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Pot vs. Drugs I ďŹ nd this story to be very disturbing (“Is Drug War Over?,â€? SVNews, Jan. 5). There is a sad level of ignorance and fear around this issue, especially for a smart progressive community like San Jose. First, H&S Code 11362.775 grants patients and caregivers immunity
from charges of sales and distribution when they associate to cultivate. The Attorney General has told patients that these associations need to be nonproďŹ t collectives or cooperatives that pay sales tax, get business licenses, and restrict purchases to members only. [Dean] Ackemann and the DA’s office are ignoring these directives and making up the law as they see ďŹ t because they do not like the fact that so many people beneďŹ t from the medical use of cannabis. By their nature, medical cannabis collectives reduce crime because they take consumers out of the black market. They put drug dealers out of business. Patients may legally purchase from the black market. Many choose not to do so because they would prefer safe and legal access to quality medicine. That is why we ďŹ ght for safe
access in San Jose and the rest of the South Bay. LAUREN VAZQUEZ | SAN JOSE
The Voters Decided Since October 2009, when the Obama administration reversed the Bush policy, I have advocated for a limited number [of collectives], all regulated and taxed. All of these elements were in my original memo and subsequent memos. It’s important to note that not only did Council District 6 vote in favor of Measure U at higher rate than the city-wide result, District 6 also voted in favor of State Proposition 19, which was legalization of recreational use. PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO | SAN JOSE
Don’t Stress I personally use cannabis for several conditions including stress. I ďŹ nd it a great alterative to Celexa, Zoloft, Prozac, Effexor, Paxil, Elavil, Luvox, Minipress, Selfemra or Vanatrip, all of which have many more side effects then cannabis. Please open your mind, and seek the real truth. DAVE HODGES | SAN JOSE
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Dark Days Daays Downtown D owntown Will the last one onne out shut off the lights— and sound? Four Four downtown nightclubs— Wet, W et, P Pearl, earl, Toons Toons and and Motif—have Motif—have ““closed closed ffor or remodeling,” remodeling,” taken taken a break break or or ggone one ddark ark for for good good in in recent recent days. days. The The closures closur es follow follow w a series of enforcement enforcement actions, and more moore could be on the way. way. Attorney City A ttorney RICK RICK DOYLE DO OY YLE threatened threatened last week week to to last permanently permanently shut shut down down Club Club Wet Wet following following a violent violent New New E8D< ;IFGG<I E 8D< ;IFGG<I G Year ’s Eve Year’s G\Xic XbX Jkl[`f / G \Xic XbX Jkl[ [`f / incident; owner M IKE HAMOD HA AMOD responded responded that that MIKE the city has been been unfairly unfairly targeting targeting his club—and downtown dow wntown in general. general. Motif, Motiff, a SoF FA district nightclub niightclub across across the street street SoFA fr om W et, had already already announced a 30from Wet, day closur e, citing citting among other things closure, the city’s aggressive aggressive e enforcement actions. actions enforcement A RMANDO MARTINEZ, MAR RTINEZ, manager manager of of Toons Toons ARMANDO aatt SSecond econd and and Santa Santa Clar a, has thrown throw wn in the Clara, Don’t ttowel, owel, cciting iting “unforeseen “unforeseen forget cir cumstances and circumstances to tip! various other factors.” factors.” a H romises to to reopen reopen Hee ppromises FLY@ at a new location. location. All METRONEWS. in all, the new year COM iiss nnot ot llooking ooking very very bright downtow wn. Pearl Pearl downtown. Ni ht l b formerly Nightclub, form merly l Studio Studio t di 8 andd prior i to that Vivid, has haas an ABC Notice of SSuspension uspension posted posted on on its its door. door. Pearl Pearl w ill ggoo ffull ull circle circle and and re-emerge re-emerge under under will its original name, nam me, Studio Studio 8, its website ppromises. romises. And And Bayonne, Bayonne, SoFA’s SoFA’s inventive inventive New Southern restaurant, restaurant, sits empty after afte chef/owner GLENN GLLENN “GATOR” “GA ATOR” THOMPSON THOMPSON split town to deal deeal with a reported reported family family eemergency, mergency, leaving leaving his his friends friends and and ccreditors reditors scratching scratching their their heads. heads. Miami Miami Beach Club reopened reoopened a couple weeks weeks back after its entertainment e license was ttemporarily emporarily suspended; suspended; SJPD SJPD claimed claimed the club failed failed to report report a shooting. Meanwhile, on Saturday Saturday night, a triple hhomicide omicide at at the the Mexicali Mexicali Club Club out out on on
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“painful” a dozen timess regarding regarding the p roposed b udget, S imitian n admits ad dmits tthe he proposed budget, Simitian h arrd ttruth ruth is is that that life life is is going going to to get get hard worse ffor o or man many ny C Californians alifforn o nians b before effo ore it gets better. betttter. That is doubly dou ubly true, true, he says, sa ays y , if Brown Brown is unable to win vvoter o oter appr ovval ffor or o some ne w ttax ax rrevenue. evenue. approval new ““II think think tthe he success success of of the the governor’s governor’s approach approach will rise or fa fall all on his abilit ability ty to communicate communicate just what w the impact of the cuts will be be in the th he absence absence of tthat hat revenue, revenue,” Simitian Simitian ssays. ays. ““II tthink hink tthe he challenges challenges that that kind kind of of California Callifornia would pr esent ar ally b eyo ond present aree litera literally beyond ccomprehension omprehension for fo or most mo ost folks. fo olks.” Brown has proposed B rown h as p roposed ccutting utting $12.5 billion $ 12.5 b illion in in spending—much spending—much of of w hich w ould affect aff ffeect sstudents, tudents, state state which would work ers and programs programss aiding the workers sstate’s tate’s disadvantaged disadvantaged citizens. citizens. In In addition, he proposes proposes raising r $ 12 billion billion through through a five-year five-year $12 eextension xtension o ax h ikes aapproved pproved ttwo wo off ttax hikes yyears ears ago by by the L egislaature. Legislature.
Without W ithout voter voter approval ap pproval iin n JJune une ffor or eextending o xtendiing the ttaxes axes another half fhalfd ecad de, S imitian ssays, ays, C alifornia w ill decade, Simitian California will b mputating a llimb imb ffrom rom a b udget bee aamputating budget tthat hat h has as al already lready b been een llimping imping aalong long ffor or some time. o tiime. In annou uncing his budget plan announcing Monda ay, Br B own said the ttaxes axes ar Monday, Brown aree the only w way ay to aavoid void a do doomsday omsdaay sscenario cenarrio ffor or K K-12 -12 eeducation ducation aass w well ell other off aass o ther vvital itall sservices ervices aafter fter yyears ears o “gimmicks, unrealistic “gimmicks s, tricks and unr ealistic eexpectations. xpectattions. “It’s “It’s b etter tthat hat w ake better wee ttake our medici medicine ine now and get back on balanc ed ffooting, ooting,” the go vernor said. balanced governor B ut k ick-the- can nb udgeting h as But kick-the-can budgeting has been norm Sacramento b een tthe he n orm iin nS acram mento ffor or d ecad des, an nd B rown’s b elief tthat hat a decades, and Brown’s belief deal ccan an b bee rreached eached with R Republicans eepublicans rregarding egarrding ttaxes axes m might ight b bee w wishful ishful tthinking. hinking. ““The The ggovernor overnor iiss ggoing oing push-back on Simitian tto o gget et p ush-back o n tthat, hat,” S imitian wise move aadmits. dmits. ““But But I tthink hink iit’s t’s a w ise m ove ffor or a couple couple o reasons. F irst, iit’s t’s off reasons. First, h onest. I tthink hink p art o the ffrustration rustration honest. part off the people p eople have haave had—underst had—understandably andably appropriately myy vview—is aand nd ap ppropriately iin nm iew—is tthe he ‘good-enough-for-now’ budgets.. ‘go od-enou ugh-ffo or-now’ budgets ““Let’s Let’s bee honest honest with with ourselves ourselves about ab out the fact f that it’s it’s going to take take period us a p eriod of years, yeears, not a year yeear or ttwo, wo, five to set things thinggs right. I think fiv ve years yeears is
bonded would Harry bo nded w ould be aaffected, ff ffeected, H arry Mavrogenes, director Ma avr v oggenes, eexecutive xecutive dir ector of the Redevelopment Agency, San JJose ose R edeveelopment A gencyy, ccalled alled “shell game”” that would the idea a “s shell game hinder San ability h inder S an n JJose’s ose’s ab bility tto o aattract ttract businesses—as well b usinesses—as w ell aass cconstruct onstruct a new baseball stadium. “Financing ne w baseba all st adium. “F inancing is bee vvery any RDA going to b er e y tough ffor or o an ny RD A faced penalty fac ed with this t death p enaltty in JJuly, ulyy,” Mavrogenes Ma avr v ogenes said. Asked about A sked ab b ut tthe bo he rredevelopment edevelopment Simitian pauses out iissue, ssue, S imitian p auses tto o llet et o ut a dark wee ccan d ark cchuckle huckle aand nd ssays: ays: ““II tthink hink w aan n bee a liv lively eexpect xpect it to b veely cconversation. on nversation.”
Old Oakland Road put the lie to the notion that the downtown entertainment district has a monopoly on bad behavior. There’s no word as to whether that club will be allowed to stay in business.
Pizza My Face So far 2011 isn’t making much sense. Birds are falling from the sky, fish are bobbing lifeless on the surfaces of rivers and bays in Arkansas and Maryland, and Facebook—with $2 billion in annual revenue—is being valued at $50 billion. To put that in context: Yahoo!, which produced more than three times as much revenue in 2010 ($6.5 billion), is valued at half that. Where does this put Facebook on the corporate value ladder? Alongside Boeing, which has 160,000 employees and produced around $60 billion in revenue in 2008. For more context, Fly consulted excapite.com, a cool British techbiz site, where a blogger using the moniker MOBCON reports that “Pizza Hut was expecting to make $2 billion in online sales.” That makes Pizza Hut’s global online pizza delivery business about the same size as Facebook’s entire revenue engine. To paraphrase that already overly paraphrased quote from The Social Network: “A $50 billion valuation isn’t cool. You want to know what’s cool? Pizza!”
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FFacebook aacebook Apocalypse A Apoc alypse Rumor Terrifies Internet T errifies e Intternet Time Time i was, Weekly Weekly World Worrld News News reported on UFO sightings e eported sighttings and all of human-animal m manner human-animal hybrids. But supermarket B ut the new superma rket tabloid hotness ho otness is a fake fake rumor rumor about Facebook. Did Fa acebook. D id you know kno ow Facebook is shutting March sh hutting down on M arrch 15? Here’s H ere’s what the Weekly Weekkly World World News N ews had to say about abou ut Facebook’s impending doom: m mpending
PALO P A ALO AL ALT—Mark T—Mark Zuckerber Zuckerberg Z rg announced that Facebook Faacebook will be shut down in M aarch. c M anaging March. Managing the site has become becom me too stressful. stressful. “Facebook has gotten gottten out of control,” control,” said Zuckerberg Zucke kerberrg in a press conf erence outside o his press conference Palo Alto Paalo A lto office, “and “and the stress stress c has of managing this company ruined my life. liffee. I need neeed to put an ness.” end to all the madn madness.” Zuckerberg Zuckerberrg went on o to explain March that starting M arch h 15, users will no longer be able to t access their Facebook accounts. accountss. March the ““After After M aarrcch 15th th he whole website shuts down n ” said A n, vrraat down,” Avrat Humarthi, president H umarthi, vice pr esiident of T eechnical A fffaairs at Facebook. “So if Technical Affairs pictures you ever want to see seee your pictur rees again, I rrecommend ecommend d you take them You off the Internet. Y ou ou won’t be able once to get them back on nce Facebook business.” goes out of busines ss.”
This being the Internet, people This aactually ctually believe believe this. this. ““Is Is ffacebook acebook shutting down” do own” was the 14th-hottest Google Here’s G oogle ssearch earch yyesterday. esterday. H ere’s a rrepresentative epresentative Facebook status update: Alas, Facebook A las, Faceb book is not shutting down Mark Zuckerberg due to M arrk Zuckerber g wanting to washing one sspend pend more more ttime ime w ashing tthe he o ne But the potency of hoodie he owns. o this rumor suggests it tapped into Internet’s the Interne et’s deep-seated Facebook death wish; wish h; a yearning ffor or some distant past hours on p ast where where aallll tthe he h ours wasted wasted o n on FFacebook acebook were were sspent pent o n ssomething omething productive pr oductive instead, like drinking. Update: Facebook Faacebook has rresponded esponded to “Wee didn’t the rumor with a tweet: “W memo get the me emo about shutting down, down Wee so we’ll keep keeep working away. awayy. W aren’t ar en’t going goin ng anywhere; anywhere; we’re we’re just started.” getting sta arted.” — —ADRIAN AD RI AN C CHEN, HEN, VALLEYWAG.GAWKER.COM. VALL EY WAG.G AWKER.CO M .
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round on round which we first reported reported e in late December December.. Theyy closed on roughly DST, roughly half of it then,, from from DST T, Fidelity and Morgan Morgan Stanley. Stanley t y. We We then learned that Kleiner Perkins Klein ner P erkins was also in the round. round. Now we have the rest rest of the details. details True Trrue to their never be totally serious attitude, [Monday’s] press press rrelease elease was titled ““Groupon Groupon Raises, Raaises, Like, a Billion Dollars.” A whole slew of new and and existing investors participating investors are are p articipating in in the the round, Groupon round, which values Gr o oupon at a whopping whopping $4.75 $4.75 billion. billion. Investors Investors in this round round include Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Ventu ures, Gr eylock Partners, Partners, artners Kleiner Perkins Perkin ns Caufield Caufield & Byers, Mail.ru Group, Group, Maverick Maverick Capital, Capital, Silver Lake Partners Partners and an nd Technology Technology e Crossover previously Crossover Ventures. Ventures. As As we pr eviously reported, LLC reported, Allen & Company Comp pany LL C acted as financial adviser adviser.. There aree no additionss to the boar board There ar d of directors directors in this round. rou und. And multiple multiple sources sources have confirmed to us that Fidelity is in n ffact act a new investor in this round, round, it just isn’t listed in the press press release. releease. ease My favorite favorite line in the full press press release, release, other than thee title, is “Groupon “Groupon has been called called . . . “America’s “America’s best website” websitte” by one of Groupon’s Groupon’s television commercials.” co ommercials.” —MICHAEL ARRINGTON, ARRINGTON, O T ECHCRUNCH.COM TECHCRUNCH.COM
Frank D’Agostino D’’A Agostino o You Yoou know Frank what’s cooler than a billion billiion dollars? A what’s Nevermind. bil—oh. Nevermind.
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Guest TThe hhe value off this company is dropping dropping like a rock. rock. It It was wa valued just a month ago by Google at $6 billion. Now, Now w, it ’s valued at $4.75 billion. billionn. How about it’s th t th dr that—they ddropped oppedd in i value val by bby, y, like, lik A B ILLION D OLLARS in a month! m BILLION DOLLARS Simon How does Groupon G oupon plan to Gr use all the money it just raised? raised? tak 1. Buy more more PR. PR. 2. Value Vaalue higher. higherr. 3. Get more more money. moneyy. 4. Goo back to 1.
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something spontaneously spontaneously, y, spawning a new lif orm, so-c called lifee fform, so-called isomorphic pr programs ograms (called is isos os ffor or short), CL U destr oys them. Whi le this CLU destroys While act of cybernetic genocide hor horrifies r rifies Flynn, from from CLU’s CLU’s perspective, it was nothing but a logical response. response.. aree presented Flynn and his son Sam ar pressented guys: as archetypical archetypical sci sci-fi fi good guy ys: the aging, wise techno-hippie and the angry-but-gifted slacker. slacker. The first fi appeared ffew ew minutes of the film appear red to be setting up the familiar familiar meme meme of rrogue ogue hacker against the big g corporation. Yet bad corpor ation. Y et by the time tim me it’s the movie gets going, it ’s the hippie’s and slacker’s slacker ’s progressive progresssive assumptions that are are tested. Kevin K evin Flynn’s rejection rejection of the progressive pr ogressive ideal is central central to accepts the film’s rresolution. esolution. He accept ts error rresponsibility esponsibility for for his er ror and sole pays the price. Sam and the so le rremaining emaining iso, Quorra, Quorra, escape back b to the physical world with the understanding that they can’t build ““systems” systems ” to change humanity, humanityy, but need to do it as individuals. Such a message resonates resonates now, now w, at a time when politically and culturally, culturrallyy, progressivism pr ogressivism is rresurgent. esurgent. gent The idea that an institution—particularlyy a democratic democratic government—can n simultaneously philoso simul taneously realize realize a philosopheropherking’s vision of human progress progresss and protect pr otect freedom freedom and individual liberty needs a sound critique. — —STEVEN STEVEN TITCH TIT CH , TECHLIBERATION.COM T ECHLIBERATION.COM
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and then retired retired into obscurity o obscurit y for fo or decades decades until his death h in 2006. 2006. SigniďŹ cant SigniďŹ cant portions portions off Pink Floyd’s Flo oyd’s catalog—including catalog—including Dark Dark Side Side of of the the Moon, Moon, Wish Wiish You You o Were Weere Here H e and The Her Wall—were Waall—were admittedly admitttedly t y about about Syd. Syd. Chapman Chap pman digs digs even even deeper deeper and and comes to a refreshingly refreshinglyy sympathetic sympathetic comes conclusion. Barrett, Barrrett, he he deduces, deduces, wasn’t wasn’t conclusion. really inuenced inuenced by by rock rock music that really lyrical inuences inuences much at all. His lyrical came almost entirely entirely from from English came children’s literature literature by by authors au uthors like like children’s Edw waard Lear, Lear, Kenneth Kenneth Grahame, Grahame, Edward Hilaire Belloc Belloc and Lewis Lewis w Carroll. Carroll. Hilaire Turns out each of those thosse authors Turns suff ffeered the loss of a parent paarent at an suffered early age, agge, ass did did Syd. Syd. In In a drop-dead drop-dead d early gorgeous passage, passage, here’s here’s the the author: author: gorgeous “Certain themes recur recur throughout throughout “Certain their work work directly directly ass a result result of of these these their losses. Disembodied Disembodied early traumatic losses. identity, a dreamlike dreamlike sense sense of of the the self self identity, limbo without place place of purpose, purpose, in limbo rootlessness, restlessness, restlessnesss, rejection, rejection, rootlessness, detacchment, escapism, escap pism, retreat retreat into into detachment, imaginary worlds, worlds, the the past past recounted recounted imaginary in reverie, reverie, the the lost lost grandeur grandeur of of in
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unique p power ow wer of games games,, how the theyy ccan an m ake you you ffeel eel actual acctual guilt, guilt, how how tthey hey make ccan an n eexpress xpress eemotions motions aand nd iideas deass iin n ways no other medium and how w ays n oo ther m edium ccan an an nd h ow theyy can teeach through the can teach through the act of play. plaay. thing “One th hing that makes makes games sso o ggreat, reat,” said said Alex Alex Mathew, Mathew, “is “is ability player-driven tthe he ab bility to to have have a p layer-driven narrative, where not n arrative, w here n ot eeveryone veryone ssees ees the same thing, t thing , so you you o have haave different diff ffeerent are unique sstories tories tthat hat ar re vvery ery u nique to to you you player. They aass a p layer. T hey ffeel eel like like something something belongs that b ngs to you you because because you you elon helped create them.” help ed cr e eate aree these students aiming So whatt ar do tto od o with with all alll their their enthusiasm enthusiasm and an nd once Do iintelligence ntelligence o nce tthey hey ggraduate? rad duate? D o hope tthey hey h ope to to work work on on the the biggest biggest best aand nd b est ggames am mes ffrom rom tthe he traditional traditional orr d do want make sstudios, tudios, o o they they w ant tto om ake games moree freedom smaller gam mes with mor freedom ffor or experimentation o experim mentation and personal personal eexpression, xpression, ass tthe he llocal ocal independents independents aree doing? ar Team ““You’re You’re ttalking allking about about T eam Meat Meat Gaijin?” asked and Gaijin n?” ask ked e JJon on Gill. “I think they’re much the y’re mu uch bigger inspirations to shoot like, sho ot ffor or than, o t lik ke, the Call Call of Dutys Dutys things.. That That’s and things ’s much less eexciting xciting smaller than the sm maller teams of three, three, 10, 20 people pe ople who who gget et really really inspired inspired about ab bout money, aan n iidea, dea, gget et ssome ome sseed eed m oney, ttry ry to to make work fails,, it fails, mak ke it wo ork and if it fails fails, and theyy can the can go o on to the next next thing. thing.” goals “My goa als have haave kind of shifted sincee I got here, sinc here,” April Grow Grow said, knew when first wanted ““because because I k new w hen I fi rst w anted make tto om ake games gam ames I wanted wan nted tto o work work for for big because ab ig company, compan ny, Blizzard, Blizzarrd, b ecause ass llong ong aass I can can an remember remember I’ve I’ve played played Blizzard games. myself Bliz zard ga ames. But now I see m yyself wanting industryy and w anting to o infiltrate industr push new p ush tthose hose n ew vvisions isions fforward orward ffrom rom makee a game that the inside and mak breaks rreally eally br eaaks boundaries. boundaries.” Alex A lex said, said, ““I’m I’m thinking thinking about about grad grad off tthese sschool chool right right now, now, because becau use all all o hese schools looking grad scho o are ols are lo oking into the projects. eexciting xciting new new p rojects. I don’t don’t want want to go into this industry industry that feels feeels a llittle ittle jjaded aded aand nd iiss ttrying rying tto o make mak ke safe saf fe gamess and not rreally eally pushing anything, have an nyything hi , while whil we ha h ave all ll these h rreally eallly eexciting xciting grad grad d sschools chools that thatt are arre all weird, different pushing al ll these weir d, diff ffeerent ways play off cclosing w ays tto op lay ggames. ames. IInstead nstead do losing off what has o ff doors doors and and ssaying aying w hat a ggame ame h as be, tto ob e, we’re we’re looking looking aatt what what a game gam me be, want ccould ould b e, and a Iw ant to eexplore xplore that some more. more.”
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CAPERS Well-heeled sports bar and restaurant. $$$. Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Well-devised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious finger foods. 11am-10:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-midnight Fri-Sat and 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777.
LA PIZZERIA Italian. $$. La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand on the strength of a few highquality ingredients, expertly prepared. Open for lunch and dinner daily. 11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am-11pm Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Ave. 408.370.0826.
MICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi standards are transformed into palate-awakening presentations; culinary boundaries are stretched. 11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.378.8000 or 378.0838.
NEGEEN Persian. $$. Mira ghasemi, grilled and puréed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, puréed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs. Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice cream. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-midnight Fri-Sat and 11:30am-9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400. OLIO Mediterranean. $$$. Olio serves simple but expertly prepared Mediterranean food that dips into the underexplored cuisines of North Africa. Small but smart wine list. Dinner 5-
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PSYCHO DONUTS Donuts. $. Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory with flavors like apricot, the Cookie Monster (topped with Oreos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits of vanilla wafers) and the intimidating Psycho Donut, a maelstrom of marshmallow, pretzel and chile powder. 6am-5pm Mon-Thu, 6am11pm Fri, 7am-11pm Sat, 7am5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester Blvd #C. 408.378.4540.
RUSSIAN CAFÉ AND DELI Russian. $$. This is a small Russian grocery store with a good little restaurant tucked in the corner. Borscht soup, pelmeni and solyankya sbornaya, a thick soup studded with chunks of mild pork sausage, black olives, pickles and barley all satisfy. 11am-8pm daily. 1712 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.379.6680.
SUSHI ZONE Japanese. $$. Fun sushi meets fun surroundings in this zone. 11:30am-2:30pm and 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu and 11:30am-2:30pm and 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd #1. 408.866.1323.
TIGELLERIA. Italian. $$. Tigelleria’s menu centers on fine cheeses and Italian salumi paired with tigelle, free-flowing, piping hot flatbreads the size of mini pitas. The bread forms the addictive heart of the meal. Lunch 11:30am-2pm and dinner 5-10pm daily. 76 E. Campbell Ave. 408.884.3808.
TWIST CAFE AND BISTRO French and American. $$$. Twist describes itself as “American food with a French twist,” but the menu
includes Middle Eastern Eastern, Asian and Italian influences, too. Cafe 9am-3pm Tue-Sat, 9am-2:30pm Sun; Bistro 59pm Wed-Thu and 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 247 E. Campbell Ave. 408.374.8982.
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ALDO’S Italian. $$$. A warm and engaging atmosphere sets the scene for fullbodied flavors and healthy ingredients. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 14109 Winchester Blvd. 408.374.1808. CALIFORNIA CAFE New American. $$$. An innovative approach to Pacific Rim staples makes for some lovely surprises. The ace service matches the smart setting. Full bar. 11:30am-10pm MonFri, 10:30am-10:30pm Sat, 10:30am-9:30pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.8118.
CIN-CIN Eclectic wine bar. $$$. The heart of Cin Cin’s menu is an eclectic mix of small plates, tapas-size dishes that partner well with a great wine list. 4-10pm Mon-Sat. 368 Village Way. 408.354.8006.
CRIMSON Rustic bistro. $$$. Large portions of upscale rustic fare sate the diner at this new-style Old World bistro, but don’t forget to save room for Fondue for Two. 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri, 5pmclose Mon-Sun. 15466 Los Gatos Blvd. 408.358.0175.
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You may not share my enthusiasm for almond croissants, but I bet that’s because you haven’t had a good one. Properly made, the croissant is a study in balance. The exterior, particularly the pointed ends, is crisp and shatters upon contact. Inside, the pastry is pillowy, moist and above all buttery. The marzipan (almond paste) should be well incorporated into the croissant so that it combines with the flaky bread to form a slightly sweet, nutty whole. Better still is when there’s a thin mantle of marzipan spread on top that caramelizes in the oven. A sprinkling of sliced almonds crowns the whole thing. What is so great about a good almond croissant is that it has a restrained sweetness that goes perfectly with a cup of coffee or tea. Donuts just don’t stand a change when matched with a real croissant. I sample almond croissants far and wide. (One rule of thumb: don’t buy a plastic wrapped croissant. It will invariably disappoint.) The best I’ve ever had is at the BIG SUR BAKERY. I make a stop there for a croissant as soon as I pull into town and pick one up on my way out. They are K_\ 9\cc Kfn\i astoundingly delicious. 9`jkif Xe[ Closer to home, Los Gatos’ FLEUR DE COCOA GXk`jj\i`\ makes an incredible almond croissant. Unlike most versions, which use marzipan, pastry chef 20490 Saratoga–Los and owner PASCAL JANVIER makes his with a light Gatos Road, Saratoga almond cream filling. They are sweet but not 408.741.1104 overly so. With an abundance of butter, they are supernaturally crisp and rich. The Bell Tower, which opened late last year in downtown Saratoga, makes a classic almond croissant to rival those at Fleur de Cocoa and the Big Sur Bakery. And it’s a bargain at $2.25. Pastry chef JAVIER ANDRADE, 33, learned to create pastries from a French chef when he was 18 at the WHALE CITY BAKERY in Davenport (north of Santa Cruz). From there he worked at Santa Cruz’s famed BUTTERY, where he continued his education in croissant making. He has adapted what he learned about croissants into his own style. He hand-rolls the croissants each morning and uses organic flour and marzipan that he makes from scratch. Each one looks a bit different. I like the ones where the marzipan pools in the middle between the two points. The top is beautifully caramelized and shingled with toasted almonds and a dusting of powdered sugar. They are outstanding. And they sell out quickly so call ahead and have them put a few aside for you.—Stett Holbrook
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5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 210 E. Main St. 408.354.7700.
FLEUR DE COCOA French bakery. $$. Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Los Gatos’ Fleur de Cocoa is rightly known
for its chocolate confections and pastries, but I can’t stop thinking about the little pastry shop’s spectacular almond croissants. There’s plenty of other good stuff and not all of it sweet, like the croque
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FORBES MILL STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. When Metro first checked in with Forbes Mill in 2003, it was called “a big, burly brasserie equipped with style as well as substance.” It’s holding up well and still does things in a big way. Dinner 5-9pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 206 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6434.
GREEN PAPAYA Vietnamese. $$. California cuisine meets Southeast Asia by way of Paris, with inventive updates of clay pot and five-spice authentica. 11am- 3pm, 5-9:30pm TueSun.. Beer, wine. 137 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9115.
I GATTI New Italian. $$$. I Gatti fits like a glove along peaceful Main Street. The chef understands the basics but isn’t afraid to create refreshing twists on traditional recipes. 11:30am-2pm. 5-9:30pm MonSat, 5-9pm Sun 25 E. Main St. 408.399.5180. KAMAKURA SUSHI AND SAKE HOUSE Sushi bar classics. $$. In a smart setting, Kamakura showcases a procession of impeccable sushi and sashimi platters. 10:30am2pm, 5:30-10pm daily. 135 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6650.
LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Brewpub. $$$. Most brewpubs seem to be cooking from the same menu, but executive chef Jim Stump has created a diverse menu of upscale comfort food that goes well beyond burgers and grilledchicken sandwiches. The handsome wood-accented interior and open kitchen with its wood-fired pizza oven and rotisserie grill add to the restaurant’s appeal. Breakfast 10am-2pm Sat-Sun, lunch 11:30am-3pm and dinner 5pm to 9pm daily. 130 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9929.
MANRESA High concept. $$$$. Drawing from produce grown at his own farm, superstar chef David Kinch is blazing a trail of high caliber cuisine that’s as daring as it is delicious. Expensive but worth it. 320 Village Lane.
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THREE DEGREES Eclectic,
$$$. Nick’s on Main is a relaxed but elegant bistro full of neighborly charm and is a showcase for owner Nick Difu’s decadent and deeply satisfying style of cooking. 11:30am-3pm and 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 35 E. Main St. 408.399.6457.
California. $$$. Set inside the beautifully remodeled Toll House hotel, Three Degrees delivers a mixed bag of big and small plates from an eclectic menu. Some dishes, like the New York steak, are great, but others fall flat. Service is friendly but still a little green. Full bar. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri, 3-10pm daily. 140 S. Santa Cruz Blvd. 408.884.1054.
PASTARIA & MARKET Italian. $$. Pastaria offers reasonably priced comfort food in an unpretentious but lively atmosphere. 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat and 5-10pm Sun. 49 E. Main St. 408.399.3477.
RESTAURANT JAMES RANDALL Californian. $$$. Chef and co-owner Ross Hanson takes his cues from the seasons and favors a simple, ingredient-driven approach that places it squarely in the California school of cooking. He favors big, robust flavors and large serving sizes to create a kind of California comfort food. Dinner 5:30-11pm TueSat. 303 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.4441.
STEAMER’S New American. $$$. Styling itself as a grill house, Steamer’s includes rotisserie meats and fragrant grilled chops in addition to fresh fish. Quality control and service are excellent. Full bar. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm daily. 31 University Ave. 408.395.2722.
TANDOORI OVEN Indian. $. Tandoori Oven has quickly found its niche in Los Gatos among the burrito joints, sushi spots and upscale restaurants with its made-to-order curry dishes and spicy north Indian fare at good prices. 11:30am9:30pm daily. 133 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, 408.395.1784; 1875 S. Bascom Ave., Campbell, 408.559.3885; and 109 S. First St., San Jose, 408.292.7222.
TAPESTRY Contemporary haute. $$$. Right on the main street, this cottagelike spot blends traditional French cooking with contemporary fusion: filet mignon with Mongolian-style brown sauce; crayfish chow mein. Elegant and friendly. 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-9pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 11 College Ave.
VALERIANO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT AND BAR Contemporary Italian. $$$. While the kitchen exudes earthy aromas, the dining room’s soft terra-cotta walls glow with a sense of Mediterranean mission. Hands-on management makes each patron feel pampered. Full bar. 5pm-close daily. 160 W. Main St. 408.354.8108.
VIVA LOS GATOS NEIGHBORHOOD EATERY California. $$$. This popular Los Gatos restaurant mixes it up with Italian-leaning Mediterranean food, fresh fish, grilled steaks and several Asian-inspired dishes as well. 11am-9:30pm Mon-Fri 8am10:30pm Sat, 8am-9:30pm Sat. 15970 Los Gatos Blvd. 408.356.4902.
WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$. Silicon Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the definitive upwardly mobile California pizza. Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian wood-fired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas—delicate, light and satisfying. Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am-10pm Sun-Thu; 11:30am-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.5566. For other locations see www. willowstreet.com.
WINE CELLAR New California $$. Tucked under Borders Books, this cozy dining spot offers an education in Old World charm and New World cuisine, from smoked salmon pizza to grilled ahi tuna to desserts as fresh as spring break. 11:30am-9pm MonThu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10:30am-9pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.4808.
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FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH Caravan Lounge, San Jose Thu – 10pm; free With a breakneck speed-punk sound and a sense of humor to go along with it, San Jose’s Five Fingers of Death had its beginnings two years ago, when bassist-vocalist Jason Styles met the band’s drummer, Kaka Meng, at a professional wrestling school. Soon after that, the band’s second guitarist, who goes by the moniker “ET,� caught Five Fingers’ show at the Blue Bonnet in Sunnyvale. Promises Styles: “If you don’t like our music, you’ll be entertained by our antics. If you still don’t like it, it’ll be over soon.� (BD)
ANTI-SOCIAL Johnny V’s, San jose Thu – 9pm; $5 In a world where rebellion is for sale, anarchy is a T-shirt design and even a toddler can have a Mohawk, San Jose’s Anti-Social is one of the last honest punk bands. They’ve stayed true to both their ethics and their sound. With a mixture of early-’80s Brit and ’90s melodic punk, these boys call it like they see it, whether it be hypocritical religious leaders who are all about the dough, or toughguy morons who try to start ďŹ ghts at shows. The Sprains and Santa Cruz’s SA90 open. (BD)
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GRIMACE AND THE FAKERS Caravan Lounge, San Jose Fri – 10pm; free Adding slide guitar to a song is like adding cowbell; it just sounds cooler. Grimace and the Fakers play the blues with a modern rock feel, even covering a song by the great Mississippi Fred McDowell. But when they bust out the slide, watch out. Think of it as a Delta blues band revamped for the 21st century. Lead singer/guitarist Grimace draws much of his inuence from McDowell and Howlin’ Wolf; he has that same gritty voice, like a rusty nail in wood. Grimce and the Fakers also showcase bassist Jamie Rodriguez, formally of San Jose’s punk band Ribzy. (BD)
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SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY SYM Jan 15 at a 8pm and Jan 16 at 2:30pm, California Theatre, San Jose
MUSIC@MENLO WINTER SERIES MUSIC@ JJan 16 at 4pm, Center for the Performing Perform Arts at Menlo-Atherton
GOLDEN ROAD Grate Dead songs in concert to Grateful benefit The Stage, Jan 17 at 7:30pm, California Theatre, San Jose
JOHN MCCUTCHEON Jan 17 at 7:30pm, St. James Episcopal, Fremont PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE P JJan 18 at 8pm, Center for the Performing Arts, Atherton
JOSHUA REDMAN SOLO Jan 19 at 7:30pm, Carriage House, Montalvo Arts Center
LANG LANG Jan 23 at a 7:30pm, California Theatre, San Jose
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SYMPHONY SV California Theatre, San Jose Sat – 8pm, Sun – 2:30pm; $39-$75 For its first concert of the new year, Symphony Silicon Valley welcomes guest conductor Paul Polivnick (a frequent visitor to the area, having conducted the orchestra on several occasions) and pianist Adam Golka for a program titled “Idylls & Dances.” Golka, already a prominent player at age 23, will negotiate Liszt’s Totentanz Concerto, a tempestuous meditation on the so-called “dance of death” from the Middle Ages. Also on the bill is Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. (MSG)
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Hawaiian pronunciation can be baffling. And the Mahaka Sons have done nothing to improve the situation over the course of more than 20 albums with titles like Na Mele Henoheno Na Makahiki, helu ‘elua. There are Midwesterners who picked up that record in 1999 and are still reading the front cover today. But do the Mahaka Sons care? They get booked in Carnegie Hall and then go home to paradise in O’ahu. And why? Because they’re Hawaiian legends who have helped to preserve some of the islands’ most cherished musical traditions. (SP)
PIANO/PIANISTS Center for the Performing Arts, Menlo-Atherton Sun – 4pm; $20-$50 As part of its Winter Series of classical concerts, Music@ Menlo presents a trio of topranking pianists in a variety of combinations performing pieces scored for two pianos. Alessio Bax, Anne-Marie McDermott and Wu Han (one of the moving forces behind the big summer Music@ Menlo Festival) will show their skills on selections by Debussy, Ravel and Rachmaninoff (Suites no. 1 and 2).
Jan 29 at 8pm, Campbell Heritage Theatre
BERRY SAKHAROF Jan 29 at 8pm, Memorial Auditorium, Stanford
WILD CHILD Jan 29 at 8pm, Fox Theatre, Redwood City
LUIS MIGUEL Jan 30 at 8pm, HP Pavilion, San Jose
DAT PHAN, COMIC Feb 1 at 7pm, San Jose Improv
JEFF DUNHAM Feb 2 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion, San Jose
MINGUS DYNASTY Feb 2 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford
OZZY OSBOURNE SLASH Feb 3 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion
SOUTH BAY GUITAR SOCIETY Anniversary gala, Feb 4 at 6:30pm, Le Petit Trianon, San Jose
ACROBATS OF CHINA Feb 11 at 7:30pm, Flint Center, Cupertino.
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Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion Monday, 7:30pm; California Theatre, San Jose; $50 and up The music of the Grateful Dead remains very alive and lively. San Jose Stage Company throws a benefit party for itself featuring the original cast and band from its 1988 production of Cumberland Blues. The revue draws on classic songs from the Dead albums Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty. The cast includes original members Kevin Blackton, Don Hiatt and pedal steel player Bobby Black.
The Zahsman Murders Thursday–Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 2pm, Jan. 14–29; WORKS/San Jose; $15/$25 Serial killers don’t confine their sprees to the silver screen; now, they haunt theaters, thanks to Arclight Repertory Theatre’s new production. This new thriller by Jim Colgan features a cast of six—one of whom just might be the guilty party. The play unfolds in the small WORKS gallery space, helping to immerse the audience in the hunt for the murderer.
No Good Deed Jan. 13–30; Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View; $15–$30 Not all gumshoes are world-weary, hard-bitten men; some are world-weary, hard-bitten women. Such is the case with Frankie Payne, a female detective working the mean streets of Boston in No Good Deed. The Paul Braverman play, presented by Pear Avenue Theatre, focuses on Payne’s investigation into an Irish gang war in the early 1960s.
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ANGELS IN AMERICA: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES In collaboration with the mentoring program First Stages, Bus Barn Stage Company presents Tony Kushner’s story of AIDS in America. Thu-Sat, 8pm. Runs thru Jan 15. $15. Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos.
GOLDEN ROAD TO UNLIMITED DEVOTION A benefit concert for San Jose Stage Company features the original cast member of “Cumberland Blues” in a new tribute to the songs of the Grateful Dead. Mon, 7:30pm. $50-$100. California Theatre, San Jose.
GREASE The current touring version of the popular music hits town, presented by Broadway San Jose. Runs Jan 18-23. Tue-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. $20 and up. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.
NO GOOD DEED Frankie Payne, female private detective, looks for redemption in the middle of an Irish gang clash in Boston. Presented by Pear Avenue Theatre Company. Pay-whatyou-can preview Thu, 8pm. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $25/$30. Runs thru Jan 30. Pear Ave, Mountain View.
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Ouroboros Jan. 15–Feb. 5; Historic Hoover Theater, San Jose; $12-$28.50 True to its name, Renegade Theatre Experiment presents a dramatic Möbius strip called Ouroboros. Tom Jacobson’s play trails two American couples on tour in Italy—one advancing in time, the other moving backward. Their intricate paths cross in strange ways leading to either comedy or tragedy, depending on which night one attends the shifting tale.
Renegade Theatre Experiment tells the interlocking stories of two American couples on a nightmarish journey of fate and coincidence in Italy; the play’s ending diverges depending on the night of the performance. Preview Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows: Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sunday, 7pm. Runs thru Feb 5. $12-$28.50. Historic Hoover Theater, San Jose.
THE ZAHSMAN MURDERS Local author Jim Colgan’s mystery is mounted by Arclight Rep. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Thru Jan 29. $15/$25. WORKS/San Jose.
Comedy 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.
9 LIVES Sat: Mark Pitta. $12/$15. Gilroy.
ROOSTERT.FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Andre Norelli, Alex Koll and Chris Garcia. $12$16. Sunnyvale.
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.
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.
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Wed, 8pm: Big Al’s Big Ass Comedy Show. $12. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Jeremy Hotz. $20. San Jose.
“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. “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.
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Museums OPENING DESAISSETMUSEUM “The Veil: Visible and Invisible.” A traveling group show of works focusing on the various societal uses of the veil through history. Jan 15-Mar 11. Santa Clara University.
CONTINUING 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 Woodcuts From 16th-Century Italy.”Thru Feb 27. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.
EUPHRAT MUSEUM “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.
HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Celebrating Local Artists: The Fifth Anniversary of the McKay Gallery.” A look at the McKay’s collection, including paintings
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.
TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION “Body Worlds Vital.” A detailed anatomical look at bodies in health and disease, based on the work of Gunther von Hagens. Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.
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 CAFFE TRIESTE “Robot Girl.” Works by Christine Benjamin. Thru Jan 28. San Jose.
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DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA Works in clay by Paul Rubio. Thru Jan 28. San Jose.
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“Sculpture on the Grounds: David Middlebrook.”Thru Jun 1. “The Oldest Living Things in the World.” Photographs by Rachel Sussman. Thru Jan 16. Saratoga.
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“The Nature of Entanglement.” Patrick Dougherty will work on a large environmental site-specific project. There will also be an exhibit of photos of Dougherty’s other works. Thru Jan 28. Palo Alto.
A signing event with the author of a new biography of the Shah of Iran. Tue, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.
“Small Works.”Thru Feb 5. Tue, 11am-4pm, Wed-Sat, 11am-8pm, Sun 11am-3pm. Enter through Printer’s Ink, Palo Alto.
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“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.
KAVLI INSTITUTE FOR PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS A display of 19 works, including the “Galactic Mysteries” series, by Leah Lubin. SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Stanford.
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.
Works in storefronts by Sean Sczepanik and Steven Sczepanik. Along South First Street, San Jose.
“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.
Draper talks about his work on the book “The Startup Game.” Wed, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
PITCHAPALOOZA Aspiring writes can discuss their ideas in brief with some literary agents. Sun, 2pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
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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. $11/$12. Sunnyvale Theater. Snow White Presented by Palo Alto Children’s Theatre as part of Saturday Playhouse. Sat, 1am and noon. $5/$10. Palo ALto Children’s Theatre.
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A literary get-together with the author of “I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Sacrifice on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity.” Fri, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Mountain View.
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An ice-skating rink downtown. Thru Jan 17. Downtown San Jose on Market at San Fernando.
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GEOFF ALEXANDER’S book Academic Films for the Classroom: A History is an extraordinarily well-researched and necessary history of educational film between World War II and the Gulf War. It’s an era the author calls “not old enough to be antique, but just old enough to be moldy.” While the public is more beguiled by the campiness of vintage social studies films (Kino just released two fresh volumes of them on DVD), Alexander is more interested in the work of genuine artists whose work endures, as well as the fascinating hacks whose attitudes shed light on the way we were. Encyclopedia Britannica—an American-owned company since 1929—was one of the biggest companies that got into the educational film business. It was a business bolstered by the 1950s boom in 16 mm projectors, the success of the World War II Army training film and the increases in spending for education over the decades. Founded by David Smart, the dapper hypochondriac who started Esquire magazine, Coronet was the cheapjack Monogram Studios of educational film. And the National Film Board of Canada sponsored trend-setting work in animation and documentary. Alexander also provides pocketsize histories of the other different entities that put out educational films. Some were small ’70s companies engulfed by multinationals; others were minicorporations caught in their own cultural struggles.
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A community tikkun olam as part of a national day of service to mark Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, sponsored by Oshman Family JCC. Mon, 7:30am-4pm. Koret Campus for Jewish Life, Palo Alto (see www.paloaltojcc.org for details).
With refreshments, music and speakers. Fri, noon-2pm. King Main Library, San Jose.
THREADING THE DREAM A celebration in art, fashion and music for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Sun, 6pm. Avalon, Santa Clara.
TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE SHOW A hall full of demos, dealers and experts on all phases of getting out of town. Sat-Sun, 11am-4pm. $9/$15. Santa Clara Convention Center.
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(PG-13; 118 min.) A comedy about adultery among friends stars Vince Vaughn, Kevin James and Jennifer Connelly. (Opens Fri.)
THE GREEN HORNET (PG-13; 108 min.) Not to be confused with the Green Lantern. This pair of masked crime ďŹ ghters originated on radio before moving into other popculture manifestations. Stars Seth Rogen and Jay Chou. (Opens Fri.)
LIVING FOR 32 (2010) The horriďŹ c events in Tucson make this Oscar short-listed documentary all the more imperative: it’s Kevin Breslin’s documentary on former Virginia Tech student Colin Goddard, who was shot four times by Seung-Hui Cho, 2007’s model of a Glock-armed maniac. Goddard will be on hand, as will Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign. (Plays Jan 13 in Palo Alto at 7pm, at Stanford University’s Roble Theater, 374 Santa Teresa; call 650.723.2300 for reservations.) (RvB)
NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent ďŹ lms. Jan 15: Chaplin in Police (1916), Charley Chase in Long Fliv the King (1926); Buster Keaton stars in an account of the wreck of the SS DamďŹ no in The Boat (1921) and Jean Harlow bewilders Laurel and Hardy in Double Whoopee (1929). Frederic Hodges at the piano. (Plays Jan 15 at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)
OF HUMAN BONDAGE/ FOG OVER FRISCO (Both 1934) Starring Bette Davis in her ďŹ rst big performance. She plays Mildred, the mean little whore who kicks around a striving, clubfooted medical student (Leslie Howard) in this pre-Code adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s magnum opus. Davis does Cockney, which is slightly risible, but she’s sensationally anti-heroic and lascivious. And the crueler part of one’s heart agrees with her that the young student
RABBIT HOLE (PG-13; 91 min.) See review on page 46. (Opens Fri at CinĂŠArts Santana Row and Century Cinema 16 Mountain View.)
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needs to wise up. BILLED WITH Fog Over Frisco Davis as a San Francisco socialite tarred by the press. (Plays Jan 15-17 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
ROCKY (1976) A no-account Philadelphia boxer who gets a shot at a better time. The ďŹ lm made a star out of writer/producer Sylvester Stallone, who was enough like Brando— although not as wily—that his performance seemed more like a heartfelt homage than a rip-off. Despite the dreadful sequels, it’s hard to remember the original without some affection. Talia Shire, who played Michael Corleone’s battered sister in The Godfather, is touching as a pet-shop girl who gives Rocky the strength to ďŹ ght. The Bill Conti score, a disco anthem with trumpet fanfares, has been inevitable at sporting events ever since. (Plays Jan 14-16 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)
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Cage Match THE TRAILERS alone for Season of the Witch made you want to ask for your money back, but longtime fans owed it to Nicolas Cage to see if he could redeem the film. Sadly, no. Cage plays a knight named Behmen whose best pal (Ron Perlman) is the burly Felson; the names sound like a pair of Boston University frat-rats. Behmen and Felson spent the early 1300s putting their swords through Saracens, battles captioned with historic-looking dates and all looking exactly alike. “Ever have the feeling that God has too many enemies?” asks Felson. Disgusted by hard-PG violence, Behmen and Felson cut and run from the Crusades but end up in a town hit by a deathly plague that leaves everyone looking like motor-oildrenched Elephant Men. The town’s dying cardinal (Christopher Lee, unrecognizable save for his voice) asks the knights to haul an imprisoned witch (Claire Foy) responsible for the plague to an abbey a week’s ride away. There, the monks know the sacred witch-binding spells necessary to send her back to hell. She seems like such a nice girl, though, and there’s an element of doubt:
what if she’s actually an innocent victim of superstition? This question (soon solved, unfortunately) eclipses the other problem: isn’t it easier to move a book and a couple of monks than a dangerous witch in a huge iron medieval paddy wagon? A few extraneous characters whose fate is quite J\Xjfe f] k_\ foreseeable accompany N`kZ_ the knights; one, a PG-13; 95 min. swindler, played by Plays valleywide Stephen Graham, has a New Jersey accent. Thus a fateful trip from the Wormwood Forest to the Abbey of the Zombies. Director Dominic Sena is a living repository of 1990s film techniques: he has an almost medieval faith that the editing will smooth everything out, as will the wow-factory of digital effects: Wolves! Yes, but with a f lick of the pixels, they’re supernatural wolves! Cage, looking quite well fed, takes the knightly high road; the script is littered with lines like “Honor is not to be discarded or forgotten.” The high point is Perelman’s, however: this actor, a living Picasso Minotaur, gives the devil a North London–style head butt. —Richard von Busack
(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 sound off like gunshots. In the rehearsal scenes, the camera spins around with the dancers, and we hear the scuffing of feet and the harsh panting of the dancers. It’s all hard, anguish-ridden work. When the music commences, Black Swan finally feels like a great movie, simply because the Tchaikovsky would make us believe anything. (RvB)
BLUE VALENTINE (R; 120 min.) Cindy (Michelle Williams) is a nurse married to Dean (Ryan Gosling), a housepainter; the two are seen on their first dates and years later at what may be the end of their marriage. Director Derek Cianfrance’s intimate and frighteningly close study of the bad side of love has problems: confusing time frames and some bits of info that seem to have been left in the director’s head during the harrowingly long pre-production. What we start to see, thanks to Williams’ acting, is something bigger than this couple’s feud. It’s more like the war of the body and the soul. There’s too much challenge to the average insipid romcom for this film to be ignored. More than anything, Blue Valentine makes it clear what a terrible thing “romantic destiny” would be if it really existed. As for Williams: she simply gives the single best female performance of the year. (RvB)
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER (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
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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 one-legged giants, a green mist that envelops sacrificial humans and a dragon’s treasure hoard, which curses those who steal it. There are times when the Narnia movies are as good as CGI gets. The animators challenge themselves to pose their legions of creatures under high-noon lighting, instead of disguising the flaws with half-shadows or twilight. (RvB)
COUNTRY STRONG (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.
FAIR GAME (PG-13; 108 min.) Doug Liman’s account of the felonious Valerie Plame business is a model of exciting, intelligent espionage lore. It’s shot with braced but fluid camerawork. Naomi Watts’ performance as Plame is one of the year’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 confirm confidential 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 figures leak the name of Wilson’s wife, Victoria Plame, to columnist Robert Novak, a move that destroys her career and puts her operations in jeopardy. It’s hard for a film to be all things to all people. Fair Game’s script is less surefooted with the domestic drama than it is with the paranoid/political tale-telling. (RvB)
GULLIVER’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 Gulliver’s Travels seem like wretched excess. Shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, Black’s Gulliver meets a race of bite-sized foreigners who imprison him. Subplots include
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(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 “Bertie,â€? is the ofďŹ cial spare to the heir, next in line to the Prince of Wales (a superlatively cast Guy Pearce embodies this Edward’s upperclass shadiness and monstrous entitlement). The prince is the love slave of a twice-married American named Simpson; his affair and his indifference to world troubles are pushing events to a constitutional crisis. The man tapped to solve it is Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), an Australian speech therapist tasked
I LOVE YOU, PHILLIP MORRIS (R; 112 min.) Jim Carrey in the story of Steven Russell, a cop turned con-man whose downfall (or whose stairway to heaven) was his love affair with a fellow prisoner, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). Even when the movie takes swipes at Texas justice and evangelicals, director/writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa pussyfoot around the truth: their subject is a kind of sociopath. Despite Steven’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
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
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HOW DO YOU KNOW (PG-13; 116 min.) Two men contend for the affections of Lisa (Reese Witherspoon), an ex–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. It’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 doesn’t have the shrewdness of
with helping the duke ďŹ nd his voice on the eve of England’s entry into World War II. Most of the ďŹ lm is an inspired actor’s duel about the conict between pride and need. Rush’s wit and nimbleness counterpoint this story of majesty, which is almost exactly as tragic as it is comic. (RvB)
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(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) ee through a blitzed-out land. Unfortunately, the single most 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 title’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)
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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)
Albert Brooks. Using the same kind of rhythms, gags and teaching moments of ’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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a bromance between Black and a Lilliputian (Jason Segel) with a crush of his own on the kingdom’s princess (Emily Blunt), as well as conict with a jealous (and unfunny) general, played by Chris O’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. It’s the ďŹ lm’s comedic highlight maybe because Black is temporarily cut down to size. By the time the directors haul out a giant robot, it’s clear that the most interesting part of this tale went missing. Swift’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 cargobearing colossus arrives on a small island. (RvB)
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Stop Loss THE TITLE of Rabbit Hole is banal, but John Cameron Mitchell’s Douglas Sirk–like approach emulates studio-era work. Mitchell seems to have kicked the story uptown; written about Queens, it now takes place in waterfront property in Yonkers. Eight people are credited as buyers to dress the sets, and it’s clear the main character has climbed out of the working class. As always, Nicole Kidman risks being box-office poison through displaying unmanaged anger. Eight months after the death of her young son, her Becca is standing at a crossroads. Her choice is to start healing or to never get over it and shut everyone out of her personal realm of grief. Rabbit Hole’s roots in David LindsayAbaire’s play are all visible. Becca is a diva part, a woman who gets to be like a Jacob’s ladder in a mad scientist’s lair, arcing up static and sparks. Maybe it’s just that I’m a man, but I was more taken with the story of her husband, Howie (Aaron Eckhart), with his edge of foxy subversiveness even in duty, as well as his ability to get into the meat of his feelings. He does the right things, religiously showing up for grief therapy every week. The film’s spots of humor are the clichÊs one hears at such
groups. There’s a benefit for Howie at the sessions, too: a pretty, playful, hemp-smoking fellow mourner (Sandra Oh). The camera focuses on pieces of graphic art by Dash Shaw. These turn out to be excerpts from the artwork of another figure in the tragedy: IXYY`k ?fc\ Jason (Miles Teller), PG-13; 91 min. the young man who Opens Friday was driving the day Becca’s child died. Becca befriends him; it’s easier for her than bonding with her sister (Tammy Blanchard), who drinks and brawls, or her Queens dingbat mother (Dianne Wiest), who, true to the stagey origins, has the wisest speech, all about grief being heavy and humble as a brick. Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) is an interesting director, and one wishes he would work more often. Rabbit Hole’s aim is not to jerk tears but to envelop a viewer in a tragedy, and it succeeds. The dramatic crescendo is broken up into cubist angles and slowmotion horror, abstracting a mother’s unthinkable loss, faceting it like a jewel.—Richard von Busack
(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 you’ll groan
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to see (the neglected husband of the female crusader, burning dinner and going without ironed shirts). (RvB)
RED HILL (PG-13; 98 min.) Those obsessed with True Grit, and who are seeking out another Western real fast, could do worse. Director Patrick Hughes makes his inuences clear in this story of a modern Australian town’s night of terror. A new constable (Ryan Kwanten, who plays Jason in True Blood) has his ďŹ rst day on the job just as there’s a prison break. Jimmy (Tommy Lewis, never to be forgotten for The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) is coming back to settle some old scores. Australian TV star Steve Bisley plays the head man who seems to be in control but who has secrets of his own. Credibly tough performances—if the script and the soundtrack parrot other movies, the Australian high country landscape speaks for itself. (RvB)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (PG-13; 2 hrs.) Fiendishly clever and funny movie about the creation of an Internet monster. As Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg gives a master class on recessive acting: he’s beady eyed and covert, with the occasional pit-viper-like sway of a truculent, lowered forehead. It’s the kind of remorseless superiority that can only look comically childish and wounded onscreen. The ďŹ lm shuttles between the present-day
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THE TOURIST (PG-13) A thriller with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp, directed by the euphoniously named Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
(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 aren’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 inuences and salute them as they pass: the antique charm of 3D Viewmaster
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(PG-13; 110 min.) Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a self-assured 14-yearold, 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 “Roosterâ€? 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 wasn’t capable of as an actor, expressing the desperate underside of a bluff, a rowdier level of buffoonery and a quitter’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 ďŹ lm, its depth, beauty and sadness. (RvB)
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deposition of the now arrogantly rich Zuckerberg, as he’s sued by a quartet of burned partners (among them his former best friend Eduardo, played by Andrew GarďŹ eld). In ashback, we see his own history—a Jewish student at WASP-ridden Harvard, a social reject whose grudge-hacking was his entry into fame. Later, Zuckerberg meets the founder of Napster, Sean Parker— played by Justin Timberlake, excellent as a happy wastrel. Fincher regular cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth keeps us oriented by making the walnut-lined tombs of Harvard so different from the lambency of the sun in Palo Alto. Aaron Sorkin’s wild, witty script hands out punishment that goes beyond the ďŹ nancial penalties: this is a comedy in the Balzac sense, a balancing act; the mockery and the disgust for greed matches the essential lightness of the situation. It’s only Facebook, after all. (RvB)
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Shinobu Saturday, 8pm, Homestead Lanes, Cupertino; $8 Did they break up, or didn’t they? If they didn’t, then appearing to break up a couple of years ago was their best career move ever. The band at the center of the South Bay’s “Phat ‘n’ Phunky Phamily” of post-punk rock groups is back with a vengeance, releasing a slew of B-sides and songs from the vault. But they also have two new songs on their new 7-inch with the Albert Square, and both bands will perform at this release party for the split. (SP)
Hope for AM Saturday, 6pm, the Refuge, Cupertino; $10 Former Pinup Productions’ Battle of the Bands winner Hope for AM spent last year tooling around the country with the Warped Tour, holing up to write new material and getting their alternapop asses in the studio. Still waiting for word about their album; meanwhile, they’ll share this bill with Kylle Reece, Four O Clock Heroes, Point of View, Quiet Game Starting Now, Stories in Braille and MDK. (SP)
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Following in the tradition of classically trained musical adventurers the Kronos Quartet, the Cypress String Quartet have been changing the definition of “classical music” for 15 years, commissioning more than 30 new works. They’ll perform one of those, Impressions by fascinating composer Jennifer Higson, which pays tribute to the great Impressionists of both orchestras and oils. The program also includes one of those Impressionists, Debussy. (SP)
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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 ANGELICA’S BISTRO Thu, 7pm: Blues jam. Tue, 4:30pm: Jazz Jam with Stephanie Newsom. $7. Redwood City.
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QUARTER NOTE Sat, 8:30pm: Zakiya Hooker. $220. Sunnyvale.
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CASCAL Sat, 9pm: James Robinson flamenco guitar. Mountain View.
LILLY MAC’S Sun, 6pm: Traditional Irish music. Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.
D’VINE JAZZ AND WINE Fri, 8pm: Kaye Bohler Band. Sat, 8pm: Ramona Enez. Morgan Hill.
FAIRMONT HOTEL Wed, 8:30pm: The Girlz Band. Thu, 8:30pm: Contemporary or Latin Jazz. San Jose.
GRAND DELL SALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: John Garcia. Campbell.
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MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Sat, 7pm: Noche Bohemia. Santa Clara.
NETO’S GRILL Wed: Kurt and Johnny. Fri: Dos Guys. Santa Clara.
RED ROCK COFFEE CO. HEDLEY CLUB Thu: 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Ed Johnson and Novo Tempo Quartet. Sat, 8:30pm: Planet Loop. Hotel de Anza, San Jose.
Fri, 8pm: Amy Obenski. Mountain View.
THE SADDLE RACK Wed-Fri, 9pm, Sat, 10:15pm: Samantha Madison and Wild Card. Fremont.
J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Wed: Gomer Hendrix Experiment. Thu: The Dan Goghs. Sat: Sammy Varela. $10. Sun: Larry Valdez. Mon: Wayne’s Way Band. Tue: Dennis and Stuard. San Jose.
SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Dark Hollow. Tue, 6pm: Cabin Fever. San Jose.
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BLUE BONNET BAR
EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR
Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
Thu, 9pm: Live country music with Cowboy Larry. Willow Glen.
BLUE MAX
FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE
Fri-Sat, 9pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Tue, 9pm: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
Open Mic
BLUE PHEASANT
FIREHOUSE GRILL
Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.
Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.
ANGELICA’S BISTRO
FLAMES COFFEE SHOP
Wed, 6:30pm: Open Mic. Tue, 7-11pm: Pro Jazz Jam. Redwood City.
Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.
BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS
BOGART’S LOUNGE
Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic. Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.
Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
BOSWELL’S
Wed, 9:30pm: Open Mic Night. Cupertino.
BRANHAM LOUNGE
MISSION CITY ROASTING CO. Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S
Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
POOR HOUSE BISTRO
Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.
RED ROCK COFFEE CO.
Thu, 9pm-2am: August. Milpitas.
Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.
Wed, 8-11pm: Live music, comedy and poetry. Los Gatos. Tue, 6pm: Open Mic Night. San Jose.
GALAXY
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THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.
GOOSE LOONEY’S Wed, 9pm: Thomas. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.
HOMESTEAD LANES
BRITISH BANKERS CLUB
Fri, 9:30pm: Vinnie. Mon, 9pm: Vinnie. Tue, 9pm: August. Cupertino.
Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.
HUDDLE
Wed, 8pm: Open Mic. Willow Glen.
BRIX
Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.
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Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT
Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.
KATIE BLOOM’S Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather. Santa Clara.
Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.
KC BAR AND RESTAURANT Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.
Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.
KHARTOUM
DAN BROWN’S
Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. No cover. Campbell.
Thu and Tue, 9pm-1am: Brian James. Palo Alto.
KING OF CLUBS
ALEX’S 49ER INN
DASILVA’S BRONCOS
Nightly except Sun, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
Wed: Guitar Hero Tournament plus karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
Thu and Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. No cover. Mountain View.
THE BEARS
LILLY MAC’S Call for info. Sunnyvale.
Fri, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.
DIVE BAR Wed and Tue, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
MARIANI’S
BENNIGAN’S GRILL
EFFIE’S RESTAURANT
NETO’S MARKET & GRILL
Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm2am, and last Sun of every month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.
Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.
Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Santa Clara.
Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.
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Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug. Sunnyvale.
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OFFICE BAR
Thu, 9pm: Brian. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Ryan. Sunnyvale.
Thu: Singles party with DJ. Los Gatos.
Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.
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Wed-Thu and Sat: DJs and dancing. Santana Row.
Mon: Ladies’ Night. No cover. Milpitas.
Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall. Woodside.
BLUEPHEASANT
GOOSELOONEY’S
POINCIANALOUNGE
Wed-Sun, Tue, 7pm: DJ and dancing. Cupertino.
Thu: Ladies’ Night. Fri-Sat: Old School. Milpitas.
Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside Entertainment. No cover. Santa Clara.
BRANHAMLOUNGE
THEGRANDDELLSALOON
Wed: Humpday Wednesdays. Thu: DJ. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Jazzy and DJ Chaos. Hip-hop and Top 40. Sun: Happy Hour All Day. Mon: DJ. Tue: $2 Tuesdays. San Jose.
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REDIROOM
Thu-Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: DJs and dancing. Campbell.
KHARTOUM Wed: DJ Davey K. Campbell.
ROSIEMCCANN’S
KINGOFCLUBS
Tue, 8:30-11:30pm: Karaoke. No cover. Santana Row.
Fri, 9:30pm: Club Brinca. Tue, 9pm: Nox. Mountain View.
RUDY’SPUB
LOFTBARANDBISTRO
Wed, 10pm-1:30am: Purple. Palo Alto.
BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN
Fri-Sat, 10pm-1:30am: Live DJ. San Jose.
SANJOSEBAR&GRILL
Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. San Jose.
MOUNTAINCHARLEY’S
Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.
BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO
Wed, 7pm: House Party. Thu, 7pm: Throwback Thursdays. Los Gatos.
Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.
Wed and Sat-Sun, 8:30pm: Chris. Thu-Fri, 8:30pm:Thomas. San Jose.
BRITANNIAARMS DOWNTOWN
SHOOTERSBAR&GRILL
Thu: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Benofficial. Sat, 10pm: DJ David Q. San Jose.
Thu, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
SOUTHFIRSTBILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Sun, 8pm-midnight: DJ Curtis. Willow Glen.
WILLOWDEN Wed-Thu, 9:30pm: Karoake. San Jose
BRITISHBANKERSCLUB Tee: Lounge. Wed: Raygay. Thu: Latin. Fri: ’70s and ’80s. Sat: House. Sun: Lounge. Menlo Park.
BRIX Thu: Therapy. Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.
C&J’SSPORTSBAR
WOODHAM’SLOUNGE Wed-Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.
DanceClubs
PEACOCKLOUNGE 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.
CLUBILLUSIONS
SANJOSEBAR&GRILL
Fri, 7:30pm: DJ Quam. Palo Alto.
Thu: Thursday Night Live. Fri-Sat: Video Killed the DJ with VJ Vinyl. Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. San Jose.
Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ or live band. No cover. Santa Clara.
DIVEBAR Thu, 9:30pm: DJ Otrebor. San Jose.
ELRANCHOSPORTSBAR Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dance Party. San Jose.
Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: DJs. San Jose.
FAHRENHEITULTRALOUNGE
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.
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.
SABORTAPASBAR
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AZÚCARLATINBISTRO MOJITOBAR&LOUNGE
PARRANDANIGHTCLUB
Wed and Sat, 10pm: DJ in the Mix. Santa Clara.
DASILVA’SBRONCOS
METROGIVEAWAYS.COM
KATIEBLOOM’S
Thu, 9pm: Joseph. San Jose.
SHERWOODINN
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Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesday. Thu, 9pm: Thursdays at Fahrenheit. Sat, 9pm: Elite. Mon, 9pm: DJ. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
FIBBARMAGEES Wed: SIN. Fri: Tommy and RJ. Sat: Club FM. Sunnyvale.
Sun: Reggae. San Jose.
STEPHENSGREEN Fri: DJ Cesar. Mountain View.
TEMPLEBAR&LOUNGE Wed: The Pick Up. San Jose.
THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Sir Dancealot. Willow Glen.
VOODOOLOUNGE Thu, 10pm: Third Thursdays dance night. $10. San Jose.
ZENLOUNGE Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ DRoc. Mountain View.
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Wonderful word, spruiker (rhymes with “spook’er”)—slang in Australia and New Zealand for a tout or pitchman. In fairness, the idea that you sweat a liter or some other large amount per night isn’t limited to Down Under, but rather is common among mattress floggers all over the world—I found one huckster claiming you sweat two to five gallons a night. (This same goof repeated the notion that a mattress is packed full of dust mites, which we’ve previously debunked.) One doesn’t want to get carried away, but let’s look at this in a positive light. Is there any scenario under which the claim about a liter of sweat could possibly be true? 1. Normal sleep. No luck here. Sweating while at rest is minimal below 85 degrees. You do lose a certain amount of moisture in your breath and by evaporation through your skin; the latter process, which doesn’t involve the sweat glands, is called insensible perspiration. Total water loss by both routes for an average healthy young male averages about 25 milliliters per hour, or 200 milliliters per eight hours of sleep, and much of that is simply exhaled, not absorbed by the mattress. 2. Energetic bed use. Sweat production kicks in once you start exercising. I found a chart from the Australian Institute of Sport giving typical sweat rates for activities ranging from cricket (0.5 liters per hour) to rugby (as much as 2.6 liters per hour). You may say strenuous exertion is incompatible with sleep. Piffle—I’ve seen the Chicago Bears’ offensive line play an entire game while unconscious. More broadly, I know of a nocturnal activity or
two that typically kicks up your perspiration output. But a liter’s worth? Every night? Ain’t seeing it. We’ll have to give this one up too. 3. Sleeping in a warm room. Once the temperature rises above 85, you start sweating even if you’re at rest. Tests conducted in the Sonoran Desert found that subjects sitting naked in the shade in 95-degree heat produced 220 milliliters of sweat per hour. Assuming comparable conditions were to prevail at night, you’d lose close to two liters over an eight-hour stretch. But then you wouldn’t even be thinking about a new mattress—you’d be shopping for an air conditioner. 4. Night sweats, also known as sleep hyperhidrosis. This one seems more likely. Night sweats are fairly common and can be triggered by lots of things, among them menopause; taking antidepressants or other meds; panic attacks; obesity; low blood sugar episodes in diabetics; eating spicy food; cancer, including Hodgkins and non-Hodgkins lymphoma; and other diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV. Or sometimes by nothing at all—they just happen. I couldn’t find any solid numbers on how much moisture is produced, but in extreme cases the sufferer’s bedclothes are often described as being drenched in sweat, and I’m prepared to believe you could lose a liter. So let’s give the spruikers the benefit of the doubt and say it’s possible for you to sweat a liter a night under certain circumstances. We’ll relegate to the fine print the clarification that those circumstances may include your being panicked, obese or seriously ill.
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dresses and je dresses jewelry welry for for or b boutiques outiques Francisco, and in San Francisc o, Los Los Angeles A Maryland, M arylan nd, while while working working on on a business b usiness degree degree at at Santa San nta Clara Clara University. After U niversity. A fter graduation, graduation, sshe he aattempted ttempted to to get get a job job in in fashion, fashion, but but her h er business business background background didn’t didn’t open open any an ny doors doors for fo or her in the th he industry. industry. didn’t ““II d idn’t have have a fashion faasshion degree degree so so didn’t Id idn’t get get a lot lot of of responses responses to to rrésumés ésumés I sent out,” she sh he confesses. conffeesses. But Oluwole did have haave a good good idea and a workable workable business busineess model. model. For F or her ccapstone apstone project, projeect,, she had developed d eveloped aan n executive executive ssummary, ummary, a business b usiness plan plan and and a financial finan ncial plan plan for for a clothing boutique boutique in n Santa Santa Clara. Though off T hough she she had had no no intention intention o
actuallly ccreating actually reating tthe he b boutique, outique, tthe he her lless-than-enthusiastic ess-than n- enthusiasstic rresponse esponse tto oh er rrésumé ésumé iinspired nspired a ssecond econd gglance lan nce aatt the idea. “I found found o d myself myself thinking, thinking, “This bee doable doable.. L Let’s ccould ould b d et’s just see if it works,” works ,” shee recalls. recalls. Oluwole’s Oluwole e’s vision of a hip boutique boutique filled a niche, in Santa Santa Clara C niche, and Ib in 2007 2007 Ibiss, biss, initially called called I.B.I. I.B.I. Couture, C outure, was was created. created. Oluwole started out st arted ou ut slowly to get a feel feel e ffor or the rretail o etail side of fashion,, but as word word spread sp pread about about the new new shop—complete local shop — com mplete with lo cal and internationally internatio nally designed apparel, apparel, shoes, jewelry, sho es, handbags, ndbags, je welry, accessories accessories han baubles—Ibiss and baubl es—Ibiss took took off. off ff. 2010,, Oluwole, In 2010 Oluwole, who is now 25, 25, opened ened a second op s ond Ibiss in Willow sec Wiillow Glen. Though ugh the clientele and the Thou merchandise aree diff different from om the mer chand dise ar ffeerent fr student-driven student - drriven Santa Santa Clara shop, shop, keeps overall Oluwole k eeps the o verall ffeel eeel of the shops compatible. com mpatible. “I’m finding that there’s ther e’s no one formula formula o ffor o or it,”” she says, sa ays y , “but I try try to maintain maintain the same styles—like ffeel eeel and ttypes y es of st yp yles—like ruffles nicee silk blouse.” on a dress dress or a nic blouse.” describes being Oluwole olee describ es herself as b eing “obsessed d with w Paris,” Paris,” and she tends toward the European hee Eur opean side of fashion. She carries dresses ess dr d esses with a “French “French flair”—stripes, triip pes, bows bows and blushcolored ch chiffon—and Italian hiff ffo ff on—and on and It alian stretch stretch dresses that haatt are are “just a bit edgy.” edgy.” She keepss th the pricee p point he pric oint low to moderate, mo derate, has h a quick merchandise merchandise turnaround turnar oun nd d (which keeps keeps the store store fresh fr esh and the t rregulars egulars coming coming back), prides herself hersself on balancing quality quality price, believes, above and pric e, and b elieves, ab ove all, that fashion fashio on should not be be fussy. fussy. “I don’t don’t like like clothing that wears person,” the p erson n,”” she eexplains. xplains. “I like like thatt ar aree a bit forward, things tha fo orward, d, but not too likee fashion can to o intimidating, intimiidating, lik can be.” be.” makes Oluwolee also mak es a point point of putting put ttting fashion fasshion to work ffor or o good good having at least one fundraiser ccauses, auses, ha aving v per season. p er season n. “Fashion is something that’s that ’s visual, visuaal,, but I don’t don’t like like when it’s it’s too shallow,” to o shallow w,” she says. saayys. “I really really love love clothing,, and clothing a I think it’s it’s good good to use it ffor o or good.” good. d”
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