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DOMINIC CASERTA is going about his comeback tour in a sort of random, roundabout way.

First, the disgraced ex-Santa Clara councilman opined about urban planning in an interview for a Czech newspaper. Then he had an attorney send takedown requests to a couple local bloggers, including Santa Clara Online’s ROBERT HAUGH. Not requests for corrections, mind you, but full takedowns, claiming the sexual harassment allegations that torpedoed his public life were nothing but a political hit job. Caserta’s latest gambit involves a polygraph test, which, in a press release making the rounds on a national wire, he crows about passing with flying colors. According to the statement, he took the lie detector test on Jan. 21 “in an attempt to dispel all duplicitous accusations” by his most vocal accuser, former campaign staffer LYDIA JUNGKIND. “Mr. Caserta was questioned on various incidents pertaining to the allegations after being accused of inappropriate They sexual behavior with Did female students during What? his time as a teacher SEND TIPS TO and candidate for Santa FLY@ Clara County Board of METRONEWS. Supervisors,” it reads. The COM examiner, who boasts of proctering 11,000 such tests, says Caserta passed with damn near the highest possible score: 99.9 percent. The release goes on to say that Caserta maintains his innocence and that “an incident was made in an effort to derail his front-leading status” as a supervisorial candidate. It doesn’t, however, specify the singular incident he’s referring to. Was it the time then19-year-old Jungkind says her married boss caressed her thigh in his car? Or the times she says he awkwardly hugged her, kissed her cheeks, made flirty comments or offered her drugs and booze? Caserta elides mention of which questions he fielded, or whether any addressed allegations from other accusers, such as the ones with claims documented in his personnel file at Santa Clara Unified.

LONG LIV KLIV After a half-century at the helm, KLIV owner Bob Kieve wants to donate the radio station to the community.

Going Public Longtime station owner wants to give KLIV to the city of San Jose BY MIKE HUGUENOR

HIS JANUARY, after more than 70 years on San Jose’s airwaves, radio station KLIV (AM 1590) shut down operations. Independent to the very end, the station had never been owned by a major radio conglomerates like ClearChannel or IHeartRadio. Soon, it may be owned by a different kind of entity entirely.

On Friday, KLIV’s 97-year-old station owner Bob Kieve sat down with members of San Jose City

Council to discuss a novel plan. After owning the station for more than half a century, Kieve wants to donate KLIV to the city. “I was thinking about it around 4 in the morning, and I thought, ‘I’d really like to see something good done with this station,’” he says over the phone from the office at his other station, KRTY. “From time to time in the past I had thought about giving it to the city,” he says. “I would hope they would make good use of it, to inform the citizens about all the things city administration is doing.”

Talks between Kieve and the city have been underway for two months now. With each new discussion, Kieve remains optimistic that his vision will be realized. “The meeting was very positive. I was delighted with it,” he said earlier this week. If all goes according to plan, the format would be a mix of music and direct communication from the city to the people. “The city or the university will be able to break in at any time—either on a regular schedule or as the occasion calls for it,” Kieve explains. “Say, some announcement that the mayor feels is important for the residents to hear. He’ll be able to break in at any time.” While city spokeswoman Rosario Neaves characterized his proposal as “a very generous offer,” the communications office was reluctant to go much further, stressing that any potential deal remains in a stage of early negotiations. The idea of a city-run AM

Greb presented his findings at the annual conference of the National Association of Broadcasters. That year, the organization officially recognized San Jose as “Birthplace of Radio.” Eventually, Herrold’s station received the name KQW, which it held until 1949, when it moved from its original downtown location to a transmitter in Alviso. At that time, it switched its call letters out for the name KCBS. Just two years later the station moved to San Francisco, where it still operates today—the direct descendant of the Herrold’s creation. KLIV itself is something of a San Jose institution, its roots tracing back to 1946. In its earliest days, KLIV was a daytime-only station, going silent at night. Since 1967, the station has been owned by Kieve, who has steered it through format changes including disco, Top 40, talk and hot country. During its 25-year run as a news and talk station, KLIV featured news and local sports often alongside iconoclastic commentary, city politics and history. Three alums of this period went on to be inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame. If Kieve’s new plan were to come to fruition, it would be one of many surprising turns in his career. During WWII at 21, Kieve moved to Spain as an agent in the short-lived Office of War Information. There, he wrote pieces for TV and radio that fused narrative with state narrative— features “with a propaganda slant that Washington had prescribed,” as he told San Jose Magazine in 2002. Along the way, Kieve broke into radio for real and ended up having a huge impact on the medium throughout Spain. To this day he is considered the country’s “Father of Top 40 Radio.” El Arte Radiofonico, his Spanish-language book on the art of broadcasting, was the first of its kind in Spain, and was regularly used as a textbook by the University of Madrid for more than 20 years. He went on to become a scriptwriter for Eisenhower and an influential broadcaster, all before becoming KLIV’s longest-running owner. As for his plans for his station and the city, so far it’s all just talk. Ever the optimist, Kieve remains hopeful. “Let me put it another way,” he says, before getting back to work. “There doesn’t seem to be anything to hold it back at the moment.”

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radio station may seem a little anachronistic in the age of Spotify, Pandora, Audible and Earwolf, but San Jose and radio have a very deep, often overlooked connection. In fact, history seems to indicate that the first words ever broadcast over the airwaves were: “This is San Jose calling.” In 1909, local inventor Dr. Charles D. Herrold strung an antenna out the window of his office on the corner of First and San Fernando streets, and connected it with a nearby building. The dean of Herrold College of Engineering and Wireless, Herrold was one of the earliest advocates of broadcast technology. On his first transmission, his audience was a bewildered assortment of Morse code operators and children with crystal sets, all of whom were shocked to hear a human voice suddenly emerging from their devices. It was still three years before Congress passed the Radio Act, which officially recognized the existence of radio stations, assigning them call names and requiring a federal license. Before Herrold’s station even had a name, it had an audience, scheduled programming, and even a DJ (16-year-old Raymond Newby). Working with a 15-watt transmitter, the fledgling station had a radius of roughly 15 to 20 miles. Most of the equipment was made by Herrold himself. In a newspaper article from the 1970s, Newby described the initial setup as “six arc lights attached to a helix coil.” A professional sound technician reached for comment described this Xolotl-esque contraption to me as “some Tesla-ass shit.” Because there were no amplifiers at the time, the station’s microphone was plugged directly into its antenna, causing it to overheat quickly. To solve this, Herrold invented a water-cooled microphone with an attached water tank. Even this protosteampunk invention only worked for half an hour at a time. Most of the history surrounding Dr. Herrold’s station was uncovered by SJSU journalism professor Gordon Greb, who in the 1950s saw Herrold’s water-cooled microphone in a museum. When he found out it was used on a radio station in San Jose in 1909, he began researching the story. Fourteen years later,

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YABBA DABBA DOO Fans of Hillsborough’s iconic Flintstone house are rallying public support to protect its quirky charm.

Petition Launched to Save Famed ‘Flintstone House’ BY RACHEL SANDLER Earlier this month, the city of Hillsborough in San Mateo County sued the owner of the eccentric “Flintstone house,” calling it an eyesore. Now, a vocal group of supporters are petitioning to save it. In a Change.org petition created last week, San Jose resident Helen Garcia voiced her support for Florence Fang, the iconic property’s owner. The petition has already racked up more than 12,000 signatures, and it seems likely to reach its goal of 15,000. “Personally, I would fight to keep these statues up and leave these owners alone,” Garcia said in the online petition. As a child, Garcia said, she remembers wanting to catch a glimpse of the house every time her family drove by it on Interstate 280. The house was originally built in 1976.

Now, her daughter looks forward to seeing the house. In particular, she is a fan of the T-Rex statue. “Removing the statues would devastate her and many of our childhood memories we have of this beautiful home,” Garcia explained. The affluent town of Hillsborough sued Fang a few weeks ago, claiming she failed to get the proper permits to build on the property. Since Fang purchased the so-called Flintstone House in 2017, she has added 15-foot dinosaur statues and a large sign reading “Yabba Dabba Doo.” The additions, the lawsuit says, are an eyesore. News of the litigation quickly went viral and prompted a debate over property rights and artistic license. Fang received an outpouring of public support for the bold makeover she gave the home.

In stating their reasons for signing the petition, supporters chided the city of Hillsborough for spoiling the fun. “Let the owners do as they wish to their house. They pay taxes and aren’t hurting anyone!” one commenter said. “This house has been around since I was a kid. It brings a smile to my face when I drive by, and it’s their property so they can do whatever they want with it,” another commenter added. In a public statement, Fang thanked her many fans. “From all your supportive comments, it made me realize that I am not the only one fighting for the legendary Flintstones. It is truly an American memory that makes people smile and feel good about themselves,” she said. “Let’s keep Fred and the Dino alive and work together to keep on smiling. I will fight the best I can.”

Poll: 44 Percent Want to Leave Bay Area More and more South Bay residents are dreaming of cheaper pastures. That’s according to a new poll by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, which found that 44 percent of Bay Area residents said they’d like to move out of the region in the next few years. Only 6 percent of them said they have definite plans to make the exodus in 2019. Among those considering an exit, 77 percent cited the region’s high housing costs. Other major factors fueling the trend include traffic congestion, which was an issue for 51 percent of those surveyed, quality of life (45 percent) and taxes (41 percent). The poll, which surveyed 1,568 potential voters in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties in mid-February, showed that perceptions held even throughout the Bay Area. Some 83 percent of all respondents said the cost of housing represents the most critical problem plaguing the region, followed by the cost of living (81 percent), homelessness (79 percent) and traffic congestion (76 percent). Opinions were divided on whether the Bay Area’s rapid growth has been a positive or negative. Just 33 percent said they consider it a good thing. SVLG President Carl Guardino, whose group reps some of the biggest corporate names in Silicon Valley, has been one of the biggest cheerleaders for sales tax measures as a way to address traffic issues in years past. In a statement announcing this new poll, he hinted as the possibility of another such initiative. “We need to take big, bold, transformative steps before we lose the talented people who keep the engine of Silicon Valley, and our innovation economy, running,” he said. “We believe that voters in 2020, will have real, substantive choices to help solve some of the most pressing transportation and housing challenges facing our region and state today.”—Jennifer Wadsworth

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CREATURE FEATURE Mark Grey sparked audience interest with his operatic adaptation of ‘Frankenstein’ in Brussels.

It’s Alive SJSU alumnus’ new opera envisions ‘Frankenstein’ as futuristic dystopia BY GARY SINGH

N BRUSSELS last week, SJSU School of Music alumnus Mark Grey debuted his first full-length opera, a work based on Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Over six years in the making and running two hours and 40 minutes, the opera completed a nearly sold-out run of eight performances at La Monnaie, Belgium’s federal opera house. Originally slotted for 2016, the production was put back a few years due to renovations of the La Monnaie building.

The afternoon matinee on Sunday, March 17, felt particularly historical because three other School of Music alumni and former classmates of Grey’s from the same era, but now living in three different countries, all descended upon the performance. Of course, yours truly was one of them, so allow me to disclose that Grey and I are old friends. We spent many months carrying on about 20thcentury music at San Jose’s House of Siam restaurant back in the mid-’90s. Last week, Grey’s Frankenstein received significant press coverage in several languages, including French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and German, with Grey mentioning in every interview that Allen Strange, one of his musical

mentors at SJSU, instilled in him an avant-garde spirit from the outset. The lengthy program booklet even included an essay about Grey’s work, written by Charles Shafaieh, citing Grey’s youth in Palo Alto and how he grew up alongside the technology industry taking over the valley, the dynamics of which became part of his American identity. Shafaieh even writes that the white noise and sounds of machinery Grey utilized at the opening of the opera were salutes to industrial noise acts like Merzbow and Nurse With Wound. However, the traditionally orchestrated music Grey employed throughout the work was quite accessible and filled with color, steering the capacity crowds through a matrix of emotions from beginning to end. Collaborating with librettist Julia Canosa i Serra, he scored the work with several operatic luminaries in mind, including baritone Scott Hendricks, who played Victor Frankenstein, and tenor Topi Lehtipuu, who played the creature. Factor in the talents of director Alex Olle of the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus, and the Frankenstein production was a multimedia feast of

dystopian bleakness at its finest. Set in the Arctic region 200 years from now, in a bizarre existence where everyone is bald, as if a colony of Buddhist monks were extracted from a botched cryonics experiment, the production utilized elaborate sci-fi settings, disregarding any stereotypes of the Hollywood Frankenstein and instead returning to the issues Shelley’s novel originally explored—abandonment, isolation, self-loathing, guilt and sacrifice, with updated concerns about technology’s role in society. Various video projections appeared on scrims that draped down to the stage, producing complicated visual environments that won’t easily be replicated in any podunk opera house. The costumes were similarly intriguing projects. In Lehtipuu’s case, it took over an hour to apply the makeup and body modifications each night. One of the heralded opera houses of Europe, La Monnaie played a role in the Belgian Revolution of 1830, with aspiring rioters spilling out from an opera to help launch the uprising. La Monnaie also includes a separate six-story neoclassical structure housing all the ateliers and workshops. Rehearsal spaces for the singers and the orchestra accommodate a few hundred audience members. Other floors feature expansive metalworking and carpentry shops, plus a fullblown set construction workshop using the same dimensions as the stage. On the fifth floor, costume shops produce every single piece of clothing from scratch, all the way down to employing old-school bespoke shoemakers. Every person involved with the production can thus see what everyone else is working on, therefore streamlining the process, rather than having the set designers, costume designers and musicians putting the show together in separate places all over town. It’s an enormous operation with 400 regular employees, notwithstanding an additional combined 800 that might show up all year to work on each particular production. When it comes to modern-day opera, an insurrectionist spirit certainly emerged last week. Thanks to Grey, the SJSU School of Music can now claim a handful of its own alumni converged upon La Monnaie in the footsteps of the Belgian Revolution. The rest is history.

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ISING RENTS AND wrecking balls are transforming the valley at a pace we haven’t seen. As owner-operated institutions exit to make way for the latest and greatest—ramen from Tokyo, shirtings from across the Atlantic—and modest midcentury buildings give up their seats to accommodate another cluster of rectangles with big numbers on them, we can take comfort in knowing that some traditions persist. Since starting the valley’s first and longest-

running reader-chosen “best of” list more than a third of a century ago, Metro has provided a yearly snapshot of a dynamic region’s perpetual evolution. Here in the South Bay we have homegrown mixologists, shaking up innovative cocktails and mad-genius hop-heads, brewing all shades and flavors of craft beer. There are entrepreneurial hair stylists and internationally recognized tattoo artists, who look to the local population as their walking canvases. Some of the most prestigious chefs in the world work just down the road from scrappy, up-and-coming restaurateurs with true culinary vision. And even in Silicon Valley,

where disruption of traditional business models is considered a virtue, we still have brick and mortar record shops, book stores and tinkerers with dirt under their nails— men and women who will gladly teach you how to tune up your bicycle, wield a welding torch or plant an edible (or perhaps smokeable) garden. We colluded with the smartest readers any publication could be blessed with, and the results exonerate themselves. Silicon Valley is more than a place where Oprah shows up to endorse technology products. It’s where we go to work every morning, enjoy dinner every night and where we live out our colorful lives. So let’s make the best of it.

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14560 Big Basin Way, Saratoga Saratoga’s Plumed Horse is no stranger to local fine dining best-of lists. Peter Armellino’s white tablecloth has been praised in Sunset and held a coveted Michelin star since 2009. While accolades like these tend to come with higher-priced menus, date night doesn’t need to break the bank. His recently opened Pasta Armellino—located across Big Basin Way from his flagship establishment, in the heart of downtown Saratoga’s gourmet gulch—offers a stripped-down, fast casual menu that doesn’t skimp on quality. Customers queue up and order like they might at a deli, circling the meals they desire in pencil, on clipboards. Pay at the counter, grab your tray with drinks along with a number, and wait just a few minutes to be served. Innovative salads, elegantly simple soups, and incredible pasta dishes arrive quickly. Even sampling a dish from each section of the menu, with drinks, a party of two can leave walk away—completely satisfied and satiated—for less than $100.

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1401 W San Carlos St, San Jose Not to knock Midtown’s hottest new brunch spot, but there’s nothing at the end of the line that’s worth a two-hour wait, not even The Breakfast Club’s delectable blueberry-lemon short stack. Instead of standing awkwardly in the restaurant’s entryway counting the minutes and glaring at diners taking their sweet time to pay up, head over the crosswalk to Italian Brothers Bakery. It’s no brunch spot, but it’s a great Plan B that’ll inevitably become your Plan A. Run by the eponymous Sicilian siblings Marco and Giacomo Montevago, the place is more than a bakery; it’s also a rosticceria and gelateria. The Montevago brothers learned the family recipes as children working in their great-grandfather’s bakery in Palermo and decided to continue the tradition a world away in San Jose. After stints at a few other local Italian restaurants, the pair took over the spot last year at San Carlos Street and Meridian Avenue, where they serve up Sicily’s signature sweets and smoked meats.

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The waiters are gruff, sarcastic and somewhat imposing in that tuxedoed, mob-boss kind of way; the portions are gut-busting; the decor recalls a time long before health laws required restaurants to even offer smoking and non-smoking sections. In other words, it’s a piece of San Jose history and it is very much our thing. Isn’t there an Italian expression for that?

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5278 Monterey Hwy, San Jose If you’ve never been to Mingle’s Mango, a word of advice: Ignore your first impression. Tucked between a Catholic church and a $7-a-chop barber shop in a drab Monterey Highway strip mall, it’s easy to miss. And if you do manage to find it, the façade—featuring a haphazardly hand-painted sign and red-curtained windows—looks so much like a rub-and-tug hub that you might want to take a hard pass anyway. We happen to think the fly-by-night exterior is part of the charm here. Venture past those dingy glass doors to discover a sanctuary to Chef Mingle Wang’s two great loves in life: Dragon Ball Z and xiaolongbao. The hole-in-the-wall purveyor of dim sum and hand-pulled noodles is dimly lit and lovingly decorated with anime murals on all but one side of the restaurant, where projected anime flickers on a pair of drawn white curtains. According to Wang, he launched the restaurant in 2017 in part to raise money to produce a Dragon Ball Z movie in homage to his passion for the cartoon that he says “never fades away with age.” Then there’s the menu, which besides Wang’s signature dumplings offers a tempting array of dishes well worth trying, from familyrecipe staples—soups, noodles and steamed buns—to quirky one-offs like the swirled-potato-on-a-stick Pornado, pastry-wrapped sausage Spicy Dick and chocolate-filled dessert dumplings.

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153 Castro St, Mountain View

635 W Dana St, Mountain View

KIRIN

JIN SHO

485 Castro St, Mountain View

454 California Ave, Palo Alto

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2019

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#BOSV2019

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BEST OF SILICON VALLEY

ORCHARD CITY KITCHEN

BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT REPOSADO

236 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto

FIESTA DEL MAR TOO 735 Villa St, Mountain View

PALO ALTO SOL 408 N California Ave, Palo Alto

BEST INDIAN RESTAURANT PASSAGE TO INDIA

1991 W El Camino Real, Mountain View

DARBAR 129 Lytton Ave, Palo Alto

CHAAT PARADISE 165 E El Camino Real, Mountain View

BEST THAI RESTAURANT KRUNGTHAI

590 Showers Dr, Mountain View

SHANA THAI 311 Moffett Blvd, Mountain View

INDOCHINE 2710 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto

BEST TAQUERIA LOS ALTOS TAQUERIA

2105 Old Middlefield Way E, Mountain View

TAQUERIA EL GRULLENSE 3636 El Camino Real, Palo Alto

SANCHO’S TAQUERIA Palo Alto & Redwood City

BEST BREAKFAST BUCK’S OF WOODSIDE

3062 Woodside Rd, Woodside

PALO ALTO CREAMERY 566 Emerson St, Palo Alto

JOANIE’S CAFÉ 405 California Ave, Palo Alto

BEST INDEPENDENT COFFEEHOUSE RED ROCK COFFEE

201 Castro St, Mountain View

CAFE BORRONE 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park

DANA STREET ROASTING COMPANY 744 W Dana St, Mountain View

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#BOSV2019

BEST BAKERY THE PROLIFIC OVEN

550 Waverley St, Palo Alto

BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT KYOTO PALACE

ESTHER’S GERMAN BAKERY

1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

987 N San Antonio Rd, Los Altos

SUSHI CONFIDENTIAL

MAYFIELD BAKERY & CAFE

247 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto

BEST BURRITO SANCHO’S TAQUERIA

Palo Alto & Redwood City

LA COSTENA 235 E Middlefield Rd, Mountain View

RINCON SABROSO 122 N Rengstorff Ave, Mountain View

KAMAKURA 135 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT ANDALÉ

6 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

CASA LUPE 2169 Winchester Blvd, Campbell

AQUI 201 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

WEST VALLEY BEST BUSINESS LUNCH NICK’S NEXT DOOR

11 College Ave, Los Gatos

STEAMER’S GRILLHOUSE 31 University Ave, Los Gatos

AQUI 201 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

BEST AMERICAN RESTAURANT ORCHARD CITY KITCHEN

BEST THAI RESTAURANT THAI SPICE

337 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

THAI ORCHID 866 E Campbell Ave, Campbell,

MINT LEAF CUISINE 14420 Big Basin Way, Saratoga

BEST TAQUERIA ADELITA’S TAQUERIA

1896 Curtner Ave, San Jose

JALISCO 525 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

TAQUERIA LOS PERICOS #3

NICK’S NEXT DOOR

1581 W Campbell Ave, Campbell

11 College Ave, Los Gatos

CAPERS EAT & DRINK 1710 W Campbell Ave, Campbell

BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT BLUE SKY

2028 Winchester Blvd, Campbell

BEST BREAKFAST STACKS

139 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

HASH HOUSE 851 W Hamilton Ave, Campbell

SOUTHERN KITCHEN 27 E Main St, Los Gatos

TSING TAO 104 San Tomas Aquino Rd, Campbell

YEUNG SHING 14107 S Winchester Blvd, Los Gatos

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food & drink

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BEST INDEPENDENT COFFEEHOUSE LOS GATOS COFFEE ROASTING CO.

101 W Main St, Los Gatos

BEST BURRITO ANDALÉ

6 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

ADELITA’S TAQUERIA 1896 Curtner Ave, San Jose

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE

AQUI

349 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

201 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

GREAT BEAR COFFEE 19 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

BEST BAKERY ICING ON THE CAKE

50 W Main St, Los Gatos

MANRESA BREAD 276 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

FLEUR DE COCOA 39 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

CENTRAL VALLEY BEST BUSINESS LUNCH PEDRO’S

3935 Freedom Cir, Santa Clara

ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE 19379 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

BIRK’S 3955 Freedom Cir, Santa Clara

BEST PLACE TO ORDER NOODLES ON A TABLET

EDITORS’

PICK

TARO SAN JAPANESE NOODLE BAR 717 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto Like most trendy eating establishments, Taro San Japanese Noodle Bar has plenty of nods to the mid-century modern aesthetic. But in a gesture to our future robot overlords, patrons at this buzzed-about Stanford Shopping Center restaurant order their dishes from one of the tablet computers at every table. One might worry that a restaurant that gives customers the option to order from a touch screen might be lacking a human touch. Not so at Taro San. The place is bustling with helpful servers, and it’s quite clear that the food is made with love—an emotion that the machines have yet to master (we think). For starters, the Brussels sprouts and crab sunomono salad are a solid choice. And while the seared salmon toro sashimi and chicken karaage appear on the “to share” menu, they are substantial enough to nearly qualify as entrees. But the reason people are lining up outside of Taro San Japanese Noodle Bar is for the noodles. And these certainly do not disappoint. On a recent trip, we ordered the tori paitan udon (chicken in a creamy broth), which gave a whole new meaning to chicken soup for the soul, warming us up and lifting our spirits on a cold February evening.

2019

BEST OF SILICON VALLEY

#BOSV2019

BEST AMERICAN RESTAURANT ST. JOHN’S BAR & GRILL

510 Lawrence Expy, Sunnyvale

SARA’S KITCHEN 1595 Franklin St, Santa Clara

PARCEL 104 2700 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara

BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT CHINA STIX

2110 El Camino Real, Santa Clara

TAO TAO CAFE 175 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

MANDARIN GOURMET 10145 N De Anza Blvd, Cupertino

BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT

John Dyke

LUNA MEXICAN KITCHEN

BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT PEDRO’S

3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara 2280 El Camino Real, Santa Clara

AQUI 10630 S De Anza Blvd, Cupertino

LA PALOMA 2280 El Camino Real, Santa Clara

BEST INDIAN RESTAURANT KABAB & CURRY’S

1498 Isabella St, Santa Clara

PEACOCK INDIAN CUISINE 2798 El Camino Real, Santa Clara

MADRAS CAFE 1177 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

BEST THAI RESTAURANT JASMINE FINE THAI

YUKI SUSHI

1211 Franklin Mall, Santa Clara

KOBE JAPANESE RESTAURANT

500 Lawrence Expy B, Sunnyvale

1827 Pruneridge Ave, Santa Clara

PAD THAI CUISINE

2086 El Camino Real, Santa Clara

THE OLD SIAM

GOMBEI

1111 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

3533 Homestead Rd, Santa Clara

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food & drink readers’ choice BEST INDEPENDENT COFFEEHOUSE BEAN SCENE CAFE

186 S Murphy St, Sunnyvale

THE PROLIFIC OVEN

#BOSV2019

BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT MANDARIN GOURMET

5560 Santa Teresa Blvd, San Jose

Santa Clara & Sunnyvale

TAIWAN RESTAURANT

MIAOS CAFE DELI

1306 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

19110 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

SWEET MANGO 1040 Willow St, San Jose

BEST BAKERY SUGAR BUTTER FLOUR

669 S Bernardo Ave, Sunnyvale

BEST PIECE OF HUNAN HISTORY HIDING IN SAN JOSE

EDITORS’

PICK

HUNAN TASTE

LA PATISSERIE

Henry Chung, the man credited with bringing the spicy Hunan style of Chinese cooking to the United States, died in 2017. His spirit and recipes live on in the many eateries that still bear his name throughout San Francisco. His cooking caused quite a sensation when American diners, then more familiar with Cantonese styles of Chinese food, discovered Henry’s Hunan. Back in 1976, when Chung’s flagship kitchen was fairly new, the New Yorker food critic Tony Hiss dubbed it “the best Chinese restaurant in the world.” Many familiar with Hunanese cuisine are aware of this history. Many still may be unaware that Henry’s legacy lives on in the South Bay as well—in a small diner, located next to a laundromat on Fourth Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood of San Jose. Hunan Taste was founded by Joanne Song, a chef and niece of Chung. Delicious, savory and most importantly, spicy (there are more items on the menu that appear next to a tiny chili pepper than not), Hunan Taste is a great place to break a sweat and bust a cold. Must-trys are their hot and sour soup, dumplings and mu shi pork.

MINATO JAPANESE CUISINE

COPENHAGEN CROWN

617 N 6th St, San Jose

2079 El Camino Real, Santa Clara

AQUI

10630 S De Anza Blvd, Cupertino

RUBY’S 821 Borregas Ave, Sunnyvale

CHAVEZ MARKET 666 N Fair Oaks Ave, Sunnyvale

SAN JOSE/ SOUTH VALLEY BEST BUSINESS LUNCH HENRY’S WORLD FAMOUS HI-LIFE

301 W. St. John St., San Jose

ORIGINAL JOE’S 301 S First St, San Jose

IL FORNAIO

CHAVEZ SUPERMARKET

BEST BREAKFAST SARA’S KITCHEN

1595 Franklin St, Santa Clara

666 N Fair Oaks Ave, Sunnyvale

COUNTRY GOURMET

TAQUERIA LA VERACRUZANA

1314 S Mary Ave, Sunnyvale

1510 Jackson St, Santa Clara

OLD IRONSIDES CAFE

GARCIA’S TAQUERIA

4655 Old Ironsides Dr, Santa Clara

738 S Fair Oaks Ave, Sunnyvale

MIZU SUSHI BAR & GRILL 1035 S Winchester Blvd, San Jose

BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT LUNA MEXICAN KITCHEN

1495 The Alameda, San Jose

MEZCAL 25 W San Fernando St, San Jose

302 S Market St, San Jose

BEST TAQUERIA

HOUSE OF GENJI

1335 N First St, San Jose

19758 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

BEST BURRITO

998 N 4th St, San Jose

BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT

BEST AMERICAN RESTAURANT DRY CREEK GRILL

1580 Hamilton Ave, San Jose

THE TABLE 1110 Willow St, San Jose

THE FARMERS UNION 151 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

ZONA ROSA 1411 The Alameda, San Jose

BEST INDIAN RESTAURANT AMBER INDIA

377 Santana Row, San Jose

TANDOORI OVEN 150 S First St, San Jose

PUNJAB CAFE 322 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

BEST THAI RESTAURANT BLUE MANGO

635 Coleman Ave, San Jose

THAI SPICE 1102 Bird Ave, San Jose

SA-BY THAI CUISINE 404 S 2nd St, San Jose 346 E William St, San Jose

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Authentic Mediterranean Cuisine and Culture

408.279.4225 | 96 FIRST ST. DOWNTOWN SJ | NEMEAGREEKTAVERNA.COM

2019

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food & drink readers’ choice BEST INDEPENDENT COFFEEHOUSE ROY’S STATION

197 Jackson St, San Jose

CHROMATIC COFFEE

#BOSV2019

BEST CHINESE RESTAURANT MAYFLOWER

SEAFOOD RESTAURANT 428 Barber Ln, Milpitas

17 N 2nd St, San Jose

HO CHOW

CREMA COFFEE ROASTING CO.

47966 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont

The Alameda, San Jose

NEW YONG KANG SEAFOOD RESTAURANT 40900 Fremont Blvd, Fremont

BEST BAKERY PETER’S BAKERY

3108 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose

GREENLEE’S BAKERY 1081 The Alameda, San Jose

FLOWER FLOUR 896 Willow St, San Jose

BEST BURRITO EDITORS’

BEST DESSERT SPOT TO DO IT FOR THE ’GRAM

PICK

LA VICTORIA

Hayward & San Jose

IGUANAS

SOMI SOMI

San Jose & Santa Clara

Cupertino & San Jose

Multiple San Jose Locations

BURRITO FACTORY

A generation that grew up sharing photos of food has prompted more and more chefs to focus on feasting the eyes as much as pleasing the palate. There’s no shortage of Instagrammable fare in the South Bay, but few place as much premium on the optics as Asian dessert spots— many of which create designated nooks for customers to pose with their eye-popping treats for IG-worthy shares. Korean creamery Somi Somi serves up soft-serve ice cream nestled in adorably photogenic taiyaki, a goldfish-shaped waffle made fresh to order, and adorned with your choice of technicolor toppings, from Fruity Pebbles to ube-purple macarons, to make your sweet treat picture perfect.

FREMONT & MILPITAS BEST BUSINESS LUNCH SEN DAI SUSHI

224 N Abel St, Milpitas

ZAHIR’S BISTRO

ANGELOU’S MEXICAN GRILL

BEST BREAKFAST THE BREAKFAST CLUB

SATOMI SUSHI 3655 Thornton Ave, Fremont 5026 Mowry Ave, Fremont

MIOKI SUSHI 3924 Decoto Rd, Fremont

BEST MEXICAN RESTAURANT LA MILPA

107 N Milpitas Blvd, Milpitas

LA PIÑATA 39136 Paseo Padre Pkwy, Fremont

CASA AZTECA RESTAURANT 20 N Abel St, Milpitas

BEST INDIAN RESTAURANT SHALIMAR RESTAURANT

3325 Walnut Ave, Fremont

DOSA PLACE

TIRUPATHI BHIMAS

41043 Fremont Blvd, Fremont

CHAAT BHAVAN 5355 Mowry Ave, Fremont

BEST AMERICAN RESTAURANT COUNTRY WAY

21 N 2nd St, San Jose

1432 W San Carlos St, San Jose

TAQUERIA TLAQUEPAQUE

THE TABLE

721 Willow St, San Jose 699 Curtner Ave, San Jose

1110 Willow St, San Jose

JACK’S BREWING CO. 39176 Argonaut Way, Fremont

JALISCO TAQUERIA

BILL’S CAFÉ Fremont, Palo Alto & San Jose

401 S King Rd, San Jose

SEN DAI SUSHI

224 N Abel St, Milpitas

579 S Main St, Milpitas 1208 S Abel St, Milpitas

BEST TAQUERIA

BEST JAPANESE RESTAURANT

5325 Mowry Ave, Fremont

BEST THAI RESTAURANT BANANA LEAF MILPITAS

182 Ranch Dr, Milpitas

MIL’S DINER 36 S Abbott Ave, Milpitas

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40+ Wines by the Glass Tasting Events & Retail Outdoor Patio

THANK YOU FOR VOTING! 750 W. Evelyn Ave. Mtn. View 650.969.3958 | SavvyCellar.com

2019

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BEST OF SILICON VALLEY

AQUI

SALA THAI RESTAURANT

COMMUNITY COFFEE

Multiple Fremont Locations

1000 S Park Victoria Dr, Milpitas

BANH THAI RESTAURANT

DEVOUT COFFEE

39060 Fremont Blvd, Fremont

BEST TAQUERIA TAQUERIA LAS VEGAS

Fremont & Milpitas

CASA AZTECA RESTAURANT 20 N Abel St, Milpitas

EL MEX-CAL TAQUERIA 34169 Fremont Blvd, Fremont

BEST BREAKFAST COUNTRY WAY

5325 Mowry Ave, Fremont

MIL’S DINER 36 S Abbott Ave, Milpitas

MINERVA’S 37463 Fremont Blvd, Fremont

BEST INDEPENDENT COFFEEHOUSE MISSION COFFEE

ROASTING COMPANY

151 Washington Blvd, Fremont

37323 Niles Blvd, Fremont

BEST BAKERY VALERIO’S

TROPICAL BAKE SHOP 1535 Landess Ave, Milpitas

AMIA BAKERY 39095 Fremont Hub, Fremont

SOGO BAKERY 37600 Filbert St, Newark

BEST BURRITO SUPER TACO

40798 Fremont Blvd, Fremont

LOS CABOS 3283 Walnut Ave, Fremont

EL TACO DE ORO 5220 N First St, Alviso

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Small Plates. Infinite Creations. Tapa Lunch Special Includes Soup & Salad

$9.95 weekdays

3250 Zanker RdSte 40 San Jose | 408.493.5269 Reservations: juerga.tapas.wine@gmail.com

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@chachosRestaurant

@ilovechachos

DOWNTOWN | 87 E. SAN FERNANDO STREET, DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE MIDTOWN | 223 BUSINESS CIRCLE, SAN JOSE

81 E SAN FERNANDO ST. | DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE

@lossanpatricios

COMING SOON

2019

BEST OF SILICON VALLEY

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Music & nightlife readers’ choice

Chris Miller

MOUNTAIN WINERY

OVERALL BEST COMEDY VENUE SAN JOSE IMPROV

62 S 2nd St, San Jose

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

COMEDYSPORTZ 288 S 2nd St, San Jose

BEST LARGE CONCERT VENUE

BEST SMALL MUSIC VENUE CAFE STRITCH

374 S 1st St, San Jose

BEST JAZZ/BLUES CLUB CAFE STRITCH

374 S 1st St, San Jose

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

CAMPBELL BREWING CO.

91 S Autumn St, San Jose

200 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

THE RITZ

FAIRMONT’S LOBBY LOUNGE

400 S 1st St, San Jose

170 S Market St, San Jose

BEST DANCE CLUB THE CARDIFF

260 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

CHARLEY’S LG

BEST LATIN MUSIC CLUB MIAMI BEACH/BESO

417 S 1st St, San Jose

MOUNTAIN WINERY

MONTE CARLO

14831 Pierce Rd, Saratoga

THE RITZ

228 Castro St, Mountain View

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE

400 S 1st St, San Jose

SAP CENTER 525 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

HAPA’S

460 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

91 S Autumn St, San Jose

15 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

1 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View

BEST MICROBREWERY /TAPROOM

CLUB RODEO RIO 610 Coleman Ave, San Jose

FAULTLINE

1235 Oakmead Pkwy, Sunnyvale

BEST WINE BAR TESSORA’S BARRA DI VINO

416 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

ENOTECA LA STORIA 416 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

20TWENTY CHEESE BAR 1389 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

2019

music & nightlife #BOSV2019

Greg Ramar

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BEST OF SILICON VALLEY

CAFE STRITCH

May – November Downtown Farmers’ Market

June – August Music in the Park

July Dine Downtown

July – August Starlight Cinemas

August – October CityDance

BEST LOCAL WINERY TESTAROSSA WINERY

BRITANNIA ARMS

Downtown San Jose, Almaden

300 College Ave, Los Gatos

DUKE OF EDINBURGH

J.LOHR

10801 N Wolfe Rd, Cupertino

1000 Lenzen Ave, San Jose

THE ROSE & CROWN

RIDGE VINEYARDS

547 Emerson St, Palo Alto

17100 Montebello Rd, Cupertino

BEST NEW BAR/CLUB

sjdowntown.com/events

BEST IRISH PUB O'FLAHERTY’S

CEDAR ROOM

25 N San Pedro St, San Jose

LVL UP

355 Santana Row, San Jose

1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell 400 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

SOCIAL LADY

ROSIE MCCANN’S KATIE BLOOM’S 369 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

73 E San Fernando St, San Jose

BEST SPORTS BAR DOUBLE D’S

354 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

ROOKIES SPORTS LODGE 1535 Meridian Ave, San Jose

4TH ST. PIZZA CO.

CINEBAR

BEST DIVE BAR

BEST GAY OR LESBIAN BAR SPLASH

65 Post St, San Jose

MAC’S CLUB 39 Post St, San Jose

150 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

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BEST BRITISH PUB

HALL OF

FAME WINNER

(San Jose/South Valley) With its strong, reasonably priced drinks, free pool table and eclectic, interesting clientele, this is the place to begin a night of bar hopping—and it’s the place to end it. Sometimes you don’t even have to go anywhere in between.

RENEGADES 501 W Taylor St, San Jose

BEST HOTEL OR RESTAURANT BAR FAIRMONT LOBBY

170 S Market St, San Jose

ROSEWOOD 2825 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park

DIO DEKA 210 E Main St, Los Gatos

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music & nightlife #BOSV2019

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BEST OF SILICON VALLEY

BEST PLACE TO SIP MANHATTANS WITH MS. PAC MAN

EDITORS’

PICK

MINI BOSS

52 E Santa Clara St, San Jose Opened in early February, Miniboss is downtown San Jose’s first proper video game bar. Featuring some of your favorite old-school cabinet games, like The Simpsons and Bust-a-Move, and a solid selection of pinball machines, the 21+ main floor also serves craft cocktails and draught beer. Miniboss is run by the same team behind Original Gravity and Paper Plane, so the beer and cocktail menus are on point. The attached SuperGood Kitchen admits all ages and cooks up Asian fusion dishes designed to wow discerning foodies as well as late-night imbibers.

BEST CRAFT COCKTAILS

BEST MOJITOS MEZCAL

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

25 W San Fernando St, San Jose

La Hacienda Inn, 18840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd, Los Gatos

1580 Hamilton Ave, San Jose

PAPER PLANE

400 Castro St, Mountain View

DRY CREEK GRILL CASCAL

72 S 1st, San Jose

HABERDASHER 43 W San Salvador, San Jose

BEST MARTINIS JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

La Hacienda Inn, 18840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd, Los Gatos

BEST MARGARITA AQUI

Campbell, Cupertino & San Jose

OLLA COCINA 17 N San Pedro St, San Jose

EL JARDIN 368 Santana Row, San Jose

DRY CREEK GRILL 1580 Hamilton Ave, San Jose

THE CEDAR ROOM 1875 Bascom Ave, Campbell

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Music & nightlife readers’ choice

#BOSV2019 EDITORS’

BEST TAPROOM RUN BY A SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR

PICK

CAMINO BREWING 718 S 1st St, San Jose

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BEST OF SILICON VALLEY

BEST DINNER AND A MOVIE FOR THE UBER-EFFICIENT

EDITORS’

PICK

PRUNEYARD CINEMA

When we caught up with Allen Korenstein on a Tuesday afternoon last summer, he was rushing from one office to another. Earlier that morning, he had been navigating the emotional labyrinth of foster care, handling five cases in his role as a juvenile law attorney. Half an hour after leaving the courthouse, he’d made it to the other side of downtown and was putting on his brewers cap. Korenstein and his partner Nathan Poulos have been brewing beer for a decade. Beginning as most brewers do, in a garage, they eventually gained some notoriety for their collaboration with Chromatic Coffee; the Cafe con Leche is a smooth coffee milk stout that gives imbibers a double buzz of alcohol and caffeine. Since opening up their brick-and-mortar location on South First Street in the spring of 2018 they’ve gained a reputation as one of downtown’s best places to grab a craft brew. Furthermore, their beautiful, spartan taproom—located just south of the Interstate 280 overpass—has activated a long-vacant space, right next door to the old Faber’s Cyclery. In this way Korenstein is continuing his work in the community by bringing a cultural hub to a part of town littered with empty storefronts and neglected historic properties. Here’s hoping that more follow suit; the old Faber’s building, which has been refurbished by Garden City Construction, is awaiting a new tenant, and many more structures in the Martha’s Gardens neighborhood, from beautiful mid-century neon signs to Victorian, Craftsman and Art Deco homes, could all benefit from repairs and a fresh coat of paint.

1875 S. Bascom Ave, San Jose It’s a strangely intimate thing to sit next to a person in the dark. It adds a little bit of tantalizing danger to a first date. At the same time, watching a movie in tandem is a great way to size up a person’s level of empathy. Perhaps they have none; or maybe too much. (Do you really want to spend your time with someone who wails every time they see a sad kitty?) And then there’s sharing a meal with a potential mate. (How much hot sauce does this person consume? You must know!) Feed two birds with one hand at this luxurious theater, which features an in-house restaurant, craft cocktail bar—The Cedar Room—and seven screens. Between the expert mixology, reclining seats and regularly scheduled events, it’s a great place to figure out whether to swipe left or swipe right. On Tuesdays the bar focuses on tiki drinks and the theater offers an $8 all-day admission; Drag Queen Bingo is on Wednesdays; and once a month they host their Culinary Cinema event, featuring a food-themed film and a menu to match.

BEST BOWLING ALLEY 4TH STREET BOWL 1441 N Fourth St, San Jose

BOWLERO 5420 Thornwood Dr, San Jose

BASS PRO SHOPS 5160 Cherry Ave, San Jose

BEST PRE–SHARKS GAME SPOT HENRY’S HI-LIFE

301 W St John St, San Jose

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

POOR HOUSE BISTRO 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

PENINSULA BEST HAPPY HOUR THE OLD PRO

541 Ramona St, Palo Alto

ST. STEPHEN’S GREEN 223 Castro St, Mountain View

SCOTTY’S PALO ALTO 548 Emerson, Palo Alto

TRIALS PUB

BEST BRITISH PUB

HALL OF

FAME WINNER

When you just want to have a couple of quiets with your mates, Trials Pub is the place to go.

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Wine Cellar. Los Gatos is all about the one of a kind boutiques. From men’s clothing, specialty children’s clothes, lingerie or Fashionable women’s clothing; Time Out Clothing celebrating

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your routine? Hop in the car for 5 to 15 minutes depending on where you live and experience the Good Life in the Town of Los Gatos. For some that could start off with a nice walk or hike on the Los Gatos Creek Trail, a

class at Yoga Source, or a Spa treatment at The Spa-Los Gatos or one of the many other spas or salons in town, maybe plan a manicure with friends or or schedule a complete make over and new hair cut at the renowned Dustin David Salon. Depending on what time you get to town you can kick start it with a Custom coffee made by one of the local baristas at the Great Bear or the Roasting Company. Enjoy lunch at some of the Bay Area’s most popular lunch spots: Eat al fresco at Willow Street Pizza, Andale, or The Palms. Or sample brunch at Southern Kitchen, fruits of the sea at Billy’s Chowder House or a more elegant meal at Steamer’s Grill or the

25 years, She She Shoes, Kismet, Voluptuary, Redemption and Kitsch Couture to name a few. And unique offerings you will not find in any shopping mall. All of that shopping and strolling might make you a little thirsty- pop into Loma for a pint of one of

their award winning beers or visit one of the many wine bars on No. Santa Cruz Ave. such as Enoteca La Storia, Rootstock, We Olive or Left Bend Winery’s tasting room. For a really unique experience jaunt up to Testarossa Winery at the 19th Century Novitiate, the 4th oldest continuously operating winery in California – a tour and

tasting and a little history on the side, home to exceptional pinot noir and chardonnay. Los Gatos may be best known for it’s 3-Michelin starred Manresa Restaurant with renown Chef David Kinch and Photo by Eric Gray

his Manresa Bakery and New Orleans inspired restaurant, The Bywater. Nick’s Next Door, a local favorite is an American Bistro with indoor and patio dining. Forbes Mill offers exceptional steaks and chops, and The Pastaria has been pleasing diners for decades with Italian inspired homemade pasta. Upscale Hellenic cuisine at Dio Deka is also Michelin recognized. All of this is in walking distance to world class hotels like Hotel Los

Gatos where you can lay out by the pool or The Toll House with excellent service. Los Gatos also serves as the gateway to the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was originally a stage stop at the turn of the century for travelers heading to Santa Cruz from San Francisco. Many made it their summer getaway from the bustling city. Some things still hold true a hundred years later! Los Gatos is the last stop for motorists before they head up into the lovely Santa Cruz mountains. From the summit, the view to the Pacific Ocean will take your breath away. Los Gatos was in fact a stagecoach stop at turn of the century for travelers heading from Santa Cruz to San Francisco. Many people made Los Gatos their summer getaway from the

bustling city.

Summer Fun in Los Gatos

Plein Air Festival • The 10th Annual Los Gatos Plein Air, presented by the LG Morning Rotary. Meet 27 nationally acclaimed artists, view and purchase hundreds of locally painted works created during the week. Art Preview and Sale, sponsored by Testarossa, Saturday, 5 p.m. No. Santa Cruz Ave. in the Breezeway, Heart of downtown. Festival - Sunday, June 23rd 1- a.m. - 5 p.m. Town Plaza. Farmer’s Market • Every Sunday • 9:00 - 1 p.m. Town Plaza Jazz on the Plazz • Wednesdays, June 19-21st, 6:30 -8:30 p.m. Town Plaza, a Chet Baker Summer. For more information jazzon the plazz.com Music in the Park • Sundays, July 7 - August 4th. Civic Center, 5-7 p.m. Great music and fun for the whole family. For more information losgatosca.gov. Block Parties • Thursdays, June 20, July 18th and August 8th. A great Community event, shops stay open late, art and music downtown, 5 -10 p.m. Los Gatos Park Dance • one of the best parties of the summer. Saturday, August 31st, Oak Meadow Park featuring the Houserockers, a local’s favorite band. For more information facebook.com/losgatosmusicinthepark

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CASS McCOMBS BAND

MOES THURSDAY, APRIL 4

TIM BLUHM BAND 4/7 Flynns

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+ THE COFFIS BROTHERS

SUN KIL MOON April 17 Kuumbwa Jazz Cntr. FANTASTIC NEGRITO MOES ALLEY

SEAN HAYES

MAY 2

BIG SUR Fri, May 10

THE CHURCH

5/10 RIO Starfish 30th Anniversary Tour!

5/17 ROBYN HITCHCOCK HMML BIG SUR

JACKIE GREENE BAND Friday, June 7 Monterey Reserved Seating!

Golden State Theater

REAL ESTATE MOES FRIDAY, JUNE 7TH

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CEDAR ROOM

BEST DIVE BAR DUTCH GOOSE

3567 Alameda de las Pulgas, Menlo Park

BEST KARAOKE KHARTOUM

300 Orchard City Dr, Campbell

ANTONIO’S NUT HOUSE

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

321 California Ave, Palo Alto

331 Hacienda Ave, Campbell

FRED’S PLACE

BRITANNIA ARMS

2534 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View

5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

WEST VALLEY BEST HAPPY HOUR SUSHI CONFIDENTIAL

247 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

ORCHARD CITY KITCHEN 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

BEST DIVE BAR BLACK WATCH

141 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

CARDIFF LOUNGE 260 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

THE BANK 14421 Big Basin Way, Saratoga

CENTRAL VALLEY

18840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd, Los Gatos

BEST HAPPY HOUR HALL OF THE SADDLE FAME WINNER RACK

BEST DANCE CLUB

When it comes to dance floors, it’s hard to find one larger than the Saddle Rack’s. Once located in San Jose, this South Bay institution is now holed up in South Fremont.

ST. JOHN’S BAR AND GRILL

510 Lawrence Expwy, Sunnyvale

GRUB BURGER BAR 785 Lawrence Expy, Santa Clara

DUKE OF EDINBURGH 10801 N Wolfe Rd, Cupertino

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BEST STANDUP OUTSIDE A COMEDY CLUB

SUPER STACKED

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Studio by Terra Amico, 460 Lincoln Ave, San Jose Four Bitchin’ Babes

The Capitol Steps

who’s ready to laugh?

CAN’T-BE-MISSED COMEDY COMING UP AT MONTALVO

Broadway’s Next Hit Musical

Four Bitchin’ Babes

Despite the presence of a major midsize comedy club, plenty of open mics and a vast, diverse population of prospective audience members to draw from, the South Bay has long had a reputation as flyover country for standup. But San Jose’s seeing something of a comedy revival thanks to a crop of young performers who’ve been carving a space between bar mics and big clubs. Case in point: Super Stacked, a twice-monthly showcase that routinely draws an audience of about 100, give or take, to a woodshop on Lincoln Avenue for a night of free comedy. Produced by comedians Ryan Sudhakaran, Grayson Garcia, Tyler Stannard and Austin Baylock, the show kickstarted a trend of curated comedy outside the usual venues. If you’ve never been, catch the next one this weekend. Grab a beer to go at Hapa’s Brewing Company, then walk a few doors down for the 6pm show at Studio by Terra Amico for a lineup that features the producers themselves. To stay in the loop about future shows, follow them on Facebook and IG @SuperStacked.

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!

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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

A group of master improvisers gather made-up song suggestions from the audience and create a spontaneous evening of music and laughter.

BLUE MAX 828 W El Camino, Sunnyvale

BLUE PHEASANT 22100 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

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4475 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara

NORMANDY HOUSE 30 Washington St, Santa Clara

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162 Jackson St, San Jose

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THE CARAVAN 78 E Santa Clara Ave, San Jose

15400 MONTALVO RD, SARATOGA, CA 95070

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BEST KING OF THE STAGE

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DONNY MIRASSOU

FREMONT & MILPITAS BEST HAPPY HOUR

TEQUILA SHOTS BAR & GRILL

38 N Main St, Milpitas

BEST DIVE BAR COACH’S

COACH’S

40968 Fremont Blvd, Fremont

TEQUILA SHOTS

JACK’S BREWING CO.

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THE FLORENCE 37349 Niles Blvd, Fremont

THANK YOU, F O R YO U R C O N T I N U E D S U P P O R T A N D L OYA LT Y

XO B I G S BY H O U S E

Ash Miller

While drag kings have a long, rich history, they’ve never quite received the kind of broader recognition enjoyed by their femme counterparts, who feature into the latter-day pop cultural landscape thanks to shows like RuPaul’s Drag Race. Jean Batt, who spent the better part of her/ his/their life bending the rules of masculinity by way of the darkly debonair onstage persona Donny Mirassou, is part of a growing number of performers hoping to change that. The South Bay artist began experimenting with the art as a preteen tomboy to explore her masculine traits before going on to master impersonations of male rock stars as a student at a parochial all-girls high school, where Batt was cast as a boy in plays. Over the ensuing decades, Batt’s sense of self has increasingly intertwined with Mirassou’s. “We have blended,” Batt reflects. “Similar aesthetics, tastes in music, style, nerdiness and cosplay—even his sexuality has blended with mine. I used to play him as a straight man, but he so isn’t anymore.” The flamboyantly male alter-ego has helped Batt come to terms with their own body, inspiring their foray into burlesque and their incorporating into the act other aspects of their identity as a goth, furry and kinkster. “He has given me a lot more confidence in myself in a lot of ways,” Batt says. “But the one thing he helped me do is deal with my gender issues head-on and to come out.” Batt-as-Mirassou has taken their singularly multifaceted act to stages throughout the nation, from the Circus of Sin at San Jose’s Caravan to the Stud Bar in San Francisco, where on April 13 you can celebrate his 30-year drag-iversary with a host of other fans.

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OVERALL BEST BICYCLE SHOP GOOD KARMA BIKES

460 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

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BICYCLE EXPRESS 131 E William St, San Jose

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2100 Winchester Blvd, Campbell

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HOUSE OF THUNDER

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BLACK AND BROWN

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OUR SECRET 1115 Minnesota Ave, San Jose

BEST VINTAGE CLOTHING SHOP MOON ZOOOM

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1667 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

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2123 S 10th St, San Jose

BAY AREA K9 ASSOCIATION 1089 Memorex Dr, Santa Clara

A DOG’S LIFE 885 Commercial St, Palo Alto

BEST ART SUPPLY STORE UNIVERSITY ART

2550 El Camino Real, Redwood City

THE ARSENAL 208 Jackson St, San Jose

ACCENT ARTS 421 Jacaranda Ln, Palo Alto

BEST RECORD STOREREGIONAL RASPUTIN

1820 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

STREETLIGHT RECORDS 980 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

NEEDLE TO THE GROOVE San Jose & Fremont

GOOD KARMA BIKES

BEST OUTDOOR GEAR — INDEPENDENT

BEST INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE BEST JEWELRY STORE JOE ESCOBAR DIAMONDS

BEST WEDDING VENUE GRANDVIEW RESTAURANT

STEVENS CREEK SURPLUS

450 E Hamilton Ave, Campbell

3449 Stevens Creek Blvd, San Jose

VARDY’S JEWELERS

CLOS LA CHANCE WINERY

HELM OF SUN VALLEY

10227 S De Anza Blvd, Cupertino

1 Hummingbird Lane, San Martin

1111 Saratoga Ave, San Jose

TEEL’S JEWELRY

REDWOOD CITY TRADING POST 1455 Veterans Blvd, Redwood City

BEST LINGERIE STORE CUPID’S CORNER

408 Blossom Hill Rd, San Jose

ROMANTIQUES 51 University Ave, Los Gatos

PLEASURES FROM THE HEART 1565 Winchester Blvd, Campbell

16006 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos

BEST BRIDAL SHOP TRUDYS BRIDES

15005 Mt Hamilton Rd, Mt Hamilton

THE ANALOG ROOM 3185 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

THE RECORD MAN 1322 El Camino Real, Redwood City

NESTLDOWN 22420 Old Santa Cruz Highway, Los Gatos

BEST PET STORE ANDY’S PET SHOP

1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

51 Notre Dame Ave, San Jose

JUST MY SIZE

AN-JAN FEED & PET SUPPLY

2395 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

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ELEGANT LACE BRIDAL

SAM’S DOWNTOWN FEED & PET SUPPLY

1061 Blossom Hill Rd, San Jose

ON THE CORNER

530 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

759 W San Carlos St, San Jose

HALL OF CLASSIC CAR FAME WASH WINNER

BEST CAR WASH DETAILING

Life is always better in a clean car. And when you can get that car cleaned by passing it through the belly of a Mississippi riverboat replica, well… that’s just magical. The Delta Queen in Campbell is just one of the four Classic Car Wash locations in the South Bay, but it’s definitely the most fun.

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BEST WAY TO KILL A HANGOVER THE (SEMI) HEALTHY WAY

BEER YOGA

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Downward Drinking Dog The hair of the dog is certainly effective, but boy is it dangerous. And not just for your liver. Brunch mimosas and bloody Mary’s have a way of snowballing into the kind of epic day-drinking marathon that can swallow an entire Saturday, ruin any chance of productivity on Sunday and send you into the work week on your back foot. How about a compromise? Drag yourself out of bed at a reasonable hour, grab your yoga mat and head to a (slightly) boozy yoga class. This May, Downward Drinking Dog hosts an entire month of Saturday classes at Hotel Nia in Menlo Park. Tickets include a 60-minute yogic flow led by one of DDD’s expert instructors and a glass of champagne. Downward Drinking Dog isn’t the only game in town when it comes to sudsy sun salutations. Camino Brewing, Hapa’s, Santa Clara Valley Brewing and other local taprooms have been known to host their own yoga events.

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goods & services readers’ choice BEST TOY STORE THE WOODEN HORSE

796 Blossom Hill Rd, Los Gatos

AFFORDABLE TREASURES

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BEST INDEPENDENT HARDWARE STORE HASSETT HARDWARE

2253 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

15795 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos

DALE HARDWARE

LAKESHORE LEARNING STORE

3700 Thornton Ave, Fremont

1099 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

110 S Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

BEST SKATE SHOP NC BOARDSHOP

16203 Los Gatos Blvd, Los Gatos

SKATEWORKS

DALE HARDWARE

BEST GARDEN STORE YAMAGAMI’S NURSERY

1361 S De Anza Blvd, Cupertino

379 State St, Los Altos

ALMADEN VALLEY NURSERY

CIRCLE A

15800 Almaden Expy, San Jose

108 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose

GOD’S LITTLE ACRE NURSERY

BEST INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE HICKLEBEE’S

19810 Almaden Rd, San Jose

BEST FLOWER SHOP BLOOMSTER’S

1378 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

5945 Almaden Expy, San Jose

KEPLER’S BOOKS 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park

BUNCHES

EAST WEST BOOKSHOP

14 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

324 Castro St, Mountain View

APIS FLORAL 460 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

BEST PLACE TO SHOP FOR CLASSY MAN CAVE DECÓR

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BEST COMICS STORE HEROES COMIC BOOKS

BEST HYDROPONIC STORE

MANTIQUES

24 E Campbell Ave, Campbell

37671 Niles Blvd, Fremont

176 S Main St, Milpitas

1999 Monterey Hwy, San Jose

ILLUSIVE COMICS & GAMES

THE GROWBIZ

Those who have had the pleasure of visiting Niles might very well describe it as quaint. Before it was incorporated into the sprawling suburbia that is Fremont, Niles was known as a train town and home to a film production house by the name of Essanay Studios. Charlie Chaplin shot a number of films in and around the town in the early days of the 20th century, before Hollywood became the film capital of the world. These days, the main drag in Niles is perhaps best known as an antiquer’s paradise. It’s a great place to pick up stained glass lampshades, porcelain dolls and solid oak furniture. But for those whose aesthetic skews toward neon beer signs, bobble heads and vintage comic books, there is Mantiques. Classic action figures, lava lamps and a bust of Darth Vader are just a few of the items one might here.

BLACK CAT COMICS

1270 Franklin Mall, Santa Clara

SAN JOSE HYDROPONICS 1185 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

RASA HYDROPONICS & ORGANICS

CITTI’S FLORIST

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BEST FLOWER SHOP They say it’s the thought that counts. And yeah, that’s true. But even if mom, grandma or your beloved can’t tell the difference, you’ll still know if you picked up that bouquet from Safeway. Spread the love beyond your loved ones by supporting the family-owned Citti’s, who have been serving the South Bay for more than 50 years.

5725 Winfield Blvd, San Jose

BEST PILATES STUDIO MISHA PATEL STUDIO

750 Miller St, San Jose

LOS GATOS BALLET & PILATES 630 University Ave, Los Gatos

ADDISON-PENZAK JCC OF SILICON VALLEY 14855 Oka Rd, Los Gatos

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San Jose & San Carlos

PLANNED PARENTHOOD Mountain View, Redwood City, San Jose

13TH ST. CAT RESCUE San Jose

BEST LUXURY OR BOUTIQUE HOTEL HOTEL DE ANZA

233 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

HOTEL LOS GATOS 210 E Main St, Los Gatos

HOTEL VALENCIA 355 Santana Row, San Jose

BEST PLASTIC SURGEON/ BEAUTIFICATION DR. CRAIG CREASMAN

SLABSIDES

2400 Samaritan Dr, San Jose

REJUVENIS SKINCARE 478 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

BEST YOGA STUDIO BIKRAM YOGA SAN JOSE

BEST HEALTH CLUB ADDISON-PENZAK

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

BEST DENTIST

R. LAURENCE BERKOWITZ, MD 3803 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

WILLOW GLEN DENTISTRY

Westgate West, 5289 Prospect Rd, San Jose

14855 Oka Rd, Los Gatos

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2342 Walsh Ave, Santa Clara

14107-H Winchester Blvd, Los Gatos

San Jose & Saratoga

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Fremont, Mountain View, San Jose & Sunnyvale

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355 Santana Row, San Jose

3475 Woodward Ave, Santa Clara

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ERNIE REYES WEST COAST MARTIAL ARTS

165 Channing Ave, Palo Alto

140 San Tomas Aquino Rd, Campbell

100 S Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

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THE SPA - LOS GATOS

1245 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

DR. STEPHANIE LOLLER

100 W El Camino Real, Mountain View

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San Jose - Two Locations

FRANK DE BARBER 134 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

RECYCLE BOOKSTORE

BEST INDEPENDENT BOOK STORE

HALL OF

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There’s a reason so many old-timey ex libris bookplates feature an etching of a cat. A purring kitty and a good book just work so well together. Recycle Bookstore is known for its steadfast dedication to the printed word and for the regal cats that are gracious enough to allow their human tenants a place to keep and sell their many bound volumes.

BEDLAM BEAUTY & BARBER 200 S First St, San Jose

BEST GENTLEMEN’S CLUB PINK POODLE

328 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

CHEETAHS 907 E Arques Ave, Sunnyvale

SPEARMINT RHINO 81 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

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Public hearing notice

Fiscal Year 2019/2020 Groundwater Production and Surface Water Charges

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Topic:

Fiscal Year 2019/2020 Groundwater Production and Surface Water Charges

Who:

Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) Board of Directors

What:

Public hearings on proposed fiscal year 2019/2020 Groundwater Production and Surface Water Charges

When:

April 9, 2019 at 1 p.m. – open public hearing April 11, 2019 at 6 p.m. – open house in South County 7 p.m. – continued public hearing in South County April 23, 2019 at 6 p.m. – close public hearing

Where: April 9 and April 23, 2019 Valley Water Board Room 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118

HOTEL DE ANZA

April 11, 2019 Morgan Hill City Council Chambers 17555 Peak Ave., Morgan Hill, CA 95037

Valley Water has prepared an annual report on the Protection and Augmentation of Water Supplies documenting financial and water supply information, which provides the basis for recommended groundwater production and surface water charges for fiscal year 2019/2020.

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The report includes financial analyses of Valley Water’s water utility system; supply and demand forecasts; future capital improvement, maintenance and operating requirements; and methods to finance such requirements.

982 The Alameda, San Jose

Valley Water will hold a public hearing to obtain public comments on the report, which will be available at the hearing.

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Based upon findings and determinations made at the public hearing, including the results of any protest procedure, the Valley Water Board of Directors will decide whether or not groundwater production and surface water charges should be increased, and if so, to what level, in each charge zone or zones for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019.

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All operators of water-producing facilities within the water district or any person interested in Valley Water’s activities with regard to protection and augmentation of the water supply may appear, in person or by representative, and submit comments regarding the subject.

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For more information on the public hearing, please visit our website at www.valleywater.org, or contact Anthony Mendiola at (408) 630-2437.

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Reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate persons with disabilities wishing to attend this public hearing. For additional information on attending this hearing, including requesting accommodations for disabilities or interpreter assistance, please contact the Office of the Clerk of the Board at (408) 630-2277, at least three business days prior to the hearing.

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PICK COMMUNITY CYCLES OF CALIFORNIA 35 Wilson Ave, San Jose Like Good Karma Bikes, the full-service bike shop that reinvests revenue to train young adults aging out of the foster care system, Community Cycles of California has a higher calling. The brainchild of Good Karma alumna Cindy Ahola and Collin Bruce, Community Cycles is both a bike shop and publicbenefit enterprise. After a year offering fix-it services at the Rose Garden Farmers Market, the pair opened their retail spot last month behind Babe’s Muffler’s on The Alameda. The goal is to build up enough support to offer small-business training for the chronically underemployed by 2020, and to launch service centers at low-income housing complexes where bicycles are often residents’ only mode of transportation.

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Berkeley and San Francisco often get all the accolades when it comes to live theater in the Bay Area, but when Robert Kelley, the founding artistic director of TheatreWorks Silicon Valley announced he would retire at the end of his company’s 50th anniversary season, even The New York Times took notice. It’s little wonder, the organization’s annual New Works Festival has birthed numerous internationally acclaimed plays.

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CELLULOID DREAMS 90.5 KSJS-FM, Mondays 5pm

Twenty-three years after they began programming at SJSU’s radio station, the cabal of Peter Canavese, Larry Jakubecz, Dennis Kwiatkowski and Tim Sika continue to provide thoughtful yet vivid commentary on the film scene. They’ve given help to innumerable local filmmakers. The collaborators have interviewed scads of directors and stars on the air, including Brie Larson, Julie Andrews, Martin Sheen and Francis Ford Coppola. Canavese (of the website grouchoreviews.com) provides learned commentary on the side. If you can’t pick up something about the state of the art, its history, the culture and the technique of film from Celluloid Dreams, you simply aren’t listening.

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SCHOOL OF VISUAL PHILOSOPHY 1065 The Alameda, San Jose In an ecosystem where new and shiny products are constantly hatching with zippy and expensively conceived monikers like Fitbit or Slack, a name like the School of Visual Philosophy falls on the ear as positively 19th-century. And yet, the SVP fits as snugly into 2019 as any other Silicon Valley startup. It’s a bit like a WeWork for artists. The school rents out 32 small studios to painters, printmakers, sculptors and other visual artists, as well as larger spaces to a couple of small companies. And perhaps most aspirationally, the SVP is a school that provides instruction in a number of decidedly old-school art forms such as woodworking, bronze casting, painting and printmaking. And even in the midst of the world's most prominent high-tech corridor, this new arts school is offering training in a technology that can be traced back to the iron age: blacksmithing. Yori and Dana Seeger, the husband-and-wife duo who run the School of Visual Philosophy, have built a place not just for skilled artists (the talented folks who rent studio spaces)—but for those who want to create something away from their keyboards and glowing monitors and put their backs into a passion project. Many enrolled in their analog classes have day jobs as engineers, and one of the school’s most popular draws is its bladesmithing class.

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Some may think of quilting as a pastime for grandmothers and old maids. Those people have it all wrong. Since 1977, the SJMQT—the first museum of its kind in the country—has proven again and again that fabric can be just as shocking and avant garde a medium as any other.

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PSYCHOTRONIX FILM FESTIVAL 7pm March 30, Room 5015, Foothill College Oh, to be a chrononaut… to explore different time realms, punch dinosaurs and save Ol’ Honest Abe. (“Don’t go to Ford’s Theater tonight, Mr. President—I saw Our American Cousin already, and it stinks!” “Tarnation, Mrs. Lincoln loves John Wilkes Booth. She’ll be mad.” “Indeed she will, but that’s another story!”). Sadly, time travel and universeending paradoxes are still relegated to the realm of science fiction. However, anyone seeking to burrow into the past can show up for the semi-annual Psychotronix Film Festival at Foothill College. The next one is slated for March 30, when KFJC’s Robert Emmett hosts “The vinyl of video”—evocative 16mm reels capturing the matchless strangeness of yore in now-forbidden commercials, primordial music videos featuring long dead sex kittens, and other strange beguilements that the citizens of the past once enjoyed. Don’t judge them too harshly, and try not to step on any butterflies this time.

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TERMINATOR SALVATION

Century 20, Oakridge, 925 Blossom Hill Rd, San Jose Downtown L.A., which used to have a reputation for flophouses and wino bars, is really coming along, with museums, chic high-end restaurants, hotels and an army of metal murder machines with red-eyed chrome skulls for faces. Terminator Salvation: Fight for the Future takes you—via a VR headset and motion sensing accessories—on a time- and spacebreaching journey to the City of Angels, sometime after Skynet became self-aware and took care of the cluttering meatbag humans who were failing to spark joy. After getting suited up and going through a fiveminute drill, you and as many as three companions are temporarily disguised as killer droids, the better to infiltrate a hive of these cybernet demons. In between blasting the monsters to pieces, be sure to take in the many sights, including half-blown up buildings, tottering water towers and bullet riddled cars. You’ll see why people say, “I Love L.A.!”

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3BELOW THEATERS & LOUNGE 288 S 2nd St, San Jose

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40 N 1st St, San Jose After Silicon Valley Ballet threw in the tutu in the summer of 2016, Dalia Rawson, director of the ballet’s training school, didn’t despair. She saw an opportunity. Pulling together a team culled from the ashes of SV Ballet, she launched a new professional ballet training program with a focus on dancer health and child development. The New Ballet School was born. Since then, Rawson has grown the school and through the organization’s Studio Company, she’s worked to bring ballet into the 21st century. Her experiments have included beginning productions with tutorials that catch the audience up on the visual language of ballet, and providing a digital accompaniment—a livecast—to performances, which allows patrons to listen to real-time commentary about the performance they are watching on their personal handsets.

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San Jose’s only regularly scheduled downtown theater features some seriously downtown programming. Take, for instance, the new documentary on Robert Mapplethorpe currently screening, or the upcoming punk rock-based drama, Her Smell, with the amazing Elisabeth Moss, who went all the way into David Lynch-like horror in Us. Coming soon is Molly Shannon’s take on the life and secret love of Emily Dickinson. 3Below’s brave picks have so far included the morbid, but in a good way, To Dust and the searing Lebanese drama Capernaum. 3Below is what an independent cinema ought to be. It’s risky, eclectic and surprising.

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ALL EARS Disney’s ‘Dumbo’ is impeccably art-directed, but hectic and starchy.

Trunk Sale Though the live-action ‘Dumbo’ has its moments, it can’t top the original BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

SIDE FROM SOME gross racial caricaturing; the original Dumbo (1941) is an unusually hand-made cartoon. Here in 64 minutes is not just the elephant child’s tragedy at being separated from its mother, but the sweat and stink of a circus, and a squad of clowns who are dangerous and really know their business. In the magnificent “Pink Elephants

on Parade” sequence, the animators went after the pretensions of Fantasia, with strobing color and surrealism. It’s the rare instance of Disney being as funny as a Bugs Bunny cartoon. The live action version is, by contrast, cluttered and starchy, and not about to make risky jokes about drunk animals. In 1919, trick rider Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell, appealing) comes back from WWI missing an arm. He returns to a battered circus run by Max Medici (Danny Devito). His late wife left behind their two kids: young Joe (Finley Hobbins)

and Millie (Nico Parker, Thandie Newton’s daughter). Parker does her lines in a clipped, precocious Wednesday Addams diction—she’s a science geek with little interest in circuses. They are there to be kids in a family movie that doesn’t have a lot of interest in the kids’ characters The down-and-out circus is saved by the birth of an elephant with freakishly big ears… who can fly. The wondrous beast attracts the attention of a tycoon (Michael Keaton) who owns a Coney Island-style park; he brings with him the French aerialist Collette (Eva Green), who is by a mile Dumbo’s most redeeming quality. Green excels at the New Vaudeville look, leggy, glittery costumes, with bobbed hair and a ceramic-hard mask of charm: the chosen face of a performer meant to be seen from 50 feet away. She’s not intimidated by the soaring pachyderm: “I know how to fly, ever since my childhood.” It was an inspiration to give Dumbo a partner, someone to calm the creature. A satisfying moment after a

tumble from the heights into the net. The elephant and the lady bounce into a cozy position, like a couple greeting guests from a couch. Dumbo himself, rendered into a living elephant with glassy eyes, sometimes shows how dark the film could have gone, as when he’s crouched in the shadows in his Pagliacci make up. Dumbo is a three ring circus that needs ring mastering; director Tim Burton’s preference for atmosphere over lucid storytelling means that it’s hectic; the circus folk are given a quick display and then they’re mislaid by the plot. This film isn’t Burton’s worst—that’s Dark Shadows—but it plays more like Spielberg doing kid-fodder with the help of Burton as production designer. The movie is a white elephant.

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MADE WITH LOVE Achilles has found success with delicious, Instagram-ready falafel, savory Halal meat and a can-do attitude.

Heart & Soul Santa Clara falafel spot Achilles nabs top spot on Yelp’s 100 best list BY JOHN DYKE

HE PHONE RINGS at 4am. Diaa Altali answers, half-asleep, worried something is wrong. The voice on the other end of the line belongs to his friend and business partner, Elias Stanton, who can barely contain himself.

“Heart-shaped falafel,” he declares. “We’re gonna do a heart-shaped falafel.” After sleepily chastising Stanton for waking him up at such an ungodly hour, he hangs up. For a time he closes his eyes, trying to catch a few more hours of rest before the day begins, but the idea continues to bounce around in his head. With a

start, he springs from his bed and calls Stanton back. “Oh, my God—let’s do it!” This witching hour revelation came to Altali as he and Stanton were in the midst of opening their first restaurant, Achilles. It was to feature Mediterranean rice plates, wraps and pocket sandwiches, custom built for each customer on an assembly line. In the runup to their grand opening, the two were concerned that their venture would share the fate of the restaurant they were replacing. The similarly themed Kabob House Halal had failed in the same location. They needed more than a little luck. They needed a hook. Inspiration is a funny thing. Looking back, Stanton can’t say

where the idea came from. “I was looking for something different,” he says. “And when I need to make a decision, I cannot sleep. But that’s how I usually find what I want.” Stanton’s inspired vision has undoubtedly helped draw patrons. Their restaurant has a strong social media presence, due in no small part to its made-for-Instagram offerings. But Achilles’ popularity cannot be attributed solely to the photogenic falafel. They’ve also succeeded in winning over some of the most fussy eaters on the planet: Yelpers. In less than a year, they’ve garnered more than 700 reviews—the bulk overwhelmingly positive—and currently boast a five-star rating on the foodie social network. That’s earned Achilles the No. 9 spot on Yelp’s list of the top-100 restaurants in America. They were the only South Bay restaurant to make the cut, and one of only two in the entire Bay Area to appear on the list at all. While Achillies found success quickly, it wasn’t easy. As Altali observes, their location—in an unremarkable strip mall, in a residential area, next to a nail salon, laundromat and a liquor store—isn’t ideal for pulling in customers off the street.

But Stanton has spent over five years working in restaurants in the U.S., and some time investing in eateries in the Middle East. He knew that if the food was good, people would find them. The first step was securing highquality meats. They began by ensuring all of their protein offerings were certified Halal. Next, the partners sought to perfect their falafel, both aesthetically and culinarily. The humble falafel is a staple in Middle Eastern cuisine. And though it may seem simple—an amalgam of ground chickpeas, herbs and spices— it is easy screw up. Done wrong, it is a soggy, bland lump. Done right, it is crispy and bursting with flavor. Stanton spent a little more than a month tinkering with his recipe, adding a bit of cumin here, pulling back on the onion there. The result is sturdy, crisp exterior that's bursting with fresh parsley, coriander and the earthy goodness of the chickpeas themselves. Then came the custom-made, heart-shaped falafel. Each ball of falafel must be packed by hand, which is more challenging than it looks. Stanton says the skill takes some employees two or three weeks to master. Some Yelp reviewers have attributed the crispy shell and moist interior of the falafel directly to the shape. There are more than a few convoluted theories about the extra surface area adding to the crunch. But Stanton has a different theory. Each heart-shaped morsel is fried to order in a vat of oil dedicated solely to Achilles’ falafel. Stanton and Altali also change the oil in the fryer once every two days to keep the oil fresh and free of adulterants. Near the end of my visit with Stanton and Altali, I ask how the two found out about making Yelp’s honor roll, and Altali begins to chuckle. “Funny story,” he says with a smirk. “At first we thought it was a prank and I hung up, but then they called us back and we were able to confirm that it was the real thing.” You never know when a phone call might change your life.

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Thru Apr 4 Lacey Bryant, San Jose Locals will recognize the work of artist Lacey Bryant in the sprawling mural covering the west-facing wall of Recycle Bookstore on The Alameda. Choose Your Own Adventure depicts a line of joyous children taking flight on their bicycles. Her new Slow Tarot project met its Kickstarter goal within hours of launching and has since exceeded its initial ask by a hundredfold. She’ll use the money to print a 78-card tarot deck featuring images culled from years of her signature and surreal portraiture. The set includes many familiar San Jose faces and aims to inspire reflection and contemplation. The Kickstarter runs through April 4. (MS)

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YE OLDE DESTRUCTION Thu, 9pm, $10 The Ritz, San Jose

Um Yeah Arts presents a screening of Thomas Campbell’s newest skateboarding movie. Self-funded and shot mostly on 16mm film, Ye Old Destruction focuses on the DIY ethos of skating and features a number of guerrilla skate parks, abandoned pools and two vintage cars—a Cadillac and Ford station wagon, which serve as transportation and obstacles to be shredded. Campbell is known for A Love Supreme, his artsy, John Coltrane-soundtracked film shot in 1995 for the now ultrahip company Supreme. It’s about how much fun you can have getting together and making your own scene. Veteran skater and musician Tommy Guerrero performs live. (CJ)

JOE LIST Thu, 8pm, $16+ Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale Many will be familiar with New York-based stand-up comedian Joe List from his set on season two of the Netflix original series The Standups, as well as spots on Conan and Letterman. He’s also got a podcast called Tuesdays with Stories, which he co-hosts with fellow comedian Mark Normand. Diehard fans will know his albums So Far No Good and Are You Mad at Me? or perhaps for his YouTube series, “The Ultimate Worrier,” which has him donning dayglow facepaint and arm tassels like a ’90s pro wrestler and fretting over everything from the size of his hands to the health consequences of drinking too much coffee. List performs through Sunday. (CJ)

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NESSIE THE GREAT STAR WARS Fri, 9pm, Free SYMPHONY Willow Den Public House, San Jose Of all the punching bags available to snarky music critics, the suburban American reggae band is arguably the most battered. But to summarily slam Sublime and their ilk misses two critical points. First, these are all just passionate musicians inspired by the truly inspiring music of Bob Marley, Toots Hibbert, Desmond Decker and so many others. Second, as is the case with San Jose-based Nessie the Great, it’s just fun. I mean, they’ve got a song dedicated to their 1992 Toyota Previa minivan, a vehicle that frontman and guitarist Carson Lewis praises for shuttling him and his crew to Santa Cruz. (MS)

Fri, 7:30pm, $50+ San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose

Space opera junkies rejoice! Symphony Silicon Valley’s ongoing Movies in Concert series presents Star Wars: A New Hope. Watch Han shoot first on the big screen and feel the force of a full orchestra perform John Williams’ legendary Oscar-winning score, led by Jeffrey Schindler. With a résumé long enough to make Bach blush, Schindler boasts more than 250 production credits and is a skilled conductor, orchestrator, arranger, maestro and an organist and harpsichordist to boot. The symphony will give four shows over the weekend, so grab a ticket or go hang with the rest of the nerf herders. (CJ)

* concerts Mar 27 at The Ritz

YE OLDE DESTRUCTION

DWARVES Apr 6 at The Ritz

P!NK Apr 17 at SAP Center

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

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BEER ON THE RAILS SPRAIN Sat, 1pm, $50+ Niles Canyon Railway, Fremont

Sun, 8pm, $5 San Jose Peace & Justice Center

Grab your conductor’s hat and get ready to sip suds 19thcentury style—on a chugging locomotive winding its way through picturesque Niles Canyon. Beer on the Rails will serve up adult sodas by a number of Bay Area brewers along with Polish sausage sandwiches, coleslaw and potato salad. The trip lasts two hours and runs along some of the oldest tracks in the Transcontinental Railway system. First laid in the 1860s, the Niles Canyon Railway was some of the earliest rail in California and created the first train connection between the San Francisco Bay Area and the rest of the United States. (CJ)

Slowcore darlings Sprain play with Eastern Westerner and Eve’s Peach, in a concert hosted by The Come Up, a San Jose DIY collective that’s been making a lot of noise on the local scene of late. Come watch “the doom band that decided to play clean,” led by April Gerloff and Alex Kent, as they wind down their tour of the Pacific Northwest . The mostly quiet L.A. indie band made waves with their eponymous EP in August. Sprain crafts the kind of luscious lo-fi music perfect for staring at walls, crying or standing with your hands in your pockets nodding thoughtfully. The suggested donation is $5. (CJ)

THE ROLLING STONES May 18 at Levi’s Stadium

KALI UCHIS & JORJA SMITH May 18 at Frost Amphitheatre

A PARIS LOVE STORY ADIOS MAMA Wed, 8pm, $40+ CARLOTA Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

TheatreWorks Silicon Valley presents the latest installment in piano virtuoso Hershey Felder’s “Great Composer Series.” Felder has given more than 5,000 performances over the last two decades, portraying the likes of Beethoven, Gershwin and Tchaikovsky. He now sets his sights on the work of French impressionist composer Claude Debussy and the city of light, mixing the story of Debussy’s life with his own personal Parisian history. Directed by Trevor Hay, who has worked with Felder on many of his past performances as well as on Broadway, the production will run through May 5. (CJ)

Wed, 7:30pm, $32+ San Jose Stage Company

Luis Valdez, the iconic Chicano playwright and director behind Zoot Suit, La Bamba and El Teatro Campesino, stages the world premiere of his latest work, Adios Mama Carlota, The Empress of Mexico. Empress Carlota— daughter of King Leopold I, King of the Belgians—inherited her title after marrying Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (later executed in the country Napoleon III had entrusted him to rule). The play is narrated by Carlota, 60 years after she fled Mexico to Europe in a failed attempt to save her husband’s crown and his life. The production runs through April 28. (MS)

SHE WANTS REVENGE May 18 at The Ritz

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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A DAY’S WORK ‘Lunch Break’ by Warren Chang, oil on canvas, is one of the paintings on display at his ‘Voices of the Fields’ exhibit at NUMU.

In The Field Warren Chang combines real life scenes, models in his farm worker portraits BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

ARREN CHANG’S paintings of Salinas Valley fieldworkers are at odds with Robert Frost’s line of poetry, “Nothing gold can stay.” California sunshine warms every one of the canvases in his exhibit “Voice of the Fields” (at NUMU through June 16). That gold, even when it’s mixed with cloud cover, suffuses the skyline. The beatific color suspends the workers outside of time and also fixes them in a specific place as they dig in the soil or harvest crops. Part of the effect comes from the artist’s use of raw umber. Discussing his process, Chang explains, “I paint in what’s described as chiaroscuro,

which is extreme light and dark.” His use of shadowing is painted with that raw umber, he says, “to help unify the entire picture, especially when you're painting large groupings of figures like I do.” When you look at several of these paintings together, the proliferation of dull, vivid or muddied gold implies if not something saintly about the fieldworkers, then the extent of their spiritual toil. No one wears a halo exactly, but even from a careful distance Chang repeats the luminousness behind them in every frame. In Flower Girl, he paints a young woman, not much more than a child, holding bouquets of flowers on the side of the road. Her eyes are halfclosed from fatigue or from squinting into the sun. Her mouth is stuck

halfway between a smile and a frown. What moves the scene away from photojournalism is her white hoodie. It alters her appearance. She looks like a modern girl in it and yet, at the same time, like a novitiate who’s handing out flowers to passersby, pilgrims on their way to a religious offering. In terms of the subject matter, the curators of “Voice of the Fields” compare this body of work to paintings like JeanFrançois Millet’s The Gleaners. Chang, a Monterey native, says he started to think about painting field workers when he was working as a freelance illustrator in New York. His biggest problem back then was not how to paint but what to paint. At the time, everything he painted was based on live models and not photographs. But when he thought about approaching the subject, before he returned to California, he found historical precedents in and took inspiration from Pieter Bruegel’s 16th-century peasants, the 19th-century naturalist movement in France and American painters like Winslow Homer and Thomas Hart Benton. Chang says that these influences, along with John Steinbeck’s stories and Chang’s familiarity with the area, all combined to make a perfect subject for him.

Chang’s process now does include photography, but his paintings aren’t reproductions of digital imagery. When he finds a subject that is pictorial—for example, people picking onions on the ground—the photograph he’ll have taken may not contain the right amount of information. In that case, he’ll hire a model, dress them up as a fieldworker and pose them. “I’m able to create the picture entirely from scratch,” he says. Another painting in the exhibit, Harvesters Resting, features studentmodels posing in his classroom that he arranged. “The fieldworkers in the background are actual, real fieldworkers, but not the ones in the foreground. I manufactured that.” Sometimes, he says, the men and women in the fields don’t want to be photographed. And it’s likely that most of them will never see his paintings. But back in 2015 when he had an exhibit at the Monterey Museum of Art, a teacher brought her classroom of 10-year-olds to see it. Their parents were all field laborers, and they joined the children on this field trip. “I was a little nervous because I was wondering how they'd react to it,” he says. “But they just loved the paintings. Their feeling was that my paintings represented exactly what it feels like to be out there.” They started to tell him stories of their experiences and the hardships they endured. “It was just surprising that they confided in me, as if I was somebody worth inviting in.” Chang hopes that “people will understand and relate to what my paintings are about in regard to emotions and feelings.” The fieldworkers, for him, represent “a more universal human experience. They are experiencing life on all sides, struggling to take care of their families.” He didn’t start painting fieldworkers as a political statement or provocation, but in the process of doing so he’s become more informed. “I understand a lot more than I did when I initially started,” he says. Chang will lead a discussion and a tour of his work at NUMU on April 7, 2-3pm.

THRU JUNE

WARREN CHANG: VOICE OF THE FIELDS NUMU, Los Gatos numulosgatos.org

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck, adapted for the stage by Frank Galati directed by Jeffrey Lo

APRIL 11-MAY 5, 2019 losaltosstage.org

(650) 941-0551

97 Hillview Ave. Los Altos, CA 94022

AWARD-WINNING COMEDY

THE 39 STEPS

1950s MUSICAL REVUE DEC 6 – 22, 2019

SOUTH BAY PREMIERE

THE TIN WOMAN POIGNANT MUSICAL COMEDY

BABY

APR 17 – MAY 10, 2020

SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE MYSTERY OF THE CROWN JEWEL

OCT 25 – NOV 17, 2019

WEST COAST PREMIERE MUSICAL

MAR 13 – APR 5, 2020

FEB 7 – MAR 1, 2020

SEP 13 - OCT 6, 2019

Join us for 4 Musicals, 2 Plays & More! A TAFFETA CHRISTMAS

408-679-2330 www.TabardTheatre.org New Beginnings. Tabard .

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TONY AWARD® WINNING MUSICAL

THE SECRET GARDEN

2019-2020 Season 29 N. San Pedro St. Downtown San Jose

CITY LIGHTS

MARCH 14 - APRIL 14, 2019

EURYDICE

by Sarah Ruhl MOTHERS AND SONS directed by Lisa Mallette by Terrence McNally

supported by producers Scott Ellis and Rich & Sally Braugh

directed by Jeffrey Bracco A bilingual English/American Sign Language production supported by Executive Producer Jim Lewis

Eurydice is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

Tix & info: cltc.org, 408-295-4200

529 South Second St., San Jose, CA 95112

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DOPPEL GANG A vacationing family is confronted by a crazed, bizarro version of themselves in ‘Us.’

Thrill Ride Jordan Peele has a bloody good time in Santa Cruz-shot ‘Us’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

REAK OUT YOUR decoder rings; the flawed but intriguing political subtleties of Us are hidden by its straightforward terror. Among other things, Jordan Peele’s follow up to Get Out breaks a long drought. Santa Cruz, with its deep cold bay and hoodooed mountains, ought to be the Transylvania of California.

Instead, it’s remembered for The Lost Boys, which is just The Goonies wearing plastic vampire fangs. There hasn’t been a good movie made there since Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988). Now the curse is lifted, even if much

of Us was shot in a lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. There’s a strange ride at the Beach Boardwalk that most visitors fail to notice. In 1986, young Adelaide slips away from her family and wanders into the Shaman’s Cave. Passing an old derelict holding up a cardboard sign with a particularly vicious Bible verse (Jeremiah 11:11), she enters. An electric owl calls her name. Amid the hall of mirrors and the painted images of redwoods, her identical double awaits. Somehow she survived. In our present, she (Lupita Nyong’o) is a calm, pretty mom married to a living dad-joke, Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke, of Black Panther). Two kids: one a monkey mask-loving naughty

little boy named Jason (Evan Alex); the elder, disdainful daughter Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph). They are as tight as the quartet of stick figures on the back window of their SUV. Sitcom horseplay lulls us, while the Gregorian Chant-like chorales of Michael Abels soundtrack keep us alert. There is a slight bit of friction when these four vacationers visit their friends at the beach—big drinkers Kitty (Elisabeth Moss) and Tim (Josh Tyler). The elder Wilsons have a friendship with them that’s more cordial than warm. The Shaman’s Cave is still on the beach 30 years later, with a new paint job. It’s Arthurian now instead of Native American. The doorway beckons young Jason.. That night, as the Wilsons go to bed, the power goes out. Standing in the driveway are four figures in red jumpsuits, smiling maliciously, armed with long sharp scissors. Each wears a driving glove on one hand, Michael Jackson style, perhaps to keep the blood from making their weapons slip. Jason’s monkeyish double is crouched on all fours. On his face is what the burn-ward doctors call a “TFO mask”—so you’ll

know what to ask for next Halloween. At some cost, the family gives their captors the slip. But they’re not the only ones being visited tonight. Home invasion terror isn’t always elegant, but it’s always effective. Peele is a genial shocker. Unlike most doorbusters, these hell creatures aren’t interested in sex. Comic relief settles in between never-too-horrible mayhem. Before the attack, Gabe lounges in plaid shorts, waiting for his wife in what he hopes is an alluring position. It’s both funny and tragic when Gabe gives a demonstration of what Dave Chappelle mocked as “keeping it real”—the cuddly man tries to act badass to scare off the intruders. We get answers: we learn the meaning of what we saw in the titles, a dim classroom above a towering panopticon of rabbit cages. But let’s avoid spoilage. Zombies are quite frightening—not so much the commonplace brain-gobblers, but the original Caribbean type. Take the dead/alive slaves grinding sugar cane under Bela Lugosi’s spell in White Zombie (1932), wretches who could have illustrated Baudelaire’s poem about the skeleton laborer. Daughter Zora’s likely namesake, the writer Zora Neale Hurston, wrote a book about these Haitian wraiths, Tell My Horse. Us’ suggestive title, which could be misread as “U.S.” and the red jumpsuits (MDGA: Make Doppelgangers Great Again) provide the easiest exit from this rabbit hole. But there’s trickier material in the questions of who bound these monsters. What will be the fate of a society divided between “influencers” and the influenced? One last twist and Us’ fabric comes apart—inevitable, but it fulfilled the horror movie tradition, that last chill. Deeper analysis of Us will be deserved. Wonder what Frantz Fanon would have made of it. In the meantime, there are rich, if not completely unanticipated shocks. Nyong’o is constantly startling with her display of terror and maternal wrath. As seen on Us’ sensational poster, Nyong’o is a master of the goggling horror-face, a look supposedly described in the theater world as “the skull.”

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THREE AMIGOS After nearly three decades together, the California Guitar Trio is as tightly knit a group as ever.

New Horizons California Guitar Trio rethinks the acoustic guitar with help from Robert Fripp BY BILL KOPP

COUSTIC GUITAR trios are nothing new. But in the hands of the musicians calling themselves the California Guitar Trio, the instrument is approached in a unique way, and the sounds created are subtly different.

Founded in 1991 by an international aggregation—Hideyo Moriya from Japan, Belgian musician Bert Lams and Salt Lake City-born Paul Richards—the California Guitar Trio has its roots in Guitar Craft, a course of study led by King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp. The unusual program was

as much personal development as musical theory. “Right from the beginning of the day, it was very different from what I had been doing at my university studies,” says Richards. “We would start the day doing a half-hour of a kind of meditation. Robert would lead us through bringing our intention through various parts of our body, to bring relaxation and improve our attention.” Guitar work focused more on technique than theory. The configuration of the instrumentalists was unique as well. Forming a circle, the guitarists would begin with a practice that Fripp called circulation. “Robert would give this instruction to play one

note,” Richard explains, “and pass your note to your person to your right. As the notes went around the circle, it created a kind of a group melody. It was up to us to learn to listen to what was happening with the whole group. Playing just the right note at just the right moment would compliment what was happening with the whole group.” It was at Guitar Craft where Richards, Moriya and Lams first met. Building on their shared studies, the three guitarists adopted Fripp’s New Standard Tuning—“more like a cello or violin, in fifths,” Richard explains—creating a signature sound that sets the trio apart from other acoustic ensembles. Sometimes the three instruments together sound more like zithers or harpsichords than acoustic guitars. Belying the almost supernatural musical simpatico between the trio’s members, the three men come from vastly different backgrounds. Anderson studied jazz in college. “I was basically a rock guitar player for all my early years,” he says. Lams’ foundation is in classical music, and Moriya brings both world music and surf guitar textures to the group. “That’s how it became so eclectic,” Anderson says with a laugh.

“When people ask me what kind of music we play, I usually start out by giving quite a vague response,” he says. Anderson begins by telling people that the trio plays instrumental acoustic guitar music, but explains that they don’t sound like other superficially similar acts. “Rodrigo y Gabriela have their own kind of Latin style; Tommy Emmanuel has his own fingerpicking, Chet Atkins style. Whereas we have [the influence of] Robert Fripp mixed with rock, jazz, blues, surf, traditional Japanese music and classical music with European sensibilities.” The California Guitar Trio has released more than 15 albums; like the group’s live shows, those releases often feature original compositions alongside inventive reworkings of material written by other artists. The trio applies a rigorous standard when approaching a song in the latter category. “It needs to bring something new so it’s not just a cover,” Richards says. By way of example, he mentions the trio’s instrumental reading of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the 1975 hit by Queen. Reinterpreting Freddie Mercury’s layered vocal harmonies and Brian May’s complex electric guitar parts presented a real challenge. “We present it in such a way that it makes sense musically,” Richards explains. “It’s become the unofficial sing-along piece at our shows; big Queen fans often will break out in singing during that piece.” The California Guitar Trio’s approach may be unique, but it meshes well with conventionally played instrumentation. Proving that point, the trio’s latest album, In a Landscape, is a collaboration with the standard-tuning based Montreal Guitar Trio. After 28 years, the trio remains a cohesive unit. “The music is the thing that, in the end, really keeps us going,” Richards says. “Hideyo, Bert and I are still friends and get along really well. We still enjoy playing music together, and we’ve always been very good at finding music that keeps things interesting. It’s a combination between the friendship and the music that keeps things exciting.”

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8pm $29

CALIFORNIA GUITAR TRIO Sunnyvale Community Center Theatre

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THU MAR 28 | BLACK & BROWN 14TH ANNIVERSARY AT THE CHANGING SAME Happy birthday, Black & Brown! This will be the best party in San Jose this week. This crew’s knowledge in fashion and music is boundless. Featuring the DJ skills of The CME, Shea Butter, Mark PlSTK & Chale Brown. 9pm. Continental Lounge, 347 S First St, San Jose

Pool Table Dart Boards Big Screens Drinks & Fun

Happy Hour Priced Drinks All Day Every Day 1126 Saratoga Ave, San Jose 408.296.9591

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FRI MAR 29 | THE WE FINNA GET LITTY OPEN MIC @ THE PUB Well played, elegant pub! San Jose needs a hip-hop-specific open mic. The importance of any open mic is twofold. It shows the region that a performer exists and likely seeks critique to better their skills. Second, it tells the performer if that the region is interested in the skills they are bringing to the microphone. In 1988, thanks to rap stars like Kool Moe Dee and Heavy D and The Boys, I fell in love with hip-hop. Ten years later, I fell in love with mixed open mics. In 1991, my rap name was M&M&M, no joke, but there were no open mics for me to test my lyrics and flow. I wonder if this open mic is ready for M&M&M’s high school rap lyrics... 8pm. the elegant pub, 3273 S White Rd, San Jose

SAT MAR 30 | 2019 SOUTH BAY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY Presented by Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center, the day begins at 1pm with all-ages workshops, medical and legal information, art, snacks, games and music. Then a show (21+) starting at 8pm. More info: southbaytdov.org | San José City Hall Rotunda, 200 E Santa Clara St

TUE APR 2 | PUNK VINYL TUESDAYS WITH DJ TEST So it’s Tuesday. The weather is not cooperating with you. You need to get out of the house/ office/dorm. Why are you still at work at 10pm?! Your solution: Original punk blasted from original vinyl. Cinebar has that. DJ Test is your Tuesday night captain. 10pm. Cinebar, 69 E San Fernando St, San Jose = MUST SEE

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WOMEN/LGBTQ COMEDY NIGHT

8pm. Santa Clara Valley Brewing, 101 E Alma Ave, San Jose

POOR HOUSE BISTRO THE RITZ Wed, 7pm: Acid Mothers Temple, Yamantaka, Sonic Titan, Kinski. Thu, 8pm: Ye Olde Destruction, Tommy Guerrero, DJ Corey Duffel. Sat, 8pm: When Doves Cry: The Prince Tribute Show. Wed, 4/3, 7pm: Slow Crush, Holy Fawn, Wander, Dokoe. 400 S First St, San Jose

LIVE | ANTONIO SANCHEZ & MIGRATION 7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

SAM'S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Jerry Logan & Loganville. Tue, 4/2, 6pm:

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Bean Creek. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

Wed, 6pm: The Legendary Ron Thompson & Sid Morris Gang feat. Modern Times. Thu, 6pm: Walter Jebe & The Lost Roots Band. Fri, 6pm: Shane Dwight Band (on tour). Sat, 6pm: Mark Hummel & The Blues Survivors. Sun, 11am: School Of Blues Student Jam. Sun, 3pm: The Ned Band - Jam and Show. Mon, 6pm: Mixed Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

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NEW TALENT COMEDY COMPETITION PRELIMINARY: ROUND 6 8pm. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

PUNK | GOLDVIEW, OLD CROSS, NECESSARY NOISE, ONE ARMED JOEY 8:30pm. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

THU 3/28 IN THE ARTIST'S STUDIO: FEATURING WARREN CHANG 11am. Through 4/14. New Museum Los Gatos | NUMU, 106 Main St, Los Gatos

EXHIBITS | SHANNON EBNER’S STRAY: A GRAPHIC TONE & KAHLIL JOSEPH: BLKNWS 11am–5pm. Through 6/16. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford (See listing below)

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

JAZZ JAM AT ART BOUTIKI

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

MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

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

COMEDY | JESSA REED & AARON WOODALL

8pm. From Mormon and the Meth-Head. San Jose Improv, 62 S Second St, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT

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

COMEDIAN | JOE LIST

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

2425 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

THROWBACK THURSDAY KARAOKE & DANCE

FRI 3/29 CESAR E. CHAVEZ ANNUAL SCHOLARSHIP BREAKFAST 8am. Chavez Family Vision. Fairmont Hotel San Jose Imperial Ballroom, 170 S Market St, San Jose

PARS IRANIAN MUSIC NIGHT 7pm. Pars Equality Center, 1635 The Alameda, San Jose

KARAOKE | 7 BAMBOO

Fri–Sat, 7pm. Sun–Thu, 9pm. 7 Bamboo, 162 Jackson St, San Jose

ROCK | AUGUST SUN, RUMPUS ROOM AND THE ULTRA 7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

COMEDIAN | BOBBY LEE

7:30pm. Various times through Sun. San Jose Improv, 62 S Second St

HIP-HOP OPEN MIC | THE WE FINNA GET LITTY OPEN MIC AT THE PUB

DANCE/KARAOKE | FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE STARLITE

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

R&B/FUNK | KEV CHOICE ENSEMBLE

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

BLACK & BROWN 14TH ANNIVERSARY AT THE CHANGING SAME

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

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

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ 8pm. 3Below, 288 S 2nd St, San Jose

ALT ROCK | TRIGGERED HEART, BROKEN SPEAKERS, DEAD END JOB 8pm. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

PUNK | DOC ROTTEN, THE NUNNS, DOLL PARTS 9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

KARAOKE | COURT’S LOUNGE

Mon, Thu, Sat, 9:30pm.

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

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

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

8pm. the elegant pub, 3273 S White Rd, San Jose

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

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Fri, 10pm: TGIFF w/ DJ David Q. Sat, 10pm: Snap Saturdays w/ DJ Boy Wonder. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

SAT 3/30 CAUSE | RALLY FOR CHANGE

11:30am. By March For Our Lives San José. Arena Green, N Autumn St, near Santa Clara St, San Jose

2019 SOUTH BAY TRANS DAY OF VISIBILITY

1pm. San José City Hall Rotunda, 200 E Santa Clara St

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

MUSIC & POETRY | GIRL TALK

7pm. Presented by HELLA famous. African American Community Service Agency, 304 N Sixth St, San Jose

SCVB COMEDY NIGHT WITH DEAN DELRAY

7:30pm. Santa Clara Valley Brewing, 101 E Alma Ave, San Jose

BIG BAND | THE DADDIOS 7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

DEATH METAL | ANEVER, THIRTEEN THRONES, MESCALINE MANIACS SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: Mario y Su TimbeKO. Sat, 9pm: J.C. Smith Band. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

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

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plus Twain

Friday, March 29 • Ages 16+

HOUSE OF FLOYD

Friday, March 29 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

CHRISBABY

plus Casey Cope

Tuesday, April 2 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

WEYES BLOOD

Thursday, April 4 • Ages 16+

SPACE JESUS

Apr 9 Dermot Kennedy (Ages 16+) Apr 11 Flosstradamus (Ages 18+) Apr 12 Hannibal Buress (Ages 16+) Apr 17 Parcels (Ages 16+) Apr 19 SOB X RBE (Ages 16+) Apr 24 Tech N9ne/ Krizz Kaliko (Ages 16+) Apr 25 Party Favor/ Wuki (Ages 16+) Apr 26 Shallou/ Slow Magic (Ages 16+) Apr 30 Devin Dawson (Ages 16+) May 1 Knocked Loose (Ages 16+) May 2 Bane’s World (Ages 16+) May 3 Pegboard Nerds (Ages 18+) May 4 Chromeo (DJ Set) (Ages 16+) May 7 Betty Who (Ages 16+) May 8 Robin Trower/ Katy Guillen (Ages 16+) May 10 Dance Gavin Dance (Ages 16+) May 11 The Faint/ Choir Boy (Ages 16+) May 19 Mac DeMarco (Ages 16+) May 16 Jai Wolf (Ages 16+) May 23 Hieroglyphics/ Rap Noir (Ages 16+) May 24 The Frights (Ages 16+) Jun 1 Ghostemane (Ages 16+) Jun 4 Dizzy Wright/ Demrick (Ages 16+) Nov 14 Suicide Girls Blackheart Burlesque (Ages 21+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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FOX

Wed. March 27

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

Howard Devine 7pm • $7

Good Times/Metro Ad, Wed. 03/27

Fri. March 29

Neon Velvet

9pm • $17 adv / $20 Door Sat. March 30

The Music of Floyd

House of Floyd 8pm • $18 adv / $20 Door 2209 Broadway St Redwood City / 831.334.1153 clubfoxrwc.com

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Keep in mind that many men will have sex with a woman they aren’t all that interested in simply because she pursues them. (In guy terms: “My wrist is tired. You’ll do.”) In line with this, Jonason and Li’s research finds that women benefit from playing hard to get in a way men do not. A woman who refrains from pursuing a man “may increase her perceived value” in his eyes and motivate him to work harder to pursue her. “In contrast,” they write, “men who limit their availability may pay heavier costs than women will through the loss of potential mating opportunities.” As for what this means for you, waiting for women to ask for your digits and blow up your phone with calls and texts is a fantastic idea—if your mail comes addressed to Chris Hemsworth.

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TECHNOLOGY HPE is accepting resumes for the position of Software Designer in Santa Clara, CA (Ref. HPECSCDBAK01). Hewlett Packard Enterprise advances the way people live and work. Design and implement platform and scalability enhancements in ClearPass. Work with product managers to finalize features, design the programming changes needed to satisfy requirements, develop code and release to test team. Mail resume to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, c/o Andrea Benavides, 14231 Tandem Boulevard, Austin, TX 78728. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

Fortinet, Inc. has following openings in Sunnyvale, CA: Software Development QA Engineer (SQA-JD): Develop system and functional level test plans and execute test cases; Software Development QA Engineer (SQA-ZJF): Test and implement Fortinet network security products to ensure readiness of product release; Corporate Counsel (ATTYJL): Review and negotiate contracts and engage in other corporate lawrelated activities; Manager, Software Development QA (MSQA-SP): Lead design and implementation of API automation and UI automation frameworks; Team Lead, Software Development QA (TL-HML): Develop, modify, and execute software test plans, automated scripts and programs for testing Fortinet network security products. To apply, mail resumes and ref. job title with code to Fortinet, Inc., 899 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086, Attn: HR K.K.

TECHNOLOGY Hewlett Packard Enterprise advances the way people live and work. HPE is accepting resumes for the position of Software Engineer Firmware in Santa Clara, CA (Ref. # HPECSANNARA1). Analyze, design, program, debug, and modify software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, or Internet- related computer programs, primarily for end users. Mail resume to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, c/o Andrea Benavides, 14231 Tandem Boulevard, Austin, TX 78728. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE.

ENGINEERING Clover Network, Inc. has following job opps. in Sunnyvale, CA: Senior SDET [Req. #AAP06]. Dsgn and test automation for Dvlpr Portal teams. Software Engineer [Req. #AGA21]. Dsgn & dvlp sw for Clover POS devices. Software Engineer [Req. #AKK06]. Dsgn, dvlp & implement sw sys. Web Engineer [Req. #PCH25]. Dsgn & dvlp web apps. Mail resumes refernc’g Req. # to: Attn: A. Raudes, 415 N Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.

ENGINEERING Applied Materials, Inc. has the following openings in Sunnyvale, CA: Process Engineer (Req# J703): Develops new chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) processes, with a focus on CMP consumables such as slurry, conditioning disks and pads. Mail resume to Applied Materials, Inc. M/S 1211, 3225 Oakmead Village Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95054. Must include REQ# to be considered.

ENGINEERING Applied Materials, Inc. has multiple openings in Santa Clara, CA: Global Product Support Engr Sr (Req# P893): Develop new procedures and Best Known Methods (BKMs) to service new products. Participate in or own first chamber Build & Test in Apps lab. Global Product Support Engr (Req #L1007): Contribute to product design and enhancement, establish support infrastructure, and distribute the product knowledge. Requires international and domestic travel 30% of time. Factory Quality Applications Engr (Req #R1194): Develop and maintain fab quality solutions. Telecommuting and work from home permitted. Mail resume to Applied Materials, Inc. M/S 1211, 3225 Oakmead Village Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95054. Must include REQ# to be considered.

Data Scientist, Mountain View, CA. Responsible for digging into large data sets and extracting data-driven insights to address complex business problems through analysis and visualization. Apply machine learning and deep learning techniques to large structured and unstructured datasets. Develop neural network architectures and blueprints that are general, reusable, and customizable from a base implementation. Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field and one (1) year of experience in the job or related. Resumes: Christopher Nguyen (TC), Arimo, LLC, 888 Villa Street, Suite 400, Mountain View, CA 94041.

Nokia of America Corporation has these positions in the Mountain View, CA: *Software Quality Engineer [ALU-MV18VPXD] – Work on S/W functionality per requirements & standards; develop test cases & verification using network testing & monitoring tools;& IP routing protocols.**Software Quality Engineer [ALU-MV18-IPV6]- Work on S/W to verify functionality with IP routing protocols, multicast protocols, & networking tools. Send Resume to Nokia of America Corporation, Attn: HR, 600 Mountain Ave, 6D-401E, Murray Hill, NJ 07974. Specify Job Code # in reply. EOE

TECHNOLOGY Hewlett Packard Enterprise advances the way people live and work. HPE is accepting resumes for the position of Engineer in Santa Clara, CA (Ref. #HPECSANVASS1). Design, develop, analyze, troubleshoot and debug systems, software and solutions for research and/or research development of product, services and solutions for HPE’s portfolio. Mail resume to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, c/o Andrea Benavides, 14231

Tandem Boulevard, Austin, TX 78728. Resume must include Ref. #, full name, email address & mailing address. No phone calls. Must be legally authorized to work in U.S. without sponsorship. EOE

ENGINEERING Broadcom Corporation has opening in San Jose, CA for a R&D Engineer SW Quality 3 to analyze company products feature requirements & develop software test plans. Ref job code C3049848 & mail resume: HR (JO). 1320 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95131

ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY NVIDIA Corporation, market leader in graphics & digital media processors, has engineering opportunities in Santa Clara, CA for a Sr Mixed Signal Design Engr (MSD38) Design complex mixed-signal CMOS circuits for SerDes/ PLL, such as dividers and regulator; Sr. Verification Engr (VERE32) Apply engineering applications knowledge to design and implement the industry’s leading Graphics, Video/ Media & Communications Processors; Network Engr (NE03) Design, plan and coordinate the implementation of network technologies in support of defined requirements generated by business and growth demands; IT Develpr (DEV03) Responsible for developing multiple enterprise critical solutions; Sys SW Engr (SSWE618) Design and implementation of dialog and conversation support in chatbot architectures on the Drive IX Team; Sr. Sys SW Engr (SSWE630) Design, develop, and debug features for NVIDIA GPU system software components; HW Engr (HW77) Design and implement the industry’s leading Graphics, Video/ Media & Communications Processors; Research Scientist (RS16) Design and implement deep learning (DL) approaches to solving some product problems related to computer vision, graphics and machine learning; Sr. Architect (ARC106) Design and develop the next generation of GPU-accelerated computing systems & Field Apps Engr (FAE01) Provide GPU hardware and software support to our cloud customers. If interested, ref job code and send resume to: NVIDIA Corporation. Attn: MS04 (J.Green). 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050. Please no phone calls, emails or faxes.

ENGINEERING Zscaler, Inc. is accptg resumes for Sales Operations Analyst in San Jose, CA. This position will directly interact with users of Zscaler’s tools on the Salesforce. com platform. Troubleshoot issues for SFDC (Salesforce Data Center) and Company’s quoting tool with field users. Mail resume to Zscaler, Inc., Staff Dept., 110 Rose Orchard Way, San Jose,

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in Sunnyvale CA, looks for RF/ Wireless Engineer to implement test solutions and develop wireless test methodologies. visit www.litepoint.com for details. Reply: Job Code, 575 Maude Ct. Sunnyvale CA 94085

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in graphics & digital media processors, has engineering opportunities in Santa Clara, CA for a Sr. Sys SW Engr (SSWE632) Develop and maintain system software and infrastructure tools for platforms and products to build Autonomous Vehicles, involving artificial intelligence, deep learning, and computer vision; Sr. Architect (ARC108) Drive the new memory system architecture from DRAM up; ASIC Design Engr (ASICDE513) Support the design and implementation of the industry’s leading graphics, video, media, and communications processors; SW QA Engr (SWQA08) Engage in quality assurance engineering projects; SW Engr (SWE93) Design, implement, DGX system management API’s as needed to manage DGX systems in enterprise data center; Sr. Verification Engr (VERE29) Construct verification infrastructure for display engine doing pixel processing using UVM; Sr. Sys SW Engr (SSWE505) Develop scalable distributed compute capabilities for NVIDIA GPU cloud compute capabilities; Mgr Section Sys SW (SSWM08) Manage, design, develop and deliver driver builds, releases, packaging solutions for Windows, Linux and other platform’ deliverables, for NVIDIA. com and its OEM Partners & Mgr Apps Engr (MGRAPP02) Perform Hardware Application Engineering, including technical collateral and documentation required for the mainstream GPU product line. May require up to 8% of travel. If interested, ref job code and send resume to: NVIDIA Corporation. Attn: MS04 (J.Green). 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050. Please no phone calls, emails or faxes.

ENGINEERING/TECHNOLOGY NVIDIA Corporation, market leader in graphics & digital media processors, has engineering opportunities in Santa Clara, CA for a Sr. Sys SW Engr (SSWE495) Develop computer vision, visual geometry and deep learning algorithms for autonomous cars, mapping and localization; Sys SW Engr (SSWE523) Design, implement, and debug system level firmware and software features for DGX systems; Sys SW Engr (SSWE522) Implement software support for modern PC standards; Business Sys Analyst (BSA02) Architect and design solutions within the SAP ECC-SD (SAP ERP Central Component and Sales Distribution) software; Sr. Emulation Engr (EMUE02) Design, implement, and verify the industry’s leading GPUs and SOC’s using Emulation and FPGA prototyping tools; Sr. Sys SW Engr (SSWE637) Implement NVIDIA-specific tools and processes to conduct and automate continuous integration testing of NVIDIA mobile software on the Mobile Sanity Farm; Sr. Sys SW Engr

(SSWE638) Work on User Interface engineering for the NVIDIA DGX-1 Cloud web application; Sys SW Engr (SSWE604) Work closely with other software engineers to design, develop, and debug many functional aspects of GFN game stream for multiple platforms; Verification Engr (VERE31) Verify the design and implementation of industry’s leading GPUs; SW Engr (SWE96) Support the development related to path planning and vehicle dynamics control & Sr. Sys SW Engr (SSWE605) Develop and optimize software architecture and frameworks for real-world performance while matching customer requirements. If interested, ref job code and send resume to: NVIDIA Corporation. Attn: MS04 (J.Green). 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050. Please no phone calls, emails or faxes.

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651357 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Almaden Arco, 4995 Almaden Expwy., San Jose, CA, 95118, Hadad Enterprise, Inc., 700 S. Bernardo Ave., STE 103, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/14/2009. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ed Bozorghdad. President. #C2788826. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/13/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #650748 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kat Ballet Studio, 2385 Winchester Blvd., Campbell, CA, 95008, Katsura Echizen Karadi, 1160 Blackfield Way, Mountain View, CA, 94040. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/29/2019. /s/Katsura Echizen Karadi. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/29/2019. (pub Metro 02/27, 03/06, 03/13, 03/20/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651655 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cedarblade Consulting, 2173 Hicks Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Frank Cedarblade. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/15/2019. /s/Frank Cedarblade. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/22/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651662 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Priority Care Of Franthena, 2764 Cramer Circle, San Jose, CA, 95111, Stephancharles Endeavors, 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. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mercedes Villamor. CEO. #C4242078. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/22/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 18CV339924 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Ben H. Shelef. Proposed name: Benjamin Lyle Hackett. 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: April 16, 2019 at 8:45 am, room: Probate. filed on: December 24, 2018 (pub dates: 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651671 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sky High Sports Cam, 1740 Blackford Lane, San Jose, CA, 95125, Steve Okamoto. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/15/2019. /s/Steve Okamoto. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/22/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651731 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Lucky Stars Tattoo, 2. Gods & Monsters LLC, 1050 Blossom Hill Rd., Suite 200, San Jose, CA, 95125, Gods & Monsters LLC. This company is owned by a General Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous filing #498898. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Martin Lee Roberson. Manager. #2019902910778. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/25/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651376 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Skyline Construction Inc., 2384 Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Skyline Commercial Interiors, Inc., 505 Sansome Street, 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA, 94111. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/29/1996. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Jared Isaacsohn. Legal Counsel/VP. #C1977796. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/13/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651790

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Luxury Travel, Inc., 18597 Mccoy Ave., Saratoga, CA, 95070, Davis Luxury Travel Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/15/1994. Refile in facts from previous filing #589163. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Donald M Davis. President. #1957440. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/26/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651597 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: P&N Kitchen, 555 Bryant St., #508, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, Cornelius Valdueza Nerpio, Phattarakorn Srimongkol. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/01/2015. /s/Phattarakorn Srimongkol. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/21/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651921 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. La Jolie Kim Entertainment Production, 2. Tinh Thuong Nca Charity, 2906 Stevens Lane, San Jose, CA, 95148, Kimberly Pauline Nguyen. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/27/2019. /s/Kimberly Pauline Nguyen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/27/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651635 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Grandmas Naturals, 1825 Via El Capitan, San Jose, CA, 95124, Vir Consulting 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 02/22/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mario Cristiani. Member. #201710810265. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/22/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651985 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Trace Wellness, 280 N. Wolfe Rd., Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, Tracy Albuera, 2069 Fairmont Dr., San Mateo, CA, 94402. 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/Tracy Albuera. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651644

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Row House, 703 Blackfoot Ct., San Jose, CA, 95123, TWMK LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tomoo Watanabe. Manager. #201902810309. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/21/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Walgreens @ Vadon, 866 Campus Dr., Stanford, CA, 94305, Walgreen Co., 300 Wilmot Rd., Deerfield, IL, 60015. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of Illinois. /s/Amelia Legutki. Asst. Secretary. #C0365922. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/22/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651733

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: JSJ Street Kitchen, 10815 N. Wolfe Rd Ste 105, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Gogigo 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. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Yu Jin Lee. Secretary. #C3966448. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/01/2019. (pub Metro 02/27, 03/06, 03/13, 03/20/2019)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Goatscap, 2. Weapons Of Mass Appeal, 3. Goatscap, 6525 Crown Blvd., #41117, San Jose, CA, 95120, John Isaiah Beltran, 1035 Coleman, #7221, San Jose, CA, 95123. 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 #585025 /s/ John Isaiah Beltran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/25/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651613 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. AP Investment Management, 2. AP-Financial, 800 W. El Camino Real #180, Mountain View, CA, 94040, AP-Financial, 41931 Via San Carlos, Fremont, CA, 94539. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. 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/Anithah Neelakanda-Pillai. President. #201902510341. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/21/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651789 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Lake Almanor Properties, 1481 University Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126, Patricia Rubino Brunetti Trustee, Michael Brunetti. This business is being conducted by a Trust. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 4/10/2014. Refile no changes in facts from previous filing #590572 /s/Patricia Rubino Brunetti. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/26/2019. (pub Metro 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on April 2, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., the Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara, as Conservator of the Person and Estate of Hector D. Guzman, intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property located at 1235 Palm Street, San Jose, CA 95110 more particularly described in Exhibit “A” attached hereto and incorporated by reference. The sale shall be subject to confirmation by the above-entitled court. The real property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights of way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price. Bids or offers for the real property are hereby invited. For additional information about submitting bids or offers please contact the Listing Agent, Al Pippert, Re/Max Gold Santa Clara Valley, 1530 Parkmoor Ave. San Jose, CA 95128; (408) 998-1455. All bids must be in accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit by cashier’s check, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow. Taxes, rents, operating and maintenance expenses, and premiums on insurance acceptable to the purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of recording of conveyance. Examination of title, recording of conveyance, transfer taxes and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers. The right is reserved for James J. Ramoni, Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara as conservator for the Person and Estate of Hector D. Guzman to reject any and all bids or offers. All bids or offers will be opened at 2:00 p.m. on April 2, 2019 at the office of the Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara located at 333 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110, or thereafter, as allowed by law. Date 03/6/19James J. Ramoni, Public Guardian County Santa ClaraJames R. Williams, County CounselMark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County CounselEXHIBIT “A”Real Property in the City of San Jose, County of Santa Clara, State of California, described as follows: PORTION OF BLOCK 13, SOUTH, RANGE 6 WEST, AS SHOWN UPON THAT CERTAIN MAP ENTITLED, “MAP OF THE JAMES LICK HOMESTEAD TRACT IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY OF SAN JOSE”, WHICH MAP WAS FILED FOR RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ON MAY 28, 1885 IN BOOK B OF MAPS, AT PAGE 22, AND MORE PARTICULARY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE SOUTHWESTERN LINE OF PALM AVENUE, DISTANT THEREON NORTH 30⁰ 39’ WEST 280 FEET FROM ITS INTERSECTION WITH THE NORTHWESTERN LINE OF FLOYD STREET; RUNNING THENCE ALONG THE SOUTHWESTERN LINE OF PALM AVENUE NORTH 30⁰ 39’ WEST 40 FEET TO A STAKE; THENCE AT RIGHT ANGLES SOUTH 59⁰ 21’ WEST 123.84 FEET TO A STAKE; THENCE SOUTH 29⁰ 48’ EAST 40 FEET; THENCE NORTH 59⁰ 21’ EAST 124.45 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. APN: 434-12-055(Publication Dates: 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019

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)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF (NAME): DOROTHY CHRISTINE PRIES CASE NUMBER: 19PR185515

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both,of (specify all names by which the decedent was known): DOROTHY CHRISTINE PRIESA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarain the Superior Court of California, County of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarabe appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personalrepresentative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representativewill be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administrationauthority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: June 28, 2019 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 N. First Street, San Jose, CA 95113If 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 thehearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointedby 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 section 58(b)of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154)of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Noticeform is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner (name): Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Address): 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA 95110(Telephone): 408-7584200(Pub Dates Metro, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

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

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: 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)

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)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652516

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 #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 #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 #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)

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 #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 #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)

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)

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NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE CONSERVATORSHIP OF THE PERSON AND ESTATE OF HECTOR D. GUZMAN, SANTA CLARA SUPERIOR COURT CASE NO. 17PR-182512

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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: AJ’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 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)

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)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME. CASE NO. 19CV344851 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)

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)

SECRETARY OF STATE, ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OF A GENERAL STOCK CORPORATION

The name of the corporation is: DUC NGUYEN TRUCKING, 933 Alta Mar Terrace, San Jose, CA, 95126. Service of Process is be conducted by an Individual. Duc Van Nguyen. The corporation is authorized to issue only on class of shares of stock. The total number of shares which this corporation is authorized to issue is 10000. The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of California other than the banking business, the trust company business or the practice of a profession permitted to be incorporated by the California Corporations Code. /s/Son Nguyen, CPA. (pub dates: 03/06, 03/13, 03/20, 03/27/2019)

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 decedent’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)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Kermit the Frog from

Sesame Street is the world's most famous puppet. He has recorded songs, starred in films and TV shows, and written an autobiography. His image has appeared on postage stamps and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Kermit's beginnings were humble, however. When his creator Jim Henson first assembled him, he consisted of Henson's mom's green coat and two halves of a white ping pong ball. I mention this, Aries, because the current astrological omens suggest that you, too, could make a puppet that will one day have great influence. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. Here's the whole truth: now isn't a favorable time to start work on a magnificent puppet. But it is a perfect moment to launch the rough beginnings of a project that's well-suited for your unique talents.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus businessman

Chuck Feeney made a huge fortune as the entrepreneur who co-developed duty-free shopping. But at age 87, he lives frugally, having given away $8 billion to philanthropic causes. He doesn't even own a house or car. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to follow his lead in the coming weeks. Be unreasonably generous and exorbitantly helpful. APRIL FOOL! I exaggerated a bit. While it's true that now is an extra favorable time to bestow blessings on everyone, you shouldn't go overboard. Make sure your giving is artful, not careless or compulsive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Now is a perfect time to start learning the Inuktitut language spoken by the indigenous people of Eastern Canada. Here are some key phrases to get you underway. 1. UllusiuKattagit inosek: Celebrate your life! 2. Pitsialagigavit, piggogutivagit!: Because you're doing amazing things, I'm proud of you! 3. Nalligijauvutit: You are loved! 4. Kajusitsiatuinnagit: Keep it up! APRIL FOOL! I lied. Now isn't really a better time than any other to learn the Inuktitut language. But it is an important time to talk to yourself using phrases like those I mentioned. You need to be extra kind and super positive toward yourself. CANCER (June 21-July 22): When he was twenty

years old, Greek military leader Alexander the Great began to conquer the world. By age 30, he ruled the vast territory between Greece and northwest India. Never shy about extolling his own glory, he named 70 cities after himself. I offer his example as a model for you. Now is a favorable time to name clouds after yourself, as well as groves of trees, stretches of highway, buses, fire hydrants, parking spaces, and rocks. APRIL FOOL. I got a bit carried away. It's true that now is a good time to assert your authority, extend your clout, and put your unique stamp on every situation. But I don't recommend that you name entire cities after yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Now is an excellent time to

join an exotic religion. How about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which believes that true spiritual devotion requires an appreciation of satire? Or how about Discordianism, which worships the goddess of chaos and disorder? Then there's the United Church of Bacon, whose members exult in the flavor of their favorite food. (Here's a list of more: tinyurl.com/WeirdReligions.) APRIL FOOL! I wasn't entirely truthful. It's accurate to say that now is a great time to reinvigorate and transform your spiritual practice. But it's better if you figure that out by yourself. There's no need to get your ideas from a bizarre cult.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Studies show that people

who love grilled cheese sandwiches engage in more sexual escapades than those who don't gorge on grilled cheese sandwiches. So I advise you to eat a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches, because then you will have more sex than usual. And that's important, because you are now in a phase when you will reap huge healing benefits from having as much sex as possible. APRIL FOOL! I lied when I implied that eating more grilled cheese sandwiches would motivate you to have more sex. But I wasn't lying when I said that you should have more sex than usual. And I wasn’t lying when I said you will reap huge benefits from having as much sex as possible. (P.S. If you don't have a partner, have sex with your fantasies or yourself.)

By ROB BREZSNY week of April 21

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you ever spend time at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, you'll get a chance to become a member of the 300 Club. To be eligible, you wait till the temperature outside drops to minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit. When it does, you spend 20 minutes in a sauna heated to 200 degrees. Then you exit into the snow and ice wearing nothing but white rubber boots, and run a few hundred feet to a ceremonial pole and back. In so doing, you expose your naked body to a swing of 300 degrees. According to my astrological analysis, now is an ideal time to pull off this feat. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I'm not really urging you to join the 300 Club. On the other hand, I do think it's a favorable phase to go to extremes for an authentically good cause. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scientific research shows

that if you arrange to get bitten by thousands of mosquitoes in a relatively short time, you make yourself immune. Forever after, mosquito bites won't itch you. Now would be an excellent time for you to launch such a project. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I don't really think you should do that. On the contrary. You should scrupulously avoid irritations and aggravations, especially little ones. Instead, immerse yourself in comfort and ease. Be as free from vexation as you have ever been!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If allowed to do what comes naturally, two rabbits and their immediate descendants will produce 1,300 new rabbits in twelve months' time. In five years, their offspring would amount to 94 million. I suspect that you will approach this level of fertility in the next four weeks, at least in a metaphorical sense. APRIL FOOL! I stretched the truth a bit. There's no way you will produce more than a hundred good new ideas and productions and gifts. At the most, you'll generate a mere 50. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The weather is warm

year-round and the crime rate is low on Pitcairn, a remote South Pacific island that is a 30-hour boat ride away from the nearest airport. The population has been dwindling in recent years, however, which is why the government offers foreigners free land if they choose to relocate. You might want to consider taking advantage of this opportunity. APRIL FOOL! I was exaggerating. It's true that you could get major health benefits by taking a sabbatical from civilization. But there's no need to be so drastic about it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You don't have to

run faster than the bear that's chasing you. You just have to run faster than the slowest person the bear is chasing. OK? So don't worry! APRIL FOOL! What I just said wasn't your real horoscope. I hope you know me well enough to understand that I would NEVER advise you to save your own ass by betraying or sacrificing someone else. It's also important to note that the bear I mentioned is entirely metaphorical in nature. So please ignore what I said earlier. However, I do want you to know that there are effective ways to elude the symbolic bear that are also honorable. To discover them, meditate on calming down the beastly bear-like qualities in yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Now is a favorable time to disguise yourself as a bland nerd with no vivid qualities, or a shy wallflower with no strong opinions, or a polite wimp who prefers to avoid adventure. Please don't even consider doing anything that's too interesting or controversial. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The truth is, I hope you'll do the opposite of what I suggested. I think it's time to express your deep authentic self with aggressive clarity. Be brave and candid and enterprising. What's the best joke or prank you could play on yourself? FreeWillAstrology.com Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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