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approximately $5 billion in city, county, transit, redevelopment and special district funds this year. This is the equivalent of the school bully who takes your kid’s lunch money. The League of California Cities is sponsoring an initiative to outlaw the state’s raiding of city and county budgets to make up for its shortfall. Be sure to sign the petition to get his on the November ballot. And vote yes in November. We need to take back our government at all levels. John Michael O’Connor, San Jose

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Jesse Lussenhop does it again. Her piece on kid layoffs was brilliant (“Moms Tell Tots: ‘You’re Fired!’� MetroNews, April 1, 2010). I happen to have a 24-year-old daughter living at home whom I’ve put to work for me. This in lieu of sending her off to work in an iron mine

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Have you heard the political radio ads that Meg Whitman has been airing on the radio? Meg, as you may not know, is running for the Republican nomination for governor of California, and she has a solution to California’s problems. Is the problem about jobs (after all, our unemployment rate is higher than the 10 percent nationwide average)? No. Certainly it is about health care, which is on everybody’s mind? Nope. Perhaps it is about schools or libraries or closing parks? Nah. The problem is single mothers with a couple of children who are on welfare. Meg’s solution is to limit the time that they can be on welfare from ďŹ ve to two years. There you have it folks, the Republican level of consciousness. Harvey Dosik, Santa Cruz

Beware the Rich Allende brought about his peaceful government in Chile by ballot, not bullet. But, you see, both Marx and Lenin taught that you’ll never get the rich to give up their riches, therefore you cannot just pass laws to get them to do it, because they won’t stand for it. But the rich will nearly always ďŹ ght and die for their riches. That’s why they ďŹ ght their wars and send their own sons to die for them! They allow the socialists to merely pass laws and vote their riches out of existence! They will use their power and wealth to buy the military and pay them to defend them. This is why so many fascist takeovers happen. Ted Rudow III, Menlo Park

Sore Site Will the Mercury News ever ďŹ x its pathetic website? Pre Media News, they had a pretty good site. Now it seems like every time I move the mouse, I cross over something that will pop up and not go away. Why do they provide multiple links to the same story? Is it to fool people into thinking they generate more content than the increasingly few stories they actually write? If newspapers are migrating to the Internet, the Merc has a lot of work to do to catch up. Reader, From SanJoseInside.com

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Dear San Jose garbage men who think my garbage cans are too close together: In the time it took you to write that note about the proximity of said garbage cans, you could’ve at least picked up my garbage, too. Now I have to wait another week while a toxic mess builds up in my backyard because my can is already full. Thanks a lot for teaching me this valuable lesson, douchebag.

Bonnie Blodgett, Saint Paul, Minn.

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with the fastest household broadband clocking in at about 6 megabits per second. The speeds most people are accustomed to are slow enough that movies have to buffer, Skype video chat drops calls and the Internet can still be an exercise in frustration. This new stuff is 1 gigabit per second—100 times as fast. Google is proposing to assist an as-yet-unknown number of cities with what some estimate to be about $50 million worth of infrastructure in order to soup up broadband to the blisteringly fast speeds that can support nextgeneration “killer apps” and true telecommuting. “It’s a very important experiment,” says Jed Kolko, an associate director and research fellow with the Public Policy Institute of California who studies the economic effects of broadband. “[It will be] very exciting to see what happens in a community— how people change their behavior, how employers’ workforces change their behaviors, and how the local government changes their behavior.”

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Fiberoptimus Prime T WAS as if Google had suddenly become the prettiest girl at the ball when it announced its Fiber for Communities experiment last month and invited cities nationwide to fill out its dance card. The prize: a shot at installing an ultra-high-speed fiber-optic broadband network. And the boys, er, municipalities, are lining up, although the project is still shrouded in mystery. From coast

that it is tossing its hat into the ring of fiber. “You betcha,” says Rick Kitson, public and environmental affairs director for the city of Cupertino. “Any elected official worth his salt knows this is important.” Important because the broadband that Google is dangling so alluringly is fast, really fast. The Federal Communications Commission defines “basic broadband” as 768 kilobits per second to 1.5 megabits per second,

Exactly what that experiment will lead to—whether Google would aggressively enter the hardware market or is simply pushing a pro-broadband agenda to get attention from the FCC—is still a mystery. Cities like Palo Alto, as well as independent service providers, found the cost of building a comprehensive fiber network that could be connected to individual homes prohibitively expensive, so Google’s offer has thousands of city officials salivating. “The barrier for fiber to the home so far is that the cost of construction has been high, and to pay for that out of a monthly service charge, they have not found the right business case for &'

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it,” says Larry Owens, manager of customer relations for Santa Clara city-owned utility Silicon Valley Power. “This is part of what Google is trying to understand.” What local cities would like to understand, and what Google is not giving away, is what the company is looking for. While cities have until March 26 to return Google’s Request for Information form, they’ve been left deciphering tea leaves on what the company’s priorities are. “Unlike a grant proposal, we don’t know if this is a digital-divide application—if they really want to build and see what it’s like to build, or really step into a network that already existed. So Google is playing their cards very, very close,” says Kitson. “We’re interested in deploying our network efficiently and quickly,” writes a Google representative. “The RFI is a first step; we plan to consult with local government organizations, as well as conduct site visits and meet with local officials, before announcing our final decisions.” Nevertheless, there are a few obvious points of interest. Both the cities of Palo Alto and Santa Clara have so-called “dark” fiber (installed but unused fiber-optic cable) available for rent from their cityowned utilities—Palo Alto has about 41 miles in its dark fiber loop and Santa Clara has 30 miles. “We would bring to the table a very robust backbone network,” says Silicon Valley Power manager Owens. “We’re the electricity utility for Santa Clara, so we have all the poles, all the easements, all under one roof.” Palo Alto also owns its own utility company. “Essentially all of the utilities are municipal utilities and are run by the city. We’re already established and organized,” says Palo Alto City Manager James Keene. He adds that the city also already has about $6 million to $7 million ready to invest in the project. While cities like Cupertino and Mountain View do not run their utilities or have their own fiber yet (what exists belongs to ISPs like Comcast and AT&T), they do have other advantages. Mountain View is, of course, the home of Google, and its own employees would benefit. The city also already has experience dealing with the company when it installed an outdoor

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WiFi network in Mountain View in 2006. “It’s been a pretty positive relationship with Google,” says Ellis Berns, Mountain View’s economic development manager. “We’ve demonstrated our ability to work with them—our local government, our councilmembers have been very responsive.” Kitson points out that Cupertino’s 11 square miles might be the perfect bite-size portion for the experiment, with an extremely tech-savvy population that had 90 percent of its households hooked up to the web way back in 2006. The other side of the coin is the socalled “digital divide,” which describes a general increase in web usage but a widening disparity in the number of low-income, rural and minority users. Although chief strategist with the city of San Jose Kim Walesh says the city already put in its own fiber conduit with “tremendous capacity” 10 years ago, she places more emphases on the diversity factor. “We obviously have suburban areas, we have areas that function like small cities, we have more urban dense areas,” she says. “We have any demographic they could want right here in San Jose.” Although Google has emphasized that the service would be competitively priced, PPIC’s Kolko points out that may not make a difference. “The cost of hardware, of a computer or related accessories, would still be a barrier even if very high-speed service is available,” he says. Google is also encouraging the city to get its citizenry involved, which has spawned the Get Wired Up San Jose!, Palo Alto Open Fiber and Nominate Cupertino for Google Fiber campaigns, which the cities hope will drum up support on social networks. This eagerness, of course, is to blame for Google/Topeka, Kan., and other such stunts, and it is priceless publicity for Google. “You have to have a Google account to nominate your city. We’re essentially recruiting for Google,” says Kitson. “[But] the reality is, it sounds very esoteric, but it is really the next generation. The real challenge for everybody is bandwidth and with this effort Google is solving not just their problem but everybody’s problem. Fiber is big, and it’s going to get bigger.” M

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Enforce Educational Equity Joseph DiSalvo

Education is the great equalizer. Even though we continue to make significant strides we have a long way to go. The new muscle being exerted by the Department of Education with enforcement of equity issues is welcome, but will increase the headaches of already resource-depleted schools and their administrations. Last Monday, Arne Duncan, the Obama Administration’s secretary of education, marched across the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma with students and civil rights activists. The event commemorated the 45th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when 600 civil rights marchers heading from Selma to Montgomery were attacked them with tear gas and Billy clubs on this bridge. Duncan said: “The struggle for equal opportunity in our nation’s schools and universities is not at an end. . . . We will work with schools and enforce laws to ensure that all children, no matter what their race, gender, disability or native origin, have a fair chance at a good future.” School leaders must look at their own data by race and gender relative to grading, honor roll, discipline, suspensions, advanced placement, etc., and review their equity and fairness issues. I am certain many would be surprised by their findings.

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Parks or Pensions? Pierluigi Oliverio

Below are a few observations from last week. Monday: Council study session on Airport Overwhelming majority of Council thought outsourcing of janitorial to save $3 million was a bad idea, so it looks like we will lay people off and consider getting rid of the night time curfew in the future. Monday Night: General Plan 2040 Task Force Meeting Although the General Plan board members were informed that the City’s budget problems are partially due to most of our land being dedicated to housing instead of jobs, the Task Force voted in favor of adding 300,000 people with a 14-11 vote. Tuesday: Council Meeting After 18 months of staff and paid consultant “research” regarding my Sept. 18, 2008 memo proposing that developers of affordable housing projects be required to pay park fees, as marketrate developers are required to, the question finally came to Council. What would Cesar Chavez do if he was alive and on the Council? Would he vote for equity when it comes to parks in San Jose for all people?

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Larry Pegram, president and co-founder of evangelical group Values Advocacy Council, today declared his candidacy for the District 9 seat on the San Jose City Council, which is being vacated by termed-out Judy Chirco. Pegram was a member of the City Council from 1974 to 1980. His most recent political venture was a short-lived run for the GOP nomination in the 11th Congressional District. Robert Cortese, the second cousin of Santa Clara County Supervisor David Cortese, announced his intention to run for the District 9 seat last Friday. Pegram and Cortese will be running against Jim Cogan, who now works as Pete Constant’s chief of staff, as well as city redevelopment officer Don Rocha, financial consultant David Cueva, and Santa Clara University student Chad Greer.

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Metro has watched Silicon Valley change dramatically since we began publishing a quarter-century ago, before mobile phones, email, social networks, music downloads, thumb drives or even fauxhawks. Going from a place that no one cared about to the center of the digital universe required a carefully executed conspiracy, and through careful investigative reporting, timed coincidentally to our 25th anniversary, we’ve peeled the lid off a cabal of 25 people who made it happen. Or maybe not. At minimum, we’ve photo-documented and commented on a couple dozen people who’ve done some interesting things, from transforming health care and transportation systems to building local culture, which ultimately is the differentiator that defines a community. And, as a bonus, we’ve thrown in some 25-year-olds (give or take a few years, because we had to cheat) who will either play a role in shaping the future, or fail miserably and go down in flames. —DAN PULCRANO Profiles by Eric Johnson, Stett Holbrook, Jessica Lussenhop, Jessica Fromm, Richard von Busack and Dan Pulcrano Photographs by Felipe Buitrago, Ray Rodriguez & Dina Scoppettone

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( David Steve :XYXcc\if B`eZ_ Each time an airborne skateboarder spins 360 degrees before landing back on the pavement, one of Steve Caballero’s contributions to popular culture gets replayed. Caballero got his start in 1976 when skateboarding was being reinvented in the parched pools of droughtplagued San Jose. Sponsored by age 15 and turned pro in 1980, he racked up championship titles and aerial ramp records throughout the 1980s, inventing and perfecting the “Caballerial” skateboard trick at Winchester Skate Park in Campbell. A member of several San Jose punk bands, he’s also been a video game character, a Vans shoe promoter and an action figure.

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Silicon Valley never had a celebrity chef until David Kinch. From the tiny Saratoga kitchen at Sent Sovi, a restaurant he opened in 1995, Kinch created an intensely personal cuisine that emphasized local farm-to-table ingredients and a Catalan twist on California cuisine. An ill-timed investment in post-dotcom Manresa in Los Gatos first proved a struggle. But the world began to notice that something was happening inside his industrial-quality kitchen and recognized him with two Michelin stars every year since 2006. Now godfather to an ecosystem of spinoffs by his protégés, the surfing chef culls ingredients from a 2-acre biodynamic farm in Ben Lomond run by owner Cynthia Sandberg.

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Héctor Tom + >XiZ X$ DZ<e\ip Dfc`eX Elected mayor at 37, Tom McEnery harnessed a financial mechanism engineered by a predecessor. He used it to transmogrify the decrepit remnants of the bustling downtown of his youth into an attractive spot for arts enthusiasts, conventioneers, concertgoers, transit riders and sports fans. Though housing and retail are still works in progress nearly three decades later, and the once-vibrant club scene has stumbled, today’s downtown is Valhalla compared to the mecca for sex workers that preceded it, a legacy to McEnery’s political skills and focused, singleminded vision.

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Héctor García-Molina teaches computer science in the Gates building on Stanford’s campus, where a system to crawl, database, index and rank web content was perfected. In the mid-’90s, two graduate students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, spent two years developing the algorithms and PageRank system that formed the foundation of Google. A teacher who mentored the founders of a company that changed the world would be considered a success by any stretch. García-Molina continues to challenge students to archive and organize information, inspiring tomorrow’s entrepreneurs to push technology’s limits.

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- Kathy David GXZbXi[ Ai% Bfc[\i Son and namesake of HewlettPackard’s co-founder, David Packard Jr. inherited a big shoes legacy. As a classics professor, and later as president of the Packard Humanities Institute, he developed software to preserve ancient inscriptions by digitizing them to a searchable database. While his sisters worked with the family foundation to save marine life and conserve threatened lands from Central California to South American rainforests, Packard Jr. brought two unique cultural resources to the downtowns of Palo Alto and San Jose. Thanks to him, the Stanford Theatre was reborn as a temple for classic film and San Jose has a gorgeous symphony and opera hall at the California Theatre.

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One of Silicon Valley’s quirkiest success stories is big-box pioneer Fry’s Electronics, which opened in Sunnyvale 25 years ago and today operates more than 30 stores. Kathy Kolder joined the three Fry brothers at the start, overseeing operational and legal matters as the executive vice president. “She was the only one who knew anything about selling,” one of the brothers admits. Privately held and headquartered in San Jose, Fry’s owns a PGA-ready golf course, is building a castle for its math institute and has been generous with local arts groups. Kolder’s command of the nuts-and-bolts is a big reason why unconventional ideas have succeeded at Fry’s.

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Billionaire John Sobrato’s name these days shows up on buildings associated with his family foundation’s recent philanthropy. Before that, real estate signs blasted his name from industrial parks that lined the valley’s expressways. Perhaps more than any developer, Sobrato sculpted the face of Silicon Valley, giving physical form to the companies of Silicon Valley and creating homes for Amdahl, Cisco, Apple, Yahoo and many others. Sobrato Development today owns and manages almost 10 million square feet of commercial space, consisting of 100 buildings, including one in downtown San Jose built in the waning days of the dotcom boom that still awaits a single corporate tenant.

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While the rest of the country tries to figure out what to do about the health-care problem, Silicon Valley is better than off than other places thanks largely to brash, bigmouthed Bob Sillen. While profithungry hospital chains abandoned inner cities and the elite flocked to hospitals in the West Valley and near Stanford, empire-building Sillen created the system for the rest of us. As head of Valley Medical Center and the Santa Clara Health and Hospital System until 2006, Sillen demanded and got financial accountability while expanding facilities and services.

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(' Rod ;`i`[fe Ji% Transporation zealot Rod Diridon served two decades as county supervisor, during which he led the charge to expand rail service and improve the county freeway system. With a train station named for him, he could rest on his laurels, but Diridon is restless and going back for a second act. He’s been a leading proponent for California’s high speed rail system. If it goes as planned, the $45 million project will begin construction in two years and be operational in seven, allowing a 50-minute commute from Fresno to the valley, and placing Los Angeles two hours away. Vegas, anyone?

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Hired to run a small business association operated from a folding table in Metro’s office, Scott Knies understood the potential. Working with a band of upstarts in their late 20s and a thirtysomething lawyer named Chuck Reed, the group cobbled together a business improvement district and launched Music in the Park. Today, the San Jose Downtown Association operates an Ice Rink and a street maintenance district and influences a wide range of downtown policies. Still at the helm, Knies was instrumental in forging better relations between his alma mater, San Jose State, and the downtown business community.

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Wiggsy (+ Bill (, Af_ejfe J`m\ijk\e The co-founder, with Ken Yeager, of the LGBT political action group BAYMEC, Wiggsy Sivertsen took a pragmatic approach to issues of interest to same-sexers. Focusing on the universal theme of fighting discrimination against all communities, the SJSU counselor says, “If we had been confrontational, we wouldn’t have gotten anywhere.” Over the past quarter century, Silicon Valley’s gay and lesbian community has gone from nearly invisible to one whose endorsement is sought by just about anyone who entertains serious hopes of getting into any prominent local political office.

The longest surviving community publisher standing, the former press secretary to Congressman Pete McCloskey launched the Palo Alto Weekly in 1979 as an alternative to the now-buried Peninsula Times Tribune daily. Bill Johnson’s weekly became the first newspaper to in the country to post all of its content for free on the World Wide Web (“I barely knew what it was,” he confesses) after a reader volunteered to build the paper’s website at no charge. Like Metro, which started six years later, the Weekly resisted the urge to sell during the free press heyday and remains owned by community investors rather than a corporate parent.

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Barry Amy (Jn\ejfe ;\Xe Barry Swenson was squeezed out of the family business, the Carl N. Swenson company, which built San Jose’s old City Hall. Left on his own, and not enjoying status as one of the Redevelopment Agency’s favored developers, Swenson nonetheless bought up downtown blocks in San Jose, as well as Santa Cruz and other California communities, rehabilitating historic buildings one by one. His restorations of the New Century Block of First Street and the De Anza Hotel, which was built by his grandfather, helped give San Jose some of its battered soul back. A longtime proponent of high-density housing, he also built downtown’s first residential tower, City Heights. Barry Swenson Builders is now one of the largest privately owned companies in the valley.

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Ken Yeager has been opening political doors since he became a trustee of San Jose Evergreen Community College District in 1992, then San Jose city councilman, a county supervisor and now president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Yeager came out of the closet in a 1984 Mercury News op-ed piece that struck back at a previous piece by a local assemblyman who called homosexuality “wrongful.” Yeager proved critics wrong by becoming the first openly gay man to hold the four offices he’s held. Winning broad respect as a thoughtful and approachable legislator, Yeager showed that competence, not sexual preference, carries the day even in a region more socially conservative than other parts of the Bay Area counties.

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Though he’s no longer with us and didn’t live or keep an office here, Bill Graham’s imprint remains to this day. Building what many artists regard as the finest outdoor facility of its class on the national touring circuit, Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View put the valley on the concert stage, from which geography-challenged bands scream “San Francisco” less frequently these days. For many years the home base of the Grateful Dead, Shoreline has brought top performers together for Neil Young’s Bridge Show for two magical decades, and the facility became an anchor of the industrial campus cluster that’s now home to Google.

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community newspaper publisher Joe Guerra entered public life as chief of staff to Councilman Frank Fiscalini and then served as Mayor Gonzales’ budget director. As both a private citizen and public service, Guerra’s had his fingers in many of the developments that have reshaped San Jose: the revitalization of Willow Glen’s Lincoln Avenue, the midtown condo boom, Santana Row, the new City Hall and just about everything else built during the Gonzales administration. He continues shaping policy today as a lobbyist.

burn. When its 15-year Cleveland co-venture partner did that in 2000, Ballet San Jose picked up the slack, giving the valley a full time professional dance company that has continued to evolve. Grooming local dancers from the ballet’s school while poaching talent from Asia, Latin America and East Coast cities has made for a company with many influences, allowing for fresh twists on classics, cultural fusions and modern experimentation. Nahat’s entrepreneurial positive energy and good fortune in attracting backers like Fry’s and the Loewenstern family have contributed the core team’s longevity.

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Mark Zuckerberg is having a good month. Last week Facebook accounted for 7 percent of U.S. Internet traffic, according to Hitwise, overtaking Google as America’s most popular website. And the Palo Altan returned to Fortune’s list as the world’s youngest billionaire (“Hey Mom, guess what?”), and a self-made one at that, edging out German Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis for the honor. If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s fourth largest. We expect to hear a lot more from King Mark and Facebook nation.

Levie was but a tender 20 when he and his friend Dylan Smith started Box.net in their dorm room. Today, it’s a business cloud-computing setup based in Palo Alto that serves about 3 million users. “Cloud-based services are about to tip, and quickly,” he wrote recently for TechCrunch. “Over the next two years, enterprise IT will follow in the footsteps of today’s early adopters and visionaries, finally embracing the Cloud and moving content, applications and processes to the web.” Levie saw cloud computing coming when the cloud was just a floating water droplet, so it’ll be fun to watch his tornado-chasing enterprises in the future.

Sam 8ckdXe )) Sam Altman started Loopt while he was a sophomore at Stanford. In the years since, he has become a champion of the location-based social networking services that are making it harder, day by day, for us to cheat on our significant others. Loopt allows its users to share their location with friends by their phones. The software can also point out restaurants frequented by friends, suggest nearby events and prep the user for a dive in the bushes should an ex come within a 1-mile perimeter. “You are your location,” the one-time Charlie Rose guest wrote recently on All Things Digital. “It’d be easy to learn about me from the neighborhood I live in, the block that I work on, the kinds of restaurants I eat lunch at.” Since his location is in our own Mountain View backyard, we look forward to years of stalking to come.

Michelle N`\ )' Wie on Wie, via her Facebook page: “I am a professional golfer just doing my thing—playing in LPGA events around the world and attending classes at Stanford University in my spare time.” And meeting President Obama and posing in Korean Vogue in her spare time. You know, whatevs. Although she’s shouldered the weight of thermospheric expectations from the golf world and the media since she was a preteen (plus total bullshit scrutiny of her clothes, might we add), the statuesque Wie just won her first LPGA tournament and still aims to break the gender barrier in the PGA. Despite all that, according to her Twitter, this week she’s just a mere mortal—taking her finals in Palo Alto.

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Arjun D\_kX (+ There hasn’t been much written about Mehta since it became public that his videogame micropayment and virtual-goods storefront company PlaySpan drummed up $6.5 million in venture capital three years ago, probably owing to the fact that its founder was, oh, you know, in sixth grade at Challenger School in San Jose. (After Venture Beat reported on the wunderkind, his father wrote in, “Arjun does not work full-time on PlaySpan business. As a gamer he has a great deal of input in PlaySpan’s product and technology, but his primary focus is on his academics—and his mom doesn’t want much media attention for him.”) Nevertheless, once the young lad has grown some chest hair we’re sure to be hearing more about him.

Tawnya Blq`X )This San Jose State alum’s blend of ballet, modern and jazz dance with hip-hop and contemporary influence earned her a spot as one of 10 finalists for the Capezio Award for Choreographic Excellence. The owner of Nor Cal Dance Arts took her troupe, Rugged, to compete in New York City for the top prize. They didn’t win, but they continue to perform regularly in the San Jose area, making it a cinch to see some very innovative dance up close and personal, before they blow up.

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Who would have thought it was possible to start a farm under a freeway on the East Side? Mark Anthony Medeiros and Amie Frisch, that’s who. The former San Jose State University students are the co-founders of the urban farming project Veggielution. Aiming to empower San Jose by creating a sustainable local food system, the duo have been growing arugula, beets, broccoli, chard and radishes on a little oneacre parcel at Emma Prusch Park. Selling the fresh produce to the public at their adjacent produce stand, Veggielution has been so successful that it was even honored by San Jose Councilmember Nora Campos at Mayor Chuck Reed’s recent State of the City Address.

Eric 9\ccX[feeX )* When 23-year-old Eric Belladonna founded the Workout last year, he just wanted a cool place for him and his DJ friends to get dressed up and dance like crazy. Little did they know that their little monthly electro dance party at The Cellar would become one of the hippest scenes in downtown San Jose’s nightlife right now. Having expanded the Workout to the first and third Fridays of every month because of demand, Belladonna recently launched another party at the Back Bar on South Market Street. Titled “Wasteland,” it’s the only 18-and-over electro dance event in the South Bay right now. We see this one getting even hotter than the Workout.

Evan Cfn ), He’s young, he’s handsome, he’s gay, he’s Asian, he’s Harvard educated—and for all of those reasons, he gained nationwide attention when he became the mayor of Campbell last November. The San Jose State University graduate has been trailblazing ever since he was first elected to the Campbell City Council in 2006—San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom even proclaimed June 5, 2006, “Evan Low Day” when he visited the city to march in the Gay Pride parade. And, at only age 26, we expect to see much more from this new South Bay leader.

Eric “Venom” M\ek`d`^c`X ), As the lead singer and guitarist of local poppunk trio 5606, Eric “Venom” Ventimiglia has got the punk rock star shtick down: Hardcore alias? Check. Skintight skinny jeans and leather jacket? Check. Bleached, spiked, skunked-out hair? Check. But the buzz that 25-year-old Ventimiglia and his band mates Kevin Kash and Andy Warpath have been generating around the small but tight-knit local circuit is about more than his good looks, and seems to be spreading. 5606 is currently on a statewide tour playing the likes of the Hollywood Roxy and 2010 Warped Tour. Still, their many Bay Area fans will be glad to hear they’ll be making it back to Saratoga Rec Center on March 27 for one of their signature, mosh-heavy all-ages shows. Rock on.

Adrian Fc`m\i )) The undisputed star of the San Jose State men’s basketball team, Adrian Oliver is an explosive scoring threat—the first one of those at SJSU in some time. At 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, Oliver looks boyish compared to some of the giants in college basketball, but don’t be fooled. At Modesto Christian High School, he played on the varsity team during his freshman year. By his senior year, Oliver became one of the most sought-after high school recruits for 2006, ranked No. 11 in California. The talented 22-year-old guard was selected for the All-Western Athletic Conference first team this month, after leading the WAC in scoring with a 22.5 points per game average this season. He scored a career-high 39 points in SJSU’s Jan. 21 win against Louisiana Tech. With all the buzz this young man is generating, and the fact that he’s pretty much carried the University’s lagging basketball team since he transferred to State from the University of Washington two years ago, Oliver has a crack at being the first player from San Jose to get into the NBA.

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Ever had a laggard roommate stiff you on his or her share of the utility bill? Social payments may just be the answer. Bill Clerico and Richard Aberman started a webbased service that can be deployed for anything from chipping in on a pizza to planning a bachelorette party in Playa del Carmen. If that doesn’t sound like much of a business, talk to the venture capitalists who’ve thrown $2 million at WePay.com while it’s still in a one-room office (once occupied by Facebook) with a 10-speed, a boxer dog purchased on Craigslist and a Foosball game. One of the investors is Max Levchin, of Paypal fame, who knows something about electronic payment systems. Aberman, who just turned 25, is a Boston College grad who dropped out of law school to team up with Clerico, 24, who was doing M&A work. “We were sharing a lot of purchases,” Bill says. “We had a ski house. Rich was planning a party It just seemed to make sense.”

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HERE ARE a few things that everybody claims to know. Everybody thinks they know the right way to tend a ďŹ re. Everybody says they know what’s wrong with the world today. And everybody strongly believes they know good barbecue when they taste it. I ďŹ nd that last notion to be particularly strong. As a nation of immigrants, America doesn’t have a welldeďŹ ned national cuisine or dish. Hot dogs? Bacon cheeseburgers? Tuna casserole? What we do have are a great many regional cuisines, and one of the stars of regional American food is barbecue. Texas, North Carolina, St. Louis and even Santa Maria, Calif., all lay claim to different styles and tastes of slowsmoked meats. Taken together, barbecue and the culture that surrounds it make for the most American of American foods. As such, everyone has something to say about it. Alas, barbecue is not Silicon Valley’s strong suit, but if you know where to look you can ďŹ nd pockets of smoky goodness. I had been driving past Sam’s BBQ in San Jose for years but never stopped in until just recently. Open since 1992,

Sam’s gets points for longevity if nothing else. But in barbecuechallenged Silicon Valley, I’m happy to report that it also gets points for its ’cue, especially the ribs and brisket. First a little history. Sam Carlino and Sam Carlino Jr. opened the restaurant in 1992. Sam senior owned San Jose’s Time Market, an independent grocery store and meat market that opened in 1950. Sam junior started working in the market when he was 8 and helped his dad make Italian sausage. He went on to become a journeyman meat cutter for Zanotto’s Market. Sam Sr. sold his share of Time Marketto his brother in 1979. The opening of Sam’s BBQ was the father and son’s second joint venture. The walls of Sam’s are covered with Wild West bric-a-brac and knickknacks that give the restaurant an old-timey feel. I sat in the crowded dining room during my three visits, but the covered (and well-heated) patio off to the side is an appealing option, too. The best bets at Sam’s are the baby back pork ribs ($15.95 half-rack/$23.95) and the brisket ($11.95). The ribs steal the show.

Marinated and smoked over oak, they’re beautifully caramelized and crusty outside and supremely tender and moist inside. Sam’s orders extra-meaty ribs, and that they are. The brisket is a standout, too. Smoked for 14 hours, the thick slices of beef are rendered tender and delicious. The crispy, jerkylike ends are my favorite part. The quarter-inch pink smoke ring is a testament to the beef ’s hours in the smoke. I’ve been trying in vain to ďŹ nd a pulled-pork sandwich ($7.95) comparable to the ones I had in North Carolina years ago, but my search goes on. Sam’s version is good and made with tangy shredded pork shoulder, but it lacks the depth of avor that I remember. And for me, the absence of a sturdy, toasted bun and pairing with vinegary cole slaw further held the sandwich back. Although the meaty portion of pork shoulder ($11.99) was wonderfully tender, I found the avor to be a little spare. Barbecue should stand on its own without the addition of sauce, but I needed a generous douse of sauce to punch up the avor. Speaking of the sauce, Sam’s is really good, an artful blend

of sweet and vinegary tang. Chicken is my least-favorite barbecue dish. Chicken has little fat and can’t spend too long in a barbecue lest it dry out. Better to go with beef or pork. But Sam’s salsa chicken turns out well. Marinated and cooked in tomato salsa, the chicken ($10.95/$14.95) is beautifully bronzed and moist with a great smoke avor. Side dishes, especially the chili and beans, are particularly good at Sam’s. There’s a strong Texas streak to Sam’s barbecue, and that’s on display in the all-meat chili. As any Texan will tell you, real chili is made with just slow-cooked meat. No beans. But bean fans are well taken care of with the rich and meaty chili beans. Desserts aren’t made in-house and are not particularly memorable, but the spiced sweet-potato pie ($4.25) is a winner. Sam’s also gets high marks for its short but ďŹ ne list of local wines: Cooper Garrod and Mann Cellars. You could do much worse than a glass of Mann’s syrah and a plate of brisket or ribs and a side of chili beans, with a sweetpotato pie waiting in the wings.

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Having worked in so many places and meeting so many different kids of people is always inspiring. But it’s all about the ingredients really. Like, a really ripe mango or a really good strawberry catches your eye, and you want to eat it, but then instead, your brain says, what can I do with it? What’s on the menu now that you’re particularly excited about?

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Where do you eat on your days off?

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Foie gras. A pound of foie gras. That would be the best. I would die a very happy man. Jessica Salans

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RE INDIE film producers actually calling for more and more and yet ever more unplanned-pregnancy movies? More importantly, are audiences? The People I’ve Slept With (showing March 20, 4:45pm)—one of the salient features at the Asian American Film Festival, coming to Camera 12 in San Jose for the weekend—is produced by 408 Films, a consortium of investors based in Silicon Valley. Apparently, Juno whetted their appetites. The People I’ve Slept With has a spicy title to conceal a pitiless bait-and-switch trick. Angela (Anna Karin Cheung) has a problem, and it’s not that she’s gotta have it, but rather that she’s gestating “Tiny,” as she deems the child-not-a-choice in her belly. And she’s been so eager in the beaver that she can’t remember who impregnated her. Three walking stereotypes are among the possible honorees: Long Duk Dongish nerd, freaky-deaky white boy and Mr. Asian Perfect. At times, local director Quentin Lee recalls his past as a polymorphously perverse director (Shopping for Fangs). The result is TV-like material that’s slower in pace yet only slightly more scandalous in material. But not by much; Two and a Half Men is better for raunch, and Sex and the City for after-raunch dish. The twin morals: first, babies are the greatest, planned or unplanned, they really firm up your life. Second, people with epicanthic folds like to have crazy sex too. As for the first,

we get it rather a lot. As for the latter: I’m sorry, Annabel Chong, you labored in vain. Aoki (March 30, 3pm) has a fascinating subject: Richard Aoki was an Asian American member of the Black Panthers, an oldtime battler who lived one street down from Huey Newton in west Oakland. Radicalized by his family’s internment at Topaz Camp, Aoki grew into a scrapper and a military vet; defying the model-minority stereotype, he was an ardent Communist, the kind that lionized the older Kim Il-sung of Korea. I’m looking forward to an encounter with Diane Fujino’s biography of the man, because Aoki is so roughly assembled it’s nearly unwatchable. News of Aoki’s death last year at the beginning of the film is seemingly exculpatory to the state of this film. Still, directors Ben Wang and Mike Cheng could really build on this research and come up with something like A People’s History of Oakland someday. State of Aloha (March 21, 2:15pm) is your typical of-two-minds filmwatching experience. On the one hand, they should show it on every Honolulu-bound jet. On the other hand, the repetitious, too much heat, not enough light historicizing would make one claw at the emergency exit hatch. Impressionism doesn’t hit one in the chest as hard as it might in today’s news world where everything that bleeds leads. More affecting is the careful spelling out of that litany of tremendous

injustice, imperialism and racism: the measured studying of the plundering of a paradise by greedy, golf-course-building ravagers. The facts have more intellectual effect and, ultimately, punch. You don’t have to be Indonesian to understand The Forbidden Door (March 21; 7pm) but it helps: this studiously Lynchian thriller about a deranged artist probably benefits from more code reading. I liked its malicious beginning: a glossy gallery full of Las Vegasy sculptures and a rich swine being groomed to buy while drawling that the sales pitch was “cat shit” anyway. From there come hints of impotence, some secret multiple abortion trauma (again with the pregnancy) and a Bluebeard-like babe with a locked chamber and a secret club with Room 42651378 in it, where forbidden viewing is on tap for the privileged: closed-circuit symbolist dom-porn of the stripe of Daniel Clowes’ Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. Director Joko Anwar’s rephrase of Jakarta as a bland Yankee consumer paradise may be the opening shot of a new wave of I-horror, to go with J-horror and K-horror. This may be the plot all along (more sense to that plot than the one that’s onscreen). The Message (March 21, 9pm), a very slick, torture-scene-laden findthe-mole game in the dungeon of the puppet government of Taiwan during World War II, is phrased through the lens of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. This late

in the game, it’s nice to see someone doing a Peter Lorre imitation (in the form of the giggling evilacupuncturist “Mr. Six”), yet one feels that learning about this part of World War II via this movie is like trying to study Nazism by watching Inglourious Basterds. I must be getting more mainstream, because Miwa Nishikawa’s mysteriousness in Dear Doctor (March 20, noon) impressed me more than any of the above. In an unusually lush remote corner of rural Japan, the beloved local physician vanishes. His own secret becomes apparent through investigation. In this green, neglected corner of Japan, young people leave to get work, elders are neglected by the system and the physician is looked at as a local deity. Dear Doctor has the believability of a true story; the limits of ordinary goodwill are clear in this Bill Forsyth–like drama. A highlight is Kimiko Yo as the calm, tough nurse and moral center; an edge of stress in her performance keep the movie from going feel-good, although the ending is rather sweet. The superb compositions and visual storytelling take the slickness out of what could have been a soap opera. THE ASIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL screens this weekend at Camera 12 in San Jose. The opening reception takes place Friday (March 19) at 9pm at the San Jose Museum of Art, following a screening of AU REVOIR TAIPEI at 7pm at Camera 12.

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New Asian American Film Festival See story on page 50. Also, read a web-only review of Like You Know Everything at www .metroactive.com. (Plays this weekend at Camera 12 in San Jose.) The Bounty Hunter (PG-13; 110 min.) A romcom with Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler. (Opens Mar 19.) Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG; 120 min.) A live-action adaptation of the graphic novel by Jeff Kinney about life in middle school. Stars Zachary Gordon. (Opens Mar 19.)

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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Unrated; 152 min.) See review at left. (Opens Mar 19 at Camera 7 in Campbell, Camera 3 in San Jose and the Guild in Menlo Park.)

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TIEG LARSSON’S books are the hottest thing going in mysteries right now. It’s hard to imagine a more perfect set of circumstances coming along to turn three Swedish novels—which Larsson is said to have originally written for his own entertainment, not for publication—into a worldwide phenomenon. First, there’s their mystique: like his journalist character Mikael Blomkvist, Larsson was a controversial and uncompromising reporter himself, and the books provide some insight into his own, now larger-than-life legend. Second, his tragic death from a heart attack in 2004 (though many still believe he was murdered by his right-wing enemies) ensured that his planned series of 10 books would be cut short at three, leaving readers hungry for the last installment of the “Millennium Trilogy,â€? which ďŹ nally arrives in the United States this year. Last is the brilliant marketing of this series. In the United States, the ďŹ rst book’s title was changed from the more-apt-but-less-appetizing original The Man Who Hated Women to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and sold like wildďŹ re. So this new ďŹ lm version couldn’t have come at a better time. Despite the fact that it was made in Sweden and forces English-speakers to deal with subtitles, it has a huge built-in audience waiting for it. And thankfully, director Niels Arden Oplev and screenwriters Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg recognized that more important than any of the hype swirling around the book is the protagonist at its center, Lisbeth Salander. She is the girl with the dragon tattoo, and she’s maybe the best ďŹ ctional character to come around yet this century. Casting for this computerhacking, nonstop-ass-kicking ice storm of a young woman couldn’t have been easy, but 20-year-old Swedish actress Noomi Rapace is absolutely incredible in her ability to bring Lisbeth to life. She is a force of nature, pure and simple. The ďŹ lm follows the book faithfully, as Lisbeth is hired to dig up dirt on Mikael (played gently by Michael Nyqvist), but ends up helping him investigate the disappearance many years ago of Harriet, heiress to a creepy, feuding family of millionaires. Though it may use the U.S. title, the movie doesn’t shy away from the book’s unrelenting critique of the violence that society allows men to perpetuate against women, and though the scenes with certain unsavory characters may have been cut down in number, they are still surprisingly graphic. Luckily, Lisbeth is womankind’s ultimate revenge fantasy come true—sooner or later, her boots are gonna walk all over absolutely everyone. In the screening I saw at Cinequest, the crowd was cheering her exploits. That bodes well for the second and third ďŹ lms in the series, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, which were ďŹ nished last year and have already been released internationally. Steve Palopoli THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (Unrated; 152 min.), directed by Niels Arden Opley, written by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg, based on the novel by Stieg Larsson, photographed by Jens Fischer and Eric Kress and starring Noomi Rapace, opens March 19 at Camera 3 in San Jose, Camera 7 in Campbell and the Guild in Menlo Park.

amusement park Playland at the Beach. Several of the subjects interviewed in Tom Wyrsch’s wonderful documentary recall how terrifying her banshee howl could be. Not as terrifying, however, as the Diving Bell ride, which plunged thrill seekers into a tank of water and then shot them up a hydraulic shaft. Seems that in its later years, the diving chamber leaked copiously and its windows were covered with a sinister layer of algae. Whitney’s Playland, located at the farthest western verge of San Francisco by Ocean Beach and just below the Sutro Baths, opened in 1928 and lasted until 1972. Wyrsch’s ďŹ lm lovingly re-creates some of the spectacle of this 365-day-a-year carnival with old pictures and ďŹ lm footage plus lots of interviews, many of them with members of a group dedicated to maintaining a museum of Playland relics. Among many bits of fascinating trivia is the revelation that some of Playland’s best minds were whisked away by a guy named Disney to build an even bigger and better place called Disneyland. The only oversight is the failure to mention that at the end of The Lady From Shanghai, Orson Welles’ character is seen walking past the Funhouse at Playland. (Plays Mar 17 at 7 and 9:15pm and Mar 20 at noon at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco; http://balboamovies.com) (MSG) Repo Men (R; 111 min.) Jude Law and Forest Whitaker star in a futuristic thriller about body parts. (Opens Mar 19.) The Runaways (R; 109 min.) See review on page 56.

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Revivals The Bad Sleep Well/Throne of Blood (1960/1957) Donald Richie claims that the title would translate better as “The Worse You Are, the Better You Sleep.” Cinema has offered us some bizarre marriage ceremonies, but the one offered up here maybe the strangest. Corrupt new money is trying to clothe itself as respectable old money. In immaculate TohoScope and black-and-white, some reporters are snarling as they watch the happy couple: the club-footed princess of a wealthy firm and her on-the-make husband (Toshiro Mifune). Executives on the table of honor—sweating, disgraced board members in tuxedoes—have the perfect faces for mug shots (the police are also there, keeping an eye on the ceremony). Finally comes a toast from the bride’s ne’er-do-well brother, who is already punishing the champagne: “I am useless, but I wish them well.” In short, the place is thick with chickens coming home to roost. Then comes the pièce de résistance: an anonymously donated cake in the shape of a grand 10-story hotel—an elaborate pastry meant to remind the gathering that they have plenty of unfinished business. It’s revenge not just served cold but with cream frosting. Kurosawa’s epic paraphrase of Hamlet is, like its source, tragedy; and expressed the same way the last great film version of Hamlet expressed it in 1989: meet the new boss, same as, etc. BILLED WITH Throne of Blood. Macbeth is transplanted to Japan as a Noh-influenced drama of screaming flutes and clashing woodblocks. This version, theatrical and as heavily stylized as avant-garde Russian plays of the 1920s, brings out the fantasy medieval side in costuming and gesture. Still, the blasted heath, blowing ashes, Mifune’s staring lord (and his mincing dissembling lady, memorably played by Isuzu Yamada) are Shakespeare-worthy even without the words. (Plays Mar 17-19 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) The Idiot/The Lower Depths (1951/1957) Dostoyevsky done Japanese: “He was heavy enough, and now I was under him—I knew how those enormous sumo wrestlers feel,” says Akira Kurosawa. Mangled by the producers, this rarely revived film has moments of overpowering soulfulness. BILLED WITH The Lower Depths, Kurosawa’s adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s play set in the complete upheaval of the Edo era, recalled as a time of crime, squalor and public liberty; Toshiro Mifune plays a ground-down but dashing thief in the slums. (Plays Mar 24-26 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) Kagemusha/Sanjuro (1980/1962) In the late 1500s in Japan, a condemned thief is granted parole as long as he impersonates a warlord. Kurosawa’s troubled epic Kagemusha is a Kipling-style tale of honor that goes beyond birth; his intention, as Welles had in Chimes at Midnight, was to show the end of chivalry in the face of the modern world. BILLED WITH Sanjuro. “The best sword stays in its scabbard,” is one telling line from this sequel to Yojimbo, with the tattered samurai with no name (Toshiro Mifune) returning to whip some irresolute soldiers into shape. Fortunately, the nobles learn to see the sword beyond the fraying sheath. (Plays Mar 20-23 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB) Niles Film Museum Mar 20, 7:30pm. A celebration of the birthday of Broncho Billy Anderson, a world-renowned cowboy star of the silent age, who worked in historic Niles. On view are the films The Son of a Gun (1918), The Making of Broncho Billy (1913) and Shootin’ Mad (1918). Judy Rosenberg at the piano. Mar 21, 4pm: May I Be Frank, a documentary “about sex, drugs and transformation” in which a depressed San Franciscan is redeemed by regular colonics

and a vegan diet via the Café Gratitude, where gratitude is an attitude and that’s no platitude. Sam Levin’s East Bay Express article on the post-EST philosophy practiced thereabouts is something that the management was less than grateful about . . . (Plays Mar 20-21 in Fremont at the Edison Theatre, 37417 Niles Blvd, www. nilesfilmmuseum.org.) (RvB)

Reviews Ajami (Unrated; 120 min.) Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani’s convincing yet televisionistic film about the bad side of Tel Aviv. The names are changed, but the problems are the same as our own ghettos: illegal immigrants scraping by, horrible hospital bills, inexpert gunmen leaving their victims paralyzed, romance that isn’t allowed to cross ethnic boundaries. Young Nasri (Fouad Habash) sketches the murders taking place around him in a graphic novel. Nasri’s uncle plugged a Bedouin gangster who was demanding protection money. Retaliation was swift. Nasri’s 19-year-old brother, Omar (Shahir Kabaha), is now the family’s oldest, hiding until he can beg for help from the Christian Arab fixer Abu Elias (Youssef Sahwani). Old Elias has a sweet daughter, Hadir (Ranin Karim), who

is deeply in love with Omar. Engrossing instances, throughout, but this darting style never gives the cast much of a chance. (RvB) Alice in Wonderland (PG; 109 min.) The Alice-like Coraline by Henry Selick, with its tiny locked chambers and prowling sardonic cat, still feels like magic. Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is more of a fashion show and a forced march. Screenwriter Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast) is sensibly trying to do a Wicked on the famous tale, complete with rivalry between witchy queens: the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) and the ghostly yet sugary White Queen (Anne Hathaway). The now 19-year-old Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is meant to quest for good in “Underland,” a place she misremembered as Wonderland. A touch of romance arises between her and the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp). Depp’s marvelous flexibility comes through clearly, through the unsettling makeup. I’m a helpless Burton fan, but the colors here aren’t state of the art, and compared to Coraline’s solitude and thoughtfulness the finale turns out to be familiar dragon slaying; ultimately, it’s not just Alice who has been here before. (RvB) Art of the Steal (Unrated; 101 min.) The post–Errol Morris documentary at its technical best

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and ideological worst. The ďŹ lm moves beautifully, even if it’s a trope-trove (the typewriter keys slamming in tight closeup against paper, the churning wheels of magnetic tape). The level of fury runs high in this surprising story about the Barnes Foundation, a small gallery near downtown Philadelphia. The museum is the legacy of Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a physician and self-made millionaire who spent his money on one of the most important private collections of Impressionist and postImpressionist art in the world. Barnes he willed the collection to be taken care of by a small college. The trustees were no match for the pressure to deal with (and relocate) what became an astonishing $30 billion worth of paintings. The Art of the Steal makes and overmakes its case; it’s well built, but it has the soul of an attack ad. (RvB) Crazy Heart (R; 111 min.) Jeff Bridges is the draw in Scott Cooper’s typical softball Sundancian exercise. It’s a belly-baring role for this terriďŹ c actor, playing Bad Blake, a morose satyr of an outlaw musician. He travels via an ancient 1978 Chevy Suburban and slaps together sets with pickup bands. In his few sober moments, Blake lives with the humiliation of having been commercially surpassed by a country superstar named Billy Sweet (Colin Farrell), who was once one of his backup musicians. Touring in Santa Fe, Bad meets a newspaper reporter named Jean (Maggie Gyllenhaal), who lets Bad pick her up. Despite the credited input by T-Bone Burnett, none of the tunes are really memorable, but you sink into them anyway, and the encircling camera gives the scenes some rhythm. What integrity Crazy Heart doesn’t borrow from Bridges it picks up from the glorious wide-open-spaces cinematography by Barry Markowitz (Sling Blade). (RvB) The Ghost Writer (PG-13, 128 min.) Roman Polanski’s freezer-burned comedy/thriller concerns former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, excuse me, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), who has settled in a ghoulish modernist bunker of a seaside house to ďŹ nish up his memoirs. The witty script has it that the PM got a $10 million advance for an absolutely unpublishable book. Enter a hired writer named the Ghost (Ewan McGregor). Meanwhile, the PM’s sexy shrew of a wife, Ruth (Olivia Williams), noses out her

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husband’s affair with his assistant (Kim Cattrall). One admires how much Polanski got out of two TV hobgoblins like Cattrall and Jim Belushi, as a swinish publisher who conducts himself like Lex Luthor. The surprise in this plot is revealed through some expertly played Boston Brahmin threat by Tom Wilkinson. Yet The Ghost Writer is a typical old director’s movie: slow, morbid, never quite sexy enough and full of self-reference. Trapping us in the house is a classic maneuver of Polanski; leaving us there is something like an act of forgetfulness. (RvB) Green Zone (R; 115 min.) As U.S. Army Chief Warrant OfďŹ cer Roy Miller, Matt Damon roars around Baghdad in March 2003 looking for WMD sites. His instructions were vetted by a source called “Magellan,â€? whose info is ďŹ ltered through a State Department wonk (Greg Kinnear). Damon locks eyes with a CIA agent (Brendan Gleeson) who is entertaining similar doubts about the mission. In the ďŹ eld, Miller trails a Saddamite general, Al Rawi (Yigal Naor). Watching Miller watch Al Rawi is a black ops ďŹ gure (Jason Isaacs). Director Paul Greengrass executes Green Zone with the same visual technique as in his two Bourne movies. The problem is that it’s almost impossible to reconcile a depressing war with smash-mouth action, at least while the war still rages. (RvB) The Hurt Locker (R; 131 min.) The soldiers of Bravo Company are stationed in Baghdad for the 2004 ďŹ ghting. Central to the ďŹ lm is the mystery of Staff Sgt. James (Jeremy Renner) who comes in to replace a slaughtered demolition expert. James’ risktaking amazes and angers his subordinate, Sgt. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie). The suspenseful, grimly funny script is by coproducer Mark Boal. Renner is outstanding as the inhumanly brave demolition expert. Director Kathryn Bigelow does what Howard Hawks would do: she ďŹ nds the cooperation between men of great competence in a killing trade, rather than pumping up rivalry. Bigelow breaks through the sense of anonymity that characterizes most Iraq war movies, where helmeted men move alike and talk the same terse slang. However, The Hurt Locker takes an essentially knightly view of the war, of men suiting up and closing their visors. Thus this is the ďŹ rst Iraq ďŹ lm an American audience can feel good about. (RvB)

The Most Dangerous Man in America (Unrated; 92 min.) Directors Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith tell how former Marine and game theorist Daniel Ellsberg became dangerous when he copied the Pentagon Papers, a secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg tried to leak them to the Senate; the solons showed little desire to hold the hot potato. The spud in question passed to The New York Times. When the papers were published, Ellsberg became a fugitive, persecuted by a vengeful President Nixon. Not overly nostalgic for the smell of vintage teargas, for a change, and Ellsberg shows he’s still on the front lines of protest. (RvB) North Face (Unrated; 121 min.) Philipp StĂślzl’s direction is stodgy, but the true story has some punch. Two German soldiers and mountaineers go to Switzerland for the fateful scaling of the Eiger’s North Face in the 1930s. Benno FĂźrmann plays Toni, Viggo Mortensenian in seriousness; Florian Lukas is Andi, the more playful one. Johanna Wokalek plays Luisa, who works for a newspaper under the toxic Nazi mentoring of Berlin (hiss) editor Henry (Ulrich Tukur). She will be the photographer when Andi and Toni attack the mountain: several thousand sheer feet of crumbly rock and slippery ice. The ordeal itself is all about incremental things: lives depending on a decision to leave a rope in place or not, or the chance of a July snowstorm. Christian Kolonovitz’s clumsy orchestral soundtrack out-avalanches the avalanche. (RvB) A Prophet (R; 155 min.) Jacques Audiard’s harrowing story of a 19-year-old whose life is redeďŹ ned by a six-year stint in a French prison has been compared in some corners to The Godfather. Malik (Tahar Rahim) begins his journey as a fresh-faced petty criminal, a sheep condemned to live among the wolves. He loses what remains of his innocence in short order: Ordered by the Corsican mobster Luciani (Niels Arestrup) to murder a fellow Arab or suffer an equally gruesome fate himself, Malik reluctantly learns to kill. Over time, Malik shrewdly injects himself into the prison drug trade. He works his way up the jailhouse food chain, climbing over the corpses of his competitors along the way. Malik is no Michael Corleone. He is graceless and resistant to introspection. But he is every bit the opportunist, a scrappy apprentice taught too well by Luciani. We are grateful for Malik’s survival, but the violence that becomes second nature to him is nothing to celebrate, something Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) understands. (RD)

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HE BOX is titled Puppet Theater. It is a piece of art embedded with small puppets taking in a puppet performance. I’m at a show within a show—me watching puppets, puppets watching puppets. It’s all very surreal. “Shadow Boxes: A 3-D Illustrated History of Theater” by San Jose State University art teacher Raquel Coelho consists of intricately designed shadow boxes occupied by a world of miniature clay creatures enacting various historical examples of theatrical performance. The level of detail in the works is captivating. “I like to improvise a little bit,” Coelho says, “but if you look at the work there is definitely a consistent style.” The use of handmade paper makes for a soft touch of background color accentuating the materials before it, with the aluminum wiring used to support the tiny figures protruding here and there from the outline of a wrist or waistline. Not without cause though. Every little mistake done so purposefully is meant to draw attention.

“They’re choices that I make,” Coelho says. “There’s definitely that element of something that’s more detailed and that took me a while, mixed with something that’s a little bit raw. These are things that are just particular to my style, I think.” Art has been with Coelho since adolescence whether it was illustration, painting or craft making. After finishing a degree in industrial design at a college in São Paulo, Brazil, she was awarded a scholarship to an institution of her choice. Moving to New York in 1994 was not a difficult decision. While attending the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, she enrolled in an animation course and became acquainted with a professor who almost immediately recognized her talent. He turned out to be a director for Blue Sky Studios and offered her a job as a 3-D animator. At Blue Sky, Coelho was part of a team that worked on the short film Buddy, which won an Academy Award in 1999. After two years with the company, she relocated to California and landed a position

with DreamWorks, only staying for a short time before moving to Tippett Studio in Berkeley, where she has done most of her work. With Tippett, Coelho has helped to create some familiar animated characters. Working on the 2006 movie Charlotte’s Web was one her favorites, because she found the storyline to be heartfelt and the film adorable. Her team was responsible for animating one of the main characters, Templeton, in addition to a few other feature characters. A long way from Charlotte’s Web, she says, was Hellboy, a unique experience given the dynamic of integrating live action with computer animation. “I think the animation has a high level of detail, in the muscles and everything you need to feel that it’s real. I love that type of work, it’s very detailoriented. It’s very different than what I do with the boxes. With the shadow boxes it’s more intuitive.” Coelho’s interest in puppets began at an early age. As a child, she began creating handmade dolls out of soda cans and building stages

and sets to help bring them to life. At 16, Coelho and a handful of classmates achieved local celebrity with a six-month stint performing with puppets at professional theaters. It has been more than 10 years since Coelho first moved to California. She currently lives in San Francisco and teaches in the animation and illustration program at SJSU. Her craft has come full circle in this way. She can pass on to her students everything that experience in the field has given her. Much of what Coelho has accomplished as an artist stems from her belief that passion is limitless. “Art has that power,” she says. “It’s full of heart, and you can really touch people sometimes, even change their lives. And so I always liked art. It’s my life.” SHADOW BOXES: A 3-D ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THEATER by Raquel Coelho runs through March 28 at the Mohr Gallery, Community School of Music and Art, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. (650.917.6800)

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Sixties Relived

Retro Dome goes retro with ‘Shout! The Mod Musical’ HE NEW show Shout! The Mod Musical at the Retro Dome chronicles ďŹ ve London gals as they ip through the swingin’ ’60s as if it were the current issue of Cosmo. Who knew that the problems of love, the pill and relationships plagued the female psyche as much back then as they do today? I gave my ticket to the usher, found my seat amid a circle of women and took a ride back in time to a place ďŹ lled with brightly colored polyester dresses and big hair. The show maintains a satirical consistency throughout with the help of magazinelike ads for asbestos-lined anti-aging cream and weight-loss treatments supported by a caffeine and cigarette diet. Along the course of two acts and some 20 songs, each character mulled over a series of issues in the passing years, from ďŹ nding the right guy and handling a break-up to contraception and marriage—all in ways speciďŹ c to each of the characters’ personalities: quirky, maternal, conceited, emotional and overly affectionate (or “sluttyâ€? to use the adjective verbatim). Caught somewhere between the cynical advice of a columnist, who suggests coming to terms with the fact that a woman will never orgasm, and relying on female intuition, the women learn that cultivating answers to their problems isn’t the easiest thing to accomplish. So naturally, they sing about them. From complete renditions of familiar classics such as “These Boots Are Made for Walkingâ€? to a witty take on a tune heard in the James Bond movie GoldďŹ nger, titled “ColdďŹ nger,â€? the cast displayed considerable vocal talent with beautiful falsettos and rich tones from beginning to end. The harmonies never faltered, and though one cast member was forced to power through a solo when her microphone lost its audio connection, the applause reverberated continuously throughout the show. The musical should be good for a couple on a date, but is all the more appropriate for a girl’s night out.

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Jody Amable SUNSETS AND MARGARITAS, a TheatreWorks production, plays Tuesday–Wednesday at 7:30pm, Thursday–Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2 and 8pm (no 2pm show Apr 3) and Sunday at 2 and 7pm (no 7pm show April 4) through April 4 at the Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 MiddleďŹ eld Road, Palo Alto. Tickets are $24– $62. (650.463.1960)

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HE THEATRE ON SAN PEDRO SQUARE is a hidden treasure. It’s an intimate yet spacious cabaret theater with a long, beautiful wooden bar lining the back of the house where I could imagine watching a Jason Robert Brown musical or an Edward Albee play. But I had come to watch Tabard Theatre’s production of Gershwin’s Lady, Be Good, a romp about a down-on-their-luck pair of siblings, Dick and Susie (played, famously, by Fred and Adele Astaire in the 1924 version), attempting to help each other while wistfully looking for love. The play’s plot is pretty useless; the real attraction is, of course, the toe-tapping, innocent music of George and Ira Gershwin. While Tabard Theatre’s production of this rarely seen musical had some special moments, it didn’t quite display the kind of talent to match up with such well-known numbers as “Fascinatin’ Rhythmâ€? and the title song. The cast had a ton of energy; it was very easy to see that they were having the time of their lives onstage. But sometimes, it’s not enough for the performer to have fun, the audience has to enjoy it as well. The women did a great job on the tap numbers, but their vocals were pitchy, and the acting verged into “schmacting.â€? Susie (Mary Kalita), the female lead, had a Minnie Mouse–like, wobbly speck of a voice that was also regularly sharp, although she was the most charming and beautiful performer and deďŹ nitely a good dancer. Hats off to Keith Pennings, who played Watty Watkins, though. He was a scrunched-up, Nathan Detroit–style cartoon character with excellent comedic timing. Gary Stanford Jr. showed no fear in playing an over-the-top Bertie Bassett. The award for best vocal, hands down, goes to James Creer (as Jeff) though, whose smooth jazz voice I could have listened to all night. If you’re looking for a family-friendly night of uff, laughs and “aw shucks,â€? Lady, Be Good ďŹ lls the bill. Jessica Salans LADY, BE GOOD, a Tabard Theatre production, plays Wednesday (March 24 only) at 8pm, Thursday–Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 3 and 8pm and Sunday at 2pm through March 27 at Theatre on San Pedro Square, 29 N. San Pedro St., San Jose. Tickets are $10–$24. (800.838.3006) id :Xdcdb^Xh#Ç IjZ! BVg '(! ,/(%eb# ;gZZ# @ZeaZgÉh 7dd`h! &%&% :a 8Vb^cd GZVa! BZcad EVg`! +*%#(')#)('&#

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S HE pushes his black bicycle along First Street in San Jose, between San Salvador and San Carlos, Lucas Rodenbush points out two old storefronts that were once Underground Records and Daleeps. The former was the record store, connected to the latter apparel store like two adjoining hotel rooms. This was where Rodenbush was introduced to the electronic music scene in the South Bay. Now, after living here for the better part of 20 years, the pioneering electronic artist—who records as E.B.E.—knows it inside and out. To him, record stores have always been the hub of the electronic scene. “I used to work at a store called Solid Grooves,” he says. “When I was there, they hooked up the whole South Bay, and a lot of Bay Area would come to San Jose for the record stores.“ With record shops on the decline, though, the work of making the genre thrive here has been spread around. The South Bay dance-music scene, with its electronic, techno, dub-step and other subgenres, isn’t going to

rival that of San Francisco or Los Angeles anytime soon. It’s a smaller but very active circuit, based mostly around club nights that feature popular local DJs and sometimes some fairly bigname visitors. Downtown San Jose’s the Cellar brings the bass every first and third Friday of the month for the Workout, for example, and Rodenbush himself has been featured at the Cardiff Lounge in Campbell—an incredibly intimate place to see an international recording artist, even a homegrown one. Now Rodenbush has taken it on himself to support the local scene, with a new South Bay–based label, Scenic Music, which will release “deep house”–style music that Rodenbush believes is bringing the most excitement and innovation to the electronic scene right now. He finds it has more substance and raw appeal than a lot of what today’s DJs are doing. “It’s a particular style of house music that is not concerned with being flashy or keeping people in pursuit of a stimulus but concerned with conveying a certain mood,” he says.

The label’s first release, by the Brunch Club, features Christian Hunt, the late Joel Starr (a San Jose native) and Rodenbush himself. A record-release party is set for April 10 in San Francisco at Remedy in the Destiny Lounge at Temple. Rodenbush is also planning three more releases before fall. The scene is also growing with the expansion of the Workout event at the Cellar at Agenda Lounge. Until recently, the Workout was held once a month, but in an effort to grow the party, it has expanded to every first and third Friday of the month. “Come have a couple drinks, and try not to dance,” challenged Perry Roush, one of the Workout’s organizers. “I know you’ll hear something that’ll make you wanna move.” The scene’s growth here follows the emerging popularity of dance and electronic music within the last couple of years. With 2009’s It’s Blitz, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ catalog and range of sound evolved from art-punk garage rock to clubfriendly dance floor fillers like “Zero” and “Heads Will Roll.”

As a whole, hip-hop is getting more electronic, what with Kanye West sampling Daft Punk on “Stronger,” and the chorus to Jay-Z’s “On to the Next One” borrowing from “D.A.N.C.E.” by Paris-based DJs Justice. E-40 and John Legend lent vocals on a couple tracks to Canada-based DJs MSTRKRFT’s recent album. A number of the Black Eyed Peas’ recent hits can be attributed in part to producer/DJ David Guetta infusing some electronic beats into their album The E.N.D. And of course there’s the new mainstream popularity of crossover acts such as MGMT, Passion Pit and Kid Cudi. Locally, Campbell’s Limousines were the electropop Cinderella story of last year. Rodenbush fondly remembers the early ’90s origins of the Bay Area’s dance scene: “It was a mixture of multimedia with this whole new musical sound and generation with savvy young people that were hip to technology but also community and universal love.” M

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IVjgjh (April 20–May 20): Some people are here

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<Zb^c^ (May 21–June 20): Being a paragon of moral behavior can be fun and rewarding. It’s amazing how many interesting people want to play with me just because they think I’m so #%&@ highminded. But I’ve got to confess that my commitment to discipline and righteousness is sometimes at odds with my rebellious itch to give you mischievous nudges and outrageous challenges. Like right now, the conscientious teacher in me might prefer to advise you to keep a lid on debauchery, voracity, excess, uproar, slapstick, wise-cracking, fireworks, and limit-pushing. But the rabble-rousing agitator in me feels obligated to inform you that at no other time in 2010 will the karmic price be lower for engaging in such pursuits. 8VcXZg (June 21–July 22): It’s time for you to stop

specializing in furtive glimpses and start indulging in brazen gazes. You’re ready to phase out your role as a peripheral influence and see if you can be more of a high-intensity instigator and organizer. Yes, Cancerian, you’ve earned the right to claim more credibility and clout—to leave your tentative position outside the magic circle and head in the direction of the sweet hot spot.

AZd (July 23–Aug. 22): “Nature seems to exult in

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K^g\d (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): The storm is your friend right now, Virgo. So are the deep, dark night and the last place you’d ever think of visiting and the most important thing you’ve forgotten about. So be more willing than usual to marinate in the mysteries—not with logical ferocity but with cagey curiosity. The areas of life that are most crucial for you to deal with can’t be fully understood using the concepts your rational mind favors. The feelings that will be most useful for you to explore are unlike those you’re familiar with.

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about how some all-night convenience stores blast loud classical music out into the parking lot in order to discourage drug dealers from loitering? In the coming days, use that principle whenever you need to drive home a point or make a strong impression. Your aggressive expressions will be more effective if you take the darkness and anger out of them, and instead fill them up with forceful grace and propulsive compassion.

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chalom means “dream.” In his book Healing Dreams, Marc Ian Barasch notes that it’s derived from the verb “to be made healthy and strong.” Linguist Joseph Jastrow says that chalom is related to the Hebrew word hachlama, which means “recovery, recuperation.” Extrapolating from these poetic hints and riffing on your astrological omens, I’ve got a prescription for you to consider: To build your vitality in the coming weeks, feed your dreams. And I mean “dreams” in both the sense of the nocturnal adventures you have while you’re sleeping and the sweeping daytime visions of what you’d like to become.

Capricorn (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): I just found out

the American shipping company UPS has legally trademarked the color brown. The grass-roots activist in me is incredulous and appalled. But the poet in me doesn’t really care; it’s fine if UPS owns drab, prosaic brown. I’ve still got mahogany at my command, as well as tawny, sepia, taupe, burnt umber, tan, cinnamon, walnut, and henna. That’s especially important for this horoscope, Capricorn, because I’m advising you to be very down to earth, be willing to get your hands dirty, and even play in the muck if necessary in order to take good care of the basics. But don’t do any of that in a boring, humdrum “brown” way. Do it exotically and imaginatively, like mahogany, tawny, sepia, taupe, burnt umber, tan, cinnamon, walnut, and henna.

Aquarius (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): You are hereby

excused from having to know a single nuance about the inside story of Angelina Jolie’s secret love tryst with Lady Gaga, or the addictions of conspiracy theorists who lose huge sums of money gambling on the end of the world, or the agony that millionaires suffer from having to support social services with their taxes. In fact, it’s a good time to empty your mind of extraneous, trivial, and useless facts so that you can clear vast new spaces for more pressing data, like how you can upgrade your communication skills, why you should do some upkeep on your close alliances, and what you might do to streamline your social life.

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