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I SAW YOU
By TOM TOMORROW
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Living in Oblivion I see you every day, ambling obliviously into the intersection against traffic, staring at your phone. Is it that you feel that whereever it is you are in no hurry to get to is more important that where all the drivers you are holding up are going? Or is it that you actually believed your mommy when she told you that you were special? However it is you see yourself, please, allow me to remind you: People commuting are actually going someplace. Stop lights are set up so that everyone gets a fair turn at crossing the street. Cars are much bigger than you and you will not fare well if you try to get in the way of one. Walking into an intersection staring at your phone instead of the world around you is not a sign of intellligence. Good luck, kid. You will need it.
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Get a Dictionary The Fly needs to learn the meaning of the word windfall (So Rich It’s Sick,” Oct. 9). It is unintended benefit via mechanisms designed for other purposes. Sick leave payout
at retirement is a vested benefit designed just for that. It is a known liability and should be funded annually based on the average accrual of its employees. [San Jose] has chosen not to fund sick-leave payout, but instead, now to eliminate existing accrual. A just and ethical compromise solution would be to limit further annual deposits of time to five days a year and pay 75 percent at retirement, for all unions. Realize only public safety workers have arrangements to accrue the entire 12 days each year, the ones with the highest pay. Eliminating the benefit to existing workers is a breach of ethics if not of contract. But lawyers have no right or wrong, good and evil, just what can they get away with.
For me personally, the payout is 3.7 days for each year of service, less than an extra week of vacation. The current formula may be excessive, but citizens, mayor, manager and council disregard the dire need for certain carrots to attract competent people from the private sector— something generally in short supply. JOHN WOLFRAM | SAN JOSE
Signature Events I was reading the Metro at Sonoma Chicken Coop with the wife when I noticed a comment about an “aggressive signature gatherer harassing lunchtime diners.” Sigh. (“Signing On,” 420, Oct. 26) I’ve been hearing so much
misinformation about the new regulations from the petition gatherers myself. I find myself asking every petitioner that comes up to me, “Have you read the 48 pages?” I don’t sign their petition, I give my simple argument that “they need to be as regulated as a bar, or a pharmacy in the very least” and most sane people tend to agree. ROBERT CORTESE | SAN JOSE
ReadyforMyClose-up They should move the falcon camera to view this incredible news! (“Occupy the Wall,” SanJoseInside. com, Oct. 26) LIGHTS, CAMERAS, ACTION | SAN JOSE
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Council Sees White, Figone Sees Red Four San Jose councilmembers want City Manager DEBRA FIGONE to explain how she hires and ensures diveristy in senior staff positions. Few outside searches take place for qualified candidates, and just as few minorities currently hold director-level positions. As a result, Councilmembers KANSEN CHU, ASH KALRA, NANCY PYLE and DON ROCHA sent a memo to the city’s Open Rules and Government Committee asking for data. They also want a discussion on hiring practices to take place at the council level. Figone, who hires top staff and oversees their recruitment, couldn’t attend last week’s Rules meeting, so the matter was deferred to Nov. 2. While Figone has shown a willingness to advance women into prominent roles, it seems that only two of this year’s 12 senior staff appointments are what are conventionally considered minorities Don’t in this city of no forget majority. And one was a to tip! replacement for Latina deputy city manager FLY@ DEANNA SANTANA, now WS. METRONEWS. COM Oakland’s city manager. The cash-strapped city doesn’t have the budget to do nationwide searches for most jobs other than the absolute top spots—police chief, fire chief, city manager—but, right now, Figone isn’t even posting the latest senior staff openings on the city of San Jose website. The memo doesn’t suggest any of the recent appointees are unqualified or thatt race played a factor in their hiring, but as one of the councilmembers who signed the memo says, “When you look at the whole list, you start doing the math.” Another top position filled by a white internal candidate is the new director of communications, DAVID VOSSBRINK, who will be replacing long-time city manager mouthpiece TOM MANHEIM. Vossbrink is used to fielding tough questions. He was the gatekeeper for RON GONZALES during the former mayor’s office romance and indictment on bribery charges that were later dropped.
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They both believe the disease could spread to California—a view widely held by ocean ecologists. Scientists in British Columbia
announced two weeks ago that the ISA virus had been discovered in sockeye salmon there. It is the first time the mutant virus has been found in the open ocean of the North American West Coast. Evidence suggests it spread from fish-farms in the area. George Leonard, an aquaculture expert at Ocean Conservancy, says it was inevitable that the virus would wind up in Canada, where open-net oceanic fish-farming is prevalent. And, he says, it’s difficult to believe that it will not wind up here as well. “We’ve seen ISA spread all around the globe,” Leonard says. “It was just a matter of time before it arrived in British Columbia. And I don’t doubt that it will spread here—not because of any of the specifics of this particular disease, but because of the basic principles of ecology. A disease that occurs in a fish farm’s open net is going to be transferred into the outside world. This is not rocket science.”
This disease, however, is particularly dangerous. ISA had been found in ocean-going salmon for years, but was not deadly in the wild. The virus morphed into a virulent strain in fishfarming pens in Norway. Stiles says poor aquaculture practices contributed to the virus’s mutation. “These were fish living in denselypacked pens, being fed antibiotics— these were not healthy fish,” she says. Because there were no predators to pick off the diseased fish, the virus spread rapidly. When some salmon eggs from Norway were imported to Chile in 2007, the virus came with them, and decimated the Chilean salmonfarming industry, which has not recovered. There are no wild salmon native to Chile, so the disease could not spread beyond the fish farms. But British Columbia is home to one of the most productive wild salmon fisheries in the world. A law penned by California state Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), the Sustainable Oceans Act, strictly regulated aquaculture in this state in 2006, virtually banning the openocean farming of carnivorous fish
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Rometty is also a groundbreaker when it comes to women heading major corporations. At present, only 16 Fortune 500 companies have a woman at the helm, including IBM’s rival HP, which recently appointed Meg Whitman as CEO. With Rometty and Heather Bresch, who was appointed CEO of drug company Mylan on Wednesday, the number of top women execs increases to eighteen. Nevertheless, Samuel Palmisano, whom she will be replacing, noted that, “Ginni got it because she deserved it. It’s got zero to do with progressive social policies.”
Kerris (photographed above, apparently, as a former prisoner on the set of ‘In Living Color’) is one of many former Palm employees rerouting themselves to work for Nokia.
—DANNY WOOL
This Week in Netflix: ABC Back On Board Breaking through the hardwood-cased-in-iron-dipped-in-sheetmetalwith-a-fine-layer-of-glass ceiling, Ginni Rometty has officially been announced as IBM’s first female CEO, effective January 1.
A Woman’s Touch Virginia “Ginni” Rometty will take over at the helm of IBM, starting on January 1. It is the first time that a woman has been named to head the century-old company. Rometty graduated from the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and electrical engineering. She began her career at IBM in 1981 as a systems engineer in the company’s Detroit office. In 2009, she was appointed Senior Vice President and Group Executive for Sales, Marketing, and Strategy. She headed efforts to move the company toward cloud computing, and led efforts to prepare Watson, the computer most famous for its appearance on ‘Jeopardy,’ for commercial use.
Netflix and ABC’s parent company, Disney, have come to another agreement to allow Netflix access to ABC’s TV shows. Although Netflix still doesn’t get access to the brand-new content airing on the channel right away, this new deal has opened up new content from ABC’s back catalogue to Netflix subscribers. It makes sense that ABC wants to control recent content due to the popularity of Hulu and ABC’s own site. These resources let people easily catch up on the shows they missed and affords ABC extra ad revenue on those shows before releasing them to DVD and Netflix’s disc-rental hub. If Netflix keeps the content deals coming, they might be able to dig themselves out of the hole they’re currently in.—BRENDAN NYSTEDT
Richard Kerris Jumps Ship From HP to Nokia Oh Snap! Richard Kerris, former VP of HP’s webOS worldwide developer relations has reportedly found new employment at Nokia as their Global Head of Development Relations. Nokia’s been in the doldrums the past few years due to their inability to come up with a competitive smartphone. Kerris, who started working at HP in February, coming from Lucasfilm as their CTO, isn’t the only former Palm employee to find a place elsewhere: former Palm webOS VP of Human Interface and User Experience, Matias Duarte, has been at Google for nearly 2 years now, spearheading the drastic new redesign seen in the newest operating software, Ice Cream Sandwich. Peter Skillman, designer of the Palm Pre and former VP of Design of Palm, also found a new home at Nokia and is partly responsible for the design of Nokia’s N9/Lumia 800 twins. It isn’t surprising that people have left the webOS family since HP acquired Palm. It’s been demonstrated time and time again that HP didn’t have a great interest in the acquisition and didn’t give it the proper resources to survive. HP is still mum on what might come next for the webOS. —BRENDAN NYSTEDT
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In an interview with his biographer, Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs promised that Apple TV “will have the simplest user interface you could imagine.” It was no easy promise to keep, however. Everyone thought it would be some new take on the remote, so essential for the couch potato, and now in use for close to sixty years. Sure, remotes could be cumbersome and often cluttered with buttons. Sure, remotes tend to get lost between the cushions. But what could be better than watching TV without having to get up to turn the channel or adjust the volume? How could Apple improve on that? Steve Jobs did. “I’ve finally cracked it!” he declared, according to his biographer. He wasn’t talking about a new remote, or even about a new form of TV set. He was talking about linking Siri to the TV, so that it can follow spoken orders, just like the iPhone 4S. Finally people can sit back on their sofas and say, “Play the last episode of Glee,” or “Show David Freese’s last play.” It would be connected to the user’s computer too, so for those who would rather watch YouTube videos, all they’d have to do is say so. There are still hurdles along the way. While Apple products are usually pricier than their competitors’, a large-screen LCD TV/computer
Beyond unemployment rates, America is still getting use to being Job-less. But Apple shows no sign of slowing down, putting some of Jobs’s last products on the fast track to production.
monitor would still be far out of the price range of all but the most dedicated fans. Most people think it will be out by 2013, which is not as far off as it sounds.—DANNY WOOL
Google Takes On Yelp Google and Yelp have always had a complicated relationship. The two sites need each other, with 75 percent of Yelp’s traffic coming from Google Search, and Google Places, the Yelp competitor, scraping Yelp’s reviews to fill out its local listings. But things took a turn when Google acquired Zagat, the gold standard of review sites. Scraping Yelp suddenly became a waste of time. The delicate equilibrium was suddenly out of kilter. Now, TechCrunch is reporting that users searching for Yelp from their mobile phones will likely find Zagat in the top paid spot, even ahead of Yelp itself. In other words, Google is paying itself to advertise its own services at the expense of a competitor. According to the report, the results only appear on mobile searches, and not on desktop and laptop searches. Which makes sense, as far as Google is concerned. People are more likely to search for a restaurant review, when driving around with a cell phone looking for some place to eat, rather than when sitting at home, planning an entire evening out. If they find the result odd, they can check it later when they go home, and will find the Yelp result first—obviously, the Zagat result was a fluke. It’s a clever way to promote its own sites, but it can’t be helping Yelp boost its customer base. Nor does it really help Google’s users either. They’re left wondering whether Google really offers them the best results in response to their search criteria or Google’s fiscal criteria. —DANNY WOOL
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SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics
THE LONG HAUL Shaun ‘Cracker’
O’Kelly, 27, has been camping on a wall at San Jose’s City Hall plaza for more than a week as part of the Occupy San Jose protests.
Different Strokes I climb on top of several friends’ shoulders, crawl over an awning and tight-rope walk for 50 feet. I am high above the unforgiving pavement of San Jose’s City Hall plaza. I am here to see Shaun O’Kelly. Better known as Cracker, O’Kelly is 27 years old. He has been sleeping on top of a wall at City Hall for a week straight as part of the Occupy San Jose protest. Police have left him alone for fear that removing him would be too dangerous. I’m only here to talk to Cracker. I’ve also brought him a mixtape. When Cracker sees me, he leaps up from his post. “I have to insist you leave. I’m sorry,” he says. “They’re going to arrest me if anyone gets hurt, and they’ll arrest you as soon as you get down.” Cracker starts tearing up and pulls me into a power hug. “I’m sorry. I haven’t cried in such a long time,” he says. “I’m just realizing ... I’m so happy. This is the most important thing I’ve ever done. I’m inspiring people.” The whole world is keeping tabs on anti–Wall Street protests. On Saturday, the San Francisco occupation marched against police brutality. Four days prior, police arrested more than 100 people in Oakland for camping at City Hall. The militant response by police to protesters angered many, and the iconic takeaway was pictures and video of protester and Iraqi war
veteran Scott Olsen lying bloody and dazed, his skull fractured by a tear-gas canister fired by police. This all happened after San Jose police raided the camp at San Jose’s City Hall plaza on Sunday, Oct. 23, arresting eight occupiers. In response, O’Kelly climbed atop the plaza structure in the dark of night. He now camps on a 5-foot-wide ledge. While the Bay Area occupations persist, finding continuity between the three movements is difficult. “I don’t even really understand what it’s about,” says Ben Reha, a San Jose State University photography major who is at San Jose’s protest on Sunday. “I mean, it seems as if they want the country to be run by the people. Is occupying the best thing to do to accomplish that?” Each regional occupation is self-governed. Infrastructures are patterned after the original Wall Street camp in Manhattan via Twitter, Facebook, blogs and cell phones. Most occupations have formed a communal lifestyle that is uploaded and shared instantly. Oakland is the current Occupy Wall Street epicenter. San Francisco has been consistently hectic, if less militant from the start. And yet San Jose’s occupation, consisting of five tents and a man on a ledge,
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continues to lag by comparison. “It’s not hard for places like San Francisco and Manhattan to organize massive protests like that,” says Frank Door, owner of Element 151 Productions on First Street in San Jose. “Those places have those kind of people. The flaw in regional protests like this—San Jose isn’t exactly booming with activism. They’ll all go to San Francisco.” Cracker’s camp in the sky sits alone, outfitted with a blue pup-tent, some pens and a notebook. He has nothing to play my mixtape. “Some of the people up in Oakland are bringing me a laptop soon, so I can Skype and everything,” he says. “I’ll listen then.” This was Sunday. Reports suggest Cracker has since renounced the Occupy San Jose movement. But the remaining few who keep their tents at City Hall by day and across the street by night to avoid arrest appear loyal to him and the litany of occupation causes. Standing next to Cracker on a Sunday afternoon, I can’t tell if he is trapped or liberated—or both— above the occupation at City Hall. But just before addressing fellow occupiers by megaphone at the noon general assembly, he grabs ahold of me and says, “I’m just realizing I’ve never done anything meaningful before.”—Ashley Barros
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DOUBLE TROUBLE Lily Zhang, left, and Ariel Hsing are expected to represent the U.S. in next summer’s Olympics in London.
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T COULD BE be semantics to some, but ping-pong and table tennis are not the same thing. “You say ping-pong when you play recreationally,” says Rajul Sheth, director of sports and recreation at the India Community Center (ICC) in Milpitas. “When you go out of a garage, then it becomes table tennis.” Sheth takes his sport seriously, as do his students. Running one of the most successful table tennis training centers in the world, Sheth and six internationally acclaimed coaches oversee the maturation of some of the game’s youngest stars. As of August, a total of 24 ICC players were ranked in the Top 10 nationally. Included in that group are two local teenage girls expected to compete in the 2012 Olympics in London. Lily Zhang, 14, and 15-year-old Ariel Hsing make up the 1-2 punch that is setting a new standard for American table tennis. Hsing won the 2010 U.S. National Championship for her division, while Zhang is currently the second-ranked player in the world for Under-15. “A player from America to reach No. 2 in the world—that has never happened in history,” says Sheth, adding that the chances both girls will compete in London next year is “kind of a sure shot.” This weekend, Hsing and Zhang
will be joined by many of the best young table tennis players in the world for the International Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships, which will be held Saturday and Sunday at the ICC Table Tennis Center (1453 N. Milpitas Blvd.). Currently, 115 players are entered in the tournament, with some coming from as far away as Sweden, Trinidad, Mexico, China, Ecuador, Canada and Singapore. Short shrift in respect for table tennis may come from the inherent silliness of watching a paddle swing so hard at such a small ball on such a small table, but the level of commitment needed to excel in the sport is no less demanding than that of traditional American pastimes. The hours dedicated to mastering a particular style, such as a twowing looper or an all-around attack, oftentimes reaches 25–30 hours a week, Sheth says. “As far as training is concerned, we have a lot of kids who play soccer, baseball and basketball as well,” Sheth says. “You need more stamina to play table tennis than most other sports.” If time and energy don’t express the level of commitment many of these players have, money should do the talking. Instruction and equipment isn’t cheap. A 2009 New York Times profile of the ICC reports that Hsing’s parents spend “at least $40,000 a year fostering their daughter’s talent.” —Josh Koehn
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Rock On
FACE ACE THE MUSIC In 1956, San Jose rock fans ran wild att a Fats Domino show at the Palomar Ballroom.
A visit to Cleveland’s Hall of Fame reveals connections to history of rock & roll in San Jose By
GARY SINGH
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HE FIRST TIME I infiltrated the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, I spent hours amid the exhibits. The multistory building on Lake Erie provided a wealth of inspiration. I even lurked for quite awhile in the gift shop, especially the book section, where I flipped through Dominic Selerno’s groundbreaking taxonomy of Burt Bacharach songs. Enlightenment ensued. Titled Bacharach: Song by Song, the
book breaks the composer’s creative output into years. The section for 1968 includes an interview with Dionne Warwick, for whom Bacharach and Hal David wrote many hit songs. Reflecting on the tune, “Do You Know the Way to San Jose,” Warwick was quoted as saying: “It’s a beautiful little city. I was made an honorary citizen. I’m accused of putting it on the map and overpopulating it.” I contemplated that statement for a long, long time. She was accused of putting the city on the map. Not thanked, not congratulated, not applauded, but accused. For me, it put everything into perspective, since now, 40 years later, it often seems like many people in San Jose still don’t want to city the be known for anything. They live here because they don’t want it to be an interesting place. In my opinion, the San Jose
condition w will always involve the conflict between urban and suburban, small town and big town, or what constitutes a “major city” and what doesn’t. It seems like this creeps into everything that happens here: the arts community, the music scene, the convention and visitors bureau, sports, politics, the bars, the media, everything. This is not a profound new insight on my part—just ask any old-timer— but that quote from Dionne Warwick just seemed to nail it. As I stood there, flipping through that Burt Bacharach book, while standing there in the gift shop at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, I felt like I had just received special psychic revelations from the Great God of Suburbia, commanding me to craft a column about my experiences. That was three years ago, and since I just returned to Cleveland last month, the time seems right. Travel provides new models for contemplating one’s own landscape and also helps to manifest a heightened sense of awareness. That is, certain connections will emerge that one cannot ignore. This time around, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame set the ball in motion. Again.
In Cleveland, right outside the Rock Hall, one finds a historical marker designating the Birthplace of Rock & Roll. Legendary DJ Alan Freed organized what’s referred to as the first rock concert, the Moondog Coronation Ball, on March 21, 1952, at the Cleveland Arena. It was also the occasion of the first rock & roll riot, as thousands of counterfeit tickets were apparently sold. After waiting outside for hours, the overcapacity crowd shoved its way in, fights broke out, bottles flew and the riot ensued. Three of the acts didn’t even get a chance to play. The arena itself was torn down decades ago, but the historical placard tells the story. Standing there at that marker immediately made me think of San Jose’s equivalent event, which took place four years later. The now legendary Fats Domino riot went down on July 7, 1956, at the celebrated Palomar Ballroom on Notre Dame Avenue, now the backside of the Axis luxury midrise condos. At that show, several folks were arrested and a few were admitted to the hospital with injuries. The event was a stain on the Palomar’s legacy, one that included shows by Mel Tormé, Doris Day, Louis Armstrong and many Latino performers. Several folks over the decades have heroically referred to the Fats Domino show as the first ever rock & roll riot, which unfortunately isn’t true. I wish San Jose could claim that one, but it can’t. Cleveland, Ohio, is the place where it all went down that fateful night in 1952. And that town obviously has some class because they put a historical plaque right where the whole shebang took place—something San Jose would probably never do. When the original Palomar Ballroom building was destroyed, the developers did absolutely nothing significant to acknowledge the magnificent history of that venue. I guess that would require class on their part. One of the new residents even recently complained about loud rock music on the patio of the De Anza Hotel. There you have it. So much for urban living. Dionne Warwick would be proud.
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6-<-:1?1 Mitsuwa Marketplace 675 Saratoga Ave., San Jose; 408.255.6699 Mitsuwa is the heavyweight of Japanese grocery stores. In fact, it’s more than a grocery store. It’s a Japanese cultural center that sells food. In addition to great produce, noodles upon noodles, fresh sushi and seafood, one can find Japanese-made candy, a housewares shop and even clothes. Oh, and Santouka ramen, one of Silicon Valley’s best ramen shops, is located inside the store. You could spend hours in here. BEST BUYS: Tsukemono (pickles). The pickle shop at the back of the store sells a veritable rainbow of all things pickled—radishes, garlic, carrots, turnips and beets. Yebisu beer—it’s expensive but very good. Great sake/soju selection, too.
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The strength of Silicon Valley’s food scene lies in its ethnic restaurants, the little mom-and-pop places that populate the minimalls and shopping centers of the South Bay. Silicon Valley does have some high-end, fancy and noteworthy midmarket restaurants, but it’s the cheap, hole-in-the-wall taquerias, noodle shops and Indian restaurants that make eating here exciting and delicious. And the flipside of ethnic restaurants are ethnic markets. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been exploring dozens of these ethnic markets. They smell different. If fact, that these stores have any aroma at all stands in contrast to a typical supermarket, where the air is purposely devoid of any food odors. Ethnic stores are filled with food, and they announce it. The aromatic of ground spices pervades the air at Indian markets. The smell of fish and fermented foods greets shoppers at Korean markets. If a store sells food, I say it should smell like it. The stores look different, too. At the Indian markets along El
Camino Real in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, the produce section is filled with fruits and vegetables non-Indians would have trouble identifying—bitter melon, snake gourd, fenugreek. The meat and fish sections are revelations, too. Chicken with their heads and feet still attached (gasp!) and low-on-thefood-chain fish like mackerel and sardines. Of course, all those differentlooking (and smelling) foods are going to taste different, too. It’s one thing to go into a Vietnamese or Korean restaurant and feel like you’re getting a taste of that country’s culture. It’s another to go into an ethnic market to get the raw ingredients of the food you love while surrounded by people who probably speak a language you can’t understand. One quick word about the term “ethnic.” I don’t like it. It assumes there’s a standard “American” food compared to which everything else is “ethnic” and “exotic.” But what is ethnic dining to one person is home cooking
to another. Given the racial and ethnic complexity of Silicon Valley, “ethnic food” is a hard one to define. Is it just a culinary tradition different from your own? Where does a family of South Asians go out to eat for ethnic food? A donut shop? French and Italian food could be considered ethnic. I say if it hasn’t been thoroughly Americanized and still has roots in the old country it’s all ethnic food when you get down to it. But as imperfect as the term is, it does get its message across. These foods are specific to a particular country, region or racial or ethnic group. In addition to carrying food nearly impossible to find at a mainstream supermarket, ethnic markets can be less expensive, in part because they are targeted at a more socioeconomically diverse clientele, and they sell lots of food in bulk. What follows is a list of a wide variety of ethnic markets in Silicon Valley. It’s comprehensive but by no means exhaustive.
Like many South Bay JapaneseAmericans forced to spend time in internment camps during WWII, George Y. Santo was eager to get back to work once he was released. He opened Santo Market in San Jose’s Japantown in 1946. He soon outgrew the original location on Sixth and Jackson streets and built a new market at Sixth and Taylor streets where the store still stands. Originally, the store served the neighborhood’s Japanese-American community, but over the years as the neighborhood changed so did the store. While you can still find sake, soy sauce, noodles and house-made mochi, Santo Market now sells deli sandwiches that range from ham and cheese to char shu (Chinese barbecued pork) and Portuguese sausage. The market even makes its own char sui bao (pork buns). “We’ve got to do something different than the Safeways and Costcos,” says Earl Santo, who began working in his uncle’s market in 1955 and now runs the store.
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What hasn’t changed is the fact the market is still a family operation. Earl Santo’s children, Mark and Leslie, help him run the market; his grandchildren now work in the store, too. BEST BUYS: Hawaiian shave ice, housemade mochi (fresh every Friday) and char shu sandwiches.
Nak’s Oriental Market 1151 Chestnut St., Menlo Park; 650.325.2046 Nak’s began as a Japanese specialty market 42 years ago, but 20 years ago a Dutch customer asked coowner Sam Kurose if he would carry Conimex ketjap manis, a sweet catsup from Indonesia. He did, and slowly more Dutch expats came out of the woodwork and asked him to carry more Indonesian and Dutch products. (The Dutch once occupied Indonesia and developed a taste for all things Indonesian.) Now sales at the tiny market
are evenly split between Japanese products and Dutch/Indonesian products. BEST BUYS: From the Japanese side, look for fresh San Jose Tofu, Japanese cucumbers and oodles of noodles. From the Dutch/Indonesian side, there are Speculaasje cookies, De Ruijter chocolate flakes and of course Conimex Indonesian catsup.
Marukai Market 19750 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino; 408.200.4850 Marukai is a large-size Japanese supermarket featuring a huge fish and sushi counter, produce and imported groceries. Entire aisles are devoted to varieties of nori wrappers, soy sauce and vinegars, green teas and soba noodles. Bento boxes and fresh sashimi are available from the fish counter, where smiling sushi chefs trim whole
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Located in downtown San Jose’s Japantown, Nijiya market is a friendly neighborhood store that’s a one-stop shop for Japanese cooking. Like a traditional grocery store, Nijiya carries fresh produce, dry goods and meats. The small produce section carries the basics as well as seasonal items like shisto peppers, Asian pears and matsutake mushrooms. Beautifully marbled pieces of Wagu-style beef are available for $19.99 a pound as well as thin slices of beef chuck for shabu-shabu, Japanese-style hot pot. For lovers of sushi, Nijiya has a extensive menu of prepared bento boxes and sashimi plates, featuring yellowtail, salmon and tuna to name a few. BEST BUYS: Sake, seasonal produce and Japanese snacks.
McKee Oriental Market 2331 McKee Road, San Jose; 408.251.3039 McKee Oriental carries aisle after aisle of products for Japanese, Chinese and Filipino cooking. A large ďŹ sh counter in the back of the store has at least a dozen varieties of fresh ďŹ sh that the ďŹ shmongers will clean and fry for you to order. In addition to Asian groceries, the market also has an American and Mexican section with cans of tomatoes, pasta and chips. Most Asian ingredients, such as chile sauce, are available in a multitude of sizes, from small jars to large bulk cans. BEST BUYS: Fish sauce in a jar, banana brittle, frozen eel, tamarind candy and chiu chow chili oil. (JC)
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Imahara Produce and Oriental Foods 19725 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino; 408.257.5636 It’s hard to see from Stevens Creek Boulevard, but tiny Imahara market manages to serve a diverse clientele with its Chinese, Japanese and Hawaiian foods. There’s a good selection of fresh fruit and Portuguese and Hawaiian sausage, too. BEST BUYS: Kewpie mayonnaise, Hawaiian Sun soda and Redondo’s Hawaiian wieners.
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replacement powders like pumpkin soy and almond. The store also features avored vinegars, including beet, passion fruit and pine needle, used for health supplements rather than cooking. BEST BUYS: Teas (try the chamomile and chrysanthemum ower), organic spices, unreďŹ ned sugar (some varieties avored with ginger or pineapple).
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Hangkook Supermarket 1092 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale; 408.261.2299 If you can’t ďŹ nd it at Hangkook, it’s not Korean food. There’s a ďŹ shy/ fermenting cabbage odor, but get over it. If you want plain vanilla go to Safeway. Most impressive is the self-serve banchan and barbecue bar with kimchi, pickled radishes, candied anchovies and chile- and garlicseasoned beef sold by the pound.
B51@:-91?1 Dai Thanh Supermarket 420 S. Second St., San Jose; 408.287.3744 Outside of Orange County, Santa Clara County has the largest Vietnamese population in the United States, and San Jose is where
most of the action is. Dive right into the heart of it all at downtown San Jose’s Dai Thanh Supermarket. The busy, crowded store is loaded. The produce section, with its Asian herbs (sawleaf, culantro {CQ}, Thai basil and rice paddy herbs), is great, as is the meat section. For the strong of stomach, consider the organic hens and roosters with head and feet still attached, $10.99 a pound. (The feet make a great stock for pho ga.) BEST BUYS: “Three crabsâ€? ďŹ sh sauce, Vietnamese herbs, rice noodles and shredded green papaya for papaya salad.
Ori Deli’s Robert Tan has been serving Dutch and Indonesian groceries in his small south San Jose store for 35 years. The small corner market also doubles as an Indonesian restaurant where Tan and his family serve traditional dishes such as beef rendang. Tan says he is thankful the store still breaks even, which he attributes to his longtime customers, 80 percent of whom he says are Dutch. Among the popular items are the letter-shaped chocolate bars, which are part of the Dutch Christmas.
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5:05-: India Cash and Carry 1032 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale; 408.735.7383 India Cash and Carry is a sensory experience. The aroma of myriad Indian spices and incense greet shoppers at the door. Instead of dull Muzak, the sounds of Bollywood play inside. The aisles (a few of them always seem to be strewn with boxes of unshelved merchandise) are stocked with every south Asian product imaginable. The lentil aisle is almost as long as the entire store. Also worth a detour: the Gopi’s desi yogurt and tubs of locally made Real Ice Cream, purveyor of exceedingly dense and delicious kulďŹ . BEST BUYS: Fresh sate for $5.99 a pound, spices by the pound and seldom-seen vegetables—fresh garbanzo beans, snake gourd, banana leaves, fresh turmeric and tiny Indian eggplant.
Patel Brothers Market 2039 El Camino Real, Santa Clara. 408.261.3555. Located on El Camino Real’s ethnicfood haven, Patel Brothers Market is home to nearly any item required in Indian cuisine. The store carries
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New India Bazaar 2213 El Camino Real, Santa Clara. 408.249.2599 Similar to its neighbor, Patel Brothers, New India Bazaar features fresh produce for Indian cuisine as well as overowing aisles of delicacies such as lime chile pickle (a tart and spicy condiment), pappadums (cumin-spiced lentil crackers) and different varieties of rice including red basmati. New India Bazaar also has a small restaurant, CafÊ Tazza, in the back of the grocery that serves lunch items such as samosas and tandori kabobs as well as mango- and rose-avored lassis. CafÊ Tazza also bakes fresh Indian pastries and desserts. The bakery offers subtly sweet coconut
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5@-85-: La Villa 1329 Lincoln Ave., San Jose; 408.295.7851 La Villa is everyone’s favorite Italian market and deli. Owner Patty Bertucelli says the market offers the “things that grandma used to make, but you can’t find any more.” While the market is famous for its raviolis, it also offers imported meats and cheese, handmade pastas as well as hot Italian deli favorites and secret sandwiches. “Get the ‘Chris combo,’” says the guy behind the deli counter. “We sell tons and tons of them, but I can’t tell you what’s in it.” Grocery items include cans San Marzano tomatoes, olive oils and balsamic vinegars and imported handmade pastas such as large tube paccheri. BEST BUYS: In addition to the ravioli and the Chris combo sandwich (Italian
deli meat, crispy melted cheese), during the holidays look for Italian favorites such as cuccidatti, fig-stuffed cookies and arancini, rice balls stuffed with eggplant, peas and sausage.
<;>@A3A1?1 Bacalhau Grill and Trade Rite Market 1555 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose; 408.259.6101 The store and restaurant are Silicon Valley’s premier outlet for all things Portuguese. Owner Luis Lourenco grew up in what was once known as “Little Portugal,” and the market gives the East San Jose neighborhood a taste of what it was all about. Look for an extensive selection of sausage, cheese and Portuguese (and Brazilian) groceries. The little restaurant at the back serves the classics of Portuguese cooking and, of course, lots of bacalao (salt cod). There are bacalao fritters, grilled bacalao and bacalao natas, a creamy, delicious casserole of bacalao, potatoes and olives. BEST BUYS: Great selection of Portuguese wine and pastries.
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1080 Saratoga Ave., San Jose; 408.615.8533 Slavic shop offers products from Russia, Ukraine, Hungry, Bulgaria and other East European countries. The small grocery store in Saratoga also has a large deli counter with more than 180 different cured meats from salami to smoked hunter’s bacon, as well as prepared items such as piroshki and stuffed cabbage. Eastern European, mostly Russian, candies, bread and cookies line some along with Russian peach and pear sodas and pickled vegetables. “Name something you think cannot be pickled, we have it,� says owner Alex Napadiy. Napadiy also boasted of 40 different kinds of vodka, smoked herring and mackerel and Kiev cake, a wheat-free cake of meringue, hazelnuts and chocolate from Ukraine. BEST BUYS: Huge variety of pickled vegetables, dark rye bread, Kiev cake and lots of vodka.
Oakmont Produce Market 810 W. Hamilton Ave., Campbell; 408.866.6555 From the parking lot, Oakmont Market looks likes a typical corner store but with a large display of produce out front. But a look inside reveals that this isn’t a run-of-themill grocery. The tidy store is a haven for East European and Russian expats looking for a taste of home. The sausage selection alone is worth a visit. There are baked goods from San Francisco’s Cinderella Bakery (try the poppy seed rolls), Polish (Podlaski) cheese, and dark and dense schinkenbread from the Bavarian Bread Co. This is Silicon Valley, so Oakmont also sells tortillas and American potato chips. BEST BUYS: Kielbasa, half-sour pickles, fresh farmer’s cheese and American bowďŹ n caviar for $115 a pound.
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You’ll probably smell Rose Market before you see it. The tiny, holein-the-wall window at the back of store sells great kebabs grilled over a charcoal fire that fills the air with savory smells. To order the kebabs, one must go into the store first and then head outside to wait for the order. But slow down and spend some time in this Persian market to see what it has to offer. There’s a takeout counter with Persian prepared foods like gormeh sabzi and kookoo sabzi. Look over the huge array of cheeses, fresh nuts and seeds in bulk (the squash seeds are particularly good) and stacks of fresh lavash. And don’t pass up the delicious assortment of Mashti Malone and Golnat Persian ice cream. It goes great with kebabs. BEST BUYS: Fresh-squeezed pomegranate juice, huge variety of bagged teas and Persian ice cream and prepared foods.
91D5/-: Mi Pueblo 1745 Story Road, San Jose; 408.259.3421 Silicon Valley is loaded with little Mexi-marts, but Mi Pueblo, a local chain of 18 stores, is king. The one at Story and King roads is colossal. It’s
like a Ranch 99 but for the South Bay’s Latino population. There is so much more than tortillas. At the salsa bar, the “Totenada Ozzy” salsa made with fiery chiles de arbol is superb. There’s also a good little taqueria with shady outside tables. The white-helmeted butchers create meticulous, artfully arranged meat and fish displays that are a sight to behold. Who knew octopus could look so pretty? BEST BUYS: Fresh salsa, Mexican onions and chipotle chicken wings.
El Oaxaqueno 330 E. William St., San Jose; 408.294.9388 El Oaxaqueno keeps odd hours. When owner Bertha Zavaleta sells out, she closes up her little shop until another shipment from Oaxaca arrives. When she is open, count on product you won’t find anywhere else: fresh chiles de agua, Oaxacan chocolate, wood-oven-baked tlayudas (a big tortilla), red and black mole, and chapulines (toasted grasshoppers seasoned with salt and lime). BEST BUYS: Chocolate, chiles and fresh Oaxacan cheese.
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S NO CONFECTION safe from Kipp Berdiansky? As co-founder of Psycho Donuts in Campbell, he gave Homer Simpson’s favorite treat a long-overdue extreme makeover. Now he’s set his sights on another unsuspecting sugar snack with Project Cupcake, a twist on the food-truck concept that starting this week will travel around the South Bay selling customized cupcakes.
As we sit in a restaurant in Los Gatos, where he lives, Berdiansky explains the kind of questions he
immediately began to ask at the beginning of this year when he first considered taking on cupcakes. With a broad smile and a bit of a overcaffeinated look, he speaks with increasing excitement, his hands always moving to illustrate his points. “My first thing was: Why is there only one frosting on a cupcake? Why can’t there be two? That was my first question. And then it’s like, when you go to the cupcake shop, why is the cupcake all made for you? Why can’t they have the cake and the frosting separate so you can say, ‘OK, I want the mocha cupcake with the raspberry frosting on it’? Why can’t they do that? You know what I’m saying?” This is the mad genius of Berdiansky. He’s first and foremost a tech guy, which makes him question everything about form and function, and drives his passion for innovation. But there’s
something else, a certain artist’s eye that he brings to his business endeavors, combined with a joie de vivre that is evident as he spins off into the endless untapped possibilities for customization in business. “When you go to the gas station, why can’t it be a theme gas station?” he says, the twinkle in his eyes making it impossible to tell how serious he is. “Why can’t it be, like, Roman holiday at the gas station? When you go to the dry cleaner, why don’t you have Mesopotamian dry cleaning? ... How hard is it to have some sort of theme and have people dress up as Egyptians or whatever, and have a little pyramid?” By this point, he’s laughing, but he gets serious again when I suggest someone might just steal one of his ideas. “You know what, they won’t.” He shakes his head with an almost glum look. “They won’t, they won’t, they won’t.” Berdiansky, it turns out, understands why most people play it safe with gas stations, dry cleaners or cupcakes. But it’s not for him. That became clear in 2009, when he
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opened Psycho Donuts in Campbell with Jordan Zweigoron. Its kitschy asylum trappings attracted the most attention (and controversy, when mental-health activists launched a campaign against it), but underneath that, its sustainable success came from the fact that with their experimental recipes and crazy toppings, they really did reinvent the donut. Unfortunately, the pair didn’t see eye to eye in the end, and Berdiansky accepted a buyout from Zweigoron. With Project Cupcake, he’s taken what could be a complicated idea and made it as simple as possible. The truck is loaded with “blanks”—the actual cakes, baked at Santa Clara’s Copenhagen Bakery—in five flavors: chocolate, mocha, red velvet, banana and peanut. There are five kinds of frosting: chocolate, raspberry, cream cheese, caramel and peanut. One can order “dusts” on top of a cupcake, also o Oreo crumbles, Heath crumbles, like O Cocoa Puffs, granola or peanuts. Just as interesting as the customcupcake cupca aspect is the fact that Berdiansky Berdia is kind of reinventing the food-truck food-t concept, as well. “It’s a hightech theme. t There’s no pinks on the thing, there’s no flowers. It’s kind of geared for techheads, actually,” he says. To that end, the truck will stop at many of the area’s tech companies. Not only can users find the location of the truck at any given time on the Project Cupcake website, but Berdiansky is using a sophisticated alert system. Say the truck arrives at Nvidia in Santa Clara. Email and Twitter alerts will go out to subscribers who work there saying the truck is in their parking lot. At the same time, an alert will go out to subscribers at the next stop—say, Synaptics—that the truck will be arriving there in 30 minutes. The GPS idea is such a no-brainer that owners of other food trucks have already begun asking him to sell them the technology. He’s starting Project Cupcake with an employee, Devlyn Grech, who has her own food-truck idea that he wants to fund. And he wants to get back to the theme-bar idea he picked up at Depeche Mode Bar in Estonia. “My life,” he says with a smile, “is insane.”
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CAPERS Well-heeled sports bar and restaurant. $$$. Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Well-devised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious finger foods. 11am-10:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-midnight FriSat, 9:30am-10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777. LA PIZZERIA Italian. $$. La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand on the strength of a few high-quality ingredients, expertly prepared. Open for lunch and dinner daily. 11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am11pm Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Ave. 408.370.0826.
MICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi standards are transformed into palate-awakening presentations; culinary boundaries are stretched. 11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.378.8000 or 378.0838. NEGEEN Persian. $$. Mira ghasemi, grilled and puréed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, puréed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs. Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice cream. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-midnight Fri-Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400. PSYCHO DONUTS Donuts. $. Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory with flavors like apricot, the Cookie Monster (topped with Oreos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits of vanilla wafers) and the intimidating Psycho Donut, a
maelstrom of marshmallow, pretzel and chile powder. 6am5pm Mon-Thu, 6am-11pm Fri, 7am-11pm Sat, 7am-5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester Blvd #C. 408.378.4540.
RUSSIAN CAFÉ AND DELI Russian. $$. This is a small Russian grocery store with a good little restaurant tucked in the corner. Borscht soup, pelmeni and solyankya sbornaya, a thick soup studded with chunks of mild pork sausage, black olives, pickles and barley all satisfy. 11am8pm daily. 1712 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.379.6680.
SUSHI ZONE Japanese. $$. Fun sushi meets fun surroundings in this zone. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 75 S. San Tomas Aquino Rd #1. 408.866.1323. TIGELLERIA Italian. $$. Tigelleria’s menu centers on fine cheeses and Italian salumi paired with tigelle, freeflowing, piping-hot flatbreads the size of mini pitas. The bread forms the addictive heart of the meal. 11:30am-2pm, 510pm daily. 76 E. Campbell Ave. 408.884.3808.
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ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE American-Asian steakhouse. $$$$. Alexander’s is much more than a steakhouse. Add a 500-bottle wine list, multiple dining rooms and Asianaccented ambience and you’ve got a standout South Bay restaurant. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 10330 N. Wolfe Rd. 408.446.2222.
CAFE TORRE New Italian. $$$. A gem tucked away in
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an unassuming little mall, with a sophisticated interior and congenial hosts. Even better is the great pasta and seafood. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat. Closed Sun. 20343 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.257.2383.
CUPERTINO BAKERY Indian and bakery. $. Don’t be fooled by the name. Cupertino Bakery is a really great South Indian restaurant. Unlike many South Indian restaurants, Cupertino Bakery isn’t vegetarian. Good lunch buffet for $7.99. Don’t miss the dosa and utthappam. 11:30am-9:30pm daily, but weekdays kitchen closes 2:305:30pm. 102521 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.517.9000.
DYNASTY SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Hong Kongstyle Chinese. $$$. Dynasty specializes in Hong Kong-style seafood. The seafood is very fresh, especially the creatures swimming minutes before they arrive on your plate. Good dim sum, too. Full bar. 11am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 10123 N. Wolfe Rd (in Cupertino Square). 408.996.1680.
FLORENTINE RESTAURANT Italian. $. Bold flavors, fresh ingredients and lavish portions. Beer, wine. 10257 S. De Anza Blvd. (plus six other locations, some with full bars). 11:30am9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am10pm Fri-Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 408.253.6532.
FONTANA’S California/Italian. $$$. A steady performer, Fontana’s rarely disappoints pasta lovers. Beer, wine. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu,
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STAR ATTRACTION Bruno Chemel whipped up not one but two Michelin stars for Baume in Palo Alto.
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CT. 25 was a bittersweet day for Bruno Chemel. The French-born chef and owner of Palo Alto’s Baume restaurant got a call from his mother in France informing him that his father had suffered a mild stroke. He is expected to recover, but the news was obviously troubling. Then Chemel received another unexpected call. The Michelin Guide called to tell Chemel he had won two Michelin stars, an honor shared by just a handful of Bay Area restaurants and just one other in Silicon Valley, Manresa in Los Gatos. “It was kind of a shock,” Chemel said. “I wasn’t expecting it. I’m still in shock.” While the Michelin Guide just began awarding stars in the United States six years ago, the pomp and pressure surrounding the prestigious award runs deep in Europe, especially in France, where the guide (and tire company) is based. Baume grew up just an hour from Michelin’s headquarters in Clermont-Ferrand, south of Paris. He has vivid memories of dining at Michelin-starred restaurants with his parents. “As a French man it’s a big thing,” he said. “I never thought I’d have a star.” Now he’s got two. “It was a very emotional day.” Of course, Chemel is no stranger to Michelin stars. He took over CHEZ T.J. in Mountain View in 2008, where outgoing chef CHRISTOPHER KOSTOW had earned the restaurant two stars. Chemel aimed to hold on to them, but when Michelin ranked the restaurant the next year, it was downgraded to one star. After a highly public dispute, Chemel left Chez T.J. to open his own restaurant, while owner GEORGE AVIET groused that Chemel was “incapable” of earning two stars. Chemel took the high road and preferred not to comment about his former boss’s assessment of his culinary abilities. “I’m just looking to the future,” he said. New Chez T.J. chef JOEY ELENTERIO, the latest cook to step through the restaurant’s revolving door, held on to the restaurant’s lone star. Say what you will about Aviet’s inability to retain chefs for any length of time, he knows how to spot talent. In addition to Chemel, former chef JOSHUA SKENES scored two stars at SAISON, and Kostow retained his three stars at MEADOWOOD in St. Helena. The only other chef with three stars in the Bay Area is the French Laundry’s THOMAS KELLER. Meanwhile, Chemel had been pursuing plans to open a second, more casual restaurant, but after earning two stars he’s putting those plan on hold for now as he shoulders the pressure that comes with maintaining two Michelin stars. “Maybe the third will come. As of now I feel really glad and really blessed.” In addition to two-star Manresa and one-star Chez T.J., the other Silicon Valley star recipients include ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE, MADERA, DIO DEKA, THE PLUMED HORSE and the VILLAGE PUB. Each received one star from Michelin. Not on the list is San Jose’s excellent LA PAPILLON. As revered as the Michelin Guide is, I think the omission of Le Papillon shows a real lack of judgment. But there’s always next year.–Stett Holbrook
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GOCHI Japanese. $$$. Gochi is a globally inspired izakaya (small plates) restaurant. Most of the food is straightup Japanese fare, but there are a few American, French and Korean twists. Highly recommended. 19980 Homestead Rd. 408.725.0542. LOON WAH Chinese. $. The kitchen produces good wokcentric dishes, but its main draw is fresh, hand-pulled noodles. Casual. Beer, wine. 11am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri-Sun. 1146 De Anza Blvd. 408.257.8877.
TATAMI Japanese. $$. Billed as a Japanese seafood buffet, Tatami doesn’t limit itself to Japanese dishes. Pan-Asian and just plain odd specialties rotate. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am3pm, 5:30-9:30pm Sat-Sun. Cupertino Square mall (near Sears), 10123 N. Wolfe Rd #2001. 408.996.3444.
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ALDO’S Italian. $$$. A warm and engaging atmosphere sets the scene for full-bodied flavors and healthy ingredients. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 59pm Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 14109 Winchester Blvd. 408.374.1808.
CALIFORNIA CAFE New American. $$$. An innovative approach to Pacific Rim staples makes for some lovely surprises. The ace service matches the smart setting. Full bar. 11:30am-10pm MonFri, 10:30am-10:30pm Sat, 10:30am-9:30pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.8118.
CIN-CIN Eclectic wine bar. $$$. The heart of Cin-Cin’s menu is an eclectic mix of small plates, tapas-size dishes that partner well with a great wine list. 4-10pm Mon-Sat. 368 Village Way. 408.354.8006.
DIO DEKA Greek. $$$. Dio Deka is doing its part to elevate Greek food in Silicon Valley. There’s much to recommend
at this handsome restaurant. Most starters are large so they’re best shared. 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 210 E. Main St. 408.354.7700.
FLEUR DE COCOA French bakery. $$. Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Almond croissant. Los Gatos’ Fleur de Cocoa is rightly known for its chocolate confections and pastries, but I can’t stop thinking about the little pastry shop’s spectacular almond croissants. There’s plenty of other good stuff and not all of it sweet, like the croque monsieur and the quiche. 7:30am-6pm Tue-Sat, 8am4pm Sun. 39 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.3574. FORBES MILL STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. When Metro first checked in with Forbes Mill in 2003, it was called “a big, burly brasserie equipped with style as well as substance.” It’s holding up well and still does things in a big way. 5-9pm SunThu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat. 206 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6434.
GREEN PAPAYA Vietnamese. $$. California cuisine meets Southeast Asia by way of Paris, with inventive updates of clay pot and five-spice authentica. Beer, wine. 11am-3pm, 59:30pm Tue-Sun. 137 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.9115.
I GATTI New Italian. $$$. I Gatti fits like a glove along peaceful Main Street. The chef understands the basics but isn’t afraid to create refreshing twists on traditional recipes. 11:30am-2pm, 5-9:30pm MonSat, 5-9pm Sun 25 E. Main St. 408.399.5180. KAMAKURA SUSHI AND SAKE HOUSE Sushi bar classics. $$. In a smart setting, Kamakura showcases a procession of impeccable sushi and sashimi platters. 10:30am-2pm, 5:3010pm daily. 135 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.6650.
LOS GATOS BREWING CO. Brewpub. $$$. Most brewpubs seem to be cooking from the same menu, but executive chef Jim Stump has created a diverse menu of upscale comfort food that goes well beyond burgers and grilledchicken sandwiches. The handsome wood-accented
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MANRESA High concept. $$$$. Drawing from produce grown at his own farm, superstar chef David Kinch is blazing a trail of high caliber cuisine that’s as daring as it is delicious. Expensive but worth it. 320 Village Lane. 408.354.4330.
NICK’S ON MAIN American. $$$. Nick’s on Main is a relaxed but elegant bistro full of neighborly charm and is a showcase for owner Nick Difu’s decadent and deeply satisfying style of cooking. 11:30am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Tue-Sat. 35 E. Main St. 408.399.6457.
PASTARIA & MARKET Italian. $$. Pastaria offers reasonably priced comfort food in an unpretentious but lively atmosphere. 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sun. 49 E. Main St. 408.399.3477.
RESTAURANT JAMES RANDALL Californian. $$$. Chef and co-owner Ross Hanson takes his cues from the seasons and favors a simple, ingredient-driven approach that places it squarely in the California school of cooking. He favors big, robust flavors and large serving sizes to create a kind of California comfort food. 5:30-11pm Tue-Sat. 303 N. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.395.4441.
STEAMER’S New American. $$$. Styling itself as a grill house, Steamer’s includes rotisserie meats and fragrant grilled chops in addition to fresh fish. Quality control and service are excellent. Full bar. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm daily. 31 University Ave. 408.395.2722. TANDOORI OVEN Indian. $. Tandoori Oven has quickly found its niche in Los Gatos among the burrito joints, sushi spots and upscale restaurants with its made-to-order curry dishes and spicy north Indian fare at good prices. 11:30am9:30pm daily. 133 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Los Gatos, 408.395.1784; 1875 S. Bascom Ave., Campbell,
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TAPESTRY Contemporary haute. $$$. Right on the main street, this cottagelike spot blends traditional French cooking with contemporary fusion: filet mignon with Mongolian-style brown sauce; crayfish chow mein. Elegant and friendly. 11:30am-2pm, 5-10pm Tue-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 11 College Ave. 408.395.2808.
$$. This cozy dining spot offers an education in Old World charm and New World cuisine, from smoked salmon pizza to grilled ahi tuna to desserts as fresh as spring break. 11:30am9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat, 10:30am-9pm Sun. 50 University Ave. 408.354.4808.
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California. $$$. Set inside the beautifully remodeled Toll House Hotel, Three Degrees delivers a mixed bag of big and small plates from an eclectic menu. Some dishes, like the New York steak, are great, but others fall flat. Full bar. Breakfast 6:30-11am Mon-Fri; dinner 3-10pm daily. 140 S. Santa Cruz Blvd. 408.884.1054.
Thai. $$. Bay Leaf’s menu is divided into Thai and Indonesian food and it’s the latter that stands out. While Thai food is characterized by bright, high notes, Indonesian food strikes a lower bass note. 11am-3pm, 59:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am-10pm Fri-Sat, 11am-9pm Sun. 122 S. Sunnyvale Ave. 408.481.9983.
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straight for the baghali ghatogh, a fantastic appetizer made from delicate but rich baby lima beans, scrambled eggs and lots of garlic. Just as good is ghaymeh, a daily special made from tender chunks of beef, split peas, eggplant and tomato sauce. 11am-10pm daily. 1236 Wolfe Rd. 408.737.1222.
Contemporary Italian. $$$. While the kitchen exudes earthy aromas, the dining room’s soft terra-cotta walls glow with a sense of Mediterranean mission. Hands-on management makes each patron feel pampered. Full bar. 5pm-close daily. 160 W. Main St. 408.354.8108.
VIVA LOS GATOS NEIGHBORHOOD EATERY California. $$$. This popular Los Gatos restaurant mixes it up with Italian-leaning Mediterranean food, fresh fish, grilled steaks and several Asianinspired dishes. 11am-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 8am-10:30pm Sat, 8am-9:30pm Sun. 15970 Los Gatos Blvd. 408.356.4902.
WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$. Silicon Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the definitive upwardly mobile California pizza. Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian wood-fired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas—delicate, light and satisfying. Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am9:30pm Fri-Sat. 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave. 408.354.5566. For other locations see www.willowstreet. com.
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DISHDASH Middle Eastern. $$. Dishdash celebrates the culinary glories of the Middle East beyond falafels and hummus. The menu is made from traditional recipes and ingredients but presented with a contemporary flourish. There’s also a small but well-chosen wine list to match. 11am2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10pm Sat-Sun. 190 S. Murphy Ave. 408.774.1889. IL POSTALE Italian American. $$$. Its previous incarnation as a post office lends this space eccentric charm, and the food delivers full-bodied taste in generous portions. Veal marsala, thin-crust pizza and New York steak are featured. 11am-1:30pm, 4-9:30pm TueSun. 127 W. Washington St. 408.733.9600.
LUCKY DHABA Indian. $. A dhaba is a roadside fast-food joint in northern India. We’ve got our own version here at Sunnyvale’s Lucky Dhaba. Located off busy El Camino Real, Lucky Dhaba offers a
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PEZELLAS Family Italian. $$. Serves popular Italian dinners with rich sauces and generous portions. East Coast seafood dishes like linguini and clams and calamari sautéed in tomato, garlic and basil stand out. Pizza and pasta abound. Full bar. 11am-2:30pm Tue-Fri, 5-10:30pm Tue-Sat. Closed SunMon. 1025 W. El Camino Real. 408.738.2400.
SAIZO Japanese. $$. Part bar, part eatery, Saizo served small plates of grilled and fried dishes made to go with sake and beer. It’s all good. Open daily for lunch and dinner Mon-Sat. 592 E. El Camino Real. 408.733.7423. SENZALA Brazilian. $$. Senzala restaurant is like a Brazilian cultural center that also serves food. Brazilian art and photographs cover the walls. Go for the feijoada, a hearty, smoky black bean stew made with chunks of beef and pork. 11am10pm Mon-Sat. 250 E. Java Dr. 408.734.1656.
SHALIMAR Indian-Pakistani. $. Walk up to the counter, grab a menu and place your order. One of the best dishes is the plain-looking haleem, a lentil and barley stew available with chicken or beef. Nihari, a rich beef shank stew, is also great. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm Sun-Thu, noon-3:30pm, 5:3011pm Sat-Fri. 1146 W. El Camino Real. 408.530.0300. SUGAR BUTTER FLOUR Bakery. $. Sugar Butter Flour’s desserts and pastries go well beyond the humdrum sweets found at most restaurants and bakeries. The bakery’s chocolate skills are particularly strong. 7am-7:30pm Mon-Thu, 7am8:30pm Sat, 8am-5pm Sun. 669 S. Bernardo Ave. 408.732.8597.
TAVERNA BISTRO Old Mediterranean/Turkish. $$. Mustard and ruddy pomegranate hues warm the restaurant’s interior; zesty Arabic infusions warm the food. Choose from mezes such as hummus or tabouli. Entrees include lamb, beef or chicken gyros or lamb kebab. 11am10pm daily. 133 S. Murphy Ave. 408.735.9971.
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Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free Being an instrumental band has its own set of challenges. But sometimes missing something as typically crucial as a lead vocalist causes bands to work that much harder to make their music interesting. Amonie might have been just another Sonic Youth–loving art-punk band if they’d gone the easy route and simply added vocals to their songs. Instead they’ve created some moody, textured musical landscapes punctuated with swelling sounds and peculiar keyboard noises, with a superb use of dynamics. (AC)
CHRIS CAGLE Rodeo Club, San Jose Wed – 8pm; $15 Chris Cagle titled one of his albums My Life’s Been a Country Song, and he wasn’t kidding. His Jerry-Springer-meets-GrandOle-Opry episodes include discovering he wasn’t the father of a girlfriend’s baby, getting arrested for punching the boyfriend of an autograph seeker, and most recently a domestic incident that landed both him and his girlfriend in jail. Guess he won’t be covering “Let’s Fight” anytime soon, but he does continue to write hit songs like “What Kinda Gone,” “”I Breathe In, I Breathe Out” and “What a Beautiful Day.” (SP)
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SOUTH FIRST FRIDAY South First Street, San Jose Fri – 7-11pm; free South First Fridays, the longrunning downtown art walk, isn’t all about visuals. The Wally Schnalle Trio, sponsored by San Jose Jazz, plays at Eulipia for this edition of the event. At SLG Art Boutiki, the jazz quartet Grooveyard Shift will perform. At the many galleries along and in the penumbra of South First Street, High Fire Clayspace presents a raku-firing demo by Joe Battiato; WORKS/San Jose unveils a new conceptual-art installation called iraqimemorial.org, devoted to the civilian dead of the conflict;
Downtown Yoga Shala showcases the “toy-camera” snaps of Marco Zecchin, who professes a completely understandable love of old Kodak Brownie cameras; Good Karma displays new paintings in a surrealistic vein by Izer the Mizer; and Metro opens its lobbies for a photo exhibit of portraits by Richard James Arrendondo and Friends. (MSG)
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Nov 4 aat 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center
BEN HENDERSON/WILD H REEDS Nov 5 aat 8:30pm, Anno Domini, San Jose
FILTER Nov 6 at Avalon, Santa Clara
JASKON BROWNE Nov 8 aat 8pm, Flint Center, Cupertino
GORDON LIGHTFOOT Nov 10 aat 8pm, Flint Center, Cupertino
THE STONE FOXES Nov 10 at 9pm, Club Fox
DIERKS BENTLEY Nov 11 at the San Jose Civic
JOSH ROSEMAN SEXTET Nov 12 aat 8pm, Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford
SSOUTH BAY BLUES BLAST Nov 12 aat 8pm, Montalvo Arts Center
ROBERT CRAY BAND Nov 20 2 at 7pm, Campbell Heritage Theatre
it to the San Jose out where he is, he’ll make es gur fi EY EL RK BE VID As soon as DA to have a charmed life life, getting signed to the heavy-hitting metal indie Century Media Records on the strength of a three-song demo in the mid-2000s. Their popularity grew with each album, and they toured Europe in 2009. But they’ve also had to deal with the death (from alcohol poisoning) of bassist Patrick Mason in 2007, and the still-totally-baffling circumstances under which lead singer Cameron Reed left the band two years ago. Remarkably, they’ve bounced back yet again, and this year’s Motherland is their most acclaimed record yet. Purists are bound to be more confused than ever, as the band lets their prog tendencies run wild—just check out the almost soaring keyboards on “Dr. Teeth.” (SP)
TALKY TINA Caravan Lounge, San Jose Sat – 10pm; free A couple months ago, swinging garage rock band Talky Tina made a cool video for their song, “Drugster.” I’m not exactly sure I understood it, but it had the members of the band rocking out in their suits and ties in a cramped bedroom. There were a lot of records, booze, old rock posters everywhere along with a halfnaked woman. Sounds like rock & roll to me. These mad mods (two of the three band members are in the legendary San Jose band Odd Numbers) live and breathe rock & roll, and by rock I mean the fun three-chord stuff that’s always a good time. (AC)
Museum of Art..
*sun *mon DAVID BERKELEY
ATLANTIS RIZING
San Jose Museum of Art Sun – 6pm; $18
Johnny V’s, San Jose Mon – 9pm; $5
As emotionally disarming as Nick Drake, and intellectually fascinating as Andrew Bird, David Berkeley is a standout in the new wave of indie-folk singer-songwriters. His methods aren’t typical, either—he wrote his latest album while living in a remote village on the island of Corsica, where he sang for the villagers (who totaled less than three dozen, by the way). He’ll play songs from that album, Some Kind of Cure, and sign the accompanying book of short stories, 140 Goats and a Guitar. (SP)
San Diego hip-hop band Atlantis Rizing mix live instrumentation, pure uncut grooves, cerebral lyrics and odd spacey sounds to create a new style of rap—“Yoga for the Mind.” That’s what primary members Apaulo 8 and Mark Boyce (of G. Love and Special Sauce) call it, anyway. The label makes sense, I guess, except that enjoying their music isn’t a workout. Even though the components fit together in unfamiliar ways, it’s as easy and natural to take in as, say a Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathon. I guess that doesn’t sound as cool as yoga for your mind, though. (AC)
TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA TRA 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
BLAKE SHELTON Mar 16 at HP Pavilion
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Brown Eyed SELF-REGARD Joan Brown’s 1977 oil painting shows the artist at work.
A new show at SJ Museum of Art tracks the career of Joan Brown, a woman in the men’s club of Bay Area painting By MAUREEN DAVIDSON
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THINK of her as Mother Brown, a subversive figure in white heels and rose-checked creamy frock, careful makeup and long gloves, painting a calm blue vase and single flower, while chaos seeps around the edges. Underfoot, a colorsplattered floor gleams, while yesterday’s big wild passionate painting leans against the wall behind her.
“This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown,” now at the San Jose Museum of Art, reveals the bold individuality of this artist who came to prominence in the Eisenhower era and persistently painted the contours and crevices of her life till she died in a freak 1990 accident while installing work in an ashram in India. Her observations would excite generations of women, though she energetically avoided being categorized as a feminist artist. We meet Brown fresh out of the California School of Fine Arts, the
in paper doll dress, red-shoed toes turned in, wide-eyed and tentative in front of a massive Chinese dragon swirling threateningly behind her. In fact, Brown survived an afflicted San Francisco upbringing that spurred her to pursue her goals without a scrap of tentativeness.
Brown’s observations would excite generations of women, though she energetically avoided being categorized as a feminist artist In the largest gallery, Brown’s later works parade flatly, often in profile, the shallow modeling of the 1970s often reduced now to outlines enclosing areas of color against backgrounds distilled into pattern. Here Brown’s mature interests emerge—spiritual pursuits, avid long-distance swimming, esoterica and symbolic animals, man-woman relationships in droll depictions of a seduction, a lonely wait for a lover, a romantic journey and journey’s end. “This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown” only thinly represents the artist’s quirkier social observations in favor of her more overt self-portraits. Nevertheless, the exhibition reveals an art life lived without compromise, depicting without glorification but without irony her own domestic life and her journey from there to the world.
This Kind of Bird Flies Backward Runs through March 11, 2012, at the San Jose Museum of Art
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darling girl of a very tight men’s club, the Bay Area Figurativists. Her professor and mentor, Elmer Bischoff, along with CSFA colleagues David Park and Richard Diebenkorn, were the elders of this guild. They defied the prevailing Abstract Expressionism style, using the energy of expressionism to represent a reality outside their heads. Brown’s early work is heavy with this influence in weighty, laden, dark canvases where, under all that paint we see her lifelong themes emerge. In Girl With the Red Nose (1962) and Cocker Spaniel With Cloud at Night (1963), the artist gazes phlegmatically out of large stylized eyes we will come to recognize; we meet her homey menagerie and that compositional cloud she uses throughout her early work. In Girls in the Surf With Moon Casting a Shadow (1962), figures emerge from the crashing dark waters of the San Francisco Bay, which she will swim paint herself competitively and pa surviving. swimming and surviv In an era when few women prominence artists achieved prom even after decades of exhibiting, launched Brown these paintings launc nationally in 1960, at age 22. consequences of Ignoring the consequ for which she changing the style fo has become famous, she soon abandoned this derivative form to paint with increasing orderliness and flatness. Four 1970–’71 enamel selfportraits on masonite show carefully representational figures, shallowly modeled, existing on one plane with vivid backgrounds reduced to intricate patterns. With a haunting “this is my home, this is my son ...” quality, these paintings recall turn-of-19th-century photos of American homesteaders, their possessions laid out in front of their homes for everyone to see. In Christmas Time 1970, Brown stands behind her son Noel Neri (second husband, sculptor Manuel Neri, was another Bischoff disciple) in her leaf-strewn garden, gloved hands resting protectively on Noel’s shoulders as he mimics his mother’s affectless gaze from under a skip cap. Portrait of a Girl (1971) is based on photographs from Brown’s childhood—a perfect little pink girl
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Tim Craighead Nov. 5–Feb. 18; Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose Artist Tim Craighead shows various works on paper and paintings in a new show called “Dos Mundos,� opening Friday. Craighead works at the margins where organic forms and hieroglyphic markings teeter between decipherability and pure abstraction. An undergrad in printmaking and sculpture at UC– Santa Cruz, Craighead now teaches at the university. Pictured is Madremanya, a 2011 oil on linen.
Parade Runs Nov. 4–20; regular shows Thursday– Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 2:30pm; Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto; $23–$32 Almost a century ago, a sensational murder trial in Georgia put a Jewish factory manager directly in the sights of an overzealous prosecutor. The case, the source for an interesting 1937 ďŹ lm called They Won’t Forget with Claude Rains as the DA, has been turned into a musical with a book by Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) and music by Jason Robert Brown. This is a Palo Alto Players presentation.
High Fiber
Runs through Sunday, 10am–5pm (also open 8–11pm Friday); San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
Tavit Tashjian, piano Emily Ray, Music Director Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn & Avshalomov
The annual “High Fiber Under Fiveâ€? exhibit and sale offers area collectors a chance not just to see sterling examples of quilt and ďŹ ber art by contemporary artists but also to buy their favorites at a reasonable price. On display are tapestries, sculptures, baskets, wearable art and a variety of mixed-media work. Everything in the show is priced at $500 or less. (Pictured is Elizabeth Barton’s Steel Reections.)
Sat, Nov 5, 7:30 PM Le Petit Trianon Theatre 72 N. 5th St, downtown San Jose $25/20/12/10 408 236-3350
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45 ANOS DE ARTE FLAMENCO A celebratory show by Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco. Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $25-$45. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
CHOREO PROJECT AWARD
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Area choreographers show off their works in sjDANCEco event. Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2:30 and 7pm. $15-$25. SJSU Dance Theatre.
Opera
with a free public performance. Fri, 4pm. King Main Library, San Jose.
9 CIRCLES A South Bay premiere by Renegade Theatre Experiment of a psychological drama about the troubled life of an Iragi veteran who may have committed a terrible war crime. Preview Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7pm. No show Nov 25. Runs thru Nov 26. $10-$25. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.
OPERA SAN JOSÉ The local company helps celebrate National Opera Week
Theater HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING A musical comedy about the foibles of corporations with music by Frank Loesser. Presented by West Valley Light Opera. Opens Sat, 8pm (with champagne gala). Regular shows Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. No Nov 25
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show. Runs thru Dec 3. $29-$33. Saratoga Civic Theater.
IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING
IT WAS ONLY ROCK & ROLL A new production by Teatro Nahual. Opens Sat, 7:30pm. Runs every Sat thru Nov 26. (See www. teatronahual.org for ticket info.) Hispanic National University Auditorium, San Jose.
THE LARAMIE PROJECT A staging by Foothill College’s Theatre Arts Department. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows ThuSat, 8pm, Sun (Nov 13 and 20), 2pm. $8–$16. Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.
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, ThuFri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and/or 8pm, Sun, 2 and/or 7pm, Tue, 7:30pm. Runs thru Nov 6. $23-$57. The Rep, San Jose.
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS SCU Presents offers the musical comedy about a man-eating plant. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Tue-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm. Runs thru Nov 12. $5–$15. Mayer Theatre, Santa Clara University.
MAURITIUS Pear Avenue stages Theresa Rebeck’s dark comedy about rabid stamp collections. Preview Thu, 8pm (pay what you can). Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Nov 20. $15-$30. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.
MENOPAUSE THE MUSICAL A concert version on tour from Theatre Council Productions of Chicago. Runs thru Nov 4. WedFri, 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. 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 thru
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A one-man memoir by mime and Broadway actor Bill Bowers. Sat, 7:30pm. Free. Music Concert Hall, SJSU.
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Nov 6. Thu-Sat, 8pm (no Nov 2 show), Sun, 4pm. $10-$20. WORKS/San Jose. A music drawn from the 1913 trial of a Jewish factory manager accused of murder. With a book by Alfred Uhry; presented by Palo Alto Players. Opens Fri, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $23-$32. Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.
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.
STANDING ON CEREMONY: THE GAY MARRIAGE PLAYS ArcLight Rep presents a worldpremiere reading in conjunction with other cities and plays of a production about gay marriage put together by Tectonic Theatre Project. There will be discussions before and after the performance. Mon, 8pm. $8. San Pedro Market, San Jose.
THE STORY OF MY LIFE The premiere of a musical about lifelong friends, presented by Tabard Theatre. 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 BAROQUE BAND A visit by the new earlyinstrument group from Chicago, sponsored by SF Early Music Society. Fri, 8pm. $12–$35. First Lutheran Church, Palo Alto.
MASTER SINFONIA Works by Rossini, Rodrigo and Schumann. Sun, 2:30pm. $20. Los Altos United Methodist Church.
MISSION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
TAKE HEED Izer the Mizer’s spooky painting ‘She Killed in Ecstasy’ is part of the exhibit ‘Milk and Bones,’ opening this week at Good Karma Vegan Cafe for the monthly South First Fridays art and music event along South First Street in San Jose. School of Music and Art, Mountain View. The group performs a regular concert for Lively Arts Fri, 8pm. $44/$50. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.
GIL SHAHAM A Bach recital by renowned violinist for Stanford Lively Arts. Sun, 2:30pm. $66/$76. Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford.
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.
7pm: Jeremy Hotz. $17-$20. Mon, 8pm: Battle of the Bay. $12. San Jose.
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Museums CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936.” “Expanding Views of Africa.” A reinstallation of works of African art from the museum’s collection looking at the continent’s art and culture in diversity and depth. Ongoing. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am8pm. Stanford.
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CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM
Wed, 8pm: Science comedian Brian Malow. $15. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Adam Ferrara. $15/$20. Sunnyvale.
“Mammoth Discovery!” Plus activities and hands-on fun for kids. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, noon-5pm. Discovery Meadow, San Jose.
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A performance by the string ensemble as part of Lively Arts Informance series. Thu, 6pm. Free. Tateuchi Hall, Community
Wed, 8pm: Battle of the Bay Comedy Competition. $12. Thu, 8pm: Rebecca Corry. $12. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun,
“Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present.” “The Changing Face
A program called “Brilliant Combinations” features guest artist Tavit Tashjian on piano and selections by Beethoven, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn and Avshalomov. Sat, 7:30pm. $10$25. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.
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. TueSun, 11am-4pm. Santa Clara University. “Bridging Generations: De Anza Collects. A look at awardwinning art from De Anza students over the last 40 years. Thru Dec 28. Mon-Thu, 10am3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.
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. Tue-Sun, 11am5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES
“Pioneering the Valley: The Chinese American Legacy in Santa Clara Valley.” A new historical exhibit. Pacific Hotel Gallery, San Jose.
“High Fiber Under Five.” An exhibition of textile arts culminating in a benefit sale. Thru Nov 6. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.
MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE
TECH MUSEUM
EUPHRAT MUSEUM
“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
“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.
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Galleries
PHO69 “Of Light & Shadows.” New photos emphasizing high- and low-key lighting by Robertino Ragazza. Nov 4-25. Reception Fri with live music. San Jose.
SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Dos Mundos: Paintings and Works on Paper.” By Tim Craighead. Nov 5-Feb 18. TueFri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
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For South First Fridays, the cafe presents opera by First Street Singers. Fri evening. San Jose.
“Make a Jazz Noise Here.” A show of comic-book artists responding to jazz in their images. Nov 4-25. South First Fridays reception with Grooveyard Shift and comedian Pete Munoz. San Jose.
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“Milk and Bones.” New paintings by Izer the Mizer. Nov 4-Dec 31. San Jose.
“Progress.” Art and music from the members of MESHcollective. Nov 4-25. Reception Fri, 5-9pm. San Jose.
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DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “Simply Seen.” Photographs in a Hipstamatic vein by Marco Zecchin. Nov 4-25. Reception with Jewel of Opar bellydancers at 8pm for South First Fridays. San Jose.
HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE For South First Friday (Nov 4), the gallery presents an evening of demos and raku firings by Joe Battiato, 7-11pm. Works by Battiato show through the end of the month. San Jose.
KALEID GALLERY “A Box Is a Box Is a Box.” Works by Gianfranco Paolozzi. “Photographs From Italy and Greece.” Images by John Eric Paulson. Nov 4-25. Reception for South First Fridays. San Jose.
MACLA “Cuban Connections: Near & Far.” A show with examples from Bay Area collectors of Cuban artists. Nov 2-Jan 7. San Jose.
METRO LOBBY “Invitation.” Portraits by Richard James Arredondo and friends. Nov 4-25. San Jose.
PHANTOM GALLERIES “Kanji Garden.” An installation created from cut and manipulated folded books from the landfill by Shannon Amidon. In the storefront at 95 S. Market St, San Jose.
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LITERARY LIGHTS Thomas and Alvin (Kevin Kirby, left, and Tim Reynolds) play lifelong friends with books in common in Tabard Theatre’s presentation of the South Bay premiere of the two-person musical ‘The Story of My Life,’ running through Nov. 20 at Theatre on San Pedro Square.
TECHSHOP A showcase for works made by members. Fri evening. San Jose.
WORKS/SAN JOSE “Iraqimemorial.org.” A participation-based conceptual project for artists and others to make memorials for the unrecognized civilian dead of the work. Thru Nov. San Jose.
CONTINUING ANNO DOMINI “Bloodworks.” Skin art by Analog Tattoo Arts Collective. Thru Nov 19. 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.
KRAUSE CENTER “Cuba in Focus.” An exhibit by Cuban and American photographers. Thru Dec 8. Mon-Fri, 7:30am-8:30pm, Sat, 9am-5pm. Krause Center for Innovation, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.
MAIN GALLERY “Sea Shells and Sonatas.” Works by Susan Wolf and Arup Biswas. Thru Nov 20. Redwood City.
video installation by ChineseAmerican artist Xiaoze Xie. Thru Nov 23. Wed, noon-6pm, ThuSat, noon-5pm. Porter College, UC–Santa Cruz.
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER
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“Soil to Site.” A look at the relationship between nature and culture with video artist Richard T. Walker and Bay Area artist Mari Andrews. Thru Jan 15. “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.
“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. Wing of San Jose City Hall.
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.
PORTER SESNON “Resistant Archeology.” New paintings and prints plus a
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 CAMILLE DUNGY
The poet and editor of “Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry” appears for an SJSU Center for Literary Arts event. Tue, 7pm. Free. King Main Library, San Jose.
CHRIS MATTHEWS The host of “Hardball” and author of “Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero” speaks with David Kennedy, history professor at Stanford, for a Commonwealth Club event. Tue, 7pm. $15/$20. Schultz Cultural Hall, JCC Cultural Arts Center, Palo Alto.
ANDREW TILIN A visit to the store by the author of the memoir “The Doper Next Door,” all about mind-enhancing drugs. Wed, 7pm. Books Inc., Mountain View.
*kids PINOCCHIO
Presented by Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. Nov 3-5 and 12, 7pm, Nov 9-10, 4:30pm, Nov 5, 1213, 2pm. $10/$12. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre.
RAMONA QUIMBY A family show by Los Altos Youth Theatre. Fri, 7:30pm, Sat, 2pm. Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos.
*events ALL SAINTS DAY
A traditional day to
commemorate those who have passed. Sun, 9am-2pm. Oakhill Cemetery, San Jose.
LIKE THERE’S NO TOMORROW A Warren Miller skiing film with steep footage from around the world. Fri, 6:30 and 9:30pm, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts; also Sat, 6 and 9pm, Campbell Heritage Theatre.
MCINTOSH EXPERIENCE CENTER The maker of high-end stereo home audio equipment presents a demonstration of its systems in an event for audiophiles that also include a live show by rocker band Taddy Porter, a wine and champagne tasting with sommelier Roy Froom and food and wine pairings with chef Diana Guertin. Fri, 6-9pm. Free (but must RSVP to melinda@ centurystereo.com or call 408.341.1950). Century Stereo, Paseo de Saratoga, San Jose.
TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS An international competition for junior and cadet players. Sat-Sun. India Community Center, Mountain View.
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T I C K E T I N G I N F OO:: TAKING CHARGE Jaime Austin is the lead curator for ZERO1.
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ERO1, an art and technology collective based in San Jose, made some announcements last week about next year’s Biennial festival (starting in September), including unveiling the theme and the names of the curators. The festival’s theme will be “Seeking Silicon Valley,” with the overarching aim of transforming the region into a network of art activity with participation from artists worldwide.
Joel Slayton, executive director of ZERO1, said that with the 2012 Biennial, ZERO1 hopes to expand on both its cultural and corporate networks, forming partnerships with the hopes of creating a more dynamic network. “With the cultural side, we are engaging cultural institutions from San Jose up the peninsula to San Francisco and across to the East Bay,” Slayton said. “The goal is to create a true Bay Area–wide experience and to reflect what we define as Silicon Valley—not a set geographical region, but rather a state of mind.” The organization has put together an international team of five female curators to plan and shape the upcoming Biennial, with ZERO1 staff curator and director of programs Jaime Austin taking the lead. Other guest curators include Dooeun Choi of South Korea, Gisela Domschke of Brazil, Michelle Kasprzak of Canada and Regina Moller of Germany who are all set to bring their talents and vision to the table. “The spirit of creativity and innovation synonymous with Silicon Valley is reflected in all aspects of ZERO1,” Slayton said. “The artists, exhibitions and performances we commission and present mirror the modes of operations in Silicon Valley and push boundaries by provoking new ideas and radical experimentation.” In related news, ZERO1 and the Public Art Program of San Jose recently received an NEA Our Town grant worth $250,000 to help promote San Jose’s attractions as a place to live and an arts and technology hub, all with an aim to enhancing the city’s “sense of place.”—Justin Albert
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Rejuicing TURNING URNING N OVER V A NEW LEAF Carlos Ghosn shows off a Nissan electric ectric e ric car for the automotive paparazzi.
Chris Paine’s documentary Revenge of the Electric Car charts the race for a new kind of vehicle By RICHARD VON BUSACK
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N ONE SENTENCE: Revenge of the Electric Car is promotional in the way its predecessor, Who Killed the Electric Car?, was prosecutorial. Former Palo Altoan Chris Paine’s new documentary observes four figures in the electriccar industry as they try to midwife the all-plug-in vehicle. What a difference a few years makes. Once, the all-electric EV1 gave GM cold feet. After a decade vending oink-mobile juggernauts like the Escalade and the Hummer,
they were facing red ink. Returning to a leadership position at GM was a bluff, white-haired legend in the automotive industry: Bob Lutz, known in the press as “The last great American car guy.” Though not a tree-hugger (“Global warming is a crock of shit”), Lutz championed the new kind of electric car: the Chevy Volt. He did this just as a car called the Leaf was being plotted by Nissan, a company piloted by the formidable Carlos Ghosn. Meanwhile, here in Silicon Valley, rock-star-like entrepreneur Elon Musk was developing the sexiest, fastest and most pre-productionplagued of the three vehicles. It’s the car of the future, and it may always be: the Tesla. The film also audits the story of Greg “Gadget” Abbott, a Los Angeles
mechanic retrofitting fine vintage sports cars with electric engines. Abbott seems most up against it of all in a one-man, one-dream way the movies like. Abbott represents the more glamorous tip of an industry. Likely every big city has a mechanic who knows how to do this retrofit on a small scale. Remember hearing that the Geo Metro was the perfect electric car, once you eviscerated it? Would it have been too hippieish to give the small-scalers their due? Paine presents the unrolling of these new-generation electrics as a scoop. When a helicopter shot takes in the GM Proving Grounds, narrator Tim Robbins says, “We were behind enemy lines . . . now we were Bob [Lutz’s] guest. The question was, who’s playing who?” That question didn’t enter my mind. One doubts if a man like Lutz, even at the sunset of his career, was careless about his image or the message he wanted to push. He even had an explanation for how GM went big and went home anyway: “The whole tenor is that we kept
insisting on making big trucks. That is wrong on so many levels.” He comes across as genial. And he’s able to have a calm conversation about such rivalries as might exist between GM and Tesla. “I like those guys,” Lutz says. By contrast, Paine got in deeper in the scenes of Elon Musk’s business life. Is there a What Happened to Tesla? documentary trapped in this movie? The electric-car magnate receives some strokes, with Jon (Iron Man) Favreau describing him oncamera as the real life model for Tony Stark. But we also hear of a threatened lawsuit and view Musk’s hectic home life: five sons, a divorce and a speedy remarriage. At a low point, Musk has to tell customers on a waiting list for Teslas that the large deposits they put down didn’t cover the rising cost of the car. Dr. Ian Taras, a Tesla customer, airs his fears that he’s a man who has bought into a “boneless chicken ranch.” The press, in turn, airs its skepticism that this maverick can keep his company afloat. The journalists include Owen Thomas of Valleywag, Dan Neil of the Wall St. Journal and Ray Wert of Jalopnik. Just as government mandates helped get the EV1 built, a lot of federal capital is helping this new industry either in loans or tax deferments. I’m not complaining, since I agree with this film that the electric car is the wave of the future—along with more mass transit and more emphasis on making bicycle transit safe and popular. Libertarian worriers might believe that the government funds are being spent on a fad, on a technology not quite as proven as the fact that cars run, as Lutz puts it, on $1.50-a-gallon gas. Let’s all hold our breaths until that price comes back, since it’ll cut down on C02. Still, speaking in terms of credibility, this film’s mileage may vary.
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MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R; 120 min.) See review on page 46.
ORANGES AND SUNSHINE (R; 105 min.) See review on page 44.
REVENGE OF THE ELECTRIC CAR (PG-13; 92 min.) See review on page 42.
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TOWER HEIST (PG-13; 104 min.) The Brett Ratnerdirected caper chronicles the working staff of a New York highrise who conspire to rob one of the building’s tenants after discovering that they’ve fallen victim to a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by the Wall Street tycoon. A tale of the working class taking money from the rich who only want to get richer has never been more timely, and casting a few notables from the Reagan-
run 1980s (Matthew Broderick as a nervous wreck; Eddie Murphy as an expert criminal) works to highlight the fact that sometimes the only thing more important than comedy is context. The ďŹ lm, noted for its controversial attempts at releasing it on-demand through Comcast a mere three weeks after its theatrical release, was nearly boycotted by national theater chains worried about a potential dip in ticket sales. Since then, the ďŹ lm dropped its ondemand screening, opting instead strictly for a theatrical run. (Opens Fri.)
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THE SLIGHTLY soggy and obvious Oranges and Sunshine sources Margaret Humphreys’ book Empty Cradles; the director is a debuting Jim Loach, Ken’s son. Whatever its limitations, the film tells a story that at least two nations would have preferred to sweep under the rug. Transportation to Australia as punishment officially ended in 1868. But there was a little-known policy among church groups and charities to pluck children from “unsuitable” homes in Britain and send them overseas. Parents rarely found out what happened to their children. They were often used as indentured labor, and some (such as the denizens of the Christian Brothers’ school in Bindoon, Western Australia) were raped and beaten. Emily Watson does what she can playing Humphreys, a role conceived in the familiar form of every crusading-woman movie. She goes from indefatigable to dogged. Some noted Australian actors appear: Hugo Weaving as a bearded loner who was snatched from his pub-owning mother; Tara Morice of Strictly Ballroom as one of the transported, who ended up a scrubwoman; and David Wenham, who is first Margaret’s skeptical adversary, and then a great help to her. Wenham is there for one of Oranges and Sunshine’s rare
moments of lightness, a driving scene to Cat Stevens’ “Wild World.” Articles by such reporters as Susan Chenery of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Guardian’s Aida Edemariam fill in the movie’s blanks, while Loach keeps the story in the present tense. In the abstract, this FiXe^\j Xe[ is a less melodramatic way Jlej_`e\ of telling the horror stories R of these abused children. Opens Friday, And it’s certainly less Camera 3, expensive; vintage costumes San Jose; Guild, and sets are not required. Menlo Park But Margaret becomes the focus; it’s about her and her self-sacrifices, and her family neglected on Christmas—rather than the details of this 19th-century-style horror that took place only a few decades ago. When Margaret is told of how hard it is for the stolen children to feel the pain of their losses—but “you feel it for all of us”—one can see how Oranges and Sunshine became a soft-edged tribute to the heart of the social worker. A more troubling film could have been made, showing how the similar (if warped) urge to reform had stimulated the politicians who came up with this idea, as well as the journalists who must have trumpeted this cruel scheme.—Richard von Busack
Nov 2, 7:30pm, Camera 7, Campbell: The Matchmaker. The story of a boy in 1967 Haifa who grows up with help from a matchmaker. Nov 3, 7:30pm, Oshman Family JCC, Palo Alto: Amos Oz: The Nature of Dreams. A documentary about the famed author (Stanford pro Arie Dubnov speaks after the show.) Nov 5, 8pm, OFJCC and Nov 6, 5:30pm, Camera 12, San Jose: The Concert (2009). Melanie Laurént (Inglourious Basterds) stars as one of a team of purged musicians who decide to stage an impromptu concert in Soviet Russia. Nov 6, 1pm, Camera 12: A Film Unfinished. The Nazis decided to film a warped documentary in the Warsaw Ghetto to demonstrate how well-off Jews were having a soft war. The film salvages and gives context to the soundless, abandoned footage shot by the Hitlerites. Nov 6, 3pm, Camera 12, and Nov 9, 7:30pm, Camera 7: Berlin ’36: the docudrama story of Gretel Bergmann, the token Jewish high jumper at Hitler’s Aryan Olympics. (Plays various locations thru Nov 20.) (RvB)
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, PT. 1 (PG-13; 117 min.) Not much needs to be said about the cash grab that is part one of the embarrassingly successful Twilight series’ final chapter. Whether one will or will not see it has surely already been decided (probably for some years now), but for those curious: Bella (Kristen Stewart), the angstridden teenager in love with her equally glum beau, Edward (Robert Pattinson), finds herself a brideto-be with a newborn on the way that has the potential to change everything, bringing forth a clash between werewolves, vampires and humans alike. This is all, of course, merely set up for the final showdown, which will find its way to theaters in November 2012. Until then. (Opens Thu at midnight at Camera 7, Camera 12 and Camera Los Gatos)
A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (R; 89 min.) The multicultural stoners reunite for this bizarrely early holiday release, the third in the unexpectedly long-running series. After a six-year estrangement, Harold and Kumar (John Cho and Kal Pen, respectively) are forced to go on a wild goose chase through New York City to hunt down a new Christmas tree for Harold’s father-in-law after Kumar burns his down. The results, expectedly hilarious, raunchy and
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drug infused are only heightened by the film’s overt use of 3-D. Come for the laughs; stay for the thirddimension. (Opens Fri.)
Revivals JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS/ THE 7TH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (1963/1958) Intelligent crossprogramming against the upcoming The Immortals. The quest of the usurped king Jason (Todd Armstrong) for the Golden Fleece at the edge of the world. Jason’s journey is helped and hindered by the Olympians. Honor Blackman is Hera, Jason’s patron, interceding against Niall MacGinnis’ blood-sport-loving Zeus. But most people are happy just to remember Ray Harryhausen’s Super-Dynamation effects. BILLED WITH The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, which has our hero (Kerwin Mathews) in search of a spell to rescue an enchanted princess. Doing so requires matching wits with the sorcerer Torin Thatcher, a Cyclops, a Roc and the first of Harryhausen’s skeleton warriors: “How do you defeat death itself?” Harryhausen asked an audience recently. Making movies like these is certainly one way. (Plays Nov 5-6 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE/MRS. MINIVER (1940/1942) Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy; Greer Garson (in her mid-30s, a trifle mature) as Elizabeth Bennett; Aldous Huxley is credited to the script. The book looks out for itself. BILLED WITH Mrs. Miniver. Effective, often serious MGM dramaturgy with Garson and Walter Pidgeon as the heads of an English family trying to survive the war. (Plays Nov 2-4 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
Reviews GAINSBOURG: A HEROIC LIFE (Unrated; 130 min.) Eric Elmosnino looks a lot like Serge Gainsbourg, and there are tunes; “Le Poinçonneur des Lilas” and “Je Bois” are highlights. Gradually, the film changes focus, and it becomes less about a beloved musician and more a celebration of a great cocksman. The film asks: how did a man with a face like that end up hanging out with Hitchcockhoney Juliette Greco and Bastille-bait France Gall? And how did he arrange a public musical orgasm with Brigitte Bardot (the schmaltzy “Je t’aime, moi non plus”)? Embodying this
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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, post-recession 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 murder-conspiracy 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).
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. (RvB)
looks poreless and slightly synthetic; he’s a marvelously unusual figure 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 first-rate; he’s never got a chance to be this well-rounded, and yes I remember American Beauty. The release of this film during the same weeks as the Occupy Wall Street protests is timely, but timeliness isn’t Margin Call’s only
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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 first; 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
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THE OMINOUS Martha Marcy May Marlene has a damnable title, but it’s worth learning. This is a very tight thriller, quivering with emotional violence and suspense. Director Sean Durkin shot in rural upstate New York locations, with a lot of natural light. The film has a slow dreamy tone, but it’s deceptively muzzy-looking. MMMM is actually a close-in study of something that most people f linch from thinking about: what’s it like to be under the skin of the victim of a cult. The runaway dropout Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) escapes after two years with an unnamed family in upstate New York. She’s plagued with memories of what was done to her and what she did to others. Martha’s estranged sister, Lucy (Sarah Paulson), puts the penniless girl up in her lakeside vacation house. The vacation turns dismal. Severely traumatized and yet unable to put her ordeal in words, Martha thwarts her sister’s attempts to connect. What happened is cloudy and halfremembered. It wasn’t all Gothic; much of Martha’s two years was spent as an underfed female drone sleeping in a pile in a girl’s room, cooking,
waiting patiently for the men to eat. When new arrivals show up, Martha (now renamed Marcy May) is there to help break them in—to help make them members of the family. The inspired and frightening John DXik_X DXiZp Hawkes, who plays DXp DXic\e\ the cult leader Patrick, looks R; 120 min. startlingly like Opens Friday, Charles Manson as CinéArts Palo Alto an older jailbird. He Square and Santana Row considers himself a folk musician, just as Charlie did. It’s a turning point in this movie when he makes everyone listen to his little recital, a song about Martha, the new girl in the family: “You’re just a picture on the wall.” What uncertain young girl could resist being summed up as shallow and decorative? Olsen (younger sister of Ashley and Mary-Kate) gives us a remarkable portrait of someone split in pieces. And Durkin is smart about how such charlatans as Patrick thrive—how the contradictions that look like hypocrisies, how the small stresses create fissures large enough for a spider to get in.—Richard von Busack
(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 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. (RvB)
THE RUM DIARY (R; 119 min.) The Rum Diary is a prequel of sorts to 1998’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in the same way that that film was a biography of its writer, the paranoiac turned prophet, Hunter S. Thompson. Johnny Depp plays Paul Kemp, a rundown journalist brought into Puerto Rico to work at a rundown paper. It’s no shock, then, that Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart), a corporate goon attempting to build a large-scale hotel on a nearby island with Kemp’s help, is able to sway his moral compass by dangling a life of grandeur in front of him. When The Rum Diary tries to insert the writer’s iconic prose, in which he looks into the soul of Americana and is revolted to find himself understanding what he sees perhaps too clearly, the film feels muddled; too obsessed with the darlings of his text to understand when they do and don’t fit. It’s never able to treat its assemblage of plots as anything more than a two-hour montage of non sequiturs. And Depp is lazy here; phoning his magnetism in and asking for it to do the rest. Fans of Depp’s will see it for Depp; fans of Thompson’s will see it for Thompson; fans of both have probably been watching it in their
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THE SKIN I LIVE IN (R; 117 min.) Gorgeous and operatically pervy, Almodovar’s newest stars Antonio Banderas, returning to the director who first made him famous. He’s a wealthy plastic surgeon of Spain’s Toledo, who has a captive (Elena Anaya) he’s been quilting up with synthetic skin; the mad doctor was once a married man whose family was destroyed under alarming circumstances. The history unfolds with the return of a figure from the doctor’s past: Roberto Alamo as Zeca, a thicklymuscled criminal in a tiger costume. The soap opera plot of rapine and revenge is beautifully togged with Gaultier clothes. As H-G. Franju said of his 1960 Eyes Without a Face, this is not a horror movie, it’s a movie about anguish. Almodovar keeps the blood to a minimum and the physical torment mostly off screen. The Skin I Live In reconciles horror movie 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. (RvB)
THE THREE MUSKETEERS PG-13; 110 min.) The emmerded book in question is resistant to stupid 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 fight scenes are the usual as in every perishing one of Anderson’s previous films: 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 film 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.” Christoph Waltz’s Richelieu is already firmly in charge of France but he feels he most provoke a war, encouraging his followers: “Evil is just a point of view.” The heroic Gascon is played by Logan Lerman. He’s a calamity—you have to go back through 60 years of action film male ingénues 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.” (RvB)
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Wet and Wild BURIED URIED IE LIVE IV Careening between grindcore, powerviolence and thrash, San Jose’s Buried uried rie at Birth open for Wet Witch at the Blank Club on Wednesday, Nov. 9.
SaveAlternative goes beyond Top 40 hits—and Buried at Birth and Wet Witch prove the point By STEVE PALOPOLI
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OR THE LAST two years, Wednesday nights at the Blank Club have been the best place in the South Bay to hear up-and-coming local and touring bands for free. Some of the bands that are now the most respected and popular in the scene played their first major gig at the weekly showcase, from Hurricane Roses to San Francesca (back when they were Le Verita) to Family Room. But when Brooklyn’s Wet Witch plays Nov. 9 with San Jose’s Buried at Birth and Santa Cruz’s Moon Eater, the show will be a mission statement from a new crusader for the cause of alternative music in the South Bay, Bill O’Brien of SaveAlternative.com.
Founded as an online radio station on the East Coast four years ago, S*ALT has been promoting and collaborating on shows here and there around the South Bay for months, but in joining up with the Blank Club and Grand Fanali Productions on the Wednesday shows, they may have found their ideal partnership. At first, the South Bay may seem like a strange place for S*ALT to wind up, coming out of the East Coast and making its mark in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. But O’Brien was drawn here immediately when he heard how San Jose’s alternative station, Channel 92.3 FM (KSJO), had became a pawn in Clear Channel’s ongoing chess match with the FCC over ownership limits, eventually being sold this year and switching to a Chinese-language format. The same thing happened when he moved back to his hometown from New York after getting fed up watching major labels fail to connect with the alternative-music audience. “I left the major-label world, and
I came b back k to New Jersey, and d our heritage alternative radio station, which was the equivalent of your KSJO, flipped formats, to Top 40,” says O’Brien. “We had all these great artists, and there was all this great new music happening, and there was no support for it whatsoever. So we decided to start an online radio station ourselves, and start programming it ourselves. We literally threw it together and built this online radio station that over the next three years kind of dominated the region.” The Chinese company that bought KSJO allowed SaveAlternative to program on its FM signal for a while, which allowed the organization to make a huge impact in a short time, but also confused some listeners who didn’t know if Channel 92.3 might be coming back. “The thing that was different [than on the East Coast] was that we were actually going to be able to be on the FM tower for three weeks to show people what we would be doing online,” he says. “That helped us gain a strong listener base. On the East Coast, we had to do it through doing live shows and events and having our label and everything.” What wasn’t different was their reason for doing it in the first place: “Alternative radio is disappearing all
over the United States. It’s falling apart. Everything’s flipping to Top 40, to country, to whatever’s selling. Then alternative stations that are still alive are doing a lot of the same redundant [programming], playing Nickelback alongside Blink 182 and then Mumford and Sons a hundred times. It’s almost treated like Top 40.” With the Wednesday shows, S*ALT isn’t trying to fix what’s not broken. But O’Brien sees a lot of opportunities for cross-promotion, including a Sunday night show from 10 to 11pm on the website Noise Control, that will focus not just on Bay Area bands but more specifically on the bands that will be playing the Blank Club that Wednesday. “It’s not like we’re jumping in there and changing anything,” he explains. “We want to do what we can to promote that it’s something really special and great. The fact that you can go on a Wednesday night and see a bunch of new music for free is something that not many venues can do. There’s not a lot of places in the United States that do it.” Ryan Fassler of the local extreme metal band Buried at Birth, who’ll be opening for Wet Witch at the Nov. 9 show, says the invitation came out of the blue. “Bill sent me a message on Facebook,” says Fassler. “I went and listened to Wet Witch, and I was psyched.” Fassler, whose band will release their first full-length in December on Give Praise Records, particularly liked the variety in the lineup. While all of the bands are heavy in their own way, the quickly rising Wet Witch is like a cross between hardcore punk and the percussive attack of Sleigh Bells (who they often open for). Moon Eaters, who’ll play first, are more rock in the vein of Stooges or Rocket From the Tombs. He tends to be wary of bills that lump Buried at Birth in with other bands that sound too similar, because “people’s ears get fatigued rather quickly,” he says. “Which is why I think this show at the Blank is really cool.”
WET WITCH with BURIED AT BIRTH Wed., Nov. 9; 9pm; the Blank Club 9pm; free
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Ben Henderson Saturday at Anno Domini in San Jose, 8:30pm; $7 After upping his proďŹ le yet again by delivering one of the most talked-about performances at Left Coast Live last month, the singer-songwriter joins the Wild Reeds at one of his favorite haunts, A.D. Gallery. Henderson can do no wrong right now; he’s at the height of his powers. (SP)
Vida Killz Saturday at Hijinx House in San Jose, 6pm; free The up-and-coming San Jose rapper (and the only female MC in Dave Dub’s Isolated Wax crew) just released her 10th EP of 2011 this week. Catch up with her explosion of creativity and see where her year-long “EP Project� has taken her at this show at the house she co-founded. (SP)
Anti-Social Saturday at Johnny V’s in San Jose, 9pm; $5 In a world where rebellion is for sale, anarchy is a Tshirt design and even a toddler can have a Mohawk, San Jose’s Anti-Social is one of the last honest punk bands. With a mixture of early ‘80s Brit and ’90s melodic punk, they take on everything from hypocritical religious leaders to tough-guy morons who try to start ďŹ ghts at shows. (BD)
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Rock/Pop ANNO DOMINI Sat, 8pm: Benjamin Henderson, the Wild Reeds. $5/$7. San Jose.
ART BOUTIKI Fri: South First Fridays. San Jose.
AVALON Thu, 8pm: Mac Miller, People Under the Stairs, Casey Veggies. $20. Fri, 8pm: Fiji. $35. Sat: Color Me Badd. Sun, 8pm: Filter, Amongst Thieves. $15. Santa Clara.
THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Amonie, Hans Keller, Noise-a-tron. No cover. Fri, 9pm: Strung Out, Jughead’s Revenge,
Heartsounds. $12/$14. San Jose.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Volume Control. Rock and blues. Free. Santa Clara.
BOSWELL’S Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: Vent. Sat: Superbad. Sun: The Gents. Campbell.
CAPERS Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
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Sat, 2pm: Stazz. Sat, 8pm: Rebelskamp. San Jose.
Fri: Lucky Luciano, San Jose rapper. Sat: Anti Social. Mon: Atlantis Rizing tour, featuring the members of G
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Thu, 10pm: Live music. Fri, 10pm: Junkshaker. Sat, 10pm: Groovenugget. San Jose.
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LOS GATOS LODGE Fri-Sat: Live rock bands. Los Gatos.
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with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night. Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.
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CLUB FOX
Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music and belly dancing. Cupertino.
Wed, 7pm: Blues jam. $5. Redwood City.
AZÚCAR
GRAND DELL SALOON
Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.
Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: AWEK Blues Band. Campbell.
Sun, 6pm: Dixieland jazz. Cupertino.
HEDLEY CLUB
Thu: Live music. Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live music. Mountain View.
Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: The Real Sippin’ Whiskeys. Sat, 8:30pm: Bros. Goldman. San Jose.
CLUB FOX
J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Nightly: Live blues. San Jose.
Fri, 8pm: California Cowboys. Sat: South 46. Santa Clara.
Thu, 7pm: Tribal Theory, Shawn Megofna, Charito Soriano. $15/$20. Redwood City.
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HUKILAU
Thu, 8pm: The Holy Child, Fiction. $3. Fri, 8pm: Shane Dwight. $15. Sat, 8pm: Dimidium, Until We Sleep. $10. Gilroy.
Fri: Aldon Sanders. Sat: Garden Island Blend. San Jose.
LOS GATOS BREWING CO.
LILLY MAC’S Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.
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MOROCCO’S MV
Thu & Sat: Dueling pianos. San Jose.
Thu: Live music. Fri: The RevTones. Sat: The Honey Wilders. Fremont.
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER Fri, 8pm: Ricki Lee Jones. $39-$49. Sat, 8pm: Marc Cohn. $36-$45. Saratoga.
NETO’S GRILL
NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed, 9:30pm: Jam Night with Backfire & Diva Stativa. No cover. Thu: Live music. Fri, 9:30pm: Spang-a-land. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Touch of Class. Los Gatos.
THE QUARTER NOTE Wed-Thu: Pro jam. Fri-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.
CASCAL
Wed, 5pm: World music. Fri, 5pm: World music. Sat, 5pm: Belly dancing and world music. Sun, 5pm: World music. Mon, 5pm: Moroccan music. Mountain View.
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Fri, 8pm: Timeout. Sat, 8pm: Dogcatcher. Mountain View.
Wed, 5pm: Flamenco. Fri, 5pm: World music and belly dancing. Sat, 5pm: Mucho Axe. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music. San Jose.
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Fri-Sat, 9pm-1am: Live music. Gilroy.
Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.
TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE
STEPHENS GREEN
Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.
Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music. Mountain View.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE
Jazz/Blues
RED ROCK COFFEE
Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Santa Clara.
World AGENDA LOUNGE Wed, 8pm: Salsa. $5. Thu, 8pm: Banda nights. Fri, 8pm: Rock en Español. San Jose. Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa
Thu, 7-10pm: Live jazz. San Jose. Fri: Dueling pianos. Los Gatos.
A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Levitate featuring Jorge Faustmann. Sat, 9pm: Chris Burkhardt. San Jose.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Wendy DeWitt Duo. Fri, 6-10pm: Awek Blues Band. Sat, 1-5pm: The Smoking Kingsnakes. Sat, 6-10pm: John Garcia Band. Sun, noon-4pm: Gail Dobson Jazz Band & Student Performance. Mon, 6-9pm: Ukulele jam night. San Jose.
TATEUCHI HALL Thu, 6pm: Pacifica Quartet. Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.
TESSORA’S ANGELICA’S BISTRO Thu, 7pm: Blues jam. Fri, 7:30pm: Maestro Curtis & the Jazz Hieroglyphics. $10/$14. Sat, 8:30pm: Ricardo Scales & Friends. $20/$25. Mon, 7pm: A Swingin’ Affair & Jazz Jam. Redwood City.
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Fri: Bob Gonzales. Fri: TBA. Santa Clara.
Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
UNWINED Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz. San Jose.
WINE AFFAIRS Wed-Thu, 7:30pm: Live jazz. San Jose.
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PUNK-METAL’S NOT DEAD Strung Out plays with a reformed Jughead’s Revenge at the Blank Friday.
Strung Out & Jughead’s Revenge STRUNG OUT and Jughead’s Revenge came out of the crossover period of the late ’80s and early ’90s, a time when it was becoming more common to see punks and metalheads at the same shows not kicking the crap out of each other. Jughead came first; they released their debut album, Unstuck in Time, in 1989. Combining fast punk beats with metallic riffs, JR’s sound fit the norm for the time, but it was obvious they were a cut above the rest by their fine-tuned musicianship and smart lyrics. Over the next 13 years, they released five more albums Friday, Nov. 4 and toured extensively before being sued by Archie Comics in 2001 because they didn’t want Jughead seen The Blank Club with dirty-mouthed punk rockers. Their record label (Nitro Records, run by the Offspring’s Dexter Holland) 9pm; $12/$14 pretty much abandoned them on the lawsuit, leading the members to refer to their former record label as “Tax Write-Off Records.” They broke up shortly thereafter and seemed to drop off the face of the earth. Ten years later, they’ve resurfaced, playing small shows here and there and using their old name. They’ve remained very hush-hush as to the details, but who cares? Jughead’s Revenge is one of those bands that always put on a good show, whether it was 10 people or 10,000. Strung Out, meanwhile, has hung in for all this time and are celebrating their 20th anniversary next year.—Beau Dowling
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Sat, 7pm: Blue Rockers. Willow Glen.
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Fri: Harmonic Music Machination. Sat: Jordan Emmans. Campbell.
Sun, 7:30pm: Houston Jones. $15. Every second Mon: Ukulele jam. Mountain View.
Fri, 8pm: Carolyn Cruso. $15/$17. Sat, 8pm: Live music. Sun, 7pm: Doug Young & Friends. Santa Clara.
RED ROCK COFFEE Sun, noon: Margaret & Victor. Bluegrass. Mountain View.
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comedy and poetry. Los Gatos.
8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO
BLUE MAX
Tue, 6pm: Open-mic night. San Jose.
Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys. Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Fremont.
QUARTER NOTE
BLUE PHEASANT
Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam. Sunnyvale.
Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.
SAM’S BBQ
Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.
RODEO CLUB Wed: Chris Cagle, the Bell Brothers. $15. San Jose.
THE SADDLE RACK
Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, 6pm: Carolina Special. San Jose.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Bit & Spur Band. Sun, 8pm: Guest band weekly. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN
Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
Fri-Sat, 7pm-midnight: DJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke. Santa Clara.
Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.
BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Comedy with Mr. Walker. San Jose.
Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic. Saratoga.
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BRITISH BANKERS CLUB
Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.
AZĂšCAR
BRIX
Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Free. San Jose.
Wed, 9pm: English and Spanish karaoke and dancing. San Jose.
C&J’S SPORTS BAR
CITY ESPRESSO
THE BEARS
Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather. Santa Clara.
Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.
THE COURTS LOUNGE
BENNIGAN’S GRILL
Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.
Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.
CREEKSIDE LOUNGE
Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic. Cupertino.
Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose. Tue, 6:30-9:30pm: Open mic. Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.
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Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.
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Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic. Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.
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Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.
Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic for singer-songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.
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Wed, 8pm: Open-mic night with Anita. Willow Glen.
Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Redwood City.
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Tue, 6:30pm: HOT Acoustic Tuesdays. Open mic for instrumentalists, vocalists, poets and more. Morgan Hill.
Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.
Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.
DASILVA’S BRONCOS Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY
DIVE BAR
Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.
Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S
BLUE BONNET BAR
Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm2am, and last Sun of every
MISSION CITY ROASTING CO.
Wed, 8-11pm: Live music,
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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. Her threedisc anthology “Duchess of Coolsville” (Rhino) was released in 2005 and featured essays by Randy Newman, Quincy Jones, and Tori Amos. “One of the most intriguing, idiosyncratic vocalists of our time.” - USA Today
THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL Name-dropping The Donald put Mac Miller on the map.
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BACK IN THE DAY—way, way back in 2004—teenagers sang into their hairbrushes and danced in front of their be-stickered, full-length mirrors in the privacy of their own bedrooms. Now, those same teenagers become YouTube sensations. While many of these 15-minute gaspers should keep their Christina Aguilera impressions confined to the Roosevelt Middle School end-of-year talent Thursday, Nov. 3 show (ahem, Rebecca Black), a few Internet stars are actually deserving of their trending success. Avalon, Santa Clara One of these is Mac Miller (a.k.a. Malcolm McCormick), a 19-year-old hip-hop artist who first 8pm; $20 gained wide appeal by naming a song after Donald Trump. That video received over 30 million hits on YouTube and kudos from The Donald himself.
EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR
Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.
Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Tue, 9pm: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
Thu, 9pm-2am: August. Milpitas.
GILROY BOWL
Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.
Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.
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Miller rolls into Avalon nightclub in Santa Clara on Thursday as part of the West Coast swing of his “Incredibly Dope Tour.” Count on seeing a barrage of Facebook posts in your newsfeed and tweets about how your local buddies and acquaintance from freshman orientation five years ago are “Mac-in it up tonight.”—Maureen Coulter
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“This kid is the new Eminem,” Trump declared in his own video post. Indeed, the similarities between the Detroit megastar and the Pittsburgh up-and-comer are more than simply being tattooed white rappers from industrial towns. Both share a playful, tongue-in-cheek style that appeals to a broad audience, while employing the kind of flow and rhythm that has been sorely lacking in the era of AutoTune and do-it-yourself production. Both also have mantles full of rap-battle trophies. We’ve all seen 8 Mile, and Miller followed in his footsteps when he first flexed his word-slinging prowess at age 17 in the final four of Rhyme Calisthenics, the MC competition at Shadow Lounge in Pittsburgh.
month, 2-7pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.
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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X-BAR
Thu, 8:30pm-midnight: Karaoke with Jordan River Productions. San Jose.
Fri & Mon, 9pm: Vinnie. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.
PEACOCK LOUNGE Thu, 9pm: Brian. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Ryan. Sunnyvale.
THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE
PIONEER SALOON
Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.
Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall. Woodside.
HOOOTERS RESTAURANT
POINCIANA LOUNGE
Sun, 9-11pm: Karaoke. Campbell.
Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No cover. Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.
HUDDLE Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.
JOHNNY V’S
QUARTER NOTE Mon-Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
RED STAG LOUNGE
KATIE BLOOM’S
Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am. San Jose.
Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.
REDI ROOM
KC BAR AND RESTAURANT
Thu-Sat, 9pm: DJ Curtis. San Jose.
Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.
ROSIE MCCANN’S
KHARTOUM
Tue, 8:30pm: Karaoke. No cover. Santana Row.
Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.
RUDY’S PUB
KING OF CLUBS
Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.
Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. Mountain View.
SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL
KYOTO PLACE
SHERWOOD INN
Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas. San Jose.
LILLY MAC’S
Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.
Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL
MARIANI’S
Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.
MOJO LOUNGE
Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.
STATION 55 Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Sun, 59pm: Family karaoke. Gilroy.
Wed, 9pm: Larry. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.
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OFFICE BAR Fri-Sat, 9pm, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.
O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Mon, 8pm: Matt. San Jose.
AZÚCAR Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.
BAMBOO LOUNGE Sat, 9pm: Thick & Sexy Saturdays. $10. San Jose.
THE BLANK CLUB Sat, 9pm: Club Satori. $5. San Jose.
BLUE PHEASANT Wed-Sun, Tue, 7pm: DJ and dancing. Cupertino.
BOSWELL’S Mon: DJ Geekstar. Campbell.
BRANHAM LOUNGE Wed: Humpday Wednesdays. Thu: DJ. Fri: Ladies Night. Sat: DJ Chaos. Sun: Beer pong. Tue: $2 Tuesdays. San Jose.
Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. Tue: Pub-stumpers Trivia. San Jose.
Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
Sun, 8pm: DJ Joe. Campbell.
Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: Antromix. Banda nights. Fri: Rock en Español. San Jose.
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Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE
Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug. Sunnyvale.
Dance Clubs
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS
Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.
NETO’S MARKET & GRILL
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BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: DJ Night. Cupertino.
BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN
Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
Thu: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ Benofficial. Sat: DJ Aspect. San Jose.
TOUCHDOWN TOMMY’S
BRITISH BANKERS CLUB
Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke. San Jose.
Fri-Sat: DJs. Menlo Park.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE
Thu: Therapy. Fri: Flirty Fridays. Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.
Wed-Thu & Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Sat, 9:30pm: Joe. Santa Clara.
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CLUBHOUSE RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.
CLUB ILLUSIONS Sat, 9:30pm: Stanford GSB Annual Fall Bash. Palo Alto.
DASILVA’S BRONCOS Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ or live band. No cover. Santa Clara.
DIVE BAR Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs. San Jose.
EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Fri-Sat, 8pm: Old School Dance Party. San Jose.
THE ELEGANT PUB Fri, 9pm: DJ Checo. Sat, 9pm: Costume contest with DJ Checo. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.
EMPIRE CLUB Fri-Sat: Djs. San Jose.
FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S
GALAXY Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.
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KATIE BLOOM’S Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. Campbell.
KING OF CLUBS Fri, 9:30pm: Club Brinca. Tue, 9pm: Nox. Mountain View.
LILLY MAC’S Sat, 9:30pm: Latin night. Sunnyvale.
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Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Buck Wild Tuesdays. San Jose.
Wed, 7pm: House Party. Thu, 7pm: Throwback Thursdays. Los Gatos.
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS
MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE
Sun: DJ Paul x. San Jose.
Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy. Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.
STUDIO8 Fri: First Friday. With the Freshmen. Sat: Rick Rude. San Jose.
PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover. Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo. Sat, 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik. Sun, 7pm: Latin Beat. Sun, 9pm: Sonidero Night. Sunnyvale.
TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE Wed: RedRun with D. Luzion and Illtraxx. Thu: JazBiz and Dave Dynamix. Fri: Video Mixing, then DJ Radio Raheem and DJ Ready Rock. Sat: Live bands. San Jose.
PEACOCK LOUNGE Fri, 8pm: DJ dancing featuring R&B, Top 40. Sat, 9pm: DJ dancing featuring chill, R&B, Top 40. Sun & Tue, 9pm: DJ dancing. Sunnyvale.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.
SABOR TAPAS BAR WILLOW DEN
Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing. Sun: Reggae. San Jose.
Wed-Sat, 10pm: DJs. Willow Glen.
THE SADDLE RACK ZEN LOUNGE
Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.
Wed: Lil Saturday. House & electronica. Thu: 24 Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ D-Roc. Mountain View.
SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Wed: Wingy Tango night. Thu: SoFA King Thursdays. Fri: Video Killed the DJ. Sat: Sapphire Saturdays. Sun:
Wed, 9pm: Selective. Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: First Friday. $10. Sat, 9pm: Fame. $10. Mon, 9pm: Martini Mondays. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
FRIDAY
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ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI Australian chamber pop collective with more instruments than an elementary school band. Nov 3 at the Fillmore.
WILD FLAG Carrie and Janet from Sleater-Kinney’s remarkably potent new band. Nov 4-5 at the Great American Music Hall.
THRICE SoCal stalwarts and Warped Tour veterans celebrate new record, “Major/Minor.” Nov 5 at the Regency Ballroom.
DWELE
Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live DJ. San Jose.
With openers Slum Village, the Detroit soul crooner explores the absence of J. Dilla. Nov 5 at the New Parish.
MIAMI BEACH CLUB
MARY J. BLIGE
Thu-Fri: Top 40, club hits, hip-hop, Latin. Sat: DJ Nelly presents. San Jose.
MOTIF Fri: Featured Fridays. San Jose.
The very definition of “soul survivor” performs classic album “My Life” in its entirety. Nov 11 at the Fox Theatre.
More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.
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Faced with what they called a backdoor ban of San Jose’s collectives, the barely month-old Citizens Coalition for Patient Care (CCPC) turned in more than 47,000 signatures to the city clerk that morning, well over the 29,653 signatures needed for a referendum against regulations the City Council passed in September. “Our message this morning is very simple,” said James Anthony, CCPC chairman. “Our message is that the city of San Jose clearly wants to repeal and replace this unworkable ordinance.” Standing behind 16 petition-filled boxes, Anthony said CCPC also registered nearly 8,000 new voters and raised over $200,000 from supporters. City Clerk Dennis Hawkins tells Metro it will take 30 days to verify the signatures. If the coalition did collect the required number of valid signatures, the City Council will be forced to either repeal the ordinance or to put the referendum to a special election. In response, Mayor Chuck Reed proposed raising the Measure U tax on collectives from 7 to 10 percent to cover potential referendum costs. San Jose’s cannabis activists have received support throughout this process from a major political player: the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents 1.5 million workers in the retail food, meatpacking and poultry industries. At the press conference, Anthony was
flanked by CCPC co-chair and UFCW Local 5 rep Matt Witemyre. UFCW posters and stickers were attached to the petition boxes. UFCW Local 5 hosted CCPC meetings and trained signature gatherers at its downtown headquarters. The labor union also donated $5,000 to the campaign. In an additional announcement at the presser, Witemyre said three local dispensaries—Cinnabar Health Collective, Santa Clara Valley Collective Services and SV Care—have taken the first steps toward joining UFCW Local 5. UFCW has already signed up medical cannabis workers in Oakland, San Francisco and Colorado. SV Care owner Ace Salvadore tells Metro he hopes union membership can help educate the public about medical cannabis, standardize training and regulation in the industry and bring legitimacy in the eyes of the public. Salvadore says he was the first of his 12 employees to turn in a union card. Once the contract is finalized, union membership means SV Care workers will get new benefits, including increased wages plus vacation, sick time and 401(k) accounts. UFCW undoubtedly brings another benefit to the cannabis industry: political muscle. OpenSecrets.org, an independent website tracking political contributions, labels UFCW a “Heavy Hitter,” one of the top 100 donors to federal elections since 1990. The union’s money goes almost exclusively to Democratic candidates. UFCW’s political action committee pumped $673,309 in independent expenditures to Barack Obama’s election in 2008, contributed $1.8 million to Democratic federal candidates in 2008 and $1.7 million to Democratic congressional candidates in 2010.—Ted Cox
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equipment provider for the semiconductor industry, has employment opportunities in San Jose, CA for Modeling Engineer (12492), develop physically accurate models of Novellus CVD chambers, plasma systems, magnetic fields, and related components; and Database Administrator (12150), as the SAP Security Administrator for Systems Application Product, implement role based security in SAP systems. If interested, must reference job title with code and send resume to Novellus Systems, Inc. Attn: J. Reicks. 4000 N. First Street, M/S 60C, San Jose, CA 95134.
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