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Infamy What a crappy article on Mitt Romney (“About Mitt,” Cover Story, Oct. 10)! Since you did not give any “clue” as to Geoffery Dunn’s credentials, I looked him up on the Internet. The fact that he authored
the infamous book The Lies of Sarah Palin, tells it all. This article seemed below the purview of the Metro of Silicon Valley. MARCIA HARRIS
Waste Water In recommending a yes vote on Measure B, you note that the Santa Clara Valley Water District “made so many mistakes in getting the measure on the ballot that voters can rightly question the competency of the agency, referred to by its critics as the Golden Spigot for its wastefulness.” The Water District does not need the estimated $548 million to
be exacted from property owners under Measure B. It just needs to stop squandering its normal income and abandon bad ideas such as adding a poison called fluoride to water and the bloodstream of water users. GARY WESLEY | MOUNTAIN VIEW
Stay Safe Sadly, this is how the majority of [Rose Herrera’s] co-workers feel about the police department. The good news is that more and more agencies/cities are coming forward to hire these “lazy” officers. Those of you staying—please stay safe, your city leaders continue to show their
true colors about your sacrifices for the citizens of San Jose. MURPHY | SAN JOSE
From Metrofb.com (Our news story of Oct. 17 about the woman who shouted obscenities at Campbell Vice Mayor Evan Low at Campbell’s Oktoberfest got lots of comments.) ELIZA NISHIDA: She’s lucky it wasn’t me she said that to. MICHAEL PHOTOPOULOS: Sadly, beer will bring out ugliness in some. CHRIS LIBERTI: Doesn’t surprise me. People are low-lifes. CHIP CASPER DEVILLE: That is lame and unfortunate.
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Boughtt and Paid Paid The saying goes: The goes: If you can’t can’t beat ’em, join ’em. But But in politics, if you can’t can ’t join join’’ em, buy ’em. TThat’s hat’s exactly what San Josee City City Council Council candidates ROSE R OSE HERRERA HERRERA and JOHNNY JOHNNY KHAMIS KHAMIS did in a rrecent ecentt slate mailer to boost their public sa safety afety cr cred. ed. Her Herrera rera has taken a beatin beating ng fr from om the P Police olice Officers O fficers Association Association in her rre-election e-election campaign, andd to combat the negative attack ads shee rrecently ecently spent $926 on an endorseme endorsement nt fr from om the CO COPS PS V Voter oter Guide. Joining Herrera Herrera was Khamis, who spent $1, 031 on the slate mailer $1,031 and is runningg against g P OA-endorsed POA-endorsed ROBERT BRAUNSTEIN BRAUN NSTEIN in Almaden. All ROBERT that’s required requiredd for for the voter guide’s guide’s that’s i money and an empty endorsement is port public saf ety. (DAVID (DAV VID pledge to supp support safety. GINSBORG, a candidate candidate ffor or a county GINSBORG, Water District seat, also signed on ffor or Water board member $1,200. Why a water board een as big on public needs to be se seen safety is beyon nd us.) While one could safety beyond argue the cand didates ar argue candidates aree trying to get don’t know the over on voterss who don’t difference betw ween rreal eal and pur chased difference between purchased ety support, s public saf safety it seems the oom are are the smartest men in the rroom or o ganizers, BARRY BARR RY WYATT WY YAT TT voter guides guides’’ organizers, KELLY MORAN. MORAN. If those two names and KELLY sound ffamiliar, amiliarr, it ’s because they’r it’s they’ree the guys who wer weree paid hundr hundreds eds of thousands of dollars d in 2008 to send out slate maile mailers ers supporting Pr Prop op 8, which at the ttime ime banned gay mar marriage riage in CCalifornia. alifornia. Moran, M an, of course, is gay Mor and mar married, ried, pr pproving oving that mor morals als can easily shri shrink ink in the shadow of the almighty dollar ddollar.. In their quest to make moola, the t two men have put together an ep epic pic cast of contr contradictions adictions in this year year’s ’s CO CCOPS PS V Voter oter Guide. TThe he endorsement of o Khamis, a R Republican, epublican, lines up almos almost st side by side with a “Y “Yes” es ” endorsem endorsement ment of Pr Prop op 30, Gov Gov.. JERRY JERRY B BROWN’s ROWN’s pr proposed oposed sales and income ta tax ax incr increase. ease.
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WHO’S W WH O’S A ARGUING? RGUING? V Voters o oters in n San Jose will decide N Nov. ov v. 6 if the t minimum wage should be increased. Some argue G Industries would be negatively n affected, but the no onprofit isn ’t saying so publicly y. Goodwill nonprofit isn’t publicly.
GGoodwillll Hunti Goodwi Hunting ng Chamber sucks nonprofit C n into min minimum nimum without w wage fight witho out its permission n B JOSH By JOSH KOEHN KOE H N
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HE SAN SAN JOSE/Silicon n V alley Chamber of Valley Commerce doesn’t doesn’t w ant voters to passs want M easure D t Measure D,, an increase in the ci ity’s minimum wage. wage. Mayor May yor city’s C huck Reed doesn’t doesn’t want want it it Chuck to o pass. pass. Even Silicon Valley’s Valley y’s y G Goodwill oodwill Industries doesn’t doesn’t w want ant it to pass. pass. Or does it?
In a ballot ar argument gument against Meas Measure sure D,, the nonpr D nonprofit ofit agency is cited as on one ne off the emplo employers oyeers that will b bee hit har hardest d dest byy raising salaries ffor b o or low-w low-wage waage work workers keers from fr o $8 to $10. om
“Measuree D means yyou’ll “Measur ou’ll ou ’ ha have ave to paay mor or gr o roceries, gas— ggas—even even e a pay moree ffor groceries, hamburger, hambur rgger,” ac according ccorrd ding to t the ballot ar gument. ““And And it will hur A h argument. hurtt those who odwill need that help the most most. t. Go Goodwill Industries t p eople with Industries,, which helps train people disabilities,, estimates tha disabilities that at if this measur measuree passes it will ha ave to cut 10 0 job -training have 100 job-training positions. p ositions.” This ccame ame as a surpris se to Mik ke F ox, surprise Mike Fox, esident Goodwill Silicon Valley’s president JJr., r.., Go odwill Silic on V aallleeyy’s pr CEO.. F Fox Goodwill’s board and CEO ox said Go odwill’ d sb oard of directors position dir ectors did not ttake ak ke a p osition ffor o or or Measuree D D,, and he only b became against Measur ecame nonprofit’s aaware waare of the nonpr ofit’s inclusion in the argument ballot ar gument after rreading e eading a San JJose ose post byy ccolumnist Inside p ost last week b olumnist Rich Robinson, local political R obinson, a lo o caal p oliticcaal cconsultant. onsultant. “From standpoint, “Fr ro om our st taandpoin nt, I think what
our b board’s oard’s p position osition and mine is is,, if Measure Measur re D passes or do doesn’t esn’t pass pass,, our position p osition is we w we’re ’re going to do eeverything veerything we ccan aan to maximize m our impact on the ccommunity, ommu unitty,” F Fox ox said. “W “We’re We’re not lo looking oking at Measur M Measuree D as an eexcuse xcuse x to do what we ne need eed to do do..” He added d that Go Goodwill odwill ne never veer provided pr ovvided an n official numb number er to an anyone nyo one on p potential otentiaal job cuts cuts.. “Wher “Wheree the they ey ccame ame up with ith tha th that, at, t I don d don’t n’’t know k know. w.” After b being eiing aler alerted, ted, F Fox ox said he had a cconversation on nversatio e on with Chamb Chamber er CEO Mat Matt tt Mahood. Mahood. He H wouldn wouldn’t n’t ’ divulge the det details taails of that cconversation, on nveersation, but sour sources rces sa say ay F Fox ox wasn’t w aasn n’’t happ happy. py. N Nonprofits onprofits generally sh shy hy aaway way from from sensitiv sensitive ve p political oliticcaal issues that ccould ould jeopa jeopardize arrd dize their funding funding. g. Mahood Maho od declined ccomment o omment and directed dir reected qu questions uestions to T Tab aab Ber Berg, rg, a ccampaign ampaign cconsultant onsultant ffor o or the Chamb Chamber. er. ““All All I ccan A aan sa say ay is i the h st statement taatement and d numb numbers ers ar are re ac accurate, curate,” Ber Bergg said. Doubling Doublin ng down on an unauthorized number, numb err, as well as insinuating that disabled p people e eople will lose jobs if Measur Measuree D passes passes,, is a b bold old pla play. ay. But Ber Bergg disagreed. disagr eed. ““II don don’t n’t ’ think an anyone nyo one is going to vvote ote ffor o o or or o against it b because eccause a of one
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examples examples off how the nonpr nonprofit ofit ccould ould be negatively affected byy an incr increased be negativ veelly aff ffeected b eased minimum w wage, aage, he just didn didn’t n’’t intend ffor or o those eexamples bee inc incorporated xxamp ples to b orporated into a ballot ar argument. rgum g ment. F Fox ox did not rrespond espond to messages ffor interview. orr a ffollow-up o ollow-up inter o view.
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It’s It ’s just another turn in n the most racee of this yyear’s local eexpensive xp x ensivve rac eeaar’s lo caal elections.. elections Garyy W Winuk, Fair Political Gar iinuk,, of the Fa air P oliticcaal Practic Practices es C Commission ommission (F (FPPC), FPPC), sent a letter Sutton, attorney let ttter to JJames ames Sut ttton, an n at ttorne t ey ffor or o Mayor Ma ayo or Chuck Reed’s Reeed’s PAC, PAC, informing inffo orming $100,000 transferred from him that $10 0,000 trans sffeerred fr ro om the PAC P AC to a gr group oup ccalled alled San n JJose ose R Reform ef eform o Committee Supporting Rose Herrera C ommitttee t Supp orting R ose Herr o reera ffor or o City Cit ty C Council ouncil 2012 did no not ot ccomply omply with state law. Ass a rresult, Winuk wrote, st ate la aw. A eesult, W iin nuk wr ote, the moneyy must b mone bee rreturned. eturned d. An Any ny violations bee subject to $5,0 $5,000 fines.. ccould ould b 00 fines JJim im i U Unland, nland, n , PO POA Ap pr president essident and the person p erson who filed the ccomplaint om mplaint with the FPPC,, said he is “gratefull that the FPPC FPPC moved mo oveed sswiftly wiftly w and sternl sternly ly to crack down on the illegal funneling of o ccampaign aampaign ccash ash a b byy Ma Mayor ayo or R Reed eeed and the Chamb Chamber er of Commerce C ommerce to help R Rose ose o Herr Herrera. era.” He added, “N “No o one is ab aabove ove the la law, aw, eeven veen the Ma Mayor, ayo orr, and it is our hop hopee that Ms.. Herr Ms Herrera era will now ccondemn on ndemn this illegal eff effort ffo ort made on herr b behalf. ehalff.f” But a defiant Ma Mayor ayo or R Reed eed e said that the ruling is far fr from om fina final, al, adding that the FPPC misundersto misunderstood od his rrole ole as an elected official instead off a ccandidate. andidate. The P Political olitical R Reform ef efo orm A Act ctt (Pr (Prop. op. 34), sa says ayys ccandidates andidates a ar aren’t en n’’t allowed d to transf transfer feer moneyy to other ccandidates’ mone andidattes’ ccampaigns. ampaigns. “The issue is the they’re eyy’re alleg alleging ging a violation
for fo or ccandidate-controlled aandidatte-controlled ccommittees, ommittttees, and I am no not Reed ot a ccandidate, aandidate,” R eeed said. But ac according POA corrding to an internal PO OA includes advicee fr from email that in ncludes advic ro om the firefighters firefighters union u union’s n’s la lawyer awy wyeer A Ash sh Pira Pirayou, ayo ou, ‘candidate’ byy the “The term ‘c candidate’ as defined b Act, includes state Act, include es elected officials at the st ate and lo local level. POA attorney, cal le evel. e ” Another PO A at tttorneey, Lance Olson, Lance H. Ols son, ffounder ounder of Olson Hagel o &F Fishburn press ishburn LLP P, said in a pr ess rrelease, elease, “As the Proposition “As one of th he drafters of Pr oposition 34, I know th the prohibiting he section pr ohibiting independent byy ccandidates independen nt eexpenditures xxpenditures b aandidates was waas crafted to t rrestrict estrict e ccandidates andidates a to using campaign funds campaign fu unds ffor or o their own elections and to aavoid influencee b byy vo oid d undue influenc officeholders over officials.. officeholderrs o veer other elected officials I’m gratified Mayor d that the FPPC held Ma ayo or Reed accountable law. Reeed ac coun ntable to the la aw.” The ma mayor’s PAC transferred money ayor’ o sP AC transf feerred mone ey into the ne newly PAC supporting w fformed wly ormed P o AC supp orting Herrera effort money Herrreera in an a eff ffo ort to ccombat ombat mone ey being spent byy lab labor unions—especially being sp ent b or unions— especially the PO POA—against OA— —aagainst the District 8 incumbent, supported mayor’s incumbent, who supp orted the ma ayo or’s pension effort, Measuree B B.. That pension rreform efform o eff ffo ort, Measur ballot measu measure percent ure passed with 70 p ercent bee of the vvote ote o in n JJune une but has yyet eet to b implemented. implementeed. Winuk’s Wiinuk inuk’s let lletter ttter sa says: ayys: “The The San JJose ose Fiscal Fisccal aR Reforms, ef efo orm ms, Ma Mayor ayo or R Reed, eeed, Chamb Chamber er PAC PAC and Issu Issues ues Mobilization P PAC AC has violated Section 85501 and must immediatelyy demand that the San JJose ose Reform Reeffo orm C Committee om mmittttee Supp Supporting orting R Rose o ose Herrera Herrreera rreturn eetu urn the ccontribution ontribution in full.” Herrera Herrera has h often vvoted o oted along the same lines as a R Reed eed e in the last ttwo w wo yyears, eears, giving him a majorit majority ty vvote ote of 6-5 on o some of the cit city’s tyy’s biggest issues issues.. Nguy Nguyen yeen would almo almost ost ccertainly eertaainly ttake ak ke away away one of the ma mayor’s ayor’ o s vvotes otes o if elected. Howe However, veerr, both both ccandidates aandid dates running ffor or District o 10’s 10’s seat—Johnny seatt—Johnn o ny Khamis and Robert Ro obert Braunstein—supported Braunstein— —ssupported Measur Measuree B and could could k keep eeep the t ma mayor’s ayo or’s majorit majority ty in plac place, e, at least on public p saf safety feetty and p pension ension issues
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updated daily: www www.sv411.com w.sv411.com twitter: @sv411 @sv411 facebook: facebook: siliconvall siliconvalley411 ley411 The iPad iPad mini was just jjusst one of several sever al announcements announcemen nts at an inviteonly event at San Jose’s Jose’s California California Theatre. Theatr e.. Schiller also introduced introduced the new iMac, what he calls caalls “the most have beautiful Mac we hav ve ever made.� At 5 millimeters, the new At n iMac is 80 percent cent thinner than the previous per previous iMac design, and it comes co omes with FaceTime display updates, a Fac ceTime HD Camera C amera and audio improvements. imp provements. It will start shipping in December. December. Apple introduced introduced a new neew 13-inch Pro MacBook Pr o that is .75 .775 inches thick—20 percent percent thinner thinner than its predecessor—and pr edecessor—and almost alm most a pound lighter g . The new laptop p p also features features lighter. Retina Apple’s super-high-resolution super-high-resolution e Display y. Its rretail etail price is $1,699, and Display. it starts shipping today. todaayy.
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Zuckerberg Zuckerberg and his wife, wife, Priscilla Chan, havee been seen walking their dog around a ound Dolores ar Dolores Park Park and hanging hanging out at certain local establishments establishm ments such as Wise Sons Deli (on 24th 24th 4 and Shotwell), Phone Booth (25th (25tth and Van Van Ness) and The Royal Cuckoo Cuckkoo (3202 Mission). So does th this Palo Alto his mean that P alo Al to has permanently permanently lost its famous famous curlyheaded member meember of the tech scene, or was thee new home just an extra extra place to crash? crrash? No ones knows for for sure, sure, but iitt appears Zuck is spending more more timee in San Francisco. Francisco. “Silicon Valley is starting to migrate Valley a migrate to San Francisco,â€? Francisco,â€? a â€? says Chris Foley, Foleyy, co-founder co-foundeer of real real estate analysis ďŹ rm Polaris Polariis Group. Group.. “In the South Bay, Bayy, you’re driving you’re driv ving from from one business park to thee next, while in San Francisco, Francisco, everything’s happening in a one-milee radius.â€? radius.â€? That, he and and others argue, argue, plays an even bigger biggeer role role than all the trendy trendy restaurants restaurantts and bars the city has to offer. offer. “It’s “It’s aboutt running into people and building buildin ng relationships, relationships, because people want want to work with and invest in people they know and trust,â€? t says Bill Maris, a managing partner M of Google Ventures, Ventures, who claims to be seeding g several several startups a week with almost almosst half of them based in San Francisco. Franciisco. With so many many techies in such a small place, place, all thinking about the next big thing, th hing, Foley adds, “You’re “You’re seeing an explosion of new ideas.â€? —Shainatsan —Shainat tsan
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Yahoo co-founder and Piedmont Hills High School graduate Jerry Yang has loaned his collection of ancient Chinese calligraphic works to the Asian Art Museum in San
Francisco. The show, titled “Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy,” encourages visitors to “find the drama beneath the surface.” That said, I sense a growing EastWest co-fluency in Silicon Valley. At the VIP opening, Yang did not take questions from the press. Instead, he brought prepared questions and interviewed himself at the podium. Behind him, as he spoke, the audience viewed a blown-up version of The Sutra on the Lotus of the Sublime Dharma by Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322), one the ancient calligraphic scrolls included in the exhibit. Later, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee rolled in from across the street, and the two characters, Yang and Lee, proceeded to view the exhibit. Speaking of the show, much drama does exist beneath the surface. Even if one can’t read Chinese, one still experiences a sublime, multilayered
art form. In sshort, Chinese calligraphers try to express the strength(s) h( ) off their character through their painted characters. Specific rules dictate the brush strokes and the characteristics of the scripts. Different types of paper respond differently to the ink or the brush. Somewhere between poetry and choreography there seems to be an elaborate network of correspondence connecting the various components of the process. What you see on paper is just the final result, the evidence, of an artful life. As I experienced the show, I kept dwelling on the phrase “find the drama beneath the surface,” primarily because it describes my view of how everything unfolds in Silicon Valley to begin with. Yang is someone who grew up in east San Jose of Asian descent, founded a major component of the Internet and made a fortune in the tech industry— but finally wanted to reconnect with his own culture and simultaneously give back in the process. I would like to see more tech entrepreneurs collecting Asian art and contributing something to culture besides database
management or Western hierarchical categorization of everything. On the surface, maybe this is superficial, but when drilling down deeper, there must be somewhere else this idea can go—some other way Silicon Valley can benefit. There must be a way to take it further. Since Silicon Valley constantly reinvents the future and since people around here are always scheming the next big thing, I just couldn’t help but ask longtime Silicon Valley strategist Sheridan Tatsuno what he thinks about entrepreneurs loaning out their Asian art collections. As a futurist and someone who’s lived in both the Eastern and Western realms of Silicon Valley, Tatsuno said Yang might be a trendsetter. That is, within seconds of talking with Tatsuno, the muse of business development took over our conversation, spinning it in an entirely different direction—into a philosophy of matchmaking. Unlike what you see on reality TV, parts of Silicon Valley are filled up with single engineers who’ve made a fortune working 70 hours a week, yet they’re socially inept, they live in blank-walled houses with no interior decoration, they still don’t have girlfriends and they could definitely use some instruction in art collecting. “Asian Art for Entrepreneurs 101” could be the new wheel hub for single twentysomething engineers. The target audience is much larger than you realize, believe me. Think about it. This would serve many purposes. For one, it would teach left-brain engineers how to appreciate the artist within every single one of us. It would also help reinvigorate the floundering world landscape of art collecting. If this sounds crazy, it probably is, but I can think of many other Silicon Valley ideas that were initially written off as nonsense. Can’t you? Just like Chinese calligraphy, things always exist beneath the surface, suggesting that everything is indeed connected. As Goethe once said: East and West can no longer be separated. Silicon Valley is leading the world. Again.
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Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings in a photo from a March 2000 article in Metro.
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man in his midthir midthirties, ties, wearing pressed pr essed L Levis, evis v , a white T T-shirt -shirt under a worn ccorduroy orduroy button-down button- down shir shirt, t, brilliant-white brilliant -wh hite running sho shoes, es, and black so socks. ckss. He has close cr cropped opped brown br own hair hair, r, a neat goatee goatee,, intense blue eeyes yes and and a p perpetually erpetually guar guarded ded eexpression. xpression. i His Hi normall p posture, ostur t e, slightly fforward o orward and a bit hunched in the shoulde shoulders, ers, reflects reflects years years of st staring aring at computer computeer monitors in pursuit of “beautiful” “b eautiful”” mathematic mathematical al algorithms to define al all ll manner of natural and man-made phenomena. Hastingss pac paces es impatiently, impatientlyy, his
hands jammed into the p pockets ockets of his jeans jeans,, as he w watches atches the V Volvo o olvo approach, appr oach, park off off-kilter, ff--kilter, then vaguely rrepark. epark. Finally F inally satisfied, the driv driver er off the Volvo, V olvo, Mar o Marcc Randolph gets out out, t, stands st ands up and gr greets eets Hastings Hastings.. R d l h, in Randolph, i his hi late l t thir thi thirties, ti , iis as ties happy-go-lucky happ py--go-luck ky as Hastings—wh Hastings—who ho is his b boss oss at a soaring softw software are ccompany—is ompan ny— —is intense intense.. L Loose-limbed oose-limb bed and lank lanky, ky, with thinning dark ha hair, air, Randolph has engaging br brown own eeyes, yees, ab bemused, emused,, wide mouth,, and an eas easyy laugh. Randolph is Hastings’ Hastings’ss mi mirror irror
opposite, a “people opposite, “people p person, erson,” exactly exactly the guy yyou ou w want ant to b bee yyour o our mark marketing keting e manager when yyou ou o are a e not. ar Despite their diff differences, ffeerences, there ff there is an ob obvious vious ease, ease, trust t and ccamaraderie amaraderie b between etweeen them: The Theyy sharee that cconfidence shar onfidencce cconferred onffeerred b byy privileged i il d upbringin upbringings b i ings and d a passion i ffor or spinning ideas in o into nto businesses businesses.. Randolph, clad in n a fleece fleece jacket, jacket, TTshirt, shir t, torn jeans jeans,, and d flip flip-flops, -flops, circles circles the ccar ar and st stands ands ne n next xt to Hastings. Hastings. “It ccame,” ame,” Hasting Hastings gs tells him. Hastings rreaches eaches into the A Avalon, valon, v
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$40, for for o Ap Apollo pollo 13 13.. I remember remember the because was ffee, ee e ,b ecausse I w as embarrassed about ab out it. That T w was as back in the VHS days, da ayys, and it i got me thinking that there’s big market there,” ther e’s a b ig mark et out ther e,” Hastings,, Netflix’s Hastings Netflix’s chairman and Fortune 2009, chief eexecutive, xecu utive, told F oortune in 20 09, one yyear ear b before effo ore the magazine named Business Person Year. him its Bu usiness P erson of the Y eear. didn’t DVDs, “I didn ’tt know about about D VDs, and they then h a frie ffriend iend d off mine i told ld me the h y weree ccoming. Tower wer omiing. I ran out to T o ower Records Santaa Cruz,, California, R eecords in n Sant Califfo ornia, mailed myself, and maile d CDs to m yselff, just a envelope. disk in an en velope. It was was a long 24 until arrived hours unti il the mail arriv ed back at myy house house,, and I ripp ripped m ed them open open and the theyy wer weree all in gr w great eat shap shape. e. was point.” That w as the t big eexcitement xcitement p oint.” WHAT HAPPENED Netflix’s WHA AT HA APPENED to N ettfl flix’s flix other ffounder, o oun nder, Mar Marcc Randolph, and whyy is he ne never wh n ver mentioned? I wasn’t wasn’tt sure sure what to eexpect xpect when we met m ffor o or the first time at a br breakfast eakfastt joint in L Los os Gatos in August A ugust 20 2010—no 010—no one else had b been een telll me the cir circumstances able to tel cumstances led Randolph’s that had le ed to Randolph ’s departure departure from fr om the ccompany ompan ny he help helped ed ffound. o ound. The fit,, animated man who walked myy outdo outdoor w alk lked d up p to t m td or table table bl dressed fleecee pullover dr essed in a fleec pullover and showed enjoying jeans show wed eevery very sign of enjo ying life leaving a rather ffootloose ootloose lif fe since since lea aving v N etflix. Hee sat down,, ordered ordered eggs Netflix. Benedict, and a plunged into a ttale ale that up ended a lot of what I thought upended I kne w—starting with the stor knew—starting storyy of Hastings’s Apollo how Hasti ings’s late ffee eee ffor or Ap o ollo 13 rresulted esulted d in the ffounding ounding o of the ccompany. ompany. “That’s crap,” “Th “That ’s a lot l off crap ,” Randolph d l h me.. “It never told me “IIt ne ver happened.” happened.” Apollo He eexplained xplained that the Ap ollo 13 storyy st started fiction”” stor arted t as “a convenient convenient fiction describee how N Netflix’s to describ etflix’s rental rental model works became mo del wo rks and b ecame cconfused onfused origins, people with its or rigins, because because p eople wanted machine– w anted “aa rage against the machine – story.” ttype ype stor y.” months several Six mon nths and se veral persuaded cconversations on nversatiions later I p ersuaded Randolph to show me where where the Netflix took true N etfliix ffounding o ounding to ok place, place, was stretch which w ass on a quiet str etch of Santaa Cruz. downtown n Sant Randolph parked Volvo Randolp ph park ed the V o olvo at a Pacific Avenue, meter on P acific A venue, and we began walk—past b egan to w alk—past a vintage vintage movie movie theater,, a ffew upscale stores, theater ew upsc ale chain stor es,
17 work after all,’’ ” Randolph said, as he drove drove me m back to the bus st station. ation. “If there there was was an ‘aha moment’ moment’ in the story Netflix, it.”” story of N e flix, that was et was it.
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subscriberrs, one of whom posted subscribers, posted Swasey’s Sw asey’s ccell e phone numb ell number er in the ccomments omm ments section of N Netflix’s ettfl flix’s blog. blo g. He patiently p rresponded esponded to the hundr hundreds eds of ccalls alls and vitriolic vvoicemails oicemailss b byy rreturning eturning them personally p ersonallyy and admit admitting ting to the surprised ccallers allers that the ccomment omment had b been een thoughtless t and insensitiv insensitive. e. Hastingss summoned Sw Swasey aseey and JJonathan onathan Friedland F to N Netflix’s ettflix’ fl s headquarters headquar teers and informed inffo ormed them of his plan to tr tryy to rrefocus effocus cconsumers onsumers and the pr press e on the par ess partt of the announcement announc em ment that the theyy had overlooked—Netflix’s o veerlooked d—Nettfl flix’s plan to split off its D DVD VD Db byy mail ser service vice as a new new business ccalled a alled Qwikster Qwikster.. He thought that if cconsumers onssumers understo understood od N Netflix’s ettfl flix’s need to usee its rresources esources on streaming streaming create better to cr eate a b etttter experience—a experience—aa sleeker moree and b better sleek ker e interface inteerface with mor ettter t titles—perhaps titles—p erh haps he ccould ould stem the subscriber mounting subscrib er losses. losses. wanted He w antted to aavoid void the mistake mistake protecting still-strong of pr otectiing the stillstrong but doomed DVD ultimatelyy do omed D VD business— Blockbuster as he had seen s Blo ckbuster try try to
19 decision. What’s W ’s next, What next, only offering off ffeering movies movies made maade in the eighties? I’m getting getttting tired tired e of this. this. And you,” you,”” another wrote. wrrote. When it seemed as if the opprobrium worse,, opprobrium m ccould ould not get worse late-night television professional late-night te elevision and pr offeessional comics comics piled d it on: Saturday Saturrdday Night Live Live comedians comediians JJason ason Sudeikis as Hastings an and Fred Rendich nd Fr ed Armisen as R endich e appeared Web appeared d in in a W eeb b video id tto poke pok ke fun f at the apology apolo ogy and strategy strategy changes, changes, and Seinfeld Seinffeeldd actor JJason ason Alexander Alexander begged Netflix begged ffor o or donations d ffor o or the N ettflix fl Relief Funny Web Reelief Fund Fund d on the F unn ny or Die W eeb site, pricee increase site, calling calling the pric increase “the “the worst thingg that has eever ver happened happened to white people. people e .” One cartoonist cartoonist compared streaming compared split ssplitting ttting the str eaming and D DVD services VD se ervices to having haavving to get a sandwich’s bread sandwich’s br b ead at one rrestaurant estaurant and the another. h meat att another h . The publ public appeared lic ridicule app eared to humiliate Hastings Hastings,, and finally he H seemed to rrealize ealize the gravity graavvity of his mistake. mistake. A ffew ew days daayys before beffor o e the videotaped videotaped announcement, announcem ment,, Mike Mike Kaltschnee HackingNetflix at Hacking gNettflix fl got word word of something a N Netflix etflix insider had called “Quickster” called “Qu uickster” in a hurriedly dashed off ee-mail. -mail. “That is a rreally eally silly ill name,” name,” he h thought. h h When hee hear heard d the details details of the Qwikster off—during Qwikstter split off ff— — during a party neighbor party at thee home of a neighb or who w was subscriber—he was as also allso a subscrib er—he w as dumbfounded. dumbffo ounded. Kaltschnee shot a couple Swasey couple of ee-mails -mails to Sw asey while fielding a barrage from b of messages fr om HackingNetflix HackingNet e flix readers readers asking, asking, “Is this ffor o or real?” reaal?” From From Swasey’s Sw waasey’s tight-lipped tightt--lipped rresponse, esponse, it was waas clear the ccommunications ommunications executive executivve had had “been “been ccaught aught in the middle b between what the theyy did ettween w they and what th heey should have haave done, done,” Kaltschnee rreflected later.. eflected later As programmer, As a pr ogrammer g , he knew knew Hastings ha had ad to split the ttwo wo very very different diff ffeerent services. seervices. But it shocked shocked him that the th he lessons of debacles years apparently years earlier earlieer appar ently had ttaught aught the N Netflix little etflix CEO lit tle about about how to communicate customers.. communicate a with his customers The cconcept subscribers onccept of making subscrib ers maintain search maintain ttwo w queues and sear wo ch ttwo wo separate databases daatabases ffor o or movies movies was was ridiculous. ridiculous. If they they could could not find the movie streaming movie they they wanted wanted on the str eaming
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protect its stor protect storee base from frrom online rrental. ental. Businesses that failed to eevolve volve along with tech technology hnology died— was Hastings’s, this w as a ccentral entral tenett of Hastings’ s, Netflix was and N etflix w as the manifestation maaniffeestation of belief. DVD was that b elieff. The death of o D VD w as inevitable, Hastings was ine vitable, and Hasting gs w as simply prodding along—for good pr odding it along—f fo orr the go od of Netflix customers. N etflix and its custome ers. was The PR team w as horrified ho orrified at make product hi idea: his id mak ke a major j r pr oduct d t announcement announc ement in a homegrown ho omegrown video that would be on be posted posted o YouTube Coast Y ouTube at midnight East o E C oast Sunday. press time on a Sunda ay. Thee financial pr ess bee livid. And th the would b he script he buried news intended to rread ead burie ed the ne ws DVD of the split off of the D VD by by mail service ninth ser vice deep in the nin nth paragraph. makeshift The mak eshift messagee had eevery very disaster, mark of another PR di isaster, but bee dissuaded. H i Hastings would ld not b di d d arrived Netflix’s Hastings arriv ed at N etflix’s headquarters headquar ters wearing a rumpled, beach shirt. had teal b each shir t. He ha ad rrecruited ecruited Rendich to star a rreluctant eluctant R endich e o st ar in the video with him. Hee had liked liked handheld, the idea of using a han ndheld, homemade-looking video homemade -looking vid deo ccamera amera makee what he eexpected to mak xpeccted would bee an un unvarnished apology b nvvarnished ap o gy and olo eexplanation. xplanation. He rrefused efuseed to rrehearse ehearse message,, but Swasey hi message his b Sw aseey insisted i i d on ordering professional or dering a pr offeessionall ccamera amera crew crew makeshift to the mak eshift set. “We’re today “W We’re making this video v to daay apologize person, to ap ologize in p erson n, or at least on ccamera, amera, ffor o or somethingg that we did began, Rendich rrecently,” ecentlyy,” Hastings b eggan, as R eendich looked uncomfortably. lo oked on unc omffo ortably a y. Reaction R eeaction to the video, videeo, posted posted YouTube, was on Y ouT o ube, w as sswift wift ft and almost universally negative. univ ersally negativ e. Intellectually, In ntellectuallyy, the tech and financial press press supported supp orted the idea of split ssplitting ting businesses—one up ttwo wo different diff ffeerent busin nesses— one growing the gr owing rapidly and th he other slowly fading.. But the theyy concluded fading conclu uded that subscribers hybrid rrequiring equiring subscrib ers to t the h yybrid maintain separate accounts, plan to maint ain separ rate ac counts, billing,, and queues was billing was a customer service disaster.. ser vice disaster Consumers agreed, C onsumers agr eed, and a Hastings’s Hastings’s blogg quickly ac accumulated moree than blo cumulaated mor thirty angryy posts. thir ty thousand mostlyy angr posts. “Reed, may “R Reeed, yyou ou ma ay have haave an amazing futuree but vision of the futur bu ut yyou ou are are suffering from George suff ffeering fr om major Geor G ge Lucas Lucas visionaryy with a bunch ssyndrome—a yndrome—a visionar of yyes-men es-men working ffor or him,”” wrote wrote poster. one p oster. “Terrible “T Teerrible idea. Bad after a bad
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from fr om D DVD VD b byy mail in shame. shame. Slowly th the he vitriol b began egan to ease,, but it was ease was simply too too late ffor o or Qwikster.. Netflix’s stock pricee had Qwikster Netflix’s sto ck pric been hammered from b een hamm mered fr om an all-time $305 per high of $30 05 p er share share before beffor o e the pricee increase pric increaase to $65 after the debacle.. Hastings, both debacle Haastings, the author of b oth mistakes, Qwikster’ss launch mist akes, canceled canc a eled Qwikster’ took DVD and to ok the th he D VD by by mail service service Netflix’s b k under back d rN ettflix’ fli ’s umbrella—at umbr b ella—at ll t temporarily. least temp o orarily y. Rendich, Netflix R eendich,, a twelve-year twelve-year N etflix About vveteran, eteran, resigned. ressigned. Ab out one hundred jobs,, hundr ed others otthers lost their jobs manyy who left senior p posts including man m osts at Netflix Nettfl flix under u the assumption that was Qwikster.. Hastings w as ccommitted ommitted to Qwikster Leslie shortt L eslie Kilgore Killgore announced announced a shor time later that t she would ccede ede her post chief marketing p ost as chie ef of mark eting to her lieutenant, Becker, lloyal lo yall lieute li enant, JJessie essie i Beck B ker, on an basis. interim bas sis. Kilgore Kilgore took took a seat on board. the ccompany’s ompan ny’s b oard. curious move, In a curi ous mo ve, Hastings Kilgore’s marketing rreorganized eorganized d Kilgor e’s mark eting department was depar tmen nt in what some said w as desiree to incr increase a long-held d desir ease his power over own p owerr o ver the one function understood at Netflix Nettfl flix that that he understo od the least—customer least — custtomer and public rrelations. elations. was never It w as ne ever clear whether Hastings i rrealized e li d that ealized h the h Qwikster ik was betrayal debacle w a as much a b as etraayal y people of the p eop ple who had zealously protected Netflix’s built and pr p otected N etflix’s brand over was o ver the yyears e as it w ears as a slap to subscribers invested subscrib erss who had in vested their loyalty lo yalty in tthe he ccompany. ompany. Rendich R eendich and his team first When Re asked ask ed how they they should think about about happened what had happ h ened to the brand, Ken Ross, K en R o oss, Netflix’s Netflix’s fformer ormer head of o was ccorporate orporate ccommunications, ommunications, w as hard-pressed har d-presseed to find an equivalent situation. He H thought ffor o or a moment, and then itt ccame ame to him—Tiger him— —Tiger Woods. golfer W oods. The The champion golf feer had almost godlike seemed alm most go dlike until a sordid destroyed sor did infidelity infid delity scandal scandal destr oyed marriage marred his marriag ge and marr ed his ccareer. areer. Woods W oods fell feell harder harder and faster than because a rregular egular ccelebrity, e elebrit y, b ecause he had been esteemed. b een so est teemed. That’s have about That ’s how ho ow yyou ou ha ave to think ab out Netflix, Ross That’s N ettfl flix,, R o osss told them. That ’s not say won’t to sa ay the company compan o ny won ’t rregain egain its irreparable. ffooting. ooting. Butt the damage is irr eparable. Now it’s N ow it ’s just jusst another brand. Copyright C ooppyyright © Gina K Keating, eeatingg, 2012. All rights rreserved. eserved. R Reprinted epprintteed by by ppermission. ermission.
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BROTHER ALI The Catalyst, Santa Cruz Fri – 9pm; $14/$19 Brother Ali knows everyone thinks he’s black. He is, in fact, whiter than white, a genuine albino whose condition has made him legally blind. He’s turned the odd ironies of his career into a lifelong campaign against any divides—black
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THE HOT TODDIES San Pedro Square Market, San Jose Sat – 7pm; free The Hot Toddies just have an undeniable, irresistible charm. Combined with their spot-on ’60s girl-group harmonies and infectious
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twee-pop songwriting, that makes them the kind of band that will force a smile out of listeners—like it or not. Yet under the cute exterior, they are a raw rock & roll band, though not quite punk-rock, despite their affiliation with punk label Asian Man Records. It’s more like pre-punk garage rock. As much as they pound out garage tunes, they are equally drenched in sunny Beach Boys pop sensibilities. The Oddly Even and Slime Girls also play. (AC)
panelists jump in with quick quips, Poundstone lets her mordant zingers steep a bit before delivering them with a measured tempo and the tang of subtle sarcasm. She also maintains a lively Twitter feed: “I was stuck behind an undecided voter on the freeway today.” Poundstone is touring on behalf of public libraries, which need all the support they can get. (AR)
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JK8EC<< Purple as a Guatemalan sunset, the prose of Stan Lee infected the youth of America with a malarial fever for superheroes, mutants and aliens: new gods with everyday problems. The origins of one of the most popular films ever
made, Marvel’s The Avengers, can be found in the way Lee’s bold, furious and squabbling characters worked together on the comic book page. Lee’s work is inimitable for cliffhangers, rolling alliteration and fiendishly clever self-promotion. He will be signing autographs for his legions of fans at this event. (RvB)
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Atlantic has taken the South Bay by storm. The band’s latest album, Digital Tension, was just released this past July. Picture Atlantic’s catchy alternative-rock sound (in the vein of the Killers, Death Cab for Cutie and Coldplay) remains intact, but the hooks and key changes aren’t quite so obvious. The choruses are a little more low-key and nuanced—although there’s no lack of those lush soundscapes the group is known for. This is the Halloween edition of their bimonthly Rock Hop event. Come dressed in a costume and save two dollars. April Chase, Hell & Lula and San Francesca also play. (AC)
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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 for the Performing Arts.
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pianist’s own arrangement of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Sun, 7:30pm. $36-$45. Montalvo Arts Center.
PALO ALTO CHAMBER ORCHESTRA A program called “Inspirations” features cellist William Skeen. Sat, 8pm. Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto.
A dramatic comedy. Runs thru Nov 4. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. $15/$20. Northside Theatre, San Jose.
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A drama about a debate between Freud and C.S. Lewis. Runs thru Nov 4. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun 2pm. $24-$74. San Jose Repertory Theatre.
MEMPHIS A rock musical. Runs thru Oct 28. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm. $20-$82. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.
RACE David Mamet drama. Runs thru Oct 28. Wed-Thu, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $15-$45. The Stage, San Jose.
REDUCED SHAKESPEARE The troupe presents “The Complete History of America (abridged).” Sat, 8pm. $27 and up. Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga.
THANKS FOR PLAYING ... THE GAME SHOW SHOW! The return of a musical about the TV game shows. Runs thru Nov 18. Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $24-$44. Retro Dome, San Jose.
*classical EL CAMINO YOUTH SYMPHONY A performance of Beethoven’s Symphony no. 7. Sat, 7:30pm. Flint Center, Cupertino.
JOHN CAGE: 100 YEARS A celebration of the composer. Rush Hour Concert, Thu, 5:30pm, Music and Dance Building. Recital with Teresa McCollough, Sat, 7:30pm, Music Recital Hall. Santa Clara University.
JON KIMURA PARKER A solo recital features the
Works by Brahms, Galindo, Bohmler and Piazzolla. Sun, 7pm. Le Petit Trianon, San Jose. Sun, 3pm. $30-$60. Flint Center, Cupertino.
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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “High Fiber Under Five.” Show and sale of works by new fiber artists. Thru Nov 4. Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.
TECH MUSEUM “Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition.”Thru Jan 16. MonWed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.
GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “Re:Collections.” San Jose.
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“It’s Alive: Hellbent for Letters.” Works by Ken Davis. Thru Oct 26. Wed-Fri, noon-6pm, Sat, noon-4pm. San Jose.
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“Lonesome Town.” New works by Kori Thompson. San Jose.
“It’s Personal! Tales Visualized by Asian American Women Artists.” Thru Nov 25. Wed-Sun, 11am5pm. Los Gatos.
METRO LOBBY “Lost and Found.” Art by Jason Adams. Thru Oct. San Jose.
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“The War on Modern Art: The 75th Anniversary of the Degenerate Art Exhibition.” Thru Feb 24. “Drawings From L.A. in the 1960s and 1970s: The Marmor Collection.”Thru Feb 3. “Guardians: Photographs by Andy Freeberg.”Thru Jan 6. Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-8pm. Stanford.
The remodeled center displays site-specific works about place and identity. Thru Apr 4. Palo Alto.
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“Local Music Seen.” Photo by Anna Larina. San Jose.
“Beyond Function: Fiber, Fabric and Finery.” “Jeweled Prosthetics: Jewelry as Extension of Self.” “Figure Forward: Works by Bay Area Figurative Artists.”Thru Dec 2. Tue-Sun, 11am-4pm. Santa Clara.
EUPHRAT MUSEUM “The Art of Education: De Anza and Foothill Art Faculty/Staff Show.”Thru Dec 7. Mon-Thu, 10am-3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting.” Reception Thu, 8pm. Show runs Oct 27-May 12. “Ranu Mukherjee: Telling Fortunes.”Thru Jan 13. “Local Color.”Thru Jan 13. “Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.
SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART Art exhibition and auction. Thru Oct 27. Tue-Fri, 10am-5pm, Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.
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THOMPSON GALLERY “Gordon Cook.” Works on paper and canvas. Thru Nov 2. Art Building, SJSU.
*Events CONVENTION OF THE TATTOO ARTS A full weekend devoted to the art of inking. Oct 26-28. SFO Hyatt Regency, Burlingame.
GUITAR CENTER DRUM-OFF Quarter Finals round of the contest features local store champ Jesus Mendoza Garcia against store finalists from other Bay Area centers. Tue, 7pm. Free. 3677 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara.
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Halloween Guide Clubs & Parties AXIS NIGHTCLUB A Halloween R.i.o.t. with DJs Dan, Illtraxx, D Luzion, Remedy, Komodo, David Q and more. Oct 27 at 9pm. Santa Clara.
THE BLANK CLUB Monkey plays for a Halloween party, Oct 26. Plus the Halloween edition of ATOMIC 2.0 Dance Party. Oct 27 at 9pm. San Jose.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Costumes and a show by LenCat. Oct 27 at 9pm. Santa Clara.
BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Cheeseballs for Halloween party. Oct 27. San Jose.
BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN Party with DJ Benofficial. Oct 31. San Jose.
COURT’S LOUNGE An all-day party. Oct 27 and 31. Campbell.
THE ESCAPE A party with costume prizes and drink specials. Oct 31, 8pm-2am. San Jose.
FAHRENHEIT Seventh-annual Halloween bash. $20. Oct 27 at 9pm. San Jose.
JOHNNY V’S Halloween party. $5. Oct 27 at 9pm. San Jose.
KYOTO PALACE Skary-oke, with sake, karaoke and a costume party. Oct 31 at 7pm. Campbell.
LIQUID LOUNGE MJGamez, Soulful Obsession, the Jurassic and Boyfriend Academy play for an All-Souls’ Night party. Oct 31, 9pm. San Jose.
LOS GATOS BAR AND GRILL A Halloween-themed party; come in costume. Oct 27. Los Gatos.
THE MARMIST Costumed patrons are welcomed to a Monster Mash with drink specials and music by Jerry Sauceda. Oct 27. at 8pm. San Jose.
MEDI + MARTS The collective hosts a costume contest Oct 26-31. San Jose.
MONSTER’S BALL Cocktail Monkeys and Long Gon Bon perform. Oct 27. The Haunted Hornet, Pier 3, Alameda.
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S The sexiest costume competes for $500. Oct 27. Los Gatos.
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Rivals’ 11th annual Rock N Roll Halloween featuring Rivals, Dimidium, the Devil Himself and Relapse. $10. Oct 27 at 8pm. Gilroy.
Nightmares come true at haunted house. Through Oct 31. Eastridge Mall, San Jose.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO
A traditional celebration includes an ongoing altar exhibit at the King Library; an Oct 27 Day of the Dead Festival at the National Hispanic University, 11am-6pm; a costumed procession from downtown San Jose (starts at noon at King Library) culminating in a festival at SJSU; and a Last Stop Fandango with music and dance at the San Jose Women’s Club on Nov. 2 (5-10pm).
Halloween costume party with Rick Estrin and the Nightcats. Oct 27 at 6pm. San Jose.
THE SADDLE RACK A country-style Halloween party with Diablo Road and host Cowboy Troy and lots of cash for outrageous outfits. Oct 31. Fremont.
SLG ART BOUTIKI Rock-hop Halloween featuring Picture Atlantic, Aprill Chase, Hell & Lula, San Francesca. $10, $8 for costumed folks or with cannedgoods donation. Oct 28 at 6pm. San Jose.
SPOOKFEST 2012 A night of electronic dance music presented by Live 105. Oct, 26, 7pm–1am. Oracle Arena, Oakland.
STUDIO 8 An advance holiday party on Oct 25. Vamps and Tramps party with DJ Sophia Lin on Oct 26 at 9pm. Halloween Hooker Ball and costume party on Oct 27. Halloween Trick or Treat on Oct 31. San Jose.
THRILLER HALLOWEEN A major hip-hop costume party mounted by the Frat House Boyz, T.P.E. and Tag-Team. $15/$20. Oct 27 at 9pm, 2460 Kruse Dr, Milpitas. (Text name to 510.992.3505 for guest list.)
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DIA DE LOS MUERTOS AT THE MUSEUM A community day with Aztec performers, sugar-skull skills and more. Oct 27, 11am-5pm. San Jose Museum of Art
HAPPY HOLLOW Families can enjoy the trick-ortreating stations throughout the zoo, a spooktacular show, hay maze and more. Oct 28, 1-4pm. Also: Pumpkin Patch runs thru Oct 31, 10am-7pm. Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, San Jose.
JAPANTOWN HALLOWEEN The SJPD and the Japantown Business Association present a fun and safe trick-or-treating experience. Oct 30-21. Wesley United Methodist Church, San Jose.
PIRATES OF EMERSON A haunted house experience. Daily through Oct 31. Alameda County Fairgrounds, Pleasanton.
ROCKY HORROR HALLOWEEN
A party with DJ Big and DJ Maniakal and a costume contest. Oct 27, all night. Zen Lounge, Mountain View.
A screening of the cult film should be even wilder than normal on Halloween. Oct 31 at 9pm. The Retro Dome, San Jose.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE
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With a parade of dogs dressed in Halloween costumes with awards for best pet and human costumes. Oct 28, 10am-4pm. Downtown Sunnyvale.
AFTER HOURS: DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
TRICK-OR-TREAT AT WESTGATE MALL
Halloween party with costume contest. Oct 27. Santa Clara.
A celebration of Dia de los Muertos during monthly Tech After Hours event, with live music and games. Nov. 1, 7pm-midnight. Tech Museum, San Jose.
THE CURSE OF LADY PUABI Dinner theater with a spooky theme by the Gibson House Mystery Performers. Oct 27 at 7pm; $64 dinner and show. Bella Mia, San Jose.
Free family event. Registration starts at 5pm and each child gets a trick-or-treat bag. With performances by Andy Z, the Dance Zone and Momentum. Oct 26, 5-7pm. San Jose.
WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE FRIGHT NIGHTS The mansion hosts Halloween attractions through Nov. 3. San Jose.
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Circa 1800, a Liverpool orphan is brought to the moors. He endures floggings throughout his stepchildhood, in which the only relief comes from his platonic other half and stepsister, Catherine. As a girl, Catherine (Shannon Beer), is broad-faced and tough. As a lady (Kaya Scodelario), she’s a poseur
with great luminous eyes, cold as quartz—not a lark but a hawk. Arnold (of the excellent Fish Tank) modernizes the story somewhat. Although she keeps the costumes of the period, the arrogant brother, Hindley (Lee Shaw), looks and moves like any English skinhead you’d avoid. And James Howson, the nonprofessional actor Arnold hired as Heathcliff, is of African ancestry. The bad children’s initials left as graffiti on the dingy walls make their home look like the corridor of a housing estate. In the nature scenes, Arnold’s eye for weeds, rainwetted rocks and briars resembles the scoping of these Yorkshire hills in the documentary Rivers and Tides about the environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy. While you can see where Arnold has tacked close to the present,
there’s no maddening sense of anachronism. A startled character says, “What the fuck?,” where Emily Brontë might have written, “He uttered an oath,” but this tactic doesn’t break the frame. The book is more violent than many remember: the drunken Hindley threatening to crop his child’s ears like a pit-bull’s; the story of the bird’s nest with the small skeletons in it. Arnold pauses over the furred and feathered corpses gathered for the table, with the blood in close-up dripping from a hung-up pheasant’s eye; and shows us the live Spaniel punished in lieu of herself. (The official seal saying no animals were injured is a relief.) Arnold’s insistence on this cruelty is part of the paganism and hardness of this land. It’s essential to our knowing what life there would look like. Howson may appear uncomfortable in one weeping scene, but his limits as an actor are otherwise an asset. He keeps his mystery; he’s handsome and sullen. When Hindley calls Heathcliff a “blackguard,” it’s meant to be a
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racist slur. But perhaps Hindley is right. The source of Heathcliff ’s money has baffled scriptwriters for generations. Looking at Howson one thinks that maybe Heathcliff was a highwayman, a Captain Macheath. As for the melodrama, the muddy physicality of Arnold’s version undercuts it. Brontë herself proved how young and fast they died in those days. The makeup is authentic, and in a shot of Paul Hilton’s Mr. Earnshaw, the specter of tuberculosis is practically sitting on his chest. In one scene, a newborn’s squalling turns, without a beat, into the scrape of a gravedigger’s spade. Arnold’s cuts to the text include the removal of the pastry crust and doily with which the novel was first served. Gone is the framing device of a commentator, that tourist exclaiming at the bad manners and the quaint dialect. The opening shot is of a swaying Heathcliff, as good as dead in the haunted farm he now owns: a sty, a byre, more like. This is the muddiest Wuthering Heights seen—also the most immediate. The young Cathy and Heathcliff (Solomon Glave) wrestle in the mud, and Cathy flashes a clouded smirk of triumph even as she’s pinned; we’re seeing the exact moment of pubescence arriving. The moment is doubled later when we see Cathy as a fancy, kittenish married lady. Cathy’s riding costume provides the only real red in a movie where even the blood is brown or black. She forces Heathcliff into the mud this time; with the sole of her boot on his face, she asks, “How could you have left this? How could you have left me?” We see the witch in her, in the condescending kiss she gives her husband as she goes riding with her true lover. This story of cursed love is so imperatively told, you temporarily forget how it comes out.
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nuclear draw at a nuclea ar power plant. A dr aw to atomicatomic-blaster -blaster ffans: ans: the chapter about the tears of a clone (Doona Bae) enslaved at a a New Seoul rrestaurant estaurant of the future. futu ure. This business doesn’t doesn’t transcend trap literary tr anscend the tr ap of the liter ary ďŹ ction writ writer ter delving into sci-ďŹ â€” prose, stripped ooff the pr ose, the plot is as oppressors bald as thee shiny-domed oppr essors of the futu future. ure.. Rather than having the symphony, cumulativee impact of a symphony y, Cloud A Atlas tlaas is like watching six bad once. ďŹ lms at on nce. ((Opens p Fri.)) ((RvB))
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Docum Documentary mentary shorts and ffeatures. eatures. In name the nam me of wartime exigencies,, some physicians physici ans per perverted verted their Hippocr Hippocratic atic Oath an nd helped dr aw up guidelines ffor or and draw “Enhan Enhannced Inter rogation. ogation â€?Their story “Enhanced Interrogation.â€? Davis’’ Doctors of the is told in i Martha Davis Side Dark Si ide. Plus a panel discussion on torture, legal to orture, and the documentary Beneath Beneat th the Blindf Blindfold, foold, which is a survey survey of four four different different victims of political torture torture (Oct 224, 4,, 6pm, Stanford Stanford Medical School)).. Oct 25, 4pm,, Cantor Cantor Art Center, Centerr, School). Stanforrd: Axis of Lightt. A proďŹ le Stanford: proďŹ le of eight o the Ar ab world. Oct 25,, 7pm, artists of Arab Cardea Cardea Center ffor or Women, Women,, 1922 The Alameda, Alamedda,, San Jose:: a series of shorts on the problems problems ffacing acing women.. See unaff.org unaff ff.org for for the th many other th pr programs. ograms. (Plays thru t Oct 28 in many Bay Ar Area reea locations.) locationns.) (RvB)
NIGHT NIG GHT O OFF THE LLIVING IVING D DEAD EAD (1968) (196 68) In 3-D. 3-D. (Oct 2626-27 -27 2 at midnight in San S Jose at CCamera aamera 12.)
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Octt 24, 24, 7:30pm, Camera Camera 7 in Campbell: Campbell: An Article of Hope, about the Isr Israeli aeli astronaut astronaut Ilan Ramon.. Director Director Dan Cohen Coh hen and Ramon’s Ramon’s widow Rona Ramon Ram mon will be on hand. Oct 27, 277, 7:30pm, Oshman Oshhman Family Jewish Community Center, Cen nter, P Palo alo Al Alto: to: Dr Dr.r. Pomerantz Poomerrant a tz. Assi Assi Day yan as an Isr aeli shrink who decides Dayan Israeli to help h his patients end their tr oubles. troubles. OF FJCC, J Oct 30, 7:30pm Follow Me:: The OFJCC, YYoni oonni Netanyahu SStory, toryy, about the war hero hero Yonatan Yonatan o “Yoni� “YYoni� o � Netanyahu, Bibi’s elder eldeer brother, brother, the lone Israeli Israeli casualty casualty t Entebbe rraid. aid. (Plays thru Nov 18 of the in various v South Bay locations.) (RvB)
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Witth Patrick With Patrick Stewart Stewart and Jonathan Frakes. Fr akes. (Plays Oct 2626-27 27 at 7pm and Octt 28 at 2pm at the Retr Retroo Dome, San Jose.) Josse.)
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(1931/11935) Scr (1931/1935) Screen een poetry poetry, y, rightly compared compa red with Cocteau. Such is James Whale’s Whale ’s ffamous, amous,, inuential yet never imitated creature imitate ed story of a patchwork cr eature corpses: pre-moral of corp pses:: pr e-moral as a baby but murderous mur derrous when thwarted. Whale’s Whale’s peculiar (it’s own pe eculiar sense of humor (it ’s beyondd most people’s people’s wavelengths) made him h sur surround round his Monster with difďŹ dent Thesiger,, difďŹ den nt thespians:: Ernest Thesiger Dwightt Frye and Colin Clive as the obsessed obsess b sedd yett ir iirresolute resolute l t scientist. i ti t KKarloff, arloff, as the wr wretched, etched, speechless creature, cr eaturre, has the pathos of Chaplin and thee menace of the gr greatest eatest screen screen psychos. psycho os.. He has one hell of a br brow ow to knit wh when hen he gets mad. The swanlike hiss of his good lady wife, wife, Elsa Lanchester, Lanche ester, isn’t isn’t to be fforgot, orgot, either. either. (Plays Oct O 2626-28 -228 in P Palo aalo Al Alto to at the Stanffoorrd Theatr re.) e (RvB) Stanford Theatre.)
(19335/1933) Henry Hull as a British (1935/1933) botanist bot tanist who is bitten while in the ope Himalayas Him malayas by an Asian Asian lycanthr lycanthrope (W a arner WITH Secr (Warner Oland).. BILLED WITH Secret reet of the t Blue Room. ““Anyone A Anyone who sleeps in the heardd from the Blue Room is never hear from again!� agaain!� A 66-minute mystery about a unsavory unssavory castle and its modern-day owner ownner (Lionel A Atwill). twill). Not on DVD. (Plays (Pla ays Oct 31-Nov 1 in P Palo aalo Alto Alto at the SStanford taanffoord Theatr Theatre.) e.) (RvB)
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(PG (PG-13; G-13; 101 min.) A serial killer (Matthew (Ma atthew Fox) faces faces off against police detective/psychologist det tective/psychologist Alex Cr Cross oss (Tyler (T Tyl y er Perry) Perry) in an adaptation of a James Jam mes P Patterson atterson novel.
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HERE COMES HEREC OMEST THE HEB BOOM OOM (PG; 105 min.) It seems like only o yesterday yester day we wer weree all sayingg to ourselves, “Isn’t “Isn’t it about tim timee ffor or another KKevin evin James movie?? Where Where he plays some poor schlub who w gets himself into a wacky wacky situation? sittuation? Pleeeease?” What? We We weren’t weren e ’t saying that and in ffact act have never said that? W Well, ell, nevertheless nevertheless, s, here here biology it is, with James playing a bi ology teacher who takes up MMA fighting fi activities to save after-school activitie es at his school.
HOTEL H OTEL T TRANSYLVANIA RANSYLVANIA A (PG; 91 min.) Adam Sandler and a Addy Sambergg team up ffor Samber or anothe another er movie, but this time it it’s ’s animated and a Sandler’s Sandler ’s doing the voice of Dr Dracula, acula, see so you don’t don’t rreally eally have to se ee or hear him. His count runs a hhotel otel ffor or monsters that is stumbled uupon pon by a human boy boy.. W Wackiness ackiness ensu ensues. es.
LLOOPER OOPER (R;; 118 min.) Thoroughly Thoroughly ingen ingenious. nious. J Joseph h Gor Gordon-Levitt G d L itt plays don-Levitt l JJoe, oe, a 2070s KKansas ansas City hit man of the 20 070s with longings ffor or ffaraway araway Paris. Paris. He has one rroutine: outine: doing mundane mundane executions ffor or a gang existin existingg 30 years in the futur future. e. This task is interrupted inter rupted when Joe’s Joe’s wily ffuture uture self (Bruce Willis) ar arrives rives through through o a time portal. It sounds like a movie m that’s that ’s too high-concept to breathe, brreathe, but talented dir director/writer ector/writer Rian Johnson (Brick, The Br Brothers roothers Bloom) takes a comf comfortable ortable turn intoo SStephen tephen certainly, Ki ter King tterritory; ritory; it certainly t i ly, the th dreadful dreadful df l way the futur futuree mob induces fugitives eturn is as good as any id idea to rreturn ea King ever came up with. On the do down own side, Gor Gordon-Levitt’s don-Levitt’s make-up (which (whhich is supposed to make him rresemble eseemble could Willis) is odd, and the film cou uld moree humor humor,, al although have used mor thoough m Jeff Daniels as a lazy mafia middle-
manager who alr already eady knows knoows his futuree is exceptionally fun futur funny. nny. Also a standout: Emily Blunt, who who has one of strongest her str ongest rroles oles ever as as the ffarmer armer who gives Joe shel ter. (RvB) (RvvB) shelter.
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THEE M TH MASTER ASTER (R;; 137 min.) P.T. P..TT. Anderson’s Andersonn’s bewilderingly exciting film m doesn’t doesn’t offer off er a specific rebuke rebuke to L. Ron Hubbard. Hubbar d. The story tells of of a partnership between a shellshhellshocked Navy vet of 1950, 1950, Freddie Freddie (Joaquin Phoenix) and a dapper, d dapper , bigger-than-lifee fraud, bigger-than-lif fraud, Lancaster Laancaster Hoffman). D dd (Philip Dodd (Phili Seymour S Hof H ff f man).) Dodd picks picks up Freddie Freddie andd conducts quasipsychiatric experiments experimeents on him, leading up to a new crusade c called “The Cause.” Cause.”” Dodd’s Dodd’s stirring stirring brain heralds of Freddie’s Freddie’s soft br ain her ralds bigger things: the rise of the intelligence inteelligence apparatus, appar atus, the think-tank, think-tankk, Cointelpro, Cointelpro, the lies of World World War War II furthered furrthered by new means. The bigger picture picture looms screen-filling een-filliing head, like Hoffman’s Hoffman’s scr demanding obedience in sickeningly insinuating tones. The voice voice echoes against the background background of o postwar America, a nation about to to get gigantic. (RvB)
THE T HE P PAPERBOY APERBO A OY (R;; 107 min.) Journalist W Ward ard Jansen (Matthew McConaughey) moves m home to Florida to investigate thee curious case (John of a death rrow ow inmate (Joh n CCusack) usack) brother with the help of his kid br otther (Zac Efr Efron). on).. And if all goes according according to plan, Jansen probably probably takes off his h shirt.
PARANORMAL P ARAN A ORMAL A ACTIVITY CTIVIT TY 4 (R; 88 min.) The hor horror ror fr franchise a anchise soldiers on.
THEE W TH WAITING A AITING R ROOM OOM (NR; 83 min.) Gr Grace ace unde underr pr pressure. essure. P eter Nick s’ cool, compas ssionate Peter Nicks’ compassionate and confident sur vey of Highland H survey Hospital, assembled overr five months (with the help off some time-lapse photogr aphy)). Highland photography). in Oakland ser ves as a sa afety net ffor or serves safety a city wr acked with hellis sh pr oblems. wracked hellish problems. Nick efuses to take eve erything that Nickss rrefuses everything bleeds as leads; his film is is ffar ar less gory than House MD, ffor or instance. He and his cr ew balance the mor crew moree minor pr oblems with the major ones: problems an angelic little girl very ill i with str ep thr oat, a young ma acing the strep throat, mann ffacing rreal eal possibility of testicul lar cancer testicular and no place to go, a mid ddle-aged middle-aged carpet-layer disabled by pain and a habitual toxico (“He pr esents ‘‘out out presents of it,’” says a nurse, descr ribing his describing symptoms). P Perhaps erhaps the standout: nurse assistant CCynthia ynthia Y. Y. Johnson giving a lesson in how to deal with angry str angers in pain. W atching strangers Watching how these physicians andd nurses triage and car or these suff erers caree ffor sufferers makes you wonder what mir miracles acles they could achieve if ther re were were there actually heal th care care for for all. all. (Opens Fri health at CCamera amer a a 3 in San Jose.))
MADDER THAN MAX ‘Wake in Fright’ is an Australian thrill ride from 1970 restored to its queasy glory.
Way Outback ALMOST LOST but now gorgeously restored to views of startlingly sun-baked landscapes, Wake in Fright (1971) also has grindhouse draw. (Animal lovers, be warned: There’s a brutal hunt stitched together from some documentary footage of a professional slaughter of kangaroos.) Wake in Fright is a morally slippery movie. Initially, you’re as appalled as the intelligent but lofty school teacher John Grant (Gary Bond), a Sydneysider contractually obligated to teach in a oneroom school in the back of beyond. He’s heading back to the city for a smotheringly hot Christmas break. Befriended by a copper (the first serious Australian movie star, Chips Rafferty), Grant goes on a gambling and beer bender in the fictional nearest big town, Bundanyabba: “The Yabba.” The local drunks, some of them serious barbarians, pick him up and invite him into their 24hour binge. This could have been jolly: a stuck-up teacher bonds with friendly, hardworking, plain men during Christmas time. But the oversize Santa statue in town cackles like a maniac, heralding Grant’s discovery of the barbarism in him—and the discovery of something else. He has a doctor’s help for these diagnoses in the brilliant, anythinggoes performance by top-billed Donald Pleasance. He’s the town’s physician, a
Chekovian observer and a drunk—nay, not just a drunk, but the kind of person who, when asked what he does, says, “I drink.” The writer is Evan Jones, Joseph Losey’s frequent collaborator. Losey had wanted to direct this film, which ended up Wake in Fright in the hands of Ted Kotcheff, who R; 114 min. helmed the somewhat Opens Friday, Camera 3, San Jose similar debut of Rambo, First Blood. Here, as throughout Losey’s films, is the queasiness at the thought of people getting too close. How times do change, though. The Yabba is played by Broken Hill, a tourist draw today; in a decade or two, it was going to be hosting the three trannies of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. (That famous bus has been parked there permanently.) The more remote Australia seems, the more Kotcheff ’s Twilight Zone–ish approach is a punch to the gut. The film’s shocking revelation has also been softened by some producer’s idea of a happy ending. But Wake in Fright is rich and weird and oddly thoughtful: Nightmare Alley with kangaroos instead of chickens, the kind of movie that arrives when a nation ceases to be a colony and gets really ready to study itself. Richard von Busack
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HALLOWEEN—MISFITS: Just about any Misfits song will do, but as Glenn Danzig’s definitive artistic statement on the subject, this one earned its name. Its under-two-minute gutter-punk assault is so bruising it takes several listens just to get a handle on the lyrics—but as usual, the wait is rewarded.
MONSTER—KANYE WEST FEATURING JAY-Z AND NICKI MINAJ: One of the best songs on Kanye’s masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, “Monster” is the American Psycho of music. The song messes with a different metaphor, comparing murder, mayhem and other assorted horrors to the music biz (rather than Wall Street), but the basic ideas have a lot in common. The controversial video really drives the point home, and if you ever wondered what it would look like if one of Nicki Minaj’s personas attacked another one, it’s a must see.
DEVIL TOWN—DANIEL JOHNSTON: From the reigning king of outsider music comes one of the most emotional and striking monster songs of all time. In under a minute, Johnston paints a vivid portrait of every goth’s dream hometown. ZOMBIE—E-40 FEATURING TECH N9NE, BROTHA LYNCH & KUNG FU VAMPIRE: With a catchy hook (“if you’re a zombie,
fiend”) courtesy monster, ghoul or fiend”) of San Jose’s Kung Fu Vampire, E-40 teams with Brotha Lynch—a horrorcore rapper long before the word existed— and Tech N9ne to spin morbid rhymes for the perfect zombie apocalypse. I AM A VAMPIRE—FUTURE BIBLE HEROES: If “I Am a Vampire” had been written in the ’80s, it would have been an alternative dance-club favorite. The song takes the perspective of the eternally young, chic vampire. Sure, you have to feed off of people and avoid the sunlight, but that’s a small price to pay for an eternity of being fabulous. GANGNAM STYLE—PSY: OK, we’re sort of joking, but everyone’s going to be doing the dance on Halloween this year and there will be more than a few bar-hopping Psy look-alikes. You might want to learn it. It’s not hard. SUPERSTITION—THE KILLS: From the moment the guitar kicks in on the Kills’ “Superstition,” it creates a sort of vague foreboding anxiety that the best horror movies conjure up in the first 20 minutes—before anything bad has happened yet. There is just something about the minimalist, dissonant sounds this duo conjures up that is just creepy.
What’s on your Halloween playlist? Email your song title with a short description to letters@metronews. com to be considered for our readers-picks playlist.
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Scare Tracks
That, compounded with a repetitive song about superstition, creates a scary Halloween tune, where the beast that lurks in the shadows is fear. WHAT’S HE BUILDING IN THERE?—TOM WAITS: What is scarier than a reclusive next-door neighbor who’s receiving mysterious packages? Tom Waits channels the fun, spooky ambience of Disney’s Haunted Mansion, as he narrates a brief story of a suspicious man in the neighborhood. MIND’S PLAYIN’ TRICKS ON ME—GETO BOYS: Not just one of the best rap songs ever, it may also be the best ghost story ever set to a beat. The song weaves layers of guilt, violence and slipping sanity together to make you remember we don’t need paranormal activity to be haunted. I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE—ROKY ERICKSON AND THE ALIENS: Roky Erickson led the psychedelic rock band 13th Floor Elevators in the ’60s, but spent much of the next decade in a mental institution. When he returned to music, he started singing about aliens, Satan and monsters in an incredibly intense, emotional manner. While most of The Evil One is powerful, screaming acid rock, “I Walked With a Zombie” is a somber ballad, and by far the saddest, most emotional song on the album. THE MAN COMES AROUND—JOHNNY CASH: Now that this song has been used in a bunch of scary movies, TV shows and trailers (most notably the Dawn of the Dead remake), it’s been pretty much accepted as a modern horror classic of country music. Cash meant it as a serious hymn, and it almost makes religion cool. But isn’t it always like that with the Book of Revelations? BELA LUGOSI’S DEAD—BAUHAUS: The 2009 horror film The Collector was the second film to use this song almost in its entirety. It’s maybe the quintessential Halloween song by now—the weird guitar effects and insane lyric delivery by Peter Murphy make it timeless. THAT’S THAT—GROOVE GHOULIES: Lead singer Kepi Ghoulie is such a monster movie fanatic that, even on this 35-second love song, he can find no better words to express his feeling than comparing it to his favorite Halloween monsters, giving us the immortal line, “I need you like zombies need brains.”
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1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-423-1336 Wednesday, October 24‹AGES 16+
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
!DV $RS s $RS PM 3HOW PM Wednesday, Oct. 24‹In the Atrium‹AGES 21+
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HONEY POT
also Hands That Kill!
plus Them Bones & Bootleggers $RS ONLY s $RS PM 3HOW PM
Thursday, October 25‹In the Atrium s AGES 18+
MOON CADILLAC plus The Trims AT THE $RS ONLY s $RS PM 3HOW PM Friday, October 26‹AGES 16+
BROTHER ALI
plus Blank Tape Beloved also Homeboy Sandman
and DJ Sosa, The Reminders $RS s PM PM
Friday, October 26‹In the Atrium‹AGES 21+
LOS SHAKAS DE LA BANDA
plus Banda
Puro Ayotitlan also DJ The Beat & DJ N9ne !DV $RS s $RS PM 3HOW PM
Saturday, Oct. 27 AGES 16+
COLLIE BUDDZ & NEW KINGSTON
plus The Holdup also Los Rakas !DV $RS s $RS PM 3HOW PM Saturday, October 27‹In the Atrium‹AGES 18+
DROP BEAR plus Eliquate also Planet Booty
and Illgrim, Daddy
Long Legs $RS s PM PM
Tuesday, October 30‹In the Atrium‹AGES 16+
HOPSIN: THE FUNK VOLUME TOUR plus Ft. Dizzy Wright also SwiZz and Jarren Benton DJ Hoppa !DV $RS s $RS PM 3HOW PM
Oct 31 Groundation (Ages 16+) Nov 3 The Devil Makes Three (Ages 21+) Nov 5 GWAR/ Devildriver (Ages 16+) Nov 16 The Cataracs (Ages 16+) Nov 23 UFO/ Sometimes Jones (Ages 21+) Dec 8 Chris Robinson Brotherhood (Ages 21+)
Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating. Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-435-9849 & online
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metroactive MUSIC ANGELICA’S BISTRO Fri, 8:30pm: High Mileage Halloween Party. $12/$17. Redwood City.
ART BOUTIKI Sun, 6pm: Rock Hop Halloween featuring Picture Atlantic, April Chase, Hell & Lula, San Francesca. $10, $8 for costumed folks or with canned goods donation. San Jose
THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Joe Demaree, Mister Loveless, Dave Miller (Talky Tina). Free. Fri, 9pm: Monkey, 880 South, Them Rude Boys. $5. San Jose.
BOSWELL’S Wed, 9:30pm: Jack Rip-Off. Thu, 10pm: Sexy Back. Fri, 9:30pm: Junkshaker. Sat, 9:30pm: 10 Til 2. Sun, 8:30pm: The Gents. Mon, 9:30pm: Kid Dynamite. Campbell.
NETO’S GRILL Fri, 8:30pm: Johnny Lima, Haunted by Heroes, Bad Boy Eddie. $15. Sat, 8:30pm: Rhythm District. $10. Santa Clara.
6pm: Wendy DeWitt Duo. Fri, 6pm: Laurie Morvan Band. Sat, 6pm: Halloween Costume Party with Rick Estrin & the Nightcats. Sun, noon: School of the Blues Student Jam. San Jose.
NINE LIVES Fri, 8pm: Points North, Big Wood. $10/$15. Sat, 8pm: Rivals’ Halloween featuring Rivals, Dimidium, the Devil Himself, Relapse. $10. Gilroy.
RODEO CLUB Fri, 7pm: Josh Thompson. $10/$15. San Jose.
SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Fri, 7pm: Sylvia Cuenca Organ Trio. Free. San Jose.
TESSORA’S Fri, 8:30pm: Rich Kubec. Sat, 8:30pm: Halloween with Isis and the Cold Truth. Campbell.
SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET
C&W/Folk
Sat, 7pm: Daydream Nation, Vol.7, w/ the Hot Toddies, Oddly Even, Slime Girls. Free. San Jose.
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S
STREETLIGHT RECORDS Thu, 5pm: Monstaville Music’s Forever D.O.P.E. Tour 2012. Sat, 4pm: Claire on a Dare. San Jose.
WOODHAM’S LOUNGE
Wed: Country band. Los Gatos.
RED ROCK COFFEE Fri, 8pm: Esther’s Muse. Sat, 8pm: Bill Mallonee. Mtn View.
RODEO CLUB
Sat: Halloween party. Santa Clara.
Thu, 7pm: Heidi Newfield. $10$15. San Jose.
THE SADDLE RACK
Fri, 10pm: Dejenerates. Sat, 10pm: Cheeseballs. San Jose.
Jazz/Blues/ World
THE CARAVAN
AGENDA LOUNGE
BRIT ARMS ALMADEN
Fri, 8pm: Guano. San Jose.
Wed, 8pm: Salsa. Thu, 9pm: Banda, two parties on two levels. Sun: Reggae and hiphop. San Jose.
Wed, 9pm: Country Cowboys. Thu-Fri, 9pm & Sat, 10:15pm: Diablo Road. Sat, 7:15pm: Wild at Heart. Fremont.
Open Mic
ANGELICA’S BISTRO THE CATS Wed, 8pm: Out of the Blue. Thu, 9pm: Bombshell Bullys Band. Fri, 9pm: Aces Up Band. Sat, 9pm: Amanda Grey Band. Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Tue, 8pm: Johnny Fabulous. Los Gatos.
CLUB FOX Thu, 7:30pm: Haley & Michaels, Molly Swank. $10/$15. Fri, 7pm: The Houserockers. $12/$14. Redwood City.
Sat, 6:30pm: Atkinson, Kincheloe & Beynon. $12/$17. Sat, 8:30pm: Tribal Blues Band. $12/$17. Mon, 7pm: Jazz Jam. Redwood City.
AZÚCAR LATIN BAR Wed: Rock band. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata and rock en español. Sat, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.
CAFFE FRASCATI
CAFFE FRASCATI Tue, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.
RED ROCK COFFEE CO. Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.
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Fri, 8pm: Vic Moraga. Sat, 8pm: The Fintztones. San Jose.
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Thu, 9pm: Stone Creep. Fri, 9pm: Forever Dope Tour. $5. Sat, 9pm: Halloween Party. $5. San Jose.
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Wed: Suska. Thu: Jimmy Dewrance. Fri: Charles Ray Bohn and the Whiskey Poets. No cover. Sat, 5pm: Little John Chrisley. Sat, 9pm: Maxx Cabello Jr. $10. Sun: Raw. Mon: Desiree & Diamond 99. Tue: Liars Club, Blue J. San Jose.
Nightly, 9pm-2am: Karaoke. San Jose.
Wed, 7:30pm: Kayhan Kalhor and Behrouz Jamali. Thu, 7:30pm: John Mayall. Sun, 7:30pm: Jon Kimura Parker. Saratoga.
MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Fri-Sat: Live bands. Los Gatos.
POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Thu,
APPARITION Even second Thu: Gothic, industrial karaoke. Club Lido, San Jose.
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Pagoda Lounge Friday, Oct. 26, 9pm
Mayer’s now a regular on the late-night TV circuit and plays huge international music festivals; he’s even collaborated on tracks with Snoop Dogg of all people—not too bad for an indie-rapper who almost retired when “underground rap” began losing steam in the early 2000s. Since then, he has worked with modern dance troupes like SebastiAn, while many of his songs have been used on major TV shows like Ugly Betty. Although he cites Curtis Mayfield and the late J Dilla as influences, he has also performed with more modern, commercial acts like Foster the People and Bruno Mars. His latest release, How Do You Do, showed more of a focus on funk and modern R&B than the Motown vibes that marked his first release. Mayer’s undeniably strong songwriting keeps him busy regardless of genre. Amid official albums, Internet-only releases and wild collaborations, Hawthorne sticks to his guns, too, making one-off DJ appearances to the surprise of many fans. His DJ chops aren’t bad either, as he’s played alongside turntable maestros like J. Rocc of the Beat Junkies. Though his career is in full stride, he seems to always return to basics. Everything will come full circle when Hawthorne returns to San Jose for a rare, live DJ set. After all, he has San Jose’s own Peanut Butter Wolf to thank for putting him on Stones Throw to begin with. His stop in San Jose also marks the two-year anniversary of the “Live at the Pagoda” series at the Fairmont Hotel, which has brought acclaimed acts like Adrian Younge and Toro y Moi to town.—David Ma
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FAHRENHEIT Sat, 9pm: Annual Halloween Bash. $20. San Jose.
BLINKY’S CAN’T SAY Fri, 9pm-1am: Danielle. Sat, 9pm-1am: Karaoke. Santa Clara.
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LOS GATOS BAR AND GRILL Thu: EDM. Fri: Beatz Boutique. Sat: Goldenchyld. Los Gatos.
BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: Wildside Karaoke. Sunnyvale.
BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Uncle Hank. San Jose.
BRIT ARMS DOWNTOWN Wed, 9pm: August. Mon, 9pm: Comedy. San Jose.
MOTIF APPARITION Thu, 10pm: Underground goth deathrock tunes. Club Lido, San Jose.
AXIS NIGHTCLUB Fri, 9:30pm: Fright Nite. Sat: Halloween R.I.O.T. Santa Clara.
Thu: California. Fri: Kiss Me Truly, Kiss Me Death. Sat, 9pm: Monster Ball. San Jose.
OLD WAGON SALOON Sat, 10pm: Molkahete’s Halloween party. San Jose.
PLAYHOUSE Fri-Sat: DJs. Tue: Nightmare on Santa Clara St. San Jose.
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Thu, 10pm: DJ Dinero. San Jose. Thu: David Q. Fri: Radio Raheem. Sat: Ready Rock. San Jose.
STUDIO8 Thu: Halloween Party. Fri: Vamps and Tramps featuring Playboy DJ Sophia Lin. Sat: Halloween Hooker Ball. San Jose.
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duck—suspecting that she probably isn’t worth having if she’s so easy to get. This is unfortunate, but whining endlessly about it is an ineffective strategy for getting what you want. What you’re really arguing for is, “Why shouldn’t I be able to throw all self-discipline out the window and have the man I want drop down my chimney like Santa?” In a similar vein, I often wonder why I’ve been unable to become incredibly wealthy by napping. (Welcome to real life. Please visit often in the future.) The answer is neither throwing yourself at a man nor waiting for him to notice that you dropped your glass slipper. You flirt to indicate that you’d be interested in going out with him, if only he’d ask. Flirting takes patience and self-control, but it’s playful and fun. Kind of like tag. You run a little, and if all goes well, the guy chases you. Men just love to chase things—women, animals, purse snatchers. In the United Kingdom, they even have a tradition of chasing a big wheel of cheese down a hill. Wait—don’t get ideas. You will need to flip your hair and make eye contact and teasing remarks. You can’t just throw yourself down a grassy incline.
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into their 30s, 40s and beyond, when they have far different bodies. Because physical intimacy is pretty essential for maintaining emotional intimacy, thinking this way can be relationship-wrecking. Turn off the TV and start making out and doing the kajillion sex things that don’t require perfectly functioning hydraulics. Watching Paula Deen re-enact Last Tango in Paris with a pork chop has its merits, but exploring Klein’s advice—that “there isn’t any part of your body that can’t be erotically charged”—should prove far sexier and a lot less likely to give you diabetes.
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570873 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Almaden Auto Service, 1660 Almaden Expressway, Unit C, San Jose, CA, 95125, Lorens s. Ebrahimi, 996 Almaden Lake Dr., Apt 207, San Jose, CA, 95123. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Lorens S. Ebrahimi This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/19/2012. (pub Metro 10/24, 10/31, 11/07, 11/14/2012)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569999 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Silverscypress, 2. Silvercypress, 5349 Hansell Dr., San Jose, CA, 95123, Leo Poon. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on Sept 2011. /s/Leo Poon. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/26/2012. (pub Metro 10/24, 10/31, 11/07, 11/14/2012)
is (are) doing business as: Sempre Avanti, 1240 Permata Ct., San Jose, CA, 95116, Terry Vargas. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Antonio Fernandez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/04/2012. (pub Metro 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/07/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569771 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:1. Aire Apartments, 2. Aire, 199 River Oaks, San Jose, CA, 95134, 199 River Oaks San Jose, LLC, 2 Henry Adams Street, Suite 450, San Francisco, CA, 94103. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Above entity was formed in the state of California. Registrant has not begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Bill R. Poland Managing Member #201209710162. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/19/2012. (pub Metro 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/07/2012)
/s/Quyen Vu Manager #201225610284 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/01/2012. (pub Metro 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/07/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570252 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, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Annie Dandavati, 2198 NAME STATEMENT Bentley Ridge Dr., San #569674 Jose, CA, 95138. This The following person(s) business is conducted by is (are) doing business a individual. Registrant as: Capital Law Offices, began transacting 1262 East Hamilton Ave., business under the #F, Campbell, CA, 95008, fictitious business Denise M. Zingale, 2419 name or names listed Cherry Hills Dr., Discovery herein on 8/1/2012. /s/ Bay, CA, 94505. This Annie Dandavati. This business is conducted by statement was filed FICTITIOUS BUSINESS a individual. Registrant with the County Clerk of NAME STATEMENT began transacting Santa Clara County on business under the #570375 10/03/2012. (pub Metro fictitious business name The following person(s) is 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, or names listed herein on (are) doing business as: 10/31/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 9/17/2012. Gilda Hair Salon, 337 S. NAME STATEMENT /s/Denise Zingale Monroe St., San Jose, CA, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS #570863 This statement was filed 95128, Gilda Geragosian, NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is with the County Clerk of 599 Calpella Dr., San #570121 (are) doing business as: Santa Clara County on Jose, CA, 95136. This The following person(s) Metalcraft Refinishing & 9/17/2012. (pub Metro business is conducted by is (are) doing business Restoration, 2055 Alum 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, a individual. as: MFones Consulting, Rock Ave., San Jose, CA, 11/07/2012) Registrant began 760 N. 7th St., #4203, 95148, Tony Espinoza, transacting business San Jose, CA, 95112, 3569 Ruechene Dr., San FICTITIOUS BUSINESS under the fictitious Marsha Fones. This Jose, CA, 95148. This NAME STATEMENT business name or names business is conducted by business is conducted by #570673 listed herein. a individual. Registrant a individual. Registrant The following person(s) is /s/Gilda Geragosian began transacting has not yet begun This statement was filed (are) doing business as: A business under the transacting business Celtic Craftsman Builders, with the County Clerk of fictitious business name under the fictitious Santa Clara County on 2815 Lexford Ave., San or names listed herein in business name or names Jose, CA, 95124, Stephen 10/05/2012. (pub Metro 2000. /s/Marsha Fones. listed herein. 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, A. McBain. This statement was filed /s/Tony Espinoza. This 11/07/2012) This business is with the County Clerk of statement was filed conducted by a Santa Clara County on with the County Clerk of FICTITIOUS BUSINESS individual. Registrant 9/28/2012. (pub Metro Santa Clara County on NAME STATEMENT began transacting 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/19/2012. (pub Metro business under the #570185 10/31/2012) 10/24, 10/31, 11/07, fictitious business name The following person(s) is 11/14/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS or names listed herein on (are) doing business as: NAME STATEMENT 9/07/2007. 1. Galabay, 2. Galabay. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS /s/Stephen A. McBain com, 1815 Monterey #569785 NAME STATEMENT This statement was filed Hwy., San Jose, CA 95112, The following person(s) #570319 with the County Clerk of JB Furnishing LLC. This is (are) doing business The following person(s) Santa Clara County on business is conducted as: @universtiy cafe, is (are) doing business 10/15/2012. (pub Metro by a Limited Liability 457 E. San Carlos St., as: Stevens Creek Family 10/24, 10/31, 11/07, Company. Above entity San Jose, CA, 95112, Chiropractic. 2858 11/14/2012) was formed in the state Monther Haddad, 15985 Stevens Creek Blvd., of California. Registrant Sunnyside Ave., Morgan Suite 208, San Jose, CA, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS has not yet begun Hill, CA, 95037. This 95128, Chang Heo, 80 NAME STATEMENT transacting business business is conducted by Descanso Dr., #1214, San #570327 under the fictitious a individual. Registrant Jose, CA, 95134. business name or names has not yet begun The following person(s) This business is listed herein.
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)
The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sahara Nails, 319 South Monroe St., San Jose, CA, 95128, Nguyen Trang, 2180 Rose Arbor Ct., San Jose, CA, 95133. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /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)
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569589 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) NAME STATEMENT is (are) doing business #570096 as: B&J Automotive The following person(s) Repair, 300 Railway is (are) doing business Ave, C-1, Campbell, CA, as: Haute State Of Mind, 95008, Mark Wagenhals, 1227 Fleming Ave., San 3125 Albemar Ct., San Joe, CA, 95127, Stephanie Jose, CA, 95148, Tosef Loftus. This business Diggelmann, 362 Los is conducted by a Encinos, San Jose, CA, individual. Registrant has FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 95134. This business is not yet begun transacting NAME STATEMENT conducted by a general business under the #570131 partnership. Registrant fictitious business name The following person(s) began transacting or names listed herein. is (are) doing business business under the /s/Stephanie Loftus as: Hollywood Cosmetif fictitious business This statement was filed Salon and Healthcare, name or names listed with the County Clerk of 979 Story Road., STe herein on Sept 04. /s/ Santa Clara County on 7093, Hollywood Mark Wagenhals. This 9/28/2012. (pub Metro Cosmetif Inc., This statement was filed 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, business is conducted by with the County Clerk of 10/31/2012) a Corporation. The state Santa Clara County on of Corporation: California. 9/14/2012. (pub Metro FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Registrant not yet begun 10/03, 10/10, 10/17, NAME STATEMENT transacting business 10/24/2012) under the fictitious #570154 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS business name or names The following person(s) listed herein. /s/Tony C. NAME STATEMENT is (are) doing business as: Premium Cutz, 785 S. Nguyen President #569322 #3316640 1st Street, San Jose, CA, The following person(s) is This statement was filed 95110, Efren Hernandez, (are) doing business as: J 495 N. San Pedro St., San with the County Clerk & N Electric, 2257 S. King of Santa Clara County Jose, CA, 95110. Rd., San Jose, CA, 95122, on 9/28/2012. (pub This business is Jenny Nguyen. Metro 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, conducted by a This business is 10/24/2012) individual. Registrant conducted by a began transacting individual. Registrant FICTITIOUS BUSINESS business under the began transacting NAME STATEMENT fictitious business name business under the or names listed herein on #569087 fictitious business name 9/12/2008. The following person(s) is or names listed herein on /s/Efren Hernandez (are) doing business as: 9/7/12. /s/Jenny Nguyen This statement was filed Access In-House Care, 65 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Rio Bobles East #1105, with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on Leilani Brigaudit. Santa Clara County on 10/01/2012. (pub Metro This business is 9/07/2012. (pub Metro 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, conducted by a 10/03, 10/10, 10/17, 10/31/2012) individual. Registrant has 10/24/2012) not yet begun transacting FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS business under the NAME STATEMENT NAME STATEMENT fictitious business name or names listed herein. #569220 #569807
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569862 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Arteagas Food Center (Willow), 204 Willow St., San Jose, CA, 95110, Arteagas Stores, 1003 Lincoln Ave., San Jose, CA, 95125. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/ Gerardo Lopez Secretary #3265789 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/24/2012. (pub Metro 10/03, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24/2012) PUBLIC NOTICE REDEMPTION OF ALL GARDEN CITY CASINO CHIPS $1000, $500, $100, $20, $10, $5, $3, $2, $1, $.50 and $.25 chips can be redeemed at the casino cage from August 7, 2012 through February 7, 2013 - 24 hours per day. Redeem Chips at: Casino M8trix 1887 Matrix Blvd. San Jose, CA 95110
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570895 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Capitol Cyber, 1605 N. Capitol Ave., San Jose, CA, 95132, PVD International LLC. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Viet Van. Managing Member #201225610266 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/19/2012. (pub Metro 10/24, 10/31, 110/7, 11/14/2012)
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21–April 19): In the coming days, many of your important tasks will be best accomplished through caginess and craftiness. Are you willing to work behind the scenes and beneath the surface? I suspect you will have a knack for navigating your way skillfully and luckily through mazes and their metaphorical equivalents. The mists may very well part at your command, revealing clues that no one else but you can get access to. You might also have a talent for helping people to understand elusive or difďŹ cult truths. Halloween costume suggestions: spy, stage magician, ghost whisperer, exorcist.
TAURUS (April 20–May 20): The coming week could have resemblances to the holiday known as Opposite Day. Things people say may have meanings that are different or even contrary to what they supposedly mean. Qualities you usually regard as liabilities might temporarily serve as assets, and strengths could seem problematical or cause confusion. You should also be wary of the possibility that the advice you get from people you trust may be misleading. For best results, make liberal use of reverse psychology, freaky logic, and mirror magic. Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of who you really are. GEMINI (May 21–June 20): I don’t have a big problem
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with your tendency to contradict yourself. I’m rarely among the consistency freaks who would prefer you to stick with just one of your many selves instead of hopscotching among all nine. In fact, I ďŹ nd your multilevel multiplicity interesting and often alluring. I take it as a sign that you are in alignment with the fundamentally paradoxical nature of life. Having said all that, however, I want to alert you to an opportunity that the universe is currently offering you, which is to feel uniďŹ ed, steady, and stable. Does that sound even vaguely enticing? Why not try it out for a few weeks? Halloween costume suggestion: an assemblage or collage of several of your different personas.
CANCER (June 21–July 22): An avocado tree may produce so much fruit that the sheer weight of its exuberant creation causes it to collapse. Don’t be like that in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Without curbing your luxuriant mood, simply monitor your outpouring of fertility so that it generates just the right amount of beautiful blooms. Be vibrant and bountiful and uidic, but not unconstrained or overwrought or recklessly lavish. Halloween costume suggestion: a bouquet, an apple tree, a rich artist, or an exotic dancer with a bowl of fruit on your head. LEO (July 23–Aug. 22): I hope your father didn’t beat
you or scream at you or molest you. If he did, I am so sorry for your suffering. I also hope that your father didn’t ignore you or withhold his best energy from you. I hope he didn’t disappear for weeks at a time and act oblivious to your beauty. If he did those things, I mourn for your loss. Now it’s quite possible that you were spared such mistreatment, Leo. Maybe your dad gave you conscientious care and loved you for who you really are. But whatever the case might be, this is the right time to acknowledge it. If you’re one of the lucky ones, celebrate to the max. If you’re one of the wounded ones, begin or renew your quest for serious and intensive healing. Halloween costume suggestion: your father.
VIRGO (Aug. 23–Sept. 22): Do you know how to tell the difference between superstitious hunches and dependable intuitions? Are you good at distinguishing between mediocre gossip that’s only 10 percent accurate and reliable rumors that provide you with the real inside dope? I suspect that you will soon get abundant opportunities to test your skill in these tasks. To increase the likelihood of your success, ask yourself the following question on a regular basis: Is what you think you’re seeing really there or is it mostly a projection of your expectations and theories? Halloween costume suggestions: a lie detector, an interrogator with syringes full of truth serum, a superhero with X-ray vision, a lab scientist. LIBRA (Sept. 23–Oct. 22): I am ofďŹ cially protesting you, Libra. I am staging a walkout and mounting a demonstration and launching a boycott unless you agree to my demand. And yes, I have just one demand: that you take better care of the neglected, disempowered, and underprivileged parts of your life. Not a year from now; not when you have more leisure
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SCORPIO (Oct. 23–Nov. 21): “It’s so ďŹ ne and yet so
terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas,â€? said French painter Paul Cezanne. Many writers make similar comments about the excruciating joy they feel when ďŹ rst sitting down in front of an empty page. For artists in any genre, in fact, getting started may seem painfully impossible. And yet there can also be a delicious anticipation as the ripe chaos begins to coalesce into coherent images or words or music. Even if you’re not an artist, Scorpio, you’re facing a comparable challenge in your own chosen ďŹ eld. Halloween costume suggestion: a painter with a blank canvas.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22–Dec. 21): As you
contemplate what you want to be for Halloween, don’t consider any of the following options: a thoroughbred racehorse wearing a blindfold; a mythic centaur clanking around in iron boots; a seahorse trying to dance on dry land. For that matter, Sagittarius, I hope you won’t come close to imitating any of those hapless creatures even in your non-Halloween life. It’s true that the coming days will be an excellent time to explore, analyze, and deal with your limitations. But that doesn’t mean you should be overwhelmed and overcome by them. Halloween costume suggestions: Houdini, an escaped prisoner, a snake molting its skin.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22–Jan. 19): “Does anyone know where I can ďŹ nd dinosaur costumes for cats?â€? asked a Halloween shopper on Reddit.com. In the comments section, someone else said that he needed a broccoli costume for his Chihuahua. I bring this up, Capricorn, because if anyone could uncover the answers to these questions, it would be you. You’ve got a magic touch when it comes to hunting down solutions to unprecedented problems. Halloween costume suggestion: a cat wearing a dinosaur costume. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20–Feb. 18): The Live Monarch Foundation made a video on how to ďŹ x a buttery’s broken wing (tinyurl.com/FixWing). It ain’t easy. You need 10 items, including tweezers, talcum powder, toothpicks, and glue. You’ve got to be patient and summon high levels of concentration. But it deďŹ nitely can be done. The same is true about the delicate healing project you’ve thought about attempting on your own wound, Aquarius. It will require you to be ingenious, precise, and tender, but I suspect you’re primed to rise to the challenge. Halloween costume suggestion: herbalist, acupuncturist, doctor, shaman, or other healer. PISCES (Feb. 19–March 20): It’s not a good time to
wear Super-Control Higher-Power Spanx, or any other girdle, corset, or restrictive garment. In fact, I advise you not to be a willing participant in any situation that pinches, hampers, or conďŹ nes you. You need to feel exceptionally expansive. In order to thrive, you’ve got to give yourself permission to spill over, think big, and wander freely. As for those people who might prefer you to keep your unruly urges in check and your natural inclinations concealed: Tell them your astrologer authorized you to seize a massive dose of slack. Halloween costume suggestions: a wild man or wild woman; a mythical bird like the Garuda or Thunderbird; the god or goddess of abundance.
Homework: Exhausted by the ceaseless barrage of depressing stories you absorb from the news media? Here’s an antidote: http:// PronoiaResources.com.
Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700
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