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• Thu Sep 2
• Designer Drugs
• at Voodoo Lounge (9pm)
• Electronic Music

"Electronic duo Designer Drugs spent the better part of 2009 recording remixes of other artists' material - Thieves Like Us, Treasure Fingers, Mission Control, and even Mariah Carey. This year, the focus has been on their own songs, as well as bringing their beat-heavy, experimental, sex-inspired electronic dance music to clubs all across the globe. I know what you're thinking ...

• Fri Jul 30 - Sun Sep 5
• The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado (About Nothing)
• at Sanborn-Skyline Park (7pm)
• Plays

Shady Shakespeare Theatre Company's 2010 Summer Season of Free Shakespeare in the Park will run from July 30 - September 5, alternating performance evenings between The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado (About Nothing). This season they have added Thursday performances to make sure everyone has a chance to see these brilliant comedies.

• Fri Sep 3
• Talky Tina
• at The Blank Club (9pm)
• Rock

Talky Tina, the best mod-revival rock band in San Jose named after a Twilight Zone episode, has been through some big changes recently, with half the band splitting off and vocalist-guitarist-songwriter Dave Miller re-configuring it as a three-piece. Somehow, he managed to salvage the record the band had been working on, and Talky Tina's Blank Club show this week is a release party ...

• Fri Sep 3
• Stevie B
• at Avalon Nightclub (9pm)
• R&B/Soul Music

The King of Freestyle makes a stop in San Jose this week. Stevie B first made a name for himself in 1990 with the song "Because I Love You (The Postman Song)," which became a number one hit and stayed at the top of the charts for four weeks. Since then, he's cut his Jheri curl, but still continues to make great R&B music. Last year's The Terminator was a solid piece of work ...

• Fri Sep 3
• ZZ Top
• at Shoreline Amphitheatre (6:00pm)
• Rock

One of the most powerful of power trios, with 25 collective feet of beard and 41 years of Texas rasp. (Though the rasp was there from the beginning: what do you expect from the throats of a band named after Zig Zag rolling papers?) The hit mushmouther "La Grange" (a gargled Howlin' Wolf tribute), damn near a novelty song, was the most popular advertisement for a bordello ever recorded ...

• Fri Sep 3 - Sun Sep 5
• Kevin Pollak
• at San Jose Improv (8pm and 10pm)
• Stand Up Comedy

Kevin Pollak, who grew up in San Jose, has been performing standup comedy since he was 10 and has been touring professionally since he was 20. He has been seen in numerous movies (starting with "Willow" and most notably "The Usual Suspects"), Lately, Pollak has been hosting an Internet Talk show with in-depth interviews and continuing bits like tweets of fatuous stars. Now he returns ...

• Sat Dec 8 - Sat Sep 4
• Fame
• at Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge (9pm-2am)
• Asian Fusion

A special edition of the Fame Party event. Playboi Presents, along with Coors Light and MAC Cosmetics, introduce this year's MAC Aids Fund event. MAC Cosmetics annually holds events internationally to raise awareness and donations to the "Viva Glam" fund.

• Sat Sep 4
• Green Day
• at Shoreline Amphitheatre (7:00pm)
• Punk

Green Day's audience is getting simultaneously younger and older. More and more kids discover them in their local modern-rock rotation, while their parents realize they're not as scary as they used to be. Gone are the days of Gilman spitfire and street cred, the latter of which has hung in the balance for two decades now ...