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JULY 15-21, 2009 M E T R O S I L I C O N VA L L E Y

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BY TOM TOMORROW with so much information and his advertisements for the businesses around the community are another great thing. If Beer Run Bobby suggests a business, I will be sure to pass on that info to someone who can use it. I would like to say thank you for putting his show out there. I hope more listeners tune in to his fabulous show, which is much more than listening to the great oldies, it’s a total entertainment package! Live, laugh, love to everyone! Arlene Estrada San Jose

No Problem? Mayor Pinhiero, who is currently decimating our police and ďŹ re departments, makes such an outrageous statement that there is no gang problem in Gilroy, that this is just another example why he must be removed from office (‘Iron Fist, Velvet Clove,â€? Cover Story, July 8). His irresponsibility in handling public safety is his crowning achievement. A recall is on the way.

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the “weedâ€? or wildowers they say we were destroying with the dirt bikes—too bad, as I would certainly rather see the kids from the area ride dirt bikes than join gangs or doing drugs, as there really isn’t too much else for them to do. They y the dry creek beds 4x4ing now that Clear Creek has been taken from them. What can we do? Thank you for your time. Lisa Iverson Coalinga

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People Basically Suck Your cover story is superb (“Bike to the Future,â€? Cover Story, June 24). However, it exhaustively covers only one topic—the societieswide repercussions of both peak oil and (virtually) no oil—of the two key ingredients of, alas, our impending calamity. We live in this insatiable system of ours, and I live in the midst of entropy itself, Los Angeles. That ďŹ rst, well-covered topic does ask why we feel impelled to do-do, go-go, shop-shop, see-see, take care of this, catch up with that, and so on. What underlies almost all problems that plague human societies is unchecked human population growth. Not since the early 1970s has any major movement or “leaderâ€? questioned it or addressed it. In essence, the human species has crushed seemingly all that is on the planet. “Leadersâ€?—political, religious, cultural—do nothing but ignore and proďŹ t from this rapacity. Bill Lewis La Crescenta

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Foundation. “If they shut these parks down, the state would be absolutely out of compliance with the agreement that they came to when they took the money.” Eddie Guaracha, State Parks superintendent of the Gavilan Sector, says economic savings may be slight if swaths of open land such as Henry Coe are closed. However, he says, the three parks in his sector attract about 270,000 visitors each year, and societal impacts could be substantial. While layoffs in the Gavilan Sector’s three parks—Henry Coe, San Juan Bautista and Fremont Peak—would impact just 20 people, Guaracha says, the absence of these rangers and support staff could bring

about an onslaught of deer- and boar-poaching. H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the state Department of Finance, says the governor plans to liquidate all state park general fund reserves— currently set at $143 million—over the next two years. This move, says Palmer, will leave open just 59 parks that either generate their own revenue through on-site concessions or are paid for from special funds, including the off-highway vehicle tax and the gas tax. Many of these parks are located on freshwater reservoirs and attract boaters. This is not the first such threat to the California’s parks. In January, 2008, Schwarzenegger threatened to close 48 parks for a promised savings of $13 million. Through an aggressive “Save Our Parks” campaign, the Parks Commission averted the proposal—but only temporarily. “When this issue came around again, frankly, it was staggering,” says Verardo-Torres, who helped lead the campaign against the 2008 plan. “I think people need to know and realize that this is a very real proposal.” In some cases, closing the gates could mean losing parks to federal hands. In a June 8 letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger, the National Park Service’s Pacific regional director, John Jarvis, explained that closing six parks, including Point Sur State Historic Park and Angel Island State Park, would violate the Federal Lands to Parks Program of 1949. That program requires that such properties remain accessible to the public permanently. If that stipulation is violated, Jarvis warned, these parks could be transferred back into federal possession. But even disregarding these issues, will closing state parks really save the state money? The results of a study released in 2002 by UC-Berkeley show that such action could do the opposite. It shows that for every dollar taken from the state’s general fund and used to operate state parks, $2.35 is returned to the general fund &'

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in the form of sales tax. Another study published this June by Sacramento State University found that the average party that spends a night in a state park also spends $57 in local businesses. The report estimated that such spending by park visitors total $4.2 billion annually statewide. Schwarzenegger and his staff, however, don’t trust those numbers, according to Palmer. Though he was unaware of the UC-Berkeley report, Palmer questioned the validity of the Sacramento State study, in which 88 percent of surveyed park visitors were California residents. It’s likely, Palmer says, that they would have spent money whether they camped the night in a state park or not. “We don’t believe there would be a net reduction in economic activity in the state,” Palmer says. The same report said that out-of-state visitors, who made up 12 percent of those surveyed, spend an estimated $102 million within California during their visits. “But the study assumes they visited California only to visit the park, whereas they probably would have come anyway,” Palmer insists. Over in Santa Cruz County, state parks make up half of the public beaches. Their closure would no doubt impact access, and the California Coastal Commission requires a permit application for any activity that affects accessibility. Dan Carl, manager of the Commission’s Central Coast District, speculates that the Legislature could circumvent the permit application process by simply writing an exemption into law. The Commission, he

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says, has not yet been contacted by the state for a permit application. To address the budget shortfalls, state Senate Democrats formally introduced a measure this spring that would, they say, solve the issue entirely. The proposal would cost California vehicle owners $1.25 per month. When it went to vote on June 26, it stalemated following a partisan vote: 22 Democrats voted in favor and 13 Republicans plus one Democrat rejected it. Four senators did not vote. The proposal, called the State Park Access Pass, calls for a $15 annual fee for all registered vehicles in the state, of which there are roughly 28 million. Such a fund would net more than $350 million every year for California state parks, almost three times the $143 million which the governor plans to cut from the general fund. While the State Park Access Pass remains on the table of the Senate, the governor has vowed to veto it even if it gains the required twothirds majority vote. The State Park Access Pass too closely resembles a tax, explains spokeswoman Lisa Page—and Gov, Schwarzenegger opposes all new taxes. He is, however, “open to creative measures” by local governments that could generate revenue to pay for nearby park operations, she says. But with one creative measure already shot from the water and likely to be tossed into the trash bin, park advocates are hoping for a surprise allotment in the general fund when the new budget is unveiled, which could occur within days. If parks get the ax, closures could begin just after Labor Day. M

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DOLFO GOMEZ moved to San Jose from Oaxaca in southern Mexico 20 years ago. Although he worked in the restaurant and hospitality industry here, Gomez longed for the tastes of home.

“I was always looking for a place to eat real Oaxacan food,” Gomez says. Once, he found a little place in Redwood City that specialized in the distinctive cuisine of Oaxaca, but the restaurant quickly bowed to market pressures and dropped the complex moles and tlayudas in favor of carne asada and al pastor tacos, like every other Mexican restaurant in the Silicon Valley.

“I like that food, but I always miss my cuisine,” Gomez remarks. Only now, two decades after arriving in San Jose, can Gomez enjoy the flavors of home. That’s because he opened Mezcal, his own restaurant in downtown San Jose, last November. The economy notwithstanding, Gomez says the timing was right to open a new kind of Mexican restaurant because of the dining public’s growing sophistication and awareness of the distinctive styles of regional Mexican cuisine.

different,” Gomez tells me. “I think if I had opened a Oaxacan restaurant 20 years ago, I would have ended up doing burritos and enchiladas.” In addition to the excellent Oaxacan food, what makes Mezcal a standout is its cool, modern, minimalist design. You won’t find sombreros and serapes on the wall here. Instead, there are colorful animal sculptures from Oaxaca set into recessed displays backlit with colored washes. An exposed brick wall backs the beautiful bar. An airy courtyard sits off the dining room for outdoor seating. 16

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Gomez says that although the ambience of his restaurant strikes many diners as upscale, it’s middle of the road by Mexican standards. But it’s top of the line for Silicon Valley Mexican restaurants. Mezcal is more than a good, albeit atypical, Mexican restaurant. It is one of a growing number of Silicon Valley restaurants embracing the contemporary Latino aesthetic, a culinary undercurrent that offers a break from the same old rice and beans. Also known as Nuevo Latino, the trend has flourished across the country for two decades but largely passed Silicon Valley by. Until now. Nuevo Latino restaurants fuse traditional and nontraditional ingredients with high-style dining rooms accentuated with contemporary art and design.

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In addition to Mezcal, Reposado and the Oaxacan Kitchen in Palo Alto and Casa de Cobre in Saratoga offer traditional and inspired menus of Mexican food backed by thoughtfully designed, lively dining rooms. A few other places have dabbled in Nuevo Latino with varying degrees of success. As far back as the mid-’90s, Aqui CalMex chef Rob Francis was experimenting with unusual Cuban and Asian-influenced specialties at Aqui. Don Durante and Lisa

Rhorer’s excellent Cin-Cin in Los Gatos and Durante’s Cascal in Mountain View incorporate Nuevo Latino influences with excellent results. Cin-Cin’s menu darts all over the globe but includes a few Latin-inspired dishes such as wild mushroom and manchego cheese empanadas with truffle oil and tuna-stuffed piquillo peppers. Cascal takes a more direct approach with a Spanish and Latin American menu of tapas and larger plates. Look for dishes like the “Cuban wrap”—sliced, adobo-marinated pork tenderloin rolled in a tortilla with cilantro mojo sauce, watercress and a piquillo pepper salad; and Mexico City–style braised beef short ribs with red onioncilantro salad and a fresh corn arepa. The compelling menus are backed by stylish, urbane dining rooms. And then there’s Joya Restaurant and Lounge in Palo Alto. It’s a showcase for Latin American and Spanish food presented with style and sexy swagger. The rise of these restaurants offers a glimmer of what could be: the celebration of Latino food with a generous serving of glamour on the side. So what took so long? The Nuevo Latino trend emerged in Miami in the 1990s. The city’s slavishly trendy pan-Latino culture was the perfect 19

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breeding ground for a hybridized cuisine rooted in the culinary traditions of Latin America but updated with a contemporary, north-of-the-border sensibility. Nuevo Latino restaurants proliferated across the United States as the vibrancy and vitality of the cuisine found a receptive audience with diners eager to open their minds and mouths to new flavors and culinary creations. Given that the Nuevo Latino wave is more than 20 years old, it’s probably inaccurate to call it a trend anymore. Restaurants like Topolobampo in Chicago, Calle Ocho in New York City, Azuca in San Antonio, Ciudad in Los Angeles and Destino in San Francisco are fixtures of their city’s dining scenes. But somehow Silicon Valley didn’t get invited to the party. In spite of the fact that we are a wealthy and food-conscious area with a large Latino population, Nuevo Latino never caught on here. That fact is especially puzzling when you consider that other cuisines endemic to Silicon Valley have evolved into new, hybridized categories of dining. Tamarine in Palo Alto and Xanh in Mountain View serve inspired, contemporary Vietnamese food. Amber India in San Jose and newcomer Sakoon in Mountain View have given Indian food a modern spin. Sino in San Jose and Gochi in Cupertino have done the same for Chinese and Japanese food, respectively. Chef Rachael Spivack ventured into high-end Latin influences at her acclaimed dotcom-era restaurant, Spivac’s, in San Jose’s Silver Creek. Before the short-lived restaurant closed and morphed into a steakhouse, Spivack showcased dishes like

chipotle-lacquered salmon with agave nectar, mini sopas with cilantro lime crema, and ceviches. Spivack says that San Jose still has a long way to go before Nuevo Latino takes hold. “San Jose hasn’t evolved,” she explains. “It’s still the ’80s and the ’90s: rice, beans and enchiladas, Tex-Mex burritos . . . very traditional American-Mexican cuisine. It’s still very one-dimensional. Mexican cuisine is multidimensional with subtle flavors and fresh ingredients. It’s not just chips, salsa and guacamole.”

The Plates Are Hot Silicon Valley’s low-priced ethnic-food scene has plenty to offer, but at the upper end of the spectrum conservatism and outright dullness dominate the restaurant market. Until now, that’s been particularly evident in Mexican restaurants. The twin forces of assimilation and commercialization in America turned Mexican food into Mexican-American food long ago. Along the way, one of the world’s great cuisines was reduced to a dozen or so dishes that all seem to be united by an excess of cheddar cheese, too much sour cream and the words “careful, the plates are hot.” There are approximately 20,000 Mexican restaurants in the United States, yet most of them seem to be cooking from the same stubbornly familiar menu: chips and salsa, tacos, burritos, enchiladas, nachos, quesadillas, tamales, chimichangas, tostadas, chiles rellenos, chile verde and

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NUEVO LATINO 19 chile colorado. But here in Silicon Valley, it’s ironic there hasn’t been a greater variety of Mexican food. In spite of its modern style, Mezcal is basically a traditional Mexican restaurant. To the extent to which people are familiar with Oaxacan cuisine, it’s probably mole negro, a velvety, bittersweet, chocolatelooking sauce typically served with chicken. Mezcal’s version is seductive and subtle, but the restaurant offers two other kinds of mole as well—coloradito and estofado.

Nuevo Latino restaurants combine traditional and nontraditional ingredients with high-style dining rooms accentuated with contemporary art and design. A complimentary sampling of the moles with chips is presented at the beginning of the meal. Tortilla chips are a concession to gringo preferences since they’re not served in Mexico, but Gomez offers them because his diners always asked for them and he figured it would be a good way to introduce them to the restaurant’s three kinds of mole. The negro and coloradito are best. The negro is more savory than sweet and has a pleasing hint of bitterness. It’s the smoky, smoldering heat and flavor of the poblano chiles that really distinguish the sauce. The red-tinted coloradito is spicier and a delicious balance of sweet and bitter. While the moles are good, it’s the chapulines people will remember most whether they liked them or not. The toasted grasshoppers, a traditional, protein loaded snack, are tossed with chile powder, lime juice and salt and make for a great cocktail or beer accompaniment. They taste like spicy nuts that happen to be bugs. Given how different this kind of food is from gringofied Mexican-American food, it can be an eye-opener for diners who grew up on Pedro’s or Chevy’s. A taste of the real thing can be revelatory, even revolutionary. Mezcal is also unique in that it showcases its namesake spirit. Tequila is really a variant of mescal made from blue agave whereas mescal can be made from several different kinds of agave

and generally has a smokier flavor than tequila. Gomez offers a number of small, premium mescals made by producers who are making mescal in the finer, barrel-aged style that’s come to characterize many top tequilas. Drawing on influences from Spain and South America, Joya in Palo Alto is the most overtly Nuevo Latino restaurant in Silicon Valley. And it’s one of the most gorgeous restaurants of any kind. Shopworks, a design firm with clients that include W Hotels in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and the Plumpjack Group, designed Joya, which occupies a prime corner spot on University Avenue that formerly housed a bank. The restaurant underwent a top-tobottom remodel and has been done up in a crisp, modern style with horizontal wood panels, exposed steel and a glassed-in wine cellar featuring selections from the eclectic global wine list. The wall of windows at the front of the restaurant can be pulled back to open to the sidewalk, perfect for warm afternoons. In addition to the dining room, Joya has an appealing lounge and a cozy bar. The menu draws in equal measure from Spain and the New World with a fresh sprinkling of California fresh and seasonal sensibility tossed in. The appealing list of tapas ranges from the traditional, like the boquerones and camarones al ajillo, headon white shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico suffused with a rich, garlic-laced, piquant pimento sauce, to the inventive, with such dishes as the trio of short rib tacos with horseradish cream and Kobe-style beef sliders with Oaxacan cheese, chorizo and chipotle mayonnaise. Although not everything at the restaurant succeeds, there’s plenty of good food on the ever-changing menu to match Joya’s good looks. The baked, banana-leafwrapped king salmon with English peas, artichoke hearts and cilantro-chile cream pretty much screams Nuevo Latino. On my visit, the Cuban spiced pork tenderloin was a standout as was the grilled Pacific halibut matched with a velvety romesco sauce and braised chard.

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portions, the use of lard—at the border. The reward for this dumbing down was the widespread acceptance of “Mexican” food. Tacos and burritos are now as “American” as hot dogs and hamburgers. But the cost of becoming American, says Andrew F. Smith, a culinary historian at New York’s New School, was that Mexican food “lost its soul.” As a new cuisine enters the United States, it must pass through a filter that strains out strong flavors and unfamiliar ingredients in order to be commercially successful. Just as Italian food was reduced to lasagna, pizza and spaghetti with meatballs, and Chinese food became chicken chow mein, egg rolls and mu shu pork, Mexican food too found its base level. “The mainstream view of Mexican food in America is Taco Bell,” says Smith. “It’s the mainstream that [establishes] what restaurants offer.” Because Mexicans have been in the United States for so long, Mexican food is ingrained here and no longer “foreign,” says Tomas Jimenez, a Stanford University sociologist. “People are just as likely to grab a burrito as a burger.” Mexican food became more American. Or maybe American food became more

Mexican. But Jimenez sees the narrow range of Mexican food in U.S. restaurants widening as the cuisine leaves the confines of the taqueria. “I think Mexican food is [now] taking its place along the other grand cuisines,” he says. The cuisines of Mexico’s 31 states are so much wider and deeper than the truncated menu of often goopy, cheesy and fried foods served in Mexican restaurants here. In her book My Mexico, esteemed Mexican food authority Diana Kennedy recalls a television interview in which she was asked to describe Mexican food. “I found myself floundering hopelessly and helplessly—where to begin, what to encompass, . . . to do justice to the foods of this extraordinarily complex country would take many lifetimes of research and travel. For complex Mexico is.” Yet that complexity is poorly represented north of the border. Elsewhere, the famously acerbic Kennedy remarked on Mexican food in the United States: “Many people outside Mexico still think of [it] as an overly large platter of mixed messes, smothered with a shrill tomato sauce, sour cream, and grated yellow cheese preceded by a dish of mouthsearing sauce and greasy, deep-fried chips.”

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Mexican food in America of the hard taco/slushy margarita school is more American than Mexican. Like spaghetti with meatballs, pizza, chow mein, french fries and General Tso’s chicken, commercialization and mass production have stripped Mexican food of its regional and ethnic roots such that it’s really Mexican in name only. It’s been Americanized and supersized.

Just as Italian food was reduced to spaghetti with meatballs and Chinese food became chicken chow mein, Mexican food too found its base level. Serve a traditional enchilada made without cheddar cheese and iceberg lettuce or omit the chips and salsa and most diners would think they had walked into the wrong restaurant. And that’s not their fault. Unless people travel in Mexico off well-worn tourist routes, it’s hard to get a taste of something different. It’s all there is. Or was.

Regional Flavors Now there’s a growing number of regional Mexican restaurants in Silicon Valley that have joined a lonely group of pioneering Mexican restaurants that look to Mexico, not the United States, for inspiration. The Oaxacan Kitchen has become a big hit. Co-owner Zaida Kent is from Oaxaca. She runs the restaurant with her husband, Ron Kent. Kent, a chef with three decades of cooking experience in Bay Area restaurants, recalled his first encounter with Oaxacan cuisine. “I had never tasted Oaxacan food,” he told me shortly after opening his restaurant last summer. “I was stunned by the food . . . [Oaxaca] is like the Tuscany or Paris of Mexico.” He and his wife began to lead culinary tours to Oaxaca and later started to sell Oaxacan moles, chocolate and tamales at the Palo Alto farmers market and others. Last year, they took the plunge and

opened a restaurant to further showcase their passion for the distinctive foods of Oaxaca. Walking in the door of the narrow restaurant you know you’re in the right place. The first thing you see is women manning the comal, a griddle on which the restaurant makes all its tortillas and various masa-based dishes. Using an ancient device called a molino, which consists of two stone wheels made of volcanic rock, the Kents grind their own corn to make the masa (cornmeal dough). They also use the molino to make their own chocolate from cacao beans imported from Mexico. It’s safe to say this is not your typical sombrero-on-the-wall taqueria. The restaurant serves tacos and tortas but also an array of Oaxacan street snacks seldom seen in these parts. My favorite is the molotes: tubes of masa filled with potatoes and chorizo and topped with a creamy—delicate, even—black bean purée and queso fresco, salsa and guacamole. The masa is lightly fried, and the interior is moist and flavorful. It quickly turns into a delicious mess. Even though the tamales conjured up memories of my trips to Oaxaca, there’s a missing ingredient: lard. In a concession to local tastes, the tamales are made with olive oil instead. Perhaps they could offer a few tamales made with the magic ingredient for those who want the full Mexican experience. While most Silicon Valley Mexican restaurants fall into the Mexican-American or Cal-Mex category, there is a regional influence, albeit a limited one. Most of Silicon Valley’s Mexican immigrants came from the states of Michoacán, Jalisco and Guanajuato. These central-western states have a ranching and cowboy culture that dates back to pre-revolutionary times. As such, dishes like carne asada, birria (goat stew), chile colorado and carnitas have become signature—and omnipresent—dishes. They can be quite good, but they represent a thin slice of the foods from this region of Mexico. Although it offers plenty of dishes familiar to American diners, Saratoga’s new Casa de Cobre aims to dive deeper into the food of Michoacán, particularly the food of Santa Clara del Cobre, the hometown of chef Marcelino Hernandez Perez. (See full review on page 31.) Casa de Cobre is co-owned by Andrew Welch, who also happens to co-own the Basin, a popular Mediterranean restaurant next door. Hernandez Perez has been the Basin’s chef for seven years, and by opening Casa de Cobre, Welch has given him the chance to showcase lesser-known dishes from his hometown like the pork and dried fruit–filled chiles rellenos draped with pecan sauce, Michoacán-style enchiladas made with roasted carrots and 25

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NUEVO LATINO 23 potatoes, and the delicious chivo (braised goat with guajillo chiles). “Casa de Cobre is definitely not your typical Mexican restaurant,” says Welch. In addition to the traditional menu, the comfortable dining room and outdoor seating place it in the contemporary Mexican category. There is a range of colorful art on the wall, some of it inspired by the restaurant’s namesake copper. Chef Arnulfo “Arnie” Hernandez was born in the coastal Mexican state of Nayarit, but the food at his 6-month-old Palo Alto restaurant Reposado trots all over Mexico. Working with owner Rob Fischer, Hernandez has developed a crowd-pleasing menu served in an upscale, beautiful setting. The menu takes classics of Mexican cuisine and several lesser-known dishes and gives them a smart, urbane spin. Like Mezcal’s Gomez, Hernandez missed the tastes of home here in the United States. “In the Bay Area, I haven’t found the right place to bring me memories of home,” he says, longingly. “But then I started cooking [at Reposado] and smelling all those aromas I always missed.” Although this new crop of regional Mexican restaurants represents a distinct break from Americanized Mexican food (or is it Mexicanized American food?), there are a few established restaurants like Consuelo Mexican Bistro, Mendoza Taqueria No. 2, Vive Sol and Estrellita that have been offering regional Mexican food all along. Russell Clark Corlay, owner of Estrellita in Los Altos, figures many restaurants are reluctant to serve regional specialties because it’s labor intensive and many ingredients are hard to find. “You can’t do any shortcuts. You can’t just open a can.” Estrellita’s mole, for example, has 38 ingredients that must be measured and added individually. Some ingredients aren’t even available in the United States. “We have to go to Tijuana just to get some of the chiles.” When Clark Corlay’s family took over Estrellita in 1978, they made sure to get the recipe for the restaurant’s signature “gourmet” burrito: a big flour tortilla filled with beef or chicken that’s doused in a mild red or spicy green sauce and then topped with a heap of cheddar and Monterey jack cheese. The dish epitomizes Mexican food in America: filling, satisfying and even delicious, but more American than Mexican. But when Clark Corlay’s mother joined his aunt at Estrellita, they started to introduce a few regional specialties, especially those from their native state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Because many of the dishes were unfamiliar to many diners, they put special dishes on a display table near the front door to give diners a

visual aid. Sauces are available for taste, too, and servers are trained to explain the food. The practice continues today. While the “gourmet” burrito still accounts for nearly a third of all sales, Clark Corlay says the regional specials now account for 50 percent of business. Some of the more popular specials include chicken pibil, a Yucatecan dish of citrus- and achiote-marinated chicken wrapped in banana leaves; chiles en nogada, a winter dish of stuffed chiles in a walnut sauce that evokes the red, green and white of the Mexican flag; and Chiapas tamales, a time-consuming dish made with mole, dried fruits and chicken. “It’s been increasing, definitely,” he says. “It has amazed me how much people have become familiar with Mexican food in the past 10 to 15 years.” Whether it’s diners’ changing tastes and desire to go beyond the burrito or restaurateurs willingness to offer something different, a new era of Latino food may be on the rise in Silicon Valley. M

Casa de Cobre 14560 Big Basin Way, Saratoga. 408.867.1639.

Cascal 400 Castro St., Mountain View. 650.940.9500.

Cin-Cin 368 Village Lane, Los Gatos. 408.354.8006.

Consuelo Mexican Bistro 377 Santana Road, San Jose. 408.260.7082

Estrellita 971 N. San Antonio Road, Los Altos. 650.948.9865.

Joya Restaurant and Lounge 339 University Ave., Palo Alto. 650.853.9800.

Mendoza Taqueria No. 2 2100 Story Road, San Jose. 408.259.4387.

Mezcal 25 W. San Fernando St., San Jose. 408.283.9595.

The Oaxacan Kitchen 2323 Birch St., Palo Alto. 650.321.8003.

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ARATOGA’S Casa de Cobre restaurant has to walk a ďŹ ne line. The restaurant specializes in the food from chef Marcelino Hernandez Perez’s hometown in Santa Clara del Cobre in the northwestern Mexican state of Michoacan. Much of the menu is likely to challenge perceptions about Mexican food, because it offers food seldom found in Silicon Valley as well as familiar items prepared in unfamiliar but traditional ways. Casa de Cobre’s challenge is to satisfy diners’ expectations about Mexican food while at the same time going beyond them. The restaurant generally succeeds. Deliciously. Mexican food is so ingrained in U.S. culture that everyone is likely to have an opinion about what’s good, what’s bad and what they like best. But truth be told, what we’ve been eating isn’t Mexican food. It’s MexicanAmerican food. (See Cover Story on page 14.)Tacos, nachos, burritos and the other usual suspects of MexicanAmerican food are ďŹ ne by me, but this limited menu is a poor representation of the breadth and depth of what Mexican food has to offer. Casa de Cobre is one of a small but growing number of Mexican restaurants in Silicon Valley that dare to offer diners something different. The restaurant’s owners are the

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North of the border, enchiladas are slathered in a thick sauce and bubbling cheddar cheese, but in Mexico it’s a much lighter dish. Casa de Cobre’s enchilada Michoacana fries tortillas in a thin but avorful guajillo chile sauce and ďŹ lls them with roasted carrots and potatoes and tops them with a dusting of Mexican cheese. The chile rellenos de puerco ($11) is another of my favorites and a specialty of Santa Clara del Cobre. The poblano chiles are ďŹ lled with braised pork and dried fruit and topped with a roasted pecan cream sauce. It’s a spicy, sweet and savory all at once. On one of my visits, they were serving a special roasted chicken also from the chef’s hometown. Marinated for 24 hours in a guajillo chile sauce, the dish was wonderfully tender and juicy, but what I loved best was the crispy, avor-infused skin. Michoacan is known for its carnitas (pork fried in its own fat), and here the suckling pig carnitas ($17) is really memorable. While I loved the pork beans served with the carnitas, I would prefer them on the side instead of served underneath. The standout dish of my two visits was the entomatado ($18), a slow-simmered beef stew made with chipotle, tomatillos, onions, tomatoes and chile de arbol. The smoky avor of the chipotle enveloped the dish but still allowed the other avors to come

through. Spooned into a fresh corn tortilla, it was just superb. Most dishes are served a la carte. Order the excellent frijoles de casa ($5) and arroz de casa ($4) on the side to taste how different these standard accompaniments can be. The rich and saucy beans are simmered with onions, chiles and spices and meaty bits of pork. The rice is made with carrots, tomato and potatoes. In what will probably seem like a grave injustice, chips and salsa aren’t served as freebies. They aren’t served in Mexico, and for any restaurant that strives to be traditionally Mexican I’d say do away with them altogether. But I bet 99 percent of diners would have a hard time imagining Mexican food without them. So, they’re made to order and served with pico de gallo for $4. Service is friendly, knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Servers know the food well and seem to love talking about it. The restaurant has a full bar, but a rather limited selection of tequila. There’s also a short but wellchosen wine list. Desserts like the churros with hot chocolate and tres leches cake (both $7) will satisfy sweet cravings, but they’re not as strong as the rest of the menu. Mexican-American food is here to stay, but Casa de Cobre makes a strong case for Mexican-Mexican food.

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HE DATE and location give us a clue: “1914, Senlis.” The year is the beginning of the modern era by anyone’s calculation—the first year of the Great War, which broke out that autumn. But then there’s “Senlis”: where in the world is Senlis? The haunting biopic Séraphine takes us there, to a silent small French village, with a full moon caught in the tree limbs and a lumpy, even troglodytic woman stirring the water of a creek with her hands. This woman clops up to pray in a stone church. It’s shot at a low angle so that the heavily leafed shade trees around the church seem to be growing into the stones, like the jungle vines on the towers of Angkor Wat. The impression at first is of remoteness and overgrown vegetation. Director Martin Provost fills up the screen with green— green and the shape of a hunched scrubwoman named Séraphine Louis, later known as Séraphine de Senlis. As played by Yolande Moreau, Séraphine is a burrower, head held down at most times and on all fours sometimes. She shuffles through her rounds in a shawl and a straw hat. She pockets the bread crumbs off the table of a woman she works for. More mysteriously, she bottles the melted wax from the church votive candles. Her newest job is tending a vacationing gentleman, a tenant for her regular

employer, making tea for him and cleaning his room. She notes that he sketches sometimes and keeps to himself, nursing some great unhappiness. We learn that this vacationing German is William Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a lawyer and Paris gallery owner, noted as the first biographer of the artist Henri Rousseau. He was a patron with the discernment to buy Picasso and Braque back in 1905. We also learn that Séraphine, a seemingly cracked charwoman, is an artist herself—that she uses the stolen church wax as fixative for her hand-ground pigments. This untrained artist paints pictures because the angels told her to do it. Even art lovers can dread artist biopics; we seem to have had them all, both artists dying of neglect (so that we can tell ourselves we would have had the foresight to bring them comfort and money) or artists ruined by too much attention, like Basquiat and all other rock stars in every medium (surely we could have made them sober up). Séraphine’s story is unique. Firstly, it isn’t conventional—she wasn’t bought short and sold high, like Van Gogh. Uhde’s find seems ridiculously convenient: a gallery owner discovering that his chambermaid is a brilliant unschooled artist. Such was the man’s perception, though; the film doesn’t mention this, but Uhde’s first purchase of a Rousseau

was from a janitor who had bought it as a souvenir of his time in Paris: demonstrating both that Rousseau had qualities apparent even before he was praised by critics, and that Uhde had a common touch, enough to make the deal. Sensibly, Séraphine makes him neither the hero of the story nor a symbol of the art market that gives a painter just enough to live on and takes his soul. Provost takes an unsentimental view of Séraphine’s art; her raptures and her loose grip on sanity are closed off to us. It’s a private world we can watch from the outside and marvel at. Moreau inhabits this poor woman’s shell: it’s uncompromising, brawny acting. Provost provides a strong but not overstressed rhyme of this woman working in solitude with the life of this collector who had covert tendencies of his own. After the war separates artist and patron, Uhde returns to Senlis to see a display of local artists, and he glances quickly at the giftless amateurs; later, he is grimly amused by a provincial critic praising Séraphine’s work: the writer is a cracked-voiced singer trying to hit a high C. But Uhde doesn’t really have words for Séraphine’s art either; at one point, he stutters that it is “très, très belle.” The film gives us a good idea of the artist’s style: we see still lifes of round fruit chained together with tough-looking stems, or trees flaming

with fiery leaves. These are not comforting paintings; they have the febrile brightness of Van Gogh’s art after the madness got him. Séraphine de Senlis was trying for the effect of light through stained glass, but what she got, it seems, is something more like internal combustion or radiation. Even less comforting is the sparkling madwoman’s glint in Moreau’s eyes, smiling as she stands propping up her canvases. She’s modest but very wary, and a little dose of attention sets her off. This very good movie hasn’t received the attention it deserves in America. In France, Moreau won the César for best actress. Possibly the reason it doesn’t have the word of mouth it needs is because the film doesn’t traffic in the upbeat idea of artistic after-life. Provost doesn’t partake in Séraphine’s own religious raptures—it’s hard to feel for the passions of a woman who decides to vandalize a church on God’s orders. Provost’s reserve is as fascinating as Séraphine’s vibrancy. As Moreau acts it, and Provost tells it, the feeling Séraphine had for trees was like the feelings of those pre-Columbian artists who had no word for art. SÉRAPHINE (Unrated; 125 min.), directed by Martin Provost, written by Provost and Marc Abdelnour, photographed by Laurent Brunet and starring Yolande Moreau and Ulrich Tukur, opens July 17.

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The Hurt Locker (R; 131 min.) See review at left.

Il Viaggio a Reims A ďŹ lmed version from La Scala in Milan of the Rossini opera. (Plays Jul 15 at 7pm at Camera 7 in Campbell.) Moon (R; 97 min.) Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is a miner assigned to a three-year shift on the dark side of the moon. His only companion is a living computer named GERTY, with an emoticon face and measured, ambiguous voice by Kevin Spacey. Sam is counting the days until he gets to go home, but matters start to go wrong. Already, communications with the Earth (and with his beloved wife) are fritzing out, and he sees strange glimpses of another ďŹ gure through the station’s monitors. Director/writer Duncan Jones does bring home the moon on $5 million. He did this with old-fashioned ideas like the use of miniatures and a lunar set. But most of the ďŹ lm takes place insides a few rooms in a space station. Moon comes down to Rockwell acting by himself, when history has proven that

Rockwell is at his best as a sidekick. Some fans of the ďŹ lm argue that it’s not the technique or the derivative sourcing that matters, as much as what the ďŹ lm has to say about identity. It makes you wonder: how much science ďŹ ction do science ďŹ ction ďŹ lm fans read? Like all horror stories, Moon faces that terrible point where the audience says,“There must be a reasonable explanation for this.â€? Ultimately, Jones gives us the reasonable explanation, but he can’t supply a great ďŹ nal twist on a story that would have been deft at 60 minutes on The Outer Limits. (Plays at selected theaters.) (RvB) Outrage (Unrated; 90 min.) A documentary about closeted politicians, taking as its point of departure the wide-stanced Sen. Larry Craig and including a few other government noteworthies who were persecuting gay people by day and picking them up at night. Director Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) will be on hand for questions after the 6:50 and 9:15pm shows on Friday. (Opens Jul 17 at Camera 3 in San Jose.) SĂŠraphine (Unrated; 125 min.) See review on page 43.

Revivals 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) Employees Entrance/Taxi! (1933/1932) “My code is smash or be smashed!â€? Warren Beatty in the bedroom, and J. Montgomery Burns in the boardroom—that describes snazzy letch Warren Williams, “whose mean exterior concealed a meaner interiorâ€? (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 ďŹ rst place. BILLED WITH TAXI! James Cagney stars as an independent cab driver ďŹ ghting 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 15-16 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB/AR) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) Lowering skies gather around the conical towers of the school; in a lightless grove are the half-seen faces of a herd of centaurs, and a thick winter mist sifts through Hogwarts’ windowless, wooden covered bridge. The dithering, vindictive Ministry of Magic installs a bureaucrat to investigate the school, egged on by the gutter tabloids that are as much a blight of the magic world as they are of modern Britain. In comes Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), a corporal-punishment-loving cat fancier in pink, tufted wool suits; she possesses all the most unlovable qualities of Margaret Thatcher and Gertrude Himmelfarb. The power struggle between her and the magus Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) keeps the school divided. (Plays Jul 16 at sunset in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square; free; bring blankets and lawn chairs.) (RvB) I Walked With a Zombie/Isle of the Dead (1943) Producer Val Lewton shows you how to create fear out of shadows and a handful of actors. A Canadian nurse (Frances Dee) comes to the Caribbean island of San Sebastian as the caretaker for a woman rendered mindless— likely by a zombie curse. Director Jacques Tourneur establishes a mood of retribution, colonialism poisoning the colonizers, and it’s

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got nothing to do with “the natives” infecting the whites. Here are chickens come home to roost, as we see in the repeated shots of the Europeans’ totem: the figurehead of the first slave ship that they brought to the island (an arrow-riddled San Sebastian), now referred to by the islanders as “Ti [uncle] Misery.” Stars Tom Conway, George Sanders’ look-alike and act-alike brother, in the Rochester role and the imposing Darby Jones as the mute Carrefour. BILLED WITH Isle of the Dead. A brave, even existential film. A Greek general nicknamed “The Watchdog” (Boris Karloff) is mopping up after a bloody campaign in the Balkans war of 1912. At the suggestion of an American reporter named Davis (Marc Cramer), the two go to a nearby cemetery island. The film shifts into a standard haunted-house motif: the guests are stranded because of a septicemia plague outbreak, and they die one by one. One old woman, Madame Kira (Helen Thimig), believes that the real culprit is a “vorvolaka”— a vampire/succubus. The guests—and this part is much more like Camus’ The Plague—find solace against the possibility of death through their various faiths in medicine, personal will and God. The illustrious Karloff rarely had such deep material to work with. He’s first forced to believe in the uncanny, and then he’s broken by it. (Plays Jul 21-23 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

The Lady Eve/Double Indemnity (1941/1944) Essential viewing. Barbara Stanwyck’s two best films, in which she handily demonstrates why she was the most versatile actress of the studio system. In The Lady Eve, Henry Fonda plays the backward but filthy rich brewing scion “Hopsy” Pike (of Pike’s Pale—The Ale That Won for Yale). He has just returned from a year up the Amazon studying snakes. On the ship home, he encounters a card sharp named Eugenia “Jean” Harrington (Stanwyck). Distrust and commerce alike complicate perhaps the most purely chemical romance that golden age Hollywood gave us. Still the real strength of this movie is the way writer/director Preston Sturges orchestrates a symphony of comedic styles, from gusty slapstick to sarcasm to brilliantly elevated wordplay. What’s even more lovable is the film’s defiance of conventional morality in its motto: “The good girls aren’t as good as you think they are, and the bad ones aren’t as bad, not nearly as bad.” Stanwyck is, well, a poem—that level, uncoy gaze, that Brooklyn rasp filtered through layers of hard-bought breeding. BILLED WITH Double Indemnity, the deathless film version of James Cain’s steel-trap mystery novel in which a hustling insurance salesman outsmarts himself, a heartless blonde loses an unwanted husband, and a worn,

fatherly little troll almost figures the scam out. As a Southern California angel of death, Stanwyck excels in everything the role requires, from the salty dialogue to the serious-as-cancer underpinnings. Fred MacMurray is the perfect sucker who narrates the story from the edge of the grave; Edward G. Robinson plays his smart, sad boss, who gives him a light for a last shared cigarette. (Plays Jul 17-20 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) Niles Film Museum Regular programs of silent films. Jul 18: a program themed to compliment the Niles Dog Show: Teddy at the Throttle with Wallace Beery as a villainous swine trying to cheat young Gloria Swanson and her dog, Charley Chase in Dog Shy (1926), Harold Lloyd in From Hand to Mouth (1919), and Our Gang in Dog Heaven (1927). The last is essentially the film you’ve always wanted to see based on the poker-playing dogs tapestry, with Pete the Pup saved from committing suicide by a group of his fellow mongrels; they take him out for a drink later to settle his nerves. Only those really conversant with the mind-roasting strangeness of the Our Gang series will realize this is an actual synopsis. Bruce Loeb at the piano. (Plays Jul 18 at 7:30 in Fremont at the Edison Theater, 37417 Niles Blvd.) (RvB

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Romeo + Juliet (1996) Gaga ’90s excess: the first Shakespeare film to have 15 stuntmen, a transvestite Mercutio and the Butthole Surfers on the soundtrack. Tybalt (John Leguizamo, quivering like an indignant turkey) complains about Romeo crashing the gate “to fleer at our solemnity.” This, at a party a goat would fleer at. There, the virginal Juliet (Claire Danes) of the Capulets and young Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) of the Montagues hook up. Danes has the worst of it; DiCaprio, himself puffy from crying, seems too stricken by despair to put up a fight against his own family, let alone his beloved’s relations. With the sole exception of Pete Postlethwaite’s Father Laurence, no one has any idea of how to speak the lines. Baz Luhrmann’s crew created a unique Verona Beach out of a composite Mexico City and Veracruz, in which skyscrapers bear the corporate logos of Montague and Capulet. Demonstration before the film by Heroes Martial Arts. (Plays Jul 22 in San Jose at sundown at South First and William streets; bring lawn chairs and blankets; free; Part of the Starlight Cinema series.) (RvB)

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ONONUCLEOSIS protectionus! Such is the spell the students of Hogwarts need in this sixth go-round of the Harry Potter franchise, as an epidemic of snoggery leaves the student body with bruised feelings and chapped lips. He Who Is Not to Be Named is afoot but offscreen, hatching plots. Even the Muggles are starting to notice the war between good and evil, as in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’s bracing opening of a spectral terrorist attack on London. Hogwarts’ decay is showing, against lowering weather that looks like January in Iceland. The freezing cold must be responsible for the entropic diction of my personal hero, Severus Snape. His contempt for Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) is reaching absolute zero, and Alan Rickman shows this quality by talking as slowly as a character in an early sound film. The new potions professor, Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), holds in his memory a key conversation with the young Tom Riddle, later to become the Hitler of the world of magic. He refuses to divulge what he learned, either out of shame or pride. Broadbent, very good here, is highly covert, while trying to give an impression of jolliness and openness. Dumbledore (Michael Gambon), the magic-world’s Churchill, needs to know what Slughorn knows, but the world’s greatest wizard is starting to decay. After the series’ all-time high of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this is the best Potter. The wartime view of England—the row houses and twisted Whitechapel-like brick alleys—is comfortingly like film noir. Some will find this new Harry Potter a little lacking in CGI action, compared to the emphasis on shifting relationships. Like James Bond, Harry Potter isn’t an intrinsically interesting figure. It’s the world he inhabits that makes him fascinating. The clean, uncomplicated hero needed a little depth, and he gets some here, through an increased social life and some comedy. The main trio take up their spaces well; they don’t have to do anything to be amusing. Young Potter is now comfy enough with being called the Chosen One that he can joke about it (even if Emma Watson’s Hermoine gives him an whack on the head when he does). Rupert Grint is show-stealing in his perennial role as ginger-nut comedy relief, in this instance displaying the awkwardness of a man riding a broomstick. The college-level carryings on—the sex and the drugs, respectably disguised as snogging and potion-imbibing—are a welcome relief from previous tales of earnest berobed private-school kids. In this episode we get a sense of fresh, unrehearsed dialogue. There are, as always, characters one wants to know more about; Helena Bonham Carter’s evil Bellatrix and Evanna Lynch’s Luna Lovegood are but tiny-portioned side orders. Luna may be a weirdette, but she is by a long chalk the most interesting girl in that school, and sometimes one feels Harry is blind. The battles aren’t very thrilling. Director David Yates’ swamp fight uses conventional too-fast-to-see horror-movie cutting. I don’t go for the light show; what draws my interest is the parade of British thespians (Maggie Smith is holding up nicely) as well as the endless Gothic pile of Hogwarts with its innumerable secret rooms and half-forgotten magics—and in the dark, the wandcarrying wizards on patrol, like gunmen waiting for an intruder. Richard von Busack HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (PG; 153 min.), directed by David Yates, written by Steve Koves, based on the novel by J.K. Rowling, photographed by Bruno Delbonnel and starring Daniel Radcliffe, plays valleywide.

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AVING NOW wrapped up a first South American tour, the Emerson String Quartet’s cellist, David Finckel, spoke with us a little while ago by phone from Chile about the upcoming seventh season of Music@Menlo, the fabulous chamber music festival he co-directs with his pianist-wife Wu Han that opens this weekend. Asked to describe Santiago at the beginning of winter, he noted its Mediterranean climate, adding that it is “surrounded by snow-covered mountains—very dramatic!” “Being Mendelssohn” is the festival’s theme, in this bicentennial of the prodigiously gifted German composer’s birth, with all of his string quartets to be played by the Pacifica Quartet. While this is their debut at Music@Menlo, the quartet have maintained a long relationship and several collaborations with Finckel and Wu Han. “They made a landmark series of recordings of the Mendelssohn,” says Finckel of the Grammy- and Avery Fisher Career Grant–winning ensemble, adding, with avuncular pride, “We watched them grow up.” Numerous other Mendelssohn works are included, not least the two

great pianos trios for which Finckel and Emerson Quartet violinist Eugene Drucker will be joined by legendary pianist Menahem Pressler. “Being artistic director comes with certain perks,” explains Finckel. “I grabbed the opportunity to play the two trios with Pressler; how many cellists in the world can say that!” The last original member of the Beaux Arts Trio, Pressler, now 85, disbanded the group last summer, after a fivedecade career. “I heard their last concert,” says Finckel, commenting on Pressler’s irrepressible personality, “It was as though he was making his debut, so animated, so hungry.” While Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Brahms figure prominently, Finckel also glows over Pierre Jalbert, “a favorite contemporary.” New Hampshire born, with Quebec roots and now in his early 40s, Jalbert was brought to Finckel and Wu Han’s attention by Jeffrey Kahane, acclaimed pianist and conductor of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (and Music@ Menlo guest artist). “We’ve played and programmed his works at Lincoln Center,” says Finckel, who, with Wu Han, co-directs the Chamber Music Society there.

The award-winning Jalbert studied at the Curtis Institute and later with composer George Crumb. His Piano Trio of 1998 is among the festival’s 11 concert programs (several with repeat performances), 13 prelude performances, five young performers concerts and various multimedia and lecture programs and master classes. Many of the festival’s guest artists are eminent chamber music specialists. Oboist William Bennett, cellist Colin Carr, violinist Jorja Fleezanis, clarinetist Anthony McGill, violist Paul Neubauer, pianist Gilbert Kalish and flutist Carol Wincenc are some among a stellar cast of instrumentalists, with no small number of them welcome veterans of previous seasons. Also returning is the St. Lawrence String Quartet, which among other duties will join the Pacifica Quartet for Mendelssohn’s adolescent masterpiece, the Octet in E-flat of 1825. Much of the concert fare is drawn from the familiar chamber repertoire but with rare additions, like Louis Spohr’s Nonet in F for Strings, Winds and Piano (1813), Schubert’s Violin Sonata in A (1817) and Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet (1953). When you can’t get enough great

music, pounce first on conductor George Cleve’s Midsummer Mozart, opening Thursday in Santa Clara (with performances in San Francisco, Sonoma and Berkeley over the weekend). Yong Jean and Yong Sun Park are featured in the delightful Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat, while Maria Tamburrino plays the Flute Concerto in G. The overture La Clemenza di Tito and Symphony no. 35 (Haffner) complete the menu. The following week’s program (July 23 at the California Theatre in San Jose) returns soloist Seymour Lipkin for the Piano Concerto no. 19 in F, while David Sprung takes the spotlight in the Horn Concerto no. 3 in E-flat. Opening the program is the youthfully exuberant Symphony no. 29 in A, and Cleve will make sure the awesome Symphony no. 41 in C (Jupiter) will bring the festival to a thrilling conclusion. MUSIC@MENLO runs July 17–Aug. 8 in Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto. See www.musicatmenlo.org for details. MIDSUMMER MOZART runs July 16– 26, with concerts July 16 at 8pm at Mission Santa Clara and July 23 at 8pm at the California Theatre in San Jose. See www.midsummermozart.org for details.

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Reading Death HE UNCANNILY GOOD Australian writer Hal Porter—a strange morph of Dylan Thomas and Vincent Price—once observed that death is screamingly funny beyond words. Somehow Harold Schechter, a Brooklyn polymath who teaches English lit at CUNY, found the words. The Whole Death Catalog, which looks like a paperback nonbook, turns out to be just what it claims: a well-done study of mortality, with a wealth of citations. Schechter goes beyond pop, just as he goes beyond the obvious well-worn classics like Jessica Mitford’s The American Way of Death. Take mummiďŹ cation, for just one aspect of this study: Schechter digs up Herodotus’ own account of the ancient Egyptian funeral business and gives a guide to the do-it-yourself mummiďŹ er (“Leave heart in place to be weighed by Osiris in the afterlifeâ€?). For good measure, he discusses Utah resident Summum Bonum Amon Ra (nee Claude “Corkyâ€? Nowell), who offers the demised a Tut-like send off, complete with the linen wrapping. At one moment, Schechter describes KĂźbler-Ross’ stages, medieval poet William Dunbar, Antigone and Claudio from Measure for Measure mulling the terror of death; at another, he gives us good directions to the last resting place of the deathless stooge Curly Howard. (Imagine my happiness, too, when I learned that I had already visited four of the “Ten Cemeteries to See Before You Die.â€?) Other topics include the London Times obituary writer who observed that “convivialâ€? is the mot juste to use when describing a dead habitual drunkard. While reiterating the funeral industry’s underhanded attempts to get ’em while they’re weeping and weak, the author makes the comforting assertion that the Tall Man’s mortuary in the Phantasm series “is not an accurate depiction of the average American funeral home.â€?

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Richard von Busack The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End; by Harold Schechter; Ballantine Books; 320 pages; $18 paperback.

Tin Memories HE OTHER DAY, I watched in awe as a restored scarlet-red T-Bird from the late ’50s cruised by. In little more than 50 years, the chromed, ďŹ nned symbol of American manufacturing might has rolled into near irrelevancy, buffeted by gas prices, foreign competition and domestic complacency. Hybrids are the way of the future, but will they ever look like a vintage American land yacht again? Perhaps it is ďŹ tting that one of the best ways to hold on to the memory is through miniaturization. In the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, the Japanese toy industry created marvelous tinplate models of American cars. They are now as desirable (and in some cases, as expensive) as the real thing. Joe Earle’s Buriki: Japanese Tin Toys From the Golden Age of the American Automobile illustrates some of the best examples of Japanese “buriki,â€? or tinplate, from the shelves of collector Yoku Yanaka. The Japanese toy industry, a world player between the wars, was restarted soon after the American occupation, when toy designer Matsuzo Kosuge made a crude model of an American jeep. The toy immediately captured the attention of Japanese children, who were entranced by the GIs in their ubiquitous jeeps. In a few years, Japanese toys became more detailed, larger and feature-laden. In particular, the handsome, gleaming Cadillac sedans produced by Marusan set a high standard, with meticulously applied accents. They quickly outsold American toy cars, in a process that, as Earle points out, eerily predicted the time, a few decades on, when real Japanese cars would start to overtake their American counterparts. The lovingly photographed examples are the stuff that dreams are made off, including a motorized, cloud-gray Cadillac convertible, a fulsome 13 inches long; a ruby-red Buick twoseater; a shockingly blue Chrysler Windsor Deluxe with tin-litho chauffeur; a somewhat demure tan and oyster-white two-tone Lincoln Capri sedan; a Ford Fairlane hauling a blue and red streamlined “House Trailer,â€? complete with striped awning and circular windows— the 1958 Edsel Citation in orange with a pale celadon roof looks better than the real-life lemon. A few spiffy race cars and some fanciful space rockets are also included, but it is the cars—so tangible, so near and yet now so impossible—that are the most evocative. There is even a perfect red Thunderbird from 1956, every bit the equal of the original.

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Michael S. Gant BURIKI: JAPANESE TIN TOYS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE; by Joe Earle; Japan Society/Yale University Press; 96 pages; $19.95 paperback

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Ghost Stories

Mountain View’s Artemesia Black summon truly spirited music By Steve Palopoli

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HE duo behind Artemesia Black are as fascinated by the Winchester Mystery House as everybody else. “I actually wanted to get a job there when I first moved here,” says Sabine Heusler, an Australian transplant who settled in the South Bay last year. Meanwhile, Kenny Schick, who grew up in Mountain View, has been through it plenty of times. “I’ve always fantasized about, you know, drifting off from the pack, and then you’re on your own,” he says. The difference is that Heusler and Schick don’t just want to tour the Winchester Mystery House, or man the souvenir shop. They want to play there. It’s kind of a goal, even. In fact, they’d like to take their spookypretty acoustic songs—“alternative gothic swamp lullabies,” by their own reckoning—on a tour of historic houses across the country. It’s an idea that came up one day on a bike ride to Mountain View’s Rengstorff House, which beginning in the 1960s began to get a reputation for freaky supernatural activity. “I said, ‘Wouldn’t this be a great place to do a gig, and have people come dressed up?’” remembers Schick. The Historic House Fantasy Tour was born.

“Sabine’s music is perfect for it, too,” he says, “because a lot of these houses come with ghost stories.” And that’s exactly what Heusler writes for Artemesia Black—ghost stories. Not just for an occasional song here or there, but all of them. “Really, the whole thing is about ghosts,” says Heusler, “and people not being forgotten. I think my take on the whole ghost thing is that they’re just people. But a lot of people don’t realize the songs are about ghosts. “Her lyrics are cryptic enough that you might not know,” says Schick. Maybe not, but clues are likely to jump out to even the most casual listener. “You lost your head back in Spain, you blame me,” Heusler sings on “Rosie,” from Artemesia Black’s recent album. Or on “Maryjanes”: “They say I fell, they say I drowned or something.” For a woman who writes and sings ghost stories, what happens to the normally reserved Heusler onstage couldn’t be more apt. “Her first big show, I was like ‘What has gotten into her?’” says Schick. “I think I get possessed, actually,” she admits. “When I get onstage, I become someone else.” It’s taken a while for her to get to this point, though. For years, Heusler wrote songs only for herself,

and dreaded even telling anyone about their existence. She met Schick over the Internet in 2006, while he was planning a trip to Austrailia. After months of corresponding by email—including some marathon 10-hour writing sessions—she came clean about her musical output, and sent him a tape—as in, an actual cassette. Which wasn’t easy for her, since she knew that besides his work as a solo artist he’d played in dozens of bands here, including the somewhat legendary San Jose band Dot 3, and other popular Bay Area bands like Neosoreskin, the Brownies and Curveball. “I thought I put my foot in my mouth: ‘What did you tell him that for?’” she says. “I got the cassette in the mail,” Schick remembers, “and she had talked it down so much, I was expecting utter rubbish. And I have to be honest about everything. I waited two or three days to listen. It blew me away.” Finally, Schick traveled to her hometown of Melbourne, and they moved in together. When he had to return to the States to take care of his elderly father, she followed. They took Artemesia Black on the road for a 2 1/2 month tour of the United States that was difficult for Heusler, who was still getting over her stage jitters

and didn’t find noisy coffeehouses a great showcase for her music. When they got back, they decided to take a different approach, setting up events that provide a proper setting for acoustic music and room to indulge their theatrical, dark-carnival style. “I love going to see theatrical bands like the Dresden Dolls,” says Heusler. “I thought, I want to do something like that, something a little extra. I love the whole dressing up thing, I’ve always loved that.” The Theatre on San Pedro Square, where they’ll perform their first show with a full band on Friday, may not be the Winchester Mystery House, but it suits them. Though Schick’s background is in loud and heavy electric bands, he sees Artemesia Black fitting in with an acoustic scene that has allowed unplugged acts like Gillian Welsh and Iron and Wine to find huge audiences. These are the people they feel a connection to, and would love to play with. “And Nick Drake, of course,” says Heusler. “If his ghost would come back.” ARTEMESIA BLACK perform at Theatre on San Pedro Square, 29 N. San Pedro Street, on Friday (July 17) at 7pm. Hang Jones opens. Tickets are $12. (408.306.2356)

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IVjgjh (April 20–May 20): Cuckoo birds build no nests of their own. Instead, they rely on trickery to raise their young. The female cuckoo lays her eggs in the nest of a host whose eggs are similar in size and color. The host, often a sparrow, cares for the cuckoo’s eggs as her own, and usually rears the hatchlings until they reach maturity. Does this behavior ring a bell? I suspect that something analogous is unfolding in your world. I’m alerting you to the situation so that you will be fully informed as you decide how to proceed. (P.S. I’m not saying this is a bad thing; just want you to acknowledge the truth.) <Zb^c^ (May 21–June 20): I hate to admit it, but love is not always enough to solve every problem. On some occasions you need love, clever insights, strategic maneuvers and fierce determination. In my astrological opinion, this is one of those times. Take a moment right now to shush the grumbling dialogue you keep having with yourself about what’s fair and what you deserve. Save all that mental energy for the work of fighting like hell for the fair share you deserve. Oh, and while you’re fighting like hell, don’t forget to be as strategic as Gandhi, as loving as Einstein, and as fiercely determined as Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Sarah Silverman combined.

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8VcXZg ( June 21–July 22): I invite you to write down brief descriptions of the five most pleasurable moments you’ve ever experienced in your life. Let your imagination dwell lovingly on these memories for, say, 20 minutes. And keep them close to the surface of your awareness in the week ahead. If you ever catch yourself slipping into a negative train of thought, interrupt it immediately and compel yourself to fantasize about those Big Five Ecstatic Moments. This exercise will be an excellent way to prime yourself for a New Age of Unhurried Bliss and Gentle Beauty, which I predict is just ahead for you. If you can keep the morose part of your mind quiet, there’s a good chance you will stir up a new ecstatic experience that will belong near the top of your all-time list. AZd ( July 23–Aug. 22): Welcome to your

aromatherapy workshop, Leo. We’ll be using imaginary scents because, frankly, sometimes fantasy yields better results than the real thing. (Especially for you right now; keep that in mind as you deal with other situations in your life.) For your first exercise, imagine the aromas of eucalyptus and vinegar. That’ll clear your head of static, creating a nice big empty space for your fresh assignment to come pouring in from the future. Next, imagine the fragrance of hot buttered popcorn. It will make you more receptive to the outside help that has been trying and trying and trying to attract your attention. Have you ever taken a new computer out of the box? Remember that smell? Simulate it now. In your subconscious mind, it will awaken the expectation that the next chapter of your life story is about to begin.

K^g\d (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): O ye of little faith: Do ye not understand that the events of mid-July through mid-August of 2009 are but the fruition of seeds ye planted in September, October and November of last year? Do not thank or blame the gods, but only thyself, for the destiny that is upon ye. Now please prepare to assume thy new goodies and perks, O favored one, as well as thy new temptations and headaches, with full knowledge that ye are receiving the exact rewards and responsibilities ye earned many months ago.

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A^WgV (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Sometimes this job of mine grinds me down with a heavy sense of responsibility. Am I doing the right thing by divulging so many cosmic secrets? Do people use my advice in good ways? This week I’m especially tormented. Would it be ethical of me to reveal that you could dig a hot tip out of a wastebasket, or that you could prosper because of someone else’s foolishness? Or how about if I disclosed that

you’ve temporarily acquired a dicey edge over a competitor who’s previously kicked your butt? And would it be mean of me to suggest that you shouldn’t share a vast idea with a half-vast person? I guess I’ll just have to trust that you’ll show maximum integrity in using all of this inside dope.

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exaggerated respect for warped chunks of complications. Here comes an opportunity to make a break for bubbly freedom. To take advantage, Scorpio, you’ll need to travel much lighter. So please peel off your armor. Wipe that forty-pound sneer of doubt off your face. Bury your brokendown theories by the side of the path, and donate all your unnecessary props to the birds and the bees. Strip down, in other words, to the bare minimum. Where you’re going all you’ll need are your good looks and a big fresh attitude.

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hanging, Sagittarius. What happens next? How could you even imagine you’ve wrapped the whole thing up? According to my analysis, you’ve got at least one more riddle to solve, one more gift to negotiate, one more scar to wish upon. (Yes, that says “scar,” not “star.”) To stop pushing for more adventure at this pregnant moment would be a crime against nature and a whole chapter short of a bestseller. Get out there and bring this story home.

8Veg^Xdgc (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): It makes me

famished just to think of you there stewing in your hunger. You almost remind me of a bear that’s just awoken from hibernation or a political prisoner who’s been on a hunger strike. And yet I know it’s not a craving for food that you’re suffering from. It’s not even an impossible yearning for sex or fame or power or money, either. You’re starving, you’re ravenous, you’re mad for something you don’t have a name for—something whose existence you don’t fully understand and can’t quite imagine. But I predict you’ll uncover a fuller truth about this thing very soon, and then you’ll be more than halfway toward gratifying your hunger.

6fjVg^jh ( Jan. 20–Feb. 18): If I were your daddy,

I’d take you mountain—climbing or buy you a three-week intensive class in the foreign tongue of your choice. If I were your president, I’d give you a Purple Heart for your undercover heroism and make you ambassador to Italy. If I were your therapist, I’d send you on a pilgrimage to a sanctuary where everyone means exactly what they say. But I’m merely your five-minutes-a-week consultant, so all I can really do is say, “Escape the cramped quarters of your own mind. Slip away from the corners you’ve been backed into. Stop telling the convoluted stories you’ve concocted to rationalize why you should be afraid. Get out of the loop and escape into the big, fresh places that will rejuvenate your eyes and heart.”

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less could go wrong. That’s not a credible argument. Italy had plenty of computers but its Y2K effort lagged; despite this, its problems were no worse than elsewhere. • Great anxiety was expressed about the millions of individuals and enterprises relying on personal computers, but few problems turned up. Two things may account for this. First, PCs are replaced frequently, and Microsoft software was largely Y2Kcompliant by 1997. Y2K audits of PCs typically found few problems in machines dating from 1997 on. Conceivably those few might have included some critical applications, except for the second factor, which I offer in all seriousness: Windows is so notoriously unreliable that no one would ever build a lifeor-death system around it. • Another concern was the embedded microchips built into cars, medical devices, etc. Of the 7 to 25 billion such chips worldwide, initial estimates suggested 2 to 3 percent might fail. By late 1999 the risk had been downgraded to 0.001 percent, and even that was likely high. A review of commercial aircraft found no essential systems were date-sensitive. Still, while all this is obvious now, it wasn’t obvious at the start. Some contend much Y2K expenditure was simply an effort to fend off litigation. That may be true, but so what? Would you want to be the bean counter whose attempts to economize let the nuclear missiles accidentally launch? You can make the argument that after a year or so of intensive work—by late 1998, say—it should have been clear that the worst fears were unjustified and that remediation could be throttled back. But it was only money, a lot of the systems and software were due for revamp anyway, and really, who knew? Are your insurance premiums wasted if your house doesn’t burn down?

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