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Backstabber We were more than just coworkers. You told me I was one of your closest friends. We hung out a lot outside of work, and shared intimate details of our personal lives. I provided you with endless hours of emotional support, picking you up when you were down. When I told you it felt like the woman in “Cubicle A” (CA) was “out to get me,” you told me that you were loyal to me over her and that you thought CA was crazy. However, it turned out that you acted as a spy for CA, making notes of any real or perceived transgressions from “perfection” on my part; such as taking a personal phone call or coming back a minute late from a break. Your “testimony” was instrumental in getting me fired. You had my back all right ... with a knife.
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Hypocrisy SJPD has now arrested protestors for camping on city property. My neighbors and I are furious about the hypocrisy on the part of SJPD and City Hall. Please do us all a favor and
write an article comparing the SJPD’s aggressive response to the Occupy Wall Street protestors while they allow derelicts to camp in St. James Park. Those of us who own homes downtown are sick of the double standard. SJPD ignores our pleas to evict those destructive derelicts from our historic park. St. James Park is ruined and unusable by those of us who choose to support downtown by living here. Refusing to enforce laws so that individuals are permitted to live like animals outdoors is not compassion. We are enraged that they choose to arrest protestors for “camping” on city property while ignoring derelicts who camp, urinate and defecate all over our city. JOSEPH | FURIOUS ON SOUTH 15TH ST
All-Powerful [Debra Figone] is the mayor, police chief, City Council head voice and owner of all city services (“So Rich It’s Sick,” The Fly, Oct. 19). With all this power it only makes sense that the audit of the Incubator program was shut down. She is the voice and boss of the city. AMAZING
Just Go Is anybody happy with San Jose under the management of Debra Figone? It might be worth the 100K sick leave payout just to get rid of this disaster of a city manager! Let’s see, 239K in salary, plus 100K in sick leave—that’s a pretty sweet deal.
M Meanwhile hil cops and d firefi fighters ht are laid off, libraries cut hours, city workers get screwed at every turn and us citizens watch as San Jose goes a little farther down the drain every day. Please, Debra, just take the money and run. READER
Irony Oh, the irony of complaining about the 100K Figone might get but forgetting the police and fire payouts to the chief that are nearly three times that. Yeah, no greed among the fire and police ranks. Phony hypocrites. All of us noncity workers are sick and tired of all their greed. UNION RANKS
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Netflix Nightmare Ouch! All that waffling on names, services and pricing in the last year really hasn’t helped out Netflix. According to a new report from GigaOM, the Los Gatos SELF-FULFILLED PROPHECY The iconic Netflix envelope gives the phrase ‘in the streaming and DVDred’ a horrifyingly literal meaning. rental company lost 800,000 subscribers in the third quarter, as shown in the company’s Q3 statement Monday. It’s clear that Netflix’s loyal followers didn’t remain loyal when the company couldn’t make up its mind on what to charge, after they uncoupled streaming from their basic disc packages and even more have left now after the fallout from the short-lived Qwikster plan. The news crunched Netflix’s stock price well under $100, down from $300 in July. Also in Netflix news this week was the report that due to new business ventures in Ireland and the UK, the company is prepared to operate in the red in the first quarter of 2012. Reuters reports that CEO Reed Hastings wrote in a letter to shareholders: “We expect the costs of our entry into the UK and Ireland will push us to be unprofitable on a global basis; that is, domestic profits will not be large enough to both cover international investments and pay for global G&A and technology and development.” Perhaps Netflix can hunker down and weather this storm, because it’s clear that although they’ve lost some customers now, in the long run they could gain a whole lot more from overseas. —BRENDAN NYSTEDT
Groupon Suing Two Google Employees Coupon site Groupon isn’t happy about the many clones that have emerged over the last few months. Most of all, they aren’t happy about competing services offered by Internet giants like Google. But how can they, a company that hasn’t even released its IPO yet, challenge one of Silicon Valley’s most formidable powerhouses? They can’t, they decided, but they can go after former employees who have turned their back on them and gone over to the dark side—Google. On Monday, Groupon filed a civil complaint against Michael Nolan and Brian Hanna, two former employees, in an Illinois SHOP ON court. Employees at The suit Groupon are probably alleges walking to a spa that the resort they would two men never have gone to transferred without a coupon. several of Groupon’s customer lists, marketing plans, and other confidential information to Google when they made the move.
some talent it poached from Groupon. By suing at least two of the employees, Groupon seems to be retaliating for the poaching spree. —DANNY WOOL
The iPod of Thermostats The iPod was a paradigm shift in design when it was released in 2001. Instead of having a complex array of buttons like other MP3 players, the iPod has always had a simple touch-based interface with a wheel for navigating. It continued Apple’s drive to make their products as clean and simple as possible. One of the people responsible for the original iPod, Tony Fadell, has turned his product design talents toward developing a better thermostat. Why the thermostat? Because it’s an obvious piece of underdeveloped technology which could save consumers money on their heating and cooling bills every year. They’ve announced their new Nest Learning Thermostat, which includes an easy-to-operate user interface and advanced features like a motion detector (to tell if someone’s in the house), built-in scheduling that learns users’ patterns and a program that lets people know how much energy they’ve saved
Google has long taken an interest in Groupon, and offered to buy the company last year for an estimated $6 billion. Groupon finally rejected the offer, and decided to launch its own IPO, with the company valued at $15 billion and a lot more (depending on who was doing the estimating). Then came the summer slump and a decline in Groupon’s value, which is now estimated at about $10 billion, still considerably more than Google’s initial offer.
NUMBERS GAME Having learned
But in that time, Google also managed to release its own competitive Google Offers, with
nothing from the sci-fi films of yesteryear, Nest Learning asserts that machines also know how to make a room ‘comfortable.’
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Oracle Grabs RightNow In order to stay competitive, Oracle has purchased Montana-based company RightNow for $1.5B. RightNow, according to the report from Bloomberg, specializes in “software that helps companies serve customers using call centers, internet and social networks.” The acquisition is the largest single one Oracle has undertaken since it gobbled up Sun Microsystems in 2010. The press release on RightNow’s site says that the deal is expected to close by early 2012 at the latest. Each company will continue to operate independently until the takeover is finalized. —BRENDAN NYSTEDT
Zynga’s IPO Due Before Turkey Day The week of Nov. 17. That’s the date that most people are giving for the release of Zynga’s long-awaited IPO. While the reports are still speculative, it is noted that Zynga CEO Mark Pincus cancelled his appearance at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit, supposedly to focus on the IPO release. Nevertheless, insiders say that the date is not final and could be postponed until as late as 2012. Zynga has already postponed the release of an IPO because of a slump in the market. By releasing its IPO at that time, Zynga would be following another high-tech giant Groupon, which will be releasing its own IPO in early
TURKEY DROP While CEO Mark Pincus scrambles to make the Nov. 17 deadline for Zynga’s IPO, Zynga players scramble to look up what IPO means.
November. The success of that release will be carefully monitored, since it will be the first major hightech firm to enter the market since the long summer downturn. Its success (or lack thereof) will serve as a litmus test for companies like Zynga to make the final decision about their own offerings. All of this will be setting the groundwork for the most anticipating IPO of all, Facebook. If things remain on track, it will launch its IPO sometime in early 2012. —DANNY WOOL
Stanford AI Pioneer Passes John McCarthy, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has passed away at the age of 84. Although originally from the East Coast, McCarthy found his home in Bay Area at Stanford. His early work included the development of LISP in 1960 at MIT. LISP is an object programming language still used today in the development of AI systems. According to his Wikipedia article, McCarthy was also responsible for coining the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in 1956 in his proposal for the Dartmouth Conference, an important event in the development of AI. McCarthy taught at Stanford from 1962 all the way until his retirement in 2000. During his time at Stanford, he helped get the Stanford AI Laboratory off the ground. After his retirement, he remained a professor emeritus of computer science.
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using the device. According to The New York Times, Fadell started the company in 2010 after being frustrated with the offerings of current thermostat manufacturers. Palo Alto–based Nest is taking preorders for the product now and it is expected to begin shipping next month. —BRENDAN NYSTEDT
SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics
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San Jose Rep’s recent production of ‘Spring Awakening’ included SJSU students in its cast.
Final Curtain Call For the Rep? The 2006 San Jose City Council unanimously approved a $2 million loan to the San Jose Repertory Theatre, fondly known as the Rep. On Tuesday, the 2011 City Council considered modifying this loan. The Rep has made progress in getting out of the red and into the black by reducing staff, designing less expensive sets, shorter show runs and using San Jose State University (SJSU) students in the most recent play to reduce costs. In addition, the Rep welcomed independent traveling shows for short runs that are quite popular. ... These cost reductions have allowed the Rep to make all of the interest payments, totaling more than $200,000. However, like some homeowners, the Rep was only paying interest and nothing on principal. As a result of the Rep not being able to keep its 2006 financial commitment, the council will consider modifying the terms of the loan to collect the debt over 25 years. The Rep knows there is no additional money available from the city. It also realizes that it needs to make do with what it has while simultaneously making progress on the debt. The Rep is responsible for bringing
people to downtown to enjoy theater. As a consequence, a portion of the Rep’s 75,000 attendees spends money before and after shows downtown. This activity has a $9.1 million economic benefit, according to an independent economic impact assessment by Deloitte. ... However, let’s look at this from a different perspective. Let’s say you were sick and tired of funding the arts and just wanted to call in the loan. Well, for starters, you may only be able to get $100,000 out of the $2 million that is owed, as the Rep would file for bankruptcy. You then might be able to liquidate some set props and some costumes for pennies on the dollar. You could not rip out the seats and sell them, since the city already owns the physical seats. Oh, OK, perhaps you could roll up the curtain and sell that along with the golf nets purchased for $2.26 million. —Pierluigi Oliverio, San Jose City Councilmember
Tom To save the Rep and other worthwhile projects, why can’t we cut the City Council in half and have the mayor and council members serve for a stipend like all the surrounding cities? This would free up millions for the Rep, etc.
Go Sharks! Seems like the Sharks or sports in general is a better investment.
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Occupy the Wall The first member of the Occupy San Jose protests to be cited at City Hall climbed a large wall in the plaza and was still there as of Tuesday afternoon. The man, identified as Shaun O’Kelly, reportedly climbed the wall in protest of other members of the movement being removed from city property. O’Kelly is now calling for Mayor Chuck Reed and City Manager Debra Figone to listen to the occupation’s grievances in total in exchange for him coming down from the wall. Five people were arrested in the plaza around 3am Monday for illegal camping. One was cited and released at the scene, and the other four were booked into Santa Clara County Jail. On Tuesday, seven more protesters were arrested. Occupy San Jose protester Peter Brown said that at least three tents were pitched outside of City Hall when he left on Sunday afternoon. He said that when he returned Monday morning, O’Kelly was already on the wall. Police said it could be dangerous to try to remove O’Kelly, so he will be allowed to stay for now. —Silicon Valley Newsroom
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Welcome Back PLAY IT AGAIN Members of past and present Golden State Warriors teams will take part in a charity basketball game Nov. 5 at the San Jose State Event Center to benefit the fight against cancer.
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S FALL begins to give way to winter, there is a distinct smell of burning leaves in the evening air that reminds me of ... basketball. Weird, I know. As the son of a high school coach who broke into empty gyms at night to force his boy to practice lefthand layups—to no avail— the cool October air always provides an olfactory sense of nostalgia.
But unlike past years, professional basketball doesn’t appear to be on the agenda. Right now, the NBA is in danger of losing the entire season as owners and players squabble over money and an assortment of other issues that mean nothing to the common fan. Already, the first four weeks of the season have been canceled. With the NBA lockout unlikely to end any time soon, hoops fans are being prevented from seeing the ferocity of a Derrick Rose–led fast break or the grace of a Ray Allen jump shot or, worst of all, experiencing the glee that accompanies LeBron choking on his fear of the limelight. Undoubtedly, the San Jose Sharks will pick up the slack, and thank god for that. Without hockey, the Silicon Valley sports landscape would be as exciting as a winter in Turlock. (No offense, college basketball, but wake me up in March.)
But as NBA players, owners and attorneys bicker, a familiar cast of characters to the Bay Area basketball scene is planning a reunion. Members of the 2007 Golden State Warriors, who were rallied by fans with the phrase “We Believe” in the massive upset of the topseeded Dallas Mavericks in the playoffs that year, will be playing in a charity event Nov. 5 at the San Jose State Event Center. The fundraiser, called the “We Believe vs. Dubs,” will benefit the Kaiser Permanente Breast Cancer Research foundation as well as Matt Barnes’ Athletes vs. Cancer foundation. Barnes, who was embraced as a fan favorite during his time with the Warriors, helped organize the event. While the charity game isn’t expected to feature Golden State’s best players during its successful 2007 run—Baron Davis and Stephen Jackson have curiously not committed to play—current Warriors Monta Ellis, Stephen Curry and David Lee will be joined by former Warriors Jason Richardson, Gilbert Arenas, Barnes and others. Tickets went on sale this week at Ticketmaster, and while the prices are high in some cases—a quick check online had seats available at only $60 and $100—fans and their wallets can take solace in the fact that part of the proceeds are going to an excellent cause.—Josh Koehn
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Famed sculptor Rodin left his imprint on generations of artists, as shown in new Stanford exhibit By GARY SINGH
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RECENT VISIT to the venerable Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University proved to be inspiring in several ways. The new exhibition, “Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation 1876–1936,” explores the French sculptor Auguste Rodin’s influence on a generation of American artists at the onset of the 20th century. A variety of media is presented— sculpture, watercolors and more—by a wealth of famous folks, including Malvina Hoffman, Edward Steichen and Georgia O’Keeffe. Experiencing the show and perusing the catalog of essays definitely influenced my own pursuits in crackpot scholarship. For example, in the exhibit catalog, art historian Jennifer Marshall writes about the etymology of the word influence, stating that, “[in] its earliest usage, during the 14th century, the word influence generally referred to astrological phenomena, the workings of the stars. Emanating from on high, an imagined ethereal
fluid trickled downward to earth and then into the temperaments and behaviors of people.” It has the same etymology as influenza, and she quotes Harold Bloom, who defined influence as “a metaphor, one that implicates a matrix of relationships—imagistic, temporal, spiritual, psychological.” To wit, in the Cantor Center exhibit, one sees a miniature of Rodin’s scandalous monument to French author Honoré de Balzac. The story is legendary. Commissioned in 1891 by the Société des Gens de Lettres, Rodin labored
TWISTER Hugo Robus’ 1925 bronze is one of many examples of Rodin-esque art at the new Cantor show.
for years to produce a sculpture of Balzac highly unconventional for its time, a monument that captured Balzac’s creative spirit, his soul, his inner conflicts and his tumultuousness. The work portrayed Balzac in a robe, bohemian yet domesticated, standing with one foot forward and his girth prominent. Decrying the statue as grotesque, the backlash was near-violent. The Société rejected the work, which was simply too ideologically provocative for them to understand. As a result, Rodin kept the sculpture for himself, and it did not see the light of day until decades after his death. Under the influence of such a hilarious tale, I unearthed a few tidbits intertwined with the whole affair. The tune goes a little like this: As Rodin began to miss deadlines for completing the Balzac monument, another sculptor, Anatole Marquet de Vasselot, fervently tried to weasel in on the action. A Balzac fanatic, Vasselot was a contributor to the esoteric Salons de la Rose+Croix, a series
of Rosicrucian-themed art shows in Paris. The Rosicrucians backed Vasselot to take Rodin’s place and receive the commission. It was the mystics vs. Rodin. Organized by the flamboyant novelist and mystic Joséphin Péladan, the Salons de la Rose+Croix occurred during the fin de siècle (end of the century) era of French symbolism, when occult interest was reaching a new apex. Composers, dancers, visual artists and various members of Parisian high society were becoming enamored with the aesthetics of mysteries and symbols. Vasselot even sculpted his own rendition of Balzac, cast as a winged sphinx, riddled with Rosicrucian symbolism. But to the dismay of the Rosicrucians, Vasselot didn’t succeed in supplanting Rodin for the project. That was the end of it. And then there’s Aleister Crowley, the multidisciplinary English poet, philosopher and occultist troublemaker. Crowley actually defended Rodin against the critical backlash and subsequently befriended the sculptor a few years later. Since the very mention of Crowley’s name tends to upset the anthill, scholars seem to avoid him, but in 1907 he published a collaboration with Rodin. Titled Rodin in Rime, the book includes seven erotic watercolors that Rodin presented to Crowley, plus a few dozen of Crowley’s poems dedicated to Rodin. Published in an extremely limited edition, the book today commands quite a price in antiquarian circles, but the text is available for free download at numerous websites. So it was Auguste Rodin and Aleister Crowley vs. the Rosicrucians. What a story. To recap, the Salons de la Rose+Croix were esoteric art shows organized by Joséphin Péladan. Oddly enough, his mystical lineage can be traced to the same group of Rosicrucians who later initiated the American Harvey Spencer Lewis—the same chap who brought the Rosicrucian Order AMORC to the United States and, eventually, to our own San Jose, Calif. Whew. Now I want to be an art historian. I have the folks at the Cantor Center to thank. They have influenced me, and I have adapted.
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-Evolution Sillicon Valley’s future won’t be stuck in cubicles or outsourced to Asia. A new work model based on shared spaces and informal collaborators is transforming startups and product development. BY TESSA STUART
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T A table inside the new San Jose TechShop, a 17,000square-foot building on the corner of Second and San Carlos streets, a young man perches on a stool at a wooden worktable. Holding a large horse head gingerly in one hand, he stares intently at the left nostril. Very carefully, he carves it out of snowy-white faux fur bonded to plastic, shaving down the smallest edge to find the right shape.
The workshop is filled with identical tables, all made in-house on the shop’s 4-by-8-foot ShopBot CNC Wood Router System. A few tables away, another man sets three iPod docks up on the table. In a room in the back, a young woman peers into the observation window of an Epilog Helix 60-Watt
Laser Cutter, supervising as the machine slices wedding invitations to her specifications. That’s the idea behind TechShop. Whatever the vision—a horse head (that was for a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by the way), wedding invitations or the prototype for an iPod dock—the studio provides the tools and knowhow to help realize it. In the past, a lack of capital—be it machinery, money or a work space—might have thwarted an aspiring entrepreneur’s ability to start a business. In Silicon Valley, things are starting to change. Advances in technology have made it possible to start up and stay up simply by sharing. The increasing popularity of collaborative consumption— enterprises like ZipCar, the membership-based car-sharing service, or Airbnb, the site that matches vacationers with available homes—has, in recent years, proven the value of resource pooling.
The idea that each worker needs his or her own desk, chair, telephone and filing cabinet may be anachronistic and inefficient in an age of cloud storage and smartphones. “Two thirds of the day the typical office is empty,” says Jeremy Neuner, CEO of the coworking facility NextSpace, which has branches in San Jose, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Culver City. “People are off at client sites or they are telecommuting or they are in a conference room or whatever.” In the future as Neuner sees it, “the workplace will no longer be a place—it will be a portfolio of places that you will pick and choose from almost on a real time basis based on who you are and what you’re doing that day and who you need to work with and even what your mood is, quite frankly.” “Companies are learning that big corporate campuses are expensive to build, they’re expensive to maintain, they’re expensive to heat and keep cool, “ Neuner says. “So they think
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TechShop offers entrepreneurs access to the heavy or specialized machinery that in the past would have been out of reach except to the heavily capitalized. Perhaps more valuable, however, is the access that members gain to TechShop’s collected brain trust. Consider the infant-warming device known as Embrace. Rajan Patel and Naganand Murty were recently back from Nepal when they came into TechShop with an idea. Twenty million low-weight and premature babies are born every year, a large share of those in areas far removed from an incubator. While students at Stanford’s design school, the pair had taken on a challenge to design an alternative that could function in remote areas. The pair knew that the product’s utility would be limited if it required electricity or training to operate. They envisioned something simpler, cheaper and without moving parts, but with the ability to regulate a baby’s body temperature when access to an incubator was not an option. “They sat down and started working, and people were hanging around, and word gets out that they are saving babies’ lives, right?� TechShop CEO Mark Hatch recalls. Members began to approach Patel and Murty to offer their expertise. According to Hatch, the conversations went something like this: “‘What do you know about polymer chemistry—more than a polymer chemistry Ph.D. at Lawrence Livermore Labs?’� he chuckles. “‘No.’ ‘What do you know about material construction of the blanket—more than the product vault at IDEO?’� Hatch explains, “These are people
who are just members who come by and help them upgrade their core intellectual property for free. Just do it because it’s a good thing to do.� Embrace, the product that resulted, looks like a tiny sleeping bag. Inside is a pouch; a small packet of phasechanging material can be removed, warmed (by dunking it in hot water or using an electric heater) and reinserted where it will keep the interior of the blanket at a toasty 98.6 degrees—the critical temperature for survival. The packet can be rewarmed as necessary, until the child’s hypothalamus develops enough to regulate its own body temperature. They managed to create a
Five years ago, Jim Newton envisioned a ‘Kinko’s for Geeks’—a place where the kinds of tools needed to build a model train set or a jetpack would be on hand. highly effective product, but more importantly they were able to do it for a ultimate cost of $25, less than 1 percent the cost of a traditional incubator. Patel and Murty founded a company and have partnered with General Electric to begin distributing Embrace in India. They estimate the blanket will save 100,000 lives in the next ďŹ ve years. Hatch reckons that the core intellectual property for the Embrace blanket, like countless other projects at TechShop, got a considerable upgrade simply by virtue of the fact that its inventors worked in a shared space. “You’re sitting next to someone who is struggling away trying to ďŹ gure out what they need to do, and if you have some
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Jennifer Braun isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty, and TechShop is more than happy to ablige. Here, Braun is working on...something. Whatever it is, chances are she’ll have all the tools she’ll need, and thensome.
need to do, and if you have some intellectual property that will help, you know, you could try to negotiate an off-the-property license or you could be a nice human and just give it to them.” The sense of community in collaborative workspaces like TechShop, Hatch says, lends itself to a certain kind of generosity. “In these kinds of environments, what people tend to do is just give it to them. Projects are usually—I wouldn’t even say routinely—usually upgraded through working in a space like this.”
Build Anything Five years ago, Jim Newton had a binder full of 200 ideas but no equipment with which he could
build the prototypes. He envisioned a “Kinko’s for Geeks”—a place where the kinds of tools needed to build a model train set or a jetpack would be on hand, as well as mentors to help a person articulate and realize his or her vision. Newton went to the Maker Fair in San Mateo, the two-day DIY festival where exhibitors show everything from a life-size game of Mousetrap! to a class in advanced water rocketry. He set up a stand, and laid out a sign-up sheet and basic premise: “If I build a membership-based do-ityourself fabrication studio with a laundry list of tools, will you come?” One percent of attendees, about 250 in total, said they would. In the half-decade since TechShop
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NextSpace CEO Jeremy Neuner rewrites all the rules of the traditional office, starting with everyday being business casual.
opened its first set of doors in Menlo Park, it has been the venue for the creation of a functional jetpack (with a 30-second burn, it is capable of launching a few hundred feet in the air), the world’s fastest electric motorcycle (which went 218.673 mph during speed trials at the Bonneville Salt Flats in August), Square (the iPhone credit-card reader recently valued at $1 billion) and a liquid-cooled server cabinet with the capability to reduce energy use by an order of 80 percent compared with the industry standard (potential global savings in energy costs: $800 billion—a year). “Two hundred and fifty years ago, the tools of innovation and creativity moved out of the guilds
and tradesperson’s shed and workbench and into corporations,” Hatch says. “It was so emotionally and economically jarring we had revolutions.” When machines first automated manufacturing processes, they were so bulky and expensive that they drove all but the richest out of the market. Over the past 30 years, the cost of heavy machinery has come down. At the same time, computer programs have been developed to control the machines. Now, those two trends have crossed and encountered a third: the move toward consumptive resource sharing. More and more people are realizing that they don’t need, want or have the means to own their own
power equipment. The three trends have combined to create the current moment in which a person can walk into TechShop with an idea, take a class, prototype an invention, publicize it and within in 90 days rack up a $1,000,000 in sales. That’s the way it worked for Patrick Buckley, the inventor of the Dodo iPad case. The prototype and the first 2,000 units were manufactured at TechShop in 2010. Hatch has a hypothesis: “If, for the first time in human history, people had access to these incredibly powerful tools and you changed the class of folks who had access to it from a very limited group to tens of millions and you dropped that into a local city for three dollars a
day, globally changing technologies would probably erupt,” Hatch says. “And they have.” The promise of the 1950s, the golden age of American industrialism, was a chicken in every pot; Mark Hatch wants the promise of next decade to be a TechShop in the parking lot of every Lowe’s— around 1,800 locations. It would take the company 20 years to raise the capital to execute that vision on its own, Hatch estimates, 10 with help from a strategic partner like General Electric, Wal-mart or Lowe’s.
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Over the past 30 years, the cost of heavy machinery has come down. At the same time, computer programs have been developed to control the machines. the community would graze,” the professors wrote in a piece published in the Harvard Business Review. “The commons did not belong to any one farmer. All were better for having access to it.” Modern industries have a commons, they say, and those commons are absolutely essential to an industry’s capacity for innovation. America’s industrial commons— particularly the commons of our high-tech manufacturing industry, based in Silicon Valley—have been devastated by years of outsourcing. Silicon Valley is the epicenter of the nation’s high-tech manufacturing industry: 12.6% of American jobs in the computer and electronics products manufacturing industry are based in the San Jose metropolitan area—that’s 15 times the national concentration, according to figures from the Public Policy Institute of California. In recent years, though, manufacturing in the high-tech sector has declined from 51 percent to 29 percent due to job losses
between 1992 and 2010 as those jobs have been sent abroad. Beginning in 2000, America’s trade balance in high-tech products began to reverse—we went from a surplus of $27.8 billion in 2000 to a deficit of $43.6 in 2011. Pisano and Shih contend the reversal was in large part caused by outsourcing the manufacturing of high-tech products like, for one example, the component pieces that make the Kindle 2. More than the job itself is lost in the move: “Once manufacturing is outsourced, process-engineering expertise can’t be maintained since it depends on daily interactions with manufacturing,” the professors say. The only way to rebuild our industries’ razed commons is to start manufacturing and collaborating on projects here. “Lose the commons and you lose the opportunity to be the home of the hot new business of tomorrow.”
Fresh Spleens Picture three puzzled entrepreneurs staring down at an open box—its contents: one frozen spleen. This was the scene a few months ago at the San Jose BioCenter, a facility that applies a resource-sharing model similar to TechShop’s, but in life sciences rather than manufacturing. The entrepreneurs were working to develop an “antibody discovery platform.” Antibodies are needed to make an effective drug, but they are usually extracted from B cells. The team in question, a company called Single Cell Technology, was developing a way to extract antibodies from plasma instead. There was only one problem—they were used to fresh meat. “Typically, if it’s a fresh spleen, it is just packed in ice,” says Melinda Richter, executive director of the BioCenter. “Then the cells don’t have to be unthawed. In this situation, they had to figure out how to unthaw the spleen and still make sure the cells were viable.” And they had to do it fast—plasma cells die within 24 hours. To secure the time of a technician who could provide the kind of support they needed would have meant a week of lost time. Luckily,
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there was someone with precisely the expertise they required, working in a lab just down the hall. He helped the team write a standard operating procedure that day. It might not be accurate to call it luck, though—when you bring scientists together, innovation spreads. “In life sciences in particular, intellectual property is much more guarded,” Richter says of the collaborative environment at BioCenter, “but what we’ve found here is that people trade ideas around processes,” The 40,000-square-foot facility offers everything from centrifuges, balances and water baths all the way up to a cold room, a tissue-culture lab and a million-dollar nuclear magnetic-resonance system. The idea is to give scientists the infrastructure to develop a proof of concept,
demonstrating the feasibility of a technology to investors. “You can throw two guys in a garage with a couple of computers and a little bit of money, and in two years they can turn that into a company they can sell to Microsoft or Google for $200 million—and not that that doesn’t have societal value, it does—but it’s not curing cancer, it’s not solving HIV, it’s not curing Hepatitis C,” says Richter. “The reason there are not more cures, the reason healthcare is not more effective, is because if a scientist looks at starting a company, even before they turn the lights on it’s going to cost them millions of dollars.” BioCenter, Richter says, makes breaking into any of a host of industries based on biology, chemistry or material sciences “as affordable as going to the gym.”
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Space Race The success of TechShop, BioCenter and the businesses both have spawned speaks to the possibilities of collaboration and resource sharing across sectors. It is indicative of a fundamental shift in the way that companies are being created and work is being done. “If I’ve got an iPhone and a laptop and an Internet connection,” Jeremy Neuner says, “generally speaking, there’s nothing I can’t do if I’m in a creative, knowledge-based economy.” At the same time that technology is allowing many to work anywhere, a lot of companies are deciding that it will be more cost effective not to host all of those employees in one place. Neuner’s NextSpace provides a physical building with a mailing address, desk space, WiFi, coffee and community. One may be able to do work from anywhere these days, but you still have to do it from somewhere, and if you are a “solopreneur,” there is something to be said for doing it around other people. In some cases, co-working could advance business prospects. “It might just be that I’m a freelancer, I’m a solopreneur, I’m a telecommuter and because I work at NextSpace I meet a few people, and now I know some cool people that I didn’t know before,” Neuner explains. “Those people start to trade ideas and trade expertise and little bits of knowledge, and you find that the person sitting next to you is exactly the guru that you need to help you with your project or with your work.”
It can be something as simple as the app developer sitting next to a graphic designer and enlisting them to design the icon and logo, or two single-employee companies joining forces to become one two-person company. Or it could be many entrepreneurs joining together. “They all started out as independents or little groups of two who didn’t know each other before they came to NextSpace,” Neuner says of the eight or nine individuals who would become the team behind AOL’s Additions. “They found each other at NextSpace, realized that they had complementary skills, came together into a company, created some cool applications that got on everybody’s radar screen, AOL acquired them not even a year ago to be sort of their lead mobile team” As the workplace is changing, so is the social life that was once built-in. Co-working facilities like NextSpace are filling a newly created void as the changing workplace alters workers’ social lives. Co-workers at San Francisco’s NextSpace have gone on not just to start businesses but to start a band, the Dodgy Winos, and at both the San Francisco and Santa Cruz offices, chapters of a running group, the NextPacers, have started.
Plug In, Ramp Up Number 165 University Ave. in Palo Alto is a modest two-story building with a beige stucco exterior. A vegan cafe called Loving Hut and a TMobile store occupy the street level retail spaces. It is the upstairs though, where one will find the office space that has flushed the capital markets with billions of dollars in IPOs. The building was home to Google’s first office (around the time the garage was getting too crowded for the company’s eight employees). It was the first American office of Logitech after the founders, two Stanford MBAs, moved the company stateside from Switzerland. PayPal was started there too, as was Danger, the company that launched the first smartphone, T-Mobile’s Sidekick. Saeed Amidi was the building’s landlord. Watching Google, Logitech
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That is, if your gym charges $500 a month—the cost of membership in the BioCenter’s new Concept Lab, which opened in September, designed to help entrepreneurs develop a proof of concept. Five hundred dollars a month is a comparative bargain when one considers that it takes the typical biotech company eight to 12 years and $2.2 billion before a product makes it to the market. Having access to a central location with the equipment services and co-workers with industry know-how can reduce the upfront costs significantly.
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and PayPal gave Amidi the idea (and a few early investments gave him the capital) to start Plug and Play Tech Center, a Silicon Valley incubator, in 2006. “You could say by chance, or by being involved in real estate, we got to meet Google, PayPal, Danger,” Amidi says from his office at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale. Through Plug and Play, Amidi and his associates have the opportunity to be a little more hands-on in the startup process. Like NextSpace, Plug and Play offers co-working spaces at campuses in Sunnyvale, Palo Alto and Redwood City, but that is only a small part of what they do. The company’s larger concern is identifying and fostering promising startups from a fledgling state to a full-fledged one.
It’s a mission that Amidi says, is only now possible in the current state of technology. A startup in the tech world, he says, doesn’t “need as much money to build their product because they host their product in the cloud. They don’t need hardware anymore; they use other platforms like Facebook or iPad or iPhone. They can grow virally on top of these platforms, so they don’t need to have a huge team, they can have a very precise team. You don’t need as much money.” In this climate, Amidi adds, “You can grow faster with less money, less hardware and, quite frankly, less real estate.” Like TechShop and NextSpace, at Plug and Play the idea of collaboration is the key element in creating world-changing
technologies. President Canice Wu cites the example of a Canadian company called Eat Lime. Eat Lime started at the University of Waterloo. It was identified by the Canadian Trade Commission and came to Plug and Play through the company’s “International Bridge” program, a kind of in-sourcing, in which companies are brought to Silicon Valley to see if they can gain a foothold. “They had some interesting intellectual property around video compression, so they came to Plug and Play and through a lot of our introductions and network,” Wu says. “Literally in 30 days, they pivoted from video compression, but leveraged that into video sharing on Twitter.” The company rebranded as
TwitVid and ultimately received seed funding from the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson along with a handful of angel investors. “It’s an example of what can happen in this community where you have a certain idea but again getting a lot of feedback and validation and a mentor who can say ‘uhuh,’ there is a huge opportunity in either adjacent space, or in leveraging the technology but in a different form,” Wu says. “All of a sudden, they found a very, very lucrative opportunity.” There are close to 300 companies in the three-story building, all at different stages of gestation and among them, Wu says, there is constant collaboration of this kind. “We find that kind of openness very valuable. We’re not asking people to
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Access Is Key “The entire aircraft industry was started because the Wright Brothers had a mill and a lathe in the bike shop,” Mark Hatch of TechShop says. “Edison had a mill and a lathe in his shop. You can’t build important innovations without access to mills and lathes.” As critical as the mill and lathe, or any tool in the TechShop artillery, any piece of infrastructure provided by NextSpace, any bit of funding secured through Plug and Play is the intangible and often unpredictable collaboration that goes on within their halls. “Go into an empty office space, and the energy just drags you down. You’ve got to create that excitement you know,” Plug and Play
President Canice Wu explains. “Here a startup can just plug right into it—it’s already there.” The beauty of the new commons emerging in Silicon Valley is not just that aspiring entrepreneurs have, for cheaper and easier than ever before, access to the mills, the lathes, the WiFi, the coffee, the seed funding—it is that the structure that allows more people access to this collected capital is itself becoming an engine to innovation. The new commons are emerging, and not a moment too soon, since across industries, professors Pisano and Shih say, their importance cannot be understated. As they write, “Our research on the semiconductor, electronics, pharmaceutical, and biotech industries has found that commons are even more important to countries’ and companies’ prosperity than is generally believed. That’s because innovation in one business can spawn whole industries.”
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IDEAS TAKE SHAPE When Metro couldn’t find a newsrack that fit its new format, it turned to TechShop to engineer a new design. Two newspaper people turned first-time metal workers spent a day plasma-cutting, bending and spot-welding a prototype, with assistance from professional coaches and helpful ideas from other TechShop members working nearby on their own projects. The first effort (above left) was not beautiful but proved the concept well enough to shop the project to fabricators. K-JACK Engineering of Gardena refined the lines and produced the space-efficient box (at right) that will make its appearance around the valley by year’s end.
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PRIDE RIDE OF THE CARIBBEAN The oxtail stew with fried plantain and rice at Habana Cuba in San Jose.
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ARIBBEAN FOOD conjures images of gentle breezes, daiquiris, Red Stripe beer and jerk chicken. But that picture is incomplete without oxtails. Although they’re misunderstood by many, oxtails are the unsung pride of Caribbean cooking. Mention ox and a picture of a large, tough manly meat or a Flintstone-style cave man roasting a massive cut over a primitive fire arises. Oxtail conjures up images both bony and fatty that would seem to make it one of the least attractive cuts, like a pig’s foot. In a world of overexposed regional ingredients, the oxtail is still a relative unknown. Oxtail is a Sunday food. The dish
takes care and hours to prepare, the kind of care reserved for family and friends that kindles immediate nostalgia among natives missing their island roots. Oxtail is an expensive ingredient, an ox (or more likely, beef cattle), has only one tail. Reducing the tail to perfect morsels requires skill similar to a barbecue chef. The preparation is a point of pride among professionals. Each tail must be dressed carefully, peeling back the skin and removing chunks of fat without removing the oval tidbits of meat from the X-shaped vertebrae. The entire tail is split into segments about 2 inches long at each joint to open the bone’s marrow, enriching the broth. The chunks are then simmered at about 250 degrees for several hours, allowing the cartilage to soften and reduce and the fat to melt away. If simmered too long, the meat can toughen; too little, and fat remains.
While simmering, Whil i i savory iingredients di like green onion and thyme are often added. Some chefs create more of a stew, adding tomatoes and garlic when nearly complete. Oxtail is judged by the succulence of the meat. Each cooked tail segment has four little nubbins of meat nestled along the bone, which can be plucked off and eaten with fork and knife, or lifted between thumb and finger and nibbled almost like corn on the cob. The meat should succulent and tender, like beef in beef Bourguignon. There should be no hint of gristle, fat, or toughness. The mouth-feel should be luxurious and slightly silky, and certainly not greasy. It’s a rich and earthy meat with taste that approaches foie gras, but with a texture similar to fillet mignon. Any sauce should serve to enliven rather than obscure the flavor of the meat. Silicon Valley has a broad selection of excellent Cuban and Caribbean restaurants, a rare regional cluster that demands attention. Palo Alto boasts three: Coconuts and Mango Caribbean in the University Avenue area and La Bodeguita Del Medio on California Avenue. Menlo Park’s Back-A-Yard is renowned for oxtail
Back-A-Yard 1189 Willow Road, Menlo Park; 650.323.4244 Coconuts 642 Ramona St., Palo Alto; 650.329.9533 Habana Cuba 238 Race St., San Jose; 408.998.2822.
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and occupies a simple storefront that can charitably be described as a holein-the-wall. San Jose claims both Los Cubanos and Habana Cuba. With the exception of La Bodeguita Del Medio, each serves oxtail with pride. Chef Robert Simmons owns BackA-Yard and Coconuts. Back-A-Yard (the name is Jamaican slang for “back home”) is one of the Bay Area’s gems, with only 12 tables, counter service, unabashed down-home atmosphere, low prices and a varied clientele. Lunch is packed with workers from the Willow Road office parks and dinner draws locals from scruffy East Palo Alto as well as far-flung diners cruising in from the adjacent 101 offramp. Oxtails ($12.95) are served on a bed of rice with a side salad and plantains, and the preparation shows the highest level of skill and care, with the meaty succulence in every bite. The dirty rice is exceptional, but the remaining sides are an afterthought on the disposable plates. Simmons describes his broth as “all about the green onion,” a perfect example of a brightening accent. Habana Cuba is an oasis in an area that has seen better times. This slightly more upscale restaurant serves oxtail in tomato and red wine ($17), the spiciest dish on the menu. Chef Jennifer Echeverri delights in introducing customers to oxtail as a lunch special on Fridays. She gets four or five to try it each time. Her preparation differs greatly from Simmons’ in that the sauce is sprightly, anchored by tomato and seasoned slightly with Louisiana hot sauce, but the sauce is still light, allowing the meat to shine through. Whether it’s from Coconuts, BackA-Yard or Habana Cuba, oxtail offers a real taste of the Caribbean that strays well off tourist notions of what constitutes island food.
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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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AFFINITY Classic American. $$$. Big-shouldered food in handsome surroundings is the rule. The steaks are big and juicy, the pot pies better than Grandma used to make. Full bar. 300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444.
AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza. $. Amici’s specializes in thin-crust, New York-style pizza. With its upscale atmosphere and friendly service you’ve got one of downtown San Jose’s best pizza shops. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am-11pm Sat, 11:30am10pm Sun. 225 W. Santa Clara St. 408.289.9000.
ANTONELLA’S Classic Italian standards in a relaxed, family-friendly Rose Garden neighborhood setting. 11am9pm Mon-Fri, 8am-3pm and 4-9 pm Sat-Sun. 1701 Park Ave., 408.279.4922
ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$. Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5:30-10pm Sun-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555. BELLA MIA Italian-American. $$$. One of downtown San Jose’s most attractive eateries, Bella Mia serves regional dishes with flair. Full bar. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 4:30-10pm Sat, 4:30-8pm Sun. 58 S. First St. 408.280.1993.
BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$. Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and tastes like the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American, Mexican and Asian food. Most dishes are designed for sharing— appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am-10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat. Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St. 408.292.4300. DALAT Vietnamese. $$. San Jose’s second-oldest Vietnamese restaurant continues to draw those in search of delicious traditional fare. Surroundings are clean and friendly. Lunch and dinner daily. 408 E. William St. 408.294.6989.
EULIPIA New American. $$$. The revamped menu emphasizes robust flavors and beautiful presentations. Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:30-9:30pm Sun. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161. FLAMES EATERY AND BAR American. $$. In Silicon Valley, the home-grown Flames restaurant chain is the area’s definitive coffee shop. And now they’ve opened in downtown San Jose to great acclaim. 7am-midnight daily. 88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.
4TH STREET PIZZA CO. Pizza. $. 4th Street Pizza Co. occupies a prime corner spot on East Santa Clara and Fourth with big windows to watch the comings and goings at City Hall across the street. The thin-crust margherita fell short but the thicker-crust pies are better. 11am-9pm
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IL FORNAIO Regional Italian. $$. Embraced by the graceful Sainte Claire Hotel, this location (there are several up and down the coast) transports the diner. The menu showcases a different region of Italy monthly. 7am-10pm Mon-Thu, 7am-11pm Fri, 8am-11pm Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. Full bar. 302 S. Market St. 408.271.3366. KOJI SAKE LOUNGE $$. Japanese. In spite of Koji’s well-tuned atmosphere, it’s the sakes that really set the tone. Koji’s sake list includes tasting notes that help you find one that suits you. Happy hour 6-9pm Wed-Fri with $3 beers and $5 small plates. 6pm-close Wed-Fri, 8pm-close Sat. 48 S. First St. 408.287.7199. LA PASTAIA Italian. $$. La Pastaia remains a stalwart of downtown San Jose’s dining scene. Set inside the Hotel De Anza, the rustic Italian restaurant has big-city style to spare. Lunch 11am-3pm MonFri, noon-2pm Sat-Sun; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm FriSat, 5-9pm Sun. 233 W. Santa Clara St. 408.286.8686.
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SENT SOVI and chef JOSIAH SLONE host a different kind of BYOB event Oct. 27. The “Big Scary Bottle” dinner invites folks to bring in a big bottle of wine—a magnum or larger. Ninety dollars per person covers the cost of dinner and corkage. The dinner will include acorn squash soup with braised fennel, bacon confit with slow-cooked roots and roasted grapes, beef shank and porcini mushroom “Wellington,” and baked-apple-and-blue-cheese crisp. There will be prizes for the “best” bottle, the most unique/obscure bottle and most interesting story of how the bottle got from the winery to Sent Sovi. For reservations call 408.867.3110. LEFT BANK restaurants in San Jose and Menlo Park will celebrate a rite of fall Nov. 17-19. These special dinners will showcase Beaujolais Nouveau, the release of this year’s Beaujolais Nouveau wine. Made from the “Gamay” grape, this wine is similar to a light-bodied Pinot Noir and has fresh, youthful and fruity flavors that pair perfectly with Autumn dishes. By law (in France), it is celebrated on the third Thursday of November every year. Each restaurant will prepare a special three-course dinner for $40 per person designed to pair with the Beaujolais Nouveau. Go to http://www.leftbank.com/events for details. Palo Alto’s otherworldly BAUMÉ restaurant recently debuted a fall menu that includes salade d’automne featuring acorn squash and purple Brussels sprouts. http://www.baumerestaurant.com ALFARO VINEYARDS will team up with ELLA’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT in Hollister on Nov. 9 for a special night of food and wine. The fivecourse, $55 dinner will include bruschetta with English pea purée, fresh buratta and Osetra caviar, romesco tapenade with Spanish chorizo, roasted acorn squash with balsamic vinegar, coriander, honey and hazelnuts over wilted spinach and crispy prosciutto, candy-cap mushroom gelato, flank steak with eggplant caponata and pumpkin crème brûlée with spiced chantilly cream. Call 831.638.0338 for information.—Stett Holbrook
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taqueria fare: big burritos of the breakfast and lunchtime varieties, overflowing nachos, delectable chile rellenos. 7am3am daily. 140 E. San Carlos St. 408.298.5335.
this taqueria cultivates a devout lunch following. All standards get billing, but the mesquite-roasted chicken is the star. Beer. 11am-10pm daily. 72 E. Santa Clara St. 408.277.0333.
LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$.
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Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades. Lunch 11am-2:30pm MonFri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 1-10pm Sat and 4-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.
MCCORMICK AND SCHMICK’S Seafood. $$$. Harks back to big-city fish houses with stately, masculine interiors. Menu follows the freshest fruits of the sea, grilled, panseared, steamed. Desserts will hook you. 11:30am-10pm daily; 11pm happy hour Fri-Sat. 170 S. Market St. 408.283.7200. MEZCAL Regional Mexican. $$. Mezcal specializes in delicious regional cuisine from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. People who need nachos and sour-creamtopped burritos on the menu will probably be miffed, but for those willing to venture beyond the same old MexicanAmerican standards, Mezcal offers an excellent point of departure. 11:30am-11pm SunFri and 5-11pm Sat. 25 W. San Fernando St. 408.283.9595.
MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food cooked and served by people with a personal investment in customer happiness. Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-11pm Mon-Sat, Sun 5-9pm. 86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.
MORTON’S STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, a Chicago-based chain of restaurants with more than 80 locations across the U.S. and abroad, offers delicious, premium-priced steaks. The rest of the menu is a mixed bag. 5:30-11pm Mon-Sat, 5-10pm Sun. 177 Park Ave. 408.947.7000.
MUCHOS Mexican. $. A small player with a big rotisserie,
New American. $$. Lots of restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood joints but few deliver. The Garage does. Small but satisfying menu of well-executed comfort food classics. 5-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm Sat, 9am-1pm Sun. 505 E. San Carlos St. 408.286.1100.
NHA TOI Vietnamese. $$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern-style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am10pm daily. 460 E. William St. 408.294.2733.
PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor. Pagoda offers the gamut of regional all-stars. Full bar. 610pm Tue-Sat. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St. 408.998.3937.
PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$. Filled with artistic spins on California-meets-Italy, the kitchen turns out elegant entrees spearheaded by seasonal vegetables. The impeccable service compensates for the modest portions. Full bar. 11:30am2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat. 323 W. San Carlos St. 408.294.2558. P.F. CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO Chinese. $$. With atmosphere to spare, Chang’s doesn’t neglect taste. Vibrant Szechuan flavors mix surprisingly well with rich Western-style desserts. Takeout. Full bar. 11am-10pm SunThu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 98 S. Second St. 408.961.5250.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO New Orleans. $$. Poor House Bistro offers a low-priced menu of Crescent City classics like po’ boys, barbecued shrimp, gumbo and muffaletta. Live music on Fridays and
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SCOTT’S SEAFOOD Seafood. $$$. Culture lovers and power brokers alike find impeccable sourdough, a sea of marine treats and other entrees and a panoramic view (there’s a sister eatery in Palo Alto). For maximum pleasure, get there at sunset. Full bar. 11:30am5pm Mon-Fri, 5pm-close Sat, 4:30pm-close Sun. 185 Park Ave. 408.971.1700. 71 SAINT PETER New American. $$$. This romantic eatery offers upscale Mediterranean food in an intimate setting. Beer, wine. Closed Sun. 11:30am-1pm, 59pm Mon-Sat. 71 N. San Pedro St. 408.971.8523.
SONOMA CHICKEN Mixed. $. If you don’t mind carrying your own tray and fighting for a table you’ll be rewarded with hearty spit-roasted chicken that requires at least six napkins. 11am-9pm SunThu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat. 31 N. Market St. at San Pedro Square. 408.287.4098. VEGETARIAN HOUSE Vegetarian. $. This meat-free stalwart offers vegetarian dishes from around the world with a side serving of religious reading material from spiritual leader Ching Hai. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 520 E. Santa Clara St. 408.292.3798.
VUNG TAU Vietnamese. $$. Traditionalists might gripe that they can get authentic Vietnamese food for less elsewhere, but it’s hard to top Vung Tau for its fresh, quality ingredients and sleek yet comfortable décor. Encyclopedic menu. 10am3pm, 5-9pm daily. 535 E. Santa Clara St. 408.288.9055.
WING’S Chinese. $. The food is complemented by an exotic dining room with sequestered seating equipped with hanging beads and doorbells, and other miscellaneous peculiarities of a bygone era. Always a fun place to visit. 11:30am-9:30pm daily. 131 E. Jackson St. 408.294.3303 or 998.9427.
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PAPA WHEELIE
ANNE & MARK’S ART PARTY Jason Newsted brings his post-Metallica band PAPA WHEELIE to talk to the hand at the Rivals Halloween Show.
*wed THOMPSON SQUARE Rodeo Club, San Jose Wed – 8pm; $15 You didn’t have to be a country music fan to think that Thompson Square’s “Let’s Fight” was one of the catchiest songs of last summer. In fact, other than the twang in Keifer and Shawna Thompson’s voices, it sounded more like a slice of big, glistening rock-pop than anything else. The fact that the duo is married gave the song some extra edge—do they really start fights just to get their make-up lovin’ on? The follow-up, “Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not,” was pretty good, too, and took them to the top of the country charts. They’re
well on their way to stardom, this is a chance to see them just before they get there. (SP)
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STEEP CANYON RANGERS Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Thu – 7:30pm; $31-$40 Fresh from the Mountain Song Festival they organized, the Steep Canyon Rangers mosey into Montalvo. The bluegrass group has appeared everywhere from Bonnaroo to the Newport Folk Festival, was picked to play with Steve Martin on his album and tour, and recently joined the Rounder Records roster. Using mandolin, bass, fiddle and banjo,
the Rangers look to maintain the traditions of Americana folkroots music with authenticity and instrumental prowess. (MSG)
HEAVYGRINDER Studio 8, San Jose Thu – 9pm; $20 after 11pm DJ HeavyGrinder is like a male music-geek fantasy come to life. She digs extreme metal (her name was inspired by Cannibal Corpse), spins vicious beats and is certainly the hottest of the current crop of super-DJs (sorry, Le Castle Vania!). The former model and actress is also one of the smartest artists in electronic music—her new “microalbum” Love Letters, available solely as a mobile app, is like staring into the future of how indie artists will get music to their fans. It also features her best work, from “Drop It Grind It” to the
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bonus track “Smoking Paranoid.” Chordella also performs at this special Halloween edition of Transcendence Thursdays. (SP)
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CROPBURNER Caravan Lounge, San Jose Fri – 10pm; free Cropburner believes their music should be called “ganja metal,” and I, for one, believe them. On Facebook, they list their influences as: “Black Sabbath, the Melvins, Sleep and Black Sabbath.” Wow, if they are as high when they play the Caravan as they were when they listed their influences, then we know we’re in for some awesome, super slow, sludgy, trippy ganja metal for sure. Might
be as good as Black Sabbath or even Black Sabbath. (AC)
THE SOOTHING SOUND OF FLIGHT The Refuge, Cupertino Fri – 6pm; $8/$10 If screaming metal vocals, double bass rolls and a costume contest sounds like your ideal Halloween weekend show, then the Soothing Sound of Flight have a special night planned for you. Especially if you like your death-metal to be a little more musically complex than say, Morbid Angel. The Soothing Sound of Flight certainly don’t disappoint when it comes to loud, hyperfast hardcore metal, but they also wedge into their songs some spacey breakdowns, danceable grooves and weird rhythms. They
* concerts STEEP CANYON RANGERS
THOMPSON SQUARE
Oct 27 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center
ARIEL STRING QUARTET Oct 20 at 3pm, Montalvo Arts Center
LEMONHEADS Oct 31 at Avalon, Santa Clara
THE MUMLER/KATHRYN CALDER Oct 31 at 8pm, Pagoda Lounge, San Jose
AMONIE Nov 2 at the Blank Club, San Jose
MAC MILLER Nov 3 at 8pm, Avalon, Santa Clara
RICKIE LEE JONES Nov 4 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center
FILTER Nov 6 at Avalon, Santa Clara
DIERKS BENTLEY Nov 11 at the San Jose Civic
JOSH ROSEMAN SEXTET Nov 12 at 8pm, Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford
SOUTH BAY BLUES BLAST Nov 12 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center
they play the Rodeo Club. to kiss them or not when ng goi ’re you if w kno to want THOMPSON SQUARE will don’t call it prog-metal for nothing. By the way, if you want to win the costume contest, make sure you think of something original like a life-size half-eaten sandwich or pile of dead frogs. Those would totally win. Five Characters in Search of an Exit, Memento Mori, Me the Mountain, Anchors and Human Centipede open. (AC)
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THE RIVALS HALLOWEEN SHOW 9 Lives, Gilroy Sat – 9pm; $10
The Rivals’ new album, We Live Electric, may be their most
accessible yet—the lead track “Problems and Solutions” is only slightly too heavy-punk for hard-rock radio. But I like when it starts getting weird, four songs in with “Common Thread,” a spooky number that’ll be perfect for this weekend’s 10th-anniversary Rivals Halloween Show. Another fan of that song is former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, who’ll open for the Rivals with his band Papa Wheelie. There will also be a costume contest and horrorthemed art from Andy Wallace, 3.5 Ink, Dylan Kelly (who did the mural on the back of 9 Lives), Wadl (who did the Rivals’ album art) and more. And, as always at the Rivals’ Halloween shows, candy. So much candy. (SP)
DROP DEAD SIXTY
ANNE & MARK’S ART PARTY
Caffe Frascati, San Jose Sat – 8pm; free
The Warehouse, San Jose Sat – 5pm-late; $55
Taking cues from grunge and alt rock, Drop Dead Sixty is starting to make waves in the South Bay scene. Now a part of Barb Rocks’ growing local music management family, DDS has been compared to Stone Temple Pilots with a dash of Muse. Luckily, lead singer Michael Kerosene has a better voice than Scott Weiland, but it’s easy to see the connection as he slinks around the stage, radiating the charisma a frontman should have. They’ll play an acoustic set at this Caffe Frascati show. (BD)
This fundraiser for the Arts Council of Silicon Valley breaks out of the usual wine and cheese, silent auction mold with a masquerade ball, a flotilla of food trucks, art cars, avant-garde music, multimedia installations and performance art pieces by San Jose area artists. The event, hosted by philanthropic cultural entrepreneurs Anne Sconberg and Mark Henderson, outgrew the couple’s household, where it began in 2007, and moved to an empty industrial warehouse last year. Space is decidedly limited at this private, invite-only affair, but readers can request an invite at www.artparty2011.com. (MSG)
ROBERT CRAY BAND Nov 20 at 7pm, Campbell Heritage Theatre
TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA Nov 20 at 5pm, HP Pavilion
VINCENTE FERNANDEZ Nov 25 at 8pm, HP Pavilion
RICHARD THOMPSON Dec 2 at 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center
GERSHWIN: HERE TO STAY Dec 3 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford
JAY-Z/KANYE WEST Dec 10 at 8pm, HP Pavilion
WAR/TOWER OF POWER Dec 30 at the San Jose Civic
WILCO Jan 28 at the San Jose Civic Join Metro on Facebook at Metrofb.com for a chance to win concert tickets.
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South FIRST FRIDAYS an eclectic evening of arts and culture in downtown San Jose’s SoFA District (and beyond) on the First Friday of every month
NOVEMBER 4th ART WALK 7–11pm
Anno Domini
Higher Fire Clay
MACLA
366 So. First Street
499 So. Market Street
510 So. First Street
BLOODWORK:BODIES by Analog Tattoo Arts Kolectiv On view in the entrie gallery:An unprecedented, artistic and historic project 4 years in the making by 53 tattooers completing 119 backpieces & bodysuits from 5 continents presented in 360˚ interactive views. Directed/produced by Adrian Lee, photographed by Max Dolberg (Analog Tattoo Arts Kolectiv).
Alternative Firings: Master potter and instructor Joe Battiato demonstrates three types of Raku firings – American, Horse-hair, and Naked Raku. The spontaneous patterns created by the firing methods counterbalance the control found in Battiato’s forms. Between firings, the artist demonstrates large, highlytextured vessels on the pottery wheel. Battiato’s latest works grace the Hi-Fi Gallery this November!
Join MACLA for an extraordinary evening of art. Opening in MACLA’s Gallery: Cuban Connections: Near & Far highlighting several Bay Area collections. MACLA’s Castellano Playhouse features acoustic Latin band Santos Perdidos playing an eclectic mix of Son Cubano, Rumba Española, Bolero, and Afro-Peruvian Lando. Image: Nereida Gacia Ferraz, Untitled, opaque pigment drawing on cardboard, 2011
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery
520 So. First Street
577 So. Market Street
Join us for the Museum’s Annual High Fiber: The Art of Collecting Benefit Art Exhibition & Sale! High Fiber is a unique art sale devoted to world class fiber art–all pieces are $500 or less. Artwork was juried by Louise Barco Allrich and includes art quilts, weavings, wearable art, jewelry and more.
MAKE A JAZZ NOISE HERE A collection of music and jazz related pieces by the veteran group of comics artists from SLG Publishing. Also Caustic Curio, the art of Crab Scrambly. Live music by Grooveyeard Shift and a stand-up comedy performance by Pete Munoz.
Image: Untitled #5 by Marian Clayden, 30.5" x 45", $200.00. Photographer: Ann Rossouw.
Additional Participating Venues:
So. First Billiards
WORKS San José
KALEID Gallery
420 So. First Street
365 So. Market Street
88 So. Fourth Street
MESHCollective: a collaborative artistic endeavor where art meets love. MESHcollective is a group of Bay Area artists and designers. SEE the awesome artwork and HEAR the best of local sound all under one roof. DONT MISS THIS!
Iraqimemorial.org is a participationbased internet platform for artists, designers, and architects to propose concepts for memorials to the unrecognized civilian casualties of the conflict in Iraq. Works presents 54 of the most striking responses selected by two juror’s reviews. Projects span architecture, social media, geomapping, performance, video, and visual arts.
Join us for two featured exhibitions:
5-9pm ALL AGES. 9pm-close 21+
Phantom Galleries 95 So. Market Street San Jose Jazz at Eulipia 374 So. First Street Caffé Frascati 315 South First Street Downtown Yoga Shala 450 So. First Street Good Karma Vegan Café 37 So. First Street Metro Photo Exhibit 550 So. First Street Pho69 Restaurant 321 So. First Street Psycho Donuts 288 So. Second Street TechShop San Jose 300 So. Second Street Art Ark 1035 So. Sixth Street
A Box Is A Box Is A Box by Gianfranco Paolozzi Paolozzi turns to the everyday box as canvas for his art markings. Photographs from Italy and Greece by John Eric Paulson An eye towards the ideal, Paulson captures the basic beauty and enhances the drama of his world view.
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FOLLOW OLLOW THE BOUNCING BATON Saratoga’s Henry Mollicone wields a speedy stick at the podium.
Composer Henry Mollicone of Saratoga debuts a new song cycle based on Native American texts By SCOTT M AC CLELLAND
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OR ALL his years in California, composer Henry Mollicone has never completely lost his New England accent or his boyish sense of wonder and discovery. Indeed, despite all the sophistication of his music, he can still seem a little self-conscious and slightly mystified at how to cultivate fresh support for his next big musical idea.
That idea, commissioned by South Bay soprano Nancy Wait Kromm, will receive its world premiere Saturday in Willow Glen. The cycle Songs of the Human Spirit is based on Native American texts, four verses that revive Neolithic views of man’s spiritual place in nature, prefaced by a flute solo. Kromm will sing the short collection, with Mollicone at the piano. Complementing the song cycle will be the composer’s popular and affecting Beatitude Mass for soprano, baritone, chorus and orchestra, featuring the Stone Church Choir. (The program will be repeated on Nov. 13 at Trinity Cathedral in San Jose.)
Mollicone, who lives in Saratoga, has reached a pivotal point in his life—his middle 60s, which some call the age of retirement—but has no plans to slow down. He has taken a leave of absence from his music directorship of the Winchester Symphony Orchestra and his teaching position at Notre Dame de Namur. In their place, he now accepts invitations to appear as guest composer/conductor around the country—he just completed a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan.—and to fulfill new commissions. (His A Song for Our Planet, for solo voices, chorus and orchestra, will be premiered next spring by the combined choral forces of Seattle First Baptist Church and Plymouth Church of Seattle.) Meanwhile, Mollicone has been approached by a recording producer interested in making a video
SONGS OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT Saturday at 7:30pm; donation Stone Church, 1937 Lincoln Ave., San Jose www.henrymollicone.com
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documentary about The Face on the Barroom Floor, the most performed American opera of the last four decades. Mollicone is no stranger to opera, having enjoyed acclaim for his full-length Hotel Eden, Coyote Tales and Gabriel’s Daughter, along with the one-acts Emperor Norton, Starbird, and The Mask of Evil. Yet, Face, premiered in 1978 by the Central City Opera in Colorado, and staged there every year since, has proved to be his passport to recognition here and in Europe. Directly inspired by a painted face on the floor of the Teller House Bar in Central City, the 30-minute cabaret opera is scored for three singers, piano, flute and cello, and entwines parallel stories, one set in the present, the other in the late 19th century. In The New Yorker, in the 1980s, Andrew Porter described a performance that included “Henry Mollicone’s The Face on the Barroom Floor, revived this year with something like a cult success. … The drama is predictable but strangely powerful; the audience is gripped.” The documentary project, still in the talking stages, would trace the history of the story itself—the 1887 poem by Hugh Antoine D’Arcy—and the long success of Mollicone’s opera; It would also include clips from the 1914 Charlie Chaplin/Mack Sennett film of the same name. (Country music stars Tex Ritter and Hank Snow both performed songs on the subject.) The DVD documentary project does need to raise funds to move forward—modest funds, relatively speaking—and Michael Morris of Orchard Valley Fine Arts Foundation stands ready to collect tax-deductible contributions. The Beatitude Mass meanwhile has raised more than $100,000 to benefit homeless shelters and social programs that support those in need, a stipulation Mollicone attached to the benefits of any production. The work has been performed many times around the Bay Area and in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties as well.
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Merce Cunningham Dance Company Tuesday at 8pm; Memorial Auditorium, Stanford; $30–$80 The great innovator Merce Cunningham—who helped redefine dance in the 20th century—passed away two years ago. In his honor, the troupe bearing his name is performing some of his key works on a farewell tour. For Stanford Lively Arts, MCDC will present a restaged version of Nearly 902. The adventuresome work features a score with contributions by John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin and mixed-media composer Takehisa Kosugi.
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Cabaret Runs through Nov. 6; San Jose Stage Company; $33–$45 The bawdy, bewildering days of Berlin between the wars come vividly alive in San Jose Stage Company’s version of the Kander and Ebb musical, starring Halsey Varady at Sally Bowles and Jef Valentine as the emcee. This production takes advantage of the intimacy of the theater to immerse audiences into the swirling decadence of a Weimar-era cabaret. The show’s run has been extended.
Wade Davis Tuesday at 7pm; Kepler’s, Menlo Park; free In his new book, Into the Silence (Knopf; $32.50), Wade Davis weaves together an intricate tale of how the British tried to absorb the horrors of World War I and the early attempts in the 1920s by George Mallory and other intrepid climbers to surmount the ultimate peak: Mt. Everest. In the midst of some sweeping historical panoramas—particularly the horrors of the battle of the Somme, Davis finds time for odd tidbits: Everest the peak was named after a “miserable, venomous and cantankerous” geographer, whose name was actually pronounced “Eave-rest.” (Knopf; $32.50)
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MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY The last appearance in Bay Area by the troupe, presenting a restaged take on Cunningham’s final work. Tue, $30-$85. Memorial Auditorium, Stanford.
Opera O OPERA SAN JOSÉ The local company helps celebrate National Opera Week with two free public performances. Nov 1, noon; Nov 4, 4pm. King Main Library, San Jose.
Theater CABARET The San Jose Stage Co. musical is extended through
Nov. 6. Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun 2pm. $33-$45. San Jose Stage.
CLEMENTINE IN THE LOWER 9 The premiere from TheatreWorks of a drama about surviving and rebuilding in post-Katrina New Orleans. Tue-Wed, 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.
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DAMN YANKEES A musical about temptation on the diamond, presented by South Valley Civic Theatre. FriSat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Oct 29. $14/$18. Morgan Hill Community Playhouse.
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. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and/or 8pm, Sun, 2 and/or 7pm, Tue, 7:30pm (plus 11am Oct 26). Runs thru Nov 6. $23-$57. The Rep, San Jose.
MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL A concert version on tour from Theatre Council Productions of Chicago. Runs Nov 1-4. Tue-Fri, 7:30pm. $28. Montgomery Theater, San Jose.
MY THREE ANGELS Three convicts in French Guinea demonstrate the multiple sides of justice in a Santa Clara Players production. Opens Fri, 8pm. Also this week Sun, 2:30pm. Regular shows Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Nov 19. $10-$18. Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara.
OUR AMERICAN MYTH A new play by South Bay company Bindlepunks addressing hot-button social and political issues. Runs Oct 27-Nov 6. Thu-Sat, 8pm (no Nov 2 show), Sun, 4pm. $10$20. WORKS/San Jose.
SNOOPY THE MUSICAL Sunnyvale Community Players present a musical based on the comic strip. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Nov 20. $18.50-$23.50. Sunnyvale Community Theatre.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE The premiere of a musical
about life-long friends, presented by Tabard Theatre. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun 2pm, Thu (Nov 17 only), 8pm. Runs thru Nov 20. $15-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.
Classical Concerts ARIEL STRING QUARTET A young group from Israel performs as part of Villa Chamber Music Series. Sun, 3pm. $10-$30. Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.
EL CAMINO YOUTH SYMPHONY Guest cellist Zuill Bailey performs Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with the symphony for its season premiere. Sat, 7:30pm. $8/$15. Flint Center, Cupertino.
FACULTY CONCERTS “Mozart and His Friends” with Carrie Campbell and Anthony Doheny. Sat, 5pm. Free. Also early vocal music with Gryphons Wild. Sun, 5pm. Free. Tateuchi Hall, Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.
JOHN CAGE CELEBRATION Stanford’s Lively Arts presents Sö Percussion, Cenk Ergun and M.C. Schmidt of Matmos in a performance of percussion works by Cage— plus new pieces in Cage’s honor. Wed, 8pm. $44/$50. Dinkelspiel Auditorium.
NOVA VISTA SYMPHONY A concert called “Fiesta Latina!” with guitarist Michael Bautista features works by Copland, De Falla and Rodrigo. Sat, 8pm. $10-$20. De Anza Visual and Performing Arts Center, Cupertino.
PALO ALTO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA The season opens with Forrest Byram on Tuba performing Mozart’s Horn Concerto, along with works by Dvorak and Handel. Sat, 8pm. Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto.
PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE Selections by Vivaldi, Telemann and Fasch with guest mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux. Thu, 8pm. $25-$90. Menlo Atherton Center for the Performing Arts.
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In time for Halloween, a program called “Spectral Sounds,” with the suite from “Psycho, a premiere by composer Dan Wyman and treats after the show. Sun, 7pm. $10-$60. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.
SAN JOSE WIND SYMPHONY A program of pop songs and Broadway tunes. Sun, 3pm. $5-$20. McAfee Center, Saratoga High School.
SONGS OF KURDISTAN Sacred songs of the region performed by tanbur player Ali Akbar Moradi. Fri, 8pm. $20/$35. SCU Recital Hall, Santa Clara.
Comedy ANGELICA’S BISTRO Wed, 8pm: Comedy night with host Dan St. Paul. No cover. Redwood City.
COMEDYSPORTZ Fri, 9pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm: Live improv comedy. Fri, 11pm: The Midnight Show. Inside the Camera 3 building, San Jose.
ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 9pm, Sun, 8pm: Mike Vecchione. $12-$18. Sunnyvale.
SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: United Nation’s Comedy. $10. Thu, 8pm: American Me Comedy. $12. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Paul Rodriguez. $25. San Jose.
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EATURING art, music, dancing, storytelling and more, the Dia de los Muertos event on Saturday at the San Jose Museum of Art is a free, community-wide celebration of Day of the Dead—the Mexican holiday to honor and remember friends and loved ones who have died. Through songs, stories, altars and crafts such as sugar skull and paper flower making, the event aims to entertain, and also inform museum-goers about this vibrant holiday. It also provides an opportunity to honor the cultural richness of our local community.
“It’s a day to celebrate our diverse community in San Jose,” says Jeff Bordona, the museum’s manager of Youth and Family Services. “The idea is that we bring in the various cultures in the Bay Area.” “We’re a contemporary museum, so we try to put a twist on some of the traditional things,” he adds. “Last year, we made Shrinky Dinks; this year we’re having scratch art. We’re seeing more and more that the traditional altar is taking on a contemporary spin and including offerings to something other than a person,” he continues. “One year we had an altar that was Death of the American Dream.” Celebrated by people of all ages, in countries around the world including Brazil, Haiti, Guatemala, Bolivia, Portugal and many more, Dia de los Muertos has international and inter-generational appeal. Along with Mariachi San Jose, Capoeira Irmandade will be demonstrating the Brazilian art form. “We want to show that this day is celebrated around the world,” says Bordona. “Bringing in Brazil is a nice message to let folks know how widespread the celebration is.”
Museums CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 18761936.” “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. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.
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The most popular activity of the museum’s Dia de los Muertos event is the making of the calaveras de azucar, or sugar skulls. A Day of the Dead tradition that stretches back to the 18th century, the skulls are colorfully decorated to represent departed souls. Last year, museum patrons decorated somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 sugar skulls. This year, the museum is working to have 1,000 skulls ready to be decorated. A family-friendly event, the Dia de los Muertos event is for people of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate family, friends and community. “All the projects that we have are really geared toward anyone who would like to participate,” says Bordona. “We want the kids, we want the parents, we want grandma and grandpa. A six year old sitting next to an 80 year old, working on sugar skulls,” he continues. “That’s what we like. That’s what we encourage.”—Cat Johnson
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An absurdist tale about a climate conferences. Fri-Sat, 8pm. $5. Nitery Theater, Stanford.
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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. Tue-Sun, 11am4pm. Santa Clara University.
EUPHRAT MUSEUM “Bridging Generations: De Anza Collects. A look at award-winning art from De Anza students over the last 40 years. Thru Dec 28. MonThu, 10am-3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.
HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Pioneering the Valley: The Chinese American Legacy in Santa Clara Valley.” A new historical exhibit. Pacific Hotel Gallery, San Jose.
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 “This Kind of Bird Flies Backward.” A retrospective of paintings by Bay Area figurative artist Joan Brown. Thru Mar 11. “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.” A selection of photographs taken by Owens in the 1970s. Thru Feb 5. Works by installation artist Anna Sew Hoy in the Beta Space. Thru Feb 26. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
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BLACK BEAN CERAMIC ART CENTER
“High Fiber Under Five.” An exhibition of textile arts culminating in a benefit sale. Thru Nov 6. Tue-Sun, 10am5pm. San Jose.
“Dream It; Make It.” Group show. Thru Fri. San Jose.
TECH MUSEUM “Islamic Science Rediscovered.” A show about technological advances in the Islamic world before the Renaissance period in the West. Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.
BRUNI GALLERY “The Jazz Masters Series” by BRUNI. “Sports Originals” by Mark Gray. ““Figurative Sculpture” by Kristina Sablan. Thru Dec 31. San Jose.
COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ART “Glacier Works.” Paintings and prints by Sukey Bryan. Thru Nov 27. Finn Center, Mountain View.
TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Kenjilo Nanao.” Paintings by the San Francisco Bay Area 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. “Jamie Brunson: Indra’s Net.” Thru Nov 20. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.
Galleries OPENING KRAUSE CENTER “Cuba in Focus.” An exhibit by Cuban and American photographers. Oct 27-Dec 8. Reception Thu, 7pm (plus lecture by Jose Manuel Fors at 6pm). Mon-Fri, 7:30am8:30pm, Sat, 9am-5pm. Krause Center for Innovation, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.
MONTALVO “Soil to Site.” A look at the relationship between nature and culture with video artist Richard T. Walker and Bay Area artist Mari Andrews. Oct 28-Jan 15. Reception Fri, 7pm. Thu-Sun, 11am3pm. Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.
CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI “Bloodworks.” Skin art by Analog Tattoo Arts Collective. Thru Nov 19. San Jose.
ART ARK “Sonic.” A show about artists using sound in their works. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “Wire and Thread.” Sculptural pieces by Jonathan and Joella Kermit. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
GOOD KARMA CAFE “The Peculiar Pageant.” Paintings by Lacey Bryant. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
KALIED GALLERY Works by John Renzel and Troy Sims. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
MAIN GALLERY “Sea Shells and Sonatas.” Works by Susan Wolf and Arup Biswas. Thru Nov 20. Redwood City.
METRO LOBBY “Pictures From Paris.” Photographs by Sonja Caldwell. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “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. “Sculpture on the Grounds: Traces, Twigs and Time.” Ongoing. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.
NEXTSPACE COWORKING Featuring work by Phantom Galleries artists Michele Guieu, Katie Guiterrez and Jeanne Yee. Thru Feb 1. San Jose.
OLIVE HYDE GALLERY “Rhythm and Lift.” Paintings by Sonia Gill, Ruth Koch and Wendy Yoshimura. Thru Nov 12. Thu-Sun, noon-5pm. Fremont.
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FLAG WAGS Bindlepunks, a new South Bay theater troupe, takes a hard look at current political and social problems in ‘Our American Myth: A Theatrical Experiment,” running Oct. 27–Nov. 6 at WORKS/San Jose.
PHANTOM GALLERIES Works in storefronts. San Jose.
PHO 69 “Ilion Modern.” New paintings by Randall L. Elkins. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
PORTER SESNON “Resistant Archeology.” New paintings and prints plus a video installation by ChineseAmerican artist Xiaoze Xie. Thru Nov 23. Wed, noon-6pm, Thu-Sat, noon-5pm. Porter College, UC–Santa Cruz.
SAN JOSE CITY HALL “City of Champions: 2001, a San Jose Soccer Odyssey.” An exhibit of photos and other historical items relating to the history of soccer in the city. Thru Feb 29. Opening ceremony Wed, 10 am-noon. Wing of San Jose City Hall.
SLG ART BOUTIKI “Caustic Curio.” The Art of Crab Scrambly. Thru Oct 28. San Jose.
STANFORD ART SPACES “3 Artists.” Paintings by Sue Averell, Carmen Barefield and Marianne Bland. Thru Dec 1. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford.
VARGAS GALLERY “A Journey of Hope.” New paintings by George Rivera. Thru Nov 3. Mission College, Santa Clara.
*books *kids WADE DAVIS
THE LITTLE MERMAID
Davis’ new historical work, “Into the Silence,” looks at the mountaineering career of George Mallory, who died on Everest in the early 1920s, and the lingering effects of World War I on the memories of British people. Tue, 7pm. Free. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
A family show by California Theatre Center. Sat, 11am. $10$14. Sunnyvale Community Center.
ADAM GOPNIK
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The author and “New Yorker” writer talks about his book “The Table Comes First: Family, France and the Meaning of Food” for a Commonwealth Club event. Tue, 7pm. (Call 800.847.7730 to reserve a seat.) Cubberley Community Theatre, Palo Alto.
MPS PILATES FOR PINK
DANIEL HANDLER Two events with the author of the Lemony Snicket books, cosponsored by the SJSU Center for Literary Arts and Hicklebees. Wed, 4pm, stories and slides at the Stage, San Jose; at 7pm, a reading and booksigning, Engineering Rm 189, SJSU Campus.
ROBERT MCDIARMID A booksigning evening with the author of “The House of Wolves.” Sat, 7pm. Free. Menlo Park.
JIM NEWTON The Eisenhower presidency (when marginal tax rates on the rich were much, much higher than today) is the subject of the author’s new book .Thu, 7pm. Free. Menlo Park.
FALL INTO FASHION
Local designer Camilla Olson will appear as part of fashion series. Sat, 11:30am. $39 (proceeds to Stanford Women’s Health Program). Quattro Restaurant, Four Season Hotel Silicon Valley, East Palo Alto. Join in the action and help raise money for breast cancer research. Sat, 3:30-5pm. $10. Misha Patel Studio, Stanford Shopping Center.
PSYCHOLOGY CLUB A talk by Anthony Pratkanis about how con artists and quacks operate. Fri, 7pm. $10. Smith Center, Ohlone College, Fremont.
WONDERFUL WITCHY WOMEN WITH A CAUSE A fundraiser for the Heritage Home in San Jose, Breakthrough Silicon Valley and Angels on Stage includes a luncheon. The guests often wear unusual embellished Halloween hats. Thu, San Jose Fairmont Hotel. $95. (See www. wonderfulwitchywomen.com for details).
ASIAN ART MUSEUM MAHARAJA: THE SPLENDOR OF INDIA’S ROYAL COURTS OCT 21, 2011 – APR 8, 2012
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GET $3 OFF ADULT ADMISSION (Reg. $17)! Use the code MAHARAJA3OFF to buy tickets online. Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Presentation at the Asian Art Museum is made possible by support from Rajnikant and Helen Desai, the Society for Asian Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Draper III, MetLife Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Credit Suisse, the Koret Foundation, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Franklin Templeton Investments, United, AT&T, the Mary Van Voorhees Fund of the San Francisco Foundation, Richard and Kim Beleson, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and Incredible !ndia. Media sponsors: San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, ABC7, KQED, San Jose Mercury News, and India West. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities. MAHARAJA WITH FALCON: Artwork by Sanjay Patel, gheehappy.com
Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art & Culture 200 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102 www.asianart.org 415.581.3500
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MOTIF Sat: A Heaven and Helloween with Adam Cova, Mastermind and more, plus costume contest. San Jose
Halloween Guide
NETO’S GRILL Sat: Costume party with the Hitmen. Santa Clara.
NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: A tradition for nearly a decade—the Rivals Rock & Roll Halloween with Rivals, Relapse and Papa Wheelie. $10. Gilroy.
PAGODA Mon, 8pm: The Mumlers Halloween Tour with Kathryn Calder of the New Pornographers. . San Jose.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO Sat, 6-10pm: J.C. Smith Blues Band, Livia Slingerland for a Halloween party. Sun, 4pm: Halloween costume party with Artemesia Black. San Jose.
Q’S PLACE Fri-Sat: Compete for contest prizes and sip drink specials. San Jose.
Freak Shows
THE QUARTER NOTE Fri: Halloween with Duran Duran Duran. $10. Sat: Halloween with Black Mast and DeathMaster. Sunnyvale.
REDI ROOM Sat: DJ Curtis leads the way for a party with door prizes, costumes, food, and karaoke. San Jose.
THE RIFLEMAN The spirits of the wandering dead from Sarah Winchester’s fevered imagination stalk the corridors of Winchester Mystery House for the holiday.
Parties ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, 8:30pm: Halloween fun with Nigel and Clive, British Invasion band, wear costume. $15-$20. Sun, 7pm: Halloween fun with Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre’s “The Ghostly Curse of Alcatraz.” $65. Redwood City.
ART BOUTIKI Sat, 7-11pm: Halloween rock show with Bell Thieves, Curious Quail, Early Stages and Dogcatcher. $8/$10. San Jose.
with DJ Basura and DJ Traci. Doors open at 9pm; $7 (or $5 if you are in a costume). San Jose.
CARRY NATIONS
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Sat: A Rock and Blues Bash for Halloween with cash and prizes for outrageous costumes. Santa Clara.
BOULEVARD TAVERN Fri-Sat: Costume parties for Halloween with prizes and bands. No cover. Los Gatos.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
Mon: The Lemonheads perform on Halloween with the Shining Twins and Analyzer Generator. $15/$20. Santa Clara.
Sat: AC/DC tribute band Long Gon Bon kicks off the Brit’s anniversary week along with great drink prices in honor of the clubs 30th birthday. Cupertino.
BLACK WATCH
CABRITOS MEXICAN BISTRO
AVALON
Sat: A contest for pumpkin carvers. Los Gatos.
THE BLANK CLUB Sat: A Halloween dance party
Sat: Zebop channels the music of Santana for a Halloween party and costume contest. San Jose.
Sat: Come in costume for the party. Los Gatos.
by Jerry Sauceda and hands out cash prizes for winning costumes. San Jose.
CLUB CHICAGO
DIVE BAR
Sun: Both live music and a DJ, plus a contest for best costume. San Jose.
Sat: A Halloween Bash with costume contest with prizes and drink specials. San Jose.
CLUB FOX
ELEGANT PUB
Fri, 8pm: Halloween Hijinks with Powerage, Rat Bastard and 667 Neighbor of the Beast. $14/$16. Sat, 8pm: Halloween with Audio Dub and Little Bitches. Sun, 7:30pm: Halloween in the Trailer Park with Antsy McClain and the Trailer Park Troubadours. $18/$21. Redwood City.
Sat: DJ Checo presides over a costume contest with a firstplace prize of $125. Starts at 9pm. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.
COURT’S LOUNGE
Sat: Fahrenheit becomes a Halloween-themed venue for annual bash with more than $1,000 in prizes. Charly Fusion & DJ Melvis man the decks. San Jose.
Sat: Not just a costume contest but a carved pumpkin contest as well—bring your best gourd. Also drink specials and some gratis barbecue. Campbell.
CREEKSIDE BAR & GRILL Fri, 9pm: The club offers music
7pm, show at 8pm): The Unauthorized Rolling Stones and Heartbreaker (think Led Zep). $18/$22. Redwood City.
THE REFUGE, CUPERTINO
Sat, 8pm: Costume prizes and blues by South City Band. Campbell.
Fri, 6pm. The Soothing Sound of Flight has a special night planned for Halloween, full of complex death-metal. Five Characters in Search of an Exit, Memento Mori, Me the Mountain, Anchors and Human Centipede open. $8/$10.
J.J.’S BLUES
RUBY SKYE
GRAND DELL SALOON
Sat: Halloween costume contest with music by Charlie Bon and Vampire Kitty. $10. San Jose.
The club offers a full six nights of Halloween revels collectively known as Temple of Doom. Runs Oct. 26–31. San Francisco.
Sat: The new downtown dance club presents DJ Greg Lopez. San Jose.
JOHNNY V’S
THE SADDLE RACK
FAHRENHEIT
Sat: Costume contest. San Jose.
EMPIRE
FOX THEATRE Sat: Tribute bands fill the Fox on Saturday (doors at
Fri: Halloween party. San Jose.
KEVIN’S PLACE KHARTOUM Mon: A costume contest with drink specials. Campbell.
MEZCAL Nov 2: Follow up Halloween with a Día de los Muertos night at the restaurant. San Jose.
Sat, 7pm: Halloween costume contest and party. Fremont.
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS For the Halloween weekend, South First presents Lani Grooves on Friday and Freq Out on Saturday, plus DJ Paul X on Sunday. San Jose.
SOUTH SIDE CAFE Sat: Drink specials and prizes for costumes. San Jose.
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ZEN LOUNGE Sat: A big party called Voodoofest with DJs D-Roc and Dynamic D, as well as a costume contest with multiple prizes. Mountain View.
Spooky Events DAY OF THE DEAD FESTIVAL Sat: The event features Ballet Folklorico Mexicano Fuego Nuevo, Los Shakas de la Band, Reinas de la Bahia and Maricahi Cihualteco, plus community altars. Runs 10am–5pm. 14271 Story Road, San Jose.
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Plaza, with costumes and altars. Downtown San Jose.
EL AMIGO Mon, 5pm-close: A costume contest for little ones and candy. Morgan Hill.
GOOD SAM HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL Sat: With games for kids, a costume parade, prizes, food, music, a live band, a magician and a bounce house. Good Samaritan United Methodist Church, Cupertino.
GREAT AMERICA HALLOWEEN HAUNT Through Oct. 30 at Great America, Santa Clara Featuring haunted mazes, themed scare zones, live stage shows and thrill rides. Guest costumes, masks and face paint are not permitted for safety reasons. Through Oct 30. Santa Clara.
HALLOWEEN IMPROV KILLER THRILLER Sat: Made Up Theatre puts on a spooky improv show loaded with scary Halloweenthemed games and a special fully-improvised thriller story. Fremont.
HALLOWEEN IN JAPANTOWN Mon: Featuring performances by the San Jose Taiko, as well as safety presentations by Ken Takaka, member of San Jose Taiko, and the San Jose Police Department. Kids are encouraged to dress in costumes and go trick-or-treating through the Japantown neighborhood. Wesley United Methodist Church, San Jose.
HAUNT HISTORY PARK
Sun, 1-5pm: With art games, community altars, music, food and storytelling. Free. Lucie Stern Community Center, Palo Alto.
Sun: Kids can trick or treat in a family-friendly environment at both History Park and Happy Hollow Zoo. Festivities start at noon on Saturday. San Jose.
DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS
HAUNTED HOUSE
Sat: San Jose Museum of Art’s Community Day celebrates the holiday with hands-on art-making, live music, dance, storytelling and more from 11am to 5pm. Free.
DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS, SAN JOSE Sun: The San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild sponsors a festival and procession in downtown San Jose, staring at 11am at City View Plaza. A related event, the Festival de las Calacas, takes place Fri, 7– 9pm, at the Mexican Heritage
With a pair of gruesomely detailed haunted attractions. Friday–Sunday, 7pm– midnight; Sunday, 7–11pm; Monday, 7pm–midnight. Through Oct 31 at Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.
HOWL’OWEEN Sun, 1-5pm: Trick or treating and costume contest for people and their dogs benefits Humane Society. Pooch Hotel, Sunnyvale. San Jose.
MASQUERADE BALL Fri: This year’s dance includes
a haunted house as well as dancing, food and music. Open to all LGBTQIAP folks ages 1320. School or state ID required. the Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center, San Jose.
THE MINI GOURMET Mon: The diner offers free food for children in costume. San Jose.
PANTEON LA ULTIMA PARADA Nov 2: The Last Stop Fandango features altars and live music, 5–10pm. San Jose Women’s Club.
PIRATES OF EMERSON Runs through Oct. 31 A haunted theme park with entertainment at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
SAN JOSE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Sun, 7pm: The orchestra performs eerie tunes. The program includes “Leyendas—An Andean Walkabout” by Gabriela Lena Frank and “Suite from “Psycho” by Bernard Herrmann. $35 and up. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.
TREK OR TREAT Fri-Sun: The Retro Dome screens Star Trek movies: “The Wrath of Khan,” “The Search for Spock” and “The Voyage Home.” The theater also hosts trivia games and costume contest. San Jose.
WONDERFUL WITCHY WOMEN WITH A CAUSE Thu: A fundraiser for the Heritage Home in San Jose, Breakthrough Silicon Valley and Angels on Stage includes a luncheon. $95. San Jose Fairmont Hotel. $95. (See www.wonderfulwitchywomen. com for details).
WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE Through Oct. 31. In addition to the Flashlight Tours, guests on “Fright Nights” will have the opportunity to experience the “Curse of Sarah Winchester Maze,” a multi-sensory gateway between Heaven and Hell. For a lifetime, Sarah Winchester built, built and rebuilt her house to avoid a curse and escape her husband’s legacy of damnation. Those who perished by the Winchester rifle are seeking revenge, and are now ready to sacrifice souls before midnight strikes. San Jose.
Cut and Paste
THE E DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW Antonio Banderas scrutinizes his latest patient (Elena Anaya) in ‘The Skin I Live In.’
In Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In, Antonio Banderas plays a mad doctor with designs on a woman’s body By RICHARD VON BUSACK
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N THE operatically pervy The Skin I Live In, Antonio Banderas is clearly a mad doctor. Dr. Robert Ledgard is a wealthy plastic surgeon of Spain’s Toledo, with a sealed-off estate lined with mural-size replicas of famous nudes of Venus.
Ledgard embodies what the professors call “the privileged male gaze.” And he takes his private privilege in his bedroom, where he puffs a little after-work opium. With high-def
cameras, he studies a captive woman called Vera (Elena Anaya) performing yoga exercises. She wears a taupecolored skin suit like the medical leotard they put on burn patients. The doctor is almost finished with her. He examines her, checking her skin for sensitivity and her breasts for malleability. Is he perhaps her patron with benefits? The walls are lined with art, charcoal scribblings in eyebrow pencil. Like Lionel Atwill in the preCode horror film Dr. X, the doctor is advancing on synthetic skin to aid his métier, face transplantation. He describes one such operation as “the most moving experience of my life.” His short-sighted colleagues shun his methods. He was once a married
man whose family was destroyed under alarming circumstances. This story unfolds with the return of a figure from the doctor’s past: Roberto Álamo as Zeca, a hugely muscled criminal in a tiger costume. And then we cut to the tale of a working kid in a dress shop (Jan Cornet) who seems to have no bearing on the story whatsoever. This is Pedro Almodóvar’s 20th film and likely his craziest, with a soap-opera plot of rapine and revenge that’s as beautifully togged as the Gaultier clothes the cast flaunts. As Georges Franju said of his 1960 film Eyes Without a Face, this is not a horror movie, it’s a movie about anguish. Almodóvar keeps the blood to a minimum and the torment mostly offscreen; apart from a shooting or two, the most grisly moment is the delivery to the doctor’s lab of a quart of blood: “It was taken from the living animal.” After beautifully turned but high-minded work such as Broken
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Embraces, Almodóvar goes down and dirty—he visits the other side of cinema, the fields where Jesse Franco and Mario Bava once played. With beauty and wit, Almodóvar brings the dungeon melodrama back to a cinema that’s degraded it, made it gory and annoyingly moralizing. The basic humanity of the film isn’t in doubt: viewers can find a pal in Marilia (Marisa Paredes), the salt-of-the-earth, Thelma Ritter–style housekeeper. She’s a mother who carries madness without personally suffering from it: “I’ve got insanity in my entrails,” she laments. Aiding the lazy researcher, Almodóvar mentions the films that gave him some of his ideas. Though based on nouveau pulp by the late Thierry Jonquet, even Skin’ s poster should tip off viewers to the links with Eyes Without a Face (a Halloween rewatch could get you in the mood for this skin-tingler). Vera Ver is posed as Francine Bergé, the Catwomanish Diana in Franju’s Cat Judex Jud (1963). Almodóvar also sources the look of Bava’s Danger: Diabolik (1968), (196 with its bad kind of Batman, all latex and staring eyes. l The T Skin I Live In has such class and classicism that it doesn’t fit in the current self-conscious horror-film scene, scen with its primal fear of moods and plots that go over the top. In 1948, The Skin I Live In would not only have been easier to file under melodrama, but it would have even been easier to sell: “Zeca: Was he a MAN? Or was he a jungle TIGER?” The Skin I Live In reconciles mad passions with happy endings, and one of the happiest must be Banderas. Loved but sadly typecast in rich Corinthian accent parts, Banderas shows what a performer he is in his native language. Unassailably macho, Banderas, as an actor, is a major critic of the interior contradictions and madness of machismo. And naturally he’s a convincing madman, playing his part as coolly sane as he can. This reunion was a blessing for both director and star, and the audience couldn’t ask for a richer, stranger Halloween film.
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Blue Serge EVERY star-to-be has to conduct themselves like they’re a star already, even when they’re just a kid hoeing the turnip patch. The one-thing-afteranother star biopic proves that a hero is far more interesting in his youth, when no one believes he’s a star, than in his famous years, when everyone will trample Grandma to meet him. Such is the case with cartoonist-turned-director Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. Eric Elmosnino looks a lot like Serge Gainsbourg, the nicotine-stained wraith who groaned his way through decades of French music. Sfar presents this climb with a side of puppetry; they’re impressive, stare-worthy puppets with glowing eyes. One representing the genius of Gainsbourg’s fame has a huge flamingo beak, Dumbo ears and Nosferatu fingers; the other is a 5-foothigh balloon-shaped spider who emerges from a Nazi poster in Occupied Paris. (He resembles Globey from the Pee-wee Herman show.) There are tunes, of course. A male quartet does Serge’s “Le Poinçonneur des Lilas” about a bored-to-the-brinkof-suicide ticket taker. Also memorable is the performance of “Je Bois,” a drinking song with cornet and piano. Gradually, the film changes focus; it’s
less about a beloved musician and more a celebration of a great cocksman. The film asks, How did a man with a face like a relief map of the Pinnacles National Monument end up hanging out with Hitchcock-honey Juliette Greco and Bastille-bait France >X`ejYfli^1 Gall? And how did he arrange a public musical 8 ?\if`Z C`]\ orgasm with Brigitte Unrated; 130 min. Bardot (the schmaltzy Opens Friday, “Je t’aime . . . moi non Camera 3, plus”)? Embodying this San Jose harem are actresses who confirm that they aren’t making them like Greco, Bardot and Jane Birkin anymore. Sfar reminds those viewers with short memories how Gainsbourg was bashed for being Jewish. Yet the biopic blahs swamp even the more scandalous moments in Gainsbourg—the protopunk (but just plain godawful) tune “Nazi Rock” of 1975, as well as his famous outrage: a reggae version of “La Marseillaise” with all the throat-slitting lyrics intact. Fame, fortune, cigs and kids (including the petite Charlotte) are noted. This movie gloms onto, rather than penetrates, the subject. And who can feel sorry for the lucky man? It was not, clearly, a candle in the wind kind of life.—Richard von Busack
(Unrated; 87 min.) If the first movie was a baffling but ultimately pretty entertaining attempt by writerdirector Tom Six to give the world what it wasn’t sure it wanted out of a horror movie, this goes even farther by giving fans of the first movie what they definitely didn’t want out of a Human Centipede sequel. Disappointingly not picking up where the first movie left off (the first movie’s final “dilemma” was the most interesting thing about it, after all), Six instead chooses to tell the story of a mentally handicapped man who becomes obsessed with the first film and wants a human centipede of his own. It’s hard to tell if the joke is on fans of the first film—does Six see them as drooling, murderous losers?—or on conservatives who, in their most lurid fever dreams, think this is really what horror films make people do. In any case, the tagline has been changed from the original’s “100 percent medically accurate” to “100 percent medically inaccurate,” and when you see this guy pull out a staple gun as part of his attempt to re-create the joined-ass-to-mouth human freak show, you realize Six isn’t kidding. There’s no logic whatsoever to the story, and without the interesting characters from the first movie, it’s way too long and slow even at under an hour and a half. But the climax is remarkably sick, even in black and white, which I suppose is the point. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.) (Steve Palopoli)
IN TIME (PG-13; 109 min.) As any good agent will tell you, time is money. Writer/ director Andrew Niccol takes this credo seriously in this heady, postrecession sci-fi flick where people stop aging at 25 and time is used as currency, leaving the rich immortal and the average Joe bartering for a few extra hours. Justin Timberlake gets caught up in a murderconspiracy that leaves him with a fortune in years and time-taskforce on his tail in this Logan’s Run– esque thriller (in which the age limit was a slightly more reasonable 30). (Opens Fri.)
IP MAN ZERO (Unrated; 100 min.) Director Herman Yau prequelizes the Wing Chun master’s career and tells of a rivalry that the longtime fight-movie fan will be able to discern from the first moment we meet the child Ip Man and his half-brother, Ip Tin Chi (Siu-Wong Fan). The fight between the two is worth waiting for, but you will feel that you’re sitting there waiting for it; while scriptwriter Erica Chan tries to introduce some love interest (and some women warriors), they’re swept aside for the more obvious rivalry. The kung fu itself is all in-the-wrist action; the fight scenes look like a superfast version of the playground game of “Hot Hands” with lots of slapping. The more trad martial arts is augmented with what’s later described as the addition of “difficult to identify” fighting—not that difficult, if you’ve seen Curly parry Moe’s fingers to the eyes; there’s an homage to that famous move here. Unsophisticated stuff, in short; western villains chuckle about “Chinese pigs” and get a comeuppance; the villain cries like a baby when he’s cornered. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.) (RvB)
MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE (R; 82 min.) A bildungsroman for the older set. Jean Becker’s French fable about a kindly old woman (Giséle Casadesus) and the lovable, illiterate oaf (Gérard Depardieu) whom she takes in and heals through literature is a tender tearjerker. (Opens Fri at the Guild in Menlo Park.)
PUSS IN BOOTS (PG; 90 min.) The swashbuckling cat (voiced by Antonio Banderas) is framed for a robbery, so must clear his name by heisting the goose that lays golden eggs. It goes wrong where prequels usually do, by changing the nature of the character we love in the name of fleshing them out. The insistence that Puss needs to be a hero goes against his raffishness; even long before Bogart died, it was more of a pleasure to watch such a free figure drawn in reluctantly, instead of volunteering. And while he’s at his best as a solitary beast (the way he’s depicted on the teaser poster) he has a gang here: Salma Hayek is the voice of a Catwomanish cat burglar named Kitty Softpaws, and Zach Galifianakis as a sinister Humpty Dumpty, looking like an evil Maxfield Parrish character, with a tiny bolero hat perched on his small end. Naturally, there are sweet lines (“Fear me if you dare,” Puss threatens) and some lovely sequences, such as
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THE RUM DIARY (R; 119 min.) Johnny Depp steps back into the booze-soaked shoes of writer-turned-cult-ďŹ gure Hunter S. Thompson. Unearthed posthumously by Depp himself, Thompson’s tale slaps American journalist Paul Kemp (Depp) in Puerto Rico during the height of Eisenhower; a soul adrift on an island full of souls similarly adrift. Fans of 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas will be thrilled to see Depp swimming once again in Thompson’s prophetic prose. The ďŹ lm’s motto—“Absolutely nothing in moderationâ€?—is surely just about right. (Opens Fri.)
component. The efforts of Diane (Connie Nielsen) to steal secrets is countered by two mysterious women—a secretary (ChloĂŤ Sevigny) and a tough venture capitalist (Gina Gershon). All are potentially involved with a torture website called the HellďŹ re Club. The question is whether Diane is a consciousness-raised feminist avenger or a plain O (as in The Story of ...) who gets a little more out of her ordeals than she’d care to admit. Pervy, which is always good, but when you hand an audience a box
that says “Deconstructed Thriller— Some Assembly Required,â€? the pieces ought to ďŹ t together better. (Plays Oct 29 at 11:55pm at Camera 7 in Campbell.) (RvB)
FORBIDDEN PLANET/THE TIME MACHINE (1956/1960) Trouble on Altair-4, where a spaceship has gone missing. Rescuers arrive, led by Leslie Nielsen, back when he was one of the stalwartest of the stalwart. The master of the planet (Walter
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Revivals DEMONLOVER (2002; R, 117 min.) Oliver Assayas’ (Irma Vep) seems to be attempting subversion of the Lara Croft movies. Two buzzardlike corporations are ďŹ ghting over a particularly gamy piece of meat: an adults-only anime empire, which is developing a 3-D
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the characters’ romp in the clouds outside the giant’s castle at the nether end of the bean stalk. But Puss in Boots’ plot is convoluted and it doesn’t seem about something, the way a fairy tale has to be—it doesn’t have any resonance. (Opens Fri.) (RvB)
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Pidgeon) is researching an uncanny planetary force, but the scientist’s beautiful daughter (Anne Francis) is troubling his subconscious mind. It’s a landmark of 1950s futurism. Though the idea of The Tempest in outer space is a novel one, the Shakespeare could have been sourced for so much more. Robbie the Robot is everything you want in a mechanical pal, but he’s too sweet to be Caliban. BILLED WITH The Time Machine. Tremendous fun and timely. Rod Taylor stars as the man who visits 802,701 C.E. and laments to find it as decadent as Malibu—everyone’s blonde and dumb, and the libraries are rotting away. (Plays Oct 29-30 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
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German Expressions THE Berlin & Beyond Film Festival comes to the South Bay for an encore day of screenings at Camera 12 on Oct. 29. Among the films is Goethe!, which was retitled Young Goethe in Love (6pm) to stress its links with Shakespeare in Love. Sadly, a Tom Stoppard rewrite was not one of those links. The movie connects the dots as an oppressed law student became the national poet of Germany; we even witness Goethe (Alexander Fehling) scratching out the name “Johann” and writing in “Werther” as he pens the world’s first young-adult novel. The film does boast high-quality production values: costumes, periwigs, locations, duels and, naturally, people writing with feathers. Goethe’s pal Schiller (or Schiller!) wrote the poem adapted for Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, a musical theme in the quirky feature The Sandman (1pm). Directed by a onetime UCSC student from Switzerland, Peter Luisi, it’s an Ovid metamorphosis, not a Kaf ka one. The transformed Benno (the very funny Fabian Krüger) is no innocent victim—he deserves the fate of Thomas Haden Church in the last SpiderMan movie. Sand starts to leak out of his sleeves and his bed. Likely, it’s celestial punishment for his constant snarkiness: his most regular victim is the half-pretty cafe hostess downstairs (Swiss diva
(1927) Restored 82-minute shortattention-span edition with the 1984 Giorgio Moroder score; Fritz Lang, meet Pat Benatar (and Adam Ant, Billy Squier, et al.). (Oct 27 at 7:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)
METROPOLIS Fraulein da Capo, a.k.a. Irene Brügger). Krüger’s vinegar seasons a movie that rolls on a little long. Films about three-way affairs are an interesting challenge to what an audience can handle. But Tom Tykwer’s 3 (8:30pm) presents the matter clinically. This isn’t Design 9\ic`e For Living; this is a revolt 9\pfe[ against deterministic =`cd =\jk`mXc biology—we know this Saturday, because Tykwer tells us Camera 12, so. The fresh, polysexual San Jose Berlin that the director of Run Lola Run shows us in split-screen is attractive but stints the human element. It’s as if the cast was selected for interesting visual contrast rather than heat. Contending for a studly physician (Devid Striesow) are an Austrian newscaster (the thin-lipped Sophie Rois) and Sebastian Schipper as a Jewish engineer. The real star of 3 is a location: Susanne Lorenz’s remarkable “Badeschiff” (swimming ship), a bathing structure moored in the Spree. If real-life wild sex is like swimming in a river with all its hazards, the liaisons in 3 are as dangerous as paddling a few laps in this impressive plastic human aquarium. —Richard von Busack
(1927) No one could have predicted that Fritz Lang’s fiscal failure would come to be remembered as the most popular of all silent films almost a century later; it’s running locally this month in a soundtrack-added version as well as the severely cut version with the 1984 glam-rock soundtrack by Giorgio Moroder, for instance. This edition is the latest, the 2010 version, with nearly a half-hour of retrieved footage clarifying the motives and personalities of a mysterious future world. There, enslaved machine-men and cozy plutocrats head for mutual doom—and a mad scientist creates a beautiful but diabolical robot agent-provocateur to accelerate class warfare. The soundtrack is a world premiere by New Music Works’ Phil Collins, with the NMW Ensemble and guest artists Timba Harris, Colleen Donovan and Ariose Singers. If you’ve got an old Weimar Republic costume for this, our new Weimar Republic, it’ll look all the better at the costume contest on Saturday night. Rotwangs and False Marias can pose before the Berlin 1927 lobby installations by Dag Weiser and Leslie Murray. (Plays Oct 28-29 at 8pm in Santa Cruz at the Rio Theatre.) (RvB)
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documentary celebrating the longgone amusement park. Oct 31 at 4pm: Kiddie Cartoon Cavalcade: psychotronic but kid-safe oddities right before the candy shakedown begins in earnest. (Plays Oct 29-31 in Fremont at the Niles Film Museum.) (RvB)
ON THE WATERFRONT/ A FACE IN THE CROWD (1954/1957) Longshoreman Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) is caught between the gangster-led union of his brother (Rod Steiger, never better) and the civilizing mission of his girlfriend, schoolmarm in training Eva Marie Saint. The much-imitated taxi scene is one of Brando’s best moments on screen, wherein you can see the wounding and wounded quality of the incomparable actor. BILLED WITH A Face in the Crowd. What if Elvis became dictator? This berserk Elia Kazan movie has a crypto Elvis called Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith!), who, on the basis of a hit called “Mama Guitar” (it’s good!) becomes a celebrity. Trouble begins when he allows himself to be manipulated by Southern kingmakers. The highly chemical Lee Remick debuts, playing a Lolita of a cheerleader. (Plays Oct 26-28 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) Hosted by Barely Legal who, after all these years, are probably now legal. (Oct 29 at 11:55pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)
SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (Little Rose. Oct 26 at 7:30pm, Camera 7, Campbell:) Little Rose. The title is a code name of an agent for the Polish Communist government: a woman is forced to spy on a Jewish intellectual in the late 1960s. Oct 30 at 2pm, Camera 12, San Jose: The Matchmaker. In Haifa in 1968, a young man lands a job assisting a marriage broker (also Nov 2 at 7:30pm, Camera 7). Oct 30 at 4:30pm, Camera 12: Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With the Nazis. Gaylen Ross (attending) documents the story of a Schindler-like figure whose life after the war was marred by trouble. (Plays Oct 23-Nov 20 in San Jose and Campbell.) (RvB)
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Oct 29 at 7:30pm: The Man Who Laughs. Victor Hugo’s melodrama of mutilation and revenge, starring Conrad Veidt. Plus shorts. Jon Mirsalis at the Kurtzweil organ. Oct 30 at 1pm: Back to Space Con. About the 1970s San Francisco convention series; costume contest with screening. 4pm: Remembering Playland, a
(1982/1984/1986) The three most dashing adventures in the series, generally written by Nicholas Meyer. Meyer knew how to make the old Victorian boy’s own archetypes live: new frontiersman Kirk (William Shatner, an actor beyond good and evil); Leonard Nimoy as the coolly heroic tragic space mulatto Spock
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UNAFF 2011 Documentaries from around the world on the theme “Education is a Human Right.â€? Countries never represented in local cinemas and most local festivals are heard from in this invaluable traveling fest. Among others: River of Renewal (Oct 29 at 5:40pm at Stanford University’s Annenberg Auditorium) concerns the water wars in Northern California around the Klamath River basin, skirmishes that pit upstream farmers with downstream ďŹ sheries. (Plays through Oct 30 in various Bay Area locations.) (RvB)
Reviews FOOTLOOSE (PG-13; 113 min.) A new version of the tale of a kid with happy feet.
JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG-13; 101 min.) Rowan Atkinson stars in a James Bond spy-movie parody with Rosamund Pike and Dominic West.
MARGIN CALL (R; 105 min.) First timer J C Chandor’s brutal but hushed thriller concerns how men cooperate, particularly in a scheme of vast capitulation. In this case, it’s the deliberate collapsing of a century-old Wall Street brokerage. The cast includes Stanley Tucci, as the one who goes to the wall ďŹ rst; Demi Moore is the lone woman exec; Peter, a new hand in the Risks Department is played by the actor (and producer here) Zachary Quinto. Quinto plays it very neutral and looks poreless and slightly synthetic; he’s a marvelously unusual ďŹ gure to have as a moral center. Jeremy Irons is the big boss, who may well have some issues with sanity; he dresses down his subordinates, not in a Mamet tirade, but in the cordial self-amused patronization of a public school headmaster. As a middle-level exec sick unto death of this job Kevin Spacey is ďŹ rst rate; he’s never got a chance to be this well-rounded, and yes I remember American Beauty. The release of this ďŹ lm during the same weeks as the Occupy Wall Street protests is timely, but timeliness isn’t Margin Call’s only virtue; it’s a fascinating display of nerve and talent. (RvB)
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (84 min.) More things that go bump in the night.
RUSH TIME MACHINE: 2011 Live in Cleveland, the venerable band performs their “Moving Pictures� album in its entirety. (RvB)
SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL (Plays Oct 22-Nov 20 in San Jose at Camera 12 and Campbell at Camera 7.)
TAKE SHELTER (R; 124 min.) Michael Shannon delivers a phenomenally compelling and tough piece of acting. In a movie about a storm to come, Shannon’s face has its own share of turbulence. He looks like so many men who snap: simultaneously too weak and too strong. As a driller in Elyria, Ohio, Shannon’s Curtis is plagued with visions of disaster that dismay him, and that damages his marriage (to wife Jessica Chastain). But we’re given an alternative explanation, provided in a small but incisive role by the too-seldom-seen Kathy Baker. 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 afuence and bad chemicals of the Reagan years, Take Shelter seems keyed to the madness of our time. But after the ďŹ lm comes to a bleak point, a twist undoes what has been a serious-minded tragedy. (RvB)
adaptations. Ray Stevenson isn’t a bad Porthos. And director Paul W. S. Anderson must be cowed by the actually excellent costumes, sets and production design, though saying this is like complimenting a hunchback on her pretty hair. The ďŹ ght scenes are the usual as in every perishing one of Anderson’s previous ďŹ lms: Milla Jovovich spins in the air a lot, doing her trademark slow-mo somersault, and then voila, the sudden arrival of a ninja frogman with multi-barreled crossbows ‌ however the rest of the ďŹ lm isn’t given ADD editing. The stinking script seems like a contest between cynical writers trying to lowball each other: D’Artagnan’s father advises his son: “Make mistakes. Fight. Love life.â€? Christoph Waltz’s Richelieu is already ďŹ rmly in charge of France but he feels he most provoke a war, encouraging his followers: “Evil is just a point of view.â€? The heroic Gascon is played by Logan Lerman. He’s a calamity—you have to go back through 60 years of action ďŹ lm male ingĂŠnues to match him, to Kerwin Matthews maybe. As the framed Queen, Juno Temple puts up some very stiff resistance before surrendering in the face of lines like “Boys will be boys.â€? (RvB)
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(whose ordeal in Star Trek II allows men one of the few permissible occasions to weep in public). Wrap up with IV, the ever-beguiling One That Has the Whales. (Plays Oct 28-30 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)
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Soul Searching A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH The latest in San Jose rapper Vida Killz’s series of monthly EPs drops this week.
San Jose rapper Vida Killz breaks new ground with her EP project and a series of edgy collaborations By STEVE PALOPOLI
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N A HIP-HOP culture that sometimes can’t seem to decide which it hates more, gays or women, could anybody blame a lesbian emcee for keeping her private life on the down low? Or, conversely, coming not-so-straight outta her hometown with a chip on her shoulder that allows her entire career to be defined by her preference for girls?
But San Jose’s Vida Killz has done neither. She’s best known for delivering intense raps over beds of dark and atmospheric beats and has managed to be totally open about her sexuality without being defined by it. When she writes a bruising relationship song, it’s not the pronouns that stick out—there’s so much more to think about that a lot
of listeners don’t even notice them the first time through. “One time this guy walked up to me after I performed, and he was like, ‘Are you gay? Was that song about a girl?’ I was like, ‘Yes, sir, it was very much was, and yes, I very much am gay. He was like ‘O ... k,” says Killz. “The majority of the time people really don’t say much. I think it has to do with how I carry myself. It’s a presence, it’s there, it’s known, so people are just like ,‘OK, well, duh.’” But there are still times when she has to roll her eyes. “A lot of the hip-hop dudes are like ‘I’m gonna convert you.’ I’m like c’mon, really?” she says, breaking into a laugh. “You’re stupid. It’s not even like that! That’s dumb.” The 22-year-old San Jose native, who came out to her family and friends in high school, admits there was a time when she felt like an outsider in the hip-hop scene. But she made a conscious decision to work with different people, and now her work is hugely influenced by an ongoing series of collaborations. She’s part of three collectives: the
South Bay’s prestigious Isolated Wax crew put together by local underground icon Dave Dub, the Organized Threat collective in L.A. led by Chad Marshall (a.k.a. Poetic Death) and New Jersey’s umbrella collective Slang Corp, founded by Ian Morrison. The latter is almost like a guerrilla network, so it’s hard to tell who’s connected to it at any given time, but in the other two, Killz is the sole female emcee. “I definitely thrive on connections with people, and a huge aspect of my connecting with people is creating music with them,” she says. “I don’t want to sound clichéd, but that’s all I’ve really known as far as connecting. I had my poetry back in the day, and the band I was in, and those were my friends. Anybody I do music with inevitably becomes my friend.” Her impressive Internet presence has led to many of these connections—she found Organized Threat thanks to a Google Alert about one of her videos that had been posted by a guy who turned her on to them in a subsequent Facebook exchange. New York producer JG stumbled across her on the Internet, and sent her beats, going on to produce her song “Obey.” Other beats she gets from members of her collectives or other producers who like her work. “Most people just know my sound I guess, and they’ll shoot me beats. Some
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people like to send me whatever and see if I can work on it,” she says. This has been a landmark year for Killz, who started off writing poetry in high school, and discovered a talent for rapping almost by accident when she put one of her poems to a Ludacris beat one day. Her style has matured since then, but there’s a certain off-kilter quality to her raps that remains. “Now I go with the rhythms of it. Back then, they were really kind of spaced out,” she says. “They weren’t with the beat properly, they were just kind of weird. But I like that. Even now, I don’t like hitting every beat.” She began performing in 2007 with She’s a Robot, before going solo. This year, she pledged to put out an EP per yea month, on which she’s worked with mo various collaborators. The October EP, var on which she worked closely with Chad Marshall, drops on Halloween. Ma IIt’s easy to hear her growth as a rapper over the course of the EPs she’s rap released—on one of the new tracks, rele “Chapter One,” she even shows off “Ch some singing chops against a strong som beat and a piano melody. But for Killz, bea there’s been a more personal growth, too. Two of the most powerful songs she’s released, March’s “No H8” and May’s “Oro Corazon,” forced her to dig deep into past pains and emotions. “I performed them at a very intimate gathering a couple months back, and I started crying when I was performing. It was completely a capella, and it was maybe 12 people in the room,” she says. “As I’ve embarked on this project, I’ve really begun to peel my layers.” “Oro Corazon” is about her brother, and “No H8” is an angry rant against homophobia—the video starts with the story of an eighth-grader murdered for being gay. She’s been surprised at the response she’s gotten to the latter. People have left comments on the video thanking her, and one girl even messaged her to say the song helped her deal with realizing she’s gay while in a relationship with a guy. “This younger girl sent me a twitter with the video attached, and said, ‘Thank you for your truth,’” recalls Killz. “I was like, ‘Wow.’ They’re just these very moving moments.”
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Heaven and Helloween Saturday at Motif in San Jose, 9pm Motif’s Halloween party has the novel gimmick of ascending three DJs to “Heaven” on the top level, and giving three more the keys to “Hell” on the main level. Adam Cova, Mastermind and Camcon are spinning electro and Top 40 behind the pearly gates; Spindizzy, Jason Dee and Nikko C. are rocking the underworld with hip-hop, Top 40 and mashups. (SP)
Artemesia Black Sunday at Poor House Bistro, San Jose, 4pm; free Sabine Heusler and Kenny Schick’s Artemesia Black is the perfect Halloween band, making dark carnival music with a theatrical flair that will put any fan of Dresden Dolls under its spell. Vocalist and lyricist Heusler also has a thing for ghost stories, though one has to listen carefully to the lyrics to fully appreciate the paranormal activity. (SP)
The Mumlers Monday at Pagoda Lounge, 8pm; $10 The South Bay’s favorite musical freaks of nature are celebrating the season of the witch by playing a mini-tour of California cities named after saints, which winds up here, as it should. After this, they’ll be locking themselves away to work on some new songs. Kathryn Calder of New Pornographers opens. (SP)
Metro’s music calendar runs Wednesday–Tuesday.
Rock/Pop ANGELICA’SBISTRO Sat, 8:30pm: Halloween fun with Nigel and Clive, British Invasion band, wear costume. $15-$20. Sun, 7pm: More Halloween Fun with Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre’s “The Ghostly Curse of Alcatraz.” $65. Redwood City.
ARTBOUTIKI Sat, 7-11pm: Halloween rock show with Bell Thieves, Curious Quail, Early Stages and Dogcatcher. $8/$10. San Jose.
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Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: Naked in Vegas. Sat: Joe Bazooka. Campbell.
Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
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Thu, 10pm: Weapon 11. Fri, 10pm: Spazmatics. Sat, 10pm: Superbad. San Jose.
Thu, 8pm: Marley’s Ghost. $15. Fri, 8pm: Powerage, Rat Bastard and 667 Neighbor of the Beast. $14/$16. Sat, 8pm: Halloween with Audio Dub and Little Bitches. Sun, 7:30pm: Antsy McClain and Trailer Park Troubadours. $18/$21. Redwood City.
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Sat, 9pm: Long Gon Bon Halloween show. Cupertino.
Sat, 8pm: Halloween rocks with Heartbreaker and the Unauthorized Rolling Stones. $18-$30. Redwood City.
Fri-Sat: Live bands and costume party. Los Gatos.
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Thu: Heroes, tribute to KISS. Mon: Lemonheads. Santa Clara.
Fri, 9pm: Halloween party with Zebop.
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Fri, 9pm: Whiskey Avengers, Thrive. $8. San Jose.
Sat, 8pm: Drop Dead Sixty. San Jose.
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HPPAVILION Sun, 7pm: So You Think You Can Dance. $38.50 and up. San Jose.
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SKANKS FOR THE MEMORIES The Whiskey Avengers move away from ska toward rocksteady and soul on their new album.
Whiskey Avengers LOCAL SKA BAND Whiskey Avengers aren’t really a ska band anymore. On their third album, Dead Man Rockin,’ they’ve slowed down a bit and have come into their own, producing their best, most concise record to date. “I’ve been describing the new album as ‘rocksteady and rock & soul.’ We focused on rocksteady a lot on this album because it allows us to Blank Club convey our attitude and musical integrity all in one,” says singer/guitarist Stefan Meissner. Unlike most ska bands, the Friday, Oct. 28 Whiskey Avengers’ roots are firmly planted in hip-hop; it was originally a side project of two members of the rap group 9pm; $8 Language Arts Crew. They learned how to make albums from their days as rappers—they wrote, recorded and piecemealed songs together in the studio first before playing them live, often with one or two members writing all the parts. Five years later, they had evolved into the more traditional rock process of playing their songs at concerts before recording them. What came out of that were smoother, mellower rocksteady songs. And thanks to extra time spent in the studio and the band’s interest in singers like Otis Redding and Sam Cooke, their vocals (and harmonies) developed an element of soul that wasn’t there before. Between recording their last album and this one, they lost their horn section. Rather than try to re-create the group that they were, they adjusted—hastening their move away from ska. “Since becoming a four-piece, the role of Lee, super keyboard boy, has become a lot more prominent. Guess he’s our lead guitarist now,” says bass player Clint Sobolik. Since they spent so much time before recording the album getting the songs just right, it only made sense to spend plenty of time and money actually recording the album. They even hired a producer, Michael S. Rosen, who has produced records for AFI, Rancid, Papa Roach, Santana and more. They hope the release of Dead Man Rockin’ will be the first step toward greater national success. “We’re going to give it a college try this time around. If our hard work and investments pay off, we’ll be gone on that open road by the spring,” says Sobolik. —Aaron Carnes
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This all-American band has become a premier acoustic ensemble while remaining true to its bluegrass and country roots. Their 2011 record Rare Bird, in collaboration with Steve Martin on banjo, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass chart.
Two-time Grammy-winning Rickie Lee Jones is known for her classic original songs “Chuck E’s in Love”, “On Saturday Afternoons in 1963” and “Last Chance Texaco”. Her performances are infused with over 30 years of experience in rock, blues, pop, soul and jazz. “One of the most intriguing, idiosyncratic vocalists of our time.” - USA Today
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SOUTH BAY BLUES BLAST: CHRIS CAIN BAND & J.C. SMITH BAND WITH MAXX CABELLO, JR
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Sat, November 12, 8pm These Bay Area blues musicians, accomplished artists in their own right, come together to deliver what is sure to be an unforgettable night!
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The combination of his blues upbringing and his jazz studies melded to form the searing guitar style that sets Chris Cain apart in the blues music scene.
Smith has shared the stage with Pinetop Perkins, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Hubert Sumlin, Eddie Shaw, Elvin Bishop, and Tommy Castro.
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Copland, Rodrigo, de Falla & Ravel
Sat, Oct 29, 8PM DeAnza Visual & Performing Arts Center, Cupertino 408 624-1492 $20/15/10 www.novavista.org
SIGN OF THE TIMES The Vault is now Empire.
Tavit Tashjian, piano Emily Ray, Music Director Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn & Avshalomov
Empire Club Arrives
Sat, Nov 5, 7:30 PM
THE TEAM behind the new Empire nightclub, located in the spot formerly occupied by the Vault, is working to interject a Vegas-style environment into San Jose’s nightclub scene. Empire’s opening earlier this month featured DJ Greg Lopez, who currently has a residency in Las Vegas spinning at the Palms and TAO. Lopez is also scheduled 81 W. Santa Clara to spin for Empire’s Halloween party this Friday, “Treats Street, San Jose for Freakz,� while San Jose DJ Josh Hyland spins on Friday. Open Thursdays, The club will feature a rotating cast of mostly house DJs, and Lopez will serve as the venue’s scout, bringing in talent from all over the West Coast, says Empire’s manager Nick Santos. “When they come here, they get something different that San Jose has to offer,� Santos says. “They get different areas of excitement with the upscale scenery.�
Fridays, and Saturdays, from 9pm to 2am
The venue used to be a bank and is highly detailed with crown molding throughout the inside and outside. Three chandeliers hang alongside a large stained-glass mural set in the center of the high ceiling. Colored lights and large speakers are set up throughout, making it bright and loud at any given area inside. White couches are placed so people can lounge, but there’s also a dance oor with plenty of space for people to dance and move around. In addition to late-night parties, Santos says Empire is also available for companies to hold private parties and mixers. —Nina Tabios
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LILLYMAC’S Fri, 9pm: Bad Daddy and the Dirty Dogs. Sat: Halloween costume party. Sunnyvale.
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Fri, 8pm: Joint Chiefs. $10. Sat: Costume party with the Hitmen. Santa Clara.
Wed-Thu: Projam. Fri: Halloween with Duran Duran Duran. $10. Sat: Halloween with Black Mast and DeathMaster. Sunnyvale.
NINELIVES Thu, 8pm: Joseph Mortela. $3. Fri, 8pm: Rivals Rock & Roll Halloween with Rivals, Relapse and Papa Wheelie. $10. Gilroy.
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Fri: Lani Grooves. Sat: Freq Out. San Jose.
Fri-Sat: Rock bands. Los Gatos.
Wed, 9:30pm: Jam Night with BackďŹ re & Diva Stativa. No cover. Thu: Stan Erhart. Fri, 9:30pm: The Fundamentals. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Sage. Los Gatos.
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Wed, 6pm: Octobop. Tue, 5pm: Thom & Mary Ellen Duo. San Jose.
Mon: The Mumlers. San Jose.
LOSGATOSLODGE
Fri, 8pm: Go Kart Mozart. Sat, 8pm: JJ Rubin. Mountain View.
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STREETLIGHTRECORDS Sat, 4pm: D. Williams. San Jose.
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and, we hope, his famous cover of the Misfits’ ‘Skulls’— to a Halloween show at Avalon.
The Lemonheads I’VE SEEN Evan Dando on nearly every tour he’s done since It’s a Shame About Ray, so I know a thing or two about the ins and outs of the Lemonheads. There have been assorted highs and lows: I’ve seen him momentarily storm offstage in a fit of confusion Monday, Oct. 31 and disgust when he thought the audience wasn’t supporting his desire to tune between songs. And I’ve seen Avalon him nail an absolutely perfect, gorgeous set of his signature post-punk pop tunes—many, many times. From his career 7pm; $15/$20 heights in the early ’90s to the unfairly unloved Come On Feel the Lemonheads to his hazy rehab songs like “Hospital” to his dusty, Gram Parsons–style solo stuff to now, there’s something magnetic about Dando’s personality, something incredible about his songwriting gifts and something slightly tragic about his path. Sure, every Lemonheads fan (and there are way, way more of us than people think) wants to smoke out with him, but I think we all secretly want to save him, too. And because it’s a Halloween show, he’s got to play his exquisite, deceptively sweet take on the Misfits’ “Skulls,” right?— Steve Palopoli
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Jazz/Blues
Fri: JC Smith. Sat: Halloween contest, Charlie Bon and Vampire Kitty. $10. Sun, 4pm: West Bay Blues; followed in evening by Gene Washington. Mon: Desiree and Diamond 99. San Jose.
Sun, 6pm: Caroline, jazz. Cupertino.
Fri, 9pm: Dirty Downtown Jazz Syndicate. Sat, 9pm: Halloween Party with Blue House. San Jose.
GRANDDELLSALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Fri, 9pm: Rhythm District. Sat, 8pm: South City Blues Band. Campbell.
HEDLEYCLUB Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Ed Johnson and Novo Temp. Sat, 8:30pm: Harold Fethe. San Jose.
J.J.’SBLUESCAFE Wed: Suska Fri: Jimmy Dewrance.
Thu, 7pm: Rich Kuhns and Daniel Magay. Fri, 7pm: The Red Planet Ramblers. Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.
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POORHOUSEBISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson . Thu, 6pm: Legally Blue. Fri, 6pm: Tip of the Top. Sat, 6: J.C. Smith, Livia Slingerland, Halloween party. Sun, 11am-2pm: Johnny Fabulous; at 4pm: Halloween Costume Party with Artemesia Black. San Jose.
302S.MARKETSTREET Wed, 7:30pm. Davie Miller Trio with Rebecca DuMaine. Free. San Jose.
Wed, 7:30pm: A Dog Named Buckey. Thu, 7:30pm: Nell Kelly Trio. San Jose.
Karaoke
ALEX’S49ERINN Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
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FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE
Wed-Thu & Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Sat, 9:30pm: Joe. Santa Clara.
Thu,: The Heit. Fri: Origin. $10. Sat: Legacy. $10. San Jose.
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Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: Antromix. Fri: Workout. San Jose.
Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy. Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.
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Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: KJ Dennis. Sunnyvale.
Sat, 9pm: Halloween dance party with DJs Basura and Traci. $7/$5 in costume. San Jose.
Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover. Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo. Sat, 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik. Sunnyvale.
BLINKY’SCAN’TSAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN
Sat: Adam Cova, Mastermind and more. San Jose.
Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. San Jose.
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Sun: DJ Paul X. San Jose.
Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.
STUDIO8 Thu: Transcendance Halloween Special, Heavygrinder and Enzomanic. Fri: Mansion Halloween party with DJ Korina Bliss. Sat: Halloween Hooker Ball with costume contest. San Jose.
BRITANNIAARMSDOWNTOWN Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Mr. Walker. San Jose.
BRITANNIAARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. Tue: Pubstumpers Trivia. San Jose.
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Sat: Voodoofest IV with D-Roc and Dynamic D. Mountain View.
Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs. San Jose.
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Mon, 8:30pm-1:30am: DJ Curtis. San Jose.
FLAMESCOFFEESHOP Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.
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HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS German ambient electronic pioneer and founding member of Cluster plays solo. Oct 26 at Cafe du Nord.
THE GAME Why isn’t his SF show sold out yet? Oh, right— he has a Dodgers tattoo on his face. Oct 27 at the Regency Ballroom.
THEGOOSETOWNLOUNGE
Fri. 11-04-11 Karoake Sat. 11-05-11 at 9:30 pm Live Music by Volume Control
POMPLAMOOSE
Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.
Charming, twee duo best known for YouTube covers of “Single Ladies” and more. Oct 29 at YBCA Forum.
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Thu, 8:30pm-midnight: Karaoke with Jordan River Productions. San Jose.
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Seattle’s enduring pop-punk ensemble soldiers on with opening act the Muffs. Oct 29 at the Bottom of the Hill. A little Bjork, a little Laurie Anderson: Nika Roza Danilova is an icy experimentalist of fascinating order. Nov 1 at the Independent.
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AN JOSE cannabis activists hoping to repeal the city’s new dispensary regulations say they are on track to collect a 48,000th petition signature before Thursday’s deadline. And considering how many times during the last month I’ve been asked to “save cannabis” on the way into the neighborhood Target store, I don’t doubt it. The petitioners need 30,050 valid signatures to place a referendum on the ballot.
The referendum would let voters decide whether to repeal a city of San Jose ordinance that would slash the number of permitted dispensaries to 10 and require them to grow and process all buds, edibles, tinctures and capsules onsite. Citizens Coalition for Patient Care, the group running the petition drive, calls the ordinance “unworkable.” CCPC Chairman James Anthony says the group will schedule a time between Wednesday and Saturday morning to turn in the signatures to the City Clerk’s office. “We’re seeing a very enthusiastic response from the community in San Jose,” says Matt Witemyre, CCPC co-chairman.
Counting Patients If the petition drive fails, the question needs to be asked: Can 10 dispensaries fulfill San Jose’s medical cannabis demand? The big unknown is how many residents hold valid cannabis recommendations. New research published by UC–Santa Cruz sociology professor Craig Reinarman says that
200,000 people in California use medical cannabis. Reinarman got that number by surveying 1,746 doctors and patients in California. The exact number of patients in California has been notoriously hazy. Of the 16 states that have approved medical cannabis, only California and Washington don’t require patients to register with some sort of state-run identification program. According to the California branch of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the percentage of people registering with state medical cannabis programs across the country ranges from 0.3 percent (Hawaii) to 3 percent (Montana). Cal NORML estimates 2-3 percent of Californians use medical cannabis— that’s 750,000 to 1.1 million people. Locally, Santa Clara County administers the state ID cards, which expire after a year. County Public Health Department Spokeswoman Amy Cornell says 132 cards have been issued so far this year; 264 were issued in 2010. “Unfortunately, we are not able to estimate how many people have cannabis recommendations but do not have state ID cards, because physicians are not required to report that information,” Cornell says. Kris Hermes, spokesman for Americans for Safe Access, says a number of factors may steer patients away from the state program. Cost is possibly the most prohibitive. Santa Clara County charges $150 for the cards or $75 for Medi-Cal patients. “There is also a fear of incrimination if patient records are subpoenaed or somehow seized by law enforcement,” Hermes says. “Although this is generally not a problem, the state of Michigan is currently providing patient records to the feds.”—Ted Cox
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On the Curve
STYLE YLE MOVES MO S Tanesha Awasthi offers tips for curvy women on her blog. M
San Jose blogger Tanesha Awasthi’s website, Girl With Curves, has become a shapely success By JODY AMABLE
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HEN ASKED her age, Tanesha Awasthi will answer with great confidence. “I’m 30,” she says boldly. “Turning 30 changed me a lot, as far as obsessing about the size, the weight.” Lots of things have caused Awasthi to obsess over the years, mostly revolving around weight gain and loss. Her most recent obsession—some would say her healthiest—is her fashion blog, Girl With Curves. Awasthi is naturally endowed with an ultrafeminine figure—think the
coveted Joan Holloway hourglass shape from Mad Men. She has always been a follower of fashion. “I always thought in the back of my mind, ‘I’ll design one day,’” she says. As a teenager growing up in Milpitas, Awasthi would rip out pages of editorial spreads from fashion magazines and save them. The fashion industry, however, has never been too kind to curvy girls, so in February 2011, Awasthi took matters into her own hands and established the blog that is fast becoming her claim to fame. The content of her blog shows a clear editorial influence, made up mostly of dreamy photo spreads featuring Awasthi in her latest retail conquests. It’s no surprise that she’s been a model. After attending a disenchanting orientation at
FIDM in San Francisco in pursuit of her design career, she turned to modeling so she could have some sort of foot in the fashion industry’s door. Modeling jobs fall into two categories: “straight size” and “plus size.” However, humans don’t fall quite so neatly into categories, Awasthi included. “They would tell me, ‘If we only shoot your top half, you look like a straight size, but your bottom half looks plus size.’ Modeling gave me a complex,” she says—it’s hard not to have one in an alternate universe where a size 8 is considered plus-size. Eventually, it was suggested that she start padding her torso to make her top half agree with her bottom half. That was the last straw. “I’m not gonna wear a fat suit!” Then, about three years ago, Awasthi
sustained a knee injury from running, a sport she took up to get herself to the weight that, she says, she thought she wanted to be. Being laid up made her realize how frivolous the pursuit of a certain size was. “Trying to obtain a body that isn’t naturally obtainable for me personally was a waste of time and energy.” Working as an account manager and living in north San Jose, she needed an outlet for the creativity that had always been in her. “I was so bored!” she says. “I’d come home from work and watch Project Runway … and I’d be so envious of those people that they got to make a living doing something like that.” So she decided to conduct an experiment to combat the boredom. She posted a photo to Flickr of her in an outfit that she liked. The photo was eventually reblogged on Tumblr more than 400 times and shared on social networks. The responses, in an unusual turn for notoriously mean Internet commenters, were deliriously supportive. From there, she established Girl With Curves, posting Marie Claire–worthy shots of favorite outfits, information on where she got the pieces and tips on how to wear them. Her blog began to attract readers, and by the time she had hit 1,500, Tumblr, Girl With Curves’ platform, announced that it would send a select group of fashion bloggers to New York Fashion Week. Awasthi submitted a post about her love for accessories and their ability dress up any outfit on any body type to the selection committee. She was chosen and attended some of Fashion Week’s hottest events as an ambassador for Tumblr. Her blog is now at 36,000 readers, not counting those who subscribe to her mailing list, follow her Twitter account and like her Facebook page. While she tries not to make the blog about her body—the only mention of curves is in the title—the buzz surrounding her blog inevitably comes back around to her shape. Like turning the big 3-0, she’s made peace with that. “I feel like, as girls, we all have curves. We’re supposed to. That’s something we all have in common. I’m trying to set an example of not being so upset with yourself.”
Follow Tanesha Awasthi http://girlwithcurves.tumblr.com
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