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You Buzzard You hover over the sales floor like a vulture, scrutinizing everyone’s activities, just waiting for some underling to make the slightest misstep so you can humiliate them by caw-cawing their imperfections to all within earshot. Maybe if you stopped puffing out your chest for a while, and offered some positive feedback instead of berating people, then you would be respected instead of feared. But your type never gets it, until you get it, and then you’re off looking for another job.
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Money Train Who in the heck is going to drive from the west side just to use BART? Another waste of our money—love to know how much of our San Jose money went into the project. Since Mayor Chuck sits on the board, I am sure it was a very big chunk. ROB JOHNSON | SAN JOSE
(“Chicken or the Egg,” SVNews, April 11)! The bill would allow the egg industry to avoid ever having to answer the public’s call to eliminate cages. The fact that Kreider, an egg factory with clearly inhumane practices, states that they support HR 3798 and have “the least to do to comply” with the bill’s standards should be recognized as a huge mark against the bill. BEN | SAN JOSE
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Mayor Fair Put four former San Jose mayors on stage with CHUCK REED and what do you get? Four people who are happy they’re not Reed. NORM MINETA, JANET GRAY HAYES, SUSAN HAMMER, RON GONZALES and Reed all took part this week in an installment of the DON EDWARDS Lecture Series at San Jose State University, which was moderated by retiring SJSU political science professor TERRY CHRISTENEN. Each of the current mayor’s predecessors voiced relief that never in their tenures were they forced to deal with the current mayor’s challenges. Former Mayor TOM Don’t MCENERY, who held forget office in the years to tip! between Hayes (197582) and Hammer FLY@ METRONEWS. (1991-98), didn’t attend COM the event, because he reportedly went out of town on a family trip. The joke heard more than once was McEnery’s absence was not mourned because it meant other former mayors had a chance to speak. Each mayor had some interesting anecdotes, but none better than Hayes— a pioneer in getting more women involved in local politics, including Hammer. Hayes said her biggest failure was not getting Apple to locate its headquarters in San Jose, but she didn’t mince words about the company’s late CEO. “STEVE JOBS came to my office once and put his feet up on my desk,” she said. “He was just awful. He was disrespectful as could be.” Hayes also remembered a trip she took as mayor with her daughter to Israel, when a man offered her two camels in exchange for her child. Gonzales was noticeably ebullient, stirring some speculation that he’s considering wading back into the political waters. Reed sounded like a man who can’t wait to return to practicing law. Mineta ended the talk by blaming some of the problems in Washington D.C. on congressmen whose sole political experience came from working at the state level, where the only heavy lifting they had to do was raise their arms for “yea” or “nea” votes.
Starting From X MAKE A MARK Speakers at last weekend’s TEDx event dropped a fair amount of knowledge on attendees in addition to some radical (crazy?) ideas about the future.
A Star Trek-inspired health care kit and paranoid tech warrior take center stage at TEDx San Jose By JOSH KOEHN
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alter De Brouwer is not like most people. If he was, most people would be Belgian. Most people would also be described as someone “who thinks thoughts that may have never been thought before.” That was the hyperbolic introduction De Brouwer received last weekend, but after listening to the wild-haired Belgian speak for 20 minutes, the billing didn’t seem so inflated. De Brouwer thinks thoughts that have been thought before, just never taken too serious outside of science fiction circles. The 54-year-old entrepreneur, publisher, scientist, futurist and tech pirate wants to put America’s for-profit health care system on life support, and he says the process is only a year away from beginning in earnest.
A featured guest at TEDx, the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference, held April 14 at the Bellarmine Preparatory campus in San Jose, De Brouwer was one of a number of speakers who take everyday concepts and then expand them to a radical scope. The events are independently produced around the world. San Jose’s TEDx included teenage scientists and CEOs; professors identifying revolutionary ways to combat human trafficking and environmental destruction; and an enemy of state-sponsored spying, amongst others. De Brouwer took a different subject to task: incompetent doctors. In past interviews, the former tech-punk publisher and founder of Starlab—to understand the company’s abstract goals think lasers and light years—has dismissed physicians as “drug dealers.” De Brouwer’s current corporate focus, Scanadu, which operates out of NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in Mountain View, plans
to release in the next year its tricorder, a Star Trek-inspired medical sensor device. The equipment passes data on to an electronic monitor the size of the first cell phone, using a corded wand waved over problem areas of the body. The idea is a contactless scan, which reads sensors placed inside the body, will report the malady—high temperature, skin rash, urinary tract infection, etc.—and its severity rather than keeping people tethered to hospital waiting room chairs. “I think we will be the last generation that knows so little about their health,” De Brouwer says. If successful, Scanadu could revolutionize a health care system that rewards pharmaceutical companies and disinterested doctors, who De Brouwer depicts as fortunetellers and drug peddlers to the world’s hypochondriacs. “You are the narrator,” De Brouwer says. “The doctor doesn’t say anything. He just sits there. You are actually diagnosing yourself. That’s why they have a white coat, otherwise we would confuse them with normal people.” De Brouwer’s complex relationship with health care and diagnoses comes from learning far more about the industry than he ever wanted to. In 2006, his son suffered a traumatic brain injury and went into a comatose state known as Glasgow 3.
Data Discord A person walks into a grocery store and finds two prices for milk. One costs $5 if the customer doesn’t want to sign up for a loyalty card, and the other costs $3 a gallon with a scan of the card. A scan allows the store store to build a profile around a person and target them with offers. And yet, as Christopher Soghoian explains, when it comes to email and social media profiles, we have no opt-out ability. Therein lies the shadow war that is taking place on consumers’ privacy. “There’s no Facebook Pro or Facebook Private, where you can pay $5 for it and Facebook will then treat you like a customer instead of a resource to be mined,” says Soghoian, dressed casually in jeans and a black National Security Agency t-shirt. “The services are offered in one model and they’re take it or leave it. The problem
is it’s fine if it’s a search engine, where there are other services to be used. But particularly the social services, there’s a coercive aspect to them. If you don’t use a social network that your friends are using, you’re left out of the conversation. ... You’re missing a vital part of the conversation amongst your peers, so it means it’s really difficult for people to say ‘no.’” Soghoian, who lives in Washington D.C., doesn’t seem to be one of these people. “I’m far more paranoid than the average person, but I don’t feel I’m unreasonably paranoid,” he says with a grin. “Rather than trying to protect my own privacy, I try to spend my time getting companies to better protect their users. If I can get one company to change one thing, then it impacts millions of consumers, including me.” An example of Soghoian’s work includes leaking an audio recording in 2009 that featured a Sprint Nextel executive revealing that the company handed millions of subscribers’ GPS information over to law enforcement. “In many ways it would be illegal for the government to directly collect it—for the government to directly attach a GPS to our vehicles,” Soghoian says. “It would be illegal for them to do that without a warrant. But they can force Verizon, or Sprint or T-Mobile to hand over that data. They can force Google to hand over the data. So these companies routinely collect huge amounts of data and then the government can just sort of poke through it.” Soghoian’s most notable work to date, which continues, has come at a benefit and cost to data collecting giants Google and Facebook. Two years ago, he and 37 other computer scientists sent a letter to Google asking the company to begin to automatically encrypt email service so users’ information couldn’t be so easily hacked. Within six months, Google followed through on the advice. “I’ve been pressuring Microsoft and Facebook and both now offer an option (to encrypt messages), but it’s not turned on by default,” Soghoian says. “I challenge you to see if you can find the option within five minutes. The problem is, because you haven’t enabled, that if you check your Facebook at Starbucks anyone can hack into your account. “It shows they’re not really putting their users first,” he adds, “and my tool of choice is the baseball bat of shame.”
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“Many of you probably don’t know what this means,” De Brouwer says to the TEDx audience, “and in this case ignorance is bliss. “Glasglow 3 is electrical death,” he tells me later in the day. “So it means life has gone but the body still has some electricity. But the content will never come back.” Spending almost every hour for the next three months in an assortment of trauma wards, De Brouwer gained a detailed knowledge of the inefficiencies of the health care system, and it led him to wonder what it must be like for others unable to get an accurate diagnosis. Scanadu plans to minimize breakdowns by empowering everyday people on a global scale. “We are six months to a year away,” De Brouwer says, noting that Scanadu’s internal sensor still needs to be fully designed as well as a database of tagged ailments and symptoms. “Of course, the more people who use it the better it works. Like money.” But De Brouwer’s motivation, like many at TEDx, didn’t start with dollars. “Anyone can build a better mousetrap to get some more money,” he says, “but when you’re personally involved and committed, you know, you want to go to extremes. I think people like pirates who want to disrupt things.” Enter Christopher Soghoian, TEDx’s scruffy watchdog of corporate greed and government espionage.
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TECHNOLOGY & CULTURE IN SILICON VALLEY BY BRENDAN NYSTEDT updated daily on the web: www.sv411.com twitter: @sv411 facebook: siliconvalley411 Bloomberg speculates that the outcome of this price-fixing antitrust suit could be that eBooks drop in price, which would undoubtedly give a boost to the sale of digital publications.
competition rather than face it honestly in the market.
That last bit must especially smart Honeywell, who has indeed been stagnant in the last decades. Had Honeywell actually actively developed new thermostat tech, there’s a chance Nest wouldn’t have tried to pull an Apple on the market– that is to say, reinvent it using modern technology.
Apple Collaborations in The Works Honeywell has asked to push court proceedings back a bit to allow time for the company to finish putting enough coal in their factory engines. Meanwhile, the Kindle and the Nook continue to battle it out in the pages of US Weekly’s ‘Who Wore It Best?’
DOJ Files Antitrust Suit Against eBook Publishers Apple has been named in an antitrust lawsuit regarding price fixing of digital books. According to the Department of Justice, Apple and other publishers colluded to raise eBook pricing due to competition with Amazon. Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group and HarperCollins were named in the suit but settled today. Apple, Penguin and Macmillan are, reportedly, the only publishers still in hot water. The suit has been brewing for a while and has required a ton of research for the DOJ to get a good enough case against the publishers. At the heart of the matter is the way that Apple wants to charge for books: Apple, Penguin and Macmillan want to protect the so-called agency model that lets publishers—not vendors—set eBook prices, said the people on April 5, who declined to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.
Interesting news regarding the cagey Cupertino fruit company we all know and love. According to AppleInsider, Apple’s busy CEO was spotted in Bellevue, Wash., at the HQ of Valve. Valve is famous for the Half-Life series of games as well as for running the popular Steam gaming service. Steam was brought to the Mac in 2010, giving
Nest and Honeywell in Thermo-spat Nest Labs, the digital learning thermostat company, has run into issues from Honeywell over thermostat patent violations. Honeywell, who has made home thermostats for generations, is being brought to task by Nest for lack of innovation, calling them “worse than a troll” in their court filings. The crux of the answer to Honeywell’s complaint is especially juicy: Nest Labs answers Honeywell’s Amended Complaint here as a first step in establishing the invalidity and non infringement of Honeywell’s claims, and intends to follow through to correct the errors that led to the issuance of the Honeywell patents (errors in many cases caused by Honeywell’s failure to tell the Patent Office about its own prior art), and to stop, seek compensation for, Honeywell’s latest effort to exclude
Apple’s rumored game center may even feature a first-person game about a Buddhist tech guru who finds enlightenment by yelling at employees. Stress levels earn points; overpraise grants unlimited life.
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BART ART A sketch of Warm Springs station shows what future riders of BART can expect once the train comes from Fremont to Berryessa in 2015.
BART Finally Breaks Ground The long-awaited work to extend BART from Fremont to Berryessa began last week with a groundbreaking ceremony featuring many of Silicon Valley’s most prominent political officials. The event has been a long time coming, ever since former San Jose Mayor Ron Gonzales called for the train system to link with the city. The project, stretching 10 miles at a $2.3 billion price tag to build, will take riders from South Fremont to a new station that will be called Warm Springs (pictured). Political leaders who attended the groundbreaking ceremony included former San Jose Mayor and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Norm Mineta, current Mayor Chuck Reed, U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein, and U.S. Rep. Mike Honda, amongst others. Officials expect this phase of the project to be complete by 2015, while the plan to extend BART through downtown San Jose has yet to secure funding.—Josh Koehn
Dale Warner: The above picture does not reflect the huge transit station residential & commercial development that will surround the Warm Springs station. To see how Warm Springs and Berryessa stations will look, take a good look at the surroundings of the Fremont BART station. Any idyllic surroundings will be swallowed
up by grungy, dense housing stacked up to as many stories as possible.
Plain Truth: Hellloooooooo Oakland. Here we come.
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‘Victory’ a DoubleEdged Sword The “victory” claimed by certain union members by suing the city over the word “reform”—as in “pension reform,” known as Measure B for the June ballot measure—may have actually jeopardized a future tax increase to fund their own jobs. The removal of the wording, “essential
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city services including neighborhood police patrols, fire stations, libraries, community centers, streets and parks,” was included in the ruling and cannot be used as a way for the city to lure residents into supporting higher taxation. As a result, if the city of San Jose wanted to propose a general sales tax increase for the November ballot, the Council could no longer list “essential city services.” This wording has been used in the past by the city to garner support for higher taxes. However, there is no guarantee that tax dollars would actually be allocated to essential city services. Now, as we move forward, only a special tax that requires a 2/3 vote could list the essential city service without a legal challenge. Will taxpayers support a general tax increase if they are not confident it will be spent on essential/core services? This takes me back to my proposal of setting a fixed percentage—higher than today—of the general fund to be spent on police. Without this assurance, the voter has no way of knowing that additional tax dollars will actually be allocated to police or anything else in the City Charter. Pierluigi Oliverio is a councilmember for San Jose’s District 6. He writes a weekly column for San Jose Inside.
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ROUND AND ROUND San Jose’s velodrome iss a prime spot for pure cycling.
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AN JOSE’S cycling pedigree has been conditioned and refined for well over a century. The South Bay enjoys a special type of pragmatism, which translates into our cycling history; so, while we may not be fielding a top contender in any of this year’s Tours, Giros or Classics, a large number of fine athletes will be using equipment and financing born and raised right here.
For decades, companies like Phil Wood and Specialized have crafted some of the finest cycling gear imaginable. If we enlarge our scope to include the coast, we can see Craig Calfee (the man who invented carbon bicycles and now has perfected bamboo bikes) and Santa Cruz Bicycles (brainchild of skateboarding legend Rob Roskopp). San Jose may not have the number of cyclists that Portland or New York has, but the ones we do have are extremely dedicated to the sport, and to the craft. The de facto proving ground for all things cycling in these parts is the Hellyer Velodrome in CoyoteHellyer Park. It’s the only velodrome in Northern California. The group of enthusiasts that maintain the banked, oval speedway treat it with a grain of absolute reverence, and a pound of fun. Beginners can enjoy Saturdaymorning training sessions, which begin at 8:30am. Once you’ve completed three of these workshops, you can race “The Track.” “The Track” is the affectionate moniker for the Hellyer Velodrome. It’s been that way since it was built
in 1963. Today, a variety of carbon, aluminum and steel bicycles zip around the concrete banks; the technology has changed a bit, but the competition is the same. It’s probably the only race venue where you can see a lawyer, a software developer, a bike mechanic and a bartender line up to race. It isn’t just a piece of concrete nestled in a random park on the south side of San Jose. Racers assemble every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday to test their skills against the best in the valley. Even though it’s all in the name of fun and sportsmanship, the level of competition is unlike any other sport. Asked what her favorite event is, the velodrome’s marketing person, Elizabeth Hernandez-Jones, says, “I’d chose the Keirin. The battle for the motor-pace wheel and the sprint for the finish is thrilling to see—it’s Gladiator on bikes.” The point is to get around the track as fast as possible, while using the banked corners to your advantage. There is no room for unnecessary components like multiple gears, integrated shifters, a freewheel or brakes. The bikes are stripped to their essence; there is nothing left to remove, unless you want to race a unicycle. They are meant to go, not stop; they are built for the track. Beyond the regular race schedule, the velodrome offers specialty clinics, like the women’s clinic on April 21 and 28, and its Saturday-morning beginners’ session. For those who haven’t experienced riding a fixed-gear bicycle, this is a great place to learn. If you decide to visit and ride, make sure to fill out a release form beforehand (available at www.ridethetrack.com). —Tomek Mackowiak
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Digital Dreams VALLEY ALLEY BOY In his new book, Sheridan Tatsuno looks back on his youth in the valley.
San Jose’s Sheridan Tatsuno looks back at the rich history of the valley in his new memoir By GARY SINGH
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ORN AND RAISED in San Jose, Sheridan Tatsuno has lived and worked with the poorest and richest people of Silicon Valley. His life story is a combination of opposites. Emerging from working-class Japantown and San Jose High School to becoming one of Silicon Valley’s top strategists since 1983, Tatsuno has consulted some of the most notable zillionaires this valley has known. Now, he spills the beans, furnishing an e-book of insider tech stories, including his own. In the Valley of
Digital Dreams: From Farming to iPad in Silicon Valley should be hitting the e-book markets any week now, so look for it. In the meantime, allow me to equip you with some insider previews. Tatsuno begins by differentiating the “West Valley” from the “East Valley.” The western part of Santa Clara County, he writes, historically encompassed the wealthy Caucasian and now Asian suburbs where everyone goes to college and gets a nice job. This is the heart of Silicon Valley, he says, home to all the giants you know about—Facebook, Google, Apple, Stanford, etc. However, the eastern half of the county, meaning San Jo, was quite different. “Rarely told is the East Valley and San Jose,” Tatsuno writes, “which is heavily populated by working-class ethnic groups who toil as unsung
li i line engineers, janitors, secretaries, shopkeepers and delivery people. These are the people I grew up with who provide the gritty foundation for Silicon Valley’s rise to fame and glory. They are more like John Steinbeck’s Joad family, not Leland Stanford’s heirs.” What follows is a local, and personal, rags-to-riches Silicon Valley story that could only have evolved as San Jose itself has. Tatsuno paints the scene decades ago, describing with vivid detail the San Jose of 1955, including the lonely four-lane Highway 101 with all of its stoplights and the hick-town airport that people said would never be “international” because no one would ever want to come here. He depicts the oceans of vegetable fields surrounding San Jose, the whistles of the fruit-packing canneries, the frogs in the Guadalupe River and the dusty fields where kids played baseball. Decades of car-culture and endless subdivisions had yet to cannibalize suburban America, so in small working-class San Jose, children rode their bikes everywhere. And safely.
“We were the sons and daughters of farmers, farm workers, cannery workers and shopkeepers,” writes Tatsuno. “Italians, Mexicans, Japanese, Chinese, Blacks, Filipinos, Portuguese, who grew up downtown in simple worker homes down the street from the elegant Victorians of bankers, lawyers and doctors lining avenues of maple trees.” Tatsuno’s father and grandfather owned Nichi Bei Bussan, a shop in Japantown, the same shop Tatsuno’s sister owns today. Their family helped fellow San Jose High graduate Norman Mineta in his rise to become the first Asian-American mayor of a major U.S. city, in 1971. The Bellarmine World Order had apparently receded from local politics at that time. But only 25 pages later, as an employee of Dataquest in the ’80s, Tatsuno helps Samsung put together its $5 billion DRAM market entry strategy. He testifies before a paranoid Congress about “Japanese threats” to the tech industry. He advises Intel on how to ditch its entire memory division in order to focus more on microprocessors. Tatsuno also boldly claims he anticipated technologies that led to Mosaic, Yahoo and YouTube but was unable to convince anyone else. In telling the story, Tatsuno, who now lives in San Francisco, says above all else, he remains highly indebted and grateful to his father, who refused to leave downtown San Jose and move to the mostly Caucasian suburbs as the city gradually sprawled out and ate the hillsides: “Years later, we would understand the wisdom of his decision. Many of our minority friends returned to San Jose, Berkeley and San Francisco after growing up in white suburbs, feeling totally alone, ignorant and alienated from their ethnic heritage. They only had white friends, while we had friends of all different colors and backgrounds. We were colorblind, not thinking about a person’s color so much as their character.” As tech evangelist Guy Kawasaki says in the introduction, Silicon Valley is a place where anything can happen and usually does. Even from the eastern half.
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SATURDAY 4/21
JON CLEARY’S PHILTHY PHEW
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Keyboardist and singer-songwriter Jon Cleary may have been born south of England, but his musical heart belongs to New Orleans. Now he’s beginning a new chapter with his trio the Philthy Phew. Cleary’s virtuosity and deft songwriting over the course of five solo albums have cemented his place among the pantheon of keyboard legends, leading Bonnie Raitt to call him “the ninth wonder of the world.” Kuumbwa; $20 adv/$23 door; 7pm.
FRIDAY 4/20
FRANKIE ROSE As a founding member of the Vivian Girls, the Dum Dum Girls and Crystal Stilts, Frankie Rose has the credentials to make any indie-rock fan swoon. Fans of her earlier work will find her solo album an intriguing change of pace. Happily Rose deftly navigates new terrain with what may be her finest songwriting to date, revealing her as a talent able to transcend her early lo-fi efforts. The Crepe Place; $10; 9pm.
The members of Poor Man’s Poison are lifelong friends who have been playing music together, in various bands and configurations, for over 10 years. They struck musical gold, however, when they returned to their roots and started playing Americana, folk and country music. This acoustic five-piece pairs a straightforward approach to songwriting with rich harmonies and solid skills to create a spacious, nofrills sound. Ugly Mug; $10; 7pm.
MONDAY 4/23
REAL ESTATE After their 2009 eponymous debut met critical acclaim, including a Best New Music award from Pitchfork, Real Estate began touring in support of indie-rock’s emerging elite: Girls, Deerhunter, Kurt Vile and Woods. The band’s sophomore release, Days, came out last year to yet more positive reaction, making them an interesting act to keep an eye on in the years to come. The Catalyst; $12 adv/$15 door; 8:30pm.
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GRACE UNDER PRESSURE Howard Hawks (second from right) directs Cary Grant and Jean Arthur in the 1939 adventure ‘Only Angels Have Wings,’ about devil-may-care aviators.
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Monroe Monr oe is sup superb erb in Billy W Wilder’s iilder ilder’s Like Hot,, but the there, joke Some Lik ke It Hot ere, the jok ke is moree or less on her her.. After previously mor Aft fter pr eviously using her pr pretty etty routinely routineely as secr secretarial etarial eeye-candy ye-candy in Monkey Monkey Bu Business, usiness, Ha Hawks aw wks disc discovered oveered the rreal eal power pow wer of Monr Monroe, oe, the vvenality, enalit e ty, the suc succulence, culeence, the ccomic omic never ttalent—as alent—as we ne veer really reaally saw saaw again. Ha Hawks aw wks arranged nam name-above-theme-above-thetitle st status atus ffor or o himself in n the mid 1940s 1940s,, and he k kept eept it ffor or o dec decades. adees. Yet Yet e he ne never ver e won an anything nyything hi b but an h honorary ho onorary Osc O Oscar ar after he w was aas thr through ough ma making aking mo movies ovies v in 197 1974. 74 4. Ther Theree w wasn’t aasn’t even eveen a big bio biography graph hy of Ha Hawks awks w until 20 2000: 00: T Todd odd McC McCarthy’s arth hy’ ys How Howard waarrd Hawks Hawks.. Raised in a mone moneyed yed d back background ground in the Midwest,, Ha Hawks aw wkss (18 (1896–1977) 96–1977) w was as notoriously alo aloof. off. That changed
somewhat some what in his rresidual esidual yyears, ears, wheree he w was wher as deservedly deservedly toasted at film ffestivals eestiivals and rretrospectives, etrospectives, wheree he tended wher teended to tell dubious dubious,, cr edit-grabb bing stories that ended credit-grabbing with his ow wn triumph. own In the rrealm eaalm of women,, Ha Hawks awks w had the Don Dr raperish qualities ffound ound o Draperish univ veersally in the film industr universally industryy then, and p perhaps erhap ps now now. w. But McC McCarthy arth hy p oints out that t the dir ector/producer points director/producer possessed p ossessed d on one ne vvery ery “endearing” “ d i ” habit—he habit —he would w w walk aalk out on a film if the pr producer odu ucer or a studio head wer weree do.. telling him what to do independence This inde ependence of mind makes Hawks’ fresh today. mak es Ha aw wks’’ films still fr esh to daay. Ha awks w trie d and failed to get into Hawks tried St anffo ord University University once; once; p erhaps Stanford perhaps
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masteryy go goes This master es on to eeven ven minor genres: Was War about genr es: I W aas a Male W ar a Bride is ab out good service as go od as a 1940s ser rvice ccomedy omedy Sergeant York was gets; Ser rgeant g Y oork w a one of the most as critically successful bio-financially and critic a suc ally cessful bio made.. And ffor better pics eever ver e made o or b etttter or worse, worse, Hawks pioneered bromance Ha aw wks pioneer ed thee br omance in his Every silent film A Girl in Ev ver ery Port. Poort. There’s thing Ther e’s no such th hing as a Hawks ttypical ypical Ha aw wks film. He wasn’t wasn’t a breakthrough visual innovator, br eakthrough visua al inno vator, though he signed up p with outstanding second-unit directors outst anding sec ond d-unit dir ectors cinematographers. and cinemato graph hers. He named Gregg his son after his ccollaborator olllaborator Gr egg Toland, Welles’ T oland, who shot Orson o O W eelles’ Kane.. Ha Hawks Citizen Kane aw wkss aavoided voided ccomplex omplex structures flashbacks, structur es and flash hbacks, preferring preffeerring
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Bac Bacall all to to W Walter aalter Br Brennan ennnan to to FFrances rances new FFarmer—Hawks armer—Hawks also also figur fifigured ed ne w angles on the personas personaas of star stars. s. He leng lengthening thening man manyy ccareers areers b byy changing the games ar aaround ound st stars. ars. He gave ga ave Katharine Hepbu Hepburn urn in her b boxoxoffice-poison offic e-poison years years a chanc cchancee to kick
up her hee heels Baby, els in Bringing Up Bab by, and he br brought Cary Grant’s ough ht out C ary Grant ’s inner geek. He had Wayne h JJohn ohn Wa ayyne startled startled by by a mule when he was was on night patrol Bravo, patrol in Rio R Brav o, to highlight the invincible man’s invincible man ’s vulnerability. vulnerability.
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activee of movies, movies,, and we we still see see activ starss paired star paired e with ppassive assive starlets. Hawks Ha wks fought fouught that ttendency endency with the most movie ssome ome of th he mo st deathless mo vie eexamples xamples of o tough tough yyet et alluring female female characters. char raacters. s
Some of th the he str strength enggtth of the “Hawks “Haaw wks woman acific Grove– Grove– woman”” is due to his P Pacific wife, raised wif fe, Nancy “Slim” “Slim m” Hawks, Haawks w , who led the ma akeo over on the ultimate makeover eexample xample off the Ha aw wks W o oman: L auren Hawks Woman: Lauren Bacall. When was through, Bac all. Wh hen Slim w aas thr ough,, the shy sh hy 20-yearr-old db eginner w aas the ttype, yype, as 20-year-old beginner was JJames ames A ggeee wr ote, that kisses out of the Agee wrote, ccorner orner of her h mouth. But Ha aw wks’’ films ar Hawks’ aree full of the kind of women who all but ccome ome out and sa ay, “It’s “It’s b ou o help, help,” as Bacall Bacall etttter when yyou say, better do es in T H ve and Have Hav ve Not. Not. does Too Hav Have The rroster ostter is long: b ookstore clerk bookstore Dor oth hy Malone M picking up Philip Dorothy Marlowe up u in The Big Sleep; Sleep; Frances Frances Farmer in C oome and G Get It (Ha aw wks Come (Hawks told inter v wer JJoseph vie oseph McBride interviewer “I changed d the lit tle lame girl ... to little a lust nch”); Angie Dick enson lustyy we wench”); Dickenson holding he er gr ound in Rio Brav o; the her ground Bravo; ““two two lit little tlee girls fr from om Lit Little tle R Rock” ock”” in Gentlemen Pr Prefer effeer Blondes Blondes.. Hawks Ha awks w w was as by by no definition a ffeminist; eminist; e JJohn ohn Huston said that the director dir ector w was as “a rreactionary eactionary man, at least in hiss lif life. fe. But you you don’t don’t feel feeel tthat at in the t e filmss hee mak a es.” makes.”
7 If you youu love love film on film, this retrospective retrospecttive is a major eevent. vent.
The phasin phasing ng out of 35mm film is a whole diff different ffeerent stor ff story. y. Digit Digital al visuals aree impr improving, ar oving v , and eexpensive-toxpensive-to transport scratch-prone one prints transp ort and scratch-pr ar aree giving w way ay to ssystems ystems meant to keep k eep the im image mage p perfect. erfeect. But ther theree aree qualities warmth ar qualitiies of w armth and light on film that digit d digital al do doesn’t esn’t have. haave. The national sswitch w witch to digital digital pr projection, ojection, happening which is happ h ening fast, means chance special that the ch hance to see the sp ecial qualities of o ccelluloid elluloid is an eever-rarer ver-rarer eexperience. xperience. Mor Moreover, eover, it it’s ’s unlik unlikely ely these pictures bee some of th hese pictur es will eever ver b area shown in our o ar ea again.
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APRIL 220–22 00–22 222 TWENTIETH TWEN TIETH CEN CENTURY NTURY (1934) Aboard Aboard the New York-to-Chicago York-to-Chicago train, tr ain, a pr producer oducer (John Bar Barrymore) rymore) stalk (Carole Lombard) Lom mbard) he once stalkss the star (Carole alienated; desperate desperate to winn her back, he pitches the plum rrole ole of Ma ary Magdalene: Mary “The little wanton ending up u in tears at cross.” the ffoot oot of the cr oss.” Barrymore Barryymore was considered greatest day, consider ed the gr eatest actor acctor of his day y, suggests why.. The and this is the film that sug ggests why flamboyance he brings to this t particularly silvery scr ewball comedy rremains e emains bright 75 screwball years later later..
SSCARFACE CARFFACE (1932) The various censor boar boards ds that tried to cut Scarf Scarface faace were were right to worry. worry. The film boasts a crackling, crackling, wise-ass wisse-ass script and races races along br breathlessly, eathlessly, high hiigh on crime. Paul X-shaped -shapeed scar on his left Paul Muni, with an X cheek, plays the thug Tony Toony Camonte, Camonte, whose rise and fall fall are are hastened by by his unnatur unnatural al love for for his sister (the rred-hot, ed--hot, mad-eyed Ann Ann Dvorak). Dvorak).
APRIL 25–26 25–266 THE DAWN DAW WN PATROL PATROL O (1930) Hawk Hawkss was a pilot (in ( ffact, act, his
brother died in a flying accident); this brother titled strikingly title ed story of conflict among British aviato aviators ors in the Gr Great eat W War ar was his film. first sound fi lm. IItt was also the template ffor or the kind of fi film lm Hawk Hawkss was to make again and again: tales tales of gr groups oups of men keeping nerve danger.. their ner ve in n the fface ace of danger
CEILING ZERO ZERO (1936) Paralyzed Paralyyzed aviator Fr Frank ank “Spig” Wead subject W ead (the su ubject of John Ford’s Ford’s biopic The Wings off Angels Angels) wr wrote ote the sour source ce play play.. James Cagney Cagneey is an irresponsible irresponsible pilot who runs the airmail airm mail out of Newark. One of his pranks pranks leads to the death of a friend, and that’s that’s when he h puts his own life life on the line.
APRIL 227–29 7 29 7–29 BRINGING BRINGIN NG UP B BABY ABY (1938) Fatuously Fatuoously satisfied with a driedup old inter coostal clavicle, paleontologist intercostal David Huxleyy (C (Cary ary Grant) Grant) is knocked off his ladder by a sw sweet weet and weal wealthy thy but perhaps Connecticut ecticut girl (K (Katharine atharine Hepburn) addled Conne large leopardd who keeps a lar ge and disobedient leopar (“Baby”) as a pet. Gr Grant’s ant’s woe makes him moree hilarious. all the mor h Bringing Up Baby is a prime exam mple of Hawk s’ skill in filming example Hawks’ a comedy tha that at look lookss like a tr tragedy agedy and vice-versa.
CCOME OME AN AND ND GGET ET IT (1936) Fr Frances ancces Farmer was a difficul difficult, t, hardharddrinking wom woman man whose supposed lobotomy
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DOWN D OW N T THESE H ESE M MEAN EAN S STREETS TR EETS Humphrey Bogar Bogart’s t’s Philip M Marlowe arlowe met his match when L Lauren aurren Bacall showed up in ‘The Big Big Sleep.’ Sleep.’
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RIPOSTES R I P OST ES F FROM R OM T THE HE H HEADLINES EA DLINES Cary Grant pl played layed a wise-cracking newspaper editor ex exchanging xchanging rapid-fire quips with h his star reporter reporter, r, Rosalind Friday.’ Rosalind Russell, in ‘His ‘ Girl Friday y..’
made her a ffeminist eminist icon (as seen in the 1982 biopic with Jessica Lange). L She was, Hawkss told inter Hawk interviewer viewer Jo Joseph oseph McBride “the best actr actress ess I ever wo worked orked with.” She plays a double rrole ole in an Edna Ferber story about a ffortune-seeking ortune-seeeking spoiler of a (Edward Wisconsin lumberjack (Ed ward Arnold).
MAY MA AY 2 A GGIRL IRL IN EVERY EVERY POR PORT T (1928) Victor McLaglen an and nd R Robert obert Armstrong Armstr ong star as sailors on an ar aroundoundthe-world car cargo go run; theirr rivalry over the women they meet (one is LLouise ouise Br Brooks) ooks) leads to minor mayhem. Hawk H Hawkss was so enamored enamor ed of the dynamic of the ffeuding euding friends that he was still tr trying ying to do this story over in the early 197 1970s 0s with his neversold last film When It It’s ’s Hot Hoot Play It Cool.
FIG LEA LEAVES AVE V S (1926) Nothing ever chan changes, ges says this ges, short silent comedy: George George g O’Brien and Olive Bor Borden den ar aree Adam an and nd Eve Smith, who quarrel quar rel over the matter off clothes, just as Adam and Eve once didd in the Gar Garden den of Eden (with dinosaurs). A two-strip TTechnicolor eechnicolor sequence highlights high hlights a ffashion ashion show.. Dennis James at thee or organ show gan ffor or both films.
MAY MA AY 3 PAID P AID A T TO O LLOVE OVE (1927) The plot p sounds like Ernst Lubitsch’s Lubitsch’s The Smiling Lieutenantt given a sex change: (George ge O’Brien) the Prince ooff San Savona (Geor needs help iin n the rromance omance department, and American Paris. a helpful Am merican finds him a date in P aris. William P ow well plays the mor Powell moree successful Prince Eric.
FFAZIL AZIL A (1928) Haw Hawks ks takes a diff different erent angle on the plot of The T Sheik. Her Heree an Ar Arab ab prince (Fr ank Bor zaage star Charles Farrell) Farrell) has a (Frank Borzage doomed rromance om mance with a Eur European opean woman.
MAY MA AY 44–6 ONLY O NLY A ANGELS N LS HAVE NGE HAVE V WINGS WINGS (1939) As As inn the case of CCasablanca, asablanca, the iimprobabilities impr obabilit b bilitties ti only l heighten h i ht the th appeall of this dr ama of aviators in a bad rracket: acket: a drama gr oup of YYanks an anks hauling mailbags over the group Andes in cr a ash-pr one planes. P eople love crash-prone People the film, as well w they might, considering that CCary ary Gr Grant a is one of the dashing ant pilots and Je ean Arthur pr ovides the mostly Jean provides dr owned-ou ut voice of sanity drowned-out sanity.. In the 1950s, The W Wages ages a of o Fear would take the stuffing
21 AIR FFORCE ORCE (1943) The star of the show w is a bomber bomber,, B-17 involved the Mary Ann, a B17 involv ved in action in Pacific, group the P acific, with the kind ooff mixed gr oup of people aboar aboardd that gave th the he film world the expression expr ession “bomber crew” crew ” to describe the mix of classes and ethnic types t war movies have ..... . and still have, all the thhe way up to A Act ct Valor of V aalor. Most inter interesting esting of o the actors is John Garfield, on his way up, u though his final act of her heroism oism with a heavy .50 caliber machine gun had our troops troopps guff guffawing. awing.
MAY MA AY 9–10 TIGER SHARK SHARK (1932) A San P Pedro edro fisherm fisherman man (Edwar (Edwardd G. Robinson) has a hook ffor or a hand ever since i a shark h k bit him, hi but b t he h hopes h it won’t won’t interfere interf ere with his courtshipp of an orphan (Zita Johnson). That That’s ’s whenn his best pal (Richardd Arlen) enters the pictur (Richar picture. e.
BARBARY B ARBARY CCOAST OAST (1935) The model ffor or TTV’s V’s Deadwoodd, set in ’49er-era ’49er-era San Francisco, Francisco,, a pre-noir pre-noir town of ffog og and mud. Miriam Ho Hopkins opkins plays a woman who ar arrives rives to findd her man dead and her money gone. Dete Determined rmined to stay stay, y, she meets LLouis ouis (Edwar (Edwardd G. G Robinson), who runs the Bella Donna casin casino no and saloon: “Do you like San Fr Francisco? ancisco? That That’s ’s good—I own it.” Water Water Brennan Brennan gets getts his first big role role as “Old Atrocity,” Atrocity,”” an eye-patch-wearing eyye-patch-wearing Charon Charon who rows rows people into innto the harbor. harbor.
MAY MA AY 11–13 HIS H IS GGIRL IRL FRIDAY FRIDAY (1940) Big-city newspaperr editor W Walter alter (Cary Grant) the simultaneous B Burns (C ary Gr G ant) t) ffaces aces th h simul he i ltaneous t loss of his ex-wife ex-wife and his star reporter: reporter: Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), Ruussell), who proposes pr oposes to remarry, remarry, move to the sticks sticks and have kids. Gr Grant’s ant’s Burns is the distillation of every type of movie comedy com medy into one man. Grant Grant uses slapstick, irony, ironyy, cartoon rreactions, eactions, silent-film mugg mugging ging and Hamlet Hamlet’s ’s own wordplay wordplay to confound confoundd the marks marks around ar ound him—and all the people p in the world ar marks, except except for for Hildy. Hildy. The aree his marks, banter between Grant Grant and Russell flies by at a furious pace, pace like a high-stakes higgh gh-stakes stakes volley between two top-ranked top-ranked tennis tennis players. Hapless Ralph Bellamy doesn’t doeesn’t stand a chance. Full of piquant nnostalgia ostalgia ffor or people who love the idea of o old-f ashioned old-fashioned metr opolitan newsrooms newsrooms bustling b metropolitan with legions of cynical rreporters, eporterss, har d-boiled hard-boiled editors and hotshot young copy boys.
BALL B ALL O OFF FIRE (194411) The in (1941) incomparable comparable Barbar Barbaraa SStanwyck tanwyck is just what the t title suggests, but the film parts. labors in part ts. They rreally eally should have got Englishman Cooper’s an Englishma an to play Gary Cooper ’s part professor as a pr ofessoor dazzled by a ffemale emale fountain fountain named of slang nam med Sugarpuss.
MAY MA AY 16 16–17 6–17 THE THI THING NG FFROM ROM ANOTHER ANO THEER W WORLD ORLD (1951) Hawks’ Hawks’ adaptation of John W. W. CCampbell’s ampbell’s Who W Goes Ther There? e?? kicked off the 1950s mo monster onster wave, establishing the template of the t genr genree as McC McCarthy-era arthy-era mmunists! That ’s “who goes allegory (Com (Communists! That’s there!”) whilee creating creating a tale so limber its there!”) descendants are are everything from from Alien to, of course, this this film’s film’s two rremakes. emakes.
THE ROAD ROAD T TO O GLORY GLORY (1936) Willia William m Faulkner co-wr co-wrote ote this antibased French war film, bas ed on a Fr ench movie called Wooden W oooden Crosses Crosssess about the tr trenches enches in 1916, where intense where an inte ense rivalry continues between two officers (W ((Warner arner Baxter and Fr Frederic ederic March.) March.)
MAY MA AY 18 18–20 8–20 TO T O HA HAVE AV VEE AND AND HA HAVE AV VE N NOT OT (1944) Hump Humphrey phrey Bogart stars as an individualist made to see the big wartime pictur picture, e, with the help of Laur Lauren en Bacall to stiffen stiff en his ba backbone. ackbone. This is prime rromantic omantic from inferior stuff made fr rom an inf erior Hemingway novel, which dir director ector Hawk Hawkss claimed was filmed becau because se of a bet with Hemingway (“He inter interested ested me. SStrange trange guy,” guyy,” , Hawks Hawks told author Jo oseph McBride.) Joseph
SERGEANT SER GEANT Y YORK ORK O (194411) Hawk (1941) Hawks’ s’ gr great eat hit was the biopic of W World orld W War arr I her heroo Alvin YYork, ork, a pious TTennessee ennessee m man an who killed mor moree than two dozen enemyy soldiers. A tough film to make, since YYork ork was understandably leery about the wh whole hole pr project, oject, but Gary Cooper Cooper’s ’s irreproachable ir reproachable integrity made the film the biggest succe success ess up to that time after Snow White and th the he Seven Dwar Dwarves vess and Gone With the Win Wind nd.
MAY MA AY 223–24 3–24 LAND LA ND OF OF T THE HE PH PHARAOHS ARAOHS (1955) “I ma made de this film ffor or one simple rreason: eason: Cinem Cinemascope.” mascope.”” Hawk Hawkss to critic
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out of the material, just as Hawk Hawkss himself unstuff ed many a piece of genr e. unstuffed genre.
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TWO T WO L LITTLE IT TLE G GIRLS IR LS F FROM R OM L LITTLE IT TLE R ROCK O CK M Marilyn arily yn M Monroe onroe and redefined Prefer Jane Russell redefin ed gold diggers in ‘Gentlemen nP refer Blondes.’ Blondes.’
Andrew Sarris. Andrew Sarris. The engine engineering eering pr problem oblem of how the pyr pyramids amids wer weree buil builtt contrasts contrasts with the rromance omance of a sch scheming heming princess (Joan Collins) and the 4th Dynasty Phar Pharaoh aoh Cheops II (Jack Hawkins).
VIVA VI VA VILLA! (1934) Hawk Hawkss fr fretted etted thatt the studio had turned the warrior warrior Pancho Panchoo Villa (Wallace (Wallace Beery) into “Santa Claus,”” but the Mexican sharee of locations had their shar o rreal-life eal-lif eal life gunplay according according to Haw Hawks wks (and like shots Hawks of tequila, the things Haw wks said need to be taken with a dash of sal salt). t)..
MAY MA AY 225–27 5–27 THE BIG SSLEEP LEEP (1946) Easygoing L.A. private privaate detective (Humphrey hired Philip Marlowe (Humphr eyy Bogart) is hir ed by a crippled gener general al to keep keeep tabs on his nymphomaniac h i daughter ddaughter, ht , who h is i wr wrapped appedd up in a case of blackmail and a mur murder. der. No one has ever car cared ed as much mucch about the plot as they have about Hawk Hawks’ s’ staggeringly impudent dir direction—or ection—or as a much as they cared Lauren car ed ffor or Laur en Bacall, who w plays the smoky-voiced, smok y-voiced, tough goodd girl who assists Marlowe.
THE CRI CRIMINAL IMINAL CODE CODE (1931) One of o a number of prison films rreleased eleased in the t early 1930s, this is rremembered ememberedd ffor or its ffamous amous scene: Boris KKarloff arloff as th the he enf enforcer orcer of the code in question, lur rching thr ough the part with lurching through such deadly fforce orce that he landed the rrole ole of Frankenstein’s Fr ankenstein n’s monster next.
MAY MA AY 330–31 30 31 THE O OUTLAW UTLAW (1943) A troubled troubled o film bef before ore and after rrelease. eleasee. Hawks Hawks left it as the everprevaricating pr evaricating pr producer oducer Howar Howardd Hughes took over over.. An And nd then came the censorship problems. weree pr oblems. Too Too o many commentators wer blinded by Ja ane Russell’s shape to rrecall ecall Jane thunderous actress the thunder o sullenness of the actr ous ess onscreen onscr een (she’s (shhe’s kind of a gateway drug to terrific Elvis). However, However, it was her ter rific rrack ack that salient b became a sa alient li t point i t in i both b th the th making ki and marketi marketing ng of a berserk Billy the Kid tale, with W Walter a ter Huston as Billy’s pal (or al more) mor e) Doc Holliday H Holliday, y, while Thomas Mitchell’s Pat P at Gar Garrett rett waits w ffor or vengeance.
CCORVETTE ORVETT T E K-225 K-225 (1943) Hawks Hawkks produced produced this wartime tale
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RED RIVE RIVER R ( (1948) ) Rancher John W Wayne ayn yne has had it upp to her heree with his ffoster oster son (Montgomery Clift) in this inter intergenerational generational battle set against a cattle drive fr from Oregon. om TTexas eexas to Or egon.
O.. HEN O HENRY’S RY’S FULLL HOUSE HOUSE (1952) A witty double-bill. A different different kind brat of br at than Clift disturbs two t kidnappers (Oscar Levant and Fred Fred Allen) Alleen) who purloin the worst kid ever ever.. It It’s ’s an adaptation a of O. Red ed Chief Chief”; ”; one of Henry’s “The Ransom of Re a five-part omnibus, though thouggh Hawks’ Hawks’ section distribution, was clipped li d bef bbefore fore distribu di t ibution, ti turning t i the th straight. full house into a str aight.
JUNE 6–7 THE T HE CROWD CROWD ROARS ROARS (1932) Unlike most men who w direct direct films about the world of car rracing, acing, Hawks Hawks had done a bit of it; this ffact, act, and annd the half-dozen Indianapolis winners he ha ad working on the had film, added some dash to tthis his epic p about the rivalry between a pair of o rracing acing br others brothers (James CCagney agney and Eric Linden). Linnden).
RED LLINE INE 7000 7000 (1965) James CCaan aan is one of a gr group oup of competing rrace-car ace-car drivers. driverss. Hawks Hawks once said that he thought the movie’s m movie ’s good rrace ace weree undone by thee thr three-sided scenes wer ee-sided compress story he tried to compr ess into one movie. (Shown in 16mm.)
JUNE 8–10 I WAS WAS A MALE WAR WAR BRIDE BRIDE (1949) The ffact act that the lov lovers vers ar aree perhaps named after the pair in A Farewell FFarewell to Arms is funny in itself itself.. Annn Sheridan is a or the kin nd of Russells she macha stand-in ffor kind resembles (Jane and Rosal ind), yet ther resembles Rosalind), theree are some very juicy bits ffor orr people beyond are t story of gender-studies majors in this eaucracyy. militaryy bur bureaucracy.
THE T HE BIG SSKY KY (1952) Kirk Douglas in onee of the first completely pr process-shot-free ocess-shot-ffree W Westerns esterns since the silent days. He plays plays a fur-tr fur-trader ader Missouri River.. bucking heading up the Mi issouri River
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(1970) Q: “Is the stor story ry of Rio Lobo Lobo similar to El Dorado Dorrado a , as Ell Dorado Dorraado was similar to Rio Bravo Bravo? (A (Att th the he Chicago Film Festival in 1970). Hawk s: “Y ou’ve got ffellows ellows with guns, and Hawks: “You’ve know,, ther theree one of them’s them’s the sheriff ..... . you know isn ’t much yo ou can do.”” SStill, till, if you’ve got isn’t you ’s the start of something. Wayne, it’s John W ayne, it In El Dorado Dorado, Robert Mitchum plays the drunken sher sheriff riff that a pain-wracked pain-wracked Wayne Wayne rrehabilitates. ehabilitates.. The shot-in-Mexico Rio LLobo obo Hawks’ lastt film. is Hawk s’ las
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JUNE 15–17 115 17 GENTLEMEN P GENTLEMEN PREFER REFER BLONDES BL ONDEES (1953) A pairr of ex-Little Rock adventuresses adventur essees heading ffor or P Paris: aris: the dumblike-a-fox like-a-f ox LLorelei orelei Lee (Marilyn Monr Monroe) oe) and her shr ewd but b loyal friend, Dor othy Shaw shrewd Dorothy (Jane Russell Russell), l), who is trying to keep her pal out of tr oublee. The signatur trouble. signaturee “Diamonds Ar Aree a Girl’s Best Friend” F ” number—a ffantasia antasia off shocking h ki pink pi k andd gold—is ld i one off those th moments wh here Monr oe rreally eally shows what where Monroe she was abou about. ut.
MONKEY M ONKEY BUSINE BUSINESS SS (1952) Is it rreally e eally the best use of CCary ary Gr Grant ant to turn him in into nto a big kid? In this fformulaormulaof-youth stor story, ry, Gr Grant, ant, a rresearch esearch chemist, rregresses. egresses. Soo does Ginger Rogers. Marilyn Monroe Laurel. Monr oe playss Miss LLois ois Laur el.
JUNE 220–24 0–24 RIO RI OB BRAVO RAVO (1959) Mercenaries Merceenaries encir encircle cle a town, trying to rrescue esccue the jailed br brother other of a big rrancher. ancher. Hold Holding ding down the ffort ort is a gr group oup of deputies, puties, one of them one-legged, unsteady dep barely one of them a bar ely rrecovered ecovered alkie. “That’s “That ’s all you yoou got?”” “That’s “That’s what I’ve got,” Wayne). says Sheriff John J TT.. Chance (John W ayne).
MAN’S FFAVORITE AVORITE SPOR SPORT? T? (1964) Rock Hudson stars as an author of bookss on fish book fishing hing who has never cast a line, and that that’s ’s when wh hen he meets the PR manager ffor or a fishing lodge l (P (Paula aula Pr Prentiss). entiss).
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COLOR LOR WHEEL A meal at Zeni features many spicy choices.
San Jose’s Zeni offers a tour of the dishes of Ethiopia served on a bed of tasty injera By KATE FLANNERY
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WOULD imagine Ethiopia’s manner of dining to be a child’s dream: the food is eaten with the hands, one plate is filled with a variety of different foods and mixing things is encouraged. As someone who grew up with stains all over my clothing and food typically on my face during or after a meal, I felt right at home visiting Zeni Ethiopian Restaurant on Saratoga Avenue in San Jose. The number of positive reviews and awards the restaurant has received since it opened 10 years ago would suggest that I’m not the only one.
A sense of warmth fills Zeni. The restaurant is named after owner Zeni Gebremariam—perhaps because the restaurant represents a culture of community and hospitality. The walls are lined with Ethiopian art, and meals are prepared and served by women of Ethiopian descent. The main room opens up into another filled with traditional Ethiopian mesobs (tables made from thatched straw) surrounded by stools. On Fridays and Saturdays, an Ethiopian musician plays renditions of the country’s classical music on the keyboard. The full bar at the front has a thatched straw roof. As I sat and waited for my meal one day, sipping spiced Ethiopian tea, I felt right at home. In 1991, Zeni left her own home in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to live in the United States with
her husband husband. She grew up learning to cook alongside her mother after school, preparing meals for her large family. The recipes she provides on her menu are all traditional, passed down to her and making their way to the Bay Area in a manner loyal to her homeland. Spices, tea and coffee are all imported from Ethiopia, while vegetables and meat products are bought locally. Nothing comes from a can. Injera forms the foundation of Ethiopian cuisine. The spongy pancake-looking bread literally acts as the base for all meals and also serves in lieu of utensils. A large, circular piece of injera is adorned with different meats, veggies and stews, known as wots, soaking up the different juices and marinating with flavor by the end of the meal. The whole thing looks like a painter’s palette. A generous and seemingly endless supply of rolled injera also comes on the side and is used to pick up the food in a crablike fashion with your hand. While many characteristics define the restaurant and culture as markedly Ethiopian, I found I
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could relate the different tastes, textures and aromas to cuisine and ingredients much closer to home. For example, a vegetarian dish called ye-timatim fitfit ($9.50) is injera soaked in tomato, onion, jalapeno, lime juice and special spices—reminding me of pico de gallo salsa from Mexico. The doro-wot chicken ($12.99), which comes as one of the four choices in the meat combination, was covered in a thick, dark sauce reminding me of the traditional mole dish from Oaxaca. Jalapeno and other spices like red chile powder, cumin, turmeric and coriander combine, similar to Indian cuisine, making many dishes spicy and extremely flavorful. Finally, there’s the Ethiopian coffee, a rich espresso made with cloves that is similar to a Turkish coffee with a sweet twist. If you’ve never tried Ethiopian, order the veggie and meat combinations, which include lentils, salad, collard greens, boiled cabbage, split peas, lamb, chicken, ground beef and house-made cheese. Each combination is around $14 and has a little bit of everything. A personal favorite on the menu was the ye beg tibs ($13.50), a lamb dish with onions, green peppers and tomato sautéed in butter. Order it sizzling, and it’ll come out fajita-style hot and steaming. The ye doro tibs ($12.99), a chicken dish braised in onions, tomato, green pepper and butter, is also great. So, too, is the kei wot ($11), a spicy, dark-brown beef stew with a kick that lingers. Zeni also pays tribute to Ethiopia’s status as the birthplace of coffee by offering a coffee ceremony. As long as you notify the restaurant two hours ahead of time, you can experience this traditional ceremony right at your table, or mesob. The ceremony includes coffee grinding, roasting and full preparation, and lasts for almost an hour.
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Our selective list of area restaurants includes those that have been favorably reviewed in print by Metro food critics and others that have been sampled but not reviewed in print. All visits by our writers are made anonymously, and all expenses are paid by Metro. Updates from vigilant readers and listed restaurateurs are heartily encouraged; please submit via email to sholbrook@metronews.com.
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AMATO’S Sandwich shop. $. The sandwiches make for greasy, sloppy, ferociously delicious eating. There are 34 varieties, categorized in three groups: hot, cold, specialty. 10am-11pm Mon-Fri, 10am9pm Sat, 10am-7pm Sun. 1162 Saratoga Ave. 408.246.4007.
AMBER INDIA Northern Indian, tandoori. $$. The sister to the popular Mountain View restaurant, Amber India’s Santana Row location continues to offer elegantly prepared Indian cuisine in a stylish setting. 11:30am2:30pm, 5-10pm, Mon-Thu, noon-3pm, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat, noon-3pm, 5-10pm Sun. 377 Santana Row. 408.248.5400.
BANGKOK TASTE Thai. $$. Humble strip mall gem with a loyal following. Beef Pi-Roj is a house favorite. Veggies love the Rama tofu. 11am-3pm Mon-Fri, 5-9:30pm daily. 1769 Blossom Hill Rd. 408.358.2525. BILL’S CAFE Diner. $. Serving only breakfast and lunch, Bill’s knows its way around typical diner standbys—eggs (scrambles and hollandaiselaced “benedictions”), pancakes and expertly grilled sandwiches and burgers. 6:30am-3pm daily. 302 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.2455.
CAO NGUYEN Vietnamese, Chinese-Vietnamese. $. Gargantuan menu features nearly 200 Vietnamese menu options, including smoked duck, sautéed frogs and clay pot catfish. 10am-10pm MonFri, 9am-10pm Sat-Sun. 2549 S. King Rd #A-16. 408.270.9610.
CASA VICKY Family-style Mexican. $. Nothing fancy, but
a hearty brand of Mexican food wrought from popular family recipes. Breakfast plates and warm sweet pastries in abundant supply. 7am7pm daily. 792 E. Julian St. 408.995.5488.
CITRUS New American. $$$. In Santana Row’s chic Hotel Valencia, Citrus peels back the hotel dining myth. Here, diners match their own main dishes with their choice of rub, sauce and side dish. Fun continues in skilled desserts. 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 355 Santana Row. 408.423.5400. COCOLA French bakery. $. Cocola is a fine place to while away an afternoon sipping tea and sampling a pear tart with vanilla custard and slivered almonds. For heartier fare, try the gourmet sandwiches. 8am-11pm Sun-Tue, 8am-noon Wed-Sat. 333 Santana Row #1045. 408.551.0018. CONSUELO Mexican. $$. Good regional Mexican food made with lesser-known ingredients in an attractive, upscale atmosphere. The food is served tapas-style and meant to be shared. Fantastic tequila list. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri, 11am-11pm Sat, 11am-9pm Sun. 377 Santana Row #1125. 408.260.7082. THE COUNTER Hamburgers. $. The Counter takes the quintessential American burger and turns up the Americanness by letting diners choose from dozens of options to build a custom burger. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat and noon-9pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave #1035 (Santana Row), San Jose, 408.423.9200. And 369 California Ave, Palo Alto, 650.321.3900.
CRAWDADDY Cajun. $$. Crawdaddy specializes in boiled live crawfish flown
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in from Louisiana. The mud bugs are served steaming in a plastic bag swimming in a buttery, garlic-laced sauce that ranges from mild to ridiculously hot. 3-10pm Mon-Fri and noon-10pm Sat-Sun. 779 Story Rd. 408.286.2729.
DEEZI’S CAFE Persian. $$. Deezi is a hearty lamb shank stew and it’s quite good here. But the soul of the menu is the kebabs, and the koobideh kebabs are outstanding. Made from ground beef blended with puréed onions, garlic and various spices, the skewered and grilled meat stick is beautifully grilled and so tender and juice-filled it squirts when you bite down on it. The joojeh (chicken) kebab scores as well. Try the fresh made dogh (a yogurt drink). 11:30am9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am10pm Sat-Sun. 1312 Saratoga Ave. 408.244.0300. DIA DE PESCA Mexican. $. As you might guess from the name (Dia de Pesca means “gone fishing” in Spanish), the restaurant specializes in seafood—fish tacos, ceviche, shrimp cocktails and soups. It’s all good. 10:30am-8:30pm daily. 55 N. Bascom Ave. 408.287.3722.
DI LAC Vegetarian Asian. $$. A bite of veggie heaven. The spacious Di Lac serves up an appetizing array of foods, all of which are made fresh daily, including the soy milk and tofu. 9am-9pm daily. 1644 E. Capitol Expwy. 408.238.8686.
DYNASTY CHINESE SEAFOOD RESTAURANT Chinese $$. The setting is fit for royalty, and there’s a menu to match: lobster with special sauces, Peking duck,
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ALL ABOARD The Santa Cruz Mountains Wine Express blows off some steam on May 20 at Roaring Camp.
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APA VALLEY isn’t the only place with a wine train. The Santa Cruz Mountains Wine Express offers a steam- and wine-powered trip at Felton’s Roaring Camp Railroads May 20 from 1 to 5pm.
The event will feature wines from the Santa Cruz Mountains as well as food, music and a trip on the park’s historic train through the redwoods. Tickets are $55 in advance and $65 at the door and $20 for children under 12 years old. For reservations or for more information, contact the Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association at 831.685.8463 or info@scmwa.com. On April 29, from 1 to 5pm, Saratoga’s Mountain Winery hosts the 16th annual RIVERS OF CHOCOLATE FUNDRAISER. The popular event will feature 70 wineries, chocolatiers, restaurateurs, breweries and spirit-makers. Proceeds benefit the programs of EHC LifeBuilders, a Santa Clara County–based provider of support services, housing and shelter to homeless adults, veterans, families and youth. In addition to food and drink, there will be live music and auctions. Tickets are $125 (www.riversofchocolate.org). Meanwhile, this coming weekend, Gilroy’s MARTIN RANCH WINERY will hold an open house (April 21–22), from noon to 5pm. Meet winemakers and owners Thérèse and Dan Martin and take advantage of deals on select wines, barrel tastings and a picnic on the crush pad or on the winery grounds. Martin Ranch Winery is at the southern tip of the Santa Cruz Mountains wine appellation at the foot of Mount Madonna. See www. martinranchwinery.com for more information.—Stett Holbrook
emerald-colored mustard greens, even suckling pig. Or try the more delicate fare: dim sum every lunch. 11am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 10am-3pm, 5-9:30pm Sat-Sun. 1001 Story Rd, second floor. 408.286.6668
EDNA RAY Chinese. $$. Now in a new location, Edna Ray continues to serve classics of Chinese-American food with the same quantity, familiarity and reasonable prices. You’ll find all three here, and then some. 11:30am-9:30pm daily. 1181 Lincoln Ave. 408.280.7738.
EL TULE Mexican. $$. Most of the menu is devoted to Mexican-American standards, but the separate menu of Oaxacan specialties is where El Tule really shines. The black mole is uncommonly delicious while lesser-known dishes like tlayudas and molotes are also good. 10am-9pm daily. 5440 Thornwood Dr. 408.227.1752. 5-SPOT CHIVAS GRILL Mexican-American diner. $. The brick-walled 5-Spot is a perfect mix of American food, past and present. The diner still serves
classic American diner food as well as Mexican standards. 7am-9pm daily. 869 S. First St. 408.294.4979.
FLOWER FLOUR French bakery. $. Mimi Brown’s flower shop/bakery charms visitors with freshly made to-droolover pastries, ready-to-go sandwiches and service with a smile. 8am-6pm Mon-Sat, 8am-4pm Sun. 896 Willow St. 408.279.0843.
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27 FOOD TOPIA Chinese and Taiwanese. $. Food Topia serves a great, low-priced menu of Taiwanese and Chinese food. Go for the beef noodle soup, pickle and fish fillet soup and the fried chicken roll. No alcohol served. 1600 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.873.7628.
FRANKIE, JOHNNIE & LUIGI TOO! Family-style Italian. $$. Traditional Italian-American favorites—spaghetti and pizza—served with plenty of elbow room. Big portions and wholesome family-style service. 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. 5245 Prospect Rd, San Jose. Full Bar. 408.446.9644. Also 939 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View. 650.967.5384.
FRATELLO Italian. $$. Bursting with simple flavors, Fratello boasts native Italian dining without affectation. 5-9:30pm Tue-Sun, Fri-Sat 5-10pm, 59pm Sun. 1712 Meridian Ave. 408.269.3801.
GIORGIO’S Family-style Italian. $. Simple Italian cooking—the rugged kind with Southern Italian leanings, full of robust flavors and tangy tomato sauces. 11:30am-9:30pm MonThu, 11:30am-10:30pm Fri-Sat, 11:30am-10pm Sun. 1445 Foxworthy Ave. 408.264.5781.
GOJO ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT Ethiopian. $. Simplicity reigns here; just Ethiopian food—chicken, beef, lamb, vegetarian—and Ethiopian coffee. The flavors taste even better with honey wine. Beer, wine. Noon-9pm Sun-Thu, noon-10pm FriSat. 1261 W. San Carlos St. 408.295.9546.
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GOVEA’S Mexican. $. A community hub that serves up wonderfully fresh, oldfashioned Mexican food with no trendy gimmicks. Wholesome and filling. 10am9pm Mon-Thu, 10am-10pm Sat-Fri, 9am-9pm Sun. 1996 Tully Rd. 408.270.0973. GREAT WALL Chinese. $$. This
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strip mall hideaway serves skillfully prepared Chinese dishes in an atmosphere where sandals and T-shirts are the perfect fashion. Beef and black mushrooms, salt-and-pepper
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spareribs and cashew chicken earn high marks. Take out available. 11am-2:30pm, 4:309pm Mon-Fri, noon-9pm Sat. 1409 Bird Ave. 408.287.1688 or 287.1689.
HABANA CUBA Cuban and Brazilian. $$. A culinary oasis full of good flavors, Habana Cuba exudes cultural delights. Sensuous foods of the Caribbean and Cuba, long on tomato and peppers, slowroasted meats and earthy black beans. Beer and wine. Lunch 11am-2:30pm Mon-Fri; dinner 5-9pm Tue-Thu, 5-10pm Fri, 4-10pm Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 238 Race St. 408.998.2822. THE HAPPY BAMBOO Vegetarian. $. The menu at the Happy Bamboo is almost all vegan and most of it Vietnamese or Asian-inspired. There’s also a vegetarian tuna salad and, out of nowhere, Hungarian goulash and spaghetti. 11:30am-9pm TueSun. Closed Mon. 1711 Branham Lane. 408.694.0740.
HOSHI Japanese. $$. Hoshi is one of Silicon Valley’s standouts for sushi and small plates. Great sake selection, too. Lunch 11:30am-2pm MonFri; dinner 5-9pm Mon-Sat. 246 Saratoga Ave. 408.554.7100.
HUKILAU Hawaiian. $$. Simple, slightly salty, stomach-filling foods with an Asian-Pacific attitude. All daily specials come with a scoop of macaroni salad and steamed rice. Skip the quesadilla and nachos and head straight for the ahi poke. With tropical drinks to match. 11am-1:45pm Tue-Fri, 59:30pm Tue-Wed, 5-10:30pm Thu-Sat, 11am-2:30pm SatSun, 5-9pm Sun. 230 Jackson St. 408.279.4888. HUNAN TASTE. Chinese. $$. The restaurant continues to pack them in because the food is so good. As the name implies, the restaurant specializes in the fiery, hearty food of China’s Hunan province, making it one of the few restaurants in the Bay Area to do so. 11am-2:30pm, 4:30-8:30pm Mon-Sat. 998 N. Fourth St. 408.295.1186. ISABELLA’S Peruvian. $$. One of the South Bay’s few outposts of Peruvian food, Isabella’s has much to recommend. Tacu-tacu,
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a starchy, beany blob enlivened with onions, garlic, oregano and other spices served with a thin steak, is great. Seafood dishes like the ceviche and cau-cau mariscos are also good. Don’t miss the delicious chicha morada, a Peruvian punch made with purple corn, pineapple and apple juice that’s boldly seasoned with cinnamon. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am11pm Fri-Sat, 2-8pm Sun. 700 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.248.PERU.
KAHOO Japanese. $. The people queuing up are ramen aficionados who know a good bowl of ramen when they find one. And they’ve definitely found one here. 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am3pm, 4:30-9pm Sat-Sun. 4330 Moorpark Ave. 408.255.8244.
KRUNGTHAI Thai. $$. Perennial Metro “Best Of” winner, Krungthai has been around since 1988, but still tastes fresh and new. 11am-3pm, 5-10pm Mon-Fri, noon-10pm SatSun. 640 S. Winchester Blvd. 408.260.8224.
KUBOTA Japanese. $$. A beautiful dining room that serves exquisite rice, luscious ribs and decent sushi. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Sat, 59:30pm Sun. 593 N. Fifth St. 408.279.8440.
KUMAKO Ramen. $. Japantown now has its missing ingredient—good ramen. Kumako’s menu is simple: ramen, curry rice and a few appetizers. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 211 E. Jackson St. 408.286.2111. LAYANG LAYANG Malaysian. $$. Layang Layang shines with clean, fresh flavors and ingredients, and offers a great entry into Malaysian food. Service is fast and friendly, a feat given how harried the waitstaff can be. Wine and beer. Closed Mon. 1480 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.777.8897.
LE PAPILLON Contemporary French. $$$$. From start to finish, a meal at Le Papillon casts a spell on everyone who enters. The feeling is only broken when you walk out the door and abruptly step back into the real world outside. Full bar. Lunch 11:30am-2pm Fri; dinner nightly. 410 Saratoga Ave. 408.296.3730.
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MENARA Moroccan. $$$. Since 1977, Menara’s been throwing back the pillows and bellying up to mint tea rituals, b’stilla (pigeon pie) and rabbit tagine. Full dinner menu includes vegetarian option. Solid wine list. 6-10pm daily. 41 E. Gish Rd. 408.453.1983.
MT. HAMILTON GRANDVIEW Cowboy continental. $$$. The Grandview is an old-school roadhouse with a warm atmosphere. Add dishes like surf and turf, rack of lamb chasseur and chicken Cordon Bleu and you’ve got yourself a destination. 5-10:30pm Wed-Sun. 94 Mt. Hamilton Rd. 408.251.8909.
MY KHE QUAN HUE Vietnamese. $. Food from central Vietnam is underrepresented in San Jose and that’s part of what makes this small restaurant such a find. Excellent noodle soups. 9am-9pm daily except Wed. Cash only. 960 Story Rd. 408.920.9603.
THE MYNT Indian. $. The Mynt’s lunch buffet is a Silicon Valley standout, while the sit-down dinner menu has plenty to offer as well. Lunch 11:30am-2:30pm Mon-Sun; dinner 5:30-9:30pm Mon-Thu and 5:30-10pm Fri-Sat. 5210 Prospect Rd. 408.973.9673.
OMOGARI Korean. $. Omogari
PASTA POMODORO Italian. $. Exuberant, inexpensive and fast cuisine made to order and served with sparkle. High concept and low costs make Pasta Pomodoro a dream trattoria for lovers of robust Italian flavors. 11am-10pm daily. 1205 The Alameda. 408.292.9929.
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SIAM Thai. $$. Siam is a
Pizza. $$. The stony ovens of Pizza Antica turn out thincrusted designer pies with gourmet toppings in casual environs. Fine pasta and meat dishes also available. 11:30am10pm Sun-Thu, 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat. 334 Santana Row #1065. 408.557.8373.
sweet little Thai restaurant between Valley Fair and Santana Row. The menu offers a lineup of Thai standards and crowdpleasing combinations with Americanized names like “cashew lover,” “Thai angry” and “pleasing garlic.” There’s plenty to recommend. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5-9pm TueSat. 2910 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.246.0304.
PRESIDENT RESTAURANT Mongolian barbecue. $. This mom-and-pop eatery gears itself toward the common man with the uncommonly large appetite. Thrown into the bargain is a Chinese steamtable buffet. 11am-3pm, 4:309pm daily. 1190 Hillsdale Ave. 408.978.7188.
RAMEN HALU Japanese noodles. $$. Surfer-themed, casual-but-comfy, chef Kumao Arai’s noodle house imports traditional techniques to produce hearty, aromatic bowls stocked with pork-, seasalt- or soy-sauce-flavored broth. Cash only. Call ahead; hours are irregular. 375-M S. Saratoga Ave. 408.246.3933. RASA MALAYSIAN Malaysian. $$. Rasa Malaysian is a homey restaurant that offers a number of solid examples of Malaysian food including satay chicken, char tway keow and sambal kangkung. 11am3pm, 5-9pm Mon-Fri, 11am9pm Sat. 1290 Coleman Ave. 408.980.0668.
REHOBOTH Ethiopian. $$.
makes getting to know Korean food easy. The menu includes pictures of many dishes, the service is friendly and the food is consistently good. Try the dae gee bul go gi, spicy marinated pork. 11:30am-9:30pm Mon-Sat. 154 E. Jackson St. 408.280.6588.
Japantown isn’t all Japanese food. Rehoboth adds spice to the neighborhood with its diverse menu of Ethiopian standards. Carnivores, vegetarians and vegans are all well taken care of. Good coffee, too. 11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri-Sat. 665 N. Sixth St. 408.947.1717.
ORLO’S New American. $$$.
REYHAN Persian. $. Reyhan
On the lush grounds of the historic Hayes Mansion, this is one beautiful, luxurious dining room, with menu and excellent service to match. 5:30-9:30pm Tue-Sat. Hayes Conference Center, 200 Edenvale Ave. 408.226.3200.
restaurant is located in the most unlikely of areas—an industrial strip of Almaden Road in south San Jose. As such, the place is kind of an oasis—an oasis of kebabs. 11am-8pm daily. 1625 Almaden Rd. 408.293.3600.
Eritrean. $. Often it’s the places you have to work to find that turn out to be the good ones. Selam is tucked away in a mall off Winchester Boulevard, but the food is a real standout. 10am-10pm daily. 3120 Williams St. 408.984.9600.
SIENA MEDITERRANEAN BISTRO Mediterranean. $$$. Tucked into picturesque Willow Glen, this tiny bistro offers big tastes. Entrees such as Moroccan Cornish game hen, venison medallions and seasonal risotto battle for your appetite with a bread pudding dessert. Patio dining available. 1359 Lincoln Ave. 408.271.0837.
SINO RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Modern Chinese. $$$. Sino is owned by Christopher Yeo, the restaurateur behind Straits. The restaurant offers both traditional Chinese cooking and a few modern riffs. Good dim sum, too. 11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am-midnight Wed-Sat. 377 Santana Row. 408.247.8880.
STRAITS RESTAURANT Asian fusion. $$$. By night it’s a jam-packed hipster clubhouse; by day it’s Singaporean chef Chris Yeo’s latest chic fusion venue. Small plates share the menu with entrees such as the lobster and shrimp pad thai. Outdoor seating available. 11am-10pm Sun-Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 333 Santana Row #1100. 408.246.6320.
THEA Greek and Turkish. $$. While some dishes have a tenuous connection to Turkey and Greece, the pretty restaurant serves a number of standouts like the roasted prawns, octopus salad and excellent moussaka. Full bar. 11:30am-3pm, 58:30pm daily. 3090 Olsen Dr. 408.260.1444.
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Italian. $$. Like a warm Italian embrace, this Santana Row superstar proves a welcome haven for company lunches and congenial dinner parties. The food is a cut above standard, with roast chicken and veal marsala standing out. 11am-10pm Mon-Thu, 11am-11pm Fri-Sat, noon-10pm Sun. 3055 Olin Ave. #1000. 408.423.8973.
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HAWK JONES Blank Club, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free
I love bands that channel raw, straightforward punk-rock energy but deliver it with some intricate musicianship and without ever sacrificing that hard edge. That combination describes Hawk Jones in a nutshell. While the spastic drums do their thing, the guitarist is bouncing between musical extremes—one minute, he’s playing technical finger-tapping progressions, and the next he’s creating spacious textures and feedback. (Never anything in the middle—the kind of stuff that every other guitarist plays.) Add to that an additional layer of keyboards and
electronics, giving the songs a tense uneasy feeling that will consistently surprise and assault you like a slap in the face. (AC)
MYKA 9 Johnny V’s, San Jose Wed – 9pm; $5 after 10pm Michael Troy has never gotten the credit he deserves for helping to found the sound of West Coast freestyle. Back in the early ’90s, when he was in L.A.’s Freestyle Fellowship with childhood friend Aceyalone, it seemed like there was nothing stopping him. But while Aceyalone is now an underground hip-hop icon, Troy, who raps as Myka 9, is still under the radar. In this age of Eric Wright worship, if having written raps for N.W.A. doesn’t put you over, it’s hard to imagine what would. But look no further than
Mos Def and Jose James to see the influence he’s had on a whole generation of artists. For his guest appearance tonight at the Cypher, he’ll be spinning dubstep. Rude bwoy Winstrong will be with him; J the Sarge, Aero-One, DJ Ichie Fingaz and Haez-One will also guest. (SP)
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Club Fox, Redwood City Thu – 8:30pm; $10 Soul music isn’t always laid back, love-making music. There was of course the Northern Soul movement in the ’60s (and the Motown and Stax artists that inspired them). It was energetic, dare I say aerobic music,
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though soulful nonethelless. Santa Cruz’s Inciters take their cues from this one particular slice of the soul scene. It’s easy to tell even from their threads (and the fact that they were chosen to play at the recent ’60s Retro Pop show) that they wear their love for the decade on their sleeves. It’s a lot of band, too. We’re talking 11 members, including a full horn section and three different female singers. With Keyser Soze and Champions Inc. (AC)
comes to the valley courtesy of the Sunset Concerts series with a program doling out selections by Mozart, Shostakovich and Beethoven. The Rossetti ensemble includes violinists Henry Gronnier and Sara Parkins, viola player Thomas Diener and cellist Eric Caenslen. The group’s name is a nod to the aesthetic influence of Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti (who once buried his poems in his wife’s grave and then exhumed them for publication—but that’s another story altogether). (MSG)
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Nickel City, San Jose Fri – 7:30pm; $6 Bell Thieves, San Jose’s punk-y alternative-rock outfit, put out a four-song EP called Real Fun,
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Apr 21–May 6, Opera San Jose, at the California Theatre, San Jose
AMSTEL QUARTET Apr 22 at 3pm, Montalvo Arts Center
MIRANDA LAMBERT Apr 27 at 6:30pm, Shoreline
COLDPLAY Apr 27-28 at 7pm, HP Pavilion
DAYDREAM NATION With Dogcatcher and Benjamin Henderson, Apr 28 at 7pm, San Pedro Square Market, San Jose
BASSNECTAR May 5 at San Jose Event Center
KEOLA BEAMER May 6 at 2:30pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium
COULTER/PHILLIPS May 6 at 3pm, Montalvo Arts Center
WILD JAM May 10 at 7:30pm, HP Pavilion
SUGARLAND Jun 1 at 7:30pm, Shoreline
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MAYHEM FESTIVAL and indeed it is. The first song, “Rhinosaurus,” is a ’90s-inspired noise-pop gem. “Track and Field Girls” is a trippy piano ballad that is as moving as it is odd. “Ruby” is a dissonant Dinosaur Jr.–style instrumental track and the last song, “Salt,” strikes a weird balance between the Strokes and the hypertense early-’80s nonwave movement. Good stuff! (AC)
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SKULLDROPS Johnny V’s, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $5 after 10pm It’s difficult to describe the sound of SkullDrops, except to say it’s pretty much what any duo whose members
are called Skulltrane and Lotus Drops should sound like. The San Francisco electro group’s grooves are druggy and sludgy, almost psychedelic, and layered with glitchy beats, samples, theremin and whatever else they could get their hands on, it seems. They’ll headline this week’s edition of South Bay Dub Massive, which also features DJ Lucidal and Ra Noize. (SP)
ROCK HOP Art Boutiki, San Jose Sat – 7pm; So, Please Do Not Fight and Picture Atlantic decided to take control of the local scene by basically booking their own shows in San Jose and creating the bimonthly “Rock Hop.”They trade off which shows each of the band play and round up a bunch of local (and touring) bands that they like. So far it’s been a big success. This month
it’s Please Do Not Fight’s turn. Their mixture of modern slicked-out indie rock and ’90s alternative emo (a la Bright Eyes) have won them plenty of fans in the South Bay, as well as San Francisco (their current hometown). Speaking of San Francisco, they’ve had such good fortune with the Rock Hop shows down here that they are doing their first S.F. Rock Hop this month, too. (AC)
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN HP Pavilion, San Jose Tue – 7:30pm; $65-$98 He’s back in fighting form for his
first tour in three years. He was once too handsome, and easy to underrate because of it. He was once so populist that even Reagan could try to jump on his bandwagon, after being given a push by George Will. But the grind of life has marked Bruce’s face into something like the touches of an Elvis Costello fury. I don’t know if he looks angrier than he used to be, but Springsteen looks so much smarter now. The 62-year-old rocker has an AM talk show hosts’ subject: the continued raiding and hoodwinking of the land he loves. The hit “We Take Care of Our Own” heralds an album that’s stadiumpleasing, but during this tour Springsteen is demonstrating the kind of musical eclecticism that embraces everything from Irish folk to guest vocals by Michael Moore. (RvB)
Jul 1 at Shoreline
AZIZ ANSARI Jul 19 at San Jose Center for the Performing Arts
NEIL DIAMOND Aug 7 at 8pm, HP Pavilion
CS&N Sep 8 at San Jose Civic
MADONNA Oct 6 at 8pm, HP Pavilion For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com
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Day Jobs WA RW WATERWORLD Ian Treasure’s installation conjures up an army of water coolers.
A new group show at SJICA examines life, love and liquidity in the modern Office By MICHAEL S. GANT
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HOSE OF us not blessed with jobs as test pilots, deepsea divers or street mimes spend most of our lives in offices, where we are privileged—or condemned— to muse on the futility of the human condition.
My cubicle—if one partition wall maketh a true cubicle—can be found in close proximity to a copier that daily exacts terrible tributes from all who dare use it. Curses, deprecations and pleas can be heard as the machine steadfastly refuses to accept its assigned chores, protesting instead that it is
missing some vital piece of properly sized paper or needs its fusing oil unit replaced. Banging, rattling, slamming, sometimes kicking follow, all to little avail. Some of the spirit of this helpless searching for shards of meaning and job satisfaction in Sisyphean challenges informs a new group show called “The Office” at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Eleven artists have contributed works that either comment on or repurpose the materials and rituals of the workaday world. Jonn Herschend’s conceptual piece Proposal for Copy Machine Location Change makes use of the gallery’s own copier, moving it into the public realm, where it occasionally spits out documents detailing future artistic endeavors. It’s more than a readymade
in the Dada se sense; it’s functional art at iits b best. A At lleast, it seems to work better than the machine by my desk. Some of the artists grasp the mundane and present it in new and striking ways. Kirk Crippens’ five large archival pigment prints of office potted plants focus on what is often overlooked in our daily rounds. These token bits of greenery, attempting to flourish in a fluorescent environment, appear especially forlorn under Crippens’ pitiless gaze. One spider plant sits atop a metal canister that comes with a warning label about its toxicity. No wonder the underwatered leaves droop, curl and brown. Are the employees next? In Drift, an exquisite array of 15 small framed pieces, Alison Foshee uses staples, straight and kinked, minutely applied to paper, to create tiny metallic feathers caught in mid-waft as if shaken loose from a mechanical bird. The results are as beautiful as the repetitive process must have been numbing. Equally as meticulous are Jill Sylvia’s ledger-paper cutouts. With a fine blade, she has precisely eliminated the informational spaces of an accounting
book, leaving a lacy, see-through grid, like a rectilinear doily. Here is the superstructure of capitalism with no substance—a perfect metaphor for the financial meltdown. Also recycling (or maybe liberating) office supplies, Mitra Fabian has connected scores of binder clips and draped them on the high back wall of the gallery in descending swags. From a distance, they look like cracks in an ancient rock face; close up, they seem more like a sagging organic organizational chart. Once we were promised a “paperless office,” clearly a lie. Instead, paper continues to proliferate. Penny Young takes advantage of an endless supply to create a huge Clerical Vortex, a cyclone twister sculpture spun together from miles and miles of shredded paper. We’re not in the Kansas branch office anymore, Toto. Fritzie Brown turns management tools into a witty new approach to the emotional spasms that interrupt our corporate responsibilities. In a series of carefully color-coded bar graphs and pie charts suitable for a meeting presentation, Brown tracks The Effect of a Love Affair on the Productivity of an Office Worker. For instance, consider the amount of non-work-related mental activity that consumes the romanticizing worker— “Jealous Imaginings” and “Steamy Recollections” eat into the bottom line, at least until the affair cools down. Best of all is Ian Treasure’s wonderful installation Water Coolers of the World Unite. Twelve ubiquitous dispensers face the viewer in four rows of three. Their upside-down clear-plastic jugs give them the alarming aspect of human beings with extra-large heads. The effect is magnified by the random glurgs, glubs and glogs that the artist has programmed into the machines. These rumblings sound strangely like traditional chit-chat at the water cooler: a lot of profound pontification signifying nothing. For one of the few times I can remember, I laughed spontaneously and out loud in an art gallery. And then I returned to my cubicle. THE OFFICE Shows through June 2 SJ Institute of Contemporary Art 560 S. First St., San Jose
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Faust April 21–May 6; California Theatre, San Jose; $51–$101 Could there be a more tempting event this weekend than Opera San Jose’s production of Gounod’s version of Faust? The tale of a man who makes a fateful bargain with the devil just for some paltry youth-extension clause never ceases to echo with moral questions that each generation must answer anew. The show is double-cast, with Michael Dailey and Alexander Boyer trading off in the lead role; it opens Saturday at 8pm, with a Sunday show at 3pm.
Arts Splash! Saturday, 11am-4pm; Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga; free As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of the building of the Phelan mansion, Montalvo hosts a day bursting with family activities, include workshops, student performances, open studios, face painting and food trucks. We are especially keen on the 11am talk by literary fellow Andrew Pham, who has been a contributor to Metro over the years and who has not one, but two new books coming out.
Centuries of Guitar Saturday, 8pm; Le Petit Trianon, San Jose; $10–$25 Guest guitarist Marc Teicholz joins the South Bay Guitar Society and the Mission Chamber Orchestra. The program features Vivaldi’s lute concerto as well as the world premiere of a guitar concerto by Lee Actor. Monte Sereno resident Actor is a regular driving force on the local classical scene; Teicholz is a professor at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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DANCINGONTHEROW As part of National Dance Week, sjDANCEco presents an outdoor festival featuring performers from more than 40 area dance groups. Sun, 10am-3pm. Free. Park Valencia, Santana Row.
Opera OPERASANJOSE The company presents Gounod’s version of “Faust.” Apr 21, 26, 28, May 1 and 4, 8pm, Apr 22, 29 and
May 6 at 3pm. $51-$101. California Theatre, San Jose.
Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$40. The Stage, San Jose.
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BACH AT LEIPZIG A comedy about the high-stakes world of Baroque music in the late 1700s; presented by Pear Avenue Theatre. Runs thru Apr 22. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$30. Pear Theatre, Mountain View.
BUFFALO’ED The Stage presents the world premiere of a drama about the Buffalo Soldiers who served in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Runs thru Apr 29. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm,
A version of Gogol’s tale adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and mounted by Bus Barn Stage Company. Runs thru May 5. Wed (Apr 18 and May 2), 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun 3pm (Apr 22) or 7pm (Apr 29). $24-$32. Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos.
FRANKIEANDJOHNNYINTHE CLAIRDELUNE A Manhattan romance by Terrence McNally; presented by Northside Theatre Co. Runs thru May 6. ThuSat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. $15/$20. Northside Theatre, San Jose.
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metroactive ARTS 33 HAIRSPRAY Broadway by the Bay begins its new season with the popular musical. Runs thru Apr 22. Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $20-$48. Fox Theatre, Redwood City.
IN THE HEIGHTS Broadway San Jose brings the musical about the struggles and dreams of Latino immigrants in New York to town. Runs thru Apr 22. WedThu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6pm. $20-$75. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.
9 TO 5 A musical about office work, with songs by Dolly Parton. A Marquee Production from Children’s Musical Theater. Runs thru Apr 22. Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1pm. $30. Montgomery Theatre, San Jose.
Classical Concerts The acclaimed classical saxophone group performs in the Historic Villa. Sun, 3pm. $10-$30. Montalvo Arts Center. The a capella group sings earlymusic selections for Stanford Lively Arts series. We, 8pm. $24/$48. Memorial Church, Stanford.
CALIFORNIAGUITARTRIO The group is joined by Montreal Guitar Trio for a night of classical and jazz. Sun, 7:30pm. $27-$35. Carriage House Theatre, Montalvo Arts Center.
DIWU A recital by Chinese pianist Di Wu; presented by the Steinway Society. Sun, 2pm. $41.50 and up. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.
A three-weekend run of staged readings of brand-new plays-in-progress. “Don’t Be Evil” runs Apr 20, 29 and May 5. “Intelligent Men Ask for Directions” runs Apr 21, 27 and May 6. “Astonishment” runs Apr 22, 28 and May 4. Evenings at 8pm, Sunday matinees at 2pm. $10. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.
For a program called “Centuries of Guitars,” the orchestra, in conjunction with the South Bay Guitar Society, welcomes guest soloist Marc Teicholz for concerto’s by Vivaldi and Lee Actor; the program also includes Mozart’s Symphony no. 39 and Hilary Tann’s “Adirondack Light” with narrator Nils Peterson. $10$25. Sat, 8pm. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.
SHADY SHAKESPEARE The local company throws a party for William Shakespeare with light refreshments and performances. Sat, 6pm. $25$50. Fallon House, San Jose.
TIN PAN ALLEY RAG Tabard Theatre presents a musical play featuring songs by Scott Joplin and Irving Berlin. Runs thru Apr 22. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm (added show Apr 19, 8pm). $15-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.
Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. $10. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 9pm, Sat, 8 and 10:30pm, Sun, 8pm: Willie Barcena. $13/$20. Sunnyvale.
SANJOSEIMPROV Wed, 8pm: Big Al’s Big Ass Comedy. Thu, 8pm, Fri, 8 and 10pm, Sat, 7 and 9pm, Sun, 7pm: Pablo Francisco. $25. San Jose.
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The new production by TheatreWorks of the famed Steinbeck tale of the friendship between George and Lennie. Tue-Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm (no 2pm show Apr 28), Sun, 2 and 7pm (no 7pm show Apr 29). $29-$69. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
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PHILHARMONIABAROQUE The evening is devoted to Handel’s “Alexander’s Feast, or the Power of Music.”Thu, 8pm. $25-$95. Atherton Center for the Performing Arts.
ROSSETTISTRINGQUARTET A night of Mozart, Shostakovich and Beethoven as part of Sunset Concerts series. Fri, 8pm. $10-$25. St. Luke’s Church, Los Gatos.
Comedy ANGELICA’SBISTRO Wed, 8pm: Comedy night hosted by Dan St. Paul. No cover. Redwood City.
COMEDYSPORTZ Fri, 9pm and Sat, 7 and 9pm: Live improv comedy. Fri, 11pm: The Midnight Show. Inside the Camera 3 building, San Jose.
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Museums ARTMUSEUMOFLOSGATOS “Two Apart.” Paintings by Cuong Nguyen. Thru Apr 27. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm. Los Gatos.
CANTORARTSCENTER “Light Works.”Two minimalist installations by Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin. Thru Jul 8. “Wood, Metal, Paint: Sculpture from the Fisher Collection.”Thru Oct 13. “Memory and Markets: Pueblo Painting in the Early 20th Century.”Thru May 27. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.
CHILDREN’SDISCOVERY MUSEUM “Mammoth Discovery!” Plus activities and hands-on fun for kids. Mon-Sat, 10am-5pm, Sun, noon-5pm. Discovery Meadow, San Jose.
DESAISSETMUSEUM “Chain Reaction: Artists Consider the Bicycle.” “Clunkers to MTBs: The Evolution of the Mountain Bike.”Thru Jul 1. “Indelibly Yours: Smith Andersen Editions and the Tattoo Project.” A show of works inspired by tattoos. Thru Jul 1. “Andy Warhol: Polaroids and Portraits.”Thru Jul 1. Tue-Sun, 11am-4pm. Santa Clara University.
HISTORYMUSEUMOF LOSGATOS “Radiant Light: Memories From the Ming Quong Home in Los Gatos.”Thru Jul 15. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm. Los Gatos.
HISTORYPARKSANJOSE “Bay Area Youth Art Month Exhibit.” Runs thru mid-May. Pacific Hotel Gallery, San Jose.
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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Mexicanismo through Artists’ Eyes.”Thru Sep 23. “Frank Lobdell: Wonderland.” A retrospective exhibit of works by the major Bay Area abstract painter. Thru Aug 5. “To Hell and Back.” A selection from the museum’s collection of illustrations for Dante by Sandow Birk. Thru Sep 16. “Renegade Humor.” A show about the uses of humor in art, with pieces by Roy De Forest, John Bankston, M. Louise Stanley and more. Thru Jul 8. Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Quilt National.” A juried show of contemporary quilt and fiber art. Thru Apr 29. Tue-Sun, 10am5pm. San Jose.
TECH MUSEUM Exhibits about science and technology. New exhibit about International Space Station. Mon-Wed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.
TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Rosa Louca dos Ventos.” Mixedmedia works by Brazilian-born artist Silvia Poloto. Thru May 2. Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.
Galleries ANNO DOMINI “The California State Institution,” a solo show by English artist Vermin. Thru May 19. “Ordinary People,” by Daniel Jesse Lewis. Thru Apr 21. San Jose.
ART ARK GALLERY “Urbanity,” a group show about life in the city. San Jose.
BRUNI GALLERY “The Jazz Masters Series” by BRUNI. San Jose.
DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “Nature Magnified,” a photo show. San Jose.
FILOLI Annual show of Botanical art. Thru Jun 24. Woodside.
GALLERY SARATOGA “The Floral Collection,” watercolors by Jennifer
Kretschmer. Thru May 6. TueSun, 11am-6pm. Saratoga.
GOOD KARMA CAFE “I Can’t Go On; I’ll Go On.” New works by J. Santos. Thru Apr 27. San Jose.
HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE Works by Lee Middleman. Thru Apr 26. San Jose.
KALEID GALLERY “Selcouth,” new works by Shannon Amidon combining man-made and natural things. “Of War and Peace, the Truth Just Twists, Its Curfew Gull Just Glides,” paintings by Andre Hart. Thru Apr 27. San Jose.
KING MAIN LIBRARY An exhibit celebrating SJSU’s role as the original “California State” institution of higher learning. Thru Jul 31. Special Collections. King Main Library, San Jose.
MACLA “Latino Art Now,” an exhibit of current works leading to the annual art auction on May 19. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
MAIN GALLERY “Another Look,” featuring works by Arup Biswas, Nina Koepcke, Tony Williams and others. Thru Apr 22. Redwood City.
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER “O’ Great Reverie: Montalvo 1912-2012.” An exhibit about the history of the estate built by James Phelan 100 years ago. Thru May 13. Thu-Sun, 11am3pm. Saratoga.
MOHR GALLERY “Power,” drawings and prints by Fanny Retsek. Thru Jun 10. Reception Fri, 6-8pm. Community School of Music and Art, Mountain View.
PACIFIC ART LEAGUE “40 Watts: Illuminating Herstory,” a group show by the Women’s Caucus for Art. Thru Apr 27. Palo Alto.
PALO ALTO ART CENTER “Water Lilies,” an installation piece by Judith Selby Lang using recycled plastic bottles at Palo Alto’s Baylands Nature Preserve. Tru Apr 22. Palo Alto.
PHANTOM GALLERIES “Soliloquies from the Silent Country.” Window-front installations by Lacey Bryant.
GOGOL, NOT GOOGLE Bus Barn Stage Company presents the classic Gogol tale ‘The Government Inspector,’ about a village panicked by the thought of a visit from the powers that be. The show runs through May 5 in Los Altos.
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appetizers, adoptable animals and music by Maxx Cabello Jr. Proceeds benefit local animal shelters. Sat, 7-11pm. $25. Clarion Hotel, San Jose.
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A chance to meet the satirist and author of “Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art.”Tue, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
Group show by local artists. San Jose.
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A signing and reading by the author of “Swim Back to Me.” Wed, 7pm. Palo Alto Library.
A talk by Scott Shields of the Crocker Art Museum about the Monterey Peninsula art colony of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Thu, 2pm. $25/$30. Filoli, Woodside.
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Peele’s new book, “Killing the Messenger,” tells the story of the murder of Chauncey Bailey. Thu, 7pm. Books Inc., Palo Alto.
An open house and student festival of the arts with performances, open studios, live music, plant sale and more; event includes a talk by literary fellow Andrew Pham at 11am. Sat, 11am-4pm. Free. Montalvo Arts Center.
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PHO69 “A World of Colors and Whim,” by Florence de Bretagne. Thru May 25. San Jose.
“The Office.” A group show looking at the oddities and absurdities of life in the modern office. Thru Jun 2. “Younhee Paik: Ascending River.” Large-scale gallery installation. Thru May 12. “4x4.” Videos in the Cardinale Project Room. Thru Jun 14. TueFri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
SJSU GALLERIES Works by student artists. Inside the Art Building and Industrial Studies Building, SJSU.
SLG BOUTIKI The best of the ArtShots video contest. Thru Apr 27. San Jose.
STANFORD ART SPACES Paintings by Jose Allen and Wayne Jiang, and photographs by Terry Thompson. Thru Jun 21. Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5pm. Paul G. Allen Art Spaces Gallery, Stanford.
WORKS SAN JOSE “Outlast,” a group show about female self-esteem and body image. Thru Apr 22. San Jose.
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POETRYMONTHEVENT Everyone is invited to read one poem. Thu, 7pm. Willow Glen Library.
CELINESHIMIZU A book event with author of “Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods.”Thu, 7pm. Kepler’s, Menlo Park.
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COOLER SMARTER In conjunction with Earth Day, a presentation by David Friedman of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Angie Coiro about “Practical Steps for Low-Carbon Living.” Sun, 2pm. $5/$10. Tech Museum, San Jose.
The market is open for the season with scores of vendors. Every Sun, 10am-2pm. West St. John Street between N. Almaden Avenue and N. San Pedro Street, San Jose.
OLDIESBUTGOODIESDANCE A night of rock & roll old style. Sat, 5pm. $10. Seven Trees Community Center, San Jose.
SHOOTTHEMOON A screening and discussion of a film about thre reality of the foreclosure problem. Fri, 6pm. Eastside Preparatory High School, East Palo Alto.
SIDEWALKARTSANDCRAFTS FESTIVAL The 30th edition of the outdoor event. Fri-Sat, 10am-6pm, Sun, 10am-5pm. Free. Downtown Menlo Park.
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A celebration of nature. Sat, noon-4pm. Free. Los Altos History Museum.
A program about the French attorney Jacques Verges, who often defends radicals, presented by TriValley Peace Group. Fri, 7pm. $5-$10 donation requested. San Jose Peace and Justice Center.
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A chance to learn about local and global eco issues and to meet Judith Selby Lang, the artist behind the new “Water Lilies” installation. Sun, 11am3pm. Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve.
A family-friends event with some pro wrestlers, including WWE star Rikishi and some Luchadores. Proceeds go to help Santa Clara Schools Foundation. Sat, 5:30pm. $8-$25. Peterson Middle School, Sunnyvale.
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FARMERSMARKET ARTISTS AT CONTINENT’S END
The famed novelist and biographer appears in a Center for Literary Arts event with brother Tobias. Wed, 1pm. Free. King Main Library, San Jose.
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WAILERS’ ILERS’ SOUL Bob Marley had a charisma that turned reggae into a worldwide phenomenon.
A new documentary captures some of the musical power and magic that Bob Marley created By RICHARD VON BUSACK
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S WITH the tale of Elvis—it is strange to consider the emergence of people from very humble circumstances and their ability to catalyze public feeling, how they arrive to give the world what it badly needed.
The fine documentary Marley by Kevin MacDonald includes a scene that sums up that mystery. Marley had a half-sister named Constance, who never knew him personally. Given an MP3 player and headphones, Constance is asked
to listen to Marley’s 1970 song “Cornerstone.” Constance knew the song but not the subject, about how Bob Marley was rejected by his father’s side of the family. Marley has its moments of contemplativeness—aerial views of the strange, steep, round hills of Jamaica, rolling like waves for mile after mile. The documentary begins in Ghana at the infamous “Door of No Return,” the gate leading to the docks of the slave ships. It ends with Marley’s own last voyage to the cemetery. Perhaps the film is most unusual at the point where Macdonald takes time out to study Constance’s face. The lyrics to “Cornerstone” come from Psalm 118 and refer to how the stone that the builders rejected became the cornerstone.
Constance murmurs, “How true She adds iis that!” h !” Sh dd that h the h name Marley is famous now not because of her father’s family, prominent construction business owners in Jamaica. Rather, the world’s most famous Marley is the scorned illegitimate child of a British Army vet in his 60s, and Cedella Booker, a black Jamaican girl in her teens from Nine Hills in St. Ann’s parish. MacDonald works with a wealth of material. If Marley is, like most mystics, essentially unknowable, we can see the people he knew and the places he lived. Marley’s childhood home was the size of a garden shed, with a cacophony of roosters around it. In his youth, he and his mother left for Kingston’s Trench Town, a shambles of corrugated iron and salvaged wood. Bob’s mother, Cedella, left for Delaware when he was 17, by which time Marley already a musician. Marley was a devout Rastafarian at this point, embracing the faith that the emperor of Ethiopia was Christ reborn, smoking the Bible-endorsed
MARLEY PG-13; 144 min. Opens Friday, Camera 3, San Jose
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herb and growing his hair into tangled locks. His sound was expanded by Lee “Scratch” Perry, the kind of eccentric who would baptize the four corners of the studio with white rum before starting a session. Marley also fell into the orbit of Chris Blackwell of Island Records. Blackwell says he believed he knew how to “pasteurize” Marley and the Wailers’ sound for the international markets. Bob Marley became an international ambassador for a music that stormed the world, even as he got caught up in partisan gunplay. Jamaica nearly blew up over the hotly contested election between parliamentary candidates Edward Seaga and Michael Manley; the dueling graffiti of the time read “CIAga” and “Is Manley Fault.” Perceived as too close to Manley, Marley took a bullet from thugs; he displayed his wounds at a concert to try to end tthe madness. If Marley felt there was a failure in his career, caree we learn, it was that reggae never nev massively electrified African American listeners. A Am close-up of a white American kid at a Marley concert, tossing his stoned head, hea says it all about how reggae’s deepest fan base is located in de thousands of college dorm rooms. But Marley Mar shows us a man of mysterious chemical power, of relentless energy and wariness. He was conservative because of his religion, and yet he indulged in affairs galore, with a Miss World, Cindy Breakspeare, as well as the daughter of the dictator Omar Bongo of Gabon. Marley is a full-sized, sympathetic portrait, and yet it’s not softheaded, even when the man’s bravery is overwhelming. At Marley’s last show, he was riddled with cancer. That didn’t stop him from telling the crowd in Pittsburgh that he’d like to play there every year, every week. Wittily, the film’s been chosen for a 4/20 release; it’s a shame not to hear this marvelous music under the influence. If you’re Rastafarian, perhaps it’s a sin as well.
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This Friday, Cinemark Century Theatres opens a new all-digital, 16screen facility in Fremont at 43917 Pacific Commons Blvd. This will be the first up-and-running theater in the city for about five years. Giveaways are promised on Friday and Saturday.
(1986/1985) Beloved easygoing piece of nothing about a Chicagoland teen playing hooky from high school, written and directed by John Hughes. Matthew Broderick is inoffensive as always in the lead. An actor named Alan Ruck steals the picture with his parody of an old spiritual: “When Cameron was in Egypt’s land.” Jeffrey Jones and Charlie Sheen co-star. BILLED WITH The Breakfast Club, which had a little more edge on it: it’s one pink-ribboned makeover short of a quite good young-adult film about a Saturday morning spent in detention, which becomes a day of bonding between types who’d never sit together at the cafeteria: Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, etc. (Plays Apr 20-22 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)
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He Who Gets Slapped THE Farrelly Brothers’ take on the deathless Three Stooges is like the steak that went through the transporter in David Cronenberg’s The Fly—it looks right, it smells right, but there’s something internally weird about the project after traveling through the dimensions. It could have been a monstrosity. An “updating” or a “reinvention” must have been threatened during this property’s trip through decades of development hell. But the film is really quite funny. And except for a “peeshooter” urine fight with a room full of babies, it’s not a disgrace. The plot is as thin as some of the tworeeler setups. Dropped off as babies at a Catholic orphanage, the three in adulthood set off on a quest to raise money to keep the place going. The Three Stooges proves once again that on the whole, acting today is better than screenwriting today. As Curly, Will Sasso is gratifyingly light on his feet and yet fearfully bulky, with the massive, invulnerable head kids rejoiced to see defeat any obstacle. Sean Hayes evokes the moonman quality of the dismayed Larry Fine, and Chris Diamantopoulos’ heavyweight scowl is worthy of the
real Moe Howard. (For that matter, young Skyler Gisondo makes a terrific urchin version.) Together, these Stooges act as more of a sum of their parts. They are choreographed as snappily as their models, those faithful yet despised keepers of the f lame of K_\ K_i\\ slapstick. One even Jkff^\j forgives the message PG; 92 min. to the kids by the Plays valleywide Farrellys at the end to please not poke each other’s eyes out in real life. In what’s obviously a labor of love, you have to overlook crassness. Product placement for Geico and several popular beers is a kind of finger in the eye, as is the inexpert stooging of the cast of Jersey Shore. (I so much don’t want to see Snooki, I don’t even want to see her submitted to the wrath of Moe.) And the clean, dull Atlanta landscapes are too bland a backdrop. There’s an America out there—blatant, poor, ugly and mean—a heaven where these stooges could have shone forth like the stars they are.—Richard von Busack
(G; 78 min.) Disneynature has made a point of releasing kid-friendly nature docs every year around 4/20 (claiming to tie the release date to something called Earth Day—nice try). Their sixth film follows the titular primate from the moment it is separated from its troop at the age of 3, until it is eventually adopted by an adult chimp. The chimp’s name is Oscar; somehow, considering the tale’s liberal use of sap and awe, I doubt that name choice was an accident. (Opens Fri valleywide.)
THE LUCKY ONE (PG-13; 101 min.) Nicholas Sparks, who at this point might as well partner up with Kleenex to finance his own production company, provides the source material for this tear-jerker staring Zac Efron as a U.S. soldier who arrives in North Carolina with a photograph he found while in battle of a woman he does not know. He credits the photo with keeping him alive, and through the magic of the movies he finds out her name and where she lives, eventually taking on a job at her family-run kennel in order to get closer to her. Blythe Danner also stars, and one hopes it’s as the woman in the photograph. (Opens Fri valleywide.)
MARLEY (PG-13; 144 min.) See review on page 37.
THE THREE STOOGES (PG; 87 min.) See review at left.
THINK LIKE A MAN (PG-13; 123 min.) Four friends decide to turn the tables on their respective girlfriends after they discover that the women have been using advice from Steve Harvey’s relationship advice book against them. The book in question is in fact real, and also serves as the source material and film’s title, a metatextual twist that officially makes this movie Waiting to Exhale with a dash of Inception. (Opens Fri.)
FIGHT CLUB (1999) David Fincher’s adaptation serves as a hideo-comic parody of the men’s movement, which is both subtler and crazier than the source novel. The unnamed Narrator (Edward Norton), an exhausted businessman bleating for reparenting, gets the Big Bad Daddy of his wildest dreams: the slobby but charismatic terrorist Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt, never better). Helena Bonham Carter is a stitch as Marla, the transient girl Durden picks up, sleeps with and drops. Pitt and Norton change the mood of the film, letting the humor of the book move to the forefront, allowing the novel’s endorsement of the violent life look more like a ridiculous pose and less like a stab at deep philosophy. (Plays Apr 19 at 9:30pm and Apr 21 at 11:30pm in San Jose at Camera 3) (RvB)
NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. Apr 21: Comedy shorts: “The Count” (1916) with Chaplin, Buster Keaton skippering the ill-fated U.S.S. Damfino in “The Boat” (1921), “Looking for Sally” (1925) with Charley Chase and “We Faw Down” (1928) with Laurel and Hardy. Frederick Hodges at the piano. (Plays Apr 21 at 7:30 in Fremont at the Edison Theater.) (RvB)
TWENTIETH CENTURY/ SCARFACE (1934/1932) See story on page 16.
AMERICAN REUNION (R; 155 min.) The entire cast of the 1999 original is back, presumably in an attempt to make viewers face their mortality and realize that 13 years passes at a heinously alarming speed. The ďŹ lm follows the rambunctious hormone-heavy teens-turned-adults as they return to their hometown in time for their 13-year reunion (an anniversary that no high school on this or any other Earth actually celebrates). Fans of the original will be pleased to see the entire group reunited, and perhaps horriďŹ ed at the cruel effects of father time on once young and restless faces. But the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brand of raunchy comedy and heartfelt honesty is sure to be ďŹ tting for fans, and appropriate for the nowolder audience that may ďŹ nd the ďŹ rst ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more bawdy elements antiquated.
BLUE LIKE JAZZ (PG-13; 106 min.) Director Steve Taylor dramatizes Donald Millerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bestselling book of essays, sort of God and Man at Reed College. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a microbudgeted saga of a freshmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s year at the Portland school. Donald (Marshall Allman) has his own love of God tested by the hypocrisies of the Southern Baptists back home in Texas. He befriends the bisexual Lauryn (Tania Raymonde) as well as a blond Christian from Kansas (Claire Holt). Donald learns valuable principles about bike riding and the problems of plastic bottled water. But he also has to deal with the brutal ways in which atheists treat God-seekers, thanks to his friendship with a seriously annoying mitered and caped â&#x20AC;&#x153;Popeâ&#x20AC;? (Justin Welborn) who burns books. The ear for the eccentricities of the college is weak: The story of the Reed Pope is funnier in real life. Lauryn is never more than the sum of her sexuality, which, of course, isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t practiced. The straw-men style of the atheists here contradict what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure is meant as a message of all-inclusiveness. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inoffensive, anyway, though the Mother Teresa quote used here about the spiritual poverty of the West is truly revolting. (RvB)
of children who were hurt this way. In Yazoo City a 14-year-old named Jaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Meya goes to juvenile hall because she ďŹ&#x201A;ashed a pistol at her gang of tormentors. In Murray County, Georgia, Tyler Lee Long killed himself because of the pain he was undergoing. And in Grady County, Oklahoma, Kelby, a brave young lesbian, is given a serious shunning. Focusing on the heartland seems to be a strategy to overcome the hard hearts an audience might have about the terrifying things that go on in the inner city schools. Hence the lazily focused freight trains, grain elevators and summery lawns; a lot of indie-ďŹ lm backwash. Yet Bully is moving, and makes you wish you could tell these persecuted children that a child is told a lot of lies in school, but â&#x20AC;&#x153;it gets betterâ&#x20AC;? is not one of them. (RvB)
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (R; 95 min.) What could be more relaxing than a vacation in the woods for some pals: conďŹ dent prom-kingtype Curt (Chris Hemsworth); his girlfriend, Jules (Anna Hutchison); Dana (Kristen Connolly) as Our Surviving Virgin, and Holden (Jesse Williams) as hero materialâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not to snub the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true-North compass, the stoner Marty (Fran Kranz, using a lazy yet wise voice that sounds like folksinger Ramblinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jack Elliott). Joss Whedon and Drew Goddardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sendup of slasher ďŹ lms is adroit. And in some ways it even seems a compare and contrast with The Hunger Games, since the murders are being watched by a mysterious Mission Control. In tie and rolled-up sleeves,
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THE DEEP BLUE SEA (R; 98 min.) Terence Daviesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ďŹ rst feature in 11 years takes place in grim, strictured and shortage-prone England of 1950, as a judgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wife, Hester (Rachel Weisz, never better), is on the verge of suicide because of her hopeless love for a former RAF pilot, Freddie (Tom Hiddleston). Hester is â&#x20AC;&#x153;throwing it awayâ&#x20AC;? for physical passion, which surprises her as much as it does her husband. The affair is essentially over, though Hester is still struggling. Memories taunt her of an early sight of Freddie, looking handsomely uncomfortable and weakly attractive in a doublebreasted suit and an ascot, standing on the terrace of a country club. But Freddie isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a one-dimensional cad; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not above taunting Hester about her class, reminding her that his level of people saved her level of people from Hitler. Rather than rendering the story overly artiďŹ cial, the remarkable sets make it come alive. And because Daviesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; work is so immersive, he has surpassed the many attempts to revive this kind of restrained romantic drama without being recognizably old-fashioned or cornered by clichĂŠs. (RvB)
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JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI (PG; 81 min.) What Jiro Ono looks for is a sound: an exhalation of satisfaction that his customers make. The documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi touches on sturdier questions: Can perfection be obtained and is happiness only really be found in trying to pursue it? An old man with an impassive face, Ono is the force behind Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat sushi bar in Tokyo. It is a three-star Michelin restaurant, where the bill begins at 30,000 yen (about $360) and can go far higher. At 85 years old, the master Jiro is focused on work above all. As tripleX food porn, Jiro Dreams of Sushi is rapturous. By the time it’s over, you feel you can tell a little about the difference in grades of tuna, from the fatty to the finest and leanest, simply by the color. (RvB)
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FOOTNOTE (PG; 103 min.) This Israeli drama tells the tale of Eliezer Shkolnik and his son Uriel, who are rival professors in Talmudic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and whose strained relationship is put to the test when a case of mistaken identity leaves one mistakenly awarded a Laureate prize over the other. What follows is a careful game of tug-of-war in which one attempts to contain the truth at risk of disappointing the mistaken winner. If you’re looking for pathos, look elsewhere. This is a tale of ego at its absolute breaking point.
GOON (R; 92 min.) Superbad and Pineapple Express scribe Evan Goldberg cowrites this literal physical comedy about an outcast (Sean William Scott) who, tired of being labeled his brainy-family’s black sheep, joins a semipro hockey team as an “enforcer.” His job is to beat (up) opposing team members by any means necessary, which places him
at odds with his idol-turned-rival, Ross “the Boss” (Liev Schreiber). Brash and violent, with a dose of good-humor; Buster Keaton by way of Jackass.
THE HUNGER GAMES (PG-13; 109 min.) Easier to take seriously than it sounds. The drill, which you may know: in the future, two dozen 12-17 year olds are made to hunt and kill each other, fighting to the death in a camera-laden bio-dome with poisonous plants and genetically-engineered animals. On one level, Hunger Games is TV satire blown up to vast-screen size. Stanley Tucci is succulently smarmy as a peruke-wearing interviewer, whose oily over-familiarity and fake compassion is turned up high, even to the point of revolutionary art. Ultimately The Hunger Games is all about the ordeal, staged in North Carolina; Gary Ross’s visual storytelling is exciting, sometimes even daring (especially in the small-camera intimacy, as when the curl of Katliss’ lip fills the screen).
Woody Harrelson a sardonic, harddrinking former winner; Amandla Stenberg is subtle and intense as Rue, the smallest warrior; and Elizabeth Banks is the hateful spokeswoman Effie Trinket. But the main reason for the excitement is Jennifer Lawrence’s star-making performance as the reluctant warrior, Katliss. She’s created a powerful yet humane heroine, in a cinema that needs such a figure desperately. (RvB)
JEFF, WHO LIVES AT HOME (R; 83 min.) This indie comedy (which is a verifiable genre in and of itself by this point) stars Jason Segel (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, The Muppets) and Ed Helms (The Hangover, The Office) as two brothers on seemingly different life paths that always manage to converge in the same nexus to nowhere. Segel plays the titular brother eternally trapped in his parents basement, and Helms is equally trapped in a failed marriage. Susan Sarandon stars as the boys’
(R; 132 min.) As Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese activist who was kept under house arrest for 15 years, Michelle Yeoh shows great poise and intelligence. But the title of this failed biopic says it all. It’s a great lady performance with such dignity that the film suffocates in a triple-layered nest of flashbacks within its first 10 minutes. As director, Luc Besson has been called out of his depth as a woman’s film maker, on the grounds that he’s the pioneer of the empty ADD-cut action films that swamped the French cinema. The Lady’s style is all too tidy: International Oscar Bait, without a single innovation. Chastened by the fear of not being taken seriously, Besson chases every tang of action filmmaking out; it’s a passive, awkward film of complete tentativeness. Despite the travelposter views, it turns the people of Burma into either savages or helpful smiling servants. As Kyi’s Oxford teacher husband, already dying of cancer when the flashbacks begin, the great David Thewlis gives the impression of an actor who has run out of patience with the material. (RvB)
LOCKOUT (PG-13; 95 min.) In this real movie (I say real because the plot may sound like a parody trailer for a filmwithin-a-film), Guy Pearce stars as a man wrongly convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States and is offered his freedom if he is able to rescue the president’s daughter from an outer
space prison taken over by violent inmates.
MIRROR MIRROR (PG; 106 min.) Director Tarsem Singh’s ideas shine through in some moments, such as the life-size ivory puppets performing the preamble to Mirror Mirror. This is the late fashion designer Eiko Ishioka’s last film, and the costumes are rich. The Slavic touches in the visuals move the story of Snow White sideways, miles away from Disney. As the evil queen, an uninteresting Julia Roberts delivers lazy little putdowns to her minister Brighton (Nathan Lane). The story’s prince (Armie Hammer) turns out to not have much of a gift for farce. He seems to model himself on Brendan Fraser, going through it one more time for the sake of the kids in the audience. As for “Snow” herself, Lily Collins has an untouchable chipperness that recalls beach-party princess Annette Funicello. Credited writers Jason Keller and Marc Klein seem to be emulating The Princess Bride as a heavily narrated, in-jokeriddled story. Mirror Mirror insists that this tale has no power because it’s been told too many times. And then it makes sure we can’t take it seriously by telling it at the level of a high school skit. (RvB)
MONSIEUR LAZHAR (PG-13; 94 min.) This Academy Award–nominated Canadian drama (yes, things can get serious in Canada) tells the tale of an Algerian refugee who escapes to Montreal after his family is killed in an act of political vengeance; his wife has written a controversial novel criticizing the Algerian government. He is quickly hired by an elementary school in Montreal to replace a school teacher who has killed herself, never disclosing his own personal tragedy—or his state as an illegal Algerian immigrant.
OCTOBER BABY (PG-13; 107 min.) Andrew Erwin and his brother Jon, who photographed, co-wrote and produced, were inspired to make this propaganda film by the activism of Gianna Jessen. The 19year-old Hannah (Rachel Hendrix) collapses with asthma during a student play. She learns from her physician father (John Schneider, as bogusly heartland as a month of countrypolitan radio broadcasting) that she was a preemie who was adopted after a failed abortion. Thus, Hannah and Jason (Jason Burkey) head to Mobile, Alabama to find out why her birth-mother decided not to have her. Any sympathy we might have for this case of
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THE RAID: REDEMPTION (R; 101 min.) Some of the most stunning action choreography since Hong Kong was a crown colony is visible in Gareth Evansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; terribly exciting ďŹ lm The Raid: Redemption. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s close to pure sensation. In a foggy dawn, a Djakarta police SWAT team is driving up to a heavily fortiďŹ ed apartment building. The goal is the top ďŹ&#x201A;oor, where a Mabuse-like criminal (Ray Sahetapy) is secure behind a wall of closed circuit cameras and microphones. He has rented the entire building out to indebted fugitives. He has, as his last line of defense, a savage but skinny thug called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mad Dogâ&#x20AC;? (Yayan Ruhian): â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in a bad mood, I tend to lash out,â&#x20AC;? he explains. I scarcely think people ought to be apologetic for not wanting to watch this kind of thing. But while the situation is believable, the way itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
carried out is far too fantastic to take as sign of moral decline. The physical unfeasibility of the violence here is the real â&#x20AC;&#x153;redemption.â&#x20AC;? If the apartment-to-apartment ďŹ ghting we see here were even partially real, the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running time would be ďŹ ve minutes. Evans also dismissed the quick cutting to show us how this little-known martial art works. In his phenomenal stunt work, the only possible trick is not minding that it hurts. (RvB)
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN (PG-13; 111 min.) Lasse HallstrĂśm helms a comedy with dramatic undertones about a man who tries to introduce ďŹ&#x201A;y-ďŹ shing to an unlikely place. Stars Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor.
SILENT HOUSE (R; 85 min.) Elizabeth Olsen goes for what she thinks is a restful interlude in a secluded cabin in a wood. Then, of course, really weird stuff starts to happen. Chris Kentis and Laura Lau direct this Americanized version of a Uruguayan ďŹ lm by Gustavo HernĂĄndez.
TITANIC 3-D (PG-13; 194 min.) This tiny indie didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get much attention the ďŹ rst time around, so its lowly director and Paramount Pictures have ďŹ nally decided to give the ďŹ lm a threedimensional revamp in an effort to ďŹ nally make a buck off the picture.
Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see how it turns out. At the very least it may ďŹ nally force ďŹ lm buffs to ask, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just what happened to that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet?â&#x20AC;? So much promise, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hollywood for you.
21 JUMP STREET (R; 110 min.) They said it couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be done. They said it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be done. But directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller ignored the haters and went ahead and remade the silly â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s TV show into an even sillier movie with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. They even talked Johnny Depp into showing up.
WRATH OF THE TITANS (PG-13; 99 min.) Never has there been a ďŹ lm so loud that found a release date so quietly. This sudden-sequel to 2010â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Clash of the Titans (which, aside from a large box-ofďŹ ce gross, became most known for lowering the convertto-3-D bar) features a lot of the same: Perseus (Sam Worthington, returning) braves the horrors of the underworld in an attempt to save his father, Zeus (Liam Neeson, also returning) before the ancient Titans are unleashed upon the world. With the ďŹ scal crisis in Greece such a hot button issue, the ďŹ lm couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more politically relevant (surely its intention).
THE SALT OF LIFE (Unrated; 90 min.) Star/director/ producer Gianni Di Gregorioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s correct, old-worldly style sells comic material some would ďŹ nd a little creepy. A Roman retiree (Di Gregorio, billed as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gianniâ&#x20AC;?) seeks a young mistress, or at least is open to the possibility. Mitigating factors: Gianni is a good father. Gianni is less some reprehensible Signor Lecherelli than a Leopold Bloom, discreet and hopeful. Also, in the Trastevere where Gianni lives, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a custom for a man of a certain age to have a little friend. Fifty years ago, American screens were deluged with Italian sex comedies, and Di Gregorio plays with the received ideas of those daysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that Rome is a city of plunging necklines, drastic curves and men dreaming happily and wistfully of women, nothing but women. (RvB)
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maternal rejection subsides when we see how Hannah is pushed into everything. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a passive character, who does things by other peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s persuasion. Hannah especially obeys her father when he orders her to come and go, the kind of man who feels he has the right to ask his grown-up daughterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential boyfriend what his intentions are. October Baby canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dramatize these special circumstances and ďŹ nd the heartbreak in it: The movie is about the wrongness of all abortions. October Baby means, ultimately, to provide the anti-choice movement with a horror story of an aborted baby living to confront its mother and to make her weep with guilt. (RvB)
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Farewell To Avalon ON N THE TURNING AWAY OK Go played a sold-out show at the Avalon last year.
The popular Santa Clara nightclub and live-music venue is set to close June 30 By STEVE PALOPOLI
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HERE’S A certain symmetry to the alpha and omega of Santa Clara’s Avalon Nightclub. Mike Beard, who has booked hundreds of shows there though his Man Down Productions, remembers when Avalon owner Mike Jafari first transformed what used to be the DJ-dance spot Backbeat into a live music venue back in 2003.
As a Santa Clara native and a hardrock fan, Beard knew that Y&T lead singer Dave Maniketti lived not far from the club, and decided one day just to walk over to his house. “Dave was out there gardening or whatever,” he remembers. “You’re not really supposed to do that, but
I did. I didn’t care, because at that point Y&T was really doing nothing, Dave had this band called Maniketti. I said “Hey, Dave, my name’s Mike Beard. I grew up in this area, played little league down the street. There’s a club here that’s doing live music now, called the Avalon. Why don’t you call over and check it out?” Beard didn’t think much of it at the time. “But a couple days later, [Maniketti’s] wife, Jill, called the club and chewed Mike Jafari’s ass about me coming over to the house. But they started talking, and they played a show there,” he says. After a long, close relationship between the band and the club, which includes a benefit held for Y&T bassist Phil Kennemore before he passed away in 2011, Beard says “They’re cool about it now.” Fittingly, perhaps, Y&T will play the last-ever show at the Avalon, on the day the club is set to close, June 30. “It’s kind of come full circle,” says Beard.
Last Days There’s some symmetry, too, to the “Last Days of Avalon” show this Friday at the Santa Clara club. Headlining will be El Chicano, the L.A. group known for hits like “Tell Her She’s Lovely” and “Viva Tirado” in the 1970s. A documentary about the band, In The Eye of the Storm, was filmed at the Avalon in 2009. Bernie Gonzalez, who is producing the show though his Latin Rock Inc. company, decided to make it a tribute to the club after hearing Jafari was losing his space he had leased for the last nine years to developers who are expected to put in a medical center. “He called me in January, and let me know something was up, that he was fighting something with the landlord,” says Gonzalez. “In March, he asked me to fill in a date, and he let me know he was only going to be going to June or July. I thought this would be a good way to let people know, by calling it ‘Last Days of Avalon.’ I actually wanted to do a series of shows, but they knocked the date up a month.” Indeed, Jafari is tired of battling. “I did fight it,” says Jafari. “But I can’t afford to spend any more money on lawyers.” Letting it go means losing all
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the money that he’s put into improvements and additions, but it also means getting out of what has been a tangle of litigation and mediation. “It’s really sad that I have to leave everything we created behind,” he says. “It’s been a very, very difficult eight or nine months.” For almost a decade, the Avalon has been not just the center of nightlife in Santa Clara, but also one of the most important live-music clubs on the South Bay scene. Various promoters regularly book everything there from rock to hip-hop to metal to punk. Just this last year saw acts as varied as OK Go, Mickey Avalon, the late Ronnie Montrose, Andre Nickatina, the Misfits, Exodus, the Lemonheads, Immortal Technique and Portugal. The Man. “What I like is it’s intimate,” says Beard. “I mean, these artists come from backstage to the front by walking down the hallway. That’s one thing people really love. When you go to the Avalon, you are right there.” He is presenting a few of the other last shows at the club, like DRI’s 30th anniversary show May 31, and Suicidal Tendencies on June 3. And he’ll never forget the opportunity he got at Avalon. “I’m from the South Bay, but I could never get any venues around here to give me the time of day,” he says. “The Catalyst, the VooDoo Lounge, all these places. The Avalon was a no-brainer. It’s a beautiful place, great sound system, free parking, all ages, you couldn’t ask for a nicer place.” “I love the venue,” agrees Gonzalez. “I just liked the shape and feel of it. It wasn’t a big square like the Fillmore. People could sit down if they want, they could dance if they want. I’m going to miss that place.” He’ll miss Jafari, too, but hopefully not for long. “Mike is a great guy to work with,” he says. “He’ll resurrect somewhere.” Indeed, that’s exactly where Jafari has turned his attention. “I am working on a couple other properties,” he says. “Nothing is set.”
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The edgier acts at Mountain Winery have almost always been the openers, but Sarah Silverman will buck that trend when she brings her always-offensive-to-someone standup act to the 2012 summer series on June 23. The complete lineup, with shows from May 25 to Oct. 6, is available now.
SUN, APR 22, 7:30PM CARRIAGE HOUSE THEATRE “Winning, energetic and highly accessible…” - L.A. Times The California Guitar Trio’s technical wizardry is breathtaking, as is the wide range of instrumental music the group renders….everything from unique originals to dazzling, cleverly-arranged interpretations of jazz, classical, and even surf rock.
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Rock/Pop ANGELICA’S BISTRO Sat, 8:30pm: Claire Mack presents the Women of Soul Revue. $20/$25. Mon, 7pm: Clay Hawkins. $6/$10. Redwood City.
Thu, 10pm: Sexy Back. Fri, 9:30pm: Metal Shop. Sat, 10pm: Sugadady. Sun, 8:30pm: The Gents. Mon, 9:30pm: Matt Bolton. Campbell.
BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Drive! Sat, 10pm: Sexy Back. San Jose.
Free on-site parking! JOHNNY V’S Thu: Blues night. Fri: 420 show with Drunker Starfighter, Teshua and the Hightones, Larso the King and more. Sat: South Bay Dub Massive. Mon: Hard of Heart, Repent or Perish, To Our Legends and more. Tue: Sawn Packer and Steely Nash. San Jose.
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AVALON Thu: Evidence. Fri: El Chicano, Salvador Santana, Showtyme. Sat: Forbidden. Santa Clara.
THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Hawk Jones, Noisea-Tron. Free. Fri, 9pm: Them Rude Boys, 12 Steps to Nothing, Tony and the Pendletons. $7. San Jose.
BOSWELL’S Wed, 9:30pm: Jack Rip-Off.
THE CATS Thu, 8pm: Daniel Ben Marley. Los Gatos.
LILLY MAC’S
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THE GRAPEVINE
Fri, 8:30pm: OTR. $10. Sat, 8:30pm: Soul Intention. $10. Tue, 7pm: Jam. Santa Clara.
Thu, 7pm: Peter Chung and Chris Chavez. Willow Glen.
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Fri, 7:30pm: Bell Thieves, Coast Jumper, Fierce Creatures.
Tue, 8pm: Bruce Springsteen. $68 and up. San Jose.
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ELEGANCE MAY BE in its name, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best kind of casual at the Elegant Pub.
Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in a Name? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;M OUT in the rain again as I drive down Capitol Expressway into the heart of San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s East Side. Somewhere in this stretch of urban sprawl lies tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s objective: a bar with the slightly misleading misnomer of the Elegant Pubâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;somewhereâ&#x20AC;? being the operative word. Even though I looked up the address before I left the house and drew a dandy map on a piece of origami paperâ&#x20AC;&#x161; I am so lost. Part of the problem I blame on the downpour and the darkness, but mostly itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because all the shopping plazas (and there are several) look alike. I ďŹ nally ďŹ nd the place, buried in a far corner between a State Farm office and an electronics-repair store, indistinguishable from its neighbors but for its neon sign: a martini glass and the words The Elegant Pub. After a quick ID scan and a The Elegant Pub disconcerting pat-down by the security guard, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in. When one says â&#x20AC;&#x153;elegant pubâ&#x20AC;&#x161;â&#x20AC;? what springs to mind is a building with a distinct facade, wood-trimmed walls, gold chandeliers, and patrons in tuxedos and ďŹ&#x201A;owing gowns chatting in the Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s English about the front-page article in The Times.
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Instead, the Elegant Pub looks like a typical neighborhood dive: small, twoperson tables that wrap around the walls; the full bar, where liquor bottles glow a range of colors from white to amber; a pool table; even a line of semiprivate, upholstered turquoise dining booths. The exception is the neat stone ďŹ replace. With its uneven rock face, it looks almost natural, as if workers built the building inside a cave, covering all other walls in smooth plaster but leaving this structure untouched as a sort of homage to the mountain. The patrons are a mix of older and younger men and women, the ratio skewed toward men. The older crowd come the closest to an imagined elegance, wearing semiformal winter coats, but the younger crowd are content with their hoodies and faded T-shirts. Which is ďŹ ne, because this bar doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have convoluted ideas of elegance. It prefers function over form and in this aim, the Elegant Pub delivers. The bar is full, and the atmosphere is relaxed and somewhat festive; patrons ďŹ ll all the seats around the bar counter and spill over into the aisle. Much of the older patrons sit drinking beer with their dates, leaning in close to one another to be heard over the jukebox, while most of the younger sippers stand in same-sex groups. Every few minutes, another pair of women or cluster of men enters through the door. If one were to ask them why they came, they would give various reasons: to relax after work, for boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; night out, because they like the place. But really, there is only one true reason they came and that is to have fun. As I leave to the sound of raucous laughter, clacking pool balls and rap music, I realize that they â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scan for more Images of The Elegant Pubâ&#x20AC;? have succeeded.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The BarďŹ&#x201A;y
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Record Store Day With the Expendables WHO KNEW Record Store Day would make it to its fifth anniversary? When it made its debut in 2007, it was a fairly revolutionary concept: ask famous musicians to support honest-to-god, brick-and-mortar independent record stores by giving them exclusive releases to sell. But it shouldn’t be a surprise that it caught on, since indie record stores made the careers of many of the biggest artists who are now known for championing Record Store Day—like Wilco, who this year will be releasing an exclusive deluxe vinyl box set edition of their last album The Whole Love. Other top Record Store Day releases this year include the first 7” single from the upcoming album of unreleased Joey Ramone tracks. Featuring an intense, anthemic delivery from the late Streetlight Records Ramones lead singer, “Rock ’n’ Roll is the Answer” almost sounds like a sequel to “We Want the Airwaves.” Sat, April 21 Iggy Pop, Taking Back Sunday, Fun and Richard Buckner are among the other artists contributing releases. Noon; free The success of Record Store Day, though, is really up to the individual participating stores, and San Jose’s Streetlight Records has always been game to make a day of it. This year they have sales, specials, food trucks, DJs and, at noon, a performance from ska-rockers the Expendables. Originally from Santa Cruz, the band doesn’t play in this area much since they broke through the invisible ceiling that many of the bands who begin regularly selling out big local shows, like the Expendables were doing 10 years ago, run into. Instead of peaking on the local circuit, the group, which mixes an impressively authentic reggae-ska sound with a penchant for balls-out rocking, got signed to Slightly Stoopid’s label and started touring with them and other big-name acts. It’s hard to imagine an Expendables show contained within a space as small as Streetlight’s stage, but perhaps it’ll give them a chance to give fans a sampling of songs from their equally hard-toimagine upcoming acoustic album.—Steve Palopoli
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NINE LIVES Thu, 8pm: Kill the Messenger and more. $10. Fri, 8pm: Ikki Crane, Deathmaster, Hateshop. $10. Sat, 8pm: Battle of the Bands finals with Illfusion,
Pounders and Deathmaster. $10. Gilroy.
NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Wed: Jam night with Stan Erhardt or JC Smith Band. Thu: Marshall Law Band. Fri, 9:30pm: Cocktail Monkeys. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Groove Doctors. $10. Los Gatos.
PURE LOUNGE 408 Thu, 6:30pm: The Bay Area Heat. Sunnyvale.
THE QUARTER NOTE Wed: Pro Jam hosted by Mental Notes. No cover. Thu: Pro Jam hosted by Vicious Groove. No cover. Fri: 420 party with Powerage and Blackmast.
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Thu & Sat, 7pm: Live jazz. San Jose.
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WINE AFFAIRS
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Wed, 7:30pm: Jazz jam with Clifford Lamb. No cover. Fri, 6:30pm: Chris LaPaglia. $8-$12. Fri, 8:30pm: Richard Scales. $12-$16. Sun, 7:30pm: Jacqueline McCarley. $15/$20. Redwood City.
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MISSION CITY COFFEE ROASTING Fri, 8pm: Rita Hosking. Santa Clara.
THE SADDLE RACK
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS
Thu-Sat: Live music. No cover. Santa Clara.
Thu, 9pm: Hella Jalapenos, Bats in the Belfree. Free. Fri-Sat: Hip-hop. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO
Wed, 9pm: Wild at Heart. Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Bobby McDowell Band. Fremont.
STREETLIGHT RECORDS
Sun, 6pm: Carolyn Tutko Jazz Trio. Cupertino.
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UNWINED
Tue, 7:30pm. Irish music. Mountain View.
BLUZ BY-YOU
SAM’S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Sidesaddle. Tue, 6pm: Windy Hill. San Jose.
Thu, 8pm: Blues Jam. Fri, 8pm: Mark Hummel. Sat, 8pm: Westside Shakers. Campbell.
SAN PEDRO SQ. MARKET
Fri: Pro Jam with local rock musicians. Santa Clara.
World
HEDLEY CLUB
Thu, 9pm: Bit & Spur Band. Sun, 8pm: Rebecca West. San Jose.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE MEET THE REATIVE AR TIST OF CREATIVE ARTIST
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Sat, noon: Expendables. San Jose.
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Wed, 8pm: Salsa. $5. Thu, 9pm: Banda. No cover. Fri, 8pm: Rock en Español. San Jose.
Every first and third Wed, 7:30pm: Hedley Club Jazz Jam. Thu, 8pm: Russo-Alberts Trio. Fri, 8:30pm: Ed Johnson. Sat, 8:30pm: Fast Lane Band. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.
ALBERTO’S
J.J.’S BLUES CAFE
AGENDA LOUNGE
Wed: Bachata. Thu: Salsa with Pantea. Fri: Salsa. Sat: Latin night. Mon: Argentine Tango. Tue: Salsa with Pantea. Mountain View.
AZÚCAR Thu, 9pm: DJ Che. Thu-Sat, 9pm: Live Latin music. Last Fri of every month: Arleen and Caramelo’s GLBT party. Sun, 6pm: Live music. Mon: Salsa lessons. San Jose.
LIQUID Tue: Rock en espanol. San Jose.
MOROCCO’S MV Wed, 5pm: Middle Eastern music. Thu, 5pm: Live acoustic guitar with Paul. Fri, 5pm: Magic night with Mr. Cerne. . Sat, 6pm: Belly dancing. Sun, 6pm: World music. Mountain View.
MOROCCO’S SJ Wed, 5pm: Acoustic guitar with Paul. Thu, 5pm: Johnny Williams. Fri, 5pm: World music. Sat, 5pm: Blues. Sun, 5pm: Moroccan music. San Jose.
PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB Thu-Sat: Live music. Sunnyvale.
Wed: Miss Aeriol Ascher and Blues Angel Band. Thu: Madylan Rose. Fri: Dog House Riles. Sat: Sammy Varela. $10. Sun: Zydeco Voodoo Revival, followed by Steve B. Mon: Wayne’s Way. Tue: Blue J, followed by Dennis and Stuart. San Jose.
Fri, 7pm: Sidesaddle. San Jose.
THREE FLAMES
Open Mic BAMBOO LOUNGE Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic for singer-songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Wed, 9:30pm: Open mic. Cupertino.
MAYER THEATRE Sat, 8pm: SJ Jazz High School All Stars and Stan Kenton Alumni Band. Sat, 8pm. $20$28. Santa Clara.
MURPHY’S LAW
CAFFE FRASCATI
Thu: Honey Wilders. Fri: Chris Cobb Band. Sat: Tip of the Top. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.
JOHNNY V’S
A PERFECT FINISH Fri, 9pm: Neil Adler Duo. Sat, 9pm: Havana Jazz. San Jose.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: John Nemeth and AC Myles Duo. Fri, 6pm: Rick Estrin and the Night Cats. Sat, 6pm: Ron Hacker and the Hacksaws. Sun, 1pm: Noel Catura Jazz Band and student performance. Tue, 5-9pm: PHB open mic. San Jose.
Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose. Wed: The Cypher. Hip-hop open mic. San Jose.
THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: Open-mic night with Anita. Willow Glen
Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.
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Dance Clubs
Wed, 9pm: Wine Wednesdays. Thu, 9pm:The Heit Thursdays. Fri, 9pm: Seductive. $10. Sat, 9pm: Fame. $10. Mon, 9pm: Industry. Tue: College Night. San Jose.
AGENDA Wed, 8pm: Karaoke. Los Gatos.
Wed, 8pm: Salsa Wednesdays. Thu: Antromix. Banda nights. Fri: Rock en Español. San Jose.
CREEKSIDE LOUNGE
AZÚCAR
Wed, 8pm, and Sat, 8:30pm: KJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke. San Jose.
Thu, 9pm: DJ Che. Tue, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.
FIREHOUSE GRILL
Thu, 9pm: Atomic. $5. Sat, 9pm: Club Satori, DJ Vitus, DJ Kevin. $5. San Jose.
THECATS ATS
Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.
JOHNNY V’S Wed: The Cypher. San Jose.
LIQUID Thu: DJ Tesfa. Fri: The Party, DJ Brotha Reese. Sat: Rotating DJs. Sun: Live music. San Jose.
THE BLANK CLUB
MOTIF Fri-Sat: DJs . San Jose.
MYTH TAVERNA LOUNGE Thu: Therapy. Fri: Soul Therapy. San Jose.
SABOR TAPAS BAR Thu-Sat: DJs and dancing. Sun: Reggae. San Jose.
THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.
KATIE BLOOM’S Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.
KHARTOUM Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.
KING OF CLUBS Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. Mountain View.
LILLY MAC’S
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Thu, 10pm: DJ Dinero. San Jose.
Wed: Wingy Tango night. Thu: Paradisco Nights with Chordella. Fri: Video Junkie Fridays. Sat: Sapphire Saturdays. Sun: Sinful. Mon: Manic Mondaze. Tue: Buck Wild San Jose.
BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO Thu, 10pm: Live DJ. Cupertino.
BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Thu: VJ mixing. Fri, 10pm: DJ Checko and K-Rich. Sat, 10pm: DJ David Q. San Jose.
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Thu: Bobby Brackins. Fri: J Roc. Sat: Mikey Swift. San Jose.
Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Checo. Evergreen Inn, San Jose.
Wed-Sat: DJs. Willow Glen.
Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
MOJO LOUNGE Wed, 9pm: Vic. Fremont.
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MOUNTAIN CHARLIES Wed, 9pm: Jos. Los Gatos.
NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
OFF THE HOOK Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Campbell.
REFUSED Swedish band whose ‘Shape of Punk to Come’ has actually lived up to its title. Apr 18 at the Warfield.
CHARLES LLOYD NEW QUARTET Famed saxophonist with excellent sidemen appears with guest vocalist Maria Farantouri. Apr 22 at Herbst Theatre.
O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Mon, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.
M83
A PERFECT FINISH
Ultra-cinematic, majestic pop poised to properly overtake those tiny white earbuds. Apr 22-23 at the Fillmore.
Thu, 8:30pm-midnight: Karaoke with Jordan River Productions. San Jose.
SCREAMING FEMALES
RED STAG LOUNGE
Tuneful New Jersey trio with actually only one screaming female, with latest LP, ‘Ugly.’ Apr 24 at Bottom of the Hill.
Nightly karaoke, 9pm-1:30am. San Jose.
ST. VINCENT
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Brooklyn chanteuse and guitar-shredder Annie Clark appears in double bill with tUnE-yArDs. Apr 24 at the Fox Theater.
Thu-Sat, 9pm: DJ Curtis. San Jose.
SOUTH FIRST BILLIARDS Sun: Karaoke. San Jose.
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The Big Day WEED WATERFALLS Most medical marijuana collectives plan to hold special events for 4/20 (April 20) this week. On Monday, NorCal Care collective provided patients with a chocolate cannabis fondue tasting.
No one’s quite sure why, but 4/20 is now the biggest cannabis celebration on the calendar
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HE ORIGINS of marijuana’s annual holiday are shrouded in myth but widely thought to be code for 4:20pm, the meeting time at which a few “stoners” would gather at a designated location to smoke. These days, 420 is used in so many contexts related to cannabis culture that it’s easy to lose track. The term “420 friendly” describes a person comfortable with a marijuana-smoking mate on a dating site. A search of Craigslist with “420” leads to every product and service imaginable. Senate Bill 420 was enacted into law following the passage of Proposition 215, which legalized cannabis for medical use in California. So, in the tradition of co-opting everything 420-related, April 20 has become to many an annual holiday. Not surprisingly, many of Silicon Valley’s medical cannabis collectives, smoke shops and grow shops plan to join in the celebration of the counterculture holiday in the most mainstream of ways: holding a “SALE!” Paramount Imports, San Jose’s venerable smoke shop, offers one of its best sales of the year in conjunction
with the cult holiday. Store manager Casey Sargent says 4/20 is traditionally one of Paramount’s busier days. “We expect to get more of everyone coming in—new customers, regulars, folks that haven’t been back in awhile,” he says. Even grow shops—stores that sell all manner of equipment and nutrients for growing plants hydroponically—are aware of the traditional bump in business on 4/20. These stores tend to be wary of any public association with cannabis due to federal laws, which still deems the plant illegal, but one “urban gardening” store plans to offers a not-so secret discount—at least now, anyway— to Metro readers who mention the paper. “Our prices are heavily discounted to begin with, but this way we can support our customers that are shopping because it is 4/20,” says Andy Gac of San Jose Hydro. (We’ll now leave it to you to guess which grow shop.) If 4/20 is the day you plan to join “the movement,” it literally can take less than an hour to go from seeing a doctor, getting a card, visiting a collective— most of which will offer 4/20 discounts on top of new patient discounts—and returning home. You’ll hardly notice the hands move on a clock.
Wherever you end up Friday, though, you won’t need a watch to know what time it is.
Protest for Nonsmokers Even if you’re not interested in smoking, eating edibles or any other form of ingestion-related celebration for 4/20, don’t feel left out. Cannabis culture can be experienced through watching the films that celebrate one of our country’s most popular forms of civil disobedience. Instead of eight hours of work on Friday, why not spend the day watching these canna-classics: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)— A pre-Oscar Sean Penn as Spicoli and Ridgemont beats Lincoln 42-0. Pineapple Express (2008)—Rosie Perez as the bad cop while Seth Rogen and James Franco let the monkey out of the bottle. Half Baked (1998)—Young Dave Chappelle, Tommy Chong as the “Squirrel Master,” Willie Nelson remembering when a dime bag sold for a dime, and Bob Saget persuasively challenging how low someone would go to get high on marijuana. Saving Grace (2000)—Charming senior British lady lends her green thumb to gardener Craig Ferguson; hi-jinks ensue. The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007)—This documentary isn’t a comedy except in the sense that it exposes the humorous inconsistencies related to laws against marijuana.—Simon Seidler
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EMPLOYMENT K\Z_efcf^p HP Enterprise Services, LLC is accepting resumes for Technology Consultant in Cupertino, CA. (Ref. #ESCUPTC21). Provide technology consulting to customers and internal project teams. Provide technical support and/or leadership in creation and delivery of technology solutions designed to meet customers’ business needs and, consequently, for understanding customers’ businesses. Mail resume to HP Enterprise Services, LLC, 5400 Legacy Drive, MS H1-6F-61, Plano, TX 75024. Resume must include Ref. #ESCUPTC21, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.
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K\Z_efcf^p Hewlett-Packard Company is accepting resumes for the following positions in Cupertino, CA: Information Systems Architect (Ref. #CUPISA11). Architect effective information systems solutions that address the customer’s business problems, needs and opportunities, in a manner consistent with the company’s strategic and business goals. Engineering Program Manager (Ref. #CUPEPM21). Responsible for engineering programs through the coordination of multiple projects across multiple disciplines including, but not limited to, the different engineering job families. Mail resume to Hewlett-Packard Company, 5400 Legacy Drive, MS H1-6F-61, Plano, TX 75024. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.
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Systems Analyst and Programmer Analyst Location: Sunnyvale, CA Position Type: Full Time. Experience: 2 years.| Education: Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Deg. Systems Analyst to Analyze, design, develop, maintain, install, and test computer software programs. Work with Business Objects, Oracle/Sybase, and PL/SQL. Programmer Analyst to Design, develop software applications using J2EE, JSP, EJB, Oracle and Sybase. Req. Bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Degree in Engineering, Science, CS, Commerce, Management with 2 years experience (Education, training & experience is acceptable to meet bachelors requirement). Jobsite: Sunnyvale. CA. Rate of Pay: $39.87/ hour. Travel may be required to work on projects at various, unanticipated sites throughout the United States. Send Resume to: HR Dept, Horizon Technologies Inc, 1270 Oakmead Pkwy, Suite # 115, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Email: admin@horizontechnol.com
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<e^`e\\i`e^ NetďŹ&#x201A;ix, Inc. has the following job opportunities available in Los Gatos, CA: Support Release Engineer (LG12KSU) - Work with the Customer Services Engineering (CSE) team to play a critical role in supporting the remote Customer Service teams. Senior Software Engineer (LG13JBA) - Work hands-on with an evergrowing set of internal and partnerdeveloped movie streaming devices. Submit resume by mail to: NetďŹ&#x201A;ix Inc., Attn: HR StaďŹ&#x192;ng Operations, 100 Winchester Circle, Los Gatos, CA 95032. Must reference job title and job code.
<e^`e\\i`e^ Lumileds Lighting, LLC has the following job opportunity available in San Jose, CA : Senior StaďŹ&#x20AC; Development Engineer (SSDE25-CA) - Responsible for monitoring process health layout of the pilot line and LED device mask layouts. Submit resume by mail to: Philips People Services, International Mobility, 200 Minuteman Rd, MS 5303, Andover, MA 01810. Must reference job title and job code SSDE25-CA
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Prestigious immigration law ďŹ rm at San Jose downtown is hiring law clerk. Good writing skills required. Conduct research law & assist in drafting legal documents/memos. Minimum bachelor degree in law, English/linguistics, business administration/management required To apply, please e-mail Law OďŹ&#x192;ces of Jean Chen lawclerk. jclawoďŹ&#x192;ce@gmail.com or fax 408 437-9788. No phone calls.
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Unincorporated Morgan Hill - 40 acres of mountain land with about 2 acres cleared around the house and the rest wooded. Log House, 2000 sf, 2 story, 3BR, 2.5BA with wood burning stove forced air heater, and central A/C. LR is 2 stories high with a vaulted ceiling and wood ďŹ&#x201A;ooring. Lovely back deck with a wood burning hot tub. Completely oďŹ&#x20AC; the grid with solar electric, a backup industrial propane generator, propane heat and hot water, a well with an electric pump and a working windmill pump. Kitchen features a Wolf Range, dishwasher, and low energy refrigerator. High speed Internet service available. Beautiful view to the East of the mountains, canyons and far oďŹ&#x20AC; city lights of Morgan Hill and Gilroy. The house, solar electric, and the generator have permits on ďŹ le in Santa Clara County. OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at $595,000. Broker will help show. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408395-5754 www.donnerland.com
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Pristine Acreage. 10 min to Boulder Creek. No rock out of place in this magniďŹ cent forest enveloped by Redwood Trees. Spring fed pond. Prestigious location. QualiďŹ ed buyers only. Shown by Appt. OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at $1,900,000. Broker will help show. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408395-5754 www.donnerland.com
FC; A8G8E<J< I; Good Owner Financing possible. End of the road privacy and easy access to a Sunny neighborhood in a gated community with no drive through traďŹ&#x192;c. Pretty creek frontage and view of the neighborhood. Prestigious Los Gatos schools. Convenient commute location. OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at $165,000. Broker will help show. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408395-5754 www.donnerland.com
Excellent Owner Financing. Acreage, Private and Easy to get to in Sunny Aptos. View of Monterey Bay and city lights. TPZ. Abundant Yearround spring. Sun and views. Multiple building sites with paved road access & dirt and gravel driveway. TPZ-Redwood habitat has been harvested every 15-20 years since the 1950â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Timber harvest possible with new timber harvest plan. Potential for horses, small scale solar and hydro feed to grid. OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at $450,000. Broker will help show. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 \www. donnerland.com
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200 ft. of accessible year around creek frontage. Recreational Parcel. OďŹ&#x20AC;ered at $212,000. Broker will help show. Call Debbie @ Donner Land & Homes, Inc. 408-395-5754 www. donnerland.com
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