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THIS MODERN WORLD

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comments@metronews.com RE: LONGTIME OWNER BOB KIEVE WANTS TO GIVE KLIV TO CITY OF SAN JOSE, NEWS, MARCH 27

God bless you, Bob. DORA LOPEZ PADILLA VIA FACEBOOK RE: LONGTIME OWNER BOB KIEVE WANTS TO GIVE KLIV TO CITY OF SAN JOSE, NEWS, MARCH 27

RE: LONGTIME OWNER BOB KIEVE WANTS TO GIVE KLIV TO CITY OF SAN JOSE, NEWS, MARCH 27

RE: ACCUSED HARASSER DOMINIC CASERTA TOUTS POLYGRAPH AS PROOF OF INNOCENCE, THE FLY, MARCH 27

Could this be a basis for a useful emergency broadcast system that is pretty weak in this county?

Another viable alternative is to look at turning it into a worker cooperative. This is a great example of the kind of legacy business that cooperatives can support and save from closing. I’d be happy to sit down and chat with you about it, Bob. Feel free to reach out to me at info@asliceofny.com.

In my opinion he should’ve taken it a lot earlier. It doesn’t excuse the rude comments that he made to his students and colleagues.

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THERI ANN ROWEN VIA SAN JOSE INSIDE

Listen, I’ve met people with agoraphobia. One of them was so afraid of the outdoors that he holed himself up in a tiny cabin in the Santa Cruz mountains for literally three years, venturing out only when enough of his friends spent days coaxing him out of hiding long enough to go to things like doctor’s appointments and group therapy sessions. It’s no joke. So I get a little irritated when you, my dear, cite your selfdiagnosed agoraphobia as reason to not answer my text messages or phone calls or what have you. You might have anxiety issues, but stop pathologizing your lack of communication as some dramatic phobia that I’m pretty darn sure you don’t have.

RE: ACCUSED HARASSER DOMINIC CASERTA TOUTS POLYGRAPH AS PROOF OF INNOCENCE, THE FLY, MARCH 27 Using a polygraph test to prove truth or deception, guilt or innocence is an exercise in futility/stupidity. A polygraph is not a lie detector! And the government knows it's easy for a liar to beat the test; they prosecuted me for teaching a fed how to do it.

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This is a great gesture from a generous and caring man. ROBYN VIA SAN JOSE INSIDE

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THE FLY

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As San Jose gears up for 2020 elections in its even-numbered City Council districts, candidates are coming out of the woodwork to vie for JOHNNY KHAMIS’ thento-open seat in D10 and to challenge LAN DIEP’s re-election in D4. But all’s been quiet in districts 2 and 8, which are repped by SERGIO JIMENEZ and SYLVIA ARENAS, respectively. The same was true in D6 until this week when activist ANDREW BOONE proclaimed his intention to run against first-term Councilwoman DEV DAVIS. Boone prefaced his April Fool’s Day announcement by saying that it’s no joke. The 37-year-old grassroots organizer—a vocal proponent of making Silicon Valley streets more bicycle friendly and someone whose transit activism has made him a familiar presence at many a public meeting—aims to push the 11-member council further to the left. “San Jose has been so badly mismanaged for so long that it’s hard to figure out where to start to fix it,” Boone opined in a Facebook status posted first thing Monday morning. “Let’s start with poverty wages.” He says he’d like to see a higher citywide minimum wage (up to $25 an hour, to be Don’t precise), higher corporate forget taxes, more short-term to tip! shelters for the homeless and a stronger push for FLY@ local policies tackling METRONEWS. climate change. COM Boone says he realizes it’ll be an uphill battle. Davis—a Stanford-educated economist and 41-year-old mother of two adopted sons—is well-liked in the politically involved district and has even been floated as a mayoral contender in 2022. She’s aligned with progressives on certain issues—such as preserving the sanctioned campsite-for-the-homeless known as Hope Village, something Boone also supports—and has closed ranks with her center-to-right colleagues on things like rent control and other tenant protections. Davis says she plans to continue her service into a second term and graciously welcomed Boone’s challenge. “I respect the democratic process,” she tells Fly, “and an individual’s right to run for office.”

UNSAFE HARBOR Mayor Sam Liccardo, left, and SJPD Chief Eddie Garcia have criticized Santa Clara County’s sanctuary policies in light of Bambi Larson’s fatal stabbing by an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador.

Homicide Renews Debate Over Sanctuary Laws BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH As with Kate Steinle’s killing in San Francisco, the fatal Feb. 28 stabbing of San Jose’s Bambi Larson in her own home and undocumented immigrant Carlos Eduardo Arevalo-Carranza’s arrest for the crime reignited debate over local sanctuary city policies. Mayor Sam Liccardo, a former prosecutor, joined Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith, District Attorney Jeff Rosen and every single police chief in the South Bay in criticizing the county’s refusal to comply with requests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain undocumented immigrants without a judicial warrant or alert the agency about impending release dates. In a letter they co-authored last week, the coalition of law enforcement leaders implored the county Board of Supervisors to let local jails alert ICE about upcoming release dates for undocumented inmates accused or convicted of felonies or violent misdemeanors—

something allowed by the landmark sanctuary state law, SB 54, known as the California Values Act. Indeed, federal statistics show that ICE arrests at California jails plummeted by close to a third in the months following SB 54’s passage in 2018. But a new report from the University of Oxford claims that it’s not for lack of help from local authorities. According to the analysis by Oxford and the immigrantadvocacy non-profit Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, 40 percent of police agencies statewide exploited legal loopholes to help ICE and related agencies in violation of state sanctuary laws. The report was released late last week amid renewed debate about sanctuary jurisdictions like Santa Clara County, which since 2011 has limited local cooperation with ICE and related agencies, such as the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol. But local police agencies are pushing back, saying many of the report’s findings are inaccurate.

The study claims that SJPD still allows ICE agents to act as interpreters and commanding officers and to share the department’s facilities for immigration enforcement. It also says SJPD shares with ICE personal information about undocumented immigrants—all in violation of the California Values Act. SJPD Officer James Gonzales, the department’s community liaison, said that’s all false and that nobody working on the Oxford report bothered to contact the department to fact-check those findings. “Once SB 54 passed, we stopped doing anything related to immigration,” he told San Jose Inside in a phone call Monday. SJPD’s investigative division will coordinate with ICE subsidiaries on cases involving human trafficking, gangs and money laundering, Gonzales explained, but “90 percent or more of those investigations don’t involve anybody who’s undocumented.”

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Lawyer Charged with Visa Fraud BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH A federal grand jury has indicted the owner of a San Jose law firm and her ex-husband in a visa fraud case that brought in foreign capital from more than 100 clients. Prosecutors say 54-year-old Danhong “Jean” Chen, the sole partner at the Law Offices of Jean D. Chen, and her former spouse and office manager, 51-year-old Jianyun “Tony” Ye, falsified records to make their clients qualify for the EB-5 program. The so-called “golden visa” offers U.S. residency in exchange for at least $500,000 in foreign investment in American businesses that create at least 10 jobs in low-employment census tracts. The minimum required for places that don’t suffer from a dearth of jobs is $1 million. The cash-for-visas program has come under greater scrutiny in recent years throughout the nation. Locally, it has been used to secure financing for projects in downtown San Jose including the Silvery Towers, a luxury highrise embroiled in controversy after the feds accused one of its subcontractors of using slave labor. Under the EB-5 program, entrepreneurs looking for

investments may establish regional centers to promote business opportunities to prospective visa applicants. In the case of Chen and Ye, they bought the Golden State Regional Center in 2014 and, according to prosecutors, falsified documents to conceal its true ownership. Chen and Ye, who lived in Atherton at the time, used the regional center to siphon their clients’ money, which ultimately amounted to about $52 million, into a property they secretly controlled, according to the 14-count indictment unsealed late last month. A civil complaint filed last fall by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims the pair gleaned more than $12 million in commissions from the deals. Yea appeared in federal court in San Jose on Monday to enter a not guilty plea. He was released on a $750,000 bond. Chen remains on the lam since the SEC filed its claim in October 2018 and, according to officials, may be using the pseudonym Maria Sofia Taylor.

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STEAL OF A DEAL Jean Chen and her ex-husband Tony Ye stand accused of abusing the ‘golden visa’ program, which offers green cards to foreign investors.

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SCENE AND HEARD The Montreux Jazz Festival was started to promote a resort village.

Record Numbers Montreux archives hold tens of thousands of hours of music BY GARY SINGH

AST WEEK, Thierry Amsallem laughed out loud while telling numerous stories about the Montreux Jazz Festival. When he gave me a tour of the Montreux Jazz digital archives on the campus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), his laughter evoked a true passion for all things Montreux and all things music.

“Montreux is a live recording studio with an audience,” Amsallem said, emphasizing how the festival has

regularly pioneered advances in audio and video recording technology. Claude Nobs launched the festival in 1967. Amsallem came on board 20 years later while still in grad school. As he continued to tell stories, a mystical coincidence soon emerged. Neither I nor the fixers arranging our interview knew that Amsallem was among those who presented Apple Quicktime 1.0 at the San Jose Convention Center in 1991. His group helped test Quicktime by using it for a Montreux Jazz kiosk project. Similarly, Amsallem did not know in advance that I was from San Jose. Synchronicity thus drove my

experience, as is often the case when I visit Switzerland. Carl Gustav Jung would be proud. Nobs started the festival to promote a resort village on the shores of Lake Geneva, unaware that it would explode into one of the most iconic musical ecosystems on earth, resonating far beyond jazz or Switzerland. Montreux was the first live concert environment to utilize multitrack audio recording (1973), hidef video (1991), 3D video (2010) and 4K (2012) before those technologies went mainstream. Today, 28 years after Amsallem helped beta test Quicktime 1.0 at Montreux, he remains a part of the ecosystem, helping oversee the Montreux Jazz Digital Project, the most ambitious plan to preserve music I’ve ever seen. As of today, something like 11,000 hours of video recordings, 6,000 hours of highquality audio and 80,000 photos have been digitally preserved since the project began in 2010. “In 1967 people asked Nobs, ‘Why record with video? Music is just for

your ears,’” Amsallem told me with a laugh. “Even today I have people laughing at what we’re doing.” Following Nobs’ passing in 2013, Amsallem created the Claude Nobs Foundation in order to sustain his legacy and continue the digital project. At that time, the archives were recognized by UNESCO and inscribed in its “Memory of the World” registry. “UNESCO came with Obama’s help,” Amsallem said. “He really wanted to preserve jazz. And Hillary wrote a letter.” He then opened up the back of the server cabinets, a must-see for any tech geek. To store 50 years’ worth of concerts, five petabytes on three server racks are cooled by water from Lake Geneva. Dozens of fans are also piled up, eight feet high, along the backs of the servers. “It’s noisy and consumes energy, but we want to keep the archive alive,” Amsallem said, laughing. “This is how we keep it alive.” We then moved through even more areas off limits to the general public, spaces where EPFL students and researchers work on the archives. From here, audio and video are streamed to a handful of chic Montreux Jazz Cafes in places from Paris to Abu Dhabi, where patrons can literally scroll through 50 years of concert footage. Other researchers are working on various projects including an interactive 3D family tree allowing anyone to see which musicians jammed with who else over the last half century at Montreux. Also in the works is an autonomous vehicle prototype that supplies concert acoustics and video footage, transporting the cafe experience into a car. “If you’re not driving, what else are you going to do?” said Amsallem, laughing. “Watch concerts.” Later, over espressos in the Montreux Jazz Cafe on the EPFL campus, Amsallem told the story of the legendary “Swiss Movement” live LP that Les McCann and Eddie Harris recorded at Montreux in 1969. Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records bought the tapes for pocket change and the LP sold millions, putting Montreux on the live recording map. “It was great promotion for Montreux,” Amsallem said. “A world of artists then wanted to play here. Now bands want to come here to be a part of UNESCO.”

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Tech billionaires are giving away their fortunes almost as fast as they are making them, but a growing number of critics say big philanthropy deserves scrutiny before gratitude BY WALLACE BAINE

TIP FOR any aspiring tech networker or VC stalker looking to exchange business cards and make impressions at the next Silicon Valley mixer: Avoid mentioning the name Anand Giridharadas. That probably won’t go well.

The journalist and author has positioned himself right up there with Elizabeth Warren among names that can trigger dirty looks in the cafes of Mountain View and Palo Alto. In recent months, Giridharadas has received texts from friends in the Valley that describe fights breaking out at dinner parties at

the mention of his 2018 book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Winners is the result of a journey that began in 2015, when Giridharadas—a former New York Times columnist who is now editor at large at Time magazine—landed a speaking gig at the Aspen Institute, the tony think tank that attracts tech billionaires, industry titans, media celebrities, power brokers and other elite “thought leaders.” At the time, Giridharadas was a visiting fellow at Aspen. He opened his speech with a plea to his audience to forgive him for what he was about to say. He then unleashed the kind of critique

that before had been taboo in places where the One Percent congregate. He not only talked about glaring economic inequality, he went a step beyond, suggesting that the philanthropic efforts of even the world’s most generous benefactors was only a fig leaf hiding the brutalities of an unjust system. “Amid the $20 million second homes and $4,000 parkas of Aspen,” he told the crowd, “it is gauche to observe that giving back is also a Band-Aid that winners stick onto the system that has privileged them, in the conscious or subconscious hope that it will forestall major surgery to that system—surgery

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Biting the Hand THAT FEEDS

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BIG PHILANTHROPY

that might threaten their privileges.” Giridharadas told his captive audience of plutocrats that their generosity was a cover for injustice, that their philanthropy was merely flowery wallpaper on a rotting house. Though it was delivered in Colorado, Giridharadas’s speech came in loud and clear in Silicon Valley. Almost four years later, Giridharadas stands by his comments and adds that they apply especially to the messianic culture of Silicon Valley, where giving away money has become almost as consuming a preoccupation as making it. “No one

‘Silicon Valley is full of little Maos who have this huge idea to liberate humanity and won’t let anything get in their way.’ —ANAND GIRIDHARADAS is more wounded than the person who thinks they are making the world a better place every day and then told otherwise,” Giridharadas says in a phone interview. His book expands and amplifies the themes that he first broached in Aspen. It takes on the prevailing “winwin” mentality behind philanthrocapitalism, as well as the idea that the super-wealthy are able to bring about any kind of meaningful social change in a world that has rewarded them so spectacularly. “It would have been hard to end slavery using a method that put plantation owners in charge of the initiative,” he says. “It would have been hard to get children out of the factories in the early 20th century if factory owners were responsible for ending child labor. And it’s going to be very hard for the plutocrats of our time to

unwind the system that has allowed them to enjoy almost all the fruits of progress of the last generation.” Though he levels his criticisms at the assumptions that underlie the billionaire class generally, Giridharadas takes particular aim at Silicon Valley. Wall Street people, he says, tend to be rather upfront in their desire to make a buck. On the other hand, “Silicon Valley is full of little Maos who have this huge idea to liberate humanity and won’t let anything get in their way.” Tech, he said, is especially vulnerable to the “win-win” mentality that insists philanthropy can change the world without changing the underlying structure of capitalism. “I’m not sure what’s more dangerous,” he says, “the investment banks in New York who cynically use a little bit of giving to lubricate the engines of continued taking, or the messianic Silicon Valley boymen who think being left alone by journalists and regulators without scrutiny or pushback is the secret to emancipating mankind.” Since Winners Take All was published in the summer of 2018, debate has shifted dramatically in the themes that Giridharadas brings up in his book. Last fall’s midterm elections revived talk of 70-percent marginal tax rates, and wealth taxes on billionaires. Bill and Melinda Gates, who have been nearly universally praised for the long-ranging and life-saving effects of their charity, found themselves defending the existence of billionaires on Stephen Colbert’s couch. Even more significantly, Giridharadas is not a voice in the wilderness. His is one several books published in the last year that question the fundamental engine by which the wealthy seek to exert their influence on society: philanthropy.

THE THIRD FORCE Americans tend to think of the forces that shape public life as a strict binary: government and the free market. But look closely enough and you’ll see a third leg on that stool. Philanthropy—corporate or foundation giving mostly to taxexempt charitable organizations—is

15 and Chan turned their attention closer to home, funding the Primary School, which opened in 2016 as a “free private” elementary school in East Palo Alto. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna established a high-profile foundation called Good Ventures, as well as the Open Philanthropy Project, an LLC grantmaking organization. And Sean Parker, the co-founder of Napster who later became Facebook’s first president, announced in 2015 that he would donate $600 million to “hack” cancer research. Parker, by the way, did not sign on to the Giving Pledge because he said it wasn’t aggressive enough. Only the most cynical would claim that the billions poured into charity by Big Tech has not produced real value in making the world a better place for potentially millions of people. But the Giving Pledge era in philanthropy has coincided with precious little scrutiny of not only where the money comes from and where it ends up, but also whether it distorts faith in democracy itself. That hasn’t always been the case. As Stanford’s Rob Reich outlines in his new book Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How it Can Do Better, the very first philanthropic foundation established by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller in 1909 was greeted with widespread skepticism. President Taft called on Congress to oppose the foundation, and former President Theodore Roosevelt remarked, “No amount of charities in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them.” Reich (no relation to the former labor secretary and Berkeley professor) is the faculty co-director at Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. He says that when it comes to philanthropists, the public should cool it with the hugs and the bouquets. “Philanthropy,” he says, “especially big philanthropy, is an exercise in power. And in a democratic setting, whenever power is exercised, it deserves our scrutiny rather than our gratitude.” Yes, there are the egregious examples of what Reich calls “reputation laundering.” Teddy

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a powerful, extra-governmental force that is engaged in exactly the same kind of big-picture efforts as government and the market, which is solving social problems and otherwise cultivating a better life for everyone. So why don’t we give more attention to philanthropy (from the Greek for “love of humanity”)? Why isn’t it subject to the same kind of diligence that we give the market and the government? Why does it exist in a rosy fog of facile public approval? In the last decade, big-money philanthropy has been at the center of a public-relations masterstroke, largely engineered by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. In 2010, the Gateses and Buffett formally took their places atop the list of benevolent philanthropists when they began to collect signatures for an initiative called the Giving Pledge. The invitation to sign the pledge was extended only to billionaires, and it committed them to give away at least half of their wealth to charity (The pledge is not legally binding, which may account for its popularity). Silicon Valley is well represented on the Giving Pledge roster, which has now reached 190 pledgers. Among the tech-industry signatories are Reed Hastings of Netflix, Elon Musk of Tesla, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, Jeff Skoll of eBay, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Breakthrough Prize founder Yuri Milner, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer, who famously called for his fellow billionaires to do something to mitigate inequality or “the pitchforks are going to come for us.” Large-scale philanthropy had been going on in Silicon Valley long before the Giving Pledge. In the 1990s, tech philanthropy experienced its first big wave, spearheaded by now legendary figures such as Bill Hewlett and David Packard of HP, John Morgridge of Cisco and Gordon Moore of Intel. But post-Pledge, Valley philanthropy has become turbocharged, reflecting the famously reckless move-fast-and-break-things ethic of Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $100 million to improve the schools of Newark, New Jersey (an effort that’s gotten mixed, often negative reviews). Five years later, Zuckerberg

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Roosevelt would probably suffer an aneurysm if he knew of the billionaire Sackler family, whose members have given lavishly to museums and universities, often getting their names on buildings in the bargain. The Sacklers, who own Purdue Pharma, made a fortune by aggressively marketing and selling OxyContin, the enormously successful narcotic painkiller that is largely blamed for the ballooning opioid crisis. (For the record, the Sacklers have vehemently denied responsibility for bringing heroin back into vogue, though they recently agreed to pay $270 million in a settlement reached with the State of Oklahoma).

‘We should know whether the power these givers are wielding is on behalf of democratic values or is undermining them’ —ROB REICH If any company could use a bit of reputation laundering these days, it’s Facebook, which has weathered a storm of bad press stemming from the role its platform played in spreading disinformation during the 2016 presidential election and permitting the harvesting of personal data by Cambridge Analytica and other firms. Restoring some balance to the company’s public relations ledger is the ambitious and wellfunded Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Facebook’s philanthropic push that seeks to eradicate or severely curtail diseases such as cancer, heart disease, stroke and infectious and neurodegenerative diseases.

The initiative was announced in the most benign way imaginable, in an open letter by Zuckerberg and Chan to their newborn daughter Max, posted on Facebook in December 2015. In the letter, Zuckerberg and Chan vowed to give away 99 percent of their shares in Facebook (valued at about $45 billion at the time) to support the mission. But CZI is not a 501(c)(3) foundation but an LLC—a private, for-profit company. That designation allows them to avoid the oversight and transparency of what becomes of that giant reservoir of money, and still affords them the freedom to invest in the market, donate to political causes and lobby Congress. ProPublica journalist Jesse Eisinger (not to be confused with Jesse Eisenberg who played Zuckerberg in The Social Network) likened the creation of CZI to Zuckerberg moving “money from one pocket to another.” But such Roosevelt-ian criticisms are beside the point in the larger critique of contemporary philanthropy, says Reich. Even if the massive piles of money accrued by philanthropists were acquired completely legally and do not tickle the moral gag reflex— some would claim such wholesome fortunes do not even exist— philanthropic gift horses should still be looked squarely in the mouth. “We should know whether the power these givers are wielding is on behalf of democratic values or is undermining them,” he says. This matters because, of course, philanthropy is largely underwritten by the US taxpayer in the form of charitable deductions. And the costs of those charitable deductions are not distributed evenly. About 90 percent of all American households give something to charity every year. But the deduction is higher if your tax bracket is higher. That means the real cost for every dollar given to charity to a middle-income giver is closer to a full dollar; but for someone making half a million or more per year, that cost is closer to 60 cents. Maybe such a system can be justified as an incentive for wealthy people to give their money to worthy causes. But tax subsidies puts skin in the game for every taxpayer. And philanthropy is as vulnerable to

DAVID CALLAHAN Author of ‘The Givers: Wealth, Power and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age.’

ROB REICH Author of ‘Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Failing Democracy and How it Can Do Better.’

gaming as any system that involves large sums of money.

emerging from a toxic-workplace scandal that resulted in the ouster of its CEO Emmett Carson. Even without the bullying and harassment issues at the heart of the scandal, SVCF is facing more scrutiny because of the explosion of donoradvised funds under its management. DAFs were the engine to the foundation’s 800-percent growth rate since 2010 (and, no, that’s not a typo). DAFs also face little in the way of transparency requirements and the identity of their donors and grant recipients are often shrouded in shadow. David Callahan—the founder and editor of Inside Philanthropy, a kind of watchdog website on the philanthropy industry—said that among the 90,000-plus private foundations in the U.S., the “vast majority” of them have no way for those seeking grants to contact them. But you don’t have to get down in the weeds to feel uneasy about philanthropy’s effect on the contemporary world. It already poses several philosophical dilemmas that Americans should take seriously. In a democratic system built on the principle of one person, one vote, big money provides an end-around. The Gates Foundation, for example, has saved lives with its philanthropy, probably many millions of lives. For some, that bottom line trumps any queasiness about democracy. But others stand with Anand Giridharadas:

“The amount of power individuals like Bill and Melinda Gates have over, for example, public education as private citizens in a democracy is untenable,” he says. “It’s simply too much power. Why have people died in this country to enshrine one person, one vote—nobody has zero votes, nobody has two—if we’re opening up this extra door into the nightclub of democracy where only billionaires can walk in, and once they do, we give them a million extra votes?”

DONOR’S ORDERS In recent years, an instrument known as a “donor-advised fund” has cropped up, allowing those interested in giving to charity to do so without the bother of forming a foundation. But these DAFs, which are so popular that Reich calls them the “kudzu of American philanthropy,” are not subject to the same rules. Traditional foundations, for example, are required by law to allocate at least 5 percent of their endowment every year. DAFs are not. That makes it possible to use one of these funds as a way to park money to spend in some indefinite future for some unspecific charity and yet still get the tax deduction right away, a huge plus when it comes to a windfall like an IPO. Big philanthropy is also as subject to the corruption that plagues all large, complex institutions. Close to home is a prime example, the Mountain View-based Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the country’s largest community foundation, which manages a staggering $13 billion endowment, including contributions from Facebook’s Zuckerberg, Google’s Sergey Brin and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, among others. The SVCF is only now

SUPER CITIZENS David Callahan of Inside Philanthropy has also added his voice to the emerging debate with his recent book The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age (Knopf ). Callahan takes a big-picture view of the philanthropy ecosystem and how it ideally should interact with government and the market for society’s greater benefit. While acknowledging that philanthropy often “is really beneficial and makes the world a better place,” he also says that the current system has created an elite group of “super citizens,” wealthy benefactors whose influence and intentions have distorted public consensus on a wide array of social issues. In Callahan’s view, philanthropy too often gives license

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ANAND GIRIDHARADAS Author of ‘Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.’

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GIVE & TAKE Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have donated millions to fund schools. However, their efforts have recieved mixed reviews and are often seen as simple reputation laundering. to wealthy donors to pretend to have expertise in a realm where they have little to no experience. “Some people are super-smart, quite humble and proceed very carefully,” says Callahan, “and some people are lazy, sloppy and arrogant. The generalization that these people are all driven by hubris is wrong, but there are enough of them who behave this way that it has created a stereotype. Education is one area where you see a lot of pushback to these hedge-fund billionaires who back charter schools and teacher accountability systems with the attitude that ‘All we need to do is bring market competition to K-12 education and we’ll get the same results we’ve gotten everywhere else.’ That kind of parachuting in with a bunch of assumptions generates a lot of resentment from people who have been working on the ground in communities for years trying to solve these problems.”

The tech industry has been particularly prone to misapplying lessons from one realm to another. What works in Silicon Valley doesn’t necessarily work when facing intractable social problems. “Many philanthropists,” says Callahan, “approach social problems with the mindset that reflects how they made their money in the first place. For many tech people, there is an appreciation of the power of technology to bring transformative change very quickly and with a lot of disruption. Some of these donors get quite impatient and frustrated when they see that (philanthropy) is much more of a long game than they realized.”

A PARTNERSHIP But here’s the thing about philanthropy: It has an important and specific role to play in a healthy

society. It can be done in a way that doesn’t necessarily aggrandize the wealthy or distort democracy. No matter how big the fortunes are, in terms of scale, philanthropy cannot compete with governments. That means that philanthropy works best when it shows governments what works and what doesn’t. And that’s the way it’s always been. Stanford’s Rob Reich calls government “the ultimate scaling mechanism.” To sell the point, he evokes perhaps the most famous name in American philanthropy: 19th-century industrialist Andrew Carnegie, whose giving almost singlehandedly created the still-thriving public library system in the US. “What Carnegie did not do,” says Reich, “is say, ‘Here’s a bunch of money for every town and city in America to create a public library, buy a bunch of books, hire a bunch of people, and I will pay for it all in

perpetuity.’ It was money designed as a social experiment to see whether the circulation of knowledge and access to information was good for democracy. If citizens liked it, they would then turn to their local representatives to fund libraries. And that’s exactly what happened.” In this model, philanthropy is best when it is creating pilot programs for experiments that can then be adopted, or not, on a larger scale by government and through the process of democratic legitimacy. What undermines this model is cynicism about government, which is the default attitude of many philanthropists. They are exerting their influence to do good in the world exactly because, the belief goes, government cannot act in that capacity. Such beliefs ultimately undermine the goals of giving, says Reich. “Effective philanthropy requires a kind of humility about what role philanthropists can play,” he says. “They are serving a democratic interest, and badmouthing the dysfunctional democratically elected government is the same as badmouthing the final piece of the process of government as the take-up mechanism to provide the philanthropic benefit for all people.” So, we’re back down to that old faith-in-government debate, the argument that undergirds so much of the dysfunction and distrust in our broken political system—those who believe that representative government, however imperfect, is the only chance for people to build a better future vs. those who believe that government has proven again and again that it is not up to the task and only stands in the way of the only effective agent of positive social change, the free market. Despite the new consciousness of philanthropy’s role in society, Rob Reich, for one, is not optimistic that things are going to change much. “In my picture of the future, philanthropists have more and more power and the government gets weaker and weaker. But we also have the option of reversing the decline of government so that the power of philanthropists is not so outsized relative to the power of the rest of us. The decline of government is not a fait accompli.”

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QUICK BITE Claudia’s Pastes is a welcome alternative to the myriad burritos, tacos and quesadillas on East Santa Clara Street.

Hearty Handful Claudia’s Pastes offers on-the-go lunchtime goodness in downtown San Jose BY AVI SALEM

HE LUNCH CROWD suffers from no shortage of options along the strip of East Santa Clara Street running through the heart of downtown San Jose. At midday, the corridor is awash with desk jockeys and blue collar workers, all on the hunt for a quick bite—and everything from sandwiches to sushi, burritos to bibimbap is within reach. From the SAP Center to City Hall, appetites are satiated with Indian, Mexican, Greek, Vietnamese and American food. Now, a newcomer is serving a less

common but no less delicious on-thego snack. The fast-casual Claudia’s Pastes specializes in hot and portable pastry pockets, which are stuffed with either sweet or savory fillings, folded and baked until golden brown. Drawing from both Latin and English influences, the pastes served at Claudia’s can be traced back to Mexico’s Hidalgo region, where they emerged in the 19th century—an adaptation of the traditional Cornish pasty. When Cornish builders emigrated to Mexico to mine silver in the 1800s, they brought their meat-and-vegetable pie with them. Then as now, the hearty handheld meal made for an ideal lunch. Pastes differ from empanadas in two key ways. First, their stuffing

is not cooked before baking, and their outer dough is both denser and richer than that of empanadas. Second, they’re much bigger, as evidenced by Claudia’s menu. Claudia’s serves 17 different types of pastes, all stuffed with a variety of fillings—including mole, chipotle chicken, vegetables, fruit and even breakfast foods. At $5.75 each, they’re well-priced, especially given that one alone should easily put a dent in any appetite. When I visited Claudia’s on a quiet Sunday afternoon, I was greeted warmly and directed toward a small whiteboard with the day’s selections. I opted for a little bit of everything, starting with the original beef paste and the poblano chicken paste. The beef paste was loaded with ground beef, onion and potato, while the poblano chicken was filled with shredded chicken, chunks of poblano pepper and a creamy chipotle sauce. Both came out piping hot and bubbling at the edges where the filling was beginning to ooze out. I cut them in half and was surprised by the sheer amount of

stuffing contained within each meat pie. One bite in, I was hooked: from the flavors of the stuffing to the flaky, buttery outer crust, every bite I took tasted better than the last. With rich flavors of onion, garlic and paprika distributed throughout, the ground beef paste was moist, flavorful and well-spiced but not tongue-torching. A few dashes of one of the many hot sauces Claudia’s keeps on hand, however, satisfied my craving for heat. The chicken paste was similarly complex in flavor, due in large part to the cheesy chipotle cream that coated the shredded chicken and pepper chunks. Still, it was never overwhelming in flavor or texture. After finishing the beef and poblano chicken paste, I was stuffed, but I wasn’t satisfied with my sampling. I ordered the spinach-and-feta, mushroom and apple pastes to try later. On the drive home I was too curious to stop myself from taking a bite of the apple paste— one of Claudia’s three sweet options (the other two are pineapple and rice pudding). The apple was baked well, not overly saccharine, and was flavored with just a touch of cinnamon. It was like warm apple pie. Later that day, I learned that Claudia’s offerings are just as delicious warmed up at home as they are fresh from the restaurant. The vegetarian options I tried that evening for dinner were as delectable as their meat-filled counterparts from earlier in the day, only lighter, with a more delicate flavor. The mushroom paste stood out in particular for its variety of fresh fillings, including thick slices of mushroom, red bell peppers, spinach, onion and mozzarella cheese. I appreciated that the paste had more veggies in it than cheese. The spinachand-feta paste also included chunks of potato, which helped to tone down the saltiness of the feta cheese. The next time you’re looking for a quick bite in downtown San Jose, consider Claudia’s. Perfect for breakfast, lunch, as an afternoon snack or on the go, Claudia’s is a welcome addition to the ever-bustling East Santa Clara Street.

CLAUDIA’S PASTES BAKERY

30 E Santa Clara St #130, San Jose

669.230.5881

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ELEVATE THE SKY

Thu, 9pm, $13+ The Continental, San Jose

Thu, 9pm, Free Caravan Lounge, San Jose

Sat, 10pm, $35+ Pure Nightclub, Sunnyvale

The Changing Same holds true to its mission of hosting the most promising rising stars at the bleeding edge of soul, funk and R&B. This Thursday, the weekly party brings Parisian beatsmith Arnaud Antoine Rene Bernard, known by most as Onra. He is perhaps best known for his 2010 LP, Long Distance— which garnered an 8.0 rating on Pitchfork. After releasing the first two installments in 2007 and 2012, Onra completed the final album in his Chinoiseries trilogy in 2017. All of the music in the series was built using samples from records he gathered while traveling through Vietnam, China and Thailand. (C.J.)

Pixelated tones and PBR tall boys are on the menu this Thursday at the Caravan. Los Angeles-based synthwave producer Scott McClure brings his mix of stuttering, John Carpenter basslines, soaring Final Fantasy textures and Crystal Quest flourishes to 98 Almaden Ave. Sharing the bill is San Jose’s very own Dead Mall, the solo project of Maureen McCabe, who weaves together warbly, buzzing Casio keys, lo-fi hand claps and mournful, meditative melodies— all shot through with a healthy dose of VHS fuzz and slap-back echo. Basura conspirator DJ Bit presides over the evening’s festivities. (NV)

Though they’ve transitioned from a glossy, Warped Tour-ing electropunk quartet to a party-rocking DJ trio, Cash Cash’s love for good, old-fashioned rock & roll can still be heard in “Belong,” their collaboration with early-aughts emo heartthrob Dashboard Confessional. This New Jersey production crew first broke out in 2008 with their sugar-coated techno-pop debut, Take it to the Floor. They have since shifted their sights from the mosh pit to the dance floor, filling their 2016 LP, Blood, Sweat & 3 Years, with a slew of club-ready bangers featuring a variety of guest vocals from artists as diverse as John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls and Busta Rhymes. (C.J.)

CAMINO’S 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

THE STORY COLLIDER

Sat, noon, Free Camino Brewing Co., San Jose

Sat, 8pm, $10+ Hammer Theater, San Jose

Though they’ve been brewing up a storm for years, it feels like Camino Brewing Co. opened their taproom just yesterday. Well, time flies when you’re having fun—and there are few things more fun than drinking beer. It’s been a year since Camino Brewing Co. opened up their taproom at 718 S. 1st St. in San Jose and they are throwing a party to celebrate. Come by from noon until 10pm for local brews, tasty bites, games and live music—plus the limited release of some new barrelaged beers. (NV)

Picture The Moth with a hefty helping of science. That’s The Story Collider in a nutshell. In addition to its weekly podcast, TSC has been bringing true and personal tales of science to live audiences since 2010. Recent episodes feature stories about heredity and the open ocean. This weekend, The Story Collider comes to San Jose State University with stories from professors of computer science and physics, a geologist, a program analyst— even a chemist turned philosopher. Executive Director Liz Neeley and Artistic Director Erin Barker host this geektacular night of scientific storytelling. (C.J.)

* concerts ONRA

PERFUME Apr 17 at City National Civic

BAD BUNNY Apr 20 at SAP Center

POWERMAN 5000 Apr 23 at The Ritz

SALES Apr 26 at The Ritz

THE EMO NIGHT TOUR Apr 27 at The Ritz

ARIANA GRANDE May 2 at SAP Center

TONY BENNETT May 3 at City National Civic

THE DODOS May 10 at The Ritz

THE WILD REEDS May 11 at The Ritz

THE ROLLING STONES May 18 at Levi’s Stadium

ARSENIO HALL Sat, 7pm & 10pm, $25 The Improv, San Jose With a career spanning three decades, Arsenio Hall needs no introduction. The comedian is best known for hosting The Arsenio Hall Show, which ran from 19891994—and was reprised from 2013-2014. The Cleveland-born comic got his start in stand-up in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles, where he made a few appearances on Soul Train and went on to star alongside Eddie Murphy in Coming To America. Hall is currently making the rounds on the stand-up circuit and comes to San Jose for two performances during a one-night special event this weekend. (NV)

*sun *wed BILLIE HOLIDAY BIRTHDAY PARTY Sun,1pm, $20 Poor House Studio, San Jose There are some birthday parties you don’t want to miss. The Gardenia Society kicks off this inaugural event—a celebration of the late, great Billie Holiday— with live jazz and blues, plus visual art from watercolor painter James Gayles. Donations will be taken to benefit the Gardenia Society’s programs, which include scholarships and grants for performing artists, among other projects aimed at promoting the arts. Donors will also receive a year’s membership to the Gardenia Society. (ER)

KALI UCHIS & JORJA SMITH May 18 at Frost Amphitheatre

SHE WANTS REVENGE May 18 at The Ritz

ALADDIN

MURS

Wed, 7:30, $33+ Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose

Wed, 9pm, $18+ The Catalyst, Santa Cruz

Don’t you dare close your eyes— Broadway San Jose is bringing audiences to fictional, fantastical city of Agrabah, staging Disney’s musical adaptation of the 1992 animated classic Aladdin. With less than two months until the live-action film release, this is your chance to catch an early peek into the Cave of Wonders. The show celebrated five years on Broadway just last month and shares a producer with Disney’s biggest Broadway smash, The Lion King, which gets the liveaction treatment this summer. The magic carpet ride runs through April 21. (C.J.)

This L.A.-based emcee has dropped eight albums since his 1997 debut, F’Real—including classics like Murs for President (2008) and Have a Nice Life (2015). The man is unstoppable, and still melancholy as hell. His last release, A Strange Journey into the Unimaginable (2018), runs the gamut from heartbreaking to hilarious, as he jumps from spitting about his stillborn son to a superhero pool party. In addition to the prominent place he holds in the world of underground hip-hop, he has also worked with some of the genre’s best-known luminaries, including Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg. (C.J.)

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK May 29 at SAP Center

DEAD & COMPANY May 31 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

JEFF LYNNE’S ELO Jun 24 at SAP Center

PAUL MCCARTNEY Jul 10 at SAP Center

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Jul 14 at SAP Center

BACKSTREET BOYS Aug 4 at SAP Center

THE NATIONAL Sep 1 at Frost Amphitheatre For music updates and contest giveaways, like us on Facebook at metrofb.com

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CORPOREAL ART ‘Large Flesh & Bone #2 (Serrated Soft Skull),’ a 2013 wool and industrial felt sculpture by Stephanie Metz.

Oddly Familiar ‘Figurative Fiber’ collects objects that are recognizable yet uncanny BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

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S THAT A furry pig?” Someone asks the question aloud in a gallery at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA). They're looking at a shelf of teddy bear skulls and the aforementioned piece, entitled Dedicated Meat Source, which does, in fact, resemble an off-white, forlorn and furry pig. You can purchase similarly mesmerizing, desiccated oddities like these at San Francisco’s Paxton Gate or online at The Bone Room. But the skulls, pods and misshapen organic

matter in Stephanie Metz’ exhibit “Figurative Fiber” are all made of wool. That colorless, neutral fabric neutralizes the Gothic qualities of skeletal figures. “Skulls are not about death,” she says, explaining her take on skinless heads. “They’re about the underpinnings of life, what you can learn about something that’s been left behind.” Seventeen years ago Metz stumbled across the art of needle felting. She studied sculpture at the University of Oregon, working with traditional materials like clay and bronze. Initially, she became intrigued by the alchemy involved in wet felting. But when she went to purchase the materials to try out the process, the

woman behind the counter told her to try needle felting. She said it wasn’t as messy. Instead of shaping felt with warm water and your fingers, you use needles that have notch marks etched in their stems. When you stab at the wool, the notches push and rub the fibers together. The saleswoman had no idea what ambitious ideas her customer would later envision. Metz demonstrated the needle felting technique to me in her San Jose studio, which looks like the classroom of the coolest teacher in school. On one shelf, there’s a progression of fetal-sized bears, from minuscule to tiny to small. And laying on every table or cabinet surface, there’s a giant “cocoon” resting on its side, in repose like Ingres' famous Grand Odalisque. Metz hands me a loose ball of wool, takes it back and then stabs a pair of needles into it. As she sculpts the fibers, they become more and more compact, taking the shape of whatever the artist is about to dream up. After she demonstrates the quick, repetitive motion, you can see how much effort it takes to transform strands of animal hair into obscure yet

vaguely familiar shapes. In “Figurative Fiber,” Metz departs from realistic representation. Again, Dedicated Meat Source is a pig, but with a ridged back like an armadillo. It’s the suggestion of a pig, or a hybrid creature let loose from Dr. Moreau’s island. Large Flesh & Bone #2 and Flesh & Bone Study #3 aren’t creatures at all but parts of creatures. Large Flesh & Bone #2 appears to be an excavated spinal section from a mythical beast. Flesh & Bone Study #3 might be an enormous gizzard or a distended, tumorous organ with bone spurs about to surface. One of these “blobby forms with a ridge of hair” comes from an intense study of how the fur grows together on her dog’s chest. “If you’re abstracting from the figure, you really need to know what it is you’re abstracting from,” she says. Metz begins with a basis in observable reality to decide what direction to take. In human and animal bodies, she notices where fat accumulates or where muscle attaches. She’s also aware of how varied our bodies can be. Her sculptures may look abstract, but she also appears to anticipate or account for our mutations. The cocoons in her studio are works in progress for her upcoming show at the de Saisset Museum in January 2020. These pregnant pods range in length but are nearly humansize, between 5 and 6 feet tall. In comparison to what’s on display at the ICA, this is a notable change in scale. The new pieces will be hanging from the ceiling, and visitors will be encouraged to touch them. All of her woolen sculptures invite that reaction. You want to move in closer to see what everything is made of. When she conceived of the new exhibit Metz asked herself, “When you look at the sculpture of a truncated body, if you’re not doing a whole form, where and why should it end?” They make visual sense because she’s shaped them into cohesive yet strangely botanical shapes. She borrows sensual forms from nature but weaves them— holding instructive felting parties for extra pairs of helpful hands—into her own uniquely woolen language.

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Friday, April 5 • 8 pm • Tickets from $45 “The Babes stir the heart as well as the funny bone” – Billboard Magazine The Babes charm audiences with original songs and stories reflecting on the joys and dilemmas of everyday life. Full of hilarity and harmonies aplenty, this is a great show for a girls’ night out!

The Capitol Steps: Make America Grin Again Sunday, April 14 • 3 & 7 pm (two shows!) • Tickets from $55

“Funny and fresh…a machine gun of comedy” – DC Theatre Scene Congressional staffers turned comedians, the Steps slay with their hilarious send-up of the Beltway. No issue and no public figure, Democrat or Republican, escapes the satire.

Broadway’s Next Hit Musical Friday, May 3 • 8 pm • Tickets from $59

“Spontaneity, wit, and inventiveness that must be seen to be believed!” – The New York Post

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DRILL BABY DRILL Hustling their way cross country, grifters try to complete a fiber optics line in ‘The Hummingbird Project.’

Fiber Obtuse A high-tech grift goes horribly awry in the ‘The Hummingbird Project’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

ELCOME TO another episode of Bad Hair Theater: Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project, which played at this year’s Cinequest, is a moral drama that illustrates the physical effects of bad behavior. If we do wrong, it will be reflected not just in our faces but in the very hair upon our heads. The rackety NYC schemer Vincent (Jesse Eisenberg) wears a kind of Mark Anthony toupee with bangs. His cousin Anton (an often-droll

Alexander Skarsgard) is a bundle of panic and obsessions, and these anxieties apparently triggered a case of male pattern baldness. Michael Mando, who plays the fearsome Nacho on Better Call Saul, is Mark Veg, a drilling expert whom the other two have hired on their secret project to make billions. As usual, Mando has done without hair completely. The badass corporate villainess, Eva (Salma Hayek)—not an antagonist but a straight-up villain—sometimes descends by helicopter to make her threats. Eva is all the more intimidating for having the best coiffure in the movie. With tinted Gloria Steinem shades and streaky

black-silver hair, Hayek looks like Cruella de Ville’s hot prima. The gaff of the three guys is a project whose ambitions are as high as its importance is insignificant. Vince, the son of striving Russian immigrants, is trying to get out in the world. His idea came to him in a vision, after he was KO’d in an accident. He will create a fiber optics line that will deliver prices from a Kansas City stock exchange to Wall Street, in a fraction of a second shorter than his competitors. Said line must be straight as an arrow, through the swamps, the rivers and the mountains. He must buy thousands of four-foot wide clearances from property owners, ultimately through the pastures of frowning farmers who don’t want anything newfangled on their turf. Getting this done requires the stealth and cunning of a hoodwinking Eva, who believes Vincent and Anton took proprietary code with them when they left her employ. The Hummingbird Project gets its title from the instant it takes for a

hummingbird to flap its wings—the milliseconds Anton is trying to shave off the KC/NYC connection. We can count on an audience that likes to watch people work, an audience that will admire fast-talking hustlers, no matter what their grift. But eventually Nguyen plays softball with the conniving characters, who at one point drill their way through protected federal land with cargo helicopters and barges. Eisenberg doesn’t spare the weaselry, as he did when playing Lex Luthor and Mark Zuckerberg. His personal low here is bleating a real Eisenbergian bleat in response to an Amish farmer (Johan Heldenbergh) who is telling him to go away: “Where will we find common ground?” Skarsgard’s covert acting as a bathrobe-wrapped hunched-over cybersavant-on-the-spectrum is more subtle. The simplest analogies can either transfix him or boggle him. Told by Anton that they’re in a David and Goliath situation, Anton blinks and says “We’re David?” During a long siege at a hotel room, he’s holed up trying to perfect his code. His wife Masha (Sarah Goldberg) is scolding him over the phone. She tells him not to eat junk food unless he wants diabetes. Her words visibly stun Anton, as if he’d never heard that diabetes sometimes befalls fast food eaters. Trying to lighten this movie, which gets stuck in damp, dark, gloomy spaces, Manto tells a story about a driller’s ultimate nightmare, caused by builders failing to cope with the important principle that raw sewage ought to flow downhill. This crapshow metaphor doesn’t have much of a punchline, but it does have a point. Nguyen has a worthy old-movie idea—Arthur Miller material—about the conflict between the immigrants’ dire need to hustle, and the moral corrosion that ridiculously big money brings. But what starts like Sorkin ends like Frank Capra; said corrosion doesn’t just affect Vincent’s scalp but his stomach as well. He finds too-easy redemption through illness (an old movie custom that ought to stay archaic).

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SCAVENGER HUNT Agnes Varda’s humanism was an ornament to the cinema.

THE ENTHUSIASM, tenderness and drollness of the late Agnes Varda, who died on March 29 at age 90, has been mourned throughout the cineaste community. If she had just made The Gleaners and I (2001) that would have been enough. That captivating humanist documentary has Varda, a petite, little old lady with hennaed hair, investigating the old peasant custom of gleaning. The activity was famously portrayed by Millet in 1857, showing three peasant women combing a harvested field for wisps of wheat. Driving around France, Varda visits the camps of migrants and squatters. They root through a potato field where spuds too big or too small have been left behind by the harvesters. She also finds a family of singers, helping themselves to the grapes of an abandoned vineyard. To explain the legal rights of such potential trespassers, she brings in robed, lace-jaboted advocates. (Varda wonders if the well-off who go in for gleaning in the fields could count as legally “needy,” to which a lawyer replies, “Yes. They are needy. They need to have fun.”) As Varda interviews the poor at the turn of the millennium, she makes a case Agnes Varda that gleaning is a rebel's duty, a way of fighting the waste (1928-2019) and planned obsolescence built into the system. The rest of Varda’s work is just as unmissable, but particularly note her Vagabond (1986) one of the best movies ever made about the harsh side of the homeless life. The radiant 1967 short Uncle Yanko is about her relative, an aged bohemian painter living on a Sausalito barge; it’s rich with sunlight and color. Her second movie Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) made her an early luminary of the French New Wave. This story of two existential hours in a woman’s life demonstrates Varda’s lifelong preference for documentary camera work; there’s rarely been such a snatched-off-the-streets of Paris film. She was there at the right time to capture the city right before it got gobbled up by developers. One can’t exaggerate the sense of joy and play in Varda’s filmmaking process, as well as her surprise in realizing that she too is a gleaner—a scavenger for stray images. She records herself in The Gleaners and I, prowling a secondhand store. She finds a little something to put on her mantlepiece, an empty clock. “A clock with no hands is my kind of thing,” she quips. “You don’t see time passing.” Varda’s films are available on various streaming services, including the Criterion Channel, which launches April 8. —Richard von Busack

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COME AT ME Blag Dahlia, frontman for the Dwarves, isn’t backing down from his band’s brand of shocking hardcore.

shock doctrine The Dwarves have pushed the boundaries of decency for decades, and it’s worked BY NICK VERONIN

HERE WAS A time when it made sense for the Dwarves to exist. Founded in the mid-’80s, they began in Chicago as a brash garage-psych outfit. By then, shock rock was nothing new and the hardcore scene had already formed as a razor-sharp splinter of the punk movement.

It’s easy enough to trace a line— from the antics of Jerry Lee Lewis on through Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper—to the likes of GG Allin, GWAR and Mötley Crüe. Certainly, Blag Dahlia and HeWhoCannotBeNamed—the

two bombastic and button-pushing personalities who have always been at the center of the Dwarves’ ever-rotating lineup—would have been aware of these artists (along with far more obscure musical transgressors). Even into the ’90s and early aughts—through rap-metal and screamo’s toxic masculinity—it is conceivable to think that a band who would put blood-drenched naked women on the cover of an album titled Blood, Guts and Pussy, and pen a song titled “Let’s Get High and Fuck Some Sluts” would be allowed to exist. But in 2019? The era of the ultimately woke social justice warrior? No way. And yet here they are, touring behind a relatively new record,

which features cover art that is perhaps even more incendiary than that featured on Blood, Guts and Pussy. The cover of 2018’s Take Back the Night juxtaposes a rallying cry against rape culture with the image of a black man holding a gun over a black woman. She is apparently in distress as she rakes a credit card through a pile of white powder. But when Dahlia, whose given name is Paul Cafaro, answers the phone from his home in San Francisco—known throughout the world as a bastion of progressive ideals and vilified by conservatives as the epicenter of outof-control political correctness—he says he and his band are impervious to accusations of misogyny, homophobia, racism and generalized indecency. “We’re kind of inoculated from it,” he says in his deep, calm voice, noting that the people most vulnerable to the whims of the PC Police are those who make a show of following the rules, but end up on YouTube saying something gauche after too many vodka sodas. “It’s easy to knock them down. Anything that they do that falls short of glory and perfection is seized upon,” he

says. “We’ve always existed so far out of that realm. Where are you even going to start criticizing this band?” Most who know anything about the Dwarves know that Dahlia is a character and that Cafaro is a well-read, thoughtful and deliberate agitator— not unlike Iggy Pop or Alice Cooper. As Dahlia, Cafaro says he is often playing the role of a satirist. “We celebrate the foibles of the human race,” he says—ostensibly by inhabiting truly despicable characters: the aggressively violent, rapists, unrepentant murderers. It’s true, what the Dwarves do falls under the banner of artful expression. And yet, with the rise of Trumpism in the United States and an increasingly open embrace of fascism in Western European countries, it begs a question that Dahlia himself asked in a 2014 interview with Vice Media’s music blog, Noisey: “Are we capable of understanding the difference between a song and reality?” In his interview with Metro he seems to answer his own question, musing that perhaps that’s “too much to ask of other people.” And so, does he ever think he ought to pull back? That perhaps there are some forms of expression too dangerous to be allowed if we want a peaceful and functional society? His answer is unequivocal: No. “My politics have always been relatively left wing,” he says. “There are some notable exceptions.” However, one of the biggest problems he sees today is not in people failing to interpret a satirical work correctly— reading a sardonic takedown of racism as an endorsement of white supremacy. Rather, he says, it is the success that right wing think tanks have had in convincing Americans that well meaning but overstepping progressive activists are equally as bad as the altright demonstrators in Charlottesville. “Being a fascist is much more serious,” he says. “And if we’re going to criticise the PC Police, let’s also criticize those who would hurdle us toward fascism from the right. I don’t think the answer is to shut everybody down. That can’t be the right answer.”

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6 ABBA The Concert 7 Del McCoury Band and

MAY 25 UB40 feat.

Ali Campbell and Astro Collie Buddz

The Travelin’ McCourys

“The Greatest Day” Tour

13 SEAL 14 Natalia Lafourcade 18 Common

19 Sebastian Maniscalco: 20 Dave Koz and Friends

SiriusXM FLY Presents Hammer’s House Party

Summer Horns feat. Gerald Albright, Rick Braun, Kenny Lattimore and Aubrey Logan

MC Hammer En Vogue / Tone Loc Michael Franti & Spearhead / Ziggy Marley

21 Rodrigo y Gabriela 23 Pat Benatar &

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19 Sublime with Rome

Neil Giraldo & Melissa Etheridge 24 Postmodern Jukebox / The Tenors 26 Russell Peters

20 Alanis Morissette Acoustic

27 George Lopez

23 Indigo Girls

28 The Royal Affair

15 Foreigner 16 Rob Thomas: Chip Tooth Tour

Performances by Yes, Asia,

John Lodge of the Moody Blues and Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy with vocals by Arthur Brown

Trevor Noah Loud and Clear

29 Jill Scott 30 Michael McDonald

and Chaka Khan

An Evening With Lyle Lovett

& his Large Band

Brit Floyd

World Tour 2019 The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show

Gipsy Kings feat. Nicolas Reyes & Tonino Baliardo

The Temptations / Four Tops

AUGUST 1

Kool & The Gang Special Guest Evelyn “Champagne” King

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performed by Gary Mullen & The Works

25 Tower of Power Very Special Guest

Average White Band 27 Gov’t Mule 30 Los Tigres Del Norte 31 Lost 80’s Live

A Flock of Seagulls/Missing Persons/Wang Chung/ Musical Youth /Animotion/ Real Life / The Motels / The Vapors / The Escape Club / Boys Don’t Cry / Farrington & Mann - Original Members of When In Rome UK / Trans X

feat. Bob James,

David Sanborn & Marcus Miller

3 Josh Groban: Bridges Tour

with guests Billy Kilson & Larry Braggs

5 Chris Isaak

Los Lonely Boys

6 Jeff Dunham

Richard Bean & SAPO

Passively Aggressive

12 The B-52s with very special

8 The Beach Boys 17 18 Steely Dan 22 Diana Krall 23 India.Arie 24 Earth, Wind & Fire 25 28 Oingo Boingo

guests OMD and Berlin

13 14 Jackson Browne

15 Feist Special Guest Rhye

Former Members / The Tubes / Dramarama

16 THE FAB FOUR: The Ultimate Tribute

OCTOBER

17 SiriusXM The Pulse Presents:

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4 Steve Martin and

w/ American Authors

19 Boz Scaggs / Aaron Neville 20 Taj Mahal Quartet /

Marc Cohn feat. special guest vocalists Blind Boys of Alabama Shemekia Copeland

23 Kris Kristofferson

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24 One Night of Queen

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9 Double Vision Revisited

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APRIL 2019 | NATIONAL POETRY MONTH Who better to jam-pack this events calendar with poetry events than your very own Santa Clara County Poet Laureate? I can think of a couple of people, but they aren’t me! First, have to point to Live Lit Writers Open Mic every Thursday at Caffe Frascati in San Jose. I am very proud of the growing community that has formed around sharing lively literature. Another great resource is Poetry Center San José, the South Bay’s oldest non-profit dedicated to poetry and literature. Visit pcsj.org for info and upcoming events. I hope you have a poetryfilled month.

WED APR 3 | SLOW CRUSH, HOLY FAWN, WANDER, DOKOE Each of these bands are so powerful and so very skilled at their respective sound. I am so jealous of them for how talented they are with their instruments. I am also almost jealous of how good they make me feel listening to them. I can only hope I can make people feel so good when they hear me. Though, surely not when I am screech-crying at the realization that I’ve finished my last slice of leftover veggie lasagna. Ugh. The feels. Thanks to Matthew at The Ritz for pointing out the awesomeness of this gig. 7pm. The Ritz, 400 S First St, San Jose

SAT APR 6 | JAPANTOWN IMMERSIVE 2019 This event has so much going on that summarizing it would take more words than can fit in this column! Presented by San Jose Taiko, this event is truly immersive, pulling you into the creative, the sound and the movement. Four words: Karaoke on the street! 4:30– 8:30pm. Japantown, N Fifth and Jackson streets, San Jose | Read more here: taiko.org/ japantownimmersive

SUN APR 7 | THIRD ANNUAL SAN JOSÉ DAY 2019 Presented by BACK Magazine, this third iteration of SJ Day looks to be about three times as large as the last one. A true festival, celebrating the littlest big city in the world! Food and craft vendors, live painting, classic cars, and performances by Akro + Ambitious Outsider, Kamiko, Monostereo, Novela, Barely Functional, and Noah and the Arkiteks. This event is free! Spend that extra cash on some grub or a nice painting! Noon–5pm. Gordon Biersch Brewery, 357 E Taylor St, San Jose

TUE APR 9 | WELL-RED POETRY OPEN MIC One of San Jose’s classiest and longest-running open mics for poetry. They usually feature a headliner or two, but not during National Poetry Month. Instead, they open the mic up to anyone who wishes to share their words. Come trade words with folks ready to listen. 7pm. Works/San Jose, 365 S Market St, San Jose = MUST SEE

WED 4/3

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm:The Legendary Ron Thompson & Sid Morris Gang feat. Cigar City.Thu, 6pm: Pro Jam “American Roots.” Fri, 6pm: Mighty Mike Schermer "CD Release Party." Sat, 6pm: Annie Sampson Band. Sun, 11am: New Orleans Piano Brunch with

= MORE AT SANJOSE.COM Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm:. Mon, 6pm: Mixed Open Mic Night.Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

SAM'S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Bean Creek. Tue, 4/9, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Wed, 4/10, 6pm: Blue House.1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT | ROCCO’S BLUE MAX 6pm. 828 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

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FRASCATI COMEDY OPEN MIC (ALL AGES) 7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

THE RITZ Wed, 7pm: Slow Crush, Holy Fawn, Wander, Dokoe. Thu, 8pm: Migramata, Grody, The Nunns, Dysphoric (Front Bar). Sat, 9pm: Dwarves, Decent Criminal, Anti-Social. 400 S First St, San Jose

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IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

WAX WEDNESDAY | ANALOG FT. KERO ONE LIVE + JAZZ APPRECIATION NIGHT

8pm. 3Below, 288 S Second St, San Jose

WOW | HOWARD WILEY & EXTRA NAPPY

8pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

NEW TALENT COMEDY COMPETITION PRELIMINARY: ROUND 6

8pm. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

THU 4/4

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC

CMY

7pm. Hosted by Jarvis Subia. Sign-ups begin at 6:30pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

MIXED OPEN MIC

7pm. Britannia Arms Cupertino, 1087 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose

MUSIC OPEN MIC

7:30pm. Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company, 101 W Main St

CLUB

FOX

Wed. April 3 CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

Steve Freund 7pm • $7

Thur. April 4

Thrown Out Bones w/MORE FATTER & EXIT 11 7pm • $10 adv/$15 Door Fri. April 5 SALSA SPOT

Orq. Somos el Son:

Doors 8pm, Salsa lesson at 8:30pm $15 cover/$10 w/student ID Sat. April 6 Dr. Rock & LRI Present

Tortilla Soup

& Cisco Kid: 8pm .$20 adv/$25 door Sun. April 7 Country Night

Janel & The Heist

w/Chris Bigford 7pm • $12 adv/$15 Door

2209 Broadway St Redwood City / 831.334.1153 clubfoxrwc.com

MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT

7:30pm. Hosted by Nick Peters. Freewheel Brewing Company, 3736 Florence St, Redwood City

THURSDAY NIGHT BLUES JAM

7:30pm. Little Lou's BBQ, 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

STAGE | ADIOS MAMA CARLOTA, EMPRESS OF MEXICO

Various times through 4/28. A world premiere play by Luis Valdez. Presented by El Teatro Campesino & San Jose Stage Co. 490 S First St, San Jose

COMEDIAN | SAM TRIPOLI

8pm. Various times through Sun. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

TRIVIA NIGHT

8pm. Sports Page B&G, 1431 Plymouth St, Mountain View

COMEDY | BEER GIGGLES: JOKES AND BEER

8pm. Camino Brewing, 718 S First St, San Jose

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Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke. Sun, 4pm: Novak-Nanni Duo. 2988 Almaden Expy, San Jose

LIVE | ELEVATE THE SKY, DEAD MALL, STARFARER, W/DJ BIT 9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

THROWBACK THURSDAY KARAOKE & DANCE

9:30pm. Old school jams, soul, reggaeton, ’70s, ’80s and pop hits. Bogart's Sports Bar, 1209 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale

8:30pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: Rockin Johnny Burgin. Sat, 9pm: The Funky Godfather. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

9:30pm. Britannia Arms Downtown, 173 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

FRI 4/5 EXHIBIT | FACEBOOK FIRST FRIDAYS: CATHERINE WAGNER

5pm. Artist talk and reception. San José Museum of Art, 110 S Market St

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

Fri & Sat, 9:30pm. 1072 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

ARTWALKSJ | SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS

7pm–11pm. Many, many venues along S First Street, between San Carlos and Reed streets, San Jose

ARTWALKSJ | MAKING OF OPEN SOURCE MAGAZINE TALK & PERFORMANCES

7pm. Presented by Anno Domini, 366 S First St, San Jose

LIVE | MERLE JAGGER, THEM SLACK JAWED SOB'S, DOUG AND THE CARNIVAL OF SOULS REVUE 7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

LIVE | SHANE DZ AND THE SUSHI GARDEN, THE DAVE ABBOT BAND, TBA

8pm. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

STAGE | QUEEN OF THE MIST

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Fri, 10pm: TGIFF DJ Brotha Reese. Sat, 10pm: Snap Saturdays with DJ Frank Morales. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

SAT 4/6 JAPANTOWN IMMERSIVE 2019

5pm. Japantown, N Fifth and Jackson streets, San Jose

SUPER STACKED COMEDY SHOW

6pm. Terra Amico, 460 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

7pm & 9:15pm. 3Below, 288 S Second St, San Jose

MARTHA STREET ART EXCHANGE

8pm. Various times through 4/28. Tabard Theatre Co, 29 N San Pedro St, San Jose

7pm. Bring art and trade for art. S Seventh and Martha streets, San Jose

DANCE/KARAOKE | FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE STARLITE

ACOUSTIC POP | MIRA GOTO

8pm: Ballroom dance lesson. 9pm: Dance party. 11:30pm: Karaoke. Starlite Ballroom, 5178 Moorpark Ave, Ste 60, San Jose

7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

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LIVE MUSIC | KAVANAUGH BROTHERS CELTIC EXPERIENCE

8pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

5:30pm & 9pm–10pm. Mon, 7pm: Big Bands. Tue, 8pm– Close: Tiki Tuesdays—exotic cocktails and island vibes. Wed, 8pm–11pm: Queen Bingo. Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

TRIVIA NIGHT

7pm. San Pedro Market, 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

TRIVIA @ UPROAR BREWING

7pm. 439 S First St, San Jose

SAM MARSHALL KARAOKE WILLOW DEN

Sat, 9pm: Live music w/ Drunk Monk. Sun, 5:30pm– Close: Service Industry Night = 1/2 off drinks with your industry card! Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. 803 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

KARAOKE & DANCING

9:30pm. Bogart's Sports Bar, 1209 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale

SUN 4/7 FESTIVAL | THIRD ANNUAL SAN JOSÉ DAY 2019 @ GORDON BIERSCH

Noon–5pm. Gordon Biersch Brewery, 357 E Taylor St, San Jose

JAZZ JAM

4pm. Little Lou's BBQ, 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

ACOUSTIC | JOE FERRARA

6pm. The Cats, 17533 Santa Cruz Hwy, Los Gatos

THE EULIPIONS JAZZ JAM SESSION

7pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

LIVE | BRACE FOR MAVERICKS, VICE VERSA, ASPEN WAY +

8pm. Pioneer Saloon, 2925 Woodside Rd, Woodside

DANCING | MOTOWN ON MONDAYS

8pm. Continental Bar & Lounge, 349 S First St, San Jose

TRIVIA @ 7 STARS

8pm. 7 Stars Bar & Grill,398 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT AT STEPHEN'S GREEN

9pm. St. Stephen's Green, 223 Castro St, Mountain View

KARAOKE | O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

9pm. 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose

COMEDY OPEN MIC WITH PETE MUNOZ

9pm. Woodhams Lounge, 4475 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara

MONDO MONDAY KARAOKE

10pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

TUE 4/9 TRIVIA @ FOUNTAINHEAD

COMEDY | PICK YOUR POISON: ROUND 2

7:30pm. Comedians are given a topic and make up a set on the spot. Santa Clara Valley Brewing, 101 E Alma Ave, San Jose

TRIVIA | TRIVIOLITY PUB QUIZ

7:45pm. Britannia Arms Cupertino, 1087 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose

DJ | LAST RITES APRIL W/ OWEN & SCOTT TOXSIN

9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

HOUSE MUSIC | RHYTHM RITUAL

9pm. Continental Lounge, 347 S First St, San Jose

PUNK | PUNK VINYL TUESDAYS WITH DJ TEST

10pm. Cinebar, 69 E San Fernando St, San Jose

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY like a horse's hoof grows on birch trees in parts of Europe and the U.S. If you strip off its outer layer, you get amadou, spongy stuff that's great for igniting fires. It's not used much anymore, but it was a crucial resource for some of our ancestors. As for the word "amadou," it's derived from an old French term that means "tinder, kindling, spunk." The same word was formerly used to refer to a person who is quick to light up or to something that stimulates liveliness. In accordance with astrological omens, I'm making "Amadou" your nickname for the next four weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "Human beings are

not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them," wrote novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "Life obliges them over and over to give birth to themselves." Here's what I'll add to that: As you mature, you do your best to give birth to evernew selves that are in alignment with the idealistic visions you have of the person you want to become. Unfortunately, most of us aren't skilled at that task in adolescence and early adulthood, and so the selves we create may be inadequate or delusory or distorted. Fortunately, as we learn from our mistakes, we eventually learn to give birth to selves that are strong and righteous. The only problem is that the old false selves we generated along the way may persist as ghostly echoes in our psyche. And we have a sacred duty to banish those ghostly echoes. I tell you this, Taurus, because the coming months will be an excellent time to do that banishing. Ramp up your efforts NOW!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): "When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest," wrote Ernest Hemingway in his memoir. He quickly amended that statement, though, mourning, "The only thing that could spoil a day was people." Then he ventured even further, testifying, "People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself." I bring these thoughts to your attention so as to prepare you for some good news. In the next three weeks, I suspect you will far exceed your quota for encounters with people who are not "limiters of happiness"—who are as good as spring itself. CANCER (June 21-July 22): It's time to prove that

Cancerians have more to offer than nurturing, empathizing, softening the edges, feeling deeply, getting comfortable and being creative. Not that there's anything wrong with those talents. On the contrary! They're beautiful and necessary. It's just that for now you need to avoid being pigeonholed as a gentle, sensitive soul. To gather the goodies that are potentially available to you, you'll have to be more forthright and aggressive than usual. Is it possible for you to wield a commanding presence? Can you add a big dose of willfulness and a pinch of ferocity to your self-presentation? Yes and yes!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): General Motors manufactured

a car called the Pontiac Aztek from 2001 to 2005. It wasn't commercially successful. One critic said it looked like "an angry kitchen appliance," and many others agreed it was exceptionally unstylish. But later the Aztek had an odd revival because of the popularity of the TV show Breaking Bad. The show's protagonist, Walter White, owned one, and that motivated some of his fans to emulate his taste in cars. In accordance with astrological omens, Leo, I suspect that something of yours may also enjoy a second life sometime soon. An offering that didn't get much appreciation the first time around may undergo a resurgence. Help it do so.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Of all the female sins,

hunger is the least forgivable," laments feminist author Laurie Penny. She's referring to the hunger "for anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love." She continues: "If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings." I've quoted her because I suspect it's crucial for you to not suppress or hide your longings in the coming weeks. That's triply true if you're a woman, but also important if you're a man or some other gender. You have a potential to heal deeply if you get very clear about what you hunger for and then express it frankly.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Only one of Nana Mouskouris's vocal cords works, but over the course of an almost 60-year career, the Libran singer has sold over 30 million records in 12 different languages. Many critics speculate that her apparent disadvantage is key to her unique style. She's a coloratura mezzo, a rare category of chanteuse who sings ornate passages with exceptional agility and purity. In the coming weeks, I suspect that you will be like Mouskouris in your ability to capitalize on a seeming lack or deprivation. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your tribe is symbolized

by three animals: the scorpion, the eagle and the mythological phoenix. Some astrologers say that the scorpion is the ruling creature of "unevolved" or immature Scorpios, whereas the eagle and phoenix are associated with those of your tribe who express the riper, more enlightened qualities of your sign. But I want to put in a plug for the scorpion as being worthy of all Scorpios. It is a hardy critter that rivals the cockroach in its ability to survive—and even thrive in—less than ideal conditions. For the next two weeks, I propose we make it your spirit creature.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian novelist Gustave Flaubert declared that it's "our duty is to feel what is sublime and cherish what is beautiful." But that's a demanding task to pull off on an ongoing basis. Maybe the best we can hope for is to feel what's sublime and cherish what's beautiful for 30-35 days every year. Having said that, though, I'm happy to tell you that in 2019 you could get all the way up to 95-100 days of feeling what's sublime and cherishing what's beautiful. And as many as 15 to 17 of those days could come during the next 21.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sommeliers are people trained to perceive the nuances of wine. By sampling a few sips, the best sommeliers can discern facts about the type of grapes that were used to make the wine and where on Earth they were grown. I think that in the coming weeks, you Capricorns should launch an effort to reach a comparable level of sensitivity and perceptivity about any subject you care about. It's a favorable time to become even more masterful about your specialties, to dive deeper into the areas of knowledge that captivate your imagination. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Every language is a

work in progress. New words constantly insinuate themselves into common usage, while others fade away. If you traveled back in time to 1719 while remaining in your current location, you'd have trouble communicating with people of that era. And today linguistic evolution is even more rapid than in previous ages. The Oxford English Dictionary adds more than a thousand new words annually. In recognition of the extra verbal skill and inventiveness you now possess, Aquarius, I invite you to coin a slew of your own fresh terms. To get you warmed up, try this utterance I coined: vorizzimo! It's an exclamation that means "thrillingly beautiful and true."

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of history's most

audacious con men was George C. Parker, a Pisces. He made his living selling property that did not legally belong to him, like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Statue of Liberty. I suspect you could summon his level of salesmanship and persuasive skills in the coming weeks. But I hope you will use your nearly magical powers to make deals and perform feats that have maximum integrity. It's OK to be a teensy bit greedy, though.

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651274 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: What The Bloom, 1315 Piedmont Rd., #33005, San Jose, CA, 95132, Ashley Anderson. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ashley Anderson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/11/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 3/20, 3/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651181 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Umeken U.S.A, 1092 E. El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Yong Soon Na. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous filing #591172. /s/Yong Soon Na. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/07/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651688 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Stalder Technologies and Research, 837 E. Greenwich Pl., Palo Alto, CA, 94303, Kenneth R. Stalder, 515 King St., Redwood City, CA, 94082. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/15/19. /s/Kenneth R. Stalder. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/22/2019. (pub Metro 03/13, 03/20, 03/27, 04/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651949 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Laina Loves, 1729 N. 1st Street Unit 21114, San jose, CA, 95112, Marlaina Haretuku. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2018. /s/Marlaina Haretuku. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2019. (pub Metro 03/13, 03/20, 03/27, 04/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652044 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Tracy Corral Petsitter, 2. TRacy Petsitter, 1159 Bird Ave #2, San Jose, CA, 95125, Tracy Lynn Corral, Robert Tandler Mack. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/09/2019. /s/Tracy L Corral. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/04/2019. (pub Metro 03/13, 03/20, 03/27, 04/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652075 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Luceritos Family Daycare, 788 Lynxwood Ct., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Olga Quiroga. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/04/2019. /s/Olga Quiroga. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/04/2019. (pub Metro 03/13, 03/20, 03/27, 04/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652102 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Little Coffee Prince, 400 N. McCarthy Blvd, Milpitas, CA, 95035, Taisik Won, Kyungml Won Kim, 105 Belvue Drive, Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Taisik Won. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/05/2019. (pub Metro 03/13, 03/20, 03/27, 04/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652174 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Alex Citkowicz Business Development Services, 1120 Ranchero Way Apt 21, San Jose, CA, 95117, Alex Citkowicz. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/06/2019. /s/Alex Citkowicz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/062019. (pub Metro 03/13, 03/20, 03/27, 04/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651690

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Leader of the Pack, 1259 Payne Drive, Los Altos, CA, 94024, Mario Pastran. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/1/17. /s/Mario Pastran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/22/2019. (pub Metro 03/13, 03/20, 03/27, 04/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652219 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Stonehearth Ventures, 55 Pepper Drive, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Jonathan Baer. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/22/2019. /s/Jonathan Baer. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/07/2019. (pub Metro 03/13, 03/20, 03/27, 04/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652246 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. My Rug Guy, 2. Bay Area Rug, 861 Acacia Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Hamid Reza Lashgari. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/08/2019. /s/Hamid Reza Lashgari. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/08/2019. (pub Metro 3/20, 3/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652314 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jamieraehair, 500 Race St., San Jose, CA, 95126, Jamie Rae Pollard. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2019. /s/Jaime Rai Pollard. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/011/2019. (pub Metro 3/20, 3/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652348 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fox & Rose Salon, 529 N. Santa Cruz Avenue, Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Salon Amnesia LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/11/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of Illinois. /s/Jennessa Van Kregten. President. #20181830537. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/11/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652390 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Roof Craft, 368 Avenida Manzanos, San Jose, CA, 95123, Patrick J. Gomez. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Patrick J. Gomez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/12/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652504

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Justin’s Catering and Event Productions, 2. The Homestead, 1285 Homestead Road, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Escoffier Culinary, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous file #570215. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Justin Perez. CEO. #3489225. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/14/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652347 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Gong Fu Acupuncture, 760 N 7th St., Apt 3222, San Jose, CA, 95112, David Michael Dick, Yeong Min Bae. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/01/2018. /s/David Michael Dick. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/11/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652524 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Banana Real Estate & Investment, 562 Crawford Dr., Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Zijun Yan. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/14/2019. /s/Zijun Yan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/15/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652369 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: My Gym Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Children’s Fitness Centers/My Gym, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/26/2005. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Helen Vallaeys. Owner. #200505710002. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/12/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652468 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Weight Loss, 694 West Dana Street, Suite A, Mountain View, CA, 94041, Cardinal Chiropractic, Inc, 100 Bush Street, Suite 530, San Francisco, CA, 94104. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Karri Cardinal. President. #C3797668. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/14/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652516 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: House Of Bagels, 5297 Prospect Rd., San Jose, CA, 95129, Chui & Company, LLC, 460 Calado Ave., Campbell, CA, 95008. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jeffrey Chui. Manager. #201607610446. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/14/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652529 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sort Your Nest, 1587 Dorcey Lane, San Jose, CA, 95120, Alisha Pangburn. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/15/2019. /s/Alisha Pangburn. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/215/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652640 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Everglow, 901 Sunbonnet Loop, San Jose, CA, 95125, Bonna Hopper. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/18/2019. /s/Hopper, Bonna. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/18/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651452 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lyna Couture, 3275 Stevens Creek, Suite 315, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Halyna Hostetler, 1991 Via Reggio Court, San Jose, CA, 95132. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/18/2019. Refile in facts from previous filing #601503. /s/ Halyna Hostetler. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/15/2019. (pub Metro 03/13, 03/20, 03/27, 04/03/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652571

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Paving Your Way Forward, 4750 Almaden Expwy, Suite 124-240, San Jose, CA, 95118, Carolyn Cooper, 5697 Mireille Drive, San Jose, CA, 95118. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Carolyn Cooper. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/15/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651532 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Happyfaces Photography, 1193 Burnham Dr., San Jose, CA, 95132, Theresa Scott. This business is being conducted by a Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/19/2019. /s/Theresa Scott. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/19/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652501 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 3D Global Consulting, 14770 Mcvay Ave., San Jose, CA, 95127, Martin Lehn Nielsen. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous filing #590996 /s/Martin Lehn Nielsen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/14/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652730 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: AJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Delivery, 5394 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA, 95127, Angel Alvarez. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/14/2014. Refile in facts from previous filing #592023 /s/Angel Alvarez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/19/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652542 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: UEG Research, 1165 Lincoln Ave., Suite 221, San Jose, CA, 95125, UEGroup Incorporated. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652713 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JXRAY. COM, 15400 Winchester blvd, Unit 40, Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Mikhail Dmitriev. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Mikhail Dmitriev. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/19/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652732

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Custom College Consultants, 1769 Hillsdale Ave., #24813, San Jose, CA, 95154, Tamara Strachman, 2135 Taft Lane, San Jose, CA, 95124, Ann Auld, 260 Barbara Drive, Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/01/2019. /s/ Tamara Strachman. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/19/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651576 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Reve Marketing, 1975 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Pramati Prism, Inc.. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/17/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Vijay Pullur. President. #C3270223. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/20/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652024 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SVT Realty Services, 4425 Norwalk Ave., #3, San Jose, CA, 95129, Sophia Virrueta Tupper, 1568 Winding Way, Belmont, CA, 94002. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Sophia Virrueta Tupper. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/01/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652237 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Specialist Medical Equipment Services, 4581 Bolero Drive, San Jose, CA, 95111, Michael Garcia. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael Garcia. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/07/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652406 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lee Eye Care, 2555 North 1st Street, San Jose, CA, 95131, Jeanette Lee, 1020 Henderson Ave., Menlo Park, CA, 94025. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/01/1997. Refile in facts from previous filing #561390. /s/Jeanette Lee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/13/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652751 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Instantboba.com, 2. Instantboba, 3. Instant Boba, 166 Main Street #2, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Flexiboo Labs LLC, 221 Main St, Unit 1131, Los Altos, CA, 94023. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Cinnamon Chu. Owner. #201905010047.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/19/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652962 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Royal Bulls Norcal, 1055 Brokaw Rd., STE 30-309, San Jose, CA, 95131, John Masri. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/25/2019. /s/John Masri. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/25/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652990 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bennett Design Company, 5577 Spinnaker Dr #3, San Jose, CA, 95123, Bridgette Anne Bennett. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Bridgette Anne Bennet. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/26/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652918 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Under Glass, 455 North 17th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Janice L Propert. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2018. /s/ Janice Propert. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/22/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652923 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Makers4good, 1130 Independence Ave., Mountain View, CA, 94043, E S Devices. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/1/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/James Flynn. CEO. #C3402657. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/22/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #653022 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Locksmith Near Me, 292 Llano De Los Robles Ave., San Jose, CA, 95136, Angel Amar, 218 William Manly St., #5, San Jose, CA, 95136. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/25/2019. /s/Angel Amar. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/26/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #653062 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Two Posies, 2934 Roma Court, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Tomoko Kodama, NOrie Ishiro, 201 Ada Avenue #36, Mountain View, CA, 95051. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Tomoko Kodama. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/27/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL FROM PARTNERSHIP OPERATING UNDER FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #653108 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / has withdrawn as a general partner(s) from the partnership operating under the following fictitious business name(s): Star Thai Massage, 539 S. Murphy Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086. Tanet Oupkaew, 176 N, Frances St #B, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 11/21/2018 under file No. 648731. Filed on 03/28/2019. /s/Penkawee Kaewkamrai. (pub dates: 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652483

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jang Mo Ziep BBQ, 3148 El Camino Real STE 100, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Je-O Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/14/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Yun Chul Kim. President. #4232193. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/14/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651653 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Vape N Smoke 2, 1710 Berryessa Rd STE 109, San Jose, CA, 95133, Hawond Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Abdul Qudoos. President. #4243888. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/22/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652686 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Golden Coast Legal, 1548 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Marcus Watson. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/17/2019. /s/ Marcus Watson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/18/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652485 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Brindavan Music Adademy, 510 Mansion Ct, Apt 208, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Sheela Baragur Somashekar. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/14/2019. /s/Sheela Baragur Somashekar.. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/14/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CLEMENTINA FERREIRA, ESTATE NO. 119PR185227 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, and contingent creditors of Clementina Ferreira and persons who may be otherwise interested in the will or estate, or both:A petition has been filed by D. Mosher in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, requesting that she be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of Clementina Ferreira [and for probate of the decedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will, which is available for examination in the court file].[The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. This will avoid the need to obtain court approval for many actions taken in connection with the estate. However, before taking certain actions, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or have consented to the proposed action. The petition will be granted unless good cause is shown why it should not be.]The petition is set for hearing in Dept. No. 13at 191 N. 1st Street, San Jose, Caon April 26, 2019 at 9AM .IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 58 of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of delivery of the notice to you under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are interested in the estate, you may request special notice of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Section 1250 of the California Probate Code.D. Mosher, dmosher324@yahoo. com(Pub Dates: 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

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TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: A. Wallace Lei Su, B. Alysa Jiachi Su, C. Alena Jaline Su. Proposed name: A. Wallace Suleiman, B. Alysa Jaquee Suleiman, C. Alena Jaline Suleiman. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name change described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: July, 23, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: March 20, 2019 (pub dates: 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

on 05/01/2015. Refile in facts from previous filing #590292. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Kathleen Fernandes. Secretary. #3246111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/15/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

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