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Body Count I also rode at Clear Creek for over 10 years. Before that, asbestos was heavily mined within the park (not sure exactly when, or for how long). The EPA asserts that one in 100 people who “playâ€? in the area over a period of 10 years (if I recall correctly) will contract asbestosis or mesothelioma. In spite of that “scientiďŹ c opinion,â€? the EPA and BLM cannot produce a single example of anyone who has ever been reported to suffer from any form of asbestosis or mesothelioma. Believe me, if I know of one, I’d speak up. I don’t want anyone hurt or killed either. That’s what Mr. Tobin and Mr. Zesiger mean when they say “show me the bodies.â€? There are none. Never have been. Michael Scruggs Poway, Calif.

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Jerry [Roberts] & Phil [Trounstine] failed to mention the single most important failure of California’s governance (“Failed State,� MetroNews, July 1), that is, the ability to pass a constitutional amendment on a mere 50 percent vote. Amend the constitution with

50 percent but pass a budget or tax increase with 67 percent?!? Compared to any other government, that is ass backwards, and worse, it enables special interests to infect the budget with the initiatives they did mention. The whole California constitution needs to be rewritten, from the ground up, preferably modeled on a state with a functioning governance model and protections to make initiatives harder but not impossible. John M. Stafford Los Gatos

Message Movies I was pleased to read Richard von Busack’s critical response to Earth (“Animal Planet,� Film Review, April 22). It’s about time someone woke us up to the fact that of fantastically photographed wildlife documentaries have done little to secure charismatic megafauna’s rightful place on our crowded planet. The question is, how to present this incredible, breath-taking photography in a less theatrical, less anthropomorphized, less three-act play form that will get the real message across and still pull “families� into theaters. Daniel Hayes Pearson Santa Cruz

J!Tbxzpv Bad Parker I hope you are happy with yourself. I am talking about you, the person driving a black Mercedes who parked in the parking lot on Parkmoor Avenue in San Jose. I’m sure that you were so very preoccupied and were in a hurry the other afternoon (last Monday) when you parked next to my car. Well, would it be too much to ask that you would spend the extra few seconds and repark your car? I had an extremely hard time getting into my vehicle when I came out after visiting one of the tenants located in the building. I felt like going into the nearest business, Children’s Musical Theater, and letting someone there know to alert the individual who owns a black Mercedes to please come out to the parking lot and repark the car. However, I though better afterward, because it may be someone who is not there to drop off their children at the theater. It could be to drop off a child who is a member of Junior Achievement. Anyhow, to the person who has a black Mercedes and was there last Monday afternoon, I hope you will think better next time and not be in such a hurry. And most of all, do a much better job parking your vehicle. I am sure you do not want to see your very expensive vehicle scratched and/or dented. Got it, fella!!!

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ORLD TRAVEL is about continuous personal transformation, so before a recent trip to Switzerland, I checked out a copy of Richard and Iona Miller’s The Modern Alchemist: A Guide to Personal Transformation from the main library here in San Jose before heading to Europe. Unlike most people, when I contemplate Switzerland, I don’t think of army knives, watches or secret bank accounts. I think of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung writing about alchemy—transmuting base metals into gold as a metaphor for personal and psychological transformation. As a result, I was especially transformed when I crept into the H.R. Giger Museum in the medieval village of Gruyères. Giger is the macabre Swiss surrealist best known for designing the creatures in the 1980 film Alien, for which he won an Oscar, but he also creates ghastly airbrush paintings, furniture, sculptures, album covers and graphic designs featuring imagery of violent biomechanical females, Lovecraftian nightmarescapes and erotic-occult-fantasy transmogrifications of the most intuitive sort. He says he paints whatever scares him. Gruyères itself is a place that exists almost entirely for tourists, as thousands are regularly bussed in for the famous castle and cheese of the same name. Over time, Giger fell in love with the area, calling it a “beautiful cheek of Switzerland.” In 1998, to the explosive annoyance of the locals, Giger acquired an old stone fortress, the Château St. Germain, and converted it into a permanent three-story museum of his work. Commendably, the place is staffed by Swiss goth hotties. “When people go to Gruyères, they usually come for the castle and the cheese factory,” explains my tour guide, with an angelic French accent. “Then they come in here and they get disgusted.” As we move through the museum, she provides a few stock details about Giger’s life: His birth was unusually long and traumatic, with the doctor needing forceps to get him out of the womb; detractors blamed him for his first wife’s depression and suicide; and as a teenager, he set his dad’s pharmacy on fire by trying to melt lead. (Read: alchemy, transformation.) We eventually arrive at a room with huge airbrushes of The Spell, I, II, III and IV—one on each wall. Spell III includes Giger’s version of the Baphomet symbol at its center, complete with the Caduceus—the two snakes coiling into a figure 8 around a shaft. Baphomet and the snakes represent male and female energy or dark/light polarity. Minutes later, she points out another famous Giger painting, Anima Mia, an otherwordly nightmarescape of flowing interconnected biomechanoids. Mia As a result, I was was Giger’s second wife, and inspiration especially transformed while he created this particular work. when I crept into the The title is a play on words: Anima H.R. Giger Museum means “soul” and is also a Jungian concept representing the unconscious in the medieval feminine aspect of the male psyche. village of Gruyères By sheer synchronicity—a Jungian term—I had just finished Chapter 3 of The Modern Alchemist, titled “Anima,” while on the airplane. My own inner feminine slowly began to emerge. Jung also provided some of the foundation for the mythopoetic “Wild Man” men’s movement, that which tries to recapture of the fierceness of masculinity. By another synchronicity, I stayed at the Hotel Wilden Mann (Wild Man) while in Lucerne. Imagery of the Wild Man figure, the mystical savage, is intertwined with that city’s history, and he is the symbol of untamed strength and resistance to all conventions. In the hotel, numerous mystical and symbolic medieval drawings, including Tarot cards, grace the walls of the salon, although most won’t notice. At journey’s end, in Giger’s hometown of Chur, I stood right in front of the building where he grew up, in a flat above his dad’s pharmacy. It now boasts a bright yellow facade with a women’s cosmetic shop on the ground level—the closing irony of it all, I suppose. In any event, after that trip I am personally transformed. To Giger, Jung and the San Jose Main Library, I say, Tausend Dank! Transformation beyond the form: SiliconAlleys@metronews.com

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Van Flein is telling us it’s Door No. 2. “[S]everal unscrupulous people have asserted false and defamatory allegations that the ‘real’ reasons for Governor Palin’s resignation stem from an alleged criminal investigation pertaining to the construction of the Wasilla Sports Complex. This canard was first floated by Democrat operatives in September 2008 during the national campaign and followed up by sympathetic Democratic writers.” Then came the assault on free speech: “To the extent several websites, most notably liberal Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore, are now claiming as ‘fact’ that Governor Palin resigned because she is ‘under federal investigation’ for embezzlement or other criminal wrongdoing, we will be exploring legal options this week to address such defamation.” No one has claimed anything as fact. What radio host and blogger Moore and others, including myself, reported was that there were rumors of a pending investigation. The rumors have been circulating everywhere. Why? Van Flein tells us the answer: “Wayne Barrett, a writer for

She steadfastly refused to live in Juneau after her first year there, had the gall to charge the state for residing at her home in Wasilla 600 miles away (there’s a new ethics allegation on its way) and basically mailed in her performance as the state’s top administrator during Alaska’s most recent legislative session. She alienated virtually all the key legislators in her own party—Republicans—and had failed to move any key legislation forward since her return to Alaska from the national campaign trail last November. Her bizarre appointment

for attorney general, Wayne Anthony Ross, was rejected nearly unanimously by the state Legislature—a first in Alaskan history. Even in respect to energy policy, her supposed bailiwick, she has been categorically ineffective. When I asked those in-the-know what role Palin had played in putting together the recent pipeline deal between TransCanada and Exxon, their response was simple: “None.” And just when you think it can’t get any weirder—the trailer trash revelations of Troopergate; the McCain camp calling her a “whack

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WOMAN in a white T-shirt gently rocks a tiny, peach-fuzz-haired baby swaddled in a light pink blanket. The infant and its caretaker sit among some 40-odd spectators packed into Courtroom 109 at South County Court House on June 30. The newborn stays remarkably quiet, barely stirring though the half-hour court proceeding. They are all there to observe the second hearing of the most controversial murder case to come out of Gilroy in years.

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The child’s mother, 18-year-old Heather Marie Ashford, sits across the room in baggy orange prison garb, a heavy-duty chain around her waist and her hands in cuffs. Her hair in a bun and her eyes red, Ashford wipes away tears when Judge Theresa Guerrero-Daley calls her name to stand. Ashford gave birth to her baby in jail at the beginning of June, just a few days after she was arrested and charged with the gang-related murder of her cousin Larry Martinez. The child’s birth also coincided with Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr’s unprecedented decision to bring homicide charges against Ashford and her friends Angel Solorzano, 19, and Robert Henry Barrios, 20, as well as the two rival gang members, Cristian Giovanni Jimenez, 21, and Edgardo Centeno, believed to have gunned down Martinez. On June 9, Carr and Gilroy Police Chief Denise Turner announced that in their efforts to take a strong stance against gang violence in South County, they would invoke a rarely used “provocative act” clause in California law. That meant they would prosecute all of the alleged gang members and associates from both

sides involved in the conflict that led to Martinez’s death. The slaying of Larry Martinez was the outcome of an afternoon clash between Norteño and Sureño gang members just a few blocks away from the Gilroy Police Department. “We are sending the message today, by prosecuting this case, that our community and our law enforcement agencies do not and will not tolerate gang violence,” Carr said at a press conference in front of the new South County Courthouse in Morgan Hill early last month. The provocative act clause operates under the reasoning that though Ashford, Solorzano and Barrios did not shoot their friend that afternoon, they set in motion a chain of events that they should have known would result in someone’s death. This case is the first time that Carr has used the rule. “The people of Santa Clara County deserve protection from these menaces,” said Carr on June 9. “People need to understand that if they choose to become involved in gang violence . . . they can be expected to be prosecuted by our office.” Carr said that when her team of district attorneys, lead by Santa Clara County prosecutor Troy Benson, approached

her about the case, they went through extensive talks and investigation before deciding to go forward with prosecuting under the provocative act clause. Though the Santa Clara County DA has never used the unusual legal theory, the act has been used in gang-related cases in other California counties. “When we look at something like this that is not utilized on a regular basis, we want to make sure that we understand it, that we evaluate it appropriately and that we affirm that we have the evidence to support that theory so we can move forward,” says Carr. “This is just taking another step in that, by seeing a case that comes under this unusual doctrine. It does take a somewhat unique set of facts to bring it under this doctrine. So, I think it is just using all the tools that the law provides us.”

Picking the Wrong Fight The police believe that the deadly Nov. 11, 2008, gang dispute began with a rock being thrown at Ashford’s car. Jimenez, an admitted member of the Gilroy/Morgan Hill–based “Varrio Sur Rifa” Sureño

criminal street gang, entered a known Gilroy Norteño neighborhood that day, along with Centeno and a juvenile suspect. According to police reports, the Sureño group threw a rock at a car containing Solorzano and Martinez. The vehicle was being driven by Ashford, Martinez’s cousin, who was about a month pregnant at the time. Ashford is not a known gang member, though police consider her a gang associate through blood ties. Police say Martinez and Solorzano are both known members of the Gilroy-based “East Side Gilas” Norteño criminal street gang. After the altercation, according to police reports, Ashford and the two men proceeded to drive to another location to pick up Barrios, before heading back to confront the rock throwers. While Ashford waited in the car around the corner, the three men allegedly sneaked up on the Sureño gang members, Martinez brandishing a small baseball bat. When Jimenez, Centeno and the third suspect saw the group approach, they pulled out two handguns and fired on the group, hitting Martinez. Larry Martinez died on the pavement 17

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WAR ON WAR 15 between Sixth and Church streets from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was 18 years old. Having just completed a threeyear jail sentence, he had only been out of police custody for a week. After Martinez was shot, Solorzano and Barrios reportedly fled the scene in the car driven by Ashford, Solorzano dropping his cell phone as they ran. The Sureño group left their handguns on the ground and escaped before police arrived and found Martinez’s body lying on the street. “We’ve reviewed carefully the evidence that has been developed so far in this case, and we determined that all of the gang members from both sides should be charged with the murder of Larry Martinez,” Carr said on June 9. “Obviously, we are prosecuting the people who pulled the trigger. But in addition to those, California law allows us to prosecute persons who commit an act that is likely to provoke a deadly response.

‘My client is a victim, not a perpetrator. He didn’t shoot anybody or provoke anybody.’ —ATTORNEY EDWARD SOUSA

This legal theory really allows us to hold accountable all parties, no matter who dies.” At the time of Carr’s June 9 announcement, only Ashford, Solorzano and Jimenez were in custody. Since then, Barrios was arrested on an outstanding murder warrant in Porterville, a town 70 miles south of Fresno, while accused shooter Edgardo Centeno remains on the lam. Jimenez had been taken into custody on June 4 during an ICE-lead sweep of South County, while both Solorzano and Ashford were arrested on June 8. All four co-defendants are currently being held in Santa Clara County jail. Though Ashford was not an identified gang member at the time of the shooting, by associating with and assisting known gang members, she is subject to the same prosecution as known Norteño and Surteño gang members, according to the California Penal Code. Martinez’s murder reportedly lead to a nonfatal retaliation gang shooting in Gilroy on Nov. 13, for which two subjects have been arrested, prosecuted and pled guilty. There have been several incidents of gang-related violence reported in Gilroy since Carr’s announcement. At 10pm on

the night of June 9, a 19-year-old cousin of a Sureño gang member was shot by suspected Norteño gang members east of downtown Gilroy. Then, a 25-year-old man was beat up and robbed near Chestnut Street and Murray Avenue on June 14. On June 24, another 25-year-old man was shot with a large-caliber handgun in a drive by shooting at the intersection of First Street and Wren Avenue in Gilroy. Turner says that this level of gang-related violence has become typical for Gilroy. “Apart from this particular case, we have seen ongoing violence,” Turner says. “I think we’ve had a couple of stabbings, a drive-by shooting . . . but that I think was unrelated.” Turner estimates that almost 2 percent of Gilroy’s population is made up of documented gang members and affiliates, specifying that 900 out of the 51,000 people currently living in the city are involved in gangs. “Our community has been in fear,” she said at the June 9 press conference. Martinez’s family has defended his actions in the media. “It’s the culture, it’s respect,” Turner says. “If an individual is disrespected or someone is in their territory or is causing them trouble, then they are inclined to retaliate.” Martinez’s family has told the Gilroy Dispatch that Martinez and his friends felt they had to confront Jimenez and the other Sureños to defend his pregnant cousin, but they denied that they knew his actions would result in Martinez’s death. “I don’t know if people will be sympathetic to her [Ashford] or not. We do have multigenerational groups of gangsters in our city, so this is not uncommon,” Turner says. “We see it in the schools when dealing with the parents. For many children, it is something they are born into, that they have no control over.”

Perp or Victim? At the June 30 hearing at the South County Courthouse, the four codefendants delayed entering their pleas until July 28 to allow their four separate attorneys to sift through hundreds of pages of discovery documents. All four co-defendants also waved their right for a preliminary hearing. Solorzano and Barrios were seated next to each other in matching orange correctional facility garb. Barrios appeared relaxed, frequently glancing at his sister among the spectators and even whispering to Solorzano and laughing at one point before the hearing began. Solorzano’s eyes, however, were on his lawyer, Joseph Barrera, who frequently got up from the plaintiff ’s table to speak to him throughout the proceedings. 18

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Though they are all currently denied bail, Ashford’s lawyer, Alfredo Morales, made a motion to reduce her bail at the next hearing, presumably so that Ashford could spend time with her baby. Solorzano and Barrios also joined in the motion. But, Judge Guerrero-Daley made no indication to any of them before officially delaying their pleas until the end of next month. “My client is a victim, not a perpetrator,” said Barrios’ lawyer Edward Sousa, while walking out of the courthouse after the hearing. “He didn’t shoot anybody or provoke anybody.” Seated decidedly away from the three in court was Jimenez, who talked sporadically with his lawyer, Jessica Delgado, but showed little emotion. At the July 28 hearing, the co-defendants are expected to enter their pleas, after which they will be arraigned. The case could go to trial within 49 days of their next arraignment, according to Assistant District Attorney David Howe. The day before the hearing, Delgado indicated that she would be pursuing a self-defense angle for her client. She is counting on the fact that the DA would not have perused the case against

Martinez’s friends if they had not incited the situation. “Certainly, the fact that they have charged three individuals under the provocative murder theory logically makes me believe that we will have a relatively strong self-defense claim,” Delgado says. “In order to show it was a provocative act, they had to have shown they were provoking that situation. So, I think this is going to be a very interesting and compelling situation.” Delgado, who is hoping for a jury trial, said that Jimenez’s claim to self-defense should be just as important as Carr’s aim to make a statement about prosecuting gang violence. “These kind of situations are difficult, because I understand that there is a policy interest on the part of the DA’s office,” Delgado says. Chief Turner said that she was happy that the Gilroy Police Department has brought its investigation into Larry Martinez’s death to a close, but that the district attorney’s office has a long road ahead as it moves toward prosecuting under the provocative act. “We don’t want to tolerate that in our back yard any longer, so we are taking a tough stance,” Turner said. “I appreciate the DA’s efforts in going out on a limb.” M

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FFICER Geoff Guerin slams the accelerator of his white unmarked car and guns it down a narrow alley near Louis Street. A group of men huddled in the center of the alley take off running, tossing beer cans, baseball caps and cigarettes as they sprint and hop over fences. Guerin jumps out of the car with his hand on his holster. He yells as he runs: “Garcia! Garcia!” He is after a portly man wearing a large black T-shirt and nylon shorts hanging over his

knees. The man runs toward a dilapidated two-story apartment complex tucked at the end of the alleyway. Apparently realizing there’s nowhere to go, he slows down, walking back toward Guerin with his hands over his head. Guerin and his partner, Officer Doug Remmick, snap handcuffs on his wrists. The man, 20-year-old Andrew Garcia, is a well-known parolee—according to Guerin, one of Gilroy’s most hardened criminals, born into the Norteño street gang. The two cops return to the patrol car

with evidence that Garcia was in violation the terms of his parole: a San Francisco 49ers cap. Guerin, who has been working for Gilroy’s gang unit since the early 1990s, explains that local Norteños wear 49ers caps as a not-quite clandestine way of identifying themselves—and Garcia is not allowed to associate with gangs or wear gang colors. This is part of a concerted effort on the part of Gilroy police to confront a gang problem that has exploded in recent years. Guerin and his partner call for backup, and then continue with their mission

Gangs infiltrated the South Bay in the late 1970s, shortly after the infamous La Nuestra Familia prison gang organized a minigovernment in Salinas. There, they collected “taxes” from gang members dealing dope in town. Salinas, the gangmurder capital of California, has seen its homicide rate double in the last year, according to news reports. The “NF” gang quickly grew into an organized chain of command, with captains and lieutenants just like the military. Gang members soon infiltrated Gilroy, which was fertile ground for recruiting new members and collecting more drug taxes. By the 1980s, Gilroy had become an active base for the prison gang’s drug smuggling. “They wiped out any drug dealer that was not associated with the Nuestra Familia,” Guerin says. “Look at the history of murders in Gilroy—there were Nuestra Familia hits all over town. They came in and said you can pay us taxes or we will take care of you. And that was how the message was sent.” While Nuestra Familia continued dominating Gilroy’s east side neighborhoods, in the 1990s, Mexican nationals began to arrive in larger numbers to work in the fields. Many of them eventually formed their own gangs to protect themselves from the local gang members. They started calling themselves the Sureños, or the southerners. Consequently, Nuestra Familia became the northerners—the Norteños. Although police have worked to break up the street gangs, they continue to 21

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“I think someone needs to champion these issues and create a sense of urgency around the emerging gang problem,â€? says Angel Rios, a Gilroy resident who works with gangs and at-risk youth for the city of San Jose. “For a city the size of Gilroy, people should be concerned.â€? In January, Police Chief Denise Turner held one of two gang awareness forums where residents packed the room, hoping to get some answers about the upswing in gang activity. “People are really unsettled,â€? says Turner, who was appointed chief last year. “We are trying to keep a lid on the gang problem, but it’s not easy. We have to step it up.â€? Gilroy is no Salinas, but the gang violence hasn’t been this bad since the early 1990s, when Gilroy had its ďŹ rst drive-by shooting. After that and other gang-related crimes, the community rallied the City Council, which later agreed to form the anti-crime unit with designated detectives for gang suppression. At the time, then-Mayor Don Gage, who is now a Santa Clara County supervisor, teamed up with the police chief to create Gilroy’s ďŹ rst gang task force. Gage went into the community and raised $200,000 to buy the old PaciďŹ c Gas & Electric building on the corner of Sixth Street and Railroad Avenue to convert into a youth center. He collaborated with the

Mexican American Community Services Agency, giving the nonproďŹ t free rent and the space in that building to help at-risk youth. They’ve made it a priority to take kids to baseball games, to the movies or just help them with homework, Gage says. “What it did was take care of the kids who wanted to get out of gangs and didn’t have any place to go,â€? Gage says, adding that “their fathers and grandfathers were in gangs.â€? Now, Gage says, Gilroy needs more than youth centers. “The gang problem has become a lot worse because it is spreading and it’s more hard-core,â€? he says. “When it gets that hard-core, doing the things I was doing has little or no effect.â€? The gang task force, which has since evolved into a nonproďŹ t group, has been a consistent presence in Gilroy. Yet critics say the task force has weak organization and leadership, and as a result it has been ineffective at truly targeting at-risk youth. On top of that, the city, which contributed a mere $40,000 to the youth center for salaries, lacks amenities—even adequate parks and recreation programs— that would give kids another alternative, residents say.

No Escape In January, the city’s youth center was closed down after it was deemed seismically unsafe. Since then, the city has offered similar activities for kids at the senior center. That facility is farther away from the east side, which is where the greatest need is, says John Garcia, executive director of the gang task force. He noted that since the youth center closed, he’s seen fewer and fewer kids dropping by the senior center. Gage wants to see more commitment from the community. “You need a gang task force that has people who make decisions,â€? Gage says. “They can’t just be there because it feels good.â€? In the county’s southernmost city, money and community groups are scarce. Physically and metaphorically, Gilroy is isolated from county resources. There isn’t a strong, savvy political network to help Gilroy lobby for resources. The city was recently rejected when it sought a state grant to help pay for a gang coordinator, similar to what San Jose has. It has also applied for federal stimulus money to help fund a school resource officer position that’s currently in jeopardy, the chief says. The Police Department won’t ďŹ nd out about the federal money until the fall. “Gilroy is the stepchild of the county,â€? says Gilroy Councilman Peter Arellano. At the same time, Arellano admits that the council hasn’t been bullish about putting 25

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its own money and resources into gang prevention. What little money the city does get from the county, it has used to fund DARE officers, which some believe to be an inefficient use of those funds. “The political will isn’t there,” Arellano says. “I think we have been out front on intervention and suppression, but I don’t think we are doing enough in prevention, because unfortunately, prevention takes money and effort. “The community needs to do something.” The downturn in the economy has put Gilroy in an especially weak position this past year. Gilroy continues to have the highest unemployment rate of all cities in Santa Clara County. In April, Gilroy had a 16 percent unemployment rate compared to San Jose’s 12 percent. The city, which is 60 percent Hispanic, has also been hit with the highest percentage of home foreclosures in the county. The council last year cut $4 million from its budget, including police officers and parks and recreation programs. It’s now considering cutting another $4 million this year. In January, the police chief had no choice but to cut the department’s intervention probation officer—the sole person who would interface with at-risk youth and kids in gangs. This officer would

take referrals from school resources officers who would keep tabs on kids in gangs. The officer would make calls and even go to their homes to talk with their parents about their kids being in gangs. Gilroy’s police gang supervisor, Sgt. Chad Gallacinao, is especially disturbed by this news. “It was the most important part,” he says. “Now there is going to be a whole generation of kids we will miss regarding prevention and intervention.”

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Although police have worked to break up the street gangs, they continue to multiply, with various clicks of NorteĂąos and SureĂąos all over town. Today, police have documented roughly 900 gang members in Gilroy. As Carr spoke to reporters, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed as well as police chiefs and sheriff deputies at her side nodded their heads in support. Behind her was a VTA bus, with one of the freshly printed campaign posters on its side—a smoky image of a cemetery with an eerie message scribbled across: “Gangs have a place for your children.â€? “We are here today because, frankly, gang violence tears at the fabric of our community,â€? Carr said, squinting into the morning sun. “We have certainly seen an increase in gang violence in the last year, and we have made a more concerted effort to deal with that.â€? A week later, Carr sat in a conference room on the ďŹ fth oor of the county offices. She explained that it’s tricky to get underneath the growing gang violence in South County when so much of the effort has been San Jose–centric. Her goal is to stretch those efforts farther down south, starting with this anti-gang media campaign. South County buses will have the anti-gang posters. But that’s as far as the campaign will go in South County. There

will be no billboards towering over roads in Morgan Hill or Gilroy, in part because her office says there is nowhere to place them. When someone says “gangs know no boundaries,â€? policymakers always nod in agreement. But there has been no signiďŹ cant push to pool local resources and form a countywide gang prevention task force. Carr says a countywide task force isn’t a bad idea, assuming there’s political will. It seems that South County police chiefs are itching for some help. In Gilroy, Chief Turner has had backand-forth conversations with the mayor’s office in San Jose, looking to copy that gang task force model. San Jose’s gang prevention task force was created more than a decade ago, when then-Mayor Susan Hammer wanted to tap city resources to slow the proliferation of gangs. At that time, her message was rather blunt: stop the gang violence. The mayor placed an emphasis on catching gang members and putting them in jail. That vision has shifted more toward stopping kids from joining gangs. The task force now funds more than 20 community organizations. Some of the programs include tattoo removal, conict resolution, substance abuse counseling and after-school activities aimed to keep kids busy at all hours, including midnight basketball. At the county level, policymakers have said they plan to probe the discussion of forming a countywide gang prevention task force. Supervisor George Shirakawa, who was elected to the board this year, says as soon as the board blows through this budget crunch, he plans to start talking about gang prevention on a more macro level. “It’s no secret that gangs have no borders—it’s not something we realized yesterday,â€? Shirakawa quipped. “We know there are needs in the South County and unincorporated areas. I haven’t had the chance to get everyone together. But I will.â€?

The Revolving Door Guerin and Remmick met Garcia with his parole officer back at the police station, where he was being booked for parole violation. He had just been released from prison. Next to Garcia, another NorteĂąo gang member from Morgan Hill smiled and exed his chest muscles as officers snapped photos of his mug shot. He boastfully chattered away with officers. He was there for assault, he tells Guerin, a familiar face among Gilroy’s gangsters. That’s just it. Arresting gang members and locking them up only makes them harder and stronger gang members. “They go to prison to get schooled,â€? Guerin says pointedly as he watches police book Garcia. “Then they come back and teach everyone what they learned.â€? M

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Three Korean restaurants in Santa Clara beat the heat with cold-noodle treat naeng myun By Stett Holbrook

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HILE naeng myun is unlikely to displace ice cream, watermelon and barbecue as one of America’s favorite hot-weather dishes, the icy Korean noodle soup deserves a seat at the table of great summertime eats. Naeng myun translates as cold noodles, but the dish is much more than that. It is served yearround in South Korea but is more of a hot-weather specialty for obvious reasons: South Korea gets very hot in the summer, and it’s great way to cool down. In case you haven’t noticed, it’s been plenty hot around here, too, perfect weather for naeng myun, and Santa Clara’s unofficial Koreatown along El Camino Real is a great place to sample this oneof-kind noodle soup. The dish is typically made with a thick tangle of gray or black buckwheat noodles and surrounded by a light and tangy beef broth that is at once savory, sour and thirst quenching. I’ve also seen the noodles made with arrowroot our. While the toppings vary from restaurant to restaurant, they typically include a hardboiled egg

and thin slices of lightly pickled daikon radish and cucumber. White vinegar and spicy mustard are offered on the side so you can doctor the soup to your liking. It’s all served in a silver metal bowl that’s cold to the touch, a detail that accentuates the noodles’ frosty goodness. I had my ďŹ rst bowl of naeng myun at Corner Place a few years ago. I was intrigued by the description of the noodles on the menu but wasn’t prepared for the electric, savory/sour–avored broth, charcoal-gray noodles and eclectic ingredients like sliced beef, pine nuts and watermelon. I went back last week to see if it was good as I remember. It is. The dish was originally served seasonally, but it’s apparently become so popular that it is now on the menu year-round. For me, it’s the broth that really makes the soup stand out. It’s like a meat-avored Gatorade, but in a good way. With the cooling crunch of the radish, cucumber and watermelon, I feel my temperature going down. There are even shards of ice oating in the broth to make a kind of beefy Slurpee. At Nor-Bu restaurant, a new

Korean restaurant that took over the space formerly occupied by CafĂŠ Dhaka, the specialty of the house is duck, but they also serve a very good naeng myun made with a spicy chile-peanut sauce. It’s called cold noodles with spicy sauce ($9.99) on the menu. Spicy food is naturally cooling, so the addition of the ďŹ ery chile paste makes the soup doubly so. The sauce is plenty spicy, but the peanuts and beef broth help round out the heat. Be sure to ask the waitress to cut the inky black noodles. A few snips from scissors make the dense mound of noodles a lot easier to eat. They also serve the noodles without the chile sauce if you don’t need the extra ďŹ repower. Nor-Bu also offers one of the most generous assortments of banchan I’ve seen, nine little dishes of fermented, pickled and fried snacks and condiments to go with your meal. Chosun Myunoak’s three-item banchan is a little stingy, but the restaurant offers a stripped-down, elemental version of naeng myun ($10.99). The tidy restaurant is tucked into the back corner of a mall in the middle of El Camino’s Korean restaurant row. The broth

lacks the tongue-tickling acidity of Corner Place’s naeng myun and leans toward the savory-sweet, but it’s still refreshing. The cucumber, radish and egg are more than satisfactory, but the slices of beef were bland and rather tough. I pushed them aside and just focused on the broth bathed noodles. The meal concludes with a free cup of sikhye, a sweet, thickish broth made by pouring sweetened water into cooked rice. It’s too late for me to bring bowls of naeng myun to my Fourth of July picnic this year, but I’m considering adding it to the lineup of summertime classics next year right along with the corn on the cob and the burgers. (sholbrook@metronews.com)

CORNER PLACE 2783 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 408.249.8990. NOR-BU 3284 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 408.615.1723. CHOSUN MYUNOAK 3099 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 408.615.0700.

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HAT’S WHAT I love about working here,” says Meredith McDonough about TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival. “If it’s a story and a piece that we believe in, we will figure out how to bring that to our stage. We will develop it, and we are going to believe that our audience will come because our audience knows and trusts the work that we do.” McDonough, who makes her debut at the helm of the annual summer festival this season, says that the seven plays (six of them staged readings) and two concerts both foster artistic form and move Bay Area theater forward. One of the new works McDonough is particularly excited about is The Sparrow and the Birdman (Aug. 3 at 7:30pm), a song-filled drama highlighting local cabaret performer Raquel Bitton and directed by Chris Smith. Taking place in 1930s Paris, the play centers on the chance meeting between French songstress Edith Piaf and eccentric filmmaker Jean Cocteau. “I think is a great way to theatricalize what Rachel is already so gifted at, which is this Edith Piaf repertoire, but still making it really story-driven,” McDonough says.

TheatreWorks New Works Festival has always embraced the experimental side of performance, which will be seen in the “feverdream musical” Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Aug. 8 at 2pm, Aug. 11 at 7:30pm, Aug. 15 at 8pm). Directed by former New Works head Kent Nicholson, this one-women show is a “massive” technological experiment in which actress/violinist Valerie Vigoda performs multiple voices and characters through a computer. “We are all waiting with baited breath for this one. We have a lot of extension cords set up,” says McDonough with a laugh. “It’s really looking at the musical theater form in a new way.” McDonough was hired as the director of the New Works Festival in May and moved from New York to Silicon Valley only a few weeks ago. She enjoys the Bay Area regional theater scene’s ability to go deeper and be more personal with its audience, something that can be challenging in New York where ticket prices often force writers to broaden a new play’s appeal to get more butts in the seats. “In New York, your audience was whoever you could happen to

get in the door and fight for their entertainment dollar,” she tells me. “When you work here, you start to get to know your audience and have a conversation with them artistically and literally, over time. I find that much more exciting.” The festival kicks off on July 15 with a fully staged production of the world-premiere country-pop musical Tinyard Hill (July 15–Aug. 16), and McDonough herself will direct Auctioning the Ainsleys (Aug. 18 at 7:30pm, Aug. 21 at 8pm), a quirky drama about a family of auctioneers. One new work that is sure to challenge audiences this season is the psychological thriller The North Pool (Aug. 15 at 2pm, Aug. 17 at 7:30pm), an intense character study about racial, cultural and gender profiling by playwright Rajiv Joseph. In its depiction of a cat-and-mouse game between a Saudi Arabian teenager and a white vice-principal, the play confronts political correctness at a suburban American high school. Among the musicals at this year’s festival, Makeover (Aug. 5 at 7:30pm, Aug. 9 at 7pm) is the most traditional production, the story of a feisty 1950s mom who builds a makeup and glamour empire, a la Mary Kay.

The song cycle Tales From the Bad Years (Aug.19 at 7pm, Aug. 22 at 8pm, Aug. 23 at 7pm) aims to appeal to younger audiences with a narrative about five twentysomethings set to pop tunes. This year’s festival will also present two concerts, performances from Maureen McGovern of The Morning After fame, and Chinese-American singer/songwriter Vienna Teng. TheatreWorks is celebrating its 40th anniversary season in 2009, and the New Works Festival will take place at Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto for the first time. McDonough credits founding artistic director Robert Kelley for TheatreWorks continuing creation and development of the new plays. “He has kept his artistic mind really open to new ideas, which is how I think you survive 40 years and keep developing new audiences and keep thinking about how to develop new work in really progressive ways,” says McDonough. THE NEW WORKS FESTIVAL, presented by TheatreWorks, runs July 15–Aug. 23 at the Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Tickets are $10–$75, call 650.463.1960 or visit www.theatreworks.org.

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Second City HOT ON THE HEELS of Forbidden Broadway, San Jose Rep brings the famed Second City comedy troupe to town for a whirlwind run (July 14–19). Long before SNL, Second City, formed in 1959, pioneered the art of sketch comedy, sidesplitting satire and group improv. To name but of few of its illustrious alums: Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, George Wendt, Tina Fey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Stephen Colbert. Michael S. Gant

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HERE HAVE been competing claims as to which is the first gangster movie—Raoul Walsh’s 1915 Regeneration may be the beginning of a line that leads all the way down to the engrossing but dime-thin Public Enemies. Certainly, a key film about night and the city is Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld, playing July 11 at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (July 10–12). Underworld is a fast yet touching crime drama written by Ben Hecht. Before going on to be one of the key scriptwriters of the 20th century, Hecht learned about the ways of Chicago crime as a reporter. To call Underworld influential is too mild a phrase; later directors absolutely fleeced it. (Howard Hawks himself took situations and characters from it for his Western Rio Bravo, even naming Angie Dickinson’s Feathers after Evelyn Brent’s moll.) The sign that thug Bull Weed admires in neon, “The City Is Yours,” turns up inflated in both versions of Scarface, too. It could be said that Hawks’ version of Scarface begins pretty much on the morning when Underworld’s set piece ends, at a confetti-and-streamerschoked Criminal’s Ball. Hecht had known North Side mobster Dion O’Banion well enough to include a bit about the criminal Buck Mulligan’s flower shop; a florist business was both front and vocation for O’Banion. And just as we see Mulligan doing, O’Banion made up wreaths for the coffins of his colleagues. But Hecht had no

patience with this film and sued to take his name off it. Despite the guns and the slang (“C’mon, let’s drift,” says the bored Feathers), Underworld is ultimately a von Sternberg joint. This peerless director of romances takes Brent and makes a Dietrich out of her, an ivory-faced mockeuse, floating in the shadows, heralded by an alley cat striding into a saloon. Feathers is the girl of the hulking but sweet criminal Bull Weed (George Bancroft), a barbarian strong enough to bend a coin in his fingers. Weed is witnessed after a bank burglary by a street alcoholic (Clive Brook, an older, wearier Edward Norton); the drunk promises to be as “silent as a Rolls Royce” about the crime. Thus Weed makes this “Rolls Royce” his mascot. Feathers takes an interest in the reformed drunk, who turns out to be a lawyer when he’s sober. Later, Bull gets jailed for protecting Feathers from a rapacious Buck Mulligan. (Incidentally, it’s just like Hecht to name a character after the thenbanned book Ulysses.) A love triangle blooms with the figures caught between love and duty. Although Underworld isn’t as visually slick or as percussive as Public Enemies, it has far more emotional ground and feeling. And it has a pace, too—note the arrest, sentencing and jailing of Bull Weed in just a few fast scenes. Underworld is co-presented by Eddie Muller’s Film Noir Foundation. One can see why: the nocturnal, shadow-heavy photography by Stanford alumni Bert Glennon (Crime

Wave, The Red House) predicates decades of underworld films to come. One of the standouts at this year’s fest is D. W. Griffith’s Lady of the Pavements (July 12). Seeing it, one thinks that the great innovator was trying to invent a musical—pianist Donald Sosin and singer Joanna Seaton will re-create the musical numbers live, meaning that someone had to comb the archives to find the lyrics to “You Tickle Me, I’ll Tickle You.” Since Griffith is tagged as a Victorian talent, it’s interesting seeing him work with the kind of spicy material that Mamoulian and Lubitsch would popularize later. Lady of the Pavements is a Parisian story of a singer (Lupe Velez) at Le Chien Qui Fume cabaret; she is hired and made over as the convent-reared “Nanon del Rayon” in order to seduce a half-bright German baron (William Boyd). The villainess responsible for the plot is a proud and highhaired countess (Jetta Goudal); the knowledge of looming war between the French and the Germans makes the frippery pungent. Griffith’s conception of the passing of time is different from that of his more efficient contemporaries in 1929—he holds moments longer but wrings more feeling out of the scenes. Amid the moments of this beguiling creampuff is some fascinating camerawork—such as a long descending shot into the winking eye of a mechanical sign for the cabaret, or a dreamy night trip on a love barge that seems to forecast L’Atalante. The Mexican comic actress Velez

shows why she had enough charm to last 15 years in the movies in the festival’s opener, 1927’s The Gaucho (July 10). Douglas Fairbanks plays a rough bandit who turns avenger to unseat a villainous general who is exploiting a religious shrine of the Madonna. Fairbanks reputedly got the idea for the movie after a visit to Lourdes. Mrs. Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, makes a surprise appearance in that one role every ex–Catholic schoolgirl longs to play. The religious kitsch is charming enough, but the draw is our first action hero, Fairbanks, wielding a bolo, cracking the whip over the horses and gliding through a smoky tango with Velez. Other highlights include the early Soviet science-fiction classic Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924; shows July 11), with Dennis James at the Wurlitzer; the Czech melodrama Erotikon (1929; July 12), which has plenty of steam in it, both in the love scene and in the thundering choo-choos symbolizing passion; and Bardelys the Magnificent (1926; July 11), a King Vidor swashbuckler starring John Gilbert. Terry Zwigoff will introduce So’s Your Old Man (1926; July 12) about a suburban grumpus (W.C. Fields) trying to invent the puncture-proof tire. Like studying film noir, the diving for the rediscovered and the half-forgotten in silent film is work that’s never done. THE SAN FRANCISCO FILM FESTIVAL runs July 10–12 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco; see www.silentfilm.org for details.

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New Brüno (R; 83 min.) Sacha Baron Cohen strikes again; this time he’s an Austrian fashion model on the loose in the United States. (Opens Jul 10.) The Girl From Monaco (R; 95 min.) See review at right. Hurt Locker (R; 131 min.) Kathryn Bigelow’s feature film, based on Mark Boal’s article, about the U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq—the soldiers called in to defuse the Improvised Explosive Devises left by insurgents. Unseen by our reviewers. (Opens Jul 10 at Palo Alto Square.) I Love You, Beth Cooper (PG-13) Hayden Panettiere and Paul Rust star in a comedy about a geeky guy and his improbable night with a beautiful girl. (Opens Jul 10.) Il Viaggio a Rheims A broadcast version from La Scala of the Rossini two-act opera. (Jul 12 at 11am and Jul 15 at 7pm at Camera 7 in Campbell.) Surveillance (R; 97 min.) See review on page 50. (Opens Jul 10 at Camera 12 in San Jose.) Thrillville Nouveau grindhouse-style double-bill hosted by Will the Thrill. Sugar Boxx rips the lid off of Sugar State Penitentiary circa 1975, where women are exploited, in all senses of the world. A female investigative reporter descends into a hellhole of cat fights, shower scenes and bleached blonde feathered hair. Tura Satana and Kitten Natividad ease the action along. BILLED WITH Isle of the Damned. Off the coast of South America, the mysterious Yamma Yamma tribe provide a blood soaked welcome for private investigator Jack Steele, searching for the lost treasure of Marco Polo. Filmed in Argentina—where life is cheap! (Plays Jul 9 at 7:30pm at Camera 12.) (RvB)

Revivals Caddyshack (1980) Scenes from the class struggle at Bushwood Country Club as described by the doomed satirist Doug Kenney. It’s the country-club elite (Judge Elihu Smails, played by Ted Knight) vs. a still-in-Saigon groundskeeper (the rare Bill Murray), who in turn opposes a famous gopher puppet, which rodent would seem to be some sort of symbol for the tunneling Viet Cong. (Plays Jul 8 at sundown in San Jose at San Pedro Square; bring lawn chairs and blankets; free; part of the Starlight Cinema series.) (RvB) Casablanca (1942) In a remarkable studio re-creation of North Africa, an elaborate story of wartime loss and love is played out. Club owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) is confronted by his old lover (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband (Paul Henreid), who try to shake the isolationist Rick into action against the Nazis. It’s the individual moments that persist: Peter Lorre’s squeal as he’s dragged away by the Gestapo, Claude Rains’ offhand delivery of the famous line that sums up the corrupt, lazy policeman’s methods, Bogart’s crumbling obstinacy and Ingrid Bergman’s soft tears. (Plays Jul 15 at sundown in San Jose on Post Street between First and Market streets; bring lawn chairs and blankets; free; part of the Starlight Cinema series.) (RvB) Cover Girl/You Were Never Lovelier (1944/1942) Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, a Brooklyn nightclub dancer (Gene Kelly), waits for her to come to her senses. Songs

Employees Entrance/Taxi! (1933/1932) “My code is smash or be smashed!” Warren Beatty in the bedroom, and J. Montgomery Burns in the boardroom—that describes snazzy letch Warren Williams, “whose mean exterior concealed a meaner interior” (Thomas Doherty, in his book Pre-Code Hollywood). Williams pursues a married shop girl (Loretta Young) through the corridors of the department store he owns. It’s 75 minutes of the kind of drama that got the Production Code enacted in the first place. BILLED WITH TAXI! James Cagney stars as an independent cab driver fighting a big corrupt union. Young co-stars as the woman who tries to tame him. This modest, brief (a mere 68 minutes) domestic drama is a very sweet, touching slice of New York life. Young was never lovelier or more appealing. (Plays Jul 14-16 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB/AR) Ghostbusters (1984) Pro: Sigourney Weaver, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, Rick Moranis and Bill Murray’s blissful sneakiness. Con: Ernie Hudson, practically wearing a T-shirt that says “Black Sidekick,” and Ray Parker’s criminally repetitious theme song. (Plays Jul 10 at midnight in Campbell at Camera 7.) (RvB) Kung Fu Panda (2008) Appealing stuff, with Jack Black voicing the role of a noodle-shop apprentice who’d rather be a kung fu hero. (Plays Jul 11 in San Jose at Municipal Stadium, 588 E. Alma.6pm arrival time, 7pm; free.) (RvB)

The Philadelphia Story/Dinner at Eight (1940/1933) The publisher of Spy magazine (meant to be Life) forces an idealistic novelist-turned-reporter (Jimmy Stewart) to cover a high society wedding. His entry is vouchsafed by another Spy employee—the bride’s self-amused, dissolute ex-husband (Cary Grant). All this would seem like hard cheese for the bride, except that the frigidness and brittleness of Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is all too well known by the male members of her family. In critiquing her image as an slender art deco vial of box-office poison, Hepburn saved her movie career. A slice of cake, but it is the essential film about Hollywood’s conflicting attitudes toward the class structure in America. BILLED WITH Dinner at Eight. Various characters tie on the feedbag at a dinner party. The production is loaded with talent: script by Frances Marion and Herman Mankiewicz; cinematography by William Daniels; and a cast that included the heavier horses in MGM’s stable—Jean Harlow, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery and the Barrymore brothers. (Plays Jul 10-13 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) School of Rock (2003) Frustrated rocker Dewey Finn (Jack Black) tricks his way into a job at an upper-crust private school, where he schemes a way to win a local Battle of the Bands contest by converting his roomful of 10-year-old drips into rock stars. When he molds the kids to fit the proper (read: his) definition of rocking, it’s pretty damn hysterical. (Plays Jul 9 at sunset in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square; free; bring blankets and lawn chairs.) Silent Film Festival See story on page 49. The Sound of Music (1965) The 400-passenger-capacity zeppelin of the American musical overwhelms

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ATER, after they met, she tells him that it was “karma.” The beauty of that mysterious word is that there are all kinds of karma, particularly the bad kind. The Girl From Monaco is equally mysterious. This film is mostly a comedy, but as the characters smile less and less, the funnier it gets. Director Anne Fontaine’s film has a certain kinship to Gus Van Sant’s To Die For—like Nicole Kidman, Audrey the heroine is TV-celebrity obsessed and thoroughly amoral. It’s only at the 40-minute point that something happens that’s worth laughing out loud at, and yet this French film is thoroughly amusing—urbane, and ambiguous. Maybe what’s different here is seeing a woman’s perspective on a Blue Angel type situation, which oddly finds favor with the poor middle-aged fool. Bertrand Beauvois (Fabrice Luchini) is a Parisian lawyer sent to Monaco to defend a very rich lady (Stéphane Audran) from a charge of murder. The deceased, her boy toy, was from a dubious background. There’s a chance there might be payback from the dead man’s Russian relations. All this is of no concern to Beauvois, who shows calm concentration even in the swankness of a Monaco courtroom—all carved oak and stained-glass windows. As a precautionary effort against mafia menace, the accused murderess hires an efficient bodyguard to look out for Beauvois. Christophe (Roschdy Zem), who has a strong but apparently not pointed resemblance to Barack Obama, is schooled in Krav Maga and has a Vulcan’s coolness. Beauvois really does need a keeper. A half-bright local TV weather girl named Audrey (Louise Bourgoin) meets Beauvois and insinuates herself into his life. The one hope for the shy, intellectual lawyer is his bodyguard; Christophe isn’t intimidated by Audrey, because they once had a little affair. We can’t get a bead on Audrey at first, except to predict that she’s too good to be true; she’s likely a moron, but she’s not on the dumb-blonde wavelength. Bourgoin is a long-legged stunner, gliding around half-dressed on a Vespa. Her Audrey is certainly gregarious enough—that’s one way of describing someone of easy, thoughtless promiscuity. All this torments Beauvois after he forms a sexual obsession. But Fontaine stresses the dissonance; the film is not quite farce. Audrey’s gunslinger style can be off-putting. Her own celebrity obsessions, with Princess Di and Monaco’s own Princess Grace, are part of how one learns that she’s a climber. The film takes an excursion to see a small marble plaque at a sharp turn in a cliff-side road: “A notre Princesse adorée.” This scene turns out to be significant, more than just a sight-seeing jaunt to the site of the martyrdom of Princess Grace. You could call The Girl From Monaco conservative. Beauvois represents the cultural France, gabbling about the time Jean-Paul Sartre met Simone Beauvoir; Audrey is the thoughtless Americanoid hedonist. But the film satirizes the too-intellectual life. After one bout with Audrey, Beauvois ambles downstairs and tells Christophe that he has had a sort of life-changing experience. “You got laid,” Christophe suggests. “Exactement!” crows the lawyer, happy to hear le mot juste. Richard von Busack THE GIRL FROM MONACO (R; 95 min.), directed by Anne Fontaine, written by Fontaine and Benoît Graffin, photographed by Patrick Blossier and starring Fabrice Luchini and Louise Bourgoin, opens July 10 at Camera 3 in San Jose.

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51( you; there are some times critics who just ought to concede the battle and retrench elsewhere. It stars that precious Julie Andrews, who ditches her career as a nun in order to nanny a family of singing Teutonic children. Some interesting moves by director Robert Wise; the best is the sucker-punch of “Climb Evr’y Mountain� delivered from a singer who commences that ode with her back turned to us. Also weirdly cute are Bil Baird’s puppets in “The Lonely Goatherd�—indeed, a song title from a more innocent time. The Salzburg scenery brings out the air-Alpenhornist in all of us. Plays in 70mm. Next week, Jul 17-18: pretty much the great triumph of film in that particular megaformat, if you don’t count Lawrence of Arabia: Jacques Tati’s Playtime. Part of a series of summer films at the California Theatre presented by the Stanford Theatre

Foundation and Team San Jose. (Plays Jul 10-11 at 7pm in San Jose at the California Theatre; $5.) (RvB)

Reviews Angels and Demons (PG; 138 min.) Tom Hanks, renegade Harvard symbologist, is called in on a plot to vaporize the Vatican. Meanwhile, a killer from the Illuminati offs one high-ranking cardinal an hour. The money is onscreen, as Hanks zips around Rome and scuttles through old churches. Co-writer and frequent offender Akiva Goldsman adds his aroma to the script; a speech reconciling science and faith is of particular shininess. As the film’s girl, Ayelet Zurer plays a European physicist, dressed down like a Sunday school teacher in Ogden, Utah. A handy helicopter with the keys left in the ignition brings up a burst of bad-movie audacity at the end; this, sadly, proceeds a twist ending so

weakly integrated into the show that it looks like the cast sat down together and watched the alternate finale on DVD extras. (RvB) Away We Go (R; 98 min.) Burt (John Krasinski), an alterna-insurance broker, and his pregnant mate, the dour, nervous Verona (SNL alum Maya Rudolph) seek a community. Sadly, they learn that America is a beautiful country full of ugly people. The two travel, meeting parents who are too permissive, or not permissive enough, before visiting an idealistic couple with a multiracial von Trapp–like family in Montreal. Not enough jokes, by a long chalk. Alison Janney, the standout, as a sharp-tongued mom, is only temporary relief from the two leads: the moral and physical center of this movie’s universe. The writers are San Francisco’s Dave Eggers and his wife, Vendela Vida, writers who seek the wonder and freshness in aged platitudes about the innocence of children. Director Sam Mendes makes this a Reactionary Road sequel to his last film Revolutionary Road; it’s a sitcom for nesting hipsters with guest appearances by celebrities playing wacky relatives. (RvB) Food, Inc. (PG; 94 min.) The most necessary film of the summer. The outrages of corporate food production are exposed in this

fast and infuriating documentary by Robert Kenner. Defying the lawyers, one corporate chicken farmer shows us her wretched, antibiotic-packed birds. Today’s industry lobbyist is tomorrow’s regulator, as sure as today’s pig is tomorrow’s bacon. Drooling packed-in steers are fattened with cheap Iowa corn; it breeds E. coli in their guts. The nigh-annual outbreaks of E. coli are seemingly the cost of business, a price paid even by spinacheating vegetarians. Director Kenner can’t be accused of starry-eyed idealism. Food, Inc. reminds that if the United States could make Big Tobacco come to heel, then agribusiness’s wasteful and deadly practices can be stopped. (RvB) The Hangover (R; 100 min.) A well-built, good-looking and satisfyingly low comedy with a sturdy plot and the wit to realize that the Three Stooges format is solid gold. A quartet of Southern California types heads to Vegas for a bachelor party. Cut, eventually, to The Morning After: The Cramps’ version of “Fever� on the soundtrack as a live chicken struts through the smoldering ruins of what once was a $4,200-anight Caesar’s Palace suite. The groom has vanished, and the three chumps, rendered amnesiac by booze, must search for him. They are: kitty-whipped, Larry-like Stu (Ed Helms), confident but wrongheaded Moe-style leader Phil (Bradley Cooper) and the “one-man wolf

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pack� Alan, played by the film’s standout, Zach Galifianakis, Curlying beautifully. (After one typical moment of idiocy, he’s introduced like so: “Don’t let the beard fool you. He’s a child.�) What gradually materializes is an evening that included a stolen cop car, inappropriate touching of Mike Tyson’s pet tiger and one member’s marriage to a very nice stripper (Heather Graham). Stick with it, since the first third is hit and miss; later, director Todd Phillips solidly builds the situations, thinking up strategies to bolster the risky comedy. (RvB) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (PG; 94 min.) More animated fun with those wacky prehistoric creatures. (Plays valleywide.) My Sister’s Keeper (PG-13; 109 min.) Nick Cassavetes strikes again, proving yet again that the acorn sometimes falls very far from the tree. It’s a family drama starring Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric and Abagail Breslin. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (PG; 105 min.) Will Amy Adams’ pants be in the Smithsonian someday? They ought to be, since they work wonders for Shawn Levy’s otherwise only-forthe-kids movie. Ben Stiller’s security guard hero is still disinterested. Hank Azaria’s talents as a vocal actor are on display in his accent for the pharaoh Kahmunrah; in a world domination scheme, this animated Egyptian statue recruits a militia of historical villains, including Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest) and Al Capone (Jon Bernthal). Director Levy oversees some very sweet and technically tricky effects—a ride on the Wright brothers’ plane, the colossal statue of Lincoln escaping his monument and a purple-pink giant octopus attack. At the imaginary “National Art Museum� (actually the National Gallery), the paintings and sculptures come to life; a Roy Lichtenstein girl turns her head and frets. Admittedly, the living paintings are stuff we get at Hogwarts, but the more modern art makes the effect new. As the snugly clad Amelia Earhart, Adams gives this film some class and some adult appeal. (RvB) The Proposal (PG-13; 107 min.) Sandra Bullock returns in a romantic comedy with Ryan Reynolds. Plus (check your demographics tables here) Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson and Betty White. (Opens Jun 19.) Public Enemies (R; 140 min.) Previous takes on the life of John Dillinger had themes like “Crime doesn’t pay� or “Society is to blame.� Michael Mann’s is “It was only a movie.� Mann carries out this study of Dillinger’s career from its middle to its end in darting, little-cam movements. If it weren’t for the music—1940s jazz

m e t r o s i l i c o n va l l e y july 8-14, 2009 film in a 1930s world—the film would look Dogme-tized. The photography often uses high-def synthetic light: yellowishwhite f lares of gun bursts and gritty magenta torches burning. Surfaces come to mind—that’s what this skindeep film gives you when you can’t hear the dialogue or can’t tell who the new characters are supposed to be. In numberless close-ups, Johnny Depp emphasizes surface, too. Spilling out the capsulized details of his life in three or four lines, Dillinger asks his girl Billie (Marion Cotillard) “What else do you want to know about me?” That’s meant to keep us satisfied, too. Who am I? I’m the guy playing Dillinger, that’s who. The movie makes the master bank robber a gent, a showman, an ardent monogamous lover; when he takes hostages, it’s to relieve them of the humdrumness of their lives. But Public Enemies never takes us hostage; it never establishes that link it reaches for, the link between those hard times and ours. (RvB) Star Trek (PG-13; 126 min.) Happily, J.J. Abrams’ version of the 40-year-old story is a loving refurbishing of an old structure, rather than a demolishing. Traditions honored include the green babe (Rachel Nichols) and the red-shirted ensign. As Kirk, Chris Pine himself is the ham this sandwich needs. Zachary Quinto is very poised as Spock, the tragic mulatto of space. Abrams’ tendency to undervillain the picture is redeemed by his making the villain fast, raging and large. Eric Bana, made up so that his face looks like a spider’s abdomen, plays Nero, a Romulan renegade escaped from the future. The film’s only conventional love interest involves Zoe Saldana’s Uhuru, drawn to Spock, as who wouldn’t be. The film’s real tension arises in the partnership between Kirk and Spock— two halves of one great leader, calm calculation meeting insane daring. (RvB) Summer Hours (Unrated; 103 min.) American movies are usually about people with one problem; French movies are usually about people with a nexus of problems. In Olivier Assayas’ absorbing and smart new film, the problems of an extended family illuminate the abstract idea of artistic patrimony. (Previously, it was French cinematic patrimony, in Assayas’ best-known film here, Irma Vep). At her 75th birthday party, Hélène (Edith Scob) prepares to divide up her worldly goods among her children. These children are scattered all over the globe and don’t have the wherewithal to keep a luscious summer house going; the place is stuffed with valuable art pieces, too, which will have to be doled out to relatives and museums. Hélène was the longtime companion (perhaps more) of her uncle, a noted post-Impressionist; the slightly awkward legacy is puzzled out during the extended mourning session after Hélène drops dead. It takes a perceptive director to remember the physical similarities between the young girl Scob was (in Eyes Without a Face) and Juliette Binoche, here playing Hélène’s daughter, the one who inherited the family’s artistic gifts. Mulling over the cultural and financial primacy that’s migrated out of France into China

and America, Summer Hours makes no recriminations. Assayas is gentle about the harsh edge of time scraping away things that are traditionally French, leaving behind the pop (mono)culture of superheroes, sneakers and drinking beer from the bottle. At a final house party for the family, he dwells on a trio of charming young modern girls dancing to Les Plastiscines’ terrific punk tune “Loser,” as if they were the Three Graces or something. (RvB) The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (R; 106 min.) Grubby, truculent remake, with John Travolta looking like an old and jaded rent boy as a criminal mastermind hostaging a group of subway riders. He’s opposed by Walter Garber (Denzel Washington), a low-key civil servant for the MTA; Washington downplays things until he practically vanishes. Director Tony Scott, with neither interest nor time for underdogs, can’t work up feeling for their plight, so he allows Travolta to inf late his part with anal-aggressive patter. On the sidelines are a surprisingly ineffectual (if refreshingly low-volumed) hostage negotiator, John Turturro, and a butterball New York mayor (James Gandolfini) trying to survive his own scandal. This Pelham has agoraphobia, taking place as it does either in the subway tunnels or the interior of an office, with brash but immaterial street scenes of the money arriving from Brooklyn. There’s a joke about how a helicopter would have been faster, but no explanation why they didn’t use the copters. If the filmmakers explain that they knew better, does that explain why they didn’t do better? (RvB) Tetro (Unrated; 127 min.) Francis Ford Coppola returns with a closely observed family drama starring Vincent Gallo and Maribel Verdú. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (PG-13; 150 min.) Off to college goes young Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf ) trying to forget the trauma of watching the robots destroy L.A. The government covered it up—everybody is indeed just that stupid in a Michael Bay movie. Sadly, a chip of the spark cube stuck to Sam’s shirt, and that starts the whole mess over again: indistinguishable robot-clobber with warlike threats (“You want a piece of me?” is one uttered by these immemorial interstellar bots from beyond the stars). Manly Air Force officers in camouf lage strut in slo-mo amid more cargo planes than one would see in an “Army of One” commercial. We cut to some frog-baiting: the Witwicky parents go to Paris, where they are pestered by mimes and eat snails. (“This looks like Canadian goose poop!” cries Dad.) If Transformers keeps ugly Americans away from France, this movie won’t have been made in vain for nothing. The Titanic-like sinking of an aircraft carrier is the standout animation, and it was an unusually good idea to stage a fight scene at the antique

Delaware Power Station in Philadelphia. There seemed a little more breathing room in the finale, too, despite the incredible repetition of action sequences. Megan Fox, as the gurl, conceals her new tattoos with way too many clothes, so we can’t confirm rumors that one of the tats says “Angelina Jolie, I’m taking your job” in Latin. LaBeouf is probed by crab-bots trying to find the source of his unkillable smirk. The deservedly famous Bro Rape video on YouTube is the only possible cure for the dorm scenes at ivy-covered PSIU. The alien hieroglyphics, when translated, read, “He thinks he is seeing bad films instead of understanding that what he sees is no longer film at all.”— Rudolf Arnheim, 1935. (RvB) Up (PG; 96 min.) Pixar spoils us dreadfully, but this phenomenally good 3-D cartoon is a standout even by their lights: the sturdily built comedic adventure appeals to all. A reject kid named Carl (voiced, when he’s in old age, by Ed Asner) grows up to be a balloon vender in the city park. He decides to f ly to South America, using his house as a gondola. He and a childish stowaway, Russell (Jordan Nagai), encounter a 13-foot-tall iridescent goonie bird, and they also run into Carl’s boyhood hero (Christopher Plummer), an explorer who has been bitten by the Dr. Moreau bug. Certainly, most people will care only about the film’s buoyancy. But while loving Up’s ingenuity and humor, one also respects director Pete Docter’s refusal to stint the other side of adventure: pain, disappointment and even a tiny amount of blood. (RvB) Whatever Works Whatever Works (PG-13; 92 min.) Very minor and musty but often funny misanthropy comedy by Woody Allen. Larry David plays Boris, formerly a physics professor, shortlisted for the Nobel Prize (“It was all politics, just like any award”); today, he is retired, a freerange castigator, teaching chess (brutally) to children and living in a brick-lined vault in Manhattan’s Chinatown. A waif called Melodie (Evan Rachel Wood) drops into his lap; Melodie takes Boris’ imprint completely—his rants, his phobias and his dislike of sex—and marries him. A year afterward, the in-laws arrive for a first visit: Marietta (Patricia Clarkson) believes that she has tracked her runaway daughter down and is outraged to find the girl married to a neurotic man old enough to be her grandfather. Soon thereafter, Marietta’s estranged husband (Ed Begley Jr.) shows up in the apartment. It’s based on a script Allen had in his drawer for several decades, and it often looks it. While it’s often canned corn, give it its props; Allen knows how to make a civilized comedy even when denouncing civilization. (RvB) Year One (PG-13) Harold Ramis directs Jack Black and Michael Cera in a comedy about two cavemen on a forced migration.

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FILM REVIEW

Independents’ Day Update

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T THE END of the Alejandro Adams article (“Independents’ Day,” Cover Story, July 1) in last week’s issue, I made a joke about the indie film scene being so overbooked it was hard to get an audience to watch people have sex. I should have talked directly to Tony Comstock, the successful director of seven tender documentaries on the way various types of people make love. Comstock has written a three-part piece titled “How Film Festivals and Distribution Deals Kill Independent Films” on his Comstockfilms.com blog (NSFW), which is absolutely required reading for indie-film watchers and makers. Via phone, Comstock says that he is deeply frustrated with the film-festival circuit: “It leaves you broke and desperate—the worst possible position to be in when a distributor comes.” But he emphasizes that he has made a successful end run around this circuit, through the Internet and direct sales. His films go through multiple pressings on DVD. Comstock considers, as “indie production gods we should worship,” Bruce Brown and Warren Miller, who hand-made their documentaries about surfing and skiing, respectively, four-walled (rented) theaters and used the profits to make more films. Comstock is continuing to get recognition and make a living as an indie filmmaker. It wasn’t my intention to insult Tony Comstock. My intention was to criticize a scene that’s wearing down and bankrupting young talent. Richard von Busack

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Movie listings are for Friday, July 10, through Thursday, July 16, unless otherwise indicated. Programs and showtimes are subject to change without notice. Updated showtimes are available online at www.movietimes.com.

Campbell Camera 7

1875 S. Bascom Ave. (408.559.6900) Bruno Fri 12:30, 2:45, 4:50, 7:20, 9:30, 11:40; Tue

12:30, 2:45, 4:50, 7:20, 9:30; Wed-Thu 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:20, 9:30 Ghost Busters Fri (Jul 10) midnight

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Tue (Jul 14) midnight; Wed-Thu noon, 1:45, 3:20, 5, 6:40, 8:15, 9:55

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Real 3-D

Fri 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 7, 9:15, 11:30; Sat 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 7, 9:15; Sun 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 9:15, 11:30; Mon-Tue 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 7, 9:15; Wed 2:30, 4:45; Thu 11:40, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15 Public Enemies Fri 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:40, Sat 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:40, Sun 1:10, 4, 9:40; Mon-Tue 1:10, 4, 6:50, 9:40; Wed-Thu 1, 4, 6:50, 9:40 The Hangover Fri 12:25, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 9:45, midnight; Sat-Mon 12:25, 2:40, 5, 7:30, 9:45; Tue 2:25, 2:40, 5, 9:45; Wed-Thu 11:50, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 The Proposal Fri 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35; Sat 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35; Sun 2:10, 4:40, 9:35; MonTue 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Fri-Sat noon, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50; Sun noon, 3:20, 9:50; Mon-Tue noon, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 Up in Disney Real 3-D Fri 11:15, 1:40, 4:10, 6:30, 8:55, 11:20; Sat 11:15, 1:40, 4:10, 6:30, 8:55; Sun 11:15, 1:40, 4:10, 8:55; Wed-Thu 11:10, 1:35, 4:10, 6:30, 8:55 II Viaggio a Reims Sun (Jul12) 11am; Wed (Jul 15) 7pm

Cinelux Plaza Theatre 2501 S. Winchester Blvd. (408.378.2425)

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Tue (Jul 14) 11:59pm; Wed-Thu 12:30, 1, 3:45, 4:15, 7, 7:30, 10:10, 10:30 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 3-D

Fri-Tue 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:45; Wed-Thu 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:45 Madagascar Escape 2 Africa Wed-Thu 10am The Proposal Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:10, 6:30, 9 Public Enemies Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:45, 7:15, 10:10; Wed-Thu noon, 2:55, 6:30, 9:20 Tale of Despereaux Fri-Tue 10am Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen FriTue 11:30, 12:15, 2:45, 3:30, 6:15, 7, 9:15, 10; Wed-Thu 11:30, 2:45, 6:15, 9:15

Fremont NAZ 8 - Fremont Gateway Plaza

39160 Paseo Padre Pkwy - Gateway Plaza Shopping Center, (510.797.2000) Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fri-Sun 1,

2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11; Mon-Thu 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9

Kambakkht Ishq Fri-Sun 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11; Mon-Thu

2, 4, 6, 8

New York Fri-Sun 1, 5, 7, 9, 11; Mon-Thu 2, 6, 8 Shortkut - The Con Is On (2009 II) Fri-

Sun 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11; Mon-Thu 2, 4, 6, 8

Gilroy Platinum Theatres 6851 Monterey St. (408.84.MOVIE)

Bruno Fri-Mon 10:35, 1:15, 3:15, 5:10, 7:10, 9:15.

Stadium Seating; Tue-Thu 10:35, 1:15, 3:15, 5:10, 7:10, 9:15 The Hangover Fri-Tue 12, 2:05, 4:10, 6:45, 9:10

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue 12:05am.; Wed-Thu 10:40, 12, 1:40, 3:05, 5, 6:15, 8:30, 9:25 I Love You, Beth Cooper Fri-Mon 11, 1:20, 3:25, 7, 9:35; Tue 11, 1:20, 3:25, 7, 9:35; Wed-Thu 11, 1:20, 3:25, 7, 9:10 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 3-D FriMon 11:05, 1, 3:10, 5:05, 7:40, 9:30.; Tue-Thu 11:05 , 1, 3:10, 5:05, 7:40, 9:30 Monster House Mon-Tue 10 The Proposal Fri-Mon 11:10, 1:25, 4:05, 6:55, 9:25; Tue 11:10, 1:25, 4:05, 6:55, 9:25 Public Enemies 11:15, 2:55, 6:05, 9:20

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Madagascar Escape 2 Africa Wed-Thu

Fri-Mon 10:50, 2:25, 5:30, 8:50; Tue-Thu 10:50, 2:25, 5:30, 8:50

10am

Hollister

Wed-Thu 11:55, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:55 Public Enemies Fri-Tue 12:15, 3:15, 6:15, 7, 9:15, 10; Wed-Thu 11:40, 3:45, 7, 9, 10 The Hangover Fri-Tue 11:15, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 8, 10:15

Premiere Cinemas

581A McCray Street, (831.638.1800)

Call for other shows and times; information not available at deadline.

Los Gatos Los Gatos CinemaS

41 N. Santa Cruz Ave. (408.395.0203) Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

My Sister’s Keeper Fri-Tue 9 The Proposal Fri-Tue 11:55, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:55;

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Fri-Tue 11:10, 11:55, 12:45, 2:15, 3:10, 4:15, 5:20, 6:30, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45; Wed-Thu 11:55, 12:45, 3:10, 4:15, 6:30, 7:45, 9:40 Up Fri-Tue 11:30, 2, 4:20

Mountain View

Tue (Jul 14) midnight; Wed-Thu 1:45, 5, 8:15 The Proposal 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15

Century Cinemas 16

Tue 1:45, 5, 8:15

Bruno Fri-Tue 11, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Fri-

Menlo Park Guild

949 El Camino Real (650.266.9260) Whatever Works Fri-Sat 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30; Sun-Thu

3, 5:30, 8

1500 N. Shoreline Blvd. and Fwy 101 (800.FAN.DANG 910#)

Tue 12:01 am, 12:05 am; Wed-Thu 12, 3:30, 7, 10:30

Palo Alto Aquarius 430 Emerson St. (650.266.9260) Food, Inc. Fri-Sat 2:45, 5, 7:30, 9:55; Sun-Thu 3:45,

Milpitas

6, 8:30

Century 20 Great Mall

Sun-Thu 3, 5:30, 8

1010 Great Mall Dr. (408.942.5550)

Bruno Fri-Sat 10, 10:45, 11:30, 12:15, 1, 1:45, 2:30, 3:15,

4, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10, 10:45, 11:30, 12:15 ; Sun 10, 10:45, 11:30, 12:15, 1, 1:45, 2:30, 3:15, 4, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:45, 8:25, 9:15, 10, 10:30; Mon-Tue 10:45, 11:30, 12:15, 1, 1:45, 2:30, 3:15, 4, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7, 7:45, 8:25, 9:15, 10, 10:30 The Hangover Fri-Sat 9:50, 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50, 12:15; Sun 9:50, 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50; MonTue 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue (Jul 14) 12:01 am; Wed-Thu 9, 12:25, 3:50, 7:15, 10:40 I Love You, Beth Cooper Fri-Sat 9:30, 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10, 12:25 ; Sun 9:30, 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; MonTue 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fri-Sat 10:25, 11:15, 12:50, 1:40, 3:15, 4:05, 5:40, 6:30, 8:05, 8:55, 10:30, 11:20; Sun 10:25, 11:15, 12:50, 1:40, 3:15, 4:05, 5:40, 6:30, 8:05, 8:55, 10:25; Mon-Tue 10:35, 11:15, 12:55, 1:40, 3:15, 4:05, 5:40, 6:30, 8:05, 8:55, 10:25 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 3-D FriSat 9:35, 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40, 12:05 am. RealD 3-D; Sun 9:35, 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 RealD 3-D; Mon-Tue 12, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 RealD 3-D My Sister’s Keeper Fri-Sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45, 12:20; Sun-Tue 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 The Proposal Fri-Sat 9:55, 12:40, 2:10, 3:25, 6:10, 7:20, 8:45, 11:25, 12:25; Sun 9:55, 12:40, 2:10, 3:25, 6:10, 7:20, 8:45; Mon-Tue 12:40, 2:10, 3:25, 6:10, 7:20, 8:45 Public Enemies Fri-Sat 9:35, 10:35, 11:40, 12:45, 1:45, 2:50, 3:55, 4:55, 6, 7:05, 8:05, 9:10, 10:15, 11:15, 12:20 ; Sun 9:35, 10:35, 11:40, 12:45, 1:45, 2:50, 3:55, 4:55, 6, 7:05, 8:05, 9:10, 10:15; Mon-Tue 10:40, 11:40, 12:45, 1:45, 2:50, 3:55, 4:55, 6, 7:05, 8:05, 9:10, 10:15 Star Trek Fri-Sun 9:45, 12:35, 6:50; Mon-Tue 12:35, 6:50 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen FriSat 9:30, 10:10, 10:50, 12:50, 1:30, 2:10, 3:30, 4:10, 4:50, 5:30, 6:10, 7:30, 8:10, 8:50, 9:30, 10:10, 10:50, 11:30, 12:10 ; Sun 9:30, 10:10 am, 10:50 , 12:50, 1:30, 2:10, 3:30, 4:10, 4:50, 5:30, 6:10, 7:30, 8:10, 8:50, 9:30, 10:10; Mon-Tue 10:50, 12:50, 1:30, 2:10, 3:30, 4:10, 4:50, 5:30, 6:10, 7:30, 8:10, 8:50, 9:30, 10:10 Up Fri-Sat 9:40, 10:40, 12:10, 1:10, 2:40, 3:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15; Sun 9:40, 10:40, 12:10, 1:10, 2:40, 3:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20; Mon-Tue 10:40, 12:10, 1:10, 2:40, 3:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 Year One Fri-Tue 11:35, 4:55, 9:55

Morgan Hill

The Girl From Monaco Fri-Sat 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30;

CineArts @ Palo Alto Square 3000 El Camino Real and Page Mill Road Bldg #6, (800.FAN.DANG 914#)

The Hurt Locker Fri-Sun 1:15, 2:45, 4:15, 5:45,

7:15, 8:45, 10:15; Mon-Thu 1:15, 2:45, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15, 8:45

Stanford Theatre

221 University Ave. (650.324.3700) Dinner at Eight Fri-Mon 5:30, 9:35 Employee’s Entrance Tue-Thu 7:30 Philadelphia Story Fri 7:30; Sat-Sun 3:25, 7:30;

Mon 7:30 Taxi! Tue-Thu 6:10, 8:55

San Jose AMC Eastridge 15

2190 Eastridge Loop (888.AMC.4FUN) Bruno Fri-Sat 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30, 12:55; Sun-

Thu 10, 12:30, 3, 5:30, 8, 10:30

Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! Wed (Jul

15) 10am

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue 12:01 am; Wed-Thu 10, 1:15, 4:45, 8:15, 11:45

Call for other shows and times; information not available at deadline.

CineLux Almaden Cinema 2306 Almaden Road, (408.265.7373)

Bruno 11:30, 1:30, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:45 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue (Jul 14) midnight, Wed-Thu noon, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 11, 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 Public Enemies 1, 4, 7, 9:55 The Proposal 11:15, 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:20 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:50

The Tech Museum IMAX Dome Theatre

201 S. Market St at Park Ave (408.294.8324)

Info not available at deadline; call for shows & times.

Camera 3

288 S. Second St. (408.294.3334)

Bruno Fri-Tue 11, 1, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50; Wed-Thu

Food, Inc. Fri 6:50, 9:10; Sat-Sun 2:15, 6:50, 9:10; Mon-Thu 8:55 Summer Hours Fri-Sun 4:30; Mon-Thu 6:40 The Girl From Monaco Fri 5, 7:10, 9:20; SatSun 2:45, 5, 7:10, 9:20; Mon-Thu 7:10, 9:20

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Camera 12

Cinelux Tennant Station Stadium Cinemas 750 Tennant Ave. (408.778.650)

11, 1, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50

Tue (Jul 14) 11:59pm; Wed-Thu 11, 11:45, 12:30, 2:20, 3, 3:55, 5:45, 6:30, 7:15, 9, 9:45, 10:30 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fri-Tue 11:45, 2, 4:30, 6:45; Wed-Thu 11:45, 2, 4:30, 6:45 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in 3-D

Fri-Tue 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50; Wed-Thu 11, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 I Love You, Beth Cooper Fri-Tue 11:50, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:40; Wed-Thu 11:50, 2:10, 4:45, 7:10, 9:30

201 S. Second St. (408.998.3300) Away We Go Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45; Sun

1:30, 4:15; Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 6:30, 8:45; Wed-Thu 1:30, 6:30 Bruno Fri- Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45, 11:50; Sun-Tue 12:45, 3:10, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45; Wed-Thu 12:45, 3, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Fri-Tue 11:45, 2:20,

Tue (Jul 14) midnight; Wed-Thu noon, 1:15, 2:15, 3:20, 4:30, 5:30, 6:40, 7:45, 8:45, 9:55 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fri-Tue noon, 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:20; Wed-Thu 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:15 I Love You, Beth Cooper Fri-Sat 11:50, 2:25, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50, midnight; Sun-Tue 11:50, 2:25, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50; Wed-Thu 12:10, 2:25, 4:45, 7:20, 10:10 My Sister’s Keeper Fri-Sat 11:55, 2:15; Sun 11:55, 2:15, 6:30, 8:55; Mon-Tue 11:55, 2:15 Public Enemies Fri-Sat 1, 2, 4, 5:15, 6:50, 8:15, 9:40, 11:10;Sun-Tue 1, 2, 4, 5:15, 6:50, 8:15, 9:40; WedThu 1, 2, 4, 6:55, 8:10, 9:45 Surveillance Fri-Sat 4:40, 7, 9:30, 11:45; Sun-Tue 4:40, 7, 9:30; Wed-Thu 4:10, 8:35 The Hangover Fri-Tue 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:35; Wed-Thu 12:20, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:30 The Proposal Fri-Tue 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:45, 10:10; Wed-Thu 3:50, 8:55 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen FriSat 12:20, 1:10, 3:30, 4:25, 6:40, 8, 9:55, 11:15; Sun-Tue 12:20, 1:10, 3:30, 4:25, 6:40, 8, 9:55; Wed-Thu 12:05, 3:35, 5, 6:45, 10 Whatever Works Fri-Tue 1:50, 4:10, 6:25, 8:35; Wed-Thu 1:50, 6:25

5, 7:35, 10:10

Century Berryessa 10

Info not available at deadline; call for shows & times.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Fri-

Tue 10:35, 11:40, 12:45, 1:55, 3, 4:05, 5:15, 6:25, 7:30, 8:40, 9:50, 10:50 Up Fri-Tue 11, 1:30, 4 Up in Disney Digital 3-D Fri-Tue 9:45, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25. RealD 3-D Year One Fri-Tue 6:35, 9:10

Winchester 21

3161 Olsen Dr (408.984.5610)

Info not available at deadline; call for shows & times.

Winchester 22 3162 Olin Ave (408.984.5610)

Info not available at deadline; call for shows & times.

Winchester 23

3164 Olsen Dr (408.984.5610)

Info not available at deadline; call for shows & times.

Century San Jose 24

741 S. Winchester Blvd (800.FAN.DANG 927#)

Berryessa Road and Capitol Ave (800.FAN.DANG 929#) Bruno Fri-Tue 10:30, 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue (Jul 14) 12:01, Wed-Thu noon, 3:30, 7, 10:30 I Love You, Beth Cooper Fri-Tue 11:25, 2, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fri-Mon 10, 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 2:55, 4:15, 5:20, 6:45, 8, 9:15, 10:30; Tue 10, 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 2:55, 4:15, 5:20, 6:45, 8, 9:15, 10:30, 11:35 Kambakkht Ishq Fri-Tue noon, 3:30, 7, 10:30 Public Enemies Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:55, 7:15, 10:35 Shrek the Third Tue (Jul 14) 10:30am The Hangover Fri-Mon 10:10, 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:55, 10:20; Tue 10:10, 12:35, 3, 5:25, 7:55 The Proposal Fri-Mon 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05; Tue 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen FriMon 10:25, 12:10, 1:50, 3:35, 5:15, 7:05, 8:40, 10:25; Tue 10:25, 12:10, 1:50, 3:35, 5:15, 7:05, 8:40, 10:25, 12:05

Century Capitol 16 San Jose

Capitol Expressway and Snell Avenue (408.972.9276) Angels & Demons Fri-Tue 1:10, 7:30 Bruno Fri-Tue 11, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8, 10:15 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue (Jul 14) midnight; Wed-Thu noon, 3:30, 7, 10:20 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fri-Mon 11, 11:50, 12:40, 1:30, 2:20, 3:10, 4, 4:45, 5:40, 6:30, 7:20, 8:05, 9, 9:50, 10:25; Tue 11, 11:50, 12:40, 1:30, 2:20, 3:10, 4, 4:45, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 I Love You, Beth Cooper Fri-Tue 11:30, 2, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 My Sister’s Keeper Fri-Tue 11:15, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Public Enemies Fri-Tue 11:10, 12:35, 2:15, 3:40, 5:35, 7:05, 8:45, 10:05 Star Trek Fri-Tue 4:25, 10:30 The Hangover Fri-Tue 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 The Proposal Fri-Tue 11:25, 1:55, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie Wed (Jul 15) 10am The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Fri-Tue 12:25, 3,

5:25, 7:55, 10:30

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Fri-

Tue 11:05, 12:30, 2:15, 3:45, 5:30, 7, 8:45, 9:45, 10:15

Up Fri-Tue noon, 2:25, 5, 7:25, 10:10 Year One 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15

Century 20 Oakridge 925 Blossom Hill Road (408.225.2200)

Bruno Fri-Tue 9:45, 10:10, 10:35, 11:15, 11:55, 12:25,

1, 1:35, 2:15, 2:45, 3:20, 3:55, 4:30, 5, 5:35, 6:10, 6:45, 7:20, 7:55, 8:30, 9:05, 9:40, 10:15, 10:45 The Hangover Fri-Tue 11:35, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue (Jul 14) 12:01 am, 12:05 am, 12:10 am, 12:15 am; Wed-Thu 9:10, 12:35, 4, 7:20, 10:45 I Love You, Beth Cooper Fri-Tue 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fri-Tue 9:50, 11:20, 12:15, 1:45, 2:40, 4:10, 5:10, 6:35, 7:45, 9, 10:15 Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs 3-D FriTue 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45. RealD 3-D My Sister’s Keeper Fri-Tue 11:15, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 10

Century San Jose 25

Westgate Mall and Campbell/Saratoga (800.FAN. DANG 928#)

Info not available at deadline; call for shows & times.

CineArts@Santana Row 3088 Olsen Dr. (408.554.7000)

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue (Jul 14) midnight; Wed-Thu 9, 12:20, 3:40, 7, 10:20

San Mateo Century San Mateo 12

320 E. Second Ave. (800.FAN.DANG 968#) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue (Jul 14) 12:01 am; Wed-Thu 11 am, 3, 7, 10:30

Call for other shows and times; information not available at deadline.

Santa Clara AMC Mercado 20

101 Fwy and Great American Pkwy Bruno Fri-Sat 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45, 12 am; Sun-Tue 10:30, 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Tue (Jul 14) 12:01 am; Wed-Thu 10, 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11 Call for other shows and times; information not available at deadline.

Saratoga AMC Saratoga 14

Saratoga Avenue and Campbell Avenue (888.AMC.4FUN) Bruno 10:30 am, 12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Wed-Thu 12:05, 3:35, 7:05, 10:35

Call for other shows and times; information not available at deadline.

One Nighters California Theatre 345 S. First St., San Jose.

The Sound of Music Fri-Sat 7pm

Courthouse Square Broadway and Hamilton streets

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Thu (Jul 16) 8:45pm School of Rock Thu (Jul 9) 8:45pm

San Jose Municipal Stadium 588 E. Alma Ave., San Jose.

Kung Fu Panda Sat (Jul 11) 7pm

Stanford University

Memorial Auditorium, 551 Serra St., Stanford. (650.723.0485).

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Fri-Tue 11:05, 1:50, 4:25 The Proposal Fri-Tue 11:10, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Public Enemies Fri-Tue 11:25, 1, 2:40, 4:10, 5:50,

The Electra Festival Jul 13-Aug 27

Star Trek Fri-Tue 7:05, 10:05

Casablanca Wed (Jul 15) dusk

7:25, 9, 10:35

Starlight Cinemas

Historic District, between First and Market streets, San Jose. (408.279.1775).

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ARTIN FRY remembers when ’80s music was unquestionably, unconditionably uncool. “In the late ’90s,” says Fry, “Duran Duran was like a swear word.” As the leader of British ’80s hitmakers ABC, Fry charted at home and in the United States with songs like “The Look of Love,” “(How to be a) Millionaire” and the U.S. Top 10s “Be Near Me” and “When Smokey Sings.” At the height of the band’s success in the latter part of the decade, Fry was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, a type of lymphoma, and was unable to tour. A trickle of ABC releases had dried up by the late ’90s, but after more than a decade away from the studio, Fry surprised everyone with the album Traffic last year, and joined the first Regeneration Tour, a package of big-name ’80s pop bands. This year, ABC was promoted to headliner of the 2009 Regeneration Tour, and returns to Mountain Winery on Friday with Berlin, Wang Chung and Cutting Crew. The tour arrives in Saratoga just two days after the sold-out appearance of another ’80s act—Duran Duran. Its timing of this year’s tour

couldn’t have been better. In the year since the 2008 edition, the ’80s sound has become the hottest thing around. Boston’s Passion Pit has given the throwback dance party an indie cred that’s seemed unthinkable ever since Nirvana broke almost two decades ago. Since then, electronic music has had to be geek-smart, electroclash angry or cool as ice to be taken seriously. But the new wave of New Wave is different. There’s a return to a certain innocence and playfulness— it’s the first truly fun synth music to find a mass audience since Michael Jackson ruled the airwaves. His death, and the subsequent explosion of demand for every beat he ever touched, is likely to push this ’80s comeback to new heights. Already, Jackson’s glove prints can be heard in the high pitch and angular synth notes of Passion Pit’s “Sleepyhead,” the song that arguably touched off the retro trend in the first place, or the kid-chorused “Little Secrets” from their debut album Manners. “There are quite a lot of young bands with an ’80s flavor. Lady Gaga and the Killers, there’s definitely an element of that maverick spirit,” says Fry. “The 1980s has been revitalized and reinvented, and I think it’s going to be reinvented again now

that Michael Jackson has died. If Michael Jackson walked into an A&R office today, he wouldn’t get signed.” It’s not just Jackson whose influence is on the rise. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ latest album is pure ’80s revival, from the Blondie vibe of their hit “Zero” to the New Order moodiness of “Hysteric.” Prince, the one ’80s pop icon who never seemed to lose his cool factor, has been imitated by alt-rockers like Beck and the Flaming Lips. And L.A. duo Chester French had everyone from Kanye West to Pharrell Williams interested in making their record on the strength of their song “She Loves Everybody”—the opening of which is pure ABC.

‘Love’ in the Balance Perhaps what’s held up most about ABC’s music, especially their classic 1982 debut The Lexicon of Love, which was one of the best albums of the decade, is the balance of dance hooks with conceptual lyric hooks, the end result as mental as it was physical. “We wanted to make funky tunes that would compete on the dance floor, but we were reading NME,

too. We loved Bowie, and Bowie’s stuff was quite cerebral when I look back on it now,” says Fry. The pop gloss of ABC’s music and image, from the orchestral swells to the arthouse videos to Fry’s trademark gold lamé suit, masked an edgier side. “I grew up listening to punk bands. I loved punk,” he says. “But we wanted to do something shinier, something bigger. There’s a lot of stuff we were doing that was very experimental. Bands are getting back to that—something more ambitious.” Lexicon of Love’s success might have earned ABC enough cachet to milk a post-punk Roxy Music shtick for their entire career. But following in the footsteps of his chameleonlike idols Bowie and Andy Warhol, Fry felt the need to change direction with every album. ABC’s second, Beauty Stab, was a guitar-heavy rock record that didn’t make much of an impression. Then, with the band pared down to himself and longtime guitarist Mark White, Fry hired two members who didn’t play instruments for the next one, How to Be a . . . Zillionaire. Once again, the move was met with disbelief. “In Britain, they didn’t like it. *.

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They didn’t want to put out the record,â€? says Fry. He felt vindicated, however, when “Be Near Meâ€? gave ABC its ďŹ rst American Top 10 hit. Another single, “(How to be a) Millionaire,â€? was the group’s hardest-edged dance song yet, and contained some of the cleverest of Fry’s trademark lyrical couplets, like his vision of the future: “Larger than life and twice as ugly/ If we have to live there, you’ll have to drug me.â€? “Coming out of punk rock, having something rhyme was pretty radical,â€? he says. “There are a lot of jokes in there as well, there’s a lot of humor. I loved John Lydon and Lou Reed and Sly Stone, great lyric writers.â€? It was around this time that Fry was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s, and had to turn down huge offers to tour in support of their stateside success. “The ironic thing was it was when ‘Be Near Me’ was on the charts,â€? he says. “It was very frustrating to have to go from that to a cancer ward. But I was very fortunate. When I got well again, I wrote ‘When Smokey Sings.’ I was so relieved to be around, and was really enjoying how music makes you feel.â€? “When Smokey Sings,â€? from 1987’s Alphabet City, turned out to be ABC’s biggest hit. After experimenting with house and techno, Fry and White parted ways in the ’90s. But VH1’s Bands Reunited brought drummer David Palmer, who had played on Lexicon of Love, back into the fold in 2004, and in 2008 they released ABC’s ďŹ rst album in 11 years, Traffic. “I hadn’t written songs for ages,â€? Fry says. “It was a lot of fun, and there was a lot of freedom.â€? He’s discovered on these tours that he’s been rediscovered. “There’s a younger generation coming through who’ve seen it all on YouTube,â€? he says. He’s not surprised that the ’80s sound has come back around, since despite the ups and downs, he remembers it as an inspiring time in which artists were encouraged to experiment. “We always thought we were ahead of our time, or a couple steps behind it,â€? he says. “We made some fantastically idiotic moves. But I’m happy where I’m at. I’m very lucky to be here now, and that’s why I enjoy touring so much.â€? And whether the ’80s comeback thrives or dies, what’s important to Fry is that fans still want to hear the songs, and perhaps more than ever, he wants to sing them. “You don’t want to be out there on a victory parade,â€? he says. “You want it to mean something.â€? THE REGENERATION TOUR stops at Mountain Winery Friday (July 10), featuring ABC, BERLIN, WANG CHUNG and CUTTING CREW. Showtime is 6:30pm; tickets are $45–$65.

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[66] MUSIC

JULY 8-14, 2009 M E T R O S I L I C O N VA L L E Y

RESTAURANT & NIGHTCLUB

1011 PACIFIC AVENUE SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336

Thursday, July 30 AGES 16+ • In the Atrium

Friday, July 10 AGES 16+ • In the Atrium

BLVD

plus

The Collab Project

$10 Adv./ $12 Dr. • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m.

C H RI S PU R E KA

Friday, July 31 • AGES 16+ • In the Atrium HOMETOWN CD RELEASE PARTY

ROBIN TROWER

STELLAR CORPSES

plus

also

Rockit Zombies

Friday, August 7 • AGES 21+

$33 Advance/$39 at the Door Drs. 6:30 p.m., Show 7:30 p.m.

plus Saturday Night in the Atrium FREE SHOW No Cover • 9 p.m. • 21+

ALIEN COWBOYS BOOM BOOM STEREO • ALIEN MONSTER Wednesday, July 15 • AGES 16+ • In the Atrium

Mystic Roots plus Top Shelf

also Natural Incense $8 Adv./ $10 Dr. • Drs. 7:30 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

Thursday, July 16 • AGES 16+ • In the Atrium plus

Los Dryheavers

$10 Adv./ $12 Dr. • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m.

Corby Yates

Eric Hutchinson

Lucy Walsh

$3 Adv./ $5 Dr. • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m.

Saturday, July 11 • AGES 21+

plus

plus

JOHNNY WINTER $21 Adv./ $24 Dr. Drs. 7:30 p.m. Show 8:30 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 7 • AGES 21+ • Country Music in the Atrium

JAMES INTVELD

plus

77 El Deora

$10 Adv./ $12 Dr. • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m.

Anya Marina Aug 8 The Pack/ The Cataracs

$10 Adv./ $12 Dr. • Drs. 7:30 p.m., Show 8:30 p.m. Thursday, July 23 • AGES 16+ • In the Atrium

Music for Animals/ Wendy Darling $10 Adv./ $12 Dr. • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m.

Friday, July 24 • AGES 21+ AN EVENING WITH

Gillian Welch

$25 Adv./$28 Dr. Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m. Saturday, July 25 • AGES 16+ • In the Atrium

HOTTUB

$10 Adv./ $12 Dr. • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m. Tuesday, July 28 • AGES 16+ • In the Atrium

WAILING SOULS

Dizzy Balloon/ Pep Love The Holdup/ The Skaflaws (AGES 16+) Aug 8 Lukas Nelson & the Promise of the Real (AGES 16+) Aug 16 Hatebreed (AGES 16+) Aug 17 Xavier Rudd (AGES 16+) Aug 19 Trevor Hall (AGES 16+) Aug 20 The Pyrx Band/ Playz (AGES 16+) Aug 21 Slacktone/ The Concaves (AGES 16+) Aug 23 Forrest Day (AGES 16+) Sep 16 Sugar Ray/ Aimee Allen (AGES 21+) Sep 17 Steel Pulse (AGES 16+) Sep 17 Elliot Randall/ Gina Villalobos (AGES 16+) Sep 18 Michael Franti & Spearhead (AGES 16+) Sep 25 Cash’d Out (AGES 21+) Oct 3 Still Time/ Matt Masih (AGES 16+) Oct 17 The Devil Makes Three (AGES 21+) Oct 21 UFO (AGES 21+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

$15 Adv./ $19 Dr. • Drs. 7:30 p.m., Show 8:30 p.m. ROCKER’S PIZZA KITCHEN 831-426-PIZZA

Sunday thru Tuesday FREE POOL for Bar Patrons Noon to Closing

$1 Pizza Slice ALL DAY TUESDAYS

Wed. - Mon. $2 CHEESE OR PEPPERONI until 6 p.m.

Advance tickets are available at the Catalyst daily with a minimal service charge. Tickets to all Catalyst shows, subject to city tax and service charge, are also available by phone at 1-866-384-3060, and online at our web site

www.catalystclub.com

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head and have even more men drooling after her. Of course, it’s the rare man who’d throw her out of bed if she slipped in with a big rotten ham hock balanced on her skull. Men, across cultures, seem hard-wired to prefer long hair—probably because it signals youth, health and fertility. In a Hungarian study, women’s faces that were rated as less attractive by men were judged much more attractive when the researchers stuck long hairstyles on the photos. Darwin noted the preference for long hair in the West African population (along with the earliest reported use of hair extensions), and in Survival of the Prettiest, psychologist Nancy Etcoff points to all the classic paintings of women with long, flowing tresses. Yes, it seems there’s good reason you don’t see Venus on the half shell with a really butch haircut. If you truly are 10 years into a happy marriage, you might just accept that while hair and nails do not continue growing after death, they often grow like crazy after a divorce. Sure, Socrates did say the unexamined life is not worth living. Unfortunately, he was forced to off himself before he could add that the overly examined ex-wife is a great way to discover, for the second time, that women often change their hair after a breakup.

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morning, after he sobers up at Taco Bell. Nagging won’t change that. Threatening to leave or leaving might, but probably not for long. Either accept that he won’t call or get out. As for your notion that he isn’t macking on girls when he’s out till sunup, it is possible that he just can’t get enough of his hairy, drunken buddies: “Come on, Josh. We don’t have to do anything. We can just lie there and cuddle.”

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #525463 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Evergreen Engineering, 2855 Kifer Suite #201, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Oregon Evergreen Construction Inc., 7431 NW Evergreen Pky #210, Hillsboro, CA, 97124. This business is conducted by a Corporation. The state of Corporation: Oregon. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/1/09. /s/Stephen Edgar Crust President #C2950207 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/16/2009. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/09)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT #525892 #524724 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: James Jeffrey And Sons, 1133 Denise Way, San Jose, CA, 95125, James Jeffrey. This business is conducted by a individual. Refile of previous #222019 after 40 days of expiration date. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/6/91. /s/James Jeffrey This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/25/2009. (pub Metro 7/01, 7/08, 7/15, 7/22/2009)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: John Lee Garden Service/ John Lee Property Management, 1683 Klipspringer Dr., San Jose, CA, 95124, John Lee, Stella Lee. This business is conducted by a husband and wife. Refile of previous file #447296 with changes Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on July 1999. /s/John lee This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/27/2009. (pub Metro 6/17, 6/24, 7/01, 7/08/2009)

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A pointless pain in the butt will soon stop bugging you. Meanwhile, an annoying itch in your heart is subsiding, and may even disappear. As a result of these happy developments, you will be able to concentrate on a much more interesting and provocative torment that has been waiting impatiently for your loving attention. Actually, it’s an ancient torment dressed up in a new package. But as before, it’s a torment you’ve never had the right name for. That’s about to change, however. You’re finally ready to find the right name for it, and when you do, you’ll be halfway toward a permanent cure.

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Angelena’s Cleaning Service, 1800 Evans Ln. #1308, San Jose, CA, 95125, Angelena Lomas. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/01/09. /s/Angelena Lomas This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 5/18/2009. (pub Metro 6/17, 6/24, 7/01, 7/08/200

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up, the father of basketball superstar Pat Riley forced him to play basketball with kids who were stronger and tougher than he was. He said it forged his son into a winner. I can see the principle at work, but it doesn’t come naturally to me. In my efforts to provide you with the parenting you missed as a kid, I’ve always preferred a gentler, more nurturing approach. Nevertheless, the time has come to override my personal desires for the sake of your character-building needs. I recommend that you force yourself to play with grown-up kids who’re stronger and tougher than you.

<Zb^c^ (May 21–June 20): I wouldn’t get too agitated about the supposed “writing on the wall” if I were you. The handwriting is not God’s, for God’s sake. It’s not even that of a wise elder or young genius. So don’t attribute too much authority to it, please. It’s just the opinion of someone who doesn’t know any more about the ultimate truth than you do. So I suggest you cover it up with black spray paint and then carefully inscribe your own version of the writing on the wall. Reality is especially malleable right now, so the most forcefully expressed prophecy will probably come true. 8VcXZg ( June 21–July 22): I believe that when you chatter carelessly about a big change that’s in the works, you’re in danger of draining it of some of its potency. So I don’t want to trumpet or gossip about the gift that’s on its way to you. I’ll just mention that it’s coming, and urge you to prepare a clean, well-lit place for it to land. Here’s a hint: It could, among other things, help you convert one of your vulnerabilities into a strength or inspire you to start transforming an area of ignorance into a future source of brilliance. AZd ( July 23–Aug. 22): At the farmer’s market,

an escape artist performed in the middle of the street. As a crowd gawked, he had two big strong men tie him up tight in a straitjacket and 50 feet of chain. For the next 20 minutes he shimmied and contorted and bent over backwards. His face grew red and sweaty. There were no Houdini-like magic tricks. There were no puffs of smoke or magic boxes or mirrors or distracting assistants. He rarely spoke as the ordeal progressed, but in the end, after the last of the chains slipped off and he wrestled his way out of the straitjacket, he said simply, “Now I invite all of you to go home and use what I just did as a metaphor for your life.” It was a supremely sexy performance, and I realized maybe it would help you with your current situation.

K^g\d (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Your concentration for dicey assignments, like conquering fear and adversity, is sharp. And I bet you’ll summon a lot of stamina and resourcefulness if you’re pressed to solve a crucial riddle during a turning point in your own personal hero’s journey. On the other hand, humdrum details have the potential to flummox you, especially if they involve tasks you’re not even that interested in or committed to. The moral of the story: Banish absent-mindedness by keeping yourself focused on only the most riveting challenges. A^WgV (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): The sky will not start falling. But something resembling heavenly tokens may cascade down with such frequency that you’ll be wise to keep looking up a lot. You never know when another piece of the blessed puzzle will come raining down. And it would be a shame to suffer the embarrassment of having your favorable fortune knock you over. Who’d have ever guessed that a shower of good news would be such a tricky trial? HXdge^d (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): How well are you

capitalizing on this year’s unique opportunities,

Scorpio? Since we’re midway through 2009, let’s take an inventory. I hope that by now you have at least begun building the power spot or energy source that will serve as your foundation for the coming years. So much the better if it’s more than halfway finished and will be ready for full use by the end of summer or early fall. Remember my promises: Life has been and will continue to be conspiring to get you settled in your ideal home base, supercharge your relationships with your closest allies, and connect you with the resources that will fuel your long-term quest.

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Ages, people became adults when they turned 7 years old. These days, the threshold is much later. I’m happy about that. In my view, the longer you can hold on to your playful irreverence and innocent lust for life, the better. Still, there is value in taking on the kinds of responsibilities that help you express yourself with grace and power. So I don’t mean to rush you, but it might be time to take a step toward being on the verge of tiptoeing to the brink of preparing to accept more adulthood into your heart. You could make the process less harrowing by hanging out with those rare wise guys and wise girrrls who’ve survived the transition to greater maturity and a higher degree of professionalism with their youthful flair more or less intact.

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feel this week, as long as you don’t feel nothing. Get inflamed with hunger or justice or sadness or beauty or love, but don’t submit to apathy. Don’t let yourself be shunted into numbness. You can’t afford to be cut off from the source of your secret self, even if it means having to feel like hell for a while. And the odd thing is that if you’re willing to go through hell, you won’t have to go through hell. So to hell with your poker face and neutrality and dispassionate stance. Be a wild thing, not a mild thing.

6fjVg^jh ( Jan. 20–Feb. 18): The Iliad is an ancient

Greek epic poem that describes events near the end of the Trojan War. Most modern critics regard it as a foundation stone of Western literature. In my opinion, though, it’s mostly just a gruesome tale of macho haters who are inflamed with pride, treat women like property, and can’t stop killing each other. I share the perspective of poet Diane di Prima, who once had a dream in which the Iliad was cast as gangsta rap. Now please adopt the style of our critique for use in your own life, Aquarius. What supposedly noble or important situation is actually pretty trivial or clichéd? It’s time for you to tell the truth about the hype.

E^hXZh (Feb. 19–March 20): “May you live in

interesting times.” That old toast is actually a droll curse meant to be heaped upon an enemy. “Interesting” implies rapid change, rampant uncertainty, and constant adjustment. What’s preferable is to live during a boring era when stability reigns. Or so the argument goes. But I reject that line of thought. I celebrate the fact that we’re embroiled in interesting times. I proclaim our struggles to navigate the sharp turns and uphill climbs to be a jubilee of the first degree. What fantastic luck it is to be on the planet when everything mutates! May we be up to the task of bringing heaven down to earth. May we be worthy of the trust the universe is placing in us. Now get out there, Pisces, and enjoy the hell out of the epic and entertaining drama we’re stewarding. This is your time to be a leader and a luminary.

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If somebody’s going to walk away from a fatal car crash, you really want it not to be the inebriated loser who caused it. However, while all the facts aren’t in, there’s reason to think drunk drivers sometimes get a break they don’t deserve. We’ll call what you’re describing the luckydrunk hypothesis. Although it’s been floating around for a long time, scientists apparently first examined it seriously in a 1982 study of trauma victims treated at a Texas hospital (Ward et al., American Journal of Surgery). Roughly a third of the 1,200 patients had been drinking. Drinkers and nondrinkers had equally severe injuries. The surprise: The death rate among nondrinkers was one in six; the death rate among drinkers, one in nine. Complication: the researchers were looking at all kinds of trauma, not just trauma caused by car wrecks. Subsequent studies have produced mixed results, but even those undercutting the lucky-drunk hypothesis had their puzzling aspects. Some examples: • A two-year study at a Seattle trauma center found intoxicated men had lower death rates and less severe injuries than sober men for all types of trauma except car accidents. (Women didn’t see much difference.) Overall, the drunker the victim, the less severe his injuries and the less likely he was to die. • Examining data on more than a million drivers involved in car crashes in North Carolina, a research team headed by Patricia Waller reported in 1986 that drunk drivers were roughly twice as likely as sober drivers to be seriously injured in a car crash and two to four times more likely to die. Oddly, however, they found drivers with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) between 0.15 and 0.19 percent (i.e., really drunk—legally drunk is 0.08 percent) suffered less severe injuries than those with other, often smaller amounts of alcohol in their system. • A 1992 study in Vermont focused on 427 trauma victims, 43 percent of whom had been in auto accidents. Drinkers suffered more head injuries on average, had six times the death rate of nondrinkers, and were much more likely to suffer from serious injuries. On the other hand, the legally drunk had fewer really bad injuries than the moderate drinkers. The difference wasn’t statistically significant, though.

A 1997 review found such studies of alcohol and injury fell into two groups showing opposite results: (1) Research based on reports from emergency personnel generally found alcohol use meant increased risk of serious injury or death. However, the severity of the trauma often stemmed from side effects of drinking such as speeding or not wearing seat belts, not from drinking itself. (2) In contrast, most studies of hospitalized trauma victims found no relation between drunkenness and injury severity, and a few found alcohol had a protective effect. One possible explanation: The EMTs’ injury assessment method exaggerated trauma severity in drunks, particularly those with head injuries, who were then more likely to be hospitalized. So you had a lot of hospitalized drinkers whose problems seemed worse than they were, perhaps skewing the results. No doubt hoping to settle things once and for all, Patricia Waller led a team that published another study in 2003. Taking numerous variables into account, the group looked at data for almost 1,400 car wreck victims and found that, on the whole, alcohol increased injury—but the effect wasn’t linear. As in previous studies, injury severity dipped sharply in accident victims showing a BAC between 0.15 and 0.19 percent, but also for victims with BACs above 0.25 percent, or very, very drunk. Waller and company thought they could come up with an explanation for the high-end drop, but the midrange dip was a complete mystery. Conclusions for now: 1. We sure don’t know that alcohol protects drunks by making them more relaxed. 2. It does seem to protect them in a limited sense. In general, alcohol makes injuries worse, and no one’s saying being drunk is safer than being sober, but research has repeatedly shown that under some circumstances drunks get hurt less than you’d expect.

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