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Political P olitical a Chess Chess CRAIG M CRAIG MANN ANN va vacated acated his county school boardd seat in August boar A and filling it should be no big b deal. TThe he appointment flurry has set off a fl urry of activity that will rreverberate everberate in other o rraces, aces,, because that’s that ’s the way things work around around here here with ambitiouss risingg ppoliticians and established one ones es who want to keep their thee er eraa of term limits. Two privileges in th Two want Mann’s candidates wan nt Mann ’s old job:: Alum Rock school bo boarder oarder DARCIE DARCIE GREEN, GREEN, who dreams dreams off a 2016 State State Assembly Assembly run,, and lobbyist lobbyist Javier Gonzalez Gonzalez of the California California Restaurant Restaur R ant Association.

Association.

NORA Supporting former form mer N ORA CCAMPOS AMPOS aide Gonzales the G onzales are are th he power trio consisting Supervisor of Super visor GEORGE GEORGE SHIRAKAWA, SHIRAKA AWA, his EDDIE bro, staff chief EDD IE GARCIA GARCIA and Nora’s Nora’s br o, Councilmember San Jose Counc cilmember Xavier CCampos. ampos.

TThey hey furiously lobbied other county Gonzalez’s trustees ffor or G o onzalez’s appointment Shirakawa last month. Shi irakawa went so ffar ar as meetings boardd trustees to take meetin gs with boar Leon Beauchm man, M ICHAEL CCHANG HANG Beauchman, MICHAEL and JOSE PH DII SSALVO ALVO in the span of JOSEPH ffour our Septembe Septemberr days—all on county time—and Xav vier joined Xavier hi ffor him or att lleas leastt one Don’t of those meeti ngs. meetings. forget Councilmembe ampos’ Councilmemberr CCampos’ to tip! calendar mir aculously miraculously makes no men tion mention FLY@ of such a hudd dle. huddle.

METRONEWS. TThis his all happen ned happened COM after Shir akawaa went Shirakawa to bat ffor or one of o his staff ers, A NDREES QUINTER O, getting him staffers, ANDRES QUINTERO, appointed to th he Alum Rock school boar the boardd in September ((Years ears ago,, Shir akawa did September.. (Y Shirakawa the same ffor or G arcia with the EEast ast Side Garcia U nion school boar bboard.) d.) D olores Mar quez Union Dolores Marquez initially passed on Quinter Quinteroo joining her on the Alum Ro ock boar d,, but then she Rock board, mysteriously fl ip-flopped to appr ove flip-flopped approve Quinter os’ addition addition by a 3-1 3-1 vote.

Quinteros’ Shir arently rrepaid epaid the ffavor avor by akawa app Shirakawa apparently attending two of Mar quez’s rre-election e-election Marquez’s fundr aisers twoo week one of fundraisers weekss later later.. N None this has much to do with school boar boardd seats,, though. Green’s Green’s appointment could hamper Shirakawa’s S akawa’s intention to Shir run for for Assembly Assembbly in 2016. By then, his super visor seatt would be occupied by supervisor Xavier Gonzalez o Xavier,, while Gonzalez would slide into the East East Side council c Of course, this seat. Of

Props & Jobbers PROP P ROP BET Governor Jerry Brow Brown wn argues that P Prop. rop. 30 is the best way for California to

co onfront the state ’s staggering deficit and avoid even greaterr cuts to public education. confront state’s

Voters V o oters will elect representatives, rep presentativess, decide deccide governments’ state and local go overnments’ fiscal fiscal futures

Yes Y es on P Prop. rop. 30, Noo on P N Prop. rop. 38 Saacramento Sacramento S t needs d to t gett its it sp special ecia iall interest-compromised in nterest- compromised house in order, or rder, but the ccontinuing ontinuing fisc fiscal al cri crisis isis does do oes not pr promote omote rreinvention einvention an and d efficiency. effi fficiencyy. Instead, it raises tuition tuitions, ns, furthers fu urthers the decline of the st state’s ate’s educational ed ducational ssystem ystem and rreduces educes services se ervices to C Californians. aliffornians o .

Props.

Pr ops. 30 and 38 b both oth raise inc income o ome ttaxes a axes and dir direct ect the funds to scho schools. ols.

The he pr proposition oposition rreceiving eceiving the mo most ost Th vvotes o b otes becomes ecomes la llaw. aw.

In addition to a 1/41/4-cent cent C California aliffor ornia sales increase, Prop. sa ales ttax ax incr ease, Pr op. 30 ttaxes axes 250k-a-year above income 2 5 k-a50k - year and ab ove inc ome earners.

Prop. hand, ea arners. Pr op. 38, on the other han nd, over $7,316 ttaxes a axes eeveryone veryone making o ver $7 ,316 6 annually progressive scale. nnually using a pr ogressive sc ale. an Voting little-known activist’s V oting o ffor or the lit o tttle-known activi ist’s

measure at the eexpense measure xxpensee of the highly Prop. risks.. While publicized Pr op. 30 ccarries arrries risks Prop.

Pr op. 38 seems lik likee a b better etter et t piec piecee of legislation, Go Governor overnorr Br Brown own has promised pr omised i d to t mak make ke go good od on thr th threatened eatened t d ““trigger trigger cuts” of mor moree than t $5 billion in cuts to C California’s aliffo orniaa’s al already lready strapp strapped ed education educ ation ssystem ystem if Pr Prop. o . 30 do op doesn’t esn’t pass.. In this ccomplex pass omplex p political o al morass olitic morass,, Prop.

Pr op. 30 emer emerges ges as thee b best est choic choice. e.

Noo on P N Prop. rop. 31 Att mor A moree than 8,0 8,000 00 wo words, ords, Pr Prop. op. 31 attempts at ttempts t to rrefashion efashion the t w way ay the state st ate budgets in a ccomplicated omp plicated and potentially p otentially unilateral fashion. fa The ballot measur measuree ttakes akes th the he budget cy cycle yccle from fr om one to ttwo w wo yyears eears and a sets up the possibility p ossibilitty that the min minority noritty par party ty (i.e.. R (i.e Republicans) eepublicans) ccould ould d hold the st state ate hostage host age on passing rrevenue evenue e measur measures es that rrequire equire a 2/3 majo majority ritty vvote. ote. This

action wou uld then hand o ver ccontrol ontrol would over to the go overnor e to mak governor makee budget cuts as he or she se ees fit. Also in Pr op. 31, ther sees Prop. theree is the cconfusing onfu using C ommunitty Strategic Community A ction Plan n, which would allow Action Plan, cities school ccounties, ounties, ci ities and scho ol districts to break from state br eak away away fr om the st ate and allot moneyy as they mone t y choose, the choose, rather than direction from state.

Local ttake ake dir ectiion fr om the st ate. L ocal ccontrol ontrol of funding f is alw wayys enticing always enticing,, but this op ption means mor ering, option moree bick bickering, st agnation and disruption to ser vices as stagnation services lo cals duk or o dollars locals dukee it out ffor dollars.. And while some ccounties oun nties ar elatively go od aree in rrelatively good financial st tanding, other ccould ould design standing, their own demise d with p oor decisions poor decisions..

The b est pa art of the ballot measur best part measuree is would makee that it wou uld fforce or o ce legislators to mak three days before bills publicc thr ee da ays y b effor o e ttaking aking a bee done without such vvote. ote. That ccould ould b a cumb cumbersome erso ome p pack package age g of ne new w la laws. aw ws.

Noo on P N Prop. rop. 32 32 Prop. 32 so Prop. sounds ounds at attractive, tractivve, with its supporters’ supp orterss’ rresounding esounding slo slogan gan of “Stop Sp Special ecial Int Interest erest Mone Moneyy N Now!” ow!” The measuree is dr measur dressed essed in bipar bipartisan tisan garb garb,, stating st atingg thatt it will ban b both oth ccorporate orp porate

would elim minate the death p enaltty eliminate penalty and rreplace eplac p e it with lif fe in p prison and life no chanc o par ole. The pr oposition’s chancee of parole. proposition’s ffoundation oundation is built on a 2011 study that o ffound ound ccapital o apittal punishment to b osttbee ccosthea avvyy, with ffew ew b enefits. Supp orters heavy, benefits.

Supporters include R o on n Briggs Ron Briggs,, the man who wr ote the original o 1977 initiativ ve that wrote initiative toughened the death p enalty, and penalty, JJeanne eanne W oodffor o d, eexecutive xecutive dir ector Woodford, director of Death P e ty F enalt ocus and fformer o ormer Penalty Focus San Quenti in w arden.

Quentin warden.

The opp o osition includes the opposition Sacramento oC ountty Deput ty Sheriff ’’ss County Deputy A ssociation n and, surprisingly y, mor Association surprisingly, moree than a ffew ew inmates i on San Quentin n’s Quentin’s Death R o ow w, who ffeel eeel the y’ll lose Row, they’ll opp ortunitties to app eal their opportunities appeal sentenc es. K eeping in mind the fla aw ws sentences.

Keeping flaws in the judic ial ssystem ystem that ha ave lead to judicial have cconvictions on nvictions v and eexecutions xecutions of inno cent innocent p eople in th he U nited St ates, as well as people the United States, the ccosts osts of the death rrow ow ssystem ystem itself during a tim me of huge fisc al crisis time fiscal crisis,, we rrecommend ecommend d a “y yees” vvote ote on Pr op. 34. “yes” Prop.

No on P Prop. rop. 33 3

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Prop. 3 35 5

When C California aliffo ornia vvoters oterss shot down Prop. theyy se sent Pr op. 17 in 2010, the ent a message to one one-percenter -percenter Geor George ge JJoseph, oseph, Mercury Insurance, CEO of Mer cury Insura ance, that his deceptive dec eptive initiativ initiative ve faile failed ed the smell Voters shouldn’t get test. V oters o shouldn ’t ge et ffooled ooled again, as JJoseph oseph has rreturned etu urned with a warmed-over selfw aarmed-over vversion eersion off the same self finterested inter ested legislation. Th The he idea is to “discounts” drivers an allow “disc ounts” to driv vers who ccan prove pr ove the they’ve y’ve pur purchased chased d ccar ar insuranc insurancee five ccontinuously ontinuously ffor or o fiv ve yyears. e . If that ears seems do dodgy, dggy, it it’s ’s b because ecause it is is,, and spent moree than JJoseph oseph has sp ent mor t $8 million of his own mone moneyy to pa pass ass the bill.

Instead of disc discounting ountin ng rates rates,, Pr Prop. op.

33 “will allow insuranc insurancee ccompanies ompanies to incr increase ease ccost ost of insur insurance, rance,” according ac cording to the at attorney tttorn ney general.

The Depar Department tment of Ins Insurance surance has said that the initiativ initiativee “will “ rresult esult in a sur surcharge” charge” ffor o or man manyy driv d drivers, ers, and it p penalizes enalizes rresponsible esponsiblee driv drivers vers e who ffor or whate o whatever ver e rreason eason ha had d no need ffor o or auto insuranc insurancee in the past p past—people —people who bik bikee to work, b become ecome o injur injured ed and ccannot annot driv drivee or liv livee in cities with dependable dep endable public tran transportation. nsportation.

If Mer Mercury cury Insuranc Insurance’s e’s terrible t rreputation eputation do doesn’t esn’t sink k this initiativ initiative, e, the electorate electorate’s ’s intellige intelligence ence should.

Yess on P Ye Prop. rop. 34 Prop.

Pr op. 34 would mak make ke C California a fo alif ornia the 19th st state ate to ab abolish olish h the death penalty. p enaltty. If passed, the pr proposition roposition

No one ar No argues rgu gues that b better etttter public p policy olicy prevent isn’t to pr eveent human h trafficking isn n’’t needed. U Unfortunately, nffo n ortunatelyy, the de devil evvil is in the details this measure. det taails of thi is ballot measur e. Ambiguous language an and nd br broad oad definitions would dangerous both set up dange erous challenges to b oth the rights g of vict victims tims and of susp suspects, pects, while at time putting burdensome new the same tim me put ttting bur rdensome d ne ew rrequirements equiremen nts on lo local caal la law aw enf enforcement fo orcement that are already overwhelmed agencies tha at ar re alr eady o veerwhelmed in tracking the t st state’s ate’s 9 90,000-plus 0,000-plus sex offenders. rregistered egistered se ex off ffeenders. Consensual Consensual rrelationships elationship ps b between ettween w teenagers hovering above below ho oveering ab ove and b elow the age of 18 ccould ould also o o fall into a legal gra gray ay ar area. ea.

Its clums clumsy sy cconstruction o onstruction pr presents esents b both oth enforcement enf fo orcemen nt challenges and p personal ersonal freedom fr reeedom issu issues ues serious enough g to send Prop Pr ro op 35 back k to the drafting ttable. able.

Yess onn P Ye Prop. rop. 36 In 19 1994, 94, C California alliffo ornia vvoters oters appr approved oved Prop.

Pr op. 184, the th he “three-strikes “three-strikes law. laaw.”

Spearheaded Sp earheadeed b byy Mik Mikee R Reynolds, eynolds, father of 18-year-old 18-yeearr-old Kimb Kimber er R Reynolds, eynolds, who was w as mur murdered derred during a b botched otched purse rrobbery, obber e y, the la law’s aw w’s goal w was aas to put violent ccareer areer criminals b behind ehind bars ffor or lif o life. fe. U Unfortunately, nffor o tunatelyy, far to too o many man ny non nonviolent nviolent v off offenders—who’ve ffeenders—who’ve rreceived eceived a th third hird strik strikee ffor o or crimes lik like ke stealing a pi pizza—face izza—face lif life fe b behind ehind bars with lit little tttle ch chance hance of par parole. ole.

Prop.

Pr op. 36 would w rreduce educe prison

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and lab labor or ccontributions ontributionss to p political olitical ccandidates. andidates. But Pr Prop. op. 32 2 is primarily backed back ked e b byy the Americ American an nF Future uture F Fund und ((AFF), AFF), a R Republican epublic e an gr group o rregistered oup egistered as a 501c(4), meaning th that hat it ccan an rreceive eceive unlimited ccontributions ontriibutions and doesn’t have donors.. do esn’t ha ave to disclose its donors Prop. does nothing And Pr op. 32 do es noth hing to rregulate egulate Super PACs independent Sup er P ACs or other ind dependent likee AFF AFF, eexpenditure xpenditure ccommittees ommitttteees lik F, political moneymakers so the p olitical mone ym mak keers that aree ccompletely most need rreform effo orm ar o ompletely overlooked. ((intentionally?) y )o veerlook okeed.

There’s Ther e’s no question that t the ties between politicians specialb ettw ween p oliticians and d sp ecialinterest moneyy fr from across inter est mone om ac cross the political spectrum bee p olitical sp ectrum need d to b loosened, Prop. lo osened, and Pr op. 32 would stop practicee of ttaking automatic the practic aking au utomatic from employee paychecks, deductions fr om emplo oyeee pa aychecks, proposition but a pr oposition that cripples c without ccampaign ampaign donations wi ithout independent touching indep endent eexpenditure xpenditure loopholes encourage moree lo opholes p will onlyy enc courage g mor nameless,, rreckless spending. nameless eckless sp ending.

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sentences ntences ffor or qualified o q thir third d strik strikers ers whose current offense nonserious,, hose curr entt off ffeense is a nonserious non nvviolent ffelony. el elon ny. Those whose nonviolent pr evious crim mes in nvolvve se ffeenses, previous crimes involve sexx off offenses, drug traffickin ng, homicide earms or trafficking, homicide,, fir firearms weap ons of mass m destruction would weapons b xcluded fr rom the changes bee eexcluded from changes.. The L egislative An nalyst’s O ffice estimates Legislative Analyst’s Office sa avvings to the st ate of $70 million a savings state yyear ear e in the b egginning, and $9 0 million beginning, $90 yyearly early e after th hat. W iith solutions that.

With needed to fix C aliffo orniaa’s St ate California’s State Prison budgett and addr ess its huge address rrehabilitation ehabilitation n crisis op. 36 isn ’t just a crisis,, Pr Prop. isn’t lo gical step —iit’s also a fair one logical step—it’s one..

Yess on P Ye Prop. rop. 3 377 This is a no no-brainer.

-brrainer. Pr Prop. op. 37 would rrequire equire lab labeling elin ng on ffood ood made fr from om plants or anim mals changed b animals byy genetic engineering,, or engineering o genetic genetically ally mo modified dified or ganisms, kn nown on V olv o o bump organisms, known Volvo bumper er stickers stick ers st statewide atewide w as “GMOs “GMOs..” Who among us wo wouldn’t uldn’t w want ant cconsumers onsumers to know what t’s in their ffood, ood, what’s especially esp ecially whe when en studies on GMOs ha ave raised alll sor ts of health risks? have sorts Big A g, that ’s who Ag, that’s who.. Monsanto Monsanto,, the world’ gest pr oducer of genetic ally world’ss lar largest producer genetically engineer ed se eed, has sp ent o ver $7 engineered seed, spent over million illi to t opp pose Pr P op. 37 7, and d one oppose Prop.

37, has to wonderr wh hy a ccompany ompany would why sp end so muc ch not to adv ertise but to spend much advertise hide its pr odu uct fr om the public product from public..

Dupont, Dup ont, Do Dow, ow w, Ba Bayer ayeer and B BASF ASF rround ound out thee opp osition’s other opposition’s top fiv rs, ar guing that passage fivee donor donors, arguing will incr ease ffood ood ccosts. osts. V oters o increase Voters shouldn’t threat from shouldn ’t fall ffor or this thr o eat fr om the chemical giants; chemic al gian nts; the ccost ost of a ffood ood label lab el is a fract fraction tion of a ccent. ent. Mor Moree than 40 ccountries oun ntries alr already eady ha have ave la laws aw ws rrequiring equiring GM MO lab eling, and it ’s time GMO labeling, it’s Californians same..

C aliffo ornians demand d the same

Yess on P Ye Prop. rop. 39 The st state’s ate’s cur current rrent business ttax ax ccode ode practically practic ally b begs eggs ccompanies ompanies to lo locate cate their headqua headquarters arters and emplo employees yees e California alliffo outside of C ornia while selling goods services go ods and ser rvices within its cconfines. onfines.

Prop. would level playing Pr op. 39 woul ld le vel the pla ayying make field and mak ke all businesses in state pay through fair,, the st ate pa ay ttaxes axes thr ough a fair across-the-board method. now, acr oss-the-boaard metho d. Right now w, choose between ccompanies ompanies ccan an n cho ose b etween this decide pay option or dec ide to pa ay half their in-state ttaxes axes on rrevenue even nue made instate and workforce the other halff on workf fo orce and

infrastructure state.

Prop. in nfrastructure within the st ate. Pr o . op 39’s already eadyy 39 9’s cconsistent 9 onsistent ttax ax ccode ode has alr sprung larger states across the sp prung up in lar ger st ates acr oss th he Texas, and ccountry, o ountr y, including T exas, Illinois an nd New from the N ew JJersey. ersey. Extra rrevenue evenue fr om th he ballot measure’s ba allot measur e’s passage would go toward improving energy efficiency to oward impr oving ener gy efficienc cy schools government buildings in n scho ols and go vernment buildin ngs the fivee yyears, th he first fiv eears, which would create California cr reate jobs and set C aliffo ornia on a moree sust sustainable m mor ainable path. After that, the moneyy would go into the st state’s th he mone atee’s depleted Don’t bee de epleted general fund. Don ’tt b jobs.. If ffooled—Prop. ooled—Prop. 39 will not kill jobs anything, protect an nyything, it will pr otect them.

Yess on P Y Ye Prop. rop. 40 Th The he R Republican eepubliccaan P Party arty didn didn’t ’t get its w way ay during du uring the latest rredrawing edraaw wing of distric district ct lines, lin nes, and now it w wants aants to cconfuse onfuse vvoters. o . Her oters e’s the deal: V ote o “y yes” e an nd Here’s Vote “yes” and th he st ate sa aves an estimated $1 millio on the state saves million en b eeeping p g the lines as the eyy’re curr ntlyy byy k keeping they’re currently cconstructed. o onstructed.

It ’s rreally eally that simple It’s simple..

N on Measur No Measuree A Saanta Clara C Santa County ountty w wants ants a to raise thee sales byy 1/8 of a ccent, then sa ales ttax ax b ent, which ccould ould th hen bee dir b directed reected tow toward waard a numb number er of ser services, vicces e, such su uch as la law aw enf enforcement, fo orceement, health ccare, ar a e, programs pr rograms ffor or low-inc o low-income ome childr children reen and d families fa amilies and ec economic onomic de development. eveelopment.

Unfortunately, U nffo n orrttunatelyy, what ccounty ountty officials haven’t admitted there ha aveen n’’t admit ttted is that ther re is no obvious ob bvvious need ffor or o this rregressive egressivve ttax. ax.

The Board Supervisors Th he Boar rd of Sup errvvisors manage a $4 4 billion have bi illion budget and sometimes ha ave to o ways spend this cconjure o onjur ew ayys just to sp end it all. JJust ust th his past spring, Supervisor gave pa ast spring g, Sup errvisor v Liz Kniss ga ave $47K $4 47K to a non-county-operated non-countty-operated animal animaal shelter. theree w was board’s sh helterr. Then ther aas the b oard’s decision start de ecision to st taart building parks to cconnect onn o nect neighborhoods ne eighborhoods in uninc unincorporated co orporated ar areas. reas e .

(Does (D Does this sound lik like ke a ccounty ountty in crisis crisis?) s?)

O ccould One ould o ar argue rggue that San JJose’s ose’s failed sales s measure, didn’t ballot, ttax a measur ax re, which didn n’t ’ go to the ba allot, deserved de eserved e mor moree serious cconsideration. onsideration. o V Vote o ote “n no o” on Measur re A and see if the ccounty’s oun o nttyy’s “no” Measure needs ne eeds ccontinue ontinue to b bee met.

Yess on Measur Y Ye Measuree B It needs to b bee clear that Measur Measuree B iiss not new no ot a ne w ttax; ax; it simply eextends xtends x the current urrent par parcel cel ttax ax on pr property operty owne owners. ers. cu Unfortunately, U nffor n o tunatelyy, the Sant Santaa Clara V Valley aalleey W Water District ’s management madee so District’s many m man ny mist mistakes ak kees in get getting tting t the measu measure ure on n the ballot that vvoters oters o ccan an rightly question qu uestion the ccompetency ompetency of the agency, ag gencyy, rreferred effeerred to b byy its critics as thee G Golden Spigot ffor or o its w wastefulness. aastefulness. The T truth ruth is the ccounty ountty has vvery eery rreal eal issu issues ues tr

protecting creeks when it ccomes omes to pr eeks oteccting cr watersheds providing and w atersheds a and p pr ovvidingg clean water, Measure drinking w aater, and Me easure B will ensuree the ccounty meets ensur ountty meet ts its obligations next ffor or the ne o xt 15 yyears. ears e .

Yess on Meas Ye Measure sure C Palo Alto must decide if medic Palo medical al marijuana ccollectives ollectives ccan an b bee allowed within cit cityy limits. limits. Although Alth hough man many ny will lo look ok at San JJose ose and de decry ecry the lack of rregulations egulations and la lawlessness, aw wlessness, the truth is p pot ot clubs ha have ave not k killed illed the cit city. y. If anything, an nything y , San JJose ose has pr proven oven to b bee a mo model del to st state ate and ffederal ed ederal agencies agencies..

While p people eople who nee need ed the medicine most ccan an get ac access, cess, thee cit cityy br brought ought in almost $4 million in n ttax ax rrevenue evenue in its first year. year. Vote Vo ote “yes” “yyees”” on Measure Measure C. C.

No on Measu Measure ure D San JJose ose is alr already eady an en enclave nclaave of ccompensation ompensation i dikt dik diktats—living tats a —living —li i w wage, aage, prevailing pr evailing v w wage, age a , sick tim time me and vac vacation ation pay pa ay buy buyouts, yo outs, p pension ension fu fund und in investment nveestment rreturn eturn guarantees—f guarantees—for fo orr public employees emplo oyeees and ccontractors ontracttors that driv drivee up the ccost ost of doing bus business siness her here. e. A proposed pr oposed municipal mi minimum inimum w wage aage law la aw ma may ay so soon on legislate w wages ages a paid b byy private emplo employers, oyers e , and the t cit city ty will have ha ave to sp spend end its citizen citizens’ ns’ mone moneyy to enforce enf fo orce this so social cial eexperiment, xperriment, just as as,, unb unbeknownst eknownst to most rresidents, esidents, its wage w aage p police olice curr currently ently en enforce nffo orce “living” and “pr “prevailing” evailing” w wage aage or o ordinances. dinances. The Bay Ba ay Ar Area ea b boomlet oomlet that has P Palo alo Alto and San Francisc Francisco o aawash waassh in pr prosperity osperitty has somehow passed o over ver e San JJose. ose. The city cit ty ccannot aannot aff afford ffo ord anoth another her patch patchwork hw work piecee of public p piec policy olicy lik like ke the bag ordinance. or dinance. JJust ust as San JJose o stor ose stores es char charge ge ffor or shopping bags whilee rretailers o etailers in Sant as an nd C ampbell Santaa Clara, Milpit Milpitas and Campbell pr oudly giv way ffor o or fr ee, proudly givee them aaway free, Measur an JJose ose a less Measuree D will mak makee Sa San desirable business en nvvirronment than its environment immediate neighb ors and a ccost ost the cit ty neighbors city jobs articularly har d hit h will b jobs.. P Particularly hard bee small businesses ke theaters and rrestaurants. estaurants. businesses,, lik like The ballot measur ed to ttake ak ke into measuree faile failed ac count par t--time jobs account part-time jobs,, internships internships,, seasonal work or ffood ood ser sservers vers e who mak ke tips esult, op pportunities make tips.. A Ass a rresult, opportunities ffor or p o eople entering the workf fo orce people workforce will decline obs that will b decline.. The only jo jobs bee cr eated as a rresult esult of Me easure D will b created Measure bee to p olice the ne w minim mum w aage, paid police new minimum wage, ffor or b o oters who pa o assed it. byy the vvoters passed

Yess on Meas Ye Measure sure E ou If yyou ou w want ant to risk yyour ur mone moneyy at

Casino M8 Casino M8trix 8trix or Ba Bay ay 101 in San Measuree JJose, ose, we ccan’t an’t stop p yyou. ou. But Measur E would mak m makee it eeven ven easier b byy increasing number incr easing the numb er of ccard ard ttables ables at the cit city’s tyy’s ttwo wo ccasinos asinos fr from om 49 to 69 The city 6 9 each. Th he cit ty of San JJose ose has ffew ew options to incr ease rrevenue, evenue, so it increase b etttter mak ke sur akes the eextra xtra better make suree it ttakes mone d puts it into a depleted moneyy and p olice depa artment. The unf for o tunate police department. unfortunate par t is the cit ty will b enefit partt of all this city benefit in rrevenue evenuee while p eople who ccan’t an’t people ccontrol ontrol the eir gambling habits put their themselv ess and their families at risk. themselves

Yess onn Measur Ye Measures es G-L If yyou ou w o want aan nt b better etter public scho schools ols in yyour our neigh neighborhood hborhood and yyou’re ou’re willing to pa pay ay ffor o or it, i mor moree p power ower to yyou. o ou.

San Jose Joose City CCouncil ouncil DISTRICT 8: DISTRICT 8R ROSE OSE H HERRERA ERRERA DISTRICT DIS TRICT 10 10: 0: R ROBERT OBERT BRAUNSTEIN BRAUNSTEIN

With W ith i the cit ccity’s tyy’s challenges challenges,, ther there’s e’s just no time for fo orr on-the-job on-the-jjob training training.. Both Rose R ose Herr o Herrera e and R era Robert obert Braunstein o ar dly mor aree decided decidedly moree qualified than their opp o onents . opponents.

Herr Herrera era is an incumb incumbent ent whose ffour our yyears o ears on o the job giv es her a gives decisiv decisivee ed edge dge o over ver neoph neophyte hyyte JJimmy imm my Nguyen, Nguy en, who w might b bee wor worth th ttaking aking a lo llook ok k att in in a futur ffuture t e election l ti but b t isn iisn’t ’t theree yyet. ther et. Small S businessman and sp ortscasteer Braunstein pr ovvides a sportscaster provides thoughtful moderate ccapable, apable, th houghttful and mo derate choice to Almaden A V aalley rresidents. esidents. choice Valley Wee wer W weree unimpr unimpressed essed when District 10 ccandidate andidate Khamis rread ead his opening and from op ening an nd closing ccomments omments fr om prepared pr epared st statements tatements at a ccandidates’ andidates’ Voters fforum. orum. V o ot oters need to know if ccandidates andidates ar aree thinking ffor or themselv o themselves es or just rrepeating epeating e what a p political olitical cconsultant onsultantt wr wrote. ote. When a ccandidate andidate ffollows ollows scri o scripts, ipts, ther there’s e’s no w way ay to tell.

Khamis — whose ccourting ourting of gives rreligious eligious cconservatives o onser vativvees giv es rise to about cconcerns oncerns ab bout his agenda — this Mayor week won the endorsement of Ma ayor Reed, historyy of endorsing R eeed, who has a histor like losers lik ke Hon H Lien, Magdalena Carrasco and Richard Calderon.

C arrasco an nd Richar dC alderon.

Luckily, Bronstein supports Reed’s L uckilyy, Br onstein supp orts R eeed’s wage w age rreforms effo orrms while managing to build bridg ges with public saf feety bridges safety unions.. Th That’s what’s unions hat’s eexactly xactly what ’s needed keep cityy fisc fiscally solvent to k eeep thee cit ally solv ent while healing thee p olarized p olitics that has polarized politics city’s livability. impacted the t cit ty’ y s livabilit y.

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As a result, Jack’s Bar in Japantown, where the current club’s supporters regularly get hammered when they’re not traveling to a road game, opened up a tab for any NASL Earthquakes alumni.

The next night, many former Quakes, from every era, were brought onto the field at halftime for the induction ceremony. The weekend proved to be yet another family reunion for many of us who grew up with the original NASL squads, which were always communitybased, above all else.

The NASL team’s former equipment kid, Ron Gilmore, usually organizes the reunions, which take place every five years or so, but this was a special occasion, since Child and Mandaric were being inducted. Basically, the reason many kids play soccer in Northern California, in 2012, is at least partly due to what these guys helped create, nearly 40 years ago.

Regardless of one’s sports preference, this particular slice of local history remains important, because it exemplifies arguments that still rage today. In the early ’70s, if one wanted professional sports, one had to drive to San Francisco or Oakland. San Jose had nothing.

Mandaric, a Yugoslavian transplant, entrepreneur in the semiconductor industry and passionate soccer fan, wanted a new soccer club in San Jose, since there was no professional sport here yet. He wanted to be the first game in town. The league’s top brass at that time, including the famed Lamar Hunt, did not want the team in San Jose. They wanted it named after San Francisco because they considered San Jose to be a hick town, the redheaded stepchild of the Bay Area, or the “hinterland.” Sound familiar?

Mandaric, however, pleaded his case and eventually won. The Quakes started playing in 1974. The town and media welcomed them with open arms, primarily because the team branded itself as a bunch of players who occupied exactly the same social level as their fans—all the way down to partying with everyone after each and every game.

It was a community team.

Everyone in the stands had met one of the players before the team even played a single match. The players themselves hung out together off the field and caroused around in public together everywhere. As a result, the Quakes successfully sold a brandnew professional sport to what was then an unknown California suburb, one that was ready to go big time.

Unfortunately, as everyone knows, the entire league collapsed 10 years later.

C’est la vie.

The whole scenario raised arguments you might recognize: Is a team that prides itself on streetlevel connections with an entire community better for the fans than a team with high-priced rock-star players? Is the business bottom line more important than the product on tthee field? o e d Iss San Sa Jose a majorhopeless minor-league league city or a ho wasteland? many of these guys In any event, m local area. They started never left the loca became coaches at all soccer camps, beca levels or went on to play in local oversome cases, they even 35 leagues. In som bartenders when Britannia became bartende Arms opened up. weeks ago, Mandaric Until a few wee had never attended the recent reunions, so it was a moving experience when they brought him out onto the field. Even though he has long since lived in England, taking the helm at clubs like Portsmouth, Leicester or Sheffield Wednesday, he referred to the Earthquakes as his hometown club. He expressed his joy that the current San Jose Earthquakes team still prides itself on being a community club.

In a nutshell, while there exist other Major League Soccer clubs with similar historical lineages, and certainly larger attendance figures, none of them have the multigenerational family that the San Jose Earthquakes have. Look for part two of this column next week, as the Quakes commence the groundbreaking ceremony on their new stadium, 40 years in the making.

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One-Way O ne-Way Sp Spin pin distant, “He ccan an seem vvery ery dis stant, unattached unat tached at times times,, almost a heartless,” hear tless,” sa says ayys JJudith udith Dushk Dushku, u, a lifelong lif feelong l Mormon and d an asso associate ciate i professor pr offeessor of go government vernmeent at Suff Suffolk ffo olk University U niversity in Boston. V Vivacious iivacious and energetic, ener getic, with sparkli sparkling ing blue eeyes yes and a wide range of in intellectual ntellectual interests, inter ests, Dushk Dushku u has known Mit Mittt Romney R o omney sinc sincee the ear early ly 1970s 1970s,, when theyy wer the weree b both oth activ activee in the LDS LDS..

Romney R o omney later ser served ved as a her w ward ard bishop,, fr bishop from om 19 1981 81 to 19 11986, 86,, and as her stake st ake pr president esident fr from om 19 11986 86 until 19 1994, 94, when he ran unsuc unsuccessfully cesssfully ffor o or the United U nited St States ates Senate against a Edw Edward ard M. K Kennedy. ennedyy.

Dushku Dushk u sees a distu disturbing urbing pat pattern tern in the R Romney o omney rrésumé, ésum mé, one that ccan an bee trac b traced ed as far back as a his ttwo-year wo -year missionaryy work in Fr France, missionar rance, during 1960s. don’t have the late 19 60s. “I don ’t ha ave a sense Mitt that Mit tt went on his mission to understand people, underst and p eople, to o engage them as human b beings, eings, but rather to eexcel xcel in the eeyes yes of thee chur church,” ch,”” sa says ayys Dushku.

Dushk u. “It w was as ab about ou ut fulfilling an assignment, not ab about ou ut ccompassion. ompassion.

And that has b been een is mo m modus dus operandi op erandi his entir entiree lif life.” fe.”

Raised in a Navy Naavvy family fam mily that moved mo ved ar around ound the ccountry ou untry and a 1964 19 64 graduate of Brig Brigham gham Y Young o oung University, Dushku identifies U niversity, Dushk u id dentifies “social democrat,” herself as a “so cial dem mocrat,”” so Romney have she and R o omney ha ave often ffound o ound themselves opposite themselv es on opp osite sides of the politics. ffence eence when it ccomes omes to t p olitics. That describes said,, she describ es thee ttwo wo of them as being those b eing “friends” in tho se early yyears ears in being Boston, along with b e eing Mormon brethren, never br ethren, although ne ever seemingly plane.. on the same plane

Dushku Dushk uw was as a single mother of ffour o our at the t time and,, she says, saayys, Romney R omney ne o never n ver seemed to b bee par ticularlly ccomfortable omffo ortable in the particularly ccompany ompany of o unmarried Mormon mothers “ mean,, if you you wer mothers.. “I weree seated at a ttable able with him and other Mor rmon men,”” she says, saayys, “you “you Mormon wer en’t lik kely to b weren’t likely bee included in the cconversation. onversation. [R Ro omney] thought [Romney] that h an w h w asn’t ’ married i d anyy woman that wasn’t to someon ne who ccan an support support someone them, who ow asn’t following fo ollowing church church wasn’t tradition iin n that rrespect, espect, was was just almost to o unusual to cconsider onsider in too an ollegiial w ay.” anyy ccollegial way.”

‘He doesn ‘He doesn’t d ’t have e a set of e values l core you can count coun nt on.

I’ve known him m for f near nearly rly ly 440 y years,’ ears,’ s, D Dushku h Dush hku hk says. says s.

Perhaps P erhapss no other woman in the ccountry—a ountry—a — ffeminist eeminist Mormon who has known nR Romney o omney for for o nearly 40 yyears ears and d who wh practic practiced i ed d in i the h LDS chur church c of Massachuset ch Massachusetts ttts while Romney R omne o yw was as in various p positions ositions of chur church ch leadership ther there—has e—has such a uni unique ique p perspective erspective on the Republican R epublic e an n presidential presidential nominee and his rrelationship ellationship to issues affecting aff ffeecting women w as do does es Dushk Dushku. u.

But with h rar raree exception exception this ccampaign ampaign season—the primar primaryy xception b eexception being eing an eextensive xtensive interview inter view in R Religion eeligion Disp Dispatches atches with JJoanna oanna Br Brooks, ooks, author of The Bo Book ok of Mormon n Girl Girl—her —her vvoice oice has not been b een heard heard in the mainstr mainstream eam media as part part of the t cumulativ cumulativee cacophony cacophony defining R Romney omne o y ffor o or the Americ American an electorate.. In man electorate manyy ways, wayys, he he’s ’s been been

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Temple T eemple K Keeper eepper As a ffounder As ounder o and mem member mber of the editorial b board oard of Exp EExponent onent II,, Dushk II Dushku u had help helped ed usher Sheldon’s Sheldon ’s anon anonymous ymous ac account count of her tribulations with hR Romney o omney (then unnamed) into print p in 19 1990.

90.

So when R Romney omne o yw was as claiming to b bee a pr proponent oponent of choic cchoicee in his 19 1994 94 Senate rac racee against Kennedy, K ennedyy, Dushk Dushku u knew knew b better. etter.

She publicly identified dR Romney o omney as the pr previously eviously unidentified unidenttified w ward ard bishop in Sheldon Sheldon’s ’s chronicle chronicle of encounter over the disquieting enc oun nter o ver her pregnancy. pr egnancyy. interview Globee In an inter view with h the Glob about Romney’s Senate ab out R omne o y’s Senat te ccandidacy andidacy shortly before Day, shor tly b effo ore Election n Da ay, Dushku Dushk u acknowledged d that while Romney bee “cha “charismatic R omney ccould o ould b arismatic and inspirational,”” he ccould ould also be be “dismissive” less “dismissiv e” of those le ess privileged described than him. She describ e him as a ed was having man who w as “used to o ha avving his w way.” ay.” He ccould ould b bee “v “very ery pleasant,”” she noted, but at times of cconflict, onflict, “he ccan an b bee vvery ery tough on p people.” eople.”

Dushku Dushk u had her own n disconcerting encounter disc oncerting enc ounter with Romney 1993 says, R omney in 19 o 93 that, she s sa ayys, “shook hurt “sho ok me up and hur rt me greatly.” greatlyy.” lifelong In spite of her lif felon e ng ccommitment ommitment to ffeminism emin e nism and her

left-leaningg p olitics, Dushku Dushku was was politics, (and rremains) emaiins) spiritually ccommitted ommitted to the chur rch and to the gr eater church greater LDS ccommunity. omm munity. She clearly had disagreements with many her disagr e eements many of church’s manyy the chur ch’s teachings and man of its practices—particularly practiices—particularly as theyy relate the relate to women—but she ffound o ound a spiritual spiiritual ccomfort omffor o t in the church persists chur ch that thaat p ersists to this day. daay. touched byy “I’ so tou “I’m t uched h d and d motivated ti t d b Christian the basic C hristian teachings that I myy life learned all of m liffe in the Mormon church that’s chur ch that thaat that ’s the language that deeply,” rreaches eaches mee the most deeply y,” she acknowledged 2007 interview acknowled ged in a 20 07 inter view nvestigative journalist with the in investigative Susan Maz ur, an eexpert xpert on Mormon Mazur, p olygamy cults ccults.. “I deeply value m polygamy myy memb ership and par ticipation in the membership participation chur ch. It is i ccentral entral to m fe.” church. myy lif life.”

A yyear ear pr rior i to R o omney’’s Senate S prior Romney’s ccampaign, ampaign, Dushk u sought chur ch Dushku church p ermission n to mak permission makee a pilgrimage to the orna ate LDS Washing ton, ornate Washington, D .C. T empl e le (actually located located in D.C. Temple K ensington n, Maryland).

Maryland). She had Kensington, w anted to “receive “ eceive her endowment,”” “r wanted a sacr ed rit tual in which Mormons sacred ritual pledge thei ir allegianc d and their allegiancee to Go God their faithf fulness to the chur ch. faithfulness church.

U ntil rrecently, ecen ntlyy, Mormons not Until married i d to a chur h ch h member memb ber were were church not allowed d to enter an LDS temple temple..

Dushk u had haad ne ver b een allowed to Dushku never been enter a tem mple b effo ore—anywhere— temple before—anywhere— and she w a anted to “affirm her faith. wanted faith.””

Her rrequest equesst rrequired equired appr oval fr om approval from b oth her bi ishop and, ultimately y, her both bishop ultimately, st ake president, presid dent, Mit omne o y. stake Mittt R Romney.

Dushk u claims that R o omney Dushku Romney said someth hing to the eff ffeect that, something effect “I susp ect,, if you’ve you’ve got ten thr ough suspect, gotten through b oth of thee inter views, ther e’s both interviews, there’s nothing I ccan an do to k eep yyou ou fr om keep from going to th he temple .” In fact,, she the temple.” sa ayys, he questioned queestioned her allegianc says, allegiancee to the LDS rreligion. eligion. “I just don ’t don’t underst and d why wh hy you you stay stay in the understand chur ch,”” hee said. church,” She ask ed R o omney if he rreally eally asked Romney w anted to engage e her in such a wanted discussion. “No, “No, actually y,” he rreplied. eplied. actually,” “I don ’t understand un nderstand it, but I also don’t don ’t care. care. I don’t don’t ccare are wh hy yyou ou do don’t why do..

But I ccan an tell teell yyou ou one thing: yyou’re ou’re not m kin nd of Mormon. myy kind Mormon.””

W iith tha at, Dushku Dushku rrecalls, ecalls, With that, R o omney signed siggned her pap ers and Romney papers rather “dism missively”” bid her adieu. “dismissively”

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issued a fr free ee pass on hi his is rrecord ecord as a church leader, Mormon chur ch leade er, particularly particularly in rrespect espect to his rrecord ecord on women lives. and issues that impact their liv es.

The journalistic vacu vacuum uum is disturbing.. In a leng lengthy profile disturbing th hy pr ofile of Romney R omney app o appearing only ly a ffew ew weeks earing on New Yorker, ago in the Ne wY oorker, Nicholas Lemann through litany Lemann went thr ough h a lit any of Romney’s activities” Ro omney’s “pastoral act tivities”” in the church: over chur h ch: h rushing hi o ver to to a friend’ ffriend’s i d’s house to help after a fir fire; deploying ying fi e; deplo a group Capital group of Bain C apital a employees employees to find a missing teena teenager; ager; “straightening out out”” thee “wayward “wayyward son” son” of another stake stake member. m memb er.

Lemann goes great detail ail with Lemann go es into gr eaat det an account Romney account of R o omney helping a young young husband apply p polyurethane olyurethane to his living rroom floor. oom flo o . The spin or is all in one direction. direction. There’s T e’s no Ther reference Dushku reffeerence to Sheldon Sh ld or o Dushk D hku or any Mormon any of the other Morm mon ffeminists eeminists who bristled under R Romney’s o omney’s patriarchal leadership. patriarchal church church lead dership.

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THE T HE E EARLY A R LY DAYS DAYS Ju Judith udith Dushku, who has known n Mitt R Romney omney since the early ’70s ’70s, s, sees a dist disturbing turbing lack of heart in his rés résumé. umé.

She told Kranish and Helman that she ffelt eelt lik likee she had b been e “kick een “kicked ed in stomach.”” the stomach.

FFather aather FFigure igurre There w There was as yet yet anotherr pr problematic oblematic incident that to took ok place plaace during Romney’s R omney’s tenur o tenuree as w ward ard bishop bishop,, in 1984, 19 84, in involving volving anoth another er Mormon Peggie Hayes. woman,, P eggie Ha ayes. activee in the LDS Then 24 and activ church wheree R Romney served chur ch wher omney ser o ved as ward bishop,, Ha Hayes was divorced, w ard bishop ayes w as a div orced, single mother of a four-year-old fo ou ur-year- old area. daughter living in thee Boston ar ea. been Her family had b een close c to the Romneys trusted Mittt R omneys and she trus o sted Mit Romney and mentor,, R omney as a friend an o nd mentor figure.” eeven ven as a “father figur re.”

1984, In the winter of 19 8 Hayes 84, Haayes had rrecently ecently giv given en bir birth th to o a son, Dane Dane,, when R Romney o omney visited d her home in the blue blue-collar - collar neig neighborhood ghborhood Sommerville.

Romneys of Sommer ville. The R o omneys had been good Hayes, says, b een go od to Ha ayes, sshe he sa ayys, hiring her to help clean theirr basement and urging friends then ur ging other frie ends to help odd jobs.. Shee w was her find o dd jobs as eexpecting xpecting moree of the same ttype mor ype of support support

when R Romney o om mney visited her home. home.

Instead she w was as “shocked” “shocked” by by what she hear h heard. d. According According to Hayes, Haayes, Romney R omney “p o “pressured” pressured”” her to give give her son up ffor o orr adoption thr through ough an LDS agency. agency y. At At first she thought she had misunderstood misunders stood him,, but much to her horr horror, orr, she hadn hadn’t. ’t. “[Romney] “[R Ro omney] told me it w was as rreally eally important important to giv givee thee bab babyy up,” up,” Hayes Haayes said in her origina original al inter interview view with Glob Globee rreporters ep porters Frank F Phillips p and Sc Scot ot Lehigh L ehigh nea nearly arly ttwo wo dec decades ades ago ago.. “He told me hee w was as a rrepresentative epresentative of the chu church urch and b byy refusing refusing I was w as failingg to ccomply omply with the church’s chur ch’s wishes w and I ccould ould be be eexcommunicated.” xcommun nicated.”

Hayes Ha ayes to took ook R Romney’s omne o y’s admonition as a thr threat. eatt. She ffelt eelt at attacked, tacked, even even intimidate intimidated. ed. Mor Moreover, eover, it was was insulting: “He “ was was saying saaying y that because b ecause D Dane ane [[her son]] didn didn’t ’t have haave a Mormon n father in the home and because b ecause off the cir circumstances cumstances of his bir birth—being th— —being b born orn to a single mother—then mother —tthen the eexpectation xpectation of the chur church ch w was a that I giv as givee him up ffor or o adoption to t the chur church ch agency so he

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MATR I A RCHS The wives of Brigham Young MATRIARCHS Young o assembled asse embled for a group shot in the t late 1800s.

1800s. could b could bee raised b byy a Mormon M ccouple ouple in go good od st standing.” anding.”

Theree was Ther was an additional, additiional, racial ccomponent omponent to the sto story ory that has never ne ver b been een rreported. eported. Ha H Hayes ayes first child, a girl, w was as Afric African a Americ an American an on her father’ father’ss side. side. “No “N No one eever ver ask asked ed me to giv givee her up ffor or o adoption,”” Ha Hayes ayes said. “The “Theyy w wanted anted myy son b m because ecause he w was a a white as male who ccould ould gr grow ow w up and b bee a member memb er of the Morm Mormon mon priestho priesthood.” od.”

It w wasn’t asn’t until 1978 th that hat the LDS Church Chur ch finally lifted it its ts ban on black men fr from om ser serving t Mormon ving in the priesthood. priestho od. want makee it clear “I w ant to mak c that I don’t Mittt w was Hayes don ’t think Mit as a racist,”” Ha ayes interview said in an inter view this th his past week.

“But the chur church ch was, was, and a rremains, emains, a racist instituion. And And had m myy son been b een black,, ther theree wou wouldn’t uldn’t ha have ave been b een this push ffor o or ado adoption.” option.”

Att the time A time,, R Romney omn o ney issued a fformal ormal st o statement atement th through hrough his ccampaign ampaign or organization ganizaation acknowledging his ado adoption option advic advice. e.

“This w was as P Peggy’s eggy’s sec second o child,”” ond declared. time, Peggie eggie he declar ed. ““At At the ti me, P was working,, had no visible w as not working support was means of supp pport and dw as livingg welfare. was also member on welfar e. She w as al lso a memb er severe of a family that had had h se vere problems manyy diff different ways pr oblems in man ffeerent w ff ayys protect Peggies’s privacy, which,, to pr otect P egggies’s privacy y, this statement.”

I will not go into in th his st atement.”

According Lehigh, A ccording to Phillips and a L ehigh, Romney strongly denied anyy thr threats R omney str o ongly deni ied an eats

of eexcommunication xcomm munication and p pointed ointed out that while w Ha Hayes ayes had rrejected ejected his advice, advic e, shee rremained emained in the church. church.

A close friend f of Ha Hayes ayes along with her aunt, however, h howe ver, backed backed up the story. stor y.

Hayes, Ha ayees, who w eeventually ventually ccompleted ompleted her master master’s r’s degree degree at Emerson College C ollege and d to today daay ser serves ves as Coordinator C oordinato or of V Volunteers o olunteers ffor o or the Watertown Water town n Fr Free ee Public Library Library outside of Boston, B , sa says, ayys, “I made absolutely the b best est decision ffor o or that kid. He is a wonder wonderful ful kid,, and he loves lo vees b being eingg with me me.. If there there is a God, God, have I think thee last thing he would ha ave wanted give w anted is ffor o or me to giv ve my my son aaway way somebody else’s just on som mebody else ’s decision.”

She,, to too, likee Carrel She o, lik Carrel Hilton Sheldon a yyear ear earlier earlier,, eeventually ventually dropped dr opped out o of the chur church. ch.

Always Alw ays R Right ight These stori stories es in involving nvo olving Mormon women of diff different ffeerent age and diff different ffeerent status st atus in th the he chur church ch ccommunity—and ommunitty— —and all ccoming oming fr from om when R Romney o omney w was aas in a hierar hierarchical chiccal (and,, indeed,, patriarchal) patriarchal) position p osition off p power ower o over ver them—f them—form fo orm an alarmin alarming, ngg, ccomposite omp posite p pattern pat tttern of Romney’s R omne o y’s leadership l ccareer areer ffor o or more more than a dec decade a in the LDS Church. ade Church.

“Romney “R Ro omneey just do doesn’t esn’t ha have ave an any ny sensitivityy to women sensitivit women’s ’s issues in general,” sa says ays y Dushk Dushku. u. “But eeven ven moree than mor n that,, he genuinely b believes elieves he’s he ’s alw always ayyss right,, that he he’s ’s ne never ver made

23 the rresponsibility esponssibility to ccare are ffor o or them,”” Dushku Dushk u says saayys that we wer weree seeing the “real “r eal R Romney.” o omn ney.” people “He sees other p eople in need as lazyy and sla slackers, laz ackers,” Dushku Dushku notes. notes. “He doesn’t do esn’t acknowledge ack knowledge that the path took was he to ok w a a privileged path, from as from parents, gave his par ents, that ga ave him distinct advantages. advant ages.”

Romney say R omneey lik o llikes kes e to sa ay that his Capital was ccontroversial ontr troversia e iall rrole ole l att B Bain i C apit itall w aas to t out”” other “help out o ccompanies ompanies or “assisting them”” or “pr “providing them rovviding business eexpertise. xp x ertise.”

It’s It ’s a narrative narrativ ivve that ccompletely ompletely obfuscates the Romney obfusc ates th he rrole ole that R o omneey and weree actually Bain wer a eexecuting xxecuting during leveraged buyouts their le eveeragged buy yo outs of vulnerable They weree ccorporate ccompanies. ompanies. The T ey wer o orporate pirates—nothing more thing mor re and nothing pirates—not less—in the worst sense of the term. been In what has b een the most investigative iimportant imp ortant work k off iin vestigativ i i e Romney’s journalism m dealing with R o omney’s Capital rreal eal rrecord ecord at Bain C apital ((Rolling Rolling o Stone, St toone, Aug. Aug. 29), Matt Matt Taibbi Taaibbi described described Bain’s business practices being Bain ’s busin ness practic es as b eing driven byy a “make-nothing, driv en b “make-nothing, ttakeakeeeverything, verything, screw-everyone screw- everyone ethos” Romney and R o omneey himself as a “Gordon “Gordon Gekko…without PR.”” Gekk o…wiithout the PR. Off course, manyy of the victims of O course, man Romney’s weree R o omney’s corporate corporate raiders wer women—clerical workers women— cl i all work cleric kers and d midid level administrators workers le vel admin nistrators and line work ers jobs weree vulnerable when —whose jo obs wer plundered Bain plund dered them ffor or o profits. profits.

Romney’s R o omney’s leadership l team at Bain— likee the nat national leadership— lik tional LDS leadership — was all-white all-male.. w as all-whi ite and all-male Republican presidential The R eepu ublican pr esidential was nominee w as effective eff ffeective at Bain, Taibbi T aibbi a cconcludes, onccludes, but not in the way w ay that hee and his inner sanctum front tout. “Romney “R Ro om mney is the fr ont man and apostle economic ap ostle of an a ec onomic rrevolution,” evolution,”” Taibbi T aibbi a cconcludes, onccludes, “in which transactions aree manufactured transaction ns ar manufactured products, instead of pr p oducts, wealth is accompanying generated without w ac companying prosperity, Cayman pr osperity, and C ayman y Islands partnerships aree lo lovingly erected par tnership ps ar vingly er ected nurtured and nur turred while American American apart.” ccommunities ommunitiies fall apar t.”

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a mist mistake. ake. In Mit Mitt’s tt’s view, view, no one else has an anything ything else to off offer. ffeer.” ff Romney—and R o omney— —and R Republicans eepub bliccaans in general—aree experiencing general—ar experiencin ng a significant significant gender gap at the polls polls this t election season,, with the most recent rec e ent poll poll cconducted onducted by by the YWCA YWCA indicating indiccaating that Obama is leading Romney Ro omney by by 49-31 percent. p ercent. In respect respect to issues issues that most directly dir ectly impact women,, this should ccome ome as no surprise. surprise i .

Ass R Republicans gathered A eepublicans gath hered in Tampa Romney T aampa to ccoronate oronate R omney as nominee,, se several Republican their nominee veral R eepublican speakers mocked slogan sp eakers mo cked the Obama O slo gan “Forward,” instead, of “F orward,”” ccalling alling in nstead, as Rebecca Traister,, Salon ccolumnist R eebecca Traister olumnist and Don’t Cry, author of Big Girls Don n’t Cr ry, noted, time”” when ffor o or a “moment back in n time white,, the “only a select ffew—the ew—thee white male,, the straight, the Pr Protestant— male otestant— ccould ould ld rreasonably easonably bl eexpect xpecct to eexert xert political social p olitical or financial orr so cial or sexual power.” se xual p ower.” word Traister In wor d and deed, Tr raister observed, Republicans been obser ved,, R eepublicans “ha ““have ave b een hopee to rreturn telegraphing their hop eturn us before Roe, to a moment not just b effor o eR oe, but before birth-control before b effo ore the bir th-control o pill, b effo ore sexual before secondthe se xual rrevolution, evolution,, b effo ore sec ondwave hammered pesky w ave ffeminism eeminism hamme ered p esk ky likee ‘harassment ‘harassment’’ and ‘equal terms lik pay’ lexicon, pa ayy’’ into i our lle xic i on, to o a moment women’s bodies sexuality when women ’s b odies and se xualitty weree me men’s define,, and identities wer n’s to define patrol will.

Romney, patr ol and violate at wi ill.” R omney, o appear, perfect it would app ear, is the p erfeect Republican R eepublican ccandidate andidate to t bring us patriarchal future. back to that patriar chaal futur e.

Off ccourse, argue O ourse, one ccould ould d ar gue that Romney’s backward-looking view R omney’s back o ward-lo ooking vie w of limited the world is not limite ed eexclusively xclusively women’s issues.. In rrespect espect to to women ’s issues economic policies, ec onomic p olicies, he would w clearly likee to rrevert days before lik evert to the da ayys b effo ore workplacee saf safety workplac fet e y mandates, mand dates, the progressive income pr ogressive inc ome ttax, axx, the right of workers organize and work ers to or ganize an nd rregulatory egulatory institutions. ccontrols ontrols of financial in nstitutions. His doubletalk presidential doublet alk at the first pr esidential Denver debate last week in De en nver about about his economic proposals—many various ec onomic pr op posals—many directly previous of which dir ectly ccontradict ontrradict pr evious statements made—only st atements he has mad de— only help underscore Dushku to undersc ore what Du ushku has duplicity” ccalled alled his “capacity “capacity for for o duplicit y” and “his lack of a moral ccenter.” en nter.”

Romney uttered When R o omney ut tttered his nowimmortal Republican immor tal ccomments omments at a aR epublic e an Boca Raton, fundraiser in Bo ca Rat ton, Florida, about percent Americans being ab out 47 p ercent of Am mericans b eing government “victims”” and ““that that go vernment has

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23 Williams, W iilliams, an a LDS member member from from Price, Utah, Pric e, U tah h,, sent out an email to ffellow eellow chu urch memb ers that went church members viral in thee LDS ccommunity ommunity and that ur ged d Mormons to fast and pra ay urged pray ffor or R o omne o ey on the Sunda ay prior Romney Sunday to the ďŹ rstt pr esidential debate. debate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I presidential know thatt seems lik likee such a small thing ,â&#x20AC;? Williams Wiillliams wrote, wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but I believe believe thing,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;fr from sma all things great things ccan an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;from small things,, great ccome ome ab ou ut.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I know that fasting and about.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; pra ayying br rings ab out miracles.â&#x20AC;? miracles.â&#x20AC;? praying brings about R omneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; o y s ffellow ellow e Mormon Glenn Romneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beck, the ccontroversial ontroversial right -wing right-wing ttalk alk radio host, speculated speculated about about olls b aR omne o y victor Romney victoryy at the p polls byy noting t Go d is trying trying to noting,, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think God mak makee this so clear to us that,, if it happ ens, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ittâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s His ďŹ nger .â&#x20AC;? happens, ďŹ nger.â&#x20AC;?

Dushk u sa ayys she â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not surprised Dushku says sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s b port inside the chur ch ffor o or byy the supp support church R omne o eyyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ccandidacy. andidacyy. It is â&#x20AC;&#x153;pushing the Romneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chur ch into o the mainstr eam,â&#x20AC;? she says, saayys, church mainstream, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and that â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something the yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always alw wayys thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve w anted. In n that sense â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affirming wanted. sense,, it itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affirming..â&#x20AC;?

L ast wee ek,, however, however, as Dushku Dushku Last week, w atched th he ďŹ rst of the pr esidential watched the presidential debates he saw saaw a ccompetent, ompetent, eeven ven debates,, sh she â&#x20AC;&#x153;slickâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? p esident olitician debating Pr politician President bu Obama,, but ut she also sa aw someone saw who is a p olitical chameleon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s political â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a man n who has an ything lik anything likee moral ccore,â&#x20AC;? ore,â&#x20AC;? she sa ayys. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very very loyal loyal says. to the Mor rmon chur ch, pays paayys his Mormon church, tithing f to his wif fe, and tithing,, is faithful wife, so on, but he do esnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ha ave a set of doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have ccore ore value ou ccan an ccount ount on. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve valuess yyou known him m ffor o or nearly 40 years. years. He ma ay ha ave a diff ffeerent suit on,, but may have different he hasn â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed. c xperience hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t His eexperience hasn â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t chan nge. His performance perfo ormance hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change. w as vvery ery consistent consistent to the Mit was Mittt I k kne w back b k then. th H ccanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t anâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t relate relate l t to t knew He aaverage verage wo orking women. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still working ccoming oming fr o a plac om from placee of privilege and entitlemen nt.â&#x20AC;? entitlement.â&#x20AC;?

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With 12 changing and rotating taps plus 80â&#x20AC;&#x201C;100 bottled beers that can be enjoyed onsite or purchased to go, you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ nd any macro beers here. In addition to good beer, Wine Affairs offers a tasty tapas menu and, of course, an extensive wine list.

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The falafel sandwiches are larger—and, at only $5.50 apiece, are a steal.

Instead of just iceberg lettuce and sliced tomatoes, the sandwiches are filled with mixed veggies, pickles, sauerkraut, parsley, oil and a particularly thick and flavorful tahini spread—it’s a truly tangy, flavorful experience. I would’ve never imagined putting pickles in my falafel sandwich before, but that briny, salty punch is the perfect complement to the meaty, spicy falafel flavor.

Their hummus is mildly tangy and quite liquidy. Rather than ordering the hummus plate ($6.75), I recommend the masabacha, a popular dish in the Eastern Mediterranean, which is basically hummus served with additional spices and some whole, cooked garbanzo beans. It’s also $6.75.

Both dishes are served with pickles and sauerkraut. Remember what I said about pickles in the falafel sandwich? They’re even better in the hummus.

The adventurous should try the sabich, a traditional Israeli sandwich, for $5.55. The sabich is served in a pita with hummus, crumbled hardboiled eggs and fried eggplant—and of course, mixed veggies, pickles and sauerkraut. It’s a heartier than the falafel sandwich, and has more complex flavors, too—that eggplant adds just a dash of bitterness.

For dessert, they serve one item: Cream Bavaria for only $3. It’s a lightly sweet, fluffy, vanilla pudding with lady fingers, chocolate syrup and nuts.—Aaron Carnes 1325 Sunnyvale-Saratoga Rd.; Sunnyvale 408.735.7182

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Danny Day) takes it a step further with actual action. He assists groups like AIDS Walk and Project Street Peeps (which helps provide the homeless with basic necessities). His smooth flow and simple old-school beats are the perfect foundation to discuss issues and problems facing the community and the world at large. He’s been doing it a while now.

Originally starting in L.A., he was a

founding member of the “Herbin Profits” crew. He keeps at it because there’s never a shortage of issues that need discussing. (AC)

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Fox Theatre, Redwood City Thu – 8pm; $28-$35 The Grateful Dead have always been more of a traveling musical lifestyle than just a band—more of a communal soundtrack than a catalog of songs. Dark Star Orchestra has tapped into that collective spaced-out consciousness

successfully for some 13 years; if they keep at it, they’ll end up doing more concerts than the Dead themselves. Dark Star often recreates—sonically and visually— whole Dead concerts for fans with obsessive memories and large tape libraries, but their renditions of classics like “Cumberland Blues,” “Sugar Magnolia” and “Sugaree” sound freshly minted rather than archival. (AR)

FREUD’S LAST SESSION San Jose Repertory Theatre Oct 11-Nov 4; $24-$74 These days, C.S. Lewis’ legacy is tied to the fantasy world of Narnia, with the Christian allegory well buried except for some cranky

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critics. The author, however, remains an intriguing figure in British letters: a conventional Anglican as a child; an atheist as a young man; and, finally, with nudges from Tolkien and G.K. Chesterton, an enthusiastic reconvert to Christianity. His rational approach to the question “Why believe?” is the kind of thing that muscular atheists find especially deplorable. In Mark St. Germain’s play Freud’s Last Session, set just before World War II, the supreme scientist of the mind tussles with Lewis about faith, transcendence and the soul. The off-Broadway hit is the latest production by San Jose Repertory Theatre and stars Benjamin Evett and J. Michael Flynn. (MSG)

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SF BULLS HOCKEY Cow Palace, San Francisco Fri – 7:15pm; $14.25-$41 Since the NHL seems bound and determines to put the puck on ice in all the wrong ways this season, the San Francisco Bulls offer a handy alternative for bereft San Jose Sharks fans. The newly minted Bulls are part of the East Coast Hockey League (go figure), which functions somewhat like a AA minor-league feeder system for the bigs. The Bulls will be playing in a fully refurbished Cow Palace, which isn’t that far from the Tank, depending on traffic. The season kicks off with a showdown against the Bakersfield Condors. (AR)

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Studio 8 is the place to go for nonstop dance jams and mixed martial arts. Yes, that’s right— mixed martial arts. Well, sort of.

“Self Defined,” a mixed martial arts clothing company, will be on hand with appropriate threads.

Also on hand: the Valiant Vixens (Blondie and Sammy), mashing up martial arts and dance moves.

DJ Weapon will be spinning music all night. He’s particularly good at blending heavy house beats with R&B and Top 40. Plus he has a cool Mohawk. (AC)

SLG Art Boutiki, San Jose Local rapper Lucid Optics’ true talent lies in his innovative production. He writes and records all his own beats. He loops psychedelic swells with jazzy licks and even throws in some old 8-bit Nintendo sounds and traditional Eastern music. His beats could stand up on their own as solid instrumental hip-hop tracks. Fortunately, he can and does rap as well, with dizzy flow and brainy, clever lyrics. His style is reminiscent of Aesop Rock, but he goes even further into outer space territory. He has also done some top-notch jams with local indiejazz outfit Contra Ville. (MSG)

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Some of the best Pokémon players converge this weekend on Santa Clara for the Autumn Regionals; the winners here have a shot at the nationals and possibly the world championships in 2013. (AR)

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*stage 33 VARIATIONS A regional premiere from TheatreWorks. Runs thru Oct 28.

Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and/or 8pm, Sun 2 and/or 7pm, Tue, 7:30pm. $31-$51. Mtn View Center.

LYRIC THEATRE Franz Lehar’s “The Merry Widow.” Runs thru Oct 14. ThuSat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $11-$37.

Montgomery Theater, San Jose.

PLACAS

Jose Chamber Music Society featuring Beethoven’s 14 Variations for Piano Trio and Chausson’s Trio in G Minor. Sat, 8pm. $30-$42. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose.

A drama about gang life. Runs thru Oct 14. Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $20/$25. MACLA, San Jose.

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SINATRA FOREVER

The tongue-in-cheek history of the Oval Office in a single evening. Runs thru Oct 21. ThuSat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $17–$30.

City Lights, San Jose.

Rick Michel re-creates a vintage Sinatra show for SCU Presents Visiting Artist Series. Fri, 8pm. $32 and up. Mayer Theatre, Santa Clara University.

Annual salute to gourds, with live music, food and a haunted house. Sat-Sun, 9am-5pm. Main Street, Half Moon Bay.

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Chekhov by Pear Avenue. Runs thru Oct 14. Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15 and up. Pear Avenue Theatre, Mountain View.

DINNER WITH FRIENDS A dramatic comedy about two married couples with problems.

Runs Oct 11-Nov 4. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. $15/$20.

Northside Theatre, San Jose.

ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING Ppresented by Tabard Theatre.

Runs thru Oct 14. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm, plus Thu (Oct 11), 8pm. $15 and up.

Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

FREUD’S LAST SESSION A drama about a debate between Freud and C.S. Lewis.

Runs Oct 11-Nov 4. Previews Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun 2 and 7pm, Tue, 7:30pm. Opens Oct 17. $24$74. San Jose Repertory Theatre.

Runs thru Nov 18. Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $24-$44.

Retro Dome, San Jose.

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AUTUMN MOON CELEBRATION A community event with dancers, music and martial arts.

Fri, 6-11pm. Dynasty Seafood Restaurant, Vallco, Cupertino.

FILIPINO-AMERICAN HERITAGE DAY With Filipino food, live music and performances. Sat, noon-5pm. $5/$8. History Park San Jose.

JOHN CAGE—100 YEARS A centennial celebration with pianist Thomas Schultz on Thu, 8pm; and a symposium and concert Fri, 7pm. Free. Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford.

FOUND MAGAZINE Davy and Peter Rothbart celebrate a new book of essays and share more of their unusual discoveries. Sat, 8pm. Anno Domini, San Jose.

IVES QUARTET Fall program includes Haydn’s The Dream Quartet. Fri, 8pm. $10-$25. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto.

RTE PARTY A fundraising event for Renegade Theatre Experiment.

Sat, 8pm. $35 and up. Los Gatos Lodge.

STEINWAY SOCIETY A solo recital by classical pianist Cecile Licad. Sun, 7pm. $35-$55.

McAfee Center, Saratoga.

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IlYY\[ IXn “RACE IS the most incendiary topic in our history, and the moment it comes out you cannot close the lid on that box.” This line from David Mamet represents the idea behind his legal drama Race, the season opener at San Jose Stage that seeks to lay bare, though not to solve, the issue of black-white relations in America.

In the play, white plutocrat Charles Strickland (David Arrow) stands accused of raping a black woman. Two lawyers, one black (L. Peter Callender) and the other white Race (Randall King), take the case reluctantly, while Susan (ZZ Moor), a young African American lawyer pursues Runs through Oct. an agenda of her own.

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The Stage, Director Tony Kelly calls the play “a courtroom drama San Jose that never reaches the courtroom,” and this is true in more ways than one. All the action takes place in a law office, and the play is less concerned with defendant Strickland than with the interplay among the other three characters. It isn’t pretty.

The members of the legal team, who have their backs to the wall trying to work out a defense argument, toss away the “politically correct” niceties that usually safeguard discussions of race. King’s character admits to racial profiling, while Callender’s character delivers humorously acerbic lines such as “‘Do all black people hate whites?’ Let me put your mind at rest.

You bet we do. White folks are ‘scared’? All to the good.”

In Mamet’s world, it’s not simply one group oppressing another, but a free-for-all in which everyone is prejudiced and resentful in some way and won’t hesitate to exact revenge on the people they hate. Race is most successful at demonstrating just how complicated and difficult its subject can be, quashing those naïve voices that insist that a “post-racial” or “color blind” society has already arrived. It’s also an intense, gripping story, worth seeing for its caustic, quick-fire dialogue alone, and the Stage’s production—with airtight direction by Kelly and actors who imbue their parts with a danger and grittiness not suggested in the text—could hardly be any better.

You’ll have much to think about after the show, and possibly some skeptical reflections (would professionals, even desperate ones, really speak to each other the way Mamet’s characters do?). In the theater, however, there is only the riveting interaction between people at their most raw.—Sean Conwell

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culpability in installing a weakling absolutist, the type of tyrant who had his meals flown in from Paris via supersonic jet. And they even give the last word to Jimmy Carter.

Derived from a true-life story of rescue, the film’s Mission Impossible–style heroics should prove particularly appealing right now. And after the Libyan embassy debacle, the film couldn’t be more timely. Yet while Affleck goes full ’70s, from the cheesy Warner Bros. logo of the era to the acrylic sweaters and tarantula mustaches, his nerve failed somewhere. He decided to pump up the tale.

Wigged, bearded and opencollared, pretending to be Al Pacino in Serpico, Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA officer of tensed nerves and troubled stability. I prefer Affleck as a bastard, and my favorite moment is when he gets the germ of

his idea as he’s tuning out what his young son is saying to him over the phone. We see both the government schemer and the failing father in one view. Mendez drinks too much, and that’s his beef against the Iranians— they’re a bunch Lemonade Lucys who are always forbidding alcohol, a point stressed throughout Argo.

No future historian will believe that this was likely the West’s main beef against insurgent Islam, but it’s probably true. It wasn’t the oil or the sexual politics. It’s just that many Americans don’t trust people who don’t drink.

The plot is simple. Mendez is sent to organize the scouting of locations for a fake science-fiction movie. Six Americans who escaped the revolutionary round-up are currently hiding in the Canadian embassy in Tehran. They will be removed, disguised as crew members and writers. This tactic raises only minor suspicion by bemused Iranian cultural attachés: “You come to us at a complicated time.”

Argo sees the famous “Canadian Caper” as comedy; it’s like Jerry Lewis’ lament that everyone has

two businesses, their own and show.

While some documentary-like scenes of an embassy in flight ground the movie, it’s a fantasy about how a magic charm of lies is able to brave the walls of the worst reign of terror situations. Who was the Scarlet Pimpernel, if not a showman?

In that jaded world of the moviemaker, on the far side of the then-ruined Hollywood sign, we’re at home and amused. John Goodman, hearty and portly, wobbles through a movie set as Booker T.’s slouchy “Hip Hug-Her” plays.

Alan Arkin, the man of living jade, counters the compliment to his “stamina” and takes a meeting with a fellow fraud (Richard Kind). “Do you want to hear the truth?” he’s asked.

“No,” Arkin answers with supreme weariness, “I want you to bullshit me, Max.” This T Tropic Thunder mode is the richest rich part of Argo, but that’s when the film becomes more workaday, delivering the torn-from-the-streetsdeli of-Tehran views, the outraged of-T merchant screaming about having me his picture taken, the swarthy but outwittable armed savages at the out airport. airp The T filmmakers have the right to boast of the accuracy of Argo’s look in a series of photos over the end credits. They’ve found doubles for everyone from the droning female revolutionary, hunched over reading her endless litany of charges against the great U.S. Satan, to the dead man dangling from the crane after a public execution. At times, the haute-’70s hair and clothing styles seem too extreme, and then you see the actual passport photos of the six hostages.

Onto this true story, Affleck has laminated Bond-knockoff events that we know didn’t happen just from the way they look and play onscreen.

Nobody expected Casino Royale (2006) to be based on the headlines, but the airport sequences there, reproduced badly here, stick out like some low-grade producer’s idea of a thrilling finale. And even the acrid Arkin ends up giving man-hugs.

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Featuring more than 30 films from the African continent. Presented by the Oriki Theater. The festival includes a red-carpet opening Friday at 5:30pm, screenings all day Saturday and Sunday starting at 11am and an awards ceremony on Sunday at 7pm. For full schedule see www.svaff.org. (Fri-Sun, Community School of Music and Arts, Mountain View.)

ARAB FILM FESTIVAL The San Jose portion of the state-wide festival is two days of independent features, short films and documentaries from and about the Arab world. Sponsored by the Arab Women’s Solidarity Association. See www.arabfilmfestival.org for schedule details. (Sat-Sun, starting at noon, Camera 12 in San Jose.)

ARGO (R; 120 min.) See review on page 38.

DETROPIA (NR) Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s searing documentary observes the desolation of Detroit, bracketing the cityscapes with interviews with Raven Lounge owner Tommy Stephens, union local president George McGregor and blogger Crystal Starr. The numbers only reaffirm what the images say already: 50 percent of the manufacturing jobs gone in the last decade, 40 of the city’s 140 square miles vacant and the population is down to a century low. Civic boosters may be depressed at the way this film is a consistent downer. But Detropia hears out the different views of what is to be done, and the film looks at the tragedy of the city with respect. As we should, too. Detroit’s ruins and disarray are a vision of our own possible bad future. In the most dismaying views, a half-demolished tower sways in the breeze like a clobbered prizefighter. In what was the world’s tallest railroad station, now open to the elements, a singer from the Detroit Opera walks alone, testing its acoustics. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.)

HERE COMES THE BOOM (105 min.) Kevin James plays a high school teacher who turns to mixedmartial arts to save after-school activities. Also stars Henry Winkler. Let your conscience be your guide. (Opens Fri.)

(R; 109 min.) See review on page 40.

(R; 110 min.) A murder investigation by a novelist leads to supernatural danger for his family. Ethan Hawke, James Ransone and Juliet Rylance star.

(Opens Fri.)

V/H/S (R; 116 min.) An anthology horror package with directors contributing “found-footage” scary shorts. The directors featured include David Bruckner, Radio Silence, Glenn McQuaid and Ti West. (Opens Fri.)

MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION/ IMITATION OF LIFE (1935/1934) John M. Stahl’s early versions of two melodramas better known via Douglas Sirk’s remakes.

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FOOLISH WIVES (1922) “The man you love to hate” —a film icon for which there is no clear successor today in dryness, in ruthlessness, in haughtiness or in disdain for common morality. (John Malkovich tries hard but isn’t quite there.) Such was Erich von Stroheim, directing himself as a seducer of wives prowling Monte Carlo. An exposé of upper-class decadence, Foolish Wives was the first of von Stroheim’s works to be truncated by censors and the producers. Dennis James at the Stanford’s Wurlitzer. (Plays Oct 12 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

(RvB)

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE: THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES (1994) In a Market Street loft, a reporter (Christian Slater) comes to talk with a man (Brad Pitt) claiming to be a vampire, centuries old. Tom Cruise is badly miscast as this vampire’s sire, but director Neil Jordan makes him fit.

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THE OTHER DREAM TEAM (NR; 89 min.) A documentary about the 1992 Lithuanian basketballers and their amazing run at the Olympics in Barcelona. (Opens Fri at the Aquarius in Palo Alto.)

The film stands up well as one of the best and most pervy of vampire movies, and part of the reason is a very young Kirsten Dunst as a kind of Satanic version of Shirley Temple. With Stephen Rea, recalling Lon Chaney, and a slightly uncomfortable Antonio Banderas.

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39 reformation of a wastrel doctor (Robert Taylor) by a good woman (Irene Dunne). Claudette Colbert and Warren Williams star in Imitation of Life, a drama about the complexities of race among a girl passing for white. (Plays Oct 13-14 in Palo Alto.)

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THE RAVEN/MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1935/1932) The sinister Bela Lugosi

plays a brace of mad doctors. In The Raven, he’s unforgettable as an insane sadist whose latest patient is none other than a helpless Boris Karloff. Murders in the Rue Morgue, a pre-Code shocker, has Lugosi starring as a “Dr. Mirakle,” who is abusing and misusing the women of Paris in indescribably flamboyant ways, with the help of an ape assistant. (Plays Oct 10-11 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

(RvB)

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Plup Pup AN ALTERATIVE title for Seven Psychopaths could be Things to Do in Hollywood When You’re Dead. From the opening shot of the Hollywood sign to the words “The End” on a page, Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) has created a film for an audience made up exclusively of aspiring scriptwriters.

Marty (Colin Farrell) is a blocked and drunk L.A. scripter whose manic pal Billy (Sam Rockwell), a sometimes dognapper, tries to feed him ideas about a serial killer movie to be called Seven Psychopaths. Billy’s associate Hans Kieslowski (an excellent Christopher Walken) is the trustworthy elderly face of the lost-dog reward seeking.

But he pinches the beloved Shih-tzu of a gangster (Woody Harrelson, the definition of “mannered” here) with a chrome pistol and a scorpion tattooed on his neck.

That’s when the blood starts to flow in earnest, or as earnest as Seven Psychopaths gets. Working the short attention-span trade, McDonagh tries to make quick, manic-depressive changes in mood that don’t convince even with the help of performers as grave as Walken, Harry Dean Stanton and a bunny-fondling Tom Waits.

McDonagh’s a phrasemaker, and there are likable moments and witty

hard-boiled lines thrown away in the movie—bar talk mostly. And there are grains of ideas, such as the story of a Catholic ex-con being pressured all the way to the gates of hell, or of a Vietnamese gunman out for stereotypical revenge on the Americans who invaded his nation. But the sexism isn’t ignorable, no matter how loudly Seven Psychopaths McDonagh’s characters protest R; 109 min. that they’re not Opens Friday ignoring it. Like the bartender in Desperado, two of the film’s main women—Abbie Cornish and Olga Kurylenko—“get it worse than anyone.”

Less like Reservoir Dogs than it thinks it is, Seven Psychopaths happily caters to the hypocrisies and compromises of commercial filmmaking while seemingly parodying them. Although there was nothing but sincerity in Jules’ leave-taking of the way of the gun in Pulp Fiction, McDonagh can’t reconfigure that grace note when he starts to honor peaceful passive resistance. Seven Psychopaths’ lip service to that rare and peculiar kind of bravery ends up seeming like a new flavor of exploitation.

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“I know it seems crazy, but I have so much music,” Cabello says. “I want to give somebody an album that they’re going to have at least one song on it that they’ll really love. It gives everyone an option,

whether you like blues, rock & roll, soul, Latin music or a hip-hop feel. I want everyone to feel my music.”

The album is tentatively scheduled to come out next March.

As the title suggests, it will showcase his tender love songs, as well as the heavier, darker material.

In order to complete the weighty task of producing a double album, Cabello has been recording a little bit at a time. When one song is ready, he’ll take it up to Fantasy Studios in Berkeley and record it from start to finish. In some cases—like with the Curtis Mayfield–inspired soul song “My Love”—not only has he finished the track, he’s already made a video and released it on YouTube.

This pace of recording will not only give each song a distinct texture, it will also allow him to put

his all he says. hi ll iinto each h song, h “If you pull all your creativity out at once, it gets watered down,” Cabello says. “When you let it flow naturally, it’s so much more beautiful. It gives it a chance to breath. You know when a song is done when it’s perfect to you. That’s how long it takes.”

Despite all the different styles of music Cabello plays—Santana Latin rock, Chuck Berry rock & roll, 1970s classic soul—it all comes back to the blues. The raw emotion in the blues spoke to him the first time he heard it, which was back in high school.

His neighbor (and mentor) Jerry Rubalcaba introduced the genre via a mixtape of blues classics. From then on, the blues would shape how Cabello approaches music.

“The blues is so simple, but it’s really cool and deep,” he says. “You cannot imitate the blues if you ain’t got that soul. It gave me the foundation I needed for music.”

Cabello’s connection to the blues probably explains why, despite his young age, he often gets labeled an “old soul.” The music he loves

tends to go back to the pre-digital era, back when early rock and soul were all done with live bands, and audiences expected raw, honest, energetic performances.

“Anyone can go into the studio and sound like Britney Spears if they want to,” Cabello says. “One thing my band has is that it’s not some fake, made-up thing. That’s why people relate to it; they come and see the real thing. We’re all playing our instruments from our hearts.”

Even though Cabello has been gigging regularly since he was 15, a lot more people are taking notice over the past few years. He played this year’s Summer Jazz Fest in San Jose and was a featured performer at Metro’s first annual Silicon Valley Music eXperience. He also played the Woodstock 40th anniversary festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and he recently got booked to open for B.B. King this November in Santa Rosa. He also has a gig at the Virgin Islands on New Year’s Eve to perform in front of 10,000 people.

Cabello is passionate about giving the audience not just a good show but something special.

“When you’re playing from your heart, there’s something there that connects you with the person listening,” Cabello says. “You never know what a person in the audience is going through that day. They could be really sad and have lost someone. It’s spiritual because they connect with you when that song plays.”

Part of what has helped Cabello create his lively sound is the formation of his group the Breakdown, which came together last year. The four (and sometimes five) like-minded guys are old friends he grew up with. Right now, the band is doing well, but whatever happens, Cabello has no plans to quit any time soon.

“I don’t think I’ll ever stop playing music. It’s so powerful. You can change someone’s life with just one note,” Cabello says.

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Mega Ran THE TERM “nerdcore,” or nerd-rap, seems almost inherently gimmicky.

Yet when it comes to Mega Ran (a.k.a. Random)—who wears this title proudly—he is nothing if not completely authentic. For him, being a nerd isn’t a particular behavior or in reference to the clothes he wears; it is a major part of his personal and emotional life, which he expresses with great vulnerability. This Friday, 4pm; free comes through most specifically in his obsession with video games, which provide a candid view into how Streetlight Records; he interprets the world, something other hardcore San Jose gamers can relate to.

His first album, The Call, released in 2006, was a fairly straightforward, hard-hitting underground rap album that didn’t have the 8-bit samples that he would become known for. That changed the next year, when he released the landmark Mega Ran album, which is an all-out homage to the classic Nintendo game, Mega Man. Every song is packed with samples from the game, while still mixing hardcore boom-bap beats.

The lyrics follow no particular model—just that they are personal and heartfelt. Topics range from his difficult childhood in Philadelphia to his current life in Phoenix as a teacher. There is also the continuing discussion of his profound love for Mega Man and video games. The album was a critical and financial success and got the attention of video game distributor Capcom, who invited him to perform at their booth at ComicCon. From there, Mega Ran digs even deeper into his own psyche with the release of Black Materia and River City Random. They are homages to Final Fantasy 7 and the classic Nintendo game River City Ransom. But instead of just sampling the music, he also details the stories of the games in the songs. In doing so he reveals a fundamental part of himself—the kid in him that somehow connected to these characters. Mega Ran’s retelling of these iconic games will not just please hardcore fans; the tracks stand on their own for any listener.—Aaron Carnes

42 AGENDA LOUNGE Wed, 8pm: Salsa, with free lessons at 8pm. Thu, 9pm: Banda, two parties on two levels. Sun: Reggae and hiphop. San Jose.

AZÚCAR LATIN BAR

CLUB FOX

Wed: Rock band. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata and rock en español. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, Latin fusion. San Jose.

Wed, 7pm: Blues jam.

Redwood City.

GOOD KARMA Thu: Acoustic music.

San Jose.

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for singer/songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: Steve Gannon. Fri, 8pm: Mike Osbourne. Sat, 8pm: Scott T. Miller. Campbell.

BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm-1am: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

HEDLEY CLUB Fri, 8:30pm: Lavay Smith Quartet. Sat, 8:30pm: Jessica Johnson. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.

CAFFEE FRASCATI

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

Wed: JoAnne LeBlanc and Fugitive Blues Band. Thu: Gomer Hendrix. Fri: Liars Club.

Sat: Alan Iglesias. $15. Sun: Bad Habits. Mon: Desiree and Diamond 99. Tue: Liars Club.

San Jose.

BLUE MAX

JOHNNY V’S

BLUZ BY-YOU

Wed: The Cypher. Hip-hop open mic. San Jose.

Mon, 7:30pm: Karaoke.

Santa Clara.

RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

THREE FLAMES RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: Open-mic night with Anita. Willow Glen.

Karaoke 7 BAMBOO Wed-Sat, 9pm: Karaoke. Tue, 9pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: Wildside Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

BOULEVARD TAVERN BRANHAM LOUNGE Thu and Mon: Karaoke.

San Jose.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Uncle Hank. San Jose.

STEPHENS GREEN

C&W/Folk

BOGART’S LOUNGE

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

Fri, 7pm: Toots Lorraine and the Traffic. Free. San Jose.

Tue, 7:30pm: Irish music.

Mountain View.

BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger.

Cupertino.

Fri-Sat, 6-9pm: Jazz for dinner. San Jose.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET

Fri-Sat, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

CITY ESPRESSO

MOSAIC

Live music Wed-Sun. Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Thu, 6pm: Lady Bianca Band. Fri, 6pm: Con Brio. Sat, 6pm: Andy Santana and the West Coast Playboys. Sun, 3pm: Acoustic soul with Don Caruth, Myron Dove and Bryant Mills. San Jose.

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San Jose.

Sun-Tue, 10pm: Karaoke.

Cupertino.

BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN

THE GRAPEVINE

Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Comedy with Mr. Walker. San Jose.

Sat, 7pm: Hootenanny. San Jose.

BRIX Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S

THE COURT’S LOUNGE

Wed; Live country band. Los Gatos.

Thu, Sat, Mon, 9pm: Karaoke.

Campbell.

RED ROCK COFFEE

APPARITION

Sat, 8pm: Classical Revolution.

Sun, noon: Margaret and Victor, bluegrass. Mountain View.

Every second Thu: Gothic, industrial karaoke. Club Lido, San Jose.

THE SADDLE RACK

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

DASILVA’S BRONCOS

Wed, 9pm: California Cowboys.

Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Fremont.

BENNIGAN’S GRILL

Wed: Karaoke. Thu, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Sat, 9pm: August. Santa Clara.

DIVE BAR

Open Mic

BLUE BONNET BAR

Wed, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

San Jose.

BAMBOO LOUNGE Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic

CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Wed, 8pm, and Sat, 8:30pm: KJ Bob and Starmaker Karaoke. San Jose.

THE BEARS

Wed-Thu and Mon, 8pm: Karaoke. No cover.

Sunnyvale.

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46 EL RANCHO SPORTS BAR Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

FIREHOUSE GRILL & BREWERY Sun, 7pm-close: Uncle Dougie Show. Palo Alto.

FLAMES COFFEE SHOP Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover.

San Jose.

FRANCESA’S Thu, 9pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.

GALAXY

KATIE BLOOM’S

PEACOCK LOUNGE

Wed & Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Campbell.

Thu, 9pm: Matt. Sun, 9pm: DJ and karaoke. Tue, 9pm: DJ Ryan. Sunnyvale.

KC BAR AND RESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond.

San Jose.

KING OF CLUBS Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke.

Mountain View.

KYOTO PLACE Wed, 7pm: Karaoke.

Sunnyvale.

LILLY MAC’S Thu: Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

POINCIANA LOUNGE Wed, 9:30pm: Wildside. No cover. Sun, 9pm: Joe. Santa Clara.

RED STAG LOUNGE Nightly karaoke, 9pm1:30am. San Jose.

REDI ROOM Thu-Sat, 9pm: DJ Curtis. San Jose.

RUDY’S PUB Wed, 10pm: Purple. Palo Alto.

Thu, 9pm-2am: August.

Milpitas.

LIQUID Mon: Karaoke. San Jose.

SHERWOOD INN

GILROY BOWL

MARIANI’S

Thu-Sat, 9:30pm: Karaoke.

Gilroy.

Wed-Sun, 8:30pm: Thomas.

San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: Chris. Santa Clara.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEYS

TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL

Tue: DJ Uncle Hank. Los Gatos.

Mon & Wed, 9pm: Darryl.

Milpitas.

THE NEW JERSEY’S

WOODHAM’S LOUNGE

Sat: Karaoke. Campbell.

Wed-Thu, Sat (plus fourth Fri of month): Karaoke. Santa Clara.

OASIS THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

HUDDLE Wed-Thu and Sun, 9pm: Wild Nights Karaoke. Fremont.

JOHNNY V’S Sun: Sunday Funday Karaoke.

No cover. San Jose.

Wed and Fri-Sat, 8:30pm: Doug. Sunnyvale.

OFF THE HOOK Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. Campbell.

OFFICE BAR Fri-Sat, 9pm, and Sun, 7pm: Karaoke. Mountain View.

O’FLAHERTY’S IRISH PUB Sun-Mon, 9pm: Ryan.

San Jose.

X-BAR Mon & Fri, 9pm: Vinnie.

Cupertino.

Dance Clubs AGENDA Fri: Hip-hop, Top 40, club hits. San Jose.

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MOUNTAIN CHARLEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Thu: Old school â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s party.

Los Gatos.

APPARITION Thu, 10pm: Underground goth deathrock tunes. Club Lido, San Jose.

AXIS NIGHTCLUB Fri: DJs and dancing. Sat: DJ Pierre. Santa Clara.

AZĂ&#x161;CAR LATIN BAR Thu: Latin fusion. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, Latin fusion DJs. San Jose.

also Slow

Thu, 10pm: DJ Dinero. San Jose.

PARRANDA NIGHTCLUB

THE ELEGANT PUB Fri-Sat, 9pm: DJ Checo.

Evergreen Inn, San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: DJ Akustik. No cover. Fri, 8pm: DJ Mayo.

Sat, 8pm: DJ Mayo and DJ Akustik. Sun, 7pm: Latin Beat. Sun, 9pm: Sonidero Night. Sunnyvale.

Thu, 9pm: Atomic. $5. San Jose.

BLUE PHEASANT

KATIE BLOOMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S

Wed-Sun, Tue, 7pm: DJ and dancing. Cupertino.

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

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LEGAL & PUBLIC

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: FGL Express, 338 Los Encinos, San Jose, CA, 95134, Francisco Garcia.

This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Francisco Garcia This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/03/2012. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570281 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Dandavati Law Group, 1029 W. Taylor Street, San Jose, CA, 95126, Annie Dandavati, 2198 Bentley Ridge Dr., San Jose, CA, 95138. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/1/2012. /s/ Annie Dandavati. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/03/2012. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570121 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: MFones Consulting, 760 N. 7th St., #4203, San Jose, CA, 95112, Marsha Fones. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein in 2000. /s/Marsha Fones This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/28/2012. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569785The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: @universtiy cafe, 457 E. San Carlos St., San Jose, CA, 95112,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570096 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Haute State Of Mind, 1227 Fleming Ave., San Joe, CA, 95127, Stephanie Loftus. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Stephanie Loftus This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/28/2012. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2012)

/s/Nguyen Trang. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/05/2012. (pub Metro 10/03, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570131 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hollywood Cosmetif Salon and Healthcare, 979 Story Road., STe 7093, Hollywood Cosmetif Inc., . This business is conducted by a Corporation. The state of Corporation: California.

Registrant not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Tony C. Nguyen President #3316640.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/28/2012. (pub Metro 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24/2012)

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/14/2012. (pub Metro 10/03, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569322 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: J & N Electric, 2257 S. King Rd., San Jose, CA, 95122, Jenny Nguyen. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/7/12. /s/Jenny Nguyen This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/07/2012. (pub Metro 10/03, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569807

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Peggy~Licious.com, 3155 Bilbo Dr., San Jose, CA, 95121, Peggy Florence.

This business is The following person(s) is conducted by a FICTITIOUS (are) doing business as: individual. Registrant has BUSINESS Access In-House Care, 65 not yet begun transacting NAME STATEMENT Rio Bobles East #1105, business under the Leilani Brigaudit. fictitious business name #570154 This business is or names listed herein.

The following person(s) conducted by a /s/Peggy Florence is (are) doing business as: Premium Cutz, 785 S. individual. Registrant has This statement was filed not yet begun transacting with the County Clerk of 1st Street, San Jose, CA, business under the Santa Clara County on 95110, Efren Hernandez, fictitious business name 9/21/2012. (pub Metro 495 N. San Pedro St., 10/03, 10/10, 10/17, San Jose, CA, 95110. This or names listed herein.

10/24/2012) business is conducted by /s/Leilani Brigaudit This statement was filed a individual. Registrant FICTITIOUS with the County Clerk of began transacting Santa Clara County on BUSINESS business under the 8/31/2012. (pub Metro fictitious business name NAME STATEMENT 9/26, 10/03, 10/10, or names listed herein #569862 10/17/2012) on 9/12/2008. /s/ The following person(s) Efren Hernandez. This is (are) doing business FICTITIOUS statement was filed as: Arteagas Food BUSINESS with the County Clerk of Center (Willow), 204 Santa Clara County on NAME STATEMENT Willow St., San Jose, CA, 10/01/2012. (pub Metro #569589 95110, Arteagas Stores, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, The following person(s) 1003 Lincoln Ave., San 10/31/2012) is (are) doing business Jose, CA, 95125. This as: B&J Automotive business is conducted FICTITIOUS Repair, 300 Railway by a Corporation. Above BUSINESS Ave, C-1, Campbell, CA, entity was formed in NAME STATEMENT 95008, Mark Wagenhals, the state of California.

3125 Albemar Ct., San Registrant has not #569220 yet begun transacting The following person(s) is Jose, CA, 95148, Tosef Diggelmann, 362 Los business under the (are) doing business as: Encinos, San Jose, CA, fictitious business Sahara Nails, 319 South name or names listed Monroe St., San Jose, CA, 95134. This business is conducted by a general herein. /s/Gerardo Lopez 95128, Nguyen Trang, Secretary #3265789.

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Registrant began This statement was filed Jose, CA, 95133. transacting business with the County Clerk of This business is under the fictitious Santa Clara County on conducted by a individual. Registrant has business name or names 9/24/2012. not yet begun transacting listed herein on Sept 04. (pub Metro 10/03, 10/10, /s/Mark Wagenhals 10/17, 10/24/2012) business under the fictitious business name FICTITIOUS or names listed herein.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569087

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#569713 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Aunt Maye’s Jamaican BBQ Sauce, 16763 Hicks Rd., Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Tabetha Cameron.

This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Tabetha Cameron This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/18/2012. (pub Metro 9/26, 10/03, 10/10, 10/17/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569193 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tenant Society, 2985 Delta Road, San Jose, CA 9513, Joaquin Alcantar.

This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jaoquin Alcantar This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/05/2012. (pub Metro 9/26, 10/03, 10/10, 10/17/2012)

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Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/27/2012. /s/Jittaun Jones LLC Member #201219210261. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 8/27/2012. (pub Metro 9/26, 10/03, 10/10, 10/17/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569196 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Fontes Designs, 6182 Cottle Rd., Apt. 5, San Jose, CA, 95123, Ygnacio S. Fontes. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Ygnacio Fontes III This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/05/2012. (pub Metro 9/19, 9/26, 10/03, 10/10/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569153

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PBC Systems, 473 Sapena Court, Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Personal Business The following person(s) is Computers, Inc. This business is (are) doing business as: Fitsista Training, LLC, 841 conducted by a Corporation. Above entity 1/2 6th Street, San Joe, CA, 95112. This business was formed in the state is conducted by a limited of California. Registrant began transacting liability company. Above business under the entity was formed in the

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #568879

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fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/01/2012. /s/Daniel J. Pijanowski Vice President #C1185034. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/04/2012. (pub Metro 9/19, 9/26, 10/03, 10/10/2012)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #569422

herein on 8/01/2012. /s/Antonio Fernandez.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/05/2012. (pub Metro 9/19, 9/26, 10/03, 10/10/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569385 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. DVG Construction, 2. DG, 1287 Chapel Drive, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Douglas Van Grigsby.

This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Douglas Grigsby This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/11/2012. (pub Metro 9/19, 9/26, 10/03, 10/10/2012)

The following person(s) / entity (ies) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Infinity Law Offices, 111 North Market , Suite 910, San Joe, CA, 95113, Kate Petersen, 1567 Willowbrook Drive, San Jose, CA, 95118.

This business was conducted by an Individual. Filed in Santa Clara county on 7/12/2012. Under file no.

567244. /s/Kate Petersen PUBLIC NOTICE This statement was filed with the County Clerk of REDEMPTION OF Santa Clara County on ALL GARDEN CITY 9/11/2012. (pub Metro CASINO CHIPS 9/19, 9/26, 10/03, $1000, $500, $100, $20, 10/10/2012) $10, $5, $3, $2, $1, $.50 FICTITIOUS and $.25 chips can be redeemed at the casino BUSINESS from August 7, 2012 NAME STATEMENT cage through February 7, 2013 #569195 - 24 hours per day.

The following person(s) Redeem Chips at: is (are) doing business Casino M8trix as: Bay Rentals, 900 S. 1887 Matrix Blvd.

Winchester Blvd., STE San Jose, CA 95110 9, San Jose, CA, 95128, Ron Stern, 1275 Curtner, San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570252

Monther Haddad, 15985 Sunnyside Ave., Morgan Hill, CA, 95037. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Monther Haddad. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/20/2012. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31/2012)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): Ten percent of all

sexually suggestive text messages are delivered to the wrong number. Take precautions to make sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not among that 10 percent in the coming weeks. It will be extra important for you to be scrupulous in communicating about eros and intimacy. The stakes will be higher than usual. Togetherness is likely to become either more intensely interesting or more intensely confusingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largely up to you which direction it goes. For best results, express yourself clearly and with maximum integrity.

TAURUS (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): If it were within my

power, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d help you identify the new feelings you have not yet been able to understand. I would infuse you with the strength you would need to shed the worn-out delusions that are obstructing your connection to far more interesting truths. And I would free you from any compulsion you have to live up to expectations that are not in alignment with your highest ideals. Alas, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make any of these things happen all by myself. So I hope you will rise to the occasion and perform these heroic feats under your own power.

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Escher (1898â&#x20AC;&#x201C;1972) was a Gemini. He liked to depict seemingly impossible structures, like stairways in which people who climbed to the top arrived at the bottom.

I nominate him to be your patron saint in the coming week. You should have his talent for playing with tricks and riddles in ways that mess with everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s boring certainties. Here are four Escher quotes you can feel free to use as your own. 1. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are you really sure that a ďŹ&#x201A;oor canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t also be a ceiling?â&#x20AC;? 2. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My work is a game, a very serious game.â&#x20AC;? 3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in my basement; let me go upstairs and check.â&#x20AC;? 4. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.â&#x20AC;?

CANCER (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): The Venus ďŹ&#x201A;ytrap is a remarkable plant that gobbles up insects and spiders.

Its leaves do the dirty work, snapping shut around its unsuspecting prey. Evolution has made sure that the ďŹ&#x201A;owers of the Venus ďŹ&#x201A;ytrap sit atop a high stalk at a safe distance from where all the eating takes place.

This guarantees that pollinators visiting the ďŹ&#x201A;owers donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get snagged by the carnivorous leaves below. So the plant gets both of its main needs met: a regular supply of food and the power to disseminate its seeds.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ask you to derive a lesson from all this, Cancerian. Be sure that in your eagerness to get the energy you need, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t interfere with your ability to spread your inďŹ&#x201A;uence and connect with your allies.

LEO (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): A sinuous and shimmering archetype that begins with the letter â&#x20AC;&#x153;sâ&#x20AC;? has been trying to catch your attention, Leoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;sometimes in subliminal and serpentine ways. Why havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you fully tuned in yet? Could it be because youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting distracted by mildly entertaining but ultimately irrelevant trivia? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping to shock you out of your erroneous focus. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the magic trigger code that should do the trick: Psssssssssst! Now please do what you can to make yourself very receptive to the slippery, spidery signals of the simmeringly sublime surge.

VIRGO (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t burn down a bridge

you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ nished building yet. OK, Virgo? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t try to â&#x20AC;&#x153;stealâ&#x20AC;? things that already belong to you, either.

And resist the urge to ďŹ&#x201A;ee from creatures that are not even pursuing you. Catch my drift? Stop yourself anytime youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re about to say nasty things about yourself behind your own back, and avoid criticizing people for expressing ďŹ&#x201A;aws that you yourself have, and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go to extraordinary lengths to impress people you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even like or respect. Pretty please? This is a phase of your astrological cycle when you should put an emphasis on keeping things simple and solid and stable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hello, Dear Sir: I would like to place a large order for yellow chicken curry, cherry cream cheese cupcakes, and sour, malty Belgian golden ale. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for my birthday party this Saturday, and will need to serve exactly 152 people. My agent will pick it up at 11am. Please have it ready on time.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ms. Lori Chandra.â&#x20AC;? Dear Ms. Chandra: I am an astrologer, not a caterer, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m afraid I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fulďŹ ll your order.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s admirable that you know so precisely what you want and are so authoritative about trying to get it, but please remember how crucial it is to seek the fulďŹ llment of your desires from a source that can

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actually fulďŹ ll them. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a Libra, right? Your birthday is this week? Thanks for giving me an excuse to send this timely message to all of your fellow Libras.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): Here comes the big

reveal of the month, the trick ending of the year and maybe the most unusual happiness of the decade.

Any day now, you will get the chance to decipher the inside story thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beneath the untold story thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hidden within the secret story. I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be surprised if one of your most sophisticated theories about the nature of reality gets cracked, allowing you to recover at least a measure of primal innocence. I suggest you start practicing the arts of laughing while you cry and crying while you laugh right now. That way youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be all warmed up when an old style of give-and-take comes to an end, ultimately making way for a more profound new give-and-take.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost nothing about the dandelion that humans canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make use of. People of many different countries have eaten its buds, leaves, and greens. Besides being tasty, it contains high levels of several vitamins and minerals.

Its ďŹ&#x201A;owers are the prime ingredient in dandelion wine, and its roots have been turned into a coffee substitute.

Herbalists from a variety of traditions have found medicinal potency in various parts of the plant. Last but not least, dandelions are pretty and fun to play with! In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I invite you to approach the whole world as if it were a dandelion. In other words, get maximum use and value out of every single thing with which you interact.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intellect confuses intuition,â&#x20AC;? asserted painter Piet Mondrian. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always true, even for creative artists. But in the coming week, I suspect itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be important for you to take into consideration. So make sure you know the difference between your analytical thinking and your gut-level hunches and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let your thinking just automatically override your hunches. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more helpful advice from painter Robert Genn: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The job of the intellect is to give permission to the intuition, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the job of intuition to know when intellect is once again appropriate.â&#x20AC;?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to seek help from outside the magic circle you usually stay inside. You need to call on extracurricular resourcesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;people and animals and deities that can offer useful interventions and delightful serendipity and unexpected deliverance. The remedies that work for you most of the time just wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be applicable in the coming days. The usual spiritual appeals will be irrelevant. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not saying that you are facing a dire predicament; not at all. What Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m suggesting is that the riddles you will be asked to solve are outside the purview of your customary guides and guidelines.

PISCES (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): These days, lobsters are regarded as a luxury food, but that wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the case among early Americans. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the large crustaceans were meals that were thought to be suitable only for poor people and prisoners. Wealthy folks wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t touch the stuff. After examining your astrological omens, Pisces, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m wondering if your future holds a similar transformation. I think there could very well be a rags-to-riches story in which an ignored or denigrated thing ascends to a more important role.

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