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Censor George County Supervisor George Shirakawa should be censored and removed as president of the board, by the board of supervisors, from all his responsibilities for his failure to comply with campaign laws, faked reports to hide expenditures and

Resign Time There is a pattern of Shirakawa’s excesses and total and complete disregard for rules and regulations. He seems to think he and his cronies are above them and untouchable. The only way he could salvage his reputation would be to resign his position completely as it is clear he is out of control and has zero integrity as a public leader.

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before it, Netflix is experiencing shareholder concern as the moviedistribution industry is once again disrupted by technological change.

Where Blockbuster was tripped up by online video rentals, Netflix embraced the business model wholeheartedly.

But the industry is again shifting as apps and rogue distribution start-ups introduce new low-cost movie streaming businesses. Netflix embraced that model, and then raised prices by 60 percent—a move that immediately curtailed sales and sent Netflix stock tumbling.

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The Battle of Hastings Rumors last week hinted that Microsoft was about to make on offer for Netflix Inc., but that may turn out to be far less interesting than the real story: a hostile takeover by activist shareholder Carl Icahn.

Sources today said the movie-rental company is shoring up its defenses after billionaire investor Carl Icahn began acquiring sufficient Netflix shares to enable a hostile bid.

Icahn last week disclosed that he has increased his personal stake in Netflix to nearly 10 percent, and Netflix on Monday adopted a shareholder-rights plan in response.

The plan makes a shareholder takeover contingent upon the approval of the full board of the company. The plan also triggers the sale of many more shares of Netflix stock, making it significantly harder for any one investor or institutional group to achieve a hostile takeover.

Icahn of course has a history of hostile takeovers, including a 1990s takeover of one of Netflix’ leading competitors: Blockbuster Video.

More than a little history is coming around again. Like Blockbuster

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings moved to placate investors by describing a plan to expand into dozens of other countries, but investors were unimpressed. Netflix’s earnings through the first nine months of this year are off 95 percent compared to the same period last year, and the company’s fourth-quarter forecast indicates the company may well have the first full-year loss in a decade.

In the meantime, Icahn began quietly accumulating Netflix shares.

Documents show Icahn and his investment fund have amassed some 5.5 million Netflix shares, mostly in September.

Rumors of an acquisition have been in play for quite a while. Last week’s talk that Microsoft was interested in the company began when Netflix CEO Hastings announced he was stepping down from Microsoft‘s board of directors. Insiders, speculating on a relationship between the resignation and a Microsoft bid, caused a spike in Netflix stock on Friday just prior to the SuperStorm.

It’s still possible that there may be multiple suitors lining up for a shot at the company—including Microsoft. Despite its share slide, Netflix remains relatively attractive.

The company has a market cap of $3.7 billion, the stock is trading at less than half of its 52-week high, and it’s still the leading brand in video streaming for smartphones, tablets, PCs and TVs.

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The stepped-down version of the game is a clear testament to both the performance limitations of mobile and social technologies—and the growing impatience of the game market for something better.

The new game, Madden NFL 13 Social, is a turn-based multiplayer game that focuses only on offensive plays. On Apple devices, the game is played using touch-screen controls, while the on Facebook it’s a bit more like the real deal, delivering a

simulated game based on the strategies defined by users. The apps are synched so users can play the same game on a mobile device or on Facebook.

Players can assemble their teams using a roster of NFL players, and they can earn Madden coins to improve the team’s abilities.

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As soon as one enters the space, Fischl’s 5-by-8-foot masterpiece, simply titled Barbeque, presents an awkward tension, practically screaming for a dysfunctional suburban aria.

A boy is blowing fire up in the air like a circus performer while standing in front of a bowl of dead fish. Two naked women frolic in a ridiculously geometric-shaped pool.

At the same time, a beaming ’80s version of Ward Cleaver works the barbecue with an orgasmic smile on his face.

The pink house in the background is one of those homogenous singlestory tract-house monstrosities one sees in every California subdivision from Sylmar to San Leandro. In fact, the entire image reminds me of loopy magazine shots from 30 years ago, like something from Good Housekeeping gone painfully awry.

Fischl and I sauntered through the exhibit a few weeks ago. He explained, and I’m paraphrasing, that he grew up on Long Island, against the backdrop of a dysfunctional

family, in the first generation of post-WWII suburban America right when the slaphappy, Eden-like euphoria of such an environment was being fetishized by tens of millions across the landscape.

He said that everyone assumed there couldn’t exist a creative method of depicting such a dark operatic nightmare, but that was not the case. The naked underbelly of Eden soon emerged.

He’s right, and his career proves it.

Many of his paintings look like glossy magazine compositions but with characters in various states of unease.

In the label text for Barbeque, Fischl says that, before he ever learned how to paint, the mass media inflicted on adolescents in suburban wasteland America fired up the muses and away he went: “Early influences involved exposure to characters, to figures, whatever came through television, magazines, movies, long before I saw a painting and certainly long before I understood painting.

The influences were the other mediums that were pervasive in the culture. Of course, growing up in the

suburbs, you went to the movies, you watched a lot of TV and you looked at magazines.”

One perceives in Fischl’s work an emotional distance between the all characters employed. And in some cases, they actually are employed.

Sometimes, he stages live scenes with hired subjects, as in the legendary “Krefeld Project” series or in the paintings of poet Richard Price and his family. After taking massive amounts of photographs, Fischl then collages everything in Photoshop to find an adequate scene to paint.

In the show, and this is perhaps the best aspect of the experience, we see Fischl’s process documented.

Alongside the final paintings, we see dozens of photographs or studies illuminating his trials and errors— the path he took to the final image.

Fittingly, curator Jodi Throckmorton says that the exhibit Throc organized to show that Fischl did is orga just walk up to a blank canvas not ju paint these scenes. The exhibit and pa about process, not just the final is abou result.

Viewers can glimpse into the View universal components of the creative univer process—the components of failure, proces risk-taking and experimentation. risk-ta In this way, anyone—right-brain or left-brain—should be able to identify with the procedure behind the scenes, even those who are not creatively inclined. Perfect for suburban Silicon Valley.

“We have audiences that are really interested in figurative painting, so we’re hoping they can look at it from the perspective of creation,” Throckmorton says. “But we’re also hoping that engineers—people that may not be interested in art—can come in and see their own struggles with the creative process.”

With this show, one dives deep into a dysfunctional suburban opera, replete with emotionally distant, unglamorous and awkward characters, many of whom are naked. It makes me want to write the libretto.

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The digital simulcast came with an extra: TCM’s Robert Osborne interviewing Bela Lugosi Jr. and Boris Karloff ’s daughter, Sara. At the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, the classic picture-palace surroundings imparted more of the atmosphere that we expect for Halloween.

When it comes to seeing an old classic, would the public have preferred to turn up for what sounds more now? Cyndi Mortensen of the Stanford Theatre says, “The public has been educated to think that digital is better. They do not know or appreciate the difference between a digital screening and a film screening.

So they would be more likely to take their business to a venue showing the digital restored version, rather than an original print.”

The Ages of Film We ended up in the middle of the third great age of cinema before anyone noticed. Robert Sklar, the film historian who died last year, proposed the three ages: first silent, then sound, now digital.

The National Organization of Theater Owners recently claimed that 64 percent of the theaters in

America use digital projection. The L.A.-based consulting firm MKPE says that 85 percent of America’s theaters will have digital projectors by the end of 2012. Worldwide, that figure is approaching 70 percent.

Camera 12 in downtown San Jose has already traded in most of its traditional film projectors for the new push-button technology that allows movies to be piped in without friction and screened in seemingly flawless images.

Ron Regalia of the Camera Cinemas notes that both the Camera 12 and the Camera 7 are all digital, though one screen in each theater has a side-by-side 35mm projector. Camera 3 is still 35mm, though there’s a portable Blu-Ray projector available.

“Digital projection has made life easier in many ways,” Regalia says.

“No scratched, damaged or missing prints, fewer labor hours … no physical print and trailer build-up.

We can start and monitor all shows from a central terminal.” Films can be switched to different theaters with a simple command.

And Regalia is happy with the picture quality. “It’s as good if not better than 35mm—this coming from a person who used to argue

the opposite. More importantly, it is consistently good. And digital wins hands-down on sound.”

In five or 10 years, a large segment of the audience will never have seen a motion picture projected from a reel of film. Film is already an obsolete technology, and few are fighting to save it.

Warner Bros. is refusing to loan out 35mm prints; 20th CenturyFox will offer only digital prints by next year. Kodak is in bankruptcy.

Last month, Fuji ceased orders for motion picture film stock.

There’s nothing like the Stanford Theatre anywhere else in the valley, or most of the world, for that matter.

Mortensen calls the rise of digital “a major concern for us.” Presently, the revival house has no plans to go digital for its projection. “But it may be that some day we will not have this option,” Motensen adds.

Currently, the Stanford Theatre can still get 35mm prints, says Mortensen: “We do not have a problem getting prints from the archives, thankfully, nor from the studios, if they have a print. They’re doing their best to see to our needs.”

As the studios release muchtrumpeted “digital restorations,” however, they don’t typically put them on film stock.

Mortensen notes, “It is conceivable that one day the only way a person will view actual film will be in an archive, or at the Stanford and maybe one or two other rep houses.

The only way to see the new digitally restored product is via digital [projection] equipment. And the

studios want this new product to be seen, rather than an older print.”

Thus studios have more financial impetus to make movies on film unavailable. They say their hands are tied on the grounds that film stock is being phased out. Ultimately, it may be that all the movie-going public really knows is that the word “digital” sounds really cool and pristine.

Splice of Life Even if digital projection is inevitable, there remains the question of what the new technology entails: a new opportunity for theater owners, who no longer have to deal with the aging mechanics of reels, splices and projectors.

Some consider digital projection a monster unleashed before anyone knew what it was destroying—a force degrading the warmth of old-fashioned film and a financial problem throwing independent movie theaters out of business.

An expert on the subject, the theorist David Bordwell, refers to the double-edged nature of the new system in the title of his online book, Pandora’s Digital Box. Small, independent theater exhibitors, hanging on by their fingernails already, now face an upgrade of at least $50,000 to rip out and replace their film projectors.

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The digital version of The Godfather II was shown recently, like so many older films, as part of Fathom Events’ series of classic motion pictures at the CinéArts chain. Critic David Thomson in The New Republic voted to stay away. He claimed wariness through previous exposure “to the technical coldness of the show, and an end to that feeling of light falling on skin.” (The next TCM/Fathom Events screening will be To Kill a Mockingbird on Nov. 15.)

Roger Ebert elsewhere lamented the passing of 35mm film’s “vibrato”

or “shimmer.” The various nicks and tiny stray defects that accumulate through wear on a 35mm print, if one wants to be fanciful, add to the surface of the film something like the warm analogue sound of an old LP, as opposed to the chillier cleanliness of a digital download.

Some critics have opposed the shift to digital on the basis of the visuals alone. There are still few answers to critic Duncan Shepherd’s question about digital cinema back when it was making its advent: “What’s in it for the audience?”

Sara Maria Vizcarrando, a local critic, a teacher at De Anza College and a former writer for Box Office Magazine, likes to quote filmmaker Carolyn Martel: “When did we first start believing that technological advancement is a human advancement?”

The downside of film is easy to list. Prints in 35mm are heavy and expensive, a headache for preservationists. The film can be scratched in the projector. The prints break. Sometimes, a frame gets caught in the gate and melts,

19 pictures, bringing in talents who never could have afforded to make a movie otherwise. On the other hand, it’s causing a glut that allows well-off self-promoters to squeeze out more worthy moviemakers.

Admittedly, digital photography has improved dramatically.

Until recently, however, digital photography did metal better than flesh, artificial light better than sunlight, and neither one with the same clarity as film stock. Digital projection is the absolute best way to watch Iron Man blasting a skyscraper, with the cold, newminted shine on the rocket suit and the blinding glow of the jets.

Contrast that with a scene that appears constantly in digitally photographed motion pictures.

A synthetic raptor wings over a forest, acting as if it were the arrow on an old map, showing you which direction to look. The wing movements are mechanical. Evenly colored, salmon-pink clouds coast through vaguely fluorescent skies, with hues as fixed as the percentage of synthetic pollen in the air.

As yet, there aren’t very many of what could be called “painterly” digital motion pictures. (It’s why Wally Pfister in the film Side by Side describes digital as a box of crayons compared to the oil paints he has been using.) The computer-aided reassessment of color began, as all bad trends begin, with some genuine art: the Coen brothers’ 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? tinted to a nostalgic sepia tone. Today, too many motion pictures are digitally rejiggered, sugared and gilded. In action scenes, there’s a look that’s been heralded as the beyond-thegrave triumph of Thomas Kinkade: black night and gold sparkles— tongues of fire, Pentecost every day.

As Time Goes By Seeking to put into words what’s being lost in the switch to digital projection, I’d seize on a bug. Note the “cigarette burn,” a letter “o” which flashes for a few frames in older films.

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like a psychedelic light show.

The rise of Pixar and the 3-D cartoon that digital exemplifies, is a terrific trend; they’ve practically monopolized the market for all-ages film—what once was a tradition in classic cinema, destroyed by overcareful marketing. When a firstrate cinematographer comes in, the results on digital certainly do equal film. Skyfall is the first James Bond film shot in digital, and it looks suitably epic and rich, thanks to the master cinematographer Roger Deakins.

There are exceptions to this superiority, however: an exterior as 007 stands on the deck of a sailboat on his way to an island of doom shows that the lambency of clear blue skies are still a little beyond digital photography. Yet a fight scene in a Shanghai skyscraper silhouetted against windows scribbled with laserprojected ads is the most futuristic a spy movie has looked since the 1960s; it’s “a blitz of color,” as Deakins described it to interviewer Kristopher Tapley.

Once the digital projection equipment is installed, the projectionist is expendable—a savings for the exhibitor. Ideally, digital is eternal. The 10,000th screening is as clear as the first.

“Ideally” must be used with quotes. There are glitches sometimes embarrassingly demonstrated right before press screenings. The movie can develop untreatable glitches or crash completely. If not treated with attention, a hard disk faces the same kind of decay a 35mm print does.

DVDs were offered as an eternal format at first. Everyone knows they mosaic into patterns of enlarged pixels—or just stop altogether— before too long.

Who will preserve these hard drives? Many great motion pictures began as box office flops, and unpopular motion pictures lose their protectors. It’s the old problem with the “orphan” films that the Library of Congress and other preservation groups face trying to keep our cinematic heritage from disappearing.

Digital projection closes the deal that began with digital photography.

On one hand, it’s a less expensive and more democratic format for motion

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Rather than a distraction, the cigarette burn gives a movie a sense of the time passing. Post-cigarette burn, motion pictures seem to have gotten longer.

De Anza College’s Vizcarrando describes what it was like when she was learning her métier at the UCLA archives years ago: “There’s always some damage there in the prints. … Your love of the damage clouds things. People talk about the accuracy of the image, or if it holds up to the best example. Film didn’t have perfection—the hairs, the scratches—you don’t want perfect.”

Bay Area critic Mike Monahan notes, “I find I’m always torn. The aficionado in me gasps at the pristine beauty of a digital presentation and often experiences the feeling of watching an old movie for the first time when seen in scratchless perfection. On the other hand—even with lovely DVD prints of the Universal horrors on my shelf, I’ll still sometimes dip into a murky VHS of a television broadcast, because that’s how I first saw them. I guess it comes down to ‘Sometimes you experience the film, sometimes you experience the nostalgia.’”

Since digital has all but triumphed, the technology needs no excuses. But Vizcarrando notes there are reasons to celebrate. Digital takes away the need for print delivery by fleets of smog-belching trucks.

The oil for the plastics for those thousands of prints is no longer necessary.

“Even if we’re not talking about the saving of money, there are all sorts of good reasons for stepping away from the Good Ship Celluloid,” Vizcarrando admits. “And while I’m not completely thrilled by the digital shore, it’s an awesome place to be.”

She adds, “The first time I thought I was getting it was watching 28 Days Later. I saw the instances of what makes digital photography unique in the separation of foreground and background. More specific nuances are lost, even to me. I see the shit tones—the way the camera loses color. When the visual shifts are deliberate, those things can be interesting calling cards.”

She continues, “But the critic

in me wonders: how to broach a subject that exists in ambivalence?

I am honest. I do not have the most sensitive eye, and I have to decide if I’m going to waste space in an article on technical things.”

Awesomeness aside, the controversy hasn’t ended, as seen in Chris Kenneally’s Side by Side, shown at the Palo Alto International Film Festival this summer. The documentary contrasts the rise of digital and the fall of “celluloid.”

Side by Side argues the value of 35mm aesthetics vs. the democratic qualities of digital photography and projection. Can we have both?

Directors aren’t so sure. Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids) declares movieson-film dead and useless to him.

Leos Carax of the upcoming Holy Motors told The New York Times that the shift to digital “reminds me of the way the pharmaceutical companies invent medicine. … It makes me feel, what is this supposed to cure?”

P.T. Anderson announced that 70mm film is the proper way to see his film The Master, despite how few theaters there are left that can do that.

Anderson insists on the quality of the grain, the image size and the nonmachine-made smoothness of 70mm film. Anderson’s rival for the title of the Kubrick of Today, Christopher (The Dark Knight Rises) Nolan, swears by the power of IMAX on film. It’s an old-tech bent in Nolan, a belief in the practical effect: that is, the special effect that really exists on the street, instead of a hard drive.

Nolan recently told the Director’s Guild: “For the last 10 years, I’ve felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I’ve never understood why. It’s cheaper to work on film, it’s far better looking, it’s the technology that’s been known and understood for a hundred years and it’s extremely reliable.”

The war was over before there was a battle, however, and the only consolation is that the Bay Area still allows the old-time experience of archival 35mm prints. If you get a chance, before it’s too late, experience the matchless clarity of the crimsons and greens of a vintage nitrate 35mm print of The Wizard of Oz, projected with an arc

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projector—a print that could only be shown at the Stanford because of the overstated risks of fire from nitrate stock, which was replaced years ago with more stable mylar.

Film noir seen in nitrate is a different animal: the charcoals are without smudge, and the blacks gleam. This rare archival experience is the best way of seeing what was intended by the filmmakers of their age.

I can’t prove that 35mm ultimately had a kind of soul to it, a sense of dimension caused by the light coming through film as opposed to the image bringing its own light.

But in the few classic movie theaters that are left, watching a film is simultaneously the experience and the nostalgia for the experience.

Digital photography already has a tradition and a past, enough so to inspire the retro approach. The indie film Bellflower tried to recall the goldenrod-colored flares, jaundiced sunlight and flatness of old digital video in its attempt to hybrid crappy early digital and Super-8 film. It was made to look like something shot in 1999.

Says Vizcarrando, “Think about the progress since The Celebration was shot on digital video in 1998.

Digital skipped adolescence. It could

look artful or artless or make a statement of its own awkwardness.

There’s no reason for us to decry the loss of quality anymore. We’re past complaining about that. Digital has technologically surpassed film, and film is in our rear-view mirror. But if our technology gets colder, the story needs to get hotter, and I don’t mean erotic. It used to be directors put all their faith in the director of photography, and going to watch the rushes was like going to church. Now there’s no sense that there’s a need for discipline or the craft.”

Ultimately, no matter what the delivery system, Vizcarrando argues that it is the essence of the movies— the direction and storytelling— that needs to be worthy of the technology.

“Cinema is all product, and we’re not cynical for knowing that. Some compromises need to happen—I’m not going to complain about the technological marvel of Batman, because I saw it, and I get it and I enjoyed it.

“It’s the theoretical side, the emotion. That’s what needs to be worked on. It’s like the line in Metropolis has it, there’s a gap between the head and the hands.”

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The toppings are mostly sweet—fruit, chocolate sauce, whipped cream, syrup, peanut butter, Nutella and caramel sauce. The Liege waffles actually taste best without too many toppings. My first order was topped with chocolate sauce, strawberries and whipped cream—sugar overkill.

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“The whole idea is really to bring people together over food. We found that as more and more people started coming out, we’ve actually been replacing the concept of the block party. These days there’s not a lot of offline community around because everyone’s online,” Lee says.

Of the 400 or so different Dishcrawls Lee has put together, this upcoming one—at Santana Row on Monday, Nov. 12—is the second in the “Unexpected” series. The idea is to take the already exciting prospect of sampling a bunch of new foods and combine it with unexpected arts and musical performances along the way. “Arts people are usually arts people, and dining people are usually dining people, but why not experience them together?” Lee asks.

At the first “Unexpected” Dishcrawl, which was in downtown San Jose, the arts parts were truly unexpected—diners really had no idea when or where to find them, which made for a truly spontaneous experience for some, while others missed the performances altogether. This time around, the organizers have assigned each of the eight performers to one of the eight different participating restaurants. Some of the groups include the SAN JOSE UKULELE CLUB, COMEDYSPORTZ and live sketches drawn by SUHITA SHIRODKAR. The ticket price of $40 covers all the food for all eight restaurants (drinks are sold separately). Diners will get to experience everything from elegant sit-down restaurants (LEFT BANK) to street vendors (BOMBAY WRAPS). Two of the eight restaurants (LARK CREEK BLUE and LAVAZZA) are new to the Santana Row dining scene, so even seasoned Santana Row diners will have something different to sample.

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within poetry slams (or is it the other way around?) with musical accompaniment. And that $5 base admission? It’s really anywhere from $6 to $11 based on a roll of the die at the door, because, after all, all art is a gamble. (AR)

WHISKEY AVENGERS Willow Den, San Jose Fri – 9:30pm; free One of the highlights of nearly every Whiskey Avengers set comes when bass player Clint Westwood whips out his banjo, takes a break from the ska songs and plays some old-fashioned country-inspired tunes. For this show, the Whiskey Avengers will take a break from ska completely to play banjo tunes.

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Little Red Lung combines dark, surreal, musical theatrics with pop sensibilities—bridging the gap between the normal and the frightening with the careful balancing skills of David Lynch. (AC)

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Starship. Nightclubs, though, remain his passion. He won the best DJ in Sacramento award in 2009 for his high-octane blend of hip-hop, Top 40, house, techno and old-school club jams. (AC)

JG@I8C 8IDJ Blank Club, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $10 Spiral Arms, indie rockers from the East Bay, pump up the volume with unapologetic headbanger rock. They head a bill with equally power-packed Zed, Shotgun Harlot and Swerver. Joni Mitchell, it ain’t (no matter what Jimmy Page says). The locals in Swerver came to Metro’s attention more than a decade ago (according to an exhaustive search of our archives) when we broke the news that the trio had garnered a deal with ESPN to use some of its songs in promos

for the X Games. We are proud to report that they are still going strong. (AR)

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Composer Johann Strauss II took his popular operetta Die Fledermaus (The Bat) from a German farce of the early 19th century, and the story is free of the tempestuous emotions of most operas. A revenge scheme turns into an effervescent Viennese waltz of mixed and unmatched behind elaborate masks. Opera San Jose’s production features James Callon and Alexander Boyer double cast in the lead role of von Eisenstein, with Melody King and Cecilia Violleta Lópex trading off as Rosaline. (AR)

Two years ago, Joe Sib made a major splash (and the cover of Metro) with his one-man show about growing up in the skatepunk scene in the valley in the 1980s. Sib achieved musical fame with the band Wax and a controversial music video for the song “California.” These days, his real métier is spokenword standup. This show comes with lots of extras: comedians Grant Cotter and Helen Hong and a photo exhibit by Jai Tanju accurately titled “Time Flies When You Drink Beer.” (AR)

Nov 10-26; free A new gallery featuring shows as well as books and zines celebrates its opening with “TriX-Noise” by Bill Daniel. Daniel has gone on many preservation treks through American subcults, from punk skaters in Texas to graffiti outlaws, capturing their outré energy in photographs and films. The title of the show refers to Daniel’s website, where he sells his black-and-white prints.

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dead from a heroin overdose in 1995.

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The founder of the popular online literary magazine The Rumpus, Elliott has pushed forth from the underground and continues to gain mainstream attention, especially with writers like Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond contributing pieces to the magazine.

Yet even before his all-revealing stories made their way into the lives of readers across the nation, Elliott applied a certain level of sensitivity to what and how he chose to write, admitting, however, that some relationships suffered and even ended as a result of his blatant honesty.

“You need to have your own moral code, to be morally comfortable with

the choice you make in your writing,” says Elliott. “But I think that probably a lines.” lot of people don’t draw those lines” Sometimes, as a reader, it is hard to see if the lines exist in his writing at all.

But within this context—Elliott’s refusal to filter out the rough edges and S&M rope burns—his readers get hooked and keep turning the pages, seeking more.

Elliott not only provides detailed narratives of drug use, sex work and loneliness in his novels, short-story collections and memoir, he also sends out daily emails via The Rumpus that are often highly personal and self-reflective.

The emails sometimes have the flavor of diary entries mapping out his process with coming to terms with everything from politics to making his first movie and, of course, his past relationships.

Yet his worldview isn’t strictly channeled through words on paper and computer screens. Elliott recently steered his creative focus in another direction, writing and directing About Cherry, starring James Franco, Heather Graham and Slumdog Millionaire’s Dev Patel. The film, which debuted at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival, looks at just one of the varied perspectives of working in the porn industry. It will be

screened as part of Elliott’s appearances in San Jose sponsored by the Center for Literary Arts.

“A lot of people don’t understand it. Sex work is not the result of coming from a bad home,” he says. “A lot of people in the industry are really sweet.

A lot aren’t. They’re just like everybody else.”

If there is a sweeter side to the porn industry, About Cherry certainly portrays it. The film, based loosely on the life of porn actress Lorelei Lee, who co-wrote the screenplay with Elliott, About Cherry delivers a story of one young woman’s experience in what appears to be a supportive and easygoing work environment—which just happened to be on the sets of porn flicks.

Questions may come up for viewers of the film, like, “Why didn’t I dabble in the high-paying sex-work field when I was young and perky enough to pull it off ? It doesn’t look so bad!”

“It’s not a recruitment film,” says Elliott with a grin. “But it does ask, ‘What are the reasons for not doing sex work?’ Its a legitimate question.”

Talk of the sex-worker industry aside, Elliott, at a young 40, seems to have the life most writers envy: an artist’s loft in San Francisco, a popular magazine, several books authored and sold, and James Franco holding the film rights to The Adderall Diaries.

Next March, production starts on the screen adaptation of Happy Baby— Elliott’s fictionalized autobiography, which was written, in part, under the guidance of Tobias Wolff during Elliott’s 2001–03 Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. The film production will operate under a limited budget, coproduced by Dave Eggers’ McSweeney’s publishing company.

“Happy Baby is so dark. I’d like to see an end to this darkness,” he says, adding, with a laugh, “After it’s done, I want to make a comedy.”

If his track record is any indication of where he’ll go from here, readers can count on whatever comes next to be brutal and magnificent and heartbreaking.

“I’m not sure what comes next,” he says. “I’m always racing against my own enthusiasm.”

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BOOM A comedy with apocalyptic implications from Renegade Theatre Experiment. Runs Nov 9-Dec 1. Preview Fri, 8pm, opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm (except Nov 22), Sun, 7pm. $12.50-$27.50. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

DIE FLEDERMAUS Opera San Jose mounts Strauss’ operetta. Runs Nov 10-25. Nov 10, 15, 17, 20, 23, 8pm, Nov 11, 18, 25, 3pm. $51 and up. California Theatre, San Jose.

MARCH A drama about two teens who meet online, presented by Dragon Productions. Runs Nov 9-Dec 2. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Opens Fri with a gala. (No show Nov 22.) $20-$30. Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

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A Stories on Stage show from Peninsula Youth Theatre. Fri, 9:30 and 11am, Sat, 11:30am and 1:30pm. $8-$10. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

Tabard Theatre presents Joanna McClelland Glass’ play about her time as the assistant to diplomat Francis Biddle. Runs thru Nov 18.

Regular shows Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD Tom Stoppard’s alternative version of “Hamlet” done with a contemporary spin by Foothill College Theatre Arts. Runs thru Nov 18. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm (no show Nov 4). $10-$18.

Lohman Theatre, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

The return of a popular musical about the golden age of TV game shows. Runs thru Nov 18. Fri-Sat, 7:30pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $24-$44.

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WHOSE LIVE ANYWAY The popular improv show with Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Chip Esten and Jeff B. Davis. Fri, 8pm. $27.50 and up. Flint Center, Cupertino.

YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU A new production by Palo Alto

Players of the Kaufman and Hart comedy. Runs thru Nov 18.

Preview Fri, 8pm. Opens Sat, 8pm. Regular shows Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $20-$29.

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*classical PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE Pianist Emmanuel Ax helps the orchestra perform keyboard works by Beethoven. Thu, 8pm. $25 and up. Center for Performing Arts, Atherton.

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SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting.”Thru May 12. “Local Color.” A show drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. Thru Jan 13. “Tue-Sun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

“Beau Roulette.” A photography show. Reception Fri, 7-11pm, hosted by Misti Dawn and Dani Jensen. Wed-Fri, noon-6pm, Sat, noon-4pm. San Jose.

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KALEID GALLERY “Let’s Fight Till Six and Then Have Dinner.” Drawings and video by Michele Guieu.

“Creature Comforts.” Works by Karen Carlo Salinger. Thru Nov 30. San Jose.

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SEEING THINGS GALLERY “Tri-X-Noise.” A new gallery hosts a show for Bill Daniel. Reception Sat, 7-11pm. Nov 10-26. 30 N Third St, San Jose.

SLG BOUTIKI “The World of Genevieve Santos.”

Thru Nov 30. San Jose.

THOMPSON GALLERY “Michele Pred—(In)Security.”

Transformed artifacts culled from post-9/11 airport security. Nov 13-Dec 14. Art Building, SJSU.

“Ciudad Fragmentada.” Photobased works by Cuban artist José Manuel Fors. Nov 7-26.

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“In and Out of Place.” New works by Ruth Boerefijn and Bia Gayotto. Thru Jan 13. Thu-Sun, 11am-3pm. Saratoga.

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Step by step, 50 years of insane 007 fantasies have become intelligenceapparatus realities. As the late Alexander Cockburn wrote, “Ian Fleming has a lot to answer for.”

Certainly, Skyfall, the latest Bond film (see review on page 36), is part of a series limbered up by Daniel Craig’s outstanding embodiment of the secret agent. Bond, who once upon a time knew in which direction to shoot, gets caught in a substantial amount of blowback in this installment.

Things weren’t always this complicated. Once, 007 had clear shots at criminals who speechified like so: “For centuries, alchemists tried to make gold from base metals.

Today, we make microchips from silicon, which is common sand. We are now in the unique position to form an international cartel to control not only production but distribution of these microchips.

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That was minor James Bond villain Max Zorin in A View to a Kill, who schemed to find the San Andreas Fault’s sweet spot with a nuke and flood Cupertino with the Pacific Ocean. Not as memorable as stealing a nuclear missile or cornering the world’s gold supply, but every little bit helps.

Since we just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the release of Dr. No, the Internet is stuffed with people revisiting the half-century-long saga in one sitting—22 films, not counting the noncanonical Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again (1983), a remake of Thunderball (1966).

All one can judge from the collected experience is that there are many moments the fans of the serious Craig as Bond would like to forget. The only question is how to find the lowest point: The stupid robot dog in A View to a Kill? The camel double-take in Octopussy?

Every revisit to the Bond oeuvre teaches something, though; a reassessment awaits every screening.

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of the previous 19 canonical Bonds) is allegedly overstuffed with gadgets—as if there were a comfortable home anywhere else in cinema for invisible cars, death rays and secret Cuban DNA-replacement clinics.

Roger Moore’s most credible outing as Bond—For Your Eyes Only— is honorable but sometimes stodgy, even if its co-star (Carole Bouquet) is easily the most beautiful actress in the series. By contrast, A View to a Kill sometimes looks better than it did in its day, thanks to the interesting abrasiveness between a very young and snotty Christopher Walken and a very aged Moore.

The series has given us a multidecade cycle of excess and atonement, binge and purge. The bare-bones commando mission For Your Eyes Only arrives after The Spy Who Loved Me, a true kid-slaker with a steel-toothed giant. “Look he moves,” producer Albert how h Broccoli once marveled, as he had Brocco Connery stride across the Sean C carpet like a show pony to impress disinterested studio exec or some d another—a process Connery neither anoth forgave nor forgot. But Jaws as great forgav villain? Readers, look at how Richard villain moved. The poor man, disabled Kiel m by his height, couldn’t have outrun a hobbled newsboy.

To Bond’s credit, when American movies were arguing that greed was good and the commies were an empire of evil, the 007 films suggested that the real figures to look out for were criminals pretending to be businessmen.

From great Blofeld down to Zorin, the antagonists were a populist’s nightmare. They exemplified wealth and secrecy. They were Krupps and Kochs. If 007 originally escaped from an imperialist daydream in the novels, the films are about a government agent gunning for rogue capitalists. The irony is that there’s so much dressing on the stories—the cars and clothes and resorts—that even the real-life malefactors emulate them. You could even watch one with Donald Trump—he’s so vain, he wouldn’t know the film was about him.

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(R; 105 min.) Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener star in a drama about a classical string ensemble.

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SKYFALL (PG-13; 142 min.) See review on page 36.

THREE QUARTER MOON Slow-moving but gentle and heartfelt story of an alienated 60ish taxi driver (Elmar Wepper) forced by plausible circumstances to take in a Turkish latch-key kid, Hayat (Mercan-Fatima Türkoglu). Recently abandoned by his wife, the driver is suspicious of immigrants—he gets called a Nazi for grumbling at a passenger and replies, “Criticize someone with a different skin color, and you’re a Nazi.” But the little girl, who can barely make a sentence in German, warms him up. Smooth but not smug, the soundtrack helps diffuse what sounds like the inevitable Shirley Templeness of this kind of story. (Opens Fri at BlueLight Cinemas in Cupertino.) (RvB)

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CLUE (1985) The quote-along version, nicely cast with Madeline Kahn and Tim Curry as the Butler (“I buttle,” he explains). (Plays Nov 9-11 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

SABOTEUR/THE BANK DICK (1942/1940) Aircraft mechanic Robert Cummings is mistaken for a Nazi saboteur and must head into the fastness for America to find the real culprit. Priscilla Lane plays the underpowered heroine. Essentially a series of sketches for what would be North by Northwest. BILLED WITH The Bank Dick. What could be more salubrious than spring in Lompoc? This: a Horatio Alger tale of an ordinary souse (pronounced Sou-say) who accidentally foils a bank robbery and is given the uniform of the guard. Rare Mr. W.C. Fields, a nimble vaudevillian with Falstaff’s own instincts as well as a thirst and vocabulary for 10, takes the title role. Required viewing.

(Plays Nov 10-11 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

(PG-13; 101 min.) A serial killer (Matthew Fox) faces off against police detective/ psychologist Alex Cross (Tyler Perry) in an adaptation of a James Patterson novel.

(R; 120 min.) Ben Affleck’s film is a comedy about the nadir of the American ’70s, the Iranian hostage crisis and the apparent impotence of our nation. Derived from a true-life story of rescue, the film’s heroics should prove particularly appealing. Yet while Affleck goes full ’70s, his nerve failed somewhere. He decided to pump up the tale. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA officer of tensed nerves and troubled stability. Mendez will organize the scouting of locations for a fake science-fiction movie. Six Americans who escaped the revolutionary round-up are currently hiding in the Canadian embassy in Tehran. They will be removed, disguised as crew members and writers. Argo sees the famous “Canadian Caper” as comedy.

While some documentarylike scenes of an embassy in flight ground the movie, it’s a fantasy about how a magic charm of lies is able to brave the walls of the worst reign of terror situations.

Who was the Scarlet Pimpernel, if not a showman? (RvB)

CHASING MAVERICKS (PG; 105 min.) Locally shot feature about surfing legend Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston) and Frost Hesson (Gerard Butler), the man who taught him to ride the big waves near Santa Cruz.

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Nov 7, 7:30pm, in Campbell at Camera 7: Kaddish for a Friend.

About the unlikely friendship between an aging German Jew and the teenager who vandalized his home. Nov 8, 7:30pm, in Palo Alto at the OFJCC: Dusk. An Israeli version of Crash. Nov 10, 7:30pm at OFJCC: Yossi, the sequel to Yossi and Jagger. 9:30pm, OFJCC: Mabul (The Flood). Trouble occurs in an Israeli family when an autistic brother moves in. Nov 11, 1pm in San Jose at Camera 12: Torn, a documentary about a priest of Jewish ancestry, raised as a Catholic during the Holocaust. Nov 13, 7:30pm, in San Jose at Camera 7: Joanna. a Polish woman during World War II shelters a Jewish girl. Nov 14, 7:30pm, at Camera 7: Sonny Boy. During World War II, a Guianese emigrant to Holland marries a local woman and becomes involved in hiding children from the Nazis. Based on a true story. (Plays thru Now 18 in various South Bay locations.) (RvB)

(R; 172 min.) The Wachowskis and director Tom Tykwer’s mutually inept take on David Mitchell’s novel of interlocking eras and Eternal Recurrence. Thanks to literally dozens of wobbly make-up jobs—looks like Halloween came early this year!—the shuttle back and forth between the 1800s and a postapocalyptic future is ludicrous. Tom Hanks uses a strangely Cajun accent as a tribesman of “140 years after the Fall” fighting off a tribe of horseback-riding ogres, while dealing with a futuristic anthropologist (Halle Berry in one of six roles). Something can be said for the mellifluous Keith David dressed like Shaft, and Berry attractively togged out as ’70s TV detective Christie Love, in the sequence about skullduggery at a nuclear power plant. A draw to atomicblaster fans: the chapter about the tears of a clone (Doona Bae) enslaved at a New Seoul restaurant of the future. This business doesn’t transcend the trap of the literary fiction writer delving into sci-fi—stripped of the prose, the plot is

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If a Bond movie is essentially a string of sequences, Skyfall’s contributions delight. Thomas Newman’s soundtrack is sensational. A chase through Istanbul is raw and exciting. A passage of tracking an assassin in Shanghai ends with a fight in polychrome silhouette—a highlight of cinematographer Roger Deakins’ career.

Daniel Craig’s unimpeachable virility reaches Clark Gable levels; no one has ever looked less ducky in a tux, sporting a cruel crew cut, bulging with muscles.

And Craig’s dry wit is bracing. I loved the sporting gesture, during a fight, of Bond wordlessly warning his opponent of something far more dangerous creeping up.

Skyfall stresses the frailty and wounds of Bond, the age showing in Craig’s grizzled stubble, the habits that will kill him if some assassin doesn’t do the job first. I don’t mind the suggestion of time passing, but when Mendes underscores the point in italics, we’re getting far from the essential magic of 007, his Skyfall miraculous way of PG-13; 143 min. slipping through Opens Friday death’s fingers.

Gorgeous as Skyfall is, the plot disappoints. The story rephrases the way Bond opposed his old self in 1995’s GoldenEye, and doesn’t Skyfall seem undervillained? As “Silver,” a bleached Javier Bardem makes a big entrance, crossing a room and giving us a variation of a John Giorno poem about the most drastic way to rid yourself of a rat problem. Silver is dangerous enough, but his intentions are small in scale. Sure, Bond can save England, represented here by the Tube,

by J.M.W. Turner’s painting The Fighting Temeraire, by Tennyson’s “Ulysses,” by numerous references to Churchill, by even a homely china bulldog. But just England? Once this was a man for whom the world was not enough.

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(R 118 min.) Thoroughly ingenious.

(R; Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Joe, a Kansas Jo City hit man of the 2070s with longings Ci for faraway Paris. He has one routine: fo doing mundane executions for a gang do existing 30 years in the future. This task ex is interrupted when Joe’s wily future self (Bruce Willis) arrives through a time se portal. It sounds like a movie that’s too po high-concept to breathe, but talented hi director/writer Rian Johnson (Brick, The di Brothers Bloom) takes a comfortable Br turn tu into Stephen King territory; certainly, the th dreadful way the future mob induces fugitives to return is as good as any idea fu King Ki ever came up with. On the down side, si Gordon-Levitt’s make-up (which is supposed to make him resemble Willis) su is odd, and the film could have used more m humor, although Jeff Daniels as a lazy la mafia middle-manager who already knows his future is exceptionally funny. kn Also A a standout: Emily Blunt, who has one on of her strongest roles ever as the farmer who gives Joe shelter. (RvB) fa

SEVENPSYCHOPATHS (R; 109 min.) From the opening shot of the Hollywood sign to the words “The End” on a page, director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) has created a film for an audience made up exclusively of aspiring scriptwriters. Marty (Colin Farrell) is a blocked and drunk L.A. scripter whose manic pal Billy (Sam Rockwell), a sometimes dognapper, tries to feed him ideas about a serial-killer movie. Billy’s associate Hans Kieslowski (Christopher Walken is a standout) is the trustworthy elderly face of the lost-dog reward seeking. But he pinches the Shih-tzu of a gangster with a chrome pistol and a scorpion tattooed on his neck. That’s when the blood starts to flow in earnest, or as earnest as the film gets. Working the short attention-span trade, McDonagh tries to make quick, manic-depressive changes in mood that don’t convince even with the help of performers as grave as Walken, Harry Dean Stanton and a bunny-fondling Tom Waits. (RvB)

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(NR; 83 min.) Peter Nicks’ cool, compassionate and confident survey of Highland Hospital in Oakland, which serves as a safety net for a city wracked with hellish problems. Nicks refuses to take everything that bleeds as leads; his film is far less gory than House MD, for instance. He and his crew balance the more minor problems with the major ones: an angelic little girl very ill with strep throat, a middle-aged carpet-layer disabled by pain and a habitual toxico.

Perhaps the standout: nurse assistant Cynthia Y. Johnson giving a lesson in how to deal with angry strangers in pain.

Watching how these physicians and nurses triage and care for these sufferers makes you wonder what miracles they could achieve if there were actually health care for all. (RvB)

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D Dodd picks up Freddie and conducts D quasipsychiatric experiments on him, qu leading up to a new crusade called “The le Cause.” Dodd’s stirring of Freddie’s soft Ca brain heralds bigger things: the rise of br the intelligence apparatus, the thinkth tank, Cointelpro, the lies of World War ta II furthered by new means. The bigger picture looms like Hoffman’s screenpi filling l head, demanding obedience in sickeningly insinuating tones. The voice si echoes against the background of ec postwar America, a nation about to get po gigantic. (RvB) gi

(PG; 108 min.) Stark raving ingenuity makes the new Disney 3-D animated feature a rare treat. An apelike 8-bit video-game heavy has been demolishing the same apartment house for some 30 years. Shunned by the other characters in the Fix-It Felix Jr. video game, Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) sojourns into neighboring video games. Through mishap, Ralph is stranded in a sticky, fergirls racetrack game called Sugar Rush, in which adorable candy princesses race in cookie cars. A reject “glitch” girl called Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) longs to join the racers, but her participation may lead to the total destruction of the game.

The metaphysics of how this arcade world works includes a transit system and homeless characters from out-oforder games and graffiti Yet the movie isn’t crushed by its own concept or by in-jokes, and the central fable transcends good-vs.-evil storytelling. The film honors the balance between creation and destruction. (RvB

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Khalifa, or “Young Wiz” as his classmates called him, has arrived at a point many rappers only dream to reach. The tall, skinny, tattooed Pittsburgh native has already run through major music labels (his first signing was with Warner Bros. at age 19), and he is now peaking on rap, dance and international crossover charts.

He hangs out with Snoop Dogg, whom he laughingly refers to as a “smoking buddy,” and Three 6 Mafia’s Juicy J, who is performing with him in San Jose. He is also engaged to former

video vixen Amber Rose, a model and actress famously linked to Kanye West.

The two announced recently at MTV’s VMAs that they are going to have a baby.

Professionally, Khalifa’s unofficial mixtapes are as sought after as his official albums. His latest, Cabin Fever 2, is a follow-up to its massively successful predecessor.

What’s most striking about Khalifa’s odd rise to fame, however, is the absence of struggle. Essentially, he got signed right away. Not too many new musicians leave labels like Warner Bros. or Atlantic—they pay dues for years to get on these labels and often never make it. In fact, “Black and Yellow,” a track from his debut for Atlantic, almost immediately earned him the top spot on the Billboard charts.

Khalifa’s approach to rapping is counterintuitive, too, as he doesn’t rely on sharp rhymes or mic skills. He comes from a new breed of rappers who don’t concern themselves with delivery or

lyricism. The point isn’t to be detailed but rather fun—and by any and all means.

They sell lifestyle and attitude, crafting entire albums around persona and party anthems. The tactic has worked great for Snoop as well as the Rick Ross wannabes of the world. Both lowered the bar in terms of technical skill but raised it for charisma and attitude.

Snoop is, of course, pop-culture gold, but as a rapper, he’s not of the same caliber as quick-lipped maestros Kendrick Lamar or Pharoahe Monch.

It makes sense then that Khalifa’s first memories of hip-hop are of Bone ThugsN-Harmony, a mid-’90s group with dark songs done in half-singing/half-rapping cadences.

“I was in Atlanta in a mall with my mom, and ‘Crossroads’ by Bone came on,” Khalifa remembers. “That was the first time I felt like I really took in rap music.”

Like Bone, Khalifa at times also combines rap with singing, choosing catchiness over substance or even coherence. It’s a formula that’s never fails him, and one that struck him as a young listener.

“Before that, I had always listened to what my dad had playing around the house like Father MC or Big Daddy

(David Ma is a music writer whose work has appeared in The Source, URB Magazine, Wax Poetics, XLR8R and Pitchfork. He also edits the audioblog Nerdtorious.com.)

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Kane,” he says. “But Bone was the first time I was like, ‘Whoa!’”

Khalifa also grew up on heavy doses of ’90s gangsta rap. He cites Bay Area legend Too $hort as another important influence. “I first heard of him in the early ’90s, and it was actually through my mom. We moved all over the place and took long car rides, and Too $hort was always on.”

In 2005, “Young Wiz” became Wiz Khalifa, and the rapper started taking music more seriously. Within a few months Rolling Stone declared him “An Artist to Watch.”

For someone who brags about liquor and weed smoke, Khalifa made sobering, ambitious decisions about his music career. He wanted to do this full-time, do more than put out mixtapes. He wanted to have full control of his songs. He wanted big-time producers and major la labels. He wanted to make films and aact, too.

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Khalifa remains one of the few young rappers who indeed possess the excessive, over-the-top lifestyle they boast about. He has made two films (both fall into the “stoner flick” category) and is pursuing more acting. Khalifa sums up his growth over the last few years: “It’s hard making an album. I pretty much write everything. And I think that shows my growth and strength as a writer and performer. That’s where I’m at right now.”

With a baby on the way, movie deals in the works and an exploding fan base, Wiz Khalifa isn’t really the lazy stoner or 24-hour party monster his songs depict.

But he keeps his persona consistent when I ask what struck him most about previous Bay Area tour stops. He laughs, and replies, “The weed!”

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Rock/Pop THE BLANK CLUB Wed, 9pm: Wilder Maker, Plantain, Sun Foot. Free. Fri, 9pm: Young Science, Anya and the Get Down, Soft White Sixties. $10. Sat, 9pm: Spiral Arms, Zed, Swerver, Shotgun Harlot. $10. San Jose.

BOSWELL’S Wed, 9:30pm: Jack Rip-Off. Thu, 10pm: Liquid Courage.

Fri, 9:30pm: Degenerates. Sat, 9:30pm: Superbad. Sun, 8:30pm: The Gents. Mon, 9:30pm: Kid Dynamite. Campbell.

BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Drive!. San Jose.

9:30pm: Cocktail Monkeys. $10.

Los Gatos.

7:30pm: Jazz jam. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.

PAGODA LOUNGE

J.J.’S BLUES CAFE

Sat, 7pm: Patty Ascher, Cado.

Fairmont Hotel, San Jose.

Wed: Dan Goghs. Thu: Ron Tomasello. Fri: Liar’s Club. Sat: Little John Chrisley jam at 5pm; John Garcia, $10. Mon: Desiree and Diamond 99. Tue: Blue J early, then Liars Club. San Jose.

THE QUARTER NOTE Wed: Pro Jam. No cover. Thu: Pro Jam hosted by Vicious Groove. No cover. Sun: Pro Jam. Sunnyvale.

RODEO CLUB

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

San Jose.

Thu: Bleed the Freaks, Dangerous Toys, Bomb and Scary. $15. San Jose.

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Wed, 8:30pm: Out of the Blue.

Thu, 9pm: Adam Walter Band.

Fri, 9pm: Nathan Thomas Band.

Sat, 9pm: Sandy Nuyts Band.

Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Tue, 8pm: Johnny Fabulous. Los Gatos.

CLUB FOX Fri, 9pm: Hot for Teacher, Ozzy Alive. $10/$15. Sat, 8pm: A tribute to Peter Green, Volker Strifler, Dave Gonzales, Paul Revelli, Tony Lufrano and Endre Tarczy. $17/$20. Redwood City.

JOHNNY V’S Thu, 8pm: Black Pussy, Dark Earth, the Merit, Stone Leaf.

No cover. Fri, 9pm: Vie Victus, Them Rude Boys. Sat, 9pm: Dirt Track Heros, Systemic, Otto, DJ Batwing. San Jose.

MOJO LOUNGE Fri: John Nemeth Band. $10. Sat: Blue Diamond Phillips. Fremont.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Fri-Sat: Live bands. Los Gatos.

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Fri, 8:30pm: The Cruzers. $10.

Sat, 8:30pm: Big Daddy Rockers. $10. Santa Clara.

Thu-Sat: Live bands. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Fri, 8pm: Maxx Cabello Jr. Sat, 8pm: Live in the Square music series. San Jose.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Thu-Fri, 6-9pm: Live blues, roots and Americana. Morgan Hill.

Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson.

Thu, 6pm: Howell Devine Blues Band. Fri, 6pm: R.J. Mischo Band.

Sat, 6pm: Ron Hacker and the Hacksaws. Sun, 2pm: Will Russ.

Mon: Kid Andersen Show. San Jose.

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Sat, 8pm: Whiskey Avengers, Monkey, Orca Team, Dan Potthast, Point of View. $8.

Homestead Lanes, Cupertino.

Tue, 7:30pm: Irish music.

Mountain View.

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

AZÚCAR LATIN BAR Wed: Rock band. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata and rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, Latin fusion.

San Jose.

CLUB FOX Wed, 7pm: Blues jam. Sun, 5pm: All-Star Autumn Revuew with Rick Vandivier, Rosewood Trio, Julia Belanoff. $25. Redwood City.

GOOD KARMA

Wed: Jazz jam. Thu: Piano bar.

Fri-Sat: Jazz bands. Tue: Blues.

Morgan Hill.

THE GRAPEVINE Thu, 7pm: Hootenanny. Sat, 7pm: Blues Rockers. San Jose.

MOUNTAIN CHARLEY’S Wed: Live country band. Los Gatos.

ORCHARD VALLEY COFFEE Thu-Sat: Acoustic bands.

Campbell.

RED ROCK COFFEE Fri, 8pm: Dogcater, Dubious Ranger. Sat, 8pm: Jack o’the Clock, Art Eliot. Sun, noon: Margaret and Victor play bluegrass. Mountain View.

NINE LIVES

Thu: Acoustic music. San Jose.

RODEO CLUB

Fri, 8pm: Liquid Sky, Groovy Judy. Gilroy.

GRAND DELL SALOON

Fri: Eric Church afterparty. San Jose.

Thu, 8pm: Gary Smith. Fri, 8pm: Diamonds in the Ruff. Sat, 8pm: Pat Wilder. Campbell.

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Earlier this year, Live 105’s DJ Menace asked Young Science if they would let Alice 97.3-FM use their song “Chill Murray” as background Young Science, music for a video interview segment with One Anya & the Get Down, Direction. During the interview, the members of One Soft White Sixties Direction talked about a new song coming out soon.

Some of their fans assumed “Chill Murray” was the Friday, Nov. 9, 9pm; $10 new song and quickly cut together YouTube videos with the song playing over footage of One Direction The Blank Club, performing. These videos generated a lot of views before San Jose getting taken down a few months later.

It only gets more surreal from there. The truth of who sang “Chill Murray” eventually came out in the comments section of the YouTube videos as fans argued about which member of One Direction was singing lead.

Once they realized their mistake, they happily became Young Science fans. “Our following on Facebook doubled in a month because of it,” says Young Science frontman James Melo. “People were like, ‘I came here for One Direction but ended up loving Young Science. What a joyous mistake.’”

Before this strange misunderstanding, it would seem unlikely that a group like One Direction, which caters primarily to prepubescent girls, would share fans with Young Science, which appeals more to a college-aged alternative-radio crowd, especially since “Chill Murray” is an ’80s-inspired synth-pop song about drugs, while One Direction is the epitome of the wholesome boy band.

Yet the song is really catchy. You can almost understand the confusion if you buy into the premise that One Direction would release a synth-pop number. “Our music is pop music. I guess it’s not that crazy to think we would be in the same genre as One Direction,” says Melo.

The whole thing ended up seeming like a genius prank that Young Science played, but Melo swears up and down that he had nothing to do with it. “It would have been a pretty awesome prank for me to do, but unfortunately I didn’t think of it,” Melo tells me.

Really, it’s just another example of Young Science’s penchant for good luck.

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BLUE PHEASANT Tue, 7pm: Steve Tiger. Cupertino.

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Mon, 7:30pm: Karaoke. Santa Clara.

Fri-Sun, 9:30pm-1:30am: Karaoke. Willow Glen.

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Mon, 7pm: Musical open mic for singer/songwriters. Sign up at 7pm. Free. San Jose.

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

BOGART’S LOUNGE Wed, Fri and Sun, 8pm-2am: Wildside Karaoke. Sunnyvale.

BOSWELL’S Tue: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

JOHNNY V’S Sun: Sunday Funday karaoke.

No cover. San Jose.

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Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond. San Jose.

Thu: Karaoke. Los Gatos.

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Thu, 9pm: DJ Davey K. Campbell.

Tue: Karaoke. San Jose.

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Fri, 7pm: Open mic. San Jose.

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

Thu & Sun-Mon, 8:30pm: Bruce of KOR Karaoke. Mountain View.

Mon, 7pm: Cavin and King’s Open Mic. Mountain View.

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Thu, 8:30pm-midnight: Karaoke with Jordan River Productions.

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Wed-Sat and Tue, 9pm: Uncle Dougie Show. No cover. San Jose.

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

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Thu, 10pm: DJ Dinero. Sat: DJ Aspect. San Jose.

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2. Pessimists Pessimists note oil pr oductio on is production ttapering apering off or declining and antic cipate anticipate ap eak soon—not soon—not long ago, ago, some peak thought it would happen happen any an ny day. daay.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570217 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Excel Financial, 6472 Camden Ave., #21, San Jose, CA, 95125, Sheldon K. Perry, 1500 Camino Monde, San Joe, CA, 95125.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS This business is NAME STATEMENT conducted by a #571371 individual.

The following person(s) is Registrant began (are) doing business as: transacting business 1. Prologix Instruments, under the fictitious LLC., 2. Prologix, LLC., business name or names 1691 Grizilo Drive, San listed herein on 2/7/86.

Jose, CA, 95124. /s/Sheldon K. Perry This business is This statement was filed conducted by a Limited with the County Clerk of Liability Company.

Santa Clara County on Above entity was 10/02/2012. formed in the state of (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, Washington.

11/14, 11/21/2012) Registrant began transacting business FICTITIOUS BUSINESS under the fictitious NAME STATEMENT business name or #571128 names listed herein on The following person(s) is 11/01/2012. (are) doing business as: /s/Abdul Come And Smile Photo Manager #201227510247 Booth, 1396 Flickinger This statement was filed Avenue, San Jose, CA, with the County Clerk of 95131, Filipina Tejam, Santa Clara County on Danilo Tejam.

11/02/2012.

This business is (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, conducted by a husband 11/21, 11/28/2012) and wife.

Registrant has not FICTITIOUS BUSINESS yet begun transacting NAME STATEMENT business under the #571185 fictitious business name The following person(s) or names listed herein. is (are) doing business /s/Danilo Tejam as: Astrotecture, 4260 This statement was filed Terman Drive., #104, Palo with the County Clerk of Alto, CA, 94306, Marc M Santa Clara County on Cohen, Architect PC. 10/26/2012.

This business is (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, conducted by a 11/21, 11/28/2012) Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state FICTITIOUS BUSINESS of California NAME STATEMENT Registrant began #570274 transacting business The following person(s) is under the fictitious (are) doing business as: business name or Darling Divas and Dudes, names listed herein on 4937 Gattucio Drive, San 1/13/2012.

Jose, CA, 95124, Kristan /s/Marc M. Cohen Nelson.

President, Owner This business is #3303986 conducted by a This statement was filed individual. with the County Clerk of Registrant has not Santa Clara County on yet begun transacting 10/30/2012. (pub Metro business under the 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, fictitious business name 11/28/2012) or names listed herein. /s/Kristan Nelson FICTITIOUS BUSINESS This statement was filed NAME STATEMENT with the County Clerk of #570350 Santa Clara County on The following person(s) 10/03/2012. is (are) doing business (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07,

11/14, 11/21/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569907 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Eastridge Management, 51 Glen Eyrie Ave., #10, San Jose, CA, 95125, Eastridge Partners, Inc..

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

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/Chris Jones CFO #3503044 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/24/2012. (pub Metro 10/24, 10/31, 11/07, 11/14/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570811 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Passion Nails and Spa, 21646 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA, 95014, Rose Tu, 7201 Via Lomas, San Jose, CA, 95139.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Rose Tu This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/18/2012. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, 11/14, 11/21/2012)

GPeople Group, LLC. This business is conducted by a limited liability company.

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/Sonjc Lilenthal Chief Operating Officer #201132110211 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/12/2012. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, 11/14, 11/21/2012) 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)

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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Lake Dr., Apt 207, San NAME STATEMENT Jose, CA, 95123.

This business is #570872 The following person(s) is conducted by a individual. (are) doing business as: Daniel Hon Photography, Registrant has not yet begun transacting 446 Benefit Court, San business under the Jose, CA, 95133, Hoi Tak fictitious business name Hon. or names listed herein.

This business is /s/Lorens S. Ebrahimi conducted by a This statement was filed individual. with the County Clerk of Registrant began Santa Clara County on transacting business 10/19/2012. under the fictitious (pub Metro 10/24, 10/31, business name or 11/07, 11/14/2012) names listed herein on 01/01/2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS /s/Hoi Tak Hon NAME STATEMENT This statement was filed with the County Clerk of #570863 Santa Clara County on The following person(s) is 10/19/2012. (are) doing business as: (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, Metalcraft Refinishing & 11/14, 11/21/2012) Restoration, 2055 Alum Rock Ave., San Jose, CA, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 95148, Tony Espinoza, NAME STATEMENT 3569 Ruechene Dr., San Jose, CA, 95148. #570636 This business is The following person(s) conducted by a is (are) doing business as: 1. The GPeople Group, individual.

Registrant has not 2. LentiliciousUSA, yet begun transacting 3. Lentilicious North business under the America, 130 E. San fictitious business name Fernando St., Apt 130, San Jose, CA, 95112, The or names listed herein. /s/Tony Espinoza

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 #570319 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Stevens Creek Family Chiropractic. 2858 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 208, San Jose, CA, 95128, Chang Heo, 80 Descanso Dr., #1214, San Jose, CA, 95134.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/04/2012. /s/Chang Heo This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/04/2012. (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.

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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) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #569674 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Capital Law Offices, 1262 East Hamilton Ave., #F, Campbell, CA, 95008, Denise M. Zingale, 2419 Cherry Hills Dr., Discovery Bay, CA, 94505.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 9/17/2012. /s/Denise Zingale This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 9/17/2012. (pub Metro 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/07/2012)

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, FICTITIOUS BUSINESS CA, 94103.

NAME STATEMENT This business is conducted by a Limited #570673 The following person(s) is Liability Company. Above (are) doing business as: A entity was formed in the Celtic Craftsman Builders, state of California.

Registrant has not begun 2815 Lexford Ave., San Jose, CA, 95124, Stephen transacting business under the fictitious A. McBain. business name or names This business is listed herein. conducted by a /s/Bill R. Poland individual.

Managing Member Registrant began #201209710162 transacting business This statement was filed under the fictitious with the County Clerk of business name or Santa Clara County on names listed herein on 9/07/2007.

9/19/2012. (pub Metro /s/Stephen A. McBain 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, This statement was filed 11/07/2012) with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 10/15/2012.

NAME STATEMENT (pub Metro 10/24, 10/31, #570375 11/07, 11/14/2012) The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Gilda Hair Salon, 337 S. NAME STATEMENT Monroe St., San Jose, CA, #570327 95128, Gilda Geragosian, The following person(s) 599 Calpella Dr., San

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This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Gilda Geragosian This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/05/2012. (pub Metro 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/07/2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570185 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Galabay, 2. Galabay. com, 1815 Monterey Hwy., San Jose, CA 95112, JB Furnishing LLC. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

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/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) 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 #570674 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sedona Immigration Law group. 1602 The Alameda, Suite 200, San Jose, CA, 95126, Jenny K. Hong, 3183 Hastings Way, San Ramon, CA, 94582. This business is conducted by a individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Jenny K. Hong This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/15/2012. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2012)

as: Body Purity, 988 Edenbury Ln., San Jose, CA, 95136, Angela St.John.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Angela St. John This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/05/2012. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, 11/14, 11/21/2012)

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): The data thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stored and disseminated on the Internet is unimaginably voluminous. And yet the 540 billion trillion electrons that carry all this information weigh about the same as a strawberry. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to use this fun fact as a metaphor for the work youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing these daysâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the play, too. Your output is prodigious. Your intensity is on the verge of becoming legendary. The potency of your efforts is likely to set in motion effects that will last for a long time. And yet, to the naked eye or casual observer, it all might look as simple and light as a strawberry.

TAURUS (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): What if you have a twin

sister or brother that your mother gave up for adoption right after you were born and never told you about?

Or what if you have a soul twin youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never metâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a potential ally who understands life in much the same ways that you do? In either case, now is a time when the two of you might ďŹ nally discover each other. At the very least, Taurus, I suspect youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be going deeper and deeper with a kindred spirit who will help you transform your stories about your origins and make you feel more at home on the planet.

GEMINI (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): I urged my readers to

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meditate on death not as the end of physical life but as a metaphor for shedding whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outworn. I then asked them to describe the best death they had ever experienced. I got a response thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s applicable to you right now. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s from a reader named Judd: â&#x20AC;&#x153;My best death was getting chicken pox at age 13 while living in the Philippines. My mother banished me to the TV room. I was uncomfortable but hyperactive, lonely and driven to agony by the awful shows. But after six hours, something popped. My suffering turned inside out, and a miracle bloomed. I closed my eyes and my imagination opened up like a vortex. Images, ideas, places, dreams, people familiar and strangeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;all amazing, colorful, and vibrantâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;ďŹ&#x201A;owed through my head. I knew then and there that no material thing on this Earth could hook me up to the source of life like my own thoughts. I was free!â&#x20AC;?

CANCER (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): Conservationists are surprised by what has been transpiring in and around Nepalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chitwan National Park. The tigers that live there have changed their schedule. Previously, they prowled around at all hours, day and night. But as more people have moved into the area, the creatures have increasingly become nocturnal. Researchers who have studied the situation believe the tigers are doing so in order to better co-exist with humans. I suspect that a metaphorically similar development is possible for you, Cancerian. Meditate on how the wildest part of your life could adapt better to the most civilized partâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and vice versa. (Read more: tinyurl.com/HumanTiger.)

LEO (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): What is a dry waterfall? The

term may refer to the location of an extinct waterfall where a river once fell over a cliff but has since stopped ďŹ&#x201A;owing. DĂśda Fallet in Sweden is such a place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dry waterfallâ&#x20AC;? may also signify a waterfall that only exists for a while after a heavy rain and then disappears again. One example is on Brukkaros Mountain in Namibia. A third variant shows up in Cliffs Beyond Abiquiu, Dry Waterfall, a landscape painting by Georgia Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffe. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lush rendering of a stark landscape near the New Mexico town where Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Keeffe lived. Soon you will have your own metaphorical version of a dry waterfall, Leo. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ready for you if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ready for it.

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symptoms and underwent an endoscopy. The evidence proved that he and his partner were correct. They won a Nobel Prize for their work. (And Marshall recovered just ďŹ ne.) I urge you to be inspired by their approach, Libra. Formulate experiments that allow you to make practical tests of your ideas, and consider using yourself as a guinea pig.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): This is not prime time

for you to rake in rewards, collect hard-earned goodies, and celebrate successes youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been building toward for a long time. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ ne if you end up doing those things, but I suspect that what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re best suited for right now is getting things started. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll attract help from unexpected sources if you lay the groundwork for projects you want to work on throughout 2013. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in alignment with cosmic rhythms, too. Your motto comes from your fellow Scorpio, writer Robert Louis Stevenson: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.â&#x20AC;?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): On a beach, a man spied a pelican that was barely moving. Was it sick? He wanted to help. Drawing close, he discovered that ants were crawling all over it. He brushed them off, then carried the bird to his car and drove it to a veterinarian. After a thorough examination, the doctor realized the pelican was suffering from a fungus that the ants had been eating awayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and probably would have removed completely if the man hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t interfered.

Moral of the story: Sometimes healing takes place in unexpected ways, and nature knows better than we do about how to make it happen. Keep that in mind during the coming weeks, Sagittarius.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): A farmer in Japan

found a 56-leaf clover. Well, actually, he bred it in his garden at home. It took effort on his part. Presumably, it provided him with 14 times the luck of a mere fourleaf clover. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think your good karma will be quite that extravagant in the coming week, Capricorn, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a decent chance youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get into at least the 16-leaf realm. To raise your odds of approaching the 56-leaf level of favorable fortune, remember this: Luck tends to ďŹ&#x201A;ow in the direction of those who work hard to prepare for it and earn it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): The largest bell

in the world is located in Moscow, Russia. Called the Tsar Bell, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s made of bronze, weighs 445,170 pounds, and is elaborately decorated with images of people, angels, and plants. It has never once been rung in its 275 years of existence. Is there anything comparable in your own life, Aquarius? Some huge presence that has never actually been used? The time is near when that stillness may ďŹ nally come to an end. I suggest you decide how this will occur rather than allowing fate to choose for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): Are you interested in experiencing a close brush with a holy anomaly or a rowdy blessing or a divine wild card? If not, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfectly OK. Just say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not ready for a lyrical ďŹ&#x201A;urry of uncanny grace.â&#x20AC;? And the freaky splendor or convulsive beauty or mystical mutation will avoid making contact with you, no questions asked. But if you suspect you might enjoy communing with a subversive blast of illuminationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if you think you could have fun coming to terms with a tricky epiphany that blows your mindâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;then go out under the night sky and whisper a message like this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m ready for you, sweetness. Find me.â&#x20AC;?

VIRGO (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): You are getting to where

you need to be, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still not there. You have a good share of the raw materials you will require to accomplish your goal, but as of yet you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough of the structure that will make everything work.

The in-between state youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re inhabiting reminds me of a passage from the author Elias Canetti: â&#x20AC;&#x153;His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.â&#x20AC;?

Your next assignment, Virgo, is to see what you can do about coalescing a few constellations.

LIBRA (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): Doctors used to believe

that ulcers were caused by stress and spicy foods. But in the 1980s, two researchers named Barry Marshall and Robin Warren began to promote an alternative theory. They believed the culprit was H. pylori, a type of bacteria. To test their hypothesis, Marshall drank a Petri dish full of H. pylori. Within days, he got gastric

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