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Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Baaack!!!

Speaking Up

The Vasconcellos Legacy Project?

What, 38 years of being inďŹ&#x201A;icted with this guy isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough? Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d think that ďŹ nally being term-limited out after nearly four decades of mischief, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be satisďŹ ed that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d adequately done everything in his power to destroy our state. But no.

He comes back to haunt us even in his retirement. What do we have to do? Drive a stake through his heart?

So Vasconcellos thinks Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going down the tubes, huh? Only a guy with as massive an ego as his would be in such total denial about his role in putting us in the mess that we now ďŹ nd ourselves.

We once again are stymied with determining the legality of gay marriage. Whatever form religious groups decide to allow marriage as a religious ceremony is their â&#x20AC;&#x153;right.â&#x20AC;? Whatever happened to the constitutional rights of â&#x20AC;&#x153;equal protection and opportunity under the lawâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the pursuit of happinessâ&#x20AC;?? Even if the majority decided by Prop. 22 in 2000 that â&#x20AC;&#x153;marriage be only between a man and a woman,â&#x20AC;? the outcome of that vote should be considered unconstitutional [by] limiting the civil rights of gays and lesbians.

In the past, our state and federal pontiffs have chosen to side with the moral (?) right in conveying their agenda. I hope the current administrations will show more fortitude in bringing forth a rule of law. While these groups of moral singlemindedness are unable to see the blinders they are wearing by their fundamentalist religious thought, I wonder how they would react if the shoe were on the other foot. A quote about the Nazi persecution of â&#x20AC;&#x153;undesirable elementsâ&#x20AC;? in World War II comes to mind. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They came for the Communist, and I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak up because I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak up because I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a Jewâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and so on, through the trade unionists and the Catholics, untilâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.â&#x20AC;?

John Galt, San Jose

Palin at Chamber Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope the gala is scheduled for April 1 (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beyond the Palin,â&#x20AC;? The Fly, Dec. 16).

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Right Again John Vasconcellosâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; analysis of the state of California is spot-on (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Innocence and Experience,â&#x20AC;?

MetroNews, Dec. 16). The system is completely whacked, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ultimately the voters who are at faultâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but nobody wants to say that. It is the voters who mandate spending, while restricting their and their representativesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ability to raise revenue. It is the people of California who supported the

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Education, etc., etc., etc.

The Constitution of California has been added to and amended until it is now impossible to govern.

It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter whether youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a Republican or Democrat. Until we ďŹ x the underlying problem of governance, this state will continue to failâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;because by withholding power from those â&#x20AC;&#x153;badâ&#x20AC;? politicians with our initiative system, we have taken away their ability to solve the problems.

Pete Constant (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prioritizing City Services,â&#x20AC;? San Jose Inside, Dec. 16): Does the city still have 15 employees in the Department of Cultural Affairs? Shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t basic services come ďŹ rst? Far better to have 15 more police officers than teary-eyed, pencil-pushers who majored in sociology or ethnic studies.

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Your shiny green Ford F-150 pickup, adorned with â&#x20AC;&#x153;I like Christmas, Peace on Earth, and Merry Christmasâ&#x20AC;? stickers, caught my eye, so I pulled up next to you, eager to learn who was driving. There you were, a burly, sixtysomething man with full whitish/gray beard, longish hair and a cute horsy tattoo rocking out to some very loud bagpipe music. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What a unique brand of cool,â&#x20AC;? I thought. You made me smile, thank you, sir. Unfortunately, the blissful moment ended when the light turned green, and you blasted your truckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge engine, belching exhaust, and bolted down the El Camino Real faster than a holiday shopper who just spotted an open parking space at the mall.

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ALISHER USMANOV is nicknamed “the hard man of Russia,” but he’s good at seducing the softies in California’s tech community: An investment firm he backs led a $180 million investment in Zynga, the gaming company that trafficked in scammy ads.

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The investment firm, Russia’s Digital Sky Technologies, led a broader group of investors in putting money into San Francisco–based Zynga, according to The New York Times. It’s DST’s second Silicon Valley conquest, following two investments in Facebook earlier this year that totaled $300 million and allowed the social network to cash out employee equity.

Usmanov, who reportedly owns 32 percent of DST, comes with the sort of unsavory press clippings worthy of a long-surviving oligarch in anarchic, organized-crime-ridden Russia: He’s been accused by a former British ambassador of being a “gangster and racketeer” and of having close ties to mafia drug trafficking.

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Then there was this, last year: After Usmanov bought a chunk of mobile phone operator Megafon through a holding company and from a fund called IPOC, a former Megafon shareholder said he had been physically coerced into selling his Megafon holdings to IPOC; he later disappeared from his bloodstained vacation home in Latvia.

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“Everybody likes the bikes in Accra,” writes Nyampong in an email to Santa Cruz Weekly. “They all think that Bamboosero is going to be big in the near future and Accra is going to be the biggest distributor for bamboo bikes in the whole world.”

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wealthy by Ghanaian standards. It also supports Calfee’s basic mantra that when it comes to helping people in developing countries, “Trade is better than aid.”

“I’d been going to Africa for years since the early ’80s, and what people really want and need over there is jobs, it’s not handouts,” says Calfee as he adjusts the front fork on what will be a special “art bike” made from bamboo and steer horns. “So basically I went and trained Ibrahim to make the bikes. Now he’s got a little shop and a couple employees and an apprentice, and he does really well. The idea then would be that he can train other people to do this, and hopefully it will catch on.”

The African-made Bamboosero bikes are available only by direct order though Calfee. Slough’s Bike Shoppe on Race Street in San Jose

sells the Calfee brand Bamboo Bikes, which are different from the Bamboosero bikes as they are made with imported bamboo by Calfee and his team.

Most people know Calfee Design bicycles not for their bamboo line but for their ultra-high-end carbon fiber bikes, which can go for more than $8,000 and are ridden by folks like three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond. Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on earth, and, Calfee says, is like the carbon fiber of the natural world—strong, light and durable. Unlike synthetic and expensive carbon fiber, however, bamboo is cheap, easy to grow and needs no welding torches or expensive machines to turn into a bike frame.

For Nyampong, Bamboosero represents an opportunity that few

Calfee’s Bamboosero project in Ghana is only 2 years old, but the idea to build a bicycle from bamboo came about nearly 15 years ago with the help of a scrap piece of wood and a certain Labrador mix named Luna.

“My dog Luna loved to play this game with a stick where she would tug on the stick and you would tug back and you could swing her around off the ground with this stick in her teeth,” says Calfee. “Well, she had found this piece of bamboo and wanted to play the game with me, and I kept thinking, ‘This is gonna break.’ But it never broke, even with this 60-pound dog being flung around, and I thought, ‘Man, you could make a good bike out of this stuff.’”

The bikes themselves range from the slightly rough-cut African line, which are made with inexpensive Chinese hardware and prized for their affordability, to the higher end models, which use smoked bamboo from Taiwan and receive some of the same hardware and exacting specifications as Calfee’s professional carbon fiber variety. All come in mountain, road, cargo and tandem designs, and Calfee even has a special “school bus bike” that a sturdy driver can use to schlep up to six kids to school with—one solution to what Calfee says is a huge problem of poor school attendance in Africa.

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Craig Calfee thinks so. By Curtis Cartier BRAHIM Nyampong is a 32year-old entrepreneur who lives in Accra, the capital city of Ghana on Africa’s west coast, where the average annual per capita income is $600. About two years ago, nationally renowned bicycle designer Craig Calfee taught him how to build bicycle frames from locally grown bamboo. Today, Nyampong earns about $150 for every frame he builds, shipping the completed frames—some a milky caramel color, others a deep mocha—to Calfee’s manufacturing shop just south of Santa Cruz, where the wiry bike designer and his team slap wheels and hardware on them, burn the name “Bamboosero” into the wood, then sell them to distributors, where they fetch about $950 apiece. The operation makes Nyampong and his two employees

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As of December, Calfee has sold 28 Bamboosero bikes and sent six back to Ghana, where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ridden by locals and tourists. Calfee, in true bicycle salesman form, says that the best way to get more people building and riding bamboo bikes in Africa is to buy a Bamboosero bike in America. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatever happens, we want them to build bikes and send them here while we build up the credibility for the concept,â&#x20AC;? says Calfee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about giving them a real business opportunityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;something they can get behind and take pride in.â&#x20AC;?

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Punting the RDA Budget

By Pierluigi Oliverio

THE Council punted the Redevelopment Agency (RDA) budget last week to February 2010. As has already been highlighted in the news, the state is taking $75 million away from San Jose’s RDA. We need to pay the state off in May and identify where the money is coming from in March (no negotiation or payment plans on this matter are allowed by the state). The Legislature, recognizing that this payment would be difficult for all RDA agencies, allowed for borrowing from affordable housing money which is 100 percent funded from RDA. Twenty percent of all RDA money goes off the top to the Housing Department in San Jose. The payroll for the Housing Department alone is $9.7 million a year for 83 employees for an average salary of $117,000.

The mayor’s budget message was pragmatic in that it said let’s not spend any money till we work out borrowing the money from the Housing Department to pay the state; let’s determine whether or not RDA is able to issue bonds to pay for a capital program—which would include matching the hotel owners’ share and expanding the convention center; and let’s continue negotiating with the County of Santa Clara (which by the way in the last decade has been paid $270 million by the RDA).

The mayor had a very good public meeting with stakeholders from all sides prior to writing the budget message. Everyone who attended realized the choices are difficult and few options exist.

Everyone at the meeting got the same information—that San Jose has already built 18,000 units of affordable housing by spending hundreds of millions of RDA dollars, making San Jose the No. 1 provider of affordable housing in the state of California. Everyone left the meeting understanding that there is no pixie dust to magically fix things. A majority at the mayor’s meeting felt that economic development should be the priority now.

However, when it came to voting on the budget, another option was voted upon at the last minute that asked for a $25 million reduction in how much would be borrowed from the Housing Department, and instead would look at borrowing from other sources. This option was well liked by the audience (which was made up by mostly paid affordable housing lobbyists and people who work for affordable housing entities in some capacity—the Housing director is campaigning against the mayor and is ensuring that she has her supporters at the meetings). This “option” would take money by borrowing monies from the following: Commercial Paper backed by the General Fund, Sewage Treatment Plant Connection Fee, Library Parcel Tax, Sewer Service and Use Charge, Integrated Waste Management, Ice Centre Revenue Fund and HNVF-Anti-Tobacco Funds. This “option”—taking from all of these other resources—was approved on a 7-3 vote with Mayor Reed, Pete Constant and myself voting no.

My question to you is: Should we use money that is supposed to go toward core services like sewers and water treatment plant so that we can build more affordable housing that does not pay fees for parks or road paving?

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I have never met Kevin Griffin, but I was already blown away by his first book, One Breath at a Time, still the definitive tome successfully melding the wisdom of that dead guy called Buddha with the teachings of addiction-recovery programs.

You don’t have to be on any given “step” to dig the goods. Of course, it helps if you’re halfEastern and already have the tendency to look within for all the reactions, but One Breath at a Time brings the teachings of the Buddha—meditation, mindfulness, the Hindrances, the Eightfold Path, etc.—and intertwines them with those certain 12 steps of many recovery programs.

And that was just Griffin’s first book. Last week, his new one arrived directly from the source. A Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery (Hay House, $14.95) was written to address specifically the frustration many agnostics and atheists have with the God issue in recovery programs.

Now, this is a touchy subject, but someone has to do it, so here goes: Griffin’s insight is that the Dharma, the teachings of the Buddha, can be understood as a higher power, one that can serve the same purpose as God does in 12-Step Programs. For example, there are particular chapters on the “Higher Powers” of Karma, Mindfulness, Wisdom, Love, the Eightfold Path, Faith, Presence, Spiritual Awakening and the Group.

According to Griffin, if you’re in a recovery program and having difficulty conceptualizing how you would “turn your will and life over” to something else, you can do what in Buddhist traditions is called taking Refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha—that is, the Awakened dude, his teachings and his community. You don’t have to formally become a Buddhist, but this entire book tells you how to use the Buddha’s teachings as the “power greater than yourself ” on which many recovery programs are based.

Most importantly, and just like Griffin’s first book, this is not a recipe for bailing on your current recovery program, if you’re already in one. It’s not an “out” for you to avoid doing the work your program suggests. Rather, I would say that Griffin’s insight provides a muchneeded vitamin and supplement package for those already in recovery from addiction, or for those whose anxiety over the “higher power” issue is preventing them from further investigation into recovery programs. Fair enough? I hope so.

The timing is right, because Griffin will be in San Jose on Tuesday, Jan. 19.

He will lead a meditation and discussion Most importantly, at the regular Tuesday-night Dharma and just like Griffin’s and Recovery meeting organized by the San Jose Dharma Punx, an alternative first book, this is not a Buddhist crew inspired by the Noah recipe for bailing on Levine book of the same name. These your current recovery folks have their own story, at where I will now briefly finish. program, if you’re Levine was a Santa Cruzer whose already in one punk-rock youth in the ’80s threw him headfirst into drugs, alcohol and self-destruction before he got clean and started a new Buddhist meditation society called Against the Stream. The Dharma Punx groups are essentially his protégés, with chapters now located across North America.

The San Jose group concentrates on straight-up Buddhist practice, and a separate meeting related to addiction recovery takes place every Tuesday in the basement of St. Francis Episcopal Church at Pine and Newport streets in Willow Glen. All are welcome, and no prior meditation or experience at Buddhist practice is required. You don’t need to have spent your youth getting tanked at Black Flag riots; people of all ages and persuasions attend.

According to those involved, no attempt is made to convert anyone from their current paths—you do not need to divorce the god you already have. The intent is to have a deeper spiritual experience tied to your own recovery. The organizer calls it “the raddest thing ever.”

What more could you want? For info, email: sjdharmapunx@yahoo.com. Kevin Griffin’s website is: www.kevingriffin.net.

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Get Out While You Can!

HERE’S a way to leave this year behind in every musical style.

Every year around this time, people plan parties to usher out the previous 12 months.

This year, they’ll run screaming for the exit. Gone is the classic “theme of the year”—which in the last decade has run from Y2K to Bond to Bollywood and which usually rises up to snatch the buzz and empty costume shops everywhere.

Nope, in 2009, the idea is to get out however you can, while you can.

There’s a mishmash of galas happening around the South Bay, everything from black-and-white formal action all the way down to pajama parties—if you’re going looser than that, we don’t want to know about it. The clubs have DJs galore and VIP packages that could keep die-hard party people sequestered away in NYE bliss well into 2010.

claim to be doing their next show in “yo mama’s bedroom.” Check with Mom before panicking. They play New Year’s Eve at the Caravan.

For heavy metal, the Avalon has Montrose. Since guitarist Ronnie Montrose pretty much pioneered the sound that would come to define party metal in the form of Van Halen—Sammy Hagar was his first vocalist—there’s no doubt that the man who wrote “Bad Motor Scooter” and “Make It Last” won’t stop until the new year is officially rung in and the taste of 2009 has been rocked out of the audience’s mouth.

If this year can only be exorcised with the blues, Jake Mackey performs at J.J.’s Blues. The high-energy San Jose bluesman is no traditionalist, but just about every song in his repertoire is prime for dancing. Isis and her eightpiece band The Cold Truth will also bring blues and soul to Poor House Bistro.

And there’s live music to be had, too.

The recession may have scared off a lot of the bigger names we’re used to seeing, but fear not, there are bands coming off the bench to cover all the musical bases.

Experimental turntablism has a New Year’s home at VooDoo Lounge, where the ’80s Babies will present DJ D!strakt, along with Grubber, Gyrex and B Boy Drift.

For funk, look no further than East Palo Alto’s own Trikk Baby, a soaring squad flying recon missions for George Clinton’s One Nation Under a Groove.

Psychedelic sludge meets reggae meets blaxploitation, and they often

Folkies don’t get much love in prime party time, for the same reason that Dick Clark never had a hit show called Standin’ There With Folded Arms New Year’s! So those in the mood for something with a glockenspiel will have to get out a little earlier to Emy

Reynolds’ 4pm show at Streetlight Records. Her songs sound like a cross between the Eels and the Moldy Peaches and they have hand claps.

Reynolds and her band mate Piper Denney both grew up in Ojai, with the same piano teacher, and Denney used to drum on a set of pots and pans until she could save up for the real thing.

Classic rock gets us back to the dance floor, which Black Pearl will be overseeing at Hotel De Anza. Joe Scuncio, Jim Salata, Ritchie Pickett and San Jose Rocks founder Dan Orloff will play the hits. Another classic rock cover group, Vegas Nights, counts down at the Grand Dell Saloon in Campbell.

Just out of the South Bay, The Devil Makes Three returns to its native Santa Cruz with a show at the Catalyst.

A musical cousin to San Jose’s Shitkickers, DMT plays cowpunk doused with lots of Old No. 7. Even San Francisco, though, has spurned the typical marquee-busting names for some relatively smaller shows: the jam-band contingent will have to make due with Further at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, former John Coltrane Quartet pianist McCoy Tyner holds down the jazz front at Yoshi’s in Oakland and the biggest hip-hop show of the night is the Roots at the Warfield.

—Steve Palopoli

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FUN FINDER Agenda’s New Year’s Eve Explosion Make a date with Agenda Lounge for a hot New Year’s Eve. Agenda is partnering with the San Jose Hilton to offer top-tier party packages, featuring a night’s stay for two. Packages range from basic party admission to hotel stay and a three-course dinner of your choice. All packages include party favors, a champagne toast and a complimentary breakfast buffet at 1am. In the club, DJ Brotha Reese spins old-school and hip-hop (lounge), while DJ Jimbo provides disco sounds and club hits (main level). Thu, Dec 31. $25 admission/ dinner and hotel packages $109 and up. Agenda, 399 S. First St, San Jose, 408.287.3991.

Alex’s 49er Inn Featuring a NYE blast with drink specials. Thu, Dec 31. Alex’s 49er Inn, 2214 Business Circle, San Jose, 408.279.9737.

Avalon

Semiformal dress code required. Thu, Dec 31, 10pm. B4Twelve, 412 Emerson St, Palo Alto.

The Bank With a DJ and hors d’oeuvres. Thu, Dec 31, 7pm. No cover. The Bank, 14421 Big Basin Way, Daratoga, 408.867.5155.

Black & White Bash at Pedrizzetti Pedrizetti Winery hosts its fourth annual Black & White New Year’s Bash. The party features hors d’oeuvres, music from RoxZone, a buffet dinner and of course wine tasting. Party favors will also be distributed at the door and a champagne toast will take place at midnight. Thu, Dec 31, 8pm12:30am. $50/$65. Pedrizzetti Winery, 1645 San Pedro Ave, Morgan Hill, 408.779.7389.

Blank NYE Featuring Atomic with DJ Basura. Thu, Dec 31, 9pm. $10. The Blank Club, 44 S. Almaden Ave, San Jose, 408.292.5265.

A heavy metal New Year’s Eve in the South Bay with Ronnie Montrose plus Voyeur and Terry Lauderdale, not to mention party favors, a balloon drop and breakfast buffet. Thu, Dec 31, 8pm. $35 in advance. Avalon, 777 Lawrence Expwy, Santa Clara, 408.241.0777.

DJ music for dancing, plus dinner, party favors and a bubbly toast. Thu, Dec 31. $65. Blue Pheasant, 22100 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, 408.255.3300.

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Bogart’s

A hip New Year’s Eve with something for everyone and each room rocking different music, including hip-hop, electro, R&B and reggae. Specialized lighting and video projection will flood the dance floor as partygoers receive a special package of glow favors at the door. With J Biz-Prodigee, Temple Allstars, Howhigh-DownlowDJs and more.

The club will be doing business as usual with free pool and drink specials. Thu, Dec 31. No cover.

Bogart’s Lounge & Tech Pub, 1209 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale, 408.245.2800.

Blue Pheasant

Boswell’s Featuring live music with Liquid Courage and

some champagne for toasting the old year and saluting the new. Thu, Dec 31. Boswell’s, 1875 S. Bascom Ave, Campbell, 408.371.4404.

Boulevard Tavern A NYE party with a champagne toast for revelers.

Thu, Dec 31. Boulevard Tavern, 15043 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos, 408.358.0774.

Britannia Arms Almaden A chocolate-covered, English-inspired New Year’s for San Jose residents. Get your English education with Britannia Arms’ special New Year’s dinner party. Reservations are required for dinner, which starts at 8pm. With live music

by Groove Nugget. Thu, Dec 31. Britannia Arms Almaden, 5027 Almaden Expwy, San Jose, 408.266.0550.

Britannia Arms Downtown For “The Champagne Shindig,” the Brit presents Kids With Beards (10pm), an all-night party with DJ G Beats, the Soul Child and Metrorock, plus a champagne toast and balloon drop. Dinner and appetizers available. Thu, Dec 31. No cover.

Britannia Arms San Jose, 173 W. Santa Clara St, San Jose, 408.278.1400.

British Banker’s Club For Spin N2 2010, the club promises “the biggest Arabic, Persian and International-themed event in the Bay Area.” Four rooms buzz with DJs Beehmix, Nile, Romeo, Malek, Arya and Ramin, plus a balloon drop, hookahs and dinner packages.

Thu, Dec 31, 9pm-3am. $20 and up. British Bankers Club, 1090 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, 408.888.4663.

Brookdale Lodge Starring funk supergroup Trulio Disgracias and Cupertino ska stalwarts Monkey, Brookdale promises a departure from the usual ball drop in 2010. Thu, Dec 31. Brookdale Inn and Spa, 11570 Hwy 9, Brookdale, 831.338.1300.

Capers Enjoy a special martini bar, fine wine and selections from bistro menu. Pair it with a band, a champagne toast and no cover charge and you’ve got a fine start to 2010. Thu, Dec 31. Capers, 1710 W. Campbell Ave, Campbell, 408.374.5777.

Cardiff Lounge After everyone else is done, come to the afterparty with DJs Rick Prestion, Spun, Jeno, E.B.E. and more. Fri, Jan 1, 6am. No cover. Cardiff, 260 E. Campell Ave, Campbell, 408.374.7477.

Caravan Celebrating the New Year with Trikk Baby. Thu, Dec 31. Caravan, 98 Almaden Ave, San Jose, 408.995.6220.

Cardinal Lounge A party with appetizer buffet, champagne toast and Bump City Band. Thu, Dec 31, 7pm. $15.

Cardinal Lounge, 3197 Meridian Ave, San Jose, 408.269.7891.

Catalyst With The Devil Makes Three and the Stone Foxes.

Thu, Dec 31, 8pm. $20/$23. The Catalyst, 1011 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, 831.423.1336.

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Club Milano, 394 S. Second St, San Jose.

Crow’s Nest Rock & roll cover band Ronnie Dobbs and the Fuzz kick off at 9:30pm. The party will have balloons, noisemakers and favors. Thu, Dec 31, 9:30pm. Crow’s Nest, 2218 East Cliff Dr, Santa Cruz, 831.476.4560.

Dive Bar All the trimmings: party favors, champagne, dancing and more. Thu, Dec 31. No cover before 9pm; $10 after. Dive Bar, 78 E. Santa Clara St, San Jose, 408.288.5252.

Don Quixote’s Aja Vu plays the music of Steely Dan and more.

Thu, Dec 31, 9pm. $25. Don Quixote’s Restaurant, 6275 Hwy 9, Felton, 831.603.2294.

Doubletree Hotel The affair includes a dinner at Spencer’s for Steaks & Chops. Tickets only for $70 ($75 at door), includes champagne toast; Standard Room Package is $249 with overnight stay in standard guest room, champagne amenity and two tickets to the NYE party of your choice; Club Level Room Package is $319 with deluxe overnight stay in club level guest room, key-card access to the Club Floor Lounge, featuring evening cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, complimentary breakfast, and two tickets to the NYE party of your choice. Thu, Dec 31. Doubletree Hotel, 2050 Gateway Place, San Jose.

Fahrenheit Lounge A New Year’s event featuring dinner and dancing starting at 8pm. Admission includes lots of perks, like an all-night open bar and complimentary hors d’oeuvres and food stations. With DJs Melvis, Marry Mayhem and more. At the stroke of midnight, watch the ball drop on seven plasma screens, and toast 2010 with a balloon drop and a complimentary glass of champagne. Thu, Dec 31, 8pm. Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge, 99 E. San Fernando St, San Jose, 408.998.9998.

Fairmont Hotel The lobby will be decked out in festive trimmings, music by Little Sister, midnight dropping of balloons and worldwide NYE celebration on the big screen. There is also a Gala Winemaker Dinner

in the hotel Thu, Dec 31. Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St, San Jose, 408.998.3960.

Firehouse Grill and Brewery Firehouse Grill and Brewery is pulling out all the stops for New Year’s 2010. Instead of its usual burger-and-fries fare, Firehouse presents a three-course meal option. After the dinner, the champagne will start flowing. Guests can stick around for a party to welcome the new year in the Loft, their upstairs room. Celebrate 2010 with a DJ, a live band and favors. The bar, of course, will also be open through the night. Thu, Dec 31, 7pm.

Firehouse Grill and Brewery, 111 S. Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale, 408.773.9500.

Goosetown A karaoke New Year’s party with favors. Thu, Dec 31. No cover. The Goosetown Lounge, 1072 Lincoln Ave, Willow Glen, 408.292.4835.

Grand Dell Saloon The party includes food and dessert buffet, champagne toast, party favors and live music with Vegas Night. Ask about complimentary limo service. Thu, Dec 31, 7pm. $40 limited admission.

Grand Dell Saloon, 1040 Dell Ave, Campbell, 408.378.3970.

Holiday Inn Express Morgan Hill Packages for the party come with entertainment, a mean buffet, complimentary beer and wine, a champagne toast, party favors and music by the Fast Lane Band. Thu, Dec 31. Call for prices.

Holiday Inn San Jose, 1740 N. First St, San Jose.

Hotel De Anza Hedley Club The Hedley Club welcomes classic rock cover band Black Pearl to the stage for New Year’s Eve. Come for a night of dancing, party favors and a midnight champagne toast. Overnight packages are available from $249. Book a hotel package and get two tickets to the party, valet parking, complimentary champagne and breakfast for two on Jan. 1. Thu, Dec 31, 8pm. Hotel De Anza, 233 W. Santa Clara St, San Jose, 408.286.1000, 286.0500.

Hotel Valencia Choose from party entrance and a stay in the hotel, or enjoy a five-course dinner of steakhouse fare and entrance to both parties in the Valencia Ballroom and Vbar. Both packages include complimentary champagne, party favors and a late-night dessert bar. Overnight guests are invited to a breakfast buffet the following

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Thu, Dec 31, 6:30pm. Hotel Valencia, 355 Santana Row, San Jose, 408.423.5405.

Improv New Year’s Jo Koy returns to the South Bay, and the Improv is offering a dinner package for Koy’s show, at 5:30 and 7pm. The 10pm show will not include dinner, but guests will be treated to complimentary fruit and vegetable plates and champagne. The 10pm show will also be broadcast live. Thu, Dec 31. $50/$75. Improv Comedy Club and Restaurant, 62 S. Second St, San Jose, 408.280.7475.

India Community Center Gala With comedy by Samson Koletkar, karaoke, the Mona Sampath Dance Company students, DJ Andy Atta and Dhol by Paul, plus dinner, champagne toast and party favors. Thu, Dec 31, 7pm-1am. $99. India Community Center, 525 Los Coches St, Milpitas, www.indiacc.org.

Khartoum With DJ Davey K, drink specials, party favors and champagne toast. Thu, Dec 31. Khartoum, 300 Orchard City Dr, Campbell, 408.379.6340.

Loft Bar and Grill Loft Bar and Bistro celebrates New Year’s Eve with a DJ, live jazz starting at 7pm. There will also be party favors, a champagne toast at midnight and no cover. Thu, Dec 31, 7pm. Loft Bar and Bistro, 90 S. Second St, San Jose, 408.291.0677.

Los Gatos Brewing Company A big night in Los Gatos features a balloon drop and more. Thu, Dec 31. No cover. Los Gatos Brewing Company, 130G N. Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos, 408.395.9929.

Mantra With a special four-course prix fixe menu, champagne toasts and dancing with DJs. Thu, Dec 31. $39/$59. Mantra, 632 Emerson St, Palo Alto, 650.322.3500.

Marqs in Menlo With Kelly Park and the Band of Bohemians and five-course dinner. Thu, Dec 31. $125. Marqs in Menlo, 1143 Crane St, Menlo Park, 650.853.1143.

Melt Ultra Lounge “The sexiest party in Palo Alto” is promised.

Customized party favors, bottle and drink specials, complimentary hors d’oeuvres and midnight champagne. DJs will play on multiple dance floors. Teddy Rockspin and Dan Wallace lead the pack. Thu, Dec 31, 9pm. Melt Ultra Lounge, 544 Emerson St, Palo Alto, 650.325.6358.

Moe’s Alley With blues supergroup the Boneshakers. Thu, Dec 31, 9pm. Moe’s Alley, 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz, 831.479.1854.

Mojo Lounge With sax player Terry Hanck and food and champagne. Thu, Dec 31, 9:30pm. Mojo Lounge, 3714 Peralta Blvd, Fremont, 510.739.1028.

Motif New Year’s is on ”Ice.” With drink specials, a free champagne toast and bottle service. Three bottleservice package deals (Platinum, Gold and Silver) are available. Thu, Dec 31, 8:30pm. Motif, 389 S. First St, San Jose, 408.279.1888.

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James Welch plays jazzy classical tunes. Thu, Dec 31, 8pm. $10. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, 650.326.3800.

Number One Broadway Music with the Blind Pilots plus balloon drop, party favors and more. Thu, Dec 31, 8pm-2am. $15. Number One Broadway, 102B S. Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos.

O’Flaherty’s A double header salutes Ireland at 4pm and toasts again at midnight with champagne and party favors. Thu, Dec 31. No cover. O’Flaherty’s, 25 N. San Pedro St, San Jose, 408.947.8007.

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With the ballroom sounds of Paul Price’s Society Orchestra. Wear a tux or other fancy evening wear.

Thu, Dec 31, 8:30pm. $25. Masonic Temple, 461 Florence Ave, Palo Alto, 650.858.2568.

Pearl The club transforms into New York City with party favors, champagne toast and more. The next best thing (maybe better) than being in Times Square. Thu, Dec 31. Pearl, 8 S. First St, San Jose, 408.279.4444.

Dec 31. Rock Bottom Brewery, 1875 Bascom Ave, Campbell, 408.559.4300.

Rocky Horror Show at TOSPS A live stage version of the cult classic presented

by Actors Theatre Center. For New Year’s Eve, the performance includes an Italian buffet dinner, hats and noisemakers and champagne toast. Thu, Dec 31, 7:30pm dinner, 9:30pm show, $45/$70.

(Regular shows Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 6:30pm thru Jan 9.) Theatre on San Pedro Square, 29 N. San Pedro St, San Jose, www.theatrecenter.biz.

NYE Comedy at Rooster With Mark Pitta, Andrew Norelli and Jeremy Beth Michaels. (Club also presents Big Fat Year-End Kiss Off show with Will Durst and more on Dec. 29.) Thu, Dec 31, 7:30 and 10:30pm. $35/$50. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, 408.736.0921.

Ruby Skye A Sensation to ring in the new year, with food, music by Feather and Colette with DJ Bali. Thu, Dec 31. Ruby Skye, 420 Mason St, San Francisco, 415.693.0777.

The Saddle Rack “It’s 12 O’Clock Somewhere.” The party features line-dancing lessons, party favors and a balloon drop when it’s finally midnight in Fremont. Thu, Dec 31. $25 in advance. The Saddle Rack, 42011 Boscell Rd, Fremont, www.thesaddlerack.com.

A Perfect Finish The Board of Directors play the old year away, plus free appetizers 6-9pm. Thu, Dec 31. A Perfect Finish, 55 S. First St, San Jose, 408.288.6000.

Poor House Bistro Enjoy two drink tickets and a full menu of New Orleans specialties including barbecued shrimp and crawfish etoufée. Live music with Isis & the Cold Truth and Lara Price. Reservations are required. Thu, Dec 31, 7pm. $40. Poor House Bistro, 91 S. Autumn St, San Jose, 408.292.5837.

Quarter Note Starring Archie Lee Hooker Jr. and the Dave Sobel Blues Band, not to mention champagne toast and party favors. Thu, Dec 31, 8pm. $15/$20. Quarter Note, 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale, 408.732.2110.

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CHEFS like to party as much as you do (maybe more) and that’s why they’re fond of pulling out all the stops when they create festive New Year’s Eve dinners. Here then is a select list of where to eat and drink like it’s 2009 in Silicon Valley.

—Stett Holbrook

Manresa 320 Village Lane; Los Gatos; 408.354.4330.

Chef David Kinch will prepare a six-course dinner. Premium wine pairings selected by sommelier Jeff Bareilles will be available. The first seating is at 5:30pm, with a final seating at 9:30pm. The dinner is $195 per person, exclusive of wine, tax and gratuity.

Sent Sovi 14583 Big Basin Way; Saratoga; 408.867.3110.

Saratoga’s Sent Sovi will offer a seven-course meal for $100. The dinner includes three preparations of oysters: “old school,” naked with caviar and yuzu ceviche; Dungeness crab bisque; warm salad of black-eyed peas, nduja, greens and a fried quail egg; champagne-makrud lime granita; beef tenderloin with black truffle “au jus” and celery root purée; and “chocolate1-2-3 v.2.0.”

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898 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park; 650.324.9092.

Marché is offering a seven-course meal and a four-course meal. Both are built around dishes that include caviar, king crab, California lamb and a chocolate tart with chestnut ice cream. The seven-course meal is $135. The four-course meal is $85.

Bella Mia South First Billiards

Temple Bar and Lounge

With DJ Frank Prez. Thu, Dec 31. South First Billiards Club and Lounge, 420 S. First St, San Jose, 408.294.7800.

A classic New Year’s blowout. Chill with DJ Ready Rock’s video mixes, a live music performance, hors d’oeuvres and a champagne toast. Thu, Dec 31, 9pm. The Temple Bar & Lounge, 52 S. First St, San Jose, 408.288.8518.

Stephens Green With a New Year’s Eve costume party. Thu, Dec 31, 9pm-2am. Stephen’s Green, 223 Castro St, Mountain View, 650.964.9151.

Streetlight Records The Emy Reynolds Band. Thu, Dec 31, 4pm.

Streetlight Records, 980 S. Bascom Ave, San Jose, 408.292.1404.

Strike Cupertino With an open bar from 9pm to 1am, a gourmet buffet starring prime rib and a champagne toast, Reservations are required at $75 per person.

Thu, Dec 31. Strike Cupertino, Cupertino Square, 10123 N. Wolfe Rd, Cupertino, 408.252.BOWL.

Tessora’s Barra di Vino Frankie Ramos and Company play jazz, while the bar serves riesling and bubblies, plus cheese and chocolate fondue. Thu, Dec 31, 7pm. Tessora’s, 1875 S. Bascom Ave, Campbell, 408.626.7711.

58 S. First St., San Jose; 408.280.1993 A champagne prix fixe menu for $45 features a choice of filet mignon and lobster tail or crab-stuffed salmon.

Dio Deka 210 E. Main St., Los Gatos; 408.354.7700.

The Greek restaurant offers a four-course meal with a choice of entrees, including their branzino, a Greek sea bass dish. The first seating is $95 per person starting at 5:30pm.

The second seating is $125 per person and includes a DJ and champagne.

Toon’s

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Party favors, balloons, champagne and more for the Thousand Ten party. Thu, Dec 31. Toon’s, 52 E. Santa Clara St at Second, San Jose, 408.292.7464.

3955 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara; 408.980.6400.

For New Year’s Eve, Birk’s tempts with a classic menu of American dishes and special three-course dinner.

VooDoo NYE

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With DJs D!strak, Grubber, Gyres, B Boy Drift and others. Thu, Dec 31, 10pm. VooDoo Lounge, 14 S. Second St, San Jose, 408.286.VODO.

Packages run $30 and up, with unlimited bowling, pizza buffet and party favors, 4-7pm. From 9pm, packages start at $50 and include bowling, two drink tickets and champagne toast. Thu, Dec 31, 9pm. Strike, 5420 Thornwood Dr, San Jose, 408.578.8500.

With Ray J. Thu, Dec 31, 9pm-2am. Wet Nightclub, 396 S. First St, San Jose, 408.282.8938.

2500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara; 408.243.1431.

The gala dinner is $65 per person with a choice of beef Wellington, baked salmon and chicken rollatini. There are also deluxe party packages starting at $125 per person. Dinner at 8pm, with entertainment at 9pm.

Wine Affairs

The Plumed Horse

Tarragon

Dinner and live music by Kristina Sablan. Thu, Dec 31, 9pm. $55. Wine Affairs, 1435 The Alameda, San Jose, 408.977.0111.

14555 Big Basin Way, Saratoga; 408.867.4711.

The Plumed Horse will serve dinners at 6, 8 and 10pm. The five-course tasting menu offers caviar, Snake River Farms kobe beef and a few “surprises.” $155 per person.

300 San Jose

Come down and celebrate the evening with dinner, live music, some party favors and even a champagne toast. Thu, Dec 31, first seating 5 and 5:15pm ($40), second seating 7 and 7:15pm ($60), third seating 9 and 9:15pm ($70).

Tarragon, 140 S. Murphy St, Sunnyvale, 408.

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Zen Lounge With DJs Menace and D-Roc and an open bar from 7 to 9pm. There will be a bartending show, go-go dancers, champagne, and party favors.

Thu, Dec 31, 7pm. Zen Lounge, 251 Castro St, Mountain View, 650.969.4847.

Kaygetsu 325 Sharon Park Dr., Menlo Park; 650.234.1084.

Kaygetsu, one of Silicon Valley’s premier

Japanese restaurants, is offering a sevencourse meal for $125 person that includes two slow-cooked dishes, sashimi and grilled washu beef. Reservations are available are at 6, 7:45 or 8:30pm.

Grapevine 1389 Lincoln Ave., San Jose; 408.293.7574.

Grapevine’s New Year’s Eve pajama party will include a “PJ fashion show” with awards, as well as plenty of wine, beer and food. The event is limited to 40 people and reservations are required. The $100 fee in includes food, wine, beer, tax, gratuity and party favors.

Le Papillon 410 Saratoga Ave., San Jose; 408.296.3730.

Le Papillon offers New Year’s Eve dinner for $95 per person. Choose from seven different appetizers, five soups or salads, eight main courses and eight desserts.

Donato Enoteca 1041 Middlefield Road; Redwood City; 650.701.1000.

Redwood City’s Donato Enoteca is offering a “cena di capodanno” for of $59 person.

The four-course New Year’s Eve dinner is available all night and includes fresh Dungeness crab and wild prawns rolled crepe, homemade tagliolini pasta with Maine lobster, chives and fresh tomatoes, roasted veal rib-eye, prosciutto, cabbage and potato “tortino.”

Emile’s 545 S. Second St., San Jose; 408.289.1960.

San Jose’s Emile’s weighs in with two prix fixe dinners. The three-course meal is $60 with a 5pm seating and the four-course meal is served at 7 and 9pm for $80.

Santana Row Sino hosts a “Winter WonderLand White Party” sponsored by Ciroc Vodka. Choose from six special bottle service packages that range from $150 to $375 and include Ciroc, Moët Imperial Champagne and Veuve Cliquot as well as your own private table for you and your guests. 408.247.8880.

Left Bank Brasserie offers a four-course prix fixe menu that includes lobster bisque, porcini ravioli with foie gras and black truffle sauce, and pan-roasted venison, plus complimentary glass of champagne at midnight. $53.75 per person. Dinner is served 4-10:30pm. 408.984.3500.

Straits Restaurant is offering several bottle service packages with Belvedere Vodka and Moët & Chandon Champagnes that include a reserved table for up to four guests at 9:30pm. Packages range from $200 to $400; other packages range from $25 to $130 (table not included). Reservations required. 408.246.6320.

Rosie McCann’s Irish Pub and Restaurant hosts a New Year’s Eve Party 9pm-2am. The $20 cover charge includes champagne toast at midnight. 408.247.1706.

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The truth is that velvet has a special shine and luster all its own, one of the reasons it was favored by royalty back in the day. Velvet is a great, rich textile for chilly weather because it is fuzzy and feels warm next to one’s skin but isn’t as chunky as a cable knit or thick brocade.

Baby-doll velvet dresses reached their peak in popularity back in the mid-’90s, and for the past decade or so they’ve only really been acceptable on the very old and very young.

Before being resurrected in the collections of numerous designers this season, velvet dresses were what old piano teachers wore to Christmas soirées, or something one would dress a 4-year-old up in for church.

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Now he slings slices of pepperoni and dispenses cups of soft-serve ice cream at 5-week-old Howieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Artisan Pizza in Palo Alto. But these arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t your typical slices of pie. (nor is the soft serve a run-of-themill ice cream. More on that later).

Bulka has made it his mission to give the peninsula â&#x20AC;&#x153;honest pizza.â&#x20AC;?

Howieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is the kind of place that uses premium ingredients, exacting technique and a bit of â&#x20AC;&#x153;voodooâ&#x20AC;? in the service of a great pizza. He uses organic and locally sourced products whenever possible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The world needs a good pizzeria,â&#x20AC;? Bulka assets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The time has come to give people an honest product.â&#x20AC;?

In pursuit of his ideal, he stays

up at night reading about the physiology of yeast. He uses a prefermented starter, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;poolish,â&#x20AC;? to begin his dough. He lets the dough rise slowly in the refrigerator to allow tangy, complex ďŹ&#x201A;avors to develop. He is working with a carpenter to design a wooden tray that prevents a cooked pizza from steaming itself into sogginess once itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out of the oven. Safe to say heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit obsessive about pizza: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be lying if I said it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep me up a night.â&#x20AC;?

Bulka admits that the distance between a good pizza and a great pizza is wide. He says that he is a year away from perfecting his pizza.

His dough formulation is where he wants it, but the ďŹ nal product varies too much for him. He wants it perfect every time he pulls a pie out of his 600-degree, brick-lined Marsal oven.

Howieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dining room has a clean, modern feel. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bit cold, but the soon-to-be-installed carpets should take care of that. The kitchen is open, so you can watch the pizza slide in and out of the oven. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a beautiful bamboo-topped bar with a meandering brass inlay.

One of the most striking features of the restaurant is the line of yellow, olive-oil-ďŹ lled vitrines that divides

the dining room from the bar.

Howieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pizza is a blend of styles and borrows a little from the blackened, blistered and bubbling-crust New York school with the thin, elemental style of a Neapolitan pizza. The crust is indeed thin but structurally sound enough so that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ&#x201A;op down as you grab a slice. The unsauced part of the crust, or crown, is a thing of beauty. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s airy and well charred in places and has a satisfying crunchy, chewy quality.

The dough also displays a distinct sour tang thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a product of Bulkaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slow fermentation. It hints at sourdough but with not quite as much pucker.

As a former high-end chef, Bulka would have found it easy to gild his pizzas with fancy ingredients like foie gras and caviar (actually caviar sounds pretty good on a pizza), but wisely he knows that pizza is beloved in America as a simple food with familiar toppings. True, he offers toppings with house-made sausage and wild mushrooms with sage brown butter, but he also serves classics like pepperoni and pesto. He also designs his pizza to travel and even reheat well the next day.

Howieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pizzas rank among the best Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had in the Bay Area.

What differentiates them from the growing number of thin-crust premium pizzas out there is their size. These are meant to feed a family or a crowd of football fans. My favorite is topped with house-made pancetta, red onions, spicy Fresno chiles, low-moisture mozzarella and tomato sauce ($15).

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a substantial pizza that could satisfy two or even three people, provided they got some other things on the side. Good, too, is the aforementioned wild-mushroom pizza ($18). In addition to the mushrooms (pioppino, hen of the woods and crimini), the pizza comes with a load of garlic, Swiss cheese, pecorino cheese and a bit of fresh thyme. I found the brown butter hard to detect.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a small but well-chosen wine list tailored to go with the pizzas. And of course thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plenty of beer, too.

While the pizzas are the stars here, the starters and salads are quite strong. Eggplant pillows ($7) roll up sweet, house-made ricotta cheese in thin slices of marinated and roasted eggplant topped with a caper-spiked salsa verde. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very good.

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ART OF THE PLEASURE of a multicourse meal at B6CG:H6 in Los Gatos is enjoying the wines selected to go with it. Matching chef 96K>9 @>C8=â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food with the wines of the world is the job of wine director ?:;; 76G:>AA:Hâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; (pictured right).

Bareilles is a Bay Areaâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;born sommelier who began his career in San Francisco at Vivande.

Later, while pursuing an MFA, he worked in New York City at Zoe, where he promoted their California-centric wine list. He joined Manresa in 2004.

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METRO: Why did you decide to pursue a career in wine?

JEFF BAREILLES: The friendships and camaraderie that naturally grew when I became interested in wine and the realization that wine has everythingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;agriculture, science, technology, history, sociology, economics, politics, art, culture and the sheer pleasure of sharing a bottle of wine with friends.

What makes the wine list at Manresa special?

Focus and commitment: the foundation of the wine list at Manresa is focused on selections that complement Chef Kinchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cuisine and my commitment to our guests to offer outstanding wines from around the world while emphasizing Santa Cruz Mountains producers.

What wine or wines are you passionate about right now?

The diversity and ďŹ nesse of wines from the Loire Valley in France. This region produces every imaginable style of wine from a variety of grapes not found anywhere else in the world. My latest affection is for Pineau dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Aunis, also know as chenin rougeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a total geek wine.

What are some of the best wine values now?

I continue to ďŹ nd excellent wines of value in Spain and Portugal.

What is your go-to wine for every day, casual drinking?

For a white wine 2008 Soalheiro Alvarinho (a.k.a. albariĂąo) from Vinho Verde Portugal, and for a red wine 2005 Bodegas Victoria â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pardinaâ&#x20AC;? Tempranillo from CariĂąena Spain.

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Does this bring a preachy tone to restaurant criticism? I hope not. But I believe if questions of environmental sustainability are left of out of restaurant reviews, the genre risks slipping into irrelevance, or worse, becoming part of the problem. After I wrote my initial column on this subject, one reader suggested I start a dialogue with local restaurants. I’d much rather praise than chastise, so here is a short list of what restaurants can do to clean up their act. The list focuses on things that are visible to the customer, i.e., food choices and packaging. Of course, the use of energy-efficient appliances and nontoxic chemicals is commendable as well, but it’s hard for me to evaluate those things, since they’re not visible to me.

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Use compostable and/or recyclable plates.

For years restaurants had few options other than Styrofoam and plastic plates and utensils, but that’s changed. There are scores of companies (some local, like Palo Alto’s Worldcentric.org) that make functional to-go and in-house plates and utensils that don’t sit in landfills for 1,000 years.

Better yet, give a discount if people bring own stuff.

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to bring my own containers to pack up my leftovers. If restaurants encouraged customers to do the same with a small discount, they could save on the cost of their own packaging because they’d use less.

Don’t serve imperiled species.

This seems kind of obvious, right? Since domesticated animals aren’t imperiled (at last not with extinction), we’re mainly talking about seafood. Bluefin tuna, Chilean sea bass, grouper, Atlantic swordfish and too many other species need to remain in the ocean, not on your plate. Consult the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafoodwatch.org for guidelines. They even have an iPhone app.

No factory-farmed meat.

This is a huge one. Commodity meat produced in cruel, environmentally damaging conditions is the norm. A restaurant that really wants to show its commitment to doing the right thing should have eliminating industrially raised meat at the top the list.

How about serving less meat?

While estimates vary, the production and distribution of industrial meat contribute between 18 and 51 percent of climate-warming gasses. We need to eat less of it.

Serve seasonal and local produce.

Produce in season tastes better, costs less, supports local growers and doesn’t need to be airfreighted from Chile. Does anyone really like winter tomatoes anyway?

Humanely raised food.

Just as organic produce is certified as such, so too is there third party certification for humanely raised food. Certifiedhumane.org is one of the industry’s leaders.

Serve organic food.

While not all organically raised food is equal, and some food that isn’t certified organic but is grown without chemical is just as good, seeking out certified organic products is a good place to start and tells customers you care about food quality and the health of the planet.

Shifting gears toward a more sustainable, enlightened food service is perceived as costly, but data shows that restaurants moving toward more environmentally sound business practices reap financial rewards. According to the Green Restaurant Association, a nonprofit organization that certifies restaurants that adopt environmentally sound business practices, 80 percent of Americans identify themselves as environmentally concerned. A dedicated sector of these 80 percent are driving a 20 percent annual growth in the $11 billion organic food industry, many of whom seek out green restaurants. Why not get a piece of that?

Stett Holbrook (Follow me at twitter.com/stett_holbrook)

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Holmes for The Holidays

Robert Downey Jr. dominates new releases with expert performance as ‘Sherlock Holmes’

By Richard von Busack

HERE ARE moments during Sherlock Holmes when you wish you could hit director Guy Ritchie with his own storyboard; there are bone-crushing fights that you feel like applauding just to celebrate the fact that they’re over at last. Yet all in all, Sherlock Holmes is ripping fun. Robert Downey Jr.’s expert acting reflects Aldous Huxley’s thought that if you could open the doors of perception, you would see the world as it is: infinite. This insight sums up the mind of the great detective—it also sums up the mind of a schizophrenic.

Downey’s performance seems to be based a little on Nicol Williamson’s nervous-breakdown sufferer in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but there’s less of Olivier in Downey’s performance than there was in Williamson’s, less raising of the voice to let it ring off the proscenium arch. Downey’s schizoid man arouses a note of pity for his own solitude and, at the same time, admiration of his infernal speed. There’s a note of a scandalous Bohemian in Holmes when he’s cleaned up, something of the Pre-Raphaelite decadent in him. (“Ah, putrefaction,” he says, flaring his nostrils at a clue.)

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The film’s saddest moment comes when an anxious Holmes can’t let his stream of deductions stop when meeting Watson’s then-girlfriend Mary (Kelly Reilly). It’s compulsive observation as a kind of OCD. Ritchie follows the sturdy paradigm of one of the best Holmes movies, 1939’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, from a horse-drawn coach race at the start to the fight on a towering London monument. Mark Strong’s staring and broad-faced Lord Blackwood—a Victorian Aleister Crowley—is apprehended by Holmes in mid–black mass and ushered in to a well-deserved hanging. “You and I are bound together,” Blackwood promises Holmes before he takes the last drop.

Naturally, Inspector Lestrade (a beautifully cast Eddie Marsan, looking more like a bull terrier than ever) decides that the case is closed. But it seems the grave cannot hold Blackwood: we cut to a family tomb that looks as if it had been blown apart from the inside. In the meantime, Holmes is approached by two different clients: the ever-troublesome Irene Adler

(Rachel McAdams, decorative but dull) and the head of a Masons-like group, who are troubled by the specter of Blackwood.

Ritchie’s now-traditional fastforward and fast-rewind techniques are used cleverly to revisit crime scenes: a little something for all of us who see but fail to observe.

The stopping points include horror laboratories, a steam-powered abattoir, deadly copper bathtubs and spontaneous immolation. The look has more to do with David Fincher than Basil Rathbone.

And yet the muddy streets and bad teeth aren’t an unviable idea: Ritchie’s Cockneyfying of the adventure gives it some fresh texture. The movie keeps coming back to a serene partnership— when Holmes says, “The game’s afoot,” Jude Law’s formidable Watson picks up the rest of the Henry V quote.

Sherlock Holmes’ CGI animation is sometimes impressive; one Thames-front scene seems to go back into the frame for miles.

Too bad the backdrop in the final fight scene is far more indifferent.

Ritchie struggles with the usual problem of trying to illustrate the kind of public panic that would occur if the Antichrist were to rise and stalk London. Only a few agitated picketers cross the screen.

Compare the aimless hubbub to the thrifty effectiveness of Fritz

Lang establishing the same sense of civic emergency in M. The big explosion—a slowmotion jump in front of a flaming green screen—is a custom that needs to die right now. With luck, this will be the final nail in its coffin. A nude scene is one deficiency of taste. So is a hulking French giant brawler who keeps turning up, as remorselessly and to as little purpose as Richard Kiel in the lousiest Bond movies.

Ritchie filches a line from The Terminator to lead us into the sequel. We see where it’s headed; we have a few satisfactory visions of the Napoleon of Crime, seated in corners of trains and carriages.

These visions are much more like Lang: Professor M. is portrayed as an apparently untenanted suit of black clothes, gleaming gloves and top hat, with a tell-tale smudge of blackboard chalk on the lapel.

Bring him on. Sherlock Holmes rattles our cages with superstitious craziness, then turns into a celebration of pure reason, unique in a season of movies meant to leave your brain in a molten puddle of crypto-religious awe.

SHERLOCK HOLMES (PG-13; 128 min.), directed by Guy Ritchie, written

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New Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (PG) See review on page 50.

Broken Embraces (R; 127 min.) See review on page 47.

(Opens Dec 25 at Camera 7 in Campbell and the Guild in Menlo Park and CinĂŠArts Santana Row.) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Complicated (R; 118 min.) With Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, this comedy

by Nancy Meyers looks strong out of the gate. (Opens Dec 25.)

Me and Orson Welles (PG-13; 114 min.) See review on page 49.

Nine (PG-13; 112 min.) See review on page 51.

(Opens Dec 25.)

Sherlock Holmes (PG-13; 128 min.) See review on page 45.

A Single Man (R; 89 min.) Based on Christopher Isherwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early-1960s novel, canonical in gay literature but slightly dusty today.

A British professor (Colin Firth) teaching in L.A. loses his longtime companion in a car accident and has decided he can no longer stand the pain. He ďŹ nds some consolation with a hard-drinking old friend (and ex-lover) called Charley (Julianne Moore, practically mainlining her eye shadow to get that 1960s look); on his route, he encounters young men who are both interesting and interested.

Noteworthy as a great comeback performance by Firth, who has had much substandard work to deal with lately.

Firth plays George with sensitivity and grace, and a sense of the era that most of the performers here lack. Director Tom Ford shows his roots as a fashion

designer, focusing on surfaces. The clothes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the men. (Opens Dec 25 at the Aquarius in Palo Alto and CinĂŠArts Santana Row.) (RvB) The Young Victoria (PG; 100 min.) See review on page 48.

Revivals The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939) Ideal version of the story, made as the world was about to confront totalitarianism, so all involved took it quite seriously. Slightly slow, perhaps a little posturing, but it does have the deďŹ nitive Sherwood Forest (played by the live oaks of Chico). The magnetic Errol Flynn has his best role as a lithe, tough Robin, who â&#x20AC;&#x153;speaks treason ďŹ&#x201A;uently.â&#x20AC;? The 19-year-old Olivia de Havilland (as Maid Marian) is just about too beautiful to live, and Basil Rathboneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s villain Sir Guy of Gisbourne is done without a shred of camp. (Plays Dec 26-27 at 1 and 6pm in San Jose at the California Theatre.) (RvB) A Christmas Story (1983) Bob Clarkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sturdy adaptation of Jean Shepherdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Midwestern memoirs needs no introduction; like Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Wonderful Life, it became a seasonal classic because of repeated TV airingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the story is loose enough that you could pick up little pieces of it in-between cooking and gift wrapping. It holds together through witty MGM-style Americana and the superior acting of Melinda Dillon as the mom (my own mother, a vet of ďŹ ve kids, vocally admired her rapport with her child). The burst of cartooniness anticipates The Simpsons, and Darren McGavin shines as the bumbling dad whose taste in salacious lamps brings near-crisis to the family. (Plays Dec 25 at 7:30pm in San Jose at the California Theatre.) (RvB) Gone With the Wind (1939) A great way to escape Christmas. A current audience might say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What a dark movieâ&#x20AC;?: war, spousal rape, miscarriage, illegitimacy, adulteryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not bad for a ďŹ lm that epitomizes the family era in cinema.

The courtship of Scarlett and Rhett is like a mirror of the war, with conďŹ&#x201A;ict

between the Northernized Rhett (from Charleston, but he donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talk it) and the sometimes dippily romantic Scarlett (a shrewd, even cutting performance by Vivien Leigh). Not much room here, so letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s honor the famous names: producer David O. Selznick; Max Steiner, composer of the appropriately rich score; William Cameron Menzies, the hard-working production designer, who gives the eye a new treat in every scene. Uncredited but deeply felt: Ben Hecht, who gave the script a much-needed hard-boiling. It is overstuffedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;particularly in the last draggy hour. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deeply racist, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cast with some of the worst child actors ever.

And a rock-ribbed feminist could object to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;staircase scene.â&#x20AC;? Still, Gone With the Wind is that unimaginable thing, a ďŹ&#x201A;exible masterpiece: thrilling, vivid, moving and funny when you least expect it. (Plays Dec 25-26 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

(RvB) Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Wonderful Life (1946) Frank Capraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fable is animated

by James Stewartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kindliness as selfsacriďŹ cing George Bailey, who decides to take his own life when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruined by a chortling banker (Lionel Barrymore).

Bailey is saved by a silly apprentice angel (Henry Travers) who decides to show him what the world would be like without him. It has become the most American Christmas movie ever. (Plays Dec 24 at 9pm in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre; also Dec 24 at 9pm in San Jose at the California Theatre.) (RvB) The Shop Around the Corner/Miracle on 34th Street (1940/1947) Ernst Lubitschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holiday masterpiece. James Stewart plays Alfred Kralik, the best salesclerk at a small notions store. A woman he thought was a customer, Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan, magic), turns out to be just another job seeker. Both Klara and Alfred are conducting romances through letters with strangers; both never realize that their soul mate is actually the colleague theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been spatting with all the livelong day. There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t many movies that work when they try to show how antagonism is overcome with gathering love, but this is

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Niles Film Museum Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928). Buster Keaton as the son of a Mississippi steamboat captain (Ernest Torrence) who comes down South to take over the fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business. The son turns out to be a beretwearing, uke-carrying Bostonian prancer.

The spine of this ever-startling comedy is the anxieties of a son trying to please a father; as Torrence is seemingly ďŹ ve times Keatonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s size, scenes like the sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s speculative tweak of his dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bicep, or the dad forcibly undressing the son for bed, add a little Freud or Kaf ka to some of the most phenomenal slapstick ever ďŹ lmed. Hardly any disaster movie ever made equals the shock of the whirlwind destruction of a riverfront town, building by building. Keatonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s survival and his proving of himself are as epic as they are hilarious. BILLED WITH Two-Gun Gussie (1918) with Harold Lloyd and Love â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em and Weep (1927) Mr. Laurel is requested

by Mr. Finlayson to assist him in a matter of the heart; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Judge Chiggerâ&#x20AC;? (Mr. Hardy) complicates matters. Bruce Loeb at the piano. (Plays Dec 26 in Fremont at the Edison Theater, 37417 Niles Blvd.) RvB)

Reviews Avatar (PG-13; 162 min.) A victory for people who insist that science ďŹ ction has to be dumb. In the future, Earthling mercenaries are shipped to the planet Pandora, where 9-foot-tall, blue-skinned noble savages called Naâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;vi live in a phosphorescent forest full of saurian beasts. Jake (Sam Worthington) is the paraplegic brother of a dead soldier hooked up to a Naâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;vi shell; the program is under the direction of a chain-smoking biologist (Sigourney Weaver). While it is a maxim of screenwriting that the plot ought to be the longest distance between two points, James Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrible script for this putative end-of-the-decade experience really overworks the principle.

The politics play it both ways; letting us swoon over the military hardware and still lament for the plundered forests.

After an hour, the drugs wear off, and the appeal of synthespianism starts to drag; motion capture isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly motion release (compare the synthetic Weaver to the real thing), and the cobbled-together story of eco-rebellion isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be eclipsed by the visuals. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to see it anyway, see it in 3-D. (RvB) The Blind Side (PG-13) The ďŹ lm focuses on Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), who overcame homelessness as a teenager to receive a football scholarship to the University of Mississippi and later played in the NFL. Oher succeeded with the help of a wealthy Christian couple, Ole Miss grads Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) and Sean Tuohy (Tim McGraw), who took Oher in and made him a part of their family. Most of the attention is on Oherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experiences as the only African American student at a private Christian school, his homelessness after being abandoned by a caretaker and his relationship with the Tuohy family. In adapting Michael Lewisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; nonďŹ ction bestseller, writer-director John Lee Hancock eliminated the most controversial aspects of Oherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case: the Tuohysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; motivation for adopting him.

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SLEEK, twisty mystery, illuminated by the stunning PenĂŠlope Cruz, the new Pedro AlmodĂłvar is also a sprawler. The James M. Cainâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style plot of Broken Embraces involves a blind ďŹ lm director from Madrid, most active in the 1990s (the balding but virile LluĂ­s Homar). After losing his sight, the ďŹ lmmaker took the ballsy new name â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harry Caineâ&#x20AC;? and became a writer. Caine is doted on by Judit (Blanca Portillo), a mannish female assistant with whom he has some kind of past. News of the death of a corrupt tycoon sends Caine back to confront unďŹ nished businessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to retrieve the moment 16 years previously where he lost both love and sight.

Broken Embracesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; well-engineered reveries over classic ďŹ lm are heightened

by AlmodĂłvarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seriocomic additions. The dead tycoon in question, a cuckolded millionaire named Ernesto Martel (JosĂŠ Luis GĂłmez) is apparently modeled on Everett Sloaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character in The Lady From Shanghai. This dangerous man collects pop art, and so his dining room is full of giant Warholesque canvases of riďŹ&#x201A;es and guns. In a joke The Simpsons should steal for Mr. Burns, he keeps a framed portrait of one of his pet Dobermans on the window behind his desk.

Martel was also the producer of the last ďŹ lm Caine made, and the wealthy man unwillingly shared the love of Caineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Lena, known as Magdalena, was an actress, secretary and part-time prostitute who took as her workinggirl name Severine (a nod to Belle de Jour). She, of course, is played by Cruz.

No one but AlmodĂłvar knows how to make Cruz really fascinating. She acts out a regular scene we used to see in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s movies, an auditioning actress trying on wigs. We see this womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modes of glamour. Here are the curves of Sophia Loren, the frailty of Audrey Hepburn; in a turned-headed reveal, like that famous moment in Gilda, Cruz blazes the too-incandescent smile of Rita Hayworth. Capped with a tousled platinum wig, Cruz evinces something of Lana Turner in her mankiller parts. The spirits summoned up here arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t travestied; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re worshipped. Do we feel for Lena? The ďŹ lm is all a bit too stylized for that. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s such an imago itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to think of her as a character, despite the moments of love, anger and regret that Cruz acts out.

In the press notes, AlmodĂłvar comments about the last shot before Broken Embracesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; coda. In it, a viewer reaches into the blurred, scrambled pixels of a video screen, trying to touch the untouchable past. Having just hit age 60, the Spanish director seems to have gone valedictorian. Something comes along like Avatar or Transformers 2, and the world trumpets it as a new stage of cinema. If cinema meansâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;in your estimationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;something 90 minutes long with three-point lighting, starring a couple of actors hugging and kissing and with a gold-wreathed lion roaring at the beginning, all that inescapable hype about the new is depressing. Imagine how depressed youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be if you were one dedicated classicist of a ďŹ lm directorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;then AlmodĂłvarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s act of raving cinephilia makes all the more sense.

Richard von Busack BROKEN EMBRACES (R; 127 min.), directed and written by Pedro AlmodĂłvar, photographed by Rodrigo Prieto and starring PenĂŠlope Cruz, opens Dec. 25.

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one of them. Lubitsch was bold to make a Christmas movie about retail workâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a reminder of how love and generosity must ďŹ ght for a place amid pestering customers, sagging sales and mandatory overtime. BILLED WITH Miracle on 34th Street. Edmund Gwenn plays an old department-store Santa who is convinced that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the real Santa Claus; Natalie Wood co-stars as a little girl who believes his tale. (Plays Dec 23 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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Palace Intrigue ‘The Young Victoria’ hews to standard biopic style in chronicle of early years of the famed queen

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BC-ish, richly gowned and including the usual ever popular waltz sequences, The Young Victoria is unforgivably static. Unforgivably, because it has a fascinating subject: the early, and often unpopular, years of the longest-reigning and most iron-bottomed British royal who ever lived. Over the titles, crowned with diamonds, guarding herself with cross scepters and wearing a look of dignified terror, the lovely and suitably aristocratic Emily Blunt is the best part of this story. As the niece of two childless kings, Victoria is the heir apparent. She is treated with brutal overcaution and surveillance by her mother, the Duchess of Kent (Miranda Richardson) and her friend (perhaps with benefits) Lord Conroy; the girl is kept locked up and escorted down all stairs as if she were a brittle-boned child. When she grows up, her cousin Albert (Rupert Friend) comes to court, and this starts a romance, tainted with scheming by the power in Albert’s family, the perfidious Belgian king (Thomas Kretschmann).

Director Jean-Marc Valée slows things down and smoothes over the complexities of history; matters get simplified to the point where it seems like nothing is going on in the world outside the problem of Victoria trying to get some time alone with Albert. She is, in younger years, an inexperienced monarch drawn to the magnetism of Paul Bettany’s golden and handsome Lord Melbourne. But we get the usual BBC-drama way of handling the events outside: news being brought in as if on a silver tray by a herald. The Young Victoria gives us a top-down view of Victoria’s era in politics. The Stygian quality of British slum life offscreen is commented upon, but never felt, never given in images that would stick to us.

In the earlier sequences, it’s a pity we don’t see more of Jim Broadbent’s William IV. He was a longtime British Navy man and a much more cinemaworthy figure than one would guess from this film: a fat man and a king given to moments of gratifying vulgarity. Broadbent’s king is seen mostly in longer shots until he makes one terrific outburst at a royal dinner.

Another noteworthy figure lurking about the court is Julian Glover’s aged Duke of Wellington, a Tory’s Tory; it seems as if the Iron Duke would have something noteworthy to say, but this doesn’t happen either.

Julian Fellowes’ script tries to illustrate Victoria’s problem with words instead of images, and the words fail it. Lines like “I know what it’s like to live alone, inside your head” represent painful 20th-century scriptwriting rather than a romantic blurting out. We’re supposed to be beguiled by the gowns and the courtship, by the honeymoon scene with a bit of Victoria’s Secret lingerie showing. Blunt’s freshness is appealing, but the sketchy background and the slow pace bring on the familiar PBS-watcher’s narcosis.

(A quite patriotic tag at the end of the film refers to Victoria’s great-greatgranddaughter, who hasn’t been a slouch in the reigning department either. If the math fails you, the date you’ll be looking for is “sometime in fall 2015.”)

Richard von Busack THE YOUNG VICTORIA (PG; 100 min.), directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, written

by Julian Fellowes, photographed by Hagen Bogdanski and starring Emily Blunt, opens Dec. 25.

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athletically gifted and a potential football star at left tackle? Hancock refuses to see or acknowledge any ambiguity, instead leaving moviegoers with a simple, simplistic answer: They did what they did first out of compassion and later out of unqualified love. (MV) Brothers (R; 110 min.) Jim Sheridan’s dud remake of a 2004 Danish original. It’s shot in wintry New Mexico (which is doubling for Minnesota); the scenes in Afghanistan match the frozen fields there, so the film is all one icy plain filled with familial pain. Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) is just out of the joint after three years for bank robbery; his brother, Sam (Tobey Maguire), is a captain in the Marines, about to head back for another stint.

Grace (Natalie Portman), Sam’s wife, and the mother of his two children, settles down to wait for his return. But Sam’s helicopter is shot down by the Taliban, and he’s taken prisoner and brutalized. In stress mode, wielding a gun and screaming to the heavens, Maguire showboats with all smokestacks belching.

Portman looks like a Prius parked outside a honky-tonk. (RvB) Did You Hear About the Morgans?

(PG-13) A New York couple see a murder and must be relocated to a small Western town for their safety. Fish-out-of-water hilarity ensues. Stars Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker.

An Education (PG-13; 95 min.) Lone Scherfig’s British coming-of-age film ends with a marathon session of tea brewing, but it has its good points. The look is cool—1960ish England may be more interesting than the full-blown and overexposed later ’60s. Twickenham-raised Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is studying for Oxford when she gets picked up by David (Peter

Sarsgaard), a slightly older rotter; his slightly cruel eyes and flat smile forecast trouble to come. Until then, Jenny gets to see London highlife and nightclubs, and voyages to Paris. Smelling class, and wanting to make their hard-working daughter happy, Jenny’s parents (Cara Seymour, Alfred Molina) relax the leash.

And that’s when the young girl learns how David makes his money without working days. No one in the movie apparently saw one of those melodramas about the wealthy seducer who steals a poor but honest girl; letting that matter aside, Mulligan is charming, the meetcute is deft and Olivia Williams bears all the movie’s spine as a deliberately drabbed-down English teacher. Nick Hornby’s screenplay, from Lynn Barber’s memoir, might have meant he had input on the film’s excellent pre–Swinging London soundtrack. Singer Beth Rowley steals the show as the breathy canary at one nightspot. (RvB) Fantastic Mr. Fox (PG; 87 min.) A real artist learns to turn his limitations into strengths. In switching gears entirely from live action to stopaction animation, director Wes Anderson has created his most consistently enjoyable film. Anderson has softened his typical aura of disappointment with a sense of rejuvenating play. Based on a short Roald Dahl children’s book, Fantastic Mr. Fox is a fairy tale, but it’s a realistic, slightly bleak one. Fox (voiced

by George Clooney) is living a straight life with his wife (Meryl Streep). A midlife crisis rouses the beast; he decides to turn hunter once again. Retaliation comes fast and hard: the Fox is robbed of his tail by a shotgun blast. In the war that follows, Fox and his family—and, soon, all the creatures in the woods—become refugees.

Clooney is a fox in full: we see both the humorous suavity and the realization of possible failure. Clooney is our Cary

Grant, but what people forget about the original Grant is something that this superbly compelling Clooney remembers: the buried fears that a suave man harbors of being out of control. (RvB) Invictus (PG-13; 124 min.) The tunnel-visioned sports movie par excellence. Based on John Carlin’s book Playing the Enemy, Clint Eastwood’s film tells of South African president Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) exhorting the South African Springboks to greatness in the Rugby world cup as a public-relations move to heal the racial divisions. It’s obvious Freeman could do the role in his sleep. It’s the kind of part where someone says of Mandela “He’s not a saint!” because this conception of Mandela is such a saint. Team captain Francois Pienaar is not much of a role, but Matt Damon makes it a model of recessive, intelligent interpretation. Rugby is not a game made for screen poetry, though, and the dog piles and all-but-drag-out fights on the field have no shape to them. (RvB) Ninja Assassin (R; 99 min.) The shiny Orientalism of Ninja Assassin’s dialogue is more of a treat than the fight scenes, which consist, basically, of a lot of whipping razor chains and puréed ninjas, who go up in what look like explosions in a Ragu factory. James McTeigue, of V for Vendetta, tells of an apostate ninja named Raizo (Korean pop star Rain), who turned against the Clan of Black Sand and is hiding in Berlin. Suffering nobly, he tries to protect an Interpol-like investigator (Naomie Harris) from the wrath of his seemingly hundreds of fellow warriors.

In flashbacks, we see the savage training: kidnapped children are beaten into the ninja lifestyle under the glare of Lord Ozuni (venerable martial artist Shô Kosugi). When McTeigue slows down the camera, the violence has an effect, and there’s the odd sick-artistic effect, like the calligraphy of blood sprawling on paper screens. More often, we get grotty stuff: an edit between a bisected fool and tomato sauce splotching on a paper dish of Berlin-style curlywurst. The Wachowski brothers developed this comic-book-like film. Despite the playfulness of scripters Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski, the story gets stuck up in origins; the fountains of gore are not so much nauseating as lulling. (RvB) Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (R; 110 min.) Much lauded, but it’s a bulldozer. It’s 1987, during some of Harlem’s most suffering years. A girl of immense girth, 16-year-old Claireece (Gabourey “Gabby” Sidibe) makes her way through life. She has intelligence, but she can’t focus, and we learn why in flashback; she was serially raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Her scathing, angry mother, Mary (Mo’Nique), blames Precious for this and her resulting pregnancy), urging her to stop this foolishness about school and go on welfare. Watching Sidibe, we see something of what this movie could have been if it hadn’t been so overcooked.

The film is practically a pre-Clinton-era dream of the need for welfare reform: here, welfare is a generational evil that Precious might fall heir to. As you’ve heard, Mo’Nique is great, but the film has a judgmental streak that won’t quit. And that’s been essential to a success worthy of its sensationalism. By the end of the movie, you know who all the heroes and all the villains are, and you can go home comfortable. (RvB) The Princess and the Frog (G; 97 min.) In New Orleans of the 1920s, a hard-working African-American girl, Tiana (Noni Rose), falls for the myth that a princess’s kiss can turn a frog back to a prince, but the curse turns out to work

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The Road (R; 119 min.) Two figures, half-starved on a perilous road to the sea, are the survivors of some thorough but indefinite holocaust. All civilization has broken down utterly; long-pig consumption is on the rise. The film offers a serious vision of a world without warmth, humor or sex, and only a lightweight, one thinks, would flee from it. The Road’s postapocalyptic center is a moral struggle: even as his strength wanes, Vigo Mortensen’s Man tries pass on the spirit of “the good guys” to his son. The son is called, as in Tarzan movies, “Boy” (Kodi Smit-McPhee).

My problem is that I’ve seen the same movies novelist Cormac McCarthy saw. The us vs. them aspect is the same as in any video game, or any of the previous dozen movies about zombies or hillbilly ogres. The film has its moments.

Mortensen’s real-to-the-pith suffering is unimpeachable, and a sightless Robert Duvall’s tales of apocalypse have some genuine weight to them. There isn’t a moviegoer alive that can take The Road as seriously as it wants to be taken. (RvB) 2012 (PG-13, 158 min.) Nutty but not crunchy ripoff of When Worlds Collide. A few minutes are absolutely high art: a lovingly detailed sequence of downtown L.A. wobbling on all sides of a miledeep fissure in the earth, the skyscrapers dancing around its brink or keeling over in slow faints. Being Roland Emmerich, the director must cut away from this splendor to John Cusack, his ex-wife Amanda Peet and his family (adorable daughter and bratty son), and the exwife’s new squeeze, an expendable plastic surgeon (Thomas McCarthy)—better the whole world be inundated than one American nuclear family should be sundered. No surprise, 2012 is a film of sequences and of wildly uneven tone.

(RvB) The Twilight Saga: New Moon (PG-13; 130 min.) Visually, New Moon improves on Twilight—the forest primeval is a little more natural (the better to shelter the supernatural). More of the same, though: the troubled True Love Waits romance of Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) with the vampire Edward Cullen

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All’s Welles Richard Linklater tackles Welles tackling Shakespeare

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N CONSIDERING Me and Orson Welles, I can’t help but remember Pauline Kael’s lead for her review of the 1982 film My Favorite Year: “[It’s] about hero worship, and—surprise!—it’s for it.” Me and Orson Welles’ take on Welles is no such surprise. No one gets a Pulitzer for pointing out that Orson Welles is a more fascinating figure than Zac Efron. It’s also not news that Efron has something. The star of the phenomenally popular High School Musical franchise is an accomplished song-and-dance man; he can’t resist a little stepand-slide while waiting for his date to climb the stairs to her apartment. It’s likely some director will find the right way to graduate Efron from the juvenile stage, and such a director should emphasize his hard shiny shell. Efron would make a great Pal Joey, for instance, and eventually he’s going to have some of Gene Kelly’s slight ruthlessness. Here, Efron just takes the spotlight away from a far more fascinating figure. Director Richard Linklater’s focus is more upon an innocent pup of 1937 than upon the rising of Welles.

Efron’s Richard is a high school student who literally wanders into a small part in Welles’ production of Julius Caesar at the Mercury Theater. Dealing with the moods of the already notorious Welles, Richard is drawn by two women: Welles’ assistant, Sonja (Claire Danes), and a yearning would-be writer (Zoe Kazan) who longs to get into The New Yorker. Linklater re-creates Welles’ New York staging of Julius Caesar in fascist Black Shirt costumes. This was a stripped-down shocker of a production that lasted one hour and 45 minutes without intermission. The stage scenes are the most compelling in the movie. Welles played Brutus, and in Wellesian fashion he bent the heavily edited text around the noble assassin. But his acting was apparently not the true thrill of the production. And Linklater sensibly concentrates on the graphic fist of this Caesar. It was a preview of the intensity Welles would later bring to the cinema.

Christian McKay’s version of Welles is routinely delightful and unpredictable.

He misses a little of the real man’s impudence; the emphasis here is on the man under stress, as opposed to his startling playfulness. The voice isn’t overdone, but it sounds very right on the ear. James Tupper also gets the essence of Joseph Cotten through voice and mannerisms, though this Cotten is seemingly more interested in girls than acting. Simon Callow’s excellent book Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu is a helpful background to the parts Linklater can’t get onscreen.

Callow notes that Welles’ version hadn’t been the only proposed staging of Caesar that alluded to fascism. The actor-turned-historian also notes the textual limitations of a Brutus-centered production, and how much sound effects and lighting helped a cash-strapped theater company of the 1930s.

The problem is that Richard’s weeklong rapture with Orson leaves him where he started. Kazan, button-cute as she is, doesn’t hold up her end of Richard’s triangle, particularly when we see her muttering “Truth is beauty, beauty truth” to an actual Grecian urn. Tasty bits of history and the evenhanded approach to Danes’ lively character are a plus. But one feels that had the movie come out in favor of hero worship, it wouldn’t have hurt.

Richard von Busack ME AND ORSON WELLES (PG-13; 114 min.), directed by Richard Linklater, written by Holly Gent Palmo and Vincent Palmo, photographed by Dick Pope and starring Zac Efron and Christian McKay, plays at selected theaters.

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both ways, and soon the couple—now both frogs—are running for their lives from a voodoo conjurer (voiced by Keith David, reprising the malevolent silkiness of his Cat in Coraline). This 2D cartoon supervised by John Lasseter of Pixar is slightly overstuffed and slightly redundant on the subject of the importance of work (the virtue of hard work is beaten by life into nine out of 10 knaves, as George Bernard Shaw said).

The disappointing soundtrack by Randy Newman is instant Creole, just add swamp water. (Better they should have called Chris Strachwitz and asked him what he had in his collection.) That said, the attempt to make a multiculti story is suitably enchanting. The full-length cartoon is a tribute to a century-long history of cellular animation—the kind smart people were going around saying was redundant. Here, in the villainous Shadow Man (whom I adored) is a tribute to Cab Calloway’s ghostly gambler in Betty Boop; the blindness of Mr. Magoo is seen in a benign swamp witch; there are paintbrush traces of both Michigan J. Frog and Pepe Le Pew in the fleeing amphibians, and a spot of Tex Avery’s Red in the physique and crinolines of Tiana’s friend and foil Lotte. Some will be enamored of Ray the Cajun firefly, who has a Don Marquis–style romance with the unobtainable; me, not so much so. I’m more rapt by the lambency, smoothness and stained-glass colors of this supposedly dead medium, restored to life. Likely it will be a success; it deserves to be. (RvB)

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(Robert Pattinson), interfered with by the formerly geeky, now studly Native American werewolf Jacob Black, called Jake (Taylor Lautner). Modeling Bella on the Jane Austen heroineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x153;loving longest ... when hope is goneâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;director Chris Weitz makes the mistake of letting the goods simmer until theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re soggy.

Playing Bella, Stewart is consistently interesting. She has a very ambiguous mouth, and she plays everything way, way down, particularly her incrementally tiny reactions to the supernatural: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not the ďŹ rst monster Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve met.â&#x20AC;? The contrast here is ďŹ&#x201A;esh vs. spiritâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jake the werewolf wears few clothes and has muscles in his ears, and Edward is a pale, sulky stripling. One is more creeped out by the passage about the ďŹ ancee Emily (Tinsel Korey), who had her face disďŹ gured by her werewolf lover, yet she still serves the wolfman and his buddies the mufďŹ ns she bakes herself. In Stephenie Meyerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world, men never mean it when they lash out; the girl wants consummation, but the sensitive man delays it, and a father can still ground his daughter, even when sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past 18. (RvB)

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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel picks up a short time after the end of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Alpha chipmunk and all-around extrovert Alvin (voiced by Justin Long) and his two brothers, the nerdy Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler) and the shy Theodore (Jesse McCartney), have hit the big time, performing at sold-out concerts for their adoring fans while their surrogate parental ďŹ gure, Dave (Jason Lee), tries to keep them out of harmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s way. After an accident (partly caused by Alvinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shenanigans) leaves Dave in traction in a Parisian hospital, Alvin and the Chipmunks head back to Los Angeles and the care of Daveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Aunt Jackie (Kathryn Joosten). When Jackie has a serious accident of her own, her video-game-obsessed, unemployed grandson, Toby (Zachary Levi), steps in to help. Even worse, Dave has arranged for the chipmunks to attend school, high school to be exact.

Directed by Betty Thomas (I Spy, 28 Days, Doctor Doolittle, The Brady Bunch Movie), the movie is short on originality, long on pop-culture jokes and slapstick humor. And at under 90 minutes, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also quickly forgettable, a perfect if slightly expensive way to entertain small children and parents eager for a 90-minute nap. The obligatory life lessons are all there, all generally inoffensive. Alvin has to learn personal and familial responsibility, as does Toby. Alvin also has to learn the perils of fame and, given the high-school backdrop, how to resist peer pressure. The jobless Toby learns parental responsibility, but oddly enough, never gets a job (but he does get a chance to right a high-school wrong).

Fans of the Dave character (or more likely, Jason Lee) will be disappointed, however. He appears in the opening scene, a few pickup shots to remind us heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still stuck in a hospital, and returns for the anti-climactic battle of the bands. His role and his roleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s function as the adult who needs to grow up have been transferred to Toby. Maybe Lee didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to appear in the sequel except in an extended cameo or maybe he was busy, but Levi (always watchable on TVâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chuck) is a poor substitute. Still, families with children under 10 looking for a not-unpleasant time-waster over the holidays could do worse.

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Up in the Air (R; 109 min.) As the predatory Ryan Bingham, George Clooney delivers a startlingly good performance. Sadly, the ďŹ lm is compromised by director Jason Reitman, who shows signs of morphing into Cameron Crowe. Bingham is a hired terminatorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a man brought in to ďŹ re people; he tolerates this job with beneďŹ ts of an executive life with plenty of travel. Enter a young, seemingly equally callous rival (Anna Kendrick). Having this inexperienced girl along interrupts Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regularly scheduled no-strings ďŹ&#x201A;ings with a fellow constant business traveler, Alex (Vera Farmiga). The acrid ďŹ rst half is the best partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Clooney makes us admire Ryanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gamesmanship. The ďŹ lm wants us to equate two different kinds of toxicitiesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to draw a line between the corporate bloodletting that juices up stock portfolios and the wrongness of the present-tense sex life that Ryan and Alex enjoy. Too bad that Farmiga and Clooney are such a scintillating pair that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to see them pay the piper. And as a critique of corporate culture, Up in the Air is about as bold as Connecticut salsa.

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O USE an Italian word, Nine is a fiasco. Its source, Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 (1963), is boiled down to a musical lineup of celebs in pushup bras. An Italian film director, Guido (Daniel Day-Lewis), a clear surrogate for Fellini, has announced an ambitious new film project, but Guido has no idea what the film is going to be about, and the time to start shooting is coming up. Guido is a married man is surrounded with women— encouraging him, distracting him, luring him into dreams. This time, Rob Marshall (Chicago) calmed the camerawork down—he’s previously been an addict of fast cutting to make a group of mostly nonsingers and nondancers look like light-footed showstoppers. But few of Nine’s numbers have any spine. A great musical number mixes song and exposition—we should know more about the story after we hear the tune. Only Marion Cotillard, as Guido’s much-spurned wife, delivers a number that leaves an aftereffect; she gives the movie weight through her own ability to sing and to suffer.

Why was Day-Lewis cast as Guido? Was it memories of the urbane, polygamous doctor he played in The Unbearable Lightness of Being? On Broadway, the role of Guido was played by Raul Julia and later by Antonio Banderas, stars who contrast Latin suavity with the neurosis of men who know deep down that the pose isn’t going to work. Day-Lewis keeps overthinking the part, taking it inward; he’d make a great Godard, but he’s a bizarre Fellini. As Guido’s mistress, who gets courted fast and dropped hard, Penélope Cruz is edible (if slightly self-conscious), sliding down a satin banister in a dream sequence. Nicole Kidman plays the pedestal girl, a worldfamous actress who acts as Guido’s muse—the part Claudia Cardinale played in the original. It’s woeful casting on the ground of curves alone; Marshall inserts Kidman into a strapless evening gown that makes her look like a single arrow in a quiver. Kate Hudson turns up as the Yank journalist who only pays attention to the surfaces of Italian cinema. Unfortunately that’s something else that can be said against this movie. And the rhyming of “neorealism” and “prism” in Hudson’s go-go tune is pretty much Nine’s saddest point. This, or Dame Judi Dench showing décolletage—maybe not the suavest look for her—in a Dietrich-style backward-cafe chair number as the MC in a badVegas breasts-and-pink-feathers show.

Borrowed cool is on ample display—the sets at Cinecittà and the Roman streets, the black suits and skinny ties and itty-bitty sports cars. But Marshall can’t re-create 8 1/2’s moment—the bitter honesty of an egotistical yet priesthaunted film director. Maybe we’re more used to confessionals now; Woody Allen stole the satyr’s-lament motif from Fellini and used it for decades. Fellini’s films were acute looks into an artist’s reveries, the kind of film Vincente Minnelli would have made if he had been a free man instead of under contract to a studio. What we see in Nine is not an artist in peril of his soul—despite the shoutouts to Christ, Mohammed and Buddha. What we’re really seeing in these musical fantasies are the problems of a creatively blocked choreographer.

Richard von Busack NINE (PG-13; 112 min.), directed by Rob Marshall, written by Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella, et al., photographed by Don Beebe and starring Daniel DayLewis, Penelope Cruz and Marion Cotillard, opens Dec. 25. (Get movie updates by joining us on Facebook—metrofb.com—and at Twitter.com/metronewspaper)

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VEN AFTER the release of Avatar, Disney’s The Princess and the Frog is still the best-looking animated film in theaters. Disney animators Mark Henn and Michael Surrey were dispatched from Burbank to promote the film locally. Surrey is the relative newcomer who supervised a team of four animators doing soulful Ray the Firefly. Henn is a 20-plusyear veteran of the studio, who was with Disney in the lean days in the 1980s.

Henn remembers, “They had less people in management than we do on a single production today.

It was a much more intimate place to be. Physically, we were in the original animation building, walking down the hallways where Frank [Thomas] and Ollie [Johnston] and Walt had been.

“The Don Bluth group had defected a year before I came there.

There was a lot of tension at the time, and when they were gone, it opened the studio to a lot of people who might not have got

in there otherwise. It was a lot of fun, really. We didn’t have a lot of pressure, we weren’t worried about putting out a movie every year, like we were five or 10 years later.”

Henn continues, “Then Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg came in and let us know times were changing. Michael came in and said, (A) we’re going to move you off the lot because we need the buildings, and (B) we’re going to be ramping up production.”

The press notes for The Princess and the Frog note that Henn worked on the “nine Disney princesses,” a figure that includes Tiana of The Princess and the Frog.

It’s been said of The Wizard of Oz that it is a particularly American tale because Dorothy is a farm girl, not royalty. So it was disconcerting at first to hear the waitress Tiana branded as a princess, in the traditional sense of a woman who has things done for her.

Henn shrugs. “Well, yeah. Tiana’s got her feet in the ground, working two jobs and scrimping and saving.

Six of these princesses were created

ahead of my time, like Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. I fit Tiana into the contemporary line of Disney princesses; they’re much more proactive in their stories, in their hopes and dreams and the way they do things. This goes back to Ariel in The Little Mermaid, the first in the new line of leading lady.”

Surprisingly, it’s the success of CGI that brought back so-called flat animation. Henn says that Pixar’s John Lasseter “started the whole snowball rolling. His vision was to go back and capture the classic Disney [look], the well-rounded character design and animation.”

Surrey adds that “John reminded us, ‘Don’t forget what you’re doing here. We want to make this really, really good—let’s make this real onscreen.’ Being an animator himself, John has a natural way of giving us a direction to go, instead of not saying anything or saying ‘everything’s great.’”

When asked what 2-D has that 3-D can’t touch, Surrey replies, “Hand-drawn allows you more

choices as an animator; the building and character modeling are all in the pencil. If in any given scene of the movie, Ray the Firefly is going to slam against a rock and slide down the face of it, I can decide how much squash and distortion there’s going to be. With CGI, you have to do a little preplanning. You can’t replace 2-D’s spontaneity.”

The veteran Henn adds, “There’s certain limits to CGI: limits of freedom and flexibility. In CGI, everything looks exactly as it’s supposed to look. But there’s an intuitive quality to animating by hand. I like to think there’s a certain aesthetic quality, as if you chose to have a portrait painter do a picture of your wife, rather than get a beautiful photograph of her.

“People I’ve talked to outside the business said, ‘I miss hand-drawn.

I wish Disney would bring it back.

It isn’t that they don’t like CGI, it’s just an emotional response to one art form vs. another. Traditional animation takes them back to their childhoods.” M

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DVD REVIEW

Healing Sounds N 2003, Tiffany Travalent had to be rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. She came out with chronic pain and medical bills that she is still paying for. Travalent spent nine years working with Bill Graham Presents as an artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; liaison, and as the backstage manager at the WarďŹ eld and the Fillmore in San Francisco, where she came into contact with a wide crosssection of rock elite. She has worked with doctors all over the world looking for a permanent ďŹ x for what she calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;severe chronic pain.â&#x20AC;? While she looked for a cure, the bills began piling up. She has not been able to work since the surgery.

In April 2007, Bay Area guitarist Eric McFadden took it upon himself to organize a beneďŹ t concert to help with Travalentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mounting medical bills. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had met her before at the WarďŹ eld and the Fillmore and befriended her. Everyone knew her as a really kind, loving person.â&#x20AC;? McFadden ended up exercising his connections in the Bay Area music scene and beyond to compose an impressive roster of artists for a show at San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now-defunct 12 Galaxies, ranging from members of P-Funk and Talking Heads to celebrated local acts like Teenage Harlets and Loop!Station. Although the ďŹ nal lineup was extensive and varied, McFadden says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot more people would have participated had they not been touring at the time.â&#x20AC;?

Creative Armada has put together a DVD of the concert, called Free From Pain. It is available for purchase, for $20 through www.ďŹ lmbaby.com/ďŹ lms/4535 and www.freefrom paindvd.com. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The great thing about the night was that every musician that performed was a friend of Tiffanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s,â&#x20AC;? says McFadden, who did his best to tailor the event to Travalentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tastes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have pretty similar tastes in musicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;very eclectic.â&#x20AC;? The night ended up netting $15,000 through ticket sales, auctions and donations. Travalentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bills are still coming in, and proceeds from the sale of the DVD will go to Travalentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical fund.

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That may sound like a pretty fatalistic outlook from Phil Tooth, guitarist for Mountain View’s Tolteca Extra. But it’s true that there seems to be no other band in the South Bay doing what they’re doing—which is, in a word, noise. Experimental noise-rock has never gotten a lot of attention from the mainstream, except maybe in Japan, which is the No. 1 exporter of the genre.

In this country, Sonic Youth is the best-known band to even touch the true sound of noise. Like math rock without the math or black metal without the church burnings, it’s more extreme than either.

Completely free-form and liberated from the rules of any pop structure, noise is truly out there.

“There are a lot of people who aren’t into it, because it’s heavy, distorted and loud,” says Tooth.

But he and his band mates— bassist Gus Cadena, drummer Steve Campbell and recently added second guitarist Matt Edleon—see endless possibilities in their bruising sheets of instrumental

rock. They’ve just finished their first, four-song CD; it gets a release party at the Blank Club on Wednesday, where they’ll open for Mexican rockers Gay Duo. “What I’m going for, there has to be a little bit of anger there, but still be something kind of pretty about it,” says Tooth. “There’s a bazillion riffs I’ll come up with, but only one or two will make it to the band, because they have the feeling I want.”

Tooth has been playing in bands for more than 15 years, since he was 11. A friend’s dad sold him a broken guitar and an amp for $20 (“I still owe him 20 bucks,” he admits). He fixed up the guitar and started “banging on stuff.” He loved experimenting but didn’t realize how far other people were taking it until high school, when he listened religiously to the noise-rock that KFJC played at night.

Tooth had a lot of material ready to go by the time Tolteca Extra came together in Mountain View a year and a half ago, but Cadena has been writing a lot recently, too. The band’s name could have several meanings, which Tooth is somewhat cagey about. Tolteca was

the Aztec empire based in Tollan, and both Tooth and Cadena are of Aztec heritage. However, using the literal Aztec translation, the name could mean simply “Extra Sugar.”

Tolteca Extra quickly made an influential friend: Toshi Kasai, the much-sought-after producer and engineer who plays guitar for the Melvins-connected Seattle stoner band Big Business. Tooth sent Kasai a drum solo Campbell had done, and Kasai turned it into the bizarre six-minute track “Steve vs. Toshi Kasai,” which can be heard on Tolteca Extra’s MySpace page. Tooth and Kasai geeked out on circuit benders and looping, and Kasai went on to be a sort of spiritual adviser for the band, offering his take on the recordings they would send him.

“He’s a great guy,” says Tooth.

“He helped us out quite a bit.”

One of the most fascinating things about Tolteca Extra’s music is the sheer number of influences it draws from, all over the musical map. Rock pioneers like Mission of Burma and Dinosaur Jr., metal bands like Hellhammer and Bathory, and all kinds of obscurities. Lately, Tooth has been

drawing inspiration from, of all things, the soundtrack to the 1979 cult-horror film Phantasm.

“That’s one of my favorite albums of all time,” he says. “It’s super dark and experimental, but it has this classy sound. Just like the movie doesn’t make sense, some of the parts don’t make sense—the changes are so weird. It sounds like an old prog record recorded in a graveyard.”

Tolteca Extra is also moving in a more progressive direction, Tooth says, and he’s excited to play the band’s newest material at the Blank Club show. They’ll be bringing the new self-titled CD, which is also available at Streetlight Records.

As for nobody else around here making music that sounds like their songs “Psychic Intruder” or “Picnics Are for Dreamers,” that’s fine with Tolteca Extra. They’d like to make something that no one has ever heard, period.

“We try to get sounds that aren’t being used yet,” says Tooth, “or return to some that have been forgotten.”

TOLTECA EXTRA opens for GAY DUO on Wednesday (Dec. 23) at 9pm at the Blank Club, 44 S. Almaden Ave., San Jose. Free. (408.29.BLANK)

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6g^Zh (March 21–April 19): What influences do you

really, really need to say goodbye to? The next six months will provide you with ample motivation and opportunity to finally bid those farewells. What long-term cycle really, really needs to be drawn to a close, no more hemming and hawing, all loose ends tied up and all mixed signals clarified? Again, the time between now and the middle of June will bring you the necessary inspiration to make it happen. But it’ll take deep thought and sustained work and an expanded sense of humor, so get started soon.

IVjgjh (April 20–May 20): According to astronomer Mark Whittle, the Big Bang began in silence. Soon it crescendoed into a majestic major third chord 50 octaves below middle A. Then it transformed, over the course of a million years, into a wistful minor third chord. In my vision of the first two-thirds of 2010, the music of your life will have a similar pattern: It begins with silence. Next, it progresses into a lush major feel, with spirited and complex contrapuntal themes. Then in June, it evolves into a dreamy, contemplative phase. By late September, however—unlike the Big Bang—you will move into a third act, in which the music of your life returns to the lively mood it had at the start, only now with the gravitas that the reflective phase has instilled. <Zb^c^ (May 21–June 20): I have good astrological reasons to suspect that a year from now, your empire will be bigger. The resources you have at your disposal will be more substantial, the influence you wield will be more meaningful, and the responsibilities you oversee will be more demanding.

You can’t, however, just sit back passively and expect fate to make it all happen for you. You will have to work your assets off: get better organized, clarify your game plan, and commit to taking better care of yourself. None of that is mandatory, of course.

Being a lazy wanderer with no mission statement is definitely an option. If you do go in that direction, though, don’t complain to me next December about how you feel like you’re made of cookie dough.

8VcXZg (June 21–July 22): You will need to learn a lot in 2010, Cancerian. You’ll be in a phase of your long-term cycle when it will be wise to enhance your problem-solving skills and increase the knowledge you have at your disposal. So let me ask you: What can you do to gently shock yourself into prying open your mind? What is it that you don’t know but need to know? By the way, the coming year will also be a good time for you to offer yourself up as a teacher.

In fact, sharing your knowledge and problem-solving skills will make you more receptive to what you need to learn.

AZd (July 23–Aug. 22): Do you know any

world travelers, shamanic healers or visionary entrepreneurs? If not, there’s a good chance you’ll meet some in 2010, possibly even forge alliances with them. Crafty activists, brilliant artists, and deep thinkers may come your way, as well. Another possibility is that cohorts and comrades you’ve been linked to for some time will embark on mindexpanding quests that blow your mind as well as theirs. One way or another, Leo, the coming year will bring you more than the usual benefits and challenges that come from being in relationships.

K^g\d (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): I was in my first rock band in North Carolina in the 1970s. We did a mix of cover tunes by David Bowie, Lou Reed and Patti Smith, plus original hippie-punk songs and my poetry rants.

Controversy arose virtually every time we performed, especially in places like the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh (where we competed with the cacophony of mooing cows) and frat parties (where we endured the shouted insults of drunken jocks). It wasn’t until I moved to California that I synced up with an audience that appreciated my idiosyncratic musical sensibilities. According to my reading of the omens, Virgo, 2010 could bring you a comparable transition: finding listeners or hooking up with collaborators who are a better fit for your unique qualities.

A^WgV (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): I’m always befuddled by astrologers who preach the gospel of doom and gloom when they talk about the influence of Saturn.

My experience is that the ringed planet provides the greatest gift imaginable: motivation to become the person you were born to be. It steers you away from pursuing goals that aren’t in alignment with your soul’s code. It pressures you to give up vain fantasies

that even if fulfilled wouldn’t make you happy. That’s why I’m happy to report to you the following good news: As Saturn travels through your sign for much of the time between now and October 2012, I expect that you will be prompted and prodded to cut away the irrelevancies that distract you from claiming your birthright.

HXdge^d (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): Comedian Chris Rock

has a joke that plays on the stereotypes about your sign: “Most Scorpios die while they’re making love!”

(Only he uses the f-word instead of “making love.”) I understand the source of his satire. There are more than a few grains of truth in the notion that Scorpios revel in the enigmas of eros and death. On the other hand, I wouldn’t reduce your mystique to such a simple formula. I’d prefer to say something like this: You’re sexy when you’re letting go of your staunch self-control. Or: You’re an expert at transcending humdrum modes of awareness by stimulating intense pleasure. Or: If fully harnessed, your orgasmic power could kill off any destructive compulsions you might be harboring. And by the way, 2010 will be one of the best years ever for you to cash in on these capacities.

HV\^iiVg^jh (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): According to my

analysis of your astrological omens, 2010 isn’t a year to get your head in the clouds, but rather to grow deeper roots. Your job, as I see it, isn’t so much to explore the heights, but the depths. I think you should focus on getting to the bottom of things, not the top. Your instrument of choice should be a microscope, not a telescope. Your specialty won’t be playing spectacular guitar solos but rather groovalicious bass lines.

8Veg^Xdgc (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): I’m happy to

announce that 2010 could be the year when you become a more expert communicator. It’s not that you do a bad job now; it’s just that there is always room for improvement, and this will be an excellent time to attend to that. Life will be bringing you an abundance of experiences that will help you learn to listen better, cultivate more tact, read people’s body language like a pro, and consistently speak about the elusive truth with language that’s both kind and effective.

6fjVg^jh (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): I’ve known some

practical, sensible, well-grounded Aquarians in my life. They’re outnumbered, though, by the dominant subtype of your tribe: the imaginative, idiosyncratic irmprovisers with lightning reflexes and high-flying notions. But even if you belong to the latter group, in 2010 you’ll be gaining the capacities of the former.

In fact, I think this will be the year you get more things done than you ever have before. Attention to detail will be your specialty. You’re likely to excel in mastering the part of genius that’s comprised of 98 percent perspiration.

Pisces (Feb. 19–March 20): The pop star Pink is

a successful singer. Not only does she have a great voice; she has also sold 32 million records and won two Grammys. Recently she added what I think is an extraneous element to her live performances: a trapeze act. At the MTV Video Music Awards last September, she delivered her song “Sober” while swinging through the air and hanging upside down 60 feet off the ground. I was perplexed as I watched her, thinking to myself, “Doesn’t she have confidence that her song and her singing can stand alone?” In 2010, Pisces, I urge you not to follow her lead. There’s no need for you to go way overboard as you try too hard to give too much. Just sing your songs.

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That’s the basic problem, you see. Remember the cod, seemingly infinite in number and fished for centuries in the North Atlantic? The fishery collapsed in 1992, the victim of rapacious factory fishing and shortsighted management. The number of cod today is something like 1 percent of what it was in the 1960s. Forty thousand people were thrown out of work. It’s not known when if ever the fishery will recover.

Similarly, the West Coast salmon fishery failed in 2008. The Atlantic bluefin tuna has been reduced to about 15 percent of preindustrial numbers, and fishing has been scaled back; some think even the lower catch will destroy what remains. In a 2006 paper, researchers led by Boris Worm of Canada’s Dalhousie University reported that 30 percent of world fisheries had collapsed, with catches falling below 10 percent of the original yield.

They projected the remaining commercial fish species would be exhausted by mid-century, meaning no more wild fish, pretty or not.

Given dwindling supplies, it’s not surprising that you’re running into a bit of bait and switch.

The FDA recently determined that 37 percent of fish and 13 percent of other seafood was mislabeled. As much as 77 percent of so-called red snapper is anything but. The FDA has established guidelines for fish labeling, but thanks to industry lobbying there are plenty of exemptions. This has led to some surreal mislabeling: importers started selling Vietnamese catfish under the

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The rock crab, once a garbage catch, was reborn as the peekytoe crab. The channel catfish has become the southern trout, dolphinfish is now mahi mahi, and the Patagonian toothfish is now the Chilean sea bass. The Malabar blood snapper was renamed scarlet snapper. The fish known as orange roughy used to be called the slimehead.

So, are less desirable fish finding their way into fancy restaurants? Yes, because increasingly that’s all there is left. As for you, Judith, I’ve got some bad news and some worse news. The bad news is that, as you’ve heard, farmed salmon is problematic. Studies from around the world have found farm-raised salmon contain more cancer-causing PCBs and dioxins than wild ones do, typically originating in their feed. In some cases the levels of contaminants are so high that

by EPA guidelines you shouldn’t even have one serving a month—it’s more like one every five months in the case of some northern European farmed salmon. Researchers estimate that the risk of cancer from contaminants is about three times higher for farmed salmon compared to wild.

Salmon farming is rough on the environment, too. Farm runoff has been linked to increased mercury levels in wild fish nearby. Fish parasites can run rampant in salmon farms and spread into the wild. Fish feces, copper and zinc can contaminate the waters surrounding salmon pens. Even the good stuff in farmed salmon comes with problems. Yes, farmed salmon contain more oil overall than wild, including heart-friendly omega-3, but a much greater percentage of the oil is in the form of not-sohealthy omega-6. The worse news is you’d better get used to it. Commercial salmon fishing is gone in the Atlantic, and things don’t look promising in the Pacific. In a perfect world wild salmon would be a better choice than farmed.

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