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BY TOM TOMORROW

Hopefully, zoning information and applicable codes are already available for perusing online. Frustrated Finfan San Jose

Too Much BS Congratulations, John [Bettencourt]. Santa Clara, like Sunnyvale, is a progressive and well-run city. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine that you put up with so much B.S. for so long. Greg Howe San Jose

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The bureaucracy of San Jose is legend and has clearly set up major roadblocks for small businesses, which has not improved since the Reed administration took over. [However], noise, gasoline fumes and other emissions are just

two problems that needed to be addressed. Unfortunately, the initial OK by one branch of city government failed to even consider those problems. The detailed analysis uncovered them. That gave Mr. Bettencourt a false sense of security. Why canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t San Jose bureaucrats get it right the ďŹ rst time? Johnmichael Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor San Jose

Fat â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Crats Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m disappointed that the city was ďŹ nancially able to send only six code enforcement inspectors to Mr. Bettencourtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shop. Once Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stimulus money kicks in, San Jose should be able to provide more employment and send at least eight or 10 highly compensated bureaucrats out on a mission like this. John Galt San Jose

J!Tbxzpv Self-Important Businessmen I saw you, and the other bozo, at San Jose International Airport ďŹ&#x201A;ying American to O.C. You were the young guy with the whitecollared shirt talking very loudly on the cell phone, supposedly conducting business, and you were the older guy, sitting near the front of the plane, allegedly talking to someone about â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many units they wanted?â&#x20AC;? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been my experience that anyone who talks business loudly in a public place is either indiscreet, bragging or pretending to have an â&#x20AC;&#x153;importantâ&#x20AC;? business call. Hey, if you captains of industry were so important, why werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you ďŹ&#x201A;ying in a Citation out of the Jet Center instead of being among the rabble. Next time, have your egos checked instead of carried on; not all of us want to hear what you have to say.

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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AST WEEKEND saw another zenith in what seems like a long string of reunions celebrating San Jose’s music scene of 20 years ago. This time, we’re talking about the last half of the ’80s and the legendary alternative club One Step Beyond. Known throughout the land as “One Step,” the place was a haven for many alternative types in those days: punks, goth kids, ’80s New Wavers, mods, rockabilly dudes, metalheads or basically anyone subjugated in high school by the jocks and cheerleaders and who wanted to fine-tune his or her teenage angst for use later in life. Drawing folks from across the country, the event was like a family reunion, and it was all for a very worthy cause: The George Mark Children’s House, a facility that treats children with life-span-limiting conditions. A young boy, Franco Louis Bastoni, passed away last year at the age of 4 due to an obscure brain-stem tumor, and since his mother, Corrina, has tons of friends from the One Step Beyond days, folks got together and organized the Sacred Leaf Benefit, a mini-Bacchanalian gothlike weekend among the custom-carved décor at Smoke Tiki Lounge. Mary Zuchowski and Karl Holtz orchestrated the entire affair, and Stan Kent, the zany British crackpot who owned One Step, showed up from Los Angeles and emceed the event both nights. DJs played on Friday, and bands hit the outdoor patio stage on Saturday. One Step was located on Martin Avenue in the industrial wasteland sector of Santa Clara, and thousands of folks have fond memories of driving up Lafayette, turning left near the Humane Society and heading on over to One Step. It was a huge place with many different rooms for various goings-on, and the entire club occupies an important part in the alternative cultural landscape of San Jose history, since it was an all-ages venue. Sixteen-year-olds could go dancing and see national touring bands, while those of drinking age could imbibe. Looking back, the list of bands that played there is downright staggering. This was also during the initial stages of the rave explosion, so One Step would stage underground after-hours events once all the bars closed. All in all, for a bunch of disenfranchised young people growing up in a suburban wasteland with absolutely nothing to do except hang out at the mall, One Step was pure heaven—Or pure Valhalla, depending on your perspective. “It was like something that was inevitable, given the fact that so many kids had nowhere to go,” Kent recalled. One Step Beyond “But what was amazing to me, was occupies an important that we actually pulled it off. . . . What part in the alternative kept it going was all the bands that came in, and you had this amazing cultural landscape of energy of kids that had nowhere to go, San Jose history, and you realized that you were their since it was an home. This was their home away from all-ages venue home. People met their loves there. People had their first sex there. It was an awesome place to be around.” The Ramones usually played at One Step every summer—often it was two nights—for usually about 8 to 10 bucks a show, and one year they even came back a few months later to play a two-day benefit for the Humane Society. Personally, I must have seen the Ramones at least six times at that club. “Something I will always remember about One Step is that the Ramones were essentially our house band at the time,” Kent said. “I can remember taking them out for dinner in their van, and we’d go for curry, because they liked vindaloo. And to me, I think I’ll never forget that. It was like being in a dysfunctional family, and we had our dramas like any other club, but for me, the Ramones were the essence of One Step Beyond.” At the end of the weekend, $1,800 was raised for the George Mark Children’s House. Kent also said that a full-blown, higher-profile One Step Beyond reunion is played for sometime next year. (For those who wish to donate, One Step Beyond T-shirts are still available for $15. Check the Sacred Leaf Benefit Facebook page.) Your best night at One Step? Email me at SiliconAlleys@metronews.com.

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Class Action Santa Clara University teaches sustainability— and practices what it teaches By Laura Fishman CROSS the nation, in places like Indiana and North Dakota, windmills are spinning, pumping power to Santa Clara University—one of the United States’ top university purchasers of renewable energy. This month, SCU is stepping up its game environmentally by committing to the use of 22,512 megawatts of renewable energy annually. This purchase doubles the university’s previous renewable energy usage. Almost 75 percent of SCU’s electricity now comes from renewable sources.

SCU buys its power from Santa Clara Green Power, a division of Silicon Valley Power—a municipal utility owned by the citizens of Santa Clara. John Roukema, the utility’s director, believes the success of the Green Power program is linked to the fact that company decisions are made by elected officials rather than a board of directors. “It’s our city council that sets the tone of the company,” Roukema says. “They give us direction to establish these new green programs.” More than 1,000 cities around

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the United States operate their own power companies, Roukema says, but only about 30 cities in California have a municipal utility. SCU is Silicon Valley Power’s top energy purchaser, by far. The company reports that SCU’s efforts will prevent the emissions of over 17,821 tons of carbon dioxide annually, the equivalent of taking 2,961 cars off the road. The university’s green power purchases will be supplied through so-called renewable energy certiﬁcates sourced from wind farms, most of which are

located in North Dakota and Indiana. A renewable energy certiﬁcate—also known as a green tag—ensures that clean energy is being used. These certiﬁcates are audited by individuals and businesses who do not have direct local access to green energy sources. With the green tags, power buyers are able to receive credit for their purchases and support the emerging green power industry. Silicon Valley Power’s Larry Owens says he is particularly pleased with the university. He says SCU’s ambitious move encourages other people and institutions in the community to break into renewable energy habits. “Santa Clara University has shown a remarkable interest and has taken responsibility with green power as a philosophy,” Owens says.

Teaching and Doing SCU’s administration has built a curriculum to match its environmentally progressive actions, teaching students about the importance of sustainability through classes, outreach and research. Many SCU students are taking advantage of the environmental education programs being offered. As part of that effort, a group of SCU engineering students are competing in the Solar Decathlon, a national competition among colleges where teams work to create the most efficient solarpowered house. In addition, the environmental studies department offers classes on climate change, energy efficiency, environmental law, sustainability outreach and conservation. SCU also has a full-time staff &'

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member devoted to greening the campus. As the campus’ sustainability coordinator, Lindsey Cromwell encourages students, staff, faculty members and others in the community to examine energy resources on a daily basis. “When students are in college they’re forming the values that they’ll have for the rest of their lives,” Cromwell says. “We have a community that inspires others where we can teach students and employees how to be sustainable.” Silicon Valley Power’s Owens concedes that it generally costs more money for the university and for Santa Clara residents to use green power. However, many community members have told Owens that being green is worth the costs. “Our customers have really stepped up and demonstrated their commitment to renewable resources by paying more,” Owens says. Silicon Valley Power reports that the average household in Santa Clara spends around $7.50 more per month when they transition from standard power to renewable energy. Because SCU is such a large institution, the university this adds up. According to SCU’s assistant facilities manager, Lauren Grumland, the university spends $2.5 million each year on power bills and spends approximately $7,500 more each month in order to use green power. “It costs the university more money but we’re doing it because we’re concerned about the environment,” Grumland says. “It’s not a cost-driven decision.” Even with a its student population growing, the university reports that energy consumption remains steady and is not rising with the campus’s expansion.

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Concerts The Big Show Sept. 19 at San Jose State Event Center When I wrote about the Limousines earlier this year, I mentioned that Live 105 was playing their single “Very Busy People.” What I neglected to mention is that San Jose’s Channel 104.9 has been playing it even more—a lot more, actually. They seem to be supporters of not only the Limos but the whole San Jose music scene, and what they’re doing over there right now is very interesting. What they’ll be doing on Sept. 19 is “The Big Show” at the SJSU Event Center. Originally planning to feature Placebo before the band canceled all of their U.S. dates, the station now has emo kings the All American Rejects headlining. Also on the bill is Jack’s Mannequin, the current project of Andrew McMahon from Something Corporate. Like fellow quirky-smart alt-pop bands Possum Dixon and the Feelies, Something Corporate never really quite got

their due. McMahon’s knack for catchy tunes even worked against him in some ways—songs like “Punk Rock Princess,” “I Want to Save You” and “Konstantine” were far more lyrically intriguing and emotionally authentic than the band got credit for. He’s found even bigger success with Jack’s Mannequin. Channel 104.9 has also booked the Gaslight Anthem and the Airborne Toxic Event for the Big Show—along, of course, with the Limousines. (Steve Palopoli)

Treasure Island Music Festival Oct. 17–18, Treasure Island, San Francisco The Flaming Lips may be the best live band in rock & roll right now. Certain shows, such as their New Year’s Eve blowout in San Francisco in 2007, have become legendary. The Lips are returning to the Bay Area Sunday, Oct. 18, to headline the second day of this year’s Treasure Island Music Festival,

heading a lineup that also includes the Decembrists, Yo La Tengo, former-HüskerDü-frontman-turned-indie-eccentric Bob Mould and more. Saturday’s bill, meanwhile, will make fans of the current electro-’80s revival feel like they’ve died and gone to hipster heaven. MGMT and Passion Pit, the two most popular bands in the scene, are both playing, along with Girl Talk (with Gregg Gillis coming off possibly the best mashup album of all time, 2008’s Feed the Animals) and San Jose’s own Limousines. (SP)

Every Band Has a Shonen Knife Who Loves Them) exposed them to bigger and bigger audiences over the years. The group has had some different members, but Naoko Yamano is still its leader. Live, they rock like they’re in an arena no matter what size the club, windmilling heavy riffs and crossing guitar necks on anthems like “Cobra vs. Mongoose.” And with the song “Ramones Forever” on their last album, they made it clear that they’ll always stay true to their musical mission. (SP)

Shonen Knife Oct. 30, The Blank Club, San Jose If there is a more fun band on this planet made up of Japanese women rocking out Ramones-style on songs about candy bars, bison, vegetables and big cats, I haven’t found it. And frankly, neither has anyone else, which is why what began as a fun way to escape the boredom of the corporate world in 1981 has become one of rock’s most beloved cult acts three decades later. It didn’t hurt that fans like Nirvana (who took them on tour) and Sonic Youth (who put together the popular tribute album

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Seasons’ Greetings THE CHANGING OF THE SEASONS takes away our long summer evenings but happily replaces them with a surge of opportunities to experience new plays, concerts, operas, movies and art shows—a fair trade. This fall sees a couple of signal birthdays as MACLA looks forward to its 20th birthday, Teatro Visión celebrates its 25th and the San Jose Museum of Art turns 40 years old. Meanwhile, Broadway San Jose begins a new series of touring shows to ﬁll in where American Musical Theatre of San Jose left off. Indeed, one of the recurring notions that came up as we surveyed the new season was the cautious but not cowed attitude of arts groups toward the new economic realities. Despite some nipping here and tucking there, most groups are exploring ways to thrive and even expand without being proﬂigate. Our annual Fall Arts Guide offers a way to pinpoint both the breadth and depth of the new performing year. As always, in the weeks to come we will cover these shows at length; and more details and expanded listings are online at www.metro active.com and SanJose.com.

Mariachi Festival THE 3-D comeback craze is bigger than ever at theaters right now. But Hollywood has nothing on the San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival, Sept. 20–27. Besides big-name musical headliners like Carlos Santana, Joan Baez and Los Lobos, festival organizers are also going multimedia with a salute to the Golden Age of Mexican film— and it will have the movies literally leaping out of the screen. Like the opener, 1949’s Alla en el Rancho Grande, starring Jorge Negrete. One cantina scene in the film features Negrete singing with eventually an entire town in tow. When the scene is shown as the kick-off of the festival’s “Mariachi Goes to the Movies” concert on Sept. 26 at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, the show’s singers will appear to jump right out of the film and lead an equally large ensemble of musicians and dancers in a live re-creation. “There’s literally a cast of hundreds for the opening,” says the festival’s executive producer, Marcela Davison Aviles. “I think it’ll be one of those goosebump moments the show has a reputation for creating.” The show will also highlight others superstars of the era, like Pedro Infante and Maria Felix. But Negrete is a special case—for years, he was considered the most popular Latino entertainer in the entire world. To many, he was “The Latin Bing Crosby,” as many Mexican movie stars were compared to their American counterparts. And just as films in Hollywood set musical trends, Mexican movies from the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s led to an explosion in the popularity of mariachi music, in many ways defining it as a genre. American movies put all their focus on the choreography of big productions—in Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers vehicles, for instance—while rarely showing much interest in the songs themselves. Not so in Mexico. “It Mexican movies, it was flipped,” says Aviles. “There were these beautiful tenors dueling each other in song.” “Mariachi Goes to the Movies” fits nicely into this year’s theme,“Celebrating the Heroes of Our Heritage.” Some of the artists slated include Joan Baez (Sept. 25), and a tribute to Cesar Chavez with Los Lobos, Carlos Santana and Joe y La Familia (Sept. 27). And the series, which Aviles considers the most ambitious the festival has ever done, is also a warm-up for 2010, when artistic director Linda Ronstadt is planning a blow-out multimedia celebration of the 100-year anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, including the commissioning of an original work.

John Cleese Nov. 8, Fox Theatre, Redwood City As we take a look back at the incredible career of John Cleese, it’s impossible not to quote Monty Python. This is not because Cleese hasn’t accomplished plenty on his own—for instance, as the star of the classic comedy A Fish Called Wanda, or on Fawlty Towers. It’s because the legendary British comedy troupe has soaked through so much of our pop-culture fabric; sometimes quoting Monty Python is more like a reﬂex than a voluntary act. For newbies, here are three examples of how this phenomenon might come up in real life: (1) Whenever anyone asks you your favorite color, say “Blue! No, yelllll . . .” and then act like you’re falling off the Bridge of Death. (2) Whenever you’re in a room full of people and someone yells for “David,” wait till the guy says, “I’m David!” and then say “I’m David . . . and so’s my wife!” (3) Whenever your friends point out that your parrot has died, say “It’s not dead! It’s resting!” Anyway, it’s not clear exactly what Cleese will be speaking about on this tour, but really, does it matter? The guy can be funny about anything, as proven on his

appropriately surreal blog, www.cleeseblog. com. (SP)

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Nov. 13 at HP Pavilion At the ripe old age of 74, singer/ songwriter/poet and ordained Zen monk Leonard Cohen says the only two things he doesn’t talk about are his mistresses and his tailors. By the time Leonard hits San Jose, he will be 75 and performing the

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last show of nearly 200 on his 2008–09 tour, his first global go-around in 16 years. Last year he performed to soldout arenas all across Europe and the resulting concert DVD, Live in London, earned more than 80 five-star reviews. Another leg of the tour brought him to the States, including three shows at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre last April. In the early ’90s, Leonard often quipped, “I have a five-note range. And that range drops one octave each year.” Now, during each show, he says, “I haven’t been onstage in 14 years. Back then, I was 60 years old, a kid with a dream.” Believe it or not, Cohen’s voice actually sounds better these days, and he skips around the stage like a 5year-old. The band of virtuosi behind him appear tireless throughout the three-hour show, which is seriously quite Zenlike in its depth and simplicity. (Gary Singh)

Richard Thompson Dec. 4–6, Montalvo Arts Center Who can forget when British singer/ songwriter Richard Thompson released his smash hit “Oops! . . . I Did It Again” in 2000? It changed everything. Suddenly the former leader of famed ’60s folk group Fairport Convention was a media sensation. It went Top 10 in the United States, and to No. 1 in countries around the world, eventually selling millions of copies. And the video! Featuring astronauts discovering Richard Thompson dancing on Mars in a tight red cat suit, it was controversial for it’s strong sexual overtones. After that, it was nothing but global celebrity and scandal, with Thompson photographed getting out of a limo wearing no underwear, and later caught driving with his baby in his lap. Wait, all that happened to Britney

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Metallica Dec. 12, HP Pavilion, San Jose If there’s one thing the documentary Some Kind of Monster proved, it’s that Metallica has no idea why its music is good. The band members are a little too wrapped up in their own neuroses and power struggles and who gets to name the albums to notice. Which might explain why they stuck with producer Bob Rock for way too many albums after he helped transform their sound into a pop-metal juggernaut on The Black Album. Not that Metallica ever really went soft. But c’mon, listening to their Rick Rubin–produced return to form, last year’s Death Magnetic, was a big, rumbling reminder of the Metallica we’ve been missing. It almost seemed to pick up where And Justice for All left off 20 years ago. Don’t forget, that album came out the same year that Poison was on the charts with “Every Rose Has Its Thorn.” Who had to come in and save metal once again? That’s right, James and Lars and crew. It wasn’t the ﬁrst time, and it won’t be the last. (SP)

look like girlfriends that Brandon Flowers had in February of last year has potential no matter how it’s delivered. That was a couple of albums back now that the Killers have withstood their low point, 2006’s boring Sam’s Town, and bounced back to some degree with last year’s Day & Age. But only now is it becoming clear how much impact their 2004 debut really had. It was for all intents and purposes the beginning of this retro-’80s wave that bands like Passion Pit and MGMT are riding right now. I mean, the Killers named their band after a name on a drumset in a freakin’ New Order video! How much more obsessed with the sound of the ’80s can they be expected to be at this point? (SP)

Crosby, Stills And Nash Sept. 18 at San Jose Civic NASA has finally found a task to test the enormous processing power of their biggest supercomputers: computing the number of albums that Crosby, Stills and Nash have between them. After countless hours of work, they finally arrived at a number: 26,584. Who knows if it’s right, but considering all the incestuous recording of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, it just might be. There’s their early projects like Buffalo Springfield and the Byrds; there’s Crosby, Stills and Nash; there’s Crosby and Nash; there’s Crosby without Stills and Nash; there’s Stills without Crosby and Nash; and there’s Nash without Crosby and Stills. Basically, on their way to becoming the hero band of a generation—through protest songs like “Ohio” and generational anthems like their version of Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock”— there was every configuration. Most recently, CSN added to the total with an album of old demos that came out this year. When NASA’s scientists tried to add it with a recount, they accidentally added in a Neil Young variable and melted down the mainframe for good. (SP)

The Killers Sept. 12 at Shoreline Everybody’s favorite punk lounge singer Richard Cheese turned “Somebody Told Me” into a damn good torch song, right down to the clinking ice cubes. I kind of like it better that way, perhaps only proving that the hopelessly catchy chorus about boyfriends who

Concerts Campbell Heritage Theatre 1 W. Campbell Ave., Campbell; 800.745.3000. San Jose Taiko: Sept. 11 at 8pm. Sept. 12 at 2 and 8pm. Diane Schuur, Bobby Caldwell: Oct. 17 at 8pm. B.B. King: Nov. 15 at 7pm. John Lennon Anthology Concert: Dec. 4 at 8pm.

Event Center 290 S. Seventh St., SJSU; 800.745.3000. Super Band: Sept. 7 at 7pm. Brand New, Manchester Orchestra: Oct. 16 at 7:30pm. Rob Thomas, One Republic, Carolina Liar: Oct. 18 at 7pm. Hollywood Undead and Atreyu: Nov. 18 at 7pm.

Fox Theatre 2215 Broadway, Redwood City; 650.369.4119. Painted on Water, with Sertab Erener and Demir Demirkan: Sept. 11 at 8pm. Dave Brubeck Quartet: Sept. 19 at 2pm. Marshall Tucker Band, Moonalice: Sept. 19 at 8pm. Lee Eun Mi: Oct. 3 at 8pm. Wild Child: Oct. 17 at 8pm. TinMan, Destroy: Oct. 24 at 7pkm. Lisa Lampanelli: Nov. 21.

HP Pavilion 525 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose; 800.745.3000. AC/DC: Sept. 2 at 8pm. Pink: Sept. 17 at 7:30pm. Miley Cyrus: Sept. 20 at 7pm. Tribute to Cesar Chavez with Los Lobos, Carlos Santana and Little Joe y La Familia: Sept. 27 at 8pm. Rascal Flatts: Oct. 16 at 8pm. Marco Antonio Solis: Oct. 17 at 8pm. Marc Anthony: Nov. 14 at 8pm. Billy Joel, Elton John: Nov. 17 at 7:30pm.

Little Fox 2209 Broadway, Redwood City; 650.369.4119. Baru: Aug. 27 at 9pm. Pride & Joy: Aug. 28 at 9pm. Tony Lindsay Band: Aug. 29 at 8pm. Luce: Sept. 4 at 8pm. Marcia Ball: Sept. 5 at 8pm. Cheeseballs: Sept. 11 at 9pm. Dervish: Sept. 22 at 8pm. Pop Fiction: Sept. 25 at 9pm. Denny Laine: Oct. 2 at 8pm. John Worley, Bari Bari, Murray Low Trio: Oct. 18 at 4pm. Edgar Cruz, Christopher Dean: Nov. 8 at 7pm.

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Roger McGuinn: Oct. 15 at 7:30pm. Vienna Teng: Oct. 17 at 6 and 9pm. Paula Cole: Oct. 24 at 8pm. Keola Beamer and Neil Hogan: Nov. 1 at 7:30pm. Earl Klugh: Nov. 5at 7:30pm, Nov. 6 at 8pm. J.C. Smith, Tribute to Howlin’ Wolf: Nov. 14 at 8pm.

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds; 831.394.6534. Jazz Festival: Sept. 18–20.

Mountain Winery 14831 Pierce Road, Saratoga; shows at 7:30pm unless otherwise indicated; 800.745.3000. Heroes of Woodstock: Aug. 26 at 7pm. Susan Tedeschi, Jackie Greene: Aug. 27. The Pretenders: Aug. 29. Foreigner: Aug. 31. Sheryl Crow, 16 Frames: Sept. 2–3. Daryl Hall and John Oates: Sept. 4–5. Gipsy Kings: Sept. 10–11. The Doobie Brothers: Sept. 12. Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal: Sept. 13. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sept. 15. James Taylor: Sept. 16. Creedence Clearwater Revisited: Sept. 18. Etta James and Robert Cray Band: Sept. 20. The Temptations, the Four Tops: Sept. 23. Wynonna: Sept. 24 at 7:30. Tower of Power, Average White Band: Sept. 25. Tony Bennett: Sept. 26 Cheech and Chong and Shelby: Sept. 27. John Prine: Oct. 1. Pink Martini: Oct. 2. Loggins & Messina: Oct. 5–6.

Music in the Park Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose; 408.279.1775, White Album Ensemble: Aug. 27 at 5:30pm.

San Jose Civic 135 W. San Carlos St., San Jose; 408.277.5277. Progressive Nation 2009, Dream Theater, Zappa Plays Zappa: Aug. 27 at 6pm. Pedal to the Metal Tour, Mudvayne and more: Aug. 28 at 6pm. Gary Allan: Sept. 9 at 9pm. 5 Jokers and a Queen of Comedy: Sept. 19 at 8pm. Facundo Cabral: Oct. 10 at 8pm. Jaguares: Nov. 20 at 8:30pm.

Shoreline Amphitheatre 1 Amphitheatre Pkwy., Mountain View; 800.745.3000. Nickelback, Hinder, Papa Roach, Saving Abel: Sept. 1 at 6pm. Def Leppard, Poison, Cheap Trick: Sept. 2 at 7pm. Blink-182, Weezer: Sept. 13 at 6:30pm. Brad Paisley, Dierks Bentley, Jimmy Wayne: Aug. 25 at 7:30pm.

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chance to blow up the planet as John Cusack looks properly aghast; the ancient Mayan prophecy is fulﬁlled, and we all lose our cleaning deposit. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

The End Is Nigh This year’s fall films warn of ecological and economic collapse, unless they star vampires By Richard von Busack BRING NEWS of cinematic destruction. This season is skewed toward apocalypse and messages of planetary peril. Once the summer’s over, the fall crop of films is guaranteed to send people back to school whether they’re students or not. Such is the result of a plethora of documentaries and film festivals trying to fill in the blank spaces Hollywood and the Murdochified news leave out. The big-name prestige items are all in place, though. A Serious Man (Oct. 2) is the new Coen Brothers offering, another sort of noncomedy set in a cow-college, where a physics professor (Michael Stuhlbarg) gets the works from students, family and friends. George Clooney is back in the Wes Anderson/Noah Bambauch stop-motion animation Fantastic Mr. Fox (Nov. 13), which features two filmmakers who have a bit of trouble getting over their childhoods doing an out-andout children’s story (by Roald Dahl). Clooney in fox form seems right; so does Bill Murray as a badger. But the really big box office should go to New Moon (Nov. 20) the sequel to Twilight featuring the steadily improving Kirsten Stewart, since anyone will flock to see vampires doing anything. More bloodsuckers bare their fangs in Cirque du Freak:

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a vamp. Megan Fox stars as a cannibal high school chick in the Diablo Cody– scripted Jennifer’s Body (Sept. 18). Zombieland (Oct. 9), a comedy despite its dire title, co-stars Abigail Breslin among the munched and munchees. The Road (Oct. 16), John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s prestigious gut-muncher, is just the uplifting bummer you’d expect—even if the zombie ogres in it aren’t per se zombies, just post-apocalyptic cannibals. Viggo Mortensen limps through the action, indomitable; only Abe “Grandpa” Simpson could properly read aloud McCarthy’s lamentations and biblical warnings. We’re doomed, I tells ya! As one can see from the nuclear winter, piled-up human skulls and weird product placements for Coke and Jack Daniels in The Road, Earth really has it coming. Only Roland Emmerich can properly discipline the impending doom: 2012 (Nov. 13) gives Deutschland’s Duke of Demolition a

(Sept. 18) has a rogue inventor nigh destroying the planet with good intentions. The CGI-animated 9 (Sept. 9), not to be confused with the Rob Marshall musical Nine (Nov. 25) or District 9 , may be one of the year’s highlights, considering how adult-friendly and compulsively watchable Coraline and Up were. In a wasteland long after the age of man, mechanical/biotic creatures quest for the secret of life. Planet 51 (Nov. 20) is like a comedy version of Ray Bradbury’s “Mars Is Heaven!” with a planet full of 1950s suburban aliens. More plausible demolition—the attempted crushing of one fat girl in late 1980s Harlem—takes place in the acclaimed but dire indie Precious (Nov. 6), the adaptation of one-named novelist Sapphire’s Push. It’s a realist film with Italian touches: a bit of Juliet of the Spirits flavoring and a clip from De Sica’s Two Women. A drab-looking Mariah Carey, as a seemingly sensitive social worker, and a very good Mo’Nique as the world’s worst mom, beg us not to judge them. Too bad director Lee Daniels is judge, jury and executioner. Oprah is going to weep buckets. As the film year progresses, I’m finding that documentaries and cartoons are what look the most promising. As Metro’s Don Hines once put it, “The romance comedies don’t have any sex, and the sex comedies don’t have any romance.” The dramas take place in a televisionized vacuum of

prosperity, as unrelated to 2009 realities as the escapist comedies of the 1930s were to the Great Depression. “Energy and the World” is the theme of the stalwart UNAFF Film Festival, running Oct. 17–25 in Palo Alto (and other Bay Area locations). The lineup this year is particularly strong. Slated is work by Dogtown and Z-Boys’ Stacey Peralta, The Garden, the riveting true story of a ﬁght over a community garden in south Los Angeles; The Age of Stupid, starring Peter Postlethwaite as a man of the mid–21st century looking back at us, his stupid global-warming-denying grandfathers. Also on view will be Sally Ingleton’s Seed Hunter, about the search for heirlooms, and The Yes Men Fix the World, a sprightly documentary about two provocateurs who beard corporate suits in their dens. San Jose’s Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival makes its annual appearance Oct. 21–Nov 22, opening with the Argentine/Israeli production Letters for Jenny. The Arab Film Festival will also be traveling through the area Oct. 15– 24; exact dates and exhibitions to come. Good Hair (Oct. 23) by ace comedian Chris Rock takes its title from an African American expression: translated it means “as nonkinky as possible.” People of color still spend millions on gross chemicals and expensive procedure. The old-time corrosive methods of hair relaxation— lye, gasoline or other caustics—have changed but not the essential meaning of this war on nappiness. (Fun fact: Billie Holiday’s trademark gardenia is something she picked up to cover a hole burned in her hair.) Capitalism: A Love Story (Oct. 2) is Michael Moore’s bouquet to the

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SHAVE AND A HAIRCUT, TWO BITS !Disjt!Spdl!mpplt!bu!uif!qpmjujdt!! pg!mpdlt!jo!ÕHppe!Ibjs/Ö only system that could ever possibly work, world without end, amen. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall—and the capitulation of the much-feared competition—the system is, well, just as you see it around you. Moore’s focus is more on this last year right after Wall Street got the U.S. government to ﬁnd its checkbook for them. Get out your handkerchiefs: Moore tells a sad tale of poverty-stricken CEOs and bankers mewling for sustenance like abandoned kittens. Speaking of our overlords, Crude (Sept. 25) is Joe Berlinger’s documentary concerning the $27 billion lawsuit that Ecuadorian natives brought against Chevron and Texaco (the company Chevron engulfed). And Earth Days (Sept. 18) charts the almost 40 years of Earth Day celebrations, with notes on the eco movement from astronauts to biologists. And the almost-documentary The Informant! (Sept. 18) presents Steven Soderbergh’s comedic version of a serious story about the unlikely whistleblower (played by Matt Damon) who helped nail Big Ag’s Archer Daniels Midland. Similarly, The Men Who Stare at Goats (Nov. 6) takes a true story and skews it a bit; it’s based on Guardian reporter Jon Ronson’s book about the U.S. Army’s attempts to create psychic assassins and soldiers who can walk through walls like Sprite from the X-Men. In dutiful response to the calendar, Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of A Christmas Carol (Nov. 6) pushes back the unavoidable holiday six weeks with a performance-captured animated version of Dickens, and Jim Carrey playing Scrooge and the three ghosts. The digitized London—with a Big Ben under construction scaffolds—is essential to this extravaganza. And lastly, served up for Thanksgiving, The Princess and the Frog (Nov. 25)—a New Orleans–set version of “The Frog Prince” in traditional animation by Disney—may either be the continuation of a 75-year-old tradition of quality cartooning or the tombstone of it. And do we want to live in a world without ﬂat animation?

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Word Up Center for Lit Art FOR ITS fall season, San Jose State University’s Center for Literary Arts gathers activists, authors and poets to discuss topics ranging from Japanese internment camps to the anatomy of sex and everything in-between. The fall season is highlighted with appearances by science author Mary Roach, who is most recognized for her debut book, Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers, and author Denis Johnson, who won the National Book Award for his novel about America’s involvement in the Vietnam War, Tree of Smoke. The season commences on Sept. 23 (1:30pm conversation and 7pm reading at King Library) with local author John Hamamura. His first novel, Color of the Sea, is a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of World War II about a Japanese-American who is forced to deal with the reality of war and the persecution he and his family faced. Hamamura, who was born in Minnesota during the final year of World War II, touches upon his experiences being caught between two cultures. On Oct. 12 (noon conversation and 7pm reading at King Library), Roach, who has tackled subjects like human cadavers, the afterlife and sex, will be sure to attract curious guests who want to understand the world of science, sans the mathematical and theory-based mumbo jumbo. In her latest book, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Roach explores erectile dysfunction, enhancement devices and the licensing rights of porn stars’ genital areas. Following Roach is author and poet Kim Addonizio who will give a reading on Oct. 21 (7pm reading at King Library). Addonizio, who resides in Oakland and uses poetry and spoken word to convey candid thoughts about lost youth, love and self-worth. On Oct. 28 (7pm King Library) , SJSU alumnus Dan Arnold will give a reading from his book, Early Days in the Range of Light. His curiosity about California’s mountaineering history led Arnold to compile a book detailing the summits of California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range. To wrap up the fall season, author Denis Johnson is slated for two appearances, on Nov. 3 (7pm at SJSU Concert Hall) and 4 (1pm at King Library). Johnson, who rose to fame for his 1992 short-story collection Jesus’ Son, which later was adapted into a film with the same name, will be in joined in conversation with local author and activist Stephen Elliott on the Nov. 4. Johnson’s latest novel Nobody Move, which originally appeared in Playboy last year, is the story about a gambling addict who tries to slip off the radar before he has his kneecaps bashed in.

Gabriel Iglesias at the Improv While America’s obsession with fast food and oversize portions has left the country reaching for its elastic-waist jeans, comedian Gabriel Iglesias capitalized on America’s weight problem with his own brand of funny. “For the record, I’m not fat, I’m fluffy,” Iglesias explains. “There are five levels of fatness: There’s big, healthy, husky, fluffy and damn!” (Since then, Iglesias has inducted a sixth level—Oh helllllll no.) Most of Iglesias’ routine centers on fat jokes—how he slithers into the seats of roller coasters or how turned on he gets when his girlfriend whispers the words “chocolate cake.” But for this fan, the Latino comic’s jokes about real-life experiences—the misadventures with his drunken friends and dreams about President Bill Clinton—leave me in stitches. Iglesias’ strength is his storytelling—the comic has a knack for building a story, spot-on impersonations and hilarious voice effects. With a fairly clean sense of humor and nice guy personality, it’s hard to not like Iglesias. Iglesias first came into the public eye when he was a contestant on Last Comic Standing in 2006, and after a slew of self-released comedy CDs and DVDs, Iglesias is gearing up for his new Comedy Central standup special 2 Hot, 2 Fluffy this November, followed by “The Fluffy Shop” tour beginning in the new year. But South Bay audiences can get a sneak peak at some of Iglesias’ new material when he visits the San Jose Improv Sept. 24–26.

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WITH THE public’s entertainment dollars thinning, Lisa Mallette says that it was important for her to keep City Lights Theater Company of San Jose’s identity real in the face of the current recession. “It would be very easy to panic, to want to do all comedies that everybody’s heard of,” says Mallette, executive artistic director of the more-than-20-year-old company. “Leading up to when I had to pick these plays, I had a sense that it was very important to stick to our mission right now.” This year, her ﬁrst step was to update City Lights’ old mission statement, honing it into something more active. It now reads: “City Lights Theater Company creates provocative live productions that engage, inspire, and challenge audiences and artists alike through innovative concepts, intimate staging and uncompromising storytelling.” Mallette says that the courtroom dramedy The Last Days of Judas Iscariot embodies everything their 2009/2010 season is about. “This season has a theme to it that is speaking for voices less heard, the unexpected hero, redemption and mercy,” Mallette explains. “Judas Iscariot has been known for a long time as the biggest sinner of all time. So, this is taking a look at his story and saying, ‘Can’t we give this guy a break?’” City Light’s holiday show will be Another Night Before Christmas. This two-person musical centers on a cynical social worker whose apartment is invaded by a homeless man who tries to convince her he is Santa Claus. Tim Robbins’ Dead Man Walking is City Lights’ big drama of 2010.

Broadway San Jose WHEN American Musical Theatre of San Jose abruptly closed its doors in December 2008, it left a signiﬁcant hole in the San Jose performing-arts community. In an effort to replace the former Bay Area theater giant, the city of San Jose did a search and settled on the Nederlander Organization. Based out of New York, Nederlander (which also operates the newly renovated San Jose Civic) specializes in big bus-andtruck productions of its Broadway plays, which it ships to theaters across the United States.

Jessica Fromm

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Sept. 17–Oct. 18. Another Night Before Christmas Nov. 19–Dec. 20. Dead Man Walking Jan. 21–Feb. 21, 2010. Cyrano de Bergerac March 18–April 18, 2010. Second Weekend in September May 20–June 20, 2010. Rent July 22–Aug. 29, 2010.

“There is deﬁantly an audience for Broadway’s musical theater in San Jose,” says Ruth Pangilinan, general manager of the new Broadway San Jose. With the economic impact of AMT’s death hitting the Center for the Performing Arts and KNIGHTS ERRANT!!Uif!dbtu!pg!ÕTqbnbmpuÖ! downtown San Jose so severely ljdlt!vq!jut!bsnps/ last spring, Pangilinan says that the city was extremely receptive to getting Nederlander on board as soon as possible. “The sooner the better, get it out there, get it working and keep downtown a thriving place,” she says of their approach. “Too much lag time in this economy would have been pretty detrimental.” Broadway San Jose opens its premiere season with Spamalot on Sept. 15. “It’s everything big we love about Broadway. It’s got elements of irreverence, lots of fun, and it’s honestly just a great night out, a great escape,” Pangilinan says of the stage version of the Monty Python ﬁlm.

Spamalot will be followed by Spring Awakening, on Oct. 28, a sensual rock musical about teenagers and sexual discovery. The farewell tour of Riverdance will hit San Jose on Dec. 29, followed by the “full puppet nudity” of Avenue Q on Jan. 12 of the new year. Finally, the irrepressible Elle Woods will close out Broadway San Jose’s ﬁrst season in Legally Blonde, the Musical on March 16. Jessica Fromm

Monty Python’s Spamalot Sept. 15–20.

City Lights, 529 S. Second St., San Jose; $15–$40; 408.295.4200; www.cltc.org.

Renegade Theatre Experiment RENEGADE is not for everybody,” admits Sean Murphy, artistic director for Renegade Theatre Experiment. “We are not doing the traditional stuff that other companies do.” From its start in 2001 as a grassroots theater company, RTE has grown into the role of being the theater company for the nontheatergoer. “I have a lot of friends and colleagues who don’t go to theater because they think it’s all opera or it’s very pretentious, and they can’t relate to it,” Murphy says. “It doesn’t have to be like that. ... Come and experience something with us. Come and see something Quentin Tarantino–esque, where it’s bloody and gross.” RTE kicks off its fall season on Sept. 11 with Bug by Pulitzer Prize– and Tony Award–winner Tracy Letts. This psychological thriller set in a rundown Oklahoma motel room follows a fraught night between a self-destructive divorcee and a paranoid Gulf War veteran that descends into insectoid madness. The 2006 ﬁlm version with Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon won a lot of attention and mixed reviews. In November, the curtain raises on the Shape of Things by bad-boy playwright Neil LaBute. In this romance between Evelyn and Adam, the former embarks on a personal quest to see how far she can change sweet-tempered Adam. “When I was reading it, I was like ‘This is not Renegade, I don’t understand,’” Murphy admits. “And then at the end, there is a major twist, and it feels really dirty and makes you go back and reanalyze everything you see.”

Spring Awakening Oct. 28–Nov. 1.

Andrea Frainier

Riverdance Dec. 29–Jan. 3, 2010.

Bug Sept. 11–26.

Avenue Q Jan. 12–17, 2010.

The Shape of Things Nov. 6–21.

Legally Blonde, the Musical March 16–21, 2010.

Right Place, Right Time Jan. 22–Feb. 6, 2010.

All shows are at the Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd., San Jose; tickets are generally $20–$88; 866.395.2929; www.broadwaysanjose.com.

Historic Hoover Theatre, 1635 Park Ave., San Jose; tickets are $13–$20; 408.351.4440; www.renegadetheatre.com.

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Teatro Visión THE LARGEST regularly performing Chicano/Latino theater company on the West Coast, Teatro Visión, will be taking a creative leap with the ﬁrst show of its 26th season. Ghosts of the River, premiering on Oct. 1, is an innovative shadow-puppet play that uses a mix of live actors, video projection and music to illustrate a collection of vignettes. Written and conceived by playwright Octavio Solís in conjunction with San Francisco’s Shadowlight Productions, the play tells short stories about people living on the Rio Grande.

San Jose Rep THIS FALL marks Rick Lombardo’s inaugural season at the San Jose Repertory Theatre, and the four-time Elliot Norton Award–winning artistic director says he can’t wait to see what San Jose will think of his work. “I’m looking forward to be able to use this year to really get to know this audience in a much more intimate way, because now these are plays that I’ve chosen for very speciﬁc reasons,” he says.

“We were interested in doing a work that was very, very different than other performances that we have produced,” says artistic director Elisa Marina Alvarado. “We’re using a huge screen, and we have these big, very expensive lamps. The puppets are actually actors who are dressed in the technology of the shadow puppets, but with a Chicano aesthetic, and their image is projected.” Following Ghosts of the River’s opening night, Teatro Visión will host a meet-and-greet with director Octavio Solís, along with a behind-the-scenes look at how the technically complex shadow puppets are operated by the actors.

Lombardo, who moved from New England to became artistic director (succeeding longtime director Timothy NEW GUY IN TOWN!!Sjdl!Mpncbsep! Near) of the Rep in October 2008, cfhjot!ijt!ßstu!gvmm!tfbtpo!bu!uif!ifbe!! produced A Picasso, The 25th Annual pg!Tbo!Kptf!Sfq/ Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Kite Runner last season for the almost 30-year-old professional resident theater, but this year’s lineup is all him.

Taking Flight, the second play of the season, chronicles the friendship between two women and how it is tested after one of them is hurt on 9/11. Alvarado describes the play as “very much a woman’s story, the story of girlfriends. Teatro Visión was originally founded by women, and that remains a commitment of ours to explore the experience of women through theater.” Taking Flight is written by and stars Adriana Seván. Jessica Fromm

Ghosts of the River Oct. 1–11. Taking Flight Jan. 28–Feb. 14, 2010.

The season opener, As You Like It, will be personally directed by Lombardo, who plans to put a modern, media-ﬁlled spin on the Shakespeare classic. He says the show will include the use of cutting-edge theatrical technology, including a trio of three-story digital-projection towers. “What I’m trying to do is explore this play in the perspective of the infusion of technology and what it’s doing to our modern world,” Lombardo tells me. “I think when a director reimagines a play like this, that’s when you really learn a lot about that director’s aesthetic. So, I chose this play because it’s an opportunity for the Rep audience to get to know a whole lot about who I am as an artist.”

South African playwright Ian Bruce’s Groundswell will have its West Coast premiere this October. A drama set in the world of diamond prospecting, Groundswell explores lingering remnants of apartheid’s racial and class prejudices. The holiday season will see the biggest-selling hit in the Rep’s history, A Christmas Story, back by popular demand starting Nov. 21, while spring brings the Tony-winning revue Ain’t Misbehavin’ (March 20–April 18). Directed by Kent Gash, this high-energy musical will take audiences back to the creation of early jazz, featuring the tunes of Fats Waller, played by a seven-piece jazz band. The Rep’s season will close with the regional premiere of Melinda Lopez’s Sonia Flew (May 8–June 6), a story that crosses time from Havana during the Castro revolution to Minneapolis after 9/11, while telling one woman’s story of separation and loss. In light of the current economy, Lombardo has also instituted “pay what you can” nights at the Rep this season on the ﬁrst Tuesday of every show.

Jessica Fromm

As You Like It Aug. 29–Sept. 27. Groundswell Oct. 10–Nov. 8. A Christmas Story Nov. 21–Dec. 20.

Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater, 1700 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose; $7–$50; 408.272.9926.

Dragon Productions IN THE PAST 10 years, Dragon Productions has grown from a nomadic company into a permanent fixture in downtown Palo Alto. Dragon, which settled into its 42-seat blackbox theater on Alma Avenue in 2006, strives to bring an intimate theater experience to its audiences while performing works that are off the beaten path. “I wanted us to find our own niche,” says Meredith Hagedorn, executive producer. “We aren’t doing new works. We are doing works that are already published, already fine-tuned, but not a lot of people go down that road.”

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Though Lombardo describes his interpretation of As You Like It as “a conceptual director’s playground,” the second play he will be directing this season, The Weir (Jan. 23–Feb. 21, 2010) is the complete opposite. A very realistic actor’s play that takes place in a pub, The Weir is a supernaturally tinged Irish mystery that will be staged next January.

Perla de Luna April 15–May 2, 2010.

This fall, Dragon (which marches to a SISTERS!!Nfsfejui!Ibhfepso!boe!Mbvsb! different scheduling drummer) wraps up Kbof!Cbjmfz!tubs!jo!ÕNfnpsz!pg!Xbufs/Ö its 2009 season with Memory of Water by Shelagh Stephenson and Side Man by Warren Leight. Memory of Water, a Britishaccented show, is a dark comedy about three sisters who come together—and come to terms with their own lives—in the wake of their mother’s death. Next, Dragon will begin production on the Tony Award–winning play Side Man, which follows the life of a selfabsorbed jazz musician who would rather live for his art than provide for his family. “We try to offer a little something for everyone in our season,” says Hagedorn.

The Weir Jan. 23–Feb. 21, 2010. Andrea Frainier

Ain’t Misbehavin’ March 20–April 18. Sonia Flew May 8–June 6.

Memory of War Runs through Sept. 13. Side Man Nov. 13–Dec. 6.

San Jose Repertory Theatre, 101 San Antonio de Paseo, San Jose; tickets are $33 and up; 408.367.7255; www.sjrep.com.

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Palo Alto Players AS THE OLDEST, continuously running theater company on the peninsula, Palo Alto Players wants to expose as many people to the theater as it possibly can. “That’s a big challenge these days. With all different kinds of media that is available, I think theater is still, and will continue to be, relevant,” says Matt Sameck, operations manager. “We bring that message and that idea through classics, through new plays and by showing people all the vibrancy that is here for them in their own community.” Palo Alto Players opens its 79th season in September with Pete ’n’ Keely, a musical revue by James Hindman. Pete Bartel and Keely Stevens, once America’s singing sweethearts, are preparing to face each other for the ﬁrst time in ﬁve years—on live TV. The musical tracks the duo as they relive their musical careers, their romance and their eventual divorce. “It’s a staged version of a live taping of one of the musical variety shows from the ’60s, like a Sonny and Cher,” Sameck explains. The troupe then shifts gears to a Shakespearean classic with Romeo and Juliet in November. “The director of The King and I [Bill Olson] had a really strong vision in terms of what he thought he could bring to the story,” says Sameck. “He wanted to give it a bold new feeling and really bring something new into it so people who have seen it before will have something new to discover.” This season’s theme, “Making Every Minute Count,” is about “taking advantage of things that you have and are important to you,” says Sameck. “Things change, and in light of that, you have to learn what is important in life.”

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Jewtopia June 11–27, 2010.

Available at your local bookstore or at

Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middleﬁeld Road, Palo Alto; 650.329.0891; www.paplayers.org.

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TheatreWorks THIS FALL, the San Jose Stage Company is branching out with a more international perspective, according to artistic director Randall King. “There is really more of a comparative element here, I think,” says King when contrasting the 2009–10 session to his past theater lineups. “We’re opening with [Martin] McDonagh, who is an Irishman raised in London. Then there is a piece by Conor McPherson, who is one of the hot new Irish playwrights. We’ve never done a Stoppard play, and then we go straight into Americana with Mae West and Tuna.” In the past, the almost 30-year-old professional theater company has stuck to producing primarily contemporary American playwrights, but this year San Jose Stage is opening with an uncharacteristically surreal dark comedy titled The Pillowman. The Tony Award–winning play is the story of a young writer living in a totalitarian state who ﬁnds himself being interrogated by government ofﬁcials for his tall tales. “It’s really McDonagh’s 21st-century Grimm’s fairy tale for adults,” says King. Filling the holiday card is The Seafarer, a comical Irish fable by Conor McPherson about a group of friends who get an unexpected visit from Satan on Christmas Eve. The theater’s largest show of the season will be Tom Stoppard’s Rock ’n’ Roll. Jessica Fromm

The Pillow Man Sept. 23–Oct. 18. The Seafarer Nov. 18–Dec. 20. Rock ’n’ Roll Feb. 10–March 7, 2010. Dirty Blonde April 7–May 2, 2010. Red, White and Tuna June 2–July 4, 2010. The Stage, 490 S. First St., San Jose; $20–$45; 408.283.7142; www.sjstage.com.

Performing Arts Broadway and More

MACLA

Flint Center, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino; 408.864.5885.

500 S. First St., San Jose; 408.938.3594.

Cirque Dreams Illumination: Oct. 27–28 at 7:30pm.

Marga Gomez, Thai Rivera, Marty Grimes, Comedy for the People: Sept. 27 at 3 and 7pm.

Irving Berlin’s ‘I Love a Piano’: Nov. 19 at 7:30pm.

John Jota Leaños/Imperial Silence Performing Arts Residency: Oct. 19–25.

Community School of and Arts

Gustavo Arellano, Ask a Mexican: Nov. 4 at 7pm.

230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View; 650.917.6800, ext. 314. Uri Caine, Stanford Lively Arts Informance Series: Oct. 8 at 6pm.

The 408 Sessons, Youth Slam Poetry Open-Mic: Dec. 4 at 7pm.

San Jose Taiko

Family Concert, Dr. Noize Live, electronic music: Oct. 18 at 2 and 4pm.

Heritage Theater, 1 W. Campbell Ave., Campbell; 408.866.2700.

Contrasts Quartet, Stanford Lively Arts Informance Series: Nov. 17 at 6pm. Family Concert, Aux Cajunals: Dec. 13 at 2 and 4pm.

Rhythm Spirit Concert, annual showcase for the drumming prowess of the Japantown ensemble: Sept. 11 at 8pm and Sept. 12 at 2 and 8pm.

Evenings of Cultural Arts

South Bay Guitar Society

Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre, 550 E. Remington Ave., Sunnyvale; 408.733.6611. Golden Bough, America Bound!: Sept. 12 at 8pm. Mahealani Uchiyama and Ka Ua Tuahine Polynesian Dance Company: Oct. 17 Bayland Dancing, Rainbow Land: Nov. 28 at 8pm. VOENA, Voices of Eve ’n’ Angels: Dec. 12 at 8pm.

Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. Fifth St., San Jose; 408.292.0704. Tapestry Arts Festival, classical guitar stage: Sept. 5 in downtown San Jose. Steve Ling: Sept. 22 at noon at Evergreen Valley College, San Jose Hanser-McClellan Guitar Duo: Oct. 17 at 8pm. SJSU Guitar Quartet: Oct. 22 at noon at City Hall, San Jose.

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WHEN TheatreWorks artistic director Robert Kelley was composing the lineup for his company’s 40th anniversary season, he found himself reﬂecting on how far the Palo Alto–based professional theater has come in the last four decades. “From the beginning to where we are now, we have really traveled an incredible distance and I’m truly proud of that,” says Kelly.

Kelly founded TheatreWorks back in 1970, as a stage workshop for high school and college students. In those heady early days, the small company often performed its original musical productions in parking garages, warehouses SHORT-DISTANCE CALL !Gsbodjt!Kvf!)mfgu*! and parks. Now boasting 10,000 boe!Qvo!Cboeiv!buufnqu!up!dpnnvojdbuf!jo! ÕZfmmpx!Gbdf/Ö subscribers and an annual budget of $7.2 million, TheatreWorks has earned a shining reputation for its original new works and diverse programming. “We have gone from being a very young and somewhat amateur theater,” says Kelley. “With what I feel is a great deal of integrity, commitment and spirit, we’ve emerged as the Bay Area’s third-largest theater and one of America’s major professional companies.” If there is one theme that ties together most of TheatreWorks’ 2009–10 plays, it’s father-son issues, Kelley says. Tinyard Hill, the rollicking country musical that kicked off the New Works Festival back in July, featured a singing father-son blacksmith team. Yellow Face, an Obie-winning memoir by David Henry Hwang (M. Butterﬂy) that premieres on Aug. 26, shows a father and son struggling over racial identity but with a humorous view. The Chosen, based on the novel by Chaim Potok, is a story of two Jewish teenagers in Brooklyn dealing with family expectations while discovering their own strengths. The holidays will bring Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas, a family show featuring old-time carols and even an appearance by President Abraham Lincoln. In January, the company presents the world premiere of the musical romance Daddy Long Legs. José Cruz González’s Sunsets and Margaritas will crash, literally, onto their stage this spring. This new play opens with a car actually smashing through the wall of a cantina, launching the action of this Mexican theater–tinged comic confection. The pillar of the season will be the classic drama To Kill a Mockingbird, which Kelley says he’s been saving for the company’s anniversary: “It just summarizes America in so many ways. It’s not just an emotional roller coaster, it’s a play that deals with the prejudice that has hounded us for many years, and what I think we are in the slow process of surmounting as Americans.” TheatreWorks closes the season with the regional premiere of Opus, a dramedy that centers on a group of orchestra performers. “It’s our 40th season, so to conclude it with something about the making of art, the process and people behind works of art that matter and that linger in your mind, that was something I was particularly drawn to,” Kelley says.

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Yellow Face Aug. 26–Sept. 20 in Mtn. View. The Chosen Oct. 7–Nov. 1 in Mtn. View. A Civil War Christmas Dec. 2–27 in Palo Alto Daddy Long Legs Jan. 20–Feb. 14, 2010, in Mtn. View. Sunsets and Margaritas March 10–April 4, 2010, in Palo Alto. To Kill a Mockingbird April 7–May 2, 2010 in Mtn. View. Opus June 2–27, 2010, in Mtn. View. Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View, and the Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middleﬁeld Road, Palo Alto; tickets are $24–$62; 650.463.1960; www.theatreworks.org.

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Stanford Lively Arts

‘The Othello Syndrome’ by Uri Caine: Oct. 10 at 8pm.

AS A Brazilian expat living in the United States since the early ’80s, percussionist Cyro Baptista, one of the fall stars at Stanford Lively Arts, got an earful every night from his former fellow countrymen when he toured with Paul Simon for the Rhythm of the Saints album. The charge at the time, of course, was that Simon had become some kind of music imperialist, “exploiting” various countries by forcing their musicians to be exposed to an audience of millions.

Emerson String Quartet: Oct. 28 at 8pm.

“People would say, ‘You are stealing my culture!’” Baptista recalls. “It was bullshit. In Brazil, they play rock & roll every day! Are you going to tell me Elvis Presley was Brazilian? People don’t realize he didn’t die, he just went home to live in São Paulo.” But Baptista, a headbanger of choice for not just Simon but Herbie Hancock, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, David Byrne, Brian Eno and countless others, can’t be called a purist by

Staging Zone Actors Theatre Center Theatre on San Pedro Square, 29 N. San Pedro St., San Jose; reserved seating $25; 408.925.5500.

Anonymous 4—Secret Voices, the Sisters of Las Huelgas, music of 13th-century Spain: Oct. 21 at 8pm at Memorial Church. Cyro Baptista: Oct. 30 at 8pm. St. Lawrence String Quartet, Haydn Celebration: Nov. 1 at 2:30pm. A Portrait of Leonard Bernstein, with Jamie Bernstein and Michael Barrett: Nov. 7 at 8pm. The Prokoﬁev Project: Nov. 12–15, various times and locations. Contrasts Quartet, 20th-century classical inspired by folk music: Nov. 18 at 8pm. ‘From the Top’ with Christopher O’Riley: Dec. 5 at 8pm. A Chanticleer Christmas: Dec. 10 at 8pm at Memorial Church.

Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford; 650.725.ARTS.

Lyric Theatre

Fall One-Act Festival: Oct. 24–25.

West Valley Light Opera

Montgomery Theater, Market and San Carlos streets, San Jose; 408.986.1455.

The Saint Plays, by Erik Ehn: Nov. 6–14.

Saratoga Civic Theater, 13777 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga; 408.268.3777.

Cinderella, by Rodgers & Hammerstein: Oct. 3–11.

South Bay Musical Theatre

West Side Story: Nov. 7–Dec. 5.

Northside Theatre Company

Previously Saratoga Drama Group; Saratoga Civic Theater, 13777 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga; 408.266.4734.

Little Shop of Horrors: Sept. 12–26.

Olinder Theatre, 848 E. William St., San Jose; 408.288.7820.

Broadway by the Bay

Sylvia, by A.R. Gurney: Oct. 8–Nov. 1.

Performing Arts Center, 600 N. Delaware St., San Mateo; 650.579.5565.

A Christmas Carol: Dec. 9–24.

Children’s Theater

The Producers: Sept. 19–Oct. 10.

California Theatre Center South Valley Civic Theatre Community Playhouse, 1775 Peak Ave., Morgan Hill; www.svct.org.

Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre 550 E. Remington Dr., Sunnyvale; 408.245.2978. Brave Irene: Oct. 17 and 24.

The Full Monty: Sept. 17–Oct. 4.

The Retro Dome

The Butler Did It: Aug. 28–Sept. 13.

Broadway Up Close and Personal: A Tribute to Cy Coleman: Nov. 5–8.

1694 Saratoga Ave., San Jose; 408.404.7711.

Apollo: To the Moon: Oct. 31 and Nov. 7.

Schoolhouse Rock Live!: Sept. 4–Oct. 4

Bugsy Malone Jr., a children’s musical: Nov. 22–Dec. 12.

Jack and the Beanstalk: Nov. 14 and 21. Madeline’s Christmas: Dec. 11–12, 18–19.

Bus Barn Stage Company

San Jose State University

97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos; 650.941.0551.

University Theatre or Todd Theatre, SJSU;

Sunnyvale Community Players

Treasure Island, a new adaptation by Ken Ludwig: Sept. 3–Oct. 3.

The Colored Museum: Oct. 9–17.

Community Theatre, 550 E. Remington Dr., Sunnyvale; 408.783.6611.

The Magic Carpet Theatre: Cinderella: Nov. 13–Dec. 7.

Once Upon a Mattress: Sept. 18–Oct. 11.

The 2009 Follies: Oct. 8–10. A Christmas Pudding, a collection of holiday memoirs: Nov. 19–Dec. 19.

El Teatro Campesino El Teatro Playhouse, 705 Fourth St., San Juan Bautista; 831. 623.2444. Sam Burguesa and the Pixie Chicks: Runs through Sept. 19.

The Fantasticks: Oct. 20–Nov. 22.

Santa Clara Players Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, Don Avenue near Warburton, Santa Clara; 408.248.7993 Cabin Fever, a Texas Tragicomedy: Oct. 30– Nov. 21.

Santa Clara University Fess Park Studio Theatre or Louis B. Mayer Theatre, SCU; 408.554.4015.

Tabia African American Theatre Ensemble

The Elves and the Shoemaker: Dec. 5.

Children’s Musical Theater San Jose Montgomery Theater, Market and San Carlos streets, San Jose; www.cmtsj.org. Oliver!: Dec. 4–13 13, the Musical: Nov. 18–22.

Theatre on San Pedro Square, 29 N. San Pedro St., San Jose; 408.272.9924.

Peninsula Youth Theatre

Mirror, Mirror of My Soul: Mystical Reﬂections of Four Legendary Songstresses: Aug. 28–30.

Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View; 650.903.6000. Annie: Nov. 14–22.

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Tabard Theatre Company IN THE years since Tabard Theatre Company settled into Theatre on San Pedro Square, it’s become a hub of the downtown San Jose theater community. The 100-plus-seat theater is striding into the fall season with the world premiere of A Taffeta Wedding, the third Taffeta staple from playwright Mark Lewis. Audiences will be swept back to 1964 for the world’s first onair quadruple wedding broadcast by the fittingly named Happily Ever After fictional TV variety show. The four taffeta-toting sisters will marry READY TO TOSS!!Uif!Ubggfubt!ipjtu!uifjs!cpvrvfut!! their four sweatered ijhi!gps!UbcbseÖt!ÕB!Ubggfub!Xfeejoh/Ö sweethearts, the Cardigans. As they ready themselves to take the plunge, the actors will sample tunes from the era. Audiences will hear familiar pop songs like “Locomotion,” “Mister Sandman” and “That’s Amore.” With sold-out shows for the last two Taffeta musicals—The Taffetas and A Taffeta Christmas—Tabard executive director Cathy Spielberger Cassetta said that she is excited for the fall world premiere. “People have asked me over the years, ‘When are the Taffetas coming back?’” As the theater puts finishing touches on the freshly written script, Cassetta explains how her crew works hand-in-hand with Lewis to ensure another success. “We have had influence,” Cassetta says. “We worked back and forth on some of the dialogue. He’s been really great to listen to our ideas.” One aspect audiences can count on is an interactive performance with some unexpected surprises. The stage will be outfitted to look like a TV set where the theater audience can see all the shenanigans that happen on the onstage “backstage” of the televised production. Theatergoers might feel as though they’ve stepped into a time warp when the show gives a few winks and nods to the 1960s variety show days. They’ll be instructed to applaud with the help of “applause” signs. They’ll also experience various live commercials from none other than the Taffetas, who tout fictional Galaxy Beauty Products. The family-friendly production will be sprinkled with tidbits that any age audience can appreciate. “We believe theater is more than a show,” said Cassetta. “We involve the audience as much as possible.”

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A Taffeta Wedding Oct. 23–Nov. 14. Not a Genuine Black Man, with Brian Copeland Nov. 27–29. The Poptimists, with Ted Kopulos Dec. 4–12. Hold On to Love, by James M. Barrie Jan. 29–Feb. 20, 2010. Lady, Be Good, by George and Ira Gershwin March 5–27, 2010. Theatre on San Pedro Square, 29 N. San Pedro St., San Jose; tickets are $10– $35; 408.679.2330; www.tabardtheatre.org.

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Visions of the Fall A STRONG Mexican flavor permeates the fall arts season. MACLA, the center for Latino arts, celebrates its 20th year with a big party on Sept. 4 as part of First Friday along South First Street. The event features music by band Quetzal and coincides with the opening of La Reconquista, a show by Einar and Jamex de la Torre, Mexican-American brothers who jam together blown- and flameworked glass creations with found objects to create complex mashups of preHispanic ritual art with Catholic icons and pop-culture flotsam and jetsam.

Visual Arts On Display Anno Domini 366 S. First St., San Jose; Tuesday–Friday, noon–7pm, Saturday, noon–5pm; 408.271.5155. Working in White: Runs through Sept. 19. Exsitu, Insitu, Spanish artist Sam3 creates shadow pieces on urban walls: Runs through Sept. 19.

Cantor Arts Center Stanford University; closed Wednesday– Sunday, 11am–5pm, Thursday till 8pm; 650.723.4177. From the Bronze Age of China to Japan’s Floating World: Runs through Oct. 18. From Their Studios: Sept. 16–Jan. 3. Frank Lobdell Figure Drawings: Nov. 11– Feb. 21.

De Saisset Museum

In Between: The Tension and Attraction of Difference, group show about shifting perceptions: Sept. 29–Nov. 25.

History San José History Park, 1605 Senter Road, San Jose; Tuesday–Sunday, noon–5pm; free; 408.287.2290. She Made It!, local arts and crafts: Runs through Sept. 27.

Wayne Jiang, paintings by SJSU grad— Nov. 27–May 2010.

MACLA 510 S. First St., San Jose; Wednesday– Thursday, noon–7pm, Friday–Saturday, noon–5pm; free; 408. 998.ARTE.

One of the best collections of Mexican art in California used to be housed at the Mexican Museum in San Francisco’s Fort Mason. The museum closed in 2006 in anticipation of moving to a new home. To keep some of the museum’s remarkable collection before the public, the Palo Alto Art Center is presenting Treasures From the Mexican Museum: A Spirited Legacy (opening Sept. 26), which samples selections from the museum’s holdings in pre-Hispanic, Colonial-era, modern and folk art. Artists represented will include Orozco, Posada, Rivera, Tamayo and and Covarrubias.

La Reconquista, works in glass and mixedmedia by Einar and Jamex de la Torre: Sept. 2–Oct. 24, artists’ talk Oct. 15. Twentieth Anniversary Block Party: Sept. 4, 6–11pm.

The Art of Richard Mayhew: Journey’s End: Sept. 26–Dec. 4.

Gen N, young and midcareer artists on the idea of growing up bilingually: November– December.

The Eclectic Eye: Works From a Private Collection, a mix of big-name artists from an anonymous donor: Sept. 26–Dec. 4.

José Miguel Covarrubias (1904–1957), another astute reviver of pre-Hispanic arts, will be saluted during the Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival, with help from History San José. Born in Mexico and moving to New York in the Jazz Age, Covarrubias was prodigious talent—caricaturist, painter, set designer, author and anthropologist. He drew cartoons for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, studied Balinese, American Indian and Meso-American cultures and, of special interest in the Bay Area, painted six murals for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. After years in storage, the murals were sent to Mexico for restoration. Four of the murals (and some other samples of Covarrubias’ art) will be displayed at San Jose’s City Hall starting Sept. 22, their ﬁrst public appearance in many years.

Home Front, Santa Clara Valley during World War II: Runs through Jan. 31, 2010.

Santa Clara University; Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–4pm; free; 408.554.4528.

A Sense of Place: Location/Inspiration, works in various media by William Keith Hernrietta Shore, Nathan Oliveira and others: Sept. 26–Dec. 4.

The brothers often create large-scale installations that convert ancient structures into treasure troves of surreal kitsch, such as the Aztec stepped pyramid covered with tuck-and-roll naugahyde that they constructed inside MACLA in 1996. This potent, nothing-is-sacred stew of symbols is compelling and provocative—so much so that in 1995 a vandal smashed some de la Torre pieces at another MACLA show. When was the last time a work of art had the power to inspire the masses like that?

One of the leading artists in our area exploring the Mexican-American experience is Enrique Chagoya, who teaches at Stanford. Chagoya, like the de la Torres, is a master Osterizer of symbols from different eras and cultures. In “Illegal Aliens Guide to America” (2006), for instance, a scantily clad cantina dancer wearing an Aztec headdress addresses a shrine to a bleeding Jesus. This work and others by a baker’s dozen of Stanford art instructors are part of an intriguing show coming to the Cantor Art Center in September called From Their Studios. In addition to Chagoya, the exhibits exposes works by photographers Robert Dawson and Lukas Felzmann, painter Kevin Bean (who contributes a potent meeting of Lincoln, Jesus and Julie Andrews in “Sound of Music” drag), sculptor John Edmark and video artists Jan Krawitz and Gail Wight.

Mohr Gallery Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View; Monday–Friday, 9am–7pm, Saturday, 9am– 3pm; 650.917.6800.

Euphrat Museum

Brian Wasson, sculptures: Runs through Sept. 21.

De Anza College, Cupertino; Monday– Thursday, 10am–4pm; 408.864.8836.

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In other art news, the San Jose Museum of Art plans to double down on MACLA by celebrating its 40th anniversary. The occasion will be marked with a gala dinner and party on Oct. 17 at the Fairmont Hotel. For the fall, the museum offers three exhibits devoted to big names: a current display of Alexander Calder mobiles, jewelry and works on paper; an exquisite collection of small-size early Ansel Adams prints; and a look at the print-making skills of Chuck Close, famous as a painter of wall-size photo-realist portraits.

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Eduaro Carrillo, paintings, and Francisco Pancho Jimenez, sculptures: Opening Dec. 11.

Montalvo Arts Center 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga; daily 11am–3pm; 408.961.5800. Ruin Map, local Vietnamese-Americans and Japanese-Americans explore deep

memories in woodblock prints displayed throughout the community: Runs through Dec. 31. Enjoy Your Time, samples from photo and video projects by Connie Samaras: Runs through Sept. 6 in the Project Space. The Mexican Tapes, a video series

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Asian Bodywork CEU Seminars and 125–500 Hour Certification Courses FALL 2009

San Jose; Tuesday– Sunday, 10am–5pm; 408.971.0323.

Medical Qigong I, Sept 6–Dec 6 I Intro to Acupressure, Sept 12 I Foundations of Acupressure, I

The World According to Joyce Gross: Runs through Oct. 25. Fabric Tattoos, the Spirit of the Mola: Runs through Oct. 25.

Sept 12–Dec 19

High Fiber Under Five, sale of ﬁber art: Oct. 30–Nov. 8.

BLOWING GLASS AND MINDS

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Palo Alto Art Center 1313 Newell Rd., Palo Alto; Tuesday– Saturday, 10am–5pm, Sunday, 1-5pm, plus 7–9pm Thursday; 650.329.2366. Radius 2009; Stephen De Staebler; Danae Mattes: All three shows end Aug. 30.

Still Crazy, an exhibit of crazy quilts: Nov. 17–Feb. 7.

Intro to Shiatsu, Sept 13 I Foundations of Shiatsu,

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

560 S. First St., San Jose; Tuesday– Friday, 10am–5pm, Thursday till 8pm, Saturday, noon–5pm; 408.283.8155. Ice Floe, an installation by Christel Dillbohner: Runs through Sept. 20. NextNew Green, environmental art: Runs through Sept. 20. Fall Exhibition and Auction: Oct. 2–24. Repurpose, artists working with recycled material: Nov. 7–Jan 23. Theodora Varnay Jones: Nov. 7– Feb. 20.

Natalie & James Thompson Gallery

Manufactured, objects that combine and question art, craft and design: Runs through Sept. 25.

Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, display and auction of art glass: Sept. 29–Oct. 4.

Collaborations: Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw, two Bay Area sculptors: Oct. 6–Nov. 6.

Downtown San Jose, 200 E. Santa Clara St., San Jose

Triton Museum of Art

San Jose Museum of Art

Patricia Bengston-Jones, Life Journey Motion, sculptures: Runs through Sept. 27.

Alexander Calder: Color in Motion, mobiles, jewelry and works on paper: Runs through Dec. 13. Todd Schorr: American Surreal: Runs through Sept. 16. Variations on a Theme, works by contemporary artists: Runs through Feb. 7, 2010. Ansel Adams: Early Works: Sept. 5– Feb. 28. Chuck Close Prints, Process and Collaboration: Oct. 6–Jan. 10.

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles 520 S. First St.,

Sept 13–Oct 18

Come learn a new modality, improve your skills and earn continuing education credits. All courses open to the public.

Tai Chi Qi Gong & Self Defense, Sept 15–Nov 17

No prerequisites for these classes.

Five BraNches university

School of Asian Massage & Healing Arts San Jose Campus 3031 Tisch Way, San Jose CA 95128 Contact Mimi Latno at (408) 260-0208 sjextension@fivebranches.edu www.fivebranches.edu

Pre-Postmodern Swiss Posters: Nov. 17–Dec. 18.

The Lost Murals of Covarrubias, presented by San José Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival and History San José: Opens Sept. 22–March 2010.

110 S. First St., San Jose; Tuesday– Sunday, 11am–5pm; 408.294.2787.

San Jose State University, Art Building, San Jose; 408.924.4328

Treasures From the Mexican Museum: A Spirited Legacy: Sept. 26–April 18.

San Jose City Hall

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1505 Warburton Ave., Santa Clara; Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm, Thursday till 9pm; 408.247.3754.

Aki Mori, Rain, photographs: Runs through Oct. 4. Contemporary Still Lifes: Runs through Sept. 7. Pastel Society of the West Coast: Runs through Sept. 27. A Closer Look, Terry Kreiter, Darrell Phelps, Lynn Todaro: Oct. 10–Dec. 6. Terry Acebo Davis: Oct. 5–Nov. 29.

Fill your social calendar with exciting activities and meet great new friends to share them with. Events and Adventures is an activities club specializing in fun and friendship for singles. We have something for everyone, including: • Cultural Outings • Concerts • Boating • Sporting Events • Comedy Nights • Travel • Group Games • Wine Tastings • Horseback Riding

Kerry Vander Meer: Oct. 10–Nov. 29.

WORKS/San José 451 S. First St., San Jose; 408.256.6250.

Call us today at 800-386-0866 or visit us online at eventsandadventures.com.

Polar Identity, group show by CADRE New Media: Runs through Sept. 11.

The best new way to meet singles!

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Opera San José

Music Chanticleer Men’s vocal chorus; 415.392.4400 In Time of . . . Songs of Love & Loss, War & Peace; works by Palestrina, Ligeti, Chen Yi and Gershwin: Sept. 17 at 8pm at Mission Santa Clara. A Chanticleer Christmas: Dec. 10 at Memorial Church, Stanford, and Dec. 22 at 6 and 8:3opm at Mission Santa Clara.

Fremont Symphony Orchestra Smith Center, Ohlone College, 43600 Mission Blvd., Fremont; 510.794.1659. The World of Opera: Sept. 26 at 8pm. Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker: Dec. 5–6 at 2pm.

Ives Quartet St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto; 650.224.7849.

Middleﬁeld Rd, Palo Alto; www.paphil.org. Orchestra Concert 1, featuring pieces by Kodály, Bartók, Dohnányi and Beethoven, with cellist Csaba Onczay: Oct. 24 at 8pm. Chamber Concert: Nov. 14 at 8pm at Palo Alto Art Center, Auditorium. Orchestra Concert II, works by Bizet, Hanson, Dukas and Brahms, with violinist Claudia Bloom and cellist Thomas Shoebotham: Dec. 5 at 8pm.

Peninsula Symphony Performing Arts Center, 600 N.. Delaware St., San Mateo, and Flint Center, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino; 650.941.5291. Natasha Paremski Plays Rachmaninoff: Oct. 16 at 8pm in San Mateo and Oct. 17 at 8pm in Cupertino. Holiday Concert: Nov. 20 at 8pm and Nov. 22 at 1:30pm at Stanford Memorial Church.

Philharmonia Baroque

Putting the Pieces Together, works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Quincy Porter: Oct. 4 at 7pm in San Jose and Oct. 9 at 8pm in Palo Alto.

First United Methodist, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto; 415.392.4400.

Los Gatos Community Concert Association

The Concerto—An Adversarial Friendship: Oct. 9 at 8pm.

Los Gatos High School Theatre, 20 High School Court, Los Gatos; 408.377.1106.

The Passion of Dido, by Purcell with six soloists and the Philharmonia Chorale: Nov. 6 at 8pm.

The Canadian Tenors: Oct. 11 at 2:30pm.

Gloria! A Holiday Celebration: Dec. 4 at 8pm.

Mission Chamber Orchestra

Redwood Symphony

Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. Fifth St., San Jose; 408.236.3350.

Apotheosis of the Dance: Sept. 15 at 8pm.

Cañada College Theatre, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City; 650.366.6872.

A Touch of Brazil, works by Villa-Lobos, Ewazen and Cesena, plus Beethoven and Mendelssohn: Sept. 26 at 7:30pm.

Gershwin & Ravel: Oct. 3 at 8pm.

Classic Treasures, selections by Mozart, Donizetti and Beethoven: Nov. 7 at 7:30pm.

Stravinsky’s Firebird: Dec. 5 at 8pm.

Mission College Symphony

Flint Center, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino; 415.864.6000.

Mission College Main Building, 3000 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara; Afternoon Serenade, selections by Michael Hawkins, Dvorak and Brahms: Nov. 8 at 3pm.

New Century Chamber Orchestra First United Methodist, 625 Hamilton Ave., Palo Alto; 415.357.1111, ext. 4.

Halloween Extra: Oct. 20 at 7pm.

San Francisco Symphony

Opening Night, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas: Sept. 12 at 8pm. Bronfman Plays Brahms: Oct. 8 at 8pm. Vanska Conducts Beethoven’s Symphony no. 8: Oct. 31 at 8pm.

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GIRLS JUST wanna have fun, but they often pay the price. Such is the fate of Manon, the high-spirited teenage heroine of Abbé Prévost’s 18th-century novel. Sent to a convent to tame her rambunctiousness, Manon falls in love with a dashing chevalier. The two run away to Paris, only to learn that the course of true love is rarely smooth. The chevalier’s father doesn’t approve, and a leering older man (the French minister of ﬁnance, no less) has unseemly designs on Manon. The story lives on most memorably in the Massenet opera, which opens Opera San José’s season. Things end badly for Manon, who is condemned as a woman of low moral character, but she is capable of redemption, says Dianna Shuster, the stage director for this production. “Sometimes she is painted as the royal witch on wheels, but that is a male solution that doesn’t talk at all about the total lack of power that a woman had at that time; she gets a raw deal.” Manon forsakes true love in TRUE LOVE!!Lipsj!Ebtupps!boe!Bmfyboefs! Cpzfs!dmjoh!up!ibqqjoftt!jo!ÕNbopo/Ö order to save her true lover, and that “makes it an epic story.” Shuster, who used to helm American Musical Theatre of San Jose and now works for Pocket Opera, directed The Elixir of Love last season for OSJ, giving the story an unusual twist by setting Donizetti’s tale in the fruit-growing heyday of Santa Clara Valley. This time around, Shuster is hewing to the original historic setting of 1721. “In these lean times,” Shuster says, “OSJ has a beautiful set of expensive clothes already available [from its 2002 production], and we don’t have to completely rebuild the show.” Shuster goes on to say that even casual opera fans will click with Massenet’s music. “It’s gorgeous music, with lush and beautiful melodies. People will recognize some of these pieces. Since I have a Broadway kind of background, I’m constantly stunned by how many times I hear opera themes and can ﬁnish them with a Broadway lick.” Manon is a large-scale production, even when trimmed a bit from its full length to a reasonable two hours and 25 minutes with two intermissions. There are 35 people onstage in the biggest scene. Given that OSJ double casts its shows, Shuster has to juggle a lot of bodies during the scant 2 1/2 weeks allotted to rehearsals. It’s no wonder that on opening night Shuster likes to sit in the back of the house to take in the big picture.

Michael S. Gant

Brandenburg Concertos: Nov. 20 at 8pm.

Manon Sept. 12–27.

Pictures at an Exhibition—New Traditions: Sept. 11 at 8pm.

Youth Orchestra plays ‘Peter and the Wolf’: Dec. 12 at 3pm

Blolcom Meets Strauss: Nov. 20 at 8pm.

Music for Families: Dec. 19 at 3pm.

The Marriage of Figaro Feb. 6–21, 2010.

Nova Vista Symphony

San Jose Chamber Music Society

La Rondine April 24–May 9, 2010.

West Valley College, 14000 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga; 408.624.1492.

Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. Fifth St., San Jose; 408.286.5111.

Russian Soul and Spirit, Khachaturian, Kabelvsky and Shostakovich: Oct. 10 at 8pm.

Imani Winds: Oct. 3 at 7pm.

Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra

Amernet String Quartet: Nov. 22 at 7pm.

See www.pacomusic.org for details. All That Jazz, with violinist Jeremy Cohen: Oct. 24 at 8pm. Viola Virtuosa, with Sharon Wei: Dec. 19 at 8pm.

Palo Alto Philharmonic Cubberley Theatre, 4000

La Cenerentola Nov. 14–29.

California Theatre, 345 S. First St., San Jose; tickets are $61–$91; 408.437.4450; www.operasj.org.

Verbruggen, Tindemans, Dupress Trio: Nov. 1.

San Jose Chamber Orchestra Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. Fifth St., San Jose; 408.445.9330. Jon Nakamatsu, guest pianist: Aug. 29 at 8pm and Aug. 30 at 7pm. Mendelssohn, Bartok and premiere of ‘Stepping Stones’ by Dan Wyman: Oct. 18 at 8pm.

San Jose Symphonic Choir

Saratoga Symphony

California Theatre, 345 S. First St., San Jose; 408.995.3318.

St. Andrew’s Episcopal, 13602 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga; www.saratogasymphony.com.

You-Sing-It Messiah: Dec. 7 at 7:30pm.

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Works by Boyce, Holst and Elgar with violinist Stephen Waarts: Oct. 18 at 3pm.

Schola Cantorum United Methodist Church, 1675 Winchester Blvd., Campbell, and First Congregational Church, 1985 Louis Road, Palo Alto; 650.254.1700. Beloved Brahms: Oct. 18 at 4pm in Palo Alto. Carols and Classics: Dec. 12 in Campbell and Dec. 13 in Palo Alto.

Peng Peng: Sept. 13 at 3pm. Haochen Zhang: Oct. 11 at 7pm at McAfee Center, Saratoga. Christina and Michelle Naughton: Nov. 14 at 7:30pm. Sandra Wright Shen: Dec. 5 at 7:30pm.

Villa Chamber Music Series Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga; 408.961.5858.

Silicon Valley Symphony

Sonus Quartet: Sept. 20 at 3pm.

See www.siliconvalleysymphony.net for details.

The St. Michael Trio: Oct. 4 at 2pm.

Tribute to Lawrence Granger: Nov. 20 at 7:30pm and Nov. 21 at 7:30pm.

Cypress String Quartet: Nov. 8 at 3pm.

Nutcracker Ballet: Dec. 4 at 7:30pm, Dec. 5 at 2 and 7:30pm and Dec. 6 at 1pm.

Steinway Society Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. Fifth St., San Jose; 408.295.6500.

Winchester Orchestra West Valley College, 14000 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga; Trinity Cathedral, Second and St. John streets, San Jose; 408.866.5302. The Romance of Italian Opera!: Oct. 24 in Saratoga and Oct. 25 in San Jose.

Ballet San Jose BALLET SAN JOSE will be kicking off its expanded 2009/2010 season with a big bang. The company’s performance of the classic comic ballet Coppélia will hit the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts stage a month earlier then usual on Oct. 3, 2009. With new executive director Stephanie Ziesel at the business helm of Ballet San Jose, artistic director Dennis Nahat says that this year he has chosen to do larger-scale ballets that will premier earlier and run longer. “We were looking to major works this season to ignite our subscription series and to start bringing in people who have asked for these ballets over the last few years,” says Nahat. “Coppélia is a good ballet to get the season rolling, because it sort of shocks everybody [in the company] into reality right away.”

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In November, Ballet San Jose will dance another big production: Daryl Gray’s Pirates of Penzance!. This swashbuckling crowd-pleaser, last seen at Ballet San Jose in 2004, will feature four onstage vocalists performing the music of Gilbert and Sullivan. Two weeks later, the company will open with a three-week run of The Nutcracker. This year marks the 30th anniversary of this particular production by Ballet San Jose and will include the whole company, 150 children onstage and a full symphony orchestra. Indeed, this year the ballet will be using the services of a live orchestra for all its

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Symphony Silicon Valley Holiday Extravaganza: Dec. 12 in Saratoga and Dec. 13 in San Jose.

Western Ballet

Dance

The Nutcracker: Dec. 4–6.

Abhinaya Dance Company Various venues; www.abhinaya.org

Opera

Ramayana Festival: Sept. 12.

Mission City Opera

Fall Concert: Nov. 14 at 7pm and Nov. 15 at 2pm.

Center for the Performing Arts, 3250 Monroe St., Santa Clara; 408.749.7607.

Yuva Bharati with Rasika Kumar: Dec. 6 at 4pm.

Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View; 650.903.6000.

Santa Clara Ballet

True of Carols by Michael Taylor, with ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’: Dec. 5–6.

Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy., Santa Clara; 408.247.9178.

West Bay Opera

The Nutcracker: Dec. 12–13.

Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middleﬁeld Road, Palo Alto: 650.424.9999.

Smuin Ballet

La bohème: Oct. 16–25.

Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View; 650.903.6000. Holiday Program: Dec. 9–13.

productions—a welcome commitment in the age of synthesizers and recorded playback. Looking beyond fall, the ballet presents Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet next Feb. 27– March 7. Nahat originally choreographed the roles of the star-crossed lovers more than two decades ago for the then Cleveland Ballet principal dancers Karen Gabay and Raymond Rodriguez, who are both now with Ballet San Jose. “It’s a great drama for the ballet that requires a lot of acting, as well as the artistry involved, to bring that story to life,” Nahat reflects. Nahat has filled the rest of the season with two very diverse Spring Repertories. The first will include a rare Nahat work titled Moments. “There are moments of delight, moments of sadness, moments of loneliness, and so they are moments of life all in abstract dance forms,” Nahat says of his choreography. Spring Repertory 1 will also include Salut d’Amour, performed by three couples to the melancholy violin and piano of Elgar, and the little-performed George Balanchine piece Square Dance, which will boast a live caller onstage. Spring Repertory 2 will close the season with Jardin aux Lilas, a ballet of proper manners that takes place in an English garden, which then contrasts with the exuberant can-can dancing of Gaîté Parisienne. Also included will be the pivotal Balanchine neoclassic work Agon. “It’s very a deceptively difficult ballet to do,” Nahat comments, “as all of [Balanchine’s] ballets are, but the company will be in tiptop condition by that time of year. That’s why I chose to put it on later in the year, because it takes that long to get the company sharp as nails.”

Jessica Fromm

Coppélia Oct. 3 at 8pm, Oct. 4 at 1:30pm, Oct. 8–9 at 8pm, Oct. 10 at 1:30 and 8pm and Oct. 11 at 11:30pm.

THE DOLOROUS economic times have hit arts groups especially hard, because, as Andrew Bales, president of Symphony Silicon Valley, observes, there are no productivity savings in the arts. A full orchestra produces a richness of aural immersion that simply can’t be duplicated with smaller ensembles or synthesizers. This year’s season for the symphony is a little tighter, with eight programs instead of seven, but enriched by the addition of the Target Summer Pops shows running currently and the new “Broadway in Concert” Series. For “Broadway in Concert,” the symphony will present complete performances with vocalists of Kiss Me Kate, The Music Man and Porgy & Bess. Although some people might miss the dancing, these presentations actually outstrip current standards on Broadway, where, as Bales ruefully notes, “leaner orchestrations, with no strings,” have become the norm. The programs also help ﬁll in some of the void left by the abrupt demise of American Musical Theatre of San Jose. “When AMT closed,” Bales says, “that presented an opportunity to use a full orchestra for Broadway in Concert.” As always, Bales explains, the symphony’s mission is “to keep our musicians employed, to try to protect our musicians.” For fall, Bales points to some signiﬁcant highlights. The opening program, “Ravel & Brahms,” features area favorite George Cleve conducting, providing a link to the symphony’s previous incarnation. Also connecting to the past is pianist Gwendolyn Mok, who learned her Ravel from the last teacher who sat by the side of the great composer himself. Mok will perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G. When Mok performed the piece a couple of years ago for the 150th anniversary of SJSU, “she encouraged us to do a smaller, Mozartian string section,” Bales recalls. “It made a big difference in dynamics—the piano rang out.” Bales also recommends Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter, who handles Beethoven’s Piano Concert no. 1 on the second program. “She just won the Gilman Award, the largest prize in music. She is a world-class pianist just emerging.” Looking ahead to 2010, Bales is especially excited by the January program, “Scheherazade—Tales From the East,” at which the symphony will unveil its world-premiere commissioned work for symphony and three Chinese instruments (sheng, erhu and pipa) by local composer Gordon Lee of the Firebird Youth Orchestra. Amazingly, given the temper of the times, Bales says that the symphony “actually grew” this year. A strong subscriber base with a penchant for generous donations helps. The secret, Bales believes, is that “the excellence of live music has an appeal—it moves people.”

Michael S. Gant

Summer Pops Classical Mystery Tour, Aug. 29 at 7pm, free; Brass Band & Ice Cream Social, Aug. 30 at 3pm; SJSU Mall, free.

Ravel & Brahms Oct. 10 at 8pm, Oct. 11 at 2:30pm. Copland & Beethoven Oct. 22 at 7:30pm, Oct. 24 at 8pm and Oct. 25 at 2:30pm. The Four Seasons, Stephen Prutsman conducts, Pamela Hakl on oboe and Christina Mok on violin Dec. 5 at 8pm and Dec. 6 at 2:30pm. Carols in the California Dec. 12 at 8pm. Scheherazade—Tales From the East, Paul Polivnick conducts Jun. 9 at 8pm and Jan 10 at 2:30pm, 2010.

Porgy & Bess, Leslie Dunner conducts March 18 at 7:30pm, March 20 at 8pm, March 21 at 2:30pm, 2010.

Cellos & Tchaikovsky, Gregory Vajda conducts May 13 at 7:30pm, May 15 at 8pm and May 16 at 2:30pm, 2010.

Mozart & Mahler, Leslie Dunner conducts June 5 at 8pm and June 6 at 2:30pm, 2010.

Pirates of Penzance! Nov. 19–20 at 8pm, Nov. 21 at 1:30 and 8pm and Nov. 22 at

Broadway in Concert:

1:30pm.

Kiss Me Kate, William Liberatore conducts Oct. 16–17 at 8pm, Oct. 18 at

Nutcracker Dec. 10–27.

2:30pm.

Romeo and Juliet Feb. 27–March 7, 2010.

The Music Man, Barbara Day Turner conducts Jan. 15–16 at 8pm and Jan. 17

Spring Repertory 1 April 8–11, 2010.

at 2:30pm, 2010.

Spring Repertory 2 May 6–9, 2010.

Porgy & Bess March 12–13 at 8pm and March 14 at 2:30pm.

The San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd., San Jose; $25–$85; 408.288.2800; www.balletsj.org.

California Theatre, 345 S. First St., San Jose; 408.286.2600; www.symphonysiliconvalley.org.

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Festivals

For More Fall Festivals, see www.metroactive.com and sanjose.com

September

activities. Sept. 12–13, 10am–6pm; free. Castro Street, Mountain View. 650.968.8378.

Dancing on the Square

Renaissance Faire

Sept. 1, mambo; Sept. 8, belly dancing; Sept. 15, swing; Sept. 22, salsa; Sept. 27, lindy; Oct. 25 lindy. Noon–2:30pm; free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City.

With theater, juggling, mime, wine tasting, gourmet food and arts and crafts. Saturdays and Sundays, Sept. 12–Oct. 18, 10am–6pm; $10–$35. Casa de Fruta, 10031 Pacheco Pass Hwy., Hollister. 408.847.FAIR.

Music on the Square Groove Kings. Sept. 4, 6–8pm; free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City.

Scottish Highland Games Featuring First Battalion Scots Guards and U.S. Marine Corps, sheep dog trials and highland dancing. Sept. 5–6, 9am–6pm; $17–$25. Alameda County Fairgrounds, 4501 Pleasanton Ave., Pleasanton.

Tapestry Arts Festival A annual celebration of local art, crafts and live entertainment. Sept., 5–6, 10am–6pm and Sept. 7, 10am–5pm; free. San Carlos and Santa Clara streets, San Jose. 408.494.3590.

Taste of Saratoga Dancing, food, wine vendors and live music. Formally known as “Celebrate Saratoga.” Sept. 12, noon–8pm; free. Big Basin Way, downtown Saratoga. 408.867.0753.

Desert Dance Festival Activities and contests with an ancient Egyptian theme. Sept. 12, 10am–11pm, Sept. 13, 10am–8:30pm. SES Hall, 1375 Lafayette St, Santa Clara, 510.667.9333.

Kepa Junkera An accordion player from the Basque country performs. Sept. 12, 6–8pm; free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City.

Great Train Robberies and Shootouts

Los Altos Summer Community Picnic

Plus other re-enactments by notorious outlaws. Sept. 5–6. Roaring Camp Railroad, Graham Hill Road, Felton. 831.335.4484.

Food, live music and an old car show. Sept. 13, 1am–5pm; free. Civic Center, San Antonio Road and Hillview Avenue, Los Altos. 408.947.2790.

Millbrae Art and Wine Festival Live music, arts and crafts, dragon dancing and Taiko drums. Sept. 5–6, 10am–5pm; free. Broadway Avenue, downtown Millbrae. 650.697.7324.

Ardenwood Rail Fair Explore local railroad history, see model railroads in action and give a hand car a try. Sept. 5–7, 10am–4pm; call for prices. Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont. 866.417.7277.

Antique Autos in History Park A large display of old cars from around the Bay Area. Sept. 13, noon–5pm; free. History Kelley Park, San Jose. 408.997.0879.

Vintage Santa Clara Wine and Food Festival An annual celebration from the Santa Clara University Alumni Association. Sept. 13, 1:30–5pm; $45. Mission Gardens, Santa Clara University. 408.554.6800.

Kings Mountain Art Fair

Target Family Days

The annual event highlights more than 150 juried artists showing their works beneath the redwoods. Plus food and kids’ events. Sept. 5–7, 10am–5pm; free. 13889 Skyline Blvd., Woodside. 650.851.2710.

The Latin theme includes music by the Cuban Cowboys and Andy Z and the Andyland Band, plus a juggler and a Clown Clubhouse. Sept. 13, 11am–3pm; free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City.

Labor Day Weekend Fireworks

Music on the Square

Sept. 6, evening; free with admission. Paramount’s Great American, 4701 Great America Pkwy., Santa Clara. 408.986.1776, ext. 8858.

With a tribute to the Beatles by the Sun Kings. Sept. 18, 6–8pm; free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City.

Labor Day Grill and Chill

Displays from regional artists, live entertainment and food and wine from local vendors. Sept. 19–20, 10am–5pm; free. Central Park, 969 Kiely Blvd., Santa Clara. 408.615.3140.

Family, food and entertainment. Sept. 7, 10am– 4pm; free. Calvary Church, 16330 Los Gatos Blvd., Los Gatos. 408.356.5126.

Music on the Square With Jeffrey Broussard and the Creole Cowboys. Sept. 11, 6–8pm; free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City.

San Jose Taiko Annual concert by drumming troupe. Sept. 11 at 8pm and Sept. 12 at 2 and 8pm. Campbell Heritage Theatre, 1 W. Campbell Ave., Campbell. 800.745.3000.

Mtn. View Art & Wine Festival Live music, art displays, goinggreen booths and kids’

Santa Clara Art and Wine Festival

Cupertino Family Fall Festival Enjoy a health and safety fair, green fair and other family activities. Sept. 19–20, 10am– 5pm; free. Cupertino City Hall, 10300 Torre Ave., Cupertino. 408.268.6556.

entertainment. Sept. 20, 10am–6pm; free. Almaden Lake Park, Coleman Road and Almaden Expressway, San Jose.

Art on the Square Works by local artist plus music by Mazacote. Sept. 25, 5–8:30pm, free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City.

Redwood City Salsa Festival A day dedicated to everything salsa. Plus art displays, booths and a kids section. Sat, Sept. 26, noon–8pm; free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway St., Redwood City. 650.780.7000.

Harvest Fair San Jose’s “county fair” features a pumpkin patch and more. Oct. 6, 9am– 4:30pm; free. Emma Prusch Farm Park, 647 S. King Road, San Jose. 408.264.9654.

Music on the Square Neverland plays the music of Michael Jackson. Oct. 9, 6–8pm; free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City.

Willow Glen Founder’s Day

Fall Festival of Arts and Crafts

See the past, present and future of Willow Glen during this parade. Sept. 26, 10:30am–noon; free. Lincoln Avenue and Willow Street, downtown Willow Glen.

Sidewalk sale with paintings, photography and gifts. Oct. 16–17, 10am–6pm and Oct. 18, 10am–5pm; free. Santa Cruz Avenue, at El Camino Real, Menlo Park. 209.325.2818.

West Valley College PowWow

Oktoberfest

A cultural event that embodies the spirit of Native American culture. Sept. 26, noon– midnight; free. West Valley College Learning Services lawn area, 1400 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga. 408.741.4029.

Campbell is turned into a German village. Oct. 17, 10am–6pm and Oct. 18, 10am–5pm; free. Downtown Campbell. 408.378.6252.

Spirit of Japantown Festival With arts, exhibitions and cultural events. Sept. 26, 10am–6pm; free. Fifth and Jackson streets, San Jose.

Diwali Festival A Festival of Lights similar in fashion to India’s four–day celebration. Sept. 26, 10am–6pm; free. Memorial Park, Mary Avenue and Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino. 408.252.7054.

Pet Parade Kids of all ages are invited to participate in this annual parade. Sept. 26, 10am; free. Pick of the Litter Thrift Shop, 1127 Chula Vista, Burlingame. 650.342.2073.

Taste of Morgan Hill Food and entertainment featuring specialties from the town. Sept. 26–27, 10am–6pm; free. Monterey Road, Morgan Hill. 408.779.9444

November San Mateo Harvest Festival Nov. 13–14, 10am–6pm and Nov. 15, 10am– 5pm; $4–$9. San Mateo County Event Center, 2495 S. Delaware St., San Mateo. 415.447.3205.

San Jose Harvest Festival Three days of arts and crafts. Nov. 27, 9am– 6pm, Nov 28, 10am–6pm, Nov 29, 10am–5pm; $4–$9. San Jose Convention Center, 408 S. Almaden St., San Jose. 415.447.3205.

Festival of Lights Parade Celebrate the beginning of the Christmas season with this family parade in downtown Los Altos. Nov. 29, 6–7pm; free. Main and State streets, downtown Los Altos. 650.961.0394.

Italian Family Festival Food, live entertainment, arts and crafts and more. Sept. 29, noon– 10pm and Sept. 30, noon–6pm. Downtown Willow Glen, Lincoln Avenue, San Jose. 408.293.7122.

October Music on the Square Zoostation covers U2. Oct. 2, 6–8pm; free. Courthouse Square, 2200 Broadway, Redwood City.

Los Altos Fall Festival Live entertainment, a classic car show and more. Oct. 3–4, 10am– 5pm; free. Parking plaza behind Main Street, off San Antonio Road, Los Altos. 650.948.1455.

Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

San Jose Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival honors Mexican cultures, music and cuisine. Sept. 20, noon–5pm; free. Children’s Discovery Museum, San Jose. 408.298.5437.

A show and auction of glass works presented by the Bay Area Glass Institute. Exhibit: Sept. 29–30, 10am–9pm and Oct. 1–2, 10am– 5pm. Sale: Oct 3–4, 10am–5pm. Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto. 408.993.2244.

Almaden Valley Art and Wine Festival

Arts and Olive Festival

Live music, wine, food and other

With olive workshops, kids activities

Mariachi Day

and live entertainment. Oct. 4, 10am–5pm; free. Cañada College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City. 650.306.3428.

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WOULD love to have been a ďŹ&#x201A;y on the wall at the brainstorming session when the owners of Santa Claraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Golden Falafel Ball were naming their restaurant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How about â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;5075 SCB,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; after our address on Stevens Creek Boulevard?â&#x20AC;? I imagine someone suggesting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lots of restaurants these days go for those edgy, urban names.â&#x20AC;? Silence ďŹ lls the room. No takers. Then someone else tosses out an idea. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What about naming the restaurant after an ingredient, like â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;garbanzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;cumin.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That could be cool.â&#x20AC;? No good, the others say. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying too hard. Then a wiser, maybe older, man in the room who had been listening patiently speaks up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We make a great falafel,â&#x20AC;? he says with a gravitas that demands attention. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we do. Why not a name that calls to mind our delicious, golden falafel balls? Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s call the restaurant â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Golden Falafel Ball.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; That way there can be no mistake about what we do.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it, everyone agrees.

The Golden Falafel Ball. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so descriptive. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so direct. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so . . . literal. Maybe thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not how the 2year-old restaurant got its name, but in any case I like it, because it gets right to the point. The falafels are indeed golden, and they are so good they merit a big sign across the front of the building touting them. I wrote a roundup of Silicon Valley falafel restaurants a while back, but somehow â&#x20AC;&#x153;Golden Ballsâ&#x20AC;? (as I now call the restaurant) escaped my notice. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my new favorite for falafels. You know how some falafels are kind of dry and cakey inside? Golden Ballsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; falafels are nothing like that. They are crisp outside, but the interior is moist and rich, almost creamy. For me, they call to mind a potato croquette or hush puppy, and yet theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not as heavy or dense. The secret may be the addition of ďŹ&#x201A;our to the garbanzo bean, onion, parsley and spice mixture. Rolled into a sandwich with tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, pickles and tahini sauce ($5.99), itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a memorable meal. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not crazy about the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pita bread, though.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty fresh and light but too thick and bready. A pita is a ďŹ&#x201A;at bread, but these are too puffy and spongy. But I quibble. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great sandwich. Golden Balls serves more than falafels. Another great sandwich is the hulking sabiche ($5.99), slices of fried eggplant loaded into a pita with sliced hardboiled eggs, lettuce, cucumbers and tomatoes. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a self-serve condiment bar with hot sauce, tahini sauce and pickles, ingredients I dutifully packed into my sandwich. For a generous appetizer, go for the hummus ful ($5.99) a mound of creamy hummus topped with garlicky fava beans and a hardboiled egg with wedges of sliced pita on the side. The babaghanouj ($4.99) is a standout, too. The chicken shawarma plate ($8.99) is pretty good, but the chicken lacked the tangy goodness that deďŹ nes top-notch shawarma for me. The french fries served with it, however, were as good as McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little I can praise at McDonaldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, but they make a good fry, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just as satisfying here. The Golden Falafel Ball is billed as a Mediterranean restaurant, so

the inclusion of chicken schnitzel ($8.99) may seem out of place. But at an Israeli-American-owned restaurant, the battered and fried chicken dish ďŹ ts right in. Schnitzel means â&#x20AC;&#x153;cutletâ&#x20AC;? in German, and the dish traveled to Israel with Jews who immigrated there. At Golden Balls, the chicken is pounded thin and dipped in a sesame-ďŹ&#x201A;ecked egg and ďŹ&#x201A;our batter and fried a light but crispy golden brown. The meat is juicy and tender and a squeeze of lemon on top really sets it off. For something to drink, try a bottle of Malt Star ($2.50), an Israeli-made nonalcoholic beverage that tastes like a sweeter version of Guinness stout. I love it. With the Israeli soap operas playing on TV and the preponderance of Hebrew spoken by customers seated in the simple but clean dining room, the restaurant appears to be a favorite for Silicon Valley Jews and Israeli expats even though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not kosher. But the quality of the food, especially those namesake golden balls, has earned it a much wider following.

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FEW MONTHS AGO, I wrote in this column about how my family and I were struggling with sky-high grocery bills. Unlike rent, utilities and car payments, my food bill swings wildly, and I wanted to get our spending under control. As someone who likes to eatâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and oftenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been easy. I promised that I would report back on my progress, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been putting it off because things havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gone very well. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still spending too much, but we have had some successes. Planning out a weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of meals really helps keep costs down and avoids expensive and numerous trips to the store to pick up â&#x20AC;&#x153;just a few thingsâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a few things that add up to hundreds of dollars by the end of the month. But even though I had generally stuck to my shopping list, that discipline had failed to keep costs down, because I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sticking to a budget. Eating mainly vegetarian has been great way to hold expenditures down, too, while also keeping my carbon footprint to a minimum. But thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s another story. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve also learned to love beans. Black beans. White beans. Garbanzo beans. Cranberry beans. Pinto beans. Beans (dried, of course) are cheap, full of protein and really versatile. Plus, I love the sight and smell of a pot of beans simmering on the stove all afternoon. By the way, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no need to soak beans overnight. That used to really slow me down. Before cooking, boil them for three minutes and then let them soak in the hot water covered for an hour. Then theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready to go. But without sticking to a budget, eating beans and vegetables only got my family so far. My monthly grocery budget goal is $750. That sounds like a lot to me, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so easy to blow through it, especially when I pass through the wine and beer aisle. So my new strategy is to pull cash out of the bank and put it into an envelope marked â&#x20AC;&#x153;grocery.â&#x20AC;? I generally shop four times a month, so maybe Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll divide it into fourths. But when itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no going over budget when you run out of money. The cash limit will probably require some recalculations to ensure we stay under budget. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also going to keep a better eye out for deals at my local grocery store and farmers market. And Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to dive deeper into the world of beans. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll let you know how it goes. Stett Holbrook (

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OR Santa Cruz Mountain winegrowers, the AD8@=::9 ;>G: that burned more than 7,000 acres of wild lands above Bonny Doon recently came at exactly the wrong time. Of course thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never a good time for a wildďŹ re, but the grapes in local vineyards are starting to ripen, a developmental stage called veraison, in which grapes shift from berry development to berry ripening. The grapes become sweeter and deeper in color during veraison, and at this time theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also particularly vulnerable to â&#x20AC;&#x153;smoke taint,â&#x20AC;? a contaminating ďŹ&#x201A;avor that only appears after fermentation. ?D=C H8=JB68=:G, owner of Feltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s =6AA8G:HI K>C:N6G9H and winner of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Santa Cruz Mountains Commercial Wine Competition â&#x20AC;&#x153;best of showâ&#x20AC;? award for its 2005 Terra Serena vineyard pinot noir, describes the ďŹ&#x201A;avor of smoke tainted wines as â&#x20AC;&#x153;licking a dirty ashtray.â&#x20AC;? Grapes have been known to pick up pleasing hints of ďŹ&#x201A;avor from their surroundings. Cabernet sauvignon from the Napa Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s famed Stagâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Leap District is said to have a whiff of eucalyptus owing in part to the presence of the aromatic trees near the vineyards. A little minty ďŹ&#x201A;avor can be a good thing. But scorched earth? Not so much. Schumacher will be testing his wines for smoke taint, but he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect it to be a problem for him or any other local wineries. While the ďŹ re generated a lot of smoke, he believes it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t produce sufficient density to put local grapes in jeopardy. Wind patterns moved a lot of the smoke offshore toward Monterey. But B6KG>@ CDGI= 6B:G>86, a Santa Rosaâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based technical services company for the wine industry that specializes in taint removal from wine, warns that six to eight hours of very light smoke below the level where you would ďŹ nd it intolerable to remain in the vineyard can cause smoke taint, even if the ďŹ re wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nearby. When the 2009 vintage from the Santa Cruz Mountains is uncorked in the next two years or so, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope critics donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use the words â&#x20AC;&#x153;campďŹ reâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;burnt knobcone pineâ&#x20AC;? to describe local wines. In spite of the ďŹ re, the 2009 harvest is looking to be a good one as long as warm days continue to allow the fruit to ripen. Some winegrowers have had problems with mildew because of higher humidity due to persistent fog, but this vintage is looking better than last year. Last year was something of a bust because of April frost. High winds and heat in May damaged many Bordeaux varieties (i.e., cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, merlot). Some winemakers had to buy grapes from other regions to make up for their losses in 2008. As long as smoke doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t spoil any wine, cooperative weather and a ďŹ re that mercifully spared lives and property are shaping up to make 2009 a year worth toasting. Stett Holbrook

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CHEF SPOTLIGHT

Nick Difu

AISED in a family that was an important part of the Santa Clara Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agricultural heritage, C>8@ 9>;J has brought authenticity and local roots to the new American bistro that bears his name. C>8@Ă&#x2030;H DC B6>C opened in March and quickly established itself as a popular small chef â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant at 35 Main St., in Los Gatos, across from the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legendary Ferrari dealership. In last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best of Silicon Valley balloting, Metro readers chose Nickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Main as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best New Restaurant,â&#x20AC;? and Difu came in second to world-renowned David Kinch of Manresa as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Best Chef.â&#x20AC;? As the saying goes, though, it takes a long time to become an overnight success. Difu spent more than a decade in the back kitchens of Los Gatos restaurants CafĂŠ Marcella, the Wine Cellar and 180 Restaurant. Today, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s his name on the door, and Nick is there to greet patrons each night. 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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RIAN REGAN doesn’t understand why people keep laughing at him. It’s not that he doesn’t think he’s funny. He just thinks laughter is overrated. “Laughter to me is the most bizarre experience,” says Regan. “To physically laugh is so strange. There’s something about it that’s so uncomfortable. You’re gasping for air. Why would you seek that out?” And yet, people do. Which is lucky for Regan, all things considered. As he prepares to perform at Montalvo on Sunday, he’s wrapped his head around the laughter issue. “It’s so pleasurable,” he says. “The psychological joy has to be pretty strong to put up with the physical aspects.” If deconstructing the physiology of laughter makes Regan seem a little overanalytical—well, as his fans know, he deﬁnitely looks at the world from a unique perspective. Unfortunately, the off-kilter spin he puts on his

comedy is often lazily labeled “observational humor.” Perhaps this is because Jerry Seinfeld considers Regan one of his favorite standup acts, but in any case it doesn’t do much to adequately define the wordplay and surreal tangents in Regan’s bits on topics as varied as learning Spanish, kidnapping Russell Crowe and writing banana jokes for Planet of the Apes. Another curious quirk of Regan’s reputation is the media obsession with the fact that he doesn’t curse or do lewd material in his act. In fact, it’s difficult to find a story about him that doesn’t make it seem as if his lack of profanity is just as—or even more—important than his jokes. “I cringe when I read the ‘clean’ headline in a newspaper. I feel like it oversimplifies what I’m trying to do,” he says. “I don’t sit down and think, ‘Man, I’m going to write some clean jokes!’ It’s like someone looking at an Ansel Adams photo and going ‘Wow, those are black

and white! Look how black and white those are!’ It’s like—yeah, but aren’t they pretty good photographs too?” Regan didn’t necessarily plan how his career would play out. One of the biggest surprises came in 1997, when a producer gave him his ﬁrst shot at a comedy record. At this point, he was relatively unknown, though he was performing regularly and had been appearing on Letterman for a couple of years. The album, Brian Regan Live, was recorded in a dinky comedy club in Irvine, but caught on. More than a decade later, it still charts as a top seller for comedy albums. “I had no clue it would end up taking off the way it did,” he says. “The fact that it continues to sell blows my mind. It sells as good or better now than it did then.” Since then, he’s had Comedy Central specials and DVDs, and has become the “comedian’s comedian,” a favorite of other stand-ups Seinfeld and Patton Oswalt. Occasionally, he gets a

reminder of how far he’s come. “I saw an old tape of mine that was actually on Beta. It was from my second year in comedy. I’m onstage, and I’m just completely lacking conﬁdence. A joke wouldn’t work, and I’d be apologizing. Basically, apologizing for living. For me, the skill in getting better is trying to learn how to perform, how to get on stage and take control of a room. It’s not easy. It’s a gradual thing.” And he learned not to worry too much about how people talk about him—as long as they do. “People ask me to describe my humor, and as a joke I’ll say, ‘It’s probably Machavellian, with maybe some Kirkegaardian undertones,’” says Regan. “And sometimes they’ll be like ‘Yeah!’”

BRIAN REGAN performs Sunday, Aug. 30 at 8pm at Montalvo Arts Center’s Garden Theatre, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga. Tickets are $45–$65; call 408.961.5858.

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HE TWO CURRENT exhibits at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles seem to be as different as night and day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fabric Tattoos: The Spirit of the Molaâ&#x20AC;? displays brightly colored, rectangular patches of embroidered works that are sewn into clothing, while â&#x20AC;&#x153;The World According to Joyce Gross: Quilts From the Dolph Briscoe Centerâ&#x20AC;? showcases exquisite show quilts meant to be showoff pieces. But these exhibits are threaded together through the women who made them. The Joyce Gross show begins in the mid-1960s, when quilts and popular culture collided. Jane Przybysz, the executive director at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, explains that quilts became a part of fashion through patchwork clothing, the technique of sewing pieces of fabric together to create a larger design. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quilts really entered popular culture in a big way through magazines like Vogue, Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day and Better Homes and Gardens,â&#x20AC;? Przybysz explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how quilts got introduced to people like Joyce Gross. She got introduced to it and she just took the baton and ran with it. And she devoted 40 years of her life to documenting the late-20th-century quilt revival.â&#x20AC;? The exhibit celebrates Gross, who is credited with raising peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s consciousness about quilts as an art form, and her devotion to preserving the rich history of quilting and the women behind them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What Joyce did was not only recognize the beauty of the quilts, but she documented the information about the quilt makers and quilt-making in general,â&#x20AC;? says curatorial intern Nancy Bavor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The makers certainly looked at quilts as a creative outlet. . . . They did share patterns, they looked at each other for ideas and they were valued in society for their skill.â&#x20AC;? The show features 30 quilts dating from 1840 to as recent as 1960. The collection includes hand-pieced and appliquĂŠd quiltsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ranging from Hawaiian-inspired patterns to quilts made out of leftover pieces of fabric. In the hall and gallery adjacent to the Gross collection, more than 100 rainbow-colored molas are showcased as part of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fabric Tattoos: The Spirit of the Mola.â&#x20AC;? These hand-sewn panels of fabric made by the Kuna women of Panama are thought to be inspired by ancient body art designs. While most molas depict scenes from natureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a striking scorpion, a school of ďŹ sh, an intricate spider webâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;many of the molas take root in geometric designs, written phrases and modern-day images. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are very imaginative and just full of fun and life,â&#x20AC;? says museum curator Deborah Corsini. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Indian women really pride themselves on the quality of their work. They are always pushing the art, creating better and intricate and more complicated molas.â&#x20AC;? Molas comprise several layers of different-colored cloths sewn together to reveal an intricate design by cutting parts of each layer. Each mola is a personal reďŹ&#x201A;ection of its creator, and prized molas are judged by the quality of the stitching, the attention to detail, color combinations, artistic approach and the number of layers used to create them. Andrea Frainier

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JOYCE GROSS and FABRIC TATTOOS: THE SPIRIT OF THE MOLA run through Oct. 25 at the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, 520 S. First St., San Jose. (408.971.0323)

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Ang Lee’s ‘Taking Woodstock’ is more than just nostalgia for the mud and brown acid

By Richard von Busack

AYBE YOU have to be really Apollonian to make a truly Dionysian film. And Taking Woodstock is way more than what the French call “nostalgia for the mud.” Ang Lee and constant collaborator James Schamus bring their customary historical density to this view of the three-day-long music festival in upstate New York, August 1969. There are no significant anachronisms to throw you back into 2009, none of the sense of modern-day actors swishing their wigs around to an array of moldy oldies. The slightly faded colors and the split-screen honor our traditional view of the festival, learned from the documentary Woodstock. The faces and bodies here look right—soft and freshly formed. The soundtrack by Danny Elfman doesn’t frog-march the viewer down Memory Lane—a few familiar songs, like “Wooden Ships” and “Going Up the Country” appear, but they’re lesser-known psychedelia. The film’s LSD trip— really one of the tenderest such scenes ever filmed—is scored to the band Love’s “The Red Telephone,” to the illustrate the anxiousness. This film won’t mollify hippiehaters, even though it acknowledges the Port-a-Potties, the drenched fields and the chocolate-colored slop on the ground. But Taking Woodstock’s makers also note the tensions and pretensions of these ’60s types; Lee

and Schamus aren’t out to do any Woodstock Nation building. Taking Woodstock notes that the road out of Woodstock led to Altamont. Jonathan Groff, as the organizer Michael Lang, helicopterborne hippie capitalist, evinces the sinister confidence of a general. The slightly military title makes this peace movie the twin of a war movie; it concerns the same conflict, the same transitory gains, and the same trampled, unsettled ground. Based on Elliot Tiber’s memoir, the film tells the story of Elliot Teichberg (Demetri Martin) trying his best to keep the family’s decaying and overmortgaged Catskills motel open in the summer of 1969. Its several clapboard cabins are being engulfed by the poison sumac; the swimming pool is personally Cloroxed by Ellliot’s father, Jake (Henry Goodman), a roofer by trade. “Excuse our appearance while we remodel” signs try to make up for the fact that the towels here require a dollar deposit. Ornery mother Sonia (Imelda Staunton, uproarious) greets guests with the warm welcome you’d expect at a skid-row flophouse. This area was once the refuge for New York Jews escaping the tropical summer heat, and there’s plenty of ambient antiSemitism among the locals, just waiting for a little conflict to dig it out. (Sonia needs no digs. At the least stimulation, the seething old lady is just ready to tell the story about how

she crossed Siberia on foot, one step ahead of the pogrom, with nothing but potatoes to eat.) Elliot is going nuts trying to keep the place going with an arts festival; he has a troupe of Living Theater types called the Earth Light players rehearsing in the barn. He’s the youngest head of the chamber of commerce in the history of Bethel, N.Y. In desperation after hearing that a nearby community is going to cancel a huge rock concert because of fear of rampaging hippies, Elliot has the inspiration to contact the local dairy farmer Max Yasgur to see about renting his pastures for a concert. Lee keeps the big event mostly offscreen—he considers it from different angles; the lilt of electric music over the trees and ponds, a benign apocalypse of closed roads, with a long tracking shot of the abandoned cars and the young people roaming off to a destination we don’t really visit. The festival’s chaos helps Elliot get free of his mad mother; it takes the cork out of his bottled-up sexuality and ﬁnally gives him rebirth in the womb of a VW van with a tab of blotter acid and two friendly West coasters (Paul Dano and Kelli Garner). In this sequence, augmented by computer-animation, Elliot gets as close to the concert as he’s going to get. It’s a vision of a far-off electriﬁed stage glittering and surrounded with a glittering nebula of humanity (the

LSD is still doing its work). Martin is excellent in the lead role. He resembles Dustin Hoffman, but he may be a more inclusive and tart actor; the recessive comic reactions to the pressures on all sides of him keep the ﬁlm funny throughout. The supporting acting builds Lee’s vision of harmonizing eccentricities. Emile Hirsch is maybe the exception; playing a traumatized young Nam vet, he sticks out like a sore trope. But Liev Schreiber’s Marine-sergeantturned-drag-queen Vilma is a pure delight; it’s a performance on the far side of camp, with only a slight italicization in the words to mark his own unusualness. The great Eugene Levy plays old Yasgur as a man as ruminative as his cows; as always, Levy revels in the beauty of being a square (posed, holding his tobacco pipe like a scientist in a 1950s movie). It’s not easy to make a good movie about this event; the younger the viewer, the sicker they are of hearing about it. Taking Woodstock’s serene appreciation for a passing time makes this one of the best ﬁctional movies about the 1960s. It’s the history lover in Schamus and Lee that appreciates Woodstock’s uniqueness, and its ultimately transitory nature. TAKING WOODSTOCK (R; 110 min.), directed by Ang Lee, written by James Schamus, photographed by Eric Gautier and starring Demetri Martin, opens Aug. 28.

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Reviews by Michael S. Gant, Don Hines, Steve Palopoli and Richard von Busack.

New The Final Destination (R; 82 min.) Another in the longrunning series of films about the deadly consequences of being able to predict death’s arrival. (Opens Aug 28.) Flame & Citron (Unrated; 130 min.) Ole Christian Madseon directs a drama about Danish resistance fighters during World War II. (Opens Aug 28 at Camera 3 in San Jose.) Halloween II (R; 101 min.) Rob Zombie reprises more adventures of fun-looking Michael Myers. A cool supporting cast helps: Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Howard Hesseman and Margot Kidder. (Opens Aug 28.) It Might Get Loud (Unrated; 97 min.) See review on page 70. Taking Woodstock (R; 110 min.) See review on page 68.

Revivals The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/ The Hound of the Baskervilles (Both 1939) Moriarity (George Zucco) has his eye on a very big prize; England’s last line of defense (Basil Rathbone and his stalwart companion, a pudgy medico played by Nigel Bruce) strikes out to prevent him. BILLED WITH The Hound of The Baskervilles, in which the detectives tangle with a cursed, perhaps supernatural hell hound. (Plays Aug 26-27 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) Enchanted (2007) Amy Adams gives the best performance in a Disney musical since Julie Andrews debuted in Mary Poppins four decades ago. Her guileless optimism, which earned her an Oscar nomination for the little-seen Junebug, suits her role as the cartoon Giselle, betrothed to a handsome prince (James Marsden) until his evil stepmother (Susan Sarandon) dumps her into a well leading to “a place where there are no happily ever afters”: New York City, where the film switches from animation to live action. There she is reluctantly rescued by a divorced divorce attorney, Robert (Patrick Dempsey) and his daughter. The film’s moment of magic occurs when Giselle summons New York’s fauna (rats, pigeons and roaches) to clean Robert’s apartment while singing a happy work song. The strong cast and novel situation deliver an often enchanted tweener dream. (Plays Aug 27 at sundown in Redwood City at Old Courthouse Square; free; bring blankets and lawn chairs.) (DH) Niles Film Museum Aug 29: Outside the Law (1921). In the slums of San Francisco, a serene Confucian scholar (Lon Chaney Jr.) tries to rehabilitate a thug (also Chaney). Tod Browning directs. Also: The Floating Coffin (1914), an episode of The Perils of Pauline serial and Charley Chaplin in Triple Trouble (1918). Frederick Hodges at the piano. (Plays Aug 29 in Fremont at the Edison Theatre, 37417 Niles Blvd.) (RvB) Shaun of the Dead The wrap-up of this summer’s free screenings in San Jose includes a costumed zombie crawl with drink specials at many local restaurants and bars, including the Agenda, South First Street Billiards, Caffe Trieste, The Blue Chip and Brix. 5pm prerally at SLG Publishing; 6pm rendezvous at First and William. (Plays Aug 26 at sundown in San Jose at the corner of South First and William streets; free; bring blankets and lawn chairs.) (RvB)

m e t r o s i l i c o n va l l e y August 26-SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 film Sunset Boulevard/Picnic (1950/1955) Two with William Holden, a study of contradictions as an actor: beautifully built and yet somehow too good to be true, a human capped tooth most fascinating when he started to mirror the social decay of the 1970s. Few films are as decadent as Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder’s flamboyant, cruelly funny and Gothic Hollywood oddity—a variation on the themes of Double Indemnity, starring Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a discarded piece of old movie bric-a-brac. Seeking one last close-up, Desmond wraps herself around a morally overdrawn screenwriter (William Holden) who underestimates the aging star’s hunger. BILLED WITH Picnic, where the young and virile Holden is a studly drifter who crashes a small town’s Labor Day picnic He steals away with the most beautiful girl in town (Kim Novak). He also ignites the dormant hearts of Rosalind Russell and the late Susan Strasberg. (Plays Aug 28-31 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

Reviews Adam (PG; 99 min.) Hugh Dancy stars as Adam, a New Yorker with Asperger’s Syndrome, a high-functioning autistic with empathy disorders. Rose Byrne is Beth, his upstairs neighbor; except for a few melancholy jokes this gloomy-looking date movie for very, very shy people doesn’t go farther than boy meets girl. Director Max Mayer stays on topic; Adam’s love of outer-space exploration and the galaxies mirrors his own alienlike responses (it’s as if Mayer is telling us, “What’s the matter, don’t you like Mr. Spock?”); the reference to the children’s tale about the emperor’s new clothes is also supposed to celebrate Adam’s pitilessly honest responses to the world around him. Comic bits by Jeff Hiller as a supercilious waiter and Mark Linn-Bale as a fauxfriendly boss help this out. The subplotting of Peter Gallagher and Amy Irving as Beth’s parents is just filler. Byrne’s channeling of the young Diane Keaton is more uncanny than anything Max does. (RvB) Bandslam (PG; 111 min.) Todd Graff (Camp) directs an alterna-kids movie about a group of misfits getting a rock band together. Vanessa Hudgens and Lisa Kudrow co-star. District 9 (R; 112 min.) Humans and alien refugees live in close and uncomfortable proximity in Johannesburg in dystopian sci-fi thriller by Neill Blomkamp. The story is told documentary style, as we follow the mysterious disappearance of Wikus (Sharito Copley), a human employee of Multi-National 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. During a raid on the alien camp, 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. Producer Peter Jackson’s hand is visible in the flawless animation of the bug creatures. All of the most interesting parts of this story—about the otherness of the aliens—are kept offcamera. (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 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 film, but the result is yet another alterna-date movie—a little brighter, a little more referential, than usual. The scenes don’t go on so long that they wear out their welcome. And yet it’s so full of negative space—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 fill in the blanks as he spent murmuring, “It’s going to be Annie Hall for our generation.” (RvB) 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 “kung-fu grip” and “eagle-eye vision” in audition; producers screen Todd Haynes’ 1987 underground film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, which was acted out with Barbies, and briefly 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 figures is a really stupid idea, revived when Transformers becomes one of the most successful movie franchises in history. (SP) The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (R; 90 min.) A comedy about a used-car salesman, starring Jeremy Piven, Ed Helms and Ving Rhames. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (PG; 153 min.) Hogwarts’ 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-world’s Churchill, needs to know what Slughorn knows, but the world’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 Watson’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 fighting. Central to the film is the mystery of Staff Sgt. James (Jeremy Renner) who comes in to replace a slaughtered demolition expert. James’ risk-taking amazes and angers his subordinate, Sgt. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie). Director Kathryn Bigelow does what Howard Hawks would do: she finds 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 figure in British television comedy, does a scathing sort-of version of the dawn of the Iraq invasion. James Gandolfini’s Lt. Gen. George Miller is a more wrathful version of Colin Powell. Mimi Kennedy plays Miller’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. Gandolfini and Kennedy’s characters are the film’s moral center—the two people operating with

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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) Inglourious Basterds (R; 153 min.) Hilarious but gripping World War II movie to end all World War movies. In five chapters: the untold story of “Operation Kino”—a cinephile’s fantasy of using the power of movies to destroy Der Führer and his gang. Key in the plot: a roaming band of Jewish psychos led by war atrocity fancier Lt. Aldo Rayne (Brad Pitt, irresistible), a Dietrich-like siren (Diane Kruger) and an urbane British film critic (Michael Fassbinder). All are opposed by a sardonic yet seemingly polite Nazi swinehunde, the film’s standout: Christoph Walz, as lovably loathsome as von Stroheim, only with Jason Robards’ own air of creepy good cheer. Quentin Tarantino phrases the war as a conflict between honest brutality and masked sadism; in doing so, he pulls the rug out from under traditionof-quality movies about the war (Saving Private Ryan comes to mind) and gives us what we secretly wanted to see all along. It’s juicy, ebullient and insanely self-confident filmmaking. (RvB)

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Monsters of Rock Jimmy Page has more to reveal with Jack White and the Edge in ‘It Might Get Loud’ documentary

OME WILL remember the Blind Faith incident: the supergroup that gets together and can only play a half-remembered Buddy Holly song. The trio of Jack White, the Edge and Jimmy Page got together for a summit meeting in a studio for It Might Get Loud, Davis Guggenheim’s fine documentary paean to the electric guitar. What happens is not really more than a sum of its parts, though it’s gratifying to see three such firstrate guitarists stumbling over the tricky chords of the Band’s “The Weight” just like all of us campfire jammers. Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) tells the backstory of these three musicians. White was born to an enormous Catholic family in a tough part of Detroit. He was a drummerturned-guitarist, scavenging and salvaging instruments while taking up the upholsterer’s trade. The success of his band, the White Stripes, revived punk, roots and blues among listeners who had never heard anything rougher than a synthesizer. At a farm in Tennessee, White demonstrates how to make a one-string electrical instrument, a variation on the blues diddley bow; he screws in a pickup and uses it to rattle the countryside. In British country-home splendor, the now white-haired Page shows us how to play the mandolin riff from “The Battle of Evermore” and takes us on a tour of the stairwell where “Stairway to Heaven” was recorded. And in Dublin, the Edge displays the tall cart loaded with effects pedals that help him inundate stadiums and bring together multitudes. Of the three, Page seems the most eclectic and the one most willing to divulge his process; it’s unfortunate to watch a documentary about three people and decide that it’s a good thing that the film isn’t a sinking ship with one life preserver aboard. The film is most interesting when it comes back to Page. We see him as young prodigy who bridges the era of British skiffle and today’s heavy metal and as a hard-working London session musician whose guitar is in the mix of John Barry’s hit “Goldfinger.” Guggenheim’s contrast of three different styles—roots blues, city blues and post–Brian Eno stadium rock—is absolutely instructive; the subjects are forthcoming, appealing and modest. White is more of a mystery man. He plays for us his recording of an a cappella Son House track, his favorite song in the world. Of the three, White seems to have formed himself from study of models. This means nothing to the younger fan; to the older fan, that kind of serious homage sends you back to the music of long-dead originals. White is the kind of powerhouse who plays so hard that his fingers bleed; we see this happen during one session with the Raconteurs. The Edge’s own seriousness goes without saying—he’s a member of a uniquely sober-sided U2. Page more than any of these three has preserved his sense of playfulness now that he’s in old age. Lastly, this movie could have used a woman in it—maybe Corin Tucker or Carrie Brownstein? Rory Block? Bonnie Raitt? The film’s triumvirate implies that the big show is all about the men. Some female guitar god might have brought this all-star summit meeting up to the next level. Richard von Busack IT MIGHT GET LOUD (Unrated; 97 min.), a documentary by Davis Guggenheim, opens Aug. 26 at Camera 12 in San Jose and the Aquarius in Palo Alto.

69( 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)

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) Ponyo (G; 100 min.) The wizardly Hiyao Miyazaki’s beautiful, gentle animated entertainment for children. On a Japanese beach of today, 5-year-old Sosuke (voiced by Frankie 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). Ozuworthy moments of enchantment appear throughout. Avoiding clear stories of good

and evil, Miyazaki is both Buddhist and animist, telling of the opposition of creative and destructive forces. (RvB) Post Grad (PG-13; 89 min.) Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls) is like a composite of Zooey Deschanel and Emily Blunt, but Bledel’s part, Ryden Malby, isn’t one that can be easily played. The script by Kelly Fremon has a timely idea about “boomerang kids”: college graduates who end up living at home, dealing with diminished expectations. Ryden was snaked out of her dream job by her rival Jessica (Catherine Reitman). The heroine is forced to move back home with her eccentric suburban family. Adam (Gilford), the boy next door has had a crush on Ryden since she was young, but she’s always thought of him as a friend. Director Vicki Jenson comes out of a background of animation. Sight gags aren’t really Jenson’s skill, and it’s strange how unsprung and shapeless Post Grad is. The film consists of a string of subplots. Michael Keaton and Carol Burnett steal the movie as the quirky parents. (RvB) Shorts (PG; 89 min.) Family fun from Robert Rodriguez about a magic rock.

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70( Thirst (R; 133 min.) Sensitive priest Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho) gets a blood transfusion that turns him into a vampire; the still unwell protagonist is taken in by a family who knew him when he was a boy. Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin), the daughter-in-law, is a sick-looking bird herself, but when Tae-ju gets to know the sensitive priest something carnal awakes in her. Kim Ok-vin, playing Tae-ju the adulteress (turned, inevitably to murderess), is a phenomenal lewdling. The little ideas that director Park Chan-wook

throws out are all winners; for example, a vampire briskly patting a victim’s neck, like a phlebotomist trying to raise up a vein. The Korean director is now an all-around entertainer with a ghastly, boundlessly pervy sense of humor and a devotion to sophisticated camera work. (RvB) The Time Traveler’s Wife (PG-13; 107 min.) Eric Bana plays a man who can’t keep to the present; things don’t go well for those around him when he keeps zooming off chronologically. Also stars Rachel McAdams.

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Brazilian Tropicália stars Os Mutantes change the game at Outside Lands festival By Curtis Cartier

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BOUT HALFWAY down the 68-act list of artists slated to rock Golden Gate Park at this weekend’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, there’s a name that sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s not Pearl Jam, MIA or even recent Beastie Boys replacements Tenacious D but rather a band as inﬂuential as it is obscure, and one that, for fans of psychedelic rock, is a monolith of the genre’s proud history. That name is Os Mutantes. And after reuniting and recording the group’s ﬁrst new album in 35 years, the crew will bring its signature Tropicália sound to the festival’s Sutro Stage on Saturday. I tracked down the troop’s lead guitarist and only remaining original member, Sérgio Dias, at his home in São Paulo, and got the goods on the band’s latest mutations. “I’m the same kid I was back in the ’60s,” says Dias with a lilting Portuguese accent. “Really, it was you—it was the kids—who got us to come back out. The music we are doing now, I think, is the music that Os Mutantes would naturally be doing in the 21st century.” Brazil in the 1960s was a country locked in the throes of a social and

political revolution. While America suffered through the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the debacle of the Vietnam War, Brazil saw a coup d’état of then-President João Goulart and a subsequent military dictatorship installed. Out of the turmoil Americans got Bob Dylan, Jefferson Airplane and Jimi Hendrix. Brazil got Os Mutantes. At the time, the band was a well-groomed, wholesome-looking trio made up of Dias on guitar, his brother, Arnoldo Baptista, on bass and keys, and doe-eyed starlet Rita Lee on vocals. The Tropicália movement sprang up around the same time, and was, by most accounts, a Dada-style mishmash of music ranging from samba and funk to folk and acid rock. It was also condemned by the Brazilian regime for its Western inﬂuences and eventually led to Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, two of the style’s principal founders, being persecuted and exiled from the country. Yet Os Mutantes, though their music was censored for content, was allowed to stay in Brazil, because, as Dias puts it, “We were too clean-cut for [the government] to be seen as throwing out.” Dias continues, “I remember

America suffered its own coup d’état with Kennedy, and I think that triggered all the other coup d’états in South America. I remember we all got sent home from school when we learned about [Kennedy’s assassination], and there was a threeday period of mourning. I know there were a lot of troubles for America in the ’60s. Here it was the same thing but with a much harder aspect. My father was a politician, and he was arrested when I was 13. It was like being in a film of cloak and dagger. But we were kids, and we had no fear. The way we could counterattack was by being honest with our art and music and by not giving a damn about the repression they would threaten us with.” Since then, Os Mutantes have been cited by bands like Beck, Nirvana and the Talking Heads as being one of the most influential groups in pop music. Beck’s 1998 album Mutations was a tribute to the band and was made famous by the hit single “Tropicalia.” Yet the Mutants of 2009 are a far cry from the ’60s and ’70s version. The lineup, having gone through 11 band member additions and deletions over the years, is still anchored by Dias but now features longtime Mutante Dinho Leme on drums plus five

recently added musicians on vocals, keys, bass and guitar. The group’s new album, Haih or Amortecedor, due out Sept. 8, is a departure from the lush sambapsyche-pop of yesteryear and a step toward a more progressive rock sound, but one where the iconic Tropicália style still shines through. Folks looking to hear a rehashing of ’60s-era Mutantes tracks at Outside Lands will leave disappointed, Dias says, as he plans on playing mostly new songs live. “Mutantes is not about me or the band, it’s an umbrella term for a state of mind,” Dias explains. “The music speaks for itself. And when you see us live, there won’t be any special lights or pyrotechnics, it’ll just be us smiling onstage and getting lost in the music.” OS MUTANTES performs on the Sutra Stage at the OUTSIDE LANDS MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, on Saturday (Aug. 29) at 4:50pm. The three-day festival runs Aug. 28–30 and also features performances from Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Ween, Modest Mouse and the Mars Volta, along with 62 other acts on seven stages. Single-day tickets are $89.50 and threeday passes are $225.50. Check www. sfoutsidelands.com for more details.

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you this week is that you won’t be satisﬁed with mediocre truths; that you’ll be a fussy perfectionist focused on cutting out waste, fraud and delusion; that you’ll be itchy to know more about the unacknowledged games that are being played. Frustration, I hope, will be your holy fuel. Unsweetened lemonade, I trust, will be your rejuvenating drink. These are blessings, Aries, not curses! I pray that you’ll pick one of your scabs until it bleeds so the healing process can start over—the right way this time.

IVjgjh (April 20–May 20): What have you always wanted to yell from the pinnacle of the hill in the distance? This is the week to go there and yell it. What is that safe way of getting high that you’ve always wanted to try but never had the time for before? This is the week to try it. What is the alluring phenomenon that is always going on just outside the reach of your ordinary awareness—the seductive pull you have always somehow resisted? This is the time to dive in and explore it. (Thanks to John Averill for his inspiration in composing this horoscope. His tweets are at twitter.com/wiremesa.) <Zb^c^ (May 21–June 20): Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because of an incident involving an apple, right? Wrong. Many biblical scholars suspect the fruit in question was either a ﬁg, grape, or pomegranate. I mention this, Gemini, because I think you’d be wise to review your own personal myth of exile. It’s time to question the story you have been telling yourself about how your paradise got lost. Evidence you discover in the coming days just might suggest that everything you’ve believed is at least halfwrong—that your origins are different from what you imagine. And as for the forbidden fruit that supposedly led you astray: You may realize that it was actually a precious medicine. 8VcXZg ( June 21–July 22): The coming week will be prime time to perform minor miracles without trying too hard. You’ll probably have maximum success if you refrain from hoping and worrying about achieving maximum success. The cosmic currents will be likely to bend and shape themselves to accommodate your deeper needs if you proceed on the assumption that they know, better than your little ego does, what’s best for you. To get yourself in the proper frame of mind to do challenging tasks without expending strenuous effort, you might want to check out this photo spread of people practicing drunk yoga: tinyurl .com/n5z533. AZd ( July 23–Aug. 22): Are you familiar with the

phenomenon known as a fire whirl? It happens on rare occasions when a fire produces a tornado-like vortex that rises up vertically, spinning madly. It’s beautiful to behold but is not something you ever want to be close to. I bring this to your attention in the hope that you will not let yourself turn into the human equivalent of a fire whirl in the coming week. You’re not yet close to being one, but there are signs you’re headed that way. With just a modicum of adjustment, you can ensure that you’ll be more like a blaze in a fireplace or a wild but controlled bonfire on a beach—not a fire whirl.

K^g\d (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): I was listening to a sports talk show on the radio. The host had recently discovered Twitter, and was pleased with how many fans he had already accumulated. But he was not at all happy with the words “Twitter” or “tweet.” Too effeminate, he said. Not macho enough for a he-man like himself to use comfortably. In fact, he promised that he would never again refer to his Twitter messages as “tweets,” but would hereafter call them “spurts.” Instead of “Twitter,” he would say “Twister.” I encourage you to draw inspiration from his example, Virgo. You’re in an astrological phase when you can and should reconﬁgure anything that doesn’t suit your needs or accommodate your spirit, whether it’s the language you use, the environments you hang out in, or the processes you’re working on. A^WgV (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Years ago, a TV sitcom

called The Andy Griffith Show ran for seven seasons on CBS. Its star, Any Griffith, played a mild-mannered sheriff in a small town in North Carolina. His sidekick was Barney Fife, a bumbling deputy with a sweet disposition. Shortly after he left the show, Griffith had a dream in which he

thrashed and pummeled his co-star. When he asked his psychiatrist about the meaning of this dream violence, the shrink speculated that he was trying to kill off his old image. I recommend that exact strategy to you now, Libra. Don’t actually wreak any real-life mayhem. Rather, see if you can have a dream or two in which you destroy a symbol of the life you’re ready to leave behind.

HXdge^d (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): What life will you

be living at noon on Sept. 1, 2014? Who will you be? How thoroughly will your dreams have come true? What kind of beauty and truth and love and justice will you be serving? Will you look back at the time between Aug. 27 and Sept. 21, 2009, and sigh, “If only I had initiated my Five Year Master Plan at that ripe astrological moment”? Or on Sept. 1, 2014, will you instead be able to crow, “I can truly say that in these past ﬁve years I have become the president of my own life”?

HV\^iiVg^jh (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): If at some future

time you sell your life story to a filmmaker who makes it into a feature film, it may have a lot to do with adventures that kick into high gear in the coming weeks. The fun will start (I hope) when you decide not to merely lie back and be victimized by your signature pain any longer. This brave act will recalibrate the cosmic scales and shift the currents of destiny that flow through you. Soon you will be making progress in untangling a mystery that has eluded your insight for a long time. You will be able to uncover the guarded secrets of a source that has for some time been tweaking your personal power without your full awareness.

8Veg^Xdgc (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): In his book From

Heaven to Earth: Spiritual Living in a Market-Oriented World, Aaron Zerah riffs on the Hebrew word “nabal.” It describes someone who’s so staunchly concentrated on practical concerns that he becomes impractical. Please don’t let this be your fate anytime soon, Capricorn. For the ultimate beneﬁt of the bottom line, disregard the bottom line for a while. Fantasize like a teenage poet. Be as whimsical as a mystic clown. Be a sweet, fun-loving fool so you won’t turn into a sour, workaholic fool.

6fjVg^jh ( Jan. 20–Feb. 18): A woman living in

China’s Jilin province got married in a wedding gown with a train that was 1.4 miles long. Lin Rong’s dress was decorated with 9,999 red silk roses and took three months to sew. In the spirit of her record-breaking ritual, Aquarius I encourage you to be extravagant and imaginative as you celebrate a great union in the coming weeks. You have an astrological mandate to think big as you carry out a rite of passage that will lead to an upgrade in the role that collaboration and symbiosis play in your life.

E^hXZh (Feb. 19–March 20): Close your eyes and

imagine you’re in a meadow as rain falls. Inhale the aroma of the earth as the ground is soaked. Dwell in the midst of that scent for a while, allowing it to permeate your organs and nerves. Feel its life-giving energy circulating through you. Give yourself to the memories it evokes. In my astrological opinion, experiences like this are what you need most in the coming week. Can you think of some others that would speak directly to your animal intelligence? It’s a perfect time to please and excite the part of you that is a soft, warm creature.

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