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Santa Clara County Board of Education trustee DARCIE GREEN made her romance with RICK GREEN a public spectacle. From the onstage proposal at the San Jose Jazz Festival to the story they shopped about him taking her surname—because feminism!—to the incessant social media updates professing their undying devotion, the two courted an audience for their infatuation. That made it more than a little awkward when, in the first week of 2016, Metro exposed Mr. Green’s longstanding history of battering women and the questionable judgment of a locally prominent feminist—and then-Assembly candidate—overlooking that past. Ms. Green responded by lashing out at the messenger.

They Fast-forward to the Did present—and the What? anticipated trainwreck. On Sept. 6, the onceSEND TIPS TO rising star in Silicon FLY@ Valley Democratic METRONEWS. politics wound up in COM the clink after she was accused of running over her husband. In hubby’s telling, she tried to ram him with her car for reasons he declined to divulge. He called police, filed a stay-away order against her, worked out a joint custody situation for their 2-year-old son and posted selfies of his injuries to social media. Because Mr. Green took the first legal action and has been pretty vocal about the incident, his version of events has become the public record. Mr. Green even spoke at length with Fly about his newfound calling teaching kids about the dangers of intergenerational violence. Ms. Green didn’t return Fly’s call for comment, has yet to file a response in court and hasn’t disclosed much except for an initial Facebook post shortly after the car collision. “Thank you … for everyone who has not handed down the big ole ‘I told you so,’” she wrote in a show of self-awareness that concluded with a note of defiant optimism. “I love believing in people and always will.”

BY ANY OTHER NAME Lila Rose, the 30-year-old founder of anti-abortion group Live Action, brands herself a “human rights activist.”

Rose Against How a San Jose native became the face of millennial anti-abortion activism BY TORI TRUSCHEIT

ILA ROSE has had a very good year. In October, she starred in a mini-documentary from The Atlantic about the anti-abortion organization she founded in her parents’ San Jose living room at age 15. Then she got married and went on a honeymoon, posting to Instagram from the beach with her new, extremely clean-cut husband in matching blue and white outfits. And in the same month, the Supreme Court confirmed a justice who will likely do more to end abortion than anyone in recent history.

Reproductive justice organizations are preparing for the biggest rollback of abortion rights in decades, and the mood among pro-choice women and sexual assault survivors is low. “It scares me for my daughters and their friends,” said Laura Jimenez, executive director of California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. But Rose told The Atlantic she was “excited to be alive” during this time, when abortion could become illegal everywhere. Rose, now 30, became a high-profile anti-abortion activist after she pretended to be a 13-year-old and infiltrated Planned Parenthood in 2008, making hoaxy videos that she hoped would get the organization defunded. Even with heavy Breitbart promotion that led to a Congressional investigation, the videos didn’t affect Planned Parenthood’s

national funding. “The videos were heavily edited and fraudulently obtained, and ultimately there was no finding of wrongdoing,” says Lupe Rodriguez, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte. But they put Live Action on the map. It’s a right-wing version of the Silicon Valley startup narrative, except Rose is marketing herself; these days, she leads a team of about 20 employees in an Arlington, Virginia, office, the millennial figurehead for the same anti-abortion tactics that groups like Operation Rescue have been using for decades. Rose calls pro-choice feminism “antiquated,” but nothing about Live Action’s opposition to abortion, birth control, and in-vitro fertilization (IVF) is modern; one in four American women of reproductive age will have an abortion, 98 percent of sexually active women have used birth control at some point, and IVF is old news in Silicon Valley, a hotbed of tech fertility companies that are based around its possibilities. A Supreme Court poised to roll back protections on body autonomy feels especially extreme at a time when #MeToo has reshaped consequences for sexual harassment and in a county that recalled a judge that voters deemed too lenient on a rapist.

its existence drives right-wing voter turnout for anyone who promises to get rid of it. Instead, the idea is to close abortion clinics one by one, until they’re concentrated in blue states and it’s almost impossible to get an abortion in most of the country. But California is not immune to this strategy, either. The Supreme Court ruled against the state in June when it said “pregnancy crisis centers” that masquerade as abortion clinics and convince unsuspecting patients to carry their pregnancies to term are allowed to maintain their facade. The clinics don’t provide help with rent after the baby is born or free child care so you can keep your job or stay in school, and California’s high cost of living makes an unintended pregnancy even more difficult to manage. Those political decisions mean reproductive rights advocates in California can’t focus all their attention on supporting other states. It means they have to put at least some energy into protecting what rights Californians already have. But access is still an issue here. Medi-Cal covers abortion, which is the best possible insurance scenario to allow everyone who needs an abortion to get one. But the high cost of living in California means that for many people, the list of financial hurdles for getting an abortion are long. And threats to exclude Planned Parenthood from receiving funding through Medicaid, the ostensible goal of Rose’s attack videos, would directly affect access to abortion in California. Live Action avoids many underlying questions behind the policies they support, including that life starts at fertilization and that contraception is as bad as abortion. The idea seems to be that if you’re not having procreative sex in a heterosexual marriage, you shouldn't have sex at all. For Rodriguez, Rose’s positions don’t match the public health reality of a sexually active public, nor do they align with what most people believe. “Young people, and all people really, are not abstaining from sexual activity,” she says. “Would Jesus agree?” one of Rose’s followers asked when a guy on Twitter wanted Rose to butt out of people’s sex lives. “Who cares?” he answered. That’s the big question, the vast gap between those who’ve just stacked the Supreme Court and everyone else. The debate rages, but the shift away from legalized body autonomy is already underway, and the impact will be generational.

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Stanford professor Michele Dauber, who led the Judge Aaron Persky recall and founded the Enough is Enough political action committee, thinks we’re in a new moment. In the Obama era, she says, there was broad consensus “that women should be captains of their own fate, and they should be able to decide when and under what conditions they have sex and and when and under what conditions they have babies.” But Kavanaugh’s confirmation indicates that things have changed. The moment might be new, but Rose’s work feels old-school. Her organization uses the same grisly photos of fetuses that protesters have always used outside abortion clinics, now with the addition of memes, like the one on her social media pages that compares photos of slavery and the Holocaust to abortion. Her Twitter background is a direct echo of the Women’s March logo: same colors, same silhouette-style image, except the woman in the image has a pregnant belly with a fetus. Her tweets skip weekends, as if she’s employed someone to do her social media and they take Saturdays and Sundays off. That’s hard to know, since the “who we are” page on LiveAction’s website lists no other staff members, as if Rose is the only person in the organization. Even her Instagram feed, featuring screenshots from her Fox interviews and carefully posed selfies, is oddly impersonal. But Rose is a leader for winning times, and abortion foes are winning. She doesn’t need to be scrappy and terrifying like the evangelical extremists camped out in front of Midwestern abortion clinics in the early ’90s. She also, apparently, doesn’t need to speak with any media she deems less than fawning. Rose skipped out on a long-planned interview with Metro. She can simply appear on TV and smile on her tightly curated Instagram feed, secure in the knowledge that reproductive rights are fading in America. That fade could be gradual, but it does seem likely. Usually, when states pass anti-abortion laws that seem unconstitutional, higher courts shut them down. But with Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court and the Trump administration stacking lower courts with young anti-abortion judges, we might see fewer of those laws get overturned in the early stages. Cynics say the right might not want to overturn Roe v. Wade itself, since

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HEALTHY HOLIDAYS Veggielution’s ‘Eastside Street Food Hub’ is setting up weekends near Christmas in the Park.

Tasting Success Farm-to-fork nonprofit Veggielution helps food vendors get street legal BY GARY SINGH

ETWEEN THE Hammer and the Ha Ha, I went looking for Veggielution. Why? Because jackfruit mole tamales and vegan hot chocolate are great ways to activate dead public spaces.

A full-functioning urban farm located at the far back corner of

Emma Prusch Park in East San Jose, Veggielution already serves up a bouillabaisse of community activities, including farm tours, garden adventures and all sorts of educational initiatives. People can dig in the soil, cook in the kitchen or harass the pesky peacocks that invade the farm. I’ve done each of those things myself. “We went out in East San Jose and

we actually walked around and talked to vendors and basically recruited them on the street,” said Emily Schwing, Veggielution’s development communications manager. As a result, street vendors accustomed to selling store-bought food from illegal carts with no health permits can now learn how to go through proper channels and do their job on the books. Equipped with a business tax ID and new skills, the vendors are on a path toward starting their own legal street food businesses. “No one here in San Jose wants a street food scene to be just packaged goods,” Schwing said. “They want it to be as diverse as the people. So we help create a system where the different cultures around San Jose will be able to step into a street food scene that’s set up for them to be successful, letting them cook what

they know how to cook, and making that the new standard.” With a presence near Christmas in the Park, Veggielution intends its “Eastside Street Food Hub” as a way to introduce local food culture to visitors who come to San Jose’s main winter attraction. The street food hub was originally located in the dimly lit, horribly designed swath of empty concrete between the Hammer Theatre and Second Street. On paper this made sense, but it turned out the Ha Ha public artwork completely obscured the food hub, disconnecting it from any flow of pedestrian traffic coming from Christmas in the Park. The whole operation then relocated to Paseo de San Antonio in front of the defunct Camera 12 Cinema building, where it will now sit on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings for a few hours, giving passersby a chance to sample a variety of local fare including fresh tamales, sandwiches and holiday drinks made from scratch by East San Jose vendors. As such, the scenario in front of Camera 12 is a much more effective way to activate a failed public space. The dead theater complex is one of the most hideous eyesores in recent memory, resulting from decades of hick-town redevelopment failures. Now, in front of the building on weekend nights, one finds a handful of vibrant tables where happy families can purchase jackfruit mole tamales and hot cinnamon tea, although the menu will change every weekend. It’s a fantastic way to activate an underutilized pedestrian walkway. To the city of San Jose’s credit, the Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services (PRNS) stepped in at the last minute to help connect Veggielution with kitchen access at the Gardner Community Center when the previous kitchen wasn’t working out. The new food entrepreneurs-in-training were able to get the job done on deadline and bring out the goods. “Our vendors have never really worked in a kitchen before, so being able to help them operate in a kitchen is also a part of this learning process,” Schwing said. “The fact that PRNS just kind of stepped up and found an opportunity, they found a space that wasn’t being used, we had a need, and them being able to help us fill that need was huge.”

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Charles Martinet turned a minor Shakespearean role into one of the most recognized voices in video game history BY MIKE HUGUENOR

IFE IN THE Mushroom Kingdom is a grand adventure. Even though it’s filled with koopas and piranha plants, it’s a place where the sky is always blue and a hero is never far away. That hero, of course, is a little fellow in a red cap and blue overalls. A man whose modest profession brought him to an amazing new world. A plumber named Mario.

For 37 years now, Mario has been synonymous with fun and adventure—a character loved the world over. But while most people think of him as hailing from Brooklyn (where he is said to live) or Tokyo (where he was created by Nintendo), the lesser known fact is that Mario is actually from San Jose—or at least his voice is. Charles Martinet, the man who has voiced Mario internationally in all of his video games since 1996, was born in here. And as Nintendo prepares to release Super Smash Bros Ultimate (the 146th title to feature

Martinet since he began playing the part) it’s worth taking a look back at another grand adventure: the story of how an ordinary kid from the South Bay faced his fears, took on the world and became an internationally recognized super hero.

WORLD 1-1 It was a warm September day when Mario came into the world, fair, with a gentle breeze. Fitting for a hero, the San Jose Mercury announced the birth: 14 “MARTINET—To Mr.

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OKIE DOKIE For well over two decades the San Jose-born actor Charles Martinet has been the voice of Mario.

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and sell a patent as the head of Europe, Africa and the Middle East for Kaiser Refractories,” Martinet says. “That was the beginning of the grand adventure.” The first stop for the family was Barcelona, where they settled for a few years. There, Charles attended an American middle school. It was a time of incredible education for the young Californian. “Back in 1966, nobody in Barcelona spoke English, so you had to learn Spanish,” he remembers. “It was just the greatest gift to live abroad and be forced to learn the language.” WAHOO! Charles Martinet, the voice of Mario, But compared with a couple of super fans. to the fields and farmlands of the and Mrs. Jacques R Martinet, Santa Clara Valley, Europe was a a boy, Charles Andre.” dangerous place. When the family It was 1955, and the Martinet arrived, Spain was still under the family lived in the pastoral expanse fascist dictatorship of Francisco of farmland called Cupertino. The Franco. As an adolescent, Martinet second of two boys, Charles’ childhood witnessed the horrors of fascism was idyllic, full of carefree adventure. firsthand, often in the form of When not in school, he and his brother brutal beatings from Franco’s John spent most of their daylight military police, the Guardia Civil. hours bounding across the farmlands, Once, while he was at school, the vineyards, and orchards that covered Guardia attacked a group of students the Santa Clara Valley at the time. protesting the cost of education. “We used to go to Vasona before “They drove headlong into the there was any pavement there,” crowd, literally slamming their trucks Martinet recalls. “It was just a into people who were peacefully marshland. We’d collect tadpoles, protesting,” he remembers. “Then, lizards, snakes, catch dragonflies, and they came jumping out of the back bring them all home. We constantly with billy clubs and just knocked had snakes escaping in the house, everybody around, chasing people lizards everywhere.” into the bookstores, and arresting Then, when he was 12, everything everybody. I will tell you, fascism is a changed. Martinet was thrust into the terrible, terrible thing.” life of a globetrotting citizen of the In 1969, the family moved again, world—not unlike the character he this time to Paris, where Charles’ voices in the latest installment of the father had grown up. But at the Mario franchise, Super Mario Odyssey. end of the ’60s, France, like Spain, “My dad was invited to move overseas was going through convulsions. Still

SYSTEM RESET Upon graduation Martinet found himself back in the Bay Area. Inspired by his adolescence abroad, he applied to UC Berkeley as a history major, intent on becoming some sort of foreign dignitary. “I thought I’d end up being a lawyer and hopefully work in a foreign office, work my way up to ambassador, something like that,” he remembers. “I craved living overseas again, and in my 20-year-old mind, I thought that could be possible— working in an embassy, doing that kind of work.” But when it came time to write a thesis, his run was cut short. The only professor he could see himself working on his thesis with was unavailable. With no clear way forward, Martinet dropped out of college. For someone with international ambitions, dropping out hurt. Looking back, however, it’s hard to see the failure as anything other than providence. With his schedule now cleared, a friend suggested Martinet take his acting class. He initially balked at the idea, citing his own timidity. But, as it turns out, his shyness was no match for his appetite. “The way he got me to go was to say, ‘We’re going to go to lunch every day before class.’ And so I said, OK!’” Lured by the promise of free food, Martinet took his first acting class. For weeks, he sat quietly in the safety of the back row, watching his classmates read

their monologues and hoping to go unnoticed. That could only last so long, and eventually, his name was called. Up on stage, fear passed through him in waves, moving from one leg to the other as he tried to stop himself from trembling. “My right foot was shaking so much that I put all my weight on it. Then my left foot was shaking so much that I tried to put the weight evenly between the two, and then the two were shaking like crazy!” Martinet doesn’t remember what the monologue was anymore, but he does remember what happened when it finished: the class broke into applause. No one had noticed his fear. At that point he realized something incredible: He had enjoyed himself. With each lesson (and its accompanying free meal), he found his fear abating, replaced by a new sense of freedom. He went on his first audition, trying out for the role of Oberon in a local production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This audition would mark Martinet’s second serendipitous failure—the event that put him squarely on his life’s course. “I think that failure told me, ‘This is what I want,’” he says now. “Not to be a lawyer, not to be an embassy person: I wanted to be an actor. Because it was fun. When I was on that stage, it was really fun.” With newfound conviction, Martinet dove headlong into acting. Using the same monologue from his Midsummer audition, he auditioned for Berkeley Repertory Theater’s summer apprenticeship program, competing for space against many of the people who had actually been cast in the play. And this time he got in. When the apprenticeship ended, he moved to England, where he studied everything from dialect to dance at the prestigious Drama Studio of London. A year later, the man who could once “disappear in a room with three people” returned to Berkeley a trained actor, ready to begin a career. Shortly after he returned, Martinet was hit by tragedy. “My dear friend committed suicide, and I found his body,” he says. The discovery was shocking, the pain difficult to put into words. In

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recovering from the Algerian War and the student protests of ’68, an army trained for guerrilla warfare prowled the metropolitan areas. “There were guys with machine guns on,” Martinet recalls, describing the heavily armed gendarmerie. “There were terrorist plots to kill [French president Charles] de Gaulle. The Vietnam War was going on then, too. The whole world was on edge.” It was a lot for such a young mind to take in. Already a shy child, Martinet grew more introspective throughout his time in Europe. By the time he graduated high school, he was timid but cultured, and ready for the next stage of his life.

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James Reber met Martinet in college. A navy vet, Reber attended UC Berkeley on the GI Bill. Initially, he’d planned on studying sociology, but his plans were soon derailed by William Shakespeare. Shifting his focus to drama, Reber joined the Berkeley Shakespeare Festival in the role of business manager. By all accounts, his tenure with the organization was rocky. Articles from the time describe Reber as a stormy Irishman combative with press and prone to infighting. After three seasons, he left the company, and Berkeley altogether, for San Jose. At the time San Jose did not have a repertory theater, but Reber quickly put together plans to form one. He sent brochures to politicians, pastors and journalists, attended parties and got to know the power players in the city. After working San Jose’s socialite circles for a year, he managed to nab two grants totaling $90,000. On Dec. 8, 1979, he drove up to Sacramento and incorporated the San Jose Repertory Theater. By now Reber had begun to move in San Jose’s theater world. Then one day he bumped into an old friend from Berkeley. “I ran into Martinet somewhere, and he had been acting,” Reber recalls, still sounding surprised after all these years. The last time he had seen his friend from college he had been a shy history major. Now he was an actor? It was a happy coincidence. Reber needed actors, and Martinet needed a reason to get out of Berkeley. After coming down to San Jose for an audition, Martinet landed the first major acting gig of his career, becoming one of the founding members of San Jose Repertory Theater in the process. In early 1981, The Rep opened its first season with a production of Noel Coward’s manners comedy Private Lives. The cheerful Martinet was cast in

the humorless role of Victor Prynne, a character many actors found stifling. “Coward himself once said that the roles of Victor and Sibyl were hopeless,” wrote the Peninsula Times Tribune in a review of the production. “But Charles Martinet works wonders in his performance.” “He was clearly an audience favorite,” says Reber. Martinet would go on to play a number of major roles at the Rep, including the lead role in Molliere’s Tartuffe, and the Gentleman Caller in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie. But it was a smaller part in the theater’s second season which would change his life entirely. The San Jose Rep opened its second season with a modernized take on The Taming of the Shrew. Set in postwar Italy, it was a lively production with the air of a party. It called for big performances. To highlight its setting, everyone in the production spoke in some kind of dialect. “Bronx, Moroccan, lots and lots of Italian,” one reviewer noted. Martinet, in his second performance for the Rep, was cast in the role of Gremio, an elderly Italian man, whose hopeless pining for a younger woman is the play’s subplot. Having studied in London—and lived for many in Europe—he was uniquely ready for the part. Over the phone, Martinet does his Gremio voice: “Ah, signore Petruchio! Mamma mia!” Sounding a little older, and a little less cartoonish, it is still unmistakably the voice of Mario. The Taming of the Shrew debuted at the Montgomery Theater on on Sep. 18, 1981, and ran for a week and a half, giving Martinet plenty of time to become comfortable in the voice that would come to define his career. Just three months before it premiered, a Japanese card game company called Nintendo released its first video game: an arcade cabinet challenging players to jump over barrels and avoid flames while trying to defeat a rampaging ape. The hero of that game was a little plumber in a red jumpsuit and hat.

17 To supplement his modest actor’s income, Martinet waited tables at Original Joe’s for his first few years with the Rep. But by the time he left the company in 1984, he had found a much more lucrative gig: corporate videos. “I made more money in a day than I made for a week in the theater,” he remembers. “I was very lucky that I got to play the broadest, craziest characters in the theater, and I followed that right into my work in acting for corporate videos.” By his estimate, Martinet did around 600 corporate videos over the next few years, working with every company he could in booming Silicon Valley. Once, after spending nine hours filming a 15-second ad spot, the director asked him if he did voiceover work. “I said, ‘Yes, of course,’ not knowing exactly what he meant, and he handed me a script.” It was 12-word ad for the former Orchard Supply Hardware store off of Bird Avenue. Martinet read the dozen words into a microphone and instantly doubled the money he had made that day. It was his first job as a voice actor. “Then one day I was doing what actors do, sitting on the beach waiting for the phone to ring, and I got a page from a friend.” It was another actor. He had gotten wind of an audition nearby, something about a trade show in Las Vegas. It wasn’t necessarily open to the public, but... “I have no idea why, but I went to this audition,” Martinet says, “and I was literally walking in the door as the casting director was walking out the door. I said, ‘Can I read for this?’” Caught in the doorway, the director agreed to set the camera up again and film one more audition. “He said I was an Italian plumber from Brooklyn named Mario, for this company called Nintendo, and we were going to do a real-time animation system that had never been done before. They had no idea if it was going to work or not, but I still had to keep talking all day long if I wanted to get paid.” The company, he was told, made video games, and its audience was

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primarily younger. “So I resisted the temptation to make a gruff, angry plumber sorta thing, and I thought I could do something really fun instead.” That’s when he remembered a role he had loved, one of the highlights from his days at the Rep: “One of my favorite people of all time, the sweet, kind, lovely, wonderful Gremio. And so I thought, well, make that voice younger and start talking.” He didn’t know anything about video games (“Just Asteroids and Tank,” he says), so he had to think of something else to talk about. “I thought, well, I’ll just make up things about food, following the theme of why I ended up taking an acting class to begin with. So I just started making up things about spaghetti, and pasta, and different types of food. And I just kept talking until I heard the director say, ‘Stop talking! Cut! You’ve run through the whole tape!’” The only actor to take the direction to “keep talking all day long” seriously, Martinet landed the part of a lifetime.

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In 1991, Martinet began performing as Mario at Nintendo trade shows. Sitting behind a screen with motion capture balls glued to his face, he would speak in character to the crowd while a computer rendered his facial expressions in real time. At event after event, he was a hit. Then, five years later, he got a call from Nintendo. “They said, ‘Mr. Miyamoto would like you to play Mario in a video game.” Widely considered one of the greatest games ever made, Super Mario 64 came out in 1996 and has sold over 11 million copies worldwide. The first fully 3D game of its kind, it was also the first to give its hero a voice. Anyone who has played the game will remember its title screen—which opens with Martinet’s jubilant proclamation: “It’s-a me! Mario!” In the adventures that ensue, Martinet’s voice helps players

truly feel what their digital avatar is experiencing. There are wordless exclamations of pain, exertion and surprise. Martinet’s performance— and all the performances to come in titles such as Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Odyssey—are now regularly heard spilling from television speakers in homes all over the world. These days, Martinet spends much of his time on the road. Ever the traveler, he is a regular guest at Comic Cons and video game events. Often, people tell him he is the voice of their childhood. At every opportunity, he repeats his message: “Follow your heart. Do what you love to do. Expand your dreams. Seek your happiness. Because when you’re happy, you bring happiness into the world. And I think we need that more than anything now.” Martinet’s role as the plumber from Brooklyn has now spanned 27 years. It’s a role he’s played with audible and infectious joy. And after nearly three decades in the blue overalls, he’s just happy that, of all places, the grand adventure brought him here. “I know the guys that do all the other voices, the Master Chief, and the villains and things, but I’m just lucky that I got to play this guy that I love more than any other character I’ve ever met: Mario. A common man who falls in love with a princess and devotes his life to rescuing her. It’s such a beautiful story. It really is almost Shakespearean, you know?”

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JUST CHILLIN’ The Hangouts serves up Indian tandoori, Szechuan chow mein and Nepalese momos.

Five to Watch Nepalese noms, vegan donuts, authentic soul, crispy chicken and spicy Szechuan BY JOHN DYKE

IX MONTHS IS usually considered the earliest a new restaurant, bar or coffeeshop can receive a fair review. By then the kinks should be ironed out, the bad apples fired and the dishes and drinks refined. But who’s got time for that? This feature takes a look at new restaurants around the valley each month.

The Hangouts 12100 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd, Saratoga | 408.320.1255 thehangoutsrestaurant.net The Hangouts features ubiquitous Indian dishes, as well as lesser-known Nepalese cuisine. Their menu has a wide array of options, from Indian tandoori kabobs to Nepalese thali sets. They also have some fusion

dishes—such as a spicy Szechuan chow mein and a fried chicken and gravy. Their momos were pretty legit and are highlighted by a tasty achaar dipping sauce. The Nepali curried goat was unctuous, savory and made me sweat. Their tasty mango lassi is a must under these conditions.

results. Their rotating seasonal flavors will also help diners eat what’s in season. Plus, their green tea donuts, cinnamon rolls and cinnamon twists will keep patrons dosed with antioxidants. What better way to get one’s daily serving of fruit than by happily scarfing an apple fritter?

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As 2019 quickly draws nigh, it’s time to start thinking about those New Year’s resolutions, and eating healthier is definitely a yearly favorite. I always believe in baby steps, so Vegan Donut and Café is the perfect way to try and eat “healthier” in the New Year. Sure their donuts are so good you can barely tell the difference, but hopefully subtracting eggs from the equation will yield

If there’s one genre of nosh that the South Bay lacks, it’s soul food. Thankfully, there’s Jackie’s Place— located in Japantown in the same storefront that once housed the soul food and Caribbean joint, Carisoul. Jackie’s has all the soul food essentials: collard greens, fried

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catfish and my personal favorite, fried chicken and waffles. They even feature slow-smoked southern BBQ and Caribbean inspired oxtail dishes. They’re only open Thursday through Sunday for now, so make sure to time it right.

The sandwich comes in five heat levels, from mild to the “triple dog dare.” Better grab a large-size serving of their hand-squeezed strawberry lemonade just in case.

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This place just opened and it’s already got my attention for its super-authentic Szechuan menu, which features smoked Hunan pork, a nice variety of steamed dumplings and even a spicy pig ear app. Their entire menu is “100 percent handmade,” and they offerup a rotating selection of dinner and lunch specials. Ding’s has all the earmarks of a fantastic hole-inthe-wall eatery that could become a family favorite for years to come. More research needs to be done, and a visit or three are in order.

It’s not very often that food court food makes this list, but I think Westgate mall’s Rule the Roost might be onto something. While the business model may look similar to that of a popular chain (that shall go unnamed) with their crispy chicken sandwiches and waffle-cut fries, they do set themselves apart with one word: spice. Rule the Roost has the much-vaunted Nashville hot chicken that us chili heads crave.

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Wed, 8pm, $20 Lohman Theatre, Foothill College

Wed, 8pm, $22 Northside Theatre Company, San Jose

After last year’s successful holiday run, TheatreWorks in partnership with Foothill College is bringing David Sedaris’ classic tale of working as a mall Santa’s grumpy little helper back for a second offering. Born out the writer’s real experiences as a curmudgeonly elf in New York City in the early ’90s, Santaland Diaries’ hilarious, cynical but ultimately sweet vignettes helped launch Sedaris’ career, and are a perfect fit for the one-man show format. Just like last year, the production will feature emerging local talent Max Tachis in the narrator’s role, ensuring continued success for this witty Christmas classic. Runs through Dec. 23. (TM)

It’s a Christmas tradition. This week, the Northside Theatre Company once again takes on Charles Dickens’ iconic tale about selfishness, regret, time and reconciliation—1843’s A Christmas Carol. Northside’s telling is an adaptation by the theater group’s founder and former managing artistic director, the late Richard T. Orlando. With Orlando’s help, Northside Theatre Company has built a reputation as a model of private-public arts partnerships for small theaters, delivering impressive productions with talented casts for years. Plays Wednesday through Sunday until Christmas Eve. (TM)

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Wed-Sun, 7:30pm, $58+ Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

Thu, 7pm, $25+ The Ritz, San Jose

Fri, 7:30pm, $20+ The Improv, San Jose

Like any good tribute band, the Led Zeppelin-aping Zoso can be said to have a schtick—that is, if you can rightly call technical mastery a “schtick.” Performing almost all of the legendary band’s catalogue, from the tightly wound, explosive jams of Led Zeppelin to the maximalist, genre-spanning experimentations of Physical Graffiti and In Through the Out Door, Zoso claims to be “the most accurate and captivating Led Zeppelin live show since the real thing.” That’s a pretty bold claim, but Zoso can back it up. Wowing teenagers and baby-boomers alike since 1995, Zoso is bringing its act to the Ritz this Thursday. (Fake) Robert Plant’s chest hair included. (TM)

No serious examination of the facts will lead a sensible person to conclude that the Trump trolls have a point when they say it’s a “scary time” for straight white men in America today. That doesn’t mean cis dudes don’t face any challenges. Comedian Matt Braunger manages to coax some non-confrontational laughs out of the insecurities that arise from being single and 39 in the #MeToo era. “I don’t want to be creepy!” he says, lamenting the unfortunate nature of his own biological imperatives. “No matter how smooth you break the ice, the objective is still the same.” Thru Dec. 9. (NV)

Much like The Nutcracker, Smuin Ballet’s annual production of The Christmas Ballet has become a favorite of the Bay Area Christmas season. Unlike The Nutcracker, however, The Christmas Ballet isn’t constrained by centuries of tradition, animated toy soldiers and dancing rodents. Instead, the local dance company will present a medley of holiday musical favorites, with the company’s talented dancers pirouetting through jazz, ballet, tap and other dance styles. Founded in San Francisco in 1994, Smuin Ballet has grown into one of the premier Bay Area ballet companies, with its contemporary, innovative and awe-inspiring productions. (TM)

* concerts CHILDISH GAMBINO

Dec 12 at SAP Center

WILLIE NELSON & FAMILY

Dec 13-14 at The Fox Oakland

MICHELLE OBAMA

Dec 14 at SAP Center

SAN HOLO

Dec 15 at City National Civic

TRAVIS SCOTT

Dec 16 at Oracle Arena

THUNDERCAT

Dec 21 at The Catalyst

THE LIMOUSINES’ CHRISTMAS Dec 22 at The Ritz

THE ENGLISH BEAT Dec 30 at The Ritz

ZZ TOP

Jan 13 at City National Civic

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE

PATTI SMITH

Jan 14-15 at The Rio Theatre

ELTON JOHN

Jan 19 at SAP Center

NHL ALL STAR WEEKEND Jan 25-26 at SAP Center

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ZYDECO HELLRAISERS

NOT SO SILENT NIGHT

Fri, 7pm, $35+ Bing Studio, Stanford

Sat, 6:30pm, $26+ SAP Center, San Jose

The zany, uptempo style of Louisiana folk music known as Zydeco first emerged from the sweltering swamps of New Orleans—the result of French, German, Spanish, American Indian and Afro-Caribbean co-mingling. The genre has been centuries in the making, and Dwayne “Dopsie” Rubin aims to keep the tradition fluid with his zydeco-fusion band, Dwayne Dopsie & the Zydeco Hellraisers. Rubin, who has been called “America’s Hottest Accordion Player,” plays explosive mix of zydeco, blues, jazz and reggae, while also incorporating other far-reaching genres. The result speaks for itself; the Hellraisers have found fans all over the world with their distinct blend. (TM)

What started in 1991 as a small acoustic-only offering by a local radio station has grown over the decades into an alternative rock spectacular. ALT 105’s annual one-day winter show Not So Silent Night features the biggest names in rock and its various sects, and this year’s show at the SAP Center is no different. Featuring Death Cab for Cutie, Bastille, Florence and the Machine, Young the Giant, Chvrches, The Struts and many more, the annual Not So Silent Night festival has become a staple of the musically inclined Bay Area holiday season. (TM)

A$AP ROCKY

Feb 2 at Bill Graham Civic

MARC ANTHONY

Feb 8 at SAP Center

PINBACK

WE HAVE IRÉ

Sat, 8pm, $21 The Ritz, San Jose

Sat, 7pm, $5+ MACLA, San Jose

One of the best bands to come from indie rock’s late ’90s-early ’00s golden age, Pinback inspired a generation of musicians to stray from chords, distortion and just about every other standard rock trope. When bands like Franz Ferdinand and Yeah Yeah Yeahs went for angularity, Pinback went for the gracefully slanted. When Modest Mouse transitioned to stadium-size positivity, Pinback retained the quiet experimentalism of a bedroom project. Members Rob Crow and Zach Smith have never stopped making music in their various other projects, but it’s been six years since a new Pinback record. Does this tour harken new music? Let’s hope. (MH)

In the binary universe of the Santería religion, Iré (blessing) is the opposite of Osogbo (curse). However, like true binaries, neither could exist without the other. Written by playwright, author, poet and professor Paul S. Flores, We Have Iré is a new theater project that uses the cosmology of Santería to explore the Cuban-American identity in all its complexity. Flores has teamed up with jazz composers, DJs and choreographers for the project, making We Have Iré an ambitious and highly multidisciplinary experience. This Saturday, the public has a brief opportunity to see the exciting play in development, witnessing its formation in real time. (MH)

AIR SUPPLY

Feb 8 at City National Civic

MUDHONEY

Feb 9 at The Ritz

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

BOOMBOX CARTEL

Mar 1 at City National Civic

ATMOSPHERE

Mar 12 at The Catalyst

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BEYOND THE FRAME Elizabeth Murray’s ‘Chain Gang’ is one of many pieces currently on display at the Anderson Collection at Stanford.

Breaking Out Stanford’s ‘Spotlight on Elizabeth Murray’ looks back on an artist unconstrained BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

LIZABETH MURRAY’S paintings aren’t contained within picture frames. They burst through, out of and beyond the confines of ordinary rectangles. “Spotlight on Elizabeth Murray” (at Stanford University’s Anderson Collection through March 25) features nearly a dozen of her oddly shaped constructions.

Instead of making a collage to fit inside of a frame, Murray (1940-2007) started each new work by sketching out her ideas. Then her bulbous,

gangly forms would come to dictate the organic shapes of her canvases. The massive painting Bop (20022003) epitomizes her approach. It’s an amalgamation of bold colors that challenges the viewer to come up with a logical response to it. A geometry assignment given at a clown college with a garish palette to match. Ketchup red outlines a distended yellow letter “M,” which, in turn, exhales a teal ghost. The ghost is about to collide into a pink worm with holes cut out of its midsection. Red squares frame the holes. There’s a brighter pink cloud, floating vertically, digesting a green zigzag or

lightning bolt. It’s neighboring a dark blue double bladder containing a game of Connect the Dots. And that’s only the top half. Murray was interviewed during the process of making Bop. She said, “What I’m looking for is resolution. I have it one day, and I don’t have it the next day.” That resolution or irresolution comes through in every colliding shape and color. Bop is often described as cartoonish. The brash, inflated disharmonies make it so. But Murray’s exaggerated shapes aren’t accompanied by a narrative. Her painting alone is an exclamation articulated. It’s equivalent to, yet beyond, language. In the excellent American Masters biographical documentary Everybody Knows, filmed over the last years of Murray’s life, she talks about her efforts “to put content into abstraction.” In a sensible sounding voiceover, Meryl Streep reads excerpts from Murray’s journals. They don’t reveal the exact or intended meanings of the work but offer more insights to her general approach.

Murray writes, “How does one become an artist? An artist signifies not just someone who crafts art. It is a way of thinking about life. A consciousness of the magic of life.” Mouse Cup reflects her particular way of thinking about life. And, as with most of Murray’s paintings, her titles provide viewers with a clue, or a possible way of looking at her work. You can make out the cup, a coffee mug, as the liquid begins to spill and the vessel itself begins to break. Gray steam seeps up out of the beverage and then down the sides. The heat could be causing the split in the canvas. Or is it caused by the hand with five fingers and a thumb (that’s six digits)? It’s extending away from the same gray steam, stretching to grasp the handle. Murray nods to a mundane aspect of domesticity, the morning cup of coffee. And she gives it an innocuous title as if to deflect our attention away from what’s right in front of our eyes— something in her home is falling apart. Twenty-seven years after graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Murray returned to her alma mater to give a lecture in 1989. In an audio excerpt, she cites Willem de Kooning as an early influence, explaining what his work taught her: “To learn how to look, to learn how to feel how alive a painting is.” There’s a bright orange cat at the pink center of Abraham. But you might miss his triangular-shaped head in the midst of all the squiggles, jagged lines and blotches. The Anderson only labels it as “gouache and watercolor pen on collaged paper on foam.” But even without any biographical information, Abraham must have been one of the cats who roamed around the country barn Murray painted in. The controlled chaos circles around him, an expression of an active cat’s zooming mind. Like de Kooning, she teaches us how to look at the way her hand moves the brush across the canvas. Murray’s playful approach to form and color can be cartoonish, but you can’t avoid the feeling that her paintings are alive and in perpetual motion.

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‘Joy!’ to the World FEW PEOPLE CAN cast a spell simply by entering a room. Tandy Beal can. With the carriage of a queen and the grace of a Botticelli sylph, the dancer-turned-impresario personifies joie de vivre. Energizing a stage or critiquing a new work-in-progress, Beal is as fully alive, active and engaged as it is possible to be. Or at least that’s what it looks like to her many students, audiences and fellow dancers. And it has for more decades than seems possible. Beal of the dark eyes, long limbs and infamous mane of Pre-Raphaelite hair just can’t quit. She’s been everywhere, collaborated with everyone from Frank Zappa to Bobby McFerrin, and directed both the Moscow Circus and Pickle Family Circus. Her company, Tandy Beal & Company, has been provoking wonder and joy for 43 years. Once you’ve done all that, it’s hard to stop. And what doesn’t stop is Beal’s faith in the magic of live performance. “We’re all in the present moment,” she insists, her eyes shining. “We are together. And anything can happen. This moment in real time, with all its joys and possibilities, your Joy! A Holiday Show whole body shares the experience.” In her life of performative immediacy, Beal and Dec 7-9, $15+ her repertory company of dancers, singers, acrobats Hammer Theatre and clowns invite audiences “to be part of something Center, San Jose larger than themselves.” tandybeal.com/joy Beal spent the past summer in New York “doing solo work again.” There she discovered that she still had all her own dancerly wits about her. She’ll be among those performing in the upcoming Holiday Show. Joy!, her latest holiday-themed production, will include plenty of new material, plus a few choice nuggets from Mixed Nutz, Beal’s updated Nutcracker Suite tour de force. “I’ve lived in the world of circus—and, for many years, of music. Joy! is a braid of those languages—circus, music, and dance—multilingual production,” she says, calling out some of the bits she’s most excited about in the new show. “Highlights from the Nut, like the Russian hip-hop dance— very fun. My two dear pals from the Pickle Family Circus, great physical comedic actors who went on to Cirque du Soleil, Jeff Raz and Diane Wasnak. These two clowns together have a chemistry like Laurel and Hardy.” The show’s title evolved after lots of brainstorming. Nothing seemed quite right. “So I stopped and asked myself, What am I doing?’” she recalls. “And the answer was that I want to bring some joy to people. So … Joy!” “We need this; we need joy,” Beal says.

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LADY IN WAITING Abigail (Emma Stone) uses her feminine wiles to curry the Queen’s favor in ‘The Favourite.’In ‘’

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In ‘The Favourite,’ a negger, a schemer and a crowned simpleton match wits BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

AKED WITH MUD, Emma Stone’s Abigail arrives at Queen Anne’s palace. Abigail notices that she’s not just filthy, but she smells. A servant says, “They shit in the streets around here. Political commentary, they call it.” For similar reasons, what Yorgos Lanthimos does in The Favourite could be called historical fictionalizing. One understands the desire of Lanthimos (Dogtooth, The Lobster) to toss some mud at a wide-eyed cinema sweetheart like Emma Stone; it’s like Bunuel slapping mire on Deneuve

in Belle du Jour. And the era invites mockery; the first decade of the 1700s were something like peak foppery, with mile-high wigs and white makeup to conceal syphilis sores. It’s a sour comedy of the rivalries between Queen Anne of England (Olivia Colman) and her bedchamber companions, the Duchess of Marlborough, Sarah Churchill (Rachel Weisz), and the newly arrived Abigail (Stone), Sarah’s poor relation. The unfortunate Queen suffered smallpox, a watery eye, severe gout, perhaps lupus, and 17 pregnancies that never produced a child who lasted until puberty. She was a martyr to the office of royal broodsow. No master of statecraft,

she’s ordered around snappishly by the power behind the throne, Sarah. Abigail is cast into the kitchen to be a scrubber, but she’s too wiley to be kept there long. What commences is a contest between Sarah, looking as dangerous as a highwayman in the renowned costumer Sandy Powell’s black riding and hunting outfits. Abigail has a poisoner’s guile (she knows herbs) and throws herself at the queen in unsubtle ways, such as by stripping and hiding in the royal bed. The Queen gets strength from having her new lover, and doesn’t have to put up with Sarah’s negging. Sarah is one of those suitors who justifies her insulting tongue on the grounds that she is a truth teller. It’s a great idea for a film, but as realized here it’s a misanthrope’s tale in which every new bit of empowerment just makes a person worse. One interesting part of Anne’s short reign is the rise of the rivaling two-party system that still chains Washington, D.C. today. But the game here is a contest between old Tory fools distracted by duck racing and young Whig fools who like to play naked orange-tossing games. While there’s

talk of the London mob and the European wars, they’re both off-screen. Anne’s lesbianism was rumored by the merciless pamphleteers of the day (even Jonathan Swift engaged in the contemporary mud-slinging). Given what a devout woman Anne was, perhaps not. The quarrels between the three women were actually religious, over different brands of Protestantism. The contemporary prose, one of the peaks of English literature, was sometimes served up with nightsoil, but still the bluntness in Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara’s screenplay isn’t wit. The script defeats the actors. This was an age of insinuation. So there’s just aimless coarseness to threats like “Do you want to get punched?” or “I have a certain desire to see your nose broken,” or even Sarah claiming that Harley (Nicholas Hoult), the perfumed leader of the Whigs, smells like “a 96-year-old French whore’s vajuju.” Colman is the redeeming part of this unfortunate codicil to The Draughtsman's Contract. At the end she’s a sated, swollen gorgon who’ll inflame any case of Trumpancholia in the audience, especially in the baleful last shots with the camera underneath her stage-jowls, making her look like an Olmec head that suffered a stroke. Her Anne ultimate becomes one of those royal simpletons in whose sense of pleasure is completely dead, except for the pleasure they take in seeing other people on their knees. The music is an assortment of baroque mixed with horror movie organ, and minimalist scrapes and thrums on a cello, with Elton John singing “Skyline Pigeon” over a harpsichord during the end titles. Like the costumes, the locations are rich: the ultimate purpose of these palaces was to be used for the movies. Robotically calibrated pan shots and fisheye lens swallow up these interiors, rooms so vast that they curl up at the edges of the screen. Considering these characters, though, fisheye isn’t the right word. Stink-eye is more like it.

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ON THE ROAD AGAIN With a new album in the works, Redd Kross is back on tour.

High & Low Redd Kross blends power, punk and pop culture in bubble gum factory shootout BY BILL KOPP

INCE FORMING IN 1980, Hawthorne, Californiabased Redd Kross have been expertly straddling the link between punk rock and power pop. And at their best, the band have erased the arbitrary line between those styles. Nearly 15 years after ending a lengthy hiatus, the band is still going strong with a tour, a new album in the making, and a pair of archival releases that remind modern-day listeners of Redd Kross’ trademark blend of inventiveness, humor and style.

The band’s name is an off-color reference to a notorious scene in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist. And that kind of bratty yet knowing plundering of pop culture is a signature approach for the group. In “1976,” a standout track on the group’s 1990 album, Third Eye, Redd Kross parody mall culture, ’70s fashion, Kiss and Elton John, all inside four minutes. Knowledge of pop culture adds to the listener’s appreciation of the band’s music, but bassist Steve McDonald insists that it’s not strictly necessary. “I guess it’s sort of like the way people say that the Kinks were too English to be widely accepted like the Stones and the Beatles in the U.S.,” McDonald ruminates.

“We’re holding trash culture and mainstream culture in some sort of high esteem,” he continues with a laugh. “And in the process, [we’re] making sure that we stay underground.” Redd Kross have indeed remained steadfastly outside of the mainstream scene upon which they so often comment. Though the band had a brief brush with the major labels in the 1990s, their undeniably catchy and uptempo music never broke through, even on the modest level enjoyed by artists like Jellyfish or Matthew Sweet. McDonald has few regrets, and he has his own theory as to why Redd Kross never achieved major success. “Some of it would be [the result of] choices we made and the timing in which we existed,” he offers. Ultimately, though, he thinks that aiming for widespread commercial success wouldn’t have been in the best interest of the band co-led by him and brother Jeff McDonald. “Maybe subconsciously we knew that wasn’t really the right choice for us,” he says. Ultimately, Redd Kross’ underground status does work in their favor. From their perch outside the mainstream, the band has been able to comment wittily

on passing fads and fashions, while paying tribute to everyone from ABBA to David Bowie to Charles Manson to the New York Dolls. And the group has done it all while maintaining their own stylistic identity. McDonald believes that through it all, Redd Kross has remained true to their own unique musical aesthetic. “I don’t think that we ever made our music in a way that we didn’t relate to in order to take another stab at the roulette wheel,” he says. “We still always did our own thing.” And as Redd Kross barrels toward their 40th anniversary, the band looks forward and backward at once. McDonald is reluctant to share details about the album due in 2019, but he offers a hint: “So far, it’s kind of a party album.” Acknowledging that current events have made it “such a tense and polarizing time for people out there,” he says that Redd Kross would “really like to invite people to have a good time for a while with us. Because you have to kind of refuel your spirit before you continue on with that fight.” Redd Kross’ aesthetic vision draws from across the musical landscape. The band is closely allied with Melvins; Steve McDonald has played bass with the sludge-metal heroes, and Melvins drummer Dale Crover is now an official member of Redd Kross. Though the two bands’ styles might seem miles apart, they’re already planning a twinheadliner tour for 2019, with Steve and Dale doing double duty. The band’s 1984 EP, Teen Babes from Monsanto, has just been reissued with five bonus tracks; it shows that Redd Kross’ focus on pop culture is equal parts irony and genuine appreciation. And Hot Issue, a new collection of previously unheard tracks, demonstrates that Redd Kross has always had more good song ideas than the means to release them. Without a hint of hubris, McDonald compares Hot Issue to the Who’s 1974 collection of outtakes, Odds & Sods. “It’s our nod to your rarities collection,” he says. When it’s suggested that the album holds together like a collection of new songs, McDonald smiles. “That’s my brother’s loving, curating touch.”

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FRI DEC 7 • FIRST FRIDAY FIESTA DECEMBER 2018 @ MACLA First Friday is upon us! MACLA does it right with programming all evening. There is always something wonderful to experience. 5:30pm. 510 S First St, San Jose

SAT DEC 8 • WEIHNACHTSMARKT: GERMAN HOLIDAY MARKET @ MOUNTAIN VIEW A Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market) is one of the most festively Xmassy things a human can experience. As someone who has been to Germany enough times now to enjoy pickled fish, I can say that Germans love hot beverages and wandering around from booth to booth… that and pickled seafood. I mean, I’m hooked and doomed—it’s hard to find here. But spiced bevs and candied nuts? You’ll find them there this Saturday. (I used hooked in a joke about fish. You’re welcome.) 11am-9pm. Presented by German International School Silicon Valley. City Hall Plaza, 500 Castro St, Mountain View

SAT DEC 8 • EMMENTALER WHEEL CUTTING CELEBRATION @ SIGONA’S FARMERS MARKET Okay, I never thought I’d choose a cheese as a must sees, but dang! I celebrate cheese with ease. Was it a thing that villagers would come to the town center and watch the cheesemonger cut into a new wheel of bliss and joy? Can it become a thing!? I think we could use the morale-boosting powers of cheese in these trying times! So maybe before or after you go to the Weihnachtsmarkt in Mountain View, you can stop by and celebrate cheese in Palo Alto. It’s only nine miles apart! It’ll be your most European Saturday in years. 2pm–4pm. 399 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto = MUST SEE

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ROOTS ROCK REGGAE: EARTHKRY 8pm. Tiki Pete's, 23 N Market St, San Jose

STAGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL BY CHARLES DICKENS POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm:The Legendary Ron Thompson & Sid Morris Gang feat. Coronado. Fri, 6pm: Alastair Greene Band. Sat, 6pm: Gary Smith Blues Band. Sat, 9pm: Hamilton Loomis at Poor House Studio. Sun, 11am: New Orleans Piano Brunch with Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: Andre Thierry "Zydeco Dance Party.” Mon, 6pm: Mixed Open Mic Night.Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

SAM'S BBQ Wed, 12/5, 6pm: The Goat Hill Girls. Tues, 12/11, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Wed, 12/12, 6pm: Blue House. 1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

8pm. Northside Theatre Company, Olinder Theatre, 848 E William St, San Jose

GAMES: DRAG QUEEN BINGO IN THE CEDAR ROOM 8pm. Pruneyard Cinemas, 1875 S Bascom Ave, Suite 100, Campbell

DJ/DANCE: A N A L O G BY THE CHANGING SAME

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THU 12/06 FIRST THURSDAY MIXED OPEN MIC 5:30pm. Euphrat Museum of Art, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

MIXED OPEN MIC 6pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC 6:30pm sign-up. Feat. Rachel van Geenhoven. Hosted by Tina Madueño. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

9pm. Wax Wednesdays at Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

SAN JOSE HIP HOP HISTORY W/DAVID "EVADE" ESTRELLA 9pm. FutureArtsNow! @ Alum Rock Youth Center, 137 N White Road, San Jose

CARAVAN LOUNGE COMEDY SHOW WITH MR. WALKER 9pm. 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

THE RITZ Thu, 7pm: Zoso-The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience. Fri, 8pm: Suuns, Graham Van Pelt. Sat, 8pm: Pinback, Morricone Youth. Tue, 12/11, 7pm: Redd Kross, Dale Crover Band. Wed, 12/12, 7pm: Thrashing for a Cause. 400 S First St, San Jose

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31 COMEDIAN: ROCKY DALE DAVIS

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

STAGE: A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD

8pm. Various times through 12/16. Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St, Mountain View

STAND-UP COMEDY: GOOD SUDS

8pm. Free comedy in a brewery. Freewheel Brewing Co, 3736 Florence St, Redwood City

MUSIC: A CELTIC CHRISTMAS

7:30pm. Chorus, drums, bagpipes and dancing. Campbell United Methodist Church, 1675 Winchester Blvd.

HIP-HOP: J-STALIN OF LIVEWIRE RECORDS

8pm. Back Bar SoFA, 418 S Market St, San Jose

COVER BAND: ELECTRIC X

8pm. O'Malley's, 2135 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View

METAL/HARDCORE: ASPEN WAY, 4199, IN GRAVES, HANG, REKT

8pm. All ages. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

JAZZ & FUNK: HOWARD WILEY & EXTRA NAPPY

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Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke. Sun, 4pm: Novak-Nanni Duo. 2988 Almaden Expy, San Jose

8:30pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

CONCERT: THE ROCKETZ, THEM CREATURES, GIDGET AND THE G-SPOTS 9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

ROCK: MEDICINE JAR

9pm. Quarter Note, 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN Thu, 10pm: DJ Live. Fri, 10pm: Maroon Vibes–Maroon 5 Tribute Band. Sat, 10pm: Stompbox Band. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon: Darts & Sports. Tue, 7:30pm: PubStumpers. Wed, 10pm: DJ Hank. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

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FIRST FRIDAY ROCKIN' BLUES JAM

9pm. Hosted by Bob Gonzalez. Woodhams Lounge, 4475 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara

380 South First5:30pm. St. San Jose, CA 95113 MACLA, 510 |S408.298.8000 First

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SOUTH FIRST FRIDAYS ARTWALKSJ

7pm. South First Street between San Carlos and William streets.

STAGE: LOS GATOS BALLET'S NUTCRACKER

7:30pm. Flint Center @ De Anza College, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

GERMAN HOLIDAY MARKET 2018 • WEIHNACHTSMARKT

11am–9pm. Presented by German International School Silicon Valley. City Hall Plaza, 500 Castro St, Mountain View

CHEESE: EMMENTALER WHEEL CUTTING CELEBRATION 2pm. Sigona’s Farmers Market, 399 Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto

DOWNTOWN CAMPBELL 2ND SATURDAYS ARTWALK & STREET FAIR 2pm. Rain or shine. Campbell Ave, Campbell

ACOUSTIC: COOK N’ FENNY COMBO

2pm. BookSmart, 1295 E Dunne Ave Suite 120, Morgan Hill

VOICES OF THE VALLEY 20TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

3pm. De Anza College Visual and Performing Arts Center, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

POETRY MEETUP WITH THE GARLICKY POETS

3:30pm. Gilroy Library, 350 W Sixth St, Gilroy

LITTLE WOMEN HOLIDAY TEA AND READING

4pm. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St, Mountain View

STAGE: SHAKESPEARE'S THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

4pm. Cupertino Community Hall, 10350 Torre Ave

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: CISUM. Sat, 9pm: The Funky Godfather. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont PUB DATE: 00/00/15

SONGWRITER SATURDAY SHOWCASE 5pm. Feat. Mardi Morillo, Just Suzanne and more. Crema Coffee #3, 1202 The Alameda, San Jose

WINTER STUDENT ART SHOW: EXPLORING LINE

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KARAOKE: THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE Fri & Sat, 9:30pm. 1072 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

5:30pm. Yes Creative Lab, 20560 Valley Green Drive, Cupertino

LESBIANS WHO TECH & ALLIES SV PRIDE BIG LGBTQ+ HOLIDAY PARTY

SAT 12/08

6pm. PY Kitchen + Wine Garden, 1995 S Bascom Ave, Campbell

FAMILY: SATURDAY STORIES

SUPER STACKED COMEDY SHOW

10:15am. Mountain View Public Library, 585 Franklin St, Mountain View

6pm. Terra Amico, 460 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

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32 MIXED OPEN MIC NIGHT

WINTERSCAPES: DECEMBER CONCERT

6:30pm. Crema Coffee Co, 950 The Alameda, San Jose

3:30pm. Cubberley Theater, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

MULTIMEDIA: J-WALT LUCID DREAMSCAPES • HOLIDAY SPECIAL

THE GET DOWN WINTER SHOWCASE 2018

7:30pm. De Anza College Fujitsu Planetarium, 21250 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino

BLACK/DEATH METAL: ARCANE EXISTENCE, ARDRA, SENTIENT IGNITION, DELIRIA

4pm. Buddhist Church San Jose Betsuin, 640 N Fifth St, San Jose

ACOUSTIC: JOE FERRARA

6pm. The Cats, 17533 Santa Cruz Hwy, Los Gatos

8pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

ALT-PUNK: THE CHOKING GAME, TIL TMRRW, TIDES OF TOMORROW, BRAVEHEART

8pm. Presented by Outer-Space Ent. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

POP/ROCK: AKES

1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Wednesday, December 5 • Ages 16+

Whitechapel

Wednesday, Dec. 5 • In the Atrium • Ages 18+

DIRT MONKEY

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Thursday, December 6 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

JOHN MAUS

Friday, December 7 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

CAYUCAS

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P-Lo

Saturday, Dec. 8 Ages 16+ Sunday, December 9 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

RAMIREZ plus Romeo Fresh

Monday, December 10 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

REDD KROSS

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Tuesday, December 11 • Ages 16+

Beach Fossils

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Tuesday, December 11 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

THE SOFT MOON

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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/ The SJ Sindicate (Ages 21+) Jan 27 J.I.D. (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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8pm. Freewheel Brewing Co, 3736 Florence St, Redwood City

COVER BAND: BEATLES NIGHT WITH STRAWBERRY SOULS

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE

Sun, 10am: Brunch. 3pm: Reggae Sundays. Mon–Fri, 4–6pm: Happy hour. Tue, 12/11, 6:30pm: Holiday Cocktail Class. Sign up: events@jackrosebar.com. 18840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd, Los Gatos

ENGELBART SYMPOSIUM • CELEBRATING THE DEMO@50

8:30am–7:30pm. Computer History Museum, 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, Mountain View

SUNDAY MORNING ECSTATIC DANCE SILICON VALLEY

9am. Lucie Stern Community Center Ballroom, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto

6:30pm. O'Flaherty's, 25 N San Pedro St, San Jose

TRIVIA TUESDAYS

7pm. 20twenty Cheese Bar, 1389 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

TRIVIA: TRIVIOLITY PUB QUIZ

7:45pm. Britannia Arms Cupertino, 1087 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose

WED 12/12 TRIVIA NIGHT

COMEDY: PX FACTORY OPEN MIC

OPEN SPACE - MIXED OPEN MIC

7pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose

8:30pm. Willow Glen Pizza Factory, 3039 Meridian Ave, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT @ SAN PEDRO MARKET

SUN 12/09

TRADITIONAL IRISH SESSION TUESDAY

THE EULIPIONS JAZZ JAM SESSION

ALT ROCK: BLACK MAST, MO ZILLI AND THE NEW SUMERIANS

9pm. The Longhouse, 8195 Monterey St, Gilroy

Tue, 6pm. SoFA Market, 387 S First St, San Jose

MUSIC OPEN MIC

MON 12/10

COVER BAND: JJ HAWG

TRIVIA @ FOUNTAINHEAD

2nd Tue, 7pm. Works/San Jose, 365 S Market St, San Jose

8pm. Little Lou's BBQ, 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

9pm. Quarter Note, 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale

TUE 12/11

WELL-RED POETRY OPEN MIC

7:30pm. O'Malley's, 2135 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View

CONCERT: IN LIGHTS EP RELEASE, EXISTING, CORNER CASE

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Each of us gets into the holiday spirit in our own special way. Some of us build gingerbread houses; some of us build gingerbread psychiatric hospitals. To understand how you can long for human connection and (ugh!) long to avoid it at the very same time, it helps to understand the mechanics of loneliness. Like other emotions, loneliness is “adaptive,” meaning it has a function. It most likely evolved to motivate ancestral humans to behave in ways that would help them survive and mate. (Survival in the harsh ancestral environment would have been strongly connected with social bonds, and mating without a partner tends to be a bust for those who aren’t aphids or slime mold.) The problem is, our psychology is complex, and work orders laid out for us by different emotional adaptations— different functional feelings—sometimes conflict. For example, the sadness that comes with loneliness is also motivating—only it can motivate you to lie facedown on the couch. This probably seems anything but useful, but psychiatrist and evolutionary psychologist Randolph Nesse explains that the slowing down in energy that’s a partner to sadness

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I’m a 32-year-old guy with a really great female friend. We talk on the phone, grab food, etc. She even kept me company in the hospital after I got into a motorcycle accident. I’ve started falling for her, and I want to ask her out, but I’m afraid of losing her friendship.—Conflicted It’s just a bit of a twist on the friendship ring. You’d like to give her a friendship penis. Risk researchers find that decisionmaking in the face of uncertainty is really hard for us. However, by plugging in all the information we have, positive and negative, we can make an educated prediction about how things are likely to turn out—and whether we can afford the loss if our effort is a bust. For example, if you have only one friend and if you’re pretty sure you could never make another—say, because you live on one of those tiny desert islands in a New Yorker cartoon—you might decide it’d be too costly for you to risk saying something. And if, on a scale of 1 to 10, your friend is a 9.2 and you’re

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be interested in the will or estate, or both of: MARK PASCOE KELLY. The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Connors Consulting, A Petition forWay, Probate has been filed Stephen by: JamesPatrick J. Ramoni, Public 3457 Todd San Jose, CA, 95124, Connors. This Administrator of theconducted County ofbySanta Clara in the Superior Court of business is being an Individual. Registrant began California, County of Santa The Petition for Probate transacting business underClara. the fictitious business name orrequests names listed thatherein JamesonJ. 01/01/2018. Ramoni, Public Administrator thestatement County ofwas Santa /s/Stephen Connors. of This filed with thebe County Clerk ofasSanta Clararepresentative County on 10/30/2018. (pub Metro 11/14, Clara appointed personal to administer 11/28, 12/05/2018) the11/21, 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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain STATEMENT very important actions, however, the personal NAME #647955 representative be required give business notice toas: interested The followingwill person(s) is (are)todoing Apollo 9 Motors, persons unless they have waived notice consented thebusiness 511 San Jorge Terr, Sunnyvale, CA, 94089,or Willian Wang.toThis proposed Thebyindependent authority will is beingaction.) conducted an Individual.administration Registrant began transacting be business granted unless an fictitious interested personname files an objection to herein the on under the business or names listed petition and shows goodWang. causeThis whystatement the courtwas should 10/29/2018. /s/William filednot withgrant the County Clerk ofASanta ClaraonCounty on 10/29/2018. authority. hearing the petition will be (pub held Metro in this11/14, court11/21, as 11/28, 12/05/2018) follows: November 28, 2016, at 9 a.m. in Dept. 10 located at 191 NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to theFICTITIOUS granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your FILE NUMBER: FBN647816 attorney. IF YOUperson ARE A(persons)is CREDITOR(are) or a doing contingent creditor of the447 The following business as:DKNY, decedent, you must fileMILPITAS, your claimCAwith the court and a copy GREAT MALL DRIVE, 95035.COUNTY OFmail Santa Clara: This to the personal representative appointed by theCOMPANY. court within business is conducted by A LIMITED LIABLITY THE the DONNA later of either (1) four STORE monthsLLC, from theBOONE date ofAVE firstN,issuance of PARK, KARAN COMPANY 7401 BROOKLYN MN,to 55428The registrant to transact business under letters a general personalcommenced representative, as defined in section theof fictitious businessProbate name orCode, names 03/31/10 and 58(b) the California orlisted (2) 60above days on from the date 10/24/2018 is the file date.Statement theunder Countysection Clerk of Santa of mailing or personal delivery to youfiled of awith notice Clara/s/ Tomas Santo / DeputyCounty Clerk70 W. Hedding St., 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes San CA 95110/s/ RANDON Q. ROLAND/Vice PresidentThe Donna Karan andJose, legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may Company Store LLCArticle Number / Reg. 200331010079Above Entity want consultinwith an attorney knowledgeable California law.12/5) wastoformed the State of New York(Pub METROin 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 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 BUSINESS forFICTITIOUS Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided NAME STATEMENT #648355 in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form The following (are)Attorney doing business as: Clubz!MARK In-Home is available fromperson(s) the courtisclerk. for petitioner: Tutoring Services, CleavesCounty Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95126, Joshua Cooley. A. GONZALEZ, Lead23 Deputy Counsel, OFFICE OF THE This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant hasCA, not COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian Street, Suite 300, San Jose, yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or 95110, Telephone: 408-758-4200 (Pub CC, 11/09,was 11/16/2016) names listed herein. /s/Joshua Cooley. This11/02, statement filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2018. (pub Metro 11/14, 11/21,

11/28, 12/05/2018) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622566 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Van Hoa Lam, 979NAME Story Rd., #7087, San Jose, Ca, 95122, Nuh Thuan Lam, Quoc STATEMENT #648522

AnhThe Nguyen, 608 Giraudo Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111. This business following person(s) is (are) doing business as: European Wax is conducted byCottle an married couple.Registrant has95123, not yet begun Center, 5638 Road, Suite 30, San Jose, CA, Jass Ewc. Inc, 1316 transacting under fictitious businessisname names by a Elkwood business Dr., Milpitas, CA, the 95035. This business beingor conducted listed herein. Refile of previous file #620681 with changes. /s/Nhu Corporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious Thuan Lam name This statement withonthe County Clerk Santa business or nameswas listedfiled herein 11/14/2018. Aboveofentity wasCounty formedonin10/18/2016. the state of(pub California. Nguyen. Vice President. Clara Metro/s/Amy 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016) #C4159024. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/15/2018. (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, 12/12, 12/19/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622752 NAME STATEMENT #648424 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Free Spirit, 380

S. 1st Sanperson(s) Jose, CA, 95113, R. Hill, 8093 Zayante TheStreet, following is (are)Michael doing business as: TheE.Risk Authority, PageCA, Mill95018. Rd., Suite Palo Alto, CA, 94304,byStanford University Rd.,1510 Felton, This120A, business is conducted an individual. Medical Network Riskbegun Authority, LLC. Thisbusiness businessunder is being conducted Registrant has not yet transacting the by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not/s/Michael yet begun transacting fictitious business name or names listed herein. R. under the fictitious business name orClerk names listed herein. Hillbusiness This statement was filed with the County of Santa Clara Refile in facts from previous filing #627826. Above entity was formed County 10/24/2016. (pub/s/Elaine Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/23/2016) in theon state of Delaware. Ziemba. Vice11/16, President & Chief Risk Officer. #2013014100. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/13/2018. (pub Metro 11/21, 11/28, 12/05,

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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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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648476 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Golden Painting Service, Inc., 14166 Candler Ave., San Jose, CA, 95127, Berbena Octavio. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/13/2018. /s/Octavio Berbena. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/13/2018. (pub Metro 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648538 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. Start-Op, 2. Start Op, 470 University Ave., Los Altos, CA, 94022, VC Partners, Inc. This business is being conducted by a Coprporation. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed on 11/01/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/ Kathy Bagby. CFO. #C2008003. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/15/2018. (pub Metro 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648583 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Burn Rescue, A Program Of Resurge International, 145 North Wolf Road, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Resurge International. This business is being conducted by a Corporation. 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/Beverly Kent. Chief Operations Officer. #C0679458 This statement was filed 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 #648356 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Patsons Press, 831 Martin Ave., Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Advantage Mailing, LLC, 1600 N. Kraemer Blvd. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/05/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Tom Ling. Managing Member. #201524010402. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2018. (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, 12/12, 12/19/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647716 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: RK Immigration Services, 953 Moro Ct., Gilroy, CA, 95020322. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/22/2018. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Ranjeet Singh Khaira. President. #201826110480. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/22/2018. (pub Metro 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018)

FAMILY FOURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF BRONX In the Matter of a Custody/Visitation ProceedingChris Cruz, Petitioner against Erendira Paola DeLa Torre, RespondentIN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORKTo: Erendira Paola DeLa Torre, 2656 Newhall Street, Apt 41, Santa Clara, CA 95050A petition Under Article 6 of the Family Court Act having been filed with this Court, and annexed heretoYOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear before this Court on January 29, 2018 at 10:00 am, Return of Process – INQUEST, Part 42, Karen M.C. Cortes, Referee, 900 Sheridan Avenue, Bronx, NY 10451 to answer the petition and to be dealt with in accordance with the Family Court Act.If you fail to appear in person on the next adjourned date, as hereby directed, the Court may proceed to inquest in your absence and issue orders of default. On your failure to appear as herein directed, a warrant may be issued for your arrest.TO THE ABOVENAMED RESPONDENT: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of Karen M. C. Cortes, Referee of the Family Court, Bronx, County, dated and filed with the petition and other papers in the Office of the Clerk of the Family Court, Bronx, County.(Pub Date: 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647927 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Cal Wash, 2630 California Street, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Chris Mark Bushman, 660 30th Ave., San Mateo, CA, 94403. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/16/2018. /s/Chris M. Bushman. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 10/26/2018. (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, 12/12, 12/19/2018)

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sara Leung, RD LLC, 1361 S. Winchester Blvd., STE 101, San Jose, CA, 95128. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 10/01/2013. Refile in facts from previous filing #582852 Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Sara Tsilipounidakis. CEO. #201611610274. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/09/2018. (pub Metro 12/05, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648385 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Best Maid House Cleaning, 7257 Middlebury Way, San Jose, CA, 95139, Eduardo Peralta. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/01/2018. /s/Eduardo Peralta. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/09/2018. (pub Metro 12/05, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648712 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Zcar Properties. LLC, 759 Bamboo Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/17/2017. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Zafar Parvez. Manager. #201723610343. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/20/2018. (pub Metro 12/05, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648879 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Shalom Christian Academy LLC, 1190 Benton St., Santa Clara, CA, 95050. This business is being conducted by an 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 California. /s/ Dong Chin. Manager/Member. #201428210358. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/29/2018. (pub Metro 12/05, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648631 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Galvez International Student Housing, 2590 Georginia Ave., San Jose, CA, 95116, Chanel Galvez. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/19/2018. /s/Chanel Galvez. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/19/2018. (pub Metro 11/28, 12/05, 12/12, 12/19/2018)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: QUINCY SAY, ALSO KNOWN AS KUNCHI HSIEH AND KUN-CHI HSIEH. CASE NO: 18PR184374. 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)

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By ROB BREZSNY week of December 5

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When I write a

Spanning the East River to link Manhattan and Brooklyn, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world. But almost immediately people spread rumors that it was unstable. There was a growing fear that it might even crumble and fall. That's when charismatic showman P. T. Barnum stepped in. He arranged to march 21 elephants across the bridge. There was no collapse, and so the rumors quickly died. I regard the coming weeks as a time when you should take inspiration from Barnum. Provide proof that will dispel gossipy doubt. Drive away superstitious fear with dramatic gestures. Demonstrate how strong and viable your improvements really are.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have a cosmic

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Robert Louis

horoscope for you, I focus on one or two questions because I don't have room to cover every single aspect of your life. The theme I've chosen this time may seem a bit impractical, but if you take it to heart, I guarantee you it will have practical benefits. It comes from Italian author Umberto Eco. He wrote, "Perhaps the mission of those who love humanity is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth." I swear to you, Aries, that if you laugh at the truth and make the truth laugh in the coming days, you will be guided to do all the right and necessary things. mandate and a poetic license to stir up far more erotic fantasies than usual. It'll be healthy for you to unleash many new thoughts about sexual experiments that would be fun to try and novel feelings you'd like to explore and people whose naked flesh you'd be interested to experience sliding and gliding against yours. But please note that the cosmic mandate and poetic license do not necessarily extend to you acting out your fantasies. The important thing is to let your imagination run wild. That will catalyze a psychic healing you didn't even realize you needed.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my continuing efforts

to help you want what you need and need what you want, I've collected four wise quotes that address your looming opportunities. 1. "What are you willing to give up in order to become who you really need to be?" —author Elizabeth Gilbert. 2. "Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from." — Rebecca Solnit. 3. "You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary." ―Frederick Buechner. 4. "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ―Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Stevenson published his gothic novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in 1886. It was a bestseller, and quickly got turned into a theatrical production. In the ensuing 132 years, there have been well over a hundred further adaptations of the story into film and stage productions. Here's the funny thing about this influential work: Stevenson wrote it fast. It took him three feverish days to get the gist of it, and just another six weeks to revise. Some biographers say he was high on drugs during the initial burst, perhaps cocaine. I suspect you could also produce some robust and interesting creation in the coming weeks, Sagittarius—and you won’t even need cocaine to fuel you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A blogger on Tumblr

named Ffsshh composed a set of guidelines that I think will be apt and useful for you to draw on in the coming weeks. Please study these suggestions and adapt them for your healing process. "Draw stick figures. Sing off-key. Write bad poems. Sew ugly clothes. Run slowly. Flirt clumsily. Play video games on 'easy.' OK? You do not need to be good at something to enjoy it. Sometimes talent is overrated. Do things you like doing just because you like doing them. It's OK to suck."

Astro

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I've called on author

Robert Heinlein to provide your horoscope. According to my astrological analysis, his insights are exactly what you need to focus on right now. "Do not confuse 'duty' with what other people expect of you," he wrote. "They are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect. But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible."

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What does "beauty" mean to

you? What sights, sounds, images, qualities, thoughts and behavior do you regard as beautiful? Whatever your answers might be to those questions right now, I suggest you expand and deepen your definitions in the coming weeks. You're at a perfect pivot point to invite more gorgeous, lyrical grace into your life; to seek out more elegance and charm and artistry; to cultivate more alluring, delightful magic.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian athlete

Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player who ever lived. He was also the first to become a billionaire. But when he was growing up, he didn't foresee the glory that awaited him. For example, in high school he took a home economics class so as to acquire cooking abilities. Why? He imagined that as an adult he might have to prepare all of his own meals. His ears were so huge and ungainly, he reasoned, that no woman would want to be his wife. So the bad news was that he suffered from a delusion. The good news was that because of his delusion, he learned a useful skill. I foresee a similar progression for you, Aquarius. Something you did that was motivated by misguided or irrelevant ideas may yield positive results.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know the expiration

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Bible does not say that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute or even a "sinner." There's no mention of her sexual proclivities at all. Delusional ideas about her arose in the Middle Ages, instigated by priests who confused her with other women in the Bible. The truth is that the Bible names her as a key ally to Christ, and the crucial witness to his resurrection. Fortunately, a number of scholars and church leaders have in recent years been working to correct her reputation. I invite you to be motivated and inspired by this transformation as you take steps to adjust and polish your own image during the coming weeks. It's time to get your public and private selves into closer alignment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran rapper Eminem

Homework: Imagine that one of your heroes comes to you and says, "Teach me the most important things you know." What do you say? FreeWillAstrology.com.

dates that appear on the labels of the prescription drugs you buy? They don't mean that the drugs lose their potency after that date. In fact, most drugs are still quite effective for at least another 10 years. Let's use this fact as a metaphor for a certain resource or influence in your life that you fear is used up or defunct. I'm guessing it still has a lot to offer you, although you will have to shift your thinking in order to make its reserves fully available. is renowned for his verbal skill. It may be best exemplified in his song "Rap God," in which he delivers 1,560 words in six minutes and four seconds, or 4.28 words per second. In one stretch, he crams in 97 words in 15 seconds, achieving a pace of 6.5 words per second. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will also be unusually adept at using words, although your forte will be potent profundity rather than sheer speed. I encourage you to prepare by making a list of the situations where your enhanced powers of persuasion will be most useful.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In May 1883, the

newly built Brooklyn Bridge opened for traffic.

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

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