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When Voices-Morgan Hill charter school’s petition to stay open for another five years came up for a vote last month, Santa Clara County Board of Education trustee CLAUDIA ROSSI asked some tough questions. How much of the school’s budget was going to the charter management organization? Was the school inflating its student achievement data? Why does it pay teachers less than their public school counterparts? Though the board ultimately approved the charter’s renewal through 2023 in a 4-2 vote with Rossi and her colleague ANNA SONG opposing, Voices Executive Director FRANCES TESO isn’t ready to let bygones be bygones. In a letter dated Jan. 12, the charter school principal called They Rossi’s assertions Did slanderous and What? demanded that she SEND TIPS TO take back what she said FLY@ at the Dec. 13 board METRONEWS. meeting. Teso says COM she took time during the relative quiet of the holiday break to reflect on Rossi’s “false and defamatory statements” about test scores, teacher pay and management fees. “Your false statements served only to unnecessarily alarm parents and expose yourself to liability,” Teso wrote. “If even one student dis-enrolls from Voices or a new student chooses not to enroll in a Voices charter school, or one teacher chooses to leave our organization due to your false statements, Voices will have met the damages requirement in an action for defamation.” In other words, Teso is gearing up for a lawsuit. Rossi balked at the provocation, saying she fears it will have a chilling effect. “I don’t take back what I said,” she tells Fly. “But it’s upsetting to receive a threat.” Rossi says elected officials should feel free to ask difficult questions to make an informed vote. “If we’re now working under the fear of being sued by lobbies that are wealthy,” she says, “then that could really affect how we deliberate.”

PLAYTIME’S OVER Parents who spent years lobbying for a new playground at Baldwin Elementary School may lose access to it if the district closes the campus.

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Oak Grove Unified may close four campuses, citing declining enrollment BY TORI TRUSCHEIT

ERMAIN MONTIEL grew up in south San Jose, so he was thrilled to send his kids to Baldwin Elementary in the Oak Grove school district. “You feel safe, it’s quiet and you don’t have to worry about hearing gunshots,” he says. Houses sell for over a million dollars in Baldwin’s zoned area and a new Costco just opened near Great Oaks Boulevard. “It’s a place where you want to raise your family.” But because of the district’s financial struggles, Baldwin is on the shortlist for closure next year, along with Del Roble, Glider and Miner elementary schools. The school board was

scheduled to hear public comment on the proposal Wednesday and make a decision by early March, using recommendations from a parent committee working through the winter to narrow down which schools should close. A neighborhood with milliondollar homes seems an unlikely candidate to lose its elementary school, but the district cited declining enrollment and insufficient state funding as prime causes. Baldwin, minutes away from the Santa Teresa Golf Club and the nearby foothills, could be the next casualty of the South Bay’s housing crisis. “It’s just too expensive in the area,” says Dominic Rizzi, a seventhand eighth-grade science teacher at Caroline Davis Intermediate School

and president of the Oak Grove Educators Association. Empty nesters stay in their homes indefinitely, watching the value of their homes soar, while young parents struggle to pay rent in the area and leave for cheaper areas. A Baldwin teacher who asked to remain anonymous has seen families move out of district to Hollister, Los Banos and Las Vegas this year to escape the housing crisis. To close the budget gap, Oak Grove, a preschool-through-eighth-grade district, tried to pass a $132 parcel tax in 2016, but it failed by 267 votes. “We have overlapping boundaries with [East Side Union High School District] and any time they try to pass a parcel tax, too, we’re asking for the same folks to contribute to us as well,” Rizzi says. Instead, the district is seeking ways to generate revenue, including choice programs to lure students from nearby districts, along with the state money that follows them. Another solution, renting out space in closed school buildings to private and charter schools, has Baldwin parents worried. “I can’t afford to send my children to private school,” Montiel says.

other entity now is going to use them?” In its final report, the committee listed “recent modernization investment” as a reason to keep the schools open, but some parents view the improvements more cynically. “The district sees the opportunity to make more money,” Montiel says. The impact of any school closure will hit families of color the hardest. The schools on the chopping block have four of the five highest percentages of students of color in the district. Ninety percent of students at Miner are of color, which includes 73 percent Latino students. “These particular schools being chosen to be closed is a form of systemic racism and discrimination, whether they’re aware of it or not,” says Roxana Marachi, education chair of the San Jose/Silicon Valley NAACP. Mendoza, who is the parent representative for Baldwin Elementary on the committee, abstained from the Jan. 16 final vote in protest. “For communities of color, who are indirectly and directly told your whole life that you are dispensable, that you are movable, for those kids to be the ones to lose their neighborhood school sites, that’s horrible,” she says. Shaun Tanner, a white parent of three students at Del Roble, including one student of color, wanted the school to stay open. “We chose to be in Del Roble for a reason, because of the diversity of the school,” he says. He pointed to Oak Grove’s complicated busing system, which costs the district more than $1 million a year, as a reason that high-minority schools are up for closure. Students in the Coyote Creek corridor, east of Highway 101 and north of Silver Creek Valley Road, have been bused far across town to Baldwin and Santa Teresa for years, rather than attending nearby Christopher Elementary. “They should be attending Christopher, but residents over the years have threatened the district enough to force the district to send them to Baldwin and Santa Teresa,” Tanner says. With enrollment already declining, Oak Grove may be reluctant to alienate high-income white parents in Coyote, lest they pull their students and the money that comes with them. The district still lacks a long-term financial solution, either for declining enrollment or its financial struggles. “We can’t force parents to stay within the district,” Rizzi says.

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He’s already seen two neighborhood schools fall victim to the district’s budget woes. In a round of school closures in 2004, Oak Grove shut down San Anselmo Elementary, near Baldwin. It’s now a private school run by a chain of schools called Stratford, which opened a school in Milpitas in 2016. Tuition for first through sixth grade is $18,200 a year. Stratford rents the building from Oak Grove, providing a source of revenue that the district says it needs to keep remaining campuses running. And just west of Baldwin, Blossom Valley Elementary was shut down and rented to Legacy Christian School, where elementary school tuition is $8,550. Stratford wouldn’t rule out opening another school in the area, especially because space for new campuses is at a premium in the Bay Area. “We’re always on the lookout,” says Kathleen Hawkins, a spokeswoman for Stratford schools. Rizzi fears that the district could also rent to a charter school, citing Rocketship, which operates 10 schools in San Jose, as a possibility. Typically, charter school teachers are not unionized, and rather than accepting all neighborhood students, most charters use lotteries and waitlists to manage admission. “It’s concerning for us to know that a school could be picked up by a charter,” he says. A spokesman for Rocketship say the network has no immediate plans to move into the area. “Whenever possible we build our own buildings, as we have for all 10 of our San Jose schools,” says Cheye Calvo, chief growth and community engagement officer at Rocketship. “Therefore it is unlikely we would be interested in renting space from Oak Grove. Our current growth plans focus on meeting parent demand in the East Bay.” Baldwin and Del Roble would be prime spots for rental because they’ve recently had physical upgrades. Baldwin’s $2 million in new bathrooms and a new playground came after parents lobbied for them, frustrated that the district—in another revenue-generating move—had rented space to a fee-based preschool. The preschool got priority use of inside bathrooms, sending Baldwin kindergartners on a trip outside to use bathrooms across campus. Margarita Mendoza, a Baldwin parent, fears their efforts were a waste. “These were taxpayer dollars,” she says. “These were facilities the school board voted for for district kids. And now some

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SPECTERS & SPOOKS Sarah Winchester, played above by Helen Mirren, and her famous Mystery House are the subject of a new horror flick, ‘Winchester,’ due out Feb. 2.

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A new film about the Winchester Mystery House reminds us about the power of myth BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

HE FAMOUS WINCHESTER House stands as a contrast between the valley as it was—a place of delight, sure, then as now, if you have the money—and the latter-day Santa Clara County, in all of its incredible sprawl, where the hammering and sawing never stops.

At night, lit up, it draws people driving past on Winchester Boulevard with its potential for horror. The guides put you in a susceptible frame of mind as you climb the strangely angled stairs and walk the dim corridors. Since the reclusive Sarah Winchester’s demise of old age in 1922, the place has had an enthusiastically cultivated bad name. As early as 1939, the WPA Guide to California, an early tourism reference

book, described the mansion as “the externalization of a psychopathic mind.” After a few weeks of location work last year, the Spierig brothers— Daybreakers’ Peter and Michael, twin directors from Australia—have finished a feature film about our local portal into weirdness. “Insanity and blood” promise the advertisements, along with an A-list leading lady: Dame Helen Mirren as the wealthy Sarah Winchester. The film hasn’t been previewed for

the press. But in an email, Winchester scriptwriter Tom Vaughan describes the film in one word. “Tense,” he says. “The Spiriegs did their own draft of the script after me, and they did a beautiful job directing as well. There’s a prolonged tension through the whole film. One layer after another is revealed, both about the characters and the house itself.” There are some outlandishly fine Victorians in Melbourne—relics of the Australian gold rush, as described by Hal Porter in his memoir The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony. After location work, the filmmakers went back Down Under to finish shooting the film. Producer Tim McGahan told of how the Mystery House on screen would be a combination of the real Winchester House in San Jose and multiple Victorian mansions in Australia. “We would walk in to some of the mansions on location scouts and find almost

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almost identical servants’ quarters and kitchens to those in the Winchester House. It was uncanny. “The Winchester Mystery House poses certain challenges when shooting. Firstly, it is an active business and operating tourist attraction in its own right. Secondly, many of the rooms and corridors are far too small for a crew to access, or even for our actors to stand upright in. Sarah Winchester was only around 4 feet, 10 inches tall, and so it seems she only needed to build the house to accommodate her height. As part of the filmmaking process, we need to get cameras into all sorts of positions, as well as accommodate other production equipment. Some of the sets we built in Melbourne had to balance the scale of the house and rooms with filming practicalities. We created sets made up of intricate Tetristype puzzles that required assembling and disassembling, and the 12

The Winchester Century The horror and the story. Facts it to me. BY DAN PULCRANO

ET READY FOR the second century of Winchester mythmaking as a new horror movie brands San Jose’s best-known tourist attraction as “the most haunted house in history.” The new claim will place it in such distinguished company as the Amityville House, the Villisca Ax Murder House, Southern Italy’s Castle of Otranto and the Overlook Hotel in Stephen King’s The Shining.

No proof is offered to support the boast, but hey, this is 2018. The throngs clomping through the twisted corridors of our city’s most infamous gift to popular culture will surely grow. Bigger than the crowd at the largest inauguration in history. The Winchester Mystery House won’t reveal its attendance, an order that comes “from up top,” according to spokesman Jake Williams. Ninetyfive years after Sarah Winchester’s death, her side project of a house— the shambolically designed 160-room Queen Anne Victorian whose actual name was Llanada Villa—draws eye

rolls from locals but continues to hoover tourism dollars. Williams helpfully offers that the annual visitor count is “in the six figures.” Which means that at $39 per adult ticket plus revenues from the gift shop, event rentals and film licensing, the top line is either in the mere millions or in the tens of millions. Team San Jose, the city’s visitors bureau, has no data either. A Ouija board might provide some answers. The county tax collector’s website reveals that the address pays about 30 grand a year in pre-Prop 13-pegged property taxes, which

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removal of walls, ceilings or floors, depending on where the camera needed to be placed.” Drones were used to film the the roof of the Winchester house to show its vast size. Technology. Helen Mirren. Two directors with a rep for elegant horror. And it’s all based on a true story, yet ... As the advertisements used to say—”Can you prove that this didn’t happen?” Sadly, yes.

TOURIST TRAP “On Amazon, someone called me a killjoy,” says Mary Jo Ignoffo, a history teacher at De Anza College and the author of the book Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune. Obviously, they have to have something to put on the poster, but would Ignoffo describe her subject’s life as a saga of blood and madness? “Nnnnnnno,” she says. “Blood, I don’t understand at all. Sarah Winchester has been accused of being insane a couple of times, historical evidence to the contrary.” Ignoffo’s study of Winchester

was piqued by the cache of some 20 years’ worth of correspondence Ignoffo discovered, letters between Winchester and her attorney. “One often hears that there’s nothing out there,” Ignoffo says, referring to an alleged dearth of historical records and primary documents concerning Winchester. “In fact, I was able to uncover hundreds of references from sources.” “Madwoman” is one way to describe Winchester, but that’s less easy to prove than another phrase: “Land baroness.” Winchester owned some very nice chunks of Santa Clara County, and areas beyond: 100 acres near San Francisco Airport, and 160 acres in San Jose around the house. Los Altos was her ranch. “When she sold it, the city of Los Altos was born,” Ignoffo notes. Ignoffo hadn’t visited the house before she started her study of Winchester. Like many locals, she’d drive past the mansion, convinced that it was for visiting out-of-towners. “I’d never been, which was funny, since people around the world want to

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In this telling—one practiced by the very entertaining guides at the Mystery House— Winchester kept the construction going for decades, with workers devising baffling floor plans, doors to nowhere and zigzagging staircases. And there she languished for the rest of her life—the hammering and sawing only ceasing when she breathed her last. Except she wasn’t living at the Winchester House when she died. “The most important thing people don’t realize,” Ignoffo continues, “is TERRIFYING TEMBLOR Sarah Winchester that from the big boarded up much of her mansion earthquake in 1906 after the 1906 earthquake. to 1922 she lived in Atherton, despite the go there,” she says. “The convention and whole mythology of the building visitors bureau are bringing in tourists going on 24/7 until the day she by the busload. But the locals seem to died. Her place in Atherton is a roll their eyes—they’re not the first in very normal house—it was recently line to go see the house.” renovated and featured in a recent issue of Gentry magazine. Sarah’s attendant for 12 years described the Winchester House as a ‘hobby house.’” Winchester’s story is a twice-told tale The big quake of 1906 hit the great in this area. Sarah Pardee was a wellWinchester house hard, leaving it born and well-educated Connecticut maimed and unfinished. To save it lady, the daughter of an affluent from the elements, Winchester had carriage manufacturer. Her marriage portions sealed off; hence the staircases to William Winchester was considered to nowhere, the sealed corridors. As for a love match, but tragic losses followed the conical turret where the guides to it. When Sarah Winchester was 26, her the house tell you she had her séances, only child, Anne, some 5 weeks old, there’s no proof that it’s more prone perished of the wasting disease known to paranormal activity than anywhere as marasmus. Less than 15 years later, else in the place. Ignoffo says, “Workers her beloved husband followed Anne to on the ranch reported that they used the grave—a casualty of tuberculosis. to go up there to take rests from ranch So the story goes that Winchester work. There’s no evidence for a lot of went to a Boston medium. With all of things the guides tell you.” the grief over Civil War deaths, it must As for the séances: “I discovered have been lush times for psychics. The that there was a very active spiritualist medium allegedly told her wealthy community in San Jose—and she customer that Winchester’s suffering never joined. Spiritualism is a social was due to what the Hindus call endeavor. You don’t hold a séance karma. The soldiers and Indians killed alone. The reports of her being a by the Winchester rifle demanded spiritualist, are at the very least payback, and in protection from these exaggeration—and perhaps falsehood.” angry spirits, Winchester must build I wondered if Ignoffo had ever spent a house … nay, a maze. That would 16 keep the ghosts out.

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PERFECT SCAPEGOAT The myth about the mansion—that it was haunted by ghosts of those killed by the Winchester rifle— continues to find resonance today.

the night in the Winchester house, if she was so very convinced that the place wasn’t crawling with furious ghosts. “No. My first thought is that it would be cold. There’s nothing insulating the walls.”

THE REAL WINCHESTER Given the sketchy evidence that she was in communication with the afterlife, there are some exculpatory circumstances that would make such spiritualism almost mainstream. Winchester was indeed part of an era when it seemed as if the next world was just out of reach. Locally, Jane Stanford, wife of Leland, was using spiritualism to try to contact the dead son whom the Palo Alto university memorializes. Even men as scientifically minded as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle believed that new technology was going to allow us to witness and photograph the spirits of the dead. Consider the inventions of the time, such as the telephone (Winchester was one of the first in the San Jose area to have one)—here was technology in an era when tech was indistinguishable from magic. But Winchester is remembered as the creator of the spidery house, instead of as a philanthropist who endowed a lung-disease hospital. She spent her last dozen or so years setting up an endowment for the Winchester

Chest Hospital in New Haven, today administered by Yale. “Her financial dealings in the last decade don’t reflect someone who was crazy or insane,” Ignoffo argues. “They’re detailed, closely analyzed. She protected her finances in order to fund this hospital.” As for Winchester the movie, Ignoffo isn’t going to be first in line to see it. “I wouldn’t rush out. I have trouble with the horror genre.” Still, she has hopes. “I’m the first person who officially suggested Sarah Winchester was a sane person. I hope the movie depicts her like that, and I hope someone eventually makes a historical drama.” Winchester’s story has been featured on various local and syndicated shows, and Ignoffo was a guest on the ‘Winchester’ episode of William Shatner’s Weird or Not? (“I was the ‘not,’” Ignoffo jokes.) The people at the mansion would love to have a biographical film produced, and they would show it. Her story needs a filmmaker. I have all the documentation ready.” Fortunately for Winchester’s fans, Winchester screenwriter Vaughan is an admirer of the industrious widow. “She was way ahead of her time. An independent spirit who had the money to back it up. I can only imagine how many people she drove

HAUNTED HOUSES Still, there is a mystery that goes far beyond the supposed haunting of the Winchester House: what curdled the reputation of these great houses? Movie watchers know that something turns a house bad. Perhaps they can go bad on their own. Maybe the most perfectly written summing-up of this kind of madness is Shirley Jackson’s opening for her 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House. “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.” “Not sane”—a whispery, gentle kind of description for a house gone bad. But every haunted mansion started out benign, a showplace. “Solid black walnut every inch of it—balustrades and all. Sixty thousand dollars worth o’ carved woodwork in the house! Like water! Spent money like water! Always did! Still do! Like water. Gosh knows where it all comes from.” Such are the trappings of the great house in the script of Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). The fall of the house of Amberson is due to the

invention of the automobile—the factories building them pollute the area and allow commuters to come into the city from the outskirts. The Ambersons’ manor becomes ghostly because the neighborhood values crash. Without being a conventional horror story, Ambersons explains as well as any movie the process of how these wooden castles, these ultimate marks of status, ended up as the kind of edifice you advertise on billboards with skulls on them. Hopefully the upcoming Winchester will provide some invigorating fear, and burnish the local legend a bit. But maybe the ghosts in the Winchester House are due to an uneasy feeling, as per the folk belief put into words by Honore de Balzac: “Behind every great fortune is a great crime.” Ignoffo concludes: “Well, I have a theory about Sarah herself. I theorize that if she had inherited her wealth from something that wasn’t guns—say, the Singer sewing machine—that there still might be stories of garment workers haunting the place. But the house is a symbol of our ambivalence and conflict about guns. While there’s no evidence Sarah Winchester felt any conflicts about it, I think people’s discomfort about the Winchester house reflects the Civil War, the way Native Americans were treated, and urban gun violence today. It’s easier to consider this as the place built by guilt over guns than to have some kind of meaningful dialogue about guns.” Producer McGahan notes, “Some might take the view that the success of the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. ultimately existed at the expense of many lives. Regardless of whether or not you believe in ghosts or ‘haunted’ houses, my take on the story is that the ghosts are a representation of Sarah's own guilt and torment due to the loss of so many lives at the hands of the rifles.” Winchester screenwriter Vaughan suggests that the very opulence of the place may have seemed to later observers as decadence. “I couldn’t say for sure,” he says, “but there does seem to be this sense that the resources required to build and maintain these structures might have been better used elsewhere. There’s an empty sadness to them now, isn’t there? It feels like a haunting is exactly what they deserve!”

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crazy because she refused to play society’s games. That’s enough to start a lot of nasty rumors all over town alone. The more you learn about her, the more compelling she becomes. If our mythology is people’s gateway into her story, I’m totally OK with that. I’m just gratified she’s getting the attention she deserves.” Winchester’s producer Tim McGahan comments, “There are many theories about Sarah Winchester, but little verified information about her true personality. I personally think Sarah Winchester was an incredible woman, well ahead of her time, intelligent, generous to her staff and a wonderfully creative architect.”

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PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE The iconic Century 21 dome, above, can be seen from The Winchester Mystery House—as can Splunk, right, a cloud services and software company. wouldn’t cover the rent on a onebedroom apartment across the street at Santana Row. Last Sunday’s tours were overbooked and running 20 minutes late. A white-haired man bumped from one slot tried to jump the line for the next one and challenged a parent holding a toddler at the front of the line to “take it outside” when he didn’t get his way. Good thing the rifles handed to guests for the $40 souvenir green screen photos weren’t loaded; tempers run hot in January. Just months after Sarah Winchester’s death in 1922, her niece sold the house for $135,000 to a real estate investor who leased it for 10 years to John and Mamie Brown. The Browns moved onto the property in 1923 and within five months of Winchester’s death commercialized the house as a roadside attraction. The following year, Harry Houdini visited the odd mansion.

The newspaper clipping about his visit called it the “Mystery House.” Winchester’s supposed dalliances with spiritualists were crafted into a narrative about the supernatural. Winchester’s fruit orchards were, over time, developed into a few billion dollars’ worth of real estate: a multi-dome cinema complex, the Westfield Valley Fair shopping center and the Town & Country Village shopping center, which was razed and replaced by Santana Row. Cinema operator Ray Syufy built the Century 21 Cinedome on land leased from Brown family heirs. The introduction was likely made by a Syufy architect, noted modernist Vincent G. Raney, who married the Browns’ daughter. The Century 21 theater that opened in 1964 became a prototype for the later free-standing cinema domes, likely including the iconic Hollywood one.

Director Steven Spielberg was a senior at Saratoga High School when Century 21 opened, and he watched films at the recently demolished Century 25 on Saratoga Avenue; Ralph McQuarrie’s spaceship in the Spielberg movie E.T., some observe, resembles the illuminated domes. For many years the biggest mystery was who owned the Winchester Mystery House. In 1987, the San Jose Mercury News outed Monte Sereno resident Ray Farris II, a Brown family member, as a principal. The Merc was not kind to Farris, reporting on slip-ups at his nursing homes as well as his arrest in Los Gatos for laying hands on a 9-year-old who upset his corgi and bichon frise dogs. No longer flying under the radar, 40 members of the old money Raney and Farris families were listed as signatories to letters in 2013 and 2014 that appealed for permission to tear

down the “obsolete” cinema domes to make way for an “urban village” as part of a Santana Row expansion. They were only partially successful. The three domes still stand and the Century 21 was deemed eligible for preservation on the National Register of Historic Places. It’s a fenced car park presently for Stevens Creek auto dealers, so the sold-out Winchester movie opening happens this week across the street at Santana Row’s CineArts theater. The Mystery House is making the most of it, meanwhile, screening trailers for the movie at the end of its tours. Its fast-cut editing and screams of terror will leave an imprint on the collective psyche—plan to hug your kids at bedtime if they see the movie—further monetizing a cheezy yarn that birthed one of the valley’s biggest real estate plays, and now a major motion picture.

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PIANO GUYS

Wed, Mar 21, 8pm, $45+ City National Civic, San Jose Seven years ago, four dads in Utah got together to create classically influenced instrumental music videos. Today, they go by the Piano Guys, boast 5.9 million subscribers on YouTube and have charted high on Billboard’s Classical Albums and New Age Albums charts. They’ve filmed striking videos—ranging from covers of One Direction to an original piece inspired by Beethoven—at locations including Chichen Itza and the Great Wall of China. Their latest album, Uncharted, features their first vocal single and an eclectic mix of songs. These rad dads have still got it. (KL)

D. MARIE & THE HOUSE CATS

MARACATU PACIFICO

Thu, 7:30pm, $10+ Angelicas, Redwood City

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Influenced by R&B, blues, rockabilly and jazz, D. Marie & The House Cats will flex their musical muscles with a mix of popular covers and original songs. Danielle Walsh, known as D. Marie, is a Los Angeles native who moved to San Francisco for college. After a couple of years performing in the city, Walsh joined forces with a local trio of multi-instrumentalists, forming what is now known as D. Marie & The House Cats. The band impersonates popular jams such as How Do I Let A Good Man Down through rhythmic sounds of bass and drums. (JR)

Performance group Maracatu Pacifico bring their Afro-Brazilian maracatu music and dance to San Jose. Maracatu is a folkloric tradition that can be traced back to the colonial era of Brazil. The music and dancing represent Brazil in a vivid, joyful way. Founded in 2012, Maracatu Pacifico focuses on community and personal development through study and performance. They draw their inspiration from traditional sounds that offer more subtle, mellow tunes as well as modern, nontraditional sounds. With the use of Brazilian folk instruments—such as the caixa, a kind of snare drum—they spread Northeastern Brazilian culture around the Bay Area. (JR)

NU ETHNIC Fri, 9pm, $10 Back Bar SoFa, San Jose San Jose indie-funk trio Nu Ethnic celebrate the release of their first EP, Learning to Fly. The group have made a name for themselves blending smooth math rock with soulful vocals and groovy rhythms. On a demo version of their song “Strong,” Nu Ethnic spin up a contagious mix of moody R&B and pingponging Minus The Bear-esque guitarwork. This show will also feature performances by buzzworthy local emcee Thatfool Al, Love District and Vudaje. The six-track Learning to Fly is available for pre-order on iTunes and Amazon Music. (SP)

STEW & THE NEGRO PROBLEM Fri, 8pm, $15+ Bing Concert Hall Studio, Stanford Singer-songwriter and playwright Stew—along with his band, The Negro Problem—will be performing a dynamic rock & roll song cycle. Titled “Notes of a Native Song,” the performance is a tribute to legendary artist and activist James Baldwin. Known for works like his 2008 Tonywinning musical Passing Strange and his 2016 single, “Klown wit da Nuclear Code,” Stew (aka Mark Stewart) is notorious for his unabashed and creative approach to race and political commentary. In that vein, he and his band will honor and explore Baldwin’s legacy through music, video and spoken word. (SP)

* concerts BRENT WALSH

SUPER LOVE JAM

Feb 9 at SAP Center

WWE MONDAY NIGHT RAW

Feb 12 at SAP Center

SJZ WINTER FEST

Feb 15-28 in San Jose

BLITZEN TRAPPER Feb 16 at The Ritz

LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE Feb 17 at SAP Center

AIR SUPPLY

Feb 18 at City National Civic

NOISE POP: SHABAZZ PALACES Feb 20 at The Ritz

JAPANESE BREAKFAST

Feb 21 at The Ritz

DISNEY ON ICE

Feb 21-25 at SAP Center

SHE WANTS REVENGE Feb 22 at The Ritz

BACON & BEER

Feb 24 at Levi’s Stadium

BETTY WHO

Feb 25 at The Ritz

THE COME UP

SHIRO SCHWARZ

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There is no shortage of aspiring artists and musicians working hard to come up in Silicon Valley. But as working performers know, the strength of the scene depends on the support of the community. The Come Up is a brand new event in San Jose's SoFA District aimed at providing support to rising talent. A free showcase aims to help build and support a thriving community for musicians, comedians and other performing artists. Hosted at the recently opened Uproar Brewing Co., The Come Up will feature live music, stand-up and more— along with everybody’s favorites: good food and cold beer. (SP)

Not many contemporary artists can channel the essence of early ’80s pop like Mexico City’s audiovisual production and performance duo Shiro Schwarz. Together since 2011, Pammela Rojas and Rafael Marfil have been offering audiences an immersive, extrasensory experience for more than half a decade. The two are known for pairing 64 bit-inspired, hallucinogenic visuals with the electric pulse of disco to produce a quirky, genre-defying aesthetic. Matching familiar synth melodies to the clap of gated-reverb—as they do on “Together”—the pair have proved adept at whipping up a nostalgic boogie. (SP)

I THE MIGHTY’S BRENT WALSH Sat, 8pm, Free O’Malley’s Sports Pub, Mountain View Brent Walsh, of the Fremontborn, proggy post-hardcore band I the Mighty is bringing his stripped-down solo material to Mountain View. Walsh—who released his debut solo album, 7, on Equal Vision Records back in 2014—used the record to showcase his powerful voice and agility on the acoustic guitar, with songs like “Ride the Air,” “Typical Blues Song” and “Free.” Expect this and much more from the singer and songwriter when he is joined by Kylle Reece of Demon in Me, Songbird and Backyard Atlantic. (SM)

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FARZAD FARZIN Sat, 8:30pm, $49+ Flint Center, Cupertino Iranian pop star and actor Farzad Farzin has faced many setbacks in his career, but he isn’t letting that stop him. After leaving his former band, Corouz Group, to pursue a solo career, he found himself fighting for the rights of his music and facing an uphill battle against continued leaks. His eclectic sound features traditional Persian melodies and pop-oriented arrangements. He’s scored charttopping hits in Europe, and was recognized with an award from Iran’s Musicema Awards for best live performance. (SM)

DEMI LOVATO & DJ KHALED Feb 28 at SAP Center

ROBERT PLANT

Feb 28 at Fox Theater (Oakland)

KAYZO

Mar 10 at City National Civic

BONNIE RAITT

Mar 15 at City National Civic

TSOL

Mar 22 at The Ritz

MASON JENNINGS

Mar 24 at The Ritz

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL

Mar 28-Apr 1 at SAP Center

NILS FRAHM

Apr 5 at The Ritz

MALUMA

Apr 6 at SAP Center

THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS Apr 14 at City National Civic

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BUCKSKIN Artist Kohei Nawa’s ‘PixCell-Maral Deer,’ on display in his ‘Trans-figure’ collection at Pace Gallery in Palo Alto.

Transformer

Japanese artist gives found objects new skin in ‘Trans-figure’ collection BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

N ANIMAL GLITTERS in the artificial light at the center of the gallery. Immobile, it stands almost 10 feet tall, 4 feet of which are antlers. Hundreds of round glass beads encase it in a clear, protective coat.

Up close, they look like crystal balls of varying sizes that have been affixed in a precise design. Through these prismatic lenses, you can make out the coarse, finely preserved hairs on the body of a taxidermied deer. PixCell-Maral Deer is the finest example of organic materials colliding

with inorganic ones in Kohei Nawa’s “Trans-figure” at Pace Palo Alto. According to the gallery’s director, Justine Chausson, Nawa, a Japanese artist based in Kyoto, bought the already dead deer on eBay. He’s applied the same technique—creating a second skin—to other once-living things also on display, including a penguin and a tiny, yellow duckling that’s full of pathos. It should be swimming with its mother and siblings instead of standing on dry land encrusted in glass barnacles. In the largest room of the gallery, however, Nawa changes his approach and coats a small village of found objects in polyurethane foam. In Villus, the artist has arranged a

group of items—the largest at the back of the room, the smallest at the front— and placed them on square, white, waist-high pillars. The foam deforms everything there with curdled growths that look like hardened cottage cheese. A hand grenade, a folded wheelchair, a bonsai, a bull’s skull, a rubber ducky; they all appear to be suffering from an unhealthy bloat. Nawa has transformed them into spectral outlines of their former selves. A life-size ram, probably not a real one, retains its original shape. As treated, though, it becomes something else now that its off-white wool is sealed inside an artificial shell. The artist is also experimenting with another textural element in the room. He casts colored LED lights down onto the sculpture. They’re programmed cyclically, to hold on the objects for a minute or two before changing color, and then stopping on them once again. One set of colors, yellow, green and pink, added another visual dimension to the piece, as if you were suddenly looking at it through 3-D glasses. The other combinations of colors didn’t add much to the experience, besides making for a pretty light show.

Other objects in the backroom appear in a third treatment, made of silicon carbonate particles. A toy bear’s head and a toy bunny are coal black, but they also sparkle with silver flecks of aluminum powder. Glass, foam and silicon—much of the exhibit is concerned with layers of synthetic skin. Villus's is static and cold. You don’t want to touch anything. With the inclusion of a Mario brother and other toys, it drifts into whimsy (“It's a Small World” wouldn't be out of place if there were a soundtrack playing). Without the lights, the objects just stand blankly on their pedestals without much to say. It’s like looking into an empty mirror. Nothing is reflected back at you. In comparison, the towering deer and the duckling that could fit in the palm of your hand still contain the animals’ souls. Or, rather, the artist has restored the soul to its owner by giving it a second skin. Nawa’s practice ranges wider than this one subject. His website (kohei-nawa.net) lists at least a dozen categories in which he’s classified his work. This is his first solo show in the U.S. and, as such, really only serves to introduce him here. “Trans-figure” also includes a series of paintings titled Direction. He paints them at an angle with monochromatic straight lines. They’re less inviting than Piet Mondrian’s warm geometry. But online, Nawa demonstrates the process of making them. The camera follows the slow drip of his thick, inky paints. His approach is meticulous and painstaking, but an interesting method doesn't necessarily guarantee an interesting result. There's something both ugly and beautiful about the deer and the duckling. It feels like Nawa is breaking some taboo by repurposing the dead to serve his art. You can find more of those contradictions on his website than in the gallery, and they're worth seeking out. Especially the ones where the paint oozes outside the lines. His work is disciplined enough to withstand, and benefit from, occasional doses of confusion and disorder.

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FREAKY FELINE ‘The (Anti) Valentine Show’ returns to Works/San José with art like ‘Love Cat <3’ by Mark Martinez.

A Valentine Vaccine

FOR MARK MARTINEZ, a San Jose-based artist, Valentine’s Day is just another Hallmark holiday dreamed up to sell candy and canned greeting cards. Every February, he finds himself wondering about those who don’t have a perfect relationship and challenges the definition of love. “For a lot of people it’s almost like a fantasy,” Martinez says, noting that unrequited love is a serious bummer. “When one person is in love with somebody, that love is actually not a real thing.” Opening on Friday and running through “The (Anti) Feb. 18, “The (Anti) Valentine Show” will be Valentine Show” showcasing the work of 150 local artists who have created pieces around themes such as anti-love, Feb 2-18 anti-hypocrisy, anti-commercialization and antiWorks/San José, objectification. The word “anti” is in parentheses San Jose to indicate that artists are welcome to represent a workssanjose.org positive side of Valentine’s Day if they wish. “This is a show that we’ve done a few times before,” says Joe Miller, president of Works/San José, the downtown gallery hosting the show. “We’ve done it about every other year, and each time it’s been an open call. Anybody who wants to bring in a piece can be in the exhibition.” Works/San José first introduced the show to the community eight years ago. The inspiration, according to Miller, was to present an alternative view to Valentine’s Day. Organizers felt that it was important to show the other side and highlight the feelings of people who feel unloved or anxious about the holiday. Since then, the show has almost doubled in size. Most of the artists are San Jose locals who are well known around the community. Many have showcased their work in other exhibits in San Jose, but there are also a few first-timers. Mark Martinez will be returning this year with a piece titled Love Cat <3. He has been creating art for about six years now. His work is mainly inspired by cats; this one has an Alice in Wonderland vibe. In vivid colors, the cat sits up on a tree, mesmerized by love—with hearts in his eyes and teeth. The feline bears a striking resemblance to the Cheshire Cat. Just like the world of the film, love is nothing more than just a fantasy. —Jaleny Reyes

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William H. Macy and a starring turn by MSA winner Rosario Dawson.

Quest Comeback The 2018 Cinequest lineup features William H. Macy, Charlie Sheen BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

MPACT! THIS IS Cinequest 2018’s word of the year— thankfully, the word is not “impactful,” which is a bad word used by bad people. The fest runs Feb. 27-Mar. 11, bringing actors Andie MacDowell of Groundhog Day, John Travolta, William H. Macy, Charlie Sheen, Turner Classic Movies historian Ben Mankiewicz, Orphan Black’s Tatiana Maslany, and the rising star Tom Cullen—of both Downton Abbey and the British movie Weekend.

These are the names as of now. As February unfolds up to the Cinequest opening date, there will be others, including the screenwriters who’ll be turning up on the “From Script to Screen” presentations. Last year’s fest had its glitches—VR that sometimes wasn’t real enough, for example. Many faced problems crossing the valley to Redwood City, where a portion of the festival was held as a result of the closure of the Camera 12 in downtown San Jose. Cinequest is returning to the Century Downtown 20, located far, far away in San Mateo County. But this year, since 3Below is open, the Camera 3 is more or less back from the grave;

the California Theater is open for the bigger-scale productions, and the Hammer Theater is ready for more intimate, shot-on-digital work. Opening night is Macy’s new directorial effort, Krystal; Macy, who won the fest’s 2003 Maverick Spirit Award, directs another MSA winner: Rosario Dawson. In the title role, the sultry yet nerdy Dawson plays a hard-luck stripper sought by a naive young man (Nick Robinson of Jurassic World). Closing night is Paul Sanchez’s Brothers in Arms, a documentary about the making of Platoon, the much Oscarlauded 1986 Vietnam film directed by a veteran of that conflict, Oliver Stone. “Prairie Madness” took its toll on settlers who tried to colonize the Great Plains states—from the Dakotas to Texas, European arrivals were driven to suicide or insanity by the howling winds. This nervous condition was the kind of bad news that land offices tried to hush up, to keep from discouraging more immigrant farmers moving in. Texas-born writer and professor Dorothy Scarborough wrote a supernaturally-tinged novel about how

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the desolation was particularly hard on women. She published anonymously, at least in part because she worried about reprisals for describing the hardscrabble life in farm towns the 1880s. The film of her novel is 1928’s The Wind, by the brilliant Swedish director Victor Sjostrom (auteur of the still-best film version of The Scarlet Letter). Lillian Gish is a lone woman driven to hysteria by the dust storms. It’s very infrequently revived, likely because it’s frightening, and nigh-impossible to find on home viewing; it screens at the California Theatre on March 9 with master organist Dennis James at the Wurlitzer. Almost 100 premieres are happening at the fest, including the Kaiser Thrive award winner Pick of the Litter, by Dana Nachman and Don Hardy, the directors of Witch Hunt and Batkid Begins. It’s a sort of reality show in which the winning puppy out of a pack of five will become a guide dog. Fans of Battle of the Sexes might be lured to Borg/ McEnroe about the rivalry between two of the 1970s’ best tennis players, John McEnroe (Shia LaBeouf ) and Bjorn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason). Ashram stars renowned character actress Melissa Leo and Kal Penn, best known for the Harold and Kumar series, in a thriller that explores the underside of a charismatic guru’s meditation center. Michelle Pfeiffer stars in the drama Where is Kyra? In a piece that seems to have the same outline as the Sam Elliott-starring Hero, Burt Reynolds is the lead in The Last Movie Star. The Czech film Barefoot is about a country boy relocated to Prague during World War II; it’s directed by the Oscarwinning Jan Sverak (Kolya). And the eclectic Brad Anderson, who once upon a time brought his first film, The Darien Gap, to Cinequest before going on to better-known work, such as the excellent Transsiberian, returns with the Rosamund Pike and Jon Hamm thriller Beirut. Eleven nightly VIP soirees at downtown restaurants, followed by no-host Maverick Meetups: “If you don’t like the movie, at least you’ll like the after-movie drinks” has been a longstanding unofficial motto of the festival.

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GOING SOLO In her one-woman show, ‘Latin Standards,’ Marga Gomez remembers the music and cultural contributions of her father, Willy Chevalier.

Father Dearest

Marga Gomez pays tribute to her father in one-woman show, ‘Latin Standards’ BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

ARGA GOMEZ WAS out of breath when she arrived outside the Brava Theater Center on her Razor scooter. The comedian and raconteur was in the midst of a successful three-week run of Latin Standards, her latest, and possibly last, solo play. She was revving up for the closing weekend in San Francisco, looking forward to her three days with the show at San Jose’s MACLA in February and waiting for an email to confirm a

return engagement to Brava in March (she received the confirmation later that afternoon). We sat down in the empty cabaret room where two lonely palm trees, made of green and gold tinsel, sparkled against a black backdrop. With Gomez not on stage, the trees looked like they were wilting and in need of the turgor pressure her charismatic stage presence provides. Latin Standards is her second solo play that attempts to reckon her personal reminiscences of her dad alongside his legacy as a songwriter of Latino hits in the 1950s and ’60s. Gomez says the difference between

that first show, A Line Around The Block from 1996, is the wisdom she’s gained after 20 years. “He was a little mythic in the first show. It was like, ‘This is the man I saw,’ but this show is like, ‘This is the man I am.’” This Freudian slip—she doesn’t say, “This is the man he was”—indicates not only how much she admired him and, as an adult, emulated his desire to make it as an entertainer. It’s also a sign that she’s learned how to inhabit his ghost. But not in a mournful way. She learned how to use humor from her parents, who deployed levity as a shield against hardship. “Although they had glory days, their youth was pretty traumatic,” Gomez says. “But they always used humor. Even my mother, who wasn't a comedian, had a very mean sense of humor.” Some of the jokes in Latin Standards tease out the details of her parents’ turbulent 12-year marriage. One of Willy Chevalier’s songs (her father’s stage name) will play in the background while Gomez excavates their meaning. There’s Tito Puente’s

recording of “De Me Para Ti” and Trio Los Condes’ rendition of “En El Último Escalón,” which concludes bitterly, “Porque vas a conocer a el diablo (Because you’re going to meet the devil)”. While the focus of this show is on her father, her mother was the subject of her very first play, Memory Tricks. In telling their stories Gomez approaches with respect. “They were influencers of their time in the Latino community,” she says. “My perspective was to tell stories that weren't told about Latino heroes in culture and entertainment but who are still heroes.” She also wanted to make it simpler than the 1996 show. “This is really compressed, in and out of the best day ever with my father.” That best day, when Gomez was a girl, she accompanies her father to a meeting at an advertising agency. Chevalier’s going to pitch a radio commercial campaign to a coffee maker. Because of his late nights at clubs and theaters, he never woke up before 3pm. He asks his daughter to wake him up early, at noon. She agrees on one condition—that he take her with him to the meeting. The story reveals the depths of her affection for him, especially when she speaks in his voice, adopting both his posture and affect. But she’s able to balance a child’s sentimental image of her late father with an unsentimental sense of humor about his foibles and flaws. Gomez also teaches solo performance. She works with students who have "tapped into something, into the truth. I don't care if someone is a polished performer, if they're clunky. I'm more interested in the story they're telling and if they have the ability to take notes and do rewrites. Some people are just all there and they want to just get more out of it and hone it and cut the excess.” For anyone interested in learning how to translate personal memories onto the stage, Latin Standards is a master class.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By ROB BREZSNY week of January 31

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his "Crazy Lake

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Stories have the power to either dampen or mobilize your life energy. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will make heroic efforts to seek out the latter and avoid the former. Now is a crucial time to treat yourself to stories that will jolt you out of your habitual responses and inspire you to take long-postponed actions and awaken the sleeping parts of your soul. And that's just half of your assignment, dear Taurus. Here's the rest: Tell stories that help you remember the totality of who you are, and that inspire your listeners to remember the totality of who they are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1989, a man

have mined about 182,000 tons of gold. Best estimates suggest there are still 35 billion tons of gold buried in the earth, but the remaining riches will be more difficult to find and collect than what we've already gotten. We need better technology. If I had to say who would be the entrepreneurs and inventors best qualified to lead the quest, my choice would be members of the Aries tribe. For the foreseeable future, you people will have extra skill at excavating hidden treasure and gathering resources that are hard to access.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Anaïs Nin said, "There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work." For two reasons, Anaïs's formulation is especially apropos for you right now. First, you should not allow yourself to be seduced, tempted, or won over by sweet gestures alone. You must insist on sweet gestures that are synergized by a sense of wonder and an appreciation of your unique beauty. Second, you should adopt the same approach for those you want to seduce, tempt, or win over: sweet gestures seasoned with wonder and an appreciation of their unique beauty. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you more inclined

right now to favor temporary involvements and short-term promises? Or would you consider making brave commitments that lead you deeper into the Great Mystery? Given the upcoming astrological omens, I vote for the latter. Here's another pair of questions for you, Cancerian. Are you inclined to meander from commotion to commotion without any game plan? Or might you invoke the magic necessary to get involved with high-quality collaborations? I'm hoping you'll opt for the latter. (P.S. The near future will be prime time for you to swear a sacred oath or two.)

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In March 1996, a man

burst into the studio of radio station Star FM in Wanganui, New Zealand. He took the manager hostage and issued a single demand: that the dj play a recording of the Muppet song "The Rainbow Connection," as sung by the puppet Kermit the Frog. Fortunately, police intervened quickly, no one was hurt, and the kidnapper was jailed. In bringing this to your attention, Leo, I am certainly not suggesting that you imitate the kidnapper. Please don't break the law or threaten anyone with harm. On the other hand, I do urge you to take dramatic, innovative action to fulfill one of your very specific desires.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many varieties of the

nettle plant will sting you if you touch the leaves and stems. Their hairs are like hypodermic needles that inject your skin with a blend of irritant chemicals. And yet nettle is also an herb with numerous medicinal properties. It can provide relief for allergies, arthritis, joint pain, and urinary problems. That's why Shakespeare invoked the nettle as a metaphor in his play Henry IV, Part 1: "Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety," says the character named Hotspur. In accordance with the astrological omens, Virgo, I choose the nettle as your power metaphor for the first three weeks of February.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Knullrufs is a Swedish

word that refers to what your hair looks like after sex: tousled, rumpled, disordered. If I'm reading the astrological omens correctly, you should experience more knullrufs than usual in the coming weeks. You're in a phase when you need and deserve extra pleasure and delight, especially the kind that rearranges your attitudes as well as your coiffure. You have license to exceed your normal quotas of ravenousness and rowdiness.

Experiment" documented on Youtube, Harvard physicist Greg Kestin takes a raft out on a lake. He drops a tablespoon of olive oil into the water, and a few minutes later, the half-acre around his boat is still and smooth. All the small waves have disappeared. He proceeds to explain the science behind the calming effect produced by a tiny amount of oil. I suspect that you will have a metaphorically comparable power in the next two weeks, Scorpio. What's your version of the olive oil? Your poise? Your graciousness? Your tolerance? Your insight into human nature?

spent four dollars on a painting at a flea market in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. He didn't care much for the actual image, which was a boring country scene, but he thought he could use the frame. Upon returning home, he found a document concealed behind the painting. It turned out to be a rare old copy of America's Declaration of Independence, originally created in 1776. He eventually sold it for $2.42 million. I doubt that you will experience anything quite as spectacular in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. But I do suspect you will find something valuable where you don't expect it, or develop a connection with something that's better than you imagined it would be.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the 1740s, a

teenage Capricorn girl named Eliza Lucas almost single-handedly introduced a new crop into American agriculture: indigo, a plant used as a dye for textiles. In South Carolina, where she managed her father's farm, indigo ultimately became the second-most-important cash crop over the next 30 years. I have astrological reasons to believe that you are now in a phase when you could likewise make innovations that will have long-range economic repercussions. Be alert for good intuitions and promising opportunities to increase your wealth.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was in my

early twenties, I smoked marijuana now and then. I liked it. It made me feel good and inspired my creativity and roused spiritual visions. But I reconsidered my use after encountering pagan magician Isaac Bonewits. He didn't have a moral objection to cannabis use, but believed it withered one's willpower and diminished one's determination to transform one's life for the better. For a year, I meditated on and experimented with his hypothesis. I found it to be true, at least for me. I haven't smoked since. My purpose in bringing this up is not to advise you about your relationship to drugs, but rather to urge you to question whether there are influences in your life that wither your willpower and diminish your determination to transform your life for the better. Now is an excellent time to examine this issue.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Would you like to shed unwieldy baggage before moving on to your next big challenge? I hope so. It will purge your soul of karmic sludge. It will prime you for a fresh start. One way to accomplish this bravery is to confess your sins and ask for forgiveness in front of a mirror. Here are data to consider. Is there anyone you know who would not give you a good character reference? Have you ever committed a seriously unethical act? Have you revealed information that was told to you in confidence? While under the influence of intoxicants or bad ideas, have you done things you're ashamed of? I'm not saying you're more guilty of these things than the rest of us; it's just that now is your special time to seek redemption. Homework: What's the best, most healing trouble you could whip up right now? Testify at Freewillastrology.com. Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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LEGALS & PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637243 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Novia Home Loans, 3111 McLaughlin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95121. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tony Dinh. President. #4054496. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/29/2017. (pub Metro 01/10, 01/17, 01/24, 01/31/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637397 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Light

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RONALD GALLANT, AKA RONALD THOMAS GALLANT. CASE NO. 1-17-PR-182266

To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Ronald Gallant, aka Ronald Thomas Gallant.A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the Santa Clara County in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA.The Petition for Probate requests that: James J Ramoni, Public Administrator of Santa Clara County be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many action 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: March 23, 2018 at 9 a.m. in Dept. 12 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, San Jose, CA, 95110 408-758-4200 (Pub CC 01/17, 01/24, 01/31)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #637489

The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Nam Vang Restaurant Inc., 2477 Alvin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95121, Nam Vang Restaurant, Inc., 1221 Valley Quail Cir., San Jose, CA, 95120. Filed in Santa Clara County on 11/06/2017 under file #635729. This business was conducted by a Corporation. /s/Nam Tien Nguyen. President. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/05/2018. (pub Metro 01/17, 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637266 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bella Aroma, 1765 Scott Blvd., Suite 105, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Noppadon Yoskaew, 1980 Curtis Street, #7, Berkeley, CA, 94705. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/01/2017. /s/Noppadon Yoskaew. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/02/2018. (pub Metro 01/24, 01/31, 02/07, 02/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637358 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sutton Law Firm, 900 Lafayette Street, #200, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, M. Dan Sutton, 2240 Muriel Drive, Santa Cruz, CA, 95062. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious

business name or names listed herein on 12/17/2003. Refile of previous file #571447 with changes, after 40 days of expiration date. /s/M. Dean Sutton. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/03/2017. (pub Metro 01/10, 01/17, 01/24, 01/31/2018)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JAN WARREN FELLER, AKA JAN W. FELLER, AKA J.W. FELLER CASE NO. 1-17-PR-000002

To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Jan Warren Feller, aka Jan W. Feller, aka J.W. Feller.A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the Santa Clara County in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: James J Ramoni, Public Administrator of Santa Clara County be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: March 23, 2018 at 9 a.m. in Dept. 12 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, San Jose, CA, 95110 408-758-4200 (Pub CC 01/17, 01/24, 01/31)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636720 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cita/ Community Immigration Tax Agency, 1968 S. King Road, San Jose, CA, 95122, Ericka Roldan. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/20/2017. Refile of previous file #572957 with changes. /s/Ericka Roldan. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/11/2017. (pub Metro 01/10, 01/17, 01/24, 01/31/2018)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #637438 The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Luna Auto Sales, 2070 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, Aurelio Sanchez Luna.Filed in Santa Clara County on 01/13/2014 under file #586938. This business was conducted by an Individual./s/Aurelio Luna SanchezOwnerThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/04/2018. (pub Metro 01/17, 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637536 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MX Shift, 1711 Cape Horn Ct., San Jose, CA, 95133, Richard Lawrence Altherr. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2018. /s/ Richard Lawrence Altherr. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/08/2017. (pub Metro 01/17, 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637602

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tortas Ahogadas Tradicion Tapatia, Inc., 2003 Story, Unit 100, San

Jose, CA, 95116, . This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/09/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Patricia Vidales. President. #C-3749859. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/18/2017. (pub Metro 01/17, 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637225

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: T T Flip To Win, LLC, 2077 Flintfield Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/27/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tuan Troung. President. #201736110196. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/28/2017. (pub Metro 01/17, 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #636585 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Mountain Mike’s Pizza, 14080 Blossom Hill Rd., Los Gatos, CA, 95032, RHY Inc, 16975 Malaga Dr., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/06/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Yadwinder Singh. President. #4055724. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/06/2017. (pub Metro 01/03, 01/10, 01/17, 01/24/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637571 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Nam Vang, 2477 Alvin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95121, N Vang Restaurant Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Vicky Wong. President. #C4092606. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/09/2018. (pub Metro , 01/17, 01/24, 01/31, 02/07/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637686 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Diligence Athletics, 7007 Realm Dr., Unit B5, San Jose, CA, 95119, Peter Nguyen, 11321 Hale Ave., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/11/2018. /s/Peter Nguyen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/11/2018. (pub Metro 01/24, 01/31, 02/07, 02/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637887 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Colorflow Paintings, 721 Emerson Ct., San Jose, CA, 95126, Craig Thomas Sereda. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Craig Sereda. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/18/2017. (pub Metro 01/24, 01/31, 02/07, 02/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #637936 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Agnieszka Jakubowicz Photography, 14333 Mulburry Dr., Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2018. /s/ Agnieszka Jakubowicz. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 01/19/2018. (pub Metro 01/24, 01/31, 02/07, 02/14/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS BAME STATEMENT #638100 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: EB Maintenance And Handyman Services, LLC, 3438 Calvin Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95124. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Eric J. Bourdon. President. #201736010178. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara

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WRITE AWAY The Chiang Mai Writers Club and Wine Bar features a display of antique typewriters and old black-and-white photos of newsrooms, among other literary ephemera.

At home abroad Finding literary inspiration at the Chiang Mai Writers Club BY GARY SINGH

AST WEEK, the anti-manabout-town returned to a literary vortex of major influence. Eight years ago in Chiang Mai, Thailand, I discovered a place on Rachadamnoen Road inside the central area of town. The Chiang Mai Writers Club and Wine Bar was right down the street from the Phra Singh Temple.

Bob Tilley, a retired journalist from the UK, owned the place, along with his wife, Tong, and it functioned as the unofficial English-speaking foreign

correspondents club of Chiang Mai. Every possible demographic of expat writer might be found inside. A lonesome traveling screenwriter might show up to get drunk in the corner, a journalist might pop in after filing a story, or someone may just be looking for other writers to drink with. The phrase, “you never know who you’ll meet” rang true. On the day I arrived in 2010, an antique Underwood typewriter sat on the bar. Old black-and-white photos from newsrooms of decades past hung from the walls, each inside an ancient dusty frame. Antique glass cases held fading encyclopedias,

books, magazines and other literary ephemera you’d expect a lifelong worldly writer to collect. It also seemed like English-speaking travelers often came in and left gifts. It was that kind of place. As I sat there, Tilley told me numerous stories about life as a correspondent stationed in East Germany during the Cold War. With 50 years of experiences under his belt, Tilley had serious yarns to tell, some of which jammed a small book that he sold me for seven bucks. He was a living connection to the “old days” of freelance stringing, with hundreds of assignments—some legit, others dubious—taking him all over the underbelly of various European cities and then finally Thailand. He illuminated what it was like to exist as a freelancer, writing for both upmarket and downmarket publications, supermarket gossip rags or academic journals—for whoever would write the damn checks. Such was (and is) the mercenary life of a freelancer. You

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straddle many different crowds of people without ever feeling truly at home in any one of them. Which is exactly how I started years ago, so Tilley became not just an inspiration, but a beacon of assurance that a shred of the freelance journalist’s life was still imaginable for me somehow, at least in theory. He told me to never give up. If you have to write for salacious outlets just to pay the bills, then do so, but don’t quit trying. I was so inspired that I wrote a column about Tilley on the flight back. Sadly, Tilley passed away a few years ago, so I never got to hang with him again, but last week when I showed up, Tong was still there. The place did not look much different. The same photos and furniture were present. The menu hadn’t changed. The antique typewriter now sat like royalty on top of an old cabinet in the back corner, right next to an old communist-era dial telephone from Hungary. A maroon fez sat on top of the typewriter. A Thierry Henri soccer jersey and a San Francisco Giants pennant hung on the wall behind them. The spirit of Bob Tilley was still palpable. The entire place was filled up with Western tourists, with no natives anywhere. As I ate my meal at a twoseater table, it only took five minutes for a tipsy Australian to walk over from the bar, and then while standing there looking down at me, bash everything that Donald Trump is all about. How could millions of people vote for this immoral degenerate piece of narcissistic garbage, he asked, eyes bugging out. The rest of the world is scared at how a dangerously illiterate lunatic could be the American president, he blurted. Calm as a monk, I agreed, adding that apologizing for Donald Trump is part of any international travel itinerary for Americans these days. Unfortunately. Hammered Australians are ubiquitous in Thailand, so this was no big deal, really. After my meal, I bid everyone adieu and wandered back onto Rachadamnoen Road. As before, Chiang Mai was alive. Almost every single block seemed to feature bars, backpacker hostels, massage joints, artisan shops, tour companies, scooter rentals, street food carts, laundry services, beautifully crumbling ambience and very old Lanna-style Buddhist temples. Tilley made the right choice by moving here. I vowed to return.

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Taking it to the Street

AMPLING LOCAL STREET food is a must while traveling abroad. One of the most vivid memories I have of visiting the Middle East involves eating my way through Jordan. I must have noshed at a half-dozen shawarma and falafel stands throughout the capital city of Amman. I can still recall the hypnotic effect of the giant hunks of mystery meat turning on a spit. That memory sprang to the forefront of my mind as I entered Diwan Al Falafel and saw the familiar blocks of meat, spinning round and round. I was greeted by a smiling, mustached man welding a giant carving knife; chef Mohammed Afif—who has 40 years of cooking experience—gave us the rundown of the menu. Fortunately, no mystery meat here, as they only serve 100 percent certified Halal meat, which comes in either chicken or their beef-and-lamb mix. I almost went with a traditional wrap, but decided that I’d rather have a combination plate to sample as much as possible. While not officially on the menu, a chicken, beef and lamb combo ($14.99) is available, if you ask. I also ordered up a side of their namesake falafel ($4.99/six pieces) to see if they were worthy. The word huge doesn’t do the combo plate justice, as they really pack as much food as humanly possible onto the dish. The juicy and seared meat is served atop a bed of fluffy and tasty turmeric rice. The plate also comes with a side of hummus, pita bread and a cucumber-and-tomato salad that reminded me of a fattoush, minus the bread. The entire dish was very enjoyable, but I’d have to give the edge to the chicken shawarma over the beef and lamb, as it had a slightly better flavor. The hummus was also delightfully creamy, well-flavored and I must commend them on actually using a good quality extra virgin olive oil with it, as a lot of other establishments usually use a much lighter—and flavorless—oil. As for the eponymous falafel, they indeed were worthy of the name; crunchy, moist and packed with flavor. These might just be the best falafel I’ve ever tasted—outside of mom’s kitchen, of course. I could have eaten them alone, but I couldn’t resist dipping them into the hummus. Foreign food carts aren’t in everyone’s future or past, so it’s nice to be able to get a taste of the street—sans street. Mystery meat need not apply. —John Dyke

DIWAN AL FALAFEL 1085 E Brokaw Rd Ste 40, San Jose. 669.292.5580

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LINE ’EM UP Project Pasta combines Italian food into the world of assembly line fast-casual dining.

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HE TERM “CHIPOTLE-IZATION” has become synonymous in the food world for any fast-casual restaurant that features an assembly line method for producing a diner’s order. I believe Subway and Henry Ford might take umbrage with the term, but that’s an argument for another day. This technique has been used to assemble everything from burritos and pizzas to poke and salads. The one cuisine I have not heard of until this point is pasta.

This is where Project Pasta comes into the picture, as they're taking the assembly line and giving it an Italian twist. I will admit that when I first heard about this I did a bit of an eye roll. However, I always try to keep an open mind and, after our visit, I must say my cohorts and I walked away very impressed. The statement, “I’ll definitely be back” was uttered several times. But, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning of the line, shall we? As with all these establishments, there are hard decisions to be made before one can enjoy their repast: such as what type of pasta (spaghetti, farfalle or penne): which sauce (marinara, pesto or Alfredo); what sorts of toppings (11 different veggies) and, most important, what type of meat (meatballs, chicken, sausage and bacon are all available) will be involved. Of course, for those that are indecisive, Project Pasta does have preset house combos available. My associates weren't in the mood for making decisions, as they both settled on the Great White ($10) preset, which comes with a combo of Alfredo and pesto sauce, penne, spinach, mushrooms and chicken. My custom order featured penne, marinara, sausage, beef meatballs, bacon and a multitude of veggies ($11). After it’s ordered, the concoction is cooked up in a frying pan and whipped into one homogenous amalgamation. Their sauces might be their strongest attribute. The marinara was smooth, a bit herby and had that slight sweetness a good traditional tomato sauce needs. I also stole a bite, or two, of my colleague’s white pesto and it too was deliciously creamy and well-flavored. The veggies were all fresh, and—while all the meats were good—the edge goes to the sausage as it had a nice, subtle smokiness to it. We all agreed that adding shrimp to the menu would go a long way toward pasta perfection. The Chipotle-zation of America isn’t slowing down any time soon, but if the future holds more establishments like Project Pasta, count me in for the revolution. —John Dyke

PROJECT PASTA 991 Saratoga Ave Ste 110, San Jose. 408.753.6623

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