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A small army of those kind of people could be coming to San Jose on Friday. The Topeka, Kansas–based Westboro Baptist Church, notorious for picketing at the funerals of
American soldiers because its members believe God is punishing the country for condoning homosexuality, has announced plans to stage a protest outside of San Jose’s Gunderson High School this Friday. The church says it’s coming to San Jose because Gunderson is staging a production of The Laramie Project, a play that tells the true story of the murder of a young gay man in 1998. As word spreads around the valley, counterprotests are being mobilized on social networking sites. Meanwhile Gunderson teachers and school district administrators are praying for a no-show. Surprisingly, Gunderson’s drama director, Trish Buttrill, isn’t one of those people.
Buttrill has been in contact with Westboro’s leadership via email. While she said she doesn’t believe the group will really make good on its vow to come to San Jose, she says the visit would be an excellent opportunity for her students to see the First Amendment in action. “I think it will be great, because the more people see them, the more they’re exposed,” Buttrill says. “They’re more of a hate group than a church.” The play, which will run through Friday, March 4, dramatizes the viewpoints of a variety of people in Laramie, Wyo., where the brutal murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard took place. On a fateful autumn night, Shepard was offered a ride home from a bar by two men before being tortured and strung him up to a rural fence. He was left there for dead for no other reason than he was gay. The Laramie Project has become a staple for high school and college theater productions. It offers lessons not just about
In an email that Buttrill said she received in correspondence with Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of WBC founder Fred Phelps, the drama teacher was told: “You will feed those children lies, and watch gleefully while they sprint to hell. You hate those children.” The email closes with a sign-off that is cordial and apocalyptic in the same breath: “Magormissabib. Your destruction is imminent. Thanks for writing.” “Mahormissabib” may seem like gibberish, or the equivalent of writing in tongues, but the word is actually found in the bible (just once). It means “fear on every side.” And fear is the message Westboro is trying to send, says Don Fugate, a senior pastor at Foxworthy Baptist Church who used to help orchestrate musicals at Gunderson. “I just wish they wouldn’t call themselves a church,” he says of the Westboro congregation. “It’s more of a cult of hate than a gospel. I really wish the IRS would revoke their taxexempt status. It gives us all guilt by association, because we’re Baptist and they say they’re Baptist. But however many letters there are in the word Baptist—that’s where it ends.” The decision to perform The Laramie Project was Buttrill’s. Openly gay for quite some time, the teacher says her department had performed “a bunch of fluffy pieces over the years.” A production of more substance was in order. “I got very concerned about the spate of teen suicides,” Buttrill says, “so I thought this was a great moment to bring The Laramie Project to Gunderson.” The San Jose Unified School District has been bracing for the possibility of a protest for almost two months now. Superintendent Vince Matthews sent out an email to board members on Jan. 15 warning that a hostile environment could be on the horizon. Since that time, Buttrill says, she has received nothing but support from school and district administrators, as well as some parents of students in the play. Pam Foley, a member of the
Thespians and Hackers Beth Reyes, 17, is playing four roles in the play and has a greater investment than many of the other students involved. She is the president of Gunderson’s Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), which actively works to build tolerance and understanding of students regardless of sexual preference. Over the course of rehearsals, Reyes says, she has broken down several times, shaking with tears even when the role didn’t require them. “We’ve seen pictures of Matthew Shepard. We’ve formed relationships with these characters,” Reyes says. “When we heard that church was going to be here it was like a slap in the face.” Armando Nieves, 17, is a senior like Reyes and will also be playing four roles. He is respectful, but there is an intensity that flicks on when he talks about the potential protest. “They do have the right to come and protest our play,” Nieves says, “but their hate is not welcome.” The disapproval of the WBC’s demonization of homosexuals and self-aggrandizing ways seems to have reached its zenith. All of the church’s web domains, which include www. GodHatesFags.com, are currently out of order due to the work of hackers. A “hacktivist” named The Jester is credited with the initial sabotage, while a group called Anonymous, famous for its activities in support of the WikiLeaks operations, recently gloated about its ability to dismantle the WBC’s operations at any time. “Your continued biting of the Anonymous hand . . . has earned
you a swift and emotionless bitchslap in the form of this very message,” Anonymous wrote in a post on the WBC’s website, which has since been taken down. “Despite having had the capability to hack your sites previously, we chose not to and instead responded maturely to your threats, but you have not respected this. For this unremitting display of overzealousness, we award you no points. Take this defacement as a simple warning: go away. The world (including Anonymous) disagrees with your hateful messages, but you have the right to voice them. This does not mean you can jump on Anonymous for attention. “God hates fags: assumption. Anonymous hates leeches: fact.”
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Multiple attempts to contact the church have gone unanswered. Some wonder if the church has gone into sleeper mode or if it really is losing its ability to coordinate with its communication forums under attack. Email, however, still provides a medium for Westboro’s message. “By indulging this filthy fancy called the Laramie Project, you teach them God is a liar, and it’s OK to be gay. Those are two soul-damning twin lies,” PhelpsRoper wrote. “When these children die young . . . their blood will be on your hands. When you awake in hell, they will greet you on the streets.” Buttrill welcomes a confrontation with the author of that email. She says a no-show would prove Westboro lacks the faith to stand behind its convictions.
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school district board, is proud of the Gunderson drama department. “It’s a horrific story, and given the publicity of bullying of gay students, the fact that they have the guts to put on a project like this is remarkable and commendable,” Foley says. City Councilmember Nancy Pyle, whose district includes Gunderson, calls the WBC a “wacko group” and says she hopes people attend Friday’s counterprotest in support of the students. “This young man died needlessly, and he died because of a hate crime,” Pyle says. “They’re trying to combat that and they’re trying to set a model for all of us to follow. I think it’s phenomenal.”
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High School Basketball Heats Up If there is one high school basketball player in the Bay Area worth paying the admission price to see, it’s Archbishop Mitty’s Aaron Gordon. The silky smooth 6-foot-7 sophomore can play virtually any style and is already considered one of the best players in the country. If he can help the top-ranked Monarchs (242) get by Palo Alto in Tuesday’s division semifinal, Gordon and company will face the winner of Leigh and St. Francis at 8:30pm Friday at Santa Clara University. Last year, Gordon made several huge plays to help Mitty beat St. Francis 56-50 for a CCS championship.
Sharks Can’t Take Anything for Granted Inaction around the trade deadline usually means one of two things: a general manager is comfortable, or he didn’t find anything enticing. In San Jose GM Doug Wilson’s case, it would seem to be the former option. No team in the NHL is hotter right now than the Sharks, winners of six straight entering Tuesday’s game. But the club’s six-game homestand won’t get any easier with a 7:30pm date Thursday with the Detroit Red Wings, followed by a Saturday matchup against the Dallas Stars. Currently third in the Western Conference, San Jose remains just a couple of poor results from falling into 10th place. As left winger and all-around badass Ryan Clowe said this week: “It feels like we won 10 games in a row and somehow we lost ground.” At one point will it become all right to make the comparison to a certain local team’s recent run to a tortuous title? OK, nevermind.
SJSU Hoops Finishing Strong, Baseball Heating Up Storming the court has become about as clichéd as coaches using mixed sports metaphors. But last week’s televised victory over New Mexico State was pretty special for the San Jose State men’s basketball team. With a 72-70 win in overtime, SJSU (15-12) showcased scorer extraordinaire Adrian Oliver, possibly saved coach George Nessman’s job and came one step closer to securing a winning final record for the first time since 1993. Beating Hawaii in the final home game at 7:30pm Thursday would lock up the positive ledger. But it’s not just the cagers who have been strong of late. SJSU baseball came out of the gates swinging by taking two out of three last week against No. 2–ranked UCLA, putting the Spartans at 6-1. SJSU will be in action this weekend when it hosts two-of-three in a series with Santa Clara.
Stanford Can’t Stop With a Pac 10 title, the No. 2–ranked Stanford women’s basketball team could take it easy until tournament time. But the Cardinal didn’t nail down its 11th straight outright conference championship by hitting the snooze button. Motivation is rarely lacking for Stanford when it comes to any form of the Big Game, which will begin at 8pm Thursday when Cal comes to town. The contest isn’t expected to be competitive exactly— the Bears lost the first matchup by 33—but it might serve as another link in a historic chain of victories. Stanford broke a program record for wins in a row at Maples Pavilion Saturday by reaching 60 straight with a 39-point whipping of Oregon.—Josh Koehn
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whole w hole llot ot of of cherries. cherries. More More on on him him in in a second. second. Up U p ffront, ront, I must must tell tell you you that that Zürich Zürich iss officially a sister city citty of San Francisco. Franccisco. A lthough I have have no no idea idea how how that that Although p articular relationship relationship started, started,, I can can an say saay particular tthat hat Z ürich is is more more than than n well well suited suited for for Zürich su uch an affiliation. In fact,, everywhere eveerywheere such I ambled ambled in in the the cosmopolitan cosmopolitan city, city, I d iscovered p laces tthat hat would would make mak ke at at discovered places lleast easst a ffew ew S an F ranciscans p roud to to be be San Franciscans proud si ibling cities with Zürich. Zürich. sibling F or example, example, iin n Zürich, Zürich, one one finds finds For R estau uran nt H iltl, the the oldest oldest vegetarian vegetarian Restaurant Hiltl, rrestaurant e aurant in Europe. est Europe. Ambrosium Ambrosium H iltl opened opened the the place place in in 1898, 1898, and and Hiltl R olf Hiltl,, the fourth o four o th generation in Rolf tthe he ffamily, aam mily, ccurrently urrently operates operates the the m multistor ablishment,, which multistoryy est establishment, iincludes ncludes a bar, bar, a quick-eats quick-eats cafe cafe and and a n nightclub upst airs. upstairs.
T he rrestaurant estaurant p roper b oasts Z ürich’s The proper boasts Zürich’s lar rggest salad sala bar items, largest bar,, with aat least 40 items, p lus an n eentire ntire Indian Indian n buffet. buff ffeet. H undreds plus Hundreds of items grac n menu. F or gracee the main For tthe he b uff ffeet, o ne jjust ust walks wal alks up, up, ggrabs rabs buffet, one w hatever o ne w aan nts aand nd tthen hen p roceeds whatever one wants proceeds tto o tthe he ccounter, ounter, where where tthe he p late gets gets plate w eighed. Customers Customers are are ccharged harged weighed. based on how much ffood ood the ey pile up they up.. U tensils t ar provvided after aft fter one pays. paayys. Utensils aree provided T he eeatery atery rrocks ocks m orning, noon noon The morning, aand nd night—suits night—suits occupy occupy tables tables right right ne ext x to lo caals rreading eading the th he newspapers. newspapers. next locals M ore tthan han 330 0 cchefs, hefs, aalong long w ith more more More with tthan han n 1100 00 eemployees, mployees, sserve erve m ore tthan han more 11,000 ,000 p eople p er d ay. C ooking cclasses lassses people per day. Cooking ar ffeered in English on o a regular regular basis, basis, aree off offered aand nd aanyone nyone ccan an n rrequest equest a ttour our o he off tthe kitchen in advanc e. If it’s itt’s possible possible to be be advance. fashionable dish an nd vegetarian, veget e arian, fashionable,, mo modish and Hiltl proves proves e it. N ext, jjust ust a five-minute five-minute amble am mble across accross Next, the riv ver e br ought me to o Spiegelgasse 1, river brought tthe he C abarret V oltaire, tthe he vvery ery ssame am me Cabaret Voltaire, building where where Hugo Ball, B , et al., llaunched au unched the the Dada Dada aart rt movement movement in 1916. I arrived arrivved e the day daay after Ball w ould have have b een 1125 25 years yearrs old. old. A would been paradoxic al nihilistic an narcho-politicalparadoxical anarcho-political-
ccabaret abaret fusi ion of antiw waar pr opaganda, fusion antiwar propaganda, sound-p sound poettry, noise t-demolition sound-poetry, noise,, ar art-demolition p hilosophy, cculture-jamming, ulture-jamming, ssocial ociall philosophy, critique an nd intentional nonsense and nonsense,, D ada’s iinfluence nfluence rreverberated everberated Dada’s tthroughout hroughout tthe he 2 0th ccentury. entury. A ny 20th Any C alifornia m etropolis w ould b roud California metropolis would bee p proud of a sister r-cit c ty cconnection onnection with Z ürich. sister-city Zürich. B ut w hy sstop top tthere? here? G oing But why Going eeven ven ffurther, urther, o ne ccan an n ttoss oss iin n tthat hat one Swit zerland d,, in general,, is also wher Switzerland, wheree absinthe LSD and the W o orld W ide i absinthe,, L World Wide W eb e wer Web weree all originally launched. The ccountry ountrry is wher wheree the Maharishi M ahesh Y ogi eestablished stab blished h is gglobal loball Mahesh Yogi his h eadquarters an nd sset et u pau niversity headquarters and up university ffor or o Transc e endent al Medit ation. Who Transcendental Meditation. wouldn ’t w ant a to b wouldn’t want bee sister cities with one of thes se plac es? these places? F rom Z ürich, jjust ust a 330-minute 0-minute ttrip rip From Zürich, o n an nu ltra-timely S wiss ttrain rain b rings on ultra-timely Swiss brings one to Z ugg. Chef Stefan Meier is ab out Zug. about to b ecome the ne xt thr ee-monthbecome next three-monthffeatured eatured cchef hef iin n tthe he ““SWISS SWISS T aasste o Taste off Swit zerland d Pr ogram” of that ccountry’s ountry’s Switzerland Program” airline ich go es b S, airline,, whi which goes byy the name SWIS SWISS, iin n al ll ccapitals. ap pitals. S WISS tteams eams u pw ith all SWISS up with a lleading ead ding cchef hef ffrom rom a d iff ffeerent rregion egion different of Swit tzerla z and eevery ver e y thr ee months Switzerland three to pr esent that t rregion’s egion’s gastr onom my present gastronomy aaboard boarrd iits ts fl ights. R estaurant H iltl flights. Restaurant Hiltl ccontinuously ontinuously ssupplies upplies vvegetarian egetarian d ishes dishes onb oard. I w as a luck ky enough to b onboard. was lucky bee in nvited v to tthe pr ess eevent veent in Z ug. invited press Zug. O n a sside ide n ote, Z ug iiss aalso lso tthe he rrichest ichest On note, Zug plac witzerland,, due to eextremely xtremely placee in Sw Switzerland, low ttax ax rat tes. W ithout i eexaggeration, xaggeration, rates. Without tthousands housands o ransnational off ttransnational ccorporations orporation ns ha ave set up shop in Z ug, have Zug, eeven veen if it m means just running a postal postal addr ess ab ove someone ’s rrestaurant. estaurant. A address above someone’s Ass a rresult, esult, tthere here iiss n ow a m ovement tto o now movement rreturn eturn Z ug b ack tto o iits ts ag gricultural rroots oots Zug back agricultural iin n ccherries. herries. A ccommon-interest ommon-interest ggroup roup llaunched aunched tthe he p roject ““1,000 1,000 ccherry herry project ttrees rees ffor or Z ug” T he ggroup roup iiss p art o he Zug” The part off tthe lo cal or gan nization WE ARE ZUG local organization ZUG,, and iiss ccommitted ommitted tto o tturning urning tthe he ttown own o off Z ug back in nto an agricultural town. Zug into Which rreminded eminded me of San JJose—a ose—a fformer ormer aagricultural griculturall ttown own n ow ggone one now mo dern. So o just lik ke her ose, modern. like heree in San JJose, Z ug b egan w ith ag griculture, an nd ssome ome Zug began with agriculture, and p eople w ish iitt ccould ould h ave sstayed tayed tthat hat people wish have w ay. I tthink hink I ssee ee aanother nother sister cit way. cityy on the hor rizon. If San Francisc o ccan an horizon. Francisco ttwin win i it itself lff with ith Z ü i h I thi ürich, think kS San Zürich, JJose ose ccan an att least b ug. bee a sister of Z Zug.
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Th iinfuriating The f i i b banality ban nalit li y off it i all ll is that after your your onlyy debit card card was w as deactivated on a Dominican D Dominic an Republic vacation R eepublic vac ation when when you you used the resort’s resort’s A ATM T TM M (yeah, (yeah, that happened after happ ened to me),, afte er a Russian Russian u American rican thief or Ukrainian or Amer MasterCard number sold yyour our MasterC ard numb er and eexpiration xpiration date ffor o or $2 $20, 0, some cokedcokedup chickie bought bought a Louis Louis Vuitton Vuit u tton t purse with it at a Costa Costta Mesa mall. Cybercriminal-turned-technology C ybercriminal-turned-technology journalist K Kevin evin P Poulsen oulseen probed probed the hacker er un underground—as depths of the hack nderground—as only o nly o one ne w who’s ho’s be been en tthere here //done done tthat hat cyberthriller ccan—in an—in an epic cyb erth hriller released released tthis his m month, onth, K Kingpin: ingpin: H How ow O One ne Hacker Took Hack er T ook Over Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Cyb ercrime Underground. Undergrou und. (Cr (Crown). own). Moree infuriating than Mor th han that coke coke tramp charging charging up your your o cr credit edit limit—or limit — or the ethic ethically allyy challenged nerd ner d selling your your mom’s mom m’s birthday—is birthdaay— —is the expedient expedient decision n by by some suit driv driven en to work att a Manhattan Manhattan skyscraper sk yscraper in a T Town own o Car Car to sa save ave a ffew ew bucks at your your expense. expense. ““That’s That’s a lloaded oaded q question, uestion,” Poulsen Poulsen ssaid aid this this week, week, when when I asked asked him him whether w hether ssecurity ecurity h has as iimproved mproved ssince ince tthe he IInternet’s nternet’s cow-roping cow-roping days, days, the the first first decade-and-a-half dec ade-and-a-half A. B. B. (After (After Browser). Browser). “The financial institutions instittutions made a decision that the cost cosst of fraud is acceptable. ac ceptable. The Theyy decid decided ded against rreplacing eplacing the magnetic magnetiic strip with a chip and a PIN because becausse it would be be too to o expensive,” expensive,” P Paulsen aulseen said. Kind of mak makes es Joe Joe Cardholder Cardholder want w ant to take take up hacki hacking ing card card
pr ocessors when he hears that. And processors the Feds Feds se eemed to have haave thr own seemed thrown down the sandbags for fo or banks that wer o llazy azy or cheap to follow fo ollow weree to too their own pr ocedures. You You o know procedures. those threethree- and ffour-digit our o - digit codes codes ecommerce mer chants ask you you that ecommerce merchants ffor or eevery o very time t you buy some hand you cr eam from from m an 800 800 number? number? Turns Turns cream out that th hey weren’t weren’t even even checking they th them, ac cor o ding di to t Poulsen’s Poulsen l ’s brilliant b illi t according har dcover. Which left a security security hardcover. hole big en nough to drive drive a made-formade-ffor oenough scr een-righ hts plot line through. through. screen-rights Still,, it ’s a crime to steal or it’s tr espass, even even if the garage door’s door’s trespass, op en, and no matter matttter how dumb open, or negligen nt the victim. Kingpin negligent sk etches a pitched battle battle between between sketches the colorful colorfu ul hacker hacker worlds and the mo dern day daay J. J. Edgar Hoovers Hoovers who modern chase, chase h , arrest arrest e and d jail j il them. h P oulsen’s n ew boo k ffocuses ocuses o o n Poulsen’s new book on Vision’s V ision’s ttwo wo n non-trivial on-trivial brushes brushes with the la aw. Poulsen Poulsen covered covered Max law. Butler B utler ak aka ka Max Max Vision’s Vision’s fi first rst ttrial rial aatt the the Federal Federall Courthouse Courthouse in in S an San JJose ose in 2000. 2000. “Max was was based in the S outh Bay Bay aand nd ccame ame tto o ffame aam me ass a South ssecurity ecurity rresearcher esearrcher and and was was one one o off the good good guys” g ” until he hacked hacked into a sstring tring of of D Department eparrtment of of Defense Defense ccomputers omputers aand nd lleft eft n otes aadvising dvising notes ssystem ystem adm administrators ministrators of their servers’ serveers’ vvulnerabilities. ulnerabilities. Poulsen Poulsen says says h hee aattended ttended tthe he proceedings proceedings “not “not h having aving a hint of where w e his lif wher fe was was going to life ggo o llater. ater.” The The author au uthor says says that that the the fact fact tthat hat Butler Butler “t hrew it it all alll away away in in a “threw whimsical whimsical attempt… atttempt… t fascinated me. me.” P oulsen n himself had tossed a Poulsen ccareer areer with h SRI to the wind and in 19 95 was was a sentenced sentenced by by a federal federal e 1995 judge in San Saan Jose Jose to the longest sentenc ever giv en up until that sentencee ever given p oint for for o ccracking into computer computer point ssystems. ystems. P o oulsen todaay works as a Poulsen today senior editor edittor at Wired Wiired News, News, focused focused on cyb ercrrime, privacy, privacyy, defense deffense e cybercrime, mat ters an nd politics. politics. matters and P oulsen n says saays y he own experiences experiences Poulsen “lent perspective” persp pective” to his yarns ab out about V iision’s esc capades and acknowledges Vision’s escapades that he had haad “more “more technical technical background back groun nd than the average average rreporter,” eporter,” which w lent depth and authenticity authentici ity to his ac account. count. Poulsen P oulsen h had ad al also lso b bumped umped iinto nto FBI agent J. J. K Keith eith Mularski,, whom he later lea arned was was running a sting learned sserver erver ffor or ““carders” carders” w ho b ought an nd who bought and vvended illeegal credit credit card card numbers. numbers. ended illegal
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Here, H ere, he he wasn’t wasn’t Max Max Butler, Butler, the the small-town small-town troublemaker troublemaker driven driven by by obsession life-changing violence, wasn’t Vision, o bsession to a moment of o lif fe-changing violenc e, and he w asn n’’t Max V iisio on, the tth he sself-named elf-named ccomputer omputer ssecurity ecurity expert expert paid paid o one ne hundred hundred d dollars ollars aan nh hour our tto o harden networks Silicon Valley Ass he rrode elevator, h har den the net works of Silic S on V aalleey ccompanies. ompaniess. A ode up the ele vaator, Max M ax b became ecame someone someone else: else: “Iceman”—a “Iceman”—a rising rising leader leader in in a ccriminal riminal economy economy rre esponsible ffor o or billions of o dollars in thefts fr om Americ A an ccompanies ompanies and d responsible from American consumers. cco onsumers. And Ic Iceman eman w was as ffed eed up up. p. For F or months months,, he he’d ’d b been een p popping opping mer merchants chants ar around ou und the ccountry, ountry, pr prying ying o piles of cr out credit edit ccard ard nu numbers umbers that should ha have ave b been een wor worth th hundr hundreds eds of o thousands on tth housands o n tthe he black black market. market. But But the the market market was was broken. broken. Two Two yyears ears eearlier arlier Secret S ecret S Service ervice aagents gents had had driven driven a virtual virtual bulldozer bulldozer through through tthe he ccomputer omputer underworld’s u nderworld’s llargest argest ggathering athering spot, spot, arresting arresting the the ringleaders ringleaders at at ggunpoint unpoint aand nd ssending ending e the rrest est scurr scurrying yin ng into chat rrooms ooms and sm small-time mall-time W Web eeb fforums—all o orums— —all rriddled iddled i with securit securityy hol holes les and cra crawling awling w with ffeds ed eds and snitches snitches.. It w was as a mess m mess.. Whether W hether they they knew knew it it or or not, not, the the underworld underworld needed needed a strong strong leader leader tto ou unify nify f tthem. h hem. To T o bring or order. der. walked Off tthe he elevator, elevator, Max Max idled idled in in the the hallway hallway to to check check for for a ttail, ail, tthen hen w alked tto o his his aapartment partment door door aand nd eentered ntered the the oppressive oppressive warmth warmth of of tthe he rented rented studio. Heat was sst tudio. H eat w as the the biggest biggest problem problem with with tthe he safe safe house. house. The The sservers ervers and and 22
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“I chat chatted tted t informally infformally o with him for w fo or a ffew ew minutes. minutes. When I wrote w ote the book, wr book, I had a fac facee to go with the t name. name. Hee was who H was the the llast asst gguy uy w ho I tthought hought would w ould b bee M Master aster S Splynter, plynter,” tthe he o online nline profanity-spouting ofanitty-spouting handle for for o the pr administrator of the D DarkMarket a arkMark et website. no ccybercrime ybercrime w ebsite. “I “I had had n o hint hint at all that he was was undercover underrcover and was running it. He w as a pretty prettty slick.” Vision V iision i was was crafty ft as well. ll “He “H had h d hacked DarkMarket hack ed into D arkMark ket and figured figured out that the administr administrator rator was was a fed.” fed. e ”
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MAX BUTLER 21 laptops cram crammed mmed into the spac spacee pr produced oduc d ed a sswelter welter that pulsed He’d brought over p ulsed tthrough hrough the the rroom. oom. H e’d b rought iin n ffans ans o ver tthe he summer, summer, but but tthey hey p rovided sscant cant rrelief elief aand nd llofted ofted provided tthe he electric electric b ill sso oh igh tthat hat tthe he aapartment partment m anager bill high manager ssuspected uspected him him o unning a h ydroponic d ope ffarm. arm. B ut off rrunning hydroponic dope But iitt w as just just the the machines, machines, entwined entwined iin naw eb of of ccables, ables, tthe he was web m ost iimportant mportant ssnaking naking tto o a ggiant iant p arabolic aantenna ntenna most parabolic aimed out th he window lik er rifle rrifle.. the likee a snip sniper Shrugging off his disc omffo ort, discomfort, Max sat at h is k eyboard and his keyboard ttrained rained a b ead o n tthe he W eb bead on Web fforums orums o wher re ccomputer omputer where ccriminals riminals ggathered athered aatt vvirtual irtual ccantinas antinas with h names lik likee D arkMarket aand nd T alkCash. F or DarkMarket TalkCash. For ttwo wo d ays, h acked, h is fi ngers days, hee h hacked, his fingers fl ying aatt p reternatural sspeed peed aass flying preternatural he br eached the sites’’ def feenses, breached defenses, stealing theirr ccontent, ontent, lo g-ins, log-ins, pass words an nd ee-mail -mail addr esses. passwords and addresses. He finished d with a ffew ew k eystrokes that that w iped o ut tthe he keystrokes wiped out sites’’ dat abasses with the ease of databases aan n aarsonist rsonist fl icking a m atch. O n flicking match. On A ugust 16, 16 2 006, 6 he dispatched August 2006, an unap ologetic g mass ee-mail -mail unapologetic to the denize ens of the sites he ’d destr royed: They Theey wer denizens he’d destroyed: weree all now mem mbers of Ic eman n’s own C ardersmarket.com, members Iceman’s Cardersmarket.com, suddenly thee lar gest criminal mark ettplace in the world, largest marketplace six thousand d users str ong and the on nly game in town. strong only W ith o ne stroke, stroke, M ax h ad u ndermined yyears ears o areful With one Max had undermined off ccareful llaw aw eenforcement nforcement w ork aand nd rrevitalized evitalized a b illion- dollar work billion-dollar criminal und derworld. underworld. In R u ussia and a Ukraine u urkey and d Gr eat Brit ain, Russia Ukraine,, T Turkey Great Britain, and in apar t tments , offic es and house es acr oss Americ a, apartments, offices houses across America, ccriminals riminals w ould aawaken waken tto o tthe he aannouncement nnouncement o he would off tthe under ground’s first hostile ttakeover. akeover. Some of them k ept underground’s kept guns in theirr nightst ands to pr otect their t millions in nightstands protect stolen lo ot, but b the ouldn n’’t pr otectt themselv es fr om loot, theyy ccouldn’t protect themselves from this d Secr et Ser vice agents who w ’d sp ent months this.. FBI and Secret Service who’d spent o ears infiltrating infiltrating tthe he n ow- destroyed u nderground orr yyears now-destroyed underground fforums orums o wou uld rread ead the message with h equal disma ay, would dismay, and ffor o or a mo oment, all of them—hack king masterminds moment, them—hacking masterminds,, tthuggish huggish Russian Russian m obsters, m asters o ake iidentities dentities aand nd mobsters, masters off ffake tthe he cops cops ssworn worn tto o ccatch atch tthem—would hem—would b nified b bee u unified byy a single thoug ght. thought. Who is Ic e eman? Iceman?
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ACK HOME ACK HOME,, a tempt temptation atiion was was a waiting w aiting ffor or Max. Max. It It was wass one one line line of nin nine ne thousand ccomprising omprrising the Berkeley Berk kele e ey Internet Namee Domain, an ancient gir girder derr in the Internet Internet’s t’s infrastructur iinfrastructure. e. Developed with Developed iin n early early 11985 985 w ith a grant grant ffrom rom the P Pentagon, implemented entagon n, BIND implement ted the scalable Domain scalable Dom main Name System, a kind of distributed directory d telephone dir ecto ory that translates strings like Yahoo.com, striings lik ke Y aho a o.com m, which humans understand, undeerstand, into the numeric nu umeric addresses addresses the network nettwork w ccomprehends% ompreh hends% Without W iithout BIND BIND,, or one o of the ccompeting ompeting programs programs that that followed, fo ollowed, we’d we ’d be be getting gettting t our online on nline news news from 157.166.226.25 fr om 157 7.16 . 6.226.25 instead insstead of CNN. CNN. ccom om and visiting 74.125.67.100 74 4.125.67 5 .100 to perform Google searrch. p erform o a Go ogle search. BIND was was one of the the innovations innovations that made the explosive explosivve growth growth of the Internet possible. possible. But B it was was also one of the legacy programs progrrams that were were shaping up as the modern modern d Internet’s Internet’s biggest security security problem. probleem. The code code was w as a pr product oduct of a sim simpler mpler time, time, when the net network work w was ass cloister cloistered ed and threats thr eats were were ffew. ew. N Now ow w hackers hackers wer weree plumbing its depths and an nd coming coming back with a seemingly endless supply of security security holes. holes. Ah high igh priesthood priesthood o off n network etwork eexperts xperts ccalled alled tthe he IInternet nternet S Software oftware Consortium C onsortium aappointed ppointed tthemselves hemselves keepers k eepers of the code code and d had begun begun ffuriously uriously rrewriting ewriting it. it. But But iin n tthe he meantime,, the most modern, meantime m modern, sophisticated sophistic ated networks networkss in the world, with w ith sparkling sparrkling new new servers servers aand nd workstations, w orkstations, were were rrunning unning a b buggy uggy ccomputer omputer pr program ogram from from m another age. age. IIn n 1998, 1998, ssecurity ecurity eexperts xperts d discovered iscovered tthe he latest latest flaw flaw in in the the code. code. It It b boiled oiled
down tto down o tthat hat ssingle ingle line. line. IItt aaccepted ccepted aan n iinquiry nquiry ffrom rom the the IInternet, nternet, aass iitt sshould, hould, aand nd ccopied opied iitt b byte yte for for b byte yte iinto nto tthe he ttemporary emporary buffer buff ffeer iin n tthe he sserver’s erver’s m memory. emory. B But ut iitt d didn’t idn’t p properly roperly size data. check the siz ze of the incoming incoming dat a. Consequently, C onsequently, a h hacker acker ccould ould ttransmit ransmit a deliberately overlong query BIND d eliberately o verlong q uery to to a B IND sserver, erver, o overflow verflow tthe he buffer buff ffeer aand nd sspill pill d data ata into the rest restt of the computer’s computer’s memory memory like lik ke oil fr from rom om the E Exxon xxon Valdez. Valde a z. Performed P erformed haphazardly, hap phazzardly, such such an n aattack ttack would would cause cau use the the program program to to crash. But a careful careful hacker hacker could could do much worse. w worse .H Hee could could load the buffer buff ffeer with h his own small snippet snippet of executable executab ble computer computer code, code, tthen hen h hee ccould ould keep keep going, going, tripping tripping ccautiously autiously all a the way way to the top of tthe he program’s program m’s memory memory space, space, where where a special sp ecial short-term shorrt-term storage ar area ea resides. resides. Once O nce a hacker h er is in, he can hack can overwrite o verwrite the t “st “stack” ack”” with the location lo cation off his own malicious payload. pa ayload. y When W the computer computer is done with the current current subroutine, subroutine, it rreturns eturns not n to where where it began began but to the hack hacker’s ker’s instruction—and
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MAX BUTLER 23 because BIND runs under because un nder the all-powerful all-p owerful administrative administrative “r “root” oot” account, ac count, the attacker’s attacker’s code code does does as well. The computer computer is now under the hacker’s hack er’s ccontrol. ontrol. Two T wo w weeks after Ma Max ax and Kimi’ss wedding Kimi’ wedding,, the governmentgo overnmentffunded unded Computer Computer Emergency Emergency Response R esp e onse Team Team e at Carnegie Carrnegie Mellon University—which U niversity— —which which run runs ns a kind of Emergency E mergency Broadcast Broadcasst System System ffor or security securit ty holes—issued an aler alertt ab about out the fla flaw, aw, along with a link l to the ssimple imple fix: fix: two two additional ad dditional lines lines o off ccomputer omputer code. code. But CERT CE ER RT packaged packaged its aler alertt with two two other otheer BIND vulnerabilities that were weere of little litttle t cconsequence onsequence an and nd u understated nderstated tthe he importance imp ortance of the hole hole. e. C Consequently, onsequentlyy, appreciated not everyone everyo one appr eciaated the gravity graavvitty of the situation situation. understood perfectly. Max understo od p e feectlyy. er Hee rread H ead tthe he C CERT ERT aadvisory dvisory w with ith amazement. BIND am mazement. B IND ccame am me iinstalled nstalled sstandard tan ndarrd w with ith L Linux, inux, an and nd iitt rran an o on n servers ISP nonprofit, ser vers on corporate, corporate, IS SP P, nonpr ofit, educational, educ ational,, and military militar a y net networks. works. was And was IItt w as eeverywhere. veryywhere. A nd sso ow ass tthe he defective d efective lline ine o off ccode. ode. T The he o only nly thing thing holding back off h olding b ack a ffeeding eeding ffrenzy renzy o attacks at ttacks was was a that nob nobody ody d had written written program the hole.. a pr ogram to eexploit xploit th he security security hole But that w was as a just a mat matter ttter of time time.. Suree enough, on May Sur May 18, an eexploit xploit program program show showed wed up on a news ccomputer omputer security security ne w site run by ws by hobbyists. hobb yists. Max pick picked ed d up the phone and called called his FBI contact, con ntact, Chris Beeson, at home home.. The situation was was serious,, he explained. serious explained. An Anybody ybody who hadn’t hadn ’t installed installed the patch paatch could could now be be hack hacked ed by by an anyy script kiddy ccapable apable of downloadin downloading ng a program program and ttyping yping a command. comman nd. If histor historyy w was as a guide, guid de, go government vernment ccomputers omputers would be be particularly p ticularly par vulnerable.. JJust vulnerable ust a month mon nth earlier, earlier, a less serious bug in thee Sun Solaris operating op erating system system had led to a hacker hacker cracking computers computers att a dozen U.S. U.S. military milit ary bases bases,, in wha what at a deputy deputy defense def fense e secr secretary etary called calleed ““the the most organized or ganized and systematic systemaatic attack attack to date” d date t ” on Americ American A i an defense d fense de e systems. systems t . Those at attacks tacks had set off a fullblown cyber cyber warfare warfare false f alarm: The Pentagon Pentagon considered consideered Saddam Hussein the prime suspect susspect until investigators in vestigators traced traced the th he attacks attacks to a yyoung oung Israeli hacker hacker who w was was just playing pla aying y around. around.
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Max called callled Beeson again the next next day, da ay, when a hacker hacker group group named ADM rreleased eleaased a weaponized weaponized version version BIND of the BIN ND exploit exploit designed scan to sc an thee Internet at random looking lo oking for for o unpatched servers, servers, then break br eak in, install in nstall itself and use the newly ne wly compromised com mpromised computer computer as a platform moree br break-ins. plat fo orm ffor or o mor eak k-ins - . It was was a certainty certainty now that someone was was going to own own the entire entire Internet. It was w as just a question of who. who. Hee sshared H hared his his plans plan ns with with his his new new wife w ife in in boyish, bo oyish, excited excited tones. tones. Max Max would author auth hor his own BIND attack. atttack. His would hole H is version version w ould close close tthe he h ole eeverywhere veryywhere it it found found it, it, like like releasing releasing ssterile terile fruit fruit flies flies tto o tamp tamp down down an an would iinfestation. nfestation. He He w ould limit limit his his attack attack tto o tthe he ttargets argets most most in in need need of of an n emergency upgrade: emer gencyy security securitty up grade: U.S. U.S S. military sites.. milit ary and an nd civilian government go overnment sites “Don’t “Don ’t get g caught,” caught,”” said Kimi. Max was was a struggling with the binaryy nat nature binar ture of his personality: personality: the professional pr offeession nal married man with a stake st ake in the th he world around around him, and impulsive the impuls sive child tempted by by every every mischief. ccall all to mis chieff. The child won. His code codee would begin begin by by flinging virtual hook a vir tual grappling g hook through through the BlND hole, hole, eexecuting xecuting ccommands ommands that fforced or o ced d the machine to import import a 230-byte script. 230-b yte sc cript. Max’ss code Max’ code would accomplish accomplish what the government g vernment failed to do: It go upgrade the hacked would up g grade hacked computer computer to the latest lateest version version of BIND, BIND, closing the security securitty hole through through which it
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DXo fg\ DXo fg\e\[ g\e\[ k_\ [ffi f] _ [ i f] k_\ [ffi ] _`j JXe Afj\ _`j JXe A _` J AAfj\ [lgc\o kf [lgc\o k [ gc f ^i\\k :_i`j ^ ^i\\k :_ :_i`j ` 9 9\\jfe% %%%% % % 9\\jfe _X[ 9 9\\jfe _ _ _X[ [ X j\XiZ_ X j\XiZ_ nXiiXek%% The results results wer insttant. Max’ weree instant. Max’ss ccode ode was was designed to ssignal ignal its suc cess to his computer computeer over over the success V eerio dial-up, dial-up, so he could cou uld watch watch Verio th attack the atttack k spread. spread. d Hack H ked d machines hi Hacked ar ound the country country reported reported back around to him, a window popping popp ping up on his scr een for for o each one. one. Brooks Brrooks Air Force Force screen Base —now property property of o Max Vision. Vision. i Base—now McChor d,, Tinker, Tinker, Offutt, Offu uttt, t Scott, Scott, McChord, Maxwell, Kirtland, Kirtland,, Keesler, Keeesler, Robins. Robins o . His code code wormed into Air Force Force ser vers, Army Army computers, computeers, a machine servers, in the office office of a cabinet cabineet secretary. secretary. Each machine now had d a back door door that h M could ld use any an ny time i h Max could he w anted. wanted. Max was was notching up u military military cconquests onquests lik points in n a video likee points game code swept swept into the game.. When his code Na avy’ v s Internet space, space, it found found o Navy’s so man ny unpatched BIND D servers servers that many the str eam of pop-ups pop -ups turned into a stream
torr torrent. ent. Hi Hiss own computer computer struggled under the strain, s , then crashed. Max soon soon n realized realized that his at attacks ttacks wer weree get getting tin ng some attention. attention. A Att L Lawrence aw wrencce Berk Berkeley eley National L Laboratory, aboratory, a researcher researcher named Vern Veern P axson sp o ted Max’s ot Max’s scanning scanning using Paxson spotted a ne w ssystem ysteem he’d he’d developed. developed. new P axson wrote w ote a full report wr report on the Paxson at attack tack ffor or o C CERT. CER RT. Max intercepted intercepted it and was was impressed. im mpressed. The researcher researcher had not only on nly detected his attack, attack, he he’d ’d compiled compiiled a list of servers servers that Max’ Max’ss code codee was was attacking attacking through through L Lawrence aw wrence Berkeley’s B eley’s net Berk network. work. He sent Paxson Paxson n an anonymous anon nyymous note fr from om the lab’s laab’s root root ac account. count. V eern, Vern, I m sorr I’m ry to to have have caused you any sorry inc onveniience, but I single-handed inconvenience, fixed a MAJOR MA SECURIT TY GAPING SECURITY HOLE in many of your systems. syystems. I admit there theere were werre new new holes but these w ere all passworded, passworded, and I would would were ne ver cau use damage to to someone’s someone’s never cause ccomputer omputter er system. syst y em. If I didn’tt hit these, thesee, someone else w ould ha ve, and the ey would would hav would have, they havee bbeen een dirt t y. These kids leave leave warez warez dirty. and IRC IRC BS B laying everywhere, everrywher y e, and /bin/rm / bin/r b /rm systems syst y teems when they theey are are unhapp py. Lame. Lame. unhappy. Y oou migh appreciatte what I was was You mightt not appreciate doing g, bu as ffor oor the greater greatter e go od. doing, butt it w was good. I am abandoning aban ndoning all hosts on that list that you captured. c captur ed. . . . I am not touching touching those ssystems yystems since since I know you yoou turned them over over to to CER T. CERT CEER RT should h ld hi hire people people pl with ith CERT. hire my skill. Of O course, courrse se, if paid paid I would would ne ver leave leav ve rootkits rootkits or such. never Pr ett y cle ver though? Heh. It was was Pretty clever a blast. Owning O hundrreeds, nay hundreds, thousandss of systems, syysttems e s, and knowing that you were were FIXING them on the w ay . . . way Uhm, I’m m not ever ever doing this sort of shit hi again. again in. You You o hav h e my tools tools l now. now w. have That pisse es me off . . . pisses Hrm. Anyway Anyyway I just don’t want want this ttoo happ en n again, so I’m going to to let happen it lie . . . “The Cracker” Cracker”
With W iith that, Max shut down his h five- daay at five-day attack tack on the government, governm ment, with more more crack cracked ed systems systems behind beh hind him than he could could count. count. He was was satisfied that he he’d ’d made the Int Internet ternet safer saf fer e than it w was as b before; effor o e; thousa thousands ands of ccomputers omputers that had been been vulne erable vulnerable to eevery very hack er in the world we ere hacker were now vulnerable to only one: MaxVision. MaxV Vision. ision i Max immediately jumped jumped in into nto a new, new, mor moree so socially cially acceptable acceptablee project: pr oject: He would write a W Web eb e application applic ation that would let an anyone nyone o on the Internet request request an automa automatic atic rreal-time eal-time sc scan an of their net network work k to assess whether or not the theyy wer weree op en to the BIND at ttack. Lik open attack. Likee b effor o e, he would sc an government governm ment before, scan and military military net works. But networks. instead of cracking the vulnera able vulnerable ccomputers, omputers, he ’d automatic ally he’d automatically send an e-mail e-mail w arning to the warning administrators e’d b n administrators.. Ther There’d bee no need to hide behind behind a hacked hacked dial-up p ac count this time. time. Both services servicess account would live live on his brand-new brand-new pu ublic public website: Whitehats.com. Whitehats.com. After two two da ays y and nights of days work, he w as knee - deep in his new, n w, ne was knee-deep legal hacking project project when Bee eson Beeson ee-mailed -mailed mailed again eneed? again. “What happ happened? Thought you’d you’d send me e-mail.” e-mail.” M ax could could h ardly eexplain xplaiin to to h is F BI Max hardly his FBI ffriend riend tthat hat h e’d been been b usy sstaging tagging o ne he’d busy one o he llargest argest ggovernment overnment ccomputer omputer off tthe b reacches iin nh istory. So So h mphasized breaches history. hee eemphasized h is n ew p roject instead. instead. ““II am m al lmost his new project almost finished cr eating a public service service creating vulnerabilit scanner and patch h site— site— vulnerabilityy scanner but there there ar ts that aren’t arren’t aree some par parts rready eady ffor or o rrelease, elease,” he wr ote back. back k. wrote O th On afterno ft on off June June 2, Max M the afternoon op ened the door door of his San Jose Josee opened duple greet Chris Beeson and an nd duplexx to greet rregistered egistered inst antly that he was wass in instantly tr ouble: Ther ee othe trouble: Theree wer weree thr three otherr suits with the FBI agent,, includ ding including Beeson ’s surly boss, boss, P ete Trahan n, Beeson’s Pete Trahan, head of the computer computer crime squ uad. squad. The month after the BIND attack attack a had been been a busy busy time ffor or o Max. He launched Whitehats.com, Whitehats.com, and it i was was an instant i ant suc inst cess in i the h security securit ity success world. N obody in the community commun nity Nobody susp ected that Max V iision, the rising suspected Vision, st ar b ehind Whitehats .com, ha d star behind Whitehats.com, had p ersonally provided provided the brightest brighteest personally eexample xample of the seriousness of the th he BIND securit was als so securityy hole hole.. He was also
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had entered. entered. The computer comp puter would now be be safe saffe from from any any future f futur e attacks, atttacks, but Max, the benevolent benevoleent meddler, meddler, would still be be able to reenter reenter the ssystem ystem at will. Max was was a at once once fixing the problem problem and d exploiting exploiting it; he was was a black hat and d a white hat at the same time time.. Max was was still programming prograamming when the FBI got back to him m and asked asked ffor o or a full report report on thee BIND hole. hole. But the feds feds e had had their th heir chance; chance; Max’ss code Max’ code would sp speak eaak for for o him now.. He took now took a mome moment ent to crack a ccouple ouple of college college machines mach hines to use as a st staging aging ground, ground, then, th hen, on May Maay 21, a Tuesday, Tuesdaay, he dialed d the Internet thr ough a stolen Verio Veerio o account account . . . through and launched.
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continuing to continuing o ďŹ le reports reports to the FBI. After his last one, one, Beeson began began eemailing to arrange arrrange a casual casual meeting, meeting, supposedly osedly to Max’s latest supp o go over over Max’s ďŹ ndings.. “How ďŹ ndings “How ‘bout ‘bout if we just meet at yyour our place?â€? place?â€?â€? Beeson wrote. wrote. “I have know I ha ave the t address address somewhere somewhere around Now ar ound here.â€? here.â€? N ow that he was was on Max’s Max’s doorstep, doorsteep, Beeson explained explained why there. wh hy they they were werre rrealIy ealIy ther e. He knew kne w all about abou ut Max’s Max’s at attack tack on the Pentagon. P entagon. One ne of the men with him, On a yyoung oung Washington, Wash hington, DC-based DC-based Air Force F orce investigator in nvestiggator named Eric Smith, had traced traced the th he BIND intrusions to Max’ss house. Max’ house. Beeson had a search search warrant. w arrant. Maxx let them in, already already apologizing. apologizing. He H only meant to help, help, Theyy chat chatted he explained. explained. The ted amicably. amicablyy. Max,, happy happy for ffo or o an audience, audience, grew grew eexpansive, xpansive, describing describing the twists twists and turns of his attack attack and listening with interest interest as Smith described described how he’d he’d tracked traccked Max through through the p op -up messages messaages Max had used to pop-up alert alert himself when a system system was was sub verted: The Th he messages went to subverted: a Verio Verio e dial-up, dial-u up, and a subpoena subpoena to the ISP produced produced Max’s Max’s phone number. numb er. It hadn’t haadn’t been been difficult. Max had convinced con nvinc v ed himself he was w as doing d i something som mething hi positive positiv i i e for for o the Internet, so he hadn’t hadn’t done much to cover cover e his tracks. tracks. At At the agents’’ behest, behest,, Max wrote wrote out a Kimi came cconfession. onffession. e K came home from from school scho ol to ďŹ nd d the feds feeds still tossing Like the house. house. Lik ke grazing deer, deer, they they looked lo oked up in unison as she entered, entered, dismissed herr as unthreatening, unthreatening, and turned wordlessly w dlessly back to their wor work. When they they left, they they hauled Max’ss computer with Max’ compu uter equipment i ih the them. The door do oor closed,, leaving leaaving v newlyweds ne wlyweds alone allone in what was was left of home.. An their home A apology apology fformed ormed o on Max’ss lips. Max’ lips. Kimi mi cut him off angrily. angrilyy. Kim not “I told yyou ou no ot to get caught!â€? caught!â€? The couple’s coup ple’s rrelationship elationship was was suffering suff ffeering under und der the weight of the government’s governmeent’s silent looming looming presence pr esence in their th heir life. liffe. Before Beffor o e the raid, they they hadn’t had dn’t much planned ffor o or the future. future. Now Now they they couldn’t. couldn’t. futuree had The futur haad been been taken taken out of uncertainty their control, control,, and the unc ertainty was in private w as toxic. toxic. They Theey fought fought o snipped and snipp ed at a each other in public. public. “The reason reason I signed the confession conffession e because we’d is b ecause we e’d just gotten gotten married, didn’t want and I didn ’t w ant to hurt hurt you,â€? you,â€?â€? Max
said. himself, sa aid. He blamed himself f, he added. added d. Byy getting getting married,, he’d he’d given given hiss enemies en nemies a weapon weapon to use against him, fatal aw. transferred hi im, a fat al a aw. Kimi transf ferr e ed d from fr om De Anza College College to UC Berkeley, Be erkeley, and the ccouple ouple moved moved across livee just off campus. ac cross the bay baay to liv camp pus. The Th he move move proved proved ffortuitous or o tuitous ffor or o Max. M In n the spring of 2000, 2000, a Berkeley Berkeley Hiverworld offered ccompany o ompan y named Hiv erworld off ffeer e ed him hi im a long-awaited long-aawaited shot at dot-com dot- com o success. was su uccess. The company’s company’s plan w as to t create new cr reate a ne w antihacking system system that th hat would detect intrusions. intrusions. Max’s Maax’s ďŹ rst was ďŹ r rst day daay w as set ffor or o March March 21. It was was
?`j Zf[\ ? nfid\[ `ekf nfid\[ n nfid\[ `ekf `ekf f 8 8`i 8`i =fiZ\ =fiZ\ f jj\im\ij# 8idp j\im\ij j# 8idp # p Z g Zfdglk\ij# j## X X dXZ_`e\ _` X dXZ_`e\ ``e k_\ f]Ă“Z\ `e k_\ f]Ă“Z\ ]Ă“ f]] X ZXY`e\k f f] X ZXY`e\k Y` k jj\Zi\kXip% j\Zi\kXip p% % an n early position position at a promising promising technology start-up. te echnology st art-up. The American American a dream, circa dr ream, cir ca 2000. 2000. On the morning morning 2000, off March March 21, 20 00, the FBI knocked knock ked door. Att ďŹ rst he though thought on n Max’s Max’s do or. A ht it was w as a Hiverworld Hiverworld hazing, hazing, a practical practiical ‘’Just jjoke. jo ok ke. It wasn’t. wasn’t. ’t ‘’J ustt don’t d don’t answer answerr it!â€? a it !â€?â€? he said to Kimi. He found found o hiding hi iding place, place, in case case the agents peered p e ed through eer through the windows. windows. Thee indictment have in ndictment must ha ave ďŹ nally come com me down. theree to take do own. The FBI was was ther take him hi im to jail. What should he do? The T agents ag gents left—their arrest arrest warrant warrant didn’t into di idn’t authorize them to crash in nto Max’ss home home,, so he he’d temporarily M Max’ ’d temp orarily thwarted th hwarted them by by the simple act off not answering answering i the h door. d door. His Hi attorney at ttorney called called the prosecutor prosecutor to try tr ry to arrange ffor o or a civilized selfselffsurrender su urrender at the FBI ďŹ eld office office in n new O Oakland. Max contacted contacted his ne w boss wouldn’t b o to report oss report that he wouldn ’t be be showing sh howing up ffor o or his ďŹ rst day daay at work. wo ork. He’d day H He ’d be be in touch in a da ay or two two
to explain explain everything, everything, he said. The news beat eevening vening ne ws b eat him m to the punch: hacker Alleged computer computer hac cker Max Butler had just turned himself himseelf in on a 15ccount ount indictment cha charging arging illegal interception inter ception of communications, comm munications, and ccomputer omputer intrusion an nd possession possession passwords. two of stolen pass words. After A two nights in jail, Max was brought was br ougght in from from of a ffederal ederal e magistratee in San Jose Jose ffor or arraignment. The arrest o arrest sent shock waves through sho ck w aves thr ough the t computer computer securityy world. securit Hiverworld Hiv erworld canceled canceled its job offer off ffeer spot—no start-up on the sp ot—no security securrity st art-up hiree a man facin facing ccould ould hir ng current current charges. ccomputer omputer intrusion ch harges. Six months later later,, Max M pleaded guilty. woree a blaz blazer er and rumpled guilt y. He wor ccargo argo pants to his sentencing senttencing hearing watched and w atched silently aas the lawyers laaw wyers sparred sparr ed over over his fate. fate. Jennifer Jenniffer e Granick, the def defense fense e attorney, a torney, told at JJudge udge JJames ames War at Max deser ved Waree tha that deserved a lowered lowered sentence sentence for for or his service service as the Equalizer. Equalizer. The prosecutor p osecutor pr to ok the opposite opposite position. possition. Max, took he ar argued, gued,, had pretended preten nded to be be an FBI inf informant formant o whi while ile secretly secretly ccommitting ommitting crimes ag against gainst the U.S. U.S. government. go vernment. It was was w worse orse than if h he h had d never never cooperated cooperrated d at all. ll lawyers When the la awy w ers ďŹ nished ďŹ niished their arguments, himself, ar guments, Max spoke spoke for for o himself f, with the earnest politeness politteness he always alwayys from eexhibited xhibited away away fr om his h computer. computer. His attack, attack,, he explained, explaineed,, had been been born b orn of good good intentions. intentio ons. “I got softly. sswept wept up,â€? up,â€? he said soft ftlyy. “lt’s “lt’s hard hard to explain explain the feelings feelings e s of someone who’s gotten who ’s got ten caught caught up u in the securityy ďŹ eld.... ccomputer omputer securit ďŹ elld.... I felt felt e at the that h time i h I was was in a race. race. That h if I went in and closed d the holes quickly, quickly y, I ccould ould do it before beffor o e people people with more more malicious intentions i ccould ould use them. “What “Whaat I did was was “I’vee rreprehensible,â€? eprehensible,â€? Max ccontinued. o ontinued. “I’v hurtt m myy reputation hur reputation in n the computer computer securityy ďŹ eld. I’v I’vee hur hurtt m myy family securit friends.â€? and friends .â€? JJudge udge Ware Waare listened attentively already attentively but had alr ready made up Letting his mind. L etting Maxx off without a send prison term would sen nd the wrong wrong message to other hackers. hack kers. “There’s “There’s follow a need for for o those who would w follow o yyour our ffootsteps ootsteps to know w that this can can incarceration,â€? rresult esult in inc arceration n,â€?â€? the judge said. The sentence: sentence: 18 months in byy th three prison, ffollowed ollowed b o hree yyears ears of supervised Max sup ervised release release in which w
wouldn’t be wouldn’t be allowed on the Internet without th he permission permission of his the probation officer. The prosecutor prosecutor pr obation officer. asked to order ask ed the judge j order Max immediately immediate ely taken taken into custody, custodyy, but Waree deni denied War ied the request request and give give the hacker hackerr a month to put his affairs and in order order an nd tum himself in to the marsh U.S. U .S. marshals. hals. He set up p automatic bill payments paayme y ents and wrote wrote out a list of items ffor o Kimi to take or take care care of in his absence. absence. When Monda Monday ay came, came, he turned himself him mself in on schedule. schedule. On JJune une 25, 25,, 2001, 20 001, he was was locked locked in the ccounty ounty jaill pending pending his shipment to his ne w home, ho ome, Taft Taft a F ederal Prison, new Federal a corporate-run corporatte-run facility facility owned by by Wack enhu ut, positioned positioned near a small Wackenhut, town in central central e California. Califfornia. o As As far as Max was was concerned, concerned, he was was being being punished for for o his loyalty, loyalty, once once again a victim of a capricious capricious justice justice system. system. He doubte ed Judge Judge Ware Ware had even even doubted lo oked at the t details details of his case. case. looked Kimi was was adrift, a , alone for for o the ďŹ rst time since since she’d she’d met Max. For For all his ttalk alk about aboutt staying stayying with her forever, fo orever, he’d chosen he ’d chose n a course course of action that Two gguaranteed d their separation. p Two w later, months lat ter, Kimi was was talking talking to thee phone from him on th from prison when she heard heard a pop! pop! and the smell of acrid smoke smok ke ďŹ lled her nostrils. nostrils. The motherboard motherb oard on Max’s Max’s server server had burst into ames. ames. Max tried to calm calm her—all she her —all sh he had to do was was replace replace motherboard. the mothe erboard. He could could do it in his sleep. sleep. Max M talked talked her through through the process, pr p ocess, but bu ut Kimi was was realizing realizingg she wasn’t w asn’t cut out for for o life liffe as the prison wife wif fe of a hacker. h hacker. In August, August,, she the in went to th he Burning Man festival festival e Nevada N evada to o forget for o get her troubles. troubles. When she got home, ho ome, she broke broke some bad news ne ws to Max M over over the phone. phone. She’d She’d met someone someo one else. else. B`e^g`e1 ?fn Fe\ ?XZb\i Kffb B`e^g`e1 ?fn Fe\ ?XZb\i Kffb Fm\i k_\ 9`cc`fe$;fccXi :pY\iZi`d\ Fm\i Fm\i k_\ 9`cc`fe$;fccXi 9`cc`fe$;fccXi :pY\iZi`d\ 9 :pY\iZi`d\ Le[\i^ifle[2 9p B\m`e Gflcj\e2 Le[\i^if le[2 9p B\m`e Gflcj\e2 :ifne2 )// gX^\j2 ), _Xi[YXZb :ifne2 )/// gX^\j2 ), _Xi[YXZb <oZ\igk i\gi`ek\[ n`k_ <oZ\igk i\ \gi`ek\[ n`k_ g\id`jj`fe% :fgpi`^_kkÂ&#x;)'(( Yp g\id`jj`f fe% :fgpi`^_kkÂ&#x;)'(( Yp B\m`e Gflcjfe B \m`e Gfl lcjfe
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AFFINITY American. $$$. Big-shouldered food in handsome surroundings is the rule. The steaks are big and juicy, the pot pies better than Grandma used to make. Full bar. 300 Almaden Blvd, inside the Hilton. 408.947.4444. AMICI’S EAST COAST PIZZERIA Pizza. $. Amici’s specializes in thin-crust, New York-style pizza. With its upscale atmosphere and friendly service you’ve got one of downtown San Jose’s best pizza shops. 11am-10pm MonThu, 11am-11pm Fri, 11:30am11pm Sat and 11:30am-10pm Sun. 225 W. Santa Clara St. 408.289.9000.
ARCADIA Steakhouse. $$$. Celebrity chef Michael Mina reworked the menu at Arcadia in the summer of 2006 to create a modern steakhouse, a change that has made it the destination restaurant it was originally supposed to be. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri and dinner 5:30-10pm SunThu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat. 301 S. Market St. 408.278.4555. BELLA MIA Italian-American. $$$. One of downtown San Jose’s most attractive eateries, Bella Mia serves regional dishes with flair. Full bar. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 4:30-10pm Sat, 4:30-8pm Sun. 58 S. First St. 408.280.1993. BILLY BERK’S Eclectic. $$. Billy Berk’s restaurant looks and taste likes the offspring of the Hard Rock Cafe and Chili’s. The downtown San Jose restaurant offers a populist mix of American,
Mexican and Asian food. Most dishes are designed for sharing—appetizer-size portions, nibbles and finger foods that pair well with the prodigious drink list. 11:30am10pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am10pm Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 5-11pm Sat, Bar open till midnight. 99 S. First St, San Jose. 408.292.4300.
DALAT Vietnamese. $$. San Jose’s second-oldest Vietnamese restaurant continues to draw those in search of delicious traditional fare. Surroundings are clean and friendly. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 408 E. William St. 408.294.6989. E&O TRADING COMPANY Southeast Asian. $$$. Entrees come on playful serving dishes and are beautifully spiced with multiculti flavors, from Bali to Ceylon and back through Malaysia. Full bar. Open 11:30am to 10:30pm, until midnight on weekends. 11:30am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10:30pm Fri, 510:30pm Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 96 S. First St. 408.938.4100.
EULIPIA New American. $$$. The revamped menu emphasizes robust flavors and beautiful presentations. Several standouts have been retained from the previous menu, as have the sexy Eulipia cocktails. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Tue-Sat, 4:30-9:30pm Sat. 374 S. First St. 408.280.6161.
FLAMES EATERY AND BAR American. $$. In Silicon Valley, the home-grown Flames restaurant chain is the area’s definitive coffee shop. And now they’ve opened in downtown San Jose to great acclaim. 7am-midnight daily. 88 S. Fourth St. 408.971.1960.
4TH STREET PIZZA CO. Pizza. $. 4th Street Pizza Co. occupies a prime corner
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spot on East Santa Clara and Fourth with big windows to watch the comings and goings at City Hall across the street. The thin-crust margherita fell short but the thicker-crust pies are better. 11am-9pm Sun-Thu and 11am10pm Fri-Sat. 150 E. Santa Clara St. 408.286.7500.
GUMBO JUMBO Cajun fusion. $$. Gumbo Jumbo charts new territory with dishes such as Cajun lemon-grass chicken, garlic shrimp noodles and crawfish egg rolls. And don’t miss the boiled crawfish. 11:30am-2:30pm and 5:3010pm Mon-Wed, 11:30am2:30pm and 5:30pm-midnight Thu-Fri, 3pm-midnight Sat and 3-10pm Sun. 80 N. Market St. 408.294.8626.
HOUSE OF SIAM Thai. $. This popular establishment runs the gamut of Thai treasures. Casual. Beer, wine. 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, 5-10pm daily. 151 S. Second St. 408.295.3397.
IL FORNAIO Regional Italian. $$. Embraced by the graceful Sainte Claire Hotel, this location (there are several up and down the coast) transports the diner. The menu showcases a different region of Italy monthly. 7am10pm, 10:30am-11:30pm Mon-Thu, 8am-11pm Fri-Sat, 8am-10pm Sun. Full bar. 302 S. Market St. 408.271.3366. KOJI SAKE LOUNGE. $$. Japanese. In spite of Koji’s well-tuned atmosphere, it’s the sakes that really set the tone. Koji’s sake list includes tasting notes that help you find one that suits you.
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LA PASTAIA Italian. $$. La Pastaia remains a stalwart of downtown San Jose’s dining scene. Set inside the Hotel De Anza, the rustic Italian restaurant has big city style to spare. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri and noon-2pm SatSun; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 233 W. Santa Clara St. 408.286.8686.
LA VICTORIA TAQUERIA Mexican. $. La Vic’s famously addictive orange hot sauce merely tops off its tasty taqueria fare: big burritos of the breakfast and lunchtime varieties, overflowing nachos, delectable chile rellenos. 7am3am daily. 140 E. San Carlos St. 408.298.5335.
LOS CUBANOS Cuban. $$. Cuban food exudes an earthy, slow-cooked seduction and Los Cubanos has it in spades. Lunch 11am-2:30pm; dinner 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 3-10pm Sat and 3-8:30pm Sun. 22 N. Almaden Ave. 408.279.0134.
MCCORMICK AND SCHMICK’S Seafood. $$$. Harks back to big-city fish houses with stately, masculine interiors. Menu follows the freshest fruits of the sea, grilled, panseared, steamed. Desserts will hook you. 11:30am-10pm daily, 11pm happy hour Fri-Sat. 170 S. Market St. 408.283.7200. MEZCAL Regional Mexican. $$. Mezcal specializes in delicious regional cuisine from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. People who need nachos and sour-creamtopped burritos on the menu will probably be miffed, but for those willing to venture beyond the same old MexicanAmerican standards, Mezcal offers an excellent point of departure. 11:30am-11pm SunFri and 5-11pm Sat. 25 W. San Fernando St. 408.283.9595.
MOROCCO’S Moroccan. $$. Morocco’s is the kind of restaurant downtown San Jose needs more of: distinctive food
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cooked and served by people with a personal investment in customer happiness. Morocco’s personal touch is all over the restaurant. Lunch 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, dinner 511pm Mon-Sat and Sun 5-9pm. 86 N. Market St. 408.998.1509.
MORTON’S STEAKHOUSE Steakhouse. $$$$. Morton’s, a Chicago-based chain of restaurants with more than 80 locations across the United States and abroad, offers delicious, premium-priced steaks. The rest of the menu is a mixed bag. 5:30-11pm MonSat, 5-10pm Sun. 177 Park Ave. 408.947.7000.
MUCHOS Mexican. $. A small player with a big rotisserie, this taqueria cultivates a devout lunch following. All standards get billing, but the mesquiteroasted chicken is the star. Beer. 11am-10pm daily. 72 E. Santa Clara St. 408.277.0333. NAGLEE PARK GARAGE New American. $$. Lots of restaurants would like to think of themselves as friendly neighborhood joints but few deliver. The Garage does. Small but satisfying menu of well executed comfort food classics. 5-9:30pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 9am-1pm, 5-10pm Sat, 9am1pm Sun. 505 E. San Carlos St. 408.286.1100.
NHA TOI Vietnamese. $$$. Nha Toi is the place for northern style Vietnamese food—less sweet than southern Vietnamese food and less spicy than the food of central Vietnam, yet it makes wider uses of aromatic ingredients 9am10pm daily. 460 E. William St. 408.294.2733.
ORIGINAL JOE’S ItalianAmerican. $$. For five decades OJ’s has been serving classics of American and ItalianAmerican food with heaping portions of big city attitude and glamour. The restaurant underwent an extensive remodel, but the menu is the same as it ever was. 11am1am daily. 301 S. First St. 408.292.7030. PAGODA RESTAURANT Chinese. $$$. The cuisines of China share top billing with the opulence of the décor. Pagoda offers the gamut of regional
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PAOLO’S New Italian. $$$$. Filled with artistic spins on California-meets-Italy, the kitchen turns out elegant entrees spearheaded by seasonal vegetables. The impeccable service compensates for the modest portions. Full bar. 11:30-2:30 Mon-Fri, 5:30-10pm MonSat. 323 W. San Carlos St. 408.294.2558. POOR HOUSE BISTRO New Orleans. $$. The Poor House Bistro offers a lowpriced menu of Crescent City classics like po’ boys, barbecued shrimp, gumbo and muffaletta. Live music on Fridays and Saturdays. Open 11am-9pm Mon-Sat. Open Sundays for major HP Pavilion events. 91 S. Autumn St. 408.292.5837.
SCOTT’S SEAFOOD Seafood. $$$. Culture lovers and power brokers alike find impeccable sourdough, a sea of marine treats and other entrees and a panoramic view (there’s a sister eatery in Palo Alto). For maximum pleasure, get there at sunset. Full bar. 11:30am5pm Mon-Fri, 5pm-close Sat, 4:30pm-close Sun. 185 Park Ave. 408.971.1700. 71 SAINT PETER New American. $$$. This romantic eatery offers upscale Mediterranean food in an intimate setting Beer, wine. Closed Sun. 71 N. San Pedro St. 11:30am-1pm, 5-9pm MonSat. 408.971.8523. SONOMA CHICKEN COOP Mixed. $. If you don’t mind carrying your own tray and fighting for a table you’ll be rewarded with hearty spit-roasted chicken that requires at least six napkins. 31 N. Market St. at San Pedro Square. 11am-9pm Sun-Thu, 10pm Fri-Sat 408.287.4098.
VEGETARIAN HOUSE Vegetarian. $. This meat-free stalwart offers vegetarian dishes from around the world with a side serving of religious reading material from spiritual leader Ching Hai. 11am-2pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am-9pm Sat-Sun. 520 E. Santa Clara St. 408.292.3798.
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“I wanted to tell you that you forgot the best coffee place in San Jose, Big E Cafe. They serve the best blends of coffee and also the best breakfast and lunch empanadas. You should really check them out.” “I just wanted to cast a big vote for the Big E Cafe on Branham Lane in San Jose. It is a wonderful coffee shop with terrific coffee, tasty food and great service. The owner, Ernie, is warm and welcoming each time I visit. I have gotten his fresh, homemade empanadas for my staff meetings. They are always a big hit. I am a regular there and look forward to saying hi to the other regulars each morning.” “Ernie makes the best lattes, espresso and empanadas in San Jose. There’s free wi-fi and comfy chairs, and the staff are always smiling and welcoming. It’s very handy for the 85 on-ramp from Camden, too.” Given that I didn’t hear about any other places I missed, I suspected that the cafe may have been encouraging customers to give me a piece of their mind. It sounded like a letter-writing campaign. But so what if it was? People weren’t going to write unless they really liked the place. I went to see for myself. The affable owner, ERNIE MAY, a native of Peru, insists he didn’t put his customers up to all the emails. He didn’t have to. The place is quite good, just the kind of friendly, locally owned cafe you’d want to have in your neighborhood. May, who runs the place with his wife, LILIA ARREOLA, serves Pacifico Primo coffee, a San Jose–based coffee roaster. The cappuccino is densely flavored and rich with a well-rendered head of steamed milk. If you want something more caffeinated than that, try starting your day with the “Keith Richards,” four shots of espresso, chocolate and steamed milk. My guess is that that much caffeine would topple even Mr. Richards. What really sets the Big E apart are the fresh-baked empanadas: pastries stuffed with good things like beef, vegetables and cheese. The Big E makes more than a dozen different varieties of empanadas (chicken cilantro, spicy Thai, spinach and ricotta, and bacon and egg) each morning. It’s a perfect, hand-held meal. I can vouch for the chicken empanada. Good stuff. May says his empanadas have helped him survive the economic downturn. The savory pastries now make up as much as 45 percent of his sales and he gets customers from all over Silicon Valley. “People will drive a little bit further for something less common,” he says. Having a friendly owner on the premises to make customers happy helps, too. For info see www.mybige.com.—Stett Holbrook
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$$. Traditionalists might gripe that they can get authentic Vietnamese food for less elsewhere, but it’s hard to top Vung Tau for its fresh, quality ingredients and sleek yet comfortable décor. Encyclopedic menu. Open daily 10am-3pm and 5-9pm. 535 E. Santa Clara St. 408.288.9055.
is complemented by an exotic dining room with sequestered seating equipped with hanging beads and doorbells, and other miscellaneous peculiarities of a bygone era. Always a fun place to visit. 11:30am-9:30pm daily. 131 E. Jackson St. 408.294.3303 or 998.9427.
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AMATO’S Sandwich shop. $. The sandwiches make for greasy, sloppy, ferociously delicious eating. There are 34 varieties,
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AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. 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. 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm, Mon-Thu. noon-3pm, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat, noon-3pm, 5-10pm Sunday. 377 Santana Row. 408.248.5400.
BANGKOK TASTE Thai. $$. Humble strip mall gem with a loyal following. Beef Pi-Roj is a house favorite. Veggies love the Rama tofu. 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm daily. 1769 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.358.2525.
BILL’S CAFÉ Diner. $. Serving only breakfast and lunch, Bill’s knows its way around typical diner standbys—eggs (scrambles and hollandaiselaced “benedictions”), pancakes and expertly grilled sandwiches and burgers. 6:30am-3pm daily. 302 N. Bascom Ave (at Naglee). 408.287.2455. CAO NGUYEN Vietnamese, Chinese-Vietnamese. $. Gargantuan menu features nearly 200 Vietnamese menu options, including smoked duck, sautéed frogs and clay pot catfish. Casual. 10am10pm Mon-Fri, 9am-10pm Sat-Sun. 2549 S. King Rd #A-16. 408.270.9610.
CARDINAL COFFEE SHOP American. $$. Classic latenight post-party hang out, this Vegas-style coffee shop serves up the faves: burgers, spaghetti and meatloaf on Tuesdays. Full bar. Open 24/7. 3197 Meridian Ave. 408.269.7891.
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.
CASABLANCA’S CAFÉ Middle Eastern. $$. Casablanca’s Cafe is not going to win
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any awards for atmosphere or restaurant design. But it should win awards for its falafel. In addition to wonderfully creamy hummus, tangy tahini sauce and pickled red cabbage, the falafel deluxe is gilded with strips of baked eggplant, fried cauliflower and fried potatoes. If you like it spicy, the ribbon of shatta (hot sauce) delivers a blast of chile pepper heat. 10am-9:30pm daily. 1185 Lincoln Ave. 408.993.8636.
CHEESECAKE FACTORY American. $$. A true “American restaurant” in every sense of the term, this popular chain lives by the red-whiteand-blue credo that bigger is definitely better. 11am-11pm Sun-Thu, 11am-12:30am SatSun. Westfield Shoppingtown Oakridge, 925 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.225.6948; and Valley Fair, 3041 Stevens Creek Blvd, 408.246.0092.
CITRUS New American. $$$. In Santana Row’s chic Hotel Valencia, Citrus peels back the hotel dining myth. Here, diners match their own main dishes with their choice of rub, sauce and side dish. Fun continues in skilled desserts. 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 355 Santana Row. 408.423.5400. COCOLA French bakery. $. Cocola is a fine place to while away an afternoon sipping tea and sampling a pear tart with vanilla custard and slivered almonds. For heartier fare, try the gourmet sandwiches. 8am-11pm Sun-Tue, 8amnoon Wed-Sat. 333 Santana Row #1045. 408.551.0018. CONSUELO Mexican. $$. 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-10pm Mon-Fri, 11am-11pm Sat, Sun 11am-11pm. 377 Santana Row #1125. 408.260.7082. 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 MonThu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat and
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CRAWDADDY Cajun. $$. Crawdaddy specializes in boiled live crawfish flown in from Louisiana. The mud bugs are served steaming in a plastic bag swimming in a buttery, garlic-laced sauce that ranges from mild to ridiculously hot. 3-10pm Mon-Fri and noon10pm Sat-Sun. 779 Story Rd. 408.286.2729.
DEEZI’S CAFÉ Persian. $$. Deezi is a hearty lamb shank stew and it’s quite good here. But the soul of 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 and 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.
DI DA Vietnamese vegetarian. $. Quick, friendly service and a comprehensive menu, with food that’s simple, low-key and homey. The jackfruit salad is surprisingly fresh, sided with a chile-tamarind sauce. 9am9pm daily. 2597 Senter Rd. 408.998.8826.
DI LAC Vegetarian Asian. $$. A bite of veggie heaven. The spacious Di Lac serves up an appetizing array of foods all of which are made fresh daily, including the soy milk and tofu. 9am-9pm daily. 1644 E. Capitol Expwy. 408.238.8686.
DYNASTY CHINESE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Chinese $$. The setting is fit for royalty, and there’s a menu to match: lobster with special sauces,
EDNA RAY Chinese. $$. Now in a new location, Edna Ray continues to serves classics of Chinese-American food with the same quantity, familiarity and reasonable prices. You’ll find all three here, and then some. 11:30am9:30pm daily. 1181 Lincoln Ave. 408.280.7738.
EL HABANERO Cuban and Mexican. $$. The Cuban food is the star here. The food is made from family recipes and has a hearty, homespun appeal. Ropa vieja is a classic of Cuban cooking and the stewed beef dish is a solid choice here as is the oily but delicious vaca frita is another winner. Appetizers are strong, too, but skip the disappointing Cuban sandwich. 11am-9pm daily. Closed Monday. 3132 Williams Rd. 408.557.8914.
EL TULE Mexican. $$. Most of the menu is devoted to Mexican-American standards, but the separate menu of Oaxacan specialties is where El Tule really shines. The black mole is uncommonly delicious while lesser-known dishes like tlayudas and molotes are also good. 10am-9pm daily. 5440 Thornwood Dr. 408.227.1752.
FISH MARKET Seafood. $$$. This latest terrific-looking member of the dynasty attracts lines of customers to its bars—wine, sushi, oyster—with an extensive menu of fresh seafood. Luscious desserts too. Full bar. 11am-9:30pm M-Thu, 11am10pm Fri-Sat, noon-9:30pm Sun. 1007 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.269.3474. 5-SPOT CHIVAS GRILL $. Mexican-American diner. The brick-walled 5-Spot is a perfect mix of American food, past and present. The diner still serves classic American diner food as well as Mexican standards. 7am-9pm daily. 869 S. First St. 408.294.4979.
FLOWER FLOUR French bakery. $. Mimi Brown’s flower shop/bakery charms visitors with freshly made to-droolfor pastries, ready-to-go sandwiches and service with
a smile. 8am-6pm Mon-Sat, 8am-4pm Sun. 896 Willow St. 408.279.0843.
9pm Mon-Thu, 10am-10pm Sat-Fri, 9am-9pm Sun. 1996 Tully Rd. 408.270.0973.
FOOD TOPIA Chinese and Taiwanese. $. Food Topia serves a great, low priced menu of Taiwanese and Chinese food in atmosphere welcoming to nonChinese. 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.
GREAT WALL Chinese. $$. This
FRANKIE, JOHNNIE & LUIGI TOO! Family Style Italian. $$. Traditional Italian-American favorites—spaghetti and pizza—served with plenty of elbow room. Big portions and wholesome family-style service. 11am-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11am-9:30pm Fri-Sat. 5245 Prospect Rd, San Jose. Full Bar. 408.446.9644.
FRATELLO Italian. $$. Bursting with simple flavors, Fratello boasts native Italian dining without affectation. 5-9:30pm Tue-Sun, Fri-Sat 5-10pm, 59pm Sun. 1712 Meridian Ave. 408.269.3801.
FUEL RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Contemporary Vietnamese. $$. Fuel’s menu is more traditional than other modern Vietnamese restaurants but still mixes things up with nonregulation ingredients. Lunch 11am2:30pm Mon-Fri and Sat-Sun. Dinner 5-10pm Mon-Wed, 5-11pm Thu-Sat and 5-9pm Sun. 385 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.248.0018.
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. $. 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 Fri-Sat, 1261 W. San Carlos St. 408.295.9546.
GOVEA’S Mexican. $. A community hub that serves up wonderfully fresh, oldfashioned Mexican food with no trendy gimmicks. Both the restaurant and the food are wholesome and filling. 10am-
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. 11am-2:30pm, 4:30-9pm Mon-Fri, noon-9pm Sat. 1409 Bird Ave. Take out available. 408.287.1688 or 287.1689.
HABANA CUBA Cuban and Brazilian. $$. A culinary oasis full of good flavors, Habana Cuba exudes cultural delights. Sensuous foods of the Caribbean and Cuba, long on tomato and peppers, slowroasted meats and earthy black beans. Beer and wine. 11am2pm, 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 4-10pm Fri-Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 238 Race St. 408.998.2822.
THE HAPPY BAMBOO Vegetarian. $. The menu at the Happy Bamboo is almost all vegan and most of it Vietnamese or Asian-inspired. There’s also a vegetarian tuna salad and, out of nowhere, Hungarian goulash and spaghetti. 11:30am-9pm TueSun. Closed Mon. 1711 Branham Lane. 408.694.0740.
HOSHI Japanese. $$. Hoshi is one Silicon Valley’s standouts for sushi and small plates. Great sake selection, too. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri and dinner 5-9pm Mon-Sat. 246 Saratoga Ave. 408.554.7100. HUKILAU Hawaiian. $$. Simple, slightly salty, stomach-filling foods with an Asian Pacific attitude. All daily specials come with a scoop of macaroni salad and steamed rice. Skip the quesadilla and nachos and head straight for the ahi poke. With tropical drinks to match. 11am-1:45pm Tue-Fri, 5-9:30pm Tue-Wed, 5-10:30pm Thu-Sat, 11am-2:30pm Sat-Sun, 5-9pm. 230 Jackson St. 408.279.4888. HUNAN TASTE. $$. 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.
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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 and 5-10pm Tue-Thu; 11:30am3pm and 4:30-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 4330 Moorpark Ave. 408.255.8244.
KRUNGTHAI. Thai. $$. Perennial Metro “Best Of” winner, Krungthai has been around since 1988, but still tastes fresh and new. 11am3pm and 5-10pm Mon-Fri and noon-10pm Sat-Sun. 640 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.260.8224.
KUBOTA Japanese. $$. A beautiful dining room that serves exquisite rice, luscious ribs and decent sushi. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat, 59:30pm Sun. 593 N. Fifth St. 408.279.8440.
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 and 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 211 E. Jackson St. 408.286.2111. LAYANG LAYANG Malaysian. $$. Layang Layang shines with clean, fresh flavors and ingredients and offers a great entry into Malaysian food. Service is fast and friendly, a feat given how harried the waitstaff can be. Wine and beer. Closed Mon. 1480 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.777.8897.
LE PAPILLON Contemporary French. $$$$. From start to finish, a meal at Le Papillon
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casts a spell on everyone who enters. The feeling is only broken when you walk out the door and abruptly step back into the real world outside. Full bar. Lunch Thu and Fri, dinner nightly. 410 Saratoga Ave. 408.296.3730.
MAGGIANO’S LITTLE Italy Italian. $$. 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. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am11pm Fri-Sat, noon-10pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave. #1000. 408.423.8973. MENARA Moroccan. $$$. Since 1977, Menara’s been throwing back the pillows and bellying up to mint tea rituals, b’stilla (pigeon pie) and rabbit tagine. Full dinners menus include vegetarian option; solid wine list. 6-10pm daily. 41 E. Gish Rd. 408.453.1983.
MT. HAMILTON GRANDVIEW Cowboy Continental. $$$. The Grandview is an old-school roadhouse with a warm atmosphere. Add dishes like surf and turf, rack of lamb chasseur and chicken Cordon Bleu and you’ve got yourself a destination. 5-10:30pm Wed-Sun. 94 Mt. Hamilton Rd. 408.251.8909.
MY KHE QUAN HUE $. Vietnamese. Food from central Vietnam is underrepresented in San Jose and that’s part of what makes this small restaurant such a find. The things to get here are the excellent noodle soups. 9am-9pm every day except Wed. Cash only. 960 Story Rd. 408.920.9603.
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.
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Try the dae gee bul go gi, spicy marinated pork. Open 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 154 E. Jackson St. 408.280.6588.
ORLO’S New American. $$$. On the lush grounds of the historic Hayes Mansion, this is one beautiful, luxurious dining room, with menu and excellent service to match. 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. Hayes Conference Center, 200 Edenvale Ave. 408.226.3200.
PASTA POMODORO Italian. $. Exuberant, inexpensive and fast cuisine made to order and served with sparkle. High concept and low costs make Pasta Pomodoro a dream trattoria for lovers of robust Italian flavors. 11am-10pm Mon-Sun. 1205 The Alameda. 408.292.9929. PIZZA ANTICA UPTOWN Pizza. $$. The stony ovens of Pizza Antica turn out thincrusted designer pies with gourmet toppings in casual environs. Fine pasta and meat dishes also available. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 11:30am-10pm SunThu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat. 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. $$. Surfer-themed, casual-but-comfy, chef Kumao Arai’s noodle house imports traditional techniques to produce hearty, aromatic bowls stocked with pork-, seasalt- or soy-sauce-flavored broth. Cash only. Call ahead; hours are irregular. 375-M S. Saratoga Ave. 408.246.3933. RANGOLI Indian. $. Rangoli spices up the Cambrian area with excellent Indian food. The restaurant is beautiful and its food and service largely match its décor. Lunch buffet 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, dinner 5-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 5-10pm Fri-Sat, brunch noon3pm Sun. 3695 Union Ave. 408.377.2222.
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REHOBOTH. Ethiopian. $$. 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, too. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu and 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 665 N. Sixth St. 408.947.1717.
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. 10am-10pm daily. 3120 Williams St. 408.984.9600.
SIAM Thai. $$. Siam is a sweet little Thai restaurant between Valley Fair and Santana Row. The menu offers a lineup of Thai standards and crowd-pleasing combinations with Americanized names like “cashew lover,” “Thai angry” and “pleasing garlic.” There’s plenty to recommend. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9pm TueSat. 10pm Fri. 2910 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.246.0304. SIENA MEDITERRANEAN BISTRO Mediterranean. $$$. 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. $$$. Sino is owned by Christopher Yeo, the restaurateur behind Straits.
The restaurant offers both traditional Chinese cooking and a few modern riffs. Good dim sum, too. 11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am-midnight Wed-Sat. 377 Santana Row. 408.247.8880.
STRAITS RESTAURANT Asian Fusion. $$$. By night it’s a jam-packed 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 is available. 11am-10pm SunWed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 333 Santana Row #1100. 408.246.6320.
SUSHI BOAT Sushi bar/ Japanese specialties. $. With a décor that is upbeat and sophisticated and sushi that is as dazzling as handmade jewelry, Sushi Boat walks on water! 11am-9:30pm daily. 1600 Saratoga Ave. #119, Westgate Mall. 408.378.4000. SUSHI FACTORY Sushi bar/Japanese. $$. It’s all here: sushi, bento box meals and teriyaki and at great prices. 11:30am-9:15pm daily. 4632 Meridian Ave. 408.723.2598. TAIWAN RESTAURANT Chinese. $. For nearly 25 years this Willow Glen landmark has served a nonstop stream of Szechuan, Cantonese and Taiwanese specialties. Casual. Beer, wine. 1306 Lincoln Ave. 11am-3pm, 5-9pm Mon-Sun. 408.289.8800.
THEA Greek and Turkish. $$. While some dishes have a tenuous connection to Turkey and Greece, the pretty restaurant serves a number of standouts like the roasted prawns, octopus salad and excellent moussaka. Full bar. Open daily for lunch and dinner. 11:30am-3pm, 58:30pm daily. 3090 Olsen Dr. 408.260.1444. TLAQUEPAQUE NO. 3 Mexican. $. Willow Glen’s Tlaquepaque No. 3 occupies that sweet spot between a taqueria and a more formal sit-down restaurant. And then there are those highly gulpable chavelas. 7am-9pm Mon-Sat. 699 Curtner Ave. 408.448.1230.
THREE FLAMES Continental. $$. A Willow Glen favorite with an enormous menu. Among
the best choices are scampi, rack of lamb and pepper steak. Casual. Full bar. 11am3:45pm, 4-10pm Mon-Thu. Closed at 11pm Fri-Sat. 1547 Meridian Ave. 408.269.3133.
VIN SANTO Italian $$. A beautifully simple and low-lit dining room sets the stage for offerings of earthy aromas, bold sauces and well-seasoned market-fresh meats and produce. Extensive wine list plays host nearly as well as the informative servers. 5-10pm Tue-Sat, 58pm Sun. 1346 Lincoln Ave. 408.920.2508. WAHOO’S FISH TACO Fish tacos/Cal-Mex. $. Beachside shack decor gives Wahoo’s a Disney quality. Fish is the dish at this L.A.-based fast-food staple, served flame-broiled or blackened in a spicy Cajun rub in tacos, burritos, bowls and salads. Beer. 10:30am-9pm Sun-Wed, 10am-10pm Fri-Sat. 3050 Olin Ave (Santana Row). 408.244.3991.
WILLOW STREET WOODFIRED PIZZA Pizza. $$. Silicon Valley’s three Willow Street pizza locations prepare the definitive upwardly mobile California pizza. Crispy, thin crusts breathe with accents of almond from the Italian wood-fired oven. Check out the new Neapolitan-style pizzas—delicate, light and satisfying. Hearty pastas, salads and sandwiches, too. 11:30am-9pm SunWed, 11:30am-9:30pm Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 1072 Willow St. 408.971.7080. For other locations see www. willowstreet.com.
YANKEE PIER American seafood. $$. Veteran restaurateur Bradley Ogden brings a bit of Cape Cod to Santana Row, with a menu ranging from old-fashioned fish and chips to gourmet oysters and a mouthwatering Maine lobster roll. Sunday brunch is also available. 11:30am-9:30pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-10pm FriSat. 378 Santana Row #1100. 408.244.1244. YAS Persian. $$. In keeping with this ancient cuisine’s traditions, entrees are dressed up with the clean, fresh tastes of lemon and saffron, and desserts wear a distinctive hint of rose water. Beer, wine. 11am-9pm daily. 1138 Saratoga Ave. 408.241.5115.
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Malaysian. $$. 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 and 5-9pm Mon-Fri and 11am9pm Sat. 1290 Coleman Ave. 408.980.0668.
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*wed *thu ERIC CLAPTON & LOS LOBOS HP Pavilion, San Jose Wed – 7:30pm; $49.50-$149.50 There’s certainly a lot of shared space on the musical Venn Diagram between these two, considering how much Chessera blues influenced both. As for Clapton, the once ironic nickname “Slowhand” fits like the gloved, tired, semi–easy listening music he’s laid down over the past decades. The venerable Wolves are a different breed of beast: the world hasn’t yet fully grasped the majesty of their 1992 Kiko, that smashup of riot-era L.A. with wails from the electronic souk of Froom’s House of Keyboards. (RvB)
DEVOLUTIONARIES Johnny V’s, San Jose Thu – 9pm; $5 Clever futurism-run-amok pairing features Devolutionaries from Santa Cruz playing the songs of Ohio’s weirdest favorite sons. Once considered a novelty act for hits like “Whip It” and “Girl U Want,” Devo was far more interesting than its mainstream reputation suggested. With lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh now a hit composer for kids’ shows and Wes Anderson films, it’s nice to see someone giving the songs the respect they deserve. Meanwhile, the Here play newfangled nerd rock that doesn’t copy Devo, but they pay tribute in their own way, with a way-out-there backstory and true devotion to their shtick. (SP)
SCHWARTZ AND TAMBURR Club Fox, Redwood City Thu – 8pm; $14-$16 The red-hot vibraphonist Christian Tamburr, whose recordings indicate that he has as many arms as Lord Shiva Himself, plays with Anton Schwartz in a quartet featuring John Shiflett on bass and Jason Lewis on drums. Schwartz’s declared aim of matching groove and intellect resolves the old West Coast/East Coast jazz conflict; the music of the San Francisco–based tenor saxist has West Coast amiability and East Coast rigor. Raised in Hell’s Kitchen, Schwartz is an academic turned musician (a former student of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford among other distinctions); the ’06 album Radiant Blue demonstrates his brilliant phrasing and composition. (RvB)
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SOUTH FIRST FRIDAY South First Street, San Jose Fri –7-11pm; free The monthly art showcase features live music by Tim Christol and Ben Henderson at Anno Domini, drummer Wally Schanlle at Eulipia, opera singers at Caffé Trieste and Quasimodal at SLF Art Boutiki. Among the openings to look for is Mike Egan’s exploration of morbid themes in “Funerals” at Anno Domini, the food paintings of Kathleen Wolf at Kaleid Gallery (actually on Fourth Street) and Curt Schauer’s psychological monotypes at Trieste. Also of note is the opening for WORKS/San José’s annual members’ auction. (MSG)
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The Avalon, Santa Clara Sat – 8:30pm; $25/$30 Although they were known in their heyday for their bumblebee spandex, Stryper paved the way for mainstream Christian bands. They came out of the glam metal period and hit platinum in 1986 with To Hell With the Devil. In contrast to their hedonistic brethren, it was metal with a message, one that can be summed up in their favorite acronym for their name: “Salvation Through Redemption, Yielding Peace, Encouragement and Righteousness” (it’s actually a backronym, since they invented it after first taking the name from a reference to “stripes” in Isiah 53:5). With their new album, The Covering, Stryper is a pivotal band in metal history. (BD)
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Mar 4 at 8pm, Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford
BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT Mar 4-6, San Jose Improv
BACH TO BLUES With Gav Gavilan faculty and Watsonville Taiko, Mar 5 at 7:30pm, Gavilan Tai College Theater, Gilroy
FLAUTI DOLCI & AMICI I Mar 5 at a 3pm, Foothill Presbyterian Church, San Jose
FOUNTAIN BLUES FEST ALLSTARS FOUNTA Mar 5 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Ma
VIVA LA MUSICA Mozart’s Requiem, Mar 5 at 7:30pm, Mar 6 at 4pm, St. peter’s Episcopal Church, Redwood City
JOHN HOLLENBECK Mar 6 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel, M Stanford
PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE P Mar 8 at 8pm, Menlo-Atherton Ma Performing Arts Center
TONY BLAIR Celebrity Forum, Mar 10-12 at 8pm, Celebri Flint Center, Cupertino
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S.J. CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Le Petit Trianon, San Jose Sat – 8pm, Sun – 7pm; $10 and up Conductor Barbara Day Turner and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra welcome guest artists Quartet San Francisco for some tango- and jazz-inspired pieces, including Anica Galindo’s Trinitas III and Henry Mollicone’s Fantasia para cuerdas. Mollicone’s Fantasia, scored for string quartet, string orchestra and percussion, is a commissioned premiere for the local composer. (MSG)
BLUES ALLSTARS BAND
Blues Festival in some doubt, organizer Ted Gehrke stepped up to secure its future. The results aren’t yet final, but however it comes down, one overlooked part of Gehrke’s legacy is fostering this consolidation of local talent in the Fountain Blues Allstars Band, featuring JC Smith, Lara Price, Kaye Bohler, Maxx Cabello Jr. and more. This show includes guest Chris Cain. (SP)
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Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga Sat – 7:30pm; $27-$32
Cardiff Lounge, Campbell Sun – Noon; $10
With the future of the Fountain
It’s easy to forget the true
potential of a music scene until something like this “Altruism” event comes along. Organized by DJ Rick Preston, it’s a benefit for Giselle Ayala, who’s tightly connected to the dance-music community here and has been fighting cancer on and off for years. Reading Ayala’s blogs about her battle with the disease is harrowing and deeply moving; the former, because of everything she’s been through, the latter, because of the unbelievable positivity she’s maintained. But even more touching is the way her friends have rallied to her side. This isn’t the first Altruism benefit; they began years ago with a benefit for Mark Johns, who in a true show of paying it forward, will spin at this event. Also featured are Vincent Kwok, Julius Papp, Harry Who, Gabriel Black, Geo, J-Funk, Alonso and MJ Gamez. (SP)
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HUGH CORNWELL Blank Club, San Jose Tue – 9pm; $10/$12 The Stranglers were the band that punk’s legacy left behind. Representing the link between England’s pub-rock sound and the Sex Pistols, they had huge hits during punk’s first wave, but songs like “I Feel Like a Wog” and “Bring on the Nubiles” got them branded racists and misogynists—ironically, the former is an anti-racist screed, but the sexism charge was dead on. Lead singer/guitarist Hugh Cornwell was the first to grow up; his best solo album is 2009’s stripped-down Hooverdam, the kind of record the Strangers should have been making all along. (SP)
Mar 11 aat 9pm, Fox Theatre, San Jose
THE ADLERS Mar 13 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel M Auditorium, Stanford
SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY Concert version of “Man of La Mancha,” Mar 19–20, California Theatre, San Jose
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL Mar 24–27, HP Pavilion, San Jose
SYMPHONY SILICON VALLEY Brahms’ German Requiem, Mar 24–27, California Theatre
SAN JOSE JAZZ WINTER FEST Mar 12 at 7pm, Pagoda, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose
HARLEM GOSPEL CHOIR Mar 31 at 7:30pm, Montalvo Arts Center
MINGUS BIG BAND Apr 13 at 8pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford
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Follies Concert Version
Friday, 8pm, Saturday 3 and 8pm, Sunday, 2pm (plus Mar 24, 8pm), through March 27; Theatre on San Pedro Square; $27–$35 Starting with a clever premise—chorines and belters from a long-gone Broadway revue get together in an old theater to conjure up the past— Tabard Theatre’s concert version of the musical Follies delivers some sensational show tines, including “I’m Still Here,” “Could I Leave You?” and “Broadway Baby.” Since it’s a Sondheim creation, the nostalgia is also tinged with feeling of regret and concern about the future.
Trio Voce
Friday, 8pm; Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford: $14–$28 Stanford Lively Arts presents a concert by the new trio of cellist Marina Hoover, violinist Jasmine Lin and pianist Patricia Tao. The group will perform the premiere of Memory Slips, a work by Stanford composer and professor Jonathan Berger, who will provide commentary on the piece. The performance is connected to the university’s “Music and the Brain” symposium.
Bobcat Goldthwait
Friday, 8 and 10pm, Saturday, 7 and 9pm, Sunday, 7pm; San Jose Improv; $20 One of the most intense and disturbing standup comedians of the 1980s, Goldthwait segued into movies with his epic Shakes the Clown, which he both wrote and directed—anyone who has seen it will never feel the same about Bozo again. He has also directed Jimmy Kimmel Live and “retired” from standup. Of course, that means he’s back on the road doing standup.
*stage Dance GARLOCHI A flamenco show directed by Fanny Ara with guest artists Gonzalo Grau and Yaelisa. Fri, 8pm. $15/$20. Carriage House Theatre, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.
Opera MISSION CITY OPERA
Northside Theatre Company. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. Runs thru Mar 6. $15/ $20. Northside Theatre, San Jose.
A night of arias. Fri, 8pm. Free. Caffe Trieste, San Jose..
FOLLIES CONCERT VERSION
Theater DEATH OF A SALESMAN A Pear Avenue production. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs through Mar 20. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.
DEATHTRAP Ira Levin’s thriller, presented by
Presented by Tabard Theatre. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs through Mar 27. $27-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.
JAR THE FLOOR Tabia African American Theater Ensemble drama. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. Runs thru Mar 6. $25/$30. Mexican Heritage Theater, San Jose.
The West Coast premiere by San Jose Stage Company. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Mar 13. $15-$35. The Stage, San Jose.
WORKING
Egan. Reception for South First Friday. Mar 4-Apr 16. San Jose.
ART ARK “Remarkable Marks.” Mixed media by Shaun Benak. Reception Fri, 4-9pm. Show runs thru Mar 21. San Jose.
Foothill Music Theatre offers a musical based on Studs Terkel’s interviews. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Mar 6. $13-$26. Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.
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“Folie a Deux: A Delusion Shared by Two.” Monotypes by Curt Schauer. Opera Night this week for South First Friday. Show runs Mar 4-26. San Jose.
The musical about the highstakes world of roller disco. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $24-$44. Retro Dome, San Jose.
Works by photographer Natalie Courtney. Reception for South First Fri. Mar 4-26. San Jose.
Comedy
“Phosphene Series.” Polaroid emulsion lifts by Shannon Amidon. Mar 4-26. San Jose.
ROOSTER T. FEATHERS
HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE
Wed, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Tom Cotter. $12-$18. Tue, 8pm: New Talent Comedy Competition. $10. Sunnyvale.
Sculpture by Fred Yokel. Mar 4-31. San Jose.
SAN JOSE IMPROV Wed, 8pm: Steve Mazan benefit for Canary Foundation. $25. Thu, 8pm: Doug Stanhope. $25. Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Bobcat Goldthwait. $20. San Jose.
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Museums OPENING CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Twelve Drawings From Domenico Tiepolo’s New Testament.” Mar 2-May 29. WedSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ArtRage. An after-hours event. Thu, 6-9pm. $5. San Jose.
TRITON MUSEUM OF ART Works by Squeak Carnwath and Stanley Goldstein. Reception Fri, 7-9pm. Shows run Mar 5-May 8. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.
Galleries OPENING ANNO DOMINI “Funerals.” New works by Mike
GOOD KARMA VEGAN CAFE
KALEID GALLERY Photos by Dotti Cichon and paintings by Kathleen Wolf. Reception Fri. Mar 4-25. San Jose.
MACLA Favianna Rodriguez gives a talk for South First Friday at 7pm. San Jose.
METRO LOBBY “Immutable.” Photos by Michelle Budziak. Thru Mar 31. San Jose.
PHANTOM GALLERIES Works in storefronts by Yumiko and Reiko Miyagama and Mike Park. Runs thru Apr 16 ong South First Street, San Jose.
PHO69 “Just in Time.” Abstract by Jane Peterman. Live music for South First Friday. Thru Mar 21. San Jose.
PSYCHO DONUTS Art by Michael Foley, Murphy Adams, Chrstine Benjamin and others. San Jose.
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ANNIE GET YOUR GUN Peninsula Youth Theatre. This week: Sat, 2 and 7:30pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm. Runs thru Mar 13. $10-$20, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
THE BERENSTAIN BEARS IN FAMILY MATTERS Matt Murphy Productions. Sat, 1pm. $10-$15. Fox Theatre, Redwood City.
DISNEY’S ALADDIN FOR KIDS A show by Angels on Stage. Fri, 7pm, Sat-Sun, 2pm. Runs thru Mar 13. $15. Evergreen Valley College, San Jose.
THE DROWSY CHAPERONE Presented by Childrens Musical Theater Mainstage. Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2 and 7pm, Sun 1 and 6pm (1pm only Mar 13), also Thu (Mar 10), 7pm. $16/$23. Montgomery Theater, San Jose.
METAMORPHOSIS A show for older children (12 and up) about a student who turns filters his experiences through mythology. Thu-Fri, 7pm, Sat, 2 and 7pm (Mar 10 show is 4:30pm). Runs thru Mar 12. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. $5-$12.
*events INDIA MUSIC FESTIVAL
Indian classical music and Bollywood tunes by Jigary, presented by India Literacy Project. Sat, 6pm. $10-$20. Foothill College, Smithwick Theatre, Los Altos Hills.
MARDI GRAS Roux Louisiana Kitchen offers New Oreleans specials for Fat Tuesday. Tue, 7pm-midnight. Santana Row.
OPERA SAN JOSE BENEFIT
“Captain Blood and Other Rouges.” South First Friday reception features live jazz by Quasimodal. San Jose.
An annual affair with arias and dinner. Fri, 6:30pm. (See www.iahfsj.org for ticket info). Italian-American Heritage Cultural Center, San Jose.
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS
SARATOGA MUSTARD FAIRE
“The Prophecy.” Live music, art and more for South First Friday. 5-9pm. San Jose.
WORKS/SAN JOSE Benefit Auction Reception for South First Friday. Thru Mar 19. San Jose.
Celebrating 10 years of traditional family fun. Sun, 10am-4pm. Pancake breakfast also available from 7-11:30am for $7. Heritage Orchard and Warner Hutton House, Saratoga.
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The Fountain Blues Harlem Gospel Choir Septeto Nacional Festival Allstars Ignacio Piñeiro Thu, Mar 31, 7:30pm Band with Chris Cain The world famous Harlem de Cuba Sat, Mar 5, 7:30pm Special guest Chris Cain and other award-winning local and national talent who have all performed at the prestigious Metro Fountain Blues Festival (JC Smith, Endre Tarczy, Ron E. Beck, Stan Erhart, Lara Price, Mark Fenichel, Maxx Cabello Jr., Kaye Bohler, Andy Just, Gary Smith, and Richard Palmer) come together to jam the blues — bringing back the spirit of the legendary greats! $32/$27 | Members: $29/$24
Gospel Choir is one of the preeminent gospel choirs in the world. The Choir has performed with such famous artists as Bono, Sinead O’Connor, Simple Minds, Lyle Lovett, Diana Ross, Brooks and Dunn, Ashford & Simpson, Jimmy Cliff, and the Chieftains. Their songs of inspiration touch the depths of the soul and raise spirits to angelic heights. “They are Angels in Harlem” - Bono, U2 $50/$45 | Members: $45/$40
Carriage House Theatre Box Office, 408.961.5858, M-F, 10am-4pm ticketmaster.com or montalvoarts.org Free on-site parking!
Fri, Apr 1, 8pm This 7-piece band, founded in 1927 by Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez (1888-1969), the prolific Cuban bassist and composer known affectionately as “El Poeta del Son”, has seen an array of Cuban musical superstars pass through its ranks. Today, Eugenio Rodríguez “Raspa” and Frank Oropesa “El Matador” carry Piñero’s musical torch as leaders of this legendary group. $35/$30 | Members: $31/$27
15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA 95070
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Shaking It Up POUNDING HER CANE on the floorboards, great-grandmother MaDear, played by Sharon Moore, exhorts her companions to “Jar the floor!” The phrase means, among other things, “raise the spirit.” The Tabia Theatre Ensemble, now celebrating its 25th year bringing African American drama to the Silicon Valley, raises the spirit of Jar the Floor—Cheryl West’s 1991 play. It’s tough to bring topics like child molestation, breast cancer and dementia to the stage. Tabia does a great job of tackling these and many other serious issues, capturing both the serious consequences of keeping family secrets without losing the good-natured humor that imbues real life. The subjects and the humor resonated with the audience, who laughed along with boisterous, brassy Lola, played by Tabia founding member Antoinette Johnson. The intense, emotional performance of C. Kelly Wright as MayDee—a woman caught between the roles of mother, daughter and granddaughter—brought tears. The big, homey kitchen created by scenic designer Fred Sharkey includes charming details that make the stage feel like a family home.
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The first act didn’t quite come together—the pacing was off in spots, and the action was slow because so much information had to be set up. The good news is that the second act delivers on the promises made in the first. All the careful, stumbling lies fall apart as unpleasant truths come tumbling out. The energy on the stage increases; at times all five women are yelling at once as they storm up and down—each woman just trying to get someone to listen to her point of view. At the heart of Jar the Door is the endlessly complex set of interactions between mothers and daughters. All five women brought their own life experiences to their roles, bringing the characters alive in a way that made them real and relatable. Though Jar the Floor remains firmly rooted in African American culture across the generations of the 20th century, it also makes the point that the love, hate, frustration, admiration and endless challenges of mother-daughter relationships cut across racial and generational boundaries. Any woman who’s ever been a mother or a daughter will see something of herself in this show. In the end, the play’s art mimics real life. Nothing is truly resolved, yet each character takes a step forward in understanding herself and her place in her family and her world. A sense of hope emanates from the stage, leaving the audience with a warm sense of the love and joy of family.—Liz Hamill
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Soaring ‘Swan’ NATALIE PORTMAN may have won an Oscar for playing a wacko ballerina in Black Swan, but that movie will fade with time—unlike the real Swan Lake, which has lasted more than 130 years already. Ballet San Jose presented its elegant version in a strong production that reveals why this ballet continues to capture our imaginations. The improbable story finds Prince Siegfried (Maykel Solas) falling in love with a swan, Odette (Karen Gabay); that is, a beautiful enchanted maiden—one has to presume she appears more maidenly than swan. She and other maidens were transformed into swan slaves by an evil sorcerer, Baron Von Rothbart (Maximo Califano). When Rothbart sees the Prince’s love for Odette, he plots to gain power through engineering an unholy alliance between Siegfried and Odette’s dark alter ego, Odile (also Gabay). True love, however, is not so easily subverted, and Siegfried and Odette find a way to thwart Rothbart. The ending, while tragic, still has redemption and the power of love. Artistic director Dennis Nahat has carefully restored, preserved, and restaged this classic, aiming to create an original production that honors the best of its traditions while making it resonant for contemporary audiences. The result is a fresh evocation of all that makes Swan Lake great and memorable, with less “fluff ” than usual. Ballet San Jose shows a depth of talent and technique that beautifully meets the challenge of this demanding work. The principal roles rotate, but the dancers on Sunday afternoon were excellent. Solas, Gabay and Califano were wonderful and carried the bulk of the show, with numerous solos, pas de deux and trios, including innovative “fight” choreography. Gabay was riveting in her exquisite interpretation of Odette, and transitioned brilliantly into the wicked Odile, her long-suffering melancholy turning to malevolent grins. The company demonstrated fine training throughout. Of special note were the four princesses—Amy Marie Briones, Cynthia Sheppard, Mallory Welsh, and Jing Zhang—marvelous in their several numbers. Akira Takahashi delighted with his hijinks and superb leaps as the Court Jester. The leading swans— Harriet McMeekin, Kaleena Opdyke, Beth Ann Namey and Jing Zhang—also got to display their superior skills. The production was quite long—three intermissions to accommodate set and costume changes adds 45 minutes in a show that clocks in at more than three hours. Acts 1 and 3 could do with some trim to bring in a tighter show. The costumes and scenery by David Guthrie are attractive and spectacular; the color palette for Act 1 alone is smartly coordinated. Minor quibbles: Gabay’s tutu in Act 2 suited the tradition but fit oddly; and the staging of Rothbart’s demise was not as impressive as one would like. Ballet San Jose is a true gem for our region, for the quality and vision of its productions, and Swan Lake was no exception.—Jeanie K. Smith
SLIDE: eighth blackbird WITH STEVE MACKEY & RINDE ECKERT
SAT / MAR 5 / 8 PM Grammy-winners eigth blackbird in major new music/ theater work by Steve Mackey and Rinde Eckert.
JOHN HOLLENBECK LARGE ENSEMBLE
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Midnight Son is as much a mystery about whether or not its main character is a vampire—and a thoughtful examination of what it means if he is—as it is a horror film. Panic over his rapidly escalating “anemia” drives the plot, but it’s the acting, the eerie atmosphere and the realism that make this film a mustsee at Cinequest this year. Leberecht spoke to Metro about his debut film in anticipation of its world premiere this Friday at Cinequest. D<KIF1 K_\i\Êj jf dlZ_ mXdg`i\ jkl]] flk k_\i\% N_Xk dX[\ pfl nXek kf kXb\ X Z_XeZ\ fe k\cc`e^ Xefk_\i jkfip f] k_Xk kpg\6 SCOTT LEBERECHT: I continually just didn’t see what I was wanting, which was something that was very
real. Something that was sad, and that didn’t romanticize this monster character. I wanted to do something that was almost like a documentary, taking it to the point of “forget about everything you’ve seen—what would it really be like?” The two conventions that we kept were no sun and no food—you’ve got to have blood. How would you deal with it? 8j k_\ dX`e Z_XiXZk\i# AXZfY# Y\^`ej kf le[\i^f k_\j\ \oki\d\ Z_Xe^\j# `kÊj efk Zc\Xi n_\k_\i _\ _Xj \m\i \m\e Zfej`[\i\[ k_\ `[\X k_Xk _\ d`^_k Y\ X mXdg`i\% NXj k_Xk `ek\ek`feXc6 That’s exactly what I wanted. To me, what this represents in terms of, something we all must deal with is Jung’s “shadow” idea, that there’s this thing inside of us we all feel like we have to hide. But even before we know it’s there, we know it’s there. I wanted the audience to have that experience of saying “Does he know, or doesn’t he? Has he never thought of this?” . . . It’s definitely a film about figuring out your identity. K_\ fecp Ócd @ ZXe k_`eb f] k_Xk ÉD`[e`^_k JfeÊ \m\e i\dfk\cp
?fn [`[ pfli nfib fe m`jlXc \]]\Zkj Xk @e[ljki`Xc C`^_k Xe[ DX^`Z `eÔl\eZ\ k_\ Ócd6 I kind of came away from there with a bad taste in my mouth about movies driven by visual effects. I think that may have even influenced this drive I had toward making a more realistic fantasy movie. That sounds weird, but that’s the way I felt coming away from ILM, I was so sick of sort of seeing things I loved not really taken seriously because it’s a comic-book movie, or because it’s a vampire or werewolf movie or because it deals with fantastic elements. It suddenly gets relegated to teen summer fare, and any intelligence or sensitivity goes out the window. It was hard working at ILM, because what gets you in there is intelligence and sensitivity, and yet that’s exactly what we weren’t allowed to use there. It was weird. We put a lot of that into our shots, but what was always sad was going to the movie’s premiere and just being like, “Wow, that was a terrible film. The effects were brilliant, but they didn’t seem to really care about anything else.” So that may have influenced why I wanted my vampire film to be low tech, or more real.
MIDNIGHT SUN (U.S.; 88 min) March 4 at 9:30am, SJ Rep March 6 at 6:45pm, C12 March 11 at 12:30pm, C12
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Questing Kfd J_X[pXZ cffbj ]fi k_\ [\\g Xejn\ij kf _ldXe`kpÊj jg`i`klXc e\\[j `e @ 8d WHAT PROFIT it a man . . . ? Jesus’ question was on comedy director Tom Shadyac’s mind. There were already elements of spirituality in his Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty. The director was in the process of giving away his money when he got to the point described in his confessional new Cinequest entry, I Am. A bad fall from a mountain bike had left Shadyac in months of agony. When he recovered, he decided to make a film about the troubles of the world. He interviewed great minds to discuss what needs to be done. One doesn’t have to be religious to follow Shadyac’s arguments; I Am’s title is not a reference to Jehovah. No matter what I’ve written about kitschy spiritual movies over the decades, I enjoy talking about the interconnection of all living things and the importance of pacifism as much as any Dr. Bronner’s soap-company copywriter. But when the director blames science and technology for muddling the ancestral wisdom of native peoples, or makes rounds to the Noetic Institute, or hooks himself up to a tub of yogurt—then I Am starts heading into the direction of What the Bleep Do We Know!?. Over the phone from Seattle, I wonder what the Tom Shadyac of 10 years ago would have asked about his film. “I guess I would have asked, ‘How much is it going to gross?’” he says. “Today I’m more concerned about how
well it is expressing its ideas in the form of entertainment.” When he was considering making this film, had anyone quoted to Shadyac the plot of Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges’ parable about the do-gooder filmmaker who learns his comedies do more for the world than his worldsaving earnestness? Shadyac replies, “I’ve never believed that my comedy didn’t have a value— the value of helping people see things from another color or perspective. My film Ace Ventura is scripture, as far as I’m concerned. It’s an amazing thing to create a vulnerability to laughter and a connection between people. That’s what I love about the journey, and I’m hoping I Am is part of it. “ Shadyac’s Patch Adams, a punching bag to critics, is perhaps more forgivable when you learn that his father, Richard, was the CEO of fundraising for St. Jude’s Hospital for children. The late elder Shadyac was a lawyer, and in I Am, he seems skeptical that humans will ever evolve into altruism. His son suggests: “The cultural malaise is so thick he couldn’t see what’s in our nature. My father’s life—and the creation of the hospital—shows how you can change the world with compassion.” I Am gives a lesson in the actual biological basis for compassion as a survival tool. We see the physical symptoms—the choking up— demonstrated effectively with a news
clip of a little boy surprised in his classroom by his father. Shadyac filtered through other clips before choosing this: “I was looking for something short and quickly effective. The television news focuses on aberrations: they can’t show us the 10 million acts of compassion, respect or kindness that happen every day. That’s why Thoreau and Emerson agreed that ‘he is a wise man who never reads newspapers.’” Discourse from Rumi scholar Coleman Barks and Desmond Tutu are also part of this film’s studies of selflessness. One of the most articulate subjects is radio host and author Thom Hartmann, who often raises a voice against economic injustice, “the banksters” and the greed of the right wing. Loving your enemies is noble, but ideally you want to have some political
leverage against them. Hartmann had talked politics in the interviews, but Shadyac hadn’t included it in the film. “Thom is all about philosophical rooting in politics. This film is more about what the Dalai Lama says here: ‘Critical thinking first, and then action.’ I didn’t want to specify what that action should be.” After Cinequest, Shadyac is taking his film on the road. “I’m hoping to go as wide as possible, to put this anywhere it can be seen. I’m honored and humbled to be a part of this discussion.” —Richard von Busack I AM (U.S.; 76 min.) March 2 at 7pm SJ Rep
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Acquainted With The Night
(Canada; 80 min.) Michael McNamara’s globe-trotting documentary hop-scotches about visiting various locales to see how people react to the mysteries of darkness. In Greece, rival churchgoers use the darkness as a tapestry for fantastical fireworks displays. In Austin, a naturalist helps people understand why the millions of bats that emerge from under a bridge at sunset are so important in vector control. A memorial to the victims of 9/11 is written in lights on the New York City skyline. Human efforts to fill the evening hours with spectacle have a price—human-made lights are blotting out our view of the Milky Way. The material is fascinating,
The Blind
(U.S.; 72 min.) Nathan Silver’s debut has slaved-over visual and audio surfaces, from the classicera film titles to the soundtrack of ’50s show tunes. Kate ( Josette Barchilon) exists in a fugue state that would do a Stepford Wife proud; she’s the live-in of an emotionally shuttered young architect ( Jonas Ball) who does his best to ditch her whenever possible. Keeping all the talk small (“Are these the papers
The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore
Filmmakers Bruce Oldenberg and William Joyce (Robots, Meet the Robinsons) will be on hand to publicize this CGI short about a world of living books. It’s going to be a gateway to an interactive story version, but it’s captivating looking on its own: the visual sources including The Wizard of Oz and the cyclone scene in Keaton’s Steamboat Bill Jr. (RvB) March 3 at 9pm and March 6 at 10:30am, C12 as part of the Shorts 4: Animation program
first-time director sets this modern Nativity story in a countryside of such haunted fogbound glow as hasn’t been seen since Bela Tarr’s Satantango. We begin to feel that time hasn’t moved since the Middle Ages; in the shapes of the actors (foreshortened, sly and chubby) is evidence of that love of flesh so essential to Flemish art. It looks timeless, which makes a burst of night-club color, the rainwetted towers of a city center or the intrusion of a nuclear power plant seem all the more surprising. Through its endorsement of simple faith at all costs, of the foolishness that confounds the wise, it stays spiritual. Thus, at times it becomes that rarity, an overdetermined provocation. Plus, occasionally the actors get their tongues tied on the homely yet lofty sentiments. Standout in the cast: Paul Mertens as the worldliest one of the trio; his top hat, string tie and mannerisms recall W.C. Fields. (RvB) March 2 at 8:45pm, C12; March 6 at 11:30am, C12; March 9 at 2:30pm, C12
The Nobel Prize Winner
Medal of Honor
Little Baby Jesus Of Flandr
(Belgium; 74 min.) Certainly Gust Van den Berghe was put on Earth so that Harmony Korine will have someone to talk to at film festivals. With handdrawn titles and a cast of actors with Down syndrome, this sometimes shining, sometimes aggravating experimental film recasts of the story of the Three Kings. The 24-year-old
Philip Glass music accompanies the cityscapes of Bucharest’s cyclopean buildings. Despite the film’s celebration of futility, of tinhorn governments and of honors that come too late to do anything but blight a life, this film comes close to a happy ending as we’ve seen in the new Romanian cinema. (RvB) March 9 at 7pm, C12; March 12 at 6:45pm, C12
(Romania; 90 min.) Calin Peter Netzer’s film is your classic woebegone Balkans fable. It’s 1995: the new faceless bureaucracy running Romania awards the aged and confused Ion I. Ion (Radu Beligan) a medal commemorating his valor in the Big War 50 years ago. Age and vodka have dimmed the memory of what it was he did; detective work shows that he once took a potshot at fleeing Germans. The honor ruins a life that’s already strained: he’s broke, his son hates him because of a patriotic (or compassionate) mistake he once made, and his wife has been giving him the silent treatment as long as he can remember. Netzer circles a capital city of war memorials;
(Netherlands; 92 min.) Filmed in black-and-white and set in Amsterdam, director Timo Veltkamp’s film introduces starving artist Joachim West (Marc van Uchelen), a man who has spent 10 years observing misery in its many forms to write his masterpiece. But when West’s publisher believes that the modern-day Dostoevsky has submitted the novel before committing suicide, the book is passed along to the more financially viable writer Fabian Remarque (Harry van Rijthoven), who has been stymied by writer’s block. As Remarque cements his legacy with the plagiarized novel and garners attention for the Nobel Prize for literature, West goes off the grid and takes up board in the attic of a strip club. But as fate would have it, West’s efforts to escape his failures as a man and writer lead him to the secret he has been trying to avoid for almost two decades. Both men must confront their secrets in the end, leaving Remarque to go to extremes to protect his reputation while West takes the central role in a tragedy worthy of his novel. ( JK) March 8 at 7:15pm, C12; March 10 at 2:45pm, C12; March 12 at 12:15pm, C12
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Plan 9 From Outer Space
It seemed like a good idea at the time (1958). Conceited aliens in a flying saucer, peeved at human violence, decide to give Earthlings a good scare by resurrecting their dead. When the dead consist of wrestler Tor “The Big Swede With a Heart of Gold” Johnson, the late, lamented TV hostess Vampira and chiropractor-turned-actor Dr. Tom Mason, you can see why Earth fails to take notice. Popularly but incorrectly named as the worst movie ever made, Plan 9 has been a punching bag for nearly a halfcentury; considering that two of the fists in the assault belong to the loathsome Michael Medved, it’s clear this movie needs defenders. A poignantly inept unauthorized version of The Day the Earth Stood Still, it’s a day-dreamy, surreal experience with genuinely sad work by Bela Lugosi, seen shortly before he was taken by Death, the Proud Brother. Plan 9 has beauty and poetry: “Explode the sunlight here, gentlemen, you explode the universe.” This print has been newly adorned with 3D effects. (RvB) March 5 at 10pm, SJ Rep
Potiche
(France; 103 min.) As the “trophy wife” of the title, Catherine Deneuve is at once regal and sensible in director Francois (8 Women) Ozon’s gift to Deneuve and to French
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for the orthodontist’s office?”), Silver and co-writer Ben Bostick try to establish a subtly mounting tension. Will all this repression lead to a latter-day Fall River Tragedy? The novice cast isn’t quite up to this heavy load of inflection, despite the satisfying wrap-up. A favorite scene, which best channels the spirit of Jeanne Dielman: Barchilon numbly puttering around the house accompanied on the soundtrack by Sandy Posey’s proto-feminist yet ultimately masochistic tune “Born a Woman.” (RvB) March 5 at 4:30pm, C12; March 6 at 9pm, C12; March 8 at 4:15pm, C12
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45 politics—sexual and otherwise. Set in a late-1970s French umbrella factory, this delightful bedroom and boardroom farce makes light work of heavy topics such as women’s liberation and corporate capitalism. Deneuve takes over the factory when her husband, the CEO (Fabrice Luchini, aping the womanizing French president, Nicolas Sarkozy), suffers a heart attack. She quickly wins over the workers, and allies with her former lover, the communist mayor (Gerard Depardieu, looking like an avuncular Brando). “She may be a trophy,” says her husband, “but she’s not on the shelf.” The breezy pace, stellar cast and homage to Deneuve’s Umbrellas of Cherbourg make for a splendid—if stage-bound—farce. (DH) March 9 at 7pm, Calif
Samuel Bleak
(U.S.; 105 min.) Dustin Schuetter is the star, director and writer of a would-be Greek tragedy set in Terrebonne Parish, La. Of the various roles Schuetter takes on, none impresses more than his role as producer. On a sub-shoestring budget, he has assembled a fine cast. A wild man is found living in the bushes not far from the home of the sheriff (David Zayas) and his wife (Deborah Kara Unger), who is the head counselor at the local mental hospital. Once interned, cleaned up and shaved, the vagabond “Samuel Bleak” (a badly wigged Schuetter) demonstrates a mute wisdom and healing ability that Meher Baba would envy. As he taps out his life story on a Smith Corona, Bleak delivers clues to an unsolved murder mystery of decades before. Unger, once the cool star of films by David Cronenberg and David Fincher, can do little with this material. It wobbles from fundamental ineptness during
the crime and detection scenes to the mawkishness of traditional madhouse redemption drama. (RvB) March 5 at 7pm, Calif; March 6 at 9:30pm, SJ Rep; March 7 at 7pm, SJ Rep
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New The Adjustment Bureau
(PG-13) Matt Damon plays a man on the run from a mysterious agency that seeks to control people’s futures. It co-stars Emily Blunt and is derived from a story by sci-fi master Philip K. Dick. (Opens Fri.)
Beastly
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(Belgium; 88 min.) There’s genuine horror in this Dutch import, which shows a Shyamalanesque use of the uncanny to weigh moral character. Maybe part of the horror is the city backdrop: Rotterdam, which is infamous as the one of the first places of “total war.” The film is a story of bombing, and it ends with such a dread aestheticization of the minute of explosion that it makes Dominic Sena’s similar destruction-porn in Swordfish look a paper bag popping. Exquisitely followed in Steadicam, Rotterdam security guard Sam (Sam Louwyck) lives in solitude in a housing tower. He’s followed to his dull security-guard job. His back is turned on the day a suicide bomber blows up a mall. During the rescue, staggering among the howling wounded in the smoke, Sam’s nerve breaks, and he flees, only to become a specter in a derelict abandoned city, in which a few other wraiths (victims of the bombing) turn up to confess or blame him for not stopping the attack. Sam has a chance to repeat the day’s work and to try to stop it before it happens. Director Koen Mortier comes up with an unsatisfying motivation for the bomber, so much so that the twist doesn’t have that Appointment in Samarra punch that he’s seeking. Cryptic as it is, it’s an eloquent lament for the way humans are trapped in time, and constrained by fate. (RvB) March 3 at 9:30pm, Calif; March 7 at 6:30pm, C12; March 10 at 11:45am, C12 For full schedule details, see the pullout program in this issue. Our reviewers are Richard von Busack (RvB), Michael S. Gant (MSG), Don Hines (DH) and Josh Koehn (JK)
(PG-13; 95 min.) Reasonably amusing redo of Beauty and the Beast. Manhattan preppie Kyle (Alex Pettyfer) insults a goth girl witch and is transformed into a scarred creature until some other lady declares love for him. It starts out like a young-readers version of American Psycho, complete with white-on-white-onwhite luxury furnishings, but then it turns into a nouveau fairy tale with too much time on its hands. As a blind tutor, Neil Patrick Harris lazes around like David Wayne in an old MGM musical. Former Disney pixie Vanessa Hudgens plays Lindy, the neo-hippie beauty compelled to live with “Hunter” (Kyle’s beast name). Grossed by Bulgari jewels, she loves Hunter S. Thompson, Che and Machu Picchu—this makes for an agreeable sequence of building an urban greenhouse out of salvaged materials, as well as an equally charming scene at the school where a loudspeaker calls out, “Bus for Machu Picchu now leaving!” Lines like that make director/ writer Daniel Barnz potentially someone to watch, but he’s got to cinch up and salt the slower material. The witch herself, Kendra, is played by Mary-Kate Olsen (!) in various guises, with a little crescent tattoo around one eye like a German dueling scar. She’s costumed as a ghoul Louise Brooks, a dead Faye Dunaway and an eldritch Stevie Nicks. The potential twist this material needs could have been Hunter/Kyle falling for her: once you’ve had the dark side you never go back. Kendra’s curtain call suggests Beastly’s sympathies for the devilish. (Opens Fri.) (RvB)
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Even the Rain
(Unrated; 103 min.) Certainly the most interesting fictional film about Columbus. Spanish director Icíar Bollaín takes a tactic similar to Atom Egoyan’s view of the Armenian holocaust in Ararat and Denys Arcand’s version of the crucifixion in Jesus of Montreal: in other words the idea that a really unthinkable historical event is best viewed through a frame. We watch the making of a film near Cochabamaba, Bolivia, in 2000: to save money and get extras cheap, the financiers decided to shoot Columbus’ arrival in America in some of South America’s poorest locales. On a whim, the director (Gael García Bernal) picks a defiant villager to be the co-star, despite the protests of his sensible but duplicitous producer (Luis Tosar). This villager, Daniel (Juan Carlos Aduviri), is already known to the police as a resistance leader against the privatization of the water systems—and a serious insurrection is brewing. The point is (and the point is easily taken) that the ripping off of the commons by European
corporations is just the same ancient grab now carried out by other means. Eventually, the film, dedicated to Howard Zinn, decays into commonplace political melodrama, despite the well-staged riot scenes. But as that typical melodramatic figure, the embittered hard-drinking film star, Karra Elejalde is both a strong moral center and a fascinating Columbus in the movie within the movie. It is Spain’s official selection for this year’s Oscars. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose and the Aquarius in Palo Alto.) (RvB)
Rango
(PG; 107 min.) An animated feature about a chameleon battling bad guys in a Western town. With the voices of Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin and Alfred Molina. (Opens Fri.)
Take Me Home Tonight
(R) A comedy about college kids partying on Labor Day weekend stars Topher Grace, Anna Faris and Dan Fogler. (Opens Fri.)
Revivals Bedknobs and Broomsticks
(1971) The proto–Harry Potter Disney picture about a student witch (Angela Lansbury) and some children she aids in creating magic to hold off the Nazi hordes. Directed by Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins and much liveaction Disney). (Plays Mar 4-6 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)
Moran of the Lady Letty
(1926) This filmed-in–San Francisco actioner features the first male sex symbol, Rudolph Valentino, as a kidnapped blueblood who becomes involved with a young adventuress. It is based on a novel by Frank Norris (McTeague). Costumes, prizes, short subjects and vintage memorabilia are part of this 81st birthday celebration for the Balboa Theatre; Frederick Hodges, a familiar figure at the Edison Theater in Niles, will perform the live accompaniment. (Plays Mar 6 at 6:30pm in San Francisco at the Balboa Theatre;www. balboamovies.com.) (RvB)
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The Cradle of Courage (1920). Cowboy star William S. Hart unusually cast in a crime drama about a man who spends time on both sides of the law. With shorts Punch the Clock (1922) and Harry Langdon in Feet of Mud (1924). Judy Rosemberg at the piano. (Plays Mar 5 at 7:30pm at the Edison Theatre in Fremont.) (RvB)
The Seventh Victim/The Curse of the Cat People
(1943/1944) Evidence of the principle that emotional cruelty is always more interesting than the physical kind: two by producer Val Lewton. In The Seventh Victim, a lady learns that her missing sister may have been engulfed by a cult of witches in Greenwich Village. BILLED The Curse of the Cat People. One of the strangest sequels ever made. The original Cat People had a mesmerizing
47 Heche, excellent) and the life of the convention, Dean Ziegler (John C. Reilly). Reilly, who seemed at first to be headed for Rod Steiger roles, did a 180-degree turn to become one fantastically adept comedian (Walk Hard, Step Brothers). His Dean is beautifully obscene, a rare example of a coarse jackass who brings hilarity to every gesture, every unprintable under-the-breath comment. (RvB)
Drive Angry 3D
(R; 104 min.) Truly, the title says it all. Stars Nicolas Cage.
The Fighter
(R; 114 min) David O. Russell’s boxing
drama is juicy, touchingly acted and rich with atmosphere. The story takes place in the 1990s, in Lowell, Mass. Road-crew laborer and striving boxer Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) has been training all his life with his elder half-sibling, Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale). Micky meets a weary bartender, Charlene (the creamy-skinned Amy Adams), a university dropout with some aspirations for a better life. Charlene is tough enough to fight off Ward’s overprotective family: a gaggle of seven high-haired, sharp-nailed sisters. The mom of this scary brood is the chain-smoking Alice (Melissa Leo in another fine, sandpapery
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science-vs.-faith plot, with a wrong psychiatrist in it: Tom Conway as a sham, the cane to aid the sick having the sword of evil concealed inside. Here, the story is of a little girl with “too many fancies, too few friends.” How did Jane Randolph’s Alice Reed from the original—so bright and sharp, so willing to go after what she wanted—become such a sedate housewife? But the real action is elsewhere: the cursed Serbian cat woman returns from the beyond in the form of an angel caring for the lonely Amy (Ann Carter, a child actress of tremendous skill). This corner’s allergy to angel movies is medicated by the way Simone Simon looks: unreal, lean, asymmetrical, wrapped in what certainly must be that glittering samite you read about. The has-been actress in the scary subplot, who is either demented or vicious, is played by Julia Dean. Her stark, staring twominute-long recital of the legend of Sleepy Hollow has more fright in it than all of Tim Burton’s movie of the same name. (Plays Mar 3-4 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
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The Wicked Lady/ Caravan
(1945/1946) Two British costume romances. Margaret Lockwood—a born-in-Karachi beauty who critic David Thomson claims rivaled Vivien Leigh—plays a titled lady of the 1600s who becomes a highway robber for the fun of it. James Mason, a very chemical, velvet-voiced brute insufficiently cherished by today’s audiences, plays the dashing bandit she meets along the way. BILLED WITH Caravan. Stewart Granger is in Spain during the Victorian era, escorting a valuable necklace through bandit territory. (Plays Mar 5-7 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
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(PG-13; 107 min.) A comedy with Martin Lawrence and Brandon T. Jackson.
Cedar Rapids
(R; 86 min.) Michael Areta’s comedy—his best—comes out in favor of the pleasures of the flesh. Based on a robust script by Phil Johnston, the film chronicles the transformative dirty weekend of a meek Wisconsin insurance executive, Tim Lippe (Ed Helms). The Best Westernish business hotel in Cedar Rapids looks like Xanadu to him, and there he meets a team of fun lovers: square but friendly Ronald (Isiah Whitlock Jr.), a playful mom who is comfy with her sexuality (Anne
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UP, UP and AWAY Jeremy M. Inman’s ‘Super Hero Party Clown’ was shot in San Jose.
Cinequest Trifecta Super Hero Party Clown (U.S.; 84 min.) There’s great charm and humor in Jeremy M. Inman’s shot-in– San Jose story. Eugene (Randy J. Blair) performs as superhero Arachnid Man at children’s birthday parties. Eugene’s problem is his longstanding crush on his adorable barista pal Emily (Shelby Barnes, very good); she in turn is considered the official girlfriend of the popular and handsome Todd (Adam Sessa). Trouble begins when Todd decides to crowd Eugene’s racket in hopes of impressing Emily. As the proprietor of the Balloons-a-Go-Go costume shop, Cynthia Abrams gives the film both a dose of female energy and some reality checks. The ordinary spoof makes a point of apologetically contrasting the difference between a large-budget epic and a localbackyard film. This is no spoof; Super Hero Party Clown sources what people love about the lovelorn leotard characters, and honors the devotion of fans, as well as the message of personal endurance contained in such pulp. Already well known thanks to two sold-out shows in a work-inprogress from at last year’s Cinequest, Inman’s film has had its stunt, technical and special effects improved. March 3 at 9:30pm, SJ Rep; March 6 at 9:30pm, California Theatre Desert Rain (U.S.; 77 min.) Dan (Daniel Van Hart) and his dodgy girlfriend Skye (Alexander Morrow) are trying to leave Albuquerque for L.A. after eviction and auto repossession. Before he drives away, Dan is trying to find Lefty, an erstwhile songplugger who owes him money. When that search turns troublesome, the couple head to Santa Fe to put the sleeve on Skye’s
sister and her husband, with similar results, and then it’s time for crime. Of course, the Duke City looks good; locations include the state fairgrounds, Rio Rancho and some of Route 66’s vintage neon. If firsttime director Steve Loff’s main question is whether these two caroming losers are sympathetic enough to care about, he’s got no worries. However, the couple’s lapse into more serious felony isn’t as believable; if you’re not Hitchcock, it’s hard to get away with Hitchcock’s “Nobody calls the police because it wouldn’t be fun.” Sturdy supporting work by Jesus Jr. as a local thug-lifer; he also performs on the soundtrack. March 5 at 9:30pm, C12; March 6 at 4pm, San Jose Rep; March 8 at 2pm; C12 Dying to Do Letterman (U.S.; 75 min.) Former San Franciscan Steve Mazan was diagnosed with liver cancer; although he had gotten CAMERA far as a standup comedian, he hadn’tCINEMAS AD achieved his life’s goal of performing Wed, March 2nd on Letterman. Surprisingly, this film is 1 x 4 inches hardly a cancerlogue at all. Instead, it’s an interesting story of how one gets through the gatekeepers to perform on national TV. On one level, it’s essential viewing for the standup comedian, with such blueNORMA chip performers as Ray Romano and Jim Gaffigan giving tips on how to persist. I was personally acquainted with a man named Harvey Pekar, who could take Dave or leave him, and I share his measure of the host. Even so, given the way Mazan shapes this journey, with tricks and much polish, it’s hard not to be hooked on his hustle; Dying to Do Letterman can be read as a story of persistence in any endeavor. March 4 at 7pm, C12; March 6 at 7pm, SJ Rep; March 8 at 5pm, C12. X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE —Richard von Busack
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performance); all put pressure on Micky to keep Dicky as his trainer. One little problem: he’s a hopeless crack addict. The Fighter has an excellent subject for a working-class film: the problem of someone rising, anchored by a close family—anchored in the sense of the word that means “something that drags you down.” (RvB)
of being ambushed by savages and taken as a hostage to the exact spot where you wanted to go. (RvB)
The Eagle
(R; 105 min.) A comedy about a married couple caught up in extramarital affairs. With Owen Wilson and Christina Applegate.
(PG-13, 118 min.) One thing to praise: the unusual attempt by Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland) to bring a small and unbraced camera style to the ancient world. It’s based on a 1954 novel about the historical disappearance of the Roman Ninth Legion. Caesar’s soldiers vanished; so did their sacred golden standard, the gilded, carved replica of an eagle. Here, Marcus Aquila (Channing Tatum), the noble son of the Ninth’s commander, crosses into modern-day Scotland to pursue the artifact. With him comes Esca (Jamie Bell), a slave. The Celt is possibly untrustworthy. More than even the MPAA-required cutting, the sleek, bland Tatum is the film’s main drawback; at 30 Tatum doesn’t have any tinge of mortality, and he can’t make you feel his pain. Solid work by Donald Sutherland and Mark Strong can’t overcome the kind of plotting that makes people leave this kind of adventure in their childhood: the astonishing coincidence, the timely bout of unconsciousness, the luck
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(G; 84 min.) At last, the film that Franco Zeffirelli really wanted to make. Garden gnomes overcome obstacles to true love.
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I Am Number Four
(PG-13; 104 min.) This four on a scale of 10 kids’ sci-fi movie has a “based on the Scholastic Book Service novel” vibe. Teen warriors from outer space live among us, tattooed for some reason with figures that look like graphics from an Asteroids video game; they’re hunted by pigtoothed villains with open sinuses, and meanwhile we pitiful earthlings are ignorant of it all. Way too much Gough and Miller in the script (the film looks like WB network soap opera, and the dialogue is like the woeful moments on Smallville). Some signs of Marti Noxon’s hand on the script in the arrival of a female battler played by Teresa Palmer (Noxon was a key player on Buffy the Vampire Slayer). The stiff, callow lead, Alex Pettyfer, and the strikingly pretty Dianna Agron (as the oldschool Kodak-film fancying girl the alien meets) were an off-screen couple, but you’d never know it. Hard PG violence goes badly with the kidsafe tone. (RvB)
Inside Job
(PG-13; 108 min.) More nauseating than Jackass: it’s a whirlwind tour through the economic rubble of 30 years of deregulation of banks and financial institutions. Charles Ferguson’s enraging documentary discovers that the famous revolving door turns 360 degrees; grossly overpaid gamblers from Goldman Sachs and elsewhere are returned
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Just Go With It
(PG-13, 116 min.) Like all Adam Sandler movies, Just Go With It has an unignorably creepy aspect. The quieter Sandler gets, the more menacing he is. In courtship with Jennifer Aniston, he’s like Harvey Keitel trying to soothe Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver. Sandler is Danny, a plastic surgeon, who keeps romance casual by pretending to be married. One night, he meets the perfect girl, the stacked-up Palmer (hardfaced swimsuit model Brooklyn Decker); after a night of sex, she finds his ring and is outraged. Danny is forced to create an imaginary wife, to be played by his divorcedwith-children secretary Katherine (Jennifer Aniston). Matters worsen when Palmer and Danny go to Maui, accompanied by his “ex-wife,” his two “kids” and the ex-wife’s “lover.” It’s a remake of Cactus Flower (1969). Nicole Kidman is bizarrely cast as a mean friend from Aniston’s past; all one can say is that the humiliation is expected; a woman alone in a frame in a Sandler movie is as much peril as if she were in a bad neighborhood at 3am. (RvB)
The King’s Speech
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(R; 118 min.) Colin Firth gives a deeply affecting portrayal of a shame-wracked man born and bred to be a spokesman, yet who is handicapped with a crippling stammer. In the 1930s, Firth is the Duke of York, a family man with a wife named Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter). The stammering duke, known to his family as “Bertie,” is the official spare to the heir, next in line to the Prince of Wales (a superlatively cast Guy Pearce embodies this Edward’s upperclass shadiness and monstrous entitlement). The prince is the love slave of a twice-married American named Simpson; his affair and his indifference to world troubles are pushing events to a constitutional crisis. The man tapped to solve it is Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), an Australian speech therapist tasked with helping the duke find his voice on the eve of England’s entry into World War II. Most of the film is an inspired actor’s duel about the conflict between pride and need. Rush’s wit and nimbleness counterpoint this story of majesty, which is almost exactly as tragic as it is comic. (RvB)
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out of Roth or Bellow—a man who can deny religion easier than he can deny his Jewish roots. Nora’s Will is about the question of what these roots signify: ancestral wisdom, obligations—or something as simple as having a codified method to deal with pain. This comedydrama has the reliable fascination of a story of cultural fault lines chafing, and it also has a constant tone of Publication Size intelligence. It is literally unorthodox. (RvB)
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to government offices they left for Wall Street. Some of these spoilsmen go to formerly honorable Ivy League institutions, there to legitimize the kind of fiscal policies that made them superrich. Few have regrets, but some have anger at being asked impertinent questions about ethics by a lowly submillionaire with a camera. Inside Job records a nonpartisan disgrace. One of the prime disappointments of the Obama administration is the way he found work for the familiar rogues from the Meltdown of ’08. Ferguson asks great questions. Don’t expect a lot of great answers about how a glorified Ponzi scheme left most of America either overworked or unemployed, heavily in debt and a few millimeters away from homelessness. (RvB)
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Seabright
Wednesday, 9pm; Blank Club, San Jose; free Dark City, Justin Morales’ new release as one-man electro-rock project Seabright, continues where Shimmer left off, winding his singer/songwriter compositions through a thick layer of glitch and ambient. The new songs are grittier and even more psychedelic, though still edged with the bright, heavily reverbed notes that are Morales’ trademark. Bottom line: he’s making the most interesting electronic music in the South Bay right now. (SP)
Blood and Water
Saturday, 6pm; Nickel City, San Jose; $10 Christian pop-punk band Blood and Water are showing some maturity on their latest release, In Character. The album is packed with songs of internal struggle, and the production has also gotten more serious and sophisticated since their last recording. The High Pilots, Fight the Static, Till I Fall and the Secret Show open. (AC)
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble
Sunday, 2:30pm; Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Palo Alto; $38-$42 In the 21st century, big-band jazz is usually considered a retro pursuit, but John Hollenbeck doesn’t treat it like history. Instead, Hollenbeck has given the sound a new lease on life by infusing the music of his 20-piece ensemble with contemporary influences and international styles. (SP)
Rock/Pop
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Fri, 9pm: Musical Charis, Blvd Park. No cover. Sat, 9pm: Rippin’. Cupertino.
AVALON Sat, 8pm: Stryper. $25-$30. Sun, 7pm: Skid Row, Jetboy, Darkside Shine, Hypertoxic. $20-$23. Santa Clara.
THE BLANK CLUB
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Wed, 9pm: Seabright, Themes, Guests. No cover. Fri, 9pm: Shitkickers, Gillbillys, Free Silver. $5. Sat, 9pm: Strangelove. Depeche Mode tribute. Plus Erasure-esque. $10. Sun, 8pm: Hayride to Hell, Hounds and Harlots, Stand Fight Resist. $10. Tue, 8pm: Hugh Cornwell. Member of the Stranglers. $10/$12. San Jose.
BLINKY’SCAN’TSAY Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am: Lou and Wayne. Rock and blues. Free. Santa Clara.
BOGART’SLOUNGE&TECH PUB Sat, 9pm: Live music. Sunnyvale.
BOSWELL’S Thu: Bitchin’ Camaros. Fri-Sat: Live music. Sun: Jack Rip Off. Mon: Drive! Campbell.
BRITANNIAARMS ALMADEN Thu, 10pm: After Party. Fri, 10pm: Sugadady. Sat, 10pm: Lovefool. San Jose.
CAPERS Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live music. Campbell.
CARAVAN Thu-Fri: Live music. Sat: Longliner. CD-release show. San Jose.
CLUB FOX Fri, 7pm: Wonderbread Five. $10. Sat, 8pm: The Unauthorized Rolling Stones, Nigel and Clive, the British Invasion. $13/$15. Tue, 7pm: Fat Tuesday with Zigaboo Modeliste. $12/$15. Redwood City.
EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Wed, 8pm: The Falling Rocks. Rolling Stones tribute. San Jose. Thu, 7pm: Hootenanny with Mike Murdock and Sean McGuire. Sat, 7pm: Daemon City Lights, Peter Chung. Willow Glen.
JOHNNYV’S Thu, 9pm: Devolutionaries. Devo Tribute. Plus the Here. Fri-Sun: Live music. San Jose.
THEVENUE Sat, 6:30pm: The Breath and the Breathing, Recognize, A City in Arms, Ecophagy, As Artifacts, For a Better Kind, Decaying Culture, Vicarious Order, We Are the Archers. All ages. Los Gatos.
CLUBFOX Wed, 7-11pm: Tip of the Top. Blues jam. $5. Thu, 7pm: Anton Schwartz and Christian Tamburr Quartet. $14/$16. Redwood City.
D’VINEJAZZANDWINE Fri-Sat, 8pm: Terrence Brewer. Morgan Hill.
FAIRMONTHOTEL
WILLOWDEN
Wed, 8:30pm: The Girlz Band. Thu, 8:30pm: Contemporary or Latin jazz. San Jose.
LILLYMAC’S
Fri, 7:30-10:30pm: Friday Night Live with Black Pearl. Willow Glen.
GAVILANCOLLEGETHEATER
Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Live music. Sunnyvale.
XBAR
Sat, 7:30pm: Bach to Blues concert. Featuring Watsonville Taiko. $10-$30. Gilroy.
NETO’SGRILL Fri, 7pm: Vegas Nights. Sat: OTR. Tue, 7pm: Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras Party with Dennis Dove. Santa Clara.
NICKELCITY Sat, 6:30pm: Blood and Water, the High Pilots, Fight the Static, Till I Fall, the Secret Show. All ages. San Jose.
9LIVES Fri, 8pm: RockSkool. 21+. $10/$12. Sat, 8pm: Mercy Fists. 21+. $10/$12. Gilroy.
NUMBERONEBROADWAY Wed, 9pm: JC Smith Jam Band. Free. Thu, 9:30pm: Bone Drivers. Free. Fri, 9:30pm: Live music. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: The Megatones. $10. Los Gatos.
ORCHARDVALLEYCOFFEE ROASTING Fri: Paul Fifield. Sat: S.T. Young. Campbell.
THEQUARTERNOTE
Sat, 9pm: Happy Body Slow Brain, Citabria, Helen Earth Band, Case in Theory. All ages. $8. Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.
World ALBERTO’S Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Rock en español. Sun-Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.
ARYAGLOBALCUISINE Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music and belly dancing. Cupertino.
AZÚCARLATINBISTROMOJITO BAR&LOUNGE Wed: Rock. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata and rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban and Latin fusions. Tue: Salsa. San Jose.
CASCAL Sat, 9pm: James Robinson flamenco guitar. Mountain View.
Fri-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.
LILLYMAC’S
THEREFUGE
Sun, 6pm: Traditional Irish music. Sunnyvale.
Sat, 6:30pm: Never Be Silenced, the Antioxidants, Kylle Reece, Cadent, Clone, How High the Moon. All ages. Cupertino.
REDROCKCOFFEEROASTING Fri, 8pm: Picture Atlantic. Sat, 8pm: Dogcatcher. All shows all ages and free. Mountain View.
SANJOSE CENTERFORTHE PERFORMINGARTS
MOROCCO’SRESTAURANT Wed, 6pm: Ageless Jazz with Jackie. Fri, 6pm: World music. Sat, 6pm: Mucho Axe. Sun, 6pm: Moroccan music and belly dancing. Mon, 6pm: Hot Kugel. Tue, 6pm: AZA. San Jose.
MORRISDAILEYAUDITORIUM
Sat, 7:30pm: Big Sean. $25-$45. San Jose.
Thu, 2pm: Yukie Dong. Japanese anime music. Free. San Jose State University.
SONOMACHICKEN
RISTORANTEFRATELLO
Thu, 8:30pm: Maxx Cabello Jr. Fri, 8:30pm: Altrasound. Sat, 8:30pm: Groove Tube. Campbell.
Fri, 7pm: Claudio. Italian classic guitar and vocals. San Jose.
SOUTHFIRSTBILLIARDS
Jazz/Blues
Fri: Reggae City Band. Sat: Young Blood. San Jose.
ARTBOUTIKI
STREETLIGHTRECORDS
Thu, 7pm: Jazz jam. All ages. Free. San Jose.
Thu, 4pm: Sour Soul. Thu, 5:30pm:
GRANDDELLSALOON Thu, 8pm: Blues jam with Aki. Sat, 8pm: Frankie Ramos Band. Campbell.
HEDLEYCLUB Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo Alberts Trio. Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Live jazz. Hotel de Anza, San Jose.
J.J.’SBLUESCAFE Wed: One Night Stand. Thu: Dennis Dove. Fri: Blues Hammer. $10. Sat: Stevie Ray Vaughn Tribute with Alan Iglesias and Crossfire. $15. Sun: Gene Washington. Mon: Dennis Dover. Tue: Liar’s Club. San Jose.
MISSIONCITYCOFFEE ROASTINGCO. Sun, 7pm: Eric Skye. Acoustic jazz guitar. Santa Clara.
APERFECTFINISH Fri, 9pm: Jorge Faustmann. Sat, 9pm: Original Jones (OMB). San Jose.
POORHOUSEBISTRO Wed, 6-9pm: Ron Thompson and friends. Thu, 6-9pm: Lara Price and Yesterdays Band. Fri, 6-10pm: John Nemeth Blues Band. Sat, 6-10pm: Nathan James Band. Sun, 2-6pm: Gilded Splinters. San Jose.
TESSORA’S Fri-Sat, 8pm: Live music. Campbell.
THREEFLAMESRESTAURANT Sun, 8-11pm: Pazazz. Tue, 7:3010:30pm: Modesto Briseno Septet. Willow Glen.
WOODHAM’SLOUNGE Fri and Sun: Pro Jam with rock and blues local musicians. Santa Clara.
C&W/Folk BOSWELL’S Sun: Mike Leatherman. Campbell.
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Kristen Toedtman and the Brendan Hines. Fri, 6pm: Musical Charis, Blvd Park. All shows are all ages and free. San Jose.
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Thu: Live DJ and karaoke. Sunnyvale.
MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 8pm: Mary Flower. Ragtime, blues and folk. $15. Sat, 8pm: The Cache Valley Drifters. Bluegrass and folk. $20/$22. Santa Clara.
BOGART’SLOUNGE
THE SADDLE RACK
Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. San Jose.
Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys. Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Fremont.
SAM’S BBQ
Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: KJ Dennis. Sunnyvale.
BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN
BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Cupertino.
Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Tue, 6pm: Carolina Special. San Jose.
BRITANNIAARMSDOWNTOWN SANJOSE
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT
Wed, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
Thu, 9pm: Live country music with Cowboy Larry. Willow Glen.
Open Mic
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O’FLAHERTY’SIRISHPUB Mon, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
QUARTERNOTE Tue, 9pm: Sherrie and Sue. No cover. Sunnyvale.
STATION55 Thu, 8pm-midnight: Karaoke. Sun, 5-9pm: Family karaoke. Gilroy.
WILLOWDEN Wed, 9:30pm: DJ JR. Thu, 11:30pm: DJ Uncle Hank. San Jose
BRITISHBANKERSCLUB Mon, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Menlo Park.
C&J’SSPORTSBAR
WOODHAM’SLOUNGE
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
Thu, 10pm: Melissa and Heather. Santa Clara.
Wed-Thu, Sat-Sun, Tue: 9:30pm: Vinnie. Santa Clara.
Wed, 9:30pm: Open Mic Night. Cupertino.
CREEKSIDELOUNGE
DanceClubs
CAFFE TRIESTE
Wed, Mon-Tue: Stephanie. Thu, Sat: Randy. Fri: Jerry Sauceda. San Jose.
Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Free. San Jose.
DASILVA’SBRONCOS
JOHNNY V’S Mon: Rebels Camp open jam night. San Jose.
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Wed, 8-11pm: Live music, comedy and poetry. Los Gatos.
RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.
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AGENDA
Wed: Guitar Hero Tournament plus karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu-Fri: DJs. San Jose.
DIVEBAR
Sat, 9pm: Party Like a Russian. Santa Clara.
Tue, 9:30pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
ELRANCHOSPORTSBAR Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
FAHRENHEITULTRALOUNGE Tue, 9pm: Partyoke. Beer pong and karaoke. San Jose.
FLAMESCOFFEESHOP Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.
Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
AVALON
AZÚCARLATINBISTROMOJITO BAR&LOUNGE Wed: Rock music. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata and rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, cumbia, urban and Latin fusions. Tue: Salsa. San Jose.
B4TWELVE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. Palo Alto.
THEBLANKCLUB Thu, 9pm: Atomic. DJ Basura spins New Wave, electro and indie. $5. San Jose.
ALEX’S 49ER INN Nightly except Sun, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
BENNIGAN’S GRILL Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Santa Clara.
BLUE MAX Fri-Sat, 9pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
THEGOOSETOWNLOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.
GOOSELOONEY’S Wed, 9pm: Thomas. Thu-Sun, 9pm: August. Milpitas.
BRITANNIAARMSALMADEN
HUDDLE
Wed and Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon, 9pm: Beer Pong. San Jose.
Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.
BRITANNIAARMSCUPERTINO
KATIEBLOOM’S Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.
Thu, 10pm: DJ Tosh. Cupertino.
BRITANNIAARMSDOWNTOWN Thu: DJ David Q. Fri, 10pm: DJ
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Thursday, March 3 In the Atrium AGES 18+ Collective Effort presents “Electro Gras”
CYBERPUNKERS WORLD TOUR $12 advance • Drs. 8:30 p.m./ Show 9 p.m.
Friday, March 4 In the Atrium AGES 21+ FRIDAY NIGHT FUNCTION: DJ Aspect DJ Tone Sol, Nima Fadavi NO COVER • 9 p.m./ 9 p.m. :H[\YKH` 4HY AGES 18+ SC TME & Motiv present
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Longliner GRAM PARSONS didn’t invent country-rock, but he gave it a style that no one before him had imagined. While his bandmates in the Byrds were interested mainly in folk-rock and psychedelia, Parson convinced them to do their first country record, Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Moving on to the Flying Burrito Brothers, Parsons fashioned a new, laid-back California sound built on Buck Owens’ dusty desert honkytonk but defined by the urban sophistication of Parsons’ city life in Los Angeles. In a way, he was fusing country with indie rock before the latter had even really been invented; his songs were so ahead of their time that it wasn’t until the ’90s that rock musicians Saturday, 10pm rushed to emulate him. Uncle Tupelo started Parsonsmania, leading to Wilco, Son Volt, Golden Caravan Lounge, Smog and dozens of acts in Austin alone. But there’s San Jose also a NorCal school of country-rock dedicated to the post-Parsons sound—it’s less glam than its southern Free cousins, with more rocked-up honkytonk. That’s about where Longliner falls. Lead singer Rick Santos has the right whiskey-soaked voice, and despite the brisk, upbeat rhythms, there’s a darker-than-usual underbelly to Longliner’s songs about sinnin’ and truckin.’ Unlike many of his disciples, who seem to feel that roots music must be overly earnest, Santos and company have a handle on the ironic black humor in many of Parsons’ best songs. This show is a release party for their second CD, The Winnemucca Runner. —Steve Palopoli
Franky Fresh. Sat, 10pm: DJ Primo. San Jose.
BRITISHBANKERSCLUB Wed: Raygay. Thu: Latin. Fri: ’70s and ’80s. Sat: House. Sun & Tue: Lounge. Menlo Park.
BRIX Thu: Therapy. Mon: Power Hour. San Jose.
CLUBILLUSIONS Sat, 9pm-2am: Noches de Banda. 21+. $18. Palo Alto.
DIVEBAR Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. San Jose.
FAHRENHEITULTRALOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesday. Thu, 9pm: The Heit Thursdays. Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJs. San Jose.
party classics, guest DJs. Fri-Sat: DJs and dancing. San Jose.
STUDIO8
GOOSELOONEY’S
Fri, 9pm: Clinton Sparks. Sat, 9pm: The XXX Divas. San Jose.
Thu: Ladies’ Night. Fri-Sat: Old School. Milpitas.
TEMPLEBAR&LOUNGE
JOHNNYV’S Wed: The Cypher. Thu: Hip hop with live MCs. Fri: Dub Massive. Tue: Punk night. San Jose.
KHARTOUM Wed: DJ Davey K. Campbell.
MOTIF Thu: Fresh Thursday, hip-hop,
Wed: Red Run. Thu: Dig. Hip-hop and R&B. Fri: DJ Ready Rock. Sat: Temple All-Star DJs. San Jose.
VOODOOLOUNGE Sat, 10pm: 5 Finest. Dance night. $10. San Jose.
WILLOWDEN Thu: DJ Uncle Hank. Fri: DJ Truth. Sat, 10pm: DJ Tony. Willow Glen.
with DJs Don-ette G & Lion-S + weekly guests DJs Models/Dancers No Cover • Show 9 p.m.
Mar 9 Andre Nickatina (Ages 16+) Mar 10 Fashawn Atrium (Ages 16+) Mar 11 Vital SC: Excision (Ages 18+) Mar 12 Iration/ The Holdup (Ages 16+) Mar 12 Ploughman Atrium (Ages 21+) Mar 16 Big Gigantic Atrium (Ages 16+) Mar 17 The Wild Rovers Atrium (Ages 21+) Mar 18 Primus/ MIRV (Ages 21+) Mar 19 State Radio (Ages 16+) Mar 19 Jason Bond & the Committee Atrium (Ages 21+) Mar 22 The Green/ Thrive Atrium (Ages 16+) Apr 6 Dark Star Orchestra (Ages 21+) Apr 15 G. Love & Special Sauce (Ages 21+) Apr 16 Yonder Mtn. String Band (Ages 21+) Apr 29 The Devil Makes Three (Ages 21+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating. Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 866-384-3060 & online
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CCANCER ANCER ((June June 221–July 1–July 222): 2): JJungian ungian sstoryteller toryteller Clarissa Pinkola main Clarissa P inkola EEstes stes ssays ays oone ne ooff hher er m ain iinfluences nfluences is Mexico is the the CCuranderisma uranderisma hhealing ealing ttradition radition ffrom rom M exico aand nd Central America. Central A merica. ““In In tthis his ttradition radition a sstory tory iiss ‘‘holy,’ holy,’ aand nd iitt is medicine,” is used used aass m edicine,” sshe he ttold old R Radiance adiance magazine. magazine. ““The The story story is is not not told told to to lift lift you you up, up, to to make make you you feel feel better, better, or or ttoo eentertain ntertain yyou, ou, aalthough lthough all all tthose hose tthings hings ccan an bbee true. meant true. TThe he sstory tory iiss m eant ttoo ttake ake tthe he sspirit pirit iinto nto a ddescent escent to find missing to fi nd ssomething omething tthat hat iiss llost ost oorr m issing aand nd ttoo bbring ring it it bback ack ttoo cconsciousness onsciousness aagain.” gain.” YYou ou nneed eed sstories tories llike ike this, this, CCancerian, ancerian, aand nd yyou ou nneed eed tthem hem nnow. ow. IIt’s t’s hhigh igh ttime ime to to rrecover ecover pparts arts ooff yyour our ssoul oul tthat hat yyou ou hhave ave nneglected eglected oorr misplaced misplaced or or been been separated separated from. from. LLEO EO ((July July 223–Aug. 3–Aug. 222): 2): YYou’ve ou’ve bbeen een ppretty retty ssmart mart
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #548439 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ergo Expediters, 2325 Cherrystone Dr., San Jose, CA, 95128, Axon Services, Inc. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The state of Corporation: California. Registrant has not yet begn transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on. /s/Janet Phinick President #2508379 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 2/24/2011. (pub Metro 3/2, 3/9, 3/16, 3/23/2011)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE ON NAME CASE NO. 111CV192248 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA 95113 IN THE MATTER OF SHAKONDI NAKOLE JACKSON. THE COURT FINDS that Petitioner(s) has/have filed for a decree changing name(s) as follows Present name: SHAKONDI NAKOLE JACKSON Proposed name: SHAKONDI NAKOLE LEE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shell appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Notice of Hearing on March 29, 2011 at 8:45 a.m. in Room 107 located at 191 located at 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA, 95113. A COPY of this order to show cause shall be published at least once each week for four week successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, Metro Newspapers printed in the county of Santa Clara. Dated: JANUARY 20, 2011 /David H. Yamasaki Judge of the Superior Court (Pub CC 2/16, 2/23, 3/2, 3/9/2011)
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The unimaginative are now thinking: what a ridiculous question. Tell that to the editors of the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, who published a paper on the subject last year. The conclusions are a bit more technical than I’d care to present in a newspaper of general circulation, but, in layperson’s language, here’s the takeaway: holy $#!+. The paper, “Weather Response to a Large Wind Turbine Array,” has many fascinating aspects, which I discussed at some length with its authors, Daniel Barrie and Daniel Kirk-Davidoff. The highlights: © GDM SGDRD FTXR R@X K@QFD SGDX QD not kidding. They simulated the effects of a hypothetical wind farm covering 23 percent of the land area of North America, some 5.7 million square kilometers. It took in virtually all of the central U.S., extending from New Mexico to Georgia on the south and reaching through the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay in Canada. Turbine count: close to 9 million. © GD RHLTK@SDC STQAHMDR BNKKDBSHUDKX generated almost 2.5 terawatts of imaginary electricity. To put that in perspective, total world electric power capacity right now is estimated to be around 5 terawatts. In other words, the two Dans were calculating the weather impact of extracting 50 percent of the world’s electricity from the wind, assuming we did it all in one place. © RHMF @ BNLOTS@SHNM@K BKHL@SD model, the two calculated that with the turbines operating normally, wind speeds within the array would drop and winds nearby might shift direction—nothing too dramatic. But if you suddenly stopped all the turbines at once, well now: you might be able to change the course of storms in the North Atlantic. That’s interesting all by itself; other studies have also found significant local and global weather effects. But potential climate change is only part of the impact of large-scale wind power. Consider: © @QQHD @MC HQJ @UHCNê @FQDDC SGDHQ hypothetical wind farm is far larger
than anything likely to be built. But the fantasy farm gives you an idea of the resources required to generate a substantial amount of electricity using the wind. It’s estimated that meeting world energy demand is going to take something like 44 terawatts of capacity in 2100. There’s talk of generating 10 percent of that with wind power—4.4 terawatts. © G@S R @ KNS NE VHMCLHKKR M @MNSGDQ widely noted paper published in 2010, Chien Wang and Ron Prinn of MIT write, “Presuming these turbines are effectively generating at full capacity only one-third of the time, about 13 million of them are needed to meet an energy output of [4.4 terawatts], and they would occupy a continental-scale area.” If they were spaced 800 meters apart, 13 million turbines would occupy more than 8 million square kilometers—roughly 5 percent of the world’s total land area, equal to more than a third of North America. Cost: $45 trillion. © GD DO@QSLDMS NE MDQFX DRSHL@SDR that meeting 20 percent of the country’s electricity demand with wind power in 2030 will require 300 gigawatts of generating capacity. That translates to 150,000 turbines in 46 states. The biggest U.S. wind farm, the
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