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Museums
A new show at the Cantor Arts Center displays the disparate visions of 13 Stanford art profs
JESUS, barefoot and with a lamp protectively cradled in his arm, strides in close formation with Abe Lincoln in a stove-pipe hat and Julie Andrews in her Sound of Music dirndl, looking ready to break into song at any moment. Is this a trio of saviors—religious, political and pop cultural—or an just an accidental meeting in neutral painterly space? More
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Music
South Bay musician Angie Thurman of Stars Misplaced talks about her future plans
THERE COMES a point in every artist’s life when he or she simply hits a wall. Picasso’s hiatus following World War II, John Lennon’s “Lost Weekend” from 1973 to 1975 and Hemingway’s 10-year literary absence after writing For Whom the Bell Tolls are all examples of an artist’s need for a temporary departure from the creative realm. For San Jose songwriter Angie Thurman, that time is now. More
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Clubs
The Monty Python legend brings the laughs to Fox Theatre in Redwood City on Sunday, Nov. 8
JOHN CLEESE performs Sunday, Nov. 8, at 8pm at the Fox Theatre, 2215 Broadway, Redwood City. Tickets are $50–$66; 800.745.3000. More
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City Events
Celebrating 50 years of advocacy with a gala on Saturday, Nov. 7
THE AMERICAN GI FORUM ANNIVERSARY GALA takes place Saturday, Nov. 7, at 5:30pm at Unify Hall, 765 Story Road, San Jose. Tickets are $50. (408.499.8369, 408.829.0329 or 408.775.3251). More
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Clubs
Our club correspondent is pleasantly surprised at San Jose's Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge
I MUST ADMIT, I’m not the biggest fan of ultralounges. But I was recently at Fahrenheit in San Jose, and I have to say I had a really good time. More
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News
Carr v. Rosen; SJ City Budget Woes; Vault's Permit Pulled; Teen Suspects Arraigned
The Race for the DA's Office
Dolores Carr is facing a stiff challenge to her bid to stay on as Santa Clara County's DA, but she's fighting back. Even before challenger Jeff Rosen officially entered the race on Wednesday, Carr sent out an email citing a 2006 Mercury News report in its "Tainted Trials, Stolen Justice" series, which reported that an appeals court found that Rosen made a trial error several years earlier by ignoring a judge's ruling to obtain a conviction More
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Movies
Is there anything Lars von Tried won't put on screen?
THE MOST prestigious gross-out since Irreversible, Lars von Trier's Antichrist is billed as a director's return to instinctive filmmaking. Von Trier's "Your guess is as good as mine" approach includes comments such as "I let this film flow to me instead of thinking it up." More
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Clothing & Accessories
Local designer Charlotte Kruk makes haute couture out of cast-offs
USED TOOTHPASTE TUBES and real human wisdom teeth might not be most people’s definition of creativity, but Charlotte Kruk finds them positively inspiring. Kruk has been designing wearable sculpture made from candy wrappers and recycled product packaging under the label Kruktart for more than 15 years. More
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Music
Johnny Cash lives again in tribute band playing Friday, Nov. 6, at the Blank Club in San Jose
CASH’D OUT plays Friday, Nov. 6, at 9pm at the Blank Club, 44 S. Almaden Ave., San Jose; cover is $12. (408.29BLANK) More
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Movies
A local documentary about wrongfully convicted East Palo Alto man airs on KTEH Nov. 5.
TALK ABOUT double jeopardy. In 1991, Rick Walker, an independent auto mechanic living in East Palo Alto, was wrongfully convicted of murder, mostly on the basis of questionable testimony. Years later, the witness confessed, and Walker was exonerated. Having spent 12 years in San Quentin, Pelican Bay and other hard-core prisons, Walker was punished again by a quirk in the law. While the average prisoner is given some money and assistance upon release, an exonerated prisoner must wait for special legislative appropriation bills to receive the paltry $100 a day for each day of wrongful imprisonment mandated by California statute. More
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