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ISawYou@metronews.com Send us your anonymous rants and raves about your co-workers or any badly behaving citizen to I SAW YOU, Metro, 380 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email.
Bag Lady You and your husband were making your way onto the plane and I saw my future in 40 years. Faces serious and determined, steps hobbled and measured, white knuckling bags that couldn’t have weighed more than a sack of groceries. My parents taught me to respect my elders, so I offered to help put your bag in the overhead bin. But when I reached over you gave me a look that said I might not get that hand back. OK, lady. I get it. I’ll slow my roll. But seriously—what you got in that bag?
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Historically, there were many parts of San Jose that had anti-Asian [covenants] written into their land titles...
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I love this place!!! House made salsa bar, great beer selection, staff is always super friendly. IAN SUNDELIUS VIA FACEBOOK
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Scene Is Lit San Jose desperately needs an iconic landmark. Last year, the nation’s 10th largest city was tabbed the country’s most forgettable municipality, according to a study by NATHAN SILVER’s FiveThirtyEight.com. Fly will forgive the slight—but not the werewolf squid Silver calls a haircut, or, you know, his awful prediction in the last year’s presidential election—mainly because San Jose’s skyline has about as many peaks as BRENT BURNS’ smile. (Love you, Burnzie. Now please put that hockey stick down.) But there’s light at the beginning of the tunnel. Two weeks ago Metro provided the full scoop on an effort to rebuild the city’s massive light tower, which a 100 years ago was the envy of the bay. Standing over Santa Clara Street, the beacon could be seen from as far away as San Francisco. A few San Jose Rotarians— JON BALL, STEVE BORKENHAGEN and THOMAS WOHLMUT—have since teamed up to see if they can replicate a larger version of the structure, perhaps as high as 260 feet, and place it over one of the city’s parks. Phase one of the project is funding Don’t Wohlmut’s documentary on the light tower and forget its rumored influence to tip! on the design of the Eiffel Tower. Last week, FLY@ Borkenhagen invited 150 METRONEWS. COM guests to his jazz club, Café Stritch, to build excitement for the project, and the event raised an encouraging $90,000. That was $10K short of the goal, but Borkenhagen tells Fly that “a number of people came up to me and said they don’t do public donations,” so the amount is expected to grow. After the film is released, phase two of the project will involve global submissions for the design of the new light tower, with stipends in the range of $20K-$30K, Borkenhagen says. From there, the effort will move to building the structure—in total, Borkenhagen says, the process should take four years—and working out an agreement with the city regarding placement and ongoing maintenance costs. “Our current thought is to give this as a gift to the city,” Borkenhagen says.
WEB: SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics
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WHITE NATIONALIST Living in the South Bay’s multiracial milieu left Maine native Nathan Damigo feeling out of place.
Key Organizer of Charlottesville White Supremacy Rally Has Ties to Silicon Valley BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH One of the main organizers of the white supremacist rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville this past weekend has roots in the South Bay. Nathan Damigo—founder of white nationalist group Identity Evropa—is a former Marine, convicted felon and former San Jose resident whose father once worked for the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. KQED this week ran a profile on the 31-year-old extremist, who uses protests like the one in Charlottesville as a way to recruit new members. Damigo made headlines earlier this year after punching a woman in the face at the April 15 “Battle of Berkeley,” where white supremacists clashed with anti-racists and anti-fascists. Media reports, research by the Southern Poverty Law Center and myriad interviews on right-wing platforms paint a chilling portrait of a racist reactionary who’s galvanizing a national anti-diversity movement.
Damigo, who was born in Maine, grew up in San Jose and now lives in Stanislaus County, did not respond to request for comment. But in interviews with other publications, he says it was in the South Bay—home to one of the most ethnically diverse populations in the nation—that he began developing notions of his own racial superiority. After the Charlottesville riots, one of the neo-Nazi attendees was pressured out from his job at Top Dog in Berkeley after activists outed him. Another was disavowed by his father. Yet even after all the publicity about the ex-felon’s foray into neo-Nazi identity politics, neither Damigo’s mom nor stepdad have publicly denounced their son’s activism. San Jose Inside reached out to Damigo’s parents but did not hear back. Damigo’s biological father, a University of Maine adjunct history professor named Peter Lodge, on the other hand, has condemned his
estranged son’s words and actions. In an interview with his hometown newspaper, the Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal, Lodge stressed that he “had little to do with Nathan’s upbringing—he grew up in California, I lived in Maine.” Damigo’s older brother, SoCal musician Josh Damigo, also distanced himself. “I’m the polar opposite of my brother,” he told San Jose Inside. The Bay Area could be the next target for the so-called alt-right, with three major protests planned for San Francisco, Berkeley and Mountain View in the coming weeks. The one in Mountain View this coming Saturday comes in response to Google firing James Damore, who penned a controversial screed arguing against women’s biological fitness for some of the jobs men do. At least two other counter protests are planned for this weekend at the same location, Charleston Road in Mountain View.
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A pilot program to report illegal fireworks in San Jose has blown up in the city’s face. As a result, fire starters—real and imagined—will receive a pardon. Last week, City Manager Norberto Dueñas announced that the online pilot program unfairly issued citations to some of the 45 people who reportedly set off illegal fireworks. A major complaint stemmed from the fact that the appeal process required fines to first be paid. Citations will now be converted to warnings and those who already paid fines will be reimbursed. “The city values fairness in the enforcement of our municipal code,” Dueñas said. “As it appeared that the
criteria for fireworks use citations had not been evenly applied to all 45 citations, the fairest action was to replace the citations and associated fines with a warning letter.” Residents filed 1,075 online complaints about illegal fireworks between late May and July 12, resulting in 45 citations. These fines were apparently based off of video or photographic evidence, multiple reporting parties directing a finger at the same property and follow-up phone calls. And yet, the process was found to be incomplete and unjust. “Our message remains that the illegal use of fireworks is a serious safety concern, and we most certainly plan to continue enforcing against the illegal use of fireworks in our community,” Dueñas said. Andrey Malgin, via Shutterstock
NOT TURNING BACK A county proposal to create housing for LGBTQ seniors could prevent people from feeling like they need to go back into the closet.
Santa Clara County Will Study Housing for LGBTQ Seniors Santa Clara County supervisors on Tuesday approved a proposal to study how to house LGBTQ seniors and let them live out their golden years without fear of discrimination. The proposal came from county Supervisor Ken Yeager, who became the county’s first openly gay politician when elected to office decades ago. He cited examples of similar housing initiatives in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. About a quarter of the South Bay’s queer and transgender population is
over the age of 55, per the county. That number will double by 2030, according to a recent study. Despite a growing number of seniors who are open about their sexual orientation, a local study found that most in this county keep that information private. In the 2013 Status of LGBTQ Health Assessment, countyhired researchers found that most gay, lesbian and trans senior residents feel uncomfortable coming out because they “have gone through being LGBTQ in years when it was not socially acceptable to be gay.” —Jennifer Wadsworth
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BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH
JUST A PIECE
A beloved pizzeria slices up its ownership and cuts employees in
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A Slice of New York recently became the first business in Santa Clara County—out of more than 163,000—to transition to a co-op.
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HE LUNCH RUSH at A Slice of New York looks something like a time-lapse video, unnaturally sped up but in sync. Behind the counter, workers fall into a frenetic pace, tossing dough, sliding pizzas in and out of four brick ovens, ringing order after order amid a crush of customers. sequestered prep station. At the back of the house, there’s now considerably more elbow room to pound out the daily quota of about 200 dough balls and wind strips of it into hundreds of olive oil-brushed garlic knots.
“We have a lot more space now,” says Kirk Vartan, the pizzeria’s 51-yearold co-founder and general manager, as he makes his way to the back of the shop. “It used to be a little harder to not bump into each other.”
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A recent expansion at the holein-the-wall eatery, located between a military surplus store and a longtime blues bar on Stevens Creek Boulevard, allowed workers to move a giant mixer and some shelves to a
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A-TEAM A Slice of New York employees now go by a new title: business partners.
With more room, the pizza joint can improve efficiency and build capacity. “If that’s what the employees decide to do,” Vartan clarifies. “That’s their call now.” The physical renovations have set the stage for an existential one at A Slice of New York. Last month, Vartan, who cofounded the business in 2006 with wife Marguerite Lee, invited the workers to become equal partners in the company. Shilling pizzas is usually a starter job. But at A Slice of New York, it’s a path to becoming a business owner. “Culturally, we’ve always been structured this way,” says Lee, 49. “So that really laid the groundwork for this next step in our evolution.” Last month, the New York-style pizzeria became what may be the first brick-and-mortar business in Santa Clara County to turn its equity over to an employee collective. That’s one out of more than 163,000 businesses that call the county home, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
“You don’t normally think of staying too long in the foodservice industry,” says Ren Boguiren, 28, a seven-year employee and one of 10 new owners. “But I’m very proud of it, honestly. When I get asked by people where I work, it’s not just, ‘I work at a pizza shop,’ it’s, ‘I’m a partowner.’ That’s really empowering.” Taped up over the prep area, a series of laminated illustrations of Lego Star Wars figures explain the new corporate structure of A Slice of New York, called ASONY for short. “ASONY members define the rules, the procedures and the consequences—together!” reads one of the displays, which features a Lego Yoda, R2D2, Chewbacca and Han Solo. Under the cooperative model, workers have a chance to become equal partners with the founders. Each of the pizzeria’s 30-plus employees have the option of becoming a member as long as they vest $3,000, which can be paid over two years out of payroll deductions
after a 12-month candidacy period. Unlike stock, ownership ends when the employee quits, and all or most of the membership fee is refunded, depending on their length of service. Each member has equal ownership and an equal vote in policy decisions. Worker-proprietors also divvy up profits at the end of the year. “Initially we had friends and family come to us saying, ‘Why are you giving away your business?’” Lee says. “We told them, ‘No, we’re not giving it away, we’re sharing it. We’re trying to set an example for other businesses.”
Finding Equity Worker cooperatives in the United States date back to the advent of the labor movement in the mid-1800s when employees frustrated by a systemic lack of democracy on the job formed collective partnerships. But the business model appears to be seeing new life as workers and progressive-minded owners
look for ways to combat the nation’s growing economic inequality. “A worker cooperative is owned by everyone who wants to be part of it,” explains Hilary Abell, co-founder of the Oakland-based Project Equity, a nonprofit founded three years ago to help businesses transition to employee ownership. “The workers vote for the board of directors. The workers have control over the bigpicture stuff, like policy changes. In a traditional ownership model, employees live with the results of decisions they had no part in making.” Though rare in the U.S., worker coops claim a long pedigree in Europe. In northern Italy’s Emilia Romagna province, about two out of every three inhabitants are co-op members who generate a third of the region’s gross domestic product. Spain’s Mondragon Corp. is a federation of hundreds of cooperatives founded in 1956. A young Catholic priest, José Maria Arizmendiarrieta, formed the alliance to help a Basque town recover from the poverty and devastation of the Spanish Civil War. By the end of 2015, it employed more than 74,335 people in 257 companies. Meanwhile, only about 400 American companies operate as employee co-ops, according to the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives. That figure doesn’t count other types of cooperatives, including those run by producers and consumers, which would bring the figure to 30,000. From coast to coast, there are worker-owned thrift stores, brewpubs and internet-hosting companies. Taxi drivers squeezed out by Uber and Lyft are trying to disrupt the industry that disrupted theirs by rolling out a cooperatively owned ride-hailing app. Abell says there’s been an uptick in new co-ops and heightened interest since the Great Recession. “There’s a lot of evidence that shows cooperative businesses survive longer in their industries,” she says. “They can be more profitable, definitely more equitable and they tend to pay higher wages.” They also offer a way for companies to preserve their legacy, which is a growing challenge with
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Risky Business Vartan, a native Manhattanite, found his way to Silicon Valley through the tech sector. As an IT technologist at Cisco, he met Lee, who worked in the company’s philanthropy division. After a couple of decades as a corporate apparatchik, Vartan opted out in 2006 to open A Slice of New York.
“We started out with less than six people,” says Lee, who co-founded the pizzeria but held down her day job at Cisco for another seven years while working nights and weekends with her husband. “It was nutty at first. At the time, we were just at that little San Jose shop. We had no set hours, so we’d stay open really late. It got a little out of control sometimes.” Lee had reservations at first. Vartan had the drive, but no experience in the foodservice industry. “Just making this dream happen was important to me,” Lee says. Though the couple founded the pizza parlor as a sole proprietorship, the goal was always to transition to some kind of employee ownership. “When we first started, our corporate attorney said, ‘Don’t even offer that. You’re going to set expectations really high, unreasonably high,’” Vartan says. “He told us, ‘You risk getting ripped off, people will steal from you, you’ll have high turnover, it’ll ruin the company.’ We didn’t have any experience with this, but we were like, ‘OK, that’s interesting information, we don’t really care, we’re going to do it anyway.’” Vartan made himself general manager and assigned shift leads, a purely operational hierarchy to keep things on tempo at the flagship store on Stevens Creek Boulevard and the second location in Sunnyvale. They also offered bonuses and performance incentives. “Over half the people that work for us, they never had a bonus before,” Vartan says. “For some of them, when they first got it, they were like, ‘Why are you giving us this money?’ It was totally new to them.” About two years ago, Vartan and Lee began talking about actualizing their cooperative culture as a legal entity. They shelled out some of their own money for attorneys, accountants and Project Equity’s guidance. This summer, they made it official. They appraised the business and sold its assets to the new entity for a note, which Vartan expects to pay off within six years, based on expense and profit projections. If the co-op exceeds expectations, the selling entity gets an “earn
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a looming “silver tsunami” of baby boomer retirements. A report released earlier this year by Project Equity found that boomers— those born roughly between 1946 and 1964—own nearly half of privately held U.S. businesses with employees, with an aggregate payroll of $1 trillion. But they’re retiring at unprecedented rates. Government estimates put the figure at 4 million retirements per year. In the nine-county Bay Area, roughly 65,000 businesses are owned by people of retirement age, according to estimates based on U.S. Census Bureau data. Together, they employ about 626,000 people whose labor generates nearly $150 billion in annual revenue. Yet more than 85 percent of business owners have no succession plan, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration. Only a small fraction of owners pass their company on to family, Abell says, leaving companies at risk of closure or getting sold. “It’s far more likely that the company shuts down,” she says. Buyouts often translate to layoffs, Abell adds, which concentrates power into fewer hands. Ownership handoffs can also fundamentally change the character of a business and its stake in the community. Small businesses, which make up 99.7 percent of all firms and provide 48 percent of jobs nationally, disseminate three times more money into the local economy than absentee-owned or chain corporations, according to a 2012 survey by national research firm Civic Economics. “Cities put in a lot of effort to bringing in new corporations, promoting startups and things like that to build their tax base,” Abell says. “But there’s very little attention being paid to this huge loss of business from the retirements, or the deaths, of business owners.”
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out” above and beyond the loan payments. They structured the loans, licensing and royalties based on what the business could afford, on its past performance and to create a successful model to evangelize. “This is a 100 percent transparent process,” he says. “Everybody sees the books. If any aspect is one-sided, the model breaks down.” Other worker-ownership structures, by contrast, eschew democratic decision making. Employee-owned stock options (ESOPs), another worker-owned model, appoint trustees to manage a benefits plan that pays out on retirement. Employee stock option plans, popular in Silicon Valley, offer upside if a company prospers but give employees little voice in company governance. “We’re trying to figure out a way to create wealth in this area that isn’t tech based,” Vartan says, “to take that Silicon Valley startup
mentality in the service industry.” To protect the integrity of the brand, Vartan and Lee kept the recipes and logo trademarked under a separate company, which costs the co-op a modest licensing fee. Unlike a franchise, Vartan says, the cooperative has a right but no obligation to buy products from the licensor, and can expand the number of locations if it so chooses. On July 31, A Slice of New York held its inaugural board meeting at Vartan and Lee’s house, with a videoconferencing setup for members who couldn’t attend in person. The discussion covered the shop’s half-hour break policy and legal contracts. Members appointed officers and celebrated their new partnership. A common misconception is that co-ops eliminate rank. While some do, it’s often practical to maintain certain management roles and hierarchical divisions of labor. At A Slice of New York, the day-to-day
business will function just as it did before becoming a co-op. But the big-picture planning is now a group effort. “A part of me feels like I’m not qualified to take on this role,” says Sahm Joushanpoosh, 34, who was elected chairman of the board. “But that’s part of the evolution of our transition, we have to learn as we go.”
Adjustment Bureau Cooperatives have a rich history in the Bay Area, where they grew out of the countercultural movements of the 1960s. Rainbow Grocery opened in San Francisco’s Mission District more than four decades ago. Across the bay, the 50-year-old Cheese Board Collective—made up of a cheese shop and a pizzeria— has become an iconic presence in Berkeley’s “Gourmet Ghetto,” home to Chez Panisse. Twenty years ago, the Cheese Board Collective lent its expertise
and financial resources to launch the Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives, which took its name after the Spanish priest who founded Mondragon. Today, there are six Arizmendi bakeries in San Rafael, Oakland, San Francisco and Emeryville. According to the Network of Bay Area Cooperatives, the region is home to about 60 worker co-ops— and counting. Two summers ago, NanoFarms USA, a sustainable garden in Palo Alto, converted to an employee cooperative. Niles Pie Co., a mom-andpop bakery in Union City, made the switch earlier this year. In the South Bay and Peninsula, only a handful of companies operate as employee collectives. Emma’s EcoClean in Redwood City was founded in 1999 by predominantly Spanishspeaking women who wanted to take charge of their own careers. Today, the business has 27 female co-owners and more than 2,600 clients. A sister company, EcoCare Professional House Cleaning, launched in 2002 out of Morgan Hill. Both spun off from Oakland-based nonprofit Prospera, which helps mostly low-income Latina immigrants build their own businesses. Sunnyvale-based TeamWorks, another worker-owned cleaning company, and its sister gardening company, TeamWorks Sustainable Landscapes, grew out of that same ethos. “One of the underlying issues that cooperatives seek to change is a lack of democracy in the workplace,” says David Smathers Moore, a Los Altos native and former labor organizer who helped get TeamWorks off the ground in 2006. “A lot of people aren’t used to that, so it has been a learning process for us.” Moore took an interest in workerrun businesses after seeing the devastating effects of globalization on largely African American and Latino blue-collar communities in Chicago, where a generation of deindustrialization gutted the middle class. In 2001, Chicago lost its standing as the candy capital of the world when Brach’s Confections closed its West Side plant. As a nonprofit community organizer, Moore worked with local labor
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“No one even considered layoffs,” Moore says. “They decided to share the pain.”
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HOME SLICE Kirk Vartan and his wife, Marguerite Lee, say they always intended to transition A Slice of New York to collective ownership.
groups to deal with the closure, which resulted in 1,100 layoffs. “It was devastating to these communities,” Moore says. “Here you have the largest candy plant in the world—which provided goodpaying blue-collar jobs for decades— close without anyone who worked there having a say in it. You have a company making all its decisions in Zurich, and nobody who worked at this place had any opportunity to say, ‘We understand that we’re losing money here, but we can do this, and make this cut and this sacrifice, and we can do this together.’” Instead, people who labored at the factory for their entire adult lives were given a month’s notice. “It seemed like we were always fighting a losing battle,” Moore says. When he returned to the South Bay a few years later, he came with the intent of forming a business without a boss. With little background in entrepreneurship, Moore learned
the ropes with his new partners, a collective of Spanish-speaking immigrant women. Most of them had experience in the cleaning business, which Moore had to learn in the field. “I had to establish my credibility with the workers, which meant cleaning homes and learning about the products firsthand,” he says. “From there, it was all of us figuring out how to run this together, learning about accounting and marketing, about how to resolve conflicts and other day-to-day decisions involved in owning your own business.” For several of the women, it took an adjustment period to realize the scope of their authority as worker-owners. “We don’t live in a culture that gives workers that kind of agency,” Moore says. “Especially for people who have been marginalized their whole lives, and who carry all that stress and trauma and internalized oppression, it takes some adjustment to undo those effects by gaining the
confidence, skills and experience. One of the benefits here is that there’s such an opportunity for personal and professional growth.” One criticism of co-ops is that they take too long to make decisions. Personality clashes can lead to squabbling over what a new uniform should look like or whether to buy a company vehicle or bring a new member on board. “That’s democracy, though,” says Sue Lopez, a part-owner of the Arizmendi branch in San Francisco’s Mission District. The alternative under a traditional corporate structure would be to accept unilateral edicts from on high, she notes. While collective decision making could mean bickering over minor details, Moore says, but it also means weathering tough times together. When fallout from the economic downturn struck in 2008 and 2009, the employees voted to each take a 15 percent pay cut rather than shrink the staff.
Lee and Vartan, who have no kids of their own, consider the pizzeria a family business and labor of love. Workers turn to the couple for personal advice and invite them to weddings and graduations. It’s not unheard of for them to close up shop for a day to attend a milestone event, or so employees can race in a Tough Mudder together. “It may sound crazy to people who don’t know the way we operate,” Joushanpoosh says. “But they’ve always treated us as peers. Most bosses try to demand your respect, but Kirk and Marguerite go out of their way to earn it.” ASONY gave Miguel Rubio his first job. He was 17 at the time and self-conscious about his stuttering, which kicked in under stress. “Kirk and Marguerite would take it upon themselves to get me to speak up,” says Rubio, who worked on and off for the pizzeria over the next 11 years while working toward becoming a firstgeneration college graduate. “That’s where I found my voice.” Last week, Rubio packed up for Austin, Texas, where his girlfriend will attend grad school and where he’ll try to find a job with a similar culture to ASONY’s. Before he left, he went under the needle to get the company’s logo etched on his arm. They call it the “family crest”—a black silhouette of a New York City skyline bordered by the outline of a pizza slice and the name of the business, A Slice of New York. About a dozen other employees have it inked onto their skin. Joushanpoosh has yet to get one, but he considers the burns on his arms a mark of dedication. “We’ve seen tremendous growth here,” Lee says. “We joke about how we’re all here on the island of misfit toys. We came here kind of randomly, yet we became this family and supported each other.” The least she and Vartan could do, she says, is to share their legacy. “We always wanted this to be kind of like a family business,” Lee muses. “Now, in a big way, it really is.”
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Wed, 6:45pm, $30+ Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View
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Maarten Hoogstraten is better known by his stage name, Bingo Players. The Dutch DJ and producer—along with his former musical collaborator, the late Paul Bäumer—is responsible for a number of international hits, including “Cry (Just a Little),” which was sampled by Flo Rida for his 2012 hit, “I Cry;” and “Rattle,” which eventually became “Get Up (Rattle),” a retooling of the Players original hit featuring Far East Movement. Since Bäumer’s death in 2013, Hoogstraten has kept the party alive with club bangers like “Knock You Out,” “Bust This” and “No. 1 Disco.” (NV)
The Silicon Valley Music and Taco Fest is back. What started as a single-day taco celebration has expanded into a full weekend of tortilla-cradled goodness, complete with live musical performances, a silent disco and an eating contest. They are even bringing in a mechanical bull for the would-be cowboys and cowgirls in the crowd. It’s unclear if any competitive eating celebs will be in on the action, but considering that two of the best—Joey Chestnut and Matt Stonie are San Jose natives— we’d be disappointed if we didn’t see at least one of them at St. James Park this weekend. (YK)
Incubus broke out big in 1999, closing out the millennium with Make Yourself. The multiplatinum album combined heavy riffs, FX-pedal wizardry, hip-hopinspired beats and a frontman who could really sing and proved the commercial potential of the nü-metal sound. That same year, Jimmy Eat World released Clarity—a sleeper hit of an album that is now seen as one of the group’s best and a harbinger of the early-aughts pop-emo movement. Both bands share the bill at Shoreline this week and are sure to put on a hell of a show for those looking to relive the glory days of Y2K rock & roll. (NV)
SPELLING BEE(R) Sat, 9pm, Free Local Color, San Jose All the world’s information (and plenty of misinformation) is at our fingertips. It’s enough to drive old curmudgeons like us to pine for the good old days. You know, back before squiggly red lines alerted us to our grammatical faux pas and our handsets auto-corrected our text messages—when you either knew how to how to spell onomatopoeia or you had to pick up an actual dictionary … with paper pages. There are no smartphones allowed for the contestants in this wordy tourney. Fortunately, there is beer. Join “Mighty” Mike McGee and co-host Ben Henderson for this sudsy spelling extravaganza. (NV)
NACHO LIBRE Sat, 8:30pm, Free St. James Park, San Jose Nothing beats a warm night under the stars with friends, family and one of Jack Black’s all-time best characters—Nacho! The 2006 film by Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess follows Ignacio, a quirky Catholic cook, who spends his days preparing and serving mediocre food at the Oaxacan monastery and orphanage where he was raised. At night, Ignacio becomes Nacho Libre, a luchador, who works his way up the food chain in the local professional wrestling circuit. Though the church considers his moonlighting sinful, Ignacio’s intentions are mostly pure, as he uses the money he earns in the ring to improve his recipes. (NV)
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NACHO LIBRE
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ZZ TOP & THE DOOBIE BROTHERS Aug 29 at The Mountain Winery
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Sep 16 at City National Civic
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Sep 16 at The Ritz
FIGHTING JACKS Sat, 8pm, $10 Art Boutiki, San Jose Local rock music fans who came of age attending shows at The Gaslighter and iMusicast will remember The Fighting Jacks as one of the most promising alternative bands to come out of the South Bay scene in the early-aughts. Formed in 2000, the Jacks were active until 2007, when the group went on hiatus. In that time the band released two EPs, a split and one full length— The Dying Art of Life, on Tooth and Nail Records. The Fighting Jacks picked up their instruments again in 2014 and just last month independently released their second LP, Decade. Plans for Revenge share the bill. (NV)
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Sun, 7pm, $45 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View Singer-songwriter and country music veteran Dierks Bentley is still in the midst of his What the Hell Tour in support of his 2016 album, Black. The record found the Arizona native detailing the struggles as well as the triumphs he has experienced over the course of his life. With eight studio albums and almost 15 years on stage, Bentley has a deep catalog of tunes to draw upon—from “What Was I Thinkin’” to “Somewhere on a Beach.” Bentley’s label mate Jon Pardi and Georgia singersongwriter Cole Swindell share the bill. (YK)
SOLAR ECLIPSE Mon, 9am, Free Valleywide
Getting the time off work and paying the inflated price for a hotel room in the “path of totality” wasn’t in the cards for everyone. Fortunately, this week’s solar eclipse will be at least partially visible from everywhere in the United States—even Hawaii and Alaska—and in Silicon Valley, those with the appropriate viewing protection will be able to see quite a show. Just be sure to make a pinhole camera or pick up an appropriately powerful set of eclipse-viewing glasses. The show starts at 9am, peaks at 10:15am, and will be over before lunch. (NV)
ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES
Tue, 7:30pm, $50+ The Mountain Winery, Saratoga Anyone worried about the state of modern soul music need look no further than St. Paul and the Broken Bones. Despite the AM-radio authenticity of the band’s vintage soul sound, the Birmingham band is relatively young—they formed just five short years ago. In that time they’ve seen their star rise as they’ve released a steady stream of solid records and been featured on Letterman, Conan and NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. They’ll share the stage with Trombone Shorty and his band, Orleans Avenue. (YK)
THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Sep 20 at The Ritz
SUBLIME WITH ROME
Sep 27 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
LAUREN HILL & NAS
Oct 7 at Shoreline Amphitheatre
DEPECHE MODE
Oct 8 at SAP Center
THE NEEDLE DROP: ANTHONY FANTANO Oct 25 at The Ritz
KATY PERRY
Nov 14 at SAP Center
THIRD EYE BLIND
Nov 14 at City National Civic
GIRAFFAGE
Nov 25 at The Ritz
THE PIXIES
Dec 10 at City National Civic
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San Jose’s Office of Cultural Affairs brings the ‘Playa to Paseo’ BY CAMILLE MILLER
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VERY SUMMER, TENS of thousands of people flock to Black Rock City, a temporary community erected in the middle of the Nevada desert, for the weeklong celebration of “radical self-reliance,” art cars and psychotropics known as Burning Man. What began as a ritual bonfire on Baker Beach back in 1986 has blossomed into the most iconic counterculture festival in the country, offering an ephemeral home to hundreds of large-scale,
hallucinatory art projects—many of which involve fire. “There were a lot of works that were really inspiring,” says Kerry Hapner, San Jose’s director of cultural affairs; Hapner attended the event for the first time last year. “What you see is that people really participate in the event. There’s no boundary between us and them. Everybody is actively engaged and part of the experience.” Captivated by the experimental vigor of the annual festival, Hapner wondered if there was any way for her to bring the spirit of the playa back to San Jose. She discussed the idea with Kim Cook, the director of art and civic engagement at the Burning Man Project, and the two came up with “Playa to Paseo”—a multiphase partnership dedicated to bring the art of
Burning Man to the streets of San Jose. “Both of our organizations see art as a tool for creative expression, but also as a means to generate dialogue about civic issues and social issues as a means to create change,” Hapner says. “We thought, what if we curated a set of art installations that were inspired by the annual event and we sited them in our downtown?” Through this new program, Hapner and Cook hope to stimulate the local community by providing more opportunities for artists to showcase their work, thereby giving pedestrians a new mode of interacting with their environment. “Art that enables the community to come together, to know themselves as co-creators of the work, that allows for touch and activity and participation is more likely to ignite connections in ways that are meaningful,” Cook says. This is the first time the Burning Man Project is partnering up with a city to curate a series of installations stemming
from the annual event. The first phase consists of siting four temporary art pieces in paseos and plazas throughout San Jose’s downtown, the first of which is set to be installed in October. About 25 to 35 percent of the artists who participate at Burning Man are based in Northern California, and most of the pieces being relocated to San Jose were created by Bay Area artists for past iterations of the event. “We’re looking at things that will be impactful, things that will be appropriate for an urban core,” Hapner says. Reflecting the festival’s participatory ethos is a lineup of highly interactive works that welcome passersby to touch, climb and connect with the art around them. “A lot of the work that we’re looking at also has a technology element,” she adds, noting LED illumination as a key aspect of the Burning Man nightscape. “There’s interest all over the world in bringing Burning Man into civic locations,” says Debi von Huene, a leading member of the local enthusiast group, South Bay Burners. “In Reno, San Francisco and Oakland, art is being placed in central plazas as part of placemaking and offering the community to enjoy Burning Man art.” In 2008, Huene helped bring Homouroboros to Discovery Meadow, a grassy expanse at the southern end of the Children’s Discovery Museum. Created by artist Peter Hudson for the 2007 Burning Man festival, the 24-foot zoetrope of hanging monkeys and interactive drum sets signified the firstever playa to paseo movement. “There has been Burning Man downtown before but not at this level of commitment from the city,” Huene says. “I’m just excited that [San Jose] is building a more permanent venue for that to happen.” The partnership is slated to go on for a minimum of three years, with the goal down of bringing artwork not only to downtown, but to other neighborhoods around the city. “Our cities are built and planned,” Cook says, “art can influence how they are experienced in positive ways.”
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spawning a whole new genre of spirituality books.
Surfing My Religion THERE IS SOMETHING about immersing oneself in saltwater for extended periods of time and dodging walls of waves that lends to some deep thinking about life and our place in the world.
BAD GIRLS ‘Lizzie,’ now playing at City Lights Theater, tells the tale of America’s first famous murderer—Lizzie Borden.
*stage ‘LIZZIE’
Do you know the story of Lizzie Borden? The Massachusetts spinster was put on trial for dispatching her parents with a hatchet in the summer of 1892, but was later acquitted of the crime. This Goth-rock musical with a riot-girl attitude tells the tale of Lizzie as you’ve never heard it before. Thru Aug 20. City Lights Theatre. San Jose.
‘CONSTELLATIONS’
Two scientists take the stage, one of honey the other of stars. A beekeeper and Cambridge cosmologist fall in love in this contemporary romantic drama. “Constellations” is an Evening Stand Award Best Play. Aug 23 - Sep 27. TheatreWorks at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
‘IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY’
When certain ailments cannot be resolved, a doctor administers an electromechanical vibrator treatment. Through a comical story of 19th-century patriarchal society, the
abilities of modern electricity are also explored. Two women take the stage and unravel their frustrations. Sep 8 - Oct 1. The Pear Theatre. Mountain View.
‘PETER AND THE STARCATCHER’
How Peter Pan became the boy who never grows up is revealed in this Tony Award winning musical. Pan’s history along with Hook and Tinkerbell are unraveled, save for an ambitious young girl who inspires a nameless orphan. Sep 15 - Oct 18. Tabard Theater at Theatre on San Pedro Square. San Jose.
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: ‘ROSENCRANTZ & GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD’
Broadcast live from London’s iconic National Theatre, Daniel Radcliffe stars in this 50th anniversary production of Tom Stoppard’s play. Two characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet make their way from background to foreground, telling their comedic version of the story. Sep 28. The Hammer Theatre. San Jose.
‘THE LITTLE MERMAID’ In a magical kingdom
beneath the sea, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. Sep 25 - Oct 1. Broadway San Jose. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.
‘THE PRINCE OF EGYPT’
A soaring celebration of the human spirit, ‘The Prince of Egypt’ features a dazzling, multi-ethnic cast in one of the greatest stories ever told: the saga of Moses and Ramses, his Pharaoh brother, and the indomitable people who changed them both forever. Oct 6 - Nov 5. TheatreWorks. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.
‘BEAUTIFUL’
The Inspiring true story of how Carole King became the soundtrack of a generation. Nov 14 - 19. Broadway San Jose. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.
‘AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS’
Grab your family, and your passport, for an ingenious, imaginative expedition around the world! Nov 29 - Dec 23. TheatreWorks at Lucie Stern Theatre. Palo Alto.
Surfing has recently produced some excellent works of nonfiction that have little to do with stoned-out surfer stereotypes. Last year’s Pulitzer Prize for autobiography went to William Finnegan for Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. Steve Kotler’s West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and the Origins of Belief is a fine book on the intersection of surfing and spirituality. And I’ll add Jaimal Yogis’ new memoir, All Our Waves Are Water: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment and the Perfect Ride, to the mix. Yogis, a San Francisco–based author, wrote the book as a follow-up to Saltwater Buddha, a coming-of-age story that blends surfing and spiritual seeking. All Our Waves picks up where he left off in his previous work and chronicles Yogis’ multidisciplinary spiritual quests and more earthbound struggles of career, friendship and starting a family. Yogis’ spiritual and physical journeys take him to the Himalayas, Jerusalem, a Washington Heights friary, Puerto Escondido, Mexico, and the cold water of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach.
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Yogis sprinkles the book with quotes that connect with the here and now, such as, “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop” (Rumi). Buddhism is the guiding light, and the book and Yogis offers a practical tour of Buddhist philosophy. The subtext of All Our Waves is not surfing, but the search for the universal and the divine in whatever form. “The word ‘spiritual’ can be a bit confusing,” Yogis says. “In Zen and other non-dual schools of spirituality like Vedanta yoga, everything is considered spiritual, even the most mundane tasks like washing dishes. So surfing is just one of the things I do because I love to do it. “And because I practice meditation and am interested in what you might call spiritual or philosophical questions—why are we here, how do we realize our potential, how do we reduce suffering—the sea becomes another place to practice.” Yogis does a great job making these heady themes accessible and entertaining through personal experiences. In the toxic fumes that characterize American political and cultural discourse of late, All Our Waves Are Water is a lungful of fresh air and a poignant reminder of the wider world beyond the glow of our handsets. —Stett Holbrook
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Hilarious Heist FIRST RODEO Daniel Craig has taken on many roles, but none quite like the character of the good-old-boy career criminal Joe Bang.
Soderbergh’s ‘Logan Lucky’ features great performances, big laughs BY RICHARD VON BUSACK
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HE LUCKLESS LOGAN family of West Virginia has endured its share of misfortunes: melancholy brother Clyde (Adam Driver) lost a hand when he was a soldier in Iran. Now he’s the depressed bartender at the Duck Tape Bar and Grill. Brother Jimmy (Channing Tatum) was an NFL prospect who had a career ending injury.
He had a job driving heavy machinery, up until the day the boss asks him to come into his office and
to shut the door after him. Jimmy’s ex-wife (an attractively tragic-faced Katie Holmes) married a car-dealing imbecile with a mini-mansion, while Jimmy abides in a single-wide. Pushed into a bar fight by some jerkoff wealthy race car promoters (the ringleader, a Jheri-curled Seth MacFarlane), the Logan brothers and sister Mellie (Riley Keough) return to a life of crime. They plan to swipe the concessions money at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, across the line in North Carolina. Their quiet little robbery gets fouled up when the schedule changes: they and their cohorts need to hit it during the busiest weekend of the year, Memorial Day. Here is a likable, sometimes uproarious, movie in which every actor comes up with something funny. We’ve
got a lot of Southern gothics, but very few southern Ealing comedies. The oddball heist movies that the Ealing Studios made were their retort to the American gangster movies. They muddled through, by contrast with American caper films that ran like clockwork. But maybe the model of what director Steven Soderbergh has in mind is described when a TV newscaster terms the robbery “Oceans 7-Eleven.” Soderbergh, who directed the Oceans 11 remakes, was in this area for his 2005 film, Bubble—one of the first shot-on-digital features. This time he uses the local texture for comic appeal. Check the enormous aprons of concrete at the local gas stations, as big as the service stations in an Ed Ruscha painting. He stages diversions at a county fair, where the locals toss toilet seats like horseshoes, or bob in zinc washtubs for something larger than apples—perhaps raw yams. Part of this film’s ingratiatingly leisurely appeal is Keogh, the wheel-woman for the heist. She’s interesting even when she’s just resting in the car
for a minute and blinking. Like her grandfather, Elvis, Keogh doesn’t have to do much to make a big impression. Logan Lucky has well-picked scenes of the Charlotte speedway, with short but choice footage of the big race. The cars—wrapped in plastic advertisements—provide the brightest colors in the movie. The rival for this shine and color is on stage at a little girls’ pageant, where Jimmy’s wide=eyed daughter (Farrah Mackenzie) is tarted up with makeup to beat Tammy Faye Baker. Soderberg doesn’t seem to have mixed feelings, watching a singer crucifying the national anthem at the race, as military parachutists glide down, carrying an acre-wide American flag to earth. The question with this kind of movie is: how well would it go over in a Southern drive-in? Would it amble too much for them? Might the locals feel they were being mocked by the line that says robbing NASCAR is an assault on America? Between this and Cars 3 we’re seeing some cinematic longing for a good time out in the country; if it doesn’t help our national divide, surely it can’t hurt. The soundtrack includes garage hits and The Groundhogs. The unshowy camera work is part of this film’s appeal, as are the stars studding the film, with Hilary Swank as a toodogged FBI agent, holding her jaw firm like Dick Tracy; and Katherine Waterston as a lady running a free clinic out of a Winnebago. Happily, she’s not dimming her deep brown eyes with tears for once. One actor seemed noteworthy—a novice, if you weren’t to realize the special tag was winking at you: “introducing Daniel Craig.” He’s British, despite the Strother Martin accent. Craig plays a muscular and wily vault-cracker named Bang, who has a platinum blonde Tintin haircut and a tattoo of West Virginia on his neck. The most ingenious person in the film, Bang engineers an elaborate jailbreak and tops it by breaking back into the joint before the dumbo warden (Dwight Yoakam) finds out. I can see Craig’s career rise in the east like the sun.
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James Jones, Hubert Selby and Henry Miller all used the word “douchebag” in their writings—the insult seems to have originated in Brooklyn. SNL introduced it to the rest of the nation (remember Buck Henry as the patrician “Lord Douchebag”). Mysteriously, this 20th century rubber device used to (unnecessarily) clean ladies’ genitals or to (hopelessly) prevent pregnancy, became the right term to describe selfish suburbanites, entitled muscleboys, gross plutocrats and loathsome people of all types and callings. You certainly do meet a lot of douchebags these days. Sean McCarthy and Elizabeth Mitchell, long-time valleyites whose Guerrilla Wanderers productions have made one hilarious indie movie after another, have a real winner here. The web series chronicles a group of recovering douches as they sit in a circle—AA-style—describing the incidents where they hit bottom; it is, we’re assured, all based on real-life events. Director McCarthy has been a good kid wrangler ever since he directed his sister Syra—visible as a namaste-ing New Ager here—in his shot-in-San Jose film Raging Cyclist. There’s a lot of salt in the case history “Miles and Madison” concerning a feud between a pair of tweens, conducted in emojis. The best of the six may be “Laura,” in which a suburban mom (Jenn Tripp) flips out in an obscenityladen tirade because she missed a yoga class. “Wilhelmina” concerns a British patron of fancy restaurants whose horrible behavior is ultimately too much for these case-hardened douches. If the dialogue fails occasionally, the actors make it work; the cutting, the swiveling Lazy Susan camera and the occasional computer graphic keep these situations crisp, refreshing and funny. There isn’t a more hilarious director than McCarthy in this valley, and the potential for this series to keep on growing is obvious. (Premieres Aug 17 in Menlo Park at the Guild Theater and Aug 19 in Cupertino at the BlueLight.) (RvB)
Revivals BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM
(1993) Has our hero turned murderer at last? A spate of gang killings by a caped and cowled figure leaves Batman hunted by the GCPD, spurred on by a climbing city councilman named Reeves (voiced by Hart Bochner, in a characterization strangely predicting Jared Kushner). Fearing for his life, the emphysema-ridden thug Valestra
MILDRED PIERCE/THE LETTER
(1945/1940) Pistol packing rivals Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in two of their best. Mildred Pierce is a lush, fevered melodrama based on James M. Cain’s novel about the rise of a fast food queen, and the vicious daughter (Ann Blyth) who sabotages her efforts. In The Letter, Davis is a colonial planter’s wife who settles a score with a blackmailer. The renowned David Thomson will be on hand this weekend to sign his new book, Warner Bros: The Story of an American Movie Studio. (Plays Aug 19-21 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)
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#BLM The Black Lives Matter movement was launched in the wake of the shooting of Michael Brown, documented in ‘Whose Streets?’
The Mean ‘Streets’ of Missouri THIS IS ESSENTIAL viewing. Director Sabaah Folayan’s Whose Streets? is a non-narrated documentary, woven from interviews, smartphone and small camera footage of the civil disturbances in Ferguson, Missouri, in summer 2014, as well as the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement afterward. The St. Louis exurb of Ferguson (population 24,000) is in one of the five poorest ZIP codes in the state. The protests began after a police officer shot and killed a local named Michael Brown, 18. They left his body on the street for four and a half hours while they photographed the scene. National and local TV news were stunned by the uprising that followed. “Stores being looted!” was the lead on one night of NBC’s coverage; we hear an unidentified newscaster from Fox clucking, “My mother always told me nothing good ever happens after midnight.” (Maybe so, but if you’re the kind of person who works night shifts, what can you do about it?) To get the proper mainstream perspective on the tragedy, it helps to share the view that property is more sacred than anything. Thus a vandalized ATM is as every bit as tragic as someone throwing a brick through a cathedral window. We learned a lot about a plundered McDonald’s. We learned very little about
the way the various police on scene herded the peaceful protesters with tactical vehicles, tear gas, concussion grenades, smoke bombs and rubber bullets. Yet the looters, speaking “the language of the unheard”—Martin Luther King’s definition of a riot—didn’t represent all of what was Whose Streets? going on in Ferguson. Ferguson here has some R, 90 Mins. of the appearance of a Aquarius, lower-middle class area Palo Alto with hardworking strivers, organized, carrying cameras to record what’s going on; among them is David Whitt of Copwatch, dedicated to filming police activity. They work as nurses or as Whole Foods employees, and they have the humor to put out doormats reading “COME BACK WITH A WARRANT.” Something you wouldn’t expect in a story of insurrection: the wedding of two women in love, part of this Ferguson scene. If Folayan is correct about Ferguson, this is the kind of tightly knit town that could have benefited from community-based policing, as opposed to the so-called “broken-window” overenforcement, where every small infraction is noted and cited, and there’s the occasional incident of capital punishment for shoplifting. —Richard von Busack
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(voice by the late Abe Vigoda) turns to The Joker for help. A fatal move and conversely the right one: the horror clown is the only one sharp enough to figure out what’s really going on. After the July 25 release on Blu-Ray, there was some internet chat about whether this animated feature—a spinoff of TV’s Batman: The Animated Series— was indeed the best adaptation of the superhero… better even than The Dark Knight (2008). Nothing here matches the titanic qualities of the first two Christopher Nolan installments, or the odd poetry and soul in the Tim Burton films. But this is the most romantic Batman film—the one that gets in deepest about the heartbreak of a man with a split personality, and of the road he didn’t take, thanks to his vow to his dead parents. It’s also the one with a lover, not just a love-interest: Andrea (Dana Delany; her face seems modeled on Katherine Hepburn) matches Bruce Wayne’s capacities for both tragedy and revenge. And Mask of the Phantasm has particularly adroit use of The Joker—a man of leisure, a self-amused comedian, and, as in The Dark Knight, a bad genie summoned by people who fail to predict the consequences. Even lovers of Keaton, Nicholson and Heath Ledger should admit that voice actors Kevin Conroy (as Wayne/Batman) and Mark Hamill (as his white-faced counterpart) not only did these roles for decades but are also the best ever at it. Conroy’s voice can chill a room; Hamill’s delight in the part is juicy and infectious, and deliciously scary. The famous pair battle in a perfect Joker hideout: an abandoned World’s Fair grounds that was, 10 years previously, the scene of a rare moment of joy for Wayne. At the time, some critics complained that the characters’ design looked too Japanese; one doubts a generation raised by anime will care much about that. One of the facets that makes this impressive is Shirley Walker’s Carmina Burana-ish soundtrack, ominous enough to give this cartoon movie an extra layer of thrill and mystery. (Available on Blu-Ray and various streaming services.) (RvB)
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Good Vibrations COME ORIGINAL Who cares what the haters say? 311 are pioneers.
Though many a music critic might scoff, history will be kind to 311 BY NICK VERONIN
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AVE MATTHEWS gets hated on a lot. So does 311—for the rap rock thing, for the oftenridiculous lyrics, for the signature PRS guitars and for those white-dude reggae vibes. Back in 2014, they were listed as one of Rolling Stone’s top 20 “Frattiest Bands” listicle.
But what if the Grateful Dead had been around in the age of infinite internet snark? Would they too
have made that fateful list? After all, their concerts were as much about partying as they are about the music and they have an obscenely sprawling catalog that rewards an obnoxious kind of super-fandom. Similarly, 311, who come to San Jose this Wednesday, are touring on the heels of their 12th studio album. That’s in addition to two live albums, seven DVDs and four EPs—plus six compilations and rarities collections. And the dudes seem to genuinely still like each other just as much as they did back in the ’90s when they were just a bunch of fresh-faced kids with bleached hair, bowling shirts and baggy jeans. Maybe it’s the pot.
Tim Mahoney, 311’s guitarist, seems like the ideal stoner dad. He’s the kind of guy for whom weed is a lot like caffeine—just a part of the routine, but not the kind of thing that keeps him glued to the couch taking pulls a honey bear bong. “I never feel like I have to have the reefer to go write a riff or play music or anything like that,” Mahoney says. “I do really enjoy getting a little lifted and playing music.” Speaking with the laid-back, inciteful and gregarious Mahoney— and revisiting 311’s catalog, nearly 30 years on from when they first came together in 1988—it starts to feel like all the music critics who have trashed the band over the years might have benefited from a puff of some kind. At the end of the day, Mahoney and Co. are just a group of dudes making music they think sounds good, drawing upon the myriad
influences you would expect a collection of musicians to have. The guys in 311 grew up listening to metal, reggae, ska and hip-hop. It only made sense that they would bring it all together, Mahoney says. “I’ve always loved hard rock and punk rock and guitar-driven music,” Mahoney says. “We are all fans of Bob Marley.” You can hear it all on tracks like “All Mixed Up,” from the band’s 1995 self-titled full-length. The song begins with a Sublime-esque marriage of SoCal turntable effects, a lively boom-bap shuffle and bouncy bass line, before the track drops into a punchy, overdriven guitar riff and a tongue-twisting dancehall vocal line courtesy of the band’s co-frontman Nick Hexum. It’s worthwhile to recall that 1995 was a full two years before Limp Bizkit signaled the beginning of the end of the nü-metal craze with Three Dollar Bill, Y’all$, and a full 20 years before Twenty One Pilots exploited a very 311-esque formula to become one of the biggest alternative bands in the world. The Omaha-born band’s musical melange is on display in 311’s latest single, as well. “Too Much To Think” features airy, ska guitar upstrokes and dubby, tightly wound drum-andbass interplay, as well as gauzy vocal harmonies, which the band may have first perfected when covering The Cure’s “Love Song” back in 2004—in retrospect, that song is perhaps the best part of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore’s midaughts rom-com, 50 First Dates. In true musician form, Mahoney isn’t so concerned with what his band has done in the past, but is rather looking perpetually forward. He says he is excited for the band’s latest LP—Mosaic, their 12th. “I think we did a better job of getting good sounds on there,” he says. “The songs are a bit more exciting—nothing against the old stuff. I enjoy playing music more and more. It’s a gift for me to be able to wake up and work on music.”
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Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop ART BOUTIKI Fri, Aug 18, 7:30pm: Bri Cauz, Lucas Gordon, Jules. Sat, Aug 19, 8pm: Fighting Jacks, Plans for Revenge, Bylines. San Jose.
BRANHAM LOUNGE Fri, Aug 18, 10:30pm: Quality Control (indie, rock and hiphop). Every Thu, 10pm: The Weekend Warmup with DJ Sean Black. San Jose.
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17, 7:30pm: Seal. Mon, Aug 21, 7:30pm: Bryan Ferry. Saratoga.
Every Fri: Salsa Spot. Redwood City.
NUMBER ONE BROADWAY
HEDLEY CLUB
Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam. Thu, Aug 17, Blind Pilots. Fri, Aug 18, Rock the Heat. Sat, Aug 19, Spang-a-Lang. Los Gatos.
Every 1st and 3rd Wed: Jazz Jam. San Jose
THE QUARTER NOTE Every Mon: Live Music Jam with Dana’s Band. Every Tue: Karaoke / Open Mic Every Wed: Live Music Jam Funk with Michael “B” Band. Every Thu: Live Music Jam Funk with Vicious Groove. Every Sun: Live Music Jam with Michael “T.” Sunnyvale.
HUKILAU Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.
LITTLE LOU’S BBQ Every Thu, 7:30pm: Aki’s Original Thursday Night Blue Jams. Campbell.
LOUISIANA BISTRO Every Thu, 7pm: Yellow Bulb Sessions. San Jose.
MOROCCO’S THE RITZ Every Wed: DJ Hank. Every Thu: DJ Maniakal. San Jose.
Thu, Aug 17, 8pm: One More Time. Sun, Aug 20, 8pm: Melvins, Spotlights. San Jose.
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Every Thu: DJ Benofficial. Every Fri: DJ Radio Raheem. Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.
THE CARAVAN Every Mon: Tooth and Nail DJ Night. Every first Tue of the month 9:30 pm: Not So Trivial Tuesday Rock DJ Set. Thu, Aug 17, Abbot Kinney, Angel Magic, Passive Tourist. Fri, Aug 18, 9pm: 12 To Midnight, Fulminante, Shallow Vices. Sat, Aug 19, 10pm: Panhandlers Union, The Angry Cavemen, Fluxy BoBoo. San Jose.
THE CATS Wed, Aug 16, Bundy Browne, Expresso. Thu, Aug 17, Knee Deep. Fri, Aug 18, Ruth Gerson Band. Sat, Aug 19, Math Class. Los Gatos.
CITY NATIONAL CIVIC Wed, Aug 16, 8pm: 311, New Politics. San Jose.
JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE Fri, Aug 18, 5:30pm: SuperBad! Sat, Aug 19, 5:30pm: RPM. Mon, Aug 21, 7pm: Cocktail Class Vodka. Los Gatos.
MOUNTAIN WINERY Wed, Aug 16, 7pm: Gregory Alan Isakov, Blind Pilot. Thu, Aug
Fri, Aug 18, 7pm: Math Class Band. Sat, Aug 19, 7pm: Given To Fly. Sun. Aug 20, 2pm: Jerry Sauceda Duo. San Jose.
Jazz/Blues/ World ANGELICA’S BISTRO Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Every Wed: Piano Night with Rick Ferguson. Thu, Aug 17, 7:30pm: Cheri Anderson. Fri, Aug 18, 8:30pm: Ramana Vieira. Redwood City.
Every Tue, 4pm: Live Acoustic Music. Every Wed and Fri, 7pm and Sat, 8:30pm: Belly dancing. Every Sunday: Special Dinner Shows. Mountain View.
MOUNTAIN WINERY Sat, Aug 19, 7:30pm: Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, The Chick Corea Elektric Band. Tue, Aug 22, 7:30pm: St. Paul & The Broken Bones, Trombone Shorty. Saratoga.
MURPHY’S LAW Every Mon: Monday Night Blues Jam. Sunnyvale.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO Every Tue, 8pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. Every Wed: Blues & Brews w/Sid Morris & Ron Thompson. Every Tue, 6pm: PHB Open Mic Night. San Jose.
BLUE NOTE LOUNGE Every Tue, 8:30pm: Live Blues Jam. Every Fri, 8:30pm: Oldies. Every 3rd Sat: Old School Night with DJ G. Milpitas.
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Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. Thu, Aug 17, 8:30pm: Bicoastal Collective. Fri, Aug 18, 8:30pm: Brian Ho. San Jose.
CAFE PINK HOUSE Every Sat, 2pm-3:30pm: Saturday Live Music Hangout. Saratoga.
CASCAL Every Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live Music. Mountain View.
CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam.
Fri, Aug 18, 9pm: Lydia Pense & Cold Blood. Sat, Aug 19, 9pm: A Touch Of Class. Fremont.
MISSION PIZZA Every Thu from 7-9pm: Mill Creek Ramblers. Every First Fri, 7-10pm: Cimarron Rose Band. Every Second Fri, 7-10pm: Stampede. Every Last Fri, 7-10pm: Stragglyrs. Every Second Sat 7-10pm: Canyon Johnson. Every Last Sat, 7-10pm: Beargrass Creek. Fremont.
PIONEER SALOON Every Sun, 4pm: Music Jam
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SAME DIFFERENCE King Buzzo says that the new Melvins album and an upcoming film of the same title are a unified work.
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EMPLOYMENT Software Leia Inc. seeks Development Engineer to guide embedded development & design tasks. Resume to worksite: 2440 Sand Hill Rd., Ste. 303, Menlo Park, CA 94025, Attn: Z. Peng
Bottling Line Operator, The Wine Group, Livermore, CA Are you enthusiastic and energetic with experience in the following areas? Production/Manufacturing, Equipment Operation, Operating High Speed Filling/ Packaging Equipment, Troubleshooting Electromechanical Issues, PLC Repair. Welding, General Manufacturing Principals, Quality Control Practices, Electrical Experience. Apply with Us! Visit our website www.thewinegroup.com to apply and view detailed job descriptions.
ENGINEERING Clover Network, Inc. has following job opps. in Sunnyvale, CA: Sr. Software Engineer [Req. #SSE55]. Dsgn & dvlp SW for Pt. of Sale systms. Software QA Engineer [Req. #CLV79]. Prfrm manual & automated test’g on Android based pt. of sale devices. Mail resumes refernc’g Req. # to: Attn: E. Visco, 415 N Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085.
COMPUTER H/W Engrs Western Digital Technologies, Inc. has opptys in Milpitas, CA for H/W Engrs. Edu or must incld Exp w/Trouble shooting H/W. Mail resume to Attn: HR, 951 SanDisk Dr., MS:HRGM, Milpitas, CA 95035, Ref #MILSTE. Must be legally auth to work in the U.S. w/o spnsrshp. EOE
Software Engineer (Houzz, Inc., Palo Alto, CA): Play central role in dsgng & implmtg systms to improve Houzz’s advrtsg qlty. Reqs Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Comp Engg, or Math + 1 yr exp. Exp to incl ads platform simplification, use of creative decomposition. Mail resumes to 285 Hamilton Ave, 4th Flr, Palo Alto, CA 94301
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Adobe Systems Incorporated is accepting resumes for the following positions in San Jose, CA: Business Solutions Analyst (Ref. SJBSOA100):Facilitate customer product & application understanding through presentation demonstrations & benchmarks. Support pre-sales & sales resources within consulting & license teams, RFIs & validate technical architect dialogue & positioning. Travel up to 5% required. Telecommuting permitted. Business Systems Analyst (Ref. SJBSA200): Collaborate within multiple stakeholders & cross-departmental teams to ensure proper implementation approach is in place for an internal & external facing SFDC/Coveo Enterprise Search Knowledge Mgmt integration. Analyze business requirements, explore & evaluate various options, configure the application to meet requirements & coordinate testing with QA & User acceptance testers. Internal Auditor (Ref. SJIA100): Plan & scope operational & financial audits. Develop detailed understanding of core business & financial processes. Independently execute on integrated audits to assess risks for key business & finance processes. Travel up to 25% required. Mail resume to Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mailstop WT-643, 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110. Must include Ref. code. No phone calls please. EOE. www.adobe.com/
has the following positions open in Mountain View, CA: Software Engineer: work on architecture and design of Coursera’s Scala backend services; Corporate Strategy Associate: study group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, and corp culture to analyze and develop corp strategies; Software Engineer: build delightful, usable, and accessible web interfaces. To apply, please mail resumes to C. Shimozato, Coursera Inc. 381 E. Evelyn Avenue, Mountain View, California, 94041
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ENGINEERING Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. has the following Software Engineer, Embedded position available in Sunnyvale, CA: Software Engineer, Embedded (EESJS-CA) Conceptualize, prototype, and support the software development of embedded Telematics solutions including advanced engineering development of software modules targeting next generation telematic platforms. Submit resume by mail to: Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America Attn: Human Resources at 309 N. Pastoria Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Must reference job title and job code [EESJS-CA]
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Manufacturing Engr (Code: ME-JVR) in Sunnyvale, CA: Participate in mfg dvlpt of small cmplx assemblies w critical reqs. BS+3 yrs rlt exp. Mail resume to Hien Nguyen @ Intuitive Surgical, 1020 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Must ref title & code.
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Staff Memory Design Engineer in San Jose, CA sought by ARM, Inc. to experiment with & evaluate memory architectures. Req BS in Elec Engg, CS, or rltd + 5 yrs mem dsgn exp. Exp w/: Calibre, Hercules, PrimeTime, SoC Encounter, & Pacific. Apply @ www. jobpostingtoday.com #51717
Segment Marketing Manager IoT sought by ARM, Inc. in San Jose, CA to drive outbound messaging. Req Master’s degree in Biz, Engg, or rltd + 3 yrs exp. Req 3 yrs exp w/: C#, Java, HTML, & Angular.js. Apply @ www.jobpostingtoday.com #90628
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TECHNOLOGY Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. has the following IT Security Analyst available in Sunnyvale, CA: IT Security Analyst (ISAFL-CA) Assessing existing IT security measures towards compliance with Daimler AG requirements (DISC) as well as US laws, and implement appropriate measures to ensure 100% compliance. Occasional business travel required (up to 10% of time). Submit resume by mail to: Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America Attn: Human Resources at 309 N. Pastoria Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Must reference job title and job code ISAFL-CA
Level 3 Support Engineer and Support Technical Lead (JFrog, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA): Act as support techn’l lead; mentor team of support engrs to provide enterprise level customer support. Reqs: Master’s deg or foreign equiv in Comp Sci or Comp Engg, + 2 yrs exp. Exp to incl setting up reverse proxy (Apache HTTPD) architecture for application server. Mail resumes to 270 E. Caribbean Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089
Engineer View, Inc. seeks Software QA Engineer to develop & execute SW test plans. 2 open positions. Resume to worksite at 195 S. Milpitas Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035
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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RUTH ERIKA ZIEGELMANN AKA RUTH ERIKA STAIGIS CASE NO. 1-17-PR-181541 To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Ruth Erika Ziegelmann aka Ruth Erika Staigis. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the Santa Clara County in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: James J Ramoni, Public Administrator of Santa Clara County be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: September 29, 2017, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 12 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. 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 decedent, 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 section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, 95110 408-758-4200 (Pub CC 8/2, 8/9, 8/16/2017)
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tender Greens, 180 El Camino Real #1050, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, TYP Restaurant Group, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/31/2016. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Lina O’Connor. CFO. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/13/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)
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TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner (name): Xing Lu Nesmith for a decree changing names as follows: Present names: a. Xing Lu Nesmith, b. Wonwon Kang. Proposed names: a. Vivian Lu Nesmith, b. Sofia Christina Nesmith. 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 changes 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: Oct 31, 2017 at 8:45 am, room Probate filed on: July 31, 2017 (pub dates: 8/09, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30/2017)
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will no protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to fall an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.cor), the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: the court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO: Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta ciación y papeles legales para presenter una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer ques se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada Telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en format legal correcto si desea que procesen su case en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas information en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisites legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos groups sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 o más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el case.The name and address of the court is: (EI nombre y direcci6n de Ia corte es): Alameda County Superior Court1225 Fallon Street, Oakland, CA 94612The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiffs’ attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is:(EI nombre, Ia direccion y el numero de teletono del abogado del demandante. o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):Jason W. Estavillo, L/0 ofJason W. Estavillo, 1330 Broadway, Suite 501 Oakland, CA 94612 510-982-3001DATE: Feb-7 2017Chad Finke/ClerkMargaret J. Downie/Deputy(Pub Dates 8/09, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30/2017)
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Precise Handyman Service, 1463 Sunland Court, San Jose, CA, 95130, Glenn Ferris Sander, San Jose, CA, 95130. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2017. /s/Glenn F. Sander. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/24/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ensure Protect, 1604 Dell Ct., San Jose, CA, 95118, Warranty Concepts, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Frank McMillan. CEO. #C3978445. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tracking And Sensory Networks, Inc., 2275 Bayshore Rd., Suite 130, Palo Alto, CA, 94303. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ian Bennett. CEO. #C3345231. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/22/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632327
The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Cash Finance, 4783 Pine Forest Pl., San Jose, CA, 95118, Tammy Corona Blevins. Filed in Santa Clara County on 04/05/2016 under file no. 615917. This business was conducted by: an Individual. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Santa Clara County on 07/18/2017. /s/Yazan Alkhudari, Manager. (pub dates 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)
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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tasty Veggie Vegetarian House, LLC, 5592 Santa Teresa Blvd., #B, San Jose, CA, 95123, Tasty Veggie Vegetarian House, LLC, 1087 Walnut Woods, San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/12/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Hien Thai Huynh. Manager. #201719810011. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/20/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632227 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Skin Tech, 2. Skin Technology, 3. New Age Skin Care, 4. Better Skin Care, 5. Scientific Skin Care, 6. Microdermabrasion Technology, 8010 Wayland Lane Suite D-2, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Debra A. Rosas, 10021 Pacheco Pass Hwy, Hollister, CA, 95023. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/02/2017. /s/Debra A. Rosas. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/21/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631832 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PPC Investments, LLC, San Jose, CA, 95126, PPC Investments, LLC, 777 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94304. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/21/2017. Refile of previous file #624976 due to publication requirement not met on previous filing. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Phil Malouf. (Asst) Secretary. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/10/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)
SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): MORTGAGE LOANS AMERICA YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DAMANDANTE): THOMAS B. MURCHIE AND CHRISTINE G. MURCHIE CASE NUMBER: RG17848562
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632021 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MH Transit, 14763 Excalibur Dr., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, Morgan Hill Transit 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 01/10/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Diane Mahmoudi. President. #201408510327. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2017. (pub Metro 7/26, 8/02, 8/09, 8/16/2017)
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME, CASE NUMBER: 17CV313761
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Zachary Ian Boger DDS, 2074 Forest Avenue Suite 3, San Jose, CA, 95128, Zachary Ian Boger. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Zachary Ian Boger. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632143 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: CEO 1 Sap, 1941 Tully Rd., #15, San Jose, CA, 95122, Nyceo, 916 Sone Glen Ct., San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Giao Nguyen. President. #201719210185. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Carlos Towing, 967 Commercial St., #6, San Jose, CA, 95112, Carlos Vazquez Diaz, Maria Del Carmen Mendez. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/29/2016. Refile of previous file #615649 with changes. /s/Carlos Vazquez, Diaz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/07/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632840 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Signdocs Mobile Notary Service, 6549 Hercus Court, San Jose, CA, 95119, Ada Shockley. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/10/2009. /s/Ada Shockley. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/10/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)
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A guy my girlfriend dated seven years ago is now an aspiring artist, and he gave my girlfriend one of his paintings. It’s abstract, splashy and horrible. I find it disrespectful of him to give it to her (because she’s in a relationship). She said he does lots of paintings, sells almost none, and gives them as gifts to all of his friends. I asked her to throw it away, but she said that would be “too mean” and shoved it under the bed. Am I being overly jealous, or is it wrong to accept gifts from exes?—Chafed Art—especially abstract art—says different things to different people. To you, the painting screams, “Ha-ha, I had sex with your girlfriend!” To everyone else, it’s probably an expression of a moment—the one that came seconds after “Outta the way! I had some bad clams!” It makes sense that a gift from a guy to your girlfriend would set off your internal alarms. Consider, as evolutionary behavioral scientist Gad Saad points out, that one sex—the male one —woos (as in, tries to get the other into bed) with gifts. When a guy arrives to pick a woman up, she doesn’t open the door with “Surprise, bro! Got you these roses! Take off your pants!” As I somewhat frequently explain, this difference comes out of how sex can cost women big-time in a way it doesn’t cost men—with pregnancy and the 18-year afterparty. So, women evolved to go for men who are willing and able to invest in any
little, uh, nipple nibblers they give birth to, and gift-giving can be a signal of that. Your being upset over the painting could be a subconscious reaction to this. But considering that this guy is handing out paintings like they’re “We Buy Gold!” leaflets, this gift to your girlfriend is probably a sign of a few things: He paints badly (though prolifically) and lacks storage space. In general, as for whether it’s okay to accept gifts from exes, context counts. Did the two people break up just yesterday or a decade ago? Are there still feelings bubbling up? Was the ex’s gift, say, a tire jack or a diamond-encrusted thong? Because this was just an ugly painting given to your girlfriend by a friend (long stripped of benefits), she did the kind thing and accepted it. So maybe just appreciate her willingness to shove it under the bed.
I’m a 31-year-old woman, and I’ve been dating my boyfriend for 10 months. I was hoping to get married eventually. Well, my friend goes to this famous “relationship coach” who says that if a guy doesn’t ask you to marry him within the first year, he never will. Is that true? It’s making me feel anxious and worried that I’m wasting my time.—Two More Months? It’s comforting to believe that somebody has the magical knowledge that can get us to happily ever after. That’s why there was a movie called “The Wizard of Oz” and not “The Dishwasher Repairman of Oz.” In fact, we crave certainty and get freaked out by uncertainty. Psychologically, a guarantee of something bad happening is way more comfortable for us than the mere possibility that it could. This sounds a little nuts, but it makes evolutionary sense, because uncertainty leaves us on constant alert, which is both psychologically and physiologically draining. When research subjects are given a choice—get an electric shock for sure right then and there or possibly get surprised with a shock later—they overwhelmingly opt for the certain zapping in the present. And neuroscientist Archy de Berker found
that people experienced greater physical stress responses (sweating and enlarged pupils) when a shock came unpredictably than when they knew it was coming. This is why it can be tempting to buy into an “expert’s” doom-andgloom timetable—despite countless examples disproving their “Marry before the year’s out or spinsterville forever!” pronouncement. And consider something else: University of Pisa psychiatrist Donatella Marazziti finds that people in love are basically hormonally inebriated for a year or two. Also, it’s typically adversity—which tends to be in short supply during a year of romantic picnics and spa vacations— that shows what two people are made of and how well they, as a couple, weather life’s kicks in the teeth.
(c)2017, 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).
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632802
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: California Hauling, 881 Park Ave., San Jose, CA, 95126, Anthony Sanchez. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/09/2017. /s/Anthony Sanchez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/09/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632118 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cheryl’s Heavenly Taste Catering, 929 Branham Lane, #A, San Jose, CA, 95136, Cheryl C. Green, Huynh Anh Nguyen, 66 Parc Place Drive, Milpitas, CA, 95035. 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/Cheryl Green. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/19/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632743
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Agada Energy Healing, 1211 Park Ave., #207, San Jose, CA, 95126, Jessica Neideffer, 529 Page Street, San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/01/2011. Refile of previous file #568448 with changes. /s/Jessica Neideffer. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/08/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632269
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Foreign Affair Auto Repair, 490 Perry Ct., Santa Clara, CA, 95054, TT &K Trade, 2204 Bikini Ave., San Jose, CA, 95122. This business is being conducted by a Coporation. Registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Timothy Chi Nguyen. President. #4043737. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/25/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632298 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: West Valley Group, 20 S. Santa Cruz Ave., Suite 306, Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Paula Jacobsen, Susan Greenberg-Englander, Robert Levit, Susan M. Fair. This business is conducted by an unincorporated association other than a partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/21/2005. Refile of previous file #56811 with changes. /s/Susan Greenberg-Englander. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/25/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632429 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Scherfs Custom Bumpers, 22200 Mt. Eden Rd., Saratoga, CA, 95070, Michael Scherf. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael Scherf. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/28/2017. (pub Metro 8/09, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632189 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: People Places Construction, 847 Raeburn Ct., San Jose, CA, 95136, Vincent Cochran. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/12/2010. /s/Vincent Cochran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/21/2017. (pub Metro 8/09, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632313 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fructus Capital Partners, 525B Porpoise Bay Terrace, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Harish Nayak. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/25/2017. /s/Harish Nayak. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/26/2017. (pub Metro 8/09, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #631620
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Poki Spot, 1114 Branham, San Jose, CA, 95118. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/06/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of
California. /s/Longfei Lin. President. #C4037638. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/06/2017. (pub Metro 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632061 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ascendia Strategies, 1164 Sabal Drive, San Jose, CA, 95132, Akihito Tokuhara. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/17/2017. /s/Akihito Tokuhara. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2017. (pub Metro 8/09, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632439 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Green Elephant Studio, 1225 Vienna Drive, SPC 269, 94089, Kazuya Dean Kobayashi. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/29/2017. /s/ Kazuya Dean Kobayashi. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/31/2017. (pub Metro 8/09, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632491
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jersey Mike’s Subs, 6050 Winged Foot Drive, Gilroy, California, 95020, HLJ Foods, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/17/2012. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Laurie Abate Sontag. President. #C3995655. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/01/2017. (pub Metro 8/09, 8/16, 8/23, 8/30/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632662 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Stat-Run Transport, 150 Palm Valley Blvd., #3194, Maria Loreta Santos Remigio. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Maria Loreta Santos Remigio. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/07/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632663 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Myride Xpress, 150 Palm Valley Blvd., #3194, Maria Loreta Santos Remigio. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Maria Loreta Santos Remigio. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/07/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632687 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Healed And Whole Clinic, 830 Stewart Drive, STE 139, Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, Michael Tsung Chang, 730 Upland Rd., Redwood City, CA, 94062. This business is conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael T. Chang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/07/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632367 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: We’re Organized Of Northern California, 2700 Mercantile Drive, STE 800, Rancho Cordova, CA, 95742, Garage Cabinet Warehouse, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 07/01/1987. Refile of previous file #563362 after 40 days of expiration date. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Joseph Rawlings. President. #2324728. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/27/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #632411
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Oxenwood International, 229 Gabilan Avenue, Hoang Tran, Kevin Cabiling. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Hoang Tran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/28/2017. (pub Metro , 8/02, 8/09, 8/16, 8/23/2017)
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): "To disobey in order to take action is the byword of all creative spirits," said philosopher Gaston Bachelard. This mischievous advice is perfect for your use right now, Aries. I believe you'll thrive through the practice of ingenious rebellion—never in service to your pride, but always to feed your soul's lust for deeper, wilder life. Here's more from Bachelard: "Autonomy comes through many small disobediences, at once clever, well thought-out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely." TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Congratulations! I
expect that during the next three weeks, you will be immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls "the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of anger, and the alienation of contempt and shame." I realize that what I just said might sound like an exaggeration. Aren't all of us subject to regular encounters with those states? How could you possibly go so long without brushing up against them? I stand by my prediction, and push even further. For at least the next three weeks, I suspect you will also be available for an inordinate amount of what Chodorow calls "the light of focused insight" and "the playful, blissful, all-embracing experience of joy."
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming days would
an excellent time to celebrate (even brag about) the amusing idiosyncrasies and endearing quirks that make you lovable. To get you inspired, read this testimony from my triple Gemini friend Alyssa: "I have beauty marks that form the constellation Pegasus on my belly. I own my own ant farm. I'm a champion laugher. I teach sign language to squirrels. Late at night when I'm horny and overtired I may channel the spirit of a lion goddess named Sekhmet. I can whistle the national anthems of eight different countries. I collect spoons from the future. I can play the piano with my nose and my toes. I have forever banished the green-eyed monster to my closet."
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your education may take unusual forms during the coming weeks. For example, you could receive crunchy lessons from velvety sources, or tender instructions from exacting challenges. Your curiosity might expand to enormous proportions in the face of a noble and elegant tease. And chances are good that you'll find a new teacher in an unlikely setting, or be prodded and tricked into asking crucial questions you've been neglecting to ask. Even if you haven't been particularly streetsmart up until now, Cancerian, I bet your ability to learn from uncategorizable experiences will blossom. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "If you love someone, set them free," said New Age author Richard Bach. "If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were." By using my well-educated intellect to transmute this hippy-dippy thought into practical advice, I came up with a wise strategy for you to consider as you re-evaluate your relationships with allies. Try this: Temporarily suspend any compulsion you might have to change or fix these people; do your best to like them and even love them exactly as they are. Ironically, granting them this freedom to be themselves may motivate them to modify, or at least tone down, the very behavior in themselves that you're semi-allergic to.
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building the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. But as of August 2017, it is still under construction. Renovation has been and continues to be extensive. At one point in its history, designers even changed its architectural style from NeoByzantine and Neo-Romanesque to Gothic Revival. I hope this serves as a pep talk in the coming weeks, which will be an excellent time to evaluate your own progress, Virgo. As you keep toiling away in behalf of your dreams, there's no rush. In fact, my sense is that you're proceeding at precisely the right rate.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In accordance with the
astrological omens, I hereby declare the next two weeks to be your own personal Amnesty Holiday. To celebrate, ask for and dole out forgiveness. Purge and flush away any non-essential guilt and remorse that are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins that you still haven't atoned for, make a grand effort to atone for them—with gifts
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and heartfelt messages if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify accusations that others have wrongly projected onto you and that you have carried around as a burden even though they are not accurate or fair. Expunge them.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How many countries
has the United States bombed since the end of World War II? Twenty-five, to be exact. But if America's intention has been to prod these nations into forming more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts have been mostly fruitless. Few of the attacked nations have become substantially more democratic. I suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Metaphorical bombing campaigns wouldn't accomplish even 10 percent of your goals, and would also be expensive in more ways than one. So I recommend using the "killing with kindness" approach. Be wily and generous. Cloak your coaxing in compassion.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You know
about the Ten Commandments, a code of ethics and behavior that's central to Christianity and Judaism. You may not be familiar with my Ten Suggestions, which begin with "Thou Shall Not Bore God" and "Thou Shall Not Bore Thyself." Then there are the Ten Indian Commandments proposed by the Bird Clan of East Central Alabama. They include "Give assistance and kindness whenever needed" and "Look after the well-being of your mind and body." I bring these to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to formally formulate and declare your own covenant with life. What are the essential principles that guide you to the highest good?
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here's a definition
of "fantasizing" as articulated by writer Jon Carroll. It's "a sort of 'in-brain' television, where individuals create their own 'shows'—imaginary narratives that may or may not include real people." As you Capricorns enter the High Fantasy Season, you might enjoy this amusing way of describing the activity that you should cultivate and intensify. Would you consider cutting back on your consumption of movies and TV shows? That might inspire you to devote more time and energy to watching the stories you can generate in your mind's eye.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 43 cartoon stories, the coyote named Wile E. Coyote has tried to kill and devour the swift-running flightless bird known as the Road Runner. Every single time, Wile E. has failed to achieve his goal. It's apparent to astute observers that his lack of success is partly due to the fact that he doesn't rely on his natural predatory instincts. Instead, he concocts elaborate, overly-complicated schemes. In one episode, he camouflages himself as a cactus, buys artificial lightning bolts, and tries to shoot himself from a bow as if he were an arrow. All these plans end badly. The moral of the story, as far as you're concerned: To reach your next goal, trust your instincts. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You temporarily have cosmic permission to loiter and goof off and shirk your duties. To be a lazy bum and meander aimlessly and avoid tough decisions. To sing off-key and draw stick figures and write bad poems. To run slowly and flirt awkwardly and dress like a slob. Take advantage of this opportunity, because it's only available for a limited time. It's equivalent to pushing the reset button. It's meant to re-establish your default settings. But don't worry about that now. Simply enjoy the break in the action. Homework: What thing do you yearn for that would also benefit other people? Testify at Truthrooster@gmail.com.
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FUNKED UP George Clinton, center, brought the house down in a lovingly weird atmosphere on the opening night of San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.
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AN JOSE JAZZ Summer Fest requires highly tuned skills in decision making. One plan for this past weekend involved setting priorities, defining goals and establishing a regimented schedule. Another involved a more nomadic approach, wandering through the masses with only abstract goals in mind. Or, there was Plan C, reserved for those who refuse to identify on a binary of nomadicsedentary: navigating a tightrope between both options. At its best, the festival showed
the possibilities of interconnected cosmopolitan worldliness. The variety of folks ranged from jazzedout AARP-level veterans to texting millennial hipsters. Decades-long experts traded tips with festival firsttimers. At any moment one could choose from 88-year-old Jimmy Cobb playing straight-ahead jazz, Czech kids playing Dixieland or Taimane Gardner rocking Michael Jackson on the ukulele. From the opening downbeat, one could simply space out and wander or make a hard choice and sit still. On opening night, George Clinton’s crowd was overwhelmingly peaceful, with everyone dancing, singing, drinking and smoking with no issues. People parked themselves on the grass, stood up, screamed, danced, pounded beers and did whatever
else they wanted. Movement to the beat was the one constant. Half a block up the street, another legend, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, gigged at a sweaty Vietnamese restaurant, the Jade Leaf. This venue made a perfect fit for sedentary types. One had to arrive early to get a seat—as with each gig at Jade Leaf, the venue filled to capacity before the music even started. At the same exact time as those two scenarios, Cafe Stritch was jammed to capacity for the Posi-Tone Records Showcase. One block further, the San Jose Jazz High School All Stars played Forager. And this was just the opening few hours. Over the weekend, there was no possible way for an already-spacedout wanderer to set definitive goals. Instead, the best plan of attack was to subtly harmonize the opposites of nomadic and sedentary. Park it for awhile, then pound the sidewalk to the next buzzing group of people. The buzz was ubiquitous. That said, my hedging plan of attack included Big Sandy and the Fly-
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Rite Boys tearing it up on Post Street while Fillmore Slim sat there in a chair curbside. In fact, Big Sandy spent just as much time addressing Slim from the stage as he did talking to his own audience. It was wonderful. Sandy even gave props to the old San Jose clubs he used to play 25 years ago, like the Ajax Lounge. A variety of fantastic women also came into my life over the weekend. At Jade Leaf, Canadian singer Tia Brazda played on Saturday afternoon, while San Jose’s own Jackie Gage closed the place that same evening. At Stritch, Kavita Shah of Gujarati descent sang a Senegalese tune, plus a Joni Mitchell number, and also taught the audience Brazilian Candomble rhythms, all with a French bass player. That’s five continents represented in one set. Holy mackerel. Also fantastic was seeing the Hammer Theatre yet again occupied by a solid weekend-long schedule of music. Hammond B3 legend Dr. Lonnie Smith filled the entire theater to capacity. He was all over the dynamic spectrum, explosive and bombastic, then serene and tranquil, sometimes in a span of just 30 seconds. Back-alley noir atmospherics effortlessly transitioned into blues soundtracks and free improv hysteria, and then back again. Continuing on the noir front, Dmitri Matheny and his band tore through soundtracks like Touch of Evil, Chinatown and Taxi Driver— that is, in between Chet Baker and Soundgarden. Plus, Matheny read a long crime noir poem by Dana Gioia, which made me want to reread every Raymond Chandler book. At the end, I started thinking. After 28 years, it’s long overdue to bring this festival to the next level. A forward-thinking city shouldn’t keep cramming the festival into one weekend. Make it a week. Include the Civic Auditorium, the CPA, the entire San Jose State University campus, plus the neighborhood bars and art galleries. Add more shows for high rollers, cheapskates, avant-garde weirdos and dive-bar denizens. Make it even more diverse. If the downtown core is going to expand all the way to Diridon Station, then the SJZ Summer Fest and the entire arts community should expand along with it. And Google should donate at least a million dollars. At least.
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THREE LITTLE PIGS The eggs benedict at Flights came in three different options of succulent pork.
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The owner of Hult’s Restaurant in Los Gatos has a newly themed restaurant, Flights, which seeks to ease the burden of life-altering questions such as: should I get the sweet potato fries, truffle fries or garlic fries? The answer: Yes. Similar to ever-popular flights of beer or whiskey or champagne, one can now get flights of burgers, empanadas, tacos and even tequila shots at the Campbell eatery, formerly home to the Socialight. Everything at Flights is served family-style so the entire party can take part in a tasty smorgasbord. We stopped by a recent Sunday brunch, which is an excellent time to visit—Flights is only a few dozen paces from the beloved downtown Campbell farmers’ market. While the restaurant’s décor, ambiance and menu is geared towards a more adult set, it’s worth noting that staff was very accommodating to my persnickety 6-year-old and prepared a few, simple off-the-menu items for him. With the kid out of the way, we turned our attention to a modest, but quality brunch menu. The Mimosa Flight ($17), Eggs Benedict Flight ($18) and the Swedish Pancake Flight ($17) seemed like an easy decision. The drinks came in strawberry, pineapple and classic orange flavors and they were mixed with precision. While the portions were on the small side, it was probably the right amount for two people to share. The benedicts had a pork theme, as there was bacon, pulled pork and pork belly combinations. Each were great, but I have to say the pork belly was the clear winner. My taste buds sang “Hallelujah!” as the rich, velvety yolk of the egg encompassed the tender, rich pork belly. Now possessing a one-way ticket to food coma status, we figured we would double down with a sugary delight. The Swedish pancakes come in strawberry, blueberry and Nutella-banana. All were velour soft, with fresh and delicious toppings. However, as expected, the Banana-Nutella took the crown—no man, woman or child can resist the dynamic duo. It didn’t hurt that the Nutella was copious. Flights has a terrific concept that hits home for the indecisive, as well as those who just like variety. The only uncertainty I have is when—not if—I’ll make a return trip. —John Dyke FLIGHTS 368 E Campbell Ave, Campbell. 408.364.1564
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Where did you get the concept to start the organization? It’s morphed. I started the business when I was 31 and I’m 73 now. When I started it, it was tropical plants. There was a boom in the late ’70s about houseplants; it came out of the ’60s revolution—you know hippies and antiwar—but I was always interested in plants from at least age 4 or 5. If I have any aptitude in life, it’s working with nature.
What are native edibles? Native edibles are plants that indigenous Californians ate for 25,000 years. Native edibles can be perennial plants, drought tolerant plants, super food plants, nitrogen-fixing plants or a combination.
What food plants do you have at Middlebrook Garden. We like to choose food-plants that have multiple benefits. We like to stack functions, because our work is really directed to the urban environment where more than half the people live. We are talking about reducing CO2 emission. Examples: Quailbush, French sorrel, sage, bladderpod and arugula. The ecovillage model is based on choosing plants that embody energy. We can teach them how to plant natives or a combination, so they can eat food that has more nutrients per calorie, and save water in simple containers on their patio or their deck. Edible Routes, a new partner, made their income by selling their products to people who live in apartments. They give everything that the owner needs to have an urban farm on their deck.
What is one thing you would change about San Jose? It’s way too enmeshed in the oil culture. We have so many opportunities for innovation with the quality of people, the jobs, disposable income, our climate and our soils, that we really need to embrace an economy that is not dripping with oil. We need to embrace the economy of the future. That is what our work here is about.
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A REAL FOOTPRINT Alrie Middlebrook has dedicated her life to spreading sustainable gardening practices.
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Summer Fest brought out friends and plenty of good food.
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Enjoying the beautiful weather during SJZ Summer Fest at Plaza de Cesar Chavez.
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Greg Ramar
Chilling with the ladies at San Jose Jazz Summer Fest.
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The beardos were out in force at Outside Lands.
San Jose Jazz ambassador Carl Yamada, totally digging Summer Fest.
Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses at Outside Lands.
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