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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
The dialogue is better than the action in yakuza revenge flick
THE SHINY Orientalism of Ninja Assassin’s dialogue is more of a treat than the fight scenes, which consist, basically, of a lot of whipping razor chains and puréed ninjas, who go up in what look like explosions in a ragu factory. The beginning made me whicker like a quarter horse: a tattooist (the great Randall Duk Kim) is hand-poking a squirmy yakuza who won’t hold still—this despite his large entourage, the alcohol he’s guzzling and the artist’s sage comment that “the needle is doing what the needle is meant to do.” More
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Movies
Cormac McCarthy has seen the future, and it is really, really bleak
SLOGGING THROUGH the sleet are two figures, half-starved on a perilous road to the sea; they are survivors of some thorough but indefinite holocaust. All civilization has broken down utterly; there is no light, no game—even the deer have given up the ghost—and long-pig consumption is on the rise. The Road is meant to be deep; it’s meant to be respected. More
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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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