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What a great article! So happy you traded corp for healing, Jessica

Since daylight savings has cloaked my 5pm dog walks under a veil of darkness, the typically safe routes have been a little more sketchy than usual. Case-in-point: on a walk the other day a commotion caused me to swivel my head to catch a fistfight between what appeared to be two men beside a large PG&E utility box. But it wasn’t a fight at all—I realized, squinting to get a clearer view—it was a beating. One of the figures was clearly dominating the other, like a sixth-year senior shaking down a spindly little freshman for lunch money. I picked up my pace to ascertain the severity of the beat down. “You need to do something,” I thought. “Actually, no,” I reconsidered. “They could be high out of their minds on bath salts.” Wanting to still do my part as Good Samaritan, I trotted out of sight and dialed 9-1-1 to alert police. I felt slightly ashamed for leaving the poor guy to get pummeled, but, hey, I’m no hero. I’m just trying to clock another 10,000 steps on this FitBit.

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Fly Away Last month’s retirement by longtime Mercury News metro columnist SCOTT HERHOLD marked yet another departure for the South Bay’s daily paper of record, which has recently seen quite a few of its journalists call it a career or get poached by competing outlets. In June, columnist MARK PURDY hung it up after several decades of penning columns about sports and french fries. A month later The Athletic, a chain of subscription-based sports websites, launched a Bay Area vertical under the leadership of former Merc columnist TIM KAWAKAMI, who brought along fellow Bay Area News Group (BANG) scribe MARCUS THOMPSON II and others; BANG is the Merc’s parent company. Now there’s word that the Merc’s county beat reporter ERIC KURHI is leaving to join the local Registrar of Voters’ press team, which is usually very responsive even if final vote tallies aren’t. Merc managing editor BERT ROBINSON told Fly that there isn’t a set plan yet on replacing Herhold for opinions on South Bay Don’t politics, and the task in forget the meantime will fall to tip! to the paper’s on-staff editorial board members: FLY@ BARBARA MARSHMAN, METRONEWS. ED CLENDANIEL and COM DANIEL BORENSTEIN. Asked why the paper decided to replace one old white guy with three old white people, Robinson noted that the paper’s opinion staff could use more diversity—admittedly, so could Metro’s—but the trio aren’t replacing Herhold as much as taking a new approach to editorial writing. “To be clear, we’re not replacing Herhold. This is a different thing,” Robinson said. As reader habits shift, he added, so, too, should older formats such as anonymously written columns by the editorial board that “don’t draw the traffic that we hoped.” The Merc’s counting on online readers responding better to bylined pieces.

WEB: SanJoseInside.com An inside look at San Jose politics

RELUCTANT LEADER Ed Lee rose to political prominence in 2011 with his appointment as San Francisco’s mayor. Supporters had to encourage him to run for re-election.

South Bay Leaders Mourn Death of S.F. Mayor Ed Lee BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH AND JOSH KOEHN San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee was not a politician’s politician, which is perhaps why so many appreciated him in an arena filled with hucksters, power brokers and ladder climbers. On Tuesday, the first Asian American to helm the city died from an apparent heart attack. He was 65. The veteran civil servant, appointed mayor in 2011, was initially hesitant to remain in the role for too long, but he ultimately ran and won the following election. “He was not a true politician,” says state Assemblyman Evan Low. “But many of us said you have to do it.” Leaders and government officials across the Bay Area mourned Lee’s death with moments of silence as social media lit up with condolences to his family and memories of the mayor’s legacy. In an email to reporters, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo lamented the loss of a “dear friend and colleague.”

Assemblyman Low (D-Campbell) posted a few photos of him and Lee at various functions, and in an interview with San Jose Inside on Tuesday he recalled playing against Lee in an organized game of table tennis: “He said, ‘You let the old guy win.’ I didn’t.” Lee rarely came to the South Bay unless he was helping Low with campaign fundraising or events put on by the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus. Low recounted Lee once saying, “I’ve never been to Campbell this many times in my life. But if there is good golf down here, let me know.” Former San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, who now works as an executive for Santa Clara County, offered his thoughts and prayers on Twitter, while Assemblyman Kansen Chu (D-San Jose) offered remarks on Facebook. Lee was known for his easy-going nature and quirky sense of humor, but his political legacy is more complex. San

Francisco, like San Jose, has struggled with a housing shortage and a surge in homelessness. Lee was seen by many as too cozy to tech companies that received tax breaks from the city. Santa Clara County Supervisor Dave Cortese on Tuesday described Lee as a champion for human rights. “All board members and many administrators have had the pleasure of working with Mayor Lee, most recently on our shared lawsuits against the federal executive orders that threatened the rights of immigrants in our communities,” Cortese wrote. “We also shared the goal to provide shelter and housing for the growing numbers of homeless individuals and families in both our communities, among other human rights and civil rights issues.” San Francisco Supervisor London Breed succeeds Lee, making her the city’s first black female mayor. A special election will occur in June 2018.

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Silicon Valley Expects Slash in Funds from China’s ‘National Sword’ China’s crackdown on imported scrap paper and plastics is about to shake up the global market, and it will likely bring major changes to Silicon Valley’s recycling programs. By the start of 2018, China intends to ban imports of 24 types of papers and plastics as part of a militantly titled “National Sword” campaign to reduce contamination and build its own recycling systems. Beijing detailed the plan to the World Trade Organization over the summer, which prompted fears that an influx of leftover recycling scraps will pile up in U.S. landfills. San Jose’s Environmental Services Department has been in talks with the city’s recycling contractors about how to deal with the effect of

China’s toughening-up on import standards. It’s unclear how the ban will impact local landfill diversion requirements, but the city is now assessing regulatory challenges over storing and stockpiling additional recyclables in case of a market slowdown. National Sword will have an outsized impact on California, which ships about 60 percent of its recyclables to China, according to a memo authored by San Jose’s environmental services director, Kerrie Romanow. More-scrupulous inspections have already slowed exports, she wrote, prompting a call throughout the West Coast for consumers to reduce waste and recycle more carefully. —Jennifer Wadsworth

Sierra LaMar’s Killer Sentenced to Life in Prison without Parole The man convicted of killing Morgan Hill teen Sierra LaMar was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility Sierra LaMar of parole. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Vanessa Zecher announced the fate of 26-year-old Antolin Garcia-Torres

after emotional testimony from Sierra’s family. Prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Garcia-Torres, who was also convicted of attempting to kidnap three women from Safeway parking lots a few years before Sierra’s 2012 disappearance. But a jury decided on life without parole for the murder of the missing teen, whose body was never found. Garcia-Torres, who was also ordered to register as a sex offender, reportedly plans to appeal his sentence. —Jennifer Wadsworth

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DEEP CUT China’s reduction of recycling imports could hurt Silicon Valley.

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Moon The surprise success of Andy Weir’s first novel, ‘The Martian,’ stunned the author. He pushed himself even further with his follow-up, ‘Artemis’

BY STEVE KETTMANN ROCK STARS Andy Weir’s first book stranded the protagonist, Mark Watney, on Mars. His new novel, ‘Artemis,’ revolves around a female thief named Jazz pulling off a moon heist.

OTHING ANDY WEIR says in his calm, understated, chuckling-at-himself voice can begin to explain how this unassuming software engineer who lives in Mountain View—just another productive drone in the Silicon Valley hive for countless years—turned out to be the One. He has no idea himself. He keeps waiting for the chiming of his alarm to jolt him from what must surely be a dream. None of this could possibly have been real—not the giddy experience as an unpublished writer posting the chapters of his geek-out novel The Martian on his

personal website, one by one, à la Charles Dickens, and finding that thousands of people were grabbed by his story and wanted more; not a sudden publishing deal with Random House; not No. 1 bestseller status, not the movie starring Matt Damon. And not the chance to publish his second novel, the new moonscape crime drama Artemis. “It was a charmed existence,” Weir told me in a recent phone conversation, with a combination of openness and self-mockery. “It was really awesome. I tried to be as grateful as I could at the time because I told myself, ‘It’s probably not going to happen again.’” There was silence over the phone as he let it sink in that he was utterly, painfully sincere in having no idea if lightning could ever strike twice for him.

“Of course I’ve got the ‘impostor syndrome’ thinking. I’m like: I don’t know what I did right. Really, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing. All I can do is write stories that I myself would enjoy reading.” Weir is onto something there. If more writers would focus on telling stories they themselves wanted to read, the world of writing would do a much better job of connecting with readers, absent many an unfortunate detour through the landscape of the mannered, the trendy, the showy, the unreadable. It’s like cooking: A good place to start is whipping up a meal that tastes delicious to you. At least one person is going to be happy— and, chances are, others will as well. Not every fan of The Martian loves Artemis, which surged to the top of the bestseller lists as soon

as it was published in November, reaching No. 6 on the New York Times hardcover fiction list its first eligible week, and it might be a while before any undergraduate seminars focus on Weir’s literary merits. He’s not a once-in-a-generation literary talent like Jennifer Egan (Manhattan Beach), Viet Thanh Nguyen (The Sympathizer) or Nathan Hill (The Nix). Andy Weir is the One because he’s given us a feel-good reminder of the power of the imagination, and he can inspire anyone and everyone to pursue their own writing, maybe even becoming rock-star huge. Weir has talent, but mostly he has ideas. He has no fancy degrees, no privileged bond with a great-writer mentor; he’s your basic writer next door. Weir has gone from nowhere on the literary map to front and center, all

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Shot because he’s a guy who loves stories, a guy who believes in the power of what used to be called daydreaming. His amazing run of success can and should serve as inspiration to anyone with an idea, anyone wanting to let their mind race, anyone who believes in the power of an imagination driven by a sense of fun and unfettered by the closedwindow heavy breathing of writingseminar “notes” or trends in writing. Weir is the One, as well, because he’s a perfect test case for the way the internet now makes it possible for an individual with passion and stamina to put out a story that might resonate with others. He’s the future of publishing, or at least its avatar, not because of his prose style or his flawless psychological insights into his characters, but because he understands the importance of

taking a reader for a ride. (Cue up appropriate Jimi Hendrix lyrics.) One of the pleasures of reading an Andy Weir novel is the certainty we have that we know exactly who Weir is, just from the story he tells. Yes, like Mark Watney, the main character in The Martian, and Jazz Bashara, the straw that stirs the drink in Artemis, he’s a sarcastic, wisecracking kind of guy. Yes, he loves science, and puts in the time to get it right. I even had the feeling I could picture Weir in his childhood, out in a California field somewhere, firing off Estes model rockets into the sky. “Did you ever play with model rockets?” I asked him, just for fun, knowing full well he’d say yes. “Estes! Big time!” he said. “I designed my own.” Once again, in Artemis, Weir

soars. He blasts off, delivering a breezy joy ride sure to appeal to a wide audience, especially anyone who shares his enthusiasm for what he calls his “holy trinity” of major influences: Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. I don’t read much science fiction nowadays. Actually, as the father of two small girls, busy as the codirector of the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods writers’ retreat center in Soquel, I don’t get much time to read books at all. So when my older brother Greg, a lifelong fan of science fiction, emailed me a couple years ago and told me I needed to read a book called The Martian, I ordered it right away—and burned through it in a rush of pure joy. Weir’s follow-up is a far more ambitious undertaking. For me,

it didn’t have quite the feel of uninterrupted dream that The Martian did, pulling you along inexorably, but in some ways I like Artemis better. It doesn’t feel like a one-off. It feels like a conduit into an entire world of revving imagination, akin to the Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke I read in my teens. For me, this kind of storytelling has power and social relevance. A lot of perspective can be packed into stories that have the liftoff of science fiction. Artemis is a tale all about the kinds of power plays that take place when deals have to be made to handle population growth despite scarce resources. Sound relevant and contemporary? Californians understand this very well, and setting the story on the moon in some

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ways harked back to an earlier era of expansion in this state. “I wanted the book to be about mankind’s first city that isn’t on Earth, and to me it was very obvious that that was going to be on the moon,” Weir told me. “Colonizing Mars before colonizing the moon would be like if the ancient Britons colonized North America before they colonized Wales. I love stories that take place in off-world colonies. There’s the frontier spirit you see in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, but I also thought of lesser-known Heinlein, like Farmer in the Sky, which is set on Ganymede. We’re basically talking about a frontier society in space.”

‘I was interested in developing a female character who was a flawed person, with shady morals, who makes bad life decisions’ Which takes us back to California. As the novel was taking shape in Weir’s imagination, he found himself drawing inspiration from movies even more than sciencefiction novels, specifically a 1974 classic starring Faye Dunaway and Jack Nicholson, and set during California’s water wars of the early 20th century. “One of my main influences was the movie Chinatown, which is really about the growth of a city and everything that has to happen for that to move forward,” Weir says. “When I was working on Artemis, I kept thinking: this is similar to Chinatown. So I watched the movie again.” It’s a great movie, with a script from Robert Towne that’s considered one of the best in the history of cinema. No one who has seen it will forget the younger Nicholson with tape on his nose, playing Jake

Gittes. I highly recommend reading the Weir novel and then watching the movie again as a way to explore how one creative work can infuse and inform another. Both have about them a feeling of gradually uncovering deeper truths. In the case of Artemis, the drama also hinges on a power play over resources. It’s complicated, but here are the basics of the setup: Jazz Bashara is estranged from her father, a master welder, who like her lives on a small colony on the moon called Artemis. She works as a porter—a low-income, lowprofile job that serves as a useful cover for her other occupation: a large-scale smuggling operation with the help of an Earthside pen pal she’s been close to for years. Through her smuggling operation, she meets a wealthy businessman named Trond Landvik who offers her a million credits to engage in some major sabotage—an insanely difficult mission that she, wanting the money, decides to accept. She comes up with a good plan, and almost pulls it off, sabotaging all but one of the automated mining harvesters operated by Sanchez Aluminum. Then she goes to see her wealthy businessman client—only to find him murdered. It turns out that the enforcer of a Brazilian crime syndicate—which, this just in, owns Sanchez Aluminum—has murdered the businessman and is now after her, only he’s a little off his game in the low gravity of the moon, putting him at a disadvantage. By teaming up with her estranged father and a lovable geek named Martin Svoboda, who becomes an unlikely love interest, Jazz brings her schemes to an unlikely conclusion. Anyone who says they saw it all coming—the kind of hair-ball analysis regularly coughed up online—is full of it. Weir’s most daring choice with Artemis was choosing to narrate his book in the voice of his female lead character, Jazz. Even many fans of the book have some issues with a middle-aged white guy trying to write in the voice of a woman in her 20s. Writing in the New York Times, for example, N.K. Jemisin went glib: “She talks and acts like a Middle American

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white man.” Even Kirkus, in a swipe I have to call bizarre, took a shot at Weir for thanking his publisher and U.K. editor and other women in his acknowledgements “for helping me tackle the challenge of writing a female narrator.” What’s wrong with that? Kirkus thought acknowledging help made it sound “as if women were an alien species.” Hold on there. Reviewers often don’t know much about how books actually get written—they’re more the sit-back-and-snipe types—but fine-tuning voice takes work, and one always asks for help. If you’re narrating a book with a character from England, and you yourself are from California, you get help to hunt for anywhere you can improve—that doesn’t mean you think people from England are an “alien species.” Weir couldn’t win, in other words, but he knew that going in—and he’s disarmingly open about how harrowing it was to go with his impulse to build the book around a young woman. “That was probably the biggest challenge in the book for me,” he told me. “I don’t know if I did a good job or not. Some people have strong reactions, saying, ‘This is horrible. Andy Weir doesn’t know anything about women.’ There are demographics that would never accept a female lead written by a man under any circumstances—you may not have a female lead written by a man, period.” He’s right about that, of course, but he’s surely going to piss some people off by saying so. It probably helps his cause that he’s matter-of fact-and mild about the observation—not angry, not combative, just accepting of conditions, like an engineer planning a rocket launch. “I was interested in developing a female character who was a flawed person, with shady morals, who makes bad life decisions,” he says. “These are all character flaws that if I had applied them to a man, people would say, ‘OK,’ but applied to a woman, some people say, ‘All women aren’t like that.’ The Martian had no character depth. No one accused it of being literature. This time, I wanted deeper characters. No one’s going to talk about it with the Pulitzer committee, but I hope I stretched myself.”

12 They are interesting quandaries. Weir wrote the book knowing full well that given the proclivities of Hollywood producers, and given the success of the film version of The Martian, the new novel he was writing had a decent shot at hitting the big screen. So in writing a vehicle for a sarcastic, flawed young woman character who also happens to be smart, resourceful and complex, he was working in a small way against the historically male-dominated tradition of science fiction, which thankfully has slowly begun to diversify. That said, of course any author is fair game, and if people find some of Jazz’s lines clanging, so be it.

I think we’re going to be seeing a lot of Jazz Bashara on the big screen for years to come. Here’s a pretty good test case: “I stared daggers at Dale. He didn’t notice. Damn, I wasted a perfectly good bitchy glare.” I thought the line was funny. I thought it came through that Weir was having a lot of fun with his writing. Then again, I am a reader of a similar age and background to Weir himself. The novel has been optioned, and I’d be stunned if it didn’t hit the big screen with a young actress nailing the part. In fact, I think we’re going to be seeing a lot of Jazz Bashara for years to come. Weir definitely stretched himself here, and I for one am glad he did. “I really tried to convey Jazz’s flippant attitude,” he said. “It was much harder to write Artemis than The Martian. The Martian was so much more simple. It was a lot of math problems, and I’m good at that. Complex human interaction is more

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WEIR SCIENCE Technical details are almost as important as character development and narrative arc in Andy Weir’s novels. challenging. Mark is more or less flawless. He makes errors, but there’s no moral ambiguity to him. He’s a guy with no personality flaws other than being snarky sometimes, where Jazz has made very bad decisions and most of her problems are selfinflicted. She had everything she needed to get a start in life—a parent who loves her, an education. She still managed to piss all that away.” Some readers are put off by her endless wisecracking and sarcasm, but again, on the screen that could work out just fine. “She has a sarcastic sense of humor,” Weir says. “That’s just me. I think everything I write is going to be through that lens, because that’s just who I am … I don’t have an idea

what a character looks like. I don’t get a visual. Like when I wrote The Martian and finished, I couldn’t have told you what color Mark Watney’s hair was. Like with Jazz, I don’t see her. I know she has olive skin. I’d like her to be played by a woman who has that skin tone.” As for what we can expect next from Weir, he’s not going anywhere. The ideas keep exploding out of his active imagination. “I would love for Artemis to be a series,” he told me. “I’m working on the next book already, just a few thousand words so far. I’m working on that, but don’t want to get too enthusiastic yet. What if people don’t like Artemis? If it goes over well, I can see a whole series of books.”

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Andy Weir’s mooncolony caper ‘Artemis’ tells the story of a young woman hustling to come up big

BOUNDED OVER the gray, dusty terrain toward the huge dome of Conrad Bubble. Its airlock, ringed with red lights, stood distressingly far away. It’s hard to run with a hundred kilograms of gear on—even in lunar gravity. But you’d be amazed how fast you can hustle when your life is on the line. Bob ran beside me. His voice came over the radio: “Let me connect my tanks to your suit!” “That’ll just get you killed too.” “The leak’s huge,” he huffed. “I can see the gas escaping your tanks.” “Thanks for the pep talk.” “I’m the EVA master here,” Bob said. “Stop right now and let me cross-connect!” “Negative.” I kept running. “There was a pop right before the leak alarm. Metal fatigue. Got to be the valve assembly. If you cross-connect you’ll puncture your line on a jagged edge.” “I’m willing to take that risk!” “I’m not willing to let you,” I said. “Trust me on this, Bob. I know metal.” I switched to long, even hops. It felt like slow motion, but it was the best way to move with all that weight. My helmet’s heads-up display said the airlock was fifty-two meters away. I glanced at my arm readouts. My oxygen reserve plummeted while I watched. So I stopped watching. The long strides paid off. I was really hauling ass now. I even left Bob behind, and he’s the most skilled EVA master on the moon. That’s the trick: Add more forward momentum every time you touch the ground. But that also means each hop is a tricky affair. If you screw up, you’ll face-plant and

COOL JAZZ The main character in ‘Artemis’ is a smooth criminal. slide along the ground. EVA suits are tough, but it’s best not to grind them against regolith. “You’re going too fast! If you trip you could crack your faceplate!” “Better than sucking vacuum,” I said. “I’ve got maybe ten seconds.” “I’m way behind you,” he said. “Don’t wait for me.” I only realized how fast I was going when the triangular plates of Conrad filled my view. They were growing very quickly. “Shit!” No time to slow down. I made one final leap and added a forward roll. I timed it just right— more out of luck than skill—and hit the wall with my feet. Okay, Bob was right. I’d been going way too fast. I hit the ground, scrambled to my feet, and clawed at the hatch crank. My ears popped. Alarms blared in my helmet. The tank was on its last legs—it couldn’t counteract the leak anymore. I pushed the hatch open and fell inside. I gasped for breath and my vision blurred. I kicked the hatch closed, reached up to the emergency tank, and yanked out the pin. The top of the tank flew off and air flooded into the compartment. It came out so fast, half of it liquefied into fog particles from the cooling that comes with rapid expansion. I fell to the ground, barely conscious. I panted in my suit and suppressed the urge to puke. That was way the hell more exertion than I’m built for. An oxygen-deprivation headache

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one. I barely had enough money for a used one and you assholes won’t let me join the guild until I own a suit.” “You should have saved up for a new one.” Bob Lewis is a former US Marine with a no-bullshit attitude. More important, he’s the EVA Guild’s head trainer. He answers to the guild master, but Bob and Bob alone determines your suitability to become a member. And if you aren’t a member, you aren’t allowed to do solo EVAs or lead groups of tourists on the surface. That’s how guilds work. Dicks. “So? How’d I do?” He snorted. “Are you kidding me? You failed the exam, Jazz. You superduper failed.” “Why?!” I demanded. “I did all the required maneuvers, accomplished all the tasks, and finished the obstacle course in under seven minutes. And, when a near-fatal problem occurred, I kept from endangering my partner and got back safely back to town.” He opened a locker and stacked his gloves and helmet inside. “Your suit is your responsibility. It failed. That means you failed.” “How can you blame me for that leak?! Everything was fine when we headed out!” “This is a results-oriented profession. The moon’s a mean old bitch. She doesn’t care why your suit fails. She just kills you when it does. You should have inspected your gear better.” He hung the rest of his suit on its custom rack in the locker. “Come on, Bob!” “Jazz, you almost died out there. How can I possibly give you a pass?” He closed the locker and started to leave. “You can retake the test in six months.” I blocked his path. “That’s so ridiculous! Why do I have to put my life on hold because of some arbitrary guild rule?” “Pay more attention to equipment inspection.” He stepped around me and out of the antechamber. “And pay full price when you get that leak fixed.” I watched him go, then slumped onto the bench. “Fuck.” Reprinted from ARTEMIS Copyright © 2017 by Andy Weir. Published by Crown Publishing Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

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Wed, 8pm, $18+ The Ritz, San Jose

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Fri, 7pm, $13+ SAP Center, San Jose

Fri, 8pm, $20 BackBar SoFa, San Jose

Riding a recent hot streak, Chuck Ragan comes to San Jose for a night of smoldering acoustic folk at the Ritz. Inspired equally by perseverance and perdition, the storied singer has managed to establish dual music careers: one in punk with his much beloved band Hot Water Music, and one in folk with his rootsy solo act. Last year he penned the soundtrack to indie game The Flame in the Flood, and this September Hot Water Music released their first new record in a half-decade, both of which have plenty to offer Ragan fans. (MH)

Lorin Sklamberg wasn’t too shocked when pop culture finally caught on to just how explosive Eastern European music could be—especially when combined with contemporary genres, like punk, electronic and hip-hop. The scene Sklamberg has been working in since the mid-’80s long predates bands like Gogol Bordello and Beirut. Sklamberg is a founding member of The Klezmatics, who were an integral part of the second-wave klezmer music revival. Meshing traditional secular Jewish tunes with modern sounds, they have built an international following. Their Hanukkah-themed concert will feature original and cover tunes. (NV)

In preparation for the 2018 Winter Olympics, the women’s national hockey teams for the U.S. and Canada will be squaring off at SAP Center as part of the U.S. Olympic Exhibition. For those unable to make it to South Korea in February, this is the best chance to see North America’s greatest up close as they get personal on the ice. The two teams have always closely contended for the top spot in international play, and with the U.S. team captained by seven-time gold medalist Meghan Duggan, this is an opportunity to see the very best in the sport. (MH)

Before he went gold as a solo artist with 1998’s Thugged Out: The Albulation, Yukmouth was one half of The Luniz, the crew who dropped what is arguably the greatest weed-smoking anthem ever to come from the Bay Area (and there’ve been a lot): “I Got 5 On It.” Since then the Oakland rapper has had a prolific and inspiring career, from starting Smoke-A-Lot records in ’98, to this year’s two-part JJ Based on a Vill Story. The latter, a concept record about coming up in Oakland, is some of the best work he’s ever released and shows he’s far more than just a one-hitter quitter. (MH)

INSPIRED BEFORE NATURE Fri, 11am, Free Foundry Commons, San Jose Joe Bastida Rodriquez’s plein aire landscapes, Inspired Before Nature at the Foundry Commons mini gallery, honor the Earth as the foundational source of human sustenance, physical self-actualization, and spiritual affirmation. The paintings reference the Bay Area figurative art tradition, which infused and blended figurative subject matter—including still life, portraits, landscapes and the figure—with the painterly techniques of abstract expressionism, characterized by an emphasis on process and the vigorous handling of paint, centered in the essentials of medium. The show runs Fri-Sun through Dec. 17. (AT)

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JAY Z

Dec 16 at Oracle Arena

WINDHAM HILL: WINTER SOLSTICE Dec 17 at Carriage House Theatre

XXXMAS 2017 W/ STRATA

Dec 22 at The Ritz

DJ MUSTARD

Dec 29 at Pure Lounge

PRIMUS

Dec 31 at Fox Theatre

KSHMR

Jan 19 at City National Civic

THE SOFT WHITE SIXTIES Jan 20 at The Ritz

BILL MAHER

Jan 21 at The Flint Center

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Jan 23-28 at SJ Center for Performing Arts

LEE ‘SCRATCH’ PERRY Jan 24 at The Ritz

THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT Jan 25 at The Ritz

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CHERRY POPPIN’ DADDIES

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SUPER LOVE JAM

Feb 9 at SAP Center

WINTER’S GIFTS: FAMILY

SUPERSUCKERS VIERNES 13 Sat, 8pm, $13+ The Ritz, San Jose

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Sat, 8pm, $35 First Presbyterian, Palo Alto

The Supersuckers have been living at the intersection of punk, Southern rock and metal for almost 30 years now. In that time they’ve established themselves as something of the American answer to Motorhead—all jeans, cowboy hats and sneering attitude. In the early days of Sub Pop, they played alongside the growing grunge movement, but 2015’s Holdin’ The Bag found the band straying from their dieselfueled punk sound and into bona fide country-rock territory with songs like “Shimmy & Shake,” “Man on a Mission,” and “All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)”—the latter of which gives a loving nod to Lemmy & Co. (MH)

Veterans of L.A.’s thriving Latin ska scene, Viernes 13 (“Friday the 13th”) have been celebrated by fans and critics alike for their mix of ska and rocksteady with Latin melodies. Before they even released an album they were voted the best ska band of the year in the L.A. Weekly—no small feat for a band from a city where ska never died out. Since then, they’ve only continued to grow, and released their strongest album to date with 2015’s “Thirteen Rules,” a confident and mature work that’s sure to bring fans of ska and Latin rock alike to the dance floor. (MH)

The Choral Project’s annual holiday concert returns this weekend with a performance at First Presbyterian Church in Palo Alto on Saturday and a second at Mission Santa Clara de Asis on Sunday. The San Jose-based organization has been presenting choral concerts for more than 20 years. This year’s seasonal offering—“Winter’s Gifts: Family”—features the San Jose Chamber Orchestra and special guest the Vivace Youth Chorus. The concert will showcase music from around the world and honor Silicon Valley’s diversity and wide array of holiday traditions. (NV)

SCHOOL OF VISUAL PHILOSOPHY Sat, 6pm, Free 425 Auzerais Ave, San Jose Sure, there are plenty of people in Silicon Valley who work with their hands… But does typing a clicking a mouse really count? Those looking for a more involved creative outlet would do well to check out the School of Visual Philosophy’s open house. The crafts learning center and cooperative workspace provides tools and institutional knowledge to local makers—from carpenters and printmakers to welders and even bronze sculptors. The school welcomes all comers, whether the project is a small bookshelf or a DIY Burning Man trailer. (NV)

JAPANESE BREAKFAST

Feb 21 at The Ritz

SHE WANTS REVENGE Jan 22 at The Ritz

DEMI LOVATO & DJ KHALED Feb 28 at SAP Center

ROBERT PLANT

Feb 28 at Fox Theatre

BONNIE RAITT

Mar 15 at City National Civic

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL

Mar 28-Apr 1 at SAP Center

May 7 & 8 at SAP Center

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TheatreWorks adapts David Sedaris’ uproarious ‘Santaland Diaries’ BY TAD MALONE

PIKE YOUR EGGNOG, pretend to like your aunts, uncles and cousins, and fight your way through the savages at the mall to get that last, overpriced gift. It’s Christmastime and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley keeps these dueling holiday sentiments in mind with their latest production—a stage adaptation of David Sedaris’ cautionary holiday tale, “Santaland Diaries.”

One of Sedaris’ first widely recognized works, it is both a

meditation on being young and without direction, as well as an incredulous take on the wild, surreal clash of Christmas and capitalism. The essay debuted on NPR’s Morning Edition in 1992 and was later published in the collection Barrel Fever in 1994. NPR rebroadcasts the reading every year, making it a public radio holiday tradition. The set for TheatreWorks’ oneman rendition is sparse. It is centered around an ornate Santa chair, flanked on the right by a fully-stocked alcohol cart. Behind the chair is a phalanx of fully lit Christmas trees. Above, crown molding with Christmas-y tendrils frame the stage. The small platform that supports the chair leads down into the front row of theater seats through gingerbread-styled steps.

Even before the show opens, the play’s star, Max Tachis, is on stage, interacting with the audience. Using the conceit of technical difficulties, Tachis confers with the stage’s crew through his microphone. Then he launches into a rap to point out the emergency exits and other features of the production. After exiting the stage, he returns almost immediately, wearing a winter coat, sipping coffee and looking for jobs in the classified section of the newspaper. He picks a job as an elf in the Santa display at the Macy’s department store in New York City, where he soon learns what kind of beautiful mistake he’s made. Working under the festive name of Crumpet, the narrator outlines his day to day as an assistant to Kris Kringle, dealing with everything from creeps to overbearing mothers in hilarious, horrifying and above all, absurd detail. As a one-man show, The Santaland Diaries requires some heavy lifting. Luckily, is more than up to the

task. From the get-go, Tachis plays Crumpet with dexterity—oscillating between sardonicism and idealism. But as the show progresses, each warring side of his brain begins to blend into a Tasmanian devil of emotion and frustration. Tachis pulls it off without a hitch. As Crumpet, he is funny and immediately likable, swimming through each anecdote with a bitter charisma that coats the material in equal parts alienation, bitterness and holiday spirit. It’s no easy feat, but Tachis also transitions between different voices, dialects and colloquialisms filling out Crumpet’s adventure with context. While the audience interaction felt out of place at the show’s commencement, Tachis’ tendency throughout the show to involve the audience by giving a member an empty beer or an unwanted flyer, brings the whole crowd closer into Crumpet’s experience. There were some hiccups. The loose, goofy energy that carried the show from the outset started to falter in the middle, and the sudden inclusion of a puppet to provide some contrasting perspective (and to take some work off Tachis’ back) felt a little forced. But there were moments where the puppet was used successfully to reinforce Crumpet’s feelings and perspective. The doll also served to break up the uniformity of the show. Though mostly tame, Sedaris’ material pulls no punches—poking fun at different groups, ethnicities and subcultures with biting wittiness. These moments feel much more tense in the theater today than they must have felt when Sedaris first read his “Santaland Diaries” on the air. While the show deals with sensitive issues—race, homosexuality, domestic violence, abuse and economic hardship—it approaches them in ways that don’t feel didactic or overly serious. Instead The Santaland Diaries blends these themes into a potent cocktail that is paradoxically a bleak yet merry reflection on Christmas in America.

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WHAT’S CRACKIN’ Fans of ‘The Nutcracker’ have at least three local renditions to choose from this season.

Totally Nuts IT’S A TRADITION as enduring as egg-nog and roast turkey. The Nutcracker, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s century-old ballet about a little girl, an enchanted wooden doll and an anthropomorphic mouse, is a performing arts staple of the holiday season. This year, Silicon Valley has at least three different takes on the Christmas classic. —André Jaquez & Nick Veronin

The Nutcracker Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose Veteran conductor George Daugherty leads Symphony Silicon Valley as his orchestra accompanies a group of world-renowned Russian dancers to bring Tchaikovsky holiday fever dream to life. Russia has long been recognized as a leader in the world of ballet and the Stars of Moscow Ballet Company is no exception. This dextrous troupe of dancers have some of the most delicate moves in the business. Of the three Nutcracker’s listed here, expect this version to be the most straightforward, without too many twists on the Mouse King or Sugar Plum Fairies. Fri-Sun, Dec. 15-24 & Wed, Dec. 20.

Holiday Music: Thu, Dec 21 5 –8 PM Celebrate the solstice and enjoy the sounds of the season from the

Magnolia Jazz Ensemble and the Trace Elementary Choir. Enjoy complimentary hot cocoa and cookies in the Museum Store while taking care of last minute holiday shopping. Bring a donation of non-perishable food item for Second Harvest Food Bank and receive one free admission on Dec 21.

$5 after 5 PM (members free)

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Hip-Hop Nutcracker Fox Theatre, Redwood City This adaptation of The Nutcracker adds some b-boy flair to the traditional 125-year-old ballet routine with a pop-locking sugar plum fairy, krumping tough toy soldiers and bumping beats. Choreographers Ale Martinez and Isaac “Stuck” Sanders, whose dancing has appeared on America's Got Talent and Fake Off, mix dancers trained in hip-hop with performers from the Peninsula Ballet Theatre. Tchaikovsky’s iconic score is remixed with thumping bass and record scratching and the plot strays slightly from the original Nutcracker—as it has the protagonist Maria-Clara’s parents meet at a nightclub in Brooklyn in the 1970s. Fri, Dec. 15 & Sun, Dec. 17.

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The New Ballet School is bringing back its production of The San Jose Nutcracker, which puts a South Bay spin on the world's most popular ballet. The fledgling ballet company found success with the production last year, selling out its run of shows. This year, the young ballet company is upping the ante, bringing two dancers—Odwa Makanda and Lwando Dutyulwa—from the Langa township in Cape Town, South Africa to perform in the show. Referencing iconic San Jose landmarks, like the city’s legendary light tower, and recalling a time when the city was known not as “The Capital of Silicon Valley,” but rather “The Valley of Heart’s Delight.” Fri-Sun, Dec. 15-24.

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Awesome Power GLORY ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ thrills with a mix of idealist battle, disillusionment and redemption.

‘The Last Jedi’ could be the best ‘Star Wars’ in the franchise BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

T’S LIKE WWII, only fun! In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the alt-right First Order has the rebels bottled up—“the RESISTANCE,” the title crawl says in capital letters, a stealth howdy to anti-Trumpers. On the throne is Supreme Leader Snoke, a granddaddy version of Baby Eraserhead played by Andy Serkis. This moldy dictator faces the same problems Lord Vader had back in the day—sass from a supercilious general (Domhnall Gleeson) and

disappointing results from a prize pupil, Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), who returned empty-handed from his mission to find Luke Skywalker. In writer and director Rian Johnson’s entry in this series—maybe the strongest and sharpest in the 40-yearlong epic—fractiousness abounds. Skywalker (Mark Hamill) sulks in his island monastery, overrun with cute space-puffins called porgs; the birdies turn the Millennium Falcon into their rookery. The noble finale of the last episode had Daisy Ridley’s Rey passing the lightsaber to the bearded hermit Luke. It’s picked up right where we left off: Luke tosses the unwanted weapon over his shoulder and vows that he will no longer teach the Jedi arts. Eventually, he changes his mind.

Here, the Force is a spiritual disciple anyone awake can feel their way into. This is opposed to what could be called George Lucas’s single worst idea: making the Force into an inherited quality, found in aristocrats with midichlorians in their blood. The rebels are a matriarchy now. When General Leia (Carrie Fisher, doing a lot of post-mortem acting) is incapacitated by an attack, a new admiral takes over. It’s Amilyn Holdo (Laura Dern), whose idea of an insurgent’s uniform is a lavender evening gown with ruffles. Dern carries herself like a goddess, but she has some strife with one of her rebellious pilots, “a hotshot flyboy” named Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac). The 1990s Star Wars entries had big name actors, but they stood around like chess pieces. Watch Last Jedi and think, “My God, it’s full of stars.” Isaac has never looked better than he does here in the cockpit, stripping the cannons off the dreadnought with his missiles,

and later asking for more: “Permission to jump into an X-wing and blow something up.” Rich with minutia is a new wretched hive of scum and villainy, a casino planet. Johnson speeds the camera through like a drone so we can admire the fauna at this chimera-Vegas. One is a drunken little punter in evening clothes who mistakes the beachball-shaped android BB8 for a slot machine. Finn (John Boyega) and his new comrade Rose Tico (the show-stealing Kelly Marie Tran), who are there looking for help, end up arrested for a parking violation. In the lockup they meet a scurvy yet adept thief (Benicio del Toro)—a jailbird who’s been inside enough times that he knows to sleep with his boots around his neck, so that they don’t get stolen. Kylo Ren’s walking-wounded emoism looks even more handsomely thwarted than it did last time; to paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, Driver has the embarrassing sensuality of a 13-year-old girl’s drawing of a horse. “You’re just a child in a mask,” jeers Snoke. As if stagecraft hadn’t impressed Snoke, too. In a movie in which most of the interiors are cluttered with steaming, smoking aircraft and gridded in with cat walks, Snoke’s throne room is an empty Cinemascopic hangar in glowing vermillion, with a few shiny flunkies in eyeless suits of crimson armor on guard. Long-memoried movie fans see this space, and think “Arthur Freed, MGM, mid-1950s.” And there is a rumble to come on this dance floor, illuminated with lightsabers. As always in these spectacles, stuff is scribbled in the margins that makes it dense, such as a sea monster breaching and diving, unnoticed, in the sea behind the cliffs Luke paces upon. And the movie recalls echoes of the first film: just as we first saw Luke on a planet of two suns, a double-sunset illuminates our last sight of the old knight. The movie’s richness invites more than one viewing. Johnson’s mature and questioning attitude illuminate this stirring movie about rebellion—reveling in the panache of suicide warriors as well as feeling for the choices of traitors and cowards.

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It’s so special when a man tells a woman he’s deeply in love with her— except when her response is “Excuse me, but have we met?” Love at first sight sounds so romantic. There are those couples who claim they had it—causing mass nausea at dinner parties when they look into each other’s eyes and announce, “From the moment we saw each other, we just KNEW.” Uh, did they? A Swiss psychology grad student, Florian Zsok, ran some experiments to see what love at first sight is actually made of. Zsok and his colleagues were looking for the three elements that psychologist Robert Sternberg theorizes interact to produce love: intimacy, commitment, and passion (made up of physical arousal, desire, excitement and longing). They surveyed participants online and in a lab setting—asking them how they felt about people in photographs—and in three dating events, getting their reactions to people they’d just met. Of the 396 participants, love at first sight “was indicated 49 times by 32 different individuals.” (That rare and wonderful lightning struck twice or maybe three times for some.) And here’s a shocker: “None of the instances of (love at first sight) was reciprocal.” Not surprisingly, none of the participants who said they’d felt love at

first sight had the elements of intimacy or commitment as part of their experience. The one element they did have? Passion—in the form of “physical attraction.” Basically, the researchers empirically confirmed what some of us intuitively understand: “Love at first sight” is just a classier way of expressing the sentiment yelled from passing cars: “Hey, miniskirt! You’re late for your visit to My Penis Avenue!” As for couples who insist they had love at first sight, the researchers believe they could be retrospectively repainting their first meeting to make their relationship feel more special. The reality: “We just knew” is “we just got lucky” (stated in a way that makes frustrated single people long to commit hara-kiri with the nearest shrimp fork). Reminding yourself that you just have the plain old hots for this girl is probably the best way for you to do what needs to be done—shift to some other activity (Masturbate! Play video games!) when the impulse strikes to stake out Coffeeland. Getting stuck on a total stranger this way probably makes it impossible to behave normally in their presence, or look closely enough to see who they really are. As alluring a concept as love at first sight is, in practice it tends to work out best with inanimate objects.

My family enjoys your weekly column, but we’re wondering why you can’t give advice without launching into evolutionary explanations. We aren’t always instinct-driven animals like elk or migrating salmon.—Evolutionary Overkill It isn’t so bad being a salmon. Salmon just wake up one day and swim like mad upstream. There’s no existential fretting, “What does it all mean? What will I do with myself after grad school? Am I a bad fish if I sometimes long to put grain alcohol in the sippy cup of that brat screaming on the beach?” Meanwhile, back in humanland, research in cognitive neuroscience (by Michael Gazzaniga, among others) and in social science finds that we humans aren’t the highly rational independent thinkers we like to believe we are. In fact, as evolutionary psychologists Leda Cosmides and John Tooby put it, “our modern skulls house a stone age mind” adapted to solve hunter-

gatherer mating and survival problems. This 10 million-year-old psychology still driving us right now, today, is often a mismatch with our modern environment. Take our sugar lust, for example. This made sense in an ancestral environment, where eating a couple of berries might have helped prevent malnutrition. Today, however, we can drive to Costco and have some guy load a pallet of doughnuts into our SUV while we burn .0003 of a calorie watching him. Understanding the origins of our motivation is not “evolutionary overkill;” it’s our best shot for possibly controlling our behavior—or at least forgiving ourselves when we fail miserably.

STRAY EMBER Kate Winslet glows in Woody Allen’s unimpressive ‘Wonder Wheel.’

Wheel on Fire

ON THE BRIGHT side, the new Woody Allen film Wonder Wheel has the finest cinematography, in the form of Vittorio Storaro’s gorgeously lurid display of Kate Winslet as a woman on fire. Hair dyed to the scarlet side of strawberry blonde, Winslet’s Ginny basks in the mercury-colored neon glow of the Coney Island attractions. She lives there in a wooden shack, spitting distance from the Ferris wheel. In the mid-1950s, the 40-ish Ginny is stuck in a marriage of convenience with her dullard husband Humpty (James Belushi). It’s all about seafood around those parts. Ginny waitresses in a clam parlor, and, when Humpty isn’t tending the merry-go-round, he’s more interested in fishing than spending time with his wife. (Ginny has the same problem Diane Keaton had as the herring merchant’s wife in Love and Death.) Ginny wanted to be an actress, but she Wonder Wheel dropped her career after a crackup. On the beach, she meets a theater-loving lifeguard PG-13, 131 Mins. named Mickey Rubin (Justin Timberlake) who goes to Valleywide NYU. An affair begins, but it’s ruptured by the surprise arrival of Humpty’s estranged daughter Carolina (Juno Temple), on the run from her gangster husband. The thug wants her dead for blabbing his secrets to the FBI. The settings have familiar irony—the broken promise of happiness in a tawdry, fading seaside resort is grist for dramatists on both sides of the Atlantic. But Allen decided it needed further distancing, through a directto-the-camera address by Mickey. The way Mickey explains life, and himself, we’re unsure if he is meant to be as callow as he seems. Allen’s script dithers, using anachronistic terms like “input” and “body language.” He repeats plot points as often as he repeats a Mills Brothers tune on the soundtrack. Without believing in this movie, one believes in Winslet. She already excelled as an Emma Bovary of today in Little Children, and she’s as humid a Technicolor anti-heroine as ever seethed in a slip, lit through storm clouds of cigarette smoke. And the open ending is so brave that it makes Three Billboards… look over-determined. —Richard von Busack

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I saw this gorgeous girl at the coffeehouse at the mall two months ago. It was totally love at first sight. I keep hanging out there hoping to see her again. Am I nuts, or does love at first sight really exist?—Smitten

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speed metal heads Avenged Sevenfold and the proggy Coheed and Cambria. Lyman’s initial goal of bringing the punk community together evolved into bringing the subversive music community together, creating a threeheaded Cerberus of metal, mohawks and hip-hop. The Bastards rode this tour with the summer release of their second album, Viking, which helped peak the record at No. 17 on the Billboard independent albums chart.

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This Is The End? MISFITS Where have all the punk kids gone? Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman says tickets aren’t selling like they used to.

As ticket sales slump, Warped Tour announces plans to scale back BY ANDRÉ JAQUEZ

HE LAST BEST summer ever is nearly here. The 2018 edition of the Vans Warped Tour marks the final round for the longestrunning touring music festival in North America.

The tour’s founder, Kevin Lyman, has announced that he’s hanging it up—citing, among other things, the increasingly cluttered summer music festival industry, a shrinking pool of bands and declining ticket sales, for his decision to make 2018 the final year that the tour will run from coast to coast, though it seems a smaller-scale tour is still planned for 2019. Lyman created the Vans Warped Tour

in 1995 with the hope of catching on the energy of the Chicago-based alternative music festival Lollapalooza. A fan of multiple disjointed subgenres of punk— from hardcore, to pop-punk, to ska— Lyman saw an opportunity in bringing the entire punk party together under one, massive touring circus tent. A Warped Tour gig has meant so many things to so many bands. Groups have often climbed their way from the bottom to the top of the ticket. This may not be a goodbye forever—2019 marks the 25th anniversary of the tour and Lyman continues to tease his loyal following about welcoming back marquee names to end the beloved festival with a proper goodbye. Until we know for sure, here’s a look at several local Warped Tour alumni who benefitted from the Warped Tour’s draw.

No Use For A Name When Lyman was putting together the bill for the Warped Tour’s inaugural year, he thought these San Jose punks would fit right in. “Back then it was wild,” No Use founding member and drummer Rory Koff says. “When I heard the news [of the tour’s ending] I was disappointed, but I’m glad I was able to be a part of it.” No Use became a mainstay at Warped Tour for a decade and recorded a trio of classics, including Making Friends, More Betterness! and Hard Rock Bottom that recently went collectively platinum. “All the props to Kevin [Lyman],” Koff says. “He’s one the hardest working guys I’ve been around.”

Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards Campbell's Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, a Rancid side project, arrived at Warped Tour in 2004 at a critical point in the festival’s history. The tour had recently started booking artists outside punk—like hip-hop duo Atmosphere,

Warped Tour gave East Bay songwriter and producer Ricky Reed a chance to shine with his satirically forthright band Wallpaper. Reed, who had played in the proggy Oakland band Facing New York for years, first began using exaggerated Auto-Tune and simple, truck-rattling beats as a way to prove to himself and friends that he could write a radio hit. He eventually caught the production bug and began writing ridiculously catchy tunes that were almost indistinguishable from the artists he was aping. Since lighting up the 2013 tour with music from his major-label debut, he has gone on to co-write legitimate pop hits, like Halsey’s “Bad at Love” and a number of the singles on Twenty One Pilots’ Blurryface LP.

K. Flay The cerebral Kristine Flaherty, better known as K. Flay, first got a hold of a mic as a student at Stanford. When Flaherty's not singing songs like "The President Has a Sex Tape," she spends her time raising awareness as a political activist. Warped Tour 2013 put Flaherty in the spotlight just three years ago and she’s been trending upward ever since. Her sound is especially expansive. Too bold to be deemed an indie-rapper and too hip to be your run-of-the-mill pop talent, she’s caught between both as a post-genre chanteuse.

I The Mighty Born in a garage in Fremont, alt-punk quartet I The Mighty got a serious boost from their stint on the Warped Tour. Their run-in with Sacramento favorites Dance Gavin Dance on Warped Tour 2014 led DGD’s singer Tilian Pearson to collab on the band’s single, “Silver Tongues.” ITM’s distinctive wailing and technical, energetic spark is making an impression on the West Coast Alternative Press-reading scene.

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Thu: Live Music Jam Funk with Vicious Groove. Every Sun: Live Music Jam with Michael “T”. Sunnyvale.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Every other Tue, 7:15pm: Jazz on Tuesdays. Every Wed, 7pm: Piano Night. Sun, Dec 17, 7pm: Angelica’s Murder Mystery Dinner Series. Redwood City.

THE BACK BAR SOFA

Every Wed, 9pm: Open Mic Cypher, feat. Hip-hop, Jungle, Soul, Reggae, Dubstep, Trap, BreakBeat, House and more.

BRANHAM LOUNGE

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

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.

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. San Jose.

THE RITZ

Wed, Dec 13, 8pm: Chuck Ragan. Sat, Dec 16, 8pm: Supersuckers, The Bellrays, The Bombpops. Sun, Dec 17, 5pm: Angerhead, Mudface, Short Fuse. San Jose.

Jazz/ Blues/ World AGAVE

Every Thu: Banda La Unica. Every Fri, 6:30pm: Mariachi Mariachismo, 9:30pm: DJ Norman. Every Sat: Las Mejores Bandas De La Bahia. Every Sun: 4pm-8pm: Edith Del Sol. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

Every Tue: Jazz Tuesdays and Open Mic Night. Every Wed: Piano Night with Rick Ferguson. Redwood City.

ART BOUTIKI

Thu, Dec 14, 7:30pm: Touch of Brass Big Band. Every Sun: Live Jazz Show. San Jose.

AVERY LOUNGE

Every Sun, 10pm: Reggae Sundays. San Jose.

BLUE NOTE LOUNGE

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

Every Tue, 8:30pm: Live Blues Jam. Every Fri, 8:30pm: Oldies. Every 3rd Sat: Old School Night with DJ G. Milpitas.

CAFE STRITCH

Sun, Dec 31: NYE Celebration: DJ Keoni and complimentary champagne toast. $30. Los Gatos.

Every Wed: Wax Wednesday: All Vinyl DJ Sets. Every Sunday, 7pm, The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. San Jose.

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Sat, Dec 16, 8pm: Anever, Her Last Letter, The World Over. Mountain View.

THE QUARTER NOTE

Every Mon: Live Music Jam with Dana’s Band. Every Tue: Karaoke / Open Mic Every Wed: Live Music Jam Funk with Michael “B” Band. Every

Fri, Dec 15, 8pm: Bossa Blue. San Jose. Every Tue, 7pm: Open Mic Night. Every Wed, 7:30pm: Commedia Comedy Night. First Saturday of the Month, 8pm: Kavanaugh Brothers Celtic Experience. First Friday of the month, 8pm: Art Walk and Caffe Frascati Opera Night.

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CAFE PINK HOUSE

Every Sat, 2pm-3:30pm: Saturday Live Music Hangout. Fri, Dec 15, 7:30pm: Bridget Marie. Sat, Dec 16, 7:30pm: Tony Glausi. Saratoga.

CASCAL

Every Fri, 9:30pm & Sat, 9pm: Live Music. Mountain View.

THE CATS

Every Sun: Joe Ferrara. Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX

Every Wed: Club Fox Blues Jam. Every Fri: Salsa Spot. Wed, Dec 13, 6:30pm:Featprints - A Tribute to Little Feat. Sun, Dec 17, 5pm: PaPa’s BaG “A James Brown Experience.” Redwood City.

HEDLEY CLUB AT HOTEL DE ANZA

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

HUKILAU

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Hawaiian music.

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 Blues Jam. Campbell.

LOUISIANA BISTRO

Every Thu, 7pm: Yellow Bulb Sessions. San Jose.

MONTALVO ARTS CENTER

Sun, Dec 17, 3pm: Will Ackerman, Barbara Higbie, Alex DeGrassi, Todd Boston. Saratoga.

MOROCCO’S

Every Tue, 4pm: Live Acoustic Music. Every Wed and Fri, 7pm and Sat, 8:30pm: Belly dancing. Every Sunday: Special Dinner Shows. Mountain View.

MURPHY’S LAW

Every Mon: Monday Night Blues Jam. Sunnyvale.

NUMBER ONE BROADWAY

Every Wed night: J.C. Smith Jam. Los Gatos.

O’FLAHERTY’S

Every Tue, 6:30pm: Irish Seisiún. San Jose.

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RED ROCK COFFEE

Every Mon, 7pm: Open Mic Night. Mountain View.

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, Dec 15, 9pm: JC Smith Band. Sat, Dec 16, 9pm: AJ Crawdaddy. San Jose.

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Every Thu, Fri, Sat, 10pm: DJ Dance Nights. Mountain View.

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Fri-Sun, Dec 15-17, 7pm: Craig Shoemaker. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Every Mon, 6pm: Open mic. San Jose.

QUARTER NOTE

Every Tue: Open mic. Sunnyvale.

PIONEER SALOON

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS

THE SADDLE RACK

Sun, Dec 17, 6pm: Darry Worley. Fremont

Fri-Sat, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

AGAVE

Every Sun, 4pm: Spanish Karaoke. San Jose.

ALEX’S 49ER INN

Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.

THE BEARS

Fri, 9pm: Karaoke w/DJ Rob. San Jose.

BOGART’S LOUNGE

Every Tue, 7pm: Open mic. Every Wed, 7:30pm: Commedia Comedy Night. San Jose.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

Wed, Dec 13, 7pm: Gary Allan, Runaway June. San Jose.

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CAFFE FRASCATI

Every Wed, 9pm: Open mic. San Jose.

Every Thu: Acoustic Music Nights. Every Fri & Sat: Acoustic/Band Music Nights. Campbell.

RODEO CLUB

Sun-Thu, 9pm: Karaoke. FriSat, 7pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

BLUE MAX

Every Wed: The Caravan Lounge Comedy Show with host Mr. Walker. San Jose.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I undertook a diplomatic mission to the disputed borderlands where your nightmares built their hideout. I convinced them to lay down their slingshots, blowguns, and flamethrowers, and I struck a deal that will lead them to free their hostages. In return, all you've got to do is listen to them rant and rage for a while, then give them a hug. Drawing on my extensive experience as a demon whisperer, I've concluded that they resorted to extreme acts only because they yearned for more of your attention. So grant them that small wish, please! GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you ever been wounded by a person you cared for deeply? Most of us have. Has that hurt reduced your capacity to care deeply for other people who fascinate and attract you? Probably. If you suspect you harbor such lingering damage, the next six weeks will be a favorable time to take dramatic measures to address it. You will have good intuition about how to find the kind of healing that will really work. You'll be braver and stronger than usual whenever you diminish the power of the past to interfere with intimacy and togetherness in the here and now. CANCER (June 21-July 22): "Your task is not to

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The classical composer

and pianist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thought that musicians can demonstrate their skills more vividly if they play quickly. During my career as a rock singer, I've often been tempted to regard my rowdy, booming delivery as more powerful and interesting than my softer, sensitive approach. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will rebel against these ideas, Scorpio. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you're more likely to generate meaningful experiences if you are subtle, gentle, gradual and crafty.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): At one point in

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Humans have used

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1865, England's Royal Geographical Society decided to call the world's highest mountain "Everest," borrowing the surname of Welsh surveyor George Everest. Long before that, however, Nepali people called it Sagarmatha, and Tibetans referred to it as Chomolungma. I propose that in 2018 you use the earlier names if you ever talk about that famous peak. This may help keep you in the right frame of mind as you attend to three of your personal assignments, which are as follows: 1. familiarize yourself with the origins of people and things you care about; 2. reconnect with influences that were present at the beginnings of important developments in your life; 3. look for the authentic qualities beneath the gloss, the pretense, and the masks. Homework: Make up a secret identity for yourself, complete with a new name and astrological sign. Tell all at Freewillastrology.com.

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To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: XIAO-FEI FENG Petition for Probate has been filed by: JESSE CHEN in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: JESSE CHEN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the courtTHE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 1/10/18, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 12 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a formal Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: Ian R, Greensides, 19925 Stevens Creek Boulevard, Suite 100, Cupertino, CA, 95014, 408-660-8050 (Pub CC 12/06, 12/13, 12/20/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636362 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cox Office Partners, 1372 White Dr., Santa Clara, CA, 95051, Collin Forgey, 2010 El Camino Real, #704, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Lester Workman, 105 Auzerais Ct., Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/29/2017. /s/Collin Forgey. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/29/2017. (pub Metro 12/06, 12/13, 12/20, 12/27/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #635879 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PBC Systems, 2047 Zanker Road, San Jose, CA, 95131, Personal Business Computers, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/30/1985. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Terrance J. Purcell. President. #35997725. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/13/2017. (pub Metro 11/22, 11/29, 12/06, 12/13/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636104 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Golden Eye Studio, 16463 Los Gatos Blvd., Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Christina M Crosby,6120 Geronimo Dr., San Jose, CA, 95123 . This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Christina M. Crosby. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/17/2017. (pub Metro 11/22, 11/29, 12/06, 12/13/2017)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Masage Envy, 581 E. Calaveras Blvd., Milpitas, CA, 95035, Gayathri Ventures Inc., 2631 Meta Dr., San

Jose, CA, 95130. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/13/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ramakrishna Vedula. President. #4069043. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/13/2017. (pub Metro 11/29, 12/06, 12/13, 12/20/2017)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636034 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MW Contractor/Builder, 503 Brooks Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125, Mike Wittekind. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Mike Wittekind. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/16/2017. (pub Metro 11/29, 12/06, 12/13, 12/20/2017)

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Mokhtar Alkhanshali’s Yemeni coffee company, the focus of a new Eggers book, partners with Chromatic BY GARY SINGH

N A SANTA CLARA strip mall, Mokhtar Alkhanshali is reciting mystic Sufi poetry about the virtues of caffeine. A capacity crowd at Chromatic Coffee on Stevens Creek Boulevard listens intently as Mokhtar, the only YemeniAmerican coffee magnate ever to be profiled in a Dave Eggers book, talks about his company, Port of Mokha and specifically its new limited edition release of Al-Durrar from Yemen.

He delivers a fantastic educational speech about coffee and its roots with the ancient Sufis. Chromatic is jammed to the gills, with many customers shelling out $42 for 6 ounces of roasted Yemeni coffee in custom-packaged units. Alkhanshali’s coffee escapades already made him a celebrity before Eggers wrote his book about him, The Monk of Mokha, which releases next month. The story is a remarkable one. As a little kid, Alkhanshali grew up with his immigrant parents in the Tenderloin area of San Francisco. “I didn’t even like coffee,” he told the capacity crowd. “I never drank it at all.” Then after stumbling on a taste

of specialty coffee with hints of blueberry, honey and tea-type flavors, he was hooked and went on to learn everything he could, eventually becoming the first Arab to obtain Q-grader status, loosely equivalent to a sommelier in the wine world. After that, he bailed back to the land of his ancestors, ambitious to help restore Yemen’s place at the top of world’s coffee industry. He trained farmers, lived with their families and devised a plan to bring them up to speed with the modern world. Then things got ugly. In March 2015, civil war engulfed Yemen and airports were bombed out, with no civilian flights remaining and no U.S. government presence on the ground anywhere. Alkhanshali had two suitcases filled with priceless coffee samples that he was planning to bring to a coffee conference in Seattle, but he had no way to get out of the country. He wound up hiring a fisherman to sneak him across the Red Sea to Djibouti on the Horn of Africa. From there, Alkhanshali made it

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Spill the Beans

to Kenya, Amsterdam and finally Seattle with prized Yemeni coffee that blew away a good portion of the competitors at the conference. His journey received press all over the world. These days, Yemen is still a dangerous place riddled with war and disease, with the coffee crop being one of the few ways farmers can make any money. Last Sunday marked the first time a local South Bay coffee shop has partnered with Alkhanshali to bring his products to the general public. The customer must decide what he or she is actually spending money on—the coffee or the perception of charity—but in any event, the $42 limited release of Al-Durrar originated with handpicked red berries in thousand-yearold villages 7,700 feet above sea level, where the elevation leads to a variety of factors, including smaller, denser beans with higher lipids. “The environment causes this perfect storm that helps create this luscious, delicious cup of coffee that we haven’t really experienced much in other varieties,” said Hiver van Geenhoven, Chromatic’s lead coffee roaster. To an attentive crowd at Chromatic, Alkhanshali provided a layman’s overview of coffee history. Depending on who you ask, coffee originates in either Ethiopia or Yemen, or somewhere between. For sure, though, Yemen was the first place to export a commercial coffee product beginning in the 16th century. Even today, most of the world’s coffee can be genetically traced all the way back to ancient Sufi mystics near the port town of Mokha, hence the name of Alkhanshali’s company. To the Sufis, coffee was a spiritual beverage, inseparable from poetry and the mystical experience. The word coffee even originates with the Arabic word qahwa. At Chromatic, Otessa Crandell, the cafe’s manager, seemed ecstatic about this new partnership with Port of Mokha. It’s an amazing cause, helping Yemeni farmers via a luxury product here in Silicon Valley. “As a company and as a culture of the cafe, we always want to do more than just make money,” Crandell said. “I don’t ever want this space to be just a revenue stream or just a source of income. We need to use the platform and use the space to do more. And that’s what made this story so special, and so unique and so important to us to work with.”

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The Province, via Yelp

BITES

ALL IN The Province at Bay 101 casino elevates card club cuisine.

5 to Watch in December

IX MONTHS IS usually considered the earliest a new restaurant, bar or coffeeshop can receive a fair review. By then the kinks should be ironed out, the bad apples fired and the dishes and drinks refined. But who’s got time for that? Each month, Metro spotlights five of the newest places we think are worth a look-see. —André Jaquez, Nick Veronin & Satvir Saini

TACO MANIA 150 S FIRST ST, STE 117, SAN JOSE. 408.459.7667. TACOMANIAINC.COM What began as a no-frills taco truck has blossomed into a bona fide local chain. The seventh location recently opened in downtown San Jose. While the sleek graphic design of the menu may recall Chipotle, the options aren’t basic. Sample a cabeza taco (regular $1.89; super $2.85; regio, or royal, is $3.20). Or go for the lengua torta ($6.25) and tripa quesadilla ($4.95). Taco Mania pulls out the stops Saturdays and Sundays with a special barbacoa lamb stew ($16).

MEHAK OF INDIA 311 N CAPITOL AVE, SAN JOSE. 408.570.3300 Mehak leaves guests feeling full—including their wallets, as the large menu has exceedingly fair prices. Try a traditional chaat plate ($4.99) or the chicken biryani ($8.99), and end the meal with an ice cream dish of kulfi ($3.99).

Delicious Thai Cuisine Two Locations to Serve You— By the Mountains or By the Sea

RESTAURANT ASA 242 STATE ST, LOS ALTOS. 650.935.2372. ASALOSALTOS.COM The sister restaurant of The Basin in Los Gatos, ASA is a sleek addition to Los Altos’ cocktail and dining scene. The Spanish and Italian-influenced cuisine is served over three courses: seafood, salad and then pasta. Wash it all down with one of the house’s nine specialty cocktails ($13), including a “Punch of the Day.”

THE PROVINCE 1788 N FIRST ST, STE 10, SAN JOSE. 408.796.1699. PROVINCESJ.COM Found at the newly renovated Bay 101 Casino, this chic Asian-American fusion restaurant from chef and restaurateur Christopher Yeo—of Sino, Straits and Roots & Rye—redefines local casino cuisine. Happy hour runs Monday through Friday 4pm-6pm and featured 50-cent Korean fried chicken wings.

POT BELLY RAMEN 1710 BERRYESSA RD, STE 107, SAN JOSE. 669.284.3926 Sawasdee Soquel 5050 Soquel Drive 831.462.5051 Sawasdee by the Sea 101 Main Street 831.466.9009

SAWASDEESOQUEL.COM Catering and to-go orders available

Their chewy noodles are cut straight and fine like angel-hair pasta, which only accentuates dishes like the silky tonkotsu ($11)—sous vide chashu pork, a half marinated soft boiled egg, bamboo shoots, wood ear mushrooms and green onions. For more of a kick try the spicy miso ($12). Or go for the signature pot belly ($13) made with a special 12-hour rich pork broth and special pork cheek.

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Satvir Saini

SIPS

MEET AT THE TEA Sinceretea takes milk tea up a notch with several exotic flavors.

The Feels at Tea Time

N THE OUTSKIRTS of Japantown, Sinceretea lives up to its name. I had just finished ordering a few drinks that contained a green tea base when one of the workers came over and delivered the bad news. After a rush of customers, they were all out of green tea. Thankfully, she continued, they were making a fresh batch specifically for my order. The design of Sinceretea is chic and modern, with booth seating on the inside as well as an outdoor patio. Bright green umbrellas hover over white tables and chairs, and the interior matches this color scheme. Sunshine splashes through the storefront window to bedazzle the white walls and wooden benches, which are adorned with cactus pillows for comfort, and succulents complete the friendly atmosphere. A small menu offering specialty teas and a handful of classics is separated into five sections: herbal tea, coffee, milk tea, special tea and yogurt tea. I ordered the kumquat elixir ($4.65), which comes with mango jelly. The base is a butterfly pea tea that gives the drink a purple tone, and the jelly adds a little sweetness to blend with the overpowering sourness of the fruit. It seemed like an ideal summertime refreshment. The brown sugar milk tea ($4.35)—my personal favorite—had a sweeter side, thanks to the added brown sugar crystals and regular tapioca pearls ($0.50 extra). For anyone with a sweet tooth, this is the choice. I expected to be overwhelmed by refreshing mint as I tasted the passion mojito ($4.65), but the effect was quite the opposite. The passion fruit, lime and green tea created an unexpected blend of fruity and citrus. Last, I tried the peach yogurt tea ($3.95), which was reminiscent of frozen yogurt, if not a little watered down. I’d stick with the other options. Sinceretea’s beverages can also help wash down a variety of snacks, such as chocolate chip cookies ($1.99), muffins ($1.99) and silvanas ($3.99), a Filipino dessert consisting of handcrafted sandwich cookies made of cashew meringue wafers with a buttercream filling. The shop also has glass teacups, tumblers and fancy tea sets for sale. The owners of Sinceretea built their shop to not only cater to Japantown residents, but also hold events for baby and bridal showers. As evidenced by its offerings, a little bit of sweetness should help the shop go a long way. —Satvir Saini

SINCERETEA 392 E Taylor St, San Jose. 408.908.9469. sinceretea.business.site

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Nothing beats a stroll through Christmas in the Park.

A couple of Santa’s helpers at Live 105’s Not So Silent Night music fest.

Music makes the holidays brighter at Live 105’s annual NSSN music fest.

In the pit at Oracle Arena for NSSN 2017.

Two snow bunnies at Not So Silent Night.

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Christmas in the Park lit up Plaza de César Chávez over the weekend.