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Politicians in Glass Houses Last week, NORA CAMPOS took City Council candidate MAGDALENA CARRASCO to task for accepting campaign money from a controversial L.A. lawyer named FRANCISCO LEAL. Campos’ brother, XAVIER CAMPOS, is facing off against Carrasco for Nora’s soon-to-be-vacant District 5 seat, and the outgoing East Side councilwoman publicly questioned Carrasco’s ethics. She also wondered aloud whether the $250 Leal contribution is evidence that Carrasco is selling her district out to Southern California interests. That charge, of course, would carry more weight had Campos herself not accepted some $19,700 from SoCal Indian gaming interests in her own run for JOE COTO’s District 23 state Assembly seat. Not that Fly has anything against playing the ponies occasionally, but collecting $6,400 from the Alpine, Calif.-based Viejas Tribal Government seems to Fly like more of a heavy hit than the $250 Carrasco donation that Campos is crowing Don’t about. Then there is the forget $750 Campos collected to tip! from BP’s North America Employee PAC FLY@ on May 21, smack dab METRONEWS. in the middle of the COM Deepwater Horizon oil spill fiasco. It gets better: Campos has also received some $7,500 from various check-cashing/ payday loan operations. One might think that the representative of the most economically hard-hit community in San Jose would be a bit more wary of taking cash from businesses that make their fortune charging poor people exorbitant interests so they can pay their rent on time. Fly won’t bother asking what promises Campos might have made that would lead the payday loan industry, BP petroleum or L.A. casino owners to contribute to her campaign (as she asked about
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“When I heard PACE got put on hold, I just thought, ‘I knew it,’” he says from the driver’s seat of his white Chevy Cheyenne utility truck en route to one of the few solar jobs he was able to land in the increasingly ruthless solar market. “When it takes off—if it takes off—I think it could quadruple my business and there would be enough to go around. But I’m not going to assume that’ll happen.” PACE is a general term used for a host of different alternative energy financing schemes that evolved from a program pioneered in Berkeley in 2008 and which are now being replicated in 22 states nationwide. Indeed the programs are so promising that the Obama administration has committed $150 million in stimulus money to
help them get off the ground. Under a PACE program, a homeowner who wants to buy green technology like solar panels but can’t qualify for a bank loan for the $15,000– $30,000 needed for a typical system can receive funding from a local municipality. The homeowner then pays back the money, with interest, over a 20-plus-year timeframe through property taxes. The plan, which attaches a tax lien on the property itself instead of loan debt on the individual, seemed the perfect way to get everyone— regardless of home equity or credit—on the path toward green energy use. In Santa Clara County, like the 13 other counties in California that were looking to participate, the program had been approved by local leaders and was just about to start accepting applications when word came down in July that the effort would be put on indefinite hold. In San Jose in particular, the suspension has thrown a wrench into the works of Mayor Chuck Reed’s much ballyhooed Green
Freddie contend, or assessments, as Brown and the various participating counties insist they are. “These programs involve assessments, not loans, and there are decades of law that define assessments,” says Liz Yager, program manager for the Sonoma County Energy Independence Program, the only program in California to keep running despite the threats from Fannie, Freddie and FHFA. “Every time someone calls it a ‘loan’ it’s misleading.”
Little Fish, Big Pond There is a love-hate relationship between green technology installers and local PACE programs. On one hand, the promise of government cash and tax rebates for buying expensive retrofits like solar panels has been key in bringing in business for workers like Bulterman—and PACE would no doubt have been the biggest draw yet. On the other hand, that same potential gravy train has also brought an influx of prospecting workers—some strictly solar-specialized, others from a host of trades like roofers, carpenters, electricians and general contractors—that have overcrowded the local green job market, and, as one installer says, made it “cutthroat beyond belief.” As word of PACE spread, installers and wholesalers fought the impression that it would be a “silver bullet” for customers who have been content to wait to go solar until the sweetest deal comes along. Still, despite the highly competitive industry, most installers agree that more incentives usually equal more business. “The suspension of PACE is a really big deal for me,” says Matthew Welch, owner of the San Jose–based solar and electric company, Earth Electric, and a part-time solar installation instructor at San Jose City College. “I just had a guy who was wanting to buy solar, but was completely contingent on PACE financing. Now he can’t get it. When I teach [at SJCC], I’ve professed how great PACE was going to be. I’m really bummed out. This thing was really supposed to take off.” Even in Sonoma County, where
the PACE program is still running, solar jobs are fewer and farther between than the myriad of workers on hand to do them. Yager says, however, that despite the rocky start, support for the plan remains strong and that Sonoma County is happy to stand up to big mortgage companies that are looking to ruin the party. “Our Board of Supervisors decided to keep the lights on and stand up for SCEIP,” she says. “There is a huge grassroots movement around this. We’re confident there will be a resolution.” In the meantime, Bulterman says he’ll keep competing with the 10 to 15 other solar installers that bid on the same jobs he does and that he’ll “take whatever work I can get.” Back in his truck, the electrician takes a phone call from a fellow installer he hires whenever he needs the extra help. “Hey, Robin. Yeah, things are slow. You know how it is,” he says. “If I manage to get some more work somehow, though, I’ll have some for you.” Turning toward me, he continues: “There you go. That’s one more guy that could be working if PACE went through.”
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the Leal-Carrasco contribution). Fly has noticed that the usually mediaevasive Campos has upped her visibility lately under the political guidance of the newbie political consulting team of ROLANDO BONILLA and RYAN FORD. And it might be creating enemies in Sac-town. It’s bad sign when the Assembly’s assistant majority leader, KEVIN DE LEÓN, makes it sound like she’s practically hiding in his bushes, threatening to take a bat to his friends’ kneecaps if they don’t agree to support bro Xavier. And all this before Nora has even officially clobbered weakling GOP candidate ATUL SAINI in the run-off. Fly’s betting de León is regretting that $100 his 2010 Assembly campaign donated to the candidate he now calls his “personal stalker.” Of course, that was all before his ex-wife starting messing with her little brother.
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Vision program—a 15-year citywide plan to boost green jobs and make the city more sustainable, which used PACE financing as a key element. “There’s no question a lot of people could have participated in the program. Just look at how fast the program filled up in Berkeley,” says Jessie Denver, San Jose’s community solar program coordinator. “We’re all just holding tight now, waiting to hear about new [funding] options.” The reason for the hang-up was that government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, along with their regulatory body, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, backed out of supporting the program over concerns that the tax liens would take precedence over the mortgage loans in the event of foreclosure. In short, that a homeowner who defaulted on a home loan would technically have to pay off his or her PACE lien before paying off his or her mortgage. Result: freaked-out lenders. The companies have since vowed not to grant any loans for properties that participate in PACE. “PACE loans are unlike routine tax assessments and pose unusual and difficult risk management challenges for lenders, servicers and mortgage securities investors,” reads a statement released July 6 by FHFA. “[These] programs present significant safety and soundness concerns that must be addressed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks.” Because Fannie and Freddie collectively own or guarantee roughly half of all U.S. mortgages, their participation was crucial to the programs’ success. Since the dustup, gubernatorial candidate and California Attorney General Jerry Brown has filed suit—as has Sonoma County—against the mortgage corporations and the FHFA, with Brown saying that “Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac received enormous federal bailouts, but now they’re throwing up impermeable barriers to bank lending that creates jobs, stimulates the economy and boosts clean energy.” The heart of the legal argument that now awaits lies in whether the PACE tax liens are legally considered loans, as Fannie and
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In Defense of Google THE SELF-APPOINTED Consumer Watchdog activist group is running a Times Square jumbotron advertisement lambasting Google as a massive invader of your privacy, caricaturing its CEO Eric Schmidt as a creepy, hightech ice cream vendor who profiles children.
No, you haven’t. Google doesn’t do that. Every search ad and every ad in Gmail or Google Images is essentially blind to who you are and is keyed off only the search term you just entered or the email you just opened. That’s because Google’s ad tracking system and your Google account system are separated by design.
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The video is just the latest from Consumer Watchdog, a foundation-funded group that is partial to splashy campaigns. The group has hired former reporter John Simpson to be a “hell raiser” focused on Google, and he’s been remarkably good at it, even when the facts aren’t on his side. While there are plenty of reasons to keep a critical eye focused on the search and advertising giant, Consumer Watchdog’s ad is a dishonest, factually inaccurate joke that shamefully got plenty of uncritical media attention, including from my colleague David Kravets at Wired.com. In the simplest terms possible, Consumer Watchdog is just wrong. In the ad, Eric Schmidt is seen telling a kid that he knows that his daddy watches “sports” at work (meaning porn), and takes weird high-tech snapshots of the kids as their “payment” for free ice cream, using “Google Analytics,” a traffic measurement tool used by millions of websites, including Wired.com, and as Business Insider points out, by Consumer Watchdog as well. But here’s a question for you Google and Gmail users. Have you ever actually seen ads on third-party websites or Google’s own sites that are derived from assumptions Google has
How about so-called retargeting ads, where companies like Zappos trail you around the net with ads for products you looked at on their site but never bought? Does Google do that with searches you’ve made on products? No, it doesn’t, even though that would be easy and highly profitable for them. In terms of building profiles of users, Google is remarkably and admirably restrained in how it uses the insane amount of data it collects. —RYAN SINGEL, WIRED.COM/EPICENTER
BbeS It is very easy to attack the big guy. It makes for a great headline. soulcatcher Consumer Watchdog is using Google Analytics to track users on its page castigating Google for tracking users. Hypocrites. zato3 “Foundation-funded”? You mean Microsoft-funded Microsoft is the only “actor” in the “screw Google” campaign that would go as far as the sick, creepy video above does.
‘Duke Nukem Forever’ Revealed A bizarre but telling confluence of events has lead to the conclusion that 2k Games (subsidiary of TakeTwo Interactive, the company that famously sued the creators of Duke Nukem, 3D Realms, for not making Duke Nukem Forever) will be showing Duke Nukem Forever in some capacity today at the Penny Arcade Expo.
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Yahoo Gets More Local As you type into a search box on Yahoo or Google, a list of suggested keywords pops down below to
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help you complete your search faster. Today, Yahoo turned on a local component to its keyword autocomplete feature. The search assist now serves up different keywords based on your location. So if you type in “Santa” in Northern California, “santa clara county” might be the first suggestion, but if you type it in Southern California, “santa barbara” might be first. Location is often a very relevant way to filter search, so this makes Yahoo’s search assist smarter. But, as with many things Yahoo, it is lagging behind Google with this feature. Google’s search assist also factors in your location. And, from what I can tell, it does it better. — ERICK SCHONFELD. TECHCRUNCH.COM
Chandler Bing Wow So Google is better than Yahoo? That’s something I didn’t know! Thanks for the news. By the way, have you tried out the new website that connects people? Its called Facebook, I guess. You should give it a try. queazy People are so lazy that they can not type out the full word? Chandler Bing In fact, they are. At least, I am.
mirz Well, actually, I live in Orange County in the city right next to Santa Ana. I entered “Santa” on both search engines and received “Santa Cruz” (NorCal) so yeah . . . d05register Although most say Google is the top search engine, I find it harder and harder to find what I am looking for, especially when I search for phrases of four to five words. I think a contemporary search engine without classification (what Clusty did) is pretty much useless today. When I search for “LCD monitor” for example I want to immediately separate shops that sell consumer electronics from university or other pages that contain research or info about LCD displays. This is a very elementary example but I think you got the point.
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companies in Silicon Valley. The CFO told me they like the location and would really like to stay, but they understand they do not own the property. They like the location so much they offered to buy the building—and an additional vacant building, even though they did not need it to sweeten the pot. So they put in an offer for the market price for R&D office space and a housing developer put in a bid as well, based on building houses. We know that housing trumps jobs for the cost of land. So the private property owner chose the higher bid. The CFO understands they will have to move, so I asked what about Edenvale or north San Jose? He responded that San Jose is not on the short list, as they have looked at properties in other cities based on where executive management lives. Understanding that the rezoning was done four years ago, I could not vote for housing knowing the city of San Jose would lose a corporate headquarters and 170 really wellpaid jobs. As a result, I voted “no,” as I did not want to associate myself with forcing a technology company to move out of San Jose. My colleague Councilmember Kalra also voted ‘no,’ citing concerns from the dais about the development being too close to the creek. Final vote was 8-2 in favor of housing. —Pierluigi Oliverio
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Shadows of Doubt John D. Murphy is the author of the book ‘Jury Rigging in the Court of Public Opinion’ on the Holmes and Thurmond lynching. He also wrote and produced the 2007 movie ‘Valley of the Heart’s Delight,’ which will be shown at the Camera 3 Cinema Sept. 17–24. Murphy will be available following the Thursday night screening for a discussion.
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This blistering scorn permitted up to 15,000 men, women and children to jam a city park, cheer an assault on the county jail across the street, witness and then celebrate two lynchings. The exploitation of honest public feeling, and the surly contempt for the rule of law that gave rise to these lynchings, endures to this day— perpetuated by a materially flawed depiction of the guilt of the lynch victims who were never indicted or arraigned, much less tried for the crimes of which they were accused. Incessantly, since the discovery, that crisp fall morning, of a terribly decomposed body in the San Francisco Bay determined to be the kidnap victim, radio stations had broadcast inflammatory bulletins about the lynching. A Los Angeles radio announcer featured the lynching as a “live event.” A San Jose movie theater projectionist placed a slide on the screen that announced that the lynching was about to start, and the patrons surged toward the exits. Asked if he would order the National Guard to stop the lynching,
Gov. James “Sunny Jim” Rolph retorted that he would pardon the lynchers. Two hours prior to the lynching, he canceled a trip to the western governors conference in Boise, Idaho, to prevent his chief political rival, the lieutenant governor, from using the National Guard because he had left the state. Rolph was connected both personally and politically to San Jose through former state Sen. Louis Oneal. Fellow Republican Oneal, literally Rolph’s next door neighbor in the mountains on the west side of Santa Clara Valley, was the powerful overlord of the dominant county political machine. During the assault on the county jail and the lynching, Oneal maintained an open phone line from his ranch to the jail in downtown San Jose; with him was Raymond Cato, appointed by Rolph as the chief of the California Highway Patrol. Three years previously, Oneal had handpicked San Jose Police Capt. William J. Emig to run for Santa Clara County sheriff, and got him elected. Oneal had joined the sheriff and FBI agents in the interrogation of suspect Thomas Harold Thurmond. Ordinarily the sheriff would have
provided Thurmond’s confession to the press, but it was released through Louis Oneal’s law office.
Swift Justice Three generations after the lynchings, former San Jose Mercury reporter and columnist Harry Farrell wrote the insider account of the event: Swift Justice: Murder and Vengeance in a California Town. In his introduction to Swift Justice, Farrell candidly acknowledged his bias toward the history with which he grew up: “I have used conventional wisdom about the case based on facts publicly aired . . . taking at face value the Thurmond and Holmes confessions.” In acknowledgment of his hometown prejudice, Farrell paid homage to the dramatically compelling, yet factually tenuous, tapestry of guilt woven by law enforcement, community leaders, the governor of California, the citizenry and the press in November 1933 that created the foundation for the lynchings: “Nowhere—neither street talk
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nor news reporting, nor official action—was the legal presumption of innocence even accorded lip service. The confessions of the prisoners were taken at face value; prospective efforts to repudiate them were dismissed out of hand.” “In the court of public opinion, Jack Holmes and Thomas [Harold] Thurmond already stood convicted with no chance of appeal.” Farrell had tried to attain the “literal truth” when he wrote Swift Justice, but freely admitted that his representation of facts ventured well outside commonly observed journalistic standards and practices: “Where direct quotations are invented, their purpose was to enhance the truth. [W]hen sources are in conflict, obvious error, or incomplete, I have had to make educated guesses. “Certain matters appearing in quotation marks do not meet the same standards of exactness . . . in a . . . contemporary news story. I freely acknowledge taking liberties . . . to produce a narrative in human terms.” The acceptance of facts as “publicly aired” permitted Farrell to conform the available written record— newspaper stories, the FBI file on the
kidnapping of Brooke L. Hart and personal interviews—with the time, place and action scenario detailed in the suspects’ confessions. It also freed him from the objective analysis of facts that didn’t conform to what most people believed at the time of the lynching and allowed him to conclude: “The preponderance of the evidence supports the long accepted version of the events.” Farrell acknowledged that he “had to deal with . . . inconsistencies which . . . cast a passing shadow” on his account of this historical event, but spent little time in the shadow. He accorded only superficial attention to the most obvious inconsistencies in the law enforcement version of the crime and the guilt of the two suspects, and failed to critically examine the most basic, yet glaring contradictions in the confessions.
Guilty Enough Despite its seductive and compelling narrative force, one disquieting element among stark others in Swift Justice is the creation of a heretofore diabolically concealed criminal personality for Jack Holmes. Holmes, husband and father of
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Hart, Sr., composing it as he went along. It was the one which began “YOUR SON IS O.K. AND TREATED WELL. . . .” When finished, Holmes handed the card to Thurmond, who put it in his pocket along with Brooke Hart’s wallet.” At the time this conversation had supposedly taken place, three witnesses stated Jack Holmes had been with them. The FBI analysis of ransom note handwriting released fifty years later determined that, although Thurmond and Holmes had both confessed that Holmes wrote all three ransom notes and letters, all had been written by Thurmond. Persons unfamiliar with the factual inconsistencies in the confessions, the declarations of alibi witnesses, and the defiance of the laws of time and space that had to be manifested by Jack Holmes readily believe the “long accepted” and emotionally compelling version of the kidnapping and murder history memorialized in Swift Justice. Swift Justice is an eye-opening case study of how the highly charged apologetics of Thurmond’s and Holmes’ guilt was still being exercised 60 years after their lynching. Thurmond’s partnership with Holmes in the commission of a high profile, high stakes crime, in their own cars (Thurmond had to borrow the family car), on the streets of the city in which they had spent their entire lives, is so outlandish that it served, in 1933, and serves today, as the very reason for its credibility. It is simply so unbelievable that people believe it. Its logical ungainliness was engineered by law enforcement in 1933 (echoed in Swift Justice) as evidence that only two culprits as sinisterly clever as Holmes and as moronic as Thurmond could have committed a kidnap and murder in such a bewildering and appalling manner. In reality, its outlandishness is due to the case—both chronicled and imagined in Swift Justice—being jury rigged to convict the suspects in the court of public opinion.
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two young children, became, in the pages of Swift Justice some 60 years after his hot-blooded murder at the hands of a mob, suddenly possessed of a sinister criminal mind. To establish this pathology, Swift Justice relied on factually questionable, oblique and remote (in time), plainly superficial, idiosyncratic personal gossip that was not, and cannot be, corroborated.
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emotional maturity, the FBI prompted members of the Hart family who had received the ransom calls to identify, by telephonic voice recognition, the dim-witted high school dropout as the man with “a soft, unhurried, well-modulated voice,” who made repeated ransom calls over six days. To exercise such a pivotal role in the kidnapping, Thurmond would have had to express himself in a coherent and, for him, unnaturally confident manner. Confronted on the ransom calls by the skeptical and highly intelligent father of the kidnap victim, Alex Hart, Thurmond would have had to think on his feet. Given the uniform characterization of Thurmond’s mental acuity, it is doubtful that he had ever thought much on his feet, or in any other way. Absent acknowledgment of its blatantly contradictory nature, Swift Justice relied upon the same pathologies asserted as the criminal bona fides of Holmes and Thurmond to also justify and explain why the kidnapping was, by even the most egregious examples of bone-headed criminal behavior, incoherently designed and implemented. Their “bumbling execution of the atrocity . . . verged on the comic.” It was “comic” because the sheriff and the FBI had implanted the time, space and circumstance of the suspects’ confessions into a Procrustean bed of guilt. Swift Justice created, as the foundation for Holmes’ gross criminal ineptitude, contradictorily enough, an imaginary criminal mind: “To Jack Holmes, a flawless felony was something he admired . . . ; a botched crime was an affront. Holmes convinced himself he was smarter than those who had been caught.” Holmes was the criminal mastermind who, when on a bridge only 18 miles from San Francisco where he planned to have the first ransom call made, drove over 40 miles back to San Jose before he ordered Thurmond to drive some 60 miles to San Francisco, make the ransom calls, throw the wallet into the bay and drive 60 miles back. Thurmond had to borrow his father’s car to do it. Holmes, the criminal genius, made or ordered Thurmond to make
ransom calls from pay phones within one-half mile of each other on consecutive nights in downtown San Jose during one of the most intensive law enforcement manhunts in California history. Each time a ransom call was attempted, it had to go through a local operator. The Harts’ phone number had to be identified, and then there was a wait to be connected. Even this wasn’t sufficient to establish the kidnappers’ awe-inspiring lunacy; Thurmond was arrested on a telephone 150 feet from the San Jose Police headquarters. There was more prodigious idiocy that literally rode around; Jack Holmes used his own car with his California license plates to carry out the entire crime.
Mob Motive San Jose in the 1930s had a population of nearly 60,000 people, yet boasted 19,000 single-family homes, and only 400 apartments. Its remarkable middle-class wealth derived primarily from being the largest fruit and vegetable canning center in the nation. San Jose was middle class with a vengeance that manifested itself in a manner—the lynching—still unrivaled by any other middle-class community in the United States. “San Joseans jealously cherished the symbols they perceived as confirmation of their culture: their twenty-one schools; their fortysix churches; the ivied tower and arcaded quadrangle of the teachers’ college [today, San Jose State University], and the Spanish-tiled buildings of the nearby University of Santa Clara.” The beauty, safety, and relative economic security at the height of the Great Depression was something San Jose residents deeply valued and jealously guarded, and given their reaction to the kidnapping and murder of one of their own, something they defended and protected even at the cost of human life. While today’s society is greatly inured to the graphic depiction of
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VERIFICATION OF THE EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS The FBI Brooke Hart kidnapping file contains a facsimile of a telegram sent to J. Edgar Hoover on the night of Nov. 13, 1933, after the eyewitness verifications: “Developments today indicate hart kidnapped by five men driving a large black sedan bearing California license.” In comparison to the long-hooded “large sedan” identified in the eyewitness accounts, Jack Holmes drove a black 1933 twodoor Chevrolet coach. It was not until 50 years later, when the Brooke L. Hart kidnapping file was made public under the Freedom of Information Act, that this incendiary contradiction finally became public.
BROOKE HART’S WALLET Thurmond confessed that after the 10:30 ransom call to the Hart family, he had walked down Market Street in San Francisco from the Witcomb Hotel to the Embarcadero, then south to Pier 32 where he had tossed Brooke Hart’s wallet into the bay. Whether Thurmond’s confession is taken at face value (as in Swift Justice), or assessed by objective fact, he could not have thrown Brooke Hart’s wallet into the bay. Thurmond confessed that he had tossed the wallet between 10:30 and 11pm on the night of the kidnapping. At the time he tossed the wallet off Pier 32, the oil tanker guardrail where it was found was still under water.
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THURMOND IDENTIFIES BROOKE HART Thurmond and Holmes would have both recognized Brooke Hart, particularly since he drove only one of only two 1933 Studebaker President roadsters in San Jose. Jack Holmes’s father had custom tailored for L. Hart & Son for many years.
HOLMES WIPES OFF FINGERPRINTS For Jack Holmes to confess that he had wiped off fingerprints in the Studebaker (no prints of Thurmond or Holmes were found in Hart’s car), and at the same time to confess to the use of his Chevrolet with his license plates to execute the kidnapping, drive to San Mateo Bridge, park it while Hart was killed, use it to make ransom calls from different pay phones in downtown San Jose, and park it in the same garage where Thurmond made the ransom call that resulted in his arrest, defies both credulity and the argument in Swift Justice about Jack Holmes’s criminal expertise. The police searched Holmes’ car, but did not find the gun or Brooke Hart’s fingerprints.
HOLMES HITS HART ON HEAD Thurmond confessed that Holmes bashed Brooke Hart on the head twice with a 22-pound concrete block, while Holmes stated that he hit him with his fist.
MURDER METHOD Holmes confessed that Thurmond tied concrete blocks to Hart’s feet before they threw him into the bay off the San Mateo Bridge, while Thurmond confessed that he only bound him hand and foot with clothesline wire.
UNQUALIFIED MASTERMIND Although Swift Justice portrayed Jack Holmes as the mastermind and Harold Thurmond as his foil, eyewitnesses for the purchase of the concrete blocks and a gun weeks before the crime imply that Thurmond was the “mastermind” of the Brooke Hart kidnapping.
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“Taken from a car on the San Mateo Bridge in the middle of the freezing San Francisco Bay at night, Brooke Hart was bashed on the skull twice with a twenty-two pound concrete block. He was then bound hand and foot with clothesline wire, had two of the concrete blocks tied to his feet, and was tossed off the bridge into the bay. One of the kidnappers climbed under the bridge to fire a volley of shots where he disappeared into the water.” These images ignited the rage that resulted in the lynching of the two local men who had confessed to such atrocious acts. The other volatile element stoking the anger of these otherwise decent citizens was the outsider press. At the time, San Jose was only of marginal interest to the many aggressive San Francisco newspapers, but once it was learned that the scion of a wealthy San Jose family had been kidnapped, ruthlessly competitive reporters swarmed the city. They slavered for any details, factual and mendacious, lurid and antiseptic, that would bear their bylines
Because of the sheer horror of the acts to which both Thurmond and Holmes had confessed, discrepancies in the confessions were both ignored or dismissed out-of-hand. The public revulsion over the dispassionate admission, by two brazen opportunists out for a quick buck, about the brutal execution of an innocent young man established the foundation of fact that resulted—with the complicity of the powers-that-be and the press—in the lynching of Thurmond and Holmes. In San Jose in 1933, as well as the rest of the nation, people were largely unaccustomed to, and unfamiliar with, the graphic, stomach-turning depictions of human violence that have dominated both the news and entertainment media over the last 40 years. In 1933, such violent humanon-human imagery shocked people deeply, and the emotional response, unlike in the modern day, was not desensitized or hardened: “Grief hung like a pall over Hart’s Department Store. Of the two hundred employees, their movements were automatic, their speech subdued, their throats tight from holding back emotion. Many wept openly, and were not ashamed.” The citizens of San Jose read and gossiped about two greedy hometown miscreants who stupidly kidnapped, on a street where most people would know them, the highprofile son of a respected family. Barely 1 1/2 hours later, his skull was bashed twice with a 22-pound concrete block. He was then bound hand and foot, and tossed into the San Francisco Bay. When it appeared that he was still alive, one shot at him repeatedly from under the bridge. The horror and enormity of such
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unharmed to his family. Further outrage arose from reports that Thurmond had been seen next to his mother at church on the Sunday between the kidnapping, murder and his arrest. Following the arrests, daily press accounts relentlessly stoked San Jose’s rage. Many people truly believed that Holmes and Thurmond were the “Human Devils,” described in an editorial published in the San Jose News. As evidenced by the leadership role soon to be taken by the then governor of California, it was a foregone conclusion that the men were guilty, and destined to pay the ultimate price for their crimes. Such extraordinary violence, brutal callousness and craven greed obviated the need for a trial; no jury in the world would fail to convict two such men and recommend the death sentence. Unfortunately for Thurmond and Holmes, the confessions that convicted them in the court of public opinion were factually wrong, grossly misinterpreted and cynically devised.
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“San Jose was a profoundly middleclass town,” Murphy says. “There were 35,000 homeowners in a city of 40,000 residents. It was a prosperous scene. Then, the bubble popped.” It seems that everyone in San Jose knew Brooke Hart, whose family owned Hart’s Department Store, where everyone in town shopped. When the handsome young man was kidnapped, it was the most disturbing thing that had ever happened, and it became a huge news story. When Hart’s body was discovered in San Francisco Bay a few weeks later, and two men were arrested soon after, the town exploded. Murphy, a former professor at San Jose State University who went on to help found the University of Phoenix, says the extremely violent nature of the crimes frightened and enraged the citizenry. “The descriptions of the murder of this guy, the utter cold-blooded callousness—we’re used to the graphic depiction of violence, but back then, imaginations just went crazy.” The popular rage was fueled by public officials who, in Murphy’s
estimation, co-opted the murder for their own uses. “When you have everyone convinced of their guilt—the sheriff, the head of the police department, the county supervisors, the mayor, all the business and civic leaders, the governor of the state—it’s like, ‘Here’s a free pass, go do whatever you want to do.’ And that’s what happened.” Murphy says he first heard the story of the lynching when he was a college student, from a friend with whom he was painting houses in Santa Clara. The friend’s grandfather had been part of the crowd of 15,000 or more who witnessed and/or participated in the mob killing, but would not speak of the incident. Murphy then read Swift Justice, the book about the lynching written by the longtime Mercury News editor and columnist Harry Farrell, a journalistic inquiry that the Hart family—major Merc advertisers—had forced the newspaper to suppress for 30 years. Murphy was surprised to read that Farrell had not analyzed the event to determine whether the lynching victims had in fact murdered Hart, but simply took officials at their word. So Murphy began a decades-long project that began with his reading reams of FBI files, and ended with the production of a Hollywood movie, Valley of the Heart’s Delight, a fictionalized version of the lynching released in 2007. The film was followed by the publication of the book excerpted here. Murphy says he was inspired by a belief that John Holmes and Thomas Thurmond, the men hung for the murder of Brooke Hart, probably didn’t commit the crime. This conclusion is based on evidence Murphy gleaned from the FBI files.
25 “It was like one of these primordial things got loosed,” Murphy says. “It’s just emblematic of that psychology of those in power who want to appear strong and decisive, and they light the fire and it gets going beyond anything that they’d imagined. And we’re stuck with it.” “I’ve been an educator my whole life and I think this is something that has applicability as a prism to look through at a lot of things that we continue to do in our society. We love the idea of ‘curbside justice.’ Well, this was curbside justice.”
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“John Holmes confessed that he was at a parts store at five in the evening, an hour before the kidnapping; he was in fact in south San Jose at a friend’s home, she testified to that, between five and six. He couldn’t have done it. “[Thurmond], who was brain damaged, claimed he had to borrow his father’s car to do all this stuff—to take [Hart’s] wallet to San Francisco, to drive to Sacramento. I don’t think so. And no one ever asked the parents if he had the car. The FBI didn’t ask them and the sheriff didn’t ask them.” As soon as the men were arrested, Murphy says, a media frenzy ensued, fueling the inevitable end. “The word went out instantly. The San Francisco papers sent every reporter and every photographer they had to San Jose. The lynching was going to happen. It was on the radio. It just spread like wildfire. There were something like 5,000 cars blocking the streets around St. James Park.” Thirty years after learning of the 1933 melee, Murphy still appears horrified when describing it. The crowd battered in the doors of the jail while police looked on and did nothing. They dragged Holmes and Thurmond out into the street, beating Holmes unconscious. The crowd then strung the men up, stripped them, and tried to light their bodies on fire.
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BELLA LUNA BELLA LUNA RISTORANTE RISTORANTE IITALIANO TALIANO IItalian. talian. $ $$$. $$. SSunny unny
Tuscan Tuscan hues hues saturate saturate the the interior, interior, and and the the dishes dishes of of this Palo Alto this ddowntown owntown P alo A lto restaurant restaurant create create a delicious delicious illusion illusion of of dining dining in in Italy Italy on on food food prepared prepared by by Italian Italian chefs. chefs. Beer Beer and and wine wine served. served. 11am-3pm, 11am-3pm, 5-10pm 5-10pm Mon-Sun, Mon-Sun, 5-11pm 5-11pm Fri-Sat. Fri-Sat. 233 233 University University Ave. Ave. 650.322.1846. 650.322.1846.
BISTRO B ISTRO EELAN LAN California California $$$. FFrench. rench. $ $$. TThe he oonly nly with menu pproblem roblem w ith tthe he m enu iiss tthat hat iit’s t’s all all tempting. tempting. Using Using sseasonal easonal pproduce, roduce, tthe he cchef hef flavors aallows llows fl avors ttoo sspeak peak ffor or Wine, tthemselves. hemselves. W ine, bbeer. eer. 111:30am-1:30pm 1:30am-1:30pm TTue-Fri. ue-Fri. 55:30:309:30 9 :30 TTue-Sat. ue-Sat. 4448 48 CCalifornia alifornia Ave. 650.327.0284. A ve. 6 50.327.0284.
BISTRO B ISTRO M MAXINE AXINE Cafe. Cafe. $$. $$. Bistro Bistro Maxine Maxine is is a bright, bright, friendly friendly little little spot, spot, a coffee coffee shop shop and and creperie creperie rolled rolled into into one. one. If If you’re you’re lucky, lucky, you’ll you’ll snag snag one one of of the the five five indoor indoor or or two two outdoor outdoor tables tables while while perusing perusing the the long long but but straightforward straightforward menu. menu. 8am-2pm 8am-2pm 6-10pm 6-10pm Tue-Fri, Tue-Fri, 9am-4pm 9am-4pm Sun. Sun. 548 548 Ramona Ramona St. St. 650.323.1815. 650.323.1815. BUCA B UCA D DII BEPPO BEPPO N Nondesigner ondesigner Italian-American. Italian-American. $$. $$. Like Like a Sicilian Sicilian Christmas Christmas carnival carnival in in the the ’50s, ’50s, this this party party spot spot blends blends clutter, clutter, joy, joy, high high spirits spirits and, and, oh oh yes, yes, huge huge portions. portions. 11am-10pm 11am-10pm Sun-Thu, Sun-Thu, 11am-11pm 11am-11pm Fri-Sat. Fri-Sat. 643 643 Emerson Emerson St. St. 650.329.0665. 650.329.0665. CCAFE AFE BRIOCHE BRIOCHE SSouthern outhern French. French. $$. $$. Mediterranean Mediterranean magic: magic: eexceptional xceptional ccuisine uisine oonn oversize whisked oversize plates plates iiss w hisked ttoo tables tables aass ssoon oon aass iit’s t’s created. created. Breakfast 9-11pm, Breakfast 9 -11pm, Lunch Lunch 11am11am3pm, 3pm, Dinner Dinner 5:30-9:30 5:30-9:30 MonMonFri, Fri, Brunch Brunch 9am-3pm 9am-3pm Dinner Dinner 5:30-10pm 5:30-10pm Sat-Sun. Sat-Sun. 445 445 California Ave. 650.326.8640. California A ve. 6 50.326.8640.
CCAFE AFE R RIACE IACE TTrattoria. rattoria. $ $$. $. A An n absolute absolute joy. joy. Every Every dish dish is is made made with with honest honest expertise— expertise— no no tricky tricky trendiness trendiness here. here. The The homey homey offerings offerings are are based based on on wholesome wholesome Italian Italian staples. staples. Beer, Beer, wine. wine. 11:30am11:30am2:30pm 2:30pm Mon-Fri, Mon-Fri, 5-10pm 5-10pm Mon-Sun. Mon-Sun. 200 200 Sheridan Sheridan Ave. Ave. 650.328.0407. 650.328.0407. CALAFIA CCAFE CALAFIA AFE A AND ND M MARKET ARKET A GGO-GO O-GO EEclectic. clectic. $$. $$. Calafia Calafia Cafe Cafe and and Market Market A Go-Go Go-Go combines combines elements elements of of the the fast-food fast-food world world and and the the laborlaborintensive intensive slow slow cooking cooking of of more-high-end more-high-end restaurants. restaurants. Chef Chef and and owner owner Charlie Charlie Ayers Ayers (who first (who was was Google’s Google’s fi rst cchef) hef) calls calls his his concept concept “slow “slow food food fast”—good-to-eat fast”—good-to-eat and and goodgoodfor-you for-you food food that that he he hopes hopes will will appeal appeal to to Silicon Silicon Valley’s Valley’s frenetic, frenetic, too-busy-to-eat too-busy-to-eat pace pace of of life. life. Look Look for for good good burgers, burgers, pizza, pizza, salads, salads, and and fresh fresh fish. fish. 11am-9pm 11am-9pm weekdays; weekdays; 9am9am9pm 9pm Sat-Sun. Sat-Sun. 858 858 El El Camino Camino Real. Real. 650.322.9200. 650.322.9200.
CCOUPA OUPA CCAFE AFE VVenezuelan. enezuelan. $$. Venezuela $ $. V enezuela iiss bbest est kknown nown ffor or iits ts ooilil pproduction roduction aand nd rresilient esilient ppopulist opulist ppresident; resident; CCoupa oupa sshines hines aattention ttention oon n tthe he ccountry’s ountry’s ppremium remium ccoffee offee aand nd cchocolate. hocolate. TThe he bbeautiful eautiful sstorefront torefront aalso lso sserves erves eexcellent xcellent white aarepas, repas, w hite ccorn orn ggriddle riddle with ccakes akes sstuffed tuffed w ith vvarious arious fillings. fi llings. 77am-11pm am-11pm ddaily. aily. 5538 38 Ramona 650.322.6872. R amona SSt.t. 6 50.322.6872.
EEMPIRE MPIRE GRILL GRILL & T TAP AP ROOM ROOM $$. Waiters CCalifornia alifornia ggrill. rill. $ $. W aiters with w ith ccharm harm ttoo sspare, pare, aan n menu eenergetic nergetic cclientele lientele aand nd a m enu with ppacked acked w ith ggrilled, rilled, rroasted oasted make aand nd ssmoked moked iintensity ntensity m ake Grill much more EEmpire mpire G rill m uch m ore tthan han ssimply imply a ssmart mart pplace lace ttoo ssip ip a ccosmopolitan. osmopolitan. FFull ull bbar. ar. TTue-Sun ue-Sun 651 111:30am-10pm. 1:30am-10pm. 6 51 EEmerson merson SSt.t. 650.321.3030. 6 50.321.3030.
EEVVIA VVIA CContemporary ontemporary Aegean. Aegean. $$$. $$$. Forward Forward flavors flavors and and plenty plenty of of llaughter—that’s aughter—that’s Dionysian Dionysian
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dining. dining. Evvia Evvia feels feels like like a little little taverna taverna on on Paros, Paros, only only with with an an unmistakable unmistakable Bay Bay Area Area sophistication. sophistication. Full Full bar. bar. 420 420 Emerson Emerson St. St. 650.326.0983. 650.326.0983.
FFUKI UKI SSUSHI USHI JJapanese. apanese. $$$. $$$. FFor or oover ver ttwo wo ddecades ecades tthis his ssuperb uperb JJapanese apanese rrestaurant estaurant hhas as Nobel sserved erved ssushi ushi ttoo N obel llaureates aureates aand nd oother ther ggrateful rateful ffoodies. oodies. Open O pen ddaily. aily. 44119 119 EEll CCamino amino Real. R eal. 111:30am-10pm 1:30am-10pm TTue-Sun. ue-Sun. 650.494.9383. www.fukisushi. 6 50.494.9383. w ww.fukisushi. ccom. om.
GGREEN REEN EELEPHANT LEPHANT GGOURMET OURMET $$. $$. Burmese. Burmese. Burmese Burmese food food draws draws influences influences from from its its three three largest largest neighbors: neighbors: China, China, India India and and Thailand. Thailand. Standouts Standouts here here include include the the coconut coconut chicken chicken soup, soup, tangy tangy tea tea leaf leaf salad salad and and refreshing refreshing glass glass noodle noodle salad. salad. Lunch Lunch 11am11am2:30pm, 2:30pm, dinner dinner 4:30-9pm 4:30-9pm daily. daily. 3950 3950 Middlefield Middlefield Rd Rd (Charleston (Charleston Shopping Shopping Center). Center). 650.494.7391. 650.494.7391.
JJUNNOON UNNOON Contemporary Contemporary $$$. Palo IIndian. ndian. $ $$. TThis his aattractive ttractive P alo Alto A lto restaurant restaurant serves serves eclectic eclectic modern m odern IIndian ndian ffood, ood, tthe he kkind ind might yyou ou m ight gget et aatt aan n uupscale pscale Bangalore rrestaurant estaurant iin nB angalore oorr Mumbai. make M umbai. YYou ou ccould ould eeasily asily m ake meal am eal ffrom rom tthe he ggreat reat sselection election ooff aappetizers. ppetizers. 111:30am-2:30pm 1:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, aand nd 55:30-10pm :30-10pm M on-Fri, 55:30:30University 110:30pm 0:30pm SSat. at. 1150 50 U niversity Ave. 650.329.9644. A ve. 6 50.329.9644.
KAN K AN ZZEMAN EMAN Middle Middle Eastern/ Eastern/ Mediterranean. $$. M editerranean. $ $. A llively ively Greek bblend lend ooff LLebanese, ebanese, G reek aand nd TTurkish urkish ccuisine uisine ffuels uels tthis his ffestive estive ssocial ocial sspot. pot. A ssampler ampler pplate late ooffers ffers ggarlicky arlicky hhummus, ummus, eearthy arthy ffalafel, alafel, ddolmas olmas ddrenched renched minty iin n llemon, emon, a m inty ttabouli abouli marinated ssalad alad aand nd ssplendid plendid m arinated Monttomatoes. omatoes. 111am-9pm 1am-9pm M on-
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LLA AB BODEGUITA ODEGUITA DEL DEL MEDIO MEDIO Cuban/California. Cuban/California. $$$. $$$. Themed Themed after after a vintage vintage Havana Havana haunt haunt of of Ernest Ernest Hemingway’s, Hemingway’s, this this zesty zesty restaurant restaurant serves serves lively lively Cuban Cuban influenced influenced cuisine cuisine along along with with liquid liquid staples staples like like rum rum and and mojitos mojitos in in a handsome, handsome, casual casual atmosphere. atmosphere. Full Full bar. bar. 11:30am11:30am2pm, 2pm, Mon-Thu Mon-Thu 5:30-9:30pm, 5:30-9:30pm, 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri-Sat. Fri-Sat. 463 463 S.California S.California Ave. Ave. 650.326.7762. 650.326.7762.
LLAVANDA AVANDA MEDITERRANEAN MEDITERRANEAN Grill $$$. G rill $ $$. TThis his uurban rban ggrill rill aatt University Avenue tthe he ttop op ooff U niversity A venue ooffers ffers eeclectic clectic ssmall mall ttasting asting with pplates, lates, aalong long w ith hheartier eartier ffare are with ssuch uch aass rroasted oasted ssea ea bbass ass w ith mushrooms cchanterelle hanterelle m ushrooms aand nd with gguinea uinea ffowl owl w ith ssautéed autéed cchard. hard. Mon-Sun, 111:30am-2:30pm 1:30am-2:30pm M on-Sun, 55-Mon-Thu, 110pm 0pm M on-Thu, 55-11pm -11pm FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, University 55-9pm -9pm SSun. un. 1185 85 U niversity ((at at 650.321.3514. EEmerson). merson). 6 50.321.3514.
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REPOSADO R EPOSADO M Mexican. exican. $ $$$. $$. Reposado Reposado offers offers modern, modern, refined refined Mexican Mexican food food served served in in a lively lively setting. setting. The The restaurant restaurant is is easily easily one one of of Palo Palo Alto’s Alto’s most most striking. striking. The The soaring, soaring, exposed exposed beam beam ceilings ceilings make make the the dining dining room room feel feel at at once once industrial industrial and and inviting inviting because because of of the the warm warm colors, colors, wood wood accents accents and and dramatic dramatic light light fixtures. fixtures. There’s There’s a beautiful beautiful bar bar and and cozy cozy booth booth seating seating on on one one side side and and spacious spacious table table and and banquette banquette seating seating on on the the other. other. Great Great selection selection of of tequila. tequila. 11:30am11:30am10pm 10pm Mon-Thu, Mon-Thu, 11:30am-11pm 11:30am-11pm Fri-Sat Fri-Sat and and 11:30am-9pm 11:30am-9pm Sun. Hamilton Sun. 2236 36 H amilton Ave. Ave. 650.833.3151. 650.833.3151. RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT SSOLEIL OLEIL
$$$. Mantra aand nd IIndian. ndian. $ $$. M antra sserves erves iinventive nventive FFrench rench aand nd American A merican ffood ood tthat hat sspeaks peaks with w ith an an Indian Indian accent. accent. It It isn’t isn’t more ffusion, usion, bbut ut a m ore ssubtle ubtle bblend lend ooff ssurprisingly urprisingly ccompatible ompatible flavors fl avors aand nd ttechniques. echniques. LLunch unch 111:30am-2:30pm 1:30am-2:30pm TTue-Fri, ue-Fri, ddinner inner 55-10pm -10pm SSun-Thu un-Thu aand nd 632-636 55:30-10:30pm :30-10:30pm FFri-Sat. ri-Sat. 6 32-636 650.322.3500. EEmerson merson SSt.t. 6 50.322.3500.
New New American. American. $$$$. $$$$. A mouthwatering mouthwatering menu menu and and an an elegant, elegant, golden-hued golden-hued room room shine shine together together at at Soleil, Soleil, upstairs upstairs in in the the Westin Westin Palo Palo Alto. Alto. Local Local ingredients ingredients and and provocative provocative sauces sauces create create dishes dishes worthy worthy of of the the wine wine list. list. Breakfast Breakfast 6am-11am, 6am-11am, Dinner Dinner 5-10:30pm. 5-10:30pm. 675 675 El El Camino Camino Real. Real. 650.321.4422. 650.321.4422.
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PAMPAS P AMPAS BBrazilian razilian ssteakhouse. teakhouse. $$$. Pampas meat $ $$. P ampas iiss a m eat llover’s over’s $44 hhaven. aven. TThe he $ 44 rrodizio odizio sservice ervice ggets ets yyou ou uunlimited nlimited sspitpitmeat. rroasted oasted m eat. TThe he ssprawling prawling sside ide bbar ar ooffers ffers oone ne ooff tthe he most m ost eextensive xtensive sselections elections ooff find vvegetarian egetarian ooptions ptions yyou’ll ou’ll fi nd iin n a nnonvegetarian onvegetarian rrestaurant. estaurant. LLunch unch 111:30am-2:30pm 1:30am-2:30pm Mon-Fri, M on-Fri, ddinner inner 55:30-9:30pm :30-9:30pm Mon-Thu, M on-Thu, 55-10:30pm -10:30pm FFri-Sat ri-Sat Alma aand nd 55-9pm -9pm SSun. un. 5529 29 A lma SSt.t. 650.327.1323. 6 50.327.1323.
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SSHOKOLAAT HOKOLAAT. Modern Modern European. $$. European. $ $. SShokolaat’s hokolaat’s open open kitchen kitchen and and pastry pastry display display counter counter are are as as gleaming gleaming and and clean clean as as a laboratory, laboratory, a fitting fitting setting setting ffor or tthe he rrestaurant’s estaurant’s technically technically precise, precise, modern modern European European cooking. cooking. Counter Counter open open 8am-9pm 8am-9pm (to-go (to-go only only 449pm), 9pm), lunch lunch 11:30am-2pm 11:30am-2pm TueTueSun Sun and and dinner dinner 5:30-10:30pm 5:30-10:30pm Tue-Sun. Tue-Sun. 516 516 University University Ave. Ave. 650.289.0719. 650.289.0719.
SSPALTI PALTI R RISTORANTE ISTORANTE IItalian. talian. $$. $$. Along Along with with a handsome handsome interior, interior, SSpalti palti offers offers good good wine wine and and sparkling sparkling flavors. flavors. Casual. Casual.
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SSTRAITS TRAITS CCAFE AFE Singapore Singapore exotica. $$. exotica. $ $. Blending Blending culinary culinary motifs motifs from from India, India, China China and and Thailand, Thailand, the the food food of of Singapore Singapore is is aanything nything bbut ut timid. timid. The The menu menu at at Straits Straits is is llavish avish and and diverse. diverse. Full Full bar. bar. 11:30-2pm 11:30-2pm Mon-Fri, Mon-Fri, 5:30-9:30pm 5:30-9:30pm Sun-Thu, Sun-Thu, 5-10pm 5-10pm Fri-Sat. Real. Fri-Sat. 3295 3295 El El Camino Camino R eal. 650.494.7168. 650.494.7168. TAMARINE T AMARINE N New ew Vietnamese. Vietnamese. $$$. $$$. A mesmerizing mesmerizing back back bar bar of of natural natural bamboo bamboo and and glass glass sleekly sleekly adjoins adjoins a wall wall showcasing showcasing original original artwork. artwork. Even Even the the waitstaff waitstaff is is sleek, sleek, clad clad in in Prada Prada black. black. Entrees Entrees are are gorgeous, gorgeous, and and deeply deeply aromatic. aromatic. 546 546 University University Ave. Ave. 650.325.8500. 650.325.8500. THREE T HREE SSEASONS EASONS Modern Modern Vietnamese. $$$. Much V ietnamese. $ $$. M uch of of the the menu m enu iiss ffamiliar, amiliar, but but tthe he food food at at TThree hree SSeasons easons scores scores because because ooff its its superior superior execution execution and and llight ight ttouch. ouch. A ccool, ool, ttwo-level wo-level ddining ining room room ddominated ominated by by a sstriking triking ccircular ircular stained stained glass glass cceiling eiling aand nd an an oornate rnate wooden wooden bbar ar that that serves serves great great cocktails cocktails hhelp elp sset et Three Three SSeasons easons apart, apart, Mon-Fri ttoo. oo. 11:30am-2pm 11:30am-2pm M on-Fri aand nd ddinner inner 5:30-10pm 5:30-10pm SSun-Thu un-Thu and and 55:30-11pm :30-11pm Fri-Sat. Fri-Sat. 518 518 Bryant Bryant SSt.t. 650.838.0353. 650.838.0353.
TRADER T RADER V VIC’S IC’S PPolynesianolynesianAmerican. American. $$$. $$$. A jungle jungle gym gym of of tiki tiki gods—but gods—but a classy classy jungle. jungle. Sip Sip a high-class high-class mai mai tai tai in in the the lounge lounge before before embarking embarking on on a dinner dinner trip trip from from pork pork spareribs spareribs to to boat-fresh boat-fresh seared seared suki suki tuna tuna to to a Calcutta Calcutta curry. curry. 4-6pm 4-6pm daily daily happy happy hour. hour. Dinner Dinner at at 5pm 5pm Mon-Sat Mon-Sat and and 4:30 4:30 Sun. Sun. 4261 4261 El El Camino Camino Real. Real. 650.849.9800. 650.849.9800. VERO V ERO Italian. Italian. $$. $$. Vero Vero aims aims ttoo ooffer ffer ttruly ruly aauthentic uthentic IItalian talian Palo Alto ffood. ood. TThe he P alo A lto restaurant restaurant make hhas as hhad ad ttoo m ake a ffew ew nnods ods American ttoo A merican ttastes astes bbut ut iitt mainly with m ainly ssucceeds ucceeds w ith iits ts ssimple imple bbut ut ssatisfying atisfying ffood ood tthat’s hat’s a refreshing refreshing break break from from tthe he ssame ame oold ld ppasta asta aand nd ppizza. izza. 111:30am-2pm 1:30am-2pm TTue-Fri, ue-Fri, 55:30:30Mon-Sat. Bryant 110pm 0pm M on-Sat. 5530 30 B ryant SSt.t. 650.325.8376. 6 50.325.8376.
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BEQUE B EQUE KKorean. orean. $ $$. $. B Beque eque stands stands out out on on El El Camino Camino Real’s Real’s Korean Korean restaurant restaurant row row for for its its high high style style and and modern modern design, design, but but iit’s t’s the the Korean Korean barbecue, barbecue, soups soups and and noodles noodles dishes dishes that that are are the the main main attraction. attraction. 11am11am10pm 10pm daily. daily. 3060 3060 El El Camino Camino Real. Real. 408.260.2727. 408.260.2727. BIRK’S B IRK’S AAmerican merican ggrill. rill. $ $$$. $$. What What makes makes Birk’s Birk’s stand stand out out from from the the rest rest is is a commitment commitment to to quality, quality, freshness freshness and and hygiene. hygiene. Concentrate Concentrate on on the the specials, specials, or or enjoy enjoy creative creative selections selections from from the the appetizer appetizer menu. menu. Full Full bar. bar. 11:15am-2:30pm, 11:15am-2:30pm, 5-9:30pm 5-9:30pm Mon-Fri, Mon-Fri, 5-9pm 5-9pm Sat-Sun. Sat-Sun. 3955 3955 Freedom Freedom Circle. Circle. 408.980.6400. 408.980.6400. CCHALATECO HALATECO M Mexican exican aand nd $.. CChalateco, SSalvadoran. alvadoran. $ halateco, a SSan an Jose-based Jose-based six-restaurant six-restaurant Mexico cchain, hain, serves serves M exico CCityitysstyle tyle Mexican Mexican food food aand nd a few few makes SSalvadoran alvadoran ddishes. ishes. TThat hat m akes Mexican tthe he food food unlike unlike tthe he M exican ffood ood ttypically ypically sserved erved iinn SSilicon ilicon Valley, V alley, bbut ut iit’s t’s definitely definitely typical typical Mexican M exican food. food. 110am-11pm 0am-11pm Alameda. ddaily. aily. 2323 2323 TThe he A lameda. 4408.243.1357. 08.243.1357.
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KABAB K ABAB HOUSE HOUSE H HALAL ALAL M Middle iddle EEastern. astern. $. $. Santa Santa Clara’s Clara’s House Halal, KKabab abab H ouse H alal, a sspare, pare, eeight-table ight-table rrestaurant, estaurant, sserves erves menu a ppan-Middle an-Middle EEastern astern m enu tthat hat leans leans toward toward Iran. Iran. As As tthe he House nname ame iimplies, mplies, KKabab abab H ouse iiss bbasically asically a kkebab ebab hhouse. ouse. 111am1am9pm Mon-Sat. Newhall 9 pm M on-Sat. 22521 521 N ewhall SSt.t. 4408.984.2204. 08.984.2204.
99 9 9 CCHICKEN HICKEN KKorean-style orean-style fried fried chicken. chicken. $. $. The The simple simple restaurant restaurant specializes specializes in in Korean-style Korean-style fried fried chicken. chicken. Korean Korean chicken chicken is is rendered rendered of of its its fat fat and and produces produces smooth smooth pieces pieces of of meat meat with with a taut, taut, shatteringly shatteringly crisp crisp epidermis. epidermis. Noon-midnight Noon-midnight daily. daily. 2781 2781 El El Camino Camino Real. Real. 408.244.5599. 408.244.5599. PARCEL P ARCEL 104 104 N New ew American. American. $$$$. $$$$. Parcel Parcel 104 104 casts casts a spell spell with with its its stridently stridently seasonal, seasonal, ingredient-driven ingredient-driven menu menu of of new new American American food. food. The The restaurant restaurant is is one one of of the the South South Bay’s Bay’s mustmusteats. eats. Breakfast Breakfast 6:30-11am 6:30-11am Mon-Fri Mon-Fri and and 7-10am 7-10am Sat-Sun, Sat-Sun, lunch lunch 11:30am-2pm 11:30am-2pm Mon-Fri Mon-Fri and and dinner dinner 5:30-9pm 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri. Mon-Fri. 2700 2700 Mission Mission College College Blvd. Blvd. 408.970.6104. 408.970.6104. PHO P HO # #11 N Noodle oodle House House Asian Asian $.. A ggood nnoodle oodle hhouse. ouse. $ ood aand nd ffriendly riendly destination destination when when one’s one’s sstomach tomach sscreams creams ffor or a tthreehreewallet ccourse ourse meal meal but but one’s one’s w allet $10, Pho hhas as bbut ut $ 10, P ho bboasts oasts aan n
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Operaa Sann José opens its season Oper with a new new work in these parts: an adaptation adaptaation of Tolstoy’s Toolstoy’s Anna Karenina Karenina by composer Colin Graham Graham (with (w with libretto libretto by David Carlson). Carlson). Graham’s Graham’s work debuted with the Florida Grand Operaa in F Gr and Oper 2007, 20077, andd the conductor ffor or those shows, Stewart Stewart Robertson, will be on the podium Operaa San José. poodium ffor or Oper (MSG)
ALEX A LEX D DEE GGRASSI R ASS I Sun Sunnyvale nnyvale Theatre, Theatre, Sunnyvale Satt – 8pm; $28 Guitarist G uitarist Alex Alex de de Grassi, Grassi, a master master of of fingerstyle tthe he fi ngerstyle oon n tthe he ssteel teel gguitar, uitar, waters vventures entures iinto nto uunusual nusual w aters ffor or tthe he oopening pening cconcert oncert ooff tthe he EEvening vening ooff CCultural ultural Arts Arts series series in in Sunnyvale. Sunnyvale. Grassi A ffew ew yyears ears bback, ack, ddee G rassi ddid id a movie nnew ew sscore core ffor or tthe he ssilent ilent m ovie A Weeds SStory tory ooff FFloating loating W eeds bbyy the the great great Japanese Japanese director director Yasujiro Yasujiro Ozu. Ozu. Now, Now, di di Grassi Grassi will will perform perform that that score score live live for for a screening screening of of the the film. film. (MSG) (MSG)
HELMET H ELMET Blaank Club, San Jose Blank Satt – 9pm; $18/$20 When Helmet W hen H elmet first first bblew lew up up iinn 1992, 1992, nnonmetalheads onmetalheads gave gave them them a ppass ass bbecause ecause they they were were ““real” real” musicians. musicians. TThey hey didn’t didn’t jjust ust bbang ang ttheir heir heads heads aand nd ccrunch runch gguitars, uitars, they they mixed mixed
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S 10 at Wet, Sep Wet, San Jose
EEMILIO, MILIO, SSNOOKI’S NOOKI’S EEX X Sep Se ep 10 at Pearl, Pearl, San Jose
THE T HE DOOBIE DOOBIE BROTHERS BROTHERS Sepp 11 at 7:30 7:30pm, 0pm, Mountain Winery
ROBERT R OBERT CRAY CRAY BAND BAND Sep 11 at 7:30pm, 7 Montalvo Arts
GGRISHA RISHA GORYACHEV GORYACHEV A AND ND JJEROME EROME M MOUFFE, OUFFE, SSOUTH OUTH BAY BAY GGUITAR UITAR SSOCIETY OCIETY Sep 11 1 at 8pm 8pm,, Theatr Theatree on San P Pedro edro Square, Squar e, San Jose
JOEL OEL FFAN, AN, SSTEINWAY TEINWAY SSOCIETY OCIETY Sep e 11 at 7:30pm, ep 7:330pm, LLee Petit Petit Trianon, Trrianon, San Jose
DIMIDIUM, IDIUM, LUXX, LU UXX, T THE HE BUTCHERS BUTCHERS AND A ND M MORE ORE Sep e 11 at noon, ep nooon, MVP Sports Arena, Arena, na, San Jose Sa Jo ose
BANJO ANJO JJUBILEE UBILEE JJAZZ AZZ FFESTIVAL ESTIVAL Sept 12 12 at at nnoon, oon, Holiday Holiday Inn, Inn, San San Jose Jose
SSHERYL HERYL CROW CROW Sep 14 14-15 -15 at 7:30pm, 0pm M Mountain Winery ery
BRAD B RAD PAISLEY PAISLEY Sep Se ep 15 at 4pm, 4pm Shoreline Shor Sho oreline or e e
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Avalon, Santa Clara Avalon, Clara Sun – 8:30; $15/$17 In thrash thrash metal, most folks folks talk about the “Big Four”: Four ”: Slayer, Slayeer, Megadeth, Metallica and Anthrax. A Anthr ax.
Often overlooked is the fifth; the Bay Area’s Area’s own Exodus.. With the Paul vocals, late P aul Baloff on voca als, Exodus had a notorious rreputation eputattion early craziest on as one of the cr aziesst shows ever.. They couldn’t anywheree ever couldn’t play anywher would b because th venue wou the uld ld gett destroyed. destr oyed. They couldn’t couldn’t party anywhere, they’d anywher e, because they y’d drink all obliterate the booze and obliter atte anything in their path, including walls. w One dropping story has Baloff dr oppinng a dead rrat at into the mouth of a passedousted, out girl. After he was ou usted, Holtt and original guitarist Gary Hol H original drummer TTom oom Hunting H belted have continually bel ted out thrash finest thr ash tunes in their fin nest fform, orm, Exhibit with a new album, Exhi bit B: The Human Condition, and a little less Creation, destruction. Malevolentt Cr eation, Grail Holy Gr ail and Bonded by b Blood start the pit. (BD)
THE T HE B BUSINESS U S I N ESS VooDoo LLounge, VooDoo ounge, San San Jose Sun – 9pm; $10 Oii w was O as ffun, un, but but iitt was was nnever ever ttoo oo iinteresting nteresting aass a punk punk ssubgenre. ubgenre. Mostly was M ostly iitt w as aabout bout going going ttoo the the ppub, ub, ddrinking rinking aatt tthe he pub pub aand nd ggetting etting Oh, bbanned anned ffrom rom tthe he ppub. ub. O h, aand nd with ffootball—always ootball—always w ith tthe he ffootball. ootball. But Mickey B ut M ickey FFitz’s itz’s band band the the Business Business was w as always always a ccut ut above. above. Their Their song song Poet” ““Oi Oi tthe he P oet” gave gave the the entire entire style style a llegitimate egitimate reason reason to to eexist, xist, aand nd tthey’re hey’re aalways lways ppissed issed ((in in bboth oth senses senses word) ooff tthe he w ord) ffor or tthe he rright ight rreasons: easons: tthey hey sstand tand uupp ffor or tthe he uunderdog, nderdog, rrail ail aagainst gainst injustice injustice aand nd ppaint aint an an aadrenaline-charged drenaline-charged pportrait ortrait ooff life life iin n working-class Britain. And were w orking-class B ritain. A nd tthey hey w ere aable ble ttoo turn turn eeven ven the the Smiths’ Smiths’ “Panic” “Panic” And iinto nto a ppunk unk aanthem. nthem. A nd tthere’s here’s sstill till pplenty lenty ooff ttime ime ffor or tthe he pub, pub, and and the the Boy ffootball. ootball. TThe he FForgotten orgotten aand nd SSad ad B oy SSinister inister oopen. pen. ((SP) SP)
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THE T HE H HEAD EA D CCAT AT Blank Club, San Jose J Tue T u ue – 9pm; $20 musician TThey hey say say nnoo m usician hhas as ever ever drunk drunk much much aass m uch bourbon, bourbon, done done aass m uch many sspeed peed or or satisfied satisfied aass m any women women Motörhead aass LLemmy emmy Kilmister. Kilmister. M otörhead is is what w hat the the ffans ans hhave ave ccome ome to to love, love, bbut ut now now he’s he’s tthrown hrown hhimself imself iinto nto ssomething omething completely completely different: different: rrockabilly. ockabilly. The The aall-star ll-star lineup lineup iincludes ncludes Stray Stray Cats Cats drummer drummer Slim Slim Phantom Danny JJim im P hantom aand nd D anny B. B. Harvey Harvey Rockats. ooff Lonesome Lonesome SSpurs purs and and tthe he R ockats. Believe B elieve it it or or not, not, LLemmy emmy can can aactually ctually ssing, ing, albeit albeit in in a ggritty, ritty, rusty rusty Harvey’s ttone. one. H arvey’s twang twang ccompliments ompliments Phantom’s P hantom’s bbeats eats ttoo rround ound iitt oout. ut. TThe he Shitkickers Shitkickers sstart tart tthings hings ooff. ff. ((BD) BD)
CCHRIS HRIS B BOTTI OTTI Sep 15 at 7pm, Montalvoo Art Arts t ts
PARAMORE P ARAMORE Sep 17 at 6:30pm, HP PP Pavilion a ion avilion
HARRY H ARRY CCONNICK ONNICK JJR. R. Sep 18 at 7:30 7:30pm, 0pm, Mountain uunn Win Winery
JJONAS ONAS B BROTHERS ROTHERS WITH W TH WI D DEMI EMI LLOVATO OVA AT TO Sep Se ep 18 at 7pm, Shoreline Shoreliiine
WILLIE W ILLIE N NELSON ELSON Sep 22 at 7:30 7:30pm, 0pm, Mountain Winery W ry Win
FOREIGNER FOREIGNER Sep 23 at 7:30 7:30pm, 0pm, Mountain ta Winery Winer
MARGARET M ARGARET CHO CHO Sep 25 at 8pm, 8 Mounta Mountain ain Winery W ery
HALL H ALL A AND ND O OATES ATES AT Sep 27 at 7:30pm, 7:30 0pm, Mountain un Winery Wi
CCARRIE ARRIE U UNDERWOOD NDERWOOD Sep 27 at 7pm 7pm, m, HP P Pavilion, avilion, San Jose s
SSYMPHONY YMPHONY SSILICON ILICON VALLEY VALLEY Sep 30, Oct 2-3, 2-3, California Calif l ornia Theatr Theatre, ee, San Jose se
WANDA W ANDA SYKES SYKES E Oct 2 at 8pm, 8 Mountain nta Winery Wine
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CCRAIG RAIG FFERGUSON ERGUSON S 10 at 8pm, Sep 8 Mountain Winery
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Dead Man’s Cell Phone Sept. 11–26; Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto; $21–$30 For the first show of its new season, the longrunning Palo Alto Players (now at it for 80 years), presents Sarah Ruhl’s mystery comedy Dead Man’s Cell Phone. When the ringing just won’t stop, a woman picks up the phone of a corpse and finds her life altered in unexpected ways.
Killer Joe Sept. 11–Oct. 2; Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose; $12–$28.50 Tracy Lett earned accolades for August: Osage County and Bug, so chances are good that even an early play like Killer Joe will be full of dark surprises. This story of murder for hire and unseemly passions sounds like James M. Cain for the trailer-park set. This Renegade Theatre Experiment production can be sampled on Sept. 10 with a pay-what-you-can preview.
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ALL A LL THE WAY WAY LIVE LIVE USA USA Arban dance ffestival. Arban estival. The The GoGooGo B rothers, SSkeeter keeter Rabbit Rabbit Brothers, and Rock Rock Steady Steady Crew Crew on Fri, Frii, 7:30pm. Dance competition on Sun, Sun, 3pm. $10. SSmith mith CCenter, enter, Ohlone Ohlone CCollege, ollege ollege, Outdoor Amphitheatre, O utdoor A mphitheatre, Fremont. Fr emont.
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with a ddark with ark ccomedy omedy aabout bout murder. m urder. Pay-what-you-can Pay-what-you-can ppreview review FFri. ri. O Opens pens SSat. at. R Regular egular 8pm, sshows hows TThu-Sat, hu-Sat, 8 pm, SSun, un, Runs Oct $12-$28. 77pm. pm. R uns tthru hru O ct 22.. $ 12-$28. Hoover H oover TTheater, heater, SSan an JJose. ose.
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OVERSOCIAL O VERSOCIAL M MOFO OFO R REVUE EVUE A variety variety show show ffeaturing eaturing ppoet/ oet/ DeWolf, sshowman howman JJamie amie D eWolf, tthe he bband and G Gold old H Hush ush aand nd ccomedian omedian Mary M ary V Van an N Note. ote. FFri, ri, 8 8pm. pm. $6/$11. $ 6/$11. A Anno nno D Domini omini SSan an JJose. ose.
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SSAN AN JJOSE OSE M MUSEUM USEUM O OFF A ART RT “New SStories “New tories FFrom rom tthe he EEdge dge Plastic ooff Asia: Asia: P lastic LLife.” ife.” TThru hru SSep ep 119. 9. ““Leo Leo V Villareal.” illareal.” TThru hru JJan. an. 9 9.. 6.. ““Vital ““Retro-Tech.” Retro-Tech.” TThru hru FFeb eb 6 Vital New Media SSigns: igns: N ew M edia FFrom rom tthe he Permanent P ermanent CCollection.” ollection.” TThru hru 6.. ““Degrees FFeb eb 6 Degrees ooff SSeparation: eparation: Photography.” CContemporary ontemporary P hotography.” Mar TThru hru M ar 114. 4. TTue-Sun, ue-Sun, 111am1amMon. 55pm, pm, cclosed losed M on. SSan an JJose. ose.
SAN JJOSE SAN OSE M MUSEUM USEUM O OFF QUILTS Q UILTS AND AND T TEXTILES EXTILES “ITAB: IInternational “ITAB: nternational TTECHstyle ECHstyle Art Biennial.” A rt B iennial.” A jjuried uried sshow how ooff w works orks bbyy aartists rtists w who ho fiber with ccombine ombine fi ber aarts rts w ith nnew ew Oct ttechnologies. echnologies. TThru hru O ct 331. 1. TTueueSSun, un, 110am-5pm. 0am-5pm. SSan an JJose. ose.
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SSLG LG A ART RT B BOUTIKI OUTIKI “The A “The Art rt of of tthe he Zombie Zombie Apocalypse.” Portraits A pocalypse.” P ortraits ooff tthe he lliving iving ddead ead by by JJef ef B Bambas, ambas, Brunner, Bea JJames ames B runner, B ea Adams Adams and and more. m ore. TThru hru Sep Sep 330. 0. SSan an JJose. ose.
ARDENWOOD SHAKESPEARE ARDENWOOD SHAKESPEARE FFESTIVAL ESTIVA VAL TTwo wo ddays ays of of costumed costumed eentertainment. ntertainment. Sat, Sat, 10am– 10am– 6pm, 6 pm, SSun, un, 10am–5pm. 10am–5pm. $8– $8– $15. Ardenwood, $ 15. A rdenwood, Fremont. Fremont.
BANJO JUBILEE BANJO JUBILEE JAZZ JAZZ FFESTIVAL ESTIVA VAL With Charlie With Charlie TTagawa, agawa, Bill Bill LLowrey owrey and and the the Peninsula Peninsula Banjo B anjo Band. Band. SSun, un, noon. noon. $ 20/$25. H oliday IInn, nn, San San Jose. Jose. $20/$25. Holiday
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HOME H OME AND AND GARDEN GARDEN SHOW SHOW Features llandscaper Features andscaper A Ahmed hmed Hassan. H assan. Fri, Fri, noon-7pm, noon-7pm, SSat, at, 110am0am77pm, pm, Sun, Sun, 10am-5pm. 10am-5pm. $8-$10. $8-$10. SSanta anta CClara lara CConvention onvention CCenter. enter.
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making m aking iinformational nfo f rmattional p pamphlets amphlets aabout b out F rance. H er h usband aand nd tthe he France. Her husband u nmarried w oman who who iintrigues ntrigues unmarried woman h im aare re p osed sstanding tanding iin n ffront rront o him posed off a wall-size wall-size map map of of the the country country in in cho ol cclassroom. lassroom. A he eend, nd, w a sschool Att tthe wee h ear a ssong ong that that eepitomizes pitomizes w hat hear what p eople tthink hink o ypically F rench people off aass ttypically French m usic: a ttune une b he o ne -named music: byy tthe one-named cchanteuse hanteuse B arbara ((1930–97) 1930–97) titled titled Barbara ““Septembre Septembre ((“Quel “Quel JJolie olie T emps”). Temps”). S omewhere iin n a ssmall mall ccity ity aalong long Somewhere tthe he T oulon-Paris ttrain rain lline, ine, we we see see Toulon-Paris a no-longer-young no -longer-young cconstruction onstruction w orker, JJean ean ((Vincent Vincent L indon), worker, Lindon), d emolishing a h ouse. W ee h is demolishing house. Wee ssee his w ife, A nne-Marie ((Aure Aure A tika), at at wife, Anne-Marie Atika), h er assembly assembly lline. ine. Lat ter, tthe he tw o her Later, two jjoin oin u p with with their their sson, on, p icnicking up picnicking
aass he he ttries ries tto op uzzle o ut a ttricky ricky puzzle out ggrammar rammar question question as as a school scho ol aassignment. ssignment. A how-and-tell day dayy aatt his his sson’s on’s Att a sshow-and-tell sschool, cho ol, JJean ean iiss aasked sked tto o eexplain xplain h is his w ork tto o a cclassroom lassro om o ager k ids. work off eeager kids. T he ccamera amera fo cuses o n tthe he iintense ntense The focuses on eelementary lementar y sschool chool tteacher, eacher, tthe he ro otless aand nd 4 0ish m ademoiselle rootless 40ish mademoiselle V eronique C hambon ((the the eeververVeronique Chambon p oised S andrine K ib erlain)—and w poised Sandrine Kiberlain)—and wee ssee ee iit, t, a ccoup oup ddee ffoudre: oudre: sshe’s he’s ffallen allen iin n llove. ove. IItt ta takes kes ssomewhat omewhat llonger onger forr JJean Chambon fo ean tto o gget et iitt . . . aft aafter fter C hamb on hires him repair windows off h ires h im tto o re pair tthe he w indows o her flat. While notes her h er fl att. W hile tthere, here, JJean ean n otes h er her play vviolin iolin aand nd ccoaxes oaxxes h er tto op lay a ssong ong forr h him. fo im. Without uss o outright, W ithout ttelling elling u utright, Brizé Brizé why ssuggests uggests w hy there’s there’s ssomething omething missing m issing iin n the the teacher: teacher: tthe he hollowed her lloneliness oneliness tthat’s hat’s h ollowed h er out out dashed iiss llikely ikely cconnected onnected tto o ssome ome d ashed hopes off b being h op es o eing a cclassical lassical vviolinist. iolinist. Music brings M usic b rings Jean Jean and and Veronique Veronique divide, ttogether ogether aacross cross ttheir heir ssocial o cial d ivide,
aass they they ssit it sside ide by by side side on on aan n iron iron daybed. d ayb ed. The T he movie movie iiss as as balanced balanced as as a Brizé ggood oo d aargument. rgument. B rizé pays pays all all respects re spects to to JJean’s ean’s marriage marriage aand nd home. h ome. Anne-Marie Anne-Marie is is a ggood ood mom, mom, woman without a ttrim, rim, pretty preetty w oman w ithout pretense p retense and and with with a sense sense of of humor, humor, beating sseen een iin n tthe he eevening vening b eating her her sson on while aatt tthe he ccard ard d game game Uno Uno w hile eeating ating Nutella off a jar Nu tella out out o jar with with a spoon. sp o on. Brizé domesticity B rizé ccontrasts ontrasts tthis his d omesticity with w ith tthe he hard hard work work that’s thatt’s required required maintain bricks tto om aintain iit; t; tthe he b ricks llaid, aid, tthe he off a ssledgehammer sswings wings o ledgehammer aagainst gaiinst a wall. w all. Like Like many many iin n the the construction construction business, because b usiness, Jean Jean does do es it it b ecause his his did ffather ather d id it. it. One One of of JJean’s ean’s tasks tasks is is old man, who ttending ending tto o tthe he o ld m an, w ho iiss ttoo oo beaten his b eaten by by age age and and labor lab or to to wash wash h is own feet. o wn fe et. Meanwhile, hee and M eanwhile, h and Anne-Marie Anne -Marie prepare for p repare fo or the the father’s father’s upcoming upcoming 80th birthday. 8 0th b irthday. The The father father ( JeanJeanMarc Thibault) M arc T hibault) ccelebrates elebrates this this buying aanniversary nniversary by by b uying himself himself a ccoffin. offin. JJean ean aand nd his his father father linger linger display room off tthe iin n tthe he tatty tattty d isplay ro om o he home, ffuneral uneral h ome, apparently apparently lined lined with bedspreads w ith b edspreads and and bedsheets. bedsheets. Finally, old one out, Fi nally, the the o ld man man points p oints o ne o ut, wee buried ““Isn’t Isn’t tthat hatt tthe he box b ox w buried your your mother m other iin?” n?” Amid off A mid tthis his ssuggestion uggestion o possibilities iimpended mp ended death, deatth, of of p ossibilities Brizé sslipping lipping aaway, way, B rizé sseems eems tto o ffalter alter off tthe film. But hee aatt tthe he eend nd o he fi lm. B ut h makes uss fe m akes u ffeel el the the temptation temptattion aand nd And tterror error of of aan n affair. aff ffaair. A nd there’s there’s so so much final m uch ttension ension iin nafi nal sscene cene at at tthe he rrailway ailway sstation taattion tthat hat there there might might as as well w ell be be a bomb b omb ticking ticking iin n it. it. Brizé B rizé ssays ays tthat hatt he he made made an an film despite iinfinitely nfinitely ssentimental entimental fi lm d espite way hee hates tthe he w ayy h hates sentiment. sentiment. Mademoiselle Chambon M ademoiselle C hambon iiss a ttragedy ragedy weep ttoo oo ssad ad to to w eep att ((though though tthe he ssong ong byy B Barbara may b arbara m ay push push you you over over the the The depths eedge). dge). T he complexities complexities aand nd d epths belies ggive ive tthis his film film a vvigor igor that thatt b elies the the llightweight-sounding ightweight-sounding story. story.
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metroactive FILM FLIPPED (PG) Based on Wendelin Van Draanenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s young-adult novel of the same name, Flipped is kind of a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s analogy of the 2002 French ďŹ lm He Loves Me . . . He Loves Me Not. We take two separate angles of a boy and a girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life, episodes linked by the now-archaic â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ&#x201A;ipâ&#x20AC;? (or ďŹ&#x201A;ip wipe) as we see the reverse side of the story. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1963 before the JFK assassination: the now near-adolescent Juli (Madeline Carroll) has been in love with Bryce (Callan McAuliffe) since he was a kid, but he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t return the affection because of the eccentricities of Juli and her poor family. Yet there are honorable reasons why Juliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad (Aidan Quinn) isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bringing home enough money. The storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outline is as promising as the ďŹ lm itself is terminally bland. Director/co-writer Rob Reiner seeks to return to the glory days of Stand by Me. Instead he creates an atmosphere thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like an arthritic version of Leave It to Beaver, complete with easily assimilated life lessons. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get extra heft despite the salty language by a strangely Jerry Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;like Anthony Edwards, playing Bryceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad. Very anachronistic; Juliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eccentricities include tree-hugging and urban chicken raising. And the relentless fab-â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s soundtrack will make you
make you as tired of those hit tunes as a waiter at Johnny Rocketâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. (Opens Fri.) (RvB)
FOOL FOR LOVE (PG-13; 100 min.) A Vietnamese comedy about a clerk who chases after a lounge singer. Directed by
Charlie Nguyen. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.)
MADEMOISELLE CHAMBON
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ROGER EBERT, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
(Unrated; 101 min.) See review on page 40.
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THE ROMANTICS (PG-13) A romantic comedy about complications during the preparations for a marriage. Stars Katie Holmes, Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel. (Opens Fri.)
THE VIRGINITY HIT (R) A comedy about losing it. (Opens Fri.)
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Revivals CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (1977) Steven Spielbergâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ingratiatingly blissed fantasy of first contact with the aliens, a gentle counterpoint to the usual barely allegorical science fiction drama of marauding hell-creatures coming to get us and eat us. Richard Dreyfussâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cocky wise-guy style counterpoints the sweeter parts: the fireworks, the childlike awe, the space music of the flying alien calliope. (Plays Sep 10-12 in San Jose at the RetroDome, 1694 Saratoga Ave. http://retro dome.guggyent.com.) (RvB)
JAWS (1975) In a small coastal resort, a great white shark is prowling,
and the locals are trying to sweep it under the rug. Feisty scientist Richard Dreyfuss and Ahab surrogate Robert Shaw go on the warpath in this entertaining movie, sold by John Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cello theme (a kind of unabashed rip of the strings in Psycho.) (Plays Sep 9 in Redwood City in Old Courthouse Square. Free. Bring lawn chairs and blankets.) (RvB)
NILES FILM MUSEUM Regularly scheduled programs of silent films. Sep 11: Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in Reaching for the Moon (1917) billed with Felix in Hollywood (1923) and A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1924). Judy Rosenberg at the piano. Sep 12 at 4pm: two (1930â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hog Wild and 1932â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s County Hospital) with Laurel and Hardy; two (1932â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Readinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and Writinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and 1935â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Blood-Red Desert THE ORIGINAL 1984 Blood Simple was a paraphrase of all the Hitchcock the Coen brothers had been soaking in. A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop, Zhang Yimouâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chinese remake, seems to not just take the twisty plot but also to restage it via the Coensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; later ďŹ lm Raising Arizona. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a strange, strange movie, and not just because of the ďŹ&#x201A;amboyant color scheme. The ďŹ lm begins almost with a parable: a 8 NfdXe# X >le Persian merchant brings something Xe[ X Eff[c\ J_fg new to an end-of-the-road desert R; 95 min. town in the Middle Ages: a revolver Opens Friday, with three bullets. This gadget Camera 12, San Jose, interests the wife (Yan Ni) of the & Aquarius, Palo Alto desert townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s master, a perverted ugly miser, Wang (Ni Dahong). The wife is sleeping with the noodle shopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;intern,â&#x20AC;? a gulping coward in elf-shoes, Li (Xiao Shen-Yang). Prowling around the perimeter is a bad cop (Honglei Sun) ready to make some money on the side. The ďŹ lm has its moments: one is a showstopper about the making of noodles that tops any display of pizza spinning youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen. The digitally tarted-up desert, with its endless striped ridges of pyramid-shaped rocks, is the oddest-looking wasteland since Krazy Katâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coconino County. Of the cast, Yan Ni has the most range; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s convincing equally as treacherous little kitty or pathetic misused wife. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all a question of tone. The original Blood Simple isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a classicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as the expression goes, you can tell what was next to it in the refrigeratorâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but it evinced its own consistency. This remake jars along as if you were driving across that rocky desert. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dead air in it, and clumsy comedy, with buck-toothed howling clowns caroming off the walls. Ultimately, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unnerving to go to a movie by Zhang Yimou and ďŹ nd out that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seemingly made by Stephen Chowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unskilled intern. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Richard von Busack
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QUEEN CHRISTINA/ ANNA KARENINA â&#x20AC;&#x153;Precisely, the story of a woman who grew up in the belief that the world is a place of solitude, then suddenly discovers the power to communicate with its enchantments,â&#x20AC;? writes Tom Milne in his book on director Rouben Mamoulian; that director urged his star to become â&#x20AC;&#x153;a beautiful mask.â&#x20AC;? Greta Garbo plays Queen Christina of Sweden, the 17thcentury monarch who refused to marry. BILLED WITH Anna Karenina, the MGM Garbo version from 1935 produced by David O. Selznick. It was composed despite much censorship (from
the Breen office and the Soviets, who refused cooperation). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an admirable attempt to crack the novel by two female screenwriters, and uncredited help by Erich von Stroheim. Slowed to the speed of its star, the film plays long, but everyone who leaves thinks of the mask of Garboâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;though Basil Rathbone is the ideal cinematic Karenin. (Plays Sep 11-14 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
SHALL WE DANCE/THE SKYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S THE LIMIT (1937/1943) Fred Astaire plays a ballet dancer and Ginger Rogers a cabaret artist; the soundtrack is by George and Ira Gershwin, with such classics as â&#x20AC;&#x153;They Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Take That Away From Me,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They All Laughedâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Call the Whole Thing Off.â&#x20AC;? BILLED WITH
The Skyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Limit Fred Astaire in the typical Astaire role, modified slightly for wartime. In the past, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a song-and-dance man mistaken for a gigolo. Here, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Flying Tiger pilot who poses as a civilian slacker to avoid all the fuss and adulation. We all have that problem sometimes, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we? Joan Leslie plays a photographer from some Life-like magazine who suddenly finds herself being pestered by Astaire. Robert Ryan, Eric Blore and Peter Lawford costar. Music includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Shining Hourâ&#x20AC;? and the debut of the tune â&#x20AC;&#x153;One for My Baby and One More for the Road.â&#x20AC;? Also: an appearance by proto-rocker Ella Mae Morse and Freddy Slack, auteurs of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cow-Cow Boogie.â&#x20AC;? (Plays Sep 8-10 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
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on off tthe tthe he iimpact mpact o n tthe he ggroup roup o he which has been planned ttransition, ran nsition, w hich h as b een p lanned ffor or tthe he llast asst sseven even yyears. ears. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re likee par parents, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lik ents, yyou ou think theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always bee ther there,â&#x20AC;? the yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re alw wayys going to b e,â&#x20AC;? says Uemura sa ays y U emu ura of the Hirabayashis. Hirabaayashis y . â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;It â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a vvery ery emotional, vvery ery personal personal eexperience.â&#x20AC;? xperience.â&#x20AC;? Imperial Imp eriaal and Uemura Uemura are are also looking lo oking forward, for o ward, to the younger younger members group memb ers of the gr oup who bring inďŹ&#x201A;uences their own inďŹ&#x201A;uenc es to San JJose ose Taiko. T a o. Onee of them, Rylan aik Rylan y Sekiguchi, is San Jose Josee Taikoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taik a oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rresident esident hip-hop hip -hop eexpert xpert and d was was instrumental instrumental in creating the cr eating th he ccollaborative ollaborative work with Bangerz. was the Bange erz. Sekiguchi w as at ďŹ rst a bit intimidated intimid dated to be be working with esteemed crew, the esteem med hip-hop hip -hop cr ew, but wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quickly rrealized ealized it w asnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the novelty novelty pairing of the pair ring that made it work but shared artistic the shar ed d ar tistic sensibilities and how well the ttheyy ccomplemented omplemented each musically. other mus sicallyy. people aree dra drawn â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think kp eople ar aw wn to taiko taiko partly because par tly b ecause of the sound of the itself. larger drum itsel lff. The lar ger drumsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the odaikoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;make o daiko â&#x20AC;&#x201D;m make these deep, deep, resonant, resonant, earthy tones ear th hy ton nes that can can sometimes feel feel e likee the theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re lik yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re vibrating yyour our whole body,â&#x20AC;? says b odyy,â&#x20AC;? sa ays ys Sekiguchi. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In that sense, sense, I think the match with hip-hop hip -hop music somewhat is some wh hat natural. After all,, in instruments,, a loud terms of ac aacoustic oustic instruments odaiko strike o daiko str rike is essentially as close as yyou ou can can get geet to an 808 808 bass.â&#x20AC;? bass.â&#x20AC;? For those F or thos se who ask, â&#x20AC;&#x153;But is it ttaiko?,â&#x20AC;? aiko?,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? Imperial Im mperial and Uemura Uemura say saay thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eexactly xacctly the question the Hirabayashis have been Hiraba ayas y his ha ave b een askingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and transforming answer toâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for transf form o ming the ans wer to â&#x20AC;&#x201D;ffor o almost 40 0 yyears. ears. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roy â&#x20AC;&#x153;That â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a R oy question, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What is that ttaiko? aiko? Is th hat taiko?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; taiko?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; He wants wants you you to line,, so yyou rrecognize ecognize that line ou can can blur it,â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? sa says it it, ayys Imperial. Im mperial. erial â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think k he just likes likes to ask that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll question so s we â&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll discuss things,â&#x20AC;? things,â&#x20AC;? says saayys Uemura. U emura. Adds A dds Imperial: Im mperial: â&#x20AC;&#x153;He likes likes to see us squirm.â&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? squirm.
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South Bay Guitar Society Saturday, 8pm; Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose; $15/$25 For its season-opener, the Guitar Society presents a fertile pairing of instrument styles: classical star from Belgium JĂŠrome Mouffe with ďŹ&#x201A;amenco sounds of Russian guitarist Grigory Goryachev. (MSG)
The Dreaming Tuesday, 9pm; Avalon, Santa Clara; $10/$13
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Fri, 6pm: Fri, 6pm: Battle Battle of of the the bands bands ffeaturing eaturing Fabulous Fabulous Under Under Fire, Fire, Beyond B eyond Tragedy, Tragedy, Bow Bow Before Before Thy Thy Grave G rave and and more. more. San San Jose. Jose.
NUMBER N UMBER ONE ONE BROADWAY BROADWAY Wed: J.C. Wed: J.C. Smith Smith Jam Jam Band. Band. Thu: Thu: SSingles ingles mixer mixer w/the w/the Bone Bone Drivers. D rivers. FFri: ri: Joint Joint Chiefs. Chiefs. Sat: Sat: TTouch ouch N Go. Go. Los Los Gatos. Gatos.
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51 48 REDWOOD R EDWOODCITY CITYM MUSIC USICO ON N T THE HESSQUARE QUARE Fri, 6 Fri, 6pm: pm: B Best est IIntensions, ntensions, M otown sounds. sounds. FFree. ree. Motown D owntown R edwood CCity. ity. Downtown Redwood
THE T HER REFUGE EFUGE Thu, 6pm: Thu, 6pm: I A Am m EEmpire, mpire, Dizzy Dizzy B alloon, Assemble Assemble tthe he SSkyline, kyline, Balloon, P icture M roken, P oor AJ, AJ, K Picture Mee B Broken, Poor SSera. era. Cupertino. Cupertino.
SSOUTH OUTHFFIRST IRSTB BILLIARDS ILLIARDS Fri: P Fri: Plastic lastic O Onion nion B Band. and. Sat-Sun: Sat-Sun: FFemale emale Pool Pool Tournament. Tournament. SSat: at: A ivar aand nd G roup 8 8. SSan an JJose. ose. Aivar Group 88.
VOODOO V OODOOLLOUNGE OUNGE Sun, 8pm Sun, 8pm : The The B Business usiness ffeaturing eaturing H ollow P oint, tthe he Hollow Point, FForgotten, orgotten, SSad ad B oy SSinister. inister. $10. $10. Boy SSan an Jose. Jose.
WOODHAM’S W OODHAM’SLLOUNGE OUNGE FFri-Sun: ri-Sun: Pro Pro JJam. am. SSanta anta CClara. lara.
World W orld ALBERTO’S A LBERTO’S Wed: B Wed: Bachata. achata. TThu: hu: SSalsa alsa with with P antea. Fri: Fri: Salsa Salsa Fridays. Fridays. Sat: Sat: Pantea. LLatin atin Nights. Nights. Tue: Tue: Salsa Salsa with with P antea. Mountain Mountain View. View. Pantea.
ARYA A RYAGGLOBAL LOBALCCUISINE UISINE Fri-Sat, 8pm: Fri-Sat, 8pm: LLive ive m music usic and and bbelly elly ddancing. ancing. CCupertino. upertino.
AZUCAR A ZUCAR Fri, 9 Fri, 9pm: pm: LLive ive ssalsa alsa m music. usic. SSat, at, 9 pm: Orquesta Orquesta SSaboricua aboricua aand nd 9pm: vvariety ariety llive ive ssalsa. alsa. SSan an JJose. ose.
CCASCAL ASCAL Fri, 9 Fri, 9:30pm: :30pm: Kaweh Kaweh Sat, Sat, 8:30pm: 8:30pm: JJames ames Robinson. Robinson. Mountain Mountain View. View.
MOROCCO’S M OROCCO’SR RESTAURANT ESTAURANT Thu, 5pm-midnight: Thu, 5pm-midnight: Hot Hot M oroccan nnight ight w ith bbelly elly Moroccan with ddancing. ancing. $ 10 ccover. over. SSan an Jose. Jose. $10
PARRANDA P ARRANDANIGHTCLUB NIGHTCLUB Thu, 9pm: Thu, 9pm: B Banda anda 300, 300, D DJJ A kustik. FFri, ri, 8 pm: Norteño Norteño aand nd Akustik. 8pm: B andas live. live. SSunnyvale. unnyvale. Bandas
SSENZALA ENZALA FFri, ri, nnoon: oon: LLive ive m music. usic. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.
JJazz/Blues azz/Blues ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’SB BISTRO ISTRO Fri, 8 Fri, 8pm: pm: TTia ia Carroll Carroll aand nd H Hard ard aatt W ork. $ 10. SSat, at, 8 pm: SSteve teve Work. $10. 8pm: CCarter arter TTrio. rio. $ 10. R edwood City. City. $10. Redwood
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Sun, 55:30pm: Sun, :30pm: JJazz azz jjam. am. CCupertino. upertino.
Thu, 7pm: Thu, 7pm: D Don on Balistreri. Balistreri. SSat, at, Night. 77-9:30pm: -9:30pm: JJazz azz N ight. San San JJose. ose.
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Fri, 8 Fri, 8pm: pm: Gianfranco Gianfranco aand nd Phil Hudson FFriends. riends. SSat, at, 77pm: pm: P hil H udson Better With aand nd B etter W ith EEd. d. SSan an JJose. ose.
Wed: LLarry Wed: arry Chinn Chinn oonn ppiano. iano. Neil Band. TThu: hu: N eil KKelly elly JJazz azz B and. Sat: Sat: LLee ee Pardini Pardini TTrio. rio. SSan an Jose. Jose.
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Wed, 8 Wed, 8:30pm: :30pm: The The G Girlz irlz Band. Band. 8:30pm: TThu, hu, 8 :30pm: CContemporary ontemporary oorr 9pm: LLatin atin jjazz. azz. FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, 9 pm: JJazz azz Mon-Tue: aand nd ppop op ddance ance bbands. ands. M on-Tue: Piano Music. Hotel, P iano M usic. FFairmont airmont H otel, SSan an JJose. ose.
GGRAND RAND DELL DELL SSALOON ALOON Thu, 8 Thu, 8pm: pm: Blues Blues JJam am w w/Aki /Aki 8pm: KKumar. umar. FFri, ri, 8 pm: Dennis Dennis Dove. 8pm: D ove. SSat, at, 8 pm: SStan tan Erhard. Erhard. CCampbell. ampbell.
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THE T HE GRAPEVINE GRAPEVINE Sat, 77pm: Sat, pm: Mike Mike R Rodriguez. odriguez. Willow W illow Glen. Glen.
O’FLAHERTY’S O ’FLAHERTY’S Sun aand Sun nd Tue, Tue, 55pm: pm: Traditional Traditional music. IIrish rish m usic. San San JJose. ose.
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Thu, 8 Thu, 8pm: pm: Russo-Alberts Russo-Alberts TTrio. rio. 8:30pm: Monica Marquis. FFri, ri, 8 :30pm: M onica M arquis. 8:30pm: SSat, at, 8 :30pm: JJessica essica JJohnson. ohnson. Hotel Anza, H otel ddee A nza, SSan an JJose. ose.
FFri, ri, 8 8pm: pm: The The SShants hants w/Lady w/Lady 8pm: Rubin LLazarus. azarus. SSat, at, 8 pm: JJon on R ubin Group. G roup. SSun, un, noon: noon: Hot Hot Club Club de de Watsonville. View. W atsonville. Mountain Mountain V iew.
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Wed; G Wed; Gomer omer H Hendrix endrix Mon: Oliver EExperience. xperience. M on: O liver aand nd Dennis FFriends. riends. TTue: ue: D ennis aand nd SStuart. tuart. SSan an JJose. ose.
Wed, 9pm: Wed, 9pm: CCalifornia alifornia CCowboys. owboys. TThu-Fri, hu-Fri, 9pm, 9pm, SSat, at, 110:15pm: 0:15pm: Diablo Wild D iablo Road. Road. Sat, Sat, 7:15pm: 7:15pm: W ild aatt Heart. Heart. Fremont. Fremont.
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TThu, hu, 77-10pm: -10pm: LLive ive jjazz. azz. SSan an JJose. ose.
LLUNCHTIME UNCHTIME O ON NT THE HE SSQUARE QUARE Wed, 111:30am: Wed, 1:30am: Marty Marty Atkinson. Atkinson. Mon, M on, 11:30am: 11:30am: David David LLuning. uning. Redwood CCourthouse ourthouse SSquare, quare, R edwood CCity. ity.
MOROCCO’S M OROCCO’S R RESTAURANT ESTAURANT Wed, 77pm: Wed, pm: A August ugust CCollins ollins D Duo uo pplays lays jjazz azz sstandards. tandards. FFri, ri, 7pm: 7pm: w/Ron 650 JJazz azz w /Ron Scott, Scott, tthe he 6 50 Adriana, CConnection onnection aand nd A driana, pplus lus Andrew bbelly elly ddancing. ancing. SSat, at, 77pm: pm: A ndrew DiRuzza Rick D iRuzza aand nd R ick TTutunjian. utunjian. TTue, ue, 77pm: pm: Jeb Jeb pplays lays bblues lues aand nd rrock ock sselections. elections. SSan an JJose. ose.
POOR P OOR H HOUSE OUSE B BISTRO ISTRO Wed, 6 Wed, 6pm: pm: R Ron on TThompson hompson 6pm: aand nd FFriends. riends. TThu, hu, 6 pm: LLara ara Price 6pm: P rice aand nd YYesterdays. esterdays. FFri, ri, 6 pm: Mitch Woods Rocket M itch W oods aand nd tthe he R ocket 88s. 8 8s. Sat, Sat, 6pm: 6pm: Andy Andy SSantana antana West Playboys aand nd tthe he W est CCoast oast P layboys Mexican SSun, un, nnoon-6pm: oon-6pm: M exican Day Beach IIndependence ndependence D ay B each Party, P arty, ffeaturing eaturing tthe he TTex-Mex ex-Mex Nite bband and N ite LLiters. iters. SSan an JJose. ose.
THREE FFLAMES THREE LAMES RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT Sun, 77:30pm: Sun, :30pm: M Modesto odesto Briseno Briseno Willow Glen. SSeptet. eptet. W illow G len.
Wed, 6pm: Wed, 6pm: D Dark ark Hollow. Hollow. TTue, ue, 6pm: 6 pm: CCarolina arolina Special. Special. San San JJose. ose.
THREE FLAMES THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT R ESTAURANT Thu, 9pm: Thu, 9pm: Live Live country country music, music, Doug D oug Rose Rose Productions Productions w/ w/ Bit Band B it and and Spur Spur B and featuring featuring Willow CCowboy owboy Larry. Larry. W illow Glen. Glen.
Open O pen Mic Mic ANGELICA’S A NGELICA’S BISTRO BISTRO Wed, 6:30pm: Wed, 6:30pm: Open Open M Mic. ic. TTue, ue, 7-11pm: 7-11pm: Pro Pro Jazz Jazz Jam. Jam. Redwood R edwood CCity. ity.
BAREFOOT CCOFFEE BAREFOOT OFFEE ROASTERS R OASTERS Wed, 7pm: Wed, 7pm: Musical Musical oopen pen mic. mic. SSign ign up up bbyy 55pm. pm. Santa Santa Clara. Clara.
BRITANNIA ARMS BRITANNIA ARMS CCUPERTINO UPERTINO Wed, 9:30pm: Wed, 9:30pm: Open Open M Mic ic N Night. ight. CCupertino. upertino.
CCAFFE AFFE TRIESTE TRIESTE TTue, ue, 7pm: 7pm: O Open pen M Mic. ic. SSan an Jose. Jose.
CCITY ITY ESPRESSO ESPRESSO Fri, 77-10pm: Fri, -10pm: Singers Singers and and m usicians. San San JJose. ose. musicians.
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POOR P OOR H HOUSE OUSE B BISTRO ISTRO TTue, ue, 6 6pm: pm: O Open pen M Mic ic N Night. ight. SSan an JJose. ose.
RED R ED R ROCK OCK CCOFFEE OFFEE CCO. O. Mon, 77pm: Mon, pm: CCavin avin aand nd King’s King’s Open Mic. Mountain View. O pen M ic. M ountain V iew.
THREE T HREE FFLAMES LAMES R RESTAURANT ESTAURANT Wed, 8 Wed, 8pm: pm: O Open pen M Mic. ic. W Willow illow Glen. G len.
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Thu, 9pm: Thu, 9pm: D DJJ Thomas Thomas ““Soulman.” Soulman.” SSunnyvale. unnyvale.
Wed: G Wed: Guitar uitar H Hero ero TTournament ournament 9pm-1am: pplus lus karaoke. karaoke. TThu, hu, 9 pm-1am: KKaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta Clara. Clara.
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TThu, hu, 8pm: 8pm: Chris. Chris. Santa Santa Clara. Clara.
Wed W ed aand nd TTue, ue, 9:30pm: 9:30pm: KKaraoke. araoke. SSan an Jose. Jose.
FFri, ri, 6 6:30-10:30pm: :30-10:30pm: B Bands ands with with llive ive kkaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta Clara. Clara.
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FFri, ri, 9pm: 9pm: Ryan. Ryan. San San Jose. Jose.
BENNIGAN’S B ENNIGAN’S GGRILL RILL SSat, at, 9 9pm: pm: KKaraoke. araoke. SSanta anta Clara. Clara.
BLINKY’S B LINKY’S CCAN’T AN’T SSAY AY Fri, 9pm-1am: Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Danielle. SSanta anta CClara. lara.
BLUE B LUE B BONNET ONNET B BAR AR Wed-Thu and Wed-Thu and M Mon, on, 8pm: 8pm: Noo ccover. KKaraoke. araoke. N over. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.
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FFAHRENHEIT AHRENHEIT Mon: M on: M Monday onday N Night ight Madness. Madness. SSan an JJose. ose.
FFLAMES LAMES COFFEE COFFEE SHOP SHOP Thu-Sat, 9pm: Thu-Sat, 9pm: Uncle Uncle Dougie Dougie Noo ccover. SShow. how. N over. SSan an JJose. ose.
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Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Fri-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke. Karaoke. Santa Santa CClara. lara. Thu: SSingles Thu: ingles pparty arty with with DJ. DJ. Los Los Gatos. G atos.
OASIS O ASIS Wed and Wed and FFri-Sat, ri-Sat, 8:30pm: 8:30pm: Doug. Doug. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.
OFFICE O FFICE B BAR AR Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am, Fri-Sat, 9pm-2am, and and Sun, Sun, 77pm: pm: KKaraoke. araoke. Mountain Mountain View. View.
PEACOCK P EACOCK LLOUNGE OUNGE Thu, 9pm: Thu, 9pm: D DJJ Brian. Brian. Sun, Sun, 9pm: 9pm: DJJ and D and karaoke. karaoke. Tue, Tue, 9pm: 9pm: DJ, DJ, ddancing, ancing, kkaraoke. araoke. SSunnyvale. unnyvale.
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PEACOCK PEA COCK LLOUNGE OUNGE Fri, 8pm: DJ Dancing ffeaturing eaturing R&B, TTop oop 40, ’70s/’80s/’90s. Sat, 9pm: DJ Dancing ffeaturing eaturing Chill, R&B, TTop oop 40. Sun and TTue, uue, 9pm: DJ and dancing. Sunnyvale.
PEARL Thu: Bands and Beer P Pong ong w/Spanish/Latin rrock ock bands. Womanizer, Fri: W omanizer, hosed by Emilio (Snooki’s ex). Sat: Scandalous with go-go models. San Jose.
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Anything is possible, Debbie. The question is whether it’s likely. My guess: no. Here’s why. What’s the point? We’ve already got a proven method of making self-propelled homunculi that realistically simulate a mature human being. It’s called sex. Five minutes of mixing the ingredients, nine months of patient construction and 10 years parked in front of the TV. Voilà, the cutest little robot you can imagine. Does it walk? You bet. Does it talk? Like a champ. Does it think? Let’s not expect miracles. You also have the problem of having to feed it Happy Meals on a regular basis rather than storing it on the recharging stand till next needed. Nonetheless, it’s hard to imagine why you’d spend 90 jillion dollars replicating what you’ve got a globe full of bipeds churning out at their own expense. I’m not claiming there’s no need for robots. However, the goal of commercial robotics is to produce machines capable of reliably performing a tiny subset of human functions without needing bathroom breaks or asking for a raise. These special-purpose devices bear little or no resemblance to the living workers they replace. That’s just as well, because to the extent that they do: It’s creepy. Let’s set aside for the moment whether we’ll ever see generalpurpose positronic robots like the ones in Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi novels. An entrepreneur might well see a market for a machine that duplicated the appearance of a human for use as a product demonstrator, say, or—let’s be blunt—a sexbot. But be honest: would you really want to deal with one? Here we run into what Japanese robotics engineer Masahiro Mori called the “uncanny valley.” People respond positively when inanimate objects are endowed with human characteristics— up to a point. But if the object begins to approximate humanness too closely without getting all the way there, affection gives way to revulsion. That’s the valley on the emotional-response chart. Movie animators stray into the uncanny valley at their peril. Many blame the chilly response to Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and The Polar Express on the fact that the human characters in these films were too lifelike
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to be endearing but not lifelike enough to seem real. An android presents the same problem. If you’re going to go to the trouble of creating a human-seeming cable-guy-bot, you don’t want to find you’ve succeeded just enough to freak the customers out. Finally, let’s not minimize a fundamental problem: Making a good android is really tough. A convincingly human robot needs to do two things. First, walk the walk, which is to say, closely reproduce not just human appearance but human movement, and second, talk the talk, meaning not just that it sounds like a person but that it interacts with its environment as we do. The purely mechanical part is plenty difficult. Honda engineers have been working on robots capable of walking since 1986; one early model incorporated a computer, 32 motors, a battery, a radio and numerous sensors and weighed 462 pounds. The current model, called ASIMO, has been slimmed down to 95 pounds and can walk in a circle and— well, the engineers call it “running,” but top speed is less than four miles per hour. If you’re looking for a droid that can do the hokey-pokey, that could be a ways down the road. But realistic movement is just the start. The bigger challenge is getting the robot to behave like a human. The classic standard here is the Turing test, discussed in this column in the past: whether a machine’s conversational responses can be distinguished from those of a person. Some big heads in the world of artificial intelligence have spent decades arguing whether a machine that passed the Turing test would be truly thinking, but all we need for our purposes is a convincing fake. Even optimists doubt we’ll reach that modest goal before 2029. Despite the difficulties, buffs claim more lifelike robots would be better adapted to the human environment than the primitive devices we have now. I’m not entirely buying this—experience suggests it’s generally simpler to redesign the environment than the machine. Still, progress being what it is, maybe someday we really will have mechanical maids like in the old Jetsons cartoon show. But androids that can persuade you they’re human, or close to it? I won’t say never. But not soon.
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