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Conspiracy theories have abounded with the Titanic and the building of the pyramids.

But none of the people involved in this organization AE911 were

there. So this shows how Metro loves to create controversy and print â&#x20AC;&#x153;yellow journalism.â&#x20AC;? You should be ashamed for even printing such trash, especially with the week of the eighth anniversary. I hope you can sleep at night knowing you have hurt people who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deserve it, just like the terroristsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;words inďŹ&#x201A;ict hurt and yours did!

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Frank Cava (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Surely, You Jest,â&#x20AC;? Letters, Sept. 16) needs to take a little more of his own â&#x20AC;&#x153;scientiďŹ câ&#x20AC;? medicine. His letter is loaded with logical fallacies and emotional manipulation intended to discourage rational analysis of what really happened on 9/11.

Referring to 9/11 skeptics as â&#x20AC;&#x153;wackosâ&#x20AC;? is an ad hominem fallacy. Comparing 9/11 skepticism to intelligent design is an argument-by-analogy fallacy.

Implying that 9/11 skeptics claim that the twin towers were too large to have failed naturally is a straw-man fallacy. His implication that â&#x20AC;&#x153;fanatical terroristsâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;government interventionâ&#x20AC;? cannot both be true is a false dichotomy fallacy. His implication that there is â&#x20AC;&#x153;overwhelming evidenceâ&#x20AC;? to support the official story is a bare assertionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;where is this â&#x20AC;&#x153;overwhelming evidenceâ&#x20AC;??

To associate skepticism with dishonoring the victims is an appeal-to-emotion fallacy: Why would the 9/11 victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; families want the wrong people to be blamed for their loss? Cava ďŹ nishes his diatribe with a double appeal to authority and another ad hominem.

Nine logical fallacies in one short letter! Quite impressive for

someone who professes to value science.

Gregg Roberts Arcata

Space Case Thank you for your article in regard to job loss and the effects it will have on our space program (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Space Workforce Down,â&#x20AC;? MetroNews, Sept. 9).

Your perspective made me think about the loss of personnel in a new way. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, not just any engineer, or Ph.D., can jump in and work in an industry where experience not only counts but is critical to success. I planned our family summer vacation around visiting the Kennedy Space Center in Orlandoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it was incredible!

We were able to talk to an IBM Engineer who worked 20 years ago on the rockets and also got to meet a Shuttle astronaut. Also went to the Astronaut Hall of Fame. The pride I felt in what these folks and the workers behind them accomplished brought me to tears.

I wanted my children to learn about our history so that they can plan a future that includes space exploration and the technology that can be also used in day-to-day living.

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ZER01 is the complex nonlinear dynamic system of folks who produce the 01SJ Art Biennial, the next incarnation of which takes place a year from now. They are not just people who sit there in the boardrooms and show up once every two years to put on a festival. With a presence in San Jose 365 days a year, ZER01 is always at work developing projects, partnerships, competitions, calls for works and whatnot. This year’s Mariachi and Mexican Heritage Festival was just one example. If everything went as planned after my deadline, ZER01 took part in the daylong Feria del Mariachi last Sunday in Plaza de Cesar Chavez. Four installations by Latino artists who work with technology were featured in ZER01’s own section of the festival.

Local artist and educator Pilar Agüero-Esparza teamed with another San Jose artist, H. Dionicio Mendoza, to create an interactive space called CANCÓN Courtyard & Chavez Mural House, a space featuring a courtyard, a cyberlounge and a mural about Cesar Chavez.

Argentine artist Gustavo Romano brought his “Lost Time Refund Office,” a performance project using actors, computers and other technology to portray the loss, transfer and restoration of time.

Mexican Internet artist Arcángel Constantini showcased video-game projects by Mexican artists and also “audio-electrocuted” volunteers with his mobile Icpiticayotl box. Náhuatl for electricity, Icpiticayotl uses electroshock to involuntarily contract users’ muscles in sync with sound oscillations to establish synaesthesia. The harmless experiment was designed to give visitors the same adrenalin rush los señores de los toques have been giving cantina patrons as a chaser to their cerveza for centuries. He said the idea was to shock people into experiencing “the underlying electromagnetic nature of the physical universe through visceral exaltation.”

Technology is just another tool for artists to use, and ZER01’s mission, aside from organizing the San Jose biennial, is to function as a catalyst for arts organizations whose disciplines don’t normally involve technology, and help them find appropriate ways to engage with it.

“ZER01’s presence at the Mariachi Festival is a good example,” says executive director Joel Slayton. “It’s really about reimagining the urban village, identity, sustainability, borders and the politics and economies ZER01’s mission, aside and issues therein. Technology is the from organizing the common frame of reference upon which San Jose biennial, is to such ideas get illuminated.” function as a catalyst Another example can be found incubating over at the San Jose Museum for arts organizations of Quilts and Textiles, which will whose disciplines don’t launch a brand new gig next year in normally involve conjunction with the 01SJ Biennial: technology The International TECHstyle Art Biennial 2010. This will be perhaps the only museum show in this part of the world specifically dealing with how fiber artists use technology. It will explore the potential of combining fiber media with new information and communication technologies in the artistic process—both in the content of the work and as a means of artistic expression. If you’re confused, this doesn’t refer to a quilt with circuit boards glued to it for cosmetic effect.

Instead, you might see a 3-D demo of woven double-velour vascular grafts impregnated with purified bovine collagen, and how this textile technology can be used for creative purposes.

Finally, ZER01 also helped catalyze the San Fernando Corridor Project, a call for temporary public art works to be installed along San Fernando Street, from Diridon Station all the way to downtown, during the months leading up to next year’s 01SJ Biennial.

“Corridor” is one of those hip urban-planning buzzwords for an area too narrow to qualify as a “district” or a “creative gulch,” so San Fernando is perfect. The theme of the 01SJ Biennial is “Build Your Own World,” which easily brings up all sorts of ideas for those who want to take advantage of the San Fernando Street urban landscape. Don’t even get me started.

Did you get shocked? Let me know at SiliconAlleys@metronews.com.

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By Laura Fishman EN and women scramble in and out of a pair of metal doors wearing goggles, hard hats and lab coats. More than 500 factory employees meander through a maze of machines. Some hover over computer monitors, programming new assignments.

Others scribble furiously on clipboards while watching over the production process. A few stand behind glass windows with rows of colored buttons in front of them. Everyone is on their feet. Yet it’s the machinery of this factory that’s running the show.

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Automated vehicles roam around transferring equipment from point A to point B. One vehicle sounds a mechanized version of the melody “London Bridge Is Falling Down” while transporting stacks of metal blocks. Gigantic cranes do a dance of their own, putting solar panels together one after another. A symphony of knocks and clanks chimes endlessly, with a racket echoing throughout the factory floor.

This is Solyndra Inc., a 300,000-square-foot Silicon Valley company that is creating a

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The city of Fremont has long been home to the NUMMI auto manufacturing plant—which is slated to close this year, putting more than 4,000 people out of work. Meanwhile, Solyndra is building a new plant has already created 3,000-plus construction jobs, and will create permanent employment for 1,000 more workers.

Solyndra has given photovoltaic electricity generation a new look.

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else on the market, and produces more electricity per square foot due to the way the sun hits the panels. Its horizontal mounting system is tailored for commercialrooftop use, and reportedly also provides unique “air-flow” properties.

At the factory, a stairwell to the roof leads to what employees refer to as the gem of the building—the solar grid that powers the factory. As advertised, the paneling lies flat on the rooftop’s surface. Each panel consists of cylindrical black tubes, all lined up horizontally in rows that stretch across the entire roof.

The sun’s rays hit the 360-degree photovoltaic surfaces of each tube.

Conventional solar panels are angled vertically and spaced apart for optimal energy.

Solyndra’s co-founder Kelly Truman says the company’s innovative solar panel structure is not based on new technology at all, but is instead based on old practices.

“We came up with something that really made flat rooftops a great way to generate electricity,” Truman says. “Roofs are not being used for anything else and you can turn that into power.

We’re taking advantage of this underutilized resource in an economical way that reduces the world’s greenhouse gases.”

The company started marketing its new brand of solar technology in 2005, but is just now starting to get off the ground in the United States and abroad. While the company’s headquarters are in Fremont, Truman says most of Solyndra’s business comes from Europe.

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Vice President Joe Biden joined the officials via satellite video to announce the finalization of the $535 million loan guarantee.

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The new factory is expected to be fully built by late 2010 and will provide all the energy the plant uses—the equivalent of 24,000 homes a year. Additional money for the company’s expansion will come from venture capital funds and private donations that have thus far totaled $800 million.

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Growing Revolutio Local farmers with a vision are reclaiming the valley’s rich agricultural history one acre at a time By Stett Holbrook

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UNNYVALE’S Full Circle Farm is a-bloom in late-summer glory. Just about everything in the ground is heavy with fruit and vegetables—tomatoes, pole beans, eggplant, artichokes, carrots, sunflowers and cucumbers. A midweek produce stand attracts some neighbors who snack on samples of tomatoes and green beans while a pair of falcons swoop and dive for ground squirrels scurrying for their burrows.

As I lift my eyes from the leafy farm and look toward the east, I have no trouble imagining what the Santa Clara Valley looked like 75 years ago when plums and cherries, not microchips and software, were the main cash crops. No buildings or freeways obscure the view, just green trees and then the tawny hills rolling to the horizon. The view is serene—idyllic, even. 16

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The land is classic “Valley of the Heart’s Delight,” what the fertile Santa Clara Valley was called before it became Silicon Valley. But this farm isn’t a history project or nostalgia trip. The 11-acre organic farm is on the cutting-edge of a national urban agriculture movement. By planting small plots of land in and around cities to create a closer link between farmers and consumers, this movement is challenging the way we grow food. In some cases, consumers are becoming farmers and eating the food they grow, and relocalizing the food system in the process. Boosters call the movement a revolution, and it’s taking root in Silicon Valley.

Coming Full Circle Like much of Silicon Valley, Full Circle Farm was once an orchard, but the rows of Santa Rosa plum trees were plowed under when the orchard was in full blossom one spring in the early 1960s. The Santa Clara Unified School District bought the land and used it as an informal athletic field.

When the school district later considered selling the undeveloped parcel, it was valued at $60 million. That’s a huge sum of money for a cash-strapped district, but thanks to grassroots community

support and former school board member Teresa O’Neill, who championed the idea of a community farm early on, the district saw another use for the land and decided not to sell out to developers.

“To me that’s the most amazing part of the story,” says Liz Snyder, interim executive director of Sustainable Community Gardens, the nonprofit group that runs the farm. “In Silicon Valley, where land was being gobbled by development, that was a minor miracle.”

The school district now leases the land to Sustainable Community Gardens. The organization also runs the 1-acre Charles Street Garden, which it leases from the city of Sunnyvale. The first tree planted at Full Circle Farm was a plum tree in honor of O’Neill and the orchard that once stood there. The farm has become many things to many people. Students get their hands dirty as they learn about the source of their food and what makes it grow. Last year, 1,200 students spent time on the farm.

With the planned construction of an on-site kitchen, Snyder, an earnest, softspoken woman, hopes to incorporate food grown on the farm into the school district’s food-service program. That would allow them to unplug, at least in part, 19

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from the national school-lunch programâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s notoriously inferior menu of frozen heatand-serve meals. She wants to replace 50 percent of what the school cafeterias now serve with produce from the farm.

The farm also provides fresh produce to the community at its thrice-weekly farm stand and community-supported agriculture (CSA) program. Local restaurants buy some of the produce. In addition, the farm attracts a wide range of volunteers who simply want to learn to grow vegetables and literally reap what they sow. The farm and its half-acre garden where schools and local residents can experiment and plant on a smaller scale has proved so popular that there are often more volunteers than work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Instead of going out to fast food, I can I cook with my own food that I learn to grow here,â&#x20AC;? says Kristal Caidoy, 20, a De Anza College student and volunteer.

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community food systems, exposure to food-marketing messages and childhood nutrition at Oxford University. For her, the farm and the support it has received are part of a national shift in the way we think about food: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re absolutely at a tipping point where urban agriculture is going to be more commonplace. . . .

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URBAN FARMS <19 development pressure because of the down economy, along with what Snyder sees as a growing appreciation of locally grown food, urban agriculture has suddenly become more attractive than ever before.

“Now might be the time,” she says optimistically.

Farm manager Meghan Cole, 29, became a farmer, in part, because of her desire to be part of “something real, something that has meaning.” She grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis but worked on farms in rural Missouri and North Carolina before moving to Silicon Valley. Early on, she noticed an improvement in her health and vitality after eating what she grew. It still seems to be working for her. Her default expression is a blissed-out grin.

‘Food is central. It connects us. It’s something we all have in common.

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— MEGHAN COLE, FARM MANAGER

Walking the farm, wearing cutoff Carhartt overalls, with her braided blonde hair tucked into a green Mao cap, Cole sees her work in urban farming as part of a larger movement. “I’m part of something hopeful that’s trying to create change,” she says.

And Cole says that change means growing healthier food and forging a greater sense of community between growers and consumers: “Food is central. It connects us. It’s something we all have in common. It is who we are.”

Urban agriculture isn’t new, but the idea has been given new life by a coalescence of factors. The aforementioned food-safety concerns, the growing awareness of the harmful effects of food production on the environment, the popularity of farmers markets, the works by “good food” advocates like Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan and movies like Food Inc. and Super Size Me have all propelled us toward this “tipping point” moment. Urban farms also offer low-income communities access to fresh produce, job training and a potential source of income.

While most of the pressure for change has occurred at the grassroots level, the recently planted White House garden is hastening the change. Last month, President Barack Obama floated the idea of starting a White House farmers market to sell

produce from the garden and local farms, as well as creating distribution networks to get locally grown food in the schools.

In a recent interview on National Public Radio, Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food and the best-known critic of the ills of the industrial food system, commented on the impact of Michelle Obama’s involvement in the White House garden.

“There’s now a garden in Buckingham Palace,” he said. “People are planting gardens all over America. . . . I think [the Obamas] understand that before you can begin to change this food system, you need to raise consciousness about it because, for a lot of people, the food system works just fine.

There’s plenty of cheap and abundant food. The fact that it makes people sick, the fact that it takes an enormous toll on the environment, on animals, on workers, isn’t really clear to everybody, so that there’s a kind of raising of consciousness that needs to happen. And I think that Michelle Obama is playing a very important role in that.”

Quail Safe East Palo Alto farmer David Winsberg was into urban agriculture before it was cool.

He’s big man who is quick to smile. While he describes himself as someone with a liberal mind-set who eschews the use of chemicals, he didn’t start Happy Quail Farms in 1980 to save the world. He’s a businessman.

“The most important thing for me is to have a product to sell,” he says. “I don’t do it as a hobby.”

But with crops growing behind his house and in neighboring back yards in a part of town originally designed as an agrarian community, Winsberg offers a vivid example of how a successful farm can exist within a concrete jungle.

Winsberg’s specialty is chile peppers. He grows 50 different cultivars. His marquee crop is the padrón pepper, a small green chile from Spain that he pioneered in the United States. They’ve become a favorite of tapas bars and high-end restaurants across the country. He also grows specialty crops such as ginger blossoms, rhubarb, cucumber and exotic squash in open fields and greenhouses within sight of the mammoth blue Ikea building on Highway 101.

“It’s an ideal location for us,” Winsberg tells me. In addition to restaurants, he sells to Bay Area farmers markets, most of which are within 50 miles of his farm.

His neighborhood of 1-acre lots was once known as “Weeks poultry colony” after agrarian visionary Charles Weeks bought a plot of land in the early 1920s. Weeks subdivided the property into lots in order to establish a farming community that would give residents economic self-sufficiency and a source of eggs and vegetables for nearby peninsula and San Francisco markets. The 22

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community sprang up in part in response to industrialization and a desire to return to a simpler rural way of life, sentiments that sound familiar today.

The farming community didn’t last long. Many farmers sold when they found out farming was hard work. Saltwater contamination of wells, a poultry epidemic and the Depression hastened its decline.

But in time, flower growers moved in to farm under greenhouse glass. Happy Quail Farms keeps East Palo Alto’s farming tradition alive and offers hope for the future of locally grown food.

Although Winsberg says it’s easy for people to romanticize farming, he sees great value in small scale farming in an urban setting: “It doesn’t take a lot of space to feed a lot of people. It’s a shame to see such rich agricultural lands disappear under lawns and parking lots.”

Veggielution Amie Frisch and Mark Medeiros were two San Jose State University students with a hankering to get dirty and grow vegetables.

They didn’t have yards of their own, and there was a waiting list at local community gardens. Two years ago, they struck upon the idea of asking downtown residents with big back yards to let them grow there in exchange for fresh vegetables. Even though they knew little about gardening, they attracted other students and their idea took off.

“We just wanted to garden,” Frisch says from under the brim of her wide straw hat.

It soon became hard to manage all the different gardens, especially when the harvest coincided with final exams. Rather than gardening in different sites, Frisch and Medeiros began to look for one big site. They discovered it in a corner of east San Jose’s 42-acre Emma Prusch Park under the shadow and roar of the 101 and 280 freeways.

Emma Prusch donated land to the city in 1962 to preserve the agricultural history of Santa Clara Valley. It includes a thriving community garden where residents tend their individual plots, but there wasn’t a community project quite like what Frisch and Medeiros had in mind.

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“We saw this land in the middle of the city framed by these huge overpasses, and it wasn’t being used,” Frisch says, 26. “Coming from downtown back yards, it was huge.”

Frisch and Medeiros convinced members of the skeptical Emma Prusch Foundation to let them farm on a small plot as a demonstration project. Veggielution was born. With volunteer help from local university and high school students, the organization, which has since grown into a nonprofit, broke ground last spring by laboriously double-digging the soil and planting row crops like corn, amaranth, squash and tomatoes.

“After that they really started taking us seriously,” says Frisch.

Veggielution has since expanded to a larger 1-acre parcel nearby, and if its demonstration project continues to go well, Veggielution hopes to start growing on an adjacent 10-acre parcel.

Veggielution now runs a farm stand at the park on Fridays that sells low-cost vegetable to nearby residents. Anyone who comes out to work the land leaves with an armful of vegetables, too. Surplus vegetables

go to a local food pantry, and Frisch hopes to start supplying local restaurants after securing the proper permits.

Frisch, a former environmental-studies major, sees the project and locally grown food in general as a “hub issue” that addresses several social ills—access to fresh produce for low-income communities, food security, the environment and childhood obesity.

“This is a place to get people to think past just buying food at the grocery store,” she explains. She exudes so much enthusiasm and energy for the project that she almost hops up and down. “I’ve had people pick a carrot for the first time and say, ‘This is the greatest carrot of my life.’ . . . Sustainably farmed food shouldn’t be just for the affluent. [With Veggielution] we’re actually creating what we want to see.”

Sean Jones, 25, started gardening with Frisch and Medeiros when they began their backyard project. Now an intern with Veggielution, he helps lead volunteers in the field.

“I don’t have a garden of my own, and that’s a deep hole in my being,” Jones tells me. “Coming here sets me at ease. It soothes me.”

Frisch says resources have been flowing to them. The city’s Environmental Services Department has trucked in loads of compost and mulch. Nora Campos, who represents east San Jose on the City Council, donated $25,000 in city funds to Veggielution and has become an enthusiastic supporter of the organization and its work. Campos, who grew up in the East Side neighborhood near Emma Prusch Park, said if the pilot project proves successful, she hopes to replicate the model throughout the city: “I don’t just see it as planting vegetables. I see it as growing community.”

Last year, Campos unsuccessfully pushed for a ban on fast-food restaurants near school zones. She says that she believes that urban farms like Veggielution offer an antidote to the “saturation” of fast food in low-income neighborhoods. “Young people now understand that food doesn’t just come from a grocery store.”

Urban farming, Campos says, offers “a real vision about where the city needs to go.

We need to be bold. We need to change the culture of the way we look at food.”

Working with the Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services, Campos hopes to create new policy to create more urban farms and gardens.

“I do see this as a seed that will start spreading throughout the city,” she says.

A Tasty Future San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed has created an ambitious 15-year agenda to green the city.

Under his 10-point “Green Vision for San 25

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URBAN FARMS <23 Jose,” Reed plans to create 25,000 “cleantech” jobs, reduce per capita energy use by 50 percent, receive 100 percent of electrical power from clean renewable sources and divert 100 percent of landfill waste for conversion into energy.

His plan is one of the most progressive of any American mayor. Hats off. But his vision makes no mention of cultivating local food sources, even though food production and distribution have been identified as major contributors to climate change.

‘The most important thing for me is to have a product to sell. I don’t do it as a hobby.’

—DAVID WINSBERG

By contrast, San Francisco has embarked on an aggressive sustainable food policy.

In July, Mayor Gavin Newsom instructed all city departments to conduct an audit of unused city land, including vacant lots, rooftops and median strips, that could be turned into urban gardens or farms to feed local residents. Under the policy, food vendors that contract with the city will also have to offer food that is deemed healthy and sustainable food.

In June, the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors adopted a resolution urging President Obama to “seek out partnerships with mayors on local food initiatives to develop strategies that help urban America develop better access to quality food.”

While Reed says he loves his homegrown tomatoes and believes that locally grown produce tastes better, he told me that San Jose’s budget constrains what the city can do. But he points to city subsidies for farmers markets, community gardens and composting programs. The city oversees 19 community gardens that are used by approximately 3,000 residents.

“We’re ahead of a lot of cities,” he said.

San Jose is currently updating its general plan; revisions could include new ways to measure the city’s sustainability, and that might include sources of food, Reed said.

“The more we can support locally grown food, whether it’s back yards or elsewhere, the better off we’ll all be.”

But given the economic climate, that

support appears to be more moral than material.

Here’s my admittedly food-centric vision for a greener Silicon Valley. Dozens, even hundreds, of small farms spread around Silicon Valley in back yards, vacant lots, rooftops, schools and parks would produce a huge, year-round supply of fruits and vegetables. The produce would go to those who grow it and to nearby residents via local farm stands. Neighborhoods without farmers markets or an organic grocery store would suddenly have access to seasonal and fresh produce.

School districts would work with groups like Sunnyvale’s Sustainable Community Gardens to manage farms as a source of food for school lunch programs. Locally high rates of childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes would drop, because not only would students be weaned off prepackaged school lunches but they would also get exercise and fresh air as they worked in the outdoor classrooms that grow the food they eat.

To capitalize on the local bounty, a European-style urban produce market like San Francisco’s Ferry Plaza opens in downtown San Jose. It becomes a place where tourists and locals alike can buy local food as well as eat at small cafes that cook with food grown nearby. Commercial kitchens could also sell value-added products—pickles, jams, canned vegetables, honey, salsa—made from local crops and provide scores of jobs in the process.

Developers have submitted plans to the city to develop an urban market at San Pedro Square. As proposed by former San Jose Mayor Tom McEnery and other partners, the project would include yearround restaurants and food vendors that expand on the already successful San Pedro Square farmers market. Such a development would be a perfect outlet for Silicon Valley–grown produce.

Silicon Valley restaurants, many of which operate under the long shadow cast by San Francisco’s food scene, could contract with local farmers to grow impeccably fresh and seasonal food that would distinguish them and make Silicon Valley a destination for food lovers who want to experience what the famed weather and soils of Santa Clara County can produce.

The rebirth of agriculture within Silicon Valley would become such an attraction that tour groups would pop up to take visitors on guided tours of urban farms and stops at local restaurants that buy from them.

Santa Clara County can’t go back to the days of fruit orchards and wide-open spaces, but who says urban agriculture can’t co-exist in between the office parks, neighborhoods and freeways of Silicon Valley? We’ve got the soil, the weather and the know-how. Increasingly, we’ve got the will. Now, Silicon Valley’s small but growing number of local farms and gardens are showing the way. M

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SHORT FLOUNCE or overskirt attached at the waistline, the retro peplum has been winning over winter 2009 runways with its ladylike fit-and-flare silhouette.

Virtually any garment that features a layer of midsection horizontal frill can be considered showing a peplum, whether it is a dress, coat, sweater or skirt.

Though the modern peplum was born in the 1940s, the look actually dates all the way back to ancient Greece, where the term “peplos” meant a specific folded-over toga worn by women. Peplums were again in vogue in the ’80s, as a way to feminize outfits when the emphasis was on huge, massively masculine power shoulders. Perhaps the most definitive moment for that decade’s peplum look could be seen in the frothy comedy Troop Beverly Hills, in the party scene where Shelley Long falls into a pool and starts shrieking “I’m drowning, I’m drowning” while clad in a enormous multilayered pastel peplum creation.

Since the ’80s have been an overwhelming influence on the fashion industry as of late, it’s no surprise that the Reagan-era interpretation of this style is big right now. Poofy, taffeta mini cocktail dresses are currently all over the racks for the younger set at stores like ;DG:K:G '& and IDE H=DE. If one wants to indulge in this trend without looking like an extra at the Bayside High School prom, there are also more subdued versions from designers like L=>IC:N :K:! G>8=6G9 C>8DAA and H=DH=6CC6. Additionally, there is a plethora of peplums on outerwear this fall. Look for fitted short jackets with skirted bottoms that’ll look chic when cinched with a skinny belt.Fortunately, the peplum is one of the few waist-friendly trends that will continue into this coming winter. Frocks with fabric flounces right under the natural waist accentuate the hips while hiding unflattering lower-torso bulges. This look is also a winner for apple-shaped women, because the body-shaping ruffle gives the wearer an instantly elegant hourglass figure.

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ADMIT IT: when I ďŹ rst came across Blue Rock BBQâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s polished website, I thought that the place was a chain.

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real barbecue joint doing with a fancy website anyway? A barbecue restaurant is supposed to be low-tech, just smoke and ďŹ re and picnic benches and a battered screen door. Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got time for â&#x20AC;&#x2122;puters and Internets when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ribs and brisket in the pit?

But upon further investigation, I discovered Blue Rock is a locally owned place. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an order-at-thecounter restaurant with darkwood tables and cushy leather banquettes. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s set in a east San Jose minimall and feels a bit corporate, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard not to be seduced by the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good looks and the pleasant demeanor of owner Owen Jobson. (Maybe those factors account for Blue Rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victory in the barbecue category of last weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Of issue.)

Most barbecue restaurants specialize in one kind of regional smoked meat: Texas, St. Louis, North Carolina, etc. Blue Rock BBQ breaks the rules and serves barbecue from far and wide. As long as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ ne with me. Instead of a big pit smoker, Blue Rock smokes its meats in

squat units the size of a dorm refrigerator. The smokers use wood chips (almond, pecan and hickory) instead of cut wood.

Ever since I had a pulled-pork sandwich on a childhood trip to North Carolina, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been trying to recapture that moment of slow-smoked barbecue bliss. Blue Rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tennessee-style pulled-pork sandwich ($6.75) comes close and will keep me happy until I can get back to North Carolina.

Made with pork shoulder slowcooked over pecan and hickory smoke, the meat is moist with well-integrated smoke ďŹ&#x201A;avor. To me, bread is 50 percent of a great sandwich, and this one comes with a great bun. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sturdy white roll with a thin crust that holds up to the juicy meat and the addition of barbecue sauce if you so choose. A spongy hamburger bun wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cut it.

All the sandwiches are available with a choice of side dishes. Get the coleslaw. For me a proper pulledpork sandwich needs the crunch and sweet-and-sour bite of slaw; tossing in a bit of the slaw elevates the sandwich signiďŹ cantly.

That said, the quality of the slaw at Blue Rock varies widely.

On one visit, it was swimming in a

vinegary-mayonnaise dressing, but on another it was almost dry. It was as if I got the bottom of the batch one time and a scoop off the top layer on another. Somewhere in between would have been better. A simple stir would have solved the problem.

Another good choice is the Cuban sandwich ($7.25), a menu item that ďŹ ts into the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;barbecue without bordersâ&#x20AC;? motto.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pressed sandwich of pulled pork, sliced ham, Swiss cheese, mustard and a pickle served on a thin, well-toasted white bread. The pork was a bit dry, but the mustard and pickle saved the day. Eat this one right off the grill. It loses its mojo once it cools down.

If a barbecue restaurant is going to get one thing right, it should be the ribs, and Blue Rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rock. The meaty pork ribs (half-rack $14.75) are juicy and smoke-suffused with a caramelized crust of tangy goodness. The ribs are served without additional sauce, so you add some of the excellent squirtbottle sauce served on the table if you want.

Less good was the north Alabama smoked-chicken-leg plate ($7.95). While moist, the meat was thinly ďŹ&#x201A;avored with smoke

and tasted as if it had just been tossed on a backyard Weber. OK, but nothing special. The chicken is dunked in a vinegary white barbecue sauce, but it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do much for me. The splotchy skin, white in some places and reddish brown in others, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help, either.

It looked like a burn victim.

Plate dinners come with a choice of two sides, but there is none that I can recommend. The coleslaw, as I mentioned, is uneven. The beans are too sweet. The potato salad is ďŹ&#x201A;avorless and dull. The macaroni and cheese is OK, and the green salad is just a green salad. Why no collard greens?

Another disappointment was the sirloin plate ($8.95). Sliced thin like roast beef, the meat was bland; it was hard to believe it spent much time in the smoke.

Things looked up at dessert. All are made in-house and the pecan pie ($2.35) was my favorite. The crust is thick but ďŹ&#x201A;aky and loaded with sticky, sweet pecan ďŹ lling. The tangy lemon bars ($1.85) with more of that butter crust are good, too.

San Jose is not barbecue country, and while the food at Blue Rock is uneven, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still some good barbecue to be had.

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J. LOHR SAN JOSE WINE CENTER 1000 Lenzen Avenue San Jose, CA 95126 408.918.2160

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COMPANY PARTY and enjoy the holidays without any stress.

Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery can offer your group a casual and fun dining experience in an entertaining atmosphere. All designed around a working brewery, Rock Bottom is the perfect spot to host your festive get together.

Call for Party Planning details for parties of 10-100 people.

SERIOUS ABOUT OUR FOOD. CRAZY ABOUT OUR BEER.

1875 South Bascom | San Jose | 408.377.0707 rockbottom.com

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HE LATE, great ADJĂ&#x2030;H K>AA6<: may ride again. After 60 years of business, the San Jose restaurant had become a Silicon Valley institution for its old school charm and menu of seafood and American food classics. But brothers I>B 6C9 IDB BJAA:G closed the restaurant on New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve 2005. They had received an offer for the land that they â&#x20AC;&#x153;couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t refuse,â&#x20AC;? says Tom Muller, who grew up in the restaurant started by his grandfather ADJ H6CIDGD in 1946.

But Muller says he still hears from people who lament the close of the restaurant, and he decided to start looking for a suitable site to relaunch the restaurant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We always knew the Louâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brand had value,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a lot of goodwill. The window is still wide open.â&#x20AC;? With good ambience, quality food and expert service, he says a new Louâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s would ďŹ ll a gap in Silicon Valleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant scene. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The majority of restaurants donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get it.â&#x20AC;?

Muller has spent the past four months looking for the right building, but so far heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s come up empty. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking for a 4,000-to-5,000-square-foot building with plenty of parking in downtown San Jose, Willow Glen, west San Jose or Campbell. Once he ďŹ nds the right space, he says he hopes to ďŹ nd a young chef with â&#x20AC;&#x153;lots of good ideas,â&#x20AC;? although Muller says the menu will be similar to the original Louâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

In the West San Carlos Street restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early days it was as much a nightclub as a restaurant. Once upon a time, Lucille Ball, Lenny Bruce and the Ink Spots all played Louâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Muller believes he can create a restaurant that will appeal to a new generation of customers who never visited Louâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s back in the day. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know we have a customer base that goes from 1 to 90 years of age,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I see this happening.â&#x20AC;?

Morsels In other restaurant news, GD7:GI H6E>GB6C is out as executive chef at Santa Claraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s E6G8:A &%). Sapirman left two weeks ago and no replacement had been named as of Monday. Why the sudden change? No one at the restaurant is saying much.

Sapirman did not return calls for comment. C6HH:G BD76G6@, Parcel 104â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food and beverage director, said, in effect, chefs come and go and Sapirman went, but he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where he went. He said the real name behind the restaurant is consulting chef 7G69A:N D<9:C. As chef and co-owner of the eight-restaurant Lark Creeek Restaurant Group, Ogden oversees the menu at Parcel 104. Ogden happens to be at Parcel 104 Sept. 30 and Oct. 5 and 6 to present a new â&#x20AC;&#x153;signature dishâ&#x20AC;? and new fall menu. It will be up to Ogden to select a new executive chef, Mobarak said. Meanwhile, the restaurant was closed Sept. 25â&#x20AC;&#x201C;27 for an extensive remodel.

Santana Rowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s N6C@:: E>:G has a new chef, and his name is <6GN GJHI. He comes to San Jose from the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Larkspur location.

B>CI A:6; 8J>H>C: restaurant ďŹ nally opened in downtown Saratoga Sept. 15. It took the owners of the Asian-fusion restaurant three years to ready the space for business because of extensive kitchen upgrades and building repairs. The space was formerly home to the Village Rendezvous. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope the new restaurant is worth the wait.

Finally, GDHH =6CHDC, executive chef of G:HI6JG6CI ?6B:H G6C96AA, has given his Los Gatos restaurant a fall makeover. The restaurant has gone to a menu of all small plates that range from $7 to $15. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We made it more affordable for people to eat,â&#x20AC;? says Hanson.

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SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 6, 2009 M E T R O S I L I C O N VA L L E Y

CHEF SPOTLIGHT

Maurice Dissels

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UYANA native B6JG>8: 9>HH:AH learned to cook at a young age from his maternal grandmother, who prepared daily meals for the family, which included 11 children. He has built his culinary career in kitchens across America from Chicago to Vail, Colo., and ďŹ nally landed in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 15 years ago. Chef Maurice has been at Birkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant for more than eight years and executive chef for more than six years.

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Saratogaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s EAJB:9 =DGH: restaurant hosts a winemaker dinner at 7pm on Oct. 7 with Napaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s E6=AB:N:G winery, maker of premium bordeaux-style wines. Executive chef E:I:G 6GB:AA>CD will be prepare a special ďŹ ve-course meal to match wines from the 1997 and 1999 vintages as well as a barrel sampling of the 2008. The event is $195 per person. Call the restaurant at 408.867.4711 for information.

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Rarely has a national election been so ďŹ ercely challenged, so infused with meaning, so weighted by widely swinging dramatic arcs, and so blessed by such an engrossing cast of characters. It was, without question, what political insiders refer to as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;change electionâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;a signiďŹ cant, paradigmatic shift in the national polity.

A generation ago it would have been said that the campaign was fought out each evening on the network newscasts, but in the age of the Internet and 24/7 news cycles, the fact of the matter is that the combat was nearly incessant, seemingly without pause.

The highly contested nature of the 2008 election inevitably lent itself to sports metaphors, invoked

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This fascinating and revealing memorandum is explored at length in Dan Balz and Haynes Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s superb The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election, the only book yet published on the election that succeeds in capturing its entire dramatic arc.

Balz and Johnson, both veterans of the Washington Postâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s formidable national bureau, generally opt for the boxing metaphor in their reporting. In that respect,

they view the real heavyweight battle in 2008 as the one fought between Hillary Clinton and Obama in the Democratic primaries.

The Battle for America opens with a telling vignette in which Obama and both Hillary and Bill Clinton appear at a memorial march in Selma, Ala., in the winter of 2007. Afterward, Obama is waiting in a small plane on the tarmac of the Selma airport as, ďŹ rst, Billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motorcade pulls up to a Gulfstream jet, and the former president taxis down the runway.

Next it is Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turnâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;only the battery is dead in his plane.

Hillary then emerges from her own, even larger motorcade, enters her Gulfstream and departs down the runway, while Obama is forced to wait for an electrical cord in order to jump-start his engine to take off. The symbolic imagery of the situation is not lost on Obama, who declares, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess this really is a grassroots campaign.â&#x20AC;?

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EREIN LIES one of the two major historical questions of the 2008 election.

How did Hillary Clinton, widely considered the frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination and ahead of Obama by as much as 33 points in October of 2007, lose her lead and her seemingly inevitable presidency to the junior senator from Illinoisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a candidate who had been a national ďŹ gure for less than four years and whose sole claim to fame was a single speech delivered at the 2004 Democratic national convention in Boston?

The simple answer is that Clinton and her campaign blew it. For all her steely posturing and assertion of leadership skills, Hillary Clinton was a hands-off manager, afraid to mix it up in the rough and tumble of interoffice inďŹ ghting. The Clinton campaign, as Evan Thomas describes it in the compact though wellcrafted and insightful The Inspiring, Combative 2008 Campaign and the Historic Election of Barack Obama, )+

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was defined by “crisis, chaos, deceit and subterfuge”—and that was putting it mildly.

The Clinton team’s confidence soon begat arrogance, complacency and a sense of entitlement—all deadly ingredients in a run for the White House.

But as Richard Wolffe argues in his elegant, if at times gushing, Renegade: The Making of a President, that was only half the answer to the question. The other half was that the Obama camp was simply masterful in its execution throughout the primaries. In this respect, Wolffe favors basketball metaphors in his intimate portrait of the candidate: Politics was no pastime for Barack Obama, but it tested him in similar ways to his beloved basketball. The campaign challenged his character and his strategy To win, he needed to demonstrate what kind of game he could play. Was he a highminded purist who never threw an elbow? Could he keep his cool while his opponents tried to rattle him? Was he all hope and no fight?

As the campaign wore on, Obama’s— and Axelrod’s—ability to keep their heads calm when those about them lost theirs enabled them to take advantage of every little mistake made by the Clintons.

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HE OTHER major question lingering from the 2008 campaign is whether or not John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate cost him the election, or if his loss was a fait accompli, no matter whom he chose. This is a much more dicey matter, as McCain’s political operatives try to salvage their reputations in the aftermath of their loss and as startling revelations about Palin’s behavior on the campaign trail continue to leak slowly, albeit steadily, from McCain operatives.

In the aftermath of Obama’s significant electoral victory, the McCain campaign has done its best to argue that the loss was inevitable, no matter who he chose, no matter what they did. The most vehement of these spin doctors has been Rick Davis, McCain’s controversial lobbyistcum–campaign manager, who was demoted not once, but twice, by McCain during the electoral process.

While the highly regarded Steve Schmidt—known as “The Bullet” in GOP circles—was eventually placed in charge of the campaign’s day-to-day operations in July of 2008, it was Davis who was tasked with overseeing the vice-presidential selection process, and it was Davis who led McCain & Co. to Sarah Palin.

For those political junkies who crave the behind-the-scenes details of the various campaigns, it doesn’t get much better than Campaign for President: The Managers Look at

2008, the transcripts of a two-day gathering convened at Harvard’s Institute of Policy Studies in the immediate aftermath of the election. Many of the major players participated—including Davis and Bill McInturff from the McCain campaign and Axelrod and David Plouffe from Obama’s— and their comments at the various sessions are transcribed essentially verbatim. It’s the raw footage of the campaign, the nit and grit, without mediation by journalists or historians.

Davis and McInturff did their best at Harvard to spin the Palin selection in a favorable light—“She was a maverick,” Davis insisted—but the Obama camp would have none of it. Joel Benson, Obama’s chief pollster, noted that after Palin’s devastating performance in her now infamous interview with Katie Couric, “Palin went from having, in our poll, the highest favorable/unfavorable ratio to the worst of the four principals. By the time she got to the vice-presidential debate, in our polling, her negatives were almost as high as her positives.”

Davis and McInturff argued that the economic crash on Sept. 15, 2008, is what did in their candidate. It’s an interesting piece of revisionist history, especially since the GOP, by McInturff ’s own admission, had gained considerable ground on Obama in August. As one former McCain strategist has acknowledged, “That position is intellectually dishonest.”

If McCain had an economic heavyweight at his side like Mitt Romney during the financial meltdown in mid-September, rather than the economic neophyte like Palin hiding from the press, it remains uncertain what might have happened. This was the critical turn in the election. Obama was never particularly good at explaining his own economic policies, but compared to the seemingly hapless McCain, operating without a shotgun next to him, middle-ofthe-road voters and independents swung toward the Democrats.

Shortly thereafter, Colin Powell—who questioned McCain’s judgment in selecting Palin and who said, “I don’t believe she is ready to be president of the United States”— announced his historic endorsement of Obama and Joe Biden. McCain never recovered from that point on.

In his classic work on the 1972 Presidential election, The Boys on the Bus, Timothy Crouse chronicled how gritty newspaper reporters helped to both shape and frame the national debate. In 2008, the real media vitality this time around was generated by bloggers across the country.

For far too many years, there’s been a culture of “pack journalism” on the campaign trail, as embedded reporters feed off the same press releases and same handouts, fearing to break new ground. As

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Eric Boehlert notes in Bloggers on the Bus, his delightful chronicle of the progressive blogosphere (or â&#x20AC;&#x153;netroots nation,â&#x20AC;? as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s known), independent voices from the Internet â&#x20AC;&#x153;inďŹ&#x201A;uenced and altered the road to the White House.â&#x20AC;? In particular, a rag-tag army of articulate progressive bloggers from Alaska did the public vetting of Sarah Palin that the mainstream media failed to do.

They were ahead of the curve every step of the way.

As the dust from the 2008 race slowly settlesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and as Obama struggles to forge new directions in health care and foreign policy in the face of vicious opposition from the conservative rightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;perhaps the most salient, long-distance analysis of the 2008 election is contained in the fascinating and brilliant Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, by the young blogger, investigative journalist and videographer Max Blumenthal.

Blumenthal argues that â&#x20AC;&#x153;a culture of personal crisisâ&#x20AC;? has transformed the Republican Party from a moderate-right coalition to one driven by extremists.

Citing the work of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm (author of Escape From Freedom), Blumenthal asserts that the fear of freedom leads anxiety-ridden people to embrace a peculiar brand of Evangelical authoritarianism that has fueled the likes of Sarah Palin. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a chilling portrait of the dark underbelly of right-wing politics in this country, one that is holding not only the Republican Party hostage, but as Blumenthal argues, the entire American polity.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a disconcerting thought that, after such a grueling and, in many ways, deďŹ nitive election, an even nastier, more prolonged battle may be waiting just around the corner.

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STAGE REVIEW

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San Jose Stage delves into the importance of storytelling in Martin McDonaghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wickedly dark comedy â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Pillowmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; OR ITS season opener, San Jose Stage Company presents Martin McDonaghâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tony Awardâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; winning play The Pillowman, a collection of twisted childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories. Despite its sinister subject matter, the play is surprisingly hilarious and movingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it AUTHORITY FIGURES!!Sboebmm!Ljoh!)mfgu*!boe!

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The production team does a stellar job of immersing the audience in this stiďŹ&#x201A;ingly depressing world. The set is minimalistic, with only a few objects in the room. This allows the audience to envision the opening stories without being overwhelmed by distractions.

Once our imagination is exercised and prepared, the scrim is lit from behind to reveal reenactments of Katurianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s other tales that were always there, hiding in the dark. Behind the see-through curtain, the setting is full of small details, gorgeously colored mosaics and faces to go with the victims. The mood of dread is also enhanced by the lighting. The ďŹ&#x201A;oor is bathed in green and blue lights that are interrupted by branches, evoking the feeling of being lost in a terrifying forest with some predator catching a hold of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s scent.

It is easy to get lost in these seamlessly woven and grim tales, thanks to Wiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s precise narration. His voice leads us, with every inďŹ&#x201A;ection and pause, back to our childhood when we felt that reading a story before bed was just as important as eating and breathing. It was our job to listen and imagine, and with Wiltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portrayal, it is our job again. Both LĂłpez-Morillas and King offer delicious performances. Every mannerism, every delivery is completely owned and understood by these true professionals. Another portrayal that was impressive was that of Katurianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother. In his Stage debut, Justin Karr is able to breathe humanity into this complex character by implementing endearing gestures and a childlike understanding of the situation. The cast balances horror and humor ďŹ&#x201A;awlessly. This daring play is inexplicably able to have audiences laughing uproariously one moment and sitting in stunned silence the next. This production is a gift, wrapped in the darkest of paper, and it is everything you want but were too scared to ask for.

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Michael Moore beards the malefactors of great wealth in their lairs for ‘Capitalism: A Love Story’

By Richard von Busack

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OU CAN mock Jesus, insult Mohammed and meet Buddha on the road and kill him, but if you dare to question the genius of capitalism, you’ve really blasphemed.

To say that capitalism’s unregulated excesses create misery, waste and waves of uncertainty, to go fully on the offensive, as Michael Moore does in his collage-documentary Capitalism: A Love Story, you can expect loads of feedback.

The study begins more or less with Jimmy Carter: “Along came Debbie Downer,” Moore says sarcastically.

Carter’s accurate forecast of debt and dependency on foreign oil caused him to be swept aside by cheery spokesman Ronald Reagan.

Newly elected, Reagan spoke for Wall Street—today, Reagan’s “We’re going to let the bull loose” sounds as pregnant as Merian C. Cooper’s promise to Fay Wray: “You shall have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood.”

Subsequent presidents didn’t mess with the formula. Graphs here show what most will have already sussed out: since the Reagan-era tax cuts in the top percentiles, the urge to get rich by pumping the stock market through layoffs and increased working hours and productivity (but with wages gone stagnant) has flourished.

Lastly, we have the ever-steady rise of debt as the submillionaire class filled the gap with credit cards.

It’s been 20 years since Moore made Roger & Me about the layoffs that devastated Flint, Mich. The only

thing that has changed is that Flint is worse, and its woes have spread throughout the United States. Moore makes a nationwide tour of today’s wreckage. He follows the collapse of the real estate market and interviews a self-confessed “vulture” picking the bones of condos in Florida.

In Illinois, Moore sits with victims of a family-farm eviction. In upstate New York, he discusses airline companies squeezing pilots’ wages, causing them to try everything from plasma selling to food stamps to make ends meet. Moore is never so deadon as when observing the contrast between the public lionization of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III and the congressmembers who stayed away in droves when he testified about the frightful overworking of pilots. The film investigates the rise of “dead peasant” insurance policies, in which corporate employers try to make capital off deceased employees.

Finally comes last year’s bank bailout, conducted in secrecy and facilitated with the kind of fearmongering W and his team did best.

Some of the enmity against Moore arises because of his looks. As Jay told Silent Bob, no one wants to see a fat man cry. But wouldn’t it be a wonderful world if wealth made you obese? It would be stirring to see on Market Watch a parade of Goldman Sachs spokesmen, Wall Street Journal commentators and Treasury Department secretaries who looked like they would have to be buried in piano crates. Still, when Moore does the faux-naive thing—

standing outside the New York Stock Exchange with a bullhorn or trying to buttonhole executives to get them to explain the derivatives market—he’s wasting our time and his. At this point in his career, it’s irrelevant for him to pretend that he doesn’t know more than we do. He’s just using the time-honored “Michigan Defense,” as seen in Anatomy of a Murder: “Your honor, I’m just a humble country journalist, doing the best I can against this brilliant system.”

When Moore is at his best, it is not as defense lawyer but as prosecutor.

And what’s been worthwhile since 1989 is his tendency to sass back corporate spokesmen instead of taking their statements at face value.

The man has a utopian vision, and this vision is lodged in his past: his father’s 33 years at the GM plant provided a single income enough to pay off their house, send his kids to Catholic school and give him medical coverage and four weeks of vacation.

When all of this was swept away through union-busting and plant closures, what, exactly, did Flint— what did any of us—get in return?

Moore has to dig into the past to see what a future might be like.

He plucks out of the memory hole a little-remembered 1944 speech of Franklin Roosevelt proposing a second bill of rights for American citizens. The speech is a beautiful summing up of Moore’s thesis, a calm balance to Moore’s extremely good use of found-footage montage and borrowed soundtrack music.

The criticisms of Capitalism: A Love

Story are obvious. It’s one thing to note that the Italian constitution passed an equal-rights clause: in reality, has Italy vanquished sexism? The problem of the derivatives market deserves its own documentary—and has it, in new documentary American Casino. Naturally, Moore could have taken his cameras to walled enclaves and country clubs to prove that unregulated capitalism is the best of all possible worlds. Fox News et al. do a good job of finding svelte Republicans to remind us that racism is over, the recession is corrected and everything will be fine once Obama is run out of town. You could quote Baroness Thatcher’s favorite comment on socialism—“Eventually, you run out of other people’s money”—while neglecting to remember how Karl Marx wrote that this, precisely, was an essential problem of capitalism.

But Sicko energized the current debate over health care. Who knows what this documentary will touch off? Here, Moore opens a door that most of the powers that be would like to remain closed. This call for democratic socialism sounds loud, clear and not at all shrill after 30 bruising years of privatization, layoffs and shameless corporate thievery.

Hugely entertaining, Capitalism: A Love Story will get people in touch with an anger they didn’t know they possessed—and a hope they didn’t dare let themselves feel.

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY (R; 127 min.), a documentary by Michael Moore, opens Oct. 2.

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New Capitalism: A Love Story (R; 120 min.) See review on page 51.

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OLIN BEAVANâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S yearlong act of abnegation, recorded in the exasperating documentary No Impact Man, can make you as depressed about the possibilities of the environmental movement as an exposĂŠ on drowning polar bears. Beavan became the ďŹ&#x201A;avor of 2007 when his blog was publicized by a New York Times story. It was subsequently echoed in magazines and on television. Beavanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiment: an attempt to make no carbon footprint for a year while living in his New York city apartment.

Along for the rideâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;goodbye, city life, as Eva Gabor once sangâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;was Beavanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spouse, Michelle, a senior writer at Business Week. Their 2-year-old child, still in diapers, also contributed.

Beavan gave up coffee, the movies and anything else that cost energy.

Most notoriously, he and his family gave up toilet paper on the grounds that it was difďŹ cult to tell if the paper had been recycled. Somehow Beavan misunderstood the wrath and snark to come, not on the grounds that his butt smelled but because heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d gotten into The New York Times ahead of all his attention-seeking friends. Pre-stunt, Beavan was a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, and he spent extensive time as a social worker in 1980s England.

Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a perplexingly naive ďŹ gure, then, watching his long-suffering wife yearning for coffee and a trip home to see her parents. Moreover, since sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s turning 40, she has the urge to add another little consumer to this world: a prospect Beavan objects to not because of the carbon footprints to come but because of a new babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effect on his career.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to take this documentary as it probably ought to be taken: as a cute pointless anecdote meant to spur a discussion. Of course, there is charm in watching a family shopping at the farmers market in Union Square, bicycling through New York and trying (unsuccessfully) to ďŹ gure out a nonelectrical way to refrigerate a babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk. Mull over this stuff, and you start to go Edgar Allen Poeâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;level obsessive about it. Was the steel for his solar panels milled sustainably? The grain from the locally made baked loavesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; did it come from upstate New York or from the prairie 2,000 miles away?

South of the Rio Grande, there are many small coffee farmers dependent on conscience-stricken urbanitesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;would patronizing them have been a good exception to the no-carbon rule? And, lastly, no-carbon indeed: What fuel are they using to cook their endless meals of squash?

I ďŹ nally felt a ray of common sense bursting in when a fellow New Yorkerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a portly survivor of the 1960s who works a community gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; patiently sits Colin down and explains to him that the chances of radical change are nil when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re publicized by the same establishment responsible for the rapine of the planet. This study ends right where you guessed it wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;right where it should have begunâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in a program of sensible choices and behavior modiďŹ cation, rather than stunt-driven whackadooism guaranteed to inďŹ&#x201A;ame consumers with terror of scarcity and the image of Obama snatching away their Charmin from their cold dead hands.

Richard von Busack NO IMPACT MAN (Unrated; 90 min.), a documentary by Laura Gabbert, opens Oct. 2 at Camera 3 in San Jose.

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (R; 105 min.) I hope so, too, but chances are better that Lucifer will use this movie to punish his minions. This cinematic distillation of Tucker Maxâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s malign blog is a tentative, denatured thing, getting a theatrical release only because its producers hope to get some of The Hangoverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gravy on its potatoes. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bachelor party time: three Richmond, Va., law students drive 250 miles to Salem to avoid the no-touch

policy at the local strip clubs. The party of three is Drew (Jesse Bradford), a woman hater who threw his ďŹ ancee out after he discovered her giving head to a rapper called Grillionaire; Dan (Goeff Stults, a discount version of Ben AfďŹ&#x201A;eck) is the groom-to-be. Ringleader is Tucker (Matt Czuchry), a nonspeciďŹ c troublemaker; considering that it is his movie, Tucker is in very soft focusâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Czuchry resembles the milk-colored, childish Aryan sociopath home invaders in Funny Games. The movie stalls as Drew is rehabbed by a tough but tender stripper. Fans of misogyny against deaf girls are directed to In the Company of Men instead; the dialogue here against â&#x20AC;&#x153;the rib-stealing genderâ&#x20AC;? is much more squeaky, beďŹ tting a movie in which real boobs rub up against fake ones. The real Max is a real barbarianâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;many a convicted rapist has less creepy attitudes toward womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but no one ever called him a cop-out. This movie, by contrast, is. (Opens Oct 2 at Camera 12 in San Jose and the AMC Mercado.) (RvB)

The Invention of Lying (PG-13; 100 min.) Ricky Gervais stars in a comedy about getting away with lies when everyone else tells the truth. (Opens Oct 2.)

No Impact Man (Unrated; 93 min.) See review at left.

Surrogates (PG-13; 88 min.) In the near future, all human beings will be pale shut-ins, experiencing life through cybersimilacra.

Late one night, the son of the man who made this technical breakthrough possible is murdered, fried by electrical surge after his avatar is killed by a strange new weapon. Investigating the crime is an FBI agent (Bruce Willis) and his partner (Radha Mitchell). They believe the crime is linked to a large reservation of Luddites, led by a charismatic leader called the Prophet (Ving Rhames). Based on a graphic novel, this routiner-than-routine mystery teaches us little, except that toupees wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look much better in the future. Though the use of these â&#x20AC;&#x2122;bots has reportedly wiped out sexism and racism, you certainly couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell: when Willis talks, women listen, and at one point he calls a suspect â&#x20AC;&#x153;Honey.â&#x20AC;? The possibilities, visible even in a far-more-low-budget effort like Creation of the Humanoids (1962), arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t teased out here, in whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eventually a tract against spending too much time online. Bad exposition (â&#x20AC;&#x153;This kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father is Lionel Canterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as in the inventor of surrogates, Lionel Canter!â&#x20AC;?) complements the seriously ugly color, which as usual might look better on HiDef TV. (Plays valleywide.) (RvB) Whip It (PG-13; 111 min.) See review on page 57.

Zombieland (R) See review on page 54.

Revivals Marnie/The Trouble With Harry (1964/1955) One of the strangest items in Hitchcockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catalog: a harsh arch-Freudian melodrama about a chic Philadelphia kleptomaniac (Tippi Hedren) forcibly married to a brutal but sensual businessman (Sean Connery, at his most hormonal). The key to the mystery is in the past, and it involves a vicious sailor (Bruce Dern). Patently artiďŹ cial backdrops, a fake horse and careless rear projections make this a controversial ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing inauthentic about Hedren and Connery, and the movie gets even more heft from Bernard Herrmannâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last Hitchcock score (not counting the one written and scrapped for Torn Curtain, of course). History has gone on the rescue mission for this critical and box-ofďŹ ce ďŹ&#x201A;op. BILLED WITH The Trouble With Harry. Fall in Vermont, and contented small-town types deal with a problematic corpse who seems to have a life of its own. The life of this charming minor Hitchcock ďŹ lm is young Shirley MacLaine, whose impertinent red hair harmonizes nicely with the falling leaves.

(Plays Sep 30-Oct 1 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) Niles Film Museum Regularly scheduled programs of silent ďŹ lms. Oct 3: The Home Stretch (1921), a horse-racing saga ďŹ lmed in Pleasanton.

Also: Seeing Stars (1923) with Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, and The Grocery Clerk (1919) with a silent comedian considered by some to be an especially neglected name: New York Sun cartoonistâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;turnedâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;silent comedian Larry Semon. Forgotten now, he was once praised by Oliver Hardy as the most hardworking gag man he knew, besides Stan Laurel, of course. Dead at 39, Semon was once one of the highest-grossing silent comics. Jon Mirsalis at the piano. (Plays Oct 3 in Fremont at the Edison Theater, 37417 Niles Blvd.) (RvB)

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HIS TOUP HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN Csvdf!XjmmjtÖ!tvssphbuf!ibjsqjfdf!jowftujhbuft!! b!gvuvsjtujd!nvsefs!xjui!uif!ifmq!pg!Sbeib!Njudifmm!jo!ÕTvssphbuft-Ö!qmbzjoh!wbmmfzxjef/ Toy Story 1 and 2, 3-D (1995/1999) With great charm and unforced emotion, the local fantasy factory Pixar created a pair of classics about a handful of living toys: about the mixed emotions they had in watching their owners growing up and leaving them behind—or the alternative option they had of becoming museum pieces in some collector’s domain.

Back in a 3-D double bill, these two heartfelt and funny movies will pack their customary punch; this event will also delight kids too young to have seen them theatrically during their first run.

(Opens Oct 2 valleywide.) (RvB)

Reviews All About Steve (PG-13) No one is doing what Sandra Bullock does, walking the line between glamour and girl-next-door, producing her own comedies and getting mileage out of being a New Jersey girl in a Fifth Avenue body, a quick fast lady in world too slow for her. But All About Steve—despite a sturdy screwball comedy script—shows that Bullock may have to move on to a new stage. Bullock plays Mary Magdalene Horowitz, a Sacramento crossword puzzle composer still living at home with her parents, who is set up on a blind date with Steve (Bradley Cooper), a cameraman from “CCN News.” Mary falls madly in love at first sight and starts chasing Steve around the country. Bullock’s bleached hair and skimpy outfit shows that she’s thinking young, but she may have too

much integrity to be right for a yakkety ditz like Mary. Fortunately, Thomas Haden Church—as a straight-faced, splendidly conceited newsman—takes up some of the slack as Steve’s coworker, who mischievously encourages Mary in her pursuit. (Steve calls him “Iago” for this, evidence that the movie’s writing is on a higher plain than you’d expect.) The news stories covered have some wit to them—a moving story of a three-legged baby in Oklahoma, whose separated parents can’t agree whether to amputate the extra limb or not, causing large vigils, sign-carriers and candleholding outside the hospital. Bullock is most likable acting on her honest desire to pounce on Steve; there’s no girlish coyness in a line like “I’m going to eat you like a mountain lion.” She’s about ready to play some fine cougars, hunting down some younger man and making him like it. (RvB) Amreeka (PG-13; 96 min.) A drama concerning a Palestinian family resettling in America.

Bright Star (PG; 119 min.) There are some great kisses in it. It’s an unusually f lowery film from this thorny director Jane Campion, suggesting the troubled relationship of Fanny Brawne (Abby Cornish) and the poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) as an idyll of hyacinths and daffodils, birdsong and butterf lies surrounded by slums.

Circa 1820, Keats is loved by Fanny, an independent-minded girl who made some money through sewing

and design. Acting as a brake on this romance: Charles Armitage Brown, Keats’ friend, fellow poet and selfappointed watchdog. Paul Schneider’s salty and scene-stealing performance as this ironist matches Keats’ poem “Character of Charles Brown.” The sad fact is that poetry read onscreen seems f lat, and the better the poetry is, the f latter it sounds. Campion’s approach is far more interesting than the customary Merchant-Ivory or Jane Austen–industry adaptation. Bright Star has blood and sweetness in it, but the limpid, f lower-childish nature of this vision may make some viewers sneeze from the pollen. (RvB) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (PG; 90 min.) A 3-D animated family film based on a famous children’s book.

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 f luid.

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

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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 f lawless animation of the bug creatures. All of the most interesting parts of this story—about the otherness of the aliens—are kept off-camera. (RvB) Fame (PG) File this under the heading “What were they thinking?” We didn’t really need to revisit this ’80s relic, did we?

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Dead Reckoning Woody Harrelson stalks the wasteland in self-conscious ‘Zombieland’

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T’S ONE THING to make a movie where all the characters know they’re in a movie. It’s another to have them remind the audience that they know they’re in a movie, up to the point where the pleasure starts to wane. Zombieland starts with a foolproof idea. We have the usual zombie plague—this time, raging cannibalism that migrated up from mad-cowtainted hamburger. The United States is in ruins, and the nervous collegeage hero (Jesse Eisenberg)—known to us as Columbus—calls the dreadful landscape Zombieland: a new land with new rules. He joins three reluctant companions: a Twinkies-loving cowboy called Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), a fast female loner named Wichita (Emma Stone) and her little sis, Little Rock (Abigail Breslin), whom Wichita was raising in the grifter trade before the zombies took over. All four head to a place where they think the light at the end of the tunnel still shines: Disneyland, renamed “Pacific Playland” and played by Wild Adventures amusement park in Valdosta, Ga. There’s merit to the idea of a turkey-shoot zombie-killing finale amid colored lights and spinning rides, but the film doesn’t get more imaginative than the previews—the idea doesn’t go anywhere. Under Ruben Fleischer’s bare-bones direction, Zombieland is slathered with narration by Columbus, reiterating zombie-fighting rules: the “Double Tap” being very important.

Eisenberg—more covertly funny in his last amusement-park movie, Adventureland—frets about safety issues and worries about girls, and on the road he gets sassed by Tallahassee as a wimp.

Harrelson is a fierce-looking party, who seems to soar to almost 7 feet; circumstances should have led to some legendary behavior, but it’s a performance that doesn’t build, except to a shootout. The ever-bigger guns, the snakeskin sports coat and a habit of painting Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s No. 3 on the side of whatever monster-size truck Tallahassee commandeers—this would all be funny if there were some cracked frontier lore to go with it. (Where was a Cormac McCarthy parody when they needed it?) And Tallahassee doesn’t have the other side of the John Wayne hero, the silent gentleness. The way this movie trashes Western tropes can also be seen in a scene where the four refugees trash a desert Indian curio stand just to watch stuff break, sending the pottery, beads and Western-theme plates flying—a bit of fun-free slapstick that just looks like waste. One sequence pays off: somehow escaped from the plague is a noted actor, whom the four come to visit in his gated estate. Naming the cameoing star spoils one of the film’s few surprises. This imperturbable comedian is a gracious host, glad to see his fans. The Buddhist wai gesture this actor uses to turn aside compliments is the single funniest thing in this movie. (Easy runner-up is Breslin’s Little Rock trying to explain to Tallahassee how Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus can be one and the same person.) In any case, this mystery star pulls his weight, looks healthy and happy—and then he gets sent out of the movie with the customary disdain for people and logic that marks Zombieland.

Richard von Busack ZOMBIELAND (R), directed by Ruben Fleischer, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, photographed by Michael Bonvillain and starring Woody Harrelson, opens Oct. 2. (Get movie updates—follow us at twitter.com/metronewspaper.)

(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 antiromantic 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) 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.

I Can Do Bad All by Myself (PG-13) Tyler Perry directs, writes and stars in another Madea comedy.

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 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) The Informant!

(R; 108 min.) Matt Damon, with a tire around his gut and a ratty, chewedlooking blond mustache, plays Mark Whitacre, a vice president at Archer Daniels Midland Company. When he reports a case of industrial espionage, his superiors whistle up the FBI. Enter a pair of local agents. One is Special Agent Brian Shepard: Scott Bakula, whose solemn Lincolnesque profile rhymes with the busts of the Great Emancipator seen all over the Illinois locations. Mark confesses to Shepard that he knows a secret: ADM and its overseas rivals have been conspiring to fix prices. The FBI urges Mark to wear a wire to try to nail down the schemers. Inevitably, the executive’s own foot gets tangled in the trap he’s weaving. Soderbergh’s comic true-life thriller shows what was missing from Spielberg’s Catch Me If You Can and Michael Mann’s The Insider. It’s a small masterpiece of slyness—a lambent, seemingly effortless entertainment, a slice of cake that has a tarantula on it.

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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 conf lict between honest brutality and masked sadism; in doing so, he pulls the rug out from under tradition-of-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) Jennifer’s Body (R; 110 min.) To those who thought Diablo Cody was the next Dorothy Parker: much of the dropped brandnames and oddly out of time sitcom references you love are all laid out and waiting for you. It’ll take horror fans to make Jennifer’s Body sell, though, and they’ll feel that they got skimpy portions. Director Karyn Kusama is a little intimidated by the prose and the subject matter. Anita (Amanda Seyfried) is a nerdly small-town girl whose best friend Jennifer (Megan Fox) can be kind of a bitch. One evening, Jennifer disappears and comes back in the early morning covered with blood and black bile. Nothing is spoken of this incident for a while, until weeks later a beefy football player is found eviscerated in the woods. Feminist? Well, yes, but mostly no. The two girls’ plight might have made us feel something if they weren’t so geeky-cool. Or if Megan Fox wasn’t suffused by her conviction that she’s the hottest number on the planet.

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like road movie treats her like a trafficstopping beauty. She’s separated from her husband (Kevin Bacon), a noted bandleader; meanwhile she haphazardly parents two children: the all but openly gay Robbie (Mark Rendall) and his stepbrother, and our narrator, George (Logan Lerman), a writer-to-be dazzled

by J.D. Salinger. The production design

by Brian Morris, the music by Mark Isham and the photography by Marco Pontecorvo are all of a high quality.

The ’50s urban locations are expensive looking. But scarcely a minute rings true: from little things like a lady leaving her purse at a table with a man she’s learned not to trust, or bigger moments like a pumped-up scene of a robbery-minded hitchhiker. David Koechner does some very good work here as a Midwestern paint company magnate. (RvB) 9 (PG-13; 79 min.) Seriously derivative CGI adventure about a group of numbered dolls in a postapocalyptic wilderness. The title character (voiced

by Elijah Wood) is a burlap creature with a zipper front and camera lenses for eyes. 9, mute at first, encounters some of his fellow creatures: 2, a wise old man; then comes the ninja girl 7 (voiced by Jennifer Connelly), the only woman in the picture—a warrior with a seagull skull for a helmet; most important somehow is a ponderous, self-important bishop (Christopher Plummer), a belfry dweller with an English penny as a jewel in his mitre. All are under attack by malignant robots. There’s a certain f lair to the characterization here, particularly the beasts that keep rising up and threatening the little homunculi with their tigerish talons. But Shane Acker’s expansion of his short film is missing a script. And it wraps up its saga with a plot device just used in Harry Potter and the Half Blood-Prince: one more detail of a real multidimensional disappointment. (RvB) Pandorum (R) A horror sci-fi about a space voyage gone bad. Stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster.

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.

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Paris (R; 130 min.) Director/writer Cédric Klapisch’s intriguing if lightweight tagteam film. He takes to the heights of the city—Montmartre, the helipad at the Tour Montparnasse, the Eiffel Tower and, most important, the top f loor of a Haussmann-era building directly above Gambetta Metro. There, a former chorus dancer at the Moulin Rouge, Pierre (Romain Duris), is mortally ill with a heart condition. Pierre’s sister, Elise (Juliette Binoche), a social worker, moves in to nurse Pierre, bringing her brood of fatherless children. The film is like a pile of jackstraws, rather than a solid structure; the loosest ends are the subplots in Cameroon and North Africa, where new immigrants are trying to get to where the euros are. Karin Viard is hilarious as a racist bakery owner; the ace comic actor Fabrice Luchini plays a history professor, undone by modern temptations. (RvB)

Love Happens (PG-13) Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart get serious about each other.

Sorority Row (R; 101 min.) A sensitive look at the good deeds and important educational opportunities provided by our nation’s collegial social organizations. And then a serial killer has to come along and ruin it for everybody. Just to give you an idea of what this means, consider that from now on actress Teri Andrzejewski can put on her résumé that she played “BradClad Sister” in Sorority Row.

My One and Only (PG-13; 108 min.). Well-appointed but wearisomely chipper memoir in which Renée Zellweger plays a single mother of the 1950s, prone to serial monogamy and serial adventures. Zellweger has vivacity enough, but this Auntie Mame–

The September Issue (PG-13; 90 min.) A documentary about editor Anna Wintour and the making of the biggest issue of fashion magazine Vogue.

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HE LEAD CHARACTER in Drew Barrymore’s first feature film as a director, Whip It, is named “Bliss.” The movie is bliss, too. Ellen Page’s Bliss Cavendar lives in Bodeen, Texas. She’s a 17-year-old perennial on the local beauty-pageant circuit, pressured to enter by her mom, a finalist some years before. When not being gowned and styled, Bliss works as a server at the Oink Joint, a roadside cafe with a jumbo concrete pig on top of it. Bliss is meant for finer things. She doesn’t know what they are until she’s shopping for shoes at an Austin used-clothes boutique. In come three members of the Hurl Scouts, a local semilegal roller derby team. Unbeknownst to her parents, Bliss joins them. She adopts the name “Babe Ruthless” and takes warnings from the fragrantly weird coach, who calls himself “Razor” (Andrew Wilson): “There’s a lot more to roller derby than torn fishnets and a tough name.”

Barrymore has rescued Page from the career-killing move of repeatedly playing the smartest person in the room; usually the way out from cold, brainy roles is to play a part with a lot of nudity, but Whip It offers a wilier strategy for Page. We get to see the speed and energy in Page’s tiny frame, since she’s playing an athlete, of sorts. Whip It’s retro side goes beyond the Devo title; Bliss and her best pal, Pash (Alia Shawkat, terrific), are fans of the Ramones; Bliss’ first meeting with a boyfriend-to-be occurs in an Austin lair full of vinyl LPs, and a first notice of a roller derby turns up on a Xeroxed flier. It’s clear that there’s something autobiographical here about Barrymore’s own story as an actress made to glam up by producers, even while she preferred the punker, funkier side of life. Barrymore herself plays a klutzy member of the Scouts, a Calamity Jane turning up with a bloody nose, a whiplash collar or crutches. This actor-turned-director takes great pleasure in the democratic side of comedy and in the uniqueness of small towns.

The acting is superior on down the line. As the parents, Marcia Gay Harden and Daniel Stern display a fond rapport, unobserved by Bliss. The camera steals up in a private moment. Despite her beauty-queen past, Mom is glimpsed propping her foot up on the kitchen counter, leaning back and having a smoke. Kristen Wiig shows serious dramatic heft as the motherly member of the roller squad, and in a noteworthy comeback role, Juliette Lewis smolders away as the well-motivated villain on a rival team.

A sports movie makes its own gravy. The rhythms are easy: parents object, then surrender; daughter rebels, then makes peace; problem of conflict between big beauty contest and championship rally gets, of course, solved.

The third act turns a little wooly. Barrymore could have cut across some of the plot loops to get this film where we know it’s going to go. Whip It’s movie’s message to the girls—“Put on some skates and be your own hero”—the kineticism of the rough-and-tumble rallies, and Barrymore and scriptwriter Shauna Cross’ wit, lets Page hold the screen like never before.

This won’t earn the prestige of Juno, but it’s a far, far better movie. It has quirk without suck.

Richard von Busack

WHIP IT (PG-13; 111 min.), directed by Drew Barrymore, written by Shauna Cross, photographed by Robert D. Yeoman and starring Ellen Page, opens Oct. 2.

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AST THURSDAY, Dominican University of California in San Rafael hosted a very different kind of town hall meeting. While no fundamentalists were apparent, a near-religious fervor pervaded the lecture hall for the latest Pandora “Get-Together,” hosted by the popular Internet radio and music-discovery service.

“I’m the chief evangelist,” founder Tim Westergren told the classroom with a laugh. No wonder, since Oakland-based Pandora is today’s premier online radio service, boasting 35 million listeners across the United States, with 65,000 new registered listeners a day.

It’s readily obvious by talking with the young-looking 43-year-old that he enjoys his job. Back in 2000, along with Will Glaser and Jon Kraft, the Stanford graduate began the ambitious Music Genome Project, a scientific examination of songs using vectors and algorithms that eventually led to the creation of Pandora, a music aggregate that dispenses songs in the form of “stations” that are completely unique for each listener.

First, a listener picks an artist or genre to create a “station.” The user’s

tastes are determined each time he or she clicks “thumbs-up” or “thumbsdown” buttons indicating preference; the “skip” button is neutral. To ensure exposure to new music, no more than four songs from the same artist are played in a three-hour period on any given user’s station.

“Every submission gets a listen,” Westergren says of the 12,000 new songs that come in per month, “but it has to be good.” To increase critical consistency, each of Pandora’s 50 music analysts typically holds a four-year degree in music theory and undergoes a rigorous 100-hour training regimen.

Such an innovative approach to radio engenders interesting challenges, as with eclectic artists. “A station based on Frank Zappa doesn’t work very well,” Westergren says, “and Beck is a pain in the ass, musicologically speaking.” The technology can sometimes be jarring, as in the case of a young man who was irate that a Celine Dion song played on his Sarah McLachlan station.

After Westergren verified that all the variables worked, nothing was left but the ugly truth. “His last email said, ‘Oh my God, I like Celine Dion!’”

Westergren laughs. “We don’t put

much stock in cultural prejudices.”

Just as admirable is Pandora’s bucking of major record labels.

Westergren says that “77 percent of our artists are independent.”

As a touring musician himself for years—he played in a band called Yellowwood Junction—Westergren hasn’t forgotten the musician’s struggle to make a living. Through Pandora, he says, he can offer a new revenue stream for artists.

While Pandora makes money from ads on its site and commission from music sales through iTunes and Amazon, the company has never advertised, relying purely on word of mouth. When the Copyright Royalty Board ruling tripled its required royalty payments in 2007, Pandora was saved by its supporters, with 400,000 letters and faxes reaching Capitol Hill in three days—more than those protesting the Iraq war.

“This is definitely disturbing, but it’s fine for us,” he says, and resulting negotiations enabled Pandora to stay afloat.

This devotion was fully visible at Dominican, with people of all ages thanking Westergren. “You nailed it,” a middle-aged lady gushed. “I’ve had really strange taste my entire life, and

now I’ve gotten into so much new music!” While one older gentleman found Pandora’s classical offerings too limited, most were elated with the service.

According to Westergren, Pandora’s biggest competitor is traditional radio.

“Those are the listeners we want,” he says. “Most of our listeners are in their 20s and 30s, but our fastest growth [is with listeners who are] far older. And they’re no longer being served by the broadcast industry.”

Pandora supports the controversial Performance Rights Act, which would require radio stations to pay royalties to musicians. Pandora already does this. “We think the performer should be paid for radio play,” Westergren says simply.

While Pandora isn’t profitable yet—Westergren hopes to be by year’s end—its achievement remains a scintillating reminder of why music fans should run the music business.

“You will never hear a song on Pandora because a record label told us to,” Westergren told the group to rapturous applause.

That’s an algorithm that deserves a huge thumbs-up.

Pandora can be found at www.pandora.com.

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JOHN PRINE performs on Thursday (Oct. 1) at 7:30pm at the Mountain Winery, 14831 Pierce Road, Saratoga. Tickets are $45â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$65. (800.345.7000)

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$15 Adv./ $18 Dr. Drs. 8 p.m., Show 9 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 3 â&#x20AC;˘ AGES 16+ â&#x20AC;˘ In the Atrium

STILL TIME plus Matt Masih & the Messengers

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9 Andre Nickatina (AGES 16+) 9 Great American Taxi in the Atrium (AGES 21+) 10 State Radio/ The Skaflaws (AGES 16+) 11 Groundation (AGES 16+) 16 Brother Ali/ Evidence (AGES 16+) 17 The Devil Makes Three (AGES 21+) 20 Matisyahu (AGES 16+) 21 UFO/ Zen Vendetta (AGES 21+) 22 Tech N9ne (AGES 16+) 24 The Flying Karamazov Brothers Tom Noddy TagAway Benefit (ALL AGES) Oct 30 Ozomatli (AGES 21+) Nov 4 Immortal Technique (AGES 16+) Nov 6 Mickey Avalon (AGES 16+) Nov 7 Dropkick Murphys (AGES 16+) Nov 15 Finch/ Blessthefall (AGES 16+) Nov 22 The Disco Biscuits (AGES 16+) Feb 9 Badfish A Tribute to Sublime (AGES 16+)

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Food and oxygen are constantly combusting inside you, generating fiery energy that fuels your every movement, thought and feeling. This awareness of fire as a source of vitality, not a destroyer, would be valuable for you to cultivate in the coming days.

Your steady, earthy rhythm needs a shot of radiance and luminosity and fervor. <Zb^c^ (May 21–June 20): Several couples I know keep lists of the five celebrities they’d be allowed to boink if the chance ever presented itself. My friend Jim, for instance, will incur no karmic repercussions with his girlfriend Alicia if he ever spends a night of carnal delight with the following people: Lady Gaga, Sarah Silverman, Karen O, Shakira or Halle Berry. Alicia’s permitted to enjoy liaisons with Johnny Depp, Chris Rock, Marilyn Manson, Jimmy Fallon and Portia de Rossi. I bring this up, Gemini, because I believe you’ll soon be the beneficiary of some extravagant cosmic luck that could offer you a close brush with an exotic form of pleasure. This might not exactly take the form of a one-night stand with a famous fox, but it could be almost as extraordinary.

8VcXZg ( June 21–July 22): I’m happy you’re getting back to fundamentals and shedding pretensions and nourishing your roots, but I also want to make sure that you don’t get too funky and lowdown. I’d hate to have to be hoisting you up out of the gutter next week, or counseling you on how to cover for the fact that you’ve compromised your own highest standards. So please resist any temptations you might feel to descend toward the lowest common denominator, Cancerian. As you deepen your center of gravity, make sure you keep your attitude elevated.

AZd ( July 23–Aug. 22): “I may not love you,”

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K^g\d (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): In a puckish fantasy, the poet Linh Dinh imagined a hypothetical scenario in which it would be uncool to be too cool. “In an effort to inject more pep and resolve into its lethargic citizens,” he waxed with prophetic longing, “the government is mandating the use of an exclamation mark at the end of each sentence, spoken or written. ‘It looks like rain!’ for example, or ‘I must sleep!’” I suggest that you take his vision, Virgo, and turn it into reality for the immediate future! You would really benefit from getting more excited than usual! Who knows, maybe a simple thing like imagining every one of your sentences ending with an exclamation mark could make your whole being more thrillable!

A^WgV (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): Is there a big difference between your current job and your beloved career?

Do you suffer from the unsettling feeling that your calling hasn’t called you yet? Are you under the impression that your main reason for being here on Earth may reveal itself at some unknown time in the future, but not anytime soon? If you answered no to all those questions, congrats! You are more

than halfway toward living a victorious life. But if you answered yes to at least one question, it’s high time to take action. Start by formulating an intention to find out what you need to know in order to deal with the problem more aggressively.

The cosmic forces are arrayed in such a way as to reward you for doing so.

HXdge^d (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): The Indian guru known

as Amma has hugged over 30 million people during her three-decades career. I’ve known people who’ve received blessings from her, and they tell me that she can magically undo your karmic knots with her spiritual power, freeing you from having to suffer indefinitely for the bad decisions you made in the past. Amma rarely does a complete unraveling of all karmic knots in one sitting, however. Your negative conditioning might be holding you together, after all, and a sudden superfix could cause you to fall apart. That’s the situation I suspect is true for you right now, Scorpio: You’ll be wise to undo some, but not all, of your karmic knots.

HV\^iiVg^jh (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): The coming

week will have something to offend and agitate everyone—except you. Whines and moans and yelps will ring out across the land, even as you’re emanating poise and aplomb. You may be tempted to brazenly exploit everyone’s vulnerability and seize control of your corner of the world, but I think that would be shortsighted of you. A better strategy for capitalizing on your advantage would be to dole out large doses of mercy, making sure that the people who will be important to your future don’t lose their way.

8Veg^Xdgc (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): “The bear must

deal with 20 obstacles, and each one of them involves pears,” says the Sufi proverb, “because the bear adores pears.” That’s a twisty truth worth meditating on, Capricorn. I suspect that the gifts coming your way will bring their own unique problems; the dreams you’re in love with will generate new dilemmas to solve. By no means does this imply that you should avoid accepting the gifts or pursuing your dreams. Part of the fun of doing great things is dealing with the changes they generate!

6fjVg^jh ( Jan. 20–Feb. 18): On behalf of all us

non-Aquarians, I’d like to express our appreciation for the experiments you’ve been performing. Please don’t be discouraged just because the results thus far have been inconclusive and left you feeling a trifle rudderless. We feel confident that sooner or later you’ll come up with discoveries that will have bottom-line value to both you and the rest of us.

We’d also like to apologize for the shortsighted and timid types among us who are accusing you of being unrealistic or overly optimistic. Please keep trying those novel approaches and making those imaginative forays.

E^hXZh (Feb. 19–March 20): While reviewing the

work of Angelina Jolie in the film Taking Lives, A.O. Scott called her “the flesh-and-blood actress most likely to be mistaken for a computer-generated special effect.” I don’t expect you to rival Jolie’s odd talent anytime soon, but I wonder if maybe you’ll be seeing a lot of that kind of stuff in the world around you. Some of the characters who will be advancing the plotlines in your life story may seem to be able to breathe fire, walk through walls or change the weather at will. At the very least, you’ll witness phenomena that resemble optical illusions.

My advice: Try to get these exotic outbreaks to work for you rather than against you. Embrace them, don’t fear them.

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Not that I would ever doubt what somebody told me in a casino, R. But how do you know the pooch’s alerts aren’t more along the lines of “This guy’s holding three of a kind”?

Fact is, there’s no such thing as a generalpurpose medical alert dog. Closest I know of is a dog that recognizes seizures, due either to epilepsy or, in diabetics, low blood sugar. The experts distinguish two types of canine assistant. The first is a seizure response dog, trained to summon help or the like if its owner has an episode. Research suggests dogs do well at this task. The second is a seizure alert dog, which provides advance notice.

Here matters get murkier, as the notion that dogs can sense a looming medical crisis is controversial. One case written up recently involved a diabetic farmer. While driving back to his house for lunch he’d often suffer hypoglycemia, which can lead to convulsions or unconsciousness. The farmer didn’t see the attacks coming but his dog, who liked to sleep on the seat next to him, apparently did: on numerous occasions over a 17-year period the dog immediately awakened and barked until the farmer pulled over and ate some sugar.

Or so the farmer said. The problem with these accounts is you’re taking somebody’s word for it.

In surveys of dog-owning epileptics, many report their pets can anticipate seizures and warn them in some way—barking, licking, etc. Perhaps so, but it’s not like dogs don’t do a lot of barking and licking at other times too. In any case the dogs hadn’t been trained to do whatever they did; they just picked it up on their own. Even if we accept claims of talented hounds at face value, how would you teach other animals to recognize signs with no clear notion of what the signs are? No one has attempted to do more than speculate on what the dog is sensing.

That is, if it’s sensing anything. One 2007 report tells of four individuals whose dogs allegedly could anticipate their seizures. On examination, the four were found to suffer not from epilepsy but from psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, or PNES. They didn’t have the chaotic brain activity of epileptics; to make a fine but crucial distinction, the problem was in their minds rather than their heads. One possibility raised: the dog’s behavior wasn’t a warning of a seizure but the trigger. So I won’t say it never happens, but it may not happen much.

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While some rollers flatten by sheer weight, others are designed to vibrate, bouncing their heavy steel drums minutely for superior roadway compaction. The energy thereby transmitted can indeed be measured on the Richter scale. My assistant Una, a professional engineer, has proudly submitted a page of calculations demonstrating that, certain possibly risky assumptions having been made, the total energy released by a jumbo asphalt roller would register a bit south of 2.5 on the Richter scale. That’s per day, not in one jolt, which you may say isn’t in keeping with the spirit of the thing. You should also know the Richter is a special logarithmic scale where every jump of two whole numbers represents a thousandfold increase in energy. In sum, 2.5 isn’t so much.

We can do better, though. We’re interested less in energy output at the source, as measured

by Richter, than in how intense the shock feels to us. A better gauge is the Modified Mercalli Intensity scale (MMI). Una judges the MMI rating of a roller to be 3 or 4. Using a table of equivalence prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey and waving our hands, we can then convert this back to Richter, enabling us to say the shaking you’re getting approximates what you’d experience near the epicenter of a quake measuring roughly 4.0 on the Richter scale—not San Andreas level, but in there with the New Madrid fault. Hope that’ll do.

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