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how moved and inspired I was that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bringing a sense of integrity to the work of being a restaurant critic. You help raise the consciousness of people who might not otherwise consider the larger context of their choices, food and otherwise.

I urge you to continue to include the larger implications of our restaurant and food choices. Denial that our behavior has an effect on the world will ultimately do us in.

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Since Sarah Palin ďŹ ts into neither categoryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;leader or legend: Is the Chamber of Commerce going to change the name of their event (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beyond the Palin,â&#x20AC;? The Fly, Dec. 16)?

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S WE approach the end of 2009, Metro is presenting its Year in Review issue, with an emphasis on what went wrong in the past 12 months. For whatever reason, when colleagues collectively appear to be in bad moods, I usually wind up in a good mood. I don’t know why. Somehow it just happens that way. In spite of what you’ll read in the rest of this week’s issue, I, for one, had a great 2009. Looking back through some of the columns that appeared in this space proved it. So saddle up.

Here are some of the faves.

In January, I suggested renaming the first block of South Almaden Avenue after the ’60s San Jose band Count Five, which still exists. Similar things have happened in other cities much more hip than us, like Bakersfield and Oklahoma City. That particular side street, which houses the Blank Club, the Greyhound station and the Caravan dive bar, would be perfect, as Count Five is an overlooked band one often discovers by accident while searching for something else—much like that street. Imagine walking up to a public kiosk and hearing “Psychotic Reaction”—that’s the sort of thing you’d expect. A Count Five history walk along that street would perfectly dovetail with the future San Jose Public Market in San Pedro Square, with its own history walks. And renaming that street would be easy, since no one lives on it. We will have to wait and see.

In another column, I wrote about Barry Eisler’s recent thriller, Fault Line, because it features scenes at the San Jose Police Headquarters and the opulent Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto. He even staged the author event and booksigning at the hotel. Sarcastically speaking, I wrote that he should have held it at the police station instead, since they could use the publicity. That comment did not sit well with a few anonymous readers in the blogosphere.

But back to some more fave columns from 2009. These days, even San Jose officials admit that festivals are examples of what the city actually does right, so, a new event, Left Coast Live, emerged last spring, attempting to bring all of downtown San Jose together through a diverse array of live music in every venue humanly possible. Look for a new version of this ever-evolving event next summer. Plus, the SubZERO street festival—a gig during off-years when the 01SJ Art Biennial doesn’t happen—marked another milestone. Jut like Left Coast Live, the city played a helpful leadership role in making it happen, as opposed to playing an interventionist, controlling role, which is how things used to be.

The fun didn’t stop there.

Reportage also came sailing in These days, even San Jose from O’Reilly’s 2009 Emerging officials admit that festivals Technology Conference (Etech) and the World Fantasy are examples of what the Convention 2009, both of city actually does right, so, which filled the Fairmont, at a new event, Left Coast least for a few days. And Silicon Live, emerged last spring Alleys couldn’t miss the annual Conspiracy Convention in Santa Clara, where a sordid mishmash of types offered their ideas and conjectures. Each one of those weekends was a hoedown for all time, and in each case, the future was predicted. Again, we will have to wait and see.

In addition, 2009 saw the urban-blight exploration junkie relapsing and getting his fix in several neighborhoods, including Cambrian Park, Willow Glen and, most recently, Keyes Street. He even surfaced in downtown Los Angeles for two columns, hitting skid row to explore the ’hoods in John Fante novels. The junkie will live on, as there exist many more pockets of Silicon Valley wasteland to explore. Your suggestions are always welcome.

And yet still more columns: KFJC, the greatest college station west of WFMU, turned 50 this year; One Step Beyond, an old music club from the ’80s, came roaring back; and the Century 25 Theater was reborn as the RetroDome. World-renowned San Jose skateboarder the late Tim Brauch was honored in a documentary, the Rosicrucians celebrated the 100th anniversary of H. Spencer Lewis’ original initiation, and the Little Italy San Jose effort made headway. Yeah!

If that’s just an inkling of what’s to come next year in this space, I am definitely in a good mood. Happy New Year and let the ideas begin.

Until next year: SiliconAlleys@metronews.com

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Cue JibJab, which has just ANIMATION SENSATION KjcKbcĂ&#x2013;t!boovbm! wjefp!sfdbq!pg!uif!fwfout!pg!uif!zfbs!mju!vq!uif! released its annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Year in xfc!podf!bhbjoĂ&#x2019;up!tpnfxibu!njyfe!sfwjfxt/ Reviewâ&#x20AC;?: a two-minute video romp that recaps the last year in all its glory. The video is packed with everything from momentous events like the induction of our ďŹ rst black president to moments of unparalleled stupidity (Balloon Boy). Even Three Wolf Moon made the cut.

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Aside from the video, CEO Gregg Spiridellis tells us that JibJab is having a very strong holiday season. The entertainment portal, which offers customizable Flash videos, greeting cards and a variety of other content, drew 33 million unique visitors in the last month, according to Quantcast.

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December 30, 2009-January 5, 2010

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“Oxy” for oxycodone, a common narcotic painkiller, and “Contin” for continual, as in a continual steady dosage) is one of the most frequently prescribed brand-name painkillers in the country, with 1.4 million prescriptions written in 2006. Pills contain a huge amount of active narcotic but are coated in a time-release shell that spreads that dosage over about 12 hours. What Stefan, who asked that his last name not be used, had learned 15 minutes before sprinting into the bathroom stall to vomit was the same thing millions of others have learned about OxyContin: remove the outer shell and you’ve got something akin to pure, lab-grade heroin.

“I think heroin is the most insidious drug out there, and a lot of kids aren’t ready to cross that line,” says Stefan. “Pills, though, you can

get those anywhere. Everyone takes pills, so kids are more inclined to experiment with those.”

The day in the bathroom stall was eight years ago. What followed for Stefan was a six-year addiction, first to pills, then to street heroin, methamphetamines and crack cocaine. It didn’t take long for his life to spiral out of control. Selling drugs, burglarizing homes and businesses, stealing from friends and family and shoplifting to support his $800per-week habit, Stefan bottomed out in 2007 with an extended stay in Watsonville’s Rountree jail—his second incarceration in as many weeks and his third overall.

“I just went out and hustled every day to try and get enough cash to get pills and later, heroin,” he says. “It was disgusting.”

After years of complaints lodged against Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin, and hundreds of deaths linked to drugs of its kind, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now taking the unprecedented step of issuing safety guidelines for an entire class of drug. In February, the FDA wrote letters to 16 producers of extended release opiate medications, including Purdue, asking them to come up with plans to curb abuse of the drugs. On Dec. 4, those same drug makers met with FDA officials in Baltimore for an update on their efforts. Officials now say they hope concrete guidelines for extended release opiates like OxyContin, including abuse-resistant capsules and educational campaigns, will be in place by spring 2010.

Though the FDA is just now taking steps to address OxyContin’s potential for abuse, problems surrounding the drug have existed for more than a decade. Dubbed “Hillbilly Heroin” shortly after its release in 1996, the drug became popular in places like West Virginia and Kentucky, where users stole or traded the pills from disabled friends and family members and used them for a quick high. It wasn’t long, however, before abuse of the drug moved out of the backwaters and into the mainstream, saturating the streets of East Coast cities and eventually moving West.

“I remember hearing about it being in New York and places like that, then suddenly it was everywhere around here,” recalls Stefan. “Of course I was curious. I wanted to get my hands on some.”

At the time, Purdue had mounted a massive and, it was later proven, misleading advertising campaign aimed at doctors that claimed OxyContin had little potential for abuse and was far less dangerous than other narcotic painkillers. And in 2007, after a federal investigation, Purdue executives pleaded guilty to felony charges of deceptive &'

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Opium War The FDA’s belated move to rein in rampant abuse of OxyContin By Curtis Cartier OLD, SWEATY and nauseous, Stefan R. burst into the pale green bathroom stall to spend his first experience with OxyContin face down in a public toilet. The sickly green paint of the stall, he says, seemed appropriate given the state he found himself in after taking 80 milligrams of one of the world’s strongest pharmaceuticals. The only problem was he liked it.

“I loved it, actually,” says the stocky, bespectacled 25-year-old over a cup of black coffee. “My pupils were the size of pinpricks and I was covered in sweat and couldn’t stop throwing up, but it felt good. I felt good.”

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marketing and the company paid $634.5 million in damages for what the U.S. Justice Department described as “one of our nation’s greatest prescription drug failures.”

The case ended not long after a federal survey found that 5.2 million Americans reported using prescription pain drugs like OxyContin inappropriately. High-profile cases like conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s admitted addiction to OxyContin and the deaths of actor Heath Ledger in 2008 and Adam Goldstein (a.k.a. DJ AM) this year, both of which involved OxyContin, have led to a public outcry for more regulations.

“This is our attempt to try and ensure that the benefits of the products outweigh their risks,” said John Jenkins, director of the FDA’s Office of New Drugs, during a press conference after the Baltimore meeting earlier this moth. “By their design, these drugs have a large amount of opioids, and if used incorrectly—like OxyContin, where crushing the tablets and chewing them can lead to the release of all the opioids—it can lead to serious safety concerns.”

Slippery Slope Like Stefan, dozens of current and recovering addicts say that their opiate addictions began with pills like Vicodin (which combines an opiate called hydrocodone with acetaminophen), Percocet (oxycodone and acetaminophen) and OxyContin before moving to street heroin.

Stefan puts the number at roughly two-thirds.

Booms in OxyContin abuse pop up like mushrooms around the country, usually when a new sales operation brings a large supply to an area. Current estimates of OxyContin-related deaths range from several hundred to several thousand, and have not been published officially since 2002, when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency completed a study that found 146 deaths “directly” caused by OxyContin and 318 more that were “likely” caused by the drug. Just last week, however, the Canadian Medical Association Journal published a study that showed oxycodone-related deaths have risen 500 percent in the province of Ontario since 2000, when OxyContin was introduced to

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One of the most common ways people die using OxyContin is by combining it with other drugs like methadone or alcohol.

Breaking Bad Stefan didn’t get clean on his own. He had help from counselors, friends and most importantly, he says, from his mother Judith.

A self-admitted “enabler” during the early stages of her son’s addiction, Judith says the hardest and most pivotal moment in helping her son was the day she kicked him out of her house. “In ways I was always trying to fix it. I was the mom, I put his Band-Aids on when he fell, and I thought I could fix his addiction too,” she says.

Addicts look to get help at methadone clinics like Janus of Santa Cruz and Central Valley Methadone Clinic of San Jose, where a steady supply of drugs are given to an addict before eventually being tapered off. Others, however, take a more holistic approach, and in San Jose, Dr. Richard Gracer of Gracer Medical Group is leading a new wave of addiction treatment that combines natural detox methods with advanced, synthetic opiate medications like Buprenorphine, which blocks the effects of opiates. He blames the FDA for not working fast enough to regulate dangerous opiates like OxyContin and says pain pills are often the earliest building blocks of addiction.

“Oxycodone is often a starter drug, and it’s very dangerous,” says Gracer. “People get started usually by getting prescribed the drug for back pain, or sometimes they have had operations, or they’re kids who raid Mom’s medicine cabinet. Pretty soon they have to take more and more to even feel normal. By the time we see them, their life is on hold, they’ve been through rehab a couple times, they’ve stolen from their parents, they’ve had enough.”

Stefan, who’s now finishing his exams at Cabrillo College and plans to go on to study psychopharmacology at UC-Berkeley, is one of the lucky ones. “Of all the people I knew personally that did Oxy, every one of them is now on heroin,” he says, stubbing out his Camel Wide on the sidewalk. “For me, I was just a normal guy. I came from a loving supportive family, but I still got caught up in it. It can happen to anyone.” M

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Looking back at the worst decade in recent history— with no shame. By RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE BIGGEST LESSON of the past 10 years is that it’s not really possible to die of embarrassment. Comforting news, considering the new means of death invented during the decade—being swiftboated, waterboarded or killed by wardrobe malfunction, cellie-induced brain tumor or cardiac arrest from too-salacious sexting. But at least the chagrin can’t kill you—unless you decided to take the honorable way out.

I can remember the last time I thought things would turn out differently. Ten years ago, as millions waited for Y2K to fricassee the infrastructure, we settled down to watch the odometer turn over as the new decade crossed the Atlantic.

I liked the auspices so far. No meltdown in Australia or the Asian capitals. Rome’s New Year’s Eve consisted of some middling fireworks along the Tiber and a trembling superannuated pope leaning out of the window of St. Peters. This modest display was surpassed a hundredfold by the absolute splendor of the midnight detonation of the Eiffel Tower. It was like a golden thunderstorm. The contrast between Rome and Paris was some kind of symbol, if you squinted and cocked your head when you looked at it, of the triumph of the Enlightenment over oldtime religion.

The year 2000 made landfall at North America. In New York, the crystal ball made its descent in Times Square. No doubt there were partiers watching gathered around the city’s highest windows.

Today, those celebrants make me recall F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his essay “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” Fitzgerald pinned the decline of his times on the opening of the Empire State Building. Up at the top, he wrote, the visitors could see the limits of the city, the swamps on the horizon: “And with the awful realization that New York was a city after all and not a universe, the whole shining edifice . . . came crashing to the ground.”

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Such were the illusions of the 1990s— the dreams of endless jobs and progress, of the Eastern Block going online and prospering, of Israeli car salesmen selling Lexuses to olive-tree growing Palestinians, to the computer revolution enlightening the world. It all went away on an Indian summer day in 2001. Then came the enthronement of Folly—the blind urge to punish and to dominate, to demonstrate the fact that obscene self-confidence is the most lethal human trait.

The public turned to the leaders en masse and said, “I don’t care what you have to do, make it go away!” So we got dragged through the Imperial sleigh ride for years, in two stages.

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It’s fitting that a decade that kinda sucked ended with a year that totally did. An illegitimate love child born of fraudulent promises, the decade without a name or nonzero integer mapped its genome to parents intoxicated by a Madoff-style Ponzi scheme known as the Dotcom Boom, whose drinking buddies told everyone within earshot: invest in new computer hardware to prevent a Y2K apocalypse. Yeah, and then buy overpriced California real estate because everything goes up if you wait long enough. By the time margin calls settled and rate locks expired, 12 percent of Silicon Valley’s workforce collected unemployment checks — and homeowners from Los Altos to Los Banos were handing over keys.

It’s convenient to assign blame to big New York banks, to China or to Clinton/Bush/Obama. Let’s remember, though, where the shit goes down.

Have you heard of a Palo Alto startup called Facebook? An 11-year-old company known as Google? Did you see it on YouTube? An Intel or AMD chip and a Cisco/Linksys router touched the bits along the way, no doubt. And is that an iPhone in your pocket or are you just glad to see us?

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AVi^c 9^Xi^dcVgn HidX`^c\ Hij[[Zg 6gg^kZh Idd AViZ San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed apparently never heard of the political rule called “quid pro quo.” After playing it cool throughout Obama’s presidential campaign, Reed tried to cash in after Inauguration Day, only to discover he didn’t have any chips.

Reed and other local leaders began a push in January to get pet projects like clean tech and the BART extension funded by the president’s stimulus package. Not bloody likely! Obama got his stimulus package passed in March, the same month the VTA proposed building half of the planned, Measure B–seeded BART extension because the project was suspiciously underfunded. Reed didn’t get money for his green projects, either, and in the end Silicon Valley ended up with 800 million measly bucks out of $787 billion. Mr. Reed did go to Washington last month to complain about San Jose getting short-sheeted. The cautious optimism afterward was deafening.

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Your directors’ fees are a rounding error to me anyway Google Supreme Leader Eric Schmidt

resigned in August from Apple’s board of directors, just as its androids assembled for an intergalactic attack on iPlanet.

Apple was clearly not pleased with his double-agency. “Unfortunately,” Steve Jobs press-released, “as Google enters more of Apple’s core [Editor’s note: no pun intended.] businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest.” What Jobs didn’t realize, however, was that Dr. Schmidt was not recusing himself but rather stepping out of the Apple board meetings to check Google alerts of Gawker’s obsessive posts about his ostensible mistress.

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For anyone who entertains the old fashioned, idealistic notion that privacy still exists, Dr. Schmidt shared some sage advice from someone who knows.

Knows, that is, more about you than you may know about yourself: “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” You hear that? Stop it right now.

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the success of Apple stores—including placing them near Apple stores, designing them like Apple stores and setting them up to run like Apple stores—Microsoft got no love from tech or retail analysts with the move. Rumor has it the first shoppers to hit the newly opened stores in October mostly milled around until they realized they couldn’t get one of those trendy pink iPhone cases sticking out of everyone’s pockets, then left.

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DANCING WITH WOZ

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak left his dignity behind and signed up for Dancing With the Stars. He proved that Apple fan boys are legion and loyal; the fan voting kept the geeky icon, with his questionable dance skills, on the stage longer than most people thought possible.

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What might have seemed like a Quaker Oats guy look-alike contest was actually a bunch of people dressed as Benjamin Franklin protesting President Barack Obama’s economic plan. About 1,000 people showed up at San Jose’s Cesar Chavez Park on April 15 to protest the federal bailout. A few months later, a group of 125 shouting and bullying protesters got into the anti-democratic, pro-insuranceindustry spirit of things by loudly voicing their support for the pitiful state of our health-insurance system at a crowded forum called by Rep. Mike Honda at the Jewish Community Center in Los Gatos.

In the midst of a series of crises at the San Jose Police Department, the city decided to hire Chris Constantin as Independent Police Auditor—the person whose job it is to police the police. If anybody on the force or in city government recognized his name, they kept that to themselves. But as it happened, he has a brother who is a homicide detective with SJPD. Constantin smartly quit the position before he unpacked his boxes, leaving the city’s police unaudited for another year.

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Brentwood girl were both killed while attempting to “ghost ride the whip,” a.k.a. dance on top of a car as it rolls. The stunt, popularized by E-40’s hit song “Tell Me When to Go” and Mistah F.A.B.’s “Ghost Ride It,” reached its peak in 2007, with numerous videos of people performing the act making the rounds YouTube. Metro thinks ghost riding is soooo passé; all the hip kids are playing Russian Roulette now.

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WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP

In December, San Jose City Council reluctantly moved forward on most of Mayor Chuck Reed’s recommendations to introduce some semblance of ethics to city policy decisions. The mayor stepped over the line, however, for having the audacity to suggest that the South Bay Labor Council’s Bob Brownstein actually is not above the city’s lobbying ordinance when he makes his frequent trips to ghost-write memos for intellectuallychallenged council members. While he would have to declare his activities on behalf of registered lobbying group SBLC, Brownstein is fully exempted when he pulls strings on behalf of SBLC’s nonprofit clone, Working Partnerships USA.

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Proving the devastating ability of viral media to derail corporate image campaigns, Texans Wanda Zamen and Desi Cryer†declared “Hewlett Packard computers are racist” in a YouTube posting that was viewed by more than a million people in less than two weeks. The basis for their conclusion was that HPís ìfollow meî webcam discriminated by following a white woman but not a black man at a fluorescent-illuminated retail establishment. It turned out that users of the pigmented persuasions could actually make the camera move if they fiddled with backlight settings and settled for a more washed out picture. The video made for good guerilla comedy anyway.

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The city of San Jose decided that the best way to celebrate the anniversary of our great nation would be without fireworks in 2009. The sparkly sky flowers would

In a highly anticipated press conference after countless scintillating promises, the electriccar maker Tesla chose to bypass north San Jose as the site of its new factory. Company president Elon Musk, perhaps distracted by his side project, the rocketship-builder SpaceX, said he couldn’t secure the necessary venture capital after the economy tanked— although some disappointed local wags hurled blame at the Redevelopment Agency for losing the green plum.

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Bob Wilkins, host of the Bay Area’s Creature Features show in the 1970s, died in January, at the age of 76, of complications from Alzheimer’s. Unlike Elvira, Ghoulardi or other TV horror hosts, Wilkins didn’t wear a costume or make up his face. He dressed like some kind of proto-supergeek and mercilessly mocked the movies he was presenting, even picking up a TV Guide now and then to let his audience know what they were missing on other channels. His motto was “Keep America Strong! Watch Horror Films.” A whole generation of Silicon Valley geeks grew up wishing they could be that cool.

But they weren’t.

Reed Hastings, CEO of the Los Gatos– based Netflix, proposed in The New York Times that highly paid executives like himself should pony up more in taxes.

Other CEOs reread his statement for hours, trying to figure out if it was in English. Internally, the Council of Rich Guys that secretly runs the world decided that Hastings had simply been licking too many red envelopes and decided to let it go . . . this time.

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These advocates held protests over a couple of weekends trying to inform the public about the evilness of a business that would dare give its confections names like “Cereal Killer” (studded with Froot Loops), “North BiPolar” (a seasonal treat decorated with red-and-green M&Ms) or “Manic Malt” (you guessed it). Obviously, the purpose here is to mock those with real mental-health problems (?!). Of course, the protests got the store a ton of press and brought more customers—who mostly refrained from calling the protesters nuts.

not be seen in the skies above the South Bay because the city could not afford them. After 18 years of pyrotechnics over Discovery Meadow, the sky would be black— like the hearts of those who made the decision to do away with the celebration.

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Nausea, Heartburn and Indigestion Champion The hungry masses quaked this May when competitive-eating champ Joey “Jaws” Chestnut of San Jose was defeated

by Japan’s Takero Kobayashi in a sixminute P’zone scarfing contest in Culver City. Kobayashi was able to get down 5.75 P’zones, while Chestnut lost with only 5.5 in his gullet.

Chestnut managed to seize the title back from his archrival in July, however, when he beat his own word record by downing 68 franks in 10 minutes in the 2009 Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest. SJSU alum Chestnut, who first made a name for himself in a 2005 deep-fried-asparaguseating championship, also starred in an episode of the Travel Channel’s Man v.

Food this year, eating a piddly 5-pound Burritozilla from San Jose’s Iguanas.

8dndiZ J\an After years of squabbling and political machinations—and millions of tax dollars spent on task forces and EIRs—for the much-ballyhooed new minicity in Coyote Valley, the San Jose City Council finally said, “Wait . . . never mind,” to the massive development along the city’s southern border. Realizing a need to fix what they already have first, Envision San Jose 2040 Task Force officially removed Coyote Valley from future growth discussions last May. Open-space activists and environmental groups—who fought for years against the city, developers and developer-friendly unions to keep the expanse green— immediately declared victory and formed a dancing conga line.

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Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Geographic Services announced the layoff of 535 employees at its San Jose branch after its contract for the development of a space-based high-speed military communications system, as well as a scary-sounding “classified program,” was canceled by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. On the upside, it looks like the budget crisis has delayed Skynet’s ultimate takeover of the universe.

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DA COURTS TROUBLE

Dolores Carr, who was elected in 2007 as Santa Clara County’s first female District Attorney following a campaign that criticized the powers-that be in the DA’s office, has been mired in controversy ever since (largely thanks to aggressive reporting on the part of the Merc). Over the past year, her troubles deepened.

In October, it was revealed that she had intervened in a case on behalf of the client of a campaign contributor, local attorney James McManis. And back in July, she reluctantly recused herself from a case in which her husband, former police lieutenant John Carr, was paid $14,000 to act as a consultant to the family of a victim in a case she was prosecuting. The Carrs have since returned $10,300 of the money to the family in that case—which was the amount paid after the criminal case was filed. Curiously, they chose to keep the other $3,700.

Her long delay in removing herself from that case riled the prosecuting attorney, Jeffrey Rosen, who in November announced plans to run against his boss next year.

Billionaire Buys New Liver Steve Jobs had been ambiguous when he announced in January that he was taking a medical leave from his job, but promised he would return in six months.

At that time, he posted a relatively soulbaring letter allegedly explaining that a hormone imbalance was responsible for his illness. “The remedy for this nutritional problem is relatively simple and straightforward, and I’ve already begun treatment,” he wrote.

Apparently, by “hormone imbalance” he meant “complete liver failure.” In June, it was revealed that Jobs had had a liver transplant. He returned to work, and Apple’s stock took a jump—his prolonged and silent absence had started to send shivers around Silicon Valley (and, more to the point, Wall Street). While the rest of the world rejoiced at his return, the news of the transplant had prompted some critics to wonder if Jobs had gotten his organ unfairly.

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Two men were arrested in Fremont for using cars on I-680 for target practice.

More than 45 people had their cars punctured by pellets as they drove through Fremont. The two 21-year-old dudes plead guilty to using a highpowered pellet gun that shattered glass and injured one commuter who got a pellet lodged in his stomach.

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came to almost came to blows with the Galaxy’s David Beckham, a one-man multinational conglomerate who tried everything to bail on American soccer.

After the two smooched and made up, L.A. went on to the championship, only to see Donovan botch a penalty kick in the end.

Thus L.A. lost, while San Jose Earthquakes fans relished their schadenfreude.

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Black Sea Gallery Dries Up After Woolworth’s closed shop in San Jose, a much-ballyhooed House of Blues almost went in, but never actually happened. In 2005, the Redevelopment Agency determined that a furniture store would serve as a catalyst for more retail: “More and more of our empty spaces are being filled. So there’s greater continuity from a pedestrian point of view. And it’s starting to feel synergistic. There’s activity, there’s excitement. We don’t have all those gaps that feel empty and lonely and give people pause as they’re walking down the street.” Well, for four years, the store catalyzed nothing, nearby retail is actually closing, and the Black Sea is

Pegram Suggests Privatizing Porn Enforcement Earlier in the year, San Jose City Councilman Pete Constant’s 19-month-long crusade to install porn filters on all the main library’s computers was shot down by a majority on the San Jose City Council, plus SJSU. Other councilmembers believed better ways exist to protect children, and that the filters don’t accomplish anything anyway. SJSU President Jon Whitmore also wrote a letter to the council saying that the idea violated the spirit of the university’s joint operating agreement with the city, that is, the spirit of intellectual freedom and open access. As a result, Larry Pegram, leader of the Values Advocacy Council, who spearheaded the filtering, threatened to hire his own group of private contractors to “police” the libraries for potential thugs viewing porn sites.

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The California State University System initiated a ton of cutbacks, and San Jose State lost $42 million. Furlough days for faculty and staff are now being implemented, and no student applications are being accepted for the spring semester 2010. Stragglers who’ve accumulated

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The drama had grown heated when some supporters of the “Little Saigon” appellation called Nguyen, the first Vietnamese-American on the council, a “communist.” Nguyen handily defeated the recall, and now, banners declaring “Little Saigon” fly over the stretch of Story Road officially known as the “Saigon Business District.”

more than 120 credits are essentially being booted out if they aren’t graduating.

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Greens in the Red A grand jury report detailed how two San Jose municipal golf courses ended up in a $1.9 million sand trap. Los Lagos and Rancho del Pueblo, two of three public courses owned by the city, have been draining $800,000 per year from the General Fund. The grand jury found budget mismanagement, faulty feasibility reports and shoddy consulting when the course was being built, along with gross underestimates of labor costs. According to the report, the original feasibility study neglected to take into account that six other golf courses were being built in the South Bay at the same time as Los Lagos. Maybe a visit from Tiger Woods would help save two failing cityowned courses. Oops. Never mind.

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At San Jose State University this fall semester, the theme was “another week, another dorm fire and large-scale evacuation.” The school’s Joe West Hall was evacuated at least five times for

small blazes, and not all of them were the accidental results of students’ mishaps with hot plates and bongs. In fact, the University Police have determined that two of the fires, on Nov. 12 and Nov. 26, were definitely arson. They are now offering $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the firebug.

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Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tom Siebel admitted to getting stomped and gored by an African elephant last summer. Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems, said he and his guide were attacked in the Serengeti, where he broke several ribs and injured both legs. According to press reports, Siebel had to wait three hours before the radioed medical assistance team showed up and gave him treatment.

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country to approve a ban on most plastic shopping bags. Perhaps predictably, many retailers complained that the ban would be costly. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirling vortex of plastic and marine debris twice the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean, accused the City Council of being unfair to plastic and accused the council of outright “polymerism.” The ban won’t take effect until 2011.

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We All Used to Have Jobs Silicon Valley’s jobless rate climbed to the kick-in-the-nuts rate of 12 percent— the highest since 1990. We don’t really have a joke here. We’re screwed.

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the Valley Transportation Authority faces an operating deficit of $98 million over the next two years. The VTA will consider layoffs, cuts to employee benefits and reductions in bus service. On the bright side, speed walking is supposed to be great exercise, and you don’t have to put up with the bums in the back of the bus.

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Downtown clubs continued to face suspensions and permit revocations as the San Jose Police and Alcoholic Beverage Commission continued enforcement campaigns. Relations between the police and downtown entertainment community improved for a bit with the appointment of a new entertainment zone chief, Lt. Larry McGrady, and the retirement of Sgt. Brian Kneis. However, in September, McGrady was reassigned to a post on the East Side, amid talk that he had been too “business friendly.”

Yet another local music venues calls it quits. After a 14-year run, Mission Ale House closed abruptly following a sale to a group of local investors. Once a popular hangout for college students and 49ers—quarterback Jeff Garcia drank his way to a DUI there— ”Mission Male House,” as it came to be known to a sexually frustrated dating crowd, was a victim of hard times—the latest in a wave of downtown bar and restaurant closures.

Former owner Dan Doherty told Metro he’d had enough of San Jose. “I’m sick of the city and the police and the code enforcement that ran us out of business,” he said.” They don’t want small businesses—not ones that serve alcohol, anyway.”

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IT’S GOOD TO BE THE CHANCELLOR’S ASSISTANT

Dr. Bayinaah Jones, executive assistant to Dr. Rose Perez, chancellor of the San Jose Evergreen Community College District, knows that all too well. Not only has she received a pay hike of $30,000 since 2005, not only did she buy a home in San Francisco together with the chancellor (maybe to help her send emails from home), she was also appointed executive director of Institutional Effectiveness and given the rank of dean. And then there was the 10-day trip to Scotland with Perez, all paid for with college credit cards.

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THE ICEMEN COMETH—BUT DON’T DELIVERETH Rooting for the San Jose Sharks is beginning to resemble some terrible fable from Aesop, in which a hapless yet forever optimistic creature falls in love again and again only to have its heart broken in the end.

This past year, the Sharks looked as sharp as their blades during the regular season, gliding to 53 victories and 117 points, winning the President’s Cup. Then, as surely as nightmare follows daydream, the Sharks went to the playoffs and sank faster than a polar bear on an ice floe under the merciless sun of global warming.

As it had in the previous three years, ignominious defeat awaited the boys in teal, who succumbed to the Anaheim Ducks in the Conference Quarterfinals, only eking out two wins. At least in the previous three years, the team managed to cruise all the way to the semifinals. At this rate, the team will have to relocate to Sherman’s Lagoon.

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The Caravan Lounge, one of San Jose’s most celebrated dive bars and dingy music venues, almost hit the chopping block when property owners Jan Chargin and Lynn Bohnen schemed to sell the building to the Redevelopment Agency.

The RDA’s nebulous plan was to replace the 45-year-old business with an empty parking lot, in which to store forklifts for the future construction of a nearby parking garage that wasn’t going to happen anyway. Alas, the RDA discovered its own problems—the state will swipe $75 million of the agency’s budget, resulting in significant layoffs. As a result, the agency decided not to buy the Caravan.

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It ain’t over yet, but the writing is on the wall. Ten years ago, the concept of a city-subsidized market selling imported olives for $8.99 a pound across the lane from an ill-conceived “transit mall” may have made sense to somebody somewhere. But in 2009, with a new Safeway one block away, Zanotto’s can’t possibly last much longer. We hope their new Willow Glen location works out.

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rejection letters to thousands of qualified transfer students and recent high school graduates, including 4,400 students who would have entered the freshman class.

“Unfortunately it was our only alternative,” said university vice president Veril Phillips.

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Fight for the Right To Insult Santa Clara University’s Alpha Phi sorority threw a “Notorious P-H-I” event, in which partygoers, most of whom were white, stopped just short of blackface—wearing sports jerseys, bandanas and fur coats, and using makeup to black out their eyes. The winner of the Most Offensive Costume award was a shirt with the words “Ghetto Certificate” on it, which resembled a report card showing an A+ next to subjects including Criminal History, Sex Education and Physical Education.

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San Jose’s once mighty redevelopment agency cut its staff by a quarter in September, after state raids on local budgets took their toll.

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Lantern, a quirky blog run by gadfly activist James Rowen, launches a “contest” to determine who is the author of the notorious anonymous political blog, San Jose Revealed.

Justice finally was served in the 2001 killing of San Jose police officer Jeffrey Fontana. Cop killer DeShawn Campbell tried to throw a friend under the bus in February, claiming through defense attorney Edward Sousa that Rodney McNary had actually gunned down Fontana. The jury didn’t buy the story, however, and convicted Campbell in May.

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. . . So Cut Off His Hands Already Bradley Dexter, 26, was arrested and charged with stealing $9.75 worth of DJ’s tips at the Blue Pheasant club in Cupertino. Six police units and a helicopter were deployed to chase the accused petty thief, who’d been drinking Long Island ice teas. He ran out the door after he wrestled the tip jar away from a Blue Pheasant employee and was captured a quarter of a mile away.

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SJPD USE-OF-FORCE CRISIS: A TIMELINE March 18: The San Jose City Council announces the initiation of a major research initiative by the Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity (CPLE), to check claims of SJPD bias against minorities.

April 20: Chris Constantin, the SJPD’s newly named police auditor, resigns following revelation that his brother is a SJPD detective.

May 10: Daniel Pham, a 27-year-old mentally ill Vietnamese man, is shot and killed by a San Jose police officer. The police had been responding to a domestic disturbance call where Pham reportedly slashed his brother with a knife.

May 26: San Jose police refuse to release 911 tapes to the media that would clarify what they knew about Daniel Pham’s mental health in the incident where he was killed.

May 19: SJPD watchdog Raj Jayadev is mocked in a YouTube video posted by the San Jose Police Officers Association.

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Nov. 12: San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP, La Raza Lawyers, Silicon Valley De-Bug and the Asian Law Alliance, among other community groups, call for Chief Rob Davis to resign.

Nov. 19: UCLA social psychologist Phillip Goff, who helps direct the CPLE, presents his quarterly findings to the San Jose Public Safety Committee, reporting that his early findings uncovered no bias in the San Jose Police Department.

Dec. 1: City gives $97,500 in excessive force settlement to Ascension Calderon and Samuel Santana, who said they were falsely arrested and beaten by the SJPD in 2006.

Dec. 27: Merc publishes article calling out 14 individual SJPD officers for their repeated use-of-force records.

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OWNTOWN Saratogaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food scene is starting to gather some critical mass. Standouts like the Plumed Horse, Sent Sovi, Rose International Market, the Basin and Casa de Cobre have helped fuel Big Basin Wayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant renaissance, and now newcomer Hachi Ju Hachi is adding to the quality of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culinary offerings.

Hachi Ju Hachi means â&#x20AC;&#x153;88â&#x20AC;? in Japanese and refers to the brush strokes to create the kanji characters for rice. In what chef and owner Suzuki Jin takes as a stroke of fate, after naming the restaurant he was amazed to learn that the tree outside is tagged with an ID badge that bears number 88. The restaurant specializes in traditional Japanese food the likes of which most Americans have never experienced. Yes, there are some sushi and teriyaki items on the menu, but the bulk of menu is an homage to Jinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hometown of Osaka. This is simple but artfully prepared food that, for those raised on California rolls and tempura shrimp, will be like eating Japanese food for the ďŹ rst time.

The restaurant distinguishes itself from the typical American-Japanese restaurant. Located in what was formerly Luprettaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deli, Hachi Ju Hachi has been remodeled with a long, blond-wood counter that has a full view of the kitchen. There is also a scattering of tables. The walls are

painted a pale yellow and hung with Japanese art and press clippings.

The result is a clean, light (maybe too bright) space. A small room at the back of the restaurant has been turned into a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s playroom. It was designed to give Jinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4-year-old daughter a place to play, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open to all kids under 6, a real beneďŹ t for parents looking for a good meal with kids in tow. And children under 6 get a bento box meal for free On my ďŹ rst visit, I decided to turn things over to Jin and order omakase, a Japanese word that means letting the chef create a menu for you. What followed was a succession of dishes (sashimi, steamed baby bok choy with vinegary peanut sauce, braised pork belly, grilled black cod and sweet red-bean cake) that all satisďŹ ed but failed to wow. Owing to its traditional Japanese approach, most of Hachi Ju Hachiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clientele is Japanese. Perhaps chef Jin ďŹ gured since we were not Japanese he would go easy on us and not serve anything we might ďŹ nd too odd. But for anyone with a moderately adventurous appetite, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really nothing on the menu thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all that challenging to a Western palate. So on a second visit, I did the ordering, and the results were much more exciting.

I like the design of the menu: appetizers, vegetarian dishes, grilled items, stewed dishes, steamed dishes, clay-pot items and rice dishes. All

of the dishes are rather small and reasonably priced, which allows you to range all over the menu. My suggestion is to order a few items from several categories, starting with appetizers and working forward to a few rice dishes, which is the traditional order of a Japanese meal. You could go the traditional American route and order sushi and sashimi to start but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss the Osaka-style block sushi.

Rice, seaweed, vegetables, seafood and other ingredients are pressed into a wooden mold to produce beautiful, rectangular creations that are sliced into bite-size blocks. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen in Silicon Valley before and well worth checking out, especially if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seated at the counter and can watch the sushi chef make it before your eyes.

The appetizers I tried were some of the best dishes I had. The salmon sashimi rolled with a thin, pickled slice of daikon radish and sauced with a thick and rich egg yolk vinaigrette ($8) is a good indication of Jinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talents. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a simple-looking dish with just a few ingredients, but the parts add up to something delicious and memorable.

The prawns braised in ginger, sake and soy ($8) are served cold and make for another intriguing, satisfying dish.

The vegetarian dishes shine, too.

Check out the creamy, savory bean curd topped with yuzu-miso ($6) and the umami-loaded cucumber and bamboo-heart salad with barley-

studded miso ($7). The grilled salmon with rice-wine-pulp marinade ($12) and cod with citrus soy marinade ($12) are studies in whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible with very fresh ďŹ sh minimally adorned.

Concluding with a bowl of chazuke is the way to go. Chazuke is a rice porridge made from pouring green tea, dashi (a Japanese broth) and water over rice and adding various savory ingredients. I tried the spicy cod roe ($8). Most of the food at Hachi Ju Hachi is quite light, so this is a way to round things up and make sure you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave hungry.

Chef Jin is easy to spot with his gleaming, clean-shaven head, neat coat and tightly knotted tie. Watching him as he darts about on wooden geta sandals wielding traditional Japanese cooking tools and ingredients is a big part of the experience. Jinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last restaurant was Sunnyvaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kampai House, a short-lived experiment in Japanese fusion. The restaurant had moments of greatness with its artfully prepared sashimi and vegetable combinations. But much of the menu catered to American tastes with fanciful, oversize sushi rolls tarted up with squiggles of spicy mayonnaise.

But the restaurant wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t his own, and he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t follow his true interests.

At Hachi Ju Hachi, Jin seems to have found his groove at this outpost of traditional Japanese food in Saratogaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increasingly appealing restaurant row.

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HY CAN’T YOU go to a regular restaurant?” I hear it from colleagues, family and friends with some regularity. As a restaurant critic, I need dining companions, additional mouths and stomachs to help me work my way through a restaurant’s menu in order to get a representative sample of said restaurant’s repertoire. But sometimes my dining partners are uncomfortable with my choices in restaurants.

What people mean when the say “regular restaurant” is “not so ethnic, not so foreign.” Italian, Mexican, mainstream Japanese and some variations of Chinese food are exempted, because these cuisines have been here so long they’re now part of our popular cuisine. Does anyone even think of Italian food, especially the red-and-white-checkeredtablecloth, spaghetti-and-meatball school of Italian-American food, as “ethnic” anymore?

But when I suggest that we eat at an out-of-the-way Islamic-Chinese place that specializes in cumin-scented lamb and green onion pancakes or a Taiwanese restaurant with a menu of grilled organs and fermented tofu, I sometimes get a rolling of the eyes.

There’s nothing wrong with a good ol’ cheeseburger (gastronomically speaking, that is; environmentally, America’s national dish is a train wreck), but for me the most interesting and dynamic food in Silicon Valley follows the leading edge of demographic change. Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Middle Eastern, African and South Asian cuisine is where the action is.

These changes raise a fundamental question: What is a “regular restaurant” really?

Regular to whom? Some of us white folks may long for the day when more people spoke English in restaurants and the food wasn’t so “weird,” but guess what? Those days are over. The future isn’t white. It’s white, yellow, brown, black and combinations thereof.

Newly released Census Bureau figures predict that white children in the United States will become a minority in 2023, and the overall white population will follow in 2042.

When I hear figures like that, I think fewer sloppy Joes and more banh mi, less meatloaf and more chow fun.

In Silicon Valley, the change has already come. According to currently available census data, 26 percent of Santa Clara County’s population was Hispanic in 2008, and 31.2 percent Asian. Whites accounted for 38 percent. In 2000, the white population was 44 percent. I expect the 2010 census will show additional decline in the white population and increases in Hispanic and Asian populations. Maybe there’s a market in whiteheritage restaurants that celebrate tuna casserole, clam chowder and mashed potatoes?

In the meantime, you’ll find me combing the low-rent minimalls of Silicon Valley where new immigrants open restaurants to get a toehold in America and enrich the definition of what American food is.

Going out to eat isn’t what it used to be, and that’s a good thing. To my Anglo-Saxon readers, I say embrace the change. You have nothing to lose but your Wonder Bread and Hamburger Helper.

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SENSE of engagement drove most of the local museum and gallery shows in 2009, with an emphasis on thinking globally and creating locally. The phenomenon manifested itself in some creative “recycling” by artists demonstrating the need to conserve rather than exploit, while making some trenchant points about the Earth-altering changes that are looming just over the next melting iceberg.

Collage and assemblage are the premier techniques for making the old new again. Early in the year, the San Jose Museum of Art showcased the collage creations of psychedelic-era Bay Area artist Wilfried Satty, who deconstructed 19th-century books and other printed ephemera to fashion his own surreal history of the Gold Rush era. At first, his illustrations looked like factual records of events like fires and saloon brawls, but Satty often presented jarring clashes of scale by pasting large heads on small bodies or by filling a sky with an unexpected floating creature.

The de Saisset Museum’s “Tech Tools of the Trade” ranged widely in its presentation of media-driven works by Bay Area artists. Alan Rath’s New Watcher IX featured two round

metal circles connected to metal arms containing tiny video monitors that projected a pair of eyes. Such technical minimalism was enough to suggest a sculpture of an uncanny being on the verge of consciousness.

As always, the South First Fridays events continued to bring large crowds downtown for a healthy dose of art displays and happenings. The most boisterous of these came in June, when SFF joined with 01SJ for subZERO, a tech-savvy street festival.

The warm evening lent itself to some quality flaneuring through booths where artists showed off everything from a futuristic divination set to Tesla coil zappers.

“NextNew: Green” at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art concentrated on ecological themes with a generally dystopian cast.

Misako Inaoka’s small mutant animals were cobbled together from children’s toys; the menagerie depicted a scary future of desperate adaptation in the face of climate change. Several of the “NextNew” artists deployed cast-off materials: recycling as a kind of redemption. Vanessa Marsh’s sculptures of industrial wreckage were meticulously fashioned from various found materials. Michael Ryan’s installation Dead Space used motors,

wires and tubes to animate some plastic bags that seemed to respire gently with rhythmic puffs of air. The result was a Frankenstein’s monster constructed not from body parts but from consumer packaging.

Glass-blowing artists the de la Torre brothers contributed a stunning installation called La Reconquista to MACLA. Not stopping with glass, the de la Torres mixed and mismatched plastic flotsam and pop-culture detritus. Working with symbols both potent and denatured, they satirized the enterprise of globalization as practiced for 500 years. A corner of the gallery was plastered wall to ceiling with blow-up color images of a church in Oaxaca. The spires and arches of the church, digitally stitched together, were encrusted with ads for Bimbo bread, Quaker State and Coca Cola. In front of this backdrop sat a large altar, complete with goldpainted wood framing and elaborate columns. Three 3-D panels were crowded with famous and infamous historical and contemporary figures.

All time collapsed in this vision. The conquerors and the conquered flipflopped depending on one’s angle of approach. Such a perspective, forever shifting, proved both scary and exhilarating.

This show of modern MexicanAmerican visions is nicely paired with the Palo Alto Art Center’s “Treasures From the Mexican Museum: A Spirited Legacy” (running through April of the new year). This compendium from the whole range of Mexican art sparkles with exquisite examples of Aztec and Mayan creations to some terrific 20thcentury examples of folk art, most notably an amazing papier-mâché sculpture by Felipe Linares. This large bemused skeleton figure sprouts cactus spears, ferns and flowers from its bones. Birds, frogs and snakes perch and slither over its joints. It is Adam reunited with Eden.

The year ended with a fine and fertile show of pieces by 13 Stanford art profs called “From Their Studios” at the Cantor Arts Center. The 13 artists displayed a satisfyingly wide embrace of techniques, materials and artistic intentions. Buffeted by digital media and Kindles, I was especially taken by photographer Robert Dawson’s magnificent tribute to the eternal values of real (as opposed to virtual) libraries. The imposing yet contemplative classical interior of the Woburn Public Library, Woburn, Mass., conjured up a secular temple of knowledge. M

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The Year In Film

Animated films like ‘Coraline,’ ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ and ‘Up’ soared even higher than ‘Up in the Air’

By Richard von Busack

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OMPARING 1961’s The Exiles (just given the

DVD release it deserves from Milestone) to the grab-bag Native Americanisms in Avatar is either enlightening or depressing, depending on your state of mind. For that matter Mad Men on AMC was more exciting than two-thirds of the movies released this year; this season-long immersion in the world of a halfcentury ago proved breathtakingly strange even to those who were children then. With Jon Hamm’s astonishing Don Draper as a traumatized executive ready to chew his leg off rather than get caught in familial snares, Mad Men made Up in the Air look fairly soft.

George Clooney and Vera Farmiga’s performances in Up in the Air exemplify the highest kind of screen acting—they’re magic together—and that may be all that matters. Bearing almost everything Cary Grant had, Clooney displays far more eclectic tastes in material; his charm and dissatisfaction took Fantastic Mr. Fox out of the realm of kids’ films into a seriocomic midlife crisis.

But Up in the Air has led reviewers to coin the word “fauxmey,” meaning “faux” and “homey.” Do the fauxmey Midwestern wedding scenes and the robust product placement for American Airlines and Hertz count as a critique of the System? Somehow those cool

concourses eclipse the passages about what the aviation industry does to its pilots, as seen in Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story.

Frank Rich of The New York Times is interested that Up in the Air has as its “primal” background the aftereffects of a Wall Street culture that’s turning the United States into a bone yard. His point is unarguable.

The question that keeps me from embracing this movie without a care is this: Would Clooney’s Ryan Bingham have been a better person if he had had a family to come home to after a day of cutting throats to boost stocks?

Not all was escapism, though, in the real film story of 2009. This year finally showed that animation would never again be regarded as a novelty or a subset of cinema.

From the blue motion-captured aliens of Avatar to the Belle Dame of Coraline, 2009 was to animation what 1939 was to studio filmmaking.

Recently, I interviewed Mark Henn, a supervising animator on The Princess and the Frog—another ornament of the year in animation.

Rather naturally, Henn credited this trove to the Disney organization.

“There were, what, 30 animated films this year?” he commented. “But before the revival or renaissance of Disney in the 1980s, there had been just two or three animated movies a year. We’re now seeing the fruits of the efforts we had during that ’80s renaissance period.”

It’s a theory. There’s seemingly very little Disney in Coraline, although director Henry Selick worked at Disney. Fantastic Mr. Fox and the sublime A Town Called Panic, still unreleased, reflect Britain’s Aardman more than the Mouse. Whether the technological breakthrough is Disney’s A Christmas Carol or Avatar, we witnessed an epochal banquet for children and adults alike. Maybe the key is that these animated films are trying to appeal to everyone, instead of a limited, demographically select audience.

I despair when people say, “Up was cute.” I don’t think they mean “acute,” unfortunately. Yes, it has balloons and talking dogs.

And we can see the limits of the Pixar/Disney’s vision in the final imagining of the Piedmont district of Oakland as a city park with one ice cream stand—instead of a caricature of urban charm and grit. But Up, rather than Up in the Air, was the best film of 2009. It demonstrates a more wrenching understanding of the problem of staying and going. Its subject is the burdens of dreams, and it partakes of blood, gunfire and the uncanny.

The story of a man strapped to a haunted house—is that your idea of cute?

Old Carl, the true fanatic, redoubles his aims as he loses his concept of what he’s trying to preserve. Is it his memories, or the

wooden hulk that contains them?

It’s not the candy colors that make the movie a classic but rather the serious cinematic storytelling during the already famous first five to 10 minutes. Careful writing matches the two old men in their mutual obsessions and (very unusual in a film Disney had anything to do with), it suggests that it is a terrible fate to cling to a past. This is a hard lesson for animators, who are almost all terrible nostaglics.

A close second to Up was Coraline, a ravishing fairy tale told with Oregon terroir (and Grimm Brothers terror); here is a more elegant tale of the dangers of coming of age than Twilight: New Moon’s spot-that-metaphor game of deflowering equals vampirization.

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

shows that even in the age when everyone documents everyone else, it’s still possible to trust a director.

Critics have remarked of The Hurt Locker that it is amazing a woman—Kathryn Bigelow—made such a tough movie. Could a man have directed Agnès Varda’s gentle yet incisive The Beaches of Agnès? Here’s proof that selfdocumentation doesn’t have to be boring; a mirror turned to an artist can turn out to reflect a good portion of the world. And what this year was more triumphant than the display of the inner youth of an elderly lady?

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New Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Complicated (R; 118 min.) See review on page 50.

A Single Man (R; 89 min.) See review on page 49.

Reviews Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (PG) There is only one reason multiplexes across the United States are ďŹ&#x201A;ooded with prints of Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, the unnecessary sequel to an unnecessary childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ lm, and it can be summed up in one word: money. The sequel picks up a short time after the end of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Alpha chipmunk 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, 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, Alvin and the Chipmunks head back to L.A., where they end up attending high school.

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. (MV) 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

M E T R O S I L I C O N VA L L E Y DECEMBER 30, 2009-JANUARY 5, 2010 FILM 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.

Would they have taken him in if he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t 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 ďŹ rst out of compassion and later out of unqualiďŹ ed love. (MV) Broken Embraces (R; 127 min.) A 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 involves a blind ďŹ lm director from Madrid (LuĂ­s Homar). After losing his sight, the ďŹ lmmaker took the ballsy new name â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harry Caineâ&#x20AC;? and became a writer. 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. The dead tycoo n in question, a cuckolded millionaire named Ernesto Martel (JosĂŠ Luis GĂłmez), 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 working-girl name Severine.

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. 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. (RvB) Brothers (R; 110 min.) Jim Sheridanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dud remake of a 2004 Danish original. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shot in wintry New Mexico (which is doubling for Minnesota); the scenes in Afghanistan match the frozen ďŹ elds there, so the ďŹ lm is all one icy plain ďŹ lled 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), Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, and the mother of his two children,

settles down to wait for his return. But Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helicopter is shot down by the Taliban, and heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 ScherďŹ gâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s British coming-of-age ďŹ lm ends with a marathon session of tea brewing, but it has its good points. The look is coolâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;1960ish England may be more interesting than the full-blown and overexposed later â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s. Twickenham-raised Jenny (Carey

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Mulligan) is studying for Oxford when she gets picked up by David (Peter Sarsgaard), a slightly older rotter; his slightly cruel eyes and ďŹ&#x201A;at 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, Jennyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parents (Cara Seymour, Alfred Molina) relax the leash.

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spine as a deliberately drabbed-down English teacher. Nick Hornbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screenplay, from Lynn Barberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memoir, might have meant he had input

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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)

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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

Me and Orson Welles (PG-13; 114 min.) Zac Efron’s Richard is a high school student who literally wanders into a small part in Orson Welles’ late’30s production of Julius Caesar at the Mercury Theater. Dealing with the moods of the already notorious Welles, Richard is drawn by two women: one is Welles’ assistant Sonja (Claire Danes); the other is a yearning would-be writer (Zoe Kazan) who longs to get into The New Yorker. Shooting at a restored old theater in Douglas, on the Isle of Man, director Richard Linklater re-creates Welles’ New York staging of Julius Caesar in fascist blackshirt costumes.

The stage scenes are the most compelling.

Welles played Brutus, and in Welles fashion,

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he bent the heavily edited text around the noble assassin. Linklater sensibly concentrates on the graphic fist of this Caesar. Christian McKay’s version of Welles is routinely delightful and unpredictable.

Efron isn’t nearly as compelling, and 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.

Linklater’s unforced handling of the cast is a plus—as Welles’ expression has it, Linklater doesn’t push the river. (RvB) Nine (PG-13, 115 min.) Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2 (1963) is boiled down to a musical series of celebs in pushup bras. An Italian film director, Guido (Daniel Day-Lewis), has announced an ambitious new film project.

But Guido has no idea what the film is going to be, and the time to start shooting is coming up. Director Rob Marshall (Chicago) has calmed the camerawork down—he’s previously been an addict of fast cutting to make a group of mostly nonsingers and nondancers to look like lightfooted showstoppers. But only Marion Cotillard, as Guido’s much-spurned wife, delivers a number that leaves an aftereffect. As Guido’s mistress, Penélope Cruz is edible (if slightly self-conscious) sliding down a satin banister. Nicole Kidman is the pedestal girl, inserted into a strapless evening gown that makes her look like a single arrow in a quiver. Kate Hudson is the Yank journalist who only pays attention to the surfaces of Italian film—something else that can be said against this movie. What we see in Nine is not an artist in peril of his soul; what we’re really seeing in these musical fantasies is essentially the problems of a creatively blocked choreographer. (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

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by Sapphire (R; 110 min.) Much lauded, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bulldozer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1987, during some of Harlemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most suffering years. A girl of immense girth, 16-year-old Claireece (Gabourey â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gabbyâ&#x20AC;? Sidibe) makes her way through life. She has intelligence, but she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t focus, and we learn why in ďŹ&#x201A;ashback; she was serially raped by her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boyfriend. Her scathing, angry mother, Mary (Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been so overcooked.

The ďŹ lm 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 youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard, Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nique is great, but the ďŹ lm has a judgmental streak that wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quit. And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 princessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kiss can turn a frog back to a prince, but the curse turns out to work both ways, and soon the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;now both frogsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;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).

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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 animationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the kind smart people were going around saying was redundant. Here, in the villainous Shadow Man (whom I adored) is a tribute to Cab Callowayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 ďŹ&#x201A;eeing amphibians, and a spot of Tex Averyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Red in the physique and crinolines of Tianaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend and foil Lotte. Some will be enamored of Ray the Cajun ďŹ reďŹ&#x201A;y, who has a Don Marquisâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;style romance with the unobtainable; me, not so much so. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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)

The Road (R; 119 min.) Two ďŹ gures, half-starved on a perilous road to the sea, are the survivors of some thorough but indeďŹ nite holocaust. All civilization has broken down utterly; long-pig consumption is on the rise. The ďŹ lm offers a serious vision of a world without warmth, humor or sex, and only a lightweight, one thinks, would ďŹ&#x201A;ee from it. The Roadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s postapocalyptic center is a moral struggle: even as his strength wanes, Vigo Mortensenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Man tries pass on the spirit of â&#x20AC;&#x153;the good guysâ&#x20AC;? to his son. The son is called, as in Tarzan movies, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boyâ&#x20AC;? (Kodi Smit-McPhee).

My problem is that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 ďŹ lm has its moments.

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Closet Drama Colin Firth plays an unopenly gay man in early 1960s Los Angeles in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;A Single Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; HANDY WINNER of the award for Most Improved Performer of 2009 is Colin Firth, whose performance in A Single Man is a model of frosty yet sensitive acting. The ďŹ lm debut by director Tom Ford is beautiful, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of beauty that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to feel anything about.

Ford is working from Christopher Isherwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel, essential reading in the gay canon. But the designer-turned-director ďŹ lms as if heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adapting a classic; the material doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any room to take on a life of its own. Firth plays professor George Falconer, an Englishman in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, when the Brits were still a novelty in that city. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bereaved ďŹ gure; being in the closet, he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t permitted to show his sorrow after the death of his longtime male lover in an automobile accident. (In ďŹ&#x201A;ashbacks, we see the lover, played by Matthew Goode.) This single manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secret is known only to his friend Charlotte, called Charley (Julianne Moore), also a former ďŹ&#x201A;ame, who has never quite gotten over George.

Falconer keeps another secret, though; he is putting his affairs in order, with the plan of committing suicide that night. During the course of one long day, people reach out to him, offering themselves. These include Charley, who has a standing date with George for cocktails; Kenny (Nicholas Hoult), a handsome, persistent college student in a white-pink cashmere sweater.

George also encounters a stranger, a Spanish actor (or perhaps rent-a-Romeo) named Carlos (Jon Kortajarena). Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nostalgia factor is strongest in the passages in which Kenny tries to push his way through Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resistance.

This uncertain romance is classic movie stuff: attraction plus resistanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and an element of danger.

Certainly, Firth looks like a man of the era in question. This George resembles George Reeves, the actor who played Superman on 1950s television.

Firth has just that kind of attractive remoteness. This English control is contrasted with the riotous French-provincial-on-mescaline dĂŠcor of Charleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house, inhabited by Moore in hopped hair and triple-decker earrings; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a woman living on Tanqueray and gold-ďŹ ltered pink Shermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cigarettes.

Moore practically mainlined her eye shadow to get that zonked 1960s look.

Charley re-creates one of those dance sequences that were popular in art movies of the 1960s: those moments where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not supposed to be sure if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re watching a well-off white woman twisting and shouting, or if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re supposed to be watching a metaphor for the breakdown of society.

The sight of Moore reminds us of the great suspense of those passages in The Hours, dealing with her characterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imminent suicide. Despite the opera on A Single Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soundtrack, it couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be less operatic: nothing seems like a matter of life and death. Ford is good with the placement of actors on a set; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tableau-maker. The art direction is all in order, but the classic-movie looks of the ďŹ lm just add to the air of beautifully appointed early 1960s soap opera. The ďŹ ne clothes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the men.

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A SINGLE MAN (R; 89 min.), directed by Tom Ford, written by Ford and David Scearce, based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood and starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, plays valleywide. (Keep up with Richardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reviews and ďŹ lm news at movietimes.com)

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Streep Lights Nancy Meyers hews to romcom traditions in triangular affair with Streep, Baldwin and Martin N SANTA BARBARA, Jane (Meryl Streep), a successful restaurateur, hooks up with her ex-husband Jake (Alec Baldwin), despite the fact that Jake is married to a younger woman. Meanwhile, a shy, sad sack of an architect, Adam (Steve Martin), also shows some interest in her. It’s Complicated serves its core audience well—women of a certain age who wouldn’t be caught dead at Avatar. Certainly, classic-era romcom bones are visible under the expensive skin of Nancy Meyers’ newest, and she had the inspiration to make Martin into Ralph Bellamy, not to mention making Alec Baldwin into Jack Nicholson.

Commentators often note the rich staging in Meyers’ films, largely because there isn’t enough going on in the foreground. The film may flaunt chocolate croissants and croque monsieurs and in several other ways indicate French farce as its source, but it’s about as French as French’s mustard. Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give, What Women Want) puts the solidly practical, American view of what the kids will think of this affair (even though the kids are grown up).

And Meyers frets over the possibility of offending the sensibilities of the audience; Jake’s injured spouse, Agness with an extra “s,” is portrayed as a harpy. Lake Bell plays Agness, and Meyers photographs this powerful-looking woman’s teeth and jaw to make Bell appear as ruthless as Burt Lancaster.

Baldwin’s low-down comedy is delightfully uninhibited; the man will do anything for a laugh, including pants-down jokes. It’s strange though to see Meyers’ vision of what it’s like when an older woman gets romantic: a reversion to girlhood with loads of consumption of chocolate. (Even bearing in mind that eating sweets is a metaphor for sex in the movies, there’s a lot of it going on here.)

Jane’s good points are her ability to cook and to cultivate very expensive real estate, but this doesn’t involve what most of us men really like in women past 40—the wisdom, for one thing, and the lack of coquetry. The movie has its moments, including a pretty hilarious marijuana-smoking scene, but It’s Complicated is overly complicated—it lasts too long, and it ends with an audible thud.

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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) Sherlock Holmes (PG-13; 128 min.) There 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 world’s greatest detective—it also sums up the mind of a schizophrenic. Downey’s Holmes is a dandy in high Victorian regalia, smoked glasses, ascots and the kind of slanted hats worn in Oscar Wilde’s circle. But we also see another side of Holmes—a hermit crab in a dank flat, huddled under a silk dressing gown so raveled it looks shaggy as a bear skin. Mark Strong’s Lord Blackwood is apprehended

by Holmes in mid–black mass and ushered in to a well-deserved hanging. Naturally, Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan) decides that the case is closed. But it seems the grave cannot hold Blackwood. Holmes is approached by two different clients: the ever-troublesome Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) and the head of a Masons-like group, who are troubled by the specter of Blackwood. 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. (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 mile-deep 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 ex-wife’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 (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 heroine—“loving longest ... when hope is gone”—director Chris Weitz makes the mistake of letting the goods simmer until they’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: “You’re

not the first monster I’ve met.” The contrast here is f lesh vs. spirit—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 fiancee Emily (Tinsel Korey), who had her face disfigured by her werewolf lover, yet she still serves the wolfman and his buddies the muffins she bakes herself.

In Stephenie Meyer’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 she’s past 18. (RvB) Up in the Air (R; 109 min.) As the predatory Ryan Bingham, George Clooney delivers a startlingly good performance. Sadly, the film is compromised by director Jason Reitman, who shows signs of morphing into Cameron Crowe.

Bingham is a hired terminator—a man brought in to fire people; he tolerates this job with benefits of an executive life with plenty of travel. Enter a young, seemingly equally callous rival (Anna Kendrick). Having this inexperienced girl along interrupts Ryan’s regularly scheduled no-strings f lings with a fellow constant business traveler, Alex (Vera Farmiga). The acrid first half is the best part—Clooney makes us admire Ryan’s gamesmanship. The film wants us to equate two different kinds of toxicities—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 don’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. (RvB) The Young Victoria (PG; 104 min.) Unforgivably static, despite the fascinating subject: the early and often unpopular years of the longest-reigning and most ironbottomed British royal who ever lived.

As Victoria, the lovely and suitably aristocratic Emily Blunt is the best part of this story. 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 older, 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 smooths 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. The sketchy background and the slow pace bring on the familiar PBS-watcher’s narcosis. (RvB)

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I doubt that anyone who saw Stooges guitarist James Williamson come out of retirement at the Blank Club on Sept. 5 to rip through not only the legendary Raw Power album, for which he wrote all the music back in 1973, but the entire Stooges catalog, would disagree.

Williamson, who walked away from the music business to work for Sony and hadn’t been onstage in 20 years, drafted the boys in local roots band the Careless Hearts to fill in the other parts. It was their dream gig, and they knocked it out of the park. Derek See was a stunning musical double for the late Ron Asheton on guitar. At one point, See called for a moment of silence in Asheton’s honor, and it took that momentary hush to provide some perspective for the monster wall of noise that the band was rolling like a tsunami off the Blank Club stage.

The interplay between See and Williamson was the kind of voodoo the real Stooges used to

blow people’s minds with. And vocalist Paul Kimball? Wow. I don’t think anyone outside of this group that called themselves the Careless Stooges for the occasion really believed this sincere country crooner could pull off Iggy Pop’s vocals. But he made true believers out of everybody. He had everything down, from the scratchy yell to the vocal sustain to the puffed-out chest, even if he did refuse to take his shirt off. As for Williamson, well, Kimball said it best, right before the band ripped into “I Wanna Be Your Dog”: “I don’t know about you guys, but I think this Stooge is fully out of retirement.”

The phenomenal Stooges show wasn’t the Blank’s only coup this year—far from it. With the help of Channel 92.3, the club bagged some of the hottest alternative bands around. Passion Pit played there the week before its Treasure Island gig, with a great deal more intensity and power—of course, it could have been the setting of 200 people in a small club vs. thousands at an outdoor festival that made it seem like that. The Blank also

packed the house for the Bravery, Cage the Elephant, Shonen Knife and Hockey.

Just a few blocks down, the VooDoo Lounge really made a move this year in terms of big name “gets” as well. The diversity was remarkable: from the legendary Texas outlaw David Allen Coe to Mos Def, from psychobilly’s Rev. Horton Heat to the satanic death metal of Deicide to indie it band Airborne Toxic Event.

The HP Pavilion drew massive acts this year, of course. Pink had put together a trapeze act for her show. Green Day gave a little girl from the crowd her punk-rock break, winning over the crowd so completely during her lead vocal that Billie Joe knelt down in front of her and did the “We are not worthy” move, before launching her back into the crowd for a victory stage dive.

Leonard Cohen performed for more than three hours to about a dozen standing ovations. Over at Shoreline, another all-star roster, led by No Doubt, Jimmy Buffet, Adam Sandler and Monsters of

Folk, lined up for the Bridge School Benefit.

At Montalvo, blues fans got the chance of a lifetime to see Howlin’ Wolf ’s guitarist Hubert Sumlin—the man who played every groundbreaking lick on the Rocking Chair album—perform the Wolf songs he has been playing for almost 50 years.

The San Jose Civic returned with an ongoing $13 million renovation, bringing in Steely Dan to art-rock it up with its Aja album and greatest hits, and recently presenting Willie Nelson’s nonstop-greatest-hits show.

Other notables this year included homegrown indie sensations the Thermals at the Blank, Brazilian percussion genius Cyro Baptista performing for Stanford Lively Arts and Kathy Griffin riffing on Steve Wozniak at Mountain Winery.

There were also a lot of reunions this year, most recently a whole lineup’s worth of reformed South Bay bands at the VooDoo that included Preachers That Lie (1986– 95), the Curbs (1987–2001), Ill Blooded (1997–2004) and the Hairy Italians (1991–96). M

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We don’t fight, but we don’t talk, either, and he won’t do anything with me unless our son’s involved. I’m trying not to get jealous over their relationship. —Not Miserable, Not Happy This little boy isn’t in your lives because you walked out on the porch one day as a stork in a UPS outfit was dropping him off in a basket: “Gotta sign for this kid, lady.

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And soccer camp, a pricey math tutor and a college education.”

Since you aren’t 11 and sneaking cigarettes behind the elementary school dumpster when you should be in sex ed, you know very well what happens when Mr. Sperm and Miss Egg have a meet ’n’ greet. If you really, really want to prevent it, you get an IUD and bring in ye olde latex windsock for backup. But, I’m guessing you gambled that having a kid would move your relationship to the next level. And lookie here, it did: into bitterness, envy, and resentment. Your husband’s paying bigtime for his own cavalier approach to birth control: the unspoken understanding that he was up for a few hot minutes in the office supply closet, not 21 years in a suburban tract home in a pretty good school system.

Terribly sorry you aren’t getting any, and that it’s awful chilly in there, but it isn’t like you bought a new purse that didn’t quite have the pockets you need. Your right to

be all about you ended the day another human being came out of your body. Those so-called “resilient” children of parents who’ve split up have the worst outcomes across the board—in everything from school performance to emotional stability to their own relationships as adults. Unless your home life is so ugly that your kid would be better off if you divorced, you and Frosty need to “do what you need to do” to make this work the best you can.

Although he was as big a boob as you were about birth control, your best chance of thawing him a little is expressing remorse for sucking him into this situation. Give him props for what a great dad he’s been, and ask him to team up with you to do right by your kid. This isn’t about getting him from “you’re in my space” to “you’re the light of my life,” but getting him to a couples therapist so you can figure out how to be a couple of loving (or at least friendly) roommates raising a kid together. This kid, like all kids, deserves a fairy-tale childhood: parents who make him believe he was born because Mommy and Daddy loved each other sooo much!—not because they were all “Gee whiz, we had no idea that could happen from a toilet seat!”

I’ve been on and off all year with a guy who’d just ended a 10-year relationship. He always acted skittish about getting attached. After two months apart, we started seeing each other again last week. He’s suddenly saying stuff like ‘I just want to hold you.’ Is this a sign he wants a serious relationship?

—Hopeful A Florida woman sold her grilled cheese sandwich on eBay for $28,000 after spotting the Virgin Mary on it—well, how the Virgin Mary might look as played

by Charlize Theron in a trench coat and a finger wave. People manage to see whatever’s meaningful to them, whatever tells the story that makes them feel good.

You, for example, have a week of “I just

want to hold you,” and never mind that year of “I just want to hold you at arm’s length.” Yank off your hope-colored glasses, and let time tell you what’s what: whether he spent two months thinking about what you mean to him—or two seconds coming up with a cuddly spin on “With this much tequila in me, you’ll be lucky to get a firm hug.”

©2009, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 550 S. First St., San Jose, CA 95113, or email adviceamy@aol.com.

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The coming year would be an excellent time to keep such an adventure at the forefront of your awareness.

AZd ( July 23–Aug. 22): A guy who goes by the name of “Winter” has made it his goal to visit every Starbucks in the world. According to his website, he has thus far ordered drinks in 9,874 stores. His project contrasts dramatically with an acquaintance of mine who calls herself “Indian Summer.” She is in the midst of a global pilgrimage to the hundreds of sites listed in Colin Wilson’s book The Atlas of Holy Places and Sacred Sites, including cave paintings, dolmens, medicine wheels, and temples. Guess which of these two explorers I’m nominating to be one of your inspirational heroes in 2010.

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might otherwise imagine would prevent you from operating with maximum freedom. It might require you to look at the world upside-down, or work in reverse to your habitual thought patterns, but you could actually generate interesting opportunities, vital teachings, and maybe even financial gain by capitalizing on your so-called liabilities.

like so much God stuff mixed into my horoscopes.

Can you cut it out, please? I understand it’s common for the masses to believe in an Ultra Being, but you? Pul-lease. You’re smarter than that. I just can’t abide all the ‘Divine Wow’ this and ‘Cackling Goddess’ nonsense that you dispense; it doesn’t jibe with the practical, sensible, unsuperstitious, nonmushy world I hold dear.” —Sally Scorpio Dear Sally: I predict that many Scorpios will have sensational, ongoing, up-close and personal communion with the Divine Wow in 2010. You’re free, of course, to call it something else, like an unprecedented eruption of creative energy or a breakthrough in your ability to access your own higher powers. may wander farther and wider than the other signs of the zodiac, and you may get itchier when required to stay in one place too long, but you still need a sense of belonging. Whether that comes from having a certain building where you feel comfortable or a wilderness that evokes your beloved adventurousness or a tribe that gives you a sense of community, you thrive when you’re in regular touch with a homing signal that keeps you grounded. According to my analysis, 2010 will be prime time for you to find or create or renew your connection to a source that serves this purpose well.

8Veg^Xdgc (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): “I am a man of fixed

and unbending principles,” said American politician Everett Dirksen, “the first of which is to be flexible at all times.” That’s the kind of playful and resilient spirit I urge you to aspire to in 2010, Capricorn. I think you’re most likely to have a successful year if you regularly explore the joys of improvisation.

The more empirical and less theory-bound you’re willing to be, the better you’ll feel. Practicing the art of compromise doesn’t have to be galling, I promise you; it may even turn out to be more fun and educational than you imagined possible.

6fjVg^jh ( Jan. 20–Feb. 18): Who and what do you hold most dear, Aquarius? I encourage you to get clear about that. Once you do, I hope you’ll make a vow to bestow extra care and attention on them in 2010—I mean literally write out a one-page oath in which you describe the inner states you will cultivate in yourself while you’re in their presence and the specific actions you’re going to take to help them thrive. Nothing else you do will be more important to your success in 2010.

E^hXZh (Feb. 19–March 20): The philosopher Nietzsche said there was no middle ground: You either said “yes” to life or you said “no.” You either celebrated your vitality, enjoyed your power and thrived on challenges, or else you practiced constant self-denial, hemmed yourself in with deluded rationalizations and tormented yourself with indecision. I’m not so sure it’s always as clear-cut as that. While I’m usually in the “yes to life” camp,” I’ve gone through “no to life” phases, as well as some extended “maybe to life” times. What about you, Pisces? Whatever you’ve done in the past, I hope that in 2010 you will take maximum advantage of the cosmic rhythms, which will be encouraging you to give life a big, resounding, ongoing YES.

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Compostable merely means the stuff is capable of being composted. There’s no guarantee it will be, and given how much would need to go right, most likely it won’t. That’s not necessarily a problem. For years we’ve been told biodegradability is good, but you know what? A few scientists now suggest that, in some circumstances, maybe it’s not. Confused? We’re just getting started. First let’s get a couple things straight. The triangular chasing-arrows symbol with a number inside doesn’t mean the product bearing it can be recycled. As I’ve explained before, it merely indicates what type of plastic the thing’s made from. Type 7 is miscellaneous, which can’t be recycled because the materials in the mix may have different melting points and such. Plastic types 3 through 6 can theoretically be recycled but seldom are because the financial return is minimal. Second, keep in mind that composting and recycling are two different things. Nobody’s talking about reusing compostable plastic to manufacture something else; they just want it to disintegrate into something simple and harmless. The problem is, our idea of what’s harmless has changed.

Several different types of “environmentally friendly” plastics are being promoted these days. Here are three approaches thought to be commercially viable: • Biodegradable plastics break down naturally in the environment without special treatment. However, they’re mostly made from nonrenewable petrochemicals and sometimes leave toxic residues.

• Oxo-biodegradable plastics contain chemicals that act like a time bomb, breaking the plastic apart after it’s exposed to heat or sunlight.

The process works, although not quickly.

• Compostable plastics are designed to break down under “composting conditions” and support plant growth without poisoning the environment in the process. The advantage of compostable plastic is that it’s made from a renewable resource, typically cornstarch.

Probably the most common compostable plastic is polylactic acid, or PLA, which is made

by Cargill Dow, a joint venture of Dow Chemical and Cargill, the big agricultural processor. Used in everything from drink cups and water bottles

to deli trays, PLA is advertised as compostable.

However, breaking it down requires a special industrial facility that exposes the plastic to 140-degree-Fahrenheit heat for at least 10 days— something you’re not going to get by tossing it on your backyard pile of grass clippings.

But what if you have less ambition, or less manure? Then it’s best to keep PLA separate, since it might interfere with regular composting.

You could try to sending PLA trash to a dedicated PLA composting operation, if you can find one.

Realistically, though, most compostable plastic is going to wind up in a landfill with all the other trash, where it’ll last just about as long.

So what’s compostable plastic good for?

It’s made from a renewable resource, namely corn, but that doesn’t necessarily make it environmentally friendly. Writing in Scientific American in 2000, Tillman Gerngross and Steven Slater pointed out that manufacturing PLA required more fossil fuels than it takes to make most plastics, canceling out the environmental benefit. They weren’t completely down on the stuff, though, and pointed out two benefits you might not suspect. First, much of the energy needed to turn corn into plastic could be obtained by burning the stalks and leaves, known as stover, which are normally discarded. Second, they argue, we don’t really want PLA to biodegrade—just the opposite.

The big push these days is on figuring out ways to sequester carbon so it doesn’t enter the atmosphere as CO2, one of the major greenhouse gases. What better way to do that than grow corn, which sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere, then use the corn to make plastic, which can be buried underground after use?

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying this is accepted scientific advice. But it’s not out of the question that years from now the environmentally responsible thing may be to use all the plant-derived plastic packaging you can and then throw the stuff away.

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