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Cover Silicon Valley’s Weekly Newspaper

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[06] LETTERS

AUGUST 12-18, 2009 M E T R O S I L I C O N VA L L E Y

BY TOM TOMORROW

The Nose Knows I am so proud (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sensorium,â&#x20AC;?

Wine Column, Jul 29). This is Jeff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, and I know he will be embarrassed because I am writing this letter. I am still so proud. Jeff has always followed his bliss, and winemaking is on the top of his list. Once I was told by an investor at Clos Las Chance that he loved to watch Jeff work because you could tell he enjoyed it so! He was called â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Noseâ&#x20AC;? while getting his degree at Davis. I could go on and on; will stop for now.

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Oh yeah, you have the Botox and strip-club ads, but you would rather be shaking hands with Dick Cheney and waterboarding Cindy Chavez and Philip Bump.

Don Ricker Scotts Valley

There is more to this than San Jose Revealed. Working Partnerships seems to exist primarily to pay the salaries of union political operatives. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ ne if Working Partnerships wants to exist as a political action committee. But they want to exist as a 501(c)3, take a big tax deduction and advertise themselves as a charity.

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Greg Perry San Jose

John Azevedo (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Hack,â&#x20AC;?

Letters, July 22, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sarah vs. the Blogosphere,â&#x20AC;? Metro News, July 8) misses the whole point on where Sarah Palin went wrong. I have a question for those who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see anything wrong with what she did in â&#x20AC;&#x153;quittingâ&#x20AC;? her office. Where are we going to be if elected officials decide to resign their office just because they think they would be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;lame duckâ&#x20AC;??

Officials elected to two-, four- or six-year terms are elected for those terms for a reasonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the voters donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t

want someone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to just up and walk away when they are unhappy. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even like recall elections. She quit on her supporters and the people of Alaska, plain and simple. Hopefully, she will never be elected to higher office ever again.

Lynda Martinez San Jose

Big Slur I was surprised to see Amy Alkon declare her hostility to a slur-free society in Metro (The Advice Goddess, Aug. 5) by her vivid hate caricature of a blue-collar worker as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the paunchy Polish janitor with the exposed butt crack.â&#x20AC;? This purely imaginary image combines national origin bigotry (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Polish janitorâ&#x20AC;?) and her supremacy claim to describe blue-collar workers (â&#x20AC;&#x153;exposed butt crackâ&#x20AC;?).

Mockery of blue-collar workers in this way would have been unthinkable before 1970, but since Norman Lear invented the wholly imaginary Archie Bunker in January 1971, the urban-coastal class in the corporate entertainment culture has wallowed in this kind of bigotry and supremacy. It needs to stop, and we call on Metroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Amy Alkon to sincerely apologize for her hate caricature of blue-collar workers.

Dale Warner San Jose

J!Tbxzpv Messy Madeleines I saw you, parents, at the coffee shop where I work in San Jose.

You came in with your small child in a stroller and bought two madeleines with your coffees. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how you attempted to feed the cookies to your child, but it would surprise me if any of it was actually eaten. I came around the counter to wipe off the table after you left and found at least two madeleinesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; worth of crumbs strewn all over the table, chairs and about a 4-foot radius on the ďŹ&#x201A;oor around the table. I would be very embarrassed to make such a mess in a public place, and the least you could have done would be to have told me, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sorry about the mess,â&#x20AC;? or, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You might want to wipe up over there.â&#x20AC;? I have noticed that the people who make the biggest messes are people with small children.

These are also the people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bye!â&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank you!â&#x20AC;? when they leave, they sort of sneak out and try not to be seen leaving. People, if you think your kids arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t paying attention, and that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do as you say and not as you do, think again. Enjoy cleaning up after your children, who are learning from you that making a mess and not cleaning it up is the way to be.

SEND US your anonymous rants, raves, gripes and diatribes about your co-workers, bosses, enemies or any badly behaving citizen who rankles your ireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or about citizens you admire. Send to: I SAW YOU, Metro, 550 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email to isawyou@metronews.com.

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[08] SILICON ALLEYS

AUGUST 12-18, 2009 M E T R O S I L I C O N VA L L E Y

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AST WEEKEND, the anti-man-about-town returned from a much-needed slumber and forged a pathway through a superior First Friday event in downtown San Jose. By now, most folks already know about the South First Fridays art walks in the SoFA District, but last Friday, the entire shebang meshed with the opening night of the San Jose Jazz Festival, providing some extra special oomph for the throngs who showed up. The “Jazz Beyond” stage occupied First Street just south of San Carlos, anchoring an urban do-it-yourself street market, which, in turn, anchored the First Friday event.

This time around, almost all of the dozen galleries and spaces presented new shows for the occasion. Anno Domini featured “Walking in the White,” a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Pjota. Over at WORKS/San Jose, a show in collaboration with the CADRE Lab for New Media at SJSU, titled “Polar Identity,” opened, featuring several international artists. One of those artists, Phil Boissonnet of Montreal, was on hand.

The Art Glass Center of San Jose, a brand-spanking-new player on the scene, featured a live glass-blowing demonstration by Lionel Chapital. Another show, “Make a Jazz Noise Here,” opened at the SLG Art Boutiki & Gallery, a comic book shop/art space right where Market and First Street converge. The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art premiered a solo exhibit, “Christel Dillbohner: Ice Floe,” featuring a large-scale installation, plus multimedia prints and paintings—all referencing the melting glaciers of the Arctic and Antarctic regions.

Right smack in the middle of all the activity, Jose Arenas debuted A Place in Mind, a largescale mural all along the side of the old Cactus Club building, facing the parking lot at the corner of First and San Salvador streets. Sponsored by 1stACT Silicon Valley, the mural conceptually depicts Arenas’ life growing up in downtown San Jose. Even better, the entire night’s events were streamed live over the World Wide Web from four different places: Anno Domini, KALEID Gallery, ICA and WORKS/San Jose. Many jazz festival patrons migrated on over and brought an entire new dimension to the First Friday experience.

The “Jazz Beyond” stage featured a rare San Jose appearance of MIDIval PunditZ and Karsh Kale, East Indian electronica legends that both recently graced the cover of the India version of Rolling Stone. Their sound fuses an East/West combo of international electronica, global pop, Indian folk and neoclassical with modern-day songwriting and some killer tabla playing. It definitely makes one contemplate: Here’s another scene— South Asian electronica—that should absolutely thrive in San Jose, rather than having everyone drive to San I’m not that girl Francisco, Sunnyvale or Fremont. from ‘Freaky Friday’ The street market featured half of a anymore. city block’s worth of local independent —Lindsay Lohan artists and retailers peddling their wares, everything from comic books to jazz LPs, from glass art to urban design. And since KFJC-FM (89.7) at Foothill College is celebrating its 50th anniversary all throughout 2009, that station has recently thrown itself into the goings-on of the First Friday affairs, while also sponsoring similar activities like the recent SubZERO festival. Not trying to target any one particular market segment and grind on it forever and ever, KFJC has for years offered the most musically adventurous selection of folks ever assembled at any one college station anywhere around these parts. Quite a few DJs have been there for more than 20 years.

Thus a metropolitan nighttime bohemian art scene, one that functions just fine by itself, actually transformed into another tentacle of the Jazz Festival, proving that maybe all these institutions can actually collaborate without being at each other’s throats half the time. Over at Downtown Yoga Shala—a more tranquil pit stop for First Friday gallery nomads—the anti-man-about-town continued to freeload glass after glass of ginger tea while taking in some yoga-inspired artwork. “You come in here and you just immediately feel relaxed,” owner Veronica told him.

What did you see at First Fridays? SiliconAlleys@metronews.com

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Tony West, a Bellarmine Prep/ Harvard/Stanford Law grad and former lawyer with the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office, is now Obama’s assistant attorney general, heading the Civil Division.

Ann Ravel, another former county counsel, has been confirmed as deputy assistant attorney general for the Torts Branch and the Office of Consumer Litigation.

The president has given particular attention to Stanford University, appointing several faculty members to his presidential Transition team, which convened during the run-up to his inauguration to help transition Obama’s ideals and promises into working policies. Stanford professors Michael McFaul and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall participated on the team as advisers in national security matters. Law professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar served on the Transition team’s Immigration Policy Working Group, and business professor Peter Blair Henry served as an expert on international lending. Professor of education Linda Darling-Hammond joined the Transition team as head of the Education Policy Working Group.

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have merged and assumed critical mass: technology, biotechnology and green technology. These regions, says Shoven, will prove essential to the ways in which Obama addresses national and international affairs over the next four—perhaps eight—years.

“These are three main components of the valley and all areas that Obama is interested in,” says Shoven, who notes that Obama’s attention on Silicon Valley is nothing new in terms of presidential appointments. “It’s a very important concentration of talent here.”

The list of locals gone to Washington is long. John Thompson, CEO of the Cupertino software company Symantec, is now acting as the nation’s Commerce Secretary. Oracle president Chuck Phillips and Kleiner-Perkins’ venture capitalist John Doerr both serve on the Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Leon Panetta, a graduate of Santa Clara Law, is head of the CIA. Martha Kanter, chancellor of the Foothill–De Anza Community College District, has been confirmed as undersecretary of education. Never before has a chancellor of a community college

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Previous presidents have tapped Silicon Valley for its expertise.

David Packard took a post as the deputy secretary of defense for the Nixon administration. Leon Panetta was Bill Clinton’s chief of staff. And during his campaign, John McCain appointed Stanford macroeconomist John Taylor as a chief economic adviser. And there are others.

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Guardino, president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a consortium of more than 300 CEOs. “Obama has just raised the bar, and it’s very encouraging to see this trend continue.”

Guardino is hardly surprised that Obama would look to the valley for his administration’s brainpower.

“This is a president who is known for being cerebral, and it seems natural to turn to a valley known for some of the sharpest brains in the world,” Guardino says. “People here want to do well, and that is very much in line with the goals of our new president.”

Supervisor Don Gage of District 1 also thinks the administration’s attention on Silicon Valley is only natural. “We are the global leader of technology,” Gage says. “The valley is also 20 percent of the California economy. And many businesses here are international, which makes us a direct link to the world and very important for the future of the United States.”

President Obama has also drawn from more modest tiers of education. The confirmed appointment of Kanter as undersecretary of education underscores the president’s goals of boosting the importance of two-year schools, a plan outlined in his Community College Initiative, which he announced in mid-July.

True to the mission, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, confirmed as such on Jan. 20, has called education “the only sure path out of poverty and the only way to achieve a more equal and just society.”

Kanter will be serving a step beneath Duncan. In turn, she has taken Hal Plotkin, a member of the Board of Trustees of local community colleges, along to Washington to serve as her Senior Policy Advisor.

(Plotkin is also a former Metro writer.)

Plotkin says Team Obama is a tech-savvy bunch.

“I’ve been very impressed by the sophistication of the people already here,” he says. “The entire administration is populated with people very comfortable with social networking tools, who use them in their lives, who swim in these waters.

Technology was the nucleus of the Obama campaign.”

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She predicts that the next four years will see great improvements in early-childhoodlearning programs, college accessibility, and relevance of upper division majors to the current economy and job market—all regions, she says, that president Bush neglected to assist.

Stanford professor of geophysics Marcia McNutt, meanwhile, is just beginning a term in Washington, D.C. Also the exdirector of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, McNutt has been appointed by the president as Director of the United States Geological Survey. (She has been instructed not to comment to the media until after her confirmation.)

Obama was not the first president to look to Stanford for human intelligence.

During the Clinton years, Cuellar served from 1997 to 1999 as senior advisor to the undersecretary for enforcement at the U.S. Treasury Department. And in 2005, George W. Bush appointed Gregory Slayton, CEO of ClickAction in Palo Alto and an occasional Stanford business lecturer, as U.S. Consul General (after Slayton donated more than $300,000 to Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns). Bush also appointed Stanford’s Edward Lazear as chief economic advisor.

technology from Silicon Valley. The “sorry state of the nation’s medical records,” too, will likely be cleaned up and managed via information technology programs, Diamond says.

Unhooking the nation from dependence on foreign oil, developing renewable energy technology and cleaner vehicles, advancing information technology, making education a right and not a privilege: These and other goals of the Obama administration have drawn the president’s attention to local leaders. At Stanford, Shoven feels that the nation will reap most of the benefits of the valley’s brainpower.

‘This is a president who is known for being cerebral, and it seems natural to turn to a valley known for some of the sharpest brains in the world’

To Larry Diamond, senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institute, the president’s attention on the valley’s technological and intellectual prowess makes perfect sense given the role that information technology played in Obama’s campaign.

Obama would not have won the election, says Diamond, without media applications like text messaging and blogging. Now, from the helm of the nation, Obama will continue to apply technological innovations as tools for addressing some of the world’s most pressing issues, Diamond says.

Climate change is likely to be combated through the use of renewable energy

“All these people assume the nation’s interest when they take jobs like these,” Shoven says. “If you’re an academic at Stanford, and you get appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency, you immediately take a national approach, and maybe even a global one.”

But Diamond believes that, for all the expertise that they bestow on presidential politics, Silicon Valley leaders are ramping up impressive repertoires of intelligence through experience in national and foreign affairs which they will eventually bring back home, enhancing the local economy and community.

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From paper ice floes at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art to neon nature at the Headlands: Is the new eco-art trend a mere fad or a sturdy critique that’s here to stay?

By Gretchen Giles KATIE KURTZ is really worried. She has good reason to be.

So do the rest of us. “Polar bears are eating other polar bears!” she exclaims. “That’s never happened before.” It is detestable to have to literally spell it out, but polar bears of course are eating other polar bears not because they have suddenly developed a heady taste for cannibalism but because the ice that has supported their species for the millennia is thinning, melting and disappearing.

And when our most “charismatic” animals are threatened with extinction and we still do almost nothing to save them, the ground is disappearing beneath our own feet as well.

So it’s no small topic that has brought Kurtz out to a Bay Area coffee shop on an unseasonably mild August day. It’s the polar bears, the hurricanes, the triple-digit temperatures recorded last month in Seattle. It’s global warming, climate change and environmental destruction. While scientists, politicians, corporate heads and Al Gore discuss climate change, Kurtz believes that it’s the artist’s job to comment upon it.

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ECO-ART 17 To that end, Kurtz proposes a whole new realm of critical theory through which to evaluate and interpret modern art, dubbing it visual eco-criticism. Already an accepted practice in literary circles, visual eco-criticism questions how nature and the environment are depicted in both artworks and the media; analyses art—even that which wasn’t created with, say, climate change in mind—through the prism of global concerns; questions the role of class, gender, race and sexuality in an environmental context; encourages artists to engage with activists in their work; and examines even the “footprint” of the artwork: the sustainability of the materials used, their toxicity, their possible longevity in the atmosphere.

Marin County’s Headlands Center for the Arts has organized a panel on the topic slated for Aug. 16. Joining Kurtz will be photographer Barry Underwood, sculptor and painter Christel Dillbohner and sculptor Christine Lee. Adding tension to the event is that Headlands program director Jessica Brier chose the artists, not Kurtz, and two of them don’t identify themselves as eco-artists in the slightest.

While Lee uses cast-off wooden shims and abandoned phone books in her constructions, Dillbohner and Underwood just kind of do their thing—she by massing painted paper cones in palpable formation and painting mysterious encaustic landscapes; he by illuminating pristine outdoor environments with lavishly unnatural light. Both reflect the outside world but neither are willing for a new mantle to be placed upon them.

“Barry was interesting because he wasn’t a good fit, and I’m interested in how a panel discussion that actually puts artists in the same room who disagree and come at this from different angles might work,” Brier says. “Christel has really taken Katie to task on very specific points and doesn’t want to be pigeon-holed by this definition.”

Certainly, it’s natural for a person who makes his or her living through creative pursuits to shy away from neat slots and tidy summations. Proposing a whole new critical theory is fairly bold, particularly for a new graduate. But what really begins to emerge from discussion with several art-makers and professionals is where eco-art—the Big Green (as in money) of the Now—actually finds a foothold. And furthermore, is it an enduring trend that will mark this century or merely a shortterm panicked fad?

Mute Beauty Standing in the side gallery of the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art last week, Dillbohner oversees the installation of her newest one-person exhibit, Ice Floe. A native of Cologne, Germany, she instructs the young man assisting her in a softly accented voice as he creates shadows.

“I don’t see myself as an environmental artist,” Dillbohner explains, taking a break from the installation. “I see myself more as a human being in the world, and there are many things that we have to consider, including personal history and collective understanding. The human being in this world is in a certain phase.”

That Dillbohner is not an “eco-artist” by her own definition does not imply that she is unaware of greenhouse gas emissions and the plight of the polar bear. For Ice Floe, she has filled the ICA’s gallery with some 1,500 paper filters, cones ordinarily purchased at paint stores, which she sees as an apt metaphor for the corpus.

While scientists, politicians, corporate heads and Al Gore discuss climate change, Kurtz believes that it’s the artist’s job to comment upon it “I started using the filter as a symbol for the human body,” she explains. “We take things in and filter them out, the residue gives us energy, and, in many ways, this is the basis for making decisions, for having a life, for taking action.”

Unlike a more traditional eco-artist, Dillbohner became interested in the far north for much the same reasons that Admiral Peary may have: its still, mute beauty.

“I had been reading a lot of explorers, naturalists and writers about the arctic,” she says. “I was really intrigued by the idea that the people who came over the Bering Strait stayed. Why? It must be so amazing there that they simply stopped.”

Dillbohner is not prone to pat answers, preferring to ask questions. “What does global warming even mean?” she asks. “We feel incompetent to deal with the reality of it. As people, we have to take the power back and think about what we can do in a small scale that spreads out into the collective. Is there a future? I don’t know.

We can only think as individuals.”

Barry Underwood considers his photography to be “theater,” explaining that when he takes his lights and camera 20

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MIDCAREER ARTIST with a long activist history stretching back to the nuclear power demonstrations of the late 1970s, the aftermath of Chernobyl and even the horror of the Holocaust, Christel Dillbohner connects with world events in a way that seeks to address the individual.

Having amassed thousands of paper filters of all hues in her Berkeley studio, Dillbohner uses them as a palette, choosing different color schemes for each project. Her installations are collaborative, requiring the input of San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art staff to help her best use the space allotted. Dillbohner’s cones are dipped in a mixture of paint, water and linseed oil and then hand-waxed to harden.

For Ice Floe, she has chosen a palette of cool blues and greens to highlight the frigid glacial hues of the arctic, with sulphurous yellows placed carefully about to reflect a growing heat. The cones hang from the ceiling forming, Dillbohner suggests, a threedimensional “painting” that one can walk through and around. The first cone hung is akin to the first mark made on a canvas and the installation evolves from there.

Unusual for her, she has heaped piles of the cones on the floor to mimic glacial chunks woefully breaking off; usually all of her cones are suspended. On an adjacent wall, a multipanel encaustic work suggest arctic travel in a deeply cryptic and personal way. Another room is filled with the monoprint work she has done while in residence at the ICA, symbols and recurring patterns that, like all of Dillbohner’s work, seeps slowly into the viewer’s consciousness and lodges there until it almost seems as though one has conceived the work in one’s own head.

ICA has entered into an interesting partnership with the Headlands Center, according to Headlands program director Jessica Brier. Currently exhibiting at the SJICA is “Next/New,” the institute’s biannual emerging artist show. Both Misako Inaoka and Colette Campbell-Jones are former artists in residence at the Headlands. “It seems to us that creative partnerships like this one are both a smart response to the economic times we’re in as well as a way to enrich content for our audiences,” says Brier.

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Interviewed over Skype from the Headlands Center, where he is an artist in residence, Underwood says, “It’s kind of heightening or falsifying the documentation of photography, it speaks within that vernacular, that subjective documentation.” In other words, photographer Barry Underwood is interested in photography—not eco-art.

“I think that you have to be aware of things that are around you,” he explains, reminding that “there are things out there to be photographed; you just have to be open to them and observant to them.” He allows: “That’s where I would play into the realm of visual eco-criticism.”

Sculptor Ned Kahn doesn’t flinch at the term “eco-artist” or the idea of visual eco-criticism. The MacArthur Genius award winner works with physics, allowing unseen phenomena to activate his work, creating vortices that water whirls rapidly

through, hanging metal discs that are flirted with by the wind. Speaking by phone from his Sebastopol studio, Kahn says flatly, “I feel that in light of the current climate change, it’s nonoptional not to do useful things.”

As his career has flourished, Kahn has become increasingly involved with architects and in solving problems for green building projects, recently working on a $24 billion resort in Singapore—a country with daily precipitation and no reservoirs—to collect rainwater on the roof and circulate it through the complex in an artful and sustainable way.

Being Ned Kahn means knowing a lot of scientists, and that often means knowing more than he might like.

“I have a friend who’s an amazing physicist and he goes around giving this lecture that there’s no hope,” Kahn says with a short laugh. “In order for climate change to be reversed, you’d have to completely retool all the economies of the world and it would have to happen now.

It would require such a massive redoing of society and the way we all live that there’s just no way it’s going to happen. After hearing his two-hour lecture, you just want to go out and kill yourself.

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Selling off his family’s holdings lot by lot to suburban sprawl outside of Phoenix, Moore finally aped the mess by obtaining blueprints to the newest housing subdivision adjacent to his property and planting his own fields exactly to its specifications. Black rye outlined the asphalt streets, red rye, the rooftops, and so on.

Moore is nothing if not pragmatic; come harvest time, he simply disked it, as all farmers must. He’s currently working on a Rube Goldberg–esque conveyor belt for the city of Pasadena that is placed in a long-vacant lot and shoots out lettuce starts at regular intervals onto the street through the lot’s chain-link fence. “It’s overdone and elaborate and ridiculous, which is how I feel about the conventional agricultural system,” Moore, who grows both conventional and organic produce, explains by phone from his Arizona home.

Moore doesn’t hesitate to identify himself as an eco-artist, one whose work can readily withstand the rigors of a new critical theory. “I think that, at this point, if you’re not in the eco-art game, you’re completely naïve,” he says.

But the term does raise its own set of questions. “I’ve done things where I’ve used materials I shouldn’t have, like Mylar to evoke water in the desert,” he admits, listing the rhetoric that accompanies the decision: “Is the message strong enough to require using that material? Are there any biodegradable materials that could have been used instead? If so, what’s the cost of those materials? In a purely material consideration, that’s not even conceptually thinking about what you’re saying with the materials you use. I think that you can go on and on and on.”

Ultimately, Moore worries that ecoart, even with its own fancy new theory, could be nothing more than a fad. “The art world is a very fickle thing,” he says.

“There’s always the worry that this will go away or that people will be tired of it, like the overtly political work of the 1980s.

People really reacted horribly to that. Any sort of artwork now has to be very subtle.

You don’t want to give people answers.

The more successful work now is asking questions. Then your work can function across disciplines.”

Sam Bower oversees the online greenmuseum.org, a virtual kunsthalle that

operates out of Corte Madera but serves the world. With no physical presence, the greenmuseum already saves on its carbon footprint. Bower’s not too concerned about eco-art and its accompanying critical theory being flash-in-the-pan ideas.

“I think that our challenge in a larger sense is to direct the culture to find ways of drawing a larger, deeper, shift towards sustainability,” he says. “And it will involve some aspects that are faddish and shortlived and others that are much deeper and more profound.”

That Christel Dillbohner is not an “eco-artist” by her own definition does not imply that she is unaware of greenhouse gas emissions and the plight of the polar bear Bower encourages the dialogue to go beyond those with opposable thumbs.

“We need to begin to look at art from a nonhuman perspective,” he says.

“Fundamentally, if we’re really talking about things that are supposed to help the earth, we need to look at art that the worms and the watershed would appreciate,” he says.

“I really see the ultimate challenge for this century is to begin to look beyond the concept of what art is and do beautiful, elegant art in ways that is culturally rich and delicious.”

Moore, who describes his farming practices as placing him in both the devil and angel camps, gets the last word. “Art is about naming things, and we’ve been in a long stretch of not being able to name anything,” he says.

“It doesn’t matter what your work is called as long as it’s moving us all forward.”

KATIE KURTZ leads a panel discussion on visual eco-criticism with Barry Underwood, Christel Dillbohner and Christine Lee on Sunday (Aug. 16), 4–6pm, at Headlands Center for the Arts, 944 Ft. Barry, east wing, bldg. 944, Sausalito. $10 nonmembers. (415.331.2787)

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AKING A CUE from James Bond, men’s fashion is seeing a resurgence of the dandy dinner jacket this summer. By mixing the levels of formality of men’s suiting, the current interpretation of this look pairs classically formal tuxedo elements with more causal attire. Designers are matching rolled-up slacks, open-collared shirts and driving shoes with shiny jackets made of satin or silk, some even sporting subtle floral patterns. Shawl collars, the most classic, conservative collars for a dinner or tuxedo jacket, are also seeing a resurgence, along with fancy peaked and satin notched lapels.

Men have two options: buy individually or buy a full suit and mix and match pieces depending on the occasion. When buying a jacket by itself, vintage shops are a great option, because their items tend to be sold individually and are lower in price.

If one wants to make an investment and purchase a full dinner suit, keep in mind that suits bought off the rack tend to be somewhat bulky, in which case tailoring is a great option to get the modern, slim cut that is essential to this season’s look.

The most important thing to remember when shopping for a suit is to pay attention to the jacket’s shoulders, because they are the only part of the outfit that really can’t be changed. The way to know if the shoulder of a jacket fits correctly is to put one’s arms to the side and lean a shoulder against a wall. If the shoulder pad touches the wall before the arm does, the jacket is too big. The jacket’s shoulder should follow the form of the arm, and the only way for a tailor to fix this is to open up and cut the shoulder pad itself, which will send alteration prices sky high.

In addition, the fit of the modern dinner jacket should be tight but not skin tight. The body of a dinner jacket should fit pretty well right off the rack, perhaps a tiny bit too big around the waist so a tailor can take in the darts in front, which is generally pretty inexpensive. The jacket’s fabric should sit against the body, but it shouldn’t hug it, and the area around the closing buttons shouldn’t crease or look like it is straining.

As for the elusive patterned dinner jacket, the rule is to mix no more than two patterns with one solid. More patterns will make the outfit look muddy. If a man is going to wear a patterned jacket with a patterned tie, he needs a solid-colored shirt to go with it to provide a break between the two designs so they don’t clash.

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Bangaloreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spicy bisibelebath is one of the best versions of the southwest Indian specialties Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had. The creamy richness of the lentil and rice dish hits you ďŹ rst and is followed by a long, simmering spiciness and the discrete pop from tiny mustard seeds. And I love vada pav, a small spiced potatocake sandwich served on great crusty bread with tamarind and mint sauces for dipping.

But Bangalore Cafe also happens to be the home of Real Ice Cream, purveyor of supremely delicious Indian ice cream and kuďŹ&#x201A;i. Cheap and delicious Indian food plus thick and rich (but egg-free) ice cream? I could easily come here once a week every week. But in spite of the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culinary riches, Bangalore attracts a mainly Indian clientele. Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s everybody else? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re missing out on one of Silicon Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true gems.

The restaurant is not much to look at. The stark dining room is ďŹ lled with Formica tables and bench-style seating and festooned with larger-than-lifesize pictures of food and some tinsel

hanging from the ceiling. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a table set out in front of the counter topped with Indian prepackaged sweets and snacks. This is Indian fast food, so you walk up to the counter to order and wait for the nice lady to call your number to pick up your food when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s done. You pay for everything in advance, including the ice cream, so part of the fun for me is eating the spicy food and anticipating the cooling creaminess of the sweet ice cream at the end of the meal.

Start off with a few items from the chaat menu. Chaat are little snacks served as street foods in India, and they work well as appetizers over here.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an ephemeral quality to chaat that makes it a ďŹ&#x201A;eeing pleasure. While a burrito can sit wrapped up until you get home and still taste good, chaat must be eaten immediately. Crispy ingredients made from puffed rice and wheat are added to moist ingredients just before serving. Wait more than a few minutes, and it becomes a soggy mess. But those few moments when the chaat is at its prime are as delicious as they are short-lived.

Pani puri ($3.99) is one my favorites.

Pani is the Hindu word for water, and puri are hollow, puffed shells made from wheat ďŹ&#x201A;our. The shells are typically ďŹ lled with chunks of boiled potato and garbanzo beans and topped with a spicy mint sauce and sweet tamarind chutney, then dunked

in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;water,â&#x20AC;? a spicy, sour and salty mixture concocted from various herbs and spices. The result is a blast of ďŹ&#x201A;avors and textures, a true sensual experience.

Sev puri ($3.99) is another chaat classic made from little puffed discs topped with garbanzo beans and sprinkled with â&#x20AC;&#x153;sev,â&#x20AC;? little squiggly rice ďŹ&#x201A;our crunchy things. The snack is served with the same tamarind and mint sauces that you douse over the top and pop in your mouth.

For something more substantial, go for the chole tikki ($4.75), garbanzo beans cloaked in a thick, red gravylike sauce poured over a little fried potato patty.

For a full plate of food, the bisibelebath combo is the way to go ($7.99). The aforementioned spicy lentil-rice stew is served alongside vada and idly. The idly is a rather bland rice-lentil cake. Far better is the vada, a fried lentil donut peppered with cumin seeds and other spices. Dipped into the spicy, tomato-based sambar sauce, it jumps to another level.

The set dosa ($4.99) is a simple but satisfying lentil-rice crepe served with a creamy-spicy coconut milk stew. The chile-onion uthappam ($5.99) is more of a pancake. Both dishes are loaded with protein thanks to the lentils, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing how substantial they feel.

The only bummer about the restaurant is everything is served on

crappy Styrofoam plates and bowls that are destined for a landďŹ ll where they will spend the next 5,000 years taking up space. There are more biodegradable, disposable plate options that are so much better and cost about the same. OK, enough of my lecture.

For a beverage, you must order the badam milk ($1.99). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sweet drink made from almonds and ďŹ&#x201A;avored with saffron and cardamom. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the thing to cut the spiciness of the food.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of like an Indian version of horchata. Get it.

After youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve cleared your plate, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ice cream time (single scoops go for $2.50). Real Ice Cream makes regular ďŹ&#x201A;avors such as chocolate and strawberry, but who wants that when you can choose from ďŹ g ice cream, cardamom ice cream or gulkand ice cream (rose petal) or falooda ice cream (rose water and falooda seeds).

Best of all is the kulďŹ . KulďŹ is made with cream and sugar like ice cream, but the cream is boiled down into a thick, caramel-like syrup. The result is a dense and chewy dessert that will bend a metal spoon in half and make gelato seem like whipped cream by comparison. My favorite is the pista kulďŹ made with almond, pistachios and saffron. I like it so much I ate my single scoop and bought a pint to go and dug into it as soon as I got home.

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CHEF SPOTLIGHT

Sachin Chopra SAKOON executive chef H68=>C 8=DEG6 brings high-style Indian food and a diverse background to Mountain Viewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Castro Street. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in New York, Chopra ďŹ rst worked as a line cook at New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famed Daniel restaurant. From there, he went on to become sous chef at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. After a stint as a private chef, Chopra was hired as executive chef at New York Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tiffin, a restaurant that specialized in fusion Indian cuisine. He went on to open his own restaurant, Tapasserie, a small-plates restaurant that combined the ďŹ&#x201A;avors of India, Spain and the United States. A year later, the busy chef became executive chef-partner at Spice Grill, also in New York. In 2003, Chopra was recruited as executive sous chef at San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beloved Amber India. From there, he went to Mantra in Palo Alto, where was executive chef.

At H6@DDC, a top-end restaurant with a full bar and well-chosen wine list, Chopra offers a menu that draws on Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s diverse regional cuisines and adds a modern ďŹ&#x201A;air.

Stett Holbrook Chef Spotlight is a regularly occurring feature leading up to Silicon Valley Restaurant Week, Oct. 14â&#x20AC;&#x201C;21. Each week, I will proďŹ le a chef involved in SVRW. For more information about the event, please go to www.siliconvalleyrestaurantweek.com.

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HEREâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ORGANICALLY grown coffee. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shade-grown coffee that preserves forest habitat for wildlife. And thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fair-trade coffee that ensures coffee workers are paid a fair wage for their labor. But 8=>9DĂ&#x2030;H 7A:C9 from San Rafaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s :FJ6IDG :HI6I: 8D;;::H 6C9 I:6H is in a league of its own in terms of social consciousness. Coffee is supposed to be stimulating, but a cup of java thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inspiring is something quite different.

The medium-bodied blend of premium beans from Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Kenya is named after Zimbabwean activist 8=>9D <DK:GD, a young woman with a moving story to tell. Govero lost her mother to AIDS when she was 8. She never knew her father and found herself caring for her ailing grandmother and young brother. To support her family, she dropped out of elementary school to work in the ďŹ elds around her village. In order to be able to live on her familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s land, Govero had to endure abuse at the hands of her uncle and cousin.

Meanwhile, at nearby Africa University, researcher B6G<6G:I I6<L>G6 began experimenting with mushroom farming on agricultural waste as a way to provide proteinrich food and business opportunities for poor rural communities. Partnering with O:GD :B>HH>DCH G:H:6G8= 6C9 >C>I>6I>K:H (ZERI), an organization that seeks to alleviate lacking basic human needs through available local resources, Tagwira launched a mushroom-farming training program for orphans at the university. Govero was one of the ďŹ rst to participate.

After the training, the students returned to their villages knowing not only how to feed themselves, but how to earn money through sales in local markets. Some used their earnings to pay for school for themselves and their siblings. In time, many of these industrious girls married and started families of their own. Tagwira feared that family life would limit their ability to spread their knowledge as was originally hoped. Of the 15 girls who started the program, only Govero remained single. Tagwira and her husband decided to adopt Govero and give her a home and the chance to go back to school.

Govero quickly advanced through school and learned more about mushroom farming.

The ZERI Foundation furthered her education and sent her to Colombia, India, Kenya and elsewhere to teach impoverished orphans like her to farm a valuable, sustaining crop using readily available waste products. Today many of the communities Govero helped train are self-sufficient in protein without any inputs from the outside.

Govero has even taken her message to the Bay Area to teach unemployed youth in Marin City about the virtues of mushroom farming as a tool for job creation, healthy food production and reducing waste at local landďŹ lls.

Tagwira is now pursuing a doctorate in food and nutrition based on her experiences.

Govero went on to write a book about her experiences (The Future of Hope: Message From an African Orphan to a World in Crisis), and she now works in a Zimbabwean village turning dried grasses and leaves into soil for mushroom farming and continues to teach orphans how provide for themselves and free themselves of abusive situations through self sufficiency and food security. Her plan is to spread her self-help know-how throughout Africa to create jobs and alleviate hunger using what is locally available.

Raise a cup to Govero and Equator Estate Coffees and Teas. One hundred percent of proďŹ ts from the sale of Chidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blend go to support the ZERI Foundation and Goveroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work with orphan girls in coffee-producing countries around the world. Drinking a cup of Chidoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blend gives me a feel-good buzz that has nothing to do with caffeine. For more information, go to equatorcoffees.com.

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Reviews by Michael S. Gant and Richard von Busack.

New Adam (PG-13; 99 min.) Max Mayerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy/ drama stars Hugh Dancy as a man with Aspergerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Syndrome who tries to ďŹ nd love with a new girl in his life (Rose Byrne).

(Opens Aug 14 at the Guild in Menlo Park and the CinĂŠArts Santana Row.) Bandslam (PG; 111 min.) Todd Graff (Camp) directs an alterna-kids movie about a group of misďŹ ts getting a rock band together.

Vanessa Hudgens and Lisa Kudrow co-star.

(Opens Aug 14.)

Cold Souls (PG-13; 101 min.) Paul Giamatti stars in a tale of an actor wrestling with his part in a Chekhov play. (Opens Aug 14 at CinĂŠArts Santana Row and CinĂŠArts Palo Alto.)

District 9 (R; 112 min.) See review on page 43.

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (R; 90 min.) A comedy about a used-car salesman, starring Jeremy Piven, Ed Helms and Ving Rhames. (Opens Aug 14.)

La Rondine The Puccini opera recorded at Teatro la Fenice in Venice. (Screens Aug 12 at 7pm at Camera 7 in Campbell.)

Ponyo (G; 100 min.) See review on page 47.

Spread (R; 97 min.) Ashton Kutcher plays a gigolo.

Who knew? (Opens Aug 14.)

The Time Travelerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wife (PG-13; 107 min.) Eric Bana plays a man who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep to the present; things donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go well for those around him when he keeps zooming off chronologically. Also stars Rachel McAdams. (Opens Aug 14.)

Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (Unrated; 92 min.) Aviva Kempnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; s excellent documentary on a tremendously popular multi-media phenomena. She was Gertrude Berg, once described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the ďŹ rst lady of television.â&#x20AC;? For more than 30 years, she starred in radio, TV and movies as Jewish housewife Molly Goldberg of the Bronx. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably apocryphal, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quoted here that FDR said Molly Goldberg ended the Depression, not him. More certainly, The Goldbergs pioneered the type of family-centered comedy/drama still running on network TV this very night.

Using a harmonious and cleverly chosen blend of vintage footage and interviews, Kempner re-creates Bergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s triumphs.

But the underside of the story is here, tooâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the blacklisting of Bergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s co-star Philip Loeb, ďŹ ctionalized in Martin Rittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Front. Interviewees include everyone from passionate fans to Bergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family and the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s surviving co-stars. Norman Lear credits the show for his survival as a young boy; another fan who testiďŹ es for it is Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The more muted praise by Ed Asner provides a useful counterpoint: Molly Goldbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Old World warmth and New World energy disarmed anti-Semites.

Yet she accelerated assimilation, and assimilation eventually outpaced Molly

Goldberg. (Opens Aug 14 at Camera 3 in San Jose.) (RvB)

Revivals Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) King Arthur is played by Graham Chapman as soft and rather dumb, a constitutional monarch in the bloody Middle Ages. Even God, animated by co-director Terry Gilliam, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that keen on him. John Cleese is impressively gruff as a bellicose knight who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let quadruple amputation dull his ďŹ ghting spirit; he is also an extravagantly ridiculous French knight. Eric Idle is brave, brave Sir Robin, his shield bearing the emblem of the ferocious Chicken of Bristol. And Michael Palin and Terry Jones (in drag) are the moral centers of the ďŹ lm, the razzing voices of the working class. The ruling class in England derives some of its power from the myths wrapped around it. The Pythons never forgot that power when it came time to roast the tales of Arthur. The screening includes contests and free ticket giveaway to the upcoming local run of Spamalot.

(Plays Aug 12 at sundown in San Jose at San Pedro Square; bring blankets or lawn chairs; free.) (RvB) A Night at the Opera/The Merry Widow (1935/1934) The ineffable Marx brothers take on the world of classical music.

However, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re saddled with a squarepleasing â&#x20AC;&#x153;love interestâ&#x20AC;? of Allan Jones and Kitty Carlisle, which makes for popcorn breaks, anyway. Home of the famous and endlessly imitated â&#x20AC;&#x153;stateroom sceneâ&#x20AC;? and the symphony orchestra chumped into playing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take Me Out to the Ballgame.â&#x20AC;?

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spicy story retold in post-Code times, heavy on the MGM gingerbread. The confectionary plot is mostly familiar in its parody form (in the Marx Brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Duck Soup). Prince Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) is required by patriotism to marry the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s richest widow, but Danilo hexes the job by mistaking one of the ďŹ&#x201A;oozies at Maximâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for said heiress. Not director Ernst Lubitschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ nest hour, despite some pleasant touches throughout. (Plays Aug 12-13 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

(RvB) Niles Film Museum Four two-reelers from 1921; in the new decade, comedy was changing from an emphasis on action to an emphasis on reaction. The Boat, with Buster Keaton, recounts the fatal and short cruise of the DamďŹ no, complete with the captain going down with the ship. Also: I Do with Harold Lloyd and Be Reasonable with Billy Bevan; here the Australian comic with slapstickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest mustache plays â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Rolling Stoneâ&#x20AC;? pursued by a legion of cops.

I think Bevanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ nest hour was devising the â&#x20AC;&#x153;fresh oyster stewâ&#x20AC;? routine, stolen and made unforgettable by Curly Stooge. Also: Charlie Chaplin in a dual role in The Idle Class, as both a rich wastrel and a goodhearted tramp. Judy Rosenberg at the piano. (Plays Aug 15 at 7:30pm in Fremont at the Edison Theatre, 37417 Niles Blvd.) (RvB) The Notebook (2004) James Garner plays Noah, the visitor of an aged woman, Allie (Gena Rowlands) at a convalescence home; his task is to read to her from a book that contains a boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl tale. Rachel McAdams is often accidentally funny in the story-

within-the-story as the ďŹ ery rich girl drawn to young Southern working-class Whitman quoter Noah (Ryan Gosling), a coupling opposed by frustrated rich mom Joan Allen. (Plays Aug 13 at sundown in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square; free; bring blankets or lawn chairs.) (RvB) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) There is post-Elvis music; there is post-Picasso art. There is no such thing as post-Brando acting. Here Brando plays a brute who outwits a poor cracked butterďŹ&#x201A;y (Vivien Leigh). Tennessee Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; view of this drama was that it concerned â&#x20AC;&#x153;the ravishment of the tender, the sensitive, the delicate . . .â&#x20AC;?; Stanley Kowalskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gusto for life turns this into a drama in which we sympathize with the cruel, the callous and the strong. A Marlon Brando impersonation contest begins the evening.

(Plays Aug 19 in downtown San Jose at sundown at Post Street between Market and First streets; bring lawn chairs or blankets; free.) (RvB) Swing Time/Bachelor Mother (1936/1939) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were poetry in motion.

Unfortunately, the plots of their ďŹ lms were prose. Lucky (Astaire) is a hoofer by trade, but a gambler by vocation. He and his equally penniless partner, Pop (Victor Moore), head to New York to raise the dowry for Luckyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ ancee, but the dancer has his heart stolen by Penny (Ginger Rogers), who works at a dance school.

From that point on, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his persistence vs. her reluctance as they work their way up to penthouse-level nightclubs. Astaire is so graceful that even when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running for a train, it looks syncopated. Although The Gay Divorcee is Astaire and Rogersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; best

comedy, Swing Time is their most romantic ďŹ lm, mirroring as it does the lives of lovers with the lives of gamblers. BILLED WITH Bachelor Mother. One can supply the recipe for this, but one canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t describe its speciďŹ c deliciousness: a Garson Kaninâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;written comedy of errors in which a shop girl (Ginger Rogers) is mistaken for a single mother; and the son of the department store owner (David Niven) is presumed to be the father. (Plays Aug 14-17 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theater.) (RvB) West Side Story (1961) The jazzed-up urban version of Romeo and Juliet has indifferent juvenile acting. Natalie Wood is a ravishing blank, but Rita Moreno, in a secondary part as Anita, is the real star of the show, and she knows it. When Moreno spits out â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Boy Like Thatâ&#x20AC;? you see what the movie could have been if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d used more of the proverbial wise Latina. The much-honored ďŹ lm is a different animal in 70 mm than it is on a TV; on the bigger screen, one gets not only a vanished NYC, entombed under the Lincoln Center; one also gets a look at the amazing art direction. The sets are like a compendium of 1950s modern art styles from Clyfford Still shadows to Robert Rauschenberg walls to the Ed Kienholzâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; like cafe where the juvenile delinquents learn their social lessons from Doc (Ned Glass). The songbook is impossible to resist. (Plays Aug 14-15 at 7pm in San Jose at the California Theatre.) (RvB) The Women/Humoresque (1939/1946) The mother of all bitch fests: Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine and the tedious Norma Shearer (as the good wife, naturally) in an all-female freeform battle over men. You couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dream of calling it

feministâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;except in the Cosmopolitan senseâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as unique as it is long. The Technicolor fashion show is a psychedelic delight. BILLED WITH Humoresque.

Jean Negulescoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fraught drama about a classy but alcoholic older woman (Joan Crawford) and the ďŹ ery young classical violinist she â&#x20AC;&#x153;sponsorsâ&#x20AC;?: John GarďŹ eld, the sultry but doomed pre-Method actor, here given a script co-written by Clifford Odets to sink his teeth into. The authentic-looking violin scenes were done by stufďŹ ng two separate classical violinists under GarďŹ eldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coat: one with his hand up his sleeve, the other to do the fretting.

(Plays Aug 18-20 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

two years. She was called Summer (Zooey Deschanel). As Tom recalls this tale in random-accessed moments, we begin to see the bigger picture. (500) Days of Summer is allegedly an anti-romantic ďŹ lm, but the result is yet another alterna-date movieâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a little brighter, a little more referential, than usual. The scenes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go on so long that they wear out their welcome. And yet itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so full of negative spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;places where jokes could have been planted, places where the characters could have been deepened. If only director Marc Webb had spent as much time thinking how to ďŹ ll in the blanks as he spent murmuring, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be Annie Hall for our generation.â&#x20AC;?

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Funny People (R; 146 min.) As Jonathan Schell described the late Robert McNamara, â&#x20AC;&#x153;emotional without being introspective.â&#x20AC;? Judd Apatowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ&#x201A;op doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t range far from below the belt: itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his most serious ďŹ lm and yet his worst. Seth Rogen plays Ira, a budding L.A. comedian who hooks up with George (Adam Sandler), an A-list comedian with a string of proďŹ table high-concept ďŹ lmsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; and a case of Hollywood Movie Disease.

George mentors Ira; Ira mensches George.

The title is a misnomer; in Apatowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only men who are funny. Which is strange, since 45 hilarious seconds of Sarah Silverman talking about her junk beats the more than two hours of cock humor here. To those who have always felt that Sandler was an aggressive, cold ďŹ gure, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to celebrate his showing an uglier side than usual. The visuals arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worth mentioning; Apatowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still essentially a TV director in love with the easy setup and the interior shot. (RvB)

Aliens in the Attic (PG; 86 min.) A family comedy about kids and visitors from beyond.

The Cove (PG-13; 92 min.) Top 10 material. Louie Psihoyosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; documentary uncovers a continuing scandalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the wanton slaughter of dolphins off the coast of Japan. The outrage happens annually at a Wakayama Prefecture site hidden from the public view by security guards and concertina wire. The investigator is dolphinologist/ activist Richard Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Barry. He assembles an Impossible Mission Forceâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;like team to inďŹ ltrate the site by land and water, despite intimidation by police and security guards.

This outraging, thrilling ďŹ lm is guaranteed to stir indignation. (RvB) (500) Days of Summer (PG-13; 95 min.) Tom (Joseph GordonLevitt), a greeting-card writer, has his heart broken by a girl he knew for about

G-Force (PG; 88 min.) Guinea pig humor dressed up in military fatigues.

G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra (PG-13; 120 min.) Behind-the-scenes moments to look for when this DVD comes out: Sean Penn is passed over for a role on the G.I. Joe team after he fails to demonstrate proper â&#x20AC;&#x153;kung-fu gripâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;eagle-eye visionâ&#x20AC;? in audition; producers screen Todd Haynesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1987 underground ďŹ lm Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, which was acted out with Barbies, and brieďŹ&#x201A;y consider casting actual G.I. Joe dolls; writers somehow remain blissfully ignorant to the fact that their plot point about the bad guys trying to destroy the Eiffel Tower was used in Team America: World Police, as a parody of how bad the plots for movies like this are; project stalls when everyone involved realizes a live-action movie based on plastic action ďŹ gures is a really stupid idea, revived when Transformers becomes one of the most successful movie franchises in history. (SP) The Hangover (R; 100 min.) A satisfyingly low comedy with a sturdy plot and the wit to realize that the Three Stooges format is solid gold.

Stick with it, since the ďŹ rst third is hit and miss; later, director Todd Phillips solidly builds the situations, thinking up strategies to bolster the risky comedy. (RvB) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PG; 153 min.) Hogwartsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; decay is showing, against lowering weather that looks like January in Iceland. 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. Dumbledore (Michael Gambon), the magic-worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Churchill, needs to know what Slughorn knows, but the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest wizard is starting to decay. Young Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now comfy enough with being called the Chosen One that he can joke about it (even if Emma Watsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hermione gives him an whack on the head when he does). Rupert Grint is show-stealing in his perennial role as ginger-nut comedy relief.

(RvB) The Hurt Locker (R; 131 min.) The soldiers of Bravo Company are stationed in Baghdad for the 2004 ďŹ ghting. Central to the ďŹ lm is the mystery of Staff Sgt. James (Jeremy Renner) who comes in to replace a slaughtered demolition expert. Jamesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; risk-taking amazes and angers his subordinate, Sgt. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie). Director Kathryn Bigelow does what Howard Hawks would do: she ďŹ nds the cooperation between men of great competence in a killing trade, rather than pumping up rivalry. (RvB) In the Loop (Unrated; 106 min.) Armando Iannucci, a well-known ďŹ gure in British television comedy, does a scathing sort-of version of the dawn of the Iraq invasion. James GandolďŹ niâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lt. Gen. George Miller is a more wrathful version of Colin Powell.

Mimi Kennedy plays Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best ally, Karen Clarke, a career State Department diplomat with dandruffy hair and teeth that seem to be disintegrating during the middle of a crisis. GandolďŹ ni and Kennedyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characters are the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moral

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center—the two people operating with goodwill. We want to follow them through this sonata of collapsing spines and raving, swearing political careerists. But too often Iannucci just won’t let us. The fierce verbiage pours forth like a gusher, but the smartness outsmarts itself. (RvB) Julie & Julia (PG-13; 123 min.) Meryl Streep’s greatness—her facility with accents, her plasticity and that uncompromising quality every really lasting actress has to have—has been used to portray the limits of human suffering. In Julie & Julia, Streep gets to kick up her heels. She has such fun with the part of the cookbook writer Julia Child that she’s consistently intoxicating to watch. Streep continues at full sail through the film, elevated a bit on a high heels and trotting with the happy clunkiness of a Clydesdale. Childs’ distinctive voice—the whoop of surprise, the trill and warble when she talked—makes Streep’s part of the film enthralling. But there had to be some way to hold the film together, and sure enough disaster befalls. Half of this film is based on the hustled-into-print book version of a blog by Julie Powell about replicating all of Childs’ recipes.

Amy Adams, the most charming young actress alive, plays Julie, and she’s still a horror. Director Nora Ephron tries for frankness in her script by having Julie Powell call herself a bitch. That isn’t enough to rehab her. (RvB) Lorna’s Silence (R 105 min.) In urban Belgium, the Albanian girl Lorna (Arta Dobroshi) pays Claudy (Jérémy Renier) to marry her so she can get citizenship papers. He’s a junkie, whom she treats like a messy and disliked child. But Claudy cares for Lorna, and reacting to his emotional turmoil, Lorna makes an impulsive gesture at the risk of dooming herself. A good story, based on an authentic-sounding criminal scam. Telling it, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne violate their previous furtiveness and subtlety: those qualities that made them by miles the most interesting filmmakers in the business of charting the demands of a Christian ethos. (RvB).

Moon (R; 97 min.) Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is a miner 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. The film comes down to Rockwell acting by himself, when history has proven that Rockwell is at his best as a sidekick.

(RvB) Orphan (R; 123 min.) A horror thriller about an adopted child with serious issues. Stars Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman and Peter Sarsgaard.

Paper Heart (PG-13) Charlyne Yi and Michael Cera star in a country-spanning romantic comedy masquerading as a documentary.

Welcome To A World Where Anything Is Possible.

A Perfect Getaway (R; 98 min.) Island tourists discover they’re being hunted by a psychopath in what appears to be (despite a lack of credit) yet another version of “The Most Dangerous Game,” the 1924 short story which has been adapted and ripped off more times than maybe any other piece of genre fiction.

Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich star. (SP) 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.

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By Richard von Busack

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HEY APPEARED in Johannesburg, and only there. Their filthy flying saucer, thousands of feet in diameter, still hovers, broken down above the city. Twenty years after their arrival, the aliens are penned up in District 9, a refugee camp. It was supposed to be a real home for them once, if you trust the decaying sculptures of humans and aliens striding hand in hand.

This apparently temporary camp is now an eyesore, a slum several miles wide. The aliens are idle but ravenous, living on theft, canned cat food, offal and old tires. The world calls them a racial slur, “prawns,” because of the tiny vestigial arms coming out of their abdomens. But they’re closer to 6-foot-tall cockroaches than to seafood.

In rapid, talking-heads introductions to Neill Blomkamp’s District 9, we learn all this and more. We’re watching a rough-cut documentary about the mysterious disappearance of Wikus (Sharlto Copley), a human employee of MultiNational United. Included in this mix of images is also some kind of private footage, heavily digitally watermarked, that a secretive company like MNU wouldn’t want aired. This strange company combines the functions of a nongovernmental agency and a peacekeeping force—as if someone had privatized UNICEF and merged it with Blackwater.

The missing man is hard to like. A grinning sweater-vested underling, Wikus was promoted because he

married the boss’s daughter. (I call this obvious, because the act of nepotism is denied on camera.) And we see him during a raid on District 9, where he gets to play the tough cop for the documentary camera watching him.

He shows the mercenary soldiers beside him how to kill a nest of prawn eggs. “Here’s a souvenir of your first abortion,” he says, giving an assistant a chunk of alien metal.

He and his uniformed team of thugs bust down doors to serve an eviction, so that the “prawns” can be relocated to a smaller and worse ghetto. During one raid, Wikus is sprayed with some alien fluid. After this incident, we can cut and paste in much of David Cronenberg’s version of The Fly, as the smarmy Wikus begins to mutate, losing his fingernails and teeth. The massive corporation he works for makes him a wanted man, and he’s forced to get the help of one of the prawns.

Copley’s performance is small-scale to go with District 9’s small-camera style, although Wikus turns into an acceptable action hero once he’s infused with alien DNA. But Copley doesn’t deliver the pathos during phoned-in messages to his wife.

Apparently, director Blomkamp decided that it would be a violation of the documentary-camera rule to take a reverse angle so we could see shots of her during the poignant conversations.

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sonics of the special effects. The aliens have megaweapons and splatter humans into goop or throw them 20 yards in the air. But we never figure out why the aliens haven’t used their arsenal to get the humans off their backs. The prawns aren’t pacifists— they fight each other viciously. And they’re not brutes; they have enough intelligence to communicate, and the Earthlings understand their clicking, wordless language.

Blomkamp seems to deliberately avoid the most interesting angles.

Supposedly, some of the aliens are prostituting themselves; the rags they wear, loincloths and torn brassieres, indicate some kind of erogenous zones. And they piss from the same general direction as humans—firehose sprays of what looks like radiator antifreeze. But how does it all work?

What kind of weird thrill seekers would copulate with creatures that could bite their heads off afterward?

These prawns have been through deep space, but no one seems to have asked the kind of questions any 6-year-old would ask about their culture—whether they had been enslaved or bred for work, for instance. All of the most interesting parts of this story—about the otherness of the aliens—are kept off camera. Ultimately, even technically adept films have to be answerable to the same laws of drama as something far more low-tech. How good—how profound—a movie would District 9 be if the aliens were played by guys in rubber masks?

The storytelling method is all jitter and no pulp. After Cloverfield successfully made an alien attack plausible in small-camera and cellphone-video form, District 9’s mock cinema vérité style is not so new. All the camerawork is shaky and careless, even when we’re watching events that no documentary crew is there to watch. Having commentators speaking directly to the camera is the easiest, cheapest way to tell a story.

It’s also one of the flattest and most unsatisfying.

When all is said and done, Blomkamp has created a new slant on a promising story badly done in Alien Nation, whose invaders, like the prawns, arrived 20 years ago. Just as a rich idea of alien ghettos turned out to be a routine police story back in 1988, District 9 ends up as a familiar tale of alien infiltration, corporate skullduggery and very large guns.

Give Blomkamp credit, he did have one inspiration: figuring out how to make a science-fiction film against the appalling background of Soweto. For better or worse, he delivers a sociological Other, in the way the early Australians saw the aborigines, or the early American saw the Indians: as nonhumans, as vermin, as bugs.

DISTRICT 9 (R; 112 min.), directed

by Neill Blomkamp, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, photographed by Trent Opaloch and starring Sharlto Copley, opens Aug. 14.

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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 in a 1930s world—the film would look Dogme-tized. The photography often uses high-def synthetic light: yellowish-white flares of gun bursts and gritty magenta torches burning.

Surfaces come to mind—that’s what this skin-deep 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) 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.

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. Manly Air Force officers in camouflage strut in slo-mo amid more cargo planes than one would see in an “Army of One” commercial. (RvB) The Ugly Truth (R; 101 min.) A rom-com with Katherine Heigel and Gerard Butler acting sorta antagonistic but really falling for each other.

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)

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HE NEW Studio Ghibli cartoon Ponyo is a beautiful, gentle entertainment for children, and if that sounds like a minor recommendation, it is. In a field stuffed with reinventors, director Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, et al.) is a genuine inventor. The little echoes from Pinocchio and Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid can be noted, but they don’t affect the tale or the telling much. One can never tell where a Miyazaki story is going.

On a Japanese beach of today, 5-year-old Sosuke (voiced by Frankie “The Bonus Jonas” Jonas) finds a magic talking goldfish with a human head. Ponyo (Noah Lindsey Cyrus) is happy to live in a bucket, but she sickens in captivity.

A mystical rogue wave takes her back home. We learn that Ponyo’s father is a weary undersea wizard, Fujimoto (Liam Neeson). This former human seeks to heal the oceans with magic. Fujimoto was once the lover (or husband) of the colossal sea goddess Gran Mamare (Cate Blanchett). Mamare might also incarnate Kannon, the Japanese version of Kwan Yin; some passing sailors identify her as “the goddess of mercy,” apparently just to throw off my pedantic self. The progeny of wizard and goddess are a large school of enchanted fish.

Ponyo, the best and the brightest of them, wills herself to escape her father and become a humanoid—a pink amphibian—who is sometimes disguised as a little girl. Ponyo’s escape sets off nature on a rampage. The coast floods, and the moon leaves her orbit.

Moments of enchantment appear throughout Ponyo. After seeing Cars, I hadn’t thought there were acceptable ways of animating automobiles, but the subcompact of Sosuke’s mother, Lisa (voiced by Tina Fey), is practically alive as it darts around the coast roads. The Studio Ghibli animators really opened up the box of colored pencils for the seaside landscapes; they’re still industrial enough— with high-tension wires and rusty docklands—to keep from being pretty-pretty or precious. The rapport of son and mother is a rare thing to see in any kind of film. Lisa is never surprised by her child or his strange new friend. After Ponyo returns home for a time, Sosuke, eyes slitted from crying, dutifully laps the ice cream cone his mother bought to console him. Like a real child, he feels he shouldn’t be consoled, but the ice cream is consoling him anyway. It’s an Ozuworthy moment. Miyazaki also stages a joke about the Orson Welles–ish look on the face of a colicky baby. (“Look, she likes you!” say the parents; while the baby’s expression says no, she certainly does not like anyone, not one little bit.)

In our country, where scientists tread softly, Ponyo is on easy terms with evolution; a line says young Ponyo might well be reduced to “sea foam, where we all originated.” But there’s no threat in this potential drowning, and this injured my grown-up sense of drama. Avoiding clear stories of good and evil, Miyazaki is both Buddhist and animist, telling of the opposition of creative and destructive forces. I admired the balance, but I missed the thrust—the feralness of a fairy tale. Ponyo is not as tart and scary as some of its Ghibli predecessors; like Pixar’s Finding Nemo, it skews young.

Richard von Busack PONYO (G; 100 min.), directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki, photographed

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EFITTING a prima ballerina, longtime Ballet San Jose principal dancer Karen Gabay’s most recent project is a strippeddown celebration of dance in its rawest, purest form. As resident choreographer and co–artistic director of Pointe of Departure, a small, nonprofit ballet company based in Cleveland, Ohio, Gabay and co–artistic director Raymond Rodriguez (also of Ballet San Jose) will bring their troupe’s summer repertoire to the South Bay for the first time.

The duo and their troupe of 16 Ballet San Jose dancers will present a self-titled, eclectic program on Saturday (Aug. 15) in a one-nightonly engagement at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

“Our budget is very minimal, so the ballets are far from being overproduced,” says Gabay in an email interview. “Both of us felt it would be a good time to give California a try and see how receptive audiences would be to see ballet in the summer and with a scaled-down performance of dance.”

Gabay has choreographed two

of her own original dances for the show, Gare du Midi and Hooray for Hollywood!. The former, which debuted in 1993 as part of the Cleveland Ballet’s first Hidden Talents program, is a humorous look at a late-night train station.

“The inspiration to that piece was taken from my experience in a waiting room in Europe at the Gare du Midi station [in Belgium],” says Gabay. “The music is Bernstein, and the piece is a look at the various characters that I saw in the wee hours of the morning while waiting for my train.”

Originally performed in Cleveland in 2005, Hooray for Hollywood! is an energetic tribute to the silver screen, a fusion of classical ballet and Broadway dance with music compiled from classic films.

The Aug. 15 show will also include a pas de deux between Gabay and Ballet San Jose dancer Ramon Moreno called Munecas. Developed

by Cuban choreographer Alberto Mendez, the playful dance portrays the duo as dolls.

Also dancing in the production are some of Ballet San Jose’s best and brightest performers, including

Alexsandra Meijer, Maria Jacobs-Yu, Maximo Califano, Jing Zhang, Peter Hershey and Amy Marie Briones.

Gabay says the show will be set on a bare stage, with the lighting and the dancers’ bodies as the main showcases of movement.

“There are no real sets, so hopefully lighting, great dancing and music will enable the audience to use their imaginations a bit,” says Gabay.

“They are actually very pared down to leotard and tights, but the dancers are so incredibly wonderful that I think they will be seen for who they are, rather than hidden in costumes.

I have always felt that dancers work so hard to develop their bodies, so why not show them off in the most flattering way.”

Gabay, Rodriguez and the Pointe of Departure dancers were busy performing in Cleveland all last month, so they will only have 10 days of rehearsal in Mountain View to get the program up to performance level.

A professional ballet dancer for three decades, Gabay said that the pressure and challenge of getting a performance right is what spurred her to start Pointe of Departure and

to continue choreographing and performing in the summer ballet off-season.

“It is difficult to stay in shape, and it is not quite as easy to stay motivated if you know you are not performing or dancing for three to four months,” says Gabay. “It is much more a responsibility [as an artistic director], because I have to see the whole picture and worry about fundraising, schedules, marketing aspects, choosing the proper program, dancer concerns and basically running the whole show.”

Gabay believes that the local debut of Pointe of Departure will draw a new, diversified Bay Area audience that wouldn’t typically come to the ballet during the normal fall/spring ballet season. “I hope it will bridge the stereotypical image that people have about ballet, especially about men in ballet, and hope that they can see how dancers are wonderful athletes under their graceful exterior.”

POINTE OF DEPARTURE performs Saturday (Aug. 15) at 8pm at the Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. Tickets are $21–$40.

(650.903.6000)

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Boxer Bound HAT DO our elected representatives do with their spare time (if they have any)? Sen. Barbara Boxer writes novels; her second, Blind Trust, cowritten by Mary-Rose Hayes, is political payback masquerading as a thriller. Heroine Ellen Fischer Lind is a California senator (write about what you know) presiding over confirmation hearings for the new secretary of Homeland Security, an old Republican nemesis named Carl Satcher. Suddenly, Ellen is sucker-punched by a leak claiming that she and her husband have abused their blind trust; more scandalous revelations about her trusted aide follow. Who’s behind these scurrilous attacks? Could it be Craig Fulton, the Cheney-esque vice president at the center of a plot to stage a phony terrorist attack on the nation to ensure a Republican hegemony for generations to come? Or Satcher, who has designs on the White House?

Clearly, Boxer has more than a few axes that she’s been dying to sharpen. The biggest target is one Sam Slaughter, an odious right-wing talk-show host, whose program, The Slaughterhouse, is really a clearing-house for unsubstantiated attacks on well-meaning Democrats. He is “mean-spirited, inaccurate, provocative, disgusting.” Take that, Rush. Luckily, after some transparent plot turns, a semblance of decency is restored—because, dammit, liberals need fairy tales, too. The writing is serviceable, although occasionally veering toward parody: “Listen,” says Ellen’s politico husband, “ever since I saw you across that room, fighting for your children’s bill with every nerve in your body, I’ve loved you and wanted you and I can’t stand the thought of losing you.” So, it’s not exactly a bodice-ripper; maybe budgetripper is closer to the mark. Here’s hoping that Boxer is devoting most of her waking hours to salvaging the public option in the Obama health-care plan. Now there’s a thriller with no clear climax in sight.

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Michael S. Gant BLIND TRUST by Barbara Boxer; Chronicle Books; 234 pages; $24.95. Boxer appears for a booksigning event on Saturday (Aug. 15) at 1pm at Barnes & Noble, 3600 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose.

Godard Is Everything ICHARD BRODY’S heavy tome is, unfortunately, the best thing about Jean-Luc Godard in English.

Everything Is Cinema—as Jonathan Rosenbaum noted a year ago—is most useful in exhuming some of the political, censorship and film-production problems Godard has faced during his 50-year-plus career. Brody charts the director’s course from intransigent film critic to the cometlike transit through the 1960s and a long string of films, decades ahead of their time, such as Alphaville, Breathless and A Married Woman. Brody also stresses the importance of the later works such as Sauve Qui Peut, Hail Mary and King Lear (a nonadaptation of a play Godard apparently refused to read). Brody knows his French culture well, and he is certainly the most learned critic at The New Yorker, particularly when he’s writing about silent and early sound film. He’s placed to become a star writer like Pauline Kael. This might explain his attack on Kael; he likens her, unforgivably, to Cosmopolitan’s Helen Gurley Brown. Problem is, Brody doesn’t address most of Kael’s arguments against Godard’s lesser work or the auteur theory in general—such as the question of why self-plagiarism for commercial reasons is evidence of art. And when writing about a witty director, Brody shows little humor of his own. One can sense the author’s shock at Godard’s hilarious quip about how his inability to prevent Steven Spielberg from rebuilding Auschwitz proved that he had labored in vain.

The accusations Brody makes of Godard’s anti-Semitism are based on hearsay and Godard’s own strident anti-Zionism. And the quotes here, of Godard caviling against the United States, seem almost cherry-picked. Then again, Brody doesn’t mention the names “Ronald Reagan” or “George W. Bush” to explain why a European might hold a brief against America. Moreover, Godard is clearly a man who’ll say anything for attention or to cause a sensation. It’s the showman in him, or the philosopher. And at last Brody’s insinuations about Godard’s pedophilia need a longer rebuttal, or at least the answer to this question: What attracted a centrist writer like Brody to such a revolutionary talent like Godard?

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By Steve Palopoli

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Y THE mid-1980s, Depeche Mode was sick and tired of being teen-pop idols. Their early hits, such as “Dreaming of Me” and “Just Can’t Get Enough,” were catchy candy that they had outgrown quickly. Even worse, they broke onto the U.S. charts in early 1984 with “People Are People,” a throwaway tune with lyrics so dumb they made its writer, Martin Gore, cringe—he dislikes it so much the band hasn’t played it in more than 20 years.

As the impressively thorough behind-the-scenes documentaries on Depeche Mode’s recently rereleased albums show, the band’s concerns were changing fast. They were discovering exotic subcultures in metropolitan cities all over the world.

They were writing songs about S&M and dressing like goths, and it was only a matter of time before their music caught up to their mindset.

In 1985, it did. In January of that year, the band released “Blasphemous Rumors,” their darkest song yet. Slow and creepy, it was about a girl who slit her wrists in a failed suicide attempt, only to be killed in a car crash. The chorus brought them no end of controversy: “I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumors/ But I think that God’s got a sick sense of humor/

And when I die/ I expect to find him laughing.”

Despite Dave Gahan’s chilly, measured vocal, “Blasphemous Rumors” was as rhythmic and percussive as Depeche Mode’s club hits. It was electronic music too slow to dance to, a beat slowed down to a sinister crawl. They would go on to perfect this art on their Black Celebration album, especially the single “Stripped,” which used a sloweddown sample of a motorcycle engine running as its beat.

This is about when Bjorn Yttling of Peter Bjorn and John became obsessed with them. “I listened a lot to Depeche Mode—a lot—in ’85, and started playing keyboards because of it,” says Yttling.

This was while he and band mates Peter Moren and John Erikkson were growing up in Sweden, a wellknown bastion of DM fandom.

There are several Depeche Mode tribute compilations, but only one non-U.S. country has produced one: I Sometimes Wish I Was Famous: A Swedish Tribute to Depeche Mode.

“They had more hit singles than the Beatles in Sweden,” says Yttling.

“Even the B-sides were hit songs there.”

Echoes of mid-’80s Depeche Mode can be heard all over Peter Bjorn

and John’s new album, Living Thing.

“The Feeling” has every element of a dance song—right down to the hand claps—but it plods along in a way that shifts the focus entirely to the lyrics, from the feet to the brain.

“Just the Past” has the dark reverb and quasi-industrial background of DM on a bender. Even their danceable single “It Don’t Move Me” has a menacing staccato piano riff, and the whole album is peppered with samples of found rhythms.

“We stole some tricks from them,” Yttling says of Depeche Mode’s audio assault. “There doesn’t have to be a manufactured instrument. You can just drop your laundry from six floors and record that. On our newest album, we even used a balloon.”

Peter Bjorn and John found an audience in the United States with their song “Young Folks”; it was the 2007 iTunes track of the year and was covered by Kanye West on his Can’t Tell Me Nothing mixtape album (“That was crazy,” admits Yttling). Somehow their music attracted the attention of Depeche Mode themselves, who invited them to tour this summer with them, including Wednesday’s show at Shoreline.

“They asked us, then they thought about it a bit more,” he deadpans, which is not always easy to do when

English is your second language.

“But they couldn’t come up with anyone else.”

The trio also share musical influences like the Velvet Underground and electronic pioneers Suicide, who were also masters of Dance Music Not Meant to Be Danced To. And yet, being from Sweden, they are doomed to fail every attempt to escape from the shadow of ABBA. But they’re taking it really well.

“I mean, it’s like British music that got compared to the Beatles,” says Yttling. He’s even come around to showing some grudging respect. “If you like music, you can’t overlook ABBA. There’s a lot of crappy tracks, but there’s a lot of fantastic songs too.”

But he doesn’t think Americans should get carried away about the good music they’re hearing from Sweden, like the Sounds and the Legends.

“There’s some kind of pop music green card that you only give to music that’s good,” he says. “We sure got a lot of shit in Sweden.”

DEPECHE MODE, with PETER BJORN AND JOHN play Wednesday (Aug. 12) at 7:30pm at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View. Tickets are $35–$99.

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Friday & Saturday, Aug. 14 & 15 • AGES 16+

plus Strung Out also Pour Habit Fri. Exhibit A Sat. Door To Nowhere

$18 Adv./ $22 Dr. Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

Friday, August 14 • AGES 21+ • in the Atrium

STRANGER • THE MELODRAMATICS No Cover • Show 9 p.m.

Sunday, August 16 • AGES 16+

HOT TOPIC & NUMBSKULLSHOWS.COM present DECIMATION OF THE NATION TOUR

Sunday, September 6 AGES 21+

Dr. John

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Lower 911

$20 Adv./ $24 Dr. Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

Wednesday, September 16 • AGES 21+

Sugar Ray plus

Aimee Allen

$20 Adv./ $25 Dr. • Drs. 7 p.m., Show 8 p.m.

Aug 20 The Pyrx Band/ Playz (AGES 16+) Aug 21 Slacktone/ The Concaves (AGES 16+) Aug 23 Forrest Day (AGES 16+) Sep 16 Mayer Hawthorne (AGES 16+) Sep 17 Steel Pulse (AGES 16+) Sep 18 Michael Franti & Spearhead (AGES 16+) Sep 22 Mason Jennings (AGES 16+) Sep 23 Rebelution (AGES 16+) plus Jeremy Fisher Sep 24 Pepper (AGES 16+) $20 Adv./ $25 Dr. • Drs. 7 p.m./ Show 8 p.m.

Wednesday, August 19 • AGES 16+ • In the Atrium Sep 24 The Radiators (AGES 21+) Sep 29 Trivium/ White Chapel (AGES 16+) plus Aivar $8 Adv./ $10 Dr. • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9 p.m. Oct 3 Collie Buddz/ Devin the Dude (AGES 16+) Oct 9 Andre Nickatina (AGES 16+) Saturday, August 22 • AGES 18+ Oct 10 State Radio (AGES 16+) Oct 16 Brother Ali (AGES 16+) DJ SHOWBIZ FROM KDON Oct 17 The Devil Makes Three (AGES 21+) Spinning Hip Hop, Old School, Reggae & Mash Ups $10 door only, Drs. & Show 9 p.m. Bar is open for ages 21+ Oct 21 UFO (AGES 21+) Nov 6 Micky Avalon (AGES 16+) Saturday, August 29 • AGES 21+ Nov 22 The Disco Biscuits (AGES 16+) Dec 12 Y & T (AGES 21+) 15 PIECE TRIBUTE TO THE KING OF POP Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating. $12 Adv./ $14 Dr. • Drs. 8:30 p.m., Show 9:30 p.m. ROCKER’S PIZZA KITCHEN 831-426-PIZZA Sunday thru Tuesday FREE POOL $1 Pizza Slice ALL DAY TUESDAYS for Bar Patrons Noon to Closing Wed. - Mon. $2 CHEESE OR PEPPERONI until 6 p.m. plus Chimiara, Winds of Plague,

Dying Fetus, Toxic Holocaust $19 Adv./ $21 Dr. • Drs. 6 p.m./ Show 7 p.m.

Monday, August 17 • AGES 16+

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some good work within 10 years of launching my writing career, but I didn’t hit my stride until the 18th year. From what I hear, many other skills require a long training period as well. According to an Aikido adept I know, for example, a practitioner may require 30 years to master the moves and spirit of that martial art. And as for the ability to carry on a successful intimate relationship: It usually takes a lifetime. I hope this line of thinking helps you get a more practical perspective on the specific prowess you’re trying to develop, Aries. Keep in mind that it probably wouldn’t be worth learning if you could become a wizard in a flash. There’s no rush. Give yourself credit for how far you’ve come.

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IVjgjh (April 20–May 20): Talk to yourself more and better. Not just with streams of chatter that meander aimlessly. Not with darts of selfdeprecation mixed in with grandiose fantasies.

No, Taurus. When I urge you to talk to yourself more and better, I mean that you should address your self with focused tenderness. I mean that you should be driven by the bold intention to lift up your mood, praise your skills, shower blessings on your vulnerabilities, and love yourself down to the core. You will attract cosmic assistance if you do this playful work. You will bathe your subconscious intelligence with healing luminosity. <Zb^c^ (May 21–June 20): I climbed the endless steps to the sanctuary, brushing off large spiders that kept landing on me. I stood in the rain for hours waiting for the gates to open. The guardian of the threshold wouldn’t let me in until I answered his tricky and sometimes insulting questions.

Through it all, I maintained my patience and poise and reverence. At no time did I give in to the temptation to curse the difficulties. And when I finally entered, when I got my chance to penetrate to the heart of the rose petal-strewn labyrinth, my persistence was rewarded. As I knelt there in amused awe, face to face with the sacred jokester, I got a useful answer to the most important question in my life. Would you like a comparable experience, Gemini? It’s possible in the coming week.

8VcXZg ( June 21–July 22): Visionary philosopher Buckminster Fuller said, “Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.” If that’s true, Cancerian, you’ve got a lot of resources available to you right now, although they will have to be converted from their smoggy and effluvial state.

So for example, if you’re a songwriter, the noxious emotions floating around could be raw material for a sparkling tune. If you’re a lover, the peculiar vibes you’re dealing with could inspire you to prevent a dumb pattern from repeating itself.

AZd ( July 23–Aug. 22): The monsoon rains

have not blessed eastern India with their usual downpours this year. In response, frustrated farmers have resorted to a radical ritual: asking their unmarried daughters to get naked and plow the fields. They believe that this will embarrass the weather gods into acting correctly. In general, I approve of being creative in making appeals to deities, but I recommend that you use a different approach. Rather than shaming them into providing you with more love and mojo, try flattering them. As if you were celebrating Halloween early, go around impersonating a god or goddess who is overflowing with love and mojo.

K^g\d (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Two annoyances that had been bugging you before your exile have been neutralized. But you’ve still got at least one more to go, so don’t relax yet. In fact, I think you should redouble your vigilance. Check expiration dates on your poetic licenses and pet theories. Scrub the muck from your aura, even if your friends seem to find it “interesting.” And learn to read your own mind better so you can track down any disabling thoughts that might still be lurking in remote corners.

A^WgV (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Your upcoming adventures will probably make no sense—unless you redefine what constitutes “sense.” If you do that, your adventures could make absolutely lucid sense in a backward, upside-down way that will rejuvenate you sexually, spiritually and emotionally.

Here’s another approach to understanding the point I’m trying to make: The epic drama you’re about to begin may yield no apparent lesson and provide no practical guidance—unless you empty your mind and give up hope for extracting specific

lessons and guidance—in which case you will be flooded with wise insights.

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you employed to outwit your fears in the past?

Remember them. Review them. Next, think about the people who have inspired you to be more courageous than you imagined were capable of.

If you take these two actions, you will prepare yourself well for the week ahead. I’m not saying that the things you’re scared of will be any bigger or badder than usual. But I want you to know that you now have the potential to gain a robust new power over them.

HV\^iiVg^jh (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): You are currently getting more miles per gallon and more bang for the buck than you have in a long time. Your IQ is creeping higher. Your knack for scoring good parking places is at a peak. I’ll even go so far as to say that it’s been quite a while since you’ve been teased by such thoroughly useful temptations.

And get this, Sagittarius: I suspect that you have an enhanced instinct for taking smart risks. The only downside of all this good news is that you may not know your own strength. That means you should test it fast; find out more about its potential.

Otherwise, you might break someone’s heart by accident, or prematurely shatter the illusions of a person who’s not yet ready to stop living in fantasyland.

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surprised if your whole life passed instantly before your eyes one day soon. Not because you’ll come close to literal physical death or anything dangerous at all, but rather because you will have a brush with a magic power that could be yours in the future—a magic power that will be possible for you to fully own only if you cut the umbilicus that links you to a dying source. Wow. Did I really say that in a fun little astrology column? And are you really prepared to change your life because of something you read in a fun little astrology column? I hope so. In the coming weeks, it’ll be the fun little things that have the greatest potential to align you more closely with your soul’s code.

6fjVg^jh ( Jan. 20–Feb. 18): In the days ahead, you may not realize what you’re looking for until you find it. I advise you, therefore, to put into action the following five-point plan. (1) Suppress any know-it-all tendencies you might have. (2) Revive your childhood talent for being voraciously curious about everything. (3) Ask more questions than you’ve ever asked before. (4) Figure out how to be receptive without being passive, and how you can be humble without muffling your self-confidence.

(5) Consider the possibility that you have a lot to learn about what’s best for you.

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In 2007, Next Energy broke the story of a 200-kilowatt nuclear reactor “only 20 feet by 6 feet,” that “could change everything for small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over their energy needs.” Accompanying the article was an artist’s conception of a Toshiba 4S nuclear reactor. Media outlets that should have known better, such as Business Week, spread the news to the wider world.

Problem was, the Toshiba 4S bears no relationship to Next Energy’s description other than being (a) a nuclear reactor and (b) smaller than the battlestar Galactica. My assistant Una surmises that the dimensions, fuel and other design features of the purported bus-size reactor were taken from a research project sponsored by the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute to bring nuclear power to the moon—the proposed Japanese mininuke would, in fact, measure about 20 by 6. True, the 4S reactor unit would be about 8 feet in diameter by 60 feet tall, which is smallish, but that’s just the engine, not the whole vehicle, if you follow me. The overall plant would be 190 feet long and 90 feet wide, and even Willie Nelson doesn’t have a bus like that.

Still, let’s acknowledge the larger point: major manufacturers are trying to come up with economy-size nuclear reactors, an interesting development when people are looking for noncarbon-footprint-enlarging sources of energy.

(OK, these puppies may enlarge our uranium footprint instead, but one issue at a time.)

Toshiba is in talks to provide the first 4S (the moniker stands for “super-safe, small and simple”) to the city of Galena, Alaska, population 700.

Remote from other towns and accessible only by air and water, Galena relies on diesel generators,

which are becoming increasingly costly to fuel.

The 4S can run for 30 years without refueling.

The plant boasts numerous safety features: it can’t boil its coolant, it becomes less reactive the hotter it gets, and passive safety systems automatically shut it down when things start to get too Chernobylesque.

Toshiba isn’t the only company thinking about baby nukes. Babcock & Wilcox is working on a reactor supposedly 1/10th the size of a typical plant. Even smaller nuke designs include one by Hyperion, a sealed unit about the size of a hot tub that’s buried underground and generates 25,000 kilowatts for seven years. After that you dig it up and replace it. What do you do with the old one? I’ll get back to you on that.

But if you want to find some working pint-size nuclear reactors right now, look no further than the U.S. Navy, which has been running a highly successful program of small, reliable nuclear reactors for decades. For example: a Los Angeles– class attack submarine has a nuclear power package that’s 42 feet long by 33 feet in diameter, weighs 1,680 tons, and puts out 26,100 kilowatts.

The problem with small nukes isn’t the technology but rather the same issues that have hamstrung nuclear power at any scale—security and disposal. Today more than ever, you need safeguards to prevent accidents, sabotage, tampering with the reactor to produce plutonium, or just stealing the uranium. The U.S. nuclear permit process is laborious, with no small commercial nuclear reactors in the licensing pipeline at last sighting.

Elsewhere, China is planning some small nuclear plants involving “pebble bed reactors,” which use uranium encapsulated in billiard-ballsize pellets to generate heat. Russia is working on barge-mounted nuclear plants. The French, however, seem to be more interested in projects at the other end of the scale. They’re currently building a European Pressurized Water Reactor.

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