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THIS MODERN WORLD
By TOM TOMORROW
I SAW YOU
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ISawYou@metronews.com Send us your anonymous rants and raves about your co-workers or any badly behaving citizen—or about citizens you admire. I SAW YOU, Metro, 550 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email.
Reunion Onion I saw you at our high school’s 10-year reunion. You sat at a table near the edge of the dance floor, rain cloud over your head, scowling at others. You were the Black Hole of Fun, sucking the joy out of any who ventured too near. You seemed jealous of the people who were enjoying themselves, whispering into your “date’s” ear with a sneer every time a happy group passed by. Ten years after graduation, you still haven’t learned that some people are “popular” because they are fun to be around, not because they were cheerleaders, football players or good looking. Try a smile, Ms. Sunshine, and maybe in 10 years you won’t have to rent an escort for the 20-year reunion.
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Civil Cupertino I hardly think the Jobs family would appreciate the use of Apple or the Jobs image in any political smear piece, regardless of who put it out, or who it was intended to insult
(“It’s Hard Not to Love Election Season,” The Fly, Nov 9.). Cupertino Against Corruption—what a joke. Let’s try to promote Cupertino for Civil Discourse and Effective Government. The citizens and businesses of Cupertino deserve nothing less. PAULA DAVIS
Numbers Game The Metro’s latest cover refers to the Occupy movement as “anti-wealth” (“One vs. One,” Nov. 9). The 99 percent are not anti-wealth. We just want a level playing field. “The One Percent” has two meanings: Literally, those at the top
1 percent of the economic scale; and figuratively, those who use their wealth to get laws passed that give them an unfair advantage over the other 99 percent. Occupy Wall Street is mainly concerned with this latter subgroup. Unfortunately, in our sound-bite media world, no one is going to call the offenders “people-who-rig-theplaying-field-by-using-their-wealthto-buy-politicians-so-they-can-makeobscene-profits-with-no-accountability.” So we abbreviate it as “the 1 percent.” We realize that not all wealthy people engage in the corruption of our government, and many of them are in sympathy with the Occupy movement. We appreciate their support. ESTELLE GOW | CAMPBELL
Run, Ron, Run I wonder if people “got” the subtle Ron Paul joke in the very first frame of last week’s “This Modern World” by Tom Tomorrow (Nov. 9). His acknowledgement of how mainstream media ignores Dr. Paul (by placing him far in the back, behind all the other Republican candidates, where you can see only the top of his head), had me LOLing. Despite all the pundits and talking heads proclaiming Ron Paul as unelectable, more and more Ron Paul 2012 signs can be seen in the windows and on the front lawns of houses in my neighborhood. TOMMY J. ESTRADA | CAMPBELL
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THE FLY
All Wet DAVID GINSBORG, right-hand man to county tax assessor LARRY STONE, is running for a seat on the Santa Clara Valley Water District board come next November. We’re not sure why anyone would want to spend waking hours noodling on water policy, but then again it can’t be any less exciting than tax assessments. Ginsborg has been racking up endorsements—so far he’s received blessings from former San Jose Mayor SUSAN HAMMER and State Assemblyman JIM BEALL, among others—though he’ll have to go up against incumbent JOE JUDGE, who, according to our records, joined the board around the same time JESUS was turning water into wine. Judge has his own supporters in the race, none bigger than U.S. Congresswoman ZOE LOFGREN (D-San Jose) and her husband, JOHN COLLINS, whose relationship Don’t goes back at least as forget far as Steve Wozniak’s to tip! Us Festivals (c. 1982), where the two worked FLY@ together, and more WS. METRONEWS. recently involved COM Judge’s oversight of Collins and Lofgren’s home remodeling projects. But beating out the enthusiasm of a reform candidate will be difďŹ cult, especially after three new board members were brought in from last election: LINDA LEZOTTE, BRIAN SCHMIDT and DON GAGE. Judge’s best chance to be re-elected might be in the form of someone who has yet to declare anything—SCOTT KNIES, the executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association. Knies says he plans on entering the fray later this month, which could make for some awkward endorsement retractions for Ginsborg supporters—such as downtown San Jose City Councilmember SAM LICCARDO. And if there weren’t enough people interested in the board position, word is BARBARA KEEGAN, a former SCVWD employee and current board member for the San Jose Arena Authority, is thinking about running.
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A report released Monday by the High-Speed Rail Authority reiterates the authority’s consistent argument: A tunnel and underground station will not work in San Jose. Business and neighborhood groups worry that the proposed elevated structure will be a huge and unsightly addition to the cityscape. What the report does not say — yet it is being discussed internally
by HSRA officials — is that the city’s advocacy of a tunnel option could push the $98 billion high-speed rail line to take an alternative path. Commonly dismissed as absurd by Silicon Valley’s mass transit proponents, the alternative highspeed rail connection from Southern California and the Central Valley would use the Altamont Pass in the East Bay as its gateway to San Francisco. The idea has been thrown out in the past. It is gaining steam now on the heels of last week’s legal ruling, which forces HSRA to reopen environmental analysis of the stretch through the Pacheco Pass between the Central Valley and Gilroy. “If we can’t come to some sort of resolution, the authority will ultimately have to look at other alternatives,� says Dan Leavitt, a deputy director with HSRA. Leavitt
admits that, as of right now, the only alternative stop in between Fresno and the peninsula is Altamont. HSRA officials came to San Jose in late October to express their opposition to examining a tunnel option. Roelof van Ark, CEO of HSRA, and Leavitt met with Mayor Chuck Reed and his staff for almost an hour, but city officials exited the meeting unmoved. “[HSRA has] consistently, from the very ďŹ rst time, said that they think a tunnel option is not constructible and will not be permitted nor funded by the Federal Transit Administration,â€? Reed says. “It’s not that I agree or disagree with them. I’m not an engineer.â€? Reed has aligned with councilmembers Sam Liccardo and Pierluigi Oliverio, whose constituents will be affected by an aerial highspeed rail line, says Rod Diridon. The former Santa Clara County supervisor and longest-serving HSRA member until late last year, says the additional cost of mining tunnels, along with groundwater issues, make any complaints about the aerial bridge’s noise and aesthetics moot. “There is a groundwater lake underneath us in San Jose. The only
City Splitters Last Thursday, several non-profits as well as the cities of Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto were declaring victory in their fight to reopen the Pacheco environmental analysis. High-speed rail was approved by California voters in 2008, when the total project had a $33.6 billion price tag and was expected to be complete by 2020. HSRA officials released a new report earlier this month listing the cost at nearly three times that amount when adjusted for inflation, with a completion date of 2033. Palo Alto has been one of the most aggressive opponents of high-speed
rail, and on Tuesday the city held its first legislative public hearing, which van Ark attended. A day earlier, Palo Alto Councilmember Larry Klein proposed that the city ask state legislators end the project or ask voters to defund it. It seems the latest lawsuit ruling involving high-speed rail has only emboldened opponents—which are numerous in Southern California areas such as Palmdale and Bakersfield. “The dominant theme has been the HSRA doesn’t really listen to the citizens’ concerns for the project,” says Adam Summers, a policy analyst for The Reason Foundation, a libertarian think-tank based out of Southern California. “They are just kind of going full speed ahead with whatever they want to do without taking into consideration any of the disruptive factors citizens are concerned about. “You’re talking about thousands of homes and business that are going to be destroyed, as well as farmland. The more people learn about how much the system is going to cost, how destructive it will be in our day-to-day lives, the more they will object to the project.” The aerial line, Councilmember Liccardo believes, would effectively split the city—a complaint echoed by peninsula high-speed rail opponents. The massive concrete posts and underpasses would be targets for graffiti and shadowed venues for urban blight. Home and businesses would likely be confiscated through eminent domain. With construction of the rail line’s first stretch slated to begin next year, from Fresno to Bakersfield, not much time remains before the authority must decide whether Northern or Southern California gets connected to the Central Valley first. Indecision over tunnels will certainly play a factor. And while high-speed rail has its critics, it also seems no one wants to be left out. “That decision on a tunnel is far from made, so let’s back up for a moment,” Liccardo says. “If you’re building a train that’s supposed to connect northern and southern California, and you miss Northern California’s biggest city—the heart of the nation’s tech industry—you’ve built a train to nowhere. And that’s not likely to make a project that has already had its public challenges any more popular.”
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way you can stabilize it is to inject chemically-treated grout, like a slurry cement,” Diridon says. “What you would be doing, in effect, is building a long dam across the groundwater. In the future, water is going to be much more valuable than petroleum, and to think of us putting chemically treated grout into our ground water is absolutely ridiculous.” Yet, Diridon says, San Jose officials are running the risk of being displaced by Altamont as they continue to raise objections like those involved in the recently resolved lawsuit against highspeed rail, which included the city of Palo Alto as a plaintiff. “If you had asked me two weeks ago, I would say absolutely Altamont will never happen,” Diridon says. “But the judge has reopened the issue. If we can’t find a route that satisfies that judge, from Gilroy to San Jose, then the alternative we have to get from the Central Valley to San Francisco is the Altamont Pass.” Others who want the best result for San Jose think that all the Altamont talk is a negotiating ploy. Mayor Reed, who delayed the council’s consideration of visual design guidelines from this month to March of next year as the authority weighs options, doesn’t give credence to the alternative route. He says HSRA officials only mentioned it in passing at their most recent meeting. “There are certainly people here locally who are saying we should give up on the San Jose and San Francisco route and look at Altamont,” Reed says. “We didn’t talk about it very much, because it’s a stupid idea. There are people who think pigs can fly; it doesn’t mean they can.”
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TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE IN SILICON VALLEY COMPILED BY BRENDAN NYSTEDT
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Newsflash: Steve Jobs Still Always Right Apple famously has left out Flash on all of its iOS mobile devices since their introduction in 2007. However, the rest of the market saw this as a a flaw and countered to offer Flash compatibility in one form or another. Android, webOS and Blackberry’s tablet all allowed kludgy, unreliable Flash playback on their operating systems. Apple, however, kept pushing for a Flash-free future, looking toward HTML5 as an open standard that could run smoothly and save battery life compared to Flash. Steve Jobs famously wrote an open letter on the Internet regarding Flash and its future on Apple’s mobile devices. He called Flash out as the “number one reason Macs crash” and criticized its complexity and closed nature: Google’s much-hyped music store will feature a unique business strategy, offering users a plethora of fake songs by fake bands as a way to compete with other music giants.
Google’s Secret Is Tapped Google has sent out invites for a music event that they have titled “These Go to Eleven,” a reference to the cult classic mockumentary, “This Is Spinal Tap.” In fact, the email sent to press members was from fictitious Spinal Tap band member Nigel Tufnel (right, played by Christopher Guest), who is now, apparently, a Google employee. Murmurs have it that the event will introduce Google’s long-rumored music store, which may boast an option to share with friends via Google+. Of course, all of this is merely speculative until the big day, which will be streaming on the Android’s YouTube page on Nov. 16.
“The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 250,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to create graphically rich applications, including games.”
The end is nigh for Flash Players everywhere, furthering the theory that Steve Jobs has been reincarnated as a closed-source app.
So, now that Mobile Flash has gone the way of the Commodore PET, Adobe is reorienting itself toward making tools for HTML5. But given their strong stance that Flash playback is what separates the “real” web from that other web, what made them really cave? CNN writes that Adobe VP Danny Winokur cedes that: “HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively,” he said, apparently a nod to Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod. “This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.” Ouch. This means that Steve Jobs wins. Even from beyond this mortal coil, his ideas ring true and his unrelenting vision keeps changing the world to his will.
Adobe to Boot More Than 700 Positions Adobe today announced that although they’re on track to meet profits for Q4 2011, the company plans to ditch some positions in order to keep growing. The positions that are being cut are in North America, according to the press release, but also in Europe. The job losses are expected to total in the area of 750. Adobe says that: “We expect to record in the aggregate approximately $87 million to $94 million in pre-tax restructuring charges. Included in these charges are (i) approximately $17 million to $19 million primarily related to the consolidation of leased facilities and (ii) approximately $70 million to $75 million related to employee severance arrangements. We expect to record approximately $73 million to $78 million of these charges in the fiscal quarter ending Dec. 2, 2011.”
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Apple (Finally) Launches iTunes Match The final piece of Apple’s cloud strategy has fallen into place in the form of iTunes Match, a service that lets Apple host your entire music collection, regardless of source, in the cloud. iTunes Match costs $24.99 per year, and if the user doesn’t reup their subscription, their collection stops being available over the Internet. However, Apple, as part of the service, replaces low-quality music with new, 256 kbps versions free of charge. Apple is leveraging the vast quantities of music already available in the iTunes Music Store. What Apple doesn’t already have in the iTunes Store is then uploaded to Apple’s servers from your library and permanently stored.
Siri Tech Powers New Search Engine Apple’s Siri technology in the iPhone 4S has made quite a splash with the gadget crowd. The digital personal assistant uses DARPA-born technology to analyze the user’s intent and translate it into actions. The underpinnings of this technology come from the CALO project (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and
Organizes). This same software is now being used by Palo Alto–based search startup Trapit. Trapit relies on user input and then goes on a quest from there to discover the newest and most interesting content for users. Their service is now in beta, allowing Twitter and Facebook users to sign up. The experience is something akin to how Pandora works for music, except for the entire web. Although brand-new, this technology is extremely promising as it adds a previously nonexistent dimensionality to web search results.
Apple Begins to Sell Unlocked iPhone 4S If you don’t want to get stuck with a carrier under a contract and are lusting after the new hotness that is Siri, Apple has a solution for you. Starting today, Apple will gladly sell iPhones out of contract. iPhone 4S models without contract start at $649 for the 16GB version and each capacity boost (32GB and 64GB) costs an extra Benjamin to double. Unfortunately, although these handsets have the CDMA antennas and chips built-in, the unlocked phones can’t be used with Verizon and Sprint in the U.S. Instead, the phones will only work with GSM networks like T-Mobile and AT&T, along with the countless other GSM carriers around the world.
Steep prices won’t stop T-Mobile users, who are used to paying too much for very little.
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Adobe is looking to expand itself into mobile, social, ad content and media monetization solutions. This makes sense given Adobe’s last few acquisitions of ad and analytics companies.— BRENDAN NYSTEDT
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SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics
City Needs to Explain Ballpark Benefits
Let Schools Choose Speed Limits
Steve Kline—a lawyer, former political consultant and current city activist—recently sent a letter to the San Jose City Council asking for a full hearing on the land option agreement with Lew Wolff that gives the A’s owner a sweet deal for a future ballpark. It was a shot over the bow, not a lethal attempt to kill the stadium. But the city should be circumspect moving forward to insure transparency and make sure the community benefits from any deal made to bring baseball to San Jose are enumerated up front—beyond the traditional promises of jobs and increased business. A couple of caveats: first, I am 100 percent behind a baseball stadium in the South Bay; second, Steve Kline is my former business partner. That said, stadiums provide tangible benefits to communities over the long term. The 49ers recently ran a campaign in Santa Clara to insure their stadium was built, and it was a great deal for the city, the schools, businesses and the community, even beyond Santa Clara. The San Jose stadium deal points should be no less beneficial or transparent. The key to the entire process is to insure the residents of San Jose are getting their fair share of benefits from the new venture. That’s what Kline is asking for up front. He wants to make sure residents benefit from a deal if land is given to Wolff, which is clearly what the option agreement does. Clearly, such a benefits package will be necessary for voter approval. —Rich Robinson, political consultant
Ensuring that cars travel slowly near schools should be a priority for San Jose. Local governments should embrace tools that make streets safer for pedestrians, especially when those pedestrians are overwhelming children walking and biking to and from school. In 2008, Assembly Bill 321 (AB321) was signed into law. AB321 allows cities the flexibility to lower speed limits adjacent to public and private schools. Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Pennsylvania have already implemented lower school speed limits successfully. Reduced school speed zones in California were quickly implemented in Goleta, Lompoc and Santa Maria among other cities. In 2010, I proposed implementing AB321 on Dana Avenue in front of Trace Elementary and Lincoln High School. Parents, teachers, principals, residents and the school superintendent have proclaimed the reduced speed a great success. As a result, this issue is coming back to the council on Tuesday, Nov. 15.
Jeff The sale of land below value is another shining example of the transfer of public funds to a private developer. Believe me, Mr. Wolff will make money hand over fist by this ball park; he can at least pay market value for the land.
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Allowing schools to choose if they would like to have a 15-mph speed zone for their school would then allow for an affordable way to reduce accidents. Unfortunately, city staff is proposing as a pilot program that we lower speed limits at only three schools out of over 200. Still, there have been some who think that it’s OK to not lower the speed limit near schools and instead rely on grandparents and parents to walk their kids to school. However, Mayor Reed, Councilmember Don Rocha and I disagree with staff ’s proposal and instead we are asking the council to support allowing schools the autonomy to choose for themselves. The cost to procure and install new 15-mph speed limit signs per school in San Francisco is approximately $1,500. It may be less if we simply put a 1 over the 2. Even with our budget woes in San Jose, this is affordable and I have already heard from school parent groups and residents that they would be willing to pay for the cost of implementation. —Pierluigi Oliverio, San Jose City Councilmember
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Despite the pressure of the upcoming match, Le believes that fighting in his hometown gives him an edge. “Living in the South Bay with all my friends and family around here definitely gives me a home field advantage,” he says. “Everyone comes out. The Bay Area gives me a lot of love and support.” Le, an undefeated kickboxer in his professional Sanshou career, recently made the jump to UFC after making his mixed martial arts debut through Strikeforce, an MMA organization based out of San Jose. When not training for his MMA bouts, Le is also kicking butt on the silver screen, using his background as a martial artist to score both minor and major roles in various motion pictures. His most recent role is a movie adaptation of the popular fighting video game Tekken. For Le, Saturday’s fight represents a new milestone, as it’s his first match competing for the UFC. “My first MMA fight was in San Jose, and now this is my first UFC fight in San Jose, so it’s like coming full circle,” Le says. “It means a lot to me to fight in San Jose on the UFC card.” Le’s training in preparation for Silva has been rigorous. “I train and I fight to win. That’s it,” he says. “I plan to bring thunder and lightning that night and open my Tekken playbook on Wanderlei Silva.” Other fights on the card include a bantamweight bout featuring Urijah Faber, a specialist in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, taking on Brian Bowles, a former World Extreme Cagefighter. Martin Kampmann is set to square off against Rick Story in the Welterweight bout, and Stephan Bonnar and Kyle Kingsbury do battle in a light heavyweight fight.—Justin Albert
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Student artists paint portraits of famous artists for a wall of fame and creative angst at SJSU By
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N THE SJSU campus, a heroic faction of art students calling themselves Dirty Brushes has enlivened a primer-blue construction wall with replicas of famous self-portraits. On the wall, one sees paintings of van Gogh, Diego Rivera, El Greco, Rene Magritte, Francis Bacon, Berthe Morisot, Frida Kahlo and more. The first few paintings emerged last spring, but the project, titled “Better Than Blue,” is a work in progress. There are now 30 paintings, with even more on the way. The participating artists include Miranda Fry, Theresa Because,
Magdalena Reiter, Colin King-Bailey, Eliza Bui, James Pollard and more. The construction in question is for a new Student Union complex currently being erected in the place of the former Spartan Pub, which, 20 years ago, was a rocking alternativemusic venue before the philistines at Spartan Shops converted it to a genteel food-court abomination. As a result, blue construction walls surround a parcel of campus directly opposite the Music Building. I’m not sure why blue, in particular, always emerges as an established hue for such things, but in this case, the paintings constitute a gorgeous improvement. Since the mural of portraits sits on campus property, not city property, the artists didn’t have to go through San Jose bureaucracy just to paint on the construction walls. Even better, an audio component of
the project allows one to call a phone number and listen to explanations of the portraits. For example, we hear that the original version of Francis Bacon’s Self-Portrait 1969 was “influenced by surrealist abstractions and raises feelings of anxiety, alienation and distinct personalities. From mutilated interpretations of the figure to mysterious and electric color patterns, Bacon’s work can be seen as both repulsive and seductive.” We learn of Bacon’s view that “painting is a pattern of our own nervous system being projected into the canvas.” I think any creative type can relate to that. In another branch of the phone tree, we arrive at the explanation for van Gogh’s final self-portrait from 1889, painted some time after the artist had cut his ear off, although the portrait is depicted at an angle that hides the missing ear. It was also painted around the time van Gogh was living in an insane asylum. The recording continues: “Most everything in the painting has a blue hue, symbolizing van Gogh’s depressed nature, which would eventually lead to his suicide. Although there
is value contrast, part of van Gogh’s torso is delineated, creating the perception that he was fading into the background. Perhaps he though he was fading away from society as his life came to an end.” Replicas of self-portraits by Gustav Courbet and Joan Miro sit right next to each other on one portion of the wall. In the recording, we learn that Miro painted this particular selfportrait a few years after he had a nervous breakdown. We also learn that Courbet’s portrait, titled The Desperate Man, was painted around 1843–45. The recording informs us that he painted more than 20 self-portraits throughout his career and that this one “grabs us with the artist’s intense gaze. [His] use of light, value and color creates a dramatic and intimate moment. Could it be that he was desperately trying to connect with his audience?” The effect doesn’t stop there. A replica of Alice Neel’s nude selfportrait, which she painted at the age of 80, decorates another portion of the wall. As with the van Gogh piece, the hues seem fully integrated into the blue of the construction wall. On the phone, the listener hears an explication of the scene: “Despite her pale skin and the heavy droop of her body features, Neel stares directly at the viewer, as if to prove she is not ashamed of her aging. Why would she choose to depict herself in this manner? Alice Neel was notorious for including every imperfection and flaw in the subjects she painted, including her own. ... She uses her self-portrait as a statement that she is both vulnerable and unashamed.” Again, “Better Than Blue” is a work in progress. Some of the portraits don’t have audio accompaniment yet. Others are not even labeled. But that’s OK. The whole shebang is more than off to a splendid start. And as one would expect and perhaps encourage, each student painter seems to bring a little bit of himself or herself into the replica—a process I can fully appreciate.
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Sure, everybody loves ‘Family Circus’ now, but 20 years ago, a band of San Jose ziners and art vandals started a satirical meme that still thrives today BY RICHARD VON BUSACK
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O Bil Keane is no more. At age 89, this celebrated and beloved cartoonist has gone to meet Winsor McCay and Charles Schulz. The creator of The Family Circus, a redoubt of simpler times for more than 50 years, died Nov. 8.
Few among us have not gloried in the world’s most widely syndicated onepanel cartoon, or chuckled over the gentle, homey foibles of Bil, Thelma and their four rambunctious kids, Billy, Jeffy, Dolly and young P.J., as well as the grim specters “Ida Know” and “Not Me.” 20
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Semiautobiographical cuteness was Keane’s métier, and he worked it hard. He led his ageless family through adorable malapropisms, harmless joshing and many church services. One of his trademark techniques was a twisting, turning dotted line that Billy often pursued in getting between points A and B. It was such a perfect picture of cute that it almost came out the other side as horror. Noted alternative-press cartoonist Lynda Barry claims to have burst into tears when she finally met Keane. “I come from a very difficult, violent, horrible home,” she wrote, “and I look in that circle and see a happy little life. And I always wanted to get to it.” No puritan in real life, Keane could dispense some very salty jokes at comic conventions. Stephan Pastis of the comic Pearls Before Swine mentions what a wit Keane was, and how he was amused by
Pastis having parodied one of his kids as drunk and disorderly. Keane collaborated with cartoonist Bill Griffith to give Jeffy a cameo in Zippy the Pinhead. Griffith’s tribute to the man’s inspiration can be seen in his obit for the Comics Journal. Griffith says, “Viewed from a certain angle, Billy’s dotted-line jaunts around his suburban neighborhood took on a zany, Dada-esqu e quality.” King Features Syndicate and the dedication of his son, Jeff, will keep Keane’s cartoon kids frolicking in the nation’s daily press. If the characters could only age, a half-century from now the comedy might play out with one wrinkled but still oval-headed sole survivor talking to a houseful of ghosts like a character in a South American novel.
My Confession I learned of Keane’s passing last Wednesday afternoon. Immediately, I
started to hear, via email, from some old partners in slime. I was in a little circle of my own, a circle of shame. Yes, it was time to confess. I was one of a group of three or four who started the Dysfunctional Family Circus meme. My friends and contributors slipped pamphlets full of re-imagined Family Circle cartoons adorned with snide and troubling new captions to unsuspecting receipients like Penn Jillette and Sonic Youth. And it all began in an apartment building in San Jose’s Japantown. The year was 1991. I was gainfully employed but still living like a college student. A frequent visitor was my good pal Mike Monahan (please purchase many copies of his new book Shock It to Me: Golden Ghouls of the Golden Gate, about the beloved horror hosts of late-night TV.) Back then, we had a nice solid proposition for a book on the lesserknown spy movies of the 1960s. We had a title, The Second Best Secret Agents in the Whole Wide World. We even had an New York agent, who was quite optimistic. Aren’t they all. We spent our weekends as urban archaeologists; writing up proposals, hitting the library, comparing notes and raiding thrift shops looking for spy-movie memorabilia. The Savers at Bascom and San Carlos was then a trove of old spy pulp. One memorable day, we noticed that some aged crock had just jettisoned a large set of Family Circus paperbacks. I hadn’t seen the comic in a while, and I looked at it with fresh annoyance. As I flipped through the books, the demented contentment of Keane’s little kids in it brought out the thug in me. Mike recalls that moment at Savers: “Looking back, I heard this chuckling sound. What, you thought Family Circus was funny? What did I miss there? And then you started talking about ‘fixing the captions.’” Heedless of the commandment Thou Shalt Not Deface a Book, I crossed out the caption on one of the cartoons and scrawled one of my own. I was about to put the book back on the shelf for some other aged crock to discover, when my inner Mr. Hyde spoke up again: No. Buy it. That evening, we went over the
text with a mad purpose. Keane helped us out. He had once spent an entire mortal week doing variations on a gag about those newfangled ceiling smoke detectors. (The older me, a somber bore, notes that “Keane probably saved a lot of lives by publicizing those wretched things, you know.”) The family was posed, staring at the shrieking coming from their ceiling and jabbing at it with a broomstick. Our caption was a natural: “The upstairs neighbor is fucking his howler monkeys again!”
I was one of a group of three or four who started the Dysfunctional Family Circus meme... re-imagined Family Circus cartoons adorned with snide and troubling new captions. We scrawled away. My pal and neighbor Broos Campbell (now a novelist, once a Metro columnist) joined in on the vandalism. His personal best was Dolly as literary critic: “Characters in existential novels aren’t supposed to be realistic, you depressing little simpleton.” Broos says he prefers his caption of a tableau of the family at the zoo, with Dolly protesting, “Ibex, my ass! That’s a goat!” My pal D. (who still insists on anonymity) added his own lines. Others took whacks at the piñata, which was left lying around, or brought it to the old Ajax Lounge on South First Street for doodling on when the music was too loud for conversation. I have another friend who would
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prefer to be nameless—and in fact, he’d prefer it if this story wasn’t told. “Why interfere with the mystique?” he asked when I approached him to talk. It’s better when they seemed to come out of nowhere. Misdirect the public, tell them some lies about where these things came from. This silent partner was versed in the then-arcane science of desktop publishing. He made the little booklets look good, getting the proper typeface to match the original newspaper font. When we had boxes of professional looking 12- or 24-pagers, we left handfuls of them of them in public places around San Jose and the valley. Our influence was Jack Chick, the Chino-based comic-book evangelist whose millions of free pamphlets still turn up like lint at the Laundromat. This silent partner, who had superior Internet skills, distributed them online by request. Mr. Anonymous’ publishing
signature was the anagram names he made of Bil Keane—Bean Like, I Be an Elk, etc. That’s how you can always tell ours, as in the complete set that can be found at the Schmulowitz Collection of Wit and Humor at the San Francisco Main Library. We knew what we were doing was semilegal, if that. We weren’t just skirting certain sacred rules of copyright, we were making jokes about always uneasy subjects like molestation and incest. For some odd reason, this is the first direction a nihilist humorist takes when disfiguring cartoons about a blameless family. In an 1999 article for Gettingit. com, David Cassel interviewed Seth Friedman, then editor of the zine roundup Factsheet Five. Friedman said he expected lawyers coming out of the woodwork when he saw the Dysfunctional Family Circus booklets: “We were kind of surprised
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at the time to hear that there was no legal action coming down. I think the anonymity of it really helped.” The cabal finally broke up with the same forces that destroy bands and marriages. Humor, like water, seeks its own level, and the more people who contributed meant more excrement jokes. Admittedly this kind of humor was a gimme from Keane, since Jeffy was a muddy kid. I always thought the best gags revolved around Satanism (always a laugh-getter), psychedelics and homicide. A picture of the family enduring a near vertical hike up a mountain suggested that the bloodhounds were after them. Jeffy: “You know, a few dollars worth of quicklime could have prevented all of this.” Mike notes that “there was rudeness, and then there was funny in the context:
like the one I did where the kids are in the backseat of the car, and we see a detour sign through the windshield: ‘Story of your life, eh, Pop?’” Word got out. A friend presented me with a T-shirt he bought in Berkeley, picturing Thelma and the children confronting a baffled dad: “I’m taking the kids to where you can never hurt them again, you sick bastard.” Fame at last. “Within the year of the first pamphlet,” Mike recalls, “I picked up Mad magazine, and they were running their own Dysfunctional Family Circus comic. ... We got ripped off by Alfred E. Neuman! He ripped off our ripoff !”
Meme of Mine During the mid-1990s, after we had quit, strangers scooped up the
meme and ran like deer with it. The Dysfunctional Family Circus website ran 500 panels, each one a caption contest. It sometimes drew 70,000 hits a day. Trevor Mills, a livery company VP in Texas, was a regular contributor to the site. “People’s captions were so brilliant,”Mills recalls. “The DFC became the perfect pastime for me in between mundane tasks at a horrible receptionist job in the ’90s. I’d answer the phone laughing all the time. And to actually have one of my captions accepted once in awhile was very addicting.” After 1999, the website was gone, though it persists on a Facebook appreciation group. David Matthews, from eastern Pennsylvania, has administered the Facebook page for two years. He took over from the previous administrator, who went off to the Naval Academy. (“He liked the high quality of my captions, if you don’t mind me bragging,” Matthews tells me.) For reasons known only to Facebook, Matthews hasn’t been able to post new entries, except to older files. Online, one can see relics of the old DFC site. One example was an especially tough panel to caption: a kind of ordinary drawing of a breakfast table, with the little autocrat of it, Jeffy, complaining about something or another. The submitted captions broke down like so: scat jokes 1, sex jokes 12, and only a couple that seemed closer to the bull’s-eye: “Why does my cereal taste like bitter almonds?” One caption really opened my eyes: “Why mother, you look smashing! Simply smashing! Seriously, would it kill you to freshen up a little bit?” I read it and instantly became the last person on the planet to realize that oval-headed Stewie Griffin on Family Guy is based on Jeffy in Family Circus. “If I thought I was responsible for Family Guy in any way, I’d eat my service revolver,” Mike observes. Greg Galick presided over the old DFC site, with a team of editors. As the site’s FAQs put it, “So you see 50 to 100 funny captions, instead of 1,000 captions ranging from funny to lame to inexplicable. ... The record is well over 1,600 a day.”
When the Dysfunctional Family Circus site closed, the news went out to CBS and Wired alike. Galick had been caught in the twin prongs of a cease-and-desist letter from King Features and a long personal phone call from Bil Keane himself. Keane turned out to be a real nice guy about it, under the circumstances.
I think we might have put a Nietzsche gag in one of our pamphlets, but who knows. Mike recalls that his “own favorite was Billy yelling into a church, ‘God is dead, pass it on!’” The website KnowYourMeme. com follows the gradual decline of interest in the many Dysfunctional Family Circuses that cropped up—the little line is now close to perfect flatness. Despite that, others still play the game. One witty Wholly Functional Family parody urges readers to outwholesome Keane: “I drank all my milk today!” Perhaps even smarter: the Losanjealous.com site’s Nietzsche Family Circus, taking the master philosopher’s words and putting them into the mouths of these children. For instance: “After the old god has been assassinated, I am ready to rule the world.” I think we might have put a Nietzsche gag in one of our pamphlets, but who knows. Mike recalls that his “own favorite was Billy yelling into a church, ‘God is dead, pass it on!’” “I certainly don’t want to be mean
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to Bil Keane,” he adds. “I got the sense that if I knew him long enough he’d probably get on my nerves, but he was likely a legitimately straight arrow.” He contrasts his reaction to the Family Circus universe with Lynda Barry’s: “She saw this other family with envy. We saw it and said, ‘Bullshit!’ It all comes down to that fight or flight thing—either flight into fantasy, or fight the bullshit. Dreaming of these ideal families is such a panacea to people—it’s so Republican.” Broos Campbell adds, “I always kind of liked The Family Circus, though. It’s like looking into a shop window full of nice things that you know you’ll never be able to afford. I suppose what made me want to join in on the vandalism was resenting the gulf between the Keane family’s
smug suburbanity, and what the suburbs are really like. The DFC was payback.” David Matthews was also a kind of fan of Keane’s: “Altering the cartoon’s aggressive, saccharine abnormality into something more, well, normal provides a transgressive thrill, like shouting to the emperor that not only does he have no clothes but that he also has a pimply butt. Most (if not all) DFCers respect the cartoon’s craft. The Family Circus depicts aggressive, saccharine abnormality quite effectively. It creates its own distinctive universe of melonheaded children and invisible gremlins. Plus the late Bil Keane, at his peak, could draw very well, filling his panels with intricate detail.” “I mean, what do I have against
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Bil Keane?” Trevor Mills asks. “Absolutely nothing. He was very talented and obviously meant well. I would guess that most of the captionists on the DFC were just former class clowns, like me. With The Family Circus, you have this painfully antiquated comic strip with four enormous-headed, goodygoody toddlers and a hot-house mom doing every chore while her cartoonist husband appears to do nothing but recline and constantly remind them all that he wields the very pen that’s kept them frozen in time for 50 years. Meanwhile, the kids have a missing nostril, the house is haunted by dead relatives and there’s a guilt ghost for every kind of sloth. And yet with all this, Family Circus only ever delivers this dreadfully bland, sanitized humor.
Rather than revenge, maybe we were just making it interesting for ourselves. I went for the laughs more than anything.” Before they shut down, Mike wrote the DFC website to tell them our story, but he didn’t receive a reply. He wasn’t impressed with it anyway. “There was nothing vaguely political or absurdist in their approach. There’s a difference between being vicious and being mean. We were being vicious—it’s the difference between the scalpel and the clown hammer. That DFC website had a lot of clown hammer to it. And reading those hundreds of captions was a classic roomful-ofmonkeys situations. One monkey in a room is funny. A dozen of them aren’t.”
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I knew a ’70s punk rocker who used to sit watching second-wave punk bands. He’d make nice to them after shows by saying, “I guess if it wasn’t for me, you guys wouldn’t be here.â€? Please don’t think I’m trying to say we had a great idea once and you imitators ruined it. Giving a sitting duck both barrels isn’t exactly sporting. DisďŹ guring a comic was the method of the French Situationists, which was brought into the early world of English punk rock. Like anyone, I admired the San Francisco Dadaists who went up billboards like steeplejacks and defaced them with anti-capitalist messages, or Marcel Duchamp disďŹ guring the Mona Lisa. It’s a well-paced, wide-shouldered road—a freeway really—that leads from one moment of jackassery in a thrift shop to the New Yorker Comic Caption competition. My points are two: In these days of Mr. Guy Fawkes Anonymous at Occupy encampments, you can feel that you’re protected from investigation, but almost everything online leaves a trail. The pamphlet, zine or samizdat, or whatever you call it, is still a peerless way to mysteriously distribute information. For decades, we were able to conceal our participation in something that went quite viral. Second, as a partisan of the great city of San Jose, I want it to see it get its cultural respect—which always gets swiped by San Francisco or L.A. Believe it: San Jose is the place where this disgraceful international phenom began. But only Mr. Keane in heaven has seen the end of it.
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Palo Alto’s Jin Sho was Steve Jobs’ favorite Japanese restaurant —with good reason By STETT HOLBROOK
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’VE HAD my fill of paeans to Steve Jobs, but I must toss one more bit of praise onto the heap: The man had good taste in food.
Jobs’ favorite Japanese restaurant was Jin Sho in Palo Alto. He ate a series of meals with friends and associates at the restaurant shortly before he died. I had walked by the restaurant several times, but I had never checked it out. After hearing about Jobs’ meals there, I wanted to try it. Given Jobs’ keen sense of design and style, I can understand why he liked the restaurant. It’s a simple place with a small dining room and a long sushi bar. Jobs’ favorite seat was at the bar, where he could chat with chefs Noriomi Kaneko and Ichiro Takahashi
and ask them about the fish. And they know their fish. Both are vets of Nobu in New York City—the flagship restaurant of sushi impresario Nobu Matsuhisa, owner of the international chain of highend Japanese restaurants that bear his name. What sets the restaurant apart is the variety of fish Jin Sho serves and its less-than-traditional approach. Jin Sho offers a bit of everything: sushi and sashimi, rolls, noodles, tempura and some decent desserts. The restaurant also serves some bordercrossing appetizers that really shine. As you peruse the menu, one of the first things you’ll notice is the depth of the fish available. Jin Sho sources its fish from IMP and True World, the two fish wholesalers that dominate the sushi business. Virtually every sushi bar buys from these two outlets, but not every place goes as deep as Jin Sho.
There are standards like yellowtail, salmon and eel of course, but the menu invites you to plumb the depths of the world’s oceans and try seasonally available items like jackknife clam, Japanese sea perch, sakura shrimp and firefly squid. And like any good sushi bar, there are other items not listed on the menu. Just let one of the itames (sushi chefs) know what’s new and exciting, and you will be steered in the right direction. On one of my visits, Jin Sho was serving red barracuda and alfonsino, two uncommonly buttery and silken fish that defined fresh and delicious. The fish was sliced evenly, beautifully, and fit perfectly over the rice with nothing flopping over the edge. It was gone in two bites. Jin Sho’s reverence for ingredients extends to the often overlooked rice and vinegar. The creaminess of the rice and the deep, rich flavors of the vinegar make the rice more than a fish-delivery device. For me, the best bet is to order the omakase, a chef-picked selection of five nigiri sushi, miso soup and dessert. The lunch version is $38.50. Dinner is more, and you can of
JIN SHO 454 S. California Ave., Palo Alto 650.321.3454
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course add more fish to the order. Just tell your server or the itame what you like, and he’ll build a platter just for you. Like Nomo, Jin Sho serves sushi with a Peruvian influence. Peru has a large ethnic Japanese population, and the chile peppers and chile-based sauces common to Peruvian cuisine have a natural affinity to the clean flavors of Japanese food. The tiradito ($11.25) is a classic Peruvian dish that gets a Jin Sho spin. Tiradito is like ceviche but with bigger slices of fish. Here it’s paired with a creamy, fruity aji panka sauce, a classic Peruvian chile pepper sauce. The addition of yuzu and cilantro ups the flavor even more. One of my favorite dishes is the Jin Sho salsa ($12.50). It’s similar to tuna tartar, but the addition of cubed avocado, candy sweet cherry tomatoes, cucumber and a savory, tangy and delicious sauce elevates it to something else. The new-style sashimi ($11.50) is another winner. Made with either stripped bass marinated in garlic and ginger, thin slices of the fish are fanned out on a plate and dribbled with yuzu-flavored soy sauce and hot sesame oil. Jin Sho has a long list of rolls. The volcano roll ($11.75), made with salmon and spicy mayonnaise, is finished off in the oven and looks like it’s coated in melted, toasted cheese. Seaweed salads have become sushi bar standards, but Jin Sho’s ($7.75) rises above most others for its selection of top-shelf ingredients: wakame, lacy red and tosaka seaweed and a new one for me, mekabu, the gooey spores of wakame. The briny, nutty-tasting ingredient is much better than it sounds. For dessert, there’s the standard green tea and sesame seed ice cream. The standout for me was the crustless, thin, but wonderfully rich green-tea cheesecake. There’s also a fine list of sake. So, thanks, Steve Jobs—for my computer, my iPod and for one of my new favorite Japanese restaurants. Your sense of taste and style lives on.
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AMATO’S Sandwich shop. $. The sandwiches make for greasy, sloppy, ferociously delicious eating. There are 34 varieties, categorized in three groups: hot, cold, specialty. 10am-11pm Mon-Fri, 10am9pm Sat, 10am-7pm Sun. 1162 Saratoga Ave. 408.246.4007.
AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. The sister to the popular Mountain View restaurant, Amber India’s Santana Row location continues to offer elegantly prepared Indian cuisine in a stylish setting. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-10pm, Mon-Thu, noon-3pm, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat, noon-3pm, 5-10pm Sun. 377 Santana Row. 408.248.5400. BANGKOK TASTE Thai. $$. Humble strip mall gem with a loyal following. Beef Pi-Roj is a house favorite. Veggies love the Rama tofu. 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm daily. 1769 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.358.2525.
BILL’S CAFE Diner. $. Serving only breakfast and lunch, Bill’s knows its way around typical diner standbys—eggs (scrambles and hollandaiselaced “benedictions”), pancakes and expertly grilled sandwiches and burgers. 6:30am-3pm daily. 302 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.2455.
CAO NGUYEN Vietnamese, Chinese-Vietnamese. $. Gargantuan menu features nearly 200 Vietnamese menu options, including smoked duck, sautéed frogs and clay pot catfish. 10am-10pm Mon-Fri, 9am-10pm Sat-Sun. 2549 S. King Rd #A-16. 408.270.9610.
CASA VICKY Family-style Mexican. $. Nothing fancy, but
a hearty brand of Mexican food wrought from popular family recipes. Breakfast plates and warm sweet pastries in abundant supply. 7am7pm daily. 792 E. Julian St. 408.995.5488.
CITRUS New American. $$$. In Santana Row’s chic Hotel Valencia, Citrus peels back the hotel dining myth. Here, diners match their own main dishes with their choice of rub, sauce and side dish. Fun continues in skilled desserts. 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 355 Santana Row. 408.423.5400. COCOLA French bakery. $. Cocola is a fine place to while away an afternoon sipping tea and sampling a pear tart with vanilla custard and slivered almonds. For heartier fare, try the gourmet sandwiches. 8am11pm Sun-Tue, 8am-noon WedSat. 333 Santana Row #1045. 408.551.0018.
CONSUELO Mexican. $$. Good regional Mexican food made with lesser-known ingredients in an attractive, upscale atmosphere. The food is served tapas style and meant to be shared. Fantastic tequila list. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 11am-11pm Sat, 11am-9pm Sun. 377 Santana Row #1125. 408.260.7082.
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Louisiana. The mud bugs are served steaming in a plastic bag swimming in a buttery, garlic-laced sauce that ranges from mild to ridiculously hot. 3-10pm Mon-Fri and noon10pm Sat-Sun. 779 Story Rd. 408.286.2729.
DEEZI’S CAFE Persian. $$. Deezi is a hearty lamb shank stew and it’s quite good here. But the soul of the menu is the kebabs, and the koobideh kebabs are outstanding. Made from ground beef blended with puréed onions, garlic and various spices, the skewered and grilled meat stick is beautifully grilled and so tender and juice-filled it squirts when you bite down on it. The joojeh (chicken) kebab scores as well. Try the fresh made dogh (a yogurt drink). 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Sat-Sun. 1312 Saratoga Ave. 408.244.0300.
DIA DE PESCA Mexican. $. As you might guess from the name (Dia de Pesca means “gone fishing” in Spanish), the restaurant specializes in seafood—fish tacos, ceviche, shrimp cocktails and soups. It’s all good. 10:30am-8:30pm daily. 55 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.3722.
THE COUNTER Hamburgers. $. The Counter takes the quintessential American burger and turns up the Americanness by letting diners choose from dozens of options to build a custom burger. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat and noon-9pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave #1035 (Santana Row), San Jose, 408.423.9200. And 369 California Ave, Palo Alto, 650.321.3900.
DI LAC Vegetarian Asian. $$. A bite of veggie heaven. The spacious Di Lac serves up an appetizing array of foods, all of which are made fresh daily, including the soy milk and tofu. 9am-9pm daily. 1644 E. Capitol Expwy. 408.238.8686.
CRAWDADDY Cajun. $$.
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Celebrate Thanksgiving at TusCA Restaurant November 24, 2011, 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Put Hyatt Regency Santa Clara on the menu this Thanksgiving and enjoy traditional holiday fare. The menu boasts a lavish display of soups, salads and antipasti with your choice of entrée including roasted turkey, slow roasted prime rib or roasted black bass all served with apple sausage stuffing, spiced sweet potatoes, wax beans, cranberry sauce and holiday cakes and pies. For reservations, call 408 510 6480 or visit santaclara.tusca.com. Hyatt. You’re More Than Welcome.
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WROTE a couple of weeks ago about my efforts to find a source for raw milk, and at last I’ve found one. Her name is Dahlia; she’s a doe-eyed Jersey cow with some of the sweetest, richest-tasting milk I’ve ever had. I’ve been looking for raw milk because I’ve gotten into making my own yogurt and butter, and I want to try my hand at cheese making. Pasteurized milk is no good for that. It seems pretty clear, too, that raw milk is better for me and the cows. Pasteurization and homogenization remove many of the nutritional benefits of milk. Raw milk goes from the cow straight to the bottle. Milk is pasteurized to remove potentially deadly pathogens. Where do the pathogens come from? Dirty dairy conditions. Pasteurization cleans up the mess. Raw milk has to be ultraclean and can’t hide behind pasteurization. California is one of 10 states that allow the retail sale of raw milk. But buying raw milk in stores is expensive: A quart of Organic Pastures milk (one of two brands available in stores) goes for about $8. Plus it comes in a plastic container, which I try to avoid. So I set out to find a source for milk direct from a dairy. It is illegal to sell raw milk to consumers this way, and in an example of governmental intrusion at its worst, the federal government has raided several raw-milk dairies. Which is ludicrous. I don’t want to get all Ron Paul on you, but if I want to purchase milk from a dairyman that’s my business, not the government’s. There’s a loophole around this. You can buy a “cow share,” in which a group of people share the cost of the whole animal. Once you own a cow, you can do with it what you want. So that’s what I’m doing. Once a week, I pick up four half-gallon Mason jars filled with ice-cold raw milk. There’s a four-inch layer of cream on the top of the jars tinted a pale yellow from all the fresh, rain-watered grass Dahlia is eating now. Along with buying local and in season, one of the mantras of the good-food movement is knowing where your food comes from, something that few of us do. Isn’t that strange? We spend more time getting references for a mechanic than doing our due diligence on the stuff we put in our bodies. I know that not everyone has access to a dairy cow like I do, but I invite you to look for ways to really own the source of some of the food you eat. Start with just one or two things, like meat, vegetables or bread. There’s real power in knowing exactly where your food came from—who produced it and how. Most of us put our trust in distant companies, but I assure you that few of these companies have your best interests in mind. What’s more, they don’t want you to know how they make the food you eat, because then you probably wouldn’t want to eat it. But for your health and the health of the planet it really is worth knowing. And guess what? The more you know about where your food comes from the better it tastes. Come over for a glass of Dahlia’s milk, and I’ll prove it.—Stett Holbrook
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GIORGIO’S Family-style Italian. $. Simple Italian cooking—the rugged kind with Southern Italian leanings, full of robust flavors and tangy tomato sauces. 11:30am-9:30pm MonThu, 11:30am-10:30pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am-10pm Sun. 1445 Foxworthy Ave. 408.264.5781. GOJO ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT Ethiopian. $.
in a new location, Edna Ray continues to serves classics of Chinese-American food with the same quantity, familiarity and reasonable prices. You’ll find all three here, and then some. 11:30am-9:30pm daily. 1181 Lincoln Ave. 408.280.7738.
Simplicity reigns here; just Ethiopian food—chicken, beef, lamb, vegetarian—and Ethiopian coffee. The flavors taste even better with honey wine. Beer, wine. Noon-9pm Sun-Thu, noon-10pm FriSat. 1261 W. San Carlos St. 408.295.9546.
EL TULE Mexican. $$. Most of the menu is devoted to Mexican-American standards, but the separate menu of Oaxacan specialties is where El Tule really shines. The black mole is uncommonly delicious while lesser-known dishes like tlayudas and molotes are also good. 10am-9pm daily. 5440 Thornwood Dr. 408.227.1752.
GOVEA’S Mexican. $. A community hub that serves up wonderfully fresh, oldfashioned Mexican food with no trendy gimmicks. Wholesome and filling. 10am-9pm MonThu, 10am-10pm Sat-Fri, 9am-9pm Sun. 1996 Tully Rd. 408.270.0973.
FLOWER FLOUR French bakery. $. Mimi Brown’s flower shop/bakery charms visitors with freshly made to-droolover pastries, ready-to-go sandwiches and service with a smile. 8am-6pm Mon-Sat, 8am-4pm Sun. 896 Willow St. 408.279.0843.
FOOD TOPIA Chinese and Taiwanese. $. Food Topia serves a great, low-priced menu of Taiwanese and Chinese food. Go for the beef noodle soup, pickle and fish fillet soup and the fried chicken roll. No alcohol served. 1600 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.873.7628. FRANKIE, JOHNNIE & LUIGI TOO! Family-style Italian. $$. Traditional Italian-American favorites—spaghetti and pizza—served with plenty of elbow room. Big portions and wholesome family-style service. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11am11pm Fri-Sat. 5245 Prospect Rd, San Jose. Full Bar. 408.446.9644. Also 939 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View. 650.967.5384.
FRATELLO Italian. $$. Bursting with simple flavors, Fratello boasts native Italian dining without affectation. 5-9:30pm Tue-Sun, Fri-Sat 5-10pm, 59pm Sun. 1712 Meridian Ave. 408.269.3801.
GREAT WALL Chinese. $$. This strip mall hideaway serves skillfully prepared Chinese dishes in an atmosphere where sandals and T-shirts are the perfect fashion. Beef and black mushrooms, salt-and-pepper spareribs and cashew chicken earn high marks. Take out available. 11am-2:30pm, 4:309pm Mon-Fri, noon-9pm Sat. 1409 Bird Ave. 408.287.1688 or 287.1689.
HABANA CUBA Cuban and Brazilian. $$. A culinary oasis full of good flavors, Habana Cuba exudes cultural delights. Sensuous foods of the Caribbean and Cuba, long on tomato and peppers, slowroasted meats and earthy black beans. Beer and wine. Lunch 11am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 410pm Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 238 Race St. 408.998.2822.
THE HAPPY BAMBOO Vegetarian. $. The menu at the Happy Bamboo is almost all vegan and most of it Vietnamese or Asian-inspired. There’s also a vegetarian tuna salad and, out of nowhere, Hungarian goulash and spaghetti. 11:30am-9pm TueSun. Closed Mon. 1711 Branham Lane. 408.694.0740.
HOSHI Japanese. $$. Hoshi is
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HUKILAU Hawaiian. $$. Simple, slightly salty, stomach-filling foods with an Asian-Pacific attitude. All daily specials come with a scoop of macaroni salad and steamed rice. Skip the quesadilla and nachos and head straight for the ahi poke. With tropical drinks to match. 11am-1:45pm Tue-Fri, 5-9:30pm Tue-Wed, 5-10:30pm Thu-Sat, 11am-2:30pm Sat-Sun, 5-9pm Sun. 230 Jackson St. 408.279.4888. HUNAN TASTE. Chinese. $$. The restaurant continues to pack them in because the food is so good. As the name implies, the restaurant specializes in the fiery, hearty food of China’s Hunan province, making it one of the few restaurants in the Bay Area to do so. 11am2:30pm, 4:30-8:30pm Mon-Sat. 998 N. Fourth St. 408.295.1186.
ISABELLA’S Peruvian. $$. One of the South Bay’s few outposts of Peruvian food, Isabella’s has much to recommend. Tacu-tacu, a starchy, beany blob enlivened with onions, garlic, oregano and other spices served with a thin steak, is great. Seafood dishes like the ceviche and cau-cau mariscos are also good. Don’t miss the delicious chicha morada, a Peruvian punch made with purple corn, pineapple and apple juice that’s boldly seasoned with cinnamon. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am11pm Fri-Sat, 2-8pm Sun. 700 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.248.PERU.
KAHOO Japanese. $ The people queuing up are ramen aficionados who know a good bowl of ramen when they find one. And they’ve definitely found one here. 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am3pm, 4:30-9pm Sat-Sun. 4330 Moorpark Ave. 408.255.8244.
KRUNGTHAI Thai. $$. Perennial Metro “Best Of” winner, Krungthai has been around since 1988, but still tastes fresh and new. 11am-3pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri, noon-10pm SatSun. 640 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.260.8224.
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KUMAKO Ramen. $. Japantown now has its missing ingredient—good ramen. Kumako’s menu is simple: ramen, curry rice and a few appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 211 E. Jackson St. 408.286.2111. LE PAPILLON Contemporary French. $$$$. From start to finish, a meal at Le Papillon casts a spell on everyone who enters. The feeling is only broken when you walk out the door and abruptly step back into the real world outside. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Fri; dinner nightly. 410 Saratoga Ave. 408.296.3730.
MAGGIANO’S LITTLE ITALY Italian. $$. Like a warm Italian embrace, this Santana Row superstar proves a welcome haven for company lunches and congenial dinner parties. The food is a cut above standard, with roast chicken and veal marsala standing out. 11am10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm FriSat, noon-10pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave. #1000. 408.423.8973.
MENARA Moroccan. $$$. Since 1977, Menara’s been throwing back the pillows and bellying up to mint tea rituals, b’stilla (pigeon pie) and rabbit tagine. Full dinner menu includes vegetarian option. Solid wine list. 6-10pm daily. 41 E. Gish Rd. 408.453.1983.
THE MYNT Indian. $. The Mynt’s lunch buffet is a Silicon Valley standout, while the sit-down dinner menu has plenty to offer as well. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 5:30-10pm Fri-Sat. 5210 Prospect Rd. 408.973.9673.
OMOGARI Korean. $. Omogari makes getting to know Korean food easy. The menu includes pictures of many dishes, the service is friendly and the food is consistently good. Try the dae gee bul go gi, spicy marinated pork. 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 154 E. Jackson St. 408.280.6588.
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ORLO’S New American. $$$. On the lush grounds of the historic Hayes Mansion, this is one beautiful, luxurious dining room, with menu and excellent service to match. 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. Hayes Conference Center, 200 Edenvale Ave. 408.226.3200. PASTA POMODORO Italian. $. Exuberant, inexpensive and fast cuisine made to order and served with sparkle. High concept and low costs make Pasta Pomodoro a dream trattoria for lovers of robust Italian flavors. 11am-10pm daily. 1205 The Alameda. 408.292.9929.
PIZZA ANTICA UPTOWN Pizza. $$. The stony ovens of Pizza Antica turn out thin-crusted designer pies with gourmet toppings in casual environs. Fine pasta and meat dishes also available. 11:30am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-11pm FriSat. 334 Santana Row #1065. 408.557.8373. PRESIDENT RESTAURANT Mongolian barbecue. $. This mom-and-pop eatery gears itself toward the common man with the uncommonly large appetite. Thrown into the bargain is a Chinese steamtable buffet. 11am-3pm, 4:309pm daily. 1190 Hillsdale Ave. 408.978.7188.
RAMEN HALU Japanese noodles. $$. Surfer-themed, casual-but-comfy, chef Kumao Arai’s noodle house imports traditional techniques to produce hearty, aromatic bowls stocked with pork-, sea-saltor soy-sauce-flavored broth. Cash only. Call ahead; hours are irregular. 375-M S. Saratoga Ave. 408.246.3933.
RASA MALAYSIAN Malaysian. $$. Rasa Malaysian is a homey restaurant that offers a number of solid examples of Malaysian food including satay chicken, char tway keow and sambal kangkung. 11am-3pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat. 1290 Coleman Ave. 408.980.0668.
REHOBOTH Ethiopian. $$. Japantown isn’t all Japanese food. Rehoboth adds spice to the neighborhood with its diverse menu of Ethiopian standards. Carnivores, vegetarians and vegans are all well taken care of. Good coffee,
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REYHAN Persian. $. Reyhan restaurant is located in the most unlikely of areas—an industrial strip of Almaden Road in south San Jose. As such, the place is kind of an oasis—an oasis of kebabs. 11am-8pm daily. 1625 Almaden Rd. 408.293.3600. SELAM Ethiopian and Eritrean. $. Often it’s the places you have to work to find that turn out to be the good ones. Selam is tucked away in a mall off Winchester Boulevard, but the food is a real standout. 10am10pm daily. 3120 Williams St. 408.984.9600. SIAM Thai. $$. Siam is a sweet little Thai restaurant between Valley Fair and Santana Row. The menu offers a lineup of Thai standards and crowdpleasing combinations with Americanized names like “cashew lover,” “Thai angry” and “pleasing garlic.” There’s plenty to recommend. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9pm TueSat. 2910 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.246.0304. SIENA MEDITERRANEAN BISTRO Mediterranean. $$$. Tucked into picturesque Willow Glen, this tiny bistro offers big tastes. Entrees such as Moroccan Cornish game hen, venison medallions and seasonal risotto battle for your appetite with a bread pudding dessert. Patio dining available. 1359 Lincoln Ave. 408.271.0837.
SINO RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Modern Chinese. $$$. Sino is owned by Christopher Yeo, the restaurateur behind Straits. The restaurant offers both traditional Chinese cooking and a few modern riffs. Good dim sum, too. 11am-10pm SunTue, 11am-midnight Wed-Sat. 377 Santana Row. 408.247.8880.
STRAITS RESTAURANT Asian fusion. $$$. By night it’s a jampacked hipster clubhouse; by day it’s Singaporean chef Chris Yeo’s latest chic fusion venue. Small plates share the menu with entrees such as the lobster and shrimp pad thai. Outdoor seating available. 11am-10pm Sun-Wed, 11am-midnight ThuSat. 333 Santana Row #1100. 408.246.6320.
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Thanks to iMovie and other software like it, when some bands reveal how little they spent on their greatlooking, slickly edited videos these days, I can’t believe it. Not so with Hella Jalapenos. However little they tell me they spent on the clip for “Stood Up,” I’ll believe them (to be fair, they play it pretty tongue in cheek). But while it might not have a great video, “Stood Up” is a great song. Vocalist Monica Smith, keyboardist Ruben Bravo and drummer AJ Montoya are all from the San Jose ska band Trouble in Paradise, which broke up last year, and they’ve turned
down the punk part of TiP’s sound and turned up the piano-driven pop. The result is a hip, catchy sound with deep grooves that’s often (as on the disco-ready “Burning Up the Keys) hella danceable. (SP)
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Club Fox, Redwood City Thu – 8pm; $10 In the Santa Cruz Mountains, they do things differently. Up there, you can play Neil Young’s Harvest over and over for days, as loud as you want, and no one will say anything, if they even hear it. Brothers Jamie Coffis and Kellen Coffis came down from the mountain this year with their
first album, The Coffis Brothers & The Mountain Men; they probably didn’t even know about the current psych-rock revival that was waiting for them. Still, psychedelic isn’t the best way to think about these young retro-rockers; there’s throwbacks, yes, but their crisp bluesy songs recall everything from the Byrds to the Stones to Zep to, of course, Young. It’s just in the air up there. (SP)
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BOBBY PINSON Rodeo Club, San Jose Fri – 8pm; $10 Bobby Pinson could have been a country star without ever stepping on a stage. The Tulsa-born singer was first signed as a songwriter, and wrote Trent Willmon’s hit “The
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Good Life,” along with songs for LeAnn Rimes and Tracy Lawrence. After finally securing and then losing his own record deal (despite the top 20 hit “Don’t Ask Me How I Know”), he wrote the No. 1 songs “It Happens,” “All I Want to Do” and “Already Gone” for Sugarland, cowriting “Want To.” He also penned numbers like “She’s a Hottie” and “Lost You Anyway” for Toby Keith, as well as Brooks & Dunn’s “Honky Tonk Stomp.” (SP)
LILY BEE AND THE DREAMERS Café Frascati, San Jose Fri – 7pm; free Singer/songwriter Lily Bee plays sparse songs, as in just her voice and a quiet guitar (or in some cases, a ukulele). She’s not a folk singer, more like a jazz vocalist who’s reimagined herself as a
coffeehouse chanteuse. She is charming, dare I say adorable, yet there is a mature undertone in her lyrics and musicality. Though jazz is her primary influence, she sneaks in other unexpected styles like Bossa Nova, Island pop and Dixieland. What she sings about (love and happiness) is less important than the intention behind it, which is to evoke the sensation of finding joy in life’s simple pleasures. We all know how difficult that can be. (AC)
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ROBERT CRAY BAND Nov 20 at 7pm, Campbell Heritage Theatre
TRANS SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA TRA Nov 20 at 5pm, HP Pavilion
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GGERSHWIN: HERE TO STAY Dec 3 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford
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JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET JUIL Dec 4 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel, Stanford
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shows banging their heads in frustration at the repeated postponement of their debut record. Finally, the South Bay rockers have released Straight Outta Campbell. Their sound, which swings from melodic and soft to loud and booming, reflects the tastes of all three members: drummer Josh Joesten comes from a metal background, but is also a huge Mudhoney fan; his brother Dan (on bass and vocals) loves Guns N’ Roses; guitaristvocalist Alex Pansoy is heavily influenced by Smashing Pumpkins. (BD)
BETA STATE Avalon, Santa Clara Sat – 6pm; $15 When Eric Victorino left Strata for the Limousines, he took a pretty dramatic turn musically. The rest
of the band spent more than a year auditioning new vocalists and reformed as Beta State. They came back with a bit of different sound, too, though not as dramatic as Victorino’s shift into electronicpop. Beta State are still a heavy, alternative-rock band, but they’ve scaled back Strata’s raw intensity some and made their new outfit more pop-centric. It’s still serious and emotional, but more in a Coldplay kind of way. (Coldplay with distortion on their guitars, anyway.) This Saturday, Beta State competes in the finals of the local battle of the bands at the Avalon, with a $10,000 grand prize. Also up: A Yawn Worth Yelling, I Swallowed an Owl, Pantheon, Start the Fire Up and more.
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ANONYMOUS 4 Community School for Music and Arts, Mountain View Sat – 11am; free Now that Game of Thrones has made medieval chic cool again, who’s up for some polyphony? For more than two decades, Anonymous 4 has been uncovering ancient works rescued from monasteries and abbeys, working with musicologists to understand them (often they do their own transcriptions) and arranging them for modern audiences. The four women perform a capella, mixing these traditional works with that of contemporary composers like Steve Reich and Richard Einhorn. You know Tyrion has all this stuff on his iPod. (SP)
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DRUNKEN STARFIGHTER Johnny V’s, San Jose Tue – 9pm; $5 Han shot first. The Eight Demons of Kimon. These are the sort of topics I imagine Drunken Starfighter would like to expound upon in the nerdliest fashion possible. Hailing from Mos Eisley, the spaced-out locals bring their mellow vibe of early dub to the present, spouting conscious lyrics on topics ranging from anime to sci-fi and beyond. Taking cues from pioneers of the genre like Lee Perry, King Tubby and Keith Hudson, Drunken Starfighter is currently working on their second album to help you free your mind. Yeshua and the Hightones, DJ Hi Grade open the Terrible Tuesdays show. (BD)
BALLET SJ NUTCRACKER Dec 10–23, SJ Center for the Performing Arts
JAY-Z/KANYE WEST Dec 10 at 8pm, HP Pavilion
JONATHAN RICHMAN Dec 11 at the Catalyst, Santa Cruz
THE LIMOUSINES Dec 23 at the Blank Club, San Jose
WAR/TOWER OF POWER Dec 30 at the San Jose Civic
MACEO PARKER Jan 11 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center
WILCO Jan 28 at the San Jose Civic
BLAKE SHELTON Mar 16 at HP Pavilion Join Metro on Facebook at Metrofb.com for a chance to win concert tickets.
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GOOD OOD OD TO O THE BONE Trombonist Wayne Wallace puts the Gold Rush to music in his latest commission.
Composer and trombonist Wayne Wallace debuts his newest work, ‘Rancho San Miguel,’ in Palo Alto on Saturday By ANDREW GILBERT
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S AN essential creative force in the Bay Area’s Latin jazz scene, Wayne Wallace knows all about the power of a beat or a melody to evoke a forgotten world. The trombonist, arranger, educator and bandleader has spent the past quarter-century investigating the deep cultural currents flowing between West Africa and the Americas in a wide array of musical settings. But he found the inspiration for his latest work in his own backyard.
In Palo Alto this Saturday, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra presents Wallace’s newly commissioned, Rancho San Miguel, at Palo Alto’s St. Mark’s Episcopal Church as part of “Places of Note,” a program featuring Dvorak’s Serenade for Strings and piano prodigy Hilda Huang performing Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D. A concerto for jazz trombone and chamber orchestra, Wallace’s 10minute piece looks back at the 1845 Mexican land grant given to José de Jesus Noe by Gov. Pio Pico, a 4,443-acre expanse that now encompasses Noe Valley, the Castro, Glen Park, Diamond Heights and St. Francis Wood. Wallace was reading Alan Rosenus’ book General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans when he got the commission, and he decided to summon musically the brief but
tumultuous era from the creation of Rancho San Miguel to the outbreak of the Mexican-American War and the Gold Rush. “I’ve always been a fan of history ... and what makes California so out there,” Wallace says. “For this piece, it’s very tranquil at first, and there’s one theme I keep bringing back with some polytonality so you get the sense of something unsettling going on, leading to the craziness of Gold Rush. I do the classical thing of theme and development, recapitulation and coda.” The SFCO first collaborated with Wallace several years ago when the ensemble performed a concert of music from the African diaspora. Commissioned to write a brief composition, Wallace delivered a piece for trombone, percussion and five strings that left conductor Benjamin Simon impressed enough to keep an eye out for other opportunities to work with him. “We like to try different things,” says Simon. “We’re not your grandparent’s stuffy chamber orchestra. I’ve been a fan of Wayne’s for a long time. He’s a top-class musician who breaks boundaries and tries not to put himself in a box.”
These days, there isn’t a box big enough to contain all of Wallace’s work. In a career spanning nearly four decades, the musically multilingual Bay Area native has collaborated with a dazzling array of artists as a composer, arranger, first-call freelancer and studio ace, including Count Basie, Ray Charles, Joe Henderson, Carlos Santana, Lionel Hampton, Earth, Wind & Fire, Sonny Rollins, Pearl Bailey, Aretha Franklin, Tito Puente, Lena Horne, Stevie Wonder, John Lee Hooker, Earl “Fatha” Hines and cellist Joan Jeanrenaud. At 59, he’s old enough to have broken the color line at several venues, and young enough to be in the midst of a blossoming career as a bandleader, composer, producer and entrepreneur with a label that’s attained national reach, Patois Records. Known as the Doctor for his empathic skills as a producer and educator who has trained and mentored hundreds of musicians, Wallace has almost fully embraced his role as a Bay Area institution. “Maybe I am an elder statesman now,” Wallace says. “It’s kind of funny. I don’t feel that old. I have a big list of things to do. The label has been really interesting. It’s like starting a restaurant. You do all the work, and then see who shows up.” He traces the start of his transition from invaluable sideman to bandleader back to an NEA grant he received in the early 1990s to write and perform a piece combining AfricanAmerican influences with Afro-Cuban roots music. The resulting suite, Digging Up the Roots, premiered at the Stanford Jazz Festival in 1993. He finally stepped forward in 2000 with his first CD, Three in One (Spirit Nectar), a session showcasing his writing skills and his encyclopedic knowledge of Afro-Cuban rhythms. The album wasn’t so much groundbreaking as utterly personal, the distillation of years spent soaking up son and salsa, bebop and hip-hop, East Bay grease and descarga release. It’s hard to overstate Wallace’s role in the emergence of the area’s vital Latin jazz scene. As a featured soloist and arranger in various big bands led by South Bay favorite Pete Escovedo, Wallace helped hone the percussionist’s populist sound blending rock and funk with Latin grooves. He acquired a deep feeling for folkloric Afro-Cuban forms in
Wayne Wallace, SFCO Saturday; 8pm; free St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto See sfcomain1pa.eventbrite.com for tickets
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Conjunto Cespedes, the pioneering West Coast son ensemble. And as a founding member and co–musical director of John Santos’ Machete Ensemble, he was a pillar of the talentladen band that carried the progressive Latin jazz torch for more than 20 years until Santos disbanded the group in 2006. “Wayne’s writing and playing largely defined our sound and direction,” Santos says. Wallace is driven by his wideranging curiosity. A conversation with him is unlikely to stay focused on music. Whether the topic is literature, movies, politics, gossip, dance or theater, he soaks up and assimilates new facts and ideas. When he finds himself in a musical situation in which he feels less than totally grounded, he’ll seek out more information, which is what led him to make several trips to Cuba in the mid-’90s. “My biggest thing is I don’t like to be on the outside of music,” Wallace says. “I got tired of the percussionist having a rhythmic language I didn’t understand. Studying in Cuba really helped me get a greater affinity for the cultural part of the music and to understand the dynamics of it.” Patois Records is just another forum for Wallace to stir the pot. Over the past five years, he has produced and released impressive Latin jazz-laced albums by vocalists Kristina, Alexa Weber Morales and, most particularly, San Jose’s Kat Parra, whose fascinating Sephardic Music Experience sets Ladino lyrics and melodies from medieval Spain to a variety of AfroCaribbean rhythms. She introduced the concept on 2008’s acclaimed Patois release Azucar de Amor, and delved headlong into the Sephardic repertoire on 2010’s Dos Amantes. Parra credits Wallace with providing invaluable assistance throughout the process. “He was a mentor as well as the arranger,” Parra says. “I told him what I wanted to do, and he was so amazing in how he guided me. His main theme was, what’s going to tie everything together.”
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ABHINAYADANCECOMPANY The Indian dance troupe performs “Jwala—The Immortal Flame,” with an eye on the dual meaning of fire as purifier and destroyer. Sat, 6pm. $10-$25. McAfee Theater, Saratoga.
Opera OPERASANJOSE The company offers a double bill of “Pagliacci” and “La voix humaine.” Nov 17 and 19, 8pm, Nov 20, 3pm, Nov 22 and 25, 8pm, Nov 27, 3pm. $51 and up. California Theatre, San Jose.
Theater ALMOSTMAINE A holiday tale about the citizens of a magical town under the Northern Lights; presented by Bus Barn Stage Company. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun (Dec 4 and 18), 3pm, Sun (Dec 11), 7pm. Plus Wed (Dec 7 and 14), 7:30pm. Runs through Dec 18. Preview (this Thu), $24; opening (Fri), $32; otherwise $24-$30. Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos.
BROADWAYBYTHEYEAR A music revue featuring musical-theater hits from 1947 to 1966. Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1:30 and 5pm. $22$48. Fox Theatre, Redwood City.
FIRSTWOMANONTHEMOON Performance artist Elia Arce looks at emotional and physical places in her play. Fri-Sat, 8pm. $10/$12. MACLA, San Jose.
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Hispanic National University Auditorium, San Jose.
(except Nov 27 at 7pm). $25$35. City Lights, San Jose.
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A staging by Foothill College’s Theatre Arts Department. ThuSat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $8–$16. Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.
Sunnyvale Community Players present a musical based on the comic strip. Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Nov 20. $18.50-$23.50. Sunnyvale Community Theatre.
MAURITIUS Pear Avenue stages Theresa Rebeck’s dark comedy about rabid stamp collections. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Nov 20. $15-$30. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.
MEXICOEXTRAVAGANZA MONARCA A theater production featuring performers from all over the Bay Area and beyond showing the history of Mexico. Sun, 6pm. $25-$40. New School of Arts & Culture, Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose.
MUCHADOABOUTNOTHING An SJSU production by Buddy Butler of the Shakespeare comedy set in 1846 Monterey during the battle for California independence. Wed-Sat, 7pm. Runs thru Nov 19. $5-$20. SJSU Theater, San Jose.
MYTHREEANGELS Three convicts in French Guinea demonstrate the multiple sides of justice in a Santa Clara Players production. Fri-Sat, 8pm. Runs thru Nov 19. $10-$18. Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Santa Clara.
9CIRCLES A South Bay premiere by Renegade Theatre Experiment of a psychological drama about the troubled life of an Iraq veteran who may have committed a terrible war crime. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7pm. No show Nov 25. Runs thru Nov 26. $10-$25. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.
PARADE
A musical comedy about the foibles of corporations with music by Frank Loesser. Presented by West Valley Light Opera. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. No Nov 25 show. Runs thru Dec 3. $29-$33. Saratoga Civic Theater.
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. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. Runs thru Nov 20. $23-$32. Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.
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A new production by Teatro Nahual. Opens Sat, 7:30pm. Runs every Sat thru Nov 26. (See www. teatronahual.org for ticket info.)
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For the holidays, City Lights presents David Sedaris’ comedy about working as an elf in a Macy’s. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm
STONESINHISPOCKET Dragon Productions explores the sometimes comic, sometimes difficult, effects of a Hollywood film crew on location in an Irish village in Marie Jones play. Thu–Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Dec 4. $16-$30. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.
THESTORYOFMYLIFE 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 ANONYMOUS4 A female a cappella quartet performs for the Lively Arts Informance series. Sat, 11am. Free. Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View.
ELCAMINOYOUTH SYMPHONY Camilla Kolchinsky leads the symphony in a program of Haydn, Rossini and Saint-Saens, featuring concerto competition winners Samuel Kwong (violin) and Jim Chang (violin). Sat, 7:30pm. Atherton Center for the Performing Arts.
PENINISULASYMPHONY A holiday concert with selection of season music with the Stanford Symphonic Chorus. Fri, 8pm, Sun, 1:30pm. $20. Stanford Memorial Church.
PHILHARMONIABAROQUE The ensemble performs selections by Corelli, Vivaldi, Scarlatti and more with guest recorder player Marion Verbruggen. Thu, 8pm. $25-$90. Atherton Center for Performing Arts.
REDWOODSYMPHONY The orchestra performs Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a
Theme of Paganini (with pianist Daniel Glover) and “The Ring Without Words” by Wagner and Maazel. Sat, 8pm. $10/$20. Cañada College Main Theatre.
SFCHAMBERMUSIC A concert featuring a world premiere by trombonist Wayne Wallace and works by Hayden and Dvorak. Sat, 8pm. Free. First Congregational Church, Palo Alto.
SILICONVALLEYSYMPHONY The “FALL for Brahms—Again” concert includes violin prodigy Stephen Waarts, performing on a rare Guarneri del Gesu violin. $15/$20. Sat, 7:30pm, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Menlo Park. Also Sun, 4pm, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Pal Alto.
STEINWAYSOCIETY The featured performer is pianist Vassily Primakov. Sun, 7pm. $20$45. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.
Comedy ANGELICA’SBISTRO 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.
ROOSTERT.FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Michael Loftus. $12/$18. Sunnyvale.
SANJOSEIMPROV Wed, 8pm: Big Al’s Big Ass Comedy. $12. Thu, 8pm: Danny Cruzz. $10. Fri, 8 and 10pm: Joe Rogan. $25. Sat, 7pm: KO Comedy with Kabir Singh and Sammy Obeid. $12. Sat, 9pm: Michael Quu. $12. Sun, 4:20pm: Doug Benson. $17. Mon, 8pm: Battle of the Bay. $12. San Jose.
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Museums ARTMUSEUMOFLOSGATOS “Clauda Borgna: Paper Bags and Ephemeral Dreams.”Thru Nov 18. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm. Los Gatos.
CANTORARTSCENTER “The Legend of Rex Slinkard.” Oils and works on paper by the
influential California artist of the turn of the early 1900s. Thru Feb 26. “Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 18761936.” Ongoing. Wed-Sun, 11am5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.
quartet of mid-20th-century artists in conjunction with four contemporary textile artists. Thru Feb 5. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.
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“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.
“Mammoth Discovery!” Plus activities and hands-on fun for kids. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, noon-5pm. Discovery Meadow, San Jose.
DESAISSETMUSEUM “Hobos to Street People: Artists’ Responses to Homelessness From the New Deal to the Present.” “The Changing Face of Homelessness: Portraits by SCU Photography Students.” “Between Struggle and Hope: Envisioning a Democratic Art in the 1930s.” “This Camera Fights Fascism: The Photographs of David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez.”Thru Feb 5. TueSun, 11am-4pm. Santa Clara University.
EUPHRATMUSEUM “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.
HISTORYPARKSANJOSE “Pioneering the Valley: The Chinese American Legacy in Santa Clara Valley.” A new historical exhibit. Pacific Hotel Gallery, San Jose.
LOSALTOSHISTORYMUSEUM “Shaped by Water—Past, Present and Future.” A juried show on theme of water. Runs thru Nov 30. Thu-Sun, noon4pm. Los Altos.
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TRITONMUSEUMOFART “Kenjilo Nanao.” Paintings by the San Francisco Bay Area artist. Thru Nov 27. “Heather Wilcoxon.” Whimsical paintings and works on paper that make sly comments about the state of the world. Thru Nov 27. “Jamie Brunson: Indra’s Net.”Thru Nov 20. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.
Galleries ANNODOMINI “Bloodworks.” Skin art by Analog Tattoo Arts Collective. Thru Nov 19. San Jose.
ARTOBJECTGALLERY “Belly of the Beast.” A group show by eight San Jose artists. Thru Dec 16. 592 N. Fifth St, San Jose.
BRUNIGALLERY “The Jazz Masters Series” by BRUNI. “Sports Originals” by Mark Gray. ““Figurative Sculpture” by Kristina Sablan. Thru Dec 31. San Jose.
COMMUNITYSCHOOLOF MUSICANDART “Glacier Works.” Paintings and prints by Sukey Bryan. Thru Nov 27. Finn Center, Mountain View.
“This Kind of Bird Flies Backward.” A retrospective of paintings by Bay Area figurative artist Joan Brown. Thru Mar 11. “Book-ish.” A show about how the printed book has influenced visual artists, featuring works from the permanent collection. Thru Jan. 15. “So, Who Do You Think You Are?” Portraits of various kinds 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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“Invisible Lineage.” Works by a
“Simply Seen.” Photographs in a Hipstamatic vein by Marco Zecchin. Thru Nov 25. San Jose.
GALLERYSARATOGA “My Passion.” Oil paintings and jewelry by Lin-Ching Peng. Thru Dec 5. Reception Nov 26, 3pm. Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm. Saratoga.
GOODKARMACAFE “Milk and Bones.” New paintings by Izer the Mizer. Thru Dec 31. San Jose.
HIGHERFIRECLAYSPACE Raku works by Joe Battiato. Thru Nov 30. San Jose. “A Box Is a Box Is a Box.”
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Fabulous Flames A BAY AREA institution with a rich, 30-plus-year history, the Abhinaya Dance Company nurtures performers in Bharatanatyam, a form of classical dance from southern India. The company’s fall concert, “Jwala—the Immortal Flame,” on Saturday at the McAfee Theatre in Saratoga, is a celebration of fire and its dual powers of both creation and destruction. “In Hindu mythology, fire is sacred,” says Rasika Kumar, Abhinaya’s associate director and the choreographer and principal dancer for the concert. “It’s the initial connection between humans and god. All Hindu proceedings start with the fire.” Combining traditional music, dance and Abhinaya Dance mythology, classical Indian dance differs from Western dance in that it uses specific, Company recognizable gestures to convey stories. “Bharatanatyam is split up into two parts,” Saturday; 6pm; $10–$45 says Kumar. “The first is the pure movements, McAfee Center, Saratoga and the second is the storytelling aspect. Man, woman, heat, anger, love are all specific gestures. With these tools, the ability to tell any story is possible.” Founded in 1980 by Kumar’s mother, Mythili Kumar, Abhinaya is committed to furthering its understanding of traditional dance, music and mythology through the unending pursuit of perfection. “My mom has been able to instill never-ending progress in her students,” says Rasika Kumar. “Discipline and the constant striving for perfection is her mantra; that’s who she is. I would attribute the success of the company to that drive and the striving for success from her.” With a vision to preserve and share the beauty of Indian traditional arts, Abhinaya is also adept at using traditional methods to tell modern-day stories. Jwala features not only mythological stories but also contemporary ones, exploring familiar themes such as the devastation of a forest fire, using the boundaries of the tradition as a platform for innovation. “The dance itself teaches us the mythology, the history and the music,” Kumar says. “There is an ancient hymn that we say about dance: Where the hand goes, the eye follows; where the eye goes, the mind follows; where the mind goes, the mood follows; and there the aesthetic is born.”—Cat Johnson
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WARMING CIRCLE The Abhinaya dancers explore the mythology of fire in their latest production.
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40 Works by Gianfranco Paolozzi. “Photographs From Italy and Greece.” Images by John Eric Paulson. Thru Nov 25. San Jose.
KRAUSECENTER “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.
MACLA “Cuban Connections: Near & Far.” A show with examples from Bay Area collectors of Cuban artists. Thru Jan 7. San Jose.
MAINGALLERY “Sea Shells and Sonatas.” Works by Susan Wolf and Arup Biswas. Thru Nov 20. Redwood City.
METROLOBBY “Invitation.” Portraits by Richard James Arredondo and friends. Thru Nov 25. San Jose.
WORKS/SANJOSE “Iraqimemorial.org.” A participation-based conceptual project for artists and others to make memorials for the unrecognized civilian dead of the war. Thru Nov. San Jose.
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A signing with the author of “The House of Silk: Sherlock Holmes,” a new estate-authorized story about the famed detective. Fri, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
POETRYREADING This month’s guest bard is Casey FitzSimons, an SJSU product. Thu, 7pm. Free. Willow Glen Library.
NADAPROUTY A meet and greet with the author of “Uncompromised: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of an Arab American Patriot in the CIA.” Wed, 7pm. Books Inc., Mountain View.
MONTALVOARTSCENTER “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.”Thru Nov 18. “Sculpture on the Grounds: Traces, Twigs and Time.” Ongoing. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.
PHO69 “Of Light & Shadows.” New photos emphasizing high- and low-key lighting by Robertino Ragazza. Thru Nov 25. San Jose.
SANJOSECITYHALL “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.
SANJOSEINSTITUTEOF CONTEMPORARYART “One Thing Leads to Another.” A group show about process and repetition in prints and drawings. Thru Feb 25. “Dos Mundos.” Works by Tim Craighead. Thru Feb 18. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
STANFORDARTSPACES “3 Artists.” Paintings by Sue Averell, Carmen Barefield and Marianne Bland. Thru Dec 1. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford.
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Jose Chamber Orchestra. Sun, 3-4:30pm. $50. Coterie Cellars, San Jose.
ARTINFOCUS Anthony Raynsford and Robin Lasser on “Public Art, Urban Infrastructure and Metaphorical Space.”Thu, 7pm. $10/$15. Art Museum of Los Gatos.
ARTRAGE Live music by indie-pop group TIGERcat plus a DIY art station and a no-host bar. Thu, 7-10pm. $5. San Jose Museum of Art.
TOMBROKAW A talk by the NBC newsman. Mon, 1pm. $45 and up. Santa Clara Convention Center Theatre.
CHEFSOFCOMPASSION A chefs’ challenge to benefit services for the homeless. Sat, 5pm. $100. Addison-Penzak JCC of Silicon Valley, Los Gatos.
DILLERTEENTIKKUNOLAM AWARDS Submissions are being accepted for social action awards. People are asked to nominate a Jewish teen who is changing the community or the world. Nomination forms at www. jewishfed.org/teenawards/ process or by callin 415.512.6437.
A musical from Peninsula Youth Theatre. Thu, 9:30am, Fri, 9:30am and 7:30pm, Sat, 2 and 7:30pm, Sun, 1pm. $7-$22. MainStage, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
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Dr. Seuss brought to the stage by Children’s Musical Theater San Jose. This week Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2 and 7pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. $15$18. Runs thru Nov 20.
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The holiday tradition opens with a ceremony featuring Kristi Yamaguchi. Mon, 5pm. (Rink is open daily Nov 18-Jan 29.) Circle of Palms, downtown San Jose. A celebration of the founding of El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, with music and a candle-lighting ceremony. Sun, noon-4pm. Peralta Adobe/Fallon House, San Jose.
With a chance to see and learn about wild cats, sponsored by Wild Cat Education and Conservation Fund. $5/$10. Sun, 2pm. Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.
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A live show of the kids’ dance program. Sat, 1pm. $28-$46. San Jose Civic Auditorium.
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AFTERNOONOFMUSIC&WINE A benefit with light food, wine tasting and short musical selections to benefit the San
A large table-top craft fair with handmade items, including jewelry, clothes and other gift items. Sun, 10am-4pm. Free. Napredak Hall, San Jose. A weekend devoted to all the newest motorcycles, plus stunt demonstrations and more. Fri, 4-9pm, Sat, 9:30am-8pm, Sun, 9:30am-5pm. $6/$15. San Mateo County Event Center.
SKIFILM Warren Miller’s “Like There’s No Tomorrow.” Fri, 8pm. (Call 1.800.523.7117 for info.) Spangenberg Theatre, Palo Alto.
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MIDNIGHT CALLER Suzan Hanson clings to her land line with passionate intensity in ‘La voix humaine.’
Solo Sizzle DURING THE 2003–04 season, Opera San Jose staged Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci on a double bill with Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana. But 15 seasons back, the company paired Poulenc’s La voix humaine with Pagliacci, the same program heard in a new production Sunday. The Poulenc opera demands that a soprano of exceptional acting skills deliver a solo performance for its entire, uninterrupted 50 minutes, supported only by the orchestra. In actual fact, however, the unseen third party to the collaboration is its stage director. In this case, Layna Chianakas, who sang the role for Opera San Jose in 1996, returned to direct the two sopranos who are making this role theirs for the first time. Heard Sunday, Suzan Hanson portrayed the nameless woman, desperate at being abandoned by her lover, with smoldering intensity and wildly suicidal moods swings. La voix humaine/ Frantically drinking, smoking and struggling against interruptions to keep contact by telephone, Pagliacci she finds that every ploy comes to nothing. The piece, written by Jean Cocteau, offers its performer Runs through Nov. 27 a draining exercise in grief and anxiety, a formula California Theatre, for psychological disintegration. In a protracted San Jose recitative, the role also demands sustained vocal prowess. Hanson’s tour-de-force performance won cheers from the rapt audience. Conductor Bryan Nies’ orchestra tracked his leadership sensitively and Poulenc’s score with rich sonority, though at times masked Hanson’s more nuanced moments. The lighting and French-inflected set design—architectural details hand-sketched in white lines against black and dark gray—deserve special notice. One question came up during the interval: Why not perform the work in an English translation? Learning it in French would only seem to make sense for audiences in Montreal or France itself. Against a plain set, Cynthia Stokes’ stage direction for Pagliacci also triumphed, acutely attentive to tiny details and skillfully lit. Leoncavallo’s flawless melodrama unfolded with inexorable drive, from the opening prologue to the bloody “La commedia è finita.” (As the tension mounted, the kids in the “audience” were spirited away by their anxious parents, smartly intensifying the terror.) One could imagine bigger voices, but hardly better casting across the board. Alexander Boyer’s Canio (Pagliaccio) projected menace and vulnerability in equal measures. Jouvanca Jean-Baptiste’s Nedda was simultaneously enchanting and fiercely combative. Of the three baritones, Jason Detwiler’s prologue rang with clarion authoritativeness before he turned into the vengeful Tonio. Michael Dailey, as Beppe, tried in vain to keep peace, and charmed as Arlecchino. Krassen Karagiozov played Nedda’s impassioned if ultimately sacrificed lover, Silvio. But for want of a quieter orchestra to balance those moments on stage, conductor Nies and his musicians kept the opera’s hot blood flowing.—Scott MacClelland
ASIAN ART MUSEUM MAHARAJA: THE SPLENDOR OF INDIA’S ROYAL COURTS OCT 21, 2011 – APR 8, 2012
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GET $3 OFF ADULT ADMISSION (Reg. $17)! Use the code MAHARAJA3OFF to buy tickets online. Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Presentation at the Asian Art Museum is made possible by support from Rajnikant and Helen Desai, the Society for Asian Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Draper III, MetLife Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Credit Suisse, the Koret Foundation, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Franklin Templeton Investments, United, AT&T, the Mary Van Voorhees Fund of the San Francisco Foundation, Richard and Kim Beleson, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and Incredible !ndia. Media sponsors: San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, ABC7, KQED, San Jose Mercury News, and India West. This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities. MAHARAJA WITH FALCON: Artwork by Sanjay Patel, gheehappy.com
Asian Art Museum Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art & Culture 200 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102 www.asianart.org 415.581.3500
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metroactive FILM HAPPY FEET TWO (PG; 100 min.) In the children’s animated sequel, Mumbles the penguin (Elijah Wood) finds that his son, Erik, is surprisingly reluctant to dance, which, as any trained ornithologist will tell you, is the first sign of penguin depression. The film stays light, however, thanks in large part to an A-through-higher-B list cast, which includes Brad Pitt and P!nk, together at last. (Opens Fri.)
IMMORTALS (R; 100 min.) See review on page 46.
SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL Nov 16 at 7:30pm, Camera 7, Campbell: Restoration. Israeli hit about a furniture restorer who finds himself facing the end of his business. Nov 17 at 7:30pm, Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto: A Matter of Size. A well-built crowd pleaser about the advent of a troupe of sumo wrestlers in a nondescript Israeli town; Itzik Cohen plays the mom-pecked, unemployed obese man who finds a métier in sumo— and also meets a zaftig divorcee (she’s played by Irit Kaplan, a real BBW, who looks like Natalie Portman if she were given something to eat.) Live demonstration of sumo afterward. Nov 20 at 3pm, Camera 12, San Jose: 100 Voices: A Journey Home. One hundred cantors perform in Warsaw and also attend a service at Auschwitz. Following the film, three local cantors will perform live. (Plays Oct 22-Nov 20 in various valley locations.) (RvB)
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN, PART 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 theatres November of 2012. Until then. (Opens Thu Nov. 17 at midnight.)
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love story before. Still, I’m not a fan of this classic; Gable’s contempt seems to be turned up too many notches. BILLED WITH Susan Lenox: Gable and Garbo in a romance of a kept woman’s adventures. (Plays Nov 16-18 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
(R; 102 min.) The poet Goethe, or Goethe! as this film yearned to be called in its native Germany, needs little intro. The English retitle of Goethe! as Young Goethe in Love is one tip-off of its many links to Shakespeare in Love. Sadly, a Tom Stoppard rewrite is not one of those links. It’s how a young law student (Alexander Fehling) fell for the gal above his station (Miriam Stein), but finally became Germany’s greatest poet. We see the moment where he scratches out the name “Johann” and writes in “Werther” when penning (with a feather, of course) the first young-adult novel. Costumes, periwigs, locations and duels (with Goethe’s rival, played by the excellent Moritz Bleibtreu) and yet nothing much happens. Change the nationality to “Germany” in the following sentence, and it’s an example of what Godard (or Godard!) meant when he was saying, “They can make movies in Norway today that are just as bad as the ones from Hollywood.” (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.) (RvB)
MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON/ MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1939/1936) Boy Ranger leader (James Stewart) goes to Washington to clean up the Senate, with only his secretary (Jean Arthur) for help. Meanwhile, a chorus of cynics (Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Eugene Pallette, Guy Kibbee and Edward Arnold) predict doom. The film was thundered against by Sen. James Byrnes: “Here is a picture that is going to tell the country that 95 out of 96 senators are corrupt, that the federal, state and municipal governments are corrupt; that one corrupt boss can control the press of a state; that the newspapers are corrupt; the radios are corrupt; reporters are corrupt. ... The thing was outrageous” (quoted in Joseph McBride’s The Catastrophe of Success). Today’s viewers may be less than shocked by such conclusions. The film’s intimate moments—such as the drunk scene between Mitchell and Arthur, supposedly coached by Howard Hawks—outdo the big patriotic heartstring-pullers like Stewart’s filibuster, a vague blob of populism. Yet there’s real bravery in this film. BILLED WITH Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) discovers that money changes everything. Frank Capra’s popular story of a rich yokel suddenly dazed and confused by the big city must owe part of its popularity to Arthur, who learns to love the big goof. Remade (disgustingly) by Adam Sandler. (Plays Nov 19-20 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
Revivals BICYCLE DREAMS Documentary on the 2005 Race Across America; the screening benefits the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. (Plays Nov 17 at 7pm in Cupertino at the BlueLight Cinema.) (RvB)
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT/ SUSAN LENOX: HER FALL AND RISE (1934/1931) An heiress (Claudette Colbert) jumps off of her family’s yacht; a working-class reporter (Clark Gable) tracks her down to find out why. It’s invigorated by the class differences between the roughhousing Gable and the pampered Colbert—not to mention the gritty locations of bus stations and motels, unseen in the context of a comedic
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“Charming in a way that American romantic comedies have all but forgotten.” –Jeannette Catsoulis, NPR.org – Recommended
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NILES FILM MUSEUM Nov 16: four shorts: “Courtship of Miles Sandwich” (1923) with Snub Pollard, “Movie Night” (1929) with Charley Chase, “Do Detectives Think?” (1927) with Mr. L and Mr. H., and “Pass the Gravy” (1929) with Max Davidson and directed by Leo McCarey. A classic; a paroxysmal study of a feud between neighbors, worsened by the accidental death of “Brigham,” a blue-ribbon rooster. Greg Pane at the piano. Plus a double booksigning: Left in the Dark: Portraits of San Francisco Theaters and Theaters of the San Francisco Peninsula. (Plays Nov 16 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)
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Baroque lost. The script by Charlie and Vlas Parlapanides is an example of what’s meant by the expression “You can write these lines, but I can’t act them.” The words kick you out every time the images try to draw you in: the towering heights of the cliffs, the dust-storm lighting or the man-bull in the marble labyrinth, wearing a barbed wire mask and gloves.
There’s considerable beauty in Immortals. Once again, Tarsem Singh (The Fall) distills the art of the world into one film with costumes by designer Eiko Ishioka. But it’s not a sensual film in the sexual sense. Where it gets sensual is in people puncturing, slitting or cleaving each other. Pulsing blobs of blood hover, making abstract patterns in the air.
Minotaurs are tough customers. This one is @ddfikXcj played by the gigantic Robert Maillet. It’s R; 110 min. frustrating that Immortals Plays can’t build this clash valleywide up—to make the minotaur seem like an ultimate weapon. This mano-a-mano contest seems like an incident, a sideshow before another giant CGI anthill war of hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
The crowd, uneasy with sex, tittered galore at the bare butt of Pinto’s body double. They whinnied at the impossibly sculpted physiques of the gods, and at their metal headdresses. (There’s a line about funny hats in this movie— someone got nervous.) Rourke’s crabclaw helmet was too much—with a skull like Rourke’s, who needs a helmet? He hardly needs makeup, either; a close-up of Rourke savaging a pomegranate with his mouth is nasty enough. Singh was at WonderCon in February telling the crowd he’d wanted Caravaggio and the producers had wanted Zack Snyder. Seemingly, Snyder won and the
And the real climax fizzles. We know from the prophecy that the Titans will be freed. Sadly, the creatures look as threatening as the boys of the chorus. They are ashskinned extras seemingly taken from Peter Brook’s film The Mahabharata. Like many visionary filmmakers, Singh uses his actors essentially as models. Even the gods look like models. They stand around with their hands tied, moping, and they lash out at each other. But they are immortal; that’s why they’re back for this film’s dismaying “Can I has sequel?” ending. —Richard von Busack
ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (1975) Barely Legal rounds up the usual suspects. (Plays Nov 19 at 11:55pm in San Jose at Camera 3.) (RvB)
TIME BANDITS/ THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1981/1988) Two by the animator and fantasist Terry Gilliam, about a small English boy taken on a journey through time by a pack of larcenous dwarves; meanwhile the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson) and Evil himself (David Warner) game the system. Episodic, but it’s Gilliam’s least mordant film, with a cast of legendaries: John Cleese as a passive-aggressive Robin Hood, Sean Connery as a massively virile Agamemnon and Ian Holm as the untrustworthy Napoleon. BILLED WITH Munchausen . John Neville stars as the fabled German who tries to stave off reality whenever he gets a chance. It’s an eyeful (the young Uma Thurman is one glorious Venus), but it’s full of Gilliam’s drawbacks—the visionary quality that disdains storytelling and a lot of bitterness for such a confectionary fantasy about dealing with the money men. (Plays Nov 18-20 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)
Reviews 50/50 (R; 139 min.) Alternate title could be So/So , despite leads Anna Kendrick and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Their work in this comedy/drama is disrupted by Seth Rogen. In regularly scheduled bullish (or bullying) comedy moments, Rogen’s Kyle turns up to rattle the cage of the seriously ill Adam (Gordon-Levitt). When
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Rogen is gone, the film develops interesting counterpoints. Rather than just the sketchily drawn victim of cancer, Adam may be a kind of princeling. Gordon-Levitt finds some humorous notes, but his Adam isn’t a very welldefined character. He’s outlined by the contrast between the two girls in the picture: bitchy live-in Rachel (Bryce Dallas Howard) and Katherine (Kendrick). It may be that Rogen’s ultimate contribution to cinema is taking the fun out of that game where you pretend that the hero and his buddy are lovers. On the bright side, this may be the least spiritual film about facing death we’ve been offered. (RvB)
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 a time-taskforce on his tail in this Logan’s Run–esque thriller (in which the age limit was a slightly more reasonable 30).
J. EDGAR (R; 137 min.) Clint Eastwood’s biopic takes on a half-century of history, but is mostly staged in a few rooms. Leonardo DiCaprio plays J. Edgar Hoover, founder of the FBI. It’s a catastrophically recessive part: he’s a glowing smudge on Eastwood’s underlit screen. Protected from the world by his mother (Judi Dench) and his secretary (Naomi Watts), Hoover emerges for lunches, dinners and the racetrack with longtime companion Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer). Scriptwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk ) underscores the urban legend of Hoover’s gayness and transvestitism. Would the head of the American secret police have been a better man if he just could have declared his secret love? At their worst, Eastwood’s films are a series of incidents with little connection. His many fans consider this lack of emphasis essential to Eastwood’s pragmatic coolness. But J. Edgar has no shifts of mood, even when famous people turn up, whether a parade of presidents, or Jessica Hecht playing Emma Goldman. The film is a colossal bore. (RvB)
47 (PG; 93 min.) What at first seemed like a parodic trailer, a la Tropic Thunder, will, come Friday, prove to be in fact a real film. Adam Sandler stars as the titular characters (plural), a brother and sister reunited every Thanksgiving, much to the chagrin of Jack and his family. Bafflingly rewritten by former Seinfeld scribe Steve Koren, the film proves the age-old adage ”When all else fails, put Adam Sandler in drag” to be alarmingly true.
LIKE CRAZY (PG-13; 90 min.) Drake Doremus’ film is like a pop song: so vague that almost everyone can relate to some small part of it, and the vaguest of all feel as if they’ve been eavesdropped upon. She, Anna (Felicity Jones), is a British writer; he, Jacob (Anton Yelchin), is an upscale custom furniture maker. Their made-for-each-other relationship in L.A. is interfered with by the machinery of American immigration. When Anna returns for a second visit to California, she’s barred from entry because her student visa expired during the previous stay. The movie drove me crazy for a lot of reasons: Jones’ variation on the Pixie Dream Girl, dyed in the color correction to a soft nursery pink. Also enervating: the improv that breaks down frequently, as it always must for dwindling, underconceived movies. Like Crazy appears to have a topic: the liberal guilt about what the INS does to blameless lovers separated by borders. But this isn’t what the movie is really about. It uses the avant-garde techniques of films that once talked about something to talk about absolutely nothing. (RvB)
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 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, selfamused patronization of a public school headmaster. As a middlelevel 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 virtue; it’s a fascinating display of nerve and talent. (RvB)
MELANCHOLIA (R; 130 min.) When one of the world’s most frustrating directors makes his magnum opus, it’s a puzzle: Will this persuade the doubters who never liked him, or will it prove to the supporters that he was capable of better work all along? In two parts, Lars von Trier forecasts the end of the world: the first half is a wormwood-bitter— lush and alluringly surfaced— comedy of the nigh-royal wedding. Kirstin Dunst does the best work of her career as Justine, a woman who connects von Trier’s previous visions of abused Little Match Girl and dangerous vixen. In the second half, we see the cause of her despair: a massive planet heading for ours, a blue orb named, for no linguistically defensible reason, Melancholia. With firstrate supporting work by Stellan Skarsgård, at his most swinish; Charlotte Gainsbourg, at her most tender; and Kiefer Sutherland, with a previously unheard, cigartoned bass note in his voice, this is a work wrought out of profound depression, and yet there’s nothing adolescent about it. Trier is probably a madman, but every madman has at least one lucid argument in him. (RvB)
MY AFTERNOONS WITH MARGUERITTE (Unrated; 82 min.) A semiliterate village man (Gerard Depardieu) strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly woman (Gisele Gasadesus), who teaches him to love great literature.
PUSS IN BOOTS (PG; 90 min.) The swashbuckling cat (voiced by Antonio Banderas) is framed for a robbery, so must clear his name by heisting the goose that lays golden eggs. It goes wrong where prequels usually do, by changing the nature of the character we love in the name of fleshing them out. The insistence that Puss needs to be a hero goes against his raffishness; even long
before Bogart died, it was more of a pleasure to watch such a free figure drawn in reluctantly, instead of volunteering. And while he’s at his best as a solitary beast (the way he’s depicted on the teaser poster) he has a gang here: Salma Hayek is the voice of a Catwomanish cat burglar named Kitty Softpaws, and Zach Galifianakis as a sinister Humpty Dumpty, looking like an evil Maxfield Parrish character, with a tiny bolero hat perched on his small end. Naturally, there are sweet lines (“Fear me if you dare,” Puss threatens) and some lovely sequences, such as 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 heads for years. Question: how do you handle a win-win situation? Answer: wrap it up quickly. (Rod Bastanmehr)
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 thickly-muscled 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 offscreen. 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)
STEVE JOBS: THE LOST INTERVIEW “People like symbols. I’m the symbol of certain things.” At about age 40, Steve Jobs unfolded on his career to journalist Robert X. Cringely; a small portion of this interview was used for the 1995 TV documentary Triumph of the Nerds. Most of this is being shown for the first time. Jobs describes childhood fascination with computers in a long-gone valley. As a 12-year-old, he got Bill Hewlett’s phone number out of the telephone book and called him up, speaking with him for 20 minutes and landing a summer job. Later came a criminal life, engineering the infamous “blue box” that skeleton-keyed the telephone system; following that he got into business home-wiring Apple One computers for sale at the Byte Shop in Mountain View. Cringely asks intelligent questions; more importantly, he has a subject who was in a mood to look backward. Jobs’ talk is mainly of companies crashing and burning. One of them was the company he founded: “Apple is dying a very painful death.” Jobs didn’t foresee his second life at Apple, but he scopes the future clearly: “The web is incredibly exciting, the fulfillment of the computer being used not primarily for computation but communication. Plus it’s exciting because Microsoft doesn’t own it.” (RvB)
TOWER HEIST (PG-13; 104 min.) The Brett Ratner–directed caper chronicles the working staff of a New York
high-rise 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 film, 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 film dropped its on-demand screening, opting instead strictly for a theatrical run.
A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (R; 89 min.) The multicultural stoners reunite for this bizarrely early holiday release, the third in the unexpectedly longrunning 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 druginfused are only heightened by the film’s overt use of 3-D. Come for the laughs; stay for the thirddimension.
THE WOMAN ON THE SIXTH FLOOR (Unrated 104 min.) The French language comedy (sometimes stylized as Service Entrance) takes us to Paris in the 1960s, where Monsieur Joubert (Fabrice Luchini), a stockbroker and all-around wet towel, befriends the Spanish maid, Maria (non-French native Natalia Verbeke), who lives on the top floor of his building. She introduces him to her friends, family and a life simple but enthusiastically full of emotion and adventure. Slowly, Joubert regains his joie de vivre, much to the chagrin of his wife, who suspects an affair. A coming-of-age story for those who believe they’re too set in their ways to come of anything but old age. French-language, with English subtitles.
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EVERYTHING VERYTHING I IS ALRIGHT WHEN YOU’RE DOWN South Bay singer/songwriter Anya, who found viral fam fame in the a capella takeoff of ‘I’m on a Boat,’ performs at Motif’s Homebass event with her band the Get Down.
Com Coming off the Warped Tour Tour, the South Bay’s Anya and the Get Down mix it up By STEVE PALOPOLI
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TEND TO embrace schizophrenia.” As Anya sits in a coffee shop in downtown San Jose, she’s talking not about her mental health but about her love of mashing up genres. The striking Russian-born singer and songwriter exudes the classic ’50s style that defined her role in the South Bay crew Soapbox Melodics, her project with Dirty Nate that melded hip-hop rhythm with jazz sophistication. She went by her full name then, Anya Kvitka, but for her new solo project, Anya and the Get Down, “you don’t have to worry about my last name, because everything is just ‘Anya.’”
That’s not all that’s changed. As audiences at Left Coast Live discovered, the South Bay performer has found a whole new way to embrace musical schizophrenia with her band the Get Down. They can do a full-tilt, swinging cover of Groove Theory’s “Tell Me” or Anya’s own song “Baggage” with guitarist Matt Gonzales (also of Blank Manuscript) strumming a breezy acoustic riff. The band’s sound touches on everything from rock, soul and funk to hip-hop, dubstep, reggae and, of course, jazz. In Gonzales, bassist Azim Alhark and drummer Randy Fard, she’s found what she considers not a backing band, but musical partners who are fully on board with her stylistic MPD. “That’s the beauty of this whole situation. Everybody’s just so open. Matt’s played in everything from rock bands to Mexican folk bands. Azim’s played a lot of funk and soul. Randy’s background is mainly reggae,” she says. “That’s what I mean when I say there’s no leader. When we have a reggae song, Randy will be like ‘We should
do it like this,’ and it ends up so sounding better b because h he k knows what b h he’s talking about. Everybody’s so down to collaborate.” At just 24, Anya has already lived quite a few musical identities. As a child growing up in Moscow, she began learning classical piano. Her family moved to Cupertino when she was 7, and she continued her training. She attended UC–Santa Cruz, where in 2009 she got her first taste of fame as part of the a capella group Acquire A Capella. They filmed a YouTube video of themselves covering “I’m on a Boat,” the song by the Lonely Island that became a sensation on Saturday Night Live. In Acquire A Capella’s version, Anya sang T-Pain’s part. Their video took on a life of its own, with Entertainment Weekly suggesting online that it was perhaps funnier than the original, and an airing on G4’s Attack of the Show. “’I’m on a Boat’ went crazy viral,” Anya recalls. “Literally within the first week, we were on the front page of YouTube. I started getting all these marriage proposals on Facebook.” Another project that got her attention is Soapbox Melodics. She met Dirty Nate in 2007; it was the beginning of an unorthodox partnership. “Nate very much
represented that gritty hip-hop. I love hip-hop, I love rap, that’s what I listen to all the time,” she says. “But Nate really grew up in that, and it was a great influence in his life. And me, I had so much jazz, and opera even, all this classical stuff. It all came out in my voice, and our love of hip-hop really came through, and it was always this fusion, really.” Though Soapbox is still together, Anya realized this year that she wanted to focus her attention for now in a different direction. She found her bandmates just in time to play the Warped Tour in what became a whirlwind summer. “We actually got together to record, and then the Warped Tour was looming, so we got together for a week of intense rehearsals in June, and put together a set. It took off from there,” she says. “We just all have a really great chemistry together, and we have fun.” Anya writes like a rapper, but she sings in the classic style of her idols, who range from Aretha Franklin all the way down the line to Amy Winehouse, whom she covers regularly and whose death in July was quite a blow. “Amy Winehouse was a great throwback to what I value in music,” she says. “Honestly, losing her was more tragic than people realize. In an industry that’s so full of completely contrived, generic stuff, she brought back emotion and soul, realism and poetry.” Currently, Anya is pulling together tracks for her first album, hoping to put together a cohesive record while still showcasing all of the different facets of her sound. “If you’re an actress, and you want to be considered really good at your craft, you’re going to pick roles that are completely different from one to the next, to the next, to the next,” she says. “You want to be able to have people believe you in each role. That’s essentially what I’m doing, what I hope to do, in taking on these different styles. I don’t do it intentionally, it’s not calculated. I’ll just hear a beat, and start singing it in a reggae way. People will be like ‘What the hell?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t know, it’s just how it came out!’”
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ERIC BIBB February 4, 8pm “Bibb may be the quietest blues player out there, but he is also becoming one of the best.” - Billboard Eric Bibb’s unique talent as a performer and songwriter continues to draw critical acclaim around the world. He has been recognized with a Grammy Award nomination, four W.C. Handy Blues Award nominations, and won the “Best Newcomer” title in the British Blues Awards. Bibb has been described by critics as “a total original” and The London Times raves, “A voice to die for.”
WILLIE K February 10, 8pm “Able to pretty much ace any kind of music from soulful Hawaiian to incendiary rock, Willie has recently been dazzling audiences with his extraordinary ability…” -The Maui News Raised on Maui and known as the “Hawaiian Jimi Hendrix,” Grammy nominated Willie K (Willie Kahaiali`i) has been bringing audiences to their feet for standing ovations since the age of 10. From reggae to rock, blues to opera, Willie’s performances offer a wide range of musical styles that have earned him the reputation of Hawaii’s most versatile artist.
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Saturday at Motif Lounge in San Jose, 10pm Hard to believe it’s been two years now that Alive and Well has been throwing their “Timeless” party the third Saturday of every month at Motif. Lawrence Tran, Vinh Duong and friends have been going all out recently with their events, and now they throw themselves a party, featuring resident DJs Krucial, Spindizzy, Dtrukt, Respin, D!strakt. (SP)
Robert Cray
Sunday at Heritage Theater in Campbell, 7pm; $46-$56 Robert Cray was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame this year, in a ceremony that honored his contributions to the genre, his pivotal role in sparking the blues revival of the 1980s, his signature Strat sound, and his hits like “Smokin’ Gun.” But did they mention that before he even got a record contract, he was one of the dudes playing “Shout” in Animal House? Now that’s a lifetime achievement. (SP)
The Eyesores
Monday at Johnny V’s, 9pm; $5 The infamous Eyesores have stained the San Jose scene for over 15 years. With extravagant props, costume changes for almost every song and a seemingly unquenchable thirst for alcohol, the Eyesores play what they call “drunk rock—music to dump beer on your head to.” (BD)
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Fri, 7pm: eMerging Arts. Featuring photography by JRSD Photography and music from Cartoon Bar Fight, Tumbleweed Wanderers and Cannons & Clouds. All ages. $10. San Jose.
AVALON Sat: A Yawn Worth Yelling, Beta State, I Swallowed an Owl, Pantheon, Start the Fire Up, Wake Up Dolly. Santa Clara.
Wed: Jack Rip Off. Thu: Sexy Back. Fri: Savoir Faire. Sat: Dejenerates. Sun: The Gents. Campbell.
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN
CLUB FOX Thu, 7pm: The Coffis Brothers, Allofasudden. $10. Fri, 7pm: Journey Unauthorized. $15/$18. Sat, 7pm: Damage Inc, Roses & Guns, Points North, Bad Boy Eddy. $12/$14. Sun, 2:30pm: Gelbapalooza I. $5. Redwood City.
FOX THEATRE
Fri, 10pm: Department of Rock. Sat, 10pm: Bridesmaids. San Jose.
Thu-Sun: Broadway by the Year. Favorites from musicals of 1947 and 1966. Redwood City.
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Sat, 8pm: Rick Merritt & Friends. San Jose.
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Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
Thu: Acoustic music. San Jose.
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LOS GATOS LODGE Fri-Sat: Live rock bands. Los Gatos.
MOJO LOUNGE Thu: Live music. Fri: Chris Cobb Band. Sat: David Krull. Fremont.
MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE Tue-Wed, 6pm: Live music. San Jose.
NETO’S GRILL Sat, 8pm: Tony Lindsay. $20. Santa Clara.
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Sat, 9pm: Mary Axe, Weslester, Our Vinyl Vows, West of Sunset. All ages. $5. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.
Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music. Mountain View.
World AGENDA LOUNGE Wed, 8pm: Salsa. $5. Thu, 8pm: Banda nights. Fri, 8pm: Rock en Español. San Jose.
ALBERTO’S Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night. Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.
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Jazz/Blues ANGELICA’S BISTRO Thu, 7:30pm: Blues talent contest. Fri, 8pm: Miss Charlotte & the Umbrella Band. $10/$13. Sat, 8pm: Bennett Roth-Newell Trio. $10/$15. Mon, 7pm: A Swingin’ Affair and Jazz Jam with Walt Hern Jazz Project. No cover. Redwood City.
ART BOUTIKI Every second Thu, 7pm: Jazz jam. $5. San Jose.
Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music and belly dancing. Cupertino.
BACH DANCING AND DYNAMITE
Fri, 8pm: Steel Toed Slippers, Blackwood Royalty. $10. Sat, 8pm: Madman’s Lullaby, Deathmaster, Mutha Jones Medicine Show. Second Harvest Food Bank benefit. $5 donation or bring 3 nonperishable food items. Gilroy.
AZÚCAR
Sun, 4:30pm: Miguel Zenon 4tet. $35. Half Moon Bay.
NUMBER ONE BROADWAY
Fri, 8pm: Nuevo Flamenco and Spanish guitar. Sat, 8pm: Gianfranco and friends. San Jose.
NINE LIVES
Wed, 9:30pm: Jam Night with Backfire & Diva Stativa. No cover. Thu: The Blind Pilots. Fri, 9:30pm: Pacific Standard Time. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Megatones. $10. Los Gatos.
THE QUARTER NOTE Wed-Thu: Pro jam. Sunnyvale.
RED ROCK COFFEE Thu, 7pm: Nick Drummond & Tyler Carson. Fri, 8pm: Garrin Benfield. Sat, 8pm: Stephen Covell & Brandon Walker. Mountain View.
Thu, 9pm: DJ Che live video mixing. Fri, 9pm: Latin rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban & Latin fusions. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.
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Wed, 7pm: Blues jam. $5. Redwood City.
Sat, 8:30pm: Ebi. $50 and up. Cupertino.
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Sat, 8pm: Live music. San Jose.
Wed, 6pm: Mr. Driss. Flamenco guitar. Thu, 6pm: Jason Bellenkes Duo. Fri-Sat, 6pm: World music. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music. San Jose.
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Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Santa Clara.
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Wed, 6pm: World music. Thu, 6pm: Flamenco music. Fri, 6pm: Vic Moraga. Sat-Sun, 6pm: World music. Mon, 6pm: Moroccan music. Tue, 6pm: Johnny Williams. Mountain View.
Fri-Sat, 9pm-1am: Live music. Gilroy.
Sun, 6pm: Joe Major Jazz. Cupertino.
Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live music. Mountain View.
Thu, 7pm: Art Rage. Featuring music from Tigercat. $5. San Jose.
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Fri, 8pm: Lily Bee & the Dreamers. San Jose.
Tue: Irish dancing. Sunnyvale.
Fri: The Honey Wilders. Sat: Bill Wilson Center benefit concert and fashion show. San Jose.
Wed: Sista Monica. Fri: Willie G. Sat: Serious Condition. San Jose
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Wed, 8pm: Aki Kumar & Littl Johnny. Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Fri, 8pm: Live music. Sat, 8pm: Jim Dewrance. Campbell.
HEDLEY CLUB Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Kristen Strom Quartet. Sat, 8:30pm: Russo Alberts Trio. CD release. San Jose.
J.J.’S BLUES CAFE Wed: Blues Angel. Thu: Madylan Rose. Fri: Tip of the Top, Dog House Riley. $10. Sat: Maxx Cabello Jr., Gene Washington. $10. Sun: Voodoo Zydeco, Stevie B. Mon: Waynes Way. Tue: Dennis & Stuart, Blue J. San Jose.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ management was seriously 8pm; $10 considering signing them, but then Chili Peppers leapt into mainstream success and Dot 3 got left behind. They broke up in 1991, but will reunite this Friday at Blank Club with Neosoreskin, an even weirder band formed by former Skankin Pickle bass player, Mike Mattingly. They were a highly technical, chaotic circus-ska band that wasn’t too far off from Mr. Bungle. “I ended up hooking up with a lot of really interesting musicians that were capable of doing things that I felt most people I had been playing with weren’t able to pull off. It pushed me to go farther,” Mattingly says. Some of those musicians came from Dot 3, including Kenny Schick. By the mid-’90s, their bizarre live set and complex song structures earned them quite a reputation locally. “We had a run for about 8 months where I thought it was going to take off. And then it didn’t,” Mattingly says. Since their breakup in the late 90s, they’ve reunited once, at a memorial show for Brownies lead singer Tim Kahihikolo. The third band on the bill, Bad Dog Sit were a quirky, new wave pop band also part of the late ’80s local scene. Their lead singer, Steve Devlin actually taught Mattingly how to play music back when they were teenagers. They’ve played only one reunion show since their breakup in the early ’90s.—Aaron Carnes
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SUNNYVALE ART GALLERY
Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, 6pm: Windy Hill. San Jose.
First and third Thursday of every month, 7pm: The Canvas. Open to all performers. Sunnyvale.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Bit & Spur Band. Sun, 8pm: Guest band weekly. San Jose.
Open Mic
Thu: Maneck. Fri: Bone Drivers. Sat: The Honey Wilders. Sunnyvale.
A PERFECT FINISH
BAMBOO LOUNGE
POOR HOUSE BISTRO
1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336
SAM’S BBQ
ANGELICA’S BISTRO
Fri, 9pm: Mike and Terry. Sat, 9pm: Blue House. San Jose.
More listings:
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Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Redwood City. Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic for singer-songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: Open-mic night with Anita. Willow Glen.
Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
ACAPULCO RESTAURANT & CANTINA Fri-Sat, 7pm-midnight: DJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke. Santa Clara.
Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson & Friends. Thu, 6pm: John Nemeth & AC Myles Duo . Fri, 6pm: MoFo Party Band. Sat, 1pm: Electric Grease. Sat, 6pm: Mighty Mike Schermer Band. Sun, noon: The School of the Blues Student Jam. Mon, 6pm: Ukulele jam night. San Jose.
BAREFOOT COFFEE ROASTERS
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
TESSORA’S
Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic. Cupertino.
AZĂšCAR
Fri, 8:30pm: Club D. Sat, 8:30pm: The Jazz Notes. Campbell.
Wed, 7pm: Musical open mic. Sign up by 5pm. Santa Clara.
BLUE ROCK SHOOT Thu, 7:30pm: Open mic. Saratoga.
CAFFE FRASCATI
ALEX’S 49ER INN
Wed, 9pm: English and Spanish karaoke and dancing. San Jose.
UNWINED
Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Free. San Jose.
Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz. San Jose.
CITY ESPRESSO
Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.
Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.
BENNIGAN’S GRILL
DA KINE CAFE
Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.
WINE AFFAIRS Wed, 7:30pm: Blues Boraches. Thu, 7:30pm: Jason Lewis Trio. San Jose.
C&W/Folk THE GRAPEVINE Thu, 7pm: Sean Ryan. Sat, 7pm: Mark Rodriguez. Willow Glen.
MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 8pm: Marla Fibish, Joey Abarta & Lindsay Straw. Sat, 7:30pm: Miles & Karina. Sun, 7pm: Joe Craven Trio. Santa Clara.
Tue, 6:30-9:30pm: Open mic. Music, poetry, etc. Sunnyvale.
HOT JAVA COFFEE ROASTING Tue, 6:30pm: Hot Acoustic Tuesdays. Open mic for instrumentalists, vocalists, poets and more. Morgan Hill.
MISSION CITY ROASTING CO. Thu, 7pm: South Bay Folks Open Mic. Santa Clara.
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Wed, 8-11pm: Live music, comedy and poetry. Los Gatos. Tue, 6pm: Open-mic night. San Jose.
Fri: Bobby Pinson. $10. San Jose.
QUARTER NOTE
Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys. Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Rodeo House. Fremont.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
BLUE BONNET BAR Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO
RODEO CLUB
THE SADDLE RACK
THE BEARS
Sun & Wed-Thu: Pro jam. Sunnyvale.
RED ROCK COFFEE CO.
BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: KJ Dennis. Sunnyvale.
Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.
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BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.
BOULEVARD TAVERN Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.
FLAMES COFFEE SHOP
OFFICE BAR
Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.
Fri-Sat, 9pm, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.
GALAXY
O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB
Thu, 9pm-2am: August. Milpitas.
GILROY BOWL Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Gilroy.
BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Comedy with Mr. Walker. San Jose.
Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.
HUDDLE Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.
JOHNNY V’S Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.
KATIE BLOOM’S Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.
Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.
KC BAR AND RESTAURANT
C&J’S SPORTS BAR
Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.
Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather. Santa Clara.
THE COURTS LOUNGE Sat, 9:30pm: DJ Joe. Mon, 9pm: Joe. San Jose.
CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed and Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu and Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.
KHARTOUM Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.
KING OF CLUBS Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. Mountain View.
KYOTO PLACE
DASILVA’S BRONCOS
Wed, 7pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
LILLY MAC’S
DIVE BAR
MARIANI’S
Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
EFFIE’S RESTAURANT Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm-2am, and last Sun of every month, 27pm: B&S Karaoke. Campbell.
EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR
Thu, 8:30pm-midnight: Karaoke with Jordan River Productions. San Jose.
PIONEER SALOON THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE
BRITISH BANKERS CLUB
BRIX
A PERFECT FINISH
Thu and Tue: Comedy at 8pm, karaoke at 9pm. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. San Jose.
Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.
Sun, 8pm: DJ Matt. Mon, 8pm: Matt. San Jose.
PEACOCK LOUNGE
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
More listings:
METROACTIVE.COM
Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale. Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.
MOJO LOUNGE
Tue, 8:30pm: Acoustic karaoke with Sam Marshall. Woodside.
POINCIANA LOUNGE Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No cover. Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.
QUARTER NOTE Mon-Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. No cover. Sunnyvale.
RED STAG LOUNGE Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am. San Jose.
REDI ROOM Thu-Sat, 9pm: DJ Curtis. San Jose.
ROSIE MCCANN’S Tue, 8:30pm: Karaoke. No cover. Santana Row.
RUDY’S PUB Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.
SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Tue, 10pm-close: Kamikaze Karaoke. San Jose.
SHERWOOD INN Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas. San Jose.
SHOOTERS BAR & GRILL Thu, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS
NETO’S MARKET & GRILL
Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
Fri, 6:30-10:30pm: Bands with live karaoke. Santa Clara.
STATION 55 Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Sun, 59pm: Family karaoke. Gilroy.
Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE
FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE
Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL
OASIS
Wed, 9pm: Larry. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.
Tue, 9pm: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.
Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug. Sunnyvale.
OFF THE HOOK Sun, 8pm: DJ Joe. Campbell.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
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BAMBOO LOUNGE
Sat, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke. San Jose.
Sat, 9pm: Thick & Sexy Saturdays. $10. San Jose.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE
THE BLANK CLUB
X-BAR
Thu, 9pm: Atomic, DJ Basura. $5. Sat, 9pm: Adult Dance Party with host Eric Belladonna and DJs Basura and Miles the DJ. $5. San Jose.
Fri & Mon, 9pm: Vinnie. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.
BLUE PHEASANT
Wed-Thu & Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Sat, 9:30pm: Joe. Santa Clara.
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Thu, 10pm: DJ Nicolo. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. Tue: Pubstumpers Trivia. San Jose.
Dance Clubs
Wed-Sun, Tue, 7pm: DJ and dancing. Cupertino.
AGENDA
Mon: DJ Geekstar. Campbell.
Thu, 10pm: DJ Night. Cupertino.
BRANHAM LOUNGE
BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN
Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: Antromix. Banda nights. Fri: Rock en EspaĂąol. San Jose.
AZĂšCAR 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.
BOSWELL’S
Wed: London Calling. Thu: Rewind. Retro night with DJ Rated R. Fri: Quality Control. Sat: Cocktails & Dreams with DJ Aspect. Mon: Jukebox Hero. Tue: Service Industry Night San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
Thu: DJ BenoďŹ cial. Fri, 10pm: DJ QZR. Sat: DJ David Q. San Jose.
BRITISH BANKERS CLUB Fri-Sat: DJs. Menlo Park.
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C&J’S SPORTS BAR Wed & Sat, 10pm: DJ. Fri, 8:30pm: Sizzling. Salsa night. Santa Clara.
CLUBHOUSE RESTAURANT & SPORTS BAR Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.
MOTIF
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Wed, 7pm: House Party. Thu, 7pm: Throwback Thursdays. Los Gatos.
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS
MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE
Thu: Hip-hop & RnB Thursday. Fri: Kenda Perez. Sat: After Fight Party with Stephan Bonnar. San Jose.
PEACOCK LOUNGE
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: DJ Checo. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.
EMPIRE CLUB Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.
STUDIO8
TEMPLE BAR & LOUNGE
PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB
DASILVA’S BRONCOS
DIVE BAR
Sun: DJ Paul X. San Jose.
Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy. Sat: Social Saturdays. San Jose.
Thu, 9pm: Stanford Law School Fall Bash. Fri, 10pm: Fuz. LGBT party. 18+. Palo Alto. Fri-Sat, 6pm: DJ or live band. No cover. Santa Clara.
Sapphire Saturdays. Sun: Sinful Sundays. Mon: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Buck Wild Tuesdays. San Jose.
Sat: Timeless. Two-year anniversary party. San Jose.
Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover. Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo. Sat, 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik. Sun, 7pm: Latin Beat. Sun, 9pm: Sonidero Night. Sunnyvale.
CLUB ILLUSIONS
More listings:
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Wed: RedRun with D. Luzion and Illtraxx. Thu: JazBiz and Dave Dynamix. Fri: Video Mixing, then DJ Radio Raheem and DJ Ready Rock. Sat: Live bands. San Jose.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT
Fri, 8pm: DJ dancing featuring R&B, Top 40. Sat, 9pm: DJ dancing featuring chill, R&B, Top 40. Sun & Tue, 9pm: DJ dancing. Sunnyvale.
Fri-Sat: DJs. San Jose.
SABOR TAPAS BAR
ZEN LOUNGE
WILLOW DEN Wed-Sat, 10pm: DJs. Willow Glen. Wed: Lil Saturday. House & electronica. Thu: 24 Thursdays. Fri: Fabulous Fridays. Sat: Celebrity Saturdays with DJ D-Roc. Mountain View.
Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing. Sun: Reggae. San Jose.
THE SADDLE RACK Wed-Sun: DJs. Fremont.
SAN JOSE BAR & GRILL Wed: Wingy Tango night. Thu: SoFA King Thursdays. Fri: Video Killed the DJ. Sat:
FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays. Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: 2011. $10. Sat, 9pm: Legacy. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
GALAXY Mon: Ladies’ Night. Milpitas.
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.
LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Fri-Sat, 10pm: Live DJ. San Jose.
MIAMI BEACH CLUB Thu-Fri: Top 40, club hits, hip-hop, Latin. Sat: DJ Nelly presents. San Jose.
San Francisco’s City Guide
LUCINDA WILLIAMS Americana sweetheart returns to the scene of her excellent 2003 live album. Nov. 19-20 at the Fillmore.
KIMYA DAWSON Former Moldy Peach and ‘Juno’ soundtrack star has new record label, Great Crap Factory. Nov. 21 at Amoeba SF.
WALE With Rick Ross and Lex Luger on his side, D.C. rapper hints at accessibility with ‘Ambition.’ Nov. 22 at Mezzanine.
CROOKED FINGERS After Archers of Loaf tour, Eric Bachmann promotes new LP, ‘Breaks in the Armor.’ Nov. 23 at Bottom of the Hill.
TUNE-YARDS Musical iconoclast Merrill Garbus is behind one of the year’s most acclaimed albums, ‘w h o k i l l.’ Nov. 23 at Regency Ballroom.
More San Francisco events at www.sfstation.com.
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ALIFORNIA’S weed party might be coming to an end. At least, that’s was the vibe at San Jose’s HempCon last weekend. On Saturday afternoon, I trekked to the San Jose Convention Center’s South Hall—the official name of that glorified white and blue tent on South Market street—for the second day of a three-day gathering. “Whether you are a patient or someone who wants to get educated more about medical marijuana, you have got to be there,” the event’s website promised. The convention was split up into two sections—one open to the general public, and another limited to only those with a valid doctor’s recommendation. Evaluations were available on the spot for a “special” price of $60. I’ve attended several marijuana conventions. Like those past events, HempCon attendees reflect the astonishing diversity of the cannabis movement: black, white, Asian, Hispanic, handicapped, painfully thin women modeling in bikinis. But unlike the festive atmosphere of other weed fests, HempCon was more subdued, in part because of the low attendance. Between seminar sessions, I entertained myself by chatting up vendors and and playing a game I call “Spot the Undercover Cop.” “Everyone kind of has their heads down right now,” said Jeremy Roseman, a Los Angeles–area rep for “cigarette” rolling technology company Futurola. He said the recent fed crackdown on landowners, coupled with a state appeals court ruling saying cities can now ban dispensaries, has many cannabis providers spooked.
But there were still people attending HempCon to have a good time. Hiphop music blasted from inside the patients’ area. Bikini girls handed out fliers and faked smiles while posing for cell-phone photos with creepy dudes. Not all vendors were necessarily potrelated, like the Academy of Cosmetic Tattoos booth, or Blow Clean, a device that allows people with ignition interlock devices—usually those convicted of DUIs—to “get started anyway.” “Is this legal?” I asked the woman sitting in the booth. “It’s for if you use mouthwash or drink orange juice,” she said while adjusting her cleavagerevealing dress. There were tons of freebies, too: rolling papers from Futurola, a lanyard from Nor Cal Bail Bonds and the latest issue of Cali Chronic X. “We’re all about sex, buds and rock & roll,” editor and publisher Jeffrey Peterson said as he pushed the latest issue into my hand. Inside the patients’ area, a Utahbased company handed out samples of Chronic Jerky. Surprisingly, only two San Jose collectives showed up to the event: Sanative Sanctuary and Elemental Wellness. One HempCon organizer, who declined to give his name, said most San Jose dispensaries put off signing up for the event because they didn’t know if they’d still be around after the city’s cannabis regulations went into effect. Those regulations have since been suspended as the city considers changing its ordinance or holding a special election in response to a successful referendum effort by medical cannabis supporters. But the HempCon organizer said, the low attendance was also partly due to there being so many pot conventions in the Bay Area. “The novelty has kind of worn off,” he admitted.—Ted Cox
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Perform static and dynamic design and analysis of mechanical systems, equipment and packages. Conduct feasibility studies and testing on new and modified designs.
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Responsible for managing project task details. Develop and maintain master cost reduction database in Excel.
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Develops new or modified process formulations, defines process or handling equipment requirements and specifications, reviews process techniques and methods applied in the fabrication of integrated circuits.
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Develop and transfer procedures to Customer Engineers to verify system performance. Provide timely report to both internal and external customers.
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Responsible for complex and/or high impact IT service technology(s) to ensure stability and functionality for end users and shares responsibility for delivery to service level agreements.
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Implement global intellectual property (IP) strategies and invention programs for company. Enhance quality, speed and value of patent filings for company and identify gaps and opportunities in the IP portfolio and providing recommendations. Please mail resumes with reference number to: Applied Materials, Inc. 3225 Oakmead Village Drive M/S 1217 Santa Clara, CA 95054. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.
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i\Xc \jkXk\ SALES JK<CC8I N8P This parcel is so beautiful, it’s the ideal spot to bring your imagination to life. Approx. 10 acres, quiet, surrounded by Magestic Redwood trees, Beautiful and Pristine with a good amount of easy terrain. Existing, good producing well. Owner will carry. Broker will help show. Offered at $349,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com
JBPM@<N :89@E 12 Gorgeous AC, Off the Grid, in the heart of the Santa Cruz Mtns. Beautiful spot for a Large house. Comes with a stage that opens 40’ by 16’ +, (great for storage, the owner was thinking about an amphitheatre). The amazing landscape in a dreamlike environment, surrounded by Redwoods, Madrones, Oak Trees, and friendly terrain. You’ll never stop exploring & enjoying this unique piece of land, just 8 MI from town. Water & nice neighbors! Great Investment. Approx. 90 member, private Road Assoc. Broker will help show. Offered at $450,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com
KI<< ?L>><IJ :89@E u =<CKFE Storybook setting that boasts a rustic redwood getaway and a quintessential babbling brook. Here is a 1925 classic 2BR/2BA with traditional living room featuring wood beam ceilings and a brick fireplace. Additional features include charming builtin bookcases & drawers; original cabinetry & countertops, bonus room, inside laundry facility, and roomy front deck to accommodate your front yard forest. Possible dual rental opportunity with a 1BR/1BA upstairs and a Studio/BA w/private entrance downstairs. Blissfully quiet, and yet just a hop, skip and a jump to Felton’s quaint downtown restaurants, entertainment, schools & services. Walking distance to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. Offered at $219,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com
IF>L< I@M<I=IFEK FI<>FE Furnished 3 bedroom 3 bath 2100sf turnkey vacation home for rafting and Salmon fishing. $329,000 MLS # 52922592
<8JP 9I<<Q<J 8E; 9@> JB@<J 15 sprawling acres in Boulder Creek. This south facing ridge has “a peaceful easy feeling...” The ridge terrain is soft and rolling - easy to walk with Beautiful Monterey Bay views. Enjoy Full sun and big mature trees - lots of Magestic Oaks. Just about 20 minutes to the property from a paved county road, then a 3 mile private road. No services or reports and gloriously off the grid. If easy breezes, bay views, soft air, big skies are what you dream about ... Come visit this beautiful parcel. Some owner financing available. Offered at $625,000. Shown by appointment only. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-3955754 www.donnerland.com
E@E8 ;<C@>?K u 9FLC;<I :I<<B Seller says this is one of the last buildable properties in Nina Heights! A little piece of Southfacing magic, high up on a hill. This haven is surrounded by trees and good neighbors. Just a few minutes to the post office or grocery store in this quaint little town. Pavement, power at the street, and city water. Sun and view await you. Owner financing Available. Offered at 225,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com
<E; F= IF8; GI@M8:P Å CFJ >8KFJ Feel the breeze through the trees from these Breathtaking Sanctuary Acres. Flat and spacious with Beautiful Oak trees, Giant Redwoods, Turkeys and Deer. It’s just too pretty to describe. Excellent location, just minutes to town. Already has Well, Phone & Power. Septic Perc. test completed. Offered at $750,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com
IFL>? 8E; KLD9C< Bring your dreams. Travel 3 miles in, on a private road to a bit of the forest to call your own. This 8 AC parcel is pretty much untouched. Approx. 90 member, private Road Assoc. Broker will help show. Offered at $350,000. Broker will help show. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com
G<I=<:K G<I:? Approx. 1/2 acre located in Boulder Creek with Stunning Views and many lovely Redwoods. Design your dream home for this unique property. Already has water, power at property line, Approved septic plan, soils report, and survey. Plans Approved & Building permit ready to issue. Easy drive to town, yet feels private. Shown by appointment only. Offered at 198,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland.com
)0' 8:I<J DK D8;FEE8 Come explore 290 acres consisting of 11 meandering parcels varying in size from 18 acres to 40 acres. This sprawling land is rough and rugged, ideal for your quads and dirt bikes or saddle up the horses and have your own Lewis and Clark Expedition. Massive, yet pretty much untouched acreage with Timber possibilities. If you appreciate land that is sprinkled with springs, warmed by lots of sun, and has views as far as the eye can see, consider this beautiful spread. Excellent owner financing is available with just 20% down, the seller will carry at 6%. Inquiries welcome. Offered at $1,150,000. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www.donnerland. com
8N8P =IFD @K 8CC Perched right on top of a little ridge, come and experience sunrise serenade, birds singing and delicious mountain air. 5 AC with canyon views and redwoods. Plenty of room for parking, storage and gardening. House with one bedroom, loft, tiled white bathroom with tub and bonus sunroom with deck. Many upgraded Amenities. Shown by appointment only. Offered at 295,000. Call Debbie @ Donner
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At Mountain View’s Polyvore.com startup, Google and Yahoo vets help users make their own fashion statement By JENNIFER ELIAS
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N THE HEART of downtown Mountain View, a startup company is shaking up the fashion world. With more than 10 million monthly users, Polyvore.com has become a major network for online taste makers. On the site, users can create virtual fashion collages by dragging individual pictures of retail item images into a box and then sharing the results on social-networking sites—and commenting on trends and sets of other users.
Passionate about democratizing fashion, founders Pasha Sadri and Jess Lee have given Polyvore.com’s community of users the ability to realize easily their own design ideas from a wide choice of items, many of them at high-end prices that would make them untouchable in the real world. “We’ve empowered them to have a voice just by giving them this tool to express themselves and creating trends,” Lee explains. Users’ “sets” often riff off current events, like a fashion showdown between Paris Hilton or Katherine Heigl in identical leather-trim capes. A posting after the passing of Steve Jobs featured the Apple co-founder’s picture along with visually resonant clothing items and images of iPads. Polyvore’s staff is a small team of 20, consisting of former Google and
Yahoo employees—mostly female engineers. The team had a hand in the 2011 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week by holding a contest for women’s clothing designer Rebecca Minkoff. One Polyvore contest winner was able to redesign Minkoff ’s classic “Morning-After Clutch.” Another user, Amy (known on Polyvore as shotpink), won a trip to New York, where she helped style Minkoff ’s runway show at the Lincoln Center in New York—a first in Fashion Week. Stories such as Amy’s are what impressed former White House correspondent Jennifer Yuille to join the Polyvore team. “Stories like this happen all the time on Polyvore,” she says. “It truly is a unique opportunity to give anyone a real experience in the fashion industry.”
Each morning, community manager Nadia Hussain surveys submissions and tweets from users. “Tweets come from multiple audiences, from online members to brands and retailers,” Hussain explains. Aside from millions of users, Polyvore’s website boasts an average of 10 minutes per user, compared to the one to two minutes on an average website. Its staying power has attracted major paid partnerships with retailers such as Bergdorf Goodman. Among its biggest collaborations is with Fashion’s Night Out, which took place on Sept. 8, 2011. “We’ve tried to provide the same experience that one might have at a Fashion’s Night Out celebration in 16 countries in a single virtual venue,” Yuille says. Co-founder Jess Lee credits Polyvore’s progress to her experiences at tech neighbor Google. “Oftentimes, when we have a new feature, we have an ‘A-B experiment’ where approximately 5 percent of users will see a particular feature and everyone else won’t see it. And we’ll compare the behavior between the two groups.” Surpassing even such brand sites as Vogue.com and Style.com, the realtime fashion generator has become one of the largest fashion resources on the web, coming a long way from the original foursome squatting in a friend’s office. Polyvore works to maintain personal relationship with their community members even as it expands. Outside of the virtual community, Polyvore hosts meet-up events for Bay Area users, including Taco Tuesdays at the Mountain View offices. Despite the honorary experience of visiting Vogue’s offices and meeting fashion editorial queen Anna Wintour, Lee says that her favorite encounter thus far was at Fashion Week. “One Polyvore winner had never left Detroit, and she helped design a bag for Rebecca Minkoff and later walked the runway. It was so rewarding to see the excitement on her face,” Lee says. “That is the best part of it all.”
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