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Tale of 2 Teachers TOM ALESSANDRI’s death this summer prompted an outpouring of grief. Former students of the Bellarmine Prep theater and English teacher called him a beloved mentor, a father figure and all-around legend. The private Jesuit boys school in San Jose live-streamed his memorial service and announced plans to christen its new $30 million theater in his honor. But not everyone was so enamored with the late “T.A.,” as he was known by friends and students. In an essay penned anonymously and published on Medium, one former student called Alessandri a predator. “I am enraged,” the column began before detailing how T.A. allegedly used his position of authority to groom a female high school student into having a sexual relationship with him. The piece originally ended with a resounding indictment: “Fuck you, Tom Alessandri.” But the blog platform later urged the author to remove his name. Fly struck up a correspondence with the author, who declined to be named but spoke candidly about how Alessandri’s death and memorial reopened old wounds. Perhaps sensing a legal challenge, Bellarmine responded to the author. They “It sounds as if this was Did a very painful experience What? for you,” Principal SEND TIPS TO KRISTINA LUSCHER FLY@ wrote in a July 10 email. METRONEWS. “Are you interested COM in meeting to discuss how/if we might be a part of your healing process?” Doubtful of their sincerity, the author followed up her initial confession with a second post a month later about how the school lionizing her alleged abuser continued to re-traumatize her and two other victims who came out of the woodwork. Like the first post, the essay made the rounds and apparently ignited enough angry emails to get the school to quietly drop the idea of renaming the theater after Alessandri. When Fly asked Bellarmine officials about the decision, they declined to go into detail. “We take these allegations very seriously,” Bellarmine Vice Principal BRIAN ADAMS said. “And out of respect for all involved, we have decided not to move forward with the naming of the theater.”

Facetious 4Cs SCHOOLS OUT Under pressure from the state, the 4C Council relinquished the license for its preschool at the Northside Community Center to another operator.

Director of embattled child care agency retires amid five ongoing audits BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

FTER 45 YEARS at the helm of Silicon Valley’s largest publicly funded child care agency, Alfredo Villaseñor has called it quits. Though the 73-year-old says his retirement is years in the making, it comes at a time of unprecedented crisis for the county-linked nonprofit best known as 4Cs, or the 4C Council.

Despite decades of steady growth for the Community Child Care Council of Santa Clara County, the agency—tasked with spending $45 million a year in taxpayer dollars on subsidized care for more than 6,000

low-income children—is struggling to stay afloat. This summer, 4Cs became subject to five simultaneous audits, the latest and most consequential of those by order of California’s Joint Legislative Audit Committee. In a bid to save funding for its 3,500 home day care providers, 4Cs also gave up every last one of its five preschool centers. The first closed with little warning in fall 2015. The rest changed hands this past spring under pressure from the California Department of Education (CDE). Correspondence between Villaseñor and the CDE indicates that he relinquished the licenses to avoid compromising the rest of his agency’s contracts. All the while, Villaseñor has been locked in a bitter feud with employees, who voted two years

ago to unionize and have yet to reach a deal on their labor contract. The fraught back-and-forth has led to a staffing exodus that slashed the number of frontline workers by about a third, as management replaced positions with nonunionized temps, according to several staffers. A few months ago, a federal mediator finally stepped in to help with the negotiations, which have left the staff of about 150 people demoralized and struggling to keep up with service demands, according to multiple employees. Ben Menor, president of 4Cs’ board of trustees, blames the union battle for also holding up Villaseñor’s retirement. “We have been planning for a succession change for almost over three years,” Menor said in a phone interview last week, after more than a year of dodging interview requests from Metro. “It would be unfair to hold him any longer.” Though the 4C Council has yet to find a permanent successor, Menor has full confidence in its interim

shows a dramatic decline in 4Cs’ net assets and an uptick in debt ratio from 2011 to 2015. Menor echoed Manarang’s claims that the nonprofit’s problems—including the preschool closures—stem from bad publicity and union meddling rather than mismanagement. “Why did they all have to shut down? Because of your wonderful writing,” Menor said with a chuckle. “I’m not blaming you, I’m being facetious.” But the board president backed Manarang’s assertion that Metro’s reporting on the CDE memo put greater pressure on public officials to investigate. “That article created the cause and effect,” Menor said. “And that cause and effect allowed the union to have the undue pressure to respond and react to us in a different light.” In fact, the fifth audit came by way of a recommendation from state Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose), who on June 28 joined a unanimous vote by the California’s Joint Legislative Audit Committee to investigate allegations of misspending at 4Cs. The probe, which kicked off in July, will look at all seven contracts, which total $40 million between the CDE and the South Bay nonprofit. The investigation will also examine the agency’s pension accounts, which became a point of concern with the union after a retiree’s checks were delayed for months on end. In addition to the audit ordered by legislators this summer, 4Cs is undergoing reviews by Santa Clara County’s Social Services Agency, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s financial arm and an internal assessment by a private accounting firm. At the state committee hearing, Villaseñor spoke out against yet another audit, calling it a waste of taxpayer money and an affront to needy families. “[It] detracts from our services to provide for these families,” he told the state committee. “That’s the worst thing that could happen to us.” In an email to Metro, Villaseñor reiterated his misgivings, adding that the audit will cost an estimated $277,000 and divert valuable public resources. Further, he said, the scope of the state audit appears to overlap with the other ongoing reviews of the agency. “However,” he said, “we shall gladly comply.”

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director, a Solano County resident named Joseph Manarang. “I think we have a capable person,” Menor said. Manarang, a friend of Menor, seems an odd choice to lead the embattled 4Cs, as he has zero experience running subsidized child care programs. The Air Force veteran spent the better part of his career as a special agent in the FBI’s counterterrorism division, where his investigations into kidnappings and organized crime took him to the Middle East, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Upon retiring in 2012, Manarang helped his friends launch an ice cream company and academic fellowship in the Philippines while doing consulting work on the side. Menor said that the board appointed him because of his familiarity with government contracting. “We brought him in to help us with our compliance because, as you know, we’ve had audits, and additional audits,” said Menor, who dodged criminal charges nearly a decade ago because of his own compliance issues as head of a San Jose community center. “It was important to have someone with his background in compliance.” Before his appointment as interim head of 4Cs, Manarang said, he spent five months consulting for 4Cs. The law enforcement veteran gregariously described his experience dealing with international investigations, his mastery of several languages and his work in media relations and charitable giving. Leading 4Cs is a continuation of a lifetime of public service, he added. “If you were to quote me on something, it should be, ‘Let’s continue the service of this institution, which has cared for single parents and their children,’” Manarang said. “We don’t have many organizations like that. The word that is synonymous with 4Cs is ‘dedication’ and service to the community.” When pressed about the agency’s financial health, however, he offered little in the way of details. Rather, Manarang took more of an interest in how Metro obtained an internal audit record from the CDE earlier this year. “That was my biggest pet peeve,” Manarang chided, suggesting that someone at the CDE leaked a document to damage 4Cs’ credibility. The CDE memo in question was published by Metro in March. It

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TABLE TURNER Mighty Mike McGee overcame a socially painful childhood by learning to disarm bullies and critics with his wit and charm.

E’S NOT ONE to boast, humblebrag, or really even speak of personal success. And yet, almost nightly, at little coffee shops or large theaters across the country, whether in front of 10 people or a 1,000, Mighty Mike McGee has bared his soul.

The standup poet and comedian, spoken word artist, humorist, master of ceremonies and San Jose nightlife

fixture is arguably one of the greatest slam poets in the world. He’s been featured on HBO and CBC Television, and served as a regular contributor to NPR’s Snap Judgment. He hosts seemingly every type of live, speakingbased event in the valley, from downtown San Jose’s Music in the Park and the Live Lit open mic at Caffe Frascati to a beer-sling Spelling Bee at the Local Color art collective or a rowdy talent competition, the Go! Go! Gone Show at Cafe Stritch, to name just a handful.

McGee, 41, toured the world for more than a decade, developing his art alongside the subterranean growth of slam poetry, while slowly becoming one of its most celebrated practitioners. His continual presence in the scene and his oftautobiographical musings have earned him titles throughout the world of slam poetry, such as first place in the 2006 Individual World Poetry Slam Championship, and first in the National Championship in 2003. But it wasn’t always this way. Like

any superhero, McGee has a difficult origin story that required turning his biggest weaknesses into an irresistible strength.

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Michael Matthew McGee always felt like an outsider. Born in 1976 on the Fort Campbell military base that straddles the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, he was diagnosed with spina bifida, a birth defect that prevents the backbone and spinal cord from fully forming. He has struggled with the disease all

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of his life. Moving to San Jose at a young age, he was bullied in grade school because of his different status. One potential side effect of the disease is a lack of bladder control, and any kid forced to wear a diaper will experience a cruelty and callousness particular to young children. “That gets as much credit as anything else in getting me into performance,” McGee says of his formative years. But rather than sit back and endure the teasing, he

flipped the perceived weaknesses into a strength, assailing the jeers with skill and charisma. While his life at home was economically strained, the environment was always positive, as his mother nurtured his creative aspirations. “Doctors told my mom I shouldn’t be here, so I’ve kind of lived my life with this borrowed time framework,” McGee says. “I don’t feel like it’s a miracle. I just feel like it was bad diagnosis. I try not to live that way.”

He still deals with complications from spina bifida, which requires him to wear a diaper. “I got sponsored by Depend a few years ago, and they paid me a lot of money to do one commercial for them,” he says. “It was cool and it was a great experience for me, and it paid my rent for a long time. I thought long and hard if I wanted to be associated with a product like that. When I was a kid, I didn’t know anyone who was successful in the arts who wore diapers. There was

no role model for me. I took the commercial because if a kid sees me and thinks I’m an alright guy, and I say, ‘Yep, I wear diapers,’ I thought they might not have to go through all the same bullshit.” By eighth grade at Hoover Middle School in San Jose, McGee had become a social butterfly—if not the class clown. He was done taking crap, and for the first time his mouth got him in and out of trouble. “Now that mouth has also gotten

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years after he dropped out of West Valley College. “On my days off I would just loiter there,” he says. “It wouldn’t even be noon and I often had nothing to do.” If anything, the coffee shop offered McGee some type of permanence. Besides bullying and hardships with money, his childhood was marked by constantly moving, which meant new schools and efforts to make new friends, a process that often resulted in isolation. Before high school, he had never spent more than a year and a half at any school. “I told my mom I’m not transferring anymore,” McGee recalls. “I liked Willow Glen. It was different than the other schools I attended.” He made friends, or at the very least “had a group of people that I could sit and eat lunch with.” In his sophomore year, he got involved in theater, which gave him a larger, more consistent social circle. McGee’s family still continued to move, this time from the very edge of San Jose to Lakewood Village in Sunnyvale. But he refused to leave Willow Glen High, turning his daily journey to school into a genuine commute. “I couldn’t get enough of Nirvana and De La Soul, and I would switch those two tapes back and forth as I took the bus downtown, then over into Willow Glen,” McGee says. The coffee shop remained a fixture. Although he didn’t know it yet, it would become the launchpad for his career.

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HOT MIC Whether it’s a slam poetry and spoken word event or standup comedy and emceeing, Mighty Mike McGee can run the show. me on and off a lot of stages,” he says. “It hasn’t stopped, and I don’t think it will.”

* * * * * * * McGee, by his own estimate, is a professional coffeehouse loiterer. Cafes, diners and just about any other sit-down space with joe are such a staple of his creative process and journey that he can pinpoint the

first place he sipped a cup of coffee. Now known as labarre studios, and for a long time the salon and art gallery Five Color Cowboy, the high-windowed former Bank of Italy building at 1445 The Alameda holds great significance to McGee. Those formative coffeehouse years began when McGee was a senior at Willow Glen High School, working at McDonald’s, and continued into the

Like almost everyone in their early 20s, McGee was impressionable and searching for purpose. He had given up on West Valley after a year with no intention of going back. Frankly, McGee had always hated school. Especially in the early years, it was the setting for his worst memories. So he spent his time “truly loitering” at the coffee shop, sitting, talking and chainsmoking for six or eight hours at a time. On a quiet night, McGee was shooting the shit when he noticed a guy sit down, his hair fashioned into purple liberty spikes, the rest of his clothing covered in studs and clothespins. McGee was making his friends laugh, when he noticed—with the radar of any good

comedian—that the punk was also chuckling. McGee asked him to join the fun, but the punk demurred. After a few more encounters, they warmed to each other, and pretty soon the punk was trying to drag McGee to an open mic at the old Cafe Babylon. “Going to that open mic that night changed my life”, McGee says. The punk’s name is Jeff Trencher. Along with friends Jeff Hicks and Jeff Archuleta (aka The Three Jeffs), McGee would hang out at Kinko’s and make zines, often with a humorous bent. He credits the Jeffs and his friend David Perez with jumpstarting his desire to engage in the arts. “He has a very special, unique quality where he is friends with everyone, and in a way that’s not disingenuous,” says Perez, a former Santa Clara County poet laureate. “Everyone connects with him immediately.” While that may be true now, McGee offers a slightly different view on his ability to achieve immediate success. How did he develop a gift for the spoken word? “It was really a matter of people telling me I sucked in the nicest way possible,” he says. “My poetry friends were telling me that maybe I shouldn’t be doing these poetry events, because I kept losing. That compelled me to get better at it. I didn’t have my voice yet, and I didn’t know what I was trying to say. Once I got a feel for it, it was a lot easier from that point on. I did better on stages no matter where I went, because I was really focused not only on what I wanted to say, but also how I wanted people to feel after I performed. I wanted them to say, ‘Whoa! I didn’t know poetry could be like that.’ Because that’s what poetry did for me.” During this time, the late ‘90s, McGee gained his nickname. When asked to provide an email address to his friend Trencher, he found that every Mike McGee was taken—so he went for alliteration—Mighty Mike McGee. It stuck.

* * * * * * * Before long he became heavily involved in the spoken word poetry scene, working his way up from city

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EVERY DAY BY MIGHTY MIKE McGEE

MIGHTY MIKE Originally published in Mighty Mike McGee’s collection, In Search of Midnight, Write Bloody Publishing, 2009. To learn more about Mighty Mike McGee and his work, or to follow his Sweet Home San José newsletter, go to mightymikemcgee.com.

Every day I rewrite her name across my chest so that those who wish to break my heart will know who to answer to later She has no idea that I’ve taught my tongue to make pennies and every time our mouths are to meet I will slip coins to the back of her throat and make a wish I wish that someday my head on her belly might become home like doubt to doubt resuscitation because time is supposed to mean more than skin

She doesn't know that I have taught my arms to close around her clocks so they can withstand the fallout from her Autumn She is so explosive volcanoes watch her and learn terrorists want to strap her to their chests because she is a cause worth dying for Maybe someday time will teach me to pick up her pieces put her back together and remind her to click her heels but she doesn’t need a wizard to tell her that I was here all along Lady let’s catch the next tornado home let us plant cantaloupe trees in our backyard then one day I will remind you that I don’t like cantaloupe and they don't grow on trees we can laugh about it then we can plant things we’ve never heard of because I’ve never heard of a woman who can make flawed look so beautiful the way you do and the word smitten is to how I feel about you what a kiss is to romance so maybe my lips to yours could be the penance to this confession because I am the only one preaching your defunct religion sitting alone at your altar praising you out of faith I cannot do this hard-knock life alone You are all the softness a rock dreams of being the mistakes the rain makes at picnics when Mother Nature bears witness in much better places So yes Yes! I will gladly take on your ocean just to swim beneath you so that I can kiss the bends of your knees in appreciation for the work they do keeping your head above water

slam champion to a world stage. During this time he also began releasing compilation CDs of spoken word—33 to be exact—with his then-roommate under the moniker Bleeding Edge Spoken Word. All the while, McGee was hosting, emceeing or running live events. Initially, people asked for his help simply because of his experience with poetry slams. But he soon started offering his services as a host, often for the express purpose of getting audiences to listen to his poetry after getting acquainted with him. Again, he didn’t exactly realize it at the time, but the winds of fate were blowing Mighty Mike in a certain direction.

* * * * * * * Like a standup comedian playing clubs, but more haphazardly, McGee improvised a tour across the country in 2003, performing wherever folks would have him. Armed with a roller suitcase filled with a laptop and a few wardrobe changes—which, at that time, constituted all of his possessions—McGee lived the life of a transient. Almost always, he traveled alone to bars and theaters across the country, but loneliness was never too much of a factor. If you know even one person in a strange land, a place can embrace you. “That was the beauty of the poetry slam network—you had allies wherever you went,” McGee says. “I’d get off a Greyhound bus and there would be people there waiting for me. It was such an amazing feeling.” Humor is the great leveler, allowing for the darkest tragedies to be stripped of their weight and power. Laughter brings people together and forces out the insecurities that sit present in all of us, just waiting for a trigger to be released. But above all, humor is a coping mechanism—a tool for survival that McGee learned to use from an early age and now serves as a linchpin for all of his spoken word and poetry. Even his most heartbreaking pieces weave together with an undercurrent of humor. Poems like “Everyday” use the imagery of terrorists strapping bombs to their chests as a metaphor for intense love, or “The End,” where he lists off the

absurd ways the world would miss him if he died that day. “It took me a long time to stop pitting comedy against tragedy,” McGee says. “I realized I could do both at the same time.” But even with friends waiting along the way, life on the road is hard. “I saw America from a Greyhound bus for at least 400,000 miles,” McGee recalls. The stress, uncertainty and patches of boredom led McGee into a lifestyle of drinking—heavily. It brought him to the verge of a nervous breakdown. McGee was also diagnosed with diabetes several years ago. Combined with the drink and a rough life on the road, it could have been a death sentence.

‘It took me a long time to stop pitting comedy against tragedy. I realized I could do both at the same time’ “I am now so much more focused on what’s right for me, and what’s good for me—because if it’s good for me, then it’s good for the people around me,” says McGee, who gave up drinking and smoking. “Then I end up putting that much effort into my work, and the work of others, instead of putting that much effort into buying the next beer. ... The diabetes also added another level of, ‘You might not be here that long.’ I have a lot of work to do before I die.” Moreover, he realized he had been on the road for roughly a decade without any place to call his own—

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* * * * * * * “Everyone wakes up with the feeling like I do this thing every day, but am I supposed to do this thing every day? I think everyone is so bent on ‘supposed to,’ and that’s the thing, we write that ‘supposed to’ ourselves.” It’s this philosophy that drives Mighty Mike McGee’s habit of walking into venues with the sole purpose of seeing if he can create a show there. It’s a state of mind that has allowed him to set his

‘It’s inspiring to be around him. It’s inspiring to simply sit at the dinner table with him’ sights on starting an arts and poetry foundation in the South Bay. “I needed a new ‘supposed to,’ and everything pointed back to San Jose,” he says about the decision to settle down in San Jose in 2014. McGee first focused on poetry, but he quickly realized that no one in town had established themselves as an entertainment provider or promoter. He had more than the requisite skills—hosting, organizing and decades of wrangling crowds. “I could be one of the guys that put on quality shows,” McGee thought. A little less than three years later, McGee has become the quintessential South Bay emcee. Just last week—a quieter one at that—he hosted two different open mics, as well as his own performance with friend and musician CADO. In fact, on nearly any night of the week, one can find McGee adroitly hosting

and offering his poetic musings somewhere in the South Bay. “I have a mission here in the valley,” he says. “I want to show San Jose to itself from as many stages as I can. I want San Jose to know that it’s talented and poetic. And beautiful. It’s a beautiful place with beautiful people. It’s just a matter of people going out and seeing it for themselves.” These days, McGee walks down the streets of downtown San Jose and he’s treated like a celebrity—if not some type of saintly figure—as random people stop to hug him, chat or simply thank him for one of the countless events and activities he has helped groom. “Mike stands out to me as someone who has always been really supportive, and taught me a lot early on,” says Kim Johnson, a fellow spoken word poet. “He’s done so much for local artists. He’s really great with encouraging new artists in all genres to do their thing.” His roommate, musician and artist Ben Henderson, echoes similar sentiments, as their proximity and house party poetry readings have become their own underground scene. “It’s inspiring to be around him,” Henderson says. “It’s inspiring to simply sit at the dinner table with him.”

* * * * * * * Mighty Mike McGee sometimes wonders if he asks too much of his city. He has purposefully rooted himself with a goal of increasing the status of poetry in the South Bay, while trying to still pay rent. All of his comedian and poet friends have stopped pursuing this goal full time. “Besides tech, anything good that comes, leaves as soon as it gets successful,” McGee says. “I think San Jose and the South Bay really want you to mean it if you’re going to stick around, and that’s where I’m at right now. I’m trying to build my reason for staying.” In a world in which people go about their lives in relative silence— and often suffer because of it—there are gems like Mighty Mike McGee, who put their hearts on the table with such bravery, wit and cool defiance that they can’t help but encourage others to do the same.

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Santa Clara County Takes a Stand for Net Neutrality BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH On the last day to weigh in on the federal government’s plan to kill net neutrality, Santa Clara County took a stand to protect a free, open internet. The county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted 4-0 for a resolution supporting the protection of net neutrality, the principle that prevents internet providers from speeding up, slowing down or blocking content. Without said principle, companies such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would be able to hold uninhibited access to online data and ransom it for a cost. Supervisor Joe Simitian, who introduced the resolution, said nixing net neutrality would allow companies to take advantage of competitors by creating a “fast lane.” He called net neutrality “necessary for the prosperity” of the local economy while also stressing the

importance of defending free access to the world wide web. “Especially here in Silicon Valley, the internet is a driving force behind our economy,” Simitian said in a prepared statement. “It creates jobs, fosters innovation, and connects us to each other, even across the globe. An open internet is key to the high-tech world we’ve built, and it’s up to us to help protect it.” In 2015, Obama’s administration directed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to impose new protections that prevented companies from throttling information based on fees for service. But now, under the Trump administration, the commission is considering a rollback of those guarantees. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit devoted to defending civil liberties in the digital world, said the companies

lobbying for that rollback have already proved their willingness to harm consumers. AT&T blocked data sent by Apple. Comcast slowed down online traffic for some apps. And companies routinely reroute searches to websites people didn’t request. “Users pay them to connect to the internet,” EFF attorney Mitch Stoltz said, “not decide for them what they can see and do there.” Simitian said it’s important for regulators to fulfill their function by protecting consumers. “People in our county and around the nation depend on fair and free access to the internet for everything from their jobs, to their news, to their entertainment,” he said. “It’s up to us in government to make sure that people can access the information they need, without asking for approval from their cable company.”

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Criminal justice activists marched last week to protest Santa Clara County’s plans to arm jail deputies with Tasers. Thursday’s assembly outside the Main Jail included former inmates, their friends and family and other reform advocates, who called the Sheriff’s Office proposal dangerous and politically motivated. During the county’s budget hearings this past spring, Sheriff Laurie Smith asked for $45,000 to launch a pilot program to study the effectiveness of the electronic submission devices. The county Board of Supervisors OK’d the request on the condition that funds would be withheld until there’s a policy in place. But inmate advocates worry that Tasers could lead to further abuse in the county’s troubled jails. Organizers made a point of holding the rally just days away from the two-year anniversary of the death of Michael Tyree, a mentally ill inmate who was beaten to death by three jailers.

Barack Obama Street in San Jose? San Jose has a history of naming its landmarks after still-living figures, which at times has made for some awkward, smallcity-syndrome navel gazing. Buildings christened for former politicians Barack Obama who continue to take breaths include the airport (Norm Mineta), the convention center (Tom McEnery) and the train station (Rod Diridon Sr.). But what about a president? That’s the proposal being put forth by Alex Shoor, a former staffer to county Supervisor Ken Yeager. In an op-ed penned for San Jose Inside, Shoor floated the idea of taking one of San Jose’s redundantly named thoroughfares and dedicating it to the legacy of Barack Obama. A petition found on change.org has gathered more than 500 signatures. —Josh Koehn

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CONSTELLATIONS

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A beekeeper and Cambridge cosmologist fall in love in this contemporary romantic drama. This unconventional play gets its regional premiere through TheatreWorks. Already a hit in London and on Broadway, it explores the infinite possibilities of “boy meets girl” with heart, intelligence and humor. It was praised by the New York Times as “the most sophisticated date play Broadway has ever seen.” The play is in good hands with TheatreWorks founding director Robert Kelley at the helm. This nerdy love tale is sure to warm the cardiovascular system. (NV)

All the way from the Dirty South, this New Orleans-based metal outfit merge technical, melodic death metal with a dash of spastic grind. The Louisiana quartet toggle between breakneck blast beats and moody atmospheric interludes. They’ve been thrashing their way through grimy dive bars and black-box rock clubs since their self-titled debut EP dropped in 2008. Full disclosure: their brand of punishingly heavy music might not give you peace in the moment. But after a few minutes working things out in the pit (and a few ice-cold PBR tall boys from the bar) we suspect everyone will be feeling just fine. (NV)

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SOUR BEER TAP TAKEOVER Thu, 3pm, Free Steins Beer Garden, Mountain View It took a couple centuries for Americans to swallow the age-old, high-acid brewing techniques of Germany and Belgium. But now we love it. Today, sour beers are churning out of local breweries like never before, giving IPA favorites a run for their money. To meet this growing demand, Steins Beer Garden is ending the summer on a sour note, featuring nine delicious ales from five breweries. Pucker up for a lineup of unforgettable flavors including High Water Brewing’s Breakfast Sour made with grapefruit, pear and lychee, and BarrelHouse Brewing Co.’s Sweet Wild of Mine—a Flanders red with notes of caramel and oak tannins. (CM)

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Chris Stapleton has been riding high on the country music charts for a while now. His debut solo album, Traveller, made headlines in 2015 and became the top-selling country album the following year—catalyzing his breakthrough from cult favorite to award-winning star. But the big-bearded, long-haired American singer-songwriter is in no way a “new artist.” Before bursting onto the scene, he sang in the Grammy-nominated bluegrass band The Steeldrivers and penned chart-topping singles for Kenny Chesney and Luke Bryan. With his name out of the credits and on centerstage, Stapleton embarks on an extensive tour in conjunction with his latest release, From A Room: Volume One. (CM)

Experimental composer Guillermo Galindo redefines the sonic possibilities of found objects along the 2,000 mile border between the U.S. and Mexico. In a unique collaboration with photographer Richard Misrach called Border Cantos, Galindo breathes musical life into spent shotgun shells, crushed soda cans, clothing and bits of the border wall itself by morphing them into soundgenerating devices that evoke a humanitarian plea of border issues. The exhibition, which features reflections of immigrant artists in California, will showcase these imaginative devices, along with works by Pantea Karimi, Anna Larina, Jung Ran Bae, Takeshi Moro, and Xiaoze Xie. (CM)

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THE LOVEMAKERS

Sep 9 at The Ritz

THE GIPSY KINGS

Sep 10 at The Mountain Winery

THE ODD NUMBERS Sep 15 at The Ritz

TROYBOI

Sep 16 at City National Civic

THRICE & CIRCA SURVIVE

Sep 16 at City National Civic

HIGH ON FIRE

Sep 16 at The Ritz

THIS WILL DESTROY YOU Sep 20 at The Ritz

THE BEACH BOYS

Sep 22 at The Mountain Winery

TOM JONES

Sep 25 at The Mountain Winery

SUBLIME WITH ROME

Sep 27 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

IMAGINE DRAGONS

Oct 3 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

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Sun, 3pm, $15+ Mexican Heritage Plaza, San Jose San Jose-based music and partypromotion collective Sonido Clash takes it up a notch this weekend during its second annual music festival, featuring live bands, an outdoor DJ stage, poetry, cumbia dance lessons, food vendors and workshops for the whole family. Performing artists include Cuco—a young Chicano experimenting with old-school romántica tunes, “cholo goth” duo Prayers and Helado Negro, with his suave soul melodies. The all-inone celebration is taking over the School of Arts & Culture, complete with a full bar, DIY zines and a vintage Volkswagen car show. (CM)

DETOX SUNDAYS Sun, 12pm, $30+ The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose Sunday never felt so good. Detox celebrates its 10th anniversary this Labor Day weekend with a pool party at the Fairmont Hotel. It’s the last function of the summer, complete with drinks, food and thumping DJ sets by six selectors from across the country. From New York comes Mr. V with slapping original productions and remixes that take us back to the golden age of dance music. Soulful, electric jazz-phonics accompany DJ Jask from Tampa and D-Rock Drums is coming through with an eclectic on-thefly percussion jam. It’s all about taking the party to the next level at this 21+ event. (CM)

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Robots, rockets and swarms of kids abound in one of the most innovative regions in the world. History San Jose presents its third annual “mini” version of MAKE Magazine’s flagship Maker Faire, which takes STEM and crafts outside of the classroom to a county fair setting full of family friendly exhibits and DIY booths. The one-day event is a celebration of the maker in everyone— encouraging young techies, crafters, scientists, tinkerers and artists to home in on their curiosity and become creators in their community. (CM)

Before gaining his cult star status in the West, Omar Souleyman— whose high-speed Arabic dance music is transforming the world music terrain—was a sought-out wedding singer with over 500 live albums to his name. After civil war broke out in his native Syria in 2011, Souleyman fled to Turkey where he wrote songs of love, peace and heartache in light of his homeland’s troubled state. His newest album—To Syria, With Love— transcends language barriers and geographic bounds with a message of romance and yearning, encased in dizzying keyboards, pounding beats and traditional Middle Eastern dabke sounds. (CM)

LAUREN HILL & NAS

Oct 7 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

DEPECHE MODE

Oct 8 at SAP Center

BRIAN WILSON: PET SOUNDS Oct 13 at The Mountain Winery

THE NEEDLE DROP: ANTHONY FANTANO Oct 25 at The Ritz

ZAC BROWN BAND

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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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Reed Magazine 150th Anniversary Party | Sep 22 Reed Magazine, the literary journal of SJSU, can trace its lineage all the way back to 1867, officially making it the oldest literary journal west of the Mississippi. In other words, the journal has existed for 150 years. The blow-out party has been relocated from the City Hall Rotunda and will unfold in Morris Dailey Auditorium on the SJSU campus with food, drinks, readings and more.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his debut novel, The Sympathizer. More recently, he was the recipient of a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction. A graduate of Bellarmine High School in San Jose, Nguyen will return to his native turf, speaking at the Hammer Theatre Center at SJSU.

WELL READ Viet Thanh Nguyen is one of the many accomplished literary personalities speaking in Silicon Valley this fall.

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AST WEEK’S ISSUE of Metro featured a rundown of the many visual arts exhibitions, stage shows and live music slated for this fall. It turns out there are plenty of page-turning poetry and prose events in store for the coming season, as well. From Eastridge to Palo Alto, the literary strands of Silicon Valley are alive and well.

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Paul McHugh | Sep 8 Investigative journalist and awardwinning author Paul McHugh shares his new thriller, The Blind Pool, at the Palo Alto store.

Noam Cohen | Nov 15 Former New York Times tech columnist Noam Cohen discusses his debut book, The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball at the Mountain View location.

Current Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Arlene Biala will host a free event to talk about the poet laureate program, who should apply to be the next one, and answer any questions about the application process. Former county poet laureates David C. Perez, Sally Ashton and Nils Peterson will also be on hand to discuss their experiences and share their respective insights.

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Julie Lythcott-Haims | Oct 1 Growing up as a biracial woman in America has presented many obstacles for New York Times bestselling author Julie Lythcott-Haims. She will discuss how she’s managed to navigate past prejudice to achieve many of her goals and talk about parenting—all of which is covered in her new memoir, Real American.

Irvin Yalom | Oct 19 This acclaimed therapist and professor of psychiatry at Stanford turns his analysis inward in his new memoir, Becoming Myself.

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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. Thru Sep 27. TheatreWorks at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

‘THE CRUCIBLE’

Hysteria falls upon a group of young women in 17th century Massachusetts. As the Salem witch trials begin, the bonds between families and friends are tested. This 1953 Tony Award-winning drama by Arthur Miller will find parallels in political scaretactics used today. Sep 7-Oct 1. Los Altos Stage Company.

‘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.

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Today’s rockabilly fan will never get to see the majority of the men behind the famed “Million Dollar Quartet” recording—which featured Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis (the only one still kicking). Experience the legendary session with the help of this Tony Award-winning musical. Sep 15 - Oct 1. Palo Alto Players at Lucie Stern Theatre. Palo Alto.

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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.

‘ASK A MEXICAN’

A riff on Chekhov’s notoriously slept-on The Seagull, Stupid Fucking Bird keeps things unconventional. The play will feature fourthwall breaking, snark and a group of human beings grappling with a universal search for truth. Sep 14 - Oct 15. City Lights Theater. San Jose.

An exclusive staged reading of a new play inspired by journalist Gustavo Arellano’s political column, Ask A Mexican. This timely piece confronts brown-white relations in the Trump era through playful humor and biting socio-historical critique. Sep 22. MACLA. San Jose.

‘PETER AND THE STARCATCHER’

‘THE PRINCE OF EGYPT’

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.

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.

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“Manuel Neri: Assertion of the Figure.” A California native, Neri was an important figure in the Bay Area figurative movement of the ’60s. Through body language, gestures and various media including plaster, marble, bronze and paper, Neri pushes the expressive bounds of the human figure. Sep 14 - Feb 12. Stanford.

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“Chateau Liberté: House of Freedom.” In the ’60s, Summer of Love hippies and some of the biggest names in rock music headed to Chateau Liberté—a 72-acre property in the Los Gatos mountains. Historic records, photographs and anecdotes from the legends who frequented this “House of Freedom” tell the history of a property from its stagecoach stop beginnings to the present day. Thru Feb 4. Los Gatos

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“Nina Katchadourian: Curiouser.” Brooklynand Berlin-based artist Katchadourian captures the creative potential of everyday moments. The playful yet thought provoking exhibit features video, photography, sculpture and sound installations that encourage viewers to take a second look at the world around them. Sep 15 - Jan 7. Stanford.

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Enjoy Summer by the Seashore Create special memories with fun Aquarium programs that celebrate summer. Underwater Explorers

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Kids ages 8 to 13 come face-to-face with marine life as they surface SCUBA dive around our Great Tide Pool, guided by experienced Aquarium dive staff. It’s an experience your kids will never forget! No experience necessary, only a sense of adventure.

Ever wonder what fishes do at night? Fall asleep under the (sea) stars next to your favorite exhibit. Enjoy snacks and special auditorium programs, plus breakfast and Aquarium admission the next day.

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS AND TEXTILES

“ASARO Collective.” The Asamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca (ASARO) is a collective of creative revolutionaries whose art champions humanistic values against capitalist and authoritarian ideals. Through intricate etchings of farmers, children and rallying masses, ASARO seeks to give power back to the people. Sep 1 - 23. San Jose.

“Connect and Collect Art Auction and Exhibition.” The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. 37th annual art auction features more than 100 pieces by local, national and international artists—all up for grabs during an evening of signature wines, gourmet bites and mingling with Bay Area collectors and art lovers. Oct 7 marks the silent auction party, followed by a live auction gala on Oct 21. Sep 30 - Oct 21. San Jose.

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“Diana Al-Hadid: Liquid City.” Named after Giambattista Nolli’s 1748 map of Rome, AlHadid’s monumental sculpture evokes a grand fountain of disfigured nudes and dripping water. The centerpiece of her exhibition, Nolli’s Orders is an artist’s exploration of architectural legends and spacial relations. Thru Sep 24. San Jose.

“Thirteenth Quilt Nihon.” SJMQT is the first museum in the U.S. to showcase more than 30 quilts from the Japan Handicraft Instructors’ Association. For 45 years, the organization has boasted some of the most talented and respected textile artists from Japan and the Pacific Rim. Thru Oct 15. San Jose.

San Jose Art and Zine Fair. On Sep 16, artists from throughout the Bay Area are coming together to showcase their zines and other works at Empire 7 Studios. Since it opened in 2008, the gallery has been an eclectic home to the South Bay’s underground art culture, and this fair marks another move in promoting local talent. Sep 16. San Jose.

“The Last Day of August.” Located on the second floor of local thrift boutique Black and Brown, Seeing Things Gallery is a hole in the wall haven of zines, books, magazines and custom prints. In its upcoming art show, painter Roan Victor explores the dual worlds of the private and the public through lace linens and hidden faces. Aug 31. San Jose.

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RAP GAME Patti Dombrowski, a.k.a. ‘Patti Cake$,’ is an aspiring rapper, working to make it out of New Jersey.

Sundance fave ‘Patti Cake$’ hits most marks, wraps too neatly BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

HE LOVABLE SUNDANCE hit comedy Patti Cake$ proves John Waters’ law that “hating fat people is the last acceptable prejudice.” It’s a relatively wise feel-gooder. The more extravagant claims made for this comedy include “authenticity.” Diverting as it is, it’s shaped in the familiar Sundance-ian fashion for uplift and happy ending.

Let’s put it plainly: as was once said of the homogenized, tons o’ fun rap group The Fat Boys, at times, Patti

Cake$ has the street authority of a “Don’t Walk” sign. It’s about unlikely stardom, sought by an obese 23-year-old, Patti Dombrowski (Danielle Macdonald). She gets her multigenerational extended family together into the oddest group since the Bremen Town Musicians. She stays with grandma (the ever-ready Cathy Moriarty), a gravelvoiced wheelchair rider who’s ready to join her late husband in the grave. Her semi-estranged mom (the terrific Bridget Everett of Lady Dynamite) is, like almost every comedienne before her, tremendous when she plays a bitter dream-crusher. The big woman reveals her own embarrassing yearnings via a karaoke performance of “These Dreams” by Heart.

There’s someone who recognizes Patti’s star qualities: her pal and No. 1 fan, Hareesh (Siddharth Dhananjay). If there’s such a thing as a “friend zone,” there’s also a sidekick zone. Hareesh never really emerges from it. The fairy tale has a rough background, suburban Jersey at its skeeviest. When the characters want anything—from powerful marijuana to a credible recording studio—they need to drive to Newark for it. Maybe the authenticity cited in reviews are the textures that director Geremy Jasper got of belching steam-stacks, old taverns, a cemetery where some vandal beheaded a stone cherub and grim banquet halls for special catered events. Odd how things out in Jersey look cheaper when they try to get fancier. We can admire Patti’s dreams. We’re charmed by the fact that this would-be star, sweating it out as a waitress and a bartender, has given herself more pseudonyms than a Filipino vampire movie (“Killa P,” is one, “Patti Cake$” is another). We finally see her serious chops

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when she engages in a rap battle outside of a gas station. She holds her own against a dick-wielding rapper, the neighborhood muscle-kid (McCaul Lombardi). He always calls Patti “Dumbo,” in honor of her last name. One reason to watch movies is to brush up on slang—as when Danny tries to put the heat on Patti to recite: “C’mon, Dumbo, spit.” At a VFW talent show, Patti sees the guy who’ll catalyze her dreams, a young, melancholy transient whose real name is Bob (Mamoudou Athie). Just out of Yale Drama School, Athie is a superb under-actor; his Bob tries to scare people off with a single, glowing, zombie-eye contact lens and two hoops in his bottom lip that shine like vampire fangs. Bob’s solemnness, solitude and integrity represents the discipline Patti needs. The movie acknowledges that this is a film about white people assaying black people’s music. At one point, Patti is given some lip from her mom’s boyfriend, a racist acoustic guitar-playing cop who loves bluesman Robert Johnson’s “Crossroads.” It’s the irony of Caucasians enshrining the older music as more authentic, while writing off rap as crap. But Patti doesn’t listen when Bob tells her to beware of the rap God she worships, a famous MC called “Oz,” whose posters cover her walls. She dreams of Oz almost nightly, as he floats in emerald clouds. In Fame-ish movies like these, there’s always only one person who can help the struggling musician—just as in Whiplash, the only music school in the world was Juilliard. Since Patti is a Dorothy waiting for her tornado, it’s natural that Oz turns out to be the little jerk behind the curtain. What’s less natural is the rehabbing of one major character into the nice boy next door—it’s almost as disappointing as the Ally Sheedy makeover in The Breakfast Club. This is a sweet movie, but it’ll gall viewers who believe that fighting the viciousness of the world with troubling art is a duty—it’s not just a stage you get over, as if you were a rebellious kid who finally learned to clean up and be nice.

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Revivals CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND

(1977) A most optimistic science fiction film about the aliens coming to visit, and the Arrival of its day. In this fantasy returning for a 40th anniversary screening, the saucer-people welcome an oddly matched group of dreamers, from a scientist (Francois Truffaut) to a western line-man (Richard Dreyfus). A technical marvel in its time, and still an outstanding family movie, made with much affection and hope by Stephen Spielberg. (Sep 1 at the AMC Mercado, the Cupertino Square 16, Mountain View 16 and other theaters.) (RvB)

HUMORESQUE/DARK VICTORY

(1946/1931) It’s Crawford vs. Davis in a clash of the melodramas. The remake of a silent Frank Borzage film is a giant throbbing romance with Joan Crawford in the familiar plight of a woman who married for money, but who lost her soul. Fortunately, her soul returns in the form of an up from the ghetto violinist (John Garfield, dubbed at the violin by Isaac Stern) whom she sponsors and loves, but cannot have. Flamboyance is the word here—Crawford’s ardor takes her all the way to the last stop on the line, as well she’d need to travel, to top her previous film Mildred Pierce; she’s all flashing eyes and big padded shoulders as she recites Clifford Odets’ perfumed dialogue. Decadent quipper Oscar Levant slouches around, trying to give the cynical a little something to hang on to, like a life preserver in the overwhelming tide—while there are certainly hoot-worthy moments, no one can fault the cast’s dedication to this romantic whirlpool. BILLED WITH Dark Victory. Bette Davis demolished audiences in this tale of a rich playgirl who develops a lethal brain tumor. George Brent is the doctor who tries to save her as she slowly loses her sight; Humphrey Bogart is the race-horse trainer who gives her salt of the earth advice. The movie has the dignity that copies lack…and besides, it was there first. (Aug 31-Sep 1 at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

CASABLANCA/ THE MALTESE FALCON

(1944/1941) You must remember this. In a remarkable studio re-creation of North Africa, an elaborate story of wartime loss and love is played out in an émigré’s bar in Morocco. Club owner Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) is confronted by his old lover (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband (Paul Henreid), who try to shake the isolationist Rick into action against the Nazis. Not a movie, but the movies, as Umberto Eco argued; in Casablanca,

every film genre is sampled and merged, played by a cast that included 34 nationalities. Remembering Casablanca, it's the individual moments that persist. There's Peter Lorre's squeal as he's dragged away by the Gestapo, Claude Rains' offhand delivery of the famous line that sums up the corrupt policeman's methods, Bogart's crumbling obstinacy and Ingrid Bergman's soft tears. BILLED WITH The Maltese Falcon; novelist Dashiell Hammett described his clever but morally rotten San Francisco detective Sam Spade as “looking pleasantly like a blonde Satan”—but everyone knows he really looks like Bogart. The third version at this point suffers from comparison with the bawdier, harder, faster and clearer Roy Del Ruth pre-code adaptation… but it’s fast enough, and the undertones are there if you listen. The cast of international thieves searching for a slippery lost statuette, a jeweled tribute to an emperor, includes Mary Astor as a femme fatale, Sydney Greenstreet as a portly sybarite, Peter Lorre as his long-time companion, and Elisha Cook as a leather-jacketed punk. The undersized Cook gets called a “gunsel,” which means “baby goose” in Yiddish; the word means some male prisoner’s longtime companion— that’s one of the undertones referred to earlier. (Sep 2-4 at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

BLACK LEGION/MARKED WOMAN

(1937/1937) Timely, in a word. During the Depression, right wing militants were afoot. Warner Bros., as it often did in those days, took the newspaper headlines as their inspiration. Humphrey Bogart is a Detroit working stiff who is by passed for a promotion by a foreign-born fellow worker; thus he’s wide open for joining a Klanlike group in robes and hoods. An impressive indictment, and the KKK tried fruitlessly to sue for improper use of their logo. Maybe not as ferocious as it could be, but, as critic Otis Ferguson noted when he saw it, better half a loaf than pie in some ideological sky. BILLED WITH Marked Woman. San Jose’s Lloyd Bacon directed this economical courtroom drama based on the infamous “Lucky” Luciano’s habit of branding the whores who worked with him; this spins off of that tale to have Bogart as a DA trying to talk an ex-“hostess” (Bette Davis) into testifying against her vicious gangster boss (Eduardo Cianelli). The last shot of women walking the streets in the fog is about as brave as the post-code movies got. New 35mm print. (Sep 5-6 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

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LOVE HURT Lake Bell and Ed Helms star in ‘I Do … Until I Don’t,’ a film about the trials of modern marriage.

Married … Without Children LAKE BELL IS the funniest lady in the Sarah Silverman vein who isn’t actually Sarah Silverman. The lanky woman’s face is good for comedy, given her wide mouth and her big clouded brow; anxiety radiates off of her like waves from a radio tower. Memories of Bell’s performance in the 2013 indie comedy In A World might be enough to cause you to risk a title like I Do… Until I Don’t. Happily, I Do … Until I Don’t is better than it sounds. The ensemble here, a good one, is held together by a mean, horsey British anthropologist, Vivian Prudeck (Dolly Wells), doing a BBC documentary on the failure rate of American marriage and how contractual seven-year liaisons might make more sense, given longer life spans. Frustrated with the kind of uninteresting couples she’s running into in the alterna-Florida of Vero Beach, Vivian tries to shake things up. She pushes the paid subjects of her documentary to get results. The marriage of Harvey (Paul Reiser) and Cybil (Mary Steenburgen, at last given something to sink her teeth into) seems to need only a slight jostling to shatter. Cybil is pretty much done with him, and does passive aggressive things like giving him a certificate at a happy-endings massage parlor so that he can go get his anniversary sex taken care of there.

For yet more dysfunction we travel to Alice (Bell) and her husband, Noah (Ed Helms). Surely, in real life, Helms is a jaguar in the boudoir, but here, as in The Office he excels in playing the “before” picture in a Viagra advertisement. Moreover, I Do … Until it’s mandatory coupling I Don’t time because they want a baby—there’s something R; 103 Mins. about clock-mandated Saratoga 14 “results-based” intercourse that dismays even the most ardent lover. Noah and Alice’s blinds business is dying horribly, and Alice’s own despair is complicated by the certainty that her openly polyamorous sister (Amber Heard) wants to sleep with her husband. This Vero Beach, with its jungly backyards and sun-flooded ranch houses, makes a fine change for where it probably would have been shot in L.A., Venice Beach—there’s a lot more room for lazing and stalking here. Something funny happens every other moment, from Steenburgen’s ominous scowl—what a Nancy Reagan she’d make—to the bits, pieces and rejoinders. When a pervy performance artist named Egon tries to interest Vivian in erotic art: “Begone, Egon.” “Namaste.” “Nowmustgo.” —Richard von Busack

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DISCO BEACH GOTHS The Growlers have tightened up their ramshackle ‘beach goth’ sound with the help of Julian Casablancas.

The Growlers link with The Strokes’ frontman on polished ‘City Club’ BY NICK VERONIN

ROOKS NIELSEN HAS always viewed himself as a bit of an outsider. A core member and frontman of SoCal weirdo surf punks The Growlers, Brooks grew up riding waves in the small Orange County town of Dana Point.

Even then, Nielsen was resistant to join up with the surfers. “For a long time, I was a boogie boarder, and I thought we were the coolest people on the beach,” he says. Nielsen has long felt similarly about his band. He’s often questioned why

The Growlers even bother with record labels, wondering if they wouldn’t be better off just releasing their own music and plotting their own tours. “We’ve never been a part of a scene,” he says. “We’ve always been alone.” These days, however, Nielsen seems willing to embrace a slightly more mainstream path. Although he and Taylor never like to plan too far ahead when it comes to songwriting, they did decide that they would hire some professional musicians to flesh out their sound—and it shows. The Growlers’ latest effort, City Club, represents their most poporiented record to date. The album is shot through with pepped-up synth lines and and big hooks, tightly wound bass and dialed-in drumming. And yet, all the while, City Club

retains the ramshackle indie charm that made The Growlers a potent musical force to begin with. Of course, some credit must go to the record’s producer, Julian Casablancas, frontman of The Strokes. Listening to the bubbling bounce of the glitchy drum loop on “I’ll Be Around,” the throbbing, John Carpenter-esque keys of “Vacant Lot” or the anthemic momentum of the guitar riff on “Dope on a Rope,” it seems clear that Casablancas exerted some serious influence on this album. However, Nielsen stresses that City Club is very much a Growlers’ album—rather than some kind of collaborative project. A large portion of what appeared on the final cut of City Club was present in the original demos, which the band tracked at a friend’s home studio in Topanga Canyon. Rather than playing the role of a Fifth Beatle, Casablancas “was kinda like the cool big brother,” according to Nielsen. If there are elements of songs that sound like they are paying homage

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to The Strokes catalog, that’s because they probably are. Just knowing that they would be working with Casablancas had an impact on The Growlers’ songwriting, Nielsen explains. None of this is to say that Casablancas had no direct role in directly shaping the tone of City Club. Nielsen recalls watching as Casablancas worked the boards with the Grammywinning engineer Shawn Everett— whose credits include Alabama Shakes and Weezer. Together, the production team hacked together alternate arrangements and worked to punch up The Growlers’ raw original material. “It was cool to see,” Nielsen says—even if it did make him a bit uncomfortable. The Growlers frontman says digital editing workstations have never played much of a role on previous records. “It’s kind of a mystery to me.” There is at least one other force that played a role in shaping The Growlers’ latest record: the City Club itself. The Mexican restaurant and bar is at Sacramento Street and South Santa Fe Avenue, not far from downtown Los Angeles—across the street from the small studio where The Growlers recorded the album. “There wasn’t a lot of room in the studio,” Nielsen says. “By default we were spending a lot of time across the street. We quickly became locals.” Given the themes explored on the record—the looming, ever-present allure of drugs and alcohol; friends who seem unwilling to accept that the party is over; and the complicated feelings of guilt and relief associated with leaving those friends behind—the City Club seemed to make an ideal title for the album. “I just have to keep picking up and moving in order to continue to grow,” he says. Now in his early 30s, Nielson is married and has a son. He says he’s ready to leave his wildest years behind, as he preps the next leg of the City Club tour—which will bring The Growlers to The Ritz next week. It should be a good time, he says. “I’m trying to make sure I don’t get stuck in the party, but that’s not to say we don’t party.”

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Rock/Pop/ Hip-Hop ART BOUTIKI Fri, Sep 1, 7:30pm: Dogcatcher, The Lique, Hoopty. San Jose.

THE BACK BAR SOFA Wed, Sep 2, Leeroy the Innovator, DJ Slipz. San Jose.

BRANHAM LOUNGE Fri, 10:30pm: Quality Control (indie, rock and hip-hop). Every Thu, 10pm: The Weekend Warmup with DJ Sean Black. San Jose.

Bandas De La Bahia. Every Sun: 4-8pm: Edith Del Sol. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE Fri, Sep 1, 6pm: Rusty Rock ’n Roll. Sat, Sep 2, 6pm: Blind Pilots. Los Gatos.

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE Every Thu, 9:30pm: DJ night w/ DJ Benofficial & DJ Vex. Every Fri and Sun, 9:30pm: Karaoke w/DJ NoWrath. Santa Clara.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY Every Wed: J.C. Smith Jam. Los Gatos.

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BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Every Wed: DJ Hank. Every Thu: DJ Maniakal. San Jose.

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN Every Thu: DJ Benofficial. Every Fri: DJ Radio Raheem. Every Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose.

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.

REDWOOD CITY COURTHOUSE SQUARE Fri, Sep 1, 6pm: Pride and Joy. Redwood City.

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 31, No Room in Hell, Pacifist. Fri, Sep 1, 12 Gauge Promise, Crimson Riot, Vice Minded. Sat, Sep 2, Open Curtain Clinic, Bangalore, Late Night District. San Jose.

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrarra. Wed, Aug 30, Acoustic Madness. Los Gatos.

C&J’S SPORTS BAR Every Wed, 10pm: College Night DJ. Every Thurs, 10pm: Karaoke. Every Fri & Sat: Live Music or DJ. Santa Clara.

CHARLEY'S LG Every Fri & Sat: Live Music & DJs. Los Gatos.

MOUNTAIN WINERY Wed, Aug 30, 7:30pm: Chicago. Tue, Sep 5, 7:30pm: Steve Winwood. Saratoga.

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Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Every Wed: Piano Night with Rick Ferguson. Fri, Sep 1, 8:30pm: Jeff Sanford’s Cartoon Septet. Sun, Sep 3, 6:30pm: Hiram Bell and the HUI. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI Every Sun: Live Jazz Show. 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.

CAFE STRITCH Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. Thu, Aug 31, Geechi Taylor Quartet. 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.

THE CATS Every Sun: Joe Ferrara (jazz). Los Gatos.

THE RITZ Thu, Aug 31, 8pm: Com Truise, Nosaj Thing, Cleopold. Fri, Sep 1, 8pm: The Phenomenauts

SHERWOOD INN Every Sun, 4pm: Novak-Nanni Duo. San Jose.

SHORELINE AMPHITHEATRE Sat, Sep 2, 7pm: Foreigner and Cheap Trick. Mountain View. Sun, Sep 3, 6pm: Nickelback and Daughtry. Mountain View.

WOODHAMS LOUNGE First and Second Fri, 9:30pm: Live PRO Jam. Third and Fourth Fri: Live bands. Santa Clara.

Jazz/Blues/ World AGAVE Every Thu: Banda La Unica. Every Fri, 6:30pm: Mariachi Mariachismo, 9:30pm: DJ Norman. Every Sat: Las Mejores

CLUB FOX Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Every Fri: Salsa Spot. Wed, Aug 30, 6:30pm: Steve Freund. Fri, Sep, 1, 8pm: Braulio Barrera y Somos el Son. Redwood City.

HEDLEY CLUB Every 1st and 3rd Wed: Jazz Jam. San Jose.

JJ’S BLUES Every Tue: MikeB Interactive Jam. Wed-Sun: Live Music. Every Fri: Latin Rock Nights. San Jose.

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 Every Tue, 4pm: Live Acoustic Music. Every Wed and Fri,

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HIDDEN TRACKS The L.A.-based producer Nosaj Thing has worked with Chance the Rapper, Kid Cudi and more.

Behind the Scenes PLENTY HAVE HEARD the trippy, left-field production of Nosaj Thing. Yet, as is the case with so many beatmakers, his behind-the-scenes work has often remained in the shadow of the larger stars it has helped propel into the limelight. Jason Chung (aka Nosaj Thing) got his first big break with an assist from Chance the Rapper’s breakout project Acid Rap. The mixtape’s second track, titled “Pusha Man,” finds Chance gleefully giving listeners a taste of a newly minted confidence in his voice. It’s not long, though, before everything goes quiet for a spell before giving way to a hidden track, “Paranoia.” Featuring an off-kilter, stuttering drumbeat paired with sparse, reverberant, submarine synth chimes, this deceptively simple beat works well with Chance’s bleak narrative, which outlines the horrible state of gun violence and drug abuse in his hometown of Chicago. Four years earlier, the producer snagged his first major production credit on Kid Cudi’s studio debut, Man on the Moon. The track sampled Nosaj’s bubbling, atmospheric track “Aquarium.” Unfortunately, the song—titled “Man on the Moon (The Anthem)”—was released only on the record’s deluxe edition as a bonus track, despite being a title track of sorts.

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In the time since, Nosaj has been busy building a solid body of work that ranges from minimalist and ambient electronic music to glitched-out hip-hop in the vein of fellow L.A. beatmaker Flying Lotus. On his forthcoming album, Parallels, the producer is aiming to challenge himself. "My previous records reflected the anxiety of living inside my own imagination," Chung says. "For Parallels, I went outside of that: It's all about trying new things, creating new worlds.” The album’s lead single “All Points Back To U” sounds cold and frayed. The song cobbles itself together as menacing low-end synthesizers take hold amid a drum track that could have been lifted from an early-aughts Burial track. Through the course of the song he adds and subtracts elements seemingly at random. An extra layer of drums here, some shimmering choral synths there. It’s in these little flourishes that Nosaj Thing truly shines. A minute in, London-based singer Steve Spacek’s distressed voice gives the song new depth. Spacek sounds almost ghostly, punctuating his performance with whispers and groans. Parallels is due out early next month, but before that release happens, he’ll be bringing San Jose a taste of the new project with his show at The Ritz, where he’ll appear alongside Com Truise. —Yousif Kassab

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed PASCOE KELLY. CASE NO. 16PR178443To all heirs beneficiaries herein on 07/24/2017. /s/Debra Dixon Glusker. This statement was filed creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/17/2017. (pub Metro be interested in the will or estate, or both of: MARK PASCOE KELLY. 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017) A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court of California, County ofBUSINESS Santa Clara.The Petition for Probate requests FICTITIOUS that James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa NAME STATEMENT #633099 to administer Clara be appointed as personal representative the of the decedent. Thedoing petition requests to Theestate following person(s) is (are) business as: Allauthority Blue Global administer the estate under the Shipping Co., 1728 Quimby Rd., SanIndependent Jose, CA, 95122,Administration Calvin V. Gong. of Estates Act. (This authority willby allow the personal representative This business is being conducted an Individual. Registrant has not to many actionsbusiness without under obtaining court approval. yettake begun transacting the fictitious businessBefore name or taking certain very important actions, however, the personal names listed herein. /s/Calvin V. Gong. This statement was filed with representative be required to give to interested the County Clerkwill of Santa Clara County onnotice 08/18/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, persons they have waived notice or consented to the 9/06, 9/13,unless 9/20/2017) proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and showsBUSINESS good cause why the court should not grant FICTITIOUS authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as NAME STATEMENT follows: November 28, 2016, at 9#632992 a.m. in Dept. 10 located at 191 NORTH FIRSTperson(s) STREET, SAN JOSE, CA,business 95113. IFas: YOU OBJECT to The following is (are) doing The Rock Church, the granting of theCourt, petition, you should the hearing UPC, 929 Weddell Sunnyvale, CA,appear 94089, at United Pentecostal and state objections or business file written objections with the Church Ofyour Mt View, Inc. This is being conducted by acourt before the hearing. Yourbegan appearance may business be in person or the by your Corporation. Registrant transacting under attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/25/2009. decedent, youwas must file your claim with the court and mail a copy Above entity formed in the state of California. /s/Kathleen to the personal representative appointed bystatement the court within the Reyes. Secretary/Treasurer. #C0421630. This was filed later (1) Clerk four months date of issuance(pub of with of theeither County of Santafrom Clarathe County onfirst 08/16/2017. letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section Metro 8/30, 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017) 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may NAME STATEMENT want to consult with an attorney#633085 knowledgeable in California law. The following person(s) YOU MAY EXAMINE the is file(are) keptdoing by thebusiness court. If as: youBallrz are a Fitness, person 455 CastroinStreet, Mountain View, 94041, Yoga aBelly LLC, 900 interested the estate, you may fileCA, with the court Request High School Way, (form #2131,DE-154) Mountain View, CA,of94041. This business for Special Notice of the filing an inventory and is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided began transacting business the fictitious business in Probate Code section 1250.under A Request for Special Noticename form names listed on clerk. 08/18/2017. Above entity was formed isoravailable fromherein the court Attorney for petitioner: MARK inGONZALEZ, the state of Delware. /s/Aaron Goodnow. A. Lead Deputy County Counsel,Managing OFFICE OFMember. THE #201709710545. This373 statement wasStreet, filed with the300, County ClerkCA, COUNTY COUNSEL, West Julian Suite San Jose, of Santa Clara County on 08/18/2017. Metro11/09, 8/30,11/16/2016) 9/06, 9/13, 95110, Telephone: 408-758-4200 (Pub(pub CC, 11/02, 9/20/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Van Hoa Lam, TheStory following person(s) is (are) as:Lam, Malone 979 Rd., #7087, San Jose, Ca,doing 95122,business Nuh Thuan Quoc HairNguyen, Salon, 1109 CA,95111. 95125,This Anthony Kien Anh 608Malone GiraudoRd., Dr., San San Jose, Jose, CA, business Tran, 738 Hellyer Ave., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is being is conducted by an married couple.Registrant has not yet begun conducted by an Individual. began transacting business transacting business under theRegistrant fictitious business name or names underherein. the fictitious or names listed herein/s/Nhu on listed Refile ofbusiness previousname file #620681 with changes. 08/24/2017. /s/Anthony Tran. This statement was filed with Thuan Lam This statement was filed with the County Clerk of the Santa County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 07/17/2017. (pub Metro 8/30, Clara County on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) 9/06, 9/13, 9/20/2017)

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Thefollowing followingperson(s) person(s)isis(are) (are)doing doingbusiness business Agada The as:as: Free Spirit, 380 Energy Healing, 1211 CA, Park95113, Ave.,Michael #207, San Jose,8093 CA, 95126, Jessica S. 1st Street, San Jose, R. Hill, E. Zayante Neideffer, 529 Page Street, San Jose, CA, 95126. This business Rd., Felton, CA, 95018. This business is conducted by an individual. is conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the businessbusiness under the fictitious business or /s/Michael names listed fictitious name or names listedname herein. R. herein 11/01/2011. Refile previous file #568448 with Clara Hill Thison statement was filedof with the County Clerk of Santa changes. /s/Jessica Neideffer. This statement was filed with County on 10/24/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 08/08/2017. (pub Metro 8/16, 8/23, 8/30, 9/06/2017)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems,” said businessman Lee Iacocca. You are currently wrestling with an example of this phenomenon, Aries. The camouflage is well-rendered. To expose the opportunity hidden beneath the apparent dilemma, you may have to be more strategic and less straightforward than you usually are— cagier and not as blunt. Can you manage that? I think so. Once you crack the riddle, taking advantage of the opportunity should be interesting. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Close your eyes and

imagine this: You and a beloved ally get lost in an enchanted forest, discover a mysterious treasure, and find your way back to civilization just before dark. Now visualize this: You give a dear companion a photo of your face taken on every one of your birthdays, and the two of you spend hours talking about your evolution. Picture this: You and an exciting accomplice luxuriate in a sun-lit sanctuary surrounded by gourmet snacks as you listen to ecstatic music and bestow compliments on each other. These are examples of the kinds of experiments I invite you to try in the coming weeks. Dream up some more! Here's a keynote to inspire you: sacred fun.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On its album Jefferson's

Tree of Liberty, Jefferson Starship plays a song I co-wrote, "In a Crisis." On its album Deeper Space/ Virgin Sky, the band covers another tune I co-wrote, "Dark Ages." Have I received a share of the record sales? Not a penny. Am I upset? Not at all. I'm glad the songs are being heard and enjoyed. I'm gratified that a world-famous, multi-platinum band chose to record them. I'm pleased my musical creations are appreciated. Now here's my question for you, Gemini: Has some good thing of yours been “borrowed”? Have you wielded a benevolent influence that hasn’t been fully acknowledged? I suggest you consider adopting an approach like mine. It’s prime time to adjust your thinking about how your gifts and talents have been used, applied or translated.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Roger von Oech tells us that creativity often involves “the ability to take something out of one context and put it into another so that it takes on new meanings.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy could and should be your specialty in the coming weeks. “The first person to look at an oyster and think food had this ability,” says von Oech. "So did the first person to look at sheep intestines and think guitar strings. And so did the first person to look at a perfume vaporizer and think gasoline carburetor.” Be on the lookout, Cancerian, for inventive substitutions and ingenious replacements. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When famous socialite Nan Kempner was young, her mother took her shopping at Yves Saint Laurent's salon. Nan got fixated on a certain white satin suit, but her mean old mother refused to buy it for her. "You've already spent too much of your monthly allowance," mom said. But the resourceful girl came up with a successful gambit. She broke into sobs, and continued to cry nonstop until the store's clerks lowered the price to an amount she could afford. You know me, Leo: I don't usually recommend resorting to such extreme measures to get what you want. But now is one time when I am giving you a go-ahead to do just that.

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scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the miraculous communication system that we know as the World Wide Web. When asked if he had any regrets about his pioneering work, he named just one. There was no need for him to have inserted the double slash “//” after the “http:” in web addresses. He’s sorry that Internet users have had to type those irrelevant extra characters so many billions of times. Let this serve as a teaching story for you, Virgo. As you create innovations in the coming weeks, be mindful of how you shape the basic features. The details you include in the beginning may endure.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The sadness you feel might be the most fertile sadness you have felt in a long time. At least potentially, it has tremendous motivating power. You could respond to it by mobilizing changes that would dramatically diminish the sadness you feel in the coming years, and also

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make it less likely that sadness-provoking events will come your way. So I invite you to express gratitude for your current sadness. That’s the crucial first step if you want to harness it to work wonders.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Don’t hoot with the

owls at night if you want to crow with the rooster in the morning,” advised Miss Georgia during the Miss Teen USA Pageant. Although that’s usually good counsel, it may not apply to you in the coming weeks. Why? Because your capacity for revelry will be at an all-time high, as will your ability to be energized rather than drained by your revelry. It seems you have a special temporary superpower that enables you both to have maximum fun and get a lot of work done.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): During this phase of your astrological cycle, it makes sense to express more leadership. If you're already a pretty good guide or role model, you will have the power to boost your benevolent influence to an even higher level. For inspiration, listen to educator Peter Drucker: “Leadership is not magnetic personality. That can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people.’ That is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to new heights, raising a person’s performance to a higher standard, building a personality beyond its normal limitations.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “One should

always be a little improbable,” said Oscar Wilde. That’s advice I wouldn't normally give a Capricorn. You thrive on being grounded and straightforward. But ‘'m making an exception now. The astrological omens compel me. So what does it mean, exactly? How might you be “improbable”? Here are suggestions to get you started. 1. Be on the lookout for inspiring ways to surprise yourself. 2. Elude any warped expectations that people have of you. 3. Be willing to change your mind. Open yourself up to evidence that contradicts your theories and beliefs. 4. Use telepathy to contact Oscar Wilde in your dreams, and ask him to help you stir up some benevolent mischief or compassionate trouble.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A modern Israeli woman named Shoshana Hadad got into trouble because of an event that occurred long before she was born. In 580 B.C., one of her male ancestors married a divorced woman, which at that time was regarded as a sin. Religious authorities decreed that as punishment, none of his descendants could ever wed a member of the Cohen tribe. But Hadad did just that, which prompted rabbis to declare her union with Masoud Cohen illegal. I bring this tale to your attention as a way to illustrate the possibility that you, too, may soon have to deal with the consequences of past events. But now that I have forewarned you, I expect you will act wisely, not rashly. You will pass a tricky test and resolve the old matter for good. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Want to live to be 100? Then be as boring as possible. That's the conclusion of longevity researchers, as reported by the Weekly World News. To ensure a maximum life span, you should do nothing that excites you. You should cultivate a neutral, blah personality, and never travel far from home. JUST KIDDING! I lied. The Weekly World News is in fact a famous purveyor of fake news. The truth, according to my analysis of the astrological omens, is that you should be less boring in the next seven weeks than you have ever been in your life. To do so will be superb for your health, your wealth, and your future. Homework: Send news of your favorite mystery—an enigma that is both maddening and delightful. Freewillastrology.com

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Tough Nut to Crack LOST IN TIME Myun-Sik Chang has operated Peanuts Cafe for more than 35 years—but neither he nor the former owner knows how the place got its name.

Peanuts Cafe builds San Jose legacy by standing the test of time BY GARY SINGH

BOUT 10 YEARS ago I was lurking inside the legendary Peanuts Cafe on San Fernando Street, when an old-timer said to me: “If this place goes away, I’ll blow up the new City Hall.”

He was exaggerating, but I understood his sentiment. Thankfully, as far as I can tell, Peanuts is not going away anytime soon, and with the new academic year upon us, now is an opportune moment to celebrate the gorgeous downmarket establishment that San Jose State University (SJSU)

students have frequented for eons. You cannot call yourself a Spartan if you haven’t been to Peanuts. The place soaks in its affordability. That’s the point. It is not a joint for Michelin-starred chefs or a plate of chateaubriand. You go for the decades-old decor, the beer and the inexpensive omelettes. Even better, you get Myun-Sik Chang, who has now operated the cafe for more than 35 years. Chang and his father worked as employees for the previous owner, before Myun took over the lease beginning in January 1983. Several years later he was able to acquire the property. Now, in 2017, Chang still shows up at 5am every day except Sunday, getting the place rolling for its famous dirt-cheap breakfast.

Funny thing is Chang doesn’t remember why the business is called Peanuts. He says the previous owner didn’t know either. What he does recall is that when he first opened, a plate of two eggs, hash browns and toast sold for 99 cents. If you wanted to add bacon, it became $1.49. Coffee tipped the scales at 35 cents. “At SJSU, the coffee was $1.25 back then,” Chang recalls. “I made mine 35 cents. I wanted to keep the customers. We got a good review in the Spartan Daily and the business just took off.” Chang is not the only trouper of the establishment, however. Two other employees, Juan and Raquel, have been at Peanuts for 28 years. The whole place feels like family. “Without them, I can’t run this business,” Chang says, as I sit drinking a paper cup of glorious, downmarket coffee. I can’t help but notice that the only decor components updated since 20 years ago are the internet jukebox and the large flat screens

in the upper corners. Everything else has remained the same over the years, with students, university staff and longtime locals continuing to roll in for breakfast or lunch. The pitchers of beer continue to flow, although the price has increased a bit and the variety has improved from the Bud draft and Amber Dark era of the 1990s. Pitchers were five bucks in those days. I can’t even calculate how much beer I drank at Peanuts during my college decade. But this is not nostalgia. If you walk inside Peanuts today, the place bubbles with activity. Framed photos and gift plaques line the walls, all given to Chang from various SJSU fraternities over the years. Hanging over the bar, there’s even a historical 1952 photo of the last graduating class of San Jose High partying inside Peanuts, back when the school was located directly across the street, before it moved to its current location. As such, the tradition continues. If you want to know where people are tearing it up during finals week, or on the last day of classes, go to Peanuts. Chang remembers me from when I used to come in and watch soccer games 20 years ago, so we talk about how students have changed over the years. Nowadays, he observes, the masses carry smartphones, laptops, backpacks and earbuds. “A long time ago, everyone just had backpacks,” he says. In my case, I often encounter people that haven’t been to downtown San Jose in 10 or 20 years, lumbering down San Fernando Street on their way to Peanuts, just to see if it’s still there. The place has a Paramount Imports flavor of staying power. When students first move into the neighborhood, then finish college four years later, they won’t remember any soulless building named “27 North” or “50 West” or “101 San Fernando.” Instead, they’ll remember a place like Peanuts, a place with character. If there ever emerges a true campus community, we need more places like Peanuts.

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ITH HIP-HOP playing overhead and candied bacon served on Fridays, Academic Coffee is not a basic coffee shop, and nor is its history. Starting as a pop-up shop inside of downtown San Jose cocktail lounge Five Points, the coffee shop has since expanded to a stand-alone location at East William and South Second streets.

Barely a month into its new digs, Academic has tended to attract nearby residents and workers over students from San Jose State University, which works out for local professionals like Shannon Hunter. “I like that the cafe is not known as much,” Hunter said, in between typing and taking sips from an iced mint latte ($5). “It’s only my second time here, but I want to make this my regular coffee shop.” As a newcomer, I went with a recommended iced coconut latte ($5) paired with an Apple Kouign-amann pastry ($4.50). The glass was filled with enticing swirls of java and topped with toasted coconut. Academic uses So Delicious coconut milk but also offers a soy option for an extra 50 cents. The pastry, delivered from Firebrand Artisan Breads in Oakland, was served on a personalsize cutting board of wood and marble. Made of equal parts butter and sugar, and filled with tender apple slices, the outside crust was flaky and sweet. Despite my mention of few students, the toons and casual atmosphere are designed to encourage studying. Beginning at the register, guests are greeted with a list titled “Daily Assignments,” aka the menu of the day. There are subtle spinoffs of academia, such as the molecular-design logo printed on college-ruled paper. However, the power outlets and free wifi do lend themselves as a convenient place to get work done. Brian Nguyen, a barista who has previously worked at his fair share of coffee shops, noted that Academic is striving to provide an atmosphere that doesn’t just run cups and customers through a turnstile. “We are dedicated to being service forward and not just coffee forward,” he said. In addition to making coffee with a swanky Linea PB La Marzocco espresso machine, Academic intends to educate customers by hosting coffee-making workshops. “I’ve seen customers buy a bag of beans, but they can’t produce the product,” Nguyen said, adding that the ownership group opened the space as a way “to educate the coffee consumer.” Shortly after the grand opening, Academic expanded its hours from 7am-7pm. For coffee lovers, that means school is officially in session ACADEMIC COFFEE 499 S Second St., San Jose. 7am-7pm.

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