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EEmail mail Me, Me, Maybe Maybe Earlier this year, Earlier yeaar, some of San Jose’s Jose’s influential figures most influentia al figur es sought to funding libraries beef up fundin ng ffor or the city’s libr aries through ballot group, thr ough a ballo ot initiative. The gr oup, Libraries, Save San Jose Libr aries, had the Mayor support of fformer orm mer San Jose M ayor HAMMER, SSUSAN USAN H AMMEER, Vice Mayors Mayors FFRANK RANK FISCALINI FISCALINI and TRIXIE TRIXIE JOHNSON and county Super Supervisor visor BLANCA A ALVARADO, LVA ARADO, but it ffailed measuree on ailed to get a measur the ballot. Tha That’s t’s because City City Clerk Clerk DENNIS HAWKINS provided DENNIS H AWKINS I rrepeatedly epeatedly pr ovided misinformation misinformationn on how many petition signatures signatures needed neeeded to be submitted until just weeks weeks before before the deadline. The snafu, which Hawkins H apologized for, for, made d a llott off people p l att City City it Hall H ll look l k bad. But But according according to emails that one er editor was sending local newspape newspaper s, it ’s Hammer, Hammer, Fiscalini, to city officials officials, it’s Alvarado and Johnson J are the Alvarado who are “jerks.” Responding Responnding to an email fr om “jerks.” from David Vossbrink, Vossbrink, who city spokesmann David rary initiative an example labeled the lib library “ballot box budgeting coming of mor moree “ballot MERCUR C RY to town,” MERCURY NEWS opinion editor NEWS Don’t BARBARA M AR RSHMAN BARBARA MARSHMAN forget assured him, “Yes, “YYes, we’ll we’ll assured to tip! or sure. sure. e Jerks.

Jerks. pile on ffor o to These people ought FLY@ METRONEWS. .”” Ironically, Ironicallyy, know better better.”

COM e weeks ew weeks it was just a ffew le were were ago that peopl people me thing saying the sam same about Marshman, Marshman, an who sent an email in August to Water Water District District candidate BARBARA KEEGAN BARBARA KEE G offering GAN offering “lavish praise” praise” o Keegan or Keegan withdrawing withdrawing in exchange ffor from the rrace. ace. Keegan Keegan ended up winning from w Marshman lost face. face. the election, while Marshman better. Marshman’s Marshman’s job is to have It gets better. an opinion, andd in a follow-up follow-up email to Vossbrink, Vossbrink, she she lets her thoughts ve as well as its backers on the initiativ initiative eaally appalling. I’m just fly:: “This is rreally horrified that Susan S and Fr ank ar horrified Frank aree both Trixie hhad ad the ner ve to tell me, in this. Trixie nerve well, it it’s ’s not our ouur job any more more to do the budget, it it’s ’ss our job to be advocates. whooshing sound you hear is her (That whooshing plunging in myy esteem.)”

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TECH T ECH Y YOUR OUR SH SHOES OES O OFF FF H Henrique e enrique Setton, center center, r, and And Andrea drea Litto Litto, o, right, co-founded Si SiliconHouse iliconHouse with their partner Raquel August.

Valley. pa p artner R aquel q Costa in August g t. They y aim to ffamiliarize tech entrepreneurs p with Silicon V a y. alley

Hoping to sho Hoping show ow the real Sili Silicon icon Valley, V alley a y, SiliconH SiliconHouse Ho ouse accepts global g tech entrepren entrepreneurs neurs like fami family ily B JOSH K By KOEHN OEHN

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HE 40ish Frenchma Frenchman an whips out a white iPhone iP hone that colormatches his shirt and a close-cropped hair.. H He cl lose-cropped hair e has just ju ust instructed everyone iin n the th he house to gather round d ass he snaps a photo of the a e living-room wall.

It’ss a li iving-room iving room w all. It’ dreadful that’ss d readful picture, but that’ n the point. not

JJean-François ean-François Catz, Catz, with the help heelp off fellow feellow tech entrepreneur entrepreneur Wedge Weedgge Martin, M Mar tin, designed an app “this “this afternoon,” aft fternoon,”” and the dinner par party ty more bee of mor of o e than t a a dozen do e will now ow b

its beta beta testers. testers. Standing Standiing back a few few ffeet, eet, e one can can make make out ou ut the image of a window sill on the th he phone until suddenly a new new photo o pops pops onto the screen. scr een. It It’s ’s a pictur picturee off one of C Catz’ atz’ friends from from days daayys earlier, earllier, hanging out in the eexact xact same lo location. cation.

Using U sing the phone’s phone’s geo-location g -location geo and photo photo-recognition -recognition n ccoding, oding, Catz C atz explains explains to the gathering, gaathering, his ccamera amera has just retrieved retrieved photos that ccorrespond orrespond to others found fo ound on his friends’ so social cial media pr p profiles. ofiles. “ actually “It ll took took k us four fo our days” days” da y ” to build, Martin Martin admits while w sipping on wine in the back of of the room. room. But that’s that ’s not the p point, oint, eeither. ither.

A ffew ew blo blocks cks off thee 101 fr freeway eeway in Mountain Mountain View, Viiew, a home h that ccan an accommodate accommodate two two o families of ffour our o is quietly accepting acceptin ng foreign for o eign

entrepreneurs entr epreneeurs who hope hope to measure measure the pulse of o Silicon Silicon Valley Vaalley and ccapitalize apitalize on o lessons learned. They They have ha ave ccome omee fr from om Brazil, JJapan, apan, Israel, Francee and Franc d farther, farther, all in an effort eff ffo ort immerse themselves to immers se themselv es in a monthprogram startups. long pr ogrram that ffosters o osters st artups.

This is SiliconHouse, S onHouse, the new Silic new melting pot pot o for fo or entrepreneurs entrepreneurs and idea men. men It is par partt training gr ground, ound ound, partt hostel, par hosteel, part part portal portal to the most technologically technolo g ally advanced gic advanced area area in the world, and d it it’s ’s one hell of a par party ty bottles aree unc uncorked. when the b ottles ar orked.

“To “T To ccome me her here, e, the theyy ha have ave to ha have ave om platform, website,” a plat fo orm m, a business, business, a website ,” Andrea Andr ea Lit Litto, tto, one of Silic SiliconHouse’s onHouse’s says about guests,, cco-founders, o -ffo ounders, sa ayys ab out the guests who applyy for for o limited spots. spots. “But oncee they onc they leave leaave here, here, they they usually have moree ideas ideas,, ha ave one or o ttwo wo mor opportunities.” opp ortuniities.”

Likee many Lik maan ny notable notable startups startups to spr out in Silicon S on Valley, Silic Vaalley, the idea sprout ffor or o SiliconHouse Silicon nHouse was was born born out of foreign fo oreign perspectives perspectives and the rrealization ealization n that daily routines routines can can bee moneti monetized. b o e ized. ed

wiki app for for o iOS that will streamline streamline and synchronize syynchrronize documents documents for for o pr project oject ma managers. nagers.

While everyone everyone at SiliconHouse SiliconHouse seems in good go ood spirits, spirits, there there is a noticeable, notic eable, albeit albeit slight, difference diff ffeerence between th b etween the he guests who are are new new and those who have haave been been in the house weeks.. ffor or o weeks It’s naturral, Setton It ’s natural, Setton says, saayys, for fo or new new guests to slow-play slow-plaay their startup startup theyy first arriv arrive. cconcepts oncepts when w the e.

“When When they theey come come here here they’re theyy’rre all afraid someone’s someeone’s going to steal their idea,”” Setton Setto on admits with a smile. smile. It doesn’t long,, C Catz says. do esn’t lastt long atz sa ayys.

“We’re “W We’re friends. frriends. We We need to help each other. other. Because Because the day daay you you makee money,” mak money,” he says, saays y , pausing with a twinkle twinkle in n his eye, eye, “you’ll “you’ll me.” rremember emember me .”

The camaraderie, camaraderie, however, however, does does price. stay ccome ome at a pric p e. A ffour-week our o -week st ay at SiliconHouse SiliconH House costs costs $3,600. $3 600. $3,6 0 (Up (Up to half of the th he cost cost can can be be covered covered byy a sponsorship.) b sponso orship.) Included in the package packagee is boarding, boarding, daily breakfasts, br eakfasts, a ridiculously tasty tasty dinner party hosted byy Lit Litto par ty hoste ed b to each week, around Bay Area seminars ar round the Ba ay Ar ea that aree sp specifically ar ecifically identified ffor or each o particular par ticular applic aapplicant ant and a weekly speaker house.. guest sp eak ker at the house Anderson n Silva, 27, 27, was was part part of the attend SiliconHouse. first class to o at tend Silic onHouse.

His company, compan ny, Qual Canal, Canal, analyzes analyzes ccommentary ommentary and trends trends related related to television television shows on Twitter Tw witter and other social s cial media sites. so sites. The ccompany ompany then th hen provides provides feedback feeedback loops lo ops to TV V producers producers and advertisers adv ertisers looking looking to harness viral ccampaigns. ampaaigns.

Silva, a boisterous boisterous young young man rimmed dreadlocks, with rimm med glasses and dr eadlocks, SiliconHouse partt off the ccame ame to Sil li onHouse as par lic h 500 50 0 Startups Startups program, program, which acts as an accelerator acceleerator for fo or early-stage early-stage tech ccompanies. ompanies.

Setton says theree is cconfusion Set ton sa ayys that ther onfusion about SiliconHouse’s at times ab bout Silic onHouse’s mission. “We’re “W We’re not an accelerator accelerator or an incubator,” or,” he explains. explains. “We’re “W We’re a incubato hub.” business hu ub.”

Awareness A wareneess of the house to date has grown grown exclusively exclusively through through word wor d of mouth, mo outh, social social media and the company’s compan ny’s website, website, according according to Setton.

Setton. With Wiith almost 600 600 likes likes on Facebook, limited numbers Fac ebook, though, t numbers of people people are a e clearly having ar haavving an popularity. eexponential xponentiaal impact on its p opularity.

“Theyy get “The geet bitten bitten by by the Silicon Silicon Valley bug,” Setton says.

V aalley bug ,” Set ton sa ays y.

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Not N ot long after coming comin ng to the Bay Baay Area Henrique Setton, Ar ea in mid-2011,, Hen nrique q Set ton,, 30, started started a website with w tips on makee it in Silic Silicon Valley. how to mak con V aalley.

He had a background background in i banking and engineering, engineering, but finances fi financ es weren’t wer en’t fulfilling. fulfilling. Raquel Raqu uel Costa, Costa, a ffellow eellow native native of Brazil,, saw saaw the site and reached reached out to him, him m, as well as introduced introduced Setton Setton to to Litto, Litto, a personal p ersonal chef and caterer caterer who also from Paulo. hailed fr om Sao P aulo.

Litto, Martin, Lit to, who is married d to Mar tin, an ironic ironic bearded bearded chap p who started started his first company company at 19 and gained notorietyy b byy cco-founding Badgeville, notoriet o -ffo oundiing Badge ville, says SiliconHouse sa ayys the idea ffor or o Silic on nHouse ccame ame from fr om yyears ears of ccooking ooking dinners ffor or o her frien and Martin’s Martin’s tech friends. nds. Startup Startup ideas were were passed around arou und in equal measuree to her dishes, measur dishes, and over over time she realized realized there there was was a market market together ffor or bringing to o gether ambitious aambitious,, likeminded individuals. lik eminded individual s.

“I would do dinnerss four fo our times a week and people people said, said d, ‘Oh, what about that?’”

Litto ab out this idea or that t?’” Lit to rrecalls. ecalls.

“Whyy not mak makee that a business?”

“Wh All over over the world, entrepreneurs e epreneurs entr crave so cra ave the success success that seems s prevalent pr evalent in Silicon Silicon Valley, Vaalley, the 21st-century opportunity, 21st - century land of op pportunity, people hub.. and yyet et these p eople need n a hub SiliconHouse, Silic onHouse, the first of many many to ccome, ome, according according to Setton, Settton, ton fills that need.

With W iith enough rooms roomss to house eight guests at a time, time, the t spacious wood-floored wo od-floored home features features an open op en living room, room, dining diniing room room and kitchen, as well as a workspace wo orkspace for fo or a ttable able of eight to connect conneect to the two two different diff ffeerent Wi-Fi Wi-F i i networks. networrks. A patio around well-lit home,, wraps ar ound the well l-lit home which is directly directly next next door d or to where do where Litto Martin live.

Li Lit to and d Mar tin i liv li e.

Catz, C atz, one of more more than th han a dozen people p eople nibbling on cheese bread cheeese and bread while waiting waiting for fo or Litto’s Litto o’s chicken chicken beef and walnutccapers, apers, braised b eef an nd w alnutpomegranate bee ser served, p omegranate salad to b ved, says sa ayys he travels traavels from from hiss home in Provence, Pr ovence, France France to the th he Bay Baay Area Area three ffor or work thr o ee to ffour our times a yyear. o ear.

After he applied and was was accepted accepted to SiliconHouse, SiliconHouse, which h launched in October, Octob er, he realized realized how ho ow much he had missed in regards regards to t networking networking developing ideas.. and de veloping ideas “Other “O ther times I was was here, h e, I stayed her stayed in a hotel, and I didn’t didn’t know kn now how much time I was was wasting,” wasting,” says saays y Catz, Catz, who in photo addition to his newly newly designed d app is working on a personalized personalized e

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An in inside nside look at San Jose politics

Shirakawa W SShirakawa Wonders ondders if P People eople Di Dislike islike Him Because He’s H Hee’s a Raider Fan THE TH HE D DAY AY after ft a ccounty ounty audit di demanded de emanded George George Shirak Shirakawa awa rreimburse e eimburse $12,772 in improper improper charges ch harges with his ccounty-issued ounty-issued cr credit e edit president Santaa Cl Clara ccard, a d, the pr ar esident of the Sant lara County C ounty Boar Board d of Sup Supervisors ervisors thr threw ew out ou ut a checklist of rreasons easons wh why hy thee m media would make make up “straight-up “straightt--u up un ntrue” rreports eports ab out his fraudulent frauduleent untrue” about eexpense x ense rreports, xp eports, misuse of ttaxpayer axpaayer e moneyy and missing campaign m mone campaign disclosure di isclosure fforms. orms. o “If yyou ou don ’t lik cause I’m don’t likee me ’’cause fat, fa at,” Shirak Shirakawa awa said, his voice voice catching catch hing several se everal times, times, “or you you don’t don’t like like me m because b e ause I’m mixed race, ec race, or yyou ou do don’t on’t lik ke me b ecause of the work I’v like because I’vee done, do one, if yyou ou don don’t ’t lik likee me b because ecausee I support su upport same same-sex -sex marriage, marriage, or you you u

don d ’ like ’t like me b elie li ve all ll ecause I b don’t because believe men and women should shou uld be be cr eated created onstitu equally in the cconstitution. ution. … All of those things— or I’m m a Raider things—or fan, maybe. maayybe. That’s That’s OK K, but don’t don’t use OK, untruths to at tack.” attack.

W o ow. Where Where to st arrt?

Wow. start? ab F irst, the indisput ble: The First, indisputable: Oakland Raiders suck.. Kidding.

Kidding.

The ccounty’s ounttyy’s rrecent ecentt audit —the audit—the ffourth o ourth of Shirak awa’s ccounty ounty cr edit Shirakawa’s credit oblems— ccard ard but the first to no ote pr note problems— w ants him to pay paay back k in total total more more wants than half of the $36,83 37 in purchases purchases $36,837 he has made in his ffour ou o ur yyears ears as sup ervisor. He alr eimbursed eadyy rreimbursed supervisor. already the ccounty ountty ffor or o $7 7,,049.. N one of this is $7,049.

None a media conspiracy. conspiracyy.

It did not ccome ome about about o b ecause because

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“one ne newspaper wsspaper w wants ants to do outdo the other awa said, other,,” as Shirak Shirakawa rreferencing effeerencingg Met Metro’s ro’s in investigation nvestigation into the supervisor’s su upervisor’s eexpenditures xpenditures and the Mer M Mercury rccurry Ne News’ ws’ ffollow-up o ollow-up ccoverage. overage. The T turmoil ccame ame fr om the from ound supervisor sup ervisorr fr freely eely thr throwing owing ar around ttaxpayer axpaayer funds fu unds on p ersonal vac ations, personal vacations, meals and enter entertainment—and tainmentt— —and lik likee he earned it, when, in fact, Shirakawa Shirakawa declared declar ed b bankruptcy ankruptcy last yyear. ear.

His colleagues colleeagues on the Boar d of Board Supervisors Sup ervisorrs weren’t weren’t ha having avving an anyy of his eexcuses xcusess at T uesdaayy’s meeting Tuesday’s meeting..

Supervisor Sup ervisorr K Ken en Yeager Yeager e w wanted anted a further fur ther eexplanation xp planation ffor o or the credit credit ccard ard char charges g Shirak ges Shirakawa awa made made,, while also ccalling allingg ffor o or quarterly quarterly reports reports on elected offi officials’ fficials’ cr credit edit card card usage. usage.

Supervisor Sup ervissor Da Dave ave C Cortese ortese noted that all p politicians o oliticians sign up for fo or public scrutiny, scrutin ny, which w ccaused aused Shirak Shirakawa awa to interject: interjecct: “I must have haave missed that da day ay when w we signed up ffor or o political p olitical office. offi ffice. I didn’t didn’t sign up for fo or untruths..” The sup untruths supervisor ervisor has limited his def defense feensee to thr three ee tra travel avel eexpenses, xpenses, which hi h ma may ay ha h have ave b been een bungled b l d in i a Mercury Mer curry Ne N News ws rreport. eport.

Cortese, C ortese, in unusually elo eloquent quent fashion, rresponded e onded that “elected esp aree vir virtually officials ar tually eexempt xempt from any protections fr om an ny pr p otections under the laws.

That’s been way defamation n la aw ws. That ’s b een the w ay it’s been That’s it ’s b een ffor o or yyears ears and yyears. ears. That ’s meant.

You this,, what I me eant. Y ou o sign up ffor o or this don’t have yyou ou don ’t ha ave a lot of the rremedies emedies an or ordinary dinarry citizens has ffor o or facts being b eing i put out that h ar aren’t en’t ’ true true..”

The pr problem oblem ffor o or Shirak Shirakawa awa is that all but a ffew ew quibbling det details ails ar aree true.. L true Larry arry Stone Stone,, the ccounty’s ounttyy’s ttax ax assessor,, sa assessor said aid as much during the public ccomments om mments p portion ortion of the meetin meeting. ng.

Stone di disagreed isagreed with an any ny suggestion n that the ccounty ountty cr credit edit policies travels aree ccard ard p oliciies on tra avels and meals ar problem, unclear orr the rroot oot of the pr oblem, key point County ak ey ttalking alkin lking p oint ffor or C o ountty Counsel Lori Pegg County C ounsel L o P ori egg and C ountty Executivee JJeff Executiv eff Smith. policies, frankly, aree “The p o olicies , quite frankly y, ar fine,,” Stonee said. “The pr problem fine oblem selective enforcement, is with sele ective enf fo orcement, particularly level par ticularlly at the highest le vel of leadership. ccounty ountty lea adership.” — Josh Josh o Koehn Koehn

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innocent of the shooting, even using his blog to post a $25,000 reward for the capture of Faull’s killer.

DOES THIS PHOTO MAKE ME LOOK CRAZY? John McAfee uses his blog to let the world know that he is a few circuits short of a motherboard.

McAfee Can’t Shut Up Police in Belize are dismissing reports of the capture of John McAfee, the founder and former CEO of the Silicon Valley anti-virus company that still bears his name, and the prime suspect in the murder of his island neighbor.

McAfee himself confirmed that he is still on the lam in a midnight post to his blog, whoismcafee.com, titled, “I Am Safe,” claiming that he used an earlier blog post and a double to dupe the media and Mexican authorities into turning their attention to a suspect caught at the Belize-Mexico border with a North Korean passport.

“I apologize for the silence and misdirection,” said McAfee in his blog post. “I am currently safe and in the company of two intrepid journalists from Vice magazine, and, of course, Sam. We are not in Belize, but not quite out of the woods yet. I will do a more detailed posting later today if all goes well. My ‘double,’ carrying a North Korean passport under my name, was in fact detained in Mexico for pre-planned misbehavior, but due to indifference on the part of authorities was evicted from the jail and was unable to serve his intended purpose in our exit plan. He is now safely out of Mexico.”

McAfee goes on to say that he left Belize to shelter girlfriend Sam, who

has “been my go-between and my eyes and ears in the outside world,” and whose safety he believes to be in jeopardy. He said he will return to Belize once he feels Sam is safe.

“My fight is in Belize, and I can do little in exile,” he said. “My lifeline of information pertaining to the inner workings of the government depends on my physical presence.”

Officials say the 67-year-old McAfee is using his blog to build an international base of public support following the Nov. 11 shooting death of neighbor and fellow American businessman Gregory Viant Faull.

McAfee had reportedly been seen quarrelling with Faull in previous weeks but maintains that he is

Reports and interviews just prior to the shooting had painted a raw picture of the former tech great as a man obsessed with mind- and sexual performance-enhancing drugs who blogged regularly about his conquests with local girls on a drug-culture message board called BlueLight. He was also reported to have a variety of weapons and guard dogs, the latter being a major point of contention between the two neighbors.

But in posts on his site and subsequent interviews, McAfee claimed he does not drink or do drugs and that the drug-related posts he admits publishing under his Stuffmonger moniker were part of an “elaborate hoax” to create the longest thread ever on BlueLight. He has also claimed that politicians and other officials in Belize were corrupt and determined to undermine his mainland-based biotech venture, even going so far as to raid it under an anti-gang warrant.

A Belize police spokesman said they have no news of an arrest and continue to search for McAfee.

—Dan Holden

Simplifying Stanford Professors at Stanford noticed that students are increasingly using tablets and minitablets for notetaking and textbook viewing, so the school has stepped up to help them out. The new iStanford for iPad mobile app allows Stanford students and faculty to access campus maps, course catalogs, news, class analytics and campus trivia.

The app represents the latest iteration of the school’s iStanford for iPhone mobile app, released in 2008. The app also integrates with a range of proprietary and third-party applications that make it easy for students and others to get to and

APP-TITUDE A new app makes it even easier for students to avoid the Hoover Institution.

around campus, explore food options, manage courses and take advantage of other services and resources.

“Students regard their mobile devices as indispensable to the way they learn, work and live,” said Stanford registrar Thomas Black, whose team developed the effort.

“Providing them with the native tools they need to more intuitively navigate campus life in a way that feels normal and natural to them has been our primary focus throughout the iStanford initiative.”

One of the service tiles within iStanford for iPad is ClassOwl. Founded by Stanford students, ClassOwl is designed to help students simplify their lives by providing course and event scheduling, and letting users join social and academic groups. Another useful service is an ePortfolio provided by Pathbrite; the tool allows students to use multimedia to make formal and informal connections outside the classroom.

While iStanford is primarily for students, faculty, staff and alumni, visitors also have benefited. In addition to the campus maps and transit information, the suite of services on the platform includes virtual campus tours developed by GoTourIt. The iStanford for iPhone and iPad apps are now available in the Apple App Store. For more information, visit the iStanford for iPad Facebook page or Twitter feed. —Dan Holden

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building, 157 W. El Camino Real, which was then Andy Capp’s Tavern. With its initial success, Pong essentially launched what we now know as the video game industry.

Pong was Atari’s first commercial experiment and just about everyone who’s ever played a video or computer game knows it. The history endures, especially if you grew up in Silicon Valley, as there were some brief moments when Atari ruled the universe.

As the story goes, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney were Atari employees one and two, respectively. Alcorn was number three. Bushnell assigned Alcorn to create a video game based on table tennis, and Pong was the result.

To test-market the idea, they installed a makeshift version in Andy Capp’s

Tavern in September of 1972. Right there on a borderline-rural stretch of El Camino Real, the first consumers put the first quarters into that first Pong machine. The rest is history, and the original box now sits in the Computer History Museum. Just imagine how different the last 40 years of video games would have been if Pong had never happened.

The façade of Rooster T. Feathers is virtually unchanged since the Andy Capp’s days, save for a few paint jobs and a more recent sign. It remains an integral component of Silicon Valley history as well as a groovy independent business right at an intersection where a smattering of such establishments exists.

That said, the physical scenery deserves mention here as well. Most of the Sunnyvale landscape is utterly forgettable, but the complex original bouillabaisse of independent businesses right along Murphy Avenue, as one careens away from El Camino, is a retro-exotic oasis amid the more homogeneous modern strip-malls

dominating the other side of El Camino.

The intersection forms a suburban, old-vs.-new polarity that cannot go unmentioned.

All along that stretch of El Camino, one finds a bland, tasteless broth of faux-granite exteriors, bread-themed mall restaurants, bad stucco, ugly boxretail outlets, canned dinner-jazz fusion emanating from every external speaker and countless vitamin shops and cellphone stores.

As always, the planners at each of the malls implemented every possible technique to discourage any possible pedestrian from ever wanting to enjoy any of it. And as always, the malls are named after whatever they destroyed, like “Cherry Orchard.”

This is precisely why the Allario Center on Murphy Avenue and its neighboring center are so uplifting and refreshing to the senses as one arrives there from the generic nightmare of El Camino. Just along that stretch of Murphy, one finds Coconut Hill Indian Groceries, a Thai Massage place, the Lace Museum, an acupuncture clinic, an Aikido studio, a decades-old locksmith shop, a yarn store, a sports-card collector and a wig shop. Yeah!

It really looks like someone went out of his or her way to preserve some degree of interesting retail integrity amid the gargantuan swaths of monolithic ugliness on the main road. Just 200 feet off El Camino you feel like you’re in a different galaxy entirely. That stretch of Murphy seems off the beaten path but still native, somehow.

Rooster T. Feathers, even though it’s on El Camino, functions as an anchor for the rest of the interesting shops and businesses that veer off along Murphy.

At least that’s how I see it.

Inside the comedy club, the party opened with Alcorn taking the stage to commemorate the history, claiming he never set out to start an industry—he just had a problem to solve on a $75 TV. “Thanks for all the quarters,” he quipped. “I appreciate it.”

Host Erikka Innes of Sex With Nerds emceed the rest of the evening.

“Without Pong,” she said, “no one would have invented beer pong, and my parents would not have hooked up and made me.”

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Operatics Oper a atics Beffo Before ore get getting tting disc discovered overed b byy the JJuggalo uggalo fan n base base,, Kung Kung F Fu u Vampire Vaampire was w as giggin gigging ng in the South Ba Bay ay and Los L os Angel Angeles es on a rregular egular basis. basis. His first show w was as in 20 2000 00 at the nowdefunct Ci City ity Espr Espresso esso in C Campbell. ampbell.

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“I ffelt eelt like like what we wer weree doing w was as super-dope, sup er- dope, and I just wanted wanted p people eople to see it. it.””

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Vaampire. would say, “He wou uld sa ay, ‘I want want to get yyou ou weirdo style aaway way from from m that weir do st yle you you keep doing. k eep doing g. I want want to do a more more hip-hop traditionall hip -hop album with Fu yyou,’” ou,’’” Kung Kung F u Vampire Vaampire eexplains. xplains.

Theyy wo worked The orked on what would become the Kung Fu b ecome th he first K ung F u Vampire Vampir a e was album. Ironically, Ironic o allyy, while it w as much moree tradi traditional mor diitional ii l in i terms off the h sound than n LSP P, conceptually, conceptuallyy, it was was weirder. much weir rder. It was, was, after all, made byy a rapping b rappin ng vampire. vampire. One thing that change between groups did not ch hange b etween the gr oups was Kung Fu w as K ung F u Vampire’s Vampir a e’s commitment commitment live to using liv ve instruments. instruments. In fact, for for o Kung Fu the first ccouple o ouple of K ung F u Vampire Vaampire shows,, thee Huelsenk Huelsenkamp brothers shows amp br others weree his b backing acking band. wer “I ccan an feel feel e the drums in my my chest, in m myy ball balls,” s,” he sa says. ayys. “That alone gives giv es me p positive ositive ener energy. gy. It’s It’s just not the same to t backing tracks tracks.. Rappers Rappers aree doing themselv ar tthemselves es an injustic injusticee by by not ha having avvingg a liv livee band.” band.”

The bigg biggest gest misinterpr misinterpretation etation of Kung K ung F Fu u Vampire Vaampire thr through ough the yyears ears from fr om p people eop ple unfamiliar with him is that he is i something b besides esides hiphip hop—which hop —which eexplains xplains wh whyy he he’s ’s had a tough tim time me cconvincing onvincing hip hip-hop -hop fanatics to o giv givee him a shot. All he rreally eally asks is that rap fans go see him live. liv e. So far far, r, man many ny of those that ha have, ave, have ha ave walked walked e aaway way with a diff different ffeerent opinion off him.

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sometimes young bands forget that, at its core, that core the genre is supposed to be filled with angst and give voice to the alienated. The Antioxidants rely on music as their sole means of communicating with the outside world. It’s angry stuff, but not in a violent way—more in the nervous-outcast-trying-tobe-heard kind of way. They play pop-punk in the vein of Blink 182 and My Chemical Romance with occasional ska riffs. They’ll be giving away free download codes for their new album to everyone who attends the show. (AC)

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that’s raging all over the Internet, you are really missing out on a great scene. What makes battle rap so fascinating is that instead of being a freestyle competition, rappers get to know who their opponents are in advance and can then spend days carefully crafting their insults. That allows them to think up very specific, very personal insults about their opposite numbers. This is the first in what will, with luck, be a regular tournament in San Jose. It features several local and international battle rappers, including Dirtbag Dan, Tantrum, Uno Lavoz, Big Kannon, Pariah, Cadalack Ron and Joe Cutter. (AC)

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San Jose Center for the Performing Arts Dec 8-23; $30 and up

Agenda Lounge, San Jose Sat – 8pm; $25

This year’s Nutcracker from Ballet San Jose marks the arrival of all-new choreography for the seasonal classic by longtime troupe star Karen Gabay, who will also dance Marie’s part at some performances. The setting is still traditional, but the moves will be different. The sets and costumes have been supplied

by American Ballet Theatre, one benefit of the ballet’s new association with ABT. Lowerpriced family shows take place Dec. 8 and 19 at 7pm, and Dec. 21 at 1:30pm. (MSG)

“Fillmoe” rapper Andre Nickatina’s music video “Jelly” is a step away from being softcore porn.

Nickatina, a.k.a. Dre Dog, has made a career out of no-holds-barred imagery, while maintaining an air of intrigue. Having lived through and transcended the “golden era” of Bay Area hip-hop in the early ’90s, the rapper has 18 albums in his catalog, including the Cocaine Raps series and his collaboration with Mac Dre, A Tale of Two Andres.

In the last few years, he’s enjoyed a resurgence with constant touring, a new mixtape with his latest single, “Call the Dealer,” and a feature on local radio hit “Glamorous Lifestyle” with the Jacka. (MC)

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Although, years later in an oral history, she remembers San Jose as an “cultural desert,” the girl learns a great deal about art from a neighbor who is a commercial artist and from one of her teachers at San Jose High, who “was an absolute inspiration to me.” After a few art classes at San Jose State, she enrolls at UC-Berkeley.

That’s not much time—maybe six or seven years—across a lifetime, but they were formative years for Jay DeFeo, easily the most famous visual artist the city has fostered.

Her biography has taken on a life of its own, sometimes bolstering, other times hampering, critical appraisal

of her achievements. A ne new i at SF O A brings retrospective SFMOMA together for the first time significant examples of her work and makes a powerful case for elevating her to the top ranks of post–World War II American artists.

Starting in the late 1940s, DeFeo established herself as part of the Bay Area abstract expressionism movement. Early pieces, like Untitled (Florence), 1952, feature dynamic passages of bold colors anchored by simple geometric gestures. Later, she shifted to a monochromatic palette. The large canvas Untitled (Everest), 1955, builds from a smooth gray bottom section into a flurry of blacks and whites applied vigorously in overlapping waves like roiling clouds announcing a storm.

More controlled but just as action-filled is Origin, 1956, a tightly bunched series of narrow vertical strokes of black and gray—the

painting is poised between a upward thrusts, like jets in a fountain, and a downward crashing, like a great falls pouring over a rock rim. Her work echoes and equals that of several major figures from the period: early Diebenkorn, Hassel Smith, Clyfford Still and Frank Lobdell.

The exhibit also shows DeFeo’s forays into other media. She fashioned oddly crude wood and plaster sculptures of crosses and primitive totemic creatures (which influenced Manuel Neri). She made meticulous charcoal drawings in which fine waving and spiraling lines course through blank space.

She experimented with collages of found images in the manner of fellow San Franciscan Jess.

In the late ’50s, DeFeo embarked on a series of large paintings distinguished by the dense application, with a palette knife, of oil paints. These works take on a 3-D aspect, as much sculpture as painting. In The Jewel, 1952, a vertical starburst pattern of heavily caked paint converges across a spectrum of dark reds to a dazzling white center. Along the vertical axis, the paint has been cracked open to reveal deep fissures, as if bones has been pulverized to get at the marrow.

These major works are mere preludes, however, to the piece that came to dominate DeFeo’s life: The Rose. Beginning in 1958, DeFeo devoted herself almost exclusively to the creation of this immense painting. It took over her apartment on Fillmore Street that she shared with her artist husband, Wally Hedrick. Taking up again the starburst pattern of The Jewel, she made it rounder. From a concave center point (located at just about eye level), the incised rays jet outward, growing thicker and more clotted until they disintegrate into blobs of gray and black. Carefully positioned in a special alcove at the museum, The Rose is a riveting, transcendent work—a grand vision of creation or universal flux.

Photographs don’t do it justice; the scale and physicality have to be seen in person.

The arduous process of creating The Rose became the stuff of legend.

DeFeo built up and tore down the work over and over again. She

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DeFeo, who had an instinct for selfmythologizing, posed half-nude for photographs in front the painting, as if she were a priestess instead of just a painter. The years of labor hindered her career; instead of following up on her first show in New York, she retreated to work on it. After The Rose was completed, her marriage ended, and she suffered from terrible gum problems, which she attributed to years working with toxic paints.

Finally, The Rose had a showing in Pasadena, and then no one knew what to do with it. The Rose ended up at the San Francisco Art Institute, only to be covered by a wall of plaster. It was unseen for two decades until finally rescued and moved to the Whitney in New York. DeFeo did not paint again for several years, retreating to a rural farmhouse in Larkspur.

For many art historians, The Rose is a splendid climax with no second act. But the exhibit documents DeFeo’s return to significant artmaking in a variety of styles and techniques. After Image (1970) is a splendid graphite and gouache drawing of a strange shell form with spiral ridges. DeFeo mounted it with a piece of torn paper on top as if the shell had been hidden for many years and only recently exposed to view—surely a comment on her own resurgence.

DeFeo began using acrylics and synthetic paints, believing them to be safer for her health. The best of her works from the mid-’70s, Cabbage Rose, looks deep into the heart of some sooty-white and deep gray leaf forms to a center passage of pure black, so dark, so shiny that it acts as a mirror reflecting the shadows of viewers.

She took up photography, proving to be extremely adept at both traditional gelatin silver printing and in the use of alternative, cameraless techniques like photograms. She worked, somewhat obsessively, on large pencil drawings of mechanical objects (most frequently, a camera tripod and a pair of diving goggles), rendering them at large scale, but rarely as complete things; instead, the lines often fade off into emptiness.

Near the end of her life (she died of cancer in 1989), DeFeo produced several small abstract paintings that are a revelation. Using linen with very thick stretchers, DeFeo painted both the surface and the edges— again, in a subtle way, combining painting with sculpture. The color scheme is lighter, the brushstrokes assured but not tempestuous. In Blue One (1989), a smooth pastel blue meets a swath of swirling white and a rectangle of light gray. The simplicity is breathtaking.

(The show is accompanied by a compendious catalog by Dana Miller, from Yale University Press, which comprises everything in the show and some intriguing pieces not on display.)

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applied so much paint that The Rose ending up weighing more than a ton. San Francisco’s Beatera poets and artists often visited her apartment and witnessed the extended birth pangs of the painting. When Jay and Wally were evicted, the moving of the painting was an engineering feat, memorialized in Bruce Conner’s short film The White Rose.

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BIG BAND CHRISTMAS SURPRISE

by Karen Gabay. Dec 8-23. $30-$108. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts.

408.288.2800.

Winter Family Recital. Sat, 5pm. $16-$27. First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto.

Tabard serenades the holidays.

Runs thru Dec 16. Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $10-$35. Theatre on San Pedro Square, San Jose.

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“The Nutcracker.” Sat, 2 and 7pm, Sun, 1 and 5pm. $25$35. Santa Clara Convention Center Theatre. 408.247.9178.

A holiday concert with Ben Zussman and Jerry Snyder.

Sat, 2pm. Free. Berryessa Branch Library, San Jose.

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A musical version of “Huckleberry Finn” from TheatreWorks. Runs thru Dec 30. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 2 and 7pm (no 7pm show Dec 23), Tue, 7:30pm. $31-$51.

Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto.

A holiday show for families.

Runs thru Dec 22. Sat, 11am and 2pm. $18. Retro Dome, San Jose.

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL Rick Lombardo’s adaptation.

Runs thru Dec 23. Wed, 7:30pm (plus 11am Dec 5 and 12), Thu-Fri, 8pm, Sat, 3 and 8pm, Sun, 2pm, Tue, 7:30pm. $20 and up. San Jose Rep, San Jose.

WESTERN BALLET “The Nutcracker.” Fri, 7pm, Sat, 1 and 7pm, Sun, 1 and 6:30pm. $23-$30.

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

650.903.6000.

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ANNO DOMINI “Fresh Produce XII.” Opens on South First Friday. San Jose.

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

GOOD KARMA CAFE New works by Sandra Caravalho. Opens for South First Friday. San Jose.

HIGHER FIRE CLAYSPACE “Vintage.” Ceramic pieces by Liz Crain. San Jose.

A traditional Dickens by Northside. Runs Dec 5-23.

Wed-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. $15-$20. Northside Theatre, 848 E. William St, San Jose.

Featuring selections from Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols” and a sing-along with the San Jose Chorale.

Sat, 7pm. $35-$43. California Theatre, San Jose.

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Five short plays in a satirical vein about the holidays. Runs thru Dec 23. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 2pm. $24.95-$39.95. City Lights, San Jose.

Carols and songs of the season. Tue, 8pm. $27-$53.

Stanford Memorial Church.

“Power in Numbers.” A show about immigration and politics. Thru Jan 5. Special performances for South First Friday. Wed-Thu, noon-7pm, Fri-Sat, noon-5pm. San Jose.

FLAMENCO IN CONCERT

Presented by the Santa Clara Chorale. Fri, 8pm, Sun, 4pm. $5-$25. Mission Santa Clara.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

With Antonio Arrebola and Melissa Cruz. Sat, 7pm. $15$19. Historic Hoover Theatre, San Jose.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE A stage version of the Frank Capra movie done as a radio play. Runs thru Dec 22. Wed, 7:30pm, Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. $18 and up. Bus Barn Stage, Los Altos.

LES MISÉRABLES Children’s Musical Theatre San Jose. Thu, 7:30pm, Fri, 8pm, Sat, 2 and 8pm, Sun, 1pm. (See www.cmtsj.org for tickets.) Montgomery Theater, San Jose.

CHRISTMAS WITH THE CHORALE

EL CAMINO YOUTH SYMPHONY Works by Weber, Barber, Debussy and more. Sun, 2:30pm. $8/$15. California Theatre, San Jose.

PA PHILHARMONIC Works by Ives, Harris and Brahms. Sat, 8pm. $10-$20.

Cubberley Theatre, Palo Alto.

PENINSULA WOMEN’S CHORUS “Star of Wonder Concert.” Sat, 2:30pm. $10-$30. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Palo Alto.

NUTCRACKER

RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS

Presented by Ballet San Jose with new choreography

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ART

KALEID GALLERY “Hark!” Holiday art show with 50 artists. Opens for South First Friday. San Jose.

PHO69 “Writhing Against Environment.” Mixed-media

by Andrew Wallace. Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

SEEING THINGS GALLERY “Home Is Where You Park It.” Photographs by Foster Huntington. Opens for South First Friday. Thru Dec 31. 30 N. Third St, San Jose.

SLG BOUTIKI Third Anniversary Group Show. With live music for South First Friday. Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

WORKS/SAN JOSE “Make Shift.” Works by graduating BFA students.

Thru Dec 31. San Jose.

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N<8M@E> N8PJ Sid Enck incorporates a wealth of materials in his art pieces.

Gathering Art “MY FRIEND used to call me Little Lost Indian, and I just went with it,” says Sid Enck. Choctaw by blood, but artistically driven by Hopi and Apache traditions, Sid will be showing his work in the Metro gallery beginning on South First Friday.

Sid Enck Jr., or Sidenck, works in a small, utilitarian space. In a tiny garage off of 15th Street, Sid sits at a Singer sewing machine. Today, he is busy making various quilts. They are not traditional. He has picked up material along the way, throughout the years, and now it will become a visual history of some of his Sid Enck shows travels. “These bones I’ve sewn in there”—he points for South First to one of the quilts, which will be on display—“are Fridays from a raccoon I found dead, on a bike trip in Santa Cruz.”

Metro Lobby Raccoon bones, rattlesnake skin and grip tape are just San Jose some of the things Sid weaves into his work. “I like to gather and recycle,” Sid says, while thumbing through various scraps of media, including a Redman tobacco pouch, which he includes in one of his quilts. Sid’s not afraid to take native imagery back from marketing material and showcase it in a place of artistic reflection.

His style echoes time spent traveling through the Southwest. His influence wasn’t garnered in a classroom, or through book studies.

Instead, Sid learned on the streets, from native artists, most of them Apache, and many without permanent residence. His quilts reverberate with the motifs of Apache art, while his dolls are influenced by Hopi traditions. They are not re-creations though; they don’t strive to be historically authentic. Sid’s work is an evolutionary side-step to the art. Many contemporary designers incorporate the style and art of the First Nations into their forms. Sid, on the other hand, isn’t trying to repurpose traditional imagery. His work is new, original, and personal, with an obvious influence from, and respect for, the past.—Tomasz Mackowiak

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DECODING CHINESE CALLIGRAPHY ASIAN ART MUSEUM OCT 5, 2012 – JAN 13, 2013 www.asianart.org/calligraphy This exhibition was organized by the Asian Art Museum.

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8ck$OdXj IT MIGHT be a contrary way to celebrate Christmas, but this year’s holiday offering from San Jose Stage, Reckless, is a dark, lyrical comedy by Craig Lucas (Prelude to a Kiss, The Light in the Piazza). Frequently revised and revived since its original 1983 premiere, Reckless is a fairy tale for adults—a whimsical ride through self-realization, the random senselessness of life and some of the worst Christmas disasters imaginable.

Halsey Varady plays the heroine, Rachel, a chipper suburban mom bubbling over with seasonal euphoria until her husband, Tom (Will Springhorn, Jr.), informs her that he has put a contract out on her. Fleeing the house in her pajamas and hitching a ride out of town with a stranger named Lloyd (Michael Navarra), Rachel says that she’s always wanted to do something reckless like this. It all seems like a dream, and who knows? Perhaps it is.

Things only get weirder from there, as Rachel moves in with Lloyd and his deaf, paraplegic wife, Pooty (Katie O’Bryon). Still in her pajamas, Rachel takes a job at “Hands Across the Sea,” a nonprofit that helps disabled people. She also appears on a television game show, witnesses several murders and visits an array of ridiculous psychiatrists (all played amusingly by Dena Martinez).

Critics have called this dreamlike adventure “picaresque,” and there is something to that: for all its strangeness, it has the unmistakable air of everyday life.

Reckless Runs through Dec. 16; $20–$24 The Stage

Varaday’s Rachel is childlike and naïve, a sort of Goldilocks or Red Riding Hood confronting the big bad world, sympathetic even when her flightiness verges on irritating. With Navarra and O’Bryon as her adopted family, there is a splendid sense of mystery concealed beneath their aw-shucks Americanisms. Rounding out the cast are Judith Miller, who is almost animalistic as a surly bookkeeper at Hands Across the Sea, and Jay Steele, equally ringmasterlike playing Rachel’s boss at the nonprofit and a pair of television hosts.

Furniture and other set pieces are whisked on and offstage, often with actors still clinging to them, illustrating the characters’ lack of control over their lives. In Reckless, life is a perpetual nightmare that you can’t wake up from.

The play’s grotesque humor isn’t for everyone (a few of the funniest lines seemed to be lost on the opening-night audience), but it satisfies the urge for something edgy during the season of supposed good will.—Sean Conwell

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Director Patrick Wang got into film as a second career and has been

an actor on the indie-film circuit. He has the lead role and demonstrates his serious talent as an underplayer and a reactor.

In the Family takes a serene, low-key approach to what might have been deadly Issue of the Week material.

Wang’s immaculate compositions match aesthetic choices that double as thrifty decisions.

Example: During a police visit because of a domestic dispute, we witness the cops’ arrival through the beveled-glass panels surrounding a front door. We see the glow of blue and red lights and hear the chatter of a walkie-talkie. The light silhouettes the woman inside the house who has called the police. She has her back turned to us. There’s mystery here. And while it’s

matter, there was certainly less a lesser matter expense in doing it this way than in renting a cop car and a uniformed actor.

The film begins disarmingly with a child puttering into an adult’s bedroom to wake up his parents. Here’s the film’s first surprise: the boy is white, and an Asian man’s sleepy head pokes out of the covers; he’s Joey Williams (Wang).

Then the boy’s biological father, Cody (Trevor St. John), leans into the frame from his half of the bed.

The singularities mount. The couple isn’t just mixed-race and gay but also quite Southern. Joey speaks with a molassesy drawl and the imperturbable pleasantness of a small-townsman.

The story unfolds in Martin, Tenn., a college town 120 miles from Memphis.

Joey’s job is restoring old buildings and doing a little antique bookbinding on the side. Cody teaches math at the local elementary school. Wang withholds the back story of how these two met until we’ve gotten to know them.

Instead, the director builds the details of the life they share, especially

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their interactions with their son.

The boy is played by the irrepressible but well-directed Sebastian Banes.

He is pleasingly boisterous but not a gratuitous scene-stealer. They call him Chip—nicknamed “Chipmunk,” much to his disdain.

Too soon, Joey and Chip are left alone, a progression told through surroundings first and dialogue second.

First, a close-up of the chair-legs on the too-shiny linoleum on a hospital floor, then a blackout with a cappella keening on the soundtrack. At last, Chip and Joey arrive home, both dressed in identical black suits.

Earlier, we’ve discerned a slight nip of frost between Joey and Cody’s relatives: the tall, slightly uncomfortable Dave (Peter Hermann) and Eileen (Kelly McAndrew), Cody’s sister. Cody seemingly died intestate, but then Joey learns that a few years before, he had left notes about what he wanted done in the case of his demise.

This is the straight couples’ chance to press pres for custody of their nephew and to seize Cody’s house. In carrying what they consider the right thing out wh do not deliver any speeches to do, they t about the wrongness of lifestyle choices or the Focus on the Family blather expect villains to spout. one would wo Dave aand Eileen have their reasons and believe that they’re legally right. And anyway, in situations of prejudice, it’s anywa what’s said out loud that matters. rarely w The standoff becomes a legal matter, and Brian Murray steps in, playing Joey’s seemingly placid but obviously formidable lawyer in the custody case.

During the deposition, we see what lies beneath Joey’s stillness and learn how much he’s lost in life. It’s the antithesis of soap opera or traditional gay-film-fest fodder.

Certainly, the difficulties Wang had making his movie and placing it in festivals tells enough of how very different In the Family is. This is a humane, gentle film, but it’s got strength. It’s a model of low-budget, between-the-lines filmmaking, avoiding pedestrian conflict while staying compelling during its ambitiously long but never boring length.

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New CHASING ICE (NR; 75 min.) A documentary about photographer James Balog and his work with the Extreme Ice Survey doing time-lapse images of disappearing glaciers. (Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.)

IN THE FAMILY (NR; 169 min.) See review on page 35.

(Opens Fri at Camera 3 in San Jose.)

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Holiday Horrors ALAMEDA-BASED archivist/nostalgist/ bon vivant Johnny Legend flabbergasts with the two-part “Christmas in Acidland” program he is bringing to Camera 3 in San Jose on Dec. 12. Here are relics of what the season used to mean in the early days of television: skeevy puppets, inebriated midgets, false-bearded, cackling weirdos in cotton-trimmed suits and ventriloquist dummies on the moon.

In this two-part potpourri, vintage mid–20th century performers such as Liberace, Paul Winchell, Jack Benny and Ricky Nelson show that they still repay the attention. The first half is a harvest of quaint old seasonal snippets. Ronald Reagan uses the “faith and brotherhood” of the season to shill for General Electric. Ernie Kovacs shows some sobriety in a season where “Everybody’s a little bagged” as he does an antiadvertisement for Dutch Masters cigars.

Amid this array comes one of the most startling things Legend has ever disinterred. It’s untitled, but let’s provisionally call it “The Monkey’s Christmas,” a magenta-shifted torture session beginning with a home-invading Santa: “I want you to believe in me,” he threatens. To convince a pair of doubting children, St. Nick uses stock footage of swarming monkeys at some horrifying zoo fighting like gladiators over a single

pretzel, as well as tarted-up costumed chimps acting out an inexpensive Xmas pageant.

But what, says a small voice, what of the children who still doubt Santa?: “They do not believe except they see; they think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible to their little Christmas in Acidland minds.” If this enormity is Wednesday, not actually the Dec. 12, 7:30pm work of Ed Wood, Camera 3, San Jose it’s so far down the idiosyncratic director’s alley that Wood could have had it towed for blocking his driveway.

At 7:30pm, a Christmas noir cavalcade includes 1953’s “The Big Little Jesus,” a Dragnet episode directed by Jack Webb, in which Joe Friday and his partner hunt down the punk who filched a baby Jesus from a church’s manger. “Silent Panic” is like that Cornell Woolrich Christmas special you’ve been begging for, with Harpo Marx as the deaf-mute witness to a serious crime.

Also: popular puppet Howdy Doody investigates the case of a kidnapped Santa, which turns out to be a typical goof by pro wrestler Ugly Sam (Dayton Allen, a ringer for De Niro in Cape Fear). Oh, come, let us abhor it.—Richard von Busack

(R; 97 min.) Cold as a mackerel but darkly funny; it brings back the leftwing political disappointment essential to film noir, usually booted out in neonoir. New Orleans during the election of 2008: a mucky Australian junkie (Ben Mendelsohn) and his buddy, a minor thug (Scoot McNairy), are recruited to rob a high-stakes card game. A Cheneyian lawyer played

by Richard Jenkins calls on a fixer (Brad Pitt) to unearth and punish the robbers. Working from a ’70s-era novel

by George Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle), director Andrew Dominik manages a smooth blend of ’70s funk and digital estrangement. The film offers the idea of a life of crime being difficult in the easy parts and vice versa—with the real risk in unbearable pressure to snitch, with killings that end in tears, vomit and blood instead of the final graceful “Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it” gestures to which moviegoers are accustomed. Pitt is heavyweight, but it’s James Gandolfini, as a gone goose called “New York Mickey,” who really flabbergasts; here’s everything he gave us in The Sopranos, only more so. (Plays valleywide.) (RvB)

LAY THE FAVORITE (R; 94 min.) Stephen Frears’ version of Beth Raymer’s memoir about switching careers from burlesque dancing to sport betting. Stars Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis and Catherine Zeta-Jones. (Opens Fri at Camera 12 in San Jose.)

PLAYING FOR KEEPS (PG-13; 106 min.) Gerard Butler coaches junior soccer and makes time with the soccer moms (including Uma Thurman and Jessica Biel. (Opens Fri.)

A ROYAL AFFAIR (R; 129 minutes) It’s not that the king’s insane, really—he just utters slimy snickers like Dan Duryea in a film noir.

Christian VII (Mikkel Folsgaard) quips, “I like to drink, I like hookers with big breasts and I like to fight.”This fascinating take on the rottenness in Denmark during the mid-1700s makes it rival Farewell, My Queen as a topdrawer historical romance. We watch an enlightened doctor (played by Mads Mikkelsen) soothe the royal inbred’s temper, even as he gets to know the

unfortunate queen (Alicia Vikander) better than the court would like. Freshly presented in pastel colors, with lots of looseness, lambency and melancholy Danish gloaming. Mikkelsen is a phrenologist’s dream—there hasn’t been a skull that interesting since Jack Palance was alive. (Opens Dec 7 in Cupertino at the BlueLight Cinemas.)

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Revivals BAD SANTA (2003) “Is your grandmother … spry?”

(Plays Dec 7-9 in San Jose at the Retro Dome.) (RvB)

DEANNA DURBIN FILM FESTIVAL Continuing with a complete tribute to the musical star whose success paralleled Judy Garland and Shirley Temple. Dec. 5-7: Mad About Music/ That Certain Age (both 1938). Deanna Durbin as an inmate at a Swiss boarding school whose tales of her long-lost father force her to find a stand-in (Herbert Marshall) for the man. Durbin sings “Ave Maria” with the Vienna Boy’s Choir. BILLED WITH That Certain Age. Deanna gets a crush on Melvyn Douglas. Dec 8-10: Three Smart Girls Grow Up/First Love (both 1939).

Durbin’s sequel to her first hit, billed with the movie in which she got her first kiss (from Robert Stack). Dec 11-14: It’s a Date/Spring Parade (both 1940).

Durbin faces rivalry in love and life with her mother (Kay Francis). Spring Parade is a slice of Franz-Josef-era Viennese sacher torte, in which Durbin warbles “When April Sings.” (Plays in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.) (RvB)

Reviews ANNA KARENINA (R; 129 min.) Adapter Tom Stoppard does a superior job of whipping the story into just over two hours, keeping as many aphorisms as possible and not neglecting Tolstoy’s compassion for the minor characters. But director Joe Wright (Atonement) stages the tale of ruinous adultery as a postmodern entertainment. This Karenina is ultimately a case of a film that thinks it’s a play. The anti-heroine, Anna, a Russian aristocrat destroyed by adultery, is played by Keira Knightley.

Her glacial face—her skin is almost ceramic in its whiteness—is key to the same po-mo approach that stalls the audience identification with her suffering. Knightley can’t break through the thickness of the frame. Jude Law makes a dutiful, sympathetic Karenin; he is a dull, understanding saint dressed in clerical robes like a priest.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s vain Vronsky wears some gleaming uniforms but bears an unignorable resemblance to Gene Wilder. (RvB)

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Robert Zemeckis, returning to the real world after more than a decade of synthespian-wrangling, engineers a terrific air disaster in which the dashing “Whip” Whitaker (Denzel Washington) brings her in upside down. You pay your fare afterward: a long slow series of AA meetings, some 10-ton affirmations and some urgings to get clean from a recovered junkie (Kelly Reilly, sincere in the part). Chemical temptations are provided by the fleshy John Goodman.

As a polydrug purveyor who has a beer-bottle opener mounted on the dashboard of his car, Goodman seems to wander in from another movie.

At what point would the glowering Whitaker have had this yappy good ol’ boy as a party buddy? Washington’s moral authority may be unequaled by any other actor, unless the actor is Morgan Freeman. His deep-down integrity makes this particular battle with the bottle (and with dawning faith) about as interesting as it can get. Which is, ultimately, not that interesting. (RvB)

?@K:?:F:B (PG-13; 98 min.) Entertaining but mostly meretricious. The sinful old British uncle walks again. The film’s main pleasure lies in watching Anthony Hopkins inhabit the famous silhouette as the Borodin theme plays. The actor is entombed in fat makeup, and only Hopkins’ eyes have much range; he must express stirring fear, vanity and jealousy inside the outward tranquility.

He fears losing his wife, Alma (Helen Mirren), to a young upstart (Danny Huston). The film credits the power of the bond between the Hitchcocks in a

time of crisis over Psycho, which studio heads and censors alike are claiming can’t be made. The closer Hitchcock sticks to the matter at hand, the better.

There should have been more on composer Bernard Herrmann and less on the idea of Hitchcock boiling with jealous rage. (RvB)

C@=< F= G@ (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 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. (Read a full-length review online at metroactive.com.) (RvB)

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(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). 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 Sendakian mystery and design in the mute gold-dusted imp who can put anyone to sleep with a handful of sand. Pleasing as it is, the film contains an implicit guilt-whipping to parents: Neglect the holidays and you may destroy the world. (RvB)

(PG-13; 142 min.) 007 (Daniel Craig) recuperates from a rifle wound and follows a trail of clues leading to a dangerous hacker called Silva (Javier Bardem). Sam Mendes gives up more backstory than a lot of James Bond fans would want. In the interests of rebuilding the series, they’re drilling for bedrock even at risk of making Bond yet another little boy lost and in need of reparenting. The photography is a landmark for digital film; 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 film is undervillained. (RvB)

(PG; 108 min.) The story walks a fine line between the cute and the uncanny.

An apelike 8-bit video-game heavy has been demolishing the same apartment house for some 30 years. Shunned by the other characters in the Fix-It Felix Jr. video game, Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) sojourns into neighboring video games. Through mishap, Ralph is stranded in a sticky, fer-girls racetrack game called Sugar Rush. The metaphysics of how this arcade world works includes a transit system and homeless characters from out-of-order games and graffiti. Yet the movie isn’t crushed by its own concept or by injokes, and the central fable transcends good-vs.-evil storytelling. The film honors the balance between creation and destruction. (RvB)

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Daniel Day-Lewis plays Lincoln with sterling wit and nobility. Visible right from the beginning is not just an uncommon man but a very strange one—and certainly an unhappy one.

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(R; 120 min.) Ben Affleck’s film is a comedy about the nadir of the American ’70s, the Iranian hostage crisis and the apparent impotence of our nation. Derived from a true-life story of rescue, the film’s heroics should prove particularly appealing. Yet while Affleck goes full ’70s, his nerve failed somewhere. He decided to pump up the tale. Affleck plays Tony Mendez, a CIA officer of tensed nerves and troubled stability. Mendez will organize the scouting of locations for a fake science-fiction movie. Six Americans who escaped the revolutionary round-up are currently hiding in the Canadian embassy in Tehran. They will be removed, disguised as crew members and writers. While some documentarylike scenes of an embassy in flight ground the movie, it’s a fantasy about how a magic charm of lies is able to brave the walls of the worst reign of terror situations. (RvB)

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SLGARTBOUTIKIANNOUNCES RELOCATIONPLANS Dan Vado, owner of San Jose comic book hub and live music venue SLG Art Boutiki, announced this week that the business must relocate to make way for a new apartment building.

PHOTOS: AJ’S BIKINI BAR B-DAY BASH There was no shortage of bikinis, booze or balloons as Sunnyvale hub for adult entertainment AJ’s celebrated its 25th anniversary on Saturday.

BEST OF 2012: HARD GIRLS GUITARIST SHARES HIS FAVORITE ALBUMS Few local bands have married musical sophistication with sweaty garage punk quite as seamlessly as San Jose’s Hard Girls.

Their new album, Isn’t It Worse, available for download and on cassette, but not vinyl until early next year, is their best recording to date—28 minutes of unique and accessible punk rock.

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Fri, 8pm: The English Language.

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Fri-Sat, 8pm, Sun, 7:30pm: Richard Thompson. Saratoga.

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BOSWELL’S Wed, 9:30pm: Jack Rip-Off. Thu, 7pm: Liquid Courage. Fri, 9:30pm: Darkwave. Sat, 9:30pm: Dejenerates. Sun, 8:30pm: The Gents. Mon, 9:30pm: Ric Williams Trio. Campbell.

BRITARMSALMADEN Fri, 10pm: Superbad. Sat, 10pm: With Ultrasound. San Jose.

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Fri: Hales Machine. Sat: Johnny Cat. Fremont.

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Fri, 8:30pm: The Rat Pack Live. $25-$35. Redwood City.

Wed, 9pm: Ghost of Wrights, the Oarsmen, the High Sea. No cover. Fri, 9pm: Far From You, the Goodnight, Fighting the Villain. $10. Sat, 9pm: Kung Fu Vampire, Dirtbag Dan, Rey Res & others. $10. San Jose.

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NETO’SGRILL THECATS Wed, 8:30pm: Out of the Blue.

Fri, 9pm: Bombshell Bully’s. Sat, 9pm: Broken Tail Lights Band.

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

CLUBFOX Sun, 6pm: In the Spirit of Lennon. $17/$20. Redwood City.

Sat, 8:30pm: Beer Drinkerzz & Hellraiserzz, Cruella, My Heavy Memory. $10. Santa Clara.

NINELIVES Sat, 8pm: House of Floyd. $15/$20. Gilroy.

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Thu, 7pm: Barry Manilow. $9.99$175. San Jose.

Wed, 9:30pm: Jam with J.C. Smith. Thu, 9:30pm: Bone Drivers. Fri, 9:30pm: Cool Under Pressure. $10. Sat, 9:30pm: The Megatones. $10. Los Gatos.

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Fri, 9pm: Making Movies, the Trims. U92.3FM’s Holiday Bash.

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Emotional Delight I LOVE how theatrical a lot of the indie-folk bands are. San Francisco’s Fox & Woman is no exception. They don’t have lavish costumes or props, but they bring an air of drama to their live shows that is stageworthy. Their gig in San Jose this Saturday takes place at Anno Domini as part of the Uncanny Valley of the Heart’s Delight series, which Corpus Callosum hosts as a sort of marriage of live music, performance art and theater. Fox & Woman Fox & Woman will be right at home.

They are solid acoustic players who combine guitars, violins, banjos, ukuleles and percussion into what would seem like, on the surface, great campfire tunes.

Jess Silva and Emily Haltom bring a near-constant wall of vocal harmonies to the music that is spot-on and fierce. They also deliver a lot of soul, a little bit of twang and enough passion to shake the soul.

Anno Domini Saturday, Dec. 8; 7pm; $7

The opening track, “Break Into My Heart,” from their self-titled debut EP, exemplifies their musical strategy. The song consists mostly of just vocals and hand claps, but it has intense power and drive. Yet what makes it so remarkable is how well-crafted it is. Listening to “Break Into My Heart” is like experiencing an especially emotional and heartfelt scene in a good play; you wonder to yourself how exactly the actors can display such strong feelings night after night.—Aaron Carnes

Banda, two parties on two levels. Sun: Reggae. San Jose.

fusion. Fri, 9pm: Bachata. Sat, 9pm: Salsa. San Jose.

ANGELICA’S BISTRO

CITYLIGHTSTHEATER Sun, 7pm: Mark Arroyo Trio. $12/$14. San Jose.

Jazz/Blues/ World

Sat, 8:30pm: Maestro Curtis & the Jazz Hieroglyphics Ensemble. $10/$15. Sun, 7:30pm: Molly’s Revenge, Christina Burch & the Turco Irish Dancers. $15-$25. Mon, 7pm: Zambalita, Meridian Band & Friends: “Raq Around the X-mas Tree” belly dance holiday party.

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WOODHAM’SLOUNGE First three Fri of month: Live music. Santa Clara.

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Kfn\i f] Gfn\i FOR MORE than four decades now, Oakland’s Tower of Power has graced stages around the world with a signature blend of R&B, funk and rock & roll, scoring a number of their own hit songs as well as performing with the likes of Santana, Little Feat, Huey Lewis and Elton John.

Originally formed as the Motowns in 1968 by Emilio Castillo and Stephen Kupka, the band quickly changed its name to Tower of Power and began making a reputation gigging around the Bay Area, eventually getting the attention of local concert impresario Bill Graham, who signed the group to his record label.

Throughout the ensuing years, the band, which performs at the San Jose Civic on Dec. 8 with WAR, became known for a soulful sound that was propelled by an outstanding horn section and earned Tower of Power hit singles such as “So Very Hard to Go,”“Soul With a Capital S” and “What Is Hip?”

Tower of Power, WAR Saturday, Dec. 8; 8pm; $25.50–$65

San Jose Civic “It’s wonderful to play the Bay Area, no matter where it is, it’s always fabulous,” says Castillo, who now resides in Scottsdale, Ariz. “We have a big history in San Jose. We used always go there to buy our equipment and were part of that band circuit before we were famous. We used to the play the Warehouse.”

Tower of Power has come a long way since those early days, and recently released a 40th anniversary box set featuring selections spanning the band’s history—an immensely successful run that Castillo says still amazes him.

“When people ask me if I ever had any idea that it would turn out like it has, I say the idea when I started it was to get to Sacramento—to be ‘on the road,’” Castillo says. “It’s gone far beyond my wildest dreams. I’ve traveled the world, and played with great, great musicians. I never imagined it would be like this.”

As with many long-running rock acts, Tower of Power’s success did not come without a few bumps in the road, some of which Castillo says nearly destroyed them. “We made every mistake you could possible make,” he says. “We abused ourselves; we nearly lost our career to drugs and alcohol—but we got clean around ’88 and started taking a spiritual approach.”

In addition to a healthier lifestyle and positive outlook, an ever-present independent attitude seems to be the secret behind the group’s continued inspiration. “We make our music selfishly—we make it to please ourselves, and we’ve noticed that when we do that, our fans dig it,” Castillo says. “By virtue of that fact, it’s easy to go to work every day.”—Sean McCourt

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Campbell.

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KCBARANDRESTAURANT Wed, 8pm: DJ Desmond.

San Jose.

CAFFEFRASCATI Fri: Opera night for South First Friday. San Jose.

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TEQUILA SHOT’S BAR & GRILL Mon & Wed, 9pm: Darryl.

Milpitas.

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San Jose.

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Wed, 9pm: Black Wednesday.

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BLOC PARTY After Kele Okereke’s stab at a solo career, the band is back in full force. Dec 6 at the Fox Theater.

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POLYPHONIC SPREE Zany rock ‘n’ roll choir performs the inevitable holiday show with new album, ‘Holidaydream.’ Dec 8 at Slim’s.

PSYCOTIC PINEAPPLE Cult power-pop favorites with a penchant for misspelling play two vintage sets. Dec 9 at the Bottom of the Hill.

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LEGALL & PUBLIC

/s/E. K Kurzan urzan PPresident resident #3517766 #3 517766 This statement w was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa Coun County nty on 11/26/2012.

11/26/201 2. (pub Metro Metro 12/05, 12/0 05, 12/12, 12/12, 112/19, 2/19, 12/26/2012) 12/26/20 012)

with the County Clerk of Santa Clara Clara County on 11/21/2012.

11/21/201 2 2. (pub Metr Metroo 11/28, 11/28, 12/05, 12/05, 112/12, 2/12, 112/19/2012) 2/19/2012)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T #571310 #571 310 following The follo wing person(s) Victims of Police Police Corruption Corruption is (ar (are) e) doing business Seeking rreputable eputabble civil as: Fluffy PPuppy, uppy, 656 suit attorney N. Santa Cruz Ave., Ave., E-mail vvopc2012@gmail. opc2012@gmail.

2 LLos os Gatos, Gatos, CA, CA, 95030, 95030, com Carnival Arts.

Carniv al Ar ts.

This business is FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS N conducted by by a NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMEN NT Corporation.

Corpor ation. #571936 #571936 Above Abo ve entityy was formed following The follo wing person(s) peerson(s) in the state of California (are) is (ar e) doing business business Refile previous R efile of pr evious Referral Realty as: R eferral R eallty #569792, file #56 9792, due to Mainstream, Mainstr eam, 14607 146 607 publication rrequirment equirment Nelson Ct., San Jose, J CCA, A, nor met on pr previous evious 95124, Mainstream 9 5124, Mainstr eam Real Real filing.

Group Estate Gr oup Inc. Incc.

Registrant R egistrant began This business is transacting tr ansacting business conducted by by a under the fictitious Corporation.

Corpor ation. business name or names Above Abo ve entity wass formed listed her herein ein on 11/1/12.

11/1/12.

California in the state of Ca alifornia /s/Dan Augustine Registrant R egistrant has nnot ot Vice V ice President President transacting yyet et begun tr ansaacting #3163826 #31 63826 business under the t This statement was filed business fictitious busines ss name with the County Clerk of or names listed her hherein. ein ein.

Claraa County S t Clar Santa Cl C t on /s/Chris Zanger 11/01/2012.

11/01/201 2.

Co FFounder/ ounder/ Owner Owner Metroo 11/28, (pub Metr 11/28, 12/05, 12/05, #3515400 #3 515400 112/12, 2/12, 112/19/2012) 2/19/2012) This statement w was filed FICTITIOUS with the County Clerk of FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS Claraa Coun County Santa Clar nty on NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T 11/20/2012.

11/20/201 2. #571761 #571 761 11/28, (pub Metro Metro 11/2 8, 12/05, 12/05, The follo following wing person(s) 112/12, 2/12, 112/19/2012) 2/19/20 012) (are) is (ar e) doing business as: O’Sullivan O’Sullivan Vending Vending FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS N Service, Ser vice, 11525 525 Atteberry NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMEN NT Lane, San Jose, CCA, A, #571665 #571 665 95131, O’Sullivan.

9 5131, Jacob O’Sulliv an.

The following following person(s) peerson(s) is This business is (are) (ar e) doing business businness as: conducted by by a Seeing Things Gallery, Gallery, 30 individual. individual North Thirdd St., Nor th Thir St., San S Jose, R Refile previous efile of pr evious file CCA, A, 95112, 95112, Jai Tanju.

Tanju. #497243 #4 97243 This business is Registrant R egistrant began conducted by by a transacting tr ansacting business individual. under the fictitious Registrant R egistrant begann business name or transacting business tr ansacting busi ness herein names listed her ein on fictitious under the fictitio ous 7/23/2007.

7/2 3/2007. business name oor names /s/Jacob O’Sulliv O’Sullivan an herein 11/10/12. listed her ein on 11/1 0/12. This statement was filed /s/Jai TTanju anju with the County Clerk of This statement w was filed Claraa County on Santa Clar with the County Clerk of 11/15/2012.

11/1 5/2012.

Claraa Coun County Santa Clar nty on Metroo 11/28, (pub Metr 11/28, 12/05, 12/05, 11/13/2012.

11/1 3/2012.

112/12, 2/12, 112/19/2012) 2/19/2012) 11/28, (pub Metro Metro 11/2 8, 12/05, 12/05, FICTITIOUS 112/12, 2/1 / 2, 112/19/2012) 2/1 / 9/20 / 012)) FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS N #571874 #571 8774 NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMEN NT following The follo wing person(s) #571985 #571 985 (are) is (ar e) doing business The following following person(s) peerson(s) as: Amber Glass Water Water (are) is (ar e) doing business business 280 Pipes, 2 80 San Anotnio Conforcare as: Confor care Senior Senior Ct., San Jose, CA, CA, 95116, 95116, Services-San Ser vices-San Jose, Josse, 1650 1650 Chavez.

LLuis uis Chav ez.

Road, Zanker R oad, Ste Stee 1135, 35, This business is San Jose, CA, CA, 95112, 95112, TLC TLC conducted by by a FFor or You, You, LLC., LLC., 5088 50 088 Fell Fell individual.

Avenue, Jose, A venue, San Jose e, CA, CA, Registrant R egistrant has not 95136.

9 5136. transacting yyet et begun tr ansacting This business is business under the conducted by by a fictitious business name Corporation.

Corpor ation ation. or names listed li t d hherein. herein. i Above Abo ve entity wass formed /s/L /s/Luis Chavez uis Chav ez California in the state of Ca alifornia This statement was filed Registrant R egistrant has nnot ot with the County Clerk of transacting yyet et begun tr ansaacting Santa Clara Clara County on business under the t 11/19/2012.

11/1 9/2012. business fictitious busines ss name Metroo 11/28, (pub Metr 11/28, 12/05, 12/05, or names listed her hherein. ein.

112/12, 2/12, 112/19/2012) 2/19/2012) /s/Dale TTaketa aaketa FICTITIOUS PPresident resident FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS #3507109 #3 507109 NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T This statement w was filed

#571337 #571337 # TThe he follo following wing person(s) iss (ar (are) e) doing business aas: s: Style Style Scrubs, 2697 2697 CCasey asey Way., Way., San Jose, CA, CA, 95121, 9 5121, Chris Sanchez.

TThis his business is conducted co onducted by by a individual. in ndividual.

Registrant R egistrant has not yyet et begun tr transacting ansacting bbusiness usiness under the fifictitious ctitious business name oorr names listed herein. herein. /s/Chris /s s/Chris Sanchez TThis his statement was filed w the County Clerk of with Santa S anta Clar Claraa County on 111/02/2012.

1/02/2012. (pub (p pub Metro Metro 11/21, 11/28, 11/28, 112/05, 2 2/05, 12/12//2012) 12/12//2012) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT # #570752 following TThe he follo wing person(s) (are) iss (ar e) doing business aas: s: The Design Collective, Collective, 1150 50 Kingsley Ave., Ave., Palo Palo 94301, A CCA, Alto, A, 9 4301, Adam Selzer, Wolfe S elzer, LLena ena W olfe 33220 220 Sunset Dr.,., NW, S unset Beach Dr NW, Olympia, WA, O lympia, W A, 98502.

98502.

TThis his business is conducted general co onducted by by a gener al ppartnership. artnership t hi .

Registrant R egistrant began transacting tr ransacting business uunder nder the fictitious bbusiness usiness name or herein nnames ames listed her ein on 110/01/2012.

0 0/01/201 2. /s/Adam /s s/Adam Selzer Selzer TThis his statement was filed w the County Clerk of with Santa S anta Clara Clara County on 110/17/2012.

0 7/2012.

0/1 (pub (p pub Metro Metro 11/14, 11/14, 11/21, 111/28, 1/28, 12/05/2012) 12/05/2012) FFICTITIOUS ICTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS N NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT #571047 # #571 047 following TThe he follo wing person(s) (are) iss (ar e) doing business aas: s: Quick-One Financial, 2441 2 441 Alvin Ave., Ave., San Jose, Jo ose, CA, CA, 95121, 95121, Provence Provence Realty.

R ealty.

TThis his business is conducted co onducted by by a CCorporation. orporation.

Above A Abo ve entity was formed inn the state of California

Registrant bega Registrant begann transacting tr ansacting busi business iness under the fictitio fictitious ous business name or names listed he herein erein on 8/20/2004.

Refile R efile of pr previous eviouus file #499602 #4 99602 after 40 4 days of expiration expir ation date. /s/Don Hoang PPresident resident #2670712 #26 70712 This statement w was filed with the Countyy Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa Cou County unty on 110/24/2012.

0/24/2012. (pub Metr Metroo 11/21, 11/2 21, 11/2 11/28, 8, 112/05, 2/05, 112/12/2012) 2/12/2012)

is (are) (are) doing business as: as s: Maria Maria’s ’s Tree Tree Service, Service, 11017 0 7 Cheswick Dr., 01 Dr., San Jose, Jo ose, CA, CA, 95121, 95121, Maurilio Barragan.

Ba arragan.

This Th his business is conducted co onducted by by a individual. in ndividual.

Registrant R e egistr ant began transacting tr ansacting business FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS under un nder the fictitious NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T business bu usiness name or names na ames listed her herein ein on #571357 #571 357 0 4/2012.

0/2 The following following person(s) is 110/24/2012. /s/Maurilio /s s/Maurilio Barragan Barragan (are) (ar e) doing business as: This Th his statement was filed Avanti A vanti TTech, ech, 60 Desanso with w ith the County Clerk of Dr.,., Unit 31 3103, Dr 03, San Jose, Santa Sa anta Clar Claraa County on CCA, A, 95136, 95136, Lalit Gajare.

Gajare.

110/24/2012.

0 4/2012.

0/2 This business is FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS (pub (p pub Metro Metro 11/14, 11/14, 11/21, conducted by by a NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMEN T NT 11/28, 11 1/28, 112/05/2012) 2/05/2012) individual. #571193 Registrant #571 193 R egistrant began FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS following person(s) transacting The follo wing pe erson(s) tr ansacting business NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATEMENT T (are) is (ar e) doing business buusiness under the fictitious Editing, #571089 as: Jupiter Editin ng, 11575 575 business name or # 571089 Calaveras herein The Calav eras Avenue, Avenuue, San names listed her ein on Th he following following person(s) is 11/02/2012. (are) Jose, CA, CA, 95126, 95126, Patrick Patrick 11/02/201 2. (a are) doing business as: Gajare The 1177 Burns. /s/Lalit G ajare Th he Plumbing Guys, 11 Claremont This business iss This statement was filed S.. Clar emont Ave., Ave., San Jose, conducted by by a with the County Clerk of Jo ose, CA, CA, 95127, 95127, Aaron Aaron Claraa County on Sanchez. individual.

Santa Clar Sa anchez.

Registrant begann 11/02/2012.

This R egistrant bega 11/02/201 2.

Th his business is transacting business Metroo 11/14, conducted tr ansacting busi iness (pub Metr 11/14, 11/21, co onducted by by a fictitious 11/28, individual. under the fictitio ous 11/2 8, 12/05/2012) 12/05/2012) in ndividual.

Registrant business name or R e egistr ant has not FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS names listed li t d he hherein erein i on yyet et begun et b tr ttransacting ansacting ti STATEMENT NAME S T A TEMENT T 8/15/2012. business 8/15/2012. bu usiness under the /s/Patrick Burnss fictitious /s/P atrick Burn fic ctitious business name #571398 #571 398 was filed This statement w orr names listed herein. herein. following The follo wing person(s) /s/Aaron with the Countyy Clerk of /s s/Aaron Sanchez (are) is (ar e) doing business Claraa Cou County This Santa Clar unty on Th his statement was filed Certified as: Diamond Cer tified with 110/30/2012.

0/30/2012. ith the County Clerk of 1183 Plumbing, 11 83 Palamos Palamos w Metroo 11/14, Santa (pub Metr 11/114, 11/21, A Sa anta Clara Clara County on Ave., Sunnyvale, ve., Sunnyv ale, CA, CA, 11/28, 11/2 8, 12/05/2012) 12/05/2012) 110/25/2012.

0 5/2012.

0/2 94089, Robert 9 4089, R obert Seet. (pub 11/07, (p pub Metro Metro 11/07 7, 11/14, 11/14, This business is FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS 11/21, 11 1/21, 11/28/2012) 11/28/2012) conducted by by a NAME SSTATEMENT TATEMEN T NT individual.

PUBLIC PU UBLIC NOTICE NOTICE #571598 Registrant #571 598 R egistrant has not REDEMPTION RE EDEMPTION OF ALL ALL GARGARfollowing person(s) transacting The follo wing pe erson(s) is yyet et begun tr ansacting (are) business DEN CHIPS (ar e) doing busi iness as: business under the DE EN CCITY ITY CASINO CASINO CH IPS Solutions, 1177 $1000, $100, $20, Cleaning Solutio ons, 11 fictitious business name $ 1000, $500, $500, $ 100, $ 20, Rd.,#70-113, herein. $10, $3, $2, $1, Bernal Rd Rd.,#7 #70-113, San or names listed her ein ein. $ 10, 0 $5, $5, 5 $ 3, $ 2 $ 2, 1 $.50 1, $ 50 /s/Robert and Jose, CA, CA, 95119, 95119, Mark /s/R obert Sweet Sweet an nd $.25 $.25 chips can be Kline.

This statement was filed rredeemed e edeemed at the casino This business iss cage from 2012 with the County Clerk of ca age fr om August 77,, 201 2 Claraa County on through conducted by by a Santa Clar th hrough February February 77,, 2013 2013 11/05/2012.

24 individual.

11/05/201 2.

-2 4 hours per day. day.

Registrant begann Redeem R egistrant bega (pub Metro Metro 11/14, 11/14, 11/21, R e edeem Chips at: transacting business 11/28, Casino tr ansacting busi iness 11/2 8, 12/05/2012) 12/05/2012) Ca asino M8trix fictitious Blvd. under the fictitio ous 11887 8 7 Matrix Blv 88 d.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FI CT I T I OUS B USI NESS San business name or Sa an Jose, CA CA 95110 95110 STATEMENT NAME S T A TEMENT T herein names listed he erein on 6/2/2006. #571057 #571 057 Refile previous R efile of pr eviouus file following The follo wing person(s)

CUBESOULS

#478984 after 40 days of #478984 expiration expir ation date. /s/Mark Kline This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clar Claraa County on 11/08/2012.

11/08/201 2. (pub Metro Metro 11/14, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 11/2 8, 12/05/2012) 12/05/2012)

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is (are) (are) doing business as: as s: Home R Run un Limo, 55230 230 TTomahawk o omahawk Drive, Driv e San e, Jose, Jo se, CA, CA, 95136, 95136, Bruce Aaron Aa aron Carlson.

FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS This Th his business is NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT conducted co onducted by by a #572221 individual. in dividual. following The follo wing person(s) is R Registrant e egistr ant has not (are) (ar e) doing business as: yyet e begun tr et transacting ansacting Morgan Mor gan Adventure Adventure Travel Travel bu business usiness under the & Tours, Toours, 2589 2589 Sugarplum fic fictitious ctitious business name Drive, Driv e, San Jose, CA, CA, orr names listed her herein. ein.

95148, 95148, Cheryl D. Morgan.

Morgan. /s /s/Bruce s/Bruce Carlson This business is This Th his statement was filed conducted by by a with wi ith the County Clerk of individual.

Santa Sa anta Clar Claraa County on Registrant R egistrant has not 11/28/2012.

11 1/28/2012. transacting yyet et begun tr ansacting (pub (p ppub Metr Metroo 12/05, 12/05, 5 12/12, 12/12, b i business under d th the 112/19, 2 9, 112/26/2012) 2/1 2/26/2012) fictitious business name or names listed herein. herein.

FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS /s/Cheryk D. Morgan Morgan NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT This statement was filed #571365 #5 571365 with the County Clerk of The following Th he follo wing person(s) is Santa Clara Clara County on (are) (a re) doing business as: 11/30/2012.

11/30/201 2.

PPeter e & PPaul’s eter aul’s Jissenteki (pub Metro Metro 12/05, 12/05, 12/12, 12/12, K Karate, a ate, 4606 Cosmo ar 112/19, 2/19, 12/26/2012) 12/26/2012) Place, Pl lace, San Jose, CA, CA, 95118, 9 5118, PPeter eter Mouttapa.

FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS This Th his business is NAME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT conducted co onducted by by a #571370 #571 370 individual. in dividual.

The following following person(s) Registrant R e egistr ant began is (are) (are) doing business transacting tr a ansacting business Coffee, 77000 as: Nectar Coffee 000 under un nder d the th fifictitious titi Agnew Road, Road, #424, #424, Santa bu business usiness name or Clara, Clar a, CA, CA, 95054, 95054, YYoung oung names herein na ames listed her ein on Joo Seung.

11/07/2012.

11 1/07/2012.

This business is /s/Peter /s s/Peter Mouttapa conducted by by a This Th his statement was filed individual. with wi ith the County Clerk of Registrant R egistrant began Santa Claraa County on Sa anta Clar transacting tr ansacting business 11/02/2012.

11 1/02/2012. under the fictitious (pub Metroo 11/28, (p pub Metr 11/28, 12/05, 12/05, business name or 112/12, 2 2, 112/19/2012) 2/1 2/19/2012) names listed herein herein on 11/02/2012.

11/02/201 2.

FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS /s/Young /s/Y oung Joo Seung NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT This statement was filed #571321 #5 571321 with the County Clerk of The following Th he follo wing person(s) Claraa County on Santa Clar is (are) (are) doing business 11/02/2012.

11/02/201 2. as: as s: 1. The Chiropractic Chiropractic (pub Metro Metro 11/28, 11/28, 12/05, 12/05, W Way, Chiropractic ay, 2. Chir opractic Way, Way, 112/12, 2/12, 12/19/2012) 12/19/2012) 11633 633 Hollenbeck Ave., Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94087, Su unnyv ale, C A, 9 408 7, Public Notice Request for for Pub lic No tice Meir M eir Tako, Tako, 161 161 Evandale Evandale EBI Project Project #61124904 #61124904 Ave., A ve., Mountain View, View, CA, CA, Sprint is proposing proposing 94043.

9 4 3.

404 to modify an This Th his business is existing wireless wireless conducted co onducted by by a telecommunications individual. in dividual. installation on The Registrant R e egistr ant began EEvent vent Center at San transacting business tr a ansacting State Jose S tate University University under un nder the fictitious located at 1 Washington Washington business bu usiness name or Squaree (aka 290 S. Squar names herein na ames listed her ein on St.), 7th S t.), San Jose, CA CA 110/26/2012.

0 0/26/201 2.

95192.

9 5192.

2 The new facility /s/Meir /s s/Meir TTako aako three will consist of thr ee This Th his statement was filed new antennas mounted with wi ith the County Clerk of at a center height of Santa Claraa County on Sa anta Clar 553’4” 3’4” (measured (measured to 11/01/2012.

11 1/01/2012. the centerline) behind (pub Metroo 11/28, (p pub Metr 11/28, 12/05, 12/05, proposed pr oposed stealth panels 112/12, 2 2, 112/19/2012) 2/1 2/19/2012) and new equipment placed within an existing FI FICTITIOUS CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS rrooftop ooftop area. area. Any NAME NA AME SSTATEMENT TATTEMENT interested inter ested party party wishing #572043 #5 572043 to submit comments The following Th he follo wing person(s) rregarding egarding the potential (are) is (are) doing business effects the proposed proposed as: Key as s: Magic K ey LLocksmith, ocksmith, havee on any facility may hav Creek 55255 255 Stevens Stevens Cr eek property historic pr operty may Boulevard, 258, Bo oulevard, Suite 2 58, do so by by sendingg such Santa S Sa anta t Clara, Cl a, CA, Clar CA, A 95051, 95051, comments to: Project Project Elii & K Inc. El 61124904-SJF 6 1124904-SJF c/o EBI EBI This Th his business is Consulting, 11445 11445 East conducted onducted by by a Via V ia Linda, Suite 2, #472, #472, co Corporation.

Co orporation. or via telephone at 781781Above Ab bove entity was formed 273-2500.

2 73-2500. in the state of California Registrant R e egistr ant has not FICTITIOUS FI CTITIOUS BUSINESS BUSINESS transacting yyet e begun tr et ansacting NAME STATEMENT STATTEMENT business bu usiness under the #572148 #5721 48 fictitious fic ctitious business name following The follo wing person(s) herein. orr names listed her ein.

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predict edict hope that you will get sweet rrevenge. evvenge. In ffact, act, I pr evenge. KKeep eep in mind that that you will get sweet rrevenge. y, rroaring oarring vindication. I Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not talking about angry angry, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t destroy donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean you will destr oy the rreputations eputations of your adversaries or rreduce educe them to humiliating humiliating poverty or laugh at them as they gr grovel mercy ovel ffor orr mer cy while lying in a muddy gutter gutter.. No, Gemini. The ki kind ind of rrevenge evenge I fforesee oresee is that you will achieve a ringingg triumph by mastering a challenge they all believed wo would defeat uld def eat you. And your ascent to victory starts now. now w.

CANCER (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): I would love to speak ont your with you about your hesitancy too fully confr confront difďŹ culties. But I will not speak fforthrightly, orthrightlyy, since difďŹ culties. etty sur ritatte you. It might even Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pr pretty suree that would ir irritate ocrastinate ev ven further motivate you to pr procrastinate even further.. So instead ow if you don â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop I will make a lame joke about ho how donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t robably get bitten in avoiding the obvious, you will pr probably th butt b tt by b a spider id . I will ill try t to t subtly s btl guil ilt-trip t t i you the spider. guilt-trip hat Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be annoyed at into taking action by implying th that â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. I will wax sar casstic and suggest that you if you don donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. sarcastic ance is bliss. Hopefully that maybe just this once, ignor ignorance aightforwardly with the will nudge you into dealing str straightforwardly unrest that â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s burbling. unrest thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

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LLEO EO (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dr â&#x20AC;&#x153;Drama amaa is lif lifee with all the Alfred boring parts cut out of it,â&#x20AC;? said Leo L ďŹ lmmaker Alfr ed Hitchcock. By that criterion, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guessing g that your experience in the coming week will w have a high concentration stimulation. concentr ation of magic and stim mulation. YYou ou o should free from through be fr ee fr om having to slog thr ouugh stale details prosaic wordd of power will be and pr osaic storylines. YYour our o wor succulence. For best rresults, esults, I suggest suggest you take active control of the unf olding adventu ures. Be the dir ector and control unfolding adventures. director ama, not a passive p participant who lead actor in your dr drama, merely aree doing. merely rreacts eacts to what the other actors ar VIRGO VIR GO (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): On One ne of my spiritual

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LIBRA (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): Thiss would be a good moree than you usually do. week to talk to yourself ffar ar mor If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;r youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ree the type of person who never talk talkss to yourself yourself,f, perfect And this is a perf ect time to start. An nd I do mean that you words loud.

Actually address should speak the wor ds out loud d. A ctually addr ess yourself with passionate, humor rous, ir onic, sincer e, humorous, ironic, sincere, insightful comments, as you wou uld any person you car would caree about. Why am I suggesting this s? Because accor ding this? according to my interpr etation of the astr o ological omens, you interpretation astrological would beneďŹ t fr om the shock off liter ally hearing from literally

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how your mind work w s. Even mor works. moree importantly: The cheerleading youu do, the encouragement encouragement you deliver, deliverr, and the motivatio onal speeches you give would have motivational an unusually pow werful impact if they wer powerful weree audibly articulated.

SCORPIO SC ORPIO (Oct. (Octt. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov.. 21): In the ffairy airy tale â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beauty otesque humanlike cr eature hosts and the Beast,â&#x20AC;? a gr grotesque creature oine in hiss home, tr eating her like a queen. the her heroine treating h but rrejects ejects his constant She accepts his hospitality requests to mar ryy him. Eventually y, he collapses fr om requests marry Eventually, from ering, she heartache. Movedd by the depth of his suff suffering, breaks into tears and conf esses her deep aff ection ffor or breaks confesses affection him This shatterss the spell and magically tr ansforms him. transforms nto the handsome prince he originally the Beast back in into our o lif allels to this story in the was. YYour lifee mayy have par parallels S YYou ou o might be tested. CCan an coming months, Scorpio. ruth about a valuable rresource esource that you discern the tr truth doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look very sexy? Will you be able to see beauty doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rough o form? embedded in a rough or shabby form?

SSAGITTARIUS AGITT TA ARIU US (Nov (Nov.. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): If you thor oughly shufďŹ&#x201A; ďŹ&#x201A;e a deck of car ds, the novel thoroughly shufďŹ&#x201A;e cards, ar rangement youu cr eate is pr obably unique in all of arrangement create probably human history; it der has never bef ore itss speciďŹ c or order before occurred. suspect occur red. I suspec ct the same principle applies to new our lives: Each ne ew day brings a singular set of cir cumstances th at neither you nor anyone else in the circumstances that last 10,000 yearss has ever had the pleasur pleasuree of being challenged and in ntrigued by intrigued by.. Ther Theree is always some fr esh opportunity y, however small, small that is being off ered fresh opportunity, offered you ffor or the ďŹ rst ttime. ime. I think it â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important ffor or you to itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keep this perspec ctive in mind during the coming week. perspective Be alert ffor or what you have never seen or experienced bef ore. before.

CAPRICORN CAPRIC ORN (Dec. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 19): I wish I could do

mor a antasize about helping you achieve moree than just ffantasize gr eater fr eedom. In my dr eams, I am obliter ating greater freedom. dreams, obliterating delusions that ke eep you moor ed to ffalse alse idols. I am keep moored setting ďŹ r dens you lug ďŹ ree to thee unnecessary bur burdens ar ound. And I am tearing you away fr om the galling around. from compr omises youu made once upon a time in or der compromises order to please people who don â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deser ve to have so much donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deserve power over you. But B it â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually a good thing I can â&#x20AC;&#x2122;t itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just wave a magi magicc wand to make all this happen.

Her eâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a much be etter solution: YYou ou o will clarifyy yyour Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s better analysis of the bi nds youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;r supercharge your binds youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ree in, supercharge willpower libberate yourself willpower,r, and liberate yourself..

AQUARIUS A QUARIUS (Jan. (JJan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): In his book Even

Cowgirls Get the Blues, TTom oom Robbins talk talkss about a gourmet who â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;gave gaave up everything, tr aveled thousands traveled of miles and spen nt his last dime to get to the highest spent lamasery in the Himalayas H to taste the dish he â&#x20AC;&#x2122;d heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d longed ffor or his wh hole lif e, TTibetan ibetan peach pie. When he whole life, got ther amas said they wer theree ... the la lamas weree all out of peach. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OK,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; said the gou urmet, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;make make it apple.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? I suspect youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll gourmet, compparable experience sometime soon, be having a comparable Aquarius. YYou oou ma ay not get the exact tr eat you wanted, may treat but what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll rreceive e eceive in its place is something that â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pr etty damn good d. I ur ge you to accept the gift as is! pretty good. urge

PISCESS (Feb. PISCE (Feb 119â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 99â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Mar March 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having Having â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;aa sense of self essing a set of stories about who selfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; means posse possessing we ar e,â&#x20AC;? accor ding to William Kittr edge in his book are,â&#x20AC;? according Kittredge The Natur Naturee of Ge Generosity enerosityy. He says ther theree ar aree two basic T ďŹ rst is â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;cautionary cautionary tales, which types of stories: The refore pr otect us. The second consists warn us usâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;? and the therefore protect celebratoryâ&#x20AC;? ttales, ales, which we use to heal and calm of â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x153;celebratoryâ&#x20AC;? ve that you Pisceans ar ourselves. I believ believe aree now in a atory stories. It â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s phase when you primarily need celebr celebratory Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urself with accounts of what you love time to deďŹ ne yo yourself and value and rregard eggard as pr ecious. precious.

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