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THIS MODERN WORLD
I SAW YOU
By TOM TOMORROW
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Track Tarts Where: Rose Garden. Me: Woman jogger. You: HS girls track team. Most of you seem nice, but a few of you are catty and nasty to adult female runners. You make a point of snickering, laughing at and making snide comments about our pace, our form and our appearance as you pass us. Yes, I’m slow. But I can run for hours, and I have the mental strength to push through and beyond the toughest workouts. Why? Because I’m lucky to even be alive and walking after the injuries I’ve suffered. Maybe if, like me, you were ever told that you would probably never walk unassisted nor run again, you wouldn’t be so heartless, vicious and cruel by making fun of people who you know nothing about. You are a shame to your school.
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York’s Town I read with interest Josh Koehn’s piece on the publicly subsidized stadium for the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara (“Clara Buoyant,” SVNews, Sept. 28.) However, it
contained some factual inaccuracies. First, the 49ers are not paying the bulk of the stadium’s construction costs—the Santa Clara Stadium Authority will be doing that. In fact, we learned on June 7 that the team will being paying even less for the stadium than they “estimated” when they wanted our votes for Measure Jed last June 8. Second, please note that Jed York controls the second team sublease exclusively. Santa Clarans gave up that right at the ballot box. The article also incorrectly claims that “much of the revenue” comes back to the city of Santa Clara. It does not, because that is NFL revenue that stays strictly in the pockets of the San Francisco 49ers. In the first year of operation, our
city’s General Fund gets a miserable $180,000 from the stadium, while Jed York gets at least $100 million in broadcast royalties and $30 million in luxury-box fees. The massive stadium subsidy is a terrible deal for Santa Clara and its residents, and a worse deal now than it was last June. WILLIAM F. “BILL BAILEY” | TREASURER, SANTA CLARA PLAYS FAIR
For Steve Everyone has felt the impact of this man and his genius. Every single one of us. Whether you like the Mac, or you don’t, he was an original pirate of Silicon Valley. We are all indebted and he will be missed. JACOB HAWKINSON | METROFB.COM
Impact Not many souls make as big an impact on the world as he did. DENIS PARTIDA | METROFB.COM
Chipped Out Stupid article where that guy says microchips will be in everything including our bodies (“Web It All,” Cover Story, Sept. 28) . I don’t see no point in going that far with chips in everything, that is controlling way too much, and it will fall in wrong hands, like the government, to name one of the many who will use it to control when and how they see fit. RAY CORRAL | METROFB.COM
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Six Degrees of Michael Lewis Oddly enough, three of the biggest stories in San Jose right now all have one thing in common: famous author MICHAEL LEWIS. The movie MONEYBALL, adapted from Lewis’ 2003 book, has grossed almost $50 million in just three weeks. The film details the pioneering approach to statistics and business taken by Oakland A’s general manager BILLY BEANE. It also depicts Oakland as a sinkhole, where being profitable is next to impossible. Could rave reviews for the film have encouraged A’s owner LEW WOLFF to recently say a decision on whether the team can relocate to San Jose is coming “very soon”? On Oct. 2, Lewis and San Jose again linked up when the Occupy Wall Street movement arrived at City Hall’s doorstep. In last year’s book, THE BIG SHORT, Lewis details the work of genius broker Dr. Michael Burry, a San Jose native who predicted the subprime mortgage crisis. The Don’t way banks bet against forget their own loans to get to tip! rich has been a rallying cry for local protesters. FLY@ But in Lewis’ newest WS. METRONEWS. COM book, BOOMERANG, the author details how governments are going bankrupt, and he uses San Jose as a model for implosion by pension. Mayor CHUCK REED says he read the chapter that focuses on California’s economy, and he credits Lewis with having a rare talent for making complex financial issues easy to understand as well as funny. But, Reed says, Lewis took a little literary license by writing that as he left San Jose, two of the mayor’s aides laughed about not being in Vallejo’s bankrupt boots. The mayor says only one staffer, DAVE LOW, had the honor of being the last thing Lewis saw as the elevator doors closed.
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that is rallying the disgruntled and disenfranchised against the rich in cities across the country. “There is something wrong with this country when people work 40 to 60 hours a week and can’t afford health care or even to move out of their parents’ home,” Roybal says, taking a drag off a cigarette minutes before an occupation meeting is set to start. “A lot of people say ‘that’s just the way it is.’ I’m trying to change that.” But despite giving off the appearance of growth—a rally of 200 people gathered Sunday in front of City Hall to air their grievances over a system they say unjustly rewards the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans, speculative banks and corporations looking to influence elected officials—Occupy San Jose finds itself at a turning point. The group had five tents lining the sidewalk of City Hall plaza for a week, when between five and 20 people would sleep to the sounds of sirens and passing pedestrians each night. Yet the threat of
citations and arrests has pushed some of the protesters off city property and up three blocks to the Peace and Justice Center on South Seventh Street. Only a few people chose to remain at City Hall the night of the group’s largest rally. Five people have been cited by police, acording to one protestor. Hundreds have been arrested in protests in New York, which began Sept. 17 on the streets of Manhattan. Since that time, more than 900 occupation groups are estimated to have sprouted up in other cities across the country. But cohesion and consistency of message has been an issue. New York’s occupation group put out a declaration that ticked off a broad set of objections. The list touched on everything from foreclosures, bank bailouts, agricultural manipulation, the mistreatment of animals, and labor negotiations with unions to exorbitant student loans, a broken healthcare system, wars abroad, corporate donations, unsafe products not being recalled and a national commitment to colonialism. The list goes on. But some local groups, such as the people pushing for a referendum on San Jose’s pot club program as well
What’s Next? At a typical service at First Unitarian Church in San Jose, a homosexual atheist could be sitting next to a black Buddhist holding hands with his Hindu wife. Nancy Palmer Jones looks out over this service of 160 people each Sunday. “It’s like a little picture of the world,” she says. Bringing together a variety of viewpoints, Jones says her church’s goal is “to take from all wisdom sources in world.” There is also an emphasis placed on tolerance and social justice. When one Unitarian member from Palo Alto first talked to Jones about a group that was protesting corporate greed and economic inequalities in San Jose, the reverend was all ears. “I do believe there is a tide turning that is calling us as U.S. citizens for a
more compassionate, justice-centered system,” Jones says. Last Sunday, members of Jones’ congregation joined Occupy San Jose at the City Hall rally. They weren’t the only newcomers. The South Bay Labor Council also lent its official support to the occupation last week. For the first time in a while, public employees weren’t being attacked like political piñatas. Even the harshest critic of pensions in Silicon Valley, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, seems to be a supporter of the 99-percent movement. “I have a lot of sympathy for some of the issues they’ve raised,” Reed says. “San Jose has its own argument with Wall Street bankers.” The city is currently embroiled in a multi-million dollar anti-trust lawsuit with Wall Street. The complaint, which includes other cities, claims brokers and municipal-derivative providers rigged the market for city bonds. The lawsuit names Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, UBS, Citibank, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and others as defendants. Sympathy only extends so far when it comes to city code, though, which is why protesters are being ordered to move off the plaza. In 2008, the city didn’t enforce code that forbids protesters from camping at City Hall. Ly Tong, a Vietnamese activist, camped on the plaza for roughly a month because he wanted a section of Councilmember Madison Nguyen’s district to be called “Little Saigon.” Matt Morley, the deputy director of the Public Works department, says the city regrets that decision and has been in contact with protesters about not being allowed to camp out past 11pm. “It’s better to work with people than try to create a burden on the police department and a burden on the jails, if it gets that far,” Morley says. “I don’t think anybody wants that.” A showdown was expected last Friday night but no one from the police department or city arrived at the scene. Instead, a few of the protesters moved to avoic fine to the less-trafficked area in front of the Peace and Justice Center. It’s still too early to say how the fractured camps will affect the local movement. But the mayor thinks both locations miss the point. “They ought to be over in front of the federal building,” Reed says. “They’re kind of missing some symbolism.”
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as voter registration gatherers, are hooking on to the local occupation movement for their own benefit. “These are people who are taking advantage of the Occupy Wall Street organization. They don’t represent the view of us,” says Peter Brown, a marketing professional who supports Occupy San Jose. “The Tea Party got preempted by the Republican Party, and that’s what we want to avoid.” Unlike the Tea Party, which scared off many yet gained political clout with its red-in-the-face rhetoric, Occupy San Jose doesn’t have the demographics of a 4-H Club potluck. Its diverse members seem like genuinely happy people when not talking politics. The rub comes up when discussing money, power and greed. “There are a lot of demands, and they’re growing,” says 41-year-old Martin Truong, who is involved in both the San Francisco and San Jose occupation movements. “The criticism that we’re unfocused is propaganda.” Members of Occupy San Jose, which has several take-charge coordinators but no true leader, say the biggest boon to the nationwide occupation is that, so far, there seem to be no behind-thescenes moneymen. While people in the Tea Party were happy to talk about being mad as hell, few seemed to know they were being prodded by political action committees funded by rightwing millionaires and billionaires, such as the Koch brothers. “The Tea Party was Astroturf,” Truong says. “This is grassroots.”
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Although the show contains items dating all the way back to the late-’60s, the era that eventually led to the NASL version of the San Jose Earthquakes, the year 2001 is the main focus. That year, San Jose became the only city in United States history where the men’s and women’s pro teams of any sport both won championships. Led by 19-year-old rookie Landon Donovan, the Earthquakes won the MLS title that year, while the Bay Area CyberRays, led by Brandi Chastain, won the WUSA championship. Both teams played their homes games at Spartan Stadium. Jerseys worn by Donovan and Chastain will be on display in the exhibit, as will hundreds of other
items—banners, cleats, posters, items—banne schedules, scar scarves, cushions, programs, schedules media guides, newspaper articles, photos and much more. In 1996, for example, Spartan Stadium was the site of the first-ever game in Major League Soccer (MLS) history, won by San Jose. The jersey worn by San Jose’s Eric Wynalda while scoring the league’s first-ever goal will be on display, as will the first ball ever kicked in that game. Field manager Brian Holmes, whose job in 1996 included taking care of the game balls, intentionally marked the kickoff ball before the opening game, in order to identify it later. Following the match, he saved the ball for his own collection. Now, in 2011, he has donated the ball to this exhibit. “I made a little mark on the ball to make sure we knew it was the one that started the game,” Holmes recalled. “After the game, we made sure the referee got one of the balls, I sent one to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame and one to MLS headquarters. And there were several left over, and
one of them was the one with my little mark on it.” As a result, that ball—the first one ever kicked in an MLS match—now sits in one of many display cases lining the entire wall of the City Hall concourse. Ephemera from the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup will also be included, since some of those games were played at Spartan Stadium. Plenty of fan contributions highlight the exhibit, which is unique in that the fans are the ones who initiated the entire project. For years now, fans have systematically donated thousands of items related to San Jose soccer to the archives at History San José. No other city in the country can make this claim; that is, where the fans themselves have labored to preserve the history of a team by amassing an official city-sanctioned collection of artifacts. Alida Bray, president and CEO of History San José, says many fans who’ve donated soccer items weren’t previously aware of the vast archive of historical ephemera already existing at the collection center. As a result, the process has elicited more interest in San Jose’s history in general. “That happened with the Speed City exhibit also,” she said. “It spurred people to donate more items.” But since decades of San Jose professional soccer history were absent from the collection, the time was right for a grand display such as this, especially since the Earthquakes are getting closer to acquiring a design permit for their stadium—a facility that should, by any literate designer’s assessment, include permanent museum-style displays of these items. As the exhibit adorns the curved walkway in the wing of City Hall, the whole shooting match ends with a giant banner created by the Earthquakes’ supporters’ group, in reference to the unbearable frustration of having to wait years for a stadium while the team plays in a dumpy third-rate minor-league facility. Hanging directly opposite the San Jose Mercury News office, the banner says, in big blue letters: BUILD IT NOW.
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Unlike other manufacturers, Jobs personally introduced his products, imprinting the psyche of consumers in a bonding ritual reminiscent of a newly hatched duckling’s tendency to follow the first face it sees after it emerges from its shell. Ancient survival instincts cause us to trust familiar faces. It’s bred into our DNA to allow us to distinguish between friend and danger, and drives modern branding and celebrity culture at a visceral level. Jobs’ larger-than-life personality had catalyzed Silicon Valley’s transformation during the past third of a century. It went from factory town for semiconductor components to world center for music, film, media and consumer technology. I’m sure I’m not the only one who moved here after college because of the buzz Apple’s IPO created, suggesting that a former backwater had become The Place to Be. Steve Jobs’ rock star-style exit hit us all in a dramatic way for several reasons. He and Wozniak ushered in the trend of the earlytwentysomething, tennis shoe-
wearing Silicon Valley technology CEO. Without them, there might not have been Marc t, Jerry Yang and David Filo, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Shawn Fanning. Mark Zuckerberg. When icons permanently associated with youth culture expire, a part of us leaves with them. And even though the events leading up to his death were so well chronicled, Jobs specialized in achieving the impossible, so it’s hard to believe there won’t be an encore of some sort. He seemed to be able to partswap out body organs like a faulty disk drive and keep rolling out “one more thing.” The tributes this past week have compared Jobs to Elvis Presley and Thomas Edison, though I think Elvis is closer to the mark. Having grown up one town away from Edison’s New Jersey laboratory and spent my adult life in the city next to Jobs’ workplace, I’m fairly certain that the two shared few common characteristics. Edison represented the old industrial age, and the laboratory we visited on school
trips looked like the movie set from Frankenstein. Jobs, on the other hand, embodied simple aesthetics. He was more of an editor, a marketer and design director than an inventor. There were PCs before the Apple II, MP3 players before iPod, smart phones before iPhone and downloadable songs before iTunes. They just didn’t look that good or work all that well. Jobs removed buttons and fans, styled the case and the interface and edited the marketing points into understandable messages. Wil Houde, an early Apple executive, remembers Jobs’ intuitive grasp of user friendliness. “I worked with him pretty intensely for the first four years,” he says. “He would get very passionate about things. A lot of people just didn’t understand what he was trying to do. “He would say, it doesn’t look right. It doesn’t feel right. He drove the engineers nuts. They would ask, ‘What the hell is talking about?’ “He got really excited early on about the fonts and all the different letters that people could work with. The icons got him excited. He was a visionary. He wanted everything to be slim, thin, functional and easy to use.” Houde says. “The first mouse he saw was there at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto. It was kind of a clugey thing. He wanted it to have one button instead of two. Always one button.” The mundane details sometimes add up to big things, and one rather boring commonality I shared with Mr. Jobs was that we both purchased the same brand of washer and dryer in the early 1990s. Miele produced a ridiculously expensive but energy efficient laundry system that proved its worth because the machines still work as well as they did almost 20 years ago. The one time I needed a service call, two Miele representatives showed up and told me about their visit to Jobs’ residence. Jobs was interested in every facet of the machine and spent more than an hour asking them questions, displaying his singular obsession with refined industrial design. I recently came across Gary Wolf ’s 1996 interview with Jobs, who was then at NeXT before his return
19 be more. Apple exercises content control on every app that makes its way onto an iPhone or iPad, and its dominant position in the distribution of popular music gives it a unique position to inuence contemporary culture, as well as the economics of an entire industry. Jobs himself spoke about the P. T. Barnum-esque ability of government to fool a distracted populace in the 1996 interview. “People don’t seem to be paying as much attention to the important decisions we have to make,â€? he said. He was equally cynical about media. “The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want,â€? Jobs suggested. An interesting footnote is that Jobs, the counterculture revolutionary, was the largest shareholder in Disney, the parent company of ABC News, at the time of his death. In a masterful stroke of identity management, he wrote his own obituary; his 2005 Stanford commencement speech talking about his impending death was widely quoted this week and even published verbatim on the front page of the local daily. Through his journey to the pinnacle of wealth, fame and power, Steve Jobs remained a Santa Clara County resident. True to the maxim, an apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. He bought the house next to his Palo Alto home so he could tear it down and plant a fruit grove, a nod to the valley’s agricultural heritage. Apple’s futuristic headquarters will be built in Cupertino, where Jobs spent both his youth and his remarkable career. He didn’t run for office or move away to undertake exotic adventures. He lived ten freeway minutes from work. Books and movies and digital clips will further memorialize the Steve Jobs legend, which will grow. The spirit and memories will remain here, further contributing to the culture, role and sense of place that is uniquely Silicon Valley.
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I met him—and his partner Steve Wozniak—on various occasions during the early years of Apple, as Jobs and I had a mutual friend with whom he attended Reed College, in Portland. The world of computers didn’t much interest me. I was, at heart, a radical Luddite. I was neither enamored with, nor intrigued by, his vision. Indeed, I thought Jobs and Woz were nothing more than computer nerds, far too driven and ambitious for my taste. I much
preferred the earlier incarnation of the southern San Francisco Bay region—as the Valley of Heart’s Delight—than I did as Silicon Valley, with life seemingly speeding out of control, away from the slower rhythms of nature. When Jobs was leading Apple during its astonishing first decade of success, I was still cutting fish on the Santa Cruz waterfront—with the same wood-handled fillet knife that generations of men in my family had used. In graduate school, I refused to use a personal computer, and I pounded out all my papers and articles on a manual Underwood Standard made in the 1930s. I was living my life in opposition to the socalled Apple revolution. I lost the digital battle, of course. I resisted as long as I could, but by the
Parables for Living A little more than six years ago, in June of 2005, I was diagnosed with a very advanced and aggressive form of colon cancer. A short time later, during my early and difficult treatments with radiation and chemotherapy, someone sent me (by email) a copy of Jobs’ now rather legendary commencement speech at Stanford University, which he delivered on June 12, 2005, precisely two days before my diagnosis, and two weeks after my own father had died of the same disease. Timing is everything. I read Jobs’ speech several times during my own difficult journey with treatment. Very suddenly, Jobs interested me in a way that he hadn’t when we were younger. Our once seemingly disparate universes had converged. Jobs’ speech was broken into three short “stories,â€? as he called them, a trio of parables for living in the modern world. In the ďŹ rst he talked about his early foray at Reed College. I hadn’t realized that he had dropped out after six months and then stayed on, auditing classes (“dropping in,â€? as he called it) for another year and a half, before returning to Los Altos to start up Apple in his parents’ garage. It was an aspect of the Jobs rĂŠsumĂŠ I wasn’t familiar with—living on the couches of friends, collecting bottles for their deposit money, going for Sunday meals at the local Hare Krishna temple—and I was taken by the fact that at an early age, he had given into his “curiosity and intuition.â€? His second story focused on his much publicized ďŹ ring by Apple in 1985, when he was 30 years old. Jobs acknowledged the devastation of that dismissal. But he also, over a period of months, rediscovered the “loveâ€? and “passionâ€? that had motivated him a decade earlier. Being ďŹ red was actually a form of liberation. Steve Jobs was freed to become Steve Jobs again. “The heaviness of being a success,â€? he
declared, “was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.� But the part in the speech that interested me most was his public declaration that a year earlier he had been diagnosed with cancer. I had heard about Jobs’ diagnosis—very vaguely—but knew nothing of the details.
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decades.� It has forced me to live in the moment, the here and now, to appreciate the gift of the present. If I could have added a footnote to his speech at Stanford, it would have been to remind students that the moment is all we have. It is all any of us have. That said, Jobs clearly understood the chronological—and biological— parameters of our lives. “Your time is limited,� he said, “so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma— which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.� He concluded by reminding students of an exhortation he had read on the back of the last Whole Earth Catalog in the mid-1970s: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.� What a wonderful thing to tell young people on the verge of going off into the world. Words to live by, certainly. And, as it turns out, words to die by as well.
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“Steve came in, and I can remember him sitting in our little conference room and him talking about children using computers, and teachers using computers, and business people using computers,� McKenna recalls. The idea sounded a little nuts. The machine Woz and Jobs were selling, the Apple I, was little more than a motherboard. It included no monitor, no keyboard and no programs and no mouse. It was a toy for hobbyists. But in addition to their preassembled kit computer, Jobs was
also selling a vision. And that’s what got the executives from the tech sector’s leading ad ďŹ rm to sign up. Long before the stage-directed spectacles of the product launches, Steve Jobs was the world’s ďŹ rst and best high-tech evangelist (a term later coined by Mike Murray of the Macintosh Division). What Jobs was selling was the idea that computers could be powerful tools for the dissemination of knowledge and power, and that everyone in the world should have one. The following day, Bill Kelly, a youngish ad man at McKenna, sent a letter to his bosses letting them know that he wanted to work with the two even-younger guys from Apple. And because Apple had no money, he recommended that the agency do so on spec. He conceded that this might seem risky—the two men were very young. “On the other hand, [Nolan] Bushnell was young when he started Atari.â€? Regis McKenna, initially skeptical, agreed. That letter is now housed with
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Key Player In the days since his death, Steve Jobs is being heralded as, among many other things, the greatest inventor of modern times. Last week, SJSU professor Richard Stross wrote a piece for The New York Times comparing Jobs to Thomas Edison. But while Jobs deserves credit for bringing the world some of the coolest products ever seen, he didn’t invent any of them. The Apple I and II used innovative tricks invented by Woz. The Mac
was the brainchild of Jef Raskin, a technical writer and humaninterface expert who was with Apple from the days in the garage. The Graphical User Interface and mouse were both conceived at Xerox PARC. The patent for the MP3, which underlies the iPod, is held by the Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen. Touch-screen, which made the iPhone and iPad revolutionary devices, was developed by NYU mathematician Jeff Han. While Jobs was not personally responsible for any of these specific inventions, there’s no doubt that he played the key role in all of their realization. Jobs’ vision was paired with a genius for industrial design—he knew what consumers wanted way before they did—and with an unswerving commitment to quality.. Stanford historian Henry Lowood, curator of the archives, says Jobs’ greatest strength, in the long run, was not as a product designer or marketer, but as a corporate chieftain. “Probably the most amazing thing about Steve was his skill as an executive,” Lowood says. “He was brilliant at having a clear product vision, and executing that vision with almost no variation or play.” Lowood says that Jobs’ uncompromising resolve may be part of what made him so good at what he did: “This salient skill of his—to stay focused and execute— it’s almost symbolized in Apple products. Like Steve, they have very low tolerances. That defines what makes it so easy to recognize an Apple product.” Writing in 1978, Jef Raskin tried to imagine a future in which computers were everyday appliances, networked so people could communicate vastly and easily. “Will the average person’s circle of acquaintances grow? Will we be better informed? Will use of these computers as an enlightenment medium become their primary value? Will they foster self-education?” While some of Raskin’s questions can be answered today, it’s clear that the future he imagined, which surely sounded then like science fiction, has come to pass. And it’s likely that one man, more than any other, made that happen.
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can see everything. So play nice.” Director Lasseter creates an indelible image of the huge and hazardous task of entertaining children. But he does it through Warner Bros.–style rowdyism. What Toni Morrison called “a baby’s venom” is seething in this monster. With Jobs’ capital, Pixar created an extraordinary string of artistic and financial successes. Even this decade was marred by business squabbles with Disney—there were huge disputes with The Mouse over what Pixar longtimers always call the toughest film they made, Toy Story II. Lasseter and president Ed Catmull’s official statement on the passing of Steve Jobs claims that “the one thing Jobs always said was ‘Make it great.’” Beyond that, Jobs’ impression upon Pixar is as hard to grasp as the precise way to follow that motto. Brad Bird’s Chuck Jones–worthy facility with a gag, musician Randy Newman’s sarcastic populism, Lasseter’s love of ’50s Americana or Andrew Stanton’s ace command of storytelling structure: all of these people left more visible and audible imprints on Pixar’s success. Was it the way Jobs anthropomorphized objects that helped make Pixar great? The same technology that gave computers faces, that caused them to give you a smile when you flicked a switch, might have been partially passed on to Pixar’s living, breathing Luxo lamps, toys and cars. In any case, Jobs’ nerve in hanging on during the riskier years exemplifies his strengths as a businessman. And in weathering financial flux, Jobs was as steadfast as Disney himself. So if he wasn’t the only pioneer, Jobs is one of the few who deserves to be called the father of digital animation. The availability of affordable and—this was Job’s gift— unintimidating computers made animation available to all. As Stephen Cavalier put it in The World History of Animation (UCPress): “Francis Ford Coppola once stated that the next Mozart might be a little fat girl in Ohio with a camcorder. Give her a computer, and she could be the next Disney, too.”
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TEVE JOBS had a knack for seeing the adult in a child, the grown-up product that an infant idea could grow up and become. Looking at the toy computers that hobbyists soldered in their 1970s garages, he envisioned people like you and me wanting vastly more capable versions on our desks. Looking back, you’d think it was obvious ... which is pretty much the whole point about Steve Jobs’ genius. For example, I wrote my ďŹ rst novel with a typewriter and edited using a pair of scissors. I cut-andpaste with lots of actual tape and glue. When I saw what an Apple II could accomplish, I bought one with a serial number in ďŹ ve digits, and I’ve used its Apple successors ever since. They simply made life better. The Xerox Corporation was a great American success story, but they never made this mental leap to thinking about people as customers—thereupon ignoring the market for home copiers. They also snubbed their own innovators in Palo Alto, who wanted to turn the computer screen into a landscape, using a “mouseâ€? to simply point at what you wanted. Executives at Xerox viewed this as a toy. Steve Jobs took one look at those early concepts and thought: “That’s how our ancestors’ brains worked on the savannah, and it’s how to turn every human being into a computer user.â€? Even people who prefer Windows should still thank Steve for saving these inventions. He gave them to us all. Early Macintosh computers offered a little program called Hypercard. It came with a few simple demo games, meant to illustrate the notion of click-linking from page to page. This was one of Steve’s worst marketing mistakes. He thought the concept of hypertext was so obvious the world would see those little demos and run with it! But the same derisive sneers dismissed it as a “toyâ€? ... until Tim Berners-Lee invented the hypertext-based web, and it all became retroactively obvious.
By then, alas, Jobs wasn’t in much of a position to insist, having been cast into the wilderness by his own company. So he built Pixar. Nearly all of Steve’s wealth came from Pixar, not Apple. He sold all his Apple stock in the early 1990s. Kind of like Nicola Tesla refusing stock in alternating current. If he had kept that stock—or milked Apple later on, for huge compensation packages—Jobs could have been in the top tier of world’s richest men, instead of a mere singledigit billionaire. Instead, his passion was to make all of us richer, in the sense of the true positive-sum game, when capitalism works. When millions of lives get better because we got insanely good products that were worth many times what we paid for them and that helped us be more productive in our own ways. Alas, if only all of capitalism worked that way, as it’s supposed to. Jobs never seemed as blatantly philanthropic as some—we’ll see how that turns out. And heaven forbid that most families or nations should be run in the imperial manner that, in some great companies like Apple, can get big things done, pursuing the virtue of exquisite product design above all else. But those are minor cavils. What we ultimately see, in this bona ďŹ de American genius, is a light showing us the path out of America’s troubles. Do what we’re good at. Innovate! Be thrilled by science and the infant technologies that may grow mighty tomorrow. Nurture the inner tinkerer that all the world sees in us, and has ever since the nation’s beginning. Defend intellectual property. But stimulate others so much that nobody resents it. Make money not by ďŹ nancial parasitism but delivering better goods and services. (Duh?) Help us all to both compete and cooperate with each other better than ever before. David Brin is a scientist and author. His bestselling novels have been translated into more than 20 languages.
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Quantity? These are big breakfasts, yes, but also creative breakfasts. The original Los Gatos Cafe on N. Santa Cruz Avenue— which was given the add-on “Downtown” to distinguish it from its “Uptown” sister spot after a new LGC opened in 2007 where the Iron Skillet used to be—has some of the most interesting approaches one can find to classic concepts. In their almost 25 years, they never seem to have gotten credit for thinking outside of the breakfast box. But for those who too often skip the so-called “most important meal of the day,” the promise of a hearty but unique meal is exactly the right kind of lure. The innovative design begins with the menu. There are a lot of options, but they’ve avoided
the scattershot, 80-page novella approach that can make ordering difficult at too many places. Los Gatos Cafe goes about matters in an entirely different fashion. Clearly, what owners Robert and Tina Morcate had in mind when they opened the place in 1987 was “let’s take a few specialties and prepare them in as many ways as we can.” So the breakfast menu is neatly grouped into just four main groups, along with a few basic breakfast items. This had led to an interesting phenomenon: Some people will tell you that omelettes (of which there are 20 variations) are the cafe’s specialty. Others will swear it’s the waffles and pancakes (for which there are just as many options, if one includes the French toast selections). I, however, am every bit as certain that the eggs Benedicts are what Los Gatos Cafe should be known for far and wide. Benedict lovers can be a surly bunch, it’s true, but mostly because we’re so misunderstood. Most breakfast places, for some
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reason, limit their selection to the single, traditional “eggs Benedict” dish. I am continually mystified— do they not understand that I am on the search for the perfect Hollandaise-sauce delivery system. At best, most places might have one or two ways for me to indulge this search without having to eat Canadian bacon. Los Gatos Cafe, on the other hand, serves 12 different Benedicts. And that doesn’t even include my favorite of their variations, the “Black and Blue Benedict,” which pops up as a special with some regularity. It’s flank steak and blue cheese served with the poached eggs on the English muffin, and it’s incredible. But I have other favorites among the menu options: the Benedict Oscar is crab and tarragon with scrambled eggs and asparagus, sort of a Hollandaised version of the cafe’s popular crab cakes; they also serve the Florentine with spinach, Irish with corned beef hash and the Benedict Super constantly threatening to topple over with bacon, grilled tomato and avocado over its two poached eggs. The key to all of these, of course, is the hollandaise sauce; LGC’s is savory and zesty, with just the right amount of lemon flavor (which, in my opinion, is not too much). Other nondinerish details that might surprise a lot of people are the excellent and wide-ranging salads, part of a lunch menu that also features sandwiches and burgers. If that’s not low-calorie enough, there’s an actual lowcalorie plate served with fresh fruit and cottage cheese. But many of the offerings are simply not as heavy as one might expect. If one opts for the towering cinnamon roll, as so many do, no help is in sight, but even the delicious homemade back bean chili has a lighter touch than one might think. It’s one more way that Los Gatos Cafe surprises, as it continues to provide a fine mix of quantity and quality.
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Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Metro food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro. Updates from vigilant readers and listed restaurateurs are heartily encouraged; please submit via email to sholbrook@metronews.com.
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CAPERS Well-heeled sports bar and restaurant. $$$. Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Well-devised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious ďŹ nger foods. 11am-10:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-midnight FriSat, 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777. LA PIZZERIA Italian. $$. La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand on the strength of a few high-quality ingredients, expertly prepared. Open for lunch and dinner daily. 11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am11pm Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Ave. 408.370.0826. MICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi
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standards are transformed into palate-awakening presentations; culinary boundaries are stretched. 11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.378.8000 or 378.0838.
NEGEEN Persian. $$. Mira ghasemi, grilled and purÊed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, purÊed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs. Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice
cream. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-midnight Fri-Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400.
PSYCHO DONUTS Donuts. $. Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory with avors like apricot, the Cookie Monster (topped with Oreos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits of vanilla wafers) and the intimidating Psycho Donut, a maelstrom of marshmallow, pretzel and chile powder. 6am5pm Mon-Thu, 6am-11pm Fri, 7am-11pm Sat, 7am-5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester Blvd #C. 408.378.4540.
RUSSIAN CAFÉ AND DELI Russian. $$. This is a small Russian grocery store with a good little restaurant tucked in the corner. Borscht soup, pelmeni and solyankya sbornaya, a thick soup studded with chunks of mild pork sausage, black olives, pickles and barley all satisfy. 11am-8pm daily. 1712 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.379.6680.
SUSHI ZONE Japanese. $$. Fun sushi meets fun surroundings in this zone. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd #1. 408.866.1323.
TIGELLERIA Italian. $$. Tigelleria’s menu centers on ďŹ ne cheeses and Italian salumi paired with tigelle, free-owing, piping-hot at-breads the size of mini pitas. The bread forms the addictive heart of the meal. 11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm daily. 76 E. Campbell Ave. 408.884.3808.
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more than a steakhouse. Add a 500-bottle wine list, multiple dining rooms and Asianaccented ambience and you’ve got a standout South Bay restaurant. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 10330 N. Wolfe Rd. 408.446.2222.
CAFE TORRE New Italian. $$$. 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, 5-10:30pm 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 2:305:30pm. 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.
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RENDY FOOD TRUCKS roll across Silicon Valley in ever-greater numbers, hawking everything from Korean tacos to Cajun cuisine. But now there’s an effort afoot to bring a new kind of mobile food to the South Bay that aims to offer more than good things to eat. Campbell’s HEALTH TRUST, a nonprofit health advocacy organization, received funding from Santa Clara County to study the feasibility of starting a GREEN CARTS program in the South Bay. The program would bring mobile produce vendors to low-income neighborhoods that lack access to fresh fruit and vegetables. The Green Carts program started in New York City as part of a citywide effort to supply healthy food and jobs to poor neighborhoods. Health Trust CEO FREDERICK FERRER read an article about New York’s Green Carts program and thought it would be a natural for Santa Clara County. Silicon Valley’s need for better access to healthy food is great. According to data from SANTA CLARA FOOD SYSTEM ALLIANCE, in 2009, 38 percent of adults in Santa Clara County were overweight and 17 percent were obese. Data from 2007 showed that 25 percent of middle and high school students were either overweight or obese. It will take startup funds to get the program going, as well as changes in policy. Some cities prohibit food vendors near schools, community centers and hospitals in an effort to keep junk food at bay. But fresh produce is what we need more of and so policies will have to be rewritten to allow these vendors to set up shop. The Health Trust’s green carts proposal was one of several projects included in the Santa Clara County Public Health Department’s application for funding under the Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) program, which was part of the 2009 federal stimulus bill. The goal of CPPW is to change policies and implement best practices to fight tobacco use and obesity. The county won the federal grant and contracted with the Health Trust to manage programs that improve access of healthy foods to underserved areas of the county including community gardens, farmers’ markets and green carts. The total grant to the Health Trust was $350,000. RACHEL POPLACK, director of healthy living for the Health Trust, was struck by the diversity of groups interested in the project. At an early planning meeting, she said the group around the table was represented by hospitals, city staffers, urban farmers, job training advocates and educators. “This project offers a unique opportunity to bring together a lot of different groups,” she said. And in what I see as an exciting aspect of the plan, Green Cart vendors could be supplied with homegrown produce from local community farms. VEGGIELUTION, a pioneering urban farm in San Jose’s Emma Prusch Park, has expressed interest in participating as a supplier to the program. The feasibility study should be completed in April with a pilot project to follow in June.—Stett Holbrook
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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 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.725.0188. GOCHI Japanese. $$$. Gochi is a globally inspired izakaya (small plates) restaurant. Most of the food is straightup Japanese fare, but there are a few American, French and Korean twists. Highly recommended. 19980 Homestead Rd. 408.725.0542. LOON WAH Chinese. $. The kitchen produces good wokcentric dishes, but its main draw is fresh, hand-pulled noodles. Casual. Beer, wine. 11am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sun. 1146 De Anza Blvd. 408.257.8877.
TATAMI Japanese. $$. 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. Cupertino Square mall (near Sears), 10123 N. Wolfe Rd #2001. 408.996.3444.
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KAMAKURA SUSHI AND SAKE HOUSE Sushi bar
$$$. The heart of Cin-Cin’s menu is an eclectic mix of small plates, tapas-size dishes that partner well with a great wine list. 4-10pm Mon-Sat. 368 Village Way. 408.354.8006.
classics. $$. In a smart setting, Kamakura showcases a procession of impeccable sushi and sashimi platters. 10:30am-2pm, 5:30-10pm daily. 135 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6650.
DIO DEKA Greek. $$$. Dio Deka is doing its part to elevate Greek food in Silicon Valley. There’s much to recommend at this handsome restaurant. Most starters are large so they’re best shared. 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 210 E. Main St. 408.354.7700. FLEUR DE COCOA French bakery. $$. Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Los Gatos’ Fleur de Cocoa is rightly known for its chocolate confections and pastries, but I can’t stop thinking about the little pastry shop’s spectacular almond croissants. There’s plenty of other good stuff and not all of it sweet, like the croque monsieur and the quiche. 7:30am-6pm Tue-Sat, 8am-4pm Sun. 39 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.3574. FORBES MILL STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. When Metro first checked in with Forbes Mill in 2003, it was called “a big, burly brasserie equipped with style as well as substance.” It’s holding up well and still does things in a big way. 5-9pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm FriSat. 206 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6434.
GREEN PAPAYA Vietnamese.
and engaging atmosphere sets the scene for fullbodied flavors and healthy ingredients. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-9pm Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 14109 Winchester Blvd. 408.374.1808.
$$. California cuisine meets Southeast Asia by way of Paris, with inventive updates of clay pot and five-spice authentica. Beer, wine. 11am-3pm, 5-9:30pm TueSun. 137 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9115.
CALIFORNIA CAFE New American. $$$. An innovative approach to Pacific Rim staples makes for some lovely surprises. The ace service matches the smart setting. Full bar. 11:30am10pm Mon-Fri, 10:30am-
I GATTI New Italian. $$$. I Gatti fits like a glove along peaceful Main Street. The chef understands the basics but isn’t afraid to create refreshing twists on traditional recipes. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Sat,
LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Brewpub. $$$. Most brewpubs seem to be cooking from the same menu, but executive chef Jim Stump has created a diverse menu of upscale comfort food that goes well beyond burgers and grilled-chicken sandwiches. The handsome wood-accented interior and open kitchen with its wood-fired pizza oven and rotisserie grill add to the restaurant’s appeal. Breakfast 10am-2pm Sat-Sun; lunch 11:30am-3pm; dinner 5-9pm daily. 130 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9929.
MAIN STREET BURGERS Burgers. $. Main Street Burgers offers fast-food convenience, affordable prices and food made with ingredients that are higher quality and more healthful than what you’d find at the golden arches. 11am-8:30pm Mon-Thu, 9am-9pm Fri-Sat, 9am-8:30pm Sun. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.1881.
MANRESA High concept. $$$$. Drawing from produce grown at his own farm, superstar chef David Kinch is blazing a trail of high caliber cuisine that’s as daring as it is delicious. Expensive but worth it. 320 Village Lane. 408.354.4330.
NICK’S ON MAIN American. $$$. Nick’s on Main is a relaxed but elegant bistro full of neighborly charm and is a showcase for owner Nick Difu’s decadent and deeply satisfying style of cooking. 11:30am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 35 E. Main St. 408.399.6457.
PASTARIA & MARKET Italian. $$. Pastaria offers reasonably priced comfort food in an unpretentious but lively atmosphere. 5-9:30pm
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RESTAURANT JAMES RANDALL Californian. $$$. Chef and co-owner Ross Hanson takes his cues from the seasons and favors a simple, ingredient-driven approach that places it squarely in the California school of cooking. He favors big, robust flavors and large serving sizes to create a kind of California comfort food. 5:3011pm Tue-Sat. 303 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.4441.
STEAMER’S New American. $$$. Styling itself as a grill house, Steamer’s includes rotisserie meats and fragrant grilled chops in addition to fresh fish. Quality control and service are excellent. Full bar. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm daily. 31 University Ave. 408.395.2722.
TANDOORI OVEN Indian. $. Tandoori Oven has quickly found its niche in Los Gatos among the burrito joints, sushi spots and upscale restaurants with its made-to-order curry dishes and spicy north Indian fare at good prices. 11:30am9:30pm daily. 133 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, 408.395.1784; 1875 S. Bascom Ave., Campbell, 408.559.3885; and 109 S. First St., San Jose, 408.292.7222. TAPESTRY Contemporary haute. $$$. Right on the main street, this cottagelike spot blends traditional French cooking with contemporary fusion: filet mignon with Mongolian-style brown sauce; crayfish chow mein. Elegant and friendly. 11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm Tue-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 11 College Ave. 408.395.2808. THREE DEGREES Eclectic, California. $$$. Set inside the beautifully remodeled Toll House Hotel, Three Degrees delivers a mixed bag of big and small plates from an eclectic menu. Some dishes, like the New York steak, are great, but others fall flat. Full bar. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri; dinner 3-10pm daily. 140 S. Santa Cruz Blvd. 408.884.1054.
VALERIANO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT AND BAR Contemporary Italian. $$$. While the kitchen exudes
earthy aromas, the dining room’s soft terra-cotta walls glow with a sense of Mediterranean mission. Handson management makes each patron feel pampered. Full bar. 5pm-close daily. 160 W. Main St. 408.354.8108.
VIVA LOS GATOS NEIGHBORHOOD EATERY California. $$$. This popular Los Gatos restaurant mixes it up with Italian-leaning Mediterranean food, fresh fish, grilled steaks and several Asian-inspired dishes. 11am-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 8am10:30pm Sat, 8am-9:30pm Sun. 15970 Los Gatos Blvd. 408.356.4902.
WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$. Silicon Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the definitive upwardly mobile California pizza. Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian wood-fired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas—delicate, light and satisfying. Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.5566. For other locations see www. willowstreet.com.
WINE CELLAR New California. $$. This cozy dining spot offers an education in Old World charm and New World cuisine, from smoked salmon pizza to grilled ahi tuna to desserts as fresh as spring break. 11:30am9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10:30am-9pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.4808.
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ANGELO MIO Italian. $$. A small space with a large menu, sporting the traditionals that have been mainstays at local eateries. Appetizers and salads are the best bets. 11:30am-2:30pm, 4:30-10pm Mon-Sat, noon-2:30pm, 4:309pm Sun. 820 Santa Cruz Ave. 650.323.3665.
BACK A YARD CARIBBEAN AMERICAN GRILL Jamaican. $. “Back a yard” is Jamaican slang for “the way things are done
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back home” and this is one of the few Jamaican restaurants around. Jerk pork and chicken shine. 11am-3pm, 5-8pm MonThu, 11am-3pm, 5-9pm Fri, noon-3pm, 5-8pm Sat. 1189 Willow Rd. 650.323.4244.
BISTRO VIDA French $$. Impeccably authentic bistro dishes and welcoming prices are spun through Bay Area culinary consciousness to create regional homey French cuisine. Brunch 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 9am-2:30pm Sat-Sun; dinner 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 59pm Sun. 641 Santa Cruz Ave. 650.462.1686. FLEA STREET CAFE New American. $$$$. Carefully crafted, impeccably chosen food featuring seasonal local produce and Niman Ranch meats. Atmosphere is casual and eclectic. Full bar. 5:309:30pm daily. 3607 Alameda de las Pulgas. 650.854.1226.
IBERIA. Spanish. $$. Iberia’s cheap tapas menu is available at the bar anytime or in the dining room at lunch, but these nibbles alone are worth the trip. Lunch noon-2pm Mon-Sat; dinner 5:30-10pm daily. 1026 Alma St. 650.325.8981. KAYGETSU Japanese. $$$. Kaiseki is a rarefied Japanese cuisine born in Kyoto with impeccably seasonal ingredients and poetic presentations. Kaygetsu bills itself as “classic Japanese cuisine” but its kaiseki menu is like discovering a new galaxy of food. Closed Mon. 325 Sharon Park Dr. 650.234.1084.
LEFT BANK Grandma’s French. $$$. Wise country fare combined with metropolitan savoir faire and a dash of Gallic attitude. Full bar. 11:30am10pm Sun-Mon, 11:30am-11pm Tue-Sat. 635 Santa Cruz Ave. 650.473.6543. SULTANA Turkish. $$$. If you’ve eaten Greek, Iranian or Middle Eastern food, you’ll find much that’s familiar here. Sultana makes your introduction to Turkish food easy with its warm service, well-executed dishes and soothing ambience. 11am2:30pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri, 11am-10pm Sat-Sun. 1149 El Camino Real. 650.322.4343.
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*wed DUSTONIUS MAXIMUS Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free The name “Dustonius Maximus” might seem a little mysterious to the uninitiated. Is it death metal? Punk? Psychedelic pop? But in fact, Dustonius Maximus is the pseudonym of none other than Dustin James, keyboardist of San Jose’s beloved traditional ska group Monkey. He, along with his band of merry San Jose men (some of whom are also in Monkey), plays some nice midtempo rock steady and ska that is perfect for that post-work Wednesday night blues.
Speaking of singing the blues, Mr. Maximus has an engaging, gruff singing voice, not unlike Tom Waits. (Who is one of many artists they cover—ska style, of course). (AC)
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GNARBOOTS Los Gatos Cinema, Los Gatos Fri – 10pm; $5 Have you been receiving bizarre Facebook messages from Gnarboots, like “When’s your birthday? Your birthday’s Oct. 14 now! Come to your birthday party!” Relax, you’re not alone, and they’re not stalking you (legal disclaimer: They may actually be stalking you). One of the South Bay’s strangest groups (Ben Henderson of Good
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flipped the script. By the time he put out his first mixtape earlier this year, he had been lead singer of the R&B boy band B2K (at age 14); they hooked up with P. Diddy for their No. 1 single “Bump, Bump, Bump.” He’d left that group, made three hit solo albums and collaborated with Bow Wow on 2007’s Face Off, which went gold. By last year, he was a judge on America’s Best Dance Crew, and was acting and producing films. On the other hand, his new mixtape, The Awakening, has guests like Lil Wayne and Method Man—so maybe waiting wasn’t such a bad strategy after all. (SP)
Hustle recently told me they are the “band we were waiting for to come along and be as weird as us”), the hip-hop/electronic/punk lunatics are literally throwing a birthday party for everyone who comes to this show. If you know anything about the “surprise” birthday party Gnarboots threw for MC Frontalot when they played with him in Santa Cruz (and I mean “surprise” as in “it wasn’t his birthday”), you know they are not joking. Even though they are always joking. Even weirder: The fact that one of the opening bands is called Birthday Suits is entirely a coincidence. (SP)
companion piece the Taste of Chaos tour was quietly retired last year, and in its place has risen up the Uproar Festival, more of a mass-appeal hard rock tour. This year features supporting acts Three Days Grace, Seether, Sevendust, Bullet for My Valentine, Escape the Fate, Art of Dying and more. Headliners Avenged Sevenfold were also at the top of the bill on the 2008 Taste of Chaos tour, so not everything has changed. And why not, since after a decade, Avenged Sevenfold are suddenly more popular than ever. Last year’s album Nightmare hit No. 1 and gave them their biggest single, “So Far Away.” (SP)
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BILLY IDOL Oct 12 at 7:30pm, Mountain Winery
EVENING WITH GROUCHO Oct 15 aat 8pm, Mayer Theatre, Santa Clara University
JOURNEY Oct 15 at 7pm, Shoreline
ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY Oct 16 at 7:30pm, 7 Montalvo Arts Center
CALIFORNIA POPS A salute to Hollywood. Oct 16 at 3pm, Calvary Church, Los Gatos
SPHINX VIRTUOSI Oct 19 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford
MELISSA MANCHESTER Oct 20 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center
FOREVERLAND Oct 221 at 8pm, Avalon, Santa Clara
ROGER DALTREY Oct 21 at 8pm, San Jose Civic Auditorium
ANNUAL ART AUCTION Oct 22 at 6pm, ICA, San Jose
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Scream, A STATIC LULLA see A Static Lullaby were ahead of see. the curve. They formed while still in high school in 2001, and impressed enough people that Capitol Records signed them in 2004. After a couple members left the band, they basically reformed and moved to Fearless Records in 2006. They’ve played with such bands as AFI, Sum 41, the Used, My Chemical Romance and even scored a highly coveted spot on the Vans Warped Tour. The hardcorescreamo scene is not what it was in the mid-2000s, but A Static Lullaby are still kickin’ it old school. (AC)
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ROBERT BERRY
The Avalon, Santa Clara Tue – 9pm; $15
Myth Taverna, San Jose Tue – 6pm; free Guitarist/vocalist Robert Berry got off to a hot start with Hugh. In the late ’80s, he connected with some big names—Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer—for the simply named band 3. Berry has since formed his own band, Alliance, and lent his talents to a long list of tribute albums. His newest solo album is called The Dividing Line and features a slew of new songs.
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MICHAEL MONROE There’s a reason that Foo Fighters and Alice in Chains publicly pay respect to Michael Monroe. His legacy goes back to spandex world of ‘80s glam rock, and most bands during that time owe their careers to Hanoi Rocks’ Michael Monroe. He was the originator, influencing Mötley Crüe and Guns N’ Roses. On this year’s Sensory Overdrive, Monroe once again shows he’s a true individual, and why he changed the course of rock. (BD)
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ROBERT CRAY BAND Nov 20 at 7pm, Campbell Heritage Theatre
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MAY Y I SING WITH ME Jean-Paul De Roover of Canada is one of the international roster of looping ooping artists who will perform at the Y2KX+1 Festival.
The looping festival that helped spark a musical revolution returns to the South Bay By STEVE PALOPOLI
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FTER MORE THAN 25 years as a go-to guitarist in the Santa Cruz music scene, it’s safe to say that Bill Walker loves to jam. He’s hit the highest highs of collaborating with other musicians, since way back when he and his brother Rick played in one of that scene’s most famous bands, Tao Chemical.
But there are times when he simply does not want to answer to any rhythm other than his own. That’s when he breaks out a looper and builds one. He can beatbox on the guitar, then lay down a groove, with the looper recording each new riff and circulating it over and over until he’s got his own sonic foundation he can solo like hell over. It never drops the beat, and it
always shows up for practice. “The looper doesn’t lie,” says Bill Walker of its rhythmic precision. “The looper doesn’t lag. It doesn’t speed up because it has a personality disorder. You’re not at the whim of someone’s drug intake.” He’s still collaborating with his brother, this time on the Y2KX+1 International Live Looping Festival that they’ll bring back to the Anno Domini Gallery in San Jose on Wednesday, Oct. 12, before it continues Oct. 14–16 at Pearl Alley Studios in Santa Cruz. Rick Walker has been one of the looping movement’s prophets, and when he founded the festival back in 2000 (first calling it the Bass Live Looping Festival), he really was a voice in the wilderness. Since then, looping has come into its own. It’s been second nature in electronic music for some time, but artists like Andrew Bird, Owen Pallett (who used to call himself Final Fantasy) and KT Tunstall have more recently upped its visibility in the indie world. And perhaps nothing has done as much to bring the concept of looping into the
mainstream as the now-famous clip of Imogen Heap using it to perform “Just For Now” that’s been viewed by millions on YouTube. The technology is now used by musicians around the world, many of whom post on Looper’s Delight, the pioneering website founded in 1996 that has in many ways provided a record of looping’s growth as an art form. Rick and Bill Walker are both key figures in the Looper’s Delight community, and in 2006 they organized and performed at a 10th-anniversary event for the site as part of the Y2K6 festival. As looping has grown, so has the festival. Rick began traveling to Europe, Japan and Mexico in 2003 to spread the looping gospel, and some 75 similar festivals have subsequently popped up in 20 countries. Walker’s festival in particular is now franchised in Florence and Rome, with plans for new ones in Germany, Singapore, Bali and Thailand in the next two years. Of course, a bigger pool of loopers means the festival here has to work even harder to stay ahead of the curve. The Anno Domini show on Wednesday will feature an impressive list of globe-trotting artists who feature looping prominently in their work: Sweden’s Per Boysen, Denmark’s Lass Thorning, Georgina Brett from the UK, Canadian Jean-Paul De Roover, Turkey’s Semih Yanyali, Japan’s
Y2KX+1 LIVE LOOPING FESTIVAL Anno Domini Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 7:30pm, $5.
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Mandoman, Nat Grant of Australia and Roberto Zorzi from Italy. Looping technology has also grown, thanks to Robert Amstadt’s San Jose company Looperlative, among others. Most loopers think of the device (usually a pedal or small component) as a tool, and there seems to be two distinct styles of using it that have evolved over the last decade. One is to play the looping pedal like an instrument itself, but it’s more commonly used to “layer up”—play one part after the other into the looper until the sound is as multi-layered as the musician wants to be. This of course can be done easily in a recording studio, but “live looping” as practiced at the festival, is when it’s done as the audience watches. Many singer/songwriters now use it to create the fullness of a band sound when they perform solo. I have seen shows where a solo artist literally runs from instrument to instrument to record different parts; first a drum loop, then a bass loop, then a guitar loop, replicating a backing band performing the song as he begins to sing over it. But many musicians create their loops with a single instrument of choice. Steve Uccello, who’ll perform at this year’s festival, is a NorCal bassist who can use looping to create an orchestra’s worth of bass sounds when he plays solo. He says despite the technological angle, the secret of looping has little to do with science. “It’s a pretty amazing art, really,” he says. Even the smallest choices have a huge impact on the final result. “If the loop is too short, it might get boring really fast. If it’s too long, you’re asking your audience to wait for the good part.” Bill Walker says over the years of the festival he’s seen appreciation for the technology grow and the notion that “machines ain’t music,” as Mojo Nixon once put it, fading. But no matter how many times he explains it, there are also some people who can’t quite wrap their heads around the concept. “I have people come up to me all the time and ask ‘Do you have a CD going that you’re playing to?’” he says. “And I have to explain that I’m making it all up on the spot.”
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Oct. 14–23; downtown Redwood City; $10–$18 This Italian-style circus is based on a long-running family tradition, and the shows are performed in a small-scale 500-seat tent that encourages small children to be part of the fun without feeling overwhelming. This is the third visit by the popular troupe to Redwood City.
HANGING ON Cassy (Jayne Deely, left) and Clementine (Laiona Michelle) fight their way through the aftermath of Katrina.
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N ITS 42nd season, TheatreWorks offers the world premiere of Clementine in the Lower 9 at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts. In the play, written by author Dan Dietz and directed by Leah Gardiner (a New York director who won an Obie recently for Born Bad), author Dan Dietz takes the audience back to one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
Saturday at 8pm; Mayer Theater, Santa Clara University; $28–$35 The madcap wit and anarchic energy of the great Groucho Marx gets re-created in a fast-paced stage show by Frank Ferrante, who dons the famous ’stache, chomps on a cigar and doesn’t stop. The evening includes the songs “Hooray for Captain Spalding” and “Lydia, the Tattooed Lady.” This presentation is the first in a series of shows by SCUPresents.
The action is set nine months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana’s coast. One family living in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward is working hard to rebuild their home. J.B. Wilson’s set creates the battered world in which the family’s story unfolds. With tattered walls, holes in the roof and windswept debris framing the stage, the audience sees all that is left of the family’s material world in an intricately designed set. The play opens with Kenny Brawner, the leader of a four-piece jazz band that acts as a kind of chorus from Greek tragedy, sharing the story of why the gods have moved down to New Orleans. Lured by Clementine in the blues music, they watch over Clementine, played by the dynamic and engaging Laiona Michelle, as she the Lower 9 struggles to piece back together her family.
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Saturday at 8pm; Sunnyvale Community Theatre; $22–$28 Jazz singer Laura Ellis is a cinema buff, as witnessed by her albums Femme Fatale and Temptation, Songs of Movie Sirens, both of which feature classic tunes made famous by film greats like Judy Garland and Doris Day. For a show called “Cinema Sweethearts,” Ellis will perform numbers such as “Get Happy” and “Que Sera Sera” accompanied by clips from the films themselves.
*stage Dance SJDANCECO Fall program features Jose Limon’s “Missa Brevis” and world premieres by sjDANCEco choreographer/dancer Heather Cooper and artistic directors Maria Basile and Gary Masters. Fri-Sat, 8pm. $21-$41. City Lights, San Jose.
Opera SAMSON ET DALILA Camille Saint-Saëns’ work is performed by West Bay
Opera. Opens Fri, Oct 14, 8pm. Sat, 8pm (no show Oct 15) and Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Oct 23. Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto.
Theater AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY Three generations of dark secrets are revealed at a family reunion in Tracy Letts’ drama; presented by City Lights. ThuSat, 7:30pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs through Oct 23. $25-$35. City Lights, San Jose.
CABARET Kit Kat Klub chanteuse Sally Bowles romances two men in the highly charged world of Germany between the wars in
the Kander and Ebb musical; presented by San Jose Stage Company. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Oct 23. $17.50-$40. San Jose Stage Co.
CLEMENTINE IN THE LOWER 9 TheatreWorks drama about surviving and rebuilding in post-Katrina New Orleans. TueWed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm Sat, 2 and/or 8pm, Sun, 2 and/or 7pm. Runs through Oct 30. $29$49. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
DAMN YANKEES A musical about temptation on the diamond, presented by South Valley Civic Theatre. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs
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Runs through Oct. 30: Clementine’s son, Reginald (Matt Jones), returns $19–$59 from college in New York for the first time since the Mountain View Center for storm. He lends a crucial performance as he struggles the Performing Arts with his mom’s unwavering faith in her husband and 650.483.1960 his memories of a childhood that will not soon be forgotten. Jaffy (Jack Koenig), her musician husband, was evacuated to Houston after the storm and is also returning home for the first time in nine months. He arrives with a teenage drug addict, Cassy (Jayne Deely), whom he believes can tell the future. Believed to be another one of his delusional quick-money schemes, the family struggles to move on with the unexpected visitor in tow. The memory of the daughter that Jaffy couldn’t save in the flooding waters still haunts the family. Clementine learns that Cassy may not only be able to tell the future but the past as well. As she discovers the true story of her little girl’s drowning, the family is put through the wringer. With its biting humor and brutal honesty, Clementine in the Lower 9 tests the limits of one family during a terrible tragedy. With deeply buried secrets, which slowly arise during the course of the evening to a most surprising ending, each character’s mental and physical strength is tested. Composer-music director Justin Ellington draws on Dietz’s dialogue to generate original music with a mix of the old-time blues. The music is the driving force behind the play, bringing to life the character’s movements throughout the story. Even when the drama fades, the music carries on.—Jen Nowell
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DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE The drama department at SJSU presents a comedy by Sarah Ruhl. Wed-Sat, 7pm. Runs thru Oct 15. Hall Todd Theatre, SJSU.
FOOL FOR LOVE Two lovers work through their passionate attachment in an a desert motel room in Sam Shepard’s drama; presented by Northside Theatre Company. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. Runs thru Oct 30. $15/$20. Northside Theatre, San Jose.
THE LAST ROMANCE San Jose Repertory Theatre introduces the local premiere of Joe DiPietro’s ageless story about taking a chance on love later in life. Opens Thu, Oct 13.Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm (no 3pm show Oct 15 or 20), Sun, 2pm (plus 7pm Oct 16),Tue-Wed, 7:30pm (plus 11am Oct 26). Runs thru Nov 6. $23-$57.The Rep, San Jose.
SISTER CITIES Four sisters from four different fathers reunite after their mother’s death; a presentation of Dragon Productions. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Oct 23. $16-$20. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.
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CALIFORNIA POPS ORCHESTRA The season begins with “Hooray for Hollywood” with conductor Kim Venaas, and featuring favorite hits from the movies. Sun, 3pm. $15-$40. Calvary Church, Los Gatos.
South First Fridays @ 550 S First
EDEL MUNOZ Presented by the South Bay Guitar Society. Sat, 8pm. $$15$30. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose. Illustration by Chris Hack
MAGNIFICAT BAROQUE ENSEMBLE The ensemble performers Charpentier’s emotionally charged setting of the Orpheus myth, “La Descente d’Orphée aux enfers.” Fri, 7:30pm. $12$35. St. Thomas Aquino Catholic Church, Palo Alto.
SPANISH BRASS Program from Bach to Dixieland.
Sat, 8pm. $18/$20. Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont.
SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY “Evolutionary|Revolutionary,” a multi-media concert about the history of life. Sat, 7pm. $55$115. Flint Center, Cupertino.
Comedy ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Mike Pace. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.
SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Unfiltered. $12. Thu, 8pm: James Davis. $10. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Felipe Esparaza. $20. Mon, 8pm: Battle of the Bay. $10. San Jose.
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Museums OPENING HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Pioneering the Valley: The Chinese American Legacy in Santa Clara Valley.” Opening celebration Sun, 11am-4pm. Pacific Hotel Gallery, San Jose.
MUSEUMS OF LOS GATOS “The Grand Experience.” A reception with artist Claudia Borgna, including Nina Haft and her dancers, for Borgna’s new installation. Sun, 47pm. $25/$30 (includes refreshments). Los Gatos.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “This Kind of Bird Flies Backwards.” Paintings by Bay Area figurative artist Joan Brown. Opens Oct 14. Thru Mar 11. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
CONTINUING CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936.” “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. “Illustrated Title Pages: 15001900.” A show of 80 illustrated
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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.
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE “Victorian America: Invention and Technology.”Thru Nov. 6. “Early Aviation Paper Models.” Thru Nov. 6. Fri-Sun, 11am-4pm. Palo Alto.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Book-ish.” A show about how the printed book has influenced visual artists, featuring works from the permanent collection. Thru Jan. 15. “So, Who Do You Think You Are?” Portraits of various kind address the issue of personal identity.“Thru Jan. 15. “Bill Owens: Ordinary Folks.” Photographs taken by Owens in the 1970s. Thru Feb 5. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES Historical quilts and selection of “scrappy contemporary works.” Thru Oct 16. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.
TECH MUSEUM “Islamic Science Rediscovered.” Technological advances in the Islamic world before the Renaissance period in the West. Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.
TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Kenjilo Nanao.” Paintings by the SF artist. Thru Nov 27. “Heather Wilcoxon.” Whimsical paintings and works on paper that make sly comments about the state of the world. Thru Nov 27. Tue-Wed
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HERE ARE three types of relationships in life—those that start in perfection and never falter; those that begin well but fade over time; and those that are doomed from the beginning. Lighting up the stage of the Olinder Theatre in San Jose, Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, presented by Northside Theatre Company, depicts the dysfunctional connection between a pair of high school sweethearts, Eddie and May, who can’t survive without each other yet can’t stand to be in the same room together. Set in a dingy motel room in the Mojave Desert, the play is a hybrid of comedy and drama, Fool for Love characterized by subtle humor, passion and the never-ending bickering between the two lovers. Runs through Oct. 30 Fool for Love originally debuted on a San Francisco Olinder Theatre, stage in 1983 and was later made into a film in 1985. San Jose Seeing this production up close in a small theater, however, provides the storyline with an additional dimension. Audience members are seated in the heat of the action, a mere 10 feet from the stage, enabling attendees to tangibly feel the tension. Northside’s simple production incorporates minimal props and lighting, relying instead on raw emotions and violence to portray the strife the two lovers have experienced. The performers are all highly capable of delivering the convincing and emotional acting this script requires. Eddie (Jarrod Pirtle) and May (Marjorie Hazeltine) fly from one of the end of the stage to another, spouting insults and yelling at each other in an eerily relatable and realistic way. Through long exchanges, the history between Eddie and May unfolds, exposing a past littered with heartbreak and conflict reaching back to their childhood. This backwards love story leaves many details to the audience’s imagination, introducing mysterious scenarios. Most intriguing is the presence of an omnipresent man in a rocking chair (Vic Prosak), who speaks only to interject with pieces of wisdom and anecdotes from his life. Throughout the play, the connection between this man and the other characters is slowly revealed, creating a surprising and shocking twist. The story does not reach a resolution, leaving many questions unanswered and ending in despair. Despite this, Fool for Love is a powerful and compelling production that accurately represents what it is to be painfully in love.—Jaimie Collins
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ROUNDUP Larrod Pirtle (left), Matt Singer and Marjorie Hazeltine
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Galleries OPENING COMMUNITYSCHOOLOF MUSICANDART “Glacier Works.” Paintings and prints by Sukey Bryan. Opens Oct 14. Thru Nov 27. Finn Center, Mountain View.
CONTINUING ANNODOMINI “Bloodworks.” Skin art by Analog Tattoo Arts Collective. Thru Nov 19. “White Light.” A solo show by of paintings by Brett Amory. Thru Oct 14. San Jose.
ARTARK “Sonic.” A show about artists using sound in their works. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
BRUNIGALLERY “The Jazz Masters Series” by BRUNI. “Sports Originals” by Mark Gray. ““Figurative Sculpture” by Kristina Sablan. Thru Dec 31. San Jose.
GOODKARMACAFE “The Peculiar Pageant.” Paintings by Lacey Bryant. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
KALIEDGALLERY Works by John Renzel and Troy Sims. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
MACLA “A Body Parted: Shrapnel of Present Time.” A multi-media work featuring a digital mural and exhibition that looks at immigration issues. Thru Oct 16. San Jose.
MAINGALLERY “Altered, a Matter of Perspective.” Works by Belinda Chlouber, Katinka Hartmetz and Ginger Slonaker. Thru Oct 16. Redwood City.
METROLOBBY “Pictures From Paris.” Photographs by Sonja Caldwell. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
MONTALVOARTSCENTER “Claudia Borgna: Plastic Bags and Ephemeral Dreams.” In conjunction with the Museums of Los Gatos, Montalvo presents a two-part exhibit of Borgna’s ongoing project to create art
from recycled materials. Thru Nov 18. “Records and Marks.” A show about mapping and identity by Lordy Rodriguez, Adriane Colburn, Alexander Chen, Amanda Hughen and Ehren Elizabeth Reed. Thru Oct 16. Ongoing. ThuSun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.
NEXTSPACECOWORKING Featuring work by Phantom Galleries artists Michele Guieu, Katie Guiterrez and Jeanne Yee. Thru Feb 1. San Jose.
SANJOSEINSTITUTEOF CONTEMPORARYART “31st Annual Art Exhibition and Auction.” With scores of works in many styles and methods. Thru Oct 22. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
SLGARTBOUTIKI “Caustic Curio.”The art of Crab Srambly. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
STANFORDARTSPACES “3 Artists.” Paintings by Sue Averell, Carmen Barefield and Marianne Bland. Thru Dec 1. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford.
WORKS/SANJOSE “Movin’ on Up!” Members’ exhibit by arts collective. Thru Oct. 22. San Jose.
*books BOOKSALE
Presented by Friends of Los Gatos Public Library, with bargain prices in all categories. Sat, 10am-4pm. Los Gatos Town Council Chambers Lobby.
KHALEDHOSSEINI Commonwealth Club sponsors a conversation with the author of “The Kite Runner.” Mon, 7pm. $12/$20. Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto.
EDWARDOATES The co-founder of Oracle talks about startups. Part of Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship speaker series. Mon, 6pm. King Main Library, San Jose.
JUSTINTORRES The author of the novel “We the Animals” appears. Wed, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
DANIELWOODRELL A session with short-story writer
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Accessories and costumes are available. Sat, 9am-2pm. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre.
THEEMPEROR’SNEW CLOTHES A family show from California Theatre Center. Sat, 11am. $12$14. Sunnyvale Community Theatre.
JUSTFORKIDS A running event to benefit Best Buddies. Sun, 1:30am. Oak Meadow Park, Los Gatos.
ZOPPÉ A circus for the whole family done in the traditional Italian style. This week: Fri, 4 and 7pm, Sat, 11am, 3 and 7pm, Sun, 11am, 3 and 6pm, Tue, 6:30pm. Runs thru Oct 23. $10/$18. Circus Tent, downtown Redwood City.
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Speakers remember engineer Jim Williams. Sat, 7pm. Free. Computer History Museum, Mountain View.
CANVASATIONS Art, wine tasting and live music with the Upside Trio. Sat, noon6pm. British Bankers’ Club, Menlo Park.
FALLFLORALFESTIVAL With the work of more than a score of floral designers. Sat, 6-8:30pm. $50, include hors d’oeuvres. Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara.
ARTANDPUMPKINFESTIVAL With family events. Sat-Sun, 9am-5pm. Free. Half Moon Bay.
MENLOPARKSIDEWALK FESTIVAL With a wide variety of arts and crafts. Fri-Sun, 10am-5pm. Downtown Menlo Park.
MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES A showcase of ethnic dance and music with Abhinaya, Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra and more. Sun, 2pm. A 7pm program
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Life in Concert THE AMBITIOUS multimedia collaboration between Frans Lanting and Philip Glass, Life, that premiered at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in 2006, is finally returning to the Bay Area after stops in New York, London, Italy, Mexico and elsewhere. Glass’ score will be performed Saturday at the Flint Center in Cupertino by Symphony Silicon Valley under the direction of conductor Carolyn Kuan for a concert produced by UC–Santa Cruz titled “Evolutionary/Revolutionary.” “We hope it helps people to reflect on the amazing journey that life has been on planet Earth since it sprouted 4 billion years ago,” Lanting says, “and how important science is Evolutionary/ in helping us understand what we’re all part of.” Revolutionary Fans of the Dutch-born photographer, who is best known for wildlife images appearing in the pages Saturday, 7pm; $55 and up of National Geographic, Audubon and Life might be Flint Center for the surprised by the images in “Life.” While there is Performing Arts, “nature porn” among them, several veer in a much Cupertino more conceptual direction. “‘Life,’” Lanting says, “uses 831.459.1438 photography as stepping stones to lure people on an imaginary journey from the Big Bang to the present.” Prior to the performance, UC–Santa Cruz professors Sandra Faber of the astronomy and astrophysics department, David Haussler of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering and Richard Green of the biomolecular engineering department will be joined in a conversation by NPR Science Correspondent Joe Palca about the origins of life and the future of research at the university. Lanting, who conceived of the project in 1999 while photographing horseshoe crabs, which have remained unchanged for millions of years, sees a natural affinity between the panel’s discussion and his piece. “I think the images help to amplify the achievements of science—they can stand on their own, and so can the music—but when you bring the three together it is really a wondrous and rapturous experience,” he says.—Tessa Stuart
features pianist Patricia Chena. Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View.
PILATESBENEFIT Misha Patel Studio Pilates raises money for Breast Cancer Research Fund. Sat, 9:30am. $10. By Maggiano’s, Santana Row.
RENAISSANCEFAIRE The celebration of Elizabethan culture and arts runs every weekend thru Oct 16. Sat-Sun, 10am-6pm. Casa da Fruta.
STATEOFTHERACE A conference about black philanthropy. Wed, 8:30am
sessions; gala at 6pm. $50 and up. Silicon Valley Community Foundation Center, San Jose.
STROLLTHEROW Food and fashion to benefit Silicon Valley Education Foundation. Oct 12, 5:30pm. $30. Santana Row.
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LOOK TO THE SKIES Michael Shannon prepares for the worst in ‘Take Shelter.’
Michael Shannon plays a stressed-out dad with big fears in taut Take Shelter By RICHARD VON BUSACK
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ARD TO IMAGINE a more timely film than the harrowing Take Shelter. Watching it, one thinks of Herman Cain’s offhand comment that a failed person in America only has himself to blame. This message was hardly worth even a little of Cain’s substantial quantity of wind: Every working person has internalized it already. Take Shelter stars Michael Shannon
in a phenomenally tough piece of acting. He fulfills with interest the promise he made in his breakthrough part in Revolutionary Road as the only character without a mouthful of lies. In this new movie about a storm to come, Shannon’s face has its own share of turbulence. Square-headed as Henry Rollins or Karloff before him, Shannon looks like so many men who snap: simultaneously too weak and too strong. And yet he’s not so ominous you spend the movie wondering why everyone around him doesn’t head for the hills. (When he finally blows up, it doesn’t look like an actor working himself into a lather. You see a lot of actors flip over a table to show how angry they are. Very few
who can do it like Shannon does; you kind of fear for the table.) Shannon plays Curtis, a man whose rage is particularly slow-cooked thanks to director Jeff Nichols’ deft hand with procedures, showing us a careful accretion of incidents of work and time off in Elyria, Ohio. Shannon doesn’t play his role as a hardhatted drill-rig operator as folksy or truculent. Neither does Curtis’ boss, Jim (Robert Longstreet, excellent and refusing to give the part local color). Also, Curtis is matched by a wife of equal strength. Jessica Chastain’s remarkable year as an actress continues as she plays Samantha, quite an authentic mom. She holds down a swap-meet booth on the weekends; her off-hours are spent bugging the insurance company to authorize a cochlear implant. It’s an uneventful life. Or it would be, if it weren’t for a cosmic vision that bolts Curtis out of his sleep: He foresees a major storm is coming, a storm of the size of what happened
to Joplin, Mo. This portent causes Curtis to dig up his backyard and mortgage his house and his future. He excavates a crater large enough to expand it into a subterranean shelter. When not watching the skies—even starling clouds seem portents of trouble—his nightmares are growing. He dreams first of his dog, then Samantha and then of gravity itself, all coming unglued. Our holy books are full of this kind of story—of a prophet being given signs. But the movie gives us an alternative explanation, provided in a small but incisive role by the tooseldom-seen Kathy Baker. Take Shelter’s very title is resonant in a nation as high-strung as a harpsichord, quivering with bunker mentality. Just as Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life showed how many fathers were strangling on their neckties in Ike’s day, and Todd Haynes’ Safe perfectly outlined the gargantuan affluence and bad chemicals of the Reagan years, Take Shelter seems keyed to the madness of our times. And there’s an almost-funny side in the movie, too. Curtis is able to do things that a lot of worried family men only daydream about. He takes charge, he exerts dominion and he prepares for that Armageddon that everyone says is just around the corner. (But Nichols puts a solid brake on that self-indulgence; could any perfect storm be as terrible as the perfect disdain of a Jessica Chastain?) One problem. The movie’s wide perspective—the anti-yokel quality of the picture—avoids being just an artsy Twilight Zone episode. The monster storm is due on Maple Street. But after the film comes to a bleak point—offering Curtis a faltering and remote ray of hope, here comes a twist. And this twist undoes what has been a serious-minded tragedy into something more like the moral of the story of Three Little Pigs. No one should be seated during the last three minutes.
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THE Poppy Jasper Short Film Fest is “the festival that really rocks”: the egregious pun refers to the semiprecious stone only found in the Morgan Hill area. A certain rockiness also sums up the annual festival’s fortunes. It started with what Jay Jaso, one of the Poppy Jasper’s co-founders, called the “dumb, crazy, wild idea” of staging such a festival. Before the submissions started arriving in earnest, the first year, in 2004, looked like a drought: “Two months went by, and we had not received one film,” said Jaso. Today, this local gem in the film-festival scene includes a triple emphasis on youth filmmaking, the power of the short film and the attendance of serious industry figures. One year’s guest was Oscarwinning designer and artist John Bruno. “He stayed for the entire festival and was available for anyone who wanted to talk to him,” Jaso said. This year, the Oct. 15 keynote speaker is cinematographer Vance Piper, who worked on Mrs. Doubtfire, The Hunt for Red October and Avatar. This doesn’t count the number of filmmakers from eight different countries competing in this pleasant small town to the south of San Jose. A panel of judges selected the offerings this year, and a partnership with Adobe has a focus on disadvantaged kids telling their stories
through film with prizes and scholarships for the contenders. One prize is an award named in honor of Apple pioneer Steve Wozniak. Among the films K_\ Gfggp is the 36-minute AXjg\i J_fik documentary Kevin, =`cd =\jk by exponent of mumblecore Jay Oct. 14–16, CineLux Theaters, Duplass (Cyrus). It tells Morgan Hill of the highs and lows See www.Poppy of an Austin musician, JasperFilmFest.org a guitarist who seems for details to be in harmony with the great Arthur Lee of the band Love. Reflecting current unrest is Peninsula filmmaker Pam Walton’s Raging Grannies. Good News, Oklahoma concerns a happy-talk news show that causes protests. Leap Before You Look is about filmmaker Stephane Goldsand’s hesitation about becoming a father. Cerise is John Trigonis’ dramedy about a still-haunted loser who once failed a spelling bee decades before. Jeremy Kruse’s mockumentary Fluffenhausen: The Comeback of a Pop Culture Icon tells of the rise, fall and resurrection of a Kraftwerkstyle band. Enter the Beard is Scott Ballard and Matt Lawrence’s documentary about the annual beard-growing championships in Anchorage.—Richard von Busack
Highlights: Oct. 14 at 7pm: Outside the Law by Rachid Bouchareb. Three Algerian brothers take different paths during the end of the French dominion in the 1950s. This history is still a hot-button issue in France, enough so that the film was threatened with ejection from Cannes 2010. 9:30pm: Flowers of Evil. A romance of Iranian expatriates in Paris. Oct 15 at noon: De Gaulle Eid (talk about multicultural names) directs What Happened? Sounds like a more intelligent version of Incendies: a documentary investigation of the massacre of his family in Lebanon during the Civil War. 2pm: The Fifth String. A Casablanca student of the lute is torn between culture and modernism. 8:30pm: Messages From the Sea. An Egyptian student drops out to see what’s become of his native Alexandria. Oct 16 at noon: Gaza Hospital. The many lives of a hospital building, witnessed in documentary form. 2:15pm. Majid. A 10-year-old orphan heads for Casablanca. 8:45pm: Taza. An exile returns to form a pickup band to play at a Moroccan wedding. (Plays Oct 14–16 in San Jose at Camera 12.) (RvB)
MACHINE GUN PREACHER (R; 127 min.) Marc Forster’s film— every bit as tone-deaf to American culture as his art-house hit Monster’s Ball—concerns Sam Childers (Gerard Butler), a petty criminal from Pennsylvania who got religion and decided to give up everything to help war refugees in Sudan. In Africa, he turned into a machine-gun-carrying guerrilla to protect the orphans in his care from raiders. Jason Keller’s script reduces this unusual story to pure Jack Chick comic; glimmerings of the film’s potential are visible from Michelle Monaghan as his absurdly loyal wife and from Michael Shannon (Take Shelter). Shannon demonstrates the art of mushmouthing dialogue that isn’t worth enunciating. (Though we don’t see his dental work, he seems like he’s trying to sound like he’s missing a lot of teeth.) Compared to Shannon’s diabolical inspiration, Butler’s wrestling with his God isn’t as interesting. The film doesn’t seriously consider the Christian duty to turn the other cheek, and it doesn’t fulfill its duty to its grindhouse title, either. (RvB)
POPPY JASPER SHORT FILM FEST See box at left. (Oct 13-16 in Morgan Hill at CineLux Tennant Station Stadium 11.) (RvB)
THE ROLLING STONES A concert film called “Some Girls Live in Texas” features never-before-seen footage of a Stones show in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1978. (Plays Tue at 7:30pm at Mountain View Cinema 16 and CinéArts Santana Row.)
SILICON VALLEY AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL Three days of African shorts and features. Includes a revival of the very good Congolese gangster film Viva Riva, a documentary on Africa’s forgotten cultural heritage The Manuscripts of Timbuktu, and the Kenyan horror film Haunted. The many shorts include two by a former Mountain View High student, Tanzania’s Ekwa Msangi-Omari: “Taharuki/Suspense” and “Weakness.” (Oct 14-16 in Mountain View at the Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle.) (RvB)
TAKE SHELTER (R; 120 min.) See review on page 46. (Opens Fri at Camera 7 in Campbell and the Guild in Menlo Park.)
THE THING (R; 103 min.) Yet another version of the classic tale about a dangerous creature found frozen in the ice. (Opens Fri.)
THE WAY (115 min.) Under son Emilio Estevez’s direction, Martin Sheen plays a bereaved American physician who decides to take up the arduous pilgrimage of the Camino de Santiago in the Pyrenees. Pro: extensively filmed on location; Con: endorsed by Pastor Rick Warren. With Deborah Cara Unger. (Opens Fri.) (RvB)
Revivals THE EXORCIST (1973) It’s hooey, but it certainly gets Catholics right in the neck; three Jesuits are listed as technical advisers. William Friedkin’s horror film about a young girl (Linda Blair) from Georgetown afflicted by the Iraqi demon Pazuzu was emetically popular. Horror in the 1970s was always tons more violent, misogynistic and hard-core than the current crop, but The Exorcist is a relic of “born-again Medievalism” (Peter Biskind); as a hit, it’s a component in the dumbing down of the Western world. (Plays Oct 13 at 9pm and Oct 15 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)
THE GAY DIVORCEE/TOP HAT (1934/1935) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ first starring vehicle—an excellent introduction to the voodoo
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(1949/1941) Joseph Cotten plays Holly Martins, as hapless as a rabbit in a magician’s hands—a bad magician: Orson Welles as Vienna megrim Harry Lime, that embodiment of fascinating fascism, and a hustler who won’t stay dead. BILLED WITH Citizen Kane: Welles’ amazement about the life and ruin of an American newspaper tycoon. Still the pinnacle of the American cinema. (Plays Oct 15-16 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
(1932/1930) Like many 73-year-old hotels, a bit run down and coasting on the old reputation. Greta Garbo plays an exhausted ballerina who is sleepless despite satin pajamas and the best hotel room in Berlin: “I’ve never been so tired in my life ... not even the Veronal can help me sleep.â€? Giving her a reason to brush the sleep from her eyes is a soi-disant Baron (John Barrymore). Also starring John’s brother, croaking Lionel, as an old dog having his day; Joan Crawford as a knowing trick of a stenographer; and Wallace Beery as a Teutonic tycoon on the brink of business collapse. BILLED WITH Anna Christie. Garbo’s ďŹ rst talkie, wherein she plays a prowler of Eugene O’Neill’s waterfronts. (Plays Oct 19-21 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
THE LOST BOYS (1987) Vampires, emo ones: a tribe led by Kiefer Sutherland. The tone wobbles from horror—a good thought, that, since Santa Cruz can be very
NILES FILM MUSEUM Oct 15: Four silent comedy shorts with Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Charlie Chase and Laurel and Hardy. (Plays Oct 15 at 7:30pm at the Edison Theater in Fremont.) (RvB)
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Jon Ford went from England to Bourkina Faso to direct this strangely plausible, beautifully photographed and hellaciously gory horror ďŹ lm. If there’s almost nothing new to be said about zombs, the fresh scenery reenergizes the myths. Amid bad narrow roads, thorny bushes, little water and no place to hide, a pair of humans prowl a dead land. U.S. Air Force Lt. Brian Murphy (Rob Freeman) is the only survivor of the crash-landed last plane out of Africa. He’s rescued by a soldier, Sgt. Daniel Dembele (Prince David Osei—whose presence and remarkable physique reminds one of Djimon Honsou).The two commandeer a skeletonized pickup truck and search for an airbase out; the result is a Wages of Fear–style journey to ďŹ nd sanctuary from the inexplicable plague of undead cannibals. It’s yet another ďŹ lm about Africa that keeps yielding to the European point of view. However, there’s hardly anything fantasy-like in the idea of Africa being left by the world to implode from plague and disaster. (RvB)
and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Their work in this comedy/drama is disrupted by Seth Rogen. In regularly scheduled bullish (or bullying) comedy moments, Rogen’s Kyle turns up to rattle the cage of the seriously ill Adam (GordonLevitt). When Rogen is gone, the ďŹ lm develops interesting counterpoints. Rather than just the sketchily drawn
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that they did so well. The dances include “Night and Day� and “The Continental.� For comedy relief from the romantic tension: Erik Rhodes’ pre–Roberto Benigni performance as the original tasseled Italian loafer. BILLED WITH Top Hat. Numbers include “Isn’t This a Lovely Day,� “Cheek to Cheek� and “Top Hat, White Tie and Tails.� (Plays Oct 12-14 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
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A COMEDY about nigh-ruinous obsession, The Big Year is one director away from being a great cult film. Yet there’s so much feeling in it, and so much snow, it seems certain this will join that set of films that people will watch again and again on TV at the winter solstice. Narrator John Cleese explains it all: The Audubon Society promotes an annual contest. Those who spot the most North American birds will be distinguished with a certain fame, if no money. Winning totals are usually in excess of 700 types of birds. The competitors: Jack Black as a divorced Baltimore schlep; Owen Wilson as a slick New Jersey contractor ignoring his wife (Rosamund Pike, no more Jersey than Wilson is); and Steve Martin as a self-made millionaire, ready to retire to the Rockies. The Big Year gives Martin his first good part in a long time, and the unlikely happens—he and Black find some appealing comedic harmonies as they race across the country trying to find birds. The action travels from the Gulf to the upper Pacific Coast. Striking locations in the Yukon double for the Aleutian island of Attu, which turns out to be a birder’s paradise. Director David Frankel specializes in the adaptation of books that no one
thought could be made into movies (The Devil Wears Prada, Marley and Me). He’s working from a nonfiction book here. The film is not screamingly funny, but it’s so essentially appealing that you can see why so many well-known actors turned up, as if they’d heard Howard Franklin’s script was good. (Franklin, a collaborator K_\ 9`^ P\Xi with Bill Murray, made a PG series of offbeat comedies Opens Friday in the 1990s.) Among them: Anjelica Huston as a cranky whale-watching boat captain, Dianne Wiest as Black’s spookily understanding mom and Brian Dennehy as his glowering dad. The Big Year is slightly busy and centerless. On the bright side, you don’t feel it’s trying to sell you a motto you could write on a matchbook. It doesn’t even go “seriously, folks” about the scientific importance of keeping an eye on bird populations. It’s dedicated to a harmless, pretty pursuit that makes people comically frantic and arrogant. If only it had soulful rhythms to match its script— if it had been more Bill Forsyth and less Guy Ritchie.—Richard von Busack
(R; 101 min.) George Clooney’s stiff adaptation of Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North minces some questions of loyalty and politician worship. Can a political activist find a safe ground between foolish innocence and cynicism? Clooney plays Mike Morris, a Gulf War veteran and Democratic governor of Pennsylvania running in a tough Ohio primary. If he wins, he seems destined to triumph against a scattered opposition. Ryan Gosling plays Stephen Myers, the young but longtime strategist who adores this candidate. This low-temperature drama of idealism simmers further when Molly (Evan Rachel Woods) enters, though the action seems elsewhere, with the strategizing between two rivals, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti. Ides of March doesn’t start to get exciting until far too late in the game, when we get the confrontation we’ve been promised between Myers’ hero worship and Morris’ ruthlessness. (RvB)
REAL STEEL (PG-13; 127 min.) Even Hugh Jackson’s charm and energy start to flag in this arguably feasible attempt to put some heart into the clobbering-robot genre. Shawn Levy fills Real Steel with slightly futurized Americana as Jackman’s Charlie Kenton goes through the circuit of the prizefighting movie: debt, dejection, discovery of a contender (a robot in this case) and bonding with son and girlfriend. (Dakota Goyo, who plays son Max, is a coldly deft little professional; Evangeline Lilly is as pretty as her name, but she only gets about 10 minutes onscreen). Sometimes you also wonder who, exactly, Real Steel is for. The bloodyminded little boy and bloody-minded former little boy demographic is pretty large. But they want what they want. Are they going to feel they robbed of regularly scheduled wreckage in favor of dad and son bonding? (RvB)
SAIGON ELECTRIC (Unrated; 106 min.) Pretty much the Saigon version of Step Up. It takes us to a putative underground of inner-city kids, whose Adidas logos, breakdancing, Major League Baseball hats, Krylon murals and kanji tattoos mark them as rebels who must have freeze-framed MTV to get every detail perfect. Onto this block comes an innocent country girl, Mai (Van Trang), who is attending the
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WARRIOR (PG-13, 139 min.) Nick Nolte puts a third mortgage on his integrity to try to give this hyped-up wrestling movie some integrity of its own. He’s the formerly drunken father of two battered sons (Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton) who need to pull together as a Mixed Martial Arts tournament is about to open. Director Gavin O’Connor makes a 2-1/2-hour Testament of Faith; big books with big titles (“STEINBECK”) float onscreen behind Nolte to remind us of what the film is getting at. The “wars” are one long series of two man clusterfights. Summing up, Brendan’s principal says, “Literally it looks bad; figuratively it looks worse”—there’s something politically scary in the film’s astronomical Riefenstahlism, in the way it keeps leaving ground level and going big, as if the fate of the nation depended on the bouts. (RvB)
WEEKEND (Unrated; 96 min.) Intense, beautifully turned story of a weekend’s tryst in Nottingham, U.K., between Russell (Tom Cullen), a barely out lifeguard, and the impatient and rebellious Glenn (Chris New), who doesn’t want any strings attached. Director Andrew Haigh’s focus on all-night conversations and alien, high-rise cubicles (Urszula Pontikos’ outstanding photography puts a chill on the film’s sweetness) almost justifies the borrowing of the title of a deathless Godard film. Sexually uncompromising as it is, the film is a protest against the pigeonholing of gay people that one sees in mainstream movies. “Straight people like us as long as we follow the rules,” says Glenn. The finely balanced combination of emotional restraint and serious eroticism make this one that could transcend a niche audience. Whether it does or not, you can only hope that this is what the future of gay cinema looks like. (RvB)
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BECOME ECOME CO THE PIT Comadre in their favorite spot—the center of the crowd.
From mixtapes to stage setups, Redwood City’s Comadre takes a new approach to hardcore By AARON CARNES
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HERE’S PUNK ROCK, and then there’s Comadre. For this Redwood City band, even the DIY ethos doesn’t quite cut it. They hold themselves to an even higher standard, with their meticulous, hands-on involvement in every aspect of their music, from live shows to recording. And their ideas are sometimes extreme, even in the punk world.
Take, for instance, their vision of the perfect Comadre show: playing on the floor in the middle of the venue, with the audience sprinkled around them in a circle. They want as little separation as possible between band and audience. “There’s a different kind of energy to it. Everybody feeds off of each other. You feel more in touch with the people you’re playing with,” says guitarist Jack Shirley. As an underground touring band doing everything on their own dime, Comadre can’t always control every circumstance of their shows, but they do everything they can to create precisely the live experience and sound that they want. They eliminate variables by putting great care into
working ki out the h best b location l i for f their h i gear and the band members’ positions. They bring their own PA instead of relying on the venue’s. “We worked very hard to make our sound a certain way. The way we’re all set up around each other, the way our amps are positioned. The height of everything,” says Shirley. Their approach to releasing music is just as unorthodox. A few years back, they started releasing free online mixtapes, something common with hip- hop artists, but not at all widespread among punk rock bands. “It started out just as leftover tracks. As we kept going, it’s gotten more involved. Now they’re at the point where they’re release worthy,” says Shirley. They are also entirely different than their standard albums, which stick to being straightforward, screaming punk rock records. The mixtapes include remixes, collaborations with other bands, weird ideas and even guests tracks by friends’ bands. So far they’ve
released five of these free mixtapes with more time being spent on each one. With all this focus making mixtapes, Comadre haven’t recorded a proper full length in five years. They plan to take some time off next year to record a new album. Comadre have gained a sizable following in the underground hardcore scene with their energetic, passionate music that Shirley describes as “loud, fast and screamy.” The music underneath the vocals pulls from many different subgenres of punk, like hardcore, pop-punk and heavy indie rock. The vocals on the other hand stay pretty much the same. “We can get away with anything musically and it still sounds like us. Without the screaming, it’s too much of a departure of what the band sounds like. We try really hard to not put any melodic vocals into our music. It feels too polished and poppy,” Shirley says. Labels, big and small have expressed interest in signing them, but Comadre have chosen to continue to release music. The decision has less their own musi labels wanting to change to do with labe but more about how the their sound, bu allow them to record their labels would all albums. “Their aim is to just make money, costs as much as they can. so they cut cost We’re looking tto make something cool, and not really worry that’s really coo about the cost sso much as long as we can make back what we put into it,” Shirley explains As far as Shirley is concerned, Comadre’s music has never been terribly ground-breaking: “We say it’s punk rock. There’s so many subgenres of indie heavy music. We incorporate many of them. It’s easier to say we’re a punk rock band.” The influence that Comadre has had on other bands has often been less about their music and more their atypical ideas and DIY philosophies. “When someone tells me that your band influenced me to put out a record myself and play a show where we’re not playing on a stage or doing backing vocals without microphones, that’s cool to me,” Shirley says.
Comadre Saturday; 8pm; $10 X-Bar, Cupertino
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Adam Everett Trio
Friday at Café Frascati in San Jose, 8pm; free SJSU album Adam Everett is a jazz drummer with a small stable of fellow young jazz musicians who perform in various combinations and can deliver the classic sound of an era long before their time. But then they’ll bust out with a funk beat or a reggae vibe, showing some influence from the Bay Area groove-jazz movement. (SP)
Booger Kids: Party Cup Invitational 2011 Friday at the Booger Warehouse in San Jose, 7pm; free
A whole bracket worth of San Jose’s coolest will be at the Booger Warehouse on Taylor Street to battle it out in beer pong. BK will be releasing two new designs in conjunction with the tournament, which features matchups like 80s Babies vs. IC3, Adapt vs. The Knowbodies and Breezy Excursion vs. Showroom SJ. (SP) Buy tickets at livenation.com. To charge by phone (800) 745-3000. Limit 8 tickets per person. All dates, acts and ticket prices are subject to change without notice. All tickets are subject to applicable service charges.
Michael Monroe
Tuesday at Avalon in Santa Clara, 9pm; $15 There’s a reason that Foo Fighters and Alice in Chains publicly pay respect to Michael Monroe. His legacy goes back to the spandex world of ‘80s glam rock, and most bands during that time owe their careers to Hanoi Rocks’ Michael Monroe. He was the originator, influencing Motley Crue and Guns N’ Roses. On this year’s Sensory Overdrive, Monroe shows he still rocks. (BD)
Metro’s music calendar runs Wednesday–Tuesday.
Rock/Pop ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, 8pm: A birthday masquerade with Valerie V. and Jackie Gage. $10/$14. Redwood City.
ART BOUTIKI Sun, 7pm: Noys Annoise, Ginga. All ages. $8. San Jose.
AVALON Sat, 8pm: Brenton Wood. $20. Tue, 8pm: Michael Monroe, Jetboy, Road Crew. $15. Santa Clara.
THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Dustonius Maximus, Audible Smoke Signal, Relapse. Free. San Jose.
BOSWELL’S
CLUB FOX
Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: The Peelers. Sat: Dejenerates. Sun: The Gents. Mon: Kid Dynamite. Campbell.
Thu, 7pm: Doni Harvey benefit, featuring the Blood Brothers, Caribbean Allstars, a Deeper Shade of Blue, Los Diablos de Amor, Isis and the Cold Truth. $10/$15. Sat, 7pm: Journey Revisited, a.k.a. Arrival, Big Daddy Sunshine. $15. Redwood City.
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Thu: Kid Dynamite. Fri, 10pm: Dejenerates. Sat, 10pm: The Peelers. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
LILLY MAC’S Fri, 9:30pm: Saints and Sinners. Sunnyvale.
Fri, 9pm: The Ones. Sat, 9pm: Mon Pubis, the Doormice. $5. Cupertino.
CAFFE FRASCATI Thu, 7pm: Jack Gilmour. San Jose.
LOS GATOS LODGE
CAPERS
Fri-Sat: Live rock bands. Los Gatos.
Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
LOS GATOS CINEMA Fri, 10pm: Gnarboots, Birthday Suits, the Caps. All ages. $5. Los Gatos.
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Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music. Mountain View.
MOJO LOUNGE
Wed, 8pm: Salsa. $5. San Jose.
VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER THEATER
Fri: Charles Wheal. Sat: Willie G. Fremont.
ALBERTO’S
Sat, 7:30pm: Tito’s Dance Show. Belly dancing. Redwood City.
MOUNTAIN WINERY Wed, 7:30pm: Billy Idol. Saratoga.
MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE
Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night. Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.
Wed, 6pm: Isis & the Cold Truth. Tue, 6pm: Robert Berry, Paul Keller. Classic rock. San Jose.
ARYA GLOBAL CUISINE
NETO’S GRILL
AZÚCAR
Fri, 8pm: John Garcia Band. $5. Sat, 7:30pm: Deeva Stativa & the Blazers. $5. Santa Clara.
NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: Enrico Capuano & Tammurriatarock. $15. Sat, 8pm: Tony Ortiz, the Honey Wilders, STATT. $10. Gilroy.
NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed, 9:30pm: Jam Night with Backfire & Diva Stativa. No cover. Thu: The Bone Drivers. Fri, 9:30pm: Fast Times. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: The Megatones. $10. Los Gatos.
THE QUARTER NOTE Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Sunnyvale.
RED ROCK COFFEE Sat, 8pm: The Corner Laughers. Benefit for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Mountain View.
THE REFUGE
Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music and belly dancing. Cupertino. 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.
ART BOUTIKI Thu, 7pm: Jazz jam. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Sun, 6pm: Joe Major Jazz. Cupertino.
CAFFE FRASCATI
Wed, 7:30pm: Benise. $47-$97. Campbell.
GRAND DELL SALOON
CASCAL Thu: Live music. Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live music. Mountain View.
CLUB FOX Sun, 5pm: Red Desert Dance Company presents Shimmy, Shake and Shiver, a Halloween belly dance spectacular. $10. Redwood City.
HUKILAU Fri: UH. Sat: Garden Island Blend. San Jose.
LILLY MAC’S
SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE
Wed, 5pm: World music. Thu, 5pm: Hot Kugel. Fri, 5pm: World music. Sat, 5pm: Belly dancing and world music. Sun, 5pm: World music. Mon, 5pm: Moroccan music. Mountain View.
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MOROCCO’S RESTAURANT SJ
Fri-Sat, 9pm-1am: Live music. Gilroy.
Wed, 5pm: Vic Moraga. Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancing. Sat, 5pm: AZA. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 5pm: Happy Together. San Jose.
TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE
PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB
Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.
Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE
RISTORANTE FRATELLO
Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Santa Clara.
Fri, 7pm: Claudio. Italian classic guitar and vocals. San Jose.
X-BAR
SPANGENBERG THEATER
Sat, 8pm: Narrows, Helms Alee, Comadre, Matsuri. All ages. $10. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.
Thu, 7pm: Blues jam. Redwood City.
Fri, 8pm: Adam Everett Jazz Trio. San Jose.
Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.
STATION 55
ANGELICA’S BISTRO
CAMPBELL HERITAGE THEATRE
Sat, 7pm: A Static Lullaby, Park Lane, Wildcard. $$10/$12. Cupertino. Fri, 1pm: Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival with Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Seether, A Bullet for My Valentine, Escape the Fate. $16.50-$84. Sat, 7pm: Journey, Foreigner, Night Ranger. $30$165. Mountain View.
Jazz/Blues
Sat, 7:30pm: Breathless Slides Breathing Rhythms. World fusion concert. $25-$60. Gunn High School, Palo Alto.
Thu, 8pm: Wally Schnalle. Sat: Live music. Campbell.
HEDLEY CLUB Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Danjuma & Friends. Sat, 8:30pm: Blue House. San Jose.
J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Thu, 9pm: The Dan Goghs. Sat, 9pm: The Hum. $10. Sun, 4pm: Ruckus, Gene Washington & the Special Purpose Band. Mon, 9pm: Desiree & Diamond 99. Tue, 7pm: Blue J, Liars Club. San Jose.
LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Thu, 7-10pm: Live jazz. San Jose.
LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.
LOS GATOS BREWING CO. SJ Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos. San Jose.
OLD WAGON SALOON & GRILL Sun: Live blues. San Jose.
A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Mike and Terry. Sat, 9pm: Quasimodal. San Jose.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6-9pm: The Joint Chiefs. Fri, 6-10pm: Nathan James Trio. Sat, 6-10pm: Steve Freund Band. Sun, noon-4pm: Wally Schnalle Jazz Trio. Plus student drum performance. San Jose.
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Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic for singer-songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.
UNWINED
Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic. Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.
Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz. San Jose.
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Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Redwood City.
Wed, 7:30pm: Kirk Abe Trio. Thu, 7:30pm: Jorge Faustmann. San Jose.
C&W/Folk DANA STREET COFFEE ROASTING Every second Mon: Ukulele jam. Mountain View.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS
BLUE ROCK SHOOT Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic. Saratoga.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic. Cupertino.
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ALEX’S 49ER INN Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
AZÚCAR Wed, 9pm: English and Spanish karaoke and dancing. San Jose.
THE BEARS Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.
BENNIGAN’S GRILL Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.
CAFFE FRASCATI Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Free. San Jose.
CITY ESPRESSO Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.
DA KINE CAFE
Sat, 7:30pm: Octobop. San Jose.
Tue, 6:30-9:30pm: Open mic. Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.
THE GRAPEVINE
MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.
Thu, 7pm: Hootenanny. Sat, 7pm: Peter Chung. Willow Glen.
Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.
MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING
Wed, 8-11pm: Live music, comedy and poetry. Los Gatos.
Fri, 8pm: Preston Reed. $20/$22. Santa Clara.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S
ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE
Tue, 6pm: Open-mic night. San Jose.
Fri: Shannon Miller. Sat: Joseph Mortela. Campbell.
QUARTER NOTE
RED ROCK COFFEE
Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam. Sunnyvale.
Sun, noon: Garet & Victor. Bluegrass. Mountain View.
RED ROCK COFFEE CO.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
BLUE BONNET BAR Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.
BOGART’S LOUNGE
RODEO CLUB
Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.
Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: KJ Dennis. Sunnyvale.
Wed: The Dirt Drifters & The Lost Trailers. $10. San Jose.
SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY
BOSWELL’S
First and third Thursday of every month, 7pm: The Canvas. Open to all performers. Sunnyvale.
BOULEVARD TAVERN
THE SADDLE RACK Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys. Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Bobby McDowell. Fremont.
SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Dark Hollow. Tue, 6pm: Cabin Fever. San Jose.
THREE FLAMES Thu, 9pm: Bit & Spur Band. Sun, 8pm: Guest band weekly. San Jose.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: Open-mic night with Anita. San Jose.
Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell. Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.
BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.
CONCERT
Edel Muñoz RENOWNED guitarist Edel Muñoz first picked up a guitar at the age of 7 and began studying at the Vocational School of Art in his native Cuba. From then on, the next 13 years of his life consisted of prestigious music schools and legendary mentors. Muñoz won his first competition, the International Competition and Saturday, Oct. Festival de Guitarra de la Habana, at 20 years old. 15,8pm; $15–$30 His teachers gave Muñoz a knowledge of classical guitar Le Petit Trianon, that allowed him to master classic songs like “Sonatina San Jose Federico Morena” and “La Muerte del Angel,” but he also demonstrated the ability to improvise his own melodies and chord progressions, creating unique renditions of traditional songs. Known for his touch of elegance, Muñoz’s playing style and signature is a step beyond rote perfection, landing somewhere between improvisation and innovation. Muñoz’s accomplishments have allowed him to perform in theaters and recital halls over the globe, from Cuba and the United States to Europe. He has also played alongside some of the best orchestras in the world, including the Miami Symphony Orchestra and Cuba’s National Symphony. By bringing in guitarists like Muñoz, the South Bay Guitar Society aims to educate audiences of classical and other guitar styles by providing performing opportunities to professional and amateur musicians alike. —Nina Tabios
BRITANNIA ARMS S DOWNTOWN Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Comedy with Mr. Walker. San Jose.
THE COURTS CO S LOUNGE O G
EFFIE’SS RESTAURANT S
Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.
Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 27pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.
CREEKSIDE LOUNGE
BRITISH BANKERS CLUB
Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.
Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.
DASILVA’S BRONCOS
BRIX Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.
C&J’S SPORTS BAR Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather. Santa Clara.
Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
DIVE BAR Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
THE ESCAPE Mon, 8:30pm-1:30am: DJ Curtis. San Jose.
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FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE
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SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL
Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.
Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
MOJO LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.
NETO’S MARKET & GRILL
Tue, 9pm: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.
FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY
NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE
Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.
Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
FLAMES COFFEE SHOP
OASIS
Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.
Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug. Sunnyvale.
GALAXY
OFF THE HOOK
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
STATION 55 Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Sun, 59pm: Family karaoke. Gilroy.
TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL Wed, 9pm: Larry. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
Sun, 8pm: DJ Joe. Campbell.
Thu, 9pm-2am: August. Milpitas.
TOUCHDOWN TOMMY’S
OFFICE BAR
GILROY BOWL
Fri-Sat, 9pm, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.
Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke. San Jose.
Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.
O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB
WILLOW DEN Wed, 9:30pm: DJ JR. San Jose
Mon, 8pm: Matt. San Jose.
A PERFECT FINISH Thu, 8:30pm-midnight: Karaoke with Jordan River Productions. San Jose.
PEACOCK LOUNGE THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.
HOOOTERS RESTAURANT Sun, 9-11pm: Karaoke. Campbell.
HUDDLE Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.
JOHNNY V’S Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
Thu, 9pm: Brian. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Ryan. Sunnyvale.
PIONEER SALOON Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall. Woodside.
KC BAR AND RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.
AGENDA
QUARTER NOTE Mon-Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
RED STAG LOUNGE
Wed, 7pm: Best of the Y2KX+1 International Live Looping Festival. $5; free with student ID. San Jose.
Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am. San Jose.
AZÚCAR
REDI ROOM ROSIE MCCANN’S
Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: Antromix. Fri: Workout Party. San Jose.
ANNO DOMINI
Thu-Sat, 9pm: DJ Curtis. San Jose.
KYOTO PLACE
Fri & Mon, 9pm: Vinnie. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.
Dance Clubs
Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell. Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. Mountain View.
X-BAR
Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No cover. Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.
KHARTOUM
KING OF CLUBS
Wed-Thu & Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Sat, 9:30pm: Joe. Santa Clara.
POINCIANA LOUNGE
KATIE BLOOM’S Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE
Tue, 8:30pm: Karaoke. No cover. Santana Row.
RUDY’S PUB Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.
SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL
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.
BAMBOO LOUNGE Sat, 9pm: Thick & Sexy Saturdays. $10. San Jose.
THE BLANK CLUB
Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.
Thu, 9pm: Atomic, DJ Basura. $5. Sat, 9pm: Club Satori. $5. San Jose.
SHERWOOD INN
BLUE PHEASANT
Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas. San Jose.
Wed-Sun, Tue, 7pm: DJ and dancing. Cupertino.
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YOU JUST BRING YOUR DANCING SHOES The Limousines delivered a blistering headliner performance at Left Coast Live Saturday.
Review: Left Coast Live LET’S FACE IT, the Limousines are the best headliner Left Coast Live has had in its three years. They’re local, which is what I think this festival should be about, they’ve been enormously successful in a short time as a band, and I’ve never seen them do a bad show. Plus, they really threw themselves into this one, cranking the volume, blasting confetti and rocking incredibly hard. This year was also the best setup the festival has ever had. Simply and elegantly designed, those two odd little alleys running perpendicular between South First and Market turned out to be the ideal space for it. With tables out along the sidewalks between stages, it had a cool, urban vibe. Not everything went perfectly; mostly, there weren’t nearly as many people as there should have been. LCL founder Chris Esparza estimated a couple thousand over the course of the night, and he seemed happy enough with the festival’s growth. It was a step, but this year’s festival deserved more. Esparza and the people in the local scene who helped him put this together—former 92.3 program director Michael Solari, Barbara Wahli of Barb Rocks, Thomas Aguilar of Ungrammar, Michael Brilliot, Sheila Dowd, John Down and others—did a fantastic job. I also think the number of nonlocal groups could be reduced to make room for more of the South Bay–based stuff we saw Saturday from the Limos, Ben Henderson, the Trims and others. The popularity of the Good Karma showcase showed there is huge appeal for many of the local subscenes, and some of the different factions of the scene can be better integrated in the future. But this was a great start (or restart, if you will) for a festival that’s finally finding its place.— Steve Palopoli
Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. Tue: Pubstumpers Trivia. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN
BRANHAM LOUNGE
Thu: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Radio. Sat: DJ David Q. San Jose.
Wed: Humpday Wednesdays. Thu: DJ. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Chaos. Sun: Beer pong. Tue: $2 Tuesdays. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.
BRITISH BANKERS CLUB Wed-Sat: DJs. Menlo Park.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.
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Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays. Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.
Wed, 7pm: House Party. Thu, 7pm: Throwback Thursdays. Los Gatos.
C&J’S SPORTS BAR
MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE
Wed & Sat, 10pm: DJ. Fri, 8:30pm: Sizzling. Salsa night. Santa Clara.
Wed: Live music. Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy. Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.
CLUBHOUSE RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR
PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB
Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.
CLUB ILLUSIONS Every ďŹ rst and third Fri: Club Fuz. LGBT party. 18+. Every second and fourth Fri, 8:30pm: Sizzling Salsa Night. Palo Alto.
DASILVA’S BRONCOS Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ or live band. No cover. Santa Clara.
DIVE BAR Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs. San Jose.
EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dance Party. San Jose.
THE ELEGANT PUB Thu-Sat, 9pm: DJs. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.
Sapphire Saturdays. Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Buck Wild Tuesdays. San Jose.
Addiction Saturdays. San Jose.
BRIX
STUDIO8 Thu: DJ Frank Nitty of House Nation. Fri: Omarion live. Sat: DJ Cubeechee. San Jose.
TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE 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.
Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover. Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo. Sat, 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik. Sun, 7pm: Latin Beat. Sun, 9pm: Sonidero Night. Sunnyvale.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT
PEACOCK LOUNGE Fri, 8pm: DJ dancing featuring R&B, Top 40. Sat, 9pm: DJ dancing featuring chill, R&B, Top 40. Sun & Tue, 9pm: DJ dancing. Sunnyvale.
Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ. San Jose.
WILLOW DEN Wed, 10pm: DJ JR. Thu-Fri, 10pm-2am: DJ Uncle Hank. Sat, 10pm-2am: DJ Noble. Willow Glen.
SABOR TAPAS BAR Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing. Sun: Reggae. San Jose.
ZEN LOUNGE Wed: Lil Saturday. House & electronica. Thu: 24 Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ D-Roc. Mountain View.
THE SADDLE RACK Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.
SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Wed: Wingy Tango night. Thu: SoFA King Thursdays. Fri: Video Killed the DJ. Sat:
FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Origin. $10. Sat, 9pm: Legacy. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
GALAXY
Party-rocking So Cal hip-hop duo celebrates new selfreleased LP with free in-store. Oct 12 at Amoeba SF.
Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.
KATIE BLOOM’S
San Francisco’s City Guide
FOSTER THE PEOPLE
Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. Campbell.
One ubiquitous single, two back-to-back shows: “Pumped Up Kicks� keeps going and going. Oct 13-14 at the Fillmore.
KING OF CLUBS
BRYAN FERRY
Fri, 9:30pm: Club Brinca. Tue, 9pm: Nox. Mountain View.
LILLY MAC’S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night. Sunnyvale.
LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live DJ. San Jose.
MIAMI BEACH CLUB Thu-Fri: Top 40, club hits, hip-hop, Latin. Sat: DJ Nelly presents. San Jose.
MOTIF Fri: DJs. Sat, 9pm: Sound
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Former singer of Roxy Music in rare stateside appearance to support his latest, “Olympia.� Oct 14 at the Fox Theater.
TREASURE ISLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL Death Cab for Cutie, Flying Lotus, Battles, Hold Steady, St. Vincent and many more. Oct 15-16 at Treasure Island.
MCCOY TYNER Master jazz pianist revisits “John Coltrane and Johnny Hartmanâ€? with vocalist JosĂŠ James. Oct 16 at Herbst Theatre.
More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.
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THE LIMOUSINES drove their point home at LEFT COAST LIVE Saturday.
Photographer SONJA CALDWELL during her show at SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS.
Millhows
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AN JOSE pot dispensaries have a lot more to worry about than the city’s new regulations. In the middle of a signature drive to repeal the city’s zoning regulations and permitting process, U.S. attorneys in California announced last week a coordinated crackdown on the state’s cannabis clubs.
Four U.S. attorneys have already sent letters threatening to seize land leased to cannabis clubs. Letters have so far been sent out to landlords in San Francisco, San Diego and Marin, giving them 45 days to kick out any medical marijuana operations. The feds seem to be targeting larger clubs and those operating within 1,000 feet of schools. “Marijuana stores operating in proximity to schools, parks and other areas where children are present send the wrong message to those in our society who are the most impressionable,” said Melinda Haag, attorney general for the Northern District of California. “In addition, the huge profits generated by these stores, and the value of their inventory, present a danger that the stores will become a magnet for crime, which jeopardizes the safety of nearby children.” News of the letters leaked the night before the U.S. attorney press conference. Cannabis activists wasted no time blasting the announcement. “It’s an outrageous abuse of law enforcement resources for the Department of Justice to use property forfeiture to enforce meddlesome,
nanny-state regulations,” said Dale Gieringer, director of CaNORML, the California chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. “The federal government has no business dictating local zoning decisions.” Dispensary operators in San Jose wouldn’t comment on the new tactic, but most were feeling rattled. James Anthony, chairman for the Citizens Coalition for Patient Care, the organization currently collecting voter signatures to repeal San Jose’s regulations, said the announcement wouldn’t change the signature drive for a November referendum that would repeal the city’s new regulatory program. The crackdown is the latest in a string of recent federal government maneuvers that target dispensaries without going after patients. Last week, the IRS ruled that Oakland’s Harborside Health Center, which has a sister site here in San Jose, can’t take standard business deductions for payroll, security or rent. The collective now owes $2.5 million in taxes. Some dispensaries have had their bank accounts closed out after the DEA began pressuring banks. Jim Sibley, the Santa Clara deputy district attorney who put together the county’s protocol for dealing with collectives, said he has heard about, but not seen, a letter supposedly being sent out to a particular collective in San Jose. “Why do these places get picked? What are they doing differently?” said Sibley. “It could simply be size. Generally, it’s been anyone who moves beyond 99 plants, you go on the federal radar.”—Ted Cox
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ADVICE GODDESS
By AMY ALKON
AdviceAmy@AOL.com
I feel like a disappointment to my boyfriend of seven months. I’m 28; he’s 35 and Mr. Smart. He is a Brit and was a top student at Cambridge. He says everyone expected him to become prime minister, but he decided to become a portrait painter. Although he earns a good living, I believe he considers himself a failure compared with the wealthy Brits commissioning his paintings. He says I’d be “more attractiveâ€? to him if I wrote for a media blog, as it would help his ďŹ lmmaking aspirations. Well, I quit my unsatisfying graphic-design job, and I am halfway through getting my master’s in psychology and have no time or desire to blog. He’ll tell me I’m talented/beautiful/smart but add a dig like “It’s surprising you aren’t more accomplished by nowâ€? and say stuff like “You’re not very attractive when you’re anxious.â€? When I tell him this is hurtful, he apologizes and says he just wants to help me better myself. I want to be the strong, conďŹ dent woman he says is most attractive. I felt that way when we were ďŹ rst dating, but perhaps my insecurity took over. How do I toughen up and develop a thicker skin?—Eroded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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21–April 19): If it’s at all possible, Aries, don’t hang around boring people this week. Seek out the company of adventurers who keep you guessing and unruly talkers who incite your imagination and mystery lovers who are always on the lookout for new learning experiences. For that matter, treat yourself to especially interesting food, perceptions and sensations. Take new and different routes to familiar hotspots. Even better, ďŹ nd fresh hotspots. Cultivating novelty is your mandate right now. Outgrowing your habits would be wise, fun and cool. Changing your mind is a luxury you need and deserve.
TAURUS (April 20–May 20): “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn,â€? wrote the Slovenian-American author Louis Adamic. That’s true enough. Here’s the thing, though: If you manage to get a smooth thorn without any prickles (like on certain hawthorn trees), the only risk is when you’re licking the honey close to the sharp end. Otherwise, as your tongue makes its way up the sleek surface of the rest of the thorn, you’re ďŹ ne—no cuts, no pain. According to my analysis, Taurus, you have just ďŹ nished your close encounter with the sharp point of a smooth thorn. Now the going will be easier. GEMINI (May 21–June 20): On the front of every
British passport is an image that includes a chained unicorn standing up on its two hind legs. It’s a central feature of the coat of arms of the United Kingdom. I would love to see you do something as wacky as that in the coming week, Gemini—you know, bring elements of fantasy and myth and imagination into some ofďŹ cial setting. It would, I believe, put you in sweet alignment with current cosmic rhythms. (P.S.: If you decide to invoke the archetype of the unicorn, unchain it.)
CANCER (June 21–July 22): I’ve come across two
deďŹ nitions of the slang term “cameling up.â€? One source says it means ďŹ lling yourself with thirst-quenching liquid before heading out to a hot place on a hot day. A second source says it means stufďŹ ng yourself with a giant meal before going out on a binge of drinking alcohol, because it allows you to get drunk more slowly. For your purposes, Cancerian, I’m proposing a third, more metaphorical nuance to “cameling up.â€? Before embarking on a big project to upgrade your selfexpression—quite possibly heroic and courageous—I suggest you camel up by soaking in an abundance of love and support from people whose nurturing you savor.
LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): I love Adele’s voice. The
mega-famous British pop singer has a moving, virtuoso instrument—technically perfect, intriguingly soulful, capable of expressing a range of deep emotion, strong in both her high and low registers. And yet there’s not a single song she does that I ďŹ nd interesting. The lyrics are clichĂŠd or immature, the melodies are mostly uninspired, and the arrangements are standard fare. Does what I’m describing remind you of anything in your own life, Leo? A situation you half-love and are half-bored by? An experience that is so good in some ways and so blah in other ways? If so, what can you do about it? You may be able to improve things if you act soon.
VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): There’s a good chance that you will soon ďŹ nd something you lost a while back. It may even be the case that you will recover an asset you squandered or you’ll revive a dream that was left for dead. To what do you owe the pleasure of this blessing? Here’s what I think: The universe is rewarding you for the good work you’ve done lately on taking better care of what’s important to you. You’re going to be shown how much grace is available when you live your life in rapt alignment with your deepest, truest values. LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Chris Richards wrote a story in the Washington Post in which he complained about the surplus of unimaginative band names. At this year’s SXSW music festival in Austin, he counted six different bands that used “Bearâ€? and two with “Panda.â€? Seven bands had “Gold,â€? including Golden Bear. Marshmallow Ghosts was one of seven bands with “Ghostâ€? in their names. You’re in a phase of your life when it’s especially important not to be a slave of the trends, Libra—a time when it’s crucial to your well-being to come up with original language, unique descriptions and fresh approaches. So what would your band’s name be? (tinyurl.com/BadNamesForBands)
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): You’ve got to cry one
more tear before the pungent comedy will deliver its ultimate lesson and leave you in peace. You’ve got to make one further promise to yourself before you will be released from the twilight area where pain and pleasure became so tangled. You’ve got to navigate your way through one more small surrender before you will be cleared to hunt down your rebirth in earnest. But meanwhile, the catharses and epiphanies just keep on erupting. You’re growing more soulful and less subject to people’s delusions by the minute. Your rather unconventional attempts at healing are working—maybe not as rapidly as you’d like, but still, they are working. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): “Most people who profess a deep love of the Bible have never actually read the book,� says religious writer Rami Shapiro. If they did, they’d know that Satan is not implicated as the tempter of Adam and Eve. There’s no mention of three wise men coming to see baby Jesus, or of a whale swallowing Jonah. Homilies like “This too shall pass� and “God helps those who help themselves� never appear in the scriptures. And contrary to the Ayn Rand–style self-reliance that evangelicals think is a central theme of their holy book, the Bible’s predominant message is that goodness is measured by what one does for others. I bring this up as a teaching about how not to proceed in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. You really do need to know a lot about the texts and ideas and people and situations upon which you base your life. (tinyurl.com/BibleFog)
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): “The artist’s job
is not to succumb to despair but to ďŹ nd an antidote to the emptiness of existence.â€? So says the Gertrude Stein character in Woody Allen’s ďŹ lm Midnight in Paris. As an aspiring master of crafty optimism myself, I don’t buy the notion that existence is inherently empty. I do, however, wish that more artists would be motivated by the desire to create cures for the collective malaise that has haunted every historical era, including ours. In alignment with your current astrological omens, I invite you to take up this noble task yourself in the coming weeks, whether or not you’re an artist. You now have much more than your usual power to inspire and animate others.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): The world-famous whiskey known as Jack Daniel’s is produced in Moore County, Tenn., which prohibits the sale of alcohol in stores and restaurants. So you can’t get a drink of the stuff in the place where it’s made. I suspect there’s a comparable situation going on in your life, Aquarius. Maybe something you’re good at isn’t appreciated by those around you. Maybe a message you’re broadcasting or a gift you’re offering gets more attention at a distance than it does up close. Is there anything you can do about that? The coming weeks would be a good time to try. PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): Once you drive your car into Norway’s Laerdal Tunnel, you’re in for a long haul through the murk. The light at the end doesn’t start appearing until you’ve traveled almost 14 miles. Using this as a metaphor for your life in the here and now, I estimate that you’re at about the 12-mile mark. Keep the faith, Pisces. It’s a straight shot from here. Can you think of any cheerful tunes you could sing at the top of your lungs? Test this hypothesis: The answer to a pressing question will come within 72 hours after you do a ritual in which you ask for clarity.
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79 By CECIL ADAMS
CECIL@METRONEWS.COM
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