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to Shirakawa, Campos p8

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Undead and underwhelmed p19 | Seven Cinequest picks p21 | A cinematic three-way p22

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JAPAN’S FLOATING WORLD THE JOHN C. WEBER COLLECTION

ASIAN ART MUSEUM FEB 20–MAY 10, 2015 Seduction reveals the urban pleasures of Edo-period Japan (1615-1868) through more than 60 works of art, including paintings, kimonos and an almost 58-foot-long handscroll vividly portraying a visit to the Yoshiwara—Edo’s most celebrated pleasure district. Our concurrent exhibition, The Printer’s Eye: Ukiyo-e from the Grabhorn Collection, delves further into the floating world with a superb assemblage of Japanese woodblock prints.

The art of Seduction comes to life on Thurs, Feb 19, 7–11 pm at the opening party: Courtesans, Cooks, Samurai and Servants. Interdisciplinary artist Midori returns with a frisky cast of characters to pepper the party with impromptu performances. Drink and dance to sexy beats by Proof (Massive Selector) as the bold and bawdy evening unfolds.

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Seduction: Japan’s Floating World | The John C. Weber Collection was owas organized by the Asian Art Museum. Presentation is made possible with the generous support of Hiro Ogawa, Atsuhiko and Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation, The Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Charitable Foundation, The Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Fund for Excellence in Exhibitions and Presentations, Anne and Timothy Kahn, and Rhoda and Richard Mesker. Media sponsors: ABC7, SF Media Co., KQED, and San Francisco magazine. Image: Peony, from the handscroll Secret Games in the Spring Palace (Shungu higi) (detail), approx. 1775–1780, by Katsukawa Shunsho (Japanese, d. 1792). Handscroll section mounted as hanging scroll; ink, colors, and gold on silk. John C. Weber Collection. Image © John Bigelow Taylor.

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Goldiee Spigot Spigot California may be California b on the pr precipice ecipice of an end-of-dayss dr ought,, but our local drought, water watchers’ watcherss’ money ffaucet aucet remains remains tapped like the last call of happy hour hour..

Earlier this mon nth the Santa Clar Valley month Claraa Valley Water W ater District boar bboardd took up the topic of incr easing salar ries to rremain emain competitive. increasing salaries Most employee es rreceived eceived ar ound a 5 employees around per cent bump iin n pay ffor or the coming year percent year..

But when it cam me time to look at CEO came BEA U GOLD IE’s compensation,, board board BEAU GOLDIE’s members could dn’t stop themselves fr om couldn’t from LINDA making it rrain. ain. LI NDA LEZOTTE, LEZOTTE, sitting in ffor or chair GA RY KREMEN ad GARY KREMEN,, who hhad to attend his mother m ’s funer al, got the mother’s funeral, humblebr ag sta arted by humblebrag started rreluctantly eluctantly adm mitting the admitting They boardd and Gold Goldie boar ie had Did ““shown shown just inc credible incredible What? leadership pite leadership”” des despite SEND TIP TIPSS TTO O ffalling alling short of its top Y@ FLY@ FL priority—r educcing priority—reducing METR ONEWS. METRONEWS. water consump ption consumption COM CO M by 20 per cent.. She S percent. then pr oposed a 3.8 proposed per cent incr easse in Goldie ’s pay to rremain emain percent increase Goldie’s competitive wit th other government with agencies, bef agencies, ore suggesting an additional before one-year 5 per c rraise cent aise as a bonus. percent A ccording to TTransparent ranspar a ent California, California,, Goldie According rreceived eceived $4 417 17,,8223 in salaries and benefits $417,823 in 2013.. After so ome back and fforth orth with some the ever-curmu udgeonly DI CK SSANTOS ANTOS ever-curmudgeonly DICK on what was acceptable a ffor or the rrest est of employees, LeZ Zotte inexplicably made LeZotte a new motion to bump Goldie’s Goldie’s bonus up to 7 per cent. N AI H SUEH jackknif ed percent.

NAI HSUEH jackknifed to second the proposal, proposal, which passed unanimously ssave ave ffor or an abstention fr om B ARBARA A KEE GAN, who cited her from BARBARA KEEGAN, from Goldie’s performance absence fr om Goldie G ’s perf ormance rreview eview as the rreason. eason.. (Real ( tr anslation:: She translation: think ’t want thinkss Goldie iss overpaid but didn didn’t to say it out lou ud.) Like concert babies loud.) who fforgot orgot thei ir ear plugs,, the tone deaf their boardd did all of this while water costs boar increase percent could incr ease much as 31 per cent in the year.. It see seems Kremen, next year ems Kr emen, the most vocal opponent of pe erformance evaluations and performance pay bumps con nducted in the mir rorr, is the conducted mirror, only one who ’s taking a vocal stand on who’s the vaingloriouss natur d.. Of naturee of the boar board. course, that’s that’s because because he already already made his money hookingg people during his days as Internet a pioneer of Int ternet dating.

Scratch My Back BENCHWARMER B BEN CHWARMER George Shirak Shirakawa kawa Jr Jr. r. topped the list of San Jo Jose ose city council endorsers in Ju Judge udge Del P Pozzo’s ozzo’s 2002 run.

JJudge omits po political litical friendsh friendship hip w with ith George Shirakawa S Jr Jr. r. before offerin offering g light sentenc sentence ce BY B Y JOSH K KOEHN OEHN

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F George Shirakawa Shirakawa Jr. Jr. receives community service instead of jail time as punishment for fo or his felony mail fraud, fraud, h can thank a judge with he w whom he’ politiccal he’ss shared a political re elationship for more than na relationship d ecade. decade.

Ron R on M. Del P o Pozzo, ozzo, a Sant Santaa Clara C o ty Sup ount erior C ourt judge ffor or o County Superior Court th he last 12 yyears, eears, stunned pr osecutorss the prosecutors w a remarkably with remark kaably gener ous off ffeer to generous offer Sh hirak kawa’s at tttorneeyys in closed cham mbers Shirakawa’s attorneys chambers Monday M Monda ay afterno afternoon, on, just a da day ay into th the he of a trial that spans back to rresumption e esumption JJune u 2013. What the judge did not sa une ay say b e ehind ors, or in ccourt ourt at an ny behind closed do doors, any p o in the trial, is that he ccounted oint ounted San S point JJose’s o ’s then vic ose ayo or among his k ey vicee ma mayor key en ndorsements in 20 02, when he won n endorsements 2002,

his first election to the b bench. ench. An ar archive chivve of Del P Pozzo’s ozzo’s ccampaign ampaign n website listed Shirakawa city Shirak kawa at the top of the t list of cit ty officials supp supporting orting his ccandidacy. andidacyy.

Del P Pozzo ozzo also did no not ot disclose in ccourt ourt that he also rreceived eceiv e veed the support key supp ort of a k ey witnesss in the trial, trial Assemblymember Nora Campos A sssemblymember N oraa C ampos (D-San (D -S San JJose), ose), who who,, pr prosecutors oseecutors claim, financ financed ed Shirak Shirakawa’s awa’s the theft eft of a ccouncil ouncil election on her lit little brother’s behalf. tttle br o other’ sb ehalff.

Assemblywoman A sssemblywoman C Campos amp pos sent Shirakawa Shirak kawa $5,0 $5,000 00 as Xa Xavier avvier C av Campos ampos w was aas locked City Council ouncil lo ck keed in a tight San JJose osee Cit ty C Magdalena Carrasco. ccontest ontest against Magdale ena C arrasco.

To T o muddle mat matters ttters fu further, urtherr, Del P Pozzo ozzo also neglected to disclosee that his wif wife, fe, Corina, C orina, who ser served veed as hi his is ccampaign ampaign treasurer three tr easurer in thr reee election on ccampaigns, aampaigns, electio $250 Shirakawa’s 2008 donated $2 50 to Shirak kawa’s 20 08 supervisor ccounty ountty sup ervisor ccampaign. aamp paign. During defendant that ccampaign, ampaign, the def fen endant funnelled $130,000 secret slush $130,0 00 into a secr ret e sl lush fund.

Shirakawa guilty five Shirak kawa pleaded guilt ty to fiv ve ffelonies eelonies seven misdemeanors and se eveen misdemeanor rs in 2013 ffor o or the

misappropriation funds,, which wer weree misappr oprriation of funds from cconsidered onsidered separate fr om his rrecent ecent ccase. ase.

Chase, deputy JJohn ohn Ch ase, the deput ty district attorney oversaw prosecution’s at tttorneey who wh o veersaaw the pr osecution’s says was unaware Pozzo’s ccase, ase, sa ayys hee w as a una awaare of Del P ozzo’s familiarity defendant familiarit ty with the def fendant e and witnesses.. “He say witnesses “ definitely did not sa ay potential interest, he had a p o otential cconflict onflict of inter est,” Chase cconfirms. onfi firms.

Pozzo walked When Del D P ozzo w aalk keed into ccourt ourt Monday morning, before Monda ay morning m g, b effo ore the trial was begin, jovially greeted w aas set to b egin, he jo ovially v gr eeted Shirakawa byy announcing Shirak kawa fr ffrom om afar b theree w was gallery. ther as a “aa ccelebrity” elebrittyy” in the ggaller y. later, Pozzo bee Moments la aterr, Del P ozzo ccould ould o b heard sharing Gregory hear d sharin ing pleasantries with Gr egory Ward, was present War d, a fformer orrmer judge who w o as a pr esent Xavier Campos’ attorney as Xa avvier C a os’ at amp tttorneey and who hoped quash Attorney’s hop ed to qu uash the District A ttorne t eyy’s subpoena Campos testify. subp oena to t ccompel ompel C ampos to testif fy.

Ward Pozzo laughs,, War d and Del D P ozzzzo shared shared a ffew ew laughs and the lat latter they ttter mentioned that the ey future. should grab b lunch in the near futur e.

Together, defense prosecution T ogetherr, the def feense and pr ro osecution hundreds filed hundr reds of p pages g of briefs and Monday morning, motions Monda M ay morning g, suggesting any neither had d an ny intention other than proceeding pr oceedingg with a trial eexpected xp x ected to several weeks.. But when at attorneys last se eveeral weeks w tttorneeyys afternoon, Pozzo rreturned eturned in n the afterno on, Del P ozzo offered defense off ffeered the def fense e a deal that would

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allow Shirakawa Shirak kawa to aavoid vo oid d jail time and a guilt ty plea. Ther aas no n such off ffeer guilty Theree w was offer osecuttors, sa b eing made by by pr ays y Chase being prosecutors, says Chase..

The C aliffo ornia C ode of of JJudicial udicial Ethics California Code has strict rules on how ju udges can caan giv ve judges give and rreceive eceivve ccampaign ampaign a ccontributions, o ontributions , and it app ears Del P ozzo o did not cr oss appears Pozzo cross an ny lines that would disq qualiffy him any disqualify fr om hearing the ccase. ase. ((As As of pr ess time from press Met tro ccould ould not lo caate Del D P ozzo’s 20 02 Metro locate Pozzo’s 2002 ccampaign ampaign a disclosur o orm ms. The R eegistrar disclosuree fforms.

Registrar of V o oters destr oys y such rrecords ecords in print Voters destroys fform orm after se o veen yyears.) eears.) But B disclosing a seven cconflict onflict of inter reest, rreal eal or o p erceivveed, is interest, perceived, andar often cconsidered onsidered st ard practic e. A standard practice.

Ass an eexample, xample, JJudge udge Philip pP enn nypack y keer Pennypacker rrecused ecused himself fr om b o of Shirak oth kawa’s from both Shirakawa’s aas learned that trials in late 2013 after itt w was he had eex-parte xx-parte ccommunications ommu unications with one of the def fense e ’s at ttor t rneeyys. defense’s attorneys.

V iictoria Henle ey, dir ecctorr-chief Victoria Henley, director-chief ccounsel ounsel ffor or the C o aliffo orniia C ommission California Commission on JJudicial udicial P erfo ormance, would not Performance, ccomment omment on Shirak kawa’s trial, but she Shirakawa’s did ttalk alk ab out the rresponsibility espon nsibilitty that about lies with all judges judges.. “The disclosur disclosuree osed rrequirement equirement is that yyou’re ou o u’’re supp supposed nything y thatt a rreasonable easonable to disclose an anything p erson would cconsider onsider a cconflict onflict of person inter est,” Henle ey sa ayys. interest, Henley says.

Del P ozzo’s p oliticcaal in nvo olvvement e Pozzo’s political involvement eextends xxtends t d b eyo ond d Shirak Shi kawa and d the th beyond Shirakawa C amposes to a br oad sswath wath a of the Camposes broad South Ba ayy’s pr ogressivvee//lab l or wing of Bay’s progressive/labor cratic P arty. The Th judge and the Demo Democratic Party. his wif fe, neither of whom m rreturned eturned ccalls alls wife, ffor or ccomment, o omment, ha ave ccontributed ey onttributed mone have money to or rgganizations such as the South Ba ay organizations Bay entral L abor C ouncil and Dem mocratic C Labor Council Democratic Central C ommittttee, as well as to o the ccampaigns ampaigns Committee, avez. Before Beffor o e rreplacing eplacing of Cindy Cha Chavez.

Shirak kawa as county countty supervisor, sup pervisorr, Chavez Chaavez Shirakawa at ttempted t d to ttalk alk alk Distric Di ict A tttorneey JJeff eff ff attempted District Attorney R osen out of pr o osecutin ng Shirak kawa, aa Rosen prosecuting Shirakawa, long gttime p oliticcaal ally y. longtime political ally.

Chase sa ayys he w aas un naawaare of an ny says was unaware any cconnection onnection b etween JJudge u udge Del P ozzo, between Pozzo, Shirak awa and the def fendant e ’s cir cle Shirakawa defendant’s circle o friends. “If I wer ayybe I off friends. weree the judge judge,, ma maybe would sa ay something ab bout it,” he sa ayys. say about says.

The eevidence vvidence pr esenteed against presented Shirak kawa mounted aft er motions and Shirakawa after briefs wer ay. A let ttter the weree filed Monda Monday. letter d def fendant e d sent fr ffrom om jail j ill last l yyear eear to defendant Linda Delgado gttim me girlfriend Delgado,, a long longtime who also work keed as Xa avviier C ampos’ worked Xavier Campos’ 2010 ccampaign aampaign tr easurer er, suggested that treasurer, Shirak kawa w aas still at tttem mpting to pull Shirakawa was attempting strings fr om b ehind bars s. from behind bars.

Shirak kawa ask keed Delg gado to Shirakawa asked Delgado ccontact ontact the C amposes, as a well as N eil Camposes, Neil

Struthers, N Struthers, Nora’s oraa’s husband and a fformer ormer o cconstruction onstructio on and trades ccouncil ouncil o b oss. boss.

Shirak kawa w anted a them to help Ma ayya Shirakawa wanted Maya Esparza, hiss ccousin, ousin, in her San JJose ose ccouncil ouncil rac e. race.

“I need yyou ou to do a fa o avo or ffor or me o favor me,, I don n’t ’ w aan nt to ttalk alk on the phone don’t want phone,,” Shirak kawa wr w ote. “C an yyou ou please ccall o all Shirakawa wrote.

“Can N eil (phonee numb er rredacted) edacted) & Xa avvier Neil number Xavier and tell the em I need them and N ora to them Nora help Ma ayya. I’m rreally eally pissed! T ell e them I Maya.

Tell don n’’t ccare ar a e ab aabout out p olitics or if the ey don n’t ’ don’t politics they don’t lik ke her mp ersonally asking … OK … like her.. I’m personally Do it as so o as yyou on ou get this OK please o soon please..”

He added d as a p ostscript, “T Tell e Xa avvier postscript, “Tell Xavier I’m rreally eally upset u !!!” upset!!!”

In a trial brief brief,f, Chase suggested that Shirak kawa didn d ’t w aant to ttalk alk b Shirakawa didn’t want byy phone “lik kely e b eccaause eevery ver e y jail telephone ccall aall “likely because b egins with haw arning a that ccalls alls ar begins warning aree subject to monitoring m and rrecording. ecordingg.” He added that a $5,0 00 check N ora C ampos $5,000 Nora Campos wr ote to Sh hirak kawa in 2010, just weeks wrote Shirakawa audulent mailer w aas sent, after the fra fraudulent was ccould ould b en as a pa ayo off ff. bee see seen payoff.

“The factt that the def feendant b elieveed defendant believed he ccould ould de emand help fr om these thr ee demand from three individuals shows how close he w aas to was fu ther rreinforces einffor o ces that he them and fur further ve to ccommit ommit this crime to o had a motiv motive help Xavier Xaavier v rC ampos finish first in the Campos primar i y,” C h wr hase ote t. primary, Chase wrote.

Do cumeents filed Monda ay rrevealed eveealed Documents Monday det tails a eeven veen n mor details moree disturbing than Shirak kawa allegedly a pr oducing a Shirakawa producing fraudulent mailer r. mailer.

During a sear ch of Shirak kawa’s search Shirakawa’s he eeve ve of Thanksgiving 2013, home on th the in nvestigator e rs ffound ound in his b o edrroom investigators bedroom “printed maps m to Magdalena C arrascco’s Carrasco’s t the home of her par ents, as home and to parents, well as Go ogle Str eet V ie iew photo graphs Google Street View photographs h hom h mes.” off those homes.

A ddition nallyy, Chase said, Additionally, in nvestigato ors ffound o ound “a p olitical investigators political p ostcard featuring featuring e postcard images of the same flag of ccommunist om mmunist V ietnam i ” that Vietnam” app eared in n the p olitical mailers appeared political mailers..

Del Pozzo’s Pozzzzo o’s decision to end the trial b ontest plea ccould ould byy allowingg a no ccontest pr event e mo ore inf formation o about who prevent more information about w aas in nvolv o ved e fr rom o ccoming oming to light. This was involved from also does does not no ot addr ess the eexorbitant xorbit x ant address ccost ost to ttaxpayers axp paayeers in pr osecuting and d prosecuting rrepresenting epresentin ng Shirak kawaa.

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Attorney A tt ttorney G General enerall OKs OK H Hospitals Hospitals it l Sale S l

NOT OVER A change.org c petition demands the expulsion of three boys who sexually y molested Audrie Pott. She later later committed suicide.

Audriee P Pott’s ott’s Parents Parennts Demand Mor Moree Punishment Family me members mbers of a Saratoga Saratoga tteen who h took t ok to ok her h own life liffe after ft being b eing “slut shamed” sh hamed” on social social media aree demanding ar demandin ng that her sexual sexual assailants b bee expelled expelled from from their high scho schools. ols. A Change.org Change.org petition petition posted p osted b byy Audrie Audrie u Pott’s Pott’s parents, parents, which named d each of the three three boys, b oys, has garnered garn nered nearly 24,000 24,000 signatures signatures sin since nce it was was posted posted Feb. Feb. 11. ““Allowing A Allowing these t students to ccontinue ontinue at attending teending these schools schools sets an example example l to to other h students d and d athletes that this type type of criminal behavior b ehaavvior willl b bee tolerated without rregard egard ffor or victims’ o vicctims’ rights or the safety saf feety of other otheer students on campus,” campus,” the petition petition states. s ates. st In September Septemb ber 2012, Audrie, Audrie, 15 years years old, passed passsed out during a Labor Labor Day Da ay weekend weekend d party. party. Three Three teens, teens, ttwo wo of them her classmates, classmates, took took turns sexually sexuallyy assaulting her. her. They They also l to took ok k turns turn ns scribbling ibbli crass ccomments omments wi with ith a black permanent permanent marker mark er all over over her naked naked body. bodyy. All the while, while, they theey took took photos on their phones,, whic phones which ch were were forwarded fo orwarded to classmates an and nd cir circulated culated on social social media. A Audrie udriie hanged herself eight days da ayys later. later.

The three three teens, teens, aged 16 to 17, 177, pleaded plleaded l d d guilty guilt ilty to t the th attack atttack k and d taking taking a photos in January January 2014. A judge ju udge sentenced sentenced them to 30 to 455 days daayys in juvenile juvenile detention, which h they th hey served served on weekends. weekends.

Pott’s Pott’s family says saayys principals at Saratoga Saaratoga and Christopher high schools scchools took took no disciplinary disciplinary action actio on against aggainst the attackers. attackers.

“Because “Because of their actions, actions, Audrie Audrrie will w not be be able to graduate from from m high hiigh i h school, scho h ol, l and d her h assailants il should sh hould not have haave the honor of walking walking across across that stage stage either,” either,” the t petition petition e states. states.

After their daughter’s daughter’s death, Audrie’s Audrie’s parents parents fought fo ought for fo or the passage paassage of “Audrie’s “Audrie’s Law,” Law,” which allows alllows judges to name sex sex offenders off ffeenders who w attack attack the unconscious unconscious or disabled. diisabled.

If this case case were were tried in Tennessee Tennessee e or Ohio, Ohio hi , the h Pott Pott family f ily fam il says, saays y , the crime against Audrie Audrie would w have haave resulted resulted in rape rape charges. ch harges. The Pott Pott family has filed da wrongful w ongful death lawsuit wr law wsuit against the t three th hree attackers, attackers, which comes comes up in court cour o t later this month.

—Jennifer — Jennif e feer Wadsworth Wads a worth

California C aliffo ornia A Attorney tttorneey General G approved, austeree Kamala Harris appr oveed d, with auster cconditions, onditions o , the sale of sixx nonpr nonprofit ro ofit Charity Daughters of Charit ty Health H System hospitals hospit als to a ffor-profit or or--pr profit chain. c somewhat The decree decree has some w what ccalmed almed a bat battle tttle that divided p powerful ow werful unions unions,, both have claimed victory. b oth of which ha ave claim med victor y. The California C aliffo ornia N Nurses urses A Association/National ssociation c n//National Nurses United N urses U nited said thatt the sale ccould n ould save sa ave the hospit hospitals taals fr from om going g under under. r.

United Healthcare Workers West SEIU U n nited Healthc are W o ork kers e W est e argued ar gued that Prime Prime’s ’s aim m to pr profit ofit ccomes omes workers, at the eexpense xxpense of work keers, but also supported stipulations. supp orted Harris’ stipul lations.

Attorney General’s The A tttorneey Gener ral’s decision ral drew from Santaa Clara also dr ew criticism fr om m Sant County, C ountty, which claims that t the sale threatens thr eatens the rregion’s egion’s most m vulnerable byy limiting ac access rresidents esidents b ccess to critical medical and potentially critic al medic al help an nd p otentially

o overwhelming veerwhelm ming lo local cal public hospit hospitals. als.

County officials say theyy will lo look ok C ounty offi fficials sa ay the ffor o or w ways ays y to o ac acquire quire one or mor moree of hospitals prevent from the hospit a to pr als event e Prime fr om ttaking aking o over. veerr.

Per Harris’ sale,, Prime P er Harr ris’ terms of the sale Healthc Healthcare are will run O’C O’Connor onnor Hospit Hospital, al, Louise Regional Hospital, Saint L ouisse R eegional Hospit al, Seton Medic Medical al C Center, e enter , St. Francis Medic Medical al Center, Vincent Medical Center C enterr, St. V inc i ent Medic al C enter and Seton C Coastside. oastside. The deal, which largest overseen byy her she ccalled aalled the t lar gest o veerseen b offic office, e, dem demands mands that the buy buyer yer e pr provide ovvide charity levels” charit ty ccare aare “at historic le vels” e and “restriction rreproductive eproductivve ccare are with no “r estriction limitation. invest of limit atio on”” Prime must also in on. nveest million facility improvements, $150 millio on on facilit ty impr ovements e , pensions 17,000 active ccover over e p ensiions of 17 7,,000 activ ve and workers treat rretired etired wor rk keers and ccontinue ontinue to tr eat Medi-Cal Medicare MediCal and a Medic are patients ffor o or the next Wadsworth ne xt 10 yyears.—Jennifer eeaars.—Jeenniffeer W aadsworth

State Bill A State Aims to Curb Curb Nui Nuisances sances at Commun nications Hill Communications About Ab out fiv five ve yyears eears ago ago,, wor word d got out on so social cial media that C Communications omm municcaations Hill, with its grand st staircases aircases and stunning views, vie ws, is a gr great eat work workout ko ou ut sp spot. ot. P People eople checked check keed in on Fac Facebook, ceb e ook k, p posted osted photos photos,, eeven veen st started arted a Y Yelp eelp page page, e, dra drawing awing w dr droves ovees of visitors visitors..

Neighbors N eighbors st started taarted ccomplaining om mplaining as streets became clogged str eets b ecame clo gged with w ccars, aars, the stairs littered wrappers st taairs lit tttered with wrap ppers and visitors loitered night, loiter reed late into the nig ght, sometimes music,, drinking drinking, blaring music g, ttaking aking drugs and/or showing mor moree affection aff ffeection than ff decency laws permit.

Because public dec ency la aw ws p errmit. Bec ause stairs are right-ofthe st taairs ar re zoned as a public right t-offway, however, like sidewalk, city w ay, howe eveerr, lik ke a side ewalk, a the cit ty enforce curfew any, ccan’t an an’t ’ enf for o ce cur few or do d much, if an ny, crowd cr owd ccontrol. ontrol.

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Sen. JJim im i Beall (D (D-San -S San JJose) ose) is proposing pr oposing legislation l that would giv give ve cities autho authority oritty to rregulate egulate p pedestrian edestrian right-of-ways. right t-off--w ways y . SB 236 w was aas p penned enned with the C Communications omm municcaations Hill ffootpath ootpath in mind, bu but ut would apply to all cities cities..

Neighbors N eighbors of Mission P Peak eak in Fr Fremont, emont, note.. ttake ak ke note have greater “Cities would w ha ave gr eater latitude on ccontrolling o ontrollling the public use of staircases order address st airrcases in n or der to addr reess the needs like and cconcerns oncern ns of its rresidents, esidents, lik ke those live Communications who liv ve on nC ommuniccaations Hill,” Beall said. “It ““It’s ’s time we get ahead of this before development issue b effor o e the de evelopment e eexpands xpands x and things get worse ffor or o the rresidents. esidents.”

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GETTING G ET TING IN IN THE THE SWIM SWIM OF OF THINGS T H I NGS P Peter etter Livolsi Livolsi’s ’s ‘L ‘Leonard eonard in Slow M Motion’ otion’ will show as part Cinequest’s map.. of Cinequest t’s shorts program, which often n helps to put up-and-coming directors on the map

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T CINEQUEST, CINEQUEST T, the short sho ort programs programs can n help launch a director’s dire ector’s career and audiences give audie nces a glimpse at mavericks.

What’ss future mav vericks. What’ those program more, thos se who progr am the shorts inha abit the cutting inhabit edge right here in San JJose. ose.

This time around, a for the festiv al’s 25th 2 anniversary y, a festival’s anniversary, wide smat tering of snippets smattering will explod de off the screen. explode Every Ev veery emot emotion tion imaginable will b bee thrown right in yyour o our fac e, from from the thrown face,

extr extremes x emes of unc uncomfortable omffor o table darkne darkness ess Nominated to o joyous jo oyous tear-jerking. tearr-jjerking. N ominated Oscar, Keeper, byy ffor o an Osc or ar, The Dam K eeeper, b animation artists Robert and an nimation ar tists R o obert Kondo Kondo an nd Dicee Tsutsumi,, is a must-see.

D Dic mustt-see. speaking And sp eaking of animation, Cinequest shorts ts C inequest cco-head o-head of shor programming Garcia says the pr rogramming Chris Gar cia sa ayys th he selection se election this yyear eear ffeatures eeatures a widerr variety va arietty of animation ttypes yp y es than Cinequest programs.

C inequest normally pr ograms. So get ge et rready. eadyy.

“There’s “Ther There’s literally not a weak one Garcia says. on ne among them,” Gar cia sa ayys.

“Occasionally “O Occasionally a film ffestival estival e will include because in nclude a film just b ecause the animation an nimation is rreally eally well done, done, but these aree all rreally stories..” th hese ar eally amazing stories Now N ow that Cinequest is an academyacadem myqualifying seven qu ualiffyying ffestival eestival se ven or eight yyears eears

running est narrativ running,, if a film wins b best narrativee shor best animated d shor t,, it shortt or best short, often go es on to a list of o p otential goes potential Osc ar nominees ayys that ciia sa Oscar nominees.. Gar Garcia says means mor tention n and mor moree at attention moree submissions ogrammers submissions,, giving thee pr programmers an eeven ven e wider p palet ttte of o material to palette cho ose fr om. choose from.

“Our goal is to giv a br oad of givee as broad a vie w of film as p ossib ble,” Gar cia view possible, Garcia eexplains. xplains. “W Wee‘re alw ayyss looking looking to get “We‘re always do cumentaries, animat tions, narrativ vees documentaries, animations, narratives and ne w fforms, o orms, and alll these diff ffeerent new different things and put them to ogether in a w ay together way that b oth thematic allyy mak both thematically makee sense and also enhanc her, by by making enhancee one anoth another, ab ounce b ettw ween diff ffeerent ttakes ff ak kees on bounce between different h filmmaking how fil ki h happ ens.” happens.

A veel,, shor ovvide Att a base le level, shortt films pr provide audienc es with materia al that audiences material simply do esn’t mak ke itt into ffeature eatur e e doesn’t make mainstr eam ccontent ontent un ntil man ny yyears eears mainstream until many later ve as a dir ector’s later.. The Theyy often ser serve director’s first fforay o oraay into the enti ire medium. entire F or eexample, xxample, man ny sho ort films that For many short

Cinequest originally pr ogrammed programmed yyears ears ago fe ffeatured eatur e ed dir ectors and directors pr oducers that t later ccarved arveed out producers lucrativ a eers. ar lucrativee ccareers.

“I ccan an rremember e ememb er seeing an early Eli R oth o sh hort,, ffor or o eexample, xample, that Roth short, rreally eally just ble b wm cia blew myy mind,” Gar Garcia rrecalls. ecalls. ““And An A nd then a ccouple ouple of yyears ears later ou see s his first films on the later,, yyou multiple sscreens. eens. Ther e’s a p ersonal multiplexx scr There’s personal asp ect to pr p ogramming these early aspect programming films ork with the filmmak ers films,, to wo work filmmakers who ar oing to cut it in the futur e. aree go going future.

It ’s lik eople that sa aw It’s likee onee of the 20 p people saw Nir vana pl laay at the C actus Club o ou Nirvana play Cactus Club.. Y You ccan an sa ay, ‘I w as ther eginning.’” say, was theree at the b beginning.

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You a chanc o hear what ’s on the DJ’ chancee to what’s DJ’ss mind,, eexperience xperienc e e his or her own ttastes, astes, or ge et a fla avor of what mo od he get flavor mood or she w as in. F or eexample, xample, an eclectic was For assemblage bl e off work k highlights hi hli ht the th Do cuNatio on set of shor ts this time DocuNation shorts ar ound. Ga arcia admits his fingerprints around.

Garcia ar verr selection. Ther e’s Me xican aree all o over There’s Mexican wr estling, JJapanese apanese Goth L olitas, the wrestling, Lolitas, 22 bus us a rar ven bus,, plu plus raree tea shop and eeven an Ohlonee flick k—Garciaa’s own trib e. flick—Garcia’s tribe.

It ’s a harm monization of lo cal and It’s harmonization local internation nal,, nativ xotic, urban international, nativee and eexotic, and suburb ban. JJust ust what I’ d eexpect xpect suburban.

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And the en ther e’s the MindBenders then there’s pr ogram of o shor ts—nine films dealing program shorts—nine with loss m der, rrevenge, evenge, ffear ear e and loss,, mur murder, eextreme xtreme eexperimentation. x erimentation. Gar xp cia sa ayys Garcia says LLove ove at LLast astt Sight is one of the dark est darkest films eever ver shown s at Cinequest,, plus he ttalks alks up p the German aavant-surreal, vant v -surreal, b orderlinee music al pr esentation, Solo borderline musical presentation, F inale, a fil m that ccould ould ha ave work ed Finale, film have worked in a numb er of other pr ograms. number programs.

“Ev ery yyear ear that we [pr ogram “Every [program MindBend ders], we end up get ttting MindBenders], getting gr eat cr ow wds,” Gar cia sa ayys. “It kind of great crowds, Garcia says. cuts thr ouggh the crust olks who just o through crustyy ffolks lo ve to see eextreme xtreme horr or, and the love horror, har dcore film fi nuts who might just hardcore lo ve eexperimentation, xperiimentation,, but this yyear’s ear’ e s love pr ogram iss rreally, eallyy, rreally eally inter esting program interesting b ecause wee went in a ccouple ouple of because diff ffeerent dir d ections.” different directions.

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W We e want want informati information ion at our fingertips fingertips,, and, yet, we want want our information kept ke ept private. private.

W We e want want to connect connecct openly with friends on soc social cial media, and feel that those awful little memories of social s embarr embarrassment assment tha that at keep you awake awake in the night n didn didn’t ’t really matter after all. We We w want ant both freedom m and safety safety, y, and the v vast ast machi machineries ineries of government spying g revealed by E dward Snowden show s us that Edward we have neither. neither. A n as the net nd And morphs from an information information and communication communication delivery system to one that tr acks tracks and manages our physical p movements s, our ca rs, our movements, cars, thermostats ank thermostats,, our ba bank tr ansactions and ou ur heart transactions our beats beats,, the question questionss of who controls and has access acccess to that data becomes even more acute.

Killswitch, Kills witch,, a ffestival-lauded eestival--lauded documentary fr documentary from om thee team of Ali Akbarzadeh and JJeffrey e ey Horn effr arriving at Cinequest, eexamines xamines the eff efforts ffo orts to squelch the t Internet in the name of fightingg terr terrorists orists and ccontent ontent pirates pirates.. Cu Currently, urrentlyy, FCC FC C Chairman T Tom o om Wheeler W is pushing to rregulate egulate th thee Internet as a public utilit utilityy unde under er T Title itle II of the C Communications ommunication ns A Act ct of 1934—a mo move ve dr dreaded eaded db byy bandwidth providers pr oviders nation nationwide. nw wide.

Net N et neutrality neutralitty is the main m ffocus ocus of the thr three-and ee-and a half yyears eears in the making do documentary cumentary Kills K Killswitch. witch.

I ttalked alk keed to Akbarzadeh and Horn via phone as the theyy headed headeed to LAX to show their mo movie vie at the t C Capitol apitol Visitor’s V iisitor’s C Center enter in Wash Washington hington D DC. C.

The een in nvvited to the ccapitol apitol Theyy had b been invited byy C b Congressman ongresssman Alan Gra Grayson, ayson, y , who would b haring the p odium with bee sh sharing podium Harvard Har vard pr professor ofessor of e L Lawrence aw wrence L Lessig essig and Craig Aar on n,, pr esident of Fr ee Pr ess.

Aaron, president Free Press.

Killswitch Kills witcch pr premiered emiered at the W oodstock kF ilm F estival, wher Woodstock Film Festival, wheree it won a we well-deserved ell- deserved aaward ward ffor or o b est editing g. It has some of the best editing. most lapida lapidary ary use of ffound ound ffootage o ootage this side off The A Atomic ttomic C Café. affé. It has played pla p ayed at 155 diff different ffeerent ffestivals, eestivals, and is ccoming oming to the t valle valleyy as par partt of the 25th 2 5th annua annual al Cinequest.

The timi timing ing ccouldn’t ouldn’t b bee b better etter ffor o or a do documentary cumen ntary on the encir encirclement clement of the Inter Internet. rnet. Pr President esident Barack Obama rrecently ecently cconvened onvened a summit on cyb cybersecurity erseccurity at St Stanford, anffo ord,, and

Aar on Sw artz. Thir d is philosop ph hy Aaron Swartz.

Third philosophy professor pr offeessor and N New ew York York o Times Times writer w P eter L udlow—the lat ter, in pr o ofane Peter Ludlow—the latter, profane language,, spells language spells out the imp importance ortanc a e of what ’s at stake stake when the op en nness what’s openness and neutralit neutralityy of the web are are left ft unpr otected: “W We need to find out o unprotected: “We what the fuck is going on.”

The eff ffo orts to ccontain ontain the yyoung o ou ung efforts Internet b began egan in 19 1986, 86,, after thee film War Games sc scared ared C Congress ongress into o the passingg the C p Computer omputer p Fraud and d Abuse A Act, ct,, ffor or ffear o eear of first first-generation -generaation hackers hack keers with 30 300 0 baud mo modems dems starting st arting W World o orld War III. This rresulted esu ulted in the now-familiar softw software waare lic license e ense agreements agr eements we rregularly egularly click to accept ac cept without rreading—leaving eading—leaavvingg ourselves ourselv es op open en to pr prosecution osecution ffor o or

BIG BI G BR BROTHER’S OTHER’S KEEPER KEEPER Edward Snow Snowden wden exposed the NSA NSA’s ’s massi massive ve domestic spying s practices practices, s, which are dis discussed scussed in ‘Killswitch.’

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Horn sur surveys veys ttwo wo of the maj major or stories in the fight o over ver privacyy surveillance. and sur veillance. The first is thee stor on Sw artz,, pr ofiled in storyy of Aar Aaron Swartz, profiled the do documentary cumentary The Internet Internet’s ’s Own Boy, Boy, now aavailable vvailable ffor o or download. Sch Schwarz hwarz hung himse himself elf Brooklyn apartment while in his Br ooklyn apar tment whi ile facing dozens of ffelony eelony char charges ges ffor or o

hacking JS JSTOR, TOR, wh which ich cconceals onceals moree than 5 million mor n scientific and academic ac ademic papers papers b behind paywall. ayw y all. ehind a pa Killswitch points Scholars—and as Ki illswitch p oints out, scholars in the thir third d world—had pay prices access to pa ay huge pric es to t ac cess work produced pr oduced b byy pr prestigious estiggious univ universities. ersities. prodigious Schwarz, The pr odigious Sch hwarz, who helped help ed de develop velop RS RSS S pr protocols otocols and Infogami, merged ffounded ounded Inf o fogami, a site that mer ged Reddit, with R eeddit,, ffelt eelt he had “a moral imperative” free imp perative” to fr ee the t knowledge g locked profit. lo cked up ffor o or pr ofitt.

Edward Snowden The Edw ard Snow wden ccase ase better Killswitch is b etter known and d Kills witch through (with from glides thr ough it (w with clips fr om Citizenfour). isn’t Citizenf four o ). Horn is sn’t as close to the storyy as Citizenf Citizenfour’s director Laura stor foour’s dir ector L aura Poitras. account quicker P oitras. The ac coun nt is quick er and moree dispassionate dispassionate—General mor — General JJames ames Clapper lying Clapp er is seen lyin ng under oath in Citizenfour. attempt Citizenf four o . In an at t tempt to eexplain xplain about his fforked ork o ed tongue g ab bout the vast PRISM dataa ccollection vvolume olume of the PRIS SM dat ollection program, soaked directly from pr ogram, soak ed up p dir ectly fr om ISPs, says trying ISP s, Clapper Clapper sa ayys he h is tr ying to NSA outline what the N SA did in ““the the manner.” least untruthful ma anner.”

Killswitch Kills witch lucidly eexplains xplains the importance ending massivee imp ortance of endin ng this massiv dataa vacuum b byy the intelligenc intelligencee dat apparatus.. What if we have apparatus w ha ave nothing to hide, hide, what if everything everything y we sought and wr wrote ote on the Int Internet ternet ccould ould b bee billboard next emblazoned on a bil llboard ne xt to the chur church ch we at attend? tttend d? That That’s ’s not the intelligencee agencies ar aree in issue: the intelligenc the p position osition of a wha whale ale tr trying ying to find particular one par ticular krill; so s much is inhaled that the most imp important orrtant details details get kept ep lost. The public is k pt in cconstant onstant ffear eear over o veer p potential otential terrorist terrorrist attacks, atttacks, but the attacks occur despite osmic at ttacks still o ccur des spite the ccosmic amounts of dat dataa the NS NSA A and other agencies ar aree mining. mining.

Ass Ludlow A Ludlow p points oints out,, yyou o ou can can a juxtapose juxt apose the Boston n Marathon bombing—which b ombing—which thee NS NSA A failed to fforetell or o etell despite all thee wir wiretapping etapping and Internet-sifting, Internet t-sifting, not to t mention tips from fr om R Russian u ussian intellig intelligence gence officials—

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Killswitcch, which scr Killswitch, screens eens at Cine Cinequest, quest, joins the t latest cro crop op of documentaries examining Internet’s transformation documen ntaries exam mining the Int ternet’s trans sformation of o bigger that our lives and the bigg ger issues tha at loom BBYY RICHARD RICCHARD V VON ON BUSACK BUSAC K

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BREAKING T THE INTERNET with the eexplosion xplosion at th the he W West est e Texas Texxas ffertilizer eertilizer plant ttwo w wo days daayyss later. later. The terrorists terr orists killed three. three. Pernicious Pernicious ccorporate orporate neglect killed d 15. Terror Teerror is moree clear and a sideshow to the far mor m present ecological dangers Earth. pr esent ec ological dang gers facing Ear th.

Killswitch Kills witch also rreminds emiinds us—with warm fuzzy the more more than w arm and a fuz zy ffootage ootage of Gandhi and d MLK it deploys—that deplo oyys—that peaceful peacefu ul activism and hacktevisim strategic t t i h hackte kt visim i i ccan an work. k The Th populist documentary p opulist finale of this do d cumentary montage is a mont age cut to the the soundtrack of a passage that mostt critics ffeel eel e Chaplin’s demonstrates Charlie Chaplin ’s preachiness: intolerable pr eachinesss: the wrapup Dictator of The Great Great Dict ator (1941). The film podium ends with Chaplin at the t p odium audience—it's lecturing the audienc e—it's generally preachy cited as an eexceptionally xceptionallly pr each hy moment in cinema. Here, H e, as a voice Her voice over troubles track ko ver a montage montage of of the h tr oubles bl of the world of 2015,, Chaplin's C speech public sp eech ccalling alling the pub blic to action is effective, moving. eextremely xtremely eff ffeective, eeven ven mo ving. credit,” “I wish I ccould ould ttake ake cr edit,”” Horn says.

Sato,, one of the editors,, sa ayys. “CJ Sato t editors brought saying br ought that to the ttable, a , sa able ayying tinkering this.’.’ W Wee ‘I’m kind of tink eringg with this actual originally had the actu ual eexcerpt, xcerpt, wheree Chaplin deliv delivers speech wher errs the sp eech makeup, producer in Hitler mak eup, butt our pr oducer was about w as adamant d ab bout not n showing h i Hitler.”

Chaplin as Hitler .”

Here’s moree hop hopee off offered Her e’s some mor h ffeered byy Killswitch. b Killswitch. It rreminds emin nds us how lobbyist lobb yist and fformer o ormer US U senator Dodd Christopher Do dd of the Motion Picturee A Association Americaa Pictur ssociation off Americ was defeated attempt w as def feeated in his at tttempt to get SOPA—the Online SOP PA—the “Stop Onl line Piracy Act”—passed through senate..

A ct”—passed thr ough h the senate Dodd scoffed worries Do dd sc off ffeed aaway way wo orries that SOPA “break the internet”” SOP PA would “br eak th he internet was protest but it w as worldwide online pr otest broke SOPA. that, in fact,, br oke SO OP PA A. Killswitch, Ludlow In Kills witch,, L udlo ow rrebukes ebukes the mainstream mainstr eam media's ccoverage overage of SOPA, suggests was SOP PA, A which he sugge ests w as softpedaled byy br broadcasting monopolies p edaled b oadcastiing monop olies looking own interests. lo oking after their ow wn inter ests.

“Ludlow speaks problem “L udlow sp eaks to thee pr oblem of gatekeepers info gatekeepers ccontrolling ontrollin ng inf fo that didn’t serve ends,” says. didn ’t ser ve their ends s,” Horn sa ays y. problem. makee “Piracy is a genuine pr p oblem. I mak intellectual property a living off of intellect tual pr operty want bee able to pr profit and I w ant to b ofit from broader problem, fr om the craft. A br oaader pr oblem, way treat artt though, is the w ay wee tr eat ar about into that is ab out to go int to the public Disney domain, as when Disn ney ffought ought to o law get the ccopyright opyright la aw eextended." xtended."

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The que question estion is whether a fr free, ee, neutral and d dec decentralized entralized Internet ccan an survive, survive, despite desspite W Wu’s u’s warnings waarnings that all sources information sources of inf fo ormation eeventually ventually end up ccentralized en ntralized and under ccontrol. ontrol.

Wu bee right that the go government Wu may maay b veernment prefers monopoly—it’s one-stop preffeers a monop m olyy— —it’s one -stop shopping. shopping. But B in the past,, government go oveernment has also br broken okeen up monopolies ok monopolies in industries industriees as varied as theater ownership packing. hi and d meatt packing ki .

According “Wu Accordin ng to Horn: “W Wu also believes that oncee ther there’s believes th hat onc e’s enough political political will, w the public will use pressure monopoly broken pressure to o see a monop oly br oken was up by by the ccourts, ourts, as w as the ccase ase of the breakup breakup u of Ma Bell. But then we tend to o see rreconsolidation econsolidation yyears ears later. the naturee of ccapitalism, later. It’s It’s th he natur apitalism, which is not bad.”” n all bad.

Killswitch’s makers hopee that Killswitcch’s mak ers hop the FCC favor h FC C will will d decide id iin ffa avor off protecting protectingg the Internet. Akbarzadeh notes, was supposed notes, “Obama “Ob bama w as supp osed to be president. be the Internet Inteernet pr esident. He dropped the appointing dropped th he ball app ointing JJulius ulius Genachowski Genachow wski as the head of the FCC. his second FCC. In hi is sec ond term, when he appointed Tom Wheeler,, we wer weree appointed dT o om Wheeler very skeptical—he was very sk epttical—he w as a ccable able lobbyist—but lobbyist—but — when Wheeler ccame ame out in favor Title status, faavor o of T itle II st atus, that was way have been was the h w ay it i should h ld ha h ave b een from beginning. from the b eginning. “ Horn adds, ad dds, “Huge ccompanies ompanies that have aree against haave a lot to lose ar it,, but the Internet should b bee fr free ee and op open, way manyy en, in the w ay it is in man foreign There’ll always bee fo oreign ccountries. ou untries. Ther e’ll alw ayys b aw way laws, ways ay around arou und la aw ws, w ayys to outrun integrity. problem integrity. The T pr oblem rremains emains of figuring ou out pirates,, ut what to do with pirates but that’s problem that’s a pr oblem of eevolution— volution— everyone movie industryy w was everyone in i the mo vie industr as afraid of TV VCR theyy T and the V CR when the were invented. were in ven nted. This ffear eear eexplains xplains the overreaction overreaction of the ccorporations orporations and the ccomplacency government ompllacency of the go vernment so far far.. Thee w way government ay the go vernment came Napster,, ffor came down dow wn on Napster or o eexample, xample, was Hopefully, was ridiculous. ridicu ulous. Hop efullyy, the mechanism m of the Internet will hand some of th the power creators.” he p ower back to cr eators.”

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THIS T H IS M MOCKUMENTARY OCKUMEN TA RY SUCKS SUCKS Co-directed by y Fl Flight light g off the Conchords’ JJemain Jemaine ne Clement,, ‘What W We e Do In the Sh Shadows’ hadows’ examines the lives off four dysfunctional vampires vampires..

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T MAY MAY SEEM to o be unnecessary—b both as unnecessary—both another mocku umentary mockumentary and yet one mo ore v ampire more vampire flick—but What W e Do In We the Shadows hits the t mark by approaching itss undead subjects the same w ay TV’ subjects way TV’ss f took took on the The Surreal Life celebrities whose careers c just can’t can ’t be killed.

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ac cent,, lik eutonian diction dictio on of accent, likee the L Leutonian JJohn ohn C andyy; the vvoice oice goes goes fuss Candy; fussyy and Herzo gian when V iiago has to fi nally Herzogian Viago finally la ay down the law. laaw. lay Viago V iiago has had it up to her heree with w the messiness of their cr crypt. ypt. Gory Gorry plates and glasses ar aree stacked stacked in the sink. Viago Viiago says, saayys, “one one of the unfortunate unf fo ortunate things ab about out b being eingg vampiree is that you a vampir you have haave to drink blo od.” This means a lot of o blood. cleanup with pap paper er towels towels.. Afte After er he h yypnotizes a victim—who lo ooks hypnotizes looks moree disinter mor disinterested ested than rreally eally out o of it —Viiago asks her to lift her ffeet eeett so it—Viago he ccan an put ne wspapers on the flo fl or. newspapers floor.

In vvoice-over oice-over he shar es his philo osoph hy shares philosophy with the do cumentary team: “It’s “Itt’s the documentary l moment off their last h i liv li es. Why Wh hy not lives. mak nice experience?” experience?” makee it a nice V iiago’s familiar, familiar, Jackie Jackie ((Jackie Jackiee Viago’s van Beek),, is less impressed impressed with h his gentleness -aged ffemale eem male gentleness.. This middle middle-aged Renfield R eenfield is get getting ttting impatient w waiting a aiting to be be immortalized immortalized b byy a bite to the neck. When she brings o ver a sort-of so ort-of over

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ori Go onzalez-Macuer), friend,, Nick (C (Cori Gonzalez-Macuer), for o dinner urned. He br eaks a for dinner,, he ggets tu turned. breaks ng ar ound a living house rule b byy bringin bringing around s mate friend—his dull but solid mate,, Stu (Stuart R uther u for o d).

(Stuart Rutherford). ws is that it doesn’t doesn’t The fun of Shadow Shadows haave to cconvince onvince with witth rrealism, ealism, lik have likee mockumentariies. C o - directors most mockumentaries.

Co-directors Clement and Waititii get mor moree out of special eff ffeects th an just using the the special effects than poor depth of field of o the hand-held poor camera to make make vam mps p op up out of camera vamps pop nowhere. C ontrast th he budget on this nowhere.

Contrast the with the wo eful Dra cula Unt toold, and woeful Dracula Untold, it’s not just an eexample xamp ple of the smaller it’s movie getting getting so mu uch mor movie much moree bang for o the buck. C G seem ms to deliv er for CG seems deliver more sheer pleasur omedyy, more pleasuree during a ccomedy, as when ttwo wo vamps zap up into the skies to have haave it out. Their T friends egg them on: “Bat fight fight!! Bat fight fight!” !”

Among the man many ny things t to lo ve ab out Shadows iss its eclectic love about soundtrack k— —aa mix th hat includes soundtrack—a that V ivaldi, i , Balk an brass band b music Vivaldi, Balkan music,, and the bra avvura tune “Y You ou’re Dead”” b bravura “You’re byy V aallejo-born ’6 0s folkie folk o kie N orma T aanega.

Vallejo-born ’60s Norma Tanega.

What W Wee Do in the Shadows suggests vampir es as ultimatee arr estedvampires arrestedde velopment ccases, ases, as a p er the fforlorn orlorn o development per but fformidable ormidable Spik o ffyy the Spikee in Buff Buffy emise of vamp V aampire Slayer p Vampire Slayer.. The pr premise cr ypto - doc has b een done b effor o e—see crypto-doc been before—see Belgium ’s V aampirrees. Still, S the dir ectors Belgium’s Vampires. directors match a univ ersally lo lloved ved topic with universally an under tone ab outt lif fe in a vvery ery undertone about life rremote emote cit y. W eellington t anomie is city.

Wellington essential to this mo v ’s ccomedy. vie omedyy. movie’s The mo vie’s under to one rreflects eflects the movie’s undertone p oignant side of b ein ng undead in an poignant being unliv ely town. unlively The annual ball off the Sat anic Satanic undead ttakes akes plac n less splendor placee in than yyou’d ou’d see at a mid-pric m mid-pricee wedding wedding..

An eevening vening out b egiins with the cit begins cityy bus trip downtown. downtown It ccoalesces oalesces at an all-night Chinese rrestaurant. esstaurant. It ends with one of these im mmortals puking immortals b ehind a dumpster behind dumpster..

The hunt ffor o or hum man victims is human ccomplicated, omplicated, sinc he other cr eatures sincee th the creatures of the night mo ck th hese vampir es mock these vampires as Goths and weir do os, and the weirdos, blo od- drinkers sp end d man blood-drinkers spend manyy nights st anding ar ound plai intively outside a standing around plaintively nightclub —hoping the t b ouncers will nightclub—hoping bouncers in vite them inside invite inside..

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Aspie Seeks LLove ove One of the best best of the fest—Julie feest—Julie Sok olow’s do cumentarry ab out the Sokolow’s documentary about Pit tsburgh writer Da avviid Mat ttthews.

Pittsburgh David Matthews.

A osis that Att 41 he got the diagno diagnosis “m alled ec centriccities had “myy so ccalled eccentricities biological basis.”

Coping a biolo gical basis .” C oping with A sperger’s, Mat tthe t ws liv llived ed alone Asperger’s, Matthews with a ccat at of gr eat age and rac coon great raccoon size ’s a fan of Dani iel Clowes size.. He He’s Daniel who would ha ave ffound ound o d a plac have placee as a character in that ar tiist’s ccomics. omics. artist’s Mat thews turns to onl line dating Matthews online to find someone (“Ev en a near (“Even near-hermit such as yyours ours tr ruly cra aves truly craves p ersonal ccontact”). ontact”). Ma atthews personal Matthews ph hyysically rresembles esembles H. H P. L ovecraft physically Lovecraft a lit tle—he he’d had the nickname n little—he’d “Squidb oy”” hung on him h in scho ol.

“Squidboy” school.

Inter esting that he ’s a man m ha avving Interesting he’s having to b oled b apists in bee scho schooled byy ther therapists the meaning of rromance, oman nce, which b ery definition iss fiction. Y eet byy its vvery Yet it ’s Mat thews’’ rrefreshing efreshin ng honest it’s Matthews’ honestyy that finally br eaks him m out of breaks his loneliness ectorr Sok loneliness.. Dir Director Sokolow olow picturesque backdrops gleans some pictur esqu ue back drops of Pit tsburgh, one soul lful town.

Pittsburgh, soulful Special star: author Sp ecial guest st ar: auth hor Chuck Kinder Matthew’s writ ting teacher Kinder,, Matthew’s writing teacher,, St anffo ordite, fformer o ormer dri inking buddy Stanfordite, drinking Raymond Carver, and selfof Ra aymond y C arver, an nd self fpr oclaimed eex-thug. x-thug. (P Plays F eeb 27 proclaimed (Plays Feb Camera 7:45pm, C aamera 12; Marr 1, 4:45pm, C aamera 12; Mar 4, 2:45p pm, C aamera 12.)

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LL’Atalante ’Atalante (1934) The P Parisian arisian JJean ean nV Vigo iigo died at age 29,, and this w was as hiss only fulllength leng gtth film—a rrevision evision n of a didactic script ab about out the diff differences ffeerences between between the ccountry ountry mouse and d the cit cityy rat.

What he deliv delivered veered was was a the kind of puree p pur poetry oetry dir directors ectors fr from rom W Wong o ong Kar-Wai Kar -Wai W to L Lars ars vvon on Tr Trier rier ar aree gr groping oping ffor. or. The plot is simple b o oy--meets-girl. boy-meets-girl.

ASPIE A SP I E S SEEKS EEKS LOVE LOV E David M Matthews atthews iss the subject of Julie Sokolow’ Sokolow’ss documentary on a 41-year-old Asperger’s searching 41-yea ar-old man with Asperger’ ’s sea arching for a soul mate.

It’s It ’s a romance roman nce sett against i t th the iir iron on and smok orridor, smokee of an industrial ccorridor, on the bank banks ks of a ccanal anal b between ettw ween the fforlorn o orlorn French Fren nch village in the nor north th and the Sei Seine’s ine’s mouth at L Lee Havre.

Haavvre.

JJean ean ((Jean Jean Dasté), D the ne newly wly married barge bar ge ccaptain, aptain, a , ttakes akes his bride JJuliette uliette (Ditaa Parlo) (Dit Parlo) to meet the rrest est of the ttwo-man wo -man cr crew. rew. The rrowdy owdy sec second ond mate Fathe Father er JJules ules (Michel Simon) entertains enter tains JJuliette—and uliette—and sc scares ares her a bit—but she they bi bit —but b sh h jumps he j ship hi when h the h y Paris, get to P aris, and that’s that’s where where Jean Jean tryy to wife. barge has to tr o find his wif fe. The bar ge sleepwalking floating,, is sleepw alk king as much as floating ccovered overed in a ccold old silver silver fog. fog. The boat masked, characters on o the b oat seem mask ed, Melville as if in a Me elville ttale. ale. LL’Atalante’s ’Ataalantte’s echoes through movies, vvoyage oyage echo oes thr ough the mo vies, proves utter necessity love pr oves the ut u ttter nec essity of lo ove in surroundings wheree all is inhuman. surr oundin ngs wher 7:30pm, Camera Metro’s (Mar 3, 7:30 0pm, C aamera 12. Met ro’s Richard von Richar rd v on n Busack is on hand ttoo discuss Cinequest’s the film and rreceive eceive Cinequest ’s Media Award.)

LLegacy egaccy A ward.) (RvB)

The Cr Crowd rowd (1928) The rise and fall, and rise again, of JJohnny o ohnn y Sims ((James James

Murraayy), Murray), M ) another th would-b would-be ld be go go-get ter in N ew Y ork Cit o y, riding the getter New York City, wheel of ffortune o ortune and facing str riffe strife with his wif fe (Eleanor Boar dmaan). wife Boardman).

Dir ector King V iidor, to MGM head h Director Vidor, of pr oduction Ir ving Thalb erg: “I production Irving Thalberg: supp ose the aaverage verage ffellow eellow w alks suppose walks thr ough lif fe and sees quite a lott of through life drama ttaking aking plac ound him m. placee ar around him.

Objectiv elyy, lif fe is lik tle, isn iisn’t ’t Objectively, life likee a bat battle, it ?”” In this silent drama of the it?” mundane d ,V id idor i sought h esc ape fr ffrom om mundane, Vidor escape esc apism,, using a semi-pr o acto or ffor or o escapism, semi-pro actor mor erisimilitude (Murra ay ha ad moree vverisimilitude (Murray had b een a hob o and a dish hwasher b effo ore been hobo dishwasher before he got his br eak). The Cr owd is a break).

Crowd ffountainhead ount o ainhead of mo vie in nventio on— movie invention— the V eery Big O ffice wher Very Office wheree Simss toils iilder’s The toils,, turns up in Billy W Wilder’s Ap artment and Orson W eelles’ Th he Apartment Welles’ The T rrial, it bears bears an ending which is Trial, generally thought of as originall to Pr eston Stur ges in Sulliv an’’s T rraavelss, Preston Sturges Sullivan’s Travels, and V iidor thought up a cconcealed onceaaled Vidor ccamera amera in a pushc art to steal sc cenes pushcart scenes off the str eet—again as p er W il ilder street—again per Wilder in The LLost ost W eek e end. It heralds Weekend. neo -realism, to o (“Oh, The Cr ow wd, neo-realism, too Crowd, The Cr owd,” Di Sic eportedly told t Crowd,” Sicaa rreportedly V iidor when the a as Vidor theyy met. “That w was

what h t iinspir i ed d me ffor o Bic or Bi cycle y l Thi Thief f ””) f. inspired Bicycle Thief.”)

See this pinnacle off the silent film in a genuine mo vie palac movie palacee with living legend Denni is JJames ames at the Dennis C aliffornia o Theatr e’s W urlit u zer. (Mar California Theatre’s Wurlitzer.

6, 7:30pm, C alif a fornia o Theat re.)

California Theatre.)

Los Hámsters Los Hámster es (The Hamsters) Hamssters) ““All A o All over ver England, England, p people eople wer weree waking w aking up up,, queas queasyy and a desp despondent. ondent.”

Evelyn Ev elyn Waugh Waugh’s ’s des description cription of his nation matches the t malaise malaise-stricken strick en suburban Me M Mexico xico in the debut b byy Gilb Gilberto erto Gonzale G Gonzalezz P Penilla. enilla.

Dad R Rodolfo odolffo ((Angel Angell N Norzagaray) orzagaraayy) loiters in a ccoffee off ffeee sho shop op to cconceal onceal his unemplo yment—he — ’s a drag on unemployment—he’s the lab or mark et at age 50. U nloved labor market Unloved wif fe Beatriz (Gisela Madrigal) is wife sneaking e ki g to her he spin inning i g class l , but b t spinning class, it ’s the class’’ stiletto-sideburned stiletto -sideburned it’s instructor who is rreally eaally tr ying to trying get a fr ee ride nw while, daughter free ride.. Mean Meanwhile, JJessica essica (Montserrat Minor) M and son JJuan uan (Hoze Mélende ez) ar Mélendez) aree heading ffor or tr o ouble of their own. o The editing trouble

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THREE T HR EE WA W WAY Y Barco demonstrates a new w method of cinematic escape escape— — the three-sided screen.

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Mannion’s f e-scruncching fac hi abilities biliti rival i lR eenee face-scrunching Renee Zellweger in i her Bridget JJones ones da ays y, Zellweger days, mo ovie mak es cle ver use of and the movie makes clever cal rrealist ealist ideas— subtitles some magi magical ideas—subtitles wo women wom men intuit what the other as ttwo thinking. (F Feeb 25, 7pm, C aamera is thinking.

(Feb Camera 1::45pm, C aamera 12; Mar 6, 12; Mar 5, 1:45pm, Camera aam mera 12) (RvB) 9:30pm, C Camera

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South FIRST FRIDAYS an eclectic evening of arts and culture in downtown San Jose’s SoFA District (and beyond) on the First Friday of the month.

MARCH 6th ART WALK 7–11pm

Anno Domini

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KALEID Gallery

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499 So. Market St.

88 So. Fourth St.

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Taco de Ojo

by Latino Toons Collective Latino Toons is a Latin American collective of comics, art and poetry with collaborators from the Rio Grande all the way down to Tierra del Fuego. Influences stem from underground comics, street art, indigenous art, and various forms of counter-culture.

Cave-Kiln Man by Shawn Felts Home-brewing, cooking, woodworking, gardening and 5th century pottery–all modern-day obsessions of Shawn Felts, Shawn’s ceramic art works are fired for 30-90 hours in an Anagama (literally ‘cave kiln’). On March 6th, we feature Felts’ rustic, wood-fired works, born out of holiday firings at the Spring Valley Anagama & Noborigama kilns.

Join us for the opening reception of a visual tête-à-tête between resident KALEID artists Bryson Bost and Gianfranco Paolozzi, cohesively entitled: Languages.

Opening reception: Don’t Draw That: répondez s’il vous plaît Recent events—including the murder of artists by terrorists in Paris, and calls from many, including the President of the United States, for artists not to create provocative work—have spurred a wide range of responses from creative individuals. Works has invited artists to respond to any aspect of this subject.

Art Ark Gallery 1035 So. Sixth St. Cross Pollination An art exhibition featuring the work of Art Faculty and Instructional Technicians working in the Visual Art Departments of Silicon Valley's six community colleges: Evergreen Community College, San Jose City College, Mission College,West Valley College, Foothill College and De Anza College.

Live music by: Aaron Lehr.

Image: "Village" by Kristin Lindseth (detail).

Definitive Gains by Bryson Bost We appreciate when delicious hypotheticals emerge as tangible realities. Progression can be felt, and that is very pleasing to a craftsman.

Journals by Gianfranco Paolozzi Marking on surfaces; moment by moment, hour by hour, day by day, month by month, year by year...just like a journal.

Cinequest Film Festival + Phantom Galleries Camera12 Cinemas 201 So. Second St.

Additional Participating Venues:

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Phantom Galleries is proud to once again partner with the Cinequest Film Festival on the festival's Live Art Contest. From February 25–March 8th, three talented artists paint live in the lobby windows at the Camera12 Cinemas.

Stop by during the South FIRST FRIDAYS Art Walk on March 6th at Camera12 and meet this year’s selected artists: Denis Korkh, Michael Borja and Frances Marin. Vote for your favorite painting inspired by this year’s Cinequest theme: "The Power of Creating” (look for voting instructions on window signage at Camera12.)

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ATTENTION TO RETAIL After 13 years in Los Gatos, Manresa restaurant has launched its first spin-off, a retail bakery.

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HEN A TWO-ALARM blaze engulfed and gutted twoMichelin-starred Manresa restaurant last summer, head baker Avery Ruzicka had to scrounge for a place to bake. Chef-proprietor David Kinch’s phenomenally influential Los Gatos eatery was in the process of building out its first brick-and-mortar spin-off to sell artisan breads and pastries, but its opening was still months away.

Thankfully, the International Culinary Center opened its doors, as did several local restaurants. “We were driving flour back and forth in my little Volvo,” says Ruzicka, whose team of bakers had been selling their wares at farmers markets in Palo Alto and Campbell since 2013. “We were very much nomads.”

Finally in December, the 3,400-square-foot kitchen with a 19,000-pound Italian stove on University Avenue was up and running in time for its first official bake for New Year’s Eve at the newly renovated Manresa. Then, just this past weekend, Ruzicka celebrated the opening of the restaurant’s first retail space and her personal pièce de résistance, ManresaBread, a walk away from the bustling kitchen that stocks it.

The minimalist 800-square-foot storefront carries a seasonal selection of Ruzicka’s signature sweet or savory breads and pastries: chocolate brioche, a seedy brioche ham and Gouda bun, kale parmesan scones, caramelized apple buttermilk coffee cake, Manresa levain, red fife loaves, hazelnut brown butter cake, marzipan-filled almond croissants and buttery cinnamon-sugar “monkey bread,” to name some. Clerks hand-write the menu on an unfurled sheet of brown butcher paper—crossing off items as they sell out, which is quickly.

Ruzicka’s obsessive attention to technique and ingredients aligns with the philosophy behind Manresa restaurant, which was named one of America’s Top 50 restaurants by Gourmet magazine. The flour comes stone-milled from Camas Country Mill in Oregon, with a quality that allows for longer fermentation and richer flavors. Ingredients are seasonal—the chocolate orange brioche morphs to strawberry brioche as citrus season gives way to warmer months.

“One of the things that really inspires me about David [Kinch] is that, even though Manresa’s been open for 13 years now, he still comes into the kitchen with curiosity, he approaches it from an intellectual point of view,” Ruzicka says. “I relate to that, that’s how I look at baking. Bread is very much alive. It’s constantly changing. You have to be engaged with it.”

—Jennifer Wadsworth MANRESABREAD 276 N. Santa Cruz Avenue, Los Gatos. Hours: 7am-3pm Wednesday through Sunday. manresabread.com.

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Marcus Shelby Residency: Duke Ellington (Jazz) SUNDAY 3/1 | 7pm-11pm The Eulipions Jazz Jam Session with Peppe Merolla 374 South First Street | San Jose | CafeStritch.com

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But that doesn’t doesn’tt mean we don’t don’tt want a taste. Skip Skkip the struggle straight and go str aight for for the glory every Wednesday Wednesdaay at the RockBar Theater’s Rock-a-Roke—karaoke Theater ’s Rock-a-Roke—karaoke with a live rrock ock & rroll oll backing band.

(Groupies included.)

(Gr oupies not in ncluded.) (JF)

Jimmy Adkinss became somebody as frontman the fr ontman of the massive emo-pop band Jimmy Eat E World.

World. The group’s group’s angsty, choppy, angsty y, chopp y, anthems—like “The Middle”” and “P “Pain”—spoke Middle Pain”—spoke to the turn-of-the-century woes of turnof-the-century teens early-20-somethings. and early20--somethings.. But, you can’t can’t stayy young fforever orever and mantras adolescent ma antras just sound pathetic from coming fr om a 39-year-old.. Instead of rregurgitating egurgitatin ng his past hits, hits Adkins along has grown grown alo ong with his ffan an base— embracing moree matur maturee sound, embr acing a mor m present which he will pr esent in its most naked performs fform orm when hee perf orms a solo acoustic World show at CCafe afe SStritch. tritch.. Jimmy Eat W orld posters may no n longer dominate the bedrooms bedr ooms of young y Americans, but heree to stay stay.. ((JF) Adkins is her JF)

Milo Medrano’s Medrrano a ’s rraspy aspy voice,, steely conjuree vivid guitar and hard-livin’ hard-livin’ lyrics conjur images of a beautiful failure—whiling failure—whiling away the hours, h , smoking cigarettes cigarettes and sipping whiskey. wh hiskeyy.There There is a certain quiet a nobody. dignity in being b nobodyy. Yet Yeet while Medrano Medr rano a calls c himself the “Champion of Mediocrity,” Mediocrrityy,,”” he can’t can’t disguise undeniable his undeni able talent.. He subtly experiments experimen nts with the conventions of crafting ffolk olk rrock, ock, cr ock, rafting both ambient tunes ffor or cruisingg down an abandoned interstate and a the casual laments that a porch-dwelling porch-dw welling old-timer might sing in his rrocking ocking chair overlooking a middle-of-nowhere middle-of-nowhere town.. Other artists somewheree exotic might takee you somewher Medrano with their music, m , Medr rano a is content to invite you over o ffor or a cold one.. ((JF) JF)

Anthony Anthon ny Jeselnik may look like the polo-wearing polo-w wearing son of every Republican presidential pr esideential candidate,, but hiding just beneath surface beneat th the surf ace is one the darkest comedic generation. comed ic minds of his gener ation.

Jeselnik’s cross Jeselni k’s delivery is a cr oss between the slow-paced slow w-paced non-sequiturs of Wright SSteven teven W right and the absurdist absurdist insultism insul tissm of Jeffrey Jeffrey Ross.. Sporting wrestling the smarmy sm marmy smile of a wr estling heel, Jeselnikk tells unimaginably hor horrific Jeselni rific professionalism jokes with w the calm pr ofessionalism anchor.r. Though of an eevening veningg news anchor g from his material material is shocking,, it is ffar ar fr om Shakespearee crude. The T comic is a Shakespear buff,f, hosted buff hoosted a two-season show Central, on Comedy Com medy Centr al,, and named his “Caligula,” rrecent ecent hour-long special,, “C aligula,” perverse after the th he per verse and vicious Roman emperor—objectively considered emper o or—objectively consider ed one of the most m evil men in history. historyy. (JF) (JF)

CCHANNEL CH HANNELL 3 Joh Johnny hnny V’s, V’s, San Jose Fri,, 9pm, $10 Classic Cla ssic punk band Channel 3 was apidly urbanizing fforged orged in the rrapidly Cerritos, fformer ormer dairy town of Cer ritos, CCalif., allif., in i 1980.

1980 Since Si their th i destructive des structive beginnings playing rural rur al house parties, Channel 3 has enjoyed prolific career—without enj joyed a pr olific car eer—without ever conforming eve er conf orming to the rigid punk standards non-conformity. rrock occk standar ds of non-conf ormity.

After Aft ter Channel 3 earned their punk chops, cho ops, they added harmonicas, saxophones extraa band sax xophones and extr members creative me embers to expand their cr eative sound, sou und, which would lead to bigger big ggger gigs gg g g like opening p g ffor or the Peppers.

Redd Hot Chili P eppers. The ffellas ellas aree entering the twilight of their ar careers, car reers, but they still rrock ock like they’re the ey’re playing ffor or beer at a house party. par rty. (JF)

RACHEL RA CHELL MAE & THE HA HAVENS AV VENS Febb 28 at San nP Pedro edro Squar Squaree Market

12TH PLANET

BOB SE SEGER GER March Mar ch 5 at SSAP AP Center

CHRIS BR BROWN ROWN & TRE TREY Y SONGZ March Mar ch 6 at SAP SAP Center

CRIMESS OF P CRIME PASSION ASSION March Mar ch 7 at Streetlight Streetlight Records Records

BLUE BL UE ÖY ÖYSTER STER CUL CULT LT March Mar ch h 13 at RockBar Theater

DADA D ADA LIFE March Mar ch 16 16 at SJSU SJSU Event Center

THEE SOO SOOTHING THIN NG SOUND OF FLIGHT March Mar c 20 at The Rock Shop ch

THE HOME TEAM March Mar c 22 at The Rock Shop ch

WWEE HALL OF FFAME AME 2015 2015 March M Mar ch 28 at SSAP AP Center

WRESTLEMANIA WRE STLEMANIA 31 March Mar c 29 at Levi’s SStadium ch tadium

MAROON MAR OON 5 March M Mar ch 31 at SSAP AP Center

PANDA P ANDA BEAR A April ril 15 at Co Cocoanut coanut Gr Grove ove Ballr Ballroom oom

ICE CU CUBE, UBE, BONE THUG THUGS-NS-NN HARMONY

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City National Civic, San Jose Jo ose Sat 7pm-2am, Sat, 7pm-2am, 2am Sun, Sun 5pmmidnight, $95-$135 Moree than 100,000 Watts Mor Watts of sound? Check. State-of-the-art State-of-the-art Check.. 21+ lighting and sound? Check VIP Free V IP sections? Check. Fr ee Water?

Water?

Check. And a lineup with enough ennough bass to rrattle attle your internal organs? or gans? Duh. This two-dayy EDM extravaganza extr avaganza features features the rraucous aucous trap Planet; alien tr ap music of 12th Pla anet; the Dubloadz; psychedelic rhythms of Du bloadz; bleepy, bloopy, swagger the bleepy y, bloopy y, buzzy sw wagger Grimblee—the of G Jones; and Grimblee— —the glitch-tastic master of the slow moree guests in stor store, build. With mor e, Wobbleland W obbleland is bound to bee a paradise. rraver’s aver ’s par adise. (JF)

G.L.O.S.S., G.L.O.S.S., PERMANENT PERMANEN NT RUIN, R UIN, & MO MORE RE San Jose Rock Shop, San Saan Jose Sat, 6:30pm, $5 drew The San Jose Rock Shopp dr ew the iree of the local punk com community ir mmunity by identified posting what was ident tified as a transphobic itss Facebook ansphobic image to it tr hardcore exhibition page. This har dcore exh hibition could be a sign that thee venue’s venue’s accepted. apology has been accep pted. The that show ffeatures eatures bands th hat not only unsafee levels, rrock ock at medically unsaf patience but also have no patien nce ffor or intolerance intoler ance of any sort. G.L.O.S.S. or Girls Gi l Living Li i Outside O t id Society’s S i t ’ trans Sh*t is a band of tr ans women w steamroll dissenters who steamr oll any disse enters with energy.

Permanent rraw aw ener gy. P ermanent Ruin is a local band backed by DIY punk whose collective Not Normal Tapes Tapes a sexist, acist, sex slogan is ““no no rracist, ist, or homophobic bullsh*t.”” (JF) (

*su sunn *mon m SPRING FE FESTIVAL ESTIV VAL A SILICON SILIC ON V VALLEY A ALLEY Center ffor or the P Performing erforming o Arts, San Jose Sun, 7pm, $25-$100 0 agriculture, Since the advent of ag griculture,, the spring—and promise coming of spring—an nd its pr omise harvest—has of an eventual ffall all har v vest—has celebrating. been a moment worthh celebr ating.

A ffestival estival marking the start of the ubiquitous season is nearly ubiqu uitous among all cultures. ffarming arming cul tures.. Featuring Featuring Chinese, Mexican cultural Indian,, KKorean orean and Me exican cul tural performances, perf ormances Spring Festival Silicon ormances, Valley celebrates V aalley celebr ates the LLunar unar New multicultural YYear, eearr, and the mul ticultur t al fabric fabric of area. year’s this diverse ar ea.. Last year ’s show dance ffeatured eatured the court dan nce of the TTang aang Dynasty, synchronized Dynasty y, an intricately synchr onized performance KKorean orean drum perf ormaance and a 60fluorescent ffoot oot long fluor escent dr ddragon. agon.. ((JF) JF)

April 17 at SAP SAP Center

BARRY B ARR RY MANIL MANILOW OW April 18 at SAP SAP Center

THE MOOD MOODY Y BL BLUES UES April 28 2 at City National Civic

SLOW SL OW W WEST E ST

May 15 at Bingg Concert Hall, Stanford Stanford

California Theatr California Theatre, re, San Jose $6-$11 Mon 7pm, Mon, 7pm $6 $6-$1 $111

LANA DEL RE REY Y & CCOURTNEY OURTNEY LLOVE OVE

Fassbender Michael Fassbende er plays a cigarilloass-kicking chomping, ass-kick king outlaw in this Western psychedelic W esteern about a young aristocrat searching Scot aristocr at sea arching ffor or his the fforbidden orbidden love in th he rugged,, early West.

W est. Fassbender does d his best Han bewildered Solo as he guides the t bewilder ed boy through dangerous thr ough danger ouss thickets ffor or the purpose duplicitous purpos se of cashing in the bounty on the ffamily am mily of his idealistic companion’s lady. companion p ’s lady y. The T film takes director its time,, but dir ectoor John Maclean packss enough biza bizarre humor,r, pack arre humor sudden violence, aand nd eye-popping things interesting. imagery to keep th hings inter esting.

West Slow W est dances on the line of post-modernism, both b honoring tongue-in-cheek-ing and tongue-in-che eek-ing the stock characters employs. char acters it emplo oys. ((JF) JF)

SELECTED SELE CTED SHOR SHORTS TS

May 20 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre

KID INK INK,, JEREMIH, DEJ LLOAF OAF March Mar ch 22 2 at City National Civic

VANS V A ANS W WARPED ARPED T TOUR OUR June 20 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre

NICKELBACK NICKELB ACK June 24 24 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre

LADY LAD Y ANTEBELLUM ANTEBELLUM June 26 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre

DARIUS D ARIUS RUCKER RUCKER July 31 at SShoreline horeline Amphitheatre Amphitheatre

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ANYONE A N YON E C CAN AN C CROP ROP A PHOTO PHOTO Adobe Adobe’s ’s ph photo-editing hoto-editing software democra democratized atized graphic design become and has beco ome synonymous with image manipulation.

The Co Computer omputer History y Museum mar marks rks years ‘Adobefest’ 25 yea ars of Photoshop p with ‘‘A Adobefesst’ BY B Y NICK V VERONIN VERONIN

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EMEMBER EME EMBER HOW HOW wildly colorful colo orful geometric patterns patt terns and crazy crazy fonts font ts were all the rage rage in early ’90s ’900s graphic graphic design?

Well, Well, according accorrding to Bert Monroy, Monroy y, you yo ou can place the blame for that questionable t aesthetic on o one, solitary entity: Adobe Ado obe Systems.

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But B ut it did mean that yyou ou o no longer had h face incredulity professional o fac ce the incr edulitty of a pr offession e nal to graphic artist wanted Times gr raphic ar tist if yyou o ou w aanted to use T i imes New Roman, Helvetica, Comic N ew R oman, o , Helv veeticcaa,, C omic Sans and Zapf Z apf Dingbats in the same ccommunity ommun nitty newsletter. ne ewsletttterr. Hell—you Hell— —yo ou ccould ould eeven veen usee all those word. th hose ffonts o onts in a single wor d. was Feb. Ph Photoshop h 1.0 w as a rreleased eleased l d on F eb. eb 19, 1990—democratizing 19 9,, 19 90—democratizing graphic design de esign and kicking off the desktop publishing pu ublishing rrevolution. evo olution. Neighborhood Neighborhood newsletters started drop shadow n ewsletttters st arted using dr op shado ow and an nd gradient. Monroy Monroy rrecalls ecalls going to was being show, w what w aas b eing billed as an “art “art sho ow w,” wheree the “ar “artist” w wher tist” had simply ttaken ak keen

through photos and run them th hrough a ffew ew filters..

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A dobe Phot tooshop Handb ook. weekend, Monroy speak This week end,, Monr oy will sp eak give demonstrations and giv ve Photoshop dem monstrations Computer History Museum’s at the C omputer Histor ry Museum ’s ““Adobefest”—a Adobeffeest”—a ttwo-day w wo-daay eevent vent e marking 25th anniversary creation the 2 5th anniv versar e y off the cr eation photo-editing the h rrevolutionary evolutionar l i y photo h o-editing di i software. softw waare.

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both Saturday On b oth h Satur daay and Sunday, Sundaay, bee hosting hands hands-on the CHM will w b hands-on beginners, Photoshop p workshops ffor o or b eginners, from Photoshop p demonstrations fr om Monroy, and Monr oy, an nd an eexhibit xxhibit that look historyy of ttakes akes a lo ok k back at the histor photography photography and early vversions ersions of Photoshop.

Photoshop p. geared toward families,, The eevent ven nt is gear ed tow waard families McGregor says, McGr egor sa ays y , noting that while millennials may bee gr great some mille ennials ma ay b eat at manipulating photograph manipulat ing a photo graph in Instagram, likely have little Inst agram, they agram, they lik kely e ha ave lit ttle t to no understanding achieve underst and ding of how to achie ve the effects same eff ffeectts in a dark rroom. oom.

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“Part what “P art of wh hat we do at the museum history is bring his story and cconnect onnect it to the present future, says. pr esent and d the futur e,” she sa ayys. itinerary both The itine erary is the same on b oth days “Photography da ayys of thee eevent. vent. The “Photo graph hy Station, Exploration n St ation,” which will be be open day, op en all da ay, takes tak kes e a look look at older photography photography equipment and early Photoshop.. Ther Theree ar aree ttwo vversions w wo ersions off Photoshop workshops, f il wor family rkshops k h , ffor or o which hi h ffamilies ili theree will b bee a must rregister. egistter. And ther midday Bertt Monroy midda ay ttalk allk from from Ber Monroy and station a st ation which w allows visitors to themselves picturee Photoshop p themselv es into a pictur with a ccelebrity. eleebritty. weekend bee an eexperience “The we eek kend e will b xxperience families,,” ffor or o ccommunities ommu unities and families McGregor says.

“We McGr egor sa ays y . “W We want waant to show people more about power p eople mo ore ab out the p ower of helped Photoshop p and what it has help ed to our society today. b ild in build i ou ur so ciet i y to day.” da FEB

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ARTS TS metroactive metr oactivve AR THE ADD ADDAMS AMS FFAMILY AMILY In a new take on “Guess Who’s Who’s Dinner,” Wednesday Coming to Dinner ,” W ednesdday Addams brings home a boyfriend with unwelcome macabree ffamily. charm to her macabr amily. $17-$42.

Palo Apr 25- May 10. $17 -$42. P a alo Alto Palo Alto Al to Players. P alo Al to

THE BO BOY Y FRIEND This Roaring ’20s musical is inspired ed by the jazz and flappe flapper inspir er Andrews beat gave Julie Andr ews her first fi big br break eak in 1951. $20-$35.. Feb Feb West Valley 28-Mar 28. W est V alley Light Opera.

Saratoga Oper a. Sar atoga Civic Theater.

Theater.

COMEDYSPORTZ COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV IMPR OV CCOMEDY OMEDY An impr improvised ovised battle of wits wits, s, audience-sourced all audience-sour ced and entiree ffamily. suitable ffor or the entir amilyy. $12-$15.

Ongoing. $12 -$15. CCamera amera 44,, San Jose.

HARRIS CA CASHES SHES OUT Harris, a ffailed Harris, ailed Br Broadway oadway star,, finds his life star life takes an intriguing turn when a neighbor and her boyfriend come up with a get-rich past. scheme to cash in on his pa st.

27-Mar Feb 27 -Mar 21. $16-$18. TTriton rritoon Pavillion, Museum-Hall P avillion, Santa Santta Clara.

Clar a a.

THE LITTLE MERMAID JR JR. R. Journey “Under the Sea” Sea” in this Disney classic about an aquatic princess who or the handsome, yearns ffor land-dwelling Prince Eric.

Performed different P erformed by two diff erent children. casts of childr en. Thru Mar 8.

8 Theatre. $15-$35. Sunnyvale Theatr e e.

M. BUTTERFL BUTTERFLY Y Inspired by Puccini’s ffamous Inspired amous opera, parodies sexual oper a, this play par odies sexu ual French ffantasy antasy as a Fr ench diplomatt operaa star, ffalls alls ffor or a Chinese oper star, ideal who turns out to be less idea al Apr than he imagined. Mar 19- A pr 19. $17-$32. $17-$32. City Lights Theater Theatter Company.. San Jose.

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PEAR SLICE SLICESS The beloved yearly performance ormance of a collection of perf from new short plays fr om the Pear Pear e playwrights. March March 13-April 13-April Pear Avenue 5. $25-$30. $ $ The P ear A venue Theatre.

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Theatr e. Mountain View

SCHOOL HOUSE R ROCK OCK JR.THE BOY JR. THE BO Y FRIEND This Roaring ’20s musical inspired ed by the jazz and is inspir flapper beat gave Julie Andrews break eak in Andr ews her first big br

1951. $20-$35. Feb 28-Mar West Valley Opera.

28. W est V alley Light Oper a.

Saratoga Theater..

Sar atoga Civic Theater The timeless educational tunes teach about bills becoming laws, 3 being a magic number, number, and the functions of conjunctions.

Feb 26-Mar 1. $18. Children’s Children’s Theater.. San Jose.

Musical Theater

SUNDAY SUND AY IN THE P PARK ARK GEORGE WITH GE ORGE Stephen Sondheim’s Stephen Sondheim’s TTonyoonywinning musical ffollows ollows the century-apart struggles of Georges Geor ges Seurat, Seurat, the pointillism master,, and his artist gr grandson master andson searches in their sear ches ffor or artistic meaning and love. Thru Mar 8. $12-$32.

Theatree at $12 -$32. LLohman ohman Theatr Altos Foothill College. LLos os Al tos Hills.

*art MUSEUMS CANTOR CANT OR AR ARTS TS CENTER “Loose “L oose in Some Real TTropics” ropics”

by Robert Rauschenberg’s Rauschenberg’s “Stoned projects from “S toned Moon” Moon” pr ojects fr om 1969-70.

“Pop 1969-70.

7 Thru Mar 16. “P op Art from fr om the SFMOMA Anderson Collection”” ffeaturing workss by Collection eaturing work Warhol, W arhol, Johns, Lichtenstein, and others. Thru Oct 26.

SStanford. tanford.

CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY DISC OVERY MUSEUM “Broken? Fix It.” Fr “Broken?

From om the wheel to the laptop, this exhibit shows how to fix it.

San Jose.

VENUS IN FUR

DE SSAISSET AISSET MUSEUM

A playwright cannot find the perfect perf ect actress actress to star in his adaption of the er erotic otic power Fur.” exchange novel ““Venus Venus in Fur .”

The auditioner is completely wrong wr ong ffor or the part except ffor or perfect her perf ect understanding of character. the char acter. Soon, the line between rreality eality and fiction $42-$50. blurs. Thru Mar 1. $42 -$50. The San Jose SStage. tage.

“Cr “Creative Creative in Common” Common” ffeatures eatures work by artists like Francis Sam Fr ancis and Fletcher Benton and the work of their “Keep artistic rrelatives. elatives. “K eep CCalm alm and Collect On” On” ffeatures eatures the museum’s museum ’s rrecent ecent acquisitions including prints by Andy Warhol Wayne ayne Thiebaud.

W arhol and W Mar.. Santa Clar Clara.

Thru Mar a.

VIOLET

Various art and photogr Various photography aphy created cr eated byy students at De Anza College. CCupertino. upertino.

Based on the Ugliest g Pilgrim g

by Doris Bettis, this journey about self-reflection self-reflection is bolstered multibolster ed by a soulful mul tigenree score. genr score. $15-$38. April 3rd.

10th-May 3r d. Theatre Theatre on San Pedro Square.

P edro Squar e. San Jose.

WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA VIR GINIA WOLFE WOLFE George and Martha,, a George bickerers, dysfunctional couple of bicker ers, professor invite a young pr ofessor and his wife wife over for for cocktails, and the rresult esult is an extravaganza extravaganza of humiliation that leaves everyone exposed. Apr 9-May 3.. $18-$28 Theater.. LLos Altos Bus Barn Theater os Al tos Stage Stage Company.

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*operaa *oper CAFFE FRA FRASCATI SCA AT TI Opera Night. First Friday of Opera every month. San Jose.

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LLOS OS GA GATOS ATOS CCOMPANY OMPANY “Zulugrass Jewelry Gallery”,, “Zulugrass ffeaturing eaturing the colorful clothing and ornaments adorned by the Great Maasai tribe of the Gr eat Rift Valley V alley of KKenya enya and TTanzania. anzania. a “Woodcarvings Val Gardena, “W oodcarvings of V al Gar dena, Italy,” handcrafted Italy y,” , ffeaturing eaturing handcr afted woodcarving figures. woodcar ving figur es.

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“City Limits, City Life” Life” Thru Jun 14. TTue-Sun, uue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF SAN QUILTS TEXTILESS QUIL TS & TEXTILE ““Antique Antique Ohio Amish Quil A Quilts ts from Darwin fr om the Dar win D. Bearley Collection”” show the br breadth Collection eadth of creativity quilt-making cr eativity in the quil t-making tradition from 1880-1940. tr adition fr om 18801940. quilts Bearley popularized the quil ts when he took them out of the community it andd sold ld them th broader to the br oader American Mar.. 1. “T “Two public. Thru Mar Tw wo Color Wonders” demonstrate W onders” demonstr ate how limiting a color pallette to only two colors can create create stark contrasts contr asts and complimentary dynamics. San Jose.

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WELLS FARGO CENTER FOR THE ARTS Sunday, March 15 3 pm Matinee & 7:30 pm 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa 707-546-3600 wellsfargocenterarts.org

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FIRST T FIRST TO O MARKET RESTAURANT RE STAURANT “Photographyy,,�works “Photography,� works by Patrick Patrickk LLyons. yyons.. Mixed media work workss by CColin olin Jaramillo, Jar amillo,, thru Aug 30.. San Jose Jose. e.

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PHO69 PHO6 9 Watercolors W atercolors by Made’ Made’ Sukerti Berg.

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PSYCHO P SYCHO DONUT DONUTSS Works by John Renzel, Lacey Works Bryant, Nicolas CCaesar, aesar, Murphy Adams,, Christine Benjamin, j , Michael Foley y, Michael Borja, Foley, V alery Milovic, CCarlos arlos Villez, Valery Eric Joyner allin Joyner,, Laur Lauraa CCallin Bennett, John Hageman and Robert McColley McColley.. San Jose.

SAN JOSE INS SAN INSTITUTE TITUTE OF CCONTEMPORARY ONTEMPORARY ART ART “Somebody Else’s Else’s Prints Prints��

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SEEING THING THINGSS GALLERY GALLERY “Move� Photogr “Move�

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ZERO ZER O 1 GARA GARAGE GE "Origins Of Lif Life" e" by Adam Br Brown own and Robert Root Berenstein Ber enstein combines art and science in an investigation of some inuential U of Chicago experiments in the 1950s. Thru 27.

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*events *e vents DAYDREAM D AY YDREAM NA NATION AT TION San P Pedro edro Squar Squaree Market hosts its monthly last Satur dayy, al ternative concert.

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SOUTH FIR FIRST ST FRID FRIDAY AY ARTWALK AR TWALK A self-guided evening tour through thr ough galleries, museums, and independent businesses ffeaturing eaturing exhibitions and special perf performances, ormances, including SStreet treet Eats & Live Beats at P Parque arque De LLos os Pobladores.

P obladores. First Friday of the Month. V Venues enues along S. First str street eet and thr throughout oughout downtown San Jose.

Now No w Playing Playyingg (R,, 129 min.) Cinema at long las lastt from discovers chavs: working fr om Dave D Millar’s comic Gibbons and Mark Millar ’s comi ic book Vaughn series,, Matthew V aaughn (Kick-A Kick-Ass Ass) gives us the new generation generation of spy film. film.. A group group of upper-class spymasters spymasters with Arthurian code names drills andd polishes a series of Burberry-clad Burberry-clad LLondon ondoon louts.

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TIMBUKTU TIMBUK TU (PG--113, 97 min.) Abderrahmane (PG-13, Abderrahmanee Sisko’s Sisko’s drama dr ama about the occupation off the modern-day ancient African city by modern-day Islamic puritans,, eager to fforce orce sharia law on the citizens.. Unseen by our o rreviewers. eviewers. (C (Camera Caamerra 12 in San Jo Jose.) ose.)) (RvB)

A MOS MOST T VIOLENT YEAR (R;; 125 min.) Ur Urgent gent yet simme simmering: ering: moral al accou accounting Arthur Miller-style mor unting stripped-down mixed with the kind of stripped d-down director car and ffoot oot chases dir ector J-P. J-P. Melville excelled at. Set in a discontented discontented winter of jaundiced light and low sun,, it it’s ’s a look at the home heating oil rracket a acket NYC’s crime-wracked during NY C’s most crime-wr accked days in the early 1980s.. Hijackings, fixes fi and weree part of the territory. beatings wer territtoryy. Oscar Morales, Isaacs plays Abel Mor ales, the most legitimate member of a ffamily amily with He’s keep criminal rroots. oots. He ’s trying to ke eep his hands clean while acquiring a riverside storage government ment stor age ffacility, acilityy, even as govern are rregulators egulators and unseen rivals ar re trying Brooks to take him down. Albert Br ookks excels keeping as the baleful consiglieri keepi ng an Morales.

Chastain can’t eye on Mor ales.. Jessica Chasta ain can ’t Morales’ sink her teeth into the part of Mor M ales’ wifee and partner partner,, but after this this,, Mar wif Margin rggin Call Call a l and All is LLost ostt, no one was going to describe Chandor as a woman’s director woman’s ’ dir ector anyway. director’s tautness, anywayy. SStill, till, the dir ector’s tau tness, as well as his critique of the power poower of money, moneyy, makes this three three very intense inntense movies in a row row for for him. Isaacss delivers a performance performance that can be compared com mpared to vintage Pacino.

Pacino.. (RvB)

MORTDECAI MOR TDECAI (R;; 106 min.) An adaptation off cul cultt Kyril novelist K yril Bonfiglioli’s 19733 Don Don’t ’t Point Att Me, with JJohnny P ooint That Thing A ohnny Depp as the upper-class scoundrel scoundrel Charlie Mortdecai—a feyer feyer and and more more peacocky peacocky version of Patricia Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley.. Unr Unreviewed.

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Revivals Re vivals UNDER SIE SIEGE GE (1992) An entire entire book has bbeen een written teven Seagal— Seeagal— about the films of SSteven Seagalogyy by the author “Vern”—the “Vern e ”—the tome is a cornerstone to thee vulgarauteur theory. theoryy. Vern Vern e makes a convincing argument argument that the mix of extreme exxtreme action and progressive progressive politics made madde Seagal a star for for a brief moment. Iran-Contra Irann-Contra is all over this asskick-fiesta.. Casey Casey Ryback (Seagal) is a Navy Cr Cross oss decorated deccorated hero hero of the Panama Panama incursion,, busted buusted down to sea cook after he punched his h superior officer. the officer. Good thing he’s he’s in th he kitchen when Gary Busey, Lee Buseyy, Tommy Tommy o Leee Jones and their CIA-trained CIA-trained paramilitary paramilitary goons try to hijack the USS Missouri (p (played played by the USS Alabama).. Dismissed ass “Die Har Hard rd on a boat” boat” (wasn’t (wasn’t that Spee Speed ed 2?) itit’s ’s one of the livelier civics lessons you’ll y have.

Directed Directed by the rreliable eliable Andrew Anddrew Davis.

(Plays Feb 28 at 10pm in San Saan Jose at Camera Camera 3.) (RvB)

NOR NORTH TH B BY Y NOR NORTHWEST/ THW WEST/ THE 39 SSTEPS TEPS (1959/1935) The gr grandfather andfather of the adventures ess (and more James Bond adventur more fun them), it’s than almost any of them m),, it ’s complete ever-traveling hero, with ever-tr aveling her o, gentlemanly o, untrustworthy villain and untrustworth hy woman—and scored smashing set pieces sco ored to ominous (Bernardd Her Herrmann) music (Bernar rmann) that's like a separate whole separ ate layer of the film. When Roger an ad man named Roge er O. Thornhill— “ROTT is my tr trademark”-“RO ademark”--- stands up at wrong the the wr ong moment at th he Oak Bar of mistaken the Plaza Hotel,, he's mis staken ffor or one American superagent.

IrIrving vingg KKaplan, aplan, p , an Americ can super p agent. g From Fr om this point on he's pursued by spymasterr V Van agents of the spymaste an a Damm silkiest).

(James Mason at his silk kiest). Those around subtext sniffing ar ound the sub text of Hitch can find some meat in the Ta TTaming aaming of the Squiree sequences, in which Squir whhich Thornhill (Cary Grant) treated (C ary Gr ant) gets tr eatedd by Eva Marie won't Saint like a trick who wo on't leave.. But mostly, surreal mostly y, the film is a sur real version of journey, the pioneer's American journey y, full of frontier elements: from fr ontier tall-tale elemen nts:: fr om the TTemperance eemperance ffantasy antasy of the t city villains who fforce orce yyou to drink,, to t the pperilous train prairies, wheree a single tr ain trip to the pr airies, wher thousands biplane symbolizes thou usands of locusts.

WITH BILLED W ITH The 39 SSteps tteeps. The earliest and perhaps the pur purest est version of a recurrent recurrent Hitchcock theme: theme:: an innocent man pursued by both th the he police and a shadowy mob of spies.. Robert Donat R plays a flippant LLondoner, ondonerr, not the sort of person to get tangled upp in all this cloakand-dagger stuff, stufff, Donatt ends up the prime suspect in a mur murder, d r, committed der by a group group of espionagee artists called the 39 SSteps tteps. With Made Madeleine eleine CCarroll arroll dragged across as the unwilling girl dr aggged acr oss Godfrey Scotland with Donat,, Go odfrey TTearle eearle Professor, young Peggy as the Pr ofessorr, the you ung P eggy Ashcroft poignantt episode about A shcroft in the poignan wifee and W Wylie Watson, the ffarmer's armer's wif ylie W atson, appropriately unforgettable appr opriately unf orgettaable as the illffated ated but dutiful to the last l Mr. Mr. Memory.

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Holden CCaulfield's aulfield's ffavorite avorrite film. (Plays Palo Alto Feb 26-Mar 1 in P alo Al t at the Stanford to Stanford Theatre.)

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It’s palm-muted guit ars. It ’s a ccall all to war—conjuring image w aarr—conjuring an ima age of mounted medieval city. crusaders sacking a med dieevval cit ty.

“Dirge Dying, moree “Dir rgge of the Dying g,” a far mor melodic immediately melo dic track,, immedia ately ffollows. o ollows.

“We are “W We ar re men of the ssword w wo ord and the hammer, hammer r,” the band members mem mbers sing in Over Misty unison, ni on, rrecalling ecalling “Far Ov O veer The Mist Mi ty Mountains Cold, song byy Mount taains C old,” the so ong sung b Oakenshield Thorin Oak keenshield and d ccompany ompan ny at start Hobbit.. “W warriors the st taart of The Hobbit ““We’re We’re w aarriors from battles beyond/and lay fr om bat tttles b eyo ond/and d now I la ay on floor myy so soul the fforest o orest flo or as m oul flies on to the morn.”

Sure, it’s nerdy, Scanlan McLean Sur e, it ’s ner dyy, Sc caanlaan and McL ean say, it’s unpretentious. sa ay, but it ’s also unpr eten ntious.

“Metal bee an all“Met taal has claimed to ob inclusive genre, McLean says. over inclusiv ve genr e,” McL ean n sa ayys. “But o ver e I’ve scene the yyears eears I’v ve seen the sc cene divide itself It’s shame..” so much. It ’s a shame You Y o ou won’t won n’’t get any an ny off that at a Valensorow show, McLean insists,, V aalensorow show w, McL e insists ean est of the eexplaining xxplaining that he and the t rrest seriously, band ttake ak ke their music se eriouslyy, but above else,, the they aree in have ab ove all else ey ar n it to ha ave fun.

“We don’t have say we’re “W We don n’’t ha ave to sa ay we ’re ‘‘thrash thrash

metal’ ‘death metal, says.

“It’s met taal’’ or ‘d death met taal,,’ he sa ayys. “It ’s rreally eeally rrefreshing efrreshing e g when w yyou o ou see someone jjust having there. ha avving fun n and not ccaring aring who is ther e.

Scanlan agrees, Sc caanlan agr ees, adding that writing lyrics ffor o or a “folk “folk “f o metal” metal”” group group allows him “complete creative freedom” “c omplete cr eativve fr eedom m” to tell wild stories.. “As songwriting stories “As the vvocalist, ocalist,, the song gw writing aspect leaves asp ect of it,, lea aves e nothing off the ttable, able,” says. he sa ayys. “It giv ggives vees it a vvery eery unique sound it’s blast play. and it ’s a bl last to pla ayy. y”” it’s And it ’s a blast to listen to and participate Valensorow’s aree par ticipate in,, if V aalensorow’s fans ar any indication.

McLean, an ny indic attion. According According to McL ean, show decked fans now sh how up to cconcerts oncerts deck keed facee paint and fake out in fac fak ke blood, blood,, rready eady e bee en enveloped byy the stor story. and willingg to b nvelop e ed b y.

Valensorow V aalensorrow rrecently ecently finished rrecording ecording their t ffollow-up o ollow-up to Neptus.

They Battle The ey plan to t rrelease elease The Bat tttle of Oak Mountain this summer.. They play Mount taain th his summer Theey will pla ay from new songs fr ro om m the ne w rrecord ecord Feb. Feb. 28 at O’Malley’s Mountain View.

O’Malle y’s in Mount ain V iieew. The Pin Up U p Production Producction show also ffeatures eeatures San Rivals, JJose ose acts Ri ivals, Covet Coveet and Sea in the Sky, Sk ky, Creek’s along with Walnut Cr eek’s rock rock & rrollollmeets-hardcore She’s meets-har d ore riot She dc ’s an Animal.

Valensorow Mountain V aalensorrow rrecorded ecorded Oak Mount taain Neptus—dB in the samee studio as Neptus —dB Sound Studios in Mor Morgan However, unlike M rggan Hill. Howe eveerr, unlik ke on the previous previous v rrecord, ecord,, Valensorow Valensor a ow focused live focused on n using liv ve instruments wherever wherever e possible. possible. The LP ffeatures eeatures accordion, acco ordion,, saxophone, ssaxophone, flute, flute, penny penn ny whistle, djembee and ccello, whistle, mandolin, maandolin,, djemb ello, to name a ffew. ew.

Many aree played Man ny off those instruments ar plaayeed by songwriter by the band’s band d’s chief song gw writer and leader, Bruce—who started leader, Conner Con nner Bruc e—who st arted the band as a si side project ide pr roject o back in 2011. “He plays instruments,,” McL McLean says. plaayys like lik ke 12 2 instruments ean sa ayys.

Oak Mou Mountain moree unttaain also brings in mor genres mix—even genres and sounds into the mix— even e elements of Western, o W eestern,, McLean McLean says. saays y.

“It’s pot “It’s a bigg melting p ot of things we nerded says nerded outt on,” Scanlan Sccanlan a sa ayys of the new new album. album m “It’s m.

“It It’s really really fun and rreally eally awesome bee able to inc incorporate aw wesome to ob orporate those things and not ha have worryy ab about ave to worr out ‘Oh these guys ar aaren’t en n’’t real real thrash,, these guys aren’t metal. aren n’’t real real sp sspeed eed met al.’”

As As on the th he first rrecord, ecord,, the second second LP will tell a story.

According Scanlan, sttory. A ccording to Sc anlan, it tells the ttale supernatural aale of ttwo w wo sup ernatural warriors—a “forest warriors—a a a “f fo orest warrior” warrior” a ” and a “being aree “being from frro om m the darkness”” who ar fighting ffor or or immortality. immortaalitty.

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‘MISFIT’ MAESTRO Kris Bowers mixes pop influence in with highly technical jazz and classical playing on ‘Misfits + Heroes.’

Blend In, Stand Out WHILE THE MAJORITY of his generation is expected to jump frequently between jobs and even careers—as they seek out higher wages and a sense of fulfillment— Kris Bowers is content to stay right where he is.

“I’ve never had another job, fortunately,” he says.

The pianist and composer, slated to play San Jose Jazz Winterfest next Friday, isn’t unambitious or lazy. It’s just that when Aretha Franklin and Kanye West both personally recognize your musical abilities before the age of 25, chances are you’ve found your calling.

“I’ve been around the piano from about as far back as I can remember,” Bowers says.

Following the Suzuki method of music instruction, his mother and father started him on piano lessons when he was just 4, sent him to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, and eventually Kris Bowers shipped him off to The Juilliard School in 2006.

Mar 6, 9pm, Examining Bowers’ upbringing provides the key to unlocking $25-$30 the dense and diverse sounds of his debut LP, Heroes + Misfits, San Jose Stage which weaves swinging jazz, smooth soul and hip-hop into a Company seamless, flowing musical fabric.

As a child, he was exposed to classical music from his instructors, while at home he was immersed in the jazz, soul, R&B and funk in his parents’ record collection. In middle school, he discovered that “it wasn’t normal to listen to jazz”—at least not in the estimation of his peers. While working to blend in he developed a genuine love of hip-hop and modern R&B. His tastes shifted twice more. In high school, he met other young jazz musicians and shunned all pop music. These days, his record collection is diverse, including albums from Radiohead, A Tribe Called Quest, My Bloody Valentine and Kanye, all intermingled with the classical, jazz and old-school jams his parents used to play.

Bowers has worked with a number of big-name musicians, including West, Q-Tip and Pharrell, who tapped him to add keyboards to the song “No Church in the Wild” from Kanye and Jay-Z’s collaborative 2011 album Watch the Throne. Bowers won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition the same year— catching the attention of Franklin, who has since invited him to perform at her private parties.

Since the release of Heroes + Misfits in March of 2014, Bowers has been shifting his focus, away from session work and playing other people’s music. “I made a conscious choice this year to really do my own thing,” he says.

So far he’s off to a strong start. On his first tour as a bandleader Bowers says he has been playing for large and enthusiastic crowds all over the U.S. and in Europe.—Nick Veronin

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The guy I’m seeing revealed rev vealed that he is hesitant to gett into a relationship because it means “taking “tak king responsibility” for anotherr person on a level you don’t don’t have to when whe en you’re you’re just friends with benefits. bene efits. In his words: “I mean, what if you gott cancer?” He He wants the friendship friendsh hip and connection of a relationship, relationship p, but he inevitably fails to step up and women bail. bail (What a surprise.) He He did have e a three-year relationship in the th he past, and I really like him. Should I stick around aro ound and hope he calms down?? —Unsure Here’s have Here’s a guy who will ha ave yyour our back—getting and back k— —getttting smaller an nd smaller in mirror the his rrearview earview mirr or at th he first sign problem, such of a serious pr oblem, suc ch as a bad hangnail. Sadly, Sadlyy, it isn’t isn n’t ’ enough enough to “really “really like” You like lik ke” a guy. guyy. Y ou o need to really really lik ke a guy who’s who’s prepared prepared to respond resp e ond to yyour our needs with loving loving cconcern oncern e instead of rubber. with burning rubb er. And in keeping keeping e unfortunate automotive theme,, this unf fo ortunate autom motive theme guy’ss b boyfriendability assessing a guy’ oyfrien ndabilitty should be be approached approached like liik ke selling ccars. ars. successful salesman The suc cessful ccar ar salesm man will not

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I consider myself a smart perso person, on, but why are smart people so negative? n We here?"—questions W e constantly ask, "What's the point? Why are we here?"—que estions with pretty depressing answers answers, you cause s, if yo ou ask me. Can intelligence caus se depression?

Nietzsche was obviously a brill liant but bitter person, and we can c also include brilliant Mozart, Newton, Tesla, didn’t pleasant M ozart, N e ewton, T e esla, etc., as guys g who didn ’t lead very pleasa ant lives despite isn’t —Marcos Madrid their intelligence. Surely this is sn’t all a coincidence? —M arcos San Juan, M adrid a You’re being too negative, Marcos.

Y ou o ’re b eing to o negativ ve, Mar cos o. prefer Much as the dim might pr effeer to believe otherwise, generally b elieeve other wise, rresearch eesearch has gene erally suggested that intelligenc intelligence ce ccorrelates, orrrelate e es, if mildly, greater happiness— only mildly y, with gr eater happiness s— tortured-genius without the tor tured-genius meme is witho out statistical st atistical ffoundation. o oundation.

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Historically, alleged Historic cally a y, eevidence videncce ffor o or this alle eged been overwhelmingly phenomenon has b een o veerwhelm mingly anecdotal, popular anec dottaal, ccemented emented e in the p opularr byy a steady str stream cconsciousness onsciousness b reeam off Oscar-bait biopics.

Imitation Osc caarr-bait biopics. If The Imit taation Game G anything by, Turing was i an is nyything hi to go b y, Alan Al T u uring i wa w as depressed before depr essed well b effo orre he had eextremely xtr x em mely good bee (r (read: involuntary go od rreason eason to b reead: in nvoluntarry chemical chemic al ccastration). aastration).

With W ith i these outsize eexamples xamples x on display, it’s perhaps understandable displa ay, it ’s p erhaps underst andablee that many people why they’re man ny p eople wondering wh hy the eyy’’re unhappy Because so unhapp py will cconclude: onclude: Bec ause I’m goddamn smart,, that that’s why.The so go ddamn smart ’s wh hy..The most m us,, it it’s suggested, brilliant among us ’s rregularly egularly sug ggested, are doomed ar re uniquely do omed to ccomprehend omprreeheend of the universe, the limitless eexpanse xpanse x universee, and, as a result, reesult, to cconfront onfr o ont our own n inconsequential placee within it. Thi This inc onsequential plac is has loosely been depression, lo osely b een termed eexistential xistential x dep pression, and is supp supposed bee esp especially osed to b ecially bad d among bright kids kids..

Empirically speaking, Empiric ally sp eakingg, there therre isn’t isn n’t ’ much m here.

Research over her e. R eesearch o veer the last 50 years yearss has between demonstrated no positive positive link b ettween w intelligencee and b being depressed intelligenc eing depr ressed e orr schizophrenic, schizophr enic, and has often suggested suggessted surveys the rreverse. everse. A 1998 1998 ccollection ollection of sur rveys y from educational fr rom o 11 ccountries ountries ffound o ound educ caationaal attainment intelligence at ttaainment and intelligenc ce ccorrelated orrelaated marginally with mar rginally g happier populations. population ns. from that Danish rresearch esearch fr om 2011 ffound o ound th hat both depressed bipolar patients b oth depr essed and bip olar patient ts had, before illness,, sligh slightly b effo ore the onset of their illness htly scores healthy lower aaverage veerage IQ Q ssc orrees than the he ealth hy population.

2004 survey data ccontrol ontrol p opulation. A 20 04 sur vey of dat ta 50,000 ffor o or 50,0 00 Swedish subjects rreported eported t that was associated greater low IQ Qw as a asso ciated with gr eater risk severe depression schizophrenia; of se everre depr preession and schizophr op enia; e ; scores were more subjects with aaverage verage IQ Q ssc cor o es wer re mor re likely become schizophrenic lik keely to later b eccome o schizophr reeniic than those with high sc scores. orrees.

Other that O ther rresearch esearch has suggested tha at intelligence isn’t particularly kids’ intelligenc ce isn n’t ’ a par rticularly t strong predictive str ong pr edictivve factor when it ccomes om mes adolescent depression moree to adolesc ent depr ession at least: mor m statistically, aree family histor historyy meaningful, st taatisticcaallyy, ar

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2005, Finnish disor rd derr. In 20 05, a F in nnish study rreported eported that high math scores scores on o IQ Q ttests in early adulthood adultho od ccorrelated orrreelated with w later diagnosis bipolar, large-scale as bip olarr, and a rrecent eccent e t lar ge-scale study of Swedish records reecorrd ds found fo ou und that kids with high school were eexcellent xc xcellent e school grades g were much more likely bee diagn diagnosed bipolar mor re lik keely to b nosed as bip olar in adulthood. adultho d l h od. d There’s supposed between Ther re’s also the supp posed link b ettween w creativity craziness.

Intuitively cr eativitty and craziness s. Intuitiv ely this believable: storyy of V Van one seems b elieevvable: the t stor an a Gogh cutting ear give Go gh cut tting t off his ea ar to giv ve to a prostitute was myy own standard pr ostitute w as a m n teenage st andarrd tortured-artist ffor o or the ultimate tor turred-artist rresponse esponse to girl tr trouble.

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The eexception? xc x eption? W rritters. The Swedish group being was gr roup o ffound o ound that b ein ng an author w as associated increased likelihood asso ciated with incr eassed lik keelihood depression, anxiety, enia, of depr ession, anxiet ty, schizophr sschizophrenia, bipolarity, substance abuse, suicide.. bip olaritty, subst ancce ab buse, and suicide Earlier studies had dra drawn awn w similar cconclusions, onclusions, but rrelied eery small elied on vvery sample self-reporting. a p e sizes e aand d lots o o off self e f-r -rep e o ortingg. study Then again, in that stu udy cconnecting onnecting good bipolar disorder, go od grades with bip o disor olar rd derr, the ttwo w wo subjects that showed a par particularly ticularly str strong ong link wer re Swedish and d music om were music.. T To myy ffellow eellow writers uppose to all those writers,, and I su suppose cr eative-minded Swed es out ther e, all I ccan an creative-minded Swedes there, say sa ay is: k keep eeep it to together gether as b best est yyou ou ccan, an, and a. we ’ll hold out ffor o or fur th her dat we’ll further data.

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Refile R e of pr efile previous evious file #5 #510933 10933 after 40 da days ays off expir expiration raation date. /s/W /s/Won on Ik Cho his statement was filed with the County Clerk C This Th off Santa Clar ra County on 2/1 2/2015.

Clara 2/12/2015. (p pub Metr 2/18, 2/25, 2/25, 3/04, 3/11/2015) 3/11/2015) (pub Metroo 2/18,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NA AME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #601268 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business bu usiness as: U-V U-Valley Vaalley Cleaning Ser Services, vices, 110101 0 01 Kenilworth 01 Kenilworth Way, Waayy, San Jose, CA, CA, 95127, 95127, LLuz u Mar uz Martir, tirr, 86 8631 31 Bev Beverly erly Ln., Dublin, CCA, A, 94568, 9 4568, Alejandro Alejandro Uvalle.

Uvalle. This business is conducted co onducted by by a joint vventure. enture. R Registrant egistrant began b transacting tr a ansacting business under the fictitious business bu usiness name or names listed her herein ein on 2/10/15.

2/ /10/15. /s/L /s/Luz uz Mar Martir tir This Th his statement was filed with the County Clerk C off Santa Clar Clara ra County on 2/1 2/10/2015.

0/2015. (p pub Metr 2/18, 2/25, 2/25, 3/04, 3/11/2015) 3/11/2015) (pub Metroo 2/18,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #600406 Thhe follo The following wing person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business busiiness as: as s: Cafe One, 1 Almaden Blv Blvd., d., S STE TE 1120, 20,

San Jose, CA, CA, 95113, 95113, Jose Luis Luis u Orduna, Orduna, 3850 3850 Dottieyn Ave., Ave., San Jose, CA, CA,, 95111, 95111, Maria Olvera.

O l era. This lv hi business b i is i conducted connducted d d by by a married couple. R Registrant egistrant began tr transacting ansacting business under the fictitiou fictitious us business name or names listed her herein ein on 110/14/2009.

0 4/2009. /s/Jose 0/1 LLuis uis Or Orduna duna This statement was filed wi th the County Clerk with of Santa Clar /20/2015.

Claraa County on 1/ 1/20/2015. (pub Metro Metro 2/1 8, 2/25, 2/25, 3/04, 3/0 04, 3/11/2015) 3/11/2015) 2/18,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT #600 0330 #600330 The follo following wing person(s) is (a (are) are) doing business as: W WarrenWorks, aarrenWorks, 3316 3316 Marcel Marcel Ct., San Jose, CCA, A, 95135, 95135, Christina h i i Warren.

Waarrenn.

This business is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrraant has not yet yet begu begun un tr transacting ansacting business under the fictitiou fictitious us business name or names listed her herein. ein. /s/Chr /s/Christina ristina W Warren arr a en This statement was filed wi with th the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 1/ 1/15/2015. /15/2015. (pub Metro Metro 2/11, 2/1 2/18, 8, 2/25, 2/25, 3/04/2015) 3/04/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #601 #601094 1094 The follo following wing person(s) is (a (are) are) doing business as: W WoodWorks oodWorks Imagery, Imageryy, 147 147 South Morrison Ave., A ve., San Jose, CA, CA, 95126, 95126, Myles Myles l Balsamo.

Balsamo l .

This business is conducted by by a individual.

R egistrraant has not yet yet begu un tr ansacting Registrant begun transacting business under the fictitiou us business name or fictitious names listed her ein. /s/M y Balsamo yles herein. /s/Myles This statement was filed wi th the County Clerk with of Santa Clar /06/2015.

Claraa County on 2/ 2/06/2015. (pub Metro Metro 2/11, 2/1 8, 2/25, 2/25, 3/04/2015) 3/04/2015) 2/18,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #599975 NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #599 9975 The follo following wing person(s) is (a (are) are) doing business as: Jigz Marketing Agency Agency, y, 29 2 2940 40 Macintyre Macintyre Dr., Dr r.., #105, #105, San Jose, CA, CA, 95136, 95136, Josue Ivan Ivan Gonzalez Zapata. This busin business ness is conducted bbyy a individual. R Registrant egistrant began b tr transacting ansacting business under the fictitiou fictitious us business name or names listed her herein ein on 11/6/2015. /6/2015. /s/Josue Ivan Iv an Gonzalez Zapata This statement was filed with with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Clara County on 1/06/2015.

1//06/2015. (pub Metro Metro 2/6, 2/11, 2/1 8 2/2 8, 5/2015) 2/18, 2/25/2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #601079 NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #601 1079 The follo following wingg pperson(s) is (a (are) are) doingg business as: 1. Alto View View Properties, Properties, 2.

2 Silver Silver Arrow Arrow PProperties, roperties, 1162 62 San Lazaro Lazaro Ave., Ave., Sunnyvale, Sunnyvale, CCA, A, 94086, 94086, Nicholas Travis, Travis, a 115245 5245 Hume Dr., Dr r.., Sar Saratoga, raatoga, CCA, A, 9 95070.

5070. Th This is business is conducted bbyy a individual. R Registrant egistrraant has not yyet et begun tr transacting ransacting a busin business ess under the fictitious business name or names n listed her herein. ein. /s/Nicholas TTravis. ravis. This state statement ement was filed with the County Clerk of San Santa nta Clar Claraa County on 2/05/201 2/05/2015.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #600 #6 #600860 0860 86 The follo following wing person(s) is (a (are) are) doing business as: Metis, 9 977 S. 2nd S Street, treet, #1 #196, 96, San Jose, CCA, A, 95113, 95113, Metis Real Real Estate, Estatte, Inc. This business is conducted by by a corpor corporation. ation.

Above Abo ve entity was formed in the state of California R Registrant egistrant began tr transacting raansacting business under the fictitiou fictitious us business name or names listed her herein ein on 1/1 1/16/2015.

6 6/201 5.

/s/Enrico J. Soriano S President President #3719879 #3719879 This statement statemeent was filed with the County Clerk off Santa S Clara Clar Cl ra County C on 1/30/201 1/30/2015. / / 5. (pub Metr Metroo 2/11, 2 2/1 2/18, 8, 2/25, 2/25, 3/04/2015) 3/04/2015)

FICTITIOUSS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #599898 The follo following wingg person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: V Valley alley a Mo Mountain ountain Sea, 846 Cherrystone Dr., Dr r.,. Los Los Gatos, Gatos, CA, CA, 95032, 95032, Susan Holtslander Holtslander.r.

This businesss is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant has haas not yet yet begun tr transacting ansacting business und under der the fictitious business name or names listed her herein. ein. /s/Susan Holtslander This stateme statement ent was filed with the County Clerk off Santa Clar Clara l ra County on 1/05/2015.

1/05/2015. (pub Metr Metroo 2/04, 2 2/11, 2/1 2/18, 8, 2/25/2015) 2/25/2015)

FICTITIOUSS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #600608 The follo following wingg person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: 1. Boss Bur Burgers, gers, 2. Boss Bur Burger, gerr, 2787 2 787 Baton Rouge Rouge Dr., Drr.., San Jose, CA, CA, 95133, 95133, Alexandroo Or Alexandr Ortega. rtega. This business is conducted bbyy a individu individual. al. R Registrant egistrant has not yet yet begun tr ansacting business b under the fictitious transacting business nam me or names listed her ein. /s/ name herein.

Alexandr rtega Owner Alexandroo Or Ortega This hi statement statemeent was filed fil d with i h the h County Clerk l k of Santa Clar ra County on 1/23/2015.

1/23/2015.

Clara (pub Metr 2 2/11, 2/1 8, 2/25/2015) 2/25/2015) Metroo 2/04, 2/18,

FICTITIOUSS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #600006 The follo following wingg person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Shining S Stars tars of Bay Area, Area, 5525 25 LLos os Coches Street, S treet, Milpitas, Milpittas, CA, CA, 95035, 95035, K Karamuit aramuit Saini, 4105 4 105 Mor Morganfield gannfield Ct., Pleasanton, CCA, A, 9 94566.

4566.

This businesss is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant has haas not yet yet begun tr transacting ansacting business und under der the fictitious business name or names listed her herein. ein. /s/K /s/Karamuit Kaarraamuit Saini This statement statemeent was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra County on 1/07/2015.

1/07/2015. (pub Metr 2 2/11, 2/1 8, 2/25/2015) 2/25/2015) Metroo 2/04, 2/18,

FICTITIOUSS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT STATEMENT T #600703 The follo following wingg person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: FFrecklewood, recklewoood, 3 Adelong W Way, aayy, San Jose, CCA, A, 95139-1202, 95139-1202, 2 Ar Arthur thur Zamarr Zamarron, on, Kirstin Zamarron.

Zamarr on. This This business is conducted by by a married coup ple. couple.

R egistr g ant has haas not yet yet begun g tr ansactingg Registrant transacting business und der the fictitious business name or under names listed her ein. /s/Arthur /s/Arthur Zamarr on herein.

Zamarron This stateme ent was filed with the County Clerk statement of Santa Clar ra County on 1/2 7/2015.

Clara 1/27/2015. (pub Metr 2 2/18, 2/25/2015) 2/25/2015) Metroo 2/04, 2/11, 2/18,

FICTITIOUSS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #600408 The follo following wingg person(s) is (ar (are) e) doing business as: Liv Livee Play Silicon V Valley, aalleyy, 119400 9400 S Stevens tevens Creek Cr eek Blvd., Blvd., #200, # Cupertino, Cupertino, CA, CA, 95014, 95014, Chris Alston, 346 Esther E Ave., Ave., Campbell, CA, CA, 95008.

95008.

This businesss is conducted by by a individual.

Registrant R egistrant has haas not yet yet begun tr transacting ansacting business und under der the fictitious business name or names listed her herein. ein. /s/Chris Alst Alston on This statement statemeent was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Clara ra County on 1/20/2015.

1/20/2015. (pub Metr 2 2/11, 2/1 8, 2/25/2015) 2/25/2015) Metroo 2/04, 2/18,

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FREE W WILL ILLL ASTROLOGY A STROLOGY ARIESS (Mar ARIE (March ch 21-April 19): TToo depict what lay beyond

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Bewaree of your mind playing tricks.

TAURUS T AURUS (April 20-May 20): Whenever W I close my eyes and seek psychic visions off your near futur e, I future, see her oic Biblical scenes. Mose es is parting the Red heroic Moses Sea. Joseph is interpr eting Phar raoh’s dr eam. Jesus is interpreting Pharaoh’s dream. ffeeding eeding 5,000 people with five loaves l of br ead and bread two fish. What ’s the meaning off my reveries? reveries? Well, Well, this What’s psychic stuff is trick y, and I hesi tate to dr aw definitive tricky, hesitate draw conclusions. But if I had to gues ss, I’d speculate that guess, you ar ovide a major blessing b or perf orm an aree ripe to pr provide perform unpr ecedented ser vice ffor or peop ple you car unprecedented service people caree about.

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“The Undramatic cartoon, TTom oom Gauld outlines “Th he Four Undr amatic Plot SStructures”: tructures”: 1. “The her cconfronted onted by an heroo is confr antagonistic fforce orce and ignor es iitt until it goes away .” 2. ignores away.”

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CANCER (June 2121-July July 22): “T “To To be happy is to be

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-Sept. 22): “I will w not wait to love as

best as I can,” says writer Dave Eggers.

E “W “Wee thought we wer ld be time to love well weree young and that ther theree wou would sometime in the futur e. This is a terrible terrible way to think. future.

It is no way to live, to wait to love.” lovve.” That’s That’s your keynote ffor or the coming week s, Vir go. Tha at’s your wake-up call weeks, Virgo.

That’s and the rrose-scented ose-scented note unde er your pillow and the under message scr awled in lipstick on your bathr oom mir ror. If scrawled bathroom mirror. ther ieves love will be better theree is any part of you that bel believes or fuller or mor ect in the futur ffuture, e, tell that part of moree perf perfect you to shut up and embr ace thiss tender command: Now embrace is the time to love with all of you ur heart and all of your your soul and all of your mind.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 23-Oct. -Oct. 22): I lov love ve the song “Shine On

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SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oct. (Occt. 23-Nov. 23-Nov. 21): Sneaking ar around ound isn’t necessary, There’s isn’t necessary y, Scorpio.

S Ther e’s no useful power to be gained by hid hiding information secret ding inf ormation or pursuing secr et agendas. This is not a time when it it’s ’s essential for for you to be a master of who’s o manipulation who ’s ten steps ahead of everyone else else. e. For now now,, you ar aree likely to achieve maximum succe success lifee the most if you ess and enjoy your lif are excitable, transparent. are curious, exci table, and tr ansparent. I invite you to embody the min mindset ndset of a cr creative, eative, pr precocious ecocious child who has a lovingg mommy and daddy daddy..

SSAGITTARIUS AGITT TA ARIU US (Nov (Nov.. 22 22-Dec. -Dec. 21): In 1953, Edmund Hillary and TTenzing Norgay enzi e ing Nor gay became the first humans to reach summit Everest. reach the summ mit of Mount Ever est. It took them seven weeks weeks to climb the t 29,029-f 29,029-foot oot peak. In 1960, Jacques Piccard Piccard and Donn Walsh Walsh got into a bathyscaphe and sailed to the lowest low west point on the planet, the Mariana Trench Trench at the bottom boottom of the Pacific Pacific Ocean. It took them four four hours and 47 47 minutes to go down 36,070 feet. feet.

Based on my an analysis astrological alysis of your astr ological omens, I think the oper operative attive metaphor ffor or you in the coming weeks weeks should bee the deep descent, not the steep ascent. It It’s ’s time to explore explore and hang out in the depths rather rather than the heights. heights CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN N (Dec. 22 22-Jan. -Jan. 19): The African country of

Ivory Coast has two tw wo different different capital cities. Yamoussoukro Yamoussoukr a o capital, is the official cap pital, while Abidjan is the actual capital, wheree the main governmental action takes place. I wher g there’s comparable suspect ther e’s a compar able split in your personal rrealm, ealm, CCapricorn: apricorn: a case of mixed dominance. Maybe that’s that ’s a good thing; thinng; maybe it allows for for a balance of interests. power between competing c inter ests. Or perhaps it’s it’s a bit causing confusing, causin ng a split in your attention that hampers from expressing you fr om expr esssing a unified purpose. Now would be a favorable favorable time to think about how well the division is working ffor or you, and to tinker with it if necessary. necessary.

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. ( 20-Feb. 18): I’ve gone on thr three ee

book tours and done d myy spoken-wor spoken-word p d show in scor scores es bookstores.

But of book stores. B ut one of my ffavorite avorite author events Avenue Laundromat took place at thee A vvenue C Laundr omat in New YYork ork o Village.

Theree I perf performed City’s East Villag ge. Ther ormed with two other writers as part of o the “Dirty Laundry: Loads Loads of Prose” Prose” boisterous rreading eading series. Itt was a boister ous event. All of us weree ex extra goofy, authors wer xtra loose and goofy y, and the audience offered good-natured off ered a lot of funny ffunny, y, good-natur ed heckling. The freed unusual locationn fr eed everyone up to have maximum see weekss as a time when amusement. I se ee the coming week you, too, might thrive t by doing what you do best in out-of-context you’ree not seemingly out-o of-context situations. If you’r yourself.. outright invited to do so, I suggest you invite yourself

PISCESS (Feb. 19-Mar PISCE 19-March ch 20): When Arnold

Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger became Governor of CCalifornia alifornia in 2003, the state had the eighth lar largest gest economy in the th world, ld right i ht behind b hi d Italy It l andd just j t ahead h d off Brazil.

B azil.

Br il Schwarzenegger Schwarzenegger had never before before held political office.

When Cambodian Cambodiaan doctor Haing Nor performed performed in the film The Killing Fields FFields,, ffor or which he ul ultimately timately won an Oscar Oscar,r, he hadd no tr training actor.. He was a aining as an actor novice. Will you try to ffollow ollow in their ffootsteps, ootsteps, Pisces?

Is it possible youu could take on a rrole ole ffor or which you have no pr preparation According eparation a or seasoning? A ccording to my divinations, the answer is yes. But is it a good idea?

That’s That’s a more more complex coomplex issue. TTrust rrust your gut.

Homework: D Devise evise a plan not to get back to wher wheree you once belonged, but rrather ather to wheree you must wher mu ust some day belong.

Testify T estify e at FreeWillAstrology.com.

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