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The question posed at a recent San Jose candidate forum seemed so far-fetched that the room erupted with laughter. An audience member asked the panel of five City Council candidates on Monday whether they’d support arming teachers with guns. “Teachers with guns?” District 9 contender SABUHI SIDDIQUE asked incredulously. “Excuse me, please no.” Her opponent KALEN GALLAGHER scoffed. “I think that’s a really stupid idea,” he said. San Jose Unified trustee PAM FOLEY prompted an applause break for denouncing They both the notion of Did armed teachers and the What? woman oft-described SEND TIPS TO as the most reviled FLY@ member of President METRONEWS. DONALD TRUMP’s COM Cabinet, U.S. Education Secretary BETSY DEVOS. In a heavily blue region with some of the strongest firearm laws in the nation, that’s the response one would expect. But about a week earlier, one local education official decided to brave the blowback. On March 11, Milpitas Unified board President DANIEL BOBAY posted an article about the whole teacher-gun thing and asked people to weigh in. “I can’t say I’m opposed to the idea, as I am a ‘gun guy,’” he wrote, “and I think with proper screening and training it may be an answer to our city who refuses to add additional resource officers.” Unsurprisingly, that didn’t sit well with the Pomeroy Elementary School PTA, which urged parents to call Bobay as part of “National Call Out Day,” a campaign to phone legislators in support of stronger gun regulation. As a conservative, Bobay says he’s used to the vitriol, which he says he experienced last fall by welcoming DeVos to Thomas Fallon Middle School. “When she came to our school, I saw that she didn’t want to be with the adults, she wanted to see what the kids were doing,” he says. “I came away thinking, ‘Jeez, you know, she’s not some kind of monster.’”

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South Bay schools continue to prepare for the worst in wake of Parkland massacre BY STEPHEN PEREZ

UN, HIDE, FIGHT. That’s the widely accepted mantra for how to react in the face of a mass shooter. If you can get out, get out. If you can’t, lie low. If all else fails, attack. And though it’s a final resort, John Diaz says that third step can save lives. “Ultimately, this is your last option,” the Emergency Preparedness Group consultant tells a roomful of educators and parents at a January workshop hosted by the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE). “It is an option, though.” Diaz, a 22-year law enforcement veteran, motions toward a PowerPoint slide that describes what to do if an armed intruder enters a classroom: shout, use

improvised weapons and, if possible, tackle the shooter to the ground. “How are you gonna do that?” he asks. “Grab, use weapons, fire extinguishers, chairs. I’ll—like I said—I’ll grab that frame off the wall, and you hit somebody on the head with that, I guarantee you it’s going to hurt. Trash cans, whatever you can do. It’s that survival mindset.” Use anything within reach, he says. “Pens, pencils,” Diaz continues. “Can a pen or a pencil penetrate skin? Absolutely.” Suggesting that children go toe-totoe with an armed gunman may seem unrealistic. But in the five years since the Sandy Hook shooter killed 26 people on campus, the idea of telling students to respond aggressively to an attack has gained renewed attention and controversy. Critics say it presents liability

risks for schools and students. Health professionals also worry that just talking about violence can harm children. To make the tactic sound less forceful, however, the SCCOE and the county’s 31 school districts tweak the language a bit. Instead of referring to a “gunman” or “shooter” in lockdown drills, faculty say “intruder,” which is a little less scary for younger kids. And instead of a call to fight, it’s “run, hide, defend.” “Defend yourself as you want to survive,” Diaz says before flicking through to a new slide, this one emblazoned with the phrase “fight for your life” in bold red letters. It’s a grim reminder that mass shootings—or, for most of us, merely anticipating them—have become a fact of life. Just as schools during the Cold War taught students how to “duck and cover” in the event of a nuclear attack, children today learn what to do when the bullets start flying. The Feb. 14 massacre in Parkland, Florida, where a 19-year-old gunman killed 14 students and three teachers at Marjory Stoneman High reignited the national debate about gun control. It also prompted parents and educators to take another look at their school safety plans.

County firefighter Joe Viramontez, to help Campbell Union bolster its emergency strategy. In the past decade, his company, Ics4Schools, has created safety protocols for more than 200 campuses. He’s also beta testing a mobile app in his wife’s district that he hopes will cut the time it takes to reunite students with parents in a crisis. Some safety measures are built into the design of campuses. San Jose Unified spent bond money on new doors that lock from the inside in case teachers need to keep out an armed intruder. Moreland also fortified its doors. Horrific shootings—from the one at Columbine High in 1999 to the one a week averaged since 2013, according to the SCCOE— have forced American schools to adopt a culture of preparedness. That requires not only a continual reassessment of safety strategies, but also how to deal with the psychological well-being of kids who grow up bracing for gun violence. “We are constantly looking to improve safety and security while maintaining an open and welcoming environment for students, staff, families and our entire community,” Allen says. “Rather than take a reactionary approach, we use incidents like the one in Parkland as opportunities to review our protocols and determine if changes need to be made.” Emergency Preparedness Group CEO John Ortega says it’s important to remain ever vigilant. “If you have an emergency plan that’s great,” he says, “but if you don't train and do drills to it, it’s just as good as the ink on the paper.” Until legislators figure out a policy fix that curbs future massacres, students and teachers will have to prepare for the worst. Frustration over that fact was the driving force behind the walkouts that took place on March 14 in what turned out to be the largest student demonstration since the Vietnam War. And it’s what has thousands of local students planning to join March for Our Lives, yet another nationwide protest, this weekend. “We need to talk about it because it is a reality that we’re currently facing,” Prospect High School student Izaiah Tilton says, “and we need to be prepared for it.”

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“Since the Florida incident, I get at least two emails a day about someone having some safety seminar or safety plan or safety something,” Campbell Union School District Superintendent Shelly Viramontez says. An an effort to assuage parents’ fears, Viramontez sent out a newsletter describing the district’s safety plan. “I wanted to make sure our parents were informed of the safety processes that we use,” she says. “But a situation like [Parkland] really causes them to want make sure that we are doing everything we can to keep their students safe.” It didn’t help when Silicon Valley schools these past few weeks reported a rash of violent threats. On March 1, the San Jose Police Department responded to incidents in FranklinMcKinley and Alum Rock Union Elementary school districts involving 12-year-old girls who allegedly made death threats against their classmates. The next day, Milpitas police were called to a campus on reports of a student’s violent threat on Snapchat. While the last incident turned out to be unfounded, the anxiety it provoked was real. Parents pulled their kids out of class midday and school districts from Morgan Hill to San Jose and elsewhere in the Bay Area sent emails and texts to assure families that they had the situation under control. San Jose Unified School District has also seen a surge in concerned queries. “Some parents and community members have expressed an interest in expanded drills and trainings for staff and students, which we were already exploring prior to Parkland,” district spokesman Peter Allen says. Districts have long-standing, state-mandated safety plans that they review every year with input from police and first responders, SCCOE risk management specialist Paul Finucane says. San Jose Unified has a contract with SJPD to patrol elementary schools and provide armed resource officers at middle and high schools. Others contract with private consultants to drum up safety plans tailored to individual school sites. “[They] have their own plans in place,” he says, “and their own sites are going to be thinking about how to respond to an active shooter.” Viramontez says she hired her husband, retired Santa Clara

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Judge Aaron Persky

N PAPER, THE three dozen pages laying out Santa Clara County’s recall election process cram in enough jargon, flow charts and appendices to make most eyes immediately glaze over. Throw in one of the most high-profile sexual assault cases in California history and the #MeToo juggernaut, though, and the campaign to recall Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky has become a well-funded referendum on sexual misconduct in modern society. Whether that’s fair—not to

Clara County residents will be asked mention whether voters actually to pick a successor in the understand how the June 5 election event that Persky is recalled—a to determine the fate of Persky and vote that will count whether or not two potential female successors will individuals support work—is a much bigger the recall. question with implications If successful, it would for courts both inside and mark the first recall of outside the county. a California judge in 86 “It’s going to have a years. profound effect,” said The campaign to depose Margaret Russell, a law Persky is rooted in the professor at Santa Clara backlash to the penalty University and supporter the he imposed in the of Persky. “This is a 2016 sexual assault trial campaign that is being Brock Turner of Brock Turner, a former talked about nationwide.” Stanford swimmer convicted of three Whether to recall Persky is just felony charges after two graduate one of two questions voters will decide students discovered Turner using his this spring. On the same ballot, Santa

fingers to penetrate an unconscious woman near a dumpster after a frat party on campus. He faced up to a decade in state prison for the assault, but prosecutors asked for six years. Instead, Persky went with a probation officer’s recommendation and sentenced then-20-year-old Turner to a six-month stay in county jail, three years of supervised release and lifetime registration as a sex offender. The outrage was immediate, but it was too late to prevent an unopposed Persky from coasting to re-election five days after the sentencing hearing. Still, everything changed for Persky. That summer, at least 10 prospective jurors refused to take part in a misdemeanor theft trial because of

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RAGING RECALL

Fueled by furor from the sexual assault sentence of former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner, a judicial recall morphs into a culture war

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his ruling in the Turner case. A week later, Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, in what he called “a rare and carefully considered step” for his office, pulled the embattled judge off a sexual assault case. Finally, at Persky’s request, the courts reassigned him to the civil division. Turner, for his part, walked out of San Jose’s Main Jail after serving only half his time for good behavior. He spent the next year trying—and ultimately failing—to get a new trial, saying he was deprived of due process and that prosecutors shouldn’t have used the word “dumpster.” The recall campaign has since devolved into a war of tweets, TV jabs, selectively edited podcast interviews,

redacted emails and other forms of digital campaign warfare. In some instances, the vitriol has turned into physical intimidation, like when the pro-recall campaign in February received an envelope of white powder, or when armed protesters have periodically gathered outside Turner’s Ohio family home. Through it all, Persky himself has issued just one public comment. Last summer, before the recall measure qualified for the ballot with more than 100,000 petition signatures in January, the judge submitted a statement to the county defending his record. “As a prosecutor, I fought vigorously for victims,” Persky said in the statement. “When I became a judge,

my role changed—I am required to consider both sides.” At the forefront of the campaign to channel outrage about the Turner verdict into a successful recall is Stanford law professor Michele Landis Dauber, who now chairs the Committee to Recall Judge Persky. The committee has raked in more than $800,000 from Silicon Valley tech executives, women’s rights advocates and other donors in both the Bay Area and big cities like New York and Boston, Dauber said. Among those to endorse the recall campaign are national figures like Anita Hill and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Adding to the momentum, Dauber said, was a

letter from the victim in the Turner case that went viral just months before the #MeToo movement exploded following allegations of rampant rape and sexual assault in the entertainment industry. “After an earthquake, you can look back and see those tremors,” Dauber said. “I think the victim statement in that case was one of those tremors.” The parallel to broader backlash against sexual assault doesn’t square, however, for some critics of the recall effort, who contend that kicking Persky off the bench for unpopular sentences would amount to judicial intimidation and represents an existential threat to independent courts.

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TRIAL BY FIRE Santa Clara County Assistant District Attorney Cindy Hendrickson is one of two female candidates who hope to finish the rest of Judge Persky’s term if he’s voted out.

“They’d rather have judges that respond to the mob,” said former Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell, who retired from the bench in 2001 and is now one of Persky’s most vocal supporters. As of the latest campaign filing deadline at the end of 2017, the anti-recall committee formally known as “Retain Judge Persky—No Recall, major funding by McManis Faulkner” had raised more than $450,000. More than $250,000 was attributed to the “fair market value of attorney time” and other in-kind contributions from San Jose litigation firm McManis Faulkner. The donor list is a who’s who of the local legal community and judiciary. “The fact that judges are more or less aligned behind their colleague is a powerful incentive for lawyers,” Dauber said. “It’s not surprising, but it is disappointing. I think the

message that is sending to women in particular is extremely tone-deaf.”

Persky’d The furor over the future of the county’s judicial bench comes amid a wave of criminal justice changes positioned as ways to combat disparities in how poor people and people of color interact with cops and courts. How exactly such efforts play out, though, can get complicated. Take the six-point bail overhaul approved by the county Board of Supervisors in October, which moved to create a community bail fund and begin building new protections to keep low-income nonviolent offenders out of jail. While it is always difficult to isolate which individuals definitively benefit from broad-based changes, among

those who in February did see a steep bail reduction were San Jose twin brothers Clifford and Clinton Pappadakis. The former coaches at city schools were brought up on child pornography charges but released with zero bail payment, in lieu of the usual $25,000 bail for similar charges. Now, Cordell says, the question is whether recalling Persky would encourage judges to dole out harsher sentences across the board, negating any sentencing or bail reforms that could help minority defendants in particular. “The term Persky’d is now being used by judges,” Cordell said. As in, if a judge approves a potentially controversial plea deal or shows what could be perceived as leniency toward any type of defendant, that judge, too, could be subject to recall. Recall supporters argue that such political calculus is already part of the drill in a system where judges are elected by the public, but Cordell said the precedent would erode insulation judges are historically granted compared with other elected officials such as mayors or city council members. “If judges fear getting Persky’d, we are already losing our independent judiciary,” Cordell said. “That’s exactly what this recall portends.” One complicating factor—as with many of California’s most controversial political issues, from housing to drug policy—is that both sides see themselves as progressive. Dauber contends that the justice system is not “zero-sum,” and that mass incarceration can be overhauled while also increasing penalties for sex offenders. Though Cordell told CBS News at the time of the Turner verdict that sentencing language deferential to the defendant was “basically code for white privilege,” she said the recall goes too far and that campaigners have distorted Persky’s record. “Especially to women who think this is about #MeToo and white privilege; it’s not,” Cordell said. “It has been co-opted.”

The succession question While the recall campaign is contentious, whether Persky should be removed is just one of two related ballot questions

voters will weigh in June. The other: who should succeed him? “A lot of people I’ve talked to are like, ‘Oh, if he gets recalled, then you’re running?” said Superior Court judge successor candidate Angela Storey, a civil attorney with San Jose private practice Storey & Storey. “No,” Storey said. “You remember Gray Davis?” Storey was referring to the gubernatorial recall of Davis that simultaneously resulted in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s being elected governor of California in 2003. That may be most voters’ most recent reference point, but the state has seen three other judicial recalls. Whether the election process will be clear to voters this time around is a top concern for the two successor candidates who filed to run ahead of an initial March 2 deadline. Santa Clara County Assistant District Attorney Cindy Hendrickson was the first candidate to enter the race to succeed Persky last year, and Storey waded into the contest in February. The most important point, both Hendrickson and Storey agree, is that whether a given voter supports the recall of Persky, their vote for a potential successor will still count if he’s ousted. In that case, the successor candidate with more votes would then take the bench seat. “It’s all going to be on the same ballot,” Hendrickson explained. “Whether you vote for or against the recall, or whether you leave it blank, the vote for the successor still counts.” Though Storey opposes the recall, she said her dual experience prosecuting and defending clients lends her the perspective to remain neutral as a judge. Hendrickson, meanwhile, supports the recall and touts her experience in both litigation and prosecution as qualifications that spurred her to run in a contentious environment. “It was going to be politically fraught,” Hendrickson said. “One thing that occurred to me is that a lot of really highly qualified people are going to sit this out.” She adds that her upbringing in an unusually diverse Virginia family with 11 children, five of them adopted, allows her to “see the world through different eyes.” Storey, meanwhile, was

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. Room 157 County Government Center 70 West Hedding Street, San Jose, CA (This location is served by VTA Light Rail and Bus Lines 61, 62, 66 and 181.) VTA’s AG assists the Board of Directors in overseeing risks and controls in financial reporting, financial integrity, program activities, reputation and public perception of the organization. The AG is selected by and reports directly to the Board. In late 2017, the AG completed its high-level risk assessment refresh of significant current or future potential financial, business or reputation risks to VTA. The auditable risks were prioritized and several potential projects developed. The AG is soliciting community input on these and other potentially needed reviews. Once input is received, the AG will make its final recommendation to the Board on which projects should be added to current and future work plans and which existing project schedules should be adjusted. The VTA Board will consider the AG’s recommended changes at its April 5, 2018 meeting.

FIERCEST FOE Stanford law professor Michele Dauber has been leading the fight against Judge Aaron Persky.

Getting personal One of the biggest ironies in the judicial recall is that while judges themselves usually don’t say much of anything in public, the campaigns for and against Persky have gotten extremely vocal. Both campaigns are quick to offer up reams of tweets, e-mails

and speculation about the personal motivations of opponents—as long as it’s not connected back to them. “I’m getting pummeled on social media,” Cordell said. “There has been a shift,” Dauber agreed, from debate about the legal merits of the Turner case to attacks on the victim or other campaign personalities, like her. In campaigning for the recall, Dauber, who received the envelope full of white powder that temporarily shut down part of the Stanford campus last month, contends that the dozens of lawyers, judges and law professors backing Persky come off as “tone-deaf ” in the midst of #MeToo. The decision to hire Arizona political consultant Brian Seitchik, former state campaign director for Donald Trump, makes it worse, she said. “They have engaged in some of the most rank victim-blaming,” Dauber said. “To be linking arms with Aaron

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born and raised in Sunnyvale and said she first set her sights on becoming an attorney at age 8. Compared with the six-figure campaign tabs quickly piling up for the pro- and anti-Persky campaign committees, spending on the succession contest is extremely modest. Hendrickson’s campaign in January disclosed just shy of $7,400 in contributions. Though Storey has not yet filed a formal campaign report, an online fundraising page on the site Crowdpac showed $3,415 contributed toward a $20,000 goal as of March 20.

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Persky, who has hired a Trump operative and is seen by millions of women as a symbol of rape culture, is a terrible mistake for the legal profession.” In supporting Persky, Cordell takes issue with Dauber herself. She alleges that the professor has crafted “a false narrative” advanced by the media. The use of the word “rape” in the Turner case, as opposed to charges brought for “sexual assault,” is one example, she said. “The person who’s got this thing going is not a lawyer,” Cordell said. “She teaches at the law school, barely.” Dauber currently teaches three courses at Stanford. She has not completed a bar exam to work as a practicing attorney, but Northwestern University confirmed that she earned a law degree in 1998 before entering academia. Among the most fraught (if more legally complex) campaign issues is whether Persky’s record fulfills the recall stipulation that a public official’s behavior be “systematic.” The pro-recall camp led by Dauber has surfaced five other cases of alleged bias in cases of violence against

‘If judges fear getting Persky’d, we are already losing our independent judiciary.’ — L A DORIS CORDELL, FORMER SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE

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women with male defendants, which the pro-Persky campaign counters with an extensive set of opposing talking points. Persky’s lawyers—Elizabeth Pipkin and Christine Peek, of McManis Faulkner—presented those talking points before an appeals court on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to block the recall bid. If the three-judge panel

BENCH BUDDIES Former Judge La Doris Cordell appeared at a December San Jose Rotary meeting to speak against the Persky, left, recall. rules in his favor in a hearing set for April 3, that would force the recall campaign to refile in November and tack on $5 million in election costs. With just over three months to go until election day, the question is how deeply into the weeds voters will dig, and who might be left to pick up the pieces if they do decide to depose Persky. “It’s awkward,” Storey said. “If the recall succeeds, whether it’s Cindy or I or anybody else, there will probably be an adjustment period.” Cordell concedes that it will likely be an “uphill battle” for Persky to keep his seat. If he does, he’ll have the valley’s tightly knit legal community to thank for closing ranks and saving his career. Persky’s defenders want the judiciary to be free to make unpopular decisions for which they could otherwise face public retribution. To insulate themselves from the whims of the citizenry, however, judges must rely on the generosity of professional colleagues who plead cases before them—a potential conflict of interests. Independence gets reduced to a choice judges must make about which organized interests they prefer to align with. And that might be the greatest irony of a campaign in which judicial “independence” has become the central refrain.

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Gun Violence 23%

San Jose police responded to 1,147 calls involving guns last year—a 23 percent increase from 2016. That means officers in the city of a million people responded to more than three firearmrelated calls a day, according to new statistics released by the San Jose Police Department.

The number of guns that SJPD has confiscated to date this year. In the past few years, Santa Clara County has taken upward of 2,000 firearms off the streets by hosting gun buybacks, which allow people to turn in their weapons— no questions asked—in exchange for gift cards.

WATER WARS The San Jose Water Company wants a better return on investment,

so it’s trying once again to push the cost to consumers.

Customers Up Against Lobbyists in Fight over Water Bill Hikes BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH San Jose Water Co.’s latest pitch to raise rates comes before state regulators in the coming week, and irate customers are gearing up for a showdown. The investor-owned utility, which overbilled ratepayers by at least $1.8 million last year, asked the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to let it boost returns on infrastructure investment from 9.43 percent to 10.75 percent. But Administrative Law Court Judge Karl Bemesderfer weighed that request against testimony from ratepayer advocates and, in a Feb. 6 ruling, deemed 8.3 percent a more reasonable rate. Then, as one observer put it, all hell broke loose. Lobbyists and lawyers repping San Jose Water and three other investorowned water utilities flocked to Sacramento in an effort to sway the five-member CPUC in a series of private ex parte meetings. Meanwhile, industry groups—the

Silicon Valley Organization and Santa Clara and San Benito Counties Building and Construction Trades Council among them—bombarded commissioners with strongly worded missives denouncing the judge’s proposal to lower the company’s rate of return. In a March 9 letter, California Water Association Executive Director John Hawks blasted Bemesderfer’s ruling as “unjust,” “fraught with errors” and “obvious misstatement of facts.” He accused the CPUC of bowing to political pressure from “the legislature, the media and certain activist groups dominated by affluent and high-volume water users.” The scolding apparently paid off. Commissioners agreed to let the water companies plead their case once again in an 80-minute hearing that took place last week in Sacramento. Grass-roots activists said the March 15 hearing made a mockery of due process

by continuing proceedings even after a judge rendered his decision. “There appears to be a double standard,” said Saratoga resident Rita Benton, who co-founded an industry watchdog group called Water Rate Advocates for Transparency, Equity and Sustainability. “It’s OK if the water monopolies and their lobbyists influence the commission, but it’s not OK if the ratepayers speak out.” The CPUC will debate whether to hew to the industry’s demands, which would generate an additional $7.6 million in revenue for San Jose Water Co. this year, or abide by the judge’s ruling. The rate increase under consideration comes as San Jose Water also petitions for a general billing hike. In a case that will take a year of review to finalize, the South Bay utility is asking the CPUC to let it up customers’ water bills by 18.6 percent through 2021 for a revenue bump of $69.1 million.

The average annual number of gun-related deaths in Santa Clara County from 2009 to 2013, according to the latest available data from public health officials.

$112,263,000 The annual economic cost of gun deaths in the county, which accounts for work loss and medical bills in 2013. 12 percent of injury deaths in the South Bay were gun-related.

$7.9 MILLION The annual economic toll for gun-related hospitalizations and emergency room visits countywide in 2013. Statewide, the direct cost of hospital use for firearm injuries came to an estimated $87 million in 2010, with two-thirds of the cost borne by taxpayers.

$229 BILLION Researchers conservatively estimate that gun violence costs the American economy as a whole at least $229 billion each year, including $8.6 billion in direct emergency and medical expenses.

Source: SJPD, Santa Clara County Public Health, Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence

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FRONTLINE SCREENING

Wed, 5:30pm, Free AAUW San Jose Headquarters A follow-up to Frontline’s 2005 investigative report Rape in the Fields, the 2015 documentary Rape on the Night Shift will be especially resonant in the midst of the #MeToo movement, as it profiles the rampant sexual abuse of women in low-profile jobs. The program focuses on immigrant women who work in the janitorial industry during evening and night shifts. It centers around ABM Industries, the largest cleaning company in the country. The goal of the screening—presented by the American Association of University Women—is to raise awareness about the issue. (JR)

CONDOLEEZZA RICE T.S.O.L. Thu, 7:30pm Student Union Ballroom, San Jose

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The first black woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state is coming to speak at San Jose State University. Condoleezza Rice served in the George W. Bush administration and currently serves as the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Her appearance at SJSU helps kick off a new lecture series called Insights. The series aims to bring students and members of the community a greater awareness on different views in the realms of economics, international affairs and business. Rice has successfully negotiated multiple agreements in the Middle East and on other foreign affairs. (SM)

Seminal SoCal punks T.S.O.L.—or True Sounds of Liberty—are back with a new record: The Trigger Complex, their first studio album in more than a decade. Since 1978, the Long Beach band have blended fast-paced bass riffs with grungy surf-guitar melodies. As early proponents of American hardcore, T.S.O.L. are known for bringing a gloomier, goth aesthetic to an already gritty music scene. Their San Jose show will also feature performances by legendary British punk band Anti-Social and Detroit metal-funk outfit Downtown Brown. Be sure to wear your moshing shoes. (SP)

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MONTY PYTHON SINGALONG Fri, 7:30pm, $14+ 3Below, San Jose Ni! The newly rebranded 3Below Theatres & Lounge invites patrons to enjoy the classic comedy that inspired a subsequent broadway musical: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Lifelong Fans of the legendary comedy troupe are encouraged to come in full costume and quote the movie word-for-word. The event will include a pre-show primer so all guests know how to use items in their “fun packs,” which will include coconut shells. Join in the absurdity as Arthur and his knights embark on an outrageous quest for the holiest relic in all of Christendom. (SP)

TRITONAL Fri, 10pm, $25+ Pure Nightclub, Sunnyvale Still hot off the success of their 2015 single “Until You were Gone” — made in collaboration with The Chainsmokers and Emily Warren—Chad Cisneros and Dave Reed of Austin EDM duo Tritonal have been staying busy. The pair have dropped two singles this year, including last month’s “Out of My Mind,” which strays from their usual, grandiose party vibe, to show a “chiller” side of the poporiented house team. The song pairs soft tropical house plonks with breathy, triplet melodies by vocalist Riley Clemmons in a combination that is at once laidback and totally danceable. (SP)

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Back Bar SoFa Two West Coast hip-hop legends are touching down in San Jose. Vallejo native Mac Mall worked alongside thizz-generation icons like Mac Dre to help put the Bay Area on the map. Joining him is contemporary AP.2. The Oakland rapper and Mob Figaz member just dropped a new album last month. Titled 94th N’ Jack, the record is a tribute to The Jacka—one of Mob Figaz’s most prominent voices. He was gunned down in Oakland two years ago. The album features appearances by The Jacka himself, other Mob Figaz, the inimitable E-40 and more. (SP)

San Jose is now home to a new mural, Sophie Holding the World Together. The 7-year-old Los Angeles native Sophie Cruz is a daughter of immigrant parents from Oaxaca, Mexico. She made headlines in 2015 after crossing a police barrier during Pope Francis’ visit to Washington, D.C. Last year, she gave a moving speech during the Women’s March. In a collaboration between El Mac and The Propeller Group, Sophie appears on the mural as a symbol of resolve and hope. This event, celebrating the mural’s completion, will feature live music and family-friendly activities. (JR)

PRINCE PAUL & PEANUT BUTTER WOLF Sun, 7pm, $10+ The Ritz, San Jose

It’s been a year since Needle to the Groove hosted Egyptian Lover and Peanut Butter Wolf at The Ritz. This weekend, the local record shop is doing it again. Renowned producer and recording artist Prince Paul will be on stage, spinning complex alternative beats with a traditional hip-hop twist. Known for collaborations like Handsome Boy Modeling School and De La Sol’s 3 Feet High and Rising, Prince Paul recently teamed up with Ladybug Mecca, Rodrigo Brandão and Don Newkirk to form BROOKZILL! In 2016. Paul is joined by Peanut Butter Wolf and the Bombay Bluesman himself, Aki Kumar. (SP)

PUSSY RIOT

Tue, 7pm, $25 The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Few protest bands have captured the world’s attention like these neon-colored Russkies. After being arrested for staging an unauthorized performance at the Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in 2012, the group has been fighting a worldwide media war with the Putin administration that continues to this day. Just last month, two members were held for questioning in Crimea by Russian authorities. Onstage, the female-led, politically charged punk band employ a kind of unabashed electro-rap to promote their anti-authoritarian, pro-LGBT and feminist positions. They’re the real deal, and they’ve finally made it to Santa Cruz on their first North American tour. (SP)

EARTH, WIND & FIRE

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LYNYRD SKYNYRD

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KANSAS

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KESHA & MACKLEMORE Jun 14 at SAP Center

HARRY STYLES

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FREE THINKER In his new book, ‘Elastic,’ author Leonard Mlodinow champions the virtues of outside-the-box thinking.

Mind Bending

‘Elastic’ outlines the higher-order thinking necessary to cope with a mad world BY WALLACE BAINE

ALL IT A coincidence or a marketing masterstroke, but the release of science journalist Leonard Mlodinow’s new book arrives just in time to take full advantage of the new era of legal cannabis. Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change, out March 20 on Pantheon, is the latest title on the publishing industry’s already crowded brainscience bookshelf. And this one brings scientific findings to bear on a conclusion that every dorm-room toker has come to understand: marijuana turns the brain into an idea machine. According to Mlodinow’s account, one scientist came to that conclusion

fifty years ago, when smoking grass was still a taboo of the sort that could seriously damage an academic career. Eventually, the scientist declared in an essay: “The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” That scientist turned out to be one of the most expansive thinkers of the 20th century: cosmologist Carl Sagan. Despite the compelling Sagan anecdote, the book is not a manifesto for the awesomeness of weed. The Sagan story is quickly followed by the story of Beach Boys resident genius Brian Wilson, who may have been

pushed into mental illness by smoking too much pot. The upshot is that, yes, there is evidence that THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis, can indeed unlock new insights and ideas, but only for those not inclined to such thinking in the first place. “Of course, marijuana also affects your memory,” Mlodinow says. “So you may not even remember all those great ideas in the first place. It does lower your cognitive filters and enables your imagination. But it can also have a deterrent effect.” Research into cannabis, in fact, represents only a small part of Mlodinow’s interests in Elastic. The book can be read as a kind of answer to that bedeviling question: What is wrong with people these days? Mlodinow’s views might be that humanity is being crippled by what political theorist Hannah Arendt called “frozen thinking,” or dogma. The antidote? Cultivating its opposite: “elastic thinking.” Mlodinow has enjoyed an unusual career. A doctorate in theoretical physics who has also written scripts for television, he is best known for a series of books on

particular aspects of brain science, from understanding randomness to plumbing the subconscious. Elastic is Mlodinow’s investigation of something called “schizotypy,” a psychological term describing the degree to which a given personality is open to new or novel ideas. On one end of that continuum are conventional thinkers, content to follow rules. On the other end are schizophrenics. Somewhere in the middle are the innovative thinkers who are capable of breakthrough, lifetransforming ideas. Mlodinow outlines three hierarchies of thinking—the most primitive one is “scripted thinking,” which is, he said, is “not really thinking, but more like an impulse. You hit your knee just right, your leg flops up.” The second level is rational or logical thinking, in which straightforward rules apply. “This is why computers can beat us at chess,” Mlodinow says. “Chess is a game with specific rules and a computer can just check all the options before it acts.” The next level, a “higher order,” as Mlodinow calls it, is elastic thinking, which comes not from logic or reason, but from “ideas, imagination, insights, pattern recognition, from integrating ideas and making associations among different ideas.” Rigid and dogmatic thinking is likely to be left behind in a rapidly evolving world, when change is exponential rather than linear. “Society has gone into a period of rapid change,” Mlodinow says. “The devices that you use are changing not only minor modes of operation, but the whole paradigm by which you live, whether it’s a new operating system on your computer, or using Uber instead of a taxi. Trump has had more scandals that you can count. The #MeToo movement has popped up. Gay rights evolved much quicker than civil rights. “If you’re good at elastic thinking, you go with it. If you’re not, you can get hurt by it.” Mlodinow comes to Kepler’s in Menlo Park on March 22 to discuss Elastic with Michael Shermer, editor-inchief of Skeptic magazine.

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Long Way Home JASON BAYANI GREW up in Fremont in the ’80s. The son of immigrant parents, he was raised in the city’s Ardenwood neighborhood in a home surrounded by forest and farmland. Things have changed since he was a boy. “Where I grew up, there was all this nature, and now it’s a trip to see. [All the places] we used to ride our bikes are either a home or a strip mall,” he says, recounting how his hometown—California’s 10th largest city by area—has been packed to the gills with business parks, shopping centers and tract housing. Bayani’s upcoming solo show, “Locus of Control,” captures his discovery of just how much control he has over the external world, and how much it has control over him. Bayani recalls these experiences through music, multimedia and poetry. “I don’t exist outside the context of history,” he Locus of Control says. “Everything that has affected me—even the state of my mental health—is related to history. Mar 27, 7:30pm, $10+ And that’s something that can never be overlooked.” Cafe Stritch, San Jose An experienced Bay Area poet and spoken-word cafestritch.com artist, Bayani has strayed from the three-minute slam format in pursuit of longer features that give him the time and freedom to go deeper. He is known for his ability to capture an audience through an empathetic approach to storytelling. His first book, Amulet, is a collection of poems that approach the Filipino-American experience through his own stories. In his narrative poem “Kein/Muenchen,” he takes on a confessional tone—speaking as lonely outsider in a foreign city, touching on his own personal history with the Bay Area and his past traumas: “Munich is so guttural and heavy on the tongue. The buildings are an impractical math. I am relearning shape. The city where I love is a grid, a digital timepiece: bending and folding: in and out of space. Here the streets are series of gears; the metal and the motor; all of it turning; the great wheel of time; it is breaking me; I am broken; I came here broken. I can say that now. There is enough time to say this.” Overall, Bayani has found success with the show since it began in San Francisco almost two years ago. What began as a salvaged manuscript of poems has turned into the kind of performative experience Bayani has always hoped for. The show has also inspired a new manuscript, titled Locus, set to be published next year. “I thought I was sitting on a pile of garbage for so long, and then I realized there was stuff that I could repurpose or reuse,” he says. “The show really helped clarify this central theme I was working towards.” —Stephen Perez

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PLAGUE DOGS The arch-clever ‘Isle of Dogs’ mistakes remoteness for Japanese ‘beauty in sadness.’

Turning Japanese IN MOONRISE KINGDOM, the runaways Sam ( Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Karen Hayward) stumble across the corpse of a dog with an arrow in it. Suzy asks, “Was he a good dog?” Sam replies, philosophically, “Who can say?” This New Yorker cartoon caption joke was a highlight of that movie—heartlessly debonair and tonic among the swoonier parts. And yet it was a tonal mistake to overlay this coolness upon the crafty yet off-putting Isle of Dogs. “Dog flu” is a malady of the year 2038 in Japan. Kobayashi, the ominous mayor-for-life of Megashima, takes action before the disease jumps to humans. All dogs are sent to a quarantined island. Kobayashi’s ward and “distant nephew” Atari (Koyu Rankin), as intrepid as any 12-year-old boy in any Japanese cartoon ever, flies in a makeshift airplane to the rescue of his exiled pet Spots (voiced by Liev Schreiber). It crashes and Atari is marooned. Meanwhile, a pack of bad-off mutts surviving on garbage are catalyzed into action by Chief (Bryan Cranston), a stray dog for life, whose motto is “I bite.” Anderson’s animators work small, trying to capture Isle of Dogs a nation where people tend to swallow their emotions. (The cartoon dog Grommet’s mute eloquence was PG-13, 103 Mins. probably an influence on this.) But in a culture where Valleywide the minimal is so important, Anderson crowds in his usual bricabrac—whether it’s the step-by-step business of preparing a sushi meal, or the flashcard-like listing of elements of the story, or sidebar upon sidebar. Anderson wanted Isle of Dogs as far away from overdone emotions as possible—to keep it from being like the infamous Sarah McLachlan ASPCA TV commercials. But the result here is something that doesn’t really arouse feelings, no matter how many animated dogs in full face stare us down, sometimes with tears in their eyes. The borrowings from Lady and the Tramp work, when the fancy show dog Nutmeg (voiced by Scarlett Johansson) is telling Chief that she’s uncertain about finding a mate: “I wouldn’t want to bring puppies into this world.” Anderson channels the old classic cartoons, staging dogfights that are giant clouds of dust with limbs occasionally jutting out. But he seems torn between honoring that Japanese ‘beauty in sadness’—Mono no aware—and parodying it. Is irony the best mode, either for portraying Japanese culture or for telling a tale of dogs? —Richard von Busack

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GALLOWS HUMOR Though it was a happy occasion for the human race, ‘The Death of Stalin’ was terrifying for the Soviet dictator’s inner circle.

Communist Plot The uproarious ‘Death of Stalin’ has fun with farcical Politburo power grab BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

HE YEAR 2018 has made us all connoisseurs of misrule. Thus Armando Iannucci’s speedy farce, The Death of Stalin, has relevance. Still, at a recent San Francisco appearance, Iannucci stressed that he shot the film in the summer of 2016, lest viewers suspect it was some sort of allusion to the court of Trump. (Putin didn’t like it—it was banned in Russia.)

The movie finds comedy in the plight of shivering people, fearing the knock on the door in the middle of the night. And it lampoons that infuriating boredom

that comes from serving a man who always, always must be right. One evening in 1953, the highest executives of the USSR are socializing with Stalin. As played by Adrian McLoughlin, this enemy of mankind is smaller than you’d expect. He gathers his cohorts to watch an old cowboy movie in a language they don’t understand. Later that night, Stalin is struck by a brain hemorrhage; he’s flat on the floor in a large puddle of piss, which will soon be diluted by the crocodile tears of Stalin’s staff. No one wants to be the first to call a doctor, in case he wakes up. The dictator dies, and there is no clear designated successor.

However, the portly bespectacled Beria (Simon Russell Beale), head of the NKVD secret police, and a sadist and rapist who has kompromat on everyone, aims to be Stalin II. The contenders are nervous weaklings. The darkest horse among them is the diplomat Molotov (Michael Palin, perfect in this part as a man corroded by tyranny). Molotov tries to stay on Beria’s good side even though the secret police chief arrested Molotov’s wife. Meanwhile, the weird, trout-faced Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambour) oversees the transition team, while fussing over his official portrait. No one realizes that Nikita Khrushchev, not a prepossessing man, will be the most skilled of the plotters. Steve Buscemi is the last actor you’d think of to play a stocky, warty midcentury Soviet politician. Yet the crosscasting wins. He gives this comedy of terror some warmth and sanity. Like Stalin, Khrushchev was a killer— he admitted later that he had blood on his hands (“up to the elbow,” he lamented). Yet Iannucci was intelligent to pick Khrushchev as the one we root for. There’s something about him that

invites nostalgia—for a dictator, he was quite human. Khrushchev just wanted to go to Disneyland, after all. Were Iannucci as soft as Capra or Spielberg, he could have staged Khrushchev’s real-life heroic moment, when he took the serious risk of telling the 20th Party Congress that they no longer needed to quake in terror in front of Stalin’s dirty underwear. Buscemi burlesques this hard-headed boss as an antsy, anxious nebbish, able to fawn, while trusting no one. As on The Sopranos, he’s a jester to terrifying people. (He tries to entertain Stalin with a ridiculous story about how they used to play hot potato with live grenades back in winter in Stalingrad, just to keep their hands warm.) He has Woody Allenworthy delivery when he introduces the fearsome Field Marshal Zhukov (Jason Isaacs); the officer makes his grand entrance, whipping off his cloak to show off a chest gleaming with medals. Khrushchev mutters, “He planted the flag on Hitler’s tomb or knocked out a bear with one punch, I forget which.” The hapless Khrushchev is voluntold, as they say, to stage Stalin’s funeral, a fiasco not just limited to the guest of honor’s casket, equipped with a plexiglass dome like a midget submarine. The funeral is overstuffed with bushels of red roses, odd foreigners, bumpkins in fur hats, and even forbidden Orthodox bishops coming out of the woodwork. Meanwhile, Khrushchev desperately tries to protect Stalin’s children: Vasily (Rupert Friend), the boss’s incapable drunken son, who delivers a seriously egregious funeral speech; secondly, the pale, shell-shocked Svetlana (Andrea Riseborough, hardly recognizable from her part as the dreamy hippie love interest in Battle of the Sexes). Like the ’60s British political comedies it resembles, The Death of Stalin may be too clever, too mordant. But it does have tang, Tom Stoppard-like wordplay and some big and surprising laughs. What’s best about this razory comedy is that just from the tone, you can tell the difference between what’s true and what’s too good to be true, and there’s more of the former than the latter.

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MASTER SHREDDER Renowned hard rock guitarist Michael Schenker, center, plays the City National Civic this weekend.

Life of Rock

German guitar god Michael Schenker resurrects rock & roll on new album BY BILL KOPP

ICHAEL SCHENKER IS quite likely the most famous and acclaimed German-born guitarist in the history of rock. Picking up the guitar early, by his teens Schenker joined older brother Rudolf in Scorpions, playing on that band’s debut album. His long and winding career subsequently found him handling lead guitar duties for UFO, and then as leader of a number of bands bearing his name. His bands—all of which have been

popular in the U.S. and Europe—have featured a succession of excellent lead singers. And Schenker’s latest project brings all of them together under the banner of Michael Schenker Fest. Vocalists Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, Robin McAuley and Doogie White all have extensive experience working with Schenker, both live and in the studio. And despite the fact that the first three each parted ways with the guitarist—sometimes more than once—Schenker says that they’re all on good terms today. White was already lead singer of Schenker’s current band when the guitarist approached his three former singers about reuniting. “It was like

they were waiting, as if it was meant to be,” Schenker says. “They were ready to do it, each one of them.” Schenker explains away the numerous personnel changes that characterized his former groups: “I could not keep people on retainer, because in my middle years my energy was scattered all over the place.” He believes he’s much more focused now. When it’s suggested that mounting a concert tour with four lead vocalists seems a difficult task, Schenker laughs heartily. “Yes! Theoretically impossible!” Now at age 62, Schenker views the present as the “third part” of his life. He says he told himself, “it’s a celebration, a time to perform your most popular music with the original singers; this is what needs to be done.” The Michael Schenker Fest began as a live project; Schenker says that a 2017 concert DVD was wellreceived and attracted the attention of a number of labels—all of them interested in a studio album. “I said to myself, ‘Wow, Michael Schenker Fest in the studio...that would be a fantastic idea.’” He signed with

German label Nuclear Blast, and Resurrection was released March 2. The album’s title might be seen as a signal that after years of ups and downs, Schenker is staging a comeback of sorts. He neither directly addresses nor refutes that suggestion; instead he jokes that it’s “a little Bible thing. I wanted to call it Michael Schenker Fest in the Studio,” he says, describing the sessions as “having a party, with drink and feast and the control room.” But after recording songs like “Take Me to the Church”—and coming up with cover art based on Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper—Schenker needed a new title. “And so because it’s about everybody coming back together, I decided to call it Resurrection.” Occasional religious references aside, at its heart, Resurrection is very much in line with the hard rock and metal that has characterized Schenker’s career. His work in the 1970s with Scorpions and UFO is widely praised; by the 1980s, he was leading his own band. But in general, Schenker sees the ’80s as a decade in which hard rock’s paradigm shifted. “That was when the money-making machine commercialized it,” he says. For better or worse, the sound and style of much of 1980s rock led many listeners to think, “Man, it sounds like I can do that too!” Schenker says. “I was able to withdraw and do my part, do my learning period, use it as my learning period in life,” Schenker says. “I could experiment with music and get things out of my system while they were doing their thing, making money and things like that.” Today, with those so-called experimental years behind him, Schenker is ready to just plain rock. After decades as a reluctant live performer, he says that suddenly one day, “Somehow, boom, I wanted to be on stage! And I took that as a sign: ‘Michael, you should carry on where you stopped when you were 23 years old. Take it to the next level and complete your journey.’”

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COUNTRY: FRED MCCARTY

6pm: Sam’s BBQ 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

CLUB FOX BLUES JAM

7pm: Club Fox 2209 Broadway, Redwood City

JAZZ: PIANO NIGHT WITH RICK FERGUSON

and guest vocalist Karin Carson 8pm: Angelica’s Bistro 863 Main St, Redwood City

NEW TALENT COMEDY COMPETITION

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

JAZZ: DAVID ERWELL QUARTET

ELECTRO: TRITONAL

THE MAGIC OF ADAM TRENT

SAT 3/24

8:30pm: Cafe Stritch 374 S First St, San Jose 8pm: Center for Performing Arts 255 S Almaden Blvd, San Jose

COMEDY: MIKE E. WINFIELD 8pm: Improv 62 S Second St, San Jose

FRI 3/23

GO! GO! GONE SHOW

9pm: Cafe Stritch 374 S First St, San Jose

JAZZ: MIKE SANCHEZ GROUP

7:30pm: Cafe Pink House 14577 Big Basin Way, Saratoga

SKA: LOS PERICOS

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

SOUL: LADEE CHICO

COSMIC JAZZ: NOÑAMEKO Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Tue, 10pm: PubStumpers.

8:30pm: Cafe Stritch 374 S First St, San Jose

6pm: San Pedro Market Square 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm–1:30am: Karaoke.

JAZZ: LARRY KOONSE AND SINNE EEG

7:30pm: Cafe Pink House 14577 Big Basin Way, Saratoga

INDIE ROCK: BERNIE AND THE WOLF, THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

plus Violet Island and Eve’s Peach 9pm: Caravan Lounge 98 Almaden Ave, San Jose

JAZZ: SHANE DWIGHT BAND CD RELEASE PARTY 6pm: Poor House Bistro 91 S Autumn St, San Jose Wed, 6pm: Tap Takeover w/ The Sid Morris Gang. Last Thu, 6pm: Six String Showdown with AC Myles. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam.

COUNTRY: CALIFORNIA COWBOYS

7:15pm: The Saddlerack 42011 Boscell Rd, Fremont

JAZZ: SCOTT BARNHILL BAND

7:30pm: Cafe Pink House 14577 Big Basin Way, Saratoga

DENNIS HERRERA BLUES 8pm: Little Lou’s BBQ 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

ANDALUCIA NUEVO FLAMENCO

7pm: The Cats 17533 Santa Cruz Hwy, Los Gatos 7pm: Art Boutiki 44 Race St, San Jose

6pm: Studio by Terra Amico 460 Lincoln St, San Jose

8pm: City National Civic 135 W San Carlos St, San Jose

SOUL/R&B: JOHNNY REASON & FRIENDS JAZZ JAM

COMEDY: SUPER STACKED

ROCK LEGEND: MICHAEL SCHENKER

THU 3/22 JAZZ: STEVE MARLEY TRIO

TBD: Hukilau 230 Jackson St, San Jose

7:30pm, 9:45pm: Improv 62 S Second St, San Jose

8pm: Little Lou’s BBQ 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

HAWAIIAN: NA KOLOHE KANE

COMEDY: BOB SAGET

ALT CLASSICAL: THE PIANO GUYS

8pm: City National Civic 135 W San Carlos St, San Jose

10pm: Pure Nightclub 146 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

SOUL BLUES: JOHNNY RAWLS

9pm: Smoking Pig BBQ 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

LATIN: CONJUNTO VIBRASON

9pm: Cascal 400 Castro St, Mountain View

HARD ROCK: ZED, KOOK & WASTED THEORY

plus Crimson Eye and Holy Grove 9pm: Caravan Lounge 98 Almaden Ave, San Jose

8pm: Caffe Frascati 315 S First St, San Jose

JAZZ: THE DYNAMIC MISS FAYE CAROL 8:30pm: Cafe Stritch 374 S First St, San Jose

JAZZ: REBECCA DUMAINE & Dave Miller Trio 8:30pm: Angelica’s Bistro 863 Main St, Redwood City

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IT’S A LITTLE more than a week until her performance at the Montalvo Arts Center, and Nicole Lizée is still looking to recruit one final band member: a cricket. The insect has been chirping incessantly since she took up residency at Montalvo as a participant in the center’s Lucas Arts Program. “It’s the most sonorus, resonant cricket I’ve ever come across in my life,” Lizée says by phone from her studio apartment on the sprawling Montalvo campus. This Thursday, the Quebec-based composer will merge live instrumentation and a menagerie of analog and digital electronics with the sounds of the great outdoors in a concert titled Open Air Electronica. “I want to find a way to have this cricket become a part of this [performance] because it keeps great time. It’s louder than some of the electronic equipment I have.” As a kid in rural Saskatchewan, Lizée played with the malfunctioning devices her salesman father brought home. Breathing new life into human-made analog devices still thrills her at 44. The musician incorporates many found objects into her aesthetic. There is the crackling and warbling Open Air Electronica of damaged LPs, glitchy blips pulled from discarded video games and the lo-fi buzz of an Mar 22, 7pm, $10+ old stylophone. And on Thursday, possibly a Montalvo Arts Center, Saratogan cricket, or a chorus of them. Saratoga In her Montalvo performance Lizée will montalvoarts.org work with readily available materials in the natural world—exploring how the timbre of her repurposed gadgets change when buried in a hole or covered with leaves. Joining Lizée as collaborators are Ben Reimer, a Montreal-based percussionist and adjunct professor at McGill University, and The Living Earth Show, a San Francisco-based contemporary music duo. In addition to playing electronic devices, they’ll provide meticulous accompaniment with tools like chopsticks on surrounding rocks or hollow logs. The pair have worked with Lizée for a couple of years and see themselves as interpreters for the Open Air Electronica performance. Realizing her artistic vision for this experimental project—primarily created on-site in less than two weeks—excites them. “Her percussion writing is extremely complex and complicated while still being extremely idiomatic,” percussionist Andy Meyerson of the Living Earth says. “There’s a tremendous amount going on.” —Kristin Lam

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MON 3/26

9pm: Smoking Pig BBQ 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

11am: Poor House Bistro 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

KIDS: DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD

2pm: City National Civic 135 W San Carlos St, San Jose

GOSPEL AND JAZZ: TAMMI BROWN

2pm: San Pedro Square Market 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

Wed, 9pm: Hip-hop & turntable open mic. San Jose

DANA’S MONDAY JAM

CAFFE FRASCATI

9pm: Quarter Note Bar & Grill 1214 Apollo Wy, Sunnyvale

JAZZ: MONDAY NIGHT BLUES JAM

TUE 3/27 CLASSIC ROCK COVERS: JOHNNY NERI

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

6pm: San Pedro Square 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

BLUES: DAN AND CHUCK’S PRO JAM

BLUEGRASS: THE MIGHTY CROWS

5pm: Little Lou’s BBQ 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

JAZZ: MIKE GALISATUS BIG BAND 7pm: Angelica’s Bistro 863 Main St, Redwood City

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9pm: Murphy’s Law 135 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

SHERWOOD INN

7:30pm: Angelica’s Bistro 863 Main St, Redwood City

OPEN MIC/ COMEDY

SUN 3/25 BLUES: SCHOOL OF THE BLUES JAM

JAZZ: REBECCA YARBROUGH & HER JAZZ TRIO

6pm: Sam’s BBQ 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

BLUES: MIGUEL PZ & ASSOCIATES

6pm: Little Lou’s BBQ 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Tue, 10pm: PubStumpers Trivia. San Jose

Tue, 7pm: Music Open Mic. Wed, 7:30pm: Commedia Comedy Night. Thu, 7pm: Live Lit Writers Open Mic. San Jose

CAFE STRITCH

Sun, 7pm: The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session. San Jose

CAMERA 3

Fri, 8pm: Sat, 7pm and 9:15pm: Comedy Sportz. San Jose

THE CARAVAN LOUNGE

Wed, 9pm: Caravan Lounge Comedy Show with Mr. Walker. San Jose

CREMA

1202 The Alameda First Sat, 8pm: Comedians showcase. San Jose

EASTRIDGE

Second & 4th Wed, 7pm: Open Space - Mixed Open Mic. San Jose

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SHY-TOWN Chicago’s Bernie and the Wolf intend to lure you into a false sense of serene melancholy, they will then conquer the world with their rich sound. Supported by The English Language, Violet Island and Eve’s Peach, 9pm, March 21 at Caravan Lounge.

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Mon, 6pm: Open mic. San Jose

RED ROCK COFFEE CO.

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

ROOSTER T. FEATHERS Wed, 8pm: New Talent Showcase. Sunnyvale

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET

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Mon, 7pm: Trivia Night. San Jose

WOODHAMS LOUNGE

Mon: 9pm. Comedy Open Mic with Pete Munoz. Santa Clara

KARAOKE 7 BAMBOO

Sun-Thu, 9pm. Fri-Sat, 7pm. San Jose

7 STARS BAR & GRILL Fri-Sat, 8pm. San Jose

AGAVE (MONTEREY ROAD) Sun, 4pm: Spanish Karaoke. San Jose

ALEX’S 49ER INN

Nightly, 9pm. San Jose

BLUE MAX

Fridays. Sunnyvale

BLUE PHEASANT

Tue, 8pm. Cupertino

BOGART’S LOUNGE

Wed, 9pm. Sunnyvale

THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sat, 9:30pm–1:30am. Willow Glen

KATIE BLOOM’S

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm–1:30am. Campbell

KING OF CLUBS

Sun, Mon, Thu, 8:30pm. Mountain View

LILLY MAC’S

Thu, 9:30pm: DJ Izzy. Sunnyvale

MARIANI’S

Thu, 8pm. Santa Clara

OASIS

Wed-Sun 9pm. Sunnyvale

OFF THE HOOK

Wed, 9pm. Campbell

THE CARAVAN LOUNGE

PIONEER SALOON

Mon, 8pm. Woodside

RED STAG LOUNGE

Nightly, 9pm–1:30am. San Jose

Thu, 9pm–1am. Santa Clara

EFFIE’S RESTAURANT

Tue-Sat, 9pm. Sun, 4pm. Campbell

GALAXY

Tues, Thu, Fri, 9:30pm. Milpitas

GILROY BOWL

Fri-Sat, 9pm. Gilroy

BRANHAM LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: Weekend Warm-Up with DJ Sean Blak. Fri, 10pm: Quality Control. Rotating DJs. San Jose

BRITANNIA ARMS DOWNTOWN

Thu: DJ Benofficial. Fri: DJ Radio Raheem. Sat: DJ Ready Rock. San Jose

THE CARAVAN LOUNGE

Thu, 9pm: Shakin’ Not Stirred with Roger Moorehouse. Campbell

CHARLEY'S LG

Fri & Sat: Live Music & DJs. Los Gatos

DIVE BAR

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm. San Jose

Thu–Sat, 10:30pm: Rotating Guest DJs. San Jose

THREE FLAMES

KATIE BLOOM’S

Sun-Thur, 8pm. San Jose

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Thu, 7:30–9:30pm: Treatbot. San Jose

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: DJs and dancing. Campbell

LIQUID

Fri: Crave Friday Nights with DJ Ruben R. San Jose

LOFT BAR AND BISTRO Thu-Sun, 7:30pm: Live Dancing. San Jose

WILLOW DEN

Tue, 10pm. Willow Glen

THE X BAR

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

Nightly, 7pm: DJ and dancing. Cupertino

SHERWOOD INN

C&J’S SPORTS BAR

Mon, Thu & Sat, 9:30pm. Campbell

BLUE PHEASANT

CARDIFF LOUNGE

Thurs, 7pm–9pm. San Jose

WOODHAMS LOUNGE

COURT’S LOUNGE

Fri-Sat, 10pm: DJs and Dancing. San Jose

PLAZA GARIBALDI

Mon: Mandatory Monday Karaoke with Nik. San Jose Tue, 9pm: DJ Rob. Santa Clara

AVERY LOUNGE

Thu, Mar 15, 9pm: Bailamela DJ Night with Mare. E. Fresh. San Jose

Thu, 9pm: Karaoke with Tony. Los Gatos Sun-Tue, 10pm. Cupertino

Vybez - DJ Leone and DJ Titto Bell. San Jose

Mon, 9pm. San Jose

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB

BOULEVARD TAVERN

BRITANNIA ARMS CUPERTINO

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DJ & DANCE AJ’S BAR

Nightly. Mon-Sat, 6pm–1am; Sun, 8pm–12:30am. San Jose

APPARITION

Thu, 9pm: Club Lido. San Jose

AURA LOUNGE

Wed: Salsa Wednesday - DJ Tony O. Thu: Banda/Hip Hop Los Nuevos Miravalle. Fri: Hip Hop. Sat: Top 40. Sun: Reggae

NOMIKAI

Fri–Sat: Live music dancing. San Jose

NORMANDY HOUSE LOUNGE

Thu, 10pm: Dancing w/DJ VexOne & DJ Benofficial. Fri-Sat, 10pm: DJ NoWrath. Santa Clara

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Ultimate Closing Realty Inc., 698 Morse Street, San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/31/2015. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Doris L. Cope. CEO. #C3817409. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Posh Bagel, 125 Main St., Los Gatos, CA, 95030, Petersophal Keo, 2840 Cedardale Ct., San Jose, CA, 95148. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/15/2018. /s/Petersophal Keo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 3/15/2017. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639490 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: DN & Son Painting, 197 Kehoe Court, San Jose, CA, 95136, My Nguyen. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/01/2018. /s/My Nguyen. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/01/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639890 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Casper Professional Services, 1231 Franklin Mall #137, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Myralee G. Shields, 65 rio Robles East #3202, San Jose, CA, 95134. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/12/2018. /s/Myralee G. Shields. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/12/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639688 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Psuche Clothing, 165 Church St #170, San Jose, CA, 95037, Sonya Sonya. This business is being conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/06/2018. /s/ Sonya Romo. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/06/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639948 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Guidry T.I. Acoustics Inc., Los Gatos, CA, 95032. 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/Michael Guidry. President. #4098234. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 03/13/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639888 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Bozzuto & Associates Insurance Services, 2. Cannabis Connect Insurance Services, 3. Bozzuto Benefits Insurance Services, 34 S. Second Street, Campbell, CA, 95008, Acrisure of California, LLC, 5664 Prairie Creek Drive, Caledonia, MI, 49318. 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 Michigan. /s/Adam C. Reed. Executive Vice President. #201430810008. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/14/2018. (pub Metro 03/14, 03/21, 03/28, 04/04/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639436 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Girltalk, 555 Bryant Street #565, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, Popcom, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/01/2012. Refile of previous file #572793 after 40 days of expiration date. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Daniel H. Coleman. Vice President, Legal & Business. #201112710080. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/28/2018. (pub Metro 03/21, 03/28, 04/04, 04/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #639171 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Pippin Publishing, 3234 Kirk Road, San Jose, CA, 95124, Thomas Norman Thrush, Catherine Joan Thrush. This business is being conducted by a Married Couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 02/18/2018. /s/Thomas Norman Thrush. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 02/21/2018. (pub Metro 02/28, 03/07, 03/14, 03/21/2018)

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By AMY ALKON

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For three months, things were going really well with this man I was dating. He’d introduced me to his daughter. We’d even planned a trip together. And then he just disappeared. I eventually texted him to find out what happened, but he simply texted back, “Really busy, all good.” This isn’t the first time this has happened to me or my girlfriends. Why do men do this? Why don’t they tell you what’s really going on?—Upset When a guy just cuts you off like a bad tree limb, it’s tempting to come up with ego-cushioning explanations: He’s in a coma! He’s trapped in a wooded gully in his crashed car! He’s being interrogated at a CIA black site! (“Sorry…Mr. Jones is getting a series of painful electric shocks to his nipples right now and cannot come to the phone.”) However, the best explanation for this man’s disappearance is probably textbook stuff—psych textbook, that is, and specifically a couple of personality traits. One of these is “conscientiousness.” And the bad side of the spectrum is being “low in conscientiousness”—psychologists’ term for a person who is careless, irresponsible, impulsive, and lacking in self-control and who habitually ducks his obligations (as if they were flaming arrows). The other trait is the unfortunately named “psychopathy.” Though it calls to mind shower-stabbing hobbyists, it doesn’t necessarily lead to murderous rampages. Still, it isn’t exactly the personality trait of angelic hospice nurses, as it’s marked by exploitiveness,

aggression, poor impulse control, selfcenteredness and a lack of empathy. Low conscientiousness and psychopathy partner up into an inability or unwillingness to admit to being wrong. Apologizing takes emotional strength and character strength—the conscientiousness and empathy that leave the wrongdoer feeling borderline queasy until they come clean and express remorse to the person they hurt. It isn’t just men who do the disappearo thing; it’s anyone low on conscientiousness. The problem is, when love appears to be on the horizon, we want to believe more than we want to see. It’s helpful to take an almost pessimistic approach to any new relationship: Assume a man has flaws; figure out what they are; and decide whether any are deal breakers. This takes observing his behavior over time (at least a year) in a variety of situations—especially crisis situations. You want to know that when the chips are down, a man’ll have your back—and not just to use you as a human shield so the SWAT team snipers won’t pick him off.

Every photo my boyfriend takes of me is horrific (one eye kind of shut, bad angle of my face, etc.). My female friends take decent pictures of me, so it’s not like it’s impossible. I know my boyfriend loves me and thinks I’m beautiful. Could he be trying to keep other men from being attracted to me?—Occasional Bride Of Frankenstein You’d think you wouldn’t have to give a man who loves you a detailed list of instructions for photographing you—down to “immediately erase any shots in which I look like I’m having a seizure or bear a strong resemblance to a surprised goat.” In fact, you are far from alone in complaining that the man you love takes terrible pictures of you—or in worrying that it means something. However, the reality is, if you aren’t a professional model being shot by a professional photographer, it sometimes takes dozens of shots to have even one you don’t want to delete in horror. (Shoot my long face from above, as my boyfriend sometimes forgets and does, and I look like a movie

star—the horse that played Seabiscuit.) Because men evolved to prioritize physical attractiveness in women and women coevolved to expect this, women are extremely sensitive to being photographed in ways that don’t show them off at their sparkliest. That’s probably why, if you glance at various 20-something women’s Instagram pages, you’ll see that many strike the very same pose in photo after photo (having figured out their exact best angle, to the micrometer). Sure, some men are as acutely sensitive about engineering their perfect pose—mostly those whose work attire is a sequined evening dress, a ginormous feather boa, and chandelier earrings the size of New Jersey.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The "School of Hard

Knocks" is an old-fashioned idiom referring to the unofficial and accidental course of study available via life's tough experiences. The wisdom one gains through this alternate approach to education may be equal or even superior to the knowledge that comes from a formal university or training program. I mention this, Aries, because in accordance with astrological omens, I want to confer upon you a diploma for your new advanced degree from the School of Hard Knocks. (P.S.: When Ph.D. students get their degrees from Finland's University of Helsinki, they are given top hats and swords as well as diplomas. I suggest you reward yourself with exotic props, too.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Europeans used to think that all swans were white. It was a reasonable certainty given the fact that all swans in Europe were that color. But in 1697, Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh and his sailors made a pioneering foray to the southwestern coast of the land we now call Australia. As they sailed up a river the indigenous tribe called Derbarl Yerrigan, they spied black swans. They were shocked. The anomalous creatures invalidated an assumption based on centuries of observations. Today, a "black swan" is a metaphor referring to an unexpected event that contravenes prevailing theories about the way the world works. I suspect you'll soon experience such an incongruity yourself. It might be a good thing! Especially if you welcome it instead of resisting it. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Crayola is one of the world's foremost crayon manufacturers. The geniuses in charge of naming its crayon colors are playful and imaginative. Among the company's standard offerings, for example, are Pink Sherbet, Carnation Pink, Tickle Me Pink, Piggy Pink, Pink Flamingo, and Shocking Pink. Oddly, however, there is no color that's simply called "Pink." I find that a bit disturbing. As much as I love extravagant creativity and poetic whimsy, I think it's also important to cherish and nurture the basics. In accordance with the astrological omens, that's my advice for you in the coming weeks. Experiment with fanciful fun, but not at the expense of the fundamentals.

LET'S GROW TOGETHER!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According to Vice

magazine, Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov is pleased with the experiment he tried. He injected himself with 3.5-million-year-old bacteria that his colleagues had dug out of the permafrost in Siberia. The infusion of this ancient life form, he says, enhanced his energy and strengthened his immune system. I can't vouch for the veracity of his claim, but I do know this: It's an apt metaphor for possibilities you could take advantage of in the near future: drawing on an old resource to boost your power, for example, or calling on a well-preserved part of the past to supercharge the present.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Booze has played a crucial

role in the development of civilization, says biomolecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern. The process of creating this mind-altering staple was independently discovered by many different cultures, usually before they invented writing. The buzz it provides has "fired our creativity and fostered the development of language, the arts, and religion." On the downside, excessive consumption of alcohol has led to millions of bad decisions and has wrecked countless lives. Everything I just said is a preface to my main message, Leo: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform your habitual perspective, but only if you do so safely and constructively. Whether you choose to try intoxicants, wild adventures, exhilarating travel, or edgy experiments, know your limits.

By ROB BREZSNY week of March 21

who you really are and savor you for your unique beauty, you must be honest with those people. You must also develop enough skill to express your core truths with accuracy. There's a similar principle at work if you want to know who you really are and savor yourself for your unique beauty: You must be honest with yourself. You must also develop enough skill to express your core truths with accuracy. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to practice these high arts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your journey in the

coming weeks may be as weird as an R-rated telenovela, but with more class. Outlandish, unpredictable, and even surreal events could occur, but in such a way as to uplift and educate your soul. Labyrinthine plot twists will be medicinal as well as entertaining. As the drama gets curioser and curioser, my dear Scorpio, I expect you will learn how to capitalize on the odd opportunities it brings. In the end, you will be grateful for this ennobling respite from mundane reality!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Love is the only

sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence," wrote philosopher Erich Fromm. I would add a corollary for your rigorous use during the last nine months of 2018: "Love is the only effective and practical way to graduate from your ragged, long-running dilemmas and start gathering a new crop of fresh, rousing challenges." By the way, Fromm said love is more than a warm and fuzzy feeling in our hearts. It's a creative force that fuels our willpower and unlocks hidden resources.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): My goal here is to

convince you to embark on an orgy of self-care -- to be as sweet and tender and nurturing to yourself as you dare to be. If that influences you to go too far in providing yourself with luxurious necessities, I'm OK with it. And if your solicitous efforts to focus on your own health and well-being make you appear a bit self-indulgent or narcissistic, I think it's an acceptable price to pay. Here are more key themes for you in the coming weeks: basking in the glow of self-love; exulting in the perks of your sanctuary; honoring the vulnerabilities that make you interesting.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One day, Beatles'

guitarist George Harrison decided to compose his next song's lyrics "based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book." He viewed this as a divinatory experiment, as a quest to incorporate the flow of coincidence into his creative process. The words he found in the first book were "gently weeps." They became the seed for his tune "While My Guitar Gently Weeps." Rolling Stone magazine ultimately named it one of "The Greatest Songs of All Time" and the 10th best Beatle song. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend you try some divinatory experiments of your own in the coming weeks. Use life's fun little synchronicities to generate playful clues and unexpected guidance.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Millions of you Pisceans live in a fairy tale world. But I suspect that very few of you will be able to read this horoscope and remain completely ensconced in your fairy tale world. That's because I have embedded subliminal codes in these words that will at least temporarily transform even the dreamiest among you into passionate pragmatists in service to your feistiest ideals. If you've read this far, you are already feeling more disciplined and organized. Soon you'll be coming up with new schemes about how to actually materialize a favorite fairy tale in the form of real-life experiences. Homework: Imagine a bedtime story you'd like to hear and the person you'd like to hear it from. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The astrological omens

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suggest that the coming weeks will be favorable for making agreements, pondering mergers, and strengthening bonds. You'll be wise to deepen at least one of your commitments. You'll stir up interesting challenges if you consider the possibility of entering into more disciplined and dynamic unions with worthy partners. Do you trust your own perceptions and insights to guide you toward ever-healthier alliances? Do what you must to muster that trust.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you want people to know

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A HOUSE DIVIDED Theater company EnActe Arts tells the story of the violence that led to the greatest mass migration in history.

Torn Apart

Play depicts the bloody legacy of South Asian Partition BY GARY SINGH

NDIA AND PAKISTAN were born from violence. Depicting that violence through the stories of its survivors posed a few obstacles for EnActe Arts, a local theatrical company whose next production, The Parting, comes to the Hammer Theatre this weekend. “Showing graphic violence does not serve the purpose in any way,” says Vinita Belani, EnActe’s founder and artistic director, when describing her approach. “What we want to show is the idea of violence and the aftermath of violence,

and so, because this is a dance-theater-inequal-parts production, we use dance to stylize the violence. Then we show the actual horror of the violence through the after effects.” In 1947, Britain partitioned its South Asian territory into the separate nation-states of India and Pakistan, bailing from the scene and unleashing what was likely, at that time, the biggest mass migration in human history. Anywhere between 10 and 15 million people were displaced and forced to leave their ancestral lands on a moment’s notice after being peaceful neighbors for millennia. Neighborhood after

neighborhood disintegrated into civil war-style violence with Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims committing massacres against each other, while refugees spent weeks migrating between the two newly constructed countries. At least 1 million people lost their lives. Aside from exacerbating communal hatred and religious-based distrust in that part of the world, which politicians are still exploiting to this day, Partition is often mentioned in the same paragraph as the Holocaust or the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yet it remains ignored in comparison to those other tragedies. In telling the story, The Parting does not concern itself with the politicians and figureheads who oversaw Partition. Instead, the narrative relays the stories of people directly affected by the violence. Belani says she took this approach for a few different reasons. In the same way that the history of the Holocaust was not written by Hitler’s or Churchill’s views alone, but by what actually happened to the survivors, so should the story of Partition. Through narratives based on or inspired by real

human events, the central narrative of the play asks questions. How did people experience Partition? What were their perceptions? How did they react to the cascade of events? Why was this allowed to happen? “You cannot get an accurate historical context or view of any event until you tell it from the perspective of the people who survived that event,” Belani says, adding that even though politics brought us to the current point in history, the history was told by the people. “When you start researching those atrocities, and people committing atrocities on other people, who, until the day before, were neighbors and friends, you start to realize that this is a story about the people that were displaced.” The Parting is a multidisciplinary, multiethnic experience, just like the sections of India that were affected. Kathak artist Farah Yasmeen Shaikh choreographed the dance elements, bringing in a variety of components including Mughal-style dancing, Hindu-derived temple dancing, Bengalis reading from Tagore, plus Punjabi music and a lone violinist wandering throughout. The violinist also composed of the original score, Raaginder Singh Momi. The goal was to convey perspectives from a variety of ethnicities, all of whom were devastated by the violence of Partition. “I wanted a true representation of the people that were affected,” Shaikh says. “Regardless of your vantage point—Hindu, Muslim, Sikh—you can look at these stories and say, ‘Wait, that happened to my family too, yet I don’t fit the profile of that character.’ But that’s exactly it. The violence did happen to everybody, and there isn’t any one side to blame.” However, one doesn’t need South Asian blood to feel empathy for survivors of genocidal-style massacres, religious-based hatred and the effects of Western powers carving up territories they don’t even understand. The production is universal in that sense. And above all else, since the horrors of Hiroshima and the Holocaust are well documented, so should be the effects of Partition.

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VITAMIN Q At Mesquite and Oak, barbecue and breakfast are synonymous.

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HEN PEOPLE THINK of brunch, they may imagine a dinerlike atmosphere with pitchers of mimosas and plates full of egg-centric foods being passed about. Nobody ever thinks of ribs, brisket and pulled pork as brunch fare, but one man, Matthew Aranda, is hoping to change that. Aranda’s new barbecue joint, Mesquite and Oak, recently opened in San Jose’s Luna Park neighborhood and has been turning heads with killer smoked meats and fantastic sides. As if that isn’t enough of a draw, their constantly evolving brunch menu should keep people coming. “Our weekend brunch menu is handwritten on butcher paper. The items featured are a collaboration between chef Marshall Reid and pitmaster David Vickers,” Aranda says. When I mention my idea of serving ribs (or brisket) and waffles, Aranda doesn’t flinch. “Come in and the staff will make it happen.” I personally love this concept, because I’ve honestly grown tired of breakfast’s same old-same old—to the point that I rarely go out for breakfast anymore. My cohort and I stopped in here on a Sunday morning and eyeballed their latest creations. They did have some fresh takes on the usual suspects, such as a smoked brisket hash ($12.95) and a Benedict burger ($10) that sounded great. However, the real eye-opener was something they call the Frito Bandito ($11.95), which is a clever take on the popular Mexican breakfast dish, chilaquiles. We decided on the hash and Bandito and settled in for some chow. First up was the brisket hash, and the centerpiece on top was the perfectly cooked over-medium egg. The yolk just oozed all over the potatoes, onions, peppers and bits of brisket to form a symphony of smoke and yolk in our mouths. The brisket was tender, juicy and had the perfect amount of smoke to it. Anywhere else and this dish would be a real star performer. But this wasn’t anywhere else, as the star this day was their Bandito; I almost couldn’t believe my eyes as the mound of pulled pork, cotija cheese and salsa verde sat on top of a bed of everyone’s favorite corn chip. What ensued was a porky, smoky dream that was over as quickly as it began. Every bite was so good, and just to change things up I added a bit of their spicy house barbecue sauce to give the dish some sweet and heat. While Mesquite and Oak has some terrific barbecue on its own, the real draw here is their creative and delicious brunch items that will be putting them on the map in the South Bay dining scene. —John Dyke

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