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To my able-bodied coworkers who elect to use the handicap button to open the door to the cafeteria, please stop.

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The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors shifts a bit more to the center with SUSAN ELLENBERG’s decisive campaign victory as an independent over South Bay Labor’s shining hope to succeed KEN YEAGER, terming-out San Jose Councilman DON ROCHA.

How Ellenberg’s presence impacts the five-member board’s approach to issues such as the housing crisis, public pensions, union contracts and core county services will come to light as the dynamics of the five-member board take shape in 2019. But the blurred political lines will no doubt incentivize cooperation now that one of the South Bay’s most formidable labor leaders, Supervisor CINDY CHAVEZ, no longer holds sway over a reliable voting bloc.

“They spent a lot of money to not have me in this seat,” says Ellenberg, a San Jose Unified trustee and ex-lawyer. “But I think collaboration is essential. If I could promote that, it will be a good thing.”

As she sees it, her transition has already set a collaborative tone by working alongside Supervisor KEN YEAGER’s staff as he winds down the end of his second term. Yeager Chief of Staff JIM WESTON and Policy Director BRIAN DARROW will stay on the job for a month after Ellenberg’s swearing in to help her and her District 4 office find its footing. Ellenberg’s campaign manager, They ANGELICA RAMOS-ALLEN, Did will lead the transition What? and assume Darrow’s position.

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FLY@ For chief of staff, the METRONEWS. supervisor-elect hired COM her former Silicon Valley Organization colleague, DERRICK SEAVER, who has spent the past year as policy director of the San Jose Downtown Association. Seaver’s hire could be seen as a way of reaching out to the business community, though Ellenberg said her reasons for recruiting him were more straightforward than that.

“Derrick has a lot of policy experience,” she says. “We work really well together, which for me was first and foremost.”

THREAT ASSESSMENT Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone says Supervisor Dave Cortese politicized a nomination to a critical appeals board with power over tens of billions of dollars in tax disputes.

Payback Time County officials spar over who should influence billions in tax appeals

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH

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ILICON VALLEY’S recordsmashing privatesector profits translate to record-smashing assessment rolls and tax revenue for local governments.

But it’s no easy feat to collect local dues from corporations with global reach like Santa Clara County’s biggest taxpayer, the Cupertinobased tech giant that recently became the world’s first trillion-dollar company: Apple.

When it comes time to pay up, the South Bay’s biggest commercial denizens go up against one of the three county boards to try to prove that the building land, lab equipment and machinery they use to become

multinational behemoths are worth far less than the taxman says. In 2018, some $81.9 billion of the county’s $483 billion assessment roll got tied up in assessment disputes, which amounts to $819 million withheld from schools, roads, special districts and all kinds of public services. Apple alone has appealed $10.4 billion, Applied Materials $6.1 billion, Hitachi $5.9 billion and Google $3 billion.

Other contentious firms include the San Francisco 49ers at Levi’s Stadium, Pacific Gas & Electric, Lockheed Martin, Intel and Westfield Malls.

It’s a high-stakes game, which can make the routine task of assigning political appointees to the county’s 70-plus commissions extraordinarily consequential when it comes to the tax boards, which issue rulings that can’t be appealed in court.

Though the Board of Supervisors ultimately decides who to appoint, Larry Stone has spent his 24 years as county assessor quietly shaping the appellate bodies by aggressively lobbying for nominees who exceed the minimum eligibility requirements.

Mostly, supervisors heed his advice, nominating people who meet the trifecta of experience in real estate law, business valuations and the highest appraisal credentialing.

“Too much hangs in the balance,” said Stone, a soon-to-be-seven-term assessor who’s served a combined 48 years in elected office. “Putting the wrong people on such important boards puts the financial stability of the county at risk.”

If that’s the case, Stone said, he’ll put up a fight. He raised hell last week when Supervisor Dave Cortese bypassed his preferred candidate, certified commercial property appraiser Chris Carneghi, in favor of Los Gatos real estate agent David Tonna. Stone saw it as retribution for refusing fall in line with Cortese’s labor-aligned coalition.

“This was political payback to sanction me for not staying out of that race,” Stone said. He said he’s sure of it because of events leading up to Tonna’s nomination, which was endorsed by one of Cortese’s political

appraisal expertise, even though about 95 percent of the appeals coming before them involve business appeals over the value of all kinds of specialized property, from commercial aircraft to cleanroom machinery and server farms.

“This gentleman doesn’t have the qualifications to be hired in our office as an auditor or appraiser,” Deputy Tax Assessor David Ginsborg said of Tonna.

“It’s like expecting your primary care physician to perform brain surgery.”

Further angering Stone was the fact that all but Supervisor Mike Wasserman, who abstained from the 4-0 vote last week, confirmed Cortese’s pick. The last time sparks flew over such an appointment was in 2010 when then-Supervisor George Shirakawa—who wound up jailed on unrelated corruption charges just a few years later—nominated real estate broker John Howe against Stone’s fierce objections.

Leading up to last week’s meeting, Stone sent a strongly worded letter expressing “profound disappointment” that Cortese bypassed Carneghi.

“Mr. Tonna simply does not express the experience to contribute in a meaningful way to make value determinations of such very complex specialized property,” he wrote. “The experience and acumen of potential candidates is even more important in Silicon Valley because of the complexity of our high technology industrial base.”

Following the same meeting, Stone sent another missive to Supervisor Joe Simitian, the board president who cast his vote for Tonna. “I can’t tell you how disappointed I am in you following your vote to appoint an individual with inferior qualifications and credentials to a position with billions of public dollars at risk,” Stone chided. “Your decision is fiscally irresponsible.”

Simitian defended his decision, saying he got caught in the crossfire between Stone and Cortese. “Essentially, the assessor had been unable to persuade Cortese about Carneghi,” Simitian said.

“And for better or for worse, only one person gets to nominate someone.”

Tonna may not have lived up to Stone’s expectations, but he met eligibility requirements. If Silicon Valley’s increasingly sophisticated assessments require expertise above and beyond that, then supervisors would have to enact an ordinance elevating Stone’s desired qualifications into required ones.

Otherwise, Simitian said, “It’s thumbs up or thumbs down.”

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patrons, South Bay Labor Council Executive Director Ben Field.

To talk politics at the Santa Clara County government center, in Stone’s experience, officials take a meetings in the cafeteria. So when Cortese called him to a table in the ground-floor dining hall last month, it set a transactional tone to the conversation.In Stone’s telling, Cortese wanted to talk about three things. The race between Susan Ellenberg and Don Rocha to succeed Supervisor Ken Yeager. Cortese’s 2020 run for state Senate. And a pending appointment to an assessment appeals board—a key position with power over tens of billions of dollars in commercial tax disputes against some of the most powerful companies in the world.

“He asks me about Carneghi,” Stone recounted, “and I said he’s highly recommended, he’s exactly what we need. Then he segues into the race between Rocha and Ellenberg, and says, ‘It would be really nice if you endorsed Rocha, but it you don’t, it would be really nice if you stayed out of it.’ He was basically trying to shake me down, trying to put pressure on me to stay out of a political race by dangling this vote for Carneghi.”

After meeting with both candidates, Stone chose to endorse Ellenberg, who ultimately won the election despite labor interests spending more than $500,000 to defeat her. “I called Don and told him what I was going to do,” Stone said. “I said, ‘My wife and I are going to give Susan a check.’ Don was very cordial, he said no hard feelings, it’s fine. He was much more civil than Dave.”

According to Stone, Cortese punished him for going against his wishes. At the Nov. 20 Board of Supervisors meeting, Cortese appointed Tonna and went so far as to cast suspicion on Stone for voicing such strong opinions about the nomination. “I think there’s a problem there,” Cortese remarked. “I think something’s rotten in Denmark.” He hinted at impropriety, saying he plans to investigate the issue, and then proceeded to butcher a line from the same play: “To quote Shakespeare, ‘Thou protesteth too loudly,’ and I don’t know what’s behind that or why.”

Cortese declined requests for an interview. Stone, for his part, was outraged. In his view, Cortese’s action throws a critical committee dangerously off kilter. Now, two of its three members have residential real estate experience but nothing in the way of commercial

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DAZED AND ACCUSED Claims that California’s top Democratic official, Eric Bauman, engaged in sexual misconduct have roiled the party and prompted calls for his resignation.

Cal Dem Chair Accused of Sexual Misconduct

BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH The California Democratic Party took a full day to publicly address claims that its top official sexually assaulted and harassed several men. When Cal Dem finally got around to issuing a response Saturday night, it had the accused— Chairman Eric Bauman—speak on the organization’s behalf.

“I take seriously any allegations brought forward by anyone who believes they have been caused pain,” Bauman wrote in an email to reporters.

“To that end, a prompt, thorough and independent investigation of the allegations has been undertaken by a respected outside investigator, ensuring these individuals making the charges are treated with respect and free from any concerns of retaliation.”

He promised the party would model how to react to these kinds of allegations, to ensure fairness and determine truth. He assured that there are procedures in place to deal with these issues and that an independent

law firm would make sure they’re followed. “I look forward to putting these allegations behind us and moving forward as unified Democrats,” he said.

Absent from the statement was any denial. Or any specifics. It didn’t name the lawyer who would review the claims.

It said nothing about whether Bauman would be placed on leave, nothing about how potential victims how can report misconduct. On Monday, however, party spokesman Mike Roth announced that Bauman would take a leave of absence until the conclusion of the investigation. His second-Vice Chair Alex Gallardo-Rooker will assume the chairmanship in the meantime.

Accusations against Bauman— the state party’s first openly gay chairman—came just weeks after Democrats celebrated huge victories at the ballot box. They trace back to a letter by Cal Dem Second Vice Chair Daracka Larimore-Hall, who said staffers approached him at a recent

executive board meeting with “serious and credible” charges that Bauman sexually assaulted and harassed men at political functions and tried to intimidate them into silence.

Since the claims went public, party delegates have reacted to them by rehashing the race between Bauman and Kimberly Ellis, his more progressive challenger who lost the chairmanship by a margin of 62 votes in 2017. Others wondered about the timing and veracity of the claims, or questioned the motives of Larimore-Hall and anyone who amplified the allegations.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont), whose late-Friday tweet about Larimore-Hall’s memo introduced the controversy to a wide audience, fielded criticism for politicizing the issue by using it to promote his preferred chair: Stanford law professor Michele Dauber, a renowned scholar on gender equity who led the nationally watched Recall Persky campaign.

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$35 MILLION How much in fees the Vallco Mall developers would have to pay the city.

That’s pretty much on par with other projects. Sand Hill hasn’t introduced a traffic mitigation plan, which has angered thousands of residents, and it wants to build up to 240 feet, which is nearly as high as some of San Jose’s tallest towers.

Sources: City of Cupertino

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PUNK KID A young Lars Frederiksen literally holds down the rhythm section at this 1983 Faction show. Frederiksen would go on to join Rancid.

Punk Hoedown Local bands return to their roots for a show at The Ritz

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N 1983, DEEP in the suburban hinterland of Campbell, the punk rock photographer Murray Bowles attended a backyard party and shot several pictures of The Faction, San Jose’s legendary skate punk band. A software engineer by day, Bowles was just starting a decades-long side job of capturing Bay Area punk.

In San Jose, the scene was a hodgepodge of house parties, rented

halls and skate ramps because no real venues existed. As the Faction played, an 11-year-old kid named Lars Frederiksen sat on the ground in front of the drum set to keep it stationary. (See photo.)

“The cinderblock wasn’t working so the kick drum kept moving and moving and moving,” Frederiksen recalled. “I remember someone tried to put a 12-pack of beer in front of it, and that obviously didn’t work. I think someone even said put the keg in front of it, but then everybody would have to come up when the band was playing to fill their beer.

So somebody said, ‘Put Lars in there.’

And that’s how I ended up in there.”

The rest is history. Ten years later, Frederiksen joined the band Rancid, which then exploded into one of the most successful punk bands of all time, inspiring generations of fans around the world, even still.

But now, in what is probably the most spacetime continuumshattering full-circle punk hoedown in local living memory, the Faction will first open up for Rancid in San Francisco on Thursday, and then they will headline on Friday with one of Frederiksen’s other bands, the Old Firm Casuals, at The Ritz in downtown San Jose. The whole shootin’ match will trigger many individuals to reflect on their own crazy journeys over the last several decades.

Over the years, Bowles’ photos from that party have almost achieved folk status. He may have captured the most punk rock Norman Rockwell moment in San Jose history.

In those days, the Faction’s

bass player, Steve Caballero, was already a world-famous professional skateboarder with sponsorships, trophies, tour stories and the whole nine yards, all while not yet even 20.

People around the world devoured skateboard magazines and then VHS videos of the Bones Brigade, of which Caballero was a key member. Thanks to what he and his crew were doing, it’s not an exaggeration to say San Jose was one of the skateboarding capitals of the country. Specific street tricks and maneuvers were pioneered right here in town. As the lifestyle became inseparable from punk rock, the whole scene put San Jose on the map way more than any politician has ever been able to do. It is a travesty of justice that Caballero is not in the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame.

But I digress. With the Faction, Caballero eventually switched from bass to guitar as the band became a five-piece and then soared to even more stardom before breaking up a few short years later. After sporadic reunions over the decades, they returned to semi-regular gigging about four years ago.

Bowles’ photo captures what the scene was like in those days: punks and skater kids dealing with the intrinsic boredom of suburbia.

Several people in the photo are still in the area. For example, leaning on Caballero’s bass amp is Denice Vaughn, wearing a pair of pink Paradise Garage creepers, shoes Caballero bought her when he was in LA for a contest.

“I threw a fit because he wanted to get me the red and black ones,” Vaughn recalled. “And I said, ‘No, I want the pink ones, and if I can’t have those, then I want nothing.’ And he drove all the way [across LA] back to Hollywood to get me those. I totally remember that. I still have them.”

Bowles has since retired from the software industry, but still has a long photography career on which to reflect. His catalog of photos, now in the thousands, remains an integral component of Bay Area punk history, although he doesn’t scour the scene as much as he used to.

“Nowadays everybody takes pictures with their phones,” Bowles said. “It’s not as though if I didn’t take pictures, there’d be no pictures taken at all. Which is sort of the way it was for a lot of shows.”

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E IS FAMOUSLY fond of birds.

But you could argue that Jonathan Franzen’s spirit animal is of a different phylum altogether.

Like some exotic Amazonian butterfly pinned under glass, Franzen has for years been the object of a brand of obsessive public curiosity like no other writer of his generation.

Franzen’s landmark 2001 novel The Corrections is a consensus choice for the canon of the greatest novels of the 21st century, and you could make a good argument for its followups, Freedom and Purity. So, he is in

no way undeserving of widespread recognition.

But Franzen’s fame is as much a condition of the mosquito-swarm nature of today’s informationdecadent media culture as it is of his literary accomplishments. Just in the last few months, he has been the subject of several broad-shouldered feature stories in the national and international media, which by 16

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their general aimlessness indicate that editors feel about Franzen as a mom feels about her daughter away at college: “Just checking in to see what’s new with you.” One New York Times feature was titled “Jonathan Franzen is Fine With All of It.” Another in the online magazine The Outline says only “Jonathan Franzen is Fine.”

At the same time, Franzen, 59, still finds himself trapped in the online dunking booth of social media, where

‘When you live in the East and grew up in the Midwest, California exists in your imagination in this kind of golden light—red wine, golden hills, hot tubs, redwoods. It looks like your brain is going to rot there.’ little more than clearing his throat can draw shrieks of derision. Last week, with the publication of his new collection of essays The End of the End of the Earth (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Twitter exploded in response to a list of rules for writers that Franzen included in the collection.

If such an assertion as “It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction” had come from any one of 10,000 creative-writing professors, it would have barely merited a shrug.

But from Franzen, such a mildly provocative notion turbo-charged the outrage machine for days.

It’s the kind of situation that would

drive many writers into vampire-like misanthropy or at least a Salingeresque self-exile. But Franzen’s strategy to cope with this particular kind of trending-topic hell is simple: 1) keep working, 2) stay off social media and 3) live in Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz Horizontal In October, I followed the path, already well-worn by other feature writers, to Franzen’s front door to discuss the new book of essays. He lives with writer Kathryn Chetkovich on Santa Cruz’s West Side. Franzen’s history with Santa Cruz County goes back two decades to when he and Chetkovich first lived together in Boulder Creek. He has lived on and off in Santa Cruz for years, but in 2018, he sold his New York City apartment, making Santa Cruz his only home address.

“I’m a ’70s guy,” he said. “When I first came here, it was, ‘Oh, I recognize this. This is what I liked about the ’70s. And it’s still here.’”

For such a literary heavyweight, he has maintained a refreshingly regular-guy lifestyle. This year, he has made public appearances in such decidedly cozy local venues as the Porter Memorial Library in Soquel and the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods. At Porter, he even read a passage from his new novel, a project not likely to see publication until the next decade. On Thursday, Nov. 29, Franzen, as he has done for most of his books, will begin his tour with an appearance at Bookshop Santa Cruz.

“There are a lot more horizontal relationships among writers here than there is New York,” he said. “In New York, everything is vertical. You have your agent, your publisher and that’s generally who you’re dealing with. I had my friends in Brooklyn, certainly. But the horizontal relationships weren’t organized [in New York] the way they are here.

I find that very sweet. The idea of community is taken seriously here.”

Franzen is originally a Midwesterner— he grew up near St. Louis—and ended up in California, a pattern that fits many

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of his literary peers such as George Saunders, Michael Chabon, Dave Eggers and the late David Foster Wallace.

“My worry before coming here was that I would never get any writing done, because it’s the good life. I had the wrong idea about California.

When you live in the East and grew up in the Midwest, California exists in your imagination in this kind of golden light—red wine, golden hills, hot tubs, redwoods. It looks like your brain is going to rot there.”

To Franzen’s delight, he found early on that, at least in Santa Cruz, the Beach Boys’ endless-summer fantasy

‘I’m an argumentative guy. When it comes to certain issues, I can be an angry guy.

Argumentation, opinion and anger are not the best things to make a novel out of.’

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gave way to gray summers and fogsmothered mornings. Of the summer of 2018, he said, with satisfaction, “It was the best summer in a decade for morning fog and low temperatures. I just love the weather.”

Not that the weather or anything about his surroundings matter when it comes time to write. Franzen calls his home office a “sensory deprivation chamber,” a signifier of his ongoing personal vendetta against distractions. Not only does he keep the internet and cellphones out, he cannot even tolerate a window. “I look at some venetian blinds that are shut. I can tell that there are some redwood trees out there. But I can’t see them well enough to risk getting distracted by a bird.”

Franzen’s new book, however, belies the notion that he’s a hermit trapped in his writer’s distractionproof booth. It’s a wide-ranging collection of his nonfiction, much of it published before, though “in completely invisible places.” The short piece that finishes the collection was actually originally published on a Chipotle’s bag.

“Literally nothing in this book is exactly the way it was when it was published,” says Franzen. “In a number of cases, there have been substantial revisions.”

The book features mostly recent material, the outlier being a piece written in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Franzen owes the success of The Corrections, in part, to a quirk of timing at the intersection of commerce and tragedy. The novel was released the same week as the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and became the book people turned to as an escape from the tragedy.

“I went on the road almost as soon as the planes got back in the air,” he says, “and everywhere I went, people were like, ‘Oh my God. You’re the only writer coming to town. We’re so happy to think about something that isn’t what we’re seeing on CNN.’”

Bird Watch The rest of the collection is a potpourri of memory pieces, literary and arts criticism, reported travel pieces and polemics, much of it touching on the dimensions of climate change and even more of it about birds, put most urgently and succinctly in the essay “Why Birds Matter.”

“After my first two novels, I stopped trying to persuade people of anything with the novel. Part of what enabled me to stop that is that I discovered the essay. I’m an opinionated guy. I’m an argumentative guy. When it comes to certain issues, I can be an angry guy.

Argumentation, opinion and anger are not the best things to make a novel out of.”

In the realm of anger comes a takedown of the National Audubon Society, “better known for its holiday cards and plush-toy cardinals and bluebirds, which sing when you

19 There is no indication in the essay, however, of the other travelers’ acknowledgement that they were with one of the world’s most famous bird lovers and a man who once appeared on the cover of Time magazine under the headline “Great American Novelist.”

Antarctica is far to go to escape the pressures of literary fame, but they were there when Franzen returned to the unfrozen world, and they remain today, including the flaming arrows launched from social media.

“By living in Santa Cruz, it’s much easier to ignore it all than it is being in New York,” he said. He said he does not participate in social media. He has not googled himself since 2001.

He points to Chetkovich—who he slyly refers to his in his new book as “The Californian”—as his anchor to the non-internet world. “My first line of defense is Kathy. She knows who I am. Whatever persona I have publicly is meaningless to her. I know who I am. My friends know who I am. I do feel there is less of all that stuff here in Santa Cruz, that this is a self-selected cultural community that looks inward, not in a bad way, but in a good way, that’s not obsessed with the world’s opinion. And that feels good.”

Jonathan Franzen will read from his new book of essays “The End of the End of the Earth” at 7pm on Thursday at Bookshop Santa Cruz, 1520 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. Free. www.bookshopsantacruz.com.

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squeeze them, than for generating hard science, taking controversial positions, or partnering with groups that do real conservation work.”

More memorable are Franzen’s astounding field reports including a trip to Albania to see firsthand an avian apocalypse at the hands of hunters, a killing field in which thousands of birds entered and none escaped. These accounts are reported somewhat dispassionately, as a way to tackle the inconsistencies and paradoxes of modern-day conservation. Still, Franzen’s piece on Albanian hunters’ indiscriminate slaughter of migratory birds was partially responsible for a two-year ban on hunting birds there.

Franzen realizes that his writing about birds is only effective insofar as it avoids sentimentality. “If you take birds seriously and find out about them and watch them carefully, it’s hard to be too sentimental about them. My friend [UC Santa Cruz professor] Todd Newberry refers to birds as killing machines. Most birds are all about killing, killing, killing and being killed, often by other birds.

I don’t sentimentalize them. I respect that they are different from me, and I do love them. But when I see a dead bird, the only time I get upset is when I hit one myself. I’ve killed three birds with cars that I know of, and I can describe exactly where each of those bird deaths happened.”

The book’s showcase essay may be the title piece, which weaves together personal reflections of fraught family relationships with a vivid account of traveling to Antarctica on a Lindblad cruise ship. The takeaway image from the story features a majestic emperor penguin, spotted by Franzen from aboard the ship, holding court for a bunch of orange-bejacketed eco-tourists with cameras, as if it were holding a press conference.

Franzen, always the contrarian, had already vowed he would not take a single photo on the trip. But he allowed himself to bathe a bit in the congratulations of his fellow tourists for spotting the penguin: “I finally had an inkling of how it must feel to be a high-school athlete and come to school after scoring a season-saving touchdown,” he wrote.

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Flavor Fusion Konjoe Burger in Santa Clara brings new flavors to old classics

BY AVI SALEM

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HAT’S IN A NAME? For chef Joey Camacho, the name says it all when it comes to his restaurant Konjoe Burger. The eatery’s namesake—a clever combination of Camacho’s own name and the word konjou, meaning determined or daring in Japanese—is made up, but that doesn’t make it any less authentic.

Similarly, the food served at Konjoe Burger is inventive and unique, both in the flavors and global cuisines represented by its food. A modern and carefully crafted take on the quintessential American burger joint, Konjoe embraces all things classic but with an Asian-inspired twist.

Serving up the range of classic comfort foods, Konjoe introduces ingredients traditionally used in Japanese and Korean food, reimagining them as newfound

toppings and original sauces for its wide selection of burgers, sliders, tots and even tacos. Focusing on quality ingredients, including ethically sourced meats, locally baked buns and a rotating selection of Bay Area-based beers, Konjoe manages to make the basic burger feel and taste highbrow without being pretentious.

Konjoe Burger’s fairly straightforward menu offers dressed up versions of the American burger we all know and love. Their flavor combinations are unique and wellresearched: From Korean-inspired kalbi glaze to kimchi cucumbers, Konjoe makes a beef patty between a bun feel like so much more.

In order to get the full sampling of Konjoe’s many unique menu items, I started with appetizers like the fish ($8) and asparagus tacos ($5). Served two-up, both varieties were flavorful and well-cooked, and packed a surprising amount of flavor and

texture in each bite. The fried fish tacos—topped with pickled tomato, molcajete, cilantro, furikake and a dollop of gochujang crema—were crispy, crunchy and creamy all at the same time and unlike any taco I’ve had anywhere, let alone a burger restaurant.

The roasted asparagus tacos were equally inventive and included guajillo salsa, avocado, cilantro, onion, sunflower seeds and parmesan as toppings. While parmesan on a taco sounds sacrilegious, its saltiness toned down the earthiness of the roasted asparagus for an overall mellow flavor.

For the main course, however, don’t stray too far from the classics.

While Konjoe does serve a handful of chicken, pork and vegetarian sandwiches, their burgers are where

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TACOS WITH A TWIST Konjoe’s many unique menu items include a variety of seafood and tacos with unique ingredients, like asparagus.

they shine. Take the Shitake Jack burger ($12.50), a third-pound patty cooked to your specifications and topped with pickled jalapeño, shiitake mushrooms, housemade r.g.s.t. (roasted garlic, scallion and tomato) mayo and jack cheese, all served on a soft and chewy sweet roll. Spicy and tangy jalapeño slices melded perfectly with savory and wellseasoned mushrooms make for full and flavorful bites throughout.

The Konjoe Burger ($12.50) was equally delectable and came topped with a perfectly fried egg, a generous portion of caramelized onion, pickled jalapeño, jack cheese and Konjoe sauce, a spicy and savory Asianinspired take on Thousand Island dressing. I opted to swap their beef patty out for an Impossible Burger patty ($5), which was also perfectly cooked and soaked up the runny yolk of the fried egg for minimal mess.

As for fries, Konjoe serves them in shoestring and tot varieties, dressed up or dressed down. I went for the seasoned fries ($3.75) that were lightly

dusted in Konjoe’s special spice blend and came to our table piping hot and fresh out of the fryer, just as they should be. If you’re feeling really adventurous, try the homie fries ($10) with a homie (or three): the heaping pile of seasoned fries is topped with pork belly, hot link slices, jalapeño, scallions and Konjoe sauce.

Let’s not mince words here: Konjoe Burger’s portions are enormous.

Their sandwiches and burgers are all packed to the brim, and they don’t skimp on the sauces and extras. That somewhat helps offset their high price point; I almost don’t mind paying $12 or more for a burger, knowing I’ll leave stuffed and satisfied but still curious to try more from their menu.

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Wed, 8pm, $35+ Lucie Stern Theatre, Palo Alto Based on the bestselling children’s novel by Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting makes its regional premiere at Palo Alto’s TheatreWorks just in time for the holiday season. Set in the late 19th century, the story chronicles the life of young Winnie Foster, whose adventures lead her to stumble upon the Tuck family and their secret to immortality. Directed by TheatreWorks founder and artistic director Robert Kelley, it is brought to life with a score and lyrics by Chris Miller and Nathan Tysen; the pair originally wrote the songs for Tuck while in residence at the TheatreWorks Writers’ Retreat in 2010. Runs through Dec. 30. (AS)

INTO THE WOODS Thu, 8pm, $20+ Bus Barn Theater, Los Altos

For more than 20 years, the small but mighty Los Altos Stage Company has produced more than 100 plays and musicals centered on bringing quintessential American theater to the small suburb of Los Altos.

Their family-friendly rendition of the Tony Award-winning musical Into the Woods is a holiday classic, playing off of the plotlines of fairy tales like Jack and the Beanstalk and Cinderella.

An amalgamation of Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault classics, the musical begs the question: What happens after happily ever after? The show runs through Dec. 23. (AS)

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UPTOWN HOLIDAY SWING Fri, 8 pm, $38 Tabard Theatre

This 1940s-era revival of song and dance brings classic big band and swing music to the Tabard Theatre. Inspired by the sounds of Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, Uptown Holiday Swing features jazzy renditions of Christmas carols—backed by three different local big bands—and all of the swing era’s most iconic dance moves. Expect performers to lindy hop to wartime-era tunes like “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Winter Wonderland” and more. Best of all, the show begins with a free swing dance lesson 20 minutes before each performance to prepare even the most ill-coordinated for the night’s festivities. (AS)

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Fri, 7 & 9pm, $30 Bing Studio, Stanford

Fri, 8pm, $43+ Center for the Performing Arts, San Jose

Carnegie Hall’s resident ensemble of musicians are not only passionate advocates for classical music. They are also deeply dedicated to creating performances and programs with social impact and purpose. The dynamic group called Decoda— comprising of 32 entrepreneurs, activists and acclaimed musicians, such as St. Lawrence String Quartet violinist Owen Dalby— brings artistry and engagement to Stanford University for an intimate evening of performance and an audience discussion. Taking place in Bing’s intimate 160-seat cabaret studio, the up-close-andpersonal program includes works by composers like Prokofiev and Schubert. (AS)

If the shoe fits, wear it. So much can be said about Broadway San Jose’s freshly updated rendition of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical, Cinderella. Though the Tony Award-winning play is nothing new, Cinderella’s ragsto-riches tale comes to life on the Center for Performing Arts stage by incorporating the story’s most iconic elements—glass slippers, pumpkin carriages, fairy godmothers and all—with a live orchestra, lavish costumes and full cast of singers and dancers.

Produced by Broadway San Jose, the family-friendly show promises “surprising new twists” on the tale that’s as old as time. Runs through Dec. 2. (AS)

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TUCK EVERLASTING

POPTOPIA

Dec 1 at SAP Center

OZUNA

Dec 2 at SAP Center

NINE INCH NAILS

Dec 4 at Bill Graham Civic

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE

Dec 5 at Oracle Arena

SUUNS

Dec 7 at The Ritz

NOT SO SILENT NIGHT

Dec 8 at SAP Center

PINBACK

Dec 8 at The Ritz

CHILDISH GAMBINO

Dec 12 at SAP Center

WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY

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MICHELLE OBAMA

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SAN HOLO

Dec 15 at City National Civic

TRAVIS SCOTT

Dec 16 at Oracle Arena

NAT KING CHRISTMAS Fri, 8pm, $45+ Hammer Theater Center, San Jose Who is Evan Tyrone Martin, and why is he playing Nat King Cole?

It’s a valid question for theater buffs in the Bay Area, but for those active in Chicago’s musical scene, Martin is a well-known name. A leading actor in productions as varied as Jesus Christ Superstar, Dreamgirls, Oklahoma and The Color Purple, Martin’s latest role is his transformation into the jazz legend and famed pianist.

This holiday-themed special is a joyful tribute to Cole’s classic hits and includes covers of songs like “Mona Lisa,” “The Christmas Song” and “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth.” Runs through Dec. 3. (AS)

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Fri-Sat, 7:30 & 9:30, $25+ The Improv, San Jose

AN IRISH CHRISTMAS

While the #MeToo movement has brought stories of sexual harassment, abuses of power and gender politics into the political and cultural mainstream, Basab Pradhan’s Greater Than has propelled similar narratives into the consciousness of theatergoers with a new play about sexual harassment happening right here in Silicon Valley. Centered around the story of startup founder Jennifer Johnson and her abuse allegations against venture capitalist Ash Williams, Pradhan’s latest work tackles bro culture and toxic masculinity from an insider’s perspective while asking important questions about who holds power in a male-dominated tech industry.

Runs through Dec. 8. (AS)

For more than three decades, Kevin Nealon has maintained a constant if not consistently entertaining presence in Hollywood’s comedic circles.

Since he gained notoriety in the 1980s as the Weekend Update news anchor on Saturday Night Live, the late night comedy mainstay and nine-year SNL veteran has starred in myriad films and TV shows, most notably as Doug Wilson, the perpetually stoned accountant on the Emmy Award-winning serial Weeds.

Going back to his comedic roots, Nealon’s hitting the road for a nationwide standup tour that pokes fun at everything from electric cars to medical marijuana. (AS)

Tap your toes to the sounds of the live bagpipes, bodhráns and fiddles of An Irish Christmas, a festive tribute to the traditional song, dance and spirit of the holidays in Ireland. Led by principal Riverdance dancer Caterina Coyne, An Irish Christmas takes the audience on a holiday journey with Celtic song, music and dance.

Featuring Irish dancers from the Kerry Dance Troupe, traditional singers from the Kerry Voice Squad and live sound by the Kerry Traditional Orchestra, the evening includes regional favorites as well as Irish renditions of Christmas standards like “Little Drummer Boy,” “Silent Night” and more. (AS)

Sun, 4pm, $25+ Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose

THE LIMOUSINES’ CHRISTMAS

Dec 22 at The Ritz

ZZ TOP

Jan 13 at City National Civic

ELTON JOHN

Jan 19 at SAP Center

NHL ALL STAR WEEKEND

Jan 25-26 at SAP Center

A$AP ROCKY

Feb 2 at Bill Graham Civic

MARC ANTHONY

Feb 8 at SAP Center

THE REV. HORTON HEAT

Feb 13 at The Ritz

SJZ WINTER FEST

Feb 13-24 in Downtown San Jose

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL

Feb 13-Mar 24 at County Fairgrounds

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NOVEL APPROACH Artist Diane Samuels channels her love for the written word into sculptural transcriptions of her favorite books, such as this 47-foot scroll of ‘Moby-Dick’ on display at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.

By the Book Artist unfurls Moby-worthy classic at Institute of Contemporary Art exhibit

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IANE SAMUELS is a bibliophile’s bibliophile.

In the exhibit “It’s a Long Story” at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, she’s transcribed, verbatim, lengthy tomes like Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and The Odyssey by Homer.

But her enthusiasm for the written word, including contemporary authors like Salman Rushdie and Richard Powers, doesn’t muddle what she accomplishes with her visual inventiveness. The words form the

essential core of each piece, but they complement and enhance the sculptural nature of her paintings and drawings.

At 47 by 8 feet, she constructed her Moby-Dick, or The Whale, Herman Melville to match the heft of that 19thcentury author’s nautical magnum opus. The top of the collage hangs on the wall, extending down to land on the gallery floor like the unfurled tongue of a very large cetacean. “I knew it was going to be a long scroll,” Samuels says, “that it had to be eight feet wide to get the longest page on one line.” Having said that, you can only see the lines of her handwriting if you’re up close. Every one of

Melville’s words is there, but it’s not meant to be read like a book you hold in your hands. The sentences are at rest, submerged inside waves of multicolored strips of paper.

As far as Moby-Dick’s final 48-foot length was concerned, she had a rough idea when she began the piece but just kept adding to it until it was finished.

The process of painting over her old drawings (“I don’t want to buy any new paper,” she says), ripping them into strips and then gluing them together took about nine months for her to complete the project. Samuels arrived at the idea of transcribing books like these—and coming up with visual equivalencies—while she was working on an earlier series.

“I would listen to audiobooks that had some meaning to me in life,” she says, “classics like Moby-Dick and Don Quixote because the drawings would take a really long time.”

Then Samuels thought, “Why am I just listening to these books? Why don't I do something with the books that really mattered to me in my life?” With Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, her most

recent work from the series, five separate scrolls hanging side by side recapitulate the play’s dialogue. The artist created them from almost 3,500 pieces of torn gampi paper, made from a Japanese bark. She gilded the top edges and then color coded other parts of the play with different inks. The Montagues appear in blue violet, the Capulets in red violet, the dead in deep red. And, in addition to Shakespeare’s original text, Samuels included love letters from her husband and a letter her grandfather wrote to her parents in 1935.

She put these various pieces of Romeo and Juliet together while thinking about being how love can go right and how it can go wrong.

“With all that’s going on now with marriage equality, fighting for love is very profound.” The process of delving into, reproducing and then moving on from one work of literature, however, can leave Samuels feeling bereft.

“When I’m completely enveloped in the text, I feel physically embraced by the proximity of the page I’m transcribing,” she says. Samuels has the same experience when she’s reading a book. “I don’t want it to end when it’s been such a huge part of my life.”

What’s compensatory for Samuels about that sense of loss is the spiritual, even monastic, aspect of her practice.

“After I started this work, I read about scribes. They actually embody the text by physically transcribing and copying it,” she says. “In this particular process with all of these transcriptions, I read a line or a sentence from the book out loud, and then I transcribe it, and I say it again. I'm hearing the text in a way that I don't hear it when I'm reading to myself.”

Samuels is already at work on her next transcription, made from the recycled paper of a redwood tree. The book it’s based upon is The Overstory

by Richard Powers, and she’s already read it through twice. “It’s been compared to Moby Dick, in that there’s a sense of human and nature on the water. And in The Overstory, it’s human and nature on land,” she says, exclaiming, “If I can tell you how much I love this book ...”

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“More than lives up to the hype” San Jose Mercury News Beauty. Joy. Wonder... as you wander!

Come experience Bruce Munro’s stunning nighttime exhibition, inspired by C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia.

Stroll through Montalvo’s gorgeous historic gardens and grounds, and get enlightened.

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ETERNAL SUNSHINE ‘Life and Death’ is the floral centerpiece of teamLab’s exhibit at Pace Palo Alto.

Perfect little world TOSHIYUKI INOKO, the founder of the digital art collective teamLab, believes their work “transcends the boundaries between art, science, technology and creativity.” The collective includes software programmers, hardware engineers, CG animators, architects and mathematicians. After an immersive installation in 2016 at Pace Gallery’s now defunct space in Menlo Park, Pace Palo Alto hosts teamLab’s latest array of digital wonders.

“Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity” is the ethereal exhibition title that also doubles as the name of a work on nine monitors that reproduces a tapestry made of flowers and plants set on an infinite loop.

A time lapse video of the piece on the teamLab website seems to back their contention that the floral patterns never repeat themselves, but you’d have to be a robot or trapped in an asylum to dispute that claim. The video condenses several months of the display down to a few minutes.

Continuous Life and The experience of Continuous Life and Death Death at the Now isn’t that far removed from watching someone from of Eternity behind the scenes play a video game via remote control, or like staring at a muted television screen. In Thru Jan 13 her song “Strange Angels,” Laurie Anderson compares Pace Gallery heaven with TV and anticipates the feeling of walking pacegallery.com through an immersive exhibit like this one: “A perfect little world / that doesn't really need you / And everything there / is made of light / And the days keep going by.” For those who have the patience for it, staring at lovely images on multiple screens can be hypnotic. For others, it might come across as tedious or overwhelming.

When Inoko delivers promotional lectures about teamLab, he suggests that their accomplishment—synthesizing a variety of different disciplines—is an evolutionary leap forward. All the programming and energies of his team members cast the singular effort of a lone artist into doubt. Can Van Gogh’s Sunflowers or Monet’s series of water lilies hold the viewer’s attention in the same way as the spectacle of moving blooms, of petals falling and reforming, forever changing color?

“Continuous Life and Death at the Now of Eternity” is full of gorgeous imagery—waves crashing, calligraphy forming, organic life enmeshed in a digital landscape. But in screen after screen, the contents seem to be advertisements for the teamLab designers. In this scenario, the e-flowers are like supermodels, airbrushed beyond their humanity, and packaged inside cold and bloodless spheres of perfection.—Jeffrey Edalatpour

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Heads You Lose The death of FilmStruck, and the essays of renowned movie critic A.S. Hamrah

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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HE CLOSURE of the streaming service FilmStruck on Thursday is evidence of the broken promise in streaming, as movies, some available nowhere else, vanish from the internet.

AT&T-Warner Brothers have the excuse that unpopularity led to their decision to kill FilmStruck, which offered both the fluffiest of classic Hollywood and the weightiest of foreign cinema. It’s a brazenly cynical

move, thundered against by big-name movie directors and dogged film critics alike. And it suggests that content providers care less about programming good films than letting algorithms do the work. Parodying the suggestions the bots make, a friend says, “If you liked A Bug’s Life, you may like The Human Centipede.”

Algorithms wouldn’t have known, as FilmStruck’s programmers did, to get six Nicolas Roeg films ready to stream within 24 hours of the death of the prescient British filmmaker, who made the best ever cinematic use of

Bowie and Jagger. Why spend the day mulling over how Freddie Mercury’s sexuality was portrayed in Bohemian Rhapsody when you could watch the homoeroticism right up front, in Roeg’s 1970 Performance?

This act of corporate malevolence informs the work of the astute critic A.S. Hamrah in his The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing 2002-2018 ($20, n+1 books).

Best known for “A Cottage for Sale,” his celebrated essay on Los Gatos’ own Thomas Kinkade, Hamrah practices the kind of acid criticism that divines the difference between gold and iron pyrite.

His work favors acute observation over the roster of what happened to whom during the course of a movie.

Hamrah is not a fanatic, favoring both Uncle Buck and Uncle Boonmee, Who Can Remember His Past Lives. He can be intransigent, as when he refuses to review Life of Pi on the grounds that they wouldn’t let him in the theater with the expensive cup of coffee he had just brought. He dismisses No

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FILM FLAM ‘The Earth Dies Streaming’ collects the best writing by film critic A.S. Hamrah (pictured),

Country for Old Men in one sentence— agreed; it seems to me that a movie with a guy tossing a coin to decide whether someone lives or dies ought to have Batman in it. But as was said of the critic’s critic Manny Farber, you learn something even when Hamrah is beating up a movie you like. Included here is an unsentimental obit on Farber (who wrote “the point of film criticism is to build up the mystery”).

Hamrah reveals his personal unhappiness in Boston, when writing of the end of Chantal Akerman, with whom he once shared a meal in a bleak neighborhood in the Hub City.

This piece sent me straight to FilmStruck, where six of Akerman’s films were ready and waiting: 1968’s Saute Ma Ville (one meaning is “Blow Up My Town”) was 13 minutes of pure punk rock—everything you ever got from 4/4 time and screams of contempt. 1977’s News from Home reveled in the luxurious stillness of a humanless NYC. Je Tu Il Elle, about a stymied girl’s immobility, evoked certain depressed episodes where you become the trapped person in the anti-joke, looking for a corner in a round room.

The prize in The Earth Dies Streaming is “Heads Without Bodies: Trumpancholia and Twin Peaks.”

Trying to sum up the Trump years, he begins with a hejira to Canada to escape the inauguration, and ends up in a bar watching The Thing With Two Heads (1972). This antique horror movie turned out to have a surprising relevance, anticipating as it did the alleged scandal of Kathy Griffin posing with a bloody mask of Trump.

“More artfully,” Hamrah notes, “the German magazine Der Spiegel depicted Trump’s head as a flaming planet … like the planet gone out of orbit in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia.” Hamrah diagnosis us with “Trumpancholia, a psychological condition now afflicting much of the planet’s population, who have traded the things they used to enjoy for the constant monitoring of Trump’s reality-TV spectacle.”

In his vision the giant disembodied head of Trump can insert itself into any discourse, pop up out of a TV or a Twitter feed, or joy-buzz your smartphone whenever it likes.

Today, it’s quite hard to tell where the political spectacle begins and the cinematic spectacle ends. But pull threads as deftly as Hamrah does, and the whole ugly tapestry falls apart.

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TAILSPIN Inspired by the memoirs of a father and son, Beautiful Boy is an overwrought depiction of addiction as a family disease.

Needling Behavior SHOT IN WEST MARIN and based on a pair of father and son memoirs, Beautiful Boy concerns the tragedy of addiction from two angles. Young Nic Sheff (Timothee Chalamet of Call Me By Your Name) is readying for college when he tailspins into hard partying. His concerned father David (Steve Carell) gets Nic into rehab fast, but it’s already too late; the first 40 minutes is a loop commencing with David asking a doctor for info on crystal meth and what it does to the brain. By that point, Nic has graduated to needles.

The youth tries the good old geographical cure, going down to L.A. to live with his mother (Amy Ryan). No luck. He returns, vanishes into the Haight and later, the Tenderloin.

If it’s not nice, it’s still only natural when a catastrophe befalls somebody else to look for causes, and to ask, “What did these people do that I would have had the sense to avoid?” There are undertones here, three potential factors.

Beautiful Boy, like the Belgian director Felix van Groeningen’s previous tragedy, Broken Circle Breakdown, is seriously overproduced. The Sheff home—one of those simple rustic $3 million homes off of Beautiful Boy Sir Francis Drake—is fancier than the place where Jackson Maine danced with his demons in A Star is Born. This leads us R; 2 hrs to a snap judgement of addiction due to affluenza.

CineArts, Carell, as humane as all get-out, had as his most Palo Alto famous role as a passive-aggressive noodge in The Office.

Intentionally or not, this leads us to suppose the call of the wild would be an escape from David’s buddying parenting. The movie also suggests that rock music was a factor: Nic worships the band Nirvana, and the framed trophies of David’s writing career include Playboy interviews with John and Yoko.

All of these are too simple ways to describe Nic’s addiction, even though it’s a fair demonstration of how even the best families fall into the pit. The second half decays into a series of episodes of broken trust and relapses.

On the plus side Maura Tierney, as David’s wife, displays the kind of strong yet unobtrusive acting that should have made Jessica Hecht more famous.

The ever-rising Chalamet has everything needed to play Nic: He’s devious as well as beautiful, as the addiction makes him lie and steal. Vistas of the Point Reyes cliffs mirror the existential plummet an addict faces, just as they were supposed to do. But the eclectic soundtrack (everything from the hippie-days prog band Pavlov’s Dog to Gorecki) adds to the movie’s formlessness rather than defining it.—Richard von Busack

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Bolero Bing Miramar bring their excellent new album of Puerto Rican tunes to Stanford

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IRAMAR’S MUSICAL knowledge is staggering. Over the course of an hour, pianist Marlysse Simmons Argandona and singer Reinaldo Alvarez cover classical, salsa, reggae, tropicalia and bossa nova.

But what they really want to talk about is boleros.

“To me, the bolero is the ultimate expression of joy, and the ultimate expression of sadness,” says Reinaldo Alvarez, one of the Richmond, Virginia, group’s two singers. “It’s a celebration of sadness, a sadness that’s almost necessary

to life. And it’s a celebration of the love, the mad love you have to go through to get to that one dream love.”

In other words, the bolero is romance personified. A ballad form originating in Cuba in the late 1800s, it is slower and more contemplative than salsa, and exalts the tumultuous side of love, wringing it for all its emotional weight in songs of great loss and want.

Like goth, emo and trip-hop music (and as a predecessor to all three), the bolero finds catharsis in the deep end of the human spirit, and it quickly struck a chord across all of Latin America. After emerging in Cuba, boleros spread throughout Puerto Rico and Mexico,

into Central and South America, as musicians all over the western hemisphere took up the form.

Among them, one composer stands out: Puerto Rican songwriter Sylvia Rexach.

“She’s a pretty amazing woman,” Simmons Argandona says. “She only released one album, but her name is known because other musicians performed her songs a lot.” So much so that in 2001, Rexach was posthumously inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame. Along with composing boleros, Rexach wrote screenplays for radio, joined the U.S. Army during WWII, and formed Las Damiselas, the first all-female group in Puerto Rico.

But outside of Puerto Rico, her name is hardly known. In fact, when Miramar began choosing which boleros to cover, Simmons Argandona didn’t even know who she was.

“I grew up knowing about boleros, but not the ones Miramar does,” says the group’s pianist, who is first generation Chilean American. “Rei is an avid record collector and DJs on the side, so he had

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SWEET SADNESS On their debut album, ‘Dedication to Sylvia Rexach,’ Miramar walks the line between despair and contentment.

a lot of records of Puerto Rican bolero albums, and they were performing a lot of Sylvia Rexach songs. We were discovering these songs and realizing it was all her.”

Soon they found themselves with a list of boleros comprised mostly of Rexach works, songs like “Alma Adentro,” an homage to Rexach’s deceased brother, which, on Dedication to Sylvia Rexach, takes on a timeless quality thanks to the gently purring organ part played by Simmons Argandona.

In addition to covers of Rexach boleros, Dedication to Sylvia Rexach also features three originals by Miramar, songs that are woven seamlessly in with the selection of tunes from the mid-20th century. For their originals, Alvarez looked inside himself, searching for the exact kind of sadness to evoke.

“There’s a word particular to the Brazilian musical culture called saudade,” he says. “And saudade is about finding some kind of comfort or happiness within sadness. I’m definitely trying to evoke sadness, but I want to make it beautiful. When I write a song, I don’t make it about something particular that I remember or somebody in particular that I knew. I try to make it about a particular kind of sadness that I’ve felt before, and illustrate it in a way that somebody can look at the lyrics and say ‘I’ve felt that before.’”

While at first blush Miramar might seem like some curio of a distant past (Cuban music from the 1800s?), Dedication to Sylvia Rexach, the band’s first album, is very much alive, filled not just with nostalgia but with incredible musicianship and a modern spirit—a spirit even more on display on their upcoming single for the legendary soul label Daptone Records.

And though they will tell you there is nothing political about their music, Miramar comes at a time when the U.S. president has demonized Latin Americans and turned his back on Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Coming when they do, Miramar are a welcome counterargument to the blustering of a conman: a moving reminder of the value of Latin American cultures, music and lives.

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BRIGHTEN UP On Suuns’ latest effort, ‘Felt,’ the Montreal-based alt-rockers come into their own.

Cool Canadian Suuns DESPITE ITS CO-OPTING of the word “creative,” the business models of Silicon Valley work largely in opposition to the artistic process. There is no convenience economy of art. You can’t Doordash creative inspiration, and you can’t Uber your way past its gestation period. With art, doing it right takes time.

Just ask Suuns. This March, the Montreal art-rockers released Felt, their strongest album to date and their fourth in 10 years. Recorded in numerous short stints over more than half a year and using some material the band has been working on for more than a decade, Felt finds the band at its most hypnotic and most assured.

“We figured out that this is the best way to make our record,” says guitarist and founding member Joe Yarmush.

“We kind of did a session every month that was four or five days. And as annoying as that is, loading in and loading out and stuff, it really helped. It wasn’t such a disruptive process.”

Sonically lush and verdant, Felt is a record that is confident in its experimentation. Suuns has been accused in the past of borrowing a bit too heavily from the quiet-cool sounds of British rockers Clinic, but on Felt the band has come almost entirely into its own.

Take early album highlight “X-ALT” for example.

Darkly danceable and coiling in on itself constantly,

“X-ALT’s” constant tension hints at some maximum point that it avoids altogether, opting instead for unexpectedly Suuns tranquil passages of vocals and guitar, as though for a moment all Dec 7, 7pm, $11.50+ tension had simply been whisked The Ritz, San Jose away. It’s surprising moments theritzsanjose.com like these that give the band the impression of creating new paths through an ancient melodic forest, taking their time over the last decade and change to gently tamp down the wilderness into alternate routes of entry and exit.

Part of this confident experimentation comes from playing it so close to home. As on their previous two records, Felt was mixed by Grammy-winning producer John Congleton. This time around, though, the band flew him to Quebec for the work, aiming for a record that was made entirely in Montreal, the city that has fostered their slow-burning creativity.

“There are a lot of musicians here, and a lot of people trying to push the bar higher and higher in terms of experimentation,” Yarmush says admiringly. “Plus there’s not a rat race for money here. It’s relatively easy to live.”

—Mike Huguenor

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FRI NOV 30 • MAGICK BLUES BAND, WHIRL'D, AUGUST SUN @ ART BOUTIKI MUSIC HALL Magick Blues Band is a thoroughly fantastic, rocking band. Whirl’d has a great sound.

August Sun is to noise what bees are to buzzing. Easily one of the best line-ups of the year at one of the best venues for music in the South Bae. 7:30pm. 44 Race St, San Jose

SAT DEC 1 • RYD & BOTZ BATTLES PRESENT: RUIN YOUR ZAE @ FORAGER When I think of Forager, I dream of an afternoon rap battle hosted by Dirtbag Dag. The Saurus is scheduled to battle. He’s one of my favorite California rappers. $20 at the door.

2pm. 420 S First St, San Jose

SAT DEC 1 • JEREMY CLYDE IN-STORE PERFORMANCE @ STREETLIGHT RECORDS The Jeremy of Chad & Jeremy fame. They are responsible for the 1964 hit “Summer Song,” which I think is one of the most beautiful melodies ever recorded. If you don’t know it, do your ears a favor and fill them with it. 4pm. 980 S Bascom Ave, San Jose = MUST SEE

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WED 11/28 YOUTH FOR JUSTICE MEETINGS • REUNIONES PARA JÓVENES

5:30pm. Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN), 1415 Koll Cir, Suite 108, San Jose

DRAG QUEEN BINGO

6pm. Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center, 938 The Alameda, San Jose

Piano Brunch with Johnny Fabulous. Mon, 6pm: Mixed Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

OPEN MIC: OPEN SPACE FEAT. BEN HENDERSON 6:30pm. Legendary San Jose musician plays live. Near JCPenney, Eastridge Center, 2200 Eastridge Loop, San Jose

STAGE: ANNIE

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Wed, 11/28, 6pm: Jerry Logan & Loganville. Tue, 12/4, 6pm: Bean Creek. Wed, 12/5, 6pm: The Goat Hill Girls. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

7pm. Various times through 12/1. Pioneer High School Drama, 1290 Blossom Hill Rd, San Jose

JAZZ JAMS NIGHT W/ OLIVER HARRIS BAND 8pm. Britannia Arms Cupertino, 1087 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose

DAVE RUBIN LIVE: A NIGHT OF STAND UP AND SIT DOWN 8pm. San Jose Improv, 62 S Second St, San Jose

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

Wed, 6pm: The Legendary Ron Thompson & Sid Morris Gang feat. Umunhum. Fri, 8pm: Sue Foley Live. Fri, 9pm: (In Studio) Wee Willie Walker & The AP Soul Orchestra One More Time in 2018. Sat, 6pm: Jimmy Dewrance Blues Band. Sun, 11am: New Orleans

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THU 11/29 CHILDREN’S AUTHOR: ROSEMARY WELLS 3:30pm. Creator of Max and Ruby, McDuff, Yoko.

Hicklebee's Bookstore, 1378 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

Wednesday, November 28 • Ages 16+

CAFECITO • “OUR VISION” 5:30pm. Free coffee, pan dulce, and conversation.

School of Arts & Culture @ MHP, 1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose

AIDS REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY 6pm. San Jose City Hall, 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC 6:30pm sign-up. Feat. McTate Stroman II. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

DANCE: IMAGES IN DANCE 7pm. Advanced student choreography. SJSU School of Music & Dance, 1 Washington Square, San Jose

JAZZ JAM BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Wed & Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank.

Fri, 10pm: The Spazmatics.

Tue, 7:30pm: PubStumpers.

5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

7pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

COUNTRY: CHRIS JANSON 7pm. Club Rodeo, 610 Coleman Ave, San Jose

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Bhad Bhabie

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Thursday, November 29 • Ages 18+

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Friday, November 30 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

SAMMY JOHNSON

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Saturday, December 1 • Ages 16+

Dom KenneDy Saturday, Dec. 1 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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Dec 5 Whitechapel (Ages 16+) Dec 8 P-Lo/ ALLBLACK (Ages 16+) Dec 11 Wavves/ Beach Fossils (Ages 16+) Dec 13 Yung Bans/ Joey Trap (Ages 16+) Dec 14 & 15 Iration/ HIRIE (Ages 16+) Dec 16 Night Of The Blue Swan (Ages 16+) Dec 21 Thundercat (Ages 16+) Dec 28 Cut Chemist/ Chali2na (Ages 16+) Dec 31 Eagles Of Death Metal (Ages 21+) Jan 12 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Ages 16+) Jan 19 Petty Theft (Ages 16+) Jan 20 Ozomatli (Ages 16+) Jan 25 Wifisfuneral/ Robb Bank$ (Ages 16+) Jan 26 Y & T (Ages 21+) Jan 31 Tritonal (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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STAGE: THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT 7pm. Various times through 12/8. Leland High School, 6677 Camden Ave, San Jose

COMEDY: THE PUMP AND DUMP SHOW: 2018 PARENTALLY INCORRECT TOUR

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8pm. Various times through Sun. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

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Thu, 8pm: UADA, Dead In The Manger, Coldclaw, Thangorodrim.

Fri, 8pm: The Faction, The Old Firm Casuals, The Boneshavers.

Sat, 8pm: Power Trip, Hatriot, Aseptic, Ethnocide. 400 S First St, San Jose

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I’m a recovering addict, five years sober. My ex-boyfriend was a “normie” (12-step slang for someone who hasn’t had addiction issues), and there were definitely things he just didn’t get. Do I need to date another recovering addict to feel understood? I’ve done that before, and I really don’t like it. It’s like living in a recovery bubble 24/7.—Sober A person who doesn’t have a history of addiction can understand the need to take the edge off. They’ll even admit to doing it themselves—with a cup of chamomile tea. Though “normies” tend to view addicts as lazy, an addict’s shame sometimes comes out of typically impressive qualities—like creativity and industriousness—being applied to getting loaded. Take author and former comedian Amy Dresner. In her addiction memoir, My Fair Junkie, she writes about suffering a grand mal seizure while shooting cocaine.

Realizing that she could’ve cracked her head open, she had an epiphany—not to stop shooting coke but to strap on a bike helmet before doing it.

As shocking as this would be to most normie men, there are those who could still be a good partner to someone in recovery—if they’re willing to put some work into empathizing.

However, it turns out there are different kinds of empathy. In short, “I feel ya” empathy is different from “I understand you” empathy. “I feel ya” is dumb empathy, the kind that just pops up automatically, without any mental effort on our part. Researchers call this auto-empathy “affective empathy,”

because “affect” is researcher-speak for the observable expression of emotion in a person’s face, body or voice.

“I understand you” empathy, on the other hand, is “cognitive empathy,” a psychological skill that psychologists also call “perspective-taking.” It involves a conscious mental effort to put yourself in another person’s shoes to understand their point of view, motivations, and/or emotions.

Research by business school professor Cynthia Wang and her colleagues finds that an ability for perspective-taking correlates with reduced prejudice and stronger social bonds. This suggests that a man who engages in it might be more likely to see you as a person who overcame her addiction issues instead of a bunch of addiction issues with a person attached.

Finally, because you’ve probably done serious soul-searching and character correction in getting and staying sober, a man who’s a good match for you is probably one who’s taken some hard looks at himself and worked to remodel where necessary. Ideally, he’ll help you feel comfortable opening up to him by being open about his own current and former shortcomings.

In a documentary on Lady Gaga, she talked about how whenever she reached a new pinnacle of success, her boyfriend or fiance left her. It happened three times. My most recent boyfriend couldn’t handle it when I started to become successful. Are my options to be successful and alone or unsuccessful and loved? How do I find someone who won’t feel threatened?—Disturbed It’s often hard for a man who’s achieved less than the woman he’s with. Wave hello to “precarious manhood,” a term coined by psychologists Jennifer Bosson and Joseph Vandello for how a man’s social status must be continually earned and can be lost relatively easily through public failures and the exposure of his shortcomings. We rack up our social standing in comparison with others.

So, in line with research I recently cited about men’s freakouts when they were told a woman beat them in every category on an exam, Bosson and Vandello write that “feelings of

masculinity can be undone” by “being outperformed by a woman.”

The reality is, the world is not our dating oyster. Atheists have to take a pass on the hot churchgoers. The teetotalers go poorly with the “social crack smokers.”

Accept that success narrows your options, and concentrate on meeting men in places the honchos hang out.

Narrowing the field this way should make you less likely to hear dismaying parting words from a man—those that basically translate to “I have mad respect for your success. My penis, unfortunately, has some ambivalence.“

(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).

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY known as the Arctic tern experiences two summers and enjoys more daylight than any other animal.

That's because it regularly makes a long-distance journey from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again. Let's designate this hardy traveler as your inspirational creature for the next 11 months. May it help animate you to experiment with brave jaunts that broaden and deepen your views of the world. I don't necessarily mean you should literally do the equivalent of circumnavigating the planet. Your expansive adventures might take place mostly in inner realms or closer to home.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When the American Civil War began in 1861, the United States fractured. Four years later, the union was technically restored when the northern states defeated the southern states. At that time, African American slavery became illegal everywhere for the first time since the country's birth decades earlier. But there was a catch. The southern states soon enacted laws that mandated racial segregation and ensured that African Americans continued to suffer systematic disadvantages. Is there a comparable issue in your personal life? Did you at sometime in the past try to fix an untenable situation only to have it sneak back in a less severe but still debilitating form? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to finish the reforms, to enforce a thorough and permanent correction.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Does an elusive giant

creature with a long neck inhabit the waters of Loch Ness in northern Scotland? Alleged sightings have been reported since 1933. Most scientists dismiss the possibility that "Nessie" actually exists, but there are photos, films and videos that provide tantalizing evidence. A government-funded Scottish organization has prepared contingency plans just in case the beast does make an unambiguous appearance. In that spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I recommend that you prepare yourself for the arrival in your life of intriguing anomalies and fun mysteries.

Like Nessie, they're nothing to worry about, but you'll be better able to deal gracefully with them if you're not totally taken by surprise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Does moss really "eat"

rocks, as Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert attests in her novel The Signature of All Things? Marine chemist Martin Johnson says yes. Moss really does break down and release elements in solid stone. Gilbert adds, "Given enough time, a colony of moss can turn a cliff into gravel, and turn that gravel into topsoil."

Furthermore, this hardy plant can grow virtually everywhere: in the tropics and frozen wastes, on tree bark and roofing slate, on sloth fur and snail shells.

I propose that we make moss your personal symbol of power for now, Cancerian. Be as indomitable, resourceful and resilient as moss.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Let's shout out a big

"THANKS!" and "HALLELUJAH!" to the enzymes in our bodies. These catalytic proteins do an amazing job of converting the food we eat into available energy. Without them, our cells would take forever to turn any particular meal into the power we need to walk, talk and think. I bring this marvel to your attention, Leo, because now is a favorable time to look for and locate metaphorical equivalents of enzymes: influences and resources that will aid and expedite your ability to live the life you want to live.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Every dreamer knows

that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground," writes author Judith Thurman.

I'm guessing you will experience this feeling in the coming weeks. What does it mean if you do? It may be your deep psyche's way of nudging you to find an energizing new sanctuary. Or perhaps it means you should search for fresh ways to feel peaceful and well-grounded. Maybe it's a prod to push you outside your existing comfort zone so you can expand it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Venice, Italy consists of 118 small islands that rise from a shallow lagoon. A network of 443 bridges keeps them all connected.

But Venice isn't the world champion of bridges. The American city of Pittsburgh, Penn. holds that title, with 446. I nominate these two places to be your

inspirational symbols in the coming weeks. It's time for you build new metaphorical bridges and take good care of your existing metaphorical bridges.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): To aid and support

your navigation through this pragmatic phase of your astrological cycle, I have gathered counsel from three productive pragmatists. First is author Helen Keller. She said she wanted to accomplish great and noble things, but her "chief duty" was "to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." Second, author George Orwell believed that "to see what is in front of one's nose" requires neverending diligence. Finally, author Pearl S. Buck testified that she didn't wait around until she was in the right mood before beginning her work.

Instead, she invoked her willpower to summon the necessary motivation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Blackjack is a

card game popular in gambling casinos. In the eternal struggle to improve the odds of winning big money, some blackjack players work in teams.

One teammate secretly counts the cards as they're dealt and assesses what cards are likely to come up next. Another teammate gets subtle signals from his card-counting buddy and makes the bets. A casino in Windsor, Ontario pressed charges against one blackjack team, complaining that this tactic was deceptive and dishonest. But the court decided in the team's favor, ruling that the players weren't cheating but simply using smart strategy. In the spirit of these blackjack teams, Sagittarius, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to better your odds in a "game" of your choice by using strategy that is almost as good as cheating but isn't actually cheating.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What has become

of the metaphorical seeds you planted during the weeks after your last birthday? Have your intentions flourished? Have your dreams blossomed? Have your talents matured? Have your naive questions evolved into more penetrating questions? Be honest and kind as you answer these inquiries. Be thoughtful and big-hearted as you take inventory of your ability to follow through on your promises to yourself. If people are quizzical about how much attention you're giving yourself as you take stock, inform them that your astrologer has told you that December is Love Yourself Better Month.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you want to play the

drinking game called Possum, you and your friends climb up into a tree with a case of beer and start drinking. As time goes by, people get so hammered they fall out of the tree. The winner is the last one left in the tree. I hope you won't engage in this form of recreation anytime soon, nor in any other activity that even vaguely resembles it. The coming weeks should be a time of calling on favors, claiming your rewards, collecting your blessings and graduating to the next level. I trust your policy will be: no trivial pursuits, no wasted efforts, no silly stunts.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In his song "Happy Talk," Academy Award-winning lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II offered this advice: "You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?" Where do you stand in this regard, Pisces? Do you in fact have a vivid, clearly defined dream? And have you developed a strategy for making that dream come true? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to home in on what you really want and hone your scheme for manifesting it. (P.S. Keep in mind Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's idea: "A goal without a plan is just a wish.")

Homework: Hug yourself as you tell yourself your biggest secret.

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of QUINCY SAY, also known as KUNCHI HSIEH and KUN-CHI HSIEH. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: PRAKOON CHEN in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA CLARA. The Petition for Probate requests that PRAKOON CHEN 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 on January 3, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. in Department 12 at the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara 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: RICHARD A. GORINI, ESQ, , 1666 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126-2204. Tel No.: (408) 286-6314. (Pub Dates: 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647811

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: T & L Spa, 2419 Steven Creek Blvd., San Jose, CA, 95128, Hue Tran. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/23/2018. /s/Hue Tran. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/23/2018. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647386 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Youngs Carpet Cleaning And Steam Cleaning, 3201 Loma Verde Dr., #5, San Jose, CA, 95117, Daniel Lee. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/01/2018. /s/Daniel Lee. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2018. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2018)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648168

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Inspired Education, 1705 Hecker Pass Road, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Marisela Gomez. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/21/2016. Refile in facts from previous filing #623933 /s/Marisela Gomez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/25/2018. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2018)

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648028

The following person(s)Design is (are) doing business as: The Engineer/Sr Cunningham Collection, 1523 Montalban Drive, San at CA: Jose,Milpitas, CA, 95120, Kenneth W Mannina. This business is

being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began Resp for design and development of transacting business under the fictitious business name high performance power management or names listed herein on 02/01/2018. /s/Kenneth W. ICs including DC/DC Linear Mannina.

This statement was converters, filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara on 10/31/2018. (pub Metro Regulators, LEDCounty Drivers, Isolated 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2018) Converters. Email res to [ mailto:hr@ linear.com Refer to job FICTITIOUS]hr@linear.com.

BUSINESS #1067 when apply. ~Linear Technology NAME STATEMENT #647983 Corporation.

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Site For Sore Eyes, 10079 Saich Way, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Eye For Optical, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names & listed herein. Refile in facts Design develop features forfrom theprevious filing #584229. /s/Kenny Chang. CEO. #3206961. This Nutanix manageability platform statement was filed with the County Clerk ofthat Santa Clara Countywith on 10/30/2018. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, interacts Nutanix Core Services.

11/21, 11/28/2018) Mail resume to Nutanix, Inc, 1740

Member of Technical Staff at San Jose, CA:

Technology Dr, Suite 150, San Jose, CA FICTITIOUS 95110.

Attn: BUSINESS HR Job#1027-1.

NAME STATEMENT #648058

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Hostess / Server Braich Transport, 814 Gilchrist Wanted Walkway #1, San

Jose, CA, 95133, Sukhdeep Singh. This businessfor is a Deluxe Eatery & Drinkery. looking being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began weekend host or hostess and a daytime transacting business under the fictitious business name server. is 3-4ondays a week with or namesServer listed herein 11/01/2018. /s/Sukhdeep Singh. This statement was filed County Clerk more shifts available overwith thetheHolidays.

If of Santa Clara County on 11/01/2018. (pub Metro 11/07, interested come in with resume and ask 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2018) to talk to David or Chad between 2-4.

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NAME STATEMENT #648066

ENGINEERING The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

Willow Glen Chiropractic, 1314 has Lincoln Ave., STE 2E, San Broadcom Corporation a Senior Jose, CA, 95125, Jacklyn Muxen, 3407 San Marino Ave., Manager, R&D opening in San Jose, San Jose, CA, 95127. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting CA to provide technical &managerial business under the fictitious businessdevelopment. name or names direction to projects in ASIC listed herein. /s/Jacklyn Muxen. This statement was Often directs &may the on filed with the County Clerkparticipate of Santa ClarainCounty 11/01/2018. (pub Metro 11/07, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28/2018) development of multidimensional designs involving the layout of complex integrated FICTITIOUS circuits.

Mail BUSINESS resume to Attn: HR (GS), NAME STATEMENT #648113 1320 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95131 following person(s) (are) SJYAV doing business as: .The Must reference jobiscode

Sunny Valley Networks, 440 N Wolf Rd., Sunnyvale, CA, 94085, Sunny Valley Cyber Security Inc. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 09/13/2016. /s/ PLUMB, ELECT, DOORS, Murat Balaban. CEO. #C4063575. This statement was WINDOWS,FULL SERVICE filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on REMODELING, 11/05/2018. (pub Metro KITCHENS,BATH. 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2018)

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NAME STATEMENT #648355

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Clubz! In-Home Tutoring Services, 23 Cleaves Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126, Joshua Cooley. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Joshua Cooley. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2018. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2018)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Boulevard Bites And Brews, 15525 Los Gatos Blvd., STE D, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Copperpanda LLC, 110 Oak Rim Ct., APT 71, Los Gatos, CA, 95032. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Mike Ellenburg.

Managing Member. #201829010033. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/06/2018. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647993

MUSIC - is (are) doing business as: The following person(s)

Connors Consulting, 3457 Todd Way, San Jose, CA, 95124,

Stephen Patrick Connors. This business is being conducted ThugWorldRecords.com by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business Thug World Records explosive label under the fictitious business name or names listed herein based out of/s/Stephen San Jose CA with majorwas on 01/01/2018.

Connors.

This statement filed with the ClerkE-40 of Santa Clara County on features lil County Wayne Ghetto 10/30/2018. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2018)

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FICTITIOUSOver BUSINESS Call or log on thugworldrecords.com NAME STATEMENT #647955 408-561-5458 ask foris gp The following person(s) (are) doing business as:

Apollo 9 Motors, 511 San Jorge Terr, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089, Willian Wang. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/29/2018. /s/William Wang. This statement NOTICE CASE NO.: was filedTO withCREDITORS, the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/29/2018. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/05/2018)

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In re the Matter of the CAPELLA FAMILY REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED JULY 30,BUSINESS 1997, by Manuel J. Capella, DecedentNotice is FICTITIOUS hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of Decedent NAME STATEMENT #648424 Manuel J. Capella that all persons having claims against the The following person(s) (are) business as: The Decedent are required to file themiswith thedoing Superior Court of the Risk Authority, 1510ofPage 120A, State of California, County SantaMill Clara,Rd., at 191Suite N. First Street,Palo San Alto, CA,CA94304, Stanford University Network Risk Jose, 95112, and mail or deliver a copy toMedical David Capella, successor trustee of the Capella Family RevocableisLiving Trust dated July 30, Authority, LLC. This business being conducted by a 1997, of whichLiability the Decedent was the Registrant settlor, at the Sowards Limited Company. has notLaw yetFirm, begun 2542 S. Bascom Avenue, Suiteunder 200, Campbell, CA 95008, within the transacting business the fictitious business name later four (4)listed monthsherein. after November 2, 2016 (thefrom date previous of the first orofnames Refile in facts publication of notice toAbove creditors) or, if notice is mailedin or personally filing #627826. entity was formed the state delivered to you, sixty (60) daysZiemba. after the date thisPresident notice is mailed of Delaware. /s/Elaine Vice & Chief orRisk personally delivered to you.LATE CLAIMS: If you do not yourwith Officer. #2013014100. This statement wasfilefiled claim within the time required by law, you must petition to file a the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/13/2018. late(pub claimMetro as provided California Probate Code §19103.FAILURE 11/21,in11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018) TO FILE A CLAIM: Failure to file a claim with the court and to serve a copy of the claim on the trustee will in most instances invalidate your claim.(Pub dates:BUSINESS 10/26, 11/02, 11/09/2016) FICTITIOUS

NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS#648476 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NAME GoldenSTATEMENT Painting Service,#622524 Inc., 14166 Candler Ave.,

San Jose, CA, 95127,isBerbena This business is The following person(s) (are) doingOctavio. business as: Advanced being conducted Individual.

Registrant began Industrial Delivery LLC,by 247an N. Capitol Ave., Unit 104, San Jose, transacting business under the fictitious business CA, 95127. This business is being conducted by a limited liability name or nameshas listed herein 11/13/2018. /s/Octavio company.

Registrant not yet begunon transacting business Berbena.

This business statement was filed with County under the fictitious name or names listedthe herein.

Above Clerk SantainClara County on 11/13/2018.

Metro entity wasofformed the state of California. /s/Gilbert (pub Juan Garcia Managing Member#201627010166This 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018) statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/17/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS#648538

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Start-

NAME STATEMENT #622430 Op, 2. Start Op, 470 University Ave., Los Altos, CA, 94022,

VCfollowing Partners,person(s) Inc. Thisisbusiness is business being conducted The (are) doing as: Unionby a Coprporation.

Registrant began business under Avenue Liquors, 3649 Union Ave., Santransacting Jose, CA, 95124, Kim Dao the fictitious business name orJose, names Corporation, 36 Leominster Ct., San CA, listed 95139. on This11/01/2018. business Aboveconducted entity was in theRegistrant state of California. is being byformed a corporation. has not yet/s/Kathy Bagby.

CFO. #C2008003.

This the statement filed with begun transacting business under fictitiouswas business name orthe names listedClerk herein. formed in the state (pub of County of Above Santa entity Clara was County on 11/15/2018.

California. /s/Michael John Perazzo President #C39443143 This Metro 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018) statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/13/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS#648583 NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is#622360 (are) doing business as: Burn NAME STATEMENT

Rescue, A Program Of Resurge International, 145 North Wolf TheRoad, following person(s)CA, is (are) doingResurge businessInternational. as: Soft Touch Spa, Sunnyvale, 94086, This 1692 Tully Road, Suite 12, San Jose, CA, 95122, Dai Nguyen, 650 Island business is being conducted by a Corporation. Registrant Place, Redwood City, CA, 94065. This business is conducted by an has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under name orname names listedlisted herein.

Above entity was thebusiness fictitious business or names herein. /s/Dai Nguyen formed in the of California.

Kent.

Chief This statement wasstate filed with the County/s/Beverly Clerk of Santa Clara County Operations Officer. #C0679458 This statement was filed on 10/12/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016) with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/16/2018. (pub Metro 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622523

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: KT Dental

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NUMBER: FBN647816 The following person (persons)is (are) doing business as:DKNY, 447 GREAT MALL DRIVE, MILPITAS, CA 95035.COUNTY OF Santa Clara: This business is conducted by A LIMITED LIABLITY COMPANY.THE DONNA KARAN COMPANY STORE LLC, 7401 BOONE AVE N, BROOKLYN PARK, MN, 55428The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 03/31/10 and 10/24/2018 is the file date.Statement filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara/s/ Tomas Santo / - DeputyCounty Clerk70 W. Hedding St., San Jose, CA 95110/s/ RANDON Q. ROLAND/Vice PresidentThe Donna Karan Company Store LLCArticle Number / Reg. 200331010079Above Entity was formed in the of New 11/14, 11/21, was 11/28, 12/5) onState 01/28/2014 underYork(Pub file numberMETRO 587505. This business conducted by: An individual /s/Minh T. Hoang Date filed with the clerks office: 10/12/2016 (pub dates 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMEOF STATEMENT #648356 NOTICE PETITION TO ADMINISTER The following person(s) is (are) business ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE doing KELLY. CASEas: Patsons Press, 831 Martin Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95050, NO. 16PR178443 Advantage Mailing, LLC, 1600 N. Kraemer Blvd. This

NOTICE OF PETITION ADMINISTER OF MARK business is beingTOconducted byESTATE a Limited Liability PASCOE KELLY.Registrant CASE NO. 16PR178443To all heirs beneficiaries Company. began transacting business creditors, creditors, and persons otherwise undercontingent the fictitious business namewho or may names listed be herein interested the will or estate, or both of: MARK PASCOE KELLY. onin11/05/2018.

Above entity was formed in the A Petition Probate has/s/Tom been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public state offorDelaware.

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Managing Member.

Administrator of the County of Santa Clara in the Superior Court #201524010402. This statement was filed with the of California, Clara.

The County Petition for requests CountyCounty ClerkofofSanta Santa Clara onProbate 11/08/2018. (pub thatMetro James11/28, J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of the County of Santa 12/05, 12/12, 12/19/2018) Clara 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative NAME STATEMENT #647716 to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking very important actions, however, personal Thecertain following person(s) is (are) doingthebusiness representative will be required to give 953 noticeMoro to interested as: RK Immigration Services, Ct., Gilroy, persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the CA, 95020322. This business is being conducted proposed action.) The independent administration authority by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant beganwill be transacting granted unlessbusiness an interested person an objection to the name under thefiles fictitious business petition and shows good causeon why10/22/2018. the court should not grant or names listed herein Above entity authority.

A hearing petition will be held in/s/Ranjeet this court asSingh was formed inon thethestate of California. follows: November 28, 2016, at 9 a.m. in Dept.

10 located at 191 was Khaira. President. #201826110480. This statement NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing (pub Metro 12/05, 12/12/2018) and10/22/2018. state your objections or file11/21, written11/28, 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy NAME #648522 to the personalSTATEMENT representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) fourperson(s) months from datedoing of firstbusiness issuance ofas: The following isthe (are) letters to a general personal representative, defined in section European Wax Center, 5638 CottleasRoad, Suite 30, San 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days fromDr., the date Jose, CA, 95123, Jass Ewc. Inc, 1316 Elkwood Milpitas, of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section CA, 95035. This business is being conducted by a 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes Corporation. Registrant began transacting business and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may under the fictitious business name or names listed want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. herein on 11/14/2018.

Above entity formed in the YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court.was If you are a person state of California. /s/Amy Nguyen.

Vice President. interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request was filed the County for#C4159024.

Special NoticeThis (formstatement DE-154) of the filing of anwith inventory and Clerk of Santaassets ClaraorCounty on 11/15/2018.

Metro appraisal of estate of any petition or account (pub as provided 11/28, 12/05, 12/12,1250.

12/19/2018) in Probate Code section A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: MARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel, OFFICE OF THE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, CA, 95110, Telephone: 408-758-4200 (Pub CC, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) NAME STATEMENT #647927

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cal Wash, 2630 California Street, Mountain View,

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS CA, 94040, Chris Mark Bushman, 660 30th Ave., San Mateo,STATEMENT CA, 94403. This business is being conducted by NAME #622566 an Individual. Registrant began transacting business Theunder following is (are) doing business as:names Van Hoalisted Lam, theperson(s) fictitious business name or 979herein Story Rd., San Jose, /s/Chris Ca, 95122, Nuh Thuan Lam, Quoc on#7087, 10/16/2018.

M. Bushman.

This Anhstatement Nguyen, 608 Giraudo Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111.

This business was filed with the County Clerk of Santa is conducted by an married couple.Registrant has not yet begun Clara County on 10/26/2018. (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, transacting business under the fictitious business name or names 12/12, 12/19/2018) listed herein.

Refile of previous file #620681 with changes. /s/Nhu Thuan Lam This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Clara County on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

NAME STATEMENT #648631 The followingBUSINESS person(s) is (are) doing business as: FICTITIOUS Galvez International Student Housing, 2590 Georginia NAME STATEMENT Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116,#622752 Chanel Galvez. This business

Theisfollowing person(s) is by (are)andoing business as: Free Spirit,began 380 being conducted Individual.

Registrant S. 1st Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, Michael Hill, 8093business E. Zayante name transacting business under theR.fictitious Rd.,orFelton, CA,listed 95018. This business is conducted/s/Chanel by an individual. names herein on 11/19/2018.

Galvez.

Registrant has not yetwas begun transacting business under theof Santa This statement filed with the County Clerk fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael R. Clara County on 11/19/2018. (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, Hill12/12, This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara 12/19/2018) County on 10/24/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #621712 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Countrywide Carrier, 2947 Capewood Ln., San Jose, CA, 95132, Rajwinder Singh. This business is conducted by an individual.Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name

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