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Ferenc Dobronyi, a key player in the Bay Area surf music scene, plays his Fender Stratocaster at home in Corte Madera. KFJC is hosting a surf music show on Saturday at Foothill College.
Reveling in reverb: Concert celebrates rich history of Bay Area surf music DOZENS OF LOCAL BANDS KEEP THE TWANGY SURF SOUNDS OF THE 1960S ALIVE AND WELL By Kevin Forestieri
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very Saturday night when the clock strikes 8 p.m., the Bay Area radio waves are drenched with a torrent of heavy reverberating guitars and powerful drum beats evocative
of crashing waves, seaweed, sand and bubbling sea foam. It’s been a staple of local radio station KFJC’s weekend programming for decades, broadcasting the mostly underground genre of surf music that has proliferated in the Bay
Area. The region remains one of the pre-eminent places in the world to hear the classic twangy, echoing sounds reminiscent of beaches, bikinis and surfboards.
he Mountain View City Council took a final vote Tuesday to enact a sweeping law prohibiting oversized vehicles from parking on most city streets, despite criticism that the ordinance will oust homeless residents living in RVs and trailers. Critics swiftly reacted to the so-called RV ban, mobilizing a grassroots campaign to prevent it from taking effect. Hours after the vote, the Mountain View Housing Justice Campaign announced it has begun circulating a petition to hold a referendum on the council’s decision and let voters decide. The ban, which will take effect in June 2020, has two distinctive parts. One prevents so-called oversized vehicles — ones that exceed 22 feet in length, 7 feet in width or 7 feet in height — from parking on streets with bike lanes, which passed unanimously
at the Oct. 22 meeting and is not being opposed by the campaign. The more controversial ordinance, which received a shakier 4-3 vote, would prevent oversized vehicles from parking on “narrow” streets 40 feet wide or smaller. Such a ban would prohibit homeless residents from living in RVs along many of the city’s streets including Crisanto Avenue, which has long been a haven for vehicle dwellers. Council members Chris Clark, Alison Hicks and Lucas Ramirez voted against the narrow streets ban. People living out of cars, trailers and RVs has become a top issue in Mountain View in recent years, as the growing number of homeless people across the county and rising cost of living swelled the number of vehicle dwellers on the city’s streets. Recent estimates for how many inhabited vehicles are in Mountain View vary from 212 to 367, See RV BAN, page 12
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Matichak, Siegel declare plans to run for City Council in 2020 By Mark Noack
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t’s more than a year out, but Mountain View’s 2020 election for City Council is already beginning to take shape. According to city filings, at least two political veterans are throwing their hats into the ring. Oneterm Councilman Lenny Siegel,
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Mexico, and demands pay cuts for the workers left behind. When Cynthia gets the management job, her old friends hate her. When the bar’s busboy, Oscar (Armando Torres), crosses the picket line for a mill job that pays a little better than his bar job, real trouble happens. Massive kudos to Caroline Clark, who has done a brilliant job directing this very difficult play, which bounces between years, as the story develops emotionally, not historically. Pitts is amazing to watch as Brucie, a man who walked a union line for way too long, and who is so broken and drug-dependent that he pitifully bows and scrapes to his grown son to beg for money. It’s like a symphony of emotions in Pitts’ expressions and body movement. There must be a thousand things he does with his eyes, his face, his body, to make Brucie come alive. It is a stunning performance, perhaps the best in a non-musical I’ve seen this year. James “G” Glass is wonderful as Evan, the parole officer. A sergeant first class in the U.S. Army, stationed in Mountain View, Glass only started acting this year. The last scene in 2000 shows us what put Jason and Chris in prison. The final, heart-breaking, scene in 2008 shows us the tragic truth of what can happen when broken people fight, instead of finding a way to survive together. Nottage’s play brilliantly explores human dynamics of American workers, touching on desperation, poverty and racism. It completely earned its Pulitzer Prize. The Pear’s production should be in line for plenty of Bay Area theater awards itself. “Sweat” runs through Nov. 10 at 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View. Tickets are $30-$34. For more information, go to thepear. org. — John Orr
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BURGLARY CALL LEADS POLICE TO MOUNTAIN VIEW MAIL THEFT SUSPECTS A pair of San Jose residents were arrested over the weekend after they were found in possession of counterfeit money and stolen mail from residences in Mountain View. Officers were called after the two suspects, a man and a woman, were reported to be involved in a possible burglary in progress on the 1000 block of Montecito Avenue around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19. The man, who was driving a van, accelerated down the street and ran a stop sign before he was stopped and detained, according to a statement released by the police department Monday. Officers searched the vehicle and found mail from residences on Montecito and Sierra Vista avenues, along with drug paraphernalia, counterfeit money and checks and a credit card that didn’t belong to the driver or the passenger, police said. Both were arrested on suspicion of burglary, conspiracy and mail theft charges, including falsely obtaining personal identifying information. In addition, the man was arrested on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine and a meth pipe, and the woman for allegedly possessing counterfeit money. Police officials said they were in the process of returning the mail and other stolen items found in the vehicle. —Kevin Forestieri
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PRINCIPAL CITES CONCERNS OVER INCLUSIVITY, ‘NEGATIVE IMPACT’ ON COMMUNITY By Kevin Forestieri
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Naseem Rangwala, a SOFIA project scientist, describes the flying observatory’s infrared telescope. The research jet touched down at Moffett Field last Friday to celebrate NASA Ames Research Center’s 80th anniversary.
A scientific star, SOFIA research jet visits NASA Ames By Mark Noack
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ver the years, top military brass, tech executives and even U.S. presidents have flown into Silicon Valley by landing at Moffett Field. But a different kind of visitor arrived in town Friday, Oct. 18, when a jet airliner touched down at Moffett just before dawn. In this case, the visiting luminary that people were lining up to see was the airplane itself. The plane, a heavily modified 747 jet, is best known as SOFIA, or the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy. In the annals of astronomy, the plane is a star in its own right. For nearly
10 years, the research plane has jetted around the globe collecting data on comets, planets and other interstellar bodies that can only be observed by ascending to Earth’s stratosphere. The Friday visit to the NASA Ames Research Center was more sentimental than scientific. SOFIA was visiting to mark the 80th anniversary of Ames, and the plane’s arrival was more like a “homecoming,” said project scientist Naseem Rangwala. About half of the 200 employees who work on the SOFIA mission are centered at NASA Ames, and the research park has long been considered the project’s base of operations, where its images are processed
and analyzed. By its nature as a roving observatory, SOFIA is constantly on the move, and its last visit to Ames was about eight years ago, Rangwala said. “It’s really nice to bring SOFIA back to its family here at Ames,” Rangwala said. “SOFIA is a great asset that helps us understand many questions about the universe.” Like many other high-end telescopes in NASA’s portfolio, SOFIA can’t keep up with the demand for research data. On average, the plane is up in the air 140 times a year collecting telescope imagery. But that flight schedule still only provides See SOFIA, page 10
houls, witches, zombies and sundry spooky frights won’t be making an appearance at the new Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary School this Halloween, after the principal announced that the school would not host holidaythemed events on Oct. 31 because it would exclude students and have a “negative impact” on the community. In a message sent to parents Oct. 9, Principal Vern Taylor wrote that Halloween is not a holiday celebrated by everyone, and has a “range of inequities that are embedded” in the festivities. Sanctioning Halloween activities during the school day would have what Taylor called “unintended negative impacts” on students, families and staff alike. The origins of the decision aren’t clear. When asked for clarification, Taylor told the Voice holiday celebrations at school must strike a careful balance to ensure that “all students and families feel comfortable and included” regardless of how they observe each holiday. While Vargas Elementary is nixing Halloween events during the school day, students will still be permitted to wear costumes. “We are asking them, as is standard, not to wear masks or overly gruesome or violent attire. We are also asking that they do not bring any accessories that would distract from regular classroom instruction,” he said in the email. The statement was later sent to parents
last week as a “clarification.” Generally speaking, it’s up to individual schools to decide how to celebrate Halloween. Both the Mountain View Whisman and Mountain View-Los Altos High school districts give principals broad discretion on whether to host Halloween-themed activities or allow teachers to decorate classrooms with symbols of the holiday. Some schools host a Halloween parade complete with spooky tunes, costume contests and a bountiful exchange of candy. It’s up to individual school communities and staff members to figure out how to celebrate each holiday, said Mountain View Whisman spokeswoman Shelly Hausman. School administrators typically talk to students and parents about standard limitations on things like masks, distractions and particularly gory or violent costumes. The decision was quick to draw the ire and confusion of residents over the social media website Nextdoor, many of whom questioned the harm of having schoolsponsored festivities on Oct. 31. Some residents called the principal’s message “lunacy,” “craziness” and “ridiculous,” while others said it felt like overkill to cancel Halloween events for the sake of being inclusive. Some said they didn’t understand the vague references made in Taylor’s statement. “I genuinely don’t understand,” one resident wrote. “What’s not ‘inclusive’ about Halloween? See HALLOWEEN, page 8
Bullis Charter drops enrollment preference while blasting Los Altos district for divisiveness COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION WADES INTO DEBATE OVER THE CHARTER SCHOOL’S ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION PRACTICES By Kevin Forestieri
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ullis Charter School will not give priority enrollment to students residing in wealthier portions of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills, marking the latest development in a heated debate over whether the charter school’s enrollment practices
and recruiting efforts amount to discrimination. In an Oct. 11 letter to the Santa Clara County Board of Education, Bullis board chair Joe Hurd said the charter school will drop plans to bring back a geographic enrollment preference for the 2020-21 school year. But the letter strongly denies claims made
by the Los Altos School District (LASD) Board of Trustees last month that the preference was part of a larger attempt to avoid admitting low-income and special needs students. Hurd called the allegations baseless and incendiary, and that the district’s allegations of systematic discrimination and
segregation are “particularly offensive” and not reflected in demographic data. “LASD repeatedly and wrongfully accuses BCS of discrimination hoping that if the district repeats the false contention enough, people will believe it’s true,” Hurd wrote. “But it’s not true. For years LASD has blurted
out similar unsupported accusations, yet more and more LASD families continue to enroll their children at BCS with demographics consistent with what we see district-wide.” The letter comes one month after LASD’s board signed a letter See BULLIS, page 16
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At long last, a walk-in mental health center for local teens By Elena Kadvany
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yearslong effort to open a first-of-its-kind youth mental health center in Palo Alto reached a major milestone on Tuesday: approval of a lease for a physical space on Middlefield Road. The Board of Supervisors approved a five-year lease for about 5,200 square feet of office space at 2741 Middlefield Road, a small retail center near Colorado Avenue. This will be the future home of Allcove, a walk-in mental health clinic inspired by Australian centers that provide support services, education and other wellness resources at little to no cost to youth ages 12 to 25. It’s expected to open by May. “These innovative services, developed in consultation with
the youth of our community, are important components of a continuum of mental health care that will hopefully bring critical early interventions services to our community,” Steven Adelsheim, director of the Stanford University Center for Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing, said in an announcement. Adelsheim has been working with local mental health professionals, county staff and youth advocates to bring Allcove to life since 2016, spurred in part by a string of teenage deaths by suicide in Palo Alto. The county is also opening an Allcove site in San Jose, which it expects to be a “national prototype for international visitors, funders, and elected officials to tour.” The centers are meant to be one-stop shops for young people with mild to moderate mental
health issues, from breakups, anxiety and academic stress to more severe mental illness. Substance abuse treatment, peer support and employment and educational support will also be available to teens. The organizers describe Allcove as the first youth mental health center of its kind in the United States. “Time after time, the saddest part of the story is that a kid didn’t reach out earlier, didn’t have the opportunity to get help when they really needed it,” Board of Supervisors President Joe Simitian said. “The appeal of programs like Allcove is that they’re designed to engage youngsters who are struggling long before they hit a crisis point.” Stanford Medicine will provide psychiatric services at both the
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Palo Alto and San Jose locations, and Stanford will also provide primary care services in Palo Alto. Jake Carreno, a Gunn High School senior who serves on a youth advisory group for Allcove, said he’s hopeful the center will help alleviate the stigma teenagers feel in reaching out for help when they’re struggling. “It’s really important for youth to know Allcove is a space where no matter what you’re dealing with, you can drop in and talk to someone,” he said. “You don’t necessarily have to be diagnosed with something or know exactly what’s going on. You can ... seek help no matter how big or small what you’re dealing with is.” Carreno struggled to find mental health support as a sophomore when he fell into a depression after his parents got divorced. He went to Gunn’s wellness center, but had to recount his story to several different counselors due to turnover. He eventually found an outside therapist through his doctor. “It would have been nice to know there was one place I could go to that would handle it properly,” Carreno said. “I remember not really knowing where to go.” The Board of Supervisors allocated $2.1 million for the Palo Alto lease and related improvements. Finding a suitable site that met the space requirements for the clinic in Palo Alto proved difficult; county staff reviewed 30 potential sites and toured eight. The Middlefield Road site is centrally located, near public transportation and offered a
“competitive” rent for Palo Alto, according to a staff report. The first year of rent at the space will cost just under $268,000. The lease will run through October 2024 and includes two five-year extension options. The clinic will be designed and operated with strong youth input, including from a 24-member youth advisory group (which selected the name Allcove). Local and national statistics drive the importance of a mental health center like Allcove. One in five adolescents has a diagnosable mental disorder but fewer than half of adolescents with such disorders received any kind of treatment in the last year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Adolescent Health. A National Center for Children in Poverty report found that there are only about 8,000 people under the age of 25 years old using mental health services in Santa Clara County, while data suggests that among youth aged 11 to 17 alone, over 30,000 youth, should be accessing services. “Local teens need these services now; we can’t get it done soon enough,” Simitian said. The county is also working to build an adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose to address a longtime dearth of hospitalization options for local teens in mental health crisis, who are most often sent beyond the county’s borders for inpatient psychiatric treatment. Email Elena Kadvany at ekadvany@paweekly.com V
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Celebrating that rich history, KFJC will be hosting a high-profile surf show Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Foothill College campus in Los Altos Hills, bringing together some of the biggest names in Bay Area surf and drawing fans from California and beyond. “Like most people who like surf music, there’s just something about it that grabs you,” said DJ Cousin Mary, who has been curating and playing surf music for more than a decade for KFJC’s “Reverb Hour.” She said she remembers hearing it on the radio in the 1990s when her kids were in high school, not knowing that she would later end up becoming an international promotional resource for surf bands and fans. By her tally, there are somewhere between 30 and 40 surf bands here in the Bay Area, making it a hotbed for the genre. But there are plenty more across the globe, she said. “The thing a lot of people don’t realize is how much new surf music is going on — there are a lot of bands,” she said. “We just got a compilation that has more than 60 bands from Brazil. I’ve gotten compilations from bands in Greece, there are bands in Eastern Europe, some in Japan, and it’s constantly evolving.” One list compiled by the website Reverb Central lists 742 bands, active and inactive, including plenty from landlocked locales. The Trashmen, famous for the song Surfin’ Bird, is from Minneapolis, while The Astronauts started in Boulder, Colorado. What unites these disparate bands is that they’re typically instrumental — very little vocals, if any — and the wavelike reverberation of the guitar. The style was popularized in the early 1960s by bands aptly called the “first wave” of surf music, particularly Dick Dale and the Del-Tones. Dale relied heavily on Fender amplification and a single-coil pickup to give him that unique sound, and would frequently blow up his amps and speakers trying to bring the volume up above boisterous crowds. It was a case of Leo Fender trying to build equipment powerful enough that Dale wouldn’t destroy it, said Bruce Brewington, a guitarist for The Reefriders currently living in Pacifica. What came of it, he said, is the discovery of that iconic reverbladen sound. “Dick wanted to play powerfully and he wanted to recreate the sound of surf, what he felt out surfing, and the power inherent in surfing,” Brewington said. “He wanted to
translate that into music.” Some of Dale’s most wellknown hits include “Miserlou,” which Brewington described as a Lebanese folk song-turned surf music anthem. The song, along with many other surf tracks, surged in popularity after the release of “Pulp Fiction” in 1994, which played “Miserlou” at the beginning of the movie as Tim Roth’s character decides to commit armed robbery in a diner. Another early influence was the Surfaris, a Southern California band best known for hits including “Wipe Out.” In a recent interview on KFJC, Surfaris guitarist Bob Berryhill said the breakout hit was actually completely improvised, done on the spot after the recording engineer — who Berryhill described as an ex-Marine who looked like a leprechaun — told the band of 15-year-old kids that they needed to figure out a B-side song on the spot. The song was essentially a drum solo with a marching band cadence. The Bay Area surf scene bloomed in the years following the “second wave” starting in 1979 with early bands like the Mermen, based in Santa Cruz. Bands that followed include the Phantom Surfers, the Trashwomen, the Berzerkers, the Shockwaves and the Torpedos. By the 1990s every club in San Francisco wanted to have a surf rock band play, said Dave Becker, a former Sunnyvale resident and member of the Tube Sharks and later the Aquamarines. He said it’s a misconception that “Pulp Fiction” resuscitated the Bay Area’s surf scene, which was
already going strong by 1994. “There were already surf rock bands in the San Francisco club scene that were starting to get traction in the underground while grunge was popular,” he said. Becker, who has since moved to Reno, concedes that the genre hasn’t really been part of the mainstream and remains under the radar, but that the bands and the musicians are extraordinarily talented and do good work. “It may not get recognized at the Grammys as important, but it damn well is,” Becker said. Keeping the scene alive Largely credited for keeping the surf scene thriving in the Bay Area is Ferenc Dobronyi, who plays an integral role supporting and promoting surf shows and putting on major events like the International Surf Classic at The Ritz in San Jose. There, bands from all over the world — including Spain, Argentina, Canada, Russia, Germany and Italy — bring rarefied surf sounds to the South Bay that frequently diverge from the classics. Events like Battle of the Surf Bands are more locally focused, bringing more than a dozen bands from the area all together under one roof for a fastpaced show that rapidly switches between acts, Dobronyi said. Past battles have been held at Menlo Park’s British Banker’s Club and more recently San Jose’s Art Boutiki. Back in the early 1990s when Dobronyi put together his first surf band, Pollo Del Mar, he said nobody was really putting in the effort to support surf shows and
promote bands. Venues are only going to stay interested in hosting surf events if enough people show up, which is dependent on promotions online and through KFJC. “You really gotta fill the club, otherwise they won’t want to do it,” he said. Dobronyi said he got into surf music after deciding in 1989 that he didn’t want to be in a band with a singer anymore — a useful way of avoiding drama and relieving the worry of playing over the singer. He got into KFJC’s surf show, then hosted by DJ Phil Dirt, building a relationship that started with trading tapes and eventually led to big surf shows hosted in lecture halls at Foothill College. KFJC’s upcoming event on Oct. 26 is intended to be a throwback to those old shows. Phil Dirt, now retired from the station and living a reclusive life in Felton, has legendary status for playing two solid hours of surf music at the station each week for more than 25 years. His website, Reverb Central, contains thousands of his album reviews, including song-by-song comments. Cousin Mary joined the station in 2007 and, after a two-year lapse, brought back the reliable reverb sounds the station is famous for.
Surf music has always been an underground genre, and probably always will be, Dobronyi said. The genre is instrumental in nature, which turns a lot of people off. “I don’t think it ever will appeal to a larger audience because it doesn’t have vocals,” he said. “People who like it will (often) like classical music and jazz or progressive rock.” Still, surf music seems to have lasting power. Bruce Brewington said he continues to perform with the Reefriders, and at a recent show got the nod from millennials reaffirming that their sound is cool. “The melodies are great, it has such a great beat and you can certainly dance to it,” he said. “Nobody doesn’t like it once they hear it, but many don’t know it exists.” KFJC’s upcoming show, Sixty and Surfin,’ will be in Foothill’s Appreciation Hall from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., with doors opening at 4:30 p.m. There’s a recommended $20 donation to benefit KFJC at the door, and parking is $3. The show will include the Mermen, Pollo Del Mar, Insect Surfers, The Berzerkers and Glasgow Tiki Shakers. Go to kfjc.org/ events for more information. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com V
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What are the ‘inequities’ that are embedded in Halloween celebrations?� Parts of the newsletter are a word-for-word match with a press release sent to parents in Chicago’s Evanston/Skokie School District 65 on Sept. 27. The school district, also serving elementary and middle-school students, refers to the same “range of inequities� in Halloween and the “unintended negative impact� that they cause. The school district’s message goes on to describe how everyone should feel comfortable at school regardless of “race, ethnicity, ability level, religion, spoken language, cultural beliefs and traditions, gender identity, sexual orientation and citizenship status.� Nat Johnson, a parent of two attending Vargas Elementary, said the rationale shared by the school’s leadership made sense when he attended a Principal’s Coffee the week before the newsletter came out, and said he could see how the message could have confused readers. In his view, Johnson said that Halloween isn’t really the kind of holiday to be celebrated during school hours anyway, and that some parents may keep their children home if they feel it’s the only way to opt out. “I think the primary concern on the principal’s part was maintaining school attendance,� he said. “I know there are parents every year who choose to keep their kids home on Halloween because they don’t want to expose their kids to an experience that they personally disagree with.� “I don’t know how much this policy will help in that regard, but if it helps to keep some kids from missing school then I’m in favor of it,� he added. Vargas PTA president Sarah Reginaldo said she and Taylor had discussed Halloween and
other fall festivities earlier this month, and decided the best approach was to celebrate the holiday separately. The PTA will be hosting a “Monster Bash� the week prior to Halloween on Friday, Oct. 25 on the campus from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., which will include a costume contest, pumpkin-themed carnival games and a “Monster Dash� — essentially a race between kids dressed up in costumes. “Having a school-wide Halloween event causes some families to have to make the choice between taking part in something they don’t believe in or keeping their child home that day,� Reginaldo said in an email. “By moving the event to the evening, no one misses out by not participating, working parents can come, and we can also invite friends and neighbors!� Mountain View-Los Altos school board president Phil Faillace told the Voice in an email that his district has taken a hands-off approach, allowing both Mountain View and Los Altos high schools to exercise good judgment on what’s permissible on Halloween. Both schools, he said, have found that embracing the holiday serves as a good opportunity to relieve stress for students and staff alike. Faillace himself was the center of a controversial decision to limit Halloween activities while board president of the Los Altos School District back in 1995, which went viral in the pre-internet days and gave him the reputation of “the man who banned Halloween,� as he puts it. An Associated Press story that ran in the New York Times on Oct. 13, 1995, describes how the district’s board added Halloween to its list of holidays that cannot be celebrated because of the underlying religions themes, irking parents in the district who felt the decision was overly politically correct. The story described how Faillace had sought to eliminate any school practices that appear to
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Parents face new charges in college-admissions scam TWO LOCAL DEFENDANTS FACE BRIBERY AND OTHER FEDERAL CRIMES UNDER A GRAND JURY INDICTMENT By Sue Dremann
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certain to be lively. Matichak and Siegel in some ways embody the city’s rival political camps. Matichak has championed quality of life issues for current Mountain View residents, striving to temper city growth without diminishing existing services. Siegel has embraced social justice issues, prodding Mountain View to push the envelope on building more housing while protecting low-income residents. Suffice it to say, the two don’t appear to have much in common politically. Matichak accidentally blasted out an email 10
Nine other parents facing the bribery-conspiracy charge including parent John Wilson of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, Hollywood actress Lori Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli. McGlashan and Wilson face additional wire fraud and honest services wire fraud charges, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Wilson also faces an additional two counts of substantive federal-programs bribery for allegedly paying off Stanford University and other elite institutions to try to secure his children’s admission. USC, Harvard and Stanford all received more than $10,000 annually in grants, subsidies or other forms of federal assistance, which justified the new charges against him, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Palatella allegedly wired $75,000 to The Key Worldwide Foundation, an organization Singer created to launder the bribes, for Florida resident Mark Riddell to proctor her son’s SAT exam and to correct his answers in 2017. She ultimately paid $500,000 to have her son represented as a purported football recruit to USC. She allegedly paid $100,000 to Donna Heinel, USC’s senior associate athletic director at the time, who allegedly presented the boy’s application to the university’s athletic admissions subcommittee and obtained approval to admit him as a recruit, according to court documents. Prosecutors contend Palatella also agreed during a 2018 phone call with Singer to mislead the IRS if anyone inquired about her payments to the foundation, according to the indictment. McGlashan allegedly paid Singer $50,000 through the foundation to arrange for Riddell to proctor his son’s ACT exam at a West Hollywood test center. Riddell secretly corrected the
answers without the boy’s knowledge, according to the grand jury indictment. He also allegedly paid $250,000 to Singer to facilitate his son’s admission as a football recruit to USC. They created a fake football player profile and used Photoshop to place the son’s head onto the body of a kicker, according to the indictment. Palatella and McGlashan pleaded not guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services fraud in April. Arraignment dates on the new charges have not yet been scheduled.
If convicted, the parents could face long prison sentences and hefty fines. Conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail, and wire fraud and wire fraud and honest services wire fraud (without conspiracy) each carry a maximum 20-year sentence in prison. Conspiracy to commit federal-programs bribery has a maximum sentence of five years in prison and federalprograms bribery (without conspiracy) carries up to 10 years in prison. All three charges include $250,000 in fines or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater, and three years of supervised release. Conspiracy to commit money laundering carries a maximum 20-year sentence, three years of supervised release and a $500,000
fine or twice the value of the property involved in the crime. Tuesday’s charges are the result of ongoing investigations in the nationwide college admissions case, Andrew Lelling, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said in a separate statement. “Our goal from the beginning has been to hold the defendants fully accountable for corrupting the college admissions process through cheating, bribery and fraud. The superseding indictments will further that effort.” On Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office also announced additional charges against seven university athletic officials and others previously charged in the collegeadmissions scandal. The parents and athletics staff, who have thus far pleaded not guilty to all charges against them, face additional charges not levied against others who pleaded guilty in their respective cases. Eight parents who admitted to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud charges received sentences ranging from no prison time to five months in incarceration. Peter Jan Sartorio, 53, of Menlo Park, was sentenced on Oct. 11 to one year of probation and a $9,500 fine. Menlo Park resident Marjorie Klapper, 50, on Oct. 16 received a three-week prison sentence and one year of supervised release. Hollywood actress Felicity Huffman, 56, received a two-week sentence and a $30,000 fine. All of their sentences include 250 hours of community service. Former Stanford University head sailing coach John Vandemoer, 41, of Palo Alto, pleaded guilty on March 12 to conspiracy to commit racketeering after accepting $800,000 in bribes for athletics programs to place students on the sailing team. He was sentenced to one day of incarceration, which he already served
earlier this year that indicated her intentions to “thwart” Siegel’s agenda. Meanwhile, Siegel has not hesitated to publicly excoriate Matichak and her allies for actions that he says harm the city’s most vulnerable. Most recently, Siegel has taken particular umbrage at the city’s ban on oversized vehicles, an action that would restrict where homeless people living out of vehicles could park. He has pledged to help bring a measure to the ballot next year to overturn the so-called RV ban, which could coincide with the City Council election. Matichak and Siegel also part ways in regard to rent control and the dueling ballot measures to
modify the law to make it more palatable to landlords. The two proposals include one measure by the state’s largest landlord lobby to make rent control essentially unenforceable and a milder initiative that is still being drafted by a City Council subcommittee. It’s unclear whether the rent control measures will go before voters in the March or November elections, but the issue is certain to influence the City Council race. Four City Council seats will be in play in the November 2020 election, which are currently occupied by Matichak, Margaret Abe-Koga, Chris Clark and John McAlister. Clark and McAlister, who are in their second terms in
office, will not be allowed to run again until 2022, as city rules allow only two consecutive fouryear terms before an incumbent must step down. Abe-Koga, who served a previous two terms on the council before her current one, told the Voice she would “likely” run again, although she still hasn’t made a final decision. According to city election filings, former Parks and Recreation Commissioner Thida Cornes could also be considering a council run. Cornes ran for City Council in 2016, and her campaign treasury still has about $8,500. She declined to say whether she intends to run again.
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prior to the court hearing; two years of supervised release, with the first six months to be served in home detention; and a $10,000 fine. Manuel Henriquez, 55, the former CEO of venture capital and private equity firm Hercules Capital in Palo Alto, and his wife, Elizabeth Henriquez, 56, previously pleaded not guilty in April. They changed their pleas to guilty in Massachusetts federal court on Monday to one count each of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and honest services mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Elizabeth Henriquez is due for sentencing on Feb. 7, and Manuel Henriquez’s sentencing is scheduled for March 5. The prosecution’s recommendation for sentencing has not yet been released as of Tuesday evening. Davina Isackson, 55, Hillsborough, pleaded guilty on May 1 to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. Her husband, Bruce Isackson, 61, pleaded guilty to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud, money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Prosecutors are recommending incarceration at the lower end of sentencing guidelines for Davina Isackson, plus one year of supervised probation, a $100,000 fine and restitution or forfeiture. Bruce Isackson faces recommendations of incarceration at the lower end of sentencing guidelines, one year of supervised probation, a $150,000 fine and restitution of $139,509 to the IRS and forfeiture. They are scheduled for sentencing on May 21. Palo Alto residents Amy Colburn, 59, and Gregory Colburn, 61, are fighting charges of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud and money laundering conspiracy. They entered motions to dismiss their cases on April 15. V
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depending on which agency conducted the outreach. Several speakers at the meeting blasted the council’s actions as an inhumane effort to kick homeless residents out of town, saying that it was disingenuous to sell the ban as a traffic safety measure. Valerie Fenwick, a member of the city’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee speaking on her own behalf, said she has “zero recollection� of safety issues
for bicyclists regarding RVs. Construction trucks and cars often pose a greater problem, she said. “I think it’s ridiculous to claim this is for bicycle safety,� she said. Former Councilman Lenny Siegel, who announced the referendum effort at the meeting, said the City Council doesn’t even know, precisely, which locations would be affected by the narrow streets ordinance. At the Sept. 24 council meeting, Councilwoman Margaret AbeKoga estimated the ban could encompass roughly two-thirds
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better themselves and get off the street,� Emling said. “I don’t want anyone living in an RV.� Council members did not comment on the topic, which was on the meeting’s consent calendar and passed as a second reading of the ordinances. After the meeting, Siegel told the Voice that the referendum campaign has already begun, and that volunteers will need to collect about 3,700 signatures within the next 30 days. He said the group is expecting to have between 100 and 150 people collecting signatures, and the goal is to collect about 5,000 to ensure at least 3,700 are valid by the deadline. The petition is in opposition
to the narrow streets ban, and not the ordinance preventing oversized vehicles on streets with marked bike lanes. If enough signatures are collected, the council will have to decide whether to repeal the ordinance or put the matter before voters next year, Siegel said. It’s not clear whether it would be on the primary ballot in March or the general election in November. Despite the high bar and short timeline, Siegel said he is confident the campaign will collect enough signatures. He said they are not planning to pay for any signature gathering. Email Kevin Forestieri at kforestieri@mv-voice.com
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he Mountain View-based Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) has announced the recruitment of several new executives as part of a changing of the guard at the influential charity. The new hires are part of an organization-wide restructuring that was prompted last year after former foundation CEO Emmett Carson and other directors departed amid complaints of fostering a toxic workplace. The five new hires include Alex Tenorio, who will be filling the new role of executive vice president of fundraising Alex Tenorio and business development. In his prior work, Tenorio served as chief development officer at Menlo School in Atherton, and as senior director of development for Stanford University. Tenorio’s position will essentially assume the responsibilities of former chief development officer Mari Ellen Loijens, who was ousted last year after former employees went public with complaints she frequently berated her subordinates and made inappropriate remarks. Another new addition at SVCF is Liz Carey, who will serve as SVCF’s executive vice president, in charge of finance and operations. P r e v i o u s l y, Carey was chief financial officials for the Jewish FederaLiz Carey tion of the East Bay and later at the Oregon Community Foundation. Carey’s position was previously held by Paul Velaski, who also was singled out by disgruntled SVCF employees. In an anonymous letter, more than 65 workers alleged Velaski was complicit in fostering workplace abuse and toxicity. Velaski was longer employed by SVCF as of June, according to his LinkedIn profile. Kimberley Myers Hewlett is joining SVCF as senior vice president for donor engagement, a new job role intended to Kimberley help find ways Myers Hewlett for donors to make an impact on the issues
they care about. She previously worked at Stanford University, where she worked as associate director of corporate relations for Stanford Medical Center, and earlier as project manager and director of alumni relations. For the new senior vice president of IT position, the communit y foundation hired George Lin, a veteran George Lin corporate CIO who has held C-suite positions at Rambus, Dolby Laboratories, Advent Software, EMC and Documentum. Chanthi Lune will be joining SVCF as its first-ever senior vice president of legal affairs.
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of its own, accusing the charter school of discrimination by enrolling a disproportionately low number of low-income students and students with disabilities. The letter requested that the county block the charter school from reinstating an enrollment preference that could worsen the disparity. Bullis Charter School previously gave priority enrollment to incoming kindergartners residing in the so-called BullisPurissima Elementary School boundary, which encompasses parts of Los Altos and Los Altos Hills and is widely regarded to be more affluent than other parts of the district, particularly the San Antonio neighborhood of Mountain View. The preference was phased out during a facilities agreement with the school district that expired this year, but
charter school leaders announced in June it was slated for return in the 2020-21 school year. Los Altos trustees also used the letter as an opportunity to slam the county office of education for failing to do its job as oversight agency for Bullis Charter School, arguing that the school was given carte blanche to under-serve the neediest students in the district. The county responded with a strongly worded letter of its own, defending its record of oversight and excoriating the district for what it called misleading statements and an overly aggressive tone. The Oct. 2 letter, signed by county Superintendent Mary Ann Dewan, criticized the district for focusing on a “spurious” argument that the charter school’s very existence in a high-performing district runs contrary to the intent of California’s charter school laws, which placed special emphasis on the needs of students with
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low academic achievement. “The letter selectively describes only a single component of the purposes of (charter schools) in what appears to be an effort at misdirection and publicly undermining BCS as part of LASD and BCS’s regrettably contentious ongoing relationship and disagreements involving the broader community,” Dewan said in the letter. However, Dewan wrote that the letter should “in no way be interpreted as either a lessening of the county’s concern regarding the fundamental allegations of discrimination.” The letter goes on to request evidence and documentation that could prove Los Altos School District’s case — that a series of actions, ranging from enrollment priorities and practices to a lack of transparency in managing the admissions lottery, amounts to discriminatory practices. The letter requests the information by Oct. 23, and the district is working on a response, board president Jessica Speiser confirmed with the Voice last Friday. The district is planning to request an extended deadline past the Oct. 28 school board meeting. The county took an evenhanded approach, sending a separate letter to Bullis Charter School on Oct. 2 raising concerns about the allegations made by the school district. Dewan didn’t mince words, telling the charter school that the county was concerned that adding an enrollment preference for kids in the Bullis-Purissima boundaries will “run afoul” with laws prohibiting charter school from limiting enrollment access for underserved students, including
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students with disabilities, English learners, low-income and homeless students. “Based on information currently available to the county, at a minimum, the former BullisPurissima Elementary School attendance area appears to house a disproportionately low number of socio-economically disadvantaged students,” the letter states. “So the use of this preferences appears likely to ‘limit enrollment access.’”
The county defended its record of oversight and excoriated the Los Altos district for what it called misleading statements and an overly aggressive tone. Dewan gave Bullis Charter School one of two options: Drop the enrollment preference or give a thorough explanation for why the preference doesn’t violate state law. The letter requested an answer by Oct. 12, one day after Hurd’s letter to the county announcing the charter school was no longer pursuing the admissions preference. Hurd, in his response, stated that Bullis Charter School runs a fair, public and random enrollment lottery and does not ask for information on student disabilities or economic status prior to admission. He wrote that demographic disparities between the charter school and the school district are not a violation of law so long as Bullis continues to offer the same opportunities to all families. What’s more, he said the charter school conducts “extra outreach” for special education students as well as postcards, news advertisements and flyers specifically targeted to families residing in the San Antonio area
of Mountain View. Hurd’s letter includes graphs and data showing that about 1.6% of the school’s enrollment is designated as low-income compared to 6.2% across Los Altos School District — a delta he called “relatively minimal,” particularly when compared to the rest of the county. Some of the district’s own schools, including Gardner Bullis Elementary and Blach Junior High, have similarly low percentages of low-income students. Bullis Charter School enrolls students from across the district, whereas neighborhood school have enrollment boundaries largely determined by geography. Hurd alleges that the real discrimination is carried out by the school district, which has systemically under-served charter school students with inadequate school facilities for years. He said the school has forced students into “cramped, unequal conditions” in classrooms that are split between two campuses, violating guarantees to equitable facilities under the state’s Proposition 39 law. “LASD admits that one in five students who reside within the district attends BCS,” Hurd said in the letter. “And yet, LASD has never provided BCS children with equivalent school facilities they are entitled to under the law. Instead, LASD forced BCS into temporary ‘bungalow’ type classrooms on split campuses.” The Los Altos School District revealed a long-term facilities plan earlier this year that would remedy the long-standing disputes over school facilities, but tabled it after a firestorm of opposition from parents and community members. The deal would have ceded the existing Egan Junior High School campus to the charter school in exchange for an enrollment cap of about 1,100 students, and would shift Egan students to a yet-to-be-built campus at the corner of Showers Drive and California Street in Mountain View. V
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oogle X’s mission statement is to invent and launch “moonshot” technologies that aim to make the world a radically better place. They’ve worked on projects that include driverless cars, WiFi “weather” balloons, “smart” glasses, delivery drones and artificial intelligence technology that will one day revolutionize how we care for humans in regard to their health. When Google was asked recently by the Mountain View City Council if they would “donate” a parking lot to the soon-to-be-displaced RV population, for which the City Council even offered to cover the insurance and liability, Google said no. Google’s delegation said they would not be participating in the safe parking program and did not offer to donate another building that is currently shuttered and could be ready for use. As both a citizen who rents in the city of Mountain View and an employee of a San
Guest Opinion Francisco-based company over the past four and a half years I’ve watched as both cities have spiraled into an abyss of what seems to be an “unsolvable” problem. Reading the city of Mountain View’s recent decision to ban RVs from parking on the main thoroughfares or in neighborhoods, coupled with the city reaching out to one of the most influential and well-endowed companies in the world and being turned down was heart-wrenching. I drive by the Google X campus often, and I thought to myself, “How can a company that claims to make “moonshot” ideas become realities not solve one of the most basic problems, literally in its own backyard?” How can Google claim to want to make the world a radically better place and when given the opportunity to simply make their community a better place say no? (To be fair, Google offered funds, to which the city replied that funds
weren’t necessary, but land could be helpful.) Wage disparity, housing shortages, and exorbitant housing costs are all real problems that have real solutions. How can we as a community say we value our “quaint” downtown littered with mom and pop shops that perpetually display “for hire” signs because even at $18 and $20 an hour those shops can’t maintain employees who can afford to live in the community they service. How can our City Council, prompted by community members’ “outrage,” turn down business permits for cannabis dispensaries that will bring more tax dollars to the community, which would result in more funds to help the increasing homelessness population? It seems as a community and as a city we want our cake and we want to eat it too — we just don’t want to share it with those who bake it and serve it to us. I’m ashamed that in the cradle of innovation and “radical ideas” we can’t come up with a plan that isn’t that radical at all — taking
care of our community members, and even more basically, fellow humans. Not everyone can earn a six-figure salary, not everyone was born into a system that allowed them to navigate efficiently and economically and therefore earn and save the wages that are required to live in Mountain View. As written by T.R. Goldman in the July 11, 2019, article for Politico Magazine titled, “In Detroit, Tiny Homes Are More Than a Lifestyle Trend, They’re a possible solution to homelessness and chronic poverty,” there is a group with a simple idea that is providing a solution that seems not only doable in Mountain View, but given Google’s financial and land resources, achievable. Can we as a community not band together in the name of humanity and do something? Can we not only be known for making moonshot technologies a reality, but also for making basic human needs a reality? Michelle Novak is a Mountain View resident.
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TEST SCORES The problem with believing that the standardized test scores tell us something about the effectiveness of specific schools (“Mountain View school test scores rise, but some students fall behind,” Oct. 18) where the data are collected is that this ignores the students. But we get to blame the schools; how cool is that? Things we might want to know about this year’s cohort of students are: Has the population shifted a little by market renters priced out while subsidized renters remained? Has the average birth order increased a little (only children do better than the first of two, first of two bests second, second of three bests third and so on)? Is the average ambition of this cohort a bit less than that of the previous cohort? Are the parents of this cohort less available due to working more jobs? Did more of the mothers of this cohort overdose on alcohol, drugs or fluoride? If we have collected no data to
compare the student cohorts, we know that we know nothing. Raymond R. White Whitney Drive
UNDERSTANDING MEASURE V With five of seven members of the City Council having opposed local rent control Measure V (adopted by voters in November 2016), the effort to undermine or repeal the measure continues. At its Oct. 14 meeting, a threemember subcommittee of the City Council received suggested “draft” changes to the law, which the City Council may place on the March 2020 ballot (“Council punts on rent control limit,” Oct. 18). Included is proposed city charter section 1717(a), which would empower the City Council to enact an ordinance allowing evictions with payment of “relocation amounts” to be established by the ordinance. Here’s the trick: under a 1995
state law, local rent control cannot limit the initial (base) rent for new tenants. This is sometimes called “vacancy de-control.” Under this rule, landlords profit more from resident turnover. The current City Council has not responded to calls for calculating the return on investment from turnover. It is far more than the annual inflation adjustments for all units allowed by Measure V. In any event, if the local law is changed to authorize evictions for payment of relocation assistance, evictions will ensue. Most of the renters in Mountain View could be ousted in short order. Already, one “sneaky repeal” of Measure V is headed for the March ballot: the landlords’ initiative charter amendment. It well appears that some members of the City Council are working on proposing a second “sneaky repeal.” And there is now another variable in the mix. The governor just signed a state bill (AB 1482)
that could limit “rent gouging” in some rental housing not better covered by local rent control. The state law does not apply to space rents in mobile home parks. And it could be repealed whenever the landlords make enough campaign contributions and promises of future support or get some new state legislators in office. Gary Wesley Continental Circle
EL CAMINO IMPROVEMENTS I was recently in Germany and was reminded of their great bicycle lane system. Instead of having the bicycle lane in the roadway, they widen the sidewalk and have designated bike and pedestrian lanes differentiated by separate sidewalk material that is easy to distinguish. Works great. Glenis Koehne Sunnyvale
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ith the start of a new season, local restaurants have begun redesigning their menus to make room for fall favorites. For chefs Janina O’Leary of Bacchus Management and Pako Guzman of Steins Beer Garden, an autumn menu is incomplete without a dish featuring apples, whether Granny Smith or Hawaiian. For hungry cooks eager to incorporate the season’s offerings into a dish of their own, O’Leary and Guzman have each prepared recipes that are tangy, sweet and easy to recreate at home. The Post in Los Altos has also shared an apple cocktail recipe to round out the meal. Originally from Texas, O’Leary moved to New York to study at the French Culinary Institute and work at fine dining restaurants there. She also served as the executive chef at LaV, an upscale restaurant in Austin, Texas, before coming to the Bay 18
Area to work as the executive pastry chef at Bacchus Management. She develops desserts for the group’s restaurants, including Selby’s in Redwood City and The Village Pub in Woodside. Her caramel apple tart recipe celebrates the “simple but beautiful” apple, which Bacchus sources from K&J Orchards in Solano County. The tart has a simple semolina crust, a cream layer and “juicy but crisp” filling, she said. Unlike many tarts, which can be overpowered by sweetness, O’Leary said her recipe is a balanced marriage between sweet and savory. The tart turns out the best when the apples are just lightly caramelized, so they don’t lose their bite and flavor. She advised home cooks not to overmix the semolina dough, so it will maintain a somewhat sandy texture. She recommended serving the dessert with bourbon or vanilla bean ice cream, or playing with the combination of fruit and cheese — perhaps with cheddar or marscapone to bring out the
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caramelization of the apples or topping it with a ricotta ice cream. Guzman’s dish, inspired by the contrast present in cheese and fruit platters, places that flavor profile center-stage. His apple mostarda crostini is a savory appetizer perfect for entertaining. Guzman, who got his first job at a restaurant as a dishwasher over 16 years ago, has worked as a chef for Silicon Valley corporations such as Apple, Google and Pixar Animations studios, making dishes from a variety of cultures and cuisines. He said he shies away from “fancy food” in favor of a strong flavor profile. “You want to put your soul where your dish is,” Guzman said. His crostini recipe is made with ciabatta bread and soft brie cheese. For those looking to experiment, Guzman also suggested swapping in brioche or a baguette for the bread, or sharp cheddar for the cheese. Any combination pairs well with red wine, he said. He likes to follow the
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Janina O’Leary pipes salted caramel onto a dollop of caramel marscapone cheese for her caramel apple tart at Selby’s in Redwood City.
Weekend edge. Refrigerate for 15 minutes, then carefully trim the excess dough with a small knife. Yields: 6 individual tarts
Crust 2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for rolling out the dough 1 teaspoon salt 3 tablespoons granulated sugar 14 tablespoons unsalted butter, chilled and cut into small pieces 3-4 tablespoons cold water 2 tablespoons raw sugar Six 3.5-inch tart rings Heat oven to 350 F. In a food processor, combine the flour, salt, sugar and butter, and pulse until the mixture has a sandy texture. Add cold water, one tablespoon at a time and pulse until the dough comes together but is still slightly crumbly. COURTESY OF STEINS
0ako Guzman makes crostini with apple mostarda and brie cheese at Steins Beer Garden in Mountain View.
appetizer with a meat dish, such as braised short ribs or steak, adding that the dry and sweet flavors of the mostarda prepare the palate well for a heavier dish. For home cooks trying their hand at the recipe, he advised patience: “Let all the flavors incorporate into the apples.”
For an apple-forward cocktail, try The Post’s “Them Apples,” a shaken drink with a base of apple-flavored whiskey. “The cocktail is refreshing wit h a little spice — perfect for fall in California,” owner Vickie Breslin said.
Remove the dough from the food processor and knead gently on a lightly floured surface. Shape the dough into a flattened ball and wrap with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 20 minutes. Divide the dough into six equal portions and using a rolling pin, roll the dough so the pieces are slightly larger than the tart rings. Place the dough into the mold and allow the excess to hang over the
Freeze the dough for about 15 minutes. Bake for 12-16 minutes, until the edges turn golden brown.
Apple filling 4 tablespoons butter 3-4 Granny Smith apples peeled, cored and thinly sliced 6 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg In a medium-size saucepan over medium-low heat, melt the butter. Add the apples and saute until tender, about 10 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer apples to a bowl. Combine the apples, sugar, cornstarch, and spices. Mix until apples are thoroughly coated.
Vanilla custard 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk 1 vanilla bean 4 egg yolks 2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt In a medium-sized saute pan over medium heat, heat the heavy cream and milk. Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean
into the cream. Bring to a boil. In another saucepan, beat egg yolks and sugar together. Gradually whisk in the hot cream mixture. Stir over low heat until the mixture thickens slightly and coats the back of a spoon, about 7 minutes. Do not boil. Pour custard into metal bowl to cool, place plastic over the top to avoid a skin. Chill for at least an hour.
Assembling the tart Using a pastry bag with a plainedge tip, pipe the custard into each tart shell halfway to the top. Fan the apples over the custard. Serve with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.
Serves about 10 people
Ingredients 10 Granny Smith apples 3 cups sugar Juice of 6 whole lemons 1 bunch of thyme tied with string 1 cup pickled mustard seed 2 cups white wine Brie cheese Ciabatta loaf Fresh chives, snipped See APPLES, page 20
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Pickled mustard seed 1 cup yellow mustard seeds 1/2 cup white rice vinegar 1/2 cup organic sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt
Combine all of the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a simmer over low heat. Cook mustard seeds until soft, about 15 minutes. Stir frequently and cook on very low heat to avoid burning.
Apple Mostarda Combine the apples, sugar, lemon juice, pickle mustard seed, white wine and thyme in a large rondeau or Dutch oven and stir. Bring to a simmer and cook until apples become tender and translucent, about 10-15 minutes.
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Slice the ciabatta loaf, and place a single layer on a baking sheet. Put a piece of brie cheese on top of each slice. Heat in the oven at 375 F until the cheese begins to melt. Top crostini with spoonfuls of apple mostarda and garnish with fresh chives.
BAMF grenadine: 2 cups pomegranate juice 4-5 star anise pod 3 allspice berries 4 whole cloves 2 cinnamon sticks 1 tablespoon szechuan peppercorns 1-2 dried chiles 1 1/2 cups sugar In a small pot combine juice with spices and bring to boil.
Cover the pot, remove from heat and let spices infuse for at least 15 minutes. Strain juice through fine sieve into a measuring cup. Return the juice and equal parts sugar to pot and heat until sugar dissolves. Allow to cool then transfer to container and store in the refrigerator. V
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Ingredients 2 oz. Crown Royal Apple 1 oz. fresh lime juice .5 oz The Post’s BAMF grenadine (or store-bought) Shake and serve with an apple slice garnish. COURTESY OF STEINS
Toasted ciabatta slices are the foundation for apple mostarda crostini, which pair well with red wine, said Steins chef 0ako Guzman.
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Power play HISTORICAL DRAMA ‘THE CURRENT WAR’ PITS EDISON AGAINST WESTINGHOUSE 001/2 (Century 20, Icon) What does it take to get a big idea from concept to execution? In a real sense, it takes a village, from laboratory laborers to inglorious investors, but nothing happens without first the spark of inspiration. Even as Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s “The Current War: Director’s Cut” turns the complicated story of American electricity into a digestible drama, its commentary reminds us of the slipperiness of history in assigning credit for monumental innovation. Inspired by true events, “The Current War” spans from roughly 1880 — and the launch of the light bulb— to 1893, with the Chicago World’s Fair as the testing ground and showcase for an electrical grid able to power a city. In between, entrepreneurial inventor Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and shrewd industrialist George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) battle — or, perhaps more accurately, race — to establish the electrical-current standard: Edison backing the inefficient direct current and Westinghouse the smarter, cheaper alternating current endorsed by then-anonymous inventor Nikola Tesla (Nicholas Hoult). Originally conceived as a stage musical, Michael Mitnick’s screenplay has come a long way, as evidenced by the “Director’s Cut” subtitle appended to “The Current War.” Under the auspices of the now shamed and dissolved Weinstein Company, Gomez-Rejon premiered a rushed-to-market cut two years ago at the Toronto International Film Festival. After a poor reception and a very public implosion for former film producer Harvey Weinstein and the company that bore his name, “The Current War” found its release postponed, allowing Gomez-Rejon to get back to work. The newly released “Current War” includes footage from reshoots, five newly added scenes and an overall running time trimmed by 10 minutes. What remains is far from perfect, but a decent primer on the broad strokes of the AC/DC conflict. The arrogance, obsessiveness and sheer industriousness of
Edison play against the frustrated horse sense of a well-mannered Westinghouse. As Cumberbatch flop-sweats to show Edison’s maniacal tunnel vision, Shannon quietly walks off with the picture, confidently holding the screen with radiant intelligence and subtle comic reactions to the absurdities and indignities Westinghouse encounters. As ever, Tesla gets short shrift, his role acknowledged but strictly supporting while the “great
men” fight over dollars and access. The filmmakers capture something about the egotism and toxic masculinity that shaped this particular history, as well as the second guesses and ethical compromises that haunt progress (let’s just say that the invention of the electric chair figures into the current war). This is Hollywood history, so accurate chronology takes a backseat to dramatic impact, character becomes caricatured, and developments get simplified. In the most egregious example — coming as it does from filmmakers who clearly know better — “The Current War” implies that Edison single-handedly invented the cinema. Though less than the sum of its parts, “The Current War” proves anecdotally fascinating, enough to hold dramatic interest. Gomez-Rejon manages some impressive period recreations — most notably the Chicago World’s Fair — and revels in the strange stories along the way, like the ill-fated elephant (and too-credulous press corps) ruthlessly exploited in Edison’s attempt to discredit his competition. After two hours spent apart, Edison and Westinghouse stand face to face for a truce-like discussion, civil at last. It’s a dramatically satisfying exhale after a sprint through history that’s sometimes dumbed-down and sometimes reflective on the ways money talks and reason walks on the road to progress. Rated PG-13 for some disturbing/violent images, and thematic elements. One hour, 47 minutes. — Peter Canavese
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THEATER ‘Mark Twain’s River of Song’ TheatreWorks Silicon Valley continues its 50th anniversary season with the West Coast premiere of “Mark Twain’s River of Song.” Through Oct. 27; times vary. $30-$100; discounts available, pricing subject to change. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, 500 Castro St., Mountain View. theatreworks.org ‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’ Adapted from the 1975 film “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Monty Python’s Spamalot” is an irreverent parody of the Arthurian legend. Oct. 25-Nov. 3; times vary. $20-$42; discounts available. Woodside High School Performing Arts Center, 199 Churchill Ave., Woodside. woodsidetheatre.com ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’ Palo Alto Children’s Theatre presents “The Phantom Tollbooth,” which
follows Milo into the fantastical world of the Lands Beyond on a quest to rescue princesses Rhyme and Reason. Through Oct. 27; times vary. $14-$16. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. cityofpaloalto.org/childrenstheatre ‘The Three Little Pigs’ Palo Alto Children’s Theatre presents “The Three Little Pigs.” With simple sets and costumes, and lots of opportunities to get up and wiggle, this storyteller style theater is fit for ages 2 to 6. Performances are approximately 55 minutes in length. Oct. 26-27; times vary. $12-$14. Palo Alto Children’s Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. cityofpaloalto.org
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of Harlem community members are intimate portrayals of often overlooked members of society. Through Feb. 2, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum. stanford.edu Kahlil Joseph: ‘BLKNWS’ Kahlil Joseph, a visiting artist in the new Presidential Residencies on the Future of the Arts program, presents his work “BLKNWS,” a twochannel video projection that blurs the lines between art, journalism, entrepreneurship and cultural critique. Through Nov. 25, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu Public Tour: ‘West x Southwest’ The Capital Group Foundation’s gift of 1,000 photographs to the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University includes works by American photographic masters Ansel Adams, Edward Curtis, John Gutmann, Helen Levitt, Wright Morris, Gordon Parks and Edward Weston. Thursday, Saturday, Sunday through Jan. 5, 12:30 p.m. Free. Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. events.stanford.edu ‘West x Southwest’: Edward Weston and Ansel Adams This exhibit features landscapes, still lifes, nudes and portraits created by Edward Weston in Mexico and Ansel Adams in the American southwest. Through Jan. 6, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Free. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford. museum.stanford.edu
Layli Long Soldier Reading As part of the Lane Lecture Series, Stanford University’s creative writing program presents a poetry reading by Layli Long Soldier. Oct. 28, 8-9 p.m. Free. Stanford University, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford. events.stanford.edu Richard Dawkins in conversation with Robert Sapolsky Professor Richard Dawkins celebrates the release of his new book, “Outgrowing God” with a conversation spanning science and religion joined by Stanford Professor Robert Sapolsky, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists. Oct. 26, 7:30-9 p.m. $25 or $50 with book; discount for students; $300 reception. San Mateo Performing Arts Center, 600 N. Delaware St., San Mateo. Search eventbrite.com for more info.
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Safety Day Safety Day activities include lessons about how to keep families safe in an emergency, a safety treasure hunt, car seat checks for proper installation and a costume parade. Oct. 26, 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. Free. Town Center, 765 Portola Road, Portola Valley. portolavalley.net Zoppe Italian Family Circus: ‘La Nonna’ Zoppe presents “La Nonna,” a special show honoring women. This one-ring circus honors the best history of the oldworld Italian tradition and stars Nino the Clown, along with many other mostly women-based acts. Through Nov. 3; times vary. $10-$28. Red Morton Park, 1455 Madison Ave., Redwood City. redwoodcity.org/zoppe
ESL Conversation Club Non-native and native English speakers talk together with the aim of developing English speaking and listening skills. No registration required. Wednesdays, 5-6 p.m. Free. Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St., Menlo Park. menlopark.org ‘My Dragon & Me’ This weekly course is designed to be a bonding experience as participants sing, dance and tell stories with their bodies and voices. Each week, the class will repeat songs and dances while the children engage in dramatized interactive storytelling. Tuesdays through Dec. 10, 11 a.m.-noon. $10; free for Redwood City residents. Dragon Theatre, 2120 Broadway St., Redwood City. rwcyt.org/toddlers-pre-k Plein Air Painting: Fall Colors in Oil This class begins with a demonstration from the instructor, followed by creating a painting in Filoli’s meadow. The class will move indoors and conclude with an informal critique over a glass of wine. Beginning artists are welcome. Oct. 25, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. $110; discount for members. Filoli Gardens, 86 Old Canada Road, Woodside. filoli.org
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nature. Oct. 27; 1 p.m. $10 adults; $5 children, plus cost of Filoli admission. Filoli Gardens, 86 Old Canada Road, Woodside. filoli.org Verdi’s ‘Nabucco’ A love triangle set against the backdrop of ancient Babylon, “Nabucco” is the opera that propelled Verdi into international stardom as an opera composer. Through Oct. 27; times vary. $35-$92; discounts for students, seniors, groups. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. wbopera.org/nabucco-2019
Public Tour: Anderson Collection The Anderson Collection features modern and contemporary American paintings and sculptures assembled by Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson and Mary Patricia Anderson Pence, a Bay Area family who built the collection over the last 50 years. Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 18, 12:30 p.m. Anderson Collection, 314 Lomita Drive, Stanford. events.stanford.edu ‘The Cat Behind the Hat’ Peabody Fine Art and Framing presents a gallery show of paintings and illustrations by Dr. Seuss. Through Oct. 27, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. Peabody Fine Art and Framing, 603 Santa Cruz Ave., Menlo Park. peabodygallery.com ‘Cointraptions: Classic Coin-Operated Machines “Cointraptions: Classic Coin-Operated Machines” explores what life was like before the era of credit cards with classic coin-operated machines, including gambling devices, a mutoscope, vending machines and more. Friday-Sunday through Feb. 16, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. The Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer Ave., Palo Alto. moah.org ‘In High Places’: An Exhibition of Watercolor Paintings by Yvonne Newhouse The Portola Art Gallery presents “In High Places” by Yvonne Newhouse of San Mateo. The exhibit highlights the artist’s paintings from her many treks though the High Sierra. Through Oct. 31, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Portola Art Gallery, 75 Arbor Road, Menlo Park. portolaartgallery.com ‘Returning the Gaze’ Featuring paintings made in the last five years, Jordan Casteel’s large-scale portraits
Kafenia Mid-Week Breather The Kafenia Peace Collective hosts weekly communal meals, featuring dialogues, music and time to socialize with friends from all cultures and backgrounds. Wednesdays through Oct. 30. $20; discount for kids, students, seniors over 80. Cafe Zoe, 1929 Menalto Ave., Menlo Park. Search eventbrite.com for more info. Monday Night Pub Quiz Teams and individuals compete in a trivia contest for a chance to win prizes. Mondays through Nov. 25, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free; food and drink available for purchase. Freewheel Brewing Company, 3736 Florence St., Redwood City. freewheelbrewing.com
HEALTH & WELLNESS Building Resilience and Joy in a Stressful World: Weekly Meditation In this weekly program, Segyu Rinpoche will introduce the Vajrayana system in the form of the healing practices of the Medicine Buddha and the meditations and philosophies that underline those practices. Wednesdays through Dec. 18, 7-9 p.m. $25 per week. Guild Hall, Woodside Village Church, 515 Hillside Drive, Woodside. Search eventbrite.com for more info.
OUTDOOR RECREATION Nature Hike Hikers are led through a variety of natural communities, including oak woodlands and redwood groves. Hikes are held in light rain. Refunds will be issued in the case of heavy rain. Saturday mornings through Nov. 16, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $15. Filoli Gardens, 86 Old Canada Road, Woodside. filoli.org The People of Filoli This 90-minute tour of the house and garden uncovers new stories about the community of people who created and sustained Filoli. Friday-Sunday through Nov. 17, 2-3:30 p.m. $15. Filoli Gardens, 86 Old Canada Road, Woodside. filoli.org
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