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Labor’s Loss Despite national and state victories and the symbolic minimum wage measure, labor lost big time in San Jose. And union stooge Dave Cortese’s hopes of becoming mayor have fallen, along with the

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Corn Belt Wow—didn’t know that police and fire in Iowa are causing a $650 million pension debt (“Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa,” SanJoseInside, Nov. 14). Good for you, Mayor Reed. Maybe you can use, “San Jose is still safer than Iowa and Kansas combined!”

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Meddling “Alum Rock Union School District trustees are making moves to fill

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Merc editor Barbara Marshman’s meddling created this situation. In 2010, her editorial said that Darcie Green was the best-qualified person for election to a four-year term on a board of education compared to every other candidate for a similar position in the entire county.

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SSuper uperr Meeting Meeting Supervisor GGEORGE Supervisor EORGE SSHIRAKAWA HIRAKA AWA says he doesn’t doesn’t want his boar boardd colleagues, county staff or the community to be distracted distr acted by the Shirakawa ““political political lynching” taking place inn rregards egards to media coverage fraudulent coverage of hiss fr audulent expense reports. reports. At At its bi-monthly b county Board Supervisors Board of Super rvisors meeting Tuesday, Tuesday, Shirakawa tackled Shirakawa tack kled the issue head on by saying he would w rrelease elease a fformal ormal statement sometime future. som metime in the futur e.

Fellow supe DAVE DAV VE CCORTESE ORTESE thanked Shirakawa, Shirakawa, thee board board president, president, for for moving his mo mouth outh and making noises without sayingg anything. But But then, Cortese surpris surprisingly singly took a stand.

“There’s siren “There’s a sir en and a blaring in the community … that that’s ’s demanding a response,” Shirakawa, response,”” he told t Shir akawa, before before quickly adding this is just his own opinion and m maybe aybe not everyone hears the same ringi ringing g ngg in Don’t his head. Supervisor Supervisor forget KEN YEAGER KEN Y EAGER was w less diplomatic, noting notting not to tip! only his inter interest esst in FLY@ Shirakawa’s eventual Shirakawa’s ev ventual METRONEWS. explanation bu but ut also COM how county sta staff aff managed to le lett things get so bollixed in its audits. He even had the temerity too mention Shirakawa’s Shirakawa’ss missing campa campaign disclosuree forms. aign disclosur forms.

Supervisor Supervisor LIZ LIZ KNISS KNISS echoed no one this by asking if th is whole mess could just it’s be digitalized because b it ’s late and the Palo Alto commute backk to P alo Al to is atrocious atrocious around holidays.

MIKE ar ound the hol lidays. Supervisor Supervisor M IKE WASSERMAN W ASSERMAN smiled s and capped off the discussion by saying s he was confident that at the endd of the day the county would get this right. But But earlier in the Wasserman meeting, W asserman bristled that the contract, act, county’s new solar s power contr which will savee an estimated $20 million, wouldn’t wouldn n’t be newsworthy. newsworthy. There’s There’s Wasserman. your bone, W assserman.

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For the Record IN N THE CLEAR CLEAR N Norma orma Burns had h trouble finding work unti untill she had parts of her record e expunged xpunged at San Jose Jose’s ’s H Hall all of Justice with the help of the t R Record ecord Clearance Project.

Project.

P Program rogram run n by San Jose State S s d students provi provides ides d new leases l s on life by expung expunging ging criminal re records ecords B LENA By LENA R RAMALHO AMALHO

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ORMA BURNS knowss ORMA hard times. times. Her Her adopted parents abused her as a child, child d, and an nd from the time she was was 4 years y ears old until she became an adult, ad dult, she says, says, she was was raped rap ped times. m multiple times.

“No one pr “No protected otected me me,,” Burns sa says. ayys.

F ollowing the worst of these Following in ncidents, Burns ccame ame home to incidents, California C a fo alif ornia and joined the arm army. my. The se ervic i e off ffered ffe d some st abilit bility, yyet et e nott service offered stability, lo ong after she joined the arm my, she long army, st arted drinking and smoking crack.. started “I w aas living with this gentleman,, was and an nd I w was aas basic basically ally in an abusiv abusive ve rrelationship, e elationship ,” Burns rrecalls. ecalls. “It just so o ha appened in that par ticular night, happened particular hi im and a d I got into to an a aar rggument, gu e t, an a him argument,

altercation, and in m altercation, myy st struggle truggle in trying tr ying to get aaway, way, I scra scratched atched him right above ab ove his eeyebrow, yeebrow w, lik like ke as long as yyour our o fingernail.”

Police P olice to took ok pictures pictures ffor o or eevidence. vvidence.

She had no visible injuries, injurries, but her bodybuilder b odybuilder d b ild ex-boyfriend ex-b boyyfrien f i nd d did. did Burns B Burns,, 53, w was aas plac placed ed in jail ffor or or eight months and fforced orced to take o tak ke a yyear eeaar of domestic domestic-violencee classes violenc classes.. A couple coup ple years years e went b byy after the fraud and assau assault ult charges, charges, and Burns started started to take tak ke steps steeps to put her life lif fe back to together, getherr, visiting visitin ng the Center Center ffor or o Employment Emplo oyyment Training (CET ((CET)) in 20 2006.

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“While I w was aas going there th here I had a police p olice rrecord, ecord,, and I had ask asked keed them, ‘F ‘For or getting into,, the field of work that I’m m get ttting into ccan an I actually get into th that hat field with a They ‘Well, line,, rrecord?’ ecord?’ The ey said, ‘W Well e l, down the line we’re we ’re going to ha have ave stud students dents ccome ome in from State.

We’re start fr om San JJose ose St ate. W e’re going st art a pr ogram her e, to implem ment a pr ogram, program here, implement program, to get yyour our o rrecord ecord eexpunged. xpunged.’ was turning point “That w as the turni ing p oint in myy lif life,” says. knew m fe,” Burns u s sa ayys. “I kne ew that t at I

myy lif life fe needed to slow down and get m together.” to gether.”

Back to Backt to SSchool chool Peggy P egggy Ste Stevenson eveenson st started taarted San JJose ose St State ate University’s Record Clearancee Pr Project U nivveersitty’ n ysR eecorrd Clearanc oject (RCP) 2008. program, believed (R RC CP) in 20 008. The pr ogram, b elieeveed bee the on only to b nly one of its kind ffor or ccollege o ollege undergrads, give under rggradss, is designed to giv ve students hands-on handson eexperience xxperience assisting clients to clear their criminal c rrecords. ecords.

“It’s hugely “It ’s a hu ugely needed rresource, esource,” Stevenson Ste veenson sa ssays. ayys. first fivee yyears, program In its firs st fiv eears, the pr ogram approximately 300 “speed has held ap pproximately 30 0 “sp eed screenings, wheree trained students go scr eenings,” wher through individual interviews thr ough in ndividual inter views to see parts person’s bee what par ts of a p erson’s rrecord ecord ccan an b eexpunged. xpunged.

Over life program, Ov veer thee lif fe of the pr ogram, Stevenson have helped Ste veenson sa ssays, ayys, students ha ave help ed 151 petitions clients file p etitions in ccourt ourt to eexpunge xxpunge have criminal rrecords e ords or ha ec ave ffelonies eelonies misdemeanors.. In just this rreduced educed to misdemeanors petitions have been yyear, eear, 133 p e etitions ha ave b een filed on behalf clients.. b ehalf of 52 2 clients Before this process starts, Bef fo ore th his pr ocess st arts, though, Stevenson’s Ste veenson n’s students ttake ak ke a ccourse ourse ccalled alled “Practical Legal Skills..” The Theyy ccan “Practic al L egal Skills aan then onduct apply ffor or o an n internship and cconduct education presentations ccommunity ommunity ommunit ttyy educ ation pr esentations

Back to Backt tootheW the W Wall aall Clients’ ra rap ap sheets var vary, y, but the most theme ccommon ommon th heme is drug addiction, RCP says affects three-quarters which R C CP sa ayys aff ffeects thr ee-quarters of clients.. its clients Cheryl Lozano from single-Cher yl L o ozano ccame ame fr om a single parent home, wheree sup supervision was par ent hom me, wher ervision w aas lacking often lackin ng as rrelatives elatives passed away away mother worked odd jobs.. She and her mo other work ed o dd jobs home was left the hom me when she w as 12, and later,, L Lozano says, just a ffew ew weeks w later ozano sa ayys, she was introduced adolescent w as intr odu uced to PCP P. Her adolesc ent quickly yyears ears quickl ly disintegrated into drug alcohol abuse.. In 19 1986, Lozano and alc 86, L ozano oholl abuse was got a DUI while w her child w aas in the parked was ccar. ar. She hit thr tthree ee park ked e ccars ars and w aas charged with char ged wit th child endangerment.

Luckily, was injured. ed.

L uckilyy, no one w as injur friends from “I had frie ends that died fr om ccar ar accidents while who’ve ac cidents wh hile smoking PCP P, who o’’vve minds, aree doing leng lengths lost their mi inds, who ar gtths time,,” sa says Lozano, of time ayyss L ozano, now a vvolunteer olunteer o Tree Ministry.

She’s been ffor or Angle Tr o ree Ministr y. She ’s also b een with Stevenson working wit th Ste eveenson and San JJose ose State byy goin going jails,, sp speaking St ate b ng to the jails eaking with the men and d women while working on getting get tting t her own o child endangerment charge char ge eexpunged. xxpu unged.

The sole ccaretaker aretak ker e of her elderly mother, Lozano’s partmother r, L ozzano’s also working par ttime ffor or a cconditioning o o onditioning ccompany ompan ny while school bachelor’ss degr degree going to sch hool ffor or o her bachelor’ ee sociology. becoming in so ciology. She plans on b ecoming a social worker graduates. so cial i l work ker e after ft she h graduates d t . believe walking through “I b elieve what I’m w aalking thr ough through, is what I’m supp ssupposed osed to go thr ough, bee able to victoryy on the to b o get to the victor Lozano says. other end,” L ozano sa ays y.

Back to Backt tooBasics Basics Similar to oL Lozano, ozano, Burns had her RCP’s help.. She rrecord ecord eexpunged xpu unged with R CP’s help C says she’s now positive sa ayys she ’s no ow in a p ositivve rrelationship elationship with i h a man who h tr treats eats her h right. i h In her h free fr ee time time,, Bu Burns urns vvolunteers olunteers o to ffeed eeed the homeless att ccommunity ommunitty ccenters. enters. “Lif “Life fe is so much b better now, w,” she admits admits.. etttter now looking Burns is curr ccurrently ently lo oking ffor o or employment emplo oyymen nt after doing in-home ccare aarre ffor or an elderl o elderly ly woman the last 12 months months..

While findin finding ng a job rremains emains difficult, she says sa ayys the imp importance portance of R RCP’s CP’ C s pr program ogram to prospects bee o overstated. her pr ospectts ccan’t an n’’t b veersttated. a “Having myy rrecord “Ha aving v m ecord eexpunged xxpunged has opened doors me,,” Burns sa says, op ened a lott of do ors ffor or me o ayys, “for “f fo or emplo employment, oyyment, ffor o or cr credit, edit, ffor o or housing; yyou o ou know w, ffor o p or eople to actually trust know, people yyou o ou again, ’’cause cause a I ffeel eeel lik like ke I’v I’ve ve mor moree than paid m myy deb debt bt to so society. cietty. I did m myy time time..

“God wheree “Go d has truly blessed me to wher myy lif m life fe is nott a struggle an anymore nyymore and I ha ave p eace. Ther T e’s nothing lik ke p eace.” have peace.

There’s like peace.

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at plac places es lik like ke CET CET, T, drug ccourt, ourt, Sacr Sacred ed Heartt C Community Services, Working Hear ommunitty Ser vi es, W vic orking o g Partnerships, P artnerships, Elm Elmwood mw wood jail j and Santee Community C ommunitty C Center. enterr.

A ecent sp eeed-screening Att its most rrecent speed-screening session, Ste Stevenson evenson sa says, ayys, 4 44 4p people eople showed up ffor o or cconsultations, onsultattions, lining up an hour early outside th the he building building..

“W We ha ave a vvery eery long w aaiting list,” “We have waiting she admits admits.. “I’v “I’ve ve b been een a lit llittle tttle ffearful eearful [of publicity] because publicit tyy] b eccaause our ccapacity a apacit ty is quite limited.” approval If not ffor or the rrecent o ecent vvoter o oter appr ovval income of sales and inc ome ttax ax incr iincreases eases in California through Proposition op C aliffo ornia thr ough Pr position 30, CRP—which May won CRP —which in Ma ay wo on the 2012 College C ollege of Applied Scien Sciences nces and Ar Arts ts Dean’s Dean n’s A Award—probably waard—probablly wouldn wouldn’t ’t b bee able to ccontinue ontinue op operations. eratiions. program currently searching ching The pr ogram is curr en ntly sear ffor or grants to help rreach o each out o to eeven ven e mor eak down almost moree clients clients,, who br break eevenly veenly b ore often tend byy gender but mo more to b atino desc ent ((58 58 p ercent). bee of L Latino descent percent).

Theree ar Ther aree nonclearabl nonclearable le off offenses ffeenses such as rap rape, e, inc incest est and molest m molestation ation of a minor ioritty of R CP C minor.. The main pri priority RCP is to k eeep the ccommunity ommunitty saf fe while keep safe helping rreintegrate eintegrate p eop ple into so cietty. people society.

Stevenson Ste evenson sa says ayys the ne next exxt sp sspeed eed scr screening eening will b ch or April. bee held in Mar March Ser vices ar ovided v at no char ge Services aree pr provided charge to clients xcept ffor or the rap sheet and o clients,, eexcept some filingg ffees, eees, but limi ited financial limited assistance assist ance is aavailable vvailable if needed. n prepare petitions, Students pr epare p etitio ons, and the probation pr obation and public de defender’s effeender’s offic offices es rreview eview fforms orms prior to the o their eir submission judge.. In the pr project’s to the judge ojeect’s brief history, Stevenson estimates, histor y, Ste veenson estim mates, half of have applied law the students ha ave applie ed ffor or o la aw enforcement positions, about enf fo orcement p ositions, while w ab out a third probation positions. thir d go into pr obation p ositions.

“Through firsthand “Thr ough seeing firsth hand the work, Stevenson impact of their legal wor rk”” Ste rk, evenson e adds,, “some p people begin adds eople b egin n to cconsider onsider law school. la aw scho ol.”

Hayman, SJSU Alanna Ha ayyman, a SJS SU senior and assistant project, says teaching assist ant ffor o or thee pr oject, sa ayys program’s benefits are the pr ogram m’s b enefits ar re mutually beneficial.

“We through b eneficial. “W We go thr ou ugh eevery veery step says.

“We with the client,” she sa ayys. “W We write the petitions, lawyer.

We’re p etitions, meet with the la aw wyyer e .W e’re theree with them in the ccourtroom. ther ourtroom. done they When eeverything ver e ything is don ne and the ey say, ‘You ccome ome back b k to us and d sa ay, ‘Y Yo ou changed h d myy lif life, believe m fe,’ I’m amazed. I ccan’t an n’t b elieeve I someone’s life. changed someone ’s lif fe.”

RCP’s next The R CP’s ne C exxt eexpungement xpun ngement hearing,, which will b bee op open hearing pen to the public,, ttakes placee T Tuesday, Nov. 27, public akes plac uesd daay, N ov. 2 7, from fr om 3 to 5pm at San JJose’s osse’s Hall of Street.

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Colleges Co olleges and Employers (NACE), (NACE), DirectEmployers DirectEmployers Association, Association, the National State National Association Association of S tate Workforce (NASWA) Workforce Agencies (NA SWA) and d Facebook. “leverages Faacebook. The initiative “lever agees social so ocial media to connect great great jobs job bs with w great great candidates.”

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Monster.com. The employment employmen nt opportunities op pportunities are are sorted by industry, indusstryy, location lo ocation and skills and can be shared shaared anywhere an nywhere on Facebook.

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Not everyone is impressed impressed e with simplified the new app. In its sim mplified HTML relatively HT ML format, format, it operates operates a relatively nonintelligently, nonintelligently y, rrelying elyin ng on your keywords, keywor ds, locations, categories c and subcategories to find openings narrowed nar rowed to your specific specific interests. interests.

VentureBeat’s V entureBeat’s Jolie O’Dell O’Dell says the app is “not “not as well-designed well-deesigned or as cohesive as one might migh ht like.

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policyy, whi policy, which ich eextends xtends to all of the media chain’s chaiin’s ne newspapers, wspapers, including the San Jose Jos ose Mer Mercury curry Ne News. ws. It It’s ’s a straightforward straighttfo orrward se seven-page ven-page do document cument that eexplains xplaiins what emplo employees yeees ccan an and ccannot annot do in their official ccapacity apacitty and what the tthey ey should k keep eep in mind when cconducting ond ducting their p personal ersonal liv lives. vees.

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August, n off ffeered Barbara K eegan Marshman offered Keegan “la avvish prai ise” in print in exchange exchange “lavish praise” for o K eegan n rremoving emoving herself fr om for Keegan from the Sant aalley Water District Santaa Clara V Valley b oard rac e. Keegan Keegan rrefused efused to dr op board race. drop out and won w a seat on the b oard. board.

Marshm man did not rrespond espond to Marshman multiple rrequests e equests ffor or o ccomment, omment, but Mer curry Ne ws editor and B ANG VP Mercury News BANG of ne ws Da ave Butler sent this email news Dave rresponse esponse Frida F ay: “R Re Barbara, I think Friday: “Re she got ccarried arrried aaway way in her email b ecause sh he w as a so intent on a go od because she was good ccandidate andidate winning w the w ater b oard water board seat. And that tthat’s ’s how it turned out.

But yyou ou won w ’tt see a rrepeat epeat of her won’t actions in the t futur e. She and the ne w future. new b oard mem mber ha ave b een in ccontact ontact board member have been and will b avving ccoffee off ffeee so on to bee ha having soon discuss w ays y to impr ove the w aater ways improve water district. A oters o Ass our editorials said, vvoters wound up ha avving ttwo wo w go od choic es.” having good choices.

In his st tatement, Butler seems statement, to acknow wledge that Marshman acknowledge ccommitted ommitttted d a blunder blunder,, noting her actions wo on’t b epeated. But the won’t bee rrepeated. idea that eeveryone veryone ended up winners b ecause vvoters o oters had ttwo wo str ong because strong ccandidates andidatess to cho ose fr om is absur d. choose from absurd.

Had Marsh hman got ttten her w ay, ther Marshman gotten way, theree would ha ave b een one less str ong have been strong ccandidate andidate to cho ose fr om. choose from.

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San JJose ose Inside ccontacted ontacted K eelly Kelly M McBride B id , a senior i facult ffaculty ltty memb ber ffor or o McBride, member ethics at th he P oynter y Institute the Poynter Institute,, and this w aas her rreaction eaaction to Marshman n’s email: was Marshman’s “It rreinforces einffo orces e the idea that ne wspapers newspapers and ne wspaper editorials ar newspaper aree par partt of this magic caal p o ower structur ody magical power structuree that nob nobody rreally eally unde ersttaands and is unjust.” understands — JJosh osh K o Koehn oehn

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We begin with the emergence of San Jose Rock Shop at 30 N. Third

St., an idea long overdue. Ever since Guitar Center moved to Stevens Creek Boulevard back in the ’80s, there has not been a legitimate musical instrument shop in the neighborhood.

Now there is.

Located just north of a Hispanicowned colon-cleanser retailer and around the corner from a cheap Vietnamese tailor, one finds 8,000 square feet of instruments and amplifiers, rehearsal space and repair services.

Yes, the building formerly occupied

by WORKS/San José years ago is now reconfigured and replete with guitars, strings, keyboards, drum sets and more.

Lessons are offered, consignment gear is available and bands can rent rehearsal space. Also inside is a private club, à la 924 Gilman in Berkeley, which presents all-ages live shows with no alcohol.

From Third Street, one can look right through the front window and see the gear. As its moniker suggests, the place rocks.

With no effort on my part, one half of the polar opposition manifested itself. A few weeks ago, I slithered inside San Jose Rock Shop on a chilly afternoon and flipped through a stack of cheesy ’70s songbooks filled with piano/organ arrangements of TV and movie themes, easy-listening hits, pop schmaltz and campy lounge classics from before there was such a genre— exactly the stuff I grew up playing on a Lowrey Genie organ and exactly the material I played while originally taking keyboard lessons at Stevens Music.

That stuff has been an integral component of my psyche ever since.

My admiration of camp humor and the ridiculous side of everyday life can perhaps be traced to playing that cheesy material for years. For most of my younger years, I could not explain to any of my music circles why I was literate in and appreciative of easylistening crooners and crappy sitcom music.

It gets even better. To exemplify how

the other half operates, a previously unnoticeable door exists on Third Street, right next to San Jose Rock Shop, leading one into an adjoining room. It is there that Jai Tanju’s Seeing Things Gallery now sits. I didn’t even have to knock. The door was open—I searched, and I found.

Fittingly, the grand-opening party at Seeing Things Gallery this month featured the ’80s hardcore-punk photography of one Mr. Bill Daniel.

Gritty live-action shots of Black Flag from 1982, nearly 4-by-5-feet, exploded off the wall for everyone to see. Daniel shot the band on ancient whatevermillimeter film, and the images convey the aggressive, brutal nature of Black Flag shows back in the day.

I never saw Black Flag live, but their seminal violent masterpiece, Damaged, was the first punk album I ever bought, even though I snagged it right about the time hardcore was essentially dying.

Experiencing Daniel’s photography of Black Flag from the Damaged tour brought it all back. The dark, disenfranchised isolation conveyed by that slab of vinyl altered my universe, and I don’t think I ever went back to popular music afterward.

When first playing that LP, I remember looking at my record shelf and thinking that none of it was interesting anymore. Black Flag was where I wanted to be. My entire identification with punk and the dark side of the quotidian world can be traced to that album, which I purchased as a teenager. Right now, at 30 N. Third St., one can look through the front window and see Daniel’s photographs.

So you can imagine the two windows I’m looking through. One goes into San Jose Rock Shop, while the other goes into Seeing Things.

What a concept. For all of my life, I feel like I’ve been trying to reconcile those seemingly opposing parts of my psyche—easy listening and punk rock—and there they were, right in my own ’hood. No need to look outside or elsewhere.

I have 30 N. Third Street to thank.

A sense of integration has emerged, binary opposites are transcended and the grand synthesis is now at work.

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TuTu T Tu Muchh ’Tis the sea ’Tis season ason ffor or N Nutcrackers, utcrackers, a perf perfect ect timee to entr entrance ance a young balletomane. balletoman e. MAIDO, the endlessly ffascinating ascinating Japanese stationery stor storee on Sa Santana antana R Row, ow, sells a 33-D D NUTCRACKER NUTCRACKER R CARD with ffour our figures figures from from m the ballet (two with tiny mesh tu tutus) tus) framed framed in a redred edcloth pr proscenium osceenium ar arch; ch; $6.95.

Inside the car ccard, d, a generous generous parent parent or grandparent grandparrent could slip a pair of ticke tickets ets to BBALLET ALLET SAN SA N JOSE JOSE ’s annual pr production oduction of the TTchaikovsky chaikovsky classic, which runs Dec. 8–23 at the t San Jose Center ffor or the P Performing erfforming Arts. The chor choreography eography is by b longtime San Jose dancer KKAREN AR RE N GABAY GA BAY, with sumptuous new se sets ts fr from om the American Ballet Ballet Theatre.

Theatre. Tickets Tickets start at $30 (www (www.balletsj.org) .balleetsj.org) and ther theree are are three three reduced-price reducced-price ffamily amily shows ffor or smaller childr cchildren en with shorter attention sp spans. pans. In a very tr traditional aditional vein, all the th he way fr from om Russia Russia comes MO MOSCOW SCOW BBALLET’S ALLET’S GREA GREAT AT R RUSSIAN USSIA N NUT NUTCRACKER C CKER, which will be CRA performed performed once, Dec. 22 at 3pm, at Flint Center Centeer in CCupertino; upertino;; $28 $ and up ffor or tickets.

An entir entirely ely diff different erent take can be ffound ound at the import stor storee AAY Y DIOS D IOS h sells a line of LLATIN-STYLE ATTI N -STYLE N NUTCRACKER UTCRA ACKER FI FIGURES G URES car carved ved MIO!, which in wood an andd painted in calaver calaveraa style, then dressed dressed e with traditional traditional Mexican Mexican costumes. costumes. They are are about 12 inches high, h run around around $90 and are are utterly utterly charming.

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Retro A t R o Active The fun, andd challenge, of shopping vintage sto stores ores is discovering something that t you know the recipient recipient won’t won’t get g fr from om anybody else. Take Taake for for o example the shiny vinyl R RUBIK’S UBIK’S CUBE C HANDB HANDBAG AG, with color colored ed patc patches ches and chain handles—only $12 at BBLACK LACK & BROWN BROWN on The Alamed Alameda. da W da.

Wee got the only one, one but that that’s ’ss the t point; the stor storee is full of such discoveries, from from outrageous outrageous women’s womeen’s shoes to colorful men men’s ’s shirtss fr from om the leisur leisuree lines of past deca decades. ades.

PA RK PLACE PARK PLAC E VINTAGE VINTTAGE in Willow Glen overflows with w tr treasures easures fr from om the go golden olden age of design excess: the 1950 1950s.

0s. The rrattan attan and mahogany dr ddresser esser ($800) could anchor a bach bachelor-pad helor-pad bedr bedroom. oom.

A bit mor moree practically, p actically, Park pr Park Place car carries ries a couple coupple of lines of rretro etro women women’s ’s clo clothing othing fr from om VVOODOO OODOO VIXEN and PIN UP CCOUTURE OUTU RE that perf perfectly ectly rreplicate epplicate the leopar leopard-print d-print skin tight pants and poodle skirts of thee Eisenhower Eisenhower era, era, with the advantage advantagge of coming in a variety of si sizes zes at rreasonable easonable prices (mid-$40 and up).

RADIO DAZE DAZE & COLLECTIBLES COLLEC TIBLES in CCampbell ampbell is stuffed stuffed (even the low ceiling is covered covered with old pictures) pictures) with irresistible irresisstible nostalgia— mostly fr from from om m the 1950s and 1960s. Some of thee ads culled fr om magazines of o that M Mad ad Men Men–esque er eraa wer weree neatly n packaged ffor or giving in pla plastic astic sleeves and rreasonably easonably priced at $4; a Frigidair Frigidairee ad with wom women men in see-thr see-through ough space helmets evokes an er eraa when everything seemed s possible.

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The holida holidays ays ar aree designed mostly to please childr cchildren. en. The compendious compendious HICKLEBEE HICKLEBEESS in Willow Glen car carries r a number of ries appealing toys, from from a very soft PL PLUSH US H OWL OWL (($18.95) $18.95) to a ffearsome earsome TT-REX -REX STAGE STAGE PUPPET PUPPE T by Fokmanis ($25.99), co complete omplete with plastic teeth and glass eyes, the better to scar scaree the wits out of younger siblings.

Much Much mor more re soothing is the TWILIGHT TWILIG HT TURTLE TU RT LEE, from from whose shell emanate thin t illuminated beams that make a night-sk night-skyy pattern on a child child’s ’s bedr bedroom oom ceiling to ““ease ease the ffear eaar of night night”” (or occupy the idle ho hours ours of insomniacal par parents); ents); mid-$ mid-$30s, $30s, at the BBUTTER U TT E R os Gatos.

PPADDLE ADDLE in LLos littlest For the lit tlest addition to the ffamily, amily, nothingg says hometown pride like the I <<SHARKS> SH ARKS> SSJJ ONE ONESIE SIE fr from om the U USUALS SUALLS boutique on The Alameda ($18). ( It might even console a rinkrink-deprived deprived N NHL HL ffan an to know thatt major-league hockey will sur surely ely rresume e esume bef before ore junior outgrows outgrows the garment.

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Most pets actually Most a pr prefer efer the box a pr present esent ca came ame in to the pr present esent itself,, but that pleasuree of including them in the itself th hat doesn’t doesn’t lessen the pleasur i gift-giving ffestivities. estivities. The GUS GUSSIED SIED U UPP D DOG O G BOU BOUTIQUE UTIQUE in Willow Glen shelves treats cats sports shelv ves of gourmet canned tr eats ffor or ca ats that rroutinely outinely snub vet-ap vet-approved pproved crunchies. The TTIKI IKI CAT CA AT “La “Lanai nai LLuau” uau”” ffeatures eatures crab It’s tuna in cr ab surimi consommé. It ’s all-natural all-natural and sounds good enough ffor or humans ($1.25 a can).

Clearly Clearly, y, the days when Samuel L. Jackson Jackson could could dismiss a girl as “as “as country counntry as a chicken-coop” chicken-coop” ar aree gone. ““Eichler Eichler Houses for for chickens chickens”” ttrumpets rumpets one ffan an of JUS JUSTT FINE DESIGN’S DESI G N’S CHI CHICK-IN-A-BOX C K-IN-A-BOX custom stom job that comes complete with h water-catchment COOP COOP, a cus system. Chi Chick-in-a-Box ick-in-a-Box took an awar awardd at the 2010 Maker Maker Fair Faire; e; the design atelier is co-f co-founded ounded by SStanford tanford grad g ad KKevin gr evin McElroy McElroy (contact jus justfinedesignbuild.com stfinedesignbuild.com ffor or inf infoo and a quote). A br brandandnew spot ffor o poul or poultry-philes try-philes has opened in Campbell, Cam mpbell, called CITY a to DIY canning supplies, nif nifty fty gr greeting eeting car cards ds FFARMZ ARMZ. In addition that come permeated with wildflower seeds ((just j bury and water) just and edible tr treats eats like habanero habanero honey, honeyy, the story story caters to serious urban hom homesteaders esteaders with feed feed and a selection n of rreasonably easonably priced chicken coo coops ops in the $400 rrange. ange. time chickens, The next tim me people start up about their chic ckens, squelch them: aree in Africa.” The H ““Oh, Oh, all of mine m ar HEIFER EI FER PROJECT PROJ EC T (heif (heifer.org) er.org) will, in exchange ffor o $20,, donate a flock of hens to a hu or hungry ungry part of the world.

It doesn doesn’t ’t st stop top with poul poultry: try:: the gr group oup sponsors goats,, cows,, oxen and even a sche scheme eme to rraise aise ““grass-cutters” grass-cutters” (i.e., very ffat at cane rrats) ats) ffor or ffood. ood.

The good work w of the Heif Heifer er Project Project has been de detailed etailed in the excellent local docum documentary mentary Heif Heifer feer by SSJSU JSU pr professor ofessor Bob Bob Gliner.

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Thinkk Globally, l b llly, G Globally yy, Read Re L Loca Read add Locally ally all y cally Unless yo you ou ar aree dead set on giving a copy off P Paula aula B Broadwell’s roadwell’s rromance omance novel, Alll In: The Seduction (er (er,r, EEducation) ducation)) ooff Gener General al David P Petraeus, etraeus, ther theree ar aree lots of local authors and topics to consider consider.. O One ne of the latest entries in n Ar Arcadia cadia Publishing’s series of hist historical torical pictur picturee book bookss is MOUNTAIN MOUNT AIN VIEW: VIEW: THEN THEN AND N NOW OW by N Nicolas icolas Perry Perry and Kimberly Chan. Each Each page mat matches tches a cur current rent building in the city with with an archive archive photo of the structure structure that occupied that site 50,, 75, 100 or or mor moree years ago. One One example among many: Church, m : the site of SSt.t.. Joseph’s Joseph’s CCatholic atholic Chur ch, ffounded ounded in 1867 near Stevens Stevens Cr CCreek, eek,, is now occupied by a car dealership. dealership. TTempus eempus fugit.. A Available vailable for for $21.99 $21 99 9 att local l l book bbookstores kstor t es such h as M Mountain ounta tain i V View’s i ’s iew ’ BOOK BOOKSS IINC NC. Readers Readers of o Metro Metro are are familiar familiar with the sharpp obser observations vations on local politics aand nd technology of MICHAEL SS.. MAL MALONE ON NE, author of the seminal Big B ig Scor Score: e The B e: Billion-Dollar illion-Dollar SStory tory of Silicon Valley Vaalleyy. Malone’s Malone’s latest is TTHE HE (St. t. Martin’s Martin’s GUARDIAN ALL HUMAN GUARDIAN N OF A LL TTHINGS: HIN GS: TTHE HE EEPIC PIC SSTORY TORY OF H U MAN MEMORY ME M ORY (S Pr Press; ess; $25 $25.99).

5.99). Not Not afraid afraid of some long persp perspective, pective, M Malone alone look lookss at how hum humans mans have cor corralled ralled and codified rrecollection, ecoollection, both internally and externally externally, y, over the course of 10,000 years. Again, A , be sur suree to visit a local independ independent ent book bookstore store bef before ore pumping up Je Jeff eff B Bezos’ ezos’ stock options.

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San Jose photogr photographer apher MAR MARY Y ANDRADE A NDRADE’s im images ages of Dia de los M Muertos uertos have been n exhibited in the valley many times and collected in sever several al book books. s.

She is als alsoo the author of N NAVIDAD AV IDAD MÁGICA MÁG ICA EN O OAXACA/MAGICAL AXACA/MAG ICAL CCHRISTMAS HRISTMAS marvelous velous bilingual volume chr chronicling o onicling the tr traditional aditional rituals of IN OAXACA OA XAC A, a mar the holida holiday ay season in the popular tourist desti destination—from ination—from rradish adish figur figures es to the par parades rades and cer ceremonies emonies of the posadass that pr precede ecede Christmas Day Day..

The book is published by La Oferta Oferta R Review eview in San S Jose;; the GU GUATEMALAN ATE MALAN Los Gatos and AAY Y DIOS DIOS MIO! in San S P Pedro edro Square Square Marketplace Marketplace BOUTIQUEE in Los sell copie copies es ffor or a little over $20.

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E , Drink Eat, D and a annd nd Be B Merry Merryy A tea love lover er would appr appreciate eciate some loose-leaf loose-leaaf choices fr from om SSATORI ATORI EAFU appliance TTEA EA CCOMPANY OMPANY A in San Jose, combined with thee nifty TTEAFU (ar (around ound $15 $ at the BUTTER PPADDLE ADDLE in Los Los Gatos).

Gaatos). The tea goes into a silicone ball with tiny perf perforations; orations; the hing hinged ged tongs push water thr through ough th the he leaves ffor or a ffaster, aster, fresher fresher cup of o tea.

TToo sweete en the tea, consider a jar of shimme ering gold WILL WILLOW OW GLEN sweeten shimmering Locally o har harvested, vested, the modestly price priced ed rraw aw honey comes fr from om HONEY HONE Y. Locally valley bee bees. es. A Available vailable at TH THREE REE SI SISTERS STERS in Willow Wiillow Glen or check the website (w (www.willowglenhoney.com). www.willowglenhoney.com).

The lovelyy decor decorator ator cupcakes at PPOLKADOTZ OLKA D OTZZ avoid the pr problem oblem of too many cupcakes:: size, which leads to cakey cakeey dryness. These minicupcakes come with a variety of fillings and swirled cr cream eam toppings.

The rraspberry aspbberry red red velvet is like an ornament visually ... but much tasty tasty..

These would would make gr great eat holiday party ffavors. avorss. They are are $3 each at P Polkadotz’s olkadotz’s z new location inside the SSAN AN PEDRO PEDR RO SQUARE SQUARE M MARKETPLACE ARKETPLAC E.

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Volunt teer Spir Volunteer Spirit p rit BY B Y SSTEPHEN TEPHEN LA LAYTON AY AY YT TON

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any people pe eople find a way way to give back to to their comm unity community holida ay season, during the holiday interest or regardless of interest schedule. Should you be doin ng the same, interested in doing h the South Bay is home to a myriad of organizations organ nizations dedicated to empowering empowering the less privileged and an nd improving their quality of life. life. From making blankets for sick kids at-risk youth, to mentoring at-risk grea at volunteer here are five great opportunities. opportunities.

Project P rojecct Linus Named ffor Named or the iconic blanket-toting Peanuts character, Project provides P eanuts cha aracter, Pr oject Linus pr ovides security bla blankets ankets to childr children en in times of crisis, whether whether it be illness, trauma trauma or lifee upheaval. lif upheavaal. Volunteers Volunteers in the San Jose Project crochet chapter of Pr P oject Linus knit, cr ochet and quilt quilt new neew blankets, which are are then sent to loca local service al hospitals and social ser vice agencies. B Blanket-making lanket-making experience is nott rrequired, equir i edd, d andd it it’s ’ easy to ’s t learn. l COMMITMEN COMMITMENT: NTT: Anywher Anywheree fr from om making one blankett to or organizing ganizing a blanket drive.

CONTAC T: Sh CONTACT: Sharon haron Lee at 408.252.

408.252.1858, 1858, between th the he hours of 9am and 8pm.

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Two nonpr Two nonprofits, ofits, Innvision n the Way Way Shelter Home and Shel ter Network, Netwoork, have joined together as “Innvision Sh Shelter helter Network” Network” moree efficiently accom accomplish to mor mplish their goal of ending homeless homelessness ness in Silicon Valley.

V alley. Their ““Beyond Beyond the Bed” Bed”” approach approach ffocuses ocuses not only on pr providing oviding shel shelter ter but also on conducting lilife ife skills and job-training job-tr aining work workshops. shops. Innvision I Shel Shelter ter Network operates shelters N etwork oper ates shel ters throughout throughout the P Peninsula eninsula and South Bay Bay and provides numerous pr ovides numer ous ways to get involved, especially over the holida holidays. ays. Volunteers Volunteers can decor decorate ate sites, serve serve holiday meals and participate in gift-w gift-wrapping rapping parties ffor or hhomeless l ffamilies. amilies. ili Those Th h hose looking l ki to become mor moree involvedd can teach seminars on everything fr ffrom om cooking to finance management.

COMMITMENT: Holiday-specific COMMITMENT: Holiday-sppecific opportunities ar aree one-time one-tim me deals, but those looking to teach ar are re encouraged encouraged to make a thr three-month-plus ee-month-plus commitment.

COMMITMENT: Short-term volunteer COMMITMENT: commitments Basket commitments available; Food B asket and Meals Meals on Wheels Whheels rrequire equire a six-monthplus commit commitment. www.healthtrust. tment. See www .healthtrust. org/participate moree inf information. org/particippate ffor or mor ormation.

CONTACT: Le CONTACT: Leif eif Christiansen at leif leifc@ c@ healthtrust.org heal thtrust.oorg or call 408.513.8700, 3180 N Newberry ewbeerry Dr Dr.,., Suite 200, San Jose.

Bill Wilson Wilson CCenter enter The Bill Bill Wilson Wilsson Center in Santa Clar Claraa provides programs pr ovides a wide w rrange ange of pr ograms “to ensuree that every youth has access to ensur the rrange ange off ser vices needed to gr ow to services grow be heal thy and a self-sufficient adul ts.” healthy adults.”

The center primarily p pr ovides shel ter provides shelter andd services services i s for for runaway andd homeless h l youth. Volunteer Volunnteer opportunities ar aree numer ous: manning m the crisis hotline, numerous: being a transitional trannsitional housing monitor and assistin assistingg county social workers with client cases,, among others.

COMMITMENT: R COMMITMENT: Requires equires a volunteer orientation, application and backgr background ound check.

CONTACT: In San M CONTACT: Mateo ateo CCounty, ountyy, Lynnelle Lynnelle Bilsey Bilsey il att lbilsey@ivsn.or lbilsey@ivsn.org. lbil @i g In g.

I Santa S t Clar Clara Cl a County, Countyy, Erika Erika Sutton at eesutton@ivsn. sutton@ivsn. org org or call 650.685.5880 650.685.5880.

0. Visit Visit www.ivsn. www.ivsn. org/holidays org/holidays ffor or mor moree information. information.

CONTACT: LLyndsey CONTACT: yndsey M Marks arks at 408.850.6138 408.850.613 38 or lmark lmarks@ s@ billwilsoncenter.org, billwilsoncen nter.org, 3490 The Alameda, Santa Clar Clara. a.

South B Bay: ay: 1900 The Alam Alameda, meda, Suite 400, San Jose

Fresh Lifelines Fresh Lifelines for for Youth Y oouth (FL (FLY) LY Y)

Peninsula: Peninsula: 1450 Chapin A Ave., ve., Second Floor, Floor, B Burlingame urlingame

Health T Trust rrustt Health Trust Health Trust is a charitable charitabble foundation foundation dedicated to pr promoting omoting the t heal health th of the Silicon Valley Valley community commuunity through through their Heal Healthy thy Living, Hea Healthy lthy Aging and Healthy Heal thy Communities initiatives. initiatives. There There aree various ways to help,, whether by ar providing pr oviding administr administrative ative support to the or organization ganization itself orr working in their Food B Basket asket and Meals Meals on Wheels programs pr ograms that pr provide ovide gr groceries roceries and meals to homebound ind individuals. dividuals. Heal Health th TTrust rust has also partner ed with Americorps partnered to make Silicon V alley He ealthCorps, Valley HealthCorps, which aims to build and maintain community gar dens across across o Santa Clara Clara gardens and San Mateo Mateo counties.

FLLY strives to FLY to help at-risk youth ages 15 through thr ough g 18 ““alter alter the trajectory trajectory j y of their lives”” thr lives through ouggh legal education, leadership training tr aining andd mentoring. V Volunteers olunteers can participa participate ate in any of these ar areas eas whether it be b instructing youth in a law program pr ogram des designed signed to inf inform orm their futur futuree lifee decisions lif decisions or becoming a friend and rrole ole model model thr through ough the mentoring program. pr ogram.

CCOMMITMENT: OMMITMENT: V Varies. aries. The law pr program ogram rrequires equires an application and tr training aining pr program, ogram, while whhile h the hil th mentoring t i program program rrequires equires an orientation and a one-year commitmen commitmentt once you’r you’ree matched with a youth.

CONTACT: 40 CONTACT: 408.263.2630.

08.263.2630. 330 TTwin win Dolphin Dr Dr.,., Suite #109, R Redwood edwood City City..

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The Gift G f off Suds S d The valley y offers many holiday h choices fo or beer lovers for BY B Y AND ANDY Y LEE

Fredericksburg Fredericksburg Br ewery T --sshirt Brewery T-shirt $25; The Showr Showroom oom in San P Pedro edro Squaree Market Squar Fredericksburg B Fredericksburg Brewery rewery was established in San Jose off The Alam Alameda meda in the 1860s. After changing oowners wners and names a handful of time times es thr throughout oughout

more than a century more century, y, it was one of the last of the local, l old-time br breweries. eweries.

YYou ou canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gget et any of their beers, but you can gett a TT-shirt -shirt shirt emblazoned with one of the beer labels actually used the Prohibition era. ffollowing ollowing th he Pr ohibition er a. LLook ook ffor or moree histor historical mor rical beer shirts to come soon, including a TT-shirt -shirt depicting a beer label Brewery, of EEagle agle B rewery e y, which was established in San Josee a decade earlier than Fredericksburg Brewery.

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$16.99-$40 per month or o $25–$40 per quarter; 1435 The Alameda, Alameda, San Jose; 408.977.0111; 408 9777..0111; 408.977 0111; thewineaffairs.com thew wineaffairs.com airs com Ther are several several benefitss to joining a Theree are beer club at Wine Affairs: Affairs: Receipt Receipt of good beer in bottles on a monthly montthly or quarterly basis, free free weekly samples samplees at the popular M onday evening beer-tas sting events,, 10 Monday beer-tasting cent off on all beers too go and first percent per notice of special events.

Thr ee levels are are available. availablee. The Domestic Three V ariety Club offers offers two special special beers, Variety including seasonals, seasonals from from m well-regarded well-regarded domestic br eweries each h month. The breweries B rew Society Club offers offers two domestic Brew beers plus an imported beer, b , ranging beer ranging fr om Belgian Belgian beers and classic c from German styles to other craft craft beers beerrs from from around around the globe. The Backbar Backbar Reserve Reserve Club off ers between two and four four hardhardoffers to-get beers that are are distributed distributed in December March, June and a September.

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Beer Dinner B Di att California Calif ornia Café Caafé Gift certificate; 700 Welch Wellch Road, Palo P alo Al Alto; to; 650.325.2233 3 and 50 University Ave., Ave., Suite 260, 26 60, Los Los Gatos; 408.354.8118; californiacafe.com californiaacafe.com A gr growing owing tr trend end in the bbeer eer scene is the beer-and-f beer-and-food ood pai pairing ring event.

CCalifornia alifornia CCafé afé has been hosting monthly br brewmasters ewmasters din dinners nners ffor or quite some time now now.. The dinn dinners ners typically consist of ffour our courses, each e pair paired ed with a diff different erent beer fr from om m the featured featured brewery. br ewery. B Before efore each cou course, urse, a brewery brewery rrepresentative, epresentative, often the br brewmasters ewmasters themselves, introduces introduces the th he beer while the chef shar shares es the idea behind a particular pairing.

Winter, W i ter, Holid int H Holiday lidda d y Beerss in Bottles Beer Botttles hermitagebrewing.com and hermitagebrewing.com strikebrewingco.com strikebr ewingco.com Very V ery ffew ew things can bringg mor moree warmth

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Beer Club Membership Member shipp at Wine W ine Aff Affairs ffaairs

and content contentment tment to a beer drinker during the winter w months than a stout.

Hermitage Brewing Brewing Company of San Jose has its Ale of the 2 Tun Tun Imperial SStout tout (9 percent percent ABV).

ABV). Bold Bold coffee coffee and flavors, maltt (literally chocolate fla avors, loads of mal (literally 2 mash tuns’ tunss’ worth) and a nice hoppy finish make this beer as complex as it is tasty. tasty.

Hermitage Brewing Brewing has also brewed brewed Coastal Fog Holiday Ale, which is a oaked brown vanilla, oake ed br own ale. Chocolate malts, malts, mal ts, toasted toasteed Munich Munich mal ts, caramel caramel malts malts mal ts and dark dark crystal mal ts add to a full-bodied rich, full-bod died beer with a smooth finish.

It’s vanilla finish h. It ’s gently aged in oak American oa ak and judiciously hopped ffor or a spicy and subtle noble hop finish.

Brewing The South Bay’s Bay ay’ss SStrike trike B rewing Company will wiill release release its first stout in bottles and draft draft next month, which will anniversary.. also mark Strike’s Strike t ’s one-year anniversary creamy, SStrike’s trike’s SStout touut will be a cr eamyy, dark coffee full-bodied ale a with deep coff ee and notes. chocolate no otes.

One-St One-Stop S op Beer Gift Shops Shhops Tied House:: 954 Villa S Tied St., t., Mountain 650.965.2739 View; 650.9 965.2739 Kelly’s Liquor Store: St., K elly’s Liqu or S tore: 498 N. Fourth S t., San Jose; 408.297.4411 40 08.2977..4411 Onn tap at Tied Mountain O Tieed House in M ountain View V iew is theirr “Jack “Jack Be Be Nimble” Nimble” mulled ale. Orange Orange peel, cinnamon and other aree aadded award-winning spices ar dded to its awar d-winning Ironwood Dark perfect Ir onwood Da ark Ale ffor or the perf ect drink—available growlers h lid drin holiday d i k—available k il bl iin gr owlers l and kegs to go as well. TTied ied House has also stockedd up on pint glasses and hoodies, warm hoodi es, and will have Dickies brewers’ shirts br ewers’ shi irts in time ffor or the holidays, all available in both the Tied Tied House and brands.

Hermitage Brewing Brewing br ands.

YYou ou can always always stop by KKelly’s elly’s Liquor great SStore tore in Sann Jose and find gr eat theree ar aree beers. The ffolks o s who work ther olk friendly and knowledgeable about they carry. the beers th hey car ry. Kelly’s Kelly’s will also have Weizeneisbock Weizenneisbock from from San Jose’s Jose’s Gordon Brewing Company.. This Gor don Biersch Bierssch B rewing Company strong, percent str ong, dark wheat beer (10 per cent ABV) A BV) recently recently won a medal at the Great Great American Beer Beer e Festival—one of the very ffew ew Bay Bay Area Area beers to do so.

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Downtown San Jose’s brand-new Grub Shack, a most appropriately named restaurant, appears to

be handling both models with hearty, tasteful success. Grub Shack had been operating as a catering business the past two years and just recently moved into its brick-andmortar location near the corner of Santa Clara Avenue and Third Street, where it shares a wall and customer base with Freddie J’s Bar and Lounge.

The restaurant, which is still in its soft opening stages, serves a fusion of Pacific Rim flavors with Hawaiian favorites in mind, emphasizing simple yet hearty dishes.

Previously housing a mediocre cheese-steak shop, Grub Shack’s location has been spruced up by the new owners for a hipper, friendlier environment. The staff takes orders on iPads from across the bar

where you can watch the kitchen prepare your meal. Artwork by Orly Locquiao of Humble Beginnings Tattoos and the sounds of Hawaiian riffs complete the Pacific Rim motif.

While experimentation rules as Grub Shack feels out a solid menu, a lineup of house favorites has begun to emerge.

The in-house-marinated Kalua pork appears quite a bit on the menu and is a sure item to try for first-time diners. The moist, tender, sweet pork is served up a number of different ways, from over rice to sliders and even tacos, all with a side of Grub Shack’s tasty chipotle aioli. For $7, the rice plate comes with two scoops of rice, a side of macaroni salad and a hearty portion of the pork.

They also serve the Hawaiian favorite Loco Moco: a hamburger with a fried-egg patty atop a large bed of rice with gravy and macaroni salad.

The Kalua pork tacos ($8) are messy but outrageously delicious:

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a plate of three tacos filled with crispy, stove-seared Kalua pork, each topped with a fried egg and salty pork cracklings—the breakfast or dinner of champions. The tacos are also accompanied by a spinach and mixed-green salad with cranberries, candied walnuts and goat cheese—a light, tasty and surprising companion to the rich tacos.

My favorite, and Grub Shack’s signature item, are the Kalua pork sliders ($7), which consist of three King’s Hawaiian sweet rolls sandwiching rich Kalua pork and a tasty dollop of the chipotle aioli.

The result is a winning combination of sweet, spicy and salty.

If you’re making a visit over from Freddie J’s and have a serious case of the munchies (and possibly a group of friends who can help you devour them), the Kalua pork fries are a must. Just as it sounds, $7 gets you a large dish of French fries topped with a gut-busting portion of pork with sour cream, chipotle sauce and jalapeños to boot.

Another notable dish is Grub Shack’s lumpia, offered in several varieties, each for only a buck. I fell in love with Mama Ana’s lumpia, a tasty fried roll of carrots, peas, corn and other veggies, made by who else but the store’s Grandma Ana. Other favorites such as Hawaiian poke and Spam musubi are also available, and the final menu is a work in progress—the fun part of a new restaurant.

Currently, Grub Shack is open for lunch from 11am to 2:30pm and again for dinner from 5 to 8:30pm.

I would hope that as Grub Shack’s popularity grows, its hours will run later.

Don’t write off Grub Shack as a typical Hawaiian barbecue drive-in.

Despite its not being quite ready for its grand opening, I like what Grub Shack has to offer for downtown: a tasty, pleasing menu, large portions and a potential solid spot for eats after a night at the bars.

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CAPERS Well-heeled sports bar and restaurant. $$$.

Capers is a sophisticated restaurant that uses sports as its theme. Well-devised menu full of inventive recipes and delicious finger foods. 11am10:30pm Mon-Thu, 11ammidnight Fri-Sat, 9:30am10:30pm Sun. 1710 W. Campbell Ave. 408.374.5777.

LA PIZZERIA Italian. $$.

La Pizzeria specializes in simple pizzas that stand on the strength of a few highquality ingredients, expertly prepared. Open for lunch and dinner daily. 11am-10pm Sun-Tue, 11am-11pm Wed, 11am-midnight Thu-Sat. 373 E. Campbell Ave. 408.370.0826.

intimidating Psycho Donut, a maelstrom of marshmallow, pretzel and chile powder. 6am5pm Mon-Thu, 6am-11pm Fri, 7am-11pm Sat, 7am-5pm Sun. 2006 S. Winchester Blvd #C. 408.378.4540.

TIGELLERIA Italian. $$.

Tigelleria’s menu centers on fine cheeses and Italian salumi paired with tigelle, freeflowing, piping-hot flatbreads the size of mini pitas. The bread forms the addictive heart of the meal. 11:30am2pm, 5-10pm daily. 76 E. Campbell Ave. 408.884.3808.

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ALEXANDER’S STEAKHOUSE

MICHI Japanese. $$. Sushi standards are transformed into palate-awakening presentations; culinary boundaries are stretched.

11am-10pm daily. 2220 S. Winchester Blvd.

408.378.8000 or 378.0838.

American-Asian steakhouse. $$$$. Alexander’s is much more than a steakhouse. Add a 500-bottle wine list, multiple dining rooms and Asianaccented ambience and you’ve got a standout South Bay restaurant. Full bar. 5:30-10pm Mon-Thu, 5:30-11pm Fri-Sat, 5-9pm Sun. 10330 N. Wolfe Rd. 408.446.2222.

NEGEEN Persian. $$. Mira

CAFE TORRE New Italian.

ghasemi, grilled and puréed eggplant in a tomato sauce with scrambled eggs, and kashk-e-bademjan, puréed eggplant topped with mint and a creamy yogurt sauce, are great, as are the kebabs. Don’t miss the excellent Persian ice cream. 11:30am-10pm MonThu, 11:30am-midnight Fri-Sat, 11:30am-9pm Sun. 801 W. Hamilton Ave. 408.866.6400.

PSYCHO DONUTS Donuts. $. Psycho Donuts has taken rings of fried dough into new territory with flavors like apricot, the Cookie Monster (topped with Oreos) and Do-Nilla (sprinkled with bits of vanilla wafers) and the

$$$. A gem tucked away in an unassuming little mall, with a sophisticated interior and congenial hosts. Even better is the great pasta and seafood. Beer, wine. 11:30am2pm, 5-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 5-10:30pm Fri-Sat. Closed Sun. 20343 Stevens Creek Blvd.

408.257.2383.

CUPERTINO BAKERY Indian and bakery. $. Don’t be fooled by the name. Cupertino Bakery is a really great South Indian restaurant. Unlike many South Indian restaurants, Cupertino Bakery isn’t vegetarian. Good lunch buffet for $7.99. Don’t miss the dosa and utthappam.

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weekdays kitchen closes 2:305:30pm. 102521 S. De Anza Blvd. 408.517.9000.

FLORENTINE RESTAURANT Italian. $. Bold flavors, fresh ingredients and lavish portions.

Beer, wine. 10257 S. De Anza Blvd. (plus six other locations, some with full bars). 11:30am9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am10pm Fri-Sat, 4-9pm Sun. 408.253.6532.

FONTANA’S California/Italian. $$$. A steady performer, Fontana’s rarely disappoints pasta lovers. Beer, wine.

11:30am-9pm Mon-Thu, 11:30am-10pm Fri, 5-10pm Sat, 4:30-9pm Sun. 20840 Stevens Creek Blvd. 408.725.0188.

GOCHI Japanese. $$$. Gochi is a globally inspired izakaya (small plates) restaurant.

Most of the food is straightup Japanese fare, but there are a few American, French and Korean twists. Highly recommended. 19980 Homestead Rd. 408.725.0542.

LOON WAH Chinese. $. The kitchen produces good wokcentric dishes, but its main draw is fresh, hand-pulled noodles. Casual. Beer, wine.

11am-9:30pm Mon-Thu, 11am10pm Fri-Sun. 1146 De Anza Blvd. 408.257.8877.

TATAMI Japanese. $$. Billed as a Japanese seafood buffet, Tatami doesn’t limit itself to Japanese dishes. Pan-Asian and just plain odd specialties rotate. 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-9pm Mon-Fri, 11:30am3pm, 5:30-9:30pm Sat-Sun. Cupertino Square mall (near Sears), 10123 N. Wolfe Rd #2001. 408.996.3444.

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On my visit, the owner of Las Tortas was friendly and quite accommodating. She told me that raspados are a commonly sold street food in Mexico. They are made with syrup and shaved ice, basically like Hawaiian shaved ice, but Las Tortas adds a little something extra: real fruit.

Some of their flavors include strawberry, kiwi, coconut and tamarind.

Their top seller is mango served with a shot of chamoy sauce—which itself has a strong, complex array of flavors (sweet, sour and spicy) and is made from chiles and pickled fruit. It is typically served on sweets in Mexico, and is, in my opinion, an acquired taste. My personal favorite was the pecan, which had actual pieces of pecan mixed in with the crushed ice and syrup.

Surprisingly sweet, it was like drinking a slice of pecan pie. I would have saved it for dessert had I known what I was in for.

I tried three tortas: Hawaiiana (ham, pineapple, bacon), Milanesa (breaded steak) and Cubana (milenesa, ham, pork leg). All the sandwiches were served with lettuce, avocado, tomatoes and onions and came on a thick doughy roll that is baked fresh in house. The Cubana was my least favorite, though it was still delicious. The Milanesa was better and had a thicker breading. It was like eating a country-fried-steak sandwich. The Hawaiiana was my favorite, which I wasn’t expecting.

Filled with thick-cut and lightly grilled ham, it was just bubbling with flavor—and served with rings of fresh pineapple. Even my wife, who doesn’t normally like to mix savory with sweet, thought the Hawaiiana was the best.—Aaron Carnes Las Tortas

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Besides the lengthy lines at the new spot, customers are greeted by a burrito “roller,” who helps them build their meals with a wide choice of ingredients. In addition to tacos and nachos, Freebirds stakes its fame on burritos, offering three sizes: Hybird (its smallest), Freebird and the 7-pound Super Monster.

Burrito customizing begins with flour, corn, spinach or cayenne tortillas. From there, Freebirds supplies more than 20 options for fillings, including two types of rice, three different beans and tasty ingredients such as roasted limes and Freebirds’ death sauce. The meat selections are also notable, as the place uses natural grass-fed beef, hormone-free chicken and tasty slow-roasted pork carnitas.

The fresh ingredients and DIY technique result in a pretty tasty burrito. Yet it couldn’t be ignored that there was a definite feel of corporatized fast food and murmurs of patrons comparing Freebirds to Chipotle could be overheard in the restaurant. Additionally, if you’re dying to try Freebirds because you remember the original from Santa Barbara—go to Santa Barbara. There is no secret menu or secret sauce at this new location. While the shine of a new restaurant in San Jose is hard to ignore, it will be interesting to see how the new corporate version of Freebirds does in a city predominantly served by smaller, more authentic taquerias.—Jeff Cianci Freebirds 1205 The Alameda, San Jose; 408.293.0103

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*wed *fri BLACK WEDNESDAY Liquid Lounge, San Jose Wed – 9pm; free Black Friday, with its hordes of midnight zombie shoppers, grabs all the headlines around Thanksgiving, but the real action starts the night before the holiday when longtime friends and family return home and get reacquainted with a night out on the town. Liquid Lounge steps in this year for Black Wednesday, a free party with DJ Obie Drexel spinning hip-hop and Top 40. At least two glasses of water and headache relief recommended after this one. Who wants a turkey day hangover? (MC)

THE PARADE The Refuge, Cupertino Fri – 7pm; $10 There is no shortage of bands with young men playing guitars and drums and belting out songs about girls. Yet it takes a truly distinct group to make this formula sound fresh. The Parade play emo-punk but a much mellower version of it than their peers. (And with a singer who actually sings and does not scream his guts out.) But where the Parade truly stand out is in how they incorporate solid grooves into their sound. Imagine a slick Modest Mouse with Cheap Trick power-pop hooks—and songs about girls, lots of songs

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about girls. They are supporting their new EP Motion. (AC)

HAWK JONES Caravan, San Jose Fri – 9:30pm; free In May, Hawk Jones released their EP Que Rico, which proved to be far weirder than anyone had expected.

Before that, they carefully rode the line between weird and familiar, with one foot planted firmly in the safe rock & roll traditions and the other somewhere in outer space.

Que Rico took that one familiar foot and obliterated it. The terms “experimental rock” and “math rock” don’t do them justice. Their music is off-the-charts odd, packed with chaotic, technical, mind-boggling licks. Yet, it manages to still be accessible—which is the weirdest thing of all. (AC)

DICK DALE Blank Club, San Jose Fri –9pm; $20 In conversation, Dick Dale is a little nuts—bouncing between his innovations with Leo Fender, his experience with martial arts and the exotic animals he’s trained on his SoCal property. It shouldn’t be a surprise after 50 years of shredding surf-guitar tunes around the world in front of maxed-out amps. Nor should it be a surprise that his appearances at the Blank Club—a holiday tradition at this point— continue to draw capacity crowds.

The opening riff on his classic “Misirlou” has crossed generations since Dale debuted the machinegun spasm of notes in 1963, inspiring Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction), Black Eyed Peas (“Pump It”) and thousands of guitar players

who can only dream of playing that fast. (MC)

BLACK FRIDAY 5: AN F/X EVENT Brix, San Jose Fri –9pm; free Who would have thought that after nearly two decades since its closing, the F/X would continue to draw an enthusiastic crowd for its annual reunion event? That’s because the F/X was no ordinary club. Originally open between 1990 and 1995 on South First Street, the F/X hosted live shows, dance nights and other creatively weird forms of entertainment. It was home to a loyal group of regulars, making these gatherings really more of a family reunion of sorts. This is the fifth edition and will feature DJs Rick Preston, Harry Who, Chainsaw and

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Most of their tweaks (and full-on overhauls) are done on the fly—like during the song, onstage. Maybe that means elongating one of the verses or giving what was previously a smooth soul song a heavy funk beat. It’s all fair game. You never know what you’re going to get;

they don’t know what they’re going to play. What comes out will be something danceable—funk, soul, rap, cha cha cha—but Good Hustle love the unpredictable. There’s nothing saying they won’t bust out a metal lick or play a folk song. (AC)

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Spinning records since the days when N.W.A. and Public Enemy were taking radio waves hostage, R.A.W., a.k.a. 6BLOCC, has certainly been around the block more than a few times. A DJ battle champ and L.A. radio show host in the late ’80s and early ’90s, the popular underground DJ and producer has re-emerged over the past few years after being reinvigorated by the dustup movement. He has shed his old style of primal hip-hop and adopted a new moniker—as in the words to the Masta Ace song, “The bass I create is heard from six blocks.” Sam Supa and Audio Dru open. (MC)

Studio 8, San Jose Sat – 9pm; $20 For those looking for an opportunity to burn off a few post-Thanksgiving calories, rapper IAMSU is hitting the stage at Studio 8. Hailing from the grimy streets of Richmond, IAMSU is riding high in the wake of his feature on E-40’s national hit “Function” and his latest mixtape, Kilt. Backed by his squad, the Heart Break Gang, IAMSU employs a laid-back, confident rhyme delivery, chronicling his daily grind of sipping purple and stealing girlfriends.

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*stage ANNIE The orphan musical performed

by West Valley Light Opera.

Runs thru Dec 8. Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2:30 or 8pm, Sun, 2:30pm. $18$33. Saratoga Civic Theater.

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

A CHRISTMAS CAROL SJ Rep’s Rick Lombardo presents his musical take on Dickens. Nov 21-Dec 23.

Previews Wed, 7:30pm, FriSat, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 7pm, Tue, 7:30pm. Opens Nov 28. $20 and up. San Jose Reep.

CHRISTMAS SHORTS Five short plays in a satirical vein about the holidays. Nov 21-Dec 23. Preview Wed, 8pm (pay what you can). Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $24.95-$39.95 ($20 preview Fri). City Lights, San Jose.

DIE FLEDERMAUS Opera San Jose mounts Strauss’ famed operetta. Runs thru Nov 25. Nov 23, 8pm, Nov 25, 3pm. $51 and up. California Theatre, San Jose.

MARCH A drama about two teens who meet online, presented by Dragon Productions. Runs thru Dec 2. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm.

(No show Nov 22.) $20-$30.

Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto.

THE NUTCRACKER Presented by Pacific Ballet Academy. Fri-Sat, 1 and 6pm, Sun, 12:30 and 4pm. $24/$28.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

PACIFIC BALLET ACADEMY Celebrating sugar plum fairies and more. Fri-Sat at 1 and 6pm, Sun at 12:30 and 4pm. $24/$28. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

PENINSULA YOUTH BALLET An annual performance by the young dancers. Nov 2425, Dec 1-2. This week: SatSun, 2pm.$25-$35. Bayside Performing Arts Center, San Mateo. 650.286.0241

PETER PAN Starring Cathy Rigby and presented by Broadway San Jose. Runs thru Nov 25. Wed, 7:30pm, Fri-Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

*art MUSEUMS ART MUSEUM OF LOS GATOS “It’s Personal! Tales Visualized

by Asian American Women Artists.” Thru Nov 25. WedSun, 11am-5pm. Los Gatos.

CANTOR ARTS CENTER “Video Quartet,” Christian Marclay’s multiscreen installation collaged from movie clips. Thru Feb 10.

“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. WedSun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am8pm. Stanford.

DE SAISSET MUSEUM “Beyond Function: Fiber, Fabric and Finery.” Works in textiles by California artists.

“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. MonThu, 10am-3pm. De Anza College, Cupertino.

HISTORY PARK SAN JOSE “Through My Father’s Eyes.”

Photographs chronicling Filipino American life in the 1940s and ’50s in the Bay Area. Ongoing. Pacific Hotel Gallery, San Jose.

MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HERITAGE “Inventing the 20th Century, 1901-1941.” A show with artifacts about innovation.

Thru Jan 13. Fri-Sun, 11am4pm. Palo Alto.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART “Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting.” Thru May

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12. “Ranu Mukherjee: Telling Fortunes.” A show about the history and people of Silicon Valley. Thru Jan 13. “Local Color.” A show drawn from the museum’s permanent collection. Thru Jan 13. “TueSun, 11am-5pm, closed Mon. San Jose.

SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS & TEXTILES “Collecting Treasures: Celebrating 35 Years.” A show of works from the permanent collection. Thru Feb 3. TueSun, 10am-5pm. San Jose.

TECH MUSEUM “Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition.” Thru Jan 16. MonWed, 10am-5pm, Thu-Sun, 10am-8pm. San Jose.

TRITON MUSEUM OF ART “Maxine Solomon: From Void to a Dream.” Thru Nov 18. “Splintering Humanity: Religious Extremism in Defiance of a Global Community.” Thru Nov 25.

“Aspects: A Solo Exhibition

by Cuong Nguyen.” Tue-Wed and Fri-Sun, 11am-5pm, Thu, 11am-9pm. Santa Clara.

GALLERIES ANNO DOMINI “Re:Collections.” A sampling of the gallery’s own holdings.

San Jose.

ART ARK GALLERY “The More the Merrier III.” A holiday showcase for 48 Bay Area artists. San Jose.

BRUNI GALLERY “The Jazz Masters Series” by BRUNI. San Jose.

CALDWELL GALLERY “Expressions in Watercolor.”

Works by Alvin Joe and Guy Magallanes. Thru Jan 2. MonFri, 8am-5pm. Redwood City.

CARNEY, SUGAI AND SUDWEEKS Thirteen artists will show portraits of the elderly.

Runs for three months. 750 University Ave, Los Gatos.

DOWNTOWN YOGA SHALA “The Ghosts of Storytellers.”

Portraits by Megan Eckman.

Thru Nov 30. San Jose.

EMPIRE SEVEN STUDIOS “Beau Roulette.” A photography

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GOOD KARMA CAFE “Lonesome Town.” New works

by Kori Thompson. San Jose.

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.

KCI GALLERY “Ciudad Fragmentada.”

Photo-based works by Cuban artist José Manuel Fors about Havana and its people and buildings. Thru Nov 26. Krause Center for Innovation Gallery, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills.

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Thru Nov 30. San Jose.

PACIFIC ART LEAGUE “Pressing Matter.” Juried show of prints. Also works by Decker Walker and Marjory Wilson.

Runs thru Nov. Palo Alto.

PALO ALTO ART CENTER The remodeled center displays site-specific works about place and identity. Thru Apr 4.

Palo Alto.

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

Saratoga.

PHO69 Works by Andrew Wallace.

Thru Nov 30. San Jose.

Works by Muckers G. Mooderf.

Thru Nov 30. 452 S. First St, San Jose.

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“Power in Numbers.” A show about immigration and politics

by Betty A. Davis, Ana Teresa Fernandez and more. Thru Jan 5. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

Group show by local artists.

San Jose.

“Rashomon.” A 15-piece installation by sculptor Charles Ginnever. Thru Feb 16. “Amy Kaufman: b + w.” A sitespecific installation of charcoal drawings. Thru Feb 9. Tue-Fri,

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SEEING THINGS GALLERY “Tri-X-Noise.” A new gallery hosts a show with found-art master Bill Daniel. Thru Nov 26.

30 N Third St, San Jose.

SLG BOUTIKI “The World of Genevieve Santos.” Thru Nov 30. San Jose.

STANFORD ART SPACES “Cuba 2012.” Images by American photographers in Havana. Thru Jan 17. Weekdays, 8:30am-5pm. 420 Via Palou at Campus Drive and Via Ortega, Stanford.

*events ISABEL ALLENDE The author is honored on a special day. Events include an exhibit of Allende’s many books (9:30am-1:30pm), King Main Library; a dramatic adaptation of her story “Tosca” performed by SJSU Theatre Arts program students (2:15pm), Hugh Gillis Hall, Hal Todd Theatre, SJSU; and an awards ceremony (3:15pm), Morris Dailey Auditorium, SJSU. All on Tue. San Jose.

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trust in providence. Whatever Life of Pi is trying to say about the Hindu/Buddhist Wheel of Suffering, it says much more interestingly than did Cloud Atlas did.

(Read a full-length review online at metroactive.com.) (Opens Wed.) (RvB)

New ANNAKARENINA (R; 130 min.) Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson star in a new adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel. (Opens Wed.)

REDDAWN (PG-13) North Korea invades America, and our fearless teenagers in the Palin Platoon fight back. A remake of the 1984 film, in which the bad guys were Soviets.

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HOLYMOTORS (NR; 115 min.) See review on at left.

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Carax’s protean star is the amazing Denis Lavant, a kind of cross between the SCTVera Rick Moranis and Walter Huston at his best. Lavant’s crepuscular M. Oscar is perhaps some kin of Fantomas himself: a key figure in French fantasy, related equally to the Phantom of the Opera and the omniscient Bond villain. Even the poster for Holy Motors recalls the mask of that shape-shifting demon of chaos: always sought, never found, still at large.

In a white stretch limo loaded with makeup and costumes, piloted by the handsome, droll Edith Scob, M. Oscar goes on “assignments” of a frequently malign nature: anything from wetwork to the deliberate crushing of an adolescent girl’s spirit. Some of his other labors are more ambiguous: posing as a dying man with the help of a grieving niece. And at a factory, Oscar performs a dark ballet in a motion-capture suit studded with glass bulbs. In this startling dance sequence—in the studio days, Carax could have been a master of the musical—Holy Motors suggests that

sometimes the strangeness of what can be caught with physical acting and makeup beats the imaginary worlds wrought by animators.

Oscar goes in for melodrama. One lowcomedy sequence features the return of Lavant’s one-eyed monster Merde (the Holy Motors terror of Japan in Carax’s episode in the NR; 115 min.

Tokyo! anthology). The Opens Friday, nasty red-headed troll Camera 3, San Jose scoops up a deliriously impassive Eve Mendes from a photo shoot in Père Lachaise, where she is posed as a gold-lamé-wrapped goddess Diana.

Mendes proves herself here—not just as a raving beauty but a really good sport.

More sophisticated regret is evince d in a sequence in the empty shell of the Art-Deco landmark La Samaritaine, the now-closed department store that loomed over Carax’s immortal The Lovers on the Bridge.

Holy Motors is sometimes like watching a cryptic Cirque du Soleil bit that doesn’t come off. But the arrestingly different way Carax cracks the mystery of an actor’s life makes this film one of the year’s best comebacks.

(PG; 127 min.) Pi (Irrfan Khan), a friendly professor in modern Montreal, is lunching with an avid American (Rafe Spall). Pi unfolds the tale of his singular voyage to the Newer World from his home in the French colony of Pondicherry—a Tintin-esque locale. The son of a man who believes only in logic, Pi becomes pious in all the religions, in passages that director Ang Lee envisions as a handsome pastiche of Satyajit Ray. Dad runs a zoo. When the money runs short, the family must sell the critters to overseas collectors. The animal freighter sinks, and young Pi (Suraj Sharma) is stranded in a lifeboat with a wounded zebra, an orangutan and a hyena. Then, out of the waves, comes the zoo’s tiger, Richard Parker. The tiger has never seen a Disney movie; he has a vicious temper and refuses to be gentled. Worn down by weeks of certain doom, Pi puts his

RISEOFTHEGUARDIANS (PG; 97 min.) Jack Frost (voiced by Chris Pine) is recruited by the team of mythical heroes protecting the children of the world ever since the end of the Dark Ages: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and the stroppy Australian Easter Bunny (voiced by Hugh Jackman).

A bit busy, and it skews young. Among a cast of superior voice actors, Jude Law seems light-loafered to play a prince of darkness named Pitch. But this 3-D-animated film is often dashing.

There’s a lot of pleasure in watching Alec Baldwin’s outrageously hearty Santa. He’s tattooed, Russian, formidable and bearish. He’s slightly scary, just as Santa was when one was a child, contemplating someone you’d better watch out for. There’s an element of

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Pleasing as it is, the ďŹ lm contains an implicit guilt-whipping to parents: Neglect the holidays and you may destroy the world. (Opens Wed.) (RvB)

SILVERLININGSPLAYBOOK (R; 122 min.) A man with a stint in a mental hospital behind him meets a woman with her own troubled past in

a comedy of sorts by David O. Russell, starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. (Opens Wed.)

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ball comedians Olsen and Johnson try to get their ďŹ lm produced and meanwhile emcee a show with Glenn Miller, Count Basie and Shemp Howard. (Plays Nov 2123 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)

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(Both 1944) Robert Siodmakâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unusual Victorian drama of a murderer (Charles Laughton) whom weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re rooting for to succeed. BILLED WITH the ace ďŹ lm noir Phantom Lady, based on a Cornell Woolrich novel about a missing witness (Fay Helm) vanished into nighttown.

With gimlet-eyed weirdo Elisha Cook Jr. and Carmen Mirandaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister, Aurora.

(Plays Nov 24-25 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

CLOUDATLAS (R; 172 min.) The Wachowskis and director Tom Tykwerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mutually inept take on David Mitchellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s novel of interlocking eras and Eternal Recurrence.Thanks to literally dozens of wobbly make-up jobsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;looks like Halloween came early this year!â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the shuttle back and forth between the 1800s and a post-apocalyptic future is ludicrous.Tom Hanks uses a strangely Cajun accent as a tribesman of â&#x20AC;&#x153;140 years after the Fallâ&#x20AC;? ďŹ ghting off a tribe of

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horseback-riding ogres, while dealing with a futuristic anthropologist (Halle Berry in one of six roles). Something can be said for the melliďŹ&#x201A;uous Keith David dressed like Shaft, and Berry attractively togged out as â&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t transcend the trap of the literary ďŹ ction writer delving into sci-ďŹ â&#x20AC;&#x201D; stripped of the prose, the plot is as bald as the shiny-domed oppressors of the future. Rather than having the cumulative impact of a symphony, Cloud Atlas is like watching six bad ďŹ lms at once. (RvB)

SKYFALL (PG-13; 142 min.) 007 (Daniel Craig) recuperates from a riďŹ&#x201A;e wound and follows a trail of clues leading to a dangerous hacker called Silva (Javier Bardem). Starting with a wounded hero, Sam Mendes gives up more backstory than a lot of James Bond fans would want. In the interests of rebuilding the series, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re drilling for bedrock even at risk of making Bond yet another little boy lost and in need of reparenting.

The photography (by Roger Deakins) is a landmark for digital ďŹ lm; there are stunning sequences in Istanbul, a Chinese red-dyed Macao and Shanghai.

And the virility of Daniel Craig reaches Clark Gable levels; it seems no one will ever look less ducky in a suit. Too bad the ďŹ lm is undervillained. Sure Bond can save England, represented here by the Tube,

by J.M.W. Turnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s painting The Fighting Temeraire, by Tennysonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ulysses,â&#x20AC;? by even a homely china bulldog. But just England? One this was a man for whom the world was not enough. (RvB)

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The music industry, on a 10-year juice fast of plummeting record sales, is devouring the trend. Unlike traditional bands, which require a crew and multiple band members and instruments to put on a show,

most EDM artists bring their laptops—and that’s it.

The New York Times has reported that top DJs like Deadmou5 and Tiesto can pocket $1 million for a festival appearance and $10 million for a Las Vegas nightclub residency.

Realizing that these shows are like Cheesecake Factory entrees for their bottom line, promoters are churning out EDM festivals like a Twinkie industrial unit in the 1960s, from the migrating Electric Daisy Carnival to the Ultra Music Festival in Florida.

Some are comparing the EDM movement to the housing bubble or dotcom IPOs—a cheek-flapping rise followed by the inevitable dubstep drop. However, EDM represents a cultural shift, as rock & roll did for baby boomers, and promises to leave a permanent tattoo on young music lovers growing up with the stuff.

Between the adolescent identity

and subsequent nostalgia fans associate with it, and the low-cost/ high-profit margins for artists and promoters, EDM is not going away anytime soon. And as much as it’s a boon to the music industry, the deepseated passion of the artists and the fans are what has and will sustain this movement.

San Jose is getting in on the act, hosting the seventh-annual Give Thanks concert at the newly renovated San Jose Civic on Friday, Nov. 23. The show features artists such as Showtec, Manufactured Superstars, Dirtyphonics and upand-coming Russian beat maker Arty. Born Artyom Stolyarov, Arty is a 23-year-old producer and DJ who has made a name for himself with a prolific body of work created in three short years. Endorsed by the likes of Skrillex and Paul van Dyk, and rocketing to No. 25 on the 2011 list of the Top 100 DJs by DJ Magazine, Arty already roams with the best of them.

Arty plays a signature classic house style that can be twirl-in-a-meadow euphoric or drag-you-onto-the-dancefloor-by-your-hair manic, and he loves his rising crescendos. Currently

touring the world at a torrid pace (Netherlands, United Kingdom and South Korea in late October before his current North American tour), he somehow finds the time to record singles, host a radio show and maintain an active Twitter account.

Arty is no stranger to allconsuming work schedules, however.

When he was just a budding EDM artist back in Russia, fresh off seven years of formal music schooling, Arty “spent 15 to 16 hours a day making music like nothing else existed.”

“Very few things have changed since that moment,” he says. “I just started to travel a lot, and all musicmaking happens usually on the road now. But still, it’s all about passion and beautiful melodies.”

He might be raking in a bit more dough and getting more praise, but it all goes back to his love for electronic music, having been weaned on EDM demigods Axwell (Swedish House Mafia), Deadmau5 and Eric Prydz.

One thing that has changed for Arty as a result of his rising-star status is that instead of just listening to SHM on his ear buds, he gets to mix with the Nordic DJ himself. “My collaboration dream came true. We’re working with Axwell on a track together. It takes a lot of time, but I hope we finish it,” he says.

Some guys might get caught up in the glitz. Some guys might get burnt out. While no one is immune, it seems like Arty has a chance. He still claims to get a warm fuzzy feeling after a great show or finishing a new track.

That feeling, along with the support of his close-knit family, is what can keep him grounded amid the strobe light flashes of success and challenge.

While the Civic Center and Arty’s team of managers and promoters are probably pretty stoked that, as an EDM artist, his shows are as cost- and laborefficient as that Hong Kong space-saver apartment on YouTube, Arty says he just wants to see as many people as possible have an amazing time. That’s what will keep them coming back for more, long after they age out of halfshaved heads and glow sticks.

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A self-proclaimed â&#x20AC;&#x153;pioneer of Gothic Hip Hopâ&#x20AC;? San Joseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kung Fu Vampire had a big year in 2012, booking his longest national tour to date and recording with three industry vets: E-40, Tech N9ne and Brotha Lynch Hung. We caught up with KFV on the road to ďŹ nd out his favorite songs so far from 2012.

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Fri, 7pm: Andrea Bocelli. $79.50-$379.50. San Jose.

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

JOHNNY Vâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Thu, 8pm: Neutral Boy. San Jose.

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Mon, 9:30pm: Kid Dynamite.

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Wed, 9:30pm: Blind Pilots. Fri, 9:30pm: Joint Chiefs. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: Touch N Go. $10.

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BRIT ARMS ALMADEN Fri, 10pm: The Cheeseballs.

Sat, 10pm: Kid Dynamite.

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THE CARAVAN Fri, 9:30pm: Hawk Jones. Sat, 8pm: Angerhead, Silent Sinner, Bomb and Scary. San Jose.

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

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

Fri, 9pm: Terry Sheets. Sat, 9pm: Bone Drivers. Sun, 6pm: Joe Ferrara. Tue, 8pm: Johnny Fabulous. Los Gatos.

AZĂ&#x161;CAR LATIN BAR Wed: Rock band. Thu: Latin fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata and rock en espanol. Sat, 9pm: Salsa, merengue, Latin fusion.

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CAFFE FRASCATI Fri, 8pm: Rev Rabia. Delta blues. Sat, 8pm: The Kavanaugh Brothers. Celtic. San Jose.

CLUB FOX Sun, 3pm: Octobop. CD release. $15. Redwood City.

GOOD KARMA THE REFUGE Fri, 7pm: The Parade, Turn Me On Dead, Uli R, Raised Threshold, Faris Monshi, Alien Monster. Sat, 7pm: Adestria, In Dying Arms, Stand Your Ground, Start the Fire Up, Of Dreamers, Anchors, To Our Legends. $10. Cupertino.

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Sat, 8pm: The Fab Four.

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Sat, 7pm: Daydream Nation, Vol.8 with Good Hustle, Natural Bridges, Piranha Party.

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WOODHAMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LOUNGE First three Fri of month: Live music. Santa Clara.

Thu: Acoustic music. San Jose.

GRAND DELL SALOON Fri, 8pm: Post-Thanksgiving jam. Campbell.

HEDLEY CLUB Every ďŹ rst and third Wed, 7:30pm: Jazz jam. Fri, 8:30pm: Harold Fethe. Sat, 8:30pm: Times 4. Mon, 6pm: Gus Kambeitz Duo. Hotel De Anza, San Jose.

J.J.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BLUES CAFE Wed: Blues Angel. Thu: Mob. Fri: Charles Ray Bohn and the Whiskey Poets. No cover. Sat: Little John Chrisley jam at

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New Trapt and Pounders IT HAS BEEN a decade since Los Gatos quartet Trapt hit it big with the nu metal single “Headstrong.” Ten years later, they’re getting ready to release their sixth studio album, Reborn, which arrives in January 2013.

“Headstrong,” the band’s first and biggest single, came off their second album (and their first major-label release). It is just one of those songs that takes you right back to that specific time and place in the early 2000s when nu metal was really exploding—heavy melodic guitar work; hushed, pained singing mixed with angry screaming; and hip-hop-influenced metal grooves. It was all there.

Musik Ink Studios Friday, Nov 23; 7pm; $15

While a lot of the bands from that scene have either broken up or moved on to different musical genres, Trapt has, for better or worse, stayed true to the original sound that made them famous in 2002. They’ve already released two tracks from Reborn, both of which could comfortably sit next to “Headstrong” on an album. If anything, the new material is an angrier version of the old material.

Also on the bill are locals Pounders, who will be releasing their newest album Hard Dirty And Fast at this show. They’ve been getting attention for their blend of pop-punk ’90s alt-rock and ’80s New Wave—and lead singer Chris Pounder’s flamboyant pink Mohawk.—Aaron Carnes

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

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MURPHY’S LAW Sat: Hipshakers. Mon: Pro blues jam. Sunnyvale.

POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: Ron Thompson. Fri,

6pm: J.C. Smith Band. Sat, 6pm: Mighty Mike Schermer Band.

Sun, noon: Gail Dobson Jazz Band and student performance.

Mon, 7pm: Cooking the Blues with Mighty Mike Schermer San Jose.

TESSORA’S Wed, 7pm: Frank Sorci. Sat, 8pm: Michelle Pollace Trio. Campbell.

SAN PEDRO SQUARE MARKET Fri, 7pm: Ron E. Beck Soul Revue.

Free. San Jose.

STEPHENS GREEN Tue, 7:30pm: Irish music.

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UPSTAIRS JAZZ CAFE Wed: Jazz jam. Thu: Piano bar.

Fri-Sat: Jazz bands. Tue: Blues.

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BACK IN THE STREET Local favorites Curbside are reuniting for a Blank show.

Curbside IN THE mid-’90s, San Jose was bursting at the seams with good bands. One of the best punk acts of the day was Curbside, an outfit that exemplified the energy and quality of the music being created at that time. After disbanding at the height of their career in 1999, Curbside return to the stage for one night on Nov. 30 at the Blank Club.

The Blank Club Curbside began in late 1994 when guitarist/vocalist Josh Santaga recruited drummer Jiri Ciernava. Santaga had just Friday, Nov. 30; purchased a Ludwig Vistalite drum set and needed someone 9pm; $10 to sit behind it. Ciernava’s lightning-quick reflexes did not disappoint, and soon the outfit was joined by Mike Davis on bass and Sean Bjordahl on vocals/harmonica. In the very early days, Bjordahl would send lyrics to Santaga from the boiler room of the U.S.S. Ouellet, where he was stationed during a stint in the Navy. Upon discharge (honorable) from the Navy, Bjordahl joined Curbside as their front man.

From the mid- to late-’90s, Curbside dominated the South Bay music scene, went on several European tours, sold a mountain of tapes and CDs and enjoyed recognition by local and international audiences before vanishing in 1999. By the summer of 1995, the band was going full steam, playing with acts like Fang, Goldfinger, Papa Roach, Incubus, Zeke, Supersuckers, Seven Year Bitch, Saxon, DOA and Mötorhead. “We just hit the ground running,” Santaga recalls. “We played a lot.”

Curbside’s unofficial home base in Europe was Usti nad Labem in the Czech Republic. From there, the band would launch its European tours. Back home, Curbside were regulars at the Cactus Club, the Pizza Depot and other venues of the day. Their trajectory was cut short in 1999, when Curbside disappeared.

Some would attribute this to their lead singer not showing up during an A&R showcase with Papa Roach. The official statement from the band lists the “Internet” as Curbside’s downfall.

Today, the band is more or less the same. The only change is Shawn Packer, a member of local act Shitkickers, filling in for Mike Davis. With a respect and reverence for Mike D’s style, Packer is a perfect fit. Packer understands the work Curbside put in during their tenure. Curbside will return to the stage for one night in celebration of guitarist/vocalist Josh Santaga’s 40th birthday. El Buzzard and 4 Banger open.—Tomek Mackowiak The Blank Club

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DASILVA’S BRONCOS

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Wed, 7pm: Hootenanny. Threeyear anniversary. San Jose.

Fri, 9pm: Ryan. San Jose.

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Thu-Sat: Acoustic bands.

Campbell.

Thu, 8pm: Karaoke. San Jose.

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TREY SONGZ The neighbors know his name because he invented sex, but don’t rule out opener Miguel. Nov 23 at Oracle Arena.

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Your presence can also provide a helpful thumb on the “I’m outta here!” side of the scale for a man who lacks a Ouija board, a Magic 8-Ball or the guts to make a decision. And while it is possible that some of these men fall for you, it’s also possible that any “I love you! I want you! I have to have you!” a man blurts out is just a bad translation of “Eeek! I’ll be alone, and you’re cute and nice to me. You’ll do.”

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LEGAL & PUBLIC

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Style Scrubs, 2697 Casey Way., San Jose, CA, 95121, Chris Sanchez.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Chris Sanchez This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/02/2012. (pub Metro 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12//2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570752

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Design Collective, 150 Kingsley Ave., Palo Alto, CA, 94301, Adam Selzer, Lena Wolfe 3220 Sunset Beach Dr., NW, Olympia, WA, 98502.

This business is conducted by a general partnership.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/01/2012. /s/Adam Selzer This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571047

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Quick-One Financial, 2441 Alvin Ave., San Jose, CA, 95121, Provence Realty.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/20/2004.

Refile of previous file #499602 after 40 days of expiration date. /s/Don Hoang President #2670712 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/24/2012. (pub Metro 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2012)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Jupiter Editing, 1575 Calaveras Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126, Patrick Burns.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 8/15/2012. /s/Patrick Burns This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/30/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2012)

94089, Robert Seet.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Robert Sweet This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/05/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571057

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Maria’s Tree Service, 1017 Cheswick Dr., San Jose, CA, 95121, Maurilio Barragan.

This business is FICTITIOUS conducted by a BUSINESS individual.

NAME STATEMENT Registrant began transacting business #571598 The following person(s) is under the fictitious business name or (are) doing business as: names listed herein on Cleaning Solutions, 117 10/24/2012.

Bernal Rd.,#70-113, San /s/Maurilio Barragan Jose, CA, 95119, Mark This statement was filed Kline. with the County Clerk of This business is Santa Clara County on conducted by a 10/24/2012. individual. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, Registrant began 11/28, 12/05/2012) transacting business under the fictitious FICTITIOUS business name or names listed herein on BUSINESS 6/2/2006.

NAME STATEMENT Refile of previous file #478984 after 40 days of #571089 The following person(s) is expiration date. (are) doing business as: /s/Mark Kline The Plumbing Guys, 117 This statement was filed S. Claremont Ave., San with the County Clerk of Jose, CA, 95127, Aaron Santa Clara County on Sanchez.

11/08/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, This business is conducted by a 11/28, 12/05/2012) individual.

Registrant has not FICTITIOUS yet begun transacting BUSINESS business under the NAME STATEMENT fictitious business name or names listed herein. #571357 The following person(s) is /s/Aaron Sanchez This statement was filed (are) doing business as: with the County Clerk of Avanti Tech, 60 Desanso Santa Clara County on Dr., Unit 3103, San Jose, 10/25/2012.

CA, 95136, Lalit Gajare. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, This business is 11/21, 11/28/2012) conducted by a individual.

FICTITIOUS Registrant began transacting business BUSINESS under the fictitious NAME STATEMENT business name or #570674 names listed herein on The following person(s) 11/02/2012. is (are) doing business /s/Lalit Gajare as: Sedona Immigration This statement was filed Law group. 1602 The with the County Clerk of Alameda, Suite 200, San Santa Clara County on Jose, CA, 95126, Jenny 11/02/2012. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, K. Hong, 3183 Hastings Way, San Ramon, CA, 11/28, 12/05/2012) 94582.

This business is FICTITIOUS conducted by a BUSINESS individual.

NAME STATEMENT Registrant has not yet begun transacting #571398 business under the The following person(s) fictitious business name is (are) doing business or names listed herein. as: Diamond Certified Plumbing, 1183 Palamos /s/Jenny K. Hong This statement was filed Ave., Sunnyvale, CA,

with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/15/2012. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571371

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Prologix Instruments, LLC., 2. Prologix, LLC., 1691 Grizilo Drive, San Jose, CA, 95124.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Above entity was formed in the state of Washington.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/01/2012. /s/Abdul Manager #201227510247 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/02/2012. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #571185

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Astrotecture, 4260 Terman Drive., #104, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, Marc M Cohen, Architect PC. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Above entity was formed in the state of California Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 1/13/2012. /s/Marc M. Cohen President, Owner #3303986 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/30/2012. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #570350 The following person(s) is (are) doing business 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)

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.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 2/7/86. /s/Sheldon K. Perry This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/02/2012. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, 11/14, 11/21/2012)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Darling Divas and Dudes, 4937 Gattucio Drive, San Jose, CA, 95124, Kristan Nelson.

This business is conducted by a individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Kristan Nelson This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/03/2012. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, 11/14, 11/21/2012)

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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)

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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)

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$1000, $500, $100, $20, $10, $5, $3, $2, $1, $.50 and $.25 chips can be FICTITIOUS The following person(s) is redeemed at the casino (are) doing business as: cage from August 7, 2012 BUSINESS Hon Photography, through February 7, 2013 NAME STATEMENT Daniel 446 Benefit Court, San - 24 hours per day. #569907 Jose, CA, 95133, Hoi Tak Redeem Chips at: The following person(s) is Hon. Casino M8trix (are) doing business as: This business is 1887 Matrix Blvd.

Eastridge Management, conducted by a San Jose, CA 95110 51 Glen Eyrie Ave., #10, individual.

San Jose, CA, 95125, Registrant began FICTITIOUS Eastridge Partners, Inc.. transacting business This business is under the fictitious BUSINESS by a business name or NAME STATEMENT conducted Corporation. names listed herein on #571128 Above entity was formed 01/01/2012.

The following person(s) is in the state of California /s/Hoi Tak Hon (are) doing business as: Registrant has not begun This statement was filed Come And Smile Photo transacting business with the County Clerk of Booth, 1396 Flickinger under the fictitious Santa Clara County on Avenue, San Jose, CA, business name or names 10/19/2012.

95131, Filipina Tejam, listed herein. (pub Metro 10/31, 11/07, Danilo Tejam. /s/Chris Jones 11/14, 11/21/2012) This business is CFO conducted by a husband #3503044 FICTITIOUS and wife.

This statement was filed BUSINESS Registrant has not with the County Clerk of NAME STATEMENT yet begun transacting Santa Clara County on business under the 9/24/2012. #570636 fictitious business name (pub Metro 10/24, 10/31, The following person(s) or names listed herein.

11/07, 11/14/2012) is (are) doing business /s/Danilo Tejam as: 1. The GPeople Group, This statement was filed FICTITIOUS 2. LentiliciousUSA, with the County Clerk of 3. Lentilicious North BUSINESS Santa Clara County on America, 130 E. San NAME STATEMENT 10/26/2012.

Fernando St., Apt 130, (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, #570811 San Jose, CA, 95112, The 11/21, 11/28/2012) The following person(s) GPeople Group, LLC. is (are) doing business This business is as: Passion Nails and conducted by a limited FICTITIOUS Spa, 21646 Stevens liability company.

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ARIES (March 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 19): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think about making art, just get it done,â&#x20AC;? said Andy Warhol. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let everyone else decide if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.â&#x20AC;? I encourage you to adopt that minimanifesto for your own purposes in the coming weeks, Aries. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not an artist, simply substitute the appropriate phrase for â&#x20AC;&#x153;making art.â&#x20AC;? It could be â&#x20AC;&#x153;creating interesting relationships,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;exploring exotic lands,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;changing corrupt political institutions,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ xing environmental problems,â&#x20AC;? or even â&#x20AC;&#x153;making money.â&#x20AC;? The main point is: Focus on doing what drives your quest for meaning, and forget about what people think of it.

TAURUS (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): A Jungian writer whose name I have unfortunately misplaced made the following observations: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s psyche, the unconscious is experienced as chaotic, ďŹ lled with violent and irrational processes of generation and destruction. But to a womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s psyche the unconscious is a fascinating matrix of sacred images and rituals which in their wildly contradictory meanings express the secret unity of all life.â&#x20AC;? After analyzing the astrological omens, I suspect that you Taurus men now have an unprecedented opportunity to experience your unconscious as women do. As for you Taurus women: You have the chance to get a vivid, visceral understanding of how true this description of the female unconscious is.

GEMINI (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk about the

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Decision. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m referring to the Choice you have been dancing around and fretting about and analyzing to death. By my estimate, there are at least 15 different solutions you could pursue. But just seven of those solutions would meet the requirements of being intelligent, responsible, and fun. Of those seven, only four would be intelligent, responsible, fun, and enduring. Of those four, only two would be intelligent, responsible, fun, enduring, and the best for all concerned. I suggest you opt for one of those two.

CANCER (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not necessarily asserting that you need to edit yourself, Cancerian.

Only you can decide that. But I will state unequivocally that if there is in fact any editing needed, now would be a good time to do it. You will have extra insight about what aspects of your life might beneďŹ t from being condensed, corrected, and ďŹ ne-tuned. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also true that the rectiďŹ cations you do in the coming weeks will be relatively smooth and painless. So look into the possibilities, please. Should you calm your blame reďŹ&#x201A;ex? Downsize a huffy attitude? Shed some emotional baggage?

LEO (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): How many times have you been in love, Leo? Just once or twice? Or have you dived into the depths of amorous togetherness again and again over the years? Whatever the case may be, I bet you have strong ideas about the nature of passionate romance and profound intimacy. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s natural and normal. But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to ask you to temporarily forget everything you think you know about all that stuff. I invite you to become innocent again, cleansed of all your mature, jaded, hopeful, and resentful thoughts about the game of love. In my astrological opinion, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no better way for you to prepare for what will come next.

VIRGO (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): A medical research

journal reported on a British woman who accidentally swallowed a felt-tip pen. It lay there in her stomach for 25 years. When surgeons ďŹ nally removed it, they were surprised to ďŹ nd it still worked. I am not suggesting that anything remotely as exotic or bizarre will be happening to you, Virgo. I do suspect, though, that you will soon have an experience with certain metaphorical resemblances to that event. For example, you may retrieve and ďŹ nd use for an element of your past that has been gone or missing for a long time.

LIBRA (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sapiosexualâ&#x20AC;? is a relatively new word that refers to a person who is erotically attracted to intelligence. Urbandictionary.com gives an example of how it might be used: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want an incisive, inquisitive, insightful, irreverent mind. I want someone for whom philosophical discussion is foreplay. I want a sapiosexual.â&#x20AC;? In the coming weeks, Libra, I suspect you will be closer to ďŹ tting this deďŹ nition than youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been before. The yearning thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rising up in you is

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): In 2007 the band

White Stripes did a tour of Canada. One of their ďŹ nal gigs was outdoors in St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Newfoundland. They came on stage, played one noteâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a C-sharpâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and declared the performance over. It was the briefest rock show in history. Judging from the current astrological omens, Scorpio, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking it would be a good time for you to do some almost equally pithy things. You have the potential to be extremely concise and intense and focused in all you do. I urge you to fulďŹ ll that potential. Pack every speech, gesture, and action with a concentrated wealth of meaning.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): Your redesigned thrust vectoring matrix is ďŹ nally operational. Love those new nozzles! Moreover, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve managed to purge all the bugs from your cellular-tracking pulse, and your high-resolution ďŹ&#x201A;ux capacitor is retooled and as sexy as a digitally-remastered simulation of your ďŹ rst kiss. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re almost ready for take-off, Sagittarius!

The most important task left to do is to realign your future shock absorbers. No more than a week from now, I expect you to be ďŹ&#x201A;ying high and looking very, very good.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): The plot twists

will be intriguing. The actors may be unpredictable, even erratic. Blossoming and decay will be happening simultaneously, and the line between wisdom and craziness could get blurry. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not nearly enough room in this little horoscope to describe the epic sweep of the forces working behind the scenes. Are you willing to confront uncanny truths that other people might regard as too unruly? Are you brave enough to penetrate to the depths that others are too timid to look at, let alone deal with? I hope you are, Capricorn, because that will give you the power to ultimately emerge from the drama with your integrity shining and your intelligence boosted.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): Psychologists have done studies that suggest we subconsciously adopt the qualities of ďŹ ctional characters we read about or see in movies. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a problem if those characters are smart, ethical, highly motivated people whose ideals are similar to ours. But if the heroes of the stories we absorb are jerks who treat others badly and make messes wherever they go, our imitative urges may lead us astray. Right now is a crucial time for you to be extra careful about the role models you allow to seep into your imagination. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re especially susceptible to taking on their attributes. I say, be proactive: Expose yourself intensely to only the very best ďŹ ctional characters who embody the heights you aspire to reach.

PISCES (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fates guide him who will; him who wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, they drag.â&#x20AC;? So said the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca, and now Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m passing it on to you. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an excellent time for you to think about the issue. Ask yourself: Have you been cooperating with fate so that it has maximum power to shepherd you? Have you been working closely with fate, giving it good reasons to consistently provide you with useful hints and timely nudges? Or have you been avoiding fate, even resisting it out of laziness or ignorance, compelling it to yank you along? Spend the next few weeks making sure your relationship with fate is strong and righteous.

Homework: What good old thing could you give up in order to attract a great new thing into your life? Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

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