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ISawYou@metronews.com Send us your anonymous rants and raves about your co-workers or any badly behaving citizen to I SAW YOU, Metro, 380 S. First St., San Jose, 95113, or via email.

Mr. San Jose Thanks to Gary Singh for pointing me to the Peace Center on Seventh Street on a recent Wednesday night. There was a talk by a witness to the storied Refugee Caravan that night.

I had seen a poster, which was subsequently torn down. As luck would have it, however, I spotted Gary walking by just 15 minutes before the event, and he provided an educated guess as to where it would be.

Of course Mr. San Jose was correct and I was able to find the event. Again, many thanks to Gary for his help.

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the old saw about fighting city hall.

The 72-year-old owner of David’s Banquet Hall took Santa Clara to court after the city knocked his lease from multi-year to month-to-month for his facility by the municipal golf course. When Super Bowl invaded the South Bay for the NFL’s golden anniversary back in 2015, the veteran restaurateur waged a war of words with city officials after realizing that food deliveries to his 30-year-old eatery across from Levi’s Stadium were constrained by a federally mandated 300-foot security perimeter.

And now this. If Ebrahimi refuses a lease buyout to make way for a multibillion-dollar mixed-use Related Companies development, Santa Clara will for the first time in its history summon eminent domain powers to force his hand. “It’s wrong,” Ebrahimi insists.

“They’re trying to take my property from me and give it to a rich developer.”

Though governments can use eminent domain on behalf of private construction, Don’t that’s not exactly what’s forget happening in this case. to tip!

Santa Clara says it needs to move the banquet FLY@ business to reconfigure METRONEWS. Stars & Stripes and COM Centennial drives—a public project, albeit one that accommodates Related Companies’ Northside City Place development.

City officials say they’ve tried to work things out amicably with Ebrahimi, to no avail. Years of closed-door talks about relocating the banquet hall and attempts at collaboration have hit one dead end after another.

Last month, city manager DEANNA SANTANA , citing an appraisal by Associated Right of Way Services, offered Ebrahimi $5,000 for the lease buyback. That officially kicked off the eminent domain process, which came up for debate at a public hearing on Tuesday.

“Maybe they don’t like it, but I’m their tenant,” Ebrahim says. “And unfortunately, the city forgotten that it has a commitment to me.”

JUDGE NOT Ex-jurist Aaron Persky emailed supporters on Tuesday to ask for donations to pay down a six-figure sum in recall-related attorneys’ fees.

Recalled Judge Asks for Help with $135,000 in Court-Ordered Debt BY JENNIFER WADSWORTH Aaron Persky, who lost his job in the state’s first judicial recall in nearly nine decades, is asking supporters to help pay off a small fortune in court-ordered debt he incurred by challenging the campaign against him.

“I am writing to thank you for your support during the recall campaign, and to ask you to contribute to defray $135,000 in court-ordered attorney fees arising from the recall,” he wrote in an email sent Tuesday. “On June 5, 2018, I was recalled by voters after a well-funded, misleading, and extremely negative campaign by recall proponents.

My campaign, which stressed the vital importance of an independent judiciary, received broad support from the legal community in Santa Clara County and beyond.”

The 56-year-old Palo Alto resident

said he has until the end of the month to pay it all off.

More than 60 percent of Santa Clara County voters supported the recall in response to the controversially brief sentence Persky gave to a former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. The embattled judge, who took home an $186,000-a-year salary on the bench, raised $840,000 to fend off the recall, which he unsuccessfully tried to block in court.

Persky didn’t respond to a request for comment by press time.

But in his email, Persky explained how the debt stemmed from a lawsuit contending that the California Secretary of State, and not the local election office, should preside over the petition to qualify the recall for the ballot. A lower court rejected his claim in 2017.

“Unfortunately,” he wrote, “recall

proponents, represented by a California law firm, prevailed in the litigation.” He added: “I pursued the litigation so that Superior Court judges would benefit from the same procedural protections as other state officers who face recall elections.”

Michele Dauber, a Stanford law professor who led the high-profile recall campaign, said the ex-jurist had it coming.

“Judge Persky made the bad decision to repeatedly file frivolous lawsuits and appeals with the goal of stalling and causing expense,” she wrote in an email to San Jose Inside. “The court has concluded that he should be required to pay for that decision, and we are happy that our lawyer will be getting paid for his outstanding work in defending our constitutional rights, and those of the voters of Santa Clara County.”

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blood pressure try to follow

Mayor Sam Liccardo and members of the San Jose City Council last week proposed regulations to rein in how electric scooter companies operate in the city.

In a memo released by the Rules and Open Government Committee, app-driven electric scooters, known as e-scooters, must comply with new “geo-fencing” technology in order for companies such as Lime and Bird to lawfully ride around in the city proper. “Geo-fencing” is technology that would halt or slow down scooters in certain geographic locations, such as sidewalks.

In a press conference announcing the ultimatum, Liccardo offered to provide a “collaborative solution” in lieu of the kind of e-scooter ban that has taken effect in recent months in other cities, including San Francisco and Seattle.

The new rules would require e-scooter companies to share data with cities, make it easier for community members to report

incidents and provide messages to new riders about safe riding practices.

In an emailed statement, Lime said it is “working with Mayor Liccardo and his staff, and appreciate his commitment to inexpensive, clean and inclusive forms of transportation.

We share the same goal of reducing congestion in San Jose.”

When asked about the use of geo-fencing as a possible solution, a spokesman from Lime said the company is open to using technology to curb sidewalk riding. But he insisted that the kind technology touted by Liccardo is still under development, and the company wants to make sure it works before rolling it out.

Bird spokeswoman Rachel Bankston said the company plans to work collaboratively with the city on potential solutions. According to the city’s proposal, e-scooter companies will have until July 1 to comply with new rules, or they will be denied permits to continue operating in San Jose.

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PAINT THE TOWN In his latest solo show, Al Preciado displays a retrospective of large landscapes he mostly painted this year.

DIY Guy Artist Al Preciado sets up his last solo show at the Citadel

BY GARY SINGH

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L PRECIADO is a retrospective kind of dude. A decades-long fixture in the San Jose art community and now into his 21st year of teaching at Bellarmine, he often sells his work at South First Fridays or paints canvases in front of Kaleid Gallery during the summer months, usually with his students or proteges.

The late Harry Powers showed him the ropes decades ago, and now

Preciado passes the baton by teaching younger artists what he knows.

This Saturday, Preciado’s latest solo show, a retrospective of large landscapes he painted mostly this year, unfolds at the Citadel Gallery, from noon until midnight. A warehouse-style building on Martha Street, the Citadel features more than 70 artist studios in addition to the gallery. Outside, Preciado tells me he knows every single crack on the sidewalk. Inside, everything is cold, off-white and almost prisonlike, but the gallery, a large open room with

magnificent lighting and 20-foot-high ceilings, has for years been one of San Jose’s best exhibit spaces.

“It’s a very New York-style gallery,” Preciado tells me. “It’s the biggest space, I think, in San Jose except for the Museum of Art, and it really shows off the artists’ work well. I’m a DIY kind of guy, I find that this space fits perfectly with my work because it’s especially large and not tiny, so it’s the best space for me because I feel like I need this kind of space to really show off my work at its best potential.”

With Preciado, the stories never stop. Decades ago when attending SJSU, he says his office was at House of Pizza. The old location, he clarifies.

Now at Citadel, Preciado stages retrospectives almost annually, but as we enter his studio, he claims this Saturday’s show will be his last major solo exhibit.

His studio is exactly what anyone would expect: sculptures, plants, paint-spattered rugs, haphazard shelving, ancient buckets filled with

brushes and art supplies, coils of bailing wire, canvases leaned up against each other, piles of milk crates high up on a shelf, scattered piles of tools, portraits of women, newspaper clippings, books crammed into a corner, plus sordid photos, sketches and even more piles of canvases jammed between everything else—all in glorious, beautiful chaos.

As we talk, two high school boys are helping Preciado clean out his studio in preparation for the show.

One is from Bellarmine, the other Valley Christian. It is here that Preciado stores many of his smaller sculptures, intricate abstract compositions of foil, plastic, tape and wire. Preciado first rented a studio at the Citadel for the last half of the ’80s, then returned about five years ago.

“It used to be cowboys and Indians, really Wild West,” he says. “There was a lot of parties and things like that. Then they made things a lot tighter. It’s more like a corporation.

It’s hard to get in here unless you have keys, and I feel a lot safer in this environment. It’s nice, my side of the building; there’s less artists so it’s more quiet. I really enjoy that, because especially at night it’s great to work.”

Preciado’s work is instantly recognizable to any longtime denizen of the local arts scene. He spent years painting the female form, including many images of ballerinas, but now he focuses on landscapes. He spent much of this year hanging out in San Jose parks, painting the greenery and the surroundings. Speaking with nuanced finality, Preciado goes back and forth as to whether this show is really indeed his last hurrah.

Nevertheless, a show like this with many large canvases requires serious physical effort. He’s getting older and it takes a long time to haul around a bunch of large works and then set them up for display in a huge gallery.

At this point, he’d rather pass the baton to the next generation.

“Emerging young artists, it’s their ball game now,” he says. “I’ll be happy to mentor anybody that needs it, because I think that’s what you should do, as Harry Powers did with me when I was younger. He mentored me and made me realize what I had to do to make a show happen, so I’ll always be thankful to him for that.”

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DOT CON MAN Steve Zahn plays internet huckster Michael Fenne in National Geographic’s new docudrama about the dotcom bubble, ‘Valley of the Boom.’

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Two decades later, a new TV show plumbs the dotcom boom for lessons and a glimpse into the future

BY NICK VERONIN

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N THE RUNUP to the big IPO, Wall Street was buzzing.

Plenty of traders believed in the social network and saw serious growth potential.

Others were skeptical— dubious of the maturity and business acumen of the 20-something Ivy League grads behind the firm and unsure of the venture’s entire premise.

How valuable could an online collection of photos, bulletin boards and chat rooms really be? Wasn’t this just something college kids tooled around with before growing up and getting serious?

Then again, anyone who followed tech finance closely didn’t want to miss out—as so many had when that search engine with the quirky name, Yahoo!, had gone public.

When trading opened, theGlobe. com’s target share price was set at $9.

The very first trade was made at $87.

The stock closed the day at $63.50.

The date was Nov. 13, 1998. Seinfeld had just ended, Friends was going strong and NSYNC were brand new. Little more than a quarter of American homes had internet access—and about 16 million of those who did accessed the web with the help of a dial-up service called America Online.

The rise and demise of theGlobe.com is one of the main points of interest in the new docudrama Valley of the Boom, which is set to premiere Jan. 13 on the National Geographic channel.

The six-part series—which features scripted acting and in-person documentary-style interviews with the real-life individuals whom the actors portray—follows the stories of three mid-’90s tech companies aiming to change the world.

Spoiler alert: all of them ultimately fall short of their goals.

THE CIRCLE There are many parallels to be drawn between Silicon Valley’s first

mid-’90s boom and the tech sector’s current state.

Unlike Mark Zuckerberg and Co., who launched Facebook at Harvard, theGlobe’s founders—Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman— started their social network at Cornell.

Their initial public offering came not in the wake of Google’s massive debut, but in the wake of impressive IPOs from Netscape and Yahoo! Paternot and Krizelman were coached on what to wear before heading out on their IPO “roadshow,” while Zuckerberg raised eyebrows by meeting with potential investors in a hoodie.

“I think we’re kind of looping back around to a similar place, although all the players are different and a lot about today is different,” says Matthew Carnahan, creator and director of Valley of the Boom.

Then as now, the media seized on narratives involving young startup founders making big bucks in their early 20s—and spending that money on lavish parties and outsize lifestyles.

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The Learning Curve

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WAR ROOM One of the primary narrative threads explored in ‘Valley of the Boom’ is the so-called ‘Browser War’ between the Mountain View-based startup Netscape and Seattle’s tech titan, Microsoft.

The show, which intersperses acting with straight-to-camera interviews with Arianna Huffington, Mark Cuban and the actual Paternot and Krizelman, also plucks choice TV news clips from the era. In one, a Los Gatos Ferrari dealer tells a reporter that he sold seven of the Italian luxury sports cars in a single afternoon.

Then, as now, there were struggles for power within the tech industry.

Another Valley of the Boom narrative thread follows the so-called “Browser Wars” between Netscape, a Mountain View startup, and Microsoft. The Seattle-based tech titan would go on to use its heft to deliver a number of serious blows to Netscape’s market share, drawing an antitrust case in the process. Though a district court ruled that Microsoft had engaged in anti-competitive practices by bundling its own in-house browser along with its operating system, the computing company ultimately came out ahead, as Netscape Navigator evaporated in the pink mist of the internet bubble’s bursting.

And then, as now, the general public often had a tenuous-at-best grasp on the technology being sold to them.

Valley of the Boom opens with a now infamous clip of Today co-hosts Katie Couric and Bryant Gumbel at a loss to explain the internet to themselves.

“What is internet, anyway?”

Gumbel asks. “What do you—write to it, like mail?”

“I think that Silicon Valley is

notoriously cyclical,” says Leslie Berlin, project historian for Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford and author of Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s Coming of Age. Even before the dotcom boom of the mid-’90s, the tech industry had its ups and downs, Berlin notes. But back then ordinary people didn’t know or care who made the chips in their cars or their transistor radios, and for the most part they didn’t care. The difference with Web 1.0 is that average investors got interested and the media ran with stories about exuberant spending by young Gen-X-ers.

Then, as now, there was a great deal of excitement for the potential of these companies. “That potential didn’t exactly pan out,” Berlin says.

WEB 2.0 Paternot says its strange looking back on those early days of the internet. “Even email was a weird concept,” he recalls. “People wrote each other by hand. There were these basic concepts that people couldn’t get their heads around.”

Much of that initial confusion has abated. People now pepper their daily conversations with internet jargon, complaining that they don’t have enough “bandwidth” to deal with a given task or spitting out “lol” when mildly amused.

The public’s understanding of the internet has grown hand-in-hand

with their ability to access it— which has increased in parallel with technological improvements. Back when Paternot was taking theGlobe. com public, it cost about $50 to store a gigabyte of information on a hard drive, computer monitors were the size of a basketball or larger, dial-up was painfully slow and Wi-Fi was still nearly a decade down the road. Today, $50 buys an entire terabyte of storage and people carry ultra-powerful, always-connected computers in their pockets.

“You can’t discount how important mobile is,” Berlin says, noting that when marketers first came up with the concept of “Cyber Monday” back in 2005, they were relying on people shopping from their desktops at work.

These days, Berlin continues, people can get their holiday shopping done on their phones from just about anywhere.

Indeed, mobile shopping is on the rise, nearing the 50 percent mark of all e-commerce. By 2021, analysts project that more than half of all online orders will be placed from a mobile device.

The role of money—and the ability to make money from the web—is also a major difference between the days of the first dotcom boom and today. Back then, aside from shortterm stock market speculation, almost no one had figured out how to turn a profit yet.

Today it may seem obvious that the internet is an optimal portal for delivering advertisements, but back in the ’90s, online marketing and online marketplaces were brand-new.

“It was hard to sell things online,” Berlin says. Pop-up ads were obnoxious, and the coolest thing that a banner ad could do was flash wildly at a potential customer. The idea of clickable ads was something that had to be invented. And then there was the problem of getting potential advertisers interested in buying a spot.

Even Berlin, who at the time was already studying the tech industry, recalls having a conversation with her husband about this very topic.

“Why on earth would anyone need a website when you have the Yellow Pages?” she remembers asking.

“None of us understood what it was going to become.”

In the two decades since the

bottom fell out of Web 1.0, a handful of big vendors, like Amazon, have emerged to dominate the online marketplace. Meanwhile, advertising has proliferated across the internet.

Audio ads pepper the free versions of music streaming services, video spots are tacked onto the beginning of popular YouTube clips, display ads run on just about every single website, and social media platforms track user behavior to deliver targeted ads.

That translates to revenue for the companies that have been able to best leverage the advertising power of the web. Google and Facebook are juggernauts thanks to online ads. As these companies have made money, they’ve funneled their profits into ensuring that the public understands how to and continues to use their products.

However, as people have become more comfortable with using the internet, personal privacy has suffered.

It’s more than a bit ironic that now—after readily agreeing to so many incremental invasions— consumers are only beginning to push back in meaningful ways against encroachments on personal information. But, as Berlin notes, it is understandable. The tech industry is overwhelmingly preoccupied with charging headlong into the future, and consumers are eager to get on board with the next best thing, especially if it’s cool and all their friends are in on the action.

“So much of what people are very concerned about,” Berlin says, “about how much our tech knows about us, how our phone seems to know where we are—this stuff that is so scary to us right now; it was absolutely magical when it first came out. The first time I used Uber, I felt like I was looking at art in the making. It was so seamless and so beautifully integrated into the phone.

Now, it’s like: Is it tracking me?”

Or, to put it another way, Berlin continues: “If people think what you’re doing is magic, at some point they are going to ask if you are tricking them.

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IRL Stephan Paternot co-founded theGlobe.com, one of the internet’s very first social media platforms, which blew up big and then tanked when the dotcom bubble burst. is 57 years old. Both of his father’s parents went to Stanford and he grew up in the East Bay. As a child living in Walnut Creek in the mid-’70s, he had a pet pig named Elizabeth. Once, when she fell ill, he and his family drove Elizabeth out to a veterinarian in the South Bay. “There were still farms,” Carnahan says, remembering the trip.

Back then, there were some who referred to Santa Clara County as Silicon Valley. After all, long before Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded their Apple Computer Company in a Palo Alto garage, William Hewlett and David Packard had begun their own electronics tinkering in a different Palo Alto garage.

And yet many who think about Silicon Valley—even those who work in the tech industry—forget about the region’s long and storied history.

“As I’ve met a lot of engineers and founders and people in the VC world, I have found that a kind of an Achilles heel is that people in the valley don’t tend to look back at all,” Carnahan says, explaining his interest in telling the story of the first dotcom explosion. “They’re very interested in looking forward. ‘I’m going to push aside the past and trample on the present in order to get to the future. In the process I’m going to leave a lot of important knowledge on the table.’ I think

there’s a lot to learn from the ’90s tech boom and bust.”

Perhaps the most important lesson is to remember that there are lessons to learn, Carnahan observes, trotting out the old maxim that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. “I think it’s worth sifting through the ashes of these endeavors,” he says.

There are plenty of cautionary tales of former giants that are no longer as powerful as they once were—if they are even still in business.

Netscape’s browser was initially the best in the game. The small company founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark in 1994 initially captured the bulk of the market share in the emergent web browser space. However, by the turn of the millennium, Microsoft—which had not long before supplanted IBM as the top player in the computing world— achieved dominance in the market with its Internet Explorer browser.

At the height of the first dotcom bubble, it would have been hard to imagine that Apple and its operating system would ever pose a threat to Microsoft’s Windows platform. But today, while Microsoft is no small actor, Apple is now the most valuable company in the world.

Facebook too is easily one of the world’s largest tech firms, and yet in the wake of deep political divisions in America and around the world—

and with evidence mounting that Facebook repeatedly ignored its responsibility for amplifying those divisions—the social network’s popularity has begun to decline.

“It’s hard to imagine a post-Google world; it’s getting less hard for me to imagine a post-Facebook world,” Carnahan says of the Menlo Park company that currently operates, in large part, out of Sun Microsystem’s former headquarters. That sprawling bayside campus was once just one of many Sun outposts around the world; the once untouchable company was slurped into Oracle eight years ago.

Paternot certainly understands the fleeting nature of Silicon Valley dominance. After his company made waves with its IPO—which at the time marked the largest single-day gains in stock market history— theGlobe became just another casualty of overheated expectations.

“Netscape was a titan before they went down in flames, as was Yahoo,” Paternot says. “People couldn’t see the world past Nokia or Blackberry.

How quickly one forgets.”

FUTURE MARKETS “We’re entering a kind of internet 3.0 right now,” Carnahan says. “I do think it’s very possible that Facebook’s moment has maybe passed—even though it is a massive company.”

Paternot believes it is imperative that the next generation of web entrepreneurs learn from the mistakes of their forebears. Because right now, those pioneers are saying “Shit! What have we done? Now we’re actually on a course correct.”

The internet’s futurebelongs not to those currently in power, according to Paternot, but to those who are ascendant within the tech world.

These are millennials and members of the as-yet-unnamed Generation Z, who are tired of Facebook and resistant to volunteering so much of their personal information to faceless corporations. These people, Paternot says, are the adopters of the blockchain movement.

“We are back in 1994,” he continues. “Just replace ‘internet’ with ‘blockchain.’ This is why looking back is so important.”

While it’s true that Silicon Valley moves in cycles, it also has the opportunity to improve upon itself with each new iteration. Blockchain technology, Paternot says, has already gone through its hype phase with the inflation and bursting of the cryptocurrency bubble. But there is so much more to blockchain than mining Bitcoins.

Blockchain’s cryptography aspect adds a level of security that has been lost in the shuffle of Web 2.0.

And its decentralized nature adds a further layer of privacy, as well as accountability.

Building decentralized apps—or “dapps”—for example promises to take the power out of the hands of large corporations, Paternot says.

“The bigger you get, the more capital you attract, the more corruption you introduce to your system.”

Building software on a decentralized platform essentially pulls an end-run around the big players and allows smaller developers to do things their own way, without having to deal with corporate gatekeepers.

Sure, he admits, the dapps that are currently available aren’t all that impressive. But that is always the case with cutting edge technologies that emerge at the start of a new innovation cycle. People right now are mocking what blockchain can do, he says… just like how the haters mocked the very premise of theGlobe.com.

Carnahan says producing Valley of the Boom has given him cause for optimism—especially in the newest innovations he’s been seeing. “I’m excited about new tech,” he admits.

Then, at the same time, he is frightened to think that people have not only been freely feeding their pictures and political affiliations into social networks. When it comes to companies like 23andMe, he observes, people have been giving up their DNA.

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PERFECT PASTRAMI The lamb tongue pastrami at Braise is one for the record books.

Braise Up A new Willow Glen eatery rises from the ashes with amazing food

BY JOHN DYKE

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RAISE OPENED LATE and I figured by midsummer it would be a perfect time to go. Unfortunately, disaster struck a few days after the Fourth of July, when an electrical fire shut the restaurant down. Nearly four months later, Braise reopened at the end of October. I knew I had to give them at least a month to right the ship.

The brainchild of Anthony “AJ” Jimenez (former chef at The Table) and Josh Hanoka (formerly of Bray Butcher Block at San Pedro Square Market), Braise’s new American cuisine features a constantly rotating and evolving menu,

based on seasonal ingredients and probably whatever pops into Jimenez and Hanoka’s culinary minds.

After making a reservation (which is highly recommended at this small neighborhood eatery), I made my way to downtown Willow Glen and through their unmistakable lime green door.

Their bar features a curated selection of wines, beers on tap and craft cocktails. We ordered the Bananas Alexander ($12) and their variation of a Gin and Juice ($10), which featured grapefruit and champagne. I’m normally not into cocktails but the Bananas Alexander was simply fantastic, as it almost tasted like a fresh banana milkshake.

The banana liqueur mixed with cream, cacao and cognac combined

for one tasty adult treat with a nice kick. The Gin & Juice was also good, as the floral grapefruit masked any booziness of the gin and champagne to make for a bubbly delight.

Braise’s menu is broken down into four areas: snacks, shared, mains and braised. It’s also important to note that almost half the menu is veg-head friendly, and a few of the dishes that aren’t can be altered in the kitchen to make them so.

We ordered items from each section of the menu. Our snack of choice was the the cheddar beignets ($7) and chanterelle mushrooms and cheese toast ($9); their infamous bone marrow PB&J ($13) was our shared plate; we selected the Anson Mills faro verde fried rice ($22) from the mains and rounded it out with the lamb tongue pastrami ($17) from the braised menu.

All the items came out one by one in true shared-plates fashion. First out were the snacks. The cheddar beignets were simply fantastic. Cheesy, yeasty and with a slight hint of sweetness from a drizzle of honey, these were an almost perfect bite-size snack.

Next out was the mushroom and cheese toast, and it was a bit of a disappointment. The dish tasted fine;

the size, however, was a problem. It was a bit too large to be bite-size, and trying to fit the whole thing in our mouths was a bit cumbersome.

I was really looking forward to sampling their bone marrow PB&J, and it did not disappoint. The housemade creamy peanut butter and passionfruit jelly were very flavorful, and when combined with the fatty, creamy bone marrow it made for a taste sensation like no other. If mom’s PB&J sandwiches tasted like this, I never would’ve traded them for Twinkies. While texturally the bone marrow isn’t for everyone, when combined with the crunch of the bread it was barely noticeable.

I thought they wouldn’t be able to top the bone marrow PB&J, but the next two dishes proved me wrong. The faro verde was extremely flavorful, with the crispy onion strips, carrot, green onions and Napa cabbage lightly bathed in a tasty concoction of fish sauce and spicy chili sambal. But the real pièce de résistance was their smoked lamb tongue.

Tender, flavorful and just the perfect amount of salt and smoke made this quite an incredible dish. My one quibble was the concomitant braised rutabaga and golden raisins were a bit heavy on the vinegar, and the dish could’ve used some kind of bread to go along with it.

Soldiering on, we knew we had to try their desserts and fortunately, they only had two options: a mini chocolate pot de crème with a marshmallow fluff brûlée ($3) and a spiced pear buttermilk panna cotta ($5).

The panna cotta was ridiculously smooth and not overly sweet, and the spiced pears were cooked extremely well, so that they still had a bit of bite to them and weren’t over-spiced. The pot de crème was also an absolutely beautiful dish, with the torched sugar on top of the fluff when combined with the silky-smooth chocolate made for quite an amazing flavor profile of sweet, burnt, rich and chocolatey all at once.

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Thu, 8pm, $15+ Rooster T. Feathers, Sunnyvale Massachusetts-born standup comic Alingon Mitra has all the bonafides, both as a performer (Conan, Last Comic Standing, Craig Ferguson, Colbert) and as a writer ( The Daily Show, Adam Ruins Everything, the Harvard Lampoon). He loves Katy Perry, the pope and reality TV, doesn’t like the word “gonorrhea,” and has deep suspicions about the sexual politics of football.

He’s headlining four nights— through Dec. 16—at Rooster T. Feathers in Sunnyvale, appearing with fellow comics Michael Cella and Emily Catalano. (WB)

THE SAN JOSE NUTCRACKER Fri, 7pm, $21.50+ Hammer Theatre Center, San Jose

True to its name, The San Jose Nutcracker adapts the iconic Tchaikovsky-scored ballet for local audiences—bringing the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Mouse King and all those marching toy soldiers into the orchards of the Valley of Heart’s Delight. Performed by the New Ballet School, the production also features plenty of South Bay twists, such as the dance of the California Poppies and scenery that San Jose history buffs will recognize, like the city’s legendary light tower. Call it the “California roll” of Nutcracker productions.

The ballet runs through Dec. 24 with evening and matinee showings. (WB)

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Fri, 7:30pm $40+ Bing Concert Hall, Stanford

The celebrated tenor quartet Il Divo is a great example of humankind’s desire to span cultural divides by (literally) singing from the same hymnal.

The swoony foursome features a highly diverse cast, with singers from Spain, France, Switzerland and the U.S. The group, which expertly blends classical opera and pop, was the brainchild of pop music kingmaker Simon Cowell. They celebrate their 15th anniversary with a new album, Timeless, and a new single—a Spanish-language version of Adele’s monster hit, “Hello,” aptly titled “Hola.” (WB)

Sure, you can listen to your neighbors’ off-key version of “We Three Kings” on your doorstep without leaving the house. But wouldn’t you rather get your holiday music fix from a Grammywinning jazz legend? The great Dianne Reeves belongs in the lineage of Dinah Washington and Sarah Vaughan, and she’s been bringing her magic to Christmas music for many years now. At this Stanford concert, she’ll take on a number of classics including “The Little Drummer Boy,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” and—though sadly it’s not in the Bay Area forecast— “Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow.” (WB)

For those depraved souls whose holiday tradition includes adult beverages and Bad Santa, there is a live theater show just for you. Who’s Holiday is a decidedly raunchy, not-for-kids take on the Dr. Seuss classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This one-woman show stars Shannon Guggenheim as the all-grown-up Cindy Lou Who—now a boozy bottle blonde living in a trailer. Cindy Lou has some memories about the Grinch that, uh, didn’t quite make the original manuscript. The tale is told entirely in verse. But, again, for God’s sake, leave the children at home! Fridays and Saturdays through Dec. 22. (WB)

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MICHELLE OBAMA

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WWE: TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS

Dec 16 at SAP Center

TRAVIS SCOTT

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Dec 18 at Flint Center

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

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

METALACHI

Jan 26 at The Ritz

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Sat, 8pm, $10+ First Presbyterian Church, Palo Alto

Sat, 7pm, $26+ The California Theatre, San Jose

Sat, 8pm, $59.75+ Flint Center, Cupertino

Conductor Barbara Day Turner and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra combine forces with the Choral Project, under the direction of Daniel Hughes, for this annual winter concert that explores the music of faiths and traditions from around the world. Among the goodies are the Basque carol Gabriel’s Message, Jaco Wong’s Behold the Everlasting and the closing piece, the majestic Song of the Universal, in which composer Ola Gjeilo works from lyrics by Walt Whitman. A Sunday performance will be held in at 7pm at Mission Santa Clara. (WB)

There’s never a bad time to visit the historic California Theatre, one of downtown San Jose’s most beautiful buildings. But the best time might be during the holiday season. For the 14th straight year, the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale—under the direction of Elena Sharkova and accompanied by a brass ensemble—will lead a sing-along of beloved Christmas carols and holiday songs. Wear your favorite ugly Christmas sweater and Santa hat, and rest assured that you’ll know all the words to these holiday classics. (WB)

In that very tiny village called Celebrities Everybody Loves (Bill Murray, Keanu Reeves, etc.), the immortal Willie Nelson is mayor. After a serious illness that sidelined him for a while, and a little campaigning for Beto O’Rourke in Texas, Willie is on the road again—this time with his family, including his wife, sister and two sons in a rollicking Nelson family band. He’s lived to see the widespread legalization of his favorite herb, but the 85-year-old music icon has mortality on his mind. One of his most performed songs nowadays is “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die.” We will, Willie. We certainly will. (WB)

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CHRISTMAS TRIBUTE TO CHARLIE BROWN Sun, 5pm, waiting list Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga December is the month of the sublime, and for millions of jazz fans across generations, there is nothing quite as sublime as Vince Guaraldi’s piano music for the Peanuts TV special, A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Pianist David Benoit has taken up Guaraldi’s mantle (Guaraldi died in 1976, and is buried in Colma), and has added his own compositions to the considerable catalogue of Blockhead jazz. At Montalvo, Benoit will be joined by the Vivace Children’s Choir of San Jose and vocalist Sara Gazarek to pay tribute to Guaraldi and play some of his own Christmas originals. (WB)

A$AP ROCKY

Feb 2 at Bill Graham Civic

STEEP CANYON RANGERS

Feb 7 at Montalvo Arts Center

MARC ANTHONY

Feb 8 at SAP Center

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

ABBA MANIA

Mar 9 at Flint Center

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HIGH PLAINS PAINTER The overlooked but influential California cowboy artist Joe De Yong gets his due in a new biography.

Giddy-Up California artist Joe De Yong made a name for himself painting cowboys

BY WALLACE BAINE

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F ALL THE cultural archetypes that America has given the world—the astronaut, the baseball player, the blues musician— none is older, more enduring or more deeply wrapped up in a peculiarly American brand of romanticism than the cowboy.

We all know the trappings: the hat, the boots, the lariat. And we all assume that the figure of the cowboy as we know it came directly from the movies.

But Hollywood didn’t invent this most iconic of American tough guys.

Santa Barbara-based writer William Reynolds has written a biography of one

of the unsung creators of the cowboy image in the popular imagination. His name was Joe De Yong, and he was an artist, illustrator, creative consultant and, most importantly, a genuine cowboy. As portrayed in the beautiful new illustrated book, Joe De Yong: A Life in the West (Alamar Media), De Yong represented the direct link between the paintings of famed cowboy artist Charles Russell and the Western films that dominated Hollywood’s golden era.

Russell was a Montana ranch hand in the 1880s when he started painting watercolors to document everyday frontier life in the American West.

By 1900, Russell had become famous around the world for his depictions of

the American cowboy, giving a visual element to the aesthetic of the already disappearing “Wild” West.

De Yong was a much younger cowboy, who found his artistic talent only after he was struck completely deaf by meningitis at the age of 19. Both men were born near St. Louis, and according to Reynolds, De Yong became the first and only artistic protégé of Russell. After Russell’s death in 1926, De Yong settled in California, bringing the Russell style to the burgeoning movie industry.

“He had this vision,” Reynolds says, “to carry on this desire for authenticity that Russell had instilled in him in the 10 years that he worked with Russell as his protégé. And it was Joe who realized that the only way to do this was to move into the motion-picture business because it was already becoming such an important part of the fabric of the culture of the nation and the whole planet.”

The Hollywood cowboy, of course, existed before Joe De Yong came along. But the cowboy as embodied

by Tom Mix and William S. Hart was an exaggerated and dandified version of the real thing. In the ’30s, De Yong had the good fortune to get hired on

by legendary director Cecil B. DeMille, a well-known stickler for authenticity.

From there, he became costume designer and storyboard consultant on DeMille’s Western, The Plainsman, starring Gary Cooper.

“Joe recognized that even in popular film, there had to be a basis of where it all came from, that it was not just costuming,” says Reynolds. “It was form following function in the classic sense, in his view. He was concerned with how the horses were turned out, how the (Native Americans) were portrayed. And, for the most part, DeMille was receptive to that.”

De Yong went on to work in several other pictures as a consultant and designer, most notably in Shane, the 1953 film that is widely considered a classic of the genre. But beyond his own work, Reynolds credits De Yong, who died in 1975, with being a dominant influence in how the West was portrayed for decades, from the heyday of Gary Cooper and John Wayne to the acclaimed 1989 miniseries Lonesome Dove.

As time went on, however, De Yong had a harder time maintaining his standards working with directors who were always looking for shortcuts.

“Joe would know that a Crow man is not going to look the same as a Cheyenne man,” Reynolds says. “But so many directors would say, ‘I don’t care.’ And Joe would just walk off the set. He’d say, ‘Nope, it has to be right.

I know a lot of people in that tribe.’

He used to have a saying, ‘I don’t want to be close. I want to be right.’”

As a boy growing up in Santa Barbara, Reynolds actually had an occasion to meet Joe De Yong, who had become a kind of amateur historian of the California vaquero.

Reynolds’ father was in television and brought his 12-year-old son to a Hollywood saddle shop to meet Joe, well into his 60s at the time.

“The whole thing was probably 15 minutes,” Reynolds recalls. “Driving back, my dad said, ‘I want you to know, you just met a real cowboy.

You remember him.’”

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Worlds Collide Alfonso Cuaron’s masterful ‘Roma’ is at once sprawling and intimate

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ET IN THE early ’70s in Mexico City, Roma shows us everything from a forest fire to a riot to an earthquake to the drama of an illegitimate pregnancy. And yet one never feels overstuffed or overserved.

Despite Alfonso Cuaron’s magnificent composition and his widescreen black and white photography, despite the depths of memory he exposes, Roma’s roots are in shot-off-the-street neo-realism. It’s a film in the tradition of the best stories of a metropolis—peeked at through

windows and doorways, or observed in passing.

Our own window into this eternal city of the Americas is Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), the small, brave mestizo caregiver to a middlingly well-off family. She’s there at the end and the beginning of the film. Roma commences in blackout while we hear the slop of a bucket and the slap of a mop as she cleans up an enclosed driveway.

Cleo scales a rickety staircase to get to the clothesline on the roof, where the neighboring maids work in an ambient bubble of AM radio chatter. It’s under the flight path to the airport—one of the first shots is of an airplane's wing reflected

in mop water. The holding pattern continues in a littered dusty barrio, where Roma’s second act ends. The noise of the planes rattles a city full of millions who will never be able to afford to take flight.

On her night off, Cleo goes on a date with a young man, Fermin (Jorge Antonio Guerrero)—impassioned and penniless, ridiculous and ridiculously good looking. She’s seduced, impregnated and abandoned.

Meanwhile, Cleo’s household of four kids and a thousand stuffed animals is about to become a broken home. In way of farewell, the physician father complains about the mess and the chaos before he heads off to a “conference in Montreal”— he’s the proverbial dad who goes out for a pack of smokes and never returns. The mother (Marina de Tavira) keeps things going by pretending everything is normal. De Tavira plays her deliberately opaque; watching her, you may remember your own childhood efforts at secondguessing your mother’s secrets.

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FAMILY MATTERS In ‘Roma,’ an upper middle class family navigates trying political and personal times.

and yet everything within its borders matters. The narrow driveway Cleo swabs is the site for a keen running joke about the too-big status symbol gringo car, with only millimeters of clearance on either side. We glimpse a mystic muscleman on TV, dressed something like Kaliman, El Hombre Increible; the yogi returns in a less benign setting, training a paramilitary gang. Needing a change of scenery, the family heads off to a hacienda in the hills, for scenes that can be compared for merry decadence to Renoir’s Rules of the Game. In this fantastic tableau, the partiers go too far with their guns, torches and booze and end up setting the woods on fire.

Mexico CIty is also ready for a conflagration. Looming trouble gives Roma shape. One senses the arrival of some terrible political tragedy. You don’t have to know the story of the Corpus Christi massacre of June 10, 1971 to feel it on its way. Posters for the upcoming presidential election metastasize on the walls, and there are repeated sinister processions of an outof-tune military brass band strutting down the street.

Roma is the current peak of Cuaron’s gifts—in display ever since his Devil’s Triangle comedy Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001). In Roma, the family goes to a block-wide movie theater, the foyer as crowded with buskers and trinket vendors as a cathedral porch. There they see John Sturges’ Marooned (1969).

Here, Cuaron honors the sire of his brilliant space thriller Gravity (2013).

The director’s genius in staging a skirmish was evident in the urban battle scenes in the hugely timely Children of Men (2006), and such are the Corpus Christi scenes here: a showstopper but not a finale. When the family is united in a moment of weeping on a rough beach, one sees the kind of seemingly effortless classical composition that has made cinema so overwhelming, all seven arts at once. Roma, the film of the year, is an exquisitely tender work, and a deeply layered historical re-creation that defies the colorless, noisy epics of lesser directors.

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BRUCE MUNRO

REVIEW

AT MONTALVO STORIES IN LIGHT ON VIEW THROUGH MARCH 17, 2019

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

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

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

Visitors of all ages welcome.

LIGHT UP YOUR HOLIDAYS WITH MUNRO AT MONTALVO In November and December, enjoy extended viewing dates, plus delicious Munro Suppers on select evenings as well as Family Nights.

Learn more and buy your timed tickets today at munromontalvo.org.

stART here.

Montalvo Arts Center

15400 Montalvo Road Saratoga, CA 95070 munromontalvo.org Box Office: 408-961-5858 (M-F, 10am-4pm)

THE VALLEY F O U N DAT I O N George & Judy Marcus

Alice Phelan Sullivan Corporation Jeff & Leann Sobrato Charmaine & Dan Warmenhoven

NEW SCHOOL In the animated ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ our main hero—Miles Morales—is joined by many alternate spider-men and spider-women.

Neighborhood Watch OVERSTUFFED BUT STARTLING, the animated Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse has the mountainous mafia villain Wilson “Kingpin” Fisk (voiced by Liev Schreiber) firing up a Jack Kirby-style dimension smasher to breach the walls to other universes: all to try to retrieve his demised family. ”You can have all the families you want!,” promises his head scientist Liv (Kathryn Hahn, first hippieish and chirpy, then quite frightening, after the revelation of who she really is).

A new young man with spider powers takes over the role of the hero— undersized Miles Morales (Shameik Moore) a hoodied, Nike-wearing Nuyorican kid. A tagger by night, reluctantly a boarding schooled kid by day, he has a stern cop dad and funner, far shadier uncle, Aaron (Mahershala Ali).

He’s not alone, though, as a dimensional fissure releases a squad of SpiderMen, women, a Japanese robot and the funny-animal talking pig Spider-Ham from the younger-readers Star comic books. Leave it to Stan Lee to hook ’em young. And of course Lee shows up. Did you seriously think the grave could hold that old cutpurse?

Directors Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Spider-Man: Into Rothman attempt a Magnificent 7 (actually 6) of spiderthe Spider-Verse entities, but it feels more like a film that opens the toybox and spills all the characters out.

PG-13, 100 Mins.

It doesn’t work as a tag-teamer, and, Lego Movie-wise, the Valleywide attempts to satirize the plot-beats are an admission that the many of those beats lack thump.

How it succeeds is as something for everyone. For the old fans, that something will be Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson). He’s the same kind of teenage mess Peter Parker always is, no matter who wears the mask, only now he’s hitting 40, with a crap apartment, a pizza-nourished belly and sweatpants.

Yet of all the spectacle here, one of the most gallant moments was Peter B. doing some quick back-cracking and leg stretches before getting out there into the field. In the movie’s most lyrical passage, he teaches young Milo how to swing by webs through a brilliantly orange fall forest, all while the pair are pursued by one of the series’ most nightmarish villains.

This highly ambitious cartoon—the first attempt to go this big and theatrical since Batman: Mask of the Phantasm decades ago—captures the visual chaos of the city, in both sound and vision, in neon brightness and dark alleys. It runs long but it never fails to impress with its confidence, its angles, its sensational color and its sense of bringing animation into a new century. —Richard von Busack

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Guitar Hero Dutch producer San Holo owes more to Sigur Ros than Skrillex

BY YOUSIF KASSAB

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HEN IT COMES to music, the very concept of a genre is polarizing. Some artists will bristle at any attempt to pin a label on their work; some will shrug off the practice of categorization as a meaningless but unavoidable convention of the industry; others still will actively tout their given tag, wearing it like a badge of honor.

The truth is, genre is both instructive and reductive. While it helps fans organize their libraries and is an essential tool in the music

critic’s arsenal, it can feel like a pair of manacles for creators like Sander van Dijck.

For van Dijck—who is better known by his stage name, San Holo—the only cardinal direction is emotion.

“When you listen to album1, for example, it really evokes a certain feeling,” van Dijck says of his debut full length, released in September.

“I’m kind of addicted to it; it’s this pleasantly sad or, like, melancholic, nostalgic feeling. Like, I can make a house track that sounds like that, or I can make a hardcore or trap track that still has that emotion, and at that point I don’t need to think about genre at all.”

Van Dijck’s new album operates

on a number of different frequencies.

On one hand, it scans like a perfectly plausible entry in the ambient electronic canon of 2018. On the other, where most music in this space is content to lay down some affectionately written lyrics and let the production do all the emotional heavy lifting, album1 lets both of these elements work in tandem to drive the emotion home.

In the bigger-equals-better world of Top 40, it sometimes feels like EDM producers build their tunes around the drop, working outward from the tune’s most massive moment. San Holo’s approach is different. His songs start as a primordial soup of ethereal guitars and wall-of-sound synthesizers before they find their center of gravity.

And unlike the desktop audio workstation arrangements of his contemporaries, San Holo’s guitarforward approach to songwriting gives his music a post rock vibe— more akin to This Will Destroy You or Mogwai than music built with keyboards and pattern sequencers.

Before the San Holo project was born, van Dijck spent a lot of time playing guitar in bands. Much of the

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PRODUCER’S CAP Sander van Dijck can often be found with a hat on his head and a guitar in his hand.

music he picked up at that time of his life informs the music he makes today.

“Back then, I just tried to copy Explosions in the Sky,” he says, “but I realized there’s no room in this world for another Explosions in the Sky. That’s when I started doing other things. It’s really funny how the story kind of came full circle, though, and now I’m bringing that direction into electronic music to create something new.”

In a poetic way, San Holo’s new album stands as a testament to his love for post rock better than any Explosionsaping demo tape could. With it, he’s effectively exposing people who might never listen past the most ubiquitous rock acts to the musical ideas he fell in love with in the beginning.

“That’s another one of the main things I get out of making music is expanding people’s horizons and tastes.

That’s beautiful to me,” he says.

It was with this sentiment in mind that San Holo founded his record label bitbird. While it’s known in the scene for primarily releasing new future bass tracks, in its five years of existence it’s dabbled with R&B, and classical music releases as well.

Van Dijck says he started the label to change the electronic landscape in whatever way he could.

“The thing is, I still remember sending my music around to labels and getting back, ‘Oh, it’s kind of weird,’ or ‘It’s too crowded.’ People just didn’t get it yet,” he says.

In a way, starting bitbird was an effort to make a platform for electronic music that might have reached him when he was still a guitarist finding himself in different bands.

It was in one of those early bands that a bandmate gave him a mix CD with a handful of avant garde and post rock songs. He described getting to one song and not being able to move past it.

"It was the Sigur Rós song ‘Hoppípolla,’ and I just never connected to music like that,” he says over the phone with an audible smile. “The emotions I found in post rock really resonated with me.

I’ve been trying to make music that sounds like that ever since.”

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SWING DADDIO The SJZ collective marks the release of their new album which reimagines the work of jazz legend Thelonious Monk.

Reimagining Monk

Robyn Hitchcock Michael’s on Main Saturday, Dec. 29

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RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC TRIO JAN 31 Cocoanut Grove w/

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THE SOUTH BAY’S jazz scene is one of the best in the Bay Area. That’s thanks in large part to San Jose Jazz. The organization hosts two seasonal soirees— Summer Fest and Winter Fest—and regularly puts on stellar shows at Café Stritch (another key to our region’s thriving jazz community).

Now with the release of a new album of tunes celebrating the work of a jazz legend, another San Jose Jazz project, the SJZ Collective, is adding to the region’s mix of great live jazz.

SJZ Collective Reimagines Monk is the debut album from a group of working local musicians that explores the fascinating and entrancing breadth of Thelonious Monk’s catalog. And it all comes on the eve of the musician’s centennial.

Born out of both the success of the San Jose Jazz Summer Jazz Camp, and the cranial innerworkings of Silicon Valley-based drummer and DRUM! Magazine contributor, Wally Schnalle, the SJZ Collective is on a mission to bring together an ever-evolving and expanding list of the best jazz musicians in the area to create great music that honors the complex and fascinating history of jazz—all while still striking out on its own. Currently, the collective features drummer and founder, Schnalle, trumpeter and flugelhorn player John L. Worley Jr., guitarist Hristo Vitchev, saxophonist Oscar Pangilinan, organist Brian Ho, and bassist Saul Sierra; but founder Schnalle hopes to add even more SJZ Collective eminent musicians to the mix.

Up until now, the SJZ Collective has kept its energy Dec 14, 8:30pm, in jazz’s relative inner-circle—appearing this year Free at SJZ Summer Fest, as well as at Café Pink House, Cafe Stritch, Impulse Room and Café Stritch, among others. But San Jose the release of a new album, which initially debuted as a project at San Jose Jazz Winter Fest 2018, has set the Collective’s sights on the main stage.

“Monk’s music as always resonated with [us],” Schnalle says before adding: “Monk’s compositional voice and performances cannot be replicated. His musical identity was singular.”

As such, the album presents original arrangements of classic Thelonious Monk jams. It is an explosive yet thoughtful mix of classic tunes with contemporary twists. Featuring four compositions, originally recorded at San Jose’s Valley Christian High School studio, SJZ Collective Reimagines Monk hits all the right notes, bringing together jazz newbies and jazzophiles alike.

“I want the audience to experience these great musicians supporting each other’s musical identities while they play some great arrangements of Monk compositions,” says Schnalle on his hopes for the album’s reception. —Tad Malone

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THU DEC 13 THE COME UP PRESENTS: SAN JOSE WINNIN' This music show and clothing drive is brought to you by the crew of entrepreneurial creatives who bring variety and gaiety to all the venues they inhabit. Lots of charity, merriment and talent under one roof. 6:30pm. San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S Seventh St, San Jose

FRI DEC 14 TWISTED X-MAS ART SHOW @ ART ARK APARTMENTS Francisco Ramirez is one of the most talented painters in the South Bae. I’d be willing to let him tattoo myself all over myself because then I’d look much better. Live painting, a DJ and live music by Saint Alia and Israel Sanchez. 4pm. 1058 S Fifth St, San Jose

DEC 14–16 THE MAKING OF THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL: LIVE! The infamous Star Wars Holiday Special aired once on CBS in 1978, and a VHS/DVD copy is the third level of sought-after collectible for newer SW fans. I am a geek who enjoys the Star Wars universe, but I do not love it; I am merely fascinated with it and its impact on society.

However, as bonafide comedy nerd, I love it when folks take the piss out of sacred cows. To be irreverent with something so revered is a science I will study forever. Monty Python and writers for The Onion come to mind as leading scientists in this field. I believe the Dragon Theatre Co. has discovered a really neat concept—a theory, if you will—and I cannot wait to see how it plays out. 8pm. Various times through Sun. Dragon Theatre Co, 2120 Broadway St, Redwood City

FRI DEC 14 DOMINO AND THE DERELICTS ALBUM RELEASE If you want to support local music, it makes sense to give money to bands and acts from a wide array genres. When one local genre does well, others benefit from the love. Look at Oakland’s punk and hip-hop scenes in the ’70s and ’80s: They supported each other so that both would survive. Punk is not going away, and Domino and the Derelicts are proof. With Dom’s songwriting and vocals taking on a recognizably unique style, and as a female-led band in a sea of dudes, they’re setting themselves up to rise above the crop of bands coming up in the South Bae. But they’re smart enough to pull others up onto the pedestal with them. With Enemy of My Enemy, False Freedom. 9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose = MUST SEE

WED 12/12 EXHIBITION OPENING THE CIRCLE OF TRUTH 1pm. Various times through 3/09/19. New Museum Los Gatos | NUMU, 106 Main St, Los Gatos

= MORE AT SANJOSE.COM Hill Band at Poor House Studio. Sun, 11am: New Orleans Piano Brunch with Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: Hootenanny. Mon, 6pm: Mixed Open Mic Night. Tue, 7pm: Aki Kumar’s Blues Jam. 91 S Autumn St, San Jose

SAM'S BBQ POOR HOUSE BISTRO Wed, 6pm: The Legendary Ron Thompson & Sid Morris Gang feat. Knee Deep Brewing. Thu, 6pm: Theme Night/ Pro Jam- Feat. CCR. Fri, 7pm: Mark Hummel & The Blues Survivors. Sat, 6pm: Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88's. Sat, 9pm: Nikki

Wed, 6pm: Blue House.

Tue, 12/18, 6pm: Wildcat Mountain Ramblers. Wed, 12/19, 6pm: Fred McCarty.

1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

BLUES SCOTT GOLDBERG JAM 7pm. Little Lou's BBQ, 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

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THE RITZ Wed, 7pm: Thrashing for a Cause. Sat, 8pm: The Emo Night Tour. Sun, Noon: San Jose Punk Rock Flea Market 4: Xmess! Tue, 8pm: The El Vez Christmas Show: The Greatest Snowman. 400 S First St, San Jose

MIXED SHOW KNOW MORALS & THE PLI, FRAGILE D, GO OUTSIDE, SUPERNAUT 8pm. Game Shop Downstairs, 124 E Santa Clara St, San Jose

JAZZ SJZ HIGH SCHOOL ALL STARS @ CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK 8pm. Plaza de Cesar Chavez, 1 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose

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Sun. Tabard Theatre Co, 29 N San Pedro St, San Jose

SAN JOSE HIP HOP HISTORY W/ERIC "KERGE" EUGENIO 9pm. FutureArtsNow! @ Alum Rock Youth Center, 137 N White Rd, San Jose

THU 12/13 VARIETY THE COME UP PRESENTS: SAN JOSE WINNIN'

6:30pm. Music show and clothing drive. San Jose Peace and Justice Center, 48 S Seventh St, San Jose

Thu, 10pm: DJ Live. Fri, 10pm: Hot Tub Time Machine. Sat, 10pm: DJ Dinero ’70s-’80s Dance Party. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon: Darts & Sports.

Tue, 7:30pm: PubStumpers.

Wed, 10pm: DJ Hank. 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

FRI 12/14

COMEDIAN ISMO

TWISTED X-MAS ART SHOW

SPEAK EASY: A STAND-UP COMEDY AFFAIR

8pm. Clandestine Brewing, 980 S First St, Ste B, San Jose

STAGE INTO THE WOODS

8pm. Various times through 12/23. Los Altos Stage Company, 97 Hillview Ave, Los Altos

RAP BATTLE THE CYPHER: 12-YEAR ANNIVERSARY 8pm. Live music and open mic. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

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

STAGE MAKING GOD LAUGH

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BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

VIDEO EXHIBIT KAHLIL JOSEPH: BLKNWS

8pm. Various times through Sun. San Jose Improv, 62 S Second St, San Jose

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STAGE BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY

7:30pm. Various times through Sun. San Jose Stage Co, 490 S First St, San Jose

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8pm. Various times through 12/23. City Lights Theater ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE: NAME HERE Company, 529 S Second St, DESIGNER: NAME San HERE Jose

JAZZ MIKE ZILBER QUARTET Metro Silicon Valley 8:30pm.

Cafe 374 S 380 South First St. San Jose, CA Stritch, 95113 | 408.298.8000 First St, San Jose

11am. Through 06/19. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford

COUNTRY JORDAN DAVIS 7pm. Club Rodeo, 610 Coleman Ave, San Jose

CLASSIC ROCK MELVIN SEALS & JGB

VOCAL QUARTET IL DIVO: TIMELESS TOUR

8:30pm. City National Civic, 135 W San Carlos St, San Jose

JAZZ SJZ COLLECTIVE REIMAGINES MONK EP RELEASE PARTY

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

PUNK DOMINO AND THE DERELICTS ALBUM RELEASE

9pm. With Enemy of My Enemy, False Freedom.

Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: CISUM. Sat, 9pm: The Funky Godfather. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

7pm doors. Club Fox, 2209 Broadway St, Redwood City

] STAGE WILLOW GLEN CHILDREN'S THEATRE: 'HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE’ 7:30pm. Through Sun. $5 at the door. Willow Glen Community Center, 2175 Lincoln Ave, San Jose.

JAZZ SHAY SALHOV QUARTET

7:30. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

BECOMING: AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION PUBMICHELLE DATE: WITH OBAMA 00/00/15 8pm. SAP Center, 525 W Santa Clara St, San Jose

DRAG ALLNUMBER: STARS 4 ISSUE 15XX PREMIERE PARTY & HOLIDAY SHOW W/ DELTA WORK

STAGE THE MAKING OF THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL: LIVE!

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

Sun, 4pm: Novak-Nanni Duo. 2988 Almaden Expy, San Jose

8pm. The Cats, 17533 Santa Cruz Hwy, Los Gatos

4pm. Art Ark Apartments, 1058 S Fifth St, San Jose

8pm. Splash, 65 Post St, San Jose

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8pm. Various times through Sun. Dragon Theatre Co, 2120 Broadway St, Redwood City

STAGE UPTOWN HOLIDAY SWING: SONS OF JUBAL

8pm. Various times through

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

WACKY BAND SPAZMATICS! CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! 10pm. Sushi Confidential, 26 N San Pedro St, San Jose

SAT 12/15 FRIENDS OF THE KING LIBRARY TWO-DAY BOOK SALE

10am. Also Sun at 1pm. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose

SAN JOSE CRAFT HOLIDAY FAIR

11am. South Hall, 435 S Market St, San Jose

DRAG QUEEN STORYTIME: OVER THE RAINBOW

11am. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose

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Club Fox Blues Jam

1pm. Little Lou's BBQ, 2455 S Winchester Blvd, Campbell

7pm • $7

NORCAL COSPLAY BALL: WINTER FROLIC

AC Myles

6pm. The Rose Ballroom, 1224 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

Fri. Dec. 14

Melvin Seals & Jgb

ROOTS ROCK ROOTS RAWKA PRESENTS: DAVID RHYTHM, ZEEK, DEZ SAFFINGS

8pm • $25 Adv / $30 Door

7pm. Tiki Pete's, 23 N Market St, San Jose

Sat. Dec. 15

Elvin Bishop’s Big Fun Trio 8pm • $28 Adv / $32 Door.

EMO/JAZZ SPILLER, PEACHÍ, EVE'S PEACH

7:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

KLEZMER KUGELPLEX

Sun. Dec. 16

Gypsy Soul Holiday Experience 6pm • $22 Adv/$25 Door

2209 Broadway St Redwood City / 831.334.1153 clubfoxrwc.com

8pm. Sunnyvale Theatre, 550 E Remington Drive, Sunnyvale

PUNK/GRIND HEDIED, HUMAN OBLITERATION, CHOKE, XHOSTAGEX, GLENXCOCO, FRIGHT

8pm. The Elegant Pub, 3273 S White Rd, San Jose

JAZZ SCOTT LARSON SEXTET

8:30pm. Cafe Stritch, 374 S First St, San Jose 1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Thursday, December 13 • Ages 16+

Yung Bans

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Lil Loski

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HIRIE

Friday, December 14 • Ages 16+

Iration

Friday, December 14 • In the Atrium • Ages 21+

DJ SAL

plus DJ Robby & Brando

Sunday, December 16 • Ages 16+

Night of the Blue Swan

with Hail

the Sun, Royal Coda, Icarus The Owl, Wolf & Bear, Adventurer, Ghost Spirit

Sunday, Dec. 16 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

“CHRISTMAS WITH THE MISFITS” 6TH ANNUAL CHARITY BENEFIT

Dec 21 Thundercat (Ages 16+) Dec 28 Cut Chemist/ Chali 2na (Ages 16+) Dec 31 Eagles Of Death Metal (Ages 21+) Jan 12 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Ages 16+) Jan 18 Sage The Gemini (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+) Jan 31 Tritonal (Ages 16+) Feb 2 RJD2/ Ghost & The City (Ages 16+) Feb 5 Badfish A Tribute To Sublime (Ages 16+) Feb 7 Groundation/ Thrive (Ages 16+) Feb 8 The Amity Affliction/ Senses Fail (Ages 16+) Feb 9 The Green (Ages 16+) Feb 13 The Record Company (Ages 16+) Feb 14 The Expendables/ Ballyhoo! (Ages 16+) Feb 23 Lil Mosey (Ages 16+)

BASS & VIOLIN FISH ISLANDS

9pm. Quarter Note, 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale

DJ & DANCE FUNKBOX SAN JOSE FT. TONY TOUCH & MR. V 9pm. Continental Bar & Lounge, 349 S First St, San Jose

COVER BAND MARYELLEN & THOM TRIO 9pm. San Pedro Square, 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

FAREWELL SAY GOODBYE TO BONEZ: GHOST TOWN HANGMEN, INFAMOUS SWANKS & MORE

9pm. Farewell party for a ‘Van fave. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

SUN 12/16

www.catalystclub.com

DRAG BRUNCH: SNEAKERS & JACKET DRIVE

11am. For LGBTQ Youth Space and Stand Up For Kids. SoFA Market, 387 S First St, San Jose

SAN JOSE CRAFT HOLIDAY FAIR 11am. South Hall, 435 S Market St, San Jose

FRIENDS OF THE KING LIBRARY TWO-DAY BOOK SALE

1pm–5pm. Also Sat at 10am.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, 150 E San Fernando St, San Jose

FUNDRAISER TARDEANA: LOS NITELITERS, RAMON FLORES & CALI TEX

2pm–8pm. To replace stolen sound equipment. Agave Sports Bar & Grill, 544 W Alma Ave, San Jose

JAM SESSION

6pm. Quarter Note, 1214 Apollo Way, Sunnyvale

COMEDY: PX FACTORY OPEN MIC 8:30pm. Willow Glen Pizza Factory, 3039 Meridian Ave, San Jose

MON 12/17 FAMILY MAKER[SPACE] SHIP AT EASTRIDGE

11am. STEAM. Eastridge Entrance C between TOMI and 24 Hour Fitness, 2200 Eastridge Loop, San Jose

LMNOP COMEDY MONDAYS 9pm. Improv jam and openmic stand-up comedy. Lilly Mac's, 187 S Murphy Ave, Sunnyvale

COMEDY OPEN MIC WITH PETE MUNOZ 9pm. Woodhams Lounge, 4475 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara

TUE 12/18

Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

Tickets subject to city tax & service charge by phone 877-987-6487 & online

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When you're prescribed antibiotic pills to fight off infection, you should finish the entire round. If you stop taking the meds partway through because you're feeling better, you might enable a stronger version of the original infector to get a foothold in your system.

This lesson provides an apt metaphor for a process you're now undergoing. As you seek to purge a certain unhelpful presence in your life, you must follow through to the end. Don't get lax halfway through. Keep on cleansing yourself and shedding the unwanted influence beyond the time you're sure you're free of it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Danish scientist and poet Piet Hein wrote this melancholy meditation: "Losing one glove is painful, but nothing compared to the pain of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again." Let his words serve as a helpful warning to you, Gemini. If you lose one of your gloves, don't immediately get rid of the second. Rather, be patient and await the eventual reappearance of the first. The same principle applies to other things that might temporarily go missing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author

Elizabeth Gilbert is a soulful observer whose prose entertains and illuminates me. She's well aware of her own limitations, however. For example, she writes, "Every few years, I think, 'Maybe now I'm finally smart enough or sophisticated enough to understand Ulysses. So I pick it up and try it again.

And by page 10, as always, I'm like, 'What the hell?'"

Gilbert is referring to the renowned 20th-century novel, James Joyce's masterwork. She just can't appreciate it. I propose that you make her your inspirational role model in the coming weeks. Now is a favorable time to acknowledge and accept that there are certain good influences and interesting things that you will simply never be able to benefit from. And that's OK!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): More than three centuries

ago, Dutch immigrants in New York ate a dessert known as the olykoek, or oily cake: sugarsweetened dough deep-fried in pig fat. It was the forerunner of the modern doughnut. One problem with the otherwise delectable snack was that the center wasn't always fully cooked. In 1847, a man named Hanson Gregory finally found a solution.

Using a pepper shaker, he punched a hole in the middle of the dough, thus launching the shape that has endured until today. I bring this to your attention because I suspect you're at a comparable turning point. If all goes according to cosmic plan, you will discover a key innovation that makes a pretty good thing even better.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I can't believe I'm going

to quote pop star Selena Gomez. But according to my analysis of the current astrological omens, her simple, homespun advice could be especially helpful to you in the coming weeks. "Never look back," she says. "If Cinderella had looked back and picked up the shoe, she would have never found her prince." Just to be clear, Virgo, I'm not saying you'll experience an adventure that has a plot akin to the Cinderella fairy tale. But I do expect you will benefit from a "loss" as long as you're focused on what's ahead of you rather than what's behind you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Among the pieces of

jewelry worn by superstar Elvis Presley were a Christian cross and a Star of David. "I don't want to miss out on heaven due to a technicality," he testified. In that spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you, too, to cover all your bases in the coming weeks. Honor your important influences. Be extra nice to everyone who might

have something to offer you in the future. Show your appreciation for those who have helped make you who you are. And be as open-minded and welcoming and multicultural as you can genuinely be. Your motto is, "Embrace the rainbow."

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you a gambling

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Enlist some help in enforcing your desire to refrain.

Create an obstruction that will interfere with your ability to act on negative impulses.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "What is the

point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?" Author John Green asked that question. I confess that I'm not entirely comfortable with it. It's a bit pushy. I find I'm more likely to do remarkable things if I'm not trying too hard to do remarkable things. Nevertheless, I offer it as one of your key themes for 2019. I suspect you will be so naturally inclined to do remarkable things that you won't feel pressure to do so. Here's my only advice: Up the ante on your desire to be fully yourself; dream up new ways to give your most important gifts; explore all the possibilities of how you can express your soul's code with vigor and rigor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the fairy tale

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1140, two dynasties

were at war in Weinsberg, in what's now southern Germany. Conrad III, leader of the Hohenstaufen dynasty, laid siege to the castle at Weinsberg, headquarters of the rival Welfs dynasty. Things went badly for the Welfs, and just before Conrad launched a final attack, they surrendered. With a last-minute touch of mercy, Conrad agreed to allow the women of the castle to flee in safety along with whatever possessions they could carry. The women had an ingenious response. They lifted their husbands onto their backs and hauled them away to freedom.

Conrad tolerated the trick, saying he would stand by his promise. I foresee a metaphorically comparable opportunity arising for you, Aquarius. It won't be a life-or-death situation like that of the Welfs, but it will resemble it in that your original thinking can lead you and yours to greater freedom.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The National Center for Biotechnology Information reported on a 15-yearold boy who had the notion that he could make himself into a superhero. First he arranged to get bitten by many spiders in the hope of acquiring the powers of Spiderman. That didn't work. Next, he injected mercury into his skin, theorizing it might give him talents comparable to the Marvel Comics mutant character named Mercury. As you strategize to build your power and clout in 2019, Pisces, I trust you won't resort to questionable methods like those. You won't need to! Your intuition should steadily guide you, providing precise information on how to proceed. And it all starts now.

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11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

/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 #622430 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Union NAME STATEMENT Avenue Liquors, 3649 Union Ave.,#648538 San Jose, CA, 95124, Kim Dao

The following person(s)Ct., is (are) doingCA,business as: business 1. StartCorporation, 36 Leominster San Jose, 95139. This Op, 2. conducted Start Op, 470 Ave., Los Altos, is being by aUniversity corporation.

Registrant hasCA, not94022, yet VC Partners, Inc.business This business is being conducted a begun transacting under the fictitious businessbyname Registrant under orCoprporation. names listed herein.

Abovebegan entitytransacting was formedbusiness in the state of the fictitious business name or names listed on 11/01/2018.

California. /s/Michael John Perazzo #C39443143 This Above entity was formed in thePresident state of California. /s/Kathy statement was filed with the This County Clerk of Santa Clarawith County Bagby. CFO. #C2008003. statement was filed the onCounty 10/13/2016. (pub Metro Clara 10/26,County 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)(pub Metro Clerk of Santa on 11/15/2018.

11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #622360 #648712 TheNAME followingSTATEMENT person(s) is (are) doing business as: Soft Touch Spa,

The following person(s) is (are) business as:650 Zcar 1692 Tully Road, Suite 12, San Jose, CA, doing 95122, Dai Nguyen, Island Properties.

Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, by 94086.

Place, RedwoodLLC, City,759 CA, Bamboo 94065. This business is conducted an This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability individual. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under Registrant began transacting business the theCompany. fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Daiunder Nguyen fictitious business name or names listedofherein on 08/17/2017.

This statement filed with the Clerk Santa Clara County Above entitywas was formed inCounty the state of California. /s/Zafar onParvez.

10/12/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016) 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 #622523

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

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:

onPatsons 01/28/2014Press, under831 file number This business was95050, Martin 587505.

Ave., Santa Clara, CA, conducted by: AnMailing, individualLLC, /s/Minh Hoang Date filed with the Advantage 1600T.N. Kraemer Blvd.

This clerks office: 10/12/2016 dates 11/02, 11/16, Liability 11/23/2016 business is being (pub conducted by a11/09, Limited

Company. Registrant began transacting business

under theOF fictitious business name or names listed NOTICE PETITION TOentity ADMINISTER herein on 11/05/2018.

Above was formed in the state of Delaware. /s/Tom Ling. Managing ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE KELLY.Member.

CASE #201524010402. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2018. (pub NO. 16PR178443 Metro 11/28, 12/05, 12/12, 12/19/2018)

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARK PASCOE KELLY. CASE NO. 16PR178443To all heirs beneficiaries creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT be interested in the will or estate, or both of: MARK PASCOE KELLY. #647716 A Petition for Probate has been filed by: James J. Ramoni, Public Administrator of theperson(s) County of Santa Clara in thebusiness Superior Court of The following is (are) doing as: RK California, County Services, of Santa Clara.

Petition Probate Immigration 953The Moro Ct., for Gilroy, CA,requests 95020322. business beingAdministrator conducted by a Limited thatThis James J. Ramoni,isPublic of the County ofLiability Santa Company.

Registrant began transacting business Clara be appointed as personal representative to administer the name or names listed theunder estate of thefictitious decedent.business The petition requests authority to herein on Above entity was formed inofthe administer the 10/22/2018. estate under the Independent Administration stateAct. of (This California. /s/Ranjeet Singh Khaira. President.

Estates authority allow the personal #201826110480.

Thiswill statement was filedrepresentative with the County to take many actionsClara without obtaining court approval.(pub Before Clerk of Santa County on 10/22/2018.

Metro taking certain very important actions, however, the personal 11/21, 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018) representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the FICTITIOUS NAME STATEMENT proposed action.) The BUSINESS independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the #648522 petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant The following is (are) authority.

A hearingperson(s) on the petition will bedoing held inbusiness this courtas: as European Wax28, Center, Road, Suiteat30, follows: November 2016, at5638 9 a.m.Cottle in Dept.

10 located 191 San Jose, CA, 95123, Jass Ewc. Inc, 1316 Elkwood Dr., NORTH FIRST STREET, SAN JOSE, CA, 95113. IF YOU OBJECT to Milpitas, CA, 95035. This business is being conducted theby granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing a Corporation.

Registrant began transacting business andunder state your file written objections with the court the objections fictitious or business name or names listed before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by herein on 11/14/2018. Above entity was formed inyour the attorney.

ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the state IF ofYOU California. /s/Amy Nguyen.

Vice President. decedent, you must filestatement your claim with court andthe mailCounty a copy #C4159024.

This wasthe filed with Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/15/2018.

Metro to the personal representative appointed by the court(pub within the 11/28, 12/05, 12/12, 12/19/2018) 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 or (2) 60 days from date FAMILY FOURT OFCode, THE STATE OF the NEW of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Other California statutes YORK COUNTY OFCode.

BRONX andInlegal may affect your rights as a creditor.

You may theauthority Matter of a Custody/Visitation ProceedingChris want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable California Cruz, Petitioner against Erendira Paola in DeLa Torre,law.

YOU MAY EXAMINETHE the file kept byOF theTHE court.

If you areOF a person RespondentIN NAME PEOPLE THE interested estate, you mayErendira file with thePaola court DeLa a Request STATE in OFthe NEW YORKTo: Torre, Street, Aptof41,theSanta Clara, CA 95050A for2656 SpecialNewhall Notice (form DE-154) filing of an inventory and petition Underassets Article of the Family Courtas Actprovided having appraisal of estate or of6any petition or account been filed this Court, and annexed in Probate Codewith section 1250.

A Request for SpecialheretoYOU Notice form ARE HEREBY to appear before MARK this Court is available from theSUMMONED court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: on JanuaryLead 29, 2018 10:00 Counsel, am, Return of Process A. GONZALEZ, DeputyatCounty OFFICE OF THE – INQUEST, Part 42, Karen M.C. Cortes, Referee, 900 COUNTY COUNSEL, 373 West Julian 300, Santhe Jose,petition CA, Sheridan Avenue, Bronx, NYStreet, 10451Suite to answer 95110, 408-758-4200 (Pub CC, 11/02, 11/09, andTelephone: to be dealt with in accordance with the11/16/2016) Family Court

Act.If you fail to appear in person on the next adjourned date, as hereby directed, the Court may proceed to

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS inquest in your absence and issue orders of default.

On your failure to appear as herein directed, a warrant NAME #622566 may beSTATEMENT issued for your arrest.TO THE ABOVE-NAMED

The foregoing summons is served TheRESPONDENT: following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Van Hoa Lam,upon publication pursuant toNuh an Order of Karen 979you StorybyRd., #7087, San Jose, Ca, 95122, Thuan Lam, Quoc M. C. Cortes, Referee of the Family Court, Bronx, County, dated Anhand Nguyen, 608 Giraudo Dr., San Jose, CA, 95111.

This business filed with the petition and other papers in the Office is conducted by anofmarried couple.Registrant has not yet begun Date: of the Clerk the Family Court, Bronx, County.(Pub transacting business under the fictitious business name or names 11/28, 12/05, 12/12/2018) listed herein. Refile of previous file #620681 with changes. /s/Nhu Thuan Lam This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES Clara County on 10/18/2016. (pub Metro 10/26, 11/02, 11/09, 11/16/2016)

STATEMENT #648368 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Sara FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Leung, RD LLC, 1361 S. Winchester Blvd., STE 101, San Jose, CA, 95128. This business is being conducted by a NAME STATEMENT #622752 Limited Liability Company.

Registrant began transacting the fictitious businessas:name or names Thebusiness following under person(s) is (are) doing business Free Spirit, 380 listed herein onCA, 10/01/2013.

Refile in 8093 factsE.from previous S. 1st Street, San Jose, 95113, Michael R. Hill, Zayante entityiswas formed in individual. the state of Rd.,filing Felton,#582852 CA, 95018.Above This business conducted by an California. /s/Sara Tsilipounidakis.

CEO.under #201611610274.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business the This statement was filed with the County Clerk R. of Santa fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Michael Clara County on 11/09/2018. (pub Metro 12/05, 12/12, Hill12/19, This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara 12/26/2018) County on 10/24/2016. (pub Metro 11/02, 11/09, 11/16, 11/23/2016)

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #647927

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 #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 #648069 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Robinson Pharm International, 150 Harrier Place, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Quynh To. 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/Quynh To. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/01/2018. (pub Metro 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/2018, 01/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648146 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1.

Merkabah, 2. Merkabah Springs, 3. Merkabah Ice, 4.

Merkabah Productions, 5. Nice Ice, 6. Breaking Bread ATMS, 20671 Almaden Rd., San Jose, CA, 95120, Arath Avila. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 08/14/2018. Refile in facts from previous filing #645608. /s/Arath Avila. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/05/2018. (pub Metro 12/05, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649010 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bringgoodness, 1640 Hope Dr., Santa Clara, CA, 95054, Angela Pesqueira. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/04/2018. /s/Angela Pesqueira. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/04/2018. (pub Metro 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/2018, 01/02/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649112

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Getsetgo Marketing, 242 Acalanes Dr., Apt 5, Sunnyvale, Ca, 94086, Vinima Aggarwal. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 06/01/2018. /s/Vinima Aggarwal. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/07/2018. (pub Metro 12/12, 12/19, 12/26, 12/02/2018)

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 IS HEREBY GIVEN that on December 27, 2018 at 2:00 p.m., the undersigned, as Conservator of the person and estate of Bernard J. Clinton, aka Bernard Clinton, intends to sell at private sale, to the highest net bidder, all of the estate’s right, title and interest in and to certain real property located at 1446 Millich Lane, San Jose, CA more particularly described in Exhibit “A” attached hereto and incorporated by reference. The sale shall be subject to confirmation by the above-entitled court. The property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights of way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price. Bids or offers for the real property are hereby invited.

For additional information about submitting bids or offers may be please contact the Listing Agent, Phil Costanza, Re/ Max Santa Clara Valley, 1530 Parkmoor Ave. Ste B, San Jose, CA 95128; (408) 295-4432. All bids or offers must be in accompanied by a ten (10) percent deposit by cashier’s check, with the balance of the purchase price to be paid in cash upon close of escrow. Taxes, rents, operating and maintenance expenses, and premiums on insurance acceptable to the purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of recording of conveyance. Examination of title, recording of conveyance, transfer taxes and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers. The right is reserved for James J. Ramoni, Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara as conservator for the estate of Bernard J. Clinton to reject any and all bids or offers. All bids or offers will be opened at 2:00 p.m. on December 27, 2018 at the office of the Public Guardian of the County of Santa Clara located at 333 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110, or thereafter, as allowed by law. James J. Ramoni, Public Guardian County Santa ClaraJames R. Williams, County CounselMark A. Gonzalez, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Publication Dates: 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/2018)

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)

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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)

NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE CONSERVATORSHIP OF BERNARD J. CLINTON, AKA BERNARD CLINTON, SANTA CLARA SUPERIOR COURT CASE NO. 17-PR-000007

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Hanging out at the NSSN VIP LOUNGE.

In between sets at

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Marc Fong

Dressed in their holiday best at ALT 105.3’s NOT SO SILENT NIGHT.

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NOT SO SILENT NIGHT had so many great acts, these three gentlemen wisely grabbed two beers each when they had the chance.

Having a BLUE CHRISTMAS isn’t all bad—so long as we’re talking about the cocktails.

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