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Clothing & Accessories
When in doubt, stylish men turn to the classic leather jacket
LEAVES are on the ground, leftover Halloween candy is settling into everyone’s spare tire nicely and the brisk winter weather is approaching at full force. As gentlemen drag out last year’s outerwear, it may become painfully obvious that they are in need of some snazzy new duds to shield them from the elements. More
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Music
Latin-music king performs Saturday, Nov. 14, at HP Pavilion
OUTSIDE of the Latin music world, some people don’t realize Marc Anthony isn’t just Mr. Jennifer Lopez. In fact, the guy is in the Guinness Book of World Records for most salsa albums sold. He had been recording Spanish-language albums for years before releasing his first, self-titled crossover hit. More
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News
SJPD Chief Davis Under Fire; H1N1 Clinic This Weekend; Tech Crunch Blasts Facebook; Everybody Loves Chuck
More Bang for the Buck
Even as most businesses are reporting a decline in sales this holiday season, the line for the opening of San Jose's new 99 Cents Only store wound around the block. People showed up long before sunrise for a chance to get a scooter for under a dollar (available to the first 99 people in line). More
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Music
Ex-UCSC prof delivers a message of uplift in folky songs
MICHELLE CHAPPEL’S song “Screw you, Yahoo,” from 2008, is a jaunty, acoustic number on how bad it feels to be laid off and think it’s your fault when it’s not. An accompanying video posted to YouTube featuring the diminutive Chappel showing flashcards with key words from the song became a brief Internet sensation, garnering 17,000 viewers on its peak day. “I think the video’s more relevant now than it was then,” Chappel says. More
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Movies
A comedy about rebellious ’60S DJs is all wet
DISMISSING Pirate Radio as a bad film made by bad people is shirking responsibility. It’s an easy shot to describe it as a sinking ship—Pirate Radio tries to top the ending of Titanic with a new Miracle of Dunkirk. But Pirate Radio is handily the worst movie of the year, and that alone gives it some stature, some worthiness of dissection. More
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Music
The poet king has become a touring success
WHEN Leonard Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, he appeared at the podium with the serenity of a Zen monk and humbly declared: “This is a very unlikely occasion for me. It is not a distinction that I coveted, or even dared dream about. So I’m reminded of the prophetic statement of Jon Landau in the early ’70s. He said, ‘I have seen the future of rock & roll and it is not Leonard Cohen.’” More
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Movies
New comedy '(Untitled)' skewers Manhattan art scene
This very witty parody of the Manhattan art world boasts a cast of frauds, surrounding one serious but surly artist, Adrian (Adam Goldberg), a composer of dissonant music who gripes that “harmony was just a capitalist plot to sell pianos.” More
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Music
A round-up of the best classical concerts in the valley.
THE CELEBRATED Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) endured a complex and fraught relationship with his homeland. Abroad during the Bolshevik triumph, Prokofiev came back during the 1930s, at the height of the Stalin regime. The government involved itself excessively in the creative output of its prominent artists. Realism was mandated; formalist tendencies condemned. Prokofiev struggled within these confines, tackling nationalist projects, such as his score for Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky and his opera version of Tolstoy’s War and Peace. In one of history’s ironies, Prokofiev died on the same day as Stalin. More
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Movies
L.A. gets what's coming to it in disaster epic.
L.A. wobbling on all sides of a mile-deep fissure in the earth, the skyscrapers dancing around its brink or keeling over in slow faints. A stretch limo scoots around these twisting monoliths trying to get to a comfortable cruising altitude; meanwhile, the unquiet earth rises up on both sides of the escarpment until it’s a crescent-shaped motif. Then, the UNESCO World Heritage Site (What? It isn’t? What the hell is up with that?) concrete advertising sign of Randy’s Donuts wheels through the chaos, as if inviting the car to take the proverbial flying you know what at a rolling donut. More
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Music
The blues great talks about playing with Howlin' Wolf.
HUBERT SUMLIN is a national treasure. Not just because he played with Howlin’ Wolf for almost 25 years, including on what is to my mind the best blues record ever made, 1962’s Howlin’ Wolf (a.k.a. the “Rocking Chair album”). Or because he also played with Muddy Waters, most notably on the 1957 single “Got My Mojo Working.” Or even because his incredible and unmistakable guitar style influenced everyone from Eric Clapton to Jimmy Page to Keith Richards. More
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