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49ers Draft Football season has a way of sneaking up on summer, but the most important games the San Francisco 49ers play this fall might actually take place away from the gridiron. A City Council majority is up for grabs in Santa Clara, and the NFL club that now calls the Mission City home has designs on supporting more team friendly candidates. Mayor LISA GILLMOR and council colleagues DEBI DAVIS and TERESA O’NEILL have been a thorn in the Niners’ side going back to before Levi’s Stadium hosted Super Bowl 50 in February. They Gillmor has repeatedly Did questioned whether city What? staff and the team’s stadium management SEND TIPS TO FLY@ companies are providing METRONEWS. an accurate picture on COM revenue and expenses. Following the mysterious post-SB50 resignation of former Mayor JAMIE MATTHEWS and the expedited exit of City Manager JULIO FUENTES, 49ers owner JED YORK went from having the city on his side—if not in his pocket—to being a whipping boy of fans and electeds alike. Gillmor inherited Matthews’ term through 2018, but Davis and O’Neill’s seats are up for grabs, while council appointee KATHY WATANABE’s seat is open and Councilman JERRY MARSALLI will not seek re-election; councilmen PAT KOLSTAD and DOMINIC CASERTA term out in 2018 and have been good soldiers for the club. Word is the team has not only recruited AHMAD RAFAH, a former policy advisor to Rep. MIKE HONDA, to run for council but also supports former Santa Clara Mayor PAT MAHAN and Councilman JOHN McLEMORE in coming out of political retirement. McLemore has been a consultant to the Niners—his phone number ends in the suffix 4949—and Mahan helped lead the Measure J campaign to build Levi’s. Her return is not without some hypocrisy, though, as Mahan once criticized others for gaming term limits to remain in office.

Penalty Duel LOOKOUT POINT Competing plans to fix the state death penalty could affect 747 inmates at San Quentin.

Opposing propositions seek to fix capital punishment in California BY LINDSEY J. SMITH

OMENTS BEFORE Richard Allen Davis was sentenced to death in a San Jose courtroom for the kidnapping and murder of Polly Klaas, the young girl’s father addressed the court.

“He broke the contract; for that he must die,” Marc Klaas said on Aug. 5, 1996. “Mr. Davis, when you get to where you’re going, say hello to Hitler, say hello to Dahmer and say hello to Bundy. Good riddance, and the sooner you get there the better we all are.” Davis entered the Klaas family’s life on Oct. 1, 1993, when he broke into Polly Klaas’ mother’s home in

Petaluma and kidnapped the 12-yearold. The ensuing two-month search engrossed the nation, and ended when Davis led investigators to the young girl’s body. But for Marc Klaas, the torture was far from over, as the case evolved into an emotional threeyear trial. At sentencing, Davis, who was also convicted of attempting lewd acts on Polly, delivered a final blow, alleging the young girl had begged him, “Just don’t do me like Dad.” Klaas has looked forward to the killer’s execution as the lifting of a burden. But at sentencing he never imagined that 20 years later he’d still be awaiting that day. Since 1996, Davis—who sits on death row in San Quentin State Prison, a scant 10 miles from Klaas’ Sausalito home— has had just one appeal heard. His situation is not necessarily unique; the majority of the state’s 747 condemned

have been on death row for between 16 and 24 years, with one awaiting execution for 38 years. Klaas spends his days running the KlaasKids Foundation, one of several nonprofits started in Polly’s memory. But after receiving a call from the California District Attorneys Association, he’s turned his attention to endorsing Proposition 66, a proposal to reform the death penalty headed to the November ballot.’ “It was never my intention to be an outspoken advocate of the death penalty,” Klass says, “but apparently it just sort of played out that way.” Come election day, Prop. 66 will be up against another death penalty initiative, Prop. 62. Each initiative addresses California’s broken death penalty system, which leaves the condemned to languish for decades. But the two plans present diametrically opposed solutions. Simply titled “California Death Penalty Repeal,” Prop. 62 would replace the death penalty with life in prison without parole. The legislation sprung

as habeas corpus appeals, would need to be presented in one case. It would assign inmates counsel on the day of their sentencing, and would allow the state supreme court to force qualified attorneys to take capital appeals cases as a condition for being assigned to other cases in the future. Prop. 66 also allows the condemned to be housed in facilities other than San Quentin. “When we talk about speeding up appeals some of it sounds sort of unfair,” Hanisee says. But, she adds, slowing down the process can be equally unjust to inmates. In the first capital verdict she oversaw as a Los Angeles deputy district attorney, the condemned man waited four years to be assigned an appellate lawyer, and another year for the lawyer to get up to speed on the case. Eight years later, his appeal has received 21 extensions, according to Hanisee, and no opening brief has been filed. “If [he] were innocent or had a legitimate cause, it’s not getting heard,” she argues. Both campaigns claim they will save taxpayers millions of dollars annually. Prop. 62’s website says abolishing the death penalty say will save the state $150 million per year, a figure that squares with a May 2016 report from the LAO. Prop. 66 savings, the LAO said, “could potentially reach the tens of millions of dollars annually,” but not hundreds of millions. Overall, the report concludes that Prop. 66’s long-term fiscal impact is unclear because it would reduce caseloads but require state courts to be staffed at higher levels. Fiscal arguments may sway some voters, but the death penalty at its core is an emotional issue.The propositions require a simple majority to pass, and if both receive more than 50 percent of the vote, the one with the higher percentage will become law. Twenty years have passed, but the death penalty remains an emotional issue for Marc Klaas. Davis no longer dominates his thoughts the way he once did, but his extended stay on death row prevents the closure Klaas seeks. “Oh, I’m gonna drink champagne the night that he’s executed,” Klaas says, the white of sailboats in Richardson Bay glinting through his kitchen window. “The mere fact that he still exists on this Earth influences my life and it influences my thoughts. So, eliminate him and you eliminate that burden.”

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from the seeds of 2012’s Prop. 34, which would have abolished the death penalty had it not lost by a narrow margin. “What the polling shows is that there’s a big difference in the way voters react to the question ‘Do you want to end the death penalty, period?’ to ‘Do you think we should replace the death penalty with life without the possibility of parole?’” says Paula Mitchell, an author of Prop. 62 and professor at Loyola Law School. She and others behind the campaign found voters are much more comfortable with the idea of substituting a life sentence rather than abolishing the death penalty altogether. The legislation would also force death-row inmates to work in prison and pay restitutions to their victims’ families, a facet it shares with Prop. 66. District attorneys and elected officials have endorsed Prop. 62, including Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and former President Jimmy Carter. Since 1978, when capital punishment was reinstated by voters after brief abolition, California has spent more than $5 billion to run the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere. In that time, 930 people have been sentenced to death but only 15 have actually been executed, according to the state Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO). No executions have been carried out in California in the last decade because of challenges to the state’s lethal injection protocol. For Mitchell, one of the most compelling reasons to abolish the death penalty is the risk of executing an innocent person. Since 1973, she notes, 144 people on death row have been exonerated. On the other hand, Prop. 66, known as the “Death Penalty Reform and Savings Act of 2016,” contends that the death penalty is not beyond repair, and that it is our duty to fix it. “This arose out of a will to represent the obvious desires of the majority of the citizens of the state of California,” says Michele Hanisee, a key opponent of 2012’s Prop. 34. Prop. 66, which is backed by a long roster of district attorneys, sheriffs and law enforcement, including the San Jose Police Officers Association, attempts to reform capital punishment on several levels. Appeals to the state supreme court based on the trial record would need to be completed in five years. All appeals based on evidence or issues outside the record, known

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#BlueLivesMatter Misses Key Moment for Change BY JOSH KOEHN One of the most frustrating aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement is how it continues to be misunderstood. In particular, law enforcement has consistently failed to understand the movement’s core tenet: black people are not less than, and they’re tired of being treated as such. This shouldn’t be a lightning rod point. It’s arguing for treatment that is not separate, just equal. But in a press release sent out last week, after three Baton Rouge police officers were gunned down following five in the Dallas sniper attack, the San Jose Police Officers Association (POA) suggested that the Black Lives Matter movement is an illegitimate cause. It noted that “we need action” as a society over “more statements of condemnation of these heinous acts or pledges of remorse for these latest murders.”

The statement concluded: “The hypocrisy must stop for a dialogue to start.” In fact, the hypocrisy of statements like these needs to stop for a real dialogue to start. The #BlueLivesMatter vs. #BlackLivesMatter hashtag clash forgets that these positions are not mutually exclusive. But while we appropriately rally behind law enforcement in the wake of senseless murders of officers, we should not fall back to tropes such as “All Lives Matter.” This is a misdirection and avoids having the conversation we need to have, just as the POA denied or ignored my requests for an interview about their statement. Black Lives Matter has never been about raising one group of people over others for a rare glimpse from the top. It’s about the very real fact that

black men and women in this country have been systematically targeted, oppressed, incarcerated and killed by police in disproportionate numbers for generations, and it needs to stop. “The families of these fallen and injured officers need our support, prayers and commitment to do all we can to take the necessary action to protect law enforcement personnel and hold the cowardly murderers accountable,” the POA statement reads. So, how can we better protect law enforcement? Laws in California already give considerable protection to police. As I reported in a 2014 story about officer-involved shootings, an officer of the law merely needs a reasonable fear for his or her safety to open fire and kill a person. This is how an elderly Vietnamese woman holding a potato peeler is shot to death.

This is how a man in a doctor’s costume, sleeping in a hotel stairwell after a Halloween party, gets shot somewhere between 24 and 26 times. There have been more than several dozen officer-involved shootings in Santa Clara County since 2009, and not a single officer has ever been charged with improperly firing their weapon. That’s one way we protect officers. We give them the benefit of the doubt even when we disagree on what constitutes a proper amount of force. But if we really want to protect our police officers, why hasn’t the Blue Lives Matter movement taken a firm position on greater gun control and mental health initiatives? Many of the men and women shot and killed by police are suspected of having a weapon, so why do we as a society still insist on allowing people to arm themselves to the teeth? It is no stretch to say that the people who have targeted and killed random police officers are insane, just like someone who takes a highpowered rifle and attacks a school full of children has lost their mind. Why haven’t we seen police unions sponsoring a raft of mental health initiatives? Why has the Blue Lives Matter movement failed to discuss how police officers are being outgunned? The only request currently being made by police is to make violence against police a hate crime, and give more military grade weaponry to local departments. Why hasn't law enforcement put a greater emphasis on simply banning the possession of military grade weapons to the public? When everyone is strapped like a Call of Duty character, the only advantage is high ground—and morally, police unions will not have it until they admit that they have done nothing as a powerful lobbying force to fight the NRA. There are bad apples on all sides, in law enforcement and political movements that demand aggressive change. But the political will is there to do something, if police will only stand up and make the discussion about gun control, mental health and justice—instead of them versus just us. To read the full column go to SanJoseInside.com.

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San Jose police accused of wasting precious resources targeting gay hook-ups in public bathrooms BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

FULL CIRCLE Famed “toilet lawyer” Bruce Nickerson has made a career out of defending gay men against charges of lewd conduct.

T COLUMBUS PARK, where San Jose decades ago cleared hundreds of homes beneath the municipal airport’s flight path, jets wing in low enough to rattle the signposts. By day, the poorly kempt 10-acre tract bustles with softball teams. Weekends bring beach volleyball players and horseshoe pitchers. Mostly, it’s left to the tent-dwellers who live among clustered trees and along the adjacent Guadalupe River. The park’s dusk-through-dawn

desertion gave rise to its reputation as a cruising spot. A bathroom on the western edge of the baseball diamond becomes, on occasion, a byplace for men who want to have sex with other men. John Ferguson, a South County native in his mid-50s who knew of the park’s repute, says it seemed empty as usual when he stopped by one evening in May last year. But minutes after he latched the toilet stall, a man clad in shorts and a T-shirt ambled in to use the urinal. Ferguson spied a round cutout in the mottled black partition—a gloryhole, meant for soliciting sex—and, impulsively, slipped his forefinger through as an invitation.

The man on the other side stepped back, paused and then walked outside. Ferguson shrugged it off as polite rejection and got up to leave. But the stranger, idling by the door, struck up a conversation. “How often do you come here?” the man asked, a coy smile parting his lips while telegraphing what Ferguson took for meaningful eye contact. Ferguson puzzled over the mixed signals from this cute, muchyounger stranger, but lingered to chat. Maybe they could exchange numbers or continue the repartee elsewhere, he recalls thinking, indulging a whit of naïve optimism.

A third man appeared minutes into the exchange. The sexual tension must have been palpable, Ferguson figured, because the newcomer stepped into the bathroom, dropped trou and began to masturbate. Just then a fourth person arrived, brusquely introducing himself as Officer Adam Jenkins of the San Jose Police Department’s Downtown Services Unit. Ferguson’s breath quickened in panic. The guy he’d been flirting with—Officer Samuel Marquardt, as it turned out—whipped a badge out from under his shirt and broke the bad news. The man who exposed

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himself was caught in the act and charged accordingly. But Ferguson’s alleged violation was one of intent. Stunned, he agonized over how the ill-fated encounter would affect his career as a federal agricultural biologist. He’d taken an extended sabbatical to write a book—would the government hire him back with this kind of black mark on his record? Would he pass a background check for new work or housing? Would he have to register as a sex offender? How would he tell his family? Shock turned to shame. Ferguson had spent decades coming to terms with his sexuality, which he considered

a symptom of being molested as a child. For years, he endured evangelical Christian pray-the-gay-away therapy to cure his same-sex attraction. When that failed, he turned to drugs to suppress it. Not until his early 40s—after sobriety untangled his innate self from trauma and addiction—did he finally come out of the closet. But on his half-hour drive home, that lifetime of hurt crashed back to the present.

Making a Case Officer Marquardt cited Ferguson for a petty crime, but one freighted with controversy and historical import.

Section 647(d) of the California penal code outlaws loitering in or around a public restroom for the purpose of engaging in a lewd or lascivious act. Police often couple it with 647(a), which makes it illegal to solicit or engage in lewd conduct in public. Because they’re classified as sex crimes, the punishments for code 647 arrests often go far beyond plea-bargained misdemeanor settlements of $1,000 fines or community service; they may require giving up Fourth Amendment rights or registering as a sex offender. Although people of all orientations have sex in public in parked cars on lovers’ lanes and on streets, in parking

lots or at the beach, 647 citations disproportionately upend the lives of men who seek out homosexual companionship. That SJPD apparently applied the former charge solely to gay men using male decoys to feign interest evokes a not-so-distant past of sanctioned oppression against anyone other than straight. It also puts the city at risk of federal litigation. Bruce Nickerson, a 75-yearold attorney who spent half his life defending men against such allegations, plans to take the city of San Jose to task in a case that could culminate his storied career.

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“A lot of gay rights attorneys turn up their noses at what I do,” says Nickerson, known by detractors and allies alike as the state’s pre-eminent “toilet lawyer.” “But there’s a reason I do these kinds of cases. Because worse than being fired because you’re gay is to be arrested for being gay. The most fundamental right of any person is to be free of imprisonment.” Gay rights advocates, who certainly don’t excuse public sex or boorish behavior, deride the stings as a form of entrapment. They object to the way police seem to unfairly fixate on gay men and go out of their way to elicit sexual interest by conveying spoken and nonverbal cues such as below-the-stall foot tapping or outright propositions. After decades of denouncing gay cruising stings, critics have made some headway in recent years as the public grows more supportive of LGBT rights. Police in Mountain View and San Leandro stopped undercover 647 crackdowns after a series of lawsuits over the years pegged them as unconstitutional. So did Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. “We do not conduct these stings, nor, to my knowledge, have we ever in my 18-year career,” Palo Alto police spokesman Lt. Zach Perron tells Metro. The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office rarely sees the charge, having prosecuted only 33 cases for

647(d) in the past decade—24 of them, however, since SJPD doubled down on the toilet busts in 2013. In April, a Los Angeles County judge tossed identical charges in a closely watched case against one of Nickerson’s clients from Long Beach. Not two months later, he heard about a similar dismissal in San Jose, where he defended his first client against the same allegations 35 years ago. Since his inaugural case, cities throughout the nation have all but ended gay cruising stings after so many acquittals, bigmoney lawsuits and the resulting public backlash. To hear that the 10th largest American city revived the practice as recently as 2015 came as a shock. “Outrageous,” Nickerson says. “There was a general understanding that they wouldn’t continue this.” San Jose police and prosecutors that argued the cases deny claims of prejudice. SJPD spokesman Sgt. Enrique Garcia objects to even calling the operations “stings” because no overtime was used and the officers work their shifts in plainclothes anyway. Each one, he says, came in response to complaints from the public. SJPD has since suspended the practice, though Garcia says it may resume if the need arises. “We had a judge render a decision that the arrests were invalid, but that’s not unusual,” Garcia says. “We have

15 The late Franklin Kameny, a WWII veteran with a doctorate from Harvard University, may well have served a distinguished career as an astronomer in the Army Map Service had his sexual orientation remained secret. But this was during the “Lavender Scare,” the mass firings of gay and lesbian federal employees by an executive order of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kameny lasted five months. The government canned him once it found out that the “morals squad” arrested him as a “sexual pervert” across from the White House in Lafayette Park, a gay cruising ground. More than a decade before the Stonewall riots in New York, Kameny turned his 1957 arrest into the spark that ignited the nation’s gay civil rights movement. By litigating against his termination, he became a powerful force in confuting the notion of homosexuality as a perversion and the laws based on that premise. The generations to follow saw state after state decriminalize sodomy. Meanwhile, beginning in the 1960s, the United States Supreme Court repeatedly affirmed a right to privacy that prevents the government from meddling with people’s consensual sex lives. Only in the past few years has the nation legalized same-sex marriage, lifted a ban on openly gay military members and made greater efforts to dismantle lingering dregs of systemic bigotry. Now, just as the Orlando massacre intensifies national concern over gay rights, San Jose stands to become an example of how institutional discrimination persists in picayune laws and oblivious bias.

War for the Soul Nickerson turned the old saw about a man’s home being his castle into reality. When he bought his San Carlos abode in the 1970s, he added a third story, poured his own concrete balusters, installed a faux-stone facade and narrow stained-glass windows to model it after a castle in Germany. “My poor man’s Hearst Castle,” he says, allowing a moment’s pause to admire his handiwork before heading inside. Most days Nickerson and his roomrenting tenants use the kitchen door,

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cases heard in court every day—some get adjudicated, others get thrown out. This wasn’t what we call a case law or precedent. We are still going to respond to criminal activity as best we can. We are obligated to respond.” To LGBT advocates, however, the tactics bear troubling traces of recent history, when police raided gay bars and private bedrooms and publicly circulated mugshots of people arrested for the “perversion” of homosexuality. All too often, the accused would lose their jobs, homes, families and their will to live. Historic persecution and the stigma associated with gay bars or bathhouses rendered public park cruising into a something of a subculture, says Attila Szatmari, spokesman for a gay male hookup app called Squirt. Men who cruise at public parks tend to lead double lives. They’re often older men unfamiliar with mobile apps, or they came out later in life and feel out of place in the younger gay dating scene. Divorced from cultural context, a misdemeanor seems trifling. But it shows how enforcing laws without a nuanced understanding of why they were created and how case law subsequently reshaped them can erode trust between police and marginalized communities. For example, U.S. Justice Department statistics show that police disproportionately target AfricanAmerican men for driving infractions. A petty crime, but one that inspires a very real fear because of a mounting number of high-profile cases in which police shoot unarmed black men during routine traffic stops. Gay, lesbian, transgender and otherwise queer people have their own strained relationship with law enforcement. Queer youth remain some of the most vulnerable, according to a 2015 survey by the Urban Research Institute, which found that 70 percent of LGBT runaways had been arrested at least once. Generations of gay Americans grew up viewing police as a source of fear, not protection, says Brian Sharp, an openly gay veteran cop who consults with police agencies on how sexual orientation figures into into criminal justice reform. California’s 647 violations resemble a charge that galvanized one of the most important figures in American LGBT history 60 years ago.

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but first-time visitors get escorted through the front entrance to witness the spectacle of the main room. Every nook in the cathedral-ceilinged lobby has been lovingly filled with mementos of his travels, hobbies and life’s work. A model train track winds its way around the perimeter of the room and a bridge connects two landings overhead. Photos of his journeys to Nordic glaciers and Gothic castles represent checks on his 200-point bucket list, which he’s 10 away from completing. The most beautiful view on the planet, he says, lies only a few hours away in Yosemite. One wall is taken up by a twostory pipe organ, which plays his impassioned melodies in mighty bursts through speakers inlaid in the ceiling. On Sundays, he plays a much smaller organ at the local Episcopalian church, his shelter dog Sheba frequently flopped beside him on the floor. Every so often, he invites his two ex-wives,

ex-boyfriends, their partners and other friends and family to his castle’s front room for a classical recital. Second to law, he calls music his greatest passion. Before he summoned the strength to live on his own terms, Nickerson channeled his energies into conforming to the heteronormative expectations of the people around him. His father was a former Golden Gloves boxer and atheist who distrusted anything unseen, and his mother a Pentecostal minister with unwavering spirituality. “Together,” he says with his signature aplomb, “they warred for my soul.” When Nickerson reached the age of 5, they somehow began to intuit homosexual tendencies. His father determined to beat it out of him for a host of trivial reasons, he says. His mother, on her part, prayed the blood of Jesus over him to protect him from menaces outside, but offered no defense against “the monster

down the hall.” Nickerson tried to live as a straight man at community college and Stanford University. In his twenties, he married a woman who had his son and another who became his second wife. “I gave it a valiant effort,” he says from his second-story home law office, where heaps of binders, court records and books fill virtually every square inch. “I was fortunate enough that the woman I married was one for the ages. Together, we set about raising our son, who’s the son of any man’s dreams.” After his second divorce, and in the throes of depression, he says he had an epiphany. With two failed marriages, a defunct business, a conflicted identity and having done little with his Stanford degree, he realized that God loved all of him anyway. “I had been living life with wings strapped to my sides, and suddenly I could use them,” Nickerson says.

“We’re in 1975 now, in the midst of the gay rights movement, and I’m finally an openly proud gay man who starts thinking, ‘How do I make this into a career?’ Well, if you really want to affect change, I realized, you should become a lawyer.” At 39 years old, he took his first case, representing a man who had been arrested in San Jose at an adult bookstore called Circus. An undercover officer peered into a porn booth at the private business, saw the man masturbating and arrested him for lewd conduct. When Nickerson cited the 1979 case law about intent to offend, the prosecutor scoffed at the defense as pointless because these cases inevitably get settled anyway. This time, however, the trial ended with a hung jury—short of a triumph, but heartening to civil rights attorneys watching the case. “We realized that we could actually start winning these,” Nickerson says. “So I focused on this type of case because these people were innocent. They weren’t a menace … so acquitting them wouldn’t cause damage to the public. Plus, I thought these stings were a waste of resources.” Only one of the 10,000 police reports he says he’s read on lewd conduct arrests of gay men involved a child wandering into a bathroom and witnessing an erotic dalliance. That, Nickerson agrees, was a valid arrest. He says the rest almost invariably involved mere verbal intent, sex in enclosed spaces, or performed surreptitiously without intent to offend. Over the course of three-and-a-half decades, Nickerson has made new case law five times. He has brought juries to the scenes of so-called crimes in public bathrooms in some cases and brought replica porn booths to the courtroom in others to illustrate how arresting officers would have to go out of their way to see anyone wanking off. He has cleared the records of gay men who lost their jobs, families and friends over lewd conduct arrests. He has defended his practice on the air against a sputtering Bill O’Reilly, who cut his mic. “Here I am, 75 years old,” he says. “I have congestive heart failure, so I have to sit down in front of the judge. They’re quite gracious to let me do that. I thought about retiring, but … there’s more work cut out for me.”

17 Without any direct involvement in Ferguson’s case, Nickerson helped clear his name and that of many others with a courtroom victory decades ago. In 1996, he landed a sixfigure judgment with a unanimous decision from the California Supreme Court that the Mountain View Police Department unlawfully singled out gay men in lewd conduct arrests. Over two years in the early 1990s, undercover Mountain View cops flirtatiously lured gay men to a car. Once in the open, the officers would cite the men for soliciting a lewd act in public. Nickerson defended 10 men who fell for the honeytrap. His Baluyut v. Superior Court win established discriminatory prosecution as a defense to exactly the type of operation that ensnared Ferguson. A state Supreme Court case 17 years before Baluyut set the foundation for Nickerson’s victory. In Pryor v. Municipal Court, jury instructions held that lewd conduct only rises to the level of a crime if performed with the intent to offend. “That’s been the law since 1979,” he says. “Police don’t know or don’t want to hear that, but by their very nature these stings are invalid. A required element of conviction is that the guy must know, or should reasonably know, that someone would be offended. Second, they would have to enforce the law equally to men and women. Only using a male decoy, that’s strike one. Strike number two is that they’re only pursuing men. They’re double-damned.” Most of the Columbus Park arrests involved no exposure at all. Ferguson was one of 19 gay men SJPD cited for the same lewd conduct misdemeanor over a 17-month period from 2014 to the end of last year. In 18 of those cases, Officer Marquardt made the arrest. By his own accounts, he almost always made the first move. A few months after Ferguson’s arrest, Daniel Bufano says he rushed into the Columbus Park bathroom to blow his nose. Like Ferguson, he knew of the park’s reputation. But no one was there that night of Aug. 8, he says. On his way out, Bufano says, a handsome sandy blond stranger—Officer Marquardt, he later learned—approached him. “What kind of stuff do you get into?”

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‘For me, this case touched on issues of discrimination based on identity. If a person is singled out by virtue of who they are, whether they’re a black man or a gay man or something else, that’s unconstitutional’ In Bufano’s telling, he was much less receptive to the cop’s advances. And after the citation, he says, they illegally searched him and left him physically bruised and emotionally shaken. His friend, a closeted gay man who witnessed the ordeal from the parked car, was terrified. “I didn’t approach him, I never said hello to him or nothing,” says Bufano, 51, an East Coast transplant who says he moved to the Bay Area more than two decades ago after being hit with similar citations in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia. “The officer, he’s the one who came up to me and all these other men, saying hi and flirting. Isn’t that entrapment? How is that not entrapment?” Seeing the resulting charge leveled against him raised many more

questions. How could a conversation rise to the level of criminal conduct? And if it does, why do straight people get a pass? Would police send an attractive female decoy to offer free consensual sex to straight men? Why send decoys at all instead of a uniformed cop? After months of arrests by the same officer at the same squalid bathroom, lawyers in the Public Defender’s Office began asking some of the same questions. Andrea Randisi, an attorney assigned to research duty, spotted a pattern in the accused: all were gay men. “Once we connected the dots, we went around the office asking if anyone else had a loitering case like this,” says deputy public defender Carlie Ware, who ran with Randisi’s insight to combine and reframe the cases as a civil rights issue. “What we noticed was that these cases in the year-and-ahalf period we looked at were nearly identical. At that point, we knew this was something bigger.” Thirteen of those defendants took a plea deal to put the embarrassment behind them, agreeing to perform 40 hours of community service, submit to HIV tests and stay away from Columbus Park for six months. The remaining six, including Ferguson, emboldened by Ware’s belief in their innocence, went to trial. Ware cited the Baluyut ruling to argue that police violated the constitutional right to equal protection because the arrests exclusively targeted gay men. It took nearly a year—an extraordinary amount of time for a misdemeanor case—before a judge tossed the charges last month. “For me, this case touched on issues of discrimination based on identity,” Ware says. “If a person is singled out by virtue of who they are, whether they’re a black man or a gay man or something else, that’s unconstitutional.” With a shortage of officers and increasing crime, SJPD should focus its resources on more pressing problems like violent crimes, says Clay Parks, a 58-year-old hairstylist Marquardt arrested in January of 2015. Three police were involved, he says, and for what? “I was accused of a crime because of things I said to another consenting adult in a public place,” Parks wrote in an affidavit for Ware’s motion to dismiss the charges. “This accusation makes me feel less comfortable now expressing

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One of the biggest Broadway hits of all time, Rent, returns to Silicon Valley. This Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning rock musical tells the story of a group of aspiring friends and young New York artists living in poverty, struggling with addiction and battling a terrifying new disease—AIDS. Inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera, La Bohème, the production premiered in the early ’90s and helped change public attitudes about what was still a relatively misunderstood illness. CMT Mainstage will be staging the production through Aug. 7. Showtimes vary. (DM)

When Joel McHale broke out on The Soup, he regularly satirized the most outlandish cliches of reality TV—often covering the tirades of a certain bloviating bully with orange skin. McHale flipped that gig into a lead role on NBC’s Community, playing a hotshot lawyer who had to reluctantly earn a few more credits at a lowly community college after it turned out his degree was illegitimate. On the X-Files reboot he plays a conspiracy theorist who believes the government is using alien technology against us. If true, you’d think they could have made The Donald’s human suit look a bit more realistic. McHale performs Friday and Saturday. (JF)

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WEEZER

Jul 31 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

WARPED TOUR

Aug 6 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

WAVVES

Aug 8 at Catalyst Atrium

KENNY CHESNEY

Aug 6 at Levi’s Stadium

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA

Aug 9 at City National Civic

JACKSON BROWNE

Aug 16 at City National Civic

DEMI LOVATO & NICK JONAS Aug 18 at SAP Center

HEART, JOAN JETT & CHEAP TRICK

Aug 24 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY

Aug 29 at Mountain Winery

5 SECONDS OF SUMMER

Sep 2 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

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Sep 3 at Levi’s Stadium

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ART OBJECT GALLERY Fri, 7pm, Free Jackson & 5th Sts, San Jose For the past two years, Art Object Gallery in Japantown has been in a state of hibernation—but no more. Owner and curator Ken Matsumoto is inviting the community to check out the recently upgraded space during the forthcoming “Mid-Summer Night Reception.” Matsumoto has expanded the 15-year-old gallery, absorbing the storefront next door, giving Art Object a more visible entrance. The Mid-Summer Night Reception will ‘reintroduce’ Art Object’s extensive collection of sculpture as well new paintings by Luis Gutierrez, and ceramic work by Ruben Reyes and Will Johnson of Black Bean Ceramic Arts Center. The exhibit runs through Aug. 12. (TM)

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Sat-Sun, 7:30pm, $38 to $147 SAP Center, San Jose

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Sep 13 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

Adele has certainly earned her fame. From “Chasing Pavements” to “When We Were Young,” she’s pulled people in with honest lyrics and a soulful voice. Though she was already a star, Adele broke out even bigger in 2016 with her smash hit “Hello” and her conversationstarting Rolling Stone cover. She also helped fellow Brit and American late-night personality James Corden gain a few new fans with her stellar “Carpool Karaoke” session—rapping along with Nicki Minaj’s “Monster.” With a big heart and an even bigger sense of humor, Adele’s performances at SAP should be worth the big bucks. (MH)

The eldest son of the immortal Robert Nesta, Ziggy is just one of many musical talents in the Marley clan. His first successful forays into music began in the early ’80s as the leader of Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers. He then struck out on his own— releasing his solo debut, Dragonfly, in 2003. Since then, Ziggy has made five full-length records and three live albums. He was awarded a Grammy for his 2014 album, Fly Rasta. He released his self-titled sixth LP in May of this year. Ziggy will be joined by reggae veterans Steel Pulse. (NV)

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Mon, 8pm, Free The Continental Bar, San Jose The multitalented Mayer Hawthorne is not only a singer. He’s also a musician, DJ and ladies man. With millions of plays on YouTube, Spotify and other streaming websites, Hawthorne is blowing up. The neo-soul crooner is passing through town before heading out to Europe and Japan. Hawthorne got his start at the tender age of 5—learning to play bass from his musician father in Detroit. Before Hawthorne was turning heads internationally, he cut his teeth DJing around the Motor City. On his fourth fulllength album, Hawthorne plays almost every instrument. (DM)

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CARRIE UNDERWOOD Sep 10 at SAP Center

PROPHETS OF RAGE DRAKE & FUTURE

Sep 24-25 at SAP Center

BLINK-182

Sep 28 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

GWEN STEFANI & EVE

Oct 8 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

PENTATONIX

Oct 17 at SAP Center

JETHRO TULL

Oct 22 at City National Civic

BRIDGE SCHOOL BENEFIT

Oct 22-23 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

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Down Under Dirty DUMP ON TRUMP Jim Jefferies has some choice words for the Donald, the NRA and religious fanatics.

Hard-drinking Aussie comedian Jim Jefferies refuses to play nice BY JOHN FLYNN

N HIS RECENT Netflix special, Freedumb, Jim Jefferies calls Donald Trump’s backers “fucking dummies.” He characterizes the demagogue’s statements as “really simple shit that means nothing” and concludes the bit with a legitimately touching plea, entreating his audience to combat Trump’s bigotry and fear-mongering with love. In response, hate-mailers have accused the comedian of being “politically correct” and in the pocket of the establishment. It’s an odd accusation

to level at a man known for making jokes about rape and child abuse, his unapologetic advocacy of drinking to excess, and a love of, um … money shots. “People write to me and say that I’m being paid to say these things,” Jefferies says, referring to his recent comments on Trump. I’m like, ‘What the fuck?’ I've said some of the most misogynistic, horrible shit onstage—as a joke, but whatever. And all of sudden the government is going, ‘You know who we should get to voice our opinions? The fuckin’ Australian guy.’ Like, what a load of rubbish.” Listeners have disagreed with his material before. Jefferies broke out internationally with the help of a viral clip in which an incensed audience member jumped on stage and attacked Jefferies in the middle

of a show. Unphased, the comedian returned to the stage to finish his set. He has established himself as a bluntly opinionated outsider who can deconstruct America’s cultural, political and religious norms. But he chafes at the qualifying label of “Australian” comedian. “Most criticism that I get is that I’m foreign and I should shut my mouth,” he says. “The reality is I’ve been in America for seven years. … My point of reference is America. It’s not Australia anymore. If I started commenting on Australian politics, it would be way more annoying, because I don’t know what the fuck is going on over there.” To Jefferies, it’s not his birthplace that bolsters his points, but his experiences. Beyond America and Australia, he’s lived in England and has traveled the world—performing before crowds in both Holland and Tel Aviv. “I’ve lived all over the world,” he says “I may not be a smart man. I may not be what you would consider to be a savvy individual. But I am fuckin’

worldly. And people seem to think that worldly is just someone who knows a lot about opera. No. It’s someone who has lived in the world. So whether you like it or not, I’m a worldly guy.” Case in point: one of Jefferies’ most watched bits juxtaposes America’s insane aversion to gun control with the aftermath of the Port Arthur Massacre in Australia. After a gunman killed 35 people in 1996, the Australian government banned semi- and fully automatic rifles and shotguns— buying back 650,000 of the newly banned firearms in an effort to keep the weapons off the streets. In the years since, there have been no mass shootings and sizable reductions in the rates of suicide and homicide. Hilarious and logically tight, gun control proponents have widely circulated Jefferies’ candid take on firearms, an outcome that surprised him. “I knew it was a good piece of stand-up comedy,” he says. “I would never be arrogant enough to say (that bit) would be important to people, or something stupid like that. And I’m not an authority, I’m just a guy giving an opinion. I think I’m saying things that people agree with, but they’ve never been able to put into words properly.” Jefferies makes a point of pushing people to challenge their preexisting beliefs. An atheist, he calls churchgoers “dumb cunts” and calls bullshit on the idea that an “unconditionally” loving deity would also allow unbaptized babies to burn in hell for all eternity. “Let’s say someone wants to be an atheist, but still has the [indoctrination] that was put in their head as a child,” he says. “You give them arguments— arguments that they can use against their idiot brother at Christmas. So, I feel you can be a nudge for people. But I don’t think anyone is watching me, and all of a sudden they’re like, 'Oh my God, my whole life is a sham.’” Jefferies accepts and embraces that his opinionated comedy turns off broad swaths of the public. He’ll probably never land on a brightly-colored network sitcom, but his singular perspectives on off-limits topics have earned him a devout following.

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DOMO ARIGATO After 29 years as the beloved Mr. Garlic, longtime Gilroy resident Gerry Foisy is hanging up his bulbs.

Farewell, Mr. Garlic GOURMANDIZERS of all ages, sizes and shapes love the Gilroy Garlic Festival. But there is one bulb-shaped individual who may just love the yearly celebration of this potent vegetable more than anyone else. Those who regularly attend the annual spice fest know him as “Mr. Garlic”—or “Garlic Dude”—but friends and family call him Gerry. For the past 29 years, the 73-year-old Gerry Foisy has been a part of the Gilroy Garlic Festival. Walking around in his white garlic bulb costume, his cowboy hat decorated with garlic bulbs and his trademark Birkenstocks, he is impossible to miss. Next year, however, he will be missed. This year’s garlic gathering will be his last.

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Originally from Ohio, Gerry moved to Gilroy in the late 1970s. It wasn’t long after tying the knot with his wife, Jeanne, in 1983, that he landed the role of a lifetime. One day in early 1987, Jeanne, who was working for Gilroy Foods, overheard her boss’ secretary say that she was on the hunt for someone to fill the role of “Mr. Garlic.” Without hesitation Jeanne piped up: “Gerry would do that. Oh, heck yeah, he’d do that in a heartbeat.” When she got home from work that evening, she told Gerry: “Oh by the way, I volunteered you to be Mr. Garlic at the festival.” He accepted his new role with gusto. “We’re a little crazy, a little silly, we just enjoy doing it,” Jeanne says. Foisy is as much a part of the fabric of Gilroy, as the Garlic Festival itself. During his time living in Santa Clara County’s southernmost city, he has worked as a real estate agent, a supervisor at Gilroy Foods, and as the owner and operator of a property maintenance company. For the past 18 years, Gerry’s been maintenance manager at Advent Group Ministries, an organization whose mission is to empower people and break the cycles of abuse and addiction. Foisy says he takes pride in helping young men and women regain control of their lives, just as he is proud to have held down the role of Mr. Garlic for so long. Rumor has it that Foisy’s son, Carl—a former Metro employee and local branding consultant—may take his father’s place. This prospect also makes the elder Foisy proud. He says he’d love to see Carl step into his shoes—or sandals—and carry on the tradition.—Kimberly Ewertz

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KIRKING IT Chris Pine reprises his role as Captain Kirk in ‘Star Trek: Beyond.’

Multi-culti ‘Enterprise’ crew save the day in ‘Star Trek: Beyond’ BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

EEING SUCH A reassuring message about plurality seems fitting and timely, especially after last week’s atrocity in Cleveland. Among other things, the starship Enterprise is our own leaky American ship as we love to envision her, stuffed with benign, theatrically accented foreigners all pulling together. “My wee Scottish gran said, ‘You can’t break a stick in a bundle,’” says Scotty (co-scriptwriter Simon Pegg) in Star Trek: Beyond.

Mr. Spock (Zachary Quinto) is feeling the pull toward traditionalism, which is causing a rift with Uhura (Zoe Saldana). He’s wondering if he hadn’t better get back to New Vulcan and help raise some logical kids. Spock is counselled, sort of, by the peremptory Dr. McCoy, aka “Bones” (Karl Urban). Urban has his own funny accent, in the form of frontier humor. After a particularly bad transporter trip, he quips: “I feel like my innards have been to a barn dance.” Search through memories of this movie—a chaos of crashing spaceships, rough landings and rougher launches— and it seems that all the good lines belong to Urban. DeForest Kelley, who played Bones back in the ’60s and ’70s, was no

slouch as an actor. But when you watch him on reruns, belaboring Leonard Nimoy with insults, there’s an ugly bit of racism to it. Urban is just as furious, but he’s more of a miffed rooster; with Quinto being soft and slow on the uptake, he’s oblivious to Bones’ stings. They’re a smooth comedy team. Star Trek: Beyond comes out of the gate funny, like one of Keith Laumer’s “Retief ” stories: Kirk (Chris Pine), a one-man diplomatic delegation, tries to return an unwanted cultural artifact to a planet of angry gargoyles. It’s the 966th day in deep space, and “things have seemed a little episodic,” Kirk tells his log. When they pull into Starbase Yorktown, there’s an emergency to deal with: a ship’s captain seeks rescue for her trapped crew members. She has crash-landed on an uncharted planet behind a formidable belt of asteroids. All the wisdom of Starfleet Command is present—Shohreh Aghdashloo is particularly good as a

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wise commodore. Too bad Star Wars’ Admiral Ackbar wasn’t there to warn Kirk. His great starship is ripped to pieces by an enormous fleet of spiky fighter pods; the Enterprisers are shipwrecked on a rocky planet, and Spock himself is badly injured. Help arrives from a mighty space woman named Jaylah (Sofia Boutella). With black terrapin stripes on her clown-white face, she looks like ’60s star Ursula Andress done up by H. R. Giger. The lord of the planet is a two-legged iguana called Krall (Idris Elba). He’s a minor Star Trek villain, but Elba fills him out as an asthmatic heavy breather, who can growl the Rs in the name “Kirrrrrrrrrrk. Justin Lin, of the Fast and the Furious series, brings in collisions and physics-defying fights in 3-D space. He also weaponizes items of late 20th century coolness, like the Beastie Boys’ music and motorcycles. Gravity goes wild in the final fight, in front of a rotating and revolving camera. Earlier, in one memorable shot, the Enterprise is warping space, looking like those high speed pictures of a bullet going through water. The last film was titled Into Darkness, and it’s clear the producers wanted out of that darkness. The characters here are nothing if not proactive, but they have the personality of flying sports cars. The Trek series is now like any other superhero series, with a wobbly range between the realistic and the ridiculous. The movie is sworn to fun. And it delivers amusement, with the long-legged Jaylah pouring herself all over the captain’s chair, or with the last-minute transformer snatches. The multi-culti aspect has never been stronger— Sulu (John Kim) never seemed as much his own man before, ready to assume the ship’s wheel. Strange then that the most emotional moment is the new Spock, contemplating a relic of the Old Spock—a photo of a group of portly men and one woman, in polyester and turtlenecks. That picture is something that this movie isn’t, in one word: touching.

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Revivals BORN YESTERDAY/IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO YOU

(1950/1954). There were many authentic dumb blondes in the movies, but Judy Holliday wasn't one of them. The yellow hair was supposedly her own, as was the fluffy name—a translation of her birth name, Judith Tuvim (in Hebrew, tovim means good; in Yiddish yomtoyvim means holidays). She was probably the brainiest of all actresses to put on the curls and negligee of the blonde clown. Holiday began as a cabaret comedian, whose partners were Betty Comden and the late Adolph Green, partners on the best musical of them all, Singin' in the Rain. In Born Yesterday she plays a kept woman who wises up. Billie Dawn has been towed to Washington, D.C., by Harry Brock (Broderick Crawford), a vulgarian who made a mint in the scrap business. He’s aiming to buy some politicians. Billie’s lack of refinement is enough to embarrass even Brock, so he hires Paul (William Holden), a reporter, to tutor the woman. Since they’re in D.C., Paul gives her a crash course in the history of the American Revolution. The Jefferson Memorial and the Capitol Dome inspire Billie to rebel against her own tyrant. Born Yesterday is A Doll's House played for screwball comedy—no wonder Holliday skunked Bette Davis (for All About Eve) and Gloria Swanson (for Sunset Boulevard) at the Oscars that year. The briskness and hopefulness of this classic should cheer seasoned divorcées and young girls alike—especially the moment when Holliday pieces together the meaning of a quote of Alexander Pope’s: “‘The proper study of mankind is man.’ That means women, too.” In It Should Happen to You, the shop girl Gladys Glover (Holiday) rents a billboard at Columbus Circle to promote herself, and the trick works—much to the discomfiture of her honest documentary-maker boyfriend (Jack Lemmon). In the meantime, a soap company covets her choice advertising location and sends representative Peter Lawford to finesse the billboard out of her hands. While the mid-’50s NYC locations are time-capsule delights, and while Holiday's wise-foolishness is beguiling, my favorite moment is a speech in which she holds off the lecherous Lawford. To get him talking (and to stop him nibbling her ear), she asks him if he’s lonely, living there

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in that bachelor apartment all by himself. Yes, he admits, lowering his eyes. “You could get a parrot,” she suggests. “You could be talking to it, and it could be talking to you. I mean, you wouldn’t be talking to each other, but it would be talk.” (Jul 27-29, Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

PLANET OF THE APES

(1968) American astronauts are marooned on a planet where the great apes have evolved into generals and clerics, and humans are decadent, post-verbal hominids. Accounts of the filming of this brilliant keystone of the franchise note one thing: despite the Saul Alinsky-worthy revolutionary sequels, director Franklin Schaffner, and his wonderfully macho star Charlton Heston aimed to make this apolitical entertainment. “NP”— code for “no polemics”—was a watchword on the set. The polemics happened despite themselves. Apehuman coexistence was given the same earnest poring-over that racial politics got at the end of the 1960s: Were we moving too fast? Would you want your sister to marry a human? In the fractious year 2016—a mirror of distant ’68—the subtext of this bravura adventure, shot in the Utah Canyonlands, is clear. The lament over human prejudice is as eloquent as the movie is thrilling. We’re doomed if we don’t overcome the ape in our essence. (May 27 only, Century Oak Ridge and other local theaters.) (RvB)

Now Playing ALBERT BROOKS: STREAMING RETROSPECTIVE

Known as the neurotic fish in the Finding Nemo movies, or as the soothing knife-wielder in Drive, Albert Brooks has been a talented supporting actor ever since Taxi Driver. His seven directorial efforts—now available as a kind of cloud-based film festival on Netflix, from 1979’s Real Life to 2006’s Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World--demonstrates Brooks as something else: a uniquely uncompromising and unpredictable director. Often playing a lovelorn whiner with a clenched forehead, Brooks has been eclipsed by the thematically similar Woody Allen. But if Allen’s 1979 Manhattan ends with the upbeat thought, “Sometimes, you have to have a little faith in people,” Modern Romance (1981) ends with the kind of ordeal the Geneva Convention was supposed to prevent. (Netflix Streaming) (RvB)

BEAUTIFUL DISASTER ‘Café Society’ is the best looking terrible movie you will see all year.

Woody Allen Serves Cold Coffee NARRATIVELY SPEAKING, Café Society is the film version of a Grandpa Abe Simpson anecdote. Famous names are dropped, pointlessly. Trivial matters about the past are flaunted without much context. Director, writer and producer Woody Allen narrates, announcing the qualities of his characters, even as we’re trying to watch them and figure them out. There’s no comedic understatement, or irony—what we see is what we get. During the Depression, a kid from New York named Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg) is trying to make it in Hollywood when he falls for his married uncle’s mistress, Vonnie (Kristen Stewart). Neither uncle Phil (Steve Carell), a brittle, high-powered agent, nor Vonnie, who is his Phil’s secretary, clues the young man. Heartbroken, Bobby returns to New York and gets involved in a chic Manhattan nightclub bankrolled with blood money from Bobby’s gangster brother, Ben (Corey Stoll). This is the best looking terrible movie you will see all year. Eminent cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now, Reds) makes Stewart a first-class love object. She positively glows on screen, while 1930s Los Angeles—in golds, terra-cottas and swimmingpool aquas, shimmers behind her. The

production design by Allen regular Santo Loquasto sums up the splendor of the crest of the Art Deco days. This reverie of gilded Hollywood seems to make Allen sleepy. (Hail Caesar may not have added up, either, but the people in it were interested in their business. They had angles.) The half-drawn characters keep turning up, while Bobby keeps going forward, more Café Society innocent than ever— he’s the least morally PG-13; 96 Mins. ambiguous character Camera 12 Eisenberg has ever played. If this is a comedy, it’s the kind of comedy that grows into a shrugging, blunt finish about how no one gets what they want in this world. There’s a line here about the hazard of mixing champagne with lox and bagels. I’d interpret that as the contrast between Jeannie Berlin (as Bobby and Ben’s mother), dispensing the salty Jewish wisdom, in contrast with the low-moraled bi-coastals in the entertainment business. It could be that Allen is copping a plea: if I’m a selfish person—in Berlin’s phrase, “not a real Jew” (to describe the adulterous, the violent, or the half-bright)—it’s because the movies made me that way. —Richard von Busack

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In Transit GET SHARP Since moving south, The Soft White Sixties have been honing their craft.

The Soft White Sixties move to L.A., home in on a definitive sound BY MIKE HUGUENOR

T’S COMFORTING TO think of identity as something constant, something stable that retains itself over time. But in reality, almost every cell in our bodies gets periodically replaced, meaning that over time we all become different people—at least on an atomic level. Rather than being stable, identity is fundamentally unstable; rather than constant, it is something that is in a perpetual state of transition. And if there is anything to learn

from the history of art it is that this is a very normal process. Before he was cubist, Picasso was blue. Before becoming the chimerical godfathers of avant alt-rock, Radiohead were simply another Britpop act. Hell, Immanuel Kant, one of the foundational voices of philosophy, didn’t even write his first real contribution to the field until he was 57. So it goes that after a well-received EP and 2013’s widely enjoyed Get Right (a very San Francisco sounding mix of soul, the classics, and a decidedly party-centric approach to life), The Soft White Sixties are a band in transition. “We’re actually all currently living in Los Angeles at the moment,” says Aaron Eisenberg, of the formerly S.F.-

based rock group. “Last summer we recorded at a studio down here. We were just coming down here more and more, and that was kind of our first foray into our new album. We all just felt like maybe it was a good time to have a change in scenery and spend a little more time in L.A. while we’re writing and recording our next record.” Talking to Eisenberg (the band’s guitar player and keyboardist) one gets the sense that the band has staked its entire identity on what comes out of this next record. The first batch of songs was recorded by Matt Linesch, who also recorded the similarly rootsy sounding Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes. The band already released the first single from this session, the slinky Black Keys-esque “Sorry to Say”— the song’s chorus an unapologetic celebration of toeing the line of the abyss and partying solo: “I lost my mind/Sorry to say/I pulled the pin & I walked away.”

“That one had multiple choruses and different feels and arrangements until we finally arrived on that version,” Eisenberg says of the new song. “There’s been a lot more focus. You know, when you start out as a band, everyone gets in the room and you’re excited and you’re like, ‘Cool, that’s great. That’s a song. Let’s move on.’ Now we’re trying to be a little more intentional with what the Soft White Sixties sound like.” Throughout the course of our conversation Eisenberg sounds like someone who has a new-found appreciation for precision; accuracy. “The main difference with what we’re working on now with this last batch is that our approach to it has been much more forward-thinking than we had been in the past,” he says, choosing his words carefully. “Sorry to Say” is may just be the band’s biggest song to date. It’s been getting some radio play, and in a little over 100 days the track has racked up more than 10,000 plays on SoundCloud—a promising development and an indicator that these L.A. transplants are reaching new fans. “It’s been getting a great response from people around the country,” Eisenberg says. “There are radio stations that have been picking it up and throwing it in the rotation. It’s been cool, because we can see these little pins on the map of areas that have picked up the single. We want to be sure to get to all those areas.” Given that the boys hail from the Bay Area, they’ve made sure to drop a number of pins in the region. They play The Ritz for the first time this Friday and it’s the group’s first time in San Jose in a while. “It’s definitely been a couple years now,” Eisenberg says. The fact that bands like the Soft White Sixties are now coming back to San Jose is a sign that things might finally be changing for the downtown music scene. With the recent addition of The Ritz there is a chance that live music can make more of a lasting impact here than it has in years. After all, just like everywhere else, San Jose is in a perpetual state of transition.

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Every Tue, 8:30pm: Tuesday Night Blues. Every Sun: Jazz or Blues. Milpitas.

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A lifelong singer, Denson generates melodies through his vocals, often warbling one into his phone, then transcribing the melody later. While attaining his Ph.D., Jeff studied orchestral, chamber and contemporary classical music. In addition to that, he folds in world, R&B and electronic influences, plus novel approaches—like bowing his strings. “I've worked really intensely on developing my technique,” he says. “That's a lifelong pursuit—to try to remove technical barriers, so I can play the music I'm hearing in my head.” Denson, who celebrates the release of his new album, Concentric Circles, at the Art Boutiki this Friday, teaches at the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley. He also heads Ridgeway Arts, where he brings in accomplished artists from New York to Finland to broaden the influences of his students and spark creativity. “I've met extraordinary, world-class musicians in every single place that I’ve lived,” says the well-traveled Denson. “I just want to do my part to open the curtain to extraordinary musical possibilities here in the Bay.”—John Flynn

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619014 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Family Tree Cafe, 201 North First Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, Mario A. Szi, 1725 Seville Way., San Jose, CA, 95131. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Mario A. Szi This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/01/2016. (pub Metro 7/20, 7/27, 8/03, 8/10/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #618663 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Shock N Awe Prints, 394 Umbarger Rd., Unit D, San Jose, CA, 95111. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/8/15. Above entity was formed in the state of California/s/Shelly PalaciosCFO#C3810269This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/21/2016. (pub Metro 7/20, 7/27, 8/03, 8/10/2016)

To all heirs beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Marcia A. Dawson, Marcia Ann Dawson, Marcia Ilton Dawson, and Marcia I. Dawson. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: David Francis Vargo and Joseph Truett Vargo, in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that: David Francis Vargo and Joseph Truett Vargo be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicil, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: August 26, 2016, Time: 9 A.M. Dept.: 10 Address of court: 191 N. FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either: (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: Barbara P. Wright, Finch Montgomery Wright LLP, 350 Cambridge Avenue, Suite 175, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, 650-327-0888 (Pub CC 7/27, 8/03, 8/10/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619068 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: La Moneka, 620 Iris Ave., #431, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Alicia Suaceda. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 3/15/2016. /s/Alicia Suaceda This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/05/2016. (pub Metro 7/20, 7/27, 8/03, 8/10/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619337 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Diamond Mitsubishi Fuso, 1505 N. 4th Street, San Jose, CA, 95112, Diamond Sales & Service Inc. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 5/15/2003. Refile of previous file #553978 with changes.Above entity was formed in the state of California/s/Al KundeVice President#530068 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/12/2016. (pub Metro 7/20, 7/27, 8/03, 8/10/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619448 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: A-Skew, 5451 Country Club Parkway, San Jose, CA, 95138, BTL Establishments, Inc. This business is conducted by a corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on. Above entity was formed in the state of California/s/Thand Quyet LePresident#2672775This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/15/2016. (pub Metro 7/20, 7/27, 8/03, 8/10/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619031 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Ms. Amy’s Candy Shoppe, 1111 West El Camino Real, #185, Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Amy Lisa. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 7/1/16./s/Amy L. LeslieThis statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/01/2016. (pub Metro 7/27, 8/03, 8/10, 8/17/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #619756 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Uvas Pines RV Park, 13210 Uvas Road, Morgan Hill, CA, 95037, J. Robert Taylor, Trustee, 636 Olympic Dr., Tahoe City, Ca, 96145. This business is conducted by a Trust. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/27/2016. /s/J. Robert Taylor, Trustee This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 7/22/2016. (pub Metro 7/27, 8/03, 8/10, 8/17/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #618637 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Los Nopales, 4126 Monterey Rd., San Jose, CA, 95111, Gerardo Hernandez Quiroz, 134 S. White Rd., San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Gerardo Hernandez Quiroz This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/20/2016. (pub Metro 7/06, 7/13, 7/20, 7/27/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #618780 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Kim’s Restaurant, 814 S. Bascom Ave., San Jose, CA, 95128, Trang Ho, 2331 Summer Ct., San Jose, CA, 95116. This business is conducted by an individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 6/23/2016. /s/Trang Ho This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 6/23/2016. (pub Metro 7/06, 7/13, 7/20, 7/27/2016)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Free your body. Don’t ruminate and agonize about it. FREE YOUR BODY! Be brave and forceful. Do it simply and easily. Free your gorgeously imperfect, wildly intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its glory. Tell it you’re ready to learn more of its secrets and adore its mysteries. Be in awe of its unfathomable power to endlessly carry out the millions of chemical reactions that keep you alive and thriving. How can you not be overwhelmed with gratitude for your hungry, curious, unpredictable body? Be grateful for its magic. Love the blessings it bestows on you. Celebrate its fierce animal elegance. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The people of many

cultures have imagined the sun god as possessing masculine qualities. But in some traditions, the Mighty Father is incomplete without the revitalizing energies of the Divine Mother. The Maoris, for example, believe that every night the solar deity has to marinate in her nourishing uterine bath. Otherwise he wouldn’t be strong enough to rise in the morning. And how does this apply to you? Well, you currently have resemblances to the weary old sun as it dips below the horizon. I suspect it’s time to recharge your powers through an extended immersion in the deep, dark waters of the primal feminine.

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Opportunity is definitely in your vicinity. It may slink tantalizingly close to you in the coming days, even whisper your name from afar. But I doubt that it will knock on your door. It probably won’t call you seven times on the phone or flash you a big smile or send you an engraved invitation. So you should make yourself alert for the Interesting Opportunity’s unobtrusive behavior. It could be a bit shy or secretive or modest. Once you notice it, you may have to come on strong—you know, talk to it sweetly or ply it with treats.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): [Editor's note: The counsel offered in the following oracle was channeled from the Goddess by Rob Brezsny. If you have any problems with it, direct your protests to the Queen Wow, not Brezsny.] It’s time to get more earthy and practical about practicing your high ideals and spiritual values. Translate your loftiest intentions into your most intimate behavior. Ask yourself, “How does Goddess want me to respond when my coworker pisses me off?”, or “How would Goddess like me to brush my teeth and watch TV and make love?” For extra credit, get a t-shirt that says, “Goddess was my co-pilot, but we crash-landed in the wilderness and I was forced to eat her.” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Be alert for white feathers gliding on the wind. Before eating potato chips, examine each one to see if it bears the likeness of Rihanna or the Virgin Mary. Keep an eye out, too, for portents like robots wearing dreadlocked wigs or antique gold buttons lying in the gutter or senior citizens cursing at invisible Martians. The appearance of anomalies like these will be omens that suggest you will soon be the recipient of crazy good fortune. But if you would rather not wait around for chance events to trigger your good luck, simply make it your fierce intention to generate it. Use your optimism-fueled willpower and your flair for creative improvisation. You will have abundant access to these talents in the coming weeks. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You have just begun

your big test. How are you doing so far? According to my analysis, the preliminary signs suggest that you have a good chance of proving the old maxim, “If it doesn’t make you so crazy that you put your clothes on inside-out and try to kiss the sky until you cry, it will help you win one of your biggest arguments with Life.” In fact, I suspect we will ultimately see you undergo at least one miraculous and certifiably melodramatic transformation. A wart on your attitude could dissolve, for example. A luminous visitation may heal one of your blind spots. You might find a satisfactory substitute for kissing the sky.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For many years, my occupation was “starving artist.” I focused on improving my skills as a writer and musician, even though those activities rarely earned me any money. To ensure my survival, I worked as little as necessary at low-end jobs—scrubbing dishes at restaurants, digging ditches for construction companies,

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delivering newspapers in the middle of the night, and volunteering for medical experiments. During the long hours spent doing tasks that had little meaning to me, I worked diligently to remain upbeat. One trick that worked well was imagining future scenes when I would be engaged in exciting creative work that paid me a decent wage. It took a while, but eventually those visions materialized in my actual life. I urge you to try this strategy in the coming months, Libra. Put your mind’s eye in the service of generating the destiny you want to inhabit.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have every right to celebrate your own personal Independence Day sometime soon. In fact, given the current astrological omens, you’d be justified in embarking on a full-scale emancipation spree in the coming weeks. It will be prime time to seize more freedom and declare more autonomy and build more selfsufficiency. Here’s an important nuance to the work you have ahead of you: Make sure you escape the tyranny of not just the people and institutions that limit your sovereignty, but also the voices in your own head that tend to hinder your flow. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Of all the forbidden fruits that you fantasize about, which one is your favorite? Among the intriguing places you consider to be outside of your comfort zone, which ones might inspire you to redefine the meaning of “comfort”? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to reconfigure your relationship with these potential catalysts. And while you’re out on the frontier dreaming of fun experiments, you might also want to flirt with other wild cards and strange attractors. Life is in the mood to tickle you with useful surprises. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have a special talent for accessing wise innocence. In some ways you’re virginal, fresh, and raw, and in other ways you’re mature, seasoned and well-developed. I hope you will regard this not as a confusing paradox but rather as an exotic strength. With your inner child and your inner mentor working in tandem, you could accomplish heroic feats of healing. Their brilliant collaboration could also lead to the mending of an old rift.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Where is everybody when I need them?” Even if you haven’t actually spoken those words recently, I’m guessing the voices in your head have whispered them. But from what I can tell, that complaint will soon be irrelevant. It will no longer match reality. Your allies will start offering more help and resources. They may not be perfectly conscientious in figuring out how to be of service, but they’ll be pretty good. Here’s what you can do to encourage optimal results: 1. Purge your low, outmoded expectations. 2. Open your mind and heart to the possibility that people can change. 3. Humbly ask—out loud, not just in the privacy of your imagination—for precisely what you want.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Millions of Pisceans less fortunate than you won’t read this horoscope. Uninformed about the rocky patch of Yellow Brick Road that lies just ahead, they may blow a gasket or get a flat tire. You, on the other hand, will benefit from my oracular foreshadowing, as well as my inside connections with the Lords of Funky Karma. You will therefore be likely to drive with relaxed caution, keeping your vehicle unmarred in the process. That’s why I’m predicting that although you may not arrive speedily at the next leg of your trip, you will do so safely and in style. Homework: Is it possible there’s something you really need but you don’t know what it is? Write Truthrooster@gmail.com.

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Teasing is like bullying, Keltner explains—in that it’s something you say or do that’s intended to provoke another person. However, teasing includes clues that what you’re saying isn’t to be taken literally—and that your intent is playful, not hurtful. These playfulness signals are called “off-record markers” and include laughter, obvious exaggeration, a jokey tone, mimicry, and contorted facial expressions. As for the concern that your teasing is endangering your relationship, on the contrary, Keltner and his colleagues found that “couples who playfully teased, as opposed to resorting to direct criticism, felt more connected after conflict.” And the reality is that only two people who truly love each other can get away with trash-talking to each other in extravagantly awful ways. This is an example of what behavioral ecologists call a “costly signal”—one that, through its expense or riskiness, tells you it’s more likely to be for real. Conspicuous consumption is an example—signaling that you’ve got money to burn by shelling out $8K for a Rolex when a $50 Swatch tells the time just fine.

My boyfriend recently got laid off and lost a bunch of money in stocks. Yesterday, feeling blue, he said, “Can’t anything good happen for me?” (Gee, thanks. Guess I’m nothing good.) I know he’s talking about financial and career stuff, but we have something pretty special together. Why is he focusing on the bad stuff and not appreciating the good? Money isn’t everything.—Undervalued

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Until Uncle Sam Says You Can"Sell" and "Profit" from Marijuana, You Can't! In December of 2015, the San Jose City Council passed several amendments to its Medical Cannabis program. These amendments allow collectives to freely exchange cannabis (without any proof of the source) and allow for manufacturing of cannabis products at off-site locations. These amendments further allow for cannabis profiteering and decrease the City of San Jose’s control over an already unregulated industry. MediMarts, a true closed loop, vertically integrated collective, submitted the following letter to the City Council before that meeting. MediMarts Response to the City BACKGROUND MediMarts has worked with the city for several years now and we have worked to ensure that our business model conforms to the Ordinance. MediMarts and the City both want to enable the seriously ill citizens of San Jose access to a natural alternative to addictive and harmful pharmaceuticals. The finish line is near and the City should not alter course and enable unlawful entities to continue to operate illegally in order to collect revenue from what will soon be determined to be an unlawful tax. Law abiding “collectives” or “cooperatives” are still exposed to potential federal criminal prosecution because federal law prohibits any involvement with marijuana due to its current classification as a schedule 1 controlled substance. Therefore, it is imperative that the City’s program ensure that it is not creating additional risks. If the City accepts the proposed amendments it would be endorsing felonious criminal activities and the City would need to answer to the citizens of San Jose after it reinvigorates the commercial marijuana trade. We commend the City and staff for writing and enacting the lawful process and overall regulatory scheme in all of California for legally operating closed-loop “collectives” or “cooperatives.” As the Mayor himself says “Medical marijuana is a complicated and constantly evolving issue that warrants time for an extensive discussion” and as a stakeholder that is probably the only true lawful “collective” operating in the City today we hope the City will engage with us for a more thorough analysis of this issue. Good policy decisions have brought the City this far and where we are now, any step backwards would be a disservice to the public. If the City is truly concerned with the “black market,” and not the money stream collected from bad actors holding themselves out to be good ones, the amendments must be rejected. Nobody wants to abandon vertical integration (closed-loop) and these proposed amendments do just that, the City needs to understand that responsible lawmaking requires the ability to be cognizant of the practical reality and the flexibility to re-examine the facts.

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Ask the City How & Why Illegal Entities (for-profit corps) and a Felon are Allowed to Operate Unlawful Businesses...so the City can Tax Them! fact and the reality that corporations, for-profit or otherwise cannot be in the medical marijuana industry. As such, the City should disqualify any and all entities holding themselves out to be anything but a member-owned collective or cooperative. The attached letter from the Secretary of State clearly explains that only a human being that either has a qualified medial condition, or is a primary caregiver to a person with such a condition, is permitted to engage in any medical marijuana activity. 2) Staff and Council also need to understand that anytime marijuana changes hands, it is “diversion” unless those hands are the patient members of the same “collective” or “cooperative”. “Diversion” is the primary evil that the Medical Marijuana Program Act and the San Jose Municipal Code aim to prevent. We can all agree that keeping medicine in the hands of the ill, and the ill alone, is of the utmost importance. Allowing transactions of a controlled substance to occur outside of the closed-loop lawful entities is illegal no matter how you approach or look at the issue. Moreover, it supports transactions involving the black market and/or unqualified individuals. Supporting or authorizing any such unlawful activity is essentially aiding and abetting drug trafficking of a controlled substance. (see the Memo from our lawyer, Steve Horner published previously) 3) Staff and Council must also understand that the “black market” or “underground market” are created by the consumer and their demand for marijuana medical or otherwise at a fair and reasonable price. In order to prevent a “black market”, we have to lower the price of marijuana so the demand and need for a “underground market” dissipates or diminishes until it disappears all together. Increasing the price of marijuana by enacting exorbitant fees, taxes, licenses, etc only makes it harder for lawful “collectives” or “cooperatives” to do just that (lower prices) and compete with drug cartels.

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4) The MBT issue (U.S. Constitutional constraints on a de facto sales tax of a federally illegal commodity) is currently on appeal in the Sixth District of California and we are confident that the court will reverse the lower courts findings. As a result, the MBT will cease to exist as it is today. We are not against contributing to governmental oversight and administration etc but it must done carefully and lawfully. This may have to be taken to the Federal Supreme Court since it is truly a Ferderal vs State law issue. We are also questioning the state’s new Medical Marijuana Regulatory and Safety Act (MMRSA) and challenging it in the highest courts. This will most likely put a hold on any and all laws related to marijuana “sales” and “profit” in all states and local municipalities throughout the nation. So until such time and the Federal Supreme Court issues a finding regarding “federal supremacy” when a state law directly conflicts with federal law (CSA) which clearly does NOT allow for the “sale” or “profiteering” from the controlled substance marijuana for any reason whatsoever we simply ask that the City refer only to the state laws regarding marijuana medical or otherwise as they exist today.

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NTI-MAN-ABOUT-TOWN paid for his lunch at a fantastic Indian buffet on Castro Street in Mountain View. The woman at the cashier, noticing my last name on the debit card receipt, spoke Hindi to me. When I didn’t answer, she said: “You don't speak Hindi?”

I said no. She gave me a flabbergasted look and said, “Nothing? Not at all?” To which I replied: “Look. Two

buildings down is where Slayer played 28 years ago. And Exodus. And Death Angel. And bands like D.R.I. and Verbal Abuse. Each of which probably involved me, as a teenager, drinking an entire bottle of Night Train in the back parking lot and then relieving myself on the back of this very building in which we now stand. And then going inside to smash my face on the stage over and over again, or at the very least swinging my friends around in circles, while colliding with any number of drunk or drugged out metalheads and punks drenched in sweat. There were no Indian dudes hanging around during those days, so, um, I never learned Hindi. Sorry.”

No, I didn't actually say that to her. But I felt like it. For the anti-man-about-town, this was a routine example of my childhood trauma, the productive kind, returning to the surface. I say “productive” because sometimes—if one possesses the tools—the negative experiences can transform themselves into humor. After awhile it becomes natural. Now that I’m older and just barely wiser, I seem better equipped to dissolve the reactive emotions when they arise. Before he passed away, my Dad was originally from India. My mom is Anglo, so I was born half-eastern and half-western. I’ve never been wholly or purely either one, but somewhere between. This was never any dramatic crisis. Rather, it just provided a rocking, thrashing metaphor for life. For example, just like San Jose, I feel half urban and half suburban. And 28 years ago, when Slayer played a few doors

down from this Indian buffet, I was half thrash metal and half punk. Which is why this encounter at the cash register brought back so many memories of Castro Street in the heyday of the thrash-punk crossover era. During the first half of the ’80s, most fans of the aforementioned genres were either purely punk or purely metal. Then halfway through that decade the two scenes crossed over and merged together to create a new term, aptly called “crossover,” a phenomenon that people on both sides are still complaining about. In the Bay Area, most of this went down in SF, the East Bay, or at clubs like the Keystone Palo Alto. But for a few brief years, the Mountain View Theater morphed into a makeshift venue, a beautifully decrepit sweatbox that booked these kinds of shows. All the aforementioned bands played there, in front of probably 300 people, tops. In Mountain View, the Castro Street of 1988 was an indistinguishable suburban road connecting El Camino Real to a Caltrain Station. Nobody used email, cell phones or laptops. There were no Googlers, Tech Bros or yoga hotties. Sidewalk patio dining was nonexistent, the parking strips did not overflow with flowers and there was nothing anywhere named Weeby. Then Slayer and Exodus showed up to sing about Satan, murder, rape, torture, cannibalism, necrophilia, rotting flesh, raining blood and lessons in violence. You know, the fun stuff. Thankfully, around the corner from the Mountain View Theater one found an unidentifiable dive bar named Mervyn's, which still exists, but for the first time in decades it now has a sign over the door, ruining all the mystery. On the way to the shows, those of drinking age would get smashed at Mervyn’s while the rest of us found other ways. I distinctly remember the band Verbal Abuse praising that bar on stage during their set at the Mountain View Theater. Unfortunately, the club only lasted a few years before going under. Nothing is permanent. In my case, I am grateful to still be here to regale you with these experiences. The rush nowadays comes not from rotgut wine and thrash metal, but instead from Aloo Gobi, chai and Bindi Masala. Even if I can’t speak Hindi.

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