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Clubs
The Blank Club remembers the San Jose club on Nov. 27
IN the late ’80s, downtown San Jose was going through massive redevelopment, with seemingly endless construction everywhere. At the same time, a thriving counterculture scene grew organically on a stretch of First Street that wasn’t part of all the redevelopment. A nightclub called F/X opened at the corner of First Street and San Salvador in the old Pussycat Theatre, providing a creative antidote to the meat-market bars that constituted what little nightlife existed in other parts of downtown. At F/X, variety was crucial. You’d see national touring bands, B-movies, British motorcycle events, fetish dancing, oddball costume contests or even Tw More
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Theater
Ballet San Jose delights with 'Pirates of Penzance'
IN THE SPIRIT of puffy shirts, moonlit melodrama, mirthful buccaneers and bathing beauties, Pirates of Penzance! was a rollicking good evening of swashbuckling entertainment that amused the whole family. Though the overall dancing of the company wasn’t at the level of mastery shown in past Ballet San Jose performances, the production included more acrobatics and contemporary movement then usually seen from this company, provided by guest-choreographer Daryl Gray. More
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Theater
Ballet San Jose delights with 'Pirates of Penzance'
IN THE SPIRIT of puffy shirts, moonlit melodrama, mirthful buccaneers and bathing beauties, Pirates of Penzance! was a rollicking good evening of swashbuckling entertainment that amused the whole family. Though the overall dancing of the company wasn’t at the level of mastery shown in past Ballet San Jose performances, the production included more acrobatics and contemporary movement then usually seen from this company, provided by guest-choreographer Daryl Gray. More
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Movies
Wes Anderson's 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' is perfect holiday entertainment
ORSON WELLES had a famous comment about how the studio at RKO was “the biggest electric-train set a boy ever had.” Looking back at Wes Anderson’s career, it seems as if this cult director took the metaphor literally. The Darjeeling Limited was clearly an electric-train-set movie. And the toylike submarine in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou earned Anderson the derisive nickname “Capt. Neato.” More
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News
San Jose's Safety Ranking Questioned; Turkey Shortage; Too Fat to Fly; More San Jose A's News
Singleton Takes on Google
Just two days ago, SanJose.com reported that Rupert Murdoch and Microsoft are planning to take on Google. They could be joined by the Denver-based MediaNews Group, which owns the San Jose Mercury News, and practially every other “local” newspaper except the San Francisco Chronicle. More
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Restaurants
At an appearance at Kepler's, David Chang tries to explain away fig-gate
DAVID CHANG hates the Bay Area. We all know that, right? C’mon, Fig-gate and everything? He’s been tried and convicted in the media of crimes against “local and organic, the NorCal code of culinary conduct. The verdict: He’s out to ruin our reputation, plain and simple. What more is there to say? More
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News
Zynga Gets Rich on Questionable Practices; Parents of Slain Boy Talk
Perez's Jaunts for San Jose Evergreen Come under Scrutiny
It's good to be an executive assistant. Dr. Bayinaah Jones, executive assistant to Dr. Rose Perez, Chancellor of the San Jose Evergreen Community College District knows that all too well. Not only has she received a pay hike of $30,000 since 2005, not only did she buy a home in San Francisco together with the Chancellor (maybe to help her send emails from home), she was also appointed Executive Director of Institutional Effectiveness and given the rank of dean. More
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News
Adobe Enters eReader Fray
Amazon may have the Kindle, along with Oprah's endorsement, but there are plenty of new products entering the market, and San Jose's Adobe Systems plans to be a part of them. PDF's (Portable Document Format), developed by Adobe, are already ubiquitous online as a means of reading and sending documents that should not be altered, so it is only logical that the next step would be to adopt that format for electronic books. Sony has already done that, incorporating Adobe's technology into its eReader, and rumor has it that Barnes and Noble, the nation's largest book retailer, is planning to do the same when it co More
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Restaurants
Café Torre in Cupertino serves a diverse menu of Italian American and Mediterranean food
IMAGINE, if you will, a pyramid. The pyramid represents Silicon Valley’s dining scene. The broad base symbolizes all the great ethnic restaurants in Silicon Valley, the myriad of Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Mexican places that make the valley’s food scene so distinctive and diverse. More
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Clothing & Accessories
Local company Breezy Excursion scores with ’90s nostalgia shirts
BREEZY EXCURSION, one of the biggest street-wear brands to come out of San Jose ever, started with a dream. “I literally had a real dream about selling T-shirts made out of solid gold,” says Ryan Mante, the co-owner of the San Jose–based apparel brand. “I woke up and said, ‘You know what? I want to make T-shirts.’” More
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