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Dean Ackeman, who has been responsible for obtaining search warrants for the task force that has been conducting armed raids in recent months, said that in his

opinion every dispensary in the county should be shut down. “The search warrants and the investigations are not going to stop,” Ackeman vowed. But he may be wrong. Ackeman’s new boss, District Attorney Jeff Rosen, seems far less interested in a crackdown. “I think the voters of California would like people with legitimate medical problems that a doctor thinks can be alleviated with marijuana to have access to marijuana,” Rosen said in an interview Monday evening, hours after being sworn into office. In the last three months of 2010,

four dispensaries were raided by the Santa Clara County Special Enforcement Team (SCCSET), which includes members of the San Jose and Santa Clara police departments as well as the California Highway Patrol and other agencies. Three of these raids came immediately after San Jose voters overwhelmingly passed Measure U, which would allow the City Council to regulate and tax the San Jose clubs. In San Jose, there are currently more than 100 medical marijuana dispensaries and delivery services, while there were only a dozen or so as of last March. There has been some speculation that the four clubs singled out were not operating above board, and were proﬁting from the sale of marijuana, forbidden by 2003’s Senate Bill 420. Ackeman said that’s not the case. Instead, the investigator said, every medical marijuana dispensary is

illegal, regardless of its policies or bookkeeping procedures. “Unfortunately for them,” Ackeman said of the clubs that were raided, “it was luck of the draw.” Ackeman said that, in his opinion, California voters’ hearts were in the right place in 1996 when they passed Proposition 215, also known as the Compassionate Use Act. However, he said, the result has been an epidemic of supposedly nonproﬁt pot clubs and their patrons taking advantage of the system. “This is my own personal feeling and the feeling of many other law enforcement I’ve talked to,” Ackeman said. “The majority of citizens were deceived in 1996, because they thought they were voting for people who were critically ill or with debilitating diseases, such as cancer and HIV. Well, the one little line that was included in the Compassionate Use Act is where it says ‘and any other condition medical marijuana would relieve the symptoms of.’” Ackeman says that that has resulted in distribution of medical pot to “teens with [complaints of ] stress, anxiety . . . ‘I have a bad back; I hurt my knee skateboarding.’” Rosen, who took over the position formerly held by Dolores Carr on Monday, said he has not yet developed a strategy for dealing with the ﬂourishing medical marijuana dispensaries, but indicated a willingness to come to some kind of compromise. “I think the challenge that law enforcement faces is how to implement the desires of voters in a way that is consistent with the law that voters passed,” Rosen said. The new DA then pointed out that he plans to make personnel changes in his department. “Those changes will be made public at the end of this week and starting next week,” he said.

County vs. City Just days after Measure U passed with 79 percent of voters’ approval, two dispensaries—MediLeaf and San Jose Patients Group—were raided by SCCSET officers brandishing automatic riﬂes. Following the raids, Councilman Pierluigi Oliverio, the author of Measure U, posed three

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it was for medical cannabis, and the purpose was to close places making a profit, how is it they know that unless they have a financial audit?” Hector Gonzalez, who is president of Arc Healing Center and has been acting as a liaison between the city of San Jose and the pot club operators, has the same questions. “I find this very interesting disconnect with what’s been approved at the state level for some time,” Gonzalez says. “It’s now been 15 years since 215 passed. Granted—there haven’t been many dispensaries in Santa Clara County [until now]. But now I find it a bit confusing who they’re targeting.” Ackeman reiterates that the task force is targeting any and every dispensary in the city and county. “The law has been explained to them by the [deputy district attorney, Frank Carrubba] that the sale of medical marijuana is illegal,” Ackeman said. “The only person who can be compensated for marijuana is a primary care provider.” The San Jose City Council decided on Dec. 13 to work with medical marijuana dispensaries and assess a 7 percent tax on the proceeds of all transactions. At that time, the DA’s office appeared to have little intention of scaling back its investigations and raids, leaving many medical marijuana proprietors wondering if extinction was on the horizon. Even the dispensaries that claim to be going above and beyond established rules and regulations have reason to fear becoming casualties. Dave Chloupek, who runs MedMar Healing Center in San Jose, said his dispensary requires all marijuana vendors to fill out 1099 tax forms, and offers holistic services beyond marijuana to clients. Still, he fears that might not be enough to stay out of the task force’s crosshairs. “It’s a race between City Council regulating ordinance and [SCCSET] shutting everyone down,” Chloupek said. “How is it that everyone in the city and the people who elect the city officials have unanimously said, ‘Yes, we agree with this. Let’s tax it and manage it appropriately?’ That just tells me the left hand doesn’t agree with the right hand and the county is not listening to the city.”

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questions about the manpower and money being appropriated to SCCSET in a memorandum to San Jose’s acting police chief, Christopher Moore. The response left Oliverio with few answers. Oliverio asked who had given permission for the dispensary raids. He did not receive an adequate response.

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Winklevoss Twins Still Really Steamed THE WINKLEVOSS Twins—the hunky identical twins who claim Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them at Harvard—are still hopping mad! Apparently you can’t even interview them without being inundated with the tiniest details of Zuckerberg’s betrayal. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss are suing Facebook (in Federal Court!) again, unsatisfied with the $65 million settlement they won the first time around. They claim that first settlement was based on a misleading undervaluation of shares by Facebook. And in an interview with the Times, they make it very clear they are not even close to putting this all behind them: “As they talked about the Facebook case, no detail was too small to omit, from where they first met Mr. Zuckerberg (the Kirkland House dining room) to the layout of Mr. Zuckerberg’s dorm room, to the content of the emails he had sent them after they asked him to do computer programming for a website called Harvard Connection. They recited arcane facts about the valuation of private companies and even quoted from the Securities Act of 1934, which they say Facebook

plasticene These guys really need to get over themselves. It’s over. You lucked out with the $65 million. Of course, identical twins are hot! So I see a reality show or underwear/erectile dysfunction commercials in their future. Fuzzy Dunlop I don’t blame them one iota for being pissed. I also don’t agree with the meme that they are entitled douchebags who expect to get something without working for it— that’s hardly the mindset one attributes to Olympic athletes. SirPissedAlot From guestofa guest.com’s Publisher profile: “Cameron Winklevoss is an American Olympic Rower and Entreprenuer.” They forgot “He is also an entitled dumb-ass, since he can’t even spell “entrepreneur” correctly in his own fucking profile, on the site he started and owns. secretagentman They came up with the 65 million dollar figure themselves, based on their own calculations on the value of the company, based on a press release. They need to sue each other for stupidity and gross hubris.

You Know What’s Cool? $300 Billion. Monday night, the Internet was set ablaze by the news that Facebook

was taking in more money at a valuation of a cool $50 billion. That’s massive. But it’s actually only one-sixth of the value of another closely watched company in the tech space: Apple. Apple hit the $300 billion market cap milestone Tuesday after their stock surged 2 percent to open 2011. That makes them only the second public company with such a high value; the other is Exxon Mobil. Apple, obviously, had a very impressive 2010. A year ago, they were the ﬁfth most valuable public company at “only” a $213 billion market cap. At the time, they were still over $40 billion behind rival Microsoft in the tech space. That changed in May when Apple zoomed ahead for the ﬁrst time since the early days of the companies. Since then, Apple has padded its lead, and it’s now $60 billion ahead of Microsoft—now the second most valuable tech company. At the current volume, Apple’s stock would need to be trading at about $410-a-share for them to pass Exxon. The stock is currently at just under $330-a-share. But a year ago it was around $210-a-share, so another killer year could do it. But again, Exxon’s stock shows no sign of slowing down either. So it may take Apple at $500-a-share to do the trick. That’s probably too tall of an order for this year, even with the iPad 2 and Verizon iPhone on the horizon. Shifting back to Facebook, obviously it’s not fair to compare a private with a public one. But it is interesting to see their assumed value in the perspective of their tech peers. At $50 billion, Facebook is already worth more than Yahoo and eBay, both of which are public. They’re behind Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. But if and when it’s determined that they should IPO (or if that’s determined for them by the SEC), that value should change quickly. Of course, Facebook’s revenues for 2010 are expected (at the high end) to be around $2 billion. For some perspective, Apple’s revenues were

$20 billion just last quarter. They’ll be even higher for the quarter closing in a few days. Apple could be approaching $100 billion in revenue each year, up from $50 billion (again, Facebook’s overall value) a year ago.

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Titus-Armand Apple would be nothing without appletards, ergo they have everything to do with the company and how much money it makes. Shadowlayer Haha! what a pretentious douchebag you are! You’re yet another oxygen thief who thinks he can be somebody. No wonder you defend this brand so much.

Tinoe Bandor Actually, $300 billion isn’t cool either. You know what’s cool? A gajillion bajillion dollars. vinothr OK, “The Social Network” quote is getting really really old.

The Running of the Apple Bulls Expect another record-breaking quarter when Apple reports earnings later this month. With strong global demand for its products and few retail stock-outs over the holidays, Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore believes the company racked up sales above already lofty expectations. And he raised his estimate on Apple today, following channel checks that revealed better-thananticipated iPad and Mac demand

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and unwavering demand for the iPhone—even ahead of an expected Verizon announcement. Over the holidays, Whitmore’s team checked up on 50-plus Apple Stores and retail partners, and found long lines, heavy store traffic and limited stock-outs at the majority of them. “Apple continues to benefit from the strongest product offering in its history and the strong doublebarreled product cycle is driving massive global demand for iPads and iPhones,” Whitmore said. “Both categories are benefiting from additional carriers, international expansion and limited competition. In addition, while we expect an onslaught of new tablet announcements at CES this year, we do not expect material competition to arrive until the second half of 2011. We have not seen anything that matches Apple’s iOS product suite in terms of form factor, usability, integrated hardware/ software and the breadth and depth of the App store.” Whitmore now expects Apple to sell 60 million iPhones in calendar 2011, up from 55 million. And that’s without a Verizon iPhone. With it, he says, iPhone sales should rise by another 5 million to 7 million units. “We expect a CDMA based iPhone to be a significant positive for AAPL with limited cannibalization at AT&T,” he said. “Our DB colleague Brett Feldman, who covers Telecom Services, estimates that Verizon will add roughly 15M iPhones in 2011 with 6M cannibalized from AT&T.” —JOHN PACZKOWSKI, DIGITALDAILY .ALLTHINGSD.COM

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Do you remember how Netscape used to sell web browsers? Fastforward, and now, with competition, web browsers are free. So I thought: Why not inject direct competition for our email and Microsoft Office applications? Google offers free email, calendaring, documents, forms, spreadsheets, presentations, etc., in a Software as a Service (SaaS) model— also called cloud computing. With competition I think we may get a better price next time we renew. Or we may ﬁnd a solution where we discover more value. So outside of price, since Google is free, it’s a good deal (one can pay a small annual subscription for customer support). But there are other attributes as well. First, one does not get stuck on old software, since Google is SaaS, which constantly updates the software. As a result, your information technology (IT) team does not have to update the server and the individual computers for upgrades and bug ﬁxes, keeping your internal IT costs down. Also, an organization

is not dependent on the IT person who runs the Microsoft exchange server. In most cases, if the person responsible for this item leaves, then the organization will have big problems. Google makes it much easier to manage, thus the city would not be dependent on a speciﬁc IT person. Google also allows for improved public records act requests by simply searching every email with keywords. Personally, I enjoy collaboration via Google Apps in being able to share documents in the cloud (no vpn needed) under revision control with others in real time. It also allows the author to share or edit the document. No more going back and forth, sending endless emails with out-of-date revisions of a document. At our Dec. 14 meeting the City Council approved a 12 month pilot of Google Apps that I initiated. There is no cost or obligation to purchase. We look forward to competition for our city dollars. (I do not own any shares of Google.) —Pierluigi Oliverio

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Jose’s most historic avenues, the rest of The Alameda still boasts numerous stately mansions of old. But this more commercial stretch has been neglected for years. Things could be changing for the better, though, based on some more independent businesses that recently arrived. Some background: Since the street should indeed function as a major gateway to downtown, a Caltrans grant was awarded in 2009 to produce a 100-page conceptual framework of what the street might someday look like. Overdone with declarative criteria for appropriate street furniture aesthetics, proper angles for lighting, suitable species of ﬂowers for conversation ambience and direct orders for how the newspaper racks must be consolidated, the document takes Disneyland-style

homogenization to staggering new dimensions with stuff like this: “Color, finish and style shall complement existing light poles and fixtures” and “street furniture elements therefore include features that extend beyond simple utilitarian function to include a restrained degree of ornamentation that relates to the historic character of the area . . . ” And so on. Sheesh. Of course the street needs to be more pedestrian friendly, but this stretch of The Alameda has potential precisely because almost every building looks different. That is, the street has character. Any new concept or plan should take advantage of that, not bury it with giddy cosmetic filler. But aside from all that, judging by some new tenants, it’s easy to see how, if the landlords care enough, the entire street just might turn into a really cool, independent, alternative substratum. If you walk down the sidewalk for 10 minutes and employ some right-brain thinking, you’ll see the big picture, based on a few current businesses and those who’ve moved in. I don’t mean “alternative” in some

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antagonistic sense (well, maybe a little). I use that word to mean an eclectic mixture of independent tenants who, along with the residents, want to see a pleasantly off-kilter neighborhood with a variety of interesting architecture and a unique-looking urban stretch of road that evolves organically. That is, not some city-designed faux urban village with cookie-cutter condo-and-retail facades looking as if they were purchased at Toys “R” Us and forced-crammed onto a landscape where they don’t fit. Believe me, if the city had its way, that’s exactly what would happen. Over at 1020 The Alameda, a small boutique and gallery combo, the Usuals, has already been open for at least a year. It hosts art receptions every fourth Friday of the month and has alm almost 1,000 Facebook fans. Co-operator Mari Millares says she would love tto see the street evolve into a funky independent locale. “I hope it grows organically,” she said. “It cou could turn into something like Valencia Street in San Francisco.” Just a few weeks ago, Black & Brown, d a modern and vintage clothing boutique, moved from its former location into a gorgeous 5,200square-foot space at 850 The Alameda, near Sunol. Inside, it looks like a rectangular airplane hangar— cavernous, industrial and groovy. Black & Brown now has much more room to expand, if need be. On opening day, I waltzed in and the scene blew me away. I spotted a $400 pair of Italian shoes for $95—in good condition. Loads of affordable sweaters, coats and dress shirts lined the walls. There were even eight fitting rooms. Employees were still installing wall fixtures, but the place was hopping. With that, I will now end by reminding folks that The Alameda also lays claim to one of our most celebrated local landmarks, the statue of Babe the Muffler Man. It doesn’t need olive trees, red fescue and lavender to make it look better.

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Since Brown rebelled against his father’s legacy during his “small is beautiful” phase, it’s tempting to accept Oh’s analysis. But there are several differences this time. First, the booming revenues of Pat Brown’s era aren’t likely to return anytime soon. The current deﬁcit estimates for California run in the

$20 billion to $28 billion range, our debt has doubled in seven years and our credit rating is the worst of the heavily populated states. Brown’s old prophecy of a coming “era of limits” has come true. The second difference is that our productive industrial economy has been either outsourced or automated. Brown’s prophecies of globalization— in which he proposed a “North American Common Market”—have proven true as well. Brown’s central pledge to build a more energy-efficient economy with 500,000 green jobs will be incredibly difficult to fund. Furthermore, some of the historic state crises are Brown’s own responsibility, not the legacy of his father. Brown’s implementation of Proposition 13 by spending the state’s surplus created an illusion that there was no revenue crisis. And his hard-line anti-crime philosophy, beginning with his support for mandatory minimum sentencing in 1975, eventually resulted in a prison gulag of 150,000 inmates costing more tax dollars than the state university system and ﬁve times the

state’s budget for the environment and natural resources. Finally, the state’s ﬁnancial crisis has been inﬂamed by Democrats “fascinated by supply-side economics,” according to a leading analyst of the budget in Sacramento. Two-thirds of the structural shortfall is due to tax cuts enacted by the state Legislature during the past 15 years, according to the California Budget Project. Recent corporate tax breaks, the source says, were “largely backed by D’s.” In other words: Brown’s party.

O HIS CREDIT, Brown has been holding televised teach-ins and town meetings on the budget quandary. At a UCLA forum on Dec. 14, his message that there will be deep cuts proposed in his January budget was consistent with his longtime frugality. But he also wants fairness. Remember, Brown has a Catholic sensibility that frowns on privilege and ostentatious strutting. “Those who are the most privileged have to lead” in cutting back budgets and perks, he said, noting that he was cutting his own

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It was federal military and highway spending, and the government-funded invention of the computer, that spurred Pat Brownâ€™s era of growth. But the prospects of new federal assistance these days are dim, to say the least. On the contrary, California pays far more to the federal government than it receives. In 2005, the most recent year for which there is data, Californians spent nearly $50 billion in â€œďŹ scal transfersâ€? to bail out America. The stateâ€™s taxpayers pay $15 billion annually for Afghanistan alone, enough to employ 196,000 elementaryschool teachers or equip 5 million households with photovoltaic electricity. Itâ€™s possible that Brown will take to blaming Washingtonâ€™s priorities for Californiaâ€™s ills, but not anytime soon. For now, he wants Californians to see themselves in the mirror. At some point, Brown could launch a populist campaign against the institutionalized greed and avarice that have ripped open $19 billion in

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JERRY BROWN’S KARMA 16 and unusual punishment” in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The current prison budget is at least $10 billion and rapidly rising. The number of inmates has risen since the ’70s from 27,000 to as high as 160,000. In the past two years alone, 112 inmates in California have died due to lack of medical care, according to the federal courts. That’s one preventable death every eight days. Then there’s an inmate suicide rate that’s twice the national average. How are such deaths tolerable to a governor who opposes the death penalty? And yet it was Jerry Brown arguing in the U.S. Supreme Court last month against reducing overcrowding in state prisons that have been under a state of emergency since 2006. Well, not exactly Jerry Brown per se. Instead, the Attorney General Jerry Brown hired a $1,100-an-hour Washington lawyer named Carter Phillips to ﬁght the case for him. And this week it was Jerry Brown, as governor-elect, complaining about those intrusive federal judges who “want us to spend more money.” Perhaps the governor-elect is like many politicians who oppose the death penalty on principle, then compensate to appear “tough” by locking up everyone possible. Brown was also stung badly decades ago when three of his very progressive state Supreme Court appointees were thrown out by California voters. Brown’s karma may be to become the defender of a system where hundreds of inmates die from state negligence. The Supreme Court decision will come sometime in the next six months.

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HE SHADOWS of the past hang heavy over Jerry Brown, but he is capable of reﬂecting and reinventing. He may mimic the Republicans and assuage the elites for a time, but they did not elect him. Quite the reverse: Californians elected Democratic state officeholders and legislators in a sweep this year, while the opposite was occurring everywhere to the east of this state. It would conﬁrm the futility of politics to millions of voters if Brown and the Democrats abandoned their principles to follow a Republican approach in a state where Republicans were repudiated. That’s not to say that Brown will revert to the Democratic past. He

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annual tax loopholes from a supplicant Legislature. He could hammer the point that these tax breaks take a majority to pass and two-thirds to ever close. He could point out that tax breaks have a way of becoming permanent, with no review of whether they create economic benefits. He could call for reinstatement of the top income tax bracket under Ronald Reagan, which might net $3 billion to $4 billion annually. He could remind Californians that Proposition 13 was meant for homeowners, not as a bonanza for bank-merger con men and acquisitions manipulators. He could fight to lower the voting requirement for passing school and infrastructure bonds to 55 percent. Such a populist agenda might pass the Legislature and win voter approval where needed. Or he could get tough with the universities, demanding greater oversight and educating the public on the lavish six-figure administrative salaries and perks while students still struggle to find classes small enough in which to be seen and heard, frequently taught by underpaid and unengaged graduate students serving as cheap labor for the professors. He could appoint regents and trustees who see the world from an undergraduate point of view. Instead, he’s likely to agonize only briefly before he decides on more tuition increases, with no provision for their repeal when the economy improves. Green jobs and renewable resources are the area where Brown might reappear as a visionary global leader if he begins to solve the budget problem. He will draw on past models of tougher auto emission standards and Silicon Valley’s high-tech industry as examples of “investing in the future.” Brown has been derided by Republicans and the media for 30 years for being ahead of the rest of the country on these issues. One hopes that he expands his current teach-in to examine the costs and benefits of an energy-efficient future as part of an alternative economics that stops treating the environment as a giant storehouse. Assuming that the governor genuinely believes his call for “shared sacrifice,” he will have to re-examine his role in the mind-boggling prison buildup of the past three decades, which began with his ardent advocacy of mandatory minimum sentences and has led to an overcrowding crisis described by federal courts as “cruel

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needs to escape the limited box where taxes and spending seem the only tools, but even so, he cannot truly measure the quality of our lives. Here is my suggestion: He should develop a California Quality of Life Index. Choose 10 (or 20 or 30) qualityof-life measures that already exist. We know, for example, that California stands dead last in the ratio of librarians to students nationwide. We are 23rd in per-pupil spending on public schoolchildren. We are behind only Louisiana and Texas in rates or total numbers of incarcerated people. Add another few categories and include them in an annual address by the governor. Send the Quality of Life Report and recommendations to legislative committees for review and action. This would be a process pushing us toward our chosen ideals. (When I proposed such schemes while I was in the Senate, the proposals were pooh-poohed by the Legislative Analyst’s Office, who asserted that the comparative quality of life could not be measured.) It’s time for Jerry Brown to begin

making our institutions accountable for our quality of life more than our quantity of things. He might reﬂect on, and share, in some future speech to Californians these words of Robert Kennedy from 1968: “The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.”

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Cut the Cord It’s time to cut the cord. Newly seated Gov. Jerry Brown is the guy who’s going to have to do it. If he doesn’t, he will never get California budget back in the black. The general idea is neither new nor hard to understand. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg last year proposed a partial plan to “devolve” some services and funds to local governments. “The only alternative in this difficult ﬁscal environment is to rethink the roles of government at both the state and local levels and shift programs, along with the dollars to run them, closer to the people served,” Steinberg said at the time. And Gov.-elect Brown echoed the theme in his campaign commercials: “We’ve got to take power from the state capitol and move it down to the local level, closer to the people.” Strategically, Brown during the campaign pointedly did not explain what that really meant. As we have noted many times, however, the

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underlying premise of Brown’s idea was that both power and responsibility must transfer to the local level for the idea to work. In Brown’s recent public hearings on the budget mess, it didn’t take long for the fullness of that implication to emerge. As reported from the budget session in Los Angeles: One dilemma, [Brown] said, was that the state tries to make sense out of competing outlooks from regions that have little in common—an argument, he said, for shifting many of the state’s responsibilities to local governments. “When we take so many local decisions and put them all at the state capitol, then we have all these different perceptions working on the problem,” he said. “That’s why we get a lot of breakdown and gridlock. Because people see the world differently.”

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Based on recent conversations with Steinberg’s staff and Department of Finance types, it’s clear that the transfer of pre– Prop. 13 ﬁscal responsibilities of cities, counties and school districts back to the locals would account for about 40 percent to 50 percent of the state’s general fund. What’s also clear is that divesting the responsibility for those programs would require the governor and Legislature, by some to-bedetermined process, to also provide cities, counties and school districts the authority to ﬁnd a way to pay for them, most logically through a majority or 55 percent vote of local voters. It’s doubtful that Brown or any politician would try to alter the twothirds requirement to raise residential property taxes, although there might be a move to create a “split roll” under which commercial and industrial properties, which change hands far less often than homes, would be assessed at their fair market value. But other general purposes taxes of all sorts (sales and hotel/motel taxes, or any fees that have been interpreted as taxes for example) might well be subject to a majority or 55 percent vote at the local level.

So if residents of Santa Clara County want a fully staffed sheriff ’s department and health services, if San Jose wants cops, libraries and parks, if the San Jose Uniﬁed School District wants athletics and music, local residents will have to ﬁnd the funds to pay for those services, by deciding to raise their own taxes.

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Power to the People Precisely how California gets to this solution is a level of detail best left to Sacramento’s legions of hotly talented legislative architects. In this, we associate ourselves with the famous words of the Babylonian sage Hillel, who said, after declaring the Golden Rule the essence of Jewish law: “The rest is commentary.” Whatever Gov. Brown lays out for the short-term—budget cuts coupled with an extension of existing tax hikes for two years seems most likely—it will only be a stopgap measure. What’s needed is a wholesale restructuring of the way local government is financed. The general line for the political movement that would get us there is this: return power to the people. With its echoes of the 1960s, those words might not be exactly the preferred slogan, but the fundamental point is clear: transfer power away from Sacramento hacks and back to local communities. Of course, the Prop. 13 fetishists will scream to the heavens that the idea of allowing local taxes to be raised with a 50 percent or 55 percent majority (even if such tax hikes are required to include sunset provisions, which help them pass) offends the laws of nature. They’ll call it an unholy attack on the Sacred Cult of Howard Jarvis and predictably go nuts. Let them. Voters in California trust local decision-makers far more than they do the Legislature, and they deserve the right to choose—by majority vote—whether to hand the power to those local officials to actually govern. Local school board members, city councilmembers and supervisors are far more susceptible at election time to the decisions of grassroots voters than are state lawmakers representing huge farflung districts. Local officials with the power to determine levels of service—based on local support—will finally, and

properly, have the tools to make some tough decisions about local programs and pensions—while also facing the up-close-and-personal political consequences of making them. And when the drown-the-baby-inthe-bathtub anti-government types scream about all this, proponents can reply: We’re for democracy and for empowering local government. It’s the other guys who are for keeping all the power up in Sacramento and in smoke-filled back rooms where they have power. We want to return power to the people, to local communities, where you can keep an eye on how money is spent and for what. A lot has happened in the 32 years since Prop. 13 that will have to be taken into account. The landmark Serrano vs. Priest decision, for example, will require that school districts aren’t wildly underfinanced in one community and lavishly funded in another. Prop. 98 will have to be handled. All kinds of state mandates that don’t include funding will have to be altered. See Hillel: on commentary. California state government has plenty to do to fund and repair higher education, highways, state parks, state law enforcement, prisons, state courts, environmental protection, natural resources and the like, just as state government did before Prop. 13. But three decades after the great transfer of power to Sacramento, it’s time to fight for power to local communities, for sanity in government finance and even, we dare say, for democracy.

Phil Trounstine and Jerry Roberts write regularly about California politics at www.calbuzz.com, from which this article was adapted. Trounstine is a former political editor of the San Jose Mercury News, a former communications director for Gov. Gray Davis and a former director of the Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State University. Roberts is the former political editor, editorial page editor and managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle and former student publications adviser at UC–Santa Barbara.

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AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza. $. Amici’s specializes in thin-crust, New York-style pizza. With its upscale atmosphere and friendly service you’ve got one of downtown San Jose’s best pizza shops. 11am-10pm MonThu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am11pm Sat and 11:30am-10pm Sun. 225 W. Santa Clara St. 408.289.9000.

ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$. Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri and dinner 5:30-10pm SunThu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555.

BELLA MIA Italian-American. $$$. One of downtown San Jose’s most attractive eateries, Bella Mia serves regional dishes with ﬂair. Full bar. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 4:30-10pm Sat, 4:30-8pm Sun. 58 S. First St. 408.280.1993.

BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$. Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and taste likes the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American, Mexican and Asian food. Most dishes are designed for sharing—appetizer-size portions, nibbles and ﬁnger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am-10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat, Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St, San Jose. 408.292.4300.

CITY BAR AND GRILL CLASSIC American. $$$. Bigshouldered food in handsome surroundings is the rule. The steaks are big and juicy, the pot pies better than Grandma used to make. Full bar. 300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444.

DALAT Vietnamese. $$. San Jose’s second-oldest Vietnamese restaurant continues to draw those in search of delicious traditional fare. Surroundings are clean and friendly. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 408 E. William St. 408.294.6989. E&O TRADING COMPANY Southeast Asian. $$$. Entrees come on playful serving dishes and are beautifully spiced with multiculti ﬂavors, from Bali to Ceylon and back through Malaysia. Full bar. Open 11:30am to 10:30pm, until midnight on weekends. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10:30pm Fri, 510:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 96 S. First St. 408.938.4100.

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deﬁnitive coffee shop shop. And now they’ve opened in downtown San Jose to great acclaim. 7am-midnight daily. 88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.

4TH STREET PIZZA CO. Pizza. $. 4th Street Pizza Co. occupies a prime corner spot on East Santa Clara and Fourth with big windows to watch the comings and goings at City Hall across the street. The thin-crust margherita fell short but the thicker-crust pies are better. 11am-9pm Sun-Thu and 11am10pm Fri-Sat. 150 E. Santa Clara St. 408.286.7500.

GUMBO JUMBO Cajun fusion. $$. Gumbo Jumbo charts new territory with dishes such as Cajun lemon-grass chicken, garlic shrimp noodles and crawﬁsh egg rolls. And don’t miss the boiled crawﬁsh. 11:30am-2:30pm and 5:3010pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am2:30pm and 5:30pm-midnight Thu-Fri, 3pm-midnight Sat and 3-10pm Sun. 80 N. Market St. 408.294.8626.

EMILE’S Contemporary French. $$$. White-tablecloth amenities without the stufﬁness. An old favorite comes back strong with a new bistro. Full bar. Closed SunMon. Reservations suggested. 11am-2pm Thu-Fri, 5-10pm Tue-Sat. 545 S. Second St. 408.289.1960.

HOUSE OF SIAM Thai. $. This popular establishment runs the gamut of Thai treasures. Casual. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm daily. 151 S. Second St. 408.295.3397.

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$$$. The revamped menu emphasizes robust ﬂavors and beautiful presentations. Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:30-9:30pm Sat. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161.

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FLAMES EATERY AND BAR American. $$. In Silicon Valley, the home-grown Flames restaurant chain is the area’s

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Pastaia remains a stalwart of downtown San Jose’s dining scene. Set inside the Hotel De Anza, the rustic Italian restaurant has big city style to spare. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri and noon-2pm SatSun; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 233 W. Santa Clara St. 408.286.8686.

Steakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, a Chicago-based chain of restaurants with more than 80 locations across the United States and abroad, offers delicious, premium-priced steaks. The rest of the menu is a mixed bag. 5:30-11pm MonSat, 5-10pm Sun. 177 Park Ave. 408.947.7000.

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Mexican. $. La Vic’s famously addictive orange hot sauce merely tops off its tasty taqueria fare: big burritos of the breakfast and lunchtime varieties, overﬂowing nachos, delectable chile rellenos. 7am3am daily. 140 E. San Carlos St. 408.298.5335.

LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$. Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades. Lunch 11am-2:30pm; dinner 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 3-10pm Sat and 3-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.

MCCORMICK AND SCHMICK’S Seafood. $$$. Harks back to big-city ﬁsh houses with stately, masculine interiors. Menu follows the freshest fruits of the sea, grilled, panseared, steamed. Desserts will hook you. 11:30am-10pm daily, 11pm happy hour Fri-Sat. 170 S. Market St. 408.283.7200.

MEZCAL Regional Mexican. $$. Mezcal specializes in delicious regional cuisine from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. People who need nachos and sour-creamtopped burritos on the menu will probably be miffed, but for those willing to venture beyond the same old MexicanAmerican standards, Mezcal offers an excellent point of departure. 11:30am-11pm SunFri and 5-11pm Sat. 25 W. San Fernando St. 408.283.9595.

MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food cooked and served by people with a personal investment in customer happiness. Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, dinner 5-11pm Mon-

New American. $$. Lots of restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood joints but few deliver. The Garage does. Small but satisfying menu of well executed comfort food classics. 5-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm Sat, 9am1pm Sun. 505 E. San Carlos St. 408.286.1100.

NHA TOI Vietnamese. $$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am-10pm daily. 460 E. William St. 408.294.2733. ORIGINAL JOE’S ItalianAmerican. $$. For ﬁve decades OJ’s has been serving classics of American and ItalianAmerican food with heaping portions of big city attitude and glamour. The restaurant underwent an extensive remodel, but the menu is the same as it ever was. 11am-1am daily. 301 S. First St. 408.292.7030. PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor. Pagoda offers the gamut of regional all-stars. Dressy. Full bar. 610pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St. 408.998.3937.

PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$. Filled with artistic spins on California-meets-Italy, the kitchen turns out elegant entrees spearheaded by seasonal vegetables. The impeccable service compensates for the modest portions. Full bar. 11:30-2:30 Mon-Fri, 5:30-10pm MonSat. 323 W. San Carlos St. 408.294.2558.

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POOR HOUSE BISTRO New Orleans. $$. The Poor House Bistro offers a low-priced menu of Crescent City classics like po’ boys, barbecued shrimp, gumbo and muffaletta. Live music on Fridays and Saturdays. Open 11am-9pm Mon-Sat. Open Sundays for major HP Pavilion events. 91 S. Autumn St. 408.292.5837.

SCOTT’S SEAFOOD Seafood. $$$. Culture lovers and power brokers alike ﬁnd impeccable sourdough, a sea of marine treats and other entrees and a panoramic view (there’s a sister eatery in Palo Alto). For maximum pleasure, get there at sunset. Full bar. 11:30am5pm Mon-Fri, 5pm-close Sat, 4:30pm-close Sun. 185 Park Ave. 408.971.1700. 71 SAINT PETER New American. $$$. This romantic eatery offers upscale Mediterranean food in an intimate setting Beer, wine. Closed Sun. 71 N. San Pedro St. 11:30am-1pm, 5-9pm Mon-Sat. 408.971.8523. SONOMA CHICKEN COOP Mixed. $. If you don’t mind carrying your own tray and ﬁghting for a table you’ll be rewarded with hearty spitroasted chicken that requires at least six napkins. 31 N. Market St. at San Pedro Square. 11am-9pm Sun-Thu, 10pm FriSat 408.287.4098.

VEGETARIAN HOUSE Vegetarian. $. This meat-free stalwart offers vegetarian dishes from around the world with a side serving of religious reading material from spiritual leader Ching Hai. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 520 E. Santa Clara St. 408.292.3798.

VUNG TAU VIETNAMESE $$. Traditionalists might gripe that they can get authentic Vietnamese food for less elsewhere, but it’s hard to top Vung Tau for its fresh, quality ingredients and sleek yet comfortable décor. Encyclopedic menu. Open daily 10am-3pm and 5-9pm. 535 E. Santa Clara St. 408.288.9055.

WING’S Chinese. $. The food is complemented by an exotic dining room with sequestered seating equipped with hanging

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First, Blum has forgotten more about art than I’ll ever know. What makes her seem like the ideal new chef for Montalvo’s artistin-residence program (technically, the “culinary fellow”) is that she is truly, madly cross-disciplinary. She learned fresco painting from a man who once served as the assistant to Diego Rivera. She was living in Italy then, also apprenticing to master cheesemakers. She worked as a decorative painter at the same time she created a cooking school in Tuscany. She graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism in 2003, focusing her reporting on food issues. Wherever she goes, whatever she’s doing, art and food are tightly intertwined. The second reason I was inclined to believe her is that she had just served possibly the best matzo ball soup I’ve ever had in my life (active ingredient: cardamom). The degree to which this makes me more receptive to someone’s philosophical musings cannot be underestimated. If L. Ron Hubbard had ever served me a fantastic matzo ball soup, I might be a Scientologist right now. Blum’s main job over the course of this fellowship is to keep Montalvo’s other artists in residence fed. If it sounds like one of the wilder ideas for an artistic residency you’ve ever heard, well, rest assured that, as a whole, there is nothing quite like the Montalvo artist-in-residency program. (Although that is changing, now that other groups are looking to Montalvo as a model for their own residency programs.) Each year’s artists, who go through an intense selection process, live and work in a $10.5 million complex of live/work studios on Montalvo’s Saratoga property that opened in 2004 as the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Programs. This didn’t change the art center’s mission—it has been hosting artists in residence for over 70 years— but it did put its program on the cutting edge. The culinary residency developed not long after that, out of a “culinary curator” position. The ﬁrst was Jessica Theroux, who this year had a big hit with her book Cooking With Italian Grandmothers. Sally Lucas, the Montalvo trustee who was so instrumental in establishing the program that they named it after her, has had the opportunity to attend many of the dinners served by the culinary resident to the other artists, and she calls them “the best dinners you could ever have.” It’s not just the food, of course, but also the dinner conversation that bubbles up when artists from across the spectrum of disciplines are gathered at one table. Blum has also taken on some pet projects like restoring Montalvo’s orchard—one of many ways her NorCal “fresh, local and organic” bent shows itself. “It’s really important to know where my food comes from,” she says. Blum will also host three Saturday workshops open to the public (10am–12:30pm; $55; $45 for members). On Feb. 5, she’ll tackle the topic of lemons (including a lemon risotto recipe); on April 2, she’ll cover “The Art of Pizza”; and on Sept. 17, homegrown tomatoes. —Steve Palopoli

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AMATO’S Sandwich shop. $. The sandwiches make for greasy, sloppy, ferociously delicious eating. There are 34 varieties, categorized in three groups: hot, cold, specialty. Mon-Fri 10am-11pm, Sat 10am9pm, Sun 10am-7pm. 1162 Saratoga Ave. 408.246.4007.

AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. The sister to the popular Mountain View restaurant, Amber India’s Santana Row location continues to offer elegantly prepared Indian cuisine in a stylish setting. 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm, Mon-Thu. noon-3pm, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat, noon-3pm, 5-10pm Sunday. 377 Santana Row. 408.248.5400.

BANGKOK TASTE Thai. $$. Humble strip mall gem with a loyal following. Beef Pi-Roj is a house favorite. Veggies love the Rama tofu. 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm daily. 1769 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.358.2525.

BILL’S CAFÉ Diner. $. Serving only breakfast and lunch, Bill’s knows its way around typical diner standbys—eggs (scrambles and hollandaiselaced “benedictions”), pancakes and expertly grilled sandwiches and burgers. 6:30am-3pm daily. 302 N. Bascom Ave (at Naglee). 408.287.2455. CAO NGUYEN Vietnamese, Chinese-Vietnamese. $. Gargantuan menu features nearly 200 Vietnamese menu options, including smoked duck, sautéed frogs and clay pot catﬁsh. Casual. 10am10pm Mon-Fri, 9am-10pm Sat-Sun. 2549 S. King Rd #A-16. 408.270.9610.

CASABLANCA’S CAFÉ Middle Eastern. $$. Casablanca’s Cafe is not going to win any awards for atmosphere or restaurant design. But it should

win awards for its falafel. In addition to wonderfully creamy hummus, tangy tahini sauce and pickled red cabbage, the falafel deluxe is gilded with strips of baked eggplant, fried cauliﬂower and fried potatoes. If you like it spicy, the ribbon of shatta (hot sauce) delivers a blast of chile pepper heat. 10am-9:30pm daily. 1185 Lincoln Ave. 408.993.8636.

CITRUS New American. $$$. In Santana Row’s chic Hotel Valencia, Citrus peels back the hotel dining myth. Here, diners match their own main dishes with their choice of rub, sauce and side dish. Fun continues in skilled desserts. 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 355 Santana Row. 408.423.5400.

COCOLA French bakery. $. Cocola is a ﬁne place to while away an afternoon sipping tea and sampling a pear tart with vanilla custard and slivered almonds. For heartier fare, try the gourmet sandwiches. 8am11pm Sun-Tue, 8am-noon WedSat. 333 Santana Row #1045. 408.551.0018. CONSUELO Mexican. $$. Good regional Mexican food made with lesser-known ingredients in an attractive, upscale atmosphere. The food is served tapas style and meant to be shared. Fantastic tequila list. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Fri, 11am-11pm Sat, Sun 11am11pm. 377 Santana Row #1125. 408.260.7082. THE COUNTER Hamburgers. $. The Counter takes the quintessential American burger and turns up the Americanness by letting diners choose from dozens of options to build a custom burger. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat and noon-9pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave #1035 (Santana Row), San Jose, 408.423.9200. And 369 California Ave, Palo Alto, 650.321.3900.

CRAWDADDY Cajun. $$. Crawdaddy specializes in boiled live crawﬁsh ﬂown in from Louisiana. The mud bugs are served steaming in a plastic bag swimming in a buttery, garlic-laced sauce that ranges from mild to ridiculously hot. 3-10pm Mon-Fri and noon10pm Sat-Sun. 779 Story Rd. 408.286.2729.

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DIA DE PESCA Mexican. $. As you might guess from the name (Dia de Pesca means “gone ﬁshing” in Spanish), the restaurant specializes in seafood—ﬁsh tacos, ceviche, shrimp cocktails and soups. It’s all good. 10:30am-8:30pm daily. 55 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.3722.

DI DA Vietnamese vegetarian. $. Quick, friendly service and a comprehensive menu, with food that’s simple, low-key and homey. The jackfruit salad is surprisingly fresh, sided with a chile-tamarind sauce. 9am9pm daily. 2597 Senter Rd. 408.998.8826.

DI LAC Vegetarian Asian. $$. A bite of veggie heaven. The spacious Di Lac serves up an appetizing array of foods all of which are made fresh daily, including the soy milk and tofu. 9am-9pm daily. 1644 E. Capitol Expwy. 408.238.8686.

EDNA RAY Chinese. $$. Now in a new location, Edna Ray continues to serves classics of Chinese-American food with the same quantity, familiarity and reasonable prices. You’ll ﬁnd all three here, and then some. 11:30am-9:30pm daily. 1181 Lincoln Ave. 408.280.7738. EL HABANERO Cuban and Mexican. $$. The Cuban food is the star here. The food is made from family recipes and has a hearty, homespun appeal. Ropa vieja is a classic of Cuban cooking and the stewed beef dish is a solid choice here as is the oily but delicious vaca frita is another winner. Appetizers are strong, too, but skip the disappointing Cuban sandwich. 11am-9pm daily. Closed Monday. 3132 Williams Rd. 408.557.8914.

EL TULE Mexican. $$. Most of the menu is devoted to Mexican-American standards, but the separate menu of Oaxacan specialties is where El Tule really shines. The black mole is uncommonly delicious while lesser-known dishes like tlayudas and molotes are also good. 10am-9pm daily. 5440 Thornwood Dr. 408.227.1752.

FISH MARKET Seafood. $$$. This latest terriﬁc-looking member of the dynasty attracts lines of customers

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FOOD TOPIA Chinese and Taiwanese. $. Food Topia serves a great, low priced menu of Taiwanese and Chinese food in atmosphere welcoming to nonChinese. Go for the beef noodle soup, pickle and ﬁsh ﬁllet soup and the fried chicken roll. No alcohol served. 1600 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.873.7628. FRANKIE, JOHNNIE & LUIGI TOO! Family Style Italian. $$. Traditional Italian-American favorites—spaghetti and pizza—served with plenty of elbow room. Big portions and wholesome family-style service. 11am-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11am-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 5245 Prospect Rd, San Jose. Full Bar. 408.446.9644.

FRATELLO Italian. $$. Bursting with simple ﬂavors, Fratello boasts native Italian dining without affectation. 5-9:30pm Tue-Sun, Fri-Sat 5-10pm, 59pm Sun. 1712 Meridian Ave. 408.269.3801.

FUEL RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Contemporary Vietnamese. $$. Fuel’s menu is more traditional than other modern Vietnamese restaurants but still mixes things up with nonregulation ingredients. Lunch 11am2:30pm Mon-Fri and Sat-Sun. Dinner 5-10pm Mon-Wed, 5-11pm Thu-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 385 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.248.0018.

GIORGIO’S Family-style Italian. $. Simple Italian cooking—the rugged kind with Southern Italian leanings, full of robust ﬂavors and tangy tomato sauces. 11:30am-9:30pm MonThu, 11:30am-10:30pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am-10pm Sun. 1445 Foxworthy Ave. 408.264.5781.

GOJO ETHIOPIAN Restaurant Ethiopian. $. Simplicity reigns here; just Ethiopian food—chicken, beef, lamb, vegetarian—and Ethiopian coffee. The ﬂavors taste even better with honey wine. Beer,

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wine. Noon-9pm Sun-Thu, noon-10pm Fri-Sat, 1261 W. San Carlos St. 408.295.9546.

GOVEA’S Mexican. $. A

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HUNAN TASTE. $$. Chinese.

community hub that serves up wonderfully fresh, oldfashioned Mexican food with no trendy gimmicks. Both the restaurant and the food are wholesome and ﬁlling. 10am9pm Mon-Thu, 10am-10pm Sat-Fri, 9am-9pm Sun. 1996 Tully Rd. 408.270.0973.

The restaurant continues to pack them in because the food is so good. As the name implies, the restaurant specializes in the ﬁery, hearty food of China’s Hunan province, making it one of the few restaurants in the Bay Area to do so. 11am-2:30pm, 4:30-8:30pm Mon-Sat. 998 N. Fourth St. 408.295.1186.

GREAT WALL Chinese. $$. This

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strip mall hideaway serves skillfully prepared Chinese dishes in an atmosphere where sandals and T-shirts are the perfect fashion. Beef and black mushrooms, salt and pepper spareribs and cashew chicken earn high marks. 11am-2:30pm, 4:30-9pm Mon-Fri, noon-9pm Sat. 1409 Bird Ave. Take out available. 408.287.1688 or 287.1689.

people queuing up are ramen aficionados who know a good bowl of ramen when they find one. And they’ve definitely found one here. 11:30am2pm and 5-10pm Tue-Thu; 11:30am-3pm and 4:30-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 4330 Moorpark Ave. 408.255.8244.

HABANA CUBA Cuban and Brazilian. $$. A culinary oasis full of good ﬂavors, Habana Cuba exudes cultural delights. Sensuous foods of the Caribbean and Cuba, long on tomato and peppers, slowroasted meats and earthy black beans. Beer and wine. 11am2pm, 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 4-10pm Fri-Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 238 Race St. 408.998.2822.

THE HAPPY BAMBOO Vegetarian. $. The menu at the Happy Bamboo is almost all vegan and most of it Vietnamese or Asian-inspired. There’s also a vegetarian tuna salad and, out of nowhere, Hungarian goulash and spaghetti. 11:30am-9pm TueSun. Closed Mon. 1711 Branham Lane. 408.694.0740.

HOSHI Japanese. $$. Hoshi is one Silicon Valley’s standouts for sushi and small plates. Great sake selection, too. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri and dinner 5-9pm Mon-Sat. 246 Saratoga Ave. 408.554.7100.

HUKILAU Hawaiian. $$. Simple, slightly salty, stomach-ﬁlling foods with an Asian Paciﬁc attitude. All daily specials come with a scoop of macaroni salad and steamed rice. Skip the quesadilla and nachos and head straight for the ahi poke. With tropical drinks to match. 11am-1:45pm Tue-Fri, 5-9:30pm Tue-Wed, 5-10:30pm Thu-Sat,

KRUNGTHAI. Thai. $$. Perennial Metro “Best Of” winner, Krungthai has been around since 1988, but still tastes fresh and new. 11am-3pm and 510pm Mon-Fri and noon-10pm Sat-Sun. 640 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.260.8224. KUBOTA Japanese. $$. A beautiful dining room that serves exquisite rice, luscious ribs and decent sushi. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat, 59:30pm Sun. 593 N. Fifth St. 408.279.8440.

KUMAKO Ramen. $. Japantown now has its missing ingredient—good ramen. Kumako’s menu is simple, ramen, curry rice and a few appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm and 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 211 E. Jackson St. 408.286.2111.

LAYANG LAYANG Malaysian. $$. Layang Layang shines with clean, fresh ﬂavors and ingredients and offers a great entry into Malaysian food. Service is fast and friendly, a feat given how harried the waitstaff can be. Wine and beer. Closed Mon. 1480 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.777.8897.

LE PAPILLON Contemporary French. $$$$. From start to ﬁnish, a meal at Le Papillon casts a spell on everyone who enters. The feeling is only broken when you walk out the door and abruptly step back into the real world outside. Full bar. Lunch Thu and Fri, dinner nightly. 410 Saratoga Ave. 408.296.3730.

MENARA Moroccan. $$$. Since

PIZZA ANTICA UPTOWN Pizza. $$. The stony ovens of Pizza Antica turn out thincrusted designer pies with gourmet toppings in casual environs. Fine pasta and meat dishes also available. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 11:30am-10pm SunThu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat. 334 Santana Row #1065. 408.557.8373.

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1977, Menara’s been throwing back the pillows and bellying up to mint tea rituals, b’stilla (pigeon pie) and rabbit tagine. Full dinners menus include vegetarian option; solid wine list. 6-10pm daily. 41 E. Gish Rd. 408.453.1983.

Mongolian barbecue. $. This mom-and-pop eatery gears itself toward the common man with the uncommonly large appetite. Thrown into the bargain is a Chinese steamtable buffet. 11am-3pm, 4:309pm daily. 1190 Hillsdale Ave. 408.978.7188.

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Cowboy Continental. $$$. The Grandview is an old-school roadhouse with a warm atmosphere. Add dishes like surf and turf, rack of lamb chasseur and chicken Cordon Bleu and you’ve got yourself a destination. 5-10:30pm Wed-Sun. 94 Mt. Hamilton Rd. 408.251.8909.

noodles. $$. Surfer-themed, casual-but-comfy, chef Kumao Arai’s noodle house imports traditional techniques to produce hearty, aromatic bowls stocked with pork-, sea-saltor soy-sauce-ﬂavored broth. Cash only. Call ahead; hours are irregular. 375-M S. Saratoga Ave. 408.246.3933.

THE MYNT Indian. $. The

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Mynt’s lunch buffet is a Silicon Valley standout, while the sit-down dinner menu has plenty to offer as well. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun, dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 5:30-10pm Fri-Sat. 5210 Prospect Rd. 408.973.9673.

spices up the Cambrian area with excellent Indian food. The restaurant is beautiful and its food and service largely match its décor. Lunch buffet 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, dinner 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, brunch noon3pm Sun. 3695 Union Ave. 408.377.2222.

OMOGARI Korean. $. Omogari makes getting to know Korean food easy. The menu includes pictures of many dishes, the service is friendly and the food is consistently good. Try the dae gee bul go gi, spicy marinated pork. Open 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 154 E. Jackson St. 408.280.6588.

ORLO’S New American. $$$. On the lush grounds of the historic Hayes Mansion, this is one beautiful, luxurious dining room, with menu and excellent service to match. 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. Hayes Conference Center, 200 Edenvale Ave. 408.226.3200. PASTA POMODORO Italian. $. Exuberant, inexpensive and fast cuisine made to order and served with sparkle. High concept and low costs make Pasta Pomodoro a dream trattoria for lovers of robust Italian ﬂavors. 11am-10pm Mon-Sun. 1205 The Alameda. 408.292.9929.

RASA MALAYSIAN Malaysian. $$. Rasa Malaysian is a homey restaurant that offers a number of solid examples of Malaysian food including satay chicken, char tway keow and sambal kangkung. 11am-3pm and 5-9pm Mon-Fri and 11am9pm Sat. 1290 Coleman Ave. 408.980.0668. REHOBOTH. Ethiopian. $$. Japantown isn’t all Japanese food. Rehoboth adds spice to the neighborhood with its diverse menu of Ethiopian standards. Carnivores, vegetarians and vegans are all well taken care of. Good coffee, too. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu and 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 665 N. Sixth St. 408.947.1717.

REYHAN. $. Persian. Reyhan restaurant is located in the most unlikely of areas—an industrial strip of Almaden Road in south San Jose. As such, the place is kind of an

oasis—an oasis of kebabs. 11am-8pm daily. 1625 Almaden Rd. 408.293.3600.

SELAM. $. Ethiopian and Eritrean. Often it’s the places you have to work to ﬁnd that turn out to be the good ones. Selam is tucked away in a mall off Winchester Boulevard, but the food is a real standout. 10am-10pm daily. 3120 Williams St. 408.984.9600.

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MAGGIANO’S LITTLE Italy Italian. $$. Like a warm Italian embrace, this Santana Row superstar proves a welcome haven for company lunches and congenial dinner parties. The food is a cut above standard, with roast chicken and veal marsala standing out. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat, noon-10pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave. #1000. 408.423.8973.

SIAM Thai. $$. Siam is a sweet little Thai restaurant between Valley Fair and Santana Row. The menu offers a lineup of Thai standards and crowdpleasing combinations with Americanized names like “cashew lover,” “Thai angry” and “pleasing garlic.” There’s plenty to recommend. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9pm TueSat. 10pm Fri. 2910 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.246.0304. SIENA MEDITERRANEAN BISTRO Mediterranean. $$$. Tucked into picturesque Willow Glen, this tiny bistro offers big tastes. Entrees such as Moroccan Cornish game hen, venison medallions and seasonal risotto battle for your appetite with a bread pudding dessert. Patio dining available. 1359 Lincoln Ave. 408.271.0837.

SINO RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Modern Chinese. $$$. Sino is owned by Christopher Yeo, the restaurateur behind Straits. The restaurant offers both traditional Chinese cooking and a few modern riffs. Good dim sum, too. 11am10pm Sun-Tue, 11am-midnight Wed-Sat. 377 Santana Row. 408.247.8880.

STRAITS RESTAURANT Asian Fusion. $$$. By night it’s a jam-packed hipster clubhouse; by day it’s Singaporean chef Chris Yeo’s latest chic fusion venue. Small plates share the menu with entrees such as the lobster and shrimp pad thai. Outdoor seating is available. 11am-10pm Sun-Wed, 11ammidnight Thu-Sat. 333 Santana Row #1100. 408.246.6320. THEA Greek and Turkish. $$. While some dishes have a tenuous connection to Turkey and Greece, the pretty restaurant serves a number of standouts like the roasted prawns, octopus salad and excellent moussaka. Full bar. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 11:30am-3pm, 58:30pm daily. 3090 Olsen Dr. 408.260.1444.

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SAD BASTARDS BOOK CLUB Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free

“All these songs of pity.” Alternate names for Sad Bastards Book Club: the Moaning Groaners, the Pale Ailers, the Complaint Department, the Good Ol’ Charlie Browns. The album, You Gave It Your Best . . . Unfortunately, That’s Not Saying Much, is a celebration of defeatism and pining, recorded in a shack made out of matchwood and alive with rats. Outtakes include my fave “It’s Touching Moments Like This That Remind Me Why We Don’t Talk Much,” an acoustic guitar and funereal organ dirge for one of those instances of dad and son

sincerity that make you ﬂinch just to think about. (RvB)

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DEAD SOULS Blank Club, San Jose Fri – 9pm; $10 The angular, post-punk songs of the short-lived English quartet Joy Division come alive in the hands of Dead Souls, a San Francisco–based tribute to the ill-fated vocalist Ian Curtis and his band. Though Curtis, who was responsible for much of the creative force behind the group, committed suicide in 1980, it was not before Joy Division had established itself as a new driving force in popular

music, thanks in no small part to a burgeoning interest in what would later be called alternative rock. The Souls successfully cull from Joy Division’s abbreviated repertoire, reissuing timeless post-punk artifacts like “Love Will Tear Us Apart” and “New Dawn Fades.”(GW)

quits after four years. This show is another reunion show—it’s being billed as their “last last” show, but I wouldn’t be too sure. Maybe they jumped the gun too quickly, because ska is making a slow comeback, and these guys seemed like they really enjoyed playing the music. Hard Girls, the Cap and 9:00 News open. (BD)

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Nickel City, San Jose Fri – 8pm; $10 By their own admission, Cheers to Doerr broke up because “ska punk gets boring.” I beg to differ. It’s all the in way it’s played. During the third wave of ska, some bands later admitted they didn’t even like ska; they just played it because it happened to be popular at the time. But Cheers to Doerr came later, in 2006, and called it

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Homestead Lanes, Cupertino Sat – 9pm; $5 “Dimidium” sounds like one of those awesome chemical elements that hasn’t been discovered yet, like adamantium and everybody’s favorite, unobtainium. I don’t

know what it really is, except that dimidium bromide is used to treat trypanosomiasis. And I don’t really know anything about trypanosomiasis, except that it would make a perfect metal band name, too. Anyway, the band Dimidium is made up of four boys from Morgan Hill who look not only like they could kick my ass, but also like they actually want to. Rejection Trigger and 5150 open. (SP)

THE CHOP TOPS Avalon, Santa Clara Sat – 8pm; $12 One of Santa Cruz’s most venerable live acts, the Chop Tops are both rip-roaringly contemporary and thoroughly traditional. The band’s high-octane rockabilly eschews the punk-infused approach so popular today in favor of an energetic

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SHITKICKERS

Jan 6 at 9pm, the Pagoda Lounge at the Fairmont, San Jose

WINGROVE DANCE CO. JJan 6–9, the Stage, San Jose

DEAD SOULS Jan 7 at a 9pm, Blank Club, San Jose

BAREFOOT NELLIES Jan 8 at 8pm, Sunnyvale Theatre

BIG SYPHE Jan 8, Wet Nightclub, San Jose Ja

CREATV AWARDS Jan 8 at 6pm, San Jose Repertory Theatre

THE FLOYD PROJECT Jan 8 at 8pm, Visual and Performing Arts Center, De Anza College, A Cupertino

RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS Jan 8, 9:3 9:30am-1pm, Episcopal Church of St. Peter, Redwood City

NAKAMATSU/BENOIT Duo piano pi Rhapsody in Blue, Jan 9 at 7: 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center

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SYMPATHY ENDS The Refuge, Cupertino Sat – 6pm; $10 Metal used to be ugly. I mean, really ugly. From Lemmy’s warts to Udo Dirkscheider’s bulbous melon

to Mick Mars’ complex features to Billy Milano’s girth, metal was the music for the rest of us. Sympathy Ends has the chops minus the homeliness. They look nice and dress spiffy, but their music takes the front seat. After going through some member shufﬂing, they’ve incorporated a more melodic death metal slant into their already thrash/hardcore sound. Also performing is proggy Salinas death metal band Aethere. (BD)

THEATRE FLAMENCO Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts Sat – 8pm; $36-$41 For its 45th anniversary concert, Theatre Flamenco, a San Francisco–based troupe under the direction of Carola Zertuche, presents “Una Nota Flamenco.”

Guest artists from Spain (dancers Manual Gutierrez, Juan Siddi and Christina Hall, as well as Gypsy singer Cristo Cortes) will join the group for an exploration of the emotional intensity that dancers can wring from a single musical note. (MSG)

*sun NAKAMATSU AND BENOIT Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Sun – 7:30pm; $55-$60 In a perfect world, piano masters would ﬁght each other kung-fu style. Unfortunately, that’s not how they roll at the Montalvo Piano Masters series—apparently, all

you have to do to be invited is be an internationally acclaimed pianist. Whatever. Anyway, both David Benoit and Jon Nakamatsu qualify under those sissy rules, although I have a feeling the kung fu is strong in both of them. Benoit is a ﬁve-time Grammy nominee, as well as a former artist-in-residence at Montalvo. Nakamatsu was featured in the piano-competition documentary Playing With Fire and recently released an album of Gershwin with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. (SP)

Featu Featuring violinists Nora Chastain and Cynthia Baehr. Jan 9 at 7pm, Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

OLIVE KITTERIDGE Jan 9 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford

EMANUEL AX Jan 12 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford

SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY Jan 15 at 8pm and Jan 16 at 2:30pm, California Theatre, San Jose

MAKAHA SONS Jan 16 at 7:30pm, Carriage House, Montalvo Arts Center

MUSIC@MENLO WINTER SERIES Jan 16 at 4pm, Center for the Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton

JOSHUA REDMAN SOLO Jan 19 at 7:30pm, Carriage House, Montalvo Arts Center

LANG LANG Jan 23 at 7:30pm, California Theatre, San Jose

BERRY SAKHAROF Jan 29 at 8pm, Memorial Auditorium, Stanford

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The Floyd Project Saturday, 8pm; De Anza Visual and Performing Arts Center Theater; $45/$40 Roger Waters’ rebuilding The Wall tour was one of the most successful of 2010, so it stands to reason that there is a lot of pent-up Pink Floyd demand waiting to be ﬁlled, and the Floyd Project ﬁlls the bill with a multimedia tribute show featuring a live 10-piece band and a full array of laser and light effects. The evening includes versions of the albums The Wall, Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of the Moon.

San José Chamber Orchestra Sunday, 7pm; Le Petit Trianon, San Jose; $35 and up

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Violinists Nora Chastain (pictured) and Cynthia Baehr join the orchestra for Bach’s Violin Concerto in A Minor and Concerto for Two Violins. In keeping with the spirit of the concert—titled “Celebrate Bach!—the ensemble also presents works in a Bachian vein by Arvo Pärt and Villa-Lobos plus California Suite, a new work by young composer Gamely Galindo.

Word for Word Sunday, 2:30pm; Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford; $38-$42 The art of the short story gets a revivifying boost from Word for Word Performing Arts Company, which performs compact tales in their entirety onstage. For the group’s Stanford Lively Arts show, Word for Word will deliver Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, a suite of stories about small-town Maine. The production comes complete with sets and lighting—and every word intact.

CreaTiVe Awards Saturday, 6pm; San Jose Repertory Theater; $40/$50 Local nonproﬁt public TV outlet CreaTV honors some of the areas best videographers at an awards ceremony. The new awards will be handed out for citizen journalists, ﬁlmmakers, students and more. The event also helps kick off Silicon Valley Channel 30, a new highly focused initiative for local programming from CreaTV.

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FIREBIRD DANCE THEATER “Imaginarium” is a mix of modern, folk, ballet and

ballroom styles styles. Sun Sun, 5pm 5pm. $15-$22. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Palo Alto.

MARGARET WINGROVE DANCE COMPANY A 30th anniversary show looks back at the company’s many dances. Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. $25-$40. The Stage Theatre, San Jose.

THEATRE FLAMENCO A 45th anniversary appearance by the San Francisco troupe. Sat, 8pm. $36-$41. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

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The Makaha Sons Sun, Jan 16, 7:30 pm Starting S arting at $27 St The Makaha The Makaha Sons Sons are are considered considered to to b be eo one ne of of H awaii’s premier premier Hawaiian Hawaiian musical musical g roups. Hawaii’s groups. T heir incomparable incomparable vocal vocal a rrangements a nd Their arrangements and delightful stage stage presence presence ﬁlled ﬁlled with comical comical antics hav ew on the hearts hearrts of thousands of have won ffans ans worldwide. worldwide.

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“Learn to Play Too.”The group show about games and recreation is expanded in a second part. Thru Feb 24. TueThu, 11am-3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.

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A full-scale reconstruction of Pink Floyd onstage with live tribute band and special lighting effects. Sat, 8pm. $35. Visual and Performing Arts Center, De Anza College, Cupertino.

“Celebrating Local Artists: The Fifth Anniversary of the McKay Gallery.” A look at the McKay’s collection, including paintings and sketches by ADM Cooper. Thru Mar. In the Pasetta House. “Explore San Jose Parks: Open to the Public Since 1850.”Thru Jan 23. At Paciﬁc Hotel Gallery. TueSun, 11am-5pm. San Jose.

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With W ith seven seven studio studio albums, albums, a Grammy Grammy Award, Award, a and nd three thr ee additional nominations, nominatio ons, Vega’s Vega’s latest latest CD, Beauty & Crime iiss a love love letter letter to to h her er hometown hometown of New New York York City City and and was was hailed hailed as as “original, “original, of gritty and gorgeous gorgeous as ever” ever” e by Ne Newsweek wsw week e .

The short-story performingarts company presents “Olive Kitteridge” by Elizabeth Strout, fully dramatized and with complete text. Sun, 2:30pm. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.

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CLUBFOX Mon, 8pm: Comedy Monday hosted by Dan St. Paul. $10. Redwood City.

COMEDYSPORTZ An interactive improvised comedy show. Fri, 9 and 11pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm. $12/$15. ComedySportz, San Jose.

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Celebrate Bach! Sunday January 9, 2011 7 pm Le Petit Trianon, 72 N 5th St. San José Barbara Day Turner, conductor Nora Chastain and Cynthia Baehr, violinists Violin Concerto in a minor, J.S. Bach Concerto for two violins, J.S. Bach INSPIRED BY BACH: California Suite*, Gamaliel Galindo Collage sur B-A-C-H, Arvo Pärt Bachianas Brasilieras #9, Villa-Lobos Tickets $35-$60

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The team from “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” performs with the help of audience suggestions. Sat, 8pm. $29.50-$65. Flint Center, Cupertino.

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Woodcuts From 16th-Century Italy.”Thru Feb 27. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.

Wed, 8pm: Dana Eagle with Jon Talbert and Ken Townsend. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Robert Duchaine with Dana Eagle. $12$16. Sunnyvale.

SANJOSEIMPROV Wed, 8pm: Dirtbag Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri-Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Sinbad. $25. San Jose.

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Museums CANTORARTSCENTER “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. “Chiaroscuro

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.

LOS GATOS HISTORY MUSEUM “Bear in Mind: The Story of the California Grizzly.”Thru Feb 27. Wed-Sun, noon-4pm. Los Gatos.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Scaffolding + Sky.” A new installation by Denicia Gantner in skybridge. Ongoing. “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. “Retro-Tech.”Thru Feb 6. “Vital Signs: New Media From the Permanent Collection.”Thru Feb 6. “Degrees 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 “Cream of the Cloth: Quilts From the Marbaum Collection.” A rich sampling of contemporary quilts and ﬁber art. “Yvonne Porcella: Bold Strokes.” A 25-year survey. Both shows run thru Jan 30. TueSun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

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TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Heidi Brueckner.”Thru Feb 20. “2010 Statewide Watercolor Competition/Exhibition.”Thru Feb 27. “Sweet Obsession.” Works by Lynn Powers. Thru Feb 27. TueWed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm. Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

Galleries OPENING PALO ALTO ART CENTER “The Nature of Entanglement.” Patrick Dougherty will spent nearly three weeks working on a large environmental site-speciﬁc project. There will also be an exhibit of photos of Doughterty’s other works. Jan 11-28. Palo Alto.

CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI “Fresh Produce.” With art from more than 30 participating artists from around the world. Thru Jan 8. San Jose.

CAFFE TRIESTE “Robot Girl.” Works by Christine Benjamin. Thru Jan 28. San Jose.

DIRIDON STATION “The Way to San Jose.” An overview of transportation history in the valley, sponsored by Rotary Club of San Jose and History San Jose. Ongoing. San Jose.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA Works in clay by Paul Rubio. Thru Jan 28. San Jose.

GALLERY HOUSE “Small Works.”Thru Feb 5. Tue, 11am-4pm, Wed-Sat, 11am-8pm, Sun 11am-3pm. Enter through Printer’s Ink, Palo Alto.

GALLERY SARATOGA “Street Scenes.” Oil paintings by Karina Svalya. Reception Jan 28, 6-8pm. Show runs thru Feb 6. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm. Big Basin Way, Saratoga.

GOOD KARMA VEGAN CAFE “SJSU Color 112: Exploring the Hyperreal.” An exhibit by photography students. Thru Jan 28. San Jose.

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VIEWERS OF Black Swan who thought that Vincent Cassel’s character was a triﬂe exaggerated in his psycho-sexual motivational techniques should consider the track record of the famous choreographer Anthony Tudor. According to Jennifer Homans’ superb new book, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet, Tudor “was known for breaking his dancers emotionally . . . through humiliation, with cutting personal attacks and sexual remarks that pulled dancers into a spiral of self-hatred”—all as a “deliberate strategy.”

WE ALL need something to get us through the long winter nights— a talisman, a consolation, some sort of mental binky. Ever since Nov. 1, 2010, I have enjoyed the warm succor of the World Series victory by the Giants. I know I am not alone; I continue to get calls from my friends asking me, in wonderment, “Are we still World Champions?”

Homans, a professional dancer and history professor, informs Apollo’s Angels with her personal commitment to the discipline of ballet as well as her extensive knowledge of its social and political context over the centuries. Her chronicle begins with the French court dances of the 16th century, courses through various national traditions and ends with the death of Russian-American choreographer George Balanchine.

That’s what waiting more than a half-century (56 years to be exact, but who was counting?) can do to a baseball fan. I took special solace in the signal event in the dire aftermath of the midterm elections, when listening to the news on the radio became too painful to endure. OK, I said, they can have the House of Representatives—we won the Series, and beat the team that W used to own in the process.

At the French court, dancing was inextricably tied to royal politics. What began in the 1500s as a way of controlling and sacralizing the unruly life of the body was transformed into a method for physically manifesting the hierarchy of courtiers under the French monarchs in the 1600s. Louis XIII wrote his own ritual dances, casting himself as the Sun and Apollo. These proto-ballets often used “burlesque, erotic and acrobatic elements” to please palace crowds in the thousands, but it was always clear 8gfccfÊj 8e^\cj1 that these were “grand displays of power 8 ?`jkfip f] 9Xcc\k performed by and for those in power.” By Jennifer Homans The political purposes of ballet were still in play Random House; 643 pages; during the Cold War. The Soviets, as culturally $35 hardback conservative as they were politically radical, dedicated themselves to preserving the classical tradition of 19th-century story ballets at the Bolshoi and Kirov ballets, and then sent dancers on triumphal tours of the West. Of course, once they saw Paris and New York, the Soviet stars (Rudolf Nureyev) didn’t want to stay on the collective farm. The apotheosis of Homans’ narrative is Balanchine. “Musical and physical precision lay at the core of his art,” and he used them in behalf of ballets that connected with the history of dance, but never just as museum-piece reconstructions. Balanchine’s best works “captured the essence of the French school of ballet (tinged with Imperial Russia), with its formal rigor and decorative ﬂair.” In a downbeat Epilogue, Homans looks at the post-Balanchine landscape and frets that ballet is beginning to “resemble a dying language,” a “sleeping beauty” that may never awake without a rejuvenating kiss from a new genius outside the self-encased tradition. Homans’ graceful prose, deep scholarship and obvious dedication to the endangered tradition, make Apollo’s Angels a major step toward the artistic rebirth she seeks.—Michael S. Gant

Now there is a way to bask in the experience. The MLB Productions and A&E Home Entertainment World Series package collects every game of the series against the Texas Rangers, plus games four and six of the National League Championship Series against the much-vaunted and then vanquished Phillies and a bonus disc with satisfying snippets from the regular season and the postseason. It is possible, J= >`Xekj )'(' for example, to savor in quick doses Nfic[ J\i`\j Cody Ross’ two home runs against Roy :fcc\ZkfiÊj <[`k`fe Halladay; Aaron Rowland and Buster Posey nailing Carlos Ruiz at the plate in a crucial play in the NLCS; or Aubrey Huff ’s Eight discs; $79.95 one-of-a-kind bunt. ‘The Magic Inside,’ one disc; $17.99 The complete game broadcasts allow MLB Productions/ for repeated nostalgic wallowing, minus A&E Home Entertainment the annoying commercials and with the advantage of knowing the outcome, thus lowering the anxiety level (it’s like rewatching a great movie thriller like Psycho—you know Janet Leigh’s going to get it, but you still admire the artistry behind the surprise). One significant advantage of these discs is that the audio channels make it possible to turn off the insufferable Joe Buck and Tim McCarver and listen instead to the Giants broadcasts with Duane Kuiper and Mike Krukow. The call of the final out (“A swing and a miss . . . and for the first time . . .”) made this grown man cry. At about $80, the set isn’t cheap; a condensed documentary of the miracle year is available in a single disc called The Magic Inside. But a true fan will want the full collection. After all, prorated over 56 years that’s ballpark salted peanuts.—Michael S. Gant

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Sweeney’s Choices THERE MAY never have been a book quite like Stephen Sondheim’s Finishing the Hat: Collected Lyrics (1954–1981), in which an 80-yearold songsmith takes an X-ray to his work, while evaluating predecessors too dead to complain. “I like to pontiﬁcate as much as anyone who thinks he knows what he’s talking about,” says Sondheim, and this book is indeed satisfyingly pejorative.

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MACLA “Hybrid Spaces: Family Origins & Collaborations.” Works by Las Hermanas Iglesias and Amy Diaz-Infante. Thru Jan 8. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

METROLOBBY “Edge of Nowhere.” A show by First St. Photo Collective. Thru Jan 28. San Jose.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “From Within, So Without” by Ali Maschke-Messing. Thru Jun 1. “Sculpture on the Grounds: David Middlebrook.”Thru Jun 1. “The Oldest Living Things in the World.” Photographs by Rachel Sussman. Thru Jan 16. Saratoga.

PHANTOMGALLERIES Works in storefronts by Sean Sczepanik and Steven Sczepanik. Along South First Street, San Jose.

SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Old Technology.” A retrospective of painting, sculpture and installations by SJSU artist Tony May. Thru Feb 26. Tue-Fri, 10am5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

STANFORD ART SPACES Textile work by Alice Beasley, paintings by James Su and John Sundstrom. Thru Jan 20. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. Stanford.

WORKS/SAN JOSE “Ring in the New.” A member exhibit. Thru Jan 7. San Jose.

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The author appears on behalf of his new thriller, “Damage.” Fri, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.

RAINN WILSON Dwight from “The Ofﬁce” talks about his new book, “Soulpancake: Chew on Life’s Big Questions.”Thu, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.

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ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY A family show from California Theatre Center based on Judith Viorst’s book. Sat, 11am. Thru Jan 15. $11/$12. Sunnyvale Theater.

MICKEY’SMAGICSHOW Mickey and Minnie join magicians onstage for a family show full of fun illusions. Sat-Sun, noon and 3pm. $25-$63. San Jose Civic Auditorium.

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The lecture series hosts a talk by bike designers Sammy

Rodriguez and Matthew Rodriguez of Shorty Fatz. Thu, 5-8pm. Free with museum admission. San Jose Museum of Art.

DOWNTOWN ICE An ice-skating rink downtown. Thru Jan 17. Downtown San Jose on Market at San Fernando.

LUNCHTIME LECTURE A talk about artmaking in the digital era by artists Griff Williams. Wed, noon. Free. San Jose Museum of Art.

RESHAPING GOVERNANCE IN THE INFORMATION AGE A talk by Warren Slocum, chief elections ofﬁcer for San Mateo County; part of Technology and Society Committee’s speaker series. Tue, 11:45am. Lunch $12. Hangen Szechuan Restaurant, Mountain View.

SILICON VALLEY INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW A full hall of new ideas in automotive transport. Thu-Sat, 10am-10pm, Sun, 10am-7pm. $5-$9. San Jose McEnery Convention Center.

SINGLES ARTS CAFE The monthly series presents Russian-Israeli classical guitarist Yuri Liberson. Thu, 7:30pm. $10-$15. Schultz Cultural Arts Hall, Palo Alto.

WEDDING FAIRE A full plate of vendors, displays, fashion shows and other marital-ceremony information. Sat-Sun, 10am-4pm. $12. Santa Clara Convention Center.

One by one, Sondheim goes after the greats of the musical theater beginning, with his friend and mentor Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers and . . .). Sondheim’s objections come from a number of sides. One is that the more mature subject matter of O&H put a chill on “the delight in lyrics for lyrics’ sake.” He cites also the curdled influence of early 1900s operetta in Hammerstein’s work, as well as the persistent avian imagery: anything, as Sondheim says, with wings or feathers. This is probably why the author objects to the Oklahoma! lyric about watching a hawk making lazy circles in the sky, one of Hammerstein’s most rapturous verses—and hardly fiction, either; it’s an accurate summing up of what you might see if you visited Oklahoma. Yet Sondheim himself wrote a brilliant emulation of the caged-bird musichall tune for Sweeney Todd, possibly inspired by “Goodbye, Little Yellow Bird” from the 1945 film of The Picture of Dorian Gray. The composer’s opinions on both flops and hits are measured and without excuses. Note his comment on the 1960s financial failure Anyone Can Whistle, which sounds like a parody of The Song of Bernadette crossed with the sentimental French film King of Hearts. Sondheim says, “The fault was not in our stars but in ourselves.” Pity, since one of the stars, Lee Remick, must have been something to see doing an ooh-la-la mam’selle Frenchy number titled “Come Play Wiz Me.” Always considered caviar to the general audience, Sondheim may be best known for “Send in the Clowns,” covered by everyone from Judy Collins to Krusty the Klown. This, despite the shrewd, politically pointed writing in West Side Story and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Similarly, despite the ingenuity of dozens of songs that glitter in cabarets and jazz clubs everywhere, it’s Sweeney Todd that hooks me most.

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“I liked theater, but I loved movies,” Sondheim says, when introducing the transcribed lyrics of Sweeney Todd. It was inspired by Bernard Herrmann’s score for Hangover Square; this is essentially a cinematic “movie for the stage” and resulted in the best of the five film adaptations of his work. This blood opera is a classic of 1970s art and attitude. Its short first run coincided with the fall of Carter and the rise of Reagan. Even though set in the early Victorian era, Sweeney Todd sums up everything that one loved the most about that fractious decade: the punk morbidity, the merciless iconoclasm, the lament for urban misery, the rampant social equality that was so soon to be undone by the aristocracy of ’80s big money. Maybe it’s my prejudice, reading this book of prejudices, but Todd seems the flowering of what Sondheim was trying do. It’s the next-to-last study in a book that could seriously use a sequel. —Richard von Busack

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a bad idea: the two of them will head for one of those honeymoonthemed motels in the Poconos for a romantic getaway. As they travel, there are flashbacks showing us the way they met some five or six years previously. Dean was once an aimless kid, working at a moving-van company in Brooklyn. On a job in Pennsylvania, he has a chance encounter with Cindy. She was, at the time, a pre-med student involved with a real alpha-male type named Bobby (Mike Vogel). Dean decides that she is his destiny, love at first sight. And now, they have been married for five years. “Welcome to the future,” Dean says as they settle down to some serious vodka drinking. Cindy and Dean, on edge already, spend the night in a space-

ship-themed vacation room with steel walls, a glowing console and a round rotating bed. The memories come back unbidden, all the way to the hung-over dawn. Blue Valentine’s biggest problem is common to films that have been slaved over for a decade, as this one was. Some of the details are still in director Derek Cianfrace’s head. The movie’s shifts of time grind, even with matching shots: the lacy green roadside weeds giving way to a bunch of flowers brought for the first meeting with Cindy’s parents. We keep asking: Where are we in the story now? We stay disoriented, despite Dean’s drastic change of look: as a married man, he has more stubble, less hair, Elvis glasses and a truck-stop T-shirt with an American eagle profile on it. Having left New York City, Dean apparently decided to start playing a hick, and he’s a ringer for Jason Lee in My Name Is Earl. The performances on the outer rings of the film aren’t as dense as Gosling and Williams’ searching

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explorations of a troubled marriage. Sylvia Sidney look-alike Jen Jones is memorable as Cindy’s grandmother. Ben Shenkman, playing the physician who is Cindy’s boss, needed about three times as much screen time as he got to develop his motives as a character; the reveal of the latter is far too blatant. That said, Blue Valentine’s main point of view belongs to Cindy, who as the dissatisfied party takes over the film. She wants out of the marriage even as Dean clings to it; cinema always favors the moving over the still. Dean believes he’s made it in life: he gets to drink beer on the job. What we start to see, because of Williams’ acting, is something bigger than this couple’s feud, something more like the war of the body and the soul. The film writers have fixated on Williams’ body, and that’s OK because it popularizes an important tragic film. But there’s nothing yielding, teasing or popularly erotic about the way Cindy handles Dean’s need for intimacy. So Gosling has tough work as an actor, portraying this man watching the love of his life slip away; his Dean can be childish, or childishly debonair, calling his seething wife a “saucy little minx” as if that’ll sweeten her temper. He’s insistent, but so is a drowning person. More than anything, Blue Valentine makes it clear what a terrible thing “romantic destiny” would be if it really existed. Problem-wracked as it is, Blue Valentine is one of the most ambitious films of the year. As for Williams: Wendy and Lucy suggested that she had something deep inside her, something that reflects and sometimes improves on classic work by Ingrid Bergman and Marilyn Monroe (whom she’ll be playing soon). She simply gives the single best female performance of the year.

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New (R; 114 min.) See review on page 39. (Opens Fri at the Aquarius in Palo Alto.)

(PG-13; 112 min.) A drama with Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw and Garrett Hedlund about two star performers, one on the way up and one on the way down. (Opens Fri.)

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(R; 108 min.) The late George Hickenlooper, a Palo Altoan for many years, directed the feature ďŹ lm version of the story of Jack Abramoff (Kevin Spacey), the swinish ďŹ xer whose corruption reached all the way to the top of government. (Opens Fri at Century 16 Mountain View and CinĂŠArts Santana Row.) (RvB)

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SEASON OF THE WITCH (PG-13; 113 min.) This latest opus by Dominic Sena (SwordďŹ sh) takes us on a CGI journey to the 1400s, where the one and only Nicolas Cage battles supernatural witchiness. With Ron Perlman and Christopher Lee. (Opens Fri.)

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Local Visions SOME Africans believe that if you mix the blood of a virgin with herbs, you have a potion that will heal any disease. According to the Zimbabwean activist Betty Makoni, this superstition led in time to an inexpressibly tragic belief: that sex with a virgin will cure AIDS. The locally made documentary Tapestries of Hope documents how this superstition has resulted in an epidemic of child rape. According to Makoniâ€™s website (http:// girlchildnetworkworldwide.org) the rapes are sometimes hard to prosecute; often itâ€™s the politically well-connected who carry out this kind of blood magic. Despite her own hardshipsâ€”she was raped at 7 and saw her father beating her mother to deathâ€”Makoni started three separate villages for raped girls to find refuge and get back into school. This work has earned her recognition as one of CNNâ€™s Top 10 Heroes for 2009. San Mateo County filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley traveled to Zimbabwe to meet with Makoni, shortly before Makoni herself was chased out of her own country. Risley herself was arrested while in Zimbabwe and warned that she would be murdered in jail. Though she admits

sheâ€™s not the kind of filmmaker who prefers to be in front of the camera, Risley has included her own story while reporting on Makoniâ€™s bravery.

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Tapestries of Hope was co-produced by Livermoreâ€™s Ray Wang. Also on the bill at this one-night screening is Wangâ€™s KXg\jki`\j short The Profile, f] ?fg\ concerning the kind Xe[ of worst-case scenario K_\ GifĂ“c\ that might happen at the nearby weapons Tuesday, 8pm lab. A researcher Bluelight Cinemas, named Tran is accused Cupertino by the government of leaking secrets to Taiwan; he gets tried in the press and it seems suspicions have fallen on him because heâ€™s Asian. Long Nguyen (Oliver Stoneâ€™s Heaven and Earth) does solid work as the accused, and director/producer Wang (a former concert keyboardist) provides appropriately tragic music as Tran goes through his ordeal. Itâ€™s made all the more ironic by the fact that the accused is an ex-boat person who sought freedom in the greatest country in the worldâ€”a clichĂŠ used here to highlight just what kind of a world it is. â€”Richard von Busack

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(2008) Those denatured Latin beats and ESL lyrics one can’t get enough of are back for the Sing Along Experience. The lovely but dim 20year-old Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) invites the three men who might have sired her: the mildly depressed Harry (Colin Firth), the globetrotting sailor Bill (Stellan Skarsgard) and the dashing architect or something Sam (Pierce Brosnan). It’s meant as a surprise to her mother, Donna (Meryl Streep). Essay question: What kind of daughter does this to her mother? Streep is endearing in comedy, and she gives “The Winner Takes It All” Streisand-level force. Here and there are times when this music isn’t as bad as it sounds. (Plays Jan 7-9 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

(R; 107 min.) Natalie Portman plays Nina, a dancer in New York with an overbearing stage mom, Erica (Barbara Hershey). The director of the ballet company, Thomas (Vincent Cassel), is exasperated by Nina’s virginal approach to the dance. With the challenge comes worse news. First, the arrival of a

new young dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis). Second, the jettisoning of the former diva, Beth (Winona Ryder). Trapped among rival, director and smothering mother, Nina starts to crack. Mirrors go bad, and she hears voices. Self-mutilation has been a part of director Darren Aronofsky’s work ever since Pi. Aronofsky prepares us for the torture from the beginning, when Nina cracks her toes in the morning, and they

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THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) Evil, perverted bisexual Dr. Frank N. Furter (Tim Curry) conducts strange experiments in his Indiana castle to which clean-cut Brad and Janet (a young and bouncy Susan Sarandon) are forced to bear witness. They are joined by the various glitter-rat denizens of the castle, including Riff Raff (Richard O’Brian, who scripted) and Eddie (Meatloaf). Call it what you like: ﬂotsam from the wreckage of the ’70s, a piece of the Old World before AIDS, herpes and Reagan, or the ultimate cult musical. Here’s hoping it makes a new generation of preteens a little more comfortable with their sexuality. The Bawdy Caste are on hand to reprise their sell-out performance last Halloween. (Plays Jan 8 at 10pm at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

1965 BLACK BEAUTY • Good condition minus some bullet holes. • Grill-Mounted M2 Flamethrower. • Dual Hood-Mounted .30 Cal M1919 Machine Guns. • 12 Front & Rear FIM-92A Stinger Missiles. • Two ejector seats. • 500 horsepower, unlimited firepower.

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sound off like gunshots. In the rehearsal scenes, the camera spins around with the dancers, and we hear the scufďŹ ng of feet and the harsh panting of the dancers. Itâ€™s all hard, anguish-ridden work. When the music commences, Black Swan ďŹ nally feels like a great movie, simply because the Tchaikovsky would make us believe anything. (RvB)

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Scarface I DONâ€™T WANT to make a mountain out of Red Hill, but those obsessed with True Grit and who are seeking out another Western real fast could do worse. Director Patrick Hughes makes his inďŹ‚uences clear in this story of a modern Australian small townâ€™s night of terror: he names the new constable â€œCooper,â€? as in Gary. Ryan Kwanten (â€œJasonâ€? in True Blood) left the city for reasons known to him and his very pregnant wife. His new chief, Bill (Australian TV star Steve Bisley), is the head man in a hamlet thatâ€™s evaporating right before the old manâ€™s eyes. During Cooperâ€™s ďŹ rst morning on the job, the TV reports an escape from a nearby prison: Jimmy (Tommy Lewis, a kind of Down Under Charles Bronson) is coming back to settle some old scores. Blatant is the word for Red Hill, with Lewisâ€™ scar-faced gunman named Jimmy in honor of Lewisâ€™ title role in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. On the soundtrack, the AC/DC-worthy cockrock of Stevie Wrightâ€™s â€œBlack-Eyed Bruiserâ€? recalls Australiaâ€™s berserker â€™70s movies; we hear it as the riďŹ‚e-bearing Jimmy cleans out lurkers in a motel.

Maybe youâ€™d have to be as monumental as Bisleyâ€”he has a ďŹ erce white BuďŹ€alo Bill beard and doesnâ€™t look at all ludicrous for itâ€”to have a straight enough face to inform the posse that, when Jimmie arrives, â€œHeâ€™ll be bringing hell with him.â€? The script and the I\[ ?`cc soundtrack parrot other movies, but the R; 95 min. landscape speaks for itself. Opens Friday, The town scenes are shot Camera 12, around Omeo, Victoria, in San Jose the wild, cold and rugged area called Gippsland. Itâ€™s so desolate that a bit about a mystery beast prowling the hills (letâ€™s just say itâ€™s a kind of feline Hound of the Baskervilles) doesnâ€™t seem to be ridiculous. The country is so high and wide that one almost understands Old Billâ€™s scorn at the environmentalists who are preserving it, because â€œsomebody might step on a fucking ďŹ‚ower.â€? Maybe so, but Hughesâ€™ straight-fromâ€“High Noon account of the cravenness of the townsfolk and Kwantenâ€™s believably done assumption of the ďŹ lmâ€™s moral center wonâ€™t step on anyoneâ€™s toes. â€”Richard von Busack

(PG-13; 115 min.) Shaped like the end of a trilogy (despite a proposed sequel), the new Narnia heads to its appointed port, loaded to the gunwales with a cargo of moral lessons. The elder Pevensies, Peter and Susan, are in America. Left behind are two younger children, Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes), who are billeted with their hateful cousin Eustace (Will Poulter). Inundated by an enchanted painting, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace end up bobbing in the sea right next to the Narnian navy vessel containing Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes). Eventually, seven golden swords have to be rescued and placed on the altar of Aslan. The shipmates encounter onelegged giants, a green mist that envelops sacriďŹ cial humans and a dragonâ€™s treasure hoard, which curses those who steal it. There are times when the Narnia movies are

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as good as CGI gets. The animators challenge themselves to pose their legions of creatures under highnoon lighting, instead of disguising the ďŹ‚aws with half-shadows or twilight. (RvB)

FAIR GAME (PG-13; 108 min.) Doug Limanâ€™s account of the felonious Valerie Plame business is a model of exciting, intelligent espionage lore. Itâ€™s shot with braced but ďŹ‚uid camerawork. Naomi Wattsâ€™ performance as Plame is one of the yearâ€™s best. In the short period between the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraq invasion, members of the CIA ask the independent consultant Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn) to go to Niger to conďŹ rm conďŹ dential reports of uranium being sent to Saddam Hussein. Wilson quickly discovers there was no such shipment. In a Nixonian attempt to silence a whistleblower, high Bush administration ďŹ gures leak the name of Wilsonâ€™s wife, Victoria Plame, to columnist Robert Novak, a move that destroys her career and puts her operations in jeopardy. Itâ€™s hard for a ďŹ lm to be all things to all people. Fair Gameâ€™s script is less surefooted with the domestic drama than it is with the paranoid/ political tale-telling. (RvB)

GULLIVERâ€™S TRAVELS (PG; 93 min.) Whether one is a fan of his or not, most would agree that Jack Black is about as big as he ought to get. The computer effects to make Black vast in the desperately edited Gulliverâ€™s Travels seem like wretched excess. Shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, Blackâ€™s Gulliver meets a race of bite-sized foreigners who imprison him. Subplots include a bromance between Black and a Lilliputian (Jason Segel) with a crush of his own on the kingdomâ€™s princess (Emily Blunt), as well as conďŹ‚ict with a jealous (and unfunny) general, played by Chris Oâ€™Dowd). Parts of the script are reasonably faithful to the book; nearly straight from Swift is a passage on the here-unnamed island of Brobdingnag. Itâ€™s the ďŹ lmâ€™s comedic highlight maybe because Black is temporarily cut down to size. By the time the directors haul out a giant robot, itâ€™s clear that the most interesting part of this tale went missing. Swiftâ€™s satire on the stupidity of wars of religion is here just a vague anti-war message. The heavy product placement is shoved in by people blind to the implications of what happens when a cargo-bearing colossus arrives on a small island. (RvB)

(PG-13; 146 min.) A second Battle of Britain has broken out between the mortals and the wizards; the Hogwarts alumni (Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe) ďŹ‚ee through a blitzed-out land. Unfortunately, the single most ďŹ‚abbergasting part comes early on: an armada on broomsticks breaking through the cloud ceiling, straight into a dogďŹ ght of death-eaters. In the middle, the trio hides in the countryside amid blasted heaths and burned-out trailers, and things start to resemble Twilight before the ďŹ lm gets on its feet again. The startling Balinese-style puppet animation of the titleâ€™s fable is a highlight of the series. Grint, the clumsy/suave best pal Ron Weasley, seems to be growing into another Malcolm McDowell. Our beautiful Snape (Alan Rickman) towers over his evil cohort. Helena Bonham Carter is almost as nasty as Margaret Hamilton. (RvB)

HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG-13; 116 min.) Two men contend for the affections of Lisa (Reese Witherspoon), an exâ€“softball player. Matty (Owen Wilson) is a genial, promiscuous pitcher for the Washington Nationals. George (Paul Rudd) is too nice and too intimidated to pounce on Lisa. Sedation sets in. How Do You Know is ďŹ lmed by director James L. Brooks with little interest for the cityscapes of Washington, D.C. Itâ€™s staffed by easily recognized sitcom types who stay typed throughout the ďŹ lm. Brooks is trying to force these actors into the mold of some of his older stars, but Witherspoon is too seething to be Mary Tyler Moore, and Rudd doesnâ€™t have the shrewdness of Albert Brooks. Using the same kind of rhythms, gags and teaching moments of â€™70s network-TV comedy, director Brooks is trying to address recession misery. Lisa and George are without jobs and may not get hired again. Unfortunately, as in his last ďŹ lm, Spanglish, Brooks has no handle on the way the lower class lives today. (RvB)

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the truth: their subject is a kind of sociopath. Despite Stevenâ€™s narration (untrustworthy, naturally) the ďŹ lm never gets bigger than a sum of its sometimes amusing incidents. Call it a het-up, sweet, essentially unsophisticated date movie. Carrey shticks like crazy; McGregor is blond and lamblike; the love scenes have no heat, no musk, no offhanded tenderness. Obviously, the directors were scared straight. And the two leads dive into the trysts like swimmers leaping into a chilly water, shouting to mask the discomfort. (RvB)

(R; 118 min.) Colin Firth gives a deeply affecting portrayal of a shame-wracked man born and bred to be a spokesman, yet who is handicapped with a crippling stammer. In the 1930s, Firth is the Duke of York, a family man with a wife named Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter). The stammering duke, known to his family as â€œBertie,â€? is the official spare to the heir, next in line to the Prince of Wales (a superlatively cast Guy Pearce embodies this

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LITTLE FOCKERS (PG-13, 98 min.) The cast members of the previous two sitcom movies gather like the clouds heralding a rainy weekend. Dustin Hoffman

and Barbra Streisand turn up as the libidinous parents of the gelded Greg (Ben Stiller). Further humiliation comes from the reappearance of Gregâ€™s wifeâ€™s old boyfriend Kevin (Owen Wilson), while Robert De Niro grumps it up as the WASP father-in-law. Some relief is provided by Laura Dern as the head of some phenomenally expensive private kindergarten. Dern, as diehard fans of Inland Empire know, is a tremendous puller of faces. Some of the ones she makes here include: Kabuki Actor Upon First Viewing Great Grandson, Mentally Disabled Queen at Her Coronation, Evangelical Pastorâ€™s Wife Presented With Nobel Prize for Most Ladylike Woman. Upon Dernâ€™s twitchy shoulders rides the fate of a movie that might have been saved, if that was even possible. She tried. (RvB)

MADE IN DAGENHAM (R; 113 min.) Sometimes boneless but basically rousing and evocative story of the spring 1968 strike that helped inaugurate the movement for equal pay for women; Sally Hawkins (Happy Go Lucky) soulfully underplays the role of the ringleader of a small group of seamstresses working at the massive Ford plant at Dagenham in England; their greivance leads to the stoppage of the entire factory, and brings in intervention from the prime minister. Bob Hoskins is unexpectedly gentle as a bespectacled union leader. If you like passing on the received idea that Daniel Mays is the next Michael Caine, observe how uncommonly well he handles scenes youâ€™ll groan to see (the

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(PG-13) A thriller with Angelina Jolie and Johnn Depp, directed by the euphoniously named Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

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(PG; 92 min.) Directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard stress the most resonant interpretation of the tale: Rapunzel as a myth for all parts of the world where girls arenâ€™t allowed to run free. The imprisoning witch Gothel is a curvy villainess feeding on the youth and hopes of the girl whom she imprisons. Remodeled as a Disney princess (voiced by Mandy Moore), this Rapunzel is freed by a rakish young thief. Third-act developments take the plot into a different resolution than the Brothers Grimm charted, adding to the surprise of the cartoon. You can see the influences and salute them as they pass: the antique charm of 3D Viewmaster fairytale slides, Romanian villages, Utahâ€™s Canyonlands, the floating lanterns of the Japanese Obon festival; the block-headed yobs at the Snuggly Ducky tavern look as if they modeled for Britainâ€™s Spitting Image. As for actual hero Maximus the horse, there hasnâ€™t been such a hilarious steed since Chuck Jones died. (RvB)

(PG-13; 110 min.) Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a self-assured 14-year-old, arrives in Fort Smith, Ark., in the early 1880s to track down Tom Cheney (Josh Brolin), the hired hand who murdered her father. The sheriff lists some U.S. marshals who could track him. Mattie chooses Reuben â€œRoosterâ€? Cogburn (Jeff Bridges): ruthless and dead to fear, if often dead to the world. While waiting for his decision, Mattie encounters LaBoeuf (Matt Damon), a fancy, buckskin-covered ranger. The three, reluctantly matched, draw closer to the killer but feud along the way. Bridges lulls us with his take on the part, doing things that John Wayne wasnâ€™t capable of as an actor, expressing the desperate underside of a bluff, a rowdier level of buffoonery and a quitterâ€™s despair. The Coen brothers have the bravery to deliver the downbeat coda to this story left out in 1969. It increases the stature of this film, its depth, beauty and sadness. (RvB)

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Willie Nelson Friday, 7:30pm; Catalyst, Santa Cruz; $69–$76 Willie’s “On The Road Again” was just voted the top driving song of all time. Too bad country’s greatest outlaw can’t seem to get on any road himself without getting stopped by the po-po. This time, he could face prison after 6 ounces of chronic were found on his tour bus in Texas. Jesus Christ, this guy is a 73-year-old national treasure who has places to go. Can’t they just assume there’s pot on his bus and mail him the bill? (SP)

Monstrauss Saturday, 7pm, Nickel City, San Jose; $10 San Jose’s Monstrauss have a ska-gone-out-ofits-gourd tune called “Pumpkin Scufﬂe” about a show they’ll never forget at Nickel City. Dark and bruising, it skillfully blows a minor incident into riotlike proportions. They’ll return to the scene of the crime tonight, with Field Mice, the Monterey Jacks, Till I Fall, Era Escape and Ilikeyou. (SP)

Theatre Flamenco Saturday, 8pm, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts; $36–$41 For its 45th anniversary concert, Theatre Flamenco, a San Francisco–based troupe under the direction of Carola Zertuche, presents “Una Nota Flamenco.” Guest artists from Spain include dancers Manual Gutierrez, Juan Siddi and Christina Hall, as well as Gypsy singer Cristo Cortes. (MSG)

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ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 8:30pm: The Rip-Tides. $7. Redwood City.

AVALON Sat: The Chop Tops. Santa Clara.

THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Sad Bastard Book Club, Daikon Summer of Glaciers. Free. Fri, 9pm: Dead Souls (Warsaw/Joy Division tribute band), Devolutionaries. $10. Sat, 9pm: Citabria, case in Theory, Happy Body Slow Brain. $10. San Jose.

CARAVAN BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Soul Southers, rock and blues. Free. Santa Clara.

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Thu, 10pm: After Party. Fri, 10pm: 10 til 2. Sat, 10pm: Superbad. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Fri, 9pm: Daemon City Lights, Dynamite Truck, Divine Artistry, the Devil’s Sunday Best. $5. Cupertino.

Thu-Sat: Live music. San Jose.

CLUB FOX Sat, 8pm: Hot for Teacher, the Van Halen Experience and Stung, the Police tribute band. $15/$17. Redwood City.

FIREHOUSE BREWERY Thu: The Dan Goghs. Sunnyvale.

HOMESTEAD LANES, X BAR Sat, 9pm: Dimidium, Rejection Trigger, 5150. $5. Cupertino.

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Fri, 6pm: World music and belly dancer Adriana. Sat, 6pm: Mucho Axe. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music and belly dancing. Mon: French Music Night. San Jose.

NICKEL CITY Fri, 8pm: Cheers to Doerr, Hard Girls, the Caps, 9:00 News. Sat, 6pm: Battle of the Bands with Monstrauss, the February Riot, the Monterey Jacks, Till I Fall, Era Escape, Ilikeyou. San Jose.

PAGODA LOUNGE Thu, 9:30pm: Little Dragon. Inside Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE Fri, 8:30pm: Wayne’s Way band. Sat, 8:30pm: Bob Brannan, Wicket Fools. Sunnyvale.

THE REFUGE Sat, 6pm: Sympathy Ends, Burnside Drive, Robo-Zombie Pox Party, Me the Mountain. Cupertino.

VOODOO LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: Alo-Key with Mango Kings. $10. Fri, 9pm: Talib Kweli, $25. San Jose.

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PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.

RISTORANTE FRATELLO Fri, 7pm: Claudio. Italian classic guitar and vocals. San Jose.

SENZALA Fri: Bossa nova at noon, and Capoeira show at 7:30pm. Sat, 7:30pm: Sambosseros. Sunnyvale.

STEPHENS GREEN Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music. Mountain View.

Jazz/Blues Sat, 6-8pm: Jack Radsliff and Keith Berquist, acoustic blues and folk. $7. Sat, 8pm: eBlues. $7. Redwood City.

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Sun, 5:30pm: Jazz Jam. Cupertino.

GRAND DELL SALOON Wed: Salsa night. San Jose.

ALBERTO’S Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Sabados Latinoamericanos. Sun-Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.

ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music and belly dancing. Cupertino.

Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Fri, 8pm: Blue Dog Blues. Sat, 8pm: Isis and the Cold Truth. Campbell.

HEDLEY CLUB Wed, 7:30pm: Jazz jam. Thu:, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Danjuma naad Friends. Sat, 8:30pm: Al Guzman. Hotel de Anza, San Jose.

AZÚCAR LATIN BISTRO MOJITO BAR & LOUNGE

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

Wed: Rock. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata and rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban and Latin fusions. Tue: Salsa. San Jose.

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

CASCAL Sat, 9pm: James Robinson ﬂamenco guitar. Mountain View.

Lara Price and Yesterdays Band. Fri, 6-9pm: Mark Hummel and Blues Survivors. Sat, 6-9pm: Anthony Paule Band. Sun, noon-4pm: Gail Dobson Jazz Trio. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Tue, 6pm: Modesto Briseno Septet. Willow Glen.

UNWINED Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with rock and blues local musicians. Santa Clara.

C&W/Folk BOSWELL’S Sun: Mike Leatherman. Campbell.

MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 7:30pm: Steve Seskin, Craig Carothers, Don Henry. Sat, 8pm: Little Black Train. Sun, 2pm: X-Factor. Santa Clara.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Fri, 6:30-9:30pm: Friday Night Live. Willow Glen.

AGENDA LOUNGE

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Blues nightly. San Jose. Thu, 7-10pm: Live jazz. San Jose.

MURPHY’S LAW Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and friends. Thu, 6-9pm:

THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys. Thu-Fri, 9pm: Diablo Road. Sat: Rodeo House at 7:15pm, Diablo Road at 10:15pm. Fremont.

SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, 6pm: Carolina Special San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Live country music with Cowboy Larry. Willow Glen.

Open Mic ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 6:30pm: Open Mic. Tue, 7-11pm: Pro Jazz Jam. Redwood City.

BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic. Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Wed, 9:30pm: Open Mic Night. Cupertino.

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Jan 13 Tribal Seeds Atrium (Ages 16+) Jan 14 Vital SC: Eliot Lipp (Ages 18+) Jan 15 The Jacka/ Husalah (Ages 16+) Jan 17 JFK of MSTRKRFT (Ages 18+) Jan 21 Vital SC: Datsik (Ages 18+) Jan 27 Boz Scaggs (Ages 21+) Jan 28 Railroad Earth (Ages 16+) Feb 5 Dead Kennedys (Ages 16+) Feb 6 Rob Zombie (Ages 16+) Feb 8 Badﬁsh a Tribute to Sublime (Ages 16+) Feb 10 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave. Los Amigos Invisibles (Ages 21+) Feb 12 Ky-Mani Marley (Ages 16+) Feb 16 &17 STS9 (Ages 21+ & 16+) Feb 19 Y & T (Ages 21+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.

Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

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.

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Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. San Jose.

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

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GOOSE LOONEY’S

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.

Wed-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.

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HOMESTEAD LANES

Wed, 9pm: August. Sun, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Fri, 9:30pm: Vinnie. Mon, 9pm: Vinnie. Tue, 9pm: August. Cupertino.

BRITISH BANKERS CLUB

HUDDLE

Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.

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

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KATIE BLOOM’S

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

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C&J’S SPORTS BAR

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

Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather. Santa Clara.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: Open Mic. Willow Glen.

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CREEKSIDE LOUNGE

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KC BAR AND RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.

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KING OF CLUBS

Nightly except Sun, 9pm2am: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu and Tue, 9pm-1am: Brian James. Palo Alto.

Thu and Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. No cover. Mountain View.

THE BEARS

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

Fri, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.

LILLY MAC’S

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

Wed: Guitar Hero Tournament plus karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

DIVE BAR

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY

Wed and Tue, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

NETO’S MARKET & GRILL

Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Santa Clara.

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

BLUE BONNET BAR Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.

BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 9pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm2am, and last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Tue, 9pm: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.

GALAXY BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

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

Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. No cover. Campbell.

Call for info. Sunnyvale.

MARIANI’S

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

OFFICE BAR Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.

PEACOCK LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: Brian. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Ryan. Sunnyvale.

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GOOSE LOONEY’S

Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall. Woodside.

Wed-Thu and Sat: DJs and dancing. Santana Row.

Thu: Ladies’ Night. Fri-Sat: Old School. Milpitas.

BLUE PHEASANT

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POINCIANA LOUNGE

Wed-Sun, Tue, 7pm: DJ and dancing. Cupertino.

Tue, 9pm: Live DJ. Campbell

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Fri: DJ dance night presented by Demi Child. Sat: Goth night. San Jose.

Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside Entertainment. No cover. Santa Clara.

QUARTER NOTE Tue, 9pm: Sherrie and Sue. No cover. Sunnyvale.

REDI ROOM Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.

Wed: Humpday Wednesdays. Thu: DJ. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Jazzy and DJ Chaos. Hiphop and Top 40. Sun: Happy Hour All Day. Mon: DJ. Tue: $2 Tuesdays. San Jose.

JOHNNY V’S

KATIE BLOOM’S Thu-Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: DJs and dancing. Campbell.

KHARTOUM

ROSIE MCCANN’S

Wed: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Tue, 8:30-11:30pm: Karaoke. No cover. Santana Row.

KING OF CLUBS

RUDY’S PUB

Fri, 9:30pm: Club Brinca. Tue, 9pm: Nox. Mountain View.

Wed, 10pm-1:30am: Purple. Palo Alto.

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. San Jose.

SHERWOOD INN Wed and Sat-Sun, 8:30pm: Chris. Thu-Fri, 8:30pm: Thomas. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

Thu, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.

Thu: DJ David Q. San Jose.

SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS

BRIX

Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.

Thu: Therapy. Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

Sun, 8pm-midnight: DJ Curtis. Willow Glen.

Wed and Sat, 10pm: DJ in the Mix. Santa Clara.

WILLOW DEN

CLUB ILLUSIONS

Wed, 9:30pm: Thomas. San Jose

Thu, 10pm: Stanford Senior Pub Night with video DJ jam. Palo Alto.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ or live band. No cover. Santa Clara.

Fri-Sat, 10pm-1:30am: Live DJ. San Jose.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Wed, 7pm: House Party. Thu, 7pm: Throwback Thursdays. Los Gatos.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover. Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo. Sat, 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik. Sun, 7pm: Latin Beat. Sun, 9pm: Sonidero Night. With local DJs spinning salsa, cumbia and more. Sunnyvale.

PEACOCK LOUNGE Fri, 8pm: DJ Dancing featuring R&B, Top 40. Sat, 9pm: DJ Dancing featuring Chill, R&B, Top 40. Sun and Tue, 9pm: DJ and dancing. Sunnyvale.

SABOR TAPAS BAR Sun: Reggae. San Jose.

SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL

Thu, 9:30pm: DJ Otrebor. San Jose.

Thu: Thursday Night Live. FriSat: Video Killed the DJ with VJ Vinyl. Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. San Jose.

EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR

STEPHENS GREEN

Dance Clubs

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dance Party. San Jose.

Fri: DJ Cesar. Mountain View.

AGENDA

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DIVE BAR WOODHAM’S LOUNGE Wed-Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.

Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: DJs. Fri: The Workout, ﬁrst Fri of month. San Jose.

AZÚCAR LATIN BISTRO MOJITO BAR & LOUNGE Wed: Rock music. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata and rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban and Latin fusions. Tue: Salsa. San Jose.

Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesday. Thu, 9pm: Thursdays at Fahrenheit. Sat, 9pm: Elite. Mon, 9pm: DJ. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.

FIBBAR MAGEES Wed: SIN. Sat: Club FM. Sunnyvale.

GALAXY Mon: Ladies’ Night. No cover. Milpitas.

TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE Wed: The Pick Up. San Jose.

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Sir Dancealot. Willow Glen.

WET Fri: Resolution with Chris Larot. Sat: Blueprint with Big Syphe. San Jose.

ZEN LOUNGE Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ D-Roc. Mountain View.

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commotion would walk commotion w ould yyou ou llike ike ttoo w alk aaway way ffrom rom aand nd never come back to? What lessons lessoons have you learned so well so w ell tthat hat yyou’re ou’re ooverdue verdue ttoo ggraduate raduate ffrom rom tthem? hem? What long-term healing pr process ocess would you like to finish finally to fi nish uupp ssoo yyou ou ccan an fi nally gget et sstarted tarted oon n tthe he building building phase phase tthat hat yyour our hhealing ealing will will give give you you the the power to car carry aree excellent ry out? These ar e questions to ask yourself as you plan yourr lif lifee in the next six months.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): Th The he SStrait trait of Gibr Gibraltar altar narrow passage between Eur ope and Africa is the narrow Europe where where the the Mediterranean Mediterranean Sea Sea joins joins tthe he Atlantic Atlantic Ocean. According Ocean. Ac cording to to legend, legend, iinn ancient ancient times times the the Latin phr phrase ase ““ne ne plus ultra” ultra” wass inscribed in the rock gateway.. IItt meant ““not rock overlooking this gateway not further beyond,” and ser served warning ved as a warnin ng to sailors not to ventur venturee out to the wild water waters strait. rs past the str ait. Eventually, advice irrelevant, Eventually, that cautionary advi ce became ir relevant, of With of ccourse. ourse. W ith a ssturdy turdy vvessel, essel, sskilled killed ccrew, rew, ggood ood preparation, preparation, aand nd eexpert xpert kknowledge nowledge bbased ased oon n tthe he experience experience ooff oothers, thers, vventuring enturing oout ut ppast ast tthe he ““ne ne pplus lus ultra” dangerous. ultra” point wasn’t wasn’t danger ous. I hope you’ll take that as your cue in 2011, Gemini.

CANCER ((June June 221–July 1–July 222): 2): TThere here w were ere pproblems roblems with the soccer balls used in thee W World year.. orld CCup up last year elt they were were difficult diffi ficult to control. control. Their Many players ffelt trajectory trajectory was unpredictable. unpredictable. Brazilian Brrazilian forward forward Luis Luis ar as to say th hat the ball ““doesn’t doesn’t Fabiano went so ffar that want Other were want ttoo bbee kkicked.” icked.” O ther pplayers layers ssaid aid tthe he bballs alls w ere poorly made, buyy in a supermarket. supermarket.”” I made like those “you you bu supermarket bring this to your attention as a cautionary metaphor metaphor,, Cancerian. taking Cancerian. In 2011 you will be ta aking part in your equivalent World will equivalent ooff tthe he W orld CCup. up. IItt w ill bbee ccrucial rucial ttoo hhave ave the the vvery ery bbest est ttools ools aand nd aaccessories. ccessories. YYou ou ccan’t an’t aafford fford to with respond to pplay lay w ith bballs alls tthat hat ddon’t on’t re spond aaccurately ccurately ttoo your skillful means. LEO LE O (July 23–Aug. 22): Biologi Biological cal diversity rrefers efers to

the forms while the vvariety ariety ooff llife ife fo rms iin n aany ny pparticular articular aarea, rea, w hile cultural cultural diversity diversity measures measures the the richness richness of of social social forms expression. there’s biocultural diversity,, forms of expr ession. Then ther e’s biocul tural diversity which measures Can which m easures bboth oth ttogether. ogether. Ca n yyou ou gguess uess tthe he places on the planet wher wheree bioc biocultural cultural diversity is highest? They’r They’ree Indonesia, Mal Malaysia, aysia, Melanesia, the Amazon Basin would Amazon B asin and and Central Central Africa. Africa. I w ould love love it it iiff yyou ou had a chance to immerse yours yourself environments elf in envir onments like those in 2011, can’t 2011 Leo. Leo If you ca n’tt manage that, that ﬁnd the next best thing. YYou willl thrive by exposing ou wil yourself mix yourself ttoo a kkaleidoscopic aleidoscopic m ix ooff hhuman uman ttypes ypes aand nd natural natural inﬂuences.

VIRGO VIR GO ((Aug. Aug. 223–Sept. 3–Sept. 222): 2): W When hen I sstarted tarted m myy ro rock ck band W World War, orld Entertainment W ar, I was guided by a singers, vision of us having two lead sin gers, me and another person. Ul Ultimately timately I chose a woman wom man named Darby Gould as my collabor collaborator. ator. While I have decent skills as a vocalist, her talent is genius-l genius-level. evel. I knew that our work together would push me to to be at the top of my game and allow me to write ambitious am mbitious songs that I didn’t myself.. I’ve always didn’t have the chops to sing byy myself been pleased with how that str strategy Would a ategy worked. W ould you you cconsider onsider ggiving iving yyourself ourself a ssimilar imilar cchallenge hallenge iin n 2011, Vir Virgo? It’ll go? It ’ll be the Year Year of Collaboration C Collabor ation for for you. Why Why nnot ot pput ut yyourself ourself iin n a pposition osition ttoo ttranscend ranscend the the limitations when limitations yyou ou hhave ave w hen ooperating perating ssolely olely uunder nder your own power?

LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Africa Africca is cr cracking acking open preparation in pr eparation for for the birth of a new n ocean. The process million whole pr ocess will take 10 millio on years, but the first occurred 37-mile-long fissuree sign occur red in 2005, when a 37 7-mile-long fissur appear ed in Ethiopia. Eventually, Eventuallyy, say geologists, the rift appeared grow seawater.. I expect will gr ow enormous and fill up with w seawater a metaphorically comparable comparable development development for for you in Libra: monumental 2011, Libr a: the subtle yet monum mental beginning of a

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CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN ((Dec. Dec. 222–Jan. 2–Jan. 119): 9): ““We We hhave ave ttoo stumble though so much dirt and humbug bef ore before each home,”” wr ote novelist Herman Hesse. we rreach wrote “And “And A we have noo one to guide us. Our only guide is homesickness.” TThat’s hat’s the the bad bad news, news, Capricorn. Capricorn. The The homesickness.” rding to my analysis, is that 2011 good news, acco according could vvery ery w ell bbee tthe he yyear ear tthat hat yyour our hhomesickness omesickness could well esults, drives you all thee way home. For best rresults, keep tthis his ttip ip iin nm ind: TToo gget et tthe he ffull ull bbenefit enefit ooff tthe he keep mind: homesickness, yyou ou sshouldn’t houldn’t ssuppress uppress iit. t. O nly bbyy homesickness, Only feeling it deeply feeling deeply,, as a burning, grinding ache, will you be able to ride itt all the way home. AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (J(Jan. Jan 20–Feb. Jan. 20 Feb 18): In the past, past ffew ew allow wed mutts to compete. Pure Pure breeds breeds dog shows allowed were prized abov ve all others. That’s That’s changing, were above ennel Club has though, now tha thatt the American KKennel opened up up a nnew ew ccategory ategory jjust ust fo ongrels. TThey hey opened forr m mongrels. won’t bbee jjudged udged bbyy gguidelines uidelines sspecific pecific ttoo a pparticular articular won’t breed, but rrather atherr accor ding to their natur al talents. breed, according natural This shift shift iin n sstandards tandards m irrors a ccomparable omparable This mirrors y world, Aquarius. In 2011, it ’ll be development in your it’ll ccess simply by being your mottled, easier to find suc success ated self e’ll be less pr essure ffor or speckled, variega variegated self.. Ther There’ll pressure ds of perf ection meant ffor or you to live up to standar standards perfection pure br eeds. the pure breeds. PISCESS ((Feb. PISCE Feb. 119–March 9–March 220): 0): ““All All yyour our llongings ongings

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