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Right after ending a five-year tenure as chair of the Santa Clara County Republican Party, BOB NUÑEZ landed a new gig as acting superintendent of Evergreen School District. Nuñez, who also serves on the Milpitas City Council, accepted the offer a week before Christmas.

“I told them I’d be happy to help,” Nuñez says. One of his top priorities over the four to five months he plans to spend as interim will be finding a long-term successor to Superintendent KATHY GOMEZ, who announced her retirement after the election.

Nuñez boasts an impressive 40 years in public education. He’s well-liked by labor and known for his coalition building. He gets along with veteran trustee JIM ZITO, a fellow GOP Central Committee member They who’d often clash Did with Gomez.

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The career K-12 official left a SoCal school district amid allegations of misspending—charges he’s denied.

Years later, he left the East Side Union High School District shrouded by similar claims about his spending habits. While a 2009 audit found nothing illegal, it did show sloppy record-keeping and arguably excessive spending habits. According to the 2,100-page report, Nuñez would routinely charge the cash-strapped district anywhere from $1,000 to $4,000 a month on meals, travel and lodging.

But Nuñez says none of those issues came up during the closed-session interview last month. “It’s not that they didn’t know about them,” he tells Fly, “but my sense is that those things have been vetted and they realized that there’s nothing there.”

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BRIAN WHEATLEY, who was recently elected trustee in San Jose Unified, seemed ambivalent about Nuñez’s hire.

“As interim, it makes sense,” he says, adding that the board “really just needed somebody with experience to get them through the end of the school year.”

PUTTING DOWN ROOTS Veggielution’s Cayce Hill found an affordable place to work despite Silicon Valley’s skyrocketing commercial rents thanks to an initiative that matches non-profits with donated office space.

Sharing Spaces Donated workspace helps Silicon Valley nonprofits avoid displacement

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AYCE HILL, the executive director of urban farming nonprofit Veggielution, works at a small desk in a centrally located downtown San Jose office. She’s surrounded by a host of colleagues who share virtually all that typical co-workers do—paperclips, spare pens, lunch breaks, professional advice and workaday banter—except for the same employer.

That’s because Hill works from NextSpace, a communal hub at the bustling corner of Second and Market streets.

Throughout the week, the nonprofit director rotates her desk with five other Veggielution staffers, which gives everyone a half- to full day to focus on work that doesn’t require their presence at the farm east of the Highway 101-Interstate 680 interchange. Like an increasing number of folks employed by cashstrapped non-profits, the co-working arrangement is their best—and arguably only—option outside of working from home or jockeying for empty tables at crowded coffee shops.

“Not everyone on our team has a single-family home that has access to a separate home office situation or quiet space where they can sit and do that kind of work,” Hill

explains. “Because we’re working on an urban farm, there’s not a lot of opportunities for quiet conversations, and holding meetings is a challenge in a rural setting.”

Silicon Valley’s headline-grabbing cost of living displaces more than just renters and homeowners: It squeezes out struggling non[-profits, too. But thanks to a national initiative by the All Good Work Foundation, charitable endeavors like Veggielution have a place to take root.

The foundation’s social impact residency matches do-gooders with companies willing to donate office space. By giving nonprofits a stable place to work despite soaring commercial real estate costs, the taxexempt community organizations can allocate more of their budget on their core mission. All Good Work launched the program two years ago in New York City and have since expanded to Silicon Valley, securing 32 donated office seats in San Jose, Los Gatos and Sunnyvale.

“People are looking for a professional environment that they can call their own,” says Amy Feldman, program director for All Good Work Silicon Valley. “Often it’s

further destabilize communities that are already under pressure for displacement as well.”

To help create more stability for Silicon Valley’s public-benefit organizations, Northern California Grantmakers founded the Nonprofit Displacement Project. The regional initiative has helped nonprofits find and afford places to work by aiding in lease negotiations and educating them about paths to ownership. The displacement-prevention project played a key role in bringing All Good Work from the Big Apple to Silicon Valley.

Frankfurth says that’s just the beginning. The project is in the early stages of launching a real estate holding entity and exploring more ways to raise money for affordable office space.

“It’s something we really need to think about all the time if we want to have strong, stable sustainable non-profit organization,” Frankfurth says. “In our high-price real estate market, how do we support these organizations and make sure that they’re here and doing the important work they need to do?”

Part of the answer, she says, is to make sure non-profits are part of the conversation and play an active role in carving out affordable spaces in the community they’re dedicated to serve.

“Because we’re in such a dire situation with housing, that’s really where people are paying a lot of attention,” Frankfurth says. “But this impact on non-profits is really important as well because nonprofits provide services to people.

They’re cultural institutions, and they are really crucial parts of our communities.”

For Hill and her Veggielution cohorts, the perks go beyond the dedicated work station, cost-saving and camaraderie with people from other organizations. It helps them grow the Veggielution name.

“When you have access to space like that and you’re connecting with more people, that comes with more ideas and relationships,” Hill says.

“I’ve already met more people that learned about our work, and they’ve put forth ideas to me. I think that building relationships is at the heart of what our organizations does. It’s paying for itself.”

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flexible seating, and in some cases, it’s a dedicated desk where you sit … every day. It creates more of a routine for the person that’s participating in the program [and] gives them that flexibility to not be worried where they’re going to be doing their work from tomorrow.”

As Feldman continues to connect nonprofits like Veggielution with donated workspaces, she says she’s heard dozens of stories from employees at other public-benefit organizations who work nomadically from coffee shop to coffee shop because they’re unable to afford a desk at even a coworking setup. At the downtown San Jose NextSpace, a monthly pass for one desk costs around $250. With the help of grant money from All Good Work, Hill says Veggielution is only on the hook for $50 a month.

“It would be much more of a stretch,” Hill says about paying full price. “Those are expenses that nonprofits most often have to come up with unrestricted funding that aren’t always covered in grants. Right now, where we are as an organization, it would be tough.”

The shared-space setup doesn’t work for everyone. Non-profits come in all sizes, and some need dedicated programming space that makes coworking ventures unrealistic. Hill says she knows of one San Jose nonprofit that needed more room than just one desk and struggled to find an big enough location for less than $30,000 a month.

Northern California Grantmakers, a regional resource-sharing association of philanthropy groups, recently released a report on how the affordability crisis affects 180 nonprofits in Silicon Valley. Nearly a third of non-profits surveyed for the study reported being forced to relocate over the past five years. Some 57 percent of those same groups cited high rents as the reason for displacement.

“If non-profits are unable to find affordable space that’s in the community that they need to be, their ability to fulfill their mission is really compromised,” says Sarah Frankfurth, Northern California Grantmakers’ manager of collaborative philanthropy. “There can be really negative impacts on the communities they serve if these institutions go away [and] it can

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SILICON SILICONALLEYS ALLEYS

HANGIN’ AROUND Residents and friends of 414 S. Seventh St., circa 1993. The anti-man sits stereo right.

Animal Houses The anti-man about town recalls the many cozy hovels of his college years

BY GARY SINGH

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N THE FALL of 1990, I moved into a house at 361 N. 10th St. in downtown San Jose and the rest of that decade went either downhill, uphill or sideways, depending on one’s perspective. In various downtown houses, I would spend the next 10 years living a dual life—half academic, half rock & roll dude—with a schizo “never the twain shall meet” identity fueling my creativity.

After leaving Tenth Street, I lived near the SoFA district, then moved to N. Sixth Street, S. Seventh Street, S. Fifth Street, S. Ninth Street and then finally a friend’s living room on Second Street as Y2K emerged.

Beethoven lived a similar life in Vienna, moving from place to place.

Same thing with Kafka in Prague. So they’ve got my back.

Together, all of the dwellings served as fodder for novels I started and failed to finish, so now I’ll reflect on some of the highlights I think influenced columns in

the current era. At 361 N. Tenth, for example, each of the five roommates paid about $200 a month to live in the house. We converted a detached garage into a venue, where bands played at our parties. One band, The Nowhere Men, featured a pre-Rancid Lars Frederiksen along with a singer that now works at Metro.

Later, in April of 1991, I moved into a house a few blocks away from the newly-christened SoFA District. My roommates had just been issued an eviction notice right before I moved in, although they didn’t tell me at first. This was back when Cactus Club, Marsugi’s, Ajax, and F/X all hosted bands that would later vault to worldwide stardom. Other groups, usually the ones with no shot at stardom, would use our house for the aftershow parties. The wreckage throughout that subsequent summer rivaled any classic punk rock party house anywhere. A friend next door met her future husband somewhere

in the middle of the whole mess and they are still married to this day.

After the sheriff forced us out of that house, I moved in with two female roommates at 144 N. Sixth Street. For two years, they were the sisters I never had. Even if we bickered like siblings, I either had their backs and protected them at shows when we were all wasted together, or I walked them home.

Sometimes they had to walk me home.

All of this unfolded as I lived a separate life at San Jose State, in the music department, writing C code to make excruciating noise collages on SGI machines, or smashing amplified shopping carts on stage, or studying 20th century avant-garde composers like Edgard Varese, Stockhausen and John Cage—a life unknown to my friends in the rock clubs. By day I sped up drum machines to sound like machine guns or wrote Satanic lyrics for assignments in 16th Century Counterpoint class, and by night I got wasted while Urge Overkill played for 10 of us at Marsugi’s.

Then everything came to a glorious peak during three years at 414 S. Seventh Street. Not to blow my own kazoo, but people still talk about that house. If you’ve read Incredibly Strange Music from RE/Search Publications, well, that book should have included our house because zillions of old tacky thrift store LPs graced the walls and we drunkenly blasted the worst easy listening music we could find.

This was a block from the SJSU Event Center and we’d charge concertgoers five bucks to park in our front yard so they could avoid the parking garage. As a result, they’d buy us beer in exchange. It was creative urban placemaking long before anyone at City Hall used that term. After getting my bachelor’s degree, I even walked from that house all the way to Spartan Stadium for graduation.

After losing various campus jobs and girlfriends and being the last dude left at 414 S. Seventh, I lived on Fifth, Ninth and then Second Street, but emerged with a master’s degree and a traveling life that connected me to music professors, programmers and audio experimenters the world over. Not a moment was wasted, even if I usually was. Everything was preparatory material for the current moment. And the current column.

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Welcome to s THE VENUE Levi’s Stadium, home of the San Francisco 49ers, will host this year’s College Football Playoff National Championship game— between the Clemson Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide.

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ELL, NOW YOU know the way to San Jose, the Capital of Silicon Valley. Welcome. We hope you enjoy your stay, and best of luck to your team.

The Alabama Crimson Tide and the Clemson Tigers are going headto-head once again this year, as they converge in the College Football Playoff National Championship on Monday, Jan. 7. This year marks the fifth anniversary of the title match and the third time Alabama and Clemson have challenged each other on the national stage.

In 2016, Alabama walked off the field with bragging rights; the following year it was Clemson’s turn for glory.

Alabama took home the championship trophy again last year when they defeated the Georgia Bulldogs.

Both teams have plenty to prove.

As the Crimson Tide head back to the CFPNC for the fourth straight year, they are seeking their third victory, while their rivals from South Carolina look to even the score at two championship titles apiece. Both the Crimson Tide and the Tigers come to Levi’s Stadium—which is hosting this year’s big game—undefeated in their respective conferences.

Levi’s Stadium is observing its own five-year anniversary. Completed in

2014, the stadium is actually located within the city of Santa Clara, just north of San Jose. The home base of the San Francisco 49ers was built with state-of-the-art technology at front of mind. The place is packed to the gills with WiFi ports, which help fans order food and drinks from their smartphones; light rail runs directly to the gates, giving fans a convenient way to get to and from the game; and solar panels are everywhere—soaking up the abundant California sunshine and using it to power the rest of the arena’s cutting-edge tech.

Hey. This is Silicon Valley. What else would you expect?

When we are not building drones,

smart watches, search engines and self-driving cars, we stay busy in other ways—like enjoying the great food and diverse cultural attractions this region has to offer.

While in town for the CFPNC, you’ll have plenty to do, both on and off the field. In addition to the game itself, the event’s organizers are taking over downtown San Jose.

There’s the Playoff Fan Central interactive experience at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, a slate of three free concerts in Discovery Meadow (see page 24) and an open-air market and meet-up space, dubbed The Quad, which will fill the historic Plaza de Cesar Chavez.

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ilicon Valley valley An insider’s guide to cuisine, nightlife, arts and entertainment in the south bay

this wonderful valley to explore. From acclaimed white linen restaurants to delectable local eateries, the food in Silicon Valley is excellent. Pair that with a huge selection of locally brewed craft beer and expert mixologists shaking up top-notch cocktails, and you’ve got a recipe for a seriously sumptuous culinary experience.

On top of all the great eats, there’s also an amazing arts and nightlife scene. We’ve got music, dancing, comedy, theater and art. While you’re visiting Playoff Fan Central or The Quad, you may want to take a detour to The Tech Museum of Innovation or peel off and check out the SoFA District on South First Street. There you’ll find more art galleries, and a

number of lively bars, clubs and live music venues.

Consider this issue of Metro, an insider’s guide to San Jose and the surrounding Silicon Valley. Thumb through it at your leisure and discover all our city and region has to offer.

MUSEUMS The Tech 201 S Market St, San Jose thetech.org

With its splashy, mango-colored exterior, The Tech Museum of Innovation—or “The Tech,” as locals know it—definitely stands out. Opened

in 1990, The Tech wholly devoted to science and technology. It is currently home to “Body Worlds Decoded.”

The interactive exhibition features numerous “plastinated” cadavers, which visitors can examine with the help of an augmented reality app.

of the artist’s greatest sculptures, including The Thinker and Gates of Hell. The museum is currently showing a collection of photographs

by Andy Warhol and work by Korean sculptor and installation artist Do Ho Suh. Admission is free.

Cantor Arts Center

The 49ers Museum

328 Lomita Dr, Stanford museum.stanford.edu

Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara levisstadium.com/museum

Located at Stanford University— the academic incubator of Silicon Valley—the Cantor Arts Center’s diverse collections span continents, cultures and 4,000 years of art history. Outside, on the museum’s surrounding grounds, the Rodin garden features 20 bronze castes

The 49ers Museum pays tribute to the red and gold with 11 gallery and exhibition spaces. Learn about the franchise’s history, get up close and personal with memorabilia and remember some of the greatest to ever play the game, like Joe Montana and Jerry Rice.

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SPORTS PUBS Rookies Sports Lodge 99 S First St, San Jose rookieslodge.com

With a serious selection of beers on tap and even more screens, there really isn’t a bad seat in the house. Featuring a menu of classic sports pub fare, a full bar and a spacious patio, it’s a great place to stay up on all your favorite teams while chowing down.

Fourth Street Pizza 150 E Santa Clara St, San Jose 4thstpizzaco.com

Every year, Fourth Street Pizza ranks high on Metro’s reader-selected Best of Silicon Valley survey. With 100oz. beer towers, yummy slices and plenty of screens, it’s no wonder.

Cafe Stritch 374 S 1st St, San Jose cafestritch.com

A pillar of the South First Street Area—or SoFA—arts district, Cafe Stritch has a simple menu, a full bar, indoor and outdoor seating and is all about jazz. There is a live band most nights, and admission is usually free.

Poor House 91 S Autumn St, San Jose poorhousebistro.com

Named after the famous poor boy sandwiches served in New Orleans, PHB is a place where people can come together, around good food and live music. Live blues and rock bands regularly play on the Poor House patio and in the adjacent music hall.

The Britannia Arms

DANCE FLOORS

173 W Santa Clara St, San Jose thebritdowntown.com

The Continental

A large patio, plenty of screens, juicy burgers and two full bars are just some of the reasons The Brit is one of downtown’s most popular sports bars. Look for the old school British telephone booth out front.

Yardhouse 300 Santana Row Suite 101, San Jose yardhouse.com

Boasting an impressive draught beer menu, tasty food and a multitude of screens, Yardhouse is located at the posh Santana Row shopping center.

Grab a bite and a brew, then peruse the neighboring shops, like Kate Spade, Free People and Tommy Bahama.

LIVE MUSIC The Ritz 400 S 1st St, San Jose theritzsanjose.com

With two bars serving strong drinks, darkroom-red lighting and a serious soundsystem, this is the place to see an alternative rock act or get down to an indie electronic mix. This Saturday, catch This Charming Band, a tribute to The Smiths.

349 S. 1st St., San Jose thecontinentalbar.com

Leather couches and armchairs, a spacious back patio with fire pits, and a large dance floor are the defining characteristics of The Continental. In the early evening, it’s perfect for lounging over a cocktail.

Once night rolls around, the DJs start spinning of neo-soul, jazzy hiphop and classic house.

LVL 44 44 S Almaden Ave, San Jose lvl44.com

With DJs spinning a mix of new and old-school hip-hop, this is one of the best dance floors in San Jose. LVL 44 takes a while to wind up, but once it gets cranking, it stays lit until closing time.

The Loft 90 S 2nd St, San Jose loftbarandbistro.com

Located in the heart of downtown, this chic, two-story San Jose restaurant features upstairs and downstairs dining, two bars and a rooftop patio. It transforms into a lively dance club at night.

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HORN SECTION Cafe Stritch in San Jose’s SoFA District serves up drinks, food and live jazz most nights.

CRAFT COCKTAILS

55 South

Jack Rose Libation House

Known for their monthly Tiki Tuesday parties and an excellent kitchen, 55 South combines upscale cocktails with an extensive wine and whisky selection.

18840 Saratoga-Los Gatos Rd jackrosebar.com

Taking its name from a popular 1920s cocktail, Jack Rose Libation House has a rustic ambiance, good food and fantastic craft drinks— mixed with homemade syrups and bitters, innovative infusions and topnotch hooch.

55 S 1st St, San Jose the55south.com

Paper Plane 72 S 1st St, San Jose paperplanesj.com

This craft cocktail bar keeps things interesting with a towering liquor

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5:00pm to close Tuesday through Sunday Seasonal Menu Craft Cocktails, Extensive Wine List, Bar Menu

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MIX IT UP Paper Plane boasts a formidable liquor library and a staff of talented mixologists. library and a constantly rotating menu—which always has an assortment of classic, adventurous, potent and light offerings to choose from.

Haberdasher 43 W San Salvador St, San Jose haberdashersj.com

This cozy basement bar employs seriously talented mixologists trained in the art of drink recommendation. Just ask and they’ll set you up straight away.

TAPROOMS Uproar Brewing Company 439 S 1st St, San Jose uproarbrewing.com

Located in the heart of the SoFA District, Uproar Brewing Company features a large communal seating hall, diverse tap selection and tasty menu of burgers and other bar bites.

It’s an ideal location for large groups.

Camino Brewing 718 S 1st St, San Jose caminobrewing.com

A five-minute walk from Uproar, the Camino Brewing taproom is one of the newest on the San Jose scene. Enjoy their hazy Northeast

by S. 1st IPA or perk up with their Café con Leche coffee milk stout—a partnership with local coffee roaster and café Chromatic.

Santa Clara Valley Brewing 101 E Alma Ave, San Jose scvbrewing.com

Known for their Electric Tower IPA—an homage to San Jose’s historic “moonlight tower”—Santa Clara Valley Brewing is an essential part of the scene.

DINNER Adega 1614 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose adegarest.com

This upscale Portuguese eatery

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Braise 1185 Lincoln Ave, San Jose braisewillowglen.com

Braise is the collaborative creation of several of San Jose’s brightest rising restaurateurs. They offer a simple and thoughtful New American menu— plus beer, wine and craft cocktails. Try their update on a childhood favorite: the PB&J with bone marrow.

Mezcal 25 W San Fernando St, San Jose mezcalrestaurantsj.com

As one might expect from its name, Mezcal boasts an impressive mezcal and tequila selection. Their food is also excellent, with a menu that blends traditional Oaxacan cuisine with Mexican favorites and Californian flourishes.

The Grandview Restaurant 15005 Mount Hamilton Rd, San Jose grandviewsanjose.com

For those who like dinner and view, the name of this former roadhouse, built in the 1880s, pretty much says it all. Perched on Mt. Hamilton in San Jose’s East Hills, the Grandview offers sweeping vistas of the entire Silicon Valley.

LUNCH La Victoria Multiple Locations lavicsj.com

The burrito is the quintessential California quick bite. And in San Jose, many taquerias serve this delicious Mexican wrap with orange sauce. But if you want the Orange Sauce you have to go to La Victoria.

Original Joes 301 S 1st St, San Jose sanjoseoriginaljoes.com

For a hearty, hefty Italian American meal—and a bit of a Goodfellas vibe—check out Original Joe’s. It’s a fine spot for a sit-down dinner,

but you can also grab a quick bite by seating yourself at the counter.

Pro tip: eat half of an OJ’s Famous Hamburger and take the second half to go.

Culinary Corner Bistro 321 S 1st St, San Jose culinarycornerbistro.com

Vietnamese food is huge in San Jose.

There are few better ways to warm up on a cold day than with a hearty bowl of pho. This tasty, beef and noodle soup can be found in many local eateries, but few do it as good as Culinary Corner.

BRUNCH The Breakfast Club 1432 W. San Carlos St, San Jose bcmidtown.com

The Breakfast Club’s menu is classic all-American diner fare—ranging from burgers and patty melts to benedicts, omelets and even chicken and waffles. There’s always a wait on weekends, but it’s well worth it.

Forthright Oyster Bar 1700 W Campbell Ave, Campbell eatoystersatforthright.com

This New American joint specializes in upscale diner food and deliciously slurpable oysters. Eggs benedict, a juicy burger and a salmon B.L.A.T. are just a few of the fine options on the menu.

SP2 Communal Bar 72 N Almaden Ave, San Jose

SP2 Communal Bar + Restaurant has a beautiful outdoor lounge area, with spacious seating good for large parties or more intimate gatherings. Enjoy a luxurious brunch accompanied by craft cocktails.

Aqui Multiple Locations aquicalmex.com

Aqui excels in contrasts: Swill margaritas with health-conscious vegetarian exotica; pair fresh juices with meat-packed burritos. The ambiance is chi-chi, yet you serve yourself. Oh yeah… they also do brunch.

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offers a number of decadent prix fixe menus. They serve only the freshest food, and pair their offerings with a massive Portuguese-only wine list.

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Five Star Pizza 125 Bernal Rd, Ste 50, San Jose 408.229.9900 orderfivestarpizzamenu.com If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my 8-year-old it’s that there is no such thing as too much pizza. As such, there’s alway room for another pizza parlor. This new South Side joint has an impressive lineup of creative pies, including a buffalo chicken, pesto lover and Gilroy Tuscan pizza—which features spicy sausage, salami, green onions and heaping helping of garlic. They also have a small but stout selection of Indian masala pizzas. Their pies are all made fresh to order and definitely worth the wait.

Dumpling House 4996 Stevens Creek Blvd, San Jose 408.982.5548

SHAKE IT UP Shake Shack’s first Northern California location is at the Stanford Shopping Center.

Five to Watch So much for resolutions—kick off the new year with burgers, bagels and bourbon

BY JOHN DYKE

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

top dog. Their burgers feature a nice, crisp exterior, a juicy center are served on pillowy, soft potato rolls.

The crinkle-cut fries will take diners back to childhood and their ice cream concretes are a must. There’s currently a tremendous amount of hype surrounding this opening, so be prepared to wait.

Bagel Bar Shake Shack 180 El Camino Real Suite 950, Palo Alto 650.509.5101 shakeshack.com For those that haven’t heard, Shake Shack finally opened up a location here in NorCal and it landed at Stanford Shopping Center. This East Coast purveyor of burgers is a giant in other states and is looking to rival Cali favorite In-N-Out for

519 E Campbell Ave, Campbell 408.628.4114 bagelbar.net Imagine the Psycho Donuts theme, but on warm, freshly made bagels and that’s pretty much what you have with Bagel Bar. They encourage patrons to go nuts building their own bagels by choosing the bagel flavor, spread, toppings and sauces. Their ever-changing rainbow bagels are a visual delight and they have veganfriendly offerings, as well.

Much to my delight, there are a growing number of authentic Chinese restaurants serving xiaolongbao (a.k.a. XLB) dumplings—a personal favorite.

This newcomer is just a few miles from the popular XLB hotspot, Din Tai Fung, and has been called an “acceptable substitute” if one can’t stand the lines at DTF. Their thin-skinned XLBs are perfectly proportioned and filled with sumptuous broth and meaty innards.

They also have a nice selection of Chinese soups and plenty of veggie dumplings as well.

3rd & Bourbon 93 E Santa Clara St, San Jose 408.320.2626 3rdbourbon.com With an impressive menu of craft cocktails and more than 90 different bourbons on-hand, 3rd & Bourbon would do fine as just a bar. But they didn’t want to stop and spirits. They also feature a nice lineup of grub to help soak up all their tasty libations.

Sliders, tacos, fried chicken and steak are all up for grabs. Be sure to check out their daily happy hour specials, like their $2 Taco Tuesdays and $8 Bulleit Bourbons.

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CHOICES BY: Wallace Baine Mike Huguenor Nick Veronin

LIL JON

SCARIER THINGS

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INFIRMARY

Wed, 6:30pm Playback Studios, San Jose San Jose has a loud and proud history of hardcore, and a particularly ethnically diverse one at that. But for almost two decades the city has gone without a reliable all-ages venue. Thankfully, over the last two years, Playback Studios has emerged as the go-to spot for SJHC—finally reconnecting local musicians with national touring bands. Infirmary are young and promising four-piece, boasting a blistering Bandcamp demo.

Infirmary rocks Playback Studios this Saturday with Full Color Dream and Downward from Oklahoma. Bring gas money for the touring bands! (MH)

SCARIER THINGS LIVE

*thu *sat

THROWBACK THURSDAY

Wed, 7pm, $25 The Improv, San Jose

Thu, 9pm, Free Britannia Arms Almaden, San Jose

Nope, not that Mr. Rogers.

Tennessee-born stand-up comedian Olan Rogers has staked his claim to pop-culture relevance on YouTube with his comedic sketches, as well as his creation of the animated show Final Space on TBS. As 2019 opens, Rogers jumps into a mini-tour, beginning in San Jose, with all new material wrestling with some scary things that have happened to him recently—not Halloween scary exactly, but more like reallife scary, with laughs. (WB)

If you grew up loving Jimmy Eat World, Weezer and Foo Fighters, this party is for you. San Josebased The Last Decade is turning the clock, and the radio dial, back to the late ’90s and early ’00s.

Back then, Tom DeLonge was still in Blink-182, Panic! At the Disco had yet to metastasize into the Brian Urie show, and Live 105 was still Live 105. From “SemiCharmed LIfe” to “Flagpole Sitta,” TLD breathes new life into the songs you listened to on the way to school. So welcome 2019 by remembering the good old days—you know, when bands still put live drums on tape. (WB)

SUPER DIAMOND Sat, 9:30pm, $25+ Club Fox, Redwood City Yes, the songs of Neil Diamond have been blaring from radios and overhead grocery store speakers since the days of Shakespeare (or so it seems).

But Super Diamond, the Bay Area-based Neil Diamond tribute band, has been around almost as long. With frontman Randy Cordeiro, SD was part of the first big tribute-band wave way back in the early 1990s (talk about “Forever in Blue Jeans”) and has been instrumental in guiding Neil’s music through the desert of lameness back into the garden of cool. They count, among their many fans, Neil himself, so they have to be doing something right. (WB)

THIS CHARMING BAND Sat, 8pm, $12+ The Ritz, San Jose British mope rockers The Smiths lasted only about five years (which, if you think about it, is a heroically long time to have to tolerate the ridiculously glorious lead singer Morrissey).

San Francisco’s This Charming Band has been paying loving tribute to The Smiths for about three times as long, albeit with a rotating cast of characters. Smiths obsessives are wonderful, if a bit weird. If you’re the kind of person who danced to “Girlfriend in a Coma” at your wedding, then this is probably the best chance you’ll ever get to experience Smithsmania live. (WB)

* concerts PATTI SMITH

TESS DUNN

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

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

CINEQUEST

Mar 5-17 Downtown San Jose

FRANTIC ROMANTIC Sat, 7:30pm, $10 Art Boutiki, San Jose San Jose dreampop band Frantic Romantic lived another lifetime as Skyway View. Now, with a new name, they’ve refashioned their sound, embracing a more ’90s, achingly romantic alt-pop aesthetic. The band has already drawn attention with its lush, fullthroated song “Celestina,” thanks to its trippy animated visuals and the muscular “Among the Stars,” presented in a video that features Day of the Dead imagery and neon face paint. Fronted by the charismatic Mr. Kerosene, Frantic Romantic is shooting for something grand and expansive.

Levi J and Exophonics share the bill. (WB)

TESS DUNN

LIL JON

DURA

Sat, 4pm, Free Streetlight Records, San Jose

Sat, 10pm, $20+ Pure Nightclub, Sunnyvale

Sat, 10pm, Free Enso, San Jose

There are a number of compelling threads to follow in the narrative arc of local singer and songwriter Tess Dunn. There’s her age (she’s just turned 23), the amount of music she’s made (four EPs and counting), and her tenacity (she’s done all this while battling cystic fibrosis). But all that misses the most critical point: She makes great music, and she’s only getting better. On her latest collection of tunes, which she recorded as T3TRA, Dunn takes a sharp left turn from her punky past, dialing down the guitars and live drums and replacing them with moody synths and computerized beats. (NV)

Known for his over-the-top party-starting persona, Lil Jon is a DJ, producer, emcee and hype man all in one. The Atlanta rapper got his start as the frontman for Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz— pioneering and popularizing a loud, brash, club-oriented style of hip-hop known as crunk. Lil Jon secured his place in pop culture history in the mid-’00s through iconic collaborations with Usher (“Yeah!”) and LMFAO (“Shots”), but the King of Crunk is still at it. He closed out 2018 by teaming up with the Kool-Aid Man for a totally bananas viral marketing clip, “All I Really Want for Christmas.” (NV)

If you call the South Bay home, your life has been enriched by Latinx culture. It can be seen in the architecture, general fashion aesthetic and in works of public art; it can be tasted and smelled at the local taquerias; and it can be heard—not just in the form of mariachi and banda—but in the popular music blaring from speakers in nightclubs all over San Jose. Enso pays homage to the South Bay’s Latin American heritage with Dura, a night dedicated to the intersection of pop and Latin sounds. Come dance to Top 40, reggaeton, cumbia bass and old school jams. (NV)

ABBA MANIA

Mar 9 at Flint Center

ATMOSPHERE

Mar 12 at the Catalyst

P!NK

Apr 17 at SAP Center

ARIANA GRANDE

May 2 at SAP Center

NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK May 29 at SAP Center

JEFF LYNNE’S ELO

Jun 24 at SAP Center

PAUL MCCARTNEY

Jul 10 at SAP Center

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Jan 13 at City National Civic

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IN THE BEGINNING Artists Tracey Adams and Virginia Folkestad ponder the earliest stages of life with their collaborative ‘Primordial Soup.’

Amoeba Arts New SJICA exhibit, ‘Primordial Soup,’ explores the origins of organic life

BY JEFFREY EDALATPOUR

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ALK THROUGH THE black curtain behind the back gallery at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art and you’ll get a taste of Tracey Adams and Virginia Folkestad’s “Primordial Soup.” They’ve created a prehistoric, pantrysized diorama that depicts the beginning of life on Earth (or, at least, one postulation of it).

Tendrils hang down everywhere.

Some float from above like chandeliers at an octopus’ dinner party. Others jut straight out of the walls. Amoebashaped critters are fixed in place but

the squiggles on their backs suggest a scurrying motion as if they had unfinished business to carry out.

Electronic music, composed by Jennifer Trust Wilkerson, drifts in and pulses out, summoning up an underwater version of a Dead Can Dance instrumental that’s washed up on the shoreline.

This forest of primeval seaweed is all Illuminated under a blacklight.

To the human eye, the walls are a dull, sepulchral yellow. But lift your camera lens up to these aqueous limbs and their multifarious offshoots and suddenly everything fluoresces.

The walls themselves turn a rich shade of magenta or a deep maritime

blue. Adams lives near the ocean and says it’s her muse, “Imagery from the ocean has always interested me but in the abstract way.”

For this exhibit, she was inspired by two distinct yet ocean-adjacent sources—a professor at UC Santa Cruz and the jellyfish swimming and fluorescing at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. “I got some fluorescent paint, put it on my printing table, and I started dipping black paper into it, creating veiny, arterial shapes and lines and they were beautiful,” she says.

The professor, Dr. Robert Linington, has since moved his lab to Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. But before he left, Adams had a chance to visit him in Santa Cruz, where he and his colleagues study ocean specimens.

The lab’s ongoing research objectives are “the discovery of new compound classes for drug development against pathogenic bacteria, cancer and global health parasites.” She toured the facility and, after returning for a second visit, photographed some of the microscopic imagery collected in stacks and stacks of Petri dishes. In a serendipitous convergence of art and

science, Adams found that some of the shapes she discovered amongst the specimens were similar to ones she’d previously incorporated into her paintings. The artist didn’t make this claim herself but the circumstantial evidence does seem to confirm the existence of the unconscious as its drawn inexplicably and repeatedly towards its own peculiar obsessions.

Adams considers herself to be a two dimensional artist, a painter who draws and does printmaking. She asked Folkestad, a sculptor, to participate when “Primordial Soup” was conceived of as an immersive, three-dimensional installation. For about a year, they exchanged ideas about what they hoped to accomplish. She explained that during their process they experimented with different materials and shapes asking themselves, “How do we get your work to integrate with mine? How do we merge them so it's cohesive?”

At first, Folkestad suggested that Adams work with an insulating foam that expands as you spray it. But she found it “grotesque” and hated it.

“Virginia was encouraging me to let it dry and sculpt it. I was doing that and sanding it and it was all over everything. I said, ‘We can't do this anymore. This is not who I am.’” After that, Adams got out those fluorescent cans of paint and began to figure out what worked for her practice.

Stepping inside “Primordial Soup,” you find yourself in a contemplative space. Adams says she’s an introvert who frequently meditates, and that’s what she hoped the installation would be. She thought that if it was going to be successful, it would take “a little bit of steering through the music, the auditory senses and the visual senses, into the quiet and the darkness of the room, that people would go inward and find whatever it is that they would find.” Like Dr. Linington in his work to find cures for diseases in the ocean, Adams and Folkestad’s exhibit makes use of ocean imagery to soothe the soul. It makes sense, both logically and intuitively, to seek out a small temple filled with offerings to our original place, the primordial soup.

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Dick Movie Adam McKay’s biopic ‘Vice’ is too soon for comedy, too silly for tragedy

BY RICHARD VON BUSACK

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T’S ASSUMED THAT a Dinesh D’Souza documentary is the antithesis of what Michael Moore does. In fact, Adam McKay’s Vice is much more like a polarity reversal of D’Souza than the actual Moore.

It’s so very low. Vice is in deep trouble from its first title card.

What we’re about to see is a true story, we read. It was nearly impossible to unearth documents on the deeply secretive Dick Cheney, vice president of the US 2001-2009… “but we did our fucking best.”

You hear this line from your employee, your kid, or your students— let alone from a true-life movie—and you know that where you’re about to tread is going to mess up your shoes.

Certainly McKay’s star, Christian Bale reached a remarkable act of likeness, porking up in the same way he starved himself to a silhouette for The Mechanic.

Bale mastered the truculent, side-of-the mouth snarl that the old oil man wears, and that grunt that he supposes makes him sound like John Wayne. Vice’s shape has a familiar one in scripts lately, where we circle around from a grabber incident (in this case, Cheney receiving the news of the 9/11 attacks) to a long first act flashback that shows how we

got to this point. Movies made this way seem like they have a half-hour long pre-title sequence.

McKay stresses emptiness from the beginning to the finale, when Cheney’s diseased heart is scooped out in front of us, as he endured that rare heart-transplant given to a 72 year old. It doesn’t like Cheney, but Vice isn’t fond of most of the working class either; commencing with cowboys in a Wyoming beer bar yee-hawing over a game of dice. Later on, a group of linemen stand about, unfeelingly, as one of their colleagues who has just fallen off a ladder lies sprawled on the ground with a compound fracture.

Cheney is, “what we’d call in today’s parlance, a dirtbag,” the mysterious omniscient narrator (Jesse Plemons of Breaking Bad) intones. He partied his way out of Yale and got busted for drunk driving. All it takes is one stern talking to by his helmet-haired wife Lynn (Amy Adams) and he’s straightening up and taking on Washington D.C. Cheney goes to work with Donald Rumsfeld (Steve Carell, miscast once again) who tells him to “Keep your mouth shut, do what you’re told, and always be loyal.”

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THE PRINCE In ‘Vice,’ Christian Bale plays Dick Cheney, our most Machiavellian veep.

In 1968, the architects of this century’s many dilemmas were already gathering, from Roger Ailes on down. After some redacted years at Halliburton, Cheney becomes the veep pick of George W. Bush (Sam Rockwell). Rockwell is actually the best piece of casting in the film, with the most humor and slobbiness, and the keenest bits of tragic political vaudeville: studying a piece of fried chicken as if it were a chess problem. If this movie had a crux, this is where that crux would be. Here, Cheney takes what looks like a dull backseat job from a none-too-bright princeling president and turns it into fiefdom. By some accounts, Cheney was in full control of every shameful deed perpetuated by the 43rd regime.

Sticking to the playbook he deployed in The Big Short, McKay tries to turn this tale into a post-moden carnival, with a parody of a happy ending for the country (literally rolling the credits, half an hour in). There is a quick flash of Marvel comics. A smirking waiter (Alfred Molina) at a posh restaurant offers Cheney and his cronies a list of extrajudicious tortures. Confessing an inability to depict Lynn Cheney stiffening Dick for his tasks ahead, as if in a play, the film has Lynn and Dick recite some Shakespeare.

And yet this type of artifice is even less natural than the unironic sub-House of Cards bad-political-movie talk that makes up the rest of Vice. (Example, at a swank ball: “Half the room wants to be us, the other half hates us.”) Nicholas Britell’s bombastic soundtrack has 10 times the self-importance of the trumpet fanfares before a Sunday morning TV pundit-jamboree.

Misanthropy rarely gets this unfunny. Here, even Cheney’s sullen wiliness looks uninspired. His political feats aren’t more complex than his favorite avocation as an angler: all he needed for success was to stand around in icy waters long enough to fool some poor fish. In its final ironic use of the already ironic “America” from West Side Story, Vice flaunts its repellent spirit.

“You chose me,” Cheney says, and the joke’s on us. If it’s supposed to be comedy, it’s too soon. If it’s supposed to be tragedy, it’s too frivolous.

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SOLID GOULD British pop star Ellie Goulding is just one of many big names performing during a free concert series in the run-up to the College Football Playoff National Championship.

On The Green Logic, OneRepublic, Alessia Cara, more play free concerts before the Big Game

BY NICK VERONIN

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ISCOVERY MEADOW comes alive with music this weekend with three free concerts—all part of the larger citywide celebration surrounding the College Football Playoff National Championship.

The AT&T Playoff Playlist Live concert series runs Friday through Sunday nights, Jan. 4-6, and features a star-studded lineup of bands and solo artists.

Kicking things off on Friday night, Alessia Cara, Alex Aiono and Brynn Elliott are scheduled to take the stage.

The 22-year-old Canadian singer and songwriter Cara first made waves with her breakout single, “Here.” The song—an introvert’s anthem, which recalls the dark piano textures of Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”—is a smoky and soulful shout-out to all the wallflowers at the party. Those who don’t know the track may recognize Cara from her collaboration with Logic. She was featured, along with Khalid, on Logic’s 2017 hit, "1-800-273-8255.”

Speaking of Logic, the Los Angelesbased rapper is also in town for the concert series. Logic headlines the second evening of music—joining retro R&B revivalist Leon Bridges and Kendrick Lamar collaborator and labelmate Jay Rock on Saturday.

Bridges is currently on tour behind his acclaimed sophomore album, Good Thing, which has drawn praise for its savvy blend of retro R&B tones and modern storytelling.

Jay Rock, who’s verse on Kendrick Lamar’s “Money Trees” earned him a Grammy nod as a featured artist, released his second studio album, Redemption, this summer. The record features two singles currently in rotation on hip-hop radio—the Lamar-featuring “Win” and the Jeremih-featuring “Tap Out.” OneRepublic, The Regrettes and Ellie Goulding close out the threenight run of shows on Sunday.

Perhaps best known for their massive 2007 single, “Apologize,” OneRepublic have also collaborated

with Logic. Earlier this year, the Colorado-bred band released “Start Again,” which features the rapper.

The song is also on the soundtrack of the Netflix original drama, 13 Reasons Why. The Regrettes, a punky femalefronted trio from L.A. have been garnering plenty of favorable press from their hometown papers, the Los Angeles Times and the LA Weekly, as well as from national outlets, like Rolling Stone.

Goulding, who has three certified platinum albums to her name, comes to town on the heels of her latest single—an infectious collaboration with Diplo and Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd.

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JAN 3–5 | DULCE SLOAN @ SAN JOSE IMPROV Bold, brilliant, stylish, unrelenting and hilarious. Dulce Sloan is a calm and rough comedian whose brand is brash, smart and everyday. She simply gives no effs. I could fall in love. Go to her. Let her teach you things while you laugh-cry. 8pm. Various times through Sat. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

SAT JAN 5 | PEAR IMPROV TROUPE $5 SHOW Free cake after the show. The Pear Improv Troupe will do their thing and entertain the living cake out of you. But let’s go back to the first part. Did you read that? I mean it’s the best lead off sentence ever. Let’s read it again: Free cake after the show. So put that together.

For $5 you get free cake after a comedy improv show. No brainer. 8pm. Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St, Mountain View

SUN JAN 6 | CAPRICORN BIRTHDAY BASH Hmmm… A party for an entire zodiac sign? Especially one that includes me!? Sounds fun.

9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

WED JAN 9 | FLORAL, ROB FORD EXPLORER, ELAINE THE SINGER I love words as they seem to be the best and only clear way to communicate… until we unlock telepathy… hurry up, Science! Sometimes there are bands that just don’t need words to convey feelings and art. The three bands in this line-up have a pinpoint focus on their instruments. They don’t need many words to show you how sumptuously talented and evocative they are. A truly impressive trio of bands who deserve to see what a dedicated music-loving region we are. 7:35pm. Peace and Justice Center, 48 S Seventh St, San Jose 1011 PACIFIC AVE. SANTA CRUZ 831-429-4135 Thursday, January 3 • In the Atrium • Ages 16+

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Jan 12 Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (Ages 16+) Jan 18 Sage The Gemini (Ages 16+) Jan 19 Petty Theft (Ages 16+) Jan 20 Ozomatli/ Bang Data (Ages 16+) Jan 24 Berner (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/ Memba (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/ Eli Mac (Ages 16+) Feb 12 J Boog (Ages 16+) Feb 13 The Record Company (Ages 16+) Feb 14 The Expendables/ Ballyhoo! (Ages 16+) Feb 23 Lil Mosey/ PARKE (Ages 16+) Feb 26 Bad Suns/ Vista Kicks (Ages 16+) Feb 27 David August (Ages 16+) Mar 8 Twiddle/ Iya Terra (Ages 16+) Mar 9 Big Wild/ Robotaki (Ages 16+) Mar 12 Atmosphere/ deM atlaS (Ages 16+) Mar 14 Liquid Stranger (Ages 16+) Mar 16 Stephen Marley (Ages 16+) Mar 17 Parcels (Ages 16+) Mar 19 Flogging Molly (Ages 21+) Mar 21 Eli Young Band (Ages 16+) Mar 29 House Of Floyd (Ages 16+) Apr 4 Space Jesus/ Buku (Ages 16+) Unless otherwise noted, all shows are dance shows with limited seating.

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Wed, 6pm: Blue Summit. Tue, 1/08, 6pm: Sidesaddle & Co. Wed, 1/09, 6pm: Blue House.

1110 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

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BRUCE MUNRO AT MONTALVO: STORIES IN LIGHT

6:30pm. Playback Studios, 1813 South Tenth St, Unit A, San Jose 7pm. San Jose Improv, 62 S Second St, San Jose

Wed, 6pm: The Legendary Ron Thompson & Sid Morris Gang feat. Seismic. Thu, 6pm: Knee Deep Band. Fri, 6pm: JC Smith Blues Band. Sat, 6pm: Cinco de Casa Party feat.

Casamigos Tequila and Andy Santana and The West Coast Playboys. Sat, 10pm: Sharks After Party with James Michael Day. Sun, 11am: New Orleans Piano Brunch with Johnny Fabulous. Sun, 3pm: Carie & The Soul Shakers.

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

COMEDIAN | OLAN ROGERS

POOR HOUSE BISTRO

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THU 01/03 KIDS | BUBBLE DANCE PARTY 11am. Duck Pond Playspace, 1859, 5884 Eden Park Pl, San Jose

EXHIBIT | TRANQUIL BREEZE OF ONE THOUSAND YEARS : BAMBOO PAINTING 11am. Closes 1/06. Silicon Valley Asian Art Center & Narx Gallery, 3777 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa Clara

5:30pm. School of Arts & Culture @ MHP. 1700 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose

6pm. Montalvo Arts Center, 15400 Montalvo Rd, Saratoga

NERDFIT | LIGHTSABER WORKOUT 6:30pm. Portal Park, 10225 N Portal Ave, Cupertino

Q102 THROWBACK THURSDAY SKATE PARTY 7pm. Aloha Roller Rink, Eastridge Center, 2190 Eastridge Loop, San Jose

LIVE LIT WRITERS OPEN MIC 7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

MIXED OPEN MIC 7pm. Britannia Arms Cupertino, 1087 S De Anza Blvd, San Jose

MUSIC OPEN MIC 7:30pm. Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Company, 101 W Main St

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TRIVIA NIGHT

8pm. Sports Page B&G, 1431 Plymouth St, Mountain View

COMEDIAN | DULCE SLOAN

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

LIVE | EAST SIDE FUNK

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

OPERA UNSTAGED

8pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

VARIETY SHOW | TOURNAMENTERTAINMENT

8pm. Forager, 420 S First St, San Jose

COMEDY SPORTZ

8pm. 3Below, 288 S 2nd St, San Jose

EMO NIGHT | JAMES SIDIBE, DECADES IN, ERIK JONES

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

SHERWOOD INN

Thu-Sun, 8:30pm: Karaoke.

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

DJ | THROWBACK THURSDAY: ‘90S & 2000S ROCK

9pm. Britannia Arms Almaden, 5027 Almaden Expy

BRITANNIA ARMS ALMADEN

Fri, 10pm: Double Dose 80s Tribute Live! Sat, 10pm: Live Music. Sun, 10pm: DJ Hank. Mon: Darts & Sports.

Tue, 7:30pm: PubStumpers.

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

THE RITZ

Fri, 9pm: (Front Bar) You Lose, The Cutthroats, Natural Selection + More. Sat, 8pm: This Charming Band, BloodFlowers. 400 S First St, San Jose

SMOKING PIG BBQ

Fri, 9pm: Rockin Johnny Burgin. 3340 Mowry Ave, Fremont

NERD ROCK | SPAZMATICS

9:30pm. Sushi Confidential, 26 N San Pedro St, San Jose

COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME

5pm. Country star Keith Urban headlines pre-game show.

Levi's Stadium, 4900 Marie P DeBartolo Way, Santa Clara

2019 FREE CONCERT NIGHTS | LOGIC, LEON BRIDGES, JAY ROCK

6pm. Discovery Meadow Park, 180 Woz Way, San Jose

[PHOTO] NOISE POP | LOST AGAIN, NEW CIRCLE, JOE DRIFT, KID MYSTIC, CHILINDRINA

7:30pm. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

LIVE MUSIC | LEVI J, FRANTIC ROMANTIC, EXOPHONICS

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

LIVE MUSIC | KAVANAUGH BROTHERS CELTIC EXPERIENCE

8pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St, San Jose

COMEDY | PEAR IMPROV TROUPE $5.00 SHOW

8pm. Free cake after show.

Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St, Mountain View

HIP-HOP | LIL JON, OFFSET, 2CHAINZ

10pm. Pure Nightclub, 146 South Murphy Avenue, Sunnyvale

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FRI 01/04 EXHIBIT | PAINTING NATURE IN THE AMERICAN GILDED AGE

11am. Through 8/25. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford

FREE CENTRAL PARK NIGHTS: ROGUE ATHLETICS BAY AREA CHEER

6pm. Central Park, 969 Kiely Blvd, Santa Clara

2019 FREE CONCERT NIGHTS | ALESSIA CARA & BRYNN ELLIOTT

6pm. Discovery Meadow Park, 180 Woz Way, San Jose

COMEDIAN | CHRIS KATTAN

7:30pm. Various times through Sun. San Jose Improv, 62 S Second St

KARAOKE: THE GOOSETOWN LOUNGE

Fri & Sat, 9:30pm. 1072 Lincoln Ave, San Jose

DJ | SNAP SATURDAYS: KBLX'S DJ ETERNAL

10pm. Branham Lounge, 1116 Branham Ln, San Jose

SAT 01/05 TESS DUNN IN-STORE PERFORMANCE

4pm. Streetlight Records, 980 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

JACK ROSE LIBATION HOUSE Sun, 10am: Brunch. 3pm: Reggae Sundays. Mon–Fri, 4–6pm: Happy hour. 18840 Saratoga Los Gatos Rd, Los Gatos

HEY GIRL BRUNCH & LYPSYNC CONTEST

11am. Presented by SVPride.

SoFA Market, 387 S First St, San Jose

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NOISE WILL BE NOISE Chilindrina rounds out a fantastic line-up of Bay Area indie bands that includes Lost Again, New Circle, Joe Drift, and Kid Mystic. This Saturday at 7:30pm. X Bar @ Homestead Bowl, 20990 Homestead Rd, Cupertino

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LA FESTA DI EPIFANIA

2pm. Bel Bacio Cafe, 350 W Julian St #4, San Jose

FAMILY | SPANISH & ENGLISH STORYTIME

2pm. Central Park Library, 2635 Homestead Rd, Santa Clara

GANDHIAN NONVIOLENCE WORKSHOP: BE THE CHANGE

3pm. Billy DeFrank LGBTQ Community Center, 938 The Alameda, San Jose

2019 FREE CONCERT NIGHTS | ONEREPUBLIC & ELLIE GOULDING

6pm. Discovery Meadow Park, 180 Woz Way, San Jose

ACOUSTIC | JOE FERRARA

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

CLASSICAL | PIANIST JON NAKAMATSU, CLARINETISTS JON AND ALEC MANASSE

7pm. Conducted by Barbara

Day Turner. Trianon Theatre, 72 N Fifth Street, San Jose

Castro St, Mountain View

LATTE ART CLASS: BEGINNER LEVEL

7pm. San Pedro Market, 87 N San Pedro St, San Jose

7pm. Bitter + Sweet, 20560 Town Center Ln, Cupertino

COMEDIAN | PACO ROMANE 7pm. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

THE EULIPIONS JAZZ JAM SESSION

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

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

PARTY | CAPRICORN BIRTHDAY BASH

TRIVIA NIGHT

RED ROCK MIXED OPEN MIC

7pm. 201 Castro St, Mountain View

TRIVIA | UPROAR BREWING

7pm. 439 S First St, San Jose

DJ & DANCE | MOTOWN ON MONDAYS

8pm. Continental Bar & Lounge, 349 S First St, San Jose

TRIVIA | 7 STARS

8pm. 7 Stars Bar & Grill,398 S Bascom Ave, San Jose

TRIVIA NIGHT AT STEPHEN'S GREEN

9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

9pm. St. Stephen's Green, 223 Castro St, Mountain View

DJ | CULTURE INDUSTRY HIP-HOP SUNDAYS

COMEDY OPEN MIC WITH PETE MUNOZ

10pm. Avery Lounge, 399 S First St, San Jose

9pm. Woodhams Lounge, 4475 Stevens Creek Blvd Santa Clara

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TRIVIA NIGHT AT STEPHEN'S GREEN

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9pm. St. Stephen's Green, 223 Castro St, Mountain View

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Restaurant, 7397 Monterey St, Gilroy

TRIVIA @ FOUNTAINHEAD

TRIVIA: PUBSTUMPERS

WEST COAST SONGWRITERS COMPETITION

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

TRADITIONAL IRISH SESSION TUESDAY

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

AUTHOR | KANKANA SAXENA’S BOOK TALK & SIGNING

6:30pm. Discuss Bengali cuisine. Snacks included.

Book Larder, 209 Castro St, Mountain View

WOMEN'S NIGHT BICYCLE CLINIC

6:35pm. Good Karma Bikes, 460 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 25, San Jose

TRIVIA TUESDAYS

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

WELL-RED POETRY OPEN MIC

7:30pm. Britannia Arms Almaden, 5027 Almaden Expy, San Jose

DJ | LAST RITES JANUARY W/ OWEN & MR. WHITE

9pm. Caravan Lounge, 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

COMEDY OPEN MIC

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

BLUEGRASS JAVA JAM

7:30pm. Los Gatos Coffee Roasting Co, 101 W Main St

WILLOW DEN

Tue, 10pm: Karaoke. Sun: Service Industry Night = 1/2 off drinks with your industry card!

803 Lincoln Ave. San Jose

WED 01/09 EXHIBIT | KAHLIL JOSEPH: BLKNWS

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

11am. Through 6/16. Cantor Arts Center, 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford

MUSIC OPEN MIC

TRIVIA NIGHT

7pm. Caffe Frascati, 315 S First St.

6pm. Rocco’s Blue Max, 828 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

TRIVIA: TRIVIOLITY PUB QUIZ

CLASSIC FOLK ROCK | LIVE MUSIC WITH JEFF & JULI

7:45pm. Britannia Arms

6:30pm. Art Boutiki Music Hall, 44 Race St, San Jose

6:30pm. The Milias

INDIE/MATHROCK | FLORAL, ROB FORD EXPLORER, ELAINE THE SINGER

7:35pm. Peace and Justice Center, 48 S Seventh St, San Jose

NEW TALENT COMEDY SHOWCASE

8pm. Rooster T. Feathers, 157 W El Camino Real, Sunnyvale

CARAVAN LOUNGE COMEDY SHOW WITH MR. WALKER

9pm. 98 S Almaden Ave, San Jose

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): No one has resisted

the force of gravity with more focus than businessman Roger Babson (1875–1967). He wrote an essay entitled "Gravity: Our Enemy Number One," and sought to develop anti-gravity technology. His Gravity Research Foundation gave awards to authentic scientists who advanced the understanding of gravity. If that organization still existed and offered prizes, I'm sure that researchers of the Aries persuasion would win them all in 2019.

For your tribe, the coming months should feature lots of escapes from heaviness, including soaring flights and playful levity and lofty epiphanies.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The night parrots of Australia are so elusive that there was a nearly six-decade stretch when no human saw a single member of the species. But in 2013, after searching for 15 years, photographer John Young spotted one and recorded a 17-second video. Since then, more sightings have occurred. According to my astrological vision, your life in 2019 will feature experiences akin to the story of the night parrot's reappearance. A major riddle will be at least partially solved. Hidden beauty will materialize.

Long-secret phenomena will no longer be secret. A missing link will re-emerge.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Millions of years ago, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, and North and South America were smooshed together.

Earth had a single land mass, the supercontinent Pangea. Stretching across its breadth was a colossal feature, the Central Pangean Mountains. Eventually, though, Europe and America split apart, making room for the Atlantic Ocean and dividing the Central Pangean range. Today the Scottish Highlands and the Appalachian Mountains are thousands of miles apart, but once upon a time they were joined. In 2019, Gemini, I propose that you look for metaphorical equivalents in your own life. What disparate parts of your world had the same origin? What elements that are now divided used to be together? Re-establish their connection. Get them back in touch with each other. Be a specialist in cultivating unity.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): 2019 will be an excellent

time to swim in unpolluted rivers, utter sacred oaths near beautiful fountains, and enjoy leisurely saunas that help purify your mind and body. You are also likely to attract cosmic favor if you cry more than usual, seek experiences that enhance your emotional intelligence, and ensure that your head respectfully consults with your heart before making decisions.

Here's another way to get on life's good side: cultivate duties that consistently encourage you to act out of love and joy rather than out of guilt and obligation.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are four key questions I

hope you'll meditate on throughout 2019: 1. What is love? 2. What kind of love do you want to receive? 3.

What kind of love do you want to give? 4. How could you transform yourself in order to give and receive more of the love you value most? To spur your efforts, I offer you these thoughts from teacher David R. Hawkins: "Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others."

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Most living things begin

in the absence of light," writes Virgo author Nancy Holder. "The vine is rooted in the earth; the fawn takes form in the womb of the doe." I'll remind you that your original gestation also took place in the dark. And I foresee a metaphorically comparable process unfolding for you in 2019. You'll undergo an incubation period that may feel cloaked and mysterious. That's just as it should be: the best possible circumstances for the vital new part of your life that will be growing. So be patient. You'll see the tangible results in 2020.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Many plants that modern Americans regard as weeds were regarded as tasty food by Native Americans. A prime example is the cattail, which grows wild in wetlands. Indigenous people ate the rootstock, stem, leaves and flower spike. I propose that we use this scenario to serve as a metaphor for some of your potential opportunities in 2019. Things you've regarded as useless or irrelevant or inconvenient could be revealed as assets. Be alert for the possibility of such shifts. Here's advice from

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: "What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The slow, gradual, incremental approach will be your magic strategy in 2019. Being persistent and thorough as you take one step at a time will provide you with the power to accomplish wonders. Now and then, you may be tempted to seek dramatic breakthroughs or flashy leaps of faith, and there may indeed be one or two such events mixed in with your steady rhythms.

But for the most part, your glory will come through tenacity. Now study this advice from mystic Meister Eckhart: "Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it."

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian

polymath Piet Hein wrote a poem in which he named the central riddle of his existence. "A bit beyond perception's reach, / I sometimes believe I see / That life is two locked boxes / Each containing the other's key." I propose that we adopt this scenario to symbolize one of the central riddles of your existence. I'll go further and speculate that in 2019 one of those boxes will open as if through a magical fluke, without a need for the key. This mysterious blessing won't really be a magical fluke, but rather a stroke of well-deserved and hardearned luck that is the result of the work you've been doing to transform and improve yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What themes and

instruments do people least want to hear in a piece of music? Composer Dave Solder determined that the worst song ever made would contain bagpipes, cowboy music, tubas, advertising jingles, operatic rapping and children crooning about holidays. Then he collaborated with other musicians to record such a song. I suspect that as you head into 2019, it'll be helpful to imagine a metaphorically comparable monstrosity: a fantastic mess that sums up all the influences you'd like to avoid. With that as a vivid symbol, you'll hopefully be inspired to avoid allowing any of it to sneak into your life in the coming months.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In Canada, it's illegal

to pretend to practice witchcraft. It's fine to actually do witchcraft, however. With that as our inspiration, I advise you to be rigorous about embodying your authentic self in 2019. Make sure you never lapse into merely imitating who you are or who you used to be. Don't fall into the trap of caring more about your image than about your actual output. Focus on standing up for what you really mean rather than what you imagine people expect from you.

The coming months will be a time when you can summon pure and authoritative expressions of your kaleidoscopic soul.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 18th century,

Benjamin Franklin was a Founding Father who played a key role in getting the United States up and running.

He wasn't happy that the fledgling nation chose the bald eagle as its animal symbol. The supposedly majestic raptor is lazy, he wrote. It doesn't hunt for its own food, but steals grub obtained by smaller birds of prey. Furthermore, bald eagles are cowardly, Franklin believed. Even sparrows may intimidate them.

With that as our theme, Pisces, I invite you to select a proper creature to be your symbolic ally in 2019. Since you will be building a new system and establishing a fresh power base, you shouldn't pick a critter that's merely glamorous. Choose one that excites your ambition and animates your willpower.

Homework: I'd love to see your top New Year's resolutions. Share by going to RealAstrology.com and clicking on "Email Rob." Go to REALASTROLOGY.COM to check out Rob Brezsny’s Expanded Weekly Audio Horoscopes and Daily Text Message Horoscopes. Audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700

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

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Choose2 Design & Production, 565 Chapman Court, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Margaret Heaman.

This business is being conducted by an Individual.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649058 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Weekend Max Mara, 180 El Camino Real, Rm #129C, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, Catherine Frandsen & Co., Inc., 2940 Randolph Ave., Bldg. B, Costa Mesa, CA, 92626. 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/Catherine Frandsen. President. #C1630812.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/06/2018. (pub Metro 12/19, 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09/2019)

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME #649443 The following person(s) / registrant(s) has / have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name(s): Arnold And Associates, 1400 Coleman Avenue, Suite B-14, Santa Clara, CA, 95050, Harriett Arnold. Filed in the Santa Clara county on 08/17/2016 under file No. 6200599. This business was conducted by: An Individual: Filed on 12/17/2018. /s/Harriett Arnold. (pub dates: 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09, 01/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649544 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Business Trek, 6139 Paso Los Cerritos, San Jose, CA, 95120, Paul David Johnson. This business is being conducted by an Individual. Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/11/2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648731 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Star Thai Massage, 539 S. Murphy Ave., Sunnyvale, CA, 94086, Pankawee Kaewkamral, 1456 Caliente Way, San Jose, CA, 95132, Tanet Oupkaew, 176 N. Frances St., #B, Sunnyvale, CA, 94086. This business is being conducted by Copartners. Registrants have not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Penkawee Kaewkamrai. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/21/2018. (pub Metro 12/19, 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648966 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bonchon Santa Teresa, 7026 Santa Teresa Blvd, STE 30, San Jose, CA, 95139, Soh Family, Inc., 1663 Via Campo Verde, San Jose, CA, 95120. 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/Janet Soh. Secretary. #4010628. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/03/2018. (pub Metro 12/19, 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #648339 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Flip Side Studios, 1449 Eagle’s Nest Lane, Gilroy, CA, 95020, Graden Fiorio. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 11/08/2018. /s/ Graden Fiorio. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 11/08/2018. (pub Metro 12/05, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26/2018)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649355 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Tipsy Nail Bar, 14107 Winchester Blvd., Unit N, Los Gatos, CA, 95032, Steve N Le. This business is being conducted by an Individual.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. /s/Steve Le. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/13/2018. (pub Metro 12/19, 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649441 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 3Londonderry LLC, 38 N. Almaden Blvd, APT 609, San Jose, CA, 95110. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein.

Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Zandile Kabayadondo. Manager. #201829010146. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/17/2018. (pub Metro 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09, 01/16/2019)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT #649404 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: Bay Area Self Storage - Cupertino, 10121 Miller Ave., STE 200, Cupertino, CA, 95014, Campbell Gateway Square, LLC. This business is being conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Registrant has not yet begun transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein. Above entity was formed in the state of California. /s/Derek K. Hunter JR. Managing Member. #201415310275. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/14/2018. (pub Metro 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09, 01/16/2019)

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The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: The Posh Bagel, 1040 Grant Rd., STE 185, Mountain View, CA, 94040, Van Seng, 205 Ribier Ave., Modesto, CA, 95350, Sotheara Kang, 120 Longview Dr., Daly City, CA, 94015. This business is being conducted by a General Partnership.

Registrant began transacting business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on 12/21/2018. /s/Van Seng. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/21/2018. (pub Metro 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09, 01/16/2019)

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I know humans are typically your subject, but this is a relationship question, so I hope you’ll consider answering it. I have a new puppy (an eight-pound terrier mutt). I eventually want her to sleep in bed with me. However, she’s not toilettrained yet, so I “crate” her at night in the laundry room (in a small dog cage).

She cries all night. It’s heartbreaking. Please help!—Sleepless in Dogtown We call dogs “man’s best friend” and treat them just like our human best friends—if at 11pm you say to your BFF, “Wow, wouldja look at the time,” gently remove the beer from her hand, and usher her to her cage in your laundry room.

Crate training, recommended by vets, breeders and the American Kennel Club, involves confining a dog to a “den”—a cage or gated-off area—with her bed and her favorite toys to dismember. However, the crate is not supposed to be used for punishment—as a sort of Doggy San Quentin—but, say, for times you can’t watch her to keep her from using the $3,000 leather couch as a chew toy or the antique Persian rug as an opulently colored hand-knotted toilet.

The problem you’re experiencing in crating your dog at night comes out of doggy-human coevolution.

Anthrozoologist John W. S. Bradshaw explains that over generations, we humans bred dogs to be emotionally dependent on us. Not surprisingly, dogs miss their owners, sometimes desperately, when they are separated from them—and other dogs don’t seem to fill the emotional void. In one of Bradshaw’s studies—of 40 Labrador retrievers and border collies—“well over 50 percent of the Labs and almost half of the collies showed some kind of separation distress” when left alone.

Fortunately, puppies can be trained to understand that picking up your

car keys isn’t human-ese for “Goodbye forever!” Bradshaw’s advice in Dog Sense: “Pick up keys, go to door, praise dog.”

Next: Pick up keys. Go out door. Come right back in. Praise dog.Go out for increasingly longer intervals, and “go back a stage” if the dog shows anxiety.

And good news for you: You probably don’t have to spoon with your dog to keep her from feeling separation distress at night. My tiny Chinese crested now sleeps (uh, snores like a cirrhotic old wino) on my pillow, resting her tiny snout on my neck. However, back before she had her bathroom business under control, I went through the crying-at-night-in-the-crate thing (actually a gated alcove by my office).

I felt like the second coming of Cruella de Vil. Then I remembered something about dogs: they have a sense of smell on the level of superhero powers. Maybe my dog didn’t have to be in bed; maybe near bed would do. I snagged a big seethrough plastic container (maybe four feet long and three feet high) that my neighbors were tossing out. At bedtime, I put it next to my bed and put my dog in it with her bed and a pee pad. She turned around three times, curled up and went to sleep—after giving me a look I’m pretty sure said, “Hey, next time you’re gonna throw me in ‘the hole,’ gimme some notice, and I’ll menace the mailman with a sharpened Nylabone.”

I keep seeing men pushing dogs in baby strollers and carrying dogs as women do. What's going on? An epidemic of sissified men? If I ever did this, I’d hope my family would have me committed.—Disturbed Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control lists no reports of an outbreak of Pomeranians poking their little heads out of man purses. However, you’re right; dog strollers are increasingly becoming a thing. As for why this is, think Field of Dreams: “If you build it”— and sell it at Petco, people will buy it so they won’t have to leave their old, tired and/or disabled doggy home alone.

As for what pushing a doggy buggy says about a man, anthropologists and zoologists would call this a “costly

signal.” This is an extravagant or risky trait or behavior that comes with a substantial price—which suggests that the quality being displayed is for real.

An example of this is conspicuous waste—signaling vast wealth by using $100 bills as birdcage liners. Accordingly, it takes a man with masculinity to burn to not fear putting off all those women who previously announced to their friends, “We want sensitive men!

Though not, you know, ‘put their Shih Tzu in a baby stroller’ sensitive.”

(c)2019, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (advicegoddess.com).

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To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate,or both, of (specify all names by which the decedent was known): FRANCISCO R. CHAVEZA Petition for Probate has been filed by (name of petitioner): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarain the Superior Court of California, County of (specify): SANTA CLARAThe Petition for Probate requests that (name): Public Administrator of the County of Santa Clarabe 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 authoritywill allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain veryimportant actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless theyhave waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows:Date: April 5, 2019 Time: 9:00 a.m., Dept.: 13Address of court: 191 North First Street, San Jose, CA 95113If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objectionswith 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 thepersonal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters toa general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date ofmailing 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 attorneyknowledgeable 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 aRequest for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account asprovided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Attorney for petitioner (name): MARK A. GONZALEZ, Lead Deputy County Counsel(Address): 373 W. Julian Street, San Jose, CA 95110(Telephone): 408-758-4217(Pub Dates: 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09/2019)

/s/Paul David Johnson. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Clara County on 12/19/2018. (pub Metro 12/26/2018, 01/02, 01/09, 01/16/2019)

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metroactive SVSCENE PHOTOS BY GREG RAMAR

An appreciation of art across generations at STATION X.

A portrait of the artist—MICHA ALFARO—with a clown mask on.

Happy New Year from THE CONTINENTAL.

Happy New Year from THE FAIRMONT.

Ringing in 2019 with friends at THE CONTINENTAL.

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Hanging out at STATION X salon in Campbell, where local artist Micha Alfaro recently painted the windows.

Changes are coming!

• New Fares • Clipper Cards Now Available at Ticket Vending Machines • Two-Hour Fares New Adult and Youth Fares Youth fares will now be $1.25 and Adult fares will be $2.50 for a single-ride on local bus and light rail.

Clipper Cards Available for Purchase in All Ticket Vending Machines For your convenience, all Ticket Vending Machines will be able to dispense Adult Clipper cards by January 2019.

Effective January 1, 2019 Single-Ride / Two-Hour Fares ADULT

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$ 2.50 $1.25 $5

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$1

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$7.50

$3.75

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$15

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$ 90

$35

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$180

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$ 990

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Two-Hour Fares Two-Hour fares are available to customers using a Clipper card or VTA’s mobile fare app, EZfare. For two hours after the first tag on Clipper, or upon activating a Single Ride fare on EZfare, customers can transfer for free across VTA bus and light rail service (except express bus*).

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