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Early Birdman Peninsula politicos received an unexpected surprise earlier this week, when word began to spread that Assemblyman RICH GORDON (D-Palo Alto) was throwing his support behind MARC BERMAN in his run for the 24th State Assembly seat. Berman has some experience, having spent more than a couple years on the Palo Alto City Council and working as a director for the Silicon Valley Education Foundation. But Gordon’s endorsement of Berman to succeed him still came as a shock to many. It’s still plenty early in the race and plenty more people are expected to join the fray. Mountain View Councilman MIKE KASPERZAK has already thrown his hat in the ring, and there is a belief that greenie venture capitalist JOSH BECKER, who lost to Gordon in 2010, may give it another go. The district seat overlaps the line They that segregates San Did Mateo and Santa Clara What? counties, and Becker SEND TIPS TO O actually edged out FLY@ Gordon in the latter. WS. METRONEWS. Had Palo Alto’s COM former mayor, YORIKO KISHIMOTO, not come in with a strong third-place showing in this county, Becker may have been the one walking around Sacramento the last four and a half years. But there is an expectation the race won’t be just raining men for long. MARY HUGHES, wife of Santa Clara County supervisor JOE SIMITIAN, has reportedly been beating the bushes through her foundation, Close the Gap CA, which was set up for the sole purpose of recruiting progressive women to run for the state legislature in 2014 and 2016. One person who might fit the bill is MARGARET ABE-KOGA, who spent eight years on the Mountain View council and part of that time as mayor. She now works as a district director for first-term Assemblyman EVAN LOW (D-Campbell).
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Full STEAM Ahead on UC San Jose Madison Nguyen is ready to fight, fight, fight for the (insert terribly dry Silicon Valley-themed mascot here)! Nguyen, San Jose’s former vicemayor and a current candidate for the 27th Assembly District, published an op-ed last week calling for the creation of University of California, San Jose. “It's clear that California desperately needs to start expanding the UC system and there's no better place for it than San Jose,” Nguyen wrote in the Mercury News. The first part of her argument— that the UC system needs an 11th campus—relies on the fact that, “from 2007 to 2014, admission rates at UC for California residents dropped from 87 percent to 62 percent.” This is not due to a lack of qualified students. Rather, there are simply not enough UC spots for all of California’s sons and daughters. The second piece of Nguyen’s
argument—that the next UC campus should be here in Silicon Valley— piggybacks off legislation presented by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Glendale). The bill is working its way through committees, and it proposes creating a UC campus focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM). “San Jose offers unparalleled possibilities for mentorships, local expertise in science and technology, and public-private partnerships that will make a STEAM UC San Jose a powerhouse in both research and learning with far-reaching benefits,” Nguyen says. The heart of her argument is that UCSJ would create jobs, close the income gap and generate revenue for the local economy. While this may be true, Nguyen’s call to action does not touch on a critical point Have you seen recent prices for land in Silicon Valley?
BY LINDSEY J. SMITH LoopNet, a commercial real estate site, reports a 5.4 percent increase in the last year in the median asking price per square foot for office space in the metro area. Simultaneously, there has also been a 43.9 percent reduction in the number office listings. Scarce space is already being tussled over by tech and affordable housing interests; adding higher-ed to that mix could mean a bitter fight. And although AB-1483, which has support from 10 co-authors, provides $50 million for land acquisition, establishing a UC campus in such a pricey area will likely be a tough sell for the financially embattled UC system. Nguyen doesn’t address this very real concern, but she at least seems aware that a new campus might not come easy. “It's an idea whose time has come,” she wrote of the proposal, “and I will fight for—UC San Jose.” 10
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School Salon HATS OFF ‘The Maze Within’ by Leigh High School student Kimi Walters was recognized by the Downtown Doors art project.
Urban art contest calls attention to inspiring crop of student artists BY GARY SINGH
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Every year the program, established by the San Jose Downtown Association, adds new student works, all of which succeed in giving the kids an added boost of confidence. They now realize their work matters and that they should consider creative careers. And each year, the body of work, as a whole, seems to get better. Kimi Walters of Leigh High School, for instance, produced “The Maze Within,” an image of a woman with her head cut off, revealing a maze where her brain is supposed to be. Inside the circular maze, a tiny girl is trying to saw her way out. A few holes exist in some of the walls, indicating where she tried to break
free, but the path led nowhere. So there she is, still trying to saw her way out of the maze in her head. In the background we see clouds. It’s like the Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte drank absinthe with Carl Gustav Jung at Ace Hardware and came up with a ’70s album cover. Brilliant. “It’s about overcoming obstacles,” Walters told me at the reception, as we both ate cookies. “The Maze Within” was originally part of the Museums of Los Gatos 2015 Annual Juried High School Exhibition and a new version is currently located on the Second Street side of the Camera 12 Theaters. Drawn with cheery, uplifiting, airy, pastel-like hues, the piece, for me, shattered the spacetime continuum on numerous levels, or perhaps in numerous interconnected pathways. On one hand, if anyone from my alma mater draws an image of a kid trying to saw
her way out from the maze in her head, I’ll probably identify with it, no matter what. For me, “The Maze Within” represents what it was like growing up in that neighborhood and going to that high school. The four years of art classes I took at Leigh were the only parts of high school that I even tolerated. Art was a major part of what saved me from going down more criminal paths. “The Maze Within” brought back so many memories. Every mental labyrinth from that part of my life came spiraling back to the forefront in vivid detail and I couldn’t get the image out of my head. Heck, I probably still have an equivalent little boy with a saw, somewhere up there in my brain, trying to escape. But over the years I’ve come to understand that he shouldn’t be banished or done away with. He should be met with curiosity and compassion. I’ve learned to forgive him for the trouble he’s caused. That’s what I thought when I saw this image. Great art functions like a hall of mirrors, I guess. Here’s also what facetiously spoke to me: The only things missing from the piece were two longhorns— representing Leigh’s mascot— protruding from the sides of the girl’s head. That would make it even more surreal. She could probably buy them at Ace Hardware. At the reception, many students expressed exuberance over their pieces being accepted. Many said the experience was a confidence booster, and that they’d never before seen their work displayed outside the classroom. The prizes included a cash per diem and even a copy of Adobe Creative Suite for each student. Adobe, apparently, is constantly trying to groom the next generation of employees. But anyway, what’s more, with all the destructive results of removing art and music from elementary schools emerging throughout the land, I can only say, that, after seeing the quality of the Downtown Doors pieces improve every year, the Belgian-Swiss Jungian surrealist in me percolates with massive amounts of hope. Many of these kids have serious talent, handsaw or not. Professional murals have been on the rise in San Jose over the last 10 years, so students like Walters have something to look forward to. Likewise, so do we.
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T’S BOTH FITTING and weird that the Grateful Dead’s Northern California farewell shows will unfold next week at Levi’s® Stadium in Santa Clara. A natural, sure, because their roots are here. And strange because celebrating outlaw culture amongst the corporate suites of a billion-dollar Super Bowl stadium completes a transformation Don Henley took note of three decades ago when he spotted a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac.
The quirky jug and washboard players turned psychedelic noodlers sprang from Peninsula suburbs and rebranded themselves as the Grateful Dead in San Jose, at a Victorian that was moved to make way for the City Hall dome. Tom Wolfe called the Dead’s San Jose show “the first mass acid experience, the dawn of the Psychedelic, the Flower Generation.” Magazine publisher Jann Wenner emails that he remembers heading to 43 S. Fifth Street “after a Rolling Stones show at the San Jose Civic Auditorium,” on December 4, 1965.
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Answering the phone after a day of hay-baling on his Oregon farm, Merry Prankster Ken Babbs says “we made up some flyers” to hand out at the Stones show. “We took in a dollar at the door,” Babbs recalls, a bit less than what fans (just add three zeroes) are paying on the resale market for seats 50 years later. “I’m putting lipstick on a skeleton right now,” says the longtime Dead album cover artist, Stanley Mouse, describing his latest work, “Cash Grab,” a term that’s been bandied about the Deadosphere to describe
the five stadium shows in California and Chicago. “I stamped ‘GUILTY’ over my own signature.” (Mouse was nice enough to share one of his latest works for this week’s Metro cover.) A veteran Bay Area promoter calls the haul, at least $50 million when merchandise and ancillary rights like pay-per-view are factored in, “one of the biggest grosses of all time.” “I can’t remember ever seeing three sold-out stadium shows in one [U.S.] city,” he says. Chicago tourism
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BLUES BROTHERS Jerry Garcia and Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan at the Northern California Folk Rock Festival at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds on May 18, 1968.
DEADSPOTS How to connect to the history of the Grateful Dead without a ticket. Here are the places where history happened.
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officials expect the three shows to contribute an additional $50 to $100 million to the Windy City’s economy, which means that not all of their fans are bringing dogs and sleeping in their cars. That’s likely the case here as well. Still, what’s most notable is not how much the iconic rock group will pocket—but how much they left on the table. Based on unfilled ticket requests, they could have sold at least four times the number of tickets and raised prices by more than 50 percent. The Dead would have had one of the highest-grossing tours in history with only a fraction of the number of performances it usually takes. Who would have thought that a band whose members have an average age of over 70 would be the year’s hottest act? As we say here in Silicon Valley, it takes a long time to become an overnight success. It only took the Grateful Dead half a century to take the long, strange trip from Magoo’s Pizza Parlor to Sand Hill. And, just as the Grateful Dead is a product of the Bay Area’s southern suburbs, it’s been argued that the personal computer revolution and modern Silicon Valley itself are products of the counterculture. From Burning Man to Steve Jobs’ experimentation with LSD, chemically-induced mind expansion contributed to the culture of creativity, nonconformity and disruption that produced the world’s most valuable company, transformed modern business culture and is now reinventing practically every organized sphere of modern existence. Memories are fuzzy of the counterculture’s public debut at an all night party forty-nine-and-ahalf years ago, and there were no smartphones to record the moment. The secret’s now entombed in the cement outside City Hall. It will be released in the air above the 49ers’ field for two special nights, aided by an advanced sound system. The magic happens also happens daily in the valley’s most mundane corners, and you never know who was there or what happened before. Once in a while you get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right. —Dan Pulcrano
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ST. MICHAEL’S ALLEY 436 University Ave. This coffee shop was a bohemian hangout in mid-’60s Palo Alto. Jerry Garcia and Dead collaborator Robert Hunter used to hang out here. It’s a Peet’s now.
TOP OF THE TANGENT COFFEE HOUSE 117 University Ave. Mother McRee’s Uptown Jug Band Champions—which featured Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan—regularly performed at The Top of the Tangent. The bottom floor of this building
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COUNTERCULTURE BORN HERE The City of San Jose recently cemented over a leaky bamboo garden (above) in the aproximate location of the Grateful Dead’s first performance. This relocated and restored Victorian (left), on E. St. James Street near 14th Street has an amazing history.
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Morgan Jr. the boot in favor of Phil Lesh, his membership in the band was vital in those early days, as The Warlocks were able to borrow equipment from the store free of charge. The building is now Duxiana, a luxury bed and mattress store.
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music venue. Bob Weir and Kingfish played there on New Year’s Eve 1974. David Packard turned it back into a theater that shows classic movies.
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Ditching Dana Morgan Jr. meant severing ties with his dad’s store— and all the pro-bono equipment rentals. It also effectively ended Garcia and Weir’s tenure as guitar and banjo instructors there. And so, the pair headed to north up El Camino to Guitars Unlimited in Menlo Park, bringing their roster of loyal students with them. It didn’t take long before The Warlocks were once again borrowing equipment from their new employer.
In addition to providing Garcia and Weir with a steady income and providing their band with quality gear on the cheap, working out of Guitars Unlimited came with another major perk—proximity to Kepler’s Books. “I think Kepler’s was a really important place,” says Nicholas Meriwether, archivist for the Grateful Dead archive at UC Santa Cruz. The store, Meriwether explains, served as a hub for the South Bay’s bohemian intelligentsia. Unlike other “stuffy” book stores, Kepler’s served coffee and allowed patrons to lounge around—reading
DANA MORGAN MUSIC 534 Bryant St. Garcia and Bob Weir both taught music lessons at this downtown music store. Dana Morgan Jr., the son of the store’s owner, served as the original bassist in The Warlocks (The Dead’s original name). Although the band eventually gave
books, writing, playing music or conversing. And they carried books that appealed to their counter culturists clientele. Like City Lights Books in San Francisco, Kepler’s served as a locus for artists, beats and intellectuals. “Kepler’s exercised a pretty profound impact on things.”
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635 Santa Cruz Ave. The Warlocks played their very first show at Magoo’s Pizza back in May of 1965. They went on to play every Wednesday that month. The location is now a “California lifestyle” furniture store called Harvest.
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women’s volleyball, Maples Pavilion, as it is most commonly called, hosted only one Grateful Dead show: on Feb. 9, 1973—a month prior to the death of founding member, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, who passed on Mar. 8, 1973.
FROST AMPHITHEATER Galvez St. at Campus Dr. Menlo Park VA
MENLO PARK VA 795 Willow Road The Menlo Park Veterans Administration Hospital is where Ken Kesey first took LSD and other psychedelic substances. While studying at Stanford in 1959, Kesey volunteered to take part in the CIA-funded “Project MKULTRA,” which studied the effects of acid, psilocybin and mescaline on human subjects. He would go on to pen One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, which he claimed was inspired by his experiences at the Menlo Park VA. Later, Meriwether notes, Kesey would become “the catalyst for the Acid Tests.”
After years of closing Frost to any kind of live musical performance that could be considered risque, Stanford has reopened the venue to rock & roll and pop acts. The Dead and their members played at Frost a number of times throughout the ’70s and ’80s before the group outgrew the venue and Stanford closed it to all but campus events. However, just last month, on May 16, the venue was the site of the Frost Music & Arts Festival, featuring the superstar electronic music producer Flume. Those who attended say Stanford security conducted thorough searches of all who entered. What a buzzkill.
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After getting a taste for LSD, Ken Kesey felt compelled to spread the psychedelic gospel. He began holding Acid Tests—the first of which was in the unincorporated Soquel area of Santa Cruz. The first documented performance of the Grateful Dead was here at the second-ever Acid Test hosted by Kesey. They would go on to become Kesey’s go-to band for future Acid Tests. The location is now a patch of gray cement outside of City Hall, where municipal employees lunch at picnic tables under umbrellas.
Located at the center of campus, these days Tressider Memorial Union features a Starbucks and CoHo (coffee shop and performance space), The Stanford Store, a number of eateries and more. Back in the mid-’60s the area was quite similar—though it lacked a Starbucks. A flyer inviting anyone and everyone to “FREAK OUT With The GRATEFUL DEAD” at Tressider has been dated to Oct. 14, 1966. No known rock & roll shows were held after that date. We can only wonder why.
Photo copyright Jeffrey Blankfort 1968
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SO WEIR Grateful Dead founding guitarist Bob Weir at the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds during the Northern California Folk Rock Festival.
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This folk music venue hosted many an aspiring singer/songwriter. Jerry Garcia played the venue from time to time. The location just south of the highway 280 overpass, is now home to the Vinh Hing Bakery, across from a Wienerschnitzel.
459 Lagunita Dr. Many folk singers played at the Stanford Coffee House during the early ’60s. Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter performed there as a duo at least once. Dan Pulcrano
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CITY NATIONAL CIVIC AUDITORIUM 135 W. San Carlos St. Formerly known as the San Jose Civic Auditorium, the City National Civic is still host to many rock & roll and other live music performances. On Aug. 20, 1972, the Grateful Dead
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Although they weren’t mentioned in promotional materials, The Dead played the ďŹ rst day of the Northern California Folk Rock Festival on May 18, 1968—sharing the stage with a who’s who of the era’s greatest artists: The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Country Joe and the Fish, Eric Burdon and The Animals, Janis Joplin and many more.
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a large exhibit that gives visitors a taste of the archive as a whole. It includes a Ph.D. dissertation written on the band’s devoted followers—“Deadheads As A Moral Communityâ€?—as well as a bronze cast of Garcia’s right hand. He lost a portion of his right middle ďŹ nger in a woodcutting accident as a child.
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SANTA CRUZ GRATEFUL DEAD ARCHIVE McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz The University of California Santa Cruz has been entrusted with the massive task of presiding over the official Grateful Dead archive. In addition to thousands upon thousands of articles—setlists, correspondence, artwork and images—the McHenry Library has
If you take a short drive from Alice’s Restaurant on Skyline Boulevard, down a winding stretch of Highway 84 through the Santa Cruz Mountains, you’ll come upon a wooden bridge crossing La Honda Creek, just past the intersection of Pescadero and La Honda roads. On the other side of that bridge lies the sleepy cabin that blew so many minds. Kesey’s La Honda cabin was the site of many an Acid Test. Here is the site written about so vividly by Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe—the former home base of the Merry Pranksters and the school bus named “Further.� Garcia and Co. also played here, serving as Kesey’s house band when they were The Warlocks and later the Grateful Dead. Deadhead historian Corry Arnold provided much of the primary research for this guide. Check out his in-depth Grateful Dead blogs, at lostlivedead.blogspot.com and hooterollin.blogspot.com.
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That was the idea behind Wet Your Whistle, an online drinking guide for Caltrain riders created by husband-and-wife drinking buddies Jen and Joey McDaniel. “It began as our own list, but eventually we thought, ‘Why not share this with everyone else?’” said Jen, who lives in Menlo Park with her husband. Applying their mutual talent for web development, the pair built an easy-tonavigate online guide to their favorite watering holes—and some restaurants— clustered around Caltrain stations. For each listing, they note walking distance, menu options and an oft-snarky summary of the place. In Burlingame, for example, they list a handful of destinations ranging from “stumbling distance” to an “effin easy walk,” including Steelhead Brewing, Blue Line Pizza, Straits and Barrelhouse. There’s always an extra observation, like how Barrelhouse features a bar plated with pennies. Palo Alto, one of the McDaniels’ favorite stops, is a goldmine for thirsty Caltrain commuters. Gravity Wine Bar, The Patio at Rudy’s, The Rose and Crown and Scotty’s all lie within a fifth-of-a-mile radius to the train station. A little more than stumbling distance, they note, but no more than “a very easy walk.” The vicinity of San Bruno’s station lacks the range of more bustling downtowns like Palo Alto or San Mateo, but boasts what’s probably the only casino along the train route: Artichoke Joe’s. “A wild West-themed casino in San Bruno,” Wet Your Whistle’s description reads. “Seriously. With a cowboy bar and servers wearing bolo ties. Seriously? Seriously.” The website encourages people to submit their own listings. Once in a while, the McDaniels host a pub-crawl to some of their favorite spots—some with as many as 100 attendees. “On the surface, it’s all about having good drinks and good beer, but the biggest win for us has been meeting new people through this,” Joey said. “We’ve gotten a better feel for the beer culture in the Bay and have made friends that we’ve known now for years.” —Jennifer Wadsworth WET YOUR WHISTLES San Jose through San Francisco. www.wetyourwhistles.com. Check online for upcoming meet-ups and pub-crawls.
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KRAZIE BONE
TOMMY CASTRO
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BRIAN WILSON Mountain Winery, Saratoga Thu, 7:30pm, $50 Brian Wilson is one of the architects of the early American pop sound. As the creative engine behind the Beach Boys, he penned two dozen Top 40 singles, crafting a mellow, airy, lilting wistfulness that perfectly captures the “Good Vibrations” of 1960s California. Wilson’s distant, crisp vocals are rounded off by the swelling harmonies of his backup singers, who shimmer in his unorthodox compositions. “Pet Sounds” is chock full of American musical canon and widely considered one of the greatest albums of all time. The band’s long reign left behind timeless classics like “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” “California Girls,” and “I Get Around.” (JF)
CHRIS D’ELIA Improv, San Jose Thu, 8pm, $27 The prolific comedian is on his nationwide tour, while still starring in the NBC Comedy, “Undateable,” where he plays a reluctant adult. He came to national fame as the counterpart to Whitney Cummings in her discontinued sitcom Whitney. On the show, he played a reckless drunk, a full 180-degree turn from his real-life self. (He says he’s he’s never touched drugs or alcohol, save for Communion wine.) He’s one of Variety’s “Top 10 Comics To Watch,” and the title of his previous comedy tour “White Male, Black Comic,” is a decent description as he deals with the frustrations of accepting Drake as the face of rap music and his admiration for the way black men laugh. (JF)
Cesar Chavez Plaza, San Jose Thu, 5:15pm, $10
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This annual summer concert series has been running for 26 years and been host to plenty of major acts— from Pete Escovedo to Maroon 5 to Flogging Molly. This week, the bill features Freshlyground, the dynamic Afro-pop group featured on the irresistible, Shakira-led theme song of South Africa’s World Cup, “Waka Waka (This Time For Africa).” After their opening burst of zesty world music, reggae artist Sister Carol will take the stage. On “Dread Natty Congo,” she infuses the plodding standards of the breezy genre with a bit of the rapid, bouncing energy of hip-hop in an ode to her naturally clumping locks. The Jamaican legend has won over 12 Grammys in her prolific, influential career. (JF)
Agenda, San Jose Fri, 8pm, $14
RockBar Theater Sat, 7pm, $35-$45
This rapper is a former member of Bone Thugs N’ Harmony that blew up when Eazy-E signed them to Ruthless Records. The group is among the top rap groups of all time, filling their jams with wavy melodies to compliment their rat-a-tat bars. In a melancholy turn, the N.W.A rapper’s death would be the subject of the group’s most illustrious success, the chillingly reflective, “Crossroads.”The song would win them a Grammy in 1997. Ten years later, after leaving the group, Bone featured on the omnipresent summer jam “Ridin’ ” by Chamillionaire. The quick-spitting MC spans the spectrum of hip-hop, capable of detailing gritty realities, and dreaming up elaborately opulent fantasies. (JF)
The rude, rowdy and perpetually party-ready ’80s hard rock outfit, Quiet Riot, are bringing their scuzzy riffs and neerdowell attitude to the RockBar. Cofounded by the legendary shredder Randy Rhodes in 1975, Quiet Riot were the first heavy metal group to reach the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 album chart with their 1983 album Metal Health, which displaced The Police’s Synchronicity. The album produced two singles: “Metal Health” and ”Cum on Feel the Noize.” The later enjoys regular spins on classic rock stations to this day. (NV)
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June 24 at Shoreline Amphitheatre Ju
SMASH MOUTH June 24 at Mountain Winery
LADY ANTEBELLUM June 26 at Shoreline Amphitheatre Ju
THE GRATEFUL DEAD June 27-28 at Levi’s Stadium
THE ROOTS June 28 at Mountain Winery
ROB THOMAS July 2 at Mountain Winery
BOZ SCAGGS July 7 at Mountain Winery
RUSH July 23 at SAP Center
JIM GAFFIGAN July 23 at Mountain Winery
MORRISSEY July 25 at SJSU Event Center
BOSTON July 30 at Mountain Winery
DARIUS RUCKER JJuly 31 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
MICHAEL MCDONALD
VANS WARPED TOUR Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View Sat, 11am-11pm, $39.50 For more than 20 years the Vans Warped Tour has been bringing some of the best punk, hardcore and alternative bands from around the world to every corner of the U.S. The longest-running touring music festival in North America has helped launch countless music careers. Securing a spot on the Warped Tour lineup guarantees a band will make thousands of new fans. This year the festival features Senses Fail, Silverstein, Black Veil Brides, We Came As Romans, Pierce The Veil, The Wonder Years, Simple Plan, Motion City Soundtrack and even weirdo rapper and aspiring pro wrestler Riff Raff. (NV)
U.K. U K SUBS Johnny V’s Sat, 8pm, $12-$15 For nearly 40 years, London punk band The U.K. Subs have been thrashing around on stages around the world with their aggressive first-wave punk sound, proving that even old age can’t kill punk rock (Subs frontman, Charlie Harper, is 71). With dozens of original full-lengths, compilations, EPs and singles, the group has persevered through every era and iteration of punk rock and continues to tour the world— playing massive festivals and tiny clubs, alike. Their upcoming performance at Johnny V’s is not to be missed by anyone who who claims to be a true punk rock fan. (NV)
FOUNTAIN BLUES FESTIVAL St. James Park, San Jose Sat, 11am-8pm, $15-$60 For more than three decades, the Fountain Blues Festival has been a summer tradition in downtown San Jose. Celebrating the precursor to R&B, soul, rock & roll and hip-hop—the blues fest has hosted some of the genres best performers over the years, including John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy and Etta James. This year, the 34th annual Fountain Blues Festival will feature Tommy Castro & The Painkillers, Carolyn Wonderland, John Nemeth, John Primer with Aki Kumar, Nikki Hill, Andre Thierry. Beer, wine, food and plenty of blues related swag will also be available at the event. (NV)
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EDDIE IZZARD California Theatre Mon, 8pm, $50
The obsidian-sharp British comedian is one of the chief observationalists in the world, putting together a singular career, filled with stream-ofconsciousness ramblings that are as undeniably logical as they are surreal. He gleefully takes on controversial topics—like appreciating the sheer dedication of mass-murdering tyrants or the gall of the British Empire at the height of its imperialist phase. He’s a twisted Renaissance man who doesn’t believe in God, occasionally dresses in drag and once, ran 43 marathons in 51 days to fundraise, even though he’d had no prior experience and only 5 weeks of training. In 2020, this multi-lingual British star will run for mayor of London. (JF)
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SSAN JOSE JAZZ SUMMER FEST August 7-9 at Downtown San Jose Au
MAC SABBATH August 9 at The Ritz
ZIGGY MARLEY & STEEL PULSE August 13 at Mountain Winery
CHRIS ISAAK August 14 at Mountain Winery
CHRIS HARDWICK August 15 at California Theatre
SHANIA TWAIN August 17 at SAP Center
DIERKS BENTLEY August 21 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
RODGRIGO Y GABRIELA June 28 at Mountain Winery
MADONNA October 19 at SAP Center For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com
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Musical Menagerie SONG AND DANCE The cast of ‘Tomfoolery’ dress up and act out Tom Lehrer’s humorous songs in this musical revue.
Santa Clara Players have fun with Tom Lehrer’s satirical songs in ‘Tomfoolery’ BY KARLA KANE
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N FOURTH GRADE, my school’s music class learned a song called "Pollution." A twist on the advice given to American travelers to not drink the water in foreign lands, it had a catchy melody, Latin rhythm and smart, biting lyrics with an environmental theme. It even had a local shout-out: "The breakfast garbage you throw in to the Bay, they drink at lunch in San Jose" (I grew up in the North Bay so this was especially funny). It was the most hilarious thing 8-year-old me had ever heard. Thus I became a fan of Tom Lehrer, the Harvard grad and U.C.
Santa Cruz mathematics and music professor who, in the 1950s and ’60s, wrote and recorded several albums of humorous musical gems, then quietly left the limelight while continuing his academic career. There is definite appeal in Lehrer's own recordings, which feature wry punchlines, his distinctive singing voice and brilliant piano playing, but, as my fourth-grade class found out, the songs also have a theatrical quality that lend themselves well to live performance. Tomfoolery, a revue of many of Lehrer's works, was first staged and scripted by Cameron Mackintosh, with Lehrer's blessing, in the 1980s, and is presented anew by The Santa Clara Players. Tomfoolery includes parodies, demented love songs, kid-friendly educational numbers, and, best of all, socio-political satire. Lehrer’s style is something like a cerebral blend of
Phil Ochs and Weird Al Yankovic, and he’s particularly skilled at crafting sophisticated, clever rhymes. Highlights include "The Vatican Rag" ("make a cross on your abdomen/ when in Rome do like a Roman") and "So Long, Mom," a takeoff on the sprightly, patriotic anthems of the First World War—only written in advance of the impending nuclear holocaust of World War III. Though many of Lehrer's satirical songs have firm roots in their mid-century origins, most remain sharp and relevant today, with only a few that haven't aged as well. According to director Jon Rosen, this is the first musical the Players have ever attempted in their 50-year history. It's not a first for Rosen however. He's helmed the show many times, including in San Jose in 2006. The concept is simple: a small cast acts out the songs while providing some information and jokes in between. Unlike in some so-called "jukebox musicals," there's no need for an attempted plot. It's a good choice for the teeny-tiny Santa Clara Players' performance space,
requiring little in terms of production values. And make no mistake, this is a low-budget, community-theater production: intimate, unpretentious and heartfelt on the plus side, somewhat uneven in performance quality on the minus side. With a small cast of five, everyone is given plenty of spotlight moments, with mixed results. One player who shines consistently throughout is Samantha Cori, with powerhouse vocals and the comedic charisma of the young Carol Burnett. Her frenzied, dizzying rendition of "The Elements" (along with likeable Peter Woolhouse) brought the house down, and perhaps should have been saved as an act closer, as it was difficult to follow such a tour de force number. I hope to see much more of her in future local theater productions. The only set design involved is the inclusion of a small cocktail bar. There are, however, an incredible array of clever prop and costume changes—I think something new for every single song—to give visual complement to Lehrer's lyrics. The show's arrangement, with some songs done as solos and duets and some as group numbers, means that cast members can be constantly dashing on and off stage and returning with some new wacky hat or jacket to set the mood. Pianist Amanda Ku has the considerable responsibility of musical direction and piano accompaniment— no small task, given that she has Lehrer's own masterful playing to be compared with and piano is by far the dominant instrument, with assistance from Keith Leung on woodwinds. The Santa Clara Players' energy and comic timing ensure audiences will leave with a grin, and for true Lehrer devotees, several performances are specially designated as sing-alongs. Rosen and his company’s commitment to keeping Lehrer's work alive is much appreciated. Tom Lehrer, if you happen to be reading this, I, and my inner fourth-grader, salute you. And, to quote the man himself: "If after hearing these songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, then it will all have been worth the while."
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fter air and water, food is about the most important thing out there when it comes to ensuring our survival. But food is about more than just sustaining life. It’s about living life to the fullest—whether experiencing the rush of bold flavors or enjoying a favorite comfort food. Meals bring us together and give us something to look forward to. Mmm… Food. Starting this Friday, June 19, and running through Sunday, June 28, restaurants all over downtown San Jose will be celebrating the act and art of breaking bread by rolling out
the red carpet and highlighting their culinary prowess with a series of three-course prix fixe dinners—all crafted specially and specifically for the 10-day Dine Downtown San Jose 2015 event. The dinners will be priced starting at $20. Dine Downtown is great opportunity to get out and explore what San Jose's resurgent downtown scene has to offer. Plenty has changed since last year's Dine Downtown event. The new bar and restaurant M Asian Fusion Restaurant, which opened late last summer on the corner of 2nd and San Fernando streets, will highlight its menu of Thai- and Chinese-influenced cuisine with four-course meals, featuring an
appetizer, soup or salad, entre and dessert. There are two new choices this summer for drinks and dinner with a view. First, Scott's Seafood recently opened its rooftop dining patio overlooking Plaza de Cesar Chavez and boasting views of The Fairmont, the Tech Museum and the Knight Ridder building, which houses the Silicon Valley Capital Club. Located on the 17th floor of the one of downtown's most recognizable business towers, access to the Capital Club is restricted to members only for the majority of the year. However, during Dine Downtown, it is opening up its panoramic views and gourmet menu to the public.
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Many of San Jose's best-known and long-running eating establishments will be participating. Enjoy a tender and juicy filet mignon at Morton's or cedar roasted Atlantic salmon at McCormick & Schmick's. Take a break from the familiarity of burritos and quesadillas and try the inspired Oaxacan cuisine and incredible tequila bar at Mezcal. Or check out some good, old-fashioned comfort food with a gourmet twist at Café Stritch. Do all of this and you will just have scratched the surface of what this year's 23 Dine Downtown restaurants have to offer. Read on for more dining ideas. Bon appetit! Photos: Chris Schmauch, GoodEyePhotography.com.
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BLUEFIN JAPANESE
RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 754 The Alameda, San Jose; 408.931.6875. Patrons enjoy Bluefin for its upscale atmosphere, high quality sushi selection as well as its bar and lounge area. Bluefin’s $30 menu starts with a Hamachi shooter with yellow tail, avocado, roasted black sesame seed, chili, ponzu and white truffle oil. The main entrée is the chef’s choice sushi from the day’s best selection served with miso soup and rice. Their $50 menu starts with an ahi pokitini salad, albacore tataki or shrimp and vegetable tempura. Main course selections come with miso soup and rice and include the chef’s choice of the day’s best sushi or sashimi or a Bluefin combination of tuna sashimi, shrimp tempura and short rib. For dessert, choose between green tea or vanilla tempura ice cream.
71 SAINT PETER MODERN EUROPEAN KITCHEN
71 N. San Pedro St., San Jose; 408.971.8523. A romantic fine dining experience, 71 Saint Peter is offering a $45 four-course menu with the option to include a wine pairing for $20 per person. The meal begins with a summer melon gazpacho with cucumber mint oil, peppercorn creme fraiche, and crispy prosciutto. The second course is a morel mushroom orzo pasta with camembert cheese, pine nuts and lemon thyme. The entrée includes a selection of stuffed filet sole with spinach, walnuts, sundried cherries or citrus braised short ribs with grilled fennel and rutabaga. Dessert is a pear almond tart with brandy crème anglaise, star aniseginger syrup.
AFFINITY
AT HILTON SAN JOSE 300 Almaden Blvd., San Jose; 408.947.4444. Affinity blends European flavors and techniques made with local ingredients. For $35, the prix fixe menu starts off with a choice of coconut shrimp,
fresh mozzarella crostini, or chicken cordon bleu bites. The second course includes a choice of chicken caprese with fresh buffalo mozzarella and sliced tomatoes topped with a sundried tomato cream sauce, mango swordfish with a mango cilantro salsa, or a sirloin entrée in a peppercorn sauce. For dessert choose between a triple chocolate cake covered with marbled chocolate shavings or New York cheesecake drizzled with house made strawberry puree.
ARCADIA – A MICHAEL MINA STEAKHOUSE
in The Marriott Hotel 100 W. San Carlos St., San Jose; 408.278.4555. This refined modern American steakhouse by global chef Michael Mina is known for its prime cuts of beef, fresh fish and poultry. Arcadia is serving a gourmet $50 prix fixe menu. First course begins with either a market salad with stone fruits and champagne vinaigrette or grilled corn soup with ham hock terrine. Entrees include Pacific salmon with summer squash or a petite filet with whipped potato. Dessert is a choice between chocolate molten cake or vanilla panna cotta.
CAFE STRITCH 374 S. First St., San Jose; 408.280.6161. Cafe Stritch features delicious American staples in a casual creative atmosphere. The restaurant’s $20 menu begins with a baby mixed green salad with goat cheese, cherry tomatoes, balsamic, and sunflower seeds. Entree options include grilled salmon with lemon herb basmati rice or a half rack of baby back ribs with Kentucky bourbon BBQ sauce. Dessert is a choice of bite sized flourless chocolate torte, mini blueberry cheesecake, chocolate chip cookie dough truffles or creme brulee. Vegan and vegetarian options are available.
THE CRAFTSMAN
RESTAURANT AND BAR 399 S. First St., San Jose; 408.600.2120. A modern American restaurant with locally sourced products and dishes crafted with love, The Craftsman Restaurant and Bar is featuring a bite size sampler menu for $15 and a four-course menu for $35 per person. The $15 bite size sampler menu includes apple kale salad, meatloaf muffin, chicken pot pie and a bread pudding.
The $35 menu begins with baconwrapped fig with whiskey demiglace. The second course selections include a simple salad, apple kale salad, or a grilled Caesar salad. The entrée is a NY Strip Manhattan cut with a marsala wine reduction and bacon- wrapped asparagus. Banana and Nilla wafer custard is served for dessert.
FAHRENHEIT
RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 99 E. San Fernando St., San Jose; 408.998.9998. Fahrenheit features award winning “farm to table” modern California cuisine. Their $30 menu begins with the choice of the chef’s daily soup, local farm salad, braised short rib tostadas, prosciutto and smoked gouda croquettes, or white bass ceviche. Second course options include grilled skirt steak, Mary’s chicken white coq au vin, garden pasta with sautéed vegetables or olive oil poached sockeye salmon. Desserts include a choice chocolate mousse with seasonal berry coulis and vanilla bean panna cotta with mango geleé.
THE FARMERS UNION 151 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose; 408.277.0545. A fitting name, the Farmers Union occupies the same building where farmers used to shop at what was then an agricultural depot. The building now features a bar with a multitude of beers on tap with a menu of tasty American bites. The Farmers Union is serving a $30 menu starting with a choice between the soup of the day or a little gems salad with avocado green goddess dressing, candied bacon, ricotta salata and pickled onion. The entrée selections include fried chicken with spring squash, buttermilk smashed potatoes and bacon gravy, grilled flat iron steak with dirty fries, fresno chili chimichurri and a fried egg, or king salmon with spring veggies and tomato relish. Dessert is a choice of vanilla ice cream with either salted caramel bread pudding or warm chocolate brownie.
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IL FORNAIO In the Sainte Claire Hotel, 302 S. Market St., San Jose; 408.271.3366. Celebrate the food of Italy at Il Fornaio with a $30 prix fixe dinner. The meal begins with a choice of a mixed green salad or a traditional caprese with heirloom tomatoes and fresh mozzarella. Second course is either a mesquite grilled salmon filet, a mesquite grilled double breast of chicken marinated with rosemary, thyme and sage or ravioli filled with butternut squash and walnuts. Dessert selections include warm almond hazelnut chocolate cake, chilled zabaione with fresh berries, belini sorbet with fresh whipped cream or cream custard with fresh mango and strawberry compote.
LA PASTAIA 233 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose; 408.286.8686. Located in the historic Hotel De Anza, La Pastaia is offering a three-course menu for $40. First course selections include deep fried calamari and lemon, short rib gravy and fries, a house salad of bibb and red oak lettuces with pistachios and feta cheese, marinated lamb skewers, and sautéed fava beans with sweet onion and pecorino. Second course is a skillet roasted chicken with pan jus, asparagus and soft polenta, a pan seared salmon with cauliflower couscous, kale fettuccine with seasonal vegetables, or a grilled pork chop with mostarda and greens. Dessert is house-made and selected by the chef.
bread crumbs, grilled prawn skewers with lemon caper butter sauce, or braised lamb shanks in a sweet mint-rosemary port sauce. The meal finishes with a white chocolate creme brulee, cheesecake or a hot fudge chocolate cake.
M ASIAN FUSION RESTAURANT
98 S. Second St. San Jose; 408.418.2230. M, an Asian fusion restaurant and lounge, represents Asian cuisine with Thai and Chinese influences. The $20, $30 and $40 four-course menus all include an appetizer, soup or salad, an entrée and dessert. The $20 entrée choices include Thai yellow curry, Kung Pao chicken, shahi paneer, or teriyaki stir-fried beef. For $30, choose from steamed sea bass, roasted quail breast, butter chicken, Thai green curry or slow cooked pot meals. The $40 menu offers wasabi seafood pizza, nonya sambal prawn, steamed sea bass, prime New York strip steak, and roasted quail breast. The $50 five-course menu consists of an appetizer, soup and salad, entrée choices of prime rib eye, pan seared duck breast, or wok-fried sea bass, and a dessert.
RESTAURANT 25 W. San Fernando St., San Jose; 408.283.9595. Serving the deliciously different flavors of Oaxaca, a blend of sweet, savory and spice paired with a bar featuring many varieties of the restaurant’s smoky namesake, Mezcal is not your typical Mexican restaurant. The restaurant’s $30 menu begins with a choice of an Oaxacan summer salad, smoky roaster corn chowder, or fried calamari with chipotle aioli. Second course options include pepper corn filet mignon with Oaxacan rice, fresh salmon served with rice served with a poblano pepper sauce, or cheese chile relleno with a Mexican cream and pumpkin sauce. For dessert enjoy warm Oaxacan chocolate cake or Don Julio anejo neat with chocolate and sliced orange.
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MCCORMICK & SCHMICK’S SEAFOOD & STEAK
170 S. Market St., San Jose; 408.283.7200. From fresh seafood and shellfish to aged steaks and garden fresh vegetables, McCormick & Schmick’s will exceed your
bianco with artichoke, capers and a white wine sauce, and come with a choice of either mash potatoes or steamed broccoli with hollandaise sauce. Dessert is a choice of chocolate mousse or cheesecake.
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LOFT
90 S. Second St., San Jose; 408.291.0677. A fun atmosphere with a menu featuring a large selection of small plates makes Loft Bar and Bistro a popular gathering place. Loft’s $30 menu begins with a choice of soup of the day, tomato mozzarella salad or a baby spinach salad. For the second course, dishes include chicken and broccoli rotini, grilled pork tenderloin marinated in red wine and coated with herbed
dining expectations with their $30 menu. Starter selections include traditional New England clam chowder or walnut mixed greens with blue cheese crumbles and white balsamic vinaigrette. Entrée selections include a choice of cedar roasted Atlantic salmon, parmesan crusted chicken with linguine alfredo, stuffed flounder with crab and shrimp or beef medallion bordelaise with roasted mushrooms and spinach sauté. The dessert selection includes a chocolate truffle cake or a New York cheesecake, both served with a raspberry sauce.
177 Park Ave., San Jose; 408.947.7000. Get the VIP treatment at this premier steakhouse during Dine Downtown. Morton’s will be offering a $45 prix fixe menu. First course selections include a Caesar salad with classic dressing, fresh parmesan and croutons or Morton’s salad with blue cheese dressing, chopped egg, and anchovies. Entree choices are a center cut filet mignon, honey-chili glazed salmon fillet with vegetable relish, doublecut prime pork chop, or chicken
MOSAIC
RESTAURANT & LOUNGE in the Four Points by Sheraton, 211 S. First St., San Jose; 408.282.8888. Mosaic, a lively and sophisticated restaurant with American and Asian fusion cuisine, tempting desserts and signature cocktails will be offering a $30, $40, and $50 menu. The $30 menu begins with a Dungeness crab cake. The second course choices include a flat iron steak and prawns or grilled Atlantic salmon with wild berry sauce. A green tea ice cream will be served for dessert. The $40 menu begins with a blacken petite lamb chop. The second course choices include a New York steak with a demi-glace or a stuffed salmon with Dungeness crab, snow crab, asparagus, and lemon butter. For dessert enjoy crème brulee. The $50 menu begins with soft shell crab with wasabi soy sauce. The second course is a blacken boned-in rib eye or ginger smoked Chilean sea bass with honey mayo salad. For dessert enjoy chocolate molten cake.
NEMEA
GREEK TAVERNA 96 S. First St., San Jose; 408.279.4225. Nemea serves delicious Greek cuisine in a beautifully dining room that whisks
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NOMIKAI
SOCIAL FOOD + DRINKERY 48 S. First St., San Jose; 408.287.7199. Taking its name from a Japanese term for drinking socially together in celebration, Nomikai offers handcrafted cocktails, Japanese spirits and an Asian-inspired menu. The $20 three-course menu starts with a choice of a Caesar salad with creamy wasabi dressing or caprese salad with goat cheese, fresh tomatoes, Thai basil and balsamic vinaigrette. The main course is a choice between the corn and tomato pizza with béchamel sauce, mozzarella, garlic, chili and Thai basil or the Banh Mi pizza with marinated pork, daikon, carrots, cilantro, and mozzarella. Enjoy either a dessert cocktail from the bar or sliced bananas rolled in egg roll wrapper, deep fried and drizzled with whiskey caramel sauce.
PAOLO’S
RESTAURANT 333 W. San Carlos St., San Jose; 408.294.2558. Award winning and downtown favorite for its regional Italian cuisine with a contemporary twist, Paolo’s is serving a $40 prix fixe menu. First course selections include fried calamari, rock shrimp and artichokes with lemon caper mayonnaise, a Caesar
salad, or homemade butternut squash gnocchi, roasted porcini mushroom, peas and green garlic. Entrée selections include a dry aged Angus flatiron steak with leek and Yukon gold gratinato, the catch of the day steamed in parchment with spring vegetables and herb jus, or a roasted culver duck breast with picholine olives, medjool dates, moscato reduction and braised seasonal greens. For dessert, choose from a flourless chocolate cake with a blood orange caramel sauce and hazelnut brittle, a dried apricot and frangiapane tart, or warm doughnuts limoncello mascarpone with strawberry sauce.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO
91 S. Autumn St., San Jose; 408.292.5837. Bringing the sights, sounds, and tastes of New Orleans to the downtown area, Poor House Bistro is offering a $20 prix fixe menu. The first course includes a cup of chicken and sausage, cup of seafood gumbo, or a side salad. The second course includes a choice of six PHB specialties such as the fried seafood platter, jambalaya, red beans and rice, crawfish pasta, blackened chicken and Tasso pasta, or a BBQ shrimp platter. For dessert choose between a beignet or bread pudding.
SAN PEDRO SQUARE BISTRO & WINE
20 N. Almaden Ave., San Jose: 408.298.9463. An inviting bistro atmosphere with an elegant menu and extensive wine selection, San Pedro Square Bistro & Wine is offering a three-course menu for $35. For the first course, choose between a tricolor beets salad with a champagne vinaigrette or crab cake with lemon aioli. Second course is a selection of a panseared filet mignon cubed with roasted garlic, a grilled bone in pork chop with a port wine cherry demi glace sauce or pan-seared salmon with a lemon beurre blanc sauce. Dessert is either vanilla gelato or chocolate torte.
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185 Park Ave., San Jose; 408.971.1700. At Scott’s Seafood, patrons can indulge in American regional cuisine while enjoying views of the city from the sixth floor. Scott’s is offering a $45 menu. Starter choices include of Caribbean style halibut ceviche with mango and papaya, a pear and strawberries salad or Boston clam chowder. For the entrée, choose from seafood paella with prawns, scallops, lobster tail, chicken, chorizo and saffron rice, pan seared branzino with bay shrimp, sautéed spinach and rice pilaf, or stuffed chicken breast with garlic mashed potatoes and a marsala wine cream sauce. Dessert is vanilla bean crème brulee or molten chocolate cake.
50 W. San Fernando St. Suite 1700, San Jose; 408.971.9300. The elusive Capital Club with its member-only status is open to the general public during Dine Downtown, and at $50 per person, the refined gourmet menu is an excellent value for the experience. Chef Ron begins your experience with a unique Amuse Bouche of a Foie Gras appetizer. The main three courses are then prepared tableside. The first course is a Classic Caesar Salad. The second course is a thick cut of tenderloin filet with a traditional Chateaubriand Sauce of veal demiglace. To complete your retro dinner experience, enjoy fresh local berries, served Flambe-style over fresh vanilla bean ice cream.
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The legendarily creepy family is caught by surprise when Wednesday falls in love with a sweet, smart, and thoroughly unterrifying boy from a nice family in this fun musical take on “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”Thru July 26. $55-$65.The San Jose Stage.
CHINGLISH Daniel, an American business man, heads to China to make a fortune on correctly translating signs from Mandarin to English, but when he arrives he finds that language, culture, and love ends up getting lost in the translation. Jun 13-28. $17-$42. Palo Alto Players. Palo Alto
URINETOWN This musical with the eyegrabbing title took over Broadway in 2011. The modern classic enters a laughably familiar world where water is so scarce that private toilets are banned, opening the door for an unlikely hero to rise up for all of our number 1 rights. May 28-June 27. $18-$28 Bus Barn Theater. Los Altos Stage Company. Los Altos.
WEST SIDE STORY Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet gets a greasy combover and a leather jacket. The legendary struggle between the Jets and the Sharks set in New York is a timeless classic. Jul 16-Aug 23. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Company. San Jose.
TOM FOOLERY Tom Lehrer was Weird Al Yankovic before Weird Al Yankovic, but way better and using social issues as his material instead of pop songs. The songs of this Harvard educated math professor have been made into a musical that hits on some of his favorite targets like the Vatican, A-Bomb, and porn. Thru Jun 21. $16-$20. Hall Pavilion. Santa Clara Players.
FILOLI “Summer Sculpture Event” metal, stone, and wood workings by local artists. Thru Sep 13. Woodside.
CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Promised Land” Works by Jacob Lawrence. Thru August 3. “Pop Art from the SFMOMA Anderson Collection” featuring works by Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, and others. Thru Oct 26. Stanford.
ARCADIA The third chapter in Braverman’s “stage noir” trilogy featuring the gin-soaked private eye, Frankie Payne, finds us rooting for something that has long eluded Frankie as she solves mysteries of crime: the mystery of love. But, in harm’s way once again, will she solve the mystery in time? Jun 19-Jul 12. $10-$35. The Pear Avenue Theatre. Mountain View.
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CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM “Dora and Diego: Let’s Explore” A series of adventures and activities based on the worldfamous children’s show. San Jose.
HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Silicon Valley Bikes! Passion, Innovation, & Politics since 1880” Tracing the history and showing the artifacts from San Jose’s 150 year history on two wheels. “Slugs, Dingbats, and Tramp Printing” The printing press is one of the most important inventions in human history, see the machine that printed the first newspaper in California. San Jose
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Postdate Photography and Inherited History in India,” Modern artists draw inspiration from the colonial past of India. Thru August 2nd. “Figure Studies” by major Mexican muralist Jose Orozco. Thru Aug 23. “Beta Space” A massive study of the dung beetle’s place in the Galaxy. “Maker Space” thru Jan 17. TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “A Common Thread: Stitching ” guest curated by Susan O’Malley. Thru July 5. “Kawandi Adventure” Quilts by Margaret Fabrizio. Thru July 5. “Bedouin Textiles from the Collection of Robert and Joy Totah Hilden. Thru July 5. San Jose.
GALLERIES ART ARK GALLERY “Surface Matters,” Tracing the various effects of different textures of glass, in conjunction with the 44th annual Glass Art Society convention. Thru July 18. San Jose.
GALLERY HOUSE “Dreaming Earth” Kushlani Jayasinha, Celina Kirkwood, Anne Lamborn. Thru Jun 27. Palo Alto.
HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE First Fridays feature new artwork, demonstrations, and conversations with artists. San Jose.
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KALEID GALLERY “Color Me Free” animal focused new work from Sandi Billingsley. Jay Cee, Nekyua, Theresa Merchant, and Al Preciado have collaborated to produce live paintings based on mythology. San Jose.
MACLA “Breaking Point” glass works by award-winners Jaime Guerrero and Vivianna Paredas. Thru Aug 8. San Jose.
MAIN GALLERY “2015 Anniversary Show” bright and chilling work from over 20 resident artists. Thru Jun 28. Redwood City.
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “Metaphoric States” Five bronze works by Stephen de Staebler. Thru Oct 1. Saratoga.
PACIFIC ART LEAGUE “Pressed” A printmaking exhibition. Thru Jun 25. Palo Alto.
PALO ALTO ART CENTER “Home Grown.” mid-career exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Walter Robinson. Thru Aug 30. Palo Alto.
Last year, 80,000 people enjoyed the return of Downtwon Fireworks as the Rotary Club of San José celebrated its 100th anniversary. This year we keep the tradition alive and look forward to our second century of service to San José. Join us downtown at Discovery Meadow, next to the Children’s Discovery Museum.
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SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART “Red Rooms.” hyper-artificial environments playing with light and shadow by Amy M. Ho Thru Sep 12. “A Fragile Narrative” sculptures address domestic and industrial labor by Cassandra Straubing Thru Sep 12. “Age of Entanglement” vivid abstract paintings by Naomie Kremer. Thru Sep 19. “Passage” used coffee filters repurposed into natural forms by Sophia Allison and Leanne Lee Thru Oct 31. San Jose.
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CURRENT CLASSIC Vintage Electric’s E-Tracker features a batterypowered motor, which can propel the bike up to 25 mph.
Positively Electric THE VINTAGE ELECTRIC garage is tucked into a dusty armpit of the San Jose airport, fronted by old bay trees and sycamores. The facility is unmarked, as shops with the word “electric” in their name are a target for burglars, founder Andrew Davidge explains. Each week, the 23-year-old Davidge and his small team construct and ship upwards of 10 of their retro-looking bikes, which can be pedaled manually as well as propelled up to 25 mph by an electric motor. The bikes resemble a cross between a beach cruiser and the early 20th century board track racer, which were essentially bicycles with V-twin motor mounted onto them. The board track bikes served as inspiration for Davidge—both aesthetically and in terms of craftsmanship. He estimates that a Vintage Electric e-bike will last “hundreds of years, if you take care of it.” His bikes have no plastic parts and hand-welded, powdercoated frames. The only exposed metal components are hard-to-corrode aluminum and stainless steel. The Vintage Electric’s battery casing is sand cast at the hundred-year-old Kearney Foundry, right next to Diridon Station. Vintage Electric’s bespoke production comes with a price. Both the original E-Tracker and the recently introduced Cruz models cost $4,995—well above the usual price point for an e-bike. But Davidge says the quality of his product is worth it and notes that his company is currently backed up on orders. “Usually an e-bike company is someone that sees a market and finds a Chinese supplier to make something that’s cheap and easy to get and won’t last for more than a year or two,” Davidge says. The company began as a friendly competition between Davidge and one of his buddies. While studying at West Valley College, Davidge and his friend set out to see who could build the better gas-powered bike. The project soon went electric, and Davidge decided to use it as the basis for a business model in one of his classes. From there it became yet another Silicon Valley startup story. Davidge dropped out of school, found some good business mentors, got a loan from his parents and wha-bam—Vintage Electric is turning out quality e-bikes one garage over from a group of DIY drone enthusiasts. Makers like these occupy garages all over the South Bay, and Davidge hopes to eventually start something like an industrial incubator for projects like his. “That’s kind of my end goal, to have an incubator—not for the software side of things, but for toys,” he says. “I love toys. I can’t get enough of them. It’s like bicycles, motorcycles, cars. I think people need that in their lives.”—Stephen Layton
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Life of Riley THE DECIDERS The anthropomorphic emotions of 13-year-old Riley struggle with each other for control in the new Pixar film, ‘Inside Out.’
Pixar’s latest, ‘Inside Out,’ mostly works, is sometimes thwarted by Disney saccharine BY RICHARD VON BUSACK
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IXAR, the studio that tries harder than any of them, tries something completely different in Inside Out—a cartoon innerspace voyage through the subconscious, starring a cast of psychological abstractions. Riley (voiced by Kaitlyn Diaz) is not yet thirteen when she is uprooted by her parents from her idyllic Minneapolis home to a dingy Victorian in an authentically delineated San
Francisco. We are invited to see the crisis disrupting her life from the inside, as Riley’s troubles are processed by five color-coded figures. They include the luminescent, blue-haired pixie, Joy (voiced by Amy Poehler), who puts her seal on every event. Sadness (Phyllis Smith of The Office) is a shapeless, bespectacled sloucher in a chunky white turtleneck sweater. The other members of the team include Disgust (Mindy Kaling), green and scowling with disdain. And lurking like minions are Anger (Lewis Black) and Fear (Bill Halder). Joy’s job is to collect and protect memories before they’re sent to the core. The newly-minted memories are the size, shape and color of glow-in-the-dark bowling balls. They roll down the ramps
of mammoth gumball machinery to be safely archived below decks, before sadness gets a chance to cloud them. After a particularly embarrassing day for Riley, Joy and Sadness get marooned outside of the headquarters. They have to cross the interior country back to their control tower. Helping them is Riley’s half-forgotten imaginary friend called Bing Bong (voiced by Richard Kind) a little bit of elephant, a little bit of kitty, a lot of Ed Wynn. He leads them through to the Dream Studios, built to entertain the sleeping Riley. The Studio sequences are the best— it’s the part where this metaphor of a wild, squabbling inner life loosens up and gets some breathing room. Beyond the studio is the King Kong-sized gates of the subconscious. For all the mulling over of emotional conflict, Inside Out is as restless as any summer action film, with both a rocket journey and a train wreck. The amusement park-like “islands” of Riley’s inner-life crumble under the girls’
stress. The towers shake to pieces as if they’d been built on a psychological San Andreas fault. They include a “Goofyland”—that’s where Riley’s personality goes when she pretends to be a monkey to cheer her dad. These islands are surrounded by a Grand Canyon-sized chasm of forgetfulness, a crater lined with millions of fading globes and the ashes of disintegrated memories. (Sweeping up, a custodian of this memory dump discovers an orb containing piano lessons. Preparing to toss it, he says “Let’s lose everything but “Chopsticks” and “Heart and Soul.”) Pixar is trying for something funny, yet profound. They mostly succeed. And they once again get you right in the feels—this time with a scene of familiar reconciliation in which Riley comes to understand that there is something called bittersweetness that dwells between the extremes of joy and sadness. Writer and co-director Pete Docter creates charming glimpses of pure childhood joy and imagination. But Inside Out can’t go far enough inside. Pixar may be Pixar, but Disney has its clout too: Joy, the cheerer-upper who can allow no contradiction, represents the part of the Disney realm where the smile is mandatory, and euphoria is a default. (The movie finishes with a dedication at the end to the animators’ children, asking them to never grow up.) The script, shaped for the guest stars, tends to cherish shtick. Anger is a pissed- off dad caricature—a fulminating hothead. Inside Out counters the charge that only male characters matter in Pixar’s films. It’s honorable that it has so many more female than male characters here. But wouldn’t an angry girl have internal anger in the form of a girl? What Inside Out won’t show you is the joy that comes from anger, from being able to say ‘no’ and to mean it. Isn’t that a part of childhood—that righteous rage so well-placed that you can feel pleasure remembering it, even decades later? Inside Out shows you how much fun it was being daddy’s little monkey. It won’t show you the power of those moments when you were a kid and you really let the gorilla out.
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‘All Star’ Meltdown LIVIN’ ON THE SUN Life in the spotlight is fun until you get burned. Just ask Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell (center).
Smash Mouth, who play Mountain Winery this weekend, had a tough outing in Colorado BY NICK VERONIN
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EING STEVE HARWELL can’t be easy. Sure, his band Smash Mouth has enjoyed a long and successful career— scoring major radio hits with two original tunes and a string of catchy covers. But the locally-bred singer has also had to defend his band at nearly every turn.
First, the hate came from fellow musicians in his hometown—“We weren’t so well liked in San Jose,” the band’s bassist and founding member
Paul DeLisle says. “I don’t know what it was. People thought that we were fake punk or something. Maybe they weren’t sure about Steve or something.” In the early days of Smash Mouth, the band rehearsed in a studio downtown and “played the Cactus Club a lot,” DeLisle says. Still, they also regularly booked gigs in Hollywood, where they found crowds were much more receptive to their sunny, carefree sound. “It doesn’t seem that long ago, 20 years went by fast.” Once the band took off, Smash Mouth were regularly skewered by critics. Many bloggers have taken to identifying Harwell with the drippingin-derision moniker, “the guy from Smash Mouth”—the not-so-subtle
suggestion being that he and his group have always been forgettable. Harwell was even coerced into eating a shit-ton of eggs in front of a large crowd of people by a smart-ass kid who goes by the name @fart on Twitter. Still, the band has persisted. Their pair of original singles, “All Star” and “Walking On The Sun,” continue to get airplay to this day, and according to DeLisle, no one in the group has had to work a day job in well over a decade. Speaking on the phone from Hawaii on June 3, DeLisle is clearly upbeat about being in the band, and he is genuinely stoked about the upcoming tour, which features two other late-’90s alternative acts, Toad The Wet Sprocket and Tonic. “It’s unreal,” he says. “Steve and I talk about this, and we say, ‘Wow it’s been 20 years.’” DeLisle goes on to say that he has “no problem” with the idea of becoming an “oldies act.” “It’s an honor,” he says. “If you make it that far, to be an oldies act, you should be proud of that.”
One has to wonder then—if things are so peachy keen in the Smash Mouth camp—if the group is so blissed-out and high on the crest of their 20-year career wave, what the hell happened in Fort Collins, Colo., this past weekend? I mean, it’s clear enough what happened. A crowd of concertgoers at the Taste of Fort Collins festival— which was billed as a “family-friendly celebration perfect for Northern Coloradoans’ active lifestyle”—were hammered with a decidedly un-family friendly barrage of profanity and threats of violence, courtesy of Harwell. The singer became upset after at least one member of the audience, and maybe more, began throwing slices of bread at the band. According to USA Today, one of the festival’s booths had been giving away loaves of bread to attendees. “You throw one more piece of shit on the fucking stage, I’m gonna come find your ass,” Harwell can be heard saying to the crowd. “I’m gonna beat your ass, whoever the fuck you are out there.” From there, Harwell continues his foul-mouthed rant—challenging the bread-hurler to a fight on stage. He even goes so far as to enter the crowd with the apparent intent of throwing down. DeLisle did not immediately return a call seeking comment and the band’s publicist kept things brief, saying “I only know what’s on the video,” and refusing to answer any specific questions. As of press time Smash Mouth have not made any official announcements about the incident and are still scheduled to play all their forthcoming dates—including a concert at The Mountain Winery in Saratoga. The group is currently putting the finishing touches on an as yet untitled live album and DeLisle says an official band biography is coming soon. It will be titled, Walking On The Sun: The Official Bio of Smash Mouth. DeLisle says he is excited and “nervous” about the book’s release and also says he thinks people will really enjoy their live album. “We’re more of a hard-rocking band than people think,” he says. JUNE
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ART BOUTIKI Fri, Jun 19, 7:30pm: Mason Razavi, Bennett Roth Newell. Sat, Jun 20, 8pm: Exit 11, Mitch Lugan, Valko Brothers. San Jose.
THE BACK BAR SOFA Every Wed, 9pm: The Cypher, feat. Hip-hop, Jungle, Soul, Reggae, Dubstep, Trap, BreakBeat, House and more. San Jose
6/20 UK Subs 7/9 Barbwire Dolls 7/10 & 7/11 3rd annual Underneath the Underground Music Festival
MOUNTAIN WINERY Thu, Jun 18, 8pm: Brian Wison w/ Rodriguez. Fri, Jun 19, 8pm: Little Big Town w/ David Nail and Ashley Monroe. Sun, Jun 21, 7:30pm: Brit Floyd (Pink Floyd Tribute). Saratoga.
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NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam Band. Thu, Jun 18, 8pm: Blind Pilots. Fri, Jun 19, 8pm: Hella Good Party Band. Sat, Jun 20, 8pm: Megatones. Los Gatos.
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BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Every Wed and Sun, 10pm: Karaoke with DJ Hank. Fri, June 19, DJ Nico. Sat, June 20, DJ KAOS. Every Mon: In House Darts/Foosball. Every Tue: Pubstumpers Trivia.
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SERENITY NOW Bill Burr insists that he is never angry on stage. ‘It’s not me yelling,’ he says. ‘I’m doing a character.’
Anger Management LIKE HIS contemporaries, Marc Maron and Louis C.K., stand-up comic Bill Burr cracks up audiences with brutally honest observations about the loathsome, heaving mass of selďŹ shness and vapidity otherwise known as “humanity.â€? But unlike Maron, who ďŹ nds punchlines (and dejection) in the realization that he is no different than everyone else, and C.K., who works to tease out the transcendent beauty in all the cruelty and barbarism that surrounds him, Burr grabs laughs through sheer callousness and resignation. Bill Burr The titles of his two most recent Netix specials say it all: You People Are All The Same and I’m Sorry You Feel That Way. San Jose Center for Performing Arts Need more proof? Within minutes of taking the stage in for Jun 22, 7pm, the 2014 ďŹ lming of I’m Sorry, Burr wastes no time in offering $35-$45 up a grim solution to global warming and pollution. “They just don’t want to come out and say it,â€? he says—referring to hand-wringing politicians and scientists. “Nobody has the balls to come out and say it—and say, ‘Look, 85 percent of you have to go!â€? But that’s not the real Burr. Speaking over the phone, the 47-year-old comedian from Canton, Mass., insists that the person his fans see on stage isn’t him. “When I’m doing someone yelling, it’s not me yelling,â€? he says. “I’m usually doing a character.â€? Fair enough. Still, the characters Burr inhabits on stage are quite often angry—or befuddled, exasperated, scared and genuinely bothered by something. If all of his most hyped-up gesticulations and raised voices are deployed when he is in character, then the actual Burr must look and sound a bit more like the smug, punishingly pragmatic man who drops out of an imitation of Donald Sterling, mid-racist rant, to directly address those who were so outraged by the behavior of the Los Angeles Clippers owner: “What did you think they thought?â€? Burr says, smirking in bemusement. “You never talked to a grandparent and asked the wrong question and all of a sudden went down this crazy road?â€? Which isn’t to say Burr would ever stand behind Sterling’s statements. He is clearly a progressive dude. But Burr’s is not a progressivism born from a liberal arts education at Harvard. His is a “you do you and I’m gonna do meâ€? streetwise progressivism, born of a sharp eye, a sharper mind and a perpetual skepticism for authority. When asked what he enjoys most about stand-up comedy, he says it is the freedom from such inuences that keeps him coming back. And in the process of explaining his love of performing he ends up weaving as eloquent a takedown of income inequality as any presidential speech writer or studied Marxist professor could ever hope to produce. “I’m using my talent for me—the money is going to go to me,â€? he says. “All business is set up so the big guy owns it, and it all goes to the big guy, and he tells you what you earned. And that’s just a recipe for getting screwed.â€?—Nick Veronin
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My lawn slowly dies as we here in Southern California suffer another drought and our water agencies reduce deliveries to a slow dribble. Is it technically and economically feasible to harvest icebergs as a fresh-water source? Answer soon, as we're tired of Navy showers and unushed toilets!—Marvin Gardens If shower duration is your primary concern right now, the drought may be making your whiskey-and-waters a little too strong. California accounts for about 11 percent of U.S. agriculture by revenue and 12 percent of the nation’s GDP overall. When you guys run out of water, we’re all screwed. Which makes the iceberg idea pretty appealing. With global warming well under way, icebergs should be breaking free and oating past our coasts any day now—and corralling one or two giant frozen chunks of fresh water certainly sounds easier than reducing the excess consumption of several metropolitan areas, or addressing the obvious problems with growing massive amounts of high-water-demand food under semi-arid conditions. And the idea’s not new: proposals along these lines had already been kicking around for a few decades when the Saudi prince Mohammed al Faisal got into the act in the mid-70s. Seeking water for his country that didn’t have to be desalinated, he formed a company to harvest Antarctic icebergs and tow them up to the Red Sea. Unfortunately the plan stalled, in part because of difficulty balancing fuel economy with enough towing speed to keep the berg from melting en route. Icebergs haven’t changed much since then—they’re still unwieldy, slippery, dirty, and melty. But the tech’s gotten better, and we’re desperate, so let’s look at the process. Step one: Get a lawyer. Most legal opinion appears to agree that bergs are generally available on a ďŹ rst-come, ďŹ rst-served basis, but it’s possible that either the United Nations (under the Convention of the Law of the Sea) or the Coast Guard might intervene in an icetowing scheme—the latter is in charge of enforcing not only marine commerce safety regulations but also the U.S. Antarctica Conservation Act. Greenpeace could conceivably have some beef with iceberg towing, as might various other environmentalist groups. Step two: Scout a suitable iceberg. What you want is a tabular iceberg—at top, longer than it is tall—weighing maybe a million to 10 million tons. There are more of these in Antarctic waters than in the north Atlantic, plus there aren't any polar bears on them; on the other hand, using an Arctic iceberg may save
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Before E. Annie Proulx became a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, she wrote a series of how-to books, including a dairy foods cookbook and an instructional text on making your own hard cider. But the manual of hers that I especially want to call your attention to right now is Plan and Make Your Own Fences & Gates, Walkways, Walls & Drives. It might be inspirational for you to read it. You're in a phase when it makes perfect sense to create new paths for yourself to travel on. This will allow you to forgo at least some of the paths that others have built and that can't actually take you where you need to go. CANCER (June 21-July 22): I'm getting itchy to see you blow your own cover. I would love you to come all the way out of your hiding place, even if just for a while, and see what happens if you make full disclosures and brave displays. My hope is that you will close the gap between the real you and the images that people have of you. Does that sound interesting? Or have you become so fond of being a big riddle that you can't imagine any other way to be? Maybe I can tempt you to be more self-revelatory if I add this: Taking your disguises off even briefly will enable you to discover intriguing secrets about yourself. And then once you put your disguises back on, you will seem more mysterious than ever.
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San Francisco 49ers’ All-Pro tight end, VERNON DAVIS, spoke to a crowd at TheFitExpo about nutrition, diet and health.
This couple enjoyed the first
UNDERGROUND WRESTLING ALLIANCE match ever held at The Ritz.
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These two cheered on their favorite local wrestlers and hissed at the villains at the UGWA event at THE RITZ.
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