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EDUCATION New school board president: Public education key to state’s future Dana Tom backs multi-pronged approach to addressing academic stress by Chris Kenrick ike many couples with young given to grand statements and takes children, Dana Tom and Nan- an incremental approach to issues. L cy Kawakita moved to Palo His statewide experience has Alto mainly because of its reputa- taught him that “there are a lot of tion for good schools. aspects to schools that are com- That was 15 years ago. pletely foreign to our region and Before long Tom, a software en- our citizens. We cover the full gineer, threw himself into school spectrum of school districts — very Andre Zandona volunteering and youth sports rural, urban, pro-tax, anti-tax. coaching. “It shows how hard it is to have Last month, he took the gavel to one-size-fits-all regulations and become president of the Palo Alto practices.” Board of Education for 2013. In rare split votes on the consen- Palo Alto’s own winter wonderland “I can think of nothing more im- sus-oriented Palo Alto board, Tom Aaron Kelly, left, skates at the Winter Lodge with Amaya Kelly and Mika Kameda during a break from portant we can do for our future,” generally has gone with the major- the rain on Dec. 26. Tom said of investing time, effort ity. and resources into public schools. He supported reforms to the aca- “The education I received as a demic calendar being implemented child was the greatest gift as far as this year, which moved the school NEIGHBORHOODS creating opportunities for me in my start date to mid-August in order adult life.” to squeeze in first semester before Educated in San Francisco public the December holidays. Reform Quality of life tops neighborhood goals for 2013 schools, Tom earned his bachelor’s advocates argued that a work-free and master’s degrees in electrical December vacation could provide Watchdogs plan to keep an eye on flooding, traffic and development in the coming year engineering from Stanford. He first a healthy break from academic by Sue Dremann ran and won a seat on the school stress. board in 2005. He was unopposed “I think this is the right move in ew Year’s resolutions are as heads told the Weekly. ers Authority is doing some useful for re-election to the board in 2010 the right direction for our students,” varied as Palo Alto’s resi- On Dec. 23, San Francisquito things, but the city should make the and has served one earlier stint — Tom said at the time of the calen- N dents, but for leaders of the Creek came close to overflowing Chaucer Bridge a top priority.” in 2008 — as board president. dar debate, adding that it would not city’s neighborhood associations, in north Palo Alto after a series of A subset of the neighborhood is After a career creating business- fully “solve” the problem of aca- addressing three issues — creek holiday-weekend storms. The near opposed to expanding the Newell applications software and later demic stress. flooding, new development and disaster reignited demands to quick- Bridge, Beamer said. City officials video games, Tom now works part- “Every time I meet somebody traffic — top the shortlist of goals ly rebuild or demolish the narrow will discuss the latest proposal at a time as a trainer of video-game de- from a place that has finals before for 2013. Chaucer Street and Newell Road community meeting on Jan. 8. velopment teams. winter break, I ask about it, and it’s These issues could have the most bridges. That debate will continue “On the one hand, the bridge The time commitment required just overwhelming the number of immediate impact on quality of life, in early 2013, as plans to expand the needs to be fixed to no longer for school-board work — as well people who support it — parents, some leaders noted, and in 2013, bridge at Newell move forward. present a flooding problem; on the as his additional involvement as teachers, board members, even they plan to ask city leaders to make “The recent rains have reminded other hand, there is concern about a board member of the California people who were initially skepti- the concerns a priority. everyone in the Crescent Park neigh- increased traffic as a result of add- School Boards Association — cal.” In addition, the ongoing chal- borhood that the flooding problem ing another lane to the bridge,” would make it difficult to hold a In the bruising 2007 battle over lenges of crime, disappearing of the Chaucer Bridge is something Beamer said. full-time job, he said. Tom also has creation of a Mandarin Immersion mom-and-pop retailers, the po- that the city should take a more Further south, the Adobe Meadow served as president of the Asian/ program, Tom initially voted with tential impact of increased train proactive role in addressing,” said neighborhood is also concerned with Pacific Islander School Board the majority who said the district service and the downsides of pro- Norman Beamer, president of the flood-control issues along the Adobe Members Association. couldn’t afford to launch the pro- posed dense development continue Crescent Park Neighborhood Asso- A staunch believer in public edu- to need attention, the neighborhood ciation, in an email. “The Joint Pow- (continued on page 7) cation, Tom nonetheless is rarely (continued on page 9)
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Last year that num- Jennifer Lindberg (223-6595) affair, perfectly suited to the largely ber was 42. “This is a 60 percent WKUHHFDPSXVHV:HRIIHUDQHQYLURQPHQWZKHUH Sales & Production Coordinators Dorothy Hassett (223-6597), Blanca Yoc (223-6596) ceremonial position. Thanks to the increase,” noted Cathy Mak, the HDFKVWXGHQWLVDUHVSHFWHGDQGYLWDOPHPEHU ADVERTISING city’s long-established tradition, school district’s business officer. the title of mayor usually goes to RIRXUHGXFDWLRQDOFRPPXQLW\3LQHZRRG Vice President Sales & Advertising Officials keep a close watch on Lower Campus Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) the vice mayor of the prior year. enrollment numbers as they try to Grades K – 2 Shop Product Manager ZHOFRPHVVWXGHQWVRIGLYHUVHFXOWXUDOUHOLJLRXV Samantha Mejia (223-6582) Furthermore, the mayor serves for match new classroom space with 477 Fremont Avenue Multimedia Advertising Sales only one year before the position the anticipated number of students. VRFLRHFRQRPLFDQGHWKQLFEDFNJURXQGV Los Altos, CA 94024 Adam Carter (223-6574), Elaine Clark (223-6572), rotates to another council member. Janice Hoogner (223-6576), Wendy Suzuki 223- Luckily, Mak said, most of the new- 650-209-3060 6569), Brent Triantos (223-6577), (The short duration results in a huge comers will be accommodated in Real Estate Advertising Sales quantity of ex-mayors. This became their neighborhood schools. How- Middle Campus :HLQYLWH\RXWRH[SORUHWKHRSSRUWXQLW\ Neal Fine (223-6583), Carolyn Oliver (223-6581), Rosemary Lewkowitz (223-6585) a running joke at a November meet- ever, “due to the number of new Grades 3 – 6 IRU\RXUVWXGHQWWREHFRPHDSDUWRIWKH Inside Advertising Sales David Cirner (223-6579), ing of the Santa Clara County Board third-grade registrations, we have 327 Fremont Avenue Irene Schwartz (223-6580) of Supervisors, where two former increased some of the classes to Los Altos, CA 94024 3LQHZRRGWUDGLWLRQRIDFDGHPLFH[FHOOHQFH Real Estate Advertising Assistant Diane Martin (223-6584) Palo Alto mayors, Yoriko Kishimoto 24 to one” teacher. Before, the ratio 650-209-3060 Classified Administrative Assistant and Sid Espinosa, addressed the was 23 students per teacher. Alicia Santillan (223-6578) )RUPRUHLQIRUPDWLRQRUWR board on the topic of a county Upper Campus K 7+528*+ EXPRESS, ONLINE AND VIDEO SERVICES grant, and a third former mayor, A TREE GROWS IN MADISON ... Grades 7 – 12 VFKHGXOHDFDPSXVWRXUSOHDVH Online Operations Coordinator Rachel Palmer (223-6588) Supervisor Liz Kniss, took part in Stanford University kicked off 2013 26800 Fremont Road 12 the decision on the grant.) Unlike in BUSINESS in grand fashion when it ground out Los Altos Hills, YLVLWRXUZHEVLWH Payroll & Benefits Susie Ochoa (223-6546) cities such as New York and San University CA 94022 a 20-14 victory against www.pinewood.edu Business Associates Elena Dineva (223-6542), Francisco, the mayor doesn’t have of Wisconsin at the Rose Bowl on 650-209-3020 Mary McDonald (223-6543), Claire McGibeny any executive powers beyond those (223-6546), Cathy Stringari (223-6544) Jan. 1. Stanford’s big win also pre- enjoyed by the rest of the council. ADMINISTRATION sented a smaller and more symbolic Job requirements include a smooth Receptionist Doris Taylor victory to Palo Alto officials and Courier Ruben Espinoza ribbon-cutting stroke; the ability to tree lovers. Thanks to a pre-game EMBARCADERO MEDIA pronounce the names of all council wager between Mayor Yiaway Yeh President William S. Johnson (223-6505) members who wish to speak; a and Madison Mayor Paul Soglin, Vice President & CFO Michael I. Naar (223-6540) firm grip for shaking hands in front the mayor of the city with the losing Vice President Sales & Advertising of cameras while bestowing a cer- Tom Zahiralis (223-6570) team has to wear the victor’s cap Director, Information Technology & Webmaster tificate of appreciation on a worthy through an entire meeting and must Frank A. Bravo (223-6551) citizen; proficiency with a ceremo- Major Accounts Sales Manager fly the flag of the winning team over nial shovel; and a social calendar Connie Jo Cotton (223-6571) his city. In a truly Palo Alto twist, city Director, Circulation & Mailing Services capable of accommodating various officials had also agreed that the Bob Lampkin (223-6557) grand openings and dedication cer- Circulation Assistant Alicia Santillan, losing city plant a tree in honor of emonies. Vice Mayor Greg Scharff Computer System Associates the winning city. Though that cer- Chris Planessi, Chip Poedjosoedarmo should have little trouble taking over emony might have to wait until Wis- as mayor from the outgoing Yiaway The Palo Alto Weekly (ISSN 0199-1159) is published conson’s winter sting clears, Palo every Friday by Embarcadero Media, 450 Cambridge Yeh, having already subbed in for Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94306, (650) 326-8210. Periodicals Yeh on all matters relating to Stan- Altans can rest assured that their postage paid at Palo Alto, CA and additional mailing greenthusiasm will soon spread to offices. 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SAN FRANCISQUITO CREEK East Palo Alto flood damage Emergency declared over Clarke Ave
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seeking an estimated $2.6 and director of emergency services, F e r a V Fallen million in government aid Mayor Ruben Abrica and City At- n University Ave c tree E i after pre-Christmas storms exten- sq torney Kathleen Kane. u it sively damaged the levee that pre- Seven homes along Daphne Way o W Bayshore Rd Hamilton Ave Cr vents San Francisquito Creek from near the creek were flooded with eek overflowing into the city’s homes about 2 feet of water, and about 40 and businesses. people were evacuated to a nearby = Damage/erosion to City officials declared a local American Red Cross shelter, Gon- creek bank or structures Levee Homes emergency on Wednesday, Jan. 2, zalez said. Palo Alto damage flooded = Flooded area Newell Rd stating that the flood damage to the City staff and volunteers added creek’s banks and the levee on Dec. more than 2,000 sandbags along Corey Shannon 23 and 24 caused “conditions of ex- the levee to stabilize it immediately O’Connor pump station; the under- Schapelhouman, who surveyed the Abrica said the city has contacted treme peril to the safety of persons after the flooding. mining of the historic University length of the creek from Alpine the California Office of Emergency and property” within the city. Abrica said there is no immedi- Avenue bridge abutment, over which Road to the O’Connor pump sta- Services, and state and federal rep- The declaration, which the city ate danger to residents now that the thousands travel into and from Palo tion, said a recently installed rain resentatives. sent to state officials through a sandbags are in place. But officials Alto each day; and significant por- gauge at Huddart Park in Woodside The East Palo Alto City Council proclamation, allows the city to ask are worried the levee might not tions of creek bank along Woodland helped determine that the creek was scheduled to review the procla- for an estimated $2.6 million from hold and the creek could overflow Avenue that could undermine the would flood. First responders had mation for ratification on Thursday, the state for emergency measures if more heavy rains hit the area this roadway. three hours rather than a few min- Jan. 3. A copy of the proclamation to correct the damage. That total winter. About 49 percent of city “Our uppermost concern is the utes to call for the evacuation before was forwarded to California Gov. could run higher after additional residents live in the flood plain, safety of residents on both sides of the creek overflowed. Jerry Brown with a request that he engineering studies are conducted. Gonzalez said. the creek,” Abrica told reporters A catastrophic failure of the levee declare a state of emergency in East Stabilizing the levee just after A total of 12 problems requir- Wednesday afternoon, referring to would cause a “(Hurricane) Katrina- Palo Alto. the December rains has exhausted ing immediate work to protect the Palo Alto and Menlo Park residents style problem,” he said. The levee A call to Brown’s office was not East Palo Alto’s available reserves city from flooding were identified, who also reside along the creek and height is at the level of the tops of immediately returned. N and its local and regional financial including a large crack in the le- could be affected by creek overflow the homes, and a break would mean Staff Writer Sue Dremann can resources, city staff said Wednes- vee that threatens a business near and erosion. the neighborhood could be flooded be emailed at sdremann@paweek- day. The proclamation was signed U.S. Highway 101; damage to the Menlo Park Fire Chief Harold to the roof lines. ly.com.
HOLIDAY FUND Preschool closes the education gap Family Connections supports low-income families by Lisa Kellman adira Mederos de Cardenas tuition-free, parent-participation pre- graduate from the program. While arrived at the nonprofit Fam- school for low-income families in San there remains a large achievement Y ily Connections with her son, Mateo County, Family Connections gap between low-income children — Issac, in 2006 looking for some- has served more than 1,000 children and particularly English-language place to help with his early educa- since its founding in 1993 and has 225 learners — and their peers, Family tion. At the age of 2, Issac had been children enrolled this year, the most it Connections is working to close it. diagnosed with autism. has ever had, according to staff. “Surveys show the children (who Family Connections, a bilingual The Palo Alto Weekly Holiday go) through the program are enter- preschool and parent-education Fund granted Family Connections ing ahead of their peers that are program operating in Menlo Park, $7,500 this year to support its math English-language learners and low- Redwood City and East Palo Alto, and science curriculum. income,” Zimmerman said. taught Mederos about autism and “We are a play-based preschool,” The preschool is as much for par- Weber Veronica how to interact with Issac. The staff Family Connections Executive Di- ents as it is for children. Each of the Anaiya White, 3, plays with fellow preschoolers Stephanie Contreras, also referred her son to Golden Gate rector Renee Zimmerman said. three Family Connections locations left, and Giselle Ochoa at Family Connections Preschool in the Belle Regional Center, a state-run program “However, we have found employs a teacher trained Haven neighborhood of Menlo Park. for individuals with disabilities. that there are lots of ways in both early-childhood “Everyone here at Family Con- that you can bring to a development and adult all of the Family Connection par- with special needs and parents with nections taught me how to work with play environment early education. At the pre- ents stay involved in their chil- maternal depression or other mental him. He learned how to socialize literacy skills, early math schools, parents are in dren’s education after leaving the health issues. with kids,” Mederos said recently. and science skills, which charge of different sta- preschool. The program also helped her Mederos’ younger daughter, now have been shown to be a tions for the day so that Through the program, parents complete several English-language 4, also enrolled in Family Connec- huge predictor of what each parent serves as a also learn the importance of play classes. The Family Connections tions, where she learned to speak children are able to do teacher. For a portion of to help a child’s developing brain staff and teachers have encouraged English and became interested in later on in school.” each morning, half of the grow and learn, along with hands- her to go back to school, too. She books. Zimmerman said the parents attend a parenting on techniques such as positive par- plans on attending college so she “I can write a book about how money is funding theme-based sci- class in which they can share experi- enting, positive discipline and how can become either a teacher or a so- Family Connections helped me and ence kits and also supporting at- ences and ask questions. They also to best support their child as he/ cial worker. continues to help me,” Mederos said. home learning programs such as attend night classes once a month. she nears kindergarten, according “The person that I am now is Many studies have shown that a “virtual Pre-K,” which provides ma- In the afternoon at the pre- to the nonprofit. Parents also learn thanks to Family Connections. I child’s preschool experience can terials that parents can take home schools, Family Connections part- conflict-resolution skills, which have dreams and I have many things be formative for brain development and use with their children. ners with a private occupational- they use with their children as well to do,” Mederos said. N and a good predictor of future suc- “It allows the parents to really therapy group to run a speech, as in their own relationships. The Palo Alto Weekly Holiday cess. But for low-income families, engage with their children and re- language and occupational-therapy Mederos now volunteers at the Fund is raising funds from the com- access to preschool is often unat- ally learn with their child after they program for children who have ad- Family Connections preschool. With munity to support local nonprofit tainable. leave the classroom,” she said. ditional learning issues. the nonprofit’s support, she became organizations that serve children, Family Connections was founded Zimmerman said that these fami- Research and surveys performed a trained facilitator and leads a sup- families and adults. More informa- to address the problem. The only lies continue to learn even after they by the program show that almost port group for parents of children tion is available on page 26.
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CITY HALL Palo Alto’s behind-the-scenes movers and shakers Key city staff members champion major initiatives by Gennady Sheyner hey may not be elected offi- still open, faces an uncertain future for all food establishments) and sion for local parks and recreation bridge over U.S. Highway 101 and cials or department heads, but with major staffing cuts ahead. What- is heavily involved in Palo Alto’s opportunities and proceeds with the new trails around Stanford Univer- T five members of the City of ever surprises 2013 brings, Antil is library-construction project, which golf-course redesign, his presence sity and along Matadero Creek. Palo Alto staff are almost certain sure to remain busy over the next 12 will loom large in 2013 as the city will be more critical than ever. to play critical roles in some of the months. opens its new Mitchell Park Library Shiva Swaminathan city’s most pressing problems and and Community Center and begins Jaime Rodriguez For Palo Alto’s Utilities Depart- boldest initiatives in 2013. Here’s a Phil Bobel renovating the Main Library. Since he started working in Palo ment, delivering gas or electricity to look at some important people you Phil Bobel probably knows bet- Alto in 2010, Chief Transportation local residents is just one part of the may never even have heard of. ter than anyone (with the possible Rob de Geus Official Jaime Rodriguez has be- game. The small but ambitious de- exception of Kermit the Frog) that When a cluster of teenage suicides come the leading driver of some of partment is always looking for ways Pamela Antil being green can be a royal pain. in 2009 and 2010 plunged the Palo the city’s most ambitious and con- to get greener and more efficient, Pamela Antil didn’t have time for Over the past two years, the assis- Alto community into a period of troversial programs — from the whether it comes to buying solar a learning curve when she joined the tant director shock, mourning and soul-searching, lane-reduction projects on Arastra- energy or city in March 2010 as City Manager of the Public city and school officials vowed to do dero Road to the more dramatic re- encouraging James Keene’s second in command. Works De- more to support local youths. No one configuration of California Avenue, customers to As the new assistant city manager, partment has has done more than Rob de Geus to which is scheduled to break ground be more ef- she dove right into some of the city’s been walking further this effort. As the manager in the fall. During that time, the fast- ficient about thorniest and game-changing issues, a fine line in the Community Services Depart- talking and energetic Rodriguez plugging in. including labor negotiations with between two ment, de Geus had been juggling a has attracted Senior Re- public-safety outspoken massive workload even before the the highest source Plan- unions, the green camps city helped launch Project Safety praise from ner Shiva overhaul of — those who Net, a broad local plan- Swamina- the city’s busy want to build coalition of ning com- than has and famously a new waste- community missioners been at the frustrating to-energy groups fo- for his en- forefront of Development plant at Byxbee Park and those who cusing on cyclopedic the latter effort, having spent years Center, the want to conserve the park space. teen mental mastery of thinking about ways to bring “smart- unpopular The complex debate, which will health. He is seemingly grid” technology to Palo Alto with- (and since determine the future of local com- also the city’s every local out having to install expensive smart nixed) pro- posting, will accelerate in 2013 and, recreation intersection meters. Unlike PG&E, Palo Alto is posal to close if things go as planned, culminate manager and and regional proceeding in baby steps. Its latest Palo Alto’s animal shelter and the in a decision in early 2014. While the overseer grant program. He has also taken proposal to save customers money restructuring of the city’s Fire De- coordinating all the ongoing studies of the Palo his share of heat from California by lowering their energy bills is partment, which has been gradually and facilitating the public debate, Alto Municipal Golf Course, which Avenue merchants upset about the CustomerConnect, a pilot program merging its administrative functions Bobel has established himself as is about to undergo a dramatic re- proposed lane reduction on their that tracks energy use and provides with the Police Department. Though a credible and genial voice of rea- configuration. With myriad projects commercial strip. He was also in- customers with next-day feedback the budget picture has brightened, son on the highly emotional topic. under his purview, de Geus has been strumental in helping Palo Alto about the impact of their behaviors Palo Alto is still facing its share of At the same time, he is serving as a multipurpose utility knife in a de- and Stanford University land $10 on electric bills. If it succeeds, the financial problems, most notably the the point man in the city’s battle partment that has seen an exodus of million in grants from Santa Clara program would both lower custom- rapidly rising cost of employee ben- against plastic bags (which could division managers. In the next year, County in November, money that er bills and make the city’s electric efits. And the animal shelter, while soon result in a citywide bag ban as the city begins to reassess its vi- will be used to design a new bike utility smarter and more efficient. N
Future council approved a contract with and a housing boom in the southern the city “strategically determine — an ambitious concept that was (continued from page 3) a polling firm to start gauging the part of the city — officials are try- how our parks and recreation facili- pitched by billionaire developer and public sentiment about an infra- ing to figure out whether Palo Alto’s ties are to be enhanced, expanded philanthropist John Arrillaga. structure bond and to see which parks, open space preserves and rec- or replaced over the next 10- , 20- , After a heated Dec. 3 meeting, public-transit hub, lingered in plan- items on the long list are likely to reation offerings still suffice. 30-year period.” during which dozens of residents ning purgatory for years, stuck in win favor with the voters. The list In 2013, the city will hire con- The study will evaluate the panned the idea of building four limbo by a lack of funding and in- includes replacement of two ob- sultants to conduct an in-depth de- condition of community gardens, office towers and a theater at the sufficient community interest. solete fire stations, improvements mographic study and analyze the gymnasiums, exercise rooms, bas- prominent location between down- Palo Alto officials have plenty of to Byxbee Park and a new police city’s recreational programs and ketball courts, pools and other town Palo Alto and Stanford Uni- reason to think that current plans building to replace the city’s exist- recreational facilities, according versity, the council opted to take a will avoid a similar fate. The new ing one, which is undersized and to a report from Peter Jensen, the step back and broaden its menu of Bicycle and Pedestrian Transpor- seismically unsafe. city’s landscape architect. It will options for the site. tation Master Plan, which the City When the City Council meets for ‘I think we are in the also assess Lucie Stern Communty As a result, the master plan for Council approved in July and which its priority-setting retreat on Feb. 2 Palo Alto process right Center and “leased and contracted what the city has branded the “arts the city will proceed to implement to figure out what it should focus on now, and that process public facilities such as the Cub- and innovation district” will now in 2013, has been a particular source in 2013, infrastructure is almost cer- berley Community Center and Palo include at least three alternatives: of hope for local officials and the tain to play a leading role, despite always ... will have Alto Unified School District fields Arrillaga’s plan and two alterna- city’s robust biking community. In the fact that it wasn’t an official many, many, many and courts.” tives featuring buildings less mas- November, the city received a $4 council priority in 2012. Incumbent On a separate but related note, the sive than those in the initial pro- million grant for one of its most council members Larry Klein, Greg layers and public city plans to take a broader look at posal. Councilman Pat Burt, who expensive and dramatic items — a Scharff, Gail Price and Nancy Shep- meetings around it.’ its robust collection of street trees. proposed development of a master bike bridge spanning U.S. High- herd and newcomer Marc Berman —James Keene, Last year, the city hired its first ur- plan beyond the single Arrillaga way 101 at Adobe Creek. The grant all placed the item on their proposed Palo Alto city manager ban forester, Walter Passmore. This option, said he is “interested in from Santa Clara County also gave priority lists for the new year. year the city will proceed with its this site for a visionary outcome the city $1.5 million for a trail along “Urban Forest Management Mas- but one that is driven by commu- Matadero Creek. In with the new facilities. The “Parks, Trails, Open ter Plan,” a broad analysis of trees nity values and consistent with our A comprehensive 2010 study of the hile the council tackles the Space and Recreation Master Plan” in local parks, public streets and downtown urban fabric.” city’s infrastructure by the Infrastruc- politically and financially will also seek to identify “oppor- private properties. Keene said he The council’s decision means ture Blue Ribbon Committee (which W thorny issue of infrastruc- tunities and deficiencies for future expects this plan to be completed people will have the opportunity analyzed the needs and proposed ture, City Hall staff will be tackling recreation programs and services,” by June 2013. to weigh in on the subject — good ways to pay for needed fixes) is also other long-term vision documents, according to the proposal that the news for some of the leading critics set to play a pivotal role in 2013. Over including a soon-to-be-commenced Parks and Recreation Commission Going up? of the Arrillaga proposal, who have the course of the year, the council will master plan looking at city parks reviewed in November. ut if there is one master plan charged that the council and staff narrow the list of items that could be and recreational opportunities. That view of the future is expect- that has galvanized the com- have not been transparent. placed on the 2014 ballot for voter ap- With the city’s significant demo- ed to be a long one. At the coun- B munity and will continue to “I think we are in the Palo Alto proval of funding. graphic shift over the past decade — cil’s Dec. 17 meeting, City Manager stir passions in 2013, it’s the city’s process right now, and that pro- In the final month of 2012, the towards more seniors, more children James Keene said the plan will help proposal for 27 University Ave. cess always — particularly in a
Page 6ÊUÊ>Õ>ÀÞÊ{]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Upfront Ecole internationale de la Péninsule neighborhood, said Srini Sankaran, to see relief this year from people Neighborhoods president of the Greendell Neigh- who store cars on their streets for (continued from page 3) borhood Association. days and weeks on end. City staff ̽ Three major projects are of most announced on Nov. 20 plans to Creek corridor, according to Ken Al- concern: the future use of 525 San prohibit overnight parking in the ࣑ len, president of the Adobe Meadows Antonio Ave., a former preschool neighborhood’s commercial zone Neighborhood Association. that was purchased by Palo Alto between 1 and 4 a.m. When it comes to housing, Barron Unified School District last year; “We hope the parking restric- Park neighborhood residents will be the future use of Cubberley Com- tion in the commercial zone near ᄑ monitoring two proposed residential munity Center on Middlefield Road; El Camino will discourage the guy developments this year, Barron Park and the impacts of residential and with 12 to 15 vehicles parked in the ዕ Association President Lynnie Mel- commercial development abutting vicinity,” Barker said. ena told the Weekly in an email. San Antonio Road, including the re- On Arastradero Road, the main ओ The possible razing of Buena leasing of the old Hewlett-Packard issue for Green Acres I neighbor- Vista Mobile Home Park on El Mayfield complex. hood residents will be the traffic PRE-SCHOOL YOUR CHILD Camino Real to make way for 180 “Interestingly, most of the on- WHEN IT’S , along the corridor, particularly dur- Outstanding full- high-end apartments is expected to going or proposed development is ing school hours, Alice Sklar wrote day program. EXPERIENCE MATTERS. receive close scrutiny. Advocates technically in Mountain View, but in an email. LANGUAGE MANDARIN CHINESE IMMERSION FOR 15 for Buena Vista have vowed to try it is right on and off San Antonio, so “We are sometimes unable to TEACHING Longest running YEARS. A LEADER IN FRENCH IMMERSION IN PALO to retain the 127-unit, low-income it affects Palo Alto residents rather get in and/or out of the two streets, bilingual PRE-SCHOOL immersion school ALTO. ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS. park or make sure its residents have heavily,” Sankaran said via email. Pomona and Los Palos, that service in the area. Experienced other comparable accommodations Allen said Adobe Meadow resi- our neighborhood,” she said. native-speaking in Palo Alto. dents are wary of the impact that In Midtown, the issue is al- faculty. RSVP FOR A TOUR! A senior-housing project, pro- the new Mitchell Park library and ways traffic, according to Annette ACADEMICS PRE-SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE posed by the Palo Alto Housing community center will have on the Glanckopf, vice chair of the Mid- Established English JANUARY 12, 2013 Corporation for the intersection of area, given the new traffic it could town Residents Association. curriculum. Rigorous program Maybell and Clemo avenues, will generate. But the problem isn’t always in a nurturing also be watched this year to deter- Traffic and parking continue to cars. environment. Low student-to-teacher INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF THE PENINSULA mine how it might impact the neigh- be prime worries for the north Palo “The biggest issue for us will ratio. 7%" 777)340/2' s 0(/.% borhood, Melena said. Alto neighborhoods of Professor- be the pedestrian/bike path along College Terrace neighborhood ville, Downtown North and Uni- Matadero,” association president residents, meanwhile, are concerned versity South. Residents there will Sheri Furman said. The planned about the planned Mayfield housing keep pushing for parking and traf- Palo Alto Matadero Creek Trail will project along California Avenue in fic reforms in the downtown area in go through the center of Midtown the Stanford Research Park. Con- 2013, according to Elaine Meyer of and closely pass by some homes, struction is scheduled to begin in University South and Ken Alsman she said. 2014 and expected to last four years, of Professorville. Neilson Buchanan of Downtown according to Brent Barker, College The city has implemented a resi- North took a broad view of neigh- Terrace Residents Association presi- dential permit-parking program and borhood issues, saying that the city Give blood for life! dent. traffic-calming devices in College needs to conduct comprehensive The neighborhood continues Terrace, but residents are hoping studies on quality of life that are bloodcenter.stanford.edu to lobby Stanford University for not piecemeal. a “spine” road through the center TALK ABOUT IT “Define what makes neighbor- of the nearby section of Research www.PaloAltoOnline.com hoods safe, vibrant and liveable. Park, which would relieve traffic What concerns should the city address Start with criteria for traffic, safety Draft #3, 11/26/12, Weekly ad along California Avenue, he said in this year to improve Palo Alto residents’ and parking metrics,” he said. N an email. quality of life? Share your opinion on Staff Writer Sue Dremann can Developments are the singular is- Town Square, the community discussion be emailed at sdremann@paweek- 34th T Call for Nominations sue for south Palo Alto’s Greendell forum on Palo Alto Online. ly.com. A A The Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce N L and the Palo Alto Weekly project as complex as this — will dating even more offices and protec- by the city’s 2008 library bond. are proud to announce the have many, many, many layers and tion for downtown merchants, many They will also see the city finally N 34 public meetings around it,” Keene of whom are struggling to keep up break ground on the ambitious and L th Annual Tall Tree Awards, assured the council and the com- with rapidly rising rent. controversial effort to turn Califor- U presented in four categories munity on Dec. 3. “It’s an exciting time because nia Avenue into a boulevard akin The Arrillaga proposal is one there is a time where we can solve a to Mountain View’s Castro Street. A T recognizing exceptional of many downtown issues that the lot of existing issues and stop a lot After years of debate, construction civic contributions and service council and staff will juggle in of issues that could happen in the is set to begin in the fall. L 2013. Downtown’s parking short- future from happening,” Assistant The sheer number and scale of R to the Palo Alto community. age — a pressing issue in 2012 Planning Director Aaron Aknin, these projects point to the strides Current elected officials are not eligible. — will continue to drive conver- who will oversee the study, told the Palo Alto has made in the past four E sations as the city proceeds with Planning and Transportation Com- years to recover from the economic outstanding citizen/volunteer a comprehensive study of local mission on Dec. 12. shockwaves of late 2008. Now, as garages, parking lots and parking the council convenes after holi- E outstanding professional demand and considers ways to ease Set in stone day break and welcomes two new outstanding business the parking congestion. n addition to this plethora of members, former Mayor Liz Kniss Zooming out even further, the city studies and master plans, Palo and attorney Marc Berman, it will outstanding nonprofit plans to consider whether downtown I Alto residents should see plenty find itself knee-deep in problems A can even absorb more development. of concrete accomplishments in of prosperity. There is no fiscal W Nomination deadline: In 1985, the city decided to cap new the coming year all over the city, cliff on University Avenue, and January 11, 2013, 5 pm downtown development at 350,000 from the spring opening of the new foreclosures are largely unheard square feet. Officials also decided Mitchell Park Library and Commu- of within city borders. The city is A nomination forms back then to take a fresh look at nity Center in the south to the sum- ushering in 2013 with a rosy finan- and registration: development and parking when mer re-opening of El Camino Park cial forecast (a projected General R new development reaches 235,000 in the north, following construction Fund surplus for a change) and a square feet. of an underground reservoir. Rose Bowl victory for Stanford D Recent applications for dense Those in the east can look for- University. S office complexes downtown — in- ward to design work accelerating The year will inevitably feature design by harrington design cluding the approved Lytton Gate- on a new bike bridge over U.S. its share of unwelcome surprises way building and proposed office Highway 101 at Adobe Creek, while and neighborhood controversies. complexes at 135 Hamilton Ave. and those in the west can anticipate im- But it also promises to be a time of 636 Waverley St. — have pushed the provements to trails around Stan- finally tackling lingering problems, city past that 235,000-square-foot ford University. celebrating accomplishments and trigger point. As a result, the city Those closer to the center of looking deeper into the future. N now plans a “downtown cap” study, the city can expect to see the city Staff Writer Gennady Sheyner which will cover parking policies, launch its renovation of Main Li- can be emailed at gsheyner@ downtown’s capacity for accommo- brary, the final component funded paweekly.com.
ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊ>Õ>ÀÞÊ{]ÊÓä£ÎÊU Page 7 Upfront News Digest Court rebukes Assistant DA Boyarsky Chief Assistant District Attorney Jay Boyarsky, the second-highest- ranking official in the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, was castigated by a state appeals court on Dec. 27 for misconduct while handling a hospital-commitment case against a sexual predator, accord- ing to court documents. The California Sixth Appellate District Court stated that the miscon- duct “so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting con- viction a denial of due process.” The finding resulted in a reversal of a judgment that had committed a man to a state hospital who admitted performing sexual acts with teenaged boys. Boyarsky asked improper questions of the witnesses, which elicited inflammatory answers, and he made improper arguments to the jury, Presiding Judge Conrad Rushing wrote in the Dec. 27 ruling. The court’s decision comes one year and nine months after District Attorney Jeff Rosen announced a conviction-integrity unit in March 2011 to address a series of prosecutorial-misconduct allegations against the office; the allegations preceded his tenure. The unit was to set protocol to prevent future errors. The Dec. 27 appeals-court ruling stems from two 1994 felony cases against Dariel Shazier, who pleaded guilty to sodomy with a minor under the age of 14 and sodomy with a minor under age 18 and oral copulation where the victim was unable to resist due to an intoxicating substance. He was sentenced to 17 years and 8 months in state prison. But shortly before his release from prison, in April 2003, the DA’s office filed a petition to commit Shazier to a state mental facility as a sexually violent predator under the Welfare and Institutions Code. The first commitment trial resulted in a hung jury. Boyarsky pros- ecuted the third commitment trial, in which the jury found Shazier met the criteria as a sexually violent predator. Shazier was committed for an indeterminate term, and he again appealed. It remains unclear whether the California State Bar will take any action against Boyarsky, a Palo Alto resident. N — Sue Dremann Midtown Palo Alto liquor store robbed at gunpoint Two men armed with handguns robbed a liquor store in Midtown Palo Alto on Saturday night, Dec. 29, and absconded with alcohol and cash, Palo Alto police said. The robbery occurred at Century Liquors at 3163 Middlefield Road just before 7:55 p.m., when the men entered the store and demanded alcohol " " " $ ## ! ! /. %) and cash from a clerk. One of the robbers pointed a gun at the clerk, who complied with their demands. #, ) ) "!-.%0!-.2'! !#%))%)#1%.$ $%-.*,% 3+!)%)#%#$.5 *) !,. The men placed 12 bottles of alcohol — with a total value of about $230 — into backpacks they had brought, and fled out the front door with ) *).%)/%)#1%.$ "/''1!!&!) *".% &!.! ) ",!!!0!).- !'! .!0!).- an undisclosed amount of cash. There were no injuries, and no customers 1%'' !1! -.*,-%(/' -. *,!%)"*,( .%*) .7 $ !" # were in the store at the time, police said. The robbers are described as black men in their 20s. They were wearing black masks, black jackets and dark pants. Both men were armed with semi-automatic handguns. One of the men was about 6 1 00 %)#*) !,. ''+!)%)#%#$.*) !,.4 feet tall with a thin build. The other man was about 5 feet 10 inches tall, police said. Police are asking that anyone with information about this crime contact the department’s 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous /. -0,+ 00 %)#'%)#*((/)%.2+!)*/-!4 tips can be e-mailed to [email protected] or sent by text message or voice mail to 650-383-8984. N — Sue Dremann * 00)( 00 *-* *-4 Family faces burglary charges after Dec. 27 arrest A father, mother and daughter are facing burglary charges in Palo Alto after allegedly attempting to steal men’s clothing and an expensive purse from a department store, a spokesman for the Palo Alto Police . -0 . 1,!) !.,%)#/ ,.!. Department said. Kosta Barjaba, 52, his wife, Fatbardha Barjaba, 52, and their daughter Jonniada Barjaba, 23, were arrested Dec. 27 after police said they took * 00 /-% *".$!*/-! items from Nordstrom at the Stanford Shopping Center, police spokes- man Officer Sean Downey said. /-% !+ ,.(!).$*1 -!4 The trio entered the store in the early afternoon, and loss-prevention observers told police the family left with a bag of men’s clothing and then returned to the store a second time with the bag. The officers watched as %)#*) !,. '' -/!).,!!. % &!.6 !$*/,-! ,% . one of the Barjabas allegedly purloined a Coach purse worth $238. As the suspects exited the store, the security guards stopped them out- side and tried to detain them, Downey said. Kosta Barjaba then allegedly threw the bag of items back into the store, and he and his wife ran away while guards detained the daughter. At about 2 p.m., security personnel called Palo Alto police, who found and arrested the wife and recovered the Coach purse a short distance away from Nordstrom, Downey said. Police then received a call from a '+0 *.+ .*1*&% pay phone from the father, who reported his wife and daughter as missing persons. Officers arrested the father after answering his call. N — Bay City News Service
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PLANNING AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION ... The commission DR. CINDY HUE, D.D.S. DR. JESSE KIM, D.D.S. plans to discuss the scope of the city’s “downtown development cap” s study and review the draft of the proposed density-bonus ordinance. The FAMILY COSMETIC DENTISTRY meeting will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 9, in the Council Cham- 650.366.0552 bers at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.). $ HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION ... The commission plans to hear an ONLY 49* FREE 50% OFF update from the Palo Alto Police Department on police staffing, community Includes Whitening Teeth Whitening Kit Uninsured, relations and the future of the Police Community Advisory Group; discuss Treatment with Complete X-rays, the closure of the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park; and discuss the Human New Patients Only Services Needs Assessment. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m., on Thursday, Exam, X-Rays Exam and Cleaning Call for details. Jan. 10, in the Council Conference Room at City Hall (250 Hamilton Ave.). and Cleaning .EW 00/ 0ATIENTS /NLY 7ITH COUPON ONLY 6ALUE #ANNOT BE COMBINED WITH #ANNOT BE COMBINED 5NINSURED .EW 0ATIENTS /NLY OTHER COUPONS WITH OTHER COUPONS #ALL FOR DETAILS 7ITH COUPON ONLY #ALL FOR DETAILS ,IMITED TIME OFFER ,IMITED TIME OFFER ,IMITED TIME OFFER BIRCH DENTAL GROUP Online This Week These and other news stories were posted on Palo Alto Online throughout "IRCH 3TREET s 2EDWOOD #ITY the week. For longer versions, go to www.PaloAltoOnline.com/news #ALL 4ODAY TO 3CHEDULE AN !PPOINTMENT or click on “News” in the left, green column. 7E !CCEPT !LL -AJOR 00/ 0LANS AND (-/ 0LANS How did horses get on Interstate 280? Why and how four horses from Webb Ranch got onto Interstate 280 Avenidas presents its 2nd Annual Financial Conference on Saturday, Dec. 29, is unclear. Three of the horses were struck and killed by a car on I-280 north of Alpine Road at around 4:50 a.m., ac- &ORMULATING 9OUR &ISCALLY &IT 2ETIREMENT cording to the California Highway Patrol. (Posted Dec. 2 at 3:37 p.m.) New safe-driving laws take effect in California Texting while driving, red-light cameras and party buses are among the targets of new driving-related laws that took effect in California Tuesday, Jan. 1. (Posted Jan. 2 at 11:54 a.m.) Man grazed by bullet in East Palo Alto A man apparently grazed in the head by a gunshot in East Palo Alto Tuesday morning, Jan. 1, refused to cooperate with police as he was treated at Stanford Hospital, according to the East Palo Alto Police Department. (Posted Jan. 2 at 8:50 a.m.) CHP arrests 208 for DUI over New Year’s weekend The California Highway Patrol is reporting that it made the same number of DUI arrests in the Bay Area over the holiday compared to the same period last year, while fatal collisions were down. (Posted Jan. 2 at 8:46 a.m.) First Person: A conversation with the Stanford Tree Stanford grad Jonathan Strange talks to Lisa Van Dusen about what it takes to be the Stanford Tree, mascot of the Leland Stanford Junior Uni- versity Marching Band, in anticipation of his trip to the New Year’s Day Rose Bowl between Stanford and Wisconsin. (Posted Dec. 31 at 8:20 a.m.) Menlo Park liquor store robbed at gunpoint &EATURING #ONSUMER 2EPORTER Michael Finney Customers shopping at the Tri-E-Z got more than they bargained !"# .EWS /N 9OUR 3IDE for Friday night, Dec. 28, after two men, one armed with a handgun, robbed both store and shoppers. (Posted Dec. 29 at 5:01 p.m.) 3ATURDAY *ANUARY s AM PM Palo Alto lawyer sentenced for bribery attempt "RYANT 3T 0ALO !LTO A Palo Alto patent attorney who was convicted of attempting to bribe a police officer and drunken driving, after being pulled over outside a U 2ETIREMENT 2EADINESS U -ANAGING (OUSEHOLD %XPENSES U ,ONG 4ERM #ARE )NSURANCE Colma casino, received an 8-month jail sentence with three years of supervised probation on Thursday, Dec. 27. (Posted Dec. 28 at 9:47 a.m.) U 2EAL %STATE 4AXES U -EDICARE 3OCIAL 3ECURITY U 3PECIAL 4RACK &OR "OOMERS
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Menlo Park sports & hot picks of vital statistics 1800 block El Camino Real, 12/29, 7:35 p.m.; robbery. with coupon POLICE CALLS (Not valid Friday & Saturday) Palo Alto Dec. 19-31 ,UNCH "UFFET - 3 s 3UNDAY /NLY "ROWN 2ICE s 2ESERVATIONS !CCEPTED Violence related NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING Armed robbery ...... 1 369 Lytton Avenue Battery ...... 1 of the City of Palo Alto Downtown Palo Alto Child abuse...... 1 Resisting arrest...... 1 Architectural Review Board (ARB) (650) 462-5903 Theft related Fax (650) 462-1433 8:30 A.M., Thursday, January 17, 2013 Palo Alto Council Cham- Commercial burglaries ...... 3 Family owned and operated for 17 years Identity theft ...... 3 bers, 1st Floor, Civic Center, 250 Hamilton Avenue. Go to the De- Petty theft ...... 3 velopment Center at 285 Hamilton Avenue to review filed docu- Residential burglaries ...... 2 www.jantaindianrestaurant.com Shoplifting...... 1 ments; contact Diana Tamale for information regarding business Vehicle related hours at 650.329.2144. Auto theft ...... 5 Driving w/suspended license ...... 3 135 Hamilton Avenue [11PLN-00463]: Request by Keenan Hit and run ...... 1 Misc. traffic ...... 1 Lovewell Ventures, on behalf of Hamilton and High LLC, for Archi- Theft from auto ...... 12 tectural Review of a new four-story 28,146 square foot mixed-use Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... 8 building on an existing vacant lot (approximately 20,000 square feet Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .6 of commercial area, two residential units, and below grade garage). Vehicle embezzlement ...... 1 Alcohol or drug related The project includes a Variance request for a building encroach- Drunk in public ...... 4 ment into the 7’ Hamilton Avenue Special Setback (5’11” across Drunken driving...... 8 approximately 84 feet). Zone District: CD-C(P). Environmental Possession of drugs ...... 2 Assessment: A draft Negative Declaration has been prepared for Possession of paraphernalia...... 1 Miscellaneous the project in accordance with CEQA. Disobeying court order ...... 1 Support Palo Alto Weekly’s Found property...... 5 1305 Middlefield Road [12PLN-00222]: Request by Palo Alto Outside assistance ...... 1 Community Services Division for Historic and Architectural Possession of stolen property ...... 1 coverage of our community. Psychiatric hold ...... 3 Review of a new sign program for Rinconada Cultural Park that Suspicious circumstances ...... 4 includes the Lucie Stern Community Center, a Category 1 Historic Vandalism ...... 1 Resource. Zone District: PF. Environmental Assessment: Exempt Memberships begin at only 17¢ per day Warrant/other agency...... 5 from CEQA per sections 15301 and 15311. Menlo Park Dec. 19-31 Join today: Violence related Amy French Robbery ...... 1 Chief Planning Official SupportLocalJournalism.org/PaloAlto Theft related Fraud ...... 2 Petty theft ...... 8 Residential burglary ...... 7 Shoplifting...... 1 Vehicle related NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING Auto recovery ...... 2 Frank Raymond Wheeler Of the City of Palo Alto Auto theft ...... 3 Transportation Division Bicycle theft ...... 2 July 8, 1922-Dec. 21, 2012 Driving w/suspended license ...... 5 Public Meeting Notice Hit and run ...... 7 Misc. parking/driving violation ...... 1 Suspicious vehicle ...... 1 Frank Raymond Wheeler, 90, passed away peacefully in his home Fabian way Theft from auto ...... 2 at the Vi in Palo Alto with family around him on December 21, Enhanced Bikeway Improvement Project Vehicle accident/minor injury ...... 4 Vehicle accident/no injury...... 3 2012. Vehicle accident/property damage. . . . .2 He lived and worked for most of his life within a few miles of DATE: Thursday, January 17th, 2013 at 7:00pm Vehicle tow ...... 4 Alcohol or drug related where he was born in Palo Alto to Oliver P. and Ethel R. Wheeler. Drug activity ...... 10 He attended local schools, Peninsula School, Jordan Jr. High School, TIME: 7:00pm-8:30pm Drunk in public ...... 1 Drunken driving...... 5 Palo Alto High School, Stanford University and Stanford Medical Miscellaneous School. After 37 years in private practice in Internal Medicine, he LOCATION: Cubberley Community Center Coroner case ...... 1 Disturbance ...... 4 retired in 1989. Since his retirement, he has often been approached 4000 Middlefield Road Room A-6 Fire call ...... 1 by former patients or their family members who expressed their Palo Alto, CA 94303 Found property...... 2 Info case ...... 2 gratitude and admiration of the care he gave. Lost property ...... 5 He loved the out of doors, being on the river fly fishing, taking Missing person ...... 3 Outside assistance ...... 1 up downhill skiing at 40, playing tennis with friends and golfing The City is soliciting community input on design Psychiatric hold ...... 5 until his last year. He leaves the legacy of the Wheeler family cabin alternatives to improve bicycle accessibility along Fabian Suspicious circumstances ...... 2 Violation of a court order ...... 1 at Silver Lake – a place beloved by friends and family. As private a Way between East Meadow Drive and Charleston Vandalism ...... 2 fellow as he was, he had a wide and deep circle of friends, neighbors, Road. This segment of the city’s bicycle network is Warrant arrest...... 4 sporting companions, even classmates from high school who still crucial link to help connect to future bicycle-pedestrian Atherton Dec. 19-31 gather for lunch on occasion. bridge crossing alternatives planned at Adobe Creek Theft related Frank was predeceased by his high school sweetheart and trea- & Highway 101 and builds upon recent improvements Fraud ...... 1 Vehicle related sured wife of 58 years, Marty Dodds Wheeler. He is survived by along San Antonio Road. The City is soliciting input on Abandoned auto...... 3 his three daughters, Barbie Breneiser (John) of Ashland, Oregon, alternatives to reduce this segment of Fabian Way from Auto recovery ...... 1 Auto theft ...... 1 Anne Wheeler-Waddell (John) of Jacksonville, OR, and Joan Griffin 4-lanes to 3-lanes to provide a dedicated two-way left Parking violation ...... 2 (Bill) of Redding, CA, his grandchildren, Jeff Buckley, Tara Bedney turn lane for enhanced safety for vehicles turning into Suspicious vehicle ...... 15 Vehicle accident/no injury...... 2 (Brian), Courtney and Scott Griffin, and his great grandchildren, and out of driveway along the roadway while supporting Vehicle code violation ...... 16 Alex and Casey Bedney, and his sisters, Jean Whitley of Indian wider bicycle lane facilities. Improved pedestrian Miscellaneous Disturbance ...... 3 Hills, CO, and Phyllis Dunlap of Denver, CO. The last years of his crossings are also being considered. Please join the Fire call ...... 3 life were brightened and blessed by his friend and companion Rue discussion and provide your input. Hazard ...... 7 Juvenile problem...... 1 Faris Drew. Lost property ...... 2 Friends and family are invited to a Celebration of Life of Frank This community meeting has been schedule to present Medical aid ...... 3 Outside assistance ...... 10 Wheeler which will be held on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 2 p.m. at the conceptual plans. For further information contact: Suspicious circumstances ...... 5 the Vi, 620 Sand Hill Rd, Palo Alto, CA. [email protected]. or call (650) 329- Suspicious person ...... 1 Violation of a court order ...... 3 PAID OBITUARY 2441. Warrant arrest...... 3 ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊ>Õ>ÀÞÊ{]ÊÓä£ÎÊU Page 11 Mary Wright Shaw March 9, 1919-Nov. 30, 2012 Mary Wright Shaw passed away peace- View/Los Altos School District. In 1972, Transitions fully on November 30, 2012, at the age of 93. she returned to Stanford to earn her bach- Births, marriages and deaths Born in 1919 to Thomas and Anna Wright, elor’s degree in psychology, 20 years after her Mary Alberta Wright grew up in Warren, original classmates had graduated. Macca Christine Pennsylvania on the shores of the Allegh- Mary lived life with passion. She had an years and her works remain as an eny River—a source of reflection and inspi- amazing sense of humor, an uncanny abil- Winnbury ongoing memorial to her. Macca Christine Winnbury, 99, Special thanks to her devoted and ration throughout her life—with brothers ity to find humor in the unending ironies of died Dec. 17. beloved caregivers, Margaret Chi- Thomas Jr. and John David, and her sister life, even in times of great personal challenge. She was the child of James Hunt- nappa and Josephina Baratang, and Virginia. Her father died when she was four- Thus laughter permeated the Shaw house- er Chandler and Julia Stone. Her the staff of Odyssey Healthcare. years-old, and her mother later remarried to hold and family get-togethers throughout sisters Louise Turner (Claude) and Donations in her memory can be Carl Hultberg (“Cully”), a WWI vet- the years. ‘Perseverance’ was her watchword. Marguerite Lewis (David) preceded sent to Lucille Packard Stanford her in death, as did her first hus- Children’s Hospital, 400 Hamil- eran and loving stepfa- She never stopped caring for band, Eric Charles Twist, and sec- ton Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94301; or ther who helped provide those in need and she never ond husband, Frank Edward Win- to another charity. Services will for the children amidst the stopped learning. She was nburg. be private. Please sign the online economic deprivation of the passionate about golf, became She was born in Nanton, Alber- guestbook at www.cusimanocolo- Great Depression. An intel- a regular fixture in the Stan- ta, Canada, on the family farm and nial.com. moved to Southern California when ligent and exuberant youth, ford Golf Clubs Ladies Group she was 10. However, she lived most Maria Elida Ma r y excel led bot h as a student and played into her eighties. of her life in Northern California, Maria Elida, 101, died Dec. 18 and athlete. She would recall In 1991, Mary spearheaded moving there after the death of her surrounded by her family. with great fondness playing the launch of YES Reading at first husband. She met her second She was born in Tumbes, Peru, alongside her older sister as the Belle Haven Library as a husband at Sequoia High School on Nov. 19, 1911, and immigrated where they were both teachers. to California in 1978 with her hus- starting guards on their high project of Youth Empower- She will be remembered fondly band Luis Melchor Yanez to join her school basketball team—Vir- ing Systems, Inc. Under her by many former students at Sequoia son Luis and his wife Gina of Los ginia was the scorer, Mary was spirited leadership, the read- and Woodside high schools, where Altos Hills. She lived in Palo Alto the ball-handler and tenacious ing program achieved an ex- she taught for many years before for 33 years and is survived by six of defender. ceptional success rate and continued to grow retiring. She leaves her daughter, her seven children, Guillermo, Rosa Margaret (Peggy) Twist Fry (Jer- America, Maria Luisa, Luis, Betsy Following in the footsteps of her compas- in reach, funding support and social impact. yl); three grandchildren, Jay Fry and Maria Teresa; 20 grandchildren; sionate mother, Mary studied nursing at Mas- The organization, whose name was changed (Grete), Oscar Fry (Jackie) and 28 great grandchildren and seven sachusetts General Hospital and then Public to Reading Partners in 2008, has continued Bruce Fry (Lora); and seven great great-great grandchildren. Health at Simmons College, receiving her to prosper and now serves more than 5,000 grandchildren, Margaret and Jery- She spent the first 16 years of R.N. and Public Health Certificate in the ear- students across the country. lin (Jay and Grete), Regan, Kyle and her life in Ecuador with her grand- Luke (Oscar and Jackie), and Mohr- mother Jesus. Upon her grandmoth- ly 1940s. She served as a lieutenant in the U.S. In addition to being a powerful advocate for gan and Julia (Bruce and Lora). er’s death, she joined her parents in Army Nurse Corp from 1944 to 1946. public health and literacy, Mary was an ex- She received her education at Callao, Peru, where at the age of She met her husband, Norman Shaw, at San traordinary lifelong writer. In 1997, she pub- Chapman University and Occi- 14 she studied math and science in Francisco’s Presidio Hospital where he was re- lished her autobiographical book, Go with the dental College and received her the vocational school and earned a covering from a war injury suffered in WWII’s River, under Gander Publishing, which she master’s degree from Stanford Uni- vocational teaching degree. At the versity. She was a loyal Stanford age of 20, she married Luis Melchor Battle of the Bulge. They first met during founded with her sister years earlier. Mary’s alumna and always enjoyed going Yanez Ladron de Guevara and had an outing for patients and nurses at a 49ers book draws upon her personal journals to to the football games, especially the seven children. After 67 years of game in old Kezar Stadium. Norman was a share life stories shaped by love, tragedy and— Big Game, since her daughter was a marriage, her husband’s death sepa- San Francisco native and they both loved The above all—by an amazing inner strength Cal graduate. rated them. City. On occasion, Mary would affectionately and personal resilience. As testimony to her She enjoyed volunteering and She left children, extended fam- spent many years as a volunteer at ily, friends and the residents of Lyt- chide Norman, a U.S. Army second lieuten- many outstanding career achievements and Allied Arts Guild. She also took up ton Gardens, where she lived for 33 ant, that she outranked him. Mary recalled community contributions, Mary was hon- painting and sculpting in her later years. A mass was held Dec. 22. climbing the chilly concrete stairs together at ored with the Avenidas Lifetime Achievement San Francisco’s Legion of Honor in the Fall of Award in 2001, which was published as a Palo Visit 1946, sharing their deepest thoughts and se- Alto Weekly cover story. crets. They fell in love and were married three She generously passed along her loving wis- months later. dom for the written word to all whose lives Lasting Memories They both enrolled at Stanford on the G.I. she touched, from family and friends to the Bill and soon started what Mary described countless participants in the health and edu- An online directory of obituaries and remembrances. as the couple’s “ten-year production period,” cation programs that she championed. She Search obituaries, submit a memorial, share a photo. during which their daughter and four sons was a devoted mentor to her grandchildren, Go to: www.PaloAltoOnline.com/obituaries were born. Mary put her education on hold instilling in them a fondness for literature, to become a full-time mom, while Norman the importance of caring for others and— graduated from Stanford in engineering and most of all—a love of life. embarked on his professional career that took Mary is loved and will be deeply missed Nancy Fox the family to Pittsburgh and then Los Ange- by her family: daughter, Mary; four sons, les. Norman, Peter, George and John; grand- Nancy Fox passed away on December In 1960, Norman died suddenly of a heart at- children, Siena, Yvonna, Angela, Wyatt, 15, 2012. She died with her husband Ed at tack on the day after Christmas. Mary moved Genevieve, Anna, Monica and Andrea; son- her side, at their Palo Alto home in which the family back to Palo Alto where she took in-law, Rick; and daughters-in-law, Donna, they’d lived for more than 40 years. She will on the dual responsibilities of mother and Julie and Christine. be deeply missed by daughter Alissa, mar- breadwinner for her family of five children. There will be a private family memorial ried to Jeff Silverman with their children In 1961, she took a job as the school nurse service to celebrate Mary’s extraordinary life Jacob (8) and Adam (5) and her daughter for Mountain View High School, which was and she will be placed next to her husband Elizabeth, married to James Rogers with the beginning of her long and distinguished Norman at Alta Mesa Memorial Park in Palo Ramona (5), along with numerous family career in public health and education. In Alto. Mary was devoted to Reading Partners, members and friends. 1968, she began to serve on the Mental Health the literacy outreach program for children Nancy served as the Executive Director of the Girl Scouts of Commission of Santa Clara, and later joined that she co-founded, and she would gratefully Santa Clara County for 13 years. the boards of Social Advocates and the Red smile upon any memorial donations to its There will be a memorial held at the Lou Henry Hoover Girl Cross. In 1971, she was promoted to Direc- life-enhancing mission (www.readingpart- Scout House in Rinconada Park on Saturday, January 5 from 12 tor of Health Services for the Mountain ners.org).
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JUDGES: PRIZES ADULT/YOUNG ADULT FOR ADULTS: Tom Parker, Award winning novelist and short $500 Cash - FIRST PLACE story writer, UC Extension and Foothill College $300 Cash - SECOND PLACE Instructor and former Stanford Instructor $200 Cash - THIRD PLACE Meg Waite Clayton, is the nationally best selling author of The Four Ms. Bradwells, The FOR YOUNG ADULT/CHILDREN/TEEN: Wednesday Sisters, and The Bellwether Prize finalist The Language of Light. $100 Gift Certificate - FIRST PLACE Ellen Sussman Author of New York Times best $75 Gift Certificate - SECOND PLACE selling novel French Lessons and San Francisco $50 Gift Certificate - THIRD PLACE Chronicle best seller On A Night Like This Certificates are from co-sponsoring CHILDREN/TEEN area bookstores. Katy Obringer, Former supervisor of Palo Alto Bell’s Books (*ages 15-17) Children’s Library Kepler’s (*ages 12-14) Caryn Huberman Yacowitz, Playwright and EXTENDED Linden Tree (*ages 9-11) Children’s book author *age as of entry deadline Nancy Etchemendy, Children’s book author ENTRY DEADLINE: All Writers: January 11, 2013 5:30 p.m. All adult winners and first place young winners in each category will be announced in the Palo Alto Weekly in February 2013. All winning stories will be published online at www.PaloAltoOnline.com CONTEST RULES 1. The contest is open to anyone who lives, works or attends school full-time in Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Stanford, Portola Valley, Woodside, Mountain View, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, and East Palo Alto. 2. Limit of one entry per person. 3. Stories must be typed, double-spaced. Maximum 2,500 words. Longer stories will be disqualified. 4. $15 entry fee, along with 2 hard copies, for all ADULT stories; $5 entry fee for YOUNG WRITERS under 18. Make checks payable to “Palo Alto Weekly.” 5. Entries may not have been previously published. 6. Signed entry form must accompany story. Author’s name should NOT appear anywhere on pages of story. 7. All winners are required to email their story to the Palo Alto Weekly in a Microsoft Word Document as an attachment.
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by Jay Thorwaldson But during serious storms it becomes a a major flood in the Feb. 3, 1998, overflow of alo Alto and its neighbors Menlo Park deep brown torrent, on which some young the creek, despite being distant from the creek and East Palo persons — including one of my own sons, un- After major flooding of itself. Water flows downhill, and failure of a P Alto have expe- beknownst to me — would secretly go white- the mid-1950s, the two large pumping system due to loss of power just rienced flooding for water rafting. A chilling risk. backed water up into homes, sometimes up to decades — despite The reason the creek surges from nearly counties raised the levees 4 feet or more deep. The creek overflow also occasional efforts at empty to nearly overflowing is that upstream, hit portions of the Crescent Park area and oth- flood relief. as it wends through Portola Valley, it is fed and added low concrete er homes as the water flowed through en route But a new effort to by a series of relatively short and steep can- to south Palo Alto. Damage was ultimately increase the capac- yons, most with historically intriguing names. walls, a significant estimated at more than $40 million. ity of San Francisquito The first rains of the season get soaked into Yet although the Pope-Chaucer bridge was Creek — frequently the predominantly redwood forests lining the improvement but far short target of most of the blame, the creek was at referred to in news canyons. of a permanent solution. capacity for most of its lower length. Officials stories as “the flood- Yet when the second or third heavy rains reported up to 17 overflow sites, most of them prone” creek — may reduce the risk of future hit the water quickly rushes down the canyons fairly minor. Ironically, the inadequacy of the floods, notwithstanding long-term concerns and combines into a torrent heading down- bridge may have saved other homes down- about global climate change, a rising sea (and stream, right toward Palo Alto and its lowland site sides of the Pope-Chaucer bridge to assure stream in Menlo Park and East Palo Alto from bay) level and more volatile weather. neighbors. that neither city did anything to increase risk being flooded. Most of the flooding threat stems from the After major flooding of the mid-1950s, the of flooding to the other city. Some parts of East Palo Alto are particu- flood-prone creek, although other sources two counties raised the levees and added low The JPA’s former executive cirector Cynthia larly at risk. If a sudden levee failure were to of flooding have also added to people’s wet- concrete walls, a significant improvement but D’Agosta, while successful in building a com- occur, some neighborhoods would be quickly weather woes. far short of a permanent solution. mon effort relating to the creek, nevertheless flooded with an estimated 8 to 10 feet of wa- One chronic flooding-site is the Oregon In the late 1960s, the surging creek jammed struggled against the Corps’ sluggishness and ter. That’s a fatal depth, trapping people in Expressway underpass at Alma Street/Cal- up at the infamous Pope-Chaucer Street tight local budgets until she decided to leave their homes and vehicles and creating what train tracks. In one instance, the late William Bridge, with its constricting arch. Then-City to head the local environmental group Com- the Palo Alto Weekly once editorially called Clark, M.D., recounted how in the late 1950s Manager George Morgan showed up at the mittee for Green Foothills. D’Agosta earlier a potential “mini-New Orleans” catastrophe. he was racing at night to the home of a patient bridge in the early morning hours and report- launched a campaign to preserve three wa- The term reportedly helped shake loose some who was suffering a heart attack. He sped into edly helped city crews wield long poles to tersheds, and headed a joint-powers effort to federal funds to expedite studies. the then-new underpass — and splashed into shove floating trees through the arch. bring together scores of agencies involved in The state has already added to the creek’s about 3 feet of icy-cold water. Clark waded Since then, the formation of the San Fran- the huge Los Angeles River basin. flow capacity under state Highway 101, and away from his drowned car, but his patient cisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority — usu- Current JPA Executive Director Len Mater- plans are afoot to redesign the Palo Alto Mu- died. ally referred to as “the creek JPA” — tackled man has shifted tactics, de-emphasizing the nicipal Golf Course to allow some straight- Recent flooding of the underpass indicates two core problems that had for years stymied role of the Corps of Engineers in favor of lo- ening and widening of the outflow channel not much has changed. In heavy rains, it of- effective action. The first was competitive cal efforts and focusing on expanding down- to the bay. In a severe threat the golf course ten floods, more seriously if there’s a problem finger-pointing between the communities of stream capacity of the creek to handle a so- itself could serve as an overflow flood basin with the pumps. Palo Alto, Menlo Park and East Palo Alto, called “100-year storm.” That term means any to relieve pressure upstream. Yet the primary concern for Palo Alto, along with the two counties. The second was a storm that has a 1 percent chance of occurring Big progress is slated for 2013. So at last Menlo Park and East Palo Alto officials and massive barrier: the bureaucracy of the Army in any given year. There is real concern that this could be the year the creek is made sub- residents is the flood-prone San Francisquito Corps of Engineers that seemed to local of- global warming could increase the 1 percent stantially more flood-safe. Maybe. N Creek, the deep channel that separates Santa ficials to bog down action through delayed substantially, and rising sea levels would in- Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson Clara and San Mateo counties. During much decisions and endless studies. crease the odds of high-tide flooding of lower- can be emailed at jthorwaldson@paweekly. of the year, the creek is, well, a creek, some- Tension between communities grew. At one lying residential area — including a huge area com with a copy to [email protected]. He times virtually drying up to a trickle with point, during a heavy rain city crews from of south Palo Alto. also writes regular blogs at www.PaloAl- some mossy ponds. Menlo Park and Palo Alto gathered on oppo- Lowlands of south Palo Alto were hit with toOnline.com (below Town Square).
WHAT DO YOU THINK? Letters The Palo Alto Weekly encourages comments on Preserve Buena Vista Save the park our coverage or on issues of local interest. Editor, Editor, As a resident of Barron Park for more Regarding the possible closure of the than 30 years, I would like to express Buena Vista Mobile Home Park and What should Palo Alto’s my full support for keeping Buena Vista the displacement of the nearly 400 resi- Mobile Home Park in its current status. dents who live there (Dec. 14, p. 22), I priorities be for 2013? This is a long-term, healthy community find that the closure and redevelopment filled with hard-working families with of the property into 180 apartments ? children in our local schools and many cannot be accompanied by any relo- Submit letters to the editor of up to 250 words to retired people on limited incomes. It is cation of the low-income residents to [email protected]. Submit guest opinions of 1,000 also very close to public transportation. anywhere in this area. This is truly the words to [email protected]. Include your name, ad- Several years ago I volunteered once a “nightmare” for these residents that you dress and daytime phone number so we can reach you. week at the co-op market on Middlefield refer to in the editorial. The last thing We reserve the right to edit contributions for length, to shop grocery lists, and occasionally Palo Alto needs is more apartments in objectionable content, libel and factual errors known to us. Anonymous letters will generally not be accepted. delivered to retired people at Buena Vis- this area and the disappearance of one Submitting a letter to the editor or guest opinion ta. It is a quiet and safe place to live. of the last vestiges of Palo Alto being a constitutes a granting of permission to the Palo Alto Palo Alto is always talking about home for people of all ranks of life. In Weekly and Embarcadero Media to also publish it online, planned low-cost housing. Here it ex- a phrase, “Save the park!” including in our online archives and as a post on Town ists, functioning well, and all we have Zelek S. Herman Square. to do is let it continue. Please help us to College Avenue, Palo Alto For more information contact Editor Jocelyn Dong or preserve it! Editorial Assistant Eric Van Susteren at editor@paweekly. Alice Gross com or 650-326-8210. Paradise Way, Palo Alto
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rom a pint-sized girl sur- viving storms on the wrong side of the levee to a CIA agent planning to rescue a band of hostag- f es, the stories that played out on the silver screen in 2012 were full of heroes small and THE YEAR large. In choosing their top films Right: Jack of the year, Weekly critics Peter Black in Canavese, Tyler Hanley and Susan “Bernie.” Tavernetti singled out avengers Below: Chris and activists, superheroes and Hemsworth (as everymen. Thor) and Chris Highest honors went to a ship- Evans (Captain wrecked teenager navigating the America) in Pacific and the waters of life with “The Avengers.” a Bengal tiger. Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi” was the sole movie to score a place on all three top-10 lists. 2012 Other high-ranking films were: the sharp political thriller “Argo,” the heavy-on-the-symbolism indie “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” and Christian Bale the poignant dramedy “Silver Lin- as Batman in ings Playbook.” Each made it onto “The Dark two out of three lists. Knight Rises.” For every hero, there’s a mess of guys who trip over their own feet. In their annual “worst five” lists, Canavese and Hanley contribute such underwhelming titles as “Rock of Ages,” “That’s My Boy” and an ill-advised update of “The Three Stooges.” In addition, Hanley gives read- ers a look ahead at the films of 2013. We’ll be watching closely to see which lists those movies make it on next year. FILMin
From left, “This is Not A Film,” “Life of Pi.” Quvenzhané Wallis in “Beasts of the Southern Wild.”
In their annual Peter Canavese’s top films control, or perhaps as a sublimated erotic dance. Either way, we get a master class in acting: Joaquin Phoenix sublimely “best” and 10. The Queen of Versailles More wildly, trashily enter- spontaneous as a damaged veteran, Philip Seymour Hoff- taining than any reality TV show, Lauren Greenfield’s film man thundering as a spiritual flimflam man. “worst” lists, somehow winds up being the Citizen Kane of documenta- ries: a horrifying look into America’s blood-in-the-gears 8. The Deep Blue Sea Terence Davies does Terence Weekly film capitalist engine and Walmart soul. The nouveau-riche Rattigan in this elegant, lushly emotional psychodrama, Siegels have, to paraphrase the Bard, bought a mansion brilliantly performed by the triangle of Rachel Weisz, Tom critics honor but not yet possessed it, their empty Xanadu a symbol of Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale. Torrid and beautiful, credit-culture consumerism biting the hand that fed it. “The Deep Blue Sea” locates a wellspring of hope under the heroes layers of pain. 9. The Master Slippery but legitimately haunting, Paul and roast Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” is a true motion picture: 7. Ruby Sparks The comedy of the year was also a a painting to step back from and ponder, portraiture that lovely calling card for screenwriter-star Zoe Kazan. Nim- the turkeys achieves an imitation of life. The power dynamic between bly directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, “Ruby two quintessentially American men — one an unstoppable Sparks” cut right to the heart of a near-universal ailment of Ben Affleck in “Argo.” force, the other an immovable object — plays out as a the human condition, romantic fantasy, with a clever alle- struggle for masculine supremacy, defined by power and (continued on page 16)
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Above: Jennifer Lawrence and 2012 films Bradley Cooper in “Silver Linings (continued from page 15) Playbook.” Left: Daniel Day- Lewis in “Lincoln.” gorical conceit that plays like vintage Woody Allen. may well be considered the most ac- curate and authentic film ever made 6. The Kid With a Bike An aching about the 16th president. story of childhood need, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s latest breathes as 6. The Avengers Adjectives used steadily as life itself. With his direc- in some of Marvel Comics’ iconic tors, Thomas Doret forges a vision titles from the early 1960s through in red as 11-year-old Cyril, a reck- today — amazing, fantastic, incred- less, heart-on-his-sleeve little man ible — also describe director Joss — shoved too soon into his coming Whedon’s superhero epic. Whedon of age — who chases a deadbeat dad (“Serenity”) helms with a master and a desired makeshift mom. craftsman’s focus and a devoted fan’s enthusiasm in adapting the popular 5. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Marvel series that made its print de- With poker-faced good humor and but in 1963. The screenplay is witty measured melancholy, Nuri Bilge and rife with whip-smart dialogue; Top: Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx in “Django Unchained.” Above: visual effects and costume design are Ceylan resuscitates the police proce- Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark Thirty.” dural as provincial slice-of-life. Law exceptional; character dynamics are & Order meets Samuel Beckett, with 2. The Turin Horse Art isn’t al- Parental Guidance The Motion deeply developed; and the ambitious a dash of Armando Iannucci. Vio- ways easy to take, and Béla Tarr’s Picture Association of America action scenes are astonishing. valedictory film is downright dev- rates this last-gasp for Billy Crystal lence lingers, humanity yearns — Life”) is a gifted filmmaker, if not astating: a long, hard look into the and Bette Midler “PG” for “Pretty the flower that could in hardscrabble a particularly prolific one. In this 5. Life of Pi The most visually void. And yet the 146-minute pic- Ghastly.” terrain. compelling dark comedy, Linklater stunning film since James Cameron’s ture — a plain-unspoken account reunites with his “School of Rock” “Avatar” is also a spiritually insight- of the apocalypse unfolding in and The Lucky One Love means nev- 4. Life of Pi Like IMAX, 3D has star Jack Black, creating a fascinat- ful powerhouse. The filmmaking around a remote rural farmhouse er having to say or do anything that the studios reliving ‘50s efforts to get ing character study that benefits team of director Ang Lee (“Broke- — is enlivened by Tarr’s thoughtful makes any sense in this latest loser us away from our TVs, and few film- from the director’s mockumentary back Mountain”) and screenwriter construction, minimalist takes and adapted from the “work” of Nicholas makers have better employed it than approach. The three leads — Black, David Magee (“Finding Neverland”) breathtaking black-and-white cin- Sparks. does master craftsman Ang Lee in Shirley MacLaine and Matthew Mc- inspire with this vibrant adaptation ematography. This uncompromis- “Life of Pi.” This clever adaptation Conaughey — all deliver terrific of Yann Martel’s award-winning ingly bleak appraisal of man’s inhu- Playing For Keeps This romantic of Yann Martel’s bestseller — dou- performances, and the screenplay is novel. Phenomenal 3D effects (was manity to everything and sad/fierce comedy with soccer moms had one ap- ble-framed by pointed storytelling crisp and clever. it raining in the theater?) highlight and spiritual reflection — ticks away endurance to the bitter end is not for parent GOOOOOAAAAAAALLL: the breathtaking action sequences Friday-night viewing (perhaps Sun- to suck. a postmodern Robinson Crusoe-style 8. Django Unchained Sharp dia- while the story poses interesting day morning?). adventure. It then detonates a mind- logue and dynamic characters drive questions about faith, inner strength That’s My Boy Worst-list peren- blower about perception in the face Quentin Tarantino’s riotous and and survival. 1. This Is Not a Film This is the nial Adam Sandler crowns his pre- of trauma, nature and existence uber-violent revenge flick. “Django” rare film that is more: a rebellious sumptive successor Andy Samberg (if indeed there’s any difference comes across as the film Tarantino 4. Beasts of the Southern Wild yawp over the rooftops of the world, a in this witless father-son comedy. amongst the three). The tiger doesn’t was always destined to make, with There is an organic, elemental under- vital social document, a moral but il- look back. Is Ang Lee getting away his well-documented appreciation for tone to rookie director Benh Zeitlin’s legal political statement. World-class with this? Yes he is, at your local blaxploitation and spaghetti westerns Louisiana-based drama. “Beasts” is filmmaker Jafar Panahi (“Crimson Tyler Hanley’s multiplex, in splashy, colorful 3D. (“Django” essentially combines the as harrowing as it is heart-wrench- Gold”) has frequently tangled with top films genres). Christoph Waltz is excellent ing. Youngster Quvenzhané Wallis the Iranian government, which sen- 3. The Dark Knight Rises Chris- as bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz captivates in a demanding role while tenced him in 2010 to a six-year jail topher Nolan’s “Batman” trilogy, like while Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Di- the rest of the unrecognizable cast term and a 20-year ban on making 10. Pitch Perfect This upbeat Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” Caprio, Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry rallies around her. Symbolism flows films. And so, under house arrest and crowd-pleaser was one of the year’s triple play, ambitiously lifted genre Washington also impress. throughout, and the musical score filmmaking to an epic plane. Like its pursuing an appeal, Panahi called feel-good surprises thanks to its by Zeitlin and Dan Romer strikes an over friend and filmmaker Mojtaba strong script and catchy soundtrack. two predecessors, “The Dark Knight 7. Lincoln Daniel Day-Lewis emotional chord. In a year flooded Mirtahmasb, whose camcorder cap- The modern music woven throughout Rises” gives us what we hope for in shines with a towering performance with star-driven, big-budget block- tures a self-reflective Panahi hero- (such as David Guetta’s “Titanium”) popular cinema: It’s big, bold, savvy as Abraham Lincoln, while Tommy busters, “Beasts” is the little indie ically straining against his bonds to infuses the film with a vibrant, con- and thrilling, with an astonishingly Lee Jones nearly steals the show as that could. achieve that most noble of artistic tagious energy. Big props to director accomplished acting ensemble etch- anti-slavery Republican Thaddeus goals: speaking truth to power. Jason Moore (a 2004 Tony Award ing memorable characters (especially, Stevens. Steven Spielberg directs 3. Moonrise Kingdom The films nominee for the Broadway musical here, Tom Hardy’s hulking villain with a meticulous, deft touch, and of writer/director Wes Anderson “Avenue Q”) for maintaining a play- Bane) and Wally Pfister’s IMAX pho- Peter Canavese’s pans the exquisite production values (es- (“The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Fantas- ful atmosphere and getting the most tography reminding us why we go to a General Education This lame- pecially costuming and set design) tic Mr. Fox”) are something of an ac- from his charming cast. movie theater. And in spite of a real- brain teen comedy achieves the op- establish the time period beautifully. quired taste, and this sweet romantic life madman’s attempt to hijack the posite of its title, instead serving as And while “Lincoln” plays a bit like comedy is a treat. “Moonrise” is akin film, its hero — himself a survivor of an insult to anything with human 9. Bernie Richard Linklater to a cinematic dollhouse: a movie un- (“Dazed and Confused,” “Waking a $50 million history lesson, four gun violence — insists, “No guns.” DNA. score and seven years from now it usual in tone but universal in context. Page 16ÊUÊ>Õ>ÀÞÊ{]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Arts & Entertainment
Many of us can relate to the thrill of independence and young love, which Anderson and his adolescent leads Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward capture wonderfully. Honest, under- stated performances from an A-list A cinematic odyssey cast that includes Bruce Willis, Tilda 2013: Swinton and Edward Norton further accent the storybook atmosphere. Next year’s big-screen slate runs the gamut 2. Argo Ben Affleck’s sopho- from the origin of humanity more directorial effort is a nail-biter from beginning to end. Affleck to a zombie apocalypse and his crew do a phenomenal job capturing the time period and cast- by Tyler Hanley ing actors who both resemble their ach year movie studios real-life counterparts and have the roll out a plethora of fresh thespian chops to hit all the right e flicks to impress — or de- emotional notes. One of the film’s press — eager viewers. We never many strengths is its ability to draw know which ones will be worth in the audience — we often feel we our box-office bucks until reviews are there with these people through- and word-of-mouth offer insight. out the ordeal, for better or worse. The new year starts off with what A goofy sci-fi film dubbed “Argo” could be a bang or a thud: Ruben The men of “Gangster Squad.” never got made in 1980. Fortunately Fleischer’s “Gangster Squad.” For- for moviegoers, a brilliant, Oscar- tunately, 2013 is brimming with treatment for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 12). Hugh Jackman pops his claws worthy drama/thriller of the same tantalizing prospects after that. classic novel “The Great Gats- and heads off to Japan in “The name did get made in 2012. Here’s a sampling of what the year by,” with Leonardo DiCaprio and Wolverine” (July 26), an offer- has in store for cinema-goers: Carey Mulligan. And on May 17, ing from director James Mangold 1. Silver Linings Playbook This the starship Enterprise continues (“Identity”). Matt Damon fights poignant dramedy from director Da- Director Fleischer ambushed au- its cosmic journey in director J.J. for equality in “District 9” direc- vid O. Russell (“The Fighter”) has diences with his pleasant-surprise Abrams’ “Star Trek Into Dark- tor Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi drama nothing to do with science, but the debut “Zombieland” in 2009, but ness.” “Elysium” (Aug. 9). chemistry is palpable. Sparks fly be- his sophomore effort, “30 Minutes In June, director M. Night Shya- A host of other sequels set for tween leads Bradley Cooper and Jen- or Less,” missed the mark. Now malan of “Sixth Sense” fame (and 2013 include: “Scary Movie 5” nifer Lawrence, and both serve up he’s back with his third feature, the “The Last Airbender” infamy) tries (April 12), “The Hangover Part career-best performances. Russell’s “Untouchables”-esque “Gangster to regain his mojo with the sci-fi III” (May 24), “The Fast and the adaptation of the Matthew Quick Squad” (Jan. 11) starring Ryan adventure “After Earth” (June 7) Furious 6” (May 24), “Kick-Ass novel brims with raw energy and Gosling, Josh Brolin and Emma starring Will Smith and his son, 2” (June 28), “Despicable Me 2” rich dialogue. An intimate candor Stone, with Sean Penn as mobster Jaden. Superman soars across the (July 5), “Grown Ups 2” (July permeates the picture as real-world Mickey Cohen. silver screen yet again in “Man of 12), “Red 2” (Aug. 2), “Sin City: issues (commitment, family dynam- The Governator, Arnold Steel” (June 14), with “Watchmen” A Dame to Kill For” (Oct. 4), ics, mental health, resilience) are ad- Schwarzenegger, makes his big- director Zack Snyder at the helm “Thor: The Dark World” (Nov. dressed with sincerity and a sparkle screen comeback as a drug-busting and Henry Cavill (“Immortals”) 8), “The Hunger Games: Catch- of humor. sheriff in “The Last Stand” (Jan. in the title role. Pixar Animation’s ing Fire” (Nov. 8) and “The Hob- 18). And the latest twist on a clas- lovable monsters Mike (voice of bit: The Desolation of Smaug” Tyler Hanley’s pans sic fable sees Jeremy Renner and Billy Crystal) and Sulley (voice of (Dec. 13). Dark Shadows The typically reli- Gemma Arterton chasing witches John Goodman) go to college in Also, here are two likely gems: able tandem of director Tim Burton in the fairytale actioner “Hansel “Monsters University” (June 21). Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and direc- and actor Johnny Depp disappoints and Gretel Witch Hunters” (Jan. Brad Pitt tries to put the kibosh on tor Edgar Wright (all of “Shaun of with this underwhelming comedy/ 25). a zombie apocalypse in “World the Dead” and “Hot Fuzz”) reunite horror hybrid. In trying to walk In February, Al Pacino, Alan Ar- War Z” (June 21). for the apocalyptic comedy “The the tightrope between two genres, kin and Christopher Walken will As the summer continues, Armie World’s End” (October). Mean- “Shadows” tumbles somewhere into play aging con men in the crime Hammer (“The Social Network”) while, mastermind filmmaker the murky middle, where ho-hum fiction/comedy “Stand Up Guys” and Johnny Depp ride for justice Martin Scorsese gathers an A-list movies go to die. (Feb. 1). “Bridesmaids” standout in Gore Verbinski’s adaptation cast (including Leonardo DiCaprio, Melissa McCarthy swipes Jason of the popular TV western “The Jonah Hill and Matthew McCon- The Raven The convergence of Bateman’s identity in the aptly Lone Ranger” (July 5). Massive, aughey) for likely Oscar contender two personal favorites — writer Ed- titled “Identity Thief” (Feb. 8) human-powered robots are man- “The Wolf of Wall Street” (re- gar Allan Poe and actor John Cusack from “Horrible Bosses” direc- kind’s only defense against Godz- lease date TBA). — piqued my interest. But “The Ra- Top: Johnny Depp and Armie tor Seth Gordon. New York City Hammer in “The Lone Ranger.” illa-esque creatures in Guillermo Happy New Year, movie ven” proved to be never more than a cop John McClane (Bruce Wil- del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” (July lovers. N hackneyed thriller with uneven per- Above: Idris Elba in “Pacific lis) heads to Russia and teams up Rim.” formances and a lousy climax. with his equally bad-ass son (Jai Courtney) in “A Good Day to Die adventure “The Croods” (March Rock of Ages Musicals are some- Hard” (Feb. 15). The best-selling 22). Director Jon M. Chu, another thing of an acquired taste, and “Rock novel by authors Kami Garcia and Palo Alto native, rounds up the of Ages” is more cheeseburger than Margaret Stohl comes to life in troops — Duke (Channing Tatum), lobster bisque. A soap opera-esque “Beautiful Creatures” (Feb. 15) Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) and love story and stagy undertones lend starring Emmy Rossum and Jer- Snake Eyes (Ray Park) — in the a certain silliness to the whole affair emy Irons. long-delayed “G.I. Joe: Retalia- despite Tom Cruise’s electric turn as In March, a young farmer aims tion” (March 29). rocker Stacee Jaxx. to rescue a captive princess in di- On April 5, director Paul Feig rector Bryan Singer’s “Jack the (“Bridesmaids”) opens “The The Three Stooges Ninety-two Giant Slayer” (March 1). Palo Al- Heat” with Melissa McCarthy minutes of slapstick and sound ef- to’s homegrown hero James Franco playing an ill-tempered Boston de- fects coupled with a numbskull plot strolls the yellow-brick road along- tective partnered with Sandra Bull- that prominently features the cast of side Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and ock as an uptight FBI agent. The MTV’s “Jersey Shore.” Ouch. Michelle Williams in director Sam futuristic actioner “Oblivion” fol- Raimi’s fantasy epic “Oz: The lows on April 19 with Tom Cruise The Watch Ben Stiller and Vince Great and Powerful” (March and Morgan Freeman starring in Vaughn, we hope, will appear in 8). Chloe Grace Moretz (“Hugo”) a tale of an Earth devastated by good movies again someday after plays horror icon Stephen King’s a decades-long war with an alien a string of forgettable flops. Case tormented telekinetic in “Carrie” race. Carey Mulligan and in point: director Akiva Schaffer’s (March 15) with Julianne Moore on Billionaire superhero Tony Stark Leonardo DiCaprio comedy/sci-fi hodgepodge with its board as Carrie’s torturous mother. (Robert Downey Jr.) takes on the in “The Great wealth of awkward scenarios and Ryan Reynolds and Emma Stone sinister Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) Gatsby.” dearth of humor. lend their voices to DreamWorks in “Iron Man 3” (May 3). 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abound, including the question of social reality. This couple (Leila plation about aging and the act of 2012 films whether looking back is more im- 6. The Perks of Being a Wall- Hatami and Peyman Moadi) has watching cinema. (continued from page 17) portant than looking ahead. flower Sex, drugs and rock n’ roll? a predicament: She wants to leave No, wrong decade. Stephen Ch- the country so their 11-year-old 1. Zero Dark Thirty In the as- Susan Tavernetti’s 8. Silver Linings Playbook Di- bosky adapts and directs his 1999 daughter doesn’t grow up “in these sured hands of director Kathryn rector David O. Russell seems to coming-of-age novel about teen circumstances,” and he is unwilling Bigelow and journalist-screenwrit- top films be flirting with disaster once again growing pains — and sex, drugs to leave his father suffering from er Mark Boal, the manhunt for the in this offbeat indie characterized and mixtapes of The Smiths. Shy Alzheimer’s disease. Just when mastermind of the 9/11 attacks 10. Life of Pi Ang Lee trans- by wild mood swings. Wonderfully and psychologically fragile, Char- you assume writer-director Asghar becomes an ambitious, complex formed Yann Martel’s “unfilmable” eccentric, the romantic comedy fo- lie (Logan Lerman) just wants to Farhadi’s story will grapple with and rewarding cinematic achieve- 2001 bestseller into a fantasy filled cuses on a pair of misfits, a former survive the 1,095 days of freshman scenes from a marriage, the narra- ment. Never a boring procedural, with magical moments and visual teacher with bipolar disorder (Brad- year. Enter a pair of half-sibling tive surprisingly shifts into a legal the needle-in-a-haystack search for wonder. A middle-aged Pi (Irrfan ley Cooper) and a bruised young seniors (Emma Watson and Ezra drama teeming with emotional and Osama bin Laden takes the worka- Khan) recounts his parable of sur- widow (Jennifer Lawrence) with Miller) who bring fun, spontaneity moral complexity. All sides deserve day lives of agents — sometimes vival and spirituality: Shipwrecked a penchant for ballroom dancing. and friendship to the drab halls of empathy in this 2012 Oscar winner dull, sometimes dangerous — and as a 16-year-old (Suraj Sharma), he Robert De Niro flexes his comic high school. Although more sani- for Best Foreign Language Film. shapes the sprawling narrative drifts across the Pacific in a life- muscles as a caring father obsessed tized than the book, the movie sen- into a nail-biter. Displaying an in- boat, accompanied by a snarling with the Philadelphia Eagles, blur- sitively deals with adolescent angst 3. Argo Sharply observed hu- credible range of emotion, Jessica Bengal tiger. The adventure film is ring the line between the crazy and and relationships in pre-Internet mor about the movie business cuts Chastain plays the CIA analyst as much about the tales we tell our- the sane, which is exactly the point. America. through the tension of director-star who breaks the case. She can ap- selves to stay afloat as about navi- A feel-good film about second Ben Affleck’s white-knuckle politi- pear shaken and vulnerable during gating the waters of life. Along the chances is worth betting on. 5. Beasts of the Southern Wild cal thriller. Based on the true events “enhanced” interrogation scenes of journey, 3-D artistry grows up too. A debut feature of such original of CIA agent Tony Mendez’s rescue detained Al Qaeda suspects, and 7. How to Survive a Plague On voice and vision is a rare beast in- of six American embassy workers then exhibit reinforced-steel-and- 9. The Flat The spellbinding the documentary shortlist for the deed. Writer-director Benh Zeitlin’s trapped in Tehran, the drama uses concrete resolve as she relentlessly documentary about family secrets 2013 Oscars, David France’s sear- dreamlike fable of a subculture liv- gritty newsreel footage to plunge us continues her investigative work. and deep denial starts with film- ing look at the AIDS epidemic ing on the wrong side of a southern into the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. A Despite knowing the outcome of maker Arnon Goldfinger cleaning showcases the ACT UP activists Louisiana levee — as conjured by last-ditch plan requires the hunted the Navy SEALs’ dark-hour raid of out the Tel Aviv flat of his deceased whose agenda was to arouse, anger 6-year-old Hushpuppy — offers an diplomats to pose as a Canadian the Pakistan hideout that harbored grandmother. He discovers a news- and take action against the deadly imaginative post-Katrina take on film crew scouting locations for a bin Laden, I found the climax un- paper article and photos document- disease. A testament to steely de- preserving a people and their cul- fake science-fiction movie titled bearably tense. Reteaming after ing the friendship of his Jewish termination, the film seamlessly ture. Newcomer Quvenzhané Wal- “Argo,” while a well-known film taking home Oscars for “The Hurt grandparents with a high-ranking stitches together archival footage lis delivers a fierce performance producer (Alan Arkin) and a make- Locker,” Bigelow and Boal foster Nazi before and after World War and interviews that chart the chal- as the feisty little girl who swims up artist (John Goodman) hilarious- reflection about America’s role in Two. How could that be? Doggedly lenges against the NIH and FDA, against the tide of storms large and ly keep up pretenses in Hollywood. the war on terror — and most like- pursuing leads, Goldfinger diplo- drug companies, health profession- small, stubbornly surviving in the Fact may be stranger than fiction, ly consideration for a Best Picture matically tiptoes around sensitive als and politicians. Both history les- face of Mother Nature and Uncle but the two are perfectly integrated nod. topics with Edda Milz von Milden- son and passionate call to arms, the Sam. in Affleck’s top-notch production. stein, the daughter of the German documentary gives a human face Note: Susan Tavernetti chose official who worked with Goeb- to the statistics and reminds us that 4. A Separation The Iranian cin- 2. Amour Michael Haneke makes not to write a pans list this year, as bels, before confronting her with hope and more research go hand in ema seldom depicts middle-class films that no one really wants to her assignment list didn’t include pit-bull tenacity. Provocative issues hand. families and dramas rooted in their see. The subject of an elderly Pari- enough films sufficiently bad to sian couple (French treasures Jean- qualify, she said. N Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva) in declining health leads to heartbreaking drama. But this is a READ MORE ONLINE love story. Although hard to watch, www.PaloAltoOnline.com with the camera lingering over de- The new musical “Triangle,” an exhibit tails of daily caretaking like a vul- of sassy Daumier prints, and a standout ture waiting for death, the film be- production of “Moon for the Misbegot- comes a profound meditation about ten” made it into Weekly arts editor living. Challenging but cool-toned Rebecca Wallace’s top-10 list of local arts events this year. To read the whole in typical Haneke style, the Palme list for 2012, go to her blog, Ad Libs, at d’Or winner of this year’s Cannes adlibs.paloaltoonline.com. Film Festival encourages contem- EXTREME M R AL I T Y Larissa MacFarquhar Writer, The New Yorker
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RESTAURANT REVIEW Tasty Thai and Cambodian Tommy Thai livens a dreary stretch of El Camino with its extensive menu by Sheila Himmel n Mountain View’s stretch ways. One is that there are Cambo- of El Camino Real between dian dishes on the menu. Another is O Shoreline Boulevard and the flexibility of the menu and ease El Monte Avenue, things change of substitution. Don’t want bamboo yet the area remains the same, a shoots in your red curry pork? Ask hodgepodge. Good news: Now we for bell peppers instead. Or dump have Tommy Thai. the peppers and get eggplant. The owners spent January and One of the chefs is Thai, one February last year remodeling the Cambodian. The manager is Cam- building, long an outpost of the bodian and the owners Chinese. forgettable (at best) Mr. Chau’s Vegetarians find lots of choices chain of Chinese fast-food res- beyond the usual deep-fried tofu taurants. From the outside, it still appetizer ($5.95). Tommy Thai’s looks like whatever it was to be- extensive vegetarian menu offers gin with, from ancient days before six appetizers, three salads, three
André Zandoná there were strip malls. But inside noodle dishes, eight curries, three is pleasant under a dark wood soups, four fried-rice dishes and 10 ceiling, like a boat on Thailand’s specialties including steamed spin- River of Kings. ach tofu ($7.95) and spicy eggplant Tommy Thai is different from The pleasant dark-wood interior of Tommy Thai gives it a sort of riverboat feel. other Thai restaurants in several (continued on page 20)
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Belón, Quique Álvarez and their sons Lucas, Simon and Tomas) 650U493U2131 An encore presentation by the ,AMBERT !VENUE s 0ALO !LTO team of director Kathryn Bigelow becomes an English family — and screenwriter Mark Boal — Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry www.gryphonstrings.com who collected Oscars for 2008’s (Ewan McGregor), 12-year-old “The Hurt Locker” — “Zero Lucas (Tom Holland), 7-year- Dark Thirty” recounts the CIA’s old Thomas (Samuel Joslin), and hunt for Osama bin Laden, the 5-year-old Simon (Oaklee Pend- man who claimed responsibility ergast). Chalk that up to a finan- for the 9/11 terrorist attack. At cial necessity for international the outset, the film announces it Jessica Chastain in “Zero Dark sales. is “based on first-hand accounts Thirty.” More problematic is the focus of actual events.” It’s no spoiler on the pains of these upper-mid- dle-class tourists to the exclu- to say that the film begins with they don’t: torture. actual audio from Sept. 11, 2001, sion of hundreds of thousands of The op-ed arguments over the South Asian locals, whose roles and ends with bin Laden being film’s depiction of torture as a shot in the head by U.S. Navy in the film amount to good-heart- horrible necessity in finding bin ed rescuers of our heroes, at best, SEALs in May 2011. Laden demonstrate the problem By following a fiercely de- and set dressing at worst. There’s of prematurely turning the story no defending this approach other termined CIA officer (Jessica into Hollywood legend. Sadly, Chastain’s Maya), “Zero Dark than to say “The Impossible” that’s the way most citizens makes a distinct artistic choice Thirty” creates an identifica- will view and remember these tion with her agony of defeat and subjectively to tell this one fam- events. ily’s remarkable story of survival, thrill of victory along the way, Instead of dealing with the building a rooting interest while insular as it is. inherently political dimensions Most impressively, “The Im- otherwise eschewing character of their narrative, the filmmak- development in favor of detail- possible” provides one of the ers have disingenuously insisted most visceral experiences of 2012 oriented procedural. upon the film’s apoliticism in its But the devil is in the de- cinema. Working with a budget embrace of procedural narrative. of $45 million and limited use of tails. While I have no doubt that No one and nothing in the film Boal’s docudramatic screenplay CGI, director J.A. Bayona (“The ever questions the goal of the Orphanage”) achieves astonish- hews closely to his journalistic mission, as expressed by Maya research, one might well say, ing verisimilitude in recreating to SEAL Team Six: “Bin Laden the tsunami and its immediate “Consider the sources.” And the is there, and you’re going to kill calendar. Even more so than with aftermath (by comparison, the him for me.” While it’s no doubt tsunami-less “Les Miserables” Paul Greengrass’ “United 93,” accurate that capture was never it’s fair to suggest that the Hol- cost $61 million). As a sheer feat considered, the film stands as an of directorial ingenuity, “The Im- lywood treatment of such politi- implicit endorsement of political cally delicate — and, in this case, possible” has no equal among the assassination by celebrating the year’s films. ! # covert — recent history comes admirable qualities (determina- “too soon,” and is lacking in the The literally breathtaking tsu- $ tion and bravery, shoe and boot nami sequence sweeps away the crucial historical perspective that leather, and military skill) with # comes with time. family and splits them into two which it is carried out. groups, Maria with Lucas and " Certainly, Chastain turns in A complex film would seek a a potent performance (Bigelow Henry with the other boys. Phys- more balanced picture of these ical injury and the complicated saves the most emotionally events and their implications, complex moment for the film’s post-disaster environment com- depict bin Laden instead of point- promise their efforts to survive, " % " resolution, as Chastain word- edly doing the opposite, exam- lessly processes the closure of stay together and reunite, those ine the political capital that bin efforts making up the bulk of the 10 driven years), and the sprawl- Laden’s execution signified for ing ensemble cast supports her running time. The circumstances the sitting president, and perhaps test the family’s personal char- well, especially Jason Clarke as have an insider make a crack an “enhanced interrogation tech- acter and limits of physical and Visit classrooms, enjoy about rule of law. By turning mental endurance, all of which warm cookies and nique” expert and Kyle Chan- this significant historical event dler as the CIA Islamabad sta- implicitly ask viewers to consider ask questions! into a willfully noncontempla- their own capacities for survival tion chief Joseph Bradley. The tive thriller, “Zero Dark Thirty” film’s tech specs are second to and altruism. Jan. 8, 17, 22, 29 risks resuscitating the motto of Sergio G. Sanchez’s effi- none, with crack work from cin- the satirical 2004 action comedy ematographer Greig Fraser and cient script presses hard on the “Team America: World Police”: thematic button of fate, and it editors William Goldenberg and “America! F*** Yeah!” Dylan Tichenor. In particular, would have been easy for “The RSVP Today! www.harker.org Impossible” to come off as sim- the lengthy raid sequence con- Rated R for language and stitutes bravura edge-of-the-seat ply shameless in its tear-jerking. strong violence including brutal Perhaps it is, but Bayona shows a filmmaking that makes “The images. Two hours, 37 minutes. Hurt Locker” look like a mere Spielbergian skill for putting the *+ /'$$ ) ( audience through an emotional warm-up. — Peter Canavese But to what end? What pur- wringer, in part by guiding his '. ) , #&$$ pose does “Zero Dark Thirty” cast to resonant performances. serve? Should this story be en- The Impossible --- Watts ably embodies maternal " $ $ # ') - tertainment? And if it isn’t enter- (Aquarius) “The Impossible” focus under extreme duress, and (( ) )+' - tainment, what is it? These are takes dicey material — the story McGregor has a heartbreaking questions Bigelow and Boal are of one privileged family’s suffer- scene of emotional breakdown content to sidestep as they claim, ing during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami — and transcends its po- “Just the facts,” except where (continued on next page) /&'* / %"**"'&*!)# )')
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(continued from previous page) MOVIE TIMES All showtimes are for Friday through Sunday only unless that suggests unplumbed depths to otherwise noted. For other times, as well as reviews and trailers, his talent. go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies. 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One Palo Alto Square: 4:30 & 7:25 p.m.; Fri. also at 1:35 p.m.; Fri. & Sat. also at 9:45 1-866-4-LiveIn (454-8346) hour, 54 minutes. p.m.; Sat. & Sun. also at 1:30 p.m. www.HomeCareAssistance.com The Impossible (PG-13) ((( — Peter Canavese Aquarius Theatre: 1:30, 4:15, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Century 20: Noon, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05 148 Hawthorne Ave, Palo Alto, CA & 10:45 p.m. Jack Reacher (PG-13) ((1/2 Century 16: 12:20, 3:40, 7:20 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 10:25 a.m.; 1:20, 4:20, 7:25 & 10:30 p.m. Les Miserables (2012) (PG-13) ((( Century 16: 10:30 a.m.; 2:10, 5:40, 6:50 & 9:30 p.m. Century 20: 11:25 a.m.; 1:10, 3:15, 4:30, 6:45, 8 & 10:15 p.m. Life of Pi (PG) (((1/2 Century 20: 10:50 a.m.; In 3D at 1:45, 4:40, 7:40 & 10:35 p.m. Palo Alto Square: In 3D at 7 p.m.; Fri. & Sun. also at 1 p.m. (standard 2D); In 3D Fri. & Sun. also at 4 p.m.; In 3D Fri. & Sat. also at 10 p.m.; Sat. also at 4 p.m. (standard 2D) Lincoln (PG-13) (((1/2 Century 16: 11:20 a.m.; 2:40, 6:10 & 9:45 p.m. Century 20: 12:20, 3:35, 6:55 & 10:20 p.m. The Metropolitan Opera: Les Troyens (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: Sat. at 9 a.m. Palo Alto Square: Sat. at 9 a.m. The Metropolitan Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Century 20: Wed. at 6:30 p.m. Palo Alto Square: Wed. at 6:30 p.m. Monsters, Inc. (G) (((1/2 Century 20: In 3D at 8:25 p.m.; Fri. & Sun. also at 11 a.m. (standard 2D); In 3D Fri. & Sun. also at 3:45 p.m. Not Fade Away (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 1, 3:45, 6:30 & 9:40 p.m. Century 20: 10:50 a.m.; 6:30 & 9:10 p.m. Parental Guidance (PG) 1/2 Century 16: 11 a.m.; 1:40 & 4:40 p.m.; Sat. & Sun. also at 7:40 & 10:20 p.m. Cen- tury 20: 11:55 a.m.; 2:30, 5:05, 7:45 & 10:25 p.m. Promised Land (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 10:40 a.m.; 1:30, 4:20, 7:30 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:15 a.m.; 2, 4:40, 7:15 & 9:55 p.m. Rise of the Guardians (PG) ((1/2 Century 20: 1:30 p.m.; In 3D at 11 a.m. & 3:55 p.m. Rocky (1976) (PG) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: Wed. at 2 & 7 p.m. Century 20: Wed. at 2 & 7 p.m. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) (Not Reviewed) Guild Theatre: Sat. at midnight. Silver Linings Playbook (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 10:50 a.m.; 1:35 & 4:30 p.m.; Fri. & Sun. also at 7:40 & 10:25 p.m. Century 20: 11:35 a.m.; 2:15, 5, 7:50 & 10:35 p.m. Skyfall (PG-13) (((1/2 Century 16: 11:40 a.m.; 3:10, 6:40 & 10:05 p.m. Century 20: 12:45, 3:55, 7:20 & 10:30 p.m. Texas Chainsaw (R) (Not Reviewed) Century 16: 11:50 a.m.; In 3D at 2:20, 5, 7:50 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 1 p.m.; In 3D at 3:20, 5:40, 8:05 & 10:30 p.m. This Is 40 (R) ((1/2 Century 16: 12:10, 3:30, 7:30 & 10:30 p.m. Century 20: 12:55, 4, 7:05 & 10:10 p.m. Three Smart Girls (1936) (Not Rated) (Not Reviewed) Stanford Theatre: Fri.-Mon. at 5:55 & 9:10 p.m. Wreck-It Ralph (PG) ((( Century 20: 10:45 a.m. Zero Dark Thirty (R) ((1/2 Century 16: 10:20 & 11:30 a.m.; 1:50, 3, 5:30, 7, 9:30 & 10:40 p.m. Century 20: 11 a.m.; 12:50, 2:30, 4:45, 6:20, 8:25 & 10:05 p.m. ( Skip it (( Some redeeming qualities ((( A good bet (((( Outstanding Aquarius: 430 Emerson St., Palo Alto (266-9260) Century Cinema 16: 1500 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View (800-326-3264) Century 20 Downtown: 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (800-326-3264) CinéArts at Palo Alto Square: 3000 El Camino Real, Palo Alto (493-3456) Guild: 949 El Camino Real, Menlo Park (266-9260) Stanford: 221 University Ave., Palo Alto (324-3700) Internet address: For show times, plot synopses, trailers and more information about films playing, go to PaloAltoOnline.com/movies Page 22ÊUÊ>Õ>ÀÞÊ{]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Sports COLLEGE FOOTBALL Shorts Stanford STREAK ENDS . . . The Stanford now looks women hit an all-time low and Chiney Ogwumike got a little upset about it. The Cardinal ended Connecticut’s historic 90-game win streak two to future years ago. On Saturday, the Huskies returned the basketball favor as they Rose Bowl victory snapped the Cardinal’s 82-game just another big step home win streak with a 61-35 victory in Maples Pavilion. Stanford’s last loss forward for Cardinal at home came on March 18, 2007, to by Rick Eymer Florida State, in the second round of ne season ends and another the NCAA tournament. In a matchup begins. That’s what the Stan- between the nation’s top two teams, ford football team is facing UConn looked more like a No. 1 in- O today as it puts to bed 2012 and stead of a No. 2 with its dominating looks forward to 2013. performance. The Huskies moved to It’s time to say goodbye to the se- 11-0 and will take over the nation’s niors, welcome back the juniors not top spot while handing top-ranked headed to the NFL and say hello to Stanford (11-1) its first loss. Stanford the Class of 2016. fell to No. 4 in The Associated Press Top 25 poll this week. “To be so inef- fective in so many areas of our game is disappointing and frustrating,” Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said. “This is beyond a wake-up call. I hope this gets everybody’s attention to how hard we need to work and how hard we need to play.” It was UConn’s first-ever victory in Maples Pavilion after three losses and it snapped the second-longest home win streak in Nothing really has changed. Three NCAA women’s hoop history. Ogwu- different quarterbacks have started mike finished with 18 points, but just in the school’s past four bowl ap- made 6-of-22 from the floor. “I don’t pearances, the running backs have think I’ve experienced something like been different, the offensive line this,” she said. “Connecticut, the team has changed and defensive schemes we just played for 40 minutes, is the have been reinvented. There also standard. I’m motivated, definitely. have been numerous coach- We need to get to that standard. I
David Bernal/isiphotos.com ing changes, including at the top. was frustrated but more at myself.” The results have been the same, Stanford suffered through its worst though. The Cardinal continued to shooting performance in the history of win, continued to progress in ways its program, making a mere .193 (11 unexpected four or five years ago. of 57) of its shots. The Cardinal made Thus, Tuesday’s 20-14 victory just 5-of-33 shots for 15 percent in over Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl first half, leading to a 31-13 deficit. The did not feel like some culmination Huskies held a 20-point lead (29-9) of things well done but instead had late in the half. The 11 made baskets the feel of success yet to come. were also a historic low. The previous Stanford head football coach David Shaw was all smiles after his nationally ranked team capped a 12-2 David Shaw took over a program low was 17, the last time nearly six season with a 20-14 victory over Wisconsin in the 99th annual Rose Bowl game on Tuesday in Pasadena. already lined with high expectations years ago. The 26-point margin is also and did the only thing he could: the largest ever for a Stanford team at raise those expectations to improb- Maples Pavilion. The last time the Car- able heights. dinal was beaten by 20 points or more This Rose Bowl victory began at home was in 1986. The Cardinal the day after last year’s Fiesta Bowl doesn’t get much of a breather in its loss. What happens next year is just schedule either. Stanford plays at No. starting now. 23 Colorado on Friday and at Utah on “We’ll enjoy this. We’ll have a Sunday, then goes to No. 8 California great time and we’ll get back to win- before hosting the Bears and No. 17 ter conditioning,” Shaw said. “I’ve UCLA. reminded the young men in the locker room how hard it was to get ON THE AIR to this point. It’s not going to be any Friday easier. In our conference, we beat each other up throughout the year, Women’s basketball: Stanford at Col- orado, 7 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; KZSU so next year is not going to be easy. (90.1 FM) Every team is going to be back, big- Saturday ger, and stronger, and it’s our job to Men’s basketball: Stanford at UCLA, be the same way.” noon; Pac-12 Networks; KNBR (1050 Over the past four years Stanford AM) has won 43 of its 53 games. In the Tuesday
Grant Shorin/stanfordphoto.com previous four years the Cardinal College football: Stanford at Cal, 7 went 15-32. p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; KZSU (90.1 FM) Between 2002 and 2008, the lon- Wednesday gest stretch of losing seasons (7) in Men’s basketball: Washington St. Stanford history, the Cardinal went at Stanford, 7 p.m.; Pac-12 Networks; KNBR (1050 AM) a combined 25-55. Appearances in four straight bowl games, three a BCS affiliate contest, READ MORE ONLINE has given Stanford some cache. The www.PASportsOnline.com Rose Bowl victory gives it swag. For expanded daily coverage of college Redshirt freshman Kevin Hogan and prep sports, please see our new Usua Amanam (left) was named the game’s Defensive MVP after preserving Stanford’s victory with an site at www.PASportsOnline.com interception while running back Stepfan Taylor was the Offensive MVP with 88 rushing yards and a TD. (continued on page 25) ÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°VÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊ>Õ>ÀÞÊ{]ÊÓä£ÎÊU Page 23 Sports
Palo Alto boys’ basketball adjusting well ATHLETES OF THE WEEK despite losing last year’s leading scorer by Keith Peters won their eighth straight. opener on Wednesday, Gunn soph- hen junior standout E.J. Perhaps the biggest change for omore Chris Russell knocked down Floreal left Palo Alto Paly is a new offense, which doesn’t four 3-pointers and finished with 16 W High last spring due to his focus as much on post play but points but the Titans (0-1, 3-8) fell family moving to Kentucky, there utilizes the perimeter a bit more. behind by 14 after the third quarter probably was concern how Flo- Thus, senior guard Aldis Petriceks and dropped a 65-48 decision to real’s departure would affect the had raised his scoring average from host Fremont. Patrick Skelly added Vikings’ basketball team. 5.6 ppg to 15.5 ppg while senior 14 points for the Titans, who host After all, the 6-foot-4 Floreal guard Mathias Schmutz has gone Monta Vista on Friday at 7 p.m. had led a Paly team that went 21-5 from 6.4 ppg to 8.5. For just those with 14.3 points and 7.3 rebounds a three players, that’s a combined im- Girls’ basketball game. Certainly, his departure left provement of 17.8 points a game. Palo Alto snapped a three-game some big shoes to fill. The 6-4 Chryst has been a wel- losing streak by holding visiting Well, those shoes are no longer comed addition, as well. Despite a Milpitas to single-digit scoring in empty as the Vikings have opened long and successful football sea- each quarter and forcing 36 turn- the season 10-1 following a 55-42 son, Chryst has made plenty of overs on the way to a 39-19 victory victory over visiting Milpitas on early contributions while playing to open the SCVAL De Anza Divi- Wednesday in a SCVAL De Anza in 10 of the 11 games. He’s averag- sion season on Wednesday. Fresh- Division opener. ing 6.6 points and 6.1 rebounds a man Maddie Atwater led the Vi- “We’re adjusting pretty well,” game. He had seven boards against kings (1-0, 5-7) with 11 points. Drew Edelman Aubrey Dawkins (L), said 6-4 Paly swingman Aubrey Milpitas. Paly shot less than 25 percent Menlo School Aldis Petriceks Dawkins. “Filling the rebounding Despite losing five players off from the floor through the first The senior center role (left by Floreal) was pretty im- last season’s team, the Vikings are three quarters while pulling ahead Palo Alto High portant, but Keller Chryst — the off and running. to a 20-15 lead. The Vikings dominated while scoring Dawkins, a senior forward, football guy — has been doing a The Vikings continue to empha- warmed up and made 61 percent 70 points and grabbing scored 54 points and made good job. As for points, we haven’t size defense and have allowed an of their shots in the fourth quarter 41 rebounds in three the all-tournament team while lost that much.” average of 47.9 ppg this season. while tallying 19 points. basketball wins while Petriceks, a senior guard, With Floreal last season, Paly Prior to opening the division sea- earning MVP honors and scored 60 points and was averaged 57.7 points a game. This son, Palo Alto tuned up by winning Girls’ soccer leading the Knights to the named MVP of the Windsor season, the Vikings are averaging the Windsor Holiday Shootout that Palo Alto grabbed an early lead championship of the Steve 63.8. Dawkins averaged 12.7 points wrapped up Saturday. The Vikings on a goal by Jess Branson in the Holiday Shootout as the and 5.1 rebounds last year, but is went 3-0, with Petriceks scoring 60 ninth minute, but the Vikings Geramoni Invitational. Vikings won the tourney title. up to 18.5 points and 6.9 rebounds points and Dawkins 54. Petriceks couldn’t make that stand up and this season. was named the Most Valuable Play- wound up with a 1-1 deadlock with Honorable mention “I think we’re doing fine,” said er while Dawkins joined him on the visiting Santa Clara in a SCVAL El Leeana Bade Keller Chryst Dawkins, who poured in 26 points all-tournament team. Camino Division soccer opener on Pinewood basketball Palo Alto basketball against Milpitas as the Vikings In a SCVAL El Camino Division Wednesday. N Chaccity Cunningham Ricky Galliani Eastside Prep basketball Sacred Heart Prep basketball Meghan Holland Gary Hobach Sacred Heart Prep basketball Palo Alto wrestling Melissa Holland Corbin Koch Public notice Sacred Heart Prep basketball Sacred Heart Prep basketball Board of Directors Hannah Paye Mathias Schmutz Menlo basketball Palo Alto basketball Vacancy for District 1 Alexus Simon Ryan Young Eastside Prep basketball Menlo basketball * previous winner To see video interviews of the Athletes of the Week, go to www.PASportsOnline.com The Board of Directors of Santa Clara Valley Water District intends to fill the unexpired term of office for an elected District 1 Board member. This seat is vacant as of December 7, 2012. 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ROSE BOWL CHATTER What they were saying after Stanford defeated Wisconsin, 20-14, in the 99th annual Rose Bowl game: “To be honest, we’re still on “Great job.” the ascent. We can still play so — former U.S. Secretary of State much better, and that’s our charge and current Stanford faculty now.” member Condoleezza Rice to — Stanford coach David Shaw David Shaw following the game “There’s a sense of accomplish- “Everybody talks about Oregon ment, because we got somewhere and USC, and that’s fine because we hadn’t been yet. If you looked we just stick to our business.” at our goals at the beginning of — Ertz the season, this was on top of the list, and we got it done. We’re ex- “A couple of years ago we lost tremely satisfied.” (star running back) Toby Gerhart. — Stanford linebacker Couple of years ago we lost coach Shayne Skov (Jim) Harbaugh (to the San Fran- cisco 49ers). This year we lost
John Todd/isiphotos.com “We’ve been in BCS games Andrew Luck. I think it’s a tes- the past two years, but neither of tament to our program and how those mean as much as this one we train and how we prepare each did. This is the one we play for and every season.” every year. It shows Stanford is — Stanford defensive back here to stay.” Usua Amanam — Stanford tight end Zach Ertz “Let’s just say to be in the “This stings just as much, be- same place as Jim Plunkett is Stanford coach David Shaw congratulates some of his players following a 20-14 victory over Wisconsin on Tuesday cause we fell extremely short pretty cool. It’s definitely an ac- in the 99th annual Rose Bowl game. The win gave the Cardinal a 35-5 record over the past three seasons. when we had the opportunity to complishment. It’s something I’ll “It’s not about playing perfect,” with 2:03 to play was the only turn- win. We had numerous opportu- always tell my kids, brag about Rose Bowl said Shaw. “It’s about finishing over of the game. nities to capitalize on big plays, with my kids, brag about to my (continued from page 23) strong. I knew the unity, the way we “Fortunately, the ball just fell in and we fell short . . . This is not friends. This is an experience that play together would give us a chance my hands,” Amanam said. “I hap- the way we want to be remem- you can’t replace.” is 5-0 as a starting quarterback, all to win.” pened to see him go to middle of the bered. Speaking for the entire se- — Stanford guard Kevin Danser against teams that qualified for a Usua Amanam was named the field. I just happended to be at the nior group, this is not the way we postseason bowl game. He was not Rose Bowl Defensive MVP, mostly right place at the right time.” wanted to go out.” “We punched them in the alone, though. He had the support for his clutch interception with just Taylor scored once, a three-yard — Wisconsin running back mouth, they punched us back. It of an offensive line that dug in and 2:03 left to play. He too had help run in the first quarter. It was his Montee Ball became a good ol’ bar fight.” refused its opponents to step over in the form of All-American Trent 45th career touchdown, a school re- — Stanford quarterback the line drawn in the sand. Murphy and guys like Ben Gardner, cord. He had been tied with Toby They’re a good football team, Kevin Hogan Senior Stepfan Taylor utilized Henry Anderson, Chase Thomas Gerhart entering the game. Taylor but we have a very good defense. his strengths and the strengths of and Shayne Skov. finished his career with 4,300 rush- They (the Stanford defense) “We’re good. I think we’re the Cardinal offense to rush for 88 Stanford’s defense showed up, ing yards, also a school record. stopped Oregon when no one said playing as well as anybody in the yards against Wisconsin, 39 of them checked in and did its job. Despite Stanford is now 35-5 over the it could be done. That shows the country. Unfortunately, the sea- coning in a punishing fourth quarter allowing 218 rushing yards, the Car- past three seasons, has made three unity we have on this team. We’re son’s over, but it’s a hell of a way that may have shown, finally, that dinal put a strangehold on Wiscon- straight appearances in BCS games never going to quit.” —Ertz to go out.” — Ertz when it comes to finishing Stanford sin’s Montee Ball (the most prolific and finished the year ranked among may have no equal. running back in NCAA history in The Associated Press Top 25 for an Our guys knew if we played smart a punt. The Cardinal took over at its Taylor was named the Rose Bowl terms of scoring touchdowns) in unprecedented 46 weeks. and played together and played hard, 44 and finally moved into Wiscon- Offensive MVP, a fitting honor for the second half and shutting out “Nobody was talking about our we’d give ourselves a chance to be sin territory for the first time since Stanford’s all-time leading rusher the Badgers the final 30 minutes of running game. Nobody was talking right here.” the first quarter. and scorer. It was also a tribute to play. about our offensive line,” Shaw said. Clinging to a 17-14 lead in the That led to a a 22-yard field goal All-Americans David Yankey and Stanford improved to 11-12-1 “Nobody was talking about our fourth quarter on Tuesday, Stanford by Jordan Williamson, who kicked Zach Ertz, and the rest of the offen- all-time in bowl games in front of front seven and how special those caught a break in field position when sive unit. 93,359 fans. Amanam’s interception guys were, last year and this year. Drew Terrell was hit while catching (continued on page 28) 2012 STANFORD FOOTBALL BY THE NUMBERS
N Stanford improved to 12-2 on to 2010 and had reached 10 wins N Stanford is 17-11 in its past 28 the season, 6-6-1 all-time in the only three times previously (1926, games decided by a touchdown or Rose Bowl, 1-4-1 all-time against 1942 and 1992). less. Wisconsin and 11-12-1 all-time in N Stanford now has won 12 N Stanford has won 26 of its past bowl games with its 20-14 victory games in season for the second 27 games played in California. over the Badgers in the 99th Rose time in program history (2010 be- The only loss was to No. 6 Oregon Bowl on January 1. ing the first). in 2011. N Stanford extended its season- N Stanford owned the No. 1 scor- N Stanford senior running back ending win streak to eight games. ing defense in the Pac-12 Confer- Stepfan Taylor finished his ca- N Stanford faced Wisconsin in ence, allowing 17.46 points per reer with 4,300 rushing yards (a the Rose Bowl game for the sec- game that ranked 14th in the na- school record) and ended 2012 ond time in as many appearances. tion heading into the 2013 Rose with 1,530. He’s one of only two Stanford led the 86th Rose Bowl Bowl game. The Cardinal limited running backs (Darrin Nelson is game in 2000, 9-3 at halftime, only the Badgers to 14 points, none in the other) in school history to have to lose to the Badgers, 17-9. the second half. three 1,000-yard seasons and the N The Cardinal made its fourth N In 11 of 14 games this season, first to do it three years in a row. all-time BCS bowl appearance, Stanford held opponents to 20 His 45 career touchdowns also is a tied for 12th best among FBS points or less. The Cardinal also school record. schools in the Bowl Champion- has held 25 of its past 33 oppo- N Stanford was favored to win ship Series sera that began with the nents to 20 points or less, dating the Rose Bowl by 4.5 points. The 1998 season. Stanford had played to 2010. Cardinal won by six. previously in the 2000 Rose Bowl, N Stanford’s tough 3-4 defense N Stanford is 35-5 over the past 2011 Orange Bowl and 2012 Fiesta ranked first in the nation in both three seasons. Notre Dame and Al- Bowl. tackles for loss (9.23 average, 120 abama, who will play in the 2013 N Stanford’s three straight sea- total) and sacks (4.31 average, 56 BCS national championship game, sons of at least 11 victories are un- totals) before registering four tack- are 28-10 and 33-5, respectively, precedented in school history. The les for loss and one sack against during the same time. Don Feria/isiphotos.com Cardinal never won 11 games prior Wisconsin. Stanford placekicker Jordan Williamson (left), who made two field goals, and Craig Jones (59) salute the Cardinal fans following Tuesday’s win.
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Visit gardens like Filoli in Section A is from 9 a.m. to 2:30 by Jack McKinnon I like to go to Common Ground Woodside, Gamble Garden in Palo p.m. on Tuesdays, Jan. 8 to and the col- in Palo Alto for bulk selections. Alto and San Francisco Botanical March 12; Section B is 9 a.m. to ’m still cold, wet and bare in the ors of spring I make two trips to Common Gardens in Golden Gate Park for 2:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Jan. 10 garden. Well, not completely to come. Ground for fertilizers. The first is ideas. Of course Sunset Magazine to March 14. Both are held in the I bare; I wear my swim trunks. Here are to write down what they have (like in Menlo Park has been an icon of Palo Alto High School Upholster- I found that if I wear Teva sandals this month’s alfalfa meal, bat guano, etc.) and gardening inspiration for decades. ing Room 904, 50 Embarcadero and swim trunks along with my tips: the second trip after looking up all 9. Plant wildflower seeds by Road, Palo Alto. Cost is $205 per Gore-Tex jacket then I don’t get 1. If you the different ones online to see if sowing in open areas and cover- course. New students are asked to my pants and boots soaked. It’s a haven’t done I want them and how much to use ing with a thin layer of fine soil or call the adult school before the first little chilly from the waist down your prun- and buy. mulch. They will naturalize but it class. Information: 650-329-3752 but sure is easier to dry out when ing this is 5. Pull weeds early. It seems won’t hurt to water them if no rain or www.paadultschool.org I go in. the perfect time. Remove the worst a simple concept but is so valu- comes for three weeks. Now that the big holidays are first including dead, dying and dis- able to the garden on the whole. 10. Go out into your garden. WINTER GARDENING ... Sheri gone we sit and wonder what will eased branches. This practice for If you get them small it is easier Make it a habit to take a walk in Bohan, a professional gardener come in the spring. Will it be wild- me takes a lot of the pressure of and decreases the likelihood they the morning or when you get home for 30 years, will offer a 10-week flowers, bulbs, roses and fruit or shaping and thinning off. After will re-produce. I did clean-up for from work. We live in one of the course, “Gardening in Winter,” from will it be weeds, invasive grasses, clean up, stand back and become one landscape architect in Palo best gardening zones on the planet 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesdays, gophers and more mud? Who an artist. Alto who had me leave everything and may as well appreciate it. Jan. 9 to March 13, at Cubberley knows? What is important is that 2. Thin out tangling and crossing where I pulled it. Just shake off the Good gardening. N A-2, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo for now we can plan and dream branches along with excess vines soil and drop them on the ground Garden coach Jack McKinnon Alto. Focus will be on preventing and get on with our chores. and wisteria tendrils. Don’t be to become mulch. can be reached at 650-455-0687 and controlling garden diseases I am still pruning and doing afraid to be bold (unless of course 6. Invite friends to talk with (cell), by email at jack@jackthe- and pests, irrigation, mulching, clean-up jobs and soon will be get- it is going to threaten your mar- about what you are doing in your gardencoach.com. Visit his web- pruning and planting edibles in a ting calls for more personal garden riage). gardens. This is a good opportu- site at www.jackthegardencoach. landscape or garden. Cost is $55, coaching. I look forward to inspir- 3. Visit several nurseries when nity to catch up on life in general com. plus a $5 materials fee payable to ing homeowners to see the light you are out and about. Ask when and have some coffee and pastries the instructor at the first class. In- formation: 650-329-3752 or www. paadultschool.org $1,089,000 on 12/7/12; previous sale 5/06, PIECE OF CAKE ... Christine Hop- HOME SALES $1,325,000 Home sales are provided by California SALES AT A GLANCE kins will teach “Cake Decorating - 382 Foxborough Drive Senior Trust to J. & REsource, a real estate information com- M. Cannella for $1,000,000 on 12/6/12 Level 1” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on pany that obtains the information from the 167 Georgetown Court W. Shaw to B. Mondays, Jan. 7 to Feb. 4 County Recorder’s Office. Information is East Palo Alto Highest sales price: $1,755,000 , at the Lawrence for $757,000 on 12/7/12; previ- recorded from deeds after the close of Arrillaga Family Recreation Center, ous sale 8/09, $630,000 Total sales reported: 1 Mountain View escrow and published within four to eight 700 Alma St., Menlo Park. Topics 413 Hedgerow Court Tempey Trust to A. Lowest sales price: $186,000 weeks. Total sales reported: 12 cover the basics, including leveling Loge for $1,335,000 on 12/4/12 Highest sales price: $186,000 Lowest sales price: $385,000 430 Kent Drive S. Chang to I. Pan for a cake, making icing and creating East Palo Alto Highest sales price: $1,951,000 431 Wisteria Drive $1,077,000 on 12/10/12; previous sale 3/10, Los Altos roses, stars, shells, leaves and A. Farag to A. Jackson for $186,000 on 11/29/12; previous sale $200,000 Total sales reported: 7 Palo Alto more. Fee is $85 for non-Menlo 4/07, $638,000 1747 Mayflower Court Karkouti Trust to Lowest sales price: $699,000 Eilat Trust for $1,100,000 on 12/5/12 Total sales reported: 8 Park residents, $64 for residents. $2,760,000 Los Altos 1910 Mt. Vernon Court #2 Merideth Trust Highest sales price: Lowest sales price: $880,000 Information: Noreen Bickel, Menlo 350 Bellevue Court Cavaney Trust to I. & to S. Roy for $385,000 on 12/7/12 Los Altos Hills Highest sales price: $2,057,500 Park Recreation Department, at 1166 Nilda Ave. K. & S. Subramanian to F. Loughran for $2,540,000 on 12/5/12 1 650-330-2209 1 W. Edith Ave. #D128 Fox Trust to Reyes N. & L. Wang for $1,175,000 on 12/7/12; Total sales reported: Redwood City Trust for $699,000 on 12/7/12; previous previous sale 2/00, $670,000 Lowest sales price: $3,400,000 Total sales reported: 14 1863 Orangetree Lane M. Mayeda to D. & FREE FABRIC ... The next FabMo sale 6/04, $550,000 Highest sales price: $3,400,000 Lowest sales price: $160,000 1448 Fowler Lane Foster Trust to J. & M. K. Chondros for $1,951,000 on 12/7/12 free fabric distribution event is Geleynse for $2,350,000 on 12/7/12; previ- 49 Showers Drive #149e J. Peterson to J. Menlo Park Highest sales price: $1,650,000 Thursday, Jan. 10, from 4 to 6 ous sale 10/11, $1,500,000 Moon for $555,000 on 12/4/12; previous Total sales reported: 5 Source: California REsource p.m., Friday, Jan. 11, 8:30 a.m. 644 Mills Ave. House Trust to R. & N. sale 11/90, $184,500 Lowest sales price: $292,000 2115 Windrose Place TPM Properties to to 6 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 12, Mathur for $1,650,000 on 12/6/12 11585 Old Ranch Lane Mayeda Trust to B. Ozek for $700,000 on 12/4/12; previous 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Appointments Lin Trust for $2,760,000 on 12/10/12; previ- sale 9/04, $535,000 are required, to help manage ous sale 6/97, $839,000 Palo Alto 1570 Plateau Ave. Cole Trust to A. Anvar K. Harr for $987,500 on 11/27/12; previous 2131 Whipple Ave. the crowds (Email gather.fabrix@ 253 Addison Ave. B. Daryani to D. Keogan K. Harr to S. Balde- for $1,700,000 on 12/7/12; previous sale sale 3/03, $929,000 me.com with preferred date and for $880,000 on 12/4/12; previous sale schwieler for $817,500 on 11/27/12; previ- 1/96, $719,000 1614 Hudson St. #114 Federal Na- time), but some drop-in hours are 11/95, $270,000 ous sale 7/02, $801,000 884 Santa Rita Ave. Deacon Trust to tional Mortgage to BOV-RAC Limited for 4155 Frandon Court Eisenberg Trust to K. included. The distribution, with a Mahendra-Rajah Trust for $2,160,000 on $160,000 on 11/27/12; previous sale 5/07, Tsui for $1,710,000 on 12/6/12 12/4/12; previous sale 11/88, $629,000 $320,000 BUILDING PERMITS requested donation, takes place at 3907 Grove Ave. Lee Trust to E. Lee for 19 Jubilee Court T. Spirtos to N. Janof 2423 Old Middlefield Way, Moun- Los Altos Hills $1,326,000 on 12/5/12; previous sale 5/04, Menlo Park for $1,250,000 on 11/28/12; previous sale tain View. Volunteer greeters and 11881 Francemont Drive G. Stark to N. $945,000 322 Laurel Ave. J. Doyle, wall insulation, 8/02, $1,140,000 Pfeiffer for $3,400,000 on 12/7/12 315 Homer Ave. #303 C. Jamison to Ja- $2,745 sorters are also needed. Informa- 1017 King St. Baird Trust to J. & K. Rick- cobson Trust for $1,705,000 on 12/7/12; 36 Palm Court re-roof, $19,232 N wald for $620,000 on 11/27/12; previous tion: www.fabmo.org Menlo Park previous sale 5/04, $940,000 1816 Santa Cruz Ave. W. Choe, residential sale 5/04, $595,000 220 Market Place Habitat For Humanity to 260 Iris Way Allington & Fullove Trust to B. re-roof, $4,600 1731 Maddux Drive M. Elgadi to A. Ranier M. Manor for $292,000 on 11/27/12; previ- & C. Baker for $1,900,000 on 12/6/12 600 Sharon Park Drive Radin Investment for $700,000 on 11/21/12; previous sale ous sale 9/11, $213,000 3831 Louis Road Jenke Trust to X. Yu for Co., kitchen and bath remodel, $2,000 8/05, $850,000 530 Menlo Oaks Drive D. & A. Jevans to $1,470,000 on 12/7/12 150 Middlefield Road M. Wallau, commer- 559 Sapphire St. J. & A. Hull to A. Doherty Kennedy Trust for $1,755,000 on 11/21/12; 718 Maplewood Ave. C. Taylor to N. Li for cial tenant improvement for a dental office, for $810,000 on 11/27/12; previous sale Send notices of news and events previous sale 6/00, $1,750,000 $1,415,000 on 12/7/12 $85,000; commercial tenant improvement 3/07, $805,000 related to real estate, interior design, 1281 Orange Ave. A. & C. Smith to Clarum 3324 St. Michael Drive Lemen Trust to M. of 1,975 sq. ft., new dental office, $171,825 40 Siena Court K. & T. Orban to C. & M. home improvement and gardening Hansen Lane for $1,100,000 on 11/27/12 Li for $2,057,500 on 12/10/12 210 Sand Hill Circle Sand Hill Circle HOA, Damatarca for $1,650,000 on 11/21/12; to Home Front, Palo Alto Weekly, 1007 Peggy Lane Fruthland Trust to KDCI multiresidential re-roof, $25,125 previous sale 12/07, $1,874,000 Development for $915,000 on 11/29/12 Redwood City 200 Sand Hill Circle Sand Hill Circle HOA, P.O. Box 1610, Palo Alto, CA 1176 Virginia Ave. J. Raymundo to Edge- 2140 Santa Cruz Ave. #E104 Schena 2653 Brewster Ave. Lynch Trust to T. Dun- multiresidential re-roof 200-208, one con- 94302, or email cblitzer@paweekly. wood Limited for $565,000 on 11/28/12; Trust to Chang Trust for $530,000 on woody for $649,000 on 11/28/12; previous tinuous roof for all condos, $64,915 com. Deadline is one week before previous sale 6/07, $745,000 11/28/12; previous sale 3/05, $462,000 sale 6/05, $739,000 1076 Laurel St. HSA Design and Develop- 1746 Virginia Ave. C. Stingley to D. Odon- publication. 45 Carmel Lane Byers Trust to Boyle Trust ment LLC, interior remodel, $78,000 Mountain View for $1,110,000 on 11/27/12 nell for $580,000 on 11/29/12 441 Chagall St. Shea Homes to J. & V. 595 Douglas Ave. Cortez Trust to M. Ce- 55 Waterside Circle Beckham Trust to J. Palo Alto Taylor for $788,000 on 12/7/12 schin for $165,000 on 11/27/12 & T. Birkebak for $1,220,000 on 11/27/12; 1602 Portola Ave. E. Smith & B. Still, new 400 W. Dana St. L. Pereira to E. Luthra for 2135 Hillcrest Road S. Baldeschwieler to previous sale 1/00, $706,000 two-story house, $557,303; new one-car Page 32ÊUÊ>Õ>ÀÞÊ{]ÊÓä£ÎÊUÊ*>ÊÌÊ7iiÞÊUÊÜÜÜ°*>Ì"i°V Home & Real Estate
garage, $12,393 grade electrical service, $118,000 OPEN HOMES 2730 Greer Road F. Ham, remodel kitchen, $16,400 214 Homer Ave. Kruss Family, LLP, remove partition 953 Industrial Ave. BPR Properties Industrial, LLC, wall, $n/a tenant improvement, $75,000 754 Holly Oak Drive Thompson/Herrema, demolish 2365 South Court P. & S. Colton, install standby gen- pool, remove and relocate gas line, $n/a Unless otherwise noted, all times are 1:30-4:30 pm erator and auto transfer switch, $n/a 781 Channing Ave. S. Potter, construct two-story 3176 Porter Drive Lockheed Martin, install two nitro- addition adjacent to home, $329,060; construct single- gen dewars, $23,300 car garage, $13,171 308 Lincoln Ave. B. & J. Corey, repair portions of brick 457 Kingsley Ave. First Presbyterian Church of Palo LOS ALTOS HILLS WOODSIDE masonry foundation, $25,000 Alto, remove brick chimneys and replace was faux 3 Bedrooms 4 Bedrooms 795 Seale Ave. D. Ketchum, add to living and family chimney, $24,000 125 Lynn Wy $3,495,000 room, $69,000 3864 Middlefield Road Bldg. C Abilities United, reno- 1750 Eastbrook Av $1,795,000 Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 323-7751 326 University Ave. Wilbur Properties, install hood vate bathroom, $16,000 Sun Coldwell Banker 323-7751 type 1 and glass mirror, $28,000 435 Portage Ave. Silva Properties, tenant improve- 240 Allen Rd $2,498,000 3357 Saint Michael Court W. Huang, remove and ments to existing two-story building, $450,000 Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 328-5211 replace furnace, $n/a 1985 Louis Drive First Congregational Church of Palo MENLO PARK 1357 Cowper St. C. & C. Chartier, remodel kitchen, Alto, install 1 LTE cabinet within Verizon equipment bath, and laundry, $51,679 enclosure, $20,000 3 Bedrooms - Condominium 3120 Hansen Way Varian Medical Systems, renovate 101 Alma St. Unit 408 S. Madra, remodel kitchen, 1100 Sharon Park Dr #32 $889,000 EXPLORE interior space, $165,000 install new washer/dryer, $3,380 4131 Park Blvd. C. & L. Dilauro, new one-story master 3363 Park Blvd. V. Panwar, remodel bathroom and Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 OUR bed/bath addition, $84,500 kitchen, $20,000 806 E. Greenwich Place N. & H. Silverman, remodel 3419 Hillview Ave. VMware, new office building, PALO ALTO WEB SITE existing bathroom, $10,000 $17,100,000 s )NTERACTIVE MAPS 535 Ramona St. De Lemos Properties, replace floor- 3431 Hillview Ave. VMware, new three-story parking 3 Bedrooms ing, $2,500 garage, $5,100,000 s (OMES FOR SALE 650 Towle Place A. Hmelar, remodel bathroom, add 902 Arastradero Road VMware, new cafeteria build- 1190 Hamilton Av $2,997,700 s /PEN HOMES lights to living room, $6,000 ing, $5,200,000 Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 324-4456 s 6IRTUAL TOURS 3400 Hillview Bldg. B2Equity Office, tenant improve- 904 Arastradero Road VMware, new office building, s 0RIOR SALE INFO ment in existing building, $1,934,297 $16,900,000 6+ Bedrooms 3400 Hillview Bldg. B1Equity Office, tenant improve- 906 Arastradero Road VMware, new office building, AND MORE 3373 Cork Oak Wy $1,795,000 ment in existing building, $5,835,703 $16,800,000 1650 Bryant St. N. Ambady, add gas log sets, add 910 Arastradero Road VMware, parking garage, Sun 10-2 Coldwell Banker 325-6161 barbecue gas bib, $n/a $6,800,000 FIND YOUR NEW HOME 628 Forest Ave. #C Ashem Properties, remodel 985 Paradise Way S. Chu, install two retrofit windows, PORTOLA VALLEY kitchen and bathroom, add washer and dryer, replace $4,377 PaloAltoOnline.com/real_estate window-double pane, $24,906; #D remodel kitchen 4075 El Camino Way, Palo Alto Commons, new roof- 4 Bedrooms and bathroom, replace window-double pane, $22,618; top HVAC units, $673,000 #F remodel kitchen and bathroom, $41,000 4269 Park Blvd. C. & J. Law, addition and renovation, 158 Wayside Rd $1,425,000 539 Alma St. L. Osborne, repair window, $12,500 $264,619 Sun Coldwell Banker 851-2666 911 Hansen Way Varian Medical Systems, install fur- 2305 El Camino Real Borelli Investment Company, naces, $100,000 tenant improvement, $200,000 3473 Park Blvd. R. Sterental, install hood above exist- 4250 Pomona Ave. K. Campbell, replace windows and REDWOOD CITY ing range, drop down ceiling at laundry room, $1,200 doors, retrofit installation, $7,900 350 Tennyson Ave. Dawson, remodel bathroom, 3277 Miranda Ave. University Club of Palo Alto, reno- 3 Bedrooms $5,500 vate locker room, add showers and drinking fountains, 1131 Westwood St $995,000 650 High St. Suite 100 Jarvis-Garrasco and Associ- $400,000 ates, demolish exterior doors and windows, new non- 867 Marshall Ave. W. Nee & W. Lee, new two story Sun 1-4 Coldwell Banker 851-2666 structural partitions, $60,000 house, $500,000; construct shed with porch, $4,743 2433 High St. Wellgo International LLC, remodel 1091 Fife Ave. B. Fuller, pre-fab carport, $6,100 4 Bedrooms kitchen and bathroom, $24,000 1184 Palo Alto Ave. K. Cooper, remodel kitchen, 351 W Oakwood Bl $1,589,000 724 Bryant St. J. Farrand, add skylights, $1,200 $45,000 413 Ferne Ave. J. Wu & M. Tan, add master suite, up- Sun 1-4 Alain Pinel Realtors 462-1111
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95 Yale Road 2111 Latham Street 3260 Waverley Street 575 Oak Knoll Lane 19735 Solana Drive 3280 Ross Road 356 Marmona Drive 1325 Garden Lane 671 Valparaiso Avenue 511 King Drive
320 Lennox Ave 48 Gresham Lane 1809 Silva Place 655 Hale St 1041 Almanor Avenue 851 Nevada Ave
1895 Anne Marie Court 1271 Westwood St 1855 Barton Street 1244 Connecticut Dr
1185 Marsh Road 250 Edgewood Rd 1905 Cedar Street 14253 Worden Way
4009 Fernwood Street 3 Versailles St 315 Laning Drive 324 Channing Ave 701 Berkeley Avenue 1623 Escobita Ave
2416 Sharon Oaks Dr 4134 Sutherland Dr 2116 Coronet Boulevard 3077 Mariposa Av 351 Oakwood Bl Stanford Ave 563 Magdalena 1246 Sharon Oaks Dr 12125 Oak Park Court 889 Woodland Ave
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SOLD IN 2012 SOLD IN 2012 SOLD IN 2012 RAMOSO ROAD CREEK ROAD POSSUM LANE PORTOLA VALLEY MENLO PARK PORTOLA VALLEY REPRESENTED THE BUYER REPRESENTED THE SELLER REPRESENTED THE BUYER 31 OFFERS
SOLD IN 2012 SOLD IN 2012 ARBOR ROAD HAWTHORNE AVENUE MENLO PARK MENLO PARK REPRESENTED THE BUYER REPRESENTED THE SELLER 5 OFFERS
SOLD IN 2012 SOLD IN 2012 SOLD IN 2012 GOLDEN OAK BYRON STREET SANTA CRUZ AVENUE PORTOLA VALLEY PALO ALTO MENLO PARK REPRESENTED THE BUYER REPRESENTED THE SELLER REPRESENTED THE BUYER
SOLD IN 2012 SOLD IN 2012 SANTA CRUZ AVENUE WINDSOR WAY MENLO PARK MENLO PARK REPRESENTED THE SELLER REPRESENTED THE BUYER 6 OFFERS
SOLD IN 2012 SOLD IN 2012 SOLD IN 2012 OAK KNOLL LANE MONTEREY DUNES HERMOSA WAY MENLO PARK CASTROVILLE MENLO PARK REPRESENTED THE BUYER REPRESENTED THE BUYER REPRESENTED THE BUYER
SERVING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD MENLO PARK ATHERTON PALO ALTO SOLD IN 2012 STANFORD WISTERIA LANE monicacormanbroker WOODSIDE PALO ALTO PORTOLA VALLEY DRE #01111473 [email protected] REPRESENTED THE SELLER LOS ALTOS 3 OFFERS LOS ALTOS HILLS 650.543.1164 monicacorman.com
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