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I wouldn't vote for Andrew if he was running against Caligula.

I'm a sucker for competition.

The uncertainty of who will be victorious between evenly matched opposing forces is what propels us, the common man, into overpaying for the Comcast Sports Package. It is even more exhilarating when you get to see that level of competitiveness in person, even if those competitors suck. As long as they're both equally terrible, it's compelling stuff. Take last week's Saturday morning pick up basketball game, where five people are on each team. Two horrendous players destined to guard each other each saw an opportunity to discard the beta moniker. And it was on. "You can't guard me!," when actually, everyone could guard him easily. "I got him. Don't help!” Yeah, we weren't planning to. But at that point, we all knew this needed to happen, and so the game was theirs.

When normally, either would barely touch the ball, we kept feeding them the rock. They were blinded by competition. And we were witness to it all.

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RE: SAN JOSE HOMICIDE RENEWS DEBATE OVER SANCTUARY LAWS, NEWS, APRIL 3 Sad that the taxpayers in San Jose (Santa Clara County) are not protected from these types of criminals that are pretty much allowed to hide in plain sight in our community. They ride the coattails of the homeless/mentally ill, and we just sit back and watch our community turn into Somalia or an episode of “The Walking Dead.”

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ANDREW BOONE, a transportation activist who announced last week that he’ll challenge San Jose Councilwoman DEV DAVIS in 2020, says he’s changed his mind. He got a new job and will no longer have the time to run, he explained. Meanwhile, DAVID COHEN, a 20-year North San Jose resident and 13-year trustee of the Berryessa Unified School District who has long been mulling a run for the District 4 City Council seat, has officially jumped into the 2020 race against Councilman LAN DIEP. Cohen, a 50-year-old father of two, says he’s reached a point where he’s willing to trade his career in chemical engineering to go full time into public service. “I was going to They run for the seat at some Did point, and just had to What? figure out whether this was the proper time SEND TIPS TO and how viable this FLY@ METRONEWS. would be,” he tells Fly.

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That brings the number of challengers running against 35-year-old Diep to two—the other being employment rights attorney and San Jose Housing and Community Development Commissioner HUY TRAN, 36, who announced his bid last month.

While Diep will no doubt garner support from the business camp, Tran may have to compete with Cohen for labor’s backing.

Cohen’s years of service to the Santa Clara County Democratic Central Committee, however, will make him the likely pick for the party’s endorsement in D4.

Cohen touted his experience as an elected official and his long residency in the Berryessa neighborhood, where he and his physician wife, SHELLI COHEN, raised their two children.

Should he win election, Cohen says he’ll focus on making D4 a leader in local sustainability efforts, making sure that the city responsibly manage the tremendous growth in its northernmost district and preparing San Jose for the next economic downturn.

ESCAPE ROUTE Sayed Nadim Hashimi signed up to work as a translator in the Afghan war with the idea of one day earning a special visa to start over in the U.S.

Lines of Duty An Afghan translator risked everything to work with U.S. special forces—but he knows many of his colleagues will be left behind

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HEN SAYED NADIM Hashimi first joined the U.S. special forces as an Afghan translator, he was replacing a longtime translator who had been killed on a mission.

Hashimi knew the man, and volunteered to bring his clothes and belongings back to his family in Kabul. He remembers going to the home, where the man’s 5-year-old daughter asked him when her father was returning.

Eight years later, Hashimi, now 27, has moved to the Bay Area—long one of the main destinations in the U.S. for

immigrants seeking political refuge.

He works at a Santa Cruz tobacco shop, and although he rarely gets days off, he’s thrilled to be finally living in America with his wife and new baby.

Hashmi went on over 100 missions throughout Afghanistan during his three years as a translator in the Mission Essential Personnel (MEP) program with U.S. special forces. For his service, he was promised a shot at a special immigrant visa—a chance to move to America. Sometimes the missions lasted for days without food or much rest, Hashimi remembers. They worked seven days a week for 12 hours a day and were required to be on call 24/7.

“There were many times like that where we were facing an ambush and arrested Taliban spies,” Hashimi says.

“I was on a mission where the Taliban shot an RPG at a helicopter, there was a soldier trying to jump out, but he and 11 other soldiers ended up dying.”

He wore a bulletproof vest and helmet and carried an AK-47, despite the fact that he’d never held a gun before. He says it wasn’t the policy of his company to carry weapons, and they only get a week or two of training on military organization—not on operating in battlegrounds. Soldiers often gave them guns anyway because of dangerous conditions and the fact that translators were often considered traitors by the Taliban—and thus targets.

The non-profit International Refugee Assistance Project estimated that in 2014, an Afghan interpreter was killed every 36 hours. Having moved to the U.S. just last year, Hashimi says he wants people to remember his Afghan co-workers who have died serving the U.S., and also their families, who often do not receive any government support beyond a few thousand dollars—a modest amount compared to the $100,000 that U.S. military service members families are eligible for as part of a death gratuity program and other allowance programs.

“I saw thousands of young Afghan soldiers die or get seriously injured,

recipients of special immigrant visas.

According to the Refugee Processing Center, more than 97 percent of the 3,234 people who immigrated to the U.S. under the special visa program since Oct. 2018 are Afghan nationals.

The highest number of Afghan special immigrant visas awarded in a year, more than 16,800 visas, was in 2017. The 2019 U.S. federal budget authorized 4,000 more for Afghan applicants.

These numbers only tell part of the story. Many of the people who thought they would be able to move and begin a new life in the U.S. because of their service will be severely delayed or unable to. Increasing scrutiny— and at times intense cynicism—of immigrant and refugee motives has become a hallmark of the Trump administration, which has impacted visa applicants from Syria to Venezuela.

Yet there is little data to back up claims that recent immigrants pose any increased threat to homeland security.

Hashimi says he knew of many translators who were stopped or killed by the Taliban for working with the U.S. He remembers one instance in particular, where a suicide bomber actively sought out a translator to kill.

“I try not to talk about it,” he says. “It makes me hurt.”

Although they are often eligible for much more, Afghan and Iranian families typically receive a one-time payment of $2,000 to $5,000 for a family killed in action, says Michael Silverman, associate at Military Justice Attorneys. But under the U.S. Department of Labor Defense Base Act, Afghan translators working for contractors like MEP are insured and eligible for more workers’ compensation if injured or killed.

“In a nutshell, anytime an employee is injured or suffers a psychological injury, these insurance companies are responsible for it, and that is also the case for the death of an employee,” Silverman says. “What we have found is that many times the employer will pay a small stipend for an interpreter who is killed and not inform the family that there is insurance that will cover it.”

Silverman, who works closely with No One Left Behind, says his firm represents many clients from Afghanistan and Iraq who are eligible for compensation, they never received.

Hashimi laments the injustice. “The people that die,” he says, “if they are not Americans, then the government forgets them.”

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losing their hands and feet,” Hashimi says. “Facing that all, that sacrifice, was hard. But you have to lose some things to get some things. I live here now and am trying to not be a part of those days anymore. Now, I want to help the families whose sons died on the missions.”

Hashimi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan. His family fled to Pakistan to escape the Taliban in 1992. One of nine children, he helped his family operate a grocery store in Pakistan before they returned to Kabul five years later. He was in fifth grade when they returned, and eventually took a Youth Exchange Study exam in hopes of traveling to the U.S. as an exchange student. After failing the exam, he says his only other option was to join the special forces and hope that they would eventually grant him an American visa.

Hashimi signed up for MEP at age 19 in June 2011. He waited a year to apply for his visa, leaving his position as a translator in December 2014 once it was granted. He was one of over 7,000 Afghan natives granted such a visa in 2014, over 2,300 of whom immigrated to California.

Hashimi found his way to Santa Cruz after a stint in Fremont, where he has extended family. Even getting here seemed like a huge risk, but one worth taking. “I saw that I could fight for the country, and if I stayed alive, then I could go to the United States,” he says.

MEP, now known as Mission Essential, is a government contractor serving intelligence and military clients.

As one of the primary companies providing translation services for the U.S. government, MEP has been responsible for recruiting and screening thousands of interpreters headed for the battlefield. It pays them a maximum of $900 a month to accompany front-line troops into action. Although, Hashimi says for the times that he wasn’t on active, hazardous missions, he got paid a salary equivalent to about half that amount, $450 a month. In the past, MEP has been accused of abandoning wounded employees and sending physically unfit interpreters to the front lines.

“Those classmates that I had signed up with, a week or two after they saw the battlefield and soldier injuries, they quit,” Hashimi says. “It was just me left between us four friends. I stayed because I wanted to help my family, fight for my country and eventually come to America.”

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UNRELIABLE SOURCES An arbitrator cited credibility issues with both Tom Williams, left, and Milpitas Mayor Rich Tran in dismissing Williams’ claims against the city.

Arbitrator Rejects Official’s Harassment Claims

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Tom Williams, the Milpitas bureaucrat who threatened to sue his own city for more than $1 million in 2017, will apparently walk away with just $1,372 and some change.

An arbitrator on March 29 categorically denied the ex-city manager’s claims of, among other things, age discrimination, retaliation and breach of contract. The only relief granted to Williams: a partial reimbursement for cellphone bills.

The arbitration opinion first obtained by Metro concludes a drawnout dispute between Williams and the city, where he resigned in the latter half of 2017 after getting caught for spending taxpayer money on his personal legal fees.

Records show that Williams—a lifelong civic servant who’s in his mid50s and has since found a job as city manager of his hometown, Millbrae— tried to play the victim. The former Milpitas official blamed his abrupt exit

on his most vocal critic, first-term Mayor Rich Tran, and on his own city for denying him due process, miscalculating his pension and failing to protect him from age-based harassment.

But Martin H. Dodd—the arbitrator who punctuates his final 54-page ruling with revealing footnotes and a slew of shots at Williams’ integrity—wasn’t buying it.

To Dodd, it appeared that Williams lost his $257,575-a-year gig by misusing a city credit card to pay his personal attorney at Ad Astra Law Group, trying to cover it up by lying about it and intimidating witnesses and then availing himself of a chance to clear his name in a Skelly hearing by resigning before the City Council could fire him. “With respect to the first, Williams seems to be saying that his flagrant attempt to misappropriate city funds was not worthy of discipline or termination because he was ultimately unsuccessful,” Dodd writes.

The arbitration ruling says the evidence “plainly shows” that the only reason Williams paid the city back the $37,000 he charged for Ad Astra was because the finance department caught him red-handed after reading a San Jose Inside report that mentioned the name of his law firm.

Overall, the opinion affirms Metro’s previous reporting on the saga while adding some previously undisclosed details about the way things went down. For one, it highlights how paranoid Williams became about leaks to the press. It also notes how both Williams and Tran came off as less than credible.

“This is the rare case in which the arbitrator has found it difficult to believe large portions of the testimony of each of the principal players,” Dodd says in a footnote. “Tran’s testimony generally lacked indicia of reliability. ... That said, Williams was hardly a model of truthfulness.”

Developers Get Huge Break on Housing Fees Some $138.5 million won’t be going into San Jose’s affordable housing fund this year, as the city seeks to spur development by doling out exemptions to market-rate projects.

In a recently released public document, the city listed 30 marketrate developments that won’t have to pay affordable housing fees. As a result, 8,130 market-rate residential units will be built and an estimated $8.6 million will be collected in annual recurring tax revenue, according to the report.

The city spends $125,000 per affordable unit. If developers want to build a residential project in San Jose, they have two options when it comes to affordable housing: build it or pay the city a fee. San Jose’s affordable housing law, passed in 2014, requires 15 percent of a project’s units to be affordable. If developers opt to pay a fee instead, that money goes into San Jose’s affordable housing fund, and is used to develop separate affordable housing projects.

By forgoing $138.5 million in fees, the city lost the equivalent of more than 1,100 below-market-rate homes.

Projects qualify for exemptions in one of two ways. One exempts projects that were already in the pipeline before the affordable housing fees was established. The other is an exemption high-rise buildings downtown.

“There is a balance that we have to have in terms of ensuring that market-rate developments can go forward while still wanting to meet our affordable housing goals” Jacky MoralesFerrand, director of San Jose’s housing department, said in an interview.

The idea behind allowing some projects to avoid paying these fees is that it makes it easier for developers to build market-rate projects, especially in downtown San Jose. Having an extra fee applied to projects that were already in the works, Morales-Ferrand said, may have prevented some projects from getting built altogether.—Rachel Sandler

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Fire, Water San Jose State University’s annual poetry festival highlights elemental verse

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N THE CAMPUS of San Jose State University, poets and meteorologists will join together to raise awareness about the effects of climate change, via an interdisciplinary festival over several days next week.

Each April, SJSU celebrates National Poetry Month and Earth Day Week by hosting the Legacy of Poetry Festival.

This year, faculty scientists will participate in a symposium with poets who regularly explore issues

of ecology, sustainability and climate change in their work. The theme of the festival is Water and Fire, after two of the five main elements. Both elements can either sustain life or destroy it.

“We picked those two because the poetry written about them is so urgent,” said Alan Soldofsky, one of the festival organizers. “And because California has been besieged by forest fires, droughts, floods, so they seemed like appropriate, urgent topics to address in a wider public context, through the forms that involve poetry.”

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He also translates French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese poetry, often working in collaboration, or with youth in other countries to produce poetry that addresses global warming.

Arthur Sze takes a more Taoist approach. A second-generation Chinese-American, Sze started out studying math and engineering and even today sees connections from those subjects to the architectural

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WORDSMITH Forrest Gander is one of the poets headlining SJSU’s Legacy of Poetry Festival.

forms of poetry. His work incorporates everything from botany and thermodynamics to philosophy and Zen. Sze recently retired from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe where he became quite familiar with indigenous cultures and was also that city’s first poet laureate.

In his new book, Sight Lines, Sze contemplates water as an element of both sustainability and destruction.

“We have two keynote poets who have an interest, and dual focus, in both environmentalism from a science point of view, and also from a literary point of view,” Soldofsky said.

The opening reading for Legacy of Poetry Day features SJSU students, faculty, staff, alumni and members of the community on Wednesday, Apr 17 at 4:15pm, followed by the keynote poets reading at 7pm, all of which is free and unfolds in the Martin Luther King, Jr., Main Library.

Then on the following day, Apr 18, a noontime panel session, “Symposium on Water and Fire: The Poetics of a Warming Planet,” features a conversation between the keynote poets and SJSU faculty meteorologists Dr. Craig Clements and Dr. Eugene Cordero, both of whom devote their award-winning work to similar issues.

Clements runs SJSU’s Fire Weather Research Laboratory, and Cordero is the founder and director of the Green Ninja Project, an educational initiative helping middle school kids discover the relevance of science to their lives.

It doesn’t stop there, of course. The festival will also present the Water and Fire Poetry Slam on Apr 19. Hosted

by Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Mighty Mike McGee, the slam will feature participants performing poems or spoken word pieces that address global warming via reflections on the elements of water and fire. Anyone can enter the slam, and the top three winners will receive prizes.

“The role of the poet has always been a prophetic one,” Soldofsky said, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of the festival. “And now more than ever, we need poets who are schooled in more than just literature, but a kind of broad view of natural sciences and engineering, to understand what that kind of research is about, to translate it and turn it into something urgent to wake people up.”

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Totally Disrupted A former Google VP pens a barbed portrait of Silicon Valley run amok BY NICK VERONIN

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ESSICA POWELL doesn’t remember how she ended up with her mobile number’s area code, but she does recall a crew of Googlers standing in the wireless carrier’s store, agonizing over the digits, debating the merits of 415, which “means you’re young and hip and probably live in San Francisco” vs. 650, which suggests a person might be older—but also “more established.”

The scene would have fit neatly into Powell’s new book, The Big Disruption—about the fictional Silicon Valley tech behemoth Anahata and its employees, including sales bros, coder bros, executive bros and a handful of perpetually disrespected, overlooked and objectified women.

Powell insists that she wrote her book in 2012, before she climbed Google’s ranks to become a vice president of communications for the search giant. Back then she was just working for a sharing economy startup, which she would describe

at conferences as a tool that was “helping people make meaningful connections in the real world.”

“The founder I was working for—a guy who owned a hundred shirts in the same color and quoted Steve Jobs on a daily basis—asked me whether we should hand out dildos as company swag or consider converting our social media platform into an anonymous sex club,” Powell writes in the book’s afterward.

“We even whiteboarded it.”

Her coworkers on the Big Tech public relations team “were some of the smartest, most passionate

people I’ve ever worked with... .

They ran marathons on the weekend to raise money for clean water for Africa. They also spent the weekday complaining on company message boards about the brand of water stocked in the micro-kitchens.”

She took leave because “I got tired of defending at parties the endless use of ‘scale’ as an excuse for being unable to solve problems in a human way. The faux earnestness, the self righteousness. All those cheery product ads set to ukulele music.”

The Big Disruption is a biting,

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HE DAILY MANAGEMENT meeting was an exercise in yogic patience and discipline, with all five members of the team doing a generally poor job of tolerating each other.

Although they were a small group, the men spread themselves out around the table, allowing spaces of two or three chairs between them. In addition to Gregor, there was Old Al, the company’s only gray-haired engineer, occasionally useful for

BY JESSICA POWELL

his fifty-four years of wisdom. A few seats down sat Greg Fischer, the chief financial and corporate affairs officer (CFCAO), who ran all the departments — legal, finance, marketing, and PR — that were seen as necessary evils in helping run a large company. Equal in irrelevance was HR Paul, the head of the human resources department, who was generally regarded as a nincompoop psychology PhD with a flatulence problem. And then there was Niels, a.k.a. The Salesman.

The master engineer and the master salesman did not like each

other, but today Niels seemed to be paying Gregor no attention. Gregor grimaced as Niels bent his gelslicked head over the small notepad that he carried around in his front pocket. He found the mere existence of Niels’ notepad an insult to the advances of technology and word processing software.

Gregor had disliked Anahata’s new head of advertising from the instant he spotted him on campus, a plastic smile fixed on his face, fancy designer suit falling from his shoulders like a second skin. With his wingtips pointed sharply in the

direction of his target, Niels had approached Gregor to suggest the engineering team fix the advertising system interface so that Anahata’s advertisers could more easily place their ads online. Gregor quickly informed Niels that Anahata was about its users first and foremost, and that its users — and just as important, Anahata’s engineers — did not care about an improved advertising system. Implicit in his explanation was the unwritten philosophical hierarchy of Anahata: Engineers at the top, then users, and

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Like Mike Judge’s hit HBO sitcom, Silicon Valley, Powell’s book takes place here, in the South Bay, namechecking Palo Alto, El Camino Real and numerous other landmarks that locals will recognize. And as in Silicon Valley, while the names of many of the companies have been changed, they’re easy enough to decode.

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‘A one-eyed sea lion makes it through the carnage by sheer luck. He is celebrated, named Fred and made Anahata’s mascot’ The book begins with a metaphorical prologue about the fictional Palo Alto Sea Park, which cannibalizes itself overnight in a tidal wave of blood and salt water. As the sharks are loosed from their tanks, they first feed on the nearby dolphins, then on the lesser marine mammals, smaller fish and birds. The lone survivor, a one-eyed sea lion, makes it through all the carnage by sheer luck.

He is celebrated by the community, named Fred and eventually made Anahata’s mascot.

As we learn more about the company’s founder, Bobby Bonilla, it becomes clear that while cult leaders may bring the Kool-Aid to the party, they get plenty of help from those pulled into their orbit.

In The Big Disruption, both Bobby’s inner circle and many lower level Anahatis eat up his preposterous, overly simplistic maxims, lavish him with praise and chalk up his

scatterbrained behavior to the eccentricities of a genius.

“We love the Horatio Alger, rags to riches story,” Powell says, speaking generally. “We love the origin story, the capitalist romance: ‘You can start this company from nothing and build it up.’ That feels super American. It feels meritocratic, even if it’s not.”

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE Powell says she grew skeptical of the narrative that she and the rest of the tech industry’s communications army spun before the American press trained its sights on tech excess. That’s because she began her communications work for Google in London and continued throughout Europe.

“I don’t know if this book would have been written if I had lived in the Valley,” she says of her time overseas, noting that she was “constantly being challenged” to explain and justify Google’s newly released technology.

Years before U.S. legislators began focusing on what big tech firms were doing with Americans’ data, European governments were hard at work crafting laws to limit the power of Facebook, Google, Twitter and others.

“You were constantly having to think about what you were defending and if it made sense,” Powell says of her role at the time, noting that Europeans reacted very differently than Americans to Google Street View.

“You really had to think through the implications of all of that.”

The more she thought about it and the longer she thought about it, she came to see the tech industry through its critics’ eyes—despite her insider’s perspective.

As a communications VP, she says she encouraged restraint when it came to overused catchphrases and acronyms, lest press releases and internal communications become meaningless tangles of tech lingo. At its worst, she says, “you feel like you can almost play some mix-and-match game”—5G, CRM, blockchain, clouds.

Indeed this is the strategy deployed by one of The Big Disruption’s central characters, Arsyen Aimo—an exiled prince from the made-up country of

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“Join us, Arsyen.”

“But, Bobby, ” said Fischer, the CFCAO, “we have confidential things to discuss.”

“Trust is the cornerstone of truth.

If we cannot trust our employees, our house will fall upon itself.” Bobby turned to Arsyen and gestured at a seat at the table.

Arsyen took the chair closest to the door, gripping its arms oddly, rigidly, as if he were sitting on a throne. Suddenly Gregor recalled where he had seen him. This was

'If you can't tell us an idea in thirty seconds, it's not an idea. It's a presentation.'

—ANAHATA CORPORATE WISDOM

the product manager candidate Roni had pointed out, the one from Galt. They had decided to hire him just to bleed Galt of some of its top talent. Over the past month, Anahata had lost several of its best engineers to the startup.

Gregor gave Arsyen another look.

He was still panting a bit; dark hairs peeked out from a very wet collar.

He did not seem like an exceptional human being. Still…

“What’s up first?” asked Bobby, turning to his assistant. She was in attendance that day as part of what Bobby called “radical transparency,” a philosophy that, while often cited

by Bobby, seemed to be in effect only every third Thursday. His assistant leaned over and showed him a list — and some generous cleavage.

“Okay, everyone,” said Bobby,

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then, long after that, cheerleaders, janitors, creationists, and, finally, the Anahata sales team.

But Niels was slow on the uptake.

He kept pushing for the change, eventually escalating the issue to Bobby. Bobby, in turn, sent Gregor and Niels an email asking them to speak to each other and not bother him with such small problems. Six years later, the two men still had not managed to do so. They only met in Bobby’s management meetings, where they sat on opposite ends of the table and took opposing stances in almost any argument.

“Haaaaaaaaaa…Haaaaaaaaaa…

Haaaaaaa…Ha! Ha! Ha!” Suddenly, Bobby was on his feet, arms outstretched.

“Our minds are clear,” he said, opening his eyes and bowing to his management team. Bobby sat down on top of the table, crossing his legs in the lotus position. “Let us begin.”

Just then, the door opened and a man entered, wearing an enormous grin.

Gregor thought he recognized this short, swarthy man, but he could not place him. The intruder also seemed confused: He scanned the room, past Gregor, past Niels, and landed on Bobby. His eyes bulged, the grin vanished, and he took a step back. His hand fiddled with the doorknob.

“Wait,” said Bobby, looking him over. “Clearly you must be smart to have found me like this. I am elusive, you know. A bit like a panther — if panthers were also progressive Buddhists.” Bobby pawed the air with his claws.

The man nodded vigorously.

Gregor’s tongue roamed his mouth, searching for particles of stray food. He always brushed his teeth after lunch, but today he had lost track of time while troubleshooting a server issue with the infrastructure team. The lack of order in his mouth was mildly distressing—just like this intruder, who he wished would leave.

Where had he seen him before?

“I suppose you have joined us because you know of our opendoor meeting policy,” said Bobby, referring to a core Anahata principle that Gregor and the rest of the management team all actually hated.

“What is your name?” Bobby asked.

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Pyrrhia. Raised in opulence, Arsyen has few marketable skills upon his resettlement in California, so he takes to janitorial work. However, his insistence on billing himself as a “sanitation engineer,” combined with previous work experience cleaning at Anahata’s chief rival Galt, lands him an interview for a product manager role. His royal sense of entitlement, tendency to repeat questions as statements and plenty of bluster get him hired. Once he makes it past his first week of provisional employment, all he really needs to do is spout nonsense about roadmaps, clouds, alignment and B2B strategy. In one particularly inspired moment he spits out, “It’s like… software as a service for internet of things.”

As a woman of letters, the incessant churning of new buzzwords was annoying to Powell. But when she saw her colleagues believing the PRspeak, she had reason for concern.

“I think that is what’s a bit jarring about the Valley,” she says.

“The companies make these grand statements about what they’re doing— essentially improving humanity—and on the other hand, they are doing these things that are quite questionable.”

NEW NARRATIVE Powell hasn’t turned her back on tech. After all, her book was published by Medium—the blogging platform started by Twitter cofounder Evan Williams in 2012.

Powell approached Medium last year with her manuscript. The book had been rejected as too niche by traditional publishing houses. In under three months Medium had it online and earning favorable reviews. Lauren Smiley of The Guardian praises Powell for “wielding Bonfire of the Vanities levels of absurdity and social observation to chronicle this particular Northern Californian strain of masters of the universe.”

As word spread of Medium’s experiment and the positive press kept rolling in, the company decided they would heed readers’ requests for a physical release. Six months after the release of the e-book, Medium turned to a third-party printing service to produce a limited run— just enough to meet demand. It’s a different approach, says Siobhan O'Connor, Medium’s VP of editorial.

But it’s been working.

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INNOVATIVE CORE Powell currently runs a startup that builds a music collaboration tool. It reflects her passion for music—and also for the very industry that she lampoons in The Big Disruption.

Talking about her decision to write and publish the book, Powell says she had some things to get off her chest.

However, she adds, “I wanted to do something that was appreciative of what is unique about Silicon Valley.”

The author says she’s never been anywhere else in the world that works the same way, with such a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Particularly, she is grateful for the leaps that her former employer and other tech companies have made in putting the world’s information at everyone’s fingertips.

“Search is transformative,” she says, recalling how she had to physically travel to Spain in order to visit a single library to get a citation from a book for her college thesis. There are only two known copies of the book in the world. But now, information like that can be accessed online.

And then there’s the matter of The Big Disruption and her experiences with the traditional publishing world and the team at Medium.

After publishers in New York initially doubted whether her book would have a sufficiently broad audience, they again balked at publishing the book—even after its online success.

“They were like, ‘Come back to us when you do your next book,’” she says.

“Meanwhile. you have this fast moving digital company that’s like, ‘We don’t know how to do this,’ and they’re like, ‘Let’s try it!’ I do think that’s something kind of special out here.”

MEAT SPACE The physical version of 'The Big Disruption' is available now.

nodding at her breasts. “Let’s show Arsyen what innovation looks like!”

Bobby’s assistant opened the door, and a product manager and his engineering team shuffled toward the table in an awkward, heaving lump.

They kept their heads down, shooting furtive glances at Bobby as they prepared to present their work.

The product manager coughed.

“When, um, we set out to design the new interface for Rovix, we had, uh, three goals in mind.”

“Why do you need a presentation to tell me your goals?” Old Al barked.

“Keep things simple. You don’t need two hundred slides to tell me what you’re going to do.”

“It’s just a few slides,” the product manager mumbled.

“Al’s right,” Fischer said. “If you can’t tell us your idea in thirty seconds, it’s not an idea. It’s a presentation.”

The product manager closed his computer.

“Let me tell you something,” said Old Al, shaking his finger at the team.

“Bobby invented the concept of cloud computing on a high school cafeteria napkin twenty years ago. Big ideas should be simple. Napkinable.”

Excerpted from ‘The Big Disruption’

by Jessica Powell, the first physical book published by Medium.

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It’s not the only thing Medium did differently. As a technology-enabled platform, the San Francisco-based online publisher also experiments with what could be journalism’s future— namely dispensing with the advertorial model in favor of subscriptions.

Medium recently purchased San Francisco lifestyle blog The Bold Italic, which already used the Medium platform to publish.

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EAT DIFFERENT Bursting with knickknacks and reminders of Web 1.0, the bucolic Buck’s of Woodside is the place to fill up and get funded.

Power Lunch Mr. Harada and The Mack break into the tech sector at Buck’s of Woodside

BY TOMEK MACKOWIACK

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UR HORSES’ HOOVES were muffled by the moist ground on the trail that afternoon. The path meandered along the emerald hills that led to our destination.

I sat atop my beloved steed Rosy Nante, and Mr. Harada bounced along next me on his rented pony, Gerald. Adventure had beckoned to us once again, so we left the comforts of our superfluously luxurious estate in the city and headed deep into the outlaw hills of the West Bay.

I wore an understated, bespoke, business-casual dress shirt under a purple goose-down vest. The vest was emblazoned with corporate logos in several strategic and casual locations.

My lower bits were sheathed in lycrainfused hyper-denim. I was stain-, wrinkle- and fashion-resistant. Mr. Harada, was disguised in a black sport coat that sometimes flapped open to reveal his tie-less white dress shirt, which always remains unbuttoned up top. His pants matched mine. We looked like a pair of rule-breaking, fail-fasting, think-different-ing desperados, which is essential when you’re navigating the wilds of Woodside.

We were to meet with our potential client at Buck’s, a legendary cacophony of bric-a-brac pretending to be a diner. The place is known as the spawning ground of every Silicon Valley powerhouse (except Apple— Steve Jobs and Buck’s owner Jamis MacNiven had a beef).

We arrived, tied up our equines at the hitching post and headed inside. Walking past the large replica of the Statue of Liberty, under the gravity racer and sliding past the giant slide rule, we were seated just in front of the shark with jet engines grafted to its torso—you know… the booth that has the talking, pull stringoperated Pee-wee Herman doll.

Our man and his assistant were waiting for us. We sat down and shook hands awkwardly across the table, knocking over the salt and pepper shakers and getting ketchup on each of our understated, bespoke, business-casual dress shirts. The assistant asked if we’d like to see his deck. Mr. Harada and I nodded gravely.

He proceeded to pull out his tablet computer and present us with a slideshow. We were both surprised. However, once we steel ourselves for a high-stakes game of hold ’em, our poker faces hold for hours. They were none the wiser.

We ordered the kind of food one orders in the company of high tech disruptors: chili cheese fries, tacos and burgers. Mr. Harada, as usual, had the crab.

I marveled at Buck’s myriad tchotchkes. It reminded me of the spirit of this part of the world during the 1990s and early 2000s.

Back then, there was so much potential swirling in the air that no one could make any sense of it; we just knew exciting things were about to happen.

That’s how Buck’s still feels.

It buzzes with energy and the promise of a better future. Only the occasional layer of dust on the myriad knickknacks belies the fact that the future is now, and the innocence and blissful ignorance of those original tech wizards is a quaint memory.

The food arrived with a thud. A splendid mountain of fried potato and hearty chilly. Heaping mounds of meat atop tortillas. White and buttery crab. Such is the reality at a place where billionaires decide what devices and marketplaces the rest of us will use to buy our branded apparel. Legend has it that Google started as a Buck’s taco.

After lunch we got to business.

They were developing an influenza app—swipe right to get the flu shot, swipe left to get the flu—and they wanted us to be brand ambassadors during the early stages so that they could secure funding. Naturally we accepted and are now working as social media “influenzers.”

The plan is to find out how to give people the flu through Instagram so they’ll have to download the app to be cured. It’s pretty simple. It’s like the TurboTax for vaccinations, or like the DoorDash of GrubHub’s TaskRabbit profile pic.

That’s how it goes down at Buck’s.

One minute you’re in a quaint and quirky diner nestled in a bucolic setting, and next thing you know you’re activating untapped revenue potential, disrupting the status quo, and getting some lucky kids a few days off of school.

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RAW CUT LeYou Ethiopian has expanded the South Bay’s Horn of Africa offerings.

THE GRAPEVINE Openings, expansions and fond farewells on the Silicon Valley dining scene

BY JOHN DYKE

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APANTOWN IS FINALLY getting its first-ever pizza joint with the opening of JTOWN PIZZA CO. Occupying 625 N Sixth St, a historic building that once served as a Japanese boardinghouse, it takes the place of the outgoing Wenzhou Fish Noodles.

They’ll be serving a thin New Yorkstyle pie (there’s even a vegan option), draught crafts and traditional apps like wings and garlic bread, as well as some Asian-inspired appetizers to match the new digs like meatball egg

rolls and shishito peppers in a lemongarlic aioli.

Ethiopian cuisine is underappreciated and hard to find in the South Bay. But the small pool of options just got a little bit bigger with the recent opening of LEYOU ETHIOPIAN in San Jose’s Hyde Park neighborhood at 1100 N First St. LeYou features a modern, chic décor with chandeliers, wood accents and brilliant Ethiopian folk art paintings adorning the walls.

As with all Ethiopian spots the vegetarian options are plentiful with lentils, chickpeas, eggplant and collard greens. There’s also the kitfo

(aka steak tartare) for adventurous carnivores, and the slow-cooked Ethiopian standard sauces of k’ey wot and alicha that come with diner’s choice of proteins, including beef, lamb, chicken, whitefish and Portobello mushrooms. They also have local beer from Hapa’s Brewing Co. and Ethiopian honey wine to help round-out the menu.

ANCHORS FISH & CHIPS is planning an expansion as they prepare to move beyond their stall at San Pedro Square Market. Unfortunately, they are taking the place of Willow Glen mariscos favorite Mavericks Mexican Grill—located at 1111 Meridian Ave— to do it. This will be Mavericks’ final week in business, as they plan to close up shop for the imminent takeover.

Only a few more days to say adios to their breaded halibut tacos, massive chimichangas and tasty housemade chips and salsa.

Locavores rejoice, as downtown favorite OUR HOUSE is finally planning on expanding their weekday lunchtime hours. Our House is

known for their high-quality, but reasonably priced, chef-driven menu that features non-GMO, organic ingredients sourced from within a 500-mile radius of the restaurant.

Starting this week they’ll be open until 7pm Thursday through Saturday.

PIZZA MY HEART continues its expansion toward total South Bay pizza dominance with a brand-new location at the Cambrian Park Plaza Shopping Center. It’s slated to open this Thursday. They’ll have the usual: salads, beers on tap and their award-winning pies, like the Big Sur, served up by the slice. But this location will also be home to the “country’s largest horizontally suspended clock with real surf boards for hands.” Cowabunga!

Two longtime downtown San Jose favorites, BO TOWN and GRANDE PIZZERIA, both closed up shop recently.

For over 30 years Bo Town was known for their Americanized Chinese cuisine that included favorites like the General’s chicken and shaking beef. They also had a massive interior that many families used over the years to host birthdays, graduations and celebrations of the Chinese New Year.

Grande Pizzeria was located next door to the original La Victoria, on San Carlos Ave., right next to San Jose State University. This was not by accident. For a time, it was actually owned by the Barrita family—founders of La Vic’s. There used to be a bottle of the famous Orange Sauce at every table, which went great with any of their pizzas or, my personal favorite, their Philly cheesesteak sandwich.

Despite being open only four years, JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE was a consistent favorite of Metro readers.

Jack Rose claimed the top spot in the Craft Cocktail category three times.

They took second place once, in 2017.

They were also recognized for their patio in this year’s #BOSV issue.

Despite all their successes, they were forced to close up shop to make room for a new 36 single-family home housing development. I reached out to one of their former bartenders, Erik Rivera, and asked if he had heard of any plans to relocate. “Nothing’s been mentioned from higher up,” Rivera said. “Everything related to the company has been thrown out— including us, unfortunately.”

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Thu, 7:30pm, $25+ Hammer Theatre, San Jose Going to Havana? Nah nah nah, Havana’s coming here with Asere! Musicians and Dancers of the Havana Cuba All-Stars. Part of Hammer Theatre’s ongoing Music Without Borders series, the band and dancers come to town on their Asere!—roughly translated: “dude” or “friend”— tour. Join the son cubano 12piece banda and six of Cuba’s most talented dancers. The group blends the richness of Cuba’s musical tradition with the fresh sounds of the contemporary Cuban music scene, immersing audiences in the sights and sounds of rumba, cha cha, salsa and more. (C.J.)

CHOICES BY: C.J. Prusi Erika Rasmussen Nick Veronin

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH Thu, 8pm, $20+ Bus Barn Theatre, Los Altos Driven from their homes by forces beyond their control, the working class are cloistered in tent cities—plagued by hunger, alcoholism and regularly harassed by local police. In many ways, the best banned book of 1939 resembles the Bay Area of 2019.

Los Altos Stage Company presents Frank Galati’s adaptation of arguably the greatest of the Great American Novels—The Grapes of Wrath by Salinas author John Steinbeck. Follow the Joads as they flee their native Oklahoma and the devastation of the Dust Bowl in search of greener pastures out in California. Runs through May 5. (C.J.)

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Thu, 8pm, $22 Olinder Theatre, San Jose

Fri, 8pm, $25 BackBar SoFa, San Jose

Northside Theatre Company brings David Lindsay-Abaire’s latest Broadway production to life.

The playwright’s 2007 Pulitzerwinning “Rabbit Hole” made Lindsay-Abaire a household name (so long as the household contains at least one theatre buff) with its tragicomic portrayal of a family’s loss. This production features Margie Walsh of Southie Boston, a down-on-her-luck lower-class lady looking for love—or at least a way to get by. Jonathan Williams directs the show, which runs through May 5. (C.J.)

Born in Mobile, Alabama, OMB Peezy grew up in Sacramento and has recently been making a name for himself as part of the North Bay’s vibrant hip-hop scene.

Signed to E-40’s Sick Wid It Records and 300 Entertainment, the Richmond-based rapper is in tight with other rising Yay Area talent, like Nef the Pharaoh and SOB X RBE. The 22-year-old comes to San Jose this weekend in the wake of his latest single, “Struggle,” which features veteran Baton Rouge emcee Boosie Badazz. (NV)

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OUTSIDER’S SOCIAL Sat, 8pm, $10+ The Ritz, San Jose

For well over a decade, ’80s- and ’90s-themed alternative music parties—like Atomic, The Workout and Club Satori—have proven a serious draw in downtown San Jose. Live alternative music, especially that produced by Bay Area musicians, has been a harder sell. DJ Cutso and Containher are hoping their new endeavor, Outsider’s Social, will help bridge the attendance gap by bringing local artists in to cover a variety of new wave, trip-hop and classic alternative classics from the likes of Depeche Mode, Massive Attack and Bjork. This weekend’s performers include Cellista, NRVS LVRS and Containher. (NV)

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Apr 17 at City National Civic

BAD BUNNY Apr 20 at SAP Center

POWERMAN 5000 Apr 23 at The Ritz

SALES Apr 26 at The Ritz

THE EMO NIGHT TOUR Apr 27 at The Ritz

ARIANA GRANDE May 2 at SAP Center

TONY BENNETT May 3 at City National Civic

THE DODOS May 10 at The Ritz

THE WILD REEDS May 11 at The Ritz

THE ROLLING STONES May 18 at Levi’s Stadium

KALI UCHIS & JORJA SMITH May 18 at Frost Amphitheatre

SHE WANTS REVENGE

RECORD STORE DAY MOONLIGHT Sat, All Day ROCKABILLY Everywhere CARNIVAL For more than 10 years now, Record Store Day, the annual celebration of locally owned brick-and-mortar music shops, has stoked the passions of music lovers all over the country. Every year, artists release new and previously unheard music, along with bootlegs and reissues—often in collectable formats, including vinyl and cassette. The regional chains, including Streetlight and Rasputin will certainly have some choice collectors items produced specifically for RSD, but true vinyl heads should be sure to support the smaller stores in the area, like Needle to the Groove, On the Corner Music, The Analog Room and The Record Man. (NV)

Sat, 11am, Free Emma Prusch Farm Park, San Jose Tattoos and twang converge for a day of fun, food and friends.

The second-annual Moonlight Rockabilly Carnival features rides, vendors, competitive pie-eating and pair of tug-of-wars—with pin-up and car club twists. The Miss Moonlight pin-up pageant is judged on personality, authenticity and Glamour with a capital G. Musical guests include Grease Hound, DJ Robert Pegan and Gidget and the G-Spots. Admission is free to this all-ages party. However, donations and canned food will be accepted for the benefit of local charities. (ER)

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Sat, 2pm, $65+ Avaya Stadium, San Jose

Wed, 7pm, $50+ SJSU Event Center

Spring is in the air—along with the smokey, savory smell of sizzling bacon. The sud-sipping, swine-dining experience returns to the South Bay. This year the Bacon & Beer Classic will feature 22 Bay Area restaurants serving up more than 30 porky pairings for the 100-plus beer and cider offerings. Tickets include unlimited beer and bacon dishes and a mini ceramic souvenir cup.

Sips and savory samples from the likes of Firestone, Drakes, North Point, and dozens more. Of course, there will also be music, games and a bacon-eating contest. (C.J.)

Anton Zaslavski was destined to be a musician. Like Sonny Moore (a.k.a. Skrillex), the Russian-born, German-raised DJ and producer known as Zedd started his music career with a far heavier sound.

He began drumming for German deathcore band Dioramic at age 12. Like all musical prodigies, Zedd was always pushing himself. Even as Dioramic was finding success, Zedd’s focus shifted toward electronic production. His debut studio album, Clarity, led to sold out venues across five continents.

Most recently, Zedd and Katy Perry teamed up for single "365.”

The track’s haunting music video explores the line between love and obsession. (ER)

May 18 at The Ritz

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK May 29 at SAP Center

DEAD & COMPANY May 31 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

ROB THOMAS Jun 16 at Mountain Winery

JEFF LYNNE’S ELO Jun 24 at SAP Center

PAUL MCCARTNEY Jul 10 at SAP Center

QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT Jul 14 at SAP Center

COMMON Jul 18 at Mountain Winery

BACKSTREET BOYS Aug 4 at SAP Center\

JACKSON BROWNE Aug 13 at Mountain Winery

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

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EMPRESS OF WHAT Allison F. Rich, right, plays the titular character, Carlota, in the latest from Luis Valdez.

Royal Blood Luis Valdez returns with a new play, ‘Adios Mama Carlota’ at The Stage

BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

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ITHOUT THE FART jokes, the script for Luis Valdez’ Adios Mama Carlota, the Empress of Mexico could read as a serious historical drama.

This co-production between the San Jose Stage Company and El Teatro Campesino opts instead for a bawdy tone that lands somewhere between commedia dell'arte, an opera buffa and British pantomime.

It’s not the flatulence, though—when it does blast across the stage—that establishes the play’s assertion of camp.

Carlota’s (Allison F. Rich) opening monologue accomplishes that trick the

instant introduces herself as the former Empress of Mexico.

This deposed 19th-century monarch hobbles out clutching her cane, her back hunched over and covered in a matronly shawl. Before she even speaks, we see that her makeup is as thick as an actual mask. It signals a ghoulish, grande dame quality that she shares with Norma Desmond from Sunset Boulevard (1950).

Even though Bette Davis did play a version of Carlota in Juarez (1939), Rich’s vocal intonations owe more to Gloria Swanson’s Norma. Swooping down low and wide with the phrases she’s chosen to emphasize, Rich reaches for and achieves a melodramatic portrait. Under the direction of Kinan Valdez (Luis’ son), the rest of the cast follows suit. These

are wide- and wild-eyed performances that extend themselves to the last row of seats in the theater.

To point out the irreparable amount of harm that European colonialism brought about, Luis Valdez has reimagined Carlota and her husband Maximilian’s (Will Springhorn Jr.) disastrous and brief Mexican reign (18641867). Adios Mama Carlota captures the couple at the height of their decadent, imperial hubris and follows up with their subsequent downfall.

Their story is bookended by an elderly, unbalanced Carlota, who’s plagued by the disturbing events from her past. Valdez includes dozens of relevant facts to contextualize the couple’s absurd position as emperor and empress of Mexico. Benito Juárez (Noé Yoacoatle Montoya), the deposed president of Mexico, and Abraham Lincoln make appearances. We also learn that Napoleon III (Martin Rojas Dietrich) used them as figureheads so that he could pilfer Mexican assets in support of the French empire.

One way to make a history lesson less dreary for a contemporary audience is to revivify the dead as a pageant of buffoons. Maximilian is

a blustering philanderer. Napoleon III sports a fiendish mustache that would put Yosemite Sam to shame.

That Rojas Dietrich didn’t twist the ends of it showed remarkable restraint on his part. With Carlota’s character, however, Valdez has to tread more carefully. As an arrogant European, and a symbol of lilywhite racism, she could have been reduced to an object of ridicule.

But her gender complicates the way she’s portrayed. Alongside Conchita (Jessica Oseguda), Maximilian’s misused Mexican mistress, both women can rightfully ask the anguished question, “Why are men such destructive animals?”

Had Adios Mama Carlota focused on and expanded that aspect of her story, Valdez would have humanized a white colonialist. That would have made for a troubling but richer character. As he's drawn Carlota now, she's simply a grotesque. Her persona and her emotions are so exaggerated that she becomes a throwback, a madwoman in the attic, someone to be feared or mocked but not apprehended.

Her mental instability looks comical when it should read as her tragic flaw.

Carlota represents an aspect of Western imperialism. In saying adios to her, the playwright is also casting the colonialist's impulse out of Mexico. But that theme of man's inhumanity to man, and especially to woman, loses its potency as the play determinedly retreats into farce.

As a female antagonist and counterpoint to Carlota, Valdez summons Conchita to the stage. Acting as a spirit guide, she goads Carlota into confronting her ghosts, to have a final night of reckoning, like Ebenezer Scrooge on Christmas Eve. But Conchita isn’t free to dematerialize and leave.

They’re imprisoned together in Europe and tortured by their shared memories of a distant Mexico. In her delicate voice, Oseguda sings a lovely self-portrait in song about an innocent dove. Like much else that takes place in Adios Mama Carlota, the song, and the genuine emotion it evokes, gets carried away by all that precipitous wind.

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A WOMAN’S TOUCH Rooney Mara is the feminist apostle to Joaquin Phoenix’s Jesus in ‘Mary Magdaelen.’

Raised Up In ‘Mary Magdalen’ a stacked cast adds to the story of Jesus of Nasareth

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE EASTERTIDE story Mary Magdalen has an underpowered Rooney Mara in the title role. This girl of the lonely fisher-village of Magdala isn’t actually a harlot—this was a Dark Ages slander. But she’s the next worse thing: a daughter who disobeyed her parents.

She has a part-time career as a midwife: “Look at me,” she orders a woman at childbirth, laying down next to her, trying to get her to work through it. Her father Daniel (Denis Menochet) wants her to marry an established widower. The unwanted marriage causes the girl such torment that the

community decides she’s possessed, forcing her into a watery exorcism at night. Alone and despondent, she meets a wandering rabbi familiar to us all. He comforts her, telling her he knows she doesn’t harbor demons.

At 44, Joaquin Phoenix may be one of the oldest actors to play Jesus, and the choice for a sadder, aged Christ may be justifiable in a time and place where working people got old very early on in life. In real life, Phoenix was raised in a religious cult, and he has a deep understanding of both the grounded and the mysterious qualities of the role.

The miracles are acted with freshness. Mirroring Mary’s midwife strategies, Jesus lays down with

Lazarus’s corpse, studying it with compassionate curiosity before bringing the dead man back into the world of the living. In opening the gates of death, Jesus sees something through them: a premonition of the torture awaiting him.

Australian director Garth Davis (Lion) shot this in the rock-strewn parts of southern Italy and Sicily, in a blue-filtered twilight. Johann Johannsson’s looped strings and pianos mirror the melancholiness.

The moon waxes as the apostles walk on goat paths through an empty land.

It’s a nomad’s film, with dialogue that often, as in Terrence Malick films, seems to be surrounded in ellipses (“...the kingdom…”).

The apostles are divided among themselves. Chiwetel Ejiofor's Peter is a lieutenant who never quite understands what Jesus is getting at.

Judas (Tahir Rahim, very good) is the het up zealot, certain that it’s the time to strike against the Roman occupiers.

One sees the Roman handiwork throughout—the visuals of burnt bodies and starved villages equal the historian Tacitus’ line: “They made a desert and called it peace.” It isn’t until

the first hour is over that we get sight of a mounted legionnaire, an encounter full of fright, like when a lone Comanche rides up in a cowboy film.

The entry into Jerusalem is similarly tense—after all that lonely country, the group comes up the side of a steep mountain fortress. It’s the world’s howling madhouse, where bleating animals are sold with all the religious dignity of a ballpark concessions stand.

As always, one dreads how the story ends. Davis makes it bearable, as opposed to the way it went down in The Passion of the Christ. That carnage recalled novelist Chris Fuhrman’s description of a Catholic priest art teacher looking over a crucifixion drawn by a couple of his 12-year-old students. They’d gone very heavy on the red crayolas. The priest sighs, “I doubt if he’d rise again after all that, boys…”

The trial of Jesus is an audience favorite, with room for hammy acting

by Herod and Pilate. Davis bypasses this with the convenient action movie shortcut of knocking a character out and letting them come to later, just to advance the action. There’s nothing really between Judas’ betrayal and Jesus hauling the crosspiece up the Via Dolorosa. The sadness of what follows outweighs the disgust. Mary Magdalen’s part is to sit and commune with her rabbi as he dies. In the background we see little clusters of families and friends, seated in their own vigils at the foot of other crosses.

Phoenix’s sensitivity overwhelms the callouses one has against the Greatest Story Ever etc., and the bruises one accumulates in a lifetime of dealing with hateful Christians. Against this mysterious poignancy, Mara seems a bit lost and underpowered. She looks to the horizon and smiles beatifically, but she’s she’s mostly a witness, not knowing how to love him, as that bad old song goes. Despite this, there are intelligent and careful moments throughout; I liked the suspiciousness with which the elder Mary (Irit Sheleg) looks at this traveling woman, and the way she confides about her son: “He was never really mine.”

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Comic Relief MOSTLY SATISFYING, often juvenile, Shazam! is a Christmas-in-Easter superhero origin story. It’s December in Philadelphia. Young Billy Batson (Asher Angel) is brought via subway to a grotto wherein a dying wizard (Djimon Hounsou) dwells. He, Ancient Shazam, passes on the powers he has held for centuries, after a long search for a pure-hearted kid. (Billy, who has his sorrows as a foster child, comments, “I don’t think there’s anyone like that.”)

When Billy utters the magic word “Shazam,” a lightning bolt changes him into Earth’s Mightiest Mortal: a hunk played by Zachary Levi, the Jewish prince physician on Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. This new Shazam is a novice superhero who doesn’t even know his own strength, despite the coaching from his foster brother Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer). The boy is a motormouthed reject who treasures a bullet flattened from the chest of Superman himself, complete with certificate of authenticity.

Why this figure is called Shazam instead of Captain Marvel, as he was in the 1940s, is a long and boring story of copyrights, easily explained on the Internet. The Swedish director David Shazam!

Sandberg brings a ponderous, antiseptic touch to this adventure with plenty of televisionistic bonding time PG-13, 132 Mins. between Billy and his new foster siblings. As the youngest, Valleywide Darla, the charming Faithe Herman seems to model her performance on Sally Brown from the Peanuts TV specials.

Playing the evil Dr. Sivana, who pursues Billy in both his forms, Mark Strong goes harshly serious, and thus has neither the chuckling menace of the shrimpy bald nemesis in the comic books or anything to differentiate himself from other generic comic book villains lurking about. And he should have had more of a good time, seeing as he is all seven deadly sins wrapped up in one man. He can release the septet—smoky long-tongued monsters, covered in whirling pixels. (“I kind of thought Lust would be hotter,” Shazam says.)

The wise-ass little kidisms here are fitfully amusing—in his adult form, Billy gets to do the things he’d always wanted to do, like buying beer and sneaking into a “gentleman’s club.” Ordered by the wizard to “Lay your hands upon my staff !” Billy chirps, “Gross!” Ultimately, one wishes there had been more bounce and less grit, more of the easy delightful stuff such as Shazam’s saving of a plunging bus, where he ends up cheek to cheek with an almost-victim through the cracked windshield glass. Truly the most fun was the surprise appearance of one of the comic book’s most ingenious villains, which takes place, appropriately for the season, in Easter egg form. —Richard von Busack

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HEY MISTER After the young Billy is transformed into the adult superhero Shazam, shoulder-tapping is no longer necessary.

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like, “Whatever this weird techno is, I really like it.” Then they had this single come out a few months later called “Dream Fighter.”

“Dream Fighter” was just the best pop song. It was the one where I was able to convince all my friends that this wasn’t just some disposable J-Pop. I think they’re one of the ones that helped me focus and really understand what my interests are in music, which are melody and groove.

They had a really good streak, like three albums in a row, where just every song had a killer melody, and they have a few songs that have long instrumental sections with really heavy grooves.

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AROMATHERAPY Perfume come to San Jose on the only Bay Area stop of their world tour.

Pop Scents Three local musicians weigh in on what they’ve learned from J-Pop trio Perfume

BY MIKE HUGUENOR

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HE FUTURE ARRIVES in San Jose this week.

Perfume, one of the biggest J-Pop bands in at least a generation, comes to the City National Civic in support of last year’s Future Pop. Massive, relentless and ever-expanding into new territories, Future Pop is the culmination of nearly 20 years of pushing pop music forward from the boundarydefying Hiroshima group.

show for the group, which might surprise some. But the fact is, San Jose has always been ahead of the curve when it comes to Perfume’s music.

From all the way across the Pacific, they’ve already had a profound influence on the sound of the city’s young musicians, three of whom spoke with us about how the group helped shape their understandings of pop music, their own songwriting, and the transcendent power of a killer groove.

One of only six scheduled shows in America, this is the only Bay Area

Covet | Yvette Young (Solo)

YVETTE YOUNG It was about four or five years ago, I

think I was just looking at YouTube, listening to different things, and I came upon the song “Polyrhythm,” from the album Game. It kind of blew me away.

Listening to it, there was so much going on. And then it got to a part of the song where there was actual polyrhythm and I was like, “This is amazing!” So I started checking out more and more of their music.

A lot of J-Pop can be kind of cookie cutter, but this was something else.

There’s a lot of danciness in their music, but in a way that’s interesting.

I play, I guess what you could call math rock, but I really try to keep it dancey as well, to keep it fun and engaging. I guess I really have been influenced by them.

BOB VIELMA Boboso | Tadaima I kind of caught the beginning of their uptick—coincidentally, probably around 2008, when I moved to Japan to teach. I would always hear their music playing in the background of different places I’d go. I was just

I was just on the computer one day, you know, on AIM, and someone sent me a link. It was almost preYouTube, I think. I just remember seeing videos and thinking, “This is the coolest thing.” The music was really cool, the choreography was really cool, and it was like right as I was getting into everything I was getting into. Right around when I started watching anime, started learning about music and playing instruments.

I went to see them the first time they played in America, at the Hollywood Palladium, and I just remember my friend met up with a whole group of Perfume fans, friends from the forum “Perfume City.” I know for a lot of them it was super emotional, like the first time they met after being internet friends for all these years. There was a lot of that going on at that show.

It feels like it does have some bearing on the way I play music, or play guitar. Or maybe on what I like about music, is a better way to put it. There’s something about how intricate some of those parts sound.

It’s not complicated, and it’s really poppy, but there’s a lot of layers. It’s a really ingenious thing.

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11 29

A Tribute to ABBA

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25 UB40 feat.

Ali Campbell and Astro Collie Buddz

El Gran Festival

JUNE SiriusXM FLY Presents Hammer’s House Party

Michael Franti & Spearhead / Ziggy Marley

6

Gipsy Kings feat. Nicolas Reyes & Tonino Baliardo

19 Sebastian Maniscalco:

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The Temptations / Four Tops

20 Dave Koz and Friends

9 Double Vision Revisited

18 Common

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

21 Rodrigo y Gabriela

19 Sublime with Rome 20 Alanis Morissette Acoustic

27 George Lopez

16 Rob Thomas: Chip Tooth Tour

Common Kings / SOJA

23 Indigo Girls

Performances by Yes, Asia,

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

Trevor Noah Loud and Clear

29 Jill Scott 2

An Evening With Lyle Lovett

3

Brit Floyd

World Tour 2019 The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show

30 Michael McDonald

and Chaka Khan

AUGUST 1

Kool & The Gang Special Guest Evelyn “Champagne” King

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

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

3 Josh Groban: Bridges Tour

5 Chris Isaak 6 Jeff Dunham

Richard Bean & SAPO

Passively Aggressive

12 The B-52s with very special

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

guests OMD and Berlin

13 14 Jackson Browne

15 Feist Special Guest Rhye

Former Members / The Tubes / Dramarama

16 THE FAB FOUR: The Ultimate Tribute

OCTOBER

17 SiriusXM The Pulse Presents:

The Mighty O.A.R.

4 Steve Martin and

w/ American Authors

19 Boz Scaggs / Aaron Neville 20 Taj Mahal Quartet /

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

23 Kris Kristofferson

& The Strangers

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25 Tower of Power

with guests Billy Kilson & Larry Braggs

The Wall World Tour

JULY

& his Large Band

David Sanborn & Marcus Miller

Deported World Tour

28 The Royal Affair

performed by Gary Mullen & The Works

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Los Lonely Boys

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

24 One Night of Queen

SEPTEMBER

10 Los Lobos &

23 Pat Benatar &

15 Foreigner

One Nation Under Groove Tour feat. George Clinton &

Parliament Funkadelic, Dumpstaphunk, Fishbone, Miss Velvet & The Blue Wolf

“The Greatest Day” Tour

Mettavolution Tour

Alejandro Escovedo

Lance Bass of *NSYNC, with O-Town, Aaron Carter, Ryan Cabrera & Tyler Hilton

13 SEAL 14 Natalia Lafourcade

Stay Hungry Tour

13 Dwight Yoakam

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MC Hammer / En Vogue / Tone Loc 12

Ian Anderson Presents Jethro Tull 50th Anniversary Tour

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Del McCoury Band and David Grisman Trio The Travelin’ McCourys

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26 Daughtry

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2 POP 2000 Tour hosted by

6 ABBA The Concert

MAY

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Martin Short: “Now you see them, soon you won’t” featuring Della Mae with Alison Brown and Jeff Babko

6 Calexico and Iron & Wine 11 All Rise

Nick Offerman

American Humorist

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APRIL 2019 | NATIONAL POETRY MONTH As most folks know, I came into the world of poetry in the late ’90s by competing in poetry slams and studying spoken word. The first slam I signed up for was at the former Cafe Babylon on South First Street, just a block south of Metro’s headquarters. In the early 2000s, I found myself performing and facilitating workshops another block down First Street at MACLA. This weekend MACLA’s Castellano Playhouse is presenting the spoken word theater production AMAL, developed and directed by award-winning director Teo Castellanos with original music by Brimstone127. Slam & Jam! The San José Poetry Slam is back in the SoFA District, alive and well every second Sunday at Cafe Stritch, just before the Eulipions Jazz Jam. This Sunday’s slam features the electrifying Oakland duo, Jackhammer Serenade. More info in the event listings.

THU–SUN APR 11–14 | COMEDIAN MIKE WINFIELD Mike Winfield is hilarious. A bit of a staccato comic, delivering rapid-fire humor at a pace that can keep crowds laughing hard and nonstop. He’s the real deal. 8pm. Various times through Sun. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

FRI APR 12 | ESTHER AT THE EASTRIDGE OPEN MIC

Esther is one of the most delightful singer-songwriters I’ve heard in the South Bae. I caught her at a university event a few years ago, and her songs shut the whole campus down.

They realized their educational model couldn’t compare to what her emotional output was teaching folks. Come learn from her words and music. 7pm. JCPenney Courtyard, Eastridge Center, 2200 Eastridge Loop, San Jose

SAT APR 13 | 2ND ANNUAL MOONLIGHT ROCKABILLY CARNIVAL This alcohol-free all-ages event will feature everything you have ever seen in a film set at a carnival. Rides, food, vendors, pin up & car club tug-of-war, pie eating contest and a rockabilly pin-up contest. Plus live bands Grease Hound, Gidget and the G-Spots and more.

11am–6pm. Emma Prusch Farm Park, 647 S King Road, San Jose

SAT APR 13 | BYLINES ALBUM RELEASE You must be getting tired of Saturdays that aren’t filled with the sweet, sweet sounds of local rock bands. Welp, San Jose band Bylines will release their first full album Summit Road this Saturday at Art Boutiki. They’ve put together a fantastic supporting line-up of Novela, Junco and Socorra. If that doesn’t fill your weekend with the right kind of vibe, then you might need a much longer vacation. 8pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose = MUST SEE

WED 4/10

= MORE AT SANJOSE.COM Sammy Varela Band. Mon, 6pm: Mixed Open Mic Night.

Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

= SEE PHOTO

= FREE

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

LIVE MUSIC | ISAIAH PICKETT BAND POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: The Legendary Ron Thompson & Sid Morris Gang feat. Lost Coast. Thu, 6pm: Burnin’ Vernon & Bad Influence “Tribute to Robert Cray.” Fri, 6pm: Little Jonny Lawton & The Orphans.

Sat, 6pm: Artur Menezes.

Sun, 11am: New Orleans Piano Brunch with Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: The

SAM'S BBQ Wed, 6pm: Blue House. Tue, 4/16, 6pm: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers. Wed, 4/17, 6pm: Fred McCarty. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

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

9:30pm. Rosie McCann's, 355 Santana Row #1060, San Jose

THU 4/11 ART EXHIBIT | SOFIE RAMOS: STUFF(ED) 10am, Tue–Fri. Noon, Sat– Sun. Through 6/9. San José Institute of Contemporary Art, 560 S First St, San Jose

metroactive EVENTS 11am. Through 4/14. New Museum Los Gatos | NUMU, 106 Main St, Los Gatos

EXHIBIT | JOSIAH MCELHENY: ISLAND UNIVERSE

11am–5pm through 8/18.

Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford

COUNTRY | ASHLEY MCBRYDE

7pm. Club Rodeo, 610 Coleman Ave, San Jose

View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St

COMEDIAN | MIKE WINFIELD

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

SHOW

BOSS FIGHT COMEDY

8pm. Game Shop Downstairs, 124 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

SPEAK EASY: A STAND-UP COMEDY AFFAIR

8pm. Clandestine Brewing, 980 S First St, Ste B, San Jose

HIP-HOP | OMB PEEZY LIVE

8pm. Back Bar SoFA, 418 S Market St, San Jose

PUNK/SKA/THRASH | MATAMOSKA, MONKEY, DAY LABOR, WAY II STONED, TBA 8pm. the elegant pub, 3273 S White Rd, San Jose

PUNK | GIVE YOU NOTHING, INFM, 12 GAUGE PROMISE

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

NOW TESTING: OPEN MIC NIGHT

7:30pm. Chromatic Coffee, 17 N Second St, San Jose

STAGE | HAMMER THEATRE CENTER PRESENTS "ASERE!"

7:30pm. Featuring Musicians and Dancers of the Havana Cuba All-Stars. Hammer Theatre, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose

STAGE | LOS ALTOS STAGE COMPANY PRESENTS: THE GRAPES OF WRATH

8pm. Various times through 5/5. Bus Barn Theater, 97 Hillview Ave, Los Altos

STAGE | QUEEN OF THE MIST

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

STAGE | EURYDICE

8pm. Various times through Sun. City Lights Theater Company, 529 S Second St, San Jose

SMOKING PIG BBQ

SHERWOOD INN

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

Sun, 4pm: Novak-Nanni Duo. 2988 Almaden Expy, San Jose

HIP-HOP | THE CYPHER W/ DJ D'LUX, JXEYG, & FRIENDS

Thu, 8pm: The Hillbilly Moon Explosion, Lara Hope & The Ark-Tones. Fri, 8pm: Camilo Séptimo. Sat, 8pm: Outsider's Social ’80s New Wave Live Dance Party. Sun, 5pm: UGWA: A History Of Violence 7. 400 S First St, San Jose

STAGE | THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY PRESENTS: A PARIS LOVE STORY

8pm. Various times through 5/5. Hershey Felder plays Claude Debussy. Mountain

DANCE | DJ RAHEEM

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

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

THE BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: HouseFix with Mario Dubbz, Felipe Avelar, Soulmat3s. Fri, 10pm: ’80s Culture Club. Sat, 4/13, 6pm: UFC 236. 10pm: Snap Saturdays with DJ Gwrex. 1116 Branham Lane, San Jose

FRI 4/12 FOLK POP | ESTHER AT THE EASTRIDGE OPEN MIC

7pm. JCPenney Courtyard, Eastridge Center, 2200 Eastridge Loop, San Jose

THE RITZ

Fri, 9pm: Amy Lou & The Wild Ones. Sat, 9pm: Burnin' Vernon Davis & Bad Influence.

3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

COUNTRY | CASEY DONAHEW

7pm. Club Rodeo, 610 Coleman Ave, San Jose

STAGE | AMAL: A SPOKEN WORD THEATER PERFORMANCE ABOUT HOPE

8pm. Various times through Sun. MACLA, 510 S First St, San Jose

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

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

KARAOKE | THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

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

SAT 4/13 2ND ANNUAL MOONLIGHT ROCKABILLY CARNIVAL

10am. Emma Prusch Farm Park, 647 S King Rd, San Jose

ART FEST | VIVA MUXERES

11am. Also Sunday. Garden at The Flea, 1590 Berryessa Road, San Jose

POETRY MEETUP WITH THE GARLICKY POETS

3:30pm. Gilroy Library, 350 W Sixth St, Gilroy

SONGWRITER SATURDAY SHOWCASE

5pm. Crema Coffee #3, 1202 The Alameda, San Jose

WORKSHOP | STOPMOTION SPIRITS!

6:30pm & 8:30pm. Hands-on Miyazaki themed stop-

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MURS plus Locksmith

also Cojo and Six Of Seven

Thursday, April 11 • Ages 18+

FLOSSTRADAMUS

Thursday, April 11 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

SOOHAN plus Little John

also DRMWVR

Friday, April 12 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

AYLA NEREO plus Marya Stark

Saturday, April 13 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

EMO NIGHT BROOKLYN: SANTA CRUZ Sunday, April 14 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

LEIKELI47 plus Yung Baby Tate

Monday, April 15 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

AGES & AGES plus The Harmaleighs Wednesday, April 17 • Ages 16+

Parcels

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The Undercover Dream Lovers

Apr 19 SOB X RBE (Ages 16+) Apr 24 Tech N9ne/ Krizz Kaliko (Ages 16+) Apr 25 Party Favor/ Wuki (Ages 18+) 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 16 Jai Wolf (Ages 16+) May 18 Ari Lennox (Ages 16+) May 19 Mac DeMarco (Ages 16+) May 23 Hieroglyphics/ Rap Noir (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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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!

ROBYN HITCHCOCK

HMML 5/17 BIG SUR

MAC DEMARCO CATALYST 5/19

Rio Theatre

Marty Stuart 5/23 & his Fabulous Superlatives

JACKIE GREENE BAND Friday, June 7 Monterey Golden State Theater

metroactive EVENTS 31 motion workshop. Cukui, 229 Jackson St, San Jose

IMPROVISATION | COMEDY SPORTZ

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

ROCK | BYLINES ALBUM RELEASE W/ NOVELA, JUNCO, SOCORRA

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

WILLOW DEN PUBLIC HOUSE

Sat, 9pm: Live music w/ Jesse Daniel & Pat Reedy. Sun, 5:30pm– Close: Service Industry Night = 1/2 off drinks with your industry card!

Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. 803 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

KARAOKE & DANCING

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

SUN 4/14 ART FEST | VIVA MUXERES

11am. Also Saturday. Garden At The Flea, 1590 Berryessa Road, San Jose

JAZZ JAM

Wed. April 10 CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

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

7pm • $7

ACOUSTIC | JOE FERRARA

FEATPRINTS Fri. April 12

WISER TIME

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

MON 4/15

Sat. April 13 Lynda Mortensen’s Bay Area Tributes Presents

THE BUTLERS

& MODERN DAY COWBOY Tesla Tribute: • 8pm •$16 adv $18 Door Sun. April 14

WAKE THE DEAD

7pm • $20 adv / $22 Door

2209 Broadway St Redwood City / 831.334.1153 clubfoxrwc.com

SAN JOSE POETRY SLAM

CEDAR ROOM

Everyday Happy Hour 4pm– 5:30pm & 9pm–10pm. Mon, 7pm: Big Bands.Tue, 8pm–Close:Tiki Tuesdays—exotic cocktails and island vibes. Wed, 8pm–11pm: Queen Bingo. Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

8pm. The Ritz, 400 S First St, San Jose

DANCING | MOTOWN ON MONDAYS

TALENT CONTEST | GO GO GONE SHOW

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

KARAOKE | O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

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

CARAVAN LOUNGE COMEDY SHOW WITH MR. WALKER

9pm. 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose

9pm. 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

COMEDY OPEN MIC WITH PETE MUNOZ

THU 4/18

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

MONDO MONDAY KARAOKE

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

TUE 4/16 TRADITIONAL IRISH SEISIUN TUESDAYS

6:30pm. O'Flaherty's, 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose

TRIVIA TUESDAYS

7pm. 20twenty Cheese Bar, 1389 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

MUSIC OPEN MIC

7:30pm. Britannia Arms Almaden, 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

KARAOKE | 7 BAMBOO

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

7pm. 201 Castro St, Mountain View

THE EULIPIONS JAZZ JAM SESSION

7:30pm. Trianon Theatre, 72 N Fifth St, San Jose

NEW TALENT COMEDY COMPETITION PRELIMINARY: ROUND 9 PUNK | RESILIENCE, INFORMAL SOCIETY, MOKOSOS

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

2019 APRIL CONCERT | BEETHOVEN & MOZART

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

RED ROCK MIXED OPEN MIC

5:30pm. Poetry competition.

Sign up at 5pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

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

WED 4/17 FRASCATI COMEDY OPEN MIC (ALL AGES)

Good Times/Metro Ad, Wed. 04/10

A Tribute to The Black Crowes w/ Roses n’ Guns • Tribute to Guns n’ Roses • 8pm • $15

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TRIVIA | PUBSTUMPERS

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC

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

MIXED OPEN MIC

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

MUSIC OPEN MIC

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

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

TRIVIA NIGHT

TRIVIA | TRIVIOLITY PUB QUIZ

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

HOUSE MUSIC | RHYTHM RITUAL

BURLESQUE | CIRCUS OF SIN: COUNTDOWN TO STONERGEDDON

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

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

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

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

DOOM FOLK | PANHANDLERS UNION & COLE HINKLE

PUNK | PUNK VINYL TUESDAYS WITH DJ TEST

KARAOKE | COURT’S LOUNGE

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

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

Mon, Thu, Sat, 9:30pm. 2425 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY controlled China from the mid-17th century to the early 20th century. It was the fifth biggest empire in world history. But eventually it faded, as all mighty regimes do. Revolution came in 1911, forcing the last emperor to abdicate and giving birth to the Republic of China. I'm inclined to think of your life in 2019 as having some similarities to that transition.

It's the end of one era and the beginning of another; a changing of the guard and a passing of the torch.

The coming weeks will be a favorable time to be very active in deciding and visualizing the empire you want next.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I hope that sometime soon you'll acquire a new source of support or inspiration. Now is a phase of your astrological cycle when you're likely to attract influences that are in alignment with your deep values. This addition might be a person or animal. It could be a vibrant symbol or useful tool. It may even be a fantasy character or departed ancestor that will stimulate vitality you haven’t been able to summon on your own. Be on the lookout for this enhancement.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Poet David Hinton

analyzed the Chinese word for "poetry." Its etymological meaning is "words spoken at the fertility altar." Let's make that your theme, even if you don't write or read poetry. I suspect the coming weeks will be a favorable time to take a vow or utter a solemn intention in front of a homemade fertility altar. The oath you speak might express a desire to boost your use of your physical vitality: your lust for life, your adoration of the natural world or your power to produce new human life. Or your vow to foster your fertility could be more metaphorical and symbolic in nature: the imaginative intimacy you will explore, the creativity you'll express in future works of art or the generous effects you want to have on the world.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Christopher Robin

Milne was the son of author A. A. Milne, who wrote the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. He said there are two ways to navigate through life. Either you "take a bearing on something in the future and steer towards it, or take a bearing on something in the past and steer away from it." So in his view, "There are those who look ahead and pull and those who look behind and push." I'm hoping that in the coming weeks and months, you will make a delighted commitment to the first option: taking a bearing on something in the future and steering toward it. I think that approach will inspire you toward the most interesting success.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The national animal of Finland is the brown bear. The national insect is the ladybug, and the national instrument is a stringed instrument known as the kantele. As for the national author, it's Aleksis Kivi, who produced just one novel that took him 10 years to write. He also published a short collection of odes and a few plays, adding up to a grand total of less than 800 pages of work. I think that the efforts you make in the coming weeks could have a disproportionately large impact, as well, Leo. What you lack in quantity will be irrelevant compared to the sheer quality you generate.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I follow the blogger

Evanescent Voyager because she makes me cry with sad joy and exultant poignance on a regular basis. One of her other fans wrote her a love note I could have written myself. It said, "Your emotional brilliance and thoughtful passion break me into pieces and then weave me back together with more coherence than I had before reading you. I revere your alchemical talent for undoing me so you can heal me; for lowering my defenses so I can be open to your riches; for demolishing my habitual trance so you can awaken my sleeping genius." I believe that in the coming weeks, life itself will offer to perform these same services for you, Virgo. I urge you to accept!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Love is no assignment

for cowards." That's a quote attributed to the ancient Roman poet Ovid. What did he mean?

Was he foreshadowing the wisdom of pop singer Pat Benatar, who in 1983 told us, "Love is a battlefield?” Was Ovid implying that to succeed in the amorous arts, we must be heroic warriors prepared to overcome fears and risk psychological

dangers? Probably. But I will also point out that it takes as much courage to create fun, interesting togetherness as it does to wrestle with the problems that togetherness brings. You need just as much bravura and panache to explore the sweet mysteries of intimacy as you do to explore the achy mysteries of intimacy. Keep these thoughts in mind as you marshal your audacity to deepen and expand your best relationships in the coming weeks.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The literal meaning of

the French term jolie-laide is "pretty and ugly."

Bloggers at wordsnquotes.com define it as follows: "It's a fascinating quirkiness that's irresistible, like a face you want to keep looking at even if you can't decide whether it is beautiful or not." Jolielaide overlaps with the Japanese term wabi-sabi, which describes a person or thing that is lovely because of its imperfection and incompleteness. I bring these facts to your attention because I think you have extraordinary potential to be a master embodier of both jolie-laide and wabi-sabi in the coming weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As Czech playwright Vaclav Havel (1936–2011) matured, he became a political dissident who opposed the Soviet Union's authoritarian grip on his country.

Eventually he was a key player in the Velvet Revolution that banished Communism. When Czechoslovakia emerged as a new democracy, its people elected him president. Havel later thanked Lou Reed and the band the Velvet Underground for fully awakening his liberationist leadership. He said their unruly music stoked his longing to establish a culture where total creative freedom was possible.

I mention this, Sagittarius, because now is a favorable time to identify the music or art or films or literature that might fuel your emancipation in the coming months.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn author J.

R. R. Tolkien toiled on his masterpiece The Lord of the Rings for 12 years. Once he finished, it wasn't published for more than five years. So 17 years passed between the time he launched his precious project and the time when it reached an audience.

I don't think you will need that much patience in shepherding your own venture to full expression, Capricorn. But I hope you'll summon as much faith in yourself as Tolkien had to rouse in himself. To do so will bring out the best in you!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Released in 1998, The Prince of Egypt is an animated film that tells the story of the Hebrew prophet Moses. In the climactic event, the hero uses magic to part the waters of the Red Sea, allowing his people to run across the sea floor and escape the army that's chasing them. To make that seven-minute scene, 28 professional animators labored for 318,000 hours.

In the coming months, you could create your own version of that marvel, Aquarius. But you'll need a team to help you, and that team is not yet ready to go. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to get it ready, though.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean businessman

Steve Jobs testified that taking LSD was "one of the two or three most important things" he ever did in his life. It opened his mind in ways he felt were crucial to his development. What are the three most important things you've ever done, Pisces? I invite you to revisit at least one of them, and see if you can take it to the next step of its power to inspire you. What if it has even more to offer you in your efforts to become the person you want to be?

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I’m so tired of these supposed magician multitaskers on their cellphones. The guy I’m dating and some of my friends don’t seem to get how disrespectful it feels when they play around on their phone or text while I’m talking to them.

Am I crazy to want eye contact and attention when I’m talking?—Irritated This smartphone multitasking thing probably goes further than anyone knows—like, I’m picturing a parishioner in the confessional and the priest in the adjoining booth on his phone, shopping for a new cassock: “Next-day delivery.

Sweet!” Parishioner: “Um, Father...did you hear me say I murdered three people and still have them in my trunk out back?”

Somebody came up with an annoyingly cute name—phubbing (a mash of “phone” and “snubbing”)—for when someone ignores you in a social setting by being all up in their phone. Not surprisingly, research by social psychologist Varoth Chotpitayasunondh finds that phubbing comes off as a form of social ostracism, allowing the snub-ee to experience that fun feeling some of us had in third grade when other kids diagnosed us with cooties and sentenced us to eat alone for the rest of elementary school.

Chotpitayasunondh’s research suggests that being phubbed by friends and acquaintances threatens our fundamental need for “belongingness.”

Other research on phubbing’s effects in romantic partnerships finds (again, not surprisingly) that it erodes intimacy and makes for less-satisfying relationships

and diminished personal well-being.

Regarding phubbers’ skewed priorities, the title of a study by communications prof James A. Roberts says it all: “My life has become a major distraction from my cell phone.”

The important thing to remember is that you have a choice in how you are treated. Your power in pushing for respectful treatment comes out of what I call the “walk away principle”—how willing you are, when somebody refuses to give you the level of respect you want, to just say, “Well, I’ll miss you!”

Figure out what sort of phone behavior works for you (for example, phone totally off and away when they’re with you or, say, facedown on the table in case the babysitter or liver transplant team calls). Explain the issue by appealing to their empathy rather than attacking them. You might also feel less slighted if you remind yourself of the addictive pull of these electronic binkies.

Frankly, we’re lucky cellphones are a very recent invention. “Washington Falling Into the Delaware,” anyone? Or maybe a little Patrick Henry: “Give me liberty or...wait a minute! I think somebody just liked my Instagram post!”

I’ve been in recovery from drugs for six years, and I had to set a boundary with an old friend who’s abusing drugs again and lying to me and using me. I kept trying to help him, but all the lying and scamming was just too much. I finally blocked him on my phone—as I knew I had to. So why do I feel so bad about it?—Been There A guy will insist he’s clean, tell you he’s finally just “high on life”—a state that doesn’t usually involve shouting matches with the curtains.

Your feel bad about saying no to any further convos with this guy actually has some ancient roots.

Ancestral humans lived in a seriously harsh environment, so we evolved to cooperate—to work together and help each other—making it less likely we’d starve to death and/or get eaten by lions. But people don’t always put out a memo listing their needs, so how do we know when to help? Well, welcome to the evolution of empathy, our tuning into others’ emotions and “catching” what they’re feeling (to some degree).

Unless you’re a sociopath or a sex robot,

empathy rises up automatically, as does its sister state, compassion. Compassion, as I define it in “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,” is “empathy with an action plan”— motivating us to want to do something to help when we see a person suffering.

In other words, your emotional overlords have been pinging you, alerting you that somebody’s in distress, and unfortunately, reason (as usual) is late to the party. That’s to be expected, because reason is what cognitive scientists call an “effortful process,” in contrast with the automatic “Awww, poor you!” of empathy. Get reason out of bed and use it to remind yourself that you weren’t helping this guy; you were enabling him.

(c)2019, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (advicegoddess.com).

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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 #652468

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silicon Valley Weight Loss, 694 West Dana Street, Suite A, Mountain View, CA, 94041, Cardinal Chiropractic, Inc, 100 Bush Street, Suite 530, San Francisco, CA, 94104. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/01/2019. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Karri Cardinal. President. #C3797668.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/14/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652369 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: My Gym Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Children’s Fitness Centers/ My Gym, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/26/2005. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Helen Vallaeys.

Owner. #200505710002. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/12/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652516 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: House Of Bagels, 5297 Prospect Rd., San Jose, CA, 95129, Chiu & Company, LLC, 430 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 Chiu. 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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652501 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 3D Global Consulting, 14770 Mcvay Ave., San Jose, CA, 95127, Martin Lehn Nielsen. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Refile in facts from previous filing #590996 /s/Martin Lehn Nielsen.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/14/2019. (pub Metro 03/27, 04/03, 04/10, 04/17/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652730 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 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)

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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)

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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)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652962

FICTITIOUS BUSINES NAME STATEMENT #652483

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

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jang Mo Ziep BBQ, 3148 El Camino Real STE 100, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Je-O Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/14/2019.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Yun Chul Kim. President. #4232193. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/14/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652918 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Under Glass, 455 North 17th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Janice L Propert. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2018. /s/ Janice Propert. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/22/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652923 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Makers4good, 1130 Independence Ave., Mountain View, CA, 94043, E S Devices. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/1/2018.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/James Flynn. CEO. #C3402657. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/22/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #653022 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Locksmith Near Me, 292 Llano De Los Robles Ave., San Jose, CA, 95136, Angel Amar, 218 William Manly St., #5, San Jose, CA, 95136.

This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/25/2019. /s/Angel Amar.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/26/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

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

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #651653 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Vape N Smoke 2, 1710 Berryessa Rd STE 109, San Jose, CA, 95133, Hawond Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/01/2019.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Abdul Qudoos. President. #4243888. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/22/2019. (pub Metro 03/20, 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652686 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Golden Coast Legal, 1548 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Marcus Watson. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/17/2019. /s/ Marcus Watson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/18/2019. (pub Metro 04/03, 04/10, 04/17, 04/24/2019)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #653172 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Applied Computer Online Services, 2901 Moorpark Ave., Suite 100, San Jose, CA, 95128, Sam International Information Technology.

This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/03/1992. Refile in facts from previous filing #251126. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Fan S Chan. President. #C2150416. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/14/2019. (pub Metro 04/10, 04/17, 04/24, 05/01/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #653078 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Teifeld & Co Insurance Services Inc DBA NFP Property & Casualty, 160 W. Santa Clara St #575, San Jose, CA, 95113, Teifeld & Co Insurance Services Inc, 500 Madison St STE 2710, Chicago, IL, 60661. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/01/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Teresa Todd.

President. #C1111236. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/27/2019. (pub Metro 04/10, 04/17, 04/24, 05/01/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652762 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Z Best Pest Control, 1271 Alma Court, San Jose, CA, 95112, Matthew Socrates Richmond, 449 Alberto Way C140, Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/20/2019. /s/

Matthew Richmond. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/20/2019. (pub Metro 04/10, 04/17, 04/24, 05/01/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #653233 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sizzling Lunch, 1114 Branham Lane, San Jose, CA, 95118, Poki Spot. 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/Long Fei Lin. President. #C4037638. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/02/2019. (pub Metro 04/10, 04/17, 04/24, 05/01/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #653449 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Threshold Ventures, 55 Pepper Drive, Los Altos, CA, 94022, Jonathan Baer. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 06/05/2014 under file No. 592813.

This business was conducted by: An Individual: Filed on 04/05/2019. /s/Jonathan Baer. (pub dates: 04/10, 04/17, 04/24, 05/01/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #653059 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pattyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Inn, 102 S. Montgomery St., San Jose, CA, 95125, Kenneth F. Solis. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/05/2001. Refile in facts from previous filing #476503 /s/Kenneth F. Solis. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/27/2019. (pub Metro 04/10, 04/17, 04/24, 05/01/2019)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF CLEMENTINA FERREIRA, ESTATE NO. 119PR185227 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, and contingent creditors of Clementina Ferreira and persons who may be otherwise interested in the will or estate, or both:A petition has been filed by D. Mosher in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara, requesting that she be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of Clementina Ferreira [and for probate of the decedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will, which is available for examination in the court file].[The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. This will avoid the need to obtain court approval for many actions taken in connection with the estate. However, before taking certain actions, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or have consented to the proposed action.

The petition will be granted unless good cause is shown why it should not be.]The petition is set for hearing in Dept. No. 13at 191 N. 1st Street, San Jose, Caon April 26, 2019 at 9AM .IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 58 of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of delivery of the notice to you under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code.YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are interested in the estate, you may request special notice of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Section 1250 of the California Probate Code.D. Mosher, dmosher324@yahoo.com(Pub Dates: 03/27, 04/03, 04/10/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #652412 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. The Muziquarium, 2. Bravo Event Productions, 4699 Ventura Ave., San Jose, CA, 95111, Kevin Walton. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2009.

Refile in facts from previous filing #588990 /s/Kevin Walton. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/19/2019. (pub Metro 04/10, 04/17, 04/24, 05/01/2019)

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Marc and Brie—owners of AIRFIELD SUPPLY COMPANY—celebrated multiple wins with their baby, Mila, at Metro’s Best of Silicon Valley 2019 party at The Fairmont Hotel.

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Amy and Zak Elrite of BAGEL BAR at the #BOSV2019 party.

The SILICON VALLEY ORGANIZATION recognized its members at its annual awards banquet at Glass House.

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The folks from PACIFIC HAND CAR WASH had a blast at the Metro photo booth during the Best of Silicon Valley 2019 party.

Jas Leverette of CALI K9, right, claimed his award for Best Pet Trainer at the Best Of Silicon Valley party.

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Sam Ramirez, right, of CARDIFF LOUNGE and THE CONTINENTAL collected his award at the Best of Silicon Valley 2019 party.

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