresh approach to weeding out the ever-proliferating junk and spam sites polluting search results. It’s no mean feat—it’s taken three years, $25 million in venture capital and a gamble that there are enough people who care about good search to make its model of curated results work. And Blekko does work, thanks to a little thing called slash tags. Basically slash tags tell Blekko to limit your search to a human-curated category of websites—a custom search. What happens is that an editor (or set of editors) decides what sites return good results in that particular category, and Blekko only searches those sites when you include a slash tag in your query.
After three months of an inviteonly testing period with 8,000 volunteers, Blekko now has more than 3,000 slashtags including things such as /glutenfree, /liberal, /conservative and /colleges. The site will suggest some of these as you start typing in a query. Skrenta is a Silicon Valley veteran whose last venture was the local news aggregator and discussion site Topix.net. The core idea of applying human intelligence to aid searches has a long and munificent history on the web. Yahoo rose to prominence on its curated directory. Google took over the search mantle after figuring out that links created by humans could be treated as votes to indicate what pages were the best (the fabled PageRank algorithm). —RYAN SINGELL, WIRED.COM/ EPICENTER
Freddy “Limit your search to a human curated category of websites” —so Yahoo! circa the mid to late-’90s? Bob_OI I don’t think the human involvement could be a sustainable aspect with exponential growth in the forecast, but then what do I know I’ve only been doing this for 30 years.
z_beeblebrox This is brilliant, not for the company as a viable contender, but as a technology you can sell to either Google or Bing. cyberbully Google already has some category searches, e.g. Froogle. spinoza This search service will follow in the path of Cuil, a “Googlekiller” search service which started a couple of years ago with more venture capital than Blekko ($33 million) and which, just last month, closed down its servers.
Microsoft Hates Bill Gates’ RichPeople Tax Microsoft and its CEO Steve Ballmer vehemently oppose a [Washington] state income tax, earmarked for schools and health care, on the richest 1.2 percent. Which is odd because Microsoft’s founder, worth three times as much as Ballmer, is a big fan. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Jr., net worth $53 billion, will be voting in support of the income tax, which his father Bill Gates Sr. helped create and donated $600,000 to. Ballmer, worth $14.5 billion, contributed $425,000 to oppose the measure and got Microsoft the company to donate another $75,000. There’s a certain logic in the chairman and CEO of Microsoft opposing one another like this: Gates has already earned the world’s second largest fortune and begun giving big chunks of it away; Ballmer is still building his fortune, and drawing down an annual salary to tax. —Ryan Tate, valleywag.gawker.com
beelzebozo I remember reading a story a while ago about how poorer people give more (in proportion to their incomes) than the rich. Why do you think that is? (Well, personally I’m pretty sure it’s the “oh, I’ve been there” feeling that drives me to donate.)
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collaboration technology to the department’s 88,000 employees. Seems the Department’s Request for Quotations on the project required standardization on Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite, which means Google’s Apps Solution was necessarily shut out of bidding. “Significantly, the SOW (statement of work) and even certain terminology were closely aligned with Microsoft’s product literature for its Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Office Communications Online applications,” Google said in its complaint. “This was because the DOI had defined its needs and requirements around the Microsoft products.” The company argues that’s “unduly restrictive of competition,” and is “arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion, and otherwise contrary to the law.”
Google to United States: Who’s Being Anticompetitive Now?
As reparation for these offenses, Google wants the DOI to comply with legal requirements for an open and competitive process, and it wants an injunction preventing the department from proceeding any further with the bidding process until it does. —JOHN PACZKOWSKI,
Well, how about that: Google’s suing the United States government for a change.
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The company and its governmentreselling partner Onix Networking have filed suit against the Department of the Interior claiming they’ve been excluded from bidding on a contract to provide email and
Bob Sentell Good luck with that Google. Unless I’m mistaken, DoI contracts are governed by what they are allowed to do by law. And those laws require Exchange over Google for the same reason the DoD require Exchange of Google: Exchange is more secure. Take it up with the new Congress.
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So a month ago, Republican Councilman Pete Constant spearheaded the creation of an independent expenditure committee, the “San Jose Taxpayers for Reform 2010: Support Pegram/Oppose Rocha.” Constant says he formed the group with the express purpose of raising money for Pegram’s effort to beat Democrat Donald Rocha for the right to represent San Jose’s Cambrian neighborhood. The committee’s filings show a donor list that includes many members of the ChamberPAC, including immediate past chair William Baron. The group raised $20,500-plus for Pegram, much of which has been spent on a slew of anti-Rocha mailers. Constant signed up as the group’s official treasurer on Oct. 6, but stepped down in that capacity on Oct. 14. He says that after consulting with City Attorney Rick Doyle about a potential conflict of interest, he decided to cut ties with the committee. On Oct. 26, Don Rocha’s campaign filed a complaint with City Clerk Lee Price, asserting that “San Jose Taxpayers for Reform” violated campaign law by not properly reporting their lateelection independent expenditures. “Three mailers were sent within this last seven days without any filings showing expenditures as required by the City Code,” the complaint reads. The Rocha camp also questioned the legality of Constant’s involvement in the committee. The complaint states that he “continues to act jointly with this committee in making of expenditures [such as the mailers] or otherwise is exercising significant influence.” However, the District 1 councilman says he has had little involvement in the committee since he ceased handling its money. Constant also says
that candidate Pegram himself had no knowledge of the group’s formation or its operations. “He probably found out about the committee when everyone else did—when the mail started hitting the mailboxes,” Constant says. Garden City Casino owners Eric Swallow and Peter Lunardi donated $1,000 to the group through a subsidiary they own called Dolchee LLC. Though Dolchee LLC is listed in the committee’s filings as being based in Las Vegas, the company only holds a P.O. Box in that location. Dolchee LLC is actually a Hayward commercial printing firm owned by Swallow and Lunardi. San Jose City Ordinance 12.06.260 states that card room owners “may not make any contribution to candidates or candidate-controlled committees.” Because the donation was made through Dolchee LLC to an independent expenditure committee, Constant says it does not violate the law. “The code is very clear,” Constant says. “It’s candidate-controlled committees, not independent expenditure committees or any other committee.” Garden City Casino, which is located in District 1, has plans for expanding into a 600-room hotel and indoor theater on North First Street in San Jose. “It’s clear that the owners of Garden City Casino are active in the Chamber of Commerce, and they’re very active in their PAC,” Constant says. “Larry is definitely the pro-business candidate in the race, and the pro-fiscal conservative in this race—which are areas of concern for a lot of people.” The Values Advocacy Council, which Pegram heads, opposed Measure K. The ballot measure passed last June allowing Garden City Casino and Bay 101 to expand their gambling tables in exchange for increased taxes.
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Gauging Cage LIBERATING MUSIC Artist Ray Kass worked with John Cage (right) in 1988, creating watercolors at the Mountain Lake Workshops.
A new biography of seminal composer John Cage includes glimpses of his valley connections By GARY SINGH
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NE OF THE 20th century’s most influential and controversial American composers, John Cage, needs absolutely no introduction. Which is why a new version of his life story, Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage contains absolutely no introduction. Instead, biographer Kenneth Silverman unfolds Cage’s existence from 1912 to 1992 just as it was,
without putting him into any sort of context—a straight-up and highly readable narrative account. Neither prologue nor epilogue is necessary. An out-and-out hysterical artist and thinker, Cage was an inspiration for many. In 1939, his live performance work Imaginary Landscape No. 1 included sounds produced by frequency test records on variablespeed phonographs—one of the first pieces of electroacoustic music. At that time, he also invented the “prepared piano,” with screws, bolts and weather stripping inserted between the strings to create new sounds. Using the ancient I Ching divination system as a compositional tool, he derived notes, dynamics and
rhythms from chance operations. He became one of the West’s primary composer/advocates of Asian philosophies and cultures, including Zen Buddhism. He strove to remove all emotion and purpose from music, to remove the composer’s ego from the work and to liberate all sounds and noises, so the composer was no longer confined to the limitations of conventional musical instruments, the idea being, if we just listened to the sounds of a bus driving by, or static from a radio, a refrigerator, the rain, the wind or the everyday collage of sounds and silence surrounding us, then we wouldn’t need concert halls for anything. Understandably, his life and art more than offended the traditionalists, especially in music academia. They accused him of flipping the bird at all previous music. The truth was, actually, that he simply believed music didn’t automatically have to be anything. But Cage impacted much more than just music. His decades-long
interaction with the choreographer Merce Cunningham completely changed modern dance forever. His influence on 20th-century sculpture and printmaking is also undeniable. Silverman’s long-awaited book hit the shelves a few weeks ago, and since I wasn’t paying attention, I had to infiltrate the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco in order to find out. At a recent press opening, I encountered the artist Ray Kass installing some work. We got to talking about Cage because it was at Kass’ own Mountain Lake Workshops that Cage produced his now famous watercolors back in the ’80s. Kass told me about the book. A shot of him and Cage appears on page 372. With all that said, we now go local. Cage came to San Jose a few times during the ’60s. He later recalled a moment after a lecture he gave at San Jose State College, as it was then called. Cage was a friend and big fan of the futurist Buckminster Fuller, who was temporarily in residence at the college. After Cage’s lecture, in which he mentioned Fuller quite a few times, a student misunderstood and thought Cage was Buckminster Fuller. She called him “Mr. Fuller” after the lecture. Cage said he enjoyed the freedom of not being known in San Jose. Silverman devotes one measly sentence to the incident. In January 1992, an entire week’s worth of events went down at Stanford University to celebrate Cage’s upcoming 80th birthday later that year. I remember when the events happened, as I was just beginning to study Cage at that time, but I didn’t attend. Cage did, however, and gave a lecture titled “Art and Overpopulation.” As Silverman tells it: “One student asked him how to deal with people’s destructiveness. Cage urged the young man to always be positive. For himself, he added, ‘I don’t have to worry because I won’t live much longer.’” Sadly, he didn’t. Cage died later that year, just a few weeks short of his 80th birthday. Man, I wish I had showed up.
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FEATURED CHEFS (clockwise from top left): Umberto Pala of Vin Santo, Tuyen Chung of Ginger Cafe, Carolyn Allen-Samavarchian of Paolo’s, Teorico Escober of The Fish Market of San Jose, Christopher Graze of Fahrenheit Restaurant & Lounge, Henry Garcia of Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi, Too!
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WHEN TIMES are tough, dining out is often one of the first things that get cut. But that’s what makes the second annual Silicon Valley Restaurant Week so cool. From Nov. 3 to 10, diners can stick to their budgets and enjoy a night out at one of dozens of great Silicon Valley restaurants. At just $25–$45 for a three-course, prix fixe dinner, it’s hard to argue with the economics of spending that little for that much food. The range of restaurants participating in this year’s event is a testament to the depth and breadth of Silicon Valley’s dining scene. Silicon Valley has it all: Japanese, Polish, Indian, new American, Mediterranean, Mexican, Chinese, Thai and more. The list of participating restaurants continues to grow, so check out www.siliconvalleyrestaurantweek.com for the latest.—Stett Holbrook
CAMPBELL Twist Cafe & Twist Bistro 245 and 247 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell; 408.374.8982 Although it’s an unassuming neighborhood cafe, Zagatrated Twist Cafe packs some culinary firepower. Coowner Dominique Faury cooked for years in top U.S. and European restaurants, including Le Bristol, Taillevent and Apicius, Parisian restaurants that earned two and three Michelin stars. Before opening Twist, Dominique’s partner Eileen Faury was executive chef at the Westin Hotel in Palo Alto. Because of the cafe’s popularity, Twist expanded into the space next door to open Twist Bistro. The bistro menu is decidedly more French than the cafe and the setting more elegant.
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CUPERTINO Fontana’s Italian Restaurant 20840 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino: 408.725.0188 Founded in 1984, Fontana’s continues to serve an appealing Italian cuisine that draws on CaliforniaMediterranean influences. Specialties include scalone indorati, scallop and abalone steak sautéed in egg batter with lemon-butter sauce; rack of lamb with goat cheese mashed potatoes; and filetto alla griglia, beef tenderloin with roasted potatoes, portobello mushrooms and spinach, topped with Gorgonzola and a red wine sauce. Full bar and diverse wine list. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
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10030 S. De Anza Blvd., Cupertino; 408.873.1000 Cupertino’s Park Place is the city’s top choice for fine dining. Located at the prominent corner of Stevens Creek and De Anza boulevards, Park Place combines a plush and inviting dining room and ample outdoor seating with executive chef Brad Kraten’s creative, globetrotting menu of dishes like tuna tartare, duck confit nacho, flatbread pizzas and more substantial dishes like the red-wine-braised boneless short ribs and sautéed sea bass with andouille sausage–spiked jambalaya. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
EAST PALO ALTO Quattro 2050 University Ave., East Palo Alto; 650.470.2889 Quattro Restaurant and Bar brings high-style, impeccably sourced Italian cuisine to Silicon Valley. Chef Marco Fossati creates a constantly varying menu of modern Italian food that leaves spaghetti and meatballs far behind. The restaurant itself is a beauty. Located in East Palo Alto’s Four Seasons hotel off Highway 101, the restaurant has a sleek modern feel that’s airy and inviting. Contemporary paintings and sculptures on the walls add to the effect. There’s also an appealing outdoor dining area.
J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines has been named the 2010 American Winery of the Year by Wine Enthusiast Magazine, in an announcement released Oct. 25, 2010.
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LOS ALTOS Zitune 325 Main St., Los Altos; 650.947.0247 Zitune offers a welcome—and needed—taste of big-city dining into the Silicon Valley of Los Altos. Morocco was colonized by the French and has strong Mediterranean influences in its cuisine, so Moroccan food is familiar, but ingredients like preserved lemon, harissa and argan oil ring it in an exotic glow. Meals at Zitune start with a dish of harissa (a spiced chile pepper and garlic paste) scented hummus, olives and a light eggplant salsa. It’s a great opener for what’s to come. The rest of the menu pairs traditional Moroccan ingredients and preparation with an undated, modern style.
J. LOHR SAN JOSE WINE CENTER 1000 Lenzen Avenue San Jose, 95126 408.918.2160 TASTING DAILY 10AM – 5PM
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LOS GATOS California Cafe 50 University Ave. #260, Los Gatos; 408.354.8118 The California Cafe continues to satisfy with its fresh, inventive and reasonably priced menu of seasonal California-meets-the-world fare from chef Taylor Boudreaux. Great cocktail list, too. The shaded patio and second-story dining atop Old Town makes the restaurant feel like a Santa Cruz Mountain hideaway. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Los Gatos Brewing Company 130 N. Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos; 408.395.9929 Acclaimed chef Jim Stump refined the microbrewery concept to an elegant sit-down restaurant that’s both casual and sophisticated. The Los Gatos Brewing Company serves a menu of California cuisine with handcrafted artisan brews in an artfully restored former auto dealership building in downtown Los Gatos that’s become a favorite dining spot of locals. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Tapestry 11 College Ave., Los Gatos; 408.395.2808 Set inside a beautiful downtown Los Gatos Craftsman building, Tapestry continues to serve a refined version of California-Asian bistro fare like grilled romaine salad, creative spring rolls, grilled skirt steak, fresh fish and inventive desserts. The intimate dining room adds to the restaurant’s enduring appeal as a dinner date destination.
Valeriano’s Italian Restaurant 160 W. Main St., Los Gatos; 408.354.8108 Located in a historic converted bank building, Valeriano’s has been a Los Gatos fixture for nearly two decades. Dishes range from beef carpaccio and chops to fresh chilled oysters, and of course pastas and caprese salads. The island bar at front and center is relaxed, conversational and populated by regulars.
Wine Cellar Restaurant 50 University Ave., Los Gatos; 408.354.4808 Los Gatos’ dining scene is in constant flux, yet the Wine Cellar has remained a fixture since it opened more than 30 years ago. But the subterranean restaurant still feels like a secret because of its intimate location, hideaway bar and menu of upscale comfort food. Tucked under Borders books in Los Gatos’ Old Town, the Wine Cellar continues to please with its menu of fondue, great starters like grilled artichoke and crab cakes and satisfying, Asian and Mediterranean-inspired entrees like soy glazed wild salmon, grilled lamb chops and duck confit. An extensive remodel has given the venerable restaurant a fresh look that keeps this Los Gatos institution going strong. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM 43
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651H Maloney St., Menlo Park; 650.328.2778 Menlo Park’s Bona Restaurant shores up the gap in Silicon Valley’s offering of Eastern European food. Specializing in Polish cuisine, Bona Restaurant serves classics of the former Eastern bloc nation like borscht, sourdough soup, stuffed cabbage, potato dumplings and everyone’s favorite meat pie—pierogi. Also look for Polish poppy seed cake and Polish beers. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
MOUNTAIN VIEW The Cantankerous Fish 420 Castro St., Mountain View; 650.966.8124 The people behind Scott’s Seafood Restaurant opened Mountain View’s Cantankerous Fish in 2003, and the restaurant has become a classic for simple but expertly prepared seafood fish in a causal and welcoming atmosphere. Look for popular dishes like grilled mahi mahi with coconut peanut curry, tuna two ways—seared and in a spicy tempura roll, and jambalaya made with fresh scallops, prawns, chicken, andouille sausage and dirty rice. Great steaks and salads, too. Full bar with an appealing happy hour menu to match.
California Cafe 700 Welch Road, Palo Alto; 650.325.2233 Located in the charming and historic Stanford Barn, Palo Alto’s California Cafe exists to provide an escape from the outside world. The cafe serves the senses through chef-driven creations, engaging service and relaxing ambience. Their multicultural offerings feature seasonal ingredients with broad appeal. California Cafe is passionate about the guest experience, providing service that is friendly and knowledgeable. Its relaxing environment serves as a California-style oasis. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Il Fornaio 520 Cowper St. #101, Palo Alto; 650.853.3888 Palo Alto’s Il Fornaio celebrates the diverse food of Italy with a menu of regional cuisine that goes well beyond the same old spaghetti and meatballs. The restaurant surrounds diners in an elegant dining room backed with expert service and Italian heavy wine list. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
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The Fish Market 3150 El Camino Real, Palo Alto; 650.493.8862 As the straightforward name implies, Silicon Valley’s Fish Market restaurants focus on doing one thing: serving superior-quality fresh fish. There are fancier restaurants where you could spend more money, but the dependable Fish Market remains one of Silicon Valley’s top spots for seafood. It helps that the restaurant has its own fleet of fishing boats that supply it with ocean-fresh fish. The lively raw bar and casual dining room are the go-to places for seafood lovers.
Junnoon 150 University Ave., Palo Alto; 650.329.9644 Junnoon is not an Indian fusion restaurant. The food is eclectic modern Indian food, the kind of food you might get at an upscale restaurant in Bangalore or Mumbai. Consulting chef Floyd Cardoz, best known for his highconcept Indian restaurant Tabla in New York City, has teamed up with other chefs at Junnoon who have similar experience with high-end Indian restaurants in New York City, Washington, D.C., and London. In spite of the colorful fabric that hangs over the windows, Junnoon has a muted, earthy feel that’s cool and comforting. There’s a small bar with wide, comfortable upholstered stools up front near the lounge, and a window-backed corner with low couches and scattered pillows. The techno-ragas playing throughout the restaurant add to its downtown swank. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Reposado 236 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto; 650.833.3151 Reposado serves traditional and inspired menus of regional Mexican cuisine in an upscale, beautiful setting. Chef Arnulfo “Arnie” Hernandez was born in the coastal Mexican state of Nayarit, but the food at his Palo Alto restaurant Reposado explores a range of cuisines from Mexico. The menu takes classics of Mexican cuisine and several lesserknown dishes and gives them a smart, urbane spin. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
SAN JOSE – Downtown Affinity 300 Almaden Blvd., San Jose; 408.947.4444 Located within the Hilton San Jose, Affinity matches the cutting-edge stylings of the hotel by providing patrons with a sophisticated yet relaxed dining experience. The menu offers a unique array of gourmet crepes made using rich, local ingredients. With offerings such as the Sage Crepe with sautéed chicken and mushrooms, served in a cream sage sauce, Affinity is sure to please. Dine either with casual table service in the dining room or alfresco on the beautiful patio.
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100 W. San Carlos St., San Jose; 408.278.4555 Bon Appetit Chef of the Year for 2005, Michael Mina has done it again. A subtly elegant San Jose restaurant, Arcadia is known for serving contemporary American steakhouse cuisine alongside Mina classics such as an ahi tuna tartare with sesame oil and hot peppers. An exhibition-style kitchen allows patrons to watch as the chefs prepare favorites like filet mignon and bone-in specialties, and the extensive boutique wine list presents inspired pairing options. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Azúcar Latin Bistro 71 E. San Fernando St., San Jose; 408.293.8482 Latin American–infused cuisine (it’s not Mexican food). At Azúcar, you will enjoy several entrees with traditional ingredients, a plethora of textures and flavors which when combined create a unique taste. Set in a tropical yet chic setting, it’s the perfect downtown Latin spot, close to HP Pavilion, San Jose Rep and San Jose City Hall. Try their Filet Jalapena (steak) Camarones a La Jalapena (prawns) Ceviche (fish) or Arroz Con Pollo (chicken.) While there, enjoy live music and entertainment. Sample one of their famous mojitos during happy hour and stay for dinner and dancing. Azúcar is the perfect beginning or end to any evening. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Billy Berk’s 99 S. First St., San Jose; 408.292.4300 Set in a historic, downtown San Jose brick and timber building with a large island bar, Billy Berk’s is a popular downtown dining spot before concerts, sports games and nights on the town. Variety is the culinary philosophy, with dishes like seared sesame-crusted ahi, Dungeness crab, artichoke hot pot, hot and spicy chicken, guava-glazed sticky ribs and braised Spanish pork roast among the menu options. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
E & O Trading Company 96 S. First St., San Jose; 408.938.4100 The building dates from the 1800s, and the dramatic décor is open and spacious with artifacts from Southeast Asia. You can order from a wide selection of dishes from Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam. The open kitchen is like performance art to go with the ambience and the food. The menu features an eclectic array of grilled satays, flat breads and small plates served “family-style,” as well as a unique selection of Big Plates featuring traditional dishes from the region. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
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Christopher Graze Fahrenheit Restaurant & Lounge
local ingredients. world-class cuisine. TusCA Restaurant presents Stags’ Leap Winemakers Dinner, Thursday, November 18, 2010. This will be an evening featuring fabulous food and wine. The menu boasts hand passed hors d’oeuvres, four courses and wine pairings complete with butternut squash polenta, veal medallions, Bluenose sea bass, baked ricotta and chocolate tart. To make reservations for this intimate engagement, please call 408 510 6480 or visit opentable.com. Hyatt. You’re More Than Welcome.
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FAHRENHEIT is pleased to announce the arrival of executive chef Christopher Graze. Christopher has found his new home in Silicon Valley after relocating from the Napa Valley. His upbringing involved extensive world travel, in which he experienced many different cultures that helped to shape his love of globally inspired cuisine. He has worked under the tutelage of chefs from Spain, France, Japan and Thailand, the result being a cooking style that presents a diverse variety of flavors and the use of ingredients found globally. Chef Christopher has spent time in the East Coast kitchens of the Historic City Tavern, Middle East and Johnny Valentine’s and has received an American Hospitality Sciences 5 Star 5 Diamond Award. Chef Christopher believes “that food is as much about fun and bringing together of people as it is about sustenance.”
Eulipia 374 S. First St., San Jose; 408.280.6161 Back in 1978, Eulipia helped introduce San Jose diners to contemporary California cuisine. For more than three decades, the downtown San Jose restaurant has continued to innovate and continued to satisfy. Almost a decade ago, Metro’s Christina Waters referred to the “delicious durability of Eulipia’s reputation.” That reputation is still strong.
Fahrenheit Restaurant 99 E. San Fernando St., San Jose; 408.998.9998 Fahrenheit serves an inventive menu of contemporary cuisine with Asian influences in a stylish, modern ultralounge setting. Patrons can choose from comfortable booths, low tables, bar stools or outdoor seating, where they can keep an eye on a bustling city neighborhood that’s next to San Jose State University and San Jose City Hall. Fahrenheit’s Ahi Tuna Tartare, Fire Grilled Chicken, Steak Satay, Asparagus Rib Eye Steak Rolls and Pan Roasted Mussels are among its signature dishes. As the hour grows later, Fahrenheit heats up with DJ music, cocktail action and a good-looking crowd. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
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Carolyn AllenSamavarchian Paolo’s
SINCE 1958 family-owned Paolo’s has steadfastly remained one of downtown San Jose’s most enduring and beloved Italian restaurants. Chef and second-generation owner Carolyn (Aiello) AllenSamavarchain maintains her family’s commitment to their Italian heritage through the unique art and traditions of regional Italian cuisine. The menu offerings are diverse and interesting with California and East Coast influences incorporating the finest local and imported ingredients. Maitre d’/ sommelier Jalil Samavarchian maintains an exceptional wine list and directs a knowledgeable and professional staff in this dramatic setting overlooking beautiful Guadalupe River Park. Their commitment to excellence and warm hospitality makes Paolo’s as inviting and contemporary today as it was more than 50 years ago. Carolyn Allen-Samavarchian is the daughter of Paolo’s founders Jack & Geri Allen. Besides her work at Paolo’s, AllenSamavarchian teaches cooking classes and has served on the board of directors for the California Culinary Academy Educational Foundation.
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174 S. Market St., San Jose; 408.294.2244 Featuring classic American dishes served with modern flair, the menu at the Grill on the Alley is sure to suit the tastes of every guest. Steaks from fillet mignon to New York pepper steak are cooked to perfection, and there is always a fresh fish selection and even gluten-free selections. Appetizers include fried calamari, artichoke dip, crab cakes and steak tartare. For a more nostalgic meal, chicken pot pie, meatloaf and roasted brick chicken are also on the menu.
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302 S. Market St., San Jose; 408.271.3366 Il Fornaio is a classy Italian restaurant providing authentic cuisine. Whether craving some risotto alla Milanese, pasta Arrabbiata, fine rotisserie chicken or filet mignon, this San Jose restaurant provides it all and provides it well. Il Fornaio’s elegant interior, wide windows and fully stocked bar makes it a cozy venue for curious gourmets. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
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Loft Bar and Bistro 90 S. Second St., San Jose; 408.291.0677 Whether you’re seated inside or out, the Loft Bistro is one of downtown’s premier good times restaurants. The menu offers simple but satisfying dishes like grilled pork tenderloin, panko-crusted chicken breast and braised lamb shanks. The lively bar adds to the appeal, and on A Capers Place warm days and nights, be sure to grab a spot at the outdoor, second-story patio that overlooks the downtown scene below. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Los Gatos Brewing Company 163 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose; 408.292.9928 Designed to quench the growing thirst for fine beers, the Los Gatos Brewing Company isn’t just a “brewpub” but a great restaurant serving the freshest and finest in California cuisine. In downtown San Jose, this will definitely be the place to see and be seen. Awardwinning microbrews, an outstanding menu with good prices, top food reviews and just a fun place to be, the new Los Gatos Brewing Company at San Pedro Square in downtown San Jose is something you just have to try! BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Mezcal 25 W. San Fernando St., San Jose; 408.283.9595 Mezcal serves authentic Oaxacan cuisine in a contemporary setting in downtown San Jose. Traditional regional dishes including three kinds of mole—negro, coloradito and estofado—are on the menu, along with beef, pork and chicken dishes. Mezcal has a mezcal and tequila bar with many specialty brands and an open air courtyard patio.
Morton’s, the Steakhouse 77 Park Ave., San Jose; 408.947.7000 Downtown San Jose’s Morton’s, the Steakhouse draws upon more than 30 years of tradition. Morton’s cooks USDA prime-aged beef at temperatures that reach up to 1,800 degrees. It also serves fresh fish and seafood, including lobster, along with hand-picked produce, appetizers and elaborate desserts. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Pagoda Restaurant 170 S. Market St., San Jose (inside the Fairmont); 408.998.1900 You might not think Fairmont Hotel when a hankering for potstickers and black pepper beef becomes overwhelming, but the simple and well-executed dishes at the Pagoda Restaurant make the traipse through the hotel lobby well worth it. The décor is tasteful and the service attentive. The pianist, who plays anything from Mozart to the Beatles, is an added bonus and makes this a fun and surprisingly romantic place for an impromptu date.
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Paolo’s 333 W. San Carlos St. #150, San Jose; 408.294.2558
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Silicon Valley Capital Club 50 W. San Fernando St. #1700, San Jose; 408.971.9300 Talk about a room with a view. Located atop the Knight Ridder building in downtown San Jose, the Silicon Valley Capital Club not only has one of the best views in Silicon Valley, but with Michael Miller at the helm, it also boasts one of the region’s most talented chefs. The membersonly club offers members and their guests dishes like charred tomato soup, barbecued foie gras, pepper crusted pork chops, and steamed Maine lobster. Chef Miller also offers cooking classes the last Tuesday of the month from 6 to 8pm.
SAN JOSE – North Blue Mango Fine Thai Cuisine 635 Coleman Ave., San Jose; 408.885.9222 The menu at Blue Mango has a selection of five different preparations of tofu and an extensive vegetarian menu. Vegetables, fried rice, noodles and spicy Thai flavors make this the destination for a traditional yet modern Thai cuisine. The name was chosen for the popularity of mango in Thailand. There are lunch specials, and an excellent catering service.
Spencer’s for Steaks and Chops 2050 Gateway Place, San Jose; 408.437.2170 Spencer’s at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose serves aged, hand-cut prime steaks, succulent chops and sensational seafood served in a stately atmosphere. Featuring USDA natural and organic steaks and chops. Superior Farms double-cut lamb chops, A wide selection of wines, single malt scotches and small batch bourbons is available. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
SAN JOSE – Santana Row Blowfish Sushi 355 Santana Row #1010, San Jose; 408.345.3848 Blowfish Sushi is part restaurant part cool place to hang out. On an average night, diners will encounter a slew of pretty people, pretty cocktails and eye-pleasing plates such as the “pyramid of tartar,” a towering concoction of raw salmon, tuna, avocado and potato chips. The ambience is sleek and modern with beats resonating 55
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A San Jose institution for decades, Paolo’s restaurant serves a variety of Italian classics in an elegant setting. Attentive, Old World service and a deep wine list have made it a staple of business diners, romantic nights out and dinners before ballet or theater. The desserts are especially memorable.
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Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi, Too! ALTHOUGH chef Henry Garcia of Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi, Too! always knew he wanted to cook, the title wasn’t just handed to him on a parsley-garnished platter. He had to work his way up the rungs of the kitchen ladder, starting with dishwasher and working through every kitchen job. After mastering the challenges of hollandaise sauce among many others, he wears his white coat with pride. He loves making fettuccine prawns Portofino, because of its distinct flavor and the richness of the sauce. For first-time patrons, the chef recommends shrimp scampi.
through a state of the art sound system or being spun by a live DJ, and Japanese anime streaking across the screens. Don’t miss the “oyster roulette,” a half dozen oyster shooters laden with Ikura, quail eggs and ponzu sauce.
Citrus Restaurant 355 Santana Row, San Jose; 408.423.5400 Citrus restaurant combines a smart, sophisticated setting with an upscale steakhouse menu that features expertly prepared steaks, chops and seafood. From Angus New York steak to Colorado lamb chops to Hawaiian ahi tuna, your dinner starts with the finest ingredients available. Entrees are complemented with an array of gourmet takes on classic side dishes, including a featured mashed potato of the day (such as wasabi and chipotle flavors) and french fries with white truffle essence and fine herbs. Flavorful vegetarian plates are also available. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Village California Bistro & Wine Bar 378 Santana Row #1035, San Jose; 408.248.9091 A chic bistro and wine bar at Santana Row, the Village’s clientele spans midshopping lunchers to dinner dates. The menu highlights California-inspired cuisine crafted from seasonal, locally sourced ingredients. The wine list emphasizes boutique wineries from around the world, with more than 300 selections, including many half bottles. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Yankee Pier 378 Santana Row #1100, San Jose; 408.244.1244 Bradley Ogden’s Yankee Pier at Santana Row is a New England–style seafood house that serves ocean-fresh
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seafood from two coasts, along with produce from local California farms. Signature dishes include live Maine lobsters, fresh-shucked oysters, a variety of grilled fresh fish and beer-battered full belly clams. Chef Steven Wallin also prepares house-made desserts. Yankee Pier pours a selection of all-American wines, and has a full bar. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
SAN JOSE – West Frankie, Johnnie & Luigi, Too! 5245 Prospect Road, San Jose; 408.446.9644 The classics of Italian American food are all at Frankie, Johnnie and Luigi, Too! right down to the red-and-white checkered tablecloths and straw-covered bottles of chianti. They’re classics because they’re good. Look for crowd-pleasing dishes like lamb osso buco, baked salmon risotto, chicken parmigiana and the original “My three brothers and I,” tender medallions of veal, chicken breast and prawns sauteed in a light and creamy Bordelaise sauce.
Kaama Lounge 385 S. Winchester Blvd., San Jose; 408.243.4200 Dedicated to the pleasures of indulgent food, fine libations and good company, Kaama Lounge is a stylish San Jose restaurant and lounge. Located across the street from Santana Row, this intimate dining destination boasts an award-winning chef who scripts innovative menus of comfort food classics reimagined with worldly influences. The beautiful setting is designed to suit everything from romantic dates to chic dinner parties.
SAN JOSE – South The Fish Market 1007 Blossom Hill Road, San Jose; 408.269.3484 As the straightforward name implies, Silicon Valley’s Fish Market restaurants focus on doing one thing: serving superior-quality fresh fish. There are fancier restaurants where you could spend more money, but the dependable Fish Market remains one of Silicon Valley’s top spots for seafood. It helps that the restaurant has its own fleet of fishing boats that supply it with ocean fresh fish. The lively raw bar and casual dining room are the go-to places for seafood lovers.
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Teorico Escober The Fish Market of San Jose CHEF TEORICO ESCOBER can pass on the meat; he loves to eat fresh steamed or grilled seafood. He first applied to work at the Fish Market because he enjoyed coming in as a patron. After 15 years, he still takes pleasure in coming to work. He loves the sushi counter because it is a social hub, close to the bar and very interactive. He can get people to try new things. If you’re not in the mood for sushi, try the oyster bar or one of the fresh off-the-boat specials like Opakapaka, Ling Cod or the famous Dungeness crab. Otherwise, stop by the sushi counter and ask chef Teorico to make you something special.
SANTA CLARA The Fish Market 3775 El Camino Real, Santa Clara; 408.246.3474 As the straightforward name implies, Silicon Valley’s Fish Market restaurants focus on doing one thing: serving superior-quality fresh fish. There are fancier restaurants where you could spend more money, but the dependable Fish Market remains one of Silicon Valley’s top spots for seafood. It helps that the restaurant has its own fleet of fishing boats that supply it with ocean-fresh fish. The lively raw bar and casual dining room are the go-to places for seafood lovers.
Parcel 104 2700 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara; 408.970.6104 Parcel 104 celebrates regional American cuisine with a fresh and inventive menu created by celebrated chef Bradley Ogden. A recent remodel makes this one of Silicon Valley’s most appealing dining rooms and bars.
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Piatti Ristorante & Bar 3905 Rivermark Plaza, Santa Clara; 408.330.9212 Santa Clara’s Piatti offers an easy-to-love, refined approach to Italian food. Located in Santa Clara’s Rivermark Plaza, Piatti offers hard-to-resist dishes like saffron marinated grilled quail, ziti with wild boar ragu, 58
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Umberto Pala Vin Santo
BORN AND RAISED in Bergamo, Italy, in the Lombardi region, Umberto Pala brings extensive culinary training and experience to Vin Santo. As a young boy, he loved spending time in the kitchen and began working in restaurants at age 14. As soon as he was of age, he began studies at the San Pellegrino Hotel School, where he completed the threeyear culinary arts program. Cooking has become a lifelong occupation and passion. Umberto has held executive chef duties in several leading California restaurants. His training, experience and expertise bring a unique style to the authentic Italian plates served here at Vin Santo.
beer-braised Cornish game hen, grilled Loch Duart salmon and mustardcrusted grilled Niman Ranch pork tenderloin. The extensive, Italian-heavy wine list makes a great match. The restaurant also offers a great happy hour with bar snacks like fried risotto balls filled with mushrooms and Parmesan, housemade mozzarella with cherry tomato medley and arugula, and prosciutto, with pickled vegetables and house-made rosemary bread. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
SARATOGA Restaurant Sent Sovi 14583 Big Basin Way, Saratoga; 408.867.3110 Restaurant Sent Sovi is a beloved Silicon Valley favorite for intimate dining presided over by chef-owner Josiah Slone. Slone changes his menu quarterly. Cooking with locally sourced, seasonal ingredients is de rigueur in Bay Area restaurants, but Slone’s cooking takes this edict to new levels of deliciousness. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
SUNNYVALE Ginger Cafe 398 W. El Camino Real #114, Sunnyvale; 408.736.2828 Flavorful dishes hailing from the Pacific Rim, with a bias toward Thailand and southern China, populate the 61
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Tuyen Chung Ginger Cafe
TUYEN CHUNG came to the United States from Vietnam as a teenager, by way of mainland China and Hong Kong. He started cooking in his mother’s restaurant more than 25 years ago, honing his technique until he was ready to open his own restaurant, Fu Kee, a small self-service Asian Pacific Rim spot, in 1997, soon after getting married. He then opened the first Ginger Cafe in Gilroy in 2004, seeking to push his food and creativity to another level. He followed on the success of the first Ginger Cafe, which still thrives today, with a second outpost in Sunnyvale in February 2007. Chung’s unique approach involves ingredients and flavors from Southeast Asia. This delicious and complex style stems from history, where migration brought Chinese food into new places, where it mingled with local ingredients and tastes that resulted in new twists on traditional dishes. While Ginger Cafe’s menu is rooted in Chinese cuisine, it is broadened, flavored and inspired by Chung’s travels through Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore. Today, the hybrid food found at Ginger Cafe is a reflection of Chung and his team’s creativity and attention to local palates; it is also the result of team work from front-of-the-house staffs and his kitchen crews.
lengthy menu at Ginger Cafe. This casually elegant, intimate Sunnyvale dining spot is situated in a naturally lit round dining room appointed with soft earth tones, rich woods, curtains, wooden Buddhas and ceiling fans. Ginger Cafe serves a menu that includes artfully presented dim dum, creative entrees, flavorful soups, salads and appetizers, including a range of vegetarian options. The full bar pours wines and a top shelf of premium spirits. BOOK A TABLE ONLINE AT SILICONVALLEYRESTAURANTWEEK.COM
Il Postale 127 W. Washington Ave., Sunnyvale; 408.733.9600 In the heart of Sunnyvale, Il Postale serves Italian American cuisine in the historic brick building that was once the home of Sunnyvale’s post office. Its open kitchen, the restaurant’s centerpiece, prepares pasta, fish, meat and vegetarian/vegan options. Il Postale also has a full wine list and wines by the glass, a full bar and outside patio dining.
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SOUP’S ON The Korean specialty soontofu is almost more like a stew than a soup.
When a fall chill fills the air, the best solution is soontofu, a hearty, spicy Korean soup By STETT HOLBROOK
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S I WAS driving to work the other day, a thick layer of fog hung over the South Bay. The fog looked like it held a chance of rain. Fall was in the air. I wasn’t sure what I was going eat that day, but the gloomy weather helped me make up my mind: soontofu.
Cold and wet weather makes me think of soup, and one my favorite bowls of soup when the weather turns really chilly is soontofu, the Korean specialty made with soft tofu, a chile paste–infused broth and bits of meat, seafood and vegetables. Soontofu is really more of a stew because it’s
so thick. If you think tofu is just for Birkenstock-wearing vegetarians, a bowl of soontofu (sometime spelled soondobu or soondooboo) will disabuse you of that notion. Like Korean food in general, soontofu is hearty, often spicy and satisfying. As filling and nourishing as the soup is, there’s a lightness to soontofu that doesn’t weigh you down. The soup/stew arrives bubbling in a stone bowl heated in the fiery depths of the oven. It’s usually available with a choice of spiciness. And when you say you want it spicy, that’s what you get. If you wondered how Koreans survive the bitter cold of a long Korean winter, smoldering bowls of soontofu are definitely part of the answer. But soontofu doesn’t have to spicy to be good. Spicy or not, the chile paste tints the soup a beautiful red/orange and
gives the dish a great depth of flavor. As the lunch hour drew near, I headed to Silicon Valley’s epicenter of Korean food, El Camino Real in Santa Clara. The stretch of El Camino Real just north and south of Lawrence Expressway is a gold mine of Korean food, one of the top spots in the Bay Area. The area is also great for south Indian food, but that’s another story. My first stop on my soontofu sojourn was Choi’s. I wrote about the place when it was Blue Stones, and the soontofu was pretty good, but Choi’s is even better now. The place looks the same: bright fluorescent light, Formica tables and posters of busty Korean women selling Korean beer. Most of the tables are full at lunch, when a mainly Korean crowd devours the daily specials. I wasn’t interested in a lunch special, but I was there for a special lunch—soontofu. The soup typically comes with pieces of beef, pork, seafood or vegetables. Now that I think about it, I’ve never seen it with chicken. Strange. Anyway, I tried the kimchi and pork soontofu and the beef dumpling soontofu (both $8.99). I loved them both.
The kimchi was actually downplayed in the first one. What came through was the deep and smoky flavor of the chile paste and the hearty sweetness of the pork and onions. Soontofu with dumplings is a rendition I haven’t seen before. The slippery dumplings are tightly packed with minced beef, ginger, chives and garlic, and they hold up well in the sizzling, molten soup. Choi’s puts out an impressive spread of banchan: eight plates of pickled, fermented and boldly seasoned condiments meant to accent the meal. Knowing that I was going to make another stop for lunch, I tried not to dig in too deeply. But everything is good, especially the jellolike turnip cake and pickled turnip. I like turnip. With my belly full, I headed to Sui Tofu, one of my favorite El Camino Real Korean restaurants. I don’t usually double up on lunch, but I was behind schedule and needed to cover a lot of ground. I am, however, a professional and train for just such situations. Sui is known for its rice porridge, but the soontofu is a standout, too. Sui Tofu makes its own tofu in-house, a rarity in my travels throughout Santa Clara’s Koreatown. Two versions of soontofu offer a lesson in tofu making. Cho dang soontofu ($8.99) is described as “fresh bean tofu with special house sauce.” I ordered it, but my server warned me that it was rather bland. Unlike the typical preparations that combine crumbling soft tofu with a chile-paste broth, cho dang soontofu is made from what’s pressed out of fresh tofu: a watery, curdlike form of tofu. And bland it is—about as flavorful as tap water. Dab in a few spoonfuls of the soysesame oil-–green onion sauce, and the dish comes to life. It’s still quite austere, but I can see the appeal. It felt nourishing and elemental, like a glass of fresh cow’s milk or a carrot just plucked from the garden. By contrast the “mix tofu soup” ($7.99) is made from fresh tofu ground to the consistency of Cream of Wheat. This soup is still worlds apart from the soontofu I had down the street at Choi’s, but it has a nutty, rich quality to it that really grew on me. I also ordered a plate of the restaurant’s excellent potstickers ($6.99), panfried vegetarian bundles filled with rice noodles, egg, onions, garlic and other goodies.
Choi’s Korean Restaurant 3530 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 408.615.0200
Sui Tofu 2777 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 408.261.2777
Secret Garden 3430 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 408.244.5020
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The next day, I had soontofu again, this time at Secret Garden. I had passed the restaurant at the back of a little minimall before but had never eaten there. Secret Garden feels a bit like a secret, even though it has been around since 1979. You can’t see inside because of the tinted windows, but the place has the qualities of a retreat. Intricate woodwork and, oddly, mirror panels adorn the ceilings, while the red carpet and cozy booths make the place seem far removed from El Camino Real outside. Secret Garden was packed at lunch as I grabbed one of the last tables. Looking down the list of soontofu, the clam and pork ($9.95) caught my eye; it’s a combination I hadn’t seen before. The sizzling bowl didn’t have quite the depth of flavor I encountered at Choi’s, but the whole clams and bits of pork were good swimming in the bubbly chile-paste broth. I couldn’t help but order the raw crab appetizer ($14.95) as well, with meaty blue-crab legs marinated in a thick chile-pepper paste. The dish is described as spicy, but I would give it about a 3. But the flavor gets a much higher score. The crab meat has a silken, rich quality, like tuna tartare. Matched with the chile paste, it’s delicious. And messy. By the time I emerged from the little Korean food sanctuary, the sun was out, and it was another warm day in Silicon Valley. The rain would come soon enough. But I discovered soontofu tastes pretty good in warm weather, too. It’s all-season soup.
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Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Metro food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro. Updates from vigilant readers and listed restaurateurs are heartily encouraged; please submit via email to sholbrook@metronews.com.
Campbell CAPERS Well-heeled sports bar and restaurant. $$$. Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Welldevised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious finger foods. 11am-10:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-midnight Fri-Sat and 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777.
PSYCHO DONUTS Donuts. $. Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory with flavors like apricot, the Cookie Monster (topped with Oreos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits of vanilla wafers) and the intimidating Psycho Donut, a maelstrom of marshmallow, pretzel and chile powder. 6am5pm Mon-Thu, 6am-11pm Fri, 7am-11pm Sat, 7am-5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester Blvd #C. 408.378.4540.
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MICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi standards are transformed into palate-awakening presentations; culinary boundaries are stretched. 11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.378.8000 or 378.0838.
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Russian. $$. This is a small Russian grocery store with a good little restaurant tucked in the corner. Borscht soup, pelmeni and solyankya sbornaya, a thick soup studded with chunks of mild pork sausage, black olives, pickles and barley all satisfy. 11am8pm daily. 1712 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.379.6680.
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$$. Fun sushi meets fun surroundings in this zone. 11:30am-2:30pm and 59:30pm Sun-Thu and 11:30am2:30pm and 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd #1. 408.866.1323.
ghasemi, grilled and puréed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, puréed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs. Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice cream. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-midnight Fri-Sat and 11:30am-9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400.
TIGELLERIA. Italian. $$. Tigelleria’s menu centers on fine cheeses and Italian salumi paired with tigelle, free-flowing, piping hot flatbreads the size of mini pitas. The bread forms the addictive heart of the meal. Lunch 11:30am-2pm and dinner 510pm daily. 76 E. Campbell Ave. 408.884.3808.
OLIO Mediterranean. $$$. Olio serves simple but expertly prepared Mediterranean food that dips into the underexplored cuisines of North Africa. Small but smart wine list. Dinner 5-9pm Sun-Thu and 510pm Fri-Sat. 384 E. Campbell Ave. 408.378.0335.
TWIST CAFE AND BISTRO French and American. $$$. Twist describes itself as “American food with a French twist,” but the menu includes Middle Eastern, Asian and Italian influences, too. Cafe 9am-3pm Tue-Sat, 9am-2:30pm Sun; Bistro 5-
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AKANE Japanese/sushi bar. $$. Nigiri and maki treasures are gracefully presented at this attractive restaurant. 11:30am-2pm Tue-Fri, 5-9pm Tue-Sat. Beer, wine. 250 Third St. 650.941.8150.
ALDO LOS ALTOS Italian. $$. Downtown Los Altos is ghostly quiet after dark but Aldo has injected some life into this corner of town with its lively wine bar, friendly service and welcoming atmosphere. 11:30am-5pm, Mon-Fri. 5pm-close Sat-Sun. 388 Main St. 650.949.2300.
BEAUSÉJOUR Continental. $$$. Elegant seafood, meat and game dishes lean toward reducing fat without compromising taste. Call for reservations. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; 5-9pm daily. 170 State St. 650.948.1382.
CHEF CHU’S Chinese. $$. Speedy service, superb preparation and the ability to cater to varied tastes keep this landmark in business. Casual. Full bar. 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 11:30-10pm Fri, noon10pm Sat, noon-9:30pm Sun. 1067 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.2696. ESTRELLITA RESTAURANT Mexican. $$. Estrellita’s reverence for regional Mexican cooking
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FEW WEEKS AGO, I interviewed a chef in Milwaukee and asked him why he buys from so many local purveyors and farms. Why was it important to him? His response was simple, but I thought, profound: If we want the community to support us we need to support the community. Well, of course. That’s just so logical. At their best, restaurants are more than places to satisfy an appetite, they are a reflection of the community. They are gathering places, an extension of our kitchens and living rooms. While we have little control over what’s happening in Washington and Sacramento, we have complete control over what we eat and where. Voting with your food dollars is a powerful statement of our values. You can eat at McDonald’s, a corporation that sells low-cost food (at least on the front end; we all pay the price for “cheap” food later) and has little stake in the community it purports to serve. Or you can eat at a locally owned restaurant that succeeds or fails based on the quality of its food and its connection to the community. I choose the latter. On one level, the second annual SILICON VALLEY RESTAURANT WEEK (www.siliconvalleyrestaurantweek.com), which runs Nov. 3–10, is simply a good business proposition. By lowering prices and offering attractive three-course meals, restaurants are able to attract large numbers of customers over one week and maybe pick up some repeat business. For diners, spending $25–$45 for a prix fixe meal gets them a good taste of a restaurant they might not otherwise be able to afford. But it’s my hope that restaurant owners and diners alike derive something more: community. As I wrote in the introduction to the chef profiles elsewhere in this issue, Silicon Valley’s restaurant scene is heating up. Four local restaurants just picked up their first Michelin stars while the region’s ethnic restaurants continue to shine, albeit a bit out of the limelight. The quality of the food is moving the dining scene forward, but restaurants that cultivate a sense of community with local wine lists and products, benefit dinners and civicminded giving are helping grow the region’s restaurant industry as well. It’s my hope that restaurateurs take the long view and participate in the restaurant week not only to make some money but also to cultivate their place in the community and look beyond boosting sales in the short term. Restaurant week is a chance for local eateries to step out and show not only their best cooking but also their desire to offer that intangible but all too rare sense of community. I also hope that diners enjoy a good meal and night out as well as realize that by supporting local restaurants, especially during these difficult times, they are putting dollars back into their community and voting with their forks to create the kind of reciprocal relationships that make communities so vibrant and vital. —Stett Holbrook
distinguishes it from the enchilada-and-taco masses. The menu is full of MexicanAmerican standards, but the changing selection of specials make this restaurant a star. Full bar. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-2pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat and 5-9pm
Sun. 971 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.9865.
SUMIKA. Japanese. $$. Sumika is a Japanese pub, but that doesn’t do it justice. It’s elegant, yet still a great place to drink beer and sake. The specialty is kushiyaki,
small bites of grilled chicken, beef and vegetables cooked on bamboo skewers over charcoal. 11:30am-2pm, 6-10pm Tue-Fri, 11:30am2pm, 5:30-11pm Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 236 Central Plaza. 650.917.1822.
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EILEEN IVERS That night, Ei leen Ivers let her imaginar friend Gilky ha y ndle lead voca ls.
Abstract Rude waits for Aceyalone to pick him up for their show at VooDoo.
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Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Wed – 7:30pm; $37/$42 The Celtic knot and Celtic music have something in common: a braid looping back upon itself, repetition in the service of Bach-like intricacy that makes every Celtic artist a technician. Every really accomplished Celtic musician is a mathematician and Eileen Ivers is no exception: this Bronx-bred, seven-time all-Ireland fiddle champ has a postgrad degree in math. Called the “future of the Celtic fiddle,” Ivers has guest-starred with 40 symphony orchestras and played
on movie soundtracks, most notably Gangs of New York. Playing live, she bursts out of the Irish arabesques of fiddle-figures and into a looped feedback wail: she is the creator and main practitioner of acid-Celt. (RvB)
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ALMOST HONEST Mountain Charley’s, Los Gatos Thu – 9pm; $5 Take an acoustic guitar and add R&B vocals and you’ll get Almost Honest. This is coffeehouse music; kick back and relax (and nurse that hangover) music. The local duo of Drew Orepeza and Justin Florence moved to Hollywood to seek fame and fortune. They recorded an album and returned to San Jose in May
of this year. Now they want to give back to the fans. They’re holding a contest for anyone who wants to listen to their music and artistically interpret it visually. Who knows? Maybe your piece of artwork will end up on the cover. But my drawing of a robot dolphin shooting lasers out of its eyes seems like a shoo-in. So Timeless opens the show. (BD)
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ACEYALONE & ABSTRACT RUDE VooDoo Lounge, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $10 It’s been 16 years since Aceyalone
and Abstract Rude created Project Blowed, and the kings of the L.A. underground hip-hop are still working hard to keep the indie rap scene alive and kicking. In light of this “Sweet 16” (and two respective albums coming out in 2011), why not get together and bring some of that A Team love to what they call their cult following? The “Cult Falloween Tour” is making its way from Portland to San Francisco, with an out of the way stop at VooDoo Lounge, to give South Bay a taste. (AC)
THE FAMOUS Britannia Arms, Cupertino Fri – 9pm; $5 I love a band that uses booze and beer as a simile. From a town best known for its distillery, Moss Beach’s The Famous reassures drinking fans with a music problem that its sound is “like swallowing hard liquor.”
Laurence Scott has an echoing voice that’s like a toughened-up Willie Nelson, and Victor Barclay’s guitar is closer to Iggy Pop in his Bomp! Records phase than current Nashville bleat. Check their tune “Off My Mind,” and learn how men endure on that fog-racked coast. Sharing the kitty that night: San Jose’s own California country-rockers Careless Hearts (“We don’t try to be cool, we try to be good” they told Metro ), Dynamite Truck (whose “Trophy Bride,” for trickiness and wry subject matter, recalls Joe Jackson’s best stuff) and Saratoga’s very catchy The Devil’s Sunday Best. (RvB)
SHARKSTYLIENS Johnny V’s, San Jose Fri – 10pm; $5
Intergalacticplayerslapp is a mouthful of an album title. It sounds like a P-Funk album that never was. But
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JERMAINE DUPRI AND FRIENDS Nov 5 at Wet, San Jose
GINA T, EURO DISCO Nov 5 at Avalon, Santa Clara
MISSION PEAK BRASS BAND Nov 5 at 7:30pm, Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont
AC MYLES BLUES BAND Nov 6 at 6pm, Poor House Bistro, San Jose
GAMELAN CUDAMANI Nov 7 at 2:30pm, Memorial Auditorium, Stanford
PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA: VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS Nov 9 at 8pm, Center for Performing Arts, Atherton
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE Nov 10 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion
FLYING KARAMAZOV BROTHERS Nov 10-14 at San Jose Rep
MARC COHN Nov 11 at 7:30pm, Carriage House, Montalvo Arts Center
ROBERT CRAY BAND lk `k [f\jeÊk pfl ZXe YXe^ fe X ZXe% 9 @] pfl ZXe [f[^\ X ni\eZ_# e =i`[Xp% 9Xe^ Fe X :Xe 8cc$JkXij f d\Xe pfl ^\k kf gcXp n`k_ it’s actually the forthcoming LP from Sharkstyliens, which drops Nov. 10. They’ve been leaking tracks and hyping this release for a while now, whetting everyone’s appetite for the latest from this diverse group of hip-hop freaksters. Expectations are high considering they’ve already demonstrated the degree to which they can fuse hip-hop, dubstep, electro-jazz, rock, funk, reggae and whatever other styles suit their fancy. At least based on the tracks they’ve leaked so far, the new album is going to be weirder, more synthetic and laced with a distinctly sci-fi quality. And a hell of a good time. (AC)
BANG ON A CAN ALL-STARS Dinkelspiel Auditorum, Palo Alto Fri – 8pm; $44-$50 Peter Greenaway made the
cannibal-riffic movie The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover. Composer Louis Andriessen is a Greenaway collaborator, so when I say that he’s “edgy,” you know I’m not fooling around. NYC’s avantclassical group Bang On a Can will perform The Dutchman’s Life, along with Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, Fred Frith’s Snakes and Ladders, and more. (SP)
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Le Petit Trianon, San Jose Sat, 7:30pm; $18/$22 British violinist Pip Clarke returns
for another guest stint with Mission Chamber Orchestra. Clarke, who was featured on the sountrack for the movie 15 Minutes, will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major. The program also features Haydn’s Symphony no. 94 (better known as “Surprise”) and local composer John Beeman’s Serendipity, which premiered with Mission Chamber earlier this year. The Piedmont Hills High School Chamber Orchestra will help out on Rossini’s String Sonata no. 1. Emily Ray conducts. (MSG)
USURPER VONG Blank Cub, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $8 The band proudly proclaim that they are from San Jose any chance they get, but I’m having trouble believing they’re not from another
planet, beamed down to California to make music geeks miserable. Good luck finding any kind of neat classification for these guys. Not even a very broad definition like “rock” can restrain them, but that’s not to say you shouldn’t try yourself. Figuring them out is a lot like doing a New York Times Sunday crossword—you know you’ll never get it right, but you press on in the vain hope that today will be the day you finish it all in one sitting. Usurper Vong employs enduring geek-rock devices, like sudden and abrupt changes in rhythm and key, and moaning, spoken-word vocals, with lyrics that barely make sense. The only difference is that they try to look cool doing it, and actually succeed. (JA)
Nov 12 at 8pm, Fox Theatre, Redwood City
ELVIN BISHOP Nov 13 at 8pm, Carriage House, Montalvo Arts Center
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE AND INSIDE STRAIT Nov 13 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford
RUSSELL PETERS Nov 14 at 8pm, HP Pavilion
ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ Nov 14 at 7:30pm, Carriage House, Montalvo Arts Center
AVERAGE WHITE BAND Nov 17 at 7:30pm, Carriage House, Montalvo Arts Center
MIDORI AND ROBERT MCDONALD Nov 17 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford
TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 21 at 3 and 7:30pm, HP Pavilion
ANDRE RIEU Dec 4 at 8pm, HP Pavilion
ROGER WATERS, THE WALL IN CONCERT Dec 7–8 at 8pm, HP Pavilion
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Sunset Boulevard Nov. 6–21; Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto; $23–$32 Norma Desmond is always ready for her close-up, as evidence by the classic status of Billy Wilder’s film Sunset Boulevard, and the popular musical version by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Palo Alto Players presents the ultimate story of Hollywood glamour writ big as a fading silent-film star convinces a down-and-out screenwriter to help orchestrate her comeback.
4PLAY Nov. 10–14; San Jose Repertory Theatre; $35–$69 The Flying Karamazov Brothers got their start startling passers-by in Santa Cruz with feats of juggling that were as dangerous as they were dexterous (a tennis ball is one thing; a chain saw something entirely different). Their last vaudeville/ cabaret mashup, 4PLAY, stars two of the brothers— Paul Magid and Stephen Brent, plus guests—and is presented in a compact run by San Jose Rep.
Ladies of Jazz Friday, 8pm; Theatre on San Pedro Square; $13 Four Bay Area jazz singer/songwriters have joined up for a project known as Ladies of Jazz. Jennifer Lee (pictured), Cathi Walkup, Leanne Weatherly and Melissa Dinwiddie alternately perform their own numbers solo with a trio and then combine forces for ensemble numbers.
*stage Dance ZERO HOUR A dance/arts collaboration between choreographer Philein Wang and a quartet of ChineseAmerican artists: photographer Keith Weng, visual artist Areta Wang, percussionist Simon Tin and costume designer Karen Lin. Fri-Sat, 8:30pm, $12/$22. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
Theater ALL THIS INTIMACY One man impregnates three
women in the Renegade Theatre Experiment West Coast premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s comedy. Preview Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7pm. Runs through Nov 27. $12-$28.50. Historic Hoover Theater, San Jose.
CTRL + ALT + DELETE Anthony Clarvoe’s comedy about a miracle gizmo developed right here in Silicon Valley. Preview Thu, 8pm. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows: Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs through Nov 21. $15-$30. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.
GODSPELL Sunnyvale Community Players present the musical by Stephen Schwartz. Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun,
2:30pm. Runs through Nov 21. $10.50-$23.50. Sunnyvale Community Theater.
HALLELUJAH GIRLS A comedy in a Southern vein about the women of Eden Falls, Geo. A Santa Clara Players production. This week: Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Nov 20. $10-$18. Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara.
A NIGHT OF LIGHT AND DARKNESS Excerpts from a musical drama called “La Llorona,” featuring Opera Cultura, Los Laureles and the Movement. Fri evening as part of South First Friday. Free. MACLA, San Jose.
SECRET ORDER A drama by Robert Clyman about medical research;
TABARD THEATRE COMPANY The Jack Conway Trio with vocalist Juanita Harris performs at a Tabard special event to go with its 10th anniversary. Sat, 8pm. $10/$15. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.
THE TIME MACHINE: LOVE AMONG THE ELOI A stage adaptation by Ohlone College Theatre Department of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine.” This week: Thu-Sat, 8pm. Runs thru Nov 13. $12/$15. Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont.
SUNSET BOULEVARD Palo Alto Players presents the stage version of the famed movie about an aging star and a cynical young writer. Preview Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs through Nov 21. $23-$32. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.
THE TURN OF THE SCREW Dragon Productions presents a stage adaptation of Henry James’ ghost story. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $16/$25. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.
Comedy COMEDYSPORTZ An interactive improvised comedy show. Fri, 9 and 11pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm. $12/$15. ComedySportz, San Jose.
ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Will Durst. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.
SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Chicano Kings of Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm: Thai Rivera. $14. Fri-Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Mike Epps. $35. Tue, 8pm: Vincent Oshana. $12. San Jose.
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Museums OPENING LOS GATOS HISTORY MUSEUM “Bear in Mind: The Story of the
California Grizzly.” Nov 4-Feb 27. Wed-Sun, noon-4pm. Los Gatos.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART The after-hours series “ArtRage” features indie art, entertainment and networking, with live music by So Timeless and a glow performance by Nocturnal Sunshine. Thu, 6-9pm. San Jose.
CONTINUING CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates.” Portraits of Vodoun followers and their shrines in Benin by Jean-Dominque Burton. Thru Mar 20. “Go Figure!” Figurative paintings and sculptures by contemporary artists. Ongoing. “Collection Highlights From Europe 15001800, Ancient Greece and Rome.” Thru Dec 30. “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.” Thru Jan 2. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.
DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Sing Me Your Story, Dance Me Home: Art and Poetry From Native California.” Thru Dec 5. “LandsCApes: Glimpses of Everyday California.” Thru Jan 28. “The Saints of Mission Santa Clara: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Art.” Thru Dec 5. Tue-Sun, 11am-4pm. Santa Clara University.
of Separation: Contemporary Photography From the Permanent Collection.” Thru Mar 14. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES High Fiber Under Five Benefit Art Sale. Fri-Sat. Museum is also open 7-10pm for South First Friday. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.
TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Stan Welsh: On Land—On Water.” A show of mixed media and ceramic sculptures. Thru Dec 5. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm. Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.
Galleries OPENING ALAMEDA ART WORKS Fall open studies and benefit event. Sat-Sun, 11am-5pm. Reception Sat, 2-5pm. San Jose.
ANNO DOMINI “The Offering.” Transcendent and mystical works by Wendell McShine, paintings, drawings and animations. Nov 5-20. Gallery is open late this week for South First Friday events. TueFri, noon-7pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
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“Learn to Play.” A group show about art and life. Thru Nov 24. Reception Tue, 5:30pm. Tue-Thu 11am-3pm. San Jose.
“The More the Merrier.” A group show. Nov 5-Dec 3. San Jose.
HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Explore San Jose Parks—Open to the Public Since 1850.” Thru Jan 23. At Pacific Hotel Gallery. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. San Jose.
JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM “Camp Days: 1942–1945.” Works about the internment camps by Chizuko Judy Sugita de Queiroz. Thru Apr 30. Also exhibits about the history of Japantown and the lives and contributions of Japanese immigrants in the valley. Thu-Sun, noon-4pm. San Jose.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “The Modern Photographer: Observation and Intention.” A show of works from the first half of the 20th century drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. Thru Jul 3. “Leo Villareal.” Thru Jan 9. “RetroTech.” Thru Feb 6. “Vital Signs: New Media From the Permanent Collection.” Thru Feb 6. “Degrees
ART GLASS CENTER The center displays glass pumpkins and is open late for South First Friday. San Jose.
CAFFE TRIESTE “Celebrating Cafe Moments.” Paintings by Jeanette Turkus. Reception Fri. Nov 5-27. San Jose.
DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “Before It Flew Away.” Works by Rachel Jones. Nov 5-27. Reception Fri evening. San Jose.
GOOD KARMA VEGAN CAFE “Drive-by Photography.” James Dewrance. Nov 5-27. San Jose.
HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE & GALLERY “Earth, Spin, Fire.” Works by Lee Middleman and Jon Dunlavy. Nov 5-Dec 2. San Jose.
KALEID GALLERY “The Process of Creation.” New paintings by Joe Barajas. “Insomnia: Lost San Jose
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MACLA “Hybrid Spaces: Family Origins & Collaborations.” Works by Las Hermanas Iglesias and Amy Diaz-Infante. Nov 3-Jan 8. Reception Fri with artist talk by Iglesias, 7pm. Event includes excerpts from “La Llorona,” a musical drama by Hector Armienta and Opera Cultura. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
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METRO LOBBY “I Love Trash.” A shows by the First St. Photo Collection. Nov 5-30. Reception Fri evening. Metro Lobby, San Jose.
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SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART The gallery is open late on Friday for preview of new Tony May Show. San Jose.
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“Modern Primitive Cultural Research and Cocktail Society.” An exhibit of tiki art and kitsch culture. Reception Fri with live music. Nov 5-27. San Jose.
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Uproar event presented by Heart of Chaos, with live music and painting, plus art displays and belly dancing. Fri evening. San Jose.
CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI “Better Than 2009.” Solo exhibit for MOMO post-graffiti artist. Thru Nov 20. Tue-Fri, noon-7pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
GALLERY HOUSE “Opposite Attraction.” Paintings by Jane Peterman and sculptures by Kris Taylor. Runs thru Nov 13. Thru Printers’ Inc. Cafe, Palo Alto.
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MOHR GALLERY Mixed-media prints by Pantea Karimi. Thru Nov 21. Mon-Fri, 9am-7pm, Sat, 9am-3pm. Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View.
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “From Within, So Without” by Ali Maschke-Messing (ends Jun 30). Saratoga.
PALO ALTO ART CENTER “In Focus” Collecting Photography.” “Light From the Underground,” a photographic essay about mining in South Wales by Colette CampbellJones. “Paintings From Haiti.” Thru Dec 12. Tue-Sat, 10am5pm, Sun, 1-5pm, and Tue-Thu, 7-10pm. Palo Alto.
ROSE SHENSON COMMUNITY GALLERY “Alternate Realities.” Annual members’ water-media show with artists from the Santa Clara Valley Watercolor Society. Thru Nov 13. Behind Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara.
STANFORD ART SPACES Textile work by Alice Beasley, paintings by James Su and John Sundstrom. Nov 5-Jan 20. Reception Nov 12, 5-7pm. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. Stanford.
WORKS/SAN JOSE “My Favorite Nightmares.” Lacey Bryant curates a show about midnight terrors. Thru Nov 25. Reception Fri, 8-11pm. Thu, noon-4pm, Fri-Sat, noon4pm. San Jose.
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FAMILY CONCERT SERIES Faculty shows. Wed, 7pm: Flute and harp melodies. Fri, 7pm: “Letters From Composers” by Dominick Argento. Sun, 5pm: Duos by Bach and Grieg. Free. Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.
CINDERELLA Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. Wed-Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2pm. Runs thru Nov 12. $8/$12. Palo Alto Art Center.
HANSEL AND GRETEL A California Theatre Center play for family audiences. Sat, 11am. $11/$12. Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre.
SLEEPING BEAUTY Los Altos Youth Theatre. FriSat, 7:30pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Nov 6. $10/$15. Bus Barn Theatre, Los Altos.
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A talk by the art photographer as part of Creative Minds series. Sat, 1pm. $10. San Jose Museum of Art.
HISTORIC HOMES TOUR A fundraiser for the Museums of Los Gatos features a lecture (Thu, 7pm) and tours. Sat-Sun, 10am-4pm. $35/$40. (www. museumoflosgatos.org)
TAPESTRY ARTS FESTIVAL
A booksigning for author of “The Home for the Friendless.” Sun, 2pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
Two days of performances, food and kids’ events a Winter Tapestry event. SatSun, 10am-6pm. Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.
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The author of “Hunger Games” trilogy appears. Wed, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
A film about the Nisei soldiers of the 442nd regiment. Sat, 1 and 3pm. $5/$10. Oak Grove High School Theater, San Jose.
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A display of 19 works, including the “Galactic Mysteries” series, by Leah Lubin. SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Stanford.
The author of “Burning Horses: A Hungarian Life Turned Upside Down” speaks. Mon, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
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Photography by Brandy Brune and oil paintings by Elizabeth Noerdlinger. Thru Nov 21. WedSun, 10am-3pm. Redwood City.
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Meet the author of “The Hard Way Around: The Passages of Joshua Slocum,” a new look at the famed solo sailor. Thu, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
WHAT IS ART? A talk by art historian Kenney Mencher. Thu, 7pm. $10/$15. Los Gatos Art Museum.
ZOMBIE CRAWL Thriller Flash Mob at 7pm; screening of “Night of the Living Dead” at 7:30pm. Fri. Downtown Campbell.
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WHO REALLY knows what ingredients go into a Samoan Fog Cutter? Even various branches of Trader Vic’s squabble over the exact qualities and quantities, as can be glimpsed in one of the fascinating threads at Tikiroom.com. The point is that a certain South Pacific island mystique makes just about any cocktail taste better—headier, more exotic. That key link between libation and location will be delved into for this month’s South First Friday event at SLG ART BOUTIKI & GALLERY. In a show called “Modern Primitive Cultural Research and Cocktail Society,” local artists take advantage of the fertile iconography of mixology in a bamboo and coconut vein, with photographs and drawings. Live music will add to the ambience. The monthly art happening along South First Street also sees an opening reception for Wendell McShine’s show “The Offering” at ANNO DOMINI. McShine, who hails from Trinidad and Tobago, now works in Mexico City. A self-styled underground artist with a background in graphic design, McShine works in a wide variety of media, including animation.
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Other notable exhibits include pottery by Lee Middleman and Jon Dunlavy at HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE & GALLERY; photographs of “Lost San Jose Nights” by Josh Marcotte at KALEID GALLERY; nightmare visions by local artists curated by Lacey Bryant at WORKS/ SAN JOSE; paintings of cafes from around the world by Jeanette Turkus at CAFFE TRIESTE, which hosts singers from Mission City Opera as well; photographs of unsung and unlikely valley buildings as glimpsed driveby fashion by James Dewrance, at GOOD KARMA VEGAN CAFÉ; and a new exhibit by the First St. Photo Collective in METRO’s lobby gallery. For South First Friday, SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS presents the Uproar art exhibit by Heart of Chaos. The evening of live music, live art and belly dancing is a benefit for Catalyst of Youth, an organization that assists atrisk young people in the and out of juvenile hall. To go with the opening of its latest show, “Hybrid Spaces: Family Origins & Collaborations” by Las Hermanas Iglesias, MACLA presents an artist talk at 7pm and a program of selections from a musical drama called La Llorona. The performers will be Opera Cultura, Grupo Los Laureles folkoric dancers and the youth dance troupe the Movement. Just next door, the SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES holds its annual benefit sale of textile and fiber art—High Fiber Under Five. The “five” means under $500, and the event also runs Saturday. In related art news, on Friday evening the SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART offers an advance look at its next show, a retrospective for San Jose artist Tony May. —Michael S. Gant
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A NEW KIND OF FUNNY Charlie Chaplin pointed the way to the future of silent comedies with ‘Tillie’s Punctured Romance.’
In 1914, Charlie Chaplin changed film comedy; Flicker Alley’s ‘Chaplin at Keystone’ restores the evidence By RICHARD VON BUSACK
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VER THE last century, Charlie Chaplin’s early films were often seen in grimy, jerky prints, so dim they made the plots impossible to understand. The new fourDVD set Chaplin at Keystone from Flicker Alley sweeps away cobwebs from Chaplin’s yearlong work at Mack Sennett’s studio. The project is the result of collaboration between several film archives and includes a sprightly, stock-footage-laden short by Pauline Richard, explaining how silent films are restored.
On the Keystone assembly line, the custom was to make 50 prints for the entire world market from a negative that was by no means kept pristine. It is a testament to Chaplin’s rabid popularity that 34 of his 36 Keystone films are here and accounted for; there’s even a recently discovered chunk of a 35th film. When Chaplin came to America, slapstick pioneer Sennett recollected that he “could fall, trip, stumble, somersault and make faces. These were stock-in-trade items that we could use. I did not see then . . . the subtleties and pathos.” Here are only glimpses of the later Tramp, with his insistence (as essayist Robert Warshow put it) that a clown’s sorrows are the deepest sorrows. Chaplin’s burlesque of the poem “The Face on the Barroom Floor” doesn’t give the soggy doggerel a chance.
When Chaplin loves and loses at this point of his career, he expresses it through what looks like an epileptic fit. And yet, here is a silent comedian going against the grain of everything in the screen comedy of 1914. Chaplin is a man of extremes: wearing clothes too loose or too tight, with size-5 feet in size-14 shoes, wearing a mustache on a child’s face. He cuts a dignified, finicky figure amid slum dwellers. He is also a kind of two-legged cockroach distressing fancy diners and tea dancers. Kid Auto Races at Venice marks the screen debut of the Tramp character, on Feb. 7, 1914. This must be counted as one of the first mockumentaries. Released, says Sennett, on the same reel as a promotional film titled Olives and Their Oil, we see a soap-box derby at the L.A. beach town interrupted by a what seems to be a persistent amateur, waddling like a penguin, who cannot stop scowling into the camera. Chaplin isn’t always a tramp, even; at times, he appears as a well-dressed scoundrel. He found his way at Keystone through the help of the first great film comedienne, Mabel Normand. The two are a treat in Mabel’s Busy Day, where her attempt
to sell hot dogs at a racetrack is defeated by mooches on all sides. Normand works the sympathies of the crowd while surreptitiously licking the mustard off her hands. Charlie plays a thief, seizing the wieners and passing them around for free. Normand, a figure from whom Gwyneth Paltrow, Carole Lombard and Olive Oyl are all directly descended, defends herself handily. Jeffrey Vance’s well-written booklet describes the innovation that Chaplin brought to this year in silent comedy. Where Keystone emphasized slapstick finished by a cross-town race, Chaplin preferred the slow development of character bits, not a fascination with impact but with the build-up. Chaplin entered a world of violent slapstick and situational comedy. He left after starring in the first full-length comedy feature, Tillie’s Punctured Romance, in which a duded-up Chaplin and his girlfriend (Normand) bamboozle a wealthy heifer (Marie Dressler). The restored version credits the help of everyone from Tony Scott to the Stanford Theatre’s David W. Packard. The film is as knockabout as anything else on the set, but the comedic power of extended narrative is visible. And the limitations of the two-reel slapstick film are being transcended as we watch, Even before he left Keystone for Essanay and his locally well-known three-month stint in Niles in early 1915, Chaplin had changed the focus to a star holding the stage, slowly building a routine. Hold up his A Film Johnnie next to Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. and see that Chaplin was pointing the way to the future. If the cowboy goes off alone at the end of the movie, he learned that from Chaplin. The “delirious egotism” found by David Thomson in Chaplin is present in Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire. It is found in Garbo’s close-up and in the pregnant silences of every method actor. Chaplin took what was considered hired-hand work in a novelty factory and changed it irrevocably.
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FAIR GAME (PG-13; 104 min.) Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame and Sean Penn as Joseph Wilson in Douglas (The Bourne Identity) Liman’s version of how the Bush administration outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent because her husband criticized the White House’s rush to war in Iraq. (Opens Fri at CinÊArts Santana Row.)
FOR COLORED GIRLS (R; 134 min.) Tyler Perry’s bigscreen adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s play about women of color stars Janet Jackson, Thandie Newtown, Kerry Washington and Whoopi Goldberg. (Opens Fri.)
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MONSTERS (R; 94 min.) Giant alien creatures infest a zone between the United States and Mexico, and a photojournalist has to escort a girl he doesn’t much care for through the danger zone. Noteworthy for being a laptop-designed $100,000 movie. (Opens Fri at the Aquarius in Palo Alto.)
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SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL See story on page 76. Also: Nora’s Will: The story of a Mexican-Jewish woman who plans to commit suicide on Passover. (Plays Nov 3 at 7:30pm in Campbell at Camera 7.) After the Cup: A documentary about the Bnie Sakhnin soccer team; the Israel Cup winners were a team owned by an Arab. (Plays Nov 4 at 7:30pm in Palo Alto at the Cubberley Theatre.) Inside Hana’s Suitcase: A detective story. Scholar Fumiko Ishioka tries to trace the history little girl’s suitcase of goods found in the Auschwitz Museum. Director Larry Weinstein (Beethoven’s Hair) will be on hand at the Nov 6 screening. (Plays Nov
6 at 8pm in Palo Alto at the OFJCC, and Nov 7 at 3pm in San Jose at Camera 12.). Seven Minutes in Heaven: After a terrorist bombing, a young Israeli woman tries to reassemble her life. (Plays Nov 7 at 3pm in San Jose at Camera 12.) The InďŹ del: A British comedy in which mildly Muslim taxi driver discovers that he is actually Jewish. (Plays Nov 7 at 5:30pm in San Jose at Camera 12.) (Runs thru Nov 13 in San Jose and other locations; www .svjff.org.) (RvB)
Revivals THE GREAT MCGINTY/HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (1940/1944) “This is Preston Sturges’ ďŹ rst directing job and where has he been all our lives?â€? asked Otis Ferguson. In a Wages of Fear–style opening—a cantina somewhere south of Mexico—a burly Irish barkeep named McGinty (Brian Donlevy) has a tale to tell about the misfortunes of virtue. He was once a bum made into a governor by the agency of the Politician (William Demerest) and the Boss (Akim Tamiroff). The story is a pole star pointing the way to ďŹ lm noir, in the same way Donlevy paves the way for Kirk Douglas. Mostly, it’s an uproarious satire of politics: the Russian-born Tamiroff’s take on an Al Capone type is dialect humor at its ďŹ nest:
to be a politician, he says, “You have to squiz a lot of mitts.â€? And we learn the limitations of public ofďŹ ce when conducted honorably: “There’s no money in it, just a salary.â€? BILLED WITH Hail the Conquering Hero, which also commences in a bar, this time in San Francisco. Six broke Marines just back from Guadalcanal run into a runty civilian (Eddie Bracken) named Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith. This mope was a Marine himself for a few weeks before chronic hay fever got him a medical discharge. He’s now hiding in shame from his family. The Sarge (Demerest again) has the bright idea of disguising Woodrow as one of the gang, so he can go back to his mom. Unfortunately, word leaks out about the return of the hero, and there are four competing brass bands waiting for him. An essentially one-joke premise, a part that mostly requires Bracken to turn 40 shades of green, and a leading lady (Ella Raines) who’s more about glamour than about engaging quirks. However, the one and only Demerest, the Sultan of Snarl (and a World War I vet himself), never had a bigger part: his Sarge is a gravelly war hero who has an elastic notion of heroism: “Ya got a statue in the park, and the birds sit on it.â€? The rich shrug that Sarge makes in church, as the pastor pours
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seem like sprinters capable of five or 10 vivid minutes before the repetition begins. Nowhere Boy is more like a Hamlet in which the young prince has a stern aunt instead of an uncle. Luckily, the art direction begins to take over, and we can zone out over that. Julia’s house looks like a vintage toy shop where even the wallpaper deserves a title credit. Meanwhile Efn_\i\ 9fp Lennon meets the small, fragile Paul McCartney (R; 98 min.) (Thomas Sangster) for the beginning of a conflictladen friendship. Johnson is handsome but clearly without the Adonis quality of the real man. David Morrissey exhibits a Jack Palance–worthy heaviness as Julie’s live-in, though the performance never builds to anything more than some scowls. The keenest disappointment is the dialogue. Here is none of the play of words one hears in Terence Davies films about that particular place and time. One quick exception is a passing comment from a Blackpool tea shop waitress turning down a fancy request, “You’ve confused us with Buckingham Palace, luv; it’s easily done.” Nowhere Boy has neither the music of Liverpool speech nor the Beatles music itself. Inevitably, Lennon’s therapy session in musical form, “Mother,” is the wrap-up. The movie agrees with him, shaking a finger at pretty, disorderly Julia.—Richard von Busack
(1944/1946) Better, perhaps than Hitchcock’s “slice of cake”—a whole poisoned pastry by Fritz Lang. A formerly institutionalized Englishman (Ray Milland) wins a cake at a charity bazaar but he finds that the filling is a little richer than he’d expected. Lang’s dark and urgent wartime thriller concludes with a blackout that’s the single blackest moment in film noir history. BILLED WITH Black Angel. A singer (Constance Dowling) is found dead, and her latest lover (John Phillips) is arrested and sentenced to die. Only the condemned man’s wife (June Vincent) can clear him—with the dubious aid of both Peter Lorre and Dan Duryea. (Plays Nov 4-5 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (1993) “German expressionism combined with Dr. Seuss,” codirector Tim Burton (with Henry Selick) calls this stop-motion classic. The jolly, macabre king of Halloween, Jack Skellington, discovers the portal to the realm of Christmas, where happiness reigns. Despite the warnings of the woman who loves him—Sally, a ghoulish version of Raggedy Ann—Skellington proceeds. The film merges Halloween with that
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other haunted holiday, Christmas. (Plays Nov 5-7 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)
NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. Nov 6: The Red Raiders (1927). Indians vs. the cavalry, with Ken Maynard and his horse Tarzan. After playing Paul Revere in a 1924 film, this Texan former rodeo star and World War I vet started out on a career in some 125 Westerns. Also: Big Chief Koko (1925), The Sleuth (1925) with Stan Laurel and Bad Buck of Santa Ynez (1915) with authentic cowboy William S. Hart. Bruce Loeb at the piano. (Plays Nov 6 in Fremont at the Edison Theatre.) (RvB)
PULP FICTION (1994) Quentin Tarantino’s followup to Reservoir Dogs is a brilliantly written, multilayered tale of crime paying but not paying much. Two black-suited advance men for the mortician, John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, are out retrieving a very important briefcase for their boss (Ving Rhames); while on the assignment, they encounter, together and separately, such characters as a bad-news moll (Uma Thurman), hard-luck robbers (Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth), a punchdrunk boxer (Bruce Willis) and the utterly suave Winston Wolf (Harvey Keitel). Horror and comedy have the same ancestral relationship that snakes have to birds; in this magnificently confident film, Tarantino stages a sort of family reunion between them. He seems to have taken the gangster film as far as it will go. (Plays Nov 4 at
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ZARDOZ (1974) In the year 2293, effete intellectuals like myself will be living in the Vortex, a pleasure dome ringed by barbarians with long queues of hair that make them look like Pandorans. Barbarian Sean Connery, looking very fascinatingly brutish, takes a ride on his god—the giant levitating stone head he happens to worship. He lands in Effeteland, the better to meet bloodless aristo Charlotte Rampling. Deep-dish ďŹ lmmaking, perfect for people who worry that there are not enough thugs and too many thinkers. John Boorman’s insane future party is an absolutely one of a kind 1970s cult ďŹ lm where Nietzsche shakes hands with L. Frank Baum. (Plays Nov 10 at 7pm in Campbell at Camera 7 and Nov 11 at 9pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)
Reviews CONVICTION (R; 107 min.) Tony Goldwyn (A Walk on the Moon) directs Hilary Swank in a true-life story of a woman who went to law school to free her brother (Sam Rockwell), who was unjustly convicted of murder.
THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST (R; 148 min.) The glowing harbor and country views of the last entry (the series’ high point) are replaced by televisionistic series of close-ups of baleful Swedes frowning at each other over tables or sitting ďŹ dgeting at press conferences. The survivors of the government cabal that planned to silence the troublesome Lisbeth (Noomi Rapace) are still afoot and grumpier than ever (“Fools! Idiots! I’ll destroy you all!â€? exclaims their leader, Elizabeth’s maimed dad. Our hero, Mikael (Michael Nyqvist) of Millennium magazine is trying to get Lisbeth’s side of the story. But his co-editor Erika (Lena Endre) is menaced by anonymous emails and a brick through the window. Lisbeth is also cornered by yet another smirking civil servant: her former shrink, Dr. Peter Teleborian (Anders Ahlbom). The ďŹ lm pedantically insists on the realistic after-effects of some gunshot wounds, and it makes a very, very long journey from hospital bed to very unmoving last goodbye. The two leads (punkette avenger and dog-faced journalist) practically turn to the camera and say, “We’re done here.â€? (RvB)
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Ferguson’s enraging documentary discovers that the famous revolving door turns 360 degrees; grossly overpaid gamblers from Goldman Sachs and elsewhere are returned to government ofďŹ ces they left for Wall Street. Some of these spoilsmen go to formerly honorable Ivy League institutions, there to legitimize the kind of ďŹ scal policies that made them superrich. Few have regrets, but some have anger at being asked impertinent questions about ethics by a lowly submillionaire with a camera. Inside Job records a nonpartisan disgrace. One of the prime disappointments of the Obama administration is the way he found work for the familiar rogues from the Meltdown of ’08. Ferguson asks great questions. Don’t expect a lot of great answers
colored drama is a awlessly animated tsunami. Swept into the tide and clonked by an automobile, Parisian journalist Marie LeLay (CĂŠcile De France) is rescued just as she has a vision of human beings standing around a glowing plaza. She has seen the Hereafter itself; so has San Francisco psychic Matt Damon. Meanwhile a pair of twins in London, separated by death, try to reconnect. Bland and slow, the ďŹ lm seems as if it will never get started, and the afterworld is neither sinister nor inspirational. (RvB)
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Jewish Film Fest ANYONE WHO loved Last Tango in Paris will like “Last Hora in Jerusalem,” or so hope the makers of Love Life, which shows Nov. 7 at 7:30pm in San Jose at Camera 12 as part of the Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival. In Love Life, German director Maria Schrader, who played “Jaguar” in Aimee and Jaguar, recounts the affair of Ya’ara (Neta Garty, the Natalie Portman type). She meets Arie (Rade Serbedzija); the elder man is grandmannered in that silver-haired Eurostud style that’s supposed to liquidate provincials. An excerpt from Zaruva Shalev’s source novel, posted on Amazon.com, runs, “I felt suffocated next to her and I said, I have to go, and she exclaimed, not yet, trying to keep me with her like she tried to keep him, stay with me until he goes, and I asked, why, and she shrugged her shoulders in a childish gesture, I don’t know.” I dunno either. It’s either underadapted or adapted from a novel that was underrefined from real-life experience. Let’s be fair: get past a heroine so passiveaggressive it’s amazing she can exhale; see past the very-young-girl method of viewing parents (mom’s a bitch, dad’s an invertebrate)—and if one does, there’s some savory angst here. The movie depicts people who feel that they are provincials, English speakers in a Hebrew land, chip-shouldered because they aren’t Paris dwellers like the grand Arie. The angst expands to the Holy Land itself; apart from its sepulchers, in Schrader’s lens, Jerusalem appears badly
the beast as he gets severely butted—“Why?”—is easily the most hilarious thing in the movie. Genial but horrible ringleader Johnny Knoxville is to a rodeo clown what a wealthy rock star is to a Delta blues picker: someone getting rich from a rich tradition. So, the movie may only just seem like the end of Western civilization; some of the slapstick horrors here are true-life versions of favorites from Keystone comedies: the guy in the gorilla suit, the dog that goes straight for the seat of the pants, the irritable donkey. Some of the tortures are a little too close to the Roman Empire’s method of handling dissidents, and a couple of the bits here are serious lunchavulsers. The 3-D helps one get most of the popular bodily fluids right in the face, if that’s your idea of fun. (RvB)
LEAVING built, full of chafing people, surrounded by a desert so bare it looks like marauders looted the rocks. On Nov. 10 at 7:30pm at Camera 7 in Campbell, the festival screens Gut Shabbes, Vietnam, which documents a pair of emissaries sent to run a Chabad house in Ho Chi Minh City and to provide religious services J`c`Zfe MXcc\p and kosher food to the A\n`j_ =`cd Jews there. “Vietnam is =\jk`mXc a hot bed of sins, a lion’s Runs through den,” warns their rabbi. November 13 Menachem and Racheli www.svjff.org Hartman and their baby, Levy, try to adjust to a place where there initially don’t seem to be enough Jews to make a quorum. Happily, missionaries never change; the couple’s attitude toward the Vietnamese would do credit to a censorious Scots minister sent to British East Africa When one sees just one demand of the ultra-Orthodox faith—don’t dress your children in prints of unclean animals like bears, as in teddy bears—the five interviewees in the second half of the program, Leaving the Fold, don’t have to persuade us much why they’ve left Orthodoxy. It’s one thing to pass up on torrid affairs and Vietnamese shellfish; it’s another to live in a culture where women— such as the tender-voiced Basya Schechter, interviewed here—aren’t supposed to sing in public.—Richard von Busack
(Unrated; 85 min.) Kristin ScottThomas stars as a married woman attracted to a Spanish laborer (Sergi Lopez). (RvB)
SAW VII (R; 90 min.) Another entry in the popular horror series—in 3-D this time, if that helps.
SECRETARIAT (PG; 116 min.) Today’s riddle: when is a horse a bum steer? I was ready to believe that Seabiscuit ended the Depression. You have to give a good film some slack. I was alive in 1973, the year Secretariat won the Triple Crown. I don’t recall his victory healing our divisions over the Vietnam War, though director Randall Wallace coaxes us to believe it’s true. Secretariat is inbred—the offspring of too many similar sports films. It’s relentlessly thick—custard-thick—and cheap-looking, too, and its story is as fishy as three-day-old salmon; it tries to make an underhorse out of a very blueblooded steed. Diane Lane, ordinarily a fine actress, gets no help from the script which seems to be trying to make her an anti-heroine. Lane plays thoroughbred breeder Penny Chenery. Ultimately, Secretariat is more fundraising pitch than race track action. It is scenes of cold calling, scratching names off a list and fretting over the money more than the races. (RvB)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG-13; 2 hrs.) Fiendishly clever and funny movie about the creation of an Internet monster. As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg gives a master class on
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recessive acting: he’s beady eyed and covert, with the occasional pit-viper-like sway of a truculent, lowered forehead. It’s the kind of remorseless superiority that can only look comically childish and wounded onscreen. The film shuttles between the present-day deposition of the now arrogantly rich Zuckerberg, as he’s sued by a quartet of burned partners (among them his former best friend Eduardo, played by Andrew Garfield). In flashback, we see his own history—a Jewish student at WASP-ridden Harvard, a social reject whose grudge-hacking was his entry into fame. Later, Zuckerberg meets the founder of Napster, Sean Parker—played by Justin Timberlake, excellent as a happy wastrel. The Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score is closer to the sinister Byrne and Eno we loved once than the flowery, love-struck Byrne and Eno in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Fincher regular cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth keeps us oriented by making the walnut-lined tombs of Harvard so different from the lambency of the sun in Palo Alto. Aaron Sorkin’s wild, witty script hands out punishment that goes beyond the financial penalties: this is a comedy in the Balzac sense, a balancing act; the mockery and the disgust for greed matches the essential lightness of the situation. It’s only Facebook, after all. (RvB)
WAITING FOR SUPERMAN (PG; 102 min.) The vast problems of the U.S. public school system distilled into a quick documentary. Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) follows five young students as they try to get into private schools. (One is eighth-grader Emily of Redwood City, whose parents are concerned that she’ll be pushed onto a noncollege track.) It’s Guggenheim’s contention that school funding has doubled while test scores continue to descend. Guggenheim has a point: the dropout rate and the failing students are a hell of a problem. Yet this documentary has the kind of ideology even Meg Whitman can wrap herself around: you can watch it and come to the conclusion that privatization and unionbusting is the answer—the same answer we’ve been given since the 1980s. This may not have been Guggenheim’s intention. But as always in this passionate-intensity style documentary, there’s the possibility of deliberate misreading, thanks to the lethal combo of stridency and slipperiness. (RvB)
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Taking Back South Bay FACING THE MUSIC Only a few months after his breakup with Taking Back Sunday, Matt Fazzi (right) has an album out with Happy Body Slow Brain.
Sacked from Taking Back Sunday, Matt Fazzi rebounds with San Jose’s Happy Body Slow Brain By STEVE PALOPOLI
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UST ASK San Jose native Matt Fazzi how it feels to be kicked out of a gold-record-selling, hit-single-generating majorlabel band, and he’ll tell you: pretty damn good.
“I’m in a much happier place,” says Fazzi. Just five months after Taking Back Sunday announced that Fazzi had been dismissed from the band (along with bassist Matt Rubano), the guitarist and songwriter has already released his first record with Happy Body Slow Brain, who play Homestead Lanes on Saturday. Though he now lives in L.A., he based his new band in his old stomping ground of San Jose, where the two other members—multi-
instrumentalist Isaac Boliver (who also played in Taking Back Sunday) and drummer Eduardo Torres—live. Even Fazzi seems a little astounded at how quickly the Happy Body Slow Brain record, Dreams of Water, came together. Though he first began fooling around with the project in 2007, he threw himself into it this spring. Many of the songs that ended up on the album are ones he had initially written with Taking Back Sunday in mind. But in order to fit the band’s recognizable style, he’d had to change them up from how he’d originally envisioned them, and so now he had the chance to change them back. “I tried to flip them and do them the way I had intended to do them,” he says. “I wanted to go in a very, very different direction. Taking Back Sunday was fun, but it didn’t satisfy my musical soul.”
TBS: Very Funny When Fazzi says Taking Back Sunday was fun, one has to think he’s being generous, as “fun” isn’t an adjective that’s been connected to the post-Blink-182 band for quite some time. Endless drama, yes, revolving-door membership, yes, bitter departures, yes—but fun, not so much. It seems to have been like that pretty much since the beginning for the Long Island band, who came together in 1999 but had blown through their original vocalist and most of their lineup by the time their debut album spawned the hit “You’re So Last Summer” (with a popular video that featured Flava Flav somewhat lamely lip-syncing with the band). By the time Fazzi joined, Taking Back Sunday was on a major label, with 2006’s Louder Now selling almost a million copies. He replaced guitarist Fred Mascherino, who later famously commented that “the band was more about cooking food than making music.” For their 2008 album New Again, Fazzi brought a bunch of new ideas, adding heaviness and
depth to what had become a formula sound. The album got generally great reviews—Alternative Press called it “what modern rock should sound like”—but despite selling 48,000 copies its first week, it didn’t match the sales numbers of its predecessor. This was straight-up business, and somebody had to take the fall. It turned out to be Fazzi. “I started out as a really positive thing in the band. They were giving me a lot of space to take it in a different direction,” he says. “It ended up turning into them blaming me for the ‘failure’ of the record, because it didn’t sell 500,000 copies.” Like Mascherino, Fazzi ultimately felt that the other members barely cared about the music anymore. “For me, it was the quintessential major label experience,” he says. “They cared more about the peripheral things. You’re supposed to make good music.” After getting sacked, Fazzi dove into Happy Body Slow Brain. The resulting songs are far more intricate musically than anything he’s done before. Though there are recognizable similarities to New Again (“I’m proud of that record,” he says), especially on straight-ahead rockers like “Emperor” and “The Bridge,” the overall sound of his new record is a surprise—ambient and drenched in keyboards, it’s as progressive and dynamic as Taking Back Sunday is static. Happy Body Slow Brain has also given Fazzi the chance to show his talents as a lead vocalist. He’s found receptive audiences on the road, many of whom are Taking Back Sunday fans who liked New Again, and he’s gratified by the response. “I knew I was making something drastically different than Taking Back Sunday. I didn’t know what people would think, and I’m my own worst critic,” he says. “But I try to keep my expectations realistic. Ultimately all I care about is making quality music.”
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Dave Smallen
Wednesday, 9pm; Blank Club; free Oakland’s Dave Smallen got his band Street to Nowhere on a major label, toured relentlessly, then retreated to the studio for his first solo record, Everything Changes and Nothing Changes,” featuring emotionally laid-bare acoustic anthems like the supercatchy “ I Think It’s Getting Better.” He plays with Cal Sturgess. (SP)
Mad Planet
Sunday, 9pm; Johnny V’s; $5 It’s interesting that two seasoned punk rockers, Greg Gordon and Cooper Gillespie, would meet, fall in love and form a Portishead-inspired ambient trip-hop band. What’s also interesting about Mad Planet is that Gillespie uses it as therapy, to write about her recent divorce and other pains in her life. It makes for multilayered, emotionally complex music. (AC)
Try the Pie
Tuesday, 5pm; Streetlight Records; free I like most pies—sorry, coconut cream! They can be sweet treats—or weapons. Similarly, Try the Pie features Christine Tupou of Sourpatch, a ‘90sinfluenced female-fronted pop band. Her latest venture is mellower; surreal melodies accompanied by a guitar, and sometimes by what sounds like a ukulele. Gardens and Villa start things off. (BD)
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Rock/Pop
BOSWELL’S
JOHNNY V’S
Wed-Sun: Live music. Campbell.
AVALON
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN
Thu: TBA. Fri: Dub Step party with Sharkstyliens. Sat: Apparition and NPNM and Affekt. Sun: Mad Planet, Vashington, Vulgarity. San Jose.
Fri: Gina T. $25-$45. Sun, 8:30pm: The Misfits. $23/$28. Santa Clara.
THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Cal Sturgess, Dave Smallen, Orangutang. Free. Sat, 9pm: Usurper Vong, F.T.B., Statt. $8. San Jose.
BOGART’S LOUNGE Thu and Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.
Thu, 10pm: After Party. Fri, 10pm: Love Stoned. Sat, 10pm: Bitch ’n’ Camaros. San Jose.
LILLY MAC’S
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
MENLO COLLEGE
Fri, 9pm: Barb Rocks presents the Famous, Careless Hearts, Dynamite Truck, the Devil’s Sunday Best. Sat, 9pm: Long Gon Bon. Cupertino.
CAPERS Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: The Blackouts, rock and blues. Free. Free. Santa Clara.
FIREHOUSE GRILL
Fri, 9:30pm: Floyd’s Ordeal. Sunnyvale. Thu, 6pm: Boom Boom Stereo. Atherton.
MURPHY’S LAW Fri-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.
NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Thu, 9:30pm: Second Story Band. Fri, 9:30pm: Joint Chiefs, $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Sixstring. $10. Los Gatos.
Fri: The Blackouts. Sunnyvale.
QUARTER NOTE
FOX THEATRE
Fri, 8pm: Madman’s Lullaby, Den
Sat, 8pm: Tainted Love. $18. Redwood City.
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SONOMA CHICKEN COOP Sat, 8:30pm: Rock Solid. Sonoma.
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Fri: Hearts of Chaos presents Uproar art night. Sat: Blank Manuscript. San Jose.
STREETLIGHT RECORDS Sun, 4pm: Mad Planet. Tue, 5pm: Gardens and Villa, Try the Pie. San Jose.
VOODOO LOUNGE Fri, 9pm: Team Cult Falloween Tour, Acey Alone and Abstract Rude plus My-G and Rose. $10. San Jose.
WILLOW DEN Live music some nights. Willow Glen.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with rock and blues local musicians. No cover. Santa Clara.
World ALBERTO’S
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Jazz/Blues
Presented by Tabard Theatre Company. $10/$15. San Jose.
ANGELICA’S BISTRO
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT
Thu, 7:30pm: Blues Jam. $5. Fri, 8pm: Belly Dance Starz in benefit for Casa Allegra Group Homes. $10. Sat, 8:30pm: eBlues, Red Hot & Cool. $15. Tue, 7pm: Pro Jazz Jam, Sam GrobeHeintz Trio. Redwood City.
Tue, 7:30pm: Modesto Briseno Septet. Willow Glen.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
WINE AFFAIRS
Sun, 5:30pm: Jazz jam. Cupertino.
CLUB ILLUSIONS
UNWINED Thu, 7pm: Randy Whiting and @ Jazz. Sat, 7-9:30pm: Jazz Night. San Jose. Wed, 7:30pm: Chris Burkhardt. Thu, 7:30pm: Double Play Jazz. Sat, 8pm: Wally Schnalle Trio. San Jose.
Sun, 4-8pm: Golden Gate Blues Society SF Bay Area International Blues Challenge Finals. $15/$20. Palo Alto.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE
FAIRMONT HOTEL LOBBY LOUNGE
C&W/Folk
Wed, 8:30pm: The Girlz Band. Thu, 8:30pm: Contemporary or Latin jazz. Fri-Sat, 9pm: Jazz and pop dance bands. Mon-Tue: Piano Music. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.
GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam, Aki Kumar. Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live bands. Campbell.
GRAPEVINE Thu, 7pm: Blues Rockers. Willow Glen.
HEDLEY CLUB
Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with rock and blues local musicians. Santa Clara.
BOSWELL’S Sun: Mike Leatherman. Campbell.
CAFFE TRIESTE Fri, 8pm: Opera night with Mission City Opera. San Jose.
THE GRAPEVINE Call for info. Willow Glen.
MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 7:30pm: Four Shillings Short. Santa Clara.
Fri, 8:30pm: Danjuma Adamu. Sat, 8:30pm: Brian Ho Trio. Hotel de Anza, San Jose.
O’FLAHERTY’S
J.J.’S BLUES CAFE
RED ROCK COFFEE ROASTING
ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE
Wed-Tue: Live music. San Jose.
Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music and belly dancing. Cupertino.
LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Thu, 7pm: Live jazz. San Jose.
Fri, 8pm: Alice Tong, Beth Longwell. Sat, 8pm: Lariats of Fire CD-release party. Mountain View.
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THE SADDLE RACK
Wed: Bachata. Thu: Pantea. Fri: Salsa Fridays. Sat: Latin Nights. Sun-Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Pantea. Mountain View.
Fri-Sat, 9pm: Live music with Son de Kali. Sun: Bachata with Jazzy Jez. Mon, 8:30pm: Salsa lessons and dance party. $3 after 9pm. San Jose.
Wed, 5pm: Jeb. Sat, 5pm: Shea Van-Winkle. San Jose.
MURPHY’S LAW Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.
CASCAL
NUMBER ONE BROADWAY
Fri, 9pm: Kaweh. Sat, 8:30pm: James Robinson. Mountain View.
Wed: J.C. Smith Jam . Los Gatos.
MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT Fri, 5pm: Al Guzman. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music. San Jose.
PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.
SENZALA Sat: Orquestra Pacheco salsa band. Sunnyvale.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays. Fri, 6pm: RJ Mischo Band. Sat, 6pm: AC Myles Blues Band. Sun, 2pm: Zydeco Flames. San Jose.
THEATRE ON SAN PEDRO SQUARE Sat, 8pm: The Jack Conway Trio with vocalist Juanita Harris.
Sun and Tue, 5pm: Traditional Irish music. San Jose.
Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys. Thu-Fri, 9pm, Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Rodeo House. Fremont.
STEPHENS GREEN Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music. Mountain View.
SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle. Tue, 6pm: Carolina Special. San Jose.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Live country music with Cowboy Larry. Willow Glen.
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CONCERT
Misfits THE MISFITS’ horror business started in 1977 around Danzig and bassist Jerry Only. The band released singles and EPs while shifting its lineup and building its increasingly extreme fringe-culture image, an identity soaked in B-movie fake blood and cartoony occultism. It sounds trite, and maybe on the face of it it was, but what the Misfits did for punk rock, especially on their 1982 album Walk Among Us, should not be underestimated: they made it totally unacceptable again. “I got something to say,” Danzing bellowed on “Last Caress,” in an earnest, searching-for-validation Sunday, 8pm tone that left first-time listeners totally unprepared for what came next. “I killed your baby today. And it Avalon Nightclub, doesn’t matter much to me, as long as it’s dead.” My Santa Clara own theory is that the Ramones’ song “Chainsaw” has never gotten the credit it deserves for providing $23/$28 the musical and thematic blueprint for the band’s entire output, but that’s neither here nor there. Danzig took the bloody ball and ran with it, and if I may risk for a moment sounding like a total moron, I’d say the Misfits songs taken as a whole actually lay out a pretty vivid and strangely literate mythology—a gritty, ghoulish EC Comics for punk music that has held up better than far less funny and catchy bands like 45 Grave or Cannibal Corpse that tried to sound evil or dangerous but are mostly just boring. It didn’t hurt that Danzig could sing the hell out of these songs. He is possibly the only person on Earth who could make the Lovecraftian rapey-monster anthem “Hybrid Moments” sound romantic. (Although Pajo’s lulling acoustic cover is also gorgeously inappropriate.) Though they could barely get a record out in their time, you can’t throw a rock in a room full of punks now without hitting a Misfits patch or T-shirt. Jerry Only reformed the band, but Danzig had long since moved on, and for many fans, the Misfits reunion project will never measure up. However, I saw them a few years ago, after they ditched their terrible vocalist Michele Graves, which paved the way for Jerry Only to take over on vocals. I have to say, they were surprisingly good. The sound is as gutter-riffic as ever, and Only does a damned good Danzig impression. —Steve Palopoli
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Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
ANGELICA’S BISTRO
Fri-Sat, 9pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Wed, 6:30pm: Open Mic. Tue, 7-11pm: Jazz Jam. Redwood City.
BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS
BLUE MAX
BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.
Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic. Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Wed, 9:30pm: Open Mic Night. Cupertino.
CAFFE TRIESTE Tue, 7pm: Open Mic. San Jose.
CITY ESPRESSO Fri, 7-10pm: Singers and musicians. San Jose.
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GOOSE LOONEY’S
BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
Wed, 9:30pm: Ryan. Thu, 9pm: DJ August. Fri, 9pm: DJ August. Sun, 9pm: DJ August. Milpitas.
HOMESTEAD LANES Fri, 9pm: Vinnie. Mon, 9pm: Karaoke in the lounge with Vinnie. Tue, 9pm: August. Cupertino.
HUDDLE
Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.
Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.
Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.
BRITANNIA ARMS SAN JOSE
KATIE BLOOM’S
MOUNTAIN CHARLIE’S
Wed, 9pm: August. San Jose.
MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.
Wed, 8-11pm: Live music, comedy and poetry. Los Gatos.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO Tue, 6pm: Open Mic Night. San Jose.
RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: Open Mic. Willow Glen.
Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
BRITISH BANKERS CLUB Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.
C&J’S SPORTS BAR Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather. Santa Clara.
CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.
DAN BROWN’S Thu and Tue, 9pm-1am: Brian James. Palo Alto.
DASILVA’S BRONCOS Wed: Guitar Hero Tournament plus karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
DIVE BAR Wed and Tue, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
EFFIE’S RESTAURANT Nightly except Sun, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm2am, and last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.
THE BEARS
EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR
ALEX’S 49ER INN
Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.
KC BAR AND RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.
KHARTOUM Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. No cover. Campbell.
KING OF CLUBS Thu and Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. No cover. Mountain View.
LILLY MAC’S Thu, 9pm: DJ Thomas “Soulman.” Sunnyvale.
MARIANI’S Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.
NETO’S MARKET & GRILL Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.
NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Thu: Singles party with DJ. Los Gatos.
OASIS
Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.
Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug. Sunnyvale.
BENNIGAN’S GRILL
FLAMES COFFEE SHOP
OFFICE BAR
Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Santa Clara.
Thu-Sat, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.
GALAXY Thu, 9pm-2am: August. Milpitas.
Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.
PEACOCK LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: DJ Brian. Sun, 9pm:
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KHARTOUM
PIONEER SALOON
BRANHAM LOUNGE
Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke w/ Sam Marshall. Woodside.
Wed: Humpday Wednesdays. Thu: DJ. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Jazzy and DJ Chaos. Hip-hop and Top 40. Sun: Happy Hour All Day. Mon: DJ. Tue: $2 Tuesdays. San Jose.
KING OF CLUBS
Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside Entertainment. No cover. Santa Clara.
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REDI ROOM Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.
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Wed, 10pm-1:30am: DJ Purple. Palo Alto.
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Wed-Thu and Sat-Sun, 8:30pm: Chris. Fri, 8:30pm: Thomas. San Jose.
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Thu, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Wed, 7:30pm: Blues. Thu: College Night. Menlo Park.
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WILLOW DEN Wed, 9:30pm: Thomas. San Jose
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Wed-Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.
Dance Clubs AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: Guest DJs. Sun: Reggae. San Jose.
ALBERTO’S Wed, 7:30pm: Bachata with Pantea. Thu: Salsa. Fri: Salsa Fridays. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.
AVALON Sat: Bay Area Bollywood. Santa Clara.
AZUCAR Wed, 10pm: Improv comedy after parties with DJs. Thu, 10pm: DJ Che. San Jose.
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Tue, 9pm: Sherrie and Sue. No cover. Sunnyvale.
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SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL
Wed and Sat, 10pm: DJ in the Mix. Santa Clara.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): I think you can handle more hubbub and uproar than you realize. I also suspect you’re capable of integrating more novelty, and at a faster rate, than the members of all the other signs of the zodiac. That’s why I think you should consider interpreting what’s happening in your life right now as “interesting adventures” instead of “disorienting chaos.” The entire universe is set up to help you thrive on what non-Sagittarians might regard as stressful.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): “Dear Rob: My boyfriend’s heart is in the right place. He likes to give me flowers. The only trouble is, the bouquets he brings are homely. A recent batch was a hodgepodge of blue delphiniums, white carnations, and red geraniums. Is there any way to steer him in a more aesthetically correct direction without deflating his tender kindness?”—Unsatisfied Capricorn Dear Unsatisfied: In my astrological opinion, one of the tasks you Capricorns should be concerned with right now is learning to love the gifts that people want to give you. Maybe at a later date you can start training them to provide you with exactly what you want. But for the moment, it won’t kill you to simply welcome and celebrate their generosity. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Your new vocabulary
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I wouldn’t worry about the health danger, for reasons we’ll get to. The real risk is to your privacy. Remember those “X-ray specs” once advertised in comic books that supposedly would allow you to see people naked beneath their clothes? Well, the technology has finally been perfected. Although the Transportation Security Administration had been studying scanners for several years, since the Nigerian “underwear bomber” allegedly tried to blow up a transatlantic flight bound for Detroit last Christmas, the TSA has been rushing full-body scanners into service. There are two types of full-body scanner: • Backscatter scanners use low-level X-rays to look under your clothes. Hidden items reflect some of the radiation and show up on a display. Your skin absorbs the rest. • Millimeter-wave scanners bounce lowenergy radio waves off your body, producing more detailed images than backscatter technology. The two devices use fundamentally different types of radiation. Millimeterwave scanners use a type of microwave radiation—it’s right next to police radargun emissions on the electromagnetic spectrum. Some fear that microwaves can be dangerous. But the low-power microwaves in a scanner are generally thought to be harmless. That’s not true of backscatter technology. The X-rays in these machines are a form of ionizing radiation—the kind emitted by nuclear weapons, which causes cancer in large doses. The standard assumption is that even tiny amounts of ionizing radiation present some risk. But in this case it’s slight. Under the worst-case scenario, one in 200 million backscatter scans could trigger a fatal cancer. Frequent flyers are at much greater risk simply from exposure to cosmic rays while aloft—a scan exposes you at most to 10 microrems of radiation, a high-altitude flight to several thousand. Nonetheless, the Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety has recommended
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that children and pregnant women not be scanned. U.S. travelers have the option of instead going through a metal detector and then getting patted down by hand. Why not just use millimeter-wave scanners? The TSA dances around on this issue, but evidently in part the idea is to promote competition among vendors. Now to the question of privacy. Let’s be blunt: a full-body scan means whenever you pass through airport security, you’re going to have a total stranger look at you naked. Millimeterwave scans in particular are luridly detailed. True, faces are purposely blurred, the scan inspector is in a remote locked room, never sees you in person, and isn’t allowed to carry a cell phone with a camera, and the images are discarded immediately after inspection. But remember we’re dealing here with the TSA, whose agents made a nursing mother drink her own breast milk, mistook a Congressional Medal of Honor for a ninja throwing star and forced a woman to remove her nipple rings with pliers. In March of this year a British Aviation Authority employee got a harassment warning from police after he captured an image of a female colleague passing through a full-body scanner at Heathrow airport. In May a TSA employee in Miami took a baton to a co-worker who’d made fun of his genitalia after he passed through a scanner. You may think that’s a small price to pay if it means bad guys can never sneak weapons onto planes. But scans don’t guarantee that. They can’t detect items concealed in body cavities or by folds of flesh. “These technologies can be evaded relatively easily,” a radiation safety expert tells me. “It’s a money-making invasion of privacy.” To date, full-body scans have met with little public outcry. Then again, the equipment is still being rolled out. A lot of people will encounter scanners for the first time during the upcoming holiday season. If you think airport security has been a barrel of laughs up till now, just wait.
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ERHAPS one of the most iconic depictions of the midi-length skirt in popular culture comes from the film Bonnie and Clyde. In the 1967 movie about the notorious 1930s bank robber lovers, Faye Dunaway is the definition of kick-ass glam in her fitted shin-length tweed skirts paired with tight little knit sweaters.
With a silk scarf around her collar, a pistol in her fist and her bobbed hair topped off with a sassy beret, Dunaway’s whole look is put together and subversively sexy but, more importantly, it is actually based in comfort and functionality. Though calf-skimming skirts have long been associated with bookish librarians and the go-to garb for women of the ultraconservative set, winter 2010 sees a new dawn for the midiskirt. Fashion designers ranging from the überfeminine CHLOE and the preppy RALPH LAUREN, as well as chichi brands like PRADA, have
embraced this more traditional skirt style in recent months. In fact, the demure midi was the standout garment in LOUIS VUITTON’s ’40s- and ’50s-inspired fall 2010 readyto-wear collection, where the skirt was heralded by the fashion world as a “breakthrough.” The formerly out-offavor frock has also popped up on the YVES SAINT LAURENT and MARC JACOBS runways as a major trend to watch. The last time the midiskirts saw this much mainstream popularity on the catwalk was when Gerald Ford was president. Following the overwhelming rise of the miniskirt in the late 1960s, the 1970s were all about longer lengths like the midi and maxi. Many women owned at least one polyester double-knit calf-length midiskirt during the disco era. More recently, the 2000s have been all about the ruffle-mini and microminiskirt, though the pencil skirt is
hot again, too, thanks to the Mad Men craze. Now that the decade is reaching its end, the fashion pendulum is swinging back once again in favor of more conservative feminine garment lengths. Considering the sometimes oldfashioned aesthetic attached to longer hemlines, midiskirts have long been favored by women who are more concerned with maintaining modesty than following what’s on trend. That said, that doesn’t mean this style has to be frumpy. Think the style of “Nicki,” Chloë Sevigny’s character on the hit show Big Love. By the third season of the HBO series, the conniving sister-wife’s fashion sense evolves from prudish to long, fitted ladylike skirts paired with wispy calico tops for a subtly sexy appeal (though it’s probably best to avoid Nicki’s signature Victorian front hair bump). Fortunately, this autumn-goingon-winter is a great season to try out the latest midiskirt trend. The fact that these skirts hit midcalf instead of higher means they can be worn with or without tights on a cold winter day. Furthermore, the midi is vastly more comfortable to wear in comparison to skirts that hit midthigh or higher. Unlike the mini, which requires constant vigilance on how one sits to ensure one isn’t flashing one’s underwear at innocent bystanders, the midi allows women to spread out a bit. That said, the recipe for looking good in this trend is making sure that the extra length on bottom doesn’t add to one’s bulk in general. Many designers on the winter 2010 runways paired voluptuous circle midi-length skirts with bulky fur coats and boyfriend blazers. All the same, unless one is built like a contestant on America’s Next Top Model, wearers should take heed to not overlayer when rocking the midi this holiday season.
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