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Kline Squared Anyone surprised to hear that NORM KLINE plans to run against District 6 rep PIERLUIGI OLIVERIO will not be surprised to learn it’s just a rumour. Kline, the planning commissioner and former Saratoga mayor, is probably gearing up to run for something, but not PO’s seat. That would be STEVE KLINE, a recent transplant from San Francisco who has been buttonholing everyone at SJ City Council meetings and is cozy with unionistas CINDY CHAVEZ and STEVE PREMINGER. Another rumor has it that Steve K. heard Norm K. might be in the race, which made the union tool nervous that he’d have no chance in a two-Kline contest. That rumor is 100-percent true.
Reporting Crime A story sensationalized last weekend by the Merc’s SEAN WEBBY stops just short of blaming the recent violent-crime spike on SJPD Chief CHRIS MOORE’s business trips. “As San Jose’s homicide rate soared,” Webby writes, “police Chief Chris Moore was out of town on business 12 times.” He goes on to report that “some argue” an absent chief can destabilize a police force battling crime and sagging morale. Maybe so, but who exactly is arguing this (or even saying it under their breath) is unclear. The only person quoted criticizing the chief is PATRICIA DIAZ, executive director of immigrant advocacy group SIREN, over an unrelated issue—the hiring of immigration agents. And Diaz’s criticism never comes close to Webby’s own frontpage editorializing. Moore was frequently out of town in May, “one of the city’s bloodiest months,” Webby connects, even though only one of the seven murders in May occurred when Moore was absent. Conceding that the supersized chief always flies coach, Webby eventually explains that the main reason for Moore’s travels is that he’s heading a national effort to improve broadband emergency communications. JIM UNLAND, an SJPD lieutenant and vice president of the police union, admits morale is down, but not because of Moore’s trips. Police are annoyed, Unland says, because 66 officers were just laid off.
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Cahan, a veteran of county and state politics who sits on the San Jose Planning Commission, now says the city should abandon the key points of a recent proposal for dealing with medical marijuana collectives. “It’s really hard to know the right number for the city,” she says, “but 10 just seemed like such a drastic reduction to meet the demands of the population.” The proliferation of pot clubs—more
than 100 have sprung up during the past two years—has stymied city officials and nearly resulted in allout ban in April. But on July 27, the Planning Commission determined that the City Council’s plan to wipe out 90 percent of the city’s medical cannabis dispensaries was “arbitrary.” The commission, a volunteer advisory board appointed by the council, also dismissed the idea of requiring the dispensaries to cultivate all of their pot on-site. Cahan says she and her colleagues studied the issue exhaustively. “We have an advantage to spend a lot of time on one thing,” she says. “The City Council has such a wide variety of things they have to master and make decisions on, and we’re able to really hone in on specific land-use issues.” The commission has recommended that a compromise be reached, widely extending land-use regulations, upping the cap to 25 and permitting off-site growing as long as it takes place within San Jose. Commissioner Norm Kline says that
because members of the board aren’t elected by voters, they have the ability to separate policy from politics. “This isn’t a knock on the council, but you expect your Planning Commission to know a lot more about planning issues,” he says, “because this is what we do.” Councilmember Sam Liccardo, whose downtown district has been a source of numerous complaints due to illegal sales taking place directly outside of collectives, admits the council has been overwhelmed. In March, Liccardo signed on to a proposal that the total number of collectives in the city be limited to 10. “I don’t pretend to know what the right number of marijuana dispensaries is,” Liccardo said this week. “But we need to walk before we can run. And it’s apparent that all of the cuts in police and code enforcement staffing make us unable to regulate the industry we have here now.”
Paying Their Way In June, San Jose was forced to lay off 66 police officers and eliminate another 40-plus positions, and the city has trimmed its workforce by a third in the last decade due to huge cost increases and steep drops in revenue. It was in this fiscal environment that voters last
Liccardo says. “But I’m not a proponent with taking the genie and putting him back in the bottle. “We recognize the need to move forward because the world has changed and we need to change with it.” Cannabis club operators are appreciative of the Planning Commission’s approach, especially when it comes to allowing off-site cultivation. Doug Chloupek of MedMar Healing Center, who provided planning commissioners with data on pot club infrastructure, is glad that on-site cultivation requirements are not part of the new recommendations. “Besides the physical constraints it would put on the electricity and the neighborhoods,” Chloupek says, “it was a major security risk.” Other operators believe any capped number shows that the city and commission don’t fully understanding the issue. “Although I do disagree with what the City Council has proposed, I think they reflect the confusion in the community about the issue,” says Sean Cambern, president of CP Alliance, a patient advocacy group. “We think 10 is arbitrary and 25 is arbitrary. But if anything it gives us leverage to work with the city.” “The number 25 was basically a compromise,” says planning commissioner Kline. “Some of us felt a higher number and some thought a lower number.” Regardless, the vote was unanimous, with one commissioner absent. With a final council decision on the matter looming this fall, there is a potential for fallout on all sides of the community. Collectives that are not included in the cap could sue the city, as is happening in Los Angeles, where city officials tried to shut down more than 100 dispensaries in April. L.A. has spent several million dollars fighting these lawsuits. Local businesses could also continue to be enraged if they see their storefronts continue to be cluttered with illegal sales by those who spill out of nearby collectives. “This wasn’t an ordinance to make an industry succeed,” Kline says. “We’re here to put in place regulations so we can tax and regulate. “We’ll find out in six to nine months if the cost of enforcement and regulation is skyrocketing and people are coming with pitchforks and fire to City Hall.”
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November passed Measure U, which placed a sales tax on medical marijuana. The early returns have been promising. According to Scott Johnson, the city’s finance director, San Jose received $1.25 million in taxes since March, when Measure U was implemented. More than 70 collectives are contributing a monthly total of just over $300,000. More than 30 have outright refused to pay the tax—some of them claiming that doing so would force them to violate the terms of Prop 215 and SB420. Despite making no new hires to take on the extra workload of regulating an industry it knows little about, the city is targeting these delinquent dispensaries. “When we catch up to them, and we will, they’ll be subject to the penalties,” Johnson says, adding that the city has already sent out 45 letters to nonpayers and late filers and collected about $70,000 in penalties. San Jose’s original plan, based on the council’s direction in April, was to form a four-person board to regulate the dispensaries, with three of those people hired on a temporary basis through June of next year. That will change if the Planning Commission’s recommendations are approved in a Sept. 13 council meeting. “Obviously we would have to revisit our staffing levels for permanent staffing if the number of collectives were changed,” Johnson says. Councilmembers Pierluigi Oliverio, who pushed for a moratorium when collectives began sprouting up at an exponential rate two years ago, still favors a systematic approach to limiting collectives using land-use regulations. He put forward a motion to that effect, along with fellow Councilmembers Donald Rocha and Ash Kalra, back in April. They were rebuffed by a majority of their colleagues, including Mayor Chuck Reed, who has proposed ideas ranging from a lottery system to handing out permits on a first-come, first-served basis. Oliverio believes these proposals will put the city in legal peril, while his will reward the collectives that are doing business correctly. “My preference was, let’s get the best collectives, instead of who showed up at the The Who concert first,” Oliverio says. Meanwhile, Councilmembers Kansen Chu and Xavier Campos have insisted that medical marijuana be declared a nuisance that has no place in San Jose. “They’re definitely weighing in,”
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While many venture capitalists and angel investors were shaken by Monday’s wild market fluctuations, not everyone agrees with Draper’s view. Other VCs are more optimistic about the long-term trends. Saad Khan, a partner at CMEA Capital, told VentureBeat: “I don’t think one day’s or one week’s stock market fluctuations are going to impact that. In Silicon Valley, things are pretty insulated from the rest of the U.S. in general. The ecosystem is alive and thriving. Leases have doubled for commercial real estate for places like downtown Palo Alto or Mountain View. 98; E<NJ 98I< 8j k_\ 9cffdY\i^ n`i\ i\gfik\[ Dfe[XpÊj i\XZk`fe kf k_\ eXk`feÊj [XdX^\[ Zi\[`k iXk`e^# cfZXc XeXcpjkj [\YXk\[ k_\ `dgXZk fe k_\ J`c`Zfe MXcc\p \Zfefdp% G_fkf Zflik\jp Afe 9\ie_Xi[k%
Tim Draper: ‘U.S. Dropped a Notch’ The biggest question on every mind in Silicon Valley relates to our collective worst nightmare: Could a macroeconomic collapse trigger another dotcom-esque bust? For at least one VC, Draper Fisher Jurvetson partner Tim Draper, the market for U.S. startups just got noticeably chillier. “In investing in startups globally, we at Draper Fisher Jurvetson try to view governments as competitors for our capital and for the great entrepreneurs of the world,” Draper told VentureBeat. “Countries with the best rule of law, the best bankruptcy protection, the freest trade, the freest markets, and the best credit ratings are the countries that rule the day. The U.S. just dropped a notch.” On a political note, Draper added, “I hope the U.S. changes structurally so that spending is limited to the amount raised in taxes the year before. With this simple change, the U.S. will again be the number-one preferred country to invest in.”
“It’s still very much boom time here.” Still, regardless of the current climate of optimism around early stage investment, “Any company with an IPO planned for this week will probably pull it,” said Dow Jones Investment Banking deputy managing editor John Morris. And what if the result of this wobble in the stock market is completely catastrophic? “Certainly it’s a concern if there’s a general malaise that lasts for a long time,” said Khan. “Macro trends do have an effect on Silicon Valley. But it’s hard for me to predict [another tech bust].” And for those looking for a second bust, Khan said, “The infrastructure of the web is completely different now, and the next generation of companies are going to be bigger and faster than ever. I think we’re just at the start of a new innovation cycle.”—JOLIE O’DELL, VENTUREBEAT.COM
Allan Petersen Related issue: if the market downturn persists, will Angel Investors take a hit in their portfolios ... and therefore be less apt to invest seed capital in new startups? Jeremy Toeman Question still unanswered by any member of the mainstream media: what other country is a BETTER investment? <cricket noises></cricket>
Hashtag of The Week: #S&P DaveCullen Tea partiers actually called for #default, dared #S&P to do it. Yet “journalists” cling to “blame everybody.” Spineless. Paul Vieira Recall: Obama & Boehner were angling for a $4T debt package, 75–25 spending/taxes. That would’ve scuttled any downgrade #S&P woodhouseb #S&P Downgrade caused by Boehner walking away from deal: GOP candidates slam Obama in reaction. randiradio Who knew that electing a bunch of rightwing 80IQ feces-flingers to Congress would injure the country? Oh, that’s right, EVERYBODY! #s&p CNN Breaking News Administration official: #S&P admitted $2 trillion error in analysis but still downgraded U.S.
financejock Ironic: S&P cuts #FannieMae & #FreddieMac rating in part because they loaded up on subprime junk securities that #S&P rated AAA Chris Cuomo Remember #S&P got busted 4 intentionally misleading investors abt morg backed bonds. Settled w suits.
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Harvard scholar Jonathan Zittrain. While written in 2008, this is an ever-more important book, for many reasons, in that it makes a central argument about what we’ve built so far, and where we might be going if we ignore the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve all enjoyed this E-ticket ride we call the Internet industry. The book’s core argument has to do with a concept Zittrain calls “generativity”—the ability of a product or service to generate innovation, new ideas, new services, independent of centralized, authoritative control. It is, of course, very difficult to create generative technologies on a grand scale—it’s a statement of faith and shared values to do such a thing, and it really rubs governments and powerful interests the wrong way over time. Jonathan points out that truly open, generative systems are inherently subject to the tragedy of the commons—practices such as malware, bad marketing tactics, hacking, etc. These threats are growing and provide a reason to shut down generativity in the name of safety and order. The Internet, as it turned out for the first 10 or 15 years, is one of the greatest generative technologies we’ve ever produced. But like Lawrence Lessig before him, Zittrain is very worried that the essence of what has made the Internet special is changing, in particular, as the mainstream public falls deeper in love with services like Facebook and Apple’s iPhone.—JOHN BATTELLE, BATTELLEMEDIA.COM
Logan I was in an airport today, frustrated that we must enter a police state to get on an airplane. But know where to direct that frustration. I have a sense of why it’s happened and who is to blame (Congress, to start). I’m less clear on who is responsible for this stalemate on the web.
Tom Without transaction, society cannot exist. It’s the fundamental behind all that we have come to call social. Most of us immediately think of money when we hear the word, but its origins are in grunts and pointed fingers, in gifts and caresses. Transaction pre-dates money by eons. But our transaction landscape used to be level with minimal burdens on those transacting ...
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How Your Social Data Will Power Walmart Walmart is planning to launch several new projects based on the technology it acquired from the social media startup Kosmix back in April. The core of what Kosmix was building was something called the “social genome”—a way to organize content in social networks in order to connect people with the information that matters to them. Now, that same technology is in the hands of Walmart, the world’s largest retailer. Anand Rajaraman, Kosmix CoFounder, is now SVP of Walmart’s Global e-Commerce division. When Kosmix was acquired, it became the nucleus of a new group at Walmart known as Walmart Labs, based here in Silicon Valley. The founders have been busy developing projects that will integrate the Kosmix technology into Walmart’s online and mobile offerings. Kosmix’s technology will pull data from Facebook and Twitter to improve your search experience on Walmart.com. By monitoring your ever-changing interests on topics like your favorite sports team or
At Amazon, explains Rajaraman, there’s too much emphasis placed on purchases for recommendations. Walmart plans to recommend things it actually knows you like. Kosmix’s tools can be also be used to analyze your friends’ behavior, to offer suggestions based on their interests. If that sort of deep dive into your personal preferences sounds creepy, well, at least this is an opt-in system. Rajaraman thinks consumers will be willing to share their information in return for tangible benefits.—SARAH PEREZ, TECHCRUNCH.COM
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TUESDAY’S City Council session, the second of the new fiscal year, featured a hearing to help determine if up to $24 million in tax-exempt bonds should be issued to finance renewable energy facilities.. A portion of the bonds, to be issued by the California Municipal Finance Authority, would go toward the acquisition, construction and improvement of facilities that include the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant. UTS BioEnergy would be responsible for parts of the project. The company engages in biogas production and conversion to electricity using silage, sludge, manure, food waste and green municipal wastes. The council is also expected to grant the city manager authority to form an agreement between San Jose and San Francisco that will make the latter the acting fiscal agent of a Bay Area Urban Areas Security Initiative. The initiative would be worth $1,234,000 total; San Jose’s police would receive $1,030,400, while firefighters would get $203,600. The grant is designed to help public safety respond to and recover
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along Interstate 680 when suddenly another car flies past him and swerves into the next lane. He points at the car and says, “Organ donor.” “They don’t realize how much power they’re dealing with,” Balogi says. “A crash that wouldn’t dent their paint could take off my leg.” Balogi knows about power. A hobbyist mechanic most of his life, last year this San Jose resident set a motorcycle class land speed record on his red 1973 Moto Guzzi V7 Sport, a brand known more as a touring bike than for speed. This week, he’s heading back to Bonneville for Speed Week to see if he can beat his own record: a suicidal 125 mph. But while driving to Walnut Creek to pick up a seat for another bike on a warm Saturday afternoon, both hands stay on the wheel almost the entire trip. “I started being an idiot at 15,” he laughs, saying he would split lanes in his native Chicago at 100 mph. A Volkswagen shop apprenticeship there taught him how to wrench. Later, as a Hewlett-Packard employee, he would move to Silicon Valley. He’s now retired. Balogi wasn’t into racing until he fell in with group of car collectors who invited him to their weekly lunch. One of the collectors, Glen Dennee, asked Balogi to help install a data acquisition system on his record-smashing lakester (an open-wheeled racecar popular with speed freaks).
Balogi toiled for weeks before completing the project the day before Speed Week opened. When they arrived at Bonneville, however, they discovered the lakester’s water pump was busted—and with it, their hopes of competing. But when the crew in the next pit over heard of the problem, they handed over a water pump off their own car. The generosity struck Balogi. “Even the people that normally avoid each other are like that,” says Balogi. From that moment, he was “hooked on Bonneville” and land speed racing. It took Balogi three years of modifying and racing his red Moto Guzzi before finally breaking the record last year. His bike is named Porco Rosso—Italian for “red pig”—after the titular character from famed anime director Hayao Miyazaki’s film about a World War I flying ace turned bounty hunter. To secure the record, he’s modified his riding posture, as well: Scooting all the way back, he lays as flat as possible, tucking his feet in towards the frame. He keeps his helmet down, looking at the ground for the greater part of the run. Dangerous? Absolutely. But he keeps a dark sense of humor about it, even when talking about the futility of his protective leather suit. “It doesn’t protect you for shit, it just keeps all your parts in one bag,” he says. “It’s good for organ donors.”—Ted Cox
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Kesey through the years, connecting with him every time he came to the valley. She likes the movie, with a few reservations. “I’m so glad that it’s finally finished,” she stresses. “In general, it’s a quite well-done editing of Kesey’s film. It’s a worthy effort. The editing is masterful, and the collection of all those comments from Chloe Scott and George Walker and Ken Babbs—it all worked quite well. The limiting of the subject matter to the first bus trip was intelligent, with a few things added to have it make all more sense. Ken’s life is quite vast.” Lambrecht came from the East. In Oregon, while going to college, she encountered Kesey, and later met her husband through his friends. “I became, in a weird way, part of this tribe. It was one of those tribal things that the ’60s were so good at fostering,” she says. Lambrecht was never on the bus in question, but she was a Merry Prankster from 1967 on and also saw Kesey’s footage numerous times.
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Road Warriors Marcel Duchamp said that writing about Dada was like putting together a bomb that had gone off, and the filmmakers’ task must have been similarly daunting. Deposited at the UCLA Film and TV Archives, the original 16 mm film was deteriorating; 100 hours of unsynchronized and unsorted audio on tape made up the soundtrack. As much a movable convention as a bus, Furthur was staffed with a group of Kesey’s pals he dubbed “The Merry Pranksters.” As it traveled from California to New York, Furthur became the rolling meeting place between the old avant garde and the rising ’60s rebels. “We weren’t old enough to be beatniks, and we were too old to be hippies,” Kesey says on the soundtrack. Kesey’s mission was simple. He and his colorfully nicknamed travelers were taking the long way around America to get to the 1964 World’s Fair in New York City. Furthur itself was an aged, gutted International Harvester. No great shakes as machinery, it ran out of gas and started fritzing immediately. Magic Trip mentions that it took 24 hours to get the 36 miles from Kesey’s place in La Honda to San Jose on the first leg of its journey. As it rolled toward Los Angeles and beyond, Furthur had a celebrity at the wheel. Fresh out of a twoyear prison sentence for the heinous crime of possessing a marijuana cigarette was the fabled Neal Cassady. Kesey outfitted the bus with a gas generator and some audiovisual equipment: 16 mm cameras, a tape recorder and a large sound system. Little did he realize that his inability to sync up all of these devices would keep this material from being unveiled as a full-length motion picture in his lifetime.
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Kesey died in 2001 with this film still a work-in-progress. He sometimes despaired over the project: “Hundreds of hours and millions of feet of jiggly bus footage ...” he complained in print, during his attempts to try to weave this interstate home movie into a film.
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Load” and “A vote for Barry is a vote for fun.” The latter was a motto referring to the paleo-Republican presidential candidate of 1964. Magic Trip shows that the journey wasn’t all fun and games. There’s an LSD freak-out in Houston occasioned by the not just electric but highvoltage orange juice in Furthur’s larder. We see a snubbing by LSD guru Timothy Leary, who didn’t want to deal with these California yodelers. The pranksters get a similar cold shoulder from Kerouac himself, at a crowded party in a New York City apartment during a record heat wave. He’s hunched over, nursing his surliness with a tallboy of Bud. Finally, the New York World’s Fair itself—what a trip. It’s “Mad Man” Don Draper’s own dream of an America always moving forward. It was the home of Futurama, the cradle of “It’s a Small World” and “The Happy Plastic Family.” It was, as people said of Disney’s Tomorrowland, a broken promise of things to come.
Recollections Candace Lambrecht was not on the bus, but her late former husband was. “I called him Stephen, and I called him Zonker,” she says. “I met him at the Grateful Dead’s house. He was such good friends with [Merry Pranksters] Mike Hagen and Ken Babbs.” She would like to set the record
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Acid Indigestion It took the charisma of Kesey himself to hold this voyage together. “I was the prettiest little boy you ever did see,” Kesey recalls in the film. He was a University of Oregon student who was accepted into Stanford’s writing program; he was also an Olympic wrestling team hopeful. He was perhaps comparable to Henry Rollins in thickness of neck and compellingness of talk. And if he wasn’t straight-edge like Rollins, he wasn’t a big imbiber. By the time of Kesey’s fateful encounter with LSD he had only been slightly drunk once.
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At Stanford as part of the prestigious graduate writing program, Kesey signed up for a government psychiatric test of a promising new purported migraine cure called LSD-25. (This cover story was, as it sounds, a lie. The CIA was conducting the now-infamous MKULTRA experiments; they hoped some sort of chemical weapon or truth serum could be derived from the drug.) Magic Trip is at its most interesting when it could have been the most cute. Here are actual vocal tracks of Kesey’s interviews with doctors, recorded during this first acid test. The directors and Karin Fong of the animation company Imaginary Forces are creative at coming up with visuals to suggest the timemelting qualities of psychedelics: the clocks going octopus; the colors shifting. This sequence is contrasted with the more ridiculous official version of what happens to the user of psychedelics, familiar to all fanciers of kitschy public-service films: hippies leaping off of cliffs (“I can fly, I can fly! Aieeeeee!”), and Jack Webb’s rock-faced TV policeman Sgt. Friday sternly dealing with a day tripper. Later, during a job at the graveyard shift at the Menlo Park Veteran’s Hospital, Kesey wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The book is a classic, as people who have never read it know. They know it’s a classic because they have watched the 1975 movie, and they understandably enjoyed the spectacle of Jack Nicholson going bonkers. The book is a different beast, and Kesey harbored a valid point against Milos Forman’s movie version. Magic Trip claims Kesey never saw the movie even though he wanted to sue Berkeley-based producer Saul Zaentz. Kesey objected to the R.D. Laingian “Society is crazy; crazy men aren’t crazy” vibe of the film. “Being crazy is painful,” Kesey noted. Into a sinister, monochrome mental hospital, like Peter Pan into the nursery, comes a savior. The renegade red-headed gambler and lay-about R.P. McMurphy, with Tolstoy-hard hands, earned
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straight. “My nits are minor but substantive. I’ll mention the use of actors’ voices for the people who weren’t involved in the reconstruction, such as Gretch [“Gretchen Fetchin’, a.k.a. Paula Sundsten] and “Generally Famished” [Stanford philosophy professor Jane Burton]. These lines were plot drivers; they had to do something to move the narrative forward. I understand some people are deceased, and some wouldn’t want to participate. That was then; this is now. But the use of the actors felt inauthentic, and only someone like myself would say that. It ever so slightly tarnishes the presentation.” Lambrecht also hopes the historical context of the bus ride is clear. Take the footage of the Pranksters stumbling across a segregated beach at Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain. According to Lambrecht, “It presents them as young people who didn’t know what was going on at the time. They realized after a while that there was a bit of a threat in the air, that they were doing the wrong thing. It comes across too flip in the movie, as if the Pranksters weren’t conscious of civil rights. If they were chased out by the black people, there was several layers of that: first that they were intruding on their space, secondly if you caused trouble down South in those days, everyone was going to get into trouble. The film makes it look as if they were naive frat boys from the West Coast who knew nothing.”
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handles. Everybody’s eyes turn on like light bulbs, fuses blow, blackness ... minds scream, heads explode, neighbors call the cops.” Kesey wasn’t through with our area; he came back several times, once in 1993 with the latest model of Furthur to visit with the staff of the local alternative newspaper and to give them a little spin around the city. As Metro publisher Dan Pulcrano wrote at the time: Kesey turned left at Santa Clara Street and circled the arena, calling it “the largest Airstream trailer in the world.” On the box office side, Kesey spotted a militarylike formation of palm trees, a signature of the tightly wound redevelopment look of the 1990s and said, “Watch this.” With a flourish, he thrust his open hand out the bus window toward the columns of palms and yelled, “Stay!” That was later. Ultimately Kesey, the LSD and the uncut film came to San Francisco, better known as a vortex for the psychedelic life. Hundreds, then thousands, saw and transmitted the vision of a nomadic life, of redeeming absurdity in the face of societal pressure.
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there are counterpoints. As Mark Christensen wrote in his recent unauthorized biography Acid Christ, there’s not much leeway between Kesey’s phrase “You’re either on the bus or off the bus” and “My way or the highway.” Maybe the most personally annoying detail caught in Magic Trip is the sequence of the trippers spilling toxic paints in a marsh so they can watch the colors float before their LSD-soaked pupils. One can be sometimes riled by the amateur-hour style of the footage, or the tendency of the camera to make a wet-T-shirt contest out of a swimming scene. One takes into mind Jane Burton’s comment on the bus: it was “Exactly the opposite of a pleasure palace.” As limited in scope as the voyage of Furthur was, it foaled imitators by the thousands—imagine the armadas of VW buses. Even the Partridge Family was piloting its own Mondrian-ized Furthur on TV within six years. What was meant as a serious gesture of embracing and enlightening America became, at worse, a fashion. The gospel was spread by the glittering prose of Tom Wolfe. With some occasional reservations, Kesey liked Wolfe, in counterpoint to the old law that every public figure hates the journalist who made him famous. Lambrecht sums up: “Everyone is going to interpret things in their own way, but there’s some of the original intent of the Pranksters in Magic Trip. That’s why I like it. It’s up to those of us who are still around to put a proper spin on it. “It’s a good thing that this movie has come out so late. It’s a social documentary—that’s what it always should have been. It’s not the beginning or the end of any world, just an exploration—part of a continued exploration and evolution of consciousness. What resulted was a baseline paradigm shift.”
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too. It feels like dining in Napa Valley—a neat trick given that it is just 20 minutes from Silicon Valley. “Morgan Hill really needed something different, something new,” Calisi says. “Dio Deka was very good to me, and I had a great experience, but I’m doing something totally different in Morgan Hill.” Odeum, which takes its name from a Roman and Greek meeting place for the arts, makes extensive use of its wood-fired oven and grill. Calisi imports a private label olive oil from Greece and grows much of his own produce in the restaurant’s garden and miniorchard. “Even if I’m doing a simple dish I’m very proud of it,” he tells me. While his menu features the kind of top-quality ingredients you’d expect at a Michelin-starred restaurant, Calisi says he’s not aiming for stars at Odeum. “That’s not the most important thing to me,” he says. “I don’t know that it’s possible to get a Michelin star at my place.” Michelin-starred restaurants
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ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE AmericanAsian steakhouse. $$$$. Alexander’s is much more than a steakhouse. Add a 500-bottle wine list, multiple dining rooms and Asianaccented ambience and you’ve got a standout South Bay restaurant. Full bar. 5:3010pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 10330 N. Wolfe Rd. 408.446.2222.
CAFE TORRE New Italian. $$$. A gem tucked away in an unassuming little mall, with a sophisticated interior and congenial hosts. Even better is the great pasta and seafood. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 510:30pm Fri-Sat. Closed Sun. 20343 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.257.2383. CUPERTINO BAKERY Indian and bakery. $. Don’t be fooled by the name. Cupertino Bakery is a really great South Indian restaurant. Unlike many South Indian restaurants, Cupertino Bakery isn’t vegetarian. Good lunch buffet for $7.99. Don’t miss the dosa and utthappam. 11:30am-9:30pm daily, but weekdays kitchen closes 2:30-5:30pm. 102521 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.517.9000.
DYNASTY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Hong Kongstyle Chinese. $$$. Dynasty specializes in Hong Kong-style seafood. The seafood is very fresh, especially the creatures swimming minutes before they arrive on your plate. Good dim sum, too. Full bar. 11am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 10123 N. Wolfe Rd (in Cupertino Square). 408.996.1680.
FLORENTINE RESTAURANT Italian. $. Bold flavors, fresh ingredients and lavish portions. Beer, wine. 10257 S. De Anza Blvd. (plus six other locations, some with full bars). 11:30am9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am10pm Fri-Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 408.253.6532.
FONTANA’S California/Italian. $$$. A steady performer, Fontana’s rarely disappoints pasta lovers. Beer, wine. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 5-10pm Sat, 4:30-9pm Sun. 20840 Steven Creek Blvd. 408.725.0188.
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MAURIZIO’S AUTHENTIC ITALIAN RISTORANTE Italian. $$. You don’t dine here for a quick upscale fix, you dine here for down-home atmosphere. Tender vitello saltimbocca tops the menu. 11:30am-2pm, 59pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm Fri, 5-10pm Sat. Closed Sun. 25 E. First St, Morgan Hill. 408.782.7550.
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TATAMI Japanese. $$. Billed as a Japanese seafood buffet, Tatami doesn’t limit itself to Japanese dishes. Pan-Asian and just plain odd specialties rotate. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am3pm, 5:30-9:30pm Sat-Sun.
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In a conversation published in Lucky Peach about mediocrity between Chang, Dufresne and Anthony Bourdain, Dufresne takes aim at a certain kind of cuisine. “It’s shit, like pea shoots tossed in olive oil with some Parmesan cheese shaved on it and then people go gaga,” he says. “That’s the shit the bothers me—that farm-to-table bullshit. … Come on. There’s too much of it. It’s oversaturated.” I say there’s not enough of it. The restaurant industry loves its trends (“fast casual,” “Cal-Ital,” “small plates,” “chef-driven cuisine,” and “New American” come to mind). Like any concept that has gained popular acceptance, the term “farm-to-table” attracts posers attempting to jump on the bandwagon and cash in. The August issue of Bon Appetit features an article about Manresa chef David Kinch and his exclusive relationship with Love Apple Farm. He derides chefs who grow a few carrots and say hey, look at me, I’m farm-to-table. (Manresa is an atypical farm-to-table restaurant in that Kinch’s highly inventive cooking has little in common with the rustic, simple fare often featured farm-to-table restaurants, but with a farm all his own, Manresa is a special kind of farm-to-table restaurant.) Farm-to-table is enjoying a popular run, but I believe it’s more than a trend. What is farm-to-table exactly? All food starts on a farm and ends up on the table right? Well, yes, but properly applied, the term denotes those restaurants that define themselves by the quality of their ingredients and often have special relationship with farms and artisanal purveyors and as such celebrate local and seasonal food and produce. The farms are part of a larger food community that supports a local food scene—farmers, ranchers, creameries, fishermen and winemakers. And, yes, it is “ingredient-driven.” Of course, all food is ingredientdriven, but in spite of Dufresne’s mockery, the term has meaning. It denotes food in which a chef showcases a few particularly fresh and delicious ingredients, such as a tomato and watermelon salad. This stands in contrast to food that’s either made from lackluster, restaurant-service-truck ingredients or food that’s been so manipulated it’s hard to discern what the original ingredients were. Beyond the quality of local and seasonal food and the communities they nurture, farm-to-table restaurants like Flea St. Café, the Village Pub, Station 1, Madera and Manresa all help bridge the gap between diners and the source of their food. When it comes to eating and ingredients, ignorance is not bliss. I don’t care what cool New York chefs say. Farm-to-table is cool. —Stett Holbrook
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CHEF CHU’S Chinese. $$. Speedy service, superb preparation and the ability to cater to varied tastes keep this landmark in business. Full bar. 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11:30-10pm Fri, noon-10pm Sat, noon-9:30pm Sun. 1067 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.2696.
ESTRELLITA RESTAURANT Mexican. $$. Estrellita’s reverence for regional Mexican cooking distinguishes it from the enchilada-and-taco masses. The menu is full of Mexican-American standards, but the changing selection of specials make this restaurant a star. Full bar. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 11am-2pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 971 N. San Antonio Rd. 650.948.9865.
LOS ALTOS GRILL American. $$. The handsome Los Altos Grill celebrates big plates of grilled meat and fish with plenty of fixings on the side. Try the spit-roasted chicken, fresh fish and big burgers. The long, horseshoe-shaped bar is a big draw, too. Full bar. 4:30-9:30pm Sun-Mon, 4:3010pm Tue-Sat. 233 Third St. 650.948.3524.
SATURA CAKES FrenchJapanese bakery. $. Satura Cakes offers sweet treats for adult tastes. A Japanese take on a French patisserie, these confections are prepared fresh daily and meticulously crafted using the finest organic ingredients. 8am-8pm daily. 200 Main St. 650.948.3300. (Also 320 University Ave, Palo Alto. 650.326.3393.)
SUMIKA Japanese. $$. Sumika is a Japanese pub, but that doesn’t do it justice. It’s elegant, yet still a great place to drink beer and sake. The specialty is kushiyaki, small bites of grilled chicken, beef and vegetables cooked on bamboo skewers over charcoal. 11:30am-2pm, 6-10pm Tue-Fri, 11:30am2pm, 5:30-11pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 236 Central Plaza. 650.917.1822.
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AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. Meals unfold like a bolt of rare silk, served with care and efficiency in a rich, luminous interior. Dishes are complex and varied. 11:30am2:30pm, 5-9:45pm daily. 2290 El Camino Real. 650.968.7511. AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza/Italian. $$. When it’s done right, East Coast pizza can be a glorious thing. Dough is rolled ultrathin and served noticeably charred on the sides and bottom, the ideal combination for a “foldable” slice on the go. It’s done right here. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am-11pm Sat, 11:30am-10pm Sun. 790 Castro St. 650.961.6666.
BODRUM CAFE Turkish. $$. The menu at Bodrum Cafe is extensive and covers a lot of ground, but it’s the lamb dishes that stand out. A good place to start is with the lahmacun (Turkey’s take on pizza) and the kebabs. 10am-10pm daily. 383 Castro St. 650.396.7010. CASCAL Spanish tapas. $$$. The tapas menu yields big tastes in small portions at this pan-Latin charmer. Calamari, roasted quail and minted lamb meatballs are among the delicacies. Full bar. 11:30am10pm Mon-Sun. 400 Castro St. 650.940.9500.
CHAAT PARADISE Vegetarian Indian. $. Golden spices predominate at this popular spot for inexpensive, fun-toeat traditional Indian fare. Casual shopping-center surroundings. 11:30-10pm Mon-Sun. 165 E. Camino Real. 650.965.1111.
CHINA CAFE Mandarin, Szechuan. $$. A little surprise in the Blossom Valley Center promises uptown ambience, spotless surroundings and well-presented classical Chinese cuisine. 1760 Miramonte Ave. 650.968.2298. DON GIOVANNI Italian. $$$. This pumpkin-hued eatery faces the bustling downtown
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LEPETITBISTRO Classic French. $$. There’s a lot to like about this pinch of a place with its simple, practiced French cuisine and quiet dining. Casual. Beer, wine. 5:30-9:30pm TueSat. 1405 W. El Camino Real. 650.964.3321.
MARUICHIJapanese noodles. $. Maru Ichi is a true noodle shop. While there are a few appetizers on the menu, the slurpable house-made noodles—ramen, soba and udon—are what you want. Go for the house specialty kuro ramen or the soy sauce ramen. Beer and wine. Cash only. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am-10pm Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 368 Castro St. 650.564.9931.
NAMINAMIJapanese. $$$. Nami Nami specializes in kappo-style Japanese food, prepared in the artful, laborintensive, seasonally driven style associated with the city of Kyoto. For diners willing to open their minds and mouths, it offers one of the most exciting restaurant experiences in the Bay Area. 11:30am-2pm Tue-Sun, 7-10pm Tue-Thu and 6-11pm Fri-Sat. 240 Castro St. 650.964.6990. NETOCAFFEANDBAKERY Cafe. $$. Neto Caffe and Bakery is a busy, good-looking space that has a happy buzz about it. There’s a little bit of everything including a number of Middle Eastern specialties. 7am-10pm daily. 135 Castro St. 650.625.9888.
PHOTOCHAU Vietnamese noodle house. $. The pho here is an honest noodle soup. Firsttimers might want to stick with the basic pho chin, topped with slices of beef brisket. 11am-10pm daily. 853 Villa St. 650.961.8069. THESPICEISLANDSCAFE Singaporean, Malaysian, Indonesian. $$. This restaurant will send your taste buds to the tropics. Talented chefs put out dishes full of spice and passion, like jumbo chile prawns, papaya salad and Malaysian spareribs. The menu is expansive. Prices are reasonable. 210 Hope St. 650.960.1888.
TAQUERÍA LOS CHARROS Mexican. $. This clean and fetching diner is the place for authentic fare. Generous portions. 6:30am-10pm Mon-Fri, 6:30am-11pm Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. 854 W. Dana St. 650.969.1464.
VASO AZZURRO Ristorante Italian. $$$. Entrees are attractively presented, and the waiters will make you feel as though you were the most important guests in the place. Dessert lives up to the rest of the meal. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9:30pm Sun. 108 Castro St. 650.940.1717. XANH RESTAURANT Modern Vietnamese. $$. Xanh (pronounced “zahn”) epitomizes the new breed of upscale, contemporary Vietnamese restaurant. The appealing menu ranges from the traditional to the unconventional and includes rolls, salads, noodles, small plates and full-size entrees. 11:30am-2pm, 4:30pmclose Mon-Fri. 110 Castro St. 650.964.1888
YAKKO Japanese, sushi bar. $$. A pairing of swift service with an exotic range of sushi and udon makes this a favorite among sushi lovers. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm Mon-Sun, 5:30-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 5:3010:30pm Fri-Sat. 975 W. Dana St. 650.960.0626.
ZUCCA Mediterranean. $$. Time slows and the paella glows at this Turkish/Spanish charmer: lamb kofte, spicy shrimp, steak, baklava. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sun. 186 Castro St. 650.864.9940.
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BISTRO ELAN California French. $$$. The only problem with the menu is that it’s all tempting. Using seasonal
produce, the chef allows flavors to speak for themselves. Wine, beer. 11:30am-1:30pm Tue-Fri, 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 448 California Ave. 650.327.0284.
arepas, white corn griddle cakes stuffed with various fillings. 7am-11pm daily. 538 Ramona St. 650.322.6872.
BISTRO MAXINE Cafe. $$.
California grill. $$. Waiters with charm to spare, an energetic clientele and a menu packed with grilled, roasted and smoked intensity make Empire Grill much more than simply a smart place to sip a cosmopolitan. Full bar. Tue-Sun 11:30am-10pm. 651 Emerson St. 650.321.3030.
Bistro Maxine is a bright, friendly little spot, a coffee shop and creperie rolled into one. If you’re lucky, you’ll snag one of the five indoor or two outdoor tables while perusing the long but straightforward menu. 8am-2pm 6-10pm Tue-Fri, 9am-4pm Sun. 548 Ramona St. 650.323.1815.
BUCA DI BEPPO Nondesigner Italian-American. $$. Like a Sicilian Christmas carnival in the ’50s, this party spot blends clutter, joy, high spirits and, oh yes, huge portions. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 643 Emerson St. 650.329.0665.
CAFE BRIOCHE Southern French. $$. Mediterranean magic: exceptional cuisine on oversize plates is whisked to tables as soon as it’s created. Breakfast 9-11am, lunch 11am3pm, dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri; brunch 9am-3pm, dinner 5:30-10pm Sat-Sun. 445 California Ave. 650.326.8640.
CAFFE RIACE Trattoria. $$. An absolute joy. Every dish is made with honest expertise—no tricky trendiness here. The homey offerings are based on wholesome Italian staples. Beer, wine. 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sun. 200 Sheridan Ave. 650.328.0407.
CALAFIA CAFE AND MARKET A GO-GO Eclectic. $$. Calafia Cafe and Market A Go-Go combines elements of the fast-food world and the laborintensive slow cooking of more-high-end restaurants. Chef and owner Charlie Ayers (who was Google’s first chef) calls his concept “slow food fast”—good-to-eat and goodfor-you food that he hopes will appeal to Silicon Valley’s frenetic, too-busy-to-eat pace of life. Look for good burgers, pizza, salads and fresh fish. 11am-9pm Mon-Fri, 9am-9pm Sat-Sun. 858 El Camino Real. 650.322.9200.
COUPA CAFE Venezuelan. $$. Venezuela is best known for its oil production and resilient populist president; Coupa shines attention on the country’s premium coffee and chocolate. The beautiful storefront also serves excellent
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EVVIA Contemporary Aegean. $$$. Forward flavors and plenty of laughter—that’s Dionysian dining. Evvia feels like a little taverna on Paros, only with an unmistakable Bay Area sophistication. Full bar. 420 Emerson St. 650.326.0983.
FUKI SUSHI Japanese. $$$. For over two decades this superb Japanese restaurant has served sushi to Nobel laureates and other grateful foodies. Open daily. 4119 El Camino Real. 11:30am-10pm Tue-Sun. 650.494.9383. www.fukisushi. com.
GORDON BIERSCH New American. $$$. Food takes equal billing with ambience and fine handmade beers at the first in this group of successful brewpubs. The menu is so fine-tuned, though, it could thrive even without a brewery attached. Beer, wine. 11:30am-10pm daily. 640 Emerson St. 650.323.7723. Also 33 E. San Fernando St, San Jose. 408.294.6785.
GREEN ELEPHANT GOURMET Burmese. $$. Burmese food draws influences from its three largest neighbors: China, India and Thailand. Standouts here include the coconut chicken soup, tangy tea leaf salad and refreshing glass noodle salad. Lunch 11am2:30pm, dinner 4:30-9pm daily. 3950 Middlefield Rd (Charleston Shopping Center). 650.494.7391.
GYROS GYROS Mediterranean. $. The lunch crowd turns out in force to grapple with the oversize, and messy, lamb and beef gyros, chicken gyros and other treats. That’s especially true on sunny afternoons, when the sidewalk tables fill with folks downing the juicy sandwiches. 11am-11pm daily. 498 University Ave. 650.327.0107.
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SUSHI TOMI Japanese. $$. Sushi Tomi serves Japanese food with an elegant simplicity. Sushi and sashimi are ocean fresh. For a real treat, ask for an omakase dinner and let the chef put together a tasting menu for you. Lunch 11:30am2pm daily; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 635 W. Dana St. 650.968.3227.
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LA BODEGUITA DEL MEDIO Cuban/California. $$$. Themed after a vintage Havana haunt of Ernest Hemingway’s, this zesty restaurant serves lively Cubaninfluenced cuisine along with liquid staples like rum and mojitos in a handsome, casual atmosphere. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5:3010pm Fri-Sat. 463 S.California Ave. 650.326.7762.
LAVANDA Mediterranean. $$$. This urban grill at the top of University Avenue offers eclectic, small tasting plates, along with heartier fare such as roasted sea bass with chanterelle mushrooms and guinea fowl with sautéed chard. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun, 5-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 185 University (at Emerson). 650.321.3514.
MANTRA French, American and Indian. $$$. Mantra serves inventive French and American food that speaks with an Indian accent. It isn’t fusion, but a more subtle blend of surprisingly compatible flavors and techniques. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Tue-Fri, dinner 5-10pm Sun-Thu and 5:30-10:30pm Fri-Sat. 632-636 Emerson St. 650.322.3500.
MAYFIELD BAKERY AND CAFE American. $$$. With its simple but handsome décor, open kitchen fronted by a long counter and tidy stacks of split almond logs tucked against the wall for the great smelling wood-burning oven, Mayfield Bakery and Cafe presents updated versions of seasonally driven Mediterranean and American classics—big, bold, rustic flavors and simple preparations that aim to let locally grown ingredients speak for themselves without
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any undue manipulation or pretence. You know the stuff: Niman Ranch burgers, spitroasted meats, frisée salads with crumbled bacon and a poached egg on top, pizzas, grilled fish, crusty, fresh bread and hearty, satisfying desserts. 8am-4pm and 5-9pm MonFri; 9am-4pm and 5-9pm Sat-Sun. 855 El Camino Real. 650.853.9200.
OSTERIA Italian. $$. Authentic Italian cooking done by skilled chefs from Italy. Be sure to make a reservation, or you’ll be lucky to put a single foot through the door. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm Mon-Sat. 247 Hamilton St. 650.328.5700.
PAMPAS Brazilian steakhouse. $$$. Pampas is a meat lover’s haven. The $44 rodizio service gets you unlimited spitroasted meat. The sprawling side bar offers one of the most extensive selections of vegetarian options you’ll find in a nonvegetarian restaurant. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 529 Alma St. 650.327.1323.
QUATTRO RESTAURANT AND BAR Italian. $$$$. Quattro Restaurant and Bar brings high-style, impeccably sourced Italian cuisine to the South Bay, an area that has about as many great Italian restaurants as it does snow days. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Sun, lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sat and dinner 5:30-10pm MonSun. 2050 University Ave. 650.470.2889.
REPOSADO Mexican. $$$. Reposado offers modern, refined Mexican food served in a lively setting. The restaurant is easily one of Palo Alto’s most striking. The soaring, exposed beam ceilings make the dining room feel at once industrial and inviting because of the warm colors, wood accents and dramatic light fixtures. There’s a beautiful bar and cozy booth seating on one side and spacious table and banquette seating on the other. Great selection of tequila. 11:30am10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat and 11:30am-9pm Sun. 236 Hamilton Ave. 650.833.3151.
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RESTAURANT SOLEIL New American. $$$$. A mouthwatering menu and an elegant, golden-hued room shine together at Soleil, upstairs in the Westin Palo Alto. Local ingredients and provocative sauces create dishes worthy of the wine list. Breakfast 6am-11am, Dinner 5-10:30pm. 675 El Camino Real. 650.321.4422.
ST. MICHAEL’S ALLEY New California. $$$. Reservations are a must at this smart bistro, whose menu includes inventive potato, meat and seafood dishes that tilt toward New American cookery. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm Tue-Fri, 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat; brunch 10am-2pm Sat-Sun. 806 Emerson St. 650.326.2530. SHOKOLAAT. Modern European. $$. Shokolaat’s open kitchen and pastry display counter are as gleaming and clean as a laboratory, a fitting setting for the restaurant’s technically precise, modern European cooking. Counter open 8am9pm (to-go only 4-9pm); lunch 11:30am-2pm TueSun, dinner 5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun. 516 University Ave. 650.289.0719.
SPALTI RISTORANTE Italian. $$. Along with a handsome interior, Spalti offers good wine and sparkling flavors. Beer, wine. 11am-2pm MonFri, 5-9:30pm Mon-Sun. 417 California Ave. 650.327.9390. STRAITS CAFE Singapore exotica. $$. Blending culinary motifs from India, China and Thailand, the food of Singapore is anything but timid. The menu at Straits is lavish and diverse. Full bar. 11:30-2pm Mon-Fri, 5:309:30pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 3295 El Camino Real. 650.494.7168.
TAMARINE New Vietnamese. $$$. A mesmerizing back bar of natural bamboo and glass sleekly adjoins a wall showcasing original artwork. Even the waitstaff is sleek, clad in Prada black. Entrees are gorgeous and deeply aromatic. 546 University Ave. 650.325.8500.
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on the dance, which led to him being sued by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Eventually, Electric Slide democracy was restored. But lost in the craziness was the fact that no one would have ever given a damn about the Electric Slide in the first place if it wasn’t for reggae queen Marcia Griffiths, who had a hit with “Electric Boogie” twice, in 1976 and 1989, that turned it into a dance craze around the world. It was the biggest hit by a female reggae singer ever, proving that Bob Marley was onto something when he chose Griffiths for his backing band. Apparently, the guy knew a thing or two about reggae. (SP)
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QUIET GAME STARTING NOW Nickel City, San Jose Fri – 6pm; $8 Hüsker Dü-ish East Bay sextet of punkers from John Muir’s former home town, now full of county bureaucrats, oil refiners, antique salesmen and loads and loads of cops. Medium range vocals contrast with Brit-style full-throat roar football chorus (I think the Brits did it before Black Flag). Definitely the band you’d want next door; titles like “Show Me Yours, I’ll Show You Mine” address the usual anxieties in a non-offensive way. They shouldn’t worry about showing up tumescent; this band won’t require much fluffing. (RvB)
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Contemporary Music series runs Co thru Aug 14 in Santa Cruz.
PAT TRAVERS Aug 11, Avalon, Santa Clara
SHANE DWIGHT Aug 12 at 9pm, JJ’s Blues, San Jose
KATY PERRY Aug 12 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion
SAN JOSE JAZZ FEST Aug 12–14, downtown San Jose A
MICHAEL BUBLE Aug 13 at 8pm, HP Pavilion
CHRISTOPHER CROSS Aug 19 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center
SAN JOSE PRIDE Aug 20–21, downtown San Jose Au
HERB ALPERT Aug 21 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center
JOSH GROBAN Aug 23 at 8:30pm, HP Pavilion
SADE Aug 25 at 8pm, HP Pavilion
AIR SUPPLY Aug 27 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center
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X Sports Bar, Cupertino Sat – 8pm; $8 Despite their goofy name, the “Phat N Phunky Phamily” of bands has been one of the coolest things going in the South Bay for several years now. At the center of it is on-again, off-again Shinobu, the local indie band who were doing the chunky post-punk-throwback sound before it was cool. They also lay claim to the best ‘80s-revival reference ever, with their play on New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle,” a song called simply “Regular Love Triangle.” Certainly New Order/Joy Division are a big influence, but so are the Pixies (check out “I Am A Lightning Bolt”) and the Replacements. The Albert Square,
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THE EYESORES Streetlight Records, San Jose Sat – 5pm; free The infamous Eyesores have stained the San Jose scene for over 15 years. Often hated more than celebrated, the band has gone through numerous lineup changes, but has stuck it out regardless of what the majority of the South Bay thinks of them. If you’ve seen them once, you’ll never forget it. With extravagant props, costume changes for almost every song and a seemingly unquenchable thirst for alcohol, the Eyesores play what they call “drunk rock – music to dump beer on your head to.”The inconvenient truth is, they’re very good musicians. Dogface’s guitar playing is the standout in the band. Also, if you can get past Metalhed’s voice–which at
times sounds like a combination of an out-of-tune Steve Perry and the screech of cats mating–you will walk out knowing you got your money’s worth. Of course, the show is free. (BD)
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FROST HAMMER New Almaden Community Center, San Jose Sun – 8pm; free If Danzig wrote songs about wizards and magical dwarves instead of zombies and Satan, he might have been invited to join Frost Hammer. It fact, it kind of sounds like he did, since their lead singer has a similar soulful, crooning voice, and the riffs are moody, blues-based classic headbangers that pack a punch. Some of the best parts
are right there in-between vocals, during the lengthy instrumental jams. There’s tempo changes, intense buildups, heavy pounding chords and, of course, frantic guitar solos. (AC)
AMADEUS Retro Dome, San Jose Sun – 5pm; $15 A screening of Milos Forman’s 1982 musical drama Amadeus, starring F. Murray Abraham as stewing Salieri and Tom Hulce (whatever happened to him, anyway?) as the blithe young genius Mozart, is reason enough to go to the Retro Dome. Adding a classical jam on the composer’s music performed under the baton of Barbara Day Turner of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra makes for a memorable evening of movies and music. After the film, Turner will answer questions from the audience. (MSG)
ITALIAN FESTA Fam event from Italian American Family Heritage Foundation, Aug 27-28, He Guadalupe River and Gardens Park Gua
DEVO Aug 27 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery
ROCK THE BELLS Aug 27 at 10:30am, Shoreline
TAYLOR SWIFT Sep 1–2 at 7pm, HP Pavilion
THE B-52S Sep 8 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery
BARENAKED LADIES Sep 19 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery Join Metro on Facebook at Metrofb.com for a chance to win concert tickets.
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That’s the good news. The bad news: Dave Chappelle froze my face. Before I explain, let me say that
to understand how this comeback works, all you really have to do is understand supply and demand. There is simply not enough Dave Chappelle to go around, in a world hungry for the comedic genius that delivered 33 episodes of Chappelle’s Show in the early 2000s. After starting as a cult phenomenon, it blew up into the coolest thing on TV, the show every college kid in America (and eventually, most everybody else) had to watch. From the most popular recurring bits, like his satirizing of Rick James and Wayne Brady, to the meatier stuff like his crack addict character Tyrone Biggums, or the mindblowing“Reparations” sketch, there hadn’t been anything this crazy and funny since the early days of SNL. And Chappelle’s Show didn’t fade away—it burned out in the most spectacular way possible, and so did the man at the center of it. Tired and disillusioned, Chappelle walked away from it all
during production of the third season. He split for South Africa in 2005, and after the Michael Gondry–directed Dave Chappelle’s Block Party in 2006 (which was filmed in 2004 anyway), he seemed to quickly disappear from the pop-culture landscape entirely. When he headlines the Wild Comedy Jam this week at Shoreline, it’ll be the first big show I’ve heard of him doing in years. Meanwhile, the blogosphere has been salivating over these tiny club shows, fueling the comeback talk. Everyone on the Internet was hearing about them, but few were actually getting in to see them. Recently, I even read one blogger writing about Chappelle’s “legendary six-hour San Francisco show,” and he sounded like he would have given anything to be there. Here’s the thing: I was there. And it was nothing like that blogger thinks it was. It wasn’t hours and hours of Chappelle doing an act, or even of Chappelle doing jokes. It was the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen onstage in my life—and this from a man who’s seen a Genitorturers concert. And it’s where Dave Chappelle froze my face. Keep in mind, when I say that this show was a nightmare—and it was—Chappelle is the first person
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who’d agree with me. He said onstage near the end (for the record, five and a half hours after it started, not six) that it was the second-worst show he’d ever done. God, I’m glad I wasn’t at whatever show he ranked lower. Also, nightmares are the things that stick with you the longest after you wake up. I’m certain no one who was at this show will ever forget it. On April 29, Chappelle announced he’d be doing two shows that night at the Independent in San Francisco. Through various machinations, I got into the late show. The early show ran a little late, Chappelle was onstage for a little over an hour, I think. Our show got going around 11, and after an opener, the man himself took the stage. The first hour was as funny and fresh as expected. Chappelle riffed on current events like Tiger Woods and such, and occasionally came back to the topic of his show, and why he walked away from 50 million dollars. (His advice to younger comics seemed to be: Take the money, do the show). Then things got weird. One crazy lady in the audience was shouting out random things about how his muscles looked great and he must be working out. Instead of ignoring her or taking her out with a snappy comeback, he engaged. Gradually, other audience members began to pile on with random questions on completely unfunny topics, and he answered them, too. This was also about the time that he complemented one of the waitresses on her body, the moment that he would later pinpoint as the one where everything went wrong. I don’t know if it really was (she didn’t seem nearly as upset about it as he thought she was), but something certainly shifted in that second hour. From then on, the man who had earlier been slinking around the stage like a cat burglar, a reminder that his comedy reflexes were lightning quick, sat in a chair almost completely motionless. He gradually let the audience lead more and more, taking excruciating silent pauses when no one had a question to ask. Around three o’clock, things took a turn for the paranoid as he claimed there were plants in the audience, put there by some unknown sinister force (apparently Comedy Central) to catch him off guard. He kept accusing the audience of not asking deep enough
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DAVE CHAPPELLE performs at the WILD 94.9 COMEDY JAM 2011 Saturday, 7pm; $34.5 and up Shoreline Amphitheatre
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AMADEUS: THE MAN, THE MUSIC, THE MAGIC, THE MADNESS The Retro Dome and San Jose Chamber Orchestra combines on a Mozart jam session (5pm), a showing of the movie “Amadeus” (6pm) and a talk with conductor Barbara Day Turner. Sun, 5pm. $15. Retro Dome, San Jose.
CURTAINS A musical mystery play by John Kander and Fred Ebb in a Foothill Music Theatre production. Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 7pm. Runs thru Aug 14. $13-$26. Lohman Theater, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.
CYMBELINE A production of Free Shakespeare in the Park. Opens Sat, 7:30pm. Regular shows: Fri-Sun, 7:30pm. Free. Memorial Park Amphitheater, Cupertino.
SHADY SHAKESPEARE The summer troupe presents “Henry V” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in repertory. Thu-Sun, 7pm. Runs thru Sep 4. $10-$15. Free. Sanborn Park, Saratoga.
SHAKESPEARE SANTA CRUZ “The Comedy of Errors,” “Henry IV, Part One” and “The Three Musketeers” run in repertory. Runs thru Aug 28. UC-Santa Cruz campus.
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois renew their strange courtship in Dragon’s adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ famed drama. ThuSat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Aug 21. $16-$25. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.
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FLY BY NIGHT A TheatreWorks presentation of a musical about New Yorkers during the 1965 power outage. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 8pm. Runs thru Aug 13. $19-$69. Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.
H.M.S. PINAFORE The Lamplighters take on Gilbert & Sullivan’s classic tale of love on board a classridden navy ship. Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $18-$52. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
INHERIT THE WIND A courtroom drama based on the famous Scopes Monkey Trial, presented by South Valley Civic Theatre. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Aug 27. $14/$18.
NINE City Lights presents the musical based on Fellini’s famous film “8-1/2.”Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Aug 28. $25$35. City Lights, San Jose.
SENECA’S OEDIPUS The Roman playwright’s take on the tale is presented in
Fri, 9pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm: Live improv comedy. Fri, 11pm: The Midnight Show. Inside the Camera 3 building, San Jose.
ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Willie Barcena. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.
SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Unfiltered. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Ali Wong. San Jose.
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Museums OPENING SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Scrap ART.” Historical quilts and “scrappy contemporary works.” Aug 16-Oct 16. TueSun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.
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CONTINUING ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “Crossing Boundaries.” Works by sculptor Kristen LindsethRivera and painter Ming Jing Wang. Thru Sep 15. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm. Los Gatos.
CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Expanding Views of Africa.” A reinstallation of works of African art from the museum’s collection looking at the continent’s art and culture in diversity and depth. Ongoing. “The Art of the Book.” A show about five fine presses in the Bay Area. Thru Aug 28. “Illustrated Title Pages: 1500-1900.” A show of 80 illustrated book pages from the museum’s collection. Thru Oct 16. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.
CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM “Mammoth Discovery!” Plus activities and hands-on fun for kids. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm. Sun, noon-5pm. Discovery Meadow, San Jose.
DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present.” “The Changing Face of Homelessness: Portraits by SCU Photography Students.” “Between Struggle and Hope: Envisioning a Democratic Art in the 1930s.” “This Camera Fights Fascism: The Photographs of David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez.”Thru Feb 5. Santa Clara University.
HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Nature’s Beloved Son: Rediscovering John Muir’s Botanical Legacy.” A show dedicated to the many biological specimens collected by the naturalist. Runs thru Sep 11 at Pacific Hotel. “Celebrating Local Artists.” Thru Sep 18 at Pasetta House, History Park, San Jose.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks.” A selection of photographs taken by Owens in the 1970s. Thru Feb 5. “The Bible Illuminated: R.
Crumb’s Book of Genesis.” Thru Sep 25. “Laboratory.” The museum’s new Beta Space hosts experimental shows. First exhibit features installations by Kevin Appel and Ruben Ochoa. Runs thru Aug. 14. “Roots in the Air, Branches Below: Modern and Contemporary Art From India.” Thru Sep 4. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION Exhibits about science, technology and the world. Ongoing. Mon-Wed, 10am5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.
TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Photographs by Diane Kreiter.” Interior shots of industrial plants in Silicon Valley.” Thru Sep 11. “Atmospheric Firing.” Examples of wood-fired ceramics. Thru Sep 11. “David Ogle: Sculptures.” Thru Sep 18. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.
Galleries ANNO DOMINI “The Melting Kingdom.” Twelve new pieces by the New York artist Dimitri Drjuchin. Thru Sep 17. Also “Art of Zines.” Thru Aug 13. San Jose.
ART ARK “Welcome to Coyote Creek.” A show about the local natural feature. San Jose.
ARTOBJECT GALLERY Monoprints by 10 South Bay artists. Thru Aug 11. San Jose.
BRUNI GALLERY Jazz portraits by Bruni, plus sports art by Mark Gray. Thru Aug 31. Daily, 1-6pm. San Jose.
CAFFE TRIESTE “Art Alive.” Bodypainting art by Trina Merry in collaboration with Bay Area photographers. Thru Aug 30. San Jose.
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GALLERY SARATOGA “Images From California and the World.” Photos by Don del Castillo. Thru Sep 4. Reception Aug 20, 2-5pm. Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm. Saratoga.
KALIED GALLERY “Convergence” by Jojo Perea; “Musings From the Wasteland” by Michelle Waters. Thru Aug 31. San Jose.
St: Roundels sculptures by Gianfranco Paolozzi. Thru Aug 13. San Jose.
PHO 69 “Collection of Light.” Naturepatterned work by Laurus Myth. Thru Sep 23. San Jose.
SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Lift Off.” A show of works by recent MFA art grads from SJSU. Thru Sep 10. “Frames of War.” Works by Hanna Hannah. Thru Sep 10. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
SANTA CLARA CITY HALL LOS GATOS COMPANY “Variations, Different Faces of the Same Place.” Oil paintings of Los Gatos by Riki R. Nelson. Los Gatos.
MACLA “Navigations of the Fantastic.” A group show by Elizabeth Gomez, Betty Davis, Jose Arenas and Veronica Felix. Thru Aug 13. Wed-Thu, noon7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
METRO LOBBY “Know Trespassing.” Photographs by Jason Duffany illustrating his bike ride across Canada and the United States. Thru Aug 31. San Jose.
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Records and Marks.” A show about mapping and identity by Lordy Rodriguez, Adriane Coburn, Alexander Chen, Amanda Hughen and Ehren Elizabeth Reed.” Thru Oct 16. “Sculpture on the Grounds: Traces, Twigs and Time.” Ongoing. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.
MOUNTAIN VIEW CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Paintings by Gail Ragains. Thru Aug 22. Mountain View.
OLIVE HYDE ART GUILD Members juried show. Thru Aug 13. Thu-Sun, noon-5pm. Fremont.
PHANTOM GALLERIES Works in storefronts. At 66 S. First St: “Defragmentation 66” by Michele Guieu. Thru Aug 13. At 386 S. First St: “Street Swag Photo Booth” photos by Abe Menor from SubZERO Festival. Thru Sep 17. At 95 S. Market
Biennial “Indoor Sculpture Exhibition.” Thru Sep. Santa Clara.
SARATOGA LIBRARY Photographs of West Coast people and places by Charles DiLisio. Thru Aug 31. Saratoga.
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ELLEN SUSSMAN A booksigning event with the author of “French Lessons,” a novel about Americans in France. Thu, 7pm. Free. Books Inc., Palo Alto.
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Family fun as group celebrates its “Big Birthday.” Sat, 12:30 and 4pm. $15.50 and up. San Jose Civic Auditorium.
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WIth artisans, music and kids events. Sat-Sun, 10am-6pm. Downtown Burlingame.
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Tikis and Polynesian pop art from the Modern Primitives Cultural Research and Cocktail Society. Live music for South First Fri. Thru Aug 31. San Jose.
With tasty Louisiana culinary treats and lively music. Sat. Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont.
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A celebration of Indian culture and heritage, kicking off with a parade. Sat-Sun. 39439 Paseo Padre Pkwy, Fremont.
Paintings by Jeung H. Kang, Claudia Stevens and Ichen Wu. Thru Sep 22. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford.
WORKS/SAN JOSE An exhibit of works by five Oaxacan artists. Thru Sep 10. San Jose.
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The authors of “Through a Land of Extremes: The Littledales of Central Asia,” sign copies of their book. Tue, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
CHRIS HAFT The author of “This Is Our Time!” about the San Francisco Giants and the 2010 World Championship, speaks. Thu, 7pm. Free. Menlo Park.
DANETTE STEPHAN A chance to meet the Los Gatos author of “Letter Sound Yoga: For All the Beautiful Children.” Sun, 1pm. Break Los Gatos.
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FIESTA DE ARTES Art and wine festival with bands, local talent, arts and crafts. Sat-Sun, 10am–6pm. Free. Los Gatos Civic Center Grounds.
KEEPTHESPIRITOF’45ALIVE A weekend dedicated to the veterans of World War II. Sat-Sun, 11am-5pm. History San Jose.
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Magnificent Mizuno VARIETY is a goal of her Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music programming, claims artistic director Marin Alsop. Plenty of that was heard in the festival’s two full orchestra programs last weekend. Nine of 10 works heard Friday and Saturday nights at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium were composed since 2003, while one of the best, Shuko Mizuno’s Natsu, dates from 1988. Born in 1934, the shy Mizuno seemed a bit shocked by the orchestra’s brilliant performance and the boisterous audience response. Alsop described the work—whose title is Japanese for summer—as “harmonically dense” and its composer as the “Japanese Rouse,” referring to Christopher Rouse, one of the Americans she has long championed at Cabrillo. Mizuno’s symphonic poem does indeed bear comparison with some of Rouse’s single-movement scores, especially where the full orchestra explodes in a tapestry of mind-boggling complexity. Yet for all its denseness, Mizuno keeps the texture transparent, no small achievement when everyone on stage is furiously engaged. Otherwise, however, Mizuno’s textures tend toward a warmly sonorous character, in :XYi`ccf contrast to Rouse’s predictable edginess. Moreover, =\jk`mXc f] Natsu provides moments of intimacy, calling on :fek\dgfiXip only a few players and cameo solos of great delicacy.
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MUSICAL SAW FESTIVAL Traditional folk instruments in concert and workshops. Aug 14. Roaring Camp Railroad, Felton.
STREETLOW MAGAZINE CAR SHOW The magazine presents a show of custom lowriders. Sun, 11am-5pm. Evergreen Valley College, San Jose.
SUMMER GATHERING OF MOUNTAIN MEN Re-enactments of a wilderness camp from the 1830s. Sat-Sun. Roaring Camp Railroad, Felton.
Among dangers composers face is completing a work that turns out to be more personal than communicative. On Friday, Rouse’s Odna Zhizn (A Life) painted a portrait of “the love of my life,” Rouse introduced it by remarking on its “code,” which wouldn’t be understood anyway. Oops! That comment charged the audience with an expectation and/or distraction. The piece proved to be a thorny ride but overwrought and expressively arcane. James MacMillan’s Piano Concerto no. 3, Mysteries of Light, sparkled with the Scotsman’s distinctive orchestrations and craftsmanship, though the piano part, realized by Jean-Yves Thibaudet, tended more toward the decorative than the substantial. It nicely recalled some of Olivier Messiaen’s enchanting bird songs. The Friday program also included an “airborne” postcard by Mason Bates called Desert Transport and opened with a tasty and energetic morsel by Margaret Brouwer titled Pulse.—Scott MacClelland
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The flamboyant, golden poster for the film reflects how Tamahori gilded the stink lily. On the one hand, this version doesn’t have the 99-cent-store kitschiness that was essential to the powerful spoiled brat. On the other hand, The Devil’s Double is great ripe dirty fun, served up with a heaping side order of 1980s excess. After surviving the front in the Iraq/Iran War, the army officer Latif (Dominic Cooper) is called in for a meeting with a man he knew (and apparently disliked) from school. It has struck Uday Hussein that all great men have doubles to foil assassins. So Latif endures a round of plastic surgery and dental prosthesis. (Uday has a gap in his teeth; when he gives his spine-
chilling grin, he looks like a leering camelid. At first, Tamahori and Cooper make Uday seem a charming Lucifer by contrast to a slightly stiff and wary Latif. Between them is Uday’s significant concubine, sashaying through his palaces. Sarrab (appropriately pronounced “Syrup’) is played by the infernally chemical Ludivine Sagnier. Lounging at various Iraqi discos in a spectrum of Dynel wigs, Sagnier has the kind of mouth once described by writer Angela Carter as waiting for someone, anyone, everyone to pop a piece of candy into it. Sarrab exists in such a beautifully mimicked state of heat that it looks as if she’s actually going to melt, that the already wide-set eyes are going to begin drifting shoulderward. She was picked up somewhere by the maniac prince (not, we hope, against her will—he’s into that). Yet she becomes the moral center of the royal-double film that’s been done ever since Zenda was on the map.
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Sarrab spurs the transformation of Latif. It’s a ceremony begun in bed as George H.W. Bush commences the Gulf War bombing of the capital of his former political ally. Latif ’s quietness and wariness begin to look like watching and waiting. And in contrast to this suaveness, it’s Uday’s braying, vicious tyrant one wants to see get it. Get it, he does. But it’s not until further atrocities: the real-life dispatching of a friend of Saddam’s; the taunting of a victim’s father; or just watching the war on TV, with his mommy’s satin-covered breast as a pillow. The performance takes the British actor Dominic Cooper into a new league after a long build-up in uninteresting costume dramas (such as The Duchess). Who knew? Cooper is awesomely built, too; he really fills a Speedo. You could hear a murmur of disbelief in the audience in a scene where he emerges from a pool. The performance isn’t accentcrazed; in both roles, Cooper demonstrates an Omar Sharif–level of dapper Orientalism. And the point of the drama gives a Western audience what it wants: moments of reckless, brave Arab machismo. The blood-skied exteriors and goldupon-gold-upon-brass interiors make us think, “This is the Baghdad we read about when we were kids.” But the fable is grounded. Philip Quast as the elder tyrant is a smaller-than-life worrier in an immaculate suit—a weighed-down sinner like Raymond Burr. We see him—pathetically—in white shorts and shirt, playing tennis with his own double. If I haven’t made it clear there’s a trashy streak to the film, here goes. While modeled on De Palma’s Scarface (with oily, fringed haircut, the flagrant fellation of Gran Corona cigars, the gold-plated automatic pistols), The Devil’s Double is essentially more fun. Tony Montana was, as he said, just a businessman. This Uday had a whole nation to devour.
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(PG-13) Emma Stone, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer star in a story about crossing racial lines in Jackson, Miss., in the early 1960s. (Plays valleywide.)
(PG-13; 92 min.) The appearance of a twin to Earth in the heavens stimulates a crisis in the life of a young woman who feels her life on this earth is already ruined. Stars Brit Marling. (Opens Fri at Winchester 22 in San Jose.)
MAGIC TRIP (R; 107 min.) See story on page 18.
THE NAMES OF LOVE
THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE
(R; 100 min.) See review on page 46. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose and the Aquarius in Palo Alto.)
(R; 108 min.) See review on page 47.
FINAL DESTINATION 5 (R; 92 min.) And yet, somehow, as in Zeno’s paradox, we keep getting sequels and we never arrive at the conclusion of this horror-movie franchise. (Opens Fri.)
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG-13, 115 min.) If there are two words that sum up Rupert Wyatt’s film, they are “strangely plausible.” At Genesis, a Bay Area genetic tech lab of about 2012 or so, scientist Will Rodman (Palo Alto’s own James Franco) is working on a cure for Alzheimer’s. When a superintelligent baby lab chimp named Caesar is ordered to be destroyed, Will brings him home to his peninsula home, and a San Francisco Zoo veterinarian (Freida Pinto) helps him raise the
GLEE: THE 3D CONCERT MOVIE (Unrated) If you think 3-D will make the Glee experience even better, then this is for you. (Opens Fri.)
THE GUARD (R; 96 min.) Easygoing Galway cop Brendan Gleeson teams with a bythe-book FBI agent (Don Cheadle).
“HHHH! FASCINATING!” Thelma Adams, US WEEKLY
“SHOCKING AND RIVETING! AN EXCELLENT FILM!” Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER
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“AN ASTONISHING LOOK AT A MADMAN YOU WON’T SOON FORGET.”
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critter. As Caesar grows, he’s played by a synthespian modeled on the always-amazing Andy Serkis; this and the story’s links to the tragic story of Nim Chimpsky (as seen recently in Project Nim) “grounds the balloon” as James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum put it. The last third of the film, thrilling and fast, takes over Caesar’s story. Wyatt shines here, bringing in images of urban rebellion that have as much zeitgeist as the first Apes movie did in 1968. Like the J.J. Abrams remake of Star Trek, this isn’t a demolition job but a handsomely done renovation of an old property. (Read a full-length review on Movietimes. com.) (RvB)
30 MINUTES OF LESS (R; 83 min.) Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride and Nick Swardson star in a comedy about a robbery gone bad. (Opens Fri.)
THE WHISTLEBLOWER (R; 118 min.) An American woman (Rachel Weisz) investigates sextrafficking in Bosnia; based on a true story. (Opens Fri at Camera 7 in Campbell and the Aquarius in Palo Alto.)
Revivals AMADEUS (1984) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce): coarse genius, a cackler, a letch and a punk rocker. Compared to this musical titan, the rival composer Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) is nothing. A prestige movie in its time, Amadeus satiates an audience’s hunger for big frosting-covered cakey spectacle and palaces surrounding a story of dubious history. The production numbers are stagey. There will be a performance of Mozart’s music before the film with San Jose Chamber Orchestra; and a talk about Mozart after the film with conductor Barbara Day Turner. (Plays Aug 14 at 6pm in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)
CHILDREN’S CLASSICS FILM FESTIVAL Aug 16: Dr. Doolittle, 11am; Babe 1:30pm; Iron Giant, 4pm; The Muppet Movie, 7pm. Aug 17: The Love Bug, 11am; The Muppet Movie, 1:30pm; Babe, 4pm; The Black Stallion, 7pm.) (Plays Aug 16-19 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)
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The Maids THE ROOTS of the story of Titus Andronicus go back to the Roman poet Ovid. The Help (a relatively benign and bloodless variation) proves once again that Shakespeare certainly knew sure-fire material. The bestselling book’s notorious “Terrible Awful” incident, staged in the segregation-era Mississippi, seems like due justice to the film audience. The story is, on the surface, patronizing, a late-harvest variation on The Member of the Wedding. Struggling writer Skeeter (Emma Stone), just out of Ole Miss in the early 1960s, seeks oral histories from the black maids who keep things running in Jackson, Miss. Skeeter’s studies are perhaps dangerous. Times are politically volatile; we know this because we hear Bob Dylan on the soundtrack and see Medgar Evers on TV. Still, Skeeter presses her friend’s servant Aibileen to talk. As that maid who first tells her story, Viola Davis is very good with wisdom born of pain; she’s the actress Oprah Winfrey always wished she was. Decked out in rebellious curls, the liquideyed Stone builds what’s going to be deserved stardom with a variation on her character in the spirited Easy A. Stone’s getting so funny and so damned good she even steals a scene from Allison Janney. Cuddly yet furious Octavia Spencer
Toy Story (Aug 10 at sundown in San Jose at San Pedro Square); E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (Aug 11 at sundown in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square); Toy Story 3 (Aug 12 at sundown in Mountain View at Sylvan Park). Viva Las Vegas; see below. (Aug 17 at sundown in San Jose on Post Street between First and Market.) (RvB)
LIONS AMONG MEN revamps another archetype at Minny: the bulky, shrewd black maid, reminding the audience how much they used to enjoy that kind of comedy in 1940s films. As the employer yet protégée of Minny, Tree of Life’s Jessica Chastain also shines as a curvy, good-hearted white-trash refugee from Sugar Ditch. That tragic real-life town’s K_\ ?\cg name reinforces the story’s PG-13; 137 min. metaphor of raw sewage as Plays a symbol for stinking, halfvalleywide buried racism. And Chastain is quite comic and plaintive as a victim of snobbery. Sissy Spacek has a small but key role as the slightly senile mother of the hateful clubwoman Hilly—playing this snobby villainess given just desserts, Bryce Dallas Howard delivers her first really forceful performance. Confident actor-turned-director Tate Taylor handles this cast in What Would George Cukor Do? style. The art direction, photography and musical selections (except for the Dylan needledrop) are all first-rate, even if the accents are shaky. Of the white cast, only Spacek really has it right. To hear her pronounce the word “Biloxi” is enough to get nostalgic for the South. —Richard von Busack
(2011) Traci Hays’ short film about a shipwrecked sailor (Johanna Watts) of 1808 who is a woman in disguise. Director in attendance. (Plays Aug 11 at 6:45pm in Campbell at Camera 7.) (RvB)
NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. Aug 13: Four comedy shorts with Charlie Chapin, Charlie Chase, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy. Aug 14 at 4pm: Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang in four shorts. (Plays Aug 13-14 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)
ONE WEEK/THE GENERAL (1920/1927) Buster Keaton vs. a pre-fabricated house. BILLED WITH The General. The comedy of war is Keaton’s theme here—the gun that misfires and kills the wrong man, the officer’s wrongheaded command—all summed up in the sequence in which Buster is chased by a huge, blunt cannon with almost-human malignance. Dennis James at the Wurlitzer. (Plays Aug 12 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
ROMAN HOLIDAY/SABRINA (1953/1954) Audrey Hepburn stars as a Ruritanian princess on the run in Roman Holiday; reporter Gregory Peck is on her trail. BILLED WITH Sabrina. Hepburn plays the daughter of a chauffeur on a Long Island estate who for years has nursed a crush on the family’s younger playboy son (William Holden), but the responsible
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elder brother (Humphrey Bogart) eventually turns her head. (Thru Aug 11 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
TAXI DRIVER (1976) If everyone who ripped this film off had to pay royalties, Scorsese could make any movie he wanted. (Plays Aug 11 at 9pm and Aug 13 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)
THE THREE STOOGES FESTIVAL Livening up this Depression as they livened up the last one: demigod of wrath Moe Howard, baffled intermediary Larry Fine and cinema’s greatest fat-boy comedian (beside Fatty Arbuckle, anyway), Curly Howard. Pinch-hitting: the astounding Shemp. (Aug 13-14 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)
Reviews BRIDESMAIDS (R; 125 min.) Annie (Kristen Wiig) is a Milwaukee woman going downhill. Her ex-boyfriend (Jon Hamm) uses her for sex. Suddenly, Annie’s best pal, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), announces her impending marriage. Lillian also introduces a new gorgeous friend (Rose Byrne) who elbows Annie aside and takes charge of the wedding. The wedding planning becomes more pretentious, more expensive and ever more humiliating for Annie. Wiig is at her most comically nonchalant as the desperation seeps out of her pores. In her capacity to register degrees of comedic suffering, this actress suggests what happens when like when a movie is really loose down deep in its soul, and is not just wobbly and formulaic. But Judd Apatow was the executive producer, and Bridesmaids is shaped like an Apatow film: it’s a half-hour too long. Though it’s released as a chick-flick alternative, we still get the traditional pointless fight between Annie and her new man (Chris O’Dowd). (RvB)
BUCK (PG; 88 min.) Buck Brannaman, subject of this excellent documentary, spends most of the year driving through the West and holding clinics on the gentling of out-of-control horses. An inspiration for the novel and the movie The Horse Whisperer, Brannaman had been a rodeo performer from early childhood. The film is most startling in the way we see temperamental,
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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG-13; 125 min.) Above all, a luxurious recreation of the past; the long 3-D chase through 1940s Brooklyn is one of the best arguments for that technology that I’ve seen. It is an appealing comic-book story: the legend of how a New York stripling became the patriotic champion of World War II. Chris Evans must have got some of whatever it was that they shot up into the real Captain America. He’s signiďŹ cantly improved from his days in the weak Fantastic Four series, and his air of melancholy reminds you of ’40s star Alan Ladd. Hugo Weaving is the impressively disďŹ gured villain, who doesn’t care for Hitler’s lack of scope any more than he likes the nickname Der FĂźhrer bestowed on him, “The Red Skull.â€? Joe Johnston’s direction may be too much in the mode of a classic ’40s movie for the kids, but it has loads to offer, including a drily funny Tommy Lee Jones and surprising art direction. (RvB)
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(PG-13; 118 min.) The summer’s dullest blockbuster. It plays like the result of someone icking between TV channels: a bug hunt on one show, an overdressed Western on the other. Daniel Craig plays Jake, an amnesiac outlaw of the 1800s who teams up with Col. Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), a small-town boss (one imagines one of the many versions of the script describing him as “sadistic but fairâ€?). The two macho men and the survivors of a blasted town team up against razor-toothed and fairly uninteresting creatures from beyond. Could have used some more rewriting to go over the love interest between Craig and Ella (Olivia Wilde), the saloon girl who won’t be shooed away; Wilde seems to have the most trouble acting around the spots where the CGI is going to take place. The ďŹ lm wants to be taken seriously, as a metaphor for how the West was spoiled. Since director Jon Favreau’s roots are as a comedy director, it’s strange how anxious this movie is not to be laughed at. (RvB)
(PG-13; 118 min.) A comedy with Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Julianne Moore. (R; 109 min.) Friends With BeneďŹ ts follows No Strings Attached, which bowed earlier this year, and both tackle the idea of two friends having all the beneďŹ ts of a sexual relationship with none of the emotional strings attached. Both ďŹ lms walk a ďŹ ne line between raunchy, slapstick humor and classic romantic comedy sentimentality, but Friends with BeneďŹ ts edges out slightly ahead. Even stranger than the similar concepts is that both are the follow-up ďŹ lms for Black Swan stars Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. While Portman hasn’t always shown her silly side, Kunis grew up (literally) on the hit sitcom That 70’s Show and has proven comedy chops. She uses some of that to her advantage but, unfortunately, she isn’t really given much to work with. Justin Timberlake, playing Dylan, and Kunis, playing Jamie, become friends and decide they’re both sexually attracted to each other but
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG-13; 130 min.) The saga wraps up in a cluttered, confusing, if fast-paced adventure in which Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) confronts Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). It’s the end game set up in the vastly superior ďŹ rst part; you’ll be lost if you didn’t rewatch the ďŹ rst half within a week of seeing this one. The 3-D frame-breakers work well, such as an abused albino dragon snapping its head out of the screen. Evanna (Luna Lovegood) Lynch and our lovely Snape (Alan Rickman,
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don’t want a relationship. Against the advice of their friends and family that it will never work, they give it a shot. And guess what? They realize it’s a lot harder than they thought. So how does it unfold? It’s innocent enough and Kunis and Timberlake have enough chemistry that it’s very enjoyable. However for a ďŹ lm that is constantly referencing, and knocking, romantic comedy ďŹ lms it doesn’t end up being the antithesis or savior of the genre it hopes to be. Instead it’s another middling rom-com that gets some genuine laughs but is nothing special. (MM)
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rolling every syllable as if it were Sisyphus’ rock) steal their parts of the show. It’s a nocturnal ďŹ lm, and director David Yates is at his best borrowing from Fritz Lang in the formations of men lined up in the dark, or conferring with each other in the shadows. (RvB)
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(PG-13, 94 min.) Whatever happens, one can’t go wrong ďŹ lling up the screen with Paris. Woody Allen’s newest includes some sweet vistas. Owen Wilson is Gil, a disenchanted Malibu screenwriter who wants to be a novelist. As a result, he gets midnight visitations by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda. (The gilded couple is played by Tom Hiddleston and Alison Pill.) The nights continue, and Gil meets the artistic and literary lights of the 1920s, magically reincarnated. One night, he meets a apper (Marion Cotillard) with a similar yet drastically different taste for nostalgia. The not very pungent point is stretched into a culture-vulture’s version of Play It Again, Sam. Midnight in Paris is a harmless, gentle nothing, but it’s also a moldy vision of the city during its era of artistic adventurousness. (RvB)
(R; 100 min.) This may not be the ďŹ rst hit comedy of the summer, but it’s deďŹ nitely the ďŹ rst good one. Not only does the ďŹ lm bring the laughs, but it also boasts a well-written script and skilled directing. But it’s the cast, led by Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day, that puts the nail in the cofďŹ n. Horrible Bosses may not be the most original or sidesplitting comedy of all time, but it has all its pieces in the right spot. The kernel of the story is that friends Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) and Dale (Charlie Day) all have horrible bosses (played by Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, Donald Sutherland and Jennifer Aniston). Playing nicely (and subtly, thank you) into the current economic crisis, they realize it would be easier to off their bosses than look for new work. From there it’s a basic comedy of errors but with some nice detours. Aniston, surprisingly enough, is really the breakout star of this. Finally playing against type, she and Day play off each other
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A LITTLE HELP (R) Jenna Fischer tries to extricate herself from comic troubles.
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THE NAMES OF LOVE (R; 102 min.) The cautious Arthur Martin (Jacque Gamblin) meets a free-spirited kooky girl named Baya Benmahmoud (Sara Forestier) She calls herself “une pute politiqueâ€?—a political whore, who sleeps with right-wingers in the hopes of opening them up to a world of liberation. Two salient points here. First off is the oldtime and inarguable charm of a female star who keeps losing her clothes. The second are the political cross-currents of the ďŹ lm: France’s uneasy historical memories as the obstacles of a love story. It’s occasionally cute. American liberals can watch this and dream of a left-wing France in the same way they daydreamed over the long shots of Paris in the new Woody Allen. But the movie gets as feather-headed as its heroine. The resolution of this comedy in a moment of resounding conformity shows just how stale the cake is under its whipped cream. (RvB)
RAPT (Unrated; 125 min.) Lucas Belvaux’s movie is a prime example of the French thriller as a doctorate class in misanthropology. Yvan Attal plays Parisian businessman Stanislas Graff, chief shareholder in the family ďŹ nancial enterprises.
Snatched and blinded with black ski goggles, he’s hidden. Soon, his family receives a severed ďŹ ngertip and a demand for 50 million euros. The cops want to play it tough— and then the ďŹ lm reveals that Graff was not just a friend of the minister of the interior but quite the compartmentalizer, with a shadowy life. Steady proceduralism and excellent support from Alex Descas and GĂŠrard Meylan (as a chatty, honorable Marseilles gangster) warm the real deathly coldness of the situation. Ultimately, the crime isn’t kidnapping, it’s Graff’s shattering of the Rules of the Game. The interesting, silkily satirical idea at the heart of the ďŹ lm is that this level of high society can bear all kinds of terror, but it cannot endure injured pride. (RvB)
SARAH’S KEYS (PG-13; 111 min.) Kristin Scott Thomas plays a journalist who investigates a terrible incident from World War II.
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG-13; 157 min.) Blending in TV and newsreel footage, the new Transformers tells how Transformerism was hushed up in the 1960s. On the moon, Optimus Prime jumpstarts an aged robot sentinel. Meanwhile, evil Megatron vows revenge in the African veldt. The ďŹ nal battle (45 minutes of drowse-inducing clash) takes place in Chicago after an opening act in D.C. A strange variety special with killbots, the ďŹ lm approaches entertainment through the unleashed amboyance of the actors. John Malkovich lolls at the feet of a robot like a puppy. Alan Tudyk supplies some European suaveness as a Dutch bodyguard. Frances McDormand’s disgust with the entire ďŹ lm is infectious. Strange how well 3-D improves matters, too. The technique forcibly slows the editing and gives some visual dimension to what used to look like wrathful lawn-art junk sculptures, or $300 million versions of the roller-skating saps in a production of Starlight Express. (RvB)
ZOOKEEPER (PG; 102 min.) The world holds its breath in anticipation of the newest Kevin James comedy masterpiece about an animal caretaker who seeks romance with the help of his furry friends. With appearances by such beloved stars as Sylvester Stallone and Adam Sandler.
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Not only did it draw the biggest audience in the history of the festival, but it put the organizers up there with the most progressive in the country—part of a quickly spreading movement that stresses inclusion and accessibility over strict genre boundaries. It also secured the Jazz Fest a spot among the top halfdozen jazz festivals in the country. The ironic thing is that last year’s programming was only a splashier, more audacious version of what the festival has been doing all along. It hasn’t been a strictly jazz festival for years (if it ever was), but in the past it didn’t get the credit for its intriguing programming. How many knew, for instance, that it had quietly become the biggest Latin music festival on the West Coast?
If the key to last year was accepting a new range of genres, this year’s is accepting a new generation. There are the big headliners, of course, like blues and gospel legend Mavis Staples, and organizers have even gone back to the funk well with the Ohio Players. San Jose Jazz’s new executive director, Michael Miller, knows it’s the main stage acts that will bring the biggest crowds, but he thinks the real heart of the festival lies with the up-and-coming musicians on the other nine stages. “What we’re most proud of is giving these emerging artists a chance to be heard,” says Miller. “You’re seeing young twentysomethings coming up with this great new sound.” Indeed, this year the festival has managed to snag several young musicians making jazz and stretching its boundaries, just as they seem poised to break out. “In a year or two, you’ll be able to say, ‘I saw them first at the San Jose Jazz Fest,’” says Miller.
Here are four up-and-coming acts to watch: TROMBONE SHORTY: Hearing Trombone Shorty’s record Backatown last year was the jazz equivalent of stumbling upon A Tribe Called Quest’s new brand of hip-hop in the early ’90s. Only 25 years old and with a Grammy nomination and a chart-topping jazz album already under his belt, he has the power to influence his genre as much as Tribe changed theirs. More informally going by Troy Andrews, the guy can absolutely crush a beat, delivering heavy funk one minute, and a shimmering chill groove the next. “We never sat down and really thought about concepts and what we wanted our music to sound like,” says Andrews. “It’s just that, over the years, we allowed each one of the band members to bring their influences and taste in music into our music. Also, being from the city of New Orleans and being able to hear different bands and musicians, as students of music, anything we hear or are influenced by, it naturally comes out in what we’re trying to do.” Andrews has been playing trombone since he was 6, and was still a teenager when Lenny Kravitz took him out on tour. Having grown up in the Treme neighborhood, he worked with the New Orleans Social Club on their post-Katrina benefit work. His NOLA roots were fully in evidence on Backatown, but they may be even more so on his new record, For True, coming out this fall. Among his collaborators on the album are a New Orleans cast of characters that includes Ivan and Cyril Neville, bounce rapper 5th Ward Weebie, the Rebirth Brass Band and Galactic’s Ben Ellman. “We’ve got a lot of New Orleans people on this new record—the music just called for it. The Rebirth Brass Band, these are all people that helped me to grow in my career and teach me different things. And 5th Ward Weebie, who’s one of the lead voices in the bounce community, we’re like brothers,” says Andrews. A testament to Andrews’ versatile sound is the fact that he’ll perform entirely different sets on San Jose Jazz Fest’s main stage (Saturday at 2pm) and blues stage (Saturday at 9pm). ALFREDO RODRIGUEZ: It took
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Ruf Records’ Caravan tour features three young female blues guitarists, and this year Dani Wilde is returning (having had an opening slot on the tour in 2008), along with Samantha Fish and Cassie Taylor. British singer and guitarist Wilde got her start at 17, and her soulfulbeyond-her-years voice and electric ďŹ nger-picked sound has fueled two solo albums so far. At age 22, Fish has just broken out of the blues scene in Kansas City, Mo., with her debut album, Runaway, and a love of Southern-fried blues-rock. Multi-instrumentalist Cassie Taylor grew up performing with her bluesman father Otis Taylor and, now in her 20s, is pursuing her own career. The trio lay the triplethreat guitar on heavy, and last year recorded a Girls With Guitars album together in Berlin, featuring an eyebrow-raising take on the Rolling Stones’ “Bitch.â€? THE SAN JOSE JAZZ FEST will be held Friday–Sunday, Aug. 12–14, at the Plaza de Cesar Chavez (Main Stage) and nine other stages in downtown San Jose. Headliners include MAVIS STAPLES, ARTURO SANDOVAL, OHIO PLAYERS, DMS FEATURING GEORGE DUKE, MARCUS MILLER AND DAVID SANBORN, and more. Music begins 5pm Friday, 10am Sat–Sun; tickets are $15 (Friday) and $20 (single-day Saturday and Sunday, $35 (two-day pass) and $45 (three-day pass). There are also VIP packages available.
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Snoop Dogg
Saturday, August 20, 2011, 8pm
Thursday at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, 8pm; $53-$59 Snoop Dogg’s set was one of the highlights of BFD at Shoreline this year. From the green grow lights constantly washing over the stage to the lap dances he was getting onstage, to everybody raising their cups for “Gin and Juice,” the maniac in black Mr. Snoop Eastwood has still got it. (SP)
Memorial Auditorium Stanford University The North American Taiko Conference (NATC) brings together world-class taiko ensembles for an evening of powerful, expressive music. Groups representing the full dynamic range of North American taiko will be featured.
Michael Bublé Saturday at HP Pavilion in San Jose, 8pm; $73-$110.50 How many famous musicians can say they got their big break from former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney? Probably just Michael Bublé, who toiled in near-anonymity for several years before Mulroney heard one of his albums and hired him to sing “Mack the Knife” at his daughter’s wedding. That led him to the top of the jazz charts with his distinctive take on standards, and later to a level of fame that can only be classified as Appearing on SNL with Jon Hamm. (SP)
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Huey Lewis & The News
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Saturday at Mountain Winery in Saratoga, 7pm; $45-$95.50 Do you like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in ‘83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost … Oh sorry, American Psycho flashback there. Hey Paul! Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now! (SP)
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Masses (Depeche Mode tribute). $10. San Jose.
Thu, 10pm: Junkshaker. Fri, 10pm: Stung (the Police tribute). Sat, 10pm: Groovenugget. San Jose.
ANGELICA’SBISTRO Fri, 8:30pm: Curt Yagi & the People Standing Behind Me. $10/$14. Redwood City.
AVALON Thu, 7pm: Guitar Extravaganza II with Pat Travers. $15. Fri, 7:30pm: Long Gon Bon. $12. Santa Clara.
THEBLANKCLUB Wed, 9pm: Jesse Malin & the St. Marks Saint, Ari Shine, Dixon. $8. Fri, 9pm: This Charming Band (Smiths/ Morrissey tribute), For the
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Fri, 8pm: Eryn Elash and Matt McHan. Free. Sat, 8pm: Seabright. Free. San Jose.
Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: 4 Trak Band. Rock and blues. Santa Clara.
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Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: Redwood. Sat: Superbad. Sun: The Gents. Mon: Degenerates. Campbell.
Thu, 6:30pm: The Hitmen. Free. Downtown Campbell. Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
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The ARTTEC 2011 Summer Concert Series Christopher Cross Fri, August 19, 8pm This five-time Grammy winner was the biggest new star in the ‘80s with the #1 hit “Sailing” followed by “Ride Like the Wind”, “Never Be the Same”and the #1 “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do),” from the popular movie starring Dudley Moore that earned Cross an Academy Award. Opening the evening is Cupertino native Jenn Grinels.
An Evening with Herb Alpert & Lani Hall Sun, August 21, 7:30pm Music legend Herb Alpert and his wife, vocalist Lani Hall (the original lead singer of Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66) will celebrate their newest release I Feel You, performing an evening of innovative arrangements and skilled improvisations that make old songs new and bring new songs to their audience.
metroactive MUSIC Twilight Concert Series. Mitchell Park. Palo Alto.
Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.
Thu, 6:30pm: Ed Johnson & Novo Tempo. $14/$16. Fri, 8pm: Tony Ortiz, City Jade, SolDrop, 6:AM!. $10. Sat, 8pm: Lovefool. $10/$15. Redwood City.
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Fri, 8pm: Ira Marlowe, Amy Obenski. Free. Sat, 8pm: Candy Claws. Free. Mountain View.
Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music and belly dancing. Cupertino.
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Fri, 6pm: Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88’s. Free. Courthouse Square, Redwood City.
Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.
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Fri, 6pm: SugaDaddy. Gilroy.
LILLYMAC’S Fri: Playthings. Sunnyvale.
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Fri, 6:30pm: Drum! Night. Presented by Drum Magazine. $20/$25. San Jose.
Sun, 5-7pm: No live music this week due to Fiesta de Artes. Los Gatos.
SANTACLARACONCERTS Sun, 6:30pm: The 357’s. Free. Central Park, Santa Clara.
Air Supply Sat, August 27, 8pm With heavily orchestrated sweet ballads, this Australian soft rock duo (Graham Russel & Russel Hitchcock) became a staple of early ‘80s radio, scoring a string of hits including “Lost in Love,” “All Out of Love,” “Every Woman in the World”, “The One That You Love”, “Without You”, “Here I Am” and “Making Love Out of Nothing At All”.
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Fri-Sat: Live rock bands. Los Gatos.
Sat, 6:30-9pm: Stu Hamm. Part of Hot August Nights. Free. Park Valencia Main Stage, Santana Row.
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HUKILAU Fri: Shaka. Sat: Derrick Demotta. San Jose.
MOROCCO’SRESTAURANTMV Wed: Moroccan music. Thu: Lounge music with Hot Kugel. Fri: World music. Sat: Belly dancing. Sun: World music. Tue: Flamenco. Mountain View.
MOROCCO’SRESTAURANTSJ Wed, 5pm: Lounge music with Hot Kugel. Thu, 5pm: The Ings. Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancing. Sat: Purple Hat. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music and belly dancing. San Jose.
Fri: The RevTones. Sat: Chris Cobb Band. Fremont.
Call for info. Saratoga.
MOUNTAINVIEW CONCERTS
Sat, 7:30pm: Huey Lewis and the News. $45 and up. Saratoga.
Thu, 7pm: The Doormice, Analyzer Generator, the Bellafonte, Fever Charm. Fri: Jazz Fest Club Crawl with Wally Schanlle and Elements of Truth. Sat: Jazz Fest Club Crawl with El Dulce Lobo and Native Brew. San Jose.
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Thu, 5:30pm: Marcia Griffiths, Reggae Angels. Free. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose.
Sat, 7pm: The Eyesores. Sun, 2pm: Think and Die Thinking Fest with Palm Springs, the Pillowfights and more. San Jose.
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Thu, 7pm: Ruckus Band. Fri, 7pm: Dos Guys. Sat, 7:30pm: Sista Monica. $15. Santa Clara.
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NICKELCITY
WOODHAM’SLOUNGE
Fri, 6:30pm: Quiet Game Starting Now, the Dialed, Blood and Water, Communist Kayte, Libertine Circle, Grenade Jumper, Down Like Anchors. San Jose.
Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Santa Clara.
Thu, 6:30pm: Tito y su Son de Cuba. Rengstorff Park, Mountain View.
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NINELIVES Fri, 8pm: Blues Soulstace. $10. Sat, 8pm: Sake Bombs, Alexx Calise, Deathmaster. $10. Gilroy.
NUMBERONEBROADWAY Wed, 9:30pm: Jam Night with Backfire & Deeva Stativa. No cover. Thu, 9:30pm: Bonedrivers. No cover. Fri, 9:30pm: Touch of Class. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Megatones. $10. Los Gatos.
PALOALTOMUSICSERIES Sat, 6:30-8pm: The Sun Kings. Beatles tribute. Part of the
Wed, 5:30pm: Take 2. Free. Downtown Sunnyvale.
X-BAR Sat, 9pm: Shinobu, the Albert Square, Four Tomorrow, Joyce Manor, Tiny Lungs, Ghost and the City. Tue, 9pm: Bomb the Music Industry!, Hard Girls, the Sidekicks, Dan Potthast. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.
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PARRANDANIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.
SENZALA Sat, 8pm: Son y Sabor. Sunnyvale.
Jazz/Blues Sat, 8pm: Russo Alberts Jazz Trio. $15/$20. Redwood City. Sun, 6pm: jazz. Cupertino.
FLAVORSOFJAZZ Tue, 6:30pm: John Worley at Thea Mediterranean; Joe De Rose and Amici at Rosie McCann’s. Santana Row.
GRANDDELLSALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: Willy Roland. Campbell.
HEDLEYCLUB Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Rick Vandivier. Sat, 6:30pm: Times 4. Sat, 10pm: Brian Ho Trio. San Jose.
JAZZONTHEPLAZZ Wed, 8pm: Salsa. $5. San Jose.
Wed, 6:30pm: Giacomo Gates. Free. Los Gatos Town Plaza.
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Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night.
Wed, 9pm: Goodlife. Thu, 9pm: The Dan Goughs. Fri, 7pm: Shane Dwight, Catman. $10. Sat, 9pm:
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Outside Lands BACK IN 2008, the first Outside Lands took the Bay Area by storm. Literally, in fact, as I remember watching several dozen people there scale a hill and trample a fence between stages to get from Beck’s set to Radiohead, who had 80,000 people suddenly converging on them because for some reason they were the only band scheduled to play that last Friday night slot. OK, there were some kinks to work out, but it was a pretty amazing three days, with a lineup full of hip bands like a justabout-to-break Bon Iver, Broken Social Scene, Wilco, and a lot of others. But in subsequent Friday through Sunday years, its cool factor has taken a beating from its sister music festival on Treasure Island, which Golden Gate Park in was roping in hipper acts from both the rock and San Francisco electronic scenes. This year, though, the pendulum has swung back, with Outside Lands boasting $85 single day. bands like MGMT, Girl Talk, the Decemberists, Beirut and Deadmau5. Now, granted, I saw most of those bands at Treasure Island two years ago, but it’s still a hell of a lineup, especially when you factor in headliners like Muse, Arcade Fire and the Black Keys. ( To show you how quickly things change, just a year ago Black Keys could only rate a depressingly inappropriate mid-day slot at BFD). Add in bands-of-the-moment like our own Limousines, KFlay (the Bay Area’s hottest rapgirl right now) and Little Dragon, from Sweden, and this might be the best Outside Lands yet. —Steve Palopoli
Alan Iglesias. $10. Sun, 4pm: Ruckus, Larry Valdez. Mon, 9pm: Waynes Way. Tue, 7pm: Dennis & Stuart, Blue J. San Jose.
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Wed: Red House Blues Band. Thu: Maneck. Fri: The Mofos. Sat: Dan Goghs. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.
Fri, 9pm: Kirk Tamura Jazz Trio. No cover. Sat, 9pm: Blue House. No cover. San Jose.
Fri, 10pm: After Hours 1. Presented by San Jose Summer Fest. Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.
Jazz Fest tribute to Smith Dobson, Gail Dobson’s Band of Allstars featuring Sasha Dobson. Sun, 4:30-7:30pm: Gino Matteo & the Family Phunk. San Jose.
REDWOODCITYJAZZONMAIN Mon, 6pm: Wayne Wallace, John Worley, Kristen Strom. Free. Main and Broadway, Redwood City.
POORHOUSEBISTRO NAGLEEPARKGARAGE Wed, 7pm: Lavay Smith Trio. Free. San Jose.
OLDWAGONSALOON&GRILL Sun: Live blues. San Jose.
Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and Friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays. Fri, 6-10pm: Con Brio. Sat, 6-10pm: John Nemeth Band. Sun, noon-4pm: San Jose
WINEAFFAIRS Wed, 7:30pm: Blues Borachos. Thu, 7:30pm: Neil Kelly Jazz. San Jose.
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Katy Perry RAISED by two evangelical pastors in Santa Barbara, Katy Hudson left high school and released a Christian gospel album in 2001. When it flopped, she decided to go the pop route and changed her name to Katy Perry so as not to be confused with actress Kate Hudson. Perry quickly proved she’s not the typical California Gurl, with her ability to write (or at least co-write) hit song after hit song, starting with “I Kissed A Girl” in 2008. Her most recent Friday, August 12 album, Teenage Dream, was one of nine albums in history to produce four or more number HP Pavilion ones on the Hot 100, which ultimately led to her crowning as the first musician in history to 7:30pm; $35-$45. spend an entire year on the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100. Meanwhile, she’s dabbling in Hollywood, putting her sugary sweet speaking voice (quite different than the husky tone she’s known for in her songs) to use as Smurfette in the new Smurfs movie, and delivering a hilarious cameo as a naïve, unassuming girl on the comedy series How I Met Your Mother.—Anna Pan
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Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.
Karaoke
Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.
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Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Santa Clara.
Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
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BLUEBONNETBAR Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
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BLUEMAX Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
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Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.
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Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.
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Thu: DJ John Beaver. Fri: Skeet Skeet After Party. Sat: DJ Graham Funke and Rockstar on Duty Fashion Show. San Jose.
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Fri, 9:30pm: Vinnie. Mon, 9pm: Vinnie. Tue, 9pm: August. Cupertino.
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Wed: RedRun with D. Luzion and Illtraxx. Thu: JazBiz and Dave Dynamix. Fri: Video Mixing, then DJ Radio Raheem and DJ Ready Rock. Sat: Live bands. San Jose.
FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Speechless. Sat: Summer Reign. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
WILLOWDEN Thu, 10pm: DJ Uncle Hank. Fri, 10pm-2am: DJ Tony. Sat, 10:30pm: DJ Jazzy. Willow Glen.
Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.
APERFECTFINISH Thu, 8:30pm-midnight: Karaoke with Jordan River Productions. San Jose.
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EELS REDSTAGLOUNGE Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am. San Jose.
SANJOSEBAR&GRILL Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.
SOUTHFIRSTBILLIARDS
Consistently underrated project of Mark Everett, the Randy Newman of his time. Aug 11 at Great American Music Hall.
OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL Arcade Fire, Deadmau5, Phish, Muse, Black Keys, the Roots and many more. Aug 12-14 in Golden Gate Park.
BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE Classic folk songstress makes rare small-club appearance. Aug 14 at Yoshi’s SF.
Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
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Do you know their songs? Band policy says you can show up and join the band onstage. Aug 15 at Bottom of the Hill.
Wed, 9:30pm: DJ JR. San Jose
THE GO-GO’S Or, in other words: remembering all the songs that were so much better than “We Got the Beat.” Aug 16 at the Fillmore.
WOODHAM’SLOUNGE Wed-Thu, Sat, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.
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