The Wave Magazine - Volume 08, Issue 04: February 13 - February 26, 2008 by The Wave Magazine

CONTENTS F E AT U R E S

A MAMMOTH DISCOVERY

CHASING THE SUN

What lies beneath the San Jose soil is bones, really big bones. Escape the Silicon Valley winter for sunnier climes at these balmy getaway spots.

INTERVIEW 22

ANTON YELCHIN

Once you see him in Charlie Bartlett, you won’t be saying “Anton who?” much longer.

DEPARTMENTS 08

EDITOR’S NOTE { we talk }

LETTERS { you talk }

SPOTLIGHT { local news }

HIT LIST { editors’ picks }

ARTS Feature: Because you don’t have to be a Silicon Valley venture capitalist to be an art collector.

FAMILY & COMMUNITY Feature: Bunk beds – if only they came in grown-up sizes.

LIFESTYLE

COLUMNS

SPORTS & ADVENTURE Feature: Beat that, Frenchies: Here comes the Tour de California.

DREGULATOR { media watchdog }

HEALTH & BEAUTY Feature: How to clean out your system from within.

HOT TICKET { art alert }

THE FINAL LAST WORD { local opinion }

STYLE & SHOPPING Feature: The sneaker of your dreams is but a mouse click away.

HOME & DESIGN Feature: Because a bed frame is so much more than just the base for your mattress.

DINING Feature: Make your own emulsions – that’s mayo, aioli, salad dressings and sauces. 14 DAYS

50 WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR SOFA { top events }

NIGHTLIFE & MUSIC Feature: The queen of the punk scene, Siouxsie Sioux, is back, and long may she reign.

MOVIES Reviews: Charlie Bartlett, Definitely, Maybe, Vantage Point, and more.

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ON THE COVER Up-and-coming Brazilian artist Bruno 9Li graces this issue’s cover with Seen From Here (2006/07), ink and marker pen on archival paper. Look for his latest exhibition at Anno Domini (366 S. First St., Downtown San Jose). The opening and artist’s reception will be held on Friday, Aug. 1, 2008.

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Editor-in-Chief: John Newlin Events Editor: Johnny Brafford Senior Editor: Jo Abbie Copy Editor: Ed Robertson Contributing Writers: Seanbaby, Fred Topel,

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EDITOR’S NOTE

EDITOR’S NOTE J O H N @ T H E W AV E M A G . C O M

’ve always been really good at saying goodbye. I don’t see what the big deal is. You just go “Goodbye!” and it’s over. Short and sweet. It’s just a spoken closure to something, be it a relationship, dinner party, crosscountry adventure, political rally, regatta, motorcycle race, lunch, job. I prefer the brief but tight hug followed by a sincere pat on the shoulder or a kiss on the cheek, depending on the circumstance. Well, it’s time for me to say goodbye. This will be my last issue as Editorin-Chief of The Wave Magazine. I know this column has a dedicated following, and for that I’d like to thank those three loyal readers: my mom, dad and wife. Thank you! In the six and a half years that I’ve been writing this thing, I’ve bared my soul, asked and tried to answer some difficult questions, lost countless hours of sleep, and made a mock-

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ery of the English language. But in that time, I’ve also had the distinct privilege to work with an extremely talented team of editors and writers. I know that sounds canned, but it’s the truth. Incidentally, the current regime is the best it’s ever been, so I know I’m leaving the publication in capable hands. Editing this magazine, assigning stories, hanging out drinking wine while vaguely supervising photo shoots, scrambling to get the issue to the printer at the last minute, and pushing crazy story ideas are all things I’ll definitely miss. But I think it’s important to recognize when it’s time to move on and try something different. So, with that said: Goodbye! Sincerely, John Newlin

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When sending letters, please include your full name, city, state, and daytime telephone number. Letters may be edited for clarity or length and may be used in any medium owned by The Wave Media. Send snail mail to 1735 Technology Dr., Ste. 575, San Jose, CA 95110 and email to writeus@thewavemag.com. Aren’t self-fulfilling prophecies neat? Years ago you claimed to be the “Silicon Valley’s finest entertainment and lifestyle publication,” and now look at you. You’re it. I only wish there were more publications like yours. I recently relocated my business to San Jose from San Francisco, and have looked carefully at where I should advertise. I’m a small company. I won’t say the name to protect the innocent, but I can say this: The region is a barren wasteland of publishing. I don’t get it. Fortysome miles north, the streets are rife with every possible free weekly, monthly, bimonthly, newsletter, zine, etc. Here, there’s hardly anything. San Jose Magazine is quite possibly the worst piece of imitation magazine I’ve seen. If you’re not willing to pay for the editorial, forget it. Plus, I still can’t figure out who supposedly reads it. Metro is another joke. Good lord, who in their right minds finds this thing interesting? I can’t imagine the alternative newsweekly model surviving much longer, seeing how they only react to the local daily. Speaking of which, the Mercury News just makes me sad. I feel so sorry for them. It’s like they’re a dying orphan on life support and want so much to stay alive, but, oh dear, it’s just not going to happen. And then there’s you. I like you, but damn, you need to figure some stuff out. You’re the only show in town that has a shot, in my opinion, but you need to do something about your dining reviews. A big reason I read The Wave is for the dining reviews: Where am I going to go out to eat? Here’s the problem: Your reviews all sound the same! They’re all glowing, positive endorsements. That doesn’t help me much. I think your movie reviews are good and art listings are useful, but the dining reviews, well, suck. Thanks for listening. Anonymous Saratoga Actually, they’re dining “profiles,” not reviews. But we’re going to start doing proper reviews very soon. Feel free to hate them then. Your “Detox Your Life” [Vol.8, Iss. 03] story was marginally useful. I mean, it had some good points, but nothing especially 10

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groundbreaking. The part about detoxing your environment was probably the least obvious. And the issue in general was pretty cool – you took the sections and made them all “Health & Wellness” related in some way. I like when you do that. What I didn’t get is the out-of-place stories like the thing on vinyl and the interview with Stallone. First you wrote about vinyl like it’s some eighttrack novelty, which it’s not. It’s still very much apart of the musical fabric, and maybe that was your point, but I didn’t get that. But it’s the Stallone interview that has me confused. Here’s an almost entire issue devoted to health and wellness, and then there’s an interview with a guy who just got busted in Australia with a truckload of human growth hormones. Please, Wave Magazine, discuss. Kudos for getting Rambo to speak to you about his latest trendy, over-thetop-violent rehash of a remake, but did it not occur to you what issue you were putting it in? Hello? Gillian Maritzen San Jose Loved this year’s fitness issue. John’s column on Will Smith, while a bit out of nowhere, seemed to make sense in a weird way. I don’t necessarily think we need some Hollywood guy to inspire us, though. For me, all it took was to look in the mirror and not be impressed with what I saw. From there, I just ate less and exercised more and lost 22 pounds in 16 weeks. The problem with our society and its obesity problem is that we want results NOW! I saw a weight loss “solution” advertised on television the other day that promised dropping “two dress sizes in two weeks.” Now, I’m not a doctor or a dietician, but that just can’t be healthy. Don’t be idiots. The key to weight loss is a healthy diet and exercise. Anything else is a scam and a lie. Donna Reid Sunnyvale What happened to Sandy Stec’s “In the Mix” column? Oh, wait, you killed it because it sucked. Good going! R. Sinclair San Jose

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COLUMN: THE DREGUL ATOR

THE DREGULATOR B Y C I N T R A W I L S O N - W R I T E U S @ T H E W AV E M A G . C O M

Political News Cycle-ists

his February finds three murky questions smoldering in the back parking lot of the collective mind:

1. Why Do The Kennedys Hate The Clintons So Much? Time magazine was about as sexy and helpful as an automated customer support menu, tepidly suggesting that Caroline Kennedy’s three teenagers managed to steer her over to the Barack Obama camp with the persuasive vim of the energetic Youth Vote. A distaste for Bill Clinton’s stumping style – fairy tales and racial humma-humma, etc. – has been the sole reason reported that Uncle Theodore, too, threw his panties at Obama. But these reasons seem too small and benign. Fortunately, a forum of cycling enthusiasts on Bicycling.com shed more light: “[Ted Kennedy’s] minimizing potential damages,” said a commenter named “Soylent.” “The fallout from backing [Hillary] and having her lose is potentially greater than the same happening if he backs Obama.” “I think it’s how [politicians] signal they would be available as a running mate,” responded “Bigwood Nate.” “If Obama wins, he’ll owe the Kennedy clan big time favors... If Obama loses, the Kennedys still have enough clout in the party to get what they want. They know if the Clintons win, Hillary will still need Kennedy support to work with Congress,” wrote the clever “Baron von Steuben.” The Dregulator’s own friend Nancy explained that Caroline (despite the fact that she seems to be being played by Martin Short) is “Lace Curtain Irish,” and would therefore take a dim view of tacky Clintons – an analysis shared by Bicycling.com commenter “Jerry near St. Louis”: “Class warfare…The Kennedy’s [sic] are upper class, silver-spoon types. The Clinton’s [sic] are Arkansas trailer trash.” That explains that. 2. How Much Is Britney Getting From Tabloids Like TMZ.com to Enact Perpetual Meltdown? The “Britney industrial complex,” according to an article in Conde Nast Portfolio, brings in 20 percent of the US paparazzi business; Spears cover shots spike tabloid sales 33 percent for an estimated value of between $110 million and $120 million annually, of which Britney reportedly “gets under 10 percent” – which is still a good living, unless you factor in the insurmountably bad karmic weight of sucking enough actual news out of the air to be the Typhoid Mary of national stupidity. “Britney loses it, the world watches,” says a caption on TMZ.com – a rare truth from the journalistic equivalent of unprotected sex with infected baboons.

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3. How come there’s no mainstream news reports on H.R. 1955/S. 1959? In October 2007, this bill, in its phase as H.R. 1955, sailed through the House of Representatives. Now it is believed to be lurking in the Senate as S. 1959 – or as lefty bloggers call it, “The Thought Crimes Bill.” Penned by Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), the chair of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, the bill says alarmingly disparaging things about our great dumpster of information in the sky: “The internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.” (Even though we mostly use it to look at porn. And Britney.) Other parts of the bill are worded ambiguously enough to drive a lot of Joe McCarthy-style buses through – buses that civil liberties activists fear will be filled with civil liberties activists and driven to dark, underground domestic Gitmos: “The term ‘homegrown terrorism’ means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.” Italics mine: The definition of “force” has some people worried, since it is intended to mean something other than “violence” – like, possibly, intellectual persuasion, writings, and peaceable assemblies deemed “radical” by a 10member National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism. OpEdNews.com claims that this bill is the subject of a “press blackout,” and is still in committee, but that the measures are “already being implemented.” Read all the bicycling websites you can while you can, fiends, and remember your code of omerta when the buses come for thee: snitches get stitches. TW

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That’s a Wrap San Jose will soon kiss plastic bags goodbye.

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ollowing in the footsteps of environmental concerns. Staff memeverywhere from Bangladesh bers have agreed to regroup within to Zanzibar, last year San one year to discuss their ideas for the Francisco became the first American implementation of this plan. city to ban plastic bags for their detrimental effects on the environ“This is just one step in moving San ment, with Oakland following suit Jose towards being a green and selfshortly thereafter. Last month, the sustaining city, but it is a big step,” says health food chain Whole Foods also Kansen Chu, one of the city council announced its plans to members behind the be America’s first plasproposal. He adds that tic-bag-free supermarone person uses an estiket company. Other mated 400 plastic bags parts of the world, per year, and there are including Ireland, approximately one milSouth Africa and lion people living in San London, have likewise Jose. “When you realize placed bans, taxes or that fewer than four perrestrictions on plastic cent of all plastic bags Nora Campos, San Jose Council member bags. The bags will also are recycled, these numbe outlawed in China bers are astounding.” as of Jun. 1, 2009, while a ban already in place in Paris will be extended Nora Campos, another council to all of France as of Jan. 1, 2010. member spearheading this initiative, offers, “I know how difficult The latest city to get on board with or expensive it may be, with our this worldwide movement? None family commitments, to live in an other than San Jose. At a special eco-friendly manner. This ban on meeting on Feb. 1, city council memplastic bags will allow us the opporbers approved a citywide ban on tunity to contribute to the protecplastic bags as one of four items to be tion of our planet with the simple added to Mayor Chuck Reed’s “Green act of bringing a canvas bag to the Vision,” a 15-year plan that addresses grocery store.”

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NEWS

Newfound Glory

Movie watchers will get an eyeful of San Jose at this year’s Cinequest.

an Jose residents at this year’s Cinequest Film Festival will recognize local establishments like Willow Glen Liquors, Iguana’s Taqueria, Connoisseur 533 and Big Al’s Record Barn in the film Glory Boy Days, a feature-length coming-ofage flick shot in San Jose between late 2006 and late 2007. The film was produced by San Jose State University’s Spartan Film Studios on a budget that writer/director Paul Justin Encinas estimates at “$25 million… give or take about $25 million.”

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However meager their finances may have been, the filmmakers spared no expense where effort was concerned: In January 2007, they braved San Jose’s coldest temperatures on record to shoot exteriors for four consecutive 18-hour days. Encinas, 26, wrote the film while studying at San Jose State. He says

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he took much of the inspiration for the film from characters he met at that time. “Sometimes there aren’t a lot of things to do in San Jose, so the thing that makes it so special are the people,” he explains. “I’d like to think Glory Boy Days is about real people, and real moments in these people’s lives.”

showing at the 14th Annual Slamdance Film Festival, a well-respected showcase of independent films made on limited budgets, held each year in Utah. Encinas says the message of the movie is simple: “What I’m trying to say is we made a film, and people should give us more money to shoot more movies.”

In addition to appearing at Cinequest, a highly influential independent film festival that attracted more than 70,000 people last year, Glory Boy Days will be

View the trailer at www.gloryboydays.com. Cinequest Film Festival, Feb. 27 to Mar. 9 www.cinequest.org

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NEWS

Merger Mania Consolidation frenzy in the software industry rockets to new heights.

These actions are indicative of an increasing trend toward consolidation in the software industry in recent years. A whopping 550 merger and acquisition deals went down in the enterprise applications market between 2004 and 2006, with a combined value of at least $74 billion. And the numbers are only going up: According to Albert Pang, research director of enterprise applications at the global marketing intelligence firm IDC, there were at least 229 of these kinds of deals in 2007 alone, with announced values

exceeding $59.4 billion. “By comparison,” Pang says, “there were 197 deals with an aggregated value of $18.6 billion in 2006.” Pang says acquisition fever in the software industry isn’t likely to die down anytime soon. “Acquisitive software vendors and investors will continue to follow the money, because of the need to gain shares in strategic segments – ranging from structural design engineering to remittance processing and from mobility to green initiatives,” he offers. He adds that there will be an abundance of investment funds dedicated to enterprise applications, in order to quickly build and capitalize on a critical mass of customers and recurring revenues.

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anuary was a banner month for software industry mergers and acquisitions in Silicon Valley. Not only did database management systems developer Oracle Corporation purchase San Jose enterprise infrastructure software developer BEA Systems, Inc. for $8.5 billion, but Santa Clara’s Sun Microsystems, Inc. acquired open-source database developer MySQL AB for approximately $1 billion.

Pang’s final comment is a bit ominous: He predicts that in anticipation of a “deep and intractable recession,” vertical vendors will begin to expand into other industries as a means of mitigating their risks. TW THEWAVEMAG.COM FEBRUARY 13-26, 2008

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INTERVIEW Anton Yelchin as Charlie Bartlett (L), offers advice and prescriptions from his humble office.

Pharmacy, Pharma-do Meet Hollywood’s latest young star, before he goes to rehab. BY FRED TOPEL

MOVIE: Charlie Bartlett DIRECTED BY: Jon Poll STARRING: Anton Yelchin, Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Kat Dennings STUDIO: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

harlie Bartlett is a little indie movie that’s hoping to do Juno-sized business at the box office. Whether it crosses over or not, its young star is going places. Anton Yelchin plays the title character, a high school kid who fakes mental problems so he can then sell his prescription medication to classmates. He also becomes quite an effective psychiatrist just by listening to their problems. Tom Cruise will either love this movie for ridiculing Ritalin, or hate it for giving such drugs free publicity. Yelchin has already gone on to star in the upcoming Star Trek prequel as a young Chekov. Now there’s a

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role that takes advantage of his Russian heritage. He can pass for the all American boy just fine, though. Well, not quite. He wears a suit, is knowledgeable about literature, and speaks in complete sentences – other than that, just like today’s youth. The Wave: There are so many unique qualities about Charlie Bartlett. What was the one thing you liked most about him? Anton Yelchin: It really was the optimism. It was the honesty of him. Although I’m honest, I’m not optimistic all the time. [He’s] like Michael Corleone meets the character from Nights of Cabiria. I just thought it was a great way to explore life. Whether I could approach life similarly was a different question. I thought it would be really interesting to look into that, explore that. He really is sort of an incredible person. TW: Are Russians naturally pessimistic, like Yakov Smirnoff? AY: Yes. Yes. Most likely. TW: What other qualities come from being Russian? AY: I’m sure there’s a ton. Maybe brooding, I feel like it has its origins in Russians. Just the nature of the word – to brood – it is somehow instilled. Russia is very complicated. It has one of the most complicated histories. I could go on about this forever. It produces Dostoyevsky and Rachmaninoff, and then it produces Stalins and Lenins. It is such a strange combination. I don’t know why that rant about Russia was necessary.

TW: Since you started acting at a young age, did you have a normal high school experience? AY: Yeah, I went to a public high school. There were years when I would miss like half a year, but I got enough high school to know I seriously disliked it. To me, school in general is such an unhealthy place. Every teenager is this incredible hormonal explosion, then they put a thousand of them in one place. It is like putting hot air in a balloon. Whoever came up with the idea wasn’t thinking very straight. You are supposed to come up with healthy, normal people, but you are putting all these imbalanced people together and expecting them to learn. It makes no sense to me. That’s sort of the attitude that I came to school with every day. TW: So you weren’t an entrepreneur like Charlie? AY: No, no, not at all. Maybe that would have made my days a bit more exciting, but no. I would just try to get out as fast as I could. I chose classes that ended early. I don’t even remember my last year. I would sit through English. I would sit through whatever my next class was and then I would get out. That was my goal. TW: So being Russian, how is your Chekov accent? AY: I think it’s pretty good. The thing about Walter Koenig was his accent was interesting. I think I’m just going to leave it at interesting. There are certain things that I took from the fact that he replaced every V with a W, which is weird. I don’t really know where that decision came from, but regardless, that’s the decision that he made and I thought it was important to bring that to the character. TW

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Yelapa, Mexico

ummer weather is at its finest in the winter time,

because it just feels better. A few days, or weeks, amidst leafy trees, brilliant blooms and sunny

skies while it’s dreary back home is a great way to elevate one’s mood. There is only one difficulty: knowing where to go. Here are a few suggestions – locales that boast warmer climates, dazzlingly sunny skies, and eminently greener grass. Some are close, some are far, some are exotic, but all are extraordinary.

YELAPA, MEXICO Because there is no road into Yelapa, one has to take a water taxi from Puerto Vallarta to arrive at this suburb of Eden. At first this might sound like a hassle, but there are boats running from the dock in PV every hour. The fortyor-so minute ride skirts the shore, passing the famous Los Arcos island outcroppings, and affords views up into the hills where super-rich locals and gringos alike have built villas worthy of Roman emperors. Upon arrival, the taxi drops you on the shore of one of Mexico’s most amazing beaches. Along the beach are a handful of cafes manned by laid-back locals, offering fresh grilled fish, shrimp and cold beer. The last taxi back to PV departs just before sunset, but if one chooses to stay the night (or longer), first-class accommodations, along with more rustic rooms for the budget traveler, are available. Jungle treks are offered, on foot or on horseback. There are two dive operators in the tiny town, and fishing boat charters are available. Whatever one’s budget, the best thing to do in Yelapa is ... nothing. Absolutely, blissfully, heavenly nothing. Another great thing about Yelapa is its proximity to Puerto Vallarta, which one can reach in no time if they find life on a pristine beach too calming, and are in need of a thumping disco or a high-end dinner.

Bermuda

The unchanged town of St. George is great for gallery lovers. The restored Royal Naval Shipyard is another spot

BERMUDA

where one can load up on local products. (To impress the

Just an hour-and-a-half flight over the Atlantic from New

locals, inform them that the buildings of the shipyard were

York’s Kennedy Airport, and you’ll be in Bermuda. Posh

actually supposed to be the customs houses of Khartoum

in parts, tasteful in others, but friendly everywhere, this

in the Sudan. Blueprints got switched at sea, so Bermuda

idyllic island offers the visitor everything. If high-end

received the Sudanese capitol building for its shipyard

resorts are your thing, Bermuda has some the nicest in

offices, while Sudan wound up with a shipbuilding struc-

the world. Golf? Tennis? Cricket? There’s plenty of each.

ture for a capitol.)

Away from the fabulous resorts, there are scores of locally owned-and-operated bed-and-breakfasts, with innkeepers so accommodating, they’ve been known to retrieve guests who have enjoyed one too many rum swizzles down the road. The island boasts three extraordinary shopping districts.

Besides banking, the island is famous for perfumes, blown glass and, of all things, highly prized stamps. For the outdoorsy, water activities are in abundance, while great hikes and walking tours (some in caves) are also on offer. And while Bermuda shorts are strongly recommended, they are by no means mandatory.

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GUADELOUPE, EASTERN CARIBBEAN

on Ash Wednesday. The feasts are fueled by women

Guadeloupe is two islands in one, or as the locals like to

dancing goes on all night. The music is enough to make

describe it, a butterfly – albeit, a butterfly with a split per-

a dervish out of even the clumsiest of dancers, and it’s

sonality. One half, or wing, is Basse-Terre. The interior of

perfectly acceptable (common, really) to celebrate in

this portion of the island is nearly all natural parkland and

pajamas if one chooses.

wildlife preserves. The foliage is lush, the birds bountiful and the volcano that rises up out of the center is active, but “friendly.” The more sophisticated other half, GrandTerre, is a classic desert island – flat, scrubby and in parts Carbet waterfalls, Guadeloupe

lunaresque. In addition to its array of dining and shopping, the beaches on this side are superior – so white sand and warm waters versus rainforest splendor make it a toss-up as to which side to explore.

SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, CHILE The amount of time it takes to reach the driest place on earth may not excite the weekend traveler, but for those with a little more leisure time, San Pedro de Atacama is the place for you. Located in the northern third of Chile, travelers to San Pedro de Atacama must get to Santiago, transfer planes, fly to Calama, climb into a van or bus, and

Whether one takes the Basse or the Grand, there is

then drive two hours with only sand to see in any direc-

much to love about this lightly populated, offsite depart-

tion. The reward is the oasis; the payoff, big.

ment of France. Beyond the extremes in appearance, it is the center of Caribbean Creole culture – meaning, the cuisine, the language and the nightlife are unique to the island. To soak up large amounts of all three, head to the island when Carnival is taking place. “Vaval,” as the Emerald Island, Guadeloupe

selling homemade delights, and the local music and

locals call it, starts the first Sunday in January and ends

The tiny town, pop. 4,900, is situated near volcanoes almost as tall as Kilimanjaro, great salt flats where flamingos feed, some of the best hiking in the world, and saltwater lagoons in which no one, no matter how dense their body mass, can submerge themselves. It is a world of mosts: most stars in a night sky, most stunning mountain

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Resort Singer Island Cabana, Florida

views, most profound silences, most distance and time spent traveling to a destination without being the slightest bit disappointed. Other pluses, to some: the village is a mile and a half above sea level; every light goes out at 1am to conserve energy; and because there has been no measurable rainfall in the region since records have been kept, the water tastes that much better. Surprisingly, the style and quality of accommodations vary, from a room with a dirt floor and a clean bed for next to nothing, to an elegant full-service resort. There are numerous tour operators offering guided hikes, bike treks, horseback excursions and jeep trips.

SINGER ISLAND, FLORIDA Technically, this is an island, though it is connected to the mainland by a little bridge. Despite its proximity to the US, Singer Island has the uncanny ability to make one feel like they’re on foreign soil. Like much of the Florida coast, there are new, towering hotels and numerous shops selling the usual schwag. But unlike some of the state’s more touristy destinations, Singer Island may be the last place along the Atlantic Coast where one can sit down at a bar and have a conversation with a local. There are transplants to be sure – writers and artists reside in the area alongside noncreative types, all enjoying the miles of long beaches and moderate surf. (People actually do surf here, though to the eyes of a West Coaster the waves may seem paltry.) While the rest of Florida is out for the early bird dinner or primping for a night in South Beach, Singer Island residents and visitors are reading on the beach or heading to the local watering hole. Longer-term rental cottages and condos are available for those who need more than a couple of weeks to unwind. And if one votes themselves off the island after a few days of rest, West Palm Beach and Jupiter Beach are only minutes away.

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On the Road Seventeen teams square off in the country’s baddest, burliest bike race: the Amgen Tour of California. BY DAMON ORION

hen Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France seven times in a row from 1999 to 2005, he reinforced America as a name in cycling, an arena where we previously hadn’t had much of a presence since Greg LeMond. Our credibility in the cycling world has been growing ever since, and to prove it, our country now hosts an event that attracts some of the world’s foremost riders, including Olympic medal winners and top Tour de France competitors. That event is the Amgen Tour of California (ATOC): an eight-day, 650-mile bicycle 28

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race along the California coast. One of the largest annual sporting events in the nation, the ATOC boasts the biggest prize purse of any bike race on the continent. This year’s race, the third so far, takes place Feb. 17 - 24. Those who can’t be there to witness the competition in person can catch updates at www.amgentourofcalifornia.com or on the cable sports channel Versus. Each of the ATOC’s host cities, which include San Jose, Modesto, Sausalito, Solvang, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara, will be holding free festivals featuring race-related demonstrations and activities. This tour is sponsored by the biotechnology company Amgen, also the founder of the Breakaway from Cancer initiative, a fundraiser for services supporting people living with cancer. Four different stages of the ATOC will include a Breakaway Mile, in which a cancer survivor will be joined on a mile-long ride by his or her family members, caregivers and healthcare specialists, as well as an Amgen scientist. Australian-born Rory Sutherland, 26, will be competing in the Tour as a member of the Health Net Pro

Cycling Team presented by Maxxis, one of 17 teams scheduled to take part in the event. Along with last year’s Tour, his competition credits include the 2005 Tour of Italy and several World Cup Classic events. Sutherland says it will take a healthy pinch of luck to win this year’s race. “One of the beauties of road cycling is that it’s not always the strongest person who wins,” he muses. “If you’ve got a tennis game, it’s going to be the best tennis player who wins, or in a golf tournament, the best player is going to win – whereas in cycling, there are a few more things that play a role.” Those variables can include the weather, the quality of a contestant’s recovery from the previous days’ races, and the strength of one’s team. For obvious reasons, crashes, which are incredibly common in events like the Tour of California, can also radically alter the course of a race. Sutherland, who says he’s crashed at more than 50mph and landed on his elbows, estimates that 60 percent of the members of your typical peloton (group of bicycle racers) have broken their collarbones at some stage. 30

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Cuban-born Ivan Dominguez, 31, is the No. 1 sprinter for ToyotaUnited, the team he’ll be riding with in this year’s race. Dominguez, whose many cycling conquests include a victory over Lance Armstrong in the 2002 New York City Cycling Championship, says he, too, has seen many a racer take a nasty spill. “The group is kind of big, and if someone isn’t paying attention and makes a small mistake while he’s right behind a guy, you can crash,” he explains. Dominguez knows whereof he speaks: In May of last year, he took a dive over his handlebars at Arkansas’ Tri-Peaks Challenge, sustaining injuries to his back and ribs. It put him out of commission until July 1, when he took second place at the Manhattan Beach Grand Prix.

why we have a race like this, and why it’s able to go forward, is because of all the fans,” Sutherland states.

Barring any dramatic demonstrations of the awesome power of gravity, the ATOC promises to be good fun for participants, not to mention spectators, who are sure to be legion. Last year’s race set state and national attendance records, with more than 1.6 million people coming out to get a glimpse of the action. “The reason

Amgen Tour of California, Feb. 17-24. The race prologue will take place on Sun, Feb. 17 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, with time trials at the Stanford Oval from 1pm. Stage Three will see riders from Modesto arriving in San Jose on Wed, Feb. 20 from around 1:45pm. See www.amgentourofcalifornia.com for updates and details.

He adds that when he began last year’s race in San Francisco, he was impressed by the thousands of people lined up along the side of the road to watch a sport that many of them didn’t actually understand. “It’s probably like me going to a Denver Nuggets game last week,” he reckons. “I don’t know any of the players, but I had a ball! It’s the crowd, the experience. To see a bunch coming into a finish sprinting at 45 or 50 mph is a pretty exciting thing. So, yeah, I was pretty amazed last year with how California responded to the race in general. I think ATOC is going to become an American icon, if not an icon in the world.” TW

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Health&Beauty ties in the spalike environs of her Campbell Radiance Health Solutions center, just as eagerly as they would get together for a spa day or a mani/pedi party at the local nail salon. “We’ve been here for about a year and a half, and things are just booming – we have over 1,000 clients in the first year,” says Law, who gained her colon hydrotherapy certification through the Internal Environment Institute and the International Association for Colon Hydrotherapy. “It’s definitely becoming more popular. There’s [always been] a lot of evidence of people advocating colonics, but unfortunately it’s kind of gone by the wayside as we’ve come into more pharmaceuticals.

Detox Diva Shannon Law

“I think Western medicine is great for what I like to call ‘crisis care,’” Law continues. “I mean, thank God for Western medicine. If I break my arm, I’m not going to pour wheatgrass on it, say ‘Om’ and give myself a colonic! But for preventative care, what I call ‘true healthcare,’ that – in my opinion – has got to be holistic.”

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Inner Cleansing An ancient holistic health practice is experiencing a resurgence. BY JO ABBIE

eep breath, everybody. We’re talking here about colon hydrotherapy, also known as colonic irrigation – which, to get clinical for a moment, involves introducing water to the colon in order to expedite the expelling of waste matter. Used since almost the dawn of time to relieve a panoply of ailments, it is again emerging as an increasingly accepted holistic health practice – perhaps fueled by the trickle-down effect from its popularity amongst Hollywood types. While many think of colon hydrotherapy primarily as a weight-loss tool,

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those in the industry prefer to look at it more as a detoxifying aid – one that, in most cases, helps kick-start a health and weight loss regime. In the longer term, its proponents tout it as helpful in treating a wide range of health and wellness issues, from digestive problems and irregularity to headaches and even aging. Its benefits, claim its advocates, include clearer skin, improved digestion, increased energy and mental clarity. If Shannon Law – aka the “Detox Diva” – has her way, groups of girls will soon be attending colonic par-

Colon hydrotherapy is nothing if not holistic – making use of just water, gravity and some equipment, no drugs, to speed up a bodily function. The equipment used today has come a long way since the days of Louis XIV, an early devotee. The colon hydrotherapy machines used by Law and her team of certified hydrotherapists ensure the process is completely painless, odorless, and hygienic. It is also mess free, as the machines are connected directly to the sewer system. For some it can even be a relaxing experience, particularly in the soothing spalike rooms of Law’s center, where the only perceptible aroma is that of organic essential oils. Though most modern medical practitioners pooh-pooh the procedure and its purported benefits, Dr. Robert Charm is one exception. The Walnut Creek native has often been quoted touting the benefits of colonic hydrotherapies, suggesting in one instance that “a good clean-out by use of colon hydrotherapy is excellent treatment.” Dr. Charm has also recommended “that people undertake colon hydrotherapy for themselves,” noting how it helps “clean out the body’s pipes.” Despite scepticism from the bulk of the mainstream medical community,

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COLONIC TRIVIA }The father of modern medicine, famed Greek physician Hippocrates, was known to have used colonics to help cure hundreds of ailments, including fever. }Historians have found evidence that enemas, the precursor to colonics, were practiced as early as 1500 B.C. They were also practiced by the ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Hindu, Greek, Roman, Nigerian and early African cultures. }In the 1400s, King Louis XI reportedly credited colonic irrigation with curing his seizures. }Two centuries later, Louis XIV reportedly had over 2,000 colonics during his reign, and even received court functionaries and visitors while undergoing the procedure. He also had his beloved dog experience the wonders of colonic clean-outs. }It became the height of fashion in 17th-century Parisian society to enjoy as many as three or four colonics a day. }The father of modern breakfast cereal, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, was another prominent proponent, as were many medical practitioners in the 1930s. }It was common practice amongst the medical community to use the procedure on patients up until the 1950s. In the ’60s and ’70s, its use dwindled with the increasing availability of pills and surgery that could do the job. }Colonics had a brief resurgence in the alternative-health conscious wave of the late ’80s and early ’90s, notably when Steve Martin joked about them in the 1991 film L.A. Story. }In 1993, Princess Diana endured a scandal when a London newspaper reported she spent over $4,000 annually having it done. She credited colonics with helping her deal with headaches, depression, allergies and fatigue. }In 1999, actor Damon Wayans talked about it on Howard Stern. }According to the gossip rags, celebrities including Janet Jackson, Ben Affleck, Courtney Love, Andie MacDowell, Cindy Crawford, Alicia Silverstone, Usher, Demi Moore and Liv Tyler are fans. }A colonic is not the same as an enema. An enema only reaches about one foot into the colon, the lowest part of the large intestine. A colonic allows water to reach and cleanse the entire six feet of your colon, making it more effective than an enema.

those willing to give it a try seem to really love it. “Hydrocolonic therapy is a great way to improve your digestive system, clear your skin and allow your body to function at its most optimal levels,” cites Los Gatos personal trainer Michelle Van Otten on the testimonials section of the Radiance Health 34

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Solutions website. “I feel clearer and cleaner and I have more mental clarity,” says another satisfied customer. Law considers regular colon hydrotherapy an essential maintenance regime, likening it to, say, heading to the dentist for regular cleanings or changing the oil regularly in your car. But while the weight loss one experiences can certainly be a positive side-effect, the real benefit to irrigation is getting rid of the body’s toxic by-product and getting back energy in spades. “It definitely helps with 34

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that feeling tired all the time, feeling sluggish,” Law explains. “And I don’t know anybody who doesn’t feel that way. Everybody’s exhausted. So the whole thing is that this can allow you to have more energy to do what you want to do in life – because it takes a lot of energy to get through life. “Really, it’s about being healthy from the inside out,” concludes Law. “Because once you’re balanced and healthy from the inside, the outside is a nice by-product.” TW

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SPA CAMPBELL INNOVATORS SALON & SPA $$ 1606 W. Campbell Ave. (408) 374-7435 www.innovators-salon.com

Services: Massages (Swedish, deep tissue, reflexology), facials (European, deep cleansing, express, fruit enzyme peel, glycolic acid peel, anti-aging vitamin repair), microdermabrasion, back facials, sea salt scrub, hand, nail and feet care, hair salon, waxing, tanning, makeup application and lessons. Special Features: Innovators provides in-salon or on-location styling, makeup application, manicures, pedicures, massages, and facials for special occasions such as a bridal party, prom or romantic date. STAR SALON & SPA $ 2260 S. Bascom Ave. (408) 377-2151 www.starsalonspa.com

Services: Facials (refresher, classic European, ultimate European), massages (back and neck, full body, deep tissue, foot reflexology), tanning, hair removal, nail care and full salon services. Special Features: If a regular facial just doesn’t cut it for you, go for the Ultimate at Star Salon & Spa. It’s 80 minutes of pure facial bliss with an AHA chemical peel that smoothes fine lines, lightens hyper pigmentation and promotes cell growth, followed by hydrating, toning, a facial, and a neck and shoulder massage, and ending with a nourishing masque. Also, check out the massage packages, which are a great bargain at $240 for six half-hour sessions.

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Services: Massages and touch therapies (Half Moon Bay signature, couples, sports, reflexology, prenatal, Thai, invigorating scalp, shiatsu, healing stone, deep tissue), facials (calming lavender, the Half Moon Bay, men’s protection, renovateur, deep cleansing, Carita intense hydrating renovateur, Carita extreme softness renovateur, Carita purifying balance renovateur, Carita lift firming renovateur, Prada radiance visage), body treatments (pumpkin body peel, Prada replenishing body facial, fresh lavender wrap, aromatherapy body polish), nailcare, hair salon, hair removal, makeup, fitness center, and wellness services. Special Features: This ritzy spa’s fitness center, steam room, sauna, whirlpool, and coed Roman mineral bath are complimentary for guests purchasing a treatment.

LOS ALTOS CIANA DAY SPA AND SALON $$ 111 Main St. (Salon); 107 Main St. (Spa), (650) 941-1285 www.cianasalonspa.com

Services: Facials (essential, ultimate, elemental nature, outer peace acne relief, men’s, LaStone, purifying facial for acneprone skin, 55-minute express, microdermabrasion), waxing, hand and feet therapy, hair salon, and makeup. Special Features: If you want the pampering to continue at home, throw a microdermabrasion party, where a certified esthetician from Ciana visits you.

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YELKA DAY SPA $$$ 2049 Grant Rd. (650) 9691117 www.yelkadayspa.com

Services: Facial therapies (Treatment 21TM, pumpkin pie refining peel, hydraplenishing oxygen, MoistureLock collagen, ultimate decadence, mini decadence, regenerating caviar pearl, frosty mint spirulina, intense glycol-firming, microdermabrasion, Lumi, acne), massages (aromatherapy, deep tissue, aqua-thermal trio, personalized plus, mom-to-be, Treatment 21TM deep relaxation), body treatments (Adriatic lavender salt polish, chocolate raspberry buff, cellulite reduction, slimming detox, hand brightening and retexturizing, reflexology, aromatic scalp treatment), waxing, tinting, and spa packages. Special Features: Caviar used to be something you ate, but now it’s something you put on your face – well, almost. The Regenerating Caviar Pearl Facial takes the finest of caviar extracts, which compel skin cells to metabolize, leaving your face radiant.

LOS GATOS CLOUD 9 SKIN & BODY CARE $$ 501 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Ste. 2 (408) 354-0710 www.cloud9x.com

Services: Massages (deep tissue, trigger-point, acupressure, Thai, reflexology, Swedish gentle, hot stone, Reiki, lymphatic drainage, prenatal), facials (Cloud 9), body treatments (herbal cellulite wrap with foot reflexology, fabulous bodacial with salt scrub, herbal mask, aroma steam, moisture treatment), hair removal, nail care, naturopathic medicine, chemical and metabolic rebalancing, and chiropractic services. Special Features: Feel weightless in a flotation tank filled with 800 lbs. of Epsom Salt – proven to relieve stress and muscle tension. GABRIELLE SALON $$ 540 N. Santa Cruz Ave., Ste. D (408) 395-7260

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Services: Massages (aromatherapy, Swedish, deep tissue, hot stone, prenatal, sports, chair, focus), facials (Aromessance, men’s, teen, sea, sensitive skin, deep pore cleansing, antioxidant, glycolic peel, back), body treatments (salt glow, moor mud, coffee scrub, airbrush tanning), waxing, nail care, hair salon, and makeup. Special Features: Coffee lovers should try the Café Latte manicure, in which the hands are soaked in coffee beans, and steamed milk before the rest of the treatment. LUSCIOUS SKIN $ 401 Alberto Way, Ste. D (408) 370-9121 www.lusciousskin.com

Services: Massages (therapeutic Esalen, Reiki technique), facials (fountain of youth petite, tropical, deep cleansing European, firming, deep pore cleanse, soothing “C,” paprika with AHA, Lisa’s seasonal special), brow/lash tinting, and hair removal. Special Features: Try the Paprika Facial with AHA, the signature treatment which “regenerates, rejuvenates, and detoxifies” the skin. 38

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413 Monterey Ave., Ste. B (408) 395-2009 www.themommyspa.com

Services: Massages (specializing in pregnancy and postpartum massage, plus Swedish relaxation, deep tissue, and hot stone massage, trigger point therapy, and couples and infant massage classes). Also offers Reiki and guided meditation. Special Features: Founder Lindsay MacInnis has extensive training and experience, studying under such recognized experts as New York’s Elaine Stillerman, and San Diego’s Carol Osborne-Sheets. As a result, she has advanced certification in pregnancy massage, and over 70 hours of specific prenatal training. For new mommies, newborns to three-month-olds are welcome during postpartum therapy sessions, with time for infant care and feeding as needed. RENDEZVOUS SALON & DAY SPA $$ 529 N. Santa Cruz Ave. (408) 354-3085

Services: Massages (warm stone, Swedish body, therapeutic, aromatherapy), facials (Rendezvous ultimate, detoxifying, anti-aging rejuvenation, acne controlling), skin resurfacing (microdermabrasion, exfoliation power peels), hair salon, nail care, hair removal, brow design, and makeup. Special Features: Rendezvous offers specialty add-on services, including detoxifying arm treatment, décolleté microdermabrasion and rejuvenation treatment, balancing back facial, hydrating hand and paraffin treatment, and after facial makeup application. Makeup applications in styles such as film, photography and television are also provided. THE SPA ~ LOS GATOS $$$ 100 S. Santa Cruz Ave. (408) 354-5901 www.thespalosgatos.com

Services: Massages (Swedish, deep tissue, sports, warm stone, massage sampler, prenatal, lomilomi, Endermologie®, reflexology), facials (DNA cryo-stem, glycolic, teen, back, gentlemen’s, vitamin C and papaya enzyme), body therapy (body detox, chardonnay bliss, bath rituals, hand and foot), waxing, Vichy shower treatments, wraps, hydrotherapy treatments, and hair salon. Special Features: All treatments at this large European-style day spa include a private aromatherapy steam session, plus use of a robe and slippers. Hot teas are available while you wait in the well-appointed “library” for your appointment. Along with the typical spa favorites of various massages and facials, The Spa ~ Los Gatos shows its dedication to the complete well-being of its clients by offering such services as oncology massage, detoxing body wraps, teen skin consultations and motherhood massage. STUDIO JOULE $$ 130A N. Santa Cruz Ave. (408) 395-3773 www.studiojoule.com

Services: Massages (30-, 60-, 90minute; sole session foot reflexology treatment; Joule face and body duo, mother-to-be, eucalyptus escape),

facials (classic Joule, petite studio, studio teen, microdermabrasion, lightening, Obagi skincare system, Joule facial packages, Jan Marini signature), hair removal, lash and brow tint, and makeup. Special Features: Find out what makeup looks best on you with a complimentary consultation with Jane Iredale Mineral Cosmetics. YVETTE’S INSTITUTE DE BEAUTE $$ 248 W. Main St. (408) 395-1551

Services: Massages (aromatherapy massage, aromatic sauna wrap, tension relief neck and shoulder, renewing hand treatment), facials (deep pore cleansing, Guinot hydradermie oxygenating, hydradermie plus anti-aging, ultimate hydration, calming sensitive skin, purifying teen, regulating, aromaplasty mineral, luminizing, lift defense – collagene, oxyliance revitalizing, flash beaute vitamin C, evidence antiaging firming, refreshing mini, deep cleansing back, soothing eye contour treatment), body treatments (Swiss herbal wrap, anti-cellulite body mask, toning/ firming sculptural, mother-to-be, firming neck and décolleté mask), makeup, lash and brow tint, hair removal, and nail care. Special Features: For intensive care, go for the Glycolic Acid Peel or the Beta Hydroxy Acid Peel. The Glycolic is designed to make skin healthy and glowing, and with the Beta you can choose a booster to treat a particular problem area.

MENLO PARK INSPIRATION DAY SPA $$ 325 Sharon Park Dr. (650) 854-5885 www.inspirationdayspa.com

Services: Massages (signature, deep tissue, heated desert stone, neck, back and shoulders, prenatal, reflexology, shiatsu, Swedish), facials (inspiration, rose quartz, age perfecting, collagen veil mask, microdermabrasion), body treatments (Hamman, green clay mud wrap, champagne, caramel chocolate sundae, journey to serenity, bronzing), waxing, hair salon, makeup, and nail care. Special Features: The DNA CryoStemTM skin therapy system fuses the synergy of DermaNutraceutical technology with cryogenic bio-cell therapy to hydrate your skin. Integrate it into your day at the spa and take some home for later use. PERSONA DAY SPA $ 1166 El Camino Real (650) 328-2836 www.personadayspa-mp.com

Services: Facials (European, Vitamin C, collagen, teen, men’s, glycolic), body treatments (botanical body buff, parafango firming and anti-cellulite series, back cleansing), massages (Swedish, reflexology, deep tissue), makeup, lash tinting and perming, and waxing. Services: Marriage should not be taken lightly and neither 40

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should the wedding day. That’s why Persona Day Spa offers prewedding consultations on makeup application, and, if needed, onlocation assistance on your big day. THERMAE DAY SPA $$$ 103 Gilbert Ave. (650) 8333131 www.thermaespa.com

Services: Massages (classic relaxing, deep tissue, hydrotherapy, lymphatic, maternity, warm soothing stone specialty, aromatherapy, neck, back and shoulder), facials (purifying/deep hydrating, oxygen, aromatherapy, anti-aging, Vitamin C, teen, men’s, microdermabrasion), body treatments (exfoliating salt scrub, hydrating and healing mud wrap, detoxifying herbal wrap, hydrotherapy baths, nail care, waxing, and makeup. Special Features: It’s not enough just to look great on the outside. Therma’s wellness center takes care of your inner being with services such as counseling, a 25-minute meditation session and personalized Ayurveda nutrition sessions (to help you understand what foods are best for you, according to your mind and body type).

MOUNTAIN VIEW AMERICAN MALE SALON $$$ 560 Showers Dr. (650) 9419994 www.americanmale.com

Services: Waxing, salon services, paraffin hand dips, foot and hand detailing, skin and back treatments, and massages (Swedish stress relief, deep tissue sports, reflexology). Special Features: American Male Salon offers a host of packages to help men look and feel great, such as the three-and-a-half-hour Ultimate American Male Combo that includes a Swedish massage, facial, hand and foot detailing plus a professional haircut.

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Services: Massages (deep tissue, couples, aromatherapy, hot stone, maternity, lymphatic drainage. Swedish, Esalen), facials (clean and clear, European, urban defense, back, acne, aromaplasty, alpha glycolic, sensitive skin, hydrating, herbal peel, gentlemen’s, anti-aging, regulating, oxygen), hair removal, nail therapy, body treatments (de-stress aromatherapy body wrap, Dead Sea full body masque, passionfruit body salt rub and massage, anti-cellulite, aloe vera oil body wrap, sculptured firming treatment, aroma), hair salon, makeup, and hair removal. Special Features: A trip to Beauty Clinica is like taking a mini vacation, without the hassle of traveling. Their wide range of full- and half-day packages, which comes with a healthy spa lunch, will leave you feeling on top of the world. Especially popular is the Half-Day Getaway, which includes a facial, massage, body treatment, manicure, pedicure, and a hot spa lunch.

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810 San Antonio Rd. (650) 852-0546 www.bodykneads-dayspa.com

Services: Massages (Swedish, aromatherapy, pregnancy, cranial sacral, hot stone, lymphatic drainage, reflexology, hot stone, shiatsu, sports), facials (European, express mini, alpha hydroxy, mini, men’s, teen, crystal peel, back, vitamin C, eye treatment), body treatments (Body Xcell, cellulite, aromatic bath), hair removal, nail care, hand and foot therapy, permanent makeup, and tanning. Special Features: With Body Xcell, the use of gyratory vibration percussion stimulates and nourishes your skin and tissues to help dissolve fat and rid cellulite. DESTINO SPA $$$ 4335 El Camino Real (650) 947-0203 www.destinospa.net

Services: Massages (Gardenia aroma Swedish, shiatsu, prenatal, healing warm stone), facials (revitalizing pumpkin, caviar, pomegranate, collagen silk, Mandarin C aromatic, purification, men’s, tropical taste, radiant caviar, deep cleansing back), resurfacing treatments (microdermabrasion, advanced exfoliation, sugar and beta peels, lactic acid and green tea), spa rituals (Bali bliss, Sanur seaweed wrap, minty earth and sea mud wrap, lava purification wrap), feet therapy, body polishes, baths and soaks, waxing, and makeup. Special Features: Feed your skin and senses with one of Destino’s appetizing treats. Try the Caramel Turtle Inspiration, which starts off with a dry brush exfoliation and delicious chocolate dip wrap. For something sweeter, have a go at Chocolate Chip Devotion, which includes a yummy chocolate chip scrub and strawberries-and-cream custom massage. JUUT SALON SPA $$$ 240 University Ave. (650) 328-4067 www.juut.com

Services: Salon services, waxing, makeup, facials (basic, replenishing, Juut Spa, eye zone treatment), body treatments (aroma body wrap, salt glow, herbal back treatment), and nail services. Special Features: Get a cut and color at reduced prices from licensed professionals in the process of obtaining advanced training at Juut’s Roseville training location. LA BELLE DAY SPA $$$ www.labelledayspas.com 95 Town & Country Village (650) 327-6964 36 Stanford Shopping Center (650) 326-8522

Services: Massages (therapeutic, hot stone, lymphatic draining, post- and prenatal, Swedish), facials (Back on Top, Bye Bye Spots, custom peels, epicuren enzyme, five carat glow, La Belle royal touch, quick clean, quick exfoliation, sea meets stone, slim and lift), body treatments (Endermologie®, aromatic mud, wine and roses scrub), waxing, laser hair removal, Botox, salon services, nails, regular, and permanent makeup. Special Features: Turn back the clock in just four hours with Timeless Radiance, the anti-aging spa package that combines a Forever Young Facial to minimize wrinkles and brighten and firm skin, and an invigorating full-body

glycolic body exfoliation. Also, check out their extensive menu of services for men, which includes grooming and sports manicure and pedicure. SKINSPIRIT CLINIC AND SPA $$$ 701 Emerson St. (650) 3249600 www.skinspirit.com

Services: Botox, chemical peels, dermal fillers (collagen, Hylaform, Radiesse, Restylane), intense pulsed light, laser hair removal, Thermage, vein laser therapy, acupuncture, sclerotherapy, massages (Swedish, deep tissue, lymphatic drainage, La Stone, pre- and postnatal, cellulite therapy), facials (signature, clarifying, teen, vitamin C, oxygen, paprika, microdermabrasion), waxing, lash and brow tinting. Special Features: Treatment21TM is an entirely new way to relax – combine a specially designed skincare treatment with one of five therapeutic guided visualization journeys on a CD and listened to with headphones. WATERCOURSE WAY $$ 165 Channing Ave. (650) 462-2000 www.watercourseway.com

Services: Massages (aromatherapy, deep muscle, hot stone), facials (natural scrub, deep cleansing, moor therapy treatment, Hungarian paprika, organic, honey and yogurt, vitamin C, moisturizing, anti-stress, express, royal anti-aging, custom herbal peels), spa treatments (Red Flower Sento ritual, rain dance revitalizing skin treatment, moor therapy, salt glow, thermal seaweed wrap, Essensa’s 3D spa therapy), Ayurvedic rituals, and foot treatment. Special Features: This relaxing retreat boasts nine private hot tub rooms with a range of décor and amenities, including multijetted spas, wood tubs, saunas, and cold plunges with steam rooms.

SAN JOSE SANDRA M. SKINCARE $$ 6110 Camino Verde Dr., Ste. 5, San Jose (408) 224-1223 www.sandramskincare.com

Services: Facials (clarifying mask treatment, specialty and therapeutic), corrective skincare (microdermabrasion, dermaplaning, glycolic peels, acne treatment, Sensi peel, power peel, pumpkin peel, oxygenating trio, ultra peel, PCA peel, Esthetique peel, rapid exfoliation), waxing, permanent makeup, sunless body glow treatment. Product lines (Jan Marini Skin Research, Youngblood Mineral Cosmetics, Revitalash). Special Features: Owner Sandra M. had 14 years of experience as a medical assistant before undertaking four years of study in the skincare field. 1240 SALON & SPA $$$ 1240 S. Bascom Ave. (408) 295-3886

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veins and skin tags, leaving it smooth and blemish free. THE ALEXANDRIA SALON & SPA $$ 1346 The Alameda, Ste. 8 (408) 971-2926 www.thealexandriasalon.com

Services: Massages (aromatherapy, deep tissue, hot stone, Swedish, sports and chair), facials (mini, full, European, thermo-plastic mask, algo mask, sea C spa treatment, botinol, hydro lifting and collagen 90 II), waxing, threading, manicure, pedicure, body treatments (parafango wrap, back parafango for men, body shaping and firming, Dead Sea salt glow and purifying back treatment), and makeup. Special Features: All skin treatments include a complimentary makeup retouch featuring Glominerals cosmetics, also sold at Alexandria’s. ANGEL FACE DAY SPA $$ 833 S. Winchester Blvd. (408) 247-3223 www.angelfacedayspa.com

Services: Facials (hydrating, revitalizing, de-stressing, angel face, alpha hydroxy, back, gentlemen’s and teen), body treatments (European herbal wrap, European ocean glow, seaweed wrap, hair and scalp treatment), massages (Swedish, aromatherapy, deep tissue, acupressure), and makeup. Special Features: Angel Face offers specialty treatments like the Epicuren Enzyme Facial Treatment (natural enzymes, proteins and botanicals free of chemical preservatives, fragrances and colors) and the Micro Derma Facial, which uses a specially formulated microcrystal cream (that removes dry or damaged cells) to achieve results similar to that of a microdermabrasion machine. ATELIER AVEDA LIFESTYLE SALON AND SPA $$ 378 Santana Row, Ste. 1120 (408) 244-4222 www.atelieraveda.com

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Services: Facials (botanical skin resurfacing, men’s, self renewal), body treatments (Caribbean therapy, back), treatment enhancers, waxing, tinting, hair salon, and makeup. Special Features: All hair services begin with a consultation to determine what procedures are best for you, based on your lifestyle, face shape, hair texture and length. Hair color consultations are based on hair color wheels that are used as calculation tools to find the best shade for your natural color from Aveda’s exclusive products. AYOMA LIFESPA $$$ 355 Santana Row, Fifth Floor (408) 423-5424 www.ayomalifespa.com

Services: Massages (traditional Kerala sports massage, four-handed Ayuverdic massage, aromatic herbal oil, traditional Indian), waxing, hand and feet therapy, facials (Soundarya deep cleansing, Mukhralepa Ayurvedic herbal), body treatments, and wellness plans. Special Features: This restful haven in Hotel Valencia is the only Ayurvedic (a 5,000-year-old healing system 42

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from India) wellness spa in the Bay Area, and offers consultations and custom spa packages. BELLA BELLA SALON $$ 2688 Union Ave. (408) 559-4247

Services: Massages (one hour full body, Swedish and deep tissue), nail treatments, permanent makeup, hair treatments, waxing, and facials (European, time saver, paraffin wax and dermalyse). Special Features: This familyowned business boasts its own Vidal Sassoon stylist and beautician who studied in New York and Europe. BURKE WILLIAMS SPA $$$ 355 Santana Row, Ste. 2010 (408) 241-0071 www.burkewilliamsspa.com

Services: Massages (pure relaxation, deep tissue/sports, pregnancy, traditional Japanese shiatsu, Swedish/shiatsu combo, reflexology, Thai, Reiki, lymphatic, cranial sacral), facials (spa-style, nourishing, oxygen, organic enzymes, microdermabrasion, back), signature treatments (Hunter’s retreat, Savannah’s surrender, salt glo, body wash, parafango), waxing, body wraps (thermal seaweed, detox/calming, Calistoga getaway), hand-and-foot therapy, and hair salon. Special Features: If you’re looking to host a business meeting or office party with a twist, Burke Williams has conference room and party facilities. After that, wash away work stress in one of their luxurious spa baths (herbal, seaweed, milk, and mud). DOLCE VITA DAY SPA & SALON $$

JASKIRAN $ 2833 Riedel Rd. (408) 309-1090

Services: Massages (hands and feet, feet only, traditional Indian head), facials (refreshing and hydrating, deep pore cleansing, acne, anti-aging peptide resurfacing peel, enzyme, back), body wraps (salt glow, enzymatic sea mud), spa packages (Renewal, Restoration, Promenade the Spa, Maternity Spa Day), hair removal, threading, lash and brow tint, and makeup. Special Features: If you’re looking for more pampering to go with a facial, ask for one of these add ons: foot remedy, hand and wrist massage, glycolic hand peel, or paraffin treatment for hands and feet. Jaskiran also offers henna tattoo applications. LA CONCHA SPA $$$ 1042 Lincoln Ave. (408) 286-8612 www.laconchaspa.com

Services: Massages (Swedish, shiatsu, deep tissue, carpal tunnel syndrome, foot reflexology, prenatal, sports, chair, Reiki, lymphatic drainage), facials (Fruitopia, hydrating, deep cleansing, regenerating, acne, glycolic, back), mineral and herbal oil baths, body scrubs and wraps, tanning, cellulite treatments, manicures, pedicures, hand and foot therapy, hair salon and makeup. Special Features: Heaven has a name and it’s the Grand Escape Spa Package. For $760, a couple gets seven hours of aromatherapy sauna, body scrub, choice of baths, full facial, one-hour massage, lunch, manicure, pedicure. PERSIMMON SPA & TANNING $$$

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1415 The Alameda (408) 298-2900 www.persimmonspa.com

Services: Massages (Swedish, aromatherapy, pre and postnatal, Shiatsu, deep tissue, reflexology, foot, hot stone), facials (express, deep cleansing, oxy-vital, hydrating, botanical Botox, glycolic acid peel), body treatments (micro-buff body polish, sea salt, aromatherapy, moor mud, detoxifying seaweed, cellulite body wrap), manicures, pedicures, hair salon, makeup, and waxing. Special Features: Detoxify and hydrate their skin with water therapies, like the purifying steam sauna and the balneotherapy aroma bath.

Services: Massages (deep tissue, Swedish, sports, motherhood, local area emphasizing), facial treatments (DNA anti-aging treatment, signature Persimmon, deep pore cleansing, gentlemen’s relaxing facial, teen, back treatment), waxing and tanning. Special Features: Persimmon Spa & Tanning specializes in anti-aging facials that promise immediate results during the first treatment that will last up to three months.

FACE FORWARD SKINCARE $$ 1610 Blossom Hill Rd., Ste. 3 (408) 206-2426 www.faceforwarskincare.com

Services: Massages (Swedish, structural/deep tissue, sidelying), body treatments (bust and décolleté, salt glow, seaweed body wrap, desert heat body wrap), chemical peels, post-surgical treatments (Silico-Lipid mask, CCH mask), facials (European, deep pore, express, luminous C and sea, plantomer, anti-free radical, rosacea), waxing, and microdermabrasion. Special Features: Personalized service, value pricing, flexible hours, and results-oriented products and services, along with the revolutionary illumiMed® LED system that rejuvenates the skin and reduces the appearance of cellulite, make Face Forward a great find.

LA CHOZA DAY SPA $$$ 1451 Foxworthy Ave. (408) 448-0573 www.lachozadayspa.com

Services: Massages (pure relaxation, deep tissue, thermal heated stone, prenatal, reflexology for hand and feet), facials (vitamin C skin brightening, AHA glycolic, hydrating, rejuvenating collagen, pore purifying, men’s, mini), body treatments (La Choza surrender, chocolate delight body treatment, purification body mask, salt glow, deep cleansing back), spa packages (Spa Romance, La Choza, Total Body, Personal Spa Experience), hair removal, manicures and pedicures, and makeup. Special Features: Try out the Revitalizing Eye Care and Revitalizing Lip Care add-on treatments if a facial isn’t enough, and let your feet soak in a tasty treat with the Mocha Lava or Citrus Splash pedicures. TW

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AMY B. BOUTIQUE, 15994 Los Gatos Blvd., Los Gatos (408) 358-8600 Exceptional men’s and women’s contemporary clothing and accessories from Ted Baker, Diane Von Furstenberg, Oliver Peoples, James Perse, Vince and Paige Denim.

BOMBSHELL BOUTIQUE, 301 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell (408) 371-7423 www.bombshell-boutique.com Bombshell offers stylish and sexy clothing and lingerie for women. Also specializes in tattoo apparel for men and women, and offers unique accessories and gift items.

DUTCHESS INTIMATES BOUTIQUE, 346 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell (408) 866-8006 www.dutchessboutique.com Dutchess specializes in fine lingerie, bras, panties and accessories at affordable prices. Visit their brand new boutique in downtown Campbell for something sweet or sexy. Private party hosting available.

KITSCH COUTURE, 20490 Saratoga-Los Gatos Rd., Saratoga (408) 872-1104 www.kitschcouture.com At Kitsch Couture, they want fashion to capture your individuality. They have transformed a quaint historic church into a wonderfully distinct contemporary boutique, filled with an eclectic mix of fashion forward pieces, unique accessories, and gifts. Customers often leave saying “there truly is something for everyone.” Brands include Free People, T-Bags, Trina Turk, Kensie and Michael Stars.

URSULA’S BOUTIQUE, 140 W. Main St., Ste. B, Los Gatos (408) 395-1400 The wide range of clothing and styles at Ursula’s Boutique will have you dressed for any event. With an array of jewelry, handbags, and accessories, Ursula’s Boutique is all you need to complete your outfit.

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ust as the sofa is the anchor piece of the living room, the bed, in no small or subtle way, defines the décor of the bedroom. It’s the one item in the room on which skimping should be forbidden. Modern beds (at least the ones on this page) are built to last decades, not years – under normal use, of course. That said, the importance of choosing the right frame is ostensibly as important, if not more so, than the choice in mattress. Because European-designed frames come at no small cost, it’s often wise to go with a model that’s been a mainstay in the designer’s collection. That way, matching pieces like dressers, nightstands and bureaus can be added as needed – or as more interior design funds become available. TW

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The basic ingredients for Spicy Garlic Aioli

The completed aioli poured over a roast beef sandwich

out sufficient agitation, the emulsion will not form properly. If you don’t have enough emulsifying agent, or if the mixture is too hot or too cold, the emulsion will not form at all. When an emulsion doesn’t form, or later separates, the sauce is said to be “broken.” If this happens, you may still be able to rescue it by adding a bit more water (and/or emulsifying agent) while vigorously whisking or blending the sauce.

Emulsification Made Easy Whipping up your own sauces, dressings and mayo is a snap with these tips from Sent Sovi’s chef. DINING

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lthough it’s the dead of winter, I still fantasize about a wonderful BLT – with thick smoky bacon, toasted wheat bread, ripe red tomatoes, crisp lettuce and homemade mayonnaise. Yes, homemade mayonnaise. As a kid, I was intrigued by the ingredients listed on the side of the mayo jar. The first three were oil, water and eggs. I always wondered how those three distinct ingredients could combine to form something so different in texture, color and flavor. The answer: emulsification. Emulsification explains not only the mayonnaise on your BLT, but the creamy texture of your salad dressing, and the satiny richness of the hollandaise sauce on your eggs Benedict. Mayonnaise is actually billions of microscopic droplets of oil suspended in water (and other flavorings, such as vinegar or lemon). This suspension is made possible by the presence of the eggs. Let’s break it down a bit without getting into too much scientific

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jargon (continuous phase, dispersed phase, surfactants, etc.). Every emulsion must contain two liquids that will not mix (usually oil and water), as well as an emulsifying agent or stabilizer (such as eggs in the case of mayonnaise). Obviously from a culinary standpoint, flavorings, including herbs and spices, are always a good idea.

The ratio of the “water” part to the “oil” component determines the final consistency. If you want a thin sauce (to use as a salad dressing, for example), you need a higher ratio of the “water” component. If you want a thicker consistency (say for a spread or dip), you will use more oil. So now you know what an emulsion is and how to make one. You can apply this technique to a range of salad dressings, dips and spreads. Experiment with different flavors, spices, oils and vinegars – it’s amazing how easy it is to make your own flavorful sauces and dressings. You may never buy a jar of mayonnaise or a bottle of salad dressing again. I have included a recipe for a spicy garlic aioli that I love – it’s great on a rare roast beef sandwich. Enjoy. THE COMPONENTS

But if the liquids will not mix, how is the emulsion formed in the first place? Besides having an emulsifying agent such as egg or mustard present, the most important thing to remember when making an emulsion is that you have to break one of the liquids (usually the oil) into many small drops. This is done by shaking, blending, whisking, or otherwise agitating the “water” component while slowly adding the oil, starting with one drop at a time.

Common Emulsifying Agents Eggs, egg yolks (Lecithin is the main active chemical) Mustard (Dry or prepared) Pureed fruits and vegetables (Plant cellulose) Texture modifiers, starches (Xanthan gum is commonly used)

This sounds simple, but there are some potential pitfalls. If you add the second liquid too quickly, or with-

Common “Waters” Water, vinegar, lemon juice, white wine

Common “Oils” Canola or vegetable oil Olive oil Nut or seed oils (e.g., walnut oil, sesame seed oil) Butter (Used in warm emulsions) 52

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RECIPE: Spicy Garlic Aioli ½ cup olive oil ½ cup canola oil 2 to 3 cloves garlic, crushed

INGREDIENTS 1 egg yolk 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons vinegar ½ teaspoon paprika ¼ teaspoon black 2 to 4 dashes Tabasco pepper ½ teaspoon onion

METHOD

Step One: Combine garlic, egg, vinegar, pepper, salt, paprika, Tabasco, onion powder, garlic powder and brown sugar in a medium bowl. Step Two: Vigorously whisk mixture together until slightly foamy.

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Step Three: While whisking, begin incorporating the oils a few drops at a time. Continue to add the oils in a thin stream as you continue to whisk. If you have a third hand, this step is easier.

EMULSIONS YOU KNOW AND LOVE Warm butter + lemon juice + egg yolks = Hollandaise Oil + lemon juice + egg = Mayonnaise Garlic + mayonnaise (usually made with olive oil) = Aioli

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Mayonnaise + sour cream + buttermilk + herbs = Ranch dressing White wine + butter = Beurre blanc Lemon + olive oil + anchovies + parmesan cheese + garlic = Caesar salad dressing

powder ½ teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon brown sugar

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DINING F E AT U R E Step Four: Adjust seasoning to your taste. Add a few drops of water if the aioli is too thick. Alternate Method: Instead of using a whisk and a bowl, steps one to three can be prepared in a blender. You may need to add a couple of teaspoons of water during step three if the emulsion gets too thick. A blender is capable of creating smaller droplets of oil, so the consistency will be slightly different than the hand-whisked method. Variation: Leave out the spices, garlic and sugar, use a cup of canola oil (instead of half olive and half canola oil) and you have homemade mayonnaise!

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One Caveat Many of the traditional emulsions, such as mayonnaise or hollandaise, use raw eggs as an emulsifier. This could potentially expose you to salmonella bacteria. Common sense dictates using the freshest possible eggs and following proper sanitization procedures. Many people eat raw or undercooked (soft poached, over easy) eggs their entire life and never have a problem. If you’re concerned, you can “coddle” (soft boil) the eggs to 170°F and use the yolk, or buy a commercially pasteurized egg product. I live dangerously myself, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. TW Josiah Slone is the chef /owner of Sent Sovi in Saratoga. His restaurant is located at 14583 Big Basin Way. Phone: (408) 867-3110 or go to www.sentsovi.com for more information. THEWAVEMAG.COM FEBRUARY 13-26, 2008

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CAMPBELL CAPERS EAT & DRINK $$ [American] 1710 W. Campbell Ave. (408) 374-5777 www.caperseatanddrink.com

Capers – which could mean either the delicious Mediterranean condiment or a playful escapade – seems a particularly appropriate name for this popular spot. You’ll find more than just perfect pasta and juicy steaks here. Fire-roasted marinated artichokes, flash-fried calamari with jalapeños, a killer chicken marsala, and a meatloaf entrée with a wholesome reputation are just some of the enticing menu items. Main-course salads are also popular, particularly for lunching customers – the Chinese Chicken Salad being No. 1 on the lunch charts for some time now. Capers offers a selection of more than 30 wines by the glass from the full bar. TIGELLERIA RISTORANTE $$ [Contemporary Italian] 76 E. Campbell Ave. (408) 884-3808 www.tigelleria.com

This new eatery takes its name from the regional Italian flatbread customarily served with various cheeses, meats, vegetables and relishes. Fare here is traditional Italian with an organic twist. Think dishes such as shaved fennel and parmesan salad with pine nuts and organic Tuscan olive oil, or a cheese plate with some of the nation’s best-loved formaggios, including crescenza, taleggio, gorgonzola, pecorino Romano and, of course, parmesan – served with aged balsamic vinegar, honey, and fruit

spread. Gourmands will want to try the Sweet Sweet Salami entrée – chocolate salami sprinkled with drops of balsamic vinegar, garnished with organic cherry preserves and served with a glass of dessert wine.

CUPERTINO ARYA $$ [Global] 19930 Stevens Creek Blvd. (408) 996-9606 www.aryarestaurant.com

Visitors to Cupertino restaurant Arya can enjoy a distinctive dining experience in a restaurant that exudes relaxed elegance. The menu here is a unique mix of Persian, Italian and classic American cuisines, with dishes including shish kebab, cioppino, chicken marsala and flavorful Persian soups, stews and meats. Before your meal, allow time to enjoy a glass of wine from their extensive list in the cozy, fireside lounge. THE BLUE PHEASANT RESTAURANT & BAR $$$ [American, Continental] 22100 Stevens Creek Blvd. (408) 255-3300 www.bluepheasant.com

Reeling in regulars for almost 40 years with appetizers like the Blue Pheasant Crabcakes – breaded, deep-fried crabcakes served with aioli – and entrées like Salmon Wellington: King salmon and crabmeat baked in French puff pastry and covered in hollandaise sauce. Not to mention the pork tenderloin in Dijon peppercorn sauce, set aflame with brandy.

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Fans of the Flames that once stood here will no doubt flock to Harvest for its take on American breakfast favorites, such as the wine country omelet with peppers, smoked ham, tomatoes and Laura Chenel goat cheese. They should return for lunch or dinner at this casual, counter-service venue, opened by one of the Sonoma Chicken Coop founders. Expect some Coop-like dishes, but the kitchen also takes advantage of the $20,000 of pastamaking equipment, producing dishes that include silky, delicious goat cheese ravioli. With its kidfriendly offerings and wine country décor, the ambience is suitable for everything from family outings to business lunches.

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This family-oriented restaurant rotates around a social dining experience, where tables of locals devour baskets of Willow Street’s bread, made piping hot in-house daily. In addition to gourmet wood-fired pizzas like the Thin Crust Mediterranean (tomato sauce, mozzarella, roasted red peppers, kalamata olives, caramelized onions, fresh thyme, and goat cheese), the menu features sandwiches, grilled meats, and a number of savory pasta dishes. The fettuccini chicken tequila pasta is particularly popular.

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The bold red and black walls and chic surrounds of Sushi Mamoru set the stage for a medley of well-executed Japanese favorites – sushi, sashimi, and shabu-shabu. Count on thick, tender slices of sashimi, inventive special rolls such as the Milpitas roll and the Spicy Lovers roll, and a wide selection of tempura, udon, teriyaki, and vegetarian entrées. Ready for something different? Dunk and dine shabu-shabu style or go for something off the barbecue grill – we recommend the Mamoru Deluxe, a succulent combination of rib eye and lobster tail.

CANTANKEROUS FISH $$ [Seafood] 420 Castro St. (650) 966-8124 www.thecantankerousfish.com

A relaxed atmosphere meets a refined menu of seafood entrées in one of the Peninsula’s most popular destinations for business lunches and romantic dinners alike. Favorites include the Cantankerous Sea Bass and the crab-encrusted salmon. CASCAL $$ [Pan-Latin] 400 Castro St. (650) 940-9500 www.cascalrestaurant.com

Vibrant interior colors create a lively setting for Cascal’s huge, Latin-influenced tapas (small plates) menu. If you don’t feel like sharing, feel free to fall back on the full menu, which has a trio of ceviche dishes, plus several varieties of seafood paella. Weekdays from 3:30-6:30pm, you can enjoy your tapas with half-price mojitos, sangria or caipirinhas. TAQUERIA LA BAMBA $ [Mexican] 2058 Old Middlefield Way (650) 965-2755

Tucked away in this tiny taqueria are some of the biggest burritos this side of Texas. La Bamba’s super burrito comes with all the traditional fixings, such as meat, beans, rice, cheese, sour cream and guacamole, and is big enough to feed two hungry people. La Bamba’s menu also offers a taste of El Salvador with its pupusas, wonderfully crispy tortillas filled with pork, beans, and cheese. These delicacies are not designed to go – gobble them up in-house as they emerge piping hot from the kitchen. VASO AZZURRO $$ [Italian, Mediterranean] 108 Castro St. (650) 940-1717 www.vasoazzurro.com

Rich in flavor and attentive service, Vaso Azzurro delivers punchy Italian classics with an upscale and contemporary feel. Enjoy tasty appetizers like calamari fritti (lightly fried springy squid rings served with a spicy herb sauce) or Insalata di spinaci (a spinach salad with rock

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Every Fish Market location (the first opened in 1976) houses a retail market, oyster bar, and restaurant. The menu changes daily, but no matter what day it is, there’s a dish for nearly every hankering: seafood cocktails, raw oysters and clams, baked shellfish, steamed shellfish, smoked fish, sashimi and sushi, oyster bar specialties, and a deep list of mesquite charbroiled entrées. Ask for the cheesy bread with crabmeat, and always choose the au gratin as one of your sides. Trust us. MANTRA RESTAURANT & LOUNGE $$ [Contemporary Indian, California] 632 Emerson St. (650) 322-3500 www.mantrapaloalto.com

The gold wallpaper, cherry wood veneers, and occasional live jazz hint that this isn’t your typical Indian restaurant. Executive chef Sachin Chopra has created a winning menu that juxtaposes the Indian and California tastes, ranging from appetizers like golden cumin cauliflower soup to entrées like mustard and roasted Kashmiri cayenne pepper-marinated sea bass filet on a bed of leeks and fresh vegetables. Equally pleasing are the elegant 78-seat dining room and Dual Happy Hour ($3 beer, $5 cocktails and half off bar food) at the sleek Daru Lounge. SHOKOLAAT $$$$ [Continental] 516 University Ave. (650) 289-0719 www.shokolaat.com

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these sweet delights, you’ll find the fine restaurant, with food and wine menus highlighting the cuisines and wines of California and France. Try the filet of beef with seared foie gras and black truffle sauce, the gratin of escargot with bone marrow, or the lobster served with lobster ravioli. Pair dishes with wines from the restaurant’s extensive list, put together by consultant sommelier Catherine Fallis. THAIPHOON RESTAURANT $ [Thai] 543 Emerson St. (650) 323-7700 www.thaiphoonrestaurant.com

Owner Tom Vongampai grew up eating delicately spiced, fresh, healthy Thai food, and his goal with Thaiphoon was to bring his childhood cuisine to life – so he hired his mother as the executive chef. Where some Thai restaurants underspice or oversweeten their dishes, Thaiphoon’s dishes reach an elegant balance. Try your dishes with brown Jasmine rice instead of white. It’s healthier, and adds a subtle nutty flavor. TRADER VIC’S $$$ [Asian Fusion, Modern American] 4269 El Camino Real (650) 849-9800 www.tradervicspaloalto.com

Have you ever gone out with friends and found it next to impossible to choose a restaurant? Next time, head for Trader Vic’s, a restaurant with a fun, exotic atmosphere and a menu to match – from barbecued chicken pizza to macadamia-crusted mahi mahi to Sonoma chicken Calcutta curry (you read right). Legend has it that the Mai Tai was invented at the original Oakland Trader Vic’s. No visit to Trader Vic’s is complete without one of these rum masterpieces.

DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE 19 MARKET $ [Vietnamese, Asian Fusion] 19 N. Market St. (408) 2806111 www.19market.com

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Unlike the bare-bones eat-andrun feel of so many Vietnamese restaurants, 19 Market shines with Zen-inspired earth-tone interiors and an equally agreeable menu. This bar and bistro not only dishes out familiar favorites like beef noodle soup (pho) and imperial rolls, but adds a Singaporean, Chinese, and California twist to Vietnamese fare. Try the Shaking Beef, or Chilean sea bass, simmered with caramel sauce in a clay pot, and save room for their $7-a-plate desserts. ANISE CAFÉ $$ [Vietnamese, Asian Fusion] 1663 W. San Carlos St. (408) 298-8178 www.anisecafe.com

Small plates make a big impact with fresh local produce and seafood laced with tangy FrenchVietnamese sauces. Try the escargot and a slow-cooked stew for continental flair, and top it all off with some California wine. Anise Café’s tawny walls, lush greenery and earthy brown accents will have you believe you’re dining in tropical luxury. “Small plates” is a nice way 58

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of saying “small portions,” so plan to order three to four for two people. BELLA MIA $$ [Italian, Modern American] 58 S. First St. (408) 280-1993 www.bellamia.com

Come for the old-world charm; stay for amazing pasta dishes. Bella Mia’s dark mahogany wood and beautiful chandeliers make the place dreamily cozy, and the house-made pastas are always pleasing. For the carb-conscious, the restaurant carries a variety of starter and main-course salads; other splurgers might prefer the seafood saffron risotto or the grilled pork chops. FAHRENHEIT ULTRA LOUNGE & RESTAURANT $ [Modern American, Asian Fusion] 99 E. San Fernando St. (408) 998-9998 www.fahrenheitultralounge.com

Fahrenheit’s exotic small plates have gotten so much attention they’ve expanded their menu to include equally exceptional entrées. For starters, try the Mandalay beef with roti bread, or gingerpoached chicken salad, and cruise to gratifying large plates such as the grilled cabernet skirt steak or pan seared wild Alaskan salmon. Cocktails get as every bit as much attention here; it’s the only South Bay joint where bottle-flipping bartenders add a shot of energetic flair to their service. GORDON BIERSCH $ [American] 33 E. San Fernando St. (408) 294-6785 www.gordonbiersch.com

The restaurant’s lunch menu, peppered with burgers and sandwiches, rules only slightly less than the dinner menu’s truly golden steak, chicken, and seafood entrées. If Americanesque food seems tired, diners can enjoy pasta, stir-fry, pizza, and a host of Asian-influenced entrées. No meal is complete without their famous garlic fries or fresh beer, brewed just down the street. Also, look out for their seasonal beer selections. GUMBO JUMBO $$ [Cajun Fusion] 80 N. Market St. (408) 294-8626 www.gumbojumbo.com

San Jose gets a taste of something hot at Gumbo Jumbo, where popular menu choices include crawfish and traditional jambalaya packed with tiger prawns, wild salmon, big eye ahi tuna, free range chicken, spicy sausage and a mix of veggies. The delicious Cajun soups are sure to complement any meal, especially the restaurant’s renowned Gumbo Jumbo or the seafood gumbo. Feel free to stop by late, the kitchen is open until midnight Thursday through Saturday. ISLAND GRILL $$ [Steakhouse, Seafood, Modern American] 1355 N. Fourth St. (408) 392-2468 www.theislandgrill.com

The Island Grill in the resort-style Clarion Hotel cooks up the food equivalents of sun, sand, and long walks on the beach: blackened chicken salad with mango citrus vinaigrette; plenty of pasta and seafood dishes, like pineapple and chipotle and fried plantains with chili pepper jelly; and jerk

sauce, jerk sauce everywhere. Dig the dish appellations: Jerk Caesar, Volcano Salad, and Da Plane, Da Plane Burger. JERSEY’S CHEESESTEAKS $ [American] 325 S. First St. (408) 971-2898

Jersey’s has gone downtown and upscale, and what was once a tavern that served food is now a genuine restaurant and sports bar. Existing fans will surely flock to the new Downtown location, as it still serves those authentic Philly cheesesteak sandwiches, and remains the official West Coast home of the Philadelphia Eagles, complete with 16 HD plasma screens. New fans are sure to follow, due to the full kitchen and expanded menu, which includes salads, pastas, seafood and steaks. Not into cheesesteaks? Try their blackened chicken penne pasta, or an Oaxacan chicken burrito. LOFT BAR & BISTRO $$ [Modern American] 90 S. Second St. (408) 291-0677 www.loftbarandbistro.com

Capers Eat and Drink impresario Kam Razavi has a Downtown hit with Loft. An historic stone-and-marble exterior belies the airy urban-chic warehouse interior, complete with upstairs loft and a second-story patio. The menu features gourmet turns on classic comfort foods, as exemplified by Razavi’s meatloaf, made with smoked ham and smothered in a wild mushroom sauce that migrates to the garlic mashed potatoes. The full bar on the second floor is a popular gathering spot on weekend nights. PARAGON RESTAURANT $$ [Modern American] 211 S. First St. (408) 282-8888 www.paragonrestaurant.com

This chic lounge and restaurant are the paragon of art-deco-gonehigh-tech décor, with cube lighting, polished-stone surfaces, and low booths that appear ready for takeoff. The roasted chicken with gourmet mac-n-cheese is a staple, but there are a few surprises, too, that change seasonally. Tables on the heated outdoor patio are highly coveted on warm nights, so make reservations; same goes for Friday and Saturday nights, when there’s live jazz. PICASSO’S TAPAS RESTAURANT $$ [Spanish, Tapas] 62 W. Santa Clara St. (408) 298-4400 www.picassosrestaurant.com

Picasso’s offers a tapas menu so multifaceted, even a Cubist painter would be impressed. Start off with the tangy, garlic-spiked specialties, like clams in white wine garlic sauce, then switch it up with the stewed chicken and tortilla Española (a potato and onion frittata). The paella is served for two or more, so bring friends over a pitcher of sangria. On weekends, there’s often a guitarist to keep guests entertained during the inevitable wait.

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PIZZ’A CHICAGO $$ [Pizza] 155 W. San Fernando St. (408) 283-9400 www.pizzachicago.com

Every Pizz’a pie offers a taste of the dee-lish deep-dish character of Chicago without the Windy City weather. Try the Al Capone’s pizza doppelganger with fresh spinach, ricotta, onions, and toasted almonds, and the Joliet Jake, a pie piled with portabella, crimini, shiitake and button mushrooms with basil, tomato, and apricots. For meatball lovers, there’s the Oprah sandwich. On Mondays, get 25 percent off your entire dinner at the restaurant from 4-10pm with an online coupon. ROKKO JAPANESE CUISINE $$ [Japanese, Sushi] 55 S. Market St. (408) 947-7778

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SAN JOSE BANGKOK TASTE THAI $ [Thai] 1769 Blossom Hill Rd. (408) 358-2525 www.bangkoktaste.com

Owner Chutima Thongpreecha and her father opened Bangkok Taste in San Jose in 1993, serving slightly Americanized Thai food in their comfortable small dining room. The prawn curry is a favorite served as spicy as you like it. Many of the dishes come with Nok’s Plum Sauce, which is available in jars to take home. Use the printable coupon on Bangkok Taste’s website that gives half off any entrée with the purchase of another. BLOWFISH SUSHI $$ [Japanese, Sushi, Asian Fusion] 355 Santana Row, Ste. 1010 (408) 345-3848 www.blowfishsushi.com

Delectably fresh sashimi isn’t all you’ll find at this Downtown sushi den. There’s also the roster of generously portioned daily specials, every bit as flavorful as menu staples like the teriyaki entrees (chicken, beef, salmon) and tasty assortment of sushi rolls. The Rokko crunch roll, an appetizing combination of lightly cooked salmon, crisp salmon skin, avocado, and tempura flakes, pleases the palate, as does the lengthy list of premium sakes.

If you like your sushi trendysophisticated, with a little DJ music and anime thrown in, you’ll be hooked. A menu of Sakizuke (Japanese fusion appetizers) mixes up sea bass and miso, salmon roe, and quail egg. Try special sushi rolls like the Special Dragon or the Super Dynamite Roll, and fill up on their extensive list of imported, hard-to-find sakes. Try the Peach Nympho, the Mango Mojito or the Kiwi Appletini.

THE MELTING POT $$$

[American] 1349 Blossom Hill Rd., San Jose (408) 269-8062 www.theburgerpit.com

[Modern American] 72 S. First St. (408) 293-6020 www.meltingpot.com

This popular franchise takes the Swiss-born craze of dipping stuff in hot pots way beyond standardissue “cheese with bread,” and San Jose’s handsome location in a historic building is sophisticated, warm, and simple. The four-course menu features varied entrées cooked in one of four styles, with an assortment of savory breads, vegetables, and choice of salad. The regular menu includes dishes like lobster, chicken, pork tenderloin, shrimp, and Florentine ravioli – and, of course, chocolate fondue dessert.

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Calling Silicon Valley home since 1956, this burger joint has stood the test of time. Their classic Steerburger remains a strong seller, but they also have chicken, seafood, ribs, and steak plates, including their 8oz. Rancher’s Choice sirloin that comes with a hearty helping of side dishes. For the weightconscious, they also have several low calorie plates. Be sure to print out their online coupon, which gets you a half pound Steerburger and fries for just $4.99. CREEKSIDE INN $$ [Classic American] 544 W. Alma Ave. (408) 289-9781

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The kind of place where quality comfort food and karaoke cohabitate, the Creekside recalls the big-shouldered days at the height of classic American cuisine. A meatand-potatoes menu pleases with

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favorites like lobster, sole, meatloaf, and rack of lamb, and while the décor can’t be called cutting-edge, it wins points for coziness. Nick, the owner, promises the best steak in town. Karaoke (Wednesdays) comes with a free buffet – get there early. FISH MARKET RESTAURANT $$ [Seafood, American] 1007 Blossom Hill Rd. (408) 2693474 www.thefishmarket.com

Fresh seafood at a fair price – a goal Fish Market is able to meet because they operate their own fishing vessels, fishery, and oyster farm. The dazzling menu includes line-caught Pacific swordfish, Hawaiian hebi, Pacific Miyagi oysters, and live Maine lobster tail, plus a choice of having your fish cooked over a mesquite wood fire, baked, steamed, smoked or fried. Make sure to check out the weekly specialty fish and the sushi bar. HABANA CUBA $$ [Cuban] 238 Race St. (408) 998-2822 www.998cuba.com

A vivid dining experience, with jewel-tone rooms and, of course, a menu rich with traditional Cuban favorites. Each dinner entrée – roasted pork, sea bass – comes with soup or salad, white rice, and your choice of platanos maduros, frijoles negros or yucca con ajo. Portions are Latin-style generous. For lunch, a must-order is the Cuban sandwich: pressed Cuban bread, baked fresh daily, stuffed with slowroasted pork, Swiss cheese, ham, and pickles. The fresh mojitos and sangrias, along with the flavorful tropical seasonings, will transport you to Old Havana instantly. MIO VICINO ARISTO $$ [Italian, Pizza] 1140 Lincoln Ave. (408) 286-6027

Mio Vicono proves to be a little more upscale than your typical homespun Italian joint. Entrees like chicken marsala and filet mignon and pasta dishes like fettucine Alfredo hew closer to tradition, as does the vigorous house red wine. It can get a little noisy inside, but what do you expect from a friendly eatery whose name means “My neighborhood”?

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DINING HOT ROSIE MCCANN’S IRISH PUB AND RESTAURANT $$ [Irish, American] 355 Santana Row, Ste. 1060 (408) 247-1706 www.rosiemccanns.com

Rosie McCann’s reinvents traditional pub fare. Quaff a pint or two at the elegant curved bar, and you, too, will be singing praises to Rosie’s Irish Nachos, a mountain of guacamole, salsa, and all the fixings atop (of course) potatoes. The Irish sausage bangers with garlic mashed potatoes and Guinness gravy, and Alaskan cod fish ‘n’ chips are delectable. Try the filet mignon medallion appetizer and order a couple of items from the kid’s menu. It’s cheaper, and you still get tons of food. SIAM THAI CUISINE $ [Thai] 1080 S. De Anza Blvd. (408) 366-1080 www.siamthaicuisine.com

Tucked in a strip mall, this unassuming Thai diner is usually surrounded by a lunch crowd awaiting inexpensive but carefully prepared versions of red-curryroasted duck, ginger pork and sweet-and-sour prawns. Noodle soups and entrée salads offer vegetarian diners plenty of options. The décor is sparse and the tables are packed in, but when you see how much food you get in a $6.95 lunch combination special, your only concern will be consuming it all before the boss expects you back at your desk. SINO RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE $$$ [Chinese] 377 Santana Row (408) 247-8880 www.sinorestaurant.com

Ultra-modern Asian chic ambience sets the stage for this upscale Chinese/dim sum hot spot. Owner Chris Yeo (of Straits fame) packs the menu with everything from General Yeo free-range chicken to char siu smoked sea bass, and packs SINO’s five large rooms full of Santana Row’s genetically privileged diners. Try the Peking barbecued baby back ribs. Delicious. STRAITS RESTAURANT $$ [Asian Fusion] 333 Santana Row, Ste. 1100 (408) 246-6320 www.straitsrestaurants.com

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seductive once you begin to roll with it. A meal at Straits will take your taste buds on a whirlwind tour of Asia, starting with the buttery Indian-style roti prata flatbread and the Fuji apple and prawn salad in a mint vinaigrette, all the way to the Origami sea bass with ginger, shiitake mushrooms, and rice wine baked in parchment.

shellfish on a daily changing menu, Fish Market satisfies any oceanic urge. If you can’t eat in, pick up some fish at their adjoining retail market. Catch the action at the oldschool oyster bar – and know that chefs here will cater readily to your special dietary needs or not-on-themenu cravings.

WILLOW STREET PIZZA $

[Japanese, Sushi] 2086 El Camino Real, Santa Clara (408) 984-5623 www.kobesushi.com

[Italian, Pizza] 1554 Saratoga Ave. (408) 871-0400; 1072 Willow St. (408) 971-7080 www.willowstreet.com

Friendly service, a convivial, neighborhood atmosphere, and fresh ingredients have made Willow Street Pizza a longtime local favorite. Their wonderful, wood-fired pizzas have a crispier edge than regular oven-baked pies, and their scrumptious pasta combinations (fettuccini with chicken, red bell peppers, red onions, and cilantro in a tequilalime cream sauce) are creative palate-pleasers.

SANTA CLARA BIRK’S RESTAURANT $$$ [Modern American, Steak] 3955 Freedom Circle (408) 9806400 www.birksrestaurant.com

Almond wood and mesquite charcoal fuel the tender flavors emanating from this upscale American grill designed by Pat Kuleto. The open kitchen features superb steaks cut from tender, dry-aged, free-range beef, and organic, local produce, including the popular creamed spinach side. A business-casual hot spot for local white collars who like the kitchen energy at the grill and the succulent seafood at the oyster bar. Couples should request the lighter, Ushaped “Snoopy room” (shaped like Snoopy’s nose) for more intimacy. FISH MARKET RESTAURANT $$ [Seafood, American] 3775 El Camino Real (408) 246-3474 www.thefishmarket.com

Rarely does a seafood restaurant operate its own certified processing, distribution, and wholesale company, but that’s Fish Market’s commitment to freshness. With 25 fresh fish dishes and a variety of

KOBE SUSHI $$

Tucked neatly into the Mervyn’s Plaza on El Camino Real, Kobe Sushi offers lovely atmosphere and cheap prices for those looking for a quick sushi fix. A Japanese garden and koi pond add a peaceful note to the restaurant, which also includes a banquet hall, dance floor, and karaoke stage. Besides the standard sushi fare, they also have a popular seared ahi tuna, as well as many teriyaki, tempura, and noodle soup dishes. PARCEL 104 $$$$ [Modern American] 2700 Mission College Blvd. (408) 970-6104 www.parcel104.com

Celebrity chef Bradley Ogden and executive chef Robert Sapirman transform farm-fresh, local ingredients into works of seasonal art at this crown jewel of Santa Clara fine dining. The result: An ever-evolving, palate-provoking and inventive menu that pairs well with the extensive list of wines from Parcel 104’s award-winning cellar. The restaurant does not serve weekend lunches or Sunday dinners, but offers a full breakfast menu for an inspiring weekday jump-start.

SARATOGA BELLA SARATOGA $$ [Italian] 14503 Big Basin Way (408) 741-5115 www.bellasaratoga.com

Comfortable family dining is served up daily at this elegant Victorian home turned restaurant in the heart of Saratoga. Bella Saratoga’s extensive Italian menu features award-winning pasta, flat bread pizzas, and a comprehensive wine list to complement any meal. Portions are generous but if your stomach still has room post-dinner, delicious desserts such as tiramisu and pecan turtle pie await. TW

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aturday, July 9, 2005 was just an ordinary day for Roger Castillo. But for the mammoth skeleton that had been stuck underground for around the last 12,000 years, things were suddenly about to change.

Castillo was on patrol for his volunteer water quality monitoring position on the Guadalupe River, just a stone’s throw from the San Jose Airport. Between the steep levies of the riverbank, the only sign of civilization was the whirr of the occasional jet overhead. “I suddenly stopped walking and looked down,” Castillo recalls. “I don’t know why. I guess I just had a feeling.” What he saw, poking out from an eroded area, was white and marrowy, like cow bone, only it was bigger than any cow he knew about. It was about three feet long – what he could see of it, at least. The rest was disappearing deep into the San Jose clay. And there were other bones just like it. Were they ribs? Whatever they were, they’d belonged to something that had been very, very big. Castillo has been discovering things on the river all his life. About 10 years ago, he discovered salmon. “No one believed me,” he says, gesturing toward a four-foot-long taxidermied fish on his garage wall. The thing looks vicious. Even when Castillo came back from his lunch break, dripping wet after a failed attempt to catch one of the Chinook with his bare hands, his co-workers remained convinced he was trying to pull their leg. But the network news believed him. “I was on many stations,” he recalls. “Well, we were – me and all the salmon.” Castillo wasn’t one to say “I told you so.” He spent the rest of his time pushing the local water board to protect his newly discovered fish, which were trying their best to lay eggs just a few blocks from Downtown San Jose. The day of his massive fossil discovery, Castillo had no way of knowing that it was a fossil at all – let alone the fossil of a Columbian mammoth. “They could get quite large,” said Dr. Mark Goodwin, the UC Berkeley paleontologist who took up the excavation after Castillo’s unearthing. Columbian mammoths could stand up to 13 feet, he notes, making them one of the bulkiest of pachyderms ever to have walked the earth. Perhaps hundreds of them roamed throughout the South Bay, which, of course, was a completely different place during the last ice age. There was no bay, for example. During the Pleistocene era – what scientists dubbed the time period between 12,000 and 1.8

“Just imagine what might be underneath all of the buildings in San Jose.” million years ago – mounting ice caps to the north brought sea levels to a record low. The coast stretched out far past the tide mark at Half Moon Bay. Alcatraz was a hilltop. You could walk to the Farallones. “I would bet people ate those mammoths, but only every once in a while,” says Breck Parkman, a senior state archaeologist at California State Parks. There’s no evidence that anyone ever harmed Castillo’s creature – the partial skull, tibia, humerus, pelvis and numerous rib and foot bones unearthed by Goodwin’s crew showed no signs of human predation. According to Parkman, since large mammoths would have been a challenge to hunt, waterfowl was more likely on the menu of the early hunters of the San Jose savannah. As for the mammoth’s menu, it consisted of mainly two things – grass and sedge (rushlike plants). What it lacked in variety, it made up for in sheer quantity: 500700 pounds of plant food is what Parkman estimates the mammoths took in daily. “They were hind-gut feeders,” he says. “That means they ate about twice as much as they could process – that means a lot of dung.” Now imagine the dung, the mammoths, the grasslands, and the conspicuous lack of any San Francisco Bay. Add to it a few more things: wild horses, cave bears, llamas, prowling saber-toothed cats competing with a kind of North American lion bigger than anything found in Africa today. These lands were also once home to a giant land sloth the size of a golf cart, and a tusked kind of marine hippopotamus-elephant named Desmostylus. Wait a second. A tusked hippopotamus-elephant? “It was here alright,” assures Nick Pyenson, a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley, whose niche is extinct marine mammals. The Desmostylus would have never seen the likes of Castillo’s mammoth, nor its grassy steppe. During its time – roughly 15 million years ago – the Peninsula was covered by a vast inland sea. For ages, the creature’s bones sat at the bottom of an ancient seabed, slowly fossilizing there. Then in 1964, Stanford University decided to build the Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and unearthed a fossilized Desmostylus. “It was a rare find when they dug SLAC,” said Pyenson. “There are only two complete skeletons like it. The other is in Japan. Desmostylus is more popular there, though. I think they make little action f igures o f

them, and kids run around with them stamped on their backpacks.” Castillo still goes back to the Guadalupe River now and again. He’s convinced that if there was one mammoth, there must be others down there, too. “Just imagine what might be underneath all of the buildings in San Jose. Under the airport, the highway – under everything,” he says. It’s been a while since Castillo last saw his mammoth. The skeletal fragments were trucked off to the Berkeley fossil laboratories to undergo procedures Pyenson describes as “CSI mixed with ER mixed with Indiana Jones.” Pyenson notes that some basic questions remain unanswered, almost three years since the dig. Just how old are the bones, for example? Twelve thousand years seems to be the general estimate, given the age of the surrounding ground sediments. But since mammoths like Castillo’s first appeared in North America about 1.5 million years ago, experts can’t quite say when this one died until radiocarbon dating has been performed on the bones. For now, the bones have been shelved in the UC Berkeley lab, pending negotiations with the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the Children’s Discovery Museum for a possible future exhibit. “We also don’t know whether it was an adolescent or an adult,” said Goodwin. “We simply haven’t found enough of it.” David Andersen, a geology professor at San Jose State University, finds the San Jose mammoth’s location intriguing. “They found a mammoth in Mountain View when they excavated the site that’s now Shoreline Amphitheatre, but that was a huge excavation – they went below sea level,” he notes. That discovery, Andersen continues “was found about almost 25 feet below sea level, maybe 30 feet below the ground surface.” Not so in the case of the San Jose mammoth discovery. “The surprising thing about the fossil that Roger [Castillo] found is that it was right there in the creek bed,” he says. Curiosities such as this mean the age of the mammoth remains somewhat open for speculation. Anderson agrees that 12,000 to 15,000 years seems a safe estimate, given the similar age of other mammoths found in the state. But the bones have caused a certain amount of conjecture within the scientific community. “I personally think that the mammoth is not older than the sediment that it’s in, although some people have suggested that.” He explains that this discovery has led himself, and other scientists, to call into question some of their assumptions about the area. “It seems to me more likely that the sediment is older than we thought,” Andersen muses. “The fossil seems to be older than the sediments [where it was found], so as a result we’re trying to adjust our understanding of things.” While other fossils found in the same area often help experts determine the age of their discovery, in this case, no other fossils have emerged from the banks of the Guadalupe River. So pending results of further testing and research, it seems the San Jose Mammoth is set to remain something of an enigma. TW THEWAVEMAG.COM FEBRUARY 13-26, 2008

For your chance to capture all the action at an advance screening on Thursday, February 21 in Cupertino, head down to

Kamera Korner (545 Meridian Avenue, Suite E in San Jose)

on February 15th at 2pm. No purchase necessary. While supplies last. Passes are limited and will be given away by random drawing of all entries received. Winners will be notified by mail. This film is rated PG-13. Please note: Passes received through this promotion do not guarantee you a seat at the theatre. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis, except for members of the reviewing press. Theatre is overbooked to ensure a full house. No admittance once screening has begun. All federal, state and local regulations apply. A recipient of tickets assumes any and all risks related to use of ticket, and accepts any restrictions required by ticket provider. Columbia Pictures, Terry Hines & Associates, The Wave Magazine and their affiliates accept no responsibility or liability in connection with any loss or accident incurred in connection with use of a prize. Tickets cannot be exchanged, transferred or redeemed for cash, in whole or in part. We are not responsible if, for any reason, winner is unable to use his/her ticket in whole or in part. Not responsible for lost; delayed or misdirected entries. All federal and local taxes are the responsibility of the winner. Void where prohibited by law. NO PHONE CALLS!

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For your chance to find out all the secrets at a special advanced screening on Thursday, February 28th in San Jose, head down to ANONYMOUSLY YOURS (2477 Forest Ave) on February 21st at 2pm. No purchase necessary. While supplies last. Passes are limited and will be given away by random drawing of all entries received. Winners will be notified by mail. THIS FILM IS RATED R. Run-of-engagement passes received through this promotion do not guarantee admission, as seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and is open to the paying public. TICKETS RECEIVED THROUGH THIS PROMOTION ARE NOT FOR RESALE. All federal, state and local regulations apply. A recipient of tickets assumes any and all risks related to use of ticket and accepts any restrictions required by ticket provider. Columbia Pictures, Anonymously Yours, Terry Hines & Associates, The Wave Magazine and their affiliates accept no responsibility or liability in connection with any loss or accident incurred in connection with use of a prize. Tickets cannot be exchanged, transferred or redeemed for cash, in whole or in part. We are not responsible if, for any reason, winner is unable to use his/her ticket in whole or in part. Not responsible for lost; delayed or misdirected entries. All federal and local taxes are the responsibility of the winner. Void where prohibited by law. No purchase necessary. Participating sponsors their employees and family members and their agencies are not eligible. NO PHONE CALLS!

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Your timely guide to the next two weeks in Silicon Valley entertainment. Iberia Flamenco, Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Feb. 22 - 23

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50 Ways 16. TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Dr., Stanford University livelyarts.stanford.edu

February 16: Don’t miss this exciting performance from the Grammywinning Turtle Island Quartet, as they put a new take on jazz legend John Coltrane’s landmark work, “A Love Supreme”: 8pm 17. MISS CHINATOWN USA PAGEANT Palace of the Fine Arts, 3101 Lyon St., San Francisco www.chineseparade.com/pageant.asp

February 16: Since 1958, ChineseAmerican women from across the country have battled it out for the cherished title of Miss Chinatown USA… who will take the title this year? 18. YOUNG EAGLES PROGRAM Hiller Aviation Museum, 601 Skyway Rd., San Carlos www.hiller.org/young-eagles.shtml

February 16: Now this is the coolest thing ever. If your kid is age eight to 17, he or she is invited to the Hiller Museum for a free plane ride – you heard right, a FREE PLANE RIDE, with an honest-togoodness real pilot!: 11am – 1pm

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WEDNESDAY 1. GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS

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San Jose Stage Theatre, 490 S. First St., San Jose www.sanjosestage.com

Thru March 2: Sometimes you’ll laugh, sometimes you’ll cry while watching this David Mamet masterpiece about a group of cutthroat, slick-talking real estate salesmen trying to eke out a living pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers. The pressure is on when the announcement is made of a sales contest. First place, Cadillac El Dorado; second place, a set of steak knives; third place, you’re fired – ‘cuz a loser is a loser. 2. GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS vs. PHOENIX SUNS Oracle Arena, 7000 Coliseum Way, Oakland www.warriors.com

February 13: Hey, Phoenix Suns, YOU SUCK! Go Warriors! 3. SIOUXSIE The Fillmore, 1805 Geary Blvd., San Francisco www.livenation.com

February 13: Siouxsie Sioux was there at the dawn, maybe even the predawn, of punk. Now she’s on page 70 of this very magazine: 8pm 4. GOYA’S CAPRICHOS: DREAMS OF REASON AND MADNESS San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market St., San Jose www.sjmusart.org

Thru April 20: A series of 80 etchings from Spanish painter and 68

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printmaker Francisco Goya from 1799, focusing on the social and economic hardships of the time, utilizing satire and a dark imagery. 5. WISHFUL DRINKING

the Sharks will dish out a tasty dose of scoring and high speed, bone crushing hits.

Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle, Laurel & Hardy, W.C. Fields and many more.

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9. THIRD ANNUAL PILLOW FIGHT

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150 W. San Carlos St., San Jose www.modernbridal.com

San Ramon Marriott, 2600 Bishop Dr., San Ramon www.dundracon.com

Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, 2071 Addison St., Berkeley www.berkeleyrep.org

Justin Herman Plaza (Market and Embarcadero), San Francisco www.pillowfight.info

Thru March 30: Join Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) for her one-woman show as she walks you through her laughable and at times tragic life, from drug addiction, failed marriage, mental institutions, manic depression and waking up in bed next to her dead friend… eek.

February 14: What could be better than bashing complete strangers (more than 1,000) with pillows? Absolutely nothing: 6pm

6. PIER 39’S TULIPMANIA Pier 39, San Francisco www.pier39.com

February 13: When they say “Tulipmania,” they aren’t kidding. Pier 39 will be covered in 39,000 tulips of every color, along with experts giving gardening tips and tulip tours: 10am 7. TARZAN

San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd., San Jose (888) 455-7469 www.amtsj.org

Thru February 22: You all know the story: a boy is raised by jungle beasts, grows strong with strikingly good looks, meets Jane and saves the day.

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THURSDAY 8. SHARKS vs. OILERS Shark Tank, 525 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose www.sjsharks.com

February 14: Please welcome the Edmonton Oilers and their band of misfit players to the “Tank,” where

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Northside Theatre Company, 848 E. William St., San Jose (408) 288-7820 www.northsidetheatre.com

February 14 – March 9: A dark slapstick comedy featuring two murderous aunts who dispose of their victims with their poisonous wine, a frenzied nephew who is trying to keep them from the electric chair, and an eccentric brother who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. We’re laughing already, see ya there. 11. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY FROM EVERYONE AT THE WAVE MAGAZINE!

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12. MIDWINTER COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL Edison Theater, 37417 Niles Blvd., Fremont (510) 494-1411 www.nilesfilmmuseum.org

February 15 – 17: Everyone loves to laugh, so why not enjoy the hilarity of the golden age of film, featuring buffoonery from Charlie Chaplin,

February 15 – 18: Pull the Medieval garb out of the closet (again?) for this game-playing extravaganza, featuring role-playing games, board games, fighting demonstrations (Medieval style), card games, seminars, and much, much more!

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SATURDAY 14. KA HULA HOU: PRIDE ON THE LINE Centennial Hall, 22292 Foothill Blvd., Hayward www.academyofhawaiianarts.org

February 17: Gettin’ hitched, eh? Well, don’t miss the Modern Bridal Faire. They have all the bases covered, from florists, photographers, bridal gowns, live music, invitations, caterers, limousines, reception sites, and so much more: 11am 20. AMGEN TOUR OF CALIFORNIA Throughout the Bay Area www.amgentourofcalifornia.com

February 17 – 24: Come and witness some of the world’s top bicycling teams, including Team CSC, Jelly Belly Racing Team, Saunier Duval-Scott, Team Slipstream, Astana, Robobank and many more as they tear through the Bay Area! Read about it on page 28.

February 16: Welcome to the first EVER hula challenge, featuring some of the finest male dancers who have ever taken the stage. But, wait, it gets more exciting: the audience will choose the winner. So show up and cast your vote for the grand champion!: 5pm 15. SAN FRANCISCO WRITERS CONFERENCE Mark Hopkins Hotel, One Nob Hill Place, San Francisco www.sfwriters.org

February 15 – 17: If you’re a writer, or wannabe writer, this event is a must. The conference features more than 100 agents, authors and editors just waiting to guide you to success. Special guest speakers include Clive Cussler, Tess Gerritsen, Daisy Maryles and April Sinclair.

21. PSYCHIC FAIR San Jose Book Shop, 14482 Big Basin Way, Saratoga (408) 872-1990

February 17: Get to the San Jose Book Shop for an evening of psychic readings, clairvoyants, pet psychics, past life readers and, get this, you can even get a photo of your aura!: 11am – 6pm

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22. SAP OPEN HP Pavilion, 525 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose www.sapopentennis.com

February 18 – 24: Your chance to see some pro tennis up close, featuring world-class greats like Andy Roddick, Pete Sampras, James Blake, Fernando Gonzalez, Tommy Hass and more.

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WEDNESDAY 23. LUNAR ECLIPSE VIEWING AND LECTURE Randall Museum, 199 Museum Way, San Francisco (415) 5549600 www.randallmuseum.org

February 20: The San Francisco Amateur Astronomers invite the public to join them in viewing a lunar eclipse. Telescopes will be provided, and when the eclipse is kaput, you can enjoy a cool lecture titled “Moonology”: 7pm 24. SMUIN BALLET: WINTER PROGRAM

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View www.mvcpa.com

February 20 – 24: Michael Smuin asks that you join him and his dance troupe for an evening of cutting-edge choreography featuring Stabat Mater, choreographed in response to 9/11, Reinin’ in the Hurricane, a wild-west production from guest choreographer Kirk Peterson set, and ending with the world premiere by Smuin Protégé Program resident choreographer Amy Siewert.

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40. 56TH PACIFIC ORCHID EXPOSITION

Vbar – Hotel Valencia, 355 Santana Row, San Jose (408) 551-0010 www.hotelvalencia.com

Fort Mason Center – Festival Pavilion, Buchanan and Marina, San Francisco (415) 665-2468 www.orchidsanfrancisco.org

February 21: Grab your girlfriends and make your way to the ultra swank Vbar and enjoy a fabulous fashion show featuring Santana Row boutiques, hip music, martinis, and door prizes: 5:30 – 7:30pm

February 28 – March 2: Thousands of exotic orchids grown in all types of environments strut their stuff. Learn about the ones you want to take home, via docent tours and demonstrations.

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26. FOURTH ANNUAL BLUES & JAZZ FESTIVAL Gaia Arts Center, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley www.bfhp.org

February 22: Come out and enjoy some great blues music from Beverly Johnson, Michelle Jordan, Jawbone and many others, along with great food, dancing, raffles and dinner, while helping raise needed funds for the Berkeley Food and Housing Project: 6pm 27. IBERIA FLAMENCO Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View www.mvcpa.com

February 22 - 23: The Flamenco Society of San Jose presents world-renowned flamenco guitarist Canizares for what surely will be a mind-blowing guitar playing experience: 7:30pm 28. SOUTHERN EXPOSURES EIGHTH ANNUAL MONSTER DRAWING RALLY Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa, San Francisco soex.org/event/103.html

29. VIDEO GAMES LIVE 2008

Nob Hill Masonic Center, 1111 California St., San Francisco www.videogameslive.com

February 22: Classical musicians will perform theme songs from popular videogames like Halo 3, BioShock, Starcraft II, World of Warcraft, Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix and others. The orchestra will be accompanied by lights, lasers and videogame footage on the big screen: 8pm 30. MY FAIR LADY

Lohman Theatre – Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd., Los Altos (650) 949-7360 www.foothillmusicals.com

February 22 – March 16: Remember the movie Trading Places? Well, this is a lot like that, except they talk funny, sing songs, and there’s no Dan Aykroyd character. 31. THIRD ANNUAL SANTA CRUZ DAYZ Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium,

Mexican Heritage Plaza, 1700 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose (408) 928-5524 www.mhcviva.org

24 307 Church St., Santa Cruz www.raggamuffinsfestival.com

February 22: A music celebration for Bob Marley, featuring such notable acts as Anthony B, Midnite, Gregory Isaacs, Gentleman and Lion Camp, and many more. Don’t forget your sandals, patchouli oil, whole-grain muffins and a honey bear: All ages: 7pm

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SATURDAY 32. 26TH ANNUAL SANTA CRUZ CLAM CHOWDER COOK-OFF Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz beachboardwalk.com/ clamchowder/

February 23: It’s time to assemble your best clam chowder cook-off team for a day dedicated to chowin’ the chowda. Funds raised benefit youth programs run by the Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation Department: 10am 33. CHINATOWN COMMUNITY STREET FAIR Grant Ave., from Broadway to Clay, San Francisco www.sanfranciscochinatown.com

February 23 – 24: Two full days of fun with kite making, calligraphy, fine art demonstrations, folk dance, puppet shows, acrobats, lion dancing and magic shows. 34. THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO CRYSTAL FAIR Fort Mason Center – Building A, San Francisco www.crystalfair.com

February 23 – 24: If you’re hip to the rock scene, you won’t want to miss this year’s Great San Francisco Crystal Fair, featuring more than 40 exhibitors displaying crystals, beads, and more. 35. GARCIA PASS IT ON FOUNDATION HOSTS SECOND ANNUAL DINNER AND AUCTION CordeValle, One CordeValle Club Dr., San Martin (310) 545-4949

February 23: Jeff Garcia invites you to a special evening of fine dining, fine wine and your chance to bid on

some killer sports memorabilia from Brett Favre, Jeff Garcia, Matt Lienart, Edgerrin James, Tony Dungy, Drew Brees and many more. Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society, Special Olympics Northern California, the Laci and Conner Search and Rescue Fund, and the El Toro Youth Center in Morgan Hill: 6pm

2/24 SUNDAY

February 28 – June 30: A unique visual arts exhibition that encompasses the art, design, and Chicano subculture of lowrider automobiles from their origins in the 1960s to the ’70s.

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42. SECOND ANNUAL BAY AREA FOOTBALL SPECTACULAR South Hall, 435 S. Market St., San Jose www.gtsportsmarketing.com

February 24: Join hotshot pianist extraordinaire Jon Kimura Parker for an evening of music from Schumann and Stravinsky: 7pm

February 29 – March 2: If you’re a football fan, or just one of those guys who likes to sell overpriced sports memorabilia on the internet, this event is for you. You’ll have the chance to get autographs and photos from some of the greats of the game, including Joe Montana, Steve Young, Jerry Rice, Ronnie Lott, Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith, Roger Staubach and others.

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36. JON KIMURA PARKER Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. Fifth St., San Jose www.steinwaythebayarea.com

Hidden Villa Ranch, 26870 Moody Rd., Los Altos Hills www.hiddenvilla.org

Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St., San Jose www.jlsj.org/ sanjose/index.jsp

February 24: Wood is soooo last year in home construction. Come and explore the latest in alternative home building materials at Hidden Villa, featuring solar electric generation, rammed earth and straw bale construction!: 3:30 – 5pm

February 29: Don’t miss this fashion show for the whole family, featuring the latest in yoga gear, to soccer practice, to school, the office, to black tie affairs. Funds raised benefit community programs for children.

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WEDNESDAY 38. DISNEY ON ICE: PRINCESS WISHES

HP Pavilion, 525 W. Santa Clara St., San Jose www.hppsj.com

February 27 – March 2: Bring the whole family for an enjoyable and magical evening of fairy tales and ice skating. 39. CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL Venues throughout San Jose www.cinequest.org

February 27 – March 9: If you’re a lover of cinema, make sure you don’t miss this year’s Cinequest, featuring more than 80 feature and short films.

44. LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES

Louis B. Mayer Theatre, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara (408) 554-4015 www.scu.edu/cpa

February 29 – March 8: Man seduces girl, girl falls in love, man dumps girl for fun, girl dies from heartbreak, man dies because he realizes he’s a pig. Repeat. 45. BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL Rio Theatre, 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz www.ucscrecreation.com

February 29 – March 1: A collection of inspiring environmental and adventure mountain films, featuring breathtaking landscapes and upclose-and-personal views of the exciting world of mountain sports.

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SATURDAY 46. SIXTH ANNUAL CELEBRITY CRAB FESTIVAL Union Square, San Francisco (415) 781-7880 www.unionsquaresf.net

March 1: Members of the San Francisco 49ers team up with local chefs to demonstrate the art and intricacies of cracking a crab, followed by a crab cracking and cleaning contest, live music, beer and wine, raffles, children’s booth and, of course, crab: Noon – 3pm 47. CROSSROADS OF THE WEST GUN SHOW Cow Palace, 2600 Geneva Ave., Daly City www.crossroadsgunshows.com

March 1 – 2: Raise of hands: Who loves Desert Eagles .50s? We here at The Wave all pack heat, and are big fans of magnum firepower. That’s why you’ll find us at the Crossroads Gun Show enjoying all sorts of new and collector guns and accessories.

48. ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LIFE, 1990-2005 Legion of Honor, Lincoln Park, 34th Ave. & Clement St., San Francisco (415) 750-3600

March 1 – May 25: More than 200 photographs, including Nelson Mandela, George Bush, a pregnant Demi Moore, searing photojournalism from Sarajevo, and haunting landscapes from the American West to Jordan. 49. CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS

Mountain View Center Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View www.peninsulaballet.org

March 1 – 2: No real animals are used in this performance, unless you count people – people acting as animals – in this humorous and graceful dance performed by the Peninsula Ballet Theatre. 50. WHITE ELEPHANT SALE White Elephant Sale Warehouse, 333 Lancaster St., Oakland (510) 839-5919 www.whiteelephantsale.org

March 1 – 2: Aisles of antique books, furniture, sporting goods, clothing, toys… you name it, it’s there. Funds raised benefit the Oakland Museum of California. TW

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February 22: Join more than 130 artists who will be creating wonderful pieces of art right before your eyes, followed by your chance to purchase these fine works. Funds raised benefit Southern Exposure: 6 – 11pm

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TW: What does Siouxsie Sioux wear on safari? I can’t quite picture you in a pith helmet, either. SS: Stilettos, emeralds. You’re in your jeep, so you’re not walking around. I felt like a queen in my jeep, standing up high and looking out with my tracker. And after going to Sri Lanka, I’ve actually been thinking, “I’ll ditch the f**king career – I just wanna work at a safari park or an elephant orphanage or something.” TW: You can trust animals more readily than people nowadays, that much is true. SS: You’re not wrong. There are many wonders in the world, but God, people are the weirdest. And I just think a lot of people seem to live in a fantasy. I like people that are direct and are in the present – when they’re with you, they’re with you. They’re present. But I find, unfortunately, that most people live a fantasy life, and they project a fantasy life. And I’ve learned to be wary of the ever-smiling, happy-go-lucky people – they’re hiding something. It’s not normal to always be easygoing and happy-smiley, there’s something behind that. Because you know, life is about ups and downs, and people have their bad days and good days. TW: One thing I didn’t see coming was your split with husband and Creatures partner Budgie. SS: Nothing’s forever, nothing’s eternal, there are no guarantees. And unfortunately, you need to experience certain things to understand that. And I guess basically, you have to put your trust in yourself and not in others.

Jungle Siouxsie The beloved Banshees frontwoman has gone solo, but she’s still as punk as she ever was. BY TOM LANHAM

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hat venerated form of artistic expression, punk rock, celebrated its 30th birthday last year. For most of the artists involved with the trailblazing movement, it feels like only yesterday.

Just ask Siouxsie Sioux (nee Susan Ballion), onetime frontvixen of the legendary Siouxsie and the Banshees and splinter duo The Creatures. Sioux was already a well-known figure on the London punk scene (she’s said to have been one of the first to don the fetishinspired attire that became a punk fashion staple) when she and the Banshees released their first album, The Scream, in ’78. It was a record that set the sonic standard for not only the punk set, but a subsequent generation of devout Goths. “The important thing to remember is the attitude around all of that, and that hasn’t changed for me,” says the still heavily mascaraed minx, who late last year issued a stunning post-Banshees solo album, Mantaray, billed only as Siouxsie. “But it’s also something where you end up thinking how lucky you are to have that. I’m doing something that I love – that’s how I earn my living. And it’s even more amazing when you think of all the people for whom work is a drudge, just ‘Oh, God, I have to get up and do that,’ and their only downtime is the weekend or the summer holidays. My downtime is when I want it.”

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Judging by the album’s impressive Goth/punk hybrid tracks, including “Into A Swan,” “About To Happen” and “If It Doesn’t Kill You,” this high priestess – who has influenced the likes of Björk and Bat for Lashes – could easily reign for another 30 years. The Wave: How’s it going these days? Siouxsie Sioux: Wonderful. I’m still having great memories of my holiday. I went to Sri Lanka for New Year’s – it was fantastic. Apart from the journey, that is, which was just long. I had a fantastic time, and I just got really close with nature and the jungle, the ocean and safari. And yoga – I’ve been into yoga for a long time, and I had a great Indian teacher there. TW: Call me crazy, but I can’t quite picture you paddling about in the ocean. SS: You can’t? I’m a water baby! I swim, and I am so happy when I’m swimming. I mean, I seriously love to swim. But I live in the South of France, where there’s nowhere to swim, really. I mean, I can travel to a coast there, but that’s not swimming, that’s traveling. But I was near the ocean, near a jungle, there in Sri Lanka. And I saw birds of paradise, black-hooded orioles, monkeys, elephants, water buffalo, crocodiles, spiders – it was amazing. And the plants there are amazing – everything’s giant. I mean, I’ve got big plants in my conservatory, but theirs are just giant-sized. Even the snails there are huge.

I think I’ve learned more in the last couple of years than I have for a long time, and I can say now that it’s been really positive. There’s something about me – when things go really pear-shaped, I tend to really land on my feet, as opposed to when things are just ticking along. But maybe you need the wake-up calls to just remind you you’re alive, and that it’s a jungle out there. TW: As the old adage goes, the wise man finds the most prosperity in adversity. SS: Yes. And one would never wish for the adversity, but I think it sorts out the men from the boys, how you deal with it. The most important lesson I’ve learned is to not let anything lie, if there’s anything that’s bugging you. I mean, I’m always very up-front. But even with resistance to being up-front, I think you’ve just got to push it and be very clear about everything. TW: Are the Banshees and the Creatures kaput? SS: That’s all done and dusted. I got an itch and scratched in 2002, just to see what would happen. Because I was curious, because the Banshees obviously meant a lot to me, and I was curious to see if that had gone as far as it could go. It was a seven-year itch, and I realized, “Okay – that’s as far it goes.” And certainly with the Creatures, as far as I can see, that can’t happen again. TW: You sound truly liberated on Mantaray. Like anything is possible now, sonically. SS: I think hindsight is always a perfect science. When you’ve worked with people that you’ve always known, there’s that comfort zone of the familiar. And to an extent, you maybe think, “Oh, I can’t work with anyone else – it’s just not possible.” But because of my personal situation and the way things were, and now the way it’s worked out, it’s really just opened things up for me. It’s just a… a new horizon. TW

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Built to Spill

BUILT TO SPILL / MEAT PUPPETS

TEA LEAF GREEN

February 24 – 25, The Fillmore, San Francisco www.livenation.com

EXODUS

February 24, Slim’s, San Francisco www.slims-sf.com

February 29 – March 1, The Fillmore, San Francisco www.livenation.com

VOODOO GLOW SKULLS

February 29, The Blank Club, San Jose www.theblankclub.com

EVERY TIME I DIE SIOUXSIE

February 13, The Fillmore, San Francisco www.livenation.com

DJ SHADOW / CUT CHEMIST

February 13, The Grand at the Regency Center, San Francisco www.ticketmaster.com

BUCKETHEAD

February 14 – 15, The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco www.musichallsf.com

SLIGHTLY STOOPID

February 14, The Independent, San Francisco www.theindependentsf.com

UMPHREY’S MCGEE February 15 – 17, The Fillmore, San Francisco www.livenation.com

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME

ST. VINCENT

February 17, The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco www.musichallsf.com

SIA

February 15 – 16, The Independent, San Francisco www.theindependentsf.com

February 18, The Fillmore, San Francisco www.livenation.com

BARRY MANILOW

THE HIVES

February 15, HP Pavilion, San Jose www.hppsj.com

SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM February 16, The Great American Music Hall, San Francisco www.musichallsf.com

February 20, The Fillmore, San Francisco www.livenation.com

MARILYN MANSON February 20, The Warfield, San Francisco www.livenation.com

FISHBONE

February 22, The Independent, San Francisco www.theindependentsf.com February 23, The Catalyst Club, Santa Cruz www.catalystclub.com

JOHNNY WINTER

February 22, The Catalyst Club, Santa Cruz www.catalystclub.com

ADRIAN BELEW February 23, Slim’s, San Francisco www.slims-sf.com

February 26, Slim’s, San Francisco www.slims-sf.com

COMING SOON

QUEENSRYCHE / DON DOKKEN

February 26, The Fillmore, San Francisco www.livenation.com

FU MANCHU

February 27, Slim’s, San Francisco www.slims-sf.com

King Diamond, UFO, Ministry, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, The Presidents of the United States of America, Shawn Mullins, Bob Mould Band, New York Dolls, Matchbox Twenty, Testament,The Raveonettes, Jucifer, The Black Crowes, Clutch, The Bravery, Say Anything, Lifehouse, Kinky, Y&T, Living Legends, Blue Oyster Cult, Bon Jovi, and more…

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Allison Moorer, Mockingbird B.B. King, B.B. King Live Bjork, Declare Independence (Single) Flipper, Live – Target Video 1980 – 1981 (DVD) Mike Doughty, Golden Delicious The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride Morcheeba, Dive Deep Nick Lowe, Jesus of Cool Ray Davies, Working Man’s Café Stan Getz, Voyage

FEBRUARY 26 Dolly Parton, Backwoods Barbie Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree Janet Jackson, Discipline Lizz Wright, The Orchard Meldoy Gardot, Worrisome Heart Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Requiem: Choral Music of Mack Wilberg

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Alan Jackson, Good Time Bauhaus, Go Away White The Black Crowes, Warpaint Flogging Molly, Float Jackson Browne, Solo Acoustic, Vol. 2 Kathleen Edwards, Asking for Flowers Michael McDonald, Soul Speak

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If a spoonful of sugar truly makes the medicine go down, you’ve got to hand it to SoCal songbird Sheryl Crow, who positively ladles the sweetness across this bitter new tonic. From Track 1, the old-time radio-esque “God Bless This Mess,” she shoots staight from the anti-neocon hip (“The president spoke words of comfort with tears in his eyes/ Then he led us as a nation into a war all based on lies”). And the vitriol only gets stronger in the bluesy “Gasoline” and the Arabic-enhanced ballad “Peace Be Upon Us.” But the hooks are so chocolate-irresistible, you wind up humming these potential megahits after just one spin. This is the gal who stared Karl Rove in the eye and lived to tell the tale. She’s earned the right to serve a dose of the hardto-swallow truth.

SHELBY LYNNE

Just A Little Lovin’

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Some artists prefer to work with a little more subtlety than Crow. Or maybe they’re just tired of talking of politics. Take, for example, exNashville renegade Shelby Lynne, who left Music Row for California a few years back, reinventing herself as a Dusty Springfield-sultry diva along the way. So it makes perfect sense for her to waive composing to crack open the Springfield catacombs for a Dusty covers set, most of which succeed nicely. Her smoky pipes and stripped-down arrangements can’t help but do Memphis-steeped justice to classics like “I Only Want To Be With You” and “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me,” so this project (originally suggested to her by none other than Barry Manilow) was a virtual no-brainer. And it’s a fan-pleaser, so sometimes losing oneself in the past isn’t such a bad thing.

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Oh, the irony. Lynne’s kid sister Moorer – who just relocated from Nashville to Greenwich Village with her new hubby, Steve Earle – is keeping covers in the family with this collection of all-female-artist standards. And the siblings, who rarely hang out these days, reportedly plotted these career coups unaware of the other’s similar plans. But Junior doesn’t stick to the tried and true – she pushes her more limber voice into rugged new terrain, like Cat Power’s “Where Is My Love” and Patti Smith’s “Dancing Barefoot,” as well as scratchy old R&B belters like “Daddy, Goodbye Blues” and Nina Simone’s “I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl.” Naturally, she couldn’t resist a take on Lynne’s “She Knows Where She Goes.”While it may not stand as the most cohesive set, artistically speaking, it’s a solid success.

JOE JACKSON

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Anyone following this snotty protopunk through his tumultuous career will probably best remember Jackson for his jazzy piano ballads, circa midperiod classics like “Night And Day.” Forgetting, of course, the new wave-edged spark of “Look Sharp” and “I’m The Man.” So here’s one to please both factions – a jazz-tempered return to short, punchy form that taps into that vintage sneering vibe, courtesy of the members of his original backing band. Can punk and piano coexist? Yes, on “Invisible Man” and the kinetic “King Pleasure Time.” It ain’t “Look Sharp,” or “Night And Day,” but it ain’t half bad, either.

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Getting tired of hearing about this or that latest critically acclaimed “buzz band?” Well, here’s one that actually lives up to the hype – a New Yorkbased duo that sounds like ELO on LSD at its best moments. And there are quite a few on this genre-jumping debut, which insouciantly bounces from techno-dance (“Kids”) to neofolk (“The Youth”) to psychedelic pop (the kickoff single “Time To Pretend,” was inspired by the hypnotic movements of their pet praying mantis Kuivila – no joke). They studied under jazz great Anthony Braxton at Wesleyan, and put that improv-hip knowledge to work on this surreal art-pop assemblage, with an accent firmly on the “art.” Definitely one of 2008’s brightest new hopes.

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g raphic desig ner mewithoutYou, Brother, Sister, 2006

A rippin’ acoustic affair full of emotion and passion from this Brit singer/ guitarist. On a side note, Terry Reid declined lead vocal offers from the mighty Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.

With aggressive beauty and peaceful insight, Brother, Sister resonates with an honest and genuine allure.

Gorillaz, D-Sides, 2007 What can you say: 2D, Murdoc Niccals, Russel Hobbs and Noodle know how to bust out the funkiest of funky beats, be they animated characters or not. As an added bonus to this release, with the deluxe edition you also get a cool patch, four buttons and a little book.

CHRIS SCHMAUCH desig n director Ken Follett, World Without End, 2007

Dean Koontz, The Darkest Evening of the Year, 2007 Take a story with unpredictable suspense, heart-wrenching grief and joy and the ever-present tension between good and evil, then throw in a bunch of adorable golden retrievers and it becomes an instant classic Koontz novel. Go figure.

2004 Simple, melodic, warm, foot-tapping, good ole rock ’n’ roll…. If my house was on fire, I’d probably grab this record first.

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JO ABBIE senior editor The Shoppings, The Shoppings, 2006 This hip Parisian duo belts out edgy electro-rock tracks with irresistibly infectious beats, made even more so by their “en Francais” lyrics about fashion, apple vodka, MySpace and other fun things they didn’t teach you how to say in high school French class.

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Medieval English history never seemed this exciting in college, but Follett brings us this long-awaited epic rich with politics, deceit, murder and, of course, sexy peasant love.

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St. Vincent, Marry Me, 2007 Annie Clark’s debut solo album is just plain captivating, boasting her luscious voice, truly unique arrangements, and melodies that are make-you-smile catchy – and somehow uplifting – even when the accompanying lyrics are melancholy. TW

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VANTAGE POINT S TA R R I N G : D E N N I S Q U A I D , M AT T H E W F O X , F O R E S T W H I TA K E R D I R E C T E D B Y: P E T E T R AV I S

Vantage Point explores one brief story through many different perspectives, until the audience can piece together the truth. They should remake this, only 50 years earlier and in Japan. Akira Kurosawa’s Rashômon, anyone? Maybe Vantage Point will seem original to audiences, but even if it does, they still won’t forgive how stupid it is. The film actually rewinds at the end of each point of view, taking things back to the beginning. In case somebody missed that, they reset the clock to the same exact time it all began. It’s Groundhog Day for dummies. Plus, the story of a presidential assassination and terrorist attack is so generic, it doesn’t deserve a cool gimmick.

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If the title is so adorably contradictory, the movie must be a winner. Definitely, Maybe is a perfect date movie – cheesy enough for romantics, but not quite enough to be obnoxious. Will Hayes (Reynolds) attempts to tell his 10-year-old daughter (Little Miss Sunshine herself, Breslin) the story of how he met her mother. But she doesn’t know which of the three ladies is actually her mom: college sweetheart Emily (Banks), longtime friend April (Fisher), or free-spirited journalist Summer (Weisz). The story is set in the early ‘90s, amidst the original Clinton campaign, and its characters are endearing through contrived moments, and real when they have to make dramatic decisions. The Working Title team continues their streak of general-appeal date movies, like past hits Love Actually and Bridget Jones’s Diary.

DIARY OF THE DEAD S TA R R I N G : M I C H E L L E M O R G A N , J O S H U A C L O S E , A M Y C I U PA K LALONDE D I R E C T E D B Y: G E O R G E A . R O M E R O

Poor George Romero. He came up with an all-new take on his zombie movies and Cloverfield beat him to theaters by a month. The premise here is that the zombie outbreak happens while film students are shooting their thesis project, so they decide to document the carnage. This is cool regardless of Cloverfield. Film students have an artistic style, so it’s not a “reality” movie. It also addresses how people who don’t know zombie movies can figure out the rules. There is plenty of fun zombie gore, but the new story and techniques bring the oldschool genre into the modern age. 76

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S TA R R I N G : J A C K B L A C K , M O S D E F, DANNY GLOVER D I R E C T E D B Y: M I C H E L G O N D R Y

Be Kind Rewind is not the type of screwball comedy usually associated with Jack Black. It is, gasp, an art film, from the fantastic mind of French writer/director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep). Jack Black inadvertently erases every tape in his friend’s (Mos Def) video store, so the duo set about remaking the films (including Ghostbusters, Back to the Future and RoboCop) in their own crazy way. That would be a blockbuster on its own, but this film is really about the neighborhood kooks banding together to appreciate the art of filmmaking. With Gondry’s always avant-garde approach, this message may be lost on some viewers. But it is a good message, and there are just enough moments of Jack Black zaniness to make it approachable for nonarthouse audiences.

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A movie about drug abuse and rebellious teens and Robert Downey Jr. is the stuffy villain? Now that’s an indie movie. Charlie Bartlett (Yelchin) gets popular in school by selling his prescription medication. He fakes mental symptoms to get his hands on a cornucopia of different drugs, but he also becomes a psychiatrist to the kids who confide in him. Of course, the principal (Downey) wants to catch him in the act, and certainly keep him away from his daughter (Dennings). This film has all the elements of a modern Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, but it’s just not as carefree. Dealing with the very relevant issues of sloppy therapy and dependence on pharmaceuticals just seems to take away some of the fun.

JUMPER S TA R R I N G : H AY D E N C H R I S T E N S E N , RACHEL BILSON, SAMUEL L. JACKSON D I R E C T E D B Y: D O U G L I M A N

Samuel L. Jackson has had it with these motherf***in’ kids teleporting around the motherf***in’ world. Oh, that’ll never get old. This special effects extravaganza gives Hayden Christensen one power the force never did – teleportation, be it across the room or across the globe. Jackson is the bad guy trying to stop him. In a world that’s seen three Matrixes, every comic book movie and the oeuvre of Steven Spielberg, Jumper actually looks new and exciting. They seem to have fun with teleporting in mundane situations, as well as extraordinary ones. Liman hasn’t made a bad movie yet, so here’s to him.

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and their sister (Bolger) move to the Spiderwick estate, where they stumble upon a world of magical creatures voiced by celebrities such as Nolte and Rogen. Yup, it’s another children’s epic fantasy full of visual effects and made up words. Perhaps there is a group of kids who read this book while waiting for Harry Potter sequels to be published. That gamble sure paid off for The Seeker: The Dark is Rising, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep and Hoot. But Spiderwick sounds cooler, and with ad time on Nick, it’s got a shot.

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If anyone knows the streets, it’s Disney’s Touchstone Pictures. Actually, this sequel pretty much dismisses its own story as an excuse for dancing. A rebellious teen (Evigan) goes to a performing arts school as her last chance to “step up.” She gets her preppy classmates to “step up” in a street dancing competition, but the stuffy old dance teachers won’t “step up” to their new style. The dance sequences are so inventive and thrilling, none of these clichés matter. Step Up 1 took itself too seriously, and the kids lacked personality. These new faces own the screen, and definitely have the moves. F

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They don’t screen Larry The Cable Guy movies for the press. His blue collar fans turn out no matter what, and there’s nothing any stuffy old film snob can do about it. This time, Larry plays a small-town sheriff who thinks he’s rescuing a woman from a kidnapping, but he’s actually screwing up the FBI protection of a corporate whistle-blower. Oh, the hilarity of mistaken identities. It will all build up to a stunning climax where Larry says “Git-R-Done.” Larry says this is the best movie he’s made yet. Better than Delta Farce and Health Inspector? Puhlease, Larry. TW

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MOVIES FEB. 26 Beowulf: The Director’s Cut – Two-Disc Special Collectors Edition 30 Days of Night Death at a Funeral The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford The Brave One

TV FEB. 19 Walker, Texas Ranger – The Complete Fourth Season Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project Cops: 20th Anniversary Edition

TV FEB. 26 Comanche Moon: Second Chapter in Lonesome Dove Newhart - The Complete First Season The Smurfs – Season One, Vol. One Extras – The Extra Special Series Finale

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Brew Your Own Coffee You don’t have to be a Hewlett or Packard to afford art, as long as you can make your own coffee. Substitute that for your daily $4 double latte, and within a few months you’ll be ready to start collecting. The entire asking price doesn’t always have to be paid up front, either – ask the gallery about payment plans. Just don’t ask for discounts on an artist’s hard work, which may be the result of years of art school, other series, and many rough drafts before yielding that one drawing you can’t live without. When’s the last time you offered a discount on your salary? Alrighty then – start drinking free office brew. Better yet: Organize a carpool with co-workers, and put your gas and parking money toward art instead.

Check Your Pulse A showcase of artist Barron Storey’s latest work at Gallery Anno Domini, Downtown San Jose

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he word on the contemporary art market is that it’s hot, flush, and far more inspiring to watch than the tetchy stock market and latest Britney Spears scandal. But before ignoring what sounds like hype and returning to our previously scheduled cultural programming, consider Lorenzo de’ Medici. What if the über-patron of the Renaissance had blown off that audacious upstart Michelangelo, or believed his contemporaries’ claims that Leonardo da Vinci was just too weird and obsessed with cadavers to ever make it as an artist? Collecting is your opportunity not only to make a buck or a splash – though there’s plenty of that, too – but also a visible difference. Sales and commissions provide crucial financial support and votes of confidence for the artists

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who give us something to look at and think about besides paparazzi crotch shots and falling share prices. For major art collectors, the lasting satisfaction comes not from seeing their art bump up in dollar value, but from knowing they’ve left a mark on culture that will outlast starlets and stocks by centuries. Ready to collect, and make culture happen? Here’s how it’s done.

Make a Regular Date with Art Monogamy isn’t required in art collecting, and in fact most notable contemporary art collectors promiscuously pursue several artists at once. Initially, scope out the scene on First Fridays in San Jose and Oakland, and First Thursdays in San Francisco. Then browse galler-

ies and museums on quiet weekdays and weekend mornings, when you can get to know the art more intimately. You may not always be able to take it all home with you at once, but it’s always a rush to flirt with new ideas.

Follow Your Favorites Since you’re in the Bay Area, you have a distinct collecting advantage. Artists will take any excuse to visit our boho Bay – you’ll notice them juggling oddly shaped luggage at SFO en route to local art openings, lectures, and artists’ residencies. Stalking isn’t necessary: Sign up for email updates from galleries to get advance notice of openings and opportunities to meet next year’s international art fair stars. Monitor listings in newspapers and (ahem) The Wave for upcoming events at museums and galleries, and check out lectures and workshops at local art schools, as well as nonprofits like the Palo Alto Arts Center, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and Headlands Center for the Arts.

If it’s racing, admire now and buy later. Art auctions and gallery openings are diabolically engineered to produce an adrenaline rush that induces people to reach for their checkbooks. Charity auctions are great for a cause, but don’t kid yourself that you’re getting a deal – galleries may offer better prices and almost certainly have better examples of that artist’s work. The painting the silver-tongued auctioneer describes as “a postmodern Lascaux cave painting” may look more like a stick figure over your mantle, when not surrounded by throngs of black-tied 81

WHERE TO START San Jose’s South First Fridays, in the budding South First Street arts district, SoFA to locals, provides a great entry point for burgeoning art collectors. Check www.southfirstfridays.com for the latest participating galleries. Anno Domini, 366 S. First St., San Jose (408) 271-5155 www.galleryAD.com KALEID: 88 S. Fourth St., San Jose (408) 271-5151 www.kaleidgallery.com Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), 510 S. First St., San Jose (408) 998-2783 www.maclaarte.org San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, 560 S. First St., San Jose (408) 283-8155 www.sjica.org Space 47, 47 E. William St., San Jose www.space47.org Works/San Jose, 451 S. First St., San Jose (408) 286-6800

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Fess Parker Studio Theatre – Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara www.scu.edu/cpa

A series of one-act plays directed by senior theatre majors Sara Capule and Greg Callaghan: 2/16 – 2/17.

CLASSICAL MUSIC & OPERA ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC Dinkelspiel Auditorium – Stanford University 471 Lagunita Dr., Stanford (650) 725-2787

Come hear the works of Bach, Handel, and Telemann in this concert featuring instruments from Britain’s Baroque period: 2/13. ARDEN TRIO

THEATRE A DELICATE BALANCE

Dragon Theatre, 535 Alma St., Palo Alto (650) 493-2006

This Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows a family as they try to deal with the pain of reality, and regret missing the opportunities they had to change their lives: 2/15 – 3/9. A THOUSAND CLOWNS

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Hillbarn Theatre, 1285 E. Hillsdale Blvd., Foster City (650) 349-6411

Children’s comedy writer Murray Burns has a 12-year-old nephew to take care of, but he no longer has a job. Social services won’t stop pestering him, so in order to keep his nephew, he must take a good look at his life and come to terms with it: Thru 2/17. ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

Olinder Theatre, 848 E. William St., San Jose (408) 288-7820 www.northsidetheatre.com

A hilarious black comedy with crazy characters, exaggerated slapstick, and insane situations that will produce riots of laughter: 2/14 – 3/9. BOY GETS GIRL

City Lights Theatre, 529 S. Second St., San Jose www.cltc.org

Tony is head over heels for Theresa, but Theresa is in love with the life she created for herself, and it doesn’t include Tony. But neither family, friends nor the authorities can stop Tony’s obsession for Theresa. Will Theresa be willing to give up everything she has in order to escape Tony’s attention?: Thru 2/17.

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL – KOOZA

Taylor St. and Grand Chapiteau, San Jose www.ciquedusoleil.com

Come laugh and be amazed as a plethora of zany characters perform acrobatics and the art of clowning in this latest production from Cirque du Soleil: Thru 3/16. FAITH COUNTY

Triton Museum Hall Pavilion, 1505 Warburton Ave., Santa Clara (408) 248-7993

A wide array of characters show up to the county fair, and they all have their own quirky ways of expressing themselves: 2/22 – 3/15. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Morgan Hill Community Playhouse, 17090 Monterey St., Morgan Hill (408) 782-0008

Come and see a very unusual plant with a huge appetite in this play based on the 1960s cult classic flick: 2/22 – 3/15. MOLLY SWEENEY

The Pear Avenue Theatre, 1220 Pear Ave., Mountain View (650) 254-1148 www.thepear.org

A woman goes from being blind to seeing again, but she soon discovers her newfound gift has also made her lose something: 2/22 – 3/16. PIPPIN

Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre, 550 E. Remington Ave., Sunnyvale (408) 733-6611 http:// sunnyvale.ca.gov/Departments/ Parks+and+Recreation/Recreation/

See Pippin the hunchback, son of Charlemagne, as he sets out to create an extraordinary life for himself: 2/15 – 3/9.

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Broadway West Theatre, 4000-B Bay St., Fremont (510) 683-9218 www.broadwaywest.org

Set in the South at Truvy’s Beauty Salon in Chiquapin, La., this tale sees hilarious conversations take place while the women get their hair done. However, that eventually turns to tragedy when Shelby, a diabetic, puts her life in danger by getting pregnant. This makes all the women realize the fragility of their lives, and brings out their inner strength and love: Thru 2/16. THE 1940s RADIO HOUR

Saratoga Civic Theater, 13777 Fruitvale Ave., Saratoga (408) 868-1291 www.saratogadramagroup.com

Watch broadcast performers, stage hands and managers throw together a radio show that has you involved as the actual studio audience, complete with “Applause” cues. Enjoy comedy segments, radio plays, and many classic songs such as “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” and “That Old Black Magic”: Thru 2/16. THE REAL THING

Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave., Los Altos (650) 941-0551 www.busbarn.org

Henry, a writer, and Charlotte, an actress, try to find out what true love is and navigate their way around the pain and pleasure that comes with it: Thru 2/23. TRANCED

San Jose Repertory Theatre, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose www.sjrep.com

When foreign grad student Azmera tries to recover her suppressed memories through the unique help of the highly respected psychiatrist Philip, a secret is learned that could profoundly affect thousands of African villagers: Thru 2/24.

ROMANCE AND THE DOUBLE BASS?!

Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph 80 S. Market St., San Jose (408) 283-8100

Covering 19th-century Romantic music, this concert makes use of the double bass in a whole new way: 2/15. SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Flint Center for the Performing Arts, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino (408) 864-8820 www.flintcenter.com

Three works of Mozart presented by renowned classicist Herbert Blomstedt and one of the most talented young pianists around, Jonathan Biss: 2/21. TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET

city, and the countryside. The exhibition includes works by Julia Margaret Cameron, Peter Henry Emerson, Francis Frith, and Bill Brandt: Thru 4/6. Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The paintings, sculptures, and drawings of H.C. Westermann from the 1950s to the ’60s: Thru 3/2. A New 19th Century: The reinstalled Mondavi Family Gallery features newly acquisitioned works by Monet, Renoir, Sargent, and more: Ongoing. Auguste Rodin Collection: The largest collection of Rodin bronzes outside Paris: Ongoing. African Art in Context: Photography, dress, and other artifacts: Ongoing. Papua New Guinea Sculpture Garden: Wood and stone carvings of people, animals, and mythical beings: Ongoing. Living Traditions: Arts of the Americas: A collection of work from diverse Native American peoples and times: Ongoing. CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM 180 Woz Way, San Jose (408) 298-5437 www.cdm.org

Community School of Music and Arts, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View (650) 917-6800 www.art4all.org

Exciting interactive displays, galleries and activities for the whole family to enjoy: Ongoing.

Few trios are able to create the cohesive and virtuous sound that the Arden Trio is able to produce: 2/20.

Fusing classical with contemporary American style, the Turtle Island Quartet produce what renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma calls “a reflection of some of the most creative musicmaking today”: 2/15.

2200 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara (408) 765-0503 www.intel.com/museum

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court. This performance is rife with evidence of the darker side of humanity, such as lust, betrayal, and good old vengeance: Thru 2/24.

San Jose State University Concert Hall 260 S. Seventh St., San Jose (408) 924-1000 www.music.sjsu.edu/ programs/music/index.html

The talented pianist will be putting on a show that will include such works as Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and Beethoven’s Sonata in A flat major: 2/16. JON KIMURA PARKER Le Petit Trianon, 75 N. Fifth St., San Jose (408) 995-5400

Parker’s piano skills have vaulted him into a career that has led to hosting a classical musical series on television and radio, and to performances across the world: 2/24. MADAME BUTTERFLY

Mission City Center for Performing Arts, 3250 Monroe St., Santa Clara (408) 423-2415

The story of Cio-Cio San, a young geisha in the early 1900s who falls in love with an American naval officer, Captain Pinkerton. Pinkerton weds Cio-Cio San, but he only sees the marriage as temporary – he fully intends to return to America and his American fiancée: 2/15 – 2/24. PALO ALTO PHILHARMONIC CONCERT III Cubberley Community Center Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Rd., Palo Alto (650) 329-2418

The third concert in their 20th anniversary season features Strauss’ Four Last Songs, a strong and beautiful tribute to the soprano voice: 2/16. PENINSULA SYMPHONY FAMILY CONCERT College of San Mateo 1700 W. Hillsdale Blvd., San Mateo (650) 574-6161 www.collegeofsanmateo.edu

The Peninsula Symphony performs their annual concert. Bring the whole family to enjoy this free event: 2/24. RIGOLETTO

California Theatre 345 S. First St., San Jose (800) SAN-JOSE

Verdi’s first masterpiece, based on Victor Hugo’s attack on the French

TURTLE ISLAND QUARTET Dinkelspiel Auditorium – Stanford University, 471 Lagunita Dr., Stanford (650) 725-2787

In this concert, the talented group offers a take on John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme”: 2/16.

DANCE STABAT MATER AND REININ’ IN THE HURRICANE PLUS DUETTINO, OBJECTS OF CURIOSITY

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View (650) 903-6000 www.mvcpa.com

A mix of ballet performances with works by Michael Smuin, Kirk Patterson, and Amy Seiwart: 2/20 – 2/24. SWAN LAKE

San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd., San Jose (800) SAN-JOSE www.balletsanjose.org

See one of the greatest ballets ever written, as Prince Siegfried rescues his beloved Princess Odette, who has been turned into a swan by the evil Baron von Rothbart: 2/15 – 2/24.

MUSEUMS CANTOR ARTS CENTER Palm Dr. at Museum Way Stanford University (650) 723-4177 www.museum.stanford.edu

Frederic Church, Winslow Homer and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape: An exhibition that explores the work of three influential artists in the context of the new and growing tourist industry in the United States: Thru 5/4. Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography: This exhibition, explores the special qualities of the British as revealed in photographs: their obsession with class, individuality, the

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More than 30 interactive exhibits throughout the museum describe the technology and history of the chipmaking industry. Take a video peek inside a real “fab” where chips are made, or try on a bunny suit worn by chip factory employees: Ongoing. JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE 535 N. Fifth St., San Jose (408) 294-3138 www.jamsj.org

1942: Luggage from Home to Camp: In collaboration with artist Flo Oy Wong, this exhibition displays the lives of WWII internees through mixed media: Ongoing. Jack Matsuoka’s Cartoons: Making the Best of Poston: Insightful cartoons that aim to make the best of the tragic incarceration of JapaneseAmericans: Ongoing. Pioneers of San Jose Japantown: Photo exhibit of San Jose’s Japantown from 1900: Ongoing. Asahi/Zebras Baseball: An exhibit featuring photos of Japanese-Americans playing baseball at relocation camps during World War II: Ongoing. LOS GATOS MUSEUM OF ART Four Tait Ave. Los Gatos (408) 395-7375 www.losgatosmuseum.org

Imaginative nature paintings by Florence de Bretagne: Thru 2/23. Abstract architectural photography by Jeff Zaruba: Thru 2/23. MARTHA HEASLEY COX CENTER FOR STEINBECK STUDIES Martin Luther King Library 150 E. San Fernando St. San Jose (408) 924-4588 www.steinbeck.sjsu.edu

The largest Steinbeck archive in the world includes manuscripts, letters, photographs, and paintings: Ongoing. ROSICRUCIAN EGYPTIAN MUSEUM 1660 Park Ave. San Jose (408) 947-3636 www.egyptianmuseum.org

History of the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum Exhibit: This exhibit shows the museum’s transformation from one artifact in an office to a museum with more than 4,000 artifacts: Ongoing.

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SARATOGA HISTORICAL MUSEUM

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES

20450 Saratoga-Los Gatos Rd. Saratoga (408) 867-9229 www.saratogahistory.com

520 S. First St.

Explore the history of Saratoga with local Muwekma Ohlone Indian artifacts from the Saratoga archeological dig site. Photos, paintings, and information on the family of American abolitionist John Brown (his widow and family lived in Saratoga): Ongoing. SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART 560 S. First St. San Jose (408) 283-8155 www.sjica.org

Mapping Time: Doug Glovaski Works 1995 – 2007: Large-scale, intensely colored abstract paintings and works on paper based on childhood memories and currentday observances and experiences: Thru 3/15. The Space Between: A collection of optical art and geometric abstract works by various artists: Thru 4/12.

San Jose (408) 971-0323 www.sjquiltmuseum.org Marian Clayden: The Dyer’s Hand: A retrospective of the career of Marian Clayden, master dyer, textile artist and fashion designer, this exhibition spans her textile art designed for the wall through to her later works designed for the body: Thru 3/23. TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION 201 S. Market St. San Jose (408) 294-TECH www.thetech.org

IDEA House: An interactive program space encourages you to formulate and synthesize like never before: Ongoing. Green by Design: Designs with a green approach, aiming to prevent environmental problems and improve lives: Ongoing. View from Space: Science made visible in an exhibit that displays weather, aircraft, and daily patterns from space: Ongoing.

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART

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110 S. Market St. San Jose (408) 271-6840 www.sjmusart.org

Goya’s Caprichos: Dreams of Reason and Madness: This exhibit features the contemporary social and politically influenced paintings of Francisco de Goya y Lucientes: Thru 4/20. Picasso: Etchings of Love and Desire: Few are able to express human experience like Pablo Picasso has in these works: Thru 4/20.

366 S. First St., San Jose (408) 271-5155 www.galleryAD.com

VICTIMS – A Solo Exhibit by Barron Storey: The iconic illustrator and graphic artist debuts a new series of works, depicting the damaged and the wounded in sculptural form, as well as works on canvas.

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bidders. Champagne receptions are especially tempting, so bring a guest with you – friends don’t let friends collect drunk.

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1175 Bordeaux Dr., Sunnyvale (408) 541-0100 www.cogswell.edu

Blue View and Other Observations: Recent paintings by Reid Winfrey: Thru 2/15. HEARTWORKS GALLERY 311 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell (408) 370-7278 www.heartworksgallery.com

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Return Engagement Glengarry Glen Ross arrives to celebrate the San Jose Stage Company’s 25th Anniversary. BY MICHAEL J. VAUGHN

Paintings, sculptures, and glassware by Debbie Arambula: Ongoing. KALEID GALLERY 88 S. Fourth St., San Jose (408) 271-5151 www.kaleidgallery.com

Complimentary views of nature from photographer Cindy Stokes and abstract painter Wendy Lowengrub: Thru 2/29. MODERNBOOK GALLERY 494 University Ave., Palo Alto (650) 327-6325 www.modernbook.com

An exhibition of black and white panoramic landscape photos taken by Geir Jorhdahl: Thru 3/4. SONYA PAZ FINE ART GALLERY 1793 Lafayette St., Ste. 110, Santa Clara (408) 294-7900 www.sonyapaz.com

The works of Sonya Paz, including framed pieces, watches, pillows, and more: Ongoing. TW

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Improve Your View If you’re happy to let Facebook and mini-malls become the defining features of the Peninsula for generations to come, do absolutely nothing. Within two years of finishing their MFAs, 80 percent of the artists you see today will no longer be making art – and not for lack of trying. Glowing comments in a gallery visitors’ book are a nice boost, but sooner or later, artists and galleries have to pay those notorious Bay Area rents. That’s a shame, because all it takes to change the local landscape is one inspired collector. Just ask farmer/collector Rene di Rosa the next time you see him at a local gallery opening in his signature John Deere hat. Over a couple decades, he steadily amassed 2,200 works, including many pivotal works by Bay Area artists featured on tours of Napa’s di Rosa Preserve (www.dirosapreserve. org). When Napa makes Silicon Valley look like it’s slacking, something is awry. Step up, South Bay, and make your art known. TW

ay back in 1979, a couple of San Jose State students named Randall King and Bobby Pellerin were assembling a production of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, and having some problems with interpretation. Naturally, being young and naïve, they decided to send their questions directly to the playwright. Not so naturally, the playwright responded. On two typewritten sheets that Pellerin still keeps in his personal archive, Mamet not only wrote that the plot conundrums they were facing didn’t actually have answers, but added, “It seems to me that you guys know the script better than I do.” Pellerin and King went on to found the San Jose Stage Company in 1983. Pellerin left after the first season, but King is still holding down the fort, along with his wife and executive director, Cathleen. Mamet has also been a steady presence, with Buffalo in ’85, Speed-the-Plow in ’93, the playwright’s adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya in ’02, and, in ’88, a production of his 1984 Pulitzer winner, Glengarry Glen Ross. Glengarry Glen Ross returns this month as part of the company’s silver anniversary celebration, with King reprising his role as Richard Roma, the slick, fast-talking star of a Chicago real estate office. Mamet is notorious for his liberal use of profanities, as well as the realistic, street-level flavor of his dialogue. The pace and complexity is so intense, says King, that some of his peers – even a few accomplished Shakespeareans – simply refuse to take it on. “It’s the rhythms,” he says. “The speech patterns of the dialogue. He really sets up what he’s going to do grammatically – he’s very musical, very specific about his pauses. If you can hang your hat on that, you can

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Glengarry Glen Ross, thru Mar. 2, San Jose Stage Company, 490 S. First St., San Jose, $20-$45. Silver Anniversary Celebration, Feb. 23, Paragon Restaurant and Bar, Hotel Montgomery, 211 S. First St., San Jose, $75 (408) 283-7142 www.sanjosestage.com get a lot of the value you need as an actor.” Mamet’s portrayal of the hypercompetitive, ethics-free lion’s den of real estate proved so indelible that one of its characters – the nervous, star-crossed Shelley Levene (played by Jack Lemmon in the 1992 film) – inspired a character on The Simpsons, Gil Gunderson. King is proud that his company played a part in the national growth of midsized theaters (including San Francisco’s Magic and Chicago’s Steppenwolf), and that it’s able to provide such intimate, energized performances in its First Street space. He recalls times when audience members who have seen the same plays in New York have told him that they like Stage’s rendition better. “That’s a thrilling kind of feedback to get,” he says. “We’re pretty good at folding the audience into the play, and bringing real sparkle, even to familiar texts.” TW

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If you’re looking for something that will tie the room together, get a rug instead – it’ll probably be cheaper and much softer underfoot. After the initial wow factor wears off, art bought to match your sofa quickly fades into the woodwork, and looks dated once you’re over your fleeting fascination with owls or mauve. Instead, go for artwork that really moves and haunts you: that piece you discussed with friends like a great book or movie, or the one your mind escapes to when you’re stuck in traffic. Let the art choose you, and keep the inspiration coming.

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On Top of It No bunk about it – bunk beds will always be a kids’ room classic. BY JO ABBIE

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get to be on top,” says Tom Hanks’ character (a child in grown-up’s body) in the 1988 film Big when he invites his date for a sleepover. Cut to the next scene, and the double entendre becomes clear – he’s putting dibs on the top bunk. Anyone who had a sibling or childhood friend with a bunk in their bedroom will recall the pure, childish glee that bunk beds tend to elicit. They make sharing a bedroom with a mean older sister or bratty younger brother tolerable, add a ton of fun to the landscape of any bedroom, and let kids feel as though they’re at summer camp all year long (hopefully, that’s a good thing).

From a parental perspective, bunk beds are equally attractive option, offering a space saving solution – particularly when two children are sharing a room – and providing a range of storage options, with many designs featuring built-in desks, under-the-bed drawers, and other hidden areas to keep toys, books and even clothes out of sight. 05

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Thankfully, bunk beds today are nothing like the rickety bunks of summer camp. Furniture retailers offer an endless range of designs – from cool and contemporary to charming country cottage styles. TW

SAFETY FIRST While today’s bunks are built with children’s well-being in mind – with attached ladders, bars, and many other safety features – it is still wise to consider age when letting your little one graduate from the bottom to the top bunk. The Consumer Product Safety Commission recommends that top bunks not be used for children under six years of age.

WHERE TO BUY All Children’s Furniture (ACF) (800) 331-7484 www.allchildrensfurniture.com IKEA, 1700 E. Bayshore Rd., East Palo Alto (650) 323-4532 www.ikea.com Pottery Barn Kids, Valley Fair, 2855 Stevens Creek Blvd., Santa Clara (408) 557-0510; 88 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto (650) 321-2563 www.potterybarnkids.com 01 02 03 04 05 06

Pottery Barn Kids Kendall bunk, from $799 Pottery Barn Kids Rustic Thomas twin-over-full bunk, from $1,799 At ACF, Argington Uffizi bunk bed in orange and walnut, $1,850 IKEA Tromsö bunk, $407 IKEA Hemnes bunk, $956 At ACF, Utica twin-over-full loft bunk, $1830 (All prices do not include bedding.)

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LISTINGS HIDDEN VALLEY HISTORY TOUR: 2/17

Rock Climbing Basics: 2/19 REI, San Jose

Hidden Villa Ranch, 26870 Moody Rd., Los Altos Hills (650) 949-9704 www.hiddenvilla.org

Bring the whole family and enjoy a wonderful tour of the 150-year-old ranch: 2:30 – 4pm AMGEN TOUR OF CALIFORNIA: 2/17 - 24 Throughout the Bay Area www.amgentourofcalifornia.com

Some of the world’s top bicycling teams, including Team CSC, Jelly Belly Racing Team, Saunier Duval-Scott, Team Slipstream, Astana, Robobank and many more as they tear through the Bay Area! Read about it on page 28. CHINATOWN COMMUNITY STREET FAIR: 2/23 - 24 Grant Ave., from Broadway to Clay, San Francisco www.sanfranciscochinatown.com

Two full days of fun with kite making, calligraphy, fine art demonstrations, folk dance, puppet shows, acrobats, lion dancing and magic shows. FOURTH ANNUAL HULA HALAU O’PI’ILANI CRAB FEED: 2/23 Our Lady of Peace, 2800 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara (408) 839-2013

Enjoy all-you-can-eat crab and spaghetti, along with live entertainment, raffles and fun!: 6pm

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BOOK READINGS & SIGNINGS READING WITH FRED LUSKIN: 2/13 Redwood City Public Library, 1044 Middlefield Rd., Redwood City (650) 780-7026 www.rcpl.info

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Mr. Luskin discusses his new book, Forgive for Love: 7pm

BUSINESS FRANCHISE SEMINAR: 2/19 Blendz, 267 E. Campbell Ave. #200, Campbell franchise.blendz. com/seminar.php

Reserve your seat today and learn how you can own your own franchise, while making a difference in your community by serving healthier fast food: 6:30pm ACCELERATED NETWORKING LUNCH: 2/21 Villa Ragusa, 35 S. Second St., Campbell (408) 288-8484 events. ewomennetwork.com/event/ details.php?eid=7670

eWomenNetwork invites you to an informative lunch with speaker Renel Brooks-Moon, who will be discussing how to overcome obstacles: 10:30am – 1:30pm BUSINESS MIXER: 2/19 HSBC Bank, 567 University Ave., Palo Alto (650) 324-3127 www.paloaltochamber.com

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invites you to come on out and make some key business contacts: 5:30 - 7pm

CLUB MEETINGS PENINSULA RUGMAKERS GUILD: THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH Rose Garden Branch Library, 1580 Naglee Ave., San Jose (831) 438-6628 groups. yahoo.com/group/Peninsula_ RugmakersGuild/

All rugmakers and enthusiasts welcome: 10am – 3pm FUN TIMES SINGERS: WEDNESDAYS Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 12770 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga www.funtimessingers.org

A lively and diverse community choir invites men and women to join their group: 7:15 – 9:30pm

DONATIONS RECYCLE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES FOR ORANGUTAN CONSERVANCY: ONGOING

FAIRS & EXPOS RUBBER STAMP & PAPER ARTS FESTIVAL: 2/15 - 16 San Mateo Event Center, 2495 S. Delaware St., San Mateo www.heirloompro.com

All of your great stencil, stationery, and scrapbooking ideas get the “rubber stamp” of approval at this fun and informative festival. DUNDRACON 32: 2/15 - 18 San Ramon Marriott, 2600 Bishop Dr., San Ramon www.dundracon.com

A game-playing extravaganza, featuring role-playing games, board games, fighting demonstrations (Medieval style), card games, seminars, and much, much more! MODERN BRIDAL FAIRE: 2/17 150 W. San Carlos St., San Jose www.modernbridal.com

The Modern Bridal Faire has all the bases covered, from florists, photographers, bridal gowns, live music, invitations, caterers, limousines, reception sites, and so much more: 11am PSYCHIC FAIR: 2/17

Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, 1300 Senter Rd., San Jose (408) 2773000 www.hhpz.org

San Jose Book Shop, 14482 Big Basin Way, Saratoga (408) 872-1990

Donate your old cell phones and pagers the next time you visit Happy Hollow Zoo, and help support the Orangutan Conservancy, a nonprofit group that is helping preserve our orangutans and their habitat.

An evening of psychic readings, clairvoyants, pet psychics, past life readers and, get this, you can even get a photo of your aura!: 11am – 6pm

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FAMILY ACTIVITIES CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: KOOZA: THRU 3/16

Taylor Street Bridge, San Jose www.cirquedusoleil.com

Enter the magical world of Cirque du Soleil and witness high-flying acrobats, amazing music, and laughable clowning as the KOOZA story unfolds – a tale of a melancholy loner who is searching for his place in the world, and the interesting characters he meets. WOODWORKING FOR HOME SCHOOLERS: 2/13 The Sawdust Shop, 452 Oakmead Pkwy., Sunnyvale www.sawdustshop.com

This class is designed for home school children to learn woodworking. It meets weekly for eight sessions: 1 – 3pm

KA HULA HOU: PRIDE ON THE LINE Centennial Hall, 22292 Foothill Blvd., Hayward www.academyofhawaiianarts.org

Some of the finest male dancers who have ever taken the stage. But, wait, it gets more exciting: the audience will choose the winner!: 5pm USED BOOK SALE: 2/16 – 17 Cupertino Community Hall, 10350 Torre Ave., Cupertino

More than 8,500 books covering every genre will be on sale, plus DVDs, VHS tapes and audiocassettes. YOUNG EAGLES PROGRAM: 2/16 Hiller Aviation Museum, 601 Skyway Rd., San Carlos www. hiller.org/young-eagles.shtml

Kids ages eight to 17 are invited to the Hiller Museum for a free plane ride – you heard right, a FREE PLANE RIDE, with an honest-to-goodness real pilot!: 11am – 1pm

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SATURDAY NIGHT SILENT MOVIES: SATURDAYS Edison Theater, 37417 Niles Blvd., Fremont www.nilesfilmmuseum.org

Head over to Fremont and make your way to the Edison Theater and enjoy an evening of silent films from all the greats: Will Rogers, Douglas Fairbanks, Laurel and Hardy, Lon Chaney. All movies are accompanied by a live pianist: 7:30pm

FUNDRAISERS E-WASTE COLLECTION EVENT FUNDRAISER: 2/23 Pioneer High School, 1290 Blossom Hill Rd., San Jose www.1stchoicerecycling.com

Everyone has old printers, phones, stereos and TVs just cluttering up their closets. Now you can dump them off for FREE and just drive away: 9am – 4pm

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Palo Alto: Sunday 9am – 1pm (year round) California Ave. & El Camino Real (800) 806-FARM San Jose: Sunday 10am – 3pm (year round) Stevens Creek & Winchester (800) 949-FARM San Jose: Friday 10am – 2pm (year round) Kaiser Santa Teresa Parking Lot (800) 949-FARM San Jose: Sunday 8:30am – Noon (year round) Japantown, Jackson between Sixth & Seventh Sts. (408) 298-4303 San Jose: Sunday 10am – 2pm (year round) Princeton Plaza, Kooser & Meridian (800) 806-FARM

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LISTINGS PETS VALENTINE DOG WALK IN WILLOW GLEN: 2/14 Meet at Washington Mutual (corner Lincoln Ave. and Minnesota) (408) 671-3417 www.societydog.com

Bring the pooch for a walk around Willow Glen with fellow pet owners and receive doggie treat goodie bags and more.

SELF HELP ASH KICKERS STOP SMOKING CLASSES: THRU 2/20 Camino Medical Group, 701 E. El Camino Real, Rm. B, Mountain View (408) 998-5865 www.ggbreathe.org

Learn how to kick the habit every Wednesday at 7pm

Young Eagles Program, Hiller Aviation Museum 26TH ANNUAL SANTA CRUZ CLAM CHOWDER COOK-OFF: 2/23 Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz beachboardwalk.com/clamchowder/

It’s time to assemble your best clam chowder cook-off team for a day dedicated to chowin’ the chowda. Funds raised benefit youth programs run by the Santa Cruz City Parks and Recreation Department: 10am SEVENTH ANNUAL TOUCH MY HEART GALA: 2/23 Los Gatos Art Museum, Los Gatos (408) 395-7375 www.touchmyheart.org

You’ll enjoy an evening of fine wine, food, live music, dancing, beautiful art and it’s all for a good cause. Funds raised benefit the Los Gatos Art Museum: 6 – 10pm IN VOGUE: CHARITY FASHION SHOW: 2/29 Fairmont Hotel, 170 S. Market St., San Jose www.jlsj.org/sanjose/index.jsp

GARDENING EASY ORGANIC ROSES: SUMMER TO FALL: 2/13 Veterans Memorial Senior Center, 1455 Madison Ave., Redwood City (650) 323-5268 www.peninsularosesociety.org

Author and rose authority Judith Cody will demonstrate the new and easy gardening techniques to grow organic roses. This second talk in the series covers roses from summer to fall. Free: 7:30pm UNITY IN LANDSCAPE DESIGN: 2/20 Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto (650) 329-1356 www.gamblegarden.org

You’ll learn to create and design landscaping for your very own home: 1pm

YOGA FOR ATHLETES: WEDNESDAYS

Common Ground Organic Garden Supply & Education Center, 559 College Ave., Palo Alto (650) 493-6072 www.commongroundinpaloalto.org

Urban Sports, 1115 Lincoln Ave., San Jose www.urbansports.info

Jennifer Ungemach discusses how double-digging will help your plants grow much better and need less water: 2 – 4pm BLUEBERRIES AND OTHER SMALL FRUITS: 3/1 Common Ground Organic Garden Supply & Education Center, 559 College Ave., Palo Alto (650) 493-6072 www.commongroundinpaloalto.org

Learn how to select, plant and maintain blueberries and other small fruits: 2 – 4pm

GAY & LESBIAN DEFRANK GAY BINGO: WEDNESDAYS Billy DeFrank LGBT Community Center, 989 The Alameda, San Jose (408) 293-2429 www.defrank. org/events/bingo.html

DeFrank Gay Bingo is a festive bingo game that has the flair of gay culture to boot. All orientations are welcome to join in the fun: 7pm

HEALTH & WELLNESS SATURDAY MORNING RUNS Urban Sports, 1115 Lincoln Ave., San Jose www.urbansports.info

All ages and skill levels welcome. Meet in front of the store: 7am SUNDAY BICYCLE RIDES Urban Sports, 1115 Lincoln Ave., San Jose www.urbansports.info

The ride isn’t too fast, but still fast enough to keep the heart rate up. Meet in front of the store: 7am

Be you a walker, runner, cyclist, or swimmer, you can benefit from working on your flexibility and core strength: 7 – 8:30pm ROCK CLIMBING BASICS: 2/19 REI, 400 El Paseo de Saratoga, San Jose (408) 871-8765 www.rei.com/stores/saratoga/

WINE TASTING AT ARYA RESTAUARNT: 2/27 Arya Restaurant, 19930 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino (408) 996-9606

Arya Restaurant invites you to join them for tasty appetizers and to sample four to five delicious wines. Please RSVP: 5:45pm

LEARN TO COOK II: FRYING, SAUTÉING, GRILLING & ROASTING: 2/13 Sur la Table, 23 University Ave., Los Gatos (408) 395-6946 surlatable.turnstilesystems.com

Learn fundamental techniques that will steer you on the path of becoming a super chef: 6:30pm HYPNOSIS COURSE WITH DR. DAVE HILL: THRU 2/17 26250 Industrial Blvd., Hayward (510) 785-8152 www.worldsgreatesthypnotist.com

Join the “World’s Greatest Hypnotist,” Dr. Dave Hill, as he instructs you through a basic course of hypnosis that will include the history of hypnosis, misconceptions, demonstrations, and much more.

LECTURES BLACK HISTORY AND THE RISE OF BARACK OBAMA: 2/13 Canada College, 4200 Farm Hill Blvd., Redwood City (650) 3063364 www.canadacollege.edu

Dr. James Taylor discusses how the efforts of influential black leaders and scholars have made it possible for the emergence of Barack Obama: 10 – 11am

Adults are invited to join this free conversation club to practice their English language skills: Noon – 1pm TW

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music including todays greatest hits, hip-hop, reggae, dancehall, soul, oldies, Spanish music and much more. So, next time you’re thinking about having a party give us a call and leave the music to us!

INSURANCE: Valerie Young Vedda, 181 Metro Dr., Suite 290, San Jose (408) 930-129 Learn about the value of your insurance coverage through a freindly review of your current policies and benefit from our multi-line discounts for home, auto, and life insurance.

YOGANANDA’S HEALING TECHNIQUES: 2/23 – 29

You’ll learn everything you need to know about meditating and the benefits thereof: 7 – 8:30pm

Almaden Branch Public Library, 6445 Camden Ave., San Jose (408) 808-3040 sjlibrary. org/gateways/multicultural/ conversation.htm

Hidden Villa Ranch, 26870 Moody Rd., Los Altos Hills www.hiddenvilla.org

Discover what meditation is, how it works and how it will help you: 10am

Gyalwa Gyatso Buddhist Center, 1550 La Pradera Dr., Campbell www.gyalwagyatso.org

ENGLISH SECOND LANGUAGE CONVERSATION CLUB: WEDNESDAYS

You’ll learn to make several of the most common wood joints used in furniture, cabinets, boxes, and other useful projects using the hand and power tools: 10am – 6pm

MEDITATION 1: THRU 2/15

MEDITATION 101: WEDNESDAYS THRU 2/27

You’ll be instructed on how to use a map and compass to pinpoint your location and navigate to new destinations: 8:45am – 3pm

BASIC JOINERY 1: 2/16

Ananda, 2171 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (650) 323-3363 www.anandapaloalto.org

You’ll be guided through exercises that help relax and attune the body, mind and spirit: 10am – 1pm

INTRODUCTION TO MAP AND COMPASS: 2/24 REI, 400 El Paseo de Saratoga, San Jose (408) 871-8765 www.rei.com/stores/saratoga/

The Sawdust Shop, 452 Oakmead Pkwy., Sunnyvale www.sawdustshop.com

Introduction to the exciting sport of rock climbing: 6:30pm

Ananda, 2171 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (650) 323-3363 www.anandapaloalto.org

Come out and explore the latest in alternative home building materials at Hidden Villa, featuring solar electric generation, rammed earth and straw bale construction!: 3:30 – 5pm

ACCOMMODATIONS: Hotel Los Gatos & Spa, 210 E. Main St., Los Gatos (408) 335-1700 www.hotellosgatos.com Mediterranean-styled villas providing luxurious guest rooms and suites. Nestled at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains and within walking distance of the many shops, restaurants and galleries. Home to Preston Wynne Spa & Dio Deka Restaurant.

BACHELORETTE PARTIES: Jewelsexpression, 1445 Foxworthy Ave., San Jose www.jewelsexpression.com Jewelsexpression offers exotic dancing classes with a softer touch. Designed for women of all shapes, sizes and ages, you’ll learn the art of the “walk,” floor performing, and faux pole and chair dancing. Great for bridal showers and bachelorette parties.

BEAUTY SALON: Shangri-La Lotus Salon & Spa, 413A Monterey Ave., San Jose (408) 623-3963 Specializing in waxing, tinting brows and lashes, therapeutic massage, acupressure, along with providing a complete nail and pedicure services. Jenny Dinh, the salon owner, has been an eyelash extension specialist for more than 15 years and has extensive experience in the beauty industry.

ENTERTAINMENT: Thoro-Bread Entertainment (650) 248-3803 We provide DJ services for all occasions, and offer a wide range of

MAKEUP ARTIST: Professional Makeup by Tiffany Chiang (408) 242-8154 www.beautyexpertfiffany.com Call and book your bridal party makeovers from professional makeup artist Tiffany Chiang.

RECEPTIONS: Hotel Los Gatos & Spa, 210 E. Main St., Los Gatos (408) 335-1700 www.hotellosgatos.com Mediterranean ambience provides luxurious banquet facilities for events to accommodate up to 130 guests at various locations, including our Indoor Monte Sereno Ballroom, Outdoor Courtyard & Pool Terrace.

TANNING: Parlour 308 Airbrush Tanning, 308 E. Main St., Los Gatos (408) 354-9308 www.parlour308.com Professional, comfortable and discreet. Your tan is applied by hand, using an airbrush. The soluition is customized for every client, to create a natural sun-kissed tan.

TRAVEL: Cruise Planners, 5669 Snell Ave., Ste. 372, San Jose (408) 715-7196 Our travel agency specializes in designing a vacation that exceeds your expectations. Our passion is to plan a seamless and exciting cruise and travel experience. Call us today to start planning your dream vacation memories.

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FA MILY & COMMUNIT Y

Don’t miss this fashion show for the whole family, featuring the latest in yoga gear, to soccer practice, to school, the office, to black tie affairs. Funds raised benefit community programs for children.

DOUBLE-DIGGING AND BED PREPARATION: 2/16

WINE TASTING & FOOD

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

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HOME

TO ADVERTISE IN THE HOME IMPROVEMENT SVMARKETPLACE CALL: (408) 564-8279

IMPROVEMENT

POOL TABLES

Admiral Pool Tables www.mrpooltable.com Offering quality handcrafted 8-foot pool tables - custom made - factory direct to you. Also offering a wide variety of accessories from lamps to casino tables to spectator chairs. APPLIANCE REPAIR

FURNITURE

HARDWARE

Dr. Dee’s Appliance Repair

Palo Alto Hardware

5669 Snell Ave., Ste. 261, San Jose (408) 224-8753 www.drdees.com We provide service on all brands of appliances for residential and commercial. Our technicians are trained to deliver you a tailored and unique service experience, and treat you and your home with respect. We enjoy our work and it shows.

875 Alma St., Palo Alto (650) 327-7222 www.paloaltohardware.com At Palo Alto Hardware, “living green” is more than just a catchphrase. We work hard to put into place systems and programs that are environmentally friendly as we run our business.

Garden Accents

A Tool Shed

FIREPLACE

Fireplace Elements

SV M A RK E T PL ACE

1970 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View (650) 938-2000 www.fireplaceelement.com We are a full service fireplace store and design center. Offering 100s of designs to choose from gas and wood fireplaces, inserts, stoves and logs.

GENERAL CONTRACTOR

Can-Do Construction (831) 539-1181 All phases of construction and excavation, residential remodel and additions, structural retaining walls, decks, and hardscapes. Licensed, bonded, and insured.

FLOORING AND CABINETS

Grand Flooring 894 Commercial St., San Jose (408) 441-1021 www.grandflooring.com Beautiful homes deserve beautiful floors. At GrandFlooring.com we let nature customize your floor. Our solid hardwood flooring contains both clear and character planks that reflect all the best attributes of the natural wood.

Heavenly Greens

HOME THEATRE

Modern TV

LANDSCAPING AND GARDENS

1228 S. Bascom Ave., Ste. B, San Jose (408) 2931330 www.moderntvonline.com We can provide the home theater system you dream about. Whether it’s a dedicated theater with plush seating and a big screen, or a family room with a slim plasma TV and speakers built into the walls, we have the solution for you.

Zaira’s Gardening and Landscaping (408) 569-3389 Contact Hector for FREE ESTIMATES... Maintenance, Clean-ups, Trimmings, Pressure Wash, New Lawn and more.

HOUSE CLEANING

PATIO FURNITURE

At Home House Cleaning

Helm of Sun Valley

KITCHEN AND BATH

46 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell (408) 866-9200 www.peninsulafireplace.com Specializing in original designs. Offering screens and accessories, hand forged iron, wood and stone mantels, wood gas and electric fireplaces, glass and mesh doors.

11155 Lena Ave., Gilroy (408) 846-4555 www.garden-accents.net Our vision is a garden center to inspire the customers, not just to sell product. We provide a place where garden lovers become inspired and where gardening ideas can flourish.

(866) 724-8873 www.heavenlygreens.com A Heavenly Greens lawn is as close to natural grass as you can get without the need to water, mow or fertilize. Your lawn will look beautiful 365 days a year with little to no maintenance. AS SEEN ON TV!

(408) 401-7755 Your home is our concern! We offer worry free insurance protection, bonded employees, window cleaning, and deep carpet cleaning. Call for a free estimate.

Peninsula Fireplace

111 Saratoga Ave., San Jose (408) 996-7669 www.helmofsunvalley.com We carry uniquely styled furniture designed to accent a beautifully landscaped backyard. If we don’t have exactly what you want in stock, we can special order it for you!

Arch Design Center (ADC)

The Complete Backyard

1264 S. Bascom Ave., San Jose (408) 278-9056 ADC is a new showroom with an old-fashioned approach. A family oriented business whose main focus is bringing customer service back to the showroom.

1600 Duane Ave., Santa Clara (408) 748-8100 www.patio101.com Come by and visit our 33,000square-foot showroom featuring all the top names in the patio business. We have over 250 sets on display from various manufacturers.

Willow Glen Kitchen and Bath 351 Willow Glen St., San Jose (408) 293-2284 Lighting, rugs and pottery are but a few of the items we feature in our “Complete Home Furnishing” selections; enabling you to experience a “One Stop Shopping” environment.

PLANTS (INTERIOR)

Creative Plant Design 1030 Commercial St., Ste. 109, San Jose (408) 4521444 www.creativeplant.com Creative Plant Design, Inc. has been providing and maintaining excellent interior landscape services throughout Northern California for over 20 years. PLUMBING

Smart Choice Plumbing 55 Newell Rd., Ste. 301, Palo Alto (650) 424-1616 Professional plumber 24 Hrs. / 7 days a week video Inspection / Pipe locating / Fixture repair.

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950 S. McGliney Ln., Ste. 505, Campbell (408) 371-9495 Offering emergency leak repair, roof maintenance, annual maintenance, reroofing of all types, and roofing inspections.

LAWNS AND GARDENS

EQUIPMENT RENTAL (Eight South Bay locations) (800)-ATOOLSHED www.atoolshed.com A Tool Shed Rentals should be your first stop for all your rental needs! We have the tools and equipment rentals to make your weekend or major project easier.

ROOFING AND GUTTERS

Franklin’s Roofing Service

STORAGE

A-1 Self Storage (Four San Jose Locations) 1415 Old Oakland Rd.; 2900 Monterey Rd.; 131 Baroni Ave.; 3260 S. Bascom Ave. (800) 210-8979 www.a1storage.com Save money with A-1 Self Storage! Affordable pricing for personal and business needs. TREE SERVICE

J.B. Tree Surgeons (408) 223-6128 Professional 24-Hour emergency tree removal services offered: Removal, thinning, shaping, heading, pollarding John Breschi, Proprietor. LicensedInsured-Bonded. WOODWORKING CENTER

The Sawdust Shop 452 Oakmead Pkwy., Sunnyvale (408) 992-1004 www.sawdustshop.com The Sawdust Shop is a unique woodworking center located in the heart of Silicon Valley, combining a do-it-yourself woodshop, a woodworking store, and woodworking classes all under one roof.

PHOTO CREDITS D E S I G N @ T H E W AV E M A G . C O M 1, Cover / Cover art by Bruno 9Li, Cover design by Chris Schmauch, 3, Couple Enjoying Sunset / Courtesy of Bermuda Dept. of Tourism, Amgen Tour of California / By Doug Pensinger, Barron Storey Exhibit at Gallery Anno Domini / By Chris Schmauch, Charlie Bartlett / Courtesy of MGM, Kasey Uni Bedroom / Courtesy of Pottery Barn Kids, Mammoth Intro / Courtesy of iStock, Mantaray / By Fiona Freund, Pile of Vans / By Chris Schmauch, Sent Sovi Emulsions / By Chris Schmauch, Smuin Ballet / Courtesy of Matthew Felton, 8, John Newlin - Final Editor’s Note / By Chris Schmauch, 12, Cintra Wilson / By Chad Rachman, 14,Globe in Plastic Bag / Courtesy of iStock, Nora Campos / Courtesy of San Jose City Council, 16,Glory Boy Days / Courtesy of Glory Boy Days, 19,Shaking Hands / Courtesy of iStock, 20,RD4 Chari / Courtesy of Branch Home, Carrie Basket / Courtesy of Design House Stockholm, Hymini / Courtesy of MiniWiz, Fluorescent Necklaces / Courtesy of Fuzz Design, Saarinen Table Group / Courtesy of Design Within Reach, 22,Charlie Bartlett / Courtesy of MGM, 24,Warm Getaways / By Chris Schmauch, 25,Couple Enjoying Sunset / Courtesy of Bermuda Dept. of Tourism, Yelapa / By Linda Wolf, 26,Guadaloupe Islands / Courtesy of Guadaloupe Islands Tourism Board, Guadaloupe Islands 2 / Courtesy of Guadaloupe Islands Tourism Board, Valle de Luna / Courtesy of iStock, 27,Resort Singer Island Cabana / Courtesy of the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Resort Singer Island Exterior / Courtesy of the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau, 28,Amgen Tour of California 1 / By Doug Pensinger, 30,Amgen Tour of California 2 / By Doug Pensinger, 32,Shannon Law - Radiance Health Solutions / By Chris Schmauch, 34,Treatment Room at Radiance Health Solutions / By Chris Schmauch, 44,Air Max / Courtesy of Nike, Box Shoes / Courtesy of Adidas, Custom Leather / Courtesy of Reebok, NikeID Studio Space / Courtesy of Nike, Pile of Vans / By Chris Schmauch, PUMA Mongolian Shoe Creation / Courtesy of puma.com, Sprintsister / Courtesy of Nike, Ventilator Custom / Courtesy of Reebok, 45,Fashion - Alta / By Chris Schmauch, 46,Belmont / Courtesy of Room & Board, Icaro Bed / Courtesy of Design Within Reach, Leggero Bed / Courtesy of Design Within Reach, Matera Storage Bed / Courtesy of Design Within Reach, Enter-Red / Courtesy of Spacify, Buson Bed / Courtesy of Jimyko, Metro Bedroom / Courtesy of Jimyko, Seoul Platform Bed / Courtesy of Jimyko, Tai Design / Courtesy of Spacify, Studio Interior / Courtesy of Design Within Reach, 50, Sent Sovi Emulsions 1 / By Chris Schmauch, Sent Sovi Emulsions 2 / By Chris Schmauch, 52,Sent Sovi Emulsions 3 / By Chris Schmauch, Sent Sovi Emulsions 4 / By Chris Schmauch, 53Sent Sovi Emulsions 5 / By Chris Schmauch, Sent Sovi Emulsions 6 / By Chris Schmauch, 54,Tigelleria / By Chris Schmauch, 56,Loft - Catering / By Chris Schmauch, 62,Fish Market / By Chris Schmauch, 64,Mammoth Intro / Courtesy of iStock, 67,Canizares Iberia Flamenco / Courtesy of Flamenco Society of San Jose, SAP Open / Courtesy of Silicon Valley Sports Group, 68,Jon Kimura Parker / Courtesy of Steinway Society, Turtle Island Quartet / Courtesy of Michael Amsler, 69,Disney on Ice Princess Wishes / Courtesy of Feld Entertainment, Smuin Ballet / Courtesy of Matthew Felton, Tulipmania / Courtesy of Pier 39, 70,Mantaray / By Fiona Freund, 72,Built to Spill / Courtesy of Built to Spill, Marilyn Manson / Courtesy of Marilyn Manson, The Hives / Courtesy of Andy Earl, 73,Allison Moorer / Courtesy of New Line, Joe Jackson / Courtesy of Ryko, MGMT / Courtesy of Columbia, Shelby Lynne / Courtesy of Lost Highway, Sheryl Crow / Courtesy of Interscope / A&M, 74,Led Zeppelin / Courtesy of Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson / Courtesy of Michael Jackson, Sports Bars - Quarter Note / By Paul Ferradas, 76,Definitely, Maybe / Courtesy of Universal Pictures, 78,Barron Storey Exhibit at Gallery Anno Domini / By Chris Schmauch, 80,Wave il Destino del Amore II / By Debbie Arambula, 81,Glengarry Glen Ross / By Dave Lepori, 82,IKEA Hemnes Bunk Beds / Courtesy of IKEA, IKEA Tromso Bunk Beds / Courtesy of IKEA, Kasey Uni Bedroom / Courtesy of Pottery Barn Kids, Playhouse Loft Bed / Courtesy of Pottery Barn Kids, Spiderman Bedroom / Courtesy of Pottery Barn Kids, Uffizi Bunk Bed / Courtesy of Argington, 84,Healthy Hike / Courtesy of iStock, 85,Wedding Accomodations - Hotel Los Gatos / By Chris Schmauch, Young Eagles / Courtesy of Hiller Aviation Museum, 86,Room Set / Courtesy of Karen Dayton, 88, Seanbaby / By Chris Schmauch

ADVERTISER INDEX S A L E S @ T H E W AV E M A G . C O M

23 Skidoo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

Dive Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Northstar & Sierra-at-Tahoe . . . .7

3Ta. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Dr. Hoang K. Do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

Nuderma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

A-1 Self Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Dr. Robert Ferguson . . . . . . . . . .41

Nuderma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Academy for Salon Professionals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Dr. Taylor Tran. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Other Boleyn, The . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Dr. Tony H. Pham, M.D. . . . . . . . .35

Parcel 104 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Dr. Youbert Karalian . . . . . . . . . .36

Picasso’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

Elevate Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Planet Beach Contempo Spa . . .38

Alliance Development Group - Stone Crest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

Elle Kiss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Planet Sushi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Embody Wellness Center . . . . . .23

Pleasures from the Heart . . . . . .45

All World Furniture . . . . . . . . . . .49

Emei Qigong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90

Princeton Review. . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Amilia’s Cafe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Eternal Beauty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Quarter Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Anise Cafe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

eWomen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83

Rabbits Foot Meadery. . . . . . . . .75

Art Council of Silicon Valley. . . .66

Fahrenheit Ultralounge . . . . . . .60

Rejuve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Artsopolis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Fish Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Roem Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . .92

Arya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Five Branches Institute. . . . . . . .39

Rokko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

At Home Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . .14

Ginger Cafe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Roop Ki Rani . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

At Home Cleaning . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Goosetown Lounge . . . . . . . . . . .74

Rosie McCann’s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

AVA Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Gordon Biersch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Rozenhart Family Chiropractic .37

aWeddingShop.com . . . . . . . . . .14

Grand Century Dental . . . . . . . . . .9

Sanctuary Salon . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Ayoma LifeSpa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Gulliver USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Bangkok Taste. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

San Jose BMW. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Basin, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Half Moon Bay Brewing Company . . . . . . . . . . . .59

San Jose Box Office . . . . . . . . . . .21

Bay Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Harrah’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4

Bella Saratoga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Bert’s Alibi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Helm of Sun Valley. . . . . . . . . . . .31

BioHealth College . . . . . . . . . . . .16

iFly SFBay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Birk’s Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

iFly SFBay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Blowfish Sushi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

infobayarea.com . . . . . . . . . . . . .87

Blu Cocoon Med Spa . . . . . . . . . .35

Island Grill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Blue Pheasant and Lounge . . . .57

Jane Aesthetic Medicine & Surgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Admiral Pool Tables. . . . . . . . . . .49 Alliance Development Group - Park Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47

Boarder Nation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30 Bob’s Golf & Tennis . . . . . . . . . . .29 Boulevard Tavern. . . . . . . . . . . . .71 Braces For Pretty Faces. . . . . . . . .5 Branham Lounge . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Buddha Lounge . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 Burger Pit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 Camera Cinemas. . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 Cascal Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Century Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 Children’s Discovery Museum . .83 Chris’ Whale Watching . . . . . . . .29 Chrysalis Aesthetic & Reconstructive Surgery . . . . . . .17

SAP Open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Saratoga Chocolates . . . . . . . . . .23 Scandalous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34 Scruff y Murphy’s . . . . . . . . . . . . .71 Shokolaat Restaurant . . . . . . . . .51 Silicon Valley Adult Dating.com . .73 Silvercreek Sportsplex . . . . . . . .31 Silvercreek Sportsplex . . . . . . . .83

Japantown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

SINO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Jersey’s Tavern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Smoke Tiki / Mission Ale House. . .73

Kobe Sushi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Sole di Paradiso . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

La Jolie Nail Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Spa 28 Aesthetics. . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Laser & Cosmetic Center, The . .33

Sports Basement . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Little Lou’s BBQ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Straits Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . .52

Loft Bar & Bistro. . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Strike. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

Lynn Kelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39

Susan Komen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

M&J Motorsports. . . . . . . . . . . . .17

SV Guide - Fashion. . . . . . . . . . . .45

Mai Dental Specialists. . . . . . . . . .2

Thoi’s Arts & Crafts . . . . . . . . . . .23

Mai Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Three Sixty Residences. . . . . . . .91

Mantra Palo Alto . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Tiggeleria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56

Maple Tree Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Trailsloggers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Marbella Hair Salon. . . . . . . . . . .39

Church of Scientology. . . . . . . . .21

Marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Treasure Chest Aquarium & Pets . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Ciana Day Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Massage Envy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

Up and Running . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

CIM Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Maxpro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

Ursula’s Boutique. . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Cinelux Theatres. . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

Maxpro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Vantage Point. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Cirque du Soleil - Kooza . . . . . . .79

Melting Pot, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Vicky Lara - Mary Kay . . . . . . . . .23

City Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Menara Moroccan . . . . . . . . . . . .63

Water Resorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Club One. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Michael Ryan & Associates . . . .48

Westpark Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Club One. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89

Mio Vicino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63

West Valley Flying Club . . . . . . .23

Coach’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Moi Day Spa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Cosmetic Surgery Information Center . . . . . . . . . . .39

Natural Beauty and Slimming. .42

Willow Glen Kitchen, Bath, Home Furnishings. . . . . . .48

CTR Bodyease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

New Image European Skin Care & Day Spa. . . . . . . . . . .23

Willow Street Pizza . . . . . . . . . . .52 Wine Shop at Home. . . . . . . . . . .14

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Caper’s Eat & Drink . . . . . . . . . . .51

San Jose Museum of Art. . . . . . .21

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THE FINAL LAST WORD B Y S E A N B A B Y - S E A N B A B Y @ T H E W AV E M A G . C O M

Celebrity Supporters CUPERTINO Siam Thai Cuisine $$ 1080 S. De Anza Blvd. Ste. A (408) 366-1080 www.siamthaicuisine.com

Cuisine: Thai

Park Place Restaurant $$$

10030 S. De Anza Blvd. (408) 873-1000 www.parkplacecupertino.com

Pizza Chicago $$

SANTA CLARA

Cuisine: Italian

The Fish Market Restaurant $$

Menara Moroccan Restaurant $$

Cuisine: Seafood

155 W. San Fernando Street (408) 283-9400 www.pizzachicago.com

41 E. Gish Road (408) 453-1983 www.menara41.com

Cuisine: Moroccan

Cuisine: Contemporary American Seafood & Steaks

19 Market $$

DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE

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Bella Mia $$

80 N. Market Street (408) 294-8626 www.gumbojumbo.com

58 S. First St. (408) 280-1993 www.bellamia.com

Cuisine: California-Italian

Paragon Restaurant $$ 211 S. First St. (408) 282-8888 www.paragonrestaurant.com

Cuisine: New American

Melting Pot, The $$$ 72 S. First St. (408) 293-6020 www.meltingpot.com

Cuisine: Fondue

Habana Cuba $$$ 238 Race St. (408) 998-CUBA www.998cuba.com

Cuisine: Cuban

19 N. Market Street (408) 280-6111

Gumbo Jumbo Cajun Fusion $$ Cuisine: Cajun Fusion

Britannia Arms Downtown $$

173 W. Santa Clara St. (408) 278-1400 www.britanniaarms.com/sanjose

Cuisine: British

Cielito Lindo $$ 195 E. Taylor Street (408) 995-3447

Cuisine: Mexican

E & O Trading Co. $$ 96 South First Street (408) 938-4100 www.eotrading.com

Cuisine: Southeast Asian Fusion

L&L Hawaiian Barbeque $ 3890 El Camino Real (650) 858-2878 www.hawaiianbarbeque.com

Cuisine: Asian-American Fusion

Cuisine: Californian & Indian

355 Santana Row Ste. 1010, San Jose (408) 345-3848 www.blowfishsushi.com

Cuisine: Japanese

Rosie McCann’s Restaurant & Pub $$ 355 Santana Row #1060, San Jose (408) 247-1706 www.rosiemccanns.com

Cuisine: Irish, American

Cuisine: American

Cuisine: Asian Fusion

Cuisine: Seafood

Blowfish Sushi $$$

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99 E. San Fernando St. (408) 998-9998 www.fultralounge.com

3150 El Camino Real (650) 493-8862 (TUNA) www.thefishmarket.com

Mantra Restaurant & Lounge $$

The Fish Market Restaurant $$

Fahrenheit $$

PALO ALTO The Fish Market Restaurant $$

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Loft Bar & Bistro $$ 90 S. Second St. (408) 291-0677

3775 El Camino Real (408) 246-3474 (FISH) www.thefishmarket.com

1007 Blossom Hill Road (408) 269-3474 (FISH) www.thefishmarket.com

Cuisine: Seafood

632 Emerson Street (650) 322-3500 www.mantrapaloalto.com

Sundance The Steakhouse $$$

1921 El Camino Real (650) 321-6798 www.sundancethesteakhouse.com

Cuisine: Steakhouse

Trader Vic’s at Dinah’s Garden Hotel $$$ 4269 El Camino Real (650) 798-1307 www.tradervicspaloalto.com

Cuisine: Asian Fusion

Thaiphoon Restaurant $$$

543 Emerson Street (650) 323-7700 www.thaiphoonrestaurant.com

Cuisine: Pan-Asian

Britannia Arms Almaden $$

SAN MATEO

Cuisine: British

The Fish Market Restaurant $$

5027 Almaden Expressway. (408) 266-0550 www.britanniaarms.com/almaden

Fratello’s $$

1712 Meridian Ave. #F (408) 269-3801

Cuisine: Italian

MILPITAS Sushi Mamoru $$ 138 S. Main Street (408) 946-5446

Cuisine: Japanese

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Cuisine: Seafood

MOUNTAIN VIEW: Cascal $$

400 Castro St. (650) 940-9500 www.cascalrestaurant.com

Cuisine: Pan-Latin

Vaso Azzurro $$

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Cuisine: Fine Italian & Provence

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hat a great presidential race it’s been for celebrity endorsements. With all the superstars supporting candidates on both sides, CNN is one Terminator robot away from being my favorite movie of all time. It’s all moot, though, since Oprah has come out in support of Barack Obama. I’d try to put her immensity into comedy, but there have already been so many jokes written about Oprah’s indescribable control over our culture that Carlos Mencia hasn’t even had time to steal them all. Suffice to say, Oprah’s support means as much or even more exposure for Obama as a voting human brain allows. But how do the other top celebrity endorsements stack up? I took a look at each of these hot stars’ standings in the community, their Q-rating with each age demographic, and their personal political history, to compile a precise comparison of their contribution versus Oprah’s majesty.

Sylvester Stallone Supports: John McCain Oprah Rating: 24 percent This is a pretty suspicious endorsement. It simply makes too much sense for someone who just made sequels to Rambo and Rocky to endorse the POW candidate in bed with the boxing commission. You can’t take it seriously. It’d be like Vin Diesel supporting a candidate who owned a DVD copy of The Pacifier.

Chuck Norris Supports: Mike Huckabee Oprah Rating: 4 percent Chuck Norris has fought everything from Bruce Lee to Vietnam to Texas. But since most of Chuck’s current popularity is isolated within the realm of ironic college students, most of his supporters’ votes will be wasted writing in “Roundhouse Kick” or “Sanjaya Malakar.”

Hulk Hogan Supports: Barack Obama Oprah Rating: 84 percent Let me try to put Hulkamania into perspective. Despite everything I’ve read about lava, if Hulk Hogan told me to swim to the bottom of a volcano

to get his American flag, it would be in his hands. And I’d be fine. However, the problem with the Hulkster and Oprah talking about candidates is that any second now they’ll realize, “I’m one candidacy announcement away from being the next president.” Mark my words: these two will be running against each other in the 2012 election, the 2016 election, and every election until the 3004 Presidential Race and Lazercution Show.

Jerry Springer Supports: Hillary Clinton Oprah Rating: 11 percent While Oprah can use her TV show to force two-thirds of all American words uttered for the next six months to be “Barack Obama,” The Jerry Springer Show has traditionally been campaign suicide. For example, many political analysts have cited James K. Polk’s lack of a second term as a result of his appearance on The Jerry Springer Show, wherein he entered with his shirt over his head to show his wife what she’d be missing if she stayed with Lobster Midget, who responded in kind. As one onlooker put it, “Yeah, my comment is for the president. Go back to the mullet store and buy a not-mullet, President Suck!”

Yakov Smirnov Supports: Mitt Romney Oprah Rating: 0 percent Since no celebrities pledged their report to Mitt Romney before he quit – er, “suspended” – his campaign, I randomly selected one who would be so happy to get a phone call from a reporter verifying my made-up fact that they’d agree to anything. “What? No, I never said I supported any candidate… Wait, don’t hang up! I mean, yes, of course, I support Ritt Momney! In Soviet Russia, you wait three years to get washer-dryer machine! In America, washer-dryer machine… Hello? Hello?!” TW

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