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It was 5pm on the light rail and I was tired. I had my headphones in, letting my mind drift to John Mayer’s sweet voice, but before I could lose myself completely, I noticed a strange presence.

You walked in, dressed head to toe in a blotched and smudged Elvis Presley costume. On your face were large circular sunglasses, each lens the size of a drink coaster, and on your head a large misshapen mass of hair that was haphazardly splattered with gel and mousse. You scanned the car, sizing up your potential audience, and then looked downward. As you raised your head you let out a shriek, piercing and off-note … a false falsetto. The sounds that followed could best be described as moaning and bleating accompanied by flailing arms and off-rhythm pelvic thrusting. As we neared the next stop you ended with a serenade, making eye contact with an elderly lady at the back of the car. The doors opened and you turned to us and bowed. I clapped for you, bud, you hound dog.

Sheesh ... drama in Milpitas ....

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RE: MILPITAS MAYOR SLAMMED FOR TONEDEAF COMMENTS, AWKWARD HUGS, OFFBEAT RAP PERFORMANCE, NEWS, JUNE 13

Oh c’mon look at Anthony Phan on the Milpitas City Council. I can’t take anything seriously from the City Council if that low-life signed it.

Politics here looks like a banana republic of corruption and ineptitude.

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Seems to be the jumping-offpoint du jour. @WILDROOTSSTUDIO VIA TWITTER

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More than a month has passed since Santa Clara Councilman DOMINIC CASERTA resigned from public office and withdrew from the race for county supervisor amid claims that he sexually harassed students and campaign staffers.

His former council colleagues voted 4-2 to keep his seat vacant until the next election. Santa Clara High, where Caserta taught civics for 20 years, has placed him on paid leave pending an investigation.

Some sources say he’s hunkered down in Hollister, although there’ve reportedly been a few They Caserta sightings around Did town in recent weeks.

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On May 10, someone reported an incident from way back in 1992, when Caserta allegedly exposed his genitals to an undisclosed underage victim. It’s unclear whether he was 17 or 18 at the time because the exact month of the incident isn’t listed. In the summary sent to Fly, police categorized the case as “disorderly conduct.” Another case that stands out as a potential misdemeanor at least is one classified as an ongoing “sexual offense” spanning from September of 2017 through March of this year.

Fly’s been trying to obtain more information about Caserta’s conduct at work, but the Santa Clara Unified School District is taking forever to respond to a simple records request.

THERE’S A CATCH The number of whales getting tangled up in crab lines, fishing nets and other ocean hazards has been steadily climbing.

Staying Afloat Reports of whale entanglements are on the rise off the California coastline

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HE MORNING FOG in Moss Landing is still thick when Peggy Stap and her volunteer whale rescue crew load up their GPS-equipped buoys, flying knives and repurposed lacrosse helmets.

It’s just after 9am on a recent weekday when Stap steers her 40-foot boat into the harbor. Her 13-year-old rescue dog, a local social media celebrity known as “Whiskie the Whale Spotter,” shares the captain’s seat. After a quick safety check—calm water, good weather— Stap relays the latest radio chatter to her small team of researchers, photographers and curious visitors.

“Tim’s got a gray whale that doesn’t look healthy,” Stap says. She revs

the engine and heads for the open waters of the Monterey Bay. Following up on vague reports from whale-watching boats, fishermen and park rangers has become a near-daily routine for the 63-year-old Michigan transplant. As founding director of the nonprofit research and rescue group Marine Life Studies, Stap has carved out a niche as the Monterey Bay’s go-to first responder for injured whales.

Lately, that means helping to cut loose more and more of the 60,000-pound animals who get caught in crab lines, fishing nets and other ocean hazards. It’s a task that has grown increasingly daunting since 2006, when Stap and Mary Whitney of Carmel’s Fluke Foundation started an early version of the Whale Entanglement Team (WET) that now struggles to keep pace with calls about animals in distress.

“The sad thing is they die such a slow, painful death,” says Laura Kasa, former director of Save Our Shores and a consultant to the recently formed Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation. “They can carry this gear for six months to a year.”

Climate Changes Statistics from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) show a quickly evolving picture for entanglement. From 2000 to 2013, California averaged 10 reports of entangled whales per year. In 2015, there were 25 reports of entangled whales in Northern California alone—21 of those in the Monterey Bay—marking the highest tally since record-keeping began in 1982. In 2016, the number of reports climbed again, to 23 whales in the Monterey Bay alone. Last year saw 26 reported entanglements throughout California, still well above the historical average, according to NOAA data.

Not all of the entangled whales reported in the Monterey Bay actually originate there. “We’re the whale watching capital of the world, so there are more eyes on the water,” Stap said.

Explaining the science behind the increase in entanglements is also

Moving Targets Before she decided to spend her retirement tracking down injured whales along the coast from Davenport to Big Sur, Stap spent two decades studying whales in Hawaii and California. The former retail sales director and landscape architect moved from the Midwest to be in the Monterey Bay area full time in 2010.

After more than a decade on the entanglement beat, Stap knows when to stop and regroup. By late morning on her recent patrol, she calls off the search for the injured gray whale—an example of the difficulty of tracking a gigantic moving target, since people who report entangled whales are often unable to stand by and keep an eye on the animal until Stap arrives.

“We could do this all day and not find it,” Stap says. In one case, she remembers, it took 17 days to find a whale reported entangled in the Monterey Bay—and eventually discovered in Santa Barbara.

If a search does prove successful, WET’s team of volunteers and one part-time assistant are ready. First, they call NOAA for permission to approach the whale. When that is granted, a team departs on a smaller boat to get closer. The first objective is to attach a telemetry buoy equipped with a satellite tracker to make it easier to monitor the whale’s location.

From there, protocol dictates that a NOAA-certified “level four” responder should do the actual cutting. Since the

closest level four to Santa Cruz is 100 miles away in Benicia, that can leave the WET crew to monitor whales for several hours. Getting a local certified to perform disentanglements on shorter notice is one long-term goal, Stap said.

Fundraising for specialized equipment is another recurring challenge. In the coming months, the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Foundation hopes to raise $50,000 from area residents and businesses to fund Stap’s group and additional NOAA boats that could be mobilized to help despite shrinking federal conservation funding.

To better understand one of the primary causes of entanglement, Moss Landing fisherman Calder Deyerle and Stap are both part of a three-year-old California Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group convened by the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. The group is currently focused on collecting data and applying ocean biology to whale migration. Deyerle says he and other fisherman are also exploring alternative line materials and other animal-safe technologies, though such tools can be cost-prohibitive.

Still, some environmental groups have grown impatient. Last year, after quitting the crab working group, the Center for Biological Diversity sued the state for failing to address the problem. Deyerle says local fisheries are already subject to more regulation than counterparts in other parts of the country. Stap and others also contend that working with the Central Coast’s multimillion-dollar commercial fishing industry is the most pragmatic approach.

“There’s nobody out there that wants to catch a whale,” says Heather Willis, a Pacifica-based volunteer with the nonprofit California Whale Rescue.

“That sucks, to lose thousands of dollars worth of equipment.”

Day to day, Stap is left to man the front line of a rapidly changing environment. Kasa says what the whale rescue effort needs is more reliable funding for better equipment and more manpower. Of the 26 entangled whales reported in California last year, just three were fully released from gear by response teams. Five whales were partially disentangled and one appeared to free itself, leaving 20 cases with unknown outcomes.

“This is just a Band-Aid,” Kasa says.

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more complicated than keeping a closer eye on fishing lines. Whales entangled in pursuit of shifting food stocks illustrate a convergence of evolving ocean biology with big implications not just for wildlife, but also a regional economy built on a reliable supply of valuable seafood.

“If the world continues to get warmer, things are going to shift,” says Francisco Chavez, senior scientist and biological oceanographer with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. “The species that are in Monterey Bay will be in Oregon, and the species that are in Point Conception will be in Monterey Bay.” That doesn’t mean wildlife in the Bay will disappear, Chavez is quick to point out. What it might mean is major uncertainty about the ecological future of the Monterey Bay, perhaps with unexpected side effects like the surge in whale entanglements.

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NOT FORGOTTEN Thanks to a stranger’s help in Italy, SJSU’s Beethoven Center now has images of the musician’s famed biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s grave in Italy.

Grave Sight The final resting place of Beethoven’s biographer is a hard shot to come by

BY GARY SINGH

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HE ANTI-MAN-abouttown has a long history of making mystical pacts with deceased authors at their gravesites. It usually goes along the lines of: “I’ll keep writing, you just show me how to pay the bills.” In fits of desperation, I have done this with Joseph Campbell, Hermann Hesse, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce, Leonard Cohen and a few others.

Although a recent attempt to track down Beethoven’s first biographer,

Alexander Wheelock Thayer (1817 to 1897), in Trieste, Italy, was not successful, the whole ridiculous adventure ultimately confirmed that I have not wasted my life.

First things first: The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University, aka the Beethoven Center, is loosely affiliated with the SJSU School of Music and Dance, my alma mater. By now, many have heard about the wealth of research materials, artifacts, original scores, instruments and selected resources included within the Beethoven Center’s hallowed

walls. It is just plain wunderbar that San Jose is home to such a facility, as Beethoven was quite a colorful and controversial character.

Interest in his life and art should not be limited to music students, academics, blue-hairs, Rotarians or conservative old duffers. He was an irascible outcast, a natural genius, a revolutionary and a raging drunk.

He would never survive today’s music academia. They would throw him out of school in a heartbeat.

Thankfully, I did survive music academia, and I owe pretty much everything to the music department at SJSU. My professor Allen Strange was the one who put me on a path of international travel—I’d have wound up working in a record store otherwise—so I am driven to give back. That said, what the Beethoven Center didn’t have were modern-day photographs of Alexander Wheelock Thayer’s grave in Trieste, so when I recently visited the city, I took it upon myself to at least try and find the tombstone. What unfolded was a brilliant example of hospitality on the part of the locals.

Thayer lived in Trieste when it was still part of Austria and when he was the American Consul from 1865 to 1882. Abraham Lincoln appointed him. He worked tirelessly on Beethoven’s biography, which oddly enough was translated into German and published in that language first. The complete English version was not published until decades after Thayer passed away.

To reach the graveyard, I left my hotel and hopped on the No. 10 bus at Piazza Tommaseo, directly across the street from the Adriatic Sea. Thayer was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg and Helvetica Confession, one of several adjoining walled-off sections, each at progressively lower levels as they descended down a hillside, but all still near the main graveyard, the Sant’Anna Cemetery. Unfortunately, when I arrived in the late afternoon, the section containing Thayer was closed for the day and there was no way to get in. I had to fly back home the next morning, so there was no possible way to return.

The military section was the closest open area, located on the next upper level, so I walked in and spent a few minutes trying to scope a way into the evangelical section, if that was even possible. It wasn’t.

Then I spotted a woman watering flowers. I scurried up and handed Maria Neva Micheli the information on Thayer, and between her English and my broken Italian, we were able to communicate. She directed me to the parking lot, where her husband, Loris Guarini, was sitting in their car. He didn’t know how to access the evangelical section either, but they were both kind enough to drive me all the way around the entire graveyard complex to the main entrance to inquire at the front office.

Still, there was nothing we could do.

I was out of luck. Then, in a gracious act of hospitality, Micheli wrote down my email and said she would return at a later time, take photos and send them to me. Sure enough, a few days later, the photos arrived.

I relayed the images to the Beethoven Center, and they are now being considered for inclusion in a spring 2019 joint exhibit in partnership with SJSU’s Steinbeck Center entitled, “Beethoven & Steinbeck: The Art of Biography.”

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TEXT MESS Powerful union leader violated agency policies by failing to report hate speech—and undersheriff leapt to his defense

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

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VER THE COURSE of 3,000 text messages exchanged among a handful of Santa Clara County sheriff’s deputies, Don Morrissey hadn’t called anyone a “gook.” So when San Jose-Silicon Valley NAACP president Jethroe Moore in January accused Morrissey of using the term, the 20-year cop who heads the county’s Deputy Sheriffs’ Association (DSA) indignantly demanded a retraction.

Morrissey insisted his only mistake was failing to carefully read a sevenmonth string of “stupid, offensive” text messages. “Don didn’t do anything wrong,” the DSA wrote in a news release threatening legal action against Moore.

Morrissey blamed his adversary, Sheriff Laurie Smith, for yanking him into the controversy that cost him his sergeant’s stripes. The union trotted out the same narrative about Morrissey’s previous downgrade, from lieutenant to sergeant several years prior, for spending hours a day browsing pornography at work, on the public’s payroll.

Morrissey may not have texted the anti-Asian slur, but newly unsealed documents obtained by Metro undermine his claim to victimhood.

According to a Feb. 24 arbitration decision upholding Morrissey’s demotion to deputy, the elected DSA president did more than peruse smut and tacitly countenance a slew of bigoted texts. In 2012, he used county computers to post Craigslist ads soliciting sex, tried to get coworkers to erase his digital tracks and, once caught, lied about it being part of a criminal investigation into prostitution

in Saratoga, according to his own admission in arbitration records. From 2014 to 2015, he actively engaged in group texting threads rife with racist, homophobic and misogynist slurs.

“So a blow job for soup seems fair right (sic) Ryan,” Morrissey texted while on on duty Dec. 16, 2014, in a lengthy back-and-forth about inmates trading sexual favors for commissary items.

On Jan. 15, 2015, another union leader—his counterpart at the local Peace Officers’ Association, Sgt. Lance Scimeca—sent a vulgar joke: “YEAST INFECTIONS: Because once and a while women deserve to see what it feels like to live with an irritated cunt.” Morrissey responded, “Aka: Laurie Smith.”

Some of the texts began as work-related discussions. On March 9, 2015, subordinates initiated a conversation about the proper use of force under state Penal Code section 835(a) in which one of them texted,

“Child molester and a moully???

Justified shoot.”

The DSA head apparently found that funny.

“Morrissey, who understood the term ‘moully’ to be a racial slur against African-Americans, responded ‘Hahaha,’ thus openly condoning and encouraging a racial slur in what could be construed legally as a public record,” attorney Morris Davis wrote in his 60-page arbitration ruling.

In other texts, the DSA president compared another deputy to a vagina and participated in threads in which Scimeca and subordinates call people “nigger loving retards,” a “Mexican Mudshark,” “howler monkeys” and “nig nogs.”

Morrissey’s demotion has moved to centerstage in the heated battle between Sheriff Smith and challenger John Hirokawa, her former undersheriff, in the first contested general election for that office in 20 years.

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UNIFIED FRONT Union bosses and texting buddies Lance Scimeca (center) and Don Morrissey (right) appeared on Que Huong television with Nguyen Khoi (left) in 2014 to promote Kevin Jensen’s candidacy in the sheriff’s race. Four years later, they are both implicated in a scandal involving racist, homophobic, misogynist and generally vulgar exchanges.

Smith said she wanted Morrissey fired as soon as she heard about the texts while her former second-incommand defended the union leader.

In September of last year, Hirokawa testified in support of Morrissey, suggesting that the county violated the union chief ’s privacy and free speech rights by seizing the texts. The candidate also said that he believed Morrissey’s discipline was too severe, according to an arbitrator’s summary.

The union led by Morrissey returned the favor. It endorsed Hirokawa’s campaign two months after the retired undersheriff provided the supportive testimony and spent $186,828.35 in independent expenditures in the June primary to vault Hirokawa into the runoff. More DSA funding can be expected in November’s general election.

Dark Humor Detectives unearthed the texts

in 2015 while looking into jail deputy Ryan Saunders’ ties to the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang. By extending their search from his mobile phone to those of fellow officers in group texts, they found that from December of 2014 to June the next year, union presidents Morrissey and Scimeca and a handful of subordinates known as the “A Team”—deputies Rene Lucero, Jose Ortiz, Michael Fortino and officers Jesus Perez and Charles Ramirez— exchanged thousands of messages marked by repulsive hate speech both on and off duty.

At one point, the officers even yukked it up about another agency’s texting scandal. “Morrissey was right!!!!!” Ramirez wrote on April 6, 2015, about the so-called textgate embroiling their counterparts at the San Francisco Police Department.

“Faggot, niggers, gooks are nasty,” Scimeca texted back.

“Erase, erase, erase,” Lucero offered.

“Who are you people [and] how did you get my number?” Morrissey deadpanned one line later.

“The following message is Pope Francis approved: all nigger faggots go to hell,” Scimeca wrote back seven minutes later.

Morrissey feigned ignorance several times during the drawn-out exchanges, including on March 17, 2015, in response to texts saying “filthy niggers have never been thought of highly” and “sorry if I offended any of you nigger loving pussy fags.” And again a week prior after Lucero, Ramirez and Saunders mocked a deputy, calling him a predator and saying he struggles to draw a line because he’s Mexican.

“Hey, Morrissey, where do we send in our phones to be destroyed?”

Ramirez asked part way through a digital canon of offensive diatribes.

Morrissey pretended to tune him

out: “Morrissey is not here,” he quickly replied.

Scimeca continued the thread with a text celebrating racist brutality.

“Never shall I split black oak,” Scimeca wrote, using a derogatory metaphor for a white man having sex with a black woman, “but I might be willing to chain one to the bumper and take it for a 55mph walk.”

Morrissey went silent as the others teased him about his passive disapproval. “What happened to Donnie?” Saunders asked in that same thread. “Fuck I like that dude.

Quit running him off.” After a few more inflammatory texts, Saunders wrote, “Donny has to be deleting like crazy.”

The closest Morrissey came to chastising fellow officers was on Feb. 13, 2015. Scimeca began a chain of texts with, “What do you say to a nigger in a suit? Will the defendant please rise.” Saunders joined in

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INSIDE JOKE Don Morrissey downplayed some of the questionable texts as gallows humor. While the veteran officer didn’t answer most of the exchanges, he occasionally chimed in or joked about feigning ignorance. Arbitration records describe only one instance in which he summoned the wherewithal to chastise his texting buddies.

with a crack of his own: “What does a black dude do after sex? Fifteen to life.” They quickly dispensed with any semblance of joke structure and fired off a bunch of epithets.

“Fuck niggers … they smell,” Lucero said. “Apes,” Scimeca added.

Then it got personal, with insults against the sheriff and her top brass.

Namely, undersheriffs Hirokawa and Carl Neusel and then-Capt. Troy Beliveau.

“Fuck captain suck ass Beuliviue (sic) … cunt ass piece of shit!” Lucero wrote.

Scimeca answered: “You know he sucks Laurie’s ass. Blows Neusel.

Tosses off [masturbates] Hiro with chopsticks, too.”

They dissed other higher-ranking staffers, saying a female officer “shares the pussy” and talking about how a black officer “has a bigger dick.”

Righteous indignation was apparently too much to expect from Morrissey.

“You fuckers done yet??” he asked, sounding more irritated than outraged. “I was at the movies while your anger was spewing.”

Other times, Morrissey met reams of discriminatory messages with silence. On Dr. Martin Luther King

Jr.’s birthday in 2014, Scimeca sent Morrissey a text saying, “Happy birthday, Buckwheat!” with Lucero chiming in, “My nigga!” Morrissey said nothing.

On Jan. 26, 2015, Scimeca sent a video montage of police shooting African-American men, saying the sequence gave him a “HARD ON” before adding, “Mother Nigger Down.” Morrissey again said nothing and denied seeing the video.

Although records show that even after investigators later made him watch it, he testified that he didn’t consider it to be threatening enough to alert a superior.

In other text-versations, Morrissey was more gregarious. On Dec. 13, 2015, Scimeca teased Morrissey about giving him a new moniker.

“Your name can be ‘QueerBritt,’” Scimeca wrote. Or “PortugueseSausageLover,” he added, before exclaiming, “Even our Gooks don’t like niggers.”

“Who Quan or the little shemale who looks like him?” Morrissey asked in return.

Months after the Ferguson protests and Black Lives Matter put police brutality into the national

spotlight, the group scoffed at the movement.

“Why do black people block the highway when they get mad?”

Saunders wrote about an Oakland protest making headlines. “Not a joke, but why? Of all things.”

“Howler monkeys gotta howl, nig-nogs gotta nig … enough said,” Scimeca pinged back.

“If it’s dark out they stand a high chance of getting run over,” Morrissey replied seconds later.

They made sexual comments about colleagues. On March 2, 2015, Ramirez texted a link to a pornographic image of a woman blowing smoke from her anus and vagina. Morrissey responded: “I didn’t know Perez smoked,” referring to one of his texting pals.

On Dec. 16, 2014, Morrissey prattled on and on about transactional sex in the jails. “The shit they [inmates] do for soups,” he wrote, adding, “What?? I’m a giver, but I don’t believe they should get anything for free. What lesson will they learn?” He continued by asking whether a blow job for soup seemed like a fair trade and “how many soups to have your ass licked.”

The sheriff—already grappling with intense backlash after an inmate’s fatal beating in 2015 by three jail guards— swiftly denounced the officers in the texting ring and called for their termination. Critics saw Smith’s condemnation as a cynical duck for cover amid unprecedented scrutiny from media, a citizen reform task force and attorneys litigating to fix the county’s troubled jails.

Morrissey, records show, made one excuse after another for his failure to supervise.

The union boss claimed to have never read many of the texts because he was busy with work and family.

He also said he wrongly assumed that sending them on personal cellular phones kept them safe from scrutiny—despite settled law and county policy to the contrary.

Morrissey testified in arbitration that he thought he only had to report misconduct on duty, even though a vast portion of the texts were indeed exchanged when one or more of the officers was at work and referenced colleagues and superiors. The union official said the county failed to adequately train him on policies that clearly require supervisors to immediately report or curtail misconduct.

At times, Morrissey contradicted his own testimony. In one conversation, he said he didn’t report the texts because he believed that someone had to be offended by the language for it to constitute a policy violation.

Yet he later claimed to have found the language appalling, which by his own definition would’ve made it a reportable offense.

In their report completed in April of 2016, former Oakland police Chief Howard Jordan, former Oakland Lt. Michael Yoell and attorney Renne Sloane—independent investigators hired at Hirokawa’s behest to avoid the appearance of bias—found every single officer in the texting ring guilty of misconduct. Though they partially exonerated Morrissey for texting relatively less often and occasionally expressing mild disapproval, investigators say he still

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violated policy by failing to report wrongdoing.

General Order #11.00 specifies that, “employees of the Sheriff ’s Office, whether on or off duty, will at all times and in all places, conduct themselves in a manner that will not bring or subject the department, their fellow employees or themselves to any criticism, disgrace, or public ridicule.” And General Order #11.03 requires a supervisor who directly observes misconduct to report it.

‘With respect to racist texting by officers on their personal cellphones, such speech is a clear indication that the officers cannot be trusted to interact with communities of color whom they despise.’

—LADORIS CORDELL, RETIRED JUDGE While guidelines do not specifically address text messaging amongst a group of officers, other policies enacted by the sheriff ’s department in 2002 explicitly state, “It is the policy of the Sheriff ’s Office to ensure that rights guaranteed by the constitutions and laws of the United States and the State of California for all citizens regardless of their race, color, religion, ethnic origin, national origin, or sexual orientation.” Officers are further advised that, “sexually explicit images, messages” and “ethnic or racial slurs” are banned from county networks” and there is a prohibition on “creation or dissemination of harassing or demeaning statements towards any individual or group.”

Ultimately, the arbitrator said it didn’t matter what devices Morrissey and other officers used or whether they texted on or off duty. He also affirmed that their banter in no way constituted protected speech.

“The texts at issue here do not have content including political or public concern to the greater community,” Davis summarized in his opinion.

“But, as [Morrissey] himself defines them, are personal expressions of bias that one might express in a bar or a living room. Here, the department’s interest in preventing officers from denigrating inmates and coworkers on the basis of their sex, national origin or race is sufficient to outweigh any arguable privacy interest.”

Morrissey cast doubt on the integrity of the investigation, saying Smith put her thumb on the scale out of the same “retaliatory animus” that led her in 2015 to block his attempt to climb back to the rank of lieutenant after supporting her re-election challenger, retired Capt.

Kevin Jensen, the year before. But the arbitrator dismissed Morrissey’s suggestion of political bias, citing Smith’s promotion from deputy to sergeant of two officers who also opposed her 2014 campaign.

According to Davis, the sheriff adequately distanced herself from the disciplinary proceedings. Far from being needlessly punitive, the arbitrator wrote, Undersheriff Neusel commended Morrissey for his help with a criminal case they both worked on years earlier. And though Neusel and Assistant Sheriff Beliveau thought Morrissey committed a fireable offense, they deferred to the other officers on the disciplinary review board who recommended demotion.

The arbitrator also disputed Morrissey’s assertion that other officers who did worse things faced lesser consequences. He said the county gave “more than sufficient cause” to demote Morrissey, whose past misconduct and lack of judgment made him unqualified to supervise anyone.

“Thus,” Davis ruled, “the demotion is upheld and the grievance denied.”

On June 6, Morrissey’s attorneys filed a petition to vacate that decision, which they made public for the first time by attaching it as an exhibit in the court docket. The appeal claims the arbitrator failed to consider evidence that the county violated Morrissey’s right to privacy by basing its decision on “improperly obtained text messages.”

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Hirokawa: needs info Unions, of course, have a duty to protect their own. But some are better about balancing employee rights with public accountability.

When San Jose police Officer Phil White made threatening comments about Black Lives Matter, he nearly lost his job. The San Jose Police Officers’ Association won his position back through arbitration against the wishes of the city and top brass, but not before White agreed to own up

to his mistake so the department could restore community trust.

Morrissey, by contrast, still paints his discipline as a politically motivated witch hunt, ignoring the question of whether the texts point to a problem much deeper and more systemic. As did his personal friend and former political collaborator Scimeca, who compared the investigation to a literal witch hunt.

“This harkens back to the Salem Witch Trials from 1692,” he said in the same 2015 YouTube clip.

Hirokawa still echoes the DSA’s pedantic quibbling over personnel protocol, steering the conversation away from more fundamental issues of bias and accountability by the same court order that prevents Smith from elaborating. Both the candidate and his biggest union backer seem more interested in how the county found out about the messages than how they undermine the integrity of their profession as a graphic reminder of institutional racism.

In a Sept. 18, 2017, interview for Morrissey’s arbitration, Hirokawa expressed concerns about First Amendment and privacy issues and said it wasn’t clear whether supervisors have a duty to report misconduct that occurs at private functions “like a birthday party, wedding, gathering or just being together and drinking.”

“And you didn’t believe that that was clear in the general order, the obligation to report?” he was asked.

“For me it wasn’t clear—that clear,” Hirokawa testified.

“And what was the privacy-related concern that you had?”

“The privacy would be the textings on private cell phones off duty,” Hirokawa answered.

In a recent phone interview, the exundersheriff echoed that same point.

“Police officers should be held to a higher standard, of course,” Hirokawa acknowledged. “But that wasn’t the question. The question was whether using racist or sexist terms makes someone a racist or sexist. If somebody uses those terms while on duty, then that’s a sustained charge.”

If they made the same remarks off duty, he added, that’s another matter.

“I would need more information,”

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Scimeca brought up that same point years earlier in September of 2015, just weeks after his colleagues Matthew Farris, Rafael Rodriquez and Jereh Lubrin beat inmate Michael Tyree to death.

“Know your rights regarding personal property,” Scimeca said in a YouTube video posted in his capacity as union president. “If they do not have a warrant to take it, don’t just freely give it. No one has a right to your personal property but you.”

That’s just not true, according to retired judge LaDoris Cordell, who sat on a panel to investigate police bias San Francisco after the city’s 2015 texting scandal.

“With respect to racist texting by officers on their personal cellphones, such speech is a clear indication that the officers cannot be trusted to interact with communities of color whom they despise,” she wrote in an email to Metro. “The department is under an obligation to remove these officers who, by their own words, pose a clear and present danger to the communities they have been entrusted to protect.”

Government employees, especially those who work in law enforcement, would be wise to treat their cellphone communications as a potential public record.

“Their phones can be subject to discovery by the police agency in an internal affairs investigation or by a defense attorney in a criminal case or a civil attorney in a use of force lawsuit,” explained Cordell, who served as San Jose’s police auditor from 2010 to 2015. “The same is true of just about any public employee— obtainable without probable cause or a warrant.”

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SHARP REBUKE Sheriff Laurie Smith says she still thinks the twice-demoted Don Morrissey should have been fired for his part in the texting scandal.

Hirokawa said, noting that he retired long before the arbitrator issued a ruling in the case.

Policy aside, it’s hard to fathom that a supervisor who saw even a fraction of the vitriolic texts felt no moral or ethical obligation to intervene. It’s also hard not to wonder how the bias evinced in those texts affected the way Morrissey and fellow officers behaved on the job. San Francisco’s texting scandal involving 14 officers prompted authorities to revisit more than 3,000 criminal cases.

Local sheriff ’s officials say the texts in Morrissey’s case had no such effect because the deputies he corresponded with worked in the jails, not on patrol.

Sheriff Smith stands by what she said three years ago about Morrissey’s involvement: that he should have no place in law enforcement.

“This is not a question of First Amendment rights or any other excuse,” she reiterated earlier this week.

“This is about right versus wrong and you cannot defend the indefensible.

As sheriff I think they all should have been fired for their abhorrent behavior and for anyone to say a demotion is too severe of a penalty lacks the judgment to be sheriff.”

Retired U.S. Army major and combat veteran Joe LaJeunesse, a court bailiff who ran against Smith in the primary, echoed Smith’s thoughts on the subject.

“Anyone guilty of such actions, whether on- or off-duty, would have and should have been discharged,” he said upon learning of the texts.

On his campaign website, which has since been taken down, LaJeunesse also questioned DSA’s endorsement of Hirokawa.

“Is this connected to the fact that he testified on Mr. Morrissey’s behalf in the racist texts case?” he asks. “Or that the DSA vice president [Roger Winslow] is the individual who asked Hirokawa to run for sheriff in the first place?

Does this sound like cronyism?”

Hirokawa said their blame is misplaced, and that the sheriff could have fired Morrissey if she honestly wanted to. “How am I to argue whether this was an appropriate decision or an inappropriate decision?” he said of Morrissey’s demotion. “The message that [Smith] has been trying to portray is that somehow I was responsible for the decision or that I made the

recommendations and I was trying to protect these people. So here I am having to defend myself. But I was not part of the decision-making discussions. I wasn’t privy to the strategy or the reasons why the county believes the discipline was fair or appropriate. But she was.”

Though the other texters no longer staff the jails, Morrissey remains one of Hirokawa’s key political backers.

Morrissey, who downplayed his own quips about sexual assault in jail as “dark humor,” still helms the DSA and continues serving as secretary of California’s powerful Peace Officers Research Association of California. PORAC’s mission, in addition to backing tough-on-crime bills and opposing those related to body cameras and stronger oversight—is “to provide education and training, and define and enhance standards for professionalism” and to “promote public awareness that encourages and maintains the image of a professional peace officer.”

The presence of racism, misogyny and homophobia within law enforcement organizations, though sometimes characterized as private conversations, has a public cost.

It undermines the notion that all citizens are equal before the law and reinforces suspicion of police in communities that have historically faced discrimination.

That influences crime prevention and public safety, and there are quantifiable costs as well.

After tapes surfaced of Los Angeles detective Mark Fuhrman using the n-word, a jury returned a not guilty verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder trial. The failed prosecution cost Los Angeles County taxpayers $9 million in 1995 dollars.

Racial bias in the Los Angeles Police Department triggered riots in 1992 after the Rodney King beating.

Disclosed messages from the night of the vehicle chase revealed an officer describing a domestic violence call at a black family’s home the same night as “right out of Gorillas in the Mist.”

The riots left more than 50 dead, 4,000 injured and an estimated $1 billion in property damage.

Ferguson, Missouri. overhauled its police department after officer Darren Wilson, who admitted using the n-word, shot and killed a black teenager he suspected of robbing a convenience store. Estimates of the costs to local agencies of dealing with the unrest in the months following the shooting range from $6 million to $22 million.

The biggest cost may be the loss of public trust. A 2016 investigation of the Baltimore Police Department by the U.S. Department Of Justice Civil Rights Division found that BPD failed officers accountable for using racial slurs or engaging in acts of racial bias. Investigators “found numerous examples of BPD officers using racial slurs or making other statements that exhibit bias against African Americans without being held accountable by the department. These racial disparities and indications of intentional discrimination erode community trust that is a critical component of effective law enforcement.”

Those implications will no doubt be debated up through the fall election, when voters will choose between a sheriff accused of seeking to fire a union boss in retaliation and a challenger protecting a political patron who failed to report comments about dragging a black woman from a car bumper.

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FRESH FRIED The deep-fried sardines are one of many top-notch seafood offerings at Taverna in Palo Alto.

Club Med Palo Alto restaurant Taverna merges modern, traditional Greek cuisine

BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

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E KNEW WE were onto something good at Taverna when they served the sweet pea fritters ($9). The chef composed the plate with two eye-catching colors, yellow and green. Translucent strands of candied lemon adorned the fritter tops as they bathed in a glossy sauce made from peas.

Slicing through the middle of one revealed white feta crumbs and whole peas held together in a ball of garlicky skordalia (a potato purée). As a first bite, the dish was inviting in terms of

color, taste and plating without any of the oiliness that can be characteristic of a home cook’s attempt at fritters.

William Roberts—formerly the head chef at Dio Deka in Los Gatos— runs the kitchen at Taverna. The restaurant has only been open since March, but Roberts, also a former sous chef at Michael Mina in San Francisco, has already established a convincing culinary vision.

He’s acknowledging traditional Greek cuisine but refining it with present-day techniques while also nodding to the work being done in contemporary Bay Area kitchens.

From the bar where we sat, we could feel the kitchen energy crackling as it filtered through the bodies of

the busy, attentive waitstaff. Each plate they brought out was charged with bold, bright flavors. Before the appetizer, they even offered us free shots of a Greek “gazpacho.” It was spinach green and tasted like a Californian’s idea of health.

Taverna sits on a busy corner across from Whole Foods. Natural light floods the white interiors, save for one accent wall painted a lighter shade of teal that’s reminiscent of the Adriatic. There are framed pictures of Greek statuary, too, but the decor doesn’t go overboard on historical or nautical kitsch. Still, seafood is an essential part of the Greek diet, so we had to try the grilled octopus ($17) and that evening’s special small plate of deep-fried sardines ($22).

It felt like a risk to try the octopus, which is often chewy or underdone.

But here the tentacles were charred perfectly and the meat still tender on the inside. Again, contrasting colors livened up the plate. The octopus lay scarlet on a light green fava mash while pickled ramps and capers put forward a variety of greens and an acidic tang.

The sardines were served whole, golden brown, with the head and feathery bones intact. Peeling back

the breading and the bones, the flesh is darker than you remember, and it tastes pungent like the sea. You can scrape it through an aioli the color of sunflowers, squeeze a lemon wedge across the flanks or pair it on your fork with a side salad made of tomatoes, onions and parsley. In looking back at the menu, we missed the arnaki ($25), a grilled lamb chop with fried okra, and opted instead for loukaniko ($18), a savory housemade sausage served in a small steel pan with marinated peppers and aptly named gigantes beans. All tasty together, but at dinnertime since having that meal, the lamb chop with okra feels like a lost opportunity.

We also went in for the drama of a flamed saganaki ($16). It’s a cheese called kefalograviera that arrives in a cast iron pan, doused with Metaxa (a Greek brandy) and lit on fire. Melting, it held the consistency of brie but the saltier taste of Parmigiano-Reggiano.

There was bread to nibble on, but it diluted the flavor of the cheese, which, along with the caramelized onions and the red pepper slivers, was strong enough to stand on its own.

As we considered desserts, we watched the chocolate olive oil cake, or sokolatina ($12), drift by on the palm of a handsome waiter and were smitten. As that temporary dream vanished across the dining room, our server charmed us into sharing the bougatsa ($11). It was the happiest decision we made that night. Described as folded phyllo, bougatsa exists in that fantastic space somewhere between a spongy crêpe and the velvetiest of Napoleons, its middle a pillowy vanilla crema.

As extraordinary as it was, the homemade pistachio ice cream vaulted the dessert, and our souls, up to Mount Olympus alongside Apollo and the rest of his kind.

Taverna, with its pleasing mélange of the antique and the ultramodern, turns Greek food nouvelle without destroying its uniquely Mediterranean soul.

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Anything that makes a sound will do. The event runs from sunrise to sunset. (DI)

The Stanford Jazz Festival is back.

This year’s lineup is packed with a total of 28 concerts. Saxophonist Joshua Redman and his quartet help kickoff the festival with a performance on Saturday. A Grammy winner, Redman has worked with musicians such as jam band Umphrey’s McGee, collaborative band James Farm and performed at the Kennedy Center Honors for Herbie Hancock. Other notable musicians performing this summer include Spanish trumpeter Andrea Motis and saxophonist Jimmy Heath.The Stanford Jazz Festival runs from June 22 through Aug. 4 at the Bing Concert Hall, Dinkelspiel Auditorium and the Campbell Recital Hall. (KL)

The Somm School Social meetup group invites South Bay wine lovers to spend the evening with like-minded tipplers and to learn a little in the process. In this “bottle breakdown” course, certified sommelier Rachel Lintott— associate wine director at the International Culinary Center— will educate aspiring connoisseurs on the structures of wine, highlighting elements like acidity, sweetness, weight and feel. Tune up your palate with blind tasting and learn to pick the perfect bottle for the occasion with a food pairing tutorial. Studying never tasted so good. (WR)

RUSSELL PETERS

TONY! TONI! TONÉ!

Fri, 7.30pm, $49.50+ The Mountain Winery, Saratoga

Fri, 5.30pm, $15 Plaza de Cesar Chavez, San Jose

From selling out the Sydney Opera House to breaking records in London’s O2 Arena, Russell Peters’ nearly 30-years on stage has made him one of the highest-earning comedians in stand-up. Peters, who is known for his sassy jabs at racial and cultural stereotypes, caught his first big break after his 2004 performance on the Canadian comedy show Comedy Now! went viral. He signed to do a comedy special with Netflix based on his Notorious tour, and a four-part documentary series following him on that tour.

Peters is currently starring in the Netflix original series, The Indian Detective. (WR)

R&B trio Tony! Toni! Toné! came out of in Oakland at a time when the heart of the city beat to the rhythm of funk and soul. Their 1988 debut album spawned five hit singles before going gold, and the records that followed kept the group commercially successful throughout the ’90s.

With hits like “Little Walter,” “Feels Good” and “It Never Rains (in Southern California),” Tony!

Toni! Toné! have always moved to the beat of their own drum.

The three T’s will be bringing their old-style grooves to the first Music in the Park of the summer this Friday. (WR)

* concerts POST MALONE & 21 SAVAGE

Jun 24 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

POST MALONE

CHRIS ISAAK

Jul 2 at Mountain Winery

DEAD & COMPANY

Jul 2-3 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

HARRY STYLES & KACEY MUSGRAVES Jul 11 at SAP Center

THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS

Jul 18 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

HALSEY

Jul 27 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

JACKSON BROWNE

Jul 31 at City National Civic

WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY

Aug 6 at Mountain Winery

WEEZER & PIXIES

Aug 7 at Shoreline Amphitheatre

SJ JAZZ SUMMER FEST

Aug 10-12 at Plaza de Cesar Chavez

PANIC! AT THE DISCO

Aug 14 at SAP Center

ALICE COOPER

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VANS WARPED TOUR FOUNTAIN BLUES

*sun POST MALONE

Sat, 11am, $55+ Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View

Sat, 12pm, $25+ Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park, San Jose

Sun, 7pm, $100 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View

The Vans Warped Tour has been helping break alternative and punk bands since the summer of 1995. Alumni include My Chemical Romance, Katy Perry, Fall Out Boy and many more—in fact, 1,700 bands have played the tour over the past 23 years. The storied touring festival kicks off what founder Kevin Lyman says will be the last cross-country tour this Thursday in Pomona California. The third stop on the roadshow pulls into Mountain View this Saturday. The tour features a lineup of classic pop punk and newer emo acts—from 3OH!3 and Asking Alexandria to Reel Big Fish and Sum 41. (KL)

From John Lee Hooker’s Redwood City home to Aki Kumar’s rotating Silicon Valley residencies, the South Bay has a long and proud tradition of championing the blues. The Fountain Blues & Brews Festival has been an integral part of that tradition nearly 40 years. This year’s lineup includes the Fabulous Thunderbirds, who not only helped popularize the roadhouse Texas blues sound in the mid-’80s, but also opened for musical legends like the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton. The electrifying Nikki Hill (pictured) is another highlight on this year’s bill—not to mention all the great Southern-style comfort food and refreshing beer. (WR)

Post Malone is coming to the Bay Area with special guests 21 Savage. While some critics have accused Postey of being an unabashed culture vulture, the man responsible for “White Iverson,” “Congratulations” and “Rockstar” has continued to rack up hits—and it’s not hard to understand why. Dude clearly has an ear for what’s trending in rap.

His debut album, Beerbongs & Bentleys, is a beautiful bummer, full of warbling, autotuned melodies, codeine-drenched beats and lyrics so dark they make Abel Tesfaye sound like a life coach. (NV)

Aug 14 at City National Civic

DAVID BYRNE

Aug 18 at City National Civic

SLAYER

Aug 26 at SAP Center

CHEESE & MEAD PAIRING Sun, 2pm, $65+ Rabbit’s Foot Meadery, Sunnyvale Fermentation, one of humanity’s first scientific endeavors, continues to produce some of our species’ greatest foodstuffs. Make like a bougie Beowulf and celebrate our dominion over the natural world by sipping what may have been the first alcoholic beverage— mead—and noshing on that other microorganism miracle: cheese.

Local Cheesemonger Niki Panos will be leading the class, armed with her background as a specialist in cheese science. As the mead flows and the food is consumed, Panos will discuss how the five featured cheeses and meads pair with each other. (KL)

SONIDO CLASH MUSIC FEST

Sep 2 at Mexican Heritage Plaza

THE ORIGINAL WAILERS

Sep 5 at Mountain Winery

FOO FIGHTERS

Sep 12 at SAP Center

ALANIS MORISSETTE

Sep 28 at Mountain Winery

RINGO STARR

Sep 28 at City National Civic

PARQUET COURTS

Sep 28 at The Ritz

FALL OUT BOY

Sep 30 at SAP Center

CHILDISH GAMBINO

Oct 2 at SAP Center

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BIG BANG ‘Celestial Chaos No. 8,’ a 2015 illustration by Chinese artist Tai Xianzhou.

Form Letters New Cantor exhibit ‘Ink Worlds’ explores the art of Chinese calligraphy

BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

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HE RELATIONSHIP between art and the Chinese art of calligraphy is a recurring theme that emerges after a tour through “Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting” at the Cantor Arts Center. For those who can’t read Chinese, the drawings live in a beautiful, if elliptical realm. Standard meanings, though, even if you can read the language, will be deconstructed.

The works are intellectually imposing in conception, execution and

size—many take up all or at least half of a gallery wall.

In Qin Feng’s watery ink-on-paper drawing Desire Scenery No. 1 (2007), two contorted shapes composed in willowy black ink sink down inside a pale blue background. They suffer from spasms and bend angrily in the midst of their dissipation. This could be a muddled state of unrequited desire, the end of love, or the failure of language to create order out of thought and emotion.

Feng’s characters are cousins of the opaque ones that the peaceable aliens “draw” in Denis Villeneuve’s 2016 sci-fi film Arrival. It’s plausible that Villeneuve found inspiration for his movie from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2014

exhibit “Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy.” Arrival, like “Ink Worlds,” is all about decoding language and bridging cultural differences.

The subtitle of the Cantor show is “From the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang.” Yamazaki and Yang also chose selections from their collection for that Met exhibit. Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo, and his wife are both Stanford alumni and are reportedly worth somewhere between $2 billion and $3 billion. Walking through the galleries and taking notice of the scale and number of drawings, one imagines that the couple must have a very large house, or houses, or warehouses or airplane hangars, with blank walls now where the artwork used to hang.

One section of the exhibit entitled “InKommunications: Text, Image and Grids” makes explicit the relationship between artistic techniques and the artfulness required of anyone drawing Chinese characters. In Tong Yangtze’s Mountains High, Waters Long (1995), the artist has abstracted a Tang dynasty poem. According to the description, the poem’s characters are legible but only just. She’s elongated, twisted and

arranged them across the paper until they also take on a separate, visual meaning that may reinforce or stand apart from the poem itself.

There’s an intriguing side-by-side juxtaposition of Franz Kline’s Figure 8 (1952) with Wang Dongling’s Great Kindness (2013). Both have created a riotous character with similar broken circles, smudges, loops and angled lines.

The inclusion of Kline’s oil hints at cultural appropriation as the painting gestures toward Asian calligraphy.

And there’s a gestural nod sent from Dongling to Kline as he reclaims, in his own black inks, what’s been appropriated.

Other drawings are astonishingly intricate and divorced from textual referents. In the “Visionary Ink” section, Zhang Yu’s Untitled (1996) and Tai Xiangzhou’s Celestial Chaos No. 8 (2015) imagine an imperiled galaxy. In the center of a scroll, Yu has drawn what appears to be an imploding planet— until you take a few steps back from it.

Then the central object becomes the pupil of an eye suffering from macular degeneration, about to go blind.

Xiangzhou’s chaos is faithful to its name, resembling a telescopic view of Yu’s dying planet. Craggy meteors form and are set adrift near fiery fumes of smoke and ash. Something has caused these worlds to fall apart.

But the painstaking, meticulous efforts of these and other artists serve beauty as much as disintegration and destruction. The exhibit’s first gallery contains “Interrupted Landscapes”—in which contemporary artists depart from more traditional approaches of drawing landscapes. It’s hard to fault that departure in Li Huayi’s Dragons Amidst Mountain Ridge [6 panels] (20062009). Huayi draws an eagle eye’s view of a mountaintop. Clouds drift across the vista rather than winged dragons.

We look for them and for meaning in the swirling mists, in the cliffs and the weather, as we hover above the world at such great heights.

On July 19, Li Huayi will be on the Stanford campus to discuss his work with consulting curator Michael Knight.

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Fight The Power IT’S EASY ENOUGH to read meaning into the name of Beto Martinez’s band. The 10 members of Austin-based Brownout clearly draw upon their Latin roots—blending funk and rock music with a south-of-the-border flair. But the inspiration for the band’s name was also quite literal.

Around the time Brownout were coalescing back in 2003, there was a massive blackout in New York, and they decided to incorporate the idea with the fact that everyone in the group was of Latino descent.

“We couldn’t be ‘Whiteout’, we couldn’t be ‘Blackout’, so we were just Brownout,” Martinez says.

Formed as an offshoot of the larger collective of musicians known as Grupo Fantasma, many members of Brownout—Martinez included— fondly remember their time working with Prince. Back in the mid2000s, Groupo Fantasma regularly shared the stage with The Purple One as his backing band.

“That experience was very meaningful,” Martinez says. “It taught us a lot about showmanship and professionalism.”

While very capable of penning original tunes, Brownout has found success paying tribute to other artists—notably Black Sabbath. Now, Brownout is showing love to political Brownout hip-hop pioneers Chuck D and Flavor Flav.

On their latest album, Fear of a Brown Planet, Jun 21, 8pm, $13+ Brownout takes on the seminal Public Enemy record The Ritz, San Jose Fear of a Black Planet—reinterpreting the raging, socially theritzsanjose.com conscious set as a riotous and funky instrumental album.

Often, the original material serves merely as a jumping off point for the Brownout tribute, which doesn’t attempt to faithfully recreate Fear of a Black Planet track for track.

For example, Brownout’s rendition of “911 Is A Joke” takes the original’s opening James Brown sample and funky bassline as its guiding star, but ultimately fills out the rest of the track with scratchy guitar, beefy horns and wah-wah flourishes.

“Just the way that the Public Enemy songs were originally put together, it’s very frantic and kind of makes you uneasy,” Martinez says, explaining how Brownout sought to capture the energy of Fear. “Then you couple that with the message of awareness of social injustices, it definitely can come across as angry and rightfully so.”

Considering that Public Enemy’s original take of “911 Is A Joke” called out the ineffectual deployment of emergency responders in black neighborhoods— and that Brownout’s arrangement has the feel of a police car chase in some forgotten blaxploitation flick—it would seem that Brownout managed to hit their mark. —Dominoe Ibarra & Nick Veronin

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CHILD’S PLAY Is ‘A Kid Like Jake’ about a kid playing dress-up or something deeper?

Jake’s Thing

‘A Kid Like Jake’ misses the opportunity to fully explore an interesting issue

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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LMOST ALL PARENTS— even Homer and Marge Simpson—have dealt with the sight of their young child trying on cross-gender clothes. So the attenuated Brooklynset drama A Kid Like Jake has some meat to it, and a point. And the casting of Jim Parsons as the father, Greg, and Claire Danes as the mother, Alex, makes for an interesting dynamic.

She has a temper, and he apparently was born without

one. She’s a stay-at-home mom who leaned out of her career as a lawyer; he’s a maddeningly correct psychiatrist. She can’t even yell out her anger at him because he just says, “I understand.”

The Wheelers have a well-off life in Williamsburg—lots of space and a stained-glass window in their flat.

They’re affluent enough to make the underearning viewers’ skin itch.

But there isn’t quite enough money to send their kindergarten-aged son, Jake, to private school (itch, itch).

At least the couple has a good reason to make sure their imaginative and good-natured kid isn’t bullied in a public schoolyard. Jake is fascinated

with Cinderella and all the other Disney princesses, and he yearns to dress up as them for Halloween. The question facing them is whether Jake’s behavior is just a stage, or whether it’s time to start preparing the boy for a more fluid concept of gender.

Clueless adults complicate the situation. A new friend of the Wheelers’ wonders aloud about whether Caitlyn Jenner is a lesbian now, or what; when babysitting, Alex’s domineering mom (Ann Dowd) starts a fight over the kid’s girlie choice in toys. Octavia Spencer—in an unusually nonworking class role for her—is a friend advising the couple on Jake’s admission forms for the hard-toget-in private schools. She suggests Jake’s “gender-expansive play” might be an excellent thing to mention, as it would make the kid diverse enough to stand out in the school application process.

A surprise pregnancy adds to the pressure on the couple.

Meditatively long establishing shots give the movie some New York

texture, but they may just be here to fill out the running time. A Kid Like Jake seems to have been stretched out with scenes of Amy Landecker as Greg’s patient, who is in the process of getting divorced after a long and failed stretch of IVF shots. Landecker is an interestingly sour presence in this, someone who chafes at the coldfish way Greg treats his patients.

I enjoyed her scenes, but it wasn’t clear where they were going with them. There could have been a more economical way of mirroring the Wheelers’ problems—a way of reminding us that marriages split up over mixed views of child-rearing, or childlessness, all the time.

The poreless quality of Parsons— his character is described as “Switzerland,” because of his neutrality—gives something for his wife to throw at him during the final blow-up. And the show starts to get into some serious strife when she says something unforgivable about why Jake turned out be what Greg terms “not exactly Johnny Basketball.”

There are good barbed lines throughout, as when Alex’s mom says: “Call me, I’m at the office.

Remember what that was like?” The tempo makes the characters seem well-rehearsed. But we can’t really see what Alex saw in Greg; they have dynamism but no chemistry. Parsons delivers his funniest line when Danes comes out of the bathroom with a pregnancy tester in her hand: “I’m sorry I’m so damn virile.”

Director Silas Howard, formerly of the San Francisco band Tribe 8, underwent a female-to-male transition and became the first trans director on the show Transparent, for which he won an Emmy. He’s working here from an off-Broadway play by Daniel Pearle, where Jake never actually got seen—Howard seems to suggest this motif by not giving the cute kid many closeups.

The technique is a way to place the focus on the adult Wheelers’ own problems. It also serves to make this an issue film that doesn’t completely come to life.

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POWER UP Ashwin Batish, second from left, with his Sitar Power quartet.

California Raga Eastern tradition meets Western panache in the person of sitarist Ashwin Batish

BY WALLACE BAINE

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T FIRST, IT sounds like one of those weirdly random food combinations that bored stoners might experiment with (bananas and taco sauce?). This Thursday at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, 1980s hitmakers Violent Femmes (“Blister in the Sun”) will take the stage with Indian-American sitar master Ashwin Batish.

Turns out, this pairing is anything but random. The post-punk trio from Wisconsin and the sitarist from Santa Cruz have been occasionally performing together for decades. The unlikely

collaboration is a vestige of one of those largely forgotten and bizarrely inspired impromptu jams that pop up throughout modern music history.

In 1991, at the New Jazz Festival in Moers, Germany, madly adventurous avant-garde guitarist Eugene Chadbourne convened a supergroup featuring jazz banjo giant Tony Trischka and Jimmy Carl Black, famed drummer for Frank Zappa’s band, the Mothers of Invention. Violent Femmes bass player Brian Ritchie and the sitarist and tabla player Batish were among the many others recruited for the band.

The two men enjoyed improvising together on stage and struck up a friendship. Batish began jamming with the Femmes when the band came to

the Bay Area, and the relationship has intensified over the past few years.

Now, in addition to sitting in with the band, Batish will open for them with his own group, which includes his sister Meena on vocals and his son Keshav on percussion.

Jamming with the Violent Femmes whenever the band comes to the Bay Area isn’t merely incidental for the 67-year-old Batish. It is at the core of the man’s nearly five-decade career bridging East and West with a specific mission to help Indian classical music evolve.

Few musicians are more comfortable straddling cultural traditions than Batish, who is both a lifelong student of the complexities of the Indian raga system of music and a freewheeling maverick merrily looking for collaboration and influence in Western styles wherever he can find them.

Batish first came to California at the age of 23, in the early 1970s with his father, Shiv Dayal Batish. The elder Batish was a giant in the Indian film industry as a composer, singer and instrumentalist in the early Bollywood period. He later became a prominent presence in the U.K., where he composed and performed the theme

song for the hit BBC show “Make Yourself at Home,” a drama recorded in Hindustani designed to help Indian immigrants assimilate. Among his credits at the time was the recording of incidental music for the Beatles’ movie Help! He also developed a teacherstudent relationship with George Harrison’s wife (and famous rock & roll muse) Pattie Boyd.

The elder Batish came to the area to teach Indian music at UC Santa Cruz.

After the UCSC assignment ended, the Batishes decided to stay on in Santa Cruz and open a restaurant, eventually bringing in other family members, including a young Ashwin. The Batishes’ restaurant doubled as a performance space and it was there, through nightly performances, that Ashwin graduated from tabla to sitar.

In January, Batish was given an opportunity to complete a circle when he was invited to teach at UCSC. He’s been teaching a course in Indian percussion to general-ed students.

The tabla is a big focus, but the class features several other Indian percussive instruments, including the dholak, the mridagam and manjeera. “I tell my students select the thing that you like, and next week, we’re going to switch.”

Batish’s son Keshav Batish is also now a UCSC student and an accomplished drummer in his own right. He has been working as his father’s teaching assistant (“Keshav has been taking my class since he was born,” Ashwin jokes).

His daughter Mohini, who is also a musician, has just graduated high school and is on her way to UCSC as well.

Batish likes to joke that he was born in Santa Cruz, and he’s not lying—the punch line is that he’s referring to a district, often spelled “Santacruz,” in Mumbai (now the official name of the city called Bombay when Batish was born). When S.D. Batish arrived in Santa Cruz, no one expected him to stay there for decades, least of all his son.

“Once you’re here, there’s just some kind of vibe that you really don’t want to move from here. The thing about this place. I can be myself over here. I can do whatever I want. That’s a very important thing.”

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ALL DAY! THU 6/21 • MAKE MUSIC DAY SAN JOSE This is such an awesome concept. A truly creative way to ring in summer solstice. I heard about it last year and even hosted an event at St. James Park. There are too many events to list here, which simply means that there is no reason you shouldn’t see and hear musicians throughout San Jose on Thursday. To find live music near you, be sure to conjure up this link: makemusicday.org/sanjose.

8PM SAT 6/23 • BARELY FUNKTIONAL + NU ETHNIC @ THE RITZ Ever have that feeling that you’re seeing something really special in a very nearly explosive moment?

That’s how I feel about the South BAE music scene at this moment. And it’s thanks to acts like Barely Funktional and Nu Ethnic, who make me feel giddier than a fat kid at his third birthday party in the same weekend. And I’ve been THAT kid. Supported by Levi J and Sam RucKus. 400 S First St, San Jose

10AM SUN 6/24 • COMMUNITY DAY AT THE TECH MUSEUM I can be a cheap bastard. I love it when someone gives me a gift in a gift bag. I save all of them and keep them in nice condition so I can re-gift bag the gift bag. I have never bought a gift bag. Well, The Tech is doing that with their entire building! You can go inside for free! You can do all of the things they have! For free! Plus, you can see a movie at the Hackworth IMAX Dome Theater for only $5 per ticket. I feel as though this knowledge is a gift from The Tech, so I am re-gifting it to you. You’re welcome! 201 S Market St, San Jose

6:30PM SUN 6/24 • BENT KNEE + PICTURE ATLANTIC @ ART BOUTIKI Hey, be sure to go to The Tech in the morning! It’s free! Then check out Bent Knee in the evening.

They’re a pretty sweet, not-easily-defined, but wholly talented rock and pop band out of Boston—a city known for working hard, being cold and exporting quality everything. Well, Bent Knee is cool, works hard and is a quality Boston export. With support from local alt rockers Picture Atlantic, plus Gatherers, an electrock foursome who come to us all the way from New Zealaustralia. This is a nobrainer. Attending this event will change your perception of just how well a rock show can celebrate and emphasize the “end” in weekend. 44 Race St, San Jose = MUST SEE

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WED 6/20 WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES To end violence against women 5pm: Santana Row 3088 Olsen Dr, San Jose

STAGE: FINKS

By Joe Gilford, directed by Giovanna Sardelli Love in the time of the Red Scare.

7:30pm, plus var. times through Sun 7/1 Mountain View CPA

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Variety talent competition 9pm: Cafe Stritch 374 S First St, San Jose

[FREE] BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN 500 Castro St

SAM'S BBQ

First Tue, 6pm: Bean Creek.

2nd Tue, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. 3rd Tue, 6pm: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers. 4th Tue, 6pm: The Mighty Crows. 2nd Wed, 6pm: Blue House. 3rd Wed, 6pm: Fred McCarthy.

4th Wed, 6pm: Jerry Logan & Loganville.

1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

DANCE BAND: JANEL AND THE HEIST

6pm: Stafford Park 50 King St, Redwood City

THE RITZ

Wed, 6/20, 7pm: Plastilina Mosh, Midnight Generation, Bang Data. Thu, 6/21, 8pm: Brownout. Fri, 6/22, 8pm: Dead Souls, For Joris, and DJ Bit. Sat, 6/23, 8pm: Barely Funktional, Nu Ethnic, Levi J, and Sam RucKus. 400 S First St, San Jose

POSTMODERN JUKEBOX

8pm: Mountain Winery 14831 Pierce Rd, Saratoga

BLUES: J.C. SMITH JAM SESSION

8pm: Charley’s LG 15 N Santa Cruz Ave, Los Gatos

Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

Tue, 10pm: PubStumpers. Fri, 6/22, 10pm: Hot Tub Time Machine Band. Sat, 6/23, 10pm: DJ Brotha Reese. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

THU 6/21 MAKE MUSIC DAY

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4pm and Sat 6/23 at 10am Central Park 696 Kiely Blvd, Santa Clara

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Thu, 6/21, 6pm: The Royals West Coast Blues Jam. Fri, 6/22, 6pm: Maggie Bell Band from New Orleans. Sat, 6/23, 6pm: Jim Ripper and the Night Prowlers. Sun, 6/24, 11am: School of the Blues Jam. 4pm: Lindsay Beaver & The 24th Street Wailers. Wed, 6pm: Tap Takeover w/ The Sid Morris Gang. Last Thu, 6pm: Six String Showdown with AC Myles. Mon, 6pm: Open Mic Night (comedy, poetry, music, singing). Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES (THE HITMEN)

6.30pm: Orchard City Green 70 N First St, Campbell

DRINK AND DRAW AT ART BOUTIKI

7pm: Art Boutiki 44 Race St, San Jose

SHAKESPEARE: AS YOU LIKE IT

7pm through Sun 6/24 Willow Street Bramhall Park 1320 Willow St, San Jose

POETRY: THIRD THURSDAYS

with San Mateo County Poet Laureate Lisa Rosenberg 7pm: Willow Glen Public Library 1157 Minnesota Ave, San Jose

INDIE LEGENDS: VIOLENT FEMMES 7:30pm: Mountain Winery 14831 Pierce Rd, Saratoga

COUNTRY: STEVEN GREGORY

with West Coast Turnaround 7:30pm: Angelica’s Bistro 863 Main St, Redwood City

COMEDIAN: CARMEN LYNCH

FREE YOGA WITH RASHMI

Noon: St. James Park North Second & St. James streets

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 6/22, 9pm: Chris Cain Band. Sat, 6/23, 9pm: Aki Kumar feat. Gary Smith. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

ELECTRONIC: BORGEOUS

10pm: Pure Nightclub 146 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

Fri, 6/22, 5:30pm: Rock The Heat. Sat, 6/23, 5:30pm: RPM. Sunday brunch, 10am–2pm.

Mon–Fri, 4–6pm: Happy hour. 18840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd, Los Gatos

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES: MUSIC IS MAGIC

6pm: Magical Bridge 3700 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto

JAZZ/LATIN: SON TRES BAND

6pm: Faultline Brewing Co. 1235 Oakmead Pkwy, Sunnyvale

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

West Valley Dance & Action Day Primary Plus 6:30pm, plus var. times through 6/23/18 Center for the Performing Arts 255 Almaden Blvd, San Jose

JESSICA JOHNSON

7:30pm: Cafe Pink House 14577 Big Basin Way, Saratoga

COMEDY: RUSSELL PETERS 7:30pm: Mountain Winery 14831 Pierce Rd, Saratoga

ERIN O’NEILL

8pm: Red Rock Coffee 201 Castro St, Mountain View

ALBUM RELEASE: THE TRIMS

SAT 6/23 CLASSIC ROCK: MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET

2pm, 8pm: Fox Theatre 2215 Broadway St, Redwood City

CONCERT SERIES: VASONA VIBRATIONS

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CUTTING BACK San Jose indie rock trio The Trims are back with a brand-new full-length album.

The Trims Return LISTENING TO HIS band’s new music, Gabriel Maciel says he can’t help but hear the difference. “I can just tell, there seems to be more motivation and passion,” says the founder, guitarist and lead singer for San Jose indie trio The Trims.

Eight years after the release of their first full-length album, We Cried For Fun, the band is excited to celebrate their new sound and new 10-song collection, Julian Street, with a record release show set for June 22 at the BackBar SoFa. Written by Maciel and drummer Billy Brady, the album finds The Trims in a creative sweet spot—one that reminds Maciel of the very beginnings of the band’s journey. On Julian Street the band experiments with synths and new rhythms, while Maciel incorporates a number of influences into his singing—early 2000s alternative bands, classic ’70s rock and old Spanish romantic melodies.

“If you want to lift weights it’s on here,” he says. “If you want to love someone, it’s on here. If you’re sad that you lost someone, it’s on here. If you’re feeling hopeful, it’s on here.”

On Julian Street The Trims take listeners on a journey through loaded punk riffs (“Turn Out The Lights”),

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“We didn’t want to stay stuck in the same old Trims sound,” Maciel says of the album’s experimentations.

The hopeful tones underlying the album stem from a re-established sense of discovery and purpose in the band, which Maciel says he and his bandmates found after taking a The Trims much-needed break.

“It felt like we had kind of lost our Jun 22, 8pm, $12+ mojo,” he says, explaining that The BackBar SoFa Trims had fallen into a bit of a funk over the past two years.

“We’re in complete and total harmony within the band,” he says, suddenly realizing that the Pharrell Williams song “Happy” is playing through the speakers behind him. “Perfect song!

Because we’re happy!”

Although worried about coming off cliché, Maciel made it clear that he wanted listeners to resonate with the optimism felt when creating the album. “I want them to realize that life can be shitty,” he says. “But that that’s okay and that it can be a good thing, because just as much as life can be shitty it can be fucking awesome.” —Winona Rajamohan

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The problem with dating largely based on looks is that you tend to end up with the sort of woman who’s frequently hospitalized for several days: “I was thinking so hard I dislocated my shoulder.”

However, your friend isn’t wrong; arm candy appears to be the Prada handbag of male competition. Research by social psychologist Bo Winegard and his colleagues suggests that a man’s being accompanied by a modelicious woman functions as a “hard-to-fake” signal of his status, as beautiful women “have the luxury of discriminating among a plethora of suitors.”

In the Winegard team’s experiments, men paired with attractive women were consistently rated as higher in status than the very same men when they were paired with unattractive women. In one part of the study, some men were assigned an attractive female partner. The men were told that they’d be conducting a survey out on campus

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My friend is obsessed with dating models. Of course, because he’s dating mostly based on looks, these relationships rarely last. He says that he’s trying to move up in the business world and that being seen with a beautiful woman makes a difference in how he’s perceived. Wouldn’t businesspeople be more impressed if he could keep a relationship going, even if it were with a plainer woman?—Discerning Dude with her and that they “were to act as if they and their assigned partner were in a happy relationship.”

These men were forced to choose between a group of men and a group of women to survey (and thus flaunt their hot female partner to). Interestingly, almost 70 percent of these guys chose to flaunt to other men. This isn’t surprising, considering how, as the researchers note, men are “largely” the ones who determine one another’s status (within a group of men). Of course, a man’s being seen as high-status by other men is ultimately a path to mo’ better babes— so your friend may basically be getting a twofer by showing off to other dudes.

The reality is, once he’s more established, his priority may shift from needing a signal to wanting a partner. At that point, he may come to see the beauty in the sort of woman who has something on her mind—uh, besides a $200 double-process blond dye job and $600 in hair extensions.

GAY-BI

I’m a straight guy in my 30s with pretty strong body odor. I saw your column about how more men are doing body hair trimming. I remember you saying not to remove all the hair, and I don’t want women to suspect I’m gay. However, I’m wondering whether shaving my pits would help with my BO.—Pepe Le Pew When a woman you meet can’t stop thinking about you, ideally her thought isn’t, “Could there be a small dead animal making its home in his armpit?”

Underarm stink comes from a specialized sweat gland. Your body has two kinds of sweat glands, eccrine and apocrine. Eccrine glands are the air conditioners of the body, producing sweat that’s pretty much just salty water to cool us off. Apocrine glands, on the other hand, are scent glands, found mostly in the armpits and groin and around the nipples. And sorry, this is gross: Any smelliness emanating from the apocrine areas comes not from the sweat itself but from bacteria that move in to lunch on it.

So—intuitively—it seems like shaving that pit hair (removing it entirely versus just trimming it) would make a difference, giving the bacteria far less of a, um, dining area. Unfortunately, the studies on this are problematic—with too-small sample sizes

(meaning too few participants to know whether the findings reflect reality or are simply due to chance). One of the studies was done not by independent researchers working out of a university lab but by researchers employed by a multinational company that sells razors and shaving products. This doesn’t necessarily mean their results are skeevy. However, a finding like “Let that armpit hair grow wild and free and wave in the wind like summer grain!” is probably not the stuff career advancement is made of at that company.

Also, as you suspect, shaved pits on a straight man may lead women to suspect he is gay or some body-obsessed narcissist.

If you do decide to try pit-shaving, in summer heat, you might forgo tank tops and wear shirts with loose short sleeves. And when you’re about to get naked with a woman, explain that the shaving thing is merely about getting the hideodorousness under control.

(c)2018, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (advicegoddess.com).

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Free Spirit, 380 S. 1st Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, Michael R. Hill, 8093 E. Zayante Rd., Felton, CA, 95018. This business is conducted by an individual.

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TECHNICAL

Software Consulting Engineer (Ref.# SJ276B): Install, deploy or configure Enterprise solutions for customers using company routers and switches.

Travel may be required to various unanticipated locations throughout the United States. Software Engineer (Ref.# SJ003B): Responsible for the definition, design, development, test, debugging, release, enhancement or maintenance of networking software. Software Engineer (Ref.# SJ403B): Responsible for the definition, design, development, test, debugging, release, enhancement or maintenance of software. Software/ QA Engineer (Ref.# SJ004B): Debug software products through the use of systematic tests to develop, apply, and maintain quality standards for company products. Solutions Architect/Solutions Integration Architect (Ref.# SJ013B): Responsible for IT advisory and technical consulting services development and delivery. Technical Lead/Leader (Ref.# SJ006B): Lead engineering groups on projects to design, develop or test hardware or software products.

Technical Lead/Leader (Ref.# SJ406B): Working with engineering groups on projects to design, develop or test hardware or software products.

Technical Marketing Engineer (Ref.# SJ014B): Responsible for enlarging company’s market and increasing revenue by marketing, supporting, and promoting company’s technology to customers. Technical Marketing Engineer (Ref.# SJ214B): Responsible for enlarging company’s market and increasing revenue by marketing, supporting, and promoting company’s technology to customers. Travel may be required to various unanticipated locations throughout the United States and/or abroad. Test Engineer (Ref.# SJ009B): Build test equipment and test diagnostics for new products based on manufacturing designs. User Experience Designer / User Experience Engineer / User Centered Design Engineer (Ref.# SJ029B): Identify user interaction requirements and develop user experience interface specifications and guidelines. Please mail resumes with reference number to Cisco Systems, Inc., Attn: G51G, 170 W. Tasman Drive, Mail Stop: SJC 5/1/4, San Jose, CA 95134. No phone calls please. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.

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Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/19/2017. /s/Charles Starnes. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/23/2018. (pub Metro 05/30, 06/06, 06/13, 06/20/2018)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Clearcutip, 545 Meridian Ave., STE D, PO Box 28505, Daniel Miller, 1201 Parkmoor Ave., #3203, San Jose, CA, 95126. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/16/2018. /s/Daniel Miller. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/16/2018. (pub Metro 05/30, 06/06, 06/13, 06/20/2018)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Grand Century Shopping Mall, 1111 Story Road, San Jose, CA, 95122, Asian Square Inc., 380 N First Street, 2nd Floor, San Jose, CA, 95112. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/15/2000. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Tianqi Liu. CFO. #C2059985. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/29/2018. (pub Metro 06/06, 06/13, 06/20, 06/27/2018)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Harmonicbrain, 842 Portswood Circle, San Jose, CA, 95120, Practicum Publishing, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/01/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Chris Claudatos. President. #201802210570. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/21/2018. (pub Metro 05/30 06/06, 06/13, 06/20/2018)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Commission Express Bay Area, 21035 Cory Ct., Cupertino, CA, 95014, ASJ Funding. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/25/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Anisha Jeswani.

CEO. #C4138798. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/25/2018. (pub Metro 06/06, 06/13, 06/23, 06/27/2018)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Power Trip Electric, 1350 Sandia Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Sarah Murphy. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/01/2017. /s/Sarah Murphy. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/22/2018. (pub Metro 05/30, 06/06, 06/13, 06/20/2018)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Commission Express, 21035 Cory Ct., Cupertino, CA, 95014, ASJ Funding. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/25/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Anisha Jeswani.

CEO. #C4138798. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/25/2018. (pub Metro 06/06, 06/13, 06/23, 06/27/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #642473 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Silva’s Tattooing, 299 E. Washington Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Carlos Lopez-Reynoso, 1885 East Bayshore Rd., SPC East Palo Alto 61, CA, 94303. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 05/16/2018. /s/Carlos Lopez-Renoso. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/18/2018. (pub Metro 05/30, 06/06, 06/13, 6/20/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #643413 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Bay’s Best Moving Company, 2. BBM CO, 3671 Mace Ct., San Jose, CA, 95127, Hayden Karl Wolf. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/04/2018. /s/ Hayden Karl S Wolf. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/14/2018. (pub Metro 05/30, 06/06, 06/13, 06/20/2018)

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Cisco Systems, Inc. is accepting resumes for the following positions in San Jose/Milpitas/Santa Clara, CA: Business Systems Analyst (Ref.# SJ012B): Optimize operational efficiency and develop systemic process solutions. Business Systems Analyst (Ref.# SJ412B): Responsible for evaluating and documenting business needs, recommending business process and information technology solution alternatives and coordinating delivery of technical solutions to clients. Customer Support Engineer (Ref.# SJ001B): Responsible for providing technical support regarding the company’s proprietary systems and software. Hardware Engineer (Ref.# SJ005B): Responsible for the specification, design, development, test, enhancement, and sustaining of networking hardware.

IT Project Manager (Ref.# SJ416B): Optimize operational efficiency and develop systemic process solutions.

Manager, Software Development (Ref.# SJ061B): Lead a team in the design and development of company’s hardware or software products.

Product Manager (Ref.# SJ018B): Create high level marketing strategies and concepts for company solutions for markets and segments worldwide.

Product Manager (Ref.# SJ218B): Create high level marketing strategies and concepts for company solutions for markets and segments worldwide.

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Product Manager, Engineering (Ref.# SJ219B): Responsible for managing the development and implementation of new product introduction engineering activities to meet production launch schedules, quality and cost objectives. Travel may be required to various unanticipated locations throughout the United States. Program Manager (Ref.# SJ017B): Coordinate and develop large engineering programs from concept to delivery. Deploy technical solutions to large cross functional groups. Project Manager (Ref.# SJ016B): Coordinate small, medium, large/complex and multiple projects throughout the project lifecycle (initiate, plan, execute, control, close) or a portion of a larger, more complex project. Project Manager (Ref.# SJ416B): Provide program/project management and ensure operational readiness is achieved for new offers being enabled in the market.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF WILLIS RAYMOND BAZZELL, AKA WILLIS R. BAZZELL CASE NO. 18PR183578

To all heirs, beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Willis Raymond Bazzell, aka Willis R. Bazzell.

A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Public Administrator of the Santa Clara County in the Superior Court of California, County of: SANTA CLARA. The petition for Probate requests that: Public Administrator of Santa Clara County be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: August 3, 2018 at 9 a.m. in Dept. 12 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney of petitioner: Mark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, San Jose, CA, 95110 408-758-4200 (Pub CC 06/06, 06/13, 06/20/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINES NAME STATEMENT #642965 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: New Eden Spa, 1335 Coleman Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95050, 3S Sino Express, Inc., 2958 Scott Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed

herein on 06/01/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Shunshun Su. Manager. #3917800. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/31/2018. (pub Metro 06/13, 06/23, 06/27, 07/04/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #642156 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: California Vascular & Vein Center, 9360 No Name Uno Rd., STE 110, Gilroy, CA, 95020, California Vascular & Vein Center, Inc., 2808 F Street STE A, Bakersfield, CA, 93301. This business is being conducted by a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 04/09/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mallik Thatipelli.

President. #3295469. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/10/2018. (pub Metro 06/06, 06/13, 06/23, 06/27/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #643006 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Shalom Christian Academy, 383 Spar Ave., San Jose, CA, 95117, Dong Chin, 885 Dogwood Ct., San Jose, CA, 95128. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/24/2009. Refile of previous #499593 with changes. /s/Dong Chin. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 06/01/2018. (pub Metro 06/20, 06/27, 07/04, 07/11/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #642204 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Blockstar, 2010 El Camino Real, #1161, Santa Clara, CA, 95051, CF Investments, 2448 Loma Vista Lane, Santa Clara, CA, 95051. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 03/09/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Christian Ferri. Founder/CEO. #201805910025.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 05/11/2018. (pub Metro 06/06, 06/13, 06/23, 06/27/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #641267 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Da 1 Above (A Place of Peace) Salon & Fitness, 2. Glimpse of Eternity In The Potters House, 976 Poplar Ct., Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Clyther Felix, Curtis H. Felix. This business is conducted by a married couple. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 01/09/2003. Refile of previous file #618633 with changes. /s/Clyther Felix.This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 04/16/2018. (pub Metro 04/25, 05/02, 05/09, 05/16/2018)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to my

analysis of the astrological omens, you have cosmic permission to enjoy extra helpings of waffles, crepes, pancakes, and blintzes. Eating additional pastries and doughnuts is also encouraged. Why? Because it's high time for you to acquire more ballast. You need more gravitas and greater stability.

You can't afford to be top-heavy; you must be hard to knock over. If you would prefer not to accomplish this noble goal by adding girth to your butt and gut, find an alternate way. Maybe you could put weights on your shoes and think very deep thoughts.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You're slipping into the wild heart of the season of discovery. Your curiosity is mounting. Your listening skills are growing more robust. Your willingness to be taught and influenced and transformed is at a peak. And what smarter way to take advantage of this fertile moment than to decide what you most want to learn about during the next three years? For inspiration, identify a subject you'd love to study, a skill you'd eagerly stretch yourself to master, and an invigorating truth that would boost your brilliance if you thoroughly embodied it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. Four of his works were essential in earning that award: the play Waiting for Godot, and the novels Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.

Beckett wrote all of them in a two-year span during the late 1940s. During that time, he was virtually indigent. He and his companion, Suzanne, survived on the paltry wage she made as a dressmaker. We might draw the conclusion from his life story that it is at least possible for a person to accomplish great things despite having little money. I propose that we make Beckett your role model for the coming weeks, Gemini. May he inspire you to believe in your power to become the person you want to be no matter what your financial situation may be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I suggest you ignore

the temptation to shop around for new heroes and champions. It would only distract you from your main assignment in the coming weeks, which is to be more of a hero and champion yourself. Here are some tips to guide you as you slip beyond your overly modest self-image and explore the liberations that may be possible when you give yourself more credit. Tip #1: Finish outgrowing the old heroes and champions who've served you well.

Tip #2: Forgive and forget the disappointing heroes and hypocritical champions who betrayed their own ideals. Tip #3: Exorcise your unwarranted admiration for mere celebrities who might have snookered you into thinking they're heroes or champions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "A waterfall would be more

impressive if it flowed the other way," said Irish writer Oscar Wilde. Normally, I would dismiss an idea like this, even though it's funny and I like funny ideas. Normally, I would regard such a negative assessment of the waterfall's true nature, even in jest, to be unproductive and enfeebling. But none of my usual perspectives are in effect as I evaluate the possibility that Wilde's declaration might be a provocative metaphor for your use in the coming weeks. For a limited time only, it might be wise to meditate on a waterfall that flows the other way.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stage magicians may

seem to make a wine glass hover in mid-air, or transform salt into diamonds, or make doves materialize and fly out of their hands. It's all fake, of course—tricks performed by skilled illusionists.

But here's a twist on the old story: I suspect that for a few weeks, you will have the power to generate effects that may, to the uninitiated, have a resemblance to magic tricks—except that your magic will be real, not fake. And you will have worked very hard to accomplish what looks easy and natural. And the marvels you generate will, unlike the illusionists', be authentic and useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to accentuate and brandish the qualities that best exemplify your Libran nature. In other words, be extreme in your moderation. Be pushy in your attempts to harmonize. Be bold and brazen as you make supple use of your famous balancing act.

By ROB BREZSNY week of June 20

I'll offer you a further piece of advice, as well. My first astrology teacher believed that when Librans operate at peak strength, their symbol of power is the iron fist in the velvet glove: power expressed gracefully, firmness rendered gently. I urge you to explore the nuances of that metaphor.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If I were your mom, I'd

nudge you out the door and say, "Go play outside for a while!" If I were your commanding officer, I'd award you a shiny medal for your valorous undercover work and then order you to take a frisky sabbatical. If I were your psychotherapist, I would urge you to act as if your past has no further power to weigh you down or hold you back, and then I would send you out on a vision quest to discover your best possible future. In other words, my dear Scorpio, I hope you will flee your usual haunts. Get out of the loop and into the open spaces that will refresh your eyes and heart.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sex education

classes at some high schools employ a dramatic exercise to illustrate the possible consequences of engaging in heterosexual lovemaking without using birth control. Everywhere they go for two weeks, students must carry around a 10-pound bag of flour.

It's a way for them to get a visceral approximation of caring for an infant. I recommend that you find or create an equivalent test or trial for yourself in the coming days. As you consider entering into a deeper collaboration or making a stronger commitment, you'll be wise to undertake a dress rehearsal.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Members of the Dull

Men's Club celebrate the ordinary. "Glitz and glam aren't worth the bother," they declare. "Slow motion gets you there faster," they pontificate. Showing no irony, they brag that they are "born to be mild." I wouldn't normally recommend becoming part of a movement like theirs, but the next two weeks will be one of those rare times when aligning yourself with their principles might be healthy and smart. If you're willing to explore the virtues of simple, plain living, make the Swedish term *lagom* your word of power.

According to the Dull Men's Club, it means "enough, sufficient, adequate, balanced, suitable, appropriate."

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the Georgian

language, shemomechama is a word that literally means "I ate the whole thing." It refers to what happens when you're already full, but find the food in front of you so delicious that you can't stop eating. I'm concerned you might soon be tempted to embark on metaphorical versions of *shemomechama*. That's why I'm giving you a warning to monitor any tendencies you might have to get too much of a good thing. Pleasurable and productive activities will serve you better if you stop yourself before you go too far.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Please do not send me a lock of your hair or a special piece of your jewelry or a hundred dollar bill. I will gladly cast a love spell in your behalf without draining you of your hard-earned cash. The only condition I place on my free gift is that you agree to have me cast the love spell on you and you alone. After all, your love for yourself is what needs most work. And your love for yourself is the primary magic that fuels your success in connecting with other people. (Besides, it's bad karma to use a love spell to interfere with another person's will.) So if you accept my conditions, Pisces, demonstrate that you're ready to receive my telepathic love spell by sending me your telepathic authorization.

Homework: Make a guess about where you'll be and what you'll be doing ten years from today. Testify at Freewillastrology.com.

Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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EXPRESS KIOSKS!

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metroactive SVSCENE PHOTOS BY GREG RAMAR

Enjoying a pint with the pup at the weekly TAYLOR STREET NIGHT + MARKET.

The flowers smell sweet, but finally making it through

HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION is so much sweeter.

Gary Singh and Jennifer Bruce at The Ritz for the MELODY TAPPERO memorial concert.

Celebrating high school graduation outside the

CALIFORNIA THEATRE.

Warm summer nights are perfect for the TAYLOR STREET NIGHT + MARKET food truck and beer roundup.

JUNE 20-26, 2018 | metrosiliconvalley.com | sanjose.com | metroactive.com

Beer is better with friends at the TAYLOR STREET NIGHT + MARKET, held every Thursday this summer.